Red Range in Wild Horse Cowboys Ride to Escape
Con Cameron joins the 20 Bar outfit heading for Wild Horse. He proves adept as a new hand, earns aid from Buzz Up perman, and witnesses Brock and Lowe’s shady dealings. After a chaotic saloon scene with Muchacho and Downes, Con flees into the hills with Caramba Vear, tacking between poker games and peril as he heads toward a new frontier.
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Con Cameron
Chicago
Wild Horse
Con
Buzz Upperman
Caramba Vear
Drovers
Asa Brock
Nevil Lowe
Brock
Dynamite Downes
Marshal
Caramba
Meroba
Odeon
Baldy
Downes
Machadho
Lowe
Slick Asa
Muchacho
Muchaco
Machacho
Alforja
Pancho
Easy
Cameron
Balante Tee Ogpen Cow
Con in Wild Horse Sees Plans for a Quiet Wedding
Con Cameron arrives in Wild Horse and spots Caramba and Janet as Nevil Lowe and a busy woman plan Janet's wedding. Mrs. Kleiss offers a safe place for money and hints at danger in town while Con recalls the treacherous fare games and watches for Ca ramba.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Con
Nobby
Keith Yoker
Caramba
Lowe
Nevil Lowe
Janet
Don Cameron
Meroba
Mrs. Kleiss
William
Wild Horse
Carer
Zsell
Filippinos Refuse to Play Dead in Wake Is Land Scene
In a Wake Island sequence, about 150 Filipino extras refused to collapse as dying soldiers after repeated takes. Director John Farrow altered the scene so they could act as dead, and Kate Smith signed a Columbia short contract for America Sings With Kate Smith to benefit the USO.
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Virginia Vale
Paramount
Wake Island
Robert Preston
William Bendix
John Farrow
Kate Smith
Columbia
Kate
Film gossip and career moves reveal future stars and veterans
Five years after spotting a Spanish actress in Seville Tim Whelan seeks dark eyed Mary Cortes for a key musical role. Marguerite Chapman successor Lorraine Gettman becomes Leslie Brooks under long term contract. Jack Trent shifts from Montana teacher to actor in Silver Queen while C B DeMille’s Reap the Wild Wind draws Adm Leahy’s keen attention. Ransom Sherman locates Dix Davis at the studio, and Ann Miller’s rise past age tricks lands her in major studios and Broadway. The Are You a Missing Heir program has returned a million, yet 77 million remain unclaimed in probate.
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Tim Whelan
RKO Radio
Seville
Mary Cortes
Puerto Rico
Radio figures enlist and film stars announce projects
The goofy sound man who heckled Jack Benny has joined the army air corps. Ed Murrow and William L. Shirer first met in a Paris cafe. Ronald Colman finishes The Talk of the Town and Rosalind Russell signs to star in Stand By to Die for RKO about a woman flier in Japanese held islands. Madeleine Carroll reserves seats for her army and navy boys at a broadcast.
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Goofy
Jack Benny
Army Air Corps
Ed Murrow
William L. Shirer
Paris
Ronald Colman
Rosalind Russell
RKO
Peoenereny
Madeleine Carroll
Sane
New
Wartime effort urges soil conservation and contour farming
The wartime committee on conservation at the New York State College of Agriculture urges increasing yields per acre over expanding tillage. They recommend contour planting on sloping land, use of demonstration farms, and conservation to prevent soil waste seen in World War I, with experts from agronomy economics pomology and soil conservation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Committee On Conservation
New York State College of Agriculture
Beet sugar industry growth fuels industrial use
Napoleon fostered beet sugar research, making it a major cash crop in western states valued at 63 million dollars annually. About 80 factories produce 1.5 million tons, with by products like beet pulp and tops used for livestock feed. steffen process recovers sugar from molasses. States producing most are Colorado, California, Nebraska, Michigan, Utah, Wyoming and Montana.
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Napoleon
Steffen
Colorado
California
Nebraska
Michigan
Utah
Wyoming
Montana
Midwest
Indiana
Illinois
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Iowa
North
South Dakota
Roof Laying Faults in Farm Buildings
G R Shier of Ohio State University warns that improper metal roof installation leads to future trouble and expense. Corrugated metal can span slats if stiff, otherwise roofs need solid sheathing. all roofs must be nailed every eight inches along the side lap. Flat topped sheds attached to barns are prone to leaks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. R. Shier
Ohio State University
Tree Tobacco Insecticide Could Turn Weeds Into Crops
United States scientists have extracted anabasine from tree tobacco, a weed in arid regions of Mexico and the southwestern United States, as a potential valuable insecticide. The compound was first found in the tree-tobacco plant in 1935, after synthetic production and discovery in an Asiatic plant six years earlier.
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Mexico
United States
U. S
Uncle Phil Says on War Trouble and Luck
The piece argues that many seek easy gains from misfortune and urges persistence. It notes some men fear work, while others pursue effort, contrasting luck with labor and urging a retry with a bold, practical attitude.
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Red
Eugene Cunningham
Eugene Cunn
SHAM
W.N.U
Colt
Western Newspaper Union
Smith
USO
Marguerite Chapman
Navy Blues
Lorraine Gettman
Leslie Brooks
Jean Arthur
Cary Grant
Jack Trent
Shirley Temple
Priscilla Lane
George Brent
C. B. DeMille
William D. Leahy
France
Ray Milland
John Wayne
Paulette Goddard
America
Florida Keys
Leahy
DeMille
Ransom Sherman
Dix Davis
Stanley
Ann Miller
Orpheum Theater
San Francisco
Broadway
Florence C. Weed
Phil
St.Joseph
J. Fuller
By Jerry Link
Kellogg Company
Bureau OF
Washington
Bureau of Standards
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