The White Falcon - 03.03.1945, Blaðsíða 5

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QzqxViM fiiom. UKoaJjvxuj.
Dark of the Moon, play!
based on a legend of mount-
ain witchcraft, has been ord-
ered cleansed by the Dist-
rict Attorney before per-
formances in Washington.
The producers were ordered
to delete a rape scene-which
was found by the DAs office
to be overly suggestive.
Frank Sinatra was face to
face with 3,000 swooning
bobby-soxers last weekend
when he went to the CBS
studios for his weekly net-
work broadcast.The Giggling
Gertiespacked the street out-
side the studio .... Anne
Shirley, soon to be seen in
Iceland in MURDER, ' MY
SWEET, was honeymooning'
this week with Producer Ad-
rian Scott .... Dinah Shore
lias drawn her biggest film
assignment to date in BELLE
OF THE YUKON, in which
she sings the old Gus Ed-
wards-W’ill Cobb song “I
Don’t Know Why I Love
You.”
Early February found
‘Rum and Coca Cola” in
sixth place on pop-song line-
ups despite the fact that all
major networks have banned
it for the suggestive lines and
advertising contained there-
in. The big ten in pop songs
now reads: “Don’t Fence
Me In,” “Accentuate the Po-
sitive,” “I Dream of You,”
“There Goes That Song Ag-
Gordon Shorb, a newspaper copy boy in Washington,
D.C., wears the uniform of a German captain in which
he strolled for a block and a half on Pennsylvania Ave.
recently before being challenged by FBI agents. He was
sent out by the Washington Star’s city editor to find
out how long a person in an enemy uniform could re-
main unchallenged in the U.S. capital.
ain,” “Sweet Dreams, Sweet-
heart,” “Rum and Coca
Cola,” “The Trolley’ Song,”
“That’s An Irish Lullaby,”
“I’m Making Believe” and
“Evalina.”
Charlotte Thompson, mo-
vie stand-in and her hus-
band Kenneth Rundquist,
' were awarded $1,552 in dam-
ages from the owner of a
chimpanzee which attacked
the actress on a movie lot.
Miss Thompson said the ani-
mal threw her to the floor,
climbed on her making horr-
ible noises, causing recur-
rent nightmares.
THE LUNATIC
FRINGE
AUSTIN, TEX.: Passeng-
ers on a crowded train rais-
ed their eyebrows as the con-
ductor shouted: “Austin,
capital of the United States.”
In the face of considerable
objection from non-Texans,
he added: “After the war
we’ll makel Austin the capit-
al of the world and if you
Yankees will keep on fight-
ing to help us win the war
we may give you your*Tree-
dom.”
i NEW YORK CITY: Mrs.
: Daniel Tierney stood in line
| for three hours to buy a sir-
loin steak. When she got
home, her husband look it
away from her and whamm-
ed her in the face with it.
MINNEAPOLIS: A plumb-
er, called in to thaw out
some frozen pipes at the
Venice Art Marble plant, be-
came so enthusiastic with
his blow-torch that he set
the place on fire. When the
flames were finally extingu-
ished, damage was estimat-
ed at $7,000.
WAR COST. SAYS SEC. 10RBENTHA0;
SERVICEMAN WHO FINOS HOMEFRONT
TOO “RUGGED” PLEADS FOR COMBAT
.Since Pearl Harbor the war has cost the U.S. $238,-
000,000,000 or seven times the total expense of World
War I through June 30, 1919, according to Secretary
of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Jr.
Morgen than stressed the importance of buying war
bonds, declaring that taxes were paying for only 40
per cent of the current war costs.
The Secretary gave some idea of the vastness of the
current battles in Europe by revealing that more supplies
were sent to the ETO in just two months than during
all of World War I.
It's getting rugged on the home front! In San Fran-
cisco on a 15-day leave, LI. Charles Howard of the
Merchant Navy couldn’t get any gas for a car he had
rented, buy any cigarettes, or find a place even to stand
at a bar. He had to line up everywhere for everything,
and things were too noisy. So, after three days of civ-
ilian hardships, he signed on a ship and headed for
the battle zones where, he said, “there is a semblance
of peace.”
Mrs. Drueilla DerQenger of Los Angeles has asked
the death penalty for the pet bulldog who killed her
21-month-old baby. She said that she wants to be pre-
sent at the gas chamber at the execution.
“Woof was my dog, but she killed my baby, and I
want her put to death,” stated Mrs. Derdenger.
Animal experts intimated that the bulldog attacked
and broke the baby’s neck in a fit of jealousy.
There’s a limit to everything—even fuel conservation
—argued Philip Soltys, a Minneapolis real estate owner,
in a court action. One of his tenants had been drilling
holes in the floor just above the kitchen stove. The judge
ordered the tenant to move.
Mr
C. B. Mobley of Greencove Springs, Fla., still believes
in buried treasure stories. He has received permission
from the city council to tear up part of the sidewalk
in front of the city hall, claiming pirates once buried
$4,000,000 in gold there. He had to post a $50 bond to
guarantee the refilling.
Sixtv-four per cent of the people back home have
made no re^l sacrifices for the war, according to the
latest Gallup poll which asked Americans: “Have you
had to make any real sacrifices for the war?”
The majority of those who said they had made sacri-
fices were persons who had lost relatives through the
war or had sufferd financial reverses because of the war.
Some, answering in the affirmative, gave such fri-
volous answers as “having to get along without nylons,”
or “my boy friends are all overseas so I can’t get married,”
Local draft boards will have to Hi pie the induction
call of men over thirty before the end of the year, ac-
cording to Selective Service Director Lewis B. Hershey.
He said thai, with the diminishing pool of younger
men, such a move'will he “the only alternative.” About
ten per cent of inductees now are over thirty.
The Ringling Brothers’ circus fire of last July in-
Hartford, Conn., is still “raging.” Six key men of the
circus have been sentenced from six months to seven
years in jail on involuntary manslaughter charges for
the tent fire which took 168 lives. The court stayed exe-
cution of sentence for all but one to permit them to
open the 1945 show. The circus has been fined $10,009.
Amusement places back home are complying with
the first midnight closing under War Mobilizer James
F. Byrnes’ curfew.
In New York City, Mayor La Guardia permitted night
club operators to disregard curfew until determination
of its application to local night spots. Reprieve of one
week to “permit individual adjustments” was granted
by the mayor. Full compliance of city’s night spots is
expected by Monday.
Byrnes’ curfew led to “funeral” ceremonies last Sun-
day night at many clubs.