America at war! (1941--) -- Part 2

Colonel convicted by court-martial

Congress asked to delay drafting of all fathers

Manpower, tax and inflation problems faced as House and Senate end recess

I DARE SAY —
The sun shines bright in Manhattan

By Florence Fisher Parry

Raid wardens put on trial

FBI to give details of alleged conspiracy

Lag in rubber program laid to oil company

Wallace replies to criticism by Standard Oil New Jersey

After 290 days –
Victim of nightclub fire beginning to walk again

‘Isn’t that something?’ Coast Guardsman asks after he takes a few steps

Boston, Massachusetts (UP) –
Falteringly, 22-year-old Clifford Johnson of Sumner, Missouri, walked unassisted today for the first time since he was burned almost beyond recognition in the cocoanut Grove Nightclub holocaust 290 days ago.

“Isn’t that something?” he asked his nurses with a grin as, like a baby learning to walk, he took a few steps across the Boston City Hospital room where he has lain – most of the time on his stomach – since the fire that cost 492 lives.

Although the young coast Guardsman is winning one of medical history’s most amazing fights for life, it will probably be four more months before he can go back to his parents and a sister on their Missouri farm.

On Aug. 4, newspapers throughout the country published the story of Johnson’s plucky battle for life. It was a fight in which some $20,000 was spent on nutritional treatment, blood plasma, sulfa drugs and skin grafting in an effort to patch up a body, 65% of which was covered with third-degree burns.

To Johnson came a flood of letters, many from mothers with sons in the service or from servicemen themselves, offering sympathy and encouragement.

Apparently, the letters were just the tonic the shy sailor needed. A six-footer, he has regained 16 of the 56 pounds he lost as a result of the accident and now weighs 124.

Johnson still has to sleep on his stomach, but in his waking hours is able to relieve the monotony by typing with one hand on a portable typewriter.

Dr. Newton Brower, who belittles his own large part in Johnson’s recovery, praised Dr. Charles C. Lund and the staff of the Thorndike Memorial Laboratory. He said Johnson already had had 17,000 pinpoint skin grafts on his head, back, arms and legs, and that more were yet to come.

Nylons cause fire run

Americans leave Japan aboard exchange ship


Navy plane crashes, kills four in home

Japanese raid Funafuti base in mid-Pacific

Slight damage is caused; Navy announced loss of submarine

‘Rider’ flayed by Roosevelt

Message tells Congress it transgressed

Movie slaying baffles police

Fingerprint tests fail in Hollywood case

Japs at Hong Kong raided by U.S. bombers


Nine bodies discovered in Aleutian plane wreck

U.S. starting to segregate disloyal Japs

Roosevelt gives Senate report on 10 relocation centers

Wolves slaughtering deer by thousands in Alaska

High wages paid on defense projects lure Eskimos from guard jobs, appropriation cut

Post-war policy of Congress may be revealed soon

Administration to urge an early expression of sentiment; Hull plan for force to keep peace gains backers
By Lyle C. Wilson, United Press staff writer

Revamped OPA pledges more food cost cuts

Reductions to 1942 level promises; favor of Congress curried

Stokes: Presidential politics plagues Congress assembling today

Both Democrats and Republicans are expected to fight it out on home front issues
By Thomas L. Stokes, Scripps-Howard staff writer

Senate delays showdown on father draft

U.S. Army and Navy chiefs summoned to testify on manpower needs

Editorial: Congress back at work

Editorial: Non-partisan foreign policy