Willkie to report on his trip Monday
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U.S. drafts bill to mobilize all manpower
Roosevelt expected to get proposed legislation to two weeks
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GAR veteran, 101, dies
Clearfield, Pennsylvania –
Daniel H. Barnett, 101, one of the oldest Civil War veterans in the nation, died at his home near Olant yesterday. Mr. Barnett, born in Jefferson County Aug. 26, 1841, served 39 months with Company B, 78th Infantry, in the war between the states. Nine children survive.
10% drop in steel output possible, Weir forecasts
Mills face trouble this winter unless scrap flow increases – will lose time and use extra coal and limestone
By E. T. Weir, Chairman, National Steel Corp.
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Senate votes huge aircraft fund for Navy
Amendment requires confirmation of some manpower board employees
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Times’ war reporter killed in New Guinea
Gen. MacArthur’s HQ, Australia (UP) –
Gen. Douglas MacArthur announced today that Byron Darnton, 44, war correspondent of The New York Times, was killed accidentally Sunday in an advanced sector of the New Guinea battlefront.
A member of The Times staff since 1934, Mr. Darnton went to Australia from the United States in his fist foreign assignment last February.
Mr. Darnton, known to his friends as “Barney,” fought in the battles of the Oise, the Aisne, the Meuse-Argonne, and in the attack on the Kriemhilde Stellung Line in 1918. He rose from private to a line sergeant and was commissioned a second lieutenant while returning to the United States after the war.
In 1938, Mr. Darnton married the former Eleanor Choate, who, with two sons, Robert, 3, and John, 11 months, survives him.