Reading Eagle (August 6, 1942)
Execution set for Nov. 13 for Detroit man harboring fugitive
Sentence first of kind in U.S. in 148 years; saboteurs ‘convicted’
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President opposed to measure calling for independent agency
Dr. Compton is third member of group to study problem
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Washington (AP) –
The Navy has disclosed that it had selected Princeton University as a training center for the indoctrination of reserve officers.
The Navy Department said:
Negotiations, which have not been completed, are being carried out between the Navy and Princeton University for the leasing of facilities to house and train 1,000 prospective reserve officers.
No other information was made available.
Washington (AP) –
The State Department watched closely today the ominous turn of events in India, where a campaign of mass civil disobedience threatens unless nationalist demands for immediate independence are granted.
Officials avoided comment, either on the All-India Congress Working Committee’s resolution pledging India’s wholehearted cooperation with the United Nations if independence is granted, or on the British government’s charge that most members of the committee as well as Mohandas K. Gandhi himself were appeasers of Japan.
Crew is enjoying first holiday in Australia by seeing ‘sights’
By Harold Guard
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With the U.S. Air Forces in Iceland (AP) –
U.S. Army fliers completed today their first year of operations in Iceland.
Since the first of the pilots took off from the flight deck of the U.S. aircraft carrier Wasp 90 miles at sea a year ago and headed through the rain for the airport prepared for them, they have waged a constant battle against the Arctic elements.
But rather than some of the poorest flying weather in the world, their chief complaint is against their lack of chances to test their skill against German pilots.
The few German planes which have flown to this sector have avoided combat with the Americans, although Norwegian fliers had some skirmishes off the northern coast.
Washington (UP) –
The War Department today requested that letters for military personnel in Hawaii, and the Southwest Pacific be sent by regular mail rather than airmail except in emergencies.
The volume of airmail to the islands is so heavy that only a fraction of it can be carried by plane and the balance must be sent by ship, it was explained.