WPB order freezes used nylon hosiery
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Suffrage leader dies
Montclair, New Jersey –
Mrs. Janet Patten Macy, 94, leader in the women’s suffrage movement, died last night at her home here.
Diaries banned by Navy
New York –
The Navy has forbidden its sailors and officers to keep diaries, the Army and Navy Journal revealed today. Furthermore, present diaries of Navy men must be destroyed immediately, lest they fall into the hands of the enemy.
WLB names counsel
Washington –
The War Labor Board today named Lloyd K. Garrison, dean of the University of Wisconsin Law School, as its general counsel. He has been an associate public member of the board.
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Aussies, Japs skirmish in New Guinea mountains
Allied troops resume advance after making contact with enemy; stand expected in gap
By Don Caswell, United Press staff writer
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Aircraft companies will share resources
Baltimore, Maryland (UP) –
Eight Eastern aircraft companies today promised to share labor, ideas, machines and materials to gain the greatest possible war production.
Representatives of the companies, organized as the Aircraft War Production Council, East Coast, Inc., met here and appointed committees to survey facilities of each industry to discover possible surpluses.
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Crew of bomber awarded air medals in Alaska
HQ, Alaska Defense Command (UP) –
Air medals were awarded yesterday by Maj. Gen. Simon B. Buckner Jr., Commander of the Alaska Defense Command, to eight members of an American bomber crew shot down by Japanese anti-aircraft fire in an attack on naval concentrations at Kiska Harbor.
Those receiving the award included:
- Lt. Henry F. Hubbard of Montgomery, Alabama
- Cpl. Harold Denson of Palestine, Texas
- Pvt. Stanley A. Douglas of Scarsdale, New York
- Pvt. Charles Jimick of Lilly, Pennsylvania.
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Desk officers in Washington arouse Collins
Too many men in twenties, kept off fighting duty, Congressman says
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Facts support Welles’ slap at Chile and Argentina
By William Philip Simms, Scripps-Howard foreign editor
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Petrillo fight to be carried to Supreme Court
Broadcasters predict eventual victory in ‘canned music’ row
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