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Off the Record— ‘I'll Always Love You . ..

New Peogy Lee Tune Sounds |

Familiar

‘While We. Were Young’ Is Similar to

‘Don’t Smoke in Bed’

REMEMBER a tune Peggy Lee| made that didn’t get very popu-|} lar “Don’t Smoke in Bed.”? !

Like a couple of other Lees| that didn't make the hit parade—|§ “A Nightingale Can Sing the § Blues,” and “A Long, Long Trai § with a Red Caboose”—“Smoke” § was one of the sultry-voiced| songstresses better efforts. Her latest effort, “While We Were Young,” sounds a lot like| “Don’t Smoke in Bed.” It's a semi-| vocal semi-narrative bit which Peggy does with. a sob in her voice. Backing it is a novelty

n o ” “Similaun.” | th 4 4 Incidentally, if you're a Benny| Mo er un S

Strong fan, most of the locall

Mrs. Melvin T. Ross ..+ They're seeking one of

Hangs on Runways

Corporation Officers | Reply to CAB Order

Condition of Hoosier runways, will decide whether or not Roscoe Turner Aeronautical Corp. will be able to start feeder flight service July 1, as ordered this. week by [the Civil Aeronautics Board, corporation officials said yesterday. Paved airlanes must be built in Connersville, Bedford, Lafayette and Bloomington to fly the proposed routes twice daily from ! Grand Rapids, Mich. to Cincinnati and Chicago to Louisville, 8 Dale G. Mason, vice president in ll (charge of operations said yester-| day. { © All the needed runways will not {be completed before September or October, A. W. Compton, district engineer in Civil Aeronautics Administration said. Only possibility of beginning service by then is on the Grand |Raplds-Cincinnati line, which is {dependent on. the completion of the Connersville runway, Turner (officials said. Bids for Connersville lanes, 2550 feet by 75 feet, [stin are being accepted.

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and Connee Boswell Miss Boswell's old records.

Favorite

° > Sel § nis stores are featuring some of xs Boswell Disc of War Hero Loue Of he proposes Heuts

Tower Igbel records, in conjunc-| tion with his appearance at the Indiana Roof. this week-end. Pieces like “Stumblin,” “Mary Lou,” “That Red Head Gal," “Pretty Momma Mine,” his well| known “Five Feet Two,” “Dream Baby,” all are on Tower. came rushing home, taking two st label. player with a new platter by his f “Hey, Mom, listen to this,”

hill does beautiful things on the |jve in infamy,” Dec. 7, 1941. oldie “If I Forget You" backed Young Melvin Ross Jr. was one by his fragile, eerie theme “Snow-| of the first to enlist in Boston. fall”; Trumpet | Mass., Where his parents, Mr. and m a n Charlie Mrs. Melvin T. Ross Sr, 418% Shavers takes a N. Alabama St. then lived.

stab at vocaliz- [Within a month ing on “Enjoy he was called to Yourself” a {duty and within catchy calypso a few more

which backs the “Tommy Dorsey

months he was {in Europe. His

“She's A Home i [parents never Girl” disc. Sing- - |saw their son in & ing “Home Girl” | uniform for on §

and with -the group on “Enjoy Yourself’ is Mr. Sonny Callello, a find of the Arthur show who just signed with RANY. Dorsey, wish Ray McKinley, would do something wonder-

Mar. 29, 1944, he #8 ' ‘was listed “missThornhill ing in action” on a flight over Godfrey Brunswick, Ger-

Sgt. Ross

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» MANY TIMES in the days that

Replacement for Broken Record Unfound,

But Songstress Vows to Aid in Search By DONNA MIKELS BACK TN December of 1941 when the drums of war were just ette, and a muffied sound in Europe a teen-aged boy named Melvin Ross

® & = { he called. And his mother listened RCA VICTOR—Claude Thorn- to it many times in the next few days before “the day that will

|any other identifying data on her,

ful again, like his “Long Way From St. Louis.” His latest release “Missouri Walking Preacher” and “Similan,” just don’t measure up. Johnny Bradford, Washington disc jockey who sings a little too, does nice things to the rise and shine ditty “I Wake Up Every Morning” and puts words to the usually instrumental “Jalousie”; Erskine Hawkins is mighty mellow on “Cold Hearted Woman” backed by the rifffilled “Brooklyn Bounce”; Jane Pickens pairs “Be Mine,” and “I Dreamed 1 Heard an Organ Play”; the Sons of the Pioneers put sagebrush into old Eli's “Whiffenpoof Song.” Tony Martin is sheer heaven on a below-the-border number “The Bells in Her Earrings. ” ” ” COLUMBIA — Frankie Sinatra pairs “Some Enchanted Evening” with “Bali Hai” both RodgersHammerstein songs from the new movie “South Pacific.” Very ef

followed his mother remembered a day when her son, failing to put into words the way he felt, had instead switched on his new Connee Boswell record and said: “Mom, this is for you.” The words she remembered were: “I'll always love you no matter where you are.” The record was one of his mother’s prized possessions. Then one day it was broken and Mrs. Ross could find no other copy of it. When she moved from her home in Massachusetts to Indianapolis she scoured the local record shops. One of her daughters wrote to Miss Boswell herself, but the singer wrote back she could not locate a song by that title.

Last week, almost five years to |the date that Sgt. Ross was lost

in action, his mother and his favorite singer met backstage at the Circle theater, where Miss Boswell is appearing. Miss Bos-

well, on learning the gold star

mother who was seeking her rec-

fective with Axel Stordahl's ord now lived in Indianapolis, orchestra asked to see her. CL . ae x x = : Burl Ives turns to Columbis wgpygR SINCE I got that letter

lahel with “Riders in the Sky,” a cowboy legend from Death Vallev and two tunes on the second side, his traditional “Wayfaring Stranger,” and an Ives original “Waoolie Boogie Bee.” | Might have known Godfrey wouldn't let this one pass. He's now waxed “All Right Louie Drop That Gun,” backing it with “Could 1? T Certainly Could.” Back to Sinatra again. He sings real pretty, like the old Dorsey vocalist on “Why Can't You Behave” and “No Orchids for My Lady.” |

I've thought about that song.”

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{through Kalamazoo, South .Bend |Logansport, Kokomo, Indianapo|lis, Connersville to Cincinnati | The other flights will extend from Chicago, Kankakee, Ill, LafayIndianapolis, Bedford Bloomington to Louisville, Meanwhile the CAB said the corporation would not be allowed any more postponements. The board didn’t say "what action the diminutive songstress told would be taken if service on any Mrs. Ross. “I thought perhaps of these routes has not been in‘I'll always love you no matter augurated om July 1, where you are’ might be part of' The three - trial certificates the lyrics instead of the title be- awarded Roscoe Turner Corp. by cause I can't find it listed.” the CAB expire Feb, 6, 1951. Once, Miss Boswell said, she Turner officials and CAB officials spent several hours listening to both said there is good chance

that Connersville will be comher old records seeking such a 4.4 by July 1, and one of the

eps at a time to get to the record avorite singer, Connee Boswell.

|Iyric but she found it in only one two routes will be opened. Both {song “Sweethearts or Strangers.” doubted that the Chicago-Louis-

The songstress does not have Ville route would be opened before a copy of that recording. But, this fall

Miss Boswell said, if Mrs. Ross a

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should learn that was the right song or if she should remember

soldier son's favorite record, she'll turn her record company’s files upside down to obtain a copy of it. . sw } WHAT'S MORE, Miss Boswell plans some detective work of her own. “Sometimes fans drop around, who have more of my records than I have,” she said. “I've been asking them if they remembered a tune with that title or lyric and someday I'll run across one that does.” |

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Ground was broken yesterday for the new lodge hall of Southport Masonic Lodge 270. Taking part in the ceremonies on U.S. 31, one block south of Epler Ave. were (left to right) Walter Weimer, John Thornburgh, William H. Burkhart, the Rev. Clyde C. York and William E. Caesar. Lodge members were told the building would be completed in 270 days.

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