The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, September 15, 1944, Image 3
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. , - —
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* • •
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• • •
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At a USO concert a very stout
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wings of a dove, I’d fly ”
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Unanimous
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Mach Impressed
Munhall—Where in the world
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Jimmy—I went to a dance and
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place.
Wee Small Honrs
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was naturally intended to be •'
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H ave you been hearing or reading claims about tractor tire
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Remember that the Firestone Ground Grip Tread is patented.
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