On the home front –
Recruiting stations offer enlistment query answers
They want interested men to drop in for personal talks, without obligation to sign up; service offices are in Old Post Office Bldg.
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Background of news –
Allies become enemies
By editorial research reports
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Experts urge tax plan cuts
$2-billion slash in Morgenthau setup proposed
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Destroyer is launched at San Francisco yards
San Francisco, California (UP) –
The USS Gillespie, a destroyer named after the military commander of Los Angeles during the Mexican War, was launched yesterday at the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Yards.
Mrs. Hugo Osterhaus, wife of RAdm. Osterhaus, commander of the Patrol Force of the 12th Naval District, sponsored the vessel. The destroyer was named for Maj. Archibald Gillespie, USMC.
Mother’s Day wires from AEF jam U.S. cables
Some units abroad send recordings home to families
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WLB demands walkout halt
Asks Williamsport union to allow mediation
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Secret of Corregidor’s stout defense: 15 miles of well-equipped tunnels
By Frank Hewlett, United Press staff writer
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Weekly banned from U.S. mail
Biddle asserts publication is seditious
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Outwitting Axis –
America sends group to seek African metal
Mission to study ways to get raw materials via Indian Ocean
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Wake Island’s realistic
Actors portraying Marines living their roles
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The Pittsburgh Press (May 10, 1942)
Great Coral Sea battle resumed, London hears
By Brydon C. Taves, United Press staff writer
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No carrier, battleship sunk by foe
178 Jap ships sent to bottom or damaged to date by Navy
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Quota on coast 3 gallons
Two-thirds of drivers will get the minimum
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U.S. demands given French in Martinique
Guarantees sought that Vichy colonies won’t menace America
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Even fire fails to knock U.S. cruiser out of battle
Pittsburgh officer returns from Marblehead to tell of extreme heroism of crew
By Edward J. Lally
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