Broadway gossip fills the air with celebrity rumors
Walter Winchell fans chase wild rumors of reconciliations and romances among Orson Welles Rita Hayworth Van Johnson Jacqueline Dalya and more. The item basket touches channels from politics to fashion to kennels of Hollywood insiders with names like Hopkins Churchill Cantor Hitchcock and Barrymore in a rapid-fire tour of society chatter.
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Orson Welles
Rita Hayworth
van Johnson
Jacqueline Dalya
Miami
Chewsday
F. LaGuardia
Harry Hopkins
Eddie Cantor
Alf Hitchcock
I. G. Farben
S. America
5Th Avenue
Buddy Ridhes
Jean Sutherlin
Washington
Fortune Teller Guides Bank Employee to Embezzle
Chicago federal officials described how a fortune teller Mrs Irma Nolan 38 aided a bank teller 38 at Industrial National Bank Chicago to steal 2102 and give proceeds to Nolan. The teller rode trains and bought readings paying Nolan from salary and loans. Nolan faced charges of aiding embezzlement.
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Chicago
INS
United States
William J. McCormack
Industrial National Bank
McCormack
Irma Nolan
Emma Seed
Jacksonville
Fla
Carger
Mrs. Nolan
Air Chief Marshal Douglas Named German Theater Commander
Prime Minister Attlee announced the appointment of Air Chief Marshal Sir Sholto Douglas as commander-in-chief of British forces in Germany. He succeeds Field Marshal Montgomery, who becomes chief of the imperial general staff.
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London
Attlee
Sholto Douglas
Germany
Field Marshal
Montgomery
Imperial General Staff
Russians Tell of Hitler's Plot on Syria Gibraltar
Soviet prosecutors at the international military tribunal presented a captured German naval document dated August 8 1941 outlining Hitler plan to swiftly seize Turkey Syria Iran Egypt and Gibraltar after defeating Soviet Russia If Turkey refused to side with Germany a southern attack through Anatolia was planned and Gibraltar seizure was to be executed by end 1941 with Spanish aid The drive toward Suez and Egypt would be accompanied by a major British garrison assault efforts.
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Turkey
Russia
Anatolia
Red Army
Hitler
Felix
Gibraltar
Rock
Suez
Egypt
Chest Cold Relief Cited From Moist Heat Treatment
A brief note reports relief from chest cold symptoms using moist heat therapy with Antiphlogistine. The item also mentions simple sprain and bruised muscles with the name Boks appearing as part of the report.
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Boks
Holding at Tobruk and New Egyptian Offensive Ahead
The report notes forces stalling at Tobruk while planning a fresh push into Egypt from Libya, signaling a strategic shift. Strong units, commanders, and dates are cited, detailing broader campaign timelines and regional maneuvering without graphic detail.
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Tobruk
Egypt
Libya
Relief for Homma as a shooting not hanging planned
Lt Gen Ma saharu Homma, commander of the Bataan Death March, felt relief and slept during transit to the Luzon prison camp after learning he would be shot rather than hanged. The detail came from Maj Larry Hodgin, a military police officer who rode with Homma to the prison.
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Rider
Tomoyuki Yamashita
Larry Hodgin
Twin Falls
Idaho
Hommaarora
Manila
Luzon
Chiang Sees Long Job for Marshall
Chiang Kai-shek said Gen. George C. Marshall's work in China may take a long time. He noted ongoing but informal economic talks with Russia, denied formal negotiations, and dodged several questions on Sino-Russian relations and Manchuria.
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Shanghai
Chiang Kai-shek
George C. Marshall
China
Chiang
Russia
United States
State Byrnes
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