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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1944
Page
27
In California a third attempt in 36 hours to wreck the Santa Fe streamliner between Los Angeles and San Diego failed Tuesday night. Suspected sabotage derailed a freight near San Juan Capistrano, with a locomotive and 11 freight cars plunging off the tracks.
Advertises a hearing aid test claiming to restore hearing with a simple Curlne Home Method. Promises a money back guarantee if you do not hear better, and urges readers to inquire about the Qurine Ear Drone at May's and dryr.
Investigators concluded the streamliner wreck resulted from two loosened rail lengths, with the passenger train crossing the weakened track before a heavy freight collapsed it. No injuries were reported. Earlier, dolly tracks and six inch boulders were found on the line north of San Diego. FBI cited pranks by youths.
Louella Parsons reports Warner and a wartime doctor story may become a film. A colonel urged focusing on medical corps heroism, with Jack Warner assigning a producer to research. Darryl Zanuck balks at high play prices, preferring original stories and premieres in New York this July.
Theatre and film news note Otto Mamoulian will take Rain to Broadway after completing Laura in New York. He plans to adapt Somerset Maugham for a musical and later cast Sadie Thompson in a new production. Judy Anderson shows off at Clifton Webb party while Galli Curci attends Mrs. Eddy’s welcome home event. Myrna Loy gifts Asia a biscuit chair for her ThIN Man dog.
The Gazette lists Paramount Shine On Harvest Moon with shows at 1 3 6 9 51, Iowa The Adventures of Mark Twain at 1 4 6 9 30, state Chip Off the Old Block and Find pe Blackmailer times, Palace Girl Crazy and The Falcon and the Coeds, Rialto My Buddy and Little Tokyo U S A, Times Headin for Gods Country and Murder on the Waterfront, Marion Old Acquaintance and Timber Queen showings totals per theater.
Iowa state board of engineering examiners will hold professional engineering tests June 6 and 7 and land surveying on June 8 at the statehouse.
The property destroyed by fire in 1943 totaled 381 million dollars, up 21 percent from 1942, signaling a sharp rise in fire damage across the period and reflecting escalating losses in that year.
Churchill disclosed Britain supplied Russia with 320 million dollars of raw materials, nearly 7,000 planes and over 5,000 tanks in 2 1/2 years. Of 5,031 tanks, 1,223 from Canada. 6,778 planes, 2,672 from the United States.
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