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Show i to the Editor: SVar Dept. phoned our Girl regarding some unhappy let-om let-om G.I.s in Europe. Gen. nver personally was contacted contact-ed the caller, and "couldn't ' anyone would say or write ;. . The letters, it appears, . rlth a "rumor" that this col-allegedly col-allegedly published but we "said it or broadcast It or )t or anything! ... The griev-';as griev-';as over a report that G.I.s European zone "with 70 5r more" couldn't comt home U. S. because they had crlm-co'rds crlm-co'rds or vd. . . . Drew Pear-ally Pear-ally revealed that it originat-ondon originat-ondon recently over the Brit-oadcasting Brit-oadcasting System. ... We Ince been told that Gen. Eisen-is Eisen-is so informing all concerned , ' our troops abroad. rSws weekly recently reported -vo of the eight saboteurs (who anded by Nazi sub at Long Is-Vd Is-Vd Florida) had tipped the ::f the landings and that these i en were promised "a break" 'dn't get it. . . . These two are "l Dasch and Burger. . . . The J.ry tribunal decided all eight "i to death, but J. Edgar Hoo- Id FDR that Dasch and Bur-Lid Bur-Lid helped considerably, and it , FDR who commuLeu " sentences to 30 years for one Se for the other. . . . Dasch, it ";rs is "almost a mental case, Vurger "still is helpful to our "ias a witness against former r es " . . When the war is of-:sr of-:sr declared ended by Congress l prob'ly be deported to Ger- (5 late Blaze, owned by the El-fRoosevelts, El-fRoosevelts, continues to wield ence on air travel. Gen. Hap A and his wife are flying to the about New Year's when the -al steps Into a top job in non- ry aviation. They hoped to "along (by plane) their cocker 1, but Mrs. Arnold was wor--h'ere'd be another newspaper versy. She didn't worry long fl-y company on the West Coast M to send a plane. . . . Ex-'- Maury Maverick, now in Ja- Isays: "Not enough news or ;asts about the Pacific. Gen. rthur is the right man for uljg down the Japs, and we are jcoilizing in the U. S. A. too ner ildent Truman stepped in and lf3ited the budget director from ,."g FBI appropriations. Tru-'"s Tru-'"s giving the G-Men the same -t they got from Roosevelt. . . . ( ((2cent fact that J. Edgar Hoo- jfter 24 years' service to the m' is broke, brought him several from big firms to take execu- Bsts at iancy wages, uui g in Washington indefinitely. His former special agent in k of the Detroit office (John J), who resigned to become I; Ford's public relations chief, TBI to be getting $65,000 per an-Another an-Another report is $50,000. . . . loover gets $iu,uuu. ..., er,tome he got $9,000 while the tigfcof Justice press agent got 10 i up?. . Incidentally, the various u8his on LaGuardia's salary as a Vafentator are said to be exag-upfd. exag-upfd. . . . The report that "$100,-melow" "$100,-melow" does not jell with what hest-s claim that it is $50,000. ngp lg.,Mwn Vignette: Reporters tell yjt one of the craft who was vjjad down the bay to meet a L-lxrinSg home troops. ... He a particularly interview one f (heroes. . . . The reporter was ' V with copy paper and pencils, -ien he sat at his typewriter ldn't do the story. . . . "I'm ' he told his city editor, "I even figure how to get two aphs out of it. I told him nted to do a nice piece about lng a hero, and this is all I v yget out of him. He said: ,.,we stood and shivered in the Then we ran like the devil. Swas a heluva noise and then d a nurse say: 'Drink this, jjjjlg Parade: Wally and Noah, ieery Beerys, looking like Vphans as they waited for f.i front of that hotel. . . . Ella . the Hollywood eyeful, cross-i cross-i At and L' Avenue des Amer-... Amer-... Walter Abel raising Cain i Sardi's waiter. . . . Bing s& ' at the Jerome Kern memo- hearsal as the rumor spread 'i3ing had suddenly passed 3. Hattie Carnegie, the fash-3 fash-3 looking very chic in creations i-,rlj own. . . . Nancy Carroll and Jjirmer groom, producer Jack ,..Jnd, still the best of pals. -CCdwayitcs suspect the reason iayworth's marriage to Orson c curdled is that he stepped ry- the shower one day and she pageto shout: "Bravo!" . . . Ex-;cioui;sador Ex-;cioui;sador Hurley would like the 'fo psidential candidacy, but will jfor veepe. . . . Hank Green-tbe Green-tbe nay get the Ford agency in lean Sec'y of the Navy For-FRE For-FRE has assigned several smart j. JJ;tes around the nation (one is pnln Ryan Jr.) to form civilian r s to fight the army's unifica- lan. |