Defense of Abnormal Psychology and Far-Reading Punditry
Hendrik Willem Van Loon defends comrade Clifton Fadiman against character assassination over Fadiman’s Communist era writings. The piece critiques Van Loon’s focus on abnormal psychology and questions the fairness of quoting Fadiman’s Communist beliefs as a confession.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hendrik Willem van Loon
Clifton Fadiman
Mr. van Loon
van Loon
Fadiman
The
New Masses
East to face still bigger gasoline cut
Ralph K. Davies announced a 15 percent September gasoline reduction for filling stations in the east compared with July as a Senate probe opens into potential oil shortages. Lawmakers expect findings on a transportation problem amid suspected real shortages, while price controls target fair maximum prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Ralph K. Davies
Davies
Senate
Maloney
Connecticut
Leon Henderson
Atlantic Seaboard
States
District of Columbia
England
Gulf Ports
Selectee Regains Old Shoeshop Foreman Post
New York Aug 28 A Brooklyn selectee discharged for dependents won back his shoeshop foreman job after U S Attorney Harold M Kennedy intervened. Carra former employee of Grossman Shoe Co who enlisted May 1 was discharged as family sole support. Kennedy cited a new selective service provision allowing suit for reinstatement without expense after honorable discharge. Colonel McDermott noted job reversal requires unchanged employer circumstances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Sylvester Carra
Brooklyn
United States
Harold M. Kennedy
Kennedy
Carra
Grossman Shoe Company
Morgan Grossman
Selective Service Act
Arthur V. McDermott
Manhattan
Selective Service
Wavell's Iran Mission Redraws War Strategy
Transfer from Middle East command to India places General Archibald Wavell at the center of a joint British Soviet push into Iran. The invasion reshapes supply routes to Russia via the Caspian region, signaling a clearer plan for aiding Moscow and tightening Britain’s war posture in the Middle East.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul K. Lee
Associated Press Cable
Archibald P. Wavell
Britain
Middle East
India
Wavell
Libya
Crete
House of Commons
Churchill
Iran
Local youths join air corps at Kessler field Biloxi
The Jackson recruiting office reports the largest volunteer induction since January 1 as twelve local youths take three year enlistments at Kessler field Biloxi. Names include Browder Butler Cer cer Duncan Eubanks Gordy Gurnedy Hague McBroom Newton Parker Warren. Additional vacancies exist at Jefferson Barracks Missouri.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jackson
Miss
Harold B. McNemar
Air Corps
Kessler Field
Biloxi
War Department
McNemar
Menzies Resigns. Fadden Chosen as Successor in Australia
Prime Minister Robert C. Menzies resigned amid a bitter quarrel with Labor over his plan to go to London. Deputy PM Arthur W. Fadden was unanimously selected to succeed him at a joint United Australian and Country party meeting. The crisis followed Menzies announcement of a London assignment and Labor’s opposition to cabinet joining proposals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sydney
Australia
Robert C. Menzies
Labor Party
London
Arthur W Fadden
Fadden
United Australian Party
Country Party
Menzies
Writer describes ride in new army dive bomber in training
An Associated Press reporter rode in the gunner’s cockpit as a nine-plane squadron of new army dive bombers conducted dawn training over South Arkansas. The observer describes speeds over 200 mph, a 9000-foot plunge, and the jolt of the vertical dive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Arkansas
Jerry T. Baulch
Second Army
Army
Coney Island
W. R. Puritan
Shreveport
Edward J. Walker
South
Puritan
Untrained Sergeant Crashes Big Bomber at Nichols Field
At Nichols Field near Manila an army staff sergeant who had never flown a plane attempted an unauthorized takeoff in a Martin bomber. The aircraft stalled after lift off and crashed into four native huts, killing two Filipino workers and injuring three others and the sergeant William B. Rowland of Natchez Mississippi with a fractured jaw and facial cuts. Colonel Lawrence Churchill ordered an investigation into the incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manila
Army
Nichols Field
William B. Rowland
Rowland
Natchez, Miss
Lawrence Churchill
Rowlind
Japanese envoy delivers message to Roosevelt at White House
Nomura met with President Roosevelt and Secretary Hull amid rising Pacific tensions. The envoy refused to reveal contents of Prime Minister Konoye's message about strained relations and shipments to Russia via Vladivostok. Reports said 10,000 troops are being redeployed from central China toward Hainan or French Indochina.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Roosevelt
Kichisaburo Nomura
Nomura
White House
Pacific
Hull
Konoye
Russia
United States
Vladivostok
Shanghai
Central China
Hainan
Indo-China
World turmoil widens as fronts clash from Europe to Middle East
Fighting ends in a four day old Iran invasion while new Iran cabinet sues Britain and Russia for armistice to spare bloodshed. Turkish fears of German invasion grow as Thrace is closed to foreigners and Hitler warns Turkey of measures ahead. Germans press toward Leningrad, Odessa defends to the last drop, and Moscow to Leningrad rail line is cut. British bomb Mannheim as Japan seeks talks with Roosevelt amid Far East tension.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Iran
Britain
Russia
Middle East
Thrace
Istanbul
Hitler
Turkey
France
Laval
Leningrad
Budyonny
Odessa
Central
Moscow
Moscow- Leningrad
Lower Dnieper
Zaporozhe
Veterans of Foreign Wars tables censure move
The Veterans of Foreign Wars at its 42nd national encampment tabled a resolution to censure any organizations undermining U S foreign policy. It urged Roosevelt to outlaw jurisdictional strikes in defense industries and to strip defense workers of draft exemptions if they strike. The group also sought Perkins removal and asked Congress to declare the Communist party a non political organization and bar it from ballots. Louis E Starr proposed the measure with support from the Americanization committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Veterans of Foreign Wars
United States
Roosevelt
Frances Perkins
Congress
Communist Party
Louis E. Starr
Oregon Department
V. F. W. Americanization Committee
Joseph C Menendez
Menu Shows Good Meals Are Served To Soldiers
An editor’s note describes behind the scenes coverage of Louisiana maneuvers and soldier meals. Read about typical menus for breakfast lunch and supper, rest day fare, and a lunch with Company F of the 55th Regiment showing sauerkraut and wieners as a welcome treat.
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Camp
Polk
Jones
Corporal Smith
Sam
Louisiana
Company F
55Th Regiment
Quartermaster Corps
Pension plan to raise old age benefits and fund taxes
A Senate committee proposes liberalizing social security to guarantee minimum old age pensions of 30 dollars monthly for unemployed Americans over 60. The plan would raise combined payroll taxes to six percent by 1944 and expand benefits, costing about 4 billion annually, with phased increases starting July 1942.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
Congress
Anxious condemned man awaits San Quentin gas chamber
Eldon Hawks 26, a San Diego killer, fears a reprieve and not dying tomorrow with fellow inmate John Lininger. Psychiatrists say he is not insane, just in metamorphosis from one life to another. Governor Olson postponed his execution from August 8 to 29.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Quentin
Calif
Eldon Hawks
San Diego
Culbert Olson
Hawks
John William Lininger
Lininger
Henry Ohlhoff
San Francisco
Physicians Report Condition Of Laval And Death Still Grave
In Versailles on August 28 German authorities conducted a broad roundup of regime enemies following the Laval incident. Reports indicate Laval’s condition remains grave while others captured are being detained. The action reflects continued crackdown in occupied France.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Laval
Deat
Versailles
France
Young assassin cites duty of German officers in Versailles
Paul Colette told magistrates that he shot Laval and Dent but spared German officers at yesterday's ceremony because he believed the officers were in France to carry out their duty and had no reason to fire on them. The exchange follows questions about the attack in occupied Versailles, France.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
val-Dent
anti-Bolshevist Legion
Paris
Laval
Russia
Germany
Pierre Leval
Paul Colette
Versailles
France
Senate finance subcommittee approves new excise taxes
Washington August 2 A Senate finance subcommittee agreed on a new schedule of excise taxes expected to add about 400 million dollars to the 3.5039 billion tax bill. The panel led by Democrats Brown and Republican Danaher reported to the full committee after a four hour session focusing on new revenue sources. Brown noted increases in some taxes and a few new ones while declining to detail the schedule. Downey pushed for a pension provision of 30 dollars monthly for those over 60 and protested wine tax hikes, calling the increases nearly 100 percent compared with the House 33 percent rise, a blow to California grape growers. Senators also revisited community property rules affecting eight states Texas Louisiana Arizona New Mexico California Nevada Idaho and Washington, reconsidering allowing husbands and wives to split income for tax purposes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate Finance
Brown
Michigan
Danaher
Connecticut
Downey
California
House
Senate Finance Committee
Texas
Louisiana
Arizona
New Mexico
Nevada
Idaho
Dog saves mistress by alerting fire escape sacrifice
In Philadelphia a chained 18 month old mongrel named Duke barked to warn his 27 year old mistress Mary Denofa as flames engulfed a garage behind her home. Duke dashed through the burning wall to search for her and was badly burned, later destroyed to end his suffering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Duke
Mary Denofa
Miss Denofa
End of Iran fighting marks four day invasion pause
World War II front line reports say all fighting ceased in the Iran Persia invasion after four days as British and Russian forces hold their positions. German troops push toward Leningrad while Soviet counterattacks near Smo len skid and Kiev, with Odessa defense urged to last. Turkey grows wary as Axis moves into Bulgaria Yugoslavia and Greece appear diversions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Leningrad
Middle East
Iran
Persia
Daneer
Dnieper
Hitler
Nazifuehrer
Ukraine
Sea of Azov
Black Sea
Bulgaria
Yugoslavia
Greece
Governors plans meeting on drainage projects in 11 parishes
Governor Sam H. Jones scheduled to attend a 3 PM session of the Northeast Louisiana Flood and Drainage association in Monroe with D L Pyburn Leo Odom and J R Adams. They will discuss drainage works across 11 northeastern Louisiana parishes and air arrivals were noted. In Washington Artermus L Gates former WWI flier and current New York Trust president was named assistant secretary of the navy for aeronautics by President Roosevelt, a vacant post recently filled in the war department.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sam H. Jones
Northeast Louisiana Flood and Drainage Association
Hotel Frances
Northeast
Louisiana
D. L. Pyburn
Leo Odom
Department of Public Works
J. R. Adams
Pyburn
Mr. Odom
Monroe
Odom
Association
The
Frances
Washington
Artemus L. Gates
New York Trust Company
Roosevelt
Seronautics
War Department
Safety record figures and traffic rule notice
Accidents to date this year 351 versus 310 last year. Personal injuries 43 this year versus 14 last year. Deaths 4 this year versus 5 last year. Traffic rule of the day states: when turning left at street intersections a vehicle must stay to the right of the center line of both streets.
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Fair
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New Army Field
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China
W.F. W
George W. Lofton
Senate Group
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Mistress
Smolensk
Kiev
Seemeon Budyonny
Gates
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