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Next U.S. target was the city of Frankfort on the Main. The Germans set up a terrific flak barrage; 21 bombers were lost. But again fighter opposition was negligible. At week's end Allied air fleets, 1,200 planes strong, staged a savage, two-day mauling of the Luftwaffe's important French air bases around Paris. Weather apparently was holding Britain's heavy night-flying bombers in check, but the speedy Mosquitoes were out nightly, at tacking German targets as far inland as Berlin...
...Salt Lake City's Newhouse Hotel, G.O.P. national, state and county committeemen from eleven western states met for a two-day "Save America" powwow. Most committeemen were content to grouse about the liquor shortage, while their political optimism ran high. They listened to optimistic speeches, passed routine anti-New Deal resolutions...
Last week the Admiralty reported that five U-boats were sunk, three crippled by Allied warships and planes in a two-day battle. A pack of 20 subs had attacked two adjacent convoys. Land-based U.S. planes from Iceland, British and Canadian planes from England, escort-carrier planes teamed with British destroyers and frigates. After the eighth submarine was hit, the enemy kept their distance. "Ninety nine percent" of the merchantmen got through safely. Not a British warship was scratched. The British lost three planes...
...Cherkassy direction our troops . . . together with guerrillas . . . struck an unexpected blow. . . . In October several guerrilla detachments in the Tarnopol region blew up 33 enemy troop trains, two armored trains and a railway bridge. . . . At the beginning of November the Germans sent out a large punitive expedition against one of the guerrilla detachments. In a two-day engagement the Soviet patriots wiped out more than 100 enemy officers and men and forced the enemy to retreat...
...field day was soon over. The small-fry cases proved to be two-day stories at best. The Lonergan case, born in a palace, died in an alley. Its climax: estranged Husband Lonergan, who had fled to Toronto and been brought back by plane, had pulled the job. It took no Sherlock Holmes to untangle a crime whose tawdry details petered out into unprintable and nearly unprintable gossip...