 Five years later, O'Laughlin appointed LeRoy Whitman as editor.In 1933, the newspaper changed format, from a broadsheet to a smaller tabloid.Its offices were then located at 1701 Connecticut Avenue NW in Washington, D.C.

O'Laughlin wrote to Gen. Douglas MacArthur, then the Army chief of staff and acting Secretary of War, offering to have his newspaper make and award medals for the best-run camps of the Civilian Conservation Corps.