Inventive couple lauded for aiding U.S. war effort
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Army takes more hotels
Atlantic City, NJ (UP) –
The Army today announced the acquisition of the Hotels Crillon, Penn-Ryan and Glaslyn-Chatham, all side avenue hostelries.
FDR renames Latimer
Washington (UP) –
Murray W. Latimer of New York, member of the Railroad Retirement Board, was nominated by President Roosevelt today for another term.
Capts. Bernard H. Bieri of Woodbury Heights, NJ, and James C. Jones Jr. of Huntsville, Ala., were nominated to be rear admirals.
‘Teddy’s’ widow is 81
Oyster Bay, NY (UP) –
Mrs. Edith Kermit Roosevelt, widow of President Theodore Roosevelt, observed her 81st birthday yesterday at Sagamore Hill, once the “Summer White House.”
Economist demands end of feudal class
World agriculture seen bedeviled by German Junkers; U.S. viewed post-war economic fulcrum
By James Marlow and William Pinkerton
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British press lauds U.S. ‘Thunderbolts’
London (AP) –
Under the headline, “Thunderbolts in Britain,” the Manchester Guardian said today:
Fighter squadrons of the United States Army Air Forces are equipped with the most advanced type of single-seat fighter aircraft so far placed in quantity production there.
The headline was the first public mention of the types of United States Army pursuit planes being used by United States fighter squadrons based in Britain.