Networks plan salute to Navy today, Monday
Knox speech will highlight celebration
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U.S., Britain reported ‘sharing’ Middle East
Istanbul, Turkey (UP) – (Oct. 24)
The German-controlled Türkische Post said today that British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden and John C. Winant, American Ambassador to England, had signed an agreement in April dividing the Middle East, into British and U.S. spheres of influence.
Under the purported agreement, Britain retained control over Egypt and the United States predominated Saudi Arabia, Syria, Iraq and Iran. The two powers were said to be partners with equal rights in Palestine.
The newspaper said the United States had assigned financial advisers to Iran and had pushed the development of new oil wells in Saudi Arabia, in addition to strengthening its diplomatic representation in that area.
The publication added that U.S. troops were reported to have occupied Kermanshah in Iran, key point on the main road from Iraq to Iran.
New job plan would put end to enlistment
Pepper would take deferment from draft boards; McNutt flayed
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Aussies like plan to call U.S. warship Canberra
Canberra, Australia (UP) – (Oct. 24)
Australian Naval Secretary N. O. J. Makin today expressed gratification over a report that the United States would adopt the name Canberra for a cruiser.
He described the action as a gesture giving evidence of “great unity of mind and purpose.”
Young soldiers advance quickly, Stimson says
Washington (UP) –
A War Department survey of the opportunities afforded soldiers under 20 years of age proves that “this age group can advance rapidly,” according to Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson.
There are about 50,000 men in the Army under 20 years of age, the Secretary disclosed. More than 200 of these have been commissioned and 200 others are in officer candidate schools.
These figures become even more remarkable, Mr. Stimson said, when it is remembered that a majority of these men entered the Army after school closed last June and have completed only recently their basic training.
The young men also qualify rapidly as non-commissioned officers, it was found. More than 10% of them have achieved non-commissioned ratings.
Pretty girl radio singer fine ‘antidote’ for bugle
Lois January gets out of bed while it’s still dark to entertain fellows in service
By Harriet Van Horne
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Senate group will study problems of oil industry
O’Mahoney Committee’s incomplete report on government restrictions cheers petroleum men
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To the last –
Lexington put up a stiff fight
Queen of Flattops was glorious in defeat
By Harry Hansen
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More confusing to them than us –
Axis nerves shaky over Africa scene
Americans don’t know what reports of troop movements to believe, but think what it’s doing to Hitler, Mussolini and Laval
By Carroll Binder
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On guard in the Indian Ocean are these British warships. The fleet includes the battleship Warspite (nearest camera), the aircraft carrier Illustrious and the battleships Resolution and Royal Sovereign. The announcement of the fleet’s presence in the Indian Ocean followed a declaration by Gen. Sir Archibald P. Wavell that Burma must be retaken from the Japanese.
Fortress fliers describe mast-high raid on Rabaul
‘We looked UP at searchlights,’ airmen say after heaviest blow at Jap base in Solomons
By Brydon Raves, United Press staff writer
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Marine keep in ‘trim’ in Solomons
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Japs won’t catch these Marines napping for Pvt. Joseph W. Almo, of Atlantic City, New Jersey, keeps his .45 automatic handy during barbering operations on Pvt. San Scianguld, of Buffalo, New York, whose Tommy-gun rests in his lap in the photo, top left, taken on Guadalcanal Island.
At top right, tired, sweaty Marines march through the charred remains of Matanikou Village on Guadalcanal after the Japs were blasted out in the first phase of the Battle of the Solomons.
At bottom, a Marine passes out cigarettes, soap and Japanese cookies to Jap work crew prisoners captured on Guadalcanal. The prisoners were unarmed laborers taken at Lunga Airport, now Henderson Field.