Hope Star Preview: My Favorite Blonde At Saenger Theater
The Hope Star reports Madeleine Carroll stars with Bob Hope and Percy the Penguin in Paramount's My Favorite Blonde, a fast paced cops and robbers comedy. The film opens in Hope and Carroll as a cross country chase from New York to Hollywood with a mix of stunts, disguises, and spy intrigue.
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Atrons
Saenger Theater
Ape
Madeleine Carroll
Percy
Penguin
Bion
Paramounts
Cording
Hope
Carroll
Sevie
Paramount
Madeleine
Great Britain
Sondergaard
Heavies
Gale Sondergaard
George Zucco
Lionel É
Walter Kingsford
Victor Oni
Otto Reichow
Sid
England
Citizens to Register Firearms at Prescott Chamber Office
In Nevada county residents are asked to register all serviceable twelve gauge shotguns and pump guns at the Prescott Chamber of Commerce to keep an accurate record for Civilian Defense. Registration ensures ownership and location are on file. no gun loss, just documentation. Local social notes follow with visits, military training, and D A R meeting plans.
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Prescott Chamber of Commerce
Nevada County
Patriotic Fines Clash With Baseball War Talk
Chicago figures Frank Frisch Al Lopez and Leo Durocher face fines of 50 dollars with others like Fred Fitzsimmons Dolph Camilli and Chet Kehn at 25 apiece as the Dodgers drop a doubleheader in St Louis. The column riffs on war funding via fines and mocks umpire policy while noting Rowe Wyatt and the Dodgers in flux.
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Chicago
Frank Frisch
al Lopez
Johnny Care
Brooklyns
Pittsburgh
Daisy
Leo Durocher
Fred Fitzsimmons
Dolph Camilli
Chet Kehn
Dodgers
St. Louis
Ford Christopher Frick
National League
Casey Stengel
Braves
Dougout
Our Daily Bread Inevitable War Profits Taxation Stance
The article argues the public will not allow profiteering from the war. It envisions taxing antisocial profits and reorienting citizens from earnings to consumption. It notes a shift toward maintaining affordable living costs and cites scientific fact about absolute zero as a metaphor.
Why U S May Draft You
Washington reports the War Manpower Commission under Paul W. McNutt seeks to mobilize labor for war production. It outlines goals to raise wartime workers from 8.5 million to 17.5 million by 1943, with major shifts from nonessential sectors and housewives into vital munitions work, and notes possible legislation modeled on selective service to train and place workers, prioritizing productivity and home front morale.
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Washington
Roosevelt
War Manpower Commission
Paul Wv. McNutt
Jabor
Army
Navy
Singing Program at Shover Sunday Night
A community sing at Shover Springs church Sunday night May 17 at 7 30. Several quartets have been asked to attend and the public is invited.
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Shover Springs
Masons to Meet Here at 7 30 Friday Night
A special meeting of White Field Masonic Lodge 239 is held at 7 30 Friday night to confer an apprentice degree on A L Carlson W M and John Ridge bs. Officials urged all Masons to attend and alert others of the gathering.
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Whitefield
Shower Springs 4-H and defense bond drive noted
Mr. Adams urged pledges for Defense Stamps and Bonds during the Present campaign. Shaver Springs reports strong 4-H Club pledge rates with 800 percent participation on the program. The group held a 4-H Rally Day, demonstrated treating peanut seed with pine tar and kerosene to deter rodents, and Mrs. J. Aaron led in planning a defense fund play to raise money for stamps and bonds.
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Adams
Billy Ruggles
Shaver Springs
J. Aaron
Haemagogus Mosquitoes Key Yellow Fever Carriers
Haemagogus mosquitoes are identified as carriers of jungle yellow fever, transmitting the disease from one rainy season to the next within forest treelaps.
War manpower policy aims to keep production by training and tech
The main points stress expanding training to convert unskilled labor to production roles and creating new production techniques for semi skilled workers. The War Manpower Commission will decide on farm and industry drafts, with industry deferment likely to protect critical shipbuilding. Industrial conscription could fill ten million jobs, and by 1943 one in four average U. S. men in war production and similar odds for women without dependents.
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Manpower Commission
War Manpower Commission
McNutt
U. S
Pastor Lkely Challenger to Louis Candidate in September
New York based writer outlines Bob Pastor as the top September title challenger for Joe Louis. Pastor has defeated Gus Lesnevich Lem Franklin Jimmy Bivins and others this year while facing Tami Mauriello in a forthcoming bout. Louis trained by Jack Blackburn has built a reputation for smart ring craft and may favor Pastor in a potential rematch scenario.
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Deillon
Graham Wide World Sports
New York
Bob Bastar
Joe Louis
Ife
Pastor
Gus Lesnevick
Lem Franklin
Cleveland
Bbo
Ample Abe Simon
Bob
Jimmy Bivins
Tami
Billy Conn
Lou Nova
Melio Bettina
Billy
Conn
Louis
Nova
Bettina
Bob Mught
Lee Savald
Washington Mayal
Nova Faetion
Pacific Coast
Bob Negtell
Roscoe Toles
Turkey Thompson
Los Angeles
Booker Beckwith
Chicago
Lesnevich
Franklin
Bivins
James J. Johnston
Twic
Steve Dudas
Lewis
Nat Mann
Gus Dorazio
Joe
Jack Blackburn
Blackburn
Herblock the Cartoonist Wins National Prize in 1940
The Chicago born cartoonist Herbert Block, known as Herblock, wins the National Headliners Association prize for 1940 for his Norway cartoon. Block began drawing in Chicago during his teens, studied at the Art Institute, Lake Forest College, and rose to become the world’s most syndicated cartoonist with NEA Cleveland. He is noted for his humor and serious interests in reading music and theater.
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Herblock
Chicgo
Chicago
Art Institute
Block
Lake Forest College
Mapachies
Herbloel
Elerblock
Lake Forest
Chicago Daily News
The
Daily News
NWA
NEA
Cleveland
Herbiock
Trolly Ear
Cartoonist Herblock Wins Pulitzer Prize Honor
Herbert Lawrence Black Kril Mant and NEA Service staff artist Herblock is recognized as the nation’s top cartoonist with the Pulitzer Prize. The piece notes decades of reader nominations, cites Tony Chiavarini who once funded a nomination, and recalls Herblock’s 1940 award winning British Plane cartoon published in The Star showing a German soldier in occupied France.
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NEA
Herbert Lawrence Black
Kril Mant
Herblock
Tony Chiavarini
Merblock
The
Star
I T
Block
France
Belgian mercantile ship sunk en route with UN cargo
Roughly half of a Belgian merchant marine vessel bound for United Nations supply duties has been sunk while transporting war materials. The incident prompted salvage operations and an emergency assessment of remaining cargo.
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Belgian Mercantile Marine
United Nations
Minnesota’s Backfield Strength in Spring Drill
In spring practice with Coach Bierman absent, Garnnas and Daley lead Minnesota’s backfield as they shape plays from the old Jeff half spot. Garnaas, a national championship quarterback, shows versatile skills as passer and runner, with Daley excelling at halfback and end runs. Veterans and new recruits mix under George Hansen and assistants, while changes in center Kulbitski and other personnel prepare for the season.
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Minneapolis
Bill
Sone
Minnesota
Bernie Bierman
Golden Cophers
Bill Garnnas
Bill Daley
Garnnas
Gind Daley
Garnaas
Jeff
Brueg Smith
Daley
Bob Sweiger
Star Bucks
Bierman Pice
Lowell
Red
Dawson
Tate
Tulane
Bud Wilkinson
Syracuse
Dallas Ward
Navy
Sheldon Beise
Haly Cross
Vic Kulbitski
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Whitlow Wyatt
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