Australia mobilizes all workers for war effort in Australia
Australia prepares for total mobilization amid looming invasion threat. Citizens up to 65 must register, labor battalions draw from 18 to 60, and national manpower rules govern worker assignments. Pay and charity limits set, holidays cut, and newsprint rationing tightens as war production accelerates.
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Wide World News
Sydney
Australia
National Manpower Register
Canada
Darwin
Melbourne
Canberra
Army
Percy Spender
United Australia Party
Wanted Electric Refrigerator 6 cu ft for sale
A Parton 6 cu ft electric refrigerator in good condition is offered for 35 dollars. Located at 406 Bellflower NW. Call 5101 to place a low cost classified ad for tomorrow’s paper and reach interested buyers quickly.
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Parton
Bellflower
India’s Path to Freedom in World War II Context
The piece argues that India’s struggle for independence under Mahatma Gandhi has gained new urgency as Britain rethinks governance amid Japan’s advance. It notes Wavell’s removal and reassignment as a strategic move to unite Allied forces in India and Burma, forecasting stronger Indian cooperation with the Allies and a potential shift toward dominion status.
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Britain
Mahatma Ghandi
Japan
Burma
India
England
Archibald P. Wavell
Southwest
Pacific
United Nations
War rationing and hoarding in wartime Britain
Civilians resist rationing as war demands bite, with some joking about shortages and hoarding. The piece urges strict cooperative rationing to avoid undermining the war effort, noting England’s strict limits on apparel and food. It calls readers to pledge total sacrifice to win the war, warning hoarding could threaten democracy.
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ALF
England
Japanese sentenced for having U S maps in Hawaii crime case
Keizaburo Hirano a 56 year old former imperial army lieutenant was fined 5000 dollars and sentenced to five years hard labor for failing to report possession of maps showing military establishments in California. He kept radio gear and weapons among suitcases registered to a U S citizen maid. The maps covered Sacramento Los Angeles San Jose Salinas and Fresno.
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Associated Press
Honolulu
Keizaburo Hirano
California
Hirano
United States
Sacramento
Los Angeles
San Jose
Salinas
Fresno
John R. Hermann
Provost Court
Council funds paving Tuscarawas access road
The city council approved an ordinance to appropriate 6000 from unappropriated general fund balance for its share of paving a Tuscarawas access road. The state highway department will perform the work soon, with federal funds also contributing.
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Tuscarawas St W
Bellflower
State Highway Department
Naval Ordnance Plant
Alumni in France Mobilized Across Armed Forces
In Columbia on March 10, more than 1,000 University of South Carolina alumni serve in U S armed forces, their detachments scattered globally as shown by the alumni association mail bag.
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France
Columbia
S. C
University of South Carolina
Alumni Association
Three U S Citizens Sent To Japanese Prison
Vaughn Meisling 39 AP correspondent captured in Hong Kong and two other Americans were moved to Stanley prison after Japan failed to force statements of good treatment. Reported conditions show severe privation with minimal food and medical shortages causing dysentery. They had initially stayed at the Gloucester hotel before transfer following coercive visits by a Japanese army intelligence officer.
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Associated Press
Meisling
Gloucester Hotel
U. S. Steel Insured for One Billion Dollars
U S Steel Corp announced that plants and properties of the corporation have been insured for about 1 billion dollars against possible loss from saboteurs. Subsidiaries excluding railroads and steamships are insured through the Factory Insurance Association, a group of major fire insurers.
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International News Service
New York
U. S. Steel Corp. Today
Factory Insurance Association
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