House group scores OPA regulations
Small business firms facing extinction unless bureau relents
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Some students deferred from active service
Medical, technical pupils will be drafted after next semester
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Women pilots elect Jacqueline Cochran
New York –
Jacqueline Cochran, noted aviatrix and cosmetiste, has been reelected president of the Ninety-Nines, international organization of women pilots. This is the second consecutive time Miss Cochran has held the office since the inception of the club in 1929 with Amelia Earhart as first president.
Known as America’s No. 1 woman flier, “Jackie” has a long list of peacetime flying records behind her. In June 1941, she flew a bombing plane across the North Atlantic, the first woman to perform such a feat.
With America at war, she took a group of American women pilots to England in March 1941 for service with the British Air Transport Auxiliary in which she held the rank of flight captain. The girl pilots’ jobs were the ferrying of new planes from factories to flying bases in the British Isles.
200 women hired as postal carriers
Kansas City, Missouri (UP) –
Postmaster Alexander W. Graham said today that postal operations were “normal” on the first day of work for 200 women mail carriers.
He added:
And I do mean normal. One of the women even got nipped by a dog.
Woman told of son’s death as she reads his letter
New York –
Mrs. Margaret Cameron put together and mailed a big gift package for her son Raymond, 21, serving abroad with the Armed Forces.
Yesterday, she received a letter from him asking her to send Christmas cards to his friends in the Army and adding:
Thank you, mom, for the pipe you sent me.
While she was reading the letter, a telegram arrived from Washington announcing that her son had been killed in action.
Churchill reported on his way to U.S.
Stockholm, Sweden (UP) –
A Lisbon dispatch of the newspaper Allehanda said today that Prime Minister Winston Churchill had left for Washington to confer with President Roosevelt on French colonies.
U.S. Armed Forces to spend holiday on all continents
Antarctica is only possible exception; 2.5 million packages have been mailed; pound of turkey planned for each soldier
By the United Press
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