Effective Jan. 15 –
Navy tightens rules on mail
Packages limited because of larger personnel
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Radio research shows soap operas of value in wartime education
Princeton educator says women find weeping daytime stories ease their suffering minds
By Si Steinhauser
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Film actress plans a tour
Miss Massey to sing in South America
Hollywood, California – (Jan. 9)
A concert tour in South America was being scheduled today for Ilona Massey.
She revealed she may leave for Rio de Janeiro immediately after completion of Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man, Universals’ new horror picture in which she is headlined with Patric Knowles, Maria Ouspenskaya, Lon Chaney and Bela Lugosi.
Before coming to Hollywood in 1936, she was renowned in Europe as an operatic singer.
Miss Massey, who recently separated from her husband, Alan Curtis, said their future would be decided when she completed her present assignment at Universal.
She asserted:
It is difficult to decide just now what to go, but the concert tour has been scheduled. Alan and I are still very much in love with each other and we have not discussed our future plans yet. We are living apart and we have agreed not toi see each other until Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man is finished. Then both the domestic problem and the concert tour will be settled.
‘The killer’ tells how sub bagged Jap ships, spit in destroyers’ teeth
Skipper fights the sea also in Indies
By George Weller
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Hurt in nightclub fire, man jumps to his death
Boston, Massachusetts (UP) – (Jan. 9)
The death toll of the Cocoanut Grove holocaust rose to 490 today when Francis Gatturni, 31, of Roslindale, one of those injured, committed suicide by leaping from a window at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Editorial: Free speech
A New York policeman arrested a World War I veteran for sitting on a park bench and criticizing President Roosevelt and the conduct of the war to another man in private conversation. A magistrate sentenced the offender to 30 days in the workhouse, the appeals court reversed the conviction.
That is good news. It proves that we will have the free speech for which, among other freedoms, we are fighting. So long as we are loyal to the United States and do not assist her enemies, we are still privileged to express our dissatisfaction with our hired men in public office and with the way they are carrying out our instructions to beat Hitler.
We don’t even have to be right, we have merely to be honest, patriotic and orderly. Which is as it should be.
Wavell’s men penetrate Jap lines in Burma
British resume drive on two sides of river 60 miles from India
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Paratroop hero declines North African promotion
Private who held off machine-gunners, routed others in Axis territory says: ‘All I did was walk west’
By Donald Coe, United Press staff writer
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OPA will start ration banking plan on Jan. 27
Coupons will flow back to primary suppliers like money
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Isolationists oppose post for Mrs. Luce
Washington (UP) – (Jan. 9)
A heated fight appeared to be brewing tonight among Republican members of the House over whether Mrs. Clare Boothe Luce, newly-elected Republican Congresswoman from Connecticut, should be given a seat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
The controversy is apparently part of the intraparty row between isolationists and supporters of Wendell L. Willkie in his efforts to force the GOP to abandon its traditional isolationism. Mrs. Luce, attractive wife of publisher Henry Luce, is regarded as a Willkieite and had his support in last November’s elections.
GOP isolationists argued that Mrs. Luce should not be placed on Foreign Affairs because she is a first-termer. Furthermore, they argued, two Republican women are already members of that group – Reps. Edith Nourse Rogers (R-MA) and Frances P. Bolton (R-OH).
Roosevelt requests police to aid FBI
Washington (UP) – (Jan. 9)
President Roosevelt today reiterated a request made Sept. 6, 1939, that law enforcement officers, patriotic organizations and individuals give to the Federal Bureau of Investigation all information they may have on espionage and sabotage.
A White House statement containing the request gave no explanation of why it should be repeated at this time.
In 1939, the President said it was essential that investigations of such matters be carried out on a national basis by the FBI “to avoid confusion and irresponsibility.”
School days lengthened
Washington – (Jan. 9)
The U.S. Office of Education reported tonight that the workdays of college instructors are being lengthened and some courses are being discontinued to avoid a war-born teacher shortage.
Reports were received from about half of the nation’s 1,717 colleges, and about half of those reporting have increased the number of teaching hours. More than 50 have ended non-teaching activities such as research and faculty supervision of students.