Kaiser is accused of ‘doctor hoarding’
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U.S. reporter aboard ship sunk at Oran
Allied HQ, French North Africa (UP) –
United Press staff correspondent Leo S. Disher was aboard a ship that was sunk during landing operations at Oran, it was revealed today.
The lack of information from him did not indicate that he was lost or had been taken prisoner.
Willkie pleads for citizenship of communist
Tells Supreme Court Marxist belief is not grounds for denaturalization
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War guilt courts urged to restore respect for law
Axis powers, breaking all solemn conventions, show need for prepared plan of just punishments; 12 tried, 6 convicted after last war
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Edna May Oliver succumbs as she reaches 59th year
Star of stage and screen, ill since July, dies in hospital
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Allies apply pincers again, just like 1918
Squeeze in Africa may delay cross-channel drive at least a year
Thomas M. Johnson, special to the Pittsburgh Press
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U.S. fliers hit main Jap base
3 tons of bombs drop near Burma Road
By Robert P. Martin, United Press staff writer
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U.S. invasion of Africa cheers New York brokers
Traders switch from war to peace stocks in discounting future events
By Elmer C. Walzer, United Press financial editor
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Marine Corps has birthday
Few have time to observe 167th anniversary
Washington (UP) –
The U.S. Marines are 167 years old today.
More furiously than ever before in their long history, they are fighting their country’s battles “on the land as on the sea.”
At stations all over the world – some possibly within sight of the shores of Tripoli – those Marines who had the time paused a moment to hear commanders read the Marine birthday proclamation.
Those who had the time for it sang the Marines’ Hymn, Semper fidelis, the title of which is also the Marine motto. It means “Always faithful”.
Too busy fighting to sing
On Guadalcanal Island in the Solomons, the ceremony was probably brief. Marines there are too busy fighting Japs to sing songs.
With the giant Allied invasion armada in French North Africa, such Marines as are participating could be expected to glance eastward toward Tripoli where their predecessors once beat the Barbary pirates and added a line to their battle song.
The Marines came into existence Nov. 10, 1775, when the Continental Congress created the corps and set up a recruiting office in a Philadelphia grog shop.
Fought in every war
Since then, they have fought – as they are fighting now – in every one of their country’s wars. It has been their tradition to be:
…first to fight for right and freedom, and to keep our honor clean.
The 200,000 Marines now fighting or training to fight will not forget the 400 who held out so long on Wake Island. In the words of President Roosevelt, the 400:
…will not be forgotten so long as gallantry and heroism are respected and honored.