Uniforms in Peace Time for Washington Officers
In Washington, rules bar armed forces officers from public display in uniform except in war or ceremonial settings. The piece argues for mufti to avoid vanity, privacy loss, and the burden of the Sam Browne belt, noting officers’ preference for civilian dress and suggesting press agents wear distinctive garb to reveal their identity to the states.
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Washington
Mufti
Fort Snelling
Sam Browné
John J. Pershing
Arlington
Congress
Re Eas
Britain launches vast wartime propaganda campaign
Britain opened a large propaganda effort to spread the Roosevelt Churchill declaration on a lasting peace. The plan uses radio broadcasts pamphlets and underground channels across Europe. The BBC aired the declaration in multiple languages and hours of summaries to sway Allied and neutral audiences.
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London
Britain
Europe
Roosevelt
Churchill
Brendan Bracken
Daily Herald
British Broadcasting Corporation
Roosevelt Churchill
BBC
Hitler
Mussolini
Naval Reserve Opens 1250 More Officer Ranks
In New Orleans Captain T A Thomson Jr, acting commandant of the eighth naval district, announced that 1,250 additional naval reserve officers are now open for commissions. Specialties include medical and engineering fields, with eligibility based on age and experience as Secretary Knox notes a record response from Southern states amid the current emergency.
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New Orleans
T. A. Thomson, Jr
Eighth Naval District
Naval Reserve
Knox
Navy
United States Naval Forces
Thomson
Condition Not Serious for Hiranuma Wounded in Attack
Tokyo dispatch reports Vice Premier Baron Kiichiro Hiranuma, shot in the jaw and chest by an assassin, is described as not seriously ill by government spokesman Koh Ishii. The attack occurred yesterday and prompted security concerns for Japanese leadership.
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Tokyo
Koh Ishii
Kiichiro Hiranuma
Startling Developments From Meeting Signal Joint Action
British and American officials forecast rapid, decisive moves to curb Axis aims after the Roosevelt Churchill conference. Washington hints at a three power military policy dialogue with Russia while London predicts startling steps to thwart Japan and reinforce Atlantic sea control.
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Associated Press
Roosevelt
Churchill
Adolf Hitler
Mussolini
Washington
Tokyo
Japan
Dollar Day Observed With Large Crowds and Prizes
Dollar Day drew shoppers from many cities to Twin Cities stores in a retail division event by the Chamber of Commerce. Chairman David C. Silverstein praised the outcome as merchants and the public enjoyed low price offers. A public prize drawing for rewards worth hundreds of dollars was set for 6 p.m. near Ouachita National Bank.
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Twin Cities
Chamber of Commerce
David C. Silverstein
Ouachita National Bank
German national executed in London for espionage
Josef Jakobs born 1898 in Luxembourg was executed at the Old Bailey after a wartime espionage conviction. A German army meteorological service NCO, he was arrested shortly after landing near London.
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London
Josef Jakobs
Jakobs
Luxembourg
Old Bailey
War Office
Meteorological Service
Cee
Lonon
Special Tank Fund Approved by Committee
Washington Aug 15 Informed by Secretary of War Stimson that tank and ordnance production is vital the joint Senate House committee approved a special fund of 750 million dollars for this purpose. The conferees trimmed the overall defense bill and dropped a 1 million civilian police fund while tightening several shipyard and warehouse appropriations. The exact uses of the special authority were not disclosed.
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Washington
Stimson
Senate
House
Adams
Colorado
New Orleans
Norfolk
Roosevelt
Congress
Glass
Virginia
Committee
Draft Age Bill Before President
Washington report notes Senator Thomas of Utah says many men may be released from the army before serving 18 additional months under the service extension plan. Roosevelt desk status shows bill to lower draft age from 35 to 28 awaiting signature or veto with next Monday deadline. it would defer 28 year olds from induction and empower release of eligible men already age 28 or older who were not inducted by July 1 1941.
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Washington
Thomas
Utah
Roosevelt
White House
Secretary of War
Army
Germany Threats and Offensives Mark 55-Day War Front
German forces clamp down on occupied France threatening death penalties for Communist activity and challenging Allies to disarmament talks. In the Soviet theater Hitler's fourth major offensive targets Leningrad while the Red Army withdraws toward the Dnieper. Budyonny’s Southwest Army retreats from Pervomaisk as Nazi columns push into Ukraine’s grain, iron, and industry regions.
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Associated Press
Germany
France
Britain
United States
Russia
Roosevelt
Churchill
Vichy
Paris
Heinrich von Stuelpnagel
Adolf Hitler
Leningrad
Helsinki
Karelian Isthmus
Semeon Budyonny
Bug River
Pervomaisk
Nikolaev
Bevo
Odessa
IMI Safety Record On Road Accidents This Year
The IMI safety bulletin reports 343 accidents so far this year versus 292 last year. Personal injuries number 45 this year against 48 last year, and deaths remain at four in both years. Traffic rule reminder bans operating vehicles without a clear front rear and side view via direct sight or a proper rear-view mirror.
Clyde 5 Brown Killed by Auto in New Orleans Area
Clyde 5 Brown former Monroe resident and funeral home operator was killed instantly in an auto crash near New Orleans early Friday. He had lived in Bogalusa for years and led the Dixie Cooperative Insurance company as president. He owned funeral homes in Bogalusa Kentwood Amite and Independence. A World War veteran he leaves wife Ila Venable Brown and daughter Doris Anne. His brother-in-law H M Venable formerly with Standard Office Supply in Monroe. Funeral plans were not announced in Monroe.
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Clyde 5. Brown
Monroe
New Orleans
Brown
Bogalusa
Dixie Cooperative Insurance Company
Kentwood
Amite
Independence
Monroe Casket
Ila Venable Brown
Doris Anne Brown
H. M. Venable
Standard Office Supply Company
Mrs. Brown
Auto workers bar 3 isms from office
In Buffalo New York on August 15 delegates to the sixth national convention of the United Automobile Aircraft and Agricultural Implement Workers voted two to one to ban Communist Nazi and Fascist members and sympathizers from any elective or appointive union office. The action supported by president R J Thomas passed 1950 to 920 in unofficial roll call.
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Buffalo
N. Y
United Automobile, Aircraft and Agricultural Implement Workers
R. J. Thomas
Harvey Kitzman
Racine
Wis
Constitution Committee
Thomas
Victor Reuther
Detroit
James Lindahl
Free French Chief Named For Africa
General Charles de Gaulle issues a decree appointing General Paul le Gentilhomme commander in chief of Free French forces in Africa. He led forces that took Damascus, helped in the Levant invasion, and commanded allied troops in French and British Somaliland until France fell. He joined the Free French in November and was stripped of citizenship by Vichy in December.
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Beirut
Lebanon
Charles de Gaulle
Paul le Gentilhomme
Africa
le Gentilhomme
de Gaullist
Damascus
Syria
Levant
France
Free French Movement
Vichy
Secretary Stimson to Broadcast on Universal Military Service
Secretary of War Stimson will address the army tonight at 7:06 p m central standard time. He will discuss the need for extending military service for men now in uniform and the wartime draft plan.
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Washington
Stimson
Army
World War II Developments Shift on Multiple Fronts
Reports say Russian forces withdraw to a new line beyond the Dnieper while Red troops defend Odessa and Nikolaev. Moscow cites fierce night fighting to counter a three way Nazi push toward Leningrad. Allies plan decisive action after the Atlantic Charter as Berlin dismisses meetings. RAF launches 300 bomber raids on German cities as Berlin claims defense. Australia sends large troop convoy to Singapore and Malaya.
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Associated Press
Dnieper River
London
Odessa
Nikolaev
Moscow
Leningrad
Roosevelt
Churchill
Berlin
Tokyo
Japan
Stalin
Singapore
Malaya
Germans Scorn Roosevelt as Churchill Meet in Berlin
German sources call the Roosevelt Churchill meeting a 100 per cent flop and claim it left Germany with the best diplomatic position. They credit Roosevelt for initiating the talks but note a growing clash with British aims over a postwar order and policing Europe.
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Berlin
Roosevelt
Churchill
Germany
United States
Sumner Welles
League of Nations
Eden
Europe
Big Labor Day Planned Here in Monroe and West Monroe
Labor day on September 1 will be a gala event in Monroe and West Monroe. The Monroe Central Trades and Labor council announces the largest celebration of unionism in northeast Louisiana with a street parade barbecue addresses games and a dance all night. Committees include grand marshal K A Calhoun P S Johnson barbecues Ira Cagle P L Wallace public relations E S Tiffen entertainment F E Welch Pansy Williams and more. All members meet at the Labor temple Sunday August 17 at 4 pm for final arrangements.
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Monroe
West Monroe
P. S. Johnson
Ira Cagle
P. L. Wallace
Pansy Williams
C. O. Kovaleski
Fay Streetman
E. S. Tiffen Entertainment
F. E. Welch
C. A. Doyle
A. Doyle
L. F. Cummins
C. C. Blanchard
Emery Dyer
Twins Die Together in Action on Egyptian Front
London reports that John and Robert Meikle, 24 year old inseparable twins, were killed the same day in action near Salum on the Egyptian front. Parents received government telegrams stating death could not part them.
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London
John
Robert Meikle
Salum
British Supply Council Chief Among Bomb Ferry Crash Victims
A takeoff crash killed twelve American fliers and 22 others, including Arthur Purvis head of the British Supply Council in North America. The disaster mirrors a prior Sunday crash. 44 lives, including 19 Americans, are lost this week. Captain J. C. Mackey of Kansas City was among the dead. only one American survived the Newfoundland crash earlier this year.
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Arthur Purvis
British Supply Council
North America
R. A. F. Ferry Command
America
Britain
Joseph Creighton Mackey
Kansas City
Newfoundland
Frederick Banting
Purvis
J. C. Mackey
A. C. Earl
Huntingdon
M. D. Dilley
E. B. Anding
Merrick
N. Y
J. J. Kerwin
Oakland
Calif
M. J. Wetzel
Jamesburg
Gerald Hull
Royal Oak
Mich
E. Hamel
Braintree
Mass
P. F. Lee, Jr
Frederick
N Md
W. L. Trimble
Fort Worth
Tex
E. W. Watson
Torrence
B. C
J. P. Culbert
Montreal
R. C. Stafford
Maidenhead
Berks
Eng
J. J. MacDonald
Longeuil
Que
Watson
Ferry Command
Lord Beaverbrook
Roosevelt
Churchill
England
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