DOROTHY THOMPSON SAYS —
The end of domestic neutrality
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SPLIT INCOME PROPOSAL FOR TAX PURPOSES WINS APPROVAL
Senate group favors new plan 11–4
Affects husbands, wives in eight community property states
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Jap base bombed
Hengyang, China (UP) –
United States fighter planes, led personally by Col. Robert L. Scott, today bombed the Japanese base at Sienning with “great success.”
Japs jailed for plot to slow production
Honolulu (UP) –
Five Japanese workers at Hickam Field began prison sentences today because they ridiculed conscientious workers and tried to get them to work less hard.
Maj. Samuel E. Murrell, of Provost Court, sentenced one to a year in jail, and the others to nine months.
Prosecution witnesses said the workers had been told they were “suckers” for working so hard. However, this was denied vigorously by one of the defendants, Shichi Tao, who received the one-year sentence.
Tao said:
If we sat down, we were tired – not loafing.
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Army calls shortstop
Detroit (UP) –
Bill Hitchcock, regular shortstop for the Detroit Tigers baseball club, has been ordered to report to the Army Thursday and will leave immediately, Manager Del Baker announced today.
Baker said Hitchcock was a lieutenant in the Army Reserve Corps and had been instructed to report for active duty “somewhere in Florida.”
Bake said Hitchcock’s place at shortstop will be filled by Murray Franklin, utility infielder, who has one of the best hitting records on the club.
Hitchcock is married, but has no children.
Morris nominated Minister to Iceland
Washington (AP) –
Leland B. Morris, of Pennsylvania, was nominated by President Roosevelt today to be United States Minister to Iceland.
Morris, formerly charge d’affaires at Berlin, would succeed Lincoln MacVeagh, Who has been made Minister to South America.
Lindbergh isle home pillaged in Europe
Berlin (AP) –
A German radio report from Paris said today the Île Illiec home of Charles A. Lindbergh, off the Brittany coast of France, had been pillaged by “thieves,” who removed even the furniture from the villa.
14 spy aides face charges
U.S. Justice Department officials may bring treason allegations
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The Pittsburgh Press (August 10, 1942)
Roving Reporter
By Ernie Pyle
SOMEWHERE IN NORTHERN IRELAND (By Wireless) – Those combined British-American maneuvers a few weeks ago really gave the troops a workout. It was probably the most strenuous performance American soldiers have ever been through.
They were on the go for eight days. They averaged no more than two hours’ sleep a night. Most of them never had their clothes off. They marched 20 to 30 miles a day. They lay down on the ground wherever they stopped, and slept there in their raincoats, regardless of the weather. Often they wouldn’t bivouac until midnight, and by 2 a.m. they would be up and going again.
They said they went through more in one day than they did in the entire duration of the Louisiana maneuvers. A World War officer with them said he never spent two harder days in France than the last two days of these maneuvers.
Some of the boys were toughened and ready for it. Others, such as cooks and clerks, were soft but had to take the gaff with the rest. There was a certain pride in sticking it out, however, and those who had to fall out were few.
Sore feet meant nothing in those maneuvers. When great blisters developed they were just taped up and the men marched on. I have seen dozens of men with their feet still patched up, weeks after the maneuvers. They are sort of proud of their bandages.
Long marches are duck soup for one infantry company. It is commanded by Capt. Bruno Marchi of Fort Dodge, Iowa.
Marchi used to be a track star at the University of Iowa, and he is still mighty good on his feet. Just ask any of his men.
It’s routine with Capt. Marchi to march his company 10 miles in two hours. That’s practically running, when you think of it. The company is known laughingly as Marchi’s Flying Cadets, because of the speed they make across country.
There is one cute story that came out of the maneuvers. It happened in a tank company that had been on the move all night. About 6 a.m. they suddenly came upon a group of Nissen huts. This camp wasn’t on their maps, so they figured they had stumbled on a surprise package to capture. Smoke was coming out of the chimneys, and not a soul was on guard. It was a pushover.
The tanks were stopped. The commander picked the toughest looking of the men, and each took a Tommy gun. They surrounded the camp, two men covering each door of every hut. Then at a signal they stormed the doors and rushed in with their Tommy guns leveled.
And what did they find? They found several hundred ATS girls, just getting out of bed!
It will have to be recorded in the War Department’s annals that for once at least American troops didn’t retire in an orderly manner to a prepared position. They just got the hell out of there, head over heels.
The driver of my Army peep in recent days has been Pvt. Basil Vanschoick, a farm boy from Hillsboro, Wis. We have driven all over Northern Ireland together. He chews tobacco, and has a couple of front teeth out.
Basil doesn’t talk much except in his sleep. The other night he was sleeping near me and all of a sudden he blurted out, in the middle of the night: “The finest woolens you can buy, you know.”
Then a few seconds later he said:
“As the days go by and you shall need a row of dots.”
The next morning we told him about it. He said yes, he talks all the time in his sleep.
Private Vanschoick takes the Army in his stride. He doesn’t especially like it nor especially dislike it. He’s the same about Ireland, and the same about fighting. The only thing he is really determined about is that he’s going back to the farm after it’s all over.
“I don’t want any of that city stuff for mine,” he says.
The peep is a wonderful instrument of locomotion but I wish it had side curtains. With the frequent deluges of Irish mist that occur over here, a car without side curtains is about like a castle without a roof. Several times the rain has driven so torrentially and chillingly that Pvt. Vanschoick and I have stopped under trees and waited.
By Army regulation an enlisted man is not allowed to drive alone in an Army car. There must always be an officer or a sergeant with him. And although I am neither an officer nor a sergeant, and never hope to be, still I do take the place of one, for the peep was assigned to me and I’m its skipper. Unless he wants to mutiny, Pvt. Vanschoick is required to go any place I tell him to go.
One of these days I’m going to tell him to fill up the tank and hit the road for America, and see what happens.
So if you see a couple of bedraggled-looking guys driving up out of the ocean onto Long Island about September, please don’t shoot. It will be Basil and Ernie, home from the sea.
U.S. Navy Department (August 11, 1942)
Navy Communiqué No. 103
North Pacific Area.
Information received by the Navy Department now makes it possible to report the following incidents in the Aleutian Islands:
On July 22, Army bombers dropped bombs through the fog in the area of Kiska Harbor. Results were unobserved.
On July 29, Navy patrol planes conducted a night attack on Kiska and Army bombers attacked shore installations and ships in the same vicinity.
On August 3, Japanese aircraft attacked the U.S. destroyer Kane off Atka Island, about 305 miles east of Kiska. No damage was inflicted. Army bombers again attacked the Kiska Harbor area, with unobserved results.
On August 4, Army pursuit planes shot down two Kawanishi-97 seaplane bombers.
On August 8, a task force of the Pacific Fleet, protected by Navy patrol planes, heavily bombarded a group of enemy ships, camp facilities, and shore installations at Kiska. The attack was a complete surprise. The enemy, mistaking the first salvos of shells for bombs, opened fire with anti-aircraft batteries on imagined planes. The intensive bombardment from cruiser and destroyer guns soon silenced short batteries, started fires and inflicted severe damage to the camp area. The only enemy resistance encountered was from aircraft. Our loss was one observation plane.
On August 9, naval patrol planes followed up the bombardment by an attack on two cargo ships in Kiska Harbor. Two bomb hits were scored on each of the two ships, resulting in severe damage. On this flight, observers reported sighting a sunken cargo ship, which is believed to have been sunk near the beach during the previous day’s bombardment by surface forces.
South Pacific Area.
While the action in the Tulagi area of the Solomon Islands continues, nothing further can be reported at this moment.
Völkischer Beobachter (August 11, 1942)
Einzelheiten aus der siegreichen Seeschlacht –
Ganz Japan in heller Freude
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The Pittsburgh Press (August 11, 1942)
ALLIES HOLDING GAINS IN SOLOMONS
Japs counterattack strongly, Curtin says, reporting on landings
Battle in crucial stage on 6th day; foe fights hard, UP avers
King lists losses
Cruiser sunk, pair hit, with two destroyers; foe’s planes smashed
By Murlin Spencer
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On Treasury patrol
Mrs. Lilliam Lassiter is one of a number of efficient female Secret Service police whose duty is to guard the Treasury Department in Washington. She approves wholeheartedly of the idea that every woman should take part in the war effort and thus release men for the armed forces or war industry work. This is a phonephoto. (CP)