Max Marshall of Giants to join Marines Sept. 29
Boston, Massachusetts (UP) – (Sept. 19)
Max Marshall, Giants’ outfielder, will leave the team to join the Marines Sept. 29, manager Mel Ott announced today at the outset of the Giants-Braves game.
Pope receives Taylor in private audience
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.
Farm bloc set to fight curbs in inflation bill
Senate opens debate on measure tomorrow, House on Tuesday
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Aussies fighting on Timor 6 months after conquest
Allied raids on isle balk Jap efforts to wipe out garrison
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All convertible furnaces to be denied oil ration
OPA warns industries, apartment houses to change over to cool
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Would quit war if not periled, Finns assert
Legation in Washington claims its troops fight solely defensive action
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‘Only Japs reaching Midway were dead’
That’s straight from Marine commander there, who says foe will never take it
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23 in Coral Sea action win medals
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.
4 Marine officers die in two plane crashes
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)
War demands 60% of entire U.S. output, Nelson warns
Selfish interests, comforts must be forgotten, he says
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Petrillo seen chaining free U.S. industry
Ban on recordings handicaps progress, Arnold tells Senators
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Willkie favors second front ‘if feasible’
Morale value would be enormous, he says on arrival in Moscow
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Woman Ambulance Corps driver shoots herself
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.
Ingersoll commissioned
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.