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Show 21 ttroi tfitEJ shirrid ralpiiJ at it Hi n w tfme ; -! w -VI il l fO FROM CAM. TO SGT. . . . John Eictard Schader, Tonkers, N. Y., vlw came op the hard way from listed man In army sir force to ciptain. re-enlisted as a master sergeant He to shown sewing on jui sergeant stripes. - 4 CURLET RETURNS ... For the .'fourth time in over 50 years of active political life, James Michael Cnriey is sworn in as mayor of Boston. At 71 he becomes the 40th 'ttisTii. a! Mitssftnhnfiptta ftltv- .CHCRCHILL'S HOST . . . Frank W. Clark, Miami Beach, Fla., host ft Winston ChorchUl, Britain's war-iime war-iime prime minister, for the win-(ter. win-(ter. Churchill will continue his .paintings, some of which were re-jcoiUy re-jcoiUy pubUshed in U. 8. Woman (mnnnn " ' -. t. - ... ut. r wr-r wr-r oc R. Ro?, . biochemist, world - re- . eu w diagnose tuner- was swarded the Gimble Fru tor her work. g s, - I I f zr " 1 "" "-"i S I ; " j RK - i DM j As f ; l.n)l v , !i mmt ; s 5 IDOfl B t N ' 1 ! j f ! i SL?,8wINS Bu,y krh. eJ" C0Iender from Pitta t toil. - he rcise bike as Uah. Us Cor Ui bout with Joe tri,to,f,ri"ls Ark- he be will ?, bis cbampionshia boat h rfw I ! I - - jfvA x f - 'I LAD KELPS TO MOW DOWN POLIO . . . Here is little Donald Anderson, five. Prineville, Ore., the- spirited youngster who is inspiring victory over infantile paralysis as he keynotes the 1946 "March of Dimes" campaign. Donald stands in front of the poster, showing him during and after his battle with the dread disease. He holds a toy gun as If he would like to meet the polio enemy In mortal combat and beat it for all other kids. HENRY J. KAISER'S NEW "PACKAGED" POWER ... The new Kaiser car, first of American low-priced autos to have front wheel drive. It Is also first mass production passenger car in America to have independent "torsionetic suspension" on all four wheels. The body and chassis form a single unit of the type known as "monocoque" construction. The new Kaiser, was designed by Howard A. Darrin, with pressure-chamber ventilating ven-tilating system. HERO'S BROTHER JOINS AIR FORCE . . . Carl Bong, brother of the late Richard Bong, Poplar, Wis., is pictured checking in at army recruiting recruit-ing office, Milwaukee, where he enlisted In air corps. MaJ. S. T. Holzman, In charge of the office, is shown at right. Toung Bong, 19, was sent to Fort Sheridan, to await assignment to some regular air force train-tag train-tag camp. Like his late brother, he plans to become a star of the skies. ';Vf A -1 fir' I.flimxhDrtinst ; ft 'f f; -i I -If IMS rUSw urn ;rri I ttf ' Ctui v" . - if piiii tF MISERABLES" RE-ENACTED IN BUFFALO ... This invitation . Mr rhnrrh of Christ in Buffalo, put there en the Diuieun no.ro - - - by the Rev. Harry T. Birdweu. u nop m - church of a candle from the Chrirtmas alter may return. ,. , . . - ,mili!fcWtfM t -j - - - - -- . ... ... in WASHINGTON "joy Walter Shead WNU CerrtqMMiMil The Muddle in War Surplus Sales WNU Wtshingtou Burttn. lilt En St.. H. W. THE whole machinery of Surplus War Property has broken down and the entire situation surrounding the disposal of more than a hundred billion dollars worth of surplus war material is a confused, disorganized mess. This is the conclusion of your Home Town Reporter after an investigation, in-vestigation, made because we have received scores of letters from veterans vet-erans asking how they can obtain surplus war properties. There have been more than 280,000 applications from war veterans during the past six months, all wanting to buy surplus sur-plus property, mostly trucks, jeeps and automobiles. Only in rare instances in-stances have they been able to do so. Here's the situation about surplus property. It Is now scattered among eight governmental agencies at 100 different points In the country Reconstruction Re-construction Finance corporation for consumer goods', producers' goods, war plants and aircraft; U. 8. Marl-time Marl-time Commission for marine property; prop-erty; the state department for goods overseas; the department of agriculture agri-culture for food and agricultural products; the Federal Works administration admin-istration for community facilities such as sewers and utilities; the Federal Housing authority for housing; hous-ing; and the department of the interior in-terior for grazing and mineral lands and all surplus goods in Hawaii, Alaska and Puerto Rico. Then there Is the Surplus Property administration administra-tion presided ever by W. Stnart Symington, who, as administrator makes policy, but who has absolutely absolute-ly no authority over any of the ether eth-er agencies selling the property. War Assets Corp. Formed And to make the confusion more complete, President Truman, back in mid-October announced the formation for-mation of the War Assets corporation corpora-tion to be headed by Lt Gen. Edmund Ed-mund B. Gregory, the quartermaster-general of the army, to take over all surplus property from the other agencies, except the -state department, depart-ment, on November 5. Then this was postponed until December 1, then to January 1, and now to February Feb-ruary 1. The transfer may take place February 1 under the powers the President has under the new governmental reorganization act But still there will be divided authority, au-thority, with General Gregory acting as sales manager and Symington as policy head, but with absolutely no authority over what Gregory or anyone any-one else does with War Assets corporation. cor-poration. Reason for much of the confusion and misunderstanding is this divide ed authority, and the fact that nowhere no-where i there an Inventory of the property which is declared surplus. Whenever, In the opinion of the army or the navy, property Is no longer needed, It Is turned over to the various agencies as surplus. The agencies then put It upfor sale. Wat happens when a veteran goes to buy surplus war property? Say he is in the Philadelphia area. He travels SO or 100 miles to Philadelphia Phila-delphia to buy a truck, a camera and another gadget First thing he finds out is that some municipality has priority over him and has taken all the trucks fit to use. Then be finds out that there are a hundred other veterans there ahead of him bent on the same mission, and further, fur-ther, that what he expected to buy for ten cents or less on the dollar is much higher and is being sold on a ceiling price fixed by OPA. Central Authority Needed All this after he has been shunted around between the Smaller War Plants corporation, the RFC Disposal Dis-posal agency, the department uf commerce, and the navy material Redistribution office. And he comes sway sore. Everybody be deals with is mad and dissatisfied. Very iikeiy he returns empty-handed. Whether moving all these sales agencies Into War Assets corporation corpora-tion will be a help Is a matter of conjecture. Personnel of RFC will still operate the War Assets corporation, cor-poration, and apparently General Gregory Is none too sanguine about the success, for he Is merely on loan from the army. What is apparently necessary is a merger of Surplus Property administration ad-ministration and War Assets corporation. corpo-ration. Symington, if he stays as administrator, would be policy-making head, and Gregory or someone else Would be sales manager, but with the administrator in complete charge for centralized authority. As a matter of fact surplus property prop-erty is a war baby that no governmental govern-mental agency wants. Remembering the scandals in surplus property after aft-er World Wsr I, the whole procedure has been bound up in red tape by the officials, for nobody wants to go to jail as a result of "errors" in surplus property sales this time. It seems to this reporter it is time for the President to make this centralized authority come true, or else surplus war property will be a continual headache for everybody The government will lose out and so wiU the veteran. ' . -Is ir it " 1 : I - ' si 1 -I I v vs . 'II , A . i.i i. fifA .. LAy ,.,.,s,,s ... ... .... . m s .sv-. .vJvAI. -- ..v. rs. . vjj MAKING HAT WHILE THE SUN SHINES . . . Whether It be Miami Beach, Fla., er op la the cold New England states, winter sports are being enjoyed by all. In Miami, winter sports Include beauty contests and swimming. Children oa right modeled the newest in bathing suits. Left te right, bottom row, Patsy Mills paugh and Elaine Brenner. Top row, Joy Berkstresser and Beverly Cromer. At left. Sailor Fred Toms, Hen dersonville. N. C, after having sailed the seven seas, tries his luck at skiing with Pat Arsensult ' s , A Siii(ifc 'k' fJ 'Ji "' liSilBlftfiliJ GENERAL ENDING CIVIL WAR IN CHINA . . . Starting immediately upon his arrival In Far East, Geo. George C. Marshall, former V. 8. chief of staff and newly-appointed ambassador to China, conferred with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, right, and Mme. Chiang, center. In a short time he had the promise of all Chinese factions to cease firing and sit down with General Marshall te work ent sound basis of peace. . Mb V WHEN NATURE MADE A SLIP . . . When the wife of an American soldier gave birth to a two-headed baby in Birmingham, England, recently, It was revealed that this was not the first time that sncb a phenomenon had been recorded. The above x-ray picture Is from the files of the Royal college of surgeons. Medical science has a record of one two-headed Individual who lived 30 years. The Birmingham baby died soon after birth. , 4 r TAKING THE CLIMB OUT OF SKIING ... The fly In the ointment when It comes to the real enjoyment of skiing Is the long, weary trudge op the ski slope, before one can make that exhilarating dash down. Oa Cranmore mountain, near North Conway, N. H., this trudge Is eliminated by the ski-mobile, a gsdget that gives yoo a ride op. The retty skier is one of the first contingent of enthusiasts te visit North Conway with the resumption of the "snow train" from Boston. ' -1 llBll Wmm 7 'A 7 V 5 s MAN FROM MARS . . . Suit devised de-vised by army, navy and civilian agencies to fight any disease contamination con-tamination war attempt by Axis, has now been converted to peacetime peace-time operation for rescue or decontamination decon-tamination operations. I - ", . i4 2 - HERO SINBAD . . . "Slabs, coast guard's salty globe-trotting mascot, mas-cot, who served eight years at sen and sailed more than a million miles, ia welnid fn Nw Tark ' with n parsde fitting a real hero, j Plans called for a Jeep parade. 11.11. 'WHWC """ r" 1 X , .V 1 .. 1 i '' i r- :'-1M ..... , bTAGEvSCREENRADIO Rdsastd br Wtittrs Newspaper Unloa. By VIRGINIA TALE. ALL through the year we hear tales about how popular this or that movie star is then along comes news of who brought in the most money at the box office. The national poll of motion picture exhibitors taken annually by Show-men's Show-men's Trade Review shows that Greer Garson and Van Johnson topped the 194449 list Bing Crosby (first last year) was second, followed by Spencer Tracy, Gary Cooper and Roy Rogers. The actresses ran Judy Garland, Betty Grable (who led the list the last three years) Betty Button and Mar garet O'Brien. And the picture that topped all the others was "Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo." with, "Na. tional Velvet" to second place. Bob Hawk can keep secret For three years the Idea for bis current Monday night series, the CBS "Bob Hawk Show," was locked in safe, pending the end of the war. His Thanks to the Yanks" was splendid BOB HAWK - for wartime, but now he's the big Cvs-and-fivs man, with contestants answering five questions for their first prize and one question with five parts for the second halt It's being told around that little Margaret O'Brien is getting awful ly tired of plaintive little girls she has to playespecially since Jimmy Durante taught her to sing "1 Want to Be Happy" In hit own special style. But the poor child's typed at ber age! " . Loots Haywsrd's postwar screen career lesped forward when he was signed for one of the top roles op poslte Hedy Lamarr In "The Strange Woman"; that came as a result of the sneak preview of Hunt Sternberg's "Tsong Widow, tot which he's co-starred with Jan Russell. He pat In three years with the marine corps; as captain of a photographic anit, he filmed the bat tie of Tarawa. Sheik, the Palomino Ray Mllland rides In "California," had to have two stand-ins one for rearing, one for falling. It's a technicolor pic ture so they had to be dyed to match Sheik. But as they were both dark horses, they had to be bleached first I That MBS science series, "Exploring "Explor-ing the Unknown," Is receiving new honors. Selected by the armed service serv-ice forces ss one of the most popular popu-lar transcription programs for G.I.s overseas, the Sunday series is being be-ing distributed by the New York university uni-versity film library to schools throughout the country, and the American Cancer society is using one of the broadcasts In Its educational educa-tional work. One hundred thousand people have persuaded Kate Smith te broadcast before a studio audience again; they all asked for tickets. So she's now doing her Friday night "Kate Smith Sings" program from CBS's Playhouse 4, It's largest, , seating 1,100. The repeat broadcast for the West coast will take care of another 1,100, so In about 45 weeks Kate will have caught op with the accumulated requests. On his "Dave Elman's Radio Auction," Wednesday nights on Mutual, Mu-tual, Elman has auctioned everything every-thing from Hitler's personal dice to Marie Antoinette's pillow slips with proof before they were sold that the articles were authentic. The Radio Writers association voted it the most novel show on the air. He's just sent eight people off to scour the world for a year for historical curios to be auctioned later. ODDS AND ENDS Drew Allen, of Monogram'i "Tht Gay Covalur," lay iht firu wordt ol his vserod ton Stephen were "On uage" to Ac's reg istered the baby with Central Catting. . . . Geoffrey Sanies, hosS and narrator of NBC$ 't&yttery Theater.' k e quentlr teem at the police line at New York police headquarter; toys if i a good source material lor hi those. . . . Dick oaes, lAe third "Henrf? on "The Aldrich family? .entered the . army lost spring, and i note stationed in Alaska. . . . Robert fount's new picture, Patamennts Tae Searrhin Wind? fa Ail diamond jubileo film he's mads li pkturas 15 years, " ' r f i 1 i ' j 1 1 3: - I i Ik :i |