Hollywood headlines and New York ties in early 1940s film scene
The piece follows actors and industry moves from Alan Young in New York to film deals at Meta and Monogram. It notes Bob Crosby’s return to radio, a subway accident during a film scene, Joe Kirkwood Jr. signing with Warner Bros., and The Beginning or the End chosen for an atomic energy film with Donna Reed’s influence. It also mentions Weissmuller and Crabbe planning tours, Hitchcock bringing Von Zerneck to Notorious, and Bonnie Blair Jeff’s screen debut with RKO.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Hollywood
Eddie Bracken
Virginia Welles
Spike Jones
William Russell
Paramount
Studio Hospital
Joe Kirkwood Jr
Monogram
Joe Palooka
Warner Bros
Berchtesgaden
Joe Kirkwood
Monogram’s
Truman
Metro
Donna Reed
Edward Tompkins
University of Iowa
Donna
Tony Owen
Sam Marx
Alfred Hitchcock
Peter von Zerneck
van Zerneck
San Juan Capistrano
William ‘Gargan
the Bells of
Bonnie
Blair
Jeff
RKO Studio
Randolph Scott
RKO
Editors Poll On Compulsory Peacetime Training
Western Newspaper Union findings show 57.7 percent of editors favor one year of peacetime military service for 18 to 20 year old males. Community sentiment leans 44.8 percent against compulsory training with 42.8 percent for and 12.4 percent undecided. Southern editors show strongest support. rural groups align with farm organizations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gee Ee
Union
Truman
North
East
West
Mr. Truman
WNU
The
Farm Bureau
Grange
Farmers Union
National Youth Administration
Public opinion split on postwar military training proposals
A collection of citizens from Missouri to North Carolina and beyond weigh compulsory peacetime training vs voluntary service. Several advocate some form of training with caveats on duration, discipline, and political oversight, while others warn against militarization and bureaucracy.
Readers discuss compulsory peacetime military training
A letter-filled feature presents diverse views from U S editors and readers across states including Indiana Mississippi Tennessee Kentucky Vermont Massachusetts and Montana on President Truman's proposed training plan. Supporters favor schooling linked programs while critics warn of civil liberty limits and wasteful spending.
Eldon editor voices opposition to universal military training
Paul Metzgar of the Forum of Eldon Iowa argues that a liberalized system with attractive benefits can draw capable volunteers and sustain a trained force. L M Audrush of Green Springs Ohio calls universal peacetime training a dud and warns it fuels arms races. J H Cramer of Blaine Washington opposes all forms of compulsory service as a step toward socialism or nazism and fears mass conscription lowers motivation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carl Portman
Record Register
Coalgate
Okla
Army
Navy
Air Corps
America
O. D. Parks
the Graphic of
Nashville
N C
Clarence V. Smazel
The
Press of
St. Louis
Mich
Department of National Defense
War Colleges
West Point
Annapolis
Russell A. Wheelock
St. Johnsbury
Japan
Germany
C. D. Eldredge
Courier of
Winchendon
Mass
National Guard
M. E. Sunderland
Record of
Waterbury, Vt
Paul Metzgar
Forum
Eldon
Iowa
M. Audrush
Echo of
Green Springs
Ohio
J. H. Cramer
Journal of
Blaine, Wash
Deliverance Promise and Presence in Exodus and Daniel
A devotional meditation on God’s deliverance power from Exodus 6 6 8 and 13 17 22 and Isaiah 12 2. It urges faith in God’s unchanging nature, guidance through life, and the Holy Spirit as the modern witness to God’s will, with emphasis on waiting and obedience.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daniel
God
Moses
Mediterranean
Canaan
Israel
Egypt
Joseph
Ili
Christ
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Virginia Vale
Alan Young
Radio City
Alan
Mary Anne Young
Seattle
Washington State College
Bob Crosby
Asa
Marines
CBS
Johnny Weissmuller
Buster Crabbe
Weissmuller
Central
South America
Crabbe
Jents Carter
By AL Jedlicka
Linwood C. Rodgers
Lockwood, Mo
United States
Bryant B. Voris
Republican
Waterloo
Dan W. Johnson
Times of
D. W. Robertson
the Searchlight of
Culbertson, Mont
Ariz
Colo
NIS
Ities
W. E. Chapman
Enterprise of
Indianola
Miss
Congress
H. W. Fleer
Democrat of
Waverly
Tenn
England
France
Katie B. Beauchamp
Magnet
Taylorsville
Edgar R. Simpson
News
St. George
Utah
T. D. Caverly
Valier
Mont
W. L. Rader
Courier of Poison
Lindbergh
U. S
Old L. Lundquist
Daeascene Wee Institute of Chicago
Western Newspaper Union
Ana Tae
Ationa
Sotlmaster System
Winnipeg
Manitoba
Scott
Aew
McKesson & Robbins
Newton
Dept
California
Lydia E. Pinkham
Pinkam
Palo
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