Fort Monmouth, New Jersey (UP) –
Staff Sgt. Joseph Lockard, whose warning the morning of Dec. 7 that strange planes were 135 miles off Pearl Harbor went unheeded, was commissioned second lieutenant yesterday.
Lockard, who was decorated after the sneak raid on Pearl Harbor, has spent three months studying at the Signal Corps officers’ training school.
Syracuse, New York –
Police concluded that the bottom of a lake was the best resting place for a trench mortar dug up in a Syracuse junkyard. The bomb, left over from World War I, was one foot long and three inches in diameter.
Two more vessels sunk in Western Atlantic; total now 380
By the United Press
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War priorities take metal for use of fighting forces and genius finds substitute
By Betty Byron
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Folks back home are proud of sons and enjoy receiving letters about Army life
By Ruth Millett
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Washington –
Price Administrator Leon Henderson today excluded from the general maximum price regulations sales by non-profit agencies for the blind of articles manufactured by blind persons.
Atlantic City, New Jersey (UP) –
Col. Robert P. Glassburn, commanding officer of the Army Air Force technical training center here, revealed today the acquisition of three more large beachfront hotels for housing of flying cadets.
He said the Army would billet men in the Ritz-Carlton, Chalfonte-Haddon Hall and Claridge Hotels this week.
The Ritz has 20 stories, was built in 1921 and cost $6 million. Chalfonte-Haddon Hall, world’s largest seashore hotel, embraces two buildings, one 10 stories and the other 24 stories. The Claridge is 29 stories and was built in 1930 at a cost of $4.5 million.
Melbourne, Australia (UP) –
Warning the United Nations not to be lulled into a sense of false security in the Pacific, Minister of External Affairs Herbert V. Evatt said today he is convinced that “if we do not move shortly to the offensive, Japan will.”
Japan’s power must never again be underestimated, since she is still enjoying what amounts to a new empire, and the task of conquering Japan “has hardly begun,” he declared in a public address.
He asserted:
There is grave danger in thinking that Japan is held at bay. The Japanese never stay still. When they seem quiescent, they are only gathering their strength for another spring.
By Nat A. Barrows
Balboa, Canal Zone –
Lt. (jg.) Richard D. Gruber of Brighton, Massachusetts, may now be revealed as one of the Navy and Army officers responsible for breaking up the spy ring suspected of supplying oil to enemy submarines in the Caribbean.
Lt. Gruber, a Naval Reserve graduate of the University of New Hampshire, was the pilot of a big Navy bomber plane which discovered one of the spy ring’s suspected schooners and forced her back to port by a machine-gun barrage across her bow. Lt. Gruber returned to his base, picked up a working crew of U.S. sailors, and placed them aboard the schooner.
The investigation continues.
Arlington, Massachusetts (UP) –
An attack on Japan by 1,000 Allied bombers could destroy the country in an hour, according to 2nd Lt. Howard A. Sessler, 24-year-old Army bombardier-navigator who took part in the American air raid on Japan.
On furlough after recovering from malarial fever, the 24-year-old Arlington flier said yesterday he was with a group of planes which bombed Kobe.
The Pittsburgh Press (July 14, 1942)
Married war workers will go last; 34 essential occupations listed
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British would be justified in sinking vessels tied up at Alexandria to prevent capture by Axis, President declares
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14 saboteur accomplices may testify before commission; FBI continues roundup of suspects
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Cockeysville, Md. (UP) –
Former U.S. Attorney General Homer S. Cummings, 72, and Miss Julia Alter, 32-year-old radio scriptwriter of New York, were married here yesterday.
Mr. Cummings, who headed the Justice Department from 1933 to 1939, had been married three times before. His home is in Washington.
Miss Alter was once secretary to the late Floyd Gibbons, radio and newspaper reporter, and met Mr. Cummings in Washington several years ago.