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...last ditch of defense, the one on which London relied most heavily by night, was anti-aircraft fire. The organizer of London's anti-aircraft defenses is Lieut. General Sir Frederick Alfred ("Tim") Pile, a short, dapper, witty, sporty Irishman who can speak Persian and Hindustani. He won the D. S. O. in 1918 for outstanding artillery work near Arras, a decade later helped devise Britain's first practical light tank. His personnel is an entirely civilian group from territorial regiments...
Last week Tim Pile was told that his men must bear a heavier burden of defense. One night air-raid wardens circulated through their districts, saying: "There'll be a hell of a racket tonight, but don't worry, it's something our boys are putting up." When the enemy came over, the noise broke out, like dozens of summer storms. It was Tim Pile's new tactic. Instead of trying to hold enemy planes in the long fingers of searchlights and aiming at them, AA defenses set up a box barrage, all the guns firing...
...Tim Pile's box barrage was a measure of desperation. Such heavy fire could not be long maintained. The average anti-aircraft gun of the 3.7-and 4.5-inch types used by Britain can fire about 300 rounds, then it must be dismantled and its liner shrunk, removed, replaced. London could not possibly muster more than 5,000 antiaircraft guns (including machine guns), and if the 400,000 rounds claimed in one night were actually fired, the Tommies were shooting the guts out of their guns. Neutral observers thought the slackening of German attack in the face of this...
...Arthur Dietrich, brother of Dr. Goebbels' right-hand man and press chief. Officially listed as Press Attaché to the German Legation, he employs a large staff of writers, translators and agents, operates his own printing plant, subsidizes Mexican papers, sponsors magazines such as the blatantly pro-Nazi Timón, and finances local Nazi organizations such as the Vanguardia Nacional. A number of smooth young Nazis arrived from the U. S. and Latin America to augment his staff; secret radio stations operated by his experts blot out American broadcasts and fill the ether with Nazi propaganda; reports...
...LADY WEPT ALONE-Carolyn Byrd Dawson-Crime Club ($2). Miss Matilda Brockett, the Grand Old Lady of the whole town, and Sheriff Tim Hammond untangle the jams into which Jay Halliday's shooting plunges his wife, exwife, Andy the ex-wife's suitor...