Rubber by 1944 seen by Nelson
WPB chief confident of enough for all needs
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Hal Roach to report to Army as a major
Hollywood (UP) –
Hal Roach, movie producer best known for his comedies, today said he would report July 25 for induction as a major in the U.S. Army Signal Corps.
Brazil gets 12 ships
Rio de Janeiro –
The United States has ceded 12 merchant ships to Brazil under terms of the Lend-Lease agreement.
War bond objector fights CIO blacklist
Detroit (UP) –
A court case to determine whether a union can blacklist a member for refusing to buy war binds because of his religious scruples was opened yesterday before Circuit Judge James E. Chenot.
Hodge Thurman filed the suit to regain his job at the Murray Corp. and named as defendants the corporation and Lloyd Jones, president of Local 2, United Auto Workers (CIO).
Counsel for the union officials said employees had to be in good standing to keep their jobs and a union member had to buy binds to stay in good standing, Mr. Thurman’s attorney told the court there is nothing in the Bill of Rights to make Mr. Thurman buy war bonds and that his client’s religious convictions were against it.
Doing best to whip subs, Knox declares
Naval Air Station, Boston (UP) –
Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox, commenting on the sinking of United Nations; merchant ships in the Atlantic by Axis U-boats, said today that:
We are doing our best on the submarine situation.
In an interview, Secretary Knox said all he could add was that:
We are working hard on the problem.
Secretary Knox was told that some New England fishermen were disturbed because the Navy was seizing their new boats for patrol duty.
The Secretary grinned:
Yes, that’s right. We’ve been robbing them We are going to use every vessel suitable on submarine control… If we don’t stop the submarine menace, there won’t be any fishing industry.
Sailor tells of nightmare convoy trip to Murmansk
U.S. merchant seamen can ‘take it,’ eyewitness says and describes bravery under attack
By Walter Klemme
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Five killed, 8 hurt in oil plant blast
Waynesville, NC (UP) –
Five persons were reported killed, at least eight others were injured seriously and five houses were wrecked today by an explosion that destroyed a Standard Oil Co. bulk plant and 25,000 pounds of scrap rubber.
The blast came as workmen were unloading a gasoline tanker truck.
Curb will ruin price ceilings, Senators told
Barkley will prevent vote until absent members return
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West Point appointment given Bataan hero’s son
Washington –
Rep. James V. Heidinger (R-IL) announced today that Edward B. Kerr of Metropolis, Ill., would enter the U.S. Military Academy tomorrow “to follow in the footsteps of his father,” Col. E. V. Kerr, who was killed or captured on Bataan.
Mr. Heidinger named the young man to West Point some time ago and received notice from the War Department yesterday that he had been accepted.
Col. Kerr graduated from the Academy in 1919 and had served in the Army ever since. He was in the Philippines when war started and was officially reported missing in the Bataan fighting.
United Nations’ loss to subs mounts to 386
Four additional sinkings are announced by Navy Department
By the United Press
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All quiet in Australia
General MacArthur’s Headquarters, Australia –
Activity in the Australian zone yesterday was confined to aerial reconnaissance, a United Nations communiqué said today.
Senate considers bill for seizure of autos
Measure grants President power to requisition cars, buses, trucks, tires and parts; owners’ reimbursements in cash or war bonds
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Unemployment fund for soldiers asked
Washington (UP) –
Samuel A. Weiss (D-PA) yesterday introduced in the House a bill to provide monthly unemployment insurance for 12 months after demobilization at the end of the war to all members of the Armed Forces.
The bill, drafted as an amendment to the Social Security Act, would provide for the amount to vary so that the purchasing power of $100 during 1941 would be the determining factor in establishing the sum allowed.