Reconversion hits second month as U.S. enters peace era
Washington dispatch notes business and labor assume control of reconversion as wartime controls fade. By December production should rise while unemployment falls, but wage and price policies constrain expansion. Travel, rationing and fashion easing are outlined with dates through year end and into 1946.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S
Sterling F. Green Washigton
War Production Board
Washington
OPA
WPB
Leather Bureau
Hollywood By Bob Tomas Review of Over 21 and Pride of the Marines
The Over 21 review praises Irene Dunne and Alexander Knox in a Columbia adaptation with Coburn and Donnell, noting humor and romance but missing a inspired touch. It highlights Dunne's breezy performance, Coburn's apt humor, and Knox's successful film comedy debut. Pride of the Marines is recapped as John Garfield led wartime drama about Al Schmid the Philadelphia Marine who blinded and killed enemies at Guadalcanal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warner Brothers
Schmid
John Garfield
al Schmid
Eleanor Parker
Hollywood
Susanna Foster
Susanna
Frank Sinatra
Universal
America
Kate Smith Jones
Marian Anderson
Grace Moore
Kathryn Grayson
Dorothy Maynord
Lauritz Melchair
Bob Tomas
Columbia
Irene Dunne
Florida
Alexander Knox
New York
Charles Coburn
Dane Clark
John Ridgely
Rosemary DeCamp
Philadelphia
Guadalcanal
Kilmer's Swamp Root Promises Kidney Relief
Advert says Dr Kilmer's Swamp Root blends 16 herbs for relief from kidney symptoms including backache and acidity. Claims no habit forming properties, offers a free prepaid sample and urges sending name and address to Stamford Connecticut. Drugstores sell the product.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
DR. Kilmer
D. Kilmer & Co., Inc
Stamford
Conn
Aftermath of War Shapes Market Frets and Consumer Power
In a postwar era forecast, competition will surge as many materials exist for nearly every need. Business leaders argue buyers will hold sway as government management grows controversial. The reference implies wartime experiences with bureaucracy color opinions on future policy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
King
John D. Biggers
Libbey-Owensford Company
The Story of the Atom No 12 Experiments in the Desert
Dr. J Robert Oppenheimer led a vast atomic bomb project near Santa Fe New Mexico with 7000 workers to assemble a new weapon. The wartime effort drew enormous ore stores from Port Hope and Great Bear Lake while vast materials moved to Oak Ridge and Richmond. A July night near New Mexico reportedly produced a roar and light like a sun rising and setting as secrecy surrounded the tests to come.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Robert Oppenheimer
University of California
Santa Fe
N. M
United Nations
Port Hope
Ontario
Great Bear Lake
Canada
Colorado
Utah
Japan
New Mexico
Oyster outlook brightens despite wartime uncertainty
A quote from Joseph N. Fowler of the Shell Fisheries Council cautions that science benefits society only if the masses share in discoveries. The Beaumont Journal notes the world faces a question of lasting peace versus armistice amid ongoing global tensions quoting Reuben Gustavson of the University of Chicago on the social needs of scientific work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph N. Fowler
Shell Fisheries Council
New Jersey
Reuben G. Gustavson
University of Chicago
Postwar answers cover leaders ages and world projects
The Q A set notes Clement Attlee in 10 Downing Street as prime minister. It cites India as origin of auction bridge. General Marshall is 64 and Admiral King 66. Australia opens a large public works fund worth 576 million and plans 50 000 houses. Henry Pu Yi ruled China as child emperor until 1912.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George C. Marshall
Ernest J. King
General Marshall
Admiral King
Australia
Henry Pu Yi
Manchuria
China
Wartime Mourning Delayed by One Hour
The note claims wartime death and mourning will be shifted by one hour. It references Tojo and a suicide, then questions seating and room for others while discussing holiday toy shortages and postwar cheese rationing. A historical line about Erie Canal and telegraph mentions Buffalo to Sandy Hook in 81 minutes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Erie Canal
Buffalo
Sandy Hook
Reparations and Potsdam Policy in Postwar Debate
Washington column surveys the Big Three reparations plan for Germany with Edwin W. Pauley leading the commission. It notes Potsdam eight points, postwar shifts, and the aim for a hard but just peace to avoid reviving Nazism while facing major economic and political questions.
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Jack
Stinnett
Washington
Germany
Moscow
Edwin W. Pauley
Potsdam
Japan
Tokyo Bay
Russia
Poland
England
France
United States
Pauley
Ington
United Nations Organization
Arkansas News Items Snapshot Of State Proceedings And Accidents
Arkansas Attorney General Williams argues AP and L falls under state jurisdiction while the FPC orders a show cause and a state petition seeks intervention. Gov Laney notes airport funds matching and municipal sharing. Ouachita College reports the largest freshman class. Stamps man Gene Ravencraft dies in a pit cave-in during gravel work.
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Little Rock
Arkansas Power and Light Company
Guy E. Williams
Federal Power Commission
PFC
Williams
FPC
Beenaire
Arkadelphia
Ouachita College
J. R. Grant
Wes Pfeil
Stamps
Gene Ravencraft
State Highway Department
Lewisville
Ravencraft
War veterans housing struggle and cotton talks in Arkansas
War veterans seeking University of Arkansas housing face shortages as a civic group surveys the problem in Fayetteville. Other items include Mid-South Cotton Cooperative discussions led by Memphis leaders, projected changes in cotton grading and marketing, and temporary officer promotions in Arkansas as war department notes rise in duties.
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Little Rock
Arkansas
Mid-South Cotton Co-operative Association
A. D. Stewart
H. Vandiver
H. H. Tolson
Memphis
Tennessee
Missouri
Mississippi
Fayetteville
University of Arkansas
Women's Civic Club
American Legion Auxiliary
Mid-South Cotton Growers Association
Hobson Vandiver
Field Service
Washington
War Department
Bernard Henry Daniel
Oak St
Pine Bluff
John Heck Pinnell
E. 13Th St
Wilburn Marion Hamilton
Russellville
Florence Lee McCracken
Searcy
Curing Tobacco by Coal Fire Appears to Be Successful
Danville Virginia reports U.S. Government tests at Pennsylvania County Experimental Station show coal fired tobacco curing is feasible. A coal furnace with stoker and thermostat allows farmers to leave the barn. a barnful could be cured for about three dollars in coal and the result tasted as sweet as wood fire curing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Danville
Pennsylvania County
M. Matthews
Atental Station
Matthews
Two Killed in Head-On Crash on Highway 70 Near Forrest City
A head-on collision on Highway 70 about 15 miles east of Forrest City killed C. T. Carpenter of Marked Tree Arkansas and J. W. Perkins of Dyer Tennessee. Carpenter, a lawyer, was driving west with two Black clients. Dorothy Perkins, 18, drove the other car with her father the dead man as a passenger.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Forrest City
C.T. Carpenter
Markedtree
Ark
J. W. Perkins
Dyer
Tenn
Carpenter
Perkins
Dorothy
Dor
Critics Urged to Lay Off MacArthur Prompting Patience
Memphis editor Frank F. Ahlgren returning from Tokyo urged patience before criticizing General MacArthur. He praised his knowledge and noted the occupation program proceeds as outlined. Ahlgren spoke after a 22 000 mile trip visiting Tokyo Okinawa Manila and other territories and witnessing Japan's surrender aboard the Missouri.
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Memphis
Frank F. Ahlgren
Commercial Appeal
Tokyo
MacArthur
Ahligren
Ahlgren
Okinawa
Manila
Japan
Not enough context for a proper headline
The article fragment reports injuries to Othy and her mother Mrs. J. W. Perkins from a 9 a.m. accident. Bodies of the victims were taken to Stephens Funeral Home. The accompanying passengers were Petavia Bew, 50, and Mary Showiders, 60, of Marked Tree.
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Othy
J. W. Perkins
Stephens
Carpenter
Petavia Bew
Mary Showiders
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Beaumont, Tex
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Clement R Attlee
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Tojo
Dad
William Ferguson
Lower
Nimroes
Dick Turner
Mister Montgomery
Leno
Bvice Inc
U.S
J. Albert Hopkins
Arkansas Farmers Union
National Tax Equality Association
Laney
Aviation Committee
Avernor Laney
James
Riabindranath Tagore
Cecil
Hope
Washington County
George Caudle
Rotary Club
Caudle
Fort Smith
Sept
James A. Gallaher
Gallaher
War Manpower Commission
USES
D. Palmer Patterson
Green County
State Comptroller’s Office
Forrest City Road
MacArth
Tiberius
Claudius
Lake of
Nemi
Rome
Lydia E. Pinkham
Pinkham
Lydia
Southwestern Bell Telephone CO
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