Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-01-18
News Briefs
From Worldwide Points

From Worldwide Points
NEW YORK-Dr. Emanuel Lasker
70, world famous chess expert, died
here.
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark.-Charles JOS
eph Finger, SO, widely known author,
died following a heart attack.
PARIS. Ky-Edward John Won Ko-
morowski Menge, So, Of Chicago, in
ternationally known biologist, died
here.
WASHINGTON - President Roose-
welt nominated Charles HARDWOOD Of
New York to be governor Of the Vir-
gin islands.
OKLAHOMA CITY-Fred McDuff.
Seminole oil field equipment manu-
facturer, announced he would head
a national organization to donate scrap
metal to Britain.
DETROIT-The Hudson Motor Car
Co. announces 1t has contracted with
the United States navy to build and
operate a $13,000000 ordnance plant
near Detroit.
DUBLIN-The Fire government IS
sued an emergency decree effective
Feb. l banning signpostS throughout
Ireland in a move similar to the
British precautions against invasion.
LONDON-Services as usual are be-
ing conducted in an 8OO-year- Lon
don parish church, bombed recently,
although a gaping hole in the roof
let in chilly wind, the heating plant
was out Of order and crushed pipes
silenced the organ.
WASHINGTON - Jesse Jones an
the Defense Supplies Corp.
had contracted with the Chilean Nj
trate q Iodine Sales Corp Of San
soda, a strategic defense material.
SEATTLE=The International Asso-
citation of Machinists ruled that DON
aid r. Keppler, vice president of the
Aeronautical Mechanics union here, is |
fined 5000 and expelled for alleged
activity at the Boeing
Aircraft Co. plant.
NORFOLK, Va.-The S. S. America, |
newly fitted out with magnetic mine
cables, sailed for New York /
after being in drydock at the naval /
yard here. The big ship of the United |
States Lines, completed last year at /
Newport News, underwent minor re-
pairs.
BURBANK, Calf. A transport
plane with the passenger seats re-
moved brought $500 pounds of
duralumin tubing to Lockheed aircraft /
factory from Pittsburgh, In IA hours
and 80 minutes in contrast to the |
usual rail freight transit time of up
to 10 days.
WASHINGTON-The agriculture de-
partment reports that farmers held !
$40 ,218,O0O bushels Of corn Jan. l I
IS compared with 1,914,184,OO0 bushels
On the corresponding date last year.
Wheat stocks on farms Jan. / totaled
28S, 1882, 900 bushels, an increase of
nearly 100000 bushels over the pre-
Vious year.
LOS ANGELES-Jet propulsion, the
principle OF boosting the speed of an
airplane by using the exhaust from
It's engines, win be applied to COM
nercial planes within the next II to
Is months, Hall l.. Hibbard, chief
Lockheed engineer, told a Lockheed
sales conference. Jet propulsion has
been In use for the last year ON
English Spitfire planes.
WASHINGTON-Th treasury's gold
stock passed % billion dollars, roughly
30 percent of all the monetary gold
n the world. Gold has been coming
nto New York so fast since the Eu-
'opean war began that it was taxing
he huge vault space there, and spe-
;ial armored trains are making secret
rips to Fort Knox, KY, to put some
If 1t underground in the treasury'S
there.
LONDON-Amy Johnson Mollison,
3ritain's greatest aviatrix, drowned in
he icy waters of the Thames estuary
after she was forced to bail out OF
aircraft she was flying for the air
transport auxiliary. Surface craft tried
n vain to rescue the war-working
adyblrd who had winged, during her
spectacular career, from Britain to
Australia and to America, Japan and
China and across Africa.
WASHINGTON - The house naval
ommittee, seeking methods of speed
ng up the fleet expansion program,
heard testimony that the army and
lavy may be forced to call reservists
mong airline and test pilots to active
luty within six months. Rear Admiral
ohm H. Towers, chief of naval AVA
ion, told the committee that com
lercial airlines and aircraft factories
lere to be formally notified of the
and advised to start train
ag requirements at once.