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Evening star., 1943-03-09
Jake Webb, Facing
6 Months Labor,
To Seek Divorce
lmpersonutlnq Officer
Costs PIoyboy Privote
Most of Army Pay
p hs Associated Press.

P he Associated Press
RENO. Nev.. March o SIX months
p hard labor today faced Pvt. Jacob
/. Webb, 24-year-old pIavboy de-
sCendant Of the late Cornelius Van
derbilt, whose antics failed to amuSe
special court-martial- especially in
such matters as impersonating an
Army officer.
Pvt. Webb, member of q promi-
nont New York and Florida family
was convicted late yesterday of all
charges and specifications" which
included absence without leave from
Fort Mcdowell, near San Francisco:
lnpersonating an officer and break
ing arrest.
The judge advocate, 1t, James
Matthews, sentenced him to half
year at hard labor and ordered him
to forfeit tWo-thirds Of his pay for
that time.
Plans Divorce Suit.
Hardly had the conviction been
announced when Reno attorney
announced that Pvt. Webb had re-
tanned him to start divorce action
against the former Lenore Lennon,
New York cafe society girl with
whom he elOped by plane in 1891 to
Charleston, S. c.
Mrs. Webb on three occasions pre-
pared to divorce Pvt. Webb, aban-
dOning each plan.
Pvt. Webb was arrested by mill
tarv police and Federal agents on
February in a Reno hotel where
they said, he was wearing an Army
captains uniform, complete with
liberal supply of medals, and telling
goggle-eyed crowd of Reno elite
Of his fictional prowess as a pilot
in the Southwest Pacific, knocking
down Jap planes by the dozen.
Flees for Hospital.
Clad in pajamas. a red bathrobe and
Army shoes, he later escaped from
the Reno airbase hospital by crawl
ing through a window, but was ap-
pretended early the next morning
in a small hotel where he obtained
room after telling the clerk,
amazed at his attire, that he had
been arguing with his father and
needed a quiet place to spend the
night
Pvt Webb's mother, Mrs. W.
Seward Webb Of New York and
Florida, few here in an unsuccessful
attempt to intercede in her sons
behalf.
Evening star., 1943-03-09
lnonu Again Elected
President of urkey
b he AEEocIattd Press.

ANKARA, Turkey. March g
President ISmet Inonu was unani-
mously reelected to 2 second term
Yesterday by the newly elected Ma
tlonal Assembly
The cabinet headed by Premier
Sukru Saracoglu following statute,
Uil resign. Il was reliably reported
that the ministers for defense, COM
rerCe. economy. m0nopoues, and
transport would he changed
President Inonu.s new term Is for
four years.
Evening star., 1943-06-27

qualifications for a band leader are
a sense of humor and a tough hide.
I would add to that musical back
ground
The Army Band at Fort Myer is
the goal of all Army musicians and
those entering the service from civil
ian life. Their routine Is never
monotonous. One afternoon recent
ly the Army Band entertained Presi-
dent Roosevelt and the President of
Bolivia at the White House. That
same night the 16-piece dance or
chestra played for enlisted men at
the Stage Door Canteen.
Hanging on a wall near Capt.
Darcy's desk Is an autographed
photo Of Gen. John j. Pershing.
There's an interesting story behind
that picture.
Capt. Darcy in the last war
reached France with the first con-
tingent of American troops. The
day Gen. Pershing was promoted
from a two-star major general to
four-star general. four Army bands
We'd with one another in paying
honors to the A. E. F. commander
in chief at a. special ceremony.
Capt. Darcy, at % the youngest
band leader in the Army, learned
Pershings favorite tunes and had
his boys polish up four numbers.
So pleased was Gen. Pershing that
he sent an aide over to ask the
bands designation. Then it was
the bold young leader made his
master play.
Why, it's the only band in the
Army, my name is Darcy, and please
don't forget it, sir" Capt. Darcy
replied. Gen. Pershing didn't for
get. A year later, when italian
Evening star., 1943-06-27

civilian morale sagged under Ital-
ian defeat on the Piave. Capt. Darcy
was chosen to lead representative
American band on a. concert tour
Of Italy, accompanied by the four
e.ack bands of Buckingham Palace
and Italy's best band.
Its Members Are Young.
1--WE play martial airs, jazz music
and classical numbers, just to con-
vince the long -haired boys we know
the old masters, too." Capt. Darcy
said.
He must have inherited his IA
theirs sense OF humor. When asked
how long he had been band leader
he replied: Since Napoleon was
lance corporal
Evening star., 1943-06-27
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those who will open the Cross Roads
Theater on Wednesday night, pro-
ducers have had to seek out other
media of expression.
1t has been their custom for more
than decade to pick up otherwise
idle players and put them into re-
vivals of successful plays-melo-
dramas and farce primarily-and
reap a summer harvest. The har-
vest was such bountiful thing that
they are naturally reluctant to sur
render it without a struggle.
The Nationals three summer at
fractions, "Dracula", "You Can't
Take 1t With You, and Jane Eyre"
are typical of the sort of thing that
formerly played the straw-hat, or
barn theater, circuit
Indicating a fine disdain for criti-
cal estimates OF such attractions,
the former, with Bella Lugosi in the
major role. turned out to be a con-
siderable fiscal success. 1t does not
take anything like a full house to
accomplish that happy result in the
case of a play like "Dracula" in
which the star is the only highly
paid performer, with the others con-
tent with not living out of principal,
or merely to work for the sake Of
playing with an established name
performer.
Stones revival of you Can't Take
1t with You" is perfectly in conform
| ity with the old straw-hat theater
pattern, a successful play brought to
life with name performer in the
principal role. Until two years ago.
there was regular circuit which
such projects might have Travelled,
| finding 10 to IL successful weeks
awaiting them in the neon-l lit
meadows from New Jersey to Maine.
Today the meadows have reverted
to their old function of being little
parts of the insoluble food problem
and their old artist occupants are
forced to remain in the urban areas
1t is a case, producers say blandly
and reasonably without fear of con-
tradictien, of taking the summer
theater to the people who no longer
can get to the summer theater
Washington is but one instance OF
where the result has proved success
full, where overcrowding has inspired
the overcrowded to seek entertain
ment wherever it is offered.
Moreover, Washington is by nc
means the most successruI instance
of the barn theater's move to town
Booming Chicago is capable of sup
porting revival such as you Can't
Take 1t with You" for full year
almost, Detroit can give the same
play eight full and profitable weeks,
and once dull Buffalo-A three-day
date for f1rst-run attractions-is a
veritable gold mine for producers.
The circuit of which the National
has become part is by no means
the old close-knit one on which an
attraction could travel to the next
engagement on few gallons of gas
in the performers private cars but
it is profitable one. That is what
counts, of course, and before it has
ceased counting, no one can calculate
how many of the once dark weeks
will be lighted by the refugee pro-
ductionS which once f1ourished at
the resorts and play places of the
East.
Evening star., 1943-06-27

I've been SO close to the business for
years that I don't think I'll be a
victim.p u
The basic reason for his interest
in the movies, Odlum said, was that
it is one industry which is bound
to profit in wartime and yet will
have everybody's approval.
AT the present level of prices, -
he continued, the public can buy
everything that is for sale and still
have about As billion dollars left
over each year. That's after taxes
and food and clothes and all ne
cessitieS.
They call that the infiationary
gap. How can this money be spent
and not hurt the economic order?
Motion pictures give an outlet for
spending which isn't inf1ationary.
Foreign markets now have prac-
tically disappeared outside the
British Empire. We are getting
ready for the postwar competition.
/ believe the foreign market is going
to open up for films. but it's going
to need planning and attention"
Evening star., 1943-06-27
Better Actors
Than Marines
Do Not Exist
BY the Associated Press.
CAMP pENDLEToN.

CAMP pENDLETON.
Even when a marine becomes an
actor, he still is a marine. If his
commanding officer tells him to play
dead on the beach. he stays there,
though waves lap his body and
tickle his nose.
And that" said Assistant Di-
rector Henry Weinberger. who has
been herding movie extras for years,
"aint like Hollywood. Imagine
that! Them guys layin' there and
not movin' for two solid hours"
A thousand, more or less. marines
are helping to re-enact the battle
of Guadalcanal, for the movie
"Guadalcanal Diary" Some of the
leathernecks of this huge training
center even had to double as Japs.
You'd think they'd beef about
playing Japs," commented Vein
berger, But no. They were told
to be Japs and they're Japs. And
are they getting paid for being
Japs? They are not getting paid
for being Japs or even for being
movie marines. They are doing 1t
because they have been trained to
do what they're told"
There was a note in the Wein-
berger. voice which seemed to say
that after the war ne would like to
have about 1000 marines settle in
Hollywood just to be extras in his
pictures.
You should not have the impress
sion that because these extras are
obedient that filming a picture at
a military installation is easy. In
stead Of the customary two or three
weeks normally required for COM
parable battle scenes, this location
will take nearly two months.
On art-Time Basis.
The fact that the marines playing
extras also have other duties make
them available only part of each
day. often, the sun doesn't come
out until 10 am. The marines al
ways have lunch at 1870. They
have to quit work no later than 4:30
each afternoon. These things make
the shooting days short.
OF course, the film company had
more than the usual number of tech
nical advisers on hand, from Mai.
Gen. Joseph C. Fegan, commanding
off1cer of Pendleton, down to in
Vulnerable lieutenants. Under such
circumstances, the movie had to be
made according to the marines.
Representing the Marine Corps
officially was 1t. j. w. Hurlbut, ma
rine combat correspondent who
spent 10 months in the South Pa
cif1c. Not available, and perhaps
not printable anyway, is the movie
makers comment when Hurlbut
ordered scene remade.
1t depicted what happened on the
ground when the Japs attacked by
air.
Evening star., 1943-06-27

Mana" filmed by Producciones
Santander. Her contract calls for
$4,000 pesos (about 100000, said
to be the largest sum paid in Mex
leo for acting in a single picture.
Another former Mexican Holly
wood star, Dolores Del Rio, who
now lives in Mexico, also is a big
box-ofice attraction. Her latest pic
ture, Flor Silvestre," wild
Flower, drew from $500 to 5000
pesos daily the first week at one
Mexico City movie theater, while
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Evening star., 1943-06-27

Yankee Doodle Daddy" attracted
only 500 pesos daily at another.
Cantinf1as Pictures, incidentally
have averaged as high as $4,000
pesos daily during opening weeks.
On the whole, Mexican and North
American pictures run close box
Office race in this capital. In the
smaller towns, where the percentage
of illiteracy is higher, Spanish Ian
guage films outdraw Hollywood's S
best, even though they carry SPAN
ish sub-titles.
Evening star., 1943-06-27
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pressed his faith in Rathvon very
simply.
We've got good management" he
said.
Odlum didn't want to be pictured
as man who just has awakened to
the possibilities of the amusement
field. He has been working at the
business of amusing people with
movies since he helped to reor-
ganize Paramount Pictures back in
the 30s.
Hollywood Won't Get Him.
Just as Odlum anticipated the
depression and was more than ready
for it, he now is getting set for the
postwar market for American movies
in the now-closed foreign field.
He doesn't intend to have much
to do with the actual making of
pictures. That is work for Holly
wood.
ANY fellow who tries to get in
on the picture end makes a mistake, .
he said. "It's awfully easy for a
fellow to sort of 60 Hollywood. But
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every Tuesday and Saturday over
national radio networks.
Son of an Army Band leader, Capt.
Darcy has some unorthodox ideas
about musicians.
My father used to say the only
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-03-04

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-03-04
Bay Meadows To Resume Racing

San Matco, Calf, March 4-(UP) - Reaching a tentative agreement in a labor dispute that caused can cellation of last Fridays program the California Jockey Club planned to resume racing at Bay Meadows Friday.
 William P. Kyne, track general manager told the two unions in- volved that unless they reached an agreement he would ask the racing commission to cancel the racing permit for the duration. Bay Meadows was the only Pacific coast tracks granted @ racing permit this season.
 Under the tentative agreement, members of the Pari- -Mutuel Clerks Guild will join the AFL Building Trades Union. Guild members had gone to court earlier to prevent be- ing ''coerced" into the union. Fail ure of sufficient clerks to show up at the track last Friday caused can- cellation of races an hour before post time.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-03-04
National Attention Focused Upon MdOesten Basketbdl

Me, in l90e-was the son of 0 serai- pro ball player, and two other tincles also were semi-pro performers. Bobby took to baseball like an other to the river. He pitched at Kenne- bunk. Me, high school, at Philips Exeter Academy, N. H., and at Duke University, where Uncle Jack in- cidentally has been coaching for the past Is years. As Q high school finger, Bobby once struck out % of the 27 boys who faced him.
 Busher
 Despite all these indications of great pitching future, Coombs missed the main line train with the As, and he spent 10 years on minor. circuit mounds with Syracuse. Bir1n- ingham, St. Paul, Shreveport, and Jersey City.
 Bobby, a right-hander whose best pitch is a slider, is married and has an H. year-old son. He will try to carve a starting niche out of the Giants mound squad that now in- cludes Cliff Melton, Carl H6bbeil, Bill Lohrman, Johnny Wittig, Harry Feldman. Ace Adams, Van Lngle Mungo, Bill Sayles, Kenneth Trinkle and Bill Boiselle.
 At 35, Little Bobby Coombs will trp to salvage some lustre from his career-try to emulate the feat of Ray Starr-try to rise to the heights where Uncle Jack once stood.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-03-04
By ROBERT MELLACE. (NEA Staff CorresDOndent)


 New York, March 3-There are no provisions in record books of athletic achievement for the ele. ment of luck, no compensation for the boy who doesn't have 1t. For tune was a little two-faced at the National A. A. U. track and field championships in Madison Square Garden.
 Cornelius Warmerdam is the only man who has pole -vaulted IS feet. The Flying Dutchman has accomplished the amazing feat % times, not counting jumps made in tireleSs practice.
 When they put the bar up to 15 feet, 2 inches in the Garden, a height never attained, Warmerdam was confident he could make 1t and better his world record of l5. 7%. Twice he went up, and twice he came down with the bar.
 RECORD APPEARED CERTAIN
 Warmerdam took a short rest. Then, at the peak of his vault, with the pole released, you could not have promoted Q bet with any one, including the Piedmont, Calif., school teacher. that Q new record was being made.
 But Warmerdam exhaled just in time to scrape the bar with his sctomach, and that on his down. ward flight. Had every motion been In line, explained the personable young man of Fresno, @ new record would have been established, and they were in line until luck entered the picture.
 Warmerdam says he can make l5-9.
 He has been up there and over only to have his diaphragm cross him. As for fabulous l6 feet, well anything after i5-0 will be luck, purely. he opines.
 Herbert Thompson of Jersey City has dashed SO yards in 6.1 seconds to share the world record with Big Ben Johnson, Barney Ewell and Perrin Walker. This winter, how ever, he had not been able to catch Champion Ewell. He won his heat in 6.3 while Barney was taking his GA. Ed Conwell, New York uni- versity freshman, also posted 6.3. STARTER HAD TROUBLE
 Five minutes later Conwell, with Eulace Peacock and Homer Gillis was disqualified for two false starts
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-03-04
GREENE, NBA HEAD, EXTENDS WARNING Pep's Ranking Will Suffer If He Claims Light.
 weight Crown

Paterson, N. J., March 4.-(Up) -NBA President Abe J. Greene to- day warned Willie Pep of Hartford Conn, not to attempt to claim the lightweight title if he defeats Sam my Angott in their bout at Madison Square Garden, March 19.
 Greene said he had heard reports that Pep, recognized in New York as featherweight champion, would take such action if he defeated An- gott. The latter retired as cham pion last November and now is making a comeback.
 The NBA does not now recog- nize Angott as lightweight champ Greene said. "Angott has applied for recognition but we have not ex- tended 1t yet" the NBA head ex- plained.
 Greene threatened that if Per tries to claim the lightweight title he will lose his status as No. 1 featherweight contender in NBA rankings. This group recognizes Jackie Callura of Montreal as featherweight ruler.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-03-04
NEW HAMPSHIRE
 TRACK STAR HURT

Waterville, Me-, March 4.-(Up)-- Capt. A. R. (Boo) Morcom of the University of New Hampshire track cam was nursing strained foot today and 1t was feared he might be forced to withdraw from competi- ton in the I. c. A track meet at Madison Square Garden.
 Despite the injury suffered in his first trial board jump, the Bain- tree, Mass. youth managed to win the pole vault with Q single leap in the dual track meet which is team lost to Colby college yesterday 5S-50.
 A triple jumping star, Morcom had been favored to take, both the high and broad jumps as well as the pole vault.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-03-04
NATIONAL A. A. U. MAT
 MEET APRIL 9 AND 10

Entry blanks were sent out yester. day for the National A. A. U. wrest- ling championships which vii lbe held on April 9 and 10 at the West Side YMCA in New York under the joint sponsorship of the Swed- ish.American A. 0. and the West Side YMCA. All of the medals for individuals and the trophy for the team winner were donated by Col onel Hans Logerloef, well-known dish-Arnerican sportsman.
 There will be ten championships at stake with the classes at 1l5, l2l, i28, l35, l45, 155, l6S, ITS and l9l pounds as well as heavyweight. The Crescent Club of Tulsa, which re- lied greatly on Oklahoma A. and M. undergraduates, took the team title Q year ago at the New Orleans A. c.
 Entries close with Axel Nord- quist at Room 3004 of the Wool worth building on April 5.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-03-04
(Reg. U. s. Patent OfRce) By LACK CIyDDY

United Press Stan Correspondent
 New York, Feb. A. (UP) - Can little Bobby" Coombs, with the Giants this season, duplicate Ray Stars feat last year with the RedsP
 Starr, after years in the Minors, came back to the big time with Cincinnati at the age of 35 and turned in an excellent season, wind ing up with an earned run average of 2.66, seventh best in the National circut. He was one of Deacon Bill McKechnie's most dependable start CTS,
 In similar fashion, brown-haired Coombs returns to the Majors at 35 after 10 long years of kicking around in the Minors. Even If the veteran fails to make the grade with the Giants, we must admire the never.say-die spirit which the pint sized pitcher displayed during his decade in the minors when he tried always to f1t himself for another big-league chance.
 Best of Int. Loop
 CoombS, member of famous base- baseball family, won his chance at last by virtue of brilliant pitch- in with Jersey City in '42. He was the most effective finger in the 1n- ternational league, winding up the seacon with an earned run average of l.90. The little workhorse was second in the number of innings pitched: 258. He was second in the number of completed games: 24. He was third in the number of shut outs: 6.
 Coomhs was heart broken in 1883 when he failed to stick with the Philadelphia Athletes. In high school mad college, the diminutive Maine lad seemed destined to be another major league star like his Uncle Jack Coombs-a World Series pitching hero with the Athletics, and one of Connie Mack's memor. able mound trio: Bender, Plank and Coombs. Uncle Jack later pitch- ed in @ World Series for Brooklyn.
 Nephew "Bobby"-woh was bap- tized Raymond at Goodwin's Mills,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-03-04
Greco, Shans Again

New York, March 4.-(UP-pvt. Johnny Greco of the Canadian army and Cleo Shans. rugged Los Angeles negro lightweight, were signed to- day for a return l0-round bout at Madison Square Garden March 26.
 Greco pounded out decision over Shans Friday night and was under stood at that time to have clinched title shot at champion Beau Jack. But promoter Mike Jacobs explained that the boxing commission would not permit Greco to go the l5-round title distance because he is only l9 years old.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-03-04

by Nate Carmell, 6 starter who earned reputation as a trigger man with an itchy finger that night.
 In the final, Carmell was still having trouble with his blunder- huSs, couldn't restrain Thompson, who got away with yard lead on defender Ewell and Harold Stickel of Pittsburgh.
 Thompson beat Ewell and Stickel by that yard, and the timer an- nounced that he had tied the world mark of 6.l.
 The record books will never say that Starter Carmell was having a bad night and that Cornelius War; merdam's respiratory system was digging when 1t should have been tagging.
 Rabbits feet and four-leaf clov- CTS are standard equipment for the well-turned track and field athlete.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-03-04
PURPLE FLASHES WIN 2

Purple Flashes scored 90 points iL the last two basketball games, both of which were victories over the 1n- dians and Sacred Hearts; but the Indians agve them a close tussle los. ing by one field goal; 47 to 49; while the Hearts were defeated 50 to %. Smith, with 2l points for the In- dians was high scorer, while B. Shervill, Perrone and J. German got l7, l2 and l2. Against the Sac. red Hearts, B. Sherwill scored i4 points: Nutbrown l2 and Bergin 70 while Lyvin got 10 for the losers.