Capital Ready for Royalty
Washington anticipates Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands visiting soon. The queen’s off the record remarks reveal her direct, practical manner as she tours by clipper and meets officials and Mounties. Farther topics note Army regulations, Wickard’s wage stance for farm labor, and a skeptical take on sponge iron costs and war damage insurance. Two thirds of Czech youth have lost all secondary education since German occupation.
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Peter Edson
Washington
Wilhelmina
Netherlands
Geean
Shediac
New Brungwick
Pan-American Airways
Pan-Am
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Boy Scouts
Murder in Ferry Command ends in secret athletics clue
In Newfoundland a condemned man Lemoy Statler is hanged. Canadian Intelligence officer Clyde Dawson investigates a hidden clue found in the corpse’s heel—a piece of raw beefsteak. An American sergeant identifies Statler as a former university athlete in hockey and baseball, guiding potential identity leads.
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Jemoy Statler
Newfound
Davwnon
Canadian Intelligence Department
FA Homber
Anapahot
Irl
Dante
Clyde Dawson
Lemoy Statler
Hedy Tamarr
Statler
Newfoundland
Dawson
Gilly
Rose
Canada
Ottawa
Lemoy
Dirt on Broadway Shows Sparks Moral Debate
A New York critic argues that censoring burlesque by price favors higher priced supposed sophistication. He notes Stars and Garters mirrors classic burlesque, with Georgia Sothern Gypsy Rose Lee and Bobby Clark, and says moral policing creates a dirt premium, harming poor audiences while not stopping smut.
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New York
Moss
Georgia Sothern
Gypsy Rose Lee
Bobby Clark
Georgia
Bobby
Social Calendar Notes on Club Meetings and Socials
Community groups hold meetings at local homes and church halls. The Cosmopolitan club hosts a social for members and spouses at Spring Hill Road. Jett B Graves class meets at First Methodist church. a First Aid Instructors Club forms at City Hall with monthly meetings and officers elected.
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Jett B. Graves
First Methodist Church
City Hall
Jim Embree
Wo Edwards
Treasaurer
J. G. Martindale
Lamar Cox
W. Dennington
B. W. Edwards
W. Y. Foster
Howard W. Hawkins
J. 0. Milam
M. M. McCloughlan
Marie B. Nichols
H. A. Spraggins
A. H. Underwood
John Vesey
MH. B. Vineyard
Coming and Going in Local Social Notes
Miss Mary Claude Fletcher returns home after a months stay in Alabama. Miss Mary Delia Carrigan, guest in Little Rock, returns home. Miss Athline Brannan departs for Morriston. Mr. and Mrs. Jess Davis back from a trip to Little Rock and Conway. Mr. and Mrs. George Peck and son George now reside at 216 South Hervey Street after moving from Philadelphia. Miss Alice Lile and Master Henry Lile visit Ray Arkansas and Jonesboro with Dr. and Mrs. H. J. Lile. Guests of Mr. and Mrs. Spraggins include Mrs. Spraggins Mother, Mrs. D. J. McCain, Mrs. Ora Bunch, and Mrs. J. H. Bolton. Blackie Elliot arrives from San Diego to join Mrs. Elliot at Julia Chester hospital Melbourne Australia soon to have more acres under vegetables than ever before due to a nationwide production scheme.
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Mary Delia Carrigan
LitGe Rock
Athline Brannan
Morriston
Alice Lile
Henry Lile
Ray, Ark
Herman Cherry
Jonesboro
H. J. Lile
A. By Spraggins
Melbourne
Australia
Justice Murphy Joins Army at Fort Benning
Lt. Col. Frank Murphy, associate justice of the Supreme Court, spends four months at the Infantry School on summer leave. He trains hard, studies law papers nightly, and lives in common barracks while serving without pay. His enthusiasm for courses and duty outshines any leisure temptations.
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Davenport Steward
NEA
Fort Benning
Frank Murphy
United States Supreme Court
Murphy
Washington
Justice
29Th Infantry
Sel
Neu
Supreme Court
Benning
Colonel Murphy
Captain and high commissioner served in distant theaters
In the field with the Army today an officer rose to captain in France in World War II he also served in the Army of Occupation in Germany and was high commissioner of the Philippines before Japanese bombs fell on Manila.
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Elmer Davis
Office of War Information
Davis
Army
France
Kater
Army strength at start of Mexican War
When the Mexican War began the U S Army had an actual strength of about 5 300 men scattered among more than 100 posts.
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U. S
Stanford professor simplifies Chinese for Americans
Palo Alto Calif. A Stanford University professor Shay Wing Chan has simplified difficult Chinese for American learners. The Stanford press released a beginner book based on years of Chan's research.
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Palo Alto
Calif
Shay Wing Chan
Stanford University
Stanford Press
Chan
Everywhere That Henry Goes The Turkey Follows
Henry Diester a Tecumseh Oklahoma farmer lives with a shadow a turkey named Pete zpeahd follows everywhere to town plow field or shade Diester says the bird is faithful and refuses to sell or eat him despite neighbors teasing his one man turkey tale
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Henry
Wide World
Henry Diester
Tecumseh
Okla
Pete
Diester
Pele
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Claude R. Wickard
Drum
Wickard
Joseph C. O'Mahoney
Cheyenne, Wya
O'Mahoney
Great Britain
United States
Lang
War Damage Insurance Corporation
A. W. O'Brie
NEA Service, Inc
Awson
U. S. Army
Sergt
Del
Ilinois
Eace
Manhattan
Cosmopolitan
Ecub
Mack Stuart
Spring HU Road
Helen McRae
A. K. Holloway
Gardenia Club
I. Hiegason
A.D. Brannan
8. D. Cook
Gardenia Garden Club
Steve Carrigan
J. I. Ward
C. V. Nunn
Ralph Bailey
Albert Jewall
Baptist Sunday School
First Baptist Sunday School
Paul Power
Jack Fielding
Denver Hornady
Rialto
Betty Grable
Victor Mature
John Archer
King of the Zombies
Laurel & Hardy
Don Red Barry
Mary Claude Fletcher
Alabama
Paints
Mrs
Jess Davis
Little Tack and Conway
George Peck
George
Arkadelphia
South Hervey Street
RED Cross
Chas. A. Haynes CO
American Institute of Laundering
Justice Murphy
Saenger
America
Frank
Kathryn Morgan Grayson
Saurday
Bert Lahr
June Havoc
Alvino Rays Orchestra
Johnny Mack Brown
Ine Theatres Saenger Wed
Bill Fargot
Sun-Man-Tues
Rialto Matinee Daily
Martha Manning
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