First details from Dutch Harbor –
U.S. ‘Cat’ planes lick Japs in fog-shrouded Aleutians
By Keith Wheeler
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First details from Dutch Harbor –
Australian cleric heads U.S. Catholic chaplains
Melbourne (UP) – (July 18)
Melbourne’s Catholic Archbishop Daniel Mannix has ben appointed vicar delegate to the United States forces in Australia with jurisdiction over United States Catholic chaplains serving with the American Army and Navy here, it was announced today.
He was appointed by New York’s Archbishop Francis J. Spellman and Military Vicar J. F. O’Hara. Archbishop Mannix reported his appointment to Gen. Douglas MacArthur Wednesday and was accredited to the American forces.
Tydings asks quiz of budget bureau
Washington (UP) – (July 18)
Senator Millard E. Tydings (D-MD) tonight recommended a “thorough Senate investigation” of the Budget Bureau, which he charged with failing to achieve efficiency in operation of the executive branch of the government.
Chairman of a special Senate Appropriations Subcommittee, Mr. Tydings made his recommendation in a report to the Senate on his group’s findings after an investigation into means of utilizing more effectively federal office space, equipment and employees.
The Budget Bureau decides what an agency needs in office space, equipment and employees and recommends the necessary appropriations.
U.S. needed ‘Mikado’ lyric to help try German spies
Military setup followed discovery that no civil law for such crime existed
By Fred W. Perkins, Press Washington correspondent
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Lack of steel ends building of shipyards
All available material to be used in vessels; big plant hit
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Texas deep in hearts of German exchanges
Washington (UP) – (July 18)
German children returning to their homeland on the exchange ship Drottningholm frequently embarrassed their Nazi parents by skipping their instruction in German songs and bursting into “Deep in the Heart of Texas,” it was revealed today.
The State Department’s employee publication, The Diplomat, carried an interview with Frederick Lyon, an official who traveled on the Drottningholm during the exchange voyages which were terminated this week.
The German children were put into classes for instruction in German songs and Nazi ways as soon as they boarded the Drottningholm in New York, Mr. Lyon said.
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14 more enemy aliens arrested in New York
New York (UP) – (July 18)
Federal agents rounded up 14 more enemy aliens in New York and Brooklyn last night, P. E. Foxworth, New York Director of the FBI, announced today.
The aliens – 13 Germans and one Italian – included one woman. Mr. Foxworth said nine have admitted they refused to fight for the United States, five were in the German Army as last as 1937, two were Nazi Party members and all were members of the German Vocational League, affiliated with the Nazi Labor Front.
The Italian, a newspaperman, was an admitted fascist, Mr. Foxworth said.
British reply asked on U.S. post-war plan
London weekly condemns official silence on American proposals
By David M. Nichol
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Seven Army airmen killed in plane crash
North Reading, Mass. (UP) – (July 18)
Seven Army airmen were killed in the crash of an Army plane in Harold Parker State Forest here, First Corps Area authorities announced late today.
Police Chief Thomas Croswell said the plane cut through almost a mile of treetops and cut an 80-foot swath on the ground before it exploded. He believed the tremendous explosion which followed wad caused by bombs.
Army officials, who would give no details of the actual crash, said men aboard the plane were:
- 1st Lt. James Philips Jr.
- 2nd Lt. Klyce
- 2nd Lt. Don H. Johnson Jr.
- Sgt. Robert J. Aulsbury
- William E, Perkins
- Willian Billocur
- T/Sgt. Archie R. Chester.