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May 8, 1938

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Six Million Families Now Get Public Aid

By Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES

Probably 6,000,000 families, comprising 20,000,000 persons, are receiving some form of public assistance, Harry L. Hopkins, chief of the WPA, told a House hearing in testimony made public today.

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Second Corps Area Shifts High Officers; Major J. N. Dalton Assigned to New Duties

By Unknown Author

Orders assigning several wellknown officers in the Second Corps Area to new duties were issued by the War Department last week. Major Joseph N. Dalton, Assistant Chief-of Staff for Intelligence (G-2), was ordered detached from this duty on May 21. Major Dalton will not leave Second Corps Area Headquarters on Governors Island, but will be shifted to duty with the Adjutant General's Department there.

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Notable Births

Jean Giraud

1938Jean Giraud, French author and illustrator (died 2012)[†]

Jean Henri Gaston Giraud was a French artist, cartoonist, and writer who worked in the Franco-Belgian bandes dessinĂ©es (BD) tradition. Giraud garnered worldwide acclaim predominantly under the pseudonym MƓbius for his fantasy/science-fiction work, and to a slightly lesser extent as Gir, which he used for the Blueberry series and his other Western-themed work. Esteemed by Federico Fellini, Stan Lee, and Hayao Miyazaki, among others, he has been described as the most influential bande dessinĂ©e artist after HergĂ©.