The Draft Dilemma and Postwar Plans Debate
The piece weighs whether aging professionals should volunteer or stay home as military needs clash with civilian duties. It cites a North Carolina case, explores postwar policy hopes, and argues Congress must act despite tax timing uncertainty, urging decisive action to avoid delaying relief for many citizens.
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Uri
Eastern North Car
Pandora’s Box of War Crimes Returns to Haunt Germany
The piece argues Nazi Germany amassed 6,000,000 wartime prisoners and laborers, then faces a reckoning as British and American bombing devastates industrial centers. It suggests Germany’s rulers face consequences for aggressive expansion while Allied forces press the offensive and upheaval ensues.
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Pandora
Germany
Reich
They Say Observers Comment On War Time Issues
Local readers and officials discuss blackout enforcement food prices rationing and war service support. Citizens praise Girl Scouts parish leaders Salvation Army work and soldiers in Egypt while veterans and workers urge accountability and continued effort.
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Rachel Shiplett
High Point Branch
U. S. Employment Service
Tion Army
John H. Kalte
Oen
Salvation Army
Congress Weighs Government Film Power In Wartime Role
John Taber and J William Ditter highlight government film making under OWI and its politics. Elmer Davis heads OWI while Lowell Mellett coordinates with the White House. Government budget runs about 1.3 million with 140 staff. The unit produces 93 films a year 41 theatrical 52 non theatrical with prints costing 6 700 each. Stars are officials not actors and Hollywood staff numbers total about 40.
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Auburn
N. Y
J. William Ditter
Ambler
Army
Navy
John Ford
Signal Corps
Darry] Zanuck
Frank Capra
Hal Roach
Hollywood
OWI
Bureau of Motion Pictures
Office of War Information
Congress
Elmer Davis
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Sam Spewack
New York World
Broadway Gossip Cavalcade Hits 1940s Headlines
A sprawling Broadway gossip column lists Robert Taylor deferment for Russia, Margie Hart marriage to Lt. Jacobs, Iris Bergman hair and Rita Hayworth notes, Marlene Dietrich divorce plans, Lena Horne cuts, Gloria Grafton at Metro, and other showbiz moves involving Raft, Gabin, Kay Kyser, and Joan Caulfield among many other stars and wartime industry tidbits.
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Felix Young
Gloria Grafton
Metro
Orson Wells
Rita Hayworth
Victor Mature
Newfoundland
Theresa Wright
Marlene Dietrich
Washington
Jean Gabin
France
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MGM
Ingrid Bergman
Irving Berlin
Lec'y Knox
Navy Relief
Paul Hesse
Hollywood
Elyse Knox
Robert Taylor
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Winston Ross
Kay Kyser
Paul LaValle
Basin Street
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Tucson
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