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...America for Americans" is the fine new demand made to all patriotic Freshmen yesterday by the Veterans of Future Wars in a "manifesto" followed by a petition pledging support. Besides the retroactive bonus demand, the manifesto threw open the Home Fire Division (burning not shooting) of the V.F.W. to all mothers or future mothers of male children who, they naturally demand, must be sent to France immediately as partial compensation for the inevitable loss of their future husbands...
...getting their feet wet. At 10 a. m. Market Street was hip-deep in swirling water. Workers frantically rushed records and goods to upper floors or slogged for home. As plate-glass windows gave way, leaving rich stores open for looting, 1,500 National Guardsmen marched into the district, threw a khaki line from end to end of Grant Street, the Triangle's base. Up & up surged the dirty water until the marquees of stores and theatres were barely visible, and rowboats were bobbing over the tops of submerged automobiles. Two of the Duquesne Power & Light...
...flood seven valley towns. Four spans of the old vehicular bridge at Harper's Ferry, entrance to the Shenandoah Valley, were swept away. At Anacostia the Navy got 35 planes off to Hampton Roads before the flying field went under. In Washington 1,500 WPA workers threw up a 19-ft. dike of earth, stone and sandbags to protect the Washington Monument and new Government buildings near the river. Residents of outlying Georgetown took to rowboats and canoes as the waters seeped up, flowed over Washington-Hoover and Bolling flying fields, swept away a few waterfront cottages, lapped...
Climaxing the best grappling series in Intramural history, was the victory of Chief Boston, undefeated Freshman heavyweight, as he threw George Briggs 31, in one minute, 45 seconds...
...summaries of the other matches: 118-pound--L. K. Ach '39 threw E. Metaxas '39 threw Ach 5:33; 145-pound--Downey threw B. Slate 1G.B. in 6:55; 155-pound--Downey decision over E. L. Barnes in 2:33; 165-pound--J. L. Potter 2L threw C. W. Cooper 2L in 2:28; 175-pound--G. Kielin '38 decision over D. H. Sears...