Explosions Cause 437 Casualties at Pearl Harbor
Washington reports 437 casualties from two blasts on Pearl Harbor and Oahu within a month. May 21 explosion at Pearl Harbor killed 27, left 100 missing and 300 wounded. A second blast last Sunday at an ammunition depot killed three, with seven missing. Navy and Army casualties broken by branch. court of inquiry convened.
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Pearl Harbor
Oahu Island
Hey Navy
Oahu
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Palect
Deac
Army
Navy
Marine Corps
Coast Guard
Marine Corp
Tunisian Victory at Empire Theater Opens Thursday
Tunisian Victory returns to the Empire with Ante Sheridan and Dennis Morgan as Nora Bayes and Jack Norworth in a bid to dramatize the Allied North Africa campaign. The film is a joint U S and British Army production involving Col. Frank Capra and Lieut. Gen. Hugh Stewart, sharing a bill with the Prairie Chickens streamliner featuring Doe Bowser and Marjorie Woodworth.
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Dennis Morgan
Nora Bayes
Jack Norworth
Gal
Hugh Stewart
Col
Frank Capra
U. S. Army
Empire Theater
Africa
Doe Bowser
Marjorie Woodworth
Robert W Barr Rites in Austin
Robert W. Barr aged 61 who wed in San Antonio from 1928 to 1937 will have funeral services at 4 pm Thursday in Austin. He died suddenly Tuesday morning. He was a native of Pennsylvania. Survivors include two sons Charles Warr of East Lansing Michigan and Howard R Barr of the U S Navy, and a daughter Mrs James M Ragsdale of San Antonio and New Orleans.
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Robert Wesley Barr
San Antonio
Austin
Pennsylvania
Charles Warr
East Lansing
Mich
Howard R. Barr
U.S. Navy
James M. Ragsdale
New Orleans
Gory Ride Ends in Death for Wounded Soldier
A Vietnam era battlefield vignette recounts the dead of a wounded corporal during a medic-assisted rescue. Amid sniper fire and rough terrain, a jeep carries a gravely injured soldier dwindling in the moonlit trail, finally dying near a battalion aid station.
S A Blood Donations Up 15 Per Cent
Blood donations in the South Atlantic center rose about 15 percent above the usual intake. Bartlett Cocke, center chairman, said the facility is operating at about 60 percent capacity. He noted appointment adherence ranges from 40 to 60 percent over five days.
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Ration relaxations for processed foods and sugar announced
W W McAlister head of the Bexar county ration board said temporary relief allows 40 drug stores stands restaurants and other commercial markets to base allotments on seasonal use rather than base period percentages. Adjustments must be requested in writing. Hugh B Lesesne said sugar allowances for dining halls hotels schools and plant cafeterias rise from 20 to 25 percent to support higher protein baked goods.
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W. W. McAlister
Bexar County Ration Board
McAllister
Hugh B. Lesesne
District Opal Foundationing
Skippy Homier To Star in Tomorrow
Hollywood gossip item reports Skippy Homeier, the acclaimed child actor, will star in a Lester Cowan production of Tomorrow the World after being signed by Lews Mayer. The piece notes industry reactions, casting shifts for Nob Hill, and reflections on MGM’s anniversary, plus a humorous aside about a bald-pate joke.
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Lowella
Parsons Motion Fisture
L N.S. Hollywood
Skippy Homeier
Chillactor
Lester Cowan
Lews B. Mayer
Drama League
Lunt
Fontanne
Skippy
Cote Ranies
Paramount
Betty Field
MGM
Frederic March
Agnes Morehead
Lester
Andre Caven
Hollywood
Percy Ann Garner
Nob Hill
Fredi MacMurray
Merle Doeron
George Raft
Lynn Bari
Chalter
Jerome
J Cowin
Mickey Rooney Starts Real Army Role and Salary
Mickey Rooney, 22, enters the army with a four figure weekly film pay as a private after induction at Port Arthur following a prior deferment for film work. He calls the moment the biggest in his life and notes army identification replaces his starlet label. The piece also mentions a San Antonio USO program with Cadet Center band at the Arneson River Theater.
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Mickey Rooney
Los Angeles
Army
Port MacArthur
Rooney
Fhe
San Antonio Agitation Cadet Center Band
Arneson
Night club star ordered to two month rest and more
Saturday notes show Jor E Lewis ordered to take a two month rest. Marjorie Gateson finishes Ever Since Venus at Columbia and heads east for Broadway. Myrna Loy has reservations for mid next month and expects to be away a month. Ninety year old Mickey Rooney returns to Hollywood Cantwen film after African campaign.
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America
Marjorie Gateson
Venus
Columbia
Myrna Loy
Micky Scott
Our Gang
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