10 saved in jungle by cigarette lighter
Tiny flame serves as beacon for Army men
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Motorists are warned to show gas stickers
Washington (UP) –
The Office of Price Administration today warned motorists in the East Coast gasoline rationing area that they must display ration stickers on their cars before they can purchase fuel.
Joel Dean, OPA fuel rationing director, said that all ration applications should be acted upon by Aug. 20, and after the date:
…it can be assumed that all cars should display stickers.
Dealers, he said, are not allowed to sell gasoline to motorists without a windshield sticker, even if they have a ration book.
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Völkischer Beobachter (August 15, 1942)
Das Kaiserliche Hauptquartier über den Seesieg bei den Salomoninseln –
35 Feindschiffe versenkt
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Brooklyn Eagle (August 15, 1942)
Planes smash move to aid Japs in isles
Flying Fortresses batter convoy, harass foe in wide Pacific area
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Navy to block wildcat strikes at Jersey plant
Will leave other phases of the management to General Cable officials
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Chilean President asks leave to visit Roosevelt
Santiago, Chile (UP) –
President Juan Antonio Ríos will ask Congress next week for a constitutional permit to leave the country for 15 days and visit the United States at President Roosevelt’s invitation.
Since Ríos had already accepted the invitation, it was not believed that Congress would deny him permission. He was expected to leave early in October with a small party.
Sleeping U.S. soldiers robbed in London club
London, England (UP) –
Scotland Yard was called in today to investigate the theft of wallets, military passports and service passes from American soldiers sleeping in the American Red Cross Club. Officials doubted that subversive activity was involved.
U.S. air fighters go into action in Egypt battle
American squadrons join British forces in operations over desert
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Fort gives up cannon to paste the Axis
Fort Dix, New Jersey –
A howitzer, World War I trophy that has been familiar for years to persons visiting this camp, is to be returned to Germany. It is being shipped to a steel plant to be resmelted as scrap and converted into shells.
Senate unit due to pass ballot for armed forces
Washington (UP) –
The Senate Privileges and Elections Committee was expected to report favorably today a House bill to permit absentee voting by members of the armed forces in federal elections.
Committee members have openly opposed an amendment offered by Senator Claude Pepper (D-FL) which would exempt men and women in service from paying poll taxes, and that proposal is expected to be rejected.
The bill would permit servicemen, Army and Navy nurses and members of the WAACs and WAVES stationed in the continental United States and Alaska to vote in their communities by mail.
McNutt orders program for day nurseries
Washington (UP) –
War Manpower Commission Paul V. McNutt today directed the Office of Defense, Health and Welfare Service to coordinate the programs of eight federal agencies in a move to solve the acute program of caring for children whose mothers work in war plants.
McNutt’s directive outlined a program of day nursery schools, to be developed as community projects, to safeguard the children of some 5,040,000 women estimated to be employed by the end of 1942.