Hollywood Gossip Roundup of Stars and Snippets
Jimmie Fidler reports Joan Crawford's next film aim a screen musical with Ida Lupino and Dinah Shore touring England for six weeks. Other notes celebrate Frank Craven's 60th year in show paint, wedding plans postponed for Ann Doran and Col. James Travis, and Veronica Lake’s Sierra fishing trip. The column mocks Mickey Rooney’s height habits, reviews films like The Impatient Years and Moonlight and Cactus, and debunks Sinatra house S rumor about a decorative chimney S.
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Hollywood
Joan Crawford
Ida Lupino
Dinah Shore
France
England
U.S
Frank Craven
Betty
Joan Leslie
Brodel
Arnold Woneyberger
Uncle Sam
Turhan Bey
Jimmy Dunn
Edna Rush
Danny Kaye
Dick Powell
MGM
June Allyson
Arthur Treacher
Sherman Oaks
Calif
Hollywood Canteen
Fred Brady
Louella Parsons
Virginia
John
Destination Tokyo
Alvin
Susanne Rosser
Sonja Henie
Maj
Dan Topping
John O'Connor
Universal
Angela Green
Cpl
William Lundigan
Frank Sinatra
Toluca Lake
McNaught Syndicate, Inc
Departure of Laval Told in Last Day in Paris
The story recounts Pierre Laval's final hours in Paris on August 17 at the Matignon. Laval signs transfer letters surrendering Paris authority to prefects as Gestapo guards wait outside, while Abetz presses the move to Belfort. Laval faces emotional strain, letters read aloud, and a Gestapo officer arrives to escort him to Belfort.
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Laval
Matignon
Paris
Amedee Bussiere
M. Bouffet
Seine
Gestapo
Edouard Herriot
Otto Abetz
Herriot
Nancy
Germany
France
Abetz
Herriots
Belfort
Vichy
Juenier
Bonnefoy
Christophe
Guerard
Monsieur M
M. Taittinger
Unity of Faith Amid War Returnees in Pacific Outpost
A visitor notes strong religious unity among chaplains of different faiths serving a Southwest Pacific islet. He observes large church attendance, overlapping sermon spaces, and calls for home churches to preserve the unity witnessed abroad. He warns that returning servicemen must find equivalent spiritual support, or it would be a tragedy.
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Southwest
Pacific
Happy Ending Momentous Beginning Hull Dukes discuss Dumbarton Oaks
The piece argues for open, step by step disclosure of Dumbarton Oaks plans, urging Hull and Dukes to counter isolationist memories and provide bipartisan context. It stresses public information, nonpartisan aura, and broader debate before final agreements are ratified.
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Dewey
Hull
John Foster Dukes
Dumbarton Oaks
Postwar German borders debated by Allies and France
The plan for occupying and dividing Germany lacks a finalized accord among the United States Great Britain and Russia. De Gaulle demands the Rhineland Alsace Lorraine and other territories with possible British support. Russia and Poland seek eastern Germany while Tito pushes for Istria and Trieste. Peace talks loom as all sides press their claims.
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Germany
United States
Great Britain
Russia
France
General de Gaulle
Rhineland
Alsace
Lorraine
Baden
Palatinate
Rhine
de Gaulle
London
Washington
Poland
Marshal Tito
Yugoslavia
Istria
Trieste
Pullman Workers Earn Pennies for Thoughts on Car Design
Since March 1941 the Pullman Company has paid out about 180000 in pennies to employees for thoughts on how to build or run Pullman cars more efficiently. They have received 96545 suggestions and adopted 14089. The article notes hopes for wartime improvements and mentions a noiseless coupling and a walkie talkie link to reach porters after hours.
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Pullman
Fort Warren's Training Role and Firefighting Valor Highlighted
The article lauds Fort Warren as a major training hub for overseas duty with 4.0 million in combined shops servicing army vehicles and converting stables into barracks. It notes a modern rifle range and utilities projects, plus firefighting exploits saving grain and forest land during major blazes in 1940s era operations.
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Ft Wyoming
Desert Maneuers
United States
Rocky Mountain
Ft. Warren
Warren
Mijiworld
Radio UESDAY August 29 1944 Evening Schedule
Radio UESDAY’s late August 1944 program guide lists varied network offerings. The schedule reflects serials dramas news reports and music shows across NBC CBS and mutual affiliates with multiple repeats and time adjustments for daylight saving.
Our Children by Angelo Patri
A guide urging parents to use Aesop fables to teach morals to children, telling stories at moments of conduct, and introducing the Ten Commandments as needed. It stresses early character formation, with adolescence for interpretation, and recommends Patri’s leaflet P-3 on sex instruction, available via News-Star-World.
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Silver
Hun
Angelo Patri
News-Star—World
P. O
New York 19
N. Y
Milk Condensing Plant Sought for Ruston Area
Harry D. Wilson visits Monroe after a Ruston meeting of farmers bankers and businessmen to discuss establishing a milk condensing plant near Ruston. He touts Lincoln parish stock and dairying progress noting about 3500 cows across parishes with Ruston as a center.
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Harry D. Wilson
Agriculture and Immigration
Monroe
Ruston
Wilson
Lingoln Parish
Mississippi
Radio Schedule Fragment KWKH and CBS Returns
A dense list of KWKH and CBS radio programs across the day with news, music, soaps, and features. Entries include Breakfast Cabaret, Farm Program, The Sunshine Boys, Our Gal Sunday, Marian drama lines, and late-night music, news, and variety shows.
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KWKH
E. A. Stephens
Pairfield
Slim Rhodes Kark
News of the World
CES
Doughboys
Loral
The
Sunshine Boys
CBS
Stamps Baxter
Melody Boys
Cas
Kate Smith
Helen Tre
Aunt Ernie
World Wide News
Portia Paces
Life
Joyce Jordan
M.D
Dr. Malone
Mary Marlin
Irene Beasley
Bob Trout
Bill Costello
Raymond Scott
With Dunn
Wilderness Road
AP News
John
Edwin C. HU
Jeri Sullavan
World Today
Joseph Harsch
John Nesbitt
Bill Henry
Burns & Alien
Variety
John H. Overton Kalb
Naval Aviation
Woody Herman
Cab Calloway
Buffalo
Jimmy Hilliard
Elks Invite Nominations For Civic Work Silver Cup
The Elks award seeks the name of the most outstanding civic worker of the year. Nominations must be mailed to W H Anders or Isador Liebreich. A Scout office meeting in the court house gathered leaders to plan activities.
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the Elks
W. H. Anders
Isador Liebreich
George Ewing
Frank Campbell
D. C. Metcalf
M. E. Pickett
E. S. Eby
F. X. Shaughnessy
C. £. Ponder
F. C. Shelton
Myatt McClendon
Homer Kieweg
L. R. Simpson
Charles Schulze
Harry Sorrenson
E. DuPont
W. M. Smith
William Fox
Charles Mitchell
Washington In Wartime by Jack Stinnett
Analysis concludes postwar labor outlook for women mirrors men’s despite wartime gains. Census and war-era data imply a gradual return to peacetime patterns, with 2.5 million potential gains in normal trends and fewer than a million additional workers by 1950, barring large disruptions. Men and women face similar futures in employment.
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Washington
Congress
Women’s Bureau
The
Labor Department
Johnny
Census Bureau
Germany
Pacific
Canadian Paper Money Denominations List
Inquiries list denominations of Canadian currency including 2 5 10 20 25 50 and 100 dollar notes with higher values 500 and 1000. The second item notes wood volume to substitute for steel in war production at one thousand board feet. The third asks about air bombardment of Tokyo with the reply referencing its one million buildings. The fourth cites the 442nd regiment as first contact in Italy invasion. The fifth references Coast Guard as the first U S service with an officer commissioned by a president. The last item mentions gas assault methods such as gas bombs and gas mines.
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Ft. Warren
Buffalo
Wyo
Bernice Rebuilding Cotton Warehouse After Fire Loss
Bernice Louisiana begins rebuilding the C. E. Lindsay cotton warehouse destroyed by a April fire and later damaged by a nearby trash fire. A sprinkler system will be installed. the site stored government loan cotton.
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Bernice
C. E. Lindsay
Permission Granted for Remodeling 2700 DeSiard Road
Building permits issued August for J H Allen to remodel a frame building at 2700 DeSiard Road with costs not to exceed 200 dollars. La Aug 29. The Baptist Church in Choudrant elected R Norman Lurch of Arcadia as pastor to succeed Rev A H Johnson who resigned to accept a call to Simsboro. Christophe said carry on I will be back with you some day. The group left Laval alone with the Gestapo officer.
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J. H. Allen
DeSiard Road
Choudrant
Spain
Baptist Church
Norman Lurch
Arcadia
A. H. Johnson
Simsboro
Christophe
Laval
Gestapo
Crossword Puzzle Solution for Yesterday’s Clues
Answer to yesterday puzzle with down clue 1 Uncovered. Contains entries about metal alloyes, aromatic seed, keg drink, condiment, shake on the rocks, epochs, hewing tool, lighthouse, glaze, Hindu queen, seed container, tardy, remnants left at a meal, purpose, taverns writing table cam location.
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Mickey Rooney
Mickey
Columbia
Jean Arthur
Lee Bowman
Charles Covurn
Miss Arthur
aNismet
Ronald Colman
Mariene Dietrich
James Craig
Beulah Bondi
Nina Foch
Jess Barker
Andrew Sisters
Lou Carillo
Monogram
Donald Woods
Claudia Drake
Constance Bennett
Laing
Gilbert Roland
Hin
By Don Whitehead
Pierre Laval
Mopsy
Gravys Parke
Senate
America
League of Nations
Henry Cabot Lodge
League
Hull-Dulles
Scussigne
LC. Brenner
Hillsdale
Wye
Radio
Uesday
Farrell
Blu
Mek Tracy
Nbe Wainey Howe
Tom Mix
Lowell Thomas
Nbe World News
J. Taylor
Mbs-West
Mercer
Music Shop
Nbe
Dramatica
Blu Fulton Lewis, Jr
Mbs
Nbc
Dbbs
Volney
Mbs-Wert
Dick Haynes
Shaw
Nbc-Bas
Irresistibles
Blu Arthur Hale
Mbs-East
Kaltenborn
Nbe-West Dance Orchestra
Ginny Simms
Ebs
Arthur Hale
Lum
Abner
Biu
Nick Carter
Judy
Ransom Sherman
Biu Sinfonietta
Mystery Theater
Burns & Allen
Gabriel Heatter
Doctor
Rg. Massey
Miss Greenwood
Raymond Gram
Eo. Hicks
Pbluance Orchestra
Hildegarde
Nbe Anniversary of
Milton Berle
Nbe-Basicc
Nbe-West
Ebs & Blu
Our
Ene
By Hershberger
Jack Stinnett
Tokyo
Italy
442Nd Regiment
U. S
Coast Guard
Jondering Ear & Companion
Lamb
Ine
Lez
Fea
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