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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1944
Page
4
The 1,000 Club, proposed by President Roosevelt and backed by Democratic leaders, aims to raise funds for campaign activities. Frank J. Lewis announces the club in Chicago with a lifetime membership card for 1,000 donors. Public minutes reveal Roosevelt favored gathering 1,000 supporters nationwide to bolster the reelection effort.
A Chicago meeting of influential business and professional men formed to back the President’s public interest aims. Edwin W. Pauley and others praised the idea, intending a permanent body to advise from campaign to post election. Irwin Walker to chair. a committee to draft a constitution was named. Governor Kerr supported the objectives.
USO Club on South Foster Street lists the week’s events for servicemen and women. Daily activities include coffee and doughnuts, bingo, broadcasts, and junior hostesses hosting dances and business meetings. The week features a weiner feast, game night, a Wednesday dance, a Thursday no free movie, Friday classically themed recordings, and Saturday with a military band. Also notes two cats, one wearing home-made galoshes, and a claim of the world’s largest domestic cat Gibson owned by Mrs. A M Turner in Wimbledon.
The 1,000 Club formed with 7,000 members for the 1,000 hours, attracting quick pledges including a Chicago member who paid $1,000 on the spot. Chicago hosts the national leadership with Frank J. Lewis as president and George D. Crowley heading the local chapter. Plans envisage chapters in every state, with Oklahoma first to fill its quota and California led by Sam Goldwyn. Washington’s chapter is strong, aided by Cabinet and congressional organizers, while a national office operates from the Mayflower hotel. The board includes notable business figures, trustees, and prominent supporters, and the club remains separate from Business Men for Roosevelt.
A cyclone is called a hurricane in the West Indies and a typhoon in the western Pacific while in the Philippines it is known as a baguio and in the broader Pacific Ocean as a cyclone.
A German controlled police order in Norway bans whistling shouting or making provocative remarks about German soldiers and forbids singing the King's anthem. The decree reflects occupation authorities enforcing strict public behavior to suppress dissent.
Approximately 50 percent of the charge in an open hearth furnace is scrap with most of the remainder being pig iron.
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