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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 25, 1941)
' $750,000 Fire in Boston Area Photo made from Boston & Maine railroad freight yard in Charles* town, Mass., shows clouds of smoke billowing over freight cars. All Boston police and firemen on duty or off were called to the scene, as were coastguardsmen from the navy yard. Apparatus from six adjacent cities aided. There were five casualties, and the loss was estimated at $750,000. Pickets Block Power and Light Plant Trudging pickets prevented all but a few wprkmen from entering this plant of the Kansas City Power & Light company after a strike was called a few minutes before midnight. The city was plunged into vir tually total darkness. Emergency treatments at hospitals were ham pered and surface line transportation came to a halt when power failed. Gasless. Club of America Is Formed To help conserve gasoline, the Gasless Club of America is formed in New York city, with a number of socially prominent women taking to their bicycles. The club, founded by Mrs. Abby M. Ricker and others, discussed plans for holding fox hunts in Central park. They are, left to right, Mrs. Ricker, Miss Rosalie Stonebraker, Mrs. Albert M. Handy and Mrs. Oscar C. Chopin. Top’ Patten Joins His Seven Sons in Navy Saluted by admirals and bluejackets alike, Clarence F. ("Pop”) Pat ten, 52-year-old former farmer and sawmill operator, joins his seven sons on the battleship Nevada. The navy overlooked Pop’s age of 52 to enable him to join his sons. Top row, left to right: Clarence Jr., Myrne, Allen, Gilbert and Ray. Bottom row: Bruce, “Pop” and Marvin Patten. ► Legion Commander ’ ' vwvVi’.' * Lynn Upshaw Stambaugh, 51, at torney of Fargo, N. D., who was elected national commander of the American Legion at their twenty third annual convention, in Milwau kee, Wis. Stambaugh served 22 months during World War I, 13 months overseas, and was commis sioned a second lieutenant of field artillery while serving In France. Record Tax Bill Vice President Henry Wallace signs the $3,553,400,000 tax hill, larg est tax measure in American his tory. The bill then went to the White House for the President’s signature. ‘Last Pose’ Gen. John J. Pershing, A.E.F.] commander, who has just observed his eighty-first birthday at a Wash ington, D. C., hospital, where he underwent his annual physical checkup. He told photographers this was the last time he would pose for the next 50 years. Study British Needs Maj. Gen. George Brett (left), army air corps chief, and Col. C. Haynes, noted army pilot, will tonr Africa, the Near East and Mediter ranean to study British air force needs. Data obtained will speed U. S. aid to the democracies' Three New Rear Admirals for U. S. Navy President Roosevelt has approved the recommendations of the line selection board, which selected 12 offi cers of the grade of captain for promotion to the grade of rear admiral. Among the navy officers to step Into the charmed circle are, left to right, J. R. Beardall, J. F. Shafroth and O. M. Hustvedt. The promotion was made necessary by the expansion of the U. S. navy to meet threat of war. America Strengthens Sea and Air Arm Pictured at left is a view of the keel laying for the new 10,000-ton cruiser, Wilkes-Barre, at the recently re-opened century-old Cramps shipyards, near Philadelphia. Upper right: Widely heralded new flying fortress, probably world’s deadliest instrument of destruction, emerges from the Boeing plant in Seattle for first test flight. Lower right: The U. S. cruiser San Juan, after being launched at the Fore River yard of the Bethlehem Steel company, Quincy, Mass. But This ‘V’ Is for Sieg Attempting to steal the thunder of “Col. V. Britton,” who is the sparkplug of the British “V for Victory” crusade, the Germans release this photo to a skeptical world. It shows a great “v” inscribed in a pub lic square in Prague, Czechoslovakia. The V stands for Victoria, an ancient German word for victory, long superseded by the familiar “sieg” of modern Germany. Rescued Yankee Fliers Land in British Port Five American fliers who were en route to England to fly for the R.A.F. and who were rescued when their ship was torpedoed. Four other Americans were drowned. The rescued men, who landed at a British port, are, left to right: Norman Echord of Kansas City, Tom Griffin of Mississippi, Jack Gilliland of Kansas, James Jordan of San Francisco and Rivers Grove of Georgia. I For Civilian Defense Alice Marble of California, assist ant director of civilian defense in charge of physical training for wom en, looks over some civilian defense insignia. Miss Marble was formerly national singles tennis champion. Vest Pocket Rations Lieut. Col. Paul Logan shown with the army’s new “vest pocket” ra tion for parachute troops, now being tested by the quartermaster corps. 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