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Though only one S. 0. S. had been sent out, this was picked up in the always crowded English Channel by the German freighter Ruhr, the English steamer Ford Castle and the Dutch Achilles all of which rushed to pick up the Atlantique's survivors as they leaped from her flame-swept decks. Cremated alive below decks were five members of the crew whose panic screams were all but drowned by the blast-furnace roar of the fire. Reputedly last to leap was Captain René Schoofs of the Atlantique. "Thrice we thought he was dead!" cried an excited...
...Forstmann is regarded as the fore most originator and maker of high-grade woolens in the U. S. He built the American Mills at Passaic, N. J., 30 years ago against the advice of experts who told him. that such woolens as his company made in Werden-on-Ruhr, Germany, could not be duplicated. He created Imperatrice and Beatrice (broadcloths) and most of the vogue-starting woolens including Marvella, Gerona, Charmeen and Chonga. He works alone in designing his fabrics and seeking colors from such sources as the plumage of birds in the Museum of Natural History. On his Kiel...
...Berlin in striking contrast to gay night life around the Kurfursten Damm. In the town of Falkenstein, Saxony, he found half the population on the dole; in Thuringian villages the spectre of starvation. In Essen there was the ever-present fear of a new French invasion of the Ruhr, overshadowing the threat of Communism. Every-where Hitler's power was rising. Nearly three-fourths of Heidelberg's students were Nazis. Germans, facing ruin, were almost unanimous in demanding Reparations cancellation at any cost. The U. S., Correspondent Knickerbocker found, has too great a stake in the Reich...
Foreign observers were surprised that French comment was as moderate as it was. No one suggested re-entering the Ruhr. Newspapers argued not for the money but for the principle of the thing. A reason for this: The average Frenchman is far more interested in the world Depres sion, which affects him actually, than in Reparations which he only reads about. French unemployment increased by 16,000 in the past week alone. Luxury trades are prostrate; the mining industry is on part time. L'Oetivre (Radical Paris daily) put the matter bluntly with its headline: NOT ONE PFENNIG...
Resentment against the French, to whom younger Germans simply feel that they are paying tribute, and indignation at the presence of thousands of Poles in the Ruhr mines while thousands of Germans in that district are unemployed account in part for the extreme nationalism of the Hitler party. The Jewish grip on the financial system and on the newspapers, its effect exaggerated by fabulous rumors concerning the malevolent use of that control, is responsible for anti-Semitic hatred...