America at war! (1941– ) (Part 1)

Wickard due to head food control board

Sign of the times: Times’ sign darkened

Large U.S. convoy lands troops in Northern Ireland

By C. R. Cunningham, United Press staff writer

Few British troops left in Iceland

By Helen Kirkpatrick

’Gestapo’ gasoline checkup deplored

Aversion to quinine broken by 17th-century quack

By David Dietz, Scripps-Howard science editor

Ship dodges 3 torpedoes, blasts sub

Freighter’s gun replies to U-boat attack

Troops avert Pontiac strike

Union calls use of soldiers 'interference’

On the chin

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

Serbian atrocities charged to Hungary

Jailed in libel case

Los Angeles, California –
David H. Rathbone, 67-year-old printer, was convicted yesterday of criminally libeling President Roosevelt in pamphlets he published. Judge Ida May Adams sentenced him to 180 days in the county jail and fined him $1,000.

As ‘petticoat brigade’ forms –
Only five district women may receive commissions

U.S. War Department (May 20, 1942)

General MacArthur’s Headquarters No. 33

Operations were limited to reconnaissance.

The Pittsburgh Press (May 20, 1942)

Shangri-La fools Nazis –
More Tokyo raids hinted as Doolittle adds details

Everybody’ll be in the same boat –
Nationwide gas rationing due, possibly by July 1

Peruvian heads for home

Committee votes income tax boost of 2%

Decision is due today on surtax rates; proposed figure viewed as rejection of Roosevelt plan for $25,000 limit on earnings

Senator Walsh is exonerated

Justice Department calls link to spies baseless

Wage control method sought by WLB chief

Davis considers setting up ‘yardstick’ standard for outside cases

One lives to tell about 46-day lifeboat ordeal

Seaman dies, another goes insane and leaps overboard, third drifts on to be rescued