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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (May 22, 1941)
$5,000,000 Fire Sweeps Philadelphia Fire swept through three city blocks of the Port Richmond section of Philadelphia, taking property toll of approximately $5,000,000 in homes and factories. A wall of water stopped the fire Just short of Cramps shipyards, where large naval construction contracts are under way. Photo shows firemen fighting the blase. Giant New Battleship Commissioned The 35,000-ton super-dreadnaught, U. S. S. Washington, has now Joined the United States navy. This view during the commissioning ceremonies shows part of the after-deck with crew members lined up under the great ship’s 16-inch rifles. Into Guard Room! Lieut. Col. H. Smith, military aide to’ the President, averted new at tacks on American Peace Mobilisa tion pickets in front of White House by taking one soldier into custody, himself, giving him the "bum’s rush’’ into the guard room. In Hess’s Shoes From now on the office of chan cellery head in Berlin will be under control of Hitler, although the pres ent leader, Martin Bormann (above) will remain in office. This will fill gap created by flight of Rudolf Hess, No. 3 Nasi, to Scotland. Wartime Rules Invoked to Guard Capitol Capitol police begin checking articles carried by visitors, for the first time since World War I days, when a time-bomb exploded in the senate reception room. Acting under orders from the capitol police board, fourteen officers are stopping all visitors at the seven entrances to the building, and relieve all sight-seers of bundles, cameras, umbrellas and other articles large enough to conceal a bomb. Australian Prime Minister Arrives Robert G. Menzies, prime minister of Australia, and companions, pictured as they arrived in New York, from Europe, on the Pan-American Dixie Clipper. Left to right: Menzies; Frederick Sheddon, secretary of Australian-British defense co-ordination department; and John Storey, member of Australian-British aircraft production committee. Fights Polio At the invitation of President Roosevelt to take treatment for po lio, Higinio Morinigo Jr., son of the president of Paraguay, arrives at Miami airport with his mother and Maria Carmen Pena, four, en route to Warm Springs, Ga. Gift From Red Cross John G. Winant, United States ambassador to Great Britain, hand ing over a check for 70,000 pounds to Lady Reading, chief of the Wom en’s Volunteer Service, in London. The money was sent from the Amer ican Red Cross. Making America's Speediest Plane W iMMJIMJMIIIHU Mil ^ ——— Workmen are shown swarming over Lockheed P-38 Interceptors on the production line (left) In the Lock heed plant at Burbank, Calif. After a P-38 was clocked at 458 miles an hour In Its first public performance, army officials acclaimed It “America's fastest plane.” Right: One of the first P-38s to come off the production line. In the background are several Lockheed-Hudson bombers waiting to be flown to Britain. Defenders of Africa Carry On Gen. Jan Smuts (second from right), prime minister of South Africa, poring over maps of Africa with Lieut. Gen. Allan Cunningham (second from left), governor of Kenya Colony. They are shown with their aids planning the defense of Africa. Inset: South African troops who are fighting in behalf of the British empire in East Africa, with captured Italian guns and material In front of the Fort of Mega. German Blitz Warfare—on Two Fronts These pictures show German blitzkrieg machines at rest after vic tories in Greece and North Africa. At top, Stuka dive-bombing planes being serviced at a Greek airport with gas, oil and bombs. Below: Some of the huge German tanks are shown in the North African desert at El Brega, after rushing the British back into Egypt. Secretary of Navy at Army Review Secretary of Navy Frank Knox shown on reviewing stand at Fort Dix, N. J., during the first all-out review of the Forty-fourth division. The review, staged in the navy secretary’s honor, was part of a Seventy eighth division reunion. (L. to R.) Secretary Knox, Lieut. Gen. Hugh A. Drum, Rear Admiral Adolphus Andrews and Major Gen. Clifford Powell. Last Time Out Big Hank Greenberg, (right) the most valuable man in the American league, looks wistfully out towards the diamond before starting his last game prior to his induction in the army. Several hundred friends came to say good-by. First Venezuelan Gen. 1. M. Angarita, elected pi * ldent of Venezuela, succeeding Gen eral Contreras. General Angarlta said he was in full accord with west ern hemisphere defense. _ 1. i Live Stock Commission BYERS BROS & CO. A Real Live Stock Com. 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