First Foe Faced By De Gaulle Free French In Tropic Jungle
Brazzaville in French Equatorial Africa becomes a formidable testing ground for De Gaulle's Free French. The article portrays life under tropical climate, scarce luxuries, widespread insects, and harsh conditions as officers and civilians organize a fledgling colony, wage combat against disease, unemployment, and tsetse fly, and prepare troops for front lines.
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de Gaulle
Brazzaville
French Equatorial Africa
General de Gaulle
Free France
Michigan
America
Africa
Botanical
Equator
Varanda’d
Ississippi
Memphis
St. Louis
Paris
Bois de Boulogne
Vichy
Robinson Crusoe
New
France
Atlantic
Egypt
Brazza
Defense Of Title No Worry To Reuben
Reuben Fine, 26, defends his national open chess title in St Louis as finalists prepare for the championship class finals Saturday. Fine boasts four qualifying victories and two wins in the finals, challenging top players including SamuelReshevsky as he seeks to retain the crown.
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ST. Louis
Reuben Fine
Fine
New York
Western Chess Association
National
Samuel Reshevsky
Boy Wonder
Frick W. Marchand
Bruno Schmidt
Detroit
Hermen Steiner
Los Angeles
California
Marchand
George Sturgis
Boston
Schmidt
Fred Anderson
Newly Invented Oil Barge Could Ease Oil Shortage
DUNCAN July 22 A novel cigar shaped oil barge planned to be built in three days at one seventh the cost of a standard tanker may relieve the eastern oil shortage. Erle P Halliburton seeks a Mississippi site to construct barges that can carry 100000 barrels of high gravity gasoline or 86000 barrels of low gravity oil and be towed floated or self powered.
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Duncan
Erle P. Halliburton
Oil Well Cementing Co
Memphis
Tenn
Halliburton
Stephens Iroe
Havoken
Lialliburton
Mississipi
Gulf Coast
Power Pool Plan Outlined for Southwest Region
Washington reports the Office of Production Management designates 13 power producers for a nationwide defense oriented pool. Oklahoma companies affected include Oklahoma Gas and Electric Grand River Dam Authority Public Service and Empire District Electric serving Kansas Missouri and Oklahoma. J F Owens leads OG and E in Oklahoma City.
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Washington
Oklahoma
Office of Production Management
Southwest
OPM
Northeast
Southeast
Oklahoma Gas and Electric Company
Grand River Dam Authority Public Service Company
Empire District Electric Company
Kansas, Missouri
Oklahoma City
J. F. Owens
The
Oklahoma Gas
Arsenal Production Surges at Island Arsenal Peak
NEA describes Rock Island's government arsenal as a vast war production hub with 13,263 workers at wartime peak, modern equipment boosting output. It highlights 899 acres, 270 classifications, and $288,342,021 in 1940 materials.
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NEA
Island
Rock Island
Oklahoma Readies Rapid Response Home Defense Force
Oklahoma officials announce a mobile emergency force that could assemble 150 trained men within four hours across the state to handle riots or sabotage. Adj. Gen. Davis and Gov. Phillips oversee plans, with local officers ready to expand the force if needed and a civilian defense coordination group to organize efforts. Separately, charges are filed in Okfuskee County against four men for an armed whisky cache robbery and related crimes, following a state safety department investigation.
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Oklahoma City
Uncle Sam
Oklahoma
Walter Johnson
Johnson
Adjt
George A. Davis
Phillips
Davis
Home Guard
Avis
State Tevise Committee
Seminole
Okfuskee
Roy Parham
Okemah
Harrison
Inis Woodward
Wewoka
Ben Fry
Frank Loftis
Fry
Curly Woodward
Iris Woodward
Robbins
Criminal Division
State Safety Department
Biggers
Wewoka Installs New Police Chief Amid Former Chief Charged
Wewoka names Jim Fore as new police chief after former chief Grover Harrison is charged with armed robbery and destruction of insured property. Harrison faces counts in Seminole court for the Key theater robbery and a June motor vehicle arson, plus an armed robbery in June involving Mrs. Robbins.
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Wewoka
Jim Fore
Seminole
Grover Harrison
J. A. Khigon
Harrison
Justice Court
Fred Statham
Jack Robbins
Weno'a
Robbins
Tom Biggers
Seminole County
Postpone Date For New Radio Rules
The FCC delays the effective date of its new chain broadcasting rules to September 16 after a request from NBC and CBS. Chairman James Lawrence Fly cited ongoing discussions with networks and potential extensions to allow orderly disposition of properties.
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Washington
Federal Communications Commission
Chain Broadcasting
National Broadcasting Company
Columbia Broadcasting System
James Lawrence Fly
FCC
NBC
Potato Peelers For Righthanders Only
CAMP ROBINSON Arkansas July 22 Dick Allen reports a bottleneck in army mechanization. He showed four left handed KP soldiers at headquarters battery 161st field artillery with right handed potato peelers forcing him to peel spuds for yesterday’s dinner himself.
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Camp Robinson
Ark
Dick Allen
Army
K. P
Navy fliers bail out as training plane crashes in Jacksonville
A training plane went out of control over a Jacksonville residential area. Both fliers parachuted to safety after the craft spun and crashed. A window was shattered by the wing of the plane striking a parked car where three year old Batty Ruth Whitmore sat, suffering a minor cut. The report also notes a wartime weight saving method using lanolin spray over aluminum dope to shed about 94 pounds.
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Jacksonville
Fla
Batty Ruth Whitmore
Indian Dancers to Perform at Ada Firemen’s Rodeo
The Ada Firemen sign Steve Mopopoe bringing 52 Kiowa dancers to the August 14 to 17 rodeo. Box seats are selling fast with 90 boxes and 720 chairs planned. General admission goes on sale July 3.
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Ada
Steve Mopopoe
August Schedules Now Available at East Central State College
Students can obtain August term schedules from the personnel office. Courses include biology, nature study, education, English, history, manual training, sociology, and economics. Enrolment is July 24 with four dollars per semester hour, payable in advance by August 1.
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East Central State College
Illiteracy Among Draftees Studied
Two hundred thirty eight draft-age men in Pon totoc county board number 2, registered for the first draft lottery, had only a fourth grade or less education. Clerk Pat Murphy said the study of questionnaires showed twenty seven could not sign and marked an X. Fifteen had no education. Nine were white and six were Indian. Three men had first grade education, three second, three third, and three fourth.
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Pontotoc County
Pat Murphy
Murphy
State's Supply of Skilled Men Large
Oklahoma has a reservoir of 22 000 skilled and semi skilled workers available for defense projects. A survey by Dr. J M Ashton shows 25 000 men registered for dam area jobs, with 8 409 aged 21 to 45 skilled or semi skilled. He says recruiting 50 000 to 60 000 within 60 days is feasible, while the Tulsa bomber plant and Oklahoma City air base would use under 18 000 of the 115 000 available.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
J. M. Ashton
State Chamber of Commerce
Grand River Dam
Ashton
Tulsa
Increased Interest In Dipping Vats In County
Farmers and livestock men show rising interest in dipping cattle to control ticks lice and parasites across the county. Four vats were burned this week as supervisors including Sam Nelson C H Hailey and Hulin Lane oversee repairs and new vats planned this year with county commission cooperation.
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Afrm
Miller
Sam Nelson
State Bord of Agriculture
C. H. Hailey
Hulin Lane
Hailey
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Reuben
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Chrysler
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Rock Island, Ill
Sinclair Prairie
C. E. Davis
Mary Elizabeth Sackfield
Associated Press
State Safety
Ada Firemen’s Rodeo
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