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“FRIDAY, MAY 13, 1949

Presents Proof

That He Has Far-Seeing Eye

It Happened Last —— ~ |Uncle Sam Is Understanding But Firm Lender to GI's Who Slip on Mortgages

: times get tough for a veteranito the VA that he's doing his best ; ’ : who has bought a home with abut can’t quite meet a high billion. So far, less hat great increase in foreclosures on final accounting with a lender on/days, the VA cannot withhold ; es rescient . |GT loan, Uncle Sam is going to MORAY payment, or that he was one-tenth of one per cent of that : be

to Ichinery that the Veterans’ Ad: duce the size of the payments

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DOUGLAS effected in loans which have! Approximately 1.5 million home densome, or when it looks like a For cases over $2500, there is a|including income from all sources, NEA Staff Correspondent threatened to go bad. loans have been made under the|veteran may have to give up his similar committee in the centralleyrrent expenses, and all assets WASHINGTON, May 13 — Ifi Ay gq veteran has to do is prove GI bill, ‘with the government's house for other reasons. office of VA in Washington. , | =o 1 vies During the 30 guarantee in the program more Although not anticipating any After the VA has made its

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|GI homes, the VA is introducing|a default case, a form letter is/dny pensions or other benefits an. understanding but: frm forced to give up a house Sus 10, A0UNt Nas eon, Secaed o Fo¥ line new procedure for handi‘ng sent to the veteran showing how |which it is paying to that vet

Columnist Shows HisB. W. hi va 8 beyond his a ro 67.869 loans which have defaults in order to be prepared much he owes the government, eran,

| to reply . threatened to go bad, the VA has!for anything that might happen. and advising him of his rights in| If the veteran falls By cured 42.887 Se refinancing,! A three-man Committee on trying to get the debt canceled, within the time, the VA can start

= istration is now setting extend the length of ents Waivers and Compromises. is be- reduced or terms of payment ar- withholding benefits or do anyBy Earl Wilson : : : Ba a es debt - the renng oan go oo ong lor aE payen {ing set up in each regional office. ranged. /thing else within its power lo ~NEW YORK, May 13—“Columnists neve have an t resulting from de- foreclosure, it can cancel or com-| Either the veteran or the lender With authority over cases involv-' The veteran has 30 days ‘In collect. If the veteran does ane ine vi » x “!faulted GI loans. And it can be promise on any debt which re- can appeal to VA for help in Ing less than $2500 paid to lend-!which to reply. He must include swer, the VA must wait unti' ‘he . thing right, huh? > seen in the “great number of sults from the government paying making different arrangements ers for the guarantee. The maxi- in the reply, “a complete state- committee recommends what ace

' My beautiful wife likes to twit me about occasional “cures” which the VA has already up on its guarantee. ‘when payments become too bur- mum which could be paid is $4000. ment of financial circumstances. tion should be taken.

erratum in my column, so I decided to show how prescient Tam. : (Note to readers: Prescient means far-seeing.) “Tis human to err,” 1 re-| minded the B. W. “*Tis human to Earl,” she

came back. : * 8 = {way and being ANYWAY, people have said|very sharp, she things to me in interviews that said, “Who's the

Earl's Pearls

Taffy Tuttle, the dumb show-!' girl, read about the new one-man show on Broad-

turned out to wz /star of it—Hapbe downright © PY Chandler?” prophetic. ; Joan Edwards, On Apr. 14, here from Cali- X 1947, I was very i fornia, said she ™ sad ‘about the lh had a great win- Miss Edwards

loneliness of a certain girl dining at the Colony Restaurant, and I said, tenderly: “Are you going to get married again?”

sunkissed children canned orange Juice.

beefs because a southern MC, warming up an audience, not knowing he was on the air, said, Fi “In a few seconds we'll hear some damyankees.” “Oh, I ho ‘

pe ¥ 4 ss = =» so! Wouldn'tit Miss Hayworth | Chatfer

be awful not to be married | r again? answered. the girl— | KITTY KALLEN'S record of

Rita Hayworth. | “Kiss Me Sweet” must be a sucAh, yes, and the sun shone) cess, It's been banned by three down on a penthouse terrace onjg¢t Oct. 25, 1943, when I asked any Hons in Pha, oe The Freadie actress why she'd left Hollywood | ToPPinses expect their second in for N. Y. | November. . . . The bopular King “I want to do shows, shows, Cole Trio increased the bopulashows!” she said. “I wouldn't/tion by adding a bongo player mind going on tour. I want tolat Bop City. Now it's a fourdo a play in London. {man trio. . , . Lois de Fee told “I'd like to be in the field of pals, “What's the talk about a musical comedy that Helen bad Miami season? I came back Hayes is in her field,” the actress with a diamond watch, a station who has accomplished all she wagon, two sables and sundry

set out to do—was Mary Martin. effects.” «+. Scenes for the Tracy{Hepburn pictures were shot on

” » Ld TERRIFIC, huh? Phenomenal, 52d St. Monday. eh? " | . » But wait. Why, I even called] y the turn on the Dick Haymes'| What's Hot marital bustup on May 20, 1943—| SOME HOLLYWOOD stars

five years ago. (Subtly, of ging publicity to oil well deals

course.) | “The lady members of the ™MaY get into % Booze Who have a new male trouble; they're pe | singer to swoon over,” I' wrote, innocently actafter Haymes made his debut at!ing as decoys for La Martinique. |suckers’. . . Eden It'll interest women to know |Ahbez got into that he 'wéars a weddin’ band,” own and at- - I continued. “Notice I say ‘in- [tended a cocktail

» . ’ ‘ » (party dressed in eres them; I don’t say ‘deter | sweatshirt = and How prescient can I get? jgenims He ge sleeps in the Just yesterday Joanne Dru said open in White she'd divorce Haymes and Plains, in the Haymes said he’d marry Nora'rain , . . Jerry

Eddington Flynn—who wasn't de- Lewis will give 5

terred by the weddin’ band. {his wife, who Narita Yes, as I pointed out to the B. just flew in, a Cadillac for their W., I'm marvelous, fifth wedding ann’y. ... George| 2 x = |Evans, the press agent, becomes |

ANOTHER TIME, I was inter- a grandfather in November , . . viewing an actress who was in- Some Greenwich Village clubs are dignant at a gossip columnist for having trouble renewing their lilinking her with a man not her;Censes . . . Monty Clift turned husband. (down lucrative TV shows, but did | “It's so ridiculous,” she said.. one for free for his pal, Kevin | As I listened, I became con- McCarthy . .. Narita's a feature; vinced. I got a little mad at the Of the new show at the Old Knick. | , columnist for printing such a Jimmy Stewart made the Colony thing. , Cp And Versailles with Gloria Hat-| A year or so passed, and again Tick McLean. I heard the talk. But I remem-| sn» t bered what she'd told me and, be-! WISH I'D SAID THAT: Dick; ing a fine judge of people, I knew Flanagan, after being introduced) it couldn’t be so. {to an Ug, said: “I don’t know I did a long interview with ‘whether to reach for her hand or her but they couldn't fool me. her paw.” I didn’t even ask her ahout the a. 8 i rumor. I was too smart to be- | TODAY'S BEST LAUGH 8

lieve it. She wasn’t the type. |“Many a family album is all] That? Oh, that was Ingrid bum.”—Shamus O’'Slattery., _ } Bergman. 2 x = | * = =» | THE TOWN: Ingrid Bergman | The Midnight Earl {has a 9'2-minute solid speech in|

{Hitchcock's “Under Capricorn.” | B'WAY BULLETINS: Ken Mur-| “On Broadway,” says Maestro ray wants to get into TV here, s0|Sacasas, “many a true word is his smash stage show, “Black- spoken in gesture” . . . That's outs,” which has run for seven Earl, brother. years in L. A., will open here in| A the fall with Murray as star. Dave Siegel's setting the deal. A Forgotten War Bonus f figure in an unsolved murder tried Bond Nets Tidy Interest, suicide . . . Today's Quiz: What SPRINGFIELD, Ili. (UP)—Her-| B'Way leading man’s involved in man E. Murray of Canton, IIL, a paternity case? ... Sonja Henie received a $1600 bonus bond from and her steady, Winnie Gardiner, the state in 1923, for war service were at El Morocco; also the during World War I. Louis Haywards . ... Thanks,’ He put the bond in a safety deClara Lane & Friends, for voting posit box and forgot about it this the Best Column of the Year. until recently. State treasurer Ora (Aside: You must have -been Smith gave him face value for the drinkin’) . .. CBS got a flood of bond and $99.50 interest.

Demonstrate Danger on Bridge

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Worth St., out of a hole in a bridge across a stagnant drainage | ditch in the 1000 block on Worth St. Residents in the block say that County Commissioners have been nofified repeatedly about the hole through which several persons have fallen and received injuries. :

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Charles Walker, 855 S. Worth St., pulls Gerald Lane, 1035 S. |

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STRAUSS SAYS: NOW IS THE TIME TO GET DOBBSTRAWEDI

AMONG THE HIGHLIGHTS: —

PANAIRES—~{which are panamas in a more natural and opener state) are ’ $7.50 and up

BAKUS from Philippines— are so light that the leather inner band weighs more oe than the body, $12.50

The COCONUT braid— - in lighter weight, softer, more mellow, more

*pliable— $5

MILANS from ltaly—light in weight, sand color, $18

PANAMAS—-a choice selection at 7.50 and $10 ‘—and you can go from there to about as far as you care to (There's a fine OPTIMO shape panama at $20!)

DOBBS SENNITS (Boaters or Sailors — as they are know.) are

7.50 and 8.50

There are a lot of men whose heads jus! don’t feel right unless they are in contact with a DOBBS.

And there is, of course, a deep basic reason for such a definite and decisive preference. For—it's a matter of prefty general knowledge that Dobbs initiated. pioneered or developed practically every major advance in the art of Fine Hatting—in felts and in straws.

‘And it can be faken for granfed that Dobbs outdoes Dobbs . = the Straw. Season of 1949!

Some fine old traditional siraws that have been out of the picture for years —are back again in new blockings—Bodies are better—finishes are improved —comfort is enhanced—VALUES are outstanding!

THE SEASON IS OPEN—The town as per custom (more so) will head in to be Dobbstrawed!