Wartime Film Shortage Drops Civilian Showings in 1945
Wartime restrictions cut 35 mm film for civilian use by ten percent in the first quarter of 1945 as military demands rise for x ray, aero, and 16 mm film. Film prints for overseas service exceed 24,000 features and 27,000 shorts supplied free to armed forces. The article notes rationing of foods and war bond pleas, with an image ad promising mink coats from $2,500 and perfume at $25 an ounce amid morale messaging.
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Hollywood
WPB
Film Daily
Army Overseas Motion Picture Service
Armed Services
Red Cross
U.S
Stage Door Canteen
Going My Way
Halloran
Veterans Hospital
1500 Babies Arrive Under Infant Care Auspices Here
The Emergency Maternity and Infant Care program began in August 1943 to aid wives of servicemen. Cincinnati has cared for 1,502 cases since then, providing prenatal and hospital care and treating ill children, with 168 helped locally. Mothers identify as enlisted servicemen spouses via form MCH 1 and physician verification.
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Cincinnati
Home Front Heroines Public Health Nurse Visits Family
A Cincinnati Health Department nurse visited a six week old for birth certification and guidance on early wellness. She urged regular exams, diphtheria immunizations at 7 to 10 months and two months later, and noted National Public Health Nursing Day on January 26 in Cincinnati.
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Cincinnati Health Department
Public Nursing Bureau
Cincinnati
Home health nurses connect with newborn families nationwide
The Health Department uses a contact procedure to reach mothers of newborns and assess the child and mother’s health. There are about 20 000 public health nurses in the country, but over 1 000 counties lack adequate services. The article urges awareness of home front health workers and notes an event next Friday January 26.
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Health Department
U. S
Eas
Women Unionists To Visit England
Four American women representing AFL and CIO unions will visit Great Britain for six weeks in an exchange to improve understanding between the two nations. Four British women will visit the United States in return. Named: Mrs. Julia O. Parker of Boston from IBEW AFL, Mrs. Grace Woods Blackett of Detroit from UAW CIO, and Miss Ann Markovich of Reading, Pa., organizer for the AFL CIO Hosiery Workers.
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Washington
Ministry of Information
AFL
CIO
Great Britain
OWI
Julia O. Parker
Boston
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
Grace Woods Blackett
Detroit
Let Congress Know Poll Tax Repeal Urged by Unionists
Organized labor seeks a quick repeal of the poll tax by passage of HR 7. The effort aims to enfranchise millions of disfranchised southern citizens and pressures Congress to act.
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Organized Labor
Congress
Permanet FEPC Moves to Outlaw Employment Discrimination
The proposal sets FEPC on a permanent basis with enforcement powers to end workplace discrimination. Unionists urge swift action and broad support for the measure.
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FEPC
Celler Targets Un-American Questions as Dies Committee Probes
Dialogue scenes feature Rep Emmanuel Celler raising absurd questions about American icons and wartime loyalties. The parody shifts to a family arguing over Nazi Germany and policy, with references to Frederick Coolidge Crawford and collaborationist charges. The piece closes with a satirical song line about France and Berlin.
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John Paine
Federated Press
Emmanuel Celler
New York
New Dies Committee
Frederick Coolidge Crawford
The
Nam
Pop
Little Luther
Mr. Dilworth
Goebbels
Crawford
Europe
Ritz
Unequal Rights Amendment Seeks to Reframe Worker Protections
Unionists urge Congress to oppose HR 1 amid claims the Equal Rights Amendment would erase protective state labor laws. Critics warn the measure masks a shift undermining workplace safeguards for all workers.
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Red Skelton
Purple’ Skelton
Little Red Riding Hood
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Luther
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Hitler
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Berlin
Onittio
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