Technicolor Girl Elyse Knox Makes Hollywood Debut
NEA Hollywood column notes Elyse Knox, famed for color beauty, rose from New York to Universal. She starred in Abbott and Costello film Hit the Ice and Mr. Big and leads in Hiya Sailor. Despite a long career, she has yet to appear in a technicolor feature aside from a brief Arabian Nights cameo.
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Hollywood
Elyse
New York
Five Studios
Paul Hesse
Hesse
Fox
Universal
Anne Adams Pattern Styles For Easy Princess Dresses
Simple beginner friendly Anne Adams patterns 4419 and 4449 offer waistless princess seamed dresses in crisp fabrics. Sizes 36 to 50, yardage listed for size 36. Send ten cents plus name address style number to The High Point Enterprise Pattern Department, 243 West 17th St New York NY.
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Anne Adams
High Point Enterprise
Pattern Department
West 17Th St
New York
N. Y
Elyse Knox Beauty Draws Studio Interest in Technicolor Plans
Hartford born artist and model Elyse Knox, now in New York, shows studio executives oil studies done at her own expense and receives promise of a future technicolor role. Her background includes Hartford High School art decor and early earnings as a commercial artist.
Language Training at UNC for Army interpreters
In Chapel Hill on July 24 two hundred fifty soldiers will train at the University of North Carolina as staff interpreters and assistants for occupying forces abroad. The first contingent started yesterday and the rest will report within two weeks. Training covers languages geography history and local customs of lands to be occupied. Also a note to check distilled water in auto batteries twice a month, more in heat.
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Chapel Hill
University of North Carolina
Juke Box Operators Sing The Blues Over Record Scarcity
In Los Angeles July 23 operators complain of scarce records and rising costs despite high juke box use. Shellac shortages cut record life from 1500 plays to about 200, needles wear in weeks, and taxes cut weekly take. Machines suffer, no new boxes, and war taxes bite. yet revenue rises with wartime spending. Operators seek adequate old-favorite supplies and dime operation, noting Bing Crosby records top demand.
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Robert Thomas
Los Angeles
Musicians Union
Jack Gutshall
Gutshall
Ashe
Bing Crosby
Bing
Sweet Leilani
Rubber Battle Shapes U S Role In Wartime Trade Winds
In the coming battle of rubber between synthetic and natural, Washington weighs the costs and benefits. Proponents of natural rubber argue Latin American production with Hevea trees and other species can sustain prices and avoid taxpayer subsidies, while synthetic advocates push for tariffs and subsidies to protect a growing industry. Dr. Earl N. Bressman explains how Inter-American ties could spur tropical farming, with rubber suited to small farms across 15 Latin American nations. The clash centers on whether natural rubber can reach substantial, affordable quantities in American markets before synthetic rubber does, shaping regional prosperity and U S policy.
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Washington
United States
Western Hemisphere
John Q. Taxpayer
Agricultural Laboratory
Latin America
South Pacific
Earl N. Bressman
Inter-American Institute of Agricultural Sciences
Pan American Union
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Inter-American
Mexico
West Indies
Acre
Triple Grand Coup in a Bridge Hand by Fishbein
In a rich tale from a bridge column, Harry Fishbein describes a clever hand where he avoids a doomed contract by meticulous play. He follows a sequence of ruffs and finesses, deduces West's distribution, and defeats the opposition with precise trump management and strategic signaling.
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Harry Fishbein
Harry
Fishbein
North
West
Dummy
Three Dead In Wake Of Storms Through State
Eastern North Carolina reports three deaths from storms that hit Thursday night. Victims are Joseph Kelley Harrell 14 of near Williamston killed when a tobacco barn collapsed, Benton Paul 20 of Beaufort county struck by lightning, and David Wright 16 of Fayetteville electrocuted when a high tension wire fell. Heavy tobacco crop damage and widespread losses across Alamance Hoke Pitt Harnett Robeson Columbus Sampson Bladen Wayne Johnson Wilson Nash Edgecombe Halifax Martin counties.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Joseph Kelley Harrell
Williamston
Benton Paul
Beau
Fort County
David Wright
Fayettevile
Alamance
Hoke
Pitt
Harnett
Robeson
Columbus
Sampson
Bladen
Wayne
Johnson
Wilson
Nash
Edgecombe
Halifax
Martin
War department reports Pentagon complex spans wide corridors
The Pentagon building is described as containing 160 square miles of corridors, illustrating the vast scale of the military complex and its expansive internal passageways.
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War Department
Pentagon
War Weapons On Exhibition At Wanamaker Store
Philadelphia by wartime display shows 73000 square feet of ordnance from small cartridges to tanks. Col. David N Houseman says the exhibit, largest in the United States, demonstrates ordnance and industry work for mothers fathers and war bond buyers. Hidden items remain secret from the enemy.
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Philadelphia
David N. Houseman
Col. Houseman
War Time Health Sulfonamides and their risks in infections
The sulfonamide compounds are potent but unpredictable, with side effects ranging from dizziness and rashes to kidney damage and blood disorders. Used under medical supervision for war-related infections, they can aid streptococcus and gonococcus cases yet may cause fever, depression, or serious toxicity.
Radio Program Schedule Shifts For War Time Music Lineup
A dense listing details wartime radio changes across networks CBS NBC and mutual with varied times. It notes program removals additions including orchestras news segments variety shows golf and dance programs and warnings about late corrections. It lists teams hosts and performers and references the Army Air Force Band and Navy bulletins.
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We Arka
Orch
M. Beatty
Art Gentry
Blu
Dan
Cbs
Nbe Musette
Blu News
Cbe
Roy Shield and Company
Tommy Tucker Lootes
Orches
Blu Mutual
Fleming
Nbe
Army Air Force Band
Men & Books
Frederick
Cbs Dance Orchestra
Elmer Davis
Kleage Concert Orchestra
Nbc
Ieo
Hicks
Blue F.O.B
Detroit
Marshalls
Liza
Martinee
London
U. S
Stopak
Dancing Music
Bobby Tuckers
Minetvel Melodies
Horace Heidt
Cbs Navy Bulletin Board
Mbsa
Sol
Lewis
Alex Dreier
Nabe
Shrednik
Korn
Cbs American Eagle Club
Arthur Hale
Wbax
Nbe Daily News
Boston
Dave Ellman
Hobby Lobby
Cleveland
Mbs
Chicago
Harry Wismer
Barry Woods
John Vandercook
John B. Hughes
Groucho Marx
Frances Scott
Her
Dixie
Tate
Nhbe
Ebe
Marines
Tar Heel Missing in Action Names Include North Carolina Soldier
War department released the names of 145 U S soldiers missing in action. One is Staff Sgt. William C. Howell from North Carolina whose mother Mrs Addie R Howell lives on Route 2 Goldsboro.
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Tar Heel
Washington
War Department
U. S
North Carolina
William C. Howell
Addie R. Howell
Goldsboro
Softening steel by rapid cooling explained
A chromium-nickel stainless steel heated to high temperature and cooled quickly becomes softer. In contrast, ordinary steel typically hardens under similar heating and cooling.
Mavericks Name Origin From S A Maverick Ranch Calves
Unbranded cattle known as Mavericks trace their name to calves on the Texas ranch of S A Maverick who permitted them to roam uncowled.
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Mavericks
Texas
S. A
Maverick
Radio Schedule Highlights Loom Through Afternoon Lineup
WSJS radio lists a dense afternoon slate with 12:00 programs including The Esso Reporter Mirth and Madness and All Out For Victory. Evening hours feature The War Telescope All American Golf Tournament Roy Shield and Company and News and Lyrics by Liza alongside musical features and wartime odds and ends.
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C.I
Esso
Beverly Mabr
Senge
Merody
Roy Shield and Company
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