Langston Has Last Say In Draft Appeal
Col John D Langston, chairman of the President's Appeal Board, explains appeals in the draft review process. He notes most cases originate with local boards and neighbors who understand conditions better, and that only 1A cases reach the president for intervention. Langston, a long-time Goldsboro resident, recalls his WWI role and honors.
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Langston
John D. Langston
Roosevelt
Selective Service
John Civilian
John Soldier
North Carolina
Washington
Crowder
Judge Advocate General's Office
Army
Navy
Appea
Hollywood Hi Jinks and Glamour From the Screen
Hollywood gossip notes from writer Harrison Carroll recount Betty Hutton losing hairdressers to the WAVES Anne Richards departs to Hunter College after working on Here Come the WAVES Doris Harris has already graduated. Ann Miller's radio assignment on Command Performance features a tap routine in GI shoes. Lucille Jennings recalls Errol Flynn’s birthday with a musical cigar box aria. Phyllie Brooks receives overseas fan letters from two girls in the Trobriand islands. Low Costello attends his sister’s wedding as best man in a cutaway and striped pants. Loretta Young baby shower gifts go to servicemen wives expecting babies. Ramsay Ames and Mercedes Marlow plan a miniature golf course on the Sunset Strip. Esther Fernandez’s first Mexican studio credit in Two Years Before the Mast with Virginia Whitmire. Vera quotes a physician adviser on Hitler. Leonard Behrens, a radioman, transfers near Alamitos. Anne Shirley returns from Farewell, My Lovely and undergoes exams. John Wayne and Ward Bond on Tall in the Saddle set deal with Gabby Hayes’ mishap during rehearsal. Alice Faye heads to San Francisco with Phil Harris. Vivian Blaine loses 16 pounds on a dehydration diet. Seventeen paintings sell at Richard Whorf’s exhibit. Beverly Mitchell changes name to Roxanne Hilton. In England Jimmy McHugh’s On the Sunny Side of the Street is revived as On the Sunny Side of the Stream. Elsie Anderson with Nickey Leffert at the Mocambo. Ona Brown at the Clover Club with Capt. Leland Smythe. Jimmy Dorsey gains royalties from 280 recordings.
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Phyllie Brooks
Kirtwina
Trobriand Islands
Phyllia
Gary Cooper
Low Costello
Irene Dunne
Loretta Young
Loretta
Ramsay Ames
Mercedes Marlow
Stnset Strip
Esther Fernandez
Virginia Whitmire
Hollywood
Alice Faye
San Francisco
Phil Harris
Vivian Blaine
Richard Whorf
Beverly Mitchell
Beverly Whitney
Roxanne Hilton
England
Jimmy McHugh
Langston insists on human insight for case judgments
Colonel Langston criticizes overreliance on cold reasoning and urges officials to read the mind and heart of a defendant. He discusses balancing brain and heart in judgment, notes his family, hobbies, and long Washington hours, and mentions his four other children. Goebbels argues for German resilience after recent reverses.
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Washington
Langston
Selective Service
Colonel Langston
Carolyn
Surgeon General’s
Langstons
Army Air Corps
Salvation Army
North Carolina
Japanese Prisoners and Noemfoor Island Capture Report
Allied headquarters report 410 Japanese prisoners confined on Noemfoor Island in New Guinea since July 9. In the campaign, 144 Java prisoners were freed as Noemfoor’s three airfields fell in five days, with the last taken July 6. Copra and dried coconut meat are used for soap production.
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New Guinea
Noemfoor Island
North Dutch New Guinea
Java
Noemfoor
862 Bicycles Registered During Week
Bicycle Station reported 862 bicycles registered yesterday as police officers assisted owners in a weeklong registration drive. The bike ordinance requires proper licensing before operation and the new rules took effect a week ago. Further action for unregistered riders was not specified.
Kirkman Family Expected Loon From Porto Rico
Fayor O A Kirkman, former manager of the High Point and Denton Railroad now federal manager of American Railroad sites in Porto Rico, slated to return to this city this month. Government control over the railroad ended July 1, ending a labor dispute that brought admin oversight. Kirkman left High Point May 15, 1943, to move his family to San Juan, Puerto Rico.
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Fayor O. A. Kipp
High
T Tnsville and
Denton
American
Porto Rico
Kirkman
High Point
San Juan
Office of Defense Transportation
Joseph Eastman
ODT
S Sgt James Greer Awarded Distinguished Flying Cross
S Sgt James Ralph Greer 30 of Mrs H O Hayworth received the Distinguished Flying Cross for extraordinary achievement courage and skill in attacking targets from Calais to Berlin. He served aboard the Flying Fortress Alexander's crew.
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James Ralph Greer
H. O. Hayworth
Calais
Rlin
Yesterie
Ragtime Band Parents Named Greer of Lexington
The article notes that the Ragtime Band member’s parents are Mr and Mrs Walter V Greer of Lexington, identifying the family origin and hometown associated with the musician.
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Walter V. Greer
Lexington
Buried Soldier Survives After 85 Hours Trapped
Sgt Emory Barefoot of Vienna Georgia survived 85 hours buried under wreckage in a billet collapse after a flying bomb strike. He was found dazed and exhausted but without serious injuries, fed tea and smoked a cigarette before hospital care. Two companions died in the blast.
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London
Emory Barefoot
Vienna
Barefoot
Mexsana Medicated Powder Promises Diaper Rash Relief
An old advertisement touts Mexsana medicated powder to soothe diaper rash and heat rash. It claims relief from itching and burning and notes the powder absorbs moisture to prevent irritation, urging mothers to buy today for baby’s sake.
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President's Appeal Board
Jane Facs
Goldsboro, N. C
Miss Tennessee
Marian Weller
Chattanooga
Atlantic City
N. J
Harrison Carroll
King Features Syndicate
Betty Hutton
the Waves
Anne Richards
Betty
Hunter College
Doris Harris
Ann Miller
G. I
Lucille Jennings
Beverly Hills
Errol Flynn
Miss Jennings
Flynn
Objective
Burma
Maureen O'Sullivan
Vera
Hitler
Fuehrer
Mary Anderson
Leonard Behrena
Aleutians
Alamitos
Behrens
Anne Shirley
Lovely
Claire Trevor
Kansas City
John Wayne
Ward Bond
Heardec
Gabby Hayes
Monty Woolley
Hayes
Saipan Beach
Saipan
Marianas
Slartnes
Coast Guard
State Theatre
Salem Street
Thomasville
George Raft
Vera Zorina
Andy Hardy
Paramount Picture
L. de Wolfe
Madrid
Naziganda
Paul Josef Goebbels
Das Reich
Reich
S Sgt
James Greer
Suez Canal
Panama Canal
Oxfords
Ladies
Rayon
Bareley Hose
TAMS
Rayon Gaberdine
Sartin Dry Cleaning Co
English St
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