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Show MUCH DEPENDS ON SECRECY IN WAR TALK, WRITING The life of your son, brother, or husband may depend on secrecy, Colonel Herbert V. Hopkins, army air base commander, said today, in explaining war department restrictions re-strictions for safeguarding military mili-tary information. "Don't talk" is a warning applicable ap-plicable alike to soldier and civilian, ci-vilian, Colonel Hopkins said. The station and location of a soldier outside the United States is a military secret upon which the lives of men and the success of the war effort may depend, the air base commander warned. Your letters let-ters written to men in the service may fall into enemy hands, he said, and should not contain information in-formation of value to the enemy. He urged that letters be written often to soldiers, providing them with information about the family and friends, but not about subjects of military importance. When letters are censored, tne. material is actually cut out with a pair of scissors, thereby destroying destroy-ing unnecessarily harmless material mater-ial on the reverse side. 3 Always write in plain, visible visi-ble text, preferably English; never in secret writing of any type. 4, Never include in your letters information concerning training, troops, movements, or production of military equipment or mention of any specific employment of that equipment. If your son includes that information within his letter, keep the data confidential. 5 Don't discuss security measures meas-ures taken to protect plants, local utilities, or transportation facilities. facili-ties. 6. Never include any informa- ion about the weather. 7. Don't discuss adverse conditions condi-tions which affect your farm or occupation. 8. Don't include criticism of the conduct of the war. Your views may not be based upon facts. 9. when sending pictures, make certain that no information of a military nature is included in the scene. 10. Remember the purpose of censorship is not to place hardship hard-ship on correspondents, but instead, in-stead, it is to collect information from mail coming from foreign countries while at the same time preventing important information from reaching the enemy. "Don't be discouraged by long .aeiays in receiving mai Hopkins said. "This . ' wide war. And remember . department consider v e important enough to i r shipment of mail on clude J that leaves the country S NEGROESr7 The navy has authors enlistment of Negroes fn service in the ranks and commissioned officers e "6E' Knox indicates that thev assigned to segregated duti!'" tire Negro crews will be T E' for small craft, and, Pos IN stroyers may be manned v1'1 groes. u 0)' Xj. united labor For the first time since , ed labor split into two 1935, William Green, pr the A. F. of L., and Ph e ray, president of the C x Vh peared on a public platformV ther to pledge labor's Un support to the war effort in : gram of no strikes andtheLP':' est possible output. pej;' AID TO MEXICO The United States will coak ate with Mexico in es ta ,J series of basic industries ' ing steel and tinplate rolling a f high octane gasoline plantin g to increase the production of tegic materials in Mexi , United States. . 'COfor Colonel Hopkins announced the j following suggestions of the war department with reference to cor-1 respondence: Get the correct mailing address from the soldier, including his serial number, organization designation, desig-nation, the army post office number, num-ber, and the city through which all mail addressed to him is to be handled. If this information is not available, after the soldier has left the country, then you may inquire of the adjutant general, war department, de-partment, Washington, D. C, for the correct mailing address. Only the army post office address will be furnished not the foreign station sta-tion of the soldier. Avoid unnecessary unneces-sary writing to the war department. depart-ment. Here are some precautions to be observed: " 1. Include your return address in upper left hand corner of envelope, en-velope, and allow plenty of white space on envelope for forwarding data by postmaster. 2. Write on one side of page. |