Rebirth of North Alabama University Center Movement
A Bible thought for today notes burden bearing. Reapportionment faced delays. Bure delays in freight rate cuts. Auto industry advances. Alfred Mi undon elected to the grand council of the Order of De Molay. Tennessee River flood control and Sugar Bowl expansion loom large with New Orleans seeking funds. The piece argues for university center revival and strong regional development in North Alabama.
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Alfred Mi Undon
Order of de Molay
Alfred
Lodge
Can We Trust Them Through the European Crisis Tone
The piece questions trust in England and France amid Nazi aggression and recalls U S and Allied loans and unpaid principal. It criticizes Munich, Czechia, and Lithuania seizures and argues for strong school funding parity and fair tax use in Alabama.
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Nazi Germany
England
France
Prance
Czecho-Slovakia
Hitler
Czech
Sudetenland
Germany
Lithuania
Rumania
Francé
United States
Alabama
State of
Dixon
Supreme Court of Alabama
Frank Dixon
Motives Behind Hitler Moves Range Still Unclear
An era of rising tension prompts experts to weigh military and economic motives behind Hitler’s actions in Czechoslovakia and Europe. Analysts note troop moves, Czech surrender, and potential moves against France while considering Poland Romania and Italian alignments. Officials cite supply limits, gold and raw materials stakes, and the broader aim of expanding the German empire amid a volatile diplomatic backdrop.
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Arete Epo
Ptr
Hitler
Germany
Britain
Austria
Sudetenland
Creech
Italy
France
Crech
Munich
Poland
Rumania
Berlin
Beck
Gafencu
Hamburger Fremdenblatt
Sudeten
Czechoslovakia
Memel
Russia
Prague
Hacha
Deer Reverses Escape Returns to Denver Zoo
Security won out over liberty as a deer released with 19 others to reduce a zoo herd wandered miles through city streets back to the Denver Zoo during mealtime.
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Denver
Hollywood Inside Gossip Fizzles In Bizarre Broadways Bits
Walter Winchell On Broadway and Hollywood morsels mix satire and film lore. Notes cover costumes, licensing, studio quirks, and odd claims about dogs reading, rain machines, and lampooned Hollywood habits.
Movie set quirks and prop tricks from old cinema lore
Folding portable dams and Montepro ser heads appear on a film set. Sher man Billingsley cues scenes with laughter and scratching. Black berry pies photograph best when pies fly at actors. Ruby Keeler avoids lorgnette specs. Bricks on Blackwell’s Island props are bread bricks baked by Helms Bakery. Whiskers, complete or partial, are illegal.
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Marc Lachman
Monteproser
la Conga Boniface
Sherman Billingsley
Lou Witte
Archie Mayo
Ruby Keeler
Blackwell's Island
Helms Bakery
Hollywood Scandals and Oddities From Early Studio Life
A collage of showbiz curiosities reveals Metro’s new two million dollar admin building and a missing service entrance. It notes Tyrone Power’s mother bicycling, Tay Garnett’s inscribed plaque, and the highest paid actor figures. Other items mention Rudolph Valentini’s brother at Fox, more pet hospitals than human ones, dog name changes for films, and a Tahitian dancer’s life clause. It also covers Bel Air elites, fake bullfrogs, a grapefruit of peanuts for film use, a five-expression rule for actresses, a hollowed head barbering invention, and inmates fed car tire inner tubes to avoid eating in Devil’s Island scenes.
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Metro
Tyrone Power
Tay Garnett
Hollywood
Joseph Beach
Rudolph Valentino
Alberto
Fox
Ace
North
Miri Rei
Tahiti
Atkinson
Bel Air
Mervyn LeRoy
Devil's Island
Actors Face Typecast Rule In Navy Film Casting
A columnist notes actors who played crooks drunks or villains cannot be cast in Navy themed films. It cites Errol Flynn in Dawn Patrol with chocolate smeared on his face and cites Bette Davis avoiding hat photos. It mentions Joe Penner grooming before bed and Hedy Lamarr applying perfume after waking.
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U. S. Navy
Errol Flynn
Jim Tully
Bette Davis
Joe Penner
Hedy LaMarr
Inside Hollywood Oddities and On Screen Oddities
Two Dead End kids bake cakes. Slicker the seal has three stand ins. Prison guards serve as executioners and take ten days vacation as rewards. Gary Cooper uses two stand ins for love scenes. Casting directions favor blondes. The Sisters required a Roosevelt smile prop though TR seldom smiled. Blue shirts photograph whiter than white. The Chinese Theatre charges $200 per star footprint. A Monkey Island is planned to segregate 6000 monkeys. Bergen home features twin beds for Charlie McCarthy in a valise.
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Hollywood
Jock Whitney
Nickelodeon
Hollywood “Boulevard
Gable
Clark Gable
Dames
Norman McLeod
Detroit
Slicker
Gary Cooper
Teddy Roosevelt
T. R
Monkey Island
Edgar Bergen
Beverly Hills
Charlie McCarthy
Aimee Semple McPherson and Studio Fare in 1930s Mood
The note recalls film lore and studio quirks from the era. It mentions three week advance appointments for a fortune teller client set, sugar glass for prop windows in Angels With Dirty Faces, sugar beach umbrellas, Adolphe Menjou’s frequent producer roles, Bibles in Warner dressing rooms, iced film shipments, and a celebrity preacher.
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Jim Cagney
Adolphe Menjou
Warner Lot
Aimee Semple
Let No Man Despise Thy Youth Believers Example
A religious reflection cites I Timothy 4 12 urging believers to show exemplary speech conduct charity spirit faith and purity. It contrasts the believer and the unregenerated, stressing a distinct lifestyle and mindset for those in sonship with God. John emphasizes a clear moral distinction between believers and nonbelievers.
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Paul
Timothy
God
John
Study of Starches Reveals Variations
Dr. Logan Clendening surveys digestibility of cooked starches from corn wheat rice potato arrowroot tapioca and sago. He notes rose and blue amylose conversion during cooking affects digestibility and that glucose is absorbed fastest, with implications for health and diet.
Living Examples of Faith and Local News
A sermon urges believers to be living epistles showing grace through truthfulness charity humility and purity. Local notes report Mildred Wilder ill at home Evelyn McMillan out after illness Penn Roger to return Thursday Gotaco Literary Club meeting with Mrs E C Price Hal Mullen in Lexington Inez McCall resumes teaching after illness.
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Evelyn McMillan
Hal Mullen
Lexington
Tulsa police report missing Oklahoma woman description
Police Lieut. Linn Moss said H. T. Post of Tulsa reported that a woman matching the description of missing Mrs. Eudora Cunningham of Oklahoma was involved in the case. The report adds few further details about the search or identification.
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Tulsa
Linn Moss
H. T. Post
Eudora Cunningham
Okla
Neuralgia Questions Answered By J L
J L explains trigeminal neuralgia or tri douloureux as a cause of facial pain on one side. He notes injections of the nerve by an experienced physician as a probable treatment and mentions inhalation of volatile trichlorethylene as successful in many cases.
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J. L
Seven Dr Clendening pamphlets offered by mail
The editor notes seven pamphlets by Dr Clendening available for ten cents each by sending a self addressed three cent stamp to Lagan C. Clendensing in care of the paper. Titles include Reducing Diet for digestion and Constipation Reducing and Gaining Infant Feeding and Feminine Hygiene and The Care of Hair and Skin.
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Clendening
Lagan C. Clendensing
Bus trip from McAlester to Beaumont by Oklahoma man
A man from Oklahoma City boarded a bus on March 7 in McAlester Oklahoma and rode to Beaumont Texas.
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Homa City
McAlester
Okla
Beaumont
Tex
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