Hollywood bands take center stage in new film wave
A retro boom lifts big band stars into movies as studios scout vehicles for orchestras. Glenn Miller Kay Kyser and others are tapped for upcoming rosters while teams like Benny Goodman and Harry James ride the trend, turning bands from side acts into main features through company rosters and star vehicles.
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Hollywood
Rudy Vallee
Paul Whiteman
Ted Lewis
Ben Bernie
James
Glenn Miller
20Th Cen- Fox
Kay Kyser
Reo
Harry James
Rockies
M-G-M
Zanuck
Hunti
Sammy Kaye
Santa Henie's
Iceland
Brown
RKO
M G M and Paramount Power at Palladium Dance Hall
Les Brown headlines the Palladium as bands tour in day jobs on movie sets. If word spreads, the act becomes in demand with M G M featuring Ship Ahoy, and DuBarry Was a Lady held until Tommy Dorsey returns. Universal shines for band men like Harry James and Sonny Dunham in films.
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Les Brown
Palladium
Mammoth Dance Hall
DuBarry
Tommy Dorsey
Paramount
Jimmy
Universal
Harry James
Woody Herman
Sonny Dunham
Ted Lewis
Ozzie Nelson
Skinnay Ennis
Moulder Arrives at Fort Leonard Wood for Engineer Training
John D. Moulder of Emmet Arkansas has entered military service and arrived at the Engineer Replacement Training Center at Fort Leonard Wood Missouri for an intensive program preparing him for combat engineer duty. The piece notes the first iron made in the Americas by Massachusetts settlers and mentions gila woodpeckers in the southwest desert that bore holes in plant cactus rather than pecking wood.
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Fort Leonard Wood
John D. Moulder
Emmet
Ark
Engineer Replacement Training Center
Americas
Massachusetts
Dodgers to Meet Giants in Wartime Stadium Showdown
The Dodgers face the Giants in a key four game series opened by Whitlow Wyatt for Brooklyn as Van Lingle Mungo debuts with New York. Results from a doubleheader and other league action are noted, including Ott’s two homers and Hubbell’s fifth straight win as teams jockey for position.
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Austin Bealmear
Associated Press
Brooklyn Dodgers
New York Giants
Harlem
Gotham
Interborough
Army Relief
van Lingle Mungo
Giants
Dodgers
Whitlow Wyatt
Brooklyn
St. Louis Cardinals
Chicago Cubs
Cubs
Pete Reiser
Claude Passeau
Carl Hubbell
Cardinals
Mel Ott
Mort Cooper
Cards
Cincinnati Reds
Boston Braves
al Javery
Reds
Cincinnati
Pittsburgh Pirates
Philadelphia Phils
Luke Hamlin
Bucs
Vince DiMaggio
Pittsburgh
New York Yankees
St. Louis Browns
Five Die in Arkansas Little Rock Aug Weekend
Five persons died violently in Arkansas over the weekend. Three traffic crashes and two drownings claimed lives of Louis Keel a 53 year old farmer near Hargson. WI Bennett 70 a Springdale carpenter. Orville Slusser 20 a Moxie trucker. Also Billy Harvey 14 of Walnut Ridge and Elwood Norman 17 of Newport died in drowning incidents at local rivers.
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Little Rock
Arkansas
Louis Keel
Near Hargson
WI Bennett
Springdale
Auto
Orville Slusser
Moxie
Brownings
Billy Harvey
Tax on Bonds Is Opposed
Mayor H. LaGuardia of New York City warned before the Senate Finance Committee that taxing the income from future state and local bonds would harm municipal financing. He argued there would be no net gain for the federal government as local taxpayers ultimately bear the cost, not the wealthy.
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Washington
H. LaGuardia
New York City
Senate Finance Committee
LaGuardia
Yankees edge St Louis as Indians tighten grip on lead
Yankees win 4-2 over St Louis as Tommy Henrich hits a two run homer and Ernie Bonham shuts out the Browns 10-0. Indians beat Philadelphia Athletics 4-3 and 4-2 to stay 12 1 2 games ahead of Cleveland. Tigers move Boston to third with an 8-4 win led by Dizzy Trout and a 6-2 second game. Washington's twin bill at Chicago postponed.
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Cleveland Indians
Boston Red Sox
Detroit Tigers
Tommy Henich
Yanks
St. Louis
Ernie Bonham
Browns
Indians
Philadelphia Athletics
Paul
Dizzy) Trout
Tigers
Virgil Trucks
al Benton
Washington
Chicago
Utah Leads June Retail Gains in Independent Stores
Utah posted a 15 percent rise in June independent retail sales, with Arkansas at 14 percent and Washington at 11 percent, as 18 states fell. For the year’s first half Utah up 16 percent, Arkansas 15 percent, Washington 12 percent, while Montana posted the largest quarterly drop. Dollar sales totaled 2,228,420 in Utah, 1,806,000 in Arkansas, and 8,145,301 in Washington.
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Washington
Utah
Arkansas
Nebraska
Pennsylvania
Ilinois
Michigan
Massachusetts
Connecticut
Montana
British Towns Hit by Nazis
London reports a noon raid across England during the August bank holiday. Bombing touched southwest seaside towns, a north midlands carnival site, and a northeast coast town, causing minor casualties and notable property damage while fire and rescue teams searched for victims.
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London
England
North Midlands
CIO AFL Talk About Peace Reconciliation Proposal
CIO President Philip Murray proposed renewing peace talks with the AFL and named a CIO peace committee of three to discuss an organic unit. He asked AFL President William Green to appoint a similar group and suggested a joint AFL CIO committee with an impartial arbitrator to handle jurisdictional disputes.
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Pittsburgh
Congress of Industrial Organizations
American Federation of Labor
CIO
Philip Murray
Murray
William Green
AFL
Green
Washington
AFL Executive Council
Chicago
AFL - Cio
CIO Peace Committee
R. J. Thomas
United Automobile Workers
Julius Emspak
United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers
Alleged Nazi Worker Must Answer Charge
In Little Rock, District Attorney Sam Rorex says Margarete Asbeck Murray, 34, has sixty days to answer a four count complaint filed to cancel her citizenship. The federal suit alleges she retained allegiance to Germany after naturalizing in 1940 and obtained citizenship by fraud claiming not committed to U S constitutional principles.
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Little Rock
UPI
Sam Rorex
Margarete Asbeck Murray
Murray
Arkansas
Germany
United States
Treasury official warns cities on bond taxes and real estate
La Guardia tells three Treasury reps that every rent of federal taxes on bonds raises interest costs, which in turn increases taxes on real estate already overburdened. He says no city can skate on thin financial ice without bearing the impact of higher costs and burdens.
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