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After Admiral King was called to Washington last December, but before he publicly took command, the Pacific Fleet got its fundamental orders: "Hold the Hawaiian Islands area on the Midway line at all costs," and "Hold the communications line to the southwest Pacific on the Samoa-Fiji line and extend it to New Caledonia" (see map, p. 32). Said Admiral King last week...
...endless days they spotted a raft: on it was the bomber's pilot, Captain William T. Cherry Jr. The Navy searched even harder. Next day the good news came: Rickenbacker and two of his crew were found floating in the vast Pacific some 600 miles north of Samoa. Three other crew members were on a tiny island. One, Sergeant Alexander Kaczmarczyk of Torrington, Conn., had died and been buried...
...Margaret Mead, speaking on "The Functioning of American Character in Total War," will highlight the third Forum lecture tomorrow night in New Lecture Hall at 8 o'clock. Dr. Mead, who has made numerous trips to Samoa, New Guinea, and Bali, is an authority on the relationship between character structure and social forms and is now relating her studies on compact, stable societies to American society...
...more concern to Winchell than Cissie Patterson's prayers were similar remarks made in Congress. House Naval Affairs Committeeman Melvin Maas declared that "Winchell should be assigned to duty at Samoa or permitted to resign." Naval Affairs Committee Chairman Carl Vinson asserted: "I can tell you right now that I have advised the Navy Department either to call him [Winchell] into active service or to disenroll...
Aboard the liner President Coolidge Luther Ch'en was astounded to hear over the radio that the same liner had been sent to the bottom in mid-Pacific. The time was last December 7, the place was somewhere near Samoa, land the least concerned were the five-hundred passengers who were anxious to disprove the first of the false Japanese naval claims, Ch'en stated yesterday...