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Newspaper

Monroe News Star

Location

Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America

Date

Aug 07, 1944

Page

4

Psychology and Hollywood Blunders Featuring Loretta Young

Jimmie Fidler reports a psychologist blames studio blunders on insecurity and incompetence. He cites overpricing books and stars for name value, copying trends, and fear of risk influencing careers and even home life. The column teases gossip on Loretta Young Kathryn Grayson Norma Shearer Robert Montgomery and others with humorous vignettes and a Cobra Woman critique.

Hollywood Loretta Young Allan Jones Kathryn Grayson Gene Tierney Will Hays Office Gypsy Rose Lee Irene Dunne Norma Shearer Robert Montgomery de Langre Park

Polish Premier MIkolajczyk and Stalin face Poland’s future

The article analyzes whether Mikolajczyk’s Moscow mission can lead to a compromise Polish government in exile integrated with a Russia backed Polish committee. It weighs Russia’s aim for a cooperative Slavic bloc against Polish and Allied self determination and questions if Stalin seeks sovietization or a buffer state. It notes Comintern's abolition and postwar rebuilding pressures shaping Soviet foreign policy.

Moscow Mikolajczyk London Stalin United Nations Christian Labor National Democrat Russia Poland Germany Mr. Stalin Comintern Asia Europe Red Army

Anti-Establishment Abuse in Washington Trials Commented

Prosecutors reveal abusive anti semitic articles targeting Governor Dewey and President Roosevelt in sedition case materials. Defense lawyers protest the insult to the Republican candidate while supporters call the denouncement a cleansing patriotic act.

Washington Dewey Roosevelt

Hopeful Sign If Mr Dewey Wins a Young White House

The piece imagines a Dewey presidency bringing preteens to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue with Thomas Jr. and John Dewey aged 11 and 9 and notes would-be chronicling of their antics. Mrs Dewey recalls owing Tommy for victory garden vegetables and he presented a bill marked Hangover for 3.25.

Dewey White House Taft Sissie Buzzie Dahl Roosevelt Thomas Jr John Dewey Pennsylvania Avenue Tommy

Sun Valley Transforms Into War Time Navy Hospital

The Idaho resort Sun Valley becomes a navy hospital during wartime. Union Pacific chairman William Jeffers drives the shift to support the war effort, while veterans and sailors use the ski lifts and slopes. The facility offers healing, recreation, and rest with trout pools, wood river, and nearby Sawtooth scenery.

Idaho Sun Valley Union Pacific Railway Wood River United States Trial Creek Fifth Avenue Tarawa Guadalcanal Truk Friedl South Pacific Mediterranean Vid Baldy Sawtooth Range Fried Pfiefer Silver Creek

Our Children By Angelo Patri

A parenting column discusses patient strategies for children who cling or refuse routines. It advises gradual separation, naps with non punitive limits, flexible feeding, and using soothing methods while avoiding force. The piece promotes averageness and invites readers to request more guidance from Patri via a 5 cent mail request.

Western town life and war veterans return

Nearby Ketchum, a key sheep shipping point, grew from a mining camp to a stockman’s hub. The lodge offers tennis courts, ice skating rinks, game rooms, reading lounges, and natural hot water pools. Old timers recall ghost towns while returning veterans bring new stories.

Ketchum

Radio Schedule Update August Evening Programs

Radio dayparts list corrected for network changes. Prime time features The Sea Hounds Sketch and Hop Harrigan repeats while news, drama, and music shows from CBS NBC and blue network fill the late slots with serials, concerts, and quizzes across stations CBS NBC and blue.

Farrell Nbec Cbs Dick Tracy Quincy Howe Hop Harrigan Terry Lyn Murray Dbs Tim Healy Biu Chick Carter Mbs Jeri Sullavan Jack Armstrong Volney Lowell Thomas Nhe World News Monty J. Taylor Mbs-West Mercer Music Shop Nbe-Basic Horace Heidt & His Blu Fulton Lewis, Jr Nbe Volney Hurd Carolyn Gilbert Bob Hawk Cbs Basic Music Blu London Kaltenborn Cavalcade of America Parks and Warren Cecil Brown Lum Abner Nick Carter Howard Barlow Arlene Francis Voorhees Lionel Barrymore Cbs Counter Spy Gabriel Heatter Herbert Marshall Screen Guild Players Raymond Gram Swing Henry Gladstone Ted Malone England Doe I. Q Johnny Morgan Cbs-West P. Barnes Nbc-Basic Nbc-West Cbs & Blu Nbc

KWKH Monday Radio Schedule List

A detailed broadcast lineup lists programs from 3:25 PM to 1:05 AM on KWKH, including news slots, variety shows, musical interludes, theatrical programs, and orchestras featuring Bill Costello, Raymond Scott, Lyn Murray, Tony Pastor, Warrington, Les Brown, and others.

Bill Costello Dunno AP News John Lyn Murray the World Today Joseph Harsch You Manpower Johnson & Hull Bill Henry News Screen Guild Theater Yanks Variety Kwkh World Tony Pastor Warrington Les Brown

Germans advance and Allied push across Brittany and Italy

Allied troops inch toward major Breton ports as American forces attack Lorient St Nazaire and Brest while the Britons destroy a German convoy fleeing St Nazaire. Soviet forces near East Prussia push toward Memel and Konigsberg. Stalin proclaims Drohobycz fallen.

Monroe Nancy Switzerland Brittany Brest Malo Algiers Charles de Gaulle Lorient Brest’s Breton Bordeaux Loire Nantes France St. Nazaire Vannes Bradley St. Malo Vitre Tivy Brek Normant Troarn Chate Gontier Konstantin Rokossovsky Vistula Krakow Silesia Red Army San Vistula River Warsaw Ivan Petrov Feodor I. Tolbuchkin Finland Carpathians Joseph Stalin Drohobycz Galica Russia Poland Ivan D. Cherniakhovsky Niemen River Tilsit Baltic Memel East Prussian Virbalis East Prussia Kaunas- Konigsberg

Warships lack unity as Japan debates naval response

U S and Allied forces press in the Pacific with Guam villages fallen and Orote airfield cleared as 76 Japanese planes are destroyed. In New Guinea Sixth Army cuts coastal lines while Chinese and Allied forces battle for Teng chung and Heng yang amid a six week siege.

Japan United States Tokyo Marianas Guam Orote Peninsula Sixth Army New Guinea MacArthur Sansapor Manokwari Tengchung Yunnan Stilwell Burma Hengyang

Washington wartime missing in action benefits explained

Washington officials explain that families of missing in action service members may still receive pay and dependents' benefits. When a man is listed as missing for a year, payments continue, and insurance and allotments can be maintained or established via the secretary of war or navy, Red Cross, American Legion, or a congressman if needed.

Washington International Red Cross Pacific Europe Army Navy Secretary of the War Red Cross American Legion

Labor Strikes End Across Several Plants Resume Operations

Five GM plants in Detroit reopen as 7,000 workers return after a 12 day stoppage. In Ottawa 1,400 Libbey Owens Ford workers vote to resume. St Louis Car, Chicago Screw, Carbondale ordnance, and Marion Anaconda report ongoing disputes with about 1,200 to 1,100 idle each, while fifteen other disputes idle nearly 6,300 workers.

General Motors Corporation Detroit Ottawa R. R. Nickerson Libbey- Owens-Ford Company St. Louis Car Company Chicago Screw Company Carbondale Marion Ind

Facts and figures from World War II era Q and A

A quiz of quick historical facts covers B-29 cost about 750000 dollars scurvy as a vitamin C treatment, Swiss postwar plans for public works and rail/waterways, Silas Deane as America’s first foreign representative, and Germany's V weapons with V1 and V2 descriptions.

Silas Deane America France Congress Deane Lafayette

Reconversion Plan Aims to End Urgent Legislation by Sept

James G. Patton of the National Farmers' Union tells Congress to authorize up to 40 billion dollars annually to fund full employment as reconversion machinery is set up in both congressional branches. The note also defines Bolshevik as a member of the majority in Russian usage.

James G. Patton National Farmers’ Union Congress

Cities weigh site for AmeriGas plant near Monroe

Mayor Bernstein signals high probability the Ameri Gas plant will be built south of Monroe prompting talk on housing workers at reasonable costs to lure the employer. Local officials warn against inflating land prices in residential areas and plan for worker quarters. A yo yo contest at the municipal natatorium is set for Friday night with three grand prizes. Mr Hamilton seeks a record crowd. Mr and Mrs John Atkinson move to Fairview into a new home and invite friends. Mrs John Henry Scott and Mrs W B Brown visited Birmingham Alabama with relatives last week.

Bernstein I. G.chemical Corporation Monroe Tucker Hamilton Hamilton John Atkinson Sue Fairview John Henry Scott W. B. Brown Birmingham Ala

Colombia and Venezuela cut ties with Argentina over solidarity

Colombia and Venezuela said they cannot maintain normal relations with the Farrell regime in Argentina until it shows solidarity with other American nations. The announcement was issued from Bogota, Colombia, on August 7.

Argentina Bogota Colombia Venezuela Farrell

Allied Drive Opens Major Route Through Northern France

Allied forces push from Brittany toward Domfront and Mayenne as German resistance dissolves. The advance threads a 100 mile corridor from the coast toward interior France, with Vire and Mortain pivotal in reopening supply lines.

Vire Normandy Orne France Brittany Chateau-Gontier Paris Mayenne Ambrieres Laval la Houssaie Loire River Domfront Avranches Varenne Mortain Vire-Domfront Brecey

Davenport's Liberal Party Forum Sparks Partisan Clash

A political flare in New York pits Davenport against Liberal party backers and Communist allies over support for Roosevelt and confrontation with Ham Fish and Vito Marcantonio. The piece attacks Hillman and Dubinsky, links to the American Labor party, and accuses both camps of totalitarian instincts and violence against workers.

Davenport New York Liberal Party Liberal Party Communist Party American Labor Party New York Russia France Frank Roosevelt Sidney Hillman Finland Poland Roosevelt Hillman David Dubinsky Garment Workers’ Union Hitler der Fuehrer Congress Ham Fish Vito Marcantonio Communist Front Dewey Marcantonio Fish United States

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