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Under the corporate laws of Georgia, a legal charter was obtained last August by the "benevolent and patriotic society" of Columbians. This disarming front shielded ominous trappings. The members wore Army khaki uniforms and startling insignia-a red thunderbolt. The Columbians also boasted a belligerent creed: "To create voting solidarity among all white American citizens. ... To encourage our people to think in terms of race, nation and faith...
Last week New York's thin-lipped, aging Bishop William Thomas Manning aimed an episcopal thunderbolt at un wary St. James' and its new vestryman-elect. In an action that he admitted was "unusual" he decreed that thrice-married Elliott "is not in good standing with the Church and therefore is not eligible for the office of vestryman and cannot serve in that capacity." Canon law forbids remarriage of di vorced persons except in case of infidelity...
...Thunderbolt. How much sales of small private planes will put in the industry's pocket is still anybody's guess. But it might be far bigger than gloomy Guses have predicted. Example: when the Government put on sale 5,000 surplus small planes, some 40,000 people bid for them...
Most of the warplane makers have been content to leave the small plane market alone, so far. But not Republic Aviation Corp. It already has a foot in the door, and as soon as it winds up production of its Thunderbolt, it plans to set up an assembly line for its four-place amphibian, the Seabee. Republic said that it already has orders for 3,500 on hand, hopes to turn out 5,000 in the next year...
...huge new sister, the Consolidated B32, plus the newest versions of the battle-tested Republic P47 (Thunderbolt) and North American P-51 (Mustang) are the planes with which the Air Forces will mainly wage the Pacific air war. A brand-new type also to be included in the Air Forces front-line strength will be Lockheed's slick new jet-plane, the P-80 (TIME, March 12), on which veteran fighter pilots are now being trained. Of all the older standbys of the European Avar only a few Flying Fortresses will fight in the Pacific frontline, after redeployment...