Being Funny Easy, Olsen and Johnson in Hollywood
In Hollywood Maren 13 Olsen and Johnson earn a six figure salary at Universal for two pictures and discuss their craft on the set of The Ghost Catchers. They outline tips to be funny including laughing at one’s own jokes, mastering the dead pan, and using double takes and ad libs as money-makers.
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Hollywood
Maren
Olsen and
Johnson
Universal
Olsen
Chic Johnson
Gorill
Bern
Fd Wynn
Edward Arnold
Hugh Herbert
Billy Glbert
Lou Costello
Jean
Shilg
Ned Sparks
Buster Keaton
Edgar Kennedy
Ql- Ben
Edward Everett Horton
Fred Allen
Detroit Milk Strike Ends
Detroit area milk deliveries resumed after an unauthorized strike by about 2500 dairy workers. Local 83 United Dairy Workers members voted to return to work. Army officials offered help, and the War Labor Board warned no action while the strike continued.
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Detroit
United Dairy Workers
Army
War Labor Board
WLB
Soldier Gets Medal. But Loses Girl
Pittsburgh reporter recounts Charles E. Kelly earning the Congressional Medal of Honor for brave actions against Nazis in Italy while on the home front a merchant seaman Everett Clair Poole courts Kelly’s former fiancée Mae Connelly. Mae and Poole eloped to Cumberland Maryland a month ago and moved to New York, leaving letters from Kelly behind. Kelly’s mother notes many letters began Hello Honey and asked Mae to set aside time for him if he returns.
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Pittsburgh
Charles E
Kelly
Italy
Cupid
Mariner
Everett Clair Poole
Mae
Cumberland
New York
Honey
Texas Road Needs Total 768 Million
Texas highway engineer Dewitt Greer told the roads committee that Texas would logically spend 768,229,777 dollars on its road system in the immediate postwar period. The testimony summarized notes that the amount represents the needs of Texas roads under a congressional bill. The plan would set an annual program of about 84 million dollars and, for three years, 252 million dollars to cover the bill.
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Washington
Texas
Dewitt Greer
Roads Committee
House and
Senate
Greer
Workers Abroad Warned on Tax and Jobs
Deputy Internal Revenue Collector Greer warns civilian workers abroad on construction projects about income tax rules and exemptions. He notes deadlines, outlines current road miles and costs to upgrade the federal and state road system, and cites plans for postwar construction funds. The report mentions many workers overseas and schemes to exploit tax provisions.
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San Antonio
Harry
Lare
Foussey
Pene
Court Orders Return of Wine to Fort Sill Officers
The Supreme Court ruled 7 to 2 to return 205 cases of wine and liquor destined for Fort Sill officers, ordered by Oklahoma officials to be handed back to Yellow Cab Transit. Justice Hugo Black delivered the opinion, stating the record should not stigmatize the officers as lawbreakers. Baylor to Seek Funds for Union Building Project. Baylor University plans a $250,000 drive to complete a centennial gift building, halted by war, per George H Belew.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Oklahoma
Yellow Cab Transit Company
Fort Sill
Okla
Hugo Black
Baylor
WACO
University
Centennial Foundation
Gemeritedt
George H.belew
Belew
Ensign Tells of Pacific Voyage and Trial at Sea
Ensign Goelz reports a Pacific voyage aboard a ship on the Fiji run tied to the South Pacific. The crew navigated by stars with no night lights. A reef collision left the vessel grounded 11 days during a storm before tugs freed it. He met his three week old daughter upon returning, wife Nancy Nance waiting at 323 Carnan Street.
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San Antonio
Ens
Waller Goelz
South Pacific
United States
Fiji Islands
Ausatia
Goetz
Nancy Nance
Carnanan Street
Federal Juries Reassemble for March Session
Two federal grand juries reconvened here Monday for the March term. One jury will handle indictments and continue the probe of small loan businesses. Judge W A Keeling is expected to try several non jury district cases this week including a marihuana case and several draft evasion matters.
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W. A. Keeling
San Antonians Visit New York Highlight Mrs Lee And Mrs Gallagher
Mrs Amy Freeman Lee and Mrs Marian Lewis Gallagher are guests at the Barclay hotel in New York for two weeks. The Marine Mothers' club will meet at 3 p.m. Tuesday in the west wing of the Municipal auditorium.
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New York
Amy Freeman Lee
Marian Lewis Gallagher
Barclay
Marine Mothers’ Club
Miss Chabot Plans NYC Visit During Summer Returns
Miss Chabot prepares for a Tuesday forecast visit with Miss Alice Brayton of Newport Rhode Island who has been widely feted. In New York she will see artist Miss Georgia O Keefe with whom she summers in New Mexico. O Keefe’s annual exhibit is now on in New York.
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Marla Chabot
Alice Brayton
Newport
R. 1
New York
Chabot
Georgia O'Keefe
New Mexico
O'Keefe
FDR to Raise Rank of Doolittle
President Roosevelt nominated Gen James H Doolittle to lieutenant general for his leadership of the Doolittle raid on Tokyo on April 18 1942 and subsequent commands in Europe and North Africa with prior awards including the Medal of Honor.
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Wadshlngiun
James H. Doolittle
Eighth Air Force
England
Roosevelt
Col Sonel
Tokyon
2Th
North Africa
Fighthr
Speakers Slated For Women’s Meet In San Antonio League
Mrs. Shepard Scharlack and Mrs. Jack Allensworth will speak at the San Antonio League of Women Voters meeting at 107 West Ashby Place at 3 45 p.m. on Friday. Scharlack will discuss the equal rights amendment and Allensworth will lead a discussion on county government. In Vernon Texas Daniel Bond 65 longtime Vernon Cotton Oil president died at home yesterday.
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Shepard Scharlack
Jack Allensworth
San Antonio
Vernon
Texas
Daniel Bond
The
Vernon Cotton Oil Company
Red Cross Q A on volunteers and paid workers
The Light Red Cross feature explains that volunteers on national staff and chapters outnumber paid workers about 300 to 3. It cites December 1 1943 totals at 18 555 across the United States and overseas, with about 14 000 in armed forces service. It also notes erosion and soil depletion claim affecting agricultural land.
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American Red Cross
Red Cross
United Stats
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France
Lydia Finkham
Pinkham
Jonet
Finkham
Shepherd
Alamort
San
Antonio
Ole Olson
Vold
Ment
Ensign
Miss Chabot
CIA Neei
Varnoy Anon
Vernon Man
Light
Wine Advisory Board
San Francisco 5
Steves
Steves Companies
U. S. Maritime Commission
Ed Steves & Sons
Steves Sash and Doar Company
Marit
U.S. Maritime Commission
U. S
Stavas Sash and Door Company
Steven Sash
Doqr CO
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