Heroism Echoes Through Powell Line From Cadet to Naval Architect
Joseph Wright Powell rose from Cadet, famed for steering the Merrimac escort during the Santiago siege, to a leading naval architect and shipbuilder. He later helped head a government sponsored venture to rapidly build sea otter freighters for England and served as president of the Emergency Fleet Corporation in 1921–22.
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Hobson
Powell
Joseph Wright Powell
Annapolis
Santiago Harbor
Merrimac
Richmond
Oswego
N. Y
Navy
Knox
England
Mr. Wright
America
New York
University of Glasgow
U.S.N
Cramp’s Shipbuilding Corporation
Emergency Fleet Corporation
Nazi repression spreads in Europe amid anti-German movement
Reports from Belgium France Denmark and Czechoslovakia describe German steps to stamp out a widespread revolt. Slaughter in Bohemia Moravia rose as drumhead courts Martial executed many. Heydrich governs suppressive actions in Czechoslovakia while Bulgaria reports 543 arrests in a single day.
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Europe
Belgium
France
Denmark
Czechoslovakia
Bohemia
Moravia
Reinhard Heydrich
Berlin
Secret Police
Bulgaria
Sofia
Black Sea
National Tax Take Looms As War Preparation Grows
The government began the heaviest tax collection yet with about 3 million dollars daily, totaling roughly 13 billion annually, far surpassing WWI levels and boosting the burden on a larger U S population. Labor unrest flared with strikes at Briggs Detroit and Dodge Chrysler amid plans to expand steel capacity for defense needs.
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Dodge
Chrysler Motors
Briggs Auto
Detroit
Pittsburgh
Sandusky
Ohio
Greatest Tragedy of 1941 Britain’s Inaction in War Effort
The piece argues the British have dallied in aiding the Soviet defense, criticizing delayed Second Front plans and limited aid. It notes Allied tensions over American involvement, oil supply pressures, and the looming Nazi push toward the Caucasus and Turkey as winter narrows. It highlights Roosevelt Hopkins and U.S. advisers’ uncertain influence in Anglo American strategy.
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America
North Dakotan
Bridgeport
Lindbergh
Des Moines
American Legion
Benedict Arnold
Frank Knox
Hitler
Poland
Czechoslovakia
Jugoslavia
Bulgaria
Turkey
Moscow
France
Holland
Spain
Dunkirk
Roosevelt
England
Gibraltar
Alphonse
Russia
Harry Hopkins
Nazis Launch Repressive Campaign In Answer To Revolts
Edward C. Wayne argues that Nazi Germany responds to anti German revolts and sabotage with a repressive campaign. The piece notes England's claim of mastery in the air war and frames the analysis as an editor's note from the Western Newspaper Union.
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Britain
Winston Churchill
House of Commons
Royal Air Force
England
Western Newspaper Union
Pioneer Aeronautical Engineer Grover Loening
Grover Loening, noted aeronautical engineer, helped shape ocean freight carriage by air as Pan American Airways launched its transatlantic air shipments. Loening’s career began with the Queen Aeroplane Company in New York in 1911 and included executive roles at several aviation firms.
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Grover Loening
Pan American Airways
Mr. Loening
Queen Aeroplane Company
New York
Deaf and blind radio operator earns amateur license
Leo Sadowsky a 21 year old blind deaf mute receives an amateur radio license from the Federal Communications Commission becoming the first of his kind. Despite discouragement from his teacher he learned via tactile Braille and vibration fed signals to receive Morse code and now connects with about 6000 operators through his home station W2OFU aiming to help other deaf mute users.
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New York
Leo Sadowsky
Federal Communications Commission
Mr. Sadowsky
Institute For the Education of the Blind
Robert Gunderson
Mr. Gunderson
Lady Football Player Outwits Two Harassers on Street
Eleanor Koziel, 19, a self described professional female football player, recounts fending off Buttercup and Sneezy Gezunt who offered her a ride. She pins a black eye on one and a lump on the other, saying she used her training to handle the situation and warns others. The Racine avenue sergeant notes her claim.
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Chicago
Buttercup Whosis
Sneezy Gezunt
Eleanor Koziel
Eleanor
Sergt. Frank Czech
Racine Avenue
Buttercup
Gezunt
Sarge
Czech
How RAF Saving Legless Ace Aided High Altitude Jump
The Daily Express described Spitfire escort by Douglas Bader's unit during his 20,000 foot parachute descent over German territory. His artificial leg was replaced after land, as Germans captured him.
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R.A.F
London
The
Daily Express
Douglas R. Bader
Bader
Earth
Chestnut Ridge Installs Its First Telephone
HOUSATONIC MASS The town of Chestnut Ridge near here has moved into modern times by installing its first telephone.
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Housatonic
Mass
Chestnut Ridge
Youth Whittles Height To Meet Firefighter Standard
Gino Franceschini an 18 year old in New York stretched to meet the height requirement for city firefighters. He used a home made sling rope and even sourced bees to create head bumps but only gained five eighths of an inch. He passed the other tests and received conditional approval if he gains the remaining half inch within six months.
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New York
New York City
Gino Franceschini
New York University
Gino
Robin Becomes Household Pet In St Joseph
Mrs. Fred Hoffman found a rainstorm blown robin and fed it eggs. The bird recovered, but Pete the robin refuses to leave and stays at the Hoffman home. Pete prefers hamburger over worms and refuses to mingle with other robins.
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Robin
ST. Joseph
Fred Hoffman
Pete
Pacing Papas Use Roof as Night Watch at Maternity Hospital
In London a suburban maternity hospital reports expectant fathers pacing on the roof in shifts. They act as both anxious pace makers and improvised fire wardens during the night and day operation.
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London
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