Hollywood Stars Join War Duty Bar in 1940s Era
Hollywood pivots to war as Clark Gable and other leading men head for service. Spencer Tracy Tyrone Power Robert Taylor Errol Flynn among those expected to follow. Industry eyes impact on films and the government’s use of cinema to sell America at war. Sixty percent of current films carry war themes and most audiences are women.
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Gable
Fairbanks
Chaplin
Lloyd
Reid
Hart
Sills
Barthelmess
Spencer Tracy
Buddy
Tyrone Power
Robert Taylor
Errol Flynn
America
Lady Is Willing at Henry's Today
Henry's Theatre shows The Lady is Willing for its last performances today starring Fred MacMurray and Marlene Dietrich with Aline MacMahon Stanley Ridges Arline Judge Roger Clark Harvey Stephens and others. A zany plot follows a famous actress who kidnappingly plots to have a baby and ends in a convenient marriage with Doctor McBain as comic chaos ensues.
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Henry’s
Fred MacMurray
Marlene Deitrich
Aline MacMahon
Stanley Ridges
Arline Judge
Roger Clark
Harvey Stephens
Henry
Union Accused By Committee in Dies Report
The Dies Committee charged the Union for Democratic Action as a Communist front aiming to obliterate Congress. Dr Frank Kingdon countered it as a false label and said the UDA supports a Congress that will win the war. The report portrays the UDA as linked to Communist leadership within the United States.
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Dies Committee
Union For Democratic Action
Congress of the
United States
House of Representatives
Martin Dies
Texas
Rep. Starnes
Ala
Dies
America
Congress of
Union For Democracy Action
New York
Frank Kingdon
Congress
Fight For Freedom Committee
UDA
Dr. Kingdon
Montgomery County Farm Work Program Opens For Boys
About 150 high school boys reported for a week of farm labor under the Montgomery County Agricultural War Board. County commissioners approved $600 for the program and will decide on further funding next Tuesday.
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Rockville
Montgomery County Agriculural War Board
The Courtship of Andy Hardy Opens at Academy
The Academy Theatre begins showing The Courtship of Andy Hardy with Donna Reed and William Lundigan as guest stars. Reed, campus queen of Los Angeles City College, comes from two prior films The Get Away and The Bugle Sounds, while Lundigan, rising from radio to cinema, follows appearances in Dodge City Three Cheers for the Irish Flight Command and The Bugle Sounds.
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Donna Reed
William Lundigan
Andy Hardy
Academy Theatre
Miss Reed
Hollywood
Los Angeles City College
Bugle
Lundigan
Cecilia Parker
Dr. Elliott Field Chosen Moderator
In Frederick Maryland on June 24 the Rev Dr Elliott Field of Dover Delaware was unanimously elected moderator of the Baltimore church body and will preside over its meetings.
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Dr. Elliott Field
Presbyterian Synod selects officers at Hood College
The 17th annual conference of the Synod of the Presbyterian Church convened at Hood College with a new moderator and officers. He succeeds Rev. Dr. E. Glenn Switzer of Bel Air Maryland. Dr. Willard Purdy of Wilmington Delaware was named vice moderator. Other officers include A Brown Caldwell of Walbrook Presbyterian Baltimore as permanent clerk for three years and John Jackson Brown of Milford Delaware as reading clerk.
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Synod of the Presbyterian Church
Hood College
E. Glenn Switzer
Bel Air
Willard Purdy
Wilmington
Del
A. Brown Caldwell
Walbrook Presbyterian Church
Baltimore
John Jackson Brown
Milford
Insects Threaten Guayule Rubber Plant Health
Twenty insect types are identified as potential enemies of the guayule rubber producing plant, signaling the need for monitoring and pest management to protect yields.
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Guayule
Youth Arrested on Larceny Charge in Fairchild
Charles F. Rubeck aged 19 of the 600 block North Prospect street was arrested yesterday evening by Fairchild Chief Glenn Noble and an FBI agent on a larceny charge for stealing a torch from the plant.
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Charles F. Rubeck
Prospect Street
Glenn Noble
Fairchild Police
FBI
Plant employee to face petty larceny charge today
Rubeck, an employee of the plant, will probably be tried before Magistrate Martin V. Bostetter on the petty larceny charge today.
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Rubeck
Martin V. Bostetter
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