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Among the scrub eucalyptus trees in a trim little Australian-American military cemetery outside Port Moresby, the New York Times's Byron Darnton was buried last week with full military honors. The Army said only that he was killed in an accident. He was 44 years old and the tenth U.S. correspondent to fall in line of duty in World...
Prophetically, Barney Darnton's last dispatch was a measured appraisal of his hazardous job and the mood of the fighting men with whom he served. He wrote in part...
...York Times's Byron Darnton last week had an interesting story to tell. Mr. Darnton has been visiting Fort Meade, in Maryland, where the Army has nearly completed a cantonment for 30,000 soldiers. What Mr. Darnton found there he called a "fair example" of how organized labor has profited by the defense program...
Wrote Timesman Darnton: "The record is not blackest at Meade [but] ... a fair example. . . . According to Thurman Arnold, Assistant U. S. Attorney General, union glaziers at one camp quoted their initiation...