Navy’s pre-flight training ‘tough,’ reporter discovers
By Gene Claussen
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Navy gets Kennedy as an air cadet
Chicago (INS) –
The Navy will take over between the games of the White Sox-Senators double-header at Comiskey Park Sunday when Bob Kennedy, third baseman of the Pale Hose, is sworn in as an air cadet.
Lt. Gordon S. Cochrane, baseball coach at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station, will administer the Navy oath. Kennedy is expected to enter training at the end of the baseball season.
EXECUTIVE ORDER 9212
Transportation to the United States of certain employees terminating service with the Panama Canal or the Panama Railroad Company on the Isthmus of Panama
By virtue of and pursuant to the authority vested in me by section 81 of title 2 of the Canal Zone Code, as amended by section 3 of the act of July 9, 1937, 50 Stat. 487, it is hereby ordered as follows:
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Notwithstanding the provisions of section 15 of Executive Order No. 1888 of February 2, 1914, as amended by Executive Order No. 8215 of July 25, 1939, relating to the granting of free transportation to the United States of certain employees of The Panama Canal or the Panama Railroad Company on the Isthmus of Panama upon termination of their service, and without regard to the means of transportation by which such employees were conveyed to the Isthmus, the Governor of The Panama Canal is hereby authorized to furnish free transportation for any employee to which the said Section 15 is applicable to a port or airport of the United States, such port or airport and the necessary carrier to be selected, in the Government’s interest, by the Governor or by his authority: Provided, however, that transportation may be furnished to a port or airport of the United States, or by a carrier, other than that selected by the Governor or by his authority upon the condition that any cost thereof in excess of the cost of transportation to the port or airport, or by the carrier, selected by the Governor or by his authority shall be paid by the employee.
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The Governor of The Panama Canal is authorized to prescribe such regulations as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this order.
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This order shall remain in effect during the continuance of the present war and for six months after the termination thereof.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
The White House
August 1, 1942
EXECUTIVE ORDER 9210
Regulations governing the payment of additional compensation to enlisted men of the Navy and Coast Guard specially qualified in the use of arms
By virtue of and pursuant to the authority vested in me by Section 16 of the Pay Readjustment Act of 1942, approved June 16, 1942 (Public Law No. 607-77th Congress), it is hereby ordered that enlisted men of the Navy and Coast Guard who have established their special qualifications in the use of the arm or arms which they may be required to use, according to standards of efficiency that may be prescribed from time to time by the Secretary of the Navy, and who are so stationed by their commanding officers that they may be required to use such arm or arms, including periods while transferred for temporary duty away from the ship to which permanently attached (provided the commanding officer of the ship to which they are permanently attached has retained them in the battle stations where they normally use such arm or arms), shall receive additional compensation, under such regulations and conditions and for such periods of time as are now or may hereafter be prescribed by the Secretary of the Navy, as follows: TABULAR OR GRAPHIC MATERIAL SET FORTH AT THIS POINT IS NOT DISPLAYABLE
Executive Order No. 8040 of January 25, 1939, prescribing regulations governing the payment of additional compensation to enlisted men of the Navy specially qualified in the use of arms, is hereby superseded.
This order shall take effect as of June 1, 1942.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
The White House
August 1, 1942
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The Pittsburgh Press (August 1, 1942)
Second front pleas heard
Report Russian people ‘disturbed’ over delay by Allies
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Ship losses in Western Atlantic total 406
By the Associated Press
The Associated Press count of announced Allied and neutral cargo ship losses in the Western Atlantic since Dec. 7 was 406 today with yesterday’s Navy announcement of the sinking of a Panamanian vessel and disclosure of Brazil’s 11th ship loss of the war.
Sinkings announced in July totaled 79. This represented successful U-boat attacks over a period of many weeks.
In a message to the Argentine Naval Ministry, that country’s tanker Tacito said it had rescued 17 survivors of the Brazilian freighter Barbacena (4,772 tons) off the northern coast of Brazil. The message said nothing of missing crewmen.
Four torpedoes sank the Panamanian ship July 18 off the northern coast of South America. Crew members in two lifeboats were picked up three hours later by a U.S. naval vessel.
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