Hitler signals French cooperation to end deadlock
Adolf Hitler has sent a message to Marshal Petain agreeing to resume collaboration with France and begin talks on a permanent peace treaty. The plan envisions Pierre Laval returning to the government as part of an understanding with the Vichy regime. The message, aimed at breaking the four month impasse, reportedly reached Paris with a reply to Vichy’s conditions.
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Vichy
France
Adolf Hitler
Henri Philippe Petain
Pierre Laval
Hitler
Paris
Iowa Revue Star Spent Christmas In Holland Jail
Iowa theater star Bob Hart from the You're in the Army Now revue spent Christmas 1939 and New Year in a Rotterdam immigration jail during the outbreak of war. He shared a small cell with three seamen and an Italian, a Nazi deserter. a Swiss captain later joined the crew of a Pan American flag vessel. Three days after Hart left Rotterdam the jail was hit in bombing as he killed time rehearsing and dancing for fellow inmates. The stage show Dreaming Out Loud with Lum and Abner is the feature.
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Bob Hart
Iowa
Rotterdam
Holland
Hart
Europe
Lum
Abner
Hoover urges Britain to relax food blockade
In New York Herbert Hoover renews aid to Britain and calls for easing the food blockade. He says the relief of British suffering should not diminish American sympathies or hopes for relief for former allies.
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Internationl News Service
New York
Herbert Hoover
Britain
Pope Pius XII Urges Honor in War Field
The Pope calls belligerents to display valor with mercy toward the vanquished, urging true courage to include charity in victory and moderation on the battlefield.
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Rome
Pius XII
Doctor criticizes draft exams citing George Washington
Boston. Dr. Roger I. Lee president elect of the American College of Physicians argues that medical exams for draftees are too rigid. He cites George Washington who endured bad teeth yet served as a strong soldier.
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Boston
Roger I. Lee
American College of Physicians
George Washington
La Guardia Advises Citizens on Foreign Policy Role
Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia urges ordinary citizens not to decide national foreign policy, saying Americans have delegated that duty to their elected representatives in the American way.
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New York
F. H. LaGuardia
The Wagons Roll at Night and Road to Zanzibar at Iowa Theaters
At the theaters in Iowa, The Wagons Roll at Night features Humphrey Bogart and Eddie Albert while Footlight Fever stars Alan Mowbray and Donald MacBride. Paramount presents Road to Zanzibar with Bing Crosby Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour alongside James Stewart and Paulette Goddard in Pot O Gold and Dead Men Tell.
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Iowa
Humphrey Bogart
Eddie Albert
Alan Mowbray
Donald MacBride
Paramount
Bing Crosby
Bob Hope
Dorothy Lamour
Zanzibar
State
James Stewart
Paulette Goddard
Charles Starrett
Hollywood gossip hints at Canada film focus and casting
George Brent may shoot Norman Reilly Raine's The Shadow Of Their Wings in Canada to show air war front minders aiding England. William Keighley to decide on location. Ginger Rogers contract status with RKO could affect her availability. The column also notes Anne Revere’s Oscar-worthy work, Norma Shearer romance rumors, and various Hollywood social snippets.
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Ollywood
INS
George Brent
Canada
Norman Reilly Raines
England
Mexico
South America
Warners
Kal Wallis
New York
Raines
William Keighley
Exploring Minds and Moral City Qualities
Albert E Wiggam answers questions on whether married women make good teachers and which parent disciplines more. He cites surveys showing few married women hired and argues personality matters more than marital status. He notes mothers bear most scolding and links good cities to good people and prudent public spending.
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Leland Stott
E. L. Thorndike
Walter Winchell on Broadway and New York City Scenes
Walter Winchell catalogs a mural of New York life from Madison Avenue to the Bowery. He notes cab drivers at dawn, West Side hoopla, sable gowns and mink lunches, subway boredom, teen jitterbugs, troupe storefronts, Bowery thrift trades, Bundles for Britain workers, and a cast of stylish pedestrians.
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Ammy’s Delicatessen
Madison Avenue
59Th Street
West Side
Hollywood Tonight A Night of Stars Across Sunset
Cavorting at the Mocambo and Ciro’s, Sonja Henie and Dan Topping arrive for the ice show opening. Ingrid Bergman leaves for Sweden with Dr. Peter Lindstrom. Katherine Stevens dances with Sam Wood. Cobina Wright and Tony Moreno mingle. A $100000 pearl necklace is stolen between events. $2500 reward offered.
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Hornblow
Mocambo
Sonja Henie
Dan Topping
Martha Raye
Néal Lang
Ingrid Bergman
Peter Lindstrom
Sweden
Sam Wood
Ciro’s
Katherine Stevens
Adrian
Janet Gaynor
Cobina Wright
Tony Moreno
Mack Gordon
Insurance Company
Mary Beth Hughes
Irving Beery
Rich New Yorker
Beverly Wilshire
Olive Tablets Promise Gentle, Thorough Bowel Movements
Dr F M Edwards promotes olive tablets as purely vegetable aids to constipation and bile flow. The Columbus Ohio notice urges testing tonight with prices 15 30 and 60 cents.
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Columbus
Ohio
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