Paramount Focus on Entertainment Despite Trend Toward Message Films
Hollywood column praises Paramount under Buddy de Sylva for revitalizing profits and star power with entertainment value. Notes only one film with social content Hitler's Children and highlights anecdotes about Betty Hutton Bob Hope Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour on sets and fan moments.
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Buddy de Sylva
de Sylva
Betty Hutton
Bob Hope
Bing Crosby
Arturo de Cordova
Cass Daley
Gail Russell
Andrea Leeds
Gil
Russians page highlights Minsk battle and Far East pushes
June 29 1944 dispatch notes Red Army advances toward Minsk with outflanking moves by Generals Bagramian and Rokossovsky. Allied Asia reports 80 mile advance by Australians and captures at Hansa Bay while MacArthur's air force bombs targets across the Indies to Bou.
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New Guinea
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Ivan Bagramian
Lepel Lake
Polotsk
Polotsk-Minsk
Konstantin Rokossovsky
Bobruisk - Brest - Litovsk
Staryi Dorogi
Minsk-Warsaw
Red Star
Peter Pavlenko
Air Age Battle: Ship Owners Seek Congresses Light on Aviation
Two ship owners ask Congress for permission to enter air transport arguing postwar aviation must be led by experts in the field. They warn against routing air development through railroads or steamship lines and stress competition with surface transport will drive efficiency and growth.
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High Seas
Transoceanic
Finland and United States Tension Over Procope Expulsion
The State Department removes Hjalmar Procope, a popular Finnish minister, amid strained relations as the United States commits to marching toward Berlin. The move signals warning that Finland must exit the war or face American pushback as the Allies advance from multiple directions.
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State Department
Procope
Berlin
Germany
Irish Bread Keeps Hope Alive For Returning Soldiers
A nurse on the Italian front longs for home comforts as troops endure long privations. Ideologies and patriotism sustain them, but in each heart grows a strong urge to return to loved ones and familiar foods like mother's Irish bread and lemon meringue pie.
Spoilsport argues Pole travel not near future
Dr. J Parker Van Zandt, once a CAB consultant, contends the North Pole will not become a hub for international air travel. The writer recalls wartime hopes of freely flying to the Pole for rest and winter recreation, noting the irony of ending the war without such access.
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J. Parker van Zandt
CAB
North Pole
Pole
The Marble Palace of Local 72 Boilermakers in Portland
The 50 000 member Local Union No 72 in Portland built a $250000 marble palace behind the Labor Temple. The three story building features a lobby marquee a six lane bowling alley a 600 seat hall and a modern dues paying floor. A 1946 to 1943 audit shows the local handled 3875463 dollars in dues bringing praise and concern about wartime shifts after peace returns.
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International Brotherhood of Boilermakers
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Marble Palace
United States
Labor Temple
Henry J. Kaiser
Tommy Ray
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Portland Fim
McNaught Syndicate, Inc
Send every child to summer camp this summer
Angelo Patri urges parents to send children to summer camps to shield them from war time fears. He argues camps promote health intelligence and spirituality and help children cope with hardship. He notes camp quality depends on the leaders and requests leaflets on fear for a small fee.
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Radio THURSDAY JUNE 29 Schedule and CWT Adjustments
Radio schedule notes changes with networks too late to update. Republican National Convention expected to run into a possible fourth day with night session. Western and Eastern feeds list program changes across networks including news, serials, dramas, music, and variety shows through late evening.
Iowa class battleships mount twenty five inch guns twenty two inch guns
The article notes naval firepower on Iowa class battleships with twenty five inch guns and nine sixteen inch guns. It also mentions the cry Geronimo linked to airborne infantry and credits Tony Castello of Longmont Colorado with introducing the phrase.
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Tony Castello
Longmont
Colo
KWKH Shreveport Radio Schedule With Prisoner of War Question
A long radio schedule for KWKH Shreveport lists programs through midnight. The page includes a trivia Q and A about prisoners of war in April 1944, the number 180 350, and questions on Senate chamber items and musk sources for perfume.
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United States
Washington In Wartime
Louisville braces for war mobilization as Fort Knox Camp Campbell Camp Breckenridge and Bowman Field train thousands of troops including glider pilots and medical evacuation staff. Coast guard personnel gather for Elsie boat deployments while locals cope with crowded weekends and low flying training sorties over residential areas.
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Armed Services
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Camp Campbell
Camp Breckenridge
Bowman Field
Troop Carrier Command School
Burma
Hitler
Normandy
Col
Mike) Murphy
Army
Bowman
Medical Corps
Dama
4-H Camp at Lake Bruin Sets Attendance Record
Nearly 300 boys and girls from Franklin Catahoula Tensas Concordia East Carrel and Madison parishes attend a Lake Bruin camp. Franklin parish reports 133 representatives the largest single parish attendance in state history. Mrs Gayle Monroe and son Louis return from Shreveport where Louis debuted as a radio entertainer. Irene Mallet of Lafayette visits, hosted by brother George Mallet with other Mallet family members in town.
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Monroe
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Lafayette
George Mallet
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Velon plastic may replace wire window screens
A new plastic called Velon promises to replace traditional wire screens. It can be stabbed with a pencil without holes, offering a durable, patch resistant alternative for homeowners troubled by patched screens.
Planes continue to press in Pacific theater actions
U S forces report heavy aerial activity across the Pacific. In the south tip clash on Lif island, 200 Japanese were killed in a halted attack, with at least as many more felled in close assaults. Liberators from New Guinea dropped 27 tons of bombs on Yap and destroyed harbor craft and fuel dumps near Guam Rota.
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Rembert James
Associated Press
Siapan
New Guinea
Yap
Guam
Rota
Central Pacific
Truk
Army
Marine
Marshalls
Japanese Capture Hengyang and Saipan Presses in China and Pacific
Japanese troops seized the Hengyang air base and pressed toward Chungking as Chinese defenses falter. Meanwhile in the Marianas, Saipan battles intensify with U S Marines advancing along the east and north coasts. Admiral Nimitz reports carrier and air operations against Guam Rota Paramu shiro Shumushu Tinian and Truk, with Japanese breakout attempts halted.
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Allied air raids pound targets across Metz to Bucharest
Allied night and daylight bomber forces hit the Metz rail yard and oil sites near Essen while Mediterranean and theater air forces struck Giurgi and Bucharest. Nine hundred plus sorties, heavy losses on both sides, with jets breaking up coastal shipping and rail infrastructure.
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Senate Bill Cuts and Restorations Face Budget Tangle
The senate trimmed civil service funding for municipal fire and police, restoring a $50,000 biennial line to public funds. Sen. McCormick proposed the amendment, with Sen. Grove Stafford and Sen. Reimer Calhoun weighing revenue totals and surplus options amid a complex funds debate.
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West Monroe
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Alexandria
Reimer Calhoun
Mansfield
Coul
A. Tugwell
Department of Education
Liquidation Bill Passed by House in Louisiana
The Louisiana House, after killing the postwar sales tax measure, voted unanimously for final passage of a reform bill reorganizing the state board of liquidation. The Senate bill, in constitutional amendment form, limits the board’s expenditures to $1000 a year by legislators’ ballot, endorsed by the New Orleans bureau of governmental research.
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House
State Board of Liquidation
Senate
New Orleans
Greenwich Observatory clocks Linked by pendulum vacuum check
The article notes two clocks at Greenwich Observatory in England as among the world's most accurate. Each clock is checked every 30 seconds by a pendulum swinging in a vacuum, ensuring precise timekeeping.
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Greenwich Observatory
England
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