Java Defenses Impress After Singapore Wake
Weekly News Analysis notes that after the fall of Singapore, many rescue women arrive in Java worried for men left behind. Dutch forces plus lingering American aid bolster Batavia defenses, with Bali and Sumatra battles testing plans. Roosevelt and Congress confront pension repeal amid OCD criticisms.
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Java
Singapore
Batavia
Bali
United Nations
Churchill
Far East
Australia
Sumatra
Miscellany items on wartime production and policy
WPB warns textile mills not supplying armed services risk losing machinery by mid 1942. A Cleveland labor dispute hampers an airborne parts maker. Wool shortages loom as military orders rise, prompting civilian fabric cuts. CPA to set rent ceilings in defense areas. Buenos Aires cuts ties with Italy in Western Hemisphere move.
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Washington
WPB
Cleveland
Baltimore
CPA
Buenos Aires
Argentina
Italy
Guerrillas in Russia and labor unrest across the home front
Reportage outlines Red Army guerrilla bands subverting German lines and civilians suffering from Nazi brutality, while domestic labor tensions surface with debates on a wartime 40-hour week, strikes in St. Louis and San Pedro, and Australians digging in to defend Java amid rising war duties.
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East Front
Germany
Congress
Representative Cox
Georgia
Sidney Hillman
War Production Board
St. Louis
Power Company
San Pedro
Bethlehem Steel Company
Navy
West Coast
Washington
Two Apron Patterns Inspire A Sewing Bee Initiative
Readers are invited to start a sewing bee inspired by two attractive apron patterns No. 1538-B offering complete instructions for both pinafore styles. The ad touts easy wear, waist slimming belt, and practical daylong comfort suitable for home attire. A separate tip notes cooking uses for fat drippings and salt meat boiling times.
Quiz Memo From ASK ME ANOTHER TARO MEMO
A fragmented public quiz item lists questions about U S mint coins Fleet Street London's fame blue eye color in Americans wine bouquet attractions at the 1893 World's Fair and who knighted Francis Drake for sailing around the world The item references general knowledge trivia with several numbered prompts.
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Taro
United States
Fleet Street
London
Francis Drake
Answers to seven questions from the quiz list
The set includes three cities Philadelphia Denver and San Francisco and notes the newspaper offices as a location. It cites eye color statistics with blue eyes paired with gray hazel brown and others and mentions aroma as a factor. The Ferris wheel and Queen Elizabeth are named along with linen as an item.
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Philadelphia
Denver
San Francisco
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National Capital
Douglas-Chaney
House
Representative Reed
New York
Ber Reed
OCD
Byrd
Virginia
Jobe
OCC
Army
Mra. Roosevelt
Sena
Bataan
MacArthur
Roosevelt
Atlantic
Newfoundland
Truxton
Pollux
Burma
All India Command
Rangoon
India
Bilin
Sittang River
Ralph Hickox Shipper
USS
Truxtan
U. S. Aeronautical Corporation
Carlos Martins
U. S
Col
Antonia G. Muniz
Russia
Ricrac
Sewing Circle Pattern Dept
West Wacker Dare
Chicago
Marines
Coast Guard
Rae
Uel
California
Sunkist
Fleischmann
Booz
Flo
CROWS
Iowa
Srow
Milford, Ill
U.S
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