Foreign News Notes, Apr. 20, 1925

Arrived in the U. S. Otto Hugo Stinnes, third son of Germany’s once greatest industrial magnate, the late Hugo Stinnes. Like all the Stinnes family, he was not given to loquaciousness. All that he would say was: “I am here to study conditions generally throughout the United States and I have nothing else to say.”

When Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm was married in 1905, Prussian cities banded together and ordered a wedding present of a set of silver table decorations. The present was so elaborate that more than ten years were were required to complete the order. When it was finished, however, the Crown Princess was unable to take over the present and had it deposited for safe-keeping in the vaults of the Deutsche Bank. A few weeks ago, the ex-Crown Princess tried to obtain possession of the present, but the matter was referred to the Berlin Council which, last week, split violently on whether the silverware should be handed over to the ex-Crown Princess, as the Monarchists wished, or be given to the Public Museum, as the Republicans wished. Nothing was decided. The 20th wedding anniversary of the ex-royal couple is likely, therefore, to be silverless.