Jerome Kern Dies Famed Composer Dies at 60
New York AP Jerome Kern 60 famed composer of Show Boat Smoke Gets in Your Eyes They Didn t Believe Me died in Doctors Hospital at 1 10 PM from cerebral thrombosis He collapsed on Park Avenue Nov 5 and was taken to hospital His wife Eva and daughter Betty were at his bedside The daughter 27 is the divorced wife of Artie Shaw Kern started in New York and had come three days earlier to supervise Show Boat rehearsals He spent years in Hollywood and ran a publishing business Olvar Hammerstein II was with him Irving Berlin and Dorothy Field arrived at the hospital after his death
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Hollywood
Ol‘var Hammerstein II
Irving Berlin
Dorothy Field
Sympathy for Japs Slowly Rising Among Yank Troops
Hal Boyle reports from Tokyo that postwar misery feeds two black markets: money and compassion. American soldiers exploit both, selling or gifting rations and goods to starving Japanese while authorities crack down on the money trade.
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Japan
Zaibatsu
Naples
Japs Convict Two of Own Officers
A Japanese military court convicted Maj. Yoshio Makizawa and Capt. Yoshio Nakano of torturing two American flyers Ensign Edwin J. Waraseck and Lt. Ted Hart. Each received a recommended 10 month prison term. The case marks Japan’s first wartime war-crimes trial of its own officers.
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Yoshio Nakano
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Ted Hart
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Waraseck
Maraseck
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Hart Tor ture Confession and Tinkham Divorce Notice
Nakano convicted of torturing Hart on May 13 for information denial and arrogant attitude. Hart interned and released by Allied teams in September. Original notice in Linn County Iowa asks Marvin A Tinkham to appear by December 3, 1945 for divorce from Dorothy E Tinkham on desertion grounds. Yessler and Fahey acting as attorneys for the plaintiff.
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Hart
United States
Taichu
District Court of Iown
Linn County
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Marvin Alfred Tinkham
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
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Higley Building
Treasures of Oil in Arctic Eyed by Navy
Navy plans to seek Congress funding to develop Arctic oil beneath Point Barrow Alaska. Umiat field partial drilling shows potential with deeper reserves. private company to drill and operate under Geological Survey guidance. Umiat well at 1860 feet with plans to reach 7500 feet. Umiat Fairbanks pipeline feasibility noted. Point Barrow is remote with limited amenities and fuel reserves extending to December 1946.
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Estil G. Branham
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Fairbanks
Navy Base
Family prompts discharge hurry with ration stamps
In Nehalem Oregon Comdr. E D Flaherty faced a navy discharge point shortage. His children decided to help and wrote to his commanding officer requesting to bring Daddy home sooner. They enclosed OPA ration stamps totaling 20 points.
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