Ranger receives award of friend killed in war
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Ickes denies big inch has design flaws
Charges pipe is too thin, strain too great denied
By Phelps Adams, North American Newspaper Alliance
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Interest rate on public debt drops since 1934
Government pays 1.972% on obligation of $144 billion
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Earle reveals –
U.S. codes saved in Bulgaria in 1941 by a Russian hero
Former Pennsylvania Governor describes how legation worker defied dire threats and helped upset plot
By John Gunther, North American Newspaper Alliance
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U.S. Navy Department (September 1, 1943)
Press Release
For Immediate Release
September 1, 1943
Commended for rescue of entire ship’s company of stricken minesweeper
Cdr. Alfred J. Homann, USN, 620 Menchino Ave., Santa Rosa, California, has been commended for outstanding seamanship which made possible the rescue of all aboard the minesweeper, USS WASMUTH (DMS-15), when that vessel was so badly battered by storm and exploding depth charges that it was abandoned in the Aleutian area on December 27, 1942.
Loss of the WASMUTH, converted from a 1,190‑ton destroyer and commanded by LtCdr. Joseph Leverton, Jr., 1712 16th St., NW, Washington, DC, has not been previously announced.
The WASMUTH was escorting a convoy in a raging gale 30 miles of the Aleutians when two depth charges were wrenched from their racks by the waves. The depth charges exploded under the WASMUTH’s fantail and carried away a portion of the ship’s after section.
With the damaged WASMUTH slowly, but surely sinking, Cdr. Homann skillfully brought the RAMAPO, a tanker, alongside after a three-and-a-half hour battle with the raging sea and took off everyone aboard the minesweeper.
The Pittsburgh Press (September 1, 1943)
RAF BLASTS BERLIN
Huge section of capital in blazing ruins
47 British planes lost in 45-minute Thunderbolt assault
By Walter Cronkite, United Press staff writer
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U.S. batters Jap island with shells and bombs
Naval task force attack base on Marcus, 1,100 miles from Tokyo
By Sandor S. Klein, United Press staff writer
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‘Fortresses’ bomb Pisa –
Big warships hammer Italy
16-inch shells plaster shore of strait
By Reynolds Packard, United Press staff writer
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Jobs for tomorrow –
Private industry called to absorb peacetime horde
56 million Americans will want honest work, businessmen are told in campaign to ease government control
By Charles T. Lucey, Scripps-Howard staff writer
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Churchill on way to U.S. –
Hull endorses Allied parley
But refuses to say if he’s willing to go abroad
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