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Public anxiety was aroused, he explained, because of recent scare stories abouta giant Pacific small, introduced by the Japanese into Guam and Saipan for food purposes during the war. The Pacific snails multiplied like rabbits but their danger to crops has been over-rated, Clench said...
...often 18 hours a day); his insistence on perfection earned him the nickname, "Combat Ready." Every new marine got a talk from the C.O. Subjects: duty, selfdiscipline, religion (he is a devout Episcopalian). Became a brigadier general in 1943, then led the Cape Gloucester operation at New Britain. On Guam, his ist Provisional Marine Brigade led one of the beachhead assaults; on Okinawa, Major General Shepherd led his 6th Marine Division to its objective early, wheeled, and lent a much-needed hand in the bitter street fighting for Naha, the capital city. In World War II he picked...
Pickup. In April 1950, Honolulu post-office officials began to notice that money orders made out by Filipinos in Hawaii and Guam were not being cashed in the Philippines, as they were supposed to be; instead, they were coming back with "chops" (post officialese for seals), showing that they were being handled by Hong Kong banks. U.S. post-office officials got suspicious, sent Inspector R. Frank Ogden, 53, to Hong Kong to investigate...
Agents for Red Chinese syndicates would hang around country post offices, and sidle up to Filipinos who had just received money orders from relatives in Hawaii, Guam or the U.S. The agents offered an irresistible bargain: they were ready to buy up the money orders, paying three pesos per dollar (the official exchange rate is only two, but the Reds did not mind spending pesos freely in order to get far scarcer dollars). Endorsed over to middlemen for the Chinese, the orders were then smuggled to Hong Kong by plane and deposited in U.S. banks...
...Battle of Bougainville. Later, from his battle post as commander of the cruiser Louisville, he was pulled back to Washington to head the Navy's important Pacific Plans Division, given sea duty once more as commander of Cruiser Division 6 during the assault on Saipan, the landings at Guam, Peleliu, Leyte and Lingayen Gulf. A blue-water man (Annapolis, class of 1916), he is a crack ordnance expert, a good golfer (low 70s). He is married, has a daughter and two sons, each a lieutenant, one Army, one Navy...