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TUESDAY, JUNE 23, 1942—THREE
: Coast Convoy
Romance Seen
In Betrothal
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Classic Bemherg Sheer
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an Oklahoma summer. Lyn-
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us just the dress: A classic sheer you'll wear from
Sport Shop, KERR S FOURTH FLOOR
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AUGUST. TWO FAVORITE STYLES - - -
HAVE THE FIGURE
YOU'VE ALWAYS
DREAMED OF . . IN a
OF NYLON THAT
WEARS LIKE IRON!
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WAAC Clothes
Allowance Of
$184 Revealed
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rationing of cotton goods this year or
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Newsman on Small
Escort Craft Sees
Ship Blown Up
The navy announced Mon-
day night it has been convoy-
ing merchant ships along the
U. S. Atlantic coast for nearly
a month. This is the story of a
reporter who accompanied one
of these convoys on an excit-
ing voyage.
a congressional committee studying a
military appropriation bill introduced
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Replying to a question by Represen-
tative Starnes (D.. Ala.). of the house
appropriations subcommittee consider-
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lovely figure. Nude or white nylon, in 32 to 38
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both ways! The children will use it for a music
rack! For sketching, eating, reading, writing
. . . you name it, Perfek-table does it' Warp-
proof masonite top, 15'2x23 V2". Can be taken
apagt and stored in small space.
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Other reporters were on similar boats.
. At dark we sailed out to the middle of
the harbor and anchored alongside a
: < trawler.
We learned we were to sail at 4
' a. m. Our convoy of 17 ships had
been forming for several days in plain
slight of everyone in (blank) harbor
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Weekly Relief
Shows Slated
At Springlake
Starting Wednesday night, special
army and navy relief fund shows will
be staged at Springlake amusement
park each Wednesday, officials of the
park announced Tuesday.
The program is designed to enable
the park to raise its share of a $600,-
000 fund pledged by the National
Amusement Park association to the
service emergency relief organizations.
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the office of quartermaster general
" declared only large scale use of cotton
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replacing the board of regents headed
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M. When he did become king in fact,
• Peter did it prematurely and at his
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in luggage,
navy, pale blue
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with a vengeance! Make yours Van
Raalte: Lovely to look at, soft to the
touch 65-denier rayon ... in your
favorite tone, Rio Tan. Sizes 82
to 10%2.
It will take the place of the original
program of monthly shows.
No admission is charged to the park
on Wednesday nights and a flat 10
percent of the gross receipts of all
concessions will be turned over for
equal division between the army and
navy emergency relief organizations.
These funds will be used for assist-
ance of families of service men re-
ported missing in action.
The opening show Wednesday night
will include a showing of sound pic-
tures including authentic films of the
Pearl Harbor attack, the Marshall is-
lands engagement and the Russian
campaign. A comedy will be added
for the children’s amusement.
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WASHINGTON. June 23—(P-
Heres what it will cost Uncle Sam
to dress his WAACs—The ladies soon
1o.oin the army's auxiliary corps.
They'll get an initial clothing al-
lowance of $184.91. plus a mainte-
nance allowance of $70 77.
(One item in the women's bill, $10
a pair for gloves, was described bv
Representative Mahon (D„ Texasi as
“outrageous."
n"Vnless.". he added, "they are serv-
nd in Alaska or some place like that"
Major General E. B. Gregory of the
quartermaster corps assured the com-
mittee that only 1 "limited number"
of that type would be provided.
The figures were disclosed by the
house appropriations committee in
sending to the floor a bill for funds
or the army for 1943.
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Investigation Sought
In Farm Nitrogen Cut
WASHINGTON, June 23 Lp_
Senator Clark (D" Mo., told the sen-
ate Monday it should investigate an
order he. said was llkely 10 be issued
by the war production board agninst
the use of nitrogen in farm croprertit
lizers until next spring.
Clark said the senate ought to in-
ye stigate todetermine it this order was
S benissued.to curtaii the production
rognat, rather than to conserve nit-
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agreement. But the army was not :
guarding. It was acting.
At 2 a. m. the premier was under '
arrest. Prince Paul fled the country,
and at dawn Peter Karageorgvtitch
spoke to his people:
“Serbs, Croats, Slovenes!
next, army officials testified before In this moment so grave for our
people I have decided to take the
royal power Into my hands ... the
regents have resigned ... I have
charged General Simovitch with the
formation of a new government
the army and navy are at my or-
ders.
We shopped the markets east and west for such a dress as this: Tailored,
Companion Sale! Bed Trays
Regular $2.49 “Til-Tray” . . . the
only tray we've seen that always .aa
stands steady. Tilts from level 8 ■ 1|K
position to 4S-degree angle. For " |
eating, for reading in bed.
dawn to dusk You'll love it either in the dot or print (You’ll probably
want both!) See them tomorrow in the sport shop!
kERR
THE QUALITY STORE
WASHINGTON, June
as a substitute for burlap for farm
purposes made rationing a possibility.
Starnes asked the officer whether
he foresaw any necessity for ration-
ing the civilian use of cotton products
in 1942 and 1943, considering the re-
quirements of the army, sources of
supply and transportation problems.
“The entire military program, ac-
cording to a war production board sur-
vey made in March, indicated that the
entire military and other defense re-
quirements for cotton goods required
only a reasonable portion of the entire
production," Major Kennedy an-
swered.
“In 1942 the current rate of produc- :
tion is about 32 percent above 1939. 1
and as of that date the entire mili-
tary needs for cotton textiles are being 1
met by increased production of cotton 1
textiles above the normal civilian
year."
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Of King Peter
NEW YORK, June 23. — (Wide
World)—Ordinarily royal romance is
a concoction of about nine parts
royalty and one of romance.
Just what the proportions are in
the engagement of King Peter of
Yugoslavia, now visiting in the United
States, to Princess Alexandria of
.Greece are secret. But in this
betrothal, soon to be announced
officially, there are the ingredients for
the exception.
The war-defying nobility of the
Cambridge campus in England was
the setting. Peter was studying there,
and Alexandria was a nurse.
Both Fled Nazis
The glamour of danger had en-
compassed them both in flights from
their invaded countries. There was
the ingredient of nostalgia as the
courtship advanced according to old
world protocol.
There is a hint of the proportion of
romance in the young man, when
after his flight a diary fell into the
hands of Italians.
The diary, written when he was
about 10. told of his puppy' love for
an English girl during his school days
in England.
Those school days ended with the
assassination of his father in Marseille
in 1934. And 11-year-old Peter was
called home to become monarch of
15.000,000 subjects; to be recognized
as "boss" by his younger brothers
whom he told that day that their
father had “gone on a long journey.”
King Prematurely
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1 plosion and the ensign cried out:
"They got the (another boat like
' ours)." She had disappeared from
view and as we took some spray across
the window, I had to run on deck to
, see what had happened.
Whale Causes U-Boat Scare
• The other coast guard cutter had
not been hit. It had dropped a depth
• charge between us and it but soon
came in sight again.
* We were pretty well keyed up then
, and saw a periscope in every wave.
Our cook, a second class seaman.
, was a good one and when he yelled
"Chow's down" at about 1 p. m.—two
' hours later—we found a beef roast,
hot biscuits, boiled potatoes, lettuce
* and tomato salad, coffee, green beans
, and peas and carrots. Also some fresh
fruit, and a dozen different kinds of
, cookies, Jellies, marmalades, jams
honey, preserves, pickles and olives.
' Our next bit of excitement came at
92:30 p. m. I was on the bridge with
the ensign when he yelled "tornedo
, wake off the starboard bow" and fired
the signal. We circled at full speed
. and dropped four depth charges be-
cause you don't take any chances with
' a convoy. It was a whale. Hundreds
of fish were killed but no sign of
1 action.
, Unaware of Mine Field
We arrived off a port at dawn and
. our convoy continued northward. We
were low on water, food and gasoline
• and needed to replenish our four
depth charges. We headed for the
' coast guard station but were told the
, water was too shallow and finally tied
up alongside another craft. In the
, meantime we had sailed for four
hours up and down the harbor—a
< deathly still harbor—looking for a
place to refuel. The army let us tie
1 up and gave us 1,000 gallons of 70 oc-
tane gas—we burned 84 octane. But
‘ we had to get fresh water from a
, fishing dock and food from a store
in town, opening a charge account in
, no time at all. The navy wouldn't
supply us with a station wagon to get
• supplies and the ensign and I had to
hitch-hike into town on an army
' truck to borrow a coast guard truck.
. The coast guard base Informed us
then we had been sailing through a
, harbor mine field for four hour; that
the army mines had broken loose and
1 that submarines had laid three-foot
A contact mines. The harbor had been
• closed tc all traffic.
The trip home waa without incident.
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War would not wait for his
eighteenth birthday, and Germany
wanted to advance into Greece. Prince '
Paul signed a capitulatory agreement
with the Germans.
Army Acts for Peter
It was March 27 and at 1 a. m., I
great tanks began lumbering through 1
the streets of Belgrade. Citizens
thought the Yugoslavian army was on
guard against rebellion by the angry,
freedom-willed people against the
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By WALTER LOGAN
AN ATLANTIC COAST PORT,
June 23.—(UP)—I have just returned
from a voyage with a convoy along
the east coast.
During the trip, T saw a ship sunk
by an enemy mine—so close that the
spray thrown up by the explosion wet
my face.
Later, word came to the ship I was
aboard that another vessel had been
sunk—also by mines. (These would
make the third and fourth ships to be
sunk or damaged by enemy mines off
the east coast recently, although the
navy has announced only three of
them.)
At another point our ship unknow-
ingly sailed across a harbor mine
field but fortunately nothing hap-
pened.
On Rough 400 Boat
We started on our voyage from the
naval operating base about 6 p. m. We
were put aboard coast guard cutters-
the ”400" boats, they're called—much
to the surprise of their skippers who
had no advance warning.
The "400" coast guard boats are
83 feet long with crews of 12 to 14
men. Including an ensign in charge
and a chief petty officer. They carry
depth charges for submerged subma-
rines. but the surest way they can
attack submarines on the surface is
to ram them. The boat would sink,
but a submarine might sink, too.
The men who man these boats are
doing a hell of a job. They work and
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their two abreast position.
Sees Ship Blown Up
. It was 7:50 a. m. when I saw a
ship go up with a tremendous blast
. amidships. Debris went up about 100
feet. A few seconds later I heard the
• boilers go. At 7:51 a. m., the ship had
settled very rapidly forward and at
‘ 7:53 a. m had completely capsized.
She had a beam of 63 feet and was in
• water about 61 feet deep and lay on
, her side, settling very slowly. Every-
one agreed the ship had been struck
' by a mine.
At the first blast tne commanding
' ensign sounded the battle alarm—a
, weird sounding klaxon-foghorn—and
in seconds the crew was at battlesta-
, tions. We picked up 14 survivors from
the sea and took 14 from a mine-
' sweeper which in turn was sunk about
an hour later.
' The excitement had Just died down
, and the ensign and I were in the
wheelhouse. There was another ex-
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b As the boy grew he became placid
I and scholarly. He entered the army as
[ a buck private and through private
k. instruction by generals in his marble
1 palace, prepared to advance from
private to supreme war lord of
Yugoslavia by his eighteenth birth-
day.
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‘Reasonable’ Supply
Of Civilian Wool Seen
WASHINGTON, June 23.—(P-
Enough wool is available to take care
of the program laid down by army
supply branches for wool products and
provide a reasonable amount for civil-
ian purposes.
This report was made by Major S.
J. Kennedy of the office of the quar-
termaster general during house appro-
priation bill for 1943, introduced
Tuesday in the house.
The quartermaster corps has under-
taken a wool conservation program,
Major Kennedy said, Involving steps to
reduce wool content wherever prac-
ticable without injuring military re-
quirements.
At another point in the hearings,
Major Gen. E. B. Gregory, quartermas-
ter general, when asked by Represen-
tative Starnes (D., Ala.), about pos-
sible necessity for rationing civilian
use of wool for clothing, replied:
"I do not know whether it will come
to a rationing stage or not. It prob-
ably will come to a stage where the
civilian population will have to accept
substitutes, such as wool combined
with rayon, or wool combined with
cotton, or wool combined with various
grades of shoddy and reworked wool."
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what happened after that the
world knows well. It knows less of the
flight he had to make when the time
came—to insure establishment of a
government in exile.
He knows more of war now. more
of other worlds, more about the re-
sponsibilities of ruling. It is under-
stood that one of the purposes of his
rip across the Atlantic is to obtain
lease-lend aid for the guerrilla forces
resisting the Nazis in Yugoslavia. He .
Wi see President Roosevelt and keep
other official appointments but not
efore he has spent a few days travel-
ing incognito about the country
It is expected that the official an-
nouncement of his engagement will be
made when he and King George of
Greece Princess Alexandria's uncle
who also is visiting here—return to
London.
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Supply Is Forecast
WASHINGTON, June 23.—(A_
Housewives may look forward to un-
limited wheat and cotton under Tues-
day’s estimates of the army.
Major Gen. E. B. Gregory, quarter-
master general, told a house appro-
priations subcommittee the outlook for
those two commodities is good.
Testifying on the military establish-
ment appropriation bill for 1943, re-
ported to the house Tuesday, the quar-
termaster general said the country
produces sufficient wheat and cotton
to feed and clothe the army without
rationing the civilian population.
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eat and sleep under conditions that
would annoy a sardine. Yet they gri
' , at everything. All they ask is occa-
t sional shore leave—and plenty of good
’ < food. They get both, but complain
ashore that they can't sleep—the beds
‘ are too soft and too quiet.
. Buck Like Bronchos
The boats make about 20 knots
' They roll as much as 50 degrees in a
, heavy sea of which there seems to be
plenty, and buck like bronchos. In
rough weather the crew huddles on
deck behind the pilot house.
• Bob Woodson of Acme Newspictures
and I went aboard the boat at dusk.
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Gaylord, E. K. Oklahoma City Times (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 53, No. 27, Ed. 4 Tuesday, June 23, 1942, newspaper, June 23, 1942; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1988359/m1/3/?q=WAR+DEPARTMENT: accessed June 23, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.