Other News in the Sunday Herald Tribune

Much of the news in the Sunday Herald Tribune is covered on the pages of other Sunday newspapers. Some additional items of note:

A dispatch from the newspaper's Paris bureau reported that the US government was paying restitution to French civilians for damages caused by military personnel stationed in the country. For the most part this was for looting, pilfering or major traffic accidents. Among the most frequent cause for complaint was the habit of American soldiers to make a game out of snatching hats off the heads of Frenchmen on bicycles as they passed them on the road in military vehicles. The French were not amused.

An AP dispatch took note in the surge of women candidates for public office.

On the first day it was opened to the public, Franklin Delano Roosevelt's home at Hyde Park drew 712 visitors.

A group of Republican senators had withdrawn from the Pearl Harbor inquiry in protest over the committee's decision not to look into charges that FDR's administration had ignored a proposed pact with Japan that might have prevented the attack.

A British war bride arrived from Liverpool to Iowa to discover that her husband had married a local woman and was in jail for bigamy. She forgave him and the court suspended his sentence so that the couple could resume married life on a farm in Wisconsin. Meanwhile the second wife was sentenced to three years, which seems unfair since she wasn't the one with multiple spouses.

The paper also carried a bridge column. "The Bridge Deck," by Florence Osborne.