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[[strikethrough]] Dec [[/strikethrough]] 175/ [[underline]] December 13 - continued [[/underline]] [[vertical note in left margin in red]] [[illegible]] [[/vertical note in left margin in red]] Celine at office arranging piles of U.C. stock certificates to be distributed to members of the family and trust funds. L.H.B = 19,733 = 1,865... C.B. = 23,700 G. = 27,450 [[strikethrough]] N. = 27,450 [[/strikethrough]] N 3,800 R. Childr. 4 039 " " 4 039 G. Ch. 390 " " 390 " " 390 at 90 = 6,937... [[underline]] Dec. 14 [[/underline]] Went office - Then Century. [[underline]] Dec 15 [[/underline]] = To office then Century where ^[[Meeting of Research Council]] I met meeting of National Research Counsel. - Met many friends and was placed [[strikethrough]] near [[/strikethrough]] seat of honor [[strikethrough]] ri [[/strikethrough]] on the right. (Stevens)? [[strikethrough]] Celine drove [[/strikethrough]] Drove back to Yonkers with Celine. [[strikethrough]] [[underline]] Dec 16. Sunday [[/underline]] [[/strikethrough]] [[underline]] Dec. 17 Sunday [[/underline]] At Snug Rock. - Classifying notes. This evening the Radio brought us the news of the battle near Urugay between British warships and German war ships. The German ship [[strikethrough]] "Admiral [[/strikethrough]] "Graf Spee" took finally refuge in the harbor of Montevideo and anchored there with its crew and after having been bom- [[end page]] [[start page]] 176 barded by the British men of War, bearing several holes in her hull besides interior dammage on machinery etc. The who radio message was clearly audible here and the announcer kept on for more than an hour. Rendition was so clear that I heard the sloshing of the waves against the sides of the boat on which the announcer spoke. Shortly afterwards [[strikethrough]] th [[/strikethrough]] just after the German man of war, was proceeding seaward, there was a loud explosion, followed by sinking of the boat. Then a little later we were told that the [[strikethrough]] Am [[/strikethrough]] German Admiral X [[vertical in right margin]] X Captain Langsdorf [[/vertical in right margin]] had commited suicide by firing a bullet thru his head. It was told that Hitler had ordered the Admiral to sink his boat. [[strikethrough]] [[underline]] Dec 17. [[/underline]] [[/strikethrough]] Dec [[overwritten]] 17 [[/overwritten]] 18 Went to [[strikethrough]] Einer [[/strikethrough]] Eimer and Amend store to buy some citric acid and filters. - Met Dr. Amend and had a talk about old times 50 years ago, when I made my first purchases at their store [[underline]] Dec. [[overwritten]] 18 [[/overwritten]] 19 [[/underline]] [[note in left margin]] 204.442 [[/note in left margin]] Took Kekulé group photo to Eastman Stores to make 3 copies. Luncheon at Century Club [[underline]] Dec [[strikethrough]] 19 [[/strikethrough]] [[/underline]] 20 Luncheon of Board of Trustees at Chemists Club. - several old friends there
