Radio experts weigh Roosevelt versus Dewey voice tests
Reporters note that radio technicians measure the tonal quality of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Gov Thomas E. Dewey across the ether. Tests suggest Dewey may project sharper, shorter phrases while Roosevelt appears higher on a voice scale, though conditions during Rome fall and D-Day addresses may have affected outcomes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gton Tucker
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Thomas E. Dewey
Fdr
New York State
Roosevelt
Rome
Dewey
Chicago
Winning the War by Albert Alarm
An editorial argues Pacfic campaigns after Saipan will allow deeper strikes on Hirohito and Japan. It claims home-front resolve will end wars quickly, rebuts armchair doomsters, and outlines strategic Far East advantage if Japan seizes eastern China, stressing thinner Japanese lines and continued supply pressure.
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Albert Alarm
Pacific
Saipan
Hirohito
America
Pacific Ocean
Canton-Hankow
Chungking
Far East
China
Peterson's Ointment Relief for Piles Claimed
A vintage medical notice touts Peterson's Ointment as fast relief from piles itching. It urges immediate use, notes a 40 year track record, and offers a money back guarantee if not satisfied.
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Peterson
National health program urged after Senate hearing planned
A Senate subcommittee hearings chaired by Senator Pepper will hear top military and public health leaders on a national health program. They will review defects among working ages and veterans, dental care demand, rehabilitation needs, and the limits of current industrial health programs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Marlow Washington
Senate
Army, Navy
U. S. Public Health Service
Pepper
D-Fla
Steel Coaches Save Lives In Wreck Of Santa Fe Chief
In a Flagstaff Arizona wreck the all steel streamlined coaches saved many lives when the locomotive and 12 cars derailed and wrecked. One fireman and three passengers died and 158 passengers were aboard the 14 car train. officials said losses would have been higher with older equipment.
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Flagstaff
Ariz
Santa Fe
West
Here
Button found on rattlesnake in Miles City
Miles City Montana July 5. Frank Smith bent to pick up a button and dropped it. The button was attached to seven rattles which were attached to a rattlesnake.
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Miles City
Mont
Frank Smith
Anglo American forces push amid Pacific and Atlantic fronts
The piece argues that Allied power grows with a new amphibious task force capable of landing across the Atlantic or Pacific from a California harbor. It notes carrier based air power shrinking Japanese mobility after Marianas, the loss of Sevastopol reducing Soviet navy range, and claims only Anglo American navies can project bases with them.
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North
Africa
Mediterranean
Atlantic
Asia
Hirohito
Sevastopol
Black Sea
Romania
Mistakes and Memories in a Casual Comment
W A Bivins revisits a misstatement about Miss Mayme Ellis in a Hickory hospital and recounts a late night visit from J Clyde Bostian. They discuss Burns and the line about humanity to man, clarifying the poem’s wording and remembered phrase.
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Mayme Ellis
Statesville
Hick
Miss Ellis
Richard Baker Hospital
Hickory
J. Clyde Bostian
Hometown
Albemarle
Mr. Bastian
Burns
J.C
J. C
Letter to Hitler and war time satire amid public notices
A published Irish retelling and an open letter to Adolf Hitler appear among late wartime pieces. The column notes a minister’s sermon on miracles and includes a caustic open letter from Sgt. Lawrence C. Grissom written from a camp, addressed to Hitler with defiant tone.
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Hitler
Lawrence C. Grissom
C. F. Grissom
East Green Street
Adolf Hitler
Serneant Grissom
Hoy L. Fesperman
U. S. Army
Fiat
Louie
American airman in Italy writes child as occupation
In Italy on July 5 Almon S. Farrar 51 of Shreveport Louisiana filled a postal form and after 35 years in the Army answered civilian occupation with the word child.
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Italy
Almon S. Farrar
Shreveport
Farrar
WLB Sets Security Rules For Fairchild-Cilo Contract
The war labor board ordered a standard maintenance of membership clause at the Fairchild Engine & Airplane Corp Burlington plant, allowing current unionists to withdraw within 15 days and permitting a voluntary dues checkoff. It rejected extending Hagerstown contract seniority Pref, mandated merit-based promotions, and directed five months of arbitration for grievance disputes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
War Labor Board
WLB
Fairchild Engine & Airplane Corporation
Burlington
N. C
CIO
United Auto Workers
Hagerstown
Chi Chee Ters Promote Cancer Prevention Myth
This ad promotes Chi-Chee-Ters as a health treatment claiming to prevent deaths and “build up your bleed” with use before a period. It offers a 50 cent box from a druggist, using dubious health claims.
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