Social calendar highlights for May engagements
May 13 14 schedule lists DAR luncheon at Mrs R E Cain 804 West 3rd Street and a First Methodist Children workers meeting with Miss Kathleen Broach. P A organizations install new officers at high school. United Daughters of the Confederacy host Pat Chilbourn chapter. Bridge club at George Ware home. Aznica Garden club social at Mrs George Newhbern. Several locals visit or return from events including Bertha Sparks trip to Texas A M Senior prom and Pvt Clinton Taylor's furlough from Jefferson Barracks.
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John Cain
The
Daughters of the American Revolution
Caribbean Vouchers Mystery Tangles Bill Talcott
Bill Talcott, plant manager in the Caribbean, faces a missing voucher scandal amounting to 158000 while auditor Struthers exposes gaps in the ledger. Tensions rise as Halsey Struthers MacDowell and June Paterson join the drama aboard the island outpost.
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Talcott
Bill Talcott
Struthers
Winters
Halsey
New York
Stone Pier
Lowell Byrd
Army
Federal Chemical
Tropics
Mother Talcott
Bill Taleott
Anegada Passage
Caribbean
MacDowell
Black Sam
Taboté
Paterson
Miss Paterson
June Paterson
Oversight Costs JacksonMan at Tropical Park Race
Merriweather Lewis of Jacksonville, Florida, bought a $6 across the board bet at Tropical Park in Miami. He misread the ticket and bet on No. 7 Oversight instead of No. 6. No. 7 Oversight paid $9.50 to show. No. 7 did not win. No. 6 finished out of the money.
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Jacksonville
Fla
Merriweather Lewis
Tropical Park
Miami
No. T
Texan Who Captured German Seeks Jap Capture
Texan Charles Gus Hawkins, a Marine veteran from Waller County, aims to become the first local service member to capture a Japanese soldier. Hawkins, 42, fought 22 Germans in World War I, weighed 175 pounds, and received $175 after joining the Marines.
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Houston
Tex
Charles Gus Hawkins
Hawkins
Marine Corps
Waller County
W. M. Wheeler
Hempste
Wheeler
Hawkins Segnar Engagement Announces Norman Oklahoma
Mr and Mrs W E Hawkins of Norman Oklahoma announce the engagement and approaching marriage of their daughter Thelma to Harry Richard Segney Jr son of Mr and Mrs Harry R Segnar Sr of Hope The wedding is set for First Methodist church in Norman on June 2 Thelma is a University of Oklahoma student Segner a OU graduate attends officers training at Ft Sill and will receive a second lieutenant commission June 1.
Whitehurst Family Return Home After Visit
Mrs A C Whitehurst and Miss Lorraine Whitehurst return to Little Rock after visiting Mr and Mrs K L Broach and other relatives. Mr and Mrs Dick Watkins announce the arrival of a son on Wednesday May 14 at Julia Chesler hospital. He is named Iain Dickson Watkins.
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A. C. Whitehurst
Lorraine Whitehurst
Little Rock
K. L. Broach
Dick Watkins
Julia Chesler Hospital
Iain Dickson Watkins
Aprons Blitz Motor Scooters In War Effort Women take part
Adelaide Kerr urges American women to can and preserve fruit while Mrs Tenry Ford markets a parrel of apples to England. Marjorie Weaver markets on a motor scooter to save time. Ellen Ballon sells miniatures for war relief. Hazel Corbin designs a three dollar blitz apron for quick first aid. Blood donations pour in from Brooklyn coeds. NJ RI DE FL women travel in auto caravans to dance with soldiers. Hollywood fashion trims to meet War Production Board rules. Lynn Bari flaunts a checked suit with a skimpy hem. Joan Fontaine adds floral appliques to plain dresses. Carole Landis wears slacks and striped hats. National League of Women Voters promotes capable Congressmen ahead of November elections. Business and Professional Women collect vital data from 76,000 members.
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Tenry Ford
England
Marjorie Weaver
Hollywood
Tlrem
Ellen Ballon
Hazel Corbin
New York Maternity Center
Brooklyn
War Production Board
Lynn Bari Seon
Joan Fontaine
Carole Landis
Women Voters
National League of Women Voters
House of Representatives
Senate
National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs
War work ties Vassar to sugar registration effort
In connection with war work the American Women’s Voluntary Services of Greater New York supplied 3,000 volunteers to aid teachers in registering sugar consumers. Vassar College has scheduled a summer institute to continue civilian service and education initiatives.
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American Women’s Voluntary Services of
Greater New York
Vassar College
Goldfish steal the scene in Sturges wartime film
NEA correspondent Paul Harrison recounts Preston Sturges filming Triumph Over Pain with three goldfish, Benie Meenie Moe Ginsberg, and Joel McCrea as Morton. The sequence shows the fish reacting to ether while Sturges prepares for a dramatic moment, highlighting wartime morale themes and Hollywood war relief efforts.
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Hollywood
Preston Sturges
Jesson
Sturges
William Marion
Boston
Joel McCrea
Morton
Benie
Meenie
Moe Ginsberg
Iiile Ginsbergs
Oscar Lau
Enie
Moe
Dr. Marion
McCrea
Oscar
Stage 1 Tension in a Curious Revealing Scene
Production costs rise as a peculiar scene unfolds with East Coast puppetsa and handkerchiefs. Eenie Mennie and Moe grow bored while McCrea tests a trained fish, then retrieves the creatures from a bowl. A door miscue forces a reshoot, heightening the onset tension.
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Sturges
Eenie
Mennie
Moe
McCrea
Dispute Over Anesthesia Discovery In Play Dialogue
Narrator recalls a controversy dating to the 1860s about who first used anesthesia. Sturges argues Morton did not discover it but first put it to practical use and demonstrated its value to the world.
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Sturges
Morton
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Conference of Children's Workers of the First Methodist Church
Kathleen Broach
K. L. Spare
Women's Society of Christian Service
Nf. O. Kyler
A, &, Slusser
Pat Chilbourn
United Daughters of the Confederacy
Mrs. George Ware
Aznica Garden Club
George Newhbern
Syd McMath
Joe Black
Kelley Bryant
Charles Tarleton
Dorsey McRae
McRae
Bertha Sparks
Marque
Texas
College Station
R. R. Forster
Thomas Kinser
University of Arkanas
Fayetteville
Pvt
Clinton William Taylor
Jefferson Barracks
A. Taylor
Falcott
Ueastreoanie
Haley
MA McDowell
Dane Py
Talcotr
June Pater
Dune Paterson
Rialto
Cesar Romero
Robert Taylor
Marina Shearer
Raenger
Burma Pad
Rialto Matinee Daily
Church News
ST. Mark's Church
Harry Wintermeyer
Adelaide
KERR
Wide World
Saenger
Sr Three Nations
Prusense
Oing
Boland
Aise Young Dekker
Margaret Sci Hayes Kellaway
High School Stadium
Harrison
Paul Harrison
NEA
Little Fish Story
Ireland
Morolin
Summer Haven
Somerset
Eagle
Geo. W. Robison & Co
Nashville
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