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Major Thomas Duncan of the Army Air Service and Irving H. Krupp, civilian clerk, were killed at Boiling Field, Washington, in a DH-4-B airplane which went into a spin at 200 feet in the air, crashed and burst into flames. The machine had taken off correctly into the teeth of the wind, the motor did not cut-out or choke, flying controls responded perfectly. The investigating board is baffled. In spite of immense progress in aerodynamics, many accidents still remain a complete mystery...
Doctor Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, head of the Krupps munition works: " Sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment for encouraging resistance to the French in the Ruhr, I am likely to escape with one-third of it. French law does not permit the imprisonment for my offense to exceed five years...
...Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach. He owns the famous Krupp works conjointly with his wife, Bertha Krupp. The Krupp factory is now busy manufacturing innumerable varieties of metal articles...
...trial of the four Krupp directors was postponed...
...Resistance, threats and violence are the order of the day. A requisitioning expedition by the French at Essen ended in a casualty list of 9 killed and 26 wounded. A large number of Germans were arrested and some were deported; the most important case being the arrest of four Krupp directors on the charge of stirring the workers to resist the troops. General Degoutte threatened to expel all railway officials and workers unless they return to work. Hotels and stores in Bochum, forcibly closed by the French a month ago, declined to reopen on the ground that they would still...