House refuses to suspend 40-hour week and overtime pay
Size of vote, 226–62, unexpected
Group resumes study of second war powers bill in Congress
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House refuses to suspend 40-hour week and overtime pay
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Satō named to Moscow
Tatekawa resigns as Japanese Ambassador because of illness
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Earle shopping for new uniform
Former governor finds old ‘outfit’ too big
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U.S. troops cool in Aruba
Stand up to baptism of fire in the best American tradition
By Chandler Diehl
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Detroit sailor weds clerk in Iceland
Reykjavík, Iceland, Feb. 27 (AP) – (delayed)
Chester T. Swalm, 23, of Detroit, a mail clerk attached to the United States naval operating base in Iceland, is the first member of the U.S. forces here to take an Icelandic bride – blonde and shy Heitha Thorkels, 22.
The sailor met Miss Thorkels at the grocery where she was a clerk after he had spent many weeks at sea. He proposed two months ago and this week they were married, after obtaining permission of the girl’s mother and the U.S. Navy.
Swalm expects to be ion shore duty for the duration of the war, but the honeymoon must wait. Naval regulations permit him to see his wife only during leave from camp.
Authorities said more than 25 officers and men of the British Army here had already married Iceland girls. The engagements of one U.S. and two British officers were announced recently.
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Reading Eagle (March 1, 1942)
JAPAN LAND ON JAVA IN EPIC BATTLE AS ALLIES CRIPPLE FOUR WARSHIPS
Invasion fight rages on land, sea, and in air
Cruiser and three destroyers of foe battered escorting 40 troop transports
By the Associated Press
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Short and Kimmel ordered tried on dereliction charge
General and admiral to face courts-martial possibly after war
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WPB orders war output quickened
Fresh national drive result of FDR warning on 'crucial spring’
Writes to Nelson
Says victory depends on higher production in next few months
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U.S. subs raid enemy ports to sink ships
Destroy 45,000 tons at gates of harbors in daring forays
Wake 'deserted’
Two Jap destroyers found wrecked on beach at island
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Sugar limit two months
Maximum person may hold to obtain ration book set in U.S.
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Offers of old cannon refused by War Office
Washington, Feb. 28 (UP) –
The War Department said “No, thanks,” today to offers of civic groups to return cannon and other World War I trophies to the Army for use in the present war.
The Army Ordnance Department said the trophies adorning hundreds of parks and public squares are valuable only as scrap metal and suggested that civic groups contact junk dealers.
It suggested that proceeds from the sale of the equipment be used to purchase bonds or for local defense needed.
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U.S. fliers down 88 Japs in Burma
Total of week includes 54 in two days
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More rayon will be available for hosiery
Washington., Feb. 28 (AP) –
The War Production Board announced today that increased quantities of rayon will soon be made available to the hosiery and weaving industries to replace silk and nylon diverted to war uses.
Under terms of an order now being drafted, the rayon industry will also be required to set aside 4% of its viscose and acetate production – representing about 13,000,000 pounds annually – for export to other American republics.
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Baby bottle nipples used for defense
Guard new plane figures; old phone books help
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14 hurt in race riot over housing project
Detroit, Feb. 28 (AP) –
Fourteen persons were injured in clashes between whites and Negroes as the latter sought today to move into a federal defense housing project designated for them and Mayor Edward J. Jeffries ordered police to halt further attempts to move families into the new unit.
20 persons were jailed as police were forced to use tear gas to disperse a crowd armed with steel bars, clubs and bricks. At least two shots were fired by unidentified persons.
7 white persons and 7 Negroes were injured. The whites included five policemen and a young woman.
Ban on truck sales extended until March 8
Washington, Feb. 28 (UP) –
The War Production Board today extended until March 8 the ban on sales and deliveries of 1942 model light, medium and heavy trucks and truck trailers. The ban would have expired tonight.
A rationing program, now being worked out, goes into effect March 9.
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Pearl Harbor attack comical as nuns ran, sister writes
New York, Feb, 28 (AP) –
It was comical, Sister Mary Cecile O’Neill declared, to see a procession of Catholic nuns running as fast as they could to get away from the Japanese bombs that rained on Pearl Harbor Dec. 7 – and especially funny to see one of the sisters carrying a rifle.
Sister Mary Cecile, of Forge Village, Mass., one of 85 Maryknoll Sisters stationed in the Hawaiian Islands, mingled humor with a factual description of the attack in a letter received here at the motherhouse.
At first, she said, she and the other nuns mistook the bombing for a practice battle. Then:
There was an explosion behind us and at the same time something hit the grounds in front of us, sending the dirt high in the air… Again, the rocks in front of us suddenly danced.
Convinced at last that it was a real raid:
We took to our heels and to the hills, laughing at the comical procession we made. Mrs. Carreira [a neighbor] was in the lead, carrying the baby. Then came her young son, carrying a rifle, then her little daughter and sister in single file. Mr. Carreira brought up the rear, carrying a rifle and a portable radio.
He looked so loaded down that Sister Natalie offered to help him. He let her carry his rifle! We stopped again to laugh, wishing we had a camera to get a picture for the folks back home!
None of us will ever forget the sound of as bursting shell, the whistle of a shell, the rat-tat-tat of machine-gun fire, nor the deep sense of gratitude that welled in our hearts for the signal protection God had given us.
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Girls in clerk’s office want to wear slacks
Cleveland, Feb. 28 (AP) –
Feminine employees of the city clerk’s office have asked permission of the city council to wear slacks in the office because:
- The impending wool shortage has made dresses more expensive.
- Girls would not have to wear silk stockings.
- They could wear inexpensive, low-heel shoes.
- In winter, the slacks would be warmer than conventional dresses.
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Chinese women pledged to raise big war fund
Chungking, Feb. 28 (AP) –
The choice between being pampered dolls or equally by assuming wartime responsibilities and contributing funds for the fight was offered Chinese women today by Madame Chiang Kai-shek.
Women in her audience gave wedding rings and other jewelry and pledged that they would raise a million Chinese dollars.
Launch sub combat ship
New York, Feb, 28 (UP) –
The PC-487, a submarine combat ship which was sponsored by Mrs. John D. Bulkeley, wife of the Philippine naval hero, was launched today at the Consolidated Shipbuilding yards. After the launching the company received the Navy pennant for “efficiency, excellence and achievement” is ship production.
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