The White Falcon - 06.01.1945, Page 5

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To troops here in Iceland, the phrase “carrying coals to New Castle” may well-apply in
this instance. Here is a scene of the nine inch blanket of snow which covered Kansas
City, Mo., recently and made driving in traffic a hazardous task. The storm, described
as being Arctic in fury, spread over several midwestern states and brought death to at
least three persons.
JAP NEWSMAN CALLS
U.S. STRIP-TEASE
GALS ‘BARBARIC’
In a radio- report on lire
“American home front” to
the Japanese people, Gbr'o
Xakaiio, one-time New York
correspondent of the Tokyo
newspaper Asalii, announc-
ed to his readers:
. . .In the war bond driv-
es, Hollywood and Broad-
way actresses give one kiss
for each bond. Also in nude
dances, each lime the actress
strips off some of her cloth-
es, spectators are made to
buy bonds. Thus by barbar-
ic methods they are bolster-
ing the dimestorc patriotism
of the ignorant Yankee
masses.”
POSTWAR HOMES
MAY RE ERECTED
IN A SINGLE MY
Indications are that the
little vine-covered cottage
which many (IIs are dream-
ing about these days may he
put together, in tlie post-
war world, “by the numb-
ers.”
News from I lie low-cost
home front is that prefabri-
cated houses can be erected'
i
in one day and ready for
occupancy in a single week.
After selection, of the site
and (he type of house which
is desired, (lie pre-fab boys
drop around and begin do-
ing their setups.
The exercise is said to he
performed in the following
mariner:
HUT — the floor is laid
in the morning. TWO —
i sidewalls lip by noon.
| THREE— roof, shingles and
' siding" completed hv even-
ing. FOUR — painting,
plumbing and electrician
squads take oyer.
Estimated cost for a four-
room job is from $2,500 to
$3,000 — with bigger and
more elaborate houses avail-
able at prices “slightly high-
er.” A provision in the GI
Bill of Rights makes it poss-
ible for soldiers to borrow up
to $2,000 for this purpose.
When she wrote her husband (a Lt. in Italy) that she
could not get a priority for a telephone, Mrs. Joe S. Hull
of Tampa, Fla., received the answer: “Well, you rate one
with me.” Several weeks later this Swedish-made tele-
phone arrived from Italy and was installed by the tele-
phone company.
PRES, WAR DEPT. DISAGREE ON
POSTWAR TRAINING—OHAPUN
The War Dept, has placed itself on record as favor-
ing universal training of a strictly military nature—in
contrast to President Roosevelt’s suggestion of augment-
ing the program with a certain degree of vocational and
non-military training. The War Dept, justifies its stand
in a circular which has been distributed to officers, de-
claring: “...For the one and only reason that without
such a program the continued security of our national
life and institutions can no longer he assured.”
Front pages of U.S. newspapers are again carrying
banner-heads on the Joan Barry paternity suit against
55-year-old movie comedian Charlie Chaplin. Miss Barry
declared from the witness stand last week that Chaplin
had fathered her baby, Carol'Ann. Testifying for the first
time in the nation’s most torrid love trial in many years,
Miss Barry told of four instances of intimacy with Chap-
lin and swore that she had had no such relations with
any other man since she inet Chaplin in June, 1911. She
related to the jury how she had attempted suicide, after
Chaplin had refused to marry her, by taking iodine and
sleeping tablets following her last intimacy with the silver-
haired screen star. Chaplin’s attorney showed her
a letter in which she had written: “Why do we have to
grow up into cheap little gold-digging bitches?”
In Detroit, Mrs. Nina Housdcn, 33, confessed to police
that she had strangled and dismembered the body of her
husband, Charles,32, because “He had been having affairs
with other women.” Arrested in Toledo, Ohio, she said,
“I got him drunk, put a rope around his neck and then
pulled until he was dead. It’s first peace of mind I’ve
had. If I were free I would go to Kentucky and kill a
cou])le of women he had affairs with.” She claimed that
-O
Housdcn, a Grayhound bus driver, had bragged to her
that he could pick up any women he wanted and had once
invited her to ride his bus and watch him. Housdcn was
honorably discharged from the Army
A Supreme Court jury in White Plains, N.Y., solemnly
examined the front seat of a 1933 model sedan in an effort
to decide whether or not it is roomy enough for the
commission of “an act of infidelity.” The jury decided
it wasn't -and denied Dr. Nathan A. Galkin a divorce
against his wife, Frances, whom he had charged with
having had intimate relations with the owner of the car,
Anthony Moccio, 36-vear-old Mount Vernon painter.
Col. Elliott Roosevelt, son of the President, smiles hap-
pily with his bride actress Faye Emerson whom he mar-
ried recently.