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...family's greatest newspaper, somehow managed to survive. Older by 173 years than the House of Ullstein which took it over in 1914, 229 years older than Nazidom, as dignified as the London or the New York Times but far more venerable, the Vossiche Zeitung was "Auntie Voss" to Berliners. It had reported the battles of Frederick the Great and Napoleon, the rise of Bismarck and the rise of Hitler. Toward Handsome Adolf its attitude was one of disgusted scorn, until he came into power and threw the Nazi blanket over "Auntie Voss' " head. That blanket has suffocated...
Coroner A. H. Flint called as his first witness Dr. Voss's eldest son, Hugo, who testified that though his father did smoke occasionally he never carried a pocket lighter, used matches...
Answered Hugo Voss: "I am convinced he was incapable of doing such a dastardly thing...
Without comment Coroner Flint called the next witness, a lawyer representing Hugo Voss's estranged brother Albert Jr., who told a story that set.every neck a-crane in the little courtroom...
...Voss and his partner L. 0. Dearden, another victim of the crash, were not only dentists but dope smugglers. Working with a former Air Force Officer named Pleass they would take frequent trips from the continent by air, drop packages of dope attached to tiny silk parachutes from the plane windows at pre-arranged spots. According to this story they knew that they were to be arrested when the City of Liverpool landed. Dr. Voss set fire to the plane, cremating his partner and his niece, and jumped on the 1,000-to-1 chance that he might escape with...