The White Falcon - 25.11.1944, Blaðsíða 3

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CIGARETTE SHORTAGE MOUNTS AS
CRUSADERS URGE TURKISH BATHS
UPON ENSLAVED 'WEED-FIENDS'
HOUSE BUILDING BOOM HITS HOLLYWOOD
as shown so revealingly above in this priceless bit of leg art,
MGM actress Lorraine Miller is building a house - all by herselfl
OPA chief, Chester Bowles, has announced that
rationing would be "completely impraotioal" as
a means of solving the increasing cigarette sh-
ortage in the U.S,______
Despite the fact that
WASHINGTON, D.C.:
Vets To Be Paid
$50 To $75 Monthly
While Learning Trade
War Manpower Commis-
sioner Paul V, McNutt
announced this week
that veterans who en-
roll in the WMC Appren-
tice Training Service
will be paid fc50 to +75
monthly under the GI
Bill of Rights in addi-
tion to wages they earn
while learning a trade.
Some 000 veterans
have enrolled and acoo-
aodations have been
made for as many as
200,000.__________
MASSACHUSETTS:
"JUST MATTER OF HABIT"
SAYS WOULD-BE JAILBIRD
Stan Lindsey of Ply-
mouth was arrested af-
ter he had persisted
in climbing aboard a
police wagoncfespite the
earnest efforts of the
police to keep him out.
"It was just a matter
of habit," he told the
judge.
MICHIGAN;
CAN'T DRAFT A STATUE!
Girls in Muskegon
nave been asked to st-
op kissing the city's
recently-dedicated war
memorial. Because of
the statue's construe- .
tion, lipstick cannot
be removed.
more cigarettes have
been produoed than ever
before, the pinch is
being felt in most
parts of the country -
with black market oper-
ations reported in New
York, Chicago, Detroit,
Atlanta and Buffalo.
Men and women are re-
ady to pay higher pri-
ces, stand in line for
hours ana resort to all
sorts of dodges to ass-
ure themselves a smoke.
Sectional runs on pi-
pes and pipe tobacco,
particularly by girls,
are reported and it is
a common sight to see
novices "rolling their
own."
In Memphis, retailers
are limiting hours of
selling.
Bowles attribute*! the
shortage to black mar-
ket hoarding by smok-
ers, overseas demands
and the fact that peo-
ple are smoking more.
Meanwhile, a Quarter-
master Corps spokesman
said that the Army is
encountering some diff-
iculty in getting ciga-
rettes from manufactur-
ers, but that any shor«
tage is due to looal
distribution condi-
tions.
The Anti-Cigarette
Alliance gleefully took
comfort fron the short-
age and advised those
who would rid themselv-
es of the habit to take
Turkish baths instead.
HEW YORK;
Petrillo, Recording
Companies, Reach
Agreement On Discs
After 27 months, the
American rederation of
Musicians and the major
recording companies
have reached an agree-
ment and soon discs
will be rolling off the
assembly line.
Under terms reached
by President James C.
Petrillo of the AFM and
officials of the recor-
ding companies, the
manufacturers will con-
tribute one quarter
cent for every 35 cent
record and one cent for j
each dollar record dir- :
eot to the union trea- :
sury.
The union, Petrillo
says, will use this sp-
ecial fund for the "fu-
rtherance of musical
culture and employment
of musicians.
MISSOURI;
'GREETINGS' REVERSED
Doubtless recalling
the introductory line
on his draft notice, an
Army sergeant now over-
seas returned his sold-
ier ballot’to his Kans-
as City election board
with a note; "Greetings
to the President."
When this steer (AWOL from the rodeo) walked out of a Chicago store
on Jaokson Blvd. and headed towards Michigan Ave., the crowd in the
above picture thought that they were baok in the wild and woolly West.