Urges All Texans To Register For Defense Service
In a Washington message Dr Geo W Cox Texas Health Officer and new Defense Health and Emergency Medical Care chairman urged immediate civilian defense registration for all Texans He outlined three phases first aid nurses aides and emergency sanitary corps and asked residents to contact mayors or county judges who act as defense coordinators to begin today He is due back in Austin this week
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Austin
Washington
Geo. W. Cox
Stevenson
Texas
Pacific
Doctor Cox
Air Corps Seeks 20000 Applicants Monthly for Cadet Training
Washington The Army Recruiting Service called for 20000 applicants each month for aviation cadet training. Recruits should be 20 to 26 years old. It also sought 150000 more men aged 18 to 35 for the Air Corps and its service branches including 5000 experienced automobile mechanics from nonessential war industries.
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Washington
Army Recruiting Service
Air Corps
40 Hour Week Stands Says Roosevelt
President Roosevelt said the 40 hour week provisions of the wage hour act remain in effect and any time over 40 hours should be paid at time and a half. He declined to say any change is planned due to the war, noting possible longer hours for government workers.
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Washington
Roose
Philippines as a global crossroads of 14 million in many tongues
A 14 million population across 7 087 islands speaks forty languages amid a mosaic of ethnic groups from Igorots to Manila Christians. The piece traces American and Japanese stakes in the archipelago, recalls Dewey in 1898 and Funston’s role, and notes geography from Y Ami to Brownsville with many unnamed islets.
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Philippines
Isles
Manila
Baguio
United States
Admiral Dewey
Y’ami
Japanese Formosa
mid-Oklahoma
Brownsville
Elderly man favors town strolls cites Adlerika remedy
A 94 year old Oklahoma resident walks to town daily and has used Adlerika for 15 years. The ad promotes Adlerika containing three laxatives and five carminatives to ease gas pains and encourages readers to buy it at their local drug store.
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Oklahoma
Philippines and Democracy in War Time Echoes of Mayhem
The article traces U S policy toward the Philippines from Spanish rule to 1913 urging gradual independence. It notes President McKinley and Taft guiding principles, describes Luzon geography Manila Cavite and the Moros, and explains key crops like abaca and the Filipino label for Christianized Malays. It mentions Japanese flare and native capture in Manila as war context.
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Occidentals
United States
Spain
Francis Burton Harrison
Philippines
McKinley
Taft Philippine Commission
Manila
Luzon
Texas
Dallas
Manilad
Aguinaldo
Warlike and Peaceful Traits in a Multiracial Society
The passage notes warlike tendencies among some groups who practice uramentado, while most inhabitants are described as peace-loving and hospitable with strong self-respect. It highlights racial cleavages as the main obstacle to national unity and education as a shared goal.
Relief payments for cotton hay and tobacco growers
The Senate approved relief payments for cotton tobacco hay and other forage crops hurt by drought excess rainfall or insect damage. Unused parity funds would finance the relief with payments to farmers whose 1941 output fell below 50 percent of normal, equal to the parity price for the shortfall.
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Washington
Senate
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