America at war! (1941– ) (Part 1)

Dealers doubt coffee supply can be boosted

Decrease in shipments from South America is main factor
By the United Press

Tax increase due to boost whisky prices

Nation’s supply expected to last at least 3½ years

Get ready!

Army cooks given menus for Thanksgiving and Christmas

Navy PC boat lays a deadly egg in fight on submarines

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Broadcasters rap Petrillo’s ban on records

Action of musicians’ boss described as ‘more than intolerable’

U.S. fliers bomb Japs at 30 feet in Burma

New Delhi, India (UP) – (Oct. 3)
American medium bombers, swooping down to within 30 feet of the Jap air base at Tingka, near the China-Burma border, destroyed one building with a direct hit and scored near misses on other installations, Brig. Gen. Clayton L. Bissel, commanding United States Army Air Forces in India, Burma and China, announced today.

The attack was made Sept. 27, by planes based in India. Natives and soldiers were working on runways, and a shower of high explosive and fragmentation bombs sent them flying.

On the way home, the bombers dropped to 100 feet and blasted tractors parked along railroad tracks at Katha, in northeast Burma, 135 miles from the Indian frontier. Another bomber attacked Jap barracks at Myitkyina, also in northwest Burma.

Fighters and bombers machine-gunned and dropped fragmentation and firebombs on Washawng and two adjoining villages in the Myitkyina area Sept. 28. The villages were left in flames. All the American planes returned.

Fourth Red Feather Night will be dedicated to China

Americans imprisoned by Japs in Hong Kong will speak

Male stars leaving so girls take over major screen roles

Film writers turning out scripts suitable for women as men join fighting ranks
By Hedda Hopper

Censors are lenient if naughty action in a film yarn takes place in a dream

By Erskine Johnson

Maidens in uniform a good idea but it fails to pan out in play

Inexpert farce, Vickie is yarn about females in wartime groups
By Jack Gaver, United Press drama editor

‘Aussies’ get phony ideas about us through movies

They think this is a nation of glamor girls and swaggering cowboys

He’ll supply second front

Meet ‘SOS’ Lee – he greets our troops in Great Britain
By C. Patrick Thompson, special to the Pittsburgh Press

Congressman sees short life for Victory tax

Editorial: Whodunit? Three other guys

Nazis in Egypt stab at Japs

Pamphlets urge Aussies to go defend home
By George Weller

Huge mountain of scrap rises over all U.S.

Thousands of mementoes from past wars help to win this one

Fighting family’s tradition to be continued in WAVES

Kin of Dorothy M. Armor fought in every U.S. war

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Army task unit braves storm to occupy remote mountainous island in Aleutians

Troops land by surprise, and without opposition; base set up fast
By Russell Annabel, United Press staff writer

‘Hit foe now,’ Willkie urges

Gen. Chiang also talks at Chungking dinner
By George Wang, United Press staff writer

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Caribbean convoy finds floating bodies of Nazis

Resting in harbor, Navy officers tell of beating off U-boats sniping at merchant ships
By Nat A. Barrows