The White Falcon - 07.04.1945, Qupperneq 5

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-THE AMERICAN SCENE-
lolson Takes A
Wife—His Fourth
Actor A1 Jolson, 56, kisses
the hand of h:s fourth bride,
Erie Galbraith, 21-year-old;
film actress from Little Rock,
Ark. As the picture was
taken, they had just returned
to Hollywood following their
marriage two weeks ago in
the small Arizona town of
Quarts! te.
\entucky Woman Would
3id For "Beautiful Man”
In Lexington, Kv., a classi-
icd ad offering for sale a
‘beautiful man’s genuine It-
alian heavy cameo ring” got
his reply from a woman
reader: “I don’t care about
he ring, but I’d sure like to
aid on the beautiful man.”
“Miracle Drug” Placed On
General Sale In States
Penicillin, > the miracle
drug, last week became
available for general pre-
scription use throughout the
U.S., slates an ANS report,
which added that the drug
also went on public retail
sale in New York.
THE LUNATIC
FRINGE
SAN FRANCISCO: Two
lady streetcar conductors
were arrested here recently
on similar charges. One had
blasphemously bawled out a
passenger, while the other
had slugged a passenger in
the nose when asked to stop
the car.
OAKLAND, CALIF.:
Arthur Cunningham wants
a divorce from his "wife,
Doris, 18. The charge: He
came home from work one
night and found her play-
ing strip poker with four
strange men. She wasn’t
winning, either, he com-
plains.
INDIANAPOLIS: “Well,
here I come,” said a burglar
as he climbed out of a coal
chute after ransacking a de-
partment store. He thought
he was talking to his part-
ner, but when lie got outside
he found that a cop was hold-
ing the chute door open for
him.
SANFORD, ME.: Mary
Lou Bernier is suing the
State of Maine for $157.48.
She says she was bitten by
a muskrat while leaving a
state-operated store.
Huge Sum For Vet Farmers
A measure which would
make $67,000,000 available
to veterans to enable them
to buy farms has been pass-
ed by the House and is now
under consideration by the
Senate.
CLOTHING MAN PLEADS FOE "BIGHT
SUPP01T .IN EIGHT PLACES ’
A new bottleneck lias arisen on F.S. production lin-
es — a severe shortage of brassieres, girdles and cors-
ets. Working girls must have them, a leading dry goods
executive says, “to keep up their — morale.”
John Ilalin, who makes ladies’ undertliings his bus-
iness, as director of Hie Na'ional Retail Dry Goods As-
sociation, believes I lie time lias come to establish prior-
ities on foundation garments. Someone within the
OPA, he suggests, should decide who needs “bras” and
girdles most.
“The right support in the right places makes women
.workers more efficient,” Hahn contended, “while for
many they are ail absolute necessity. Too many of
these garments now are being bought by non-war work-
ers and lay women who could get along without them
anyhow.” ’ ■
Height: five feet five and one-half-inches. Weight. 117
pounds; hair: blonde; eyes: blue; age: 26. Name: Parole
Landis. Comment: None at this time — she leaves us
speechless. (Th s is a 20th Century-Fox photo from ANS).
PRES. SAYS MOBILIZATION WILL BE
COMPLETED JUNE 30. NEW ESTIMATE
OF DISCHARGES, OFFICERS ADVISED
THEY’LL EARN LESS AS CIVILIANS
President Roosevelt declared that the mobilization
of “the largest armed force by far in the nation’s hist-
ory” would he completed by June 30, when lie request-
ed Congress to appropriate $54,500,000 for Selective
Service during 1945—46.
The President said that after that date the average
monthly draft would total 93,000 men compared to an
average of 135,000 monthly until June.
According to the President, the chief task of the
draft during the next year would be to obtain “need-
ed replacements to cover losses and discharges.’'
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Rep. Richard Harless (Dem.- Ariz.) stated in a Phoen-
ix interview last Saturday that about 3,000,000 service-
men, mostly from the Army, will be discharged within
six to nine months after Germany is defeated.
Harless, who is not a member of the House Military
Affairs Committee, spoke without authority of the War
Dept, or any other government agency.
The War Dept, still says that it is impossible to est-
imate how many men can be discharged when the war
in Europe ends.
Calling on Americans to observe Y-E day as a day
of work and worship, ex-Mobilization Director James Byr-
nes has promised "to enact a -midnight curfew brown-
out and prohibition on racing as soon as Germany is
defeated.
Holding out no hope for more food, Byrnes indicat-
ed that Y-E day would mean more automobiles and
refrigerators for civilians within months and perhaps
a small increase in basic gasoline rations.
The finder , of a pack of cigarettes in Pittsburg, Kan.,
advertised lie would return them to their lawful own-
er if the latter could identify the brand, the number
of butts in the pack, and also prove his age was more
than 16 by producing a Social Security card or a draft
card.
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Many GIs figured it out a long time ago, but S.G.
Springfield, a War Manpower Commission director, has
just made public that one of the most difficult pro-
blems facing some returning servicemen is the read-
justment to civilian incomes.
Springfield was referring to the case of a discharg-
ed 26-year-old Air Force lieutenant-colonel who gave
up an, Army income of about $7,200 yearly for a $2,080-
a-year newspaper job.
“His boss was overjoyed to see him and assured him
his job was waiting at $40 a week instead of the $30
which he was making when he entered the service,”
Springfield said.
“When these officers come back to civilian life they
must be ready to accept a much lower salary scale,
even though they arc well above the pre-war level,”
lie added.
Many GIs could chuckle and sav: “I told you so.”
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The War Dept, has announced that the Congressional
Medal will he awarded to S/Sgt. George Hall, 24, a
former infantryman with the 34th Division.
Hall wiped out two enemy machine-gun nests, killed
seven Nazis, captured nine, and stili wanted to fight
on the Anzio beachhead after severing his own shell-
blasted leg. Now discharged, he lives in Brooklyn.
G. B. Peterson of Ontario, Cal., gambled his life
against $75 — and won!
He made the bet when a bandit tried to rob his ser-
vice station. Instead of yielding to the thief’s demands
to fork across the money, Peterson locked the drawer
and said: “If the money is worth more to you than
my life, go ahead and shoot.”
The gunman walked out without the dough.