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...John van Kuren ("Scarsdale Jack") Newkirk, death-dealing leader of the A.V.G. Second Pursuit Squadron, was killed last week. Newkirk had started to be a marksman at the age of five, when he got a bow & arrow. When he was ten his friends in Scarsdale, N.Y. dared him to shoot the first person who came along. That person happened to be the county sheriff, but Jack let fly anyway. When he grew up he studied chemistry and aeronautical engineering. A double mastoid operation in childhood almost kept him out of the Navy's air school at Pensacola...
...other U.S. men's activities were so well organized. In Seattle, Leader Gene Mahoney of the Home Defense Infantry Regiment had appointed captains, majors, lieutenants with no advice from the military. In Mound City, Mo., Legionnaires were training with bow & arrow. In Omaha, stylish horsemen set themselves up as "Paul Reveres." In Louisville, Ky., the Legionnaires started to conduct a city-wide registration in competition with local authorities, were...
...Kanzler was stunned by the vastness and complexity of his new job last week, he did not show it. Right after he got the green light, he piled aboard the Red Arrow for Detroit, there set up temporary, wire-partitioned offices on the ground floor of the Federal Building. Then he rushed to Detroit's huge Masonic Temple, laid down the law to 1,400 auto and auto-parts moguls. Said Kanzler: "We must have at once an all-out war economy...
Although its honors are many, Battery D can never forget the one time it-had to spike its guns. On its shield is a broken arrow symbolizing a battle at Vincennes, when a horde of Miami Indians scalped all the battery's officers, two-thirds of its men, killed all its horses...
...jammed....Governor Saltonstall and Mayor Tobin spoke at a mass preparedness meeting at Faneuil Hall-and when they finished were greeted by the report that enemy planes had been sighted 200 miles from the city....Bellboys on the roof of the Hotel Statler dumped buckets of paint over the arrow on its roof pointing to the airport. Workers at the Navy Yard were released from work. Autos were frozen in parking lots and immobilized on the streets, and children were excused from schools. The sound of an automobile backfiring, truck wheels rumbling, of ambulance and fire-engine sirens moaning...