Goin Places and Clubbing at the Nat
A bustling page lists social names, events, and entertainment notes from the Nat showing many guests and performers. Highlights include Eddie Lewis and George Evans with piano, Mary Childs, and a mix of visitors and campus groups. Also noted are upcoming weddings, pageant entries, and local society gatherings with several college organizations and clubs referenced.
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NAT
Eddie Lewis
George Evans
Mary Childs
Billy
Amos) Williford
Bob Preacee
Weldon Forister
Juse
G. C. McDaniel
Jimmie Sullivan
Louis Albert
Aileen
Leroy Byrd
Max Neal
Margaret
Dickinson
Betty Gorsuch
Bob
Pauline Wadley
Margaret Stone
Betty Caldwell
Lloyd Shackleford
Joe Bactav
Cliff Natean
White House defense machine under Hopkins claim
A Washington profile outlines how Harry Hopkins oversees defense coordination through a web of aides and offices. It credits a loosely organized structure with partial gains in centralizing control while noting fuzzy lines and limited efficiency. The piece also quotes sharp humor about Ickes and gasoline policy.
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Paul Mallon
Washington
White House
Harry Hopkins
FDR
Mr. Hopkins
Mr. Knudsen
Hopkins
Philip Young
Owen Young
Treasury Department
General Burns
Office of Defense
Burns
War Department
Young
Wayne Coy
Office of Emergency Management
Pat McNutt
Indiana
Coy
Knudsen
OPM
Leon Henderson
Isadore Lubin
Treasury
War
Navy
Agriculture
Public speaking training for police improves public trust
A former G-man named L B Reed reshaped the Kansas City police force to curb corruption and violence. He hired public speaking coach Russell D McNeill to train officers to speak clearly, act with poise, and testify confidently. One hundred six officers have taken the course and record their speeches for self evaluation.
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Kansas City
Missouri
Tom Pendergast
Westport Landing
Reed
G. Edgar Hoover
L. B. Reed
Russell D. McNeill
Patrick
United States
Chief Reed
TODAY'S PUZZLER HORIZONTAL 1 5 Pictured tennis player
A compact clue list for a vintage newspaper puzzle with numbered horizontal and vertical entries including tennis star, lakes, habits, and archaic terms, plus a few entries such as 48 to change and 54 form of a.
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Great Lake
Britain Russia alliance marks turning point in war
Dorothy Thompson argues that the Anglo Russian pact rejects any separate peace with Hitler, drawing parallels to Napoleon and Russia. She asserts the alliance weakens Bolshevik expansion, preserves liberal values, and suggests the axis alliance will fail as democratic powers unite to resist totalitarianism.
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Dorothy Thompson
Great Britain
Russia
Hitler
Britain
Napoleon
England
Tsar Alexander
Prussia
France
Alexander
Tsar
Back Home with Ernie Pyle at Lowry Field
Pyle describes Col. Early Duncan who runs a wartime school at Lowry Field in Denver. He details Duncan's love of education, the 40 day-room Lincoln study pictures, the bread loaf episode, a fast barber, a dental false-tooth department, and the vast post housing plus ski culture. He notes residents’ complaints about nearby army air noise and Albuquerque comparisons, ending with a light self-deprecating line and a confession: I hate war.
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Denver
Army
Lowry Field
Early E W. Duncan
Duncan
America
Europe
University of North Carolina
Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln
Colonel Duncan
Art Department
Post
Dental
United States Army
Lowry
Norbert Danko
Austria
Albuquerque
War jitters and safety faults raise US traffic toll
Traffic fatalities rise over 18 months despite safety gains from 1934 to 1939. Sidney J. Williams cites defense work, mass military movement, war jitters, and drinking as factors. The Automotive Safety Foundation lists twelve driving faults from speeding to fatigue and poor signaling, plus political changes weakening departments.
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United States
Sidney J. Williams
The
National Safety
Williams
Public Safety
Automotive Safety Foundation
Woes of Paramount Property Chief In Lost Ship Search
Hollywood. O. D. Stratton, head of Paramount property, chased a small fleet for Reap the Wild Wind. He found a two mast schooner in San Francisco Bay but a blue overalled yard owner warned him off. Stockton yard was crowded. After days, the inspection found the bottom rotted and unsalvageable.
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Charles R. Moore
Hollywood
U.P
Louis XIV
O. D. Stratton
Paramount Property Department
Cecil B. DeMille
Stratton
San Francisco Bay
Stockton
Russia Vastly Larger Than United States In Land Area
Editorial Q&A notes main German aims in Caucasus and other resources. It recalls Napoleon’s 1812 Moscow campaign and its short duration. The text compares Russia's 8,095,728 square miles to the U S 3,026,789, stating Russia is 223 times as large and spans from Leningrad on the Baltic to Vladivostok on the Pacific, a 4,500 mile reach, about twice the distance from New York to San Francisco.
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Russia
Caucasus
Napoleon
Moscow
U. S
Leningrad
Baltic
Vladivostok
Pacific
New York
San Francisco
MANNERS Test Your Knowledge of Social Etiquette
The article lists four etiquette questions with answers. A guest may remove a coat only if urged by the host. A man should ask permission to light pipe or cigar if unsure of the hostess. It is bad manners to sip ice from a drink. A woman guest should avoid wearing shorts unless the hostess expects casual attire and approves.
Boom Town Move by Jack Stinnett
The article traces the rise of mobile defense housing via FSA trailers amid rapid defense needs. It notes 3,194 trailers across 12 defense areas, costs of 6 to 6.50 weekly, and camps in Baltimore Erie Ravenna Burlington Jacksonville Nashville San Diego Paso Robles Benicia Bethlehem. It contrasts temporary stopgap housing with permanent style trailers and forecasts prefabricated low-cost homes replacing trailers, shaping a boom town narrative for 1,000 to 2,000 person camps.
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Jack Stinnett
Farm Security Administration
FSA
Congress
Baltimore
Erie
Ravenna
Ohio
Burlington
Iowa
Kingsbury-LaPorte
Ind
Jacksonville
Wilmington
N. C
Nashville
National Defense
Hobb
Hut Sut Song sparks Swedish slang craze in radio juke boxes
The Hut Sut Song combines Swedish double talk with catchy melody, confusing natives like Mangus Hallberg and Ekholm. Explanations label Hut Sut as love nest and rill-er-ah as tra la la, while confirming its Scandinavian origin and playful mischief.
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Fort Worth
San Francisco
Panama
Brooklyn
Rawison
Mangus Hallberg
Sweden
Missus
Rawlson
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Genie Harrison
Donald Stephenson
Martha Nell Stack
Delphine Nixon
Brady McCoy
Jenkins
Mann
Covention
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Slace
Doris Vineyard
Marvin Hodde
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Edward R. Mayer, Jr
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Jean Fish
Ed Rumsey
Andy Hardy
Paramount
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Joan Hyland
Ward Hughes
Gero
Snead Corrigan
Atlantic
British Alliance
Jane Dice
Clarence Kropff
Dixie Hedgecake
Kiwanis
Dorothea Dell Scheihagen
Danielle Darrieux
Benny Meroff
Mary Alice
Pi Omega
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Dave Yates
Tom Sawyer
Rialto
H. A. Dyer
Ted Weems
Dekex Club
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John Eisenberg
Bob Ward
Billy Hays
Bert McCullough
Tom Sparks
JBL
Frenchiers
Bill Montgomery
Panhandle Council
Walter Caldwell
Mary Paul
John O’brien
Tom Lumpkin
Billy Bob Jones
Conway Butler
Man
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Edward G. Robinson
Joan Blondell
Paramount Cotteg College
Martha Houghton
Mildred Kirk
Hawaii
Jimmy Gamewell
Hildcrest Pro
Alpha Delta's
Capitol Hotel
Dorothy Coan
Aileen Barker
Ernestine White
Mildred Meharg
Mary Emma Finley
Rosalie Cousins
Bali-Bali
Mr. Ickes
Mallon
Assembly
Louisa May Alcott
Hiler
Germany
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Norman Thomas
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