Ione, Cal. –
Despite sugar rationing, many boys in the correctional Preston School of Industry here are buying defense stamps instead of sweets, according to Superintendent O. H. Close. He also notes there have been fewer escapes from the school since Pearl Harbor.
Senator criticizes lack of uniform rules for draft boards
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Rubber shortage to decentralize education; lack of teachers faced
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Vice President also learns a few new tricks of the soil
By Peter Edson, special to the Pittsburgh Press
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Agency gets new cast of characters, but cost to taxpayers remains the same
By Daniel M. Kidney, Scripps-Howard staff writer
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Florida port lights are blamed in torpedoing of British ship
By the United Press
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San Jose, Cal. –
A soldier in the United States Army has called on the police for protection from girls who call him so much on the telephone that he is unable to do his work efficiently. The police, unable to locate the girls, although they found the pay station from where they telephone, issued a public appeal asking them, for patriotic reasons, to leave the soldier alone.
New commandant of Iowa Training Center emphasizes basic requirements for WAAC soldiers; beauty parlors will be used
By Eleanor Ragsdale
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Malaria expected to attack Japanese troops in invaded Far Eastern war areas – mosquito works like ‘fifth columnist’
By Jane Stafford, Science Service medical writer
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