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Luftwaffe's pattern for bombing Great Britain began to become apparent with last week's intensive night-raiding. Around London, the prime emphases were on the city's seaward jugular, the Thames Estuary and London dock area, and on the city's western and southwestern edges...
...total blockade of the British Isles. In that time, the Magalhaes' master was quoted as saying, only one ship left Southampton with industrial products. Rail lines from the interior had been crippled by repeated air bombing. Most Southampton warehouses were destroyed or damaged. The King George V graving dock, only one in England big enough to accommodate giantesses like the Queen Mary, was out of commission with smashed floodgates. The Empress basin was blocked by a sunken tanker, its wharves torn by gaping holes. Leaving port the master of the Magalhaes counted 23 wrecks in the Solent. "South England...
...this time Big John and Square John are such sizable fellows that their boyish tussling shakes the U. S. oil industry to its foundations. Big John winds up in the dock facing a Sherman Anti-Trust suit. It looks bad for Big John until Square John repents, takes the witness stand to score on Uncle Sam in the most shameless courtroom bid for an Oscar since Paul Muni's blow for liberty in Zola. At this point Gable redeems himself with the first sensible line in the show. Says he: "I didn't know he had so much...
...fair speed to those who knew the tough realities. New construction already clogged the ways at most of the Navy's own yards (Brooklyn, Portsmouth, Norfolk, Boston, Mare Island, Charleston, Philadelphia, Puget Sound). Few and busy were the private yards geared to produce warships (Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., Bethlehem Steel, Bath Iron Works, Federal Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., New York Shipbuilding Corp., Electric Boat Co.). Also at or near capacity were the only three private producers of naval armor plate (Bethlehem, U. S. Steel, Baldwin Locomotive's subsidiary Midvale Co.) and the Navy's armor...
Died. Peter Maher, 71, oldtime pugilist of bare-knuckle days, onetime welter, light and heavyweight champion of Ireland, sometime bartender, dock hand, burlesque attraction ; in Baltimore. Long on powerful wallops, short on skill, Oldster Maher fought and was drubbed by Bob Fitzsimmons, Kid McCoy, John L. Sullivan...