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WHO’S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON
(Consolidated Features—WNU Service.)
N EW YORK.—It was last August
that Mrs. Oveta Culp Hobby of
Houston, Texas, became head of the
women’s division of the army’s bu-
Woman Journalist J^Jefations.
Scores for Ladies She said she
In Defense Effort w . ou1 ?, °^ a '
nize the divi
sion to tell women what they wanted
to know about the army. Her suc
cess has been such that today her
achievement is being nationally rec
ognized as a bang-up score for wom
en in the defense effort.
Mrs. Hobby is executive vice
president of the Houston Post,
and hence a specialist in telling
people what they want to know.
Newspaper women are happy in
finding a government public re-
} latlons bureau which offers some
thing more than hand-outs in
press co-operation. The post is
important as a liaison between
soldiers and wives and mothers.
She is 35 years old, pretty, slen
der, stylish, brisk and businesslike,
the wife of William Pettus Hobby,
tvfcce governor of Texas. Her
achievements in the above few years
are such that they may only be
briefed in the space available here:
In addition to running the Houston
Post, she is the active executive of
radio station KPRC; director of a
national bank; director of the South
ern Newspaper publishers’ associa
tion; a member of the board of re
gents of the Texas State Teachers’
college, of the Junior League, the
Houston Symphonic society and the
National Association of Parliamen
tarians.
She studied law, was admitted
to the bar, codified Hie state
banking laws, was parliamenta
rian for the Texas assembly for
several years, was assistant city
attorney of Houston, wrote a
book on parliamentary law
called “Mr. Chairman,” which
is used as a text book in the
schools of Louisiana and Texas,
syndicated a column on parlia
mentary law and served as re
search editor, literary editor, as
sistant editor and, since 1938,
executive editor of Hie Houston
Post.
In 1939, Mrs. Hobby was awarded
the annual certificate of merit of
the National Federation of Women’s
Press Clubs, for outstanding work in
journalism. She was bom in Tem
ple, Texas, the daughter of an at*
tomey of the town.
With all the above activities, she
says she has had ample time for her
children, a boy of nine and girl of
five. ^
tp IGHTY-year-old Rep. Joseph Jef-
ferson Mansfield of Texas has
made a career of planned river and
harbor development and control. It
Rep. Mansfield at ££* behold
80 Is Still Battling days in Vir-
Unruly Waterway,
ing a horse to the grist mill, with
sacks of corn stowed fore and aft.
When he forded an angry stream,
com and horse were swept away
and he had a hard time making
shore, with no end of trouble there
after.
Then and there he became a
flood-battler, ready to take on
any undisciplined waterway, for
its own good and the well-being
of the commonwealth. So, nat
urally, in his 25 years in con
gress he has been chairman of
the rivers and harbors commit
tee. He’s in form and in his
stride today, as he contends that
only river and harbor projects
qualify as bona fide defense un
dertakings, and rate advance
ment in the “immediate con-
strucHon” file.
He has been 54 years in politics,
a resident of Texas since 1881, when
he settled in Eagle Lake—city at
torney, mayor, county attorney,
county judge for 10 terms, and con
gressman. In 1926 he suffered a mal
ady which cost him the use of his
legs. He campaigned and won in a
wheel chair and carried on in con
gress, from his special wheel chair
stance to the right of the speaker’s
dais. * •
His father, a Confederate soldier,
was killed in battle six months after
his son was born. He battles val
iantly for a sea-level Panama canal
and for transportation of Texas oil
•astward on inland waterways.
J UST before the war started, Vlad
imir Kyrillovitch, a son of the
.late Grand Duke Cyril, and pretend
er to the throne of .czarist Russia,
was working in a Diesel engine fac
tory in England. He said he would
learn and impart to his following of
2,000,000 White Russians the skills
necessary to reclaim their homeland.
He was soon back to his Brittany
estate and now news of his repeated
visits to Paris follow several reports
that tiie Nazis are encouraging him
to believe that he might yet stage a
Romanoff comeback.
‘Hornets’ for Uncle Sam—and Hornet’s Nest
msm
A view of the U.S.S. Hornet, the navy’s newest aircraft carrier, is shown at left. The Hornet displaces
20,000 tons and has a speed in excess of 30 knots. Right: In the biggest single delivery of military planes in
aviation history, 123 Vultee Valiants, basic training planes, roared over Los Angeles en route to army and
navy training stations. Some of them are shown, just before the takeoff at Downey, Calif.
Scenes From Russo-German Front
Night Attack in Mediterranean
This photograph, one of the most striking of its kind ever taken, shows
a battleship of the British Mediterranean fleet in action as an Axi air
attack is repelled. Tremendous flashes from anti-aircraft guns firing
simultaneously to port and starboard outline the superstructure of the
battleship in lurid flame.
At National Youth Day Rally
First Ladies
Wi
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Bulldog Queen
—
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Pictured here, laft to right, are U. S. Sen. Joseph H. Ball, of Minne
sota, Brig. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, Paul V. McNutt, federal security
administrator, and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. as they attended the National
I Youth Day rally in New York. They were the principal speakers at
| Hie rally.
10
By VIRGINIA VALE
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
AFTER Veronica Lake made
her screen debut in “I
WantedWings,” there was plenty
of comment about what fashion
experts call the “plunging neck
line” of her attire. Veronica’s
necklines held the all-time rec
ord for plunging; for a while
they attracted almost as much
attention as Dorothy Lamour’s sa
rongs. In “This Gun for Hire” the
blonde bombshell is going to give
the clothes-conscious public another
jolt; this time she’s going to wear
tights. The script’s to blame—she’s
cast as an entertainer in a night
club who does sleight of hand tricks
and sings, and that seems to call for
tights. That is, it evidently does in
Hollywood.
*
Telegraphers are going to have
more fun than anybody when
Eleanor Powell does that new tap
dance in “I’ll Take Manila”; to most
The Nazis occupy a captured Russian trench (left). One of the soldiers Is taking a nap on the cold ground
of the bottom of the trench. The “gooiness” of the Russian terrain has had a delaying effect even on the 1
German war machine. From Berlin comes this picture (right) showing the Nazi’s own tanks with wheels en*
meshed in huge gobs of mud.
Mrs. Ruth Licklider, who became
“Mrs. America” at a Palisades
Park, N. J., beauty contest, is pic
tured as she was received by Mrs.
Franklin D. Roosevelt at the White
House. Mrs. Licklider is a red'
haired Powers model.
ELEANOR POWELL
of us it will be just a swell dance,
but we’re told that wireless opera
tors will read a definite message in
the taps!
—*— ,
Paramount’s fixed up a bannister
cycle for us—not Barbara Bannister,
but the kind that accompanies
stairs. In “Birth of the Blues” six-
year-old Carolyn Lee power-dives
down one, smack into Bing Crosby.
In “The Great Man’s Lady” Barbara
Stanwyck slides down another, in
crinolines. For “The Wizard of Ar
kansas” Bob Burns shoots the ban
nister chutes, but Bunts, of course,
is different; he picks up a splinter
on the way. And this, it is felt,
will definitely end the bannister
cycle.
—*—
Richard de Rochemont, managing
editor of The March of Time, says
that filming “The Story of the Vati
can” was like a vacation. Since
1934 he has been chasing film scoops,
and more than once he’s escaped
death by a narrow margin. “At the
Vatican I had a good crew of tech
nicians, all our locations were in a
small area, and there were no in
trigues or subversive movements
to be dealt with,” says he,
The latest March of Time is
“Sailors With Wings,” which traces
the development of the navy’s air
service and how it operates in part
nership with the fleet; it’s vital and
absorbing, one of those pictures that
you won’t want to miss.
——
The manager of an RKO theater
on Long Island heard patrons imi
tating the voice of the RKO Pathe
rooster so often that he finally ar
ranged a contest and let them crow
for cash and poultry; several hun
dred persons mounted the stage and
crowed like mad.
Glenn Ford almost sailed off to
distant ports the other day as a way
of getting into the right mood for
“Martin Eden,” his next picture.
He was just stepping on board a
freighter, believing that its next stop
was San Francisco, when a produc
tion assistant raced to the dock and
stopped him. He wanted to sign on
as a seaman and see what it was
like. But—five minutes later the
freighter sailed—for Honolulu.
—*—
The radio scoop of the year is the
signing of Shirley Temple to do four
programs for one of the big watch
manufacturers. For the first time
in her career she’ll be on the air
regularly—Friday evenings, Decem
ber 5 to 26, 10 to 10:30, Eastern
Standard Time, on CBS. She will
do a series of four Christmas pro
grams, in which she will sing and
present Christmas playlets, and her
salary for the month’s work will be
$50,000. Radio sponsors have been
pursuing the young star for years.
Champion English bulldog, Cefam-
afcley Queen, reads up on her an
cestry before showing at the thirty-
first annual dog show, to b« held 1a
Chicago November 29-30.
ODDS AND ENDS—"Hold Back ih«
Dawn" is holding back other pictures; the
ater owners have found it so popular that
they're extending its run, and it’s running
neck and neck in receipts with "Caught in
the Draft," Paramount's top grosser of the
year . . . Oscar Levant, of "Information
Please" and a couple of pictures, has been
signed to a term contract by Paramount
. . . Berwyn, Okla., will appear on pew
maps as Gene Autrey, Okla. . . . Jeanette
MacDonald and Nelson Eddy are reunited
again in "l Married an Angel” . . , Milton
Berle can tell five Jokes a minute and keep
up that pace for two hours without repeat
ing himself, if anybody’ll let him.
. • V— .
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