Madrid, Spain (UP) – (Sept. 19)
Pope Pius XII today received Myron Taylor, President Roosevelt’s personal; representative to the Vatican, in a private audience, a dispatch from L’Osservatore Romano reported.
Catholic circles here believed Taylor would remain at the Vatican a fortnight and then return to Washington by plane.
Senate opens debate on measure tomorrow, House on Tuesday
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Allied raids on isle balk Jap efforts to wipe out garrison
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OPA warns industries, apartment houses to change over to cool
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Legation in Washington claims its troops fight solely defensive action
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That’s straight from Marine commander there, who says foe will never take it
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Washington (UP) – (Sept. 19)
The Navy announced today it had awarded decorations for heroic conduct to 23 officers and men who distinguished themselves during the Coral Sea action, including 19 who served aboard the carrier Lexington, which was sunk after heavily damaging the enemy.
The Distinguished Service Medal was conferred upon RAdms. Aubrey W. Fitch, 59, of Washington, and William W. Smith, 54, of Springfield, New Jersey. Fitch was commander of a task force with which the Lexington was operating, and Smith commanded a naval unit in the Battle of the Coral Sea.
Two officers receiving the new Navy and Marine Corps medal for their efforts to save Lexington personnel included Ens. Robert A. Sweatt, 23, of Contoocook, New Hampshire.
Santa Barbara, California (UP) – (Sept. 19)
The Marine Corps flying base announced last night that four officers were killed in two plane cashes at approximately the same spot in the mountains near here last Thursday.
Capt. James J. Owens of St. Paul, Minnesota, and Capt. Fred F. Parks of Santa Barbara were directing ground crews searching for the wreckage of the first crash when their ship went into its fatal tailspin. The casualties in the first crash were 2nd Lts. Charles H. Hyde Jr. of Buffalo, New York, and Hayne Hall of Osceola, Ohio.
Brooklyn Eagle (September 21, 1942)
Selfish interests, comforts must be forgotten, he says
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Ban on recordings handicaps progress, Arnold tells Senators
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Morale value would be enormous, he says on arrival in Moscow
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Tunbridge Wells, England (UP) –
Mrs. Junita Pagella, pretty 29-year-old American Ambulance Corps driver and wife of a British Army officer, was found critically wounded in her bedroom today and friends quoted her as saying that she had shot herself.
Mrs. Pagella’s home was in California.
Washington (UP) –
Ralph Ingersoll, former editor of the newspaper PM, has been commissioned a first lieutenant in the Army, the War Department announced.
Ingersoll was recently inducted after his local draft board declined to defer him at the request of Marshall Field, publisher of PM.
Ingersoll is 42 years old and held a second lieutenant’s commission in the engineer reserves from 1921 to 1935. The War Department declined to say where he is stationed.
Pre-war cataloging of foes vindicated, FBI chief declares
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