Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1941-08-14
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work and struggle for recognition,
his home burg, Fort Wayne, Ind,
erected plaque to movie gal
named Jane Peters (Carole Lom-
bard) Gary Cooper stands
fine chance of coping the Academy
Award this time for his tip-top per-
formance in 'Sgt. York" When
Gary was student at Grinnell Col
lege, Iowa, he applied for member
ship in the dramatic society there
and was spurned because, they said,
he couldn't act Back from
vacationing in the Catskills, Broad
wayite enthused about the rural Sec
tor $50 PEACEFUL" he raved.
every night you're lulled to sleep
by the chirping of crickets, the
croaking of frogs, and the ripple of
the borscht!" New York is like
this: In the office building at SIS
Madison Avenue the tenants include
the America First Committee and
the Raj. Benevolent Society.
oss-
Louis Fischer in his book recalls
one of Goebbels' quotes which is
probably choking Berlin's lyingest
midget by now: "Whoever treats
with Bolshevism will end by being
devoured by it, The gag in
Rumania, they tell you, goes this
way: ever since we joined the
Axis we are getting food like Ger
many s-earthquakes like Japan's,
and an army like Italy's!"
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Comforting Thought for the Draft
ed: The Commander-in-C Chief wants
them to stay in an army camp for
another year so that their families
will never be showed into concen-
tration camp forever.
Ray CIapper, the columnist, ex-
hibited some of the abusive and
stupid letters he gets from Lind
berghers Clapper pointed out
that abuse has replaced reason in
the minds of those people All
of which is new way of spelling
crackpots But get this irony.
Those who submit vile letters are
the ones who yelp that their heroes
are being smeared Hitler
claims he is fighting a religious war
against the Russians ''who do not
recognize any church, That's
cinch to debunk +. Every time
Hitler's air force recognized
church in England-they bombed
it,
The Yoo-hoo incident between
Lieut.. General Lear and troops train
ing in Tennessee has aroused ma
tional controversy. Many take the
side of the General, claiming that
discipline is more important than
the soldiers sore. feet (from march
ing Is miles in 81 degree heat as
punishment for flirting with some
girl golfers) Z. . On the other hand,
many think the punishment too Sc
we're. The following story is offered
to show that not all officers are
starchy.
On dark, rainy night, out from
the front lines of Verdun water
soaked, mud-caked group of Amer
lean doughboys trudged in the
French mud At ease for a mo-
ment one of them approached an
officer in the darkness "Ex-
cuse me, Sir, have you cigarette?"
certainly, son. was the an
swer AS the doughboy lit up
his cigarette the match revealed the
face of General Pershing.
General Pershing!" said the SOL
der.
eyes, son." replied the general,
''you took an awful chance. l might
have been a second lieutenant"
A London arrival (via clipper)
brought half dozen lemons-which
is practically the same as a million
dollars right now The boys
at the Savoy we're smacking their
lips over the thought of a lemon in
their cocktails, when they discov-
cred that Kathleen Hartman,
daughter of Averill, had used the
precious lemons for a rinse!
sss-
Typewriter Ribbons: Nate Col
lier: No horse can 60 as fast as the
money you bet on him Punch
His desire was nipped in the budget
Ed Howe: A good scare is
worth more to man than good adj
vice Lyman Beecher: Elo-
quence is logic on fire Abe
Martin: Hain't it relief when a
clerk finally admits he hain't got
what you want? . Anon: You
could tell the shows goose was
cooked as soon as the audience
started roasting The Brandon
Sun: Only two classes of people
fall for fattery-men and women
Jack Warwick: Many things
can happen while the experts are
making wrong guesses George
Bernard Shaw: In Heaven an an
gel is nobody in particular
Dolores Anderson: Everything in
Hollywood is real-except the peo-
pie.
When the White House sent some
of the secretarial staff in a White
House car to the funeral of Louis
Howe's sec'y at Asheville, N. c.,
the car was barred from the pro-