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Scores, hundreds, thousands of French, British, Germans-seasoned survivors of World War I as well as fresh-faced fodder for World War II- suffered painful, personal wounds or death along the Perl-to-Lauterbourg front last week. So did hundreds of pigs which the French Infantry drove before them to locate and detonate concealed land mines. Yet B. Mussolini was not unduly cynical when he said: "Europe is not yet actually at war. The masses of the armies have not yet clashed...
...have been smashed up at the French wire by anti-tank fire, the wreckage of 20 of them blocking the passage of heavier German tanks. German counterattacks in the Bienwald east of Bitche were evidently more successful. At the northwest end of the line, the French advance from Perl in the direction of Trier progressed yard by yard. Then, this week, along the 80-mile Rhine front from Lauterbourg to Basle, the guns of the Maginot Line and the Westwall thundered at each other the first shots in that sector since the war began. As this activity lengthened into...
...Inventor Perl calculates to leave the ground at 110 m. p. h., reach 310 m. p. h. in 20 minutes, attain the stratosphere by a direct climb at 45 degrees (instead of the usual circling) in 100 minutes, thereafter...
Last week one Heinz Guenther Perl, 21, precocious Berlin inventor who has belonged to the American Chamber of Commerce in Berlin since he was 15 (for inventing a table stove), averred that in four months he would fly through the cold, thin stratosphere. Professor Albert Einstein approved his plan on theoretical grounds. So did Count Georg Wilhelm Alexander Haus Arco, President of the Telefunken Co. (radio builders). So did professors at the Berlin Polytechnic Institute. So, in effect, did the enthusiastic New York Times which obtained and printed a long exclusive Perl interview...
...Perl plan is to build a 22-ft. duralumin fuselage shaped like a dirigible, hermetically sealed. Inside would be a compressor which would supply air at sea level pressure and warm it for the pilot and the motor (which would be within the fuselage). Outside would be the propeller, wings resembling those of a flying fish, and tail fins. Landing wheels would be retracted into the body...