NOBEL PRIZE MONEY
GERMAN LAWYER CHARGED WITH EMBEZZLEMENT Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright BERLIN, February 25. (Received February 26, at 10 a.m.) A former icavalry officer and lawyer, Kurt Wanow, was charged with embezzling £6,600 of M. Ossietsby’s Nobel Prize of £§,000., Wanow admitted that he handed over £3,000 to his sixteen-year-old sweetheart to invest in’ a cinema. [A message received from Oslo on January 20, 1937, stated: It has been discovered that the woman who presented the order for M. Ossietsky’s Nobel Prize is" the secretary of a Berlin solicitor, who is acting as proxy for M. Ossietszky. The bank is satisfied of the bona tides and is transferring the prize to a ( German bank, except £SO, which will be paid to the woman.]
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Evening Star, Issue 22893, 26 February 1938, Page 15
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124NOBEL PRIZE MONEY Evening Star, Issue 22893, 26 February 1938, Page 15
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