Arms truck explodes; 5 die, 100 hurt
Detonation heard over 50-mile radius in North Carolina
Hotel is wrecked
Delayed blast occurs after collision with auto at crossroads
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Arms truck explodes; 5 die, 100 hurt
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American aviatrix signs up women as bomber ferry pilots
New York, March 7 (UP) –
Jacquelin Cochran, American aviatrix, has completed a “very successful” recruiting tour of 12 states to select women pilots to ferry warplanes for English factories to airfields in the British Isles, it was learned today.
A source close to the speed flier said that results of her trip had more than filled expectations.
Miss Cochran, holder of the women’s coast-to-coast airplane speed record and the first woman to ferry a bomber across the Atlantic to Great Britain, is expected to lead the first group of $4,000-a-year United States women pilots, …
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Island base is advocated by Reynolds
Aleutian Isles urges as ‘jumped off place’ for assault on Japs
Speed demanded
American bombing of Nippon is sought by Senator George
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Ban on radio manufacture issued in U.S.
Washington (AP) –
The War Production Board today ordered manufacture of radios and phonographs for civilian use discontinued after April 22.
It also announced that, except for production of replacement parts, the entire facilities of the industry would be coinvented to war production.
Radio manufacturers will be permitted to complete sets on which assembly work was begun on or before April 22 within the limits of production quotes under which the industry is now operating.
Affects 55 firms
The order affects 55 companies which, last year, employed some 30,000 persons and produced more than 13,000,000 sets – a dollar volume of business approximately $240,000,000.
Military orders already placed with manufacturers for war radio equipment amount to more than $1,000,000,000, of which half is held by the 55 companies affected by the WPB stop-production order. The balance of the contracts is held by companies not normally engaged in the manufacture of home radio sets.
New ‘parachute with pants’ praised by test 'chutist
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Woollcott ill
Syracuse, New York (UP) –
Alexander Woollcott, author-lecturer, is under hospital observation today after a 285-mile ambulance trip from his summer home at Lake Bomoseen, Vermont. Dr. Frode Jensen said Woollcott is being treated for a heart condition.
The Pittsburgh Press (March 7, 1942)
Allied vessel sunk; 2 others believed lost
Two torpedoed tankers reach Canadian port despite damage
By the United Press
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Co-pilot reveals hoe Kelly sank battleship and died
Plane becomes Holocaust from fire of Jap fighters after U.S. fliers score with their only 3 bombs
By Lt. Donald Robins
Capt. Colin P. Kelly Jr. was America’s first hero of the present war. How he achieved fame and died are described in the following dispatch by Captain’s Kelly’s co-pilot on his last flight.
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War casualty reported
Oil City, Pennsylvania –
Harold L. Reed, 22, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Reed, of Rouseville, was Venango County’s second known casualty of the present war. He was killed in action in the Philippines Jan. 31, the War Department has informed his parents.
Leahy target of new Axis propaganda
Broadcasts say Admiral’s no longer welcome in Vichy
By the United Press
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Sabotage seen in factory fire
Magnesium plant’s office buildings burn
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’Unpopular as skunk in church’ –
Oklahoman fights alone in crusade against spending
Leaders of ‘Pullman-car’ appropriations for ‘traveling farm bureaucrats’ begin to squirm as Monroney wins commendation for opposition to waste
By Thomas L. Stokes, Scripps-Howard staff writer
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The Gallup poll –
Isolationists change views
East Central area backs total mobilization
By George Gallup, Director, American Institute of Public Opinion
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OCD arranges to distribute raid supplies
Regional blackout practices are ordered by Army
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U.S. convicts six Nazis in war’s first spy trial
20-year sentences may go to five men and woman guilty of transmitting information
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68 Japs taken in coast raids
FBI strikes at secret military society members
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Alaskan highway route denounced
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Mrs. McLean asks criminal libel action
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Central rabbis conference supports U.S. war effort
Group challenges attitude that economic, spiritual collapse will follow conflict
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Chief Army chaplain sees religion gaining
Men in camps of nation have ‘extremely curious’ interest in church questions
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