’Boondoggle’ wins approval
Congressmen won’t halt $600,000 project
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Beaverbrook to visit U.S.
May serve to coordinate supply problems
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U.S. preparing for offensive
Patterson issues plea for enough weapons
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Labor won’t submit to ban on strikes, Green declares
Right to walk out called ‘one of great freedoms’ which AFL is 'fighting to protect’
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Navy reveals new sinkings by Axis subs
’Fatality list’ of tankers and freighters nears total of 80
By the United Press
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Stimson finds Panama ready to repel Japs
Secretary of War departs after inspection of Canal defenses
By Nat A. Barrows
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On the home front –
War emergency clear up birth, citizenship messes
Many persons learn they are using wrong names, or that they are older or younger than they thought; some ‘citizens’ discover they’re aliens
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U.S. launches evacuation of Americans still in India
Efforts continue to help citizens fleeing from Japs in Malaya, Netherlands East Indies
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Burma front is 'stabilized’
British report line held north of Rangoon
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The Pittsburgh Press (March 14, 1942)
Still only 40 hours –
GM workers win fight for double time
Umpire rules that contract calls for extra Sunday, holiday wages
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Roosevelt asks 40-mile speed to save rubber
Governors also requested to issue orders for checking tires
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Enemy broadcast –
Liner hit near Rio, Rome says
Report claims torpedoing of Queen Mary
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Bowler a promoter, too –
Byrd sees commercialism rearing ugly head in OCD
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AEF convoyed to Australia without loss
Attacks by Japs driven off by protecting U.S. warships
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On the home front –
Draft registrant learns ‘mother’ is grandmother
Discovers name he goes by isn’t real name; Selective Service headquarters advised him to re-register at his local board
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5 more ships are attacked near America
2 Norwegian craft sunk; vessels damaged in West Indies port
By the United Press
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Waste charge false, director of CCC says
Findings of newspaper disproved, he asserts
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Viereck given maximum term of 2 to 6 years
German agent says he’s devoted to U.S.
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Axis floats false rumor of Jap-Australian truce
By the United Press
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Japs believed ready to 'take time out’
By Mack Johnson, United Press staff writer
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