He Man Naval Yarn Nears Casting In Hollywood
Hollywood columns report Robert Taylor Charles Laughton and Brian Donlevy have been cast in Cargo of Innocents, a navy drama once sketched as a infant evacuee tale. Lemons note Taylor plays a playboy with a political path to command while Laughton is a salty admiral and Donlevy a hard boiled naval officer.
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Red Cross Seeks More Helpers For Friday Knit Sew Session
Red Cross notes publicize Friday all day meeting to knit and sew in South Side unt. Mrs J J Hervert publicity chair says spring cleaning reduced attendance. Volunteers to make boys shirts infant gowns and girls dresses while wait times occur. cord shortages loom for British air raid mittens. American Red Cross cooperates with Australian broadcasting commission to share soldiers voices via short wave broadcasts distributed by Mutual network. local stations record messages for families with Red Cross coordinating disc presentations.
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McKinley Teacher Edits Disaster Relief Chapter Map
Frank X Guyott of McKinley high school enlarged the chapter organization chart at Mrs Wells Creek’s request. Edward A Hedin of Roosevelt high school printed fifty copies for committees. Guyott also prepared enlarged maps for disaster relief as organizing work proceeds.
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RAF Raids Hit Ford Plants in Antwerp Belgium
RAF attack on Nazi requisitioned Ford factories in Antwerp Belgium caused heavy damage. BBC reported Wednesday, citing Belgian circles in London.
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Evening Theatre Schedules and Feature Times
The Gazette lists current showings across multiplexes. Paramount presents My Favorite Blonde and Fly by Night with multiple daily times. Iowa features The Invaders and Blondies Blessed Event, while State screens North to the Klondike and Stick to Your Gis with varied slots. Palace showcases Babes on Broadway and Niagara Falls at several times, Rialto offers Too Many Blondes and Yester Day's Heroes, Strand shows Melody for Three and A1 Watt for You, Times includes International Lady and Unexpected Uncle with late editions, Marion lists New York Town and Cadet Girl.
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Kennedy Son Commissioned as Navy Ensign
Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., son of the former American ambassador to England, was commissioned an ensign in the U S Navy on Tuesday in Jacksonville Florida.
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Unidentified Plane Triggers 27 Minute San Francisco Alert
An unknown aircraft prompted a 27 minute air raid alert in San Francisco on Tuesday night. The craft was later identified as friendly. A Venezuelan company imported 100,000 silkworms and plans to develop a local silk industry.
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Jokes and jibes from Winchell on wartime wit and slang
On Broadway with Walter Winchell riffs pepper a wartime column noting superstitions like four being unlucky to the Japs and thirteen in America. The piece mentions edicts on kiss marks in letters, wartime slang boimphlets, cockroach wealth symbols, a cold prevention tip, and a pass word trick for sentries.
Strength of aluminum rods used in Naz incendiary bombs
Aluminum rods that hold incendiary bombs in Nazi aircraft are released with the bombs and later collected for reuse in British plane construction.
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Physical flareup at CIO meeting after Murray talk
The 700 delegates at the Pennsylvania CIO convention faced heightened tension on day two after CIO President Philip Murray accused John L. Lewis of failing to back him. A brief on‑floor clash followed Murray's 90‑minute address before meeting hall doors.
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Spinach, Labor Gossip Crop Up At Pittsburgh Miners Talk
Willie Willis notes the tone in Pittsburgh district as a Lewis backed vice-presidential candidate is discussed amid ongoing labor rumors. Murray questioned whether O’Leary warned a Jones and Laughlin weightman about quitting or being fired by Lewis. O’Leary denied the remark, saying bystanders were likely Steel Workers organizers, and he suffered a forehead cut in a scuffle.
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Navy Flyers Die in Virginia Plane Crash
Two Navy airmen were killed when a land plane crashed near Norfolk Virginia on Tuesday. The deceased were Leroy Groh from Lenzburg Illinois and Dennis Hass from Lenoir North Carolina.
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Dennis Hass
Lenoir
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Automobile industry funds a large share of U S research labs
More than one third of all industrial research laboratories in the nation are maintained by the automobile industry and its supplying industries, highlighting the sector's dominant role in American science and engineering efforts.
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