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Said Geheimrat* Wilhelm von Opel, gruffly, last week...
Herr Fritz von Opel, inventor of the famed rocket auto, has been dogged by bad luck...
Inventor von Opel had placed a cat in his rocket car (TIME, June 4). He wished to test the resistance of a living organism to high speed. But the car never attained high speed. Instead it exploded. The cat was never found...
Hence the cat lovers' ire, the catting of Inventor von Opel, at a mass indignation meeting in Berlin of German Friends of Cats...
...Iron Gustave" Hartmann, cabby, who drove his ancient horse and cab on a "goodwill" jaunt to Paris (TIME,, June 18) returned to Berlin last week, lolling in a taxicab presented to him by Opel Motor Co. Old friends of horsey days, vexed, were restrained by police from mobbing...