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...Treasury did not care. It asserts that Aniline's war output is pretty standardized and can be kept going by second-string men. Anyway, the Treasury would rather wreck the company than take further chances. Some things made Treasury's hair curl: movies of secret tests of new, experimental U.S. tanks at Aberdeen, Md. were developed by three German aliens employed in the Agfa Ansco plant; Ozalid division employes, many of them German-born, thoroughly inspected defense plants before installing blueprint processes, frequently went back to service the equipment. If no accidents or sabotage had occurred...
...avoid any resemblance to Japan's Rising Sun, two well-known sport emblems were blotted out last week: > Seattle Planeman William E. Boeing, owner of a large string of race horses, had his racing silks changed from a red ball on white background to a red square. > The redball skating banner, for generations the traditional ice-pond signal to indicate "good skating today," was condemned by northern U.S. communities. To find a suitable substitute, a contest will be conducted. One suggestion: a black-&-blue flag...
Died. "Judge" Joseph Frederick Rutherford, 71, founder and guiding spirit of the energetically anticlerical, antiwar, anti-State Jehovah's Witnesses sect; in San Diego. A tireless orator, he was a youthful admirer of Orator William Jennings Bryan, affected a high-standing wing collar, string tie, capacious hat. He was legal adviser to Sectarian Charles Taze Russell, leader of the "Russellites," took over the organization after Russell's death in 1916, renamed it Jehovah's Witnesses, built it into a group claiming two million members. Rutherford was jailed in World War I for advocating war resistance, was released...
...year ago last week, flushed with an impressive string of whirlwind victories, Adolf Hitler trumpeted that "the year . . . will bring completion of the greatest victory in our history...
Connected by nine-foot channels which accommodate river barges, the 700-mile string of reservoirs from the Kentucky Dam to the Norris Dam is being called the Great Lakes of the South and are coming into their own as resorts, particularly at the Chickamauga Dam near chattanooga...