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...northern spearhead marched Japan's Sixth Infantry (from her balmy, almost tropical island of Kyushu). Wearing mittens, shawls and everything they could put or tie on, the tropical Sixth rushed at 12° below zero upon Chinese who shot first from behind the rocks of rolling foothills, then from behind the crags of higher and higher mountains as they fell back upon Chihfeng...
Died. John G. ("Paul Revere") Parke, 67, chief engineer of Pittsburgh Steel Co. who in 1889 galloped down Pennsylvania's Conemaugh Valley warning the people of the imminent water wall, half a mile wide, 20 ft. high, hurling a spearhead of trees, houses, machinery, rocks, tangled barbed wire and human bodies toward Johnstown (dead: 2,000); after long illness; in Monessen...
...York Rangers, winners in the American Group, lost their first game to the Montreal Canadiens, 4 to 3. Defending the championship, which they have won for the past two years, the Canadiens were favorites to win again. A fast, clever team, they are noted for a brilliant offense. Its spearhead is Howie Morenz, reputedly the fastest player in the world, famed for the way he pivots behind the goal to get up speed when carrying the puck. Last week, Howie Morenz received a cup for being the most valuable player to his team in the National Hockey League...
This year the problem is to recapture Hawaii from a hypothetical enemy. As the zero hour approached for Admiral Richard Henry Leigh's Blue force to cross a deadline and commence hostilities, the defensive Blacks, surmising that the attack's spearhead would aim at Honolulu's Pearl Harbor naval base, sent skeleton columns of soldiers, sailors and marines to patrol the coast of Oahu and guard against a surprise landing. Actually mobilized to defend Hawaii were 20,000 men, 17 sub marines, four light mine layers, two mine sweepers and 45 aircraft under Major General Briant Harris...
...calmly took the witness stand, applause rang out from his friends packed into the court room. Waiting to question him was large, pontifical Inquisitor Samuel Seabury, the committee's counsel, spearhead of the forces of Reform. The subject of the interrogation was a telephone call made by Boss Curry last month. The committee had got a horse doctor named William Francis Doyle sentenced to jail for contempt because he refused to answer questions affecting Tammany officeholders. Boss Curry had telephoned Appellate Justice Henry L. Sherman, vacationing at Lake Placid, and induced him to hear a petition which resulted...