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Britain's East African forces last week captured Gondar, the last Italian stronghold in Ethiopia. Using Highland, Indian, Sudanese, South and West African, Free French and Ethiopian troops, 46-year-old Major General Charles Fowkes took into camp 10,000 weary, hungry Italians and natives with their 50 guns...
...reported in Washington. He need not have been in such a hurry. The Board's plan for mobilizing the U.S. in a defense program was later submitted to the President, never saw the light of day. The Board was dissolved, and Wood went back to his Highland Park home outside Chicago, with good cause to frown over New Deal mismanagement...
Guns. Last stop of the inspection was the Highland Park Gun Barrel Arsenal where the company is tooling up to make barrels, water jackets and sights for a 40-mm. Bofors anti-aircraft gun. Eight other Chrysler plants are also working on the 500 parts it requires. A Navy officer on hand for last week's show called the gun "the finest thing of its type in the world." Chrysler's President K. T. Keller said the guns should be in production by February, didn't say in what amount...
...remaining on the American continents. The 50,000 square miles of territory in dispute between Peru and Ecuador lie mostly between the Marañón and Napo Rivers, tributaries of the Amazon (plus a picayune area along the Pacific coast). They are made up of a little fertile highland, a little more barren mountainside and much more tangled jungle, from which come a bit of rubber and some desiccated human heads for the tourist trade...
...apart, their trunks paralleled a trail's direction. Rows of such trees still survive here & there. Today a silent brave, threading his way past filling stations, could still follow a good existing tree-trail from the shore of Lake Michigan north of Chicago, inland through the center of Highland Park (pop. 14,476) to the site of an old Indian village in the Skokie Valley five miles away...