Goebbels Holds Firm With “Victory or Bolshevism” Says Clapper
Stockholm reports Allied spokesmen advise following Churchill’s Congress stance and avoiding postwar mass punishment. Goebbels sustains German resolve by fear tactics while Allied bombing and air losses press Germany’s war effort. Swedes see Allied victory as likely and push to expand representation in America as blockade eases.
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Clapper
Goebbels
Stockholm
Winston Churchill
Congress
Hitler
Mussolini
Germany
Italy
Esca
Britain
America
Tunisia
Berlin
Unter den Linden
Tiergartenstrasse
Hotel Esplanade
Phillips Electrical
Amsterdam
Axis
Sweden
The 64 Questions Entertainers Rumors and Rumblings
A collage of Hollywood gossip questions from 1943 asks whether Robert Taylor might get a New York furlough, details tensions on film sets, and rumors about Vaughn Monroe, Anna Sten, Don Lopez, Bette Davis, Ginny Simms, Leila Ernst, Jody Hutchinson, and other stars. The piece captures showbiz intrigue and industry chatter of the era.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
King Features Syndicate, Inc
Joe
Robert Taylor
New York
Chicago
Danny Kaye
Vaughn Monroe
Hollywood
Anna Sten
Sam Goldwyn
Femme City Room
Washington
Mexico City
U.S
Jack Benny
Bill Morrow
Ed Belein
Don Lopez
Judy Garland
Bette Davis
Ginny Simms
Gertie Lawre
Richard Aldrich
Leila Ernst
Carole Lombard
Minta Durfee
Artinekle
Tony
Gloria Franklin
Hec'y LaMarr
Jody Hutchinson
Renee DeMarco
Meecee
Bud Arvey
Cayit Bruce
Dust Bowl grain plan risks vs wartime needs
The piece argues against plowing the Dust Bowl region to boost cereal production for the postwar world. It warns rainfall uncertainty makes such a shift dangerous, risking loss of machinery and labor and undermining the region’s drought resistant sorghums. It urges supporting sure crop regions and direct grain marketing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Nations Food Conference
Dust Bowl
United States
South Dakota
Hot Springs
Iowa
Congressional quotes and war remarks from wartime figures
Rep Hatton Summers of Texas blasts lobbyists seeking favors while Brig Gen Charles Orde Wingate praises Japanese resolve and endurance. Wingate notes a one man pit combat in Burma and warns the enemy cannot solve unfamiliar problems.
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Rep
Hatton Summers
Texas
Charles Orde Wingate
Burma
Mothers of War Workers Face Juvenile Delinquency Question
Ruth Millett notes American Legion Auxiliary leader Mrs. Alfred Mathebat warns that mothers under 14 children who work in war plants risk "adult delinquency." She cites children left in cars, roaming teens, and shifts that keep mothers away from home. Millett urges reconsideration of women’s patriotism and stresses child supervision and long term citizen development over wartime labor glamour.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alfred J. Mathebat
American Legion Auxiliary
America
Japan gains threaten world balance says Catholic Bishop
Catholic Bishop Yu Pin warns that if the United Nations leave Japan to consolidate gains it would strengthen Japan and aid Hitlerite Germany. He cites China’s aims to modernize and gain independence, urging democracy and cultural renaissance as key goals amid ongoing geopolitical shifts.
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United Nations
Japan
Germany
China
Yu Pin
Private Fitzgibbons Cuts Hair and Delivers Service
Allied Headquarters North Africa dispatch profiles Pvt. Patrick Fitzgibbons, a long-time hair cutter, who gives reporter Ernie Pyle extra care during a Tunisian hillside shave. The column recalls baths, fleas, jeep theft, and light wartime humor from the front.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ernie Pyle
Fitzgibbons
Allied Hdqrs
North Africa
Carol Johnson
NEA Service
Bering Leg
Alaska
Pvt
Patrick Fitzgibbons
97Th St
New York
Hollywood
Broadway
Pye
Will Lang
Life and Time Magazines
Bob Capa
Colliers
Vvyv Will
Army
War Orders on Home Front to Steady Supplies
Government wartime controls expand to steel and civilian goods. Producers to boost output of garbage and ash cans and kerosene and gasoline beans. Ceiling prices imposed on pressure cookers for canning and fats for bakers. Nonfederal agencies aligned with national wage stabilization. Fur garments and frozen cherries under price controls as shortages persist.
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Neat
CPA
Reston
Bop
War calendar stamps expire in ration books
War calendar notes stamps G H J in ration book No 2 expire. Continue using stamps K L and 3 in war ration book No 1 for one pair of shoes. Stamp 17 expired midnight June 30. Stamp 34 in ration book No 1 for one round of coffee. Civilian Defense classes meet Wednesdays 7 p.m. in room 108 Junior High School Building. Instructor C. P. Parrott, old Poles Baling Telephone A261, Chatr ice: WBA eet sajgnuen Buen Lattin Rep.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jane
Co Ee Empires
Hes Schhool
C. P. Parrott
Poloes Baling
Farmers to file income returns December 15 under pay go plan
Tax plan requires most filers to submit a 1943 income estimate by Sept 15 with two installments due Sept 15 and Dec 15. Farmers must file by Dec 15 and final 1943 return by March 15, 1944. Penalties apply for large errors in estimates.
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James Marlow
George Zielke
Washington
House
Senate
Armed Services
War time price shifts and allocation measures across industries
The record notes brine price rises to boost grower income, lendlease supplies to French forces in Africa valued at 75 million dollars, and transfers to General Giraud. It cites oil well drilling support, laundry regulations for enlisted men, potential fuel savings, synthetic rubber price boosts, and various WPB and OPA allocations including auto tires, farm repair funding, and restaurant meat price ceilings.
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OPA
Africa
Giraud
WPB
East
Middlewest
Ete Ae Ber
Sevon
Food Administration
Aia
Minnesot
South Dakota
Dakss
WOOPS Vie With WAAC In War Service
TVA creates Women Offenders of Public Safety training, enrolling 22 women in a co-ed safety officers program at Watts Bar Tennessee. Recruits, formerly stenographers and clerks, study arrest laws fire protection and identification systems.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
WAAC
Keith K. King
Watts Bar
Tenn
Tennessee Valley Authority
TVA
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Dorothy Kilgallen
The
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Ruth Millett
Vvy
M. P.s
Jimmy Doolittle
WBA Eet Sajgnuen
Buen Lattin Rep
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