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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1942
Page
3
Fragmented wartime dispatch recounts aerial peril and frontline courage. An American pilot fights through enemy territory with improvised weapons. a captain loses a leg to gas and infection while a convoy of survivors traverses mountain wilderness. A British official laments wartime press censorship and secrecy.
Walter Huston was flagged at the Pennsylvania Avenue entrance while on his way to see Colonel Starlinff, a mock accord between a guard and a reporter underscores wartime security. Albert N. Leman examines Turkey, Palestine, and American aid, noting mobilization confidence and potential coalitions in the war effort. The piece also covers jitters over a teen draft and medical debates on younger recruits, plus Chilean diplomacy and a chemists’ forecast of wartime innovations and postwar substitutes.
Two more American merchant ships were sunk by torpedoes in the Western Atlantic, with seven men killed including a convoy commodore. The loss brings the Associated Press tally to 496 ships officially reported in submarine action since Pearl Harbor, with one ship previously torpedoed in July in the North Atlantic. Lieutenant Commander Van Renselaer Moore, U. S. N. retired of San Diego was killed.
Rear Admiral Emory Stand, chairman of the Maritime Commission, told the Investment Bankers Association of America that the submarine threat would grow in the Caribbean two months ago. He warned that as winter arrived the menance could not be totally eliminated, only on top of it or mitigated.
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