London, England (UP) –
Fifteen American Air Force men were injured during the blackout last night when their bus rammed the rear of a stationary truck.
Most of those injured received broken arms or legs, head injuries or severe cuts.
The loss, at least pending repairs, of the transport Wakefield, formerly the liner Manhattan, is a blow to our maritime strength at a time when every ship is needed to transport men and munitions. There would be no use denying that loss. Yet there is great consolation.
The warships accompanying the Wakefield performed the work of rescue in a fashion worthy of the traditions of the United States Navy. Because of their prompt and efficient work, more than 1,600 passengers and members of the crew were taken off in mid-ocean without loss of life. That is a first-rate achievement and brings honor to the officers and men who managed it.
Rome, Italy – (Italian broadcast recorded by UP in New York)
A High Command communiqué said that an American pilot had been taken prisoner when his plane was forced down during an Allied raid on Sicily.
The British Middle Eastern Command said in a communiqué that fighter planes based on Malta had shot down two Italian planes over Sicily. It was assumed that if one of the British planes was forced down, its American pilot was a member of the Royal Air Force Eagle Squadron made up of American volunteers.
The communiqué said Italian planes had shot down seven Allied planes which attacked a Mediterranean convoy and that an Italian destroyer had sunk a submarine.
Chungking, China (UP) –
Japanese military leaders have 75 divisions available for action against Russia in Siberia, well-informed Chinese military sources told the United Press today.
These sources reported there were 34 Japanese and 10 mercenary divisions in Manchuria, 6 Japanese and 15 mercenary Chinese Mongol divisions in Inner Mongolia, and 10 Japanese divisions held in reserve in the Hopei and Shantung area for reinforcement wherever required in a possible northern theater.
The Chinese press reported today that the Japanese authorities had introduced conscription in Manchuria and were forcibly enlisting all men between 18 and 40.
Jerusalem (UP) –
Isaac Herzog, chief rabbi of Palestine, sent the following message to the United States for the Jewish New Year Saturday:
Men and women of the United States and all who strive and toil to rescue true civilization in this unprecedented world crisis, we send you blessings and greetings on the Jewish New Year.
Faith and trust shall be your motto in this gigantic struggle between light and darkness. America, the citadel of democracy and liberty, built upon the rock of prophetic teaching, become inspired with that immovable faith in the ultimate triumph of the great ideal of the future portrayed by Israel as the most afflicted victim of inhumanity on this darkest hour of its tragic but glorious history, and resolve now upon its restoration after the present gloom will have vanished with God’s help.
To use ‘Little Steel’ formula as yardstick, House committee told
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The Pittsburgh Press (September 11, 1942)
All of Baruch suggestions except rationing get swift attention
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Coast builder getting ‘runaround’ in big way in capital
By Thomas L. Stokes, Scripps-Howard staff writer
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Fighting rages 40 miles from Moresby
By Don Caswell, United Press staff writer
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Steubenville, Ohio –
Robert Earl Lamborn, 22, of Toronto, Ohio, was held under $5,000 bond by a U.S. commissioner here today on a charge of evading the draft.
He was accused of not reporting for induction July 19. Lamborn, a member of the Jehovah Witnesses, reputedly told members of his draft board:
I am not willing to fight for my country.
Senate and House leaders deadlocked on form of new legislation
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Chicago, Illinois (UP) –
U.S. Commissioner Edwin K. Walker held today that Mrs. Elizabeth Dilling, pre-war isolationist and author of the Red Network, named in a sedition indictment with 27 men, should be removed to Washington, DC, to stand trial.
Mr. Walker withheld entry of the formal extradition order to give Mrs. Dilling’s attorney, William Scott Stewart, an opportunity to file a habeas corpus writ which would necessitate review of the extradition order in federal court.
Mrs. Dilling, fighting extradition, testified yesterday that she should be tried here, and separately, because she had no personal acquaintance with the other defendants and so could not have been guilty of conspiring with them to disrupt the morale of the Armed Forces.
Washington (UP) –
The Navy announced yesterday that it is honoring 25 war heroes – all but one of whom gave their lives in the present conflict – by naming escort vessels for them.
These ships, now under construction, are similar, though smaller, than destroyers and were especially designed for use in convoy work. Eighteen of those to be honored were victims of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
Contradictory actions of foe puzzles whites
By Richard C. Wilson, United Press staff writer
New York –
The slapping of many British and American faces in the Far East by Jap soldiers can be ascribed largely to the inferiority complex of Japanese people, in the opinion of veteran American residents of Japan.
Face slapping were more common in Hong Kong than elsewhere. This was probably due to the fact Hong Kong was the first Occidental territory to be captured.
As a Jap prisoner in Hong Kong, I saw groups of British, Dutch and Americans herded about the streets in groups for the “edification” of Chinese and Portuguese. Faces of “enemy aliens” were slapped at the slightest provocation.
I asked my Jap guard, Cpl. Yasuichi Uehara, one day why it was necessary to slap faces of prisoners so often. He explained:
You our enemies. Must show people you prisoner.
How much for college?
Half an hour later, Uehara stormed into my room and bluntly asked in broken English, how much it would cost him to attend college for one year in the United States. Although my cheek still stung from the slapping of my guard an hour before, this seemingly innocent question left me bewildered. As it turned out, his question was in all sincerity.
Americans who have resided among Japs for as long as 20 years have admitted their inability to understand these abrupt changes of feeling.
In this war, Jap soldiers have been schooled to the belief that President Roosevelt is responsible for the United States and Japan being at war. Jap soldiers from the Hinterland have been inculcated with the belief all Occidentals are “foreign devils” and should be treated as such. The difference in treatment accorded by a Jap soldier who had encountered “foreign devils” before and one who had never had experience with Occidentals was striking.
Chinese are ‘thorns’
Because of their traditional superiority complex, the Chinese always have proved a thorn in the side of the Japs. It stings a Jap to know that his language came from China and that many of his customs originated in China or Korea.
Likewise, the modern fighting implements used by Japan originated in the Western world. Little he uses today originated in Japan. This heightens his desire to demonstrate his “superiority” at every opportunity.
Two days before I left Hong Kong to be repatriated to America, a Jap official obtained for me a sorely needed pair of shoes. I noted they had rubber soles, but had been made in China.
He explained, apparently having in mind the rubber plantations of Java and British Malaya:
We soon make much better in Japan. Maybe you can buy me a pair when I come New York after war.