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Show Mil S II 1 1 rzr i Private Pa per $ Of a Cub Reporter: He was one of the very first mem-ben mem-ben of the RAF Eagle Squadron, the group of American who fought Hitler before the U. S. decided to take him on . . . The records of the RAF reveal that he is credited with shooting down 46 enemy .planes " with "63 probables" ... After the squadron decided to permit Yanks to enlist In the U. S. forces, he saw action In North Africa . . . Now he Is a student at the Officers' Candidate Candi-date School at Miami "to learn how to fight"! . . . But wait . . . That's not the story ... His hometown home-town board has him posted for draft evasion! The story about the soldier who turned up .months after the War Dep't had officially declared him dead brought this u .. ..A Hollywood lad ran away from home as a kid, and soon after his father died. The parent's estate couldn't be settled without locating the prodigal son. The family tried every method, but when the legal waiting period elapsed and he failed to show up, he was declared legally dead . . . The "dead man," it appears, who had been abroad, returned to the U. S., made a career for himself in Hollywood Holly-wood and now spends his leisure weighing the advantages against the disadvantages . . . Of course, he cannot vote but he doesn't pay any taxes! Some of ns think we've solved the riddle about all the wild rumors sweeping our armed forces and nation na-tion many of which are credited to this broadcaster . . . Particularly the recent rumors, viz: "Did you ever say the war would end in 45 days? Didn't you say our base was concentration camp? And didn't you say Deanna Durbin, Bette Davis and Judy Garland were killed in a plane crash flying to entertain troops?" In the Satevepost for Nov. 21st, 1942, an article titled "Hitler's Short-Wave Short-Wave Rumor factory" reveals that an American in Berlin named Joe Scanlon plays American recordings and then "shouting breezily, says: 'Hello Folks 1 -This is Station Debunk bringing you the inside dope from every where!' "... The America-nazi America-nazi prefaces his bulletins with: "Flash!" and then offers depressing stories of disasters to American troops, etc. . . .' Says the Satevepost: Sateve-post: "For the next few minutes the technique, though not the content, con-tent, Is reminiscent of WinchelL" Incidentally, the Nazis' secret weapon was revealed by Hitler long ago, but few of us remembered that he once said: "All I need for a war are planes, tanks and loudspeakers!" Notes of an Innocent Bystander: The Wireless: Quent Reynolds showed the Germans no mercy on the Forum argufying. He saw the suffering that the war criminals caused, and he wants them paid off the way they've asked for it. Walter Millis, H-Trib editorialist, is for easing eas-ing up claiming we can't build new world on hate ... "Soldiers of the Press" is a wallopy dramatization drama-tization of UP staffers at the battlefields. battle-fields. Its lingo is a joy, crisp and soldiery, and probably very McCoy. Henry Gorrell's strafing by the Stu-. kas was a hair-raiser . . . Raymond Gram Swing should repeat bis informative in-formative and common-sense piece on what lend-lease means. Too many, empty-heads are still yapping that' they haven't got sugar for their berries ber-ries because foreigners are heaping it on bread when they have bread. Their dumbness Is too great to be natural. They seem to be coached in it . . . Bing Crosby's show is friskier and funnier since he shaved It to thirty minutes. The halving gives him fewer dead-weight guest-ars guest-ars to tote on his back. The Magazines: There's a lot of debating going on about how many of the Germans are. guilty of their country's crimes against the world.. Gerard Swope enlightens lot of lis In Free World with his piece, "The Futility of Conquest" He includes this eyebrow lifter: "Prussia In Germany Is the center of the disease' dis-ease' of war and has been for over two hundred years" . . . Wooll- eott's last piece (Reader's Digest) starts: "This article is a step per- ! haps the final one . . ." The very . last word is "cemetery"! The sort of .story he liked, writing . '. , George Washington was nobody's sissie, but he addressed love poems to his lovelies, according to Encore, which reprints one. George was torching plenty when he picked up his quill, judging from the opening words: "O ye Gods." , Doodlings: Dudley Field Malone who portrays Churchill In a new film was an outstanding child actor. Recited Re-cited Shakespeare's "Richard HI" ' in grammar school . . . Harry Rjchman, whose theme song 'Is "I 1 Love a Parade," has his slumbers disturbed each sunup by singing soldiers sol-diers on the rnarc!TT;?ar his Miami -Jtea4wB!ti -..Sfclrnng--bMdrr;, over the files you find out that some --of --of the loudmouths in and out of congress who yelled for a second front once got into a lather about sending troops on foreign soil. |