Notes

A Frankfurter sausage containing a little powdered glass and a few cholera germs was the appetizing dish said to have been planned for Hugo Stinnes by the so-called German Cheka--but Stinnes' death (TIME, April 21) foiled the Red plot. In Paris, it was persistently declared that the "King of Coke" had committed suicide. For the first time since the French occupation of the Ruhr, President Ebert is to visit the occupied area. The occasion is the Cologne Industrial Fair. Herr Penfick of the National Liberal League and Professor Meyer, "another politician," have testy tempers. Penfick attacked Meyer in a speech, which so enraged the latter that he dashed a glass of water in the face of Penfick, who, insulted, picked up a desk and flung it at the incautious Meyer. The desk struck Meyer squarely on the head --"and subsequent proceedings interested him no more"