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...very timidity of Tom Connally's Resolution threatened to bring about the battle he had hoped to avoid. A group of Senators, including Ball and Hatch of the B2H2 Resolution, served notice that unless the full Foreign Relations Committee make the Resolution more definite at once, they will take their fight for "strengthening and clarifying" amendments to the Senate floor...
...short on coal-500,000 tons a week short. Fuel Coordinator Harold Ickes advised the public: "Avoid panic . . . accept what coal is available . . . exercise the utmost conservation...
John L. Lewis stared blandly back. The walkouts were "unauthorized." He wired his Alabama and Indiana U.M.W. locals: "We all want to avoid any damage to the war effort. ... I hope each mine worker will again sacrifice his personal interests and subordinate his righteously outraged feelings...
...mother of a three-year-old girl, charged that Flynn was the baby's father, sued him for $1,750-a-month support, $17,000 for hospital and legal expenses. The actor promised to "fight . . . to the bitter end before I'll make any payoff to avoid unpleasant publicity...
Other air-front news: > Against the Fortress and Liberator formations, the Germans are trying new defensive tactics. Three planes abreast, coming head on, swing from left to right to avoid the frontal guns of the U.S. formations. It has not worked. > The Germans revealed hitherto unpublished information on U.S. tactics: the bomber formations are protected by other Fortresses that carry no bombs (presumably fill their bays with extra tons of ammunition to fire at German fighters. A Nazi newscast drew an eloquent picture of battle over Germany: "Thus more than 1,000 U.S. airmen, covered by armored planes, are defending...