WPB Restrictions Tighten Women’s War Era Apparel
The War Production Board limited dress length and style to curb wartime materials use. Rules ban frills like French cuffs and balloon sleeves, bar patch pockets, and prohibit more than two-piece ensembles per price. Cotton and other fabrics restricted from June, wool after August 17, while infants and religious garments are exempt.
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Washington
War Production Board
Miladi
WPB
National Retail Dry Goods Association
Standley Sees Soviet Chiefs In Few Days
Rear Admiral William Standley arrives in Kuibyshev as the new American Ambassador to the Soviet Union. He will meet Foreign Commissar Molotov and President Kalinin in Moscow, aiming to advance Soviet American cooperation in the war against Germany and clarify pledged aid.
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A. Tb. Speele
Chicago Daily News, Inc
Kuibyshev
Soviet Union
William H. Standley
Moscow
Viacheslav M. Molotov
Mikhail T. Kalinin
Foreign Office
Walter Thurston
Admiral Standley
Teheran
Baku
Stalingrad
Washington
Natal
Brazil
Africa
Cairo
Fettle
Germany
America
United States
Russia
W. Averell Hartiman
Anthony Eden
Standley
American ambassador Clark Kerr arrives in Kuibyshev amid high level talks
Sir Archibald Clark Kerr lands at Kuibyshev airfield after a Moscow meeting with Premier Stalin. He carries a dog-eared Russian grammar book and is welcomed by Chinese Ambassador Shao Li Tze and other foreign office delegates. The American community in Russia is small, numbering under 40.
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Syracuse Herald-Journal
NTF
Siberia
Standley
Kuibyshev
Archibald Clark- Kerr
Moscow
Josef V. Stalin
Clark Kerr
Aho, Ouaz AG EE PU Ly Ek Bee i
Shao Li-Tze
Foreign Office
Fomin
Zarubon
Russia
Standley pledges US aid fulfillment to Russia this month
Khuibyshev April 8 UP Ambassador Admiral William H Standley said the flow of American supplies would meet US commitments to Russia by the end of April. He called Russia the vital front and urged joint resolve to push supplies to the Soviet Armies despite Pacific-war delays.
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Khuibyshev
William H. Standley
Russia
Standley
America
Pulpwood Drive Goes Down Moose River to Lyons Falls
A potential 2,000,000 worth of newsprint pulpwood crashes through ice on Moose River Old Forge and begins a 50 mile upstream journey toward Lyons Falls. Sixty river men guide 20,000 cords of spruce pulp through rapids bends and mid stream boulders during the annual spring drive.
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Tce
Moose River
Old Forge
Lyons Falls
Smith College Quarantines 2200 Students Over Contagious Diseases
Smith College in Northampton Massachusetts quarantines 2200 students indefinitely after four contagious illnesses surge in the city. Acting Dean Mary B McElwain announces the measure at chapel saying campus confinement and cancellations including the April 18 junior prom may occur.
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Smith College
Northampton
Mass
Chapel
Mary B. McElwain
Smith
Native Australians Help Survive Flier on Bremer Island
A U S flier on Bremer Island survives exposure after natives pin him with spears and share food and care. He reaches Millingimbi under medical aid, then returns to action against the Japs. A Darwin air battle shows seven American planes and pilots defeating bombers and Zeros despite fuel limits.
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Sanford
Jesus
Bremer Island
Shim
Aittle
Millingimbi
Australia
Darwin
United States
Trurdgwatr
Saturdows
Burma Lull Reported on Irrawaddy
New Delhi India April 8 British said no change on the Irrawaddy front in Burma where Japanese forces have advanced beyond Prome toward oil fields. A North Burma town was bombed yesterday with no known damage or casualties. In India, five killed and forty injured at Vizagapatam and one killed five injured at Cocanada in Japanese air raids Monday.
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New Delhi
India
British Today
Irrawaddy
Burma
Prome
Yesteriday
Vizagapatam
Cocanada
Sanford Attended School in Auburn
Clarence E. Sanford, 24, son of Charles and Mrs. Sanford of Flem ing R D 1 near Auburn, is remembered in Auburn. A 1936 Union Springs graduate who attended Auburn High, Alabama University, he enlisted in the Air Corps in Syracuse about 1939 and trained in Alabama. The last family contact was seven weeks ago. he was reportedly in Australia after departing San Francisco in January.
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Auburn
Clarence — E. Sanford
Charles Sanford
Fleming, R. D. 1
Bowen Products Manufacturing Company
Clarence
Auburn High School
Union Springs High School
University of Alabama
Air Corps
Syracuse
Gunther
Craig Fields
Alabama
Australia
San Francisco
Japanese Raid Claims Heavy Damage at Akyab Harbor
Japanese broadcasts report air attacks on Akyab in Burma. Naval planes struck air facilities and hangars, sank a 2000 ton minelayer in the harbor, and destroyed four British planes on the ground. Dispatches say Monday raid caused widespread runway and hangar damage.
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Tokyo
Akyab
Akyahb
Ruth Turney to wed Sergt. Clifton Van Dusen
Groton announces the engagement of Ruth Turney, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leon Turney, to Sergt. Clifton Van Dusen, son of Mrs. Bertha Van Dusen of Skaneateles. Van Dusen is in the service and stationed in California.
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Groton
Leon Turney
Ruth Turney
Sergt
Clifton van Dusen
Bertha van Dusen
Skaneateles
Sergeant van Dusen
Snow
California
Two Japanese Merchantmen Sunk by U S Submarine
The Navy reported two Japanese merchant ships totaling 15,000 tons sunk by an American submarine in the China Sea. The vessels were a 10,000-ton cargo passenger ship and a 5,000-ton cargo vessel. The sub had been on an extended patrol.
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U.S
Washington
China Sea
Pacific Theater
Navy
Lumber Camp Row Brings Fine of 5 Dollars
Herkimer Ohio April 27 Russell White a full blooded Iroquois Indian was fined five dollars after pleading guilty to a public intoxication charge before Peace Justice Dayton Gage Ohio.
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Herkimer
Russell White
Peace Justice
Dayton Gage
Ohio
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