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Jack Oakie is off again in fan dancer won dismissal of
a six-year-old $150,000 dam-
age suit filed against her by
a couple of customers who
charged she bit them be-
cause they took pictures of
Displaying a most attrac-
tive use for old flash-bulbs
is Rita Daigle of Lowell,
Mass. Press photographers
recently selected her as queen
of their 1945 “Press Photo-
graphers Ball.”
his on again, off again rom-
ance with Mrs. Venita Oak-
ie-. Mrs. Oakie is again sueing
for divorce on a charge of
mental cruelty. She won an
interlocutory decree seven
years ago hut reconciliation
followed. They were separ-
ated again last November.
John Kingslij, President of
the Los Angeles Chamber of
Commerce, has charged that
the film capital’s entertain-
ment places are in business
solely for the purpose of
gypping servicemen. He said
it is not unusual to hear that
servicemen have been charg-
ed 50 cents for a ten cent
rlass of beer. The Police
Commision, following re-
ceipt of the charges, has ask-
ed MPs and SPs to help gath-
er information on the night
spots.
Sally Rand was in the
courts this week, too. The
Air-Line “Bus Service” instituted
For New York City Commuters
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FRINGE
NEW YORK: Irked when
the bartender refused her re-
quest for a drink, Katherine
O’Connor slammed a bar-
stoot through the mirror,
swept all the cocktail glasses
to the floor andMhrew a bot-
tle of rye at the bartender.
“Don’t you know how to
treat a lady?” she screamed
enroute to the jug.
SALT LAKE CITY: Police
pitched in to separate two 17-
vear-old youths who were
slugging each other around
on a downtown street corner.
Questioned, the youths ad-
mitted they were strangers
and couldn’t remember what,
they had been fighting about.
LITTLE ROCK, ARK.: In
an accident involving two
autos and a cow, Ben Faulk-
ner, a Negro, testified that
lie “killed the front end of
the cow,” but he was “plumb
certain the other feller kilt
the hind Aid-” According to
Faulkner, a Jersey cow dash-
ed up from a culvert on the
opposite side of the road and
when the cow reached the
center of the highway Faulk-
ner hit him from the front
while another car hit the cow'
from the back. Faulkner
stated that both ends of the
cow “was all broke.”
An airplane service for
New York City commuters
has been announced by two
private companies — the
Pickair Seaplane Service
and Metropolitan Airways.
The Pickair line will start
carrying passengers to and
from the big city on March
1 — with stops at Yonkers,
Dobbs Ferry, Nyack, Tarry-
town, Ossining, Peekskill,
Newburgh, Beacon and
Poughkeepsie. Rales will he
about 50 cents above train
fare. New York terminal will
be located at 70th Street.
Metropolitan Airways ann-
ounces a route between New
York City. and Stanford,
Conn. Stops include Yonk-
ers, Port Chester, White
Plains, New Rochelle, New-
ark and-Jersey City.
her every time her fans got
out of line. The court ruled
time for the trial of the suit
had expired. Miss Rand said
that after all she was “en-
titled to some privacy!”
Errol Flynn, through War-
ner Brothers studio, has iss-
ued a statement admitting
that he is married but fail-
ing to mention Nora Edding-
ton who recently gave birth
to bis child in Mexico City.
His brief statement said,
“What’s all the commotion
about? Sure, I’m married
and I like it and it’s nobody’s
business but ourd.” The actor
arrived in New York from
Mexico where he said he was
the father of the baby listed
as Diedri Flynn Eddington,
newlyborn to the former cig-
aret girl whom Flynn met in
the Los Angeles Court House
when he was on trial for
statutory rape two years ago.
Ruth Hussey was surpris-
ed and proud when the Hays
office censored the lower
portion of a photograph ad-
vertising her next feature,
BEDSIDE MANNER. Too
sexy, ‘twas said .... The
British Medical Journal re-
ports that it’s possible for
one man to father 20,000
children in one year. But
don’t crowd fellows - it me-
ans by artieificial inseminat-
ion .... The prop men are
having their troubles trying
to reproduce the Italian co-
astal village for A BELL FOR
ADANO. Five weeks and al-
most a quarter of a million
dollars were spent in an eff-
ort to have the war-torn
village look wrecked — “and
wrecked in the proper way,”
is one technical adviser ex-
plained.
GOVT. UNDECIDED WHAT AGENCY
WILL “DRAFT” MEN INTO ESSENTIAL
JOBS—ORDNANCE CHIEF DENIES
REPORT U S. TANKS ARE INFERIOR
Associated Press reports from Washington this week
hinted that Ihe Senate and House may collide in a dis-
pute as to which Government agency should be em-
powered to order men between 18 and 45 into essential
war jobs- The Senate Military Affairs Gomittee tentat-
ively amended limited national service legislation last
week to give James F. Byrnes, Office of War Mobilizat-
ion and Reconversion, full authority. The House, how-
ever, has vested such authority in local draft hoards and
Chairman Andrew May (Dem.-Ivy.) of the House Mili-
tary Committee said- he was opposed to any move to
change the House bill.
Meantime, at Chicago, Maj. Gen. Russel B. Reynolds,,
commanding- the Sixth Service Command, announced
that Camp Ellis, Ill., will be the War Department’s only
basic training- center for 4-Fs inducted under the re-
cent “work or fight” directive. He added, “Men to be
trained there are those who fail to meet physical quali-
fications for general military service.” The first con-
tingents will begin work about the middle of this
month. •
Still the talk of the nation is the weather — which
for two months has snarled transportation and fuel ser-
vices under a blanket of snow. The Govt, has ordered
drastic counter-measures as a fuel shortage was threat-
ened throughout the east as a result of the prolonged
cold wave and the consequent transportation tie-ups.
A 72 hour ban was ordered i by the 1YPB on the
use of natural or mixed gas by theaters, night clubs,,
bowling alleys, bars and all amusement places in-
parts or all of seven slates and the nation’s capital-
At the same time, a ban was placed on civilian rail-
road freight, excepting coal, in an eight state area_
States hit by the gas ban included N Y., Pa., Ohio,.
IF. Va., Ky., and parts of Md. and Va.
In order to cope with the situation, all state build-
ings in Ohio and New York were closed last week-end
by gubernatorial proclamations. In the latter state, Syra-
cuse reported a new record total for the season of 112:
inches of snow — compared with an average yearly
fall of 87 in. Drifts as high as 15 feel have been report-
ed. Weather Bureau officials at Washington stated
that from Chicago eastward this has been the coldest.,
snowiest and hlowiest winter on record, but west of the-
Mississippi temperatures have averaged normal and
snowfall has been less than usual.
Just returned to Washington from a tour of the ETO
and Mediterranean theaters, Maj. Gen. Levin H. Camp-
bell, Chief of Ordnance, denied published reports that
U.S. tanks are not big enough to handle the vaunted
Nazi Royal Tiger and Hunting- Panther tanks from
.the standpoint of armor and firepower. “I could build
a tank the size of the Pentagon Building,” he said,
“if the Generals in the field said they wanted one but
there is no evidence to date that they want or need,
tanks larger than those we now employ. Gen. Eisen-
hower told me that to date the Gern^ns have lost
two tanks to every one of ours. How could we have-
such a record if our tanks were inferior?”
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Men of an Ordnance Repair unit of an 8th Air Force base in England spent six weeks of their spare time
to construct the remodeled version of the jeep shown above. Material used was taken from junk piles.