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Show N AMES . . . in the news C Elliott Roosevelt, son of the President, Pres-ident, applied for a commission in the U. S. army air corps. He is 30 years old, and it was reported he might be assigned to the "specialist reserve." C Mayor LaGuardia of New York city told a United States conference confer-ence of burgomasters that the U. S. has an 80 per cent chance of escaping escap-ing war, with the acquisition of the new Atlantic naval and air bases. The conference was held in N. Y. . Martin ("Buggsy") Goldstein and Harry ("Pittsburgh Phil") Strauss were convicted of murder in the first degree for the Brooklyn, N. Y.. murder-syndicate killing of Irving ("Fnggy") Feinstein. a fellow mal- J efactor. j C Westminster cathedral got into ! the news. A Nazi dive-bomber just : missed the dome, 284 feet high. It dropped a 250-pound bomb in the asphalt playground, adjoining. Westminster West-minster cathedral is the Roman Catholic headquarters in England, a J sort of rival to the Anglican (Epis- i copal) Westminster Abbey. |