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News Highlights of the World In Picture
Knife In The Back
Seize His Railroad
Washington, D. C—In
reply to a demand by Pres
ident Roosevelt that the
Berne—Photo shows
Lieut. Col. Werner Moeld
ers, who was credited with
the destroying of 115 plan
es and who was decorated
by Chancellor Hitler with
the “Oak Leaves of the
Knights of the Cross of the
Iron Cross.” Reliable re
ports of last weekend from
here state that Moelders
was shot down on Hitler’s
orders by anti-rircraft bat
teries. The official report
from Germany was that
Col. Moelders had been
killed while on a business
trip when a transport pla
ne crashed. It seems that
Moelders, a Catholic, had
been indignant about the
brutal treatment of nuns
and monks driven out of
the convents by the Nazis.
Moelders’ sister was an ab
bess in a Muenster convent.
management of the Toledo,
Peoria & Western railroad
give a “yes or no” answer
to earlier requests that it
arbitrate its 84 - day strike
George P. McNear, Jr.,
(above) President of the
road, telegraphed a 17
nage reply to the White
House. Last Friday the go
vernment seized the T-P <fc
W, and Joseph B. Eastman
head of the office of defense
transportation was ordered
to take possession of all the
road’s property and operate
it. The railroad employs
only J 04 workers and is but
239 miles long but because
it affords a by pass around
Chicago for transcontinent
al freight shipments, it is
vital to the U. S in war
time.
Destroyed Jap Tank
MALAY PENINSULA—During Australian imperial for.
ccs first encounter with the Japanese here, an anti-tank gun
crew accounted for these two enemy tanks seen out of action
and afire along a jungle trail in the Muar River section of
Malaya A Japanese casualty lies in foreground. This photo
was made by a member of the Imperial Forces film unit.
They Float In Colorado Air
They can float-from the ceiling like this in Colorado, Top
of the Nation State, so light and bouyant is the air—or so
claims the State’s Department of Information, tongue in
cheek. Pretty Verne I ee Brooks, Colorado Women's College
senior, recently selected * Sky Queen” by aviation cadets at
Denver’s Lowry Field, demonstrates. There’s a tiick to it, of
course. Just turn the picture upside down.
Madagascar Assumes Importance
Loss of Singapore and the Dutch East Indies bases has
prompted discussion in London as to the possibility that Al
lied troops might occupy Vichy-controlled Madgascar in or
der to hold their supply lines in that part of the Indian
Ocean. A Japanese mission has been reported there for weeks,
negotiating for naxal and air bases. The Axis already has a
naval base on Vichy-owned Kerguelen Islands, southeast of
Capetown.
Burial At Sea
At Sea—An entire Ice
land bound convoy of mer
chant ships and war vessels
came to a halt as funeral
services were held for pri
vate Francis E. Metras, of
Detroit, believed to be the
first American soldier in
this war to be given a for
mal burial at sea. The top
photograph shows Metra’s
covered body placed on a
plank with a flag draped
over the body. His com
rades who serve as pallbear
ers tip up one end of the
plank (bottom photograph)
and the body slides into
the sea.
Corrigan Ferrying
Two Of 3 Of A Kin;
Cass Lake, Minn —Ur
est Ranger, Mel Curamin--,
hold'ng two cubs found bv
a lumberjack near heir
The mother bear, hibernat
ing almost at the foot of tbt
tree which the lumberjack
was felling, arose from her
lethargy and made off witb
the third cub of the litter
It is rare to have three cubs
in a litter and also that tbt
bear was found in an open
den, which was probably
due to the mild winter
Douglas Corrigan, wb»
flew a nine-year-old $900
plane from New York to
Dublin 1938 (vowinj
later that he thought In
was flying westward from
New York all the time)
sheds his flying togs ii
New York. He’s in tin
ferrying command whick
flies big bombers from west
coast factories to the east
coast ports, where overseas
pilots take over.
Famous Singapore Picture
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bitting on a piece of debris in a Singapore street, a Malay*® .
mother expresses her grief over the loss of her child who-5® ^
body (at right) lies where the youngster was killed by a J»P
bomb fragment in one of the last raids before the city fell. ^