Draft youths, spare fathers plea of Taft
Senator criticizes lack of uniform rules for draft boards
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Rural school revival seen by educators
Rubber shortage to decentralize education; lack of teachers faced
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He swings a mean hoe –
Farm expert Wallace finds Jap (in beetle form) lurking in garden
Vice President also learns a few new tricks of the soil
By Peter Edson, special to the Pittsburgh Press
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OPA Consumer Division being reorganized again
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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5 new sinkings advance toll of subs to 378
Florida port lights are blamed in torpedoing of British ship
By the United Press
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U.S. Army soldier finds he has too many girls
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.
Women’s Army needs enthusiastic leaders
New commandant of Iowa Training Center emphasizes basic requirements for WAAC soldiers; beauty parlors will be used
By Eleanor Ragsdale
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World’s most evil plague
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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