The White Falcon - 13.01.1945, Blaðsíða 5

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-THE AMERICAN SCENE-
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Workmen put finishing touches on the American counterpart of the Germany V—1
robot bomb at the Willys-Overland plant in Toledo, Ohio, where production of the missle
has begun. The 27-foot long bomb is jet-propelled. At the plant it is completed in all
respects except for the engine and steering controls.
THIS IS THE ARMY’
-GARNERS $7,000,000
FOR ARMY RELIEF
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In Washington, D.C., Gen.
George C. Marshall, Chief of
Staff, U.S. Army, was recent-
ly presented the 7,000,000th
dollar hill raised through
showing of the film, THIS
IS THE ARMY, by Harry M.
Warner of Warner Brothers
Pictures. Paid admissions
total 65,000,000.
Jinx Fatkenbuurg, lovely
starlet and Pat O’Brien have
returned to Hollywood from
a 50,000 mile, ten week USO
tour of the CBI where they
played for those “wonderful,
wonderful” men of the arm-
ed forces. The trio estimated
that they played 86 shows
officiallv and 186 shows un-
A sailor-father recently returned to the U.S. practices
the art of diaper-readjustment at the 77th Division
Association Clubhouse in New York City. The National
Institute of Diaper Services, under whose direction the
“training program” has been undertaken, states that 100,-
000 servicemen became fathers while away from home
during the first nine months of 1944.
officially. Jinx came home
wearing a cartwheel coolie
hat and a concealed wgird
bob she got from cutting ofi
locks of hair to give to GIs
wanting souvenirs.
Veronica Lake was mar-
ried last month to Andre
Detolli, screen director. The
ceremony took place at the
home of Ed Gardner — “Ar-
chie” of “Duffy’s Tavern”
air show. Miss Lake was di-
vorced recently from Major
John Detlie. It’s Detoth’s
first marriage.
Kate Smith has been giv-
en an unspecified position
on the All-American Eleven
in a newspaper’s yearly ra-
dio popularity poll....Ben
Grader of NBC has won the
annual H.P. Davis Memorial
Announcer’s Award for his
mike work. At present, Gion-
er handles the General Mot-
ors Symphony of the Air
(the NBC Symphony). Mr.
and Mrs. North, and Inform-
ation Please among other:
high-ranking shows . . I
Clark Gable has nicked
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Greer Garson for his first I
movie. Title unknown ....
Paramount is looking for a
sequel for “Going My Way’
— runner-up in the White
Falcon Overseas Motion Pic-
ture Poll.
Jimmy Durante, reporting
his Alaskan trip to friends,
said he saw a sign outside
an igloo which read “Eskimo
Spitz Dogs — $5.00 each.”
When a friend asked him
what was so unusual about
that, Jimmy exclaimed: “1
got’$50 that says an Eskimo
can’t do it!”
CONGRESSMAN OPPOSES FURTHER AID
10 WAS? VETS - BINGO IS OUTLAWED
1 ATLANTIC CITY - SOLDIERS AT
CALIF. POST DON’T LIKE ‘I IE’
Rep. John Rankin (D.-Miss.) has announced that lie
will fight any effort by the new (79th) Congress to vote
veterans additional benefits and bonuses. Chief author
of the GI Bill of Rights, Rankin said: “There never has
been a time when servicemen have been cared for better.”
Declaring that agitation for new soldier b6nus bills
was coming not from servicemen themselves but from
“those who purport to represent them,” Rankin added:
“The servicemen themselves want nothing more than to
get the war over and to return to their normal ways of
living. They want the country to he solvent and secure
when they return. They don’t want government hand-
outs because they know that they and their children
must foot the bill.”
In Atlantic City, N. ./., famed U.S. resort spot, bingo
playing has been outlawed on orders from the county
prosecutor after Justice Frederick R. Colie of the New
Jersey Supreme Court issued an edict banning all types
of gambling there. Not only the bingo concessions on
the boardwalk but even games held in churches were
effected by the order. Meanwhile, New York City’s Mayor
Fiorello La Guardia has stated that he will ask federal
officials to ban the transmission of racing information
— along with the government order closing race tracks.
A group of veterans at the Army Distribution Center
in Santa Barbara, Calif., have protested the use of the
term, GI Joe. “We’ve got names and we want them used,”
the soldiers declared. “From now on we shall protest the
use of the phrase GI Joe when anyone is speaking of us
or of others in the service.”
Army-Navy Chiefs Get ‘Super’ Rank
The Army now has four “super” generals and the
Navy three “super” admirals as the result of recent Con-
gressional action authorizing the new ranks. Approved
unanimously by the Senate for promotion to the rank
of Generals of the Army were: Gen. George C. Marshall,
Chief of Staff; Gen. Douglas MacArthur, commander in
the Southwest Pacific; Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower,
Supreme Allied Commander in Europe; and Gen. Henry
H. Arnold, Commanding General of the Army Air Forces.
For the Navy, the Senate approved nominations of Adm.
William D. Leahy, Pres. Roosevelt’s personal Chief of
Staff; Adm. Ernest J. King, Commander in Chief of the
Fleet and Chief of Naval Operations; and Adm. Chester
W. Nimitz, Commander in Chief, Pacific Fleet.