America at war! (1941– ) (Part 1)

Graham McNamee, radio announcing pioneer, dies at 53

Two-week illness fatal in New York hospital

Price ceiling plan starts at midnight

Manufacturers, wholesalers first, retailers next week
By L. W. Shellenberger, United Press staff writer

Nighties, slips to lose frills under WPB rule

They’ll also lose all 'excess yardage’

Man, believed safe as Jap prisoner, killed on Guam

Union leaders get reprimand

WLB head hits strike at Williamsport plant

Roosevelt asks Americans to honor Allies on Flag Day

Proclamation urges display of banners of 'the massed, angered forces of common humanity’

Three enlisted men win soldier’s medals

Here’s ‘blow-by-blow’ account of Pacific War

U.S. loses 37 naval craft against 243 enemy warships blasted
By the United Press

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.

Army cutting red tape in recruiting of doctors

Mother’s Day, 1942

The biggest battle

Chinese Army on outskirts of Mandalay

British escape threat of trap; Japs ambushed pushing into China

Another Pearl Harbor?
Japs may shift offensive to Siberia within 30 days

By William Philip Simms, Scripps-Howard foreign editor

10 are reported missing in sinking off Venezuela

President of Peru places wreath at soldier tomb

USO gift of $250,000 made by Rockefeller

Capital wives score housing in Washington

Urge dormitories be built for girls employed by government

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

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