Reserve Officers to Get Field Maneuvers
Major Charles Obye announces a joint maneuver by 349th Infantry headquarters officers and Davenport district officers near Mount Pleasant on July 13. About 75 to 100 officers are expected with Capt Perry C Matthews coordinating civilian aid and equipment including high speed tractors and trucks for tanks. Medical, engineer, artillery and infantry staffs will support with local dentists and doctors available. Officers meet at 10 am for briefing and a picnic lunch before an afternoon exercise.
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Charles Obye
349Th
Davenport
Mount Pleasant
Perry C. Matthews
Matthews
Obye
Major Obye
Cedar Rapids
National Defense Outlay To Rise To One Billion Monthly
Washington reports defense spending will rise to about 1 billion dollars a month starting in September. For the year ended June 30, outlays totaled 6.274 billion, below the 6.464 billion forecast due to contract delays, strikes, and early completion of some projects. The army accounted for 3.67 billion of the total.
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National Defense
Washington
INS
Harold D. Smith
Smith
Budget Bureau
Army
Life at Claiborne: cost of living rises for soldiers
First Sergeant George N. Myers reports improvements from a new government laundry at Camp Claiborne Louisiana but notes steep rent increases and higher food prices. He cites rents climbing from five to fifteen dollars per move and two room apartments rising in price, while butter, eggs, and canned goods cost more, leaving soldiers with limited recreation options.
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George N. Myers
136Th Medical Regiment
Camp Claiborne
Sergeant Myers
Myers
Oakdale
United Service Organizations
Sergi. Myers
Navy and Lend Lease Defense Funds Totals Reported
The Navy budget totals 2.262 billion dollars while lend-lease operations account for 21 million and other defense activities amount to 321 million, outlining a breakdown of military funding.
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Navy
Cantor to Produce Broadway Show Portraying Career
Eddie Cantor announced plans for a Broadway musical next fall depicting his career as a stage screen and radio comedian. He has outlined the show and asked Gene Fowler to turn it into a book with tentative title Banjo Eyes. If successful in New York, he would film a Hollywood version.
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Hollywood
Eddie Cantor
Cantor
Gene Fowler
New York
Firecracker Casualty in Albany Youth Burned Minor
Albany Oregon AP reports twelve year old Donnie Van Eaton lit a firecracker after lunch. The device stuck to his jam covered fingers and caused minor burns.
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Albany
Ore
Donnie van Eaton
Donnie
Dredge Seeks 1777 Sunken Gold in Delaware Waters
A Philadelphia AP report describes a Delaware river dredge near Hog Island frantically searching each muck load for 1777 British gold worth estimated at 1 to 2 million dollars. The Commodore dredge raises antique items while speculating if the Merlin wreck holds the treasure. If found, the prize would belong to New Jersey.
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Philadelphia
Delaware River
Hog Island
Delaware Channel
Philadelphia Navy Yard
Merlin
Carroll H. Francis
Camden
N. J
Navy
New Jersey
Borough Protests Draft Deferment of Resident
Religious scruples won a deferment for Paul W. Dippolito a 33 year old resident of Glenfield as locals protested Saturday. Home made placards on telephone poles declared he was no slacker in making dough yet a slacker when called by his country. Dippolito was the borough s first draft objector and the first deferment in Glenfield.
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Pittsburgh
INS
Army
Paul W. Dippolito
Glenfield
Dippolito
High Cost Of Living In Washington Alters Army Duty Rules
Washington residents must be unmarried or aware of housing costs to be assigned to duty in the capital. No Army quarters are available for officers in Washington, so those ordered there must prove financial means and willingness to serve in the city.
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Washington
Army
Hargrave daughter recovering after horse fall injuries
Winifred Hargrave, 18, daughter of Mr and Mrs F M Hargrave of 2424 Bever Avenue SE, suffered a broken back and fractures to the right arm and leg when she fell from a horse Wednesday night. Her doctor says she is recovering satisfactorily at St Luke's hospital and is not yet allowed visitors.
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Winifred Hargrave
F. M. Hargrave
Bever Avenue SE
St. Luke's Hospital
Audrey Waits Granddaughter After Grandfather’s Death
In Los Angeles police report, Audrey Stewart, six, waited for her grandfather William Jefferson Strode to return from a filling station during a weekend at his suburban home. Strode, 57, died of a heart attack in the station restroom. Audrey was found sleeping and later taken home.
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Los Angeles
William Jefferson Strode
Audrey Stewart
Audrey
Strode
Public Playgrands Plan Week of Community Activities
A new sound motion picture Years of Progress will start this week at public playgrounds with a technicolor cartoon. Playgrounds listed include Roosevelt Riverside Sinclair Daniels and Arthur with varied events like parades picnics tours tournaments and dances across a nine week season.
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America
Roosevelt
Riverside
Sinclair
Daniels
Arthur
Harrison
Elks Ground
Reed Park
Lincoln
van Buren
McKinley
Buchanan
Sewing Club
Bever Park
Buchanan Playground
Whitlam Park
Kenwood
British to Furnish Own Ships for Cotton Under Lend Lease
Washington officials said Britain has asked for 20 000 bales of cotton monthly and will have ships available for transport to England. The cotton will come from government stocks and be shipped under lend lease. The British purchasing commission indicated a total need of 600 000 bales.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Great Britain
England
British Purchasing Commission
Agriculture
St. John Files From Capetown on War Realities and Ossewa Blok
Robert St. John describes Capetown life amid World War II pressures. He notes calm streets and rare blackouts, the Ossewa brandwag threat, and a two minute silence ritual tied to Armistice remembrance. He recounts travel woes, ship bookings, and hopes to join the President Garfield voyage to New York.
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Associated Press
Rockefeller Center
New York City
Kent Cooper
Hner
Hayes
Robert St. John
Balkans
Carol
Romania
Iron Guard
Yugoslavia
Greece
Capetown
St. John’s
The
Gazette Special News Service
South Africa
Cecil Wightman
South African Broadcasting Company
Mr. Cooper
President Hayes
Bombay
Turkey
Palestine
Egypt
Plane Crash Near Sunray Claims Two Local Pilots
Civil aeronautics investigators probed a July 4 private plane crash near Sunray Texas that killed two pilots, Al Arnold of Phillips and Earl Sweatt, a Sunray garage owner.
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Sunray, Tex
INS
Civil Aeronautics Authority
Sunray
Tex
al Arnold
Phillips
Earl Sweatt
Club Swinging Or Opera A Dilemma For Marjorie Gainsworth
New York AP reports Marjorie Gainsworth, once a protege of Mary Garden at the Chicago Civic Opera, has finished a long run of nightclub engagements. She faces a choice between lucrative club work and a return to opera where artistic satisfaction may be greater but pay smaller.
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New York
Marjorie Gainsworth
Mary Garden
Chicago Civic Opera
Navy receives first advanced trainer plane at Lambert
The United States navy took delivery at Lambert-St. Louis airport on Saturday of the first advanced combat trainer aircraft produced for the service by Curtiss-Wright.
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ST. Louis
United States Navy
Lambert-St. Louis
Curtiss-Wright Corporation
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