Soldier Wins Benet Award for Best Radio Script
Edwin A. Gross of Camp McCoy Wisconsin wins the Stephen Vincent Benet prize for best original half hour radio script titled TMD. The 29-year-old New York native will receive $50, with plans for publication and performance and contact with talent scouts for radio stage and screen.
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Benet Award
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Wis
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Edwin A. Gross
White Plains
N. Y
Gross
the Dramatists’ Alliance, Spon
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Alliance
U. S. Army Signal Corps
Stephen Vincent Benet
Dramatists’ Alliance
Reported mass suicides of Jews at Vittel hotel
British repatriates in Liverpool said Jews interned at the Grand hotel in Vittel France committed mass deaths after rumors of further persecution. Panic spread as reports claimed transfer to harsher conditions with many leaping from windows and others poisoning themselves or harming their children.
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Vittel
France
Paris
Lisbon
Drottningholm
Anne Harding
Grand Hotel
Dorsey Hall Battle Probe In Progress
Los Angeles district attorney ordered a thorough inquiry into the Dorsey Hall apartment fracas after actor Jon Hall claimed a criminal assault. Antonio Aliza filed a $40,000 suit against Dorsey and nine John Does alleging threats and a bottle strike. Hall sustained a broken nose and facial cuts after a quarrel that began when Hall embraced Dorsey’s wife Pat Dane.
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Los Angeles
Tommy Dorsey
Jon Hall
Hollywood
Dist
Fred Howser
Dorsey
Hall
Howser
Antonio Aliza
Panama
John Does
Jane Does
Pat Dane
Unique salvage methods used in England for rope fiber reuse
England employs novel salvage techniques to recover binder twine rope ends and rope waste from rope works. Equipment from grass drying is repurposed to recondition fibers damaged by fire or water. The fibers are processed and packed into bales to meet UK demand.
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England
United Kingdom
London
Natives Seek New Life Across Sea From Easter Island
Reports from Valparaiso say natives of Isla de Pascua in Chile show restlessness after war. Four recently were found in a small boat at sea aiming for the mainland, while seven more hid aboard a training ship.
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Chile
Valparaiso
GI Joe Saving Money While Serving In World War II
Omaha message explains that single G I Joes earned more net income than civilian bachelors with a 3600 dollar yearly salary after expenses and taxes. Married soldiers fare worse on base pay alone but allotments raise their standard to match home front families earning 1600 to 3400 yearly. Buck up privates you’re in the chips.
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Neb
G. I. Joe
Europe
Pacific
Joe
7Th Service Command
Army
ODT Ready To Take Over Truck Lines
The Office of Defense Transportation plans to seize and operate strike stalled truck lines in eight Midwest states including Wisconsin if ordered. No official word has been received yet on a seizure, though sources in Washington indicated it could occur today or tomorrow. Nebraska truck operators association chairman Krupinsky said DDT would take over the lines now.
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Office of Defense Transportation
ODT
Midwest
Wisconsin
W. J. Hons
Hons
7Th Service Command
Washington
M. M. Krupinsky
Nebraska Truck Operators Association
Girl Rescues Drowning Child At Milwaukee Beach
Twelve year old Jean Ispen earned praise for rescuing two year old Leslyn Wallman from a lake. She swam out to the child, retrieved her, and administered artificial respiration to revive the unconscious youngster.
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Jean Ispen
Leslyn Wallman
South Shore Beach
Pfc Leroy Rothman Killed In Action
A message in Caledonia Minnesota confirmsPic Leroy Rothman 24 son of Mr and Mrs Barney Rothman St Paul has died in action He was born in Caledonia and lived there before moving to St Paul He had three brothers in service Francis 26 Robert and Raymond 21 the twins
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Minn
John Romnie
Pic
Leroy Rothman
Barney Rothman
St. Paul
Rothman
Francis
Robert
Raymond
Sales careers lose appeal for postwar youth
Modern Industry reports salesmen face public misconceptions and waning interest among teens. survey of high school juniors and seniors shows aversion to selling as a career, as prewar workers reconsider returning to sales and industry needs thousands of trained sellers after wartime production shifts.
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New York
Modern Industry
Dentist Gave Pet Dog Teeth Of Gold In Honduras
BATON ROUGE La Shorty a Honduran dog with a gold tooth has died from indigestion and heat prostration. The pets of a dentist, Shorty and his father Dopey, were brought from Honduras and fitted with gold teeth for identification.
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Baton Rouge
Shorty
Dopey
Honduras
There’s Irony Among Those Silver Threads
In Boston Hart Danks composer of Silver Threads Among the Gold died alone in a rooming house after separating from his wife. Years later Mrs Danks died in a poor Boston tenement. The note adds Galileo invented thermometers in 1592.
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Boston
Mass
Hart Danks
Danks
Soldier Killed in Philadelphia Transit Strike Duty
A soldier on duty during the Philadelphia transit strike was accidentally killed by a gunshot at the bivouac area. The tentmate was cleaning a gun when it discharged. Names will be released after next of kin is notified.
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Philadelphia
Soldier's Wife Cards Gas Waste Message To Motoring Public
In Philadelphia a soldier's wife distributes small printed cards to motorists who flirt with her. The card urges drivers to consider that wasted gasoline could have aided a plane forced to land behind enemy lines and ends with a sharp rebuke about assisting the armed forces.
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Philadelphia
British Press Credits Yanks For French Breakthrough
London reports reveal British papers shift focus to American troops and doughboys, exalting their breakthrough in France and giving full credit to Allied efforts in the latest wartime coverage.
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Yanks
London
France
Cigarette Lighters Gain War Role for Marines
A combat correspondent notes World War II may popularize lighters like wrists watches in World War I. He reports about three of every ten marines smoke and carry lighters, usually with two lighters per person. Jungle humidity and tropical downpours ruin matches and temperaments.
Miners Walkout Over Payroll Deductions at Forth Colliery
Workers at a Forth Scotland colliery halted mining to protest payroll deductions for coal used in their homes. They were urged to return to work arguing antiwar elements manipulate miners and that the strike endangers troops in Europe. A stray remark links bird houses to a traditional Indian practice of nesting martins.
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Scotland
Hitler
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