Theresa James, brother serving in flying forces
Pittsburgh ferrying squadron member, air cadet meet at home during furloughs
By Asa Atwater
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Allied building of cargo craft beats sinkings
America nears rate of 3 daily on anniversary of Liberty ship
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Connellsville man gets Navy DFC award
Pearl Harbor, Hawaii (UP) –
A Connellsville, Pennsylvania, radioman was one of 36 Navy officers and men decorated by Vice Adm. William F. Halsey, senior task force commander of the Pacific Fleet, for heroism in the battles of Coral Sea and Midway.
The Distinguished Flying Cross was awarded to Radioman First Class William Bergin, of Connellsville, in a ceremony aboard a fighting ship at the Pacific Fleet Headquarters.
As he conferred the decorations, Adm. Halsey warned that:
The hardest fighting is ahead.
Second front is collective idea in Russia
So, Willkie advice probably will be followed as soon as feasible
By William Philip Simms, Scripps-Howard foreign editor
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Russians impatient at Allied delay in opening second front, Willkie says
‘Soviet Union is unconquerable,’ GOP leader declares on departure for China – he reveals what went on at dinner with Stalin
By Henry Shapiro, United Press staff writer
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Silence greets WLB order for strike penalty
Head of Cleveland Alcoa union refuses to say how he will act
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Price praises U.S. handling of war news
Censorship leader urges papers tell why some stories are delayed
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U.S. bombers blast harbor at Benghazi
Cairo, Egypt (UP) –
American B-24 Consolidated bombers raided shipping and port facilities in Benghazi at dusk last night, bombing wrecks which had been converted to use as landing stages, it was announced today.
During an abortive raid on Cairo Saturday night, it was announced, an Axis plane dropped a bomb near a military hospital. All windows were smashed on one side of the building and one enlisted man was killed and three others, all of them patients, seriously wounded.
Kaiser shipyards started in Africa, Nazis repeat
London, England (UP) –
The German-controlled Paris radio said today that the American industrialist, Henry J. Kaiser, had established shipbuilding yards near Cape Town, South Africa, and that new contingents of American troops had been landed in South Africa.
Berlin radio carried reports to this effect last week.