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Evidence in preliminary court hearings, based on six confessions, tied Nazi espionage with the known sinking of at least two British cargo ships. Probably scores of others were doomed by code messages on high-powered radio sets and interchange of information through Spanish ships. Subsequent developments were expected to give chapter & verse on a continental espionage system of Nazis, Fascists and Japanese operating in Buenos Aires with all the trigger men expelled from Brazil and Chile...
...White Cargo (M.G.M.) is the second screen version of one of the worst and most successful plays of the '205. Starchy, ambitious young Langford (Richard Carlson) goes out to the Congo, around 1910, to help run a rubber plantation. As he disembarks from the Congo Queen his unstarched predecessor is carried aboard, toes turned up, Britain-bound. Says young Langford: "Blahsted hot today." His new boss Witzel (Walter Pidgeon) moves off, moaning "I was waiting for that phrase." Witzel gives Langford the advice needed to keep Empire whole and hale: "Never let the [native] men see you are afraid...
...Cargo is what is known as a great "acting" show, and the cast give it both barrels. Acting may not be the word for Hedy Lamarr's job, but whatever the word is, she understands it perfectly. Obviously she gets as much fun out of it as she gives...
...Japs were still trying on Guadalcanal. U.S. forces beat off another attempt to land troops at night. With the loss of one American cruiser, nine enemy ships were sunk: two large destroyers or light cruisers, four destroyers, two transports, one cargo ship. Not a Jap landed...
Tucked away in New England is a small, 869-mile airline most U.S. citizens have never heard of. Yet last week it was a vital link between U.S. airlines and the war-boomed air routes across the North Atlantic (see map), it had several big transoceanic, cargo-carrying contracts with the Army's Air Transport Command, it had just landed a $1,500,000 V loan, it was growing so fast even its sponsors were dazzled. Its name: Northeast Airlines, Inc., which before the war supplied limited mail and passenger service between Boston and Moncton, N.B., with offshoots...