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...Field's committee hopes eventually to place in U. S. homes. Best hope of getting the others out still lay in the British merchant marine. Though the Hennings Bill (passed last week but not yet countersigned by Hitler) has granted permission to U. S. ships to go into combat zones to evacuate children, it carries the proviso that a grant of safe conduct must first be obtained from the belligerents. Germany last week practically nullified the measure when the official Nazi news agency declared that no guarantees could be given ships passing through mine-infested waters* no exception could...
...officers of both armies sat down to hear Hugh Drum. Most glaring deficiency of the maneuvers the First Army commander passed over in one sentence. The point was too well known, even to the watching farmers, to be labored : the U. S. Army was grotesquely short of combat equipment. In both Black and Blue armies there were only four tanks. Like the Germans seven years ago, company commanders whitewashed the sign "TANK" on the sides of trucks, and the umpires counted them as tanks...
This week, back at their home stations, National Guardsmen waited for the President's call for a year's active service, had the prospect of longer and bigger maneuvers to brush up basic combat lessons, develop the kind of teamwork the Germans have. Regulars hoped Congress would soon pass a conscription bill. For-besides men and equipment-what the Army needs is practice, practice, more practice. No Army man forgets that it took the Germans seven years...
After learning sentry-stalking in the Indian fashion, home-defense volunteers attending the school were taught to use a knife as the principal weapon of silent combat. Although throat-cutting was demonstrated and practiced on dummies, back-stabbing was recommended because it usually involves less noise, and a proficient stabber should be able to account for several sentries in short order. Garroting with fine piano wire was supervised by an instructor with experience in Northern India...
Died. William Meade Lindsley Fiske III, 29, famed U. S. winter-sportsman, driver of winning Olympic bobsleds (1928, 1932), reputedly the first American to join the R. A. F. as a pilot; of wounds received during aerial combat; somewhere in southeastern England. In 1938 Mr. Fiske married the beauteous Countess of Warwick...