MGM plans revival of Uncle Tom's Cabin with stars
Hollywood gossip notes MGM and Arthur Hornblow back a Technicolor Uncle Tom's Cabin with Margaret O'Brien as Little Eva Lena Horne as Eliza Lewis Stone as Sinclair Paul Robeson considered for Uncle Tom Ingrid Bergman eyed for Bergman as Bernhardt and Bergman's star sway on Saratoga Trunk. filming set for March, plus updates on What a Woman The Impatient Years and Marriage Is a Private Affair crowd shots and banter on Lana Turner Greer Garson and Edgar Bergen.
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Little Eva
Lena Horne
Eliza
Lewis Stone
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Ingrid Bergman
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Bernhardt
Sarah
Ingrid
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Zorina
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Edgar Bergen
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Paramount and others schedule Friday theater showings
The Gazette lists times for films at Paramount Iowa State Palace Rialto Strand and Marion venues. Titles include No Time for Love The Moon is Down Bordertown Gunfighter Boss of Big Town DuBarry Was a Lady Night Mare The Stork Pays Off Heart of the Rio Grande The Heat's On Spitfire and more with multiple daily showings.
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North Star
Rialto
Bordertown
Big Town
TIMES
DuBarry
Strand
Rio Grande
Marion
U S Halts Oil Export to Spain
The United States suspends oil shipments from the Caribbean to Spain for February. Spain, limited to small fuel oil and gasoline imports, faces Allied pressure over wartime policies including release of Italian ships and curbing German agents.
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Washington
United States
Caribbean
Spain
Germany
No Easy Victory Call to Back the Fourth War Loan
A wartime appeal urges citizens to back the Fourth War Loan with Extra Bonds. It warns Japan’s fanaticism and civilian resolve, urges loyalty through home front support, and urges display of the treasury shield to help pay the war bill.
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Japan
Asia
Treasury Department
German imports and Allied reaction to wolfram flows
The article notes wolfram from Spain as a crucial German tungsten source. It says Allies hold sufficient supplies but pursue efforts to block German access. American actions follow British protests about German spies and saboteurs active on Spanish soil, especially near Gibraltar.
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Spain
Gibraltar
Conferees OK Bigger Taxes on Amusements and Luxuries
Washington conferees nearing agreement on a 2.28 billion tax bill approve sharp increases in amusement levies and taxes on furs toilet preparations and theater admissions. They also raise corporation taxes via a new excess profits schedule and boost telegraph and telephone taxes while exempting only strictly fraternal organizations from filing tax free informational returns.
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Washington
Senate House
Internal Revenue Commissioner
International Telegraph
House
Broadway wit and celebrity quips from Walter Winchell column
A fragment from On Broadway with Walter Winchell includes jokes about Al Jolson and a camel hair coat, observations on critics and showfolk, and short quips about New Yorkers at play. It also notes readers proposing new patriotic group names and a courtroom anecdote about a witness.
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al Jolson
Reds Land U. S. Pacific Success
The Soviet army organ Red Star praises American capture of the Gilbert Islands as the first stage in a broader effort to secure the southeast approaches to Japan. Col. M Tolchenov notes Japan faces a dilemma between risking major strokes or allowing Allied advances toward the homeland. Russian observers see growing confidence as anti German efforts advance.
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Red Star
Gilbert Islands
Japan
Col. M. Tolchenov
Russia
Pacific
Roosevelt Garage Inc Incorporation Notice
Notice of incorporation for Roosevelt Garage Inc a Cedar Rapids Iowa company formed under Chapter 384 Title 19 with principal office Cedar Rapids Iowa. Business includes operating renting and selling motor vehicles garage services fuel oils and parts and general property dealings through agents or brokers. Officers include Robert S Cook Kennedy H Y Simmons with three directors.
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Roosevelt Garage, Inc
Cerinr
Iowa
State of
Board of Directors
Cedar Rapids
Robert 5. Cook
A Kennedy
H Y Simmons
Mobility Roosevelt Garage, Inc
Robert S. Cook
Trewin, Simmons, Perrine and Albright
Attorness
Army air force training milestones reached in four years
Fort Worth Texas air base reports 1 048 499 men trained since 1939 including 100 799 pilots. From Pearl Harbor to late 1943 the program expanded to 455 installations across 48 states with 29 000 training planes and 61 730 pilots in 11 months of 1943.
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Fort Worth, Texas
Army Air Force Training Command
United States
Pearl Harbor
Training Command Headquarters
War Department
Training Command
Family War Bead Drive And Payroll Savings Plan Initiated
A family conflict prompts a call to establish a payroll savings plan for two family members. The message urges creating a WarBead purchase and handling the process personally to ensure funding and control.
The Word Not Scuttlebutt in Navy Lore
Edgar A. Guest writes about how gossip swirls in the navy yet the chief’s orders and gunnery lessons carry real weight. The poem urges sailors to heed the instruction given, lest promotion be delayed, while distinguishing it from mere rumor.
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Navy
Private Ed Joyner Improves After Gunshot Wound
Pvt Ed Joyner 21 stationed at Deming New Mexico was seriously wounded by a accidental gunshot but has improved. Joyner served as an aerial gunner and bombardier and word of his improvement came to his mother Mrs Marie Joyner of 620 Fifteenth Avenue SE.
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Pvt
Ed Joyner
Deming
Marie Joyner
Fifteenth Avenue SE
Pvt. Joyner
Notice of Appointment of Executor in Iowa Linn County
The undersigned Haven V Simmons appointed on January 20 1044 as Executor of the estate of Bessie R Bingham late of Linn County Iowa deceased. All creditors must present claims to the clerk of Linn County Town District Court and those indebted must pay promptly. Attorneys Trewin Simmons Ferrine and Alorizht.
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Linn County
Bessie R. Bingham
Igwe
Town
HAVEN
Simmons
Trewin
Simmons, Ferrine and
Alorizht
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