Hollywood Society Calls for Pure Southern Accents
Hollywood voices unite to end misrepresentation of southern speech in films. Tallulah Bankhead, John Garfield, Humphrey Bogart and others back a Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Southern Accents, formed in Gadsden Alabama. The aim is to preserve authentic drawls and ban affectation in screen portrayals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hollywood
Robbin Coons
Tallulah Bankhead
John Garfield
Bronx
Walling Keith
Society For the Prevention of Cruelty
Gadsden
Ala
Alaaso Tallulah
New York
Garfield
Humphrey Bogart
Stuart Gilmore
The
Virginian
Joel McCrea
Joel
South
Pasadena
Calif
Sydney Geenstreet
Fat Man
Bette Davis
Josebell
Points South
Clark Gable
Cadiz
Ohio
Heir To Motor Fortune Marries College Sweetheart
Denver reports Horace Elgin Dodge III and Mar gery Gehman wed in a simple ceremony. The couple honeymoon in a modest three room apartment with no relatives present.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver
Corp
Horace Elgin Dodge III
Dodge Motor
Margery Gehman
Buffalo
N. Y
Union Service At Round Hill Sunday
The Charge Union Service of the Montague Avenue Charge will be held Sunday night at the Round Hill Methodist Church beginning at 7.30 p. m. Charge Lay-Leader R. O. Daugherty will speak on "A Vision of Service." Members of the four churches are urged to attend and the public is invited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montague Avenue
Round Hill Methodist Church
R. O. Daugherty
Busy Redwood City councilman backs postwar athletic fund
Carl Ike Britschgi, a Redwood City councilman and San Francisco Clippers quarterback, advocates a $990,000 postwar athletic grounds and equipment bill. He and his brother run a large dairy ranch when politics allow.
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Redwood City
Calif
Carl
Ike” Britschgi
San Francisco Clippers
Market Quotations Drift With Mixed Stocks Amid War Talks
New York stock prices mostly flat with scattered gains as war talk reappears after the Pacific victory. Few favorites rose while many issues declined or held, with U S Steel and other big names trading unevenly. Bonds and commodities varied as traders awaited clearer political signals.
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New York
U.S. Steel
General Motors
U. S. Rubber
Santa Fe
Southern Pacific
Zonite
Westinghouse
Douglas Aircraft
Johns Manville
Bethlehem
Texas Co
General Electric
International Harvester
Kennecott
Local Markets Listings From The Star
Local markets show daily prices for flour and patent brand bags in various weights and per hundredweight measures. Entries include bag sizes from 16 to 100 pounds and per barrel pricing, with scattered typographical omissions and unclear items such as corn meal and creamery butter.
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Ovcucens
Benate
Ecco Rome Veewes Ieeeseeoen
Prepared For Any Eventuality
After a hotel guest died during dinner police found in his room a fortune of items including 13 full bottles of whiskey 14 partially empty 88 neckties 19 pairs of shorts 9 packs of chewing gum 9 pairs of shoes 8 hats 1 girdle 12 decks of cards 24 pairs of pants 14 coats 2 alarm clocks and 21 gasoline ration coupons. The man had heart disease. E. V. B. A. Patton is the great grandson of General Hugh Mercer earlier Continental Army general.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltemore
Baltimore and Chicago Livestock Market Averages Oct 27
Baltimore and Chicago markets report steady to firm conditions. Hogs and cattle show active demand with steady quotes, calves and sheep varied by weight and class. Buyers note light truck receipts in Baltimore while Chicago saw strong hog sales and broad cattle clearance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
Baltimore Livestock
Chicago Livestock
Chicago
Gerade
One Killed In Auto-Train Crash in Newport News
A southbound Chesapeake and Ohio train struck an automobile near Newport News Virginia killing James Harvey Fitzgerald Warwick county officer. Engineer D B Clements and fireman A L Taylor were burned and treated. witnesses saw the car in flames after impact. Both trainmen faced non serious injuries at Riverside Hospital.
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Newport News
Chesapeake and Ohio
Here
James Harvey Fitzgerald
Warwick County
D. B. Clements
A. L. Taylor
Leroy Woody
Riverside Hospital
Virginia Foxhunters All-Age Stake Opens with 125 Dogs
The all-age stake at E. H. Gordon's plantation near South Hill Virginia concluded its first day with 125 dogs from six states. R. M. Abernathy's White Man, a black white and tan walker hound, led the score. Officiating officers named for the coming year include Fred A. Gross of Vinton as president, L. P. Nunn of Roanoke as vice president, and Fay Vann of Norfolk as treasurer.
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South Hill
Virginia Foxhunters’ Association
E. H. Gordon
R. M. Abernathy
High Point
N. C
Fred A. Gross
Vinton
L. P. Nunn
Roanoke
Fay Vann
Norfolk
Chicago Grain Quotations Mixed In Early Trading
Chicago grain prices shows a dull start with mixed futures across Wheat Corn Oats and Rye. Wheat slight weakness while feed grains hold, with May July and Sept contracts listed for each commodity.
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Chicago
Leaves From Notebook Of War Correspondent In Aachen
War correspondent describes daily patrols in Aachen Germany October 19. He notes 7 am to 4 pm work hours, snipers at every doorway and the German garrison delaying occupation. Capt Ozell Smoot and Sgt Joseph Herbert lead machine gun and crossfire efforts as Sherman tanks back a street advance toward Charlemagne’s cathedral ruins.
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Aachen
Germany
Joe Louis
Ozell Smoot
Oklahoma City
Joseph Herbert
Dawson
Richard R. Saldana
Chicago
William Stelna
Cleveland
Ohio
Classified Advertisements WANTED WANTED Pianos and help wanted
Classified items list purchases and hires from 100s, including WANTED Pianos purchase for cash from Miles Music Co. and WANTED Waitresses and porters at The Union News Lunch. Also FOR SALE coats barrels kegs tanks and a seven room house with modern conveniences plus farm and poultry supplies See Seeley’s Chicks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miles Music Co
Union News
Care Greyhound
Dial
Americans blast through Aachen block in heavy house to house raid
Soldiers move with grenade laden squads as a tank fronts a street block. Aiming to flush out Nazis they force a doorway, blast a wall, and sweep each building cellar by cellar in a tense fighting pattern. The effort is described as a thorough fall house cleaning of Aachen.
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George Sciadarre
Brooklyn
Aachen
Planes Pound Retreating Huns Over Greece Front
Allied air units hammered German forces retreating northward through Greece in day and night raids. Ground actions and Greek guerrillas harassed rear guards in the Larisa area while three enemy road convoys in Albania were attacked and several vehicles destroyed. One Allied plane is reported missing.
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Rome
Greece
Larisa
Wounded in Action Sgt Loring Carper
Sgt Loring Carper son of Mr and Mrs Claude F Carper of Middletown was slightly wounded in France on October 9. He reported to parents October 25 that he was wounded in the right little toe and in a field hospital awaiting transfer. He expects to return to duty in about two weeks. Carper, a radio operator with Headquarters Company, has been overseas since late August after enlisting March 17, 1940, and serving 21 months in Newfoundland and training at Camp Maxey Fort Benning and Camp Gruber before France.
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Loring Carper
Claude F. Carper
Middletown
France
Carper
U. S Army
Newfoundland
Cannp Maxey
Texas
Fort Benning
Camp Gruber
Oklahoma
War information shorts to be shown October in city theatres
Three new war information shorts will be exhibited in October. It’s Murder traces disjointed info into an allied disaster, Target Japan stars Navy officials and bluejackets explaining the war effort, and a 6th War Loan film bulletin shows Marine Corps actions and how bond purchases aid defeat of Japan.
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Lamar Keen
Oo Ee
Office of War Information
Japan
Columbia Pictures
James Forrestal
Ernest King
Forrestal
King
Bluejackets
Marine Corps
Pacific
Bond
Keep the invasion rolling Buy War Bonds today
A wartime plea urges citizens to purchase war bonds to sustain military campaigns. The message frames bond buying as a key effort contributing to victories and supporting troops overseas. It emphasizes collective duty and urgent financial support for the war effort.
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Charles F. Kistler
Kansas City
Europe
U.S. Army Air Forces
Melville R. Bissell
Pal
Double Edge
Edge
CMMI
Schick
Schick Service
Jno. S. Ssienberger & Co., Inc
N. Loudoun St
Round Hill
Stock Market Report
Star
Utter Creamery
George 8. Patton
E. V. B. A. Patton
Hugh Mercer
Continental Army
G. M. Collins
New Orleans
Burma Jungle
M. K. Heeran
Houston
Tex
Glenn J. Bateman
Collins
Wilds
U. S. Signal Corps
International
Dgether
A& Street
Charlemagne
Peoples Drug Store
Phonie
Valley Ave
Jefferson St
J. J. Newberry Co
Fairchild
Call
H. C. Thompson
Hillsboro
Loudoun County
Virginia
A. B. Arnett
Davis Cleaners
City
R. G. VanMeter
Ripple Farm
E. Piccadilly St
Frigidaire
National Ave
Seeley's
North Carolina
Fairmont Ave
Sgt
H. B. Rittenhouse
WINC
Dial “Rays of Sunshine
Olga Stoker
J. C. Penney Co., Inc
Solenberrer's
Bath
West
Cork St
Snapp’s Foundry
Luther C. Kremer
John Lind
Rt. 1
Winchester
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