Hollywood News Roundup of Will Rogers Biopic and More
Hollywood notes report Gary Cooper being offered the Will Rogers role and Sam Wood possibly directing. George Raft may join Background to Danger after a military move. William Bendix eyed for Stand at Ease after Wake Island. Jack Oakie and Venita Oakie divorce appears, with a property settlement. Jinx Falkenburg and Tex McCrary appear. Martha Raye bonds pull noted. Rosemary Coleman wed at Fort Benning. Judy Clark urges war bond support.
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Martha Raye
Rosemary Coleman
Powers
Lieut
William Denton
Fort Benning
Judy Clark
Studio City
Calif
U S Ban on Police Gazette
Washington AP reports the National Police Gazette was barred from mails by Postmaster General Walker for "prof itably pandering to the lewd and lascivious" content. Policy shows isolated incidents may not end second class status, while the Gazette repeatedly publishes lengthy stories and pictures detailing strippers, sex crimes, and immorality.
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Washington
National Police Gazette
Walker
Post Office Department
Police Gazette
Jeffers Reassures Nation's Truckers
In Omaha at a bond sale picnic, newly appointed rubber czar William Jeffers told truckers he will not harshly treat them. He said as a railroad man he will not be biased and stressed that the national economy relies on cars and there is a place for truckers in the economic picture.
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Omaha
INS
America
William Jeffers
Jeffers
Britain shifts from defense to offense in war psychology
British Ambassador Lord Halifax said England has moved from a defensive mindset to an offensive one. He warned the public that the old blitz slogan We can take it is replaced by a belief that victory depends on the capacity to inflict damage. He spoke during a radio broadcast from Washington.
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Washington
Ins
Lord Halifax
England
Broadway romance and a lonely millionaire in aging palimony
Walter Winchell recounts a New Yorker couple once flush with funds who splurged at the Starlight Roof then drifted apart as poverty hit. He recalls the man’s later invention, marriage of the woman, and the ongoing sight of him dining alone at the starry venue. The column shifts to a tale of Joe Louis banter and a shut-in named Bill Berry Jr. who became RAF hero, then a Jersey saloon keeper, later coerced into exile by Nazi ties and FBI entanglements. The piece ends with Berry’s surprising support from a former ally seeking cigarettes for the FBI.
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Jersey
Riviera
America
FDR
Hitler
Gorilla Gargantua Tangles With Wife At Circus
In Cedar Rapids the Ringling Bros show opens in New York, revealing Gargantua the Great to be furious over his gorilla bride M Toto whom he discovers is an actress. Jose Tomas, her keeper, sparred with the gorilla and forced her to kiss him, prompting Gargantua to retreat to his den. The circus displays its vast menagerie with doors opening at 1 and 7 p.m.
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M'Toto
Belgian Congo
Havana
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E. Kenneth Hoyt
Gargantua
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Barnum & Bailey Circus
Cedar Rapids
New York
George
Jose Tomas
Tomas
M’toto
Jose
Stork Club Tale and a Nervous Young Man
A vignette about a two year old nephew of a club owner working as a cashier who tells his Uncle Sherman in the Stork Club that New Yorkers make him nervous. He asks to go home to El Reno Oklahoma as he grows queasy around crowds. The uncle recalls the boy is now an assistant engineer on the Rock Island railroad.
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Hollywood
Robert Stack
Air
Texas
Gloria Bristol
Julianna
Jinx Falkenburg
Sticks
Billingsley
el Reno
Oklahoma
Sherman
Rock Island Railroad
Murray Urges Labor Fight Dictatorship in Unions
CIO President Philip Murray urged American labor to crush dictatorship wherever found, including in union ranks, during his first visit to Pennsylvania's anthracite fields since John L. Lewis dismissed him as vice-president of the United Mine Workers of America. He told UMW members to remove anyone opposing their union.
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INS
CIO
Philip Murray
Murray
Pennsylvania
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers of America
Lewis
UMW
Phil Murray
Britain Says Warship Losses Replaced With Vast Shipbuilding
Sheffield England INS First Lord of the Admiralty A V Alexander says Britain has replaced all capital ships carriers and cruisers and more than all destroyers lost in 27 months. He notes completion of over 119 fighting vessels and hundreds of landing craft for a promised invasion of Hitler controlled Europe.
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England
INS
A. V. Alexander
Britain
Europe
Alexander
United Nations
Atlantic
Admiralty
Canada
Britain expands navy with new battleships and corvette surge
A naval expert cites Alexander’s speech and reports from the London Daily Herald on Britain’s fleet gains. Britain has 35,000-ton battle cruisers Anson and Howe in service, two 40,000-ton super-dreadnoughts under construction, and Germany building a comparable battleship. Britain’s destroyer total rose to about 200 in 27 months, and corvettes reached a known 200 at sea, signaling a marked wartime expansion.
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Alexander
London Daily Herald
Britain
Willkie Seeks Front Visit During Moscow Stop
Willkie arrives in Moscow on a Roosevelt mission and asks Soviet authorities for permission to visit the battlefront. He says morale is high and hopes to depart for the front in a few days, carrying a Roosevelt message to Stalin. Also present are Ambassador Standley, Gen Bradley, and Brig Gen Faymonville as the party tours.
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INS
Wendell L. Willkie
Roosevelt
Willkie
Josef Stalin
Kuibyshev
Great Britain
America
Willkies
United States
William HH. Standley
Follett Bradley
Philip Faymonville
Russia
Theatre Time Schedule Roundup From Local Theaters
The Gazelle lists today’s programs across Paramount Palace Rialto Marion and state venues with showtimes for classics and new titles. Notable bouts include The Pride of the Yankees Mexican Spitfires Captain of the Clouds and Remember Pearl Harbor with varied afternoon and evening slots.
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Texas
Palace
Rialto
Cheyenne
Rio Rita
Burma
Marion
Pearl Harbor
FDIC Warns U S Banks Face Thinning of Capital
The FDIC warned banks are seeing their capital margins thin due to wartime deficits and increased financing needs. Deposits have surged to a record high while insured bank capital rose only about 15 percent, prompting calls for higher taxes or war bond funding to reduce reliance on banks.
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FDIC
U.S
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