Roosevelt’s Navy candle burns in French church
President recalls story of Breton priest in pamphlet distributed to Pétain’s people by OWI
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Taxis may deliver wires
Washington –
The Office of Defense Transportation ruled today that taxicabs may deliver emergency telegrams when other means of delivery are not available. Previously, such deliveries were banned under an ODT order.
Wartime woes sit lightly on the American in London
Good food is obtainable at a price, and hotel rooms are to be had if you get there first
By Donn Sutton, special to the Pittsburgh Press
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Ohioan first to win Australian citation
Canberra, Australia (UP) –
Lt. William Thornton Watson, of Columbus, Ohio, was believed today tp be the first American to receive an Australian military citation in the current war.
Governor General Baron Gowrie included Lt. Watson in a list of men awarded the Distinguished Service Order.
His citation said that on two occasions during an attack when a senior officer was killed, Lt. Watson assumed command, showing leadership and a continuing bravery which was an example to his men.
AEF repulses big Jap attack in New Guinea
Artillery battles raging on coast at Buna; foe uses firecrackers
By Brydon Taves, United Press staff writer
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Correct evils in U.S. ways, Norris urges
Senator scores Witherow and asks protection of social gains
Washington (UP) –
Senator George W. Norris (I-NE) in a farewell speech climaxing 30 years of Congressional service, last night, advised Americans to learn and correct “the evil of their ways” and to prepare to battle the forces of evil on the home front when the war is over.
In an impassioned plea for the people to protect their social progress of recent years and to aid the victims of war elsewhere “who are innocent of wrongdoing,” he said the nation must fight greedy and power-hungry men who will seek to frustrate a people’s peace.
He said:
We will have them to fight all over the country and in Congress. The men who want to make money out of this thing, to get political power from it, is an enemy to real peace. Those are the men with whom we will have to contend.
Mr. Norris, defeated for reelection in November, spoke at a dinner in his honor given by Senator Joseph F. Guffey (D-PA).
The Senator denounced President W. P. Witherow of the National Association of Manufacturers for Mr. Witherow’s statement that he was not fighting to give milk to every Hottentot or to build a TVA on the Danube.
Meanwhile, President Roosevelt disclosed today that he has asked Mr. Norris to continue expressing his liberal views to the country after he leaves the Senate.
Film actors in Army
Atlantic City, New Jersey –
Two former film actors today were stationed at the Army Air Forces basic training center here. They are Pvt. Broderick Crawford, 36, and Pvt. Quinn “Big Boy” Williams, 44. They were inducted together at Fort MacArthur, California.
Japs in U.S. uniform kill Guinea sentry
With U.S. forces in New Guinea –
Two tall Japs dressed in U.S. uniforms were recently discovered within a few yards of advance headquarters in the American lines.
They approached one of our sentries lying in a slit trench and fired upon him from so close that the powder wounds were found on his body. The Japs were driven away by fire from another nearby U.S. post.
2 air cadets die in crash
Terre Haute, Indiana –
Air cadets Milo G. Stevens, 26, of Hale Eddy, New York, and William Sellers, 26, of Ponchatoula, Louisiana, were killed yesterday when their bimotored training plane crashed as a result of adverse weather conditions. The plane fell in a Terre Haute suburb, striking a utility pole and a garage.
Batista visits U.S. to seek way out of sugar problem
Enough sweets to double American ration stored in Cuban warehouses, but shipping facilities are lacking; welfare of island involved
By William Philip Simms, Scripps-Howard staff writer
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