Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1942-09-17
WHO'S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON


Consolidated Features-WNU Release.
NEW YORK.-The Boilermakers'
union of Oakland now admits
women to full fraternal member
ship. 1t wasn't our fault, but our
Women With Nice h tlmli ig be was
Sense of Rhythm ing into this
Fit in War Work war, tnls b 1o
ing not altogether a non sequitur.
There's a news paragraph today
about a pretty chorus girl working
in defense factory. She's slen-
der, pretty little thing, and when
you contrast her with the chorus
girls of other days, you realize that
our entrance cue for war was
back in the time of Billy Watson's
"Beef Trust" when every girl on
the stage looked as if she could
shoot dice with anvils. That was
the time to open the Boilermakers'
union to the ladies-not now, when
no girl is happy unless she has the
running gear of katydid.
The chorus girl is Dora Sal
vina, %, blonde, running big
"clicker" machine for I. Spie-
wax & Sons, North Bergen, N. J.
She juggles "a dies and shifts a
lot of levers, for a full eight
hour stretch, bringing through
laskinlamb suits for army and
navy pilots and bombardiers.
She recently received the Award
of Merit of the Laskinlamb insti-
tute for turning out so flying
suits in one day, record to
date for any one person.
Miss Salvina was decorating the
front line of 'Crazy With the Heat"
not so long ago, and before that she
was in the Worlds fair patriotic
spectacle, American Jubilee"
With the war on, she sidestepped
USO engagements and found her
factory job, figuring flying suits
were more important than enter
tainment. Chorus girls are tradi-
tionally realistic and she says she
works for "pay and patriotism
There is cadence in machine op-
erations in which the conditi med
rhythms of music and dancing
would fit nicely. This no doubt was
one of Dora's assets in winning the
production award. She's good box
office for I. Spiewak & Sons. They
recently doubled their production.
IN THE Bible phrase, one would
have to go to and fro on the
earth to find team like Henry J.
Kaiser, the demon ship-builder, and
T~o Go-Getters H H1,shas H. r.,
Ready to Fly Ouer flier, tool
Sea of Red Tape n1ane ar de-
signer and picture-producer. They
get together to get those 500 cargo
planes out of the suspense file and
over to the war front. They indi-
cate shortcut to action.
At the age of 18, young Mr..
Hughes, now 81, inherited $l7,OOO,-
600, along with the Hughes Tool
company of Houston, Texas. His
money took wings, in the form of
his first moving picture, "Hell's An
GELS" World war aviation opus.
But it landed with net increment
OF $3,OO0,O00 and ever since he has
been this country's most interesting
blend of romance and business.
He kept right on with his tool
making, but in July, 1888, he
hightailed it around the world
in plane in less than four days.
His uncle, Rupert Hughes, the
novelist, first lured him to Holly
wood, where he made more pic
lures, taking time out to build
his own plane plant and dupli-
cate many of the hazardous
feats of the movie fliers. After.
his world flight, the Federated
Advertising club of Chicago vot-
ed him fourth in it's list of the IL
outstanding men of the year.
Born and brought up in Houston,
he attended the fashionable Fessen-
den school of Boston, the Thatcher
school of Ojai, Calf, and Rice in
stitute of Houston. Yes, he has no
diplomas. Craving action on some
thing or other, he always walked
out on school before they could tap
him for Class day.
He is six feet, three, loose-geared
and lanky, with dark, stringy hair,
and he is an absent-minded dresser
who never worries about the crease
in his pants. He has the biggest
yacht on the Pacific coaster did
have-but he gets his big thrill out
of pitching horseshoes. HOLLYWOOD
gossip columnists have had quite a
romp, getting him engaged to this
actress or that, but he is still unmar-
ried.
We noted here recently Donald
Eoebling, up to his knees in folding
money, who hid out in the Florida
swamps for seven years and brought
through the marvellous amphibian
tank for the marines. His grand
father built the Brooklyn bridge and
his father is builder and inventor.
Mr.. Hughes forbears were the same
kind of people. His fathers revolu-
tlonary pipe drill built the family
fortune