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Convinced of the possibility of German air raids on the United States coast, a group of architects and engineers, headed by Harold B. Willis '12 are now conducting a survey to determine the best way to provide Boston with air raid shelters.
A world war ace pilot with four citations of the Croix do Guerre, Willis served as an ambulance driver this year in France until the armistice.
Also shaken in his "safe" seat was the Democrats' Senate whip, Sherman ("Shay") Minton of Indiana. Atop the seesaw at mid-count was jelly-chinned, 65-year-old Editor Raymond Eugene Willis, a safe-&-solid Republican.
> Raymond Eugene Willis, 65, was one of nine children of an Indiana country editor, since 1907 has edited the Steuben Republican. Chubby-handed. chubby-chinned Editor Willis' hobby is helping crippled children (his wife is an invalid). His formidable 1940 task: to unhorse Democrat Sherman ("Shay") Minton.
Some of the members of the American Field Service organized a new Lafayette Escadrille. James and Willis received commissions in the French Air Service and had made all the final arrangements with the French Air Ministry when the armistice was signed.