The Pittsburgh Press (September 2, 1944)
Fala not on destroyer, President’s aide says
Washington (UP) –
You can take it from Adm. William D. Leahy, as quoted yesterday on the House floor by Democratic Leader John W. McCormack (D-MA), that President Roosevelt’s Scottie dog, Fala, was not left behind in the Aleutian Islands and returned by a specially dispatched destroyer.
Mr. McCormack’s refutation brought countercharges from Rep. Harold Knutson (R-MN) that 43,000 gallons of gasoline were consumed on a recent Australian trip of “a certain very high-placed American woman” in a bomber which had been remodeled for installation of a shower bath.