Eyewitness reports –
Nazi planes have free run of sky over Tunisian front
By Ned Russell, United Press staff writer
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Eyewitness reports –
Navy officers give swords for scrap metal drive
Washington (UP) –
Naval officers are beating their swords into bullets.
At the suggestion of Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox, officers are turning in their swords to the scrap metal drive. First officer to respond was Vice Adm. H. V. Butler (ret.), administrative officer of the Navy Department.
The sword has been discarded under revised regulations as part of the uniform for formal occasions.
Boston club laxity shown
Place wired without permit, worker testifies
Boston, Massachusetts (UP) –
Nearly 200 more witnesses will be called at the Cocoanut Grove inquest to substantiate fresh evidence of official laxity in connection with the holocaust that claimed 492 lives, it was disclosed today.
Latest evidence of irregularities came in the testimony of a Boston Navy Yard worker who said city inspectors knew wiring was being installed at the club without a permit, license or professional skill.
Another revelation was that Attorney General Robert T. Bushnell had viewed a bundle of checks for meals served free to persons of political importance.
Benjamin Elfman, a Boston Navy Yard worker, indicated the electrical work was done by a yard machinist – Raymond Baer – who once ran a burlesque theater switchboard for Barnett Welansky, the club’s owner.
Mr. Elfman said Mr. Baer called him in to put in wiring, but he refused to do it without a permit. Mr. Baer, he said, didn’t object to doing the work without a permit.
Investigators were also seeking to learn where materials for new work at the club were obtained. Contracts and specifications were seized for examination. As far as could be determined, no permission for the work was given by the War Labor Board which, under wartime regulations, permits only $200 worth of new construction or remodeling on such projects.
OPA warns motorists!
Going to nightclub? Better walk if you have B or C Ration
Boards have right to revoke supplemental gasoline as well as grant it – so, keep your driving to actual necessities
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McNutt likely to continue in manpower job
Democratic committeeman thinks President won’t shift Cabinet
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Convicted in Flynn case
Hollywood, California –
Morris Black, youthful studio worker accused along with film star Errol Flynn of attacking Betty Hansen, 17-year-old movie-struck waitress, was today found guilty of a misdemeanor and given a year’s suspended sentence.
Envoy’s son killed
Washington –
Word was received today of the death in a flight over Scotland of Pilot Officer Ladislas Ciechanowski, 19, son of the Polish Ambassador to the United States, Jan Ciechanowski.
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Comrades once again, U.S. and French troops join hands and exchange good wishes as the Yanks bid the Frenchmen farewell. The French entrained at Oran for frontline service in Tunisia.
Axis thwarted in North Africa by U.S. consul
Invasion groundwork laid in area year before Pearl Harbor
By John A. Parris, United Press staff writer
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French river pilot leads U.S. destroyer to Port Lyautey
By Walter Cronkite, United Press staff writer
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Marines mow down in Japs surprised during breakfast
By Charles P. Arnot, United Press staff writer
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Huge Jap losses in air may force shift in strategy
2,000 enemy planes believed downed in Solomons, Guinea sectors since early August, making blow against India less likely
By Frank Tremaine, United Press staff writer
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Justice Department angered at ‘minor’ interference
By Fred W. Perkins, Press Washington correspondent
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Ivory Coast invasion by Allies reported
London, England (UP) –
The Rome radio, heard by the newspaper Star, reported today that U.S. and British troops had entered the French Ivory Coast territory on the Gulf of Guinea, 1,050 miles southeast of Dakar.
According to Rome, the Americans crossed into the Ivory Coast from Liberia, marching eastward, and the Britons crossed from the British Gold Coast, marching westward.
It was made known officially yesterday that U.S. forces were in Liberia.