Navy Reports Fleet World’s Mightiest Air Force Also Most Powerful
Washington reports the navy now fields 14 072 vessels including 613 warships and an air arm with over 18 000 planes. From 1940 to 1943 sea and air power expanded rapidly, with 1 200 vessels and nearly 2 000 planes added in July 1943 alone. The navy cites its build rate as a foundation of strategy and warns of its role in Pacific Atlantic and Mediterranean operations. Fifty-eight ships lost and 129 diverted or repurposed since 1940 amid vast landing craft deliveries.
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Washington
America
Air Arm
Navy
Pacific
Atlantic
Mediterranean
Land Row Develops In Washington
Seattle dispatch reports a nine mile by twenty mile no man’s land along King County’s eastern boundary tangled among four townships. The issue centers on ownership as legislators misrecorded the boundary in 1867, leaving the land unclaimed by any state subdivision. County officials consider suing Chelan and Snohomish counties to settle the matter. Prosecutor Lloyd Shorett plans steps to straighten the mess while noting the land’s unique status. The article also notes the Columbia river basin holds a large share of U.S. hydro power potential near Grand Coulee Dam.
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Seattle
INS
King County
J. R. Heath
Cascade Mountains
Chelan
Snohomish
Columbus
Northern Pacific Railway
Uncle Sam
Russell H. Fluent
United States
Fluent
Liyod Shorett
Coulee
Columbia River Basin
Washington
Grand Coulee Dam
Basic English Seen Spreading Across World Now
Basic English, a simplified 850 word language, is advancing globally with support from Britain’s Prime Minister and Roosevelt. It moves through education and media, from Harvard to Camp Devens, aiding soldiers and civilians and touted by Dr. Ivor Armstrong Richards and Christine Gibson as a universaleducational tool amid wartime language needs.
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Marguerite Young
NEA
Cambridge
Mass
Britain
Roosevelt
Walt Disney
Friends
Ivor Armstrong Richards
Disney
New York
South America
Richards
Harvard University
Canadian Rockies
Winston Churchill
Rudolf Hess
Hitler
Fuehrer
Germany
Bismarck
Churchill
Lion Chancellor
Christine M. Gibson
Lake Field
Ariz
Cornell University
Italy
Harvard
Camp Devins
Richard
Army
Miss Gibson
State Department
White House
Orient
Chiang Kai-Sheks
China
Ivy Litvino F
Russia
Ministry of Education
Yunnan
Change and Decay From Autumn to Hymn Reflections
W A Bivins muses on seasonal change from the autumnal equinox to winter, noting cooling weather and the cycle of leaves and soil. He recalls the hymn Abide with Me by Henry Francis Lyte, outlining Lyte’s life and the hymn’s message of enduring faith amid life’s fading light.
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Henry Francis Lyte
Kelso
Trinity College
Dublin
Brixham
Nice
Lyte
Brighter Side on Veterans Groups and History
Damon Runyon notes two major American veterans organizations the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars share aims to support service members. The VFW traces to post Civil War era veterans and has grown from under 500000 pre Pearl Harbor toward an anticipated 3 million. many WWI members are sons or younger brothers of VFW veterans and some WWI members joined after WWI as protégés of earlier veterans.
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American Legion
A. S
Grand Army of the Republic
Grand Army
Veterans of
Federal Army
Legion
Cuba
Phillippines
Old von Waldersee
Pekin
Nicaragua
Haiti
Pearl Harbor
New York City
Robert T. Merrill
Havre, Mont
A. EB. F
Veterans of Foreign Wars builds postwar plans and membership
The Veterans of Foreign Wars posts sponsor Boy Scout troops junior drum corps bands drill teams rifle clubs and athletic groups. They offer membership blanks for sending home before overseas service and extend the privilege to navy personnel assigned to Atlantic or Pacific fleets. The encampment in New York will discuss continuing pay to veterans for at least a year after discharge.
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United States
Navy
Clais
Atlantic
Pacific
VF. W
Veterans’ Organizations
Th. F. W
America
New York
Ration Book Stamp Validity Through Autumn Dates
Ration roundup lists current good through dates for meat, butter and processed foods, with changes to brown, blue and red stamps. It notes Book Z and brown stamps A B C with October deadlines, blue stamps R S T and U V W through September and October, sugar stamps 11 15 16 for five pounds by October, shoes stamps 8 through October, gasoline coupons varying by region, and fuel oil coupons through September 30 and January 8 1944 with gallon values.
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East Neo
Rocky Mountains
Midwest
Christian Science Lesson-SerMon On Substance Faith and Oil Tip
The September 12 Christian Science Lesson Sermon centers on Substance: divine and eternal, the Lord's fulness, with Hebrews 11 and 1 Corinthians 10 cited. The text defines substance as Truth Life Love Spirit and Mind, and notes oil changes per specs extend engine life and mileage.
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Christian Science Service
Chrisan
Mary Baker Eddy
Old Belt Weed Marts opened in Winston-Salem area
Old Belt Weed Marts opened today with farmers hopeful of satisfactory prices as crop quality exceeds average. Pre-opening deliveries were lighter due to extended dry weather. The belt includes Winston-Salem Madison Mt Airy Burlington and markets at Reidsville Mebane Roxboro and Stoneville.
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Winston-Salem
Old Belt
Awan
Theetata
Madison
Mt. Airy
Burlington
Reidsville
Mebane
Roxboro
Stoneville
French Committee Broadcasts Warning in New York
The French Committee of National Liberation issued a broadcast stating it is the legitimate French authority and ordered civil servants to resist the Germans or be traitors. A British CBS recording noted the committee remains the sole authority in liberated territory. Another CBS broadcast claimed refitted French warships in U S took part in the bombardment of the Italian coast.
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New York
French Committee of Nations Liberation Today
France
Warnin
CBS
United States
Italia
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Air Force
Land Row
U. S
Corregidor
Bock
Basic
C. K. Ogden
Cambridge University
England
Rockefeller Foundation
Payne Fund
Heigth
Lara
W. A. Bivins
Damon Runyons
United States War Bonds
Tre
Figues
Plymouth
Dodge
de Soto
Chrysler
MOPAR
Major Bowes
de Soto Chrysler
DeSoto
Chrysler Corporation
Attac
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