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...Regiment Etranger...
Handily stealing a march on 1937's automobile shows which will open at the end of October, Manhattan's first big all-trailer show appeared last week in Manhattan's ugly old brownstone 71st Regiment Armory. Twenty-four trailers, from a one-wheel duck hunter's camp to de luxe three-wheelers with bath, were parked on the Armory floor; outside, too big to trundle through the Armory's great doors, stood a shingle-roofed, imitation brick house on wheels. For seven days at the rate of about 100 an hour some 10,000 trailer...
...Father Will was made director of a U. S. chaplains' school at Fort Leavenworth, where chaplains are familiarized with their religious and secular duties. Every regiment has at least one chaplain, detailed for an indefinite period. Aside from holding services for men of his faith, he must know how to join in with all the soldiers in athletic, theatrical and educational ventures, lecture to them on subjects like "Wearing the Uniform," "Personal Purity," "Don't be a Borrower," "Great Soldiers of America," and must be aware of opportunities like one mentioned in the manual...
Since 1934 the Government has struggled ingeniously to make soldiering attractive. In recruiting offices, handsome male mannequins were hired to parade in a range of colorful uniforms; recruits were given the opportunity of choosing a regiment by its regalia. Special blue "walking-out" uniforms were provided. Out-of-workers were warmly invited to spend a free holiday with the Army. Prospective Tommies were escorted through spick & span, comfortably-furnished barracks. A trial enlistment scheme whereby young men could join up for six months was inaugurated. Such chores as scrubbing and peeling potatoes were eliminated from regular military duties. Finally, haircuts...
...Admiral Henry Ervin Yarnell on the cruiser Augusta, flagship of the U. S. Asiatic Fleet of some 40 outmoded destroyers, auxiliaries and spoon-shallow river gunboats; 2) the fourth U. S. Marines, a regiment of 1,050 men, which were reinforced from Manila by week's end; 3) British Vice Admiral Sir Charles Little commanding Britain's China Squadron; 4) nine hundred fifty British regulars, and a battalion of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers hastily ferried over from Hong Kong; 5) about 1,000 small sallow French Indo-Chinese and Annamese soldiers; 6) small detachment of Italian Fascists...