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Movie starlet Janice Carter
models a “bare mid-riff” job
which costume designers say
is going to “loom ominously”
on the 1945 fashion front. Let
it loom, brother, let it loom!
ARMY'S MEW CARGO
PLANE SETS U.S.
SPEED RECORD
The Army’s giant new
C-97 Stratocruiser - a cargo-
transport counterpart of the
B-29 Superfortress -— has
just flashed across the U.S.
to set a .new transcontinent-
al speed record. The huge
Boeing transport rocketed
2,323 miles from Seattle to
Washington, D.C., non-stop,
in s:x hours, three minutes,
50 eonds, the War Dept-
reveals, for an average speed
of 383 miles an hour.
Described as “something
like the Umpire Slate Build-
in;- with wings,” the mam-
moth new airliner is the first
big bomber converted to
transport use which fits into
postwar plans and at the
same time meets all the mili-
tary needs for actual war
use.
As a cargo carrier it can
handle a payload of 25,000
pounds ami has 10,000
square feet of useable cargo
space.
Gloria De Haven, singing
star of TWO GIRLS AND A
SAILOR, is ready to disillu-
sion anyone who thinks
those pictures of her in bath-
ing suits and tennis shorts
really mean ishe swims or
plays games. “I can’t,” she
confesses, .“I just pose for
those cheesecake sport pic-
tures because it is expected
of me, but I really can’t
swim or play any games. My
only activity is doing up my
own hair and pressing my
clothes.” Anyway, Gloria
sure looks good!
Bill Goodwin was eager to
break his contract as an-
nouncer on the Burns and
Allen show. On three suc-
essive programs, Time
magazine reports, he signed
off with a groan, an “ouch”
and finally a screech. They
gave hime the release.
Barbara Stanwyck (star of
MY REPUTATION which is
premiered tomorrow' night
at the Fieldhouse) and Paul
Henreid wall be co-starred in
the film version ‘of the
Broadway hit THE TWO
i MRS. CARROLS........Joyce
] Reynolds who played the
title role in JANIE has been
elevated to stardon by the
Warner Brothers for her
next, picture JANIE GETS
MARRIED .... Bill Good-
will, mentioned elsewhere in
this column, has been sign-
ed as comedian on the new
Frank Sinatra show which
takes to the air lanes this
month.
Margaret O'Brien, wee
w’insome eight-year-old lass,
was the juvenile sensation of
1944. The new year saw her
name in lights on two Bdwy.
theaters. She all but took
Hie honors from young star
Judy Garland in MEET ME
IN ST. LOUIS and is co-
starred with Jimmy Dur-
ante and Jose Iturbi in MU-
SIC FOR MILLIONS ....
June Allvson is also featur-
ed in-the latter named film.
June is the Westchester
County, N.Y., girl with the
small, pretty face and the
light-blue stare- She was
plucked out of a Broadway
chorus line — says she writ-
es poetry but never show
anybody her lines.
The. Saint, made' notable
by Leslie Charteris in his
series of popular, well-sell-
ing mystery thrillers, and
portrayed bv George Sand-
ers in many motion pictur-
es, is making a radio debut
on a new program over NBC
on Saturday evenings. Edg-
ar Barrier will have the title
role on the air ... . Dorothy
Lamour w'ears a sarong in
THE ROAD TO UTOPIA
which has action set in Al-
aska. So tire sarong, without
which Dorothy wouldn’t be
Lamour, is fur-lined.
PRESIDENT OF U.S. ROCKET SOCIETY
While there seems little
chance of an immediate land
rush, the U.S. Dept, of the
Interior is all set to advise
the public on how to file
claims on the moon.
President of the United
States Rocket Society, R.I.
Farnsworth of Glen Ellyn,
III, wrote to Washington
for information on the matt-
| er and lfist week received his
answer. The Dept, of the
Interior told him that the
same laws which govern the
, acquisition of land in the U.
j S- will also apply where the
moon is concerned. Exactly
how the rockets are going to
get there the Dept, leaves to
! Farnsworth.
THE LUNATIC
FRINGE
KANSAS CITY: A woman
telephoned the Kansas City
Star recently and asked, “Is
it true that anyone over six-
foot tall doesn’t have to pay
taxes?”
OKLAHOMA CITY: In a
letter to Jeff Griffin, district
information executive, a
man has offered to hire out
his nose — explaining that
he can tell just by sniffing
the exhaust fumes whether
an automobile is using A or
C card gasoline-
PORTLAND, ORE.: “Sorry,
no cigarettes, but why not
use a pipe during the short-
age?” John R. Poliodakis told
a customer. The man did, and
Poliodakis was taken to the
hospital with a three-inch
head wound. The customer
went to jail—but not before
the police took away from
him a lead pile.
TAMPA, FLA.: The teach-
er blinked in surprise as a
22-year-old veteran enrolled
in the sixth grade in one of;
Tampa’s public schools.
“There’s nothing we can do
about it,” said the principal,
“but it’s not such a good idea
to have grown-ups in classes
with children.” Under the GI
Bill of Rights, a discharged
veteran can go back to
school and receive $50 a
month.
NASHVILLE, TENN.: An
elderly backwoods lady here
is se'ekfhg freedom from her
mate because he wears his
shoes in bed “even in the
summertime.”
DRAFT BOARDS TO CALL UP 364,000
DEFERRED FARM WORKERS—DOTTY
DiX WORRSED OVER WAR’S EFFECTS
ON WOMANHOOD-SPY TRIAL IN N.Y.
Draft boards have been ordered by Selective Service
Director Maj. Gen. Louis B. Hershey to reclassify for
immediate induction 364,000 deferred farm workers in
the 18 -25 age group. Hershey ordered local boards to
give pre-induction physicals to all agriculturally defer-
red registrants 18 to 25 unless such men were previously
rejected for military service. The boards will then decide
w'hether those physically fit should he inducted imme-
diately or retain their deferred status.
The Army and Navy, which reportedly have urged the
induction of all men in the lower age brackets, state that
the eligihles in the 18—25 age group will be exhausted
early this year and that it is essential to the effective
prosecution of the war to induct more of them as soon
as possible.
Dorothy Dix, heart-throb counselor, is worried over
the effects of the war on American womanhood. The
number of women popping the question, she says, has-
added “one more danger to the dangers of war.”
It used to be the man who looked ’em over and took
his choice,” Dorothy said recently, “and all that the poor
girl could do was to sit on the Anxious Seat and look
willing. But the war has changed all that. Now no longer
do girls cherish a secret passion. They institute a whirl-
wind courtship that sweeps their victims to the altar be-
fore they know what’s happening to them. “That girls
are doing the proposing now explains the vast number ,
of furlough weddings that have swept the country like-
an epidemic,” she maintains. “For it takes more sophisti-
cation and backbone than the average boy possesses to-
resist the cutie who is hellbent on marrying him.”
Second Service Command headquarters at New York ,
announced this week that the spy trial of William Curtis
Colepaugh and Erich Gimpel, alleged Nazi agents, will
he conducted secretly at Governor’s Island in New York,
harbor. The date of the trial was undisclosed. The FBI
charges that Colepaugh and Gimpel were landed from
a German'sidiinarine off the Maine coast last Nov. ,29.
Living up to its name, the “smoggy mornings” in Pitts-
burgh have forced tire Public Works Department to lcave-
the street lights on until nine o’clock so that children
can reach school safely. Cheap wartime fuel, plus capa-
city production in most industrial plants, is blamed foi
increasingly poor visibility in Pittsburgh.
The Army- Surgeon General told the House Military
Committee this week that the inadequacy of nursing in
the face of a 270 percent increase in battle casualty pati-
ents has made it imperative that nurses be drafted. Hi
said that Army patients have increased from 260,000 A
450,000, while the number of Army nurses has increased ;
only 2,000 in recent months