Lack of bases balks U.S. sub drive on Japs
More long-range craft also needed to strike foe in Orient
By Rear Admiral Yates Stirling, USN (Ret.), United Press naval analyst
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U.S. troopships reach Northern Ireland without mishap, just as in last war
Reporter makes trip; only once did foe make a feint
By David M. Nichol
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‘Fortress’ flier uses bag of tricks to outwit Zeros
Maneuvers would shock old instructors, says pilot who eluded 3 Jap planes at Celebes
By Frank Hewlett, United Press staff writer
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Yeahh - if only kids ruled the world, it would be more peaceful 👩❤️👨
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Wasn’t that what the 60’s were all about?
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The Pittsburgh Press (July 20, 1942)
House votes $6 billion in new taxes
Revenue from bill boosted by increase in excess profits levy
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Pelley denies guilt
Indianapolis –
William Dudley Pelley, former leader of the pro-fascist leader Silver Shirts, pleaded innocent today at arraignment on charges of sedition. Two of Pelley’s associates in the publication of the antisemitic magazine, the Gallilean, also pleaded innocent.
Army planes crash, eleven fliers killed
Tucson, Ariz. (UP) –
Eight officers and men were killed today when a B-24 Consolidated Army bomber crashed and burned three and a half miles south of Davis-Monthan Field. The names of those aboard were not disclosed immediately.
Hanford, Cal. –
Two Army Air Force officers and a non-commissioned officer were killed instantly today when a B-25 medium bomber crashed and burned after an explosion near here.
Chinese take 4 vital towns
Chungking says invaders move to south
By George Wang, United Press staff writer
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Nine shipyards urged to build air freighters
Henry J. Kaiser calls for mass production of giant Mars
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Boy reports sighting ‘parachute’ on coast
Lancaster, California (UP) –
A report by a 14-year-old farm boy, Curtis Peeveler of Lancaster, that he had seen a small plane drop what looked like a parachute and a light today sent Army and police searching parties into the desert near an Army gunnery school.
Authorities quoted young Peeveler as saying he ran toward the spot where he had last seen the light but found nothing. A hunt by sheriff’s deputies also proved fruitless. The Army withheld comment.
Military and police officials Saturday abandoned a hunt for “parachutists” in the vicinity of Rhinebeck, NY. The search was started by a report by an estate caretaker that he had seen them falling.
Military insignia restricted by WPB
Washington (UP) –
The use of critical material in the manufacture of officers’ military insignia and the sale of the insignia were restricted today in an order by the War Production Board.
Officials estimated the order will […] same 300 tons of copper annually and smaller amounts of other metals. The prohibited materials include aluminum, cork, rubber and tin.
The order restricts the sale of military insignia to Army and Marine Corps post exchanges and Navy ship service stores. The restrictions were issued, WPB said, because of the “illegal sale” of much insignia and the “illegal wearing” of such insignia as costume jewelry.
Enemy broadcast –
Tokyo: 2 U.S. carriers, sub, cruiser sunk
Dispatches from enemy countries are based in broadcasts over controlled radio stations and frequently contain false information for propaganda purposes.
Tokyo – (Jap broadcast recorded in San Francisco)
Jap naval fliers sunk two United States aircraft carriers of the Enterprise and Hornet type, as well as one heavy cruiser and one submarine in the Midway battle, Capt. Hideo Hirade, chief of the Navy press section of Imperial Headquarters, said in a nationwide address last night.
The U.S. Navy announced last week that 20 Jap ships were sunk or damaged in the battle and that the only American ship casualties in the Battle of Midway were one destroyer sunk and the aircraft carrier Yorktown damaged.
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Base for synthetic rubber made from farm products
Government chemists withhold predictions until process is proved on semi-commercial scale
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Unions settle three strikes at war plants
Back-to-work movement underway in New York and New England
By the United Press
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Famed Negro scientist joins Ford laboratories
Detroit (UP) –
Dr. George Washington Carver, the famed Negro scientist whose discovery of more than 300 uses for the peanut laid the foundation for a $60-million industry, arrived last night to work in the Henry Ford experimental laboratories.
Tired after the 24-hour journey from Tuskegee, Ala., where he is associated with Tuskegee Institute, the 80-year-old scientist was taken from the train in a wheelchair.
Dr. Carver’s research has followed lines similar to those of Ford engineers in seeking industrial uses for agricultural products.