The White Falcon - 23.01.1943, Blaðsíða 3

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‘Post No. I*
To Visit
Rec Center
“Hill Billy Night,” including
even an ol’ fashioned square
dance, ■will be the chief attrac-
tion at the Rec Center tonight.
A Red Cross hostess, who claims
to be a veteran square dance
“caller,” is being imported from
one of the outlying Centers to
conduct the program.
“Post No. 1,” entertaining mu-
sical revue nearing the end of
its successful run, will take over
the spotlight Monday at 2000
hours. The cast has returned
from several trips to other parts
of the Command, and will be
intact for Monday’s performance.
The usual dances will be held
Tuesday and Thursday evenings,
while a special double-feature
movie program is hooked for
Wednesday. The pictures are
“Ball O’ Fire,” with Gary Cooper
and Barbara Stanwyck, and
“Johnny Eager,” starring Robert
Taylor (Barbara Stanwyck’s
spouse) and Lana Turner.
Next Friday’s movie isi “The
Man Who Came To Dinner,” an
adaptation from the long-run
legitimate show of the same
name, co-starring Monte Wooley,
Bette Davis and Jimmy (Schnoz-
zle) Durante.
In addition, something new has
been added to the academic sche-
dule. Classes in foreign langu-
ages, philosophy, mathematics,
sociology and psychology are
now being offered at the Red
Cross Information Center. Cap-
able instructors have been re-
cruited from the Army ranks,
and classes are held every eve-
ning except Friday.
Lehman Chooses
Staff For New
Federal Bureau
Brain-trusters, newspapermen
and professors stud the staff of
Herbert H. Lehman, ex-Governor
of New York, and new Director
of Foreign Rehabilitation and Re-
lief. He revealed his choices in
Washington this week.
Lehman appointed Francis Say-
re as Deputy Director. Sayre was
formerly American High Com-
missioner to the Philippines, and
Assistant Secretary of State. Aid-
ing Sayre, as Special Director,
will be Hugh Jackson, former
branch chief of the OCD.
In an effort to speed up trans-
portation and supply facilities,
Lehman assigned a well-known
California professor, Dewey
Anderson, to the Transportation
post. Kenneth Dayton, former
New York City Budget Director,
will supervise all financial mat-
ters, while the Relief distribu-
tion will come under an ex-mem-
ber of the WPB, Luther Gulick.
Thomas Reynolds, former Wash-
ington correspondent for the Chi-
cago Sun, will handle the Public
Relations, and Lt. Gen. William
Haskell will be in charge of Field
Operations.
Wacky Hollywood
Hits The News Again
It doesn’t take Americans long to make themselves at home.
These officers of the U.S. Army Air Forces are roasting pea-
nuts in an oxygen tank salvaged from a destroyed Jap bomber.
They are “somewhere in Australia.”
Walker
Replaces
Ed Flynn
Postmaster General Frank
Walker is the new Democratic
National Chairman, replacing Ed-
ward Flynn, who was chosen by
President Roosevelt to serve as
minister to Australia.
Walker was nominated by Cali-
fornia’s ex-Governor Culbert Ol-
son, and seconded by Mrs. Emma
Gufrey Miller of Pennsylvania.
The new chairman was a unan-
imous favorite.
The overwhelming approval of
the two Roosevelt men, Walker
and Flynn, gave a forecast of a
united Democratic party in the
next presidential election, ac-
cording to political observers in
Washington.
Soldier Medal
Pvt. Charles J. Holliday Jr.
of the Aviation Engineers was
a recent recipient of the Sold-
ier Medal for “demonstrating
unusual alertness with utter
disregard for his own safety
and at great danger to his life.”
Holliday is from Philadelphia,
Pa.
Cellar Asks
For Probe
Americans acting as Axis an-
nouncers in Berlin and Rome
should be tried by a military tri-
bunal, New York’s Congressman
Emanuel Cellar told Congress
this week.
In presenting his bill, Con-
gressman Cellar denounced the
renegade radio announcers by
shouting, “They are radio Bene-
dict Arnolds who are trying to
teach their listeners to revere
Hitler and Mussolini.”
Fire Razes
N.Y. Nitery
No lives were lost when a
fire broke out in the Tuxedo
Club, swanky New York City
society meeting place, although
the club burned to the ground.
While flames weVe fanning
their way swiftly through the
interior, members of the club
managed to save most of the
valuable paintings and art antiq-
ues before firemen arrived to
extinguish the blaze.
The fire started inside the
club, and spread rapidly to the
roof. It was soon out of control.
The origin of the fire could not
be traced.
Army Reserve
To Take Youths
The U.S. Army, for the first
time in a generation, has ap
proved the enlistment of 17-year-
olds ill the Army Reserve.
Uncle Sam will accept the
youthful enlistees at 17, but
would not call them for any
type of active duty until six
months after they have passed
their 18th birthday.
According to Gen. Sherman
Miles, the teen-age volunteers
must have their parents’ con-
sent before they will be accept-
ed.
Chinese Pilot Sets
New Flight Record
The first trans-Atlantic flight
by a Chinese pilot was accompl-
lished this week when Capt. Yi
Fuen arrived at Chengtu, China,
after a 20,000-mile air jaunt from
Los Angeles, Calif. The crew in-
cluded Filipino co-pilot, naviga-
tor and wireless operator.
Capt. Yi Fuen’s cargo consisted
of five tons of vital military sup-
plies.
Col. Davies Reports Japanese Troops Fear
Contact With Sturdy U.S. Planes In South Pacific
American bombers wrere chief-
ly responsible for defeats suffer-
ed by the Japs in the Pacific, Col.
John H. Davies of the Air Corps
reported in Washington upon
return from the Southwest Paci-
fic theater of war, where he
served since Pearl Harbor.
Col. Davies, commander of
U.S. Army Air. Forces A-20
bombers during his stay in the
Pacific, asserted that Australian
commanders of the forces which
turned back the Japanese march
across New Guinea toward Port
Moresby told him that his bomb-
ing unit had greatly .reduced the
Nipponese threat to the base.
Davies’ pilots seldom had an
authentic picture of their target,
and most of the objectives were
fixed on the basis of informa-
tion from Allied troops in con-
tact with the enemy. Occasion-
ally, such targets as mule trains
would appear on open sections
of the trail across the mount-
ains, and would be blasted by
direct fire.
For the most part, however,
the attacks were delivered from
tree-top heights on a foe well
concealed in the jungle. The re-
sults, as confirmed by ground
reconnaissance, were deadly, and
contributed much to failure of
the Japanese campaign, arid the
enemy’s retreat through' ' the
mountains to the northern coast
of New Guinea.
Equipped to meet special con-
ditions in the theater of war, the
A-20’s are doing “a wonderful
job,” Col. Davies revealed. “They
are being used particularly to
knock out enemy planes on the
ground, and cnpple ground
troops and installations. They
have done more damage to
grounded Jap planes at Lae and
Salamaua than have bombing
raids,” Col. Davies added.
The caliber of opposing air-
men has deteriorated consider-
ably in recent months, Col. Dav-
ies went on to say. In addition
to their apparent lack of quality,
the Jap pilots also have lost
much of their aggressiveness.
“Almost every time we hit
them with .50 caliber fire, the
Zeros would fly apart,” he dis-
closed.
Ginger Rogers’ surprise mar-
riage to a 22-year-old Marine,
Errol Flynn’s trial for alleged
immoral relations with teen-ag-
ed girls, and the jailing of Fran-
ces Farmer focused plenty of
attention on Hollywood during
the past few days.
Miss Rogers, 31, and Pvt. John
Calvin Briggs, 22, were married
at the First Methodist Church
in Pasadena, Calif., less than a
week after they had announced
their engagement. The couple
worked together on the same
studio lot in Hollywood before
the war, but did not meet until
several months ago when the
actress visited San Diego on a
Bond-selling tour. Briggs is sta-
tioned at the Marine Corps
Training Station in San Diego.
Flynn’s trial was disrupted
momentarily when two women
jurists publicly expressed them-
selves in favor of acquittal of
the handsome Lothario. But aft-
er Elaine Forbes had been dis-
charged from the jury, Flynn’s
motion for a mistrial was over-
ruled.
The dashing hero of the screen
is charged with having lured
two 17-year-old girls to his
yacht, and then criminally as-
saulted them. He has denied the
allegations, but admits that they
were frequent visitors on the
boat.
Miss Farmer, who received
six months in jail for her escap-
ade, was arrested on assault and
battery charges, filed by a movie
studio hair dresser. She was also
booked for breaking her parole
promise to abstain from liquor,
and for not settling a previous
fine.
N.Y. Police Seek
Slayer of Editor
Police in New York are still
seeking an unidentified cab driv-
er in connection with the myst-
erious killing, of anti-Fascist
Editor Carlo Tresca. Carmine
Galante, ex-convict, is being held
as a suspect because parole of-
ficers saw him enter his car near
the scene of the murder.
According to Giuseppe Callabi,
who lived with Tresca, the edi-
tor was called out on Christmas
Eve. Although Callabi went with
him, he waited in the car, so he
could not explain Tresca’s myst-
erious mission. He did notice
that the editor looked extreme-
ly worried.
U.S. Navy Releases
New Casualty List
The latest official Navy casu-
alty report lists a total of 1,219
men, including Marihes and
Coast Guard, for the period of
Det. 16—31,
Every state'in the Union was
represented among the list of
418 dead. 403 wounded and 398
missing.