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Then the enemy came by sea. Rabaul sighted three carriers, five transports near its harbor, saw planes overhead. Aussie militiamen radioed that they would blow up the town's wharf and power station and retreat fighting. Then no more was heard from Rabaul by radio. The Jap landed in the Solomons, in New Ireland, at a few tentative points in ill-defended New Guinea...
...gave the U.S. permission to keep seaplanes and ships in Mexican harbors indefinitely. U.S. warplanes are now allowed to fly over Mexican territory, land for 24 hours on Mexican airfields. At Acapulco, on the Pacific Coast almost due south of Mexico City, the Mexicans are building a big concrete wharf which will be used by U.S. warships. But the busiest defense spot in Mexico this week was Baja California, the long, skinny peninsula which juts southward from California...
...Hawaiian Islands the Japanese fifth column worked so industriously that its most flagrant espionage was table talk among Army and Navy people. From a wharf a few miles from the Navy Yard, Jap fishermen in motorboats put out to follow the fleet in battle practice. By night they often turned up inside the deadline around Pearl Harbor's mouth, hissed apologies and withdrew when they were hailed by the patrol destroyer...
Second-generation Italians made a clean sweep of U.S. baseball honors in the season just past. Joe DiMaggio, native of San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf, was voted the American League's Most Valuable Player. Dolph Camilli, another San Franciscan, was voted Most Valuable in the National League. Phil Rizzuto, New York Yankee shortstop, was the outstanding rookie of the year...
...wharf on the Persian Gulf is no check to Adolf Hitler. Persia's slim facilities for transportation must be improved. Rolling stock has to be brought in (mostly from India, which has a different gauge but can produce the proper gauge). Ports like Bandar Shahpur on the Persian Gulf and Bandar Shah on the Caspian have to be modernized. Weak links in the railroads connecting the Persian Gulf with Russia must be remedied. To these ends a U.S. mission under Brigadier General Russell L. Maxwell, former Administrator of Export Control, prepared last week to leave for the Middle East...