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...Bonneville Dam in 1937, 6,000.) A small thing before the speech put the crowd in a frame of mind to respond to McNary's appeal to the pioneer spirit. Seven black-robed, black-veiled figures, like those who haunted the Senate during the conscription debate, tried to crash the bleachers, carrying anti-conscription signs. They were quickly ousted, their signs torn up, while the crowds cheered. One of the "widows" turned out to be a young man dressed in woman's clothing...
...hour at Washington's airport, a Douglas DC-3 of Pennsylvania Central Airlines took off one night last week for Pittsburgh. Twenty-three minutes later, over the foothills of the Blue Ridge range near Lovettsville, Va., 36 miles west of Washington, something happened. Farmers attracted by a crash found the plane strewn over a clearing into which it had apparently plunged full tilt. Killed and mangled were all 21 passengers, its crew of four. The force of the crash was so great that, strapped in their seats, many of them were literally cut in two by their safety belts...
...news of the worst crash in the history of U. S. aviation ended 17 months of safe operation. It stunned Washington. It had political repercussions: because among the dead was Minnesota's 62-year-old Farmer-Labor Senator Ernest Lundeen, whose successor will be named by Republican Governor Stassen; because after the crash in 1935 which killed Senator Bronson Cutting of New Mexico, Senator Lundeen voted to establish the independent Civil Aeronautics Authority (for air safety, development and regulation), and CAA was recently transferred to the Commerce Department. The crash also was a direct blow to several Government bureaus...
Another central figure in the Luftwaffe's climax performance is General Hans Jeschonnek, who became chief of the Air General Staff in 1937 after the death (in a crash) of Marshal Milch's aide and crony, Colonel General Walter Wever...
...conquest of Great Britain. Last week, as that date approached, Britain's Over-Seas League planned a monster Aug. 15 tea party in London for His Majesty's forces from overseas. Before the week was out Britons were certain that Adolf Hitler had decided to crash the party. Huge German air assaults lasting from dawn to dusk began; 400 or 500 Nazi raiders came over Britain every day; no hour was without its dogfight. Finally, after holding it back for several hours, the British censor released a dispatch reporting that heavy explosions, believed to be caused by shells...