Postwar farming must protect soil fertility for markets
As transition from war to peacetime economies approaches, farmers face three main challenges: reducing expanded wartime acreages, handling potential farm surpluses, and adapting to lower postwar demand. Experts urge maintaining soil fertility with mixed fertilizer and sound practices to stay competitive in domestic and world markets.
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Chester Davis
AAA
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Farmers Urged to Preorder Fertilizers for War Effort
The War Food Administration urges farmers to accept winter and early spring fertilizer deliveries and store them in barns. By ordering ahead, individuals can ensure supply, keeping plants operating at capacity and supporting the war food program through continued fertilizer use.
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War Food Administration
P. H. Groggins
Renting spreader equipment speeds large pasture work
Farm machinery is scarce but soil treating firms with crushed stone and related chemicals often rent spreaders at reasonable rates. For large areas a single rental company can help, using a large dump truck hauling a spreader to cover pasture quickly.
Hitchcock signs with Selznick for annual film output
Alfred Hitchcock, newly signed to produce and direct one film a year for five years with Selznick International, began in England sweeping floors before rising through various movie roles. His early hits include The Lodger The 39 Steps and The Lady Vanishes. He is set to direct Notorious starring Ingrid Bergman, with Spellbound in development.
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Lfred Hitchcock
Selznick International
England
Ingrid Bergman
Noel Coward to apologize for hospital comment on Brooklyn troops
In a column of gossip and notes various figures are discussed. Noel Coward plans to apologize over a careless remark about Brooklyn overseas soldiers in hospitals. Rumors swirl about Morgenthau’s cabinet future and Biddle’s Supreme Court path with Tom Clark as possible DOJ successor. Bob Hope’s column and Bette Davis gossip eyed.
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Noel Coward
Brooklyn
Sec’y Morgenthau
Washington
Biddle
U. S. Supreme Court
Tom Clark
Congress Broadcasts by Radio and War Manpower Plan
WMCA New York will dramatize weekly congressional debates with actors portraying senators and representatives. The plan, proposed by Nathan Straus and backed by Sen. Claude Pepper, faces uncertain fate in the Senate. Separately, War Manpower Commission studies closing peacetime reconverted plants until labor shortages ease.
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Congress
New York
WMCA
House
Senate
Florida
Sen
Claude Pepper
Nathan Straus
Pepper
Straus
The
War Manpower Commission
WMC
Soldier sleeps through army film shows a theater queen
Sergt. Robert Foster a tank crewman on the French German lineDozes off during an Army Pictorial Service movie unaware of the Technicolor feature He wakes when GIs whistle at a glamorous girl on screen The star is Jean Colleran Mrs Robert Foster in Cover Girl
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Robert Foster
Army Pictorial Service
Jean Colleran
Umbriago Gifts Go Nationwide for Christmas
A Des Moines woman sparked a national trend by sending packages to her son in camp for soldiers missing holiday gifts. Each parcel contains a card reading To Umbriago, inspiring other mothers to mail similar presents, making Umbriago a familiar figure in homes across the country this Christmas.
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Umbriago
Jimmy Durante
Des Moines
Mel Blanc Voices Noted in Radio and Film
The unhappy Post man on George Burns and Gracie Allen is Mel Blanc. The voice of Hubert Peabody on Jack Carson is Mel Blanc. Porky Pig’s stuttering squeal in the cartoon is also Mel Blanc.
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George Burns
Gracie Allen
Mel Blanc
Hubert Peabody
Phoebe
Jack Carson
Porky Pig
Mary Mason follows family into acting after early influence
Mary Mason, known as the gay little Penny on My Best Girls, says she could not avoid acting. She recalls her mother, who appeared in early Westerns, inspired her lifelong devotion to the stage.
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Mary Mason
Penny
Blue Network
Mary
Movie Notes: New teen lyric soprano Donna Lee debuts
ODDS AND ENDS report Donna Lee makes screen debut in RKO The Body Snatcher. Warners revert Joan Crawford film to Mildred Pierce title. Errol Flynn to co star with eight leading ladies in The Adventures of Don Juan. Lilian Fontaine debuts in The Lost Weekend. Hollywood Canteen to receive 40 percent of profits.
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Donna Lee
RKO
Warners
Joan Crawford
Mildred Pierce
Errol Flynn
Lilian Fontaine
Joan and
Olivia de Havilland
Hollywood Canteen
Banks Track Large Bills for Whiskers Related Inquiry
Insiders report banks are recording all large denomination notes linked to Mr Whiskers. The records may be used to trace owners and investigate black marketeers offering 2 percent to exchange notes for 10s 20s and 50s.
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Whiskers
Unverified Claims Hover Over NBC Fire Inference
The passage notes Upton Close lacks documented proof of government or pressure group involvement in his NBC firing. It adds that depositors of a non New York bank withdrew nearly six million dollars by noon after learning an accused Hitler shooter worked for the owner. Betty Hutton is reported worth about a million dollars yet cannot locate a Hollywood house.
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Upton Close
Gov’t
NBC
N. Y
Hitlerooter
Betty Hutton
Hollywood Gossip and Celebrity Scramble in Odd Sitcom
Sallies in Our Alley reports on Alexis Smith's maid conflict over duties as she kept housework and personal attention separate. Also notes Olson gossip on Judy Garland Broadway ambitions and Garbo dietary change, plus a German ace shot down by an American.
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Russ Fawcett
Sitcheeayshun
H’wood
Alexis Smith
Alexis
Sunny Skylar
Carole Landis
Shuberts
Judy Garland
Garbo
Gilmore’s
Ronald Colmans
Benita Hume
The Late Watch and Broadway Detectives in City News
A 60 year old resort owner and a 25 year old caballero share late night meetings. Billy Rose’s new premiere will cost one mill and four including Ziegfeld Theater. Detectives hunt a louse who mauled an Army officer in a hotel, cutting the face with glass. Beaverbrook plans 20 million to position Canada as a movie center. Maria Montez’s earrings bear her husband Pierre Aumont’s image.
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Billy Rose
Lively Arts
Beaverbrook
Canada
Maria Montez
Pierre Aumont
OWI pictorial service may be taken over by news syndicate
New York reporters hear rumors that the OWI pictorial service could shift to a news syndicate with the A P mentioned as a possibility. Socony to sponsor Info Please starting February 12 at the same station. Returned Marines boost Ty Power as rumors claim his rating rose after word of brig time. Paris edition of the H-Trib goes to press next week with Everett Walker moving to edit.
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New York
OWI
A.P
Socony
Paris
Everett Walker
Butter Price Seen Rising Five Cents Per Pound
OPA dairy chief Arnold J. Burke refuses to cap cream prices at producer level prompting a War Food Administration proposal to raise butter to the public by five cents per pound. The move aims to boost butter makers’ ability to compete for cream while Burke’s delay on resignation adds tension.
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OPA
Arnold J. Burke
War Food Administration
Butter Industry Advisory
U S View of China War Factions Sees Coordinated Effort
A White House readout from VP Wallace follows an official visit to Chinese Communists and Agrarians. It notes the need for a mainland campaign as Japan shifts industry to China and describes guerrilla tactics using limited ammunition and home made dynamite to disrupt Japanese rail and supply lines.
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U. S
Pacific
China
United States
Wallace
White House
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