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...reply, Keene climbed down from his high-hung, isolated engine compartment to see what the trouble was. First he saw the remains of the chief gunner. The others in the eight-man Australian crew slumped at their posts. Every one had been killed, struck by machine-gun bullets or cannon fire. Corporal Keene was glad to be alive, but he had never flown a plane...
...Louis Post-Dispatch's editorial writer Ralph Coghlan and two friends were found innocent by a Jefferson City jury of conspiring last December to steal a cannon from the grounds of Missouri's capitol. Coghlan had wanted the cannon thrown on the war scrap pile, had been balked by Governor Forrest C. Donnell. "As I was saying last December when interrupted by the Governor's silly grand larceny charge," said Editor Coghlan: "I still think the old cannon, symbol of Mr. Donnell's hair-splitting incompetency, belongs on the nation's scrap pile...
Economy-With Teeth. In the House, Missouri's knob-nosed Clarence Cannon, chairman of the Appropriations Committee, moved to give his committee sweeping powers to slice nonwar expenditures. He proposed that the committee have authority to issue subpoenas, compel witnesses to testify under oath, and to hire technical experts to sleuth through the budget. In a Congress bent on economy, his proposal seemed certain of approval...
...retaliation for the two poundings the R.A.F. had given Berlin. About 125 fighter-bombers and fighters, mostly Focke-Wulf 1905 and Messerschmitt 190Fs, crossed the coast at Beachy Head and roared at mast level up the Thames Estuary. The R.A.F. shot down 16, of which five fell before the cannon and machine guns of the Hawker Typhoon, one of Britain's newest and fastest (over 400 m.p.h.) fighters. Only six German planes penetrated the outer defenses of the capital, but one of them carried the bomb which caused the worst London school disaster...
Target: Locomotives. To hit at this soft spot, Allied fighter planes are now concentrating on German locomotives in western Europe. With armor-piercing slugs in their cannon they aim to blow up boilers (repairing a boiler takes at least half as long as constructing a new locomotive, thus pays dividends in lost man-hours as well as destruction). The Allied bag now averages 20 successful destructions each week. German concern is shown by reports that armor-plated locomotives are planned; anti-aircraft guns are already being mounted on flatcars behind the tenders...