Washington –
Immediate curtailment of local and long-distance telephone calls to expedite service connected with the war was urged today by Chairman James L. Fly, of the Board of War Communication. He asked telephone companies to seek the cooperation of the public in eliminating long-distance calls as much as possible.
Washington (UP) –
The Office of Price Administration tonight announced that tire and tube quotas for July would be larger than those for June to take care of increased wear during the hot weather months and the increased number of workers employed in war occupations.
The July passenger car quotas for the entire nation are 57,097 new tires for “List A” eligible, 23,402 new “Grade 2” tires for special war worker classifications, 555,070 recaps and 323,087 inner tubes. The new “Grade 2” tires include those in lines not too generally used.
The July truck tire quotas include 268,925 new tires, 314,896 recaps and 299,265 tubes. This represents more new tires than were allotted during June but fewer recaps and inner tubes.
Washington –
An adequate supply of cloth to produce all flags that are needed was assured manufacturers by the War Production Board today. Deputy Director Frank Walton of the WPB Textile, Clothing and Leather Branch said:
The production of more flags at this time is very essential.
Grand Rapids., Mich. –
William Howard Taft III, son of U.S. Senator and Mrs. Robert A. Taft of Cincinnati, was married to Barbara Hoult Bradfield, of Grand Rapids, at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church late today. Ensign Robert A. Taft Jr., of Chicago, was his brother’s best man.
Washington (UP) –
The first production model of the new Vought-Sikorsky F4U-1 Navy fighter plane will take to the air Monday.
The plane will have a demonstration flight at the Stratford, Conn., plant of the Vought-Sikorsky Aircraft Division.
The Navy did not reveal any details concerning the plane’s performance. The new fighter, which has been named the “Corsair”, is an inverted gullwing model.
West Coast suit seeks to reverse 44-year-old high court ruling
San Francisco (UP) –
Ulysses S. Webb, former Attorney General of California, today questioned the right of “Japanese, Chinese, Hindus and Hottentots” to hold American citizenships and asked the federal court to reverse a 44-year-old Supreme Court decision.
Mr. Webb, representing the Native Sons of the Golden West, asked federal judge A. F. St. Sure to decide a test case contrary to the 1898 Supreme Court decision in the case of Wong Kim Ark which ruled that Chinese born in the United States were eligible for citizenship.
The Sons brought suit against Cameron King, registrar of voters in San Francisco, to strike from the election rolls the names of at least 90 American-born Japanese who voted by mail at a recent municipal bond election and thus aimed at disenfranchising about 70,000 persons evacuated from the West Coast military area.
Washington (UP) –
Chairman Paul V. McNutt of the War Manpower Commission today announced appointment of two new members of the WMC to represent housing and transportation agencies. The commission now has 11 members.
John B. Blandford Jr., National Housing Administrator, was named to represent his agency. Otto S. Beyer, director of the Office of Defense Transportation’s division of transports and personnel, will represent the ODT and the War Shipping Administration.
Mr. McNutt said the inclusion of these agencies was important to the fullest mobilization of war manpower, since adequate housing and transportation of workers are major problems in getting workers placed in the rights jobs at the right time.
Worldwide ferrying of planes, cargoes, men planned by unit
Washington (UP) –
The ferrying of combat planes, materials and personnel to fighting fronts all over the world has expanded so rapidly that the War Department has formed a new unit, the Air Transport Command, to take over functions formerly divided among several organizations.
Heading the new command, which will become effective July 1, will be Brig. Gen. Harold L. George, commander of the old Ferrying Command, one of the organizations embraced in the new unit.
Other coordinated services will be the Cargo Division of the Air Service Command and the Air Division of the Transportation Service, Services of Supply. Control of priorities on airspace will also go to the new setup.
Gen. George said:
Our objective is to provide an air transportation system that will support our military enterprises throughout the world.
He said he would utilize every plane he could get and still would not have enough to meet the demand.
Gen. George predicted an increase in hauling efficiency through use of gliders.
Milwaukee (RNS) –
An expanded program of evangelism was approved by the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA).
The program, aimed at the “deepening of the spiritual life of our people,” called for the holding of spiritual retreats in Presbyteries, the promotion of Presbytery-wide evangelist conventions, arrangement for a national radio “Presbyterian Hour,” and:
…a more adequate and practical use of the worldwide emphasis upon the spiritual values of the Lenten Season.
The Unit of Evangelism was urged to encourage Presbyterian chaplains in the United States service to “give primary consideration to the redeeming message of the Gospel” and assured them of:
…all needed support and encouragement in such endeavors.
Commission urged
It was recommended that the National Commission on Evangelism consisting of 20 ministers and 10 laymen be formed, and that the Unit of Evangelism of the Board of National Missions be the administrative agent of that body.
Rev. Henry B. Strock, chairman of the standing committee on national missions, submitting a report on the work of the Board of Missions, said the war has created opportunities for evangelism greater than any offer to the church in many years.
He pointed to two great emergency situations the church has had to face in recent months: The extension of church service to defense areas and the amelioration of hardships created by the evacuation of Japanese from the Pacific coastal areas and from the southwest.
Prejudice scored
Of its responsibilities toward the Japanese evacuees, the report states:
Churches have stood out against the racial hatred and prejudice borne of war hysteria, as well as against the exploitation of innocent people by unprincipled individuals or groups.
Steps have been taken to provide a religious ministry, to the fullest extent possible under the circumstances, in all the places where the Japanese are being assembled.
As close contact as possible as being maintained with Presbyterian Japanese congregations and ministers. The response of the Japanese people to these efforts has been one of deep appreciation.
Messerschmitt included in military exhibit
An array of military aircraft the like of which has never been exhibited in Pittsburgh will go on display for three days beginning tomorrow in an air show sponsored by the United States Treasury Department and the Army Air Forces.
In the Air Cavalcade, due to arrive here shortly after noon tomorrow, will be a German Messerschmitt, an English Spitfire and a Beaufighter, an American Airacobra, and an Army training glider and other craft playing important roles in the Army Air Force.
Glider flight due
The glider will be cut loose from its tow plane over Pittsburgh and, after a series of maneuvers, will glide to the County Airport. The glider will be flown by SSgt. William R. Sampson.
A feature of the welcoming program tomorrow will be the mass swearing in of a large class of aviation cadets who will leave soon for training. The oath will be administered by Capt. Lawrence A. Floro, head of the Air Corps recruiting station here.
Aerial parade planned
The Messerschmitt, to be flown into Pittsburgh by Maj. Elmer McKesson, was shot down over England and shipped to this country where it was rebuilt for Air Corps study and exhibition.
Other events scheduled include an aerial parade by ships of the Civil Air Patrol, a demonstration of airmail pickup by All American Aviation planes and a concert by the U.S. Treasury Band.
The show will close Wednesday night with an exhibit of glider takeoff, flying and landing and a war bond rally featuring Minute Man speakers.
Thousands of Marines land in South Pacific
Atlanta, Ga. (UP) –
Thousands of U.S. Marines have landed at a South Pacific port after weeks of travel in a blacked-out convoy, Marine Corps Southern Headquarters announced tonight.
Not a man was lost in the crossing and not an enemy submarine was sighted, Maj. Meigs O. Frost, in charge of public relations at Southern Headquarters here, announced.
Landed with the leathernecks at the unnamed South Pacific port were Higgins boats, which the Marines called “Eurekas,” and Maj. Frost said that where there are Higgins boats, there are usually some “alligators and crocodiles.”
Offensive indicated
“Alligators” are amphibian tanks and “crocodiles” are tank lighters – equipment used by the Marines storming an enemy beach and establishing a bridgehead.
Higgins boats are used in landing troops on beaches. They have flat-bottom prows which enabled them to slide onto the beach and have a speed of better than 60 miles an hour. They carry 40 men, fully armed, with all necessary fighting equipment.
Maj. Frost said all types of arms used by the Marines went along in the convoy.
Blacked out at night
The implication was that the Marines are in the South Pacific to prepare for an eventual offensive against Japan, to reconquer the Dutch East Indies, the Philippines and other Far Eastern possessions now held by the Japanese.
At dusk each day at sea, the order went out, “Prepare to darken ship,” the ship’s company then swung into action, hatches were sealed, portholes were closed, and each ship became as black as the night.
On arrival, the Marines immediately went into intensive training, Maj. Frost said.
Thereafter home owners must provide own war damage coverage
Washington (Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance) –
Something to do something about – quick – is war damage insurance for your home.
After June 30, next Tuesday, your home is not protected from damage from bombing attacks, for at that time the free insurance which had been provided by President Roosevelt’s executive order soon after Pearl Harbor expires. To be protected thereafter, you must take out a policy through one of the commercial companies.
The War Damage Corp. is being swamped with inquiries, indicating that many people are awake to the potential danger. Shells fell on Oregon, and bombs may fall elsewhere in token raids.
10 cents a hundred
For home, both city and farm, the rate is 10 cents a $100. Rates vary for other types of property.
This insurance is, in effect, government-guaranteed. 10% of all losses in excess of net premiums collected after expense will be assumed by insurance companies cooperating in the program, but only up to an aggregate loss of $20 million, after which the loss is borne by the government.
The RFC had advanced $1 billion to the War Damage Corp. as an insurance reservoir.
Protection up to $10,000
Jewelry, furs, precious, and semi-precious stones, statuary, paintings. Pictures, etchings, antiques, stamp and coin collections and manuscripts will be protected for individual owners up to $10,000, with a $5,000 limit for any one article, and for museums and dealers up to $100,000, with a $5,000 limit for any one article. Jewelry and furs up to $1,000 may be included as residential contents under the 10-cent rate.
No protection will be given for accounts, bills, currency, deeds, evidences of debt, securities, money and bullion.
Pleasure watercraft and aircraft are protected up to $10,000, while not in use.
Growing crops can also be protected, to a maximum of $100,000 per single owner.
Chungking –
Lt. Gen. Joseph Stilwell, commanding U.S. forces in Southeast Asia, announced today that Brig. Gen. Claire L. Chennault would remain in control of air operations in the China Theater.
American fliers arriving ‘in force’ to prepare for offensive
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Industry’s output is high; blame can’t be put on any one group
By S. Burton Heath, Pittsburgh Press staff writer
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Roosevelt and Churchill declare in statement that war outlook is better now than it was six months ago or year ago
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Washington –
The Navy announced late today that it has relaxed its requirements in hopes of qualifying upward of 1,000 additional small boats and their crews for anti-submarine patrol duty.
At present, about 1,200 small boats are plying the inshore routes along the coast on the watch for submarines.
All yachtsmen, fishermen, and other small boat owners may offer their services and their craft immediately. If found to be eligible and capable, the men will be enrolled in the temporary reserve of the Coast Guard. Boats qualified will be equipped with radio, armament and anti-submarine devices.
By the United Press
The toll of ships sunk by Axis submarines off the United States coast and in the Caribbean Sea rose to 327 today.
The latest victims were a medium-sized American merchantman, a Yugoslav cargo vessel and a third ship whose identity was not revealed. There were no reports of lives lost in the three sinkings.
Survivors of the American and Yugoslav vessels were landed at East Coast ports. Fourteen of the crew of the unidentified ship were put ashore on the southern coast of Trinidad after they had been rescued by a United States vessel.
Sinking of a small American ship in the Caribbean with the loss of five lives was announced previously.
Of the 327 total, 151 occurred along the Atlantic Coast, 100 in the Caribbean, 23 in the Gulf of Mexico, 15 in the South Atlantic and 33 were revealed by arrival of survivors at Canadian ports.
Survivors revealed that it took three torpedoes to sink the Yugoslavian merchantman June 24 off the Atlantic Coast.
The ship began traveling in a wide circle after the second torpedo hit and the captain ordered all hands to abandon ship. The engineer went below, shut off the valves and secured the engines, but when he returned to the deck, he found the vessel was still moving too rapidly to permit lowering of lifeboats.
He went below decks a second time and reversed the engines. When he received word that the ship had finally stopped, he shut them off again. The third torpedo hit just as the lifeboats were lowered, and the ship sank in about one minute.
At a Florida port, members of an American sugar boat revealed that a gun crew had sent a U-boat 3,000 feet to the bottom of the sea off Cuba. The submersible exploded as it heeled over on its side.
The submarine opened up with a machine-gun attack from the conning tower, according to Chief Mate L. B. Hansen, and the gun crew of five young sailors sprang to action. The first shell missed but the second struck squarely at the waterline, just forward of the conning tower.
Meanwhile, Luis Luti, Argentine chargé d’affaires in Berlin, informed the government at Buenos Aires today that he had delivered to the Berlin government the Argentine note of protest over the torpedoing and sinking of the freighter Rio Tercero last Monday with a loss of five lives.
Sources close to the Foreign Office said that a time limit to the German reply had been set.