Service Men and Women Move Across Posts and Seas
Military personnel listed in transfers promotions and furloughs include Pvt Marvin C Davidson from San Diego to Camp Pendleton and Lt LeRoy Hall of Newport News visiting family after overseas service plus promotions for George Stejskal in England and Max A Ramsey transferred for preflight training.
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Marvin C. Davidson
Marine Corps
San Diego
Calif
Marine Corps Base
Camp Pendleton
Oceanside
Higley Avenue
Margaret O'Hare
Army Nurse Corps
Fort Riley
Kan
Camp Carson Cole
T. O'Hare
Second Avenue
Dallas D. Morrison
Cedar Rapids
Camp Gruber
Okla
Jack Johnson
Anamosa
Cedar, Rapids
George Stejskal
LeRoy W. Hall
Newport News
Frank X. Guyott
Eighth Avenue SE
Hall
Guyott
Earl Hall
Belle Plaine
Miles Fisher
Hawaii
South Pacific
M. J. Fisher
First Avenue
Donald C. Colgan
Seabees
Regular Navy
U. S. Naval Net
South Boston
Mass
Richard D. Munden
R. E. Munden
Maple Drive
Capt. Munden
India
Twelfth Street
Ford Ord
Dave Peddycourt
Camp Pickett
Harry Peddycourt
Mt. Vernon Avenue
Charles J. Bulicek
North Africa
Pat Sadie Bulicek
C Street
Bill C. Butler
Camp Bennion
Farragut
Idaho
Ellis Boulevard
Jack A. Parrish
F. C. Parrish
Hinkley Avenue
United States Naval Reserve Midshipmen’s School
Columbia University
New York City
Ensign Parrish
Ohio State University
Columbus
Donald J. Kotron
Frank J. Kotron
Twenty-eighth Avenue
Army Air Force Pilot School
Fort Sumner
N. H
George Taylor Henry
Laurence E. Henry
Nineteenth Street
Formosa to Begin Japanese War Conscription
The Associated Press reports Japan will start military conscription in Formosa in September. Formosa, with about 4.5 million people mainly of Chinese descent, had an imperial edict announced via a Tokyo broadcast. The cabinet had pressed the measure last autumn but kept it in abeyance.
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Associated Press
Japan
Formosa
Tokyo
Men Over 26 Sought For Merchant Ships
The War Shipping administration launched an urgent recruitment drive for men 26 and over to serve aboard merchant vessels. WSA officials warned a large number is needed to meet training quotas over the next 10 weeks as deferments are sharply curtailed and training now excludes those under 26.
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Washington
War Shipping Administration
WSA
Merchant Marine
Family finances and War Bond giving guidelines
A reader is urged to calculate how much beyond 10 percent of family income can be contributed to War Bonds each payday. The message frames the issue as a personal calculation and emphasizes investing during wartime.
Yarnell Plan of Unified Service Draws Attention
Washington experts expect approval in hearings on unifying U S armed forces into a single department of war. Secretary Stimson will testify before Rep Woodrum’s postwar policy committee as plans for four branch unity and Yarnell’s two division proposal stir debate on timing and structure.
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Yarnell Plan
Washington
Department of War
War Stimson
Special House
Rep
Woodrum
D-Va
War Department
George C. Marshall
Navy
Adm
Harry E. Yarnell
U.S.N
Secretary of Navy
Knox
Yarnell
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Nine new teachers hired by Cedar Rapids board
The Cedar Rapids board of education approved nine new teachers for the coming year with starting salaries of 1598.40 each. The board also awarded bids for roofing at three schools, purchased insurance on buses and vehicles, accepted a Wartime child care grant, and discussed bids for a new school bus and a summer playground program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
Fillmore
Jackson and van Buren
Cedar Rapids Roofing Company
Iowa Mutual Liability Insurance Company
Federal Works Agency
Hermina Netolicky
Hayes School
Linn County Board of Supervisors
Supt. of
Robert Black
Man Sentenced After Light Bulb Diet Incident
Chicago man Paul Blow who tried to swallow light bulbs and other items was sentenced to 30 days after he failed to return a borrowed ring. An X-ray showed the ring was not in his stomach or other items.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Paul Blow
Blow
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Robert E. Koutsky
Edward Koutsky
First Street
Pvt
Donald Abernathy
Camp Swift
Texas
W. T. Abernathy
Ninth Street NW
Dasay
Simons
Williams
National Airport
Washington, D. C
Burbank
Jeep
G.I
Pfc
Ben R. Violette
Jo Ann Reeder
South Bend
Ind
England
Poland
Romania
Gorcas
Perek
Nikolaev
Yalta
Russia
Crimea
Sevastopol
Black Sea
Red Army
Crimean
Sevastopol Harbor
Ovidopol
Reds
International
Morris Long
Abbeville
S. C
Jack
Bougainville
Finley
Elmira
N. Y
RED Network
Elizabeth Dilling
Federal District Court
Elizabeth Jane
Albert Dilling
Robert S. Johnson
Lawton
Burma War
Singa
Claude Auchinleck
Auchinleck
Burnu Acquanetta
Gangete
Indus
T Vai Mini
Burma
Kaia
Upper