Blind Fiddler Rubin off brightens Omaha corner
A ragged man with a sign played violin on Omaha's main corner raising 11 dollars for Roosevelt's Infantile Paralysis Fund after a newspaper noted his talent. The same performer later appears on Amarillo stage offering a mix of boogie woogie and light classical pieces. Eddie Cantor's life and voice set the show, with celebrated voices named by Herbert Marshall.
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Rubinoff
Omaha
David Rubinoff
Roosevelt
Amarillo
The
Panhandle
Municipal Auditorium
Navy to Spend Record Sums on Ammunition and Aircraft
NEA summary reports Senate appropriations hearings on a 26.5 billion navy bill for global warfare. Officials warn of high aircraft attrition up to 100 percent and estimate daily ammunition costs around 20 million dollars for the remaining fiscal year. Edmund Walsh of Georgetown cautions the nation faces its closest risk of defeat since independence.
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NEA
United States Navy
Uncle Sam
Senate Committee On Appropriations
United States
Naval Airaft
J. H. Towers
Bureau of Aeronautics
W. H. P. Blandy
Bureau of Ordnance
Edmund A. Walsh
Georgetown University
Today's Puzzler Horizontal and Vertical Clues
A crossword style grid presents numbered across and down clues including diplomats, languages, units, gigs, gods, and common terms. The puzzle lists many abbreviations and thematic hints such as US to Canada, and repeats in a single page column.
Unsung Heroes of Navy Flight Instructors Praised
McLeMore salutes aviation instructors at bases like Atlanta Georgia who daily risks their lives six to eight hours in the air with green cadets. The piece recalls Lt MacRobert Lt Kuehner and Lt Harrigan and recounts perilous landings, near misses and the tough yet vital teaching work behind the silver wings.
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Naval Air Base
Atlanta
D. Ward Harrigan
MacRobert
England
MANNERS What to do with table manners and invitations
Answers cover tipping when guest, which spoon end to sip from, oyster crackers in soup, resting elbows, stirring coffee, and refusing invitations. Key solutions include using the soup side, crackers allowed, no elbow on table, keep stirring until finished, and provide one strong reason to decline to spare feelings.
Aviation production strains and war material shortages
Roosevelt warned that leading aviation makers face bottlenecks especially in propellers and aluminum. He noted silver threads of disruption from strikes at Monarch Aluminum and distribution imbalances, while two new propeller plants near production breakthrough. He warned against separate peace with Hitler and exposed Nazi exploitation of occupied nations.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Army
War Department
Army Air Transport Service
Britain
War Production Board
Donald Nelson
Robert Nathan
CIO
Monarch Aluminum Manufacturing Co
Cleveland
Nathan
Denmark
Hitler
Germany
Naziland
France
Belgium
Holland
A Call for Creative Nation Action in War Mobilization
Dorothy Thompson argues that true morale comes from people’s creative action, not press or administration. She warns the state risks demobilizing talent by treating journalists as outsiders and urges mobilizing talent across media to inform and inspire public effort.
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Washington
Billy
Far East
Russia rejects Bulgaria axis dominated policy
A United Press report states Russia refuses Bulgaria's axis dominated policy while U.S. semi official quarters note Turkey has nullified the nonaggression accord with Bulgaria and Roosevelt freezes Bulgaria.
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United Press
Russia
Bulgaria
Roosevelt
U. S
Turkey
Salinas draft registration and Dana Indiana war buildup tales
Ernie Pyle recalls casual, friendly Salinas registration day and sugar rationing quirks as a hint of wartime life. He notes Dana Indiana's munitions plant construction, farm moves, new streets and rail spurs, and townsfolk gathering to watch war materiel arrive.
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Palo Robles
Cal
Salinas
Mary
Dana
Ind
Ben Lang
Doc Meyers
Watermelon Patch Staged for My Favorite Blonde
Hollywood set dresser Bert Grainger faced a challenge creating a January melon patch for My Favorite Blonde starring Bob Hope and Madeleine Carroll. He found 55 acres near Saugus, selected 500 large melons and bought 190 full size fruit for closeups, then used citron and grape trailers to fake vines. The melons split under noon sun, but Grainger prayed the stars would not muffle lines.
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Charles R. Moore
Hollywood
Bert Brainger
Bob Hope
Madeleine Carroll
Saugus
Bob
Madeleine
Grainger
Best Ideas of 1941 Forbes Picks From Dale Carnegie Column
Forbes Magazine lists 80 bright ideas in 1941 including a Midwest store lending umbrellas, a hostess in supermarkets, an electric toothbrush for consumers, package selling at service stations, air pilots wedding gowns, fiberglass stone building material, a doghouse listing careless workers, rear window wiper, pick up repair service with fixed prices, voice dialing, a company magazine for workers, a transparent plastic rowboat, shark vitamin A extraction, asbestos gloves, and numerous Patents from Uncle Sam on gadgets like bumper protectors and a painless diaper.
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Forbes Magazine
U. S. Army Engineers
Uncle Sam
Hitchcock Profile Highlights a Titan of Suspense and Appetite
Alfred Hitchcock, the 290 pound British director famed for horror and suspense, is described as a round kindly man with blue eyes. The piece covers his career from London origins to silencing shipboard tall tales, his films including Rebecca and The 39 Steps, his marriage to Alma Reville, and daughter Patricia, a Broadway debutant.
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United Press
Alfred Hitchcock
Hitch
Hitchcock
London
University of London
Clive Brook
Betty Compson
David O. Selznick
Alma Reville
Patricia
We Stood For Freedom and A Century at the Bar
Iris Mor ley narrates a girl’s path to integrity through love and dissenter Saul Flecke in White Lacings and his liberation movement. Charles Henry Butler’s memoir traces his, his father’s, and his grandfather’s ties to the Supreme Court from 1902 to 1916, completed posthumously by Henry F. Butler.
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Morrow
Iris Morley
Diana Hayes
Saul Flecke
Flecke
Charles Henry Butler
Supreme Court of the United States
Putnam
Court
Supreme Court
Washington
Butler
Henry F. Butler
Car Conservation Rules for Wartime Driving
General Motors researchers outline how to maximize car life during peacetime and wartime. Emphasizes sensible operation and strict maintenance, noting inflation, tire mileage, and safety priorities have shifted since Pearl Harbor. Future installments will cover tires lubrication motor brakes and instruments.
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General Motors
Pearl Harbor
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Ida
Eddie
Wall Street
NBC Red
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Winston Churchill
Paul Robeson
Marlene Dietrich
Walter Winchell
Irene Dunne
Gracie Allen
Will Rogers
Blandy
Jan.tary
U.S. Navy
Andrew
Ireland
Larissa
Greece
Canada
South African Republic
Thanion
Navy
Paul Mallon
Aluminum
Geles
Henry Ford
Los Angeles
Dorothy Thompson
Ernie Pyle
Taylor
America
San Francisco
Dale Carnegie
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