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Show THE HEAVER PPFS. WAVFR UTAH Making Doll Hous " . - Home Front Isn't So Safe Either: Here Are Oddest Of Notes of an Innocent Bystander: The Magic Lanterns: "Meet Me in St. Louis" bulges with enough pleasant amusement to provide a month of daydreams. Set in the era, the warm humor and infectious ditties inspire the spirit to show its dimples. Delightful Margaret O'Brien steals the picture and A your heart. "Something for the Boys," and comes in on a lands gently on the eyes and ears. As in all musicals, the plot plays second fiddle sometimes it seems that it isn't even in the orchestra. . . . The March of Time's latest concerns China a nation of great tragedies, great heroism, great hopes. . , . The script of "Blonde Fever" gets lost in, a jungle of cliches and rio one misses it. . . . a Those who dreamed up a like "The Last Ride" should be in the Hall of Fame sweeping it. ... buck-and-win- g dullo-dram- The Paragraph of the Week: L. II. R.'s colyum in the N. Y. Times previewed history with this dialogue: "One more quesWhat finally betion, Daddy. came of this terrible Hitler?" . . . "For a long time, my child, nobody knew. There were stories. He was hiding In Spain, Eire. You Japan, Argentina, took your choice. Then, in x0, a rag collector named Donner-blit- z died of indigestion in Chicago. That was Hitler. He had been living there sixteen years." . , . "But didn't anyone guess. Daddy?" . . . "No, yon see, except for changing his name and shaving off his mustache, he went right on being himself, damning Russia, England, democracy, the Gov't at Washington, and the U.S.A. in general. So' the neighbors took him for just an ordinary crackpot and nev-- r gave him a second thought." i The book stores will shortly receive an extraordinary book called "Axis Rule in Occupied Europe." It is by Raphael Lemkin. It is published by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. . . . Book oracles state it is really the last word on what the Nazis have done to The Old Country. The Writers War Board (staffed with intellectuals, authors, editors, et al) is unable to name a "more important volume in its field." . . . The author of the book has created a word "genocide" to define the calculated destruction by the Germans of national and racial groups. . . . Buy two copies. One to read over and over again and the other to bang on the head of any supporter of a Nazi soft-peac- The Private Papers j Of a Cub Reporters Sufferers from the cigarette shortage would like to know just why it is that night clubs are enjoying nearly all the ciggie biz. This is how come. . . . The night clubs are in this enviable because position they've always charged a dime to 15 cents over the retail shop prices, and, of course, they still are permitted (by the OPA) to charge the same tariff as before the "ceilings" went into effect. . . . Then, besides getting 10c and 15c more per pack, the cigarette gals are invariably tipped an average of 25c for each pack. This, too, goes to the concessionaire. . . .. As a result, getting 50c per pack for cigarettes (for which retail stores charge 17c) the concessionaires are able to pay a good deal more for cigs than the retailers. That explains why all the night spots are doing a terrific ciggie biz. Our Macon editor relays this letter from Dr. W. B. Burke. His son James is with our State Dep't. Jim auth'd "My Father in China." . . . Dr. Burke spent 50 years in China. . . . The letter in part: "The whis- pering campaign in China against the Generalissimo and his wife is 5th collargely the work of pro-Ja- p umnists. Unfortunately some of our correspondents over there have gotten some of the reports in the papers At first the Genover here. eralissimo thought he would ignore them. Then he realized the rumors were directed more against China than against himself. Therefore he felt that he had to bring these stories into the light. As to the report he had been unfaithful to his wife he declared his relations with his wife had been without stain, absolutely pure. I can understand the object of the Japanese, but it is hard to get the workings of our American corn, pendents' mind. This is for publication." ... The Wireless: A radiorator offered this bit of irony: The British removed handcuffs from Fascist Mos-ley- , but jailed Gandhi who only de. sires freedom for India. . The March of Time again proves that the headlines are writing the most explosive dramatic scripts. The MOT g makes dreamed-useem more irksome than static. . . . Nothing more ludicrous than nowadays urging listeners to buy ciRgies. You're told why you should buy a certain brand instead mike-believin- of where. 1 944's Freak Accidents Caprices of Fate Injure Some, Leave Others Unscathed By PAUL JONES As you may have begun to and Narrow Escapes glass-toppe- D furnitur. all mC C rW d B-2- C. C. Hardy stepped out of his truck in Sidney, Texas, was struck by a passing car and tossed high into the air. Just before his head struck the concrete pavement, his pocket caught on the high truck door handle and held him suspended in wacky day's. People stand patiently in line for two hours to get a pack of cigarettes, and then blow their tops if they miss one section of a revolving door on the way back to work. Guys who never could stand bananas now howl their heads off be- the air. On the way home from the Bronx soo in New York, Henry Carrumit, cause they can't get them. The laundry eventually sends sey on backwards in his haste to back the right buttons, but the dress for a game, tugged fiercely to shirts are missing. Maids who get it off and broke his neck. Anne used to have one night out now Haldeman, 10, of Doylestown, Pa., allow the lady of the house to snapped a vertebra in her neck have one night in. A customer while skipping rope. And Mrs. Strother of Indianapolis, is publicly commended for Pauline them both by a topped slugging a waitress who said, vertebra in her neck dislocating while vigor"Doncha know there's a war ously brushing her teethl All reon?" covered. you-woul- MFY-G0-(1I)1IH- is miniature H ERE carefully smW Is F un actual size pieces. Any Vtl will love the strrf DREW PEARSON At least three persons in the the dog, fell through a upholstered sofa and tV" ySH 'ounge chair with matr.v1 United States now take seriously the coffee table, suffered bad cuts on Tlomi anThev are easv expression, "I'd break my neck to her arms and legs. Doggedly bo is the chair. It is cov'ered wS do that." One is Gregory Stingel, 13, swering the phone, Mrs. Hatfield Washington, D. C. a flower print. of Chicago, who put his football jer- - found the call was from an accident BOMBING NIPS WITH insurance company making a surThe dining room furniture is The plan of continuously bombing made of vey. Was she, they wanted to know, straight blocks but be to covered against accidents in her Japan from Saipan promises strategies most of the one important FROM BLOCKS home? She wasn't. in- suspect, , wartime days are You would think, then, that the annual crop of wacky accidents would have been even wackier in the wartime year of 1944. And be right. They were. A roundup by the National Safety council proves that an, amazing number of people still patronize the Whack market in accidents. To wit: As Margaret Morton of Groton, Conn., lay sleeping in her home one October night, a navy plane plowed through her bedroom and whisked the blanket off her bed without touching her. The plane C rurniture Closely akin to the was Mrs. James Gallagher of West Hazelton, Pa., who arose so hurriedly to shut off an insistent alarm clock that she dislocated her spine. neck-breake- 13, sought to imitate the monkeys he bad seen. He leaped up and down on the subway seat, scratching and grimacing. On an especially high jump an electric fan nipped his scalp. No more monkey business for Henry. In Washington Court House, Ohio, hot words must have been exchanged over the phone one day. In any event, Superintendent Fred Rost of the phone company reported that too much talking had overloaded eight switches and set the phone exchange on fire. of the war. But like all difficult novations, it already has evolved some serious kinks which must be ironed out. mainThey include: crew fatigue, tenance problems, weather conditions and home front production of planes to replace those lost in action. freJpon these factors depend the quency with which we can keep up the rain of bombs on Japan. The bombing of Japan from Saipan represents a gruelling experience for the crews involved, and allowances must be made to provide necessary rest periods. If any of the crews participating in the Thanksgiving Day raid tried it again three days later, it would be only natural to expect that their operational ability would be proved reduced because of the wearing effect of the earlier 3,000-milflight. It has also been found that information on weather over Japan is still not entirely accurate. But reconnaissance photos taken after the first two raids did show severe damage to a major aircraft plant outside of Tokyo, also effective shattering of several water front areas which are Jampacked with Tokyo traffic. Other Obstacles to Raids. Officials have also learned that still has certain defects the which may require modification in future production. These primarily concern the safety of air crews and should be remedied before bombing of Japan can be carried out on a e Louis Boardman halted his automobile in Cleveland to watch the By Remote Control. huge gas plant fire there last OctoThe Woodrow Andersons of the St. ber. He stepped out for a better view Louis ' Andersons are careful folk. and fell through an open manhole, So when Mr. Anderson got back the cover of which had been blown from a hunting trip, he placed his off by the gas blast. rifle on a kitchen shelf, out of reach, Clarence Brown Jr. of St. Louis of the Anderson children. Equally knows just how a baseball fan feels cautious, Mrs. Anderson took all the when he is really burned up. Watcharrows away from ing a sandlot game this summer, Donald before leaving the house to Clarence was struck by a line drive visit a neighbor. But Don still had and promptly burst into flames. The basis. on a the bow. So he merely substituted batter had scored a bull's-ey- e Air corps officials still reiterate a yardstick for an arrow and let pocketful of stick matches. Both the that the air phase of the war against it fly from the back porch toward the blaze and the batter were soon put Japan is nearing its climax, but kitchen. The yardstick went through out. admit that several more months will a hole in the screen door and struck Traveling Buzz Saws. pass before the air drive can be As in ate the trigger of the rifle. The rifle breakfast Henry Butler stepped up to its peak. went oiT, and the bullet struck Don's Jacksonville, Fla., a buzz saw ripped really One major hope is that General the kitchen sliced the little sister, Darlene. wall, through MacArthur's forces will be able to breakfast table neatly in two and secure several bases in the PhilipA good time was had by all but whirled out the other side of the can operate pines so that the the driver when a grocery truck upfrom there, thus smashing at the set in Bloomington, Calif., setting south of Japan almost at will. op an informal but popular vast size, it is Because cf the of the grocery in the middle conceal them to almost impossible zoomed through the other wall of street. Eager customers hurried under camouflage, with the result the house and eventually crashed from all sides to fill their needs, that Japanese planes still operating into a schoolhouse. Lieut W. J. their pockets and, in some cases, scores of fields in the Philipfrom McCarthy of Toledo, Ohio, pilot of the trunks of their cars. It was a at will if pines could bomb the fighter plane, was injured only boon for budgets and ration books. now. were on based Leyte they slightly. The blanket, undamaged, was found in the wreckage of the Then there was the strange case of RUSSIA AND JAPAN the disappearing woman. It happlane. Now that Stalin has put the Japapened in Los Angeles as Mrs. Jan-ie- l nese on notice for war, calling As ' an enthusiastic jitterbugger, Reesse gossiped of this and of them an aggressor nation, another Pfc. Ernest Olivier of McCook, that with three neighbors. In the chapter regarding Jimmy Doolittle's Neb., often had been "sent" by a middle of a sentence whoosh! Mrs. raid on Tokyo can be told. hot tune. But never as literally as Reesse disappeared. Firemen came the evening he spun In a super on the run, extricated her from a After dropping its bomb load on maneuver, grabbed for his pretty forgotten excavation 12 feet deep. Tokyo, one of the planes developed jiving partner's hand, missed - and Mrs. Reesse's fence-sid- e weight is house. It had broken loose from a a leak in its gas line. Aware that 325 pounds. he could not make friendly Chinese plunged through the second-stor- y saw mill nearby. window ef the dance hall. territory, the pilot set his course for Not so spectacular but just as surIf men bite dogs to make news, Soviet Siberia, figuring he might was of the feat another buzz Nine .persons riding cozily in an why shouldn't a horse smack an prising saw that went A. W. 0. L. This barely be able to reach dry land. automobile driven by Mrs. Adaline auto? That's what two Norwich, one broke loose in Florence, S. C, Internment, he figured, was better than execution. When the fuel gave Clasby of Winslow, Ariz., were in- Kan., horses figured one afternoon sailed through the air for a mile and jured slightly when the car crashed when they were scared silly by a ripped through the roof of a parked out, he had no idea where he was, into the rear of a bus that had girl on roller skates. They ran and car whose owner had but landed on the best flat stretch just alighted. he could find. . stopped, to discharge a passenger. ran until they encountered a parked Mrs. Clasby readily explained the car. Then they got their signals As the crew of the plane piled Robert Julian of Chiaccident. "I failed to see the bus in mixed. Horse No. 1 went on one side was shooting a dart gun at a out, a column of tanks appeared cago to 2 1 of the car, horse No. on the other. time stop," she said, "because on the wall. The dart had a over a nearby hill. The airmen was nursing my baby." That left only one place for the target rubber suction cup on the end to climbed back into their plane and 'Shot' by Lawnmower. wagon tongue to go right through hold when it struck a flat surface. prepared to make a fight for it, but When Pfc. Charles Smith came the car. Nobody was hurt. Often it hit glancingly, and didn't finally saw the Soviet red star on home to Claudell, Kan., to reAuto 'Picks Up' Boy. so Robert fastened a needle the leading tank and got out of the The driver of an auto in Chicago cling, cuperate from wounds received in in the suction cup so that the point plane again. three south Pacific invasions, he fig- wondered why people were point- would stick into the wall. The pilot walked forward to talk ured he would get some rest from ing and yelling at him one day with the Soviet major who jumped An elder brother, Frank, 19, enBut as he last August. He stopped the car and tered the room dodging shrapnel. just as Robert shot. out of the leading tank. Using Eng. watched a power lawnmower at The dart struck Frank in the chest. lish, gestures, and one or two words work in his front yard, the darn He felt a slight pain but thought of Russian, the pilot tried to exthing picked up an old spoon and of it at the, time. Later he plain how he happened to be there. nothing hurled it with such power and acFinally, the Russian officer stopped collapsed, and was rushed to the hoscuracy that it penetrated the calf of him. In fairly good English, he said: pital. Private Smith's leg and' had to be "Yes, we know all about the bombSurgeons discovered, after conremoved by an bperation. "It's the siderable hunting around, that there ing of Tokyo. And we knew one plane same wherever you go," Private was a needle imbedded near Frank's was in trouble and might be headSmith remarked glumly at the hosheart Little Robert had forgotten ing this way. We came out to see pital. about that sharp point on the end of if we could find you." Pvt. Harley Paul Collins of Kanhis dart, but it was there all the The bomber crew started to climb sas City, Kan., knows exactly bow same, and it came near killing his into the tanks when suddenly anPrivate Smith felt. For Private Colbrother. As it was, a skillful operaother column of tanks appeared from lins, home en furlough, was showtion removed the needle, and Frank the opposite direction. A Jap officer ing his wife how the boys make was as well as ever after a few came running toward the Russians, He over there. booked found, of all things, a bewildered days. booby traps shouting, "This is Japanese ter, up a shell, a board, a nail and a boy Timothy Ochall ritory. We demand the surrender of piece of wire. Then he tripped, and by name on the front bumper. The the Americans." Top honors in the freak fall dethe homemade contraption went off car had struck Timmy and carried partment for 1944 go to The Russian major Immediately and shot him In the leg. him two full blocks. Tim got a bump Raymond Davis Jr. of Chicago, dug out his maps, insisting he was on the head, a few bruises and a who fell three stories from a back on Soviet soil. The argument raged Paul Lewchick of Coaldale, Pa., flattering amount of attention. porch and suffered only a bruise on in German for knows that prudent people lay in a Ed Cloud and Earl Thomas of the head. A neighbor's clothes line til finally the several minutes, unJap stalked off supply of coal every year. But he Knoxville, Tenn., didn't know for a caught him as he fell, bounced him ordering his tanksangrily to fire. This was believes few of them do it as liter- minute whether they were coming gently a couple of times and then let answered by a from the Rusally as he did. He lay In and under or going the day that a train bit him fall the few remaining feet to sian tanks, bothvolley aiming at the sky. 13 tons of it when he and his car their truck. The engine tossed the the The Russian tanks then drove ground. on were buried beneath the contents of truck onto the pilot of another locoleaving the airplane behind. a coal truck that upset in a near motive going the other way. A And in Hollywood, Strip Teaser They had been collision with Lewchick's car. Dug scratch on Cloud's head was the only Betty Rowland put so much heart for about half going at a fast clip an hour, when the out after hard work, Lewchick casualty. into her work that sht bumped one Russian major turned to the Ameris nursed only minor cuts and bruises, of her swivel-hipagainst a wall can pilot and said: and refrained manfully from exIn Chicago, Mrs. Rita Hatfield ran and took off for the hospital, suffer"I now welcome you to the Union to answer the phone, stumbled over ing from partial paralysis. plaining that it was soft coal. of Soviet Socialist Republics" The border had just been crossed. rranks linn Tr.irrpdv t it Trirmcarwla of Homes Annually CAPITAL CHAFF Thousands of children are killed icebox while playing with his dog. Here are a few of 1944's cases: . Mrs. Melvyn The bttle Douglas will g0nn be or injured every year while playing. animal leaned A in the Long boy against in congress, elected from California Ignorance of dangerous things and Beach, Calif., crawled Into the tool door, shutting it and clicking the latch. The broth"h"d. suffocated whose s boy foolhardi-nesbefore heedlessness and an of trailabandoned places, compartment 400.000 are affiliated with his mother and sister returned. bring tragic consequences. It er. A companion with a grudge neither the AFL nor the CIO William was trying to smuse him-sel- f are seims unlikely that the time will thought it would be a neat trick to on the back porch, because he burned up over the appointment of ever come when little boys and girls slam the door. The lock snapped could not Thomas Cashen of the AFL switch-men- 's play in the yard He have sense enough not to Jump off and the boy remained inside the box tossed a union to the War rope over the clothesline. tion Mobile,, and Reconversion board'i barns, or leap from one floating Ice for 38 hours before being rescued Somehow, he got tangled up. A ' a panel. Although Cashen i AFL cake to another, or play in railroad by passerby. loop coiled about his neck. When . . in the transportation Another boy who lived in Chicago he tripped, the loop tightened, and union yards, or any of a hundred other perhe brotherhoods fee lhat on(,e, ilous stunts. was not so fortunate. 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