The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-19

VAS6 AulDtSSouor Oum0KSky 70 SeC of State Hull's ofilce. Oumansky had to deal with MT. Welles for months
 .. When Oumansky left he wished Hull had never granted the inter- view because Mfr. Hull talked to him not Q Statesman, but in good, plain Tennessee lingo Mir. Hull is said to have told the Communist that the U. s. is fed up with "all the Commy doublecro roSsing" and to stick to their agreements or else.
 The Hedy LaMarr- John Howard threat to pull an Alice Faye-p Phil Harris elopement in Mexico. Her studio says nipe and she is furious ... The price tilt for Scotch hooch In the next few days. Up to $4 Q case for retailers. Statesmen will be held about 1t some time today .. Bill Ellsworth, who gave his guests pearls at Fl Morocco recently. He Is chartering @ Strato-liner for his next party |, Francine Farrell, once with Vallce's crew, and Irwin Rus sakov, heir to steel fortune, who threaten to elope soon Monte Proser putting Mare Lachmann's widow on his permanent payroll. He and Marc were great friends The publishing record which Mod ern Library will achieve on June 1 when 1t prints Its ten millionth vol- ume The ostrich at the Bronx Zoo named Charles.
 The Hero In a Tuxedo Fortunate Picchi was captain of walters in the Savoy Hotel, London, before the war ... When Italy got into 1t Plcchi was arrested along with other watt CTS and sent to the Isle of Man While there he became so openly anti-F Fascist the British offered him his old job at the Savoy. .. He re- fused, saying he wanted to volunteer So they allowed him to join the British Army l.. He also requested service aS Q paratrooper on a raid In Southern 1taly-as he wanted to do his odopted country some gen. uine service .. He went on q raid which failed Fortunate was captured and shot.
 Pat Garfield, the Conover model, Who got q dainty gift the other night from an ardent admirer. It was a 92-foot yacht called "The Firefiy" The quiet merger of Betty Ann Davis, Washington denby. to "Hellzapoppin" stage man. ager M. stern Model Screens s Hwood reporter, Sylvia Kahn, who will become Mrs. I. Wallace the first week in June .. The baby girl over at the r. Carlsons of the Woody Herman band The switch in MtleS for that movie-from "Dildo Cay' to Bahama Passage" Some body muSta Wised someone up to the real meaning of the former ham dle !. :. Alan Corelli'S swell deal whereby unemployed actors will en- tertain at various camps and get paid for 1t Sherm Billingsley's mysterious Illness at his home Joe Kings slugging at the Brass Rail early Friday ayem. Were his aSsailants the ones he bounced out or his rathskellar nights before?
 The French Government ingrates at vichy, who announced that the v. 8. food shipments were "infin- itesimal," etc. Here Is the ter- rible fact: The few ship loads sent M to France actually help the NaSi war effort Ten ship loads a week amounting to 50,oo0 tons would replace in calorie values l87, 7,500 tons or potatoes, from which could be extracted l6,875 tons of alcohol, which would free 1i,000 tons of gasoline, which would enable 25O bombs and 250 Nazi fighting planes to raid London every night for two months.
 Bob Olin's controlled impulse to hatten worlds lightweight champ Lew Jenkins. Because when he was introduced to Lew as "the former worlds light-heavyweight champ Jenkins asked him; "Of the anna choors9" The foreign govt (one Of many asked by the U. S. to &C., cept La Hoheniohe) which received the following "conflndential" advice from It's Embassy: "No need giving her visa. U. s. says privately Just to let American public cool off and she can stay forever" The fear of intimates over the mysterious disappearance of publisher Wm. soskin Glare Boothe (also an owner of "Arhencic and Old Lace'D who sent n letter from China to co-producers which she addressed: {: Howard Crindsay and Russell LousG" .. Sam II. Harris recovery Allyn Joslyn's crack that he knows a Chinaman who is leaving Shanghai for e vacation to come here to see Dick Wattsl Dick departs for there Monday next . And the indecent and unpatriotic journalism of this colyum, which months ago exposed Maj. J. E. Kelly (of U. s. Army Intelligence and Jer- sey City. N. J0 as a pal of local Nazis. The Jersey Journal of May l6 reported: Major Kelly who was under fire in a New York column | has oaas, SroSA,1aA as a IT e Officer !"