Draft Boards Urge Compliance With Selective Service Policies
Selective Service Board No. 2 in Ouachita parish urges employers and registrants ages 18 to 44 to understand current policies. It warns against avoiding federal rules, urges timely clearances, and stresses cooperation with the U.S. Employment Service to prevent reclassification and induction delays.
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Selective Service Board No. 2
Ouachita Parish
West Monroe
Lhrge
Selective Service Boards
Mem Mer
War Manpower Commission
U. S. Employment Service Office
U. S. Employment Service
Selective Service
Selective Service Board
Bond's Pill The Easy Lifelong Laxative Claim
An advertisement touts Bond's Pill as a safe quick acting laxative for daily use. It promises relief from sluggishness headaches and fatigue with a nightly dose and no taste or weight gain while stating thousands already use the product.
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Bond
Wilson to Outline Production Report Before Senate Panel
The War Production Board's executive vice chairman was called to a confidential session with the Senate war investigations committee to discuss civilian reconversion. Nelson, WPB chair, urged shortages in ammunition be addressed while overall output supports civilian goods, and he signaled openness to Roosevelt's China mission. August 31 records note England’s wettest day of the year.
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Washington
Congress
Charles E. Wilson
War Production Board
WPB
Senate War Investigating Committee
Donald M. Nelson
China
Nelson
Victor
Army
Navy
Lucius D. Clay
Roosevelt
Patrick J. Hurley
Ferguson
Michigan
Penicillin and air evacuation cut WWII wound mortality
Dr. Rudolph Matas of Tulane calls penicillin and other “magic drugs” key to dramatically lowering death rates among gravely wounded soldiers. He cites Normandy and Saipan cases showing rapid transport and blood transfusions save lives, reducing death tolls from 20–30 percent in WWI to about 2–3 percent.
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New Orleans
Rudolph Matas
Tulane University
American College of Surgeons
Schenley Laboratories
France
Matas
Normandy
Saipan
Col John W. Egan Leaves Selman Field for Garden City AAF
Col John W. Egan, station air inspector at Selman Field since Sept 1943, is transferred to Garden City Army Air Field Kansas to become commanding officer. A regular officer and command pilot with RAF raid Nuremberg and 1941 coastal patrol, he arrived in Kansas Wednesday after duty at Selman and Mather Field California.
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John W. Egan
Selman Field
Army Air Base
Garden City
Kan
Egan
Army
Air Forces
New York College of Forestry
Mather Field
Calif
Royal Air Force
Nuremburg
Germany
Garden City Army Air Field
AAF Training Command
Central Flying Training Command
Kansas
Bronze Star Awarded to Sgt Mack D Gibson
Sgt Mack D Gibson of the U S Army Engineers receives the Bronze Star for heroism near Cassino Italy on March 22 1944. Under heavy artillery fire he and two comrades recovered two trucks of bridging material saved from destruction. He enlisted November 1939 and went overseas June 1943. He has one brother.
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Mack D. Gibson
U. S. Army Engineers
Cassino
Italy
Gibson
Lend-Lease End Thought By Senate Leaders
Top Senate foreign relations figures say lend-lease aid should end at the war's close. Chairman Connally and Senator George argue the program is limited to military and defense needs and should cease after unconditional surrender of Germany and Japan.
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Washington
Senate
Foreign Relations Committee
Connally
Texas
George
Georgia
Roosevelt
Congress
Japan
Germany
United States
United Nations
Family ties noted in service stationing report
In the service, Wood Gibson stationed in Great Falls Montana. Their mother is Mrs. Jean Gibson listed at general delivery West Monroe.
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Wood Gibson
Great Falls
Mont
Jean Gibson
General Delivery
West Monroe
Sulfa drugs help save farm animals at convention
At the American veterinary medical convention in Chicago on August 24, Dr. W. T. S. Thorp of Pennsylvania State College reported that sulfathalidine and sulfaguanadine show very good results against swine enteritis and calf scours. He described sulfamerazine for calf pneumonia as very encouraging.
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Chicago
American Veterinary Medical Convention
W. T. S. Thorp
Pennsylvania State College
Black and White Skin Ointment and Soap Ad Claim
Public notice style advert highlights Black and White Ointment for acne eczema dermatitis ringworm and other skin ailments. Claims rapid relief itching burning and soreness with antiseptic Cay and money back guarantee. Encourages daily use of Black and White Skin Soap and domestic soap as cleansing agent.
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