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I was amazed to receive your issue of the 24th on the morning of the 29th. As no five-day boat arrived during that time, I am unable to draw my conclusions. . . . Accept my congratulations for your promptness.
NORMAN D. FORSTER
Paris
Sirs:
The letter from Ray D. Ulrey of Los Angeles published in your issue of April 24 has prompted me to write you of an even better record [than that of covering the Akron disaster] which I think TIME has made. The issue containing this letter was received by me on April 27, delivered at my house in the suburbs of London.
GERALD BAER
London
Readers Forster & Baer may thank the U. S. Post Office department, which received the issue on April 19 in Chicago, sped it to a fast boat. Sailing dates do not permit this schedule every week.—ED.
Jews in Heidelberg
Sirs:
In the new university building in Heidelberg there is (or was) a tablet bearing the names of the men who, at the suggestion of Jacob Gould Schurman, provided the money for the building. The names are: Jules S. Bache, George F. Baker, William Gerard Beckers, James Brown, Walter P. Chrysler, Clarence L. Dillon, Julius Forstmann, William Fox, Henry Goldman, W. A. Harriman, Harris Forbes & Co., Henry Heide, George D. Horst, Henry Janssen, Robert Lehman, Nicholas M. Schenck, W. J. (or I; the German capitals are alike) Norton, Gustav Oberlaender, James R. Perkins, John D. Rockefeller Jr., Julius Rosenwald, Samuel Sachs, Mortimer L. Schiff, Henry Schniewind Jr., Paul C. Schnitzler. Richard Schuster, W. B. Scott, James Speyer, Charles P. Taft, Ferdinand Thun, Elisha Walker, Paul M. Warburg, Felix M. Warburg, H. M. Warner, William H. Woodin, Adolph Zukor.
Do you happen to know whether the Nazis have removed or defaced this tablet or removed from it the names of Jews? They could no doubt try to excuse its removal on the grounds that the former government of Baden should not have accepted a gift to which so many Jews had contributed and that the building is in the newer style (a halfhearted, weak attempt, to be sure) of which the Nazis do not approve. No doubt they would charge the above-named Jews with promoting "Kulturbolschewismus."
THEODORE MCCLINTOCK
Boston, Mass.
Heidelberg's "University Hall," classroom building, was built by former U. S. students at the University, dedicated by onetime U. S. Ambassador Jacob Gould Schurman in 1931. Its tablet, containing many a Jewish name, still stands. Moreover, foreign students, even Jewish ones, are still admissible at Heidelberg since they "cannot enter the German labor market."—ED.
Credit: Captain Furer Sirs:
TIME will be interested in a correction to its story under Army & Navy in the May 1 issue.
Submarine F-4 sank in the open ocean off Honolulu with all hands in March 1915, and was finally located in 304 ft. of water. Lieut.-Commander (now Captain) J. A. Furer. U. S. N., was placed in charge of the salvage operations, and designed all the equipment used for the work. He invented the submersible pontoons which were used in the final operations of bringing this submarine to the surface. The identical pontoons built for this job were also used on the S-51 and the 54, and the technique developed in raising the F-4 was used throughout the raising of the S-51 and the 54.