City Theaters Schedule Briefing
The Gazette lists today’s showtimes for Paramount, Iowa, State, Palace, Rialto, Strand, Times, and Marion theaters. Programs include Kings Row and The Mayor of 44th Street alongside racey titles like Bedtime Story and Royal Mounted Patrol with various daily screenings.
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Iowa
44Th Street
Andrew
Rialto
Royal Mounted Patrol
Strand
Brother Orchid
Madame LaZonga
Marion
Henry Aldrich
Public Safety Clothing Bid Notice Sealed in Des Moines
Official publication announces sealed bids to supply winter and summer clothing for the Highway Patrol in Des Moines Iowa. Bids due May 4 1942 at 10:00 A M with $600 certified check. preference given to Iowa made items. FOB Kansas City price terms.
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Karl W. Fischer
Department of Public Safety
F.O.B
Kansas City
Missouri
The
Highway Patrol
Executive Council
Commissioner of Public Safety Reserve
State of Iowa
State House
Des Moines
Iowa
Karl W
Department of Pubiie Safety
Eastern Military Area Designated for Atlantic Coast Defense
The Eastern defense command and First Army announced plans to create an Eastern military area covering Maine to Florida to protect the Atlantic coast and manage enemy aliens. Lieut. Gen. Hugh A. Drum will oversee the area, including New England, mid and south Atlantic states, the District of Columbia, and eastern Florida, focusing on preventing hostile acts rather than mass evacuations.
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New York
INS
Maine
Florida
Eastern Defense Command
First Army
Atlantic
Hugh A. Drum
New England
Middle
South Atlantic
District of Columbia
Willow Run Plant Vanishes From Memory In Model T Reverie
Henry McLemore recalls a half hour piloting a 1913 Model T, joking that Willow Run bomber plant must not exist after 29 years of progress. He describes the old car’s quirks, his misfires with brakes, and the clash between vintage driving and modern aviation advances.
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New York
Henry Ford
Willow Run
Woodrow Wilson
Smithsonian Institute
Eli Whitney
Rip van Winkle
Austrian Prince Rüdiger von Starhemberg Fights With Free French
The London Daily Telegraph reports Prince Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg, former vice-chancellor of Austria, is fighting in Africa with the Free French forces. He was commissioned as an infantry lieutenant in 1940. his current whereabouts were previously unknown.
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London
INS
Ernst Rudiger von Starhemberg
Austria
Africa
London Daily Telegraph
Invaders film brings all star cast to Iowa
An expensive Columbia release opens Thursday at the Iowa theatre. Director Michael Powell crafts a story of democracy versus Nazism with action and color. Stars Laurence Olivier Leslie Howard Raymond Massey with Anton Walbrook Glynis Johns. Nazis flee a wrecked submarine in Hudson Bay and trek across Canada toward the United States, stirring local antagonism.
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Columbia
Iowa
Michael Powell
Laurence Olivier
Leslie Howard
Raymond Massey
Anton Walbrook
Glynis Johns
Hudson Bay
Canada
United States
Advice From Mary Manners Columns Featured Dilemmas
Miss Manners counsels on a mother who promises rewards to her children yet rarely follows through and risks her reputation. Readers discuss dating wartime pressures, parental doubts about a fiancé, and a younger admirer who loses respect after encountering an older woman’s drunk behavior at a party.
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Mrs. K
Miss Manners
K.L
British destroyer Southwold sunk by enemy action
London reports the Royal Navy destroyer Southwold has been sunk by enemy action. Admiralty provided no further details in the Sunday night announcement.
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London
INS
Southwold
Admiralty
Diet Rules For Dr Mary MacFadyen Plan
Diet guidelines outline a four day plan for weight loss with daily milk and water intake, no gravy or oils except butter from a fixed allowance, no snacks or alcohol, and a sample day menu including orange juice cereal milk coffee lemonade and lean meat with vegetables.
Five Die in Mystery Bomber Crash After Takeoff
A North American B 25 bomber crashed after takeoff from Fairfax airport killing Kansas City aviator West Pilot Raymond B Quick and four others. Co pilot Oran B Sims and flight engineers Charles F Frederick Edward R Krakora Joseph R Peacher were among the dead. The plane veered to a railroad yard then burned in flames. officials gave no crash season.
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Kansas City
Military Board of
Raymond B Quick
Oran B. Sims
Charles F. Frederick
Edward R. Krakora
Joseph R. Peacher
Quick
Fairfax
New
North American Aviation, Inc
Notice of Appointment of Administrator in Linn County
State of Iowa Linn County notices publicize that on April 11 1942 Leonard H Stepanek deceased of Linn County Town was appointed and qualified as Administrator of his estate. Creditors must promptly pay debts and file claims authenticated with the Linn County Iowa District Court Clerk. J Krall Administrator Elderkin and Locher Attorneys.
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State of
Iowa
Linn County
Leonard H. Stepanek
Broadway miscellany of New York landmarks and oddities
A reflective tour of Manhattan and nearby areas listing a string of historic spots and peculiarities. Mentions include Shubert Alley bootblack, Hotel McAlpin, 42nd Street, Coney Island, a Glorious Pentecostal church in Brooklyn, a waterlogged West Street property, precious stones digs, Palisades rock, mosques in Brooklyn, and Radio City studios. Contains colorful descriptions of locations, legends, and urban trivia.
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OTHAM
Joe
Shubert Alley
McAlpin
Coney Island
42Nd Street
Brooklyn
Pentecostal True Holiness Assa
She
West Street
Broadway
65Th Street
New York
Boys Fish Near Army Target In Malibu Barge Shootout
Three adolescents Harry LaRoque 18 W T Williams 18 and Roy Williams 16 fished from a sunken barge off Malibu when six army planes strafed the area. Bullets ripped the barge and their boat but they escaped uninjured and were rescued by coast guard auxiliary member Jerry Holscher. They learned the barge was the army target.
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Los Angeles
Malibu Beach
Harry LaRoque
W T Williams
Roy
Jerry Holscher
Coast Guard
Army
National Chamber Reviews Feats of American Industry
The United States Chamber of Commerce opened its annual convention in Chicago to review American industry s wartime achievements. Dan W Kimball urged that 1942 construction goals are the highest ever faced and three quarters of the industry had shifted to war work by late March before the WPB mandate.
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Chicago
United States
Chamber
War sets ZZ test for railroads
The War Production Board restricts railway equipment output, halting new passenger cars and limiting locomotives and freight cars. Illinois Central pledges to meet wartime transport needs with fewer tools, urging shippers travelers and railroaders to adjust and persevere.
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War Production Board
Illinois Central
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