The White Falcon - 17.03.1945, Síða 5

-THE AMERICAN SCENE
San Francisco Has
Growing Pains
San Francisco is a city which is said to be about ready
to bulge at its sides because of the large wartime popu-
lation increase. The density of population in the busy
war-time port has risen from 14,227 per sq. mile in
1940 to 17,636 per sq. mile in 1945. Because of the Bay
City’s growing pains, the housing problem has created
the most difficulty. Very often servicemen have had to
sleep in hotel lobbies, bus stations and waiting rooms.
Hotels have tried to help remedy the situation by turning
every available nook and cranny into sleeping space.
Many hotels use their halls, balconies and dining rooms
for sleeping quarters. Street cars, cable cars and busses
are overcrowded at rush hours. Late comers often hang
onto back fenders or stand precariously on the steps.
Saturday night on Market Street looks like New Year’s
Eve.
MOST GIs EXPECT TO
STAY PUT AFTER WAR
When the war is over, ab-
out eight out of ten enlisted
men expect to return to the
same state in which they liv-
ed before being inducted,
says tlie Army Information
and Education Division aft-
er conducting a recent sur-
vey among (*lls.
Of the men who say they
plan to move when the war
is over, the greatest number
apparently will migrate to
'he Far West or from the
South to the Northeast.
According to the survey-
lie Pacific Coast can expect
m increase of about a quart-
r of a million vets, the
Northwest will show a slight
increase in its ex-serviceman
population, the Mountain
States will neither gain nor
lose any, and the South and
West North Central sections
of the country will show a
decrease in their GI populat-
ions.
ARC Helps Feed PWs
During 1944, the Ameri-
can Red Cross shipped
more than 12,000,000 food
packages to United Nations
prisoners-of-war.
Jap General Gets $126.50
Monthly—Pfc. Paid $2.07
“Honorable Warriors” of
the Land of the Rising Sun
earn the following monthly
pay, according to their rank:
General — $120.50; Colonel
- $71.30 to $85.10; Major —
$39.10 to $50.00; Captain —
$27.00 to $35.65; First Lieut-
enant — $19.55 to $21.00.
Sergeant — $5.29 to $6.90;
Pfc'. — $2.07.
TIE LUNATIC
FRINGE
.
LOS.ANGELES: A well-
dressed young man walked j
into a local hank recently,1
fook off his coat, walked be-
hind the pay window and
helped himself to $10,000.
After he had left with the j
money hank officials dis-j
covered he was not the audi-
tor they were expecting hut
a complete stranger.
PHILADELPHIA: A local
resident has run the follow-
ing ad in one of the city
newspapers: “I will teach
anyone to blow smoke rings
for $10.”
NEW YORK: A U-year-
old nature lover was arre-
sted the other day for
stealing six birds from the
Xew York zoo. “They
looked sick,” he explain-
ed, “and I just wanted to
feed them some mice."
SW00:JATRA AGAIN REJECTED
Crooner Frank Sinatra, classified 4-F more than a year
ago. is shown above reporting to his local draft board in
Jersey City, N.J., last month for examination to determine
whether he should be put into military service. The 26-
year-old crooner’s wife and two children live in Has-
brouck Heights, N.J. Turned «dcwn again by the draft
board, Sinatra is making plans for an overseas USO tour.
S. CAROLINA VOTES DOWN DIVORCE
BILL TENN. SENATOR WANTS LAW
AGAINST LIPSTICK, OCS REJECT
DECLINES AWARD OF BRONZE STAR
Six voles enabled South Carolina to remain as the only
state in the Union which does not permit divorce.
A proposal to legalize divorce won a 70—43 major-
ity last week in the House but failed to obtain the
two-thirds needed for constitutional amendment.
With Bible in hand Representative Charles Huggins of
Williamsburg led light against hill, asserting it would
“let down bars to wholesale sin.”
At the seme time Senator Hubert Brooks intro-
duced a bill in the Tennessee legislature to make the
use oi cosmetics a felony because divorces are flou-
rishing “because of lipstick evils.”
Brooks claimed that men of Tennessee are being con-
demned by wives whenever they come home with lipstick
on collars and shirts.
The senator admitted that the bill was no sillier
than others and indicated it would never be brought
i to vote.
[j In deference to the hoys overseas Ihc Senate Judiciary
^ Committee has rejected proposed constitutional amend-
ments as long as the war lasts.
The decision blocks Senate consideration of pend-
ing proposal to give the House a voice in treaty rati-
fication.
Chairman McCarran (D.-Ncv.) was quoted by Asso-
ciated Press as saying no formal vote was taken but “it
was consensus of committee at closed session that no
constitutional issue be submitted to the States by Congress
until the hoys come home.”
Until he received a medical “detonation,” S2/c
Dewey Dupre lived for 47 days as a human bomb.
In San Francisco, Cal., a successful operation was per-
formed at a Naval Receiving hospital to remove fused
20mm. projectile from Dupre’s body.
Chief danger of the operation was that the sensi-
tive projectile might explode on contact with operat-
ing instruments, but after a consulation with bomb
disposal experts, Cmdr. J. J. Hall, USNR, operated
successfully.
Because he was washed out of Infantry OCS in
1943, Sgt. Joseph Kusaila has refused the Bronze Stai
for “exemplary courage and leadership” in action.
Kusaila, now recuperating in Louisville, Kv., from ar..
arm wound received in Germany last November, sent a
2500-word ldttcr to General Marshall in which he sain
that the OCS hoard decided he lacked qualifications of <\
leader and thus lie viewed Bronze Star award as “iil-
coiieeived to my conscience.”
Kusaila claimed he was washed out of OCS be-
cause he criticized Fort Benning methods of estimat-
ing candidates’ intelligence. He is a graduate of Col-
umbia University.
Two hundred and seventy-five officers and men who-
were liberated from the Japanese prison camp at Caban; -
Tuan, Luzon, arrived home last week in California to-
San Francisco’s noisiest welcome of tlic war.
The troop transport was escorted to anchorage by
dozens of harbor craft with whistles tied down,
fireboats with streams playing, and blimps and
bombers overhead.
Some o fthe veterans cried openly. Sgt. William Thom s-
of Bloomsburg, Pa., spoke for all when lie said: “TI L
makes it all worthwhile.”
President Rooseyelt sent each man a personal
letter expressing “thanks of a grateful nation for
your services” and the wish that “God grant each
of you happiness and an early return to health.”
Chosen from among thousands of conscientious objector.-:
who volunteered their services, 36 men are being slowiy
starved at the University of Minnesota to lest effect of
“starvation” diets now common in Europe.
Later they will try suggested “rehabilitation” diets.
Information obtained during the experiment will be used'
in rehabilitation programs in war-torn countries.