Russian stamps honor war effort and a composer birthday set
Russia issues a five stamp set marking the Young Communist League 25th anniversary with dramatic Eastern front imagery. Other issues include four reissued Heroes stamps in new colors and Rivsky Korsakoff’s 100th birthday set. Proceeds fund French orphans, while Rome uses stamps as money amid inflation.
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Russia
Germany
Young Communist League
Russi
J. & H. Stolow
New York
Rivsky-Korsakoff
The Rosemary Mystery in Wrightsville Debated
Ellery and Pat sift evidence in a Wrightsville case as Jim faces bigamy accusations and Rosemary Haight schemes. They weigh blackmail, divorce fakery, and a fatal cocktail to uncover who aimed to poison Nora and who truly poisoned Rosemary, if any. The debate centers on motive, control of funds, and the true target of the deadly scheme.
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Pat
Jim
Wrightsville
Nora
Patty
Steve Volaris
Wrightaville
Mark
Cart
Vic Carlatt
Rosemary
Ellery
Jich
Nor
Carter Bradford
Tim
Tei Tt
Pop's
Rosemary Haight
Macau Napa
James
Bar
Roberta Roberts
Curtee
Cere
Costa
Sia
Rossmary
Gully
Poltoh
Mary
Iintrol
Paar
Noah
America relies on coal miners as underground army
A wartime piece extols coal miners as an underground army whose labor powers essential war needs. It cites coal as the energy backbone, fueling steel, electricity, rail transport, plastics and home heating, and warns that without coal the nation could not win the war.
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America
United States
Niagara Falls
New York
San Francisco
Coastal Networks List of Affiliated Stations Increase
Four coast to coast networks NBC CBS BLU and MBS continue adding affiliated stations totaling 715 with dual affiliations. NBC began with 26 in 1926 now has 147. BLU from six to 195. CBS from 16 to 227 since 1927 and 1934. Listings show nightly programs across networks and hours for NBC CBS BLU and MBS.
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C. E. Butterfield
New York
NBC
CBS
BLU
MBS
Josef Hoffman
Herbert Marshall
Deanna Durbin
Horace Heidt
West Virginia Obituary Notes and Local Appointments
The death of Rev. Newton L. G. Anderson, pastor of Pine Grove Methodist Church in West Virginia, follows a stroke. Forrest H. Kirkpatrick, on leave from Bethany College, joins RCA personnel administration and the American Management Association personnel council. Farther east in the Apennines, only slight enemy contact is reported.
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New Martinsville
Newton L. G. Anderson
Pine Grove
West Virginia Methodists Conference
Bethany
Forrest H. Kirkpatrick
Bethany College
Radio Corporation of America
Personnel Council
American Management Association
Apennines
The Magic of Limp John The Lit Guidepost Review
Literary Guidepost reviews Frank Goodwyn's The Magic of Limping John from Far rar & Rinehart. The tale centers on Limping John Luna a Texas fiddler whose life becomes a public miracle after a death scare, revealing superstition and town ruin through credulous worship.
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Frank Goodwyn
Farrar & Rinehart
America
Tom Sawyer
Huck Fin
Whitman
Brownsville
Texas
Mr. Goodwyn
John
John Luna
Seven States Primary Schedule Featured in News
The article notes nominations for the governorship and 13 House seats in New York, with Fish's seat among 45 House seats up for nomination. It mentions primaries in Kansas and Virginia slated for tomorrow, outlining a busy week of campaigns and state contests.
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Fish
New York
Kansas
Virginia
On the Air by Fred Emery Armchair Detectives in Ellery Queen
Prominent figures from stage screen and radio editors writers musicians mayors judges and executives join as armchair detectives in The Adventures of Ellery Queen. The column notes only about twenty percent solve the weekly mystery and describes the effort required to deduce the culprit.
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Mrs. America
Hing
Ellery Queen Hosts 30-Second Guessing Game
Ellery Queen ends the drama and invites guests to answer a crime puzzle in thirty seconds. Stars from all walks of life test their wits on air while Queen uses his vast library and famed tricks to confound them. Police officials avoid the armchair challenge to protect reputations.
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Ellery Queen
Ellery
Primary and regional party events across states in early September 1882
The text lists upcoming political events across several states. Primaries in Tennessee on Thursday, Democratic conventions in Connecticut on Friday and Saturday, primaries in Kentucky on Saturday, and a convention in Alabama on Friday. It also notes Reykjavik's population, a South Carolina Democratic state convention on Wednesday, and references Brazil and Portugal’s independence in 1882.
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Tennessee
Connecticut
Kentucky
South Carolina
Brazil
Thow
Portugal
Washington Industrial Reconversion Legislation
Special to Central Press reports Washington views postwar reconversion as the main domestic story alongside presidential campaigns. Congress returns after a summer recess to tackle industrial reconversion and postwar tax plans, Bretton Woods outcomes, and meetings among the Big Four to establish postwar trade and peace. Truman's chairmanship of the War Investigating Committee hangs in the balance with possible changes after the Missouri primary, while other senators are considered for succession. BLOOM maneuvering over the thieves market and OPA fallout is noted amid rationing debates.
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Central Press
Washington
Adolph Hitler
Germany
Europe
Congress
Bretton Woods
United and ‘Associated Nations
War Investigating Committee
Harry S. Truman
Missouri
Chicago
Roosevelt
Truman
Senate
Reich
Republican Committee
Homer Ferguson
Michigan
Tom Conally
Texas
Foreign Relations Committee
Connally
James*Mead
New York
Carl Hatch
New Mexico
MacArthur advances and Guam retaken as Navy returns to Apra
General MacArthur continues push toward the Philippines with actions in New Guinea and Halmahera. American ships reenter Guam’s Port Apra after troops clear the Orote peninsula and a 4,700 foot airstrip. Admiral Nimitz confirms ships now use Apra harbor and aircraft operate from the Oronte peninsula airfield. Patrols extend eight miles from Apra.
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New Guinea
Halmahera Island
Douglas MacArthur
Philippines
Guam
Port Apra
U.S. Naval Base
Marianas
Orote Peninsula
Apra Harbor
Nimit
Battle progress on Tinian and Guam described in wartime dispatch
American artillery bombarded east coast positions while Marines swept Tinian town and captured the southwest coast. Across the island gains of up to two miles were reported along the front as Japanese defenses in the southern quadrant held firm, with Ushi airfield now in American use. A separate note mentions the Alaska-Russia sale of 1867 and Andrew Johnson's tailor shop housed in a Greenville museum.
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Guam
Tinian Island
Tinian Town
Tinian
Ushi
Marianas
Andrew * Johnson
Greenville, Tenn
Fat shortage prompts wartime fat drive
Amid confusion a drive calls farmers to supply two million pounds of fat and fat products for war needs. The effort aims to stock Fat and related foods by mobilizing farm labor, machinery, and gasoline while addressing shortages and quotas in a tense home front context.
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