Army defends ‘idle’ plants
Somervell answers ‘overexpansion’ charge
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Fire toll now 494
Boston, Massachusetts –
The official death toll of the Cocoanut Grove fire rose to 494 today as investigators disclosed that about 200 more witnesses will be heard before the case is ready for submission to the Suffolk County grand jury. The latest victim was Miss Joan St. Pierre of Belmont, who died at City Hospital.
Buck Jones funeral to be held today
Hollywood, California (UP) –
Filmland pays homage to one of its most authentic Western stars today at the funeral of Charles “Buck” Jones, who died of burns in Boston’s tragic Cocoanut Grove fire.
Delegations representing many organizations, including the office of Sheriff Eugene Biscailuz, the Al Malaikah Temple of Shriners, Henry S. Orme Masonic Lodge, the Jesters and Jones’ Studio, Monogram, will attend the High Episcopal services in a Washington Boulevard chapel.
Jones, 50, who grew up in the great outdoors which backgrounded the films making him famous, had averaged eight pictures a year for 20 years.
Telling blow at Axis struck by Wilhelmina
Partnership offer to her empire gives life to Atlantic Charter
By William Philip Simms, Scripps-Howard foreign editor
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McNutt broadens manpower survey to list 270 cities
Indicating labor surplus or shortage helps direct war contracts to factories where they can be handled best, director says
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‘Tell it to the Marines’ via EFM service at 60¢
Washington –
The Navy announced today hat relatives and correspondents of Marine Corps personnel on duty ashore overseas may now make use of an inexpensive, rapid means of communication known as the EFM (Expeditionary Force Message) service.
Through this service, messages are accepted at any public telegraph, cable or radio office and are transmitted as cablegrams or radiograms to overseas bases. Cost of an EFM message is 60¢ plus tax.