Mediterranean Algiers Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 28, 1943, Algiers, Algiers Page 2the stars and stripes weekly saturday August 28, 1943 yet to happened Ai Home three cals and a Guy big town Small Talka. The Northwest airlines applied to the civil aeronautics Board at Chicago for permission to establish a Post War route to Tokio Japan. The route would be via Seattle to Anchorage Alaska through dutch Harbor Kiska Attu Aleutian islands and Paramos Sigeru in the Muriel islands. The 60th birthday of it. Gen. Jonathan Wainwright was observed i his Waha Walla Wash Birthplace with a picture of the general presented to the u. 8. Veterans Hospital on the site of his first Home. Gen. Wainwright has been a Jap prisoner since the fall of Corregidor. The Pennsylvania Railroad at Philadelphia revealed this week that 22,000 women Are now employed by the company As conductors repairmen cleaners and oilers. Before the War one out of every seven was a woman but now five out of seven Are women. At Reno nev., John Collier u. S. Commissioner of Indian affairs filed divorce snit against mrs. Lacy Wood Collier charging cruelty. The a pliers were married in 1606. Prom san Francisco comes the news that japanese american girls from ten War relocation centers in the West Are being recruited for the Waco a. Mrs. Connie Broon widow of Heywood hmm will Christen a Liberty ship named after her deceased ooh twist husband at the Baltimore md., shipyards of the Bethlehem Fairfield co. On sept. 6. The Long Island Railroad conductor at Pennsy station in new York City now sings to Tho tuns of a guitar and wisecracks As inductees shove off to Camps All Over the nation. Regular civilian patrons also enjoy the antics of the Jovial conductor. Cumi Broadway to Hollywood. Betty Grable and Harry James expect an addition to their family. Miss Joan Barry has revealed that the child whose father she claims is Charlie Chaplin is due to arrive on the wings of the Stork in september. Cape Clark Gable has sold his ranch where he and the late Carole Lombard used to spend their vacations to Harry bits of rite Brothers Fame. On the sunday morning that Musso gave up the new York times Magazine Section printed a Long piece by an a expert who predicted that the fat one would never never quit. American sailors Are halting French sailors along Broadway and asking them Quot hey Bud. Wanna buy an american postcard. That feminine pulse beater Frank Sinatra makes his Broadway debut in the umpires daughter a and follows it with his life Story tagged a the singing fool.�?�. The City of Detroit dressed up the still of Betty Grable in a a Coney Island a in a gown and stockings despite the fact that it had been passed by the Hays office. Cpl. Broderick Crawford the Harvard graduate and Flicker Star has been assigned by the army to teach physical training at Yale. Errol Flynn a recent Quot fishing companion a returned to Hollywood this week and said she was not in love with the actor but failed to offer an explanation for a Large yellow ring on the third Finger of her left hand and a a a Friend ship ring on her right hand. Small town topics. Seventy six year old Fred f. Bulkely of Bayonne n. J., the father of it. Commander John d. Bulkeley whose exploits with a motor torpedo boat in the Waters around Corregidor last year Are still giving the japs bad dreams became a father again several Days ago. Whiskey said to have been made of squirrels herbs and lizards and declared by Federal agents to be a Best seller at five dollars a quart was introduced As evidence at the trial of a Man accused of illegal distilling in san Diego Cal. The Windham county jail in Brookline conn., considered this week the flying of a six Star service Flag honouring prisoners inducted into the army through a special selective service Board. Resident guests at the Commodore hotel in St. Paul and the Sheridan in Minneapolis minn., were compelled by the labor shortage to make their own Beds on sundays but the manure Merit generously Cut 15 cent. Off their weekly Bills. At Warren r. I., Harper Wyatt of Barrington lost a Dollar bet that he could eat a whole pie when Gilbert Hoffman or. Had a pie baked that was 28 inches Long 18 inches wide three and a half a a and weighed 25 pounds. On Capitol Hill. Secretary of the Interior Harold a. Uras announced this week that the government had restored to private control 53 Coal mines under government management since May i. Ickes returned the mines to their owners after Federal operating managers reported that there had been no stoppage of work since the government took them Over. Washington officials revealed they were studying the draft deferment of aircraft workers As a Means of increasing the output of planes. The percentage of women who can attain the same High degree of manual skill As men has been found lower than expected and the High pressure work affects the health of women More than it does of men. In the meantime both Washington and London cautiously essayed the significance of Che sudden change instituted by Premier Joseph v. Stalin when he relieved Maxim Litvinov of his duties As ambassador to the United states. Most observers were inclined to believe that Litvinova a recall could be linked with that of Ivan Mai sky former ambassador to great b stain in that Premier Stalin was desirous of having both Mer in the Kremlin to keep him posted on Anglo american relations which loom As All important these Days in Moscow. E. B. Web refuses Portal to Portal wage revision mine workers pact with Illinois owners snarled by edict three gals and a Guy who have been spreading lots of sheer and Joy to soldiers overseas. This Uso variety aet consisting of i to r Judith Cummings foggy Alexander Olga Klenau and stubby Kaye spent eight months with the troops in England before coining to North Africa. They plan to spend the next eight weeks touring Camps Here and in Sicily. Wolfing played two ways continued from Page i ies in numbers they explained. A a but Why do you Call it wolfing two persisted doing a bit of mental hairs Licking. Quot mostly for the Heck of it a skip said flatly. Quot anyway we re sick and tired of the smart Aleck soldiers referring to a Bunzli of girls trying to have a Good time As being a Hen since then we be found most girls in new York and round about Quot sweating out the War like the men themselves. These Are the thousands of stenographers and clerks and Salesgirl and others who work in Manhatten offices and shops and those of suburban areas working in Small innumerable War factories fanning out from the metropolitan Center. Those engaged to servicemen Here and on the fighting fronts have sped the u. S. O. And servicemen a clubs for jobs As hostesses but the girls complain now that the War will be Over by the time they get the Chance to work waiting lists Are so Long. Hostess jobs the girls agree Are Best to help them Over the Days of loneliness and at the same time they like helping other girls boy friends from becoming depressed. The famous stage door canteen for example has 2,000 on its waiting list according to our informant miss Betty Ann Lederer. She also told us emphatically that 75 percent of the hostesses working Are waiting for certain chosen men to come Home. For a girl to actually begin As a hostess Row she said would take from five to six months after filing an application. You rarely see a girl in her late teens or Early twenties alone on the streets of Manhatten at night. Almost always they Are grouped from two to six or eight. Quot going out with another girl does no to compare with having Mon along a one stenographer sighed at a drugstore lunch counter. Quot most times id rather stay Home and read or just sit. And a lot of them wont go out alone or even with another girl at night because of tile dim out. If we do its usually to a neighbourhood there a another Side to the picture where Young girls in their teens Are rapidly becoming a serious problem in the City. Weekends around times Square you find them strolling in pairs with a couple of sailors or soldiers following chem close behind. This is the real wolfing. Movies have become the standby for a great Many soldiers and girls especially for those living in Small cities outside new York or Long Island. Another entertainment the ladies follow at their Hen parties or rasher waiting a parties is Reading Quot parts a of letters from men to interested companions. This is valuable info if you Are waiting for two girls in the same neighbourhood. A we re always Reading in the papers How we girls should write to men a one pretty plump female welder remarked. Quot just so their morale wont suffer. How about the men writing to us More regularly so we can keep up our spirits we suffer too the Lack of men and the War has changed the snooty social ideas of lots of girls particularly about taking buses and subways on the rare occasions they have dates. One girl said she a had Only one Date All summer where a fellow came for her in a car. Shell walk now Gadly. Quot do you think american girls will become used to having Good times without men a i asked one girl rather foolishly i guess. She gave me a funny look. Quot Are you kidding Quot she said. Washington aug. 27�?william h. Davis chairman of the War labor Board disclosed that the Board had rejected the Dollar and a Quarter a Day Portal to Portal pay agreed to by Illinois Coal operators and John l. Lewis United mine workers on the ground that it was not a genuine settlement of alleged claims stemming from the wage hour Law. Davis termed the a a Portal pay which would have affected 35,000 Illinois members of the Union a Quot not too Well hidden wage the four labor members of the Board dissented from the majority decision. Portal to Portal pay is compensation based on the period Between the time a Man reports to his mine for work and the time he actually reaches his work location in some cases As much As an hour. Portal payment was incorporated in an agreement Between the ump and the Illinois operators and heralded As the device which would Quot bring peace once More into the Coal although Portal pay has Long been demanded by the miners Lewis brought the subject to the fore last Spring when the web refused to Grant pay increases to Coal miners on the grounds that i such demands did not fall within the Little steel formula of holding Down wages. After the government took Over hundreds of mines when the miners struck Lewis again broached the subject of Portal pay with the interpretation that such an agreement did not violate the web formula but represented pay for actual time spent at work. The web decision met with the Complete disapproval of United mine worker National and local officials it was said. The failure to Grant Portal pay will aggravate the none too Friendly relations Between the miners and operators when the no strike truce expires oct. 31. Spies actions hit Wayne professor Detroit a Warren e. Bow Wayne University president has removed Heinrich von Moltke German professor from the faculty pending investigation of his connection with his wife alleged spy activities for Germany. His wife countess Marianna von Moltke is held by the Fri with four others in an alleged spy ring. She is an enemy alien formerly associated with poetry Magazine in Chicago. The professor is a grandson of Bismarck a War minister. Evidence confusing stripper dismissed Houston Baker 18-year-old strip tease dancer was brought into court on a charge of dancing virtually naked in a local Gin Mill. Betty hotly denied Tho charge declaring she Wasny to nude and that she was wearing a Small brassiere and a string. In fact she was willing to prove it. The pretty dancer put her purse on judge Ben Moorhead a desk and reached for the Zipper at the a line of her dress. At this Point judge Moorhead coughed. A a its pretty certain the officers were he said with a Blush. Quot Case officials probing Farnsworth death Hollywood a police officials have ordered an autopsy in the death of Arthur Farnsworth husband of screen actress Bette Davis. He died after being found unconscious on the Street with his Skull fractured. Farnsworth who was 35-years-old, was a representative of a Minneapolis aircraft company
