U S Engineers To Help China Build Factories
Hollywood figure John Garfield announces plans for a voluntary U S engineer envoy to China to aid war production. The plan, tied to United China Relief and Dave Selznick, aims to convert remote sites into small factory units and operate motor repair stations along the Burma road. Garfield cites economic and strategic benefits and notes loans funded by H H Kung to support plants.
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Burma Road
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Chungking
Wagon Post Office Yields to Progress
Fargo North Dakota reports the Ranger post office in the Little Missouri badlands will close this summer after serving six families since 1912. The unique sheep wagon post office, wheels removed, gains a modern Bowman address 40 miles away as progress shifts mail service to a traditional building.
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West
Brazil Builds Defense Railways To Link Ports With Inland Cities
Brazil advances a defense oriented transport plan under President Getulio Vargas. The program expands rail lines and roads to connect coastal ports with inland cities, backed by U S. aid, with new railways, highways and 520 plus airports aimed at Pan American defense and economic integration.
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Uruguay
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Army ends casual greeting in telephone use
Washington reports War Department orders civilians and soldiers to drop greetings in Army telephone calls. Officers must personally place calls and stay on line until connected, aiming to save valuable minutes during the emergency.
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New England
U.S. Army
War Department
Garden party notes from Eleanor Roosevelt diary entry
Eleanor Roosevelt recounts a pleasant garden party with the Senate ladies at the White House lawn, admiring magnolia centerpieces, Easter lilies, and snapdragons. She details visitors including Abriani District officials, the Hungarian minister, Dr Remsen Bird, and remarks on mail, Hess speculation, and cultural events from a busy day.
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German bomber buildup and U S plans shift through 1941
The article notes Roosevelt pressuring Stimson for higher bomber output to aid Britain and counter Nazi expansion. It details German air power estimates totaling about 35 000 planes across fleets and support units, with production capacity and June forecasts. It also covers U S moves to boost bomber output in 1941 and the Latin American naval visit plan led by John ny Thomason, plus a note on panzer divisions.
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Fort Worth
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Knudsen
Iron Hat Instead Of Mortar Board
George Ade calls Miss Bonney a modern fabulist as she rises from Syracuse student to Harvard and UCAL star to famed photographer in Paris. She wins the Croix de Guerre, a Carnegie grant, and the White Rose of Finland for war coverage. Bonney & Co. creates the International Picture bureau and she sends 200 blitzkrieg photos to the Library of Congress.
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Adolf Hitler
France
Vichy
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Carnegie Foundation
Louise
America
Bonney & Co
International Picture Bureau
Baron Mannerheim
Finland
Mayer rises from diving clerk to MGM mogul
The article traces cos B Mayer from salvaging iron in New Brunswick at age 14 to buying a run down theater in Haverhill. He earned 697047 in 1940 making him the highest paid American, later becoming head of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. His rise combines grit and sharp business sense in Hollywood.
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Irish minister Robert Breenan on liberty after trials
Robert Breenan, Ireland's minister to Washington and former pulp writer, was jailed in Dublin, Cork, Dartmoor, and Gloucester. Among six men sentenced to execution in the Black and Tans war, he was spared. In 1920 De Valera appointed him undersecretary of the foreign office.
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Slimmer Edward Arnold Stars in Nothing But the Truth
Edward Arnold arrives lighter by 35 pounds after an on set shin injury and blood poisoning during 24 hours of filming. He will headline The Devil and Daniel Webster after Thomas Mitchell’s accident. Bing Crosby and Bob Hope pivot Road setups to Road to Morocco. Ellen Drew’s The Parson of Panamint boosts to The Silver Queen as a future star vehicle with a 1880s New York gambling tale. Reaching for the Sun gears up with Joel McCrea and Eddie Bracken.
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Arnold
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Daniel Webster
Thomas Mitchell
Ellen Drew
New York
Old West
Joel McCrea
Eddie Bracken
Screen News Highlights Hollywood Castings and Returns
Bill Boyd breaks the long term screen record in Hopalong Cassidy sequel Secret of the Wastelands his thirty seventh appearance over seven years. Ginny Simms signs a long term RKO deal continuing with Kay Kyser’s College of Musical Knowledge and film work. Jean Arthur likely leads Miss Susie Slagle's Paramount adaptation, playing a Southern hostess with medical student guests. Harold Winston, Capra dialogue director, recalls giving Bette Davis her first stage job via Cape Cod theatre ushering after Marguerite Churchill left for Hollywood.
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Hopalong Cassidy
Jean Arthur
Susie Slagie
Paramount
Bette Davis
Harold Winston
Frank Capra
Cape Playhouse
Cape Cod
Massz
Marguerite Churchill
Hollywood
Bette
Look Who's Talking Heads to Film Screen Debut
A radio audience of nearly 100 million awaits Look Who's Talking on screen starring Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy with Fibber McGee and Molly. Lucille Ball shines in Harold Lloyd's A Girl, A Guy and A God with Lee Bonnell opposite her. Metro introduces new singer Anne Rooney, sixteen, a child entertainer since age two with early TV and vaudeville credits.
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Charlie McCarthy
Fibber McGee and
Molly
Lucille Ball
Harold Lloyd
Lee Bonnell
Metro
Anne Rooney
al Pearce
Radio Gang
Studio Gossip and Cast Deals Rise in 1940s Screen News
Dennis Morgan headlines Carnival in Rio for Warner Bros while Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy sign for nine films at 20th Century Fox. Al Pearce and Wen Niles appear as themselves in Republic's Puddin Head. Rudy Vallee and John Barrymore hosting summer program as NBC’s Ted Steele rises from page boy. Alice Folye and Don Ameche set Honeymoon in Havana for Fox. Alexis Smith to star with Errol Flynn in Dive Bomber.
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Rio
Stan Laurel
Oliver Hardy
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9 Pictures
al Pearce
Wen Niles
Republic
Rudy Vallee
John Barrymore
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Ted Steele
Alice Folye
Don Ameche
Havana
20Th Century-Fox
Alexis Smith
Errol Flynn
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