NAVAL COMMISSION
GIVEN TO MOVIE STAR. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.) WASHINGTON. April 19. The Navy announced today that Douglas Fairbanks, the movie star, has been given a commission as lieutenant, junior grade, in the naval reserves, but it is unlikely that he will be called for active duty at present. Fairbanks, at Mr Roosevelt's request, will tour South America in the interest of promoting cultural ties among the western hemisphere nations.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAITA19410421.2.26
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 April 1941, Page 4
Word count
Tapeke kupu
70NAVAL COMMISSION Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 April 1941, Page 4
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Wairarapa Times-Age. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in