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Also in Chicago, Texas' General Jonathan Wainwright (ret.) simultaneously denied that he knew of any draft-Wainwright-for-the-Senate movement and declared that he would be happy...
Died. Lieut. General Ross Erastus Rowell (ret.), 62, Marine Corps aviator, credited as originator of dive-bombing tactics; of coronary thrombosis; in San Diego, Calif. During the 1927 Nicaraguan uprising, an outpost of U.S. Marines was surrounded by 600 rebels; Rowell loaded up his De Havilland biplanes with 17-lb. bombs, pinpointed them by diving at the target, routed the enemy. He later demonstrated his technique at the 1932 Cleveland Air Races. Looking on: Luftwaffe Colonel General Ernst Udet, who commented: "We ought to try it in Germany." They did. Result: the famed Stukas...
Inside Job. The Paris press, suddenly waking up to what France-Soir called "the most extraordinary enigma in criminal history," screamed MURDER. As a horde of reporters and cameramen built the case into a sensational story, a stocky, methodical detective named Edmond Bascou, one of the Sûreté Nationale's best, took over the investigation...
Died. Brigadier General Marlborough Churchill (Ret.), 68, during the closing months of World War I chief of U.S. Army Intelligence, distant kin of Britain's Winston; after long illness; in Manhattan...
Died. Brigadier General (ret.) Evans Fordyce Carlson, 51, gaunt, battle-scarred onetime commander of "Carlson's (Gung Ho) Raiders," whose exploits as a commander on Makin and Guadalcanal bolstered U.S. morale in World War II's early days, whose penchant for leadership in Communist-fringe organizations dismayed his fellow generals of the U.S. Marine Corps; of a heart attack; in Portland...