Ruth Gordon Announces Retirement From Acting Career
The touring company of Over Twenty-one presents Ruth Gordon in a farewell run as she plans to end her colorful 30 year stage career in May in Boston and devote herself to writing. She says she is sick of acting and will advise on casting while selling a second play to Max Gordon. Gordon, wife of film director Garson, notes her only private aim is to avoid public glare as she shifts to playwright work and royalties from movie rights.
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Bowles Secures 565 000 For Meat Shortage Probe
Price Administrator Chester Bowles won Senate approval of a 565000 fund within a 2.612 billion deficiency bill to investigate unlicensed slaughterhouses supplying meat to towns and villages. He said the aim is to equalize supply nationwide and reduce local shortages.
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Chester Bowles
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U S to Keep Islands Captured in the Pacific
Washington dispatch reports the Army and Navy assert the United States will retain unilateral control of Pacific mandate islands captured from Japan. Admirals Nimitz and Halsey favor American governance and use as bases, while trusteeship would be rejected by Britain and allies.
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Foreign Trade Would Boost Employment
Almon E. Roth, president of the National Federation of American Shipping, says a postwar merchant marine fleet can open a $10 billion foreign market and provide employment for about 3 million in industry and 1 million in agriculture. He notes the merchant marine is the only private transport engaged 100 percent in war operations and urges maintaining ships and upkeep facilities.
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Almon E. Roth
National Federation of American Shipping
Shipbuilders Council of America
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Draft Violators Released To Go Into Armed Force
Federal Prisons Director James V Bennett says released draft violators aged 18 to 37 who have served 60 days may enter combat military service or civilian national service. A special draft board classifies them as available for combat, non combat or civilian work and they may seek voluntary induction or civilian service after a pre induction physical. If unfit for military service they are reclassified 4 F and considered for non army release.
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Pedestrian Held For Assault On Motorist
James Monroe Carroll 22 of 329 South Wrenn street arrested Saturday afternoon charged with assault Bond set at 200 He says he hit the driver Tatum 204 West Broad street with a quart of wine after Tatum almost ran him over for a red light The car was dented and Carroll remains in city jail also noting Navy Seaman Ted Reid and Army Corporal Bernice Reid brothers meeting overseas in the South Pacific at 14 months apart.
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Ted) Reid
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Army
South Pacific
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Edgeworth Avenue
Annie Laurie on the Rhine Opens Ruhr Bridgehead Battle
Scottish troops of the 31st Highland division crossed the Rhine last night under a heavy barrage from Montgomery’s guns as the Ruhr bridgehead battle began. The force sang Annie Laurie during the crossing, signaling the start of major action in the key campaign.
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Mary Anne Thomas Named to Hollins Honor Roll
Miss Mary Anne Thomas of the Hollins College junior class in Virginia has been placed on the Honor Roll for the first semester, announced by the dean's office. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Thomas of 622 Colonial Drive.
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Hollins College
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Colonial Drive
Nameless Fourteen Await Word From Messiah
The Nameless Fourteen, a miles from Independence, Missouri family, travel toward the Texas border after abandoning their farm following Daniel the Messiah’s claimed messages. They await orders to move as Floyd E. Denham Jr prepares for a draft exam, while the elder Denham contemplates preaching to missing children.
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Texas
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Daniel
Messiah
Rio Grande Valley
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Army officers killed in trainer plane crash near Reidsville airport
Two army officers died when their trainer aircraft crashed while landing near the Reidsville airport around 6 30 pm Friday, according to the army air transport command public relations office in Greensboro.
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House Passes Agriculture Appropriation Bill
The House approved an $833 801 932 agriculture department appropriation for the coming year by a 256 to 16 vote. Republicans unsuccessfully sought cuts including a $50 million school lunch fund and a $90 million rural rehabilitation loan allotment.
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Senate
Agriculture Department
Representative Taber
New York
Appropriations Committee
Ober
Gas Tickets Stolen From Gulf Station
Gas tickets for 125 gallons of gasoline were missing from the Gulf Service Station at 500 South Main Street Saturday afternoon. Owner E. L. Greene notified police immediately, but no suspects have been named. Tickets were kept in a box accessible to all employees.
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Prince Umberto Denounced By Enraged Mother
In Rome during a mass marking the Ardeatine caves atrocity anniversary a woman with a baby denounced Crown Prince Umberto as she was escorted from Santa Maria degli Angeli by carabinieri and priests. Demonstrators outside paused work for five minutes as Rome remembered the Nazi massacre of more than 300 hostages near the Appian Way.
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