Farrell and Mitchell Story Collection Reviewed
Book World critic Charles Darnell discusses James T. Farrell with Studs Lonigan fame and Ruth Comfort Mitchell. He highlights 13 short tales spanning a teamster payday to un-American group ties and notes engaging narration and brisk breezy style rather than sensational content.
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Charles Darnel
James T. Farrell
Studs Lonigan
Indif
Heng
Ruth Comfort Mitchell
San Francisco
Purser's Progress by Tom O'Reilly A wartime memoir
Tom O'Reilly recounts his wartime voyage as a merchant marine purser aboard the Liberty ship Mulligan Stew. He describes eccentric crew dynamics, a near collision at sea, and escapades under convoy fog, with humorous reflections from a veteran sports writer turned sailor.
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Tom O'Reilly
Doubleday, Doran & Co
O'Reilly
U. S. Merchant Marine Service
Bounding Main
North Atlantic
Cape
Rela
Benet’s America: A Brief Interpretive History
Stephen Vincent Benet’s short history of the United States, written for wartime world audience, covers colonial origins at Jamestown and Pilgrim’s Rock, the Revolution, westward growth, Lincoln’s legacy, and the Spanish American War, arguing liberty motivated expansion and the U S government remains supreme.
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America
Stephen Vincent Benet
Farrar & Rhinehart, Inc
OWI
Benet
United States
You
Virginia
Pilgrim’s Rock
Lincoln
U. S
New York
Philippines
OPA Seizes Two More Illegal Presses in Counterfeit Coupon Bust
Washington May 31 The OPA reports two additional presses seized in counterfeiting of gasoline ration coupons bringing total raids to seven since March 12. Bowles says about 1,300 peddlers have been arrested since January with over 200 in jail. two major gangs on the east and west coasts disrupted. Printing shops found with coupon orders worth 15,360,000 gallons of gasoline and 1,560,000 shoe coupons.
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Washington
Chester Bowles
OPA
Bowles
New York City
Cookies Row Costs Arizona Customer $1000 Fine
In Phoenix on May 31, A C Harry Wilson tavern operator paid a $1000 fine after being found guilty of assault with a deadly weapon. He faced imprisonment for each $3 unpaid after taking cookies from a jar at the Santa Fe lunch and drawing a loaded revolver when Nick Zenovich intervened.
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Phoenix
A. C
Harry) Wilson
Superior
Arthur T. la Prade
Wilson
Santa Fe
Nick Zenovich
Five Army Rank Promotions for Arizona Officers
Washington May 31 five promotions for Arizona officers were announced. George Ray Mitchell of Bisbee and Floyd Edman Bonnell of Fort Defiance move from second lieutenant to first lieutenant. Otto Kawulek of Humboldt Justin Beach Evans of Phoenix and Perry Orville Kaylor of Tucson advance from lieutenant to captain.
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Washington
Arizona
George Ray Mitchell
Bisbee
Floyd Edman Bonnell
Ft. Defiance
A Otto Kawulek
Humboldt
Justin Beach Evans
Phoenix
Perry Orville Kaylor
East Delano Street
Tucson
Army Officers Name It But Seek Operators
At Fort Douglas Utah on May 31 Army officials at the ninth service command say they have a name for the electroencephalographic machine that measures brain waves but they cannot find skilled operators. The device, with its complex name, is a source of humor among soldiers despite the staffing shortfall.
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FT. Douglas
Utah
Ninth Service Command
Mother Slayer Of Infant Weeps During Hearing
In El Centro California Mildred Skelton also known as Mell Campbell Forsythe faces a preliminary hearing on a first degree murder charge for drowning her ten month old daughter in the Colorado River across from Yuma Arizona. She cried throughout the proceedings and was held without bond for arraignment June 8. The affidavit notes she gave varying names and claimed a dispute over marriage with a soldier led to the act. She was turned over to California authorities for further investigation.
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EL Centro
Calif
Mildred Skelton
Colorado
Yuma
Ariz
Peter C. Byrne
Mildred Mell
Byrne
Arizona
California
Skelton
Mell
Campbell
Forsythe
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