Hollywood Stars and Local Boys in Sahara Film Scene
Brawley California awakens to a Nazi drill mock up staged by Columbia Pictures with local high school students portraying Afrika Korps in Somewhere in Sahara. The piece notes Janice Gilbert and Ann Ayars performing for troops, Lupe Velez riffs, Lionel Barrymore flood incident, Robert Ryan return contract, Bob Hope army tours, and other Hollywood quirks amid wartime morale efforts.
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Brawley
Calif
Columbia Pictures
Afrika Korps
Sahara
Humphrey Bogart
President listens as farm leaders push for war food plan
President FDR heard farm leaders Albert Goss H E Babcock and Ezra Nelson discuss steps to fix the food shortage They urged Washington to direct local draft boards to prioritize farm manpower and stop selling dairy cows They also proposed furloughing farm hands at farm wages and enacting fair prices to keep workers on farms.
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Albert S. Goss
National Grange
H. E. Babcock
National Council of Farmer Co-operatives
Ezra T. Nelson
Ezra Nelson
Washington
Nelson
Goss
Co-Operative
Wickard
Portable Hospitals Follow U. S. Troops Through Jungle
United States army medical detachments care for the wounded in portable dispensaries and base hospitals amid jungle warfare in the South Pacific. Medics provide first aid within ten minutes and major operations within thirty. Litter bearers sprint through brush to battalion aid stations as doctors staff 24 hour front lines.
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United States Army
South Pacific
Harold Rowe maps food control amid war shortages
Harold B. Rowe, head of the Office of Price Administration food rationing, discusses national control to curb hoarding and end shortages. The profile notes his Iowa farming roots, Minnesota education, Massachusetts teaching, and long government service since 1941.
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York
Harold B. Rowe
Washington
Home Front
OPA
John Citizen
Hollywood
Rowe
Iowa
University of Minnesota
Iowa State
Minnesota
Lords of the University
Massachusetts State College
Kenwood
Verna
Marvin
Shirley Ann
War service boxers may produce future heavyweight stars
The article argues that military services have trained many potential heavyweight contenders who could challenge Louis and Conn after the war. It cites Bivins and Mauriello as prospects, notes Tunney and Martin as service-era fighters, and predicts a rich postwar pool from Army Navy Marines Air Force and Coast Guard. It stresses that boxing is one-on-one and that the postwar talent should be considerable given 10 million trained soldiers.
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Rommel
Leclerc
Everett
S. Hughes
Hughes
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Washington
South Dakota
West Point
Mexico
Philippines
Supply
United States Army
Europe
Bivins
Mauriello
War Services
Louis
Conn
Army
Navy
Marines
Air Force
Coast Guard
Dempsey
Bob Martin
Gene Tunney
Gene
Tunney
Martin
Big Bob
France
Soldier Jones
Dempsey-Carpentier
Valuable Scrap Bag Pattern 7458 With Applique Motifs
Pattern 7458 contains applique pieces for six motifs averaging 434 by 5 inches with directions. Due to high demand and war conditions, some orders for popular patterns may take longer to fill.
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Western Newspaper Union
Janice Gilbert
Annie
Ann Ayars
Metro Star- Yet
Fort MacArthur
Ann
Lupe Velez
Lupe
Manhattan
Lionel Barrymore
Barrymore
Robert Ryan
RKO
Bombardier
The
Sky
Limit
Bob Hope
Marine
Jack Miller
Kate, Smith
Aldrich
Willy Maher
Wilbur
Tommy Riggs
Metro
King Victor
America
Brian Donlevy
Helmut Dantine
Mrs. Miniver
Warner Bee
Errol Flynn
New Orleans
Saratoga
Washington, D. C
FDR
John McClintock
Amazon
General Marshall
Admiral King
Dewey, Farragut
Porter
Ripoff
King
Leahy
U. S
J. . Guerin
Chicago
Edmund H. Schweitzer
Peoria
Maj. J. Duskes
Erie
Who’s News
Consolidated Features
WIN
Eden
Hitler
WO Brothers
Anthony Eden
United Nations
Austin Chamberlain
Munich
Neville
Chamberlains
Britain
Churchill
Oxford
Stanley Baldwin
House of Commons
Robert de Eden
Adolf
Ypres
Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept
Minna St
San Francisco
Belhacs
Bellans
Pazo
Housewives
Spokaneashington
Aphis
Coaformich
Escort
Louisville
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