WAAC at Fort Des Moines Aims High Standards and Training
Col. Don C. Faith leads the first 330 entrants as the WAAC forms at Fort Des Moines. He promises firm discipline with opportunities for hairdos and seven daily classes plus drill. The corps will grow to about 25 000 women serving as kitchen police, barracks orderlies, clerks and more nationwide.
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General Follett Bradley on War Slogans and Aerial Gunners
AJ. Gen. Follett Bradley of the First Air Force at Mitchel Field says slogans are weak war weapons and praises native idiom. He credits aerial gunners with keeping bombers in flight as essential to mission success, noting team work with bombers, navigators, gunners, and engineers. He recalls a 23 year tenure in air services and his WWI service as gunner and pilot.
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Celebrities and Films Featured in East and West Cultural Drive
EARL BUCK outlines movies that reflect American life including Pride of the Yankees with Gary Cooper and Teresa Wright. Metro notes on new Talent signings William Bishop and Lenore Aubert, and Bob Hawk's How Am I Doin shows half-year totals and top winner Mrs Riley.
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Pride of the Yankees
Gary Cooper
Teresa Wright
Lou Gehrig
Bob Hawk
Hawk
William Riley
South Bend
Ind
Rogers to star in The Gibson Girl with Lassie Come Home planned
Ginger Rogers will lead The Gibson Girl a technicolor romantic comedy based on Charles Dana Gibson and his wife Lassie Come Home Eric Knight story to be filmed in technicolor by Metro Margo to sing on CBS Caravan hour Friday Joan Blaine receiving many calls about Private Charles Carroll former leading man in Valiant Lady
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Rogers
Gibson Girl
Charles Dana Gibson
Eric Knight
Metro
Margo
Joan Blaine
Charles Carroll
William Henry Jackson Pioneer Photographer Dies at 99
Western Union notes the death of William Henry Jackson a renowned pioneer photographer and painter aged 99. He captured early West scenes including Indian leaders Plains war portraits and Yellowstone views helping origin of national park status and advancing the souvenir postcard era with 40000 negatives now at Ford Museum.
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William Henry Jackson
Qld
Jackson
West
Yellowstone
Union Pacific Railroad
U.P
F. W. Hayden
United States Geological Survey of the
Territories
Geological Survey
Detroit
Detroit Publishing Company
Ford Museum
Edison Institute
Dearborn
Mich
Grand Tetons
Wyoming
Mount of the Holy Cross
Mesa Verde
Colorado
Department of the Interior
Double Wedding Ring Quilt Pattern Returns in Style
The old favorite Double Wedding Ring quilt pattern returns with tradition and new cutting guides for six or eight pieces. It offers prints in color and white or pastels, a large 86 by 99 case size, and a 15 cent pattern No. 78131 with ordering details.
Buried Hangars Defy Detection in RAF England System
Collier's reports secret type C hangars in England hidden by 50 foot underground storage rooms linked to a surface farmhouse. Planes are towed from the port into an attached shed and then catapulted to an opposite shed for outgoing aircraft.
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Collier’s
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