The White Falcon - 28.10.1944, Side 3

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Shown above are Pvt. Mickey Rooney and his
bride, the former Miss Betty Rase, 17, w^0 was
chosen "Miss Birmingham of 1944" early this
year. Mickey is stationed at Camp Sibert, Ala.
ILLINOIS:
Grandmother Returns
To High School
Becomes 'Bobby Soxer’
Mrs. Effie Elizabeth
Owen, 6l-year-old gran-
dmother of Carmi, Ill.,
who recently entered
high school as a fresh-
man, has flung herself
into her classmates'
extra-curricular activ-
ities with youthful a-
bandon. Returning to
her studies after an
absence of 47 years,
Mrs. Owen participated
in the regular fresh-
man initiation by walk-
ing through a cemetery
at night while "upper-
classmen" hovered about
in sheets.
CALIFORNIA:
Los Angeles Police
Released For 'Active
Duty’ By 'Copettes'
One hundred "copett-
es" are working as desk
sergeants and perform-
ing various types of
investigating work in
the Los Angeles Police
Department, according
to the‘ Civil Service
Assembly. The women,
who are employed for
the duration and six
months, will relieve
regular policemen for
more active work in the
department.
CALIFORNIA:
JUST A WHIM !
Local police in Mod-
esto, Calif., are rea-
lly up in the air over
a recent robbery. A
thief opened the munic-
ipal hangar and flew
away v.ith a 14,000 mon-
oplane belonging to
Harold Hilton, Modesto
businessman.
OKLAHOMA:
CHANGE OF HEART
The following un-
classified ad appearod
in the "Tulsa Tribune":
"Unusued engagement and
wedding ring; want aut-
omatic shotgun.*
AUTHORITIES
SAY ALL
RATIONING
NOT TO CEAS
ON V-DAY
Washington authori-
ties this week forecast
the probable continu-
ance of some degree of
rationing after V-day.
Probable trends were
listed as follows:
Butter and sugar -
probably will remain
rationed.
Cheese, fats, milk
and cream and better
grade meats — short su-
pplies for the first
six months with ration-
ing uncertain, but pl-
entiful thereafter.
Processed foods, fr-
esh fruits and vege-
tables - adequate supp-
lies without rationing.
Shoes - rationing
will continues other
clothing will be short
of civilian need.
Gasoline - very grad-
ual easing over several
months.
Fuel oil - rationing
next winter as well as
this.
Passenger car tires -
rationing terminated
within three months.
NEBRASKA:
Me Cook Air Field
Soldier Asks No
Furlough IN 22 Years
GIs at the McCook
Army Air Field (Neb.)
are shaking their heads
over Pvt. William A.
Scharfenberger. For 22
years this grizzled
veteran has turned down
all offers of a fur-
lough since he took a
nine-day emergency fur-
lough in May, 1922. Re-
cently he received hie
first letter in three
years. Routed through
the Adjutant General’s
office, it was from his
sister who asked blunt-
ly: "Where have you
been for the last ten
years?"
-THE AMERICAN SCENE
Swoon King Draws 20,000
To N.Y.'s Paramount Theater
WHILE BING CR0SB7 WAS DOING HIS "BIT" FOR THE
BOYS IN GERMANY, RIVAL FRANK SINATRA WAS DOING
HIS "BIT” FOR THE GIRLS BACK HOMS WITH APPEAR-
ANCES AT NEW YORK'S PARAMOUNT WHERE 20,000
GUSHING GERTIES SWEATED OUT THE LINE. SEVENTEEN
S-.UAD CARS, 150 POLICEMEN AND TEN POLICEWOMEN
MAINTAINED ORDER. THE WISE LAD WITH THE BEDROOM
VOICE STAYED IN HIS DRESSING ROOi*. RATHER THAN
FACE THE YOUNG MOB. BELOW ARE PICTURED SOME
OF SINATRA'S LADY FANS IN MOMENTS OF "ECSTACY"
OVER "SHE'S FUNNY THAT WAY" - AND THE VOICE IS
SHOWN DRIPPING WET FROM ENCORES.