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DESIGN IN EVIL-Rufus King-Crime Club ($2). Shanghaied Manhattan maiden on an outbound motor cruiser is in a sad plight when a psychiatrist insists that she is schizophrenic, and the subsequent stabbing of a frightened woman is charged to her account. A tempest-tossed thriller with interesting psychological overtones...
...caught two Italian battleships and a heavy cruiser in their bomb-sights, proved that those secret U.S. instruments work superbly. Twenty bombs plastered one of the battleships, 15 the other. Said the flight commander, Major Alfred F. Kalberer, of LaFayette, Ind.: "It was like shooting fish in a barrel." Unhappily, the fish refused to die. Later an R.A.F. torpedo slowed one of the battleships, sank the bombed cruiser...
Captain Rooks was commander of the cruiser U.S.S. Houston, lost following the battle of Java. He was listed as missing in action, and the award of the nation's highest war decoration was made by President Roosevelt...
...Japanese meant business: their air attack on Dutch Harbor (TIME, June 15) had been no feint. The U.S. meant business, too: in Washington, Army & Navy officials announced U.S. air attacks on Japanese forces in the western islands of the Aleutians, claimed one cruiser sunk, seven other vessels damaged, including one aircraft carrier, three more cruisers. The Navy also described "continuing air attacks upon enemy landing parties and their supporting naval contingents...
...Rich in destroyers (171) when the Jap attacked, the Navy is now building more, of the Fletcher class. Their secret design is the answer to the Jap's 2,000-ton Kageros, and his secretly built "cruiser-destroyers...