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They fought at Midway, where Major Loften R. Henderson power-dived his flaming bomber onto a Jap carrier and Captain Richard E. Fleming, with his plane in flames, led his squadron against another carrier; Fleming was last seen hurtling into the sea. Eighty-four Marines flew against the Japs during the crisis at Midway; 38 were killed. Said Admiral Chester Nimitz to their commanding officer at Midway: "The sacrifices of your heroic men have not been in vain. . . . They dealt the enemy carriers the first blow and they spearheaded our great victory...
R.N.Z. NAVY: Booth, f.b.; Green, r.w.; Thompson, l.w.; Hodgkins, 3/4; Elkins, 3/4; Morris, s.o.h.; Cosford, s.h.; Murley, f.; Caeder, f.; Prouse, f.; Kear, f.; Knowles, f.; Evans, f.; Henderson, f.; Tippins...
...strong opposition in the primary. Most important comes not from his rivals but from the state's G.O.P. boss, National Republican Vice Chairman Walter Hallanan. Hallanan, an independent oil producer, was at odds with Funkhouser even before Leon Henderson started swinging at independent oilmen in a radio series 'sponsored by Funkhouser's rubber company. Hallanan denounces Funkhouser as a moneybagged interloper trying to buy office, and a party turncoat whose two previous small-time political offices (one as town supervisor of swank, suburban Harrison, N.Y.) were won as a Democrat. R.J., who says he has voted Republican...
...Raft. A West Pointer, and an Air Corpsman since 1924, Twining headed the Thirteenth Air Force when it was formed in January 1943 to support the drive up the Solomon Islands. A few days later, Twining was flying in a Fortress from Henderson Field on Guadalcanal to Espiritu Santo. A violent tropical storm forced the plane down at sea, and General Twining and his men were adrift in rubber rafts for six days, living on fish and seagulls, before patrol bombers rescued them...
Chester Bowles, the Senate Banking and Currency Committee found out last week, did not spend 14 years as a high-powered Manhattan advertising man (Benton and Bowles) for nothing. Neat, decorous and urbane (in vivid contrast to his pudgy, rumpled, truculent predecessor, Leon Henderson), the OPAdministrator appeared before the Committeee to begin the fight for renewal of the Emergency Price Control and Stabilization Act under which the OPA operates. (The Act will expire June 30.) His "presentation" was Benton and Bowles at its most persuasive...