The Akron Beacon Journal from Akron, Ohio • Page 17

Around The World: Escaping Robots Communion In France Benny Performs huh W5m Mir 3 Ki (K i i Arm? Ridiotrlrphoto From Acm On a U.S.O. entertainment tour of New Guinea, Jack Bonny paused to serenade a native with his violin, while other members of the troupe look on. They are, left to right, Martha Til-ton, songstress; Larry Adler, the champion harmonica player; Carole Landis, motion picture actress, and June Brunner. Benny and his troupe have made an extended tour of the southwest Pacific area. Associated Fresl Wirephoto With rifle over his shoulder and rosary in the other hand, this French-Canadian soldier receives Holy Communion from Cure Beaulieu at a Bastille day service held outside the church of St.

Ouen de Rots in Rots, France, one of the villages liberated by the invasion forces. Seeking shelter from the German robot bombs, two children dressed in their night clothes and their mother go to the shelter in the garden of their home in the London area. One child carries a teddy bear and the other a pillow. Great numbers of London residents resumed their underground sleeping habits when Hitler began tossing the flying missiles across the channel Into England. Offers Akron Plants More Help Harmon's Wedding 3Iay Be Next Month FULL-TIME IE IS SENTTD CITY Cleveland Head Says Industry Here In 'Good Shape' ABOUT AKROS Lieut.

Kovach Retires; Saiv Akron's 'Heyday POLICE LIEUT. STEPHEN M. KOVACH, who became a cop instead of the street car conductor he wanted to be, retired from the department today on completion of 25 years' service. Kovach was one of the first HOLLYWOOD Main Stem Lieut. Tom Harmon's marriage by army red tape.

Probably take place next month, she reports Nancy Sinatra, who is amused by the antics of her groom's W' mrf l'SSV wJ WM: NEA Hiolo 'Cover CM Of 1944? Wounded, war veterans at Crile General hospital in Parma, know a good thing when they see one. Their selection of Miss Dorothy Hart, 21, as Greater Cleveland's entrant in the National Cinderella Cover Girl Contest was apparently the right one for a seven-man board of judges voted Miss Hart "Cover Girl of 1944." vfft A vnuiiio rhoto SWPC AUTO USE TUX U. S. Revenue Men To 'Invade' Parking Lots, Streets Inspectors for the internal revenue department start a roundup tomorrow of motorists who have failed to get their $5 auto use tax stamps. The announcement from the office of Collector Thomas M.

Carey at Cleveland, indicates that his men will invade downtown streets and parking lots. The penalty for tardiness Is a $25 fine. The revenuers, however, will be very unhappy if they have to get tough. They would much prefer that Akron drivers get their stamps as a matater of patriotism, Carey says. TARDINESS SHOWN The city's unusual tardiness this year is indicated in figures from the post office showing that while 73, 618 stamps were purchased there last year but 60,935 have been bought so far this year.

July was the deadline for having he stamps on the windshield. Law Director Roy E. Browne says the right of the inspector." to invade private parking lots might De challenged, but that it would do no good. "The investigators would simply get a warrant and they'd be all set, he explained. SUPPORT IS URGED FOR REFERRAL PLAN The labor-management commit tee of the fifth regional war man power commission today called upon labor and management in Ohio, Michigan and Kentucky to assist actively in administration of the new labor priority referral program.

me committees action was based on reports from WMC directors in the three states that the referral plan is assisting materially in filling urgent job openings, according to Robert C. Goodwin, regional WMC director. It requires all males over 17 to be hired through the U. S. employment service.

Harry C. Markle, Akron area WMC director, said that institution of the plan here has resulted in considerably heavier traffic of males at the local USES. They are referred to those employers who need them most by reason of the urgency of their production. -By Lichty sweeping the office regarding lately, none of the employes I walked through!" RYDER IS ELECTED TO PENSION BOARD Councilman Robert C. Ryder, outspoken critic of police and fire department pension systems, takes his place today as a member of the police pension bnnrd.

Council elected Ryder Tuesday with Mrs, Virginia Ethcredge, a frequent Ryder opponent, electioneering for him. He replaces former Councilman Francis W. Spicer, now in the U. S. navy.

Dr. F. Wharton is board chairman, and with Attorney Scott A. Belden, represents the public. Police department members are Patrolmen Wayne Grove and O.

L. Sine. The other city council representative is George W. Cline of Sixth ward. Heartbeat: Faces About Town to Elyse Knox is being retarded Broadway adage: "Get it while long time" Gloria De Haven, newsreels showed one of the candi dates.

Several spectators, including a woman sitting next to a Brook lyn financial editor clapped their hands hard and long The editor started hissing The woman turn ed to him and indignantly bellowed "How dare you hiss?" "Hmf," he hmf'd. "How dare you applaud "You must be a foreigner!" she snapped 'Correct," he said. "My ancestors came over long ago and fought in the Revolution!" He didn't add that his great-grandpop was a U. S. Supreme Court Justice.

Manhattan Murals: The 48lh Street cabbies who won't accept tips from servicemen The double for Bricker at the Greenwich Village Griddle a soda Jerker The window card In a Madison av. bra shop: "This is the real Decoy!" The saloon in Greenwich Village, which advertises: "So liquor served to anyone under SI. No credit given to anyone over it!" The returned soldier who brought back some Jap money from a sniper he shot reading an editorial blaming the I'. S. for the Tearl Harbor attack.

He sent the Jap money to the editor with this memo: "Take it. you've earned it!" Times Square Smalltalk: Cros- well Bowen he served in the Lib yan campaign was injured at To- bruk. He has quit as foreign news monitor at NBC after protesting the use by the network of an Allied psychological warfare shortwave radio station as a news source Bob Dunn's new book, "One Day In the Army," answers the question: "Daddy, what did you do in the war?" Very amusing The American Merchant Marine Library ass'n needs 300,000 books. Send yours to them at 45 B'way, please Damon Runyon's stories are being adapted for the air In the fall John next tiook will be named "A Love of Country." Life has asked Benny Goodman to write "The Present Status of Swing" for its special issue in Sept. Sudden Thawt: From the loving care some Nazi prisoners sf war get in our camps over here in contrast to the way our men are treated abroad you'd think that MP stands for Mama and Papa! CRM AND BEAR IT "I notice a feeling of optimism the end of the war, Snndgrass have tripped ma when 3L- admirers.

She believes in the you're hot; you stay cold a the talented newcomer, destined for the higher rungs because of her "refreshing style Robert Araen once on Chaplin's "team," ready. in? his side of the stoiy, which he claims left him holding the bag Dinah Shore, canceling all her commitments to shove off shortly and sing for troops abroad. Sallies In Our Alley: Jesse jAHky met an actor whose conceit was greater than his talent "I'm working steady," said the hambo with phony modesty, "but just the same I think my li tinff could be Improved" "Nonsense," said LaRky. "Your iwting Is the same your taste Improvlnir, that's all." Lieut. Eddy Duchin, reporting to a new base recently, was kidded bv the others.

"Well, well," rib- EDDY DCCHIX has snappy comeback bed an officer. "From an orchestra leader to a two-striper, eh?" "Yes," said Duchin. "But try going from a two-striper to an orchestra leader." Sammy Walsh observes that the republican platform proves that an elephant never forgets his mistakes. Mldtown Vignette: Charles But-terworth drove up to the Club 51 the other night after Imbibing at a pal's wedding. He handed the cabbie a bill.

The driver figured Charlie was squiffed. He handed him 55 cents change on a 45 cent ride a minute," said the actor, "I gave you $5" The hackie put on his best deadpan and said: "I'm sorry," and handed him $4 more Charlie handed him Jl and scolded: 'That's for being so dishonest!" Memos of a Midnlghter: Reports that V. Mature might remarry his first wife are the bunk. They've been good pals all along and, anyway, she's wed to a soldier Leo McCarey's "Going My Way" film, a delightful show, not only broke ell records at the Paramount (N.Y.) in Its 18-year history, but was the top grosser in June for all army camps The Jay Gorneys he's the tune man are Imaging Chinese restaurants are squawking because Columbia's picture, "The Impatient Tears," shows Jean Arthur becoming ill after eating a bowl of chop suey Cugat's current stand at the Waldorf Roof is pthng up his top gross in 15 years. Unless you have a reservation you can't get in.

Foreigner? The Orchid Garden: M-G-M's "Dragon Seed," plus the cinemagic of Hepburn, Huston and McMahon The 6-year-old C. Boyer picture, "Mayerling," with Anatole Litvak's artful direction still a champion PlW- co program L. Cherne's book, "The Rest of Your Life." Earl Robinson's latest recordings: Lonesome Train." Abe Lincoln Comes Home a powerful collection. Decca will release several months hence Clement J. Wyle'g "Sultan of Swindlers" piece in Esquire.

Blgtown Side-Show: It happened in one of the neighborhood movie theatera the other night The officers to serve in the department's traffic bureau when it was organized. Later, he headed the vice squad during the heyday of speakeasies and bootleggers in the roaring 20 s. He was the first announcer for the short wave 1 ic radio. With ambitions of becom Kovach ing a streetcar conductor, he came to Akron in 1917 from southern Ohio, but changed his mind and became a policeman. Ill for a number of years, Ko vach said he will go to Chau tauqua, N.

to join his family, There he will spend his time fish ing and renting cottages to vaca tioners. He is married and has two daughters. Akronite Arrives At Texas Hospital Wounded on May 13 during the bitter fighting that prefaced the ran or Rome. P.F.C. Robert Marsteller, 28, of 2538 30th st is among the newly arrived patients at McCloskey General hospital Temple, Tex.

Private Marsteller was a mem ber of the division which helped smash the German defenses before the Holy City. Before entering service, he was employed at the Palmer Match Co. Kendall Guards Set Own Rate Of Pay Lifeguards who will take over when Virginia Kendall park's bathing beach reopens at 11 a. m. Sun day actually settled their own rate of pay by secret ballot.

H. S. Wagner, secretary-director of the Akron Metropolitan park board, said each applicant was asked what he should be paid an hour. "From the answers we agreed on a 90-cent hourly rate. The top Red Cross scale Is 85 cents," Wagner said.

The Virginia Kendall beach will be open only an Sundays this summer because the guards are available only on that day, Wagner said. Broken Leg Halts Juvenile Escapee Attempt of a 14-year-old boy to escape from the juvenile detention home had backfired today. The youth crawled through a schoolroom window and ran through the back lots on Powers st. near the home late Wednesday. While he was crawling over a gar den fence, his foot caught in the pickets, throwing him off balance and breaking his right leg.

Police caught up with him at City hospital where he was taken for treatment. The boy was held in connection with a burglary case. Warns Akronites About Clippings Phony clipping services are gypping scores of Akron area families of servicemen, the Akron Better Business bureau said today. They operate like this: A serviceman's family receives a post card, saying that "an interesting article" about him has been clipped from a newspaper and will he forwarded upon receipt of a fee anywhere from 25 cents to $1. Eager for any such news, the family generally sends the money and gets, in return, a clipping which has appeared in the Beacon Journal or other Summit county newspapers and which they already have seen.

America's bullets are fired by explosives made from your waste fats and greases. Save a table-spoonful every day. Today Roof mipppr, A 30 Wonifii of Federal Police Order, Y.W.C.A 1:30 Hobby Lobby, Y.W.C.A. Friday ri I BS i2 Tadmor Shrine luncheon, Mnvflower hotel. 1:16 Twin Maple Garden club, Y.W.C.A.

-War MoiherR. C.A 8 -Port aite Camera club. C.A. 8 Summit Umpires' aiiOciBtloti, Y.M. MIS LANKOI 12 Leisure Time rommlsnlon, Y.M.

C.A. 1 Spanish class. Y.M C.A T30 Labor Institute Forum, 84 W. Market at. OCD'CARMYSTERY' The mystery of the OCD car In which two men were arrested for speeding in Ravenna Monday night was disappearing rapidly today.

The investigation by rily officials brought out that the men had legitimate possession of the car at the time of their arrest and that adoption of a belated resolution by city council Tues day will make it possible for William Lopez, Brady Lake beer club operator, to obtain a blll-of-sale for the car. The machine, a 1929 Packard, was donated to the North Hill OCD organization when the OCD was young. The OCD could not take title to the car. not being incorporated, so the city of Akron put the car in its name. When the OCD activities declined and it was decided to get rid of the machine, it was given a dealer to sell.

Council President Robert M. Sanderson said the request to council to pass legislation to permit sale of the car was received last Saturday and transfer of the car was not held up until council acted. The legislation will be presented Tuesday, Sanderson said. Meanwhile Lawrence E. Davis, 475 Wooster paid a fine of $33.80 in Ravenna police court, levied by Mayor Walter Miller, for speeding.

A charge of operating with fictitious license plates against Lopez was dismissed by the mayor. Myers Willing To Settle For Vice President AKRON'S OWN CANDIDATE for the democratic nomination for president, Forrest Myers, real es tate dealer, is willing to settle for second place on the ticket. In a telegram to his delegate at the Chicago convention Myers said "Waiting your call to fly to convention to accept nomination. Will consider second place." Myers' delegate at Chicago, and the only member of the Ohio democratic delegation so pledged, is Clarence Motz, county chairman. Under Ohio law, delegates must be pledged to a candidate, and when Motz was left off the state delegate slate, he entered anyway and named Myers as his first choice for president.

It was all understood that Motz would vote for President Roosevelt. "The president's advanrp acceptance upset my plans a little," My ers said today. "However, Governor Brirker took second place, so I would do the same. Of course it's all just in good clean fun. I think Motz will understand." Sherman O.

Schumacher, Akron agent for the Provident Mutual Life Insurance ranked second in the nation In the sale of new life insurance in the first half of 1944, the company disclosed today. Schumacher's agency was first in meeting its half-year sales quota. FADING RAPIDLY a The Smaller War Plants Corp. will nssign a full-time representa-tive here Aug. 1 to assist smaller Akron industries whose problems are being increased by the quickening pace of the war.

That was announced by R. R. Strutton, manager of the SH'PC'a Cleveland district, who wus hern attend a meeting of the Akron production urgency commit tee today. Stratton disclosed that during the last three months about worth of war work has been moved out of Akron to subcontractors in other areas in order to help relieve the labor shot-tags here. Stratton, whose agency deals with plants employing 500 persons or less, said that subcontractors in the Akron area have fared better as far as getting contracts is con-cerned than those in most other areas.

M.KNTV OF WORR The reason, he explained, Is that the majority of them work for the rubber companies, which have more than enough work, because comparable rubber production facilities are not available elsewhere. There are a gooa many smaller plants here, however, that need assistance in getting new contracts. They are mainly those doing work for prime contractors outside the rubber field. The changing nature of the war has increased cutbacks and terminations among this group of sub contractors, he explained. "One of these plants may be working overtime this week and idlo next week," he said.

handle only one, subcontract at a time anil If it's stoped, need another right away." Contract termination has heenmr) a leading problem among smaller war plants, Stratton said, and the SWPC is prepared to assist them in handling it. The assistance will include interim financing, removal and storage of termination inven-tories, appeals on termination settlements and procurement of new contracts. The Akron SWPC representative likely will be associated with a new SWPC district office, which is to be established in Canton. Thursday, July 20, 194 1 17 A Pacif ic Heroes Renew Hope For Lost Men RENEWED HOPE was brought to hundreds of fliers' mothers by two veterans of the Pacific aerial offensive Wednesday night. Maj.

Don Johnson of Portage Lakes and Sergt. Jerome Bajenski of 1040 Johnston squelched many rumors by telling mothers of missing men that they should not give up hope fvr months. addressed the Women's Air Service group in the social hall of the Y.M.C.A. "In spite of what you hear, the do not kill all prisoners of war," Major Johnson, of the pioneer day of the fiir service command In India, China, and Kurma declared. "We know definitely that some of our boys captured by the Japs In that K(tion are alive." "If your boys are stationed In India today you don't have to wor ry about their being killed by enemy action," Major Johnson, who was in charge of maintenance and plane repair on the Burma front said.

Sergeant Bajenski, who was missing in action for two weeks but escaped through the European underground, stated simply: "I am here today because we have good friends over there." Mrs. Kathleen Voss, 579 Columbia wife of Gunner Henry Voss and one of the Australian war brides to land in San Francisco recently, described her first impressions of the United States. Burglars Take $1,000 'Haul' Police today were seeking bur glars, end loot amounting to about $4,000 taken in a safe cracking late Wednesday st the Akron Mo tor and Generator 101 E. Voris st. Cash totaling $1,180, war bonds valued at $2,750 and a quantity of checks were stolen when burglars punched open a safe with hammer and drill and ransacked office desk drawers, detectives said.

If Hitler wins, your problem will be living not just "cost of living." Buy War Bonds! i 1 It iii rr if tTirin it "it rm nrnTi mMir ntr v-TtonnriPliii ThT HiTin tr tin 1 1 ni BRATCHER RETI RES TO tt'MC POST Mercer Bratcher was back on the job today as administrative assistant in charge of Negro labor matters at the Akron area war manpower commission after spending 10 months in the army, A luncheon in honor of iiis return was given Wednesday noon, at the Y.W.C.A. by the WMC Negro Advisory committee. Harry C. Markle, right. Akron area WMC director, was guest speaker.

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