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Above are six of Hollywood’s most popular vocalists who will join in singing a
chorus of “Silent Night” for the special Christmas COMMAND PERFORMANCE which
will be presented at 1400 hours, Christmas Day, over the Armed Forces Radio Station
in Iceland. The bundles of vocal charm are, 1 to r, Virginia O’Brien, Frances Langford,
Judy Garland, Dorothy Lamour, Ginny Simms, and Dinah Shore.
Allan Dodds of Tulsa, Okla., is a lucky fellow (or is
he?). An acrobatic dancer in the moviesj Dodds has signed
a contract with a group of Goldwyn Girls who formed
a syndicate to back his career. They will maintain him
out of their paychecks, according to the agreement, until
he lands a film contract. After he gets a job, he must pay
them 10 percent of his salary for the next FIVE years.
Dodds is shown here studying his contract while surround-
ed by his beautiful backers. The girls are, left to right,
Deannie Best, seated; Georgia Lange, Ellen Hall, Ruth
Valmy, and Phyliss Forbes.
Bonfire ‘Remedy’ For
Sluggish Motor Proves
Colo. Mailman’s Undoing
Cold weather in Granite,
Colo., last week meant hard
starting for his pickup truck,
so Bill Lane, Granite mail
carrier, decided to speed
things up by building a fire
under the motor — and he
really got results. First the
garage caught fire. Then
Lane called Walt Miller, a
neighbor, to help fight the
blaze and as Miller appro-
ached, an oil barrel explod-
ed, blowing the roof off the
garage and onto Miller’s
head. The explosion spread
burning oil all over the
neighborhood, threatening
the entire west side of Gran-
ite and bringing out the fire
department. Now, Lane’s
house and garage have burn-
ed down, Miller is in the hos-
pital, and the pickup truck
is in a junk pile.
Public Doesn’t Comprehend Rigors Of
Italian Campaign, Say Congressmen After Tour
Members of the touring
House Military Committee,
after a trip into the front
lines during which they saw
enemy fire, expressed a be-
lief this week that Americ-
an newspapers have failed
to give a complete picture
of the rigors of the Italian
campaign.
They said this may have
been caused by a lack of
comprehension of the im-
portance of the Italian cam-
paign on the part of the
press and the public in the
U.S.
“We think the story of the
little men with wet feet and
the big men with wet feet
has not been fully emphas-
ized,” said Representative
Clare. Boothe Luce, Rep.-
Conn.
—New Musical
(Continued from Page 3)
Naturally, they fall in love.
Woven into this plot are
specialty numbers by the
name personalities who re-
ally let down their hair.
Songs to be heard include
“Don’t Fence Me In” (a Cole
Porter number destined for
the “Hit Parade” ranks) and
“Sweet Dreams, Sweet-
heart.”
NX'S MAYOR BECOMES BROOKLYN
HERO-LIBERTY BELL TO REMAIN
CRACKED—ARTIE SHAW. BACK IN U.S.
DECRIES ‘MORALE BROADCASTS’
The Society of the Prevention of Disparaging Re-
marks about Brooklyn has named New York City’s
Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia as “the man who has done
most for Brooklyn in 1944.” The mayor’s citation came
as a result of his “spontaneous action in rising so gallant-
ly to defend our boys in service attacked so viciously by
an alleged British author” — a reference to LaGuardia’s
defense of Brooklyn soldiers against remarks made by
Noel Coward in his recent book.
Artie Shaw, band leader recently given a medical '
discharge from the Navy after a year’s service in the
Pacific, declared in Chicago that servicemen overseas
resent “morale broadcasts.” “As far as I’m concerned,”
stated Shaw, “I just wanted to be left alone, and I think
most of the men felt the same way. The less radio talk
the better.” Entering the Navy two years ago as an
apprentice seaman on a minesweeper, the popular Amer-
ican bandleader was later assigned to the leadership
of a Navy band. Following his discharge he organized a
new band and is now touring the U.S.
British-American relations were again in the news this
week with the refusal of Mayor Bernard Samuel of Phila-
delphia and leaders of patriotic organizations who polite-
ly refused an offer by the Whitechapel Bell Foundry of
London to recast the cracked Liberty Bell as a gesture of
Anglo-American friendship. The Whitechapel Foundry or-
ginally cast the bell in 1752. In turning down the British
gesture, Mayor Samuel said, “The Liberty Bell is a sym-
bol to 138,000,000 Americans and we in Philadelphia are
its custodians for a nation of people who do not want
it changed.”
Within a few hours after President Roosevelt had
passed the legislation and submitted a list, the Senate
approved the promotion of four generals and three
admirals to the ranks of General of the Army and Fleet
Admirals of the U.S. Navy, respectively.
Those promoted to the new five-star ranks are Gener-
als Marshall, MacArthur, Eisenhower and Arnold, and
Admirals King, Nimitz and Leahy. General John J. Persh-
ing’s super- rank of General of the Army is still superior.
Under their new temporary promotions, the five-starr-
ers will receive annual pay of $13,000 - as against their
base pay rates of $8,000 for their four-star rank.
Senator Richard B. Russell, Georgia Deni., told the
Senate he thought it “perfectly absurd to create a super
rank to compete with that of Field Marshal and other
titles of top-ranking Allied officers. There’s no use
getting into the contest for someone might create the rank
of Super-duper Field Marshal.”
Regardless of the protests of the members of his Post,
J. B. Edington, Commander of the Hood Legion Post
(Hood River, Ore.) will keep the names of 16 American
soldiers off the community honor roll because they are
of Japanese ancestry. Edington declined to comment on
a statement by Secretary of War Stimson in Washing-
ton that it was wholly inconsistant with the American
ideal of democracy that these loyal citizens should be
subject to any discrimination.
Stimson also praised the fighting spirit of the Japan-
ese-American soldiers. While the Legion, church and la-
bor officials of the Pacific coast joined in condemning
the Hood River action, Paul Robelle, Commander of the
Cheney,-Wash., Post said, “We protest because we think
such an action is contrary to the Americanism which
we have sworn to support and defend.”
Naval vessels may now carry commercial-strength beer
and ale for their crews provided their men do their
elbow-bending on the beach — so said an announcement
from the Secretary of the Navy James V. Forrestal.
This marks the first big departure from the World War
I policy of former Secretary Daniels who ruled that no
alcoholic beverages could be taken on board naval vess-
els except for medicinal purposes.
At the same time that he permitted beer aboard naval
craft, Secretary Forrestal instructed commanding offic-
ers not to require attendance of naval personnel at reli-
gious services. He advised them to encourage but not
to force men to worship.