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...Truman Committee had the last word. Big, bluff Navy Secretary Frank Knox, who had blustered that the committee's figures on shipping losses were "very seriously off," conceded last week that the committee's figures were approximately correct...
...first real attempt to tell the score in the fog-shrouded Battle of the Atlantic, the committee had revealed this shocking fact: 1,000,000 deadweight tons of shipping were sent to the bottom monthly in '42, the losses outweighing new U.S. and British construction. Knox's tart retort that the committee's figures were compiled from "unauthorized and uninformed sources" was reassuring to the nation...
...remarking of the Japanese enemy: "He is now building up really big forces in this area. He has now 200,000 men and a proportionate number of airplanes. ... He is now attempting to obtain control of the air preparatory to taking the initiative." - Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox, while acknowledging increased Japanese air activity, said: "You must remember that an attack on Australia must be accompanied by a tremendous sea force, and there is no indication of any such concentration. The only way the Japanese can get to Australia is by ship...
...spokesman for General MacArthur tried to answer Secretary Knox. He said that Japan held a big naval combat fleet in the Truk area, within three days' steaming of Australia. Since it was common knowledge that this concentration had been based on Truk since approximately 1936, and since Mr. Knox's statement obviously referred to a putative concentration of troopships for an immediate invasion, the Army spokesman's comment was the week's sourest note...
Private John O. Scheuermann has been assigned to the enlisted detachment of the unit to succeed Master Sergeant T. Collins, who has been assigned to duty at Fort Knox, Ky. Private Scheuermann was transferred from First Service Command headquarters...