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...merchant ships are to be armed, it will be necessary to rob the navy for gun crews and some guns, and to use a large quantity of World War weapons. The drain on the Navy, the complete inadequacy of the training of the Merchant Marine for combat, and, in many cases, the unsuitability of the deck structure for gun platforms, all form strong arguments against the dangerous and useless gesture of arming our merchant ships...
WASHINGTON--Administration demands that Congress act quickly to combat unrestricted German warfare in the Atlantic were strongly implemented tonight by the torpedoing and sinking of two more American-owned freighters and disclosure that the U. S. Destroyer Kearny was on convoy duty last Friday when it was attacked off Iceland...
...said that the folk of the town of Maragogy, 60 miles north of Maceio, would know more. There Senhor Ayres Costa, a former mayor of great dignity, was willing to say: "I haven't the slightest doubt that this was naval combat, as shots, characteristic of a cannonade, were heard closely by all the populace...
Regardless of whose feelings get hurt, and how deeply, the U.S. Army has to rid itself of officers who are incompetent, too old, or badly trained. It intends to continue transferring improperly assigned officers from combat commands to administrative work where they can do better. The process will continue for several months, reach far down into the second lieutenants before it is ended...
Courtly, soft-spoken Lieut. General Delos C. Emmons, head of the Combat Command, last week pointed out that the Army needs control over women engaged in confidential work, plans to set them up in several corps that would include all ranks, from privates to colonels. Determined that U.S. women in service shall look less dreary than opposite numbers in Britain, the Army intends to dress them snappily, make appearance as well as intelligence a necessary qualification. If Army suggestions go through Congress, the ladies will be housed in barracks, will be disciplined as carefully as regular soldiers...