Newspaper Articles Featuring Myrtle Bergheim

TIMES-HERALD WASHINGTON, D.C. URSDAY. OCTOBER 8, 1942 p t1 in S PEARL HARBOR T.H. Shept 74242 W PEARL HARBOR BRANCH to it BANK OF HAWAII n p To TOTHE ORDER & Franklin Roosevett $70,000° a PRESIDEN THE in b 100 IRTIFIED Seventy thousand and DOLLARS N 1042 LABOR DAY FUND 70000 y Jony Tabor 1 ( I : : Acme Photo $70,000 on a Flap 1 A Jap plane shot down over Pearl Harbor was one of the : reasons why above check, held by Miss Myrtle Bergheim, White House secretary. was sent to President Roosevelt. I This sum represented Pearl Harbor Navy Yard workers' ( Labor Day pay. The check, written on the Jap plane's 1 lt wing flap, was turned over to the Treasury. J N Pearl Harbor a V fa Gives $70,000 m a a t) Navy Workers Send d Check to President a a President Roosevelt y e S terday S r received from Pearl Harbor Navy C Yard workers a tangible sample of if American war spirit-a check for 1 $70,000 written on the wood and I metal wing flap of a Jap warplane T shot down over Pearl Harbor. f The check represented the Labor S Day wages of the workers who g contributed the money "to assure S continuance of the American way of life." C The check, two feet long and a I foot wide, was turned over to the e I Treasury as Mr. Roosevelt notified I the workers he would carry out a their one request-that a Pearl & Harbor name plate be placed on 1 one of the Navy's speedy motor torpedo boats. PRESERVATION COPY