Roosevelt Navy Day Address Calls for Delivering the Goods
In a Navy Day message linked to Senate debate on lifting neutrality act limits, President Roosevelt pledges a policy of destroying Hitlerism and aiding a peace to secure democracy. He warns shooting has started and urges sacrifices to defend the American way of life.
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Nazi butcheries and wartime mobilization collide across Europe
Churchill Roosevelt and De Gaulle denounce Nazi hostages as retaliatory killings spread. A coal miners strike led by John L. Lewis challenges Roosevelt amid defense concerns. Parliament debates armed shipments and pacific conflict, while Kearny torpedoing details emerge from a widow's diary. Flight losses and field repairs underscore wartime strain. The Czech former president predicts Hitler’s downfall this winter as Germany faces internal rifts.
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Air Power and Airship Lessons Shape Atlantic Defense
British shipboard planes and the idea of using airborne fighters on freighters are prompting Washington to revisit air defense. Capt. Rosendahl champions dirigibles as patrol and carrier ships to spot submarines and drop depth charges, while a farm relief program in North Carolina shows WPA and FSA cooperation improving incomes and food.
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Parachute A New Hero
Parachutist Arthur H. Starnes leapt from 31 500 feet with 25 pounds of gear and deployed at 1 500 feet. He briefly lost consciousness as his chute opened at 190 mph, somersaulted, and after 1 minute 56 seconds of descent landed safely. His twin chutes offered a new escape method for pilots in combat.
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Witness James O'Neil Convicted of Perjury
In San Francisco the Bridges deportation case witness James O'Neil was found guilty of perjury. In London Joan Stavridi earns global praise for nursing wounded British soldiers and German troops in Crete, where her hospital operates in a cave.
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Experimental info centers named for consumer guidance
Miss Harriet Elliott selects Detroit and Williamsport as sites for new experimental consumer information centers with a third southern city to be announced later. The same issue notes the first deaf, dumb and blind amateur radio operator, a 21 year old Brooklyn resident, licensed by the FCC after demonstrating radiotelegraph reception through vibration devices and typing 30 pages of Braille answers.
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