Editor's Note and Hollywood Highlights Abroad
While Winchell is away, Jack Lalitta guest writes this column of showbiz chatter and gossip. The note teases contracts with Joan Crawford and Walter Florell, lists parties, weddings, and social ambitions of stars like Lew Ayres, Beatrice Kay, June Havoc, and Jerome Wildbere, and cites political races involving Sen James Mead and Gov Tom Dewey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winchell
Jack Lalitta
Saratipa
Loo Best
Joan Crawford
Joan Remond
Atudie
Jennifer Hult
Bil Blackwell
Pacific Isles Draw Servicemen With Lingering War Echoes
The article recalls World War II Pacific battle sites now returning to quieter life. Guadalcanal and Henderson Field show scarce signs of combat, Buna and Kwajalein host bases with reduced activity, Tarawa may decommission, Leyte remains a busy naval hub, Manila lies in ruins, Iwo Jima’s Mount Suribachi hosts a small garrison, Guam is a major enduring base, and Okinawa retains army air forces and navy facilities amid wreckage and Buckner Bay sunken ships.
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Guadalcanal
Hollandia
Manus
Tarawa
Kwajalein
Iwo Jima
Okinawa
Pacific
Amerca
Solomon Island
Henderson Field
Leyte
Douglas MacArthur
Philippines
Navy
Okinaws
Japan
Naha
Buckner Bay
Kahoolawe Ranked Most Bombarded Island In Pacific
Kahoolawe in the Hawaiian chain, eight by five miles and uninhabited, endured the heaviest bombardment in the Pacific. Navy and Marine forces used it as a testing ground for naval gunfire support, with over 800 ships firing thousands of rounds, leaving the island a rubble-strewn, desolate ruin surpassing Saipan Iwo Jima and Okinawa in shelling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pacific
Saipan
Iwo Jima
Okinawa
Tarawa
Kahoolawe
Kahoolewe
Kahonlawe
Fon Jima
10000 Navy Men Take Discharges At Island Bases
The Navy reports about 472 sailors were discharged at Pacific island bases after the war. Many stayed abroad, taking exit service jobs in military government or private enterprises in Hawaii and the Philippines. Some chose to marry locals and settle on the islands, while others sought commercial ventures importing U.S. durable goods. The article notes scarce radios, cars, and appliances at home and a longing among veterans for retreat spots abroad. Despite peacetime conditions, natives welcomed the Americans as defenders and builders of modernity, inspiring forward movement and sustained ties with the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pacific
Howe
Navy Cederiment
United States
Ernisscott Wat
Hawaii
Philippines
Navy Department
Tle
Coney Ay
Tians
Hooker
Mary Hooker
Legation
Strout
Pacific Isles
Navy
Diary of Mary Hooker in Peking Reveals Boxer Rebellion
Wary American residents in Peking faced siege during 1900 as Mary Hooker, wife of a colonel and a Washington society figure, kept a diary detailing the Boxer episodes. The narrative recalls foreign enclaves, military actions, and the peril of civilians amid ruptured communications, with daily hardship, deaths, and the strategic withdrawal debate involving U S and allied legations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peking
China
Mary Hooker
Tzuhsi
Mary
Pethick
Washington
Legation
One in Four Graduates Enlist in Army Survey Shows
New York report details an army enlistment survey tied to a million enlistments campaign. The data indicate about 25 percent of high school graduates either joined or planned to join the service, with many citing better pay and education opportunities. Maj. Gen. Gilbert says the army will emphasize quality recruits able to handle advanced training in electronics, chemistry, communications, and languages for a modern atomic age force.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Army
PML
Enery
The
Armivy
Harold N. Gilbert
Adjutant Central
Brave 6 Year Old Saves Friend After Freight Car Crush
In Kansas City Missouri Randy Tays, six, carried his five year old playmate John Joseph Filsinger Jr home after a freight train crushed his foot. Doctors saved the left foot after prompt action prevented greater shock and blood loss.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Randy Tays
Ian Emergency
Ater Randy
Randy
John Joseph Filsinger Jr
Randy Struvelng
Wes
Cigarette Production Set to Break War-Era Records
Washington reports that Americans smoked at a wartime peak with cigarette production totaling 172 billion in the first six months. If the pace continues, the yearly total will surpass any on record, beating the 1945 high as the record.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Agriculture Department
Joy-buzzers and fogging glass show quirky progress
A disjointed clipping notes a profit claim from a shock-handshake gadget, a new ion-fogging auto windshield concept, and scattered lines on cranberries, the department of agriculture, and military movement, all presented in a rough, humorous newspaper tone with fragmented ideas and incomplete thoughts.
Fragmentary note hints at personal or pledge record
Incomplete OCR text mentions a Mary and a five unit reference tied to a name Kelies or Kelis, unclear context, possibly personal record or pledge note. No clear event, date, or location can be established from the readable fragments.
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Virgo
Gustav Walley
Faith Dorn
Howard Hughes
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Preston Sturges
Faith Domergue
Charles Lindbergh
Beatrice Kay
John Boles
Arrowhead Inn
Lew Lehr
Cal. BR. Bradley
New Canaan
Conn
June Havoc
James Barry
Paramount
Bee Palmer
al Sigel
Tommy Farrelly
Glenda
Jerome Wildbere
James Mead
Tom Dewey
Paice Age
Herbert Lehman
Mead
Hugh A. ‘Drum
Dewey
McKinley
Barbara Stanwyck
Bobealor
Sweden
Anna Sathurst
Bonnie Lake
Will
Buna
New Guinea
Manila
Tokyo
Mount Surabachi
Guam
Mid-Pacific
Aline
Pacife
Baukhage
WNU Service
Eve Street
N.W
Washington, D.C
Mary Candit. Smith
Washington Society
Ching
Erie Canal
Sol
Far East
High Street
Russia
Tien-Tsin
al Sady
Pal
Bankhasge
Business Week
Department of Agriculture
Des Bai
Phil Ithe
Moti Stills
Val
Cer
Urey
Kelies
Peric Elon
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