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Since the Army has rejected the offer of the Flying Club to assist in hunting submarines, patroling the coast, and convoying ships into Boston along with the Civil Air Patrol, the Club has been forced to abandon its activities for the duration, secretary H.W. Ford King '44, announced yesterday...
...crew of the St. Roch set out in June 1940 to: 1) take the schooner from Vancouver to Halifax for patrol duty in the Atlantic; 2) supply the permanent Mounted Police arctic posts along the way; 3) take the Eskimo census. Before they reached Sydney, N.S., the tough team and the tough ship had backtracked Explorer Roald Amundsen's famous three-year east-to-west trip across America's top. They had added valuable information to the world's expandingly accurate geography, survived the Arctic's most treacherous dangers, dutifully performed their assigned tasks...
...Lieut. Francisco Castillo Najera, son of the Mexican Ambassador, and Seńorita Alicia Calvillo of Mexico City, the groom swept his bride off her feet, staged a rare tableau of best-dressed romance (see cut). Animal Fair: Some 2,000 dogs which will do Coast Guard shore patrol work went into training on the estate of Joseph E. Widener, multimillionaire Philadelphia art patron and horse breeder. Into the Army for training went Gogo and Cliquot, green-eyed Cinemactress Greer Garson's Fighting French poodles. On tour with her husband, Lady Halifax visited the St. Louis Zoo, unflinchingly...
...gets the largest slice: $5,595,000,000-almost four billion of it for air. Main item is $2,862,000,000 for 14,600 airplanes, assuring the Navy of its 27,500 "program airplanes" early in 1944. About $36,000,000 is for 72 blimps, raising the blimp patrol total...
...pilot soared home after strafing a supply train in Northern France with a chunk of a telegraph pole wedged in his wing. A sergeant pilot on patrol over the Dutch coast flew his Spitfire more than 100 miles home after it was hit by three cannon shells and 30 machine-gun bullets, with a seagull lodged in its carburetor intake. An Eagle reported: "Evading a flak, got into an uncontrolled spin, came out of it in a dive over a cluster of guns, opened fire from 200 yards, blew up an ammunition dump, pulled out of the dive, gunned army...