Berlin Struggles and Hope After War Ruins
AP News reviews Berlin’s fate as it faces reconstruction amid unemployment and housing shortages. Prominent figures like Eleanor Roosevelt and Jakob Kaiser praise Berlin’s tenacity, while Col. Howley warns Berlin remains a city of paupers with three million residents and a skewed gender balance hindering recovery. river port revival is under way with limited barge capacity.
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Berlin
Eleanor Roosevelt
Bavaria
Rhineland
Federation of Free Trade Unions
Germany
Frank L. Howley
Greater
Howley
Reich
Washington
Bern
Mitchell Brother Publishes Georgia Real Property Textbook
Stephens Mitchell, brother of Margaret Mitchell, writes Real Property Under the Code of Georgia and the Georgia Decisions. He teaches property law in Atlanta and notes Georgia code differs from common law, prompting his own textbook.
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Atlanta
Margaret Mitchell
Margaret
Georgia
Stephens Mitchell
Enduring Struggle to Supply Vast Allied City
Amid wartime furor the Reich and Allies face the same daunting task of feeding a sprawling city. Supplies must be routed through disrupted rails ports and air corridors as civilian hunger grows. Authorities pledge priority handling and ration reforms to avert shortages and civil unrest.
Hollywood Weddings and Showbiz Moves Highlight Las Vegas Ceremony
Hollywood notes recount Jack Carson serving as best man via long distance for Ursula McGowan as she wed Eddie Neise in Las Vegas. The feature lists industry moves including Sabu building a $125000 apartment complex for enlisted men, Ann Dvorak selling a Hollywood house for $100000, and Ronald Reagan performing own stunts in Stallion Road, among other glitzy tidbits and industry shifts.
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Harrison Carroll
King Features Syndicate
Hollywood
Jack Carson
Ursula McGowan
Las Vegas
Eddie Neise
Twentieth Century-Fox
Chicago Shows Greatest Array of French Art
A Paris visitor toured Chicago’s art institute praising the world’s largest 19th and 20th century French painting collection, with over 1,300 works. The exhibit includes a work from each UN nation, while Frederick Sweet led a 10 000 mile, 45 community search for 164 early American landscapes. The institute drew 1,081,000 visitors last year as the Cubs attracted 1,036,386 to Wrigley Field. The limestone Italian renaissance building, erected in 1893, sits by Lake Michigan. the art school now enrolls 6,800 students.
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Chicago
Paris
Art Institute
Institute
Europe
Times
United Nations
Frederick Sweet
Wrigley Field
Chicago Cubs
Lake Michigan
Housing ads reflect worsening New York apartment shortage
Times classified ads show tenants pleading for housing with poems from veterans and families. Ex soldiers lament long search after World War II era service as ads describe two to four rooms and shared rentals. Several women seek rooms or apartments in Manhattan with affordable options under 100 dollars.
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AP News
New York
Times
Japan
Epic
Manhattan
Realty Transfers Guilford County High Point Township
Real estate transfers listed for Guilford County High Point area show multiple deeds. Properties include lots in Gurley lands Riverside park Willard Wi llard Park Place Blair estate Springdale and Will O Heights subdivisions along Gray Street Farriss avenue Cross St Jay avenue East Farriss avenue College Heights and other known streets with transfers to numerous buyers and married couples.
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High Point Township
J. W. Sammet
J. T. Smith
Gurley Lands
Avery W. Weaver
H. G. Russell
Welborn Street
Axzalea Brown
W. W. Atkinson
Riverside Park
J. M. Hilton
HH. R. Johnson
Tipton Street
Joseph P. Hollingwworth
Robert L. Hutchens
Ferndeil Parkway
G. J. Williard
Charles F. Hayes
Willard
W. D. Gatlin
James Smith Wall
Northwood Acres
T. Y. Hamilton
J. M. Matthews
Lamilton
J. W. Ferrell
Blair Estate
P. E. Creasey
Wesley T. Spillman
J. H. Carter
Ruby Dickens Jones
Gray Street
T. M. Briles
Ralph O. Smith
Springdale
Jay Avenue
George Ball
Dora M. Jennings
Rankin- Teague
Welch
Robert F. Carver
W. Bruce Thorburn
East Farriss Avenue
Nancy G. Royer
Frank E. Stearnes
S. Whit
James W. Lynch
College Heights
Walter Bruce Thorburn
James V. Morgan
Parks Place
Alice Brice
Frank Pickens
Cross St
Carleen Welch
Velko Jaich
Boyer Street
D. Hi. Parsons
Clarence R. Cook
Brentwood School Park
John D. Biggs
Stuart L. Clark
Will O' Heights
Stuart L
It Wasn’t Hubby James Parker Ship Owner Mystery
Malta Mont. Mrs James Parker a British war bride recalls her astonishment at Southampton when she learned her alleged husband’s name matched the ship that brought her to America. Her husband a postal clerk and former GI explains it was coincidence that the James Parker carried her to the United States. The 1906 San Francisco quake vibrations reached 730 miles from Oregon to Los Angeles and into Nevada.
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Malta
Mont
James Parker
Southampton
America
San Francisco
Oregon
Los Angeles
Nevada
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Republic
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Paramount
Gary Cooper
Cloak and Dagger
Gary
Mr. Cooper
Ginger Rogers
Travis Banton
Catherine McLeod
Curt Massey
California
Mr. Ace
George Raft
George
Martha O'Driscoll
Martha
Winston Churchill
Gene Autry
Autry
Claudia
David
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Bob
Maxie Rosenbloom
Dolores Gray
Joan Fontaine
Ciro
R-K-O
Bill Dozier
Louis Hayward
England
Glenn Miller
Charlie Chaplin, Jr
Beverly Tropics
Gilda Feldrais
Orchestra
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Marilyn Maxwell
Peter Lawford
Allan Jones
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