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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1942
Page
5
Women's fashion shifts toward practical slacks as they enter new work roles in defense and industry. Designers offer an expanded line of spun rayon costumes and separates, including denim for heavy labor, with tailored slacks suits and tapered styles embracing both utility and leisure wear.
Fashion leans into checked fabrics and rayon crepe suits with wool like textures. Monotone blouses match the check and jacket trim, while the sailor hat carries the color theme, completing a stylish ensemble.
Designers propose graduation dresses using eyelet pique for cool washable summer wear. Two button sets white for graduation day and red strawberries for later accent offer versatility. A white marquisette gown with rayon taffeta slip fits formal events and summer dancing, with embroidery and yoke trimming for charm.
Parasol brims can be worn up or down with flexible trends. Designers add softening ribbons lace and ruffles to widen the brim. Convertible brims frame the face or flip back to showcase a pompadour. New models feature crocheted crowns and large straw cartwheels dominate summer fashion.
Nene a Wright A Patterson argues postwar America must preserve a republic free of state socialism. He reflects on soldiers sailors and marines as a cross section of merit based leadership and predicts they will demand an American future of opportunity and no classes. He notes a shift to home town entertainment and slower pace in war mobilization for faster factory production.
The piece argues for reallocating CCC funds from maintaining camps to producing military equipment. It claims two million acres of wheat could aid China and that CCC youth should work in munitions plants or the armed services. It cites the $200 million cost as better spent on tanks guns and planes.
Producer John Farrow faces reshoot when 150 Filipino actors could not credibly portray dead soldiers during a Wake Island scene with Robert Preston and William Bendix. Kate Smith signs a Columbia shorts series "America Sings With Kate Smith" with profits beyond one dollar going to the USO. Marguerite Chapman, once Navy Blues, gains full stardom, while Lorraine Gettman becomes Leslie Brooks under a long term Columbia contract after Talk of the Town.
The narrative follows Jack Trent who shifted from teaching in Montana to becoming Shirley Temple's bodyguard and then an actor. He appears in Silver Queen with Priscilla Lane and George Brent. Rear Admiral William D Leahy shows extraordinary interest in De Mille's Reap the Wild Wind, a Technicolor saga starring Ray Milland John Wayne and Paulette Goddard about pirate wreckers near the Florida Keys.
The piece details Dix Davis a 13 year old who performs as Stanley the bellhop before broadcasts at Shirley Temple studio. It recalls Ann Miller claiming to be 18 at 12 and rising to fame with stage work, night clubs and multiple studios. It notes the radio program Are You a Missing Heir has recovered a million dollars for heirs while 77 million remains unclaimed in probate records.
Ed Murrow and William L. Shirer first met at a Paris cafe. Ronald Colman finishes The Talk of the Town and can discuss it now. Rosalind Russell signs to star in Stand By to Die for RKO about a woman flier in Japanese-held Pacific islands. Madeleine Carroll reserves 14 front row seats for her Army Navy gala in Newark.
A proclamation by President Roosevelt adds a national monument to a modest Greeneville Tennessee tailor shop once used by Andrew Johnson. The article traces Johnson's extraordinary 40 year public career from tailor to U.S. senator governor and president, highlighting his defiance of radical Reconstruction policies and his enduring commitment to the common man.
Veteran sea operations leader Vice Admiral Robert Lee Ghormley is appointed to command the Allied South Pacific arena overseeing land sea and air forces for four nations. The Newark New Jersey area notes his career highlights and recent postings, including chief roles and his training at Annapolis.
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