The White Falcon - 16.12.1944, Blaðsíða 3

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Two-year-old Pamela Gray (the young lady in nothing plus nothing) looks belligerent
as officer Ray W. Ewing gives her a warning ticket for bathing in the nude. Pamela was
wading when a naughty wave washed off her tiny trunks. Ewing, who really doesn’t
mean anything he’s doing, is a member of the Surfside Police Department, suburb of
Miami Beach.
Youth Dons Uniform Of OS Pal-Finds Himself
Paying 16 AWQL Fine, Slated For Embarkation
Lest what has been diagnosed as an incurable bladder
ailment may prove fatal before Dec. 25, Forest (Nubbins)
Hoffman, 3, celebrates at Cheyonne, Wyoming, his Christ-
mas Day one month early. In the arms of his mother,
Nubbins in shown looking through the front door window
pane while a neighbor plays Santa Claus.
Chicago MPs have finally
caught up with Guamga Se-
peda, 15, who began his mili-
tary career last July when
he put on his Illinois Militia
uniform and went to Fort
Sheridan to visit a friend,
John Motley, 25.
“Just trade uniforms with
me,” suggested Motley when
Sepeda expressed regret that
he wasn’t going overseas be-
cause of his youth.
The trade was made and
Motley left camp in Sepeda’s
uniform while the latter,
masquerading for the GI,
left for Fort McClellan, Ala.
The sins of Motley were
visited upon Sepeda for he
not only had to pay $16
monthly for a fine imposed
on Motley for being AWOL,
but he also had to take shots
for a disease which Motley
had contracted.
When Sepeda wrote his
girl that he was being shipp-
ed, his mother heard of it
and notified the MPs who
caught up with both Sepeda
and Motley.
It is reported that, at the
present time, neither Sepeda
nor Motley is finding life
particularly enjoyable.
WAR DEPT. TO RELEASE IN GIs
FOR WORK IN FOUNDRIES: GREAT U.S.
MANHUNT BECOMES MORE DESPERATE
AS ELIGIBLE MALES GROW SCARCER
One thousand GIs are soon to be released from the
Armed Forces to help speed up the production of heavy
artillery, artillery ammunition, tanks and trucks in Amer-
ican foundries and forge shops where critical manpower
shortages exist.
In announcing the new ruling, the War Department
says that men to be released will be selected on the basis
of previous experience in foundry or forge shops.. They
must be over 30 years old and not assigned to the Infantry
or alerted for overseas duty. The released servicemen will
work as civilians, but they will be subject to recall to
active duty if they fail to keep on the job.
That “husband-hunting” in the U.S. (where today there
is only 425/1000 of a man for every unmarried girl bet-
ween the ages 20 to 34) has become a precision science
was indicated in a recent article appearing in the Sunday
Magazine section of the Des Moines Register. Using a
four-color, half-page map of the U.S. to buttress her facts,
staff writer Annabelle Lee coldly analyzed for American
womanhood the likeliest regions for roping a life partner.
In general, she said, a girl’s chances improve the farther
west she moves.
“The West Coast, or down Texas way, abounds in mar-
riageable males,” Miss Lee wrote. “But New England,” she
added, “no, no, no! In fact, every one of the 30 American
cities with the worst marriage opportunities is on the East
Coast. Massachusetts and Rhode Island top the list of old
maid haunts.
“Washington, D.C. is a good example of a city filled
with women starving for dates and romance. And Troy,
N.Y. is another, because of garment industries which
hire many women but few men. New York City holds out
little hope of a wedding ring, as the number of young
women outbalances the number of young men waiting
to be led to the altar. The hunting is poor.”
According to Miss Lee’s article, Northern Indiana,
Michigan and Ohio all have maintained a “satisfactory
Balance” between men and women. She claims that
Detroit in particular looks like “Cupid’s home”—due, no
doubt, to the predonderance of heavy industries employ-
ing men. But it’s out in the Southwest, the Rocky Moun-
tains and the Pacific slopes beyond, says Miss Lee, that
a girl will find the easiest going.
Wartime dislocations are the cause of the sharpest con-
trasts on her map, the writer concedes, but warns that
the general trends will hold for many years to come.
“Even if- there had been no war,” she concluded, “this
country would still have produced a bumper crop of
bachelor girls by 1945. Married and single, civilian and
soldier, there are 600,000 more women over 21 than
there are men.”
No wonder that, instead of dropping a lace hankie, the
girls are being urged to grab a map to “plot the coordin
ates.”
LOVE TAKES IT ON LAM’ WHEN HUSBAND
SELLS FURNITURE TO GET ‘BINGO’ MONEY
When her husband sold
their household furniture
for money to play bingo,
Mrs. Marie A. Meade, of Mer-
chantville, Pa., was finally
convinced that she was play-
ing second fiddle to bingo
in her husband’s affections.
Filing suit for divorce, she
announced: “I didn’t mind
if he stayed out every night
until 2 a. m. just to play
bingo, but when he started
to carry out the furniture,
piece by piece, to sell for
more bingo money, then I
decided to call it quits.”
Even after the Meades
were down to their last pi-
ece of furniture — an old
brass bed that nobody would
ever want to buy — Mrs. Me-
ade said her husband broke
it into pieces and sold it for
scrap. Recognizing bingo as
an official alienator of af-
fections, the judge granted
the divorce.
Found—One Bracelet
A woman’s bracelet was
found at the Fieldhouse Sun-
day night following the
showing of the world premi-
ere, RHAPSODY IN BLUE.
If the owner will call the
White Falcon office (Base
Special Service) the bracelet
will be returned upon proper
identification.