Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 June 1942 — Page 14

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HINT NAZIS RULE IL DUCES FLEET

Otherwise, Wounded Italian Ships Would Have Run For Home.

Coovright. 1842. by The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Daily News. Ine

CAIRO, June 26.—There is good reason to believe that the Germans have the last say, not only in handling Italian troops in Libya, but as regards the Italian navy as well When, on June 15, two Italian

battleships and other vessels were bombed by Consolidated bombers of | the United States army air corps, the battleships, although hit, con-| tinued to sail toward the British | convoy bound for Malta, according | to royal air force reconnaissance re- | ports. This fact is interpreted as a sure indication there were Germans in| command of that Italian fleet, for, | it is said, Italians would never have | gone on after being hit by bombs. |

Prince in Rio

Prince Ernst von Starhemberg, former Austrian vice chancellor, arrives in Rio de Janeire from the Belgian Congo, where he was associated with Free French before break with General de Gaulle.

THIS MONTH, Champagne Velvet’s allowance of crowns set by government order (with which we cheerfully comply) will provide thousands of pounds of metal for Uncle Sam . . .

and, welcome!

THE THOUSANDS of pounds of C.V. crown metal — saved in one month alone — can make over 6,000 Rifles . . . or about 28,000 Steel Helmets . . . or close to 40 Jeeps . . . Reason aplenty, you'll say, to drink your beer the wartime way . . . in the 32 oz. Champagne Velvet

quart.

THAT'S WHY we say to you: “Share a Quart and Save a Crown”. . . Make one crown do the work of more than two . . . one crown for

you—1 and 2/3 crowns for Uncle Sam!

SHARE A QUART % SAVE A CROWN

FAVORS ALLIED ARMY OF MERCY

Mrs. Drexel-Biddle Urges Step to Relieve Starving

Children.

By WILLIAM E. STONEMAN

LONDON, June 26.— Immediate organization of an army of mercy to accompany the allied invasion force to Europe, in order to relieve

starvation of children in the conquered countries, was suggested by Mrs. Anthony J. Drexel-Biddle Jr., in an address to the National Baby Welfare Council here today. Mrs. Biddle, whose husband is ambassador to the occupied countries, has devoted much time to child welfare in the London slum district of Bermondsey. She suggested that the authorities begin now to assemble the necessary stocks of vitamins and concentrated foods and a selected group of people to administer their distribution.

Vanity, thy name is Narcissus

big bull frog that sits and looks at

himself in a mirror all the time. A woman lost the mirror, Walter found the frog in possession, had to purchase a new mixgror to placate the frog, now known as Narcissus after the legendary youth who looked at himself in a pool all the time.

“HERBST CORNERS, O., June 26.—Martin Walter has done it again. Martin Walter is the old Indian fighter who didn't gain national fame but should have

when he taught a turtle to play the harmonica and a frog to smoke cigarets. Now he has a

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Over When AVG Disbands July 4.

NEW DELHI, India, June 26 (U. P.).—The United States air force headquarters announced today that Col. Robert L. Scott of Georgia had been assigned to command the 23d pursuit grqup in China, which will replace the American Volunteer Group when the flying tigers are disbanded July 4. Scott will leave for China as soon as possible. He had served since April as second in command of the Assam-Burma-China ferry command, under Col. Caleb Haynes, who recently left his command in Assam. The fighting men of the volunteer group call Scott a “one man air force” and the Japanese look upon him as a great menace at all times. A native of Macon, Ga. Scott's trigger finger is as quick as his drawl is slow. A week ago he dropped his personal war against the Japanese to take over the command when Col. Haynes, veteran bombardment commander from Mount Airy, N. C.,, was transferred to China. Called “Lone Wolf” Col. Scott was noted among his reckless hard flying mates as a “lone wolf” who caught the Japanese by surprise, struck a stunning blow and escaped before they could organize pursuit. His last flight in the old role was just such a sortie. Col, Scott loaded a 550-pound bomb onto the fuselage of his pursuit plane and started looking for a worthwhile target. He found it when he spotted a troop barge moving up the Cmindwin river in western Burma. “Those babies certainly must have been surprised to see me show up alone out of nowhere,” he said today. “I laid that bomb right among them and I'll bet I killed 500.” Poured It Into Them

The day previous Col. Scott, flying alone, spotted a column of 50 Japanese trucks near Lashio. “I opened up and poured it into them until my machine guns were red hot, and I pretty well finished them off,” he said. Col. Scott didn't belong to the A. V. G., force, but he frequently flew with them. He had a good many official duties in India even before he was placed in command here, but hardly a day passed that he didn’t find time to get in a couple of hours against the Japanese.

FBI ANG 100 LAW ENFORCERS CONFER

The Federal Bureau of Investigation was to conduct a series of conferences here today with law enforcement officials of 35 surrounding counties. J. M. Lopez, agent in charge of the Indianapolis FBI office, said war-time law enforcement problems were to be discussed, stressing selective service violations and alien enemy control. More than 100 police officers and other law enforcement officials of Indiana cities and counties were expected to attend the conferences this afternoon at the federal building. Frederick C. Kroeger, general manager of the Allison Engineering plant here, was to address the officers.

HOPES U. S. EXPLOITS MASS AIR TRANSPORT

WASHINGTON, June 26 (U. P.). —A special house investigating committee will recommend that this country exploit the possibilities of mass air transport to meet wartime problems and assure supremacy in world markets after the war, it was disclosed today. Chairman Jack Nichols (D. Okla.) of the committee on air transport and safety which has been conducting an investigation for almost a year, said a report would be issued within a few weeks. Great emphasis, he said, would be placed on the importance of a world-encircling system of airplane travel. He predicted that “world markets” will be dominated by the nation which first develops the long-range heavy cargo plane.

CLAIMS PRICE LIMITS LOWER BEEF OUTPUT

WASHINGTON, June 26 (U. P.). —Senator Hugh Butler (R. Neb.) said in the senate today that price ceilings on beef are so “seriously hampering beef production” that a “shortage of meat is impending.” “The bureau of agricultural economics has estimated that meat supplies for domestic consumption will actually be less than last year,” Senator Butler said. “It is evident that meatless days before the year is out are almost a certainty, “Of what use is a price ceiling to the consumer if he can find no meat to buy at that price?” he asked.

WOMAN KILLED AS CAR TAKES PLUNGE

HUNTINGTON, Ind, June 26 (U. P.).—Mrs. Bernie Hayes, Dearborn, Mich,, was killed and her husband seriously injured yesterday in an accident on Road 24 east of here, Their son, Leland, 14, was less seriously hurt. Police said that Leland was driving, and apparently lost control at a bridge over Bull creek. The car went off the embankment and jumped 66 feet before finally land-

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YOICE from the Baicony

CHARD LEWIS

A Vaudeville Hater Breaks

Keith's opened up with its Chica

but elicited from me only a moan

cold and shuddery. And the

me out of the house.

thing terribly wrong. Thousands of people were having the time of their lives at the spectacle that simply bored me stiff. I couldn't laugh. I couldn't sit still. After 20 minutes or so of suffering, I'd figure I had done my duty and I would start to sneak out of the theater, only to run into Anton Scibilia, the manager, who is always around greeting people. “Stay and see our last act,” he would urge. “It's terrific.” I'd hang around for the singer of sweet songs number and then make a wild dash for the street. Often it occurred to me tc marvel at the stolid endurance of the

audience in tolerating juggling acts. 8 ”» 8 It Got Me

WELL, YESTERDAY, being black Thursday again for me, I am sitting in the third row, in a dark mood. The Weber Bros. and Chatita are doing some slackwire performing and I am suffering. But only momentarily. Disagreeably enough I find myself liking the act. I begin muttering to get back into form. Well, by the time the “Monocle Ambassadors” have completed their suave acrobatics I am getting ready to applaud for perhaps the first time in my vaudeville experience, but I catch myself in time. Freddy Stritt, the m. c., with his silly talk and parlor magic, somehow amuses me. “The Six Lovely Ladies,” who appeared in plain print dresses with a dirndl effect because their wardrobe didn’t come or something, sing very well. In fact, there is a contralto in the group with a beautiful voice. Valla Kay, a sort of brunet Mae West, who sat on the lap of the customer in the second row for a few exciting seconds, does a pretty fair routine with Mr. Stritt. The four Whitson brothers, Hoosier-born acrobatic comedians, are positively “terrific,” to borrow a phrase from Mr, Scibilia.

Reformed

I GUESS I forgot myself and applauded. I just couldn't help it. I guess I have seen the light, so to speak. It came to me suddenly that here is a form of entertainment which is tops when it’s fresh and alive. One has to be tolerant toward it when it goes dead, as it so often does, because when it’s good, nothing can touch it. And Keith's show this week is the best I believe Mr. Scibilia has had yet. We are accustomed, I think, to seeing the worn-out, frayed edges of the vaudeville that used to be, for the edges are all that survived during the lean years when vaudeville existed in county and state fairs. But now, it appears, vaudeville is coming back with the freshness and the snap it used to have. Too many of us, I suspect, associate vaudeville with the pale, wan thing of five, 10, even 12 years ago. I know I did, but I have seen the error of my ways. Why, I even got a kick out of Lew Hoffman, the juggler.

'BABY DUMPLING' OF THE SCREEN SUES

HOLLYWOOD, June 26 (U. P.). —The screen’s “baby dumpling” of the “Blondie and Dagwood” series demanded $118,000 today in a damage suit against radio's “baby dumpling.” A suit filed in behalf of Larry Simms, 7, who plays the role on the screen, contended that Leon Le Doux of the radio show imitated “the exact detonation, inflection and pitch” of the movie childs voice. The petition said Larry had suffered damage to a valuable “property right, the use of his own natural voice.” Le Doux’ imitation was so good, the complaint said, that Larry's fans

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FOR MANY YEARS I have instinctively disliked vaudeville. me, it has been the essence of corn in public entertainment.

of misery. The master-of-cere- | monies and his 1912 gags left me |

chorus of frolicking females drove

But somehow, there was some- |

Down

To When go road show series, I sat down in

the third row on Thursday afternoons and groaned aloud. The antics of the six flying Fiorello’s or whoever they were, “stellar performers on the aerial wire,” etc. brought down the house,

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Freddy Stritt and Valla Kay as they appeared yesterday after‘noon to the lens of our photographer’s candid camera. He was sitting in the front row.

SUES TARZAN CREATOR JUAREZ, Mexico, June 26 (U. P.). —Mrs. Edgar Rice Burroughs, wife of the creator of Tarzan and other adventure characters, is seeking a divorce from the writer in civil court here, Judge Xavier Rosas Ceballos disclosed today. She charges Bur=roughs with “mental cruelty and incompatability of characters,” Ceballos said.

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