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...Force with Force" Adolf Hitler's personal newsorgan Vőlkischer Beobachter thundered last week: "The halting and search of the German steamer Kamerun on the high seas by [Spanish Government] Red Marxist marines is a serious breach of international...
...such a stimulus to do something that he virtually denuded Germany of naval defense, sending the Fatherland's three "pocket battleships" to Spanish waters. Their commander, Rear Admiral Rolf Carls, bombarded Spanish Government ships with radio threats that if force was again used to so much as search another German steamer "we shall answer force with force...
Carousing at a Nice festival, an engagingly flip U. S. detective named Harwood (Edmund Lowe) discovers a corpse, which presently vanishes. Before Harwood can launch a search, a beautiful U. S. insurance claim investigator named Caryl Fenton (Constance Cummings) drags him away to look for some lost jewels in Scotland. When the train is wrecked on the way, Harwood discovers the missing body in the wreckage, shrewdly suspects that the wreck was intentional to hide the murder. He bets the French police inspector on the scene $5.000 that he will find the criminal. There follows, as in The Thirty-Nine...
Over Dayton, Ohio, last week curvetted three new little airplanes, undergoing rigorous U. S. Army Air Corps tests in its present search for an advanced type training plane. Two of the entries were from factories which have long supplied the Army with good planes (North American, Northrop). They were therefore less interesting to onlookers than the third competitor, a stubby little monoplane entered by Seversky Aircraft Corp., a five-year-old firm which in the past twelvemonth has mushroomed from almost nothing to top-notch military importance...
...Specifically they wanted to show that in killing a minor Dillinger mobster named Eddie Green in St. Paul two years ago, the Department of Justice operatives had shot without warning or cause. This plan presumably went on the rocks when Sleuth Boatwright, posing as a magazine writer in search of new material, confided it to a onetime G-Man. It was not long before the Secret Service's scheme was known at the Department of Justice. Enraged, Attorney General Cummings declared he would resist any attempts to discredit J. Edgar Hoover or his men. Professing great surprise, the Treasury...