Graham McNamee, radio announcing pioneer, dies at 53
Two-week illness fatal in New York hospital
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Price ceiling plan starts at midnight
Manufacturers, wholesalers first, retailers next week
By L. W. Shellenberger, United Press staff writer
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Nighties, slips to lose frills under WPB rule
They’ll also lose all 'excess yardage’
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Union leaders get reprimand
WLB head hits strike at Williamsport plant
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Roosevelt asks Americans to honor Allies on Flag Day
Proclamation urges display of banners of 'the massed, angered forces of common humanity’
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Here’s ‘blow-by-blow’ account of Pacific War
U.S. loses 37 naval craft against 243 enemy warships blasted
By the United Press
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Jap envoy sees Pope
Berlin, Germany – (May 9, German broadcast heard in New York)
Ken Harada, first Japanese representative at the Vatican, today presented his credentials and was received by Pope Pius XII, a dispatch from Rome reported. Later, the Pope and the ambassador conversed privately for 15 minutes.
Chinese Army on outskirts of Mandalay
British escape threat of trap; Japs ambushed pushing into China
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Another Pearl Harbor?
Japs may shift offensive to Siberia within 30 days
By William Philip Simms, Scripps-Howard foreign editor
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Capital wives score housing in Washington
Urge dormitories be built for girls employed by government
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On the home front –
Experienced coal miners eligible for deferments
Men in 62 ‘critical’ occupations, who can’t be replaced with resulting loss of effectiveness to firm, will be put in 2-A, Hershey asserts
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Easy-going Nimitz carries big grudge against Japanese
Commander of U.S. Pacific Fleet is ‘cheerful man of confident tomorrows;’ son is in thick of things with him in Pacific Southwest
By Tom Wolf, special to the Pittsburgh Press
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