The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-13
BY JACK LAT


 Counterfeits of that Morgenthau- thentic money have already turned up in Sicily The New Yorker Profile muffed the intere. ling fact that when Harry Houkins first met Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt and be- came her protege in welfare work, he was living at the Mills Hotel, i60 Bleecker Street, an institution subsidized for the lowly, where rooms cost 30 cents night. The future boss of billions in Lend- lease was then addressing envelopes nt l20 Nassau strete for $2 day
 From the Mills Hotel to the white House is wide Hopkins siip-and- jump!
 Lepke will be surrendered by or- der of President Roosevelt, but will try to beat the chair with an offer to sing bass against the respectable businessmen who employed him and his killers The thre big news services are optimistic about Italy. Ready to spring back into their for mer Rome offices, they have nearby Michael Chinigo of INS, Reynolds Packard of UP, and Ed Kennedy of AP, who flew out Wednesday for the Mediterranean {. The New York Times page 1 discussions of relations between Secretary Hull and Under Secretary Welles were the direct consequence of an item here Monday, August 2. Welles will leave or Hull will.
 Hot from Hollyw0od: Dona Drake released by Paramount. She will make that name legal in court - used to be Una Villon and Rita Rio Al Bloomingdale with Ann Miller Ensign Robert Stack pur- suing exotic dancer Amarillo . |. Dorothy Lamour's bridegroom says no more sarongs or no more films Greg Bautzer, whom Dorothy tilted, very devoted to Judy Gar land Peggy Satterlee still around, seen often with Sid Will Hams Col. Elliott Roosevelt seeing the town with Billy Miller, well remembered in the New York joyjoints.
 Frieda Hempel, Metropolitan Op- era star, joined the vaudeville &C., tors union to do a turn in San Francisco Eddie Cantor has new find, Chicago kid. IS, named Shirley Biller Rosaleen Simp- son of the Ziegfeld Follies line is sweet on George Sanchez, Gu ban sugar tycoon Slapsi Maxie Rosenbloom, who was never open handed except in the ring, Is en- toying domestic difficulties again :. Asking price for WMCA is $1,- 800 O0oO; Donald Flamm sold 1t to Edward J. Nobl for $850,000 The Dean Jaggers have agreed on a divorce A Broadway Wi.N bachelor went a-visiting in a high grade hotel near Central Park, and the lady rolled him for 5000 and his watch.
 Nicholas Roosevelt, ofb the COP Roosevelts, who is OWI llaison nan with Army and Navy has given notice. He will not be replaced Two other OWI executives will leave by request .. Speaker Sam Ray burn, not Jimmy Byrnes, is out in front as Roosevelt's running mate in the Forth Race Washing ton is shaking it's head about Byrnes' coordination job so far, and it's said he would like to get back into the bullet-proof Supreme Court chamber Steve Hanne- gan wangling credentials for trip to South America The FBI has a Watchful orb on the maitre d'hotel of midtown side-street res taurant.
 Harold Lloyd may return to the screen, playing the main part in MT. Wrinkle Goes to War" which he will produce for Colmbia The Plaza Hotel will become part of a chain in November Fefe Ferry is in Hollywood. looking for actors to do a Broadway revue. He has professional packers Gi- none Simon singing a rhapsody in blue over what Warmers did to her part in the film on Gershwin's life A stranger who said he was . Minneapolis businessman" and who bet crisp folding money, took the local bookies for about $l00,000, and disappeared. Honey chile Wilder turns up at the Monte Carlo Beach alternately with Curly Harris and Horace Schmidlapp.
 Morton Downey with Dolly o. Brien att he Colony Big back stage party in The Capitol next Wednesday, cheering Phil Spitalny's eight-week run there Betsy Gushing, with all her influence, can't get overseas to be near her husband. It. Col. Jock Whitney didn't talk for years after their divorce, but are friends again since he divorced Micky Satterlee, Peggy's sister Mary Dunbar. Powers model, will marry Eddie Stewart, writer.
 Diplomatic circles in Washington hear that Pierre Laval, in anticipa- ton of the deluge, has put aside . little cigarette money. Emulat- ing his Naz masters. he staged a financial blitz that had even the Nazis whistling. The Zig zag Gig arette Co.,, of France, worth mil lions, was forced into selling out its assets to dummy, under threat that vichy would seize it. When the Nazis finally got around to wondering if they shouldn't take over. to supply their occupation troops. Laval disclosed himself as MT. Zig Zag. With a good deal Of parle about the beauties of hrotherly love. he convinced the