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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY. S. C. While Walter Winehell it away, his column will be conducted by guest columnists. Cabled From Somewhere /n Dutch New Guinea By George Lait (laterastioaml News War Correspoodtot.) Col. David W. Hutchison, com mander of one of the wings of Lieut. Gen. George Kenny’s bomber force in the New Guinea interior, now en route to his home in Madison, Wis., on leave, told me of a new tech nique evolved on the spur of the moment by one of his night fighter pilots. The technique, however, is not recommended too highly for re peat performances. This night fight er took off to attack Jap bombers which were raiding Wake Island. Anti-aircraft gunners and search light crews could hear his engine purring in the sky. Suddenly, over the radio they heard the pilot shout: “I am coming into searchlights! For Pete’s sake shoot this so-and-so off my tail.” The fighter pilot roared into the searchlights’ beams with the Jap bomber close behind. The anti aircraft crews shot off the Jap’s tail. There’s a big treasure hunt going on at Lae, British New Guinea. Not for Guinea gold, but for 200 cases of prewar Scotch whiskey buried there by Manager Bums, of Philip Company, before the Jap invasion. Bums, who is now in England with the RAF, intends returning after the war to dig up his cache. The Yanks, with everything from entrenching tools to bulldozers, meanwhile are ripping up the jungle, hoping to beat him to the swag. Some New Guinea points have a real Broadway flavor these days. In one day I bumped into Maj. Abe Schechter, former bigshot at NBC; Sgt. George McLemore, noted sports columnist, now a combat cor respondent; Lieut. Jack Miley, the sports writer, still of approximately the same tonnage as the heavy cruiser on which he is serving; Lieut. Larry Jones, whose father operates Gertner’s restaurant, New York., and who is in charge of the largest GI messes in the southwest Pacific; Lew Parker and Jackie Heller, night club performers enter taining troops; Jack Davis, New York representative of the Aus tralian Consolidated Press, who came over for a six-month gander at the war; Capt. Jack Cross, Westchester county journalist (husband of Pow ers model Betty Riddell) and Capt. Dick Krolick, also a journalist and habitue of East 45th street’s famous Pen and Pencil bar; Eddie Dowl ing’s son, Jack, war correspondent for a Chicago newspaper; Douglas (Wrongway) Corrigan, ferrying planes for the Fifth air force, and CoL Merian Cooper (he’s gone home on leave to visit his wife, the former .Dorothy Jordon of the movies) who produced “Chang,” “Grass,” and “Long Voyage Home”; Alfred Vanderbilt, who with his brother, George, is giving the Japs hell as commanders of PT boats. Phil La Follette, former Governor of Wisconsin, has just been pro moted to full colonel. He’ll be going home soon on leave. . . . Lady Emily Coote of Boston’s Back Bay and widow of the first Baronet of Ireland, is now in charge of on-; of the largest Red Cross outfits in Aus tralia, caring for the wants of re cently arrived WACs. . . . Every body knows Corp. Lew Ayres now serving as a chaplain assistant at Hollandia, but few know that Tech. Sgt. Frankie Darro is a dispensing pharmacist at one of New Guinea’s big hospitals. He is the former child star who specialized in tough kid roles. Capt. Lanny Ross has been almost solely responsible for shepherding around the southwest Pacific all of the bigshot entertainers such as Jack Benny, Bob Hope, Carol Landis, Martha Tilton, Jerry Colonna, Larry Adler and Gary Cooper. . . . One of the biggest successes in New Guinea, who, wiseacres thought, would be a flop, was Judith Ander son, who presented Shakespeare to the GIs, and they loved it. . . . Lee Vanatte, INS daredevil flying corre spondent with the Far East air force, tells the story of a combat sergeant who, physically unfit for further fighting, was transferred to army post office censorship to as sume duties ordinarily assigned to women. The disgruntled, disgusted sergeant reported to his command ing officer, “Sir, I have come to re place a WAC!” Jack Benny got 'plenty of belly- laughs from General MacArthur’s GIs with his crack: “I am an old- timer in these Pacific Islands — I used to spend weekends at Cata lina.” . . . Lt. Cmdr. George Halas, who used to coach the Chicago Bears professional football team, and is now serving as recreation and welfare officer for the 7th fleet, is accompanying Bob Hope’s party on its tom' of the southwestern Pacific area and sees that the navy boys get their share of the enter* tainment, — __ THOUGHTS ON THOSE PREWAR SUMMERS Can you remember those sum mers away back when the only wars raging were between baseball clubs? When you could hear the name Adolf anywhere and not link it up with anything? When you thought you were mak ing a sacrifice if you shared the suntan oil with somebody else, passed up the moonlight swim or re fused a second hot dog? When an “all out” effort meant participation by the whole family in the argument with the motorcycle cop? • Those were the days! The only “ultimatum” that dis turbed you was “Pull over to the curb.” You thought a dictator was the fellow on the ferry pier who barked, “No more cars on this trip!” Hitler was a name on a delicates sen store window. “Total war” was an argument in Sunday traffic between the occu pants of two cars, the fenders of which had just been scraped. • Ah me! It was away back when all you worried about in summer was poison ivy, sunburn and whether you’d ever learn to dive. The Russian front was a certain style in sable coats. A 100 per cent American was any fellow who asked the swimming re sort band to play "Yankee Doodle.” Hampering the war effort was throwing a pop bottle at a pitcher. The headline, “Yanks Forge Ahead,” meant that Babe Ruth was clouting ’em over the fence as usual. • The only way you could run short »f gasoline was through a leak in the tank. The complaint, “It’s been a tough summer with mo,” could be voiced by anybody who had fallen out of a boat, lost a pair of oars or eaten too much stewed corn. A disaster was thought to have oc curred if one of the two spare tires had been stolen. The “manpower problem” had something to do with getting the necessary music for a summer re sort orchestra. And the only “woman-power prob lem” revolved around the task of getting the dishes washed and the beds made in time to start the week end auto trip by 12 noon sharp. • Oh, boy! Just recall ’em . . . tne days when dotted lines on maps showed the best roads to vacation resorts. The only “objective” that had to be taken was a room with cross ventilation. • And you thought a beachhead was a bather with a hangover! • • • Salute Here’s to Stillwell— Uncle Joe- Fighter from his Head to toe; Soldier when the Breaks are hot. And even better When they’re not! • • * ' The Federal Council of Berne has ruled that Switzerland no longer shall admit bad actors to that coun try as a friendly haven. Swiss au thorities are now empowered to for bid entry to all foreigners “who be cause of reprovable deeds, appear to have made themselves unworthy of asylum.” At last the Swiss aban don the rather absurd view that an egg is an egg fresh, storage or rot ten. • • • The film “Wilson” has been barred from the army. A great fuss is being made over the ruling at home, but the indignation among the fighting men is nil. “Wilson” is a swell movie, but it is not the kind the fighting men go for in a big way. For the GI’s to get excited, it would have had to have Lana Turner play* ing Mrs. Wilson. • • • We see by the papers that the OPA in New York has fixed ceil ings on “two eggs any style,” the ham and egg sandwich, the hambur ger and the ham and cheeser, but We remain a skeptic. You can’t find two eggs any style on most menus, it having long been the cus tom to limit the d ish to one egg. And if Mr. Wooley can find a place where a hamburger sandwich is available at his ceiling levels we will crown him the Wizard of the Month. • • • A woman in a suburban town has been fined $100 because she fired a pistol at a house guest. If a woman can’t provide more excitement than that at modern house parties she de* serves to be punished. • • • Can You Remember— Away back when the term “but ter and egg man” was used dis paragingly? • • • We hope that America's postwar world will not include the “jet taxicab.” By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union. B Y THIS time, if you’re a Charlie McCarthy fan, you’ve met Effie, Edgar Ber gen’s newest dummy. Effie is the result of the combined ef forts of a number of people. Bergen submitted some Effie recordings to a dozen or more Disney-Schlessinger cartoonists, and the final result is a composite of the best features of all their drawings. EFFIE Dairo, a well-known portrait artist, made up her face. Bergen, who has had a female dummy under con sideration for some time as a foil for Charlie, hopes we, the public, will like Effie. * Allen Jenkins, character come dian who left Hollywood more than a year ago and has since traveled $7,000 miles entertaining the armed forces, will return to the movies in “The Wonder Man,” the Samuel Goldwyn comedy starring Danny Kaye. Now in North Africa with a USD camp show, Jenkins cabled ac ceptance of a gangster role similar to the one he did for Goldwyn in “BaU of Fire.” John Neshbitt, who broadcasts his “Passing Parade” over CBS three nights a week, has just finished a Metro “Passing Parade” movie short, "Moments that Made His tory.” It highlights discoveries of the stethoscope, sulfanilamide and the vulcanization of rubber. * Dean Jagger, who served as chap erone on the Blue network’s “Blind Date” recently, was spending his last evening in this country. He flew to England the next day to begin work on a picture for the British government, which is designed to promote good will between England and the United States; when com pleted, the film will be released in this country. * Ensign Jay Robinson, U. S. N., who won the $500 cash award in a nation-wide contest for the best American conception of Salome, used no model for the portrait—so now Director Mervyn Leroy is trying to find somebody who looks like it, to play the Salome role in “The Robe.” It will be more prominent in the RKO picture than it was in the widely read book. It looks as if Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy would have to ap pear together in pictures and on the air forever. Their second costar ring appearance on the air, in the first of this year’s DeMille theater programs, was the result of an ava lanche of mail requesting it. -*r- The August Daytime Network Hooperatings reports that “When a Girl Marries” leads the list of “Top Ten” weekday programs. “Ma Per kins” is second, and “Our Gal, Sun day” third. Then come “Big Sister,” “Romance of Helen Trent,” “Life Can Be Beautiful,” “Stella Dallas,” “Young Widder Brown,” “Kate Smith Speaks,” and “Breakfast at Sardi’s.” M-G-M is going to launch King Vidor’s “An American Romance” in style befitting the elaborate produc tion. On October 27, according to present plans, the picture will have initial showings in each of the state capitals and the national capital. Vidor says that he’s been thinking about this picture for 18 years, ever since he made “The Big Parade” —typifying the spirit of America. * Those battered shoes which Ed Wynn wears to his broadcasts have borne him through 42 years of stage, screen and radio stardom, so of course he got them out for his new “Happy Island” radio program. Originally purchased for $3.50, Wynn figures that they've cost him $5,000 for upkeep, but he refuses to part with them—the rationing situation is his latest excuse. ' *— ODDS AND ENDS—“The Shadoui,“ one of radio’s most chilling dramas, returns to the air via Mutual September 24. . . . The new band leader for Metro’s “Screen Test,“ Ted Steele, started in radio as an NBC page boy. . . . Marguerite Chapman has the lead opposite Paul Muni in “Counter-AttackMuni will play a Rus sian guerrilla. . . . Dorothy Lamour let her hair return to its natural dark brown shade for her role of a paisano girl in “A Medal for Benny.” . . . Nearly ten yean ago Fred MacMurray made his first Para mount picture, the “Gilded Lily,“ with Claudette Colbert; their latest costarrer, “Practically Yours,” is her latest under contract to Paramount. , - — SEWING CIRCLE PATTERNS Summer-Time Chic in Jumper Non-Slip Straps Sure to Appeal In High Colors 'T'RY this smooth jumper in high- style colors — in lime green, fuchsia, powder blue, gold or an eye-taking lipstick pink! 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