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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1943-07-29

Boy. Meets Girl: A military school
cadet, who did not look to be more
than IA years old, came backstage
to see Hollace Shaw, coloratura,
known as ''Vivien" with the Phil
Spitalny all-girl orchestra. my
captain" the youngster explained,
wishes to correspond with you. He
sent me to ask your permission"
Hollace assured the lad she would
be delighted to hear from his cap
tain. A week later, a letter came
from the school. But not from the
captain. will you forgive me for
not telling the TRUTH" the little
cadet wrote. 81 invented the story
about the captain because wanted
to write to you myself but was
afraid you'd think I was too young.
Are you angry with me?" Needless
to say, Hollace Shaw is the current
pin--up girl at that boys school.
Ducal Preferences: The duke and
duchess of Windsor, celebrating
their sixth wedding anniversary at
the Casbah, danced only .waltzes
The duke drank beer with ice in it
-. He requested singer Carol
Bruce to Groom 1T Had to Be You"
and while. she sang it, he held
Wally's hand . -. The duke tipped
Chic Shiek, the Algerian doorman,
a shiny new two bit piece. The
dukes favorite song, eff Had You,"
first lured the famous couple onto
the dance floor The duke dined
on ''kaky-kebaby"-and I don't know
what that is either The host
was Flight Lieut.. Herbert Pulitzer
and guests included Mai Watson
Frelinghuysen Douglas, the T. Mar
koe Robertsons, Milton c'Doc'')
Holden, Grace Amory and Capt.
Alistair Macintosh }. Among ring
siders, Capt. Winthrop Rockefeller,
Frank j. Black, Renee de Rothschild
and Bettina de Rothschild.
- f..
City Scene: The little man at the
corner of Broadway and 95th street
who each a. m. says Good MORN
ing," to all passengers entering the
96th street subway station The
common folks dog show every night
in Riverside park-with raincoats on
animals in wet weather Column
bia 153 steps above Harlem-HHS,
our informant, counted them in
climbing from St. Nicholas avenue
up the rock precipice known as
Morningside Heights to the campus
of Americas most populous seat of
learning A man giving recipe
for strawberry pie in a pitch-black
apartment house hallway filled with
tenants during a blackout.
Bell Syndicate.-WNU Features.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1943-07-29
Aussie Soldiers Sell
F.. Genuine Tobruk Sand

CAIRO, EGYPT.-A laugh was
provided by two Australian soldiers
who were enjoying their leave
nightly until they found themselves
at a famed Cairo bar with COM
bined resources 10 cents short of
their beers. - ~e- - - 5
One hastily retired to the street.
seized handbag from heap hoist.
ed it to his shoulder and returned
to the saloon, shouting ''Tobruk
sand! Genuine Tobruk sand! Take
home a souvenir" His pal solemn:
ly explained it was straight from
the front and only two piastres 10
cents). "
A delighted waiter paid the none,
and bore the trophy proudly away
while the Australians drank Their
beer and wondered if they weren't
the first entrepreneurs to sell sanc
in Egypt. as # 5
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1943-07-29
Education in Russia
Continues Despite War

MOSCOW.-Russian education is
being carried on despite the war.
Two hundred thousand students have
been graduated from institutions of
higher learning since the start Of
the conflict. Speriod Kaftanov, chair
man of the higher education COM
mittee, declares in an article In
Pravda.
In the last five years, AT, 900 STU
dents have completed courses in en-
gineering, teaching, medicine, law,
politics, science and military SCI
ence. Many colleges have been
evacuated to safe zones far behind
the front lines.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1943-07-29
LIGHTS ofNewhrk
By l.. L. STEVENSON

Time to Depart: One Of the air
raid wardens in Greenwich Village
is young woman somewhat of the
Amazon type. The other evening a
friend called and informed the war.
den that a man was prowling around
her house in a very suspicious man
ner. The warden, ready for her tour
of duty and wearing uniform which
included Stacks, set out to investi-
gate. Sure enough she did find a
prowler. whom she grabbed as he
was about to pry open a window.
The man, though of considerable
size, took one glance at the uniform
and surrendered quickly. Taking
him by the arm, the warden marched
him meekly toward the corner,
blowing a police whistle as she did
SO. When they reached the corner,
the street light was burning brightly.
Giving one look at his captor, the
culprit exclaimed: MY God, wom-
AMI and quickly vanished.
Backfire:, Shortly after entertain
ing at the Dutch Treat clubs last
luncheon for the season, where he
impersonated FDR, Mrs. FDR and
other well-knowns, Dean Murphy en-
countered the mayor of small
Maine town. The mayor told him
of an uncle who was the only Demo
crat in the village. Murphy, who
loves a practical joke, put in long
distance call and in the voices of the
biggest men of the administration
chided the uncle for not changing
his politics, just to keep the village
I'm; ninous. After talking for some
time, Murphy turned dejectedly to
the mayor with the declaration that
the uncle hadn't paid much atten-
ton to what he had said. :
HE couldn't understand word"
replied the 1aconic New Highlander.
''You were in such hurry to play
your joke you didn't give me a
chance to tell you he's stone deaf"
= g. "A 80. Z T.
Colleagues: At a party for the
Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee commit
tees drive to obtain funds for Span
ish Loyalists just released from
North Africa to Mexico, 10 David
sons bronze bust of the famous
Spanish leader of the people, La
Pasionara," was to be ratified. DR..
Maxwell Maltz, the host, placed the
bust on a table under a lamp and
Davidson, an interested spectator,
remarked: Move it over to the left,
doctor, so it will be, in better
light" .saas ram s.s.f Il n E.3.e.# III
L after ALL" Maltz replied, .I'm
only plastic surgeon. .z
$50 am t. returned Davidson.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1943-07-29
He Obeys the Sergeant's
Order for Double Time

CAMP CAMPBELL, KY. -" An
right, now, well double-time around
the block" barked Sergt. Carl La
tino Of the 10th armored division.
But, sergeant, Pm" protested
big 220-pounder standing over to
one side. 49,.
mo butts. I said double-time!"
The quarter-mile trot ended, the
fellow cornered the sergeant. What
I wanted to tell you before we start
ed this double-time business is that
I don't belong to this outfit. I'm just
visiting a friend here"
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1943-07-29
Auto Dealer Sets Up
Brooder in Showroom

BLANCHARD, OKLA. - The
automobile business nowadays is
not one calculated to keep deal
er's showrooms ,overflowing with
new models as everyone knows.
Tired of the yaWning emptiness
of his showrooms, Auto Dealer w.
B. Rich set up a brooder there
and now raises chickens in his
spare time.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1943-07-29
He Had Just About Given
Up Getting His Laundry

WASHINGTON. - Capt. Michael
Patrick O'Leary's laundry finally
has been delivered. That may not
sound important, but
His laundry went out at Long
Beach, Calf. 1t was forwarded to
Hickam Field in Hawaii. Then to
Cairo. Then to North Africa. Then
London.
1t caught up with O'Leary, army
air transport command pilot, in Ice.
land on an exceptionally chilly day.
He opened the bundle and found
summer clothes.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1943-07-29
They Hate to Get Up;
Missing Bugle Is Back

KEESLER FIELD, MISS.-A bu.
gle mysteriously missing for two
days reappeared within "a hours
after the company topkick posted
notice on bulletin board.
The notice announced that all men
would stand reveille one hour earlier
every morning until the company
bugle was found.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1943-07-29
Red Blood Cells Used
In Anemia Transfusions

CHICAGO.-Red blood cells, a by
product in preparing blood plasma
for war use. can be used instead of
whole blood in giving transfusions
for anemia. physician has report
ed.
The use of red cells, which may
provide cheaper treatment for the
disease, was announced by DR.. How
ard, L. Alt of Chicago in the Jour-
nal of the American Medical Asso-
citation.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1943-07-29
Polish Underground Gives
Warsaw the Allied News

LONDON.-The Polish Geographic
agency reported here that the under
ground in Poland had outsmarted
the Gestapo and given the people OF
Warsaw a summary of Prime Min.
lister Winston ChurchilPs' recent
speech and news of the refugee gov.
eminent and Polish and Allied op.
erations in the Middle East.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1943-07-29
Needed a Pull Two Ways
And Couldn't Get Either

PENNINGTON, UTAH.-Gasoline
rationing is prolonging an unidenti-
fed sufferers toothache.
Stating it was impossible to get a
dental appointment before April rs
In either nearby Ogden or Salt Lake
City. he applied for extra gasoline
rations for trip to Denver to get
the tooth pulled.
The board denied the application.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1943-07-29
Grandfather Back From
Service at Cuadalcanal

METHUEN, MASS.-A GRANDPA
Their of three children, who was re.
jected in World War I, is home on
furlough from Guadalcanal after a
years service in the Southwest
Pacific. - "
. Technical Sergt. John Rosie was
rejected in World War because he
had two children dependent on him.
He got into this one through 20
years experience in the Massachu-
sets National guard.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1943-07-29
Converts Roof Into
Her Maternity Ward

LOS Notwithstanding
motherhood of Mitzi. Mrs. Anna
Silverman's cat, was jeopardized
by a neighbor's hostile bulldog.
Mitzi solved the difficulty by
selecting the roof of Mrs. Won
VogePs house.
The arrival of five kittens was
hera1ded by the violent barking
Of Mrs. Vogel's cocker spaniel.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1943-07-29
u. S. Troops Use Shovels ,
+. To Fish at Amchitka

SAN FRANCISCO.-The army's
landed in fsherman's paradise
Amchitka = and the equipment
doesn't include fishing tackle.
Gregory Reeser. coast guardsman
from Cincinnati who was on the first
army transport to land men on that
Aleutian outpost, discovered, the
men had fair substitute, though.
until friends in the States get some
tackle up to them. 49, 4
.'They just use shovels. They &C.
tually scoop fish out Of the streams
that's how plentiful they are"
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1943-07-29
Yankee Matches Twin
Record of Argentine

JOHNSTOWN, PA. - The
achievement of the Argentine
mother, lately publicized for Civ.
ing birth to a third consecutive
set of twins, was duplicated years
ago by Mrs. Luke Ivory of near
by Cresson, who died in 1882.
Married at Is years of age she
had four children before she pro-
duced three sets of twins.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1943-07-29
Tin and Razor Blade
Eater Is Sentenced

LONDON. - John Eli George
Smith has four years in prison to
consider activities which included
eating - pieces of tin, two razor
blades. three safety pins and
some glass. A Glamorgan
a''''@'r@D Court IVES told his meal
was designed TO prevent his be-
ing brought to court. He was
s-H.n~rcd for robbery.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1943-04-15

weeks vacation-and the low cost
of airplane and airship travel will
make a most enlightening vaca-
ton in Norway or India a reality
for the Detroit mechanic or the Bos-
ton librarian"
Planes of the Future.
How will they be able to do all
this? Here is the answer in Mr..
Bruno's words:
1.-The big planes of the next decade
will glide through the stratosphere
at speeds of 600 miles an hour and
more. They will enable a man to
breakfast in New York and have
dinner in Paris on the same day.
Citizens of Detroit and Denver will
be able to do exactly the same, even
though their planes will fly nom
stop from their home towns to Eu-
rope and South America.
Their planes will not be patterned
after the huge flying boats that now
cross the oceans. The new planes
of 1852 will be huge shakespeare
land planes, whose sealed, oxygen
equipped cabins will carry more
than 200 passengers in all the luxury
and comfort travellers enjoyed on
luxury steamships like the Queen
Mary and the Normandie. They will
be powered by banks of gasoline
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1943-04-15

PROPHET - Harry Bruno, who
grew up" with American aviation,
makes some startling-but ''too con-
sentative" so say his friends-pre-
dictions about air travel during the
next ten years.
burning engines Of 5000 horsepower
each. But the use of gasoline, in
aviation, will some day be as OBJ
sOlete as the era of steam in auto
mobiles. Electric engines of 10000
horsepower, receiving their impulses
through rays transmitted from
ground stations will supplant gaso-
line engines within two decades of
the end of the war.
Passengers with more time, out
for more economical ocean cross
ing, will ride in the comfortable
helium-flled dirigibles of the new
world. These giant cargo and pas
senger airships will cross the Allan
tic in about So hours, carrying fast
freight and about twice as many
passengers as the fast planes"
If you decided to sell your auto
mobile because of the inconvenience
of gas rationing and wait until after
the war to get new one, don't
count too much on becoming q
"motorist" again. For, according
to Mr.. Bruno, automobiles will
start to decline almost as soon as
the last shot is fired in World War
II. The name of Igor Sikorsky will
be as well known as Henry Ford's,
for his helicopter will all but re-
place the horseless carriage as the
new means of transportation. In
stead of car in every garage, there
will be helicopter."
Why? Well, these marvellous ma
chimes can do everything an auto
mobile can do, do it better and be-
sides take you up in the air, far
from the gasoline fumes of the
crowded highways. Look at this pic
ture of Sunday afternoon pleasure
drive" as Mr.. Bruno paints it:
''The family will take off in its
helicopter from the backyard or the
roof hangar, climb straight to the
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1943-04-15
An OLD STORY
Bell syndicate-wNU Features.

It's an old, old story, this one
about the girl in the office to
t0hom your husband turns for the
companionship you can't glue
him because you're too busy be-
ing a good ,Oife and mother. And
the anstUer is still the same. It's
aI,oays the "other Uoman' tUho
loses, if you remember that eu-
eryone else is on your side. Kath-
Teen Norris has told other tUiUes
to be sweet, dignifed and cheer
full, and she offers that adUice this
,Ueek to Edna Lee" tchose hus-
band has forgotten for the mo-
n,ent that home is tChere he be-
longs.
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who inspired it >.
Today this organization, purely
fraternal and secret, is a power in
aviation all over the civilized world,
not including Germany. Every IA
nous pilot wears the little silver and
blue wings as do many statesmen
who were once fiers. To belong is
an honor and membership require
ments are very strict.
From that little group in a
Greenwich Village restaurant have
sprung more than hundred similar
groups all over America.-Harry
Bruno IN wings Over America. I"
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weeks, and Ed has to be there. I
did not want to go; I haven't the
dress; I'm out of that mood. When
he told me Of it he said: I know
you hate those long talky dinners, so
I told them to count you out Now
I learn that he is taking Dorothy.
Something simply seethes within me
when I think of it. I stay at home
cooking, washing, caring for small
children all day long, and Dorothy,
sweet and fresh, goes out with my
husband at night.
"Ed cuts me to the heart by indi-
eating that our days Of dancing,
companionship, sharing of pleasures,
are over. But doesn't department
boss hurt himself, too, when his
friends learn that it is his stenogra-
pher who is with him? What is the
wise thing to do for us all? If I'm
wrong tell me So"
Husband Needs Prodding.
That is the letter. The answer
ought, of course, to be sent to Ed.
It's about time that some of the Eds
of this world found out that the rails
ing Of family is, first, the most
important job in the world, for man
or woman, and second, that it is one
of the hardest. Any man whose wife
has given him four children, and
whose means are not sufficient to
give her adequate help with all that
she has to do, should be in con-
tinual attitude of sympathetic help
fitness and tacit apology. Edna,
who wrote that eloquent letter, is
too fine woman to rail at him, to
remind him that other women have
leisure and cars and servants and
dignity in their lives. She loves her
slavery to the nursery; she bright
ems the drudgery of her days with
innovations, experiments, fun. But
it is slavery and drudgery just the
same.
Some day her sons will repay her.
Some day four splendid, vital Boy
Scouts will be pointed out, in her
town, chose are the Lee boys all
together there" Some day, when
they are all in school, just blissful
rest-just freedom to walk uptown
or lie down with book for an hour,
will be so sweet to her that she won't
regret these years that taught her
the miracle of freedom.
Meanwhile, since Ed is bent upon
destroying the devotion between
them, and throwing away his pater-
nal influence in these baby years
when it must be established If it is
to be established at all, my advice
to Edna is just to ignore him for
awhile. Let him go his way. If
Dorothy can't do better than to pick
a married man, father of four small
boys, as beau, she can't be much
of a siren. Sometimes the healthiest
attitude wife can take is to burst
out laughing at these affairs, and
instead of whinpering ''What do you
see in herr" ask "What on earth
does she see in your"
Worrying will accomplish nothing
and will only anger Ed, whose con-
science is probably troubled any
way. Don't beg for what you want,
but make him see that you can give
him what he really wants.
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made tests that saved thousands OF
lives; Vernon Castle, brilliant war.
time aviator who is remembered (it
at ally as dancer; Roscoe Turner,
a speed demon with a useful pur.
pose; Clifford Henderson, the Bar.
mum of aviation, who did more than
any aviator except Lindbergh to at.
tract American attention to flying.
These Americans gambled their
necks, their brains and their money
that aviation might grow.-'Wings
Over America"
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HERE'S HOW QUIET BIRDMEN' STARTED

Harold Jersey, who was then edit
ing Ace High magazine, had never
flown. fixed it up with Casey Jones
to give him a ride with all the trim
mings. Jersey got an enormous
kick cut of the fight and when the
next issue Of his magazine came
out, he printed his thanks, writing:
'sTo the brave quiet birdmen, who
are patiently working In these pio-
neer days of aviation toward the
definite goal of commercial flying"
Shortly after this appeared, Her
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sey was my guest at Marta's, wine
and spaghetti place, where a score
of fiiers dined together weekly. The
pilots took him for another ride for
referring to the noisiest tribe on
earth as ''quiet birdmen." Some
how, though, the name stuck and
after that the group at Marta's be-
came the Quiet Birdmen. I have
been credited with naming the OBS,
but I believe credit belongs first to
Harold Hersey who had the original
idea and, secondly, to Casey Jones
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Aviation Pioneers Made Possible Heroic Exploits Today

with whose activities we are all
familiar, but the many other auda-
cious men whose regulations have
been obscured. Here is a partial
list of the roll of honor: Calbraith
Perry Rodgers, the man who flew
across the continent in 1911 and one
of the outstanding aviators of pre-
war America; Jimmy Taylor, the
unassuming, little known flying
genius who for 20 years was one
of our ace test pilots; Lincoln
Beachy, a great exhibition pilot who
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America will never forget the
courage and heroism of such World
War II heroes as Capt. Colin Kelly
Jr., Lieut.. Edward H. O'Hare, Gen.
Claire Chennault and Gen. James
H. Doolittle, who wrote their epics
in the air and signed them with their
honor. Let US not forget, however,
the names of the pioneers who made
these war exploits possible-not only
the Wright Brothers, Glenn Curtis,
Billy Mitchell and Admiral Byrd,
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#$hE94f
STAGE ScREENRA6lO1
BY VIRGINIA VALE

Released by Western Newspaper Union.
IT'S hard to write about Signe
L Hasso because only superla-
tives should be used, and there's
so much to say. Very beautiful,
talented and intelligent, the
young Swedish dramatic star is
famous on the Scandinavian
stage and in England. She put in
her year of waiting here for her
quota number, so that she could act,
by writing for Swedish newspapers;
even covered the Presidents press
conferences. She's a superb actress,
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1943-04-15
MERRY-GO-ROUND

G U. S. department chiefs have
asked for the deferment of very few
government workers, but local draft
boards, acting on their own, have
deferred a tremendous number SIM
ply because they worked for the gov
eminent.
G The diplomatic ENJOYS of Hondu-
ras, Costa RIGA, Salvador, Guate-
mala, and Nicaragua soon will be-
come ambassadors extraordinary in
stead of ministers plenipotentiary.
This would give all Good Neighbor
diplomats the rank of ambassador
except Haiti and the Dominican Re-
public; would also place them ahead
of Australia, Canada and New Zea-
land.
q Figures for accidents on the home
front continue to be almost as tragic
as war casualties. Ned Dearborn of
the National Safety Council says that
SO ZOO Americans were killed and
$4,000 injured last year.
q Of the 26 British camera men who
filmed General Montgomery's "Des-
ert Victory" four were killed, seven
wounded and six taken prisoner :.
The film is imperfect and hard on
the eyes because it was taken under
battle conditions. But it is a great
story of British heroism.
G Only American journalist to visit
the Japs' secret naval base, Truk,
is Willard Price. In his book,
Pacific Adventure" he scooped the
world on Japan's surreptitious plans
to dominate the Pacific from Truk.
Recommended as required reading
for the state department.
q War Shipping Administrator Lew
Douglas says he will continue send
ing ships in ballast from this coun-
try to North Africa regardless Of
the protest of labor leaders who
want to save ballast space for war
goods. Douglas counters that no
ballast is available on the other side
for the home voyage; that ballast
put aboard here does not displace
cargo, since the ships are carrying
boxed or Grated goods which cannot
90 low in the hold.
q John Steinbeck, author of Grapes
of Wrath" and "Tortilla Flat" is
looking for a war front assignment.