Ford inventor urges freight airplanes
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Fighter pilot killed
San Francisco, May 16 –
2nd Lt. Edward R. Cahill, Newark, NJ, was killed last night when his pursuit plane crashed and burned three miles north of Hamilton Field, San Rafael. Cause of the crash was not determined immediately.
They plot in ‘paradise’ –
Gestapo big shot kept eye on Nazi diplomats interned at swanky hotel
German envoy’s wife hates Hitler
By David Charnay and William Wallace (as told to Warren Hall)
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Goodman turned down by Army; late getting here
Swing leader insists on waiting in line with other draftees
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The transportation headache –
Inland waterway system is only one worry-free
By Dale McFeatters, Pittsburgh Press staff writer
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Freedom flier lost in action
Bombardier missing in Far East war theater
(Special to The Pittsburgh Press)
Pvt. Norman B. Musgrave, ‘missing’ in the Far East
FREEDOM, Pa. – Pfc. Norman Blair Musgrave, 23, has been reported “missing in action” in the Far East.
The news was confirmed today in a letter from the War Department to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Musgrave. Mrs. Musgrave said her son, member of a bomber squadron, has been missing since April 21. He had cabled her April 3 from Australia that he was “safe and well.”
Pvt. Musgrave, an aviation “fan” since his Ambridge High School days, enlisted in the Air Corps at Bolling Field, Washington. He studied at a technical school in Newark and sailed from California January 29.
We, the Women
By Ruth Millett
No father ever actually wrote this letter to a son who was careless about writing home. But one father wishes he had written such a letter instead of getting angry at his college student son and holding up his check in retaliation.
The letter that might have been written is included in a new book by James Lee Ellenwood, “It Runs in the Family,” a reading of which is sure to make you tackle family problems with more common sense and lightness.
Here is the letter:
“Dear Jud:
“We missed your letter a lot. I don’t suppose you can understand it fully, but your mother and I have been working 25 years to put this family together. Sometimes it knocks and rattles like our car but, as yet, we have not lost any parts. You were the first to shove off, for any length of time, and your letters keep the old folks from becoming lonely. Besides I think a spirit of family unity is a swell help for each of us.”
There was some more to the letter, but the rest doesn’t matter, except the P.S. which was “Here is your check.”
A letter like that wouldn’t antagonize any son. And it would make almost any young man understand, at least in part, why it is that parents set such great store by hearing from their children.
Mothers and dads with sons in the service might remember that approach when day after day the postman fails to leave a letter from Bud or Jim.
Getting angry at grown children and writing them nasty letters doesn’t do any good. Neither does saying bitterly:
“Well, if he can’t even be bothered to write home once a week he can just go without that carton of cigarettes I was going to send him.”
Constant nagging at him in letters won’t have much effect either. But a letter on the order of the one James Lee Ellenwood published might work. Anyhow, it’s worth a try by the patients who aren’t hearing once a week from a son in uniform.
FDR to his secretary: “Give this to Brigadier General Eisenhower, but not for 14 1/2 years.”
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The Pittsburgh Press (May 17, 1942)
U.S. pledges offensive war
Japanese losses in Coral battle listed as severe
Army and Navy report reveals Bataan heroes lived on 15 ounces of food daily
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