Broadway With Walter Winchell News Teasers
Nan notes in New York report mix light gossip and war era assigns. Edw O Hares USN bags six planes in five minutes and Gene Markey gains Pacific sector duties. Mona Paulee to wed Dean Holt while Trevor wed hush. Navy shore posts limit PR officers.
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Nan
New York
Edw
O'Hares
USNR
Gene. Markey
Pacific
John Hearsts
Bill Donovan
St. Regis
Trevor
Mona Paulee
Met
Thrush
Dean Holt
Navy
Sears Faces $100 Million Sales Loss From War Demand
New York AP Sears Roebuck and Company reports about 100 million dollars in lost sales due to wartime disruptions. Robert E. Wood, chairman, told stockholders at the annual meeting that six major lines refrigerators tires stoves washing machines electrical appliances and radios were virtually eliminated, cutting overall mail order volume.
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New York
Sears Roebuck and Company
Robert E. Wood
Allied Flyers Bag 7 Planes Over Darwin
Allied United Nations airmen claimed seven Japanese planes shot down over Darwin with light losses to US forces. In related actions, UN bombers destroyed a Japanese transport at Kavieng and raided Faisi base in the Solomon Islands. Lt. Kiser, 23, of Kentucky, credited with shooting two bombers. Lt. Morse, 22, of Maine, helped down a pursuing Zero.
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MacArthur
Australia
United Nations
Darwin
Douglas MacArthur
Kavieng
Bismarck Islands
Faisi
Solomon Islands
George E. Kiser
Somerset
United States Army Air Corps
Kiser
Donald Morse
Augusta
Pearl Harbor
Morse
Move Trouser Cuff Deadline to May 9
Washington AP The War Production board moved the trouser cuff deadline for tailored suits up to May 9 from May 30 to curb violations of the order. The change follows earlier adjustments to ready made suits and aligns with new permanent price ceilings set by the Office of Price Administration on textiles. The ceiling, effective May 4, replaces a 60 day quick freeze issued in March.
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Washington
War Production Board
Office of Price Administration
War Manpower Commission members named by Roosevelt
Washington AP President Roosevelt designates eight members of the War Manpower Commission to channel labor into the war effort. McNutt chairs. appointees include Lund Forrestal Wickerd Perkins Dorr Nelson Hershey Flemming. Cedar Rapids area drive to raise funds and support for veterans programs noted.
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Washington
Roosevelt
War Manpower Commission
Paul V. McNutt
Federal Security Administrator
Wendell Lund
New Labor Production Division
War Production Board
James V. Forrestal
Navy
Secretary of Agriculture
Claude R. Wickerd
Frances Perkins
Goldthwaite H. Dorr
New York
South Side Civic Club to work on quarry blasting
The South Side Civic Club voted to authorize its president Ed E. Hach to appoint a committee to collaborate with the Sixteenth Avenue group on quarry blasting. Residents protested blasts said to threaten property and sewer connections with the city plant amid reports of possible severe tremors.
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Sixteenth Avenue Commercial Club
South Side Civic Club
Ed E. Hach
Sixteenth Avenue Organization
South Side
Hach
Plea for Duty by Edgar A Guest The Poet of the People
The poem urges elder citizens to step forward in wartime duty. It questions who will propose tasks and lead, as time grows late and they watch for a call. The speaker pledges readiness to serve once a clear task is shown.
Hitler Plans New Purge Of Hostile Forces
London reports that Adolf Hitler might be planning another purge as forces not fully subservient to him rise in Germany. Viscount Simon said Hitler’s Sunday address showed possible internal discontent, while Goering has been the dominant ruler in the interim.
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George Jessel
Coast ‘Radio
Department of Justice
Thurman Arnold
Hitler
Simon
London
Adolf Hitler
Germany
Viscount Simon
Berlin
Herman Goering
Goering
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