15 get Croix de Guerre
New Yorkers are decorated by Gen. Juin in Italy
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The Pittsburgh Press (March 22, 1944)
JAP TROOPS INVADE INDIA
Enemy thrusts across border from Burma
Gen. Auchinleck: No need for alarm
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U.S. BIG BOMBERS SMASH AT BERLIN
1,500-ton raid loosed on city by Yank fliers
3 waves of planes meet no Nazi fighters
By Walter Cronkite, United Press staff writer
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Battleships rip Japs’ base on New Ireland
Marines take islands north of Kavieng
By William B. Dickinson, United Press staff writer
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Nazis increase Cassino blows
Field guns in hills rake Allied lines
By Reynolds Packard, United Press staff writer
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Commissions for women fliers given approval
Washington (UP) –
The House Military Affairs Committee today approved legislation to five Regular Army commissions to women pilots, after hearing Gen. H. H. Arnold, chief of the Army Air Forces, say he expects in time “to have every [male] Army flier out of the United States and overseas fighting.
The Army now has about 500 women pilots in service and 500 in training. But as members of the WASPS – Women Airforce Service Pilots – they now have civilian status.
Gen. Arnold told the House Military Affairs Committee:
We must provide fighting men wherever we can, replacing them with women wherever we can whether it be in factories or towing airplane targets.
Gen. Arnold said the need for fighting men is “so severe” that the Air Force has “returned to the ground forces some 36,000 men who were available for air service.”
U.S. sub Scorpion lost in Pacific
Washington (UP) –
The Navy today announced the loss of the 1,525-ton submarine USS Scorpion, presumably in the Pacific.
The Scorpion, which was commanded by Cdr. Maximilian G. Schmidt of Annapolis, Maryland, carried a normal complement of about 75 men.
Disclosure of the loss of the Scorpion, the 23rd U.S. submarine to be lost in this war, followed by a day the Navy’s announcement that 15 more Jap merchant ships had been sunk by our underseas fighters.
2-B or not to be!
Los Angeles, California (UP) –
Refused Army induction because he was an essential war worker, Charles W. Howell, 27, shot himself to death yesterday.
CIO gives approval to ‘G.I. Bill of Rights’
Washington (UP) –
The Congress of Industrial Organizations today endorsed the “G.I. Bill of Rights” for veterans, now before the Senate, which would provide increased hospitalization, educational opportunities, loans to establish homes and small businesses and a year’s unemployment compensation.
Lava flow veers to menace 3 Vesuvius coastal towns
By Eleanor Packard, United Press staff writer
On the slopes of Mount Vesuvius, Italy –
Three Italian coastal towns harboring 86,000 people were menaced today by a shift in the lava flow from erupting Mount Vesuvius, and experts warned that the volcanic cone might burst at any moment and bury the countryside under tons of molten rock.
Five days after the start of its worst outbreak in modern times, the great volcano has stopped acting according to form and has gone completely erratic.
The main lava flow now has shifted from the northwest to the west slopes and is moving down like a fiery snake on the coastal towns of Torre del Greco, Torre Annunziata and Resina, site of the ancient town of Herculaneum, which was buried in the great eruption of 79 AD.
Allied military authorities were understood to be preparing to evacuate the residents of the three towns if the lava flow continues.
Meanwhile, the seething cone of the volcano glowed with such intensity that Italian experts warned it may break suddenly and send a terrific overflow of lava in all directions.
Not a single life has been lost thus far, largely because of the prompt measures taken by the Army to remove reluctant civilians from their homes, but millions of dollars’ worth of property have been ruined and some of the finest vineyards in Italy have been partially wiped out, including the famous Lacryma Christi vineyards.
It was estimated that cultivation on the lava-wasted soil would be impossible for at least a century.
The villages of San Sebastiano and Massa di Somma were all but obliterated yesterday by the lava wall moving down the northwest slopes and a two-mile-high column of fine dust peppered Naples and Salerno.
The road to the Royal Vesuvian Observatory, where experts up on the slopes were watching the activity, was closed to all traffic except officers on duty.
12 more bodies sought in Passaic bus crash
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Simms: Allied nations are out of step diplomatically
Stettinius urged to survey situation
By William Philip Simms, Scripps-Howard foreign editor
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Chaplin to delve into Joan’s past
Oil man to recall her Mexican trip
By Frederick C. Othman, United Press staff writer
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Patton named to direct Allied force
General may take part in invasion
By Reuel S. Moore, United Press staff writer
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‘Very serious,’ Tōjō tells Japs
By Joseph W. Grigg, United Press staff writer
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47 vote replies given President
Washington (UP) –
President Roosevelt, still nursing a slight cold, today studied replies from 47 state governors to his inquiry about use of the proposed federal war ballot.
Whether Mr. Roosevelt will sign or veto the bill for limited use of a federal war ballot for servicemen depends on what conclusions he reaches, from replies of the Governors, about whether more persons could vote under existing law or under the bill.
Only South Carolina has made no reply.
Of the five replies revealed today, only that of Texas Governor Coke Stevenson contained a flat assurance that his state would permit use of the proposed federal ballot.
A breakdown of the 47 replies showed this lineup:
- States definitely accepting: Seven.
- States which consider their own laws sufficient and will not accept: Seventeen.
- States which probably will not accept: Five.
- States which will make an effort to authorize use: Fourteen.
- Undecided: Three.
- States conditionally accepting: One.
Hannegan pleads for ‘solid front’
Hartford, Connecticut (UP) –
Democratic National Chairman Robert E. Hannegan appealed to party leaders in Connecticut last night to present a solid front “to see that the present administration and Franklin D. Roosevelt are continued in office.”
He said:
No election since the birth of the Republic hinged on graver issues than are involved in what takes place next November. The problems of war and peace cannot be separated.
Mr. Hannegan charged that Republicans were “working in every state to capitalize on every complaint.” He had no assurance, he said, that Mr. Roosevelt would seek a fourth term, “but I have no doubt that if he runs, he’ll win.”
Campaign points listed by White
GOP candidate offers program
Joseph A. White of Brentwood, candidate for the Republican nomination for Congress in the 31st district, announced a platform in support of his candidacy.
Among points were:
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Tax measures must be written solely for the purpose of raising revenue “on the basis of ability to pay, and not used as punitive measures against any particular group.”
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Business must be “freed from so-called war restrictions as soon as possible.”
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“I do not subscribe to the theory that the American standard of living must come down to that of other countries, but rather that theirs should come up to ours.”
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Servicemen must be assured of “improved opportunities in their chosen fields of endeavor.”
Mr. White said all legislative problems must be judged for their effect on the war effort and he argued for foreign relief “only when used to relieve genuine need.”