Work replaces May Day riots
Left-wingers cancel fetes to make more guns
By the United Press
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Pay increase in rents, OPA tells tenants
Government cannot enforce no-boost rule for 60-day period
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One million people flood Times Square to witness blackout
Phenomenon stirs crowd to New Year’s Eve enthusiasm; La Guardia afraid of catastrophe, but pleased with lights-out effectiveness
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Commissioning of civilians in Army attacked
House to debate proposal barring inexperienced men as officers
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Lily’s so afraid Army won’t like her singing
Operatic star, here for artists series final tonight, to give soldiers her best-loved songs
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Philadelphia’s German paper denied mails
Biddle charges publication with systematic attack on U.S. activities
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Unshackle world trade or perish, Sayre tells Chamber of Commerce
Convention adopts resolution favoring wage control to match price ceilings
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Hitler, Mussolini confer, ‘agree’ on summer strategy
Dictators meet at Salzburg, Austria, for military and political discussions; Jap envoy absent; London thinks parley debates Axis plight
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Joe Louis’ Army rifle coach commits suicide
Patchogue, New York (UP) –
Cpl. Robert A. Sherman, 32, of Camp Upton, who has been giving rifle instruction to Pvt. Joe Louis, the world heavyweight boxing champion, committed suicide Wednesday night by hanging, a coroner ruled after an inquest.
Sherman was found hanging from a belt in a clothes closet at his home. He had been in the Army for 13 years.