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...Lieut-Comdr. William B. Dortoh, USNR, for dePauw University, III., where he will be commanding officer of the V-12 Unit, while Ensign Frank W. Patrick, USNR, formerly chief Specialist in charge of Navy Scl physical training, will direct the V-12 athletics at the University of Minnesota. Chief Signalman Kurt R. Groote...
...Part of Congress. Taken to the Capitol police room, the questioning sailor identified himself as Signalman, Second Class, Evan Owen Jones of Los Angeles. Slim, blue-eyed, 21, Signalman Jones had in 1939 been valedictorian of his class at Los Angeles' Fremont High School, had entitled his address "A Young Man Asks Questions." Before House Sergeant-At-Arms Kenneth Romney and Capitol Physician Dr. George W. Calver, who quickly exonerated him of all charges of drunkenness or neurosis, he said: "Those people in there are fighting the Civil War all over again. They've got to work together...
...Signalman Jones had made the best speech in favor of the bill. It finally passed, 265-to-110. But the bill's chances of becoming law are poor. It may never be reported out of the Senate's Judiciary Committee. And the same Senate poll-taxers still stand ready to talk it to death as they did last year. The stellar role will probably fall to Mississippi's bantam, big-eared, bombast-loving Theodore ("The Man") Bilbo. Last week he promised to filibuster the bill for 18 months...
...fact the tracing or tracking down was not in the least, as Sherlock Holmes would put it, "elementary" ... is was very, very systematic ... painstaking and "painsgiving," too--what maneuvering, man, oh man! The Target Ship must have been doing a Conga ... and still caught one amidships ... Note to signalman strikers ... for lessons in signaling (semaphore to you) with your feet, see Mr. Grant ... I wonder, did he ever work for Ford...
...Navy announcement that more than 850 lives were lost in the sinking of two North Atlantic passenger-cargo ships had driven home the U-boat peril to the U.S. (TIME, March 1). The horror came home with Signalman Robert Weikart, whose ship was the first to reach the spot where one of the torpedoed vessels went down. Said Weikart...