The White Falcon - 24.07.1943, Blaðsíða 3

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FDR Kills
Three Bills
President Roosevelt this week
turned down three bills by poc-
ket veto and topped the vetoes
off with reasons.
One bill would hav# made fel-
onies the only * misconduct
grounds on which armed service
pensions and compensations
would be withheld. The Presi-
dent said that the definition of
felonies varies in different states
and said limitation would admit
to pension rolls some persons
guilty of serious misconduct.
Another vetoed bill granted
$5,000 each to widows of FBI
agents Foxworth and Haberfield,
who died in a plane crash while
on duty. In this case the Presi-
dent’s explanation was that the
bill discriminated against the
widows of other Civil Service
men killed in line of duty.
The third bill turned down
made distribution of seeds and
fertilizer by Federal agencies
subject to state laws. The Presi-
dent said this would wreck the
Tennessee Valley Authority’s
fertilizer program.
Gl Buglers,
Please Note!
“C’mon, Ozzie, git out uh bed!”
No top-kick in Uncle Sam’s
custody ever resorted to such
gentle treatment in rousing a
snoozing GI, but that’s the punch-
line in a musical short made by
Ozzie Nelson’s band and being
shown locally with the Robert
Taylor-Charles Laughton thril-
ler, “Stand By For Action.”
The phrase, by itself, is hardly
worthy of comment. However,
when the fellows here see the
film and recognize the gal —
garbed in a scanty negligee, too!
— who does the imploring, they’ll
catch the significance. The set-
ting is for a novelty song routine.
The Ozzie-getter-upper in ques-
tion happens to be Rose Anne
Stevens, vocalist now touring the
Command with the popular USO
show. With just a mite of coax-
ing when the troupe returns to
this area, audiences no doubt
will be able to induce Miss Ste-
vens to gush:
“C’mon, Ozzie, git out uh bed!”
At least it’s worth an attempt.
But be wary of a right cross,
that gal is potent!
Yule Packages Must
Be Mailed By Oct. 15
Servicemen overseas won't
have to be embarrassed by re-
questing Christmas presents
through regular channels, it was
learned this week.
The 30-day period from Sept.
15 to Oct. 15 has been designat-
ed “Christmas Mail Month,” and
packages may be dispatched
without showing an official re-
quest from the soldier or an en-
velope bearing an APO number.
W O Bradley Composes Hit Tunes
When He Isn’t Leading His Band
“An Army that provides its
soldiers with plenty of music
need never worry about the mor-
ale,” explained WO Harry R.
Bradley of the local Infantry.
In addition to 40 years of experi-
ence in music and leading a pop-
ular local soldier band, Mr. Brad-
ley is awaiting the release of his
latest song hit, “Wonderful
Dream.”
A native of Cleveland, 0.,
Mr. Bradley is 53 years old,
but looks about 40. “I wanted
to play the piano,” laughed Brad-
ley, “but my parents wanted me
to play the trumpet. So I learn-
ed to play the trumpet at home
Girl Kidnaps
Child, But
Plot Sours
Twenty-year-old Mary Penore
faced up to a 20-year sentence
this week after confessing in
New York that she kidnapped
three-year-old Jimmy DiMaggio
in a vain attempt to bring about
a reconciliation with her di-
vorced husband.
She said she took the child
from an East Side park and went
by bus to Nashville, Tenn., where
her former husband, Sgt. August
Tilova, was enrolled at Vander-
bilt U. for specialist training.
But Sgt. Tilova discredited the
story that the child was his and
told her that he had remarried.
So she borrowed bus fare, went
back to New York and left little
Jimmy in an Automat near Penn
station.
and took piano lessons on the
sly.”
While attending Stanford U.,
in California he decided to be-
come a musician. After three
years, he quit college and joined
the Sells FUoto Circus band as
a trumpet player.
Later, Bradley joined the Army
W/O Bradley.
Pre-Sailing Leaves
Approved By Army
The War Dept, announced in
Washington this week that fur-
loughs will be granted to en-
listed men about to go overseas
if they have had none in six
months.
All enlisted men called to duty
will get one before going over-
seas regardless of length of ser-
vice.
and was graduated from the
Army Band Leader’s School in
New York. During the years that
followed he played with the Hon-
olulu Symphony Orchestra, Cle-
veland Symphony, “Ace” Briga-
ode and Maurice Spitalny.
While with Spitalny, Mr. Brad-
ley collaborated with him in the
writing of several songs, includ-
ing “The Road To Romance” and
“My Guiding Star.” By himself,
he wrote “You Are The Only
One,” and “Love Is A Song.”
Mr. Bradley is married, has
six children, and has been in
the Army for 24 years.
‘Baby Carrier*
Accounts For
SO Axis Subs
An American cargo boat made
over into a small carrier has re-
turned to its base after battering
ten out of 11; U-boats it encount-
ered. Known as “Baby Flat-Top,”
the improvised carrier sank two
enemy subs, “very probably”
sank four and “probably” sank
four more.
The carrier was escorting out-
going convoys, the Navy reveal-
ed. When a converging pack of
enemy U-boats approached one
convoy, planes from “Baby Flat-
Top” went into action and re-
turned with 41 prisoners taken
from the two subs which were
definitely sunk.
All the ships reached their
destination.
8 Michigan
Youths Drown
In Lake Huron
Eight Michigan boys and girls
were drowned in Lake Huron
this week and nine are missing
as the result of panic sweeping
an excursion barge when the
vessel shipped water. Several
others among 42 on board jump-
ed into the water but were res-
scued.
Bodies were identified as those
of Robert Poquette, Sheboygan;
Shirley Peterson and Wayne
Cross, Caro; Shirley Dwyer, Sa-
ginaw; Ida Minthorn, Reese, and
Bertha Smith, Midland. Nels Pe-
terson of Midland is missing.
‘Greetings...’
“Very interesting indeed,”
muttered Pvt. Paul Knoyer of
Cajnp Edwards, Mass., when
he finished reading a letter
from his wife. The reason for
Paul’s low-voiced philosophi-
cal comment was: he read in
the letter that his draft board
had just placed him in class
3A!
3-Act Comedy
To Open Run
Here Aug. 5
A third Red Cross girl and
several enlisted men have been
added to the cast of’“Heaven Can
Wait” as the popular three-act
stage production moves closer to
its tentative opening at White
Rose theater, Aug. 5.
The latest ARC actress is Ruth
Ballard, while the soldiers—re-
cruited chiefly from the Special
Service unit—include Sgt. Har-
ley J. Bennett, Cpl. Richard
Wendley, T/5 Holland Hasper,
T/5 Rosario J. Tessley and T/4
Leo Minkin. Sets are being con-
structed by Cpl. Sterns and de-
corated by Ben Beverwyk.
The show, a record of experi-
ences of a prize fighter who finds
himself headed skyward on an
“earth to heaven” airliner al-
though very much alive, is slat-
ed to run Tuesday, Thursday and
Saturday evenings until it has
been seen by all available troops.
This marks the first time sold-
iers in the local Command have
undertaken to produce a three-
act show. Early reports from the
Base Special Service Office in-
dicate, however, that “Heaven
Can Wait” will be near-professi-
onal when it reaches the boards
next month.
Nazis Use
70-Ton Tank
The Germans have been throw-
ing 70-ton “Ferdinand” tanks in-
to the battle of Russia in ad-
dition to their GO-ton “Tigers”,
Moscow reported this week.
The new 70-tonners mount the
same 88mm. gun as the Tigers,
but have even thicker armor
plate. However, the new giant
is vulnerable in the same places
— flanks and rear — as the Tig-
er and many already have been
destroyed by the Red Army.
The extra petrol tank in the
Ferdinand often explodes and
sets the tank on fire after a
shell hit, the Russians claim.
Coffee Shortage
Chased From U.S.
Coffee drinkers in the States
will be able to refill their cup
as often as they wish after Aug.
1, the Office of Price Administ-
ration disclosed this week. Each
adult has been permitted to buy
approximately enough for a cup
a day, and restaurants have li-
mited customers to a single cup,
but the OPA said the shortage,
has been eliminated.
N.Y. Lt.Gov. Wallace
Dies Of Pneumonia
Lt. Gov. Thomas Wallace of
New York died of pneumonia
this week in Schenectady’s Ellis
Hospital at the age of 43.