Visit to U.S. postponed by Chile’s chief
Welles criticism prompts action; Argentina cites official ‘disgust’
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Plane and destroyer blast path to rescue Marines
Dive bomber roars down as ‘laundry’ calls for help for men cut off by Japs in Solomon Isles
By Francis L. McCarthy, United Press staff writer
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Marines face Jap pincers in Solomon Isles
Three-pronged drive aimed at vital airfield on Guadalcanal
By Sandon S. Klein, United Press staff writer
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Soldier to hang
Tucson, Arizona –
Pvt. Francis D. Lines, 27, faced a death penalty as a result of his conviction in a general court-martial for criminally attacking a 12-year-old Tucson girl. Only a reversal of the verdict by the Judge Advocate General or presidential intervention will save Lines from hanging.
Mob in Mississippi lynches two boys
Meridian, Mississippi (UP) –
The lynching of two 14-year-old Negro boys was disclosed today when their bodies were found at a river bridge, about 35 miles south of here.
The Negroes, Charlie Land and Ernest Green, both of Shubuta, were taken from the Quitman Jail yesterday by a mob of unidentified men, who overpowered City Marshal G. F. Dabbs.
Lang and Green were arrested last Tuesday and accused of waylaying a 13-year-old white girl who was walking home from school. They pleaded guilty to the charges.
When Marshal Dabbs answered a knock at the jail door yesterday, members of the mob threw a blanket over his head, took his keys and then licked him in a cell.
Sheriff Lloyd McNeal found the bodies suspended from the bridge where the girl was waylaid.
Ship that wouldn’t sink returns to regular run
Tanker’s cargo was drinking water, and U-boat raiders couldn’t imagine why she didn’t burn
By Nat A. Barrows
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Roosevelt order saves Dewey’s old flagship
Washington –
The Navy announced today that President Roosevelt, in consenting to scrapping the old 10,000-ton battleship USS Oregon, stipulated that the USS Olympia, Adm. Dewey’s flagship at the Battle of Manila, must be preserved permanently as a relic.
The Olympia, a “protector cruiser” of 5,856 tons, is perhaps best known as the ship whose captain received Adm. Dewey’s order:
You may fire when you are ready, Gridley.
Within one minute, Gridley opened fire and after a six-hour battle the enemy fleet in the Philippines was destroyed.
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