The White Falcon - 12.05.1945, Side 5

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HOME FRO
HISfOBY HEPEATS ITSELF!
Proof that history can repeat itself is shown above.
Exactly twenty-six-years, six months and one day ago
newspaper headlines screamed the surrender cf Germany
in World War I. Above scene was taken in the nation’s
capital the morning of memorable November 1\L, 1918.
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Add Awards: A Coast
Guard plaque to Miss Hilda
Simms, leading woman of
“Anna Lucaste”, for being
the outstanding Negro act-
ress of the year .... An ori-
ginal magazine layout of
Hedda Hopper wearing one
of her more original hats,
arrived at her Hollywood
Ctef Stands Chi
Hen Own
Someone started circulat-
ing the rumor that Greer
Garson’s legs were stuffed
with horse hair during the
filming cf “Random Harvest”
in which Miss Garscn played
a dancer and had to show
her pins. Greer says it’s a lie,
and had this picture made
recently to prove it.
newstand this week, mailed
from Germany by an Am-
erican soldier. “Personally,”
the hen scribe said, “I never
cared for the hat before, hut
now that the Nazis consider
it a horrible example, I’m in
love with the thing.”
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Fredric March has rung
the hell 150 times in Adano
and the cast takes a vaca-
tion beginning July 1....
Blackfriars Guild’s next of-
fering is a farce called
I SLICE IT THIN!
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Rosalind Russell and Dor-
! otliy Lamour are not speak-
ing to their milliners. Their
Easter hats were identical
l ... . Eighteen song writers
are looking for words to
rhyme with love .... Toni
; Seven poses these days in fur
; coats for fall publicity pix
.... Turhan Bey lakes Lana
Turner sailboating on Santa
Monica Bay .... Lauren
Bacall helped Humphrey
Bogart paint his boat. (Mayo
Methot helped him last
spring).
Inventions Promise Rosy
World After End Of War
Designed to make life a
lot easier in postwar years,
inventors in recent weeks
have announced * radio sets
that you can lake in swim-
ming with you; how to make
perfume, cattle fodder and
even aspirin tablets out of
sawdust; and a new magnet
which removes magnetiz-
able foreign bodies from the
stomach without surgery.
Electrical items include
regulated bathtubs, scare-
crows, electric can openers
and electric poultry debe-
akers.
Wife Indian Giver’—Can’t
Say That We Blame Her
Mrs. Verna Doyle of Mil-
waukee sent her war corre-
spondent husband a package
last September, hut it never
caught up with him. Finally,
the package came back to
her and now Mrs. Doyle says
she isn’t going to remail it.
It contains two cartons of
cigarettes.
FRANCE—When a dainty
little French girl tried to kiss
Sgt. Paul Lobel, of Massachu-
setts, he resisted. Whereupon
she pulled him from his jeep,
breaking some of his ribs.
ALASKA.—Cpl. John Seth
of Ladd Field received a lett-
er from his wife containing
an intricate drawing. “This,”
the letter explained, “is the
way the dashboard of our
car looks. Do we need a quart
of oil?”
BEND, TEX.—Bill Mullig-
an, 73, recently bought a pair
of shoes — the second pair
he has purchased in 15 years.
Asked why his shoes lasted
so long, Mulligan explained:
“I never wear socks.”
SPOKANE, WASH.—Patty
Brueninger, 2, toddled onto
an icy fish pond, fell through
the thin ice, swallowed half
the pond. Police revived him
with a respirator. His first
request: “Gimme a glass of
water.”
GRAND FALLS, MONT.
— “Dinner’s ready, dear,”
Mrs. Frank Rogers called
to her husband, who wras re-
pairing the roof. Mr. Rogers
responded rapidly. He fell
through the roof and the
ceiling, landing in his regul-
ar place at the dining-room
table.
OMAHA, NEB.—When Ar-
thur Peable, a vacuum sales-
man, knocked on the door
of a vine-covered cottage
here, the lady of the house
dropped a geranium pot on
his head from an upstairs
win do v/. “Sorry,” she ex-
plained later. “I thought you
were my husband.” /
Civil War Veteran Ejects
Himself To Head Of GAR
“Who am I going to com-
mand?” was the question
asked recently by 97-year-
old Charle G. Burt of Spring-
field, Mass., as he elected
himself state commander of
the Grand Army of the Re-
public at a one-man GAR
encampment.
SUBDUED CELEBRATIONS GREET U .
IN STATES AS PEOPLE CONCENTRATE
ON TASK OF WINNING PACIFIC FIGHT
Life on the Home Front came to a standstill mo-
mentarily at nine o’clock (EWT) Tuesday morning
when President Harry S. Truman proclaimed Victory
in Europe.
The President’s plea that the American watchword
for the coming months should he “work, work, work”
was heeded by Federal workers in Washington who
stayed at their desks. Their example was followed by
the millions of Amercans in plants and offices through-
out the country — who, as a Cleveland barber put it,
realized that “we have one more lough bridge to cross
before we can really celebrate.”
Following his address to the nation, President Tru-
man and his guests listened to Prime Minister Chur-
chill proclaim the victory to his people. The White
House gathering came to attention when “God Save
The King” was played.
In contrast to the high-flying flags in other nations,
the American flag was still at half-mast in memorial
to the late President Roosevelt who was on life minds
of the folks hack home as the man who did so much
in bringing about this victory. The oft-repeated state-
ment was “if he had only lived to see this victory!”
For the first time since Pearl Harbor, the floodlights
were turned on the Washington Monument, the Capi-
tol dome and other American shrines.
In New York, the ferries were doing a land-office
business carrying people out to Bedloes Island to see
the Statue of Liberty which was lighted up for the
occasion. In Times Square, a replica of Miss Liberty,
being used for the Seventh War Loan, was also light-
ed up.
Times Square and Wall Street were so crowded
all day long lliat traffic had to he rerouted. Many
people knell in prayer at the foot of Hie statue of Father
Duffy, beloved chaplain of World War I.
Churches of all faiths held services of Thanksgiv-
ing that the cosily war in Europe had ended and pray-
ers that the war with Japan would he brought to a
speedy conclusion."
In this connection, President Truman proclaimed to- . *
morrow (Sunday) as a day of National Thanksgiving
and Prayer.
Those who stayed by their radios following the Presi-
dent’s announcement were taken on a coast-to-eoast
tour of the major cities to get the reaction. It was eight
o’clock in Cleveland and Chicago, seven o’clock in Den-
ver and six o’clock in San Francisco.
An American broadcaster, speaking from the newly-
liberated Philippines, summed up the opinion of the
Yanks in the Pacific ■when he told the folks that they
were glad that the European war — which seemed so
remote to them — was over, but they hoped that they
will remember that much is to he done before they,
too, could come home with the final victory.
Because of the false “Y-E”’ wave which swept the
nation at the end of April, the people viewed with
suspicion — hut with hope and prayers on ilieir lips.
— the premature Associated Press announcement from
Rheims, France, on Monday that Germany had surrend-
ered unconditionally.
Following in the wake of the V-E announcement, it
was revealed by the WMC that soon the 48-hour work
week will he suspended in plants and areas where the
labor market has “loosened up.”
The WPB lifted the lighting “brownout” Tuesday,
while War Mobilizer Vinson planned a conference to
announce plans for the future concerning the midnight
curfew, the racing ban and other restrictions.
On V-E Day, too, a War Department spokesman said
that General of the Army John J. Pershing, 84, was
“quite sick” at Waller Reed Hospital where he has
lived for years.
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