The White Falcon - 13.10.1945, Page 2

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IBC Special Service Officer .Lt. Robert E. Simon
Editor ....................Cpl. Charles S. Otto Jr.
Associate Editor ..........Pfc. Bernard Epstein
Circulation Manager .......Cpl. Bob Fournier
Sig C. Photographer........SgL Robert F. Phillips
Contributing Cartponist .. .Tec 5 Pete Ranilovich.
New Records Set
In Long Distance
Flights By B-29s
The Technological advan-
cement made in the aviation
field during the war, has
been so great that distance
can no longer he recognized
as a handicap to world trav-
el and trade. B-29s which
were so effective as bomb-
ers during the war, are mak-
ing it a matter of a day or
less of travel to reach Euro-
pe and Asia.
Two new speed records
for long distance flights have
been made by the B-29s. The
one record credits a Super-
fortress with covering the
2,300 miles distance from
Labrador to Paris in 9 hours
and 21 minutes. The other
record is for the 5,490 miles
from Iwo Jima to Spokane,
Washington. The trip took
23 hours 33 minutes and
broke all existing records for
non-stop distance and over-
water flights. In setting this
record, 238.8 miles per hour
was averaged.
Take It Easy. Sarge
- You'll Live Longer
Sgt. Lester Schmeel madg
a valiant effort to greet his
wife, when he arrived home
from overseas, in the man-
ner he had always been
dreaming of, hut several of
the construction features of
his home thwarted his plans.
Reaching home and sight-
ing his wife waiting with
outstretched arms on the
front porch, lie made a dash
for her. Unfortunately he
lost his balance and fell
through the front porch lat-
tice work into a concrete
driveway. ,
Bruised but undismayed
the Sgt. picked himself up
and made another effort to
reach his wife only to get
conked on the head by a
brick jarred loose from the
chimney.
In the meantime, his wife
cheerily responded from the
front porch, “Welcome
home, dear.”
— Demobilization
(Continued from Page 1.)
On October 1, the New
York newspaper PM, publ-
ished an article by staff writ-
er Tom O’Connor charging
that either the Army doesn’t
know what it is doing with
the demobilizition program;
that it doesn’t know how fast
men are getting out now or
how fast they may be expect-
ed to get out in the future,
or that the Army is feeding
Congress and the public a
lot of pap to soothe its anger
and is making promises and
juggling figures so that ev-
erything looks good on
paper.
O’Connor’s article follow-
ed a statement by Pres. Tru-
man on Sept. 20 in which the
President said the Army was
discharging 15,200 men a day
and that plans were being
made to increase it to 25,000
daily by January 1946. On
the very next day Gen. Mar-
shall told Congress that
17,000 men were being dis-
charged daily. And one week
later, Secretary of War Pat-
terson, in his first press con-
ference after succeeding
Stimson, said that 26,000
men were being discharged
daily.
GTS IN JAPAN ARE
NOT AT ALL PLAYFUL
The GI’s in Japan appar-
ently do not care to play
with the Japs. According to
Frank Kluckholm, of the
New York Times, the GI’s
are obeying the fraterniza-
tion ban which is in direct
contrast to what happened
in the occupation of Ger-
many.
Searching for an, explana-
tion, Mr. Kluckholm attribut-
ed the condition partly to
racial and language harriers
and also to Jap propaganda
which said that all Americ-
ans are rapists.
New Movies Play
Hutment Circuit
, “DUFFY’S TAVERN” I
(Paramount: Ed Gardner,
Victor Moore, Marjorie
Reynolds).
Here’s a hilarious two
hours of fun with Archie of
the famed cafe “where the
elite meet to eat” that tops
the parade of films for the
month! Besides the famed
radio characters; (and we do
mean characters) a host of
Paramount stars, including
Crosby, Lamour, Goddard,
Hutton, Bracken, Benchley,
Ladd, Lake, Lynn, and Dai-
ley, make this a fun-fest
that you won’t want to miss!
f PORTS.
ME FR
Harry Schmkjlin offered
his shoes for sale. “I won’t
need them anymore,” he ex-
plained, “I’m going back to
Arkansas.”
Reunions Are So Touching
Screen Comedienne Finds
Joan Davis, radio comedi-
enne, went down to San Ped-
ro with her cousin Mamie to
meet the latter’s husband,
returning from overseas and
discharged. “It was really a
touching sight,” sighed Joan.
“They stood there — his
hand clutching Mamie’s
shoulder, and Mamie’s hand
clutching his mustering-out
pay!”
“BUD ABBOTT AND LOU
COSTELLO IN HOLLY-
WOOD”
(Universal: Abbot and
Costello).
Another helping of corn
from the two radio stars.
“UNCLE HARRY”
(Universal: George Sand-
ers, Geraldine Fitzgerald,
Ella Raines).
One of the finest mysteries
in months! Excellent act-
ing, different story, and of
course, Ella Raines!
“LADY ON A TRAIN”
(Universal: Deanna Dur-
bin, Ralph Bellamy, David
Bruce).
Deanna continues to grow
up in this latest — a mystery.
Romance, laughter, music,
and murder.
“OF HUMAN BONDAGE”
(Warners: Eleanor Park-
er, Paul Henried).
A remake of Bette Davis’
tremendous success of a de-
cade ago, with young, cute,
and talented Eleanor Park-
er taking over the Davis
roll. Henried replaces the
role created in the original
by Leslie Howard. Excellent
drama.
“HOUSE ON 92d STREET”
(20Ih Century Fox: Wil-
liam Eythe, Lloyd Nolan,
Signe Hasso)
A good old-fashioned spy
' adventure that is quite a hit
back home. Supposed tp be
made up of actual cases of
the FBI. Sounds good.
“TOO YOUNG TO KNOW”
(Warners: Joan Leslie,
Robert Hutton, Dolores Mo-
ran)
Young lovers, the war, the
eternal triangle. It’s been
done too .much and in just
| about the same way each
; time.
NEW YORK CITY — Tommy Dorsey plans to break
up his present band and form a new aggregation com-
posed of his former musicians who have been discharg-
ed from the service.
HOLLYWOOD — If you got the idea that Shirley
Temple married a poor man when she took Army Sgt.
John Agar for a husband, you’re wrong. He happens
to have a $3,000,000 trust fund. Their wedding cost a
tidy $20,000. One expensive item was 5,000 roses, tied
to the hushes in the garden.
WASHINGTON — Give a Congressman a highball be-
fore dinner and fewer letters from , perturbed voters
hack home and his blood pressure will drop, says Capt.
George W. Calver, Capitol physician recently recom-
mended by Pres. Truman for promotion to Rear Admir-
al. Calver, physician to Congressmen since 1928, says
the drink is to relax the lawmaker’s nerves and the slim
mail hag will decrease their worries.
DETROIT, MICH. — Master Sergeant John Krantz,
52, a veteran of 30 years in the Army (four years in
the Pacific) calmly tore up a $1,000 hill in a bar. The
MPs picked up the pieces and the sergeant, in that ord-
er, and asked a few questions. They found six more hills
in Krantz’ wallet, each with a one and three zeroes,
hut it was his money, so the arm-band guardians let
him have his fun.
RALEIGH, N. CAROLINA — During discussions of the
volunteer enlistment bill, Rep. Barden (D-N. C.) pro-
posed furloughing soldiers for 30 or 40 days rather than
the recommended 90 days, because “many of them would
get lonesome for the Army and go back.”
. KANSAS CITY, MO. — Col. James Roosevelt, USMCR,
was bumped off a westbound airliner here by a civilian
with a higher priority. The civilian, Who evidently hadn’t
forgotten the incident when three servicemen were
humped off a plane in favor of a dog belonging to a
member of the Roosevelt family, wisecracked, “But the
dog went through.” Col. Roosevelt grinned but made
no comment.
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“DANGEROUS PARTN-
ERS”
(MGM: James Craig, Signe
Hasso, Edmund Gwenn)
Another mystery, murder,
romance combination that
will pass an evening. I
There’s a lot in a name of Marie McDonald who is
called “The Body” for obvious and sundry reasons. She’s
the star of United Artist’s latest bed room farce, “Getting
Gertie’s Garter,” a revival of the play which appeared
on Broadway after World War I.