Daily News from New York, New York • 24

MS'MW. mi if- CI rr 1 4fV "f0 fcw 3 Jk, 1 Fielder's Choice When Jo look 10-year-olJ Joa Jr. on dates with blonde and loTely Marilyn Monro of tK moviea, ex-wife Dorothy Arnold hit the ceilinf. She wants to visit with his son under less disturbing conditions. wo fXAaf' a Dorothy Arnold, ml time of marriage, 1939.

By JESS STEAKX fTUIKRK is really nothing for the ex-Mrs. DiMaggio to worry about. If anything, actress Marilyn Monroe slioukl Ih an exemplary influence on the life of her son, Joseph Paul DiMaggio son of the former Yankee Clipper of the same name. It a cinch that if the ex-Mrs. Di, who is the former Drothy Arnold of stage, screen and radio, would only read what Miss Monroe's press agents say about her, she would forget all about that suit she's started keep Jne Sr.

from taking Joe Jr. on his dates with the busty, blonde actress with the free-wheel in 5 M-A'vm. Ii iit, it i run! to how Miss Monroe cotiM be any-tM(tlr hut a wholesome infTuem-e on yotinsr Joe. or any 10-yeir I Amrioin l.v. fur that matter.

It says right here tht Mi would rath read a than do anything eU sh know. 4 atut. She doesn't drink. or smoke, it says, sol h' iloesu't like niht chths. "I have only one charge i 0 oi with whom he just happened t- le standing around in a nigbt club when somebody saw them, tlencr-ally, the publicity ha ben appreciated by the girl because nioiit of them have been in the entertainment fielo's, where publicity helpful.

Last Fall the columnist trid to make a romance of Joe and Mir-lene Ilietrich, the world' most wor.uerful grandmother. Actually, I. I. .1 .1 1 i itiry nau jusi unc tiaic, mey wi lit nlie overheard saving, "anil that' at a HilU lHk store." MillUil reid- Walt Whit- rithrr to hrr small hon in th m', Tlloni.i-i Wolfe. Kilke S'inrt Sfrip or the (A-h thtt i-O.

Antoine nrri'y Kox Mil.tary S. 1 voting j.ms d.tn.t Kxni-ry. the I Tench bt-a of fjmu fvvlif, ari nfy reientlv d.n!. life of AlU pot full rustolr of the boy hrn th IiMasiiio wr V-tiivil 1... il.

It eieht yar sr-, but I a p.rnuttp.l to him without I little hit of evpry- whrnevrr ha was in she sivh, -but n.ostiv!1 tH tl n. infc. frt maiie a bnr father of In att Ihi-t. Jtw' Sr. Sh- nxiitication of wilt iiii rut Marilyn out i.f th orit'mal rito.ly whi.h Jr hi- working on a rriutre him to pay more S'titi IimIi.

10 hrr woi.i. t-rtf to th rhil.l. thy toy. the began the drasfie action of trying to restrict Jot vnili with his son. Right now, Dorothy is trying for a comeback as a singer.

Shaba high plans for opening in a club in I Vegas. "It's taking barrel of courage to do it," she-says, I'm getting a lot of confidence and help from Jody Hutchinson, a very talented guy." Hutchinson, married, is a former singer and actor. Dorothy, whose real name ia Olson, was a pretty blonde fresh from Duluth, when she first met Joe back in 19.37. She wa singing in a New York cabaret and had a stock contract with Universal Studio. They met whil Joe wa making a movie at tha Riograph Studio in the Bronx.

Dorothy, a bit player, "as, in her own words, "just sort of scenery." A Dorothy tells it, she took an interest in Joe before she even, knew who he was. 'That's a nic I. Hiking she quotes herself. "'Who is "Kverybody looked startled and somebody said, 'Why that's Joe and I said. So what?" "So, you see, I fell in Jove with him before I knew he was a celebrity.

We started going around together and the first thing we knew at least I knew it was getting" hotter." Joe Put Off Thei Wedding In April, 19.S9, just as the baseball season was getting under way, Dorothy announced her engagement to Joe. The announcement seemed to catch Joe off base. After thinking it over for a few days, he confirmed the report, but announced, firmly: "The wedding will positively not he this Summer. We may be married next Winter or the following Winter, but the wedding definitely will not take- place while th- baseball season is on." The marriage took place in Joe's home town of San Francisco on Nov. 20, 1939.

Joe was 25; Dorothy 21. Dorothy shelved a promising; movie career in which, after number of bit roles, she had gradually worked herself up to the lead, with Bela Lugosi, in the Universal serial, "The Phantom Creeps." Kven then newspapermen wera getting in Jolting Joe's hair. On his honeymoon he was asked to "Joe." nKe romplain. "has nv-r excri'ted his privile re the hiid. Vh-n he did.

nrver spent mor than a few minutes with htm. sometime shoving him ofT rn hi men friend tn take to movie and thing like that. wft't at ton on a -r an.J rriatton- lMMh hol.j anything air.r Mirilyn if nr- ji.hiii; Jx'i nitlh.r e-th- niirrly t-NMt" want ht-r jwm time a rude, rjneommurtiea-tiv overbearing, anti-social. But friend say lie is none of these thiiiii. They say he is charming.

Th picture him a a rather shy feli. sensitive and introspective, win ha never bcea at ease with stranger. Actually, they insist, he is an amusing, even witty, companion amoiiif, people of his choosinjr, olit. and considerate. As for be-in, ai of with less illustrious team-inati'S.

a ha been sometimes re-t-rt--l. he i directly the opposite. Youm; Yankee have testified that he wa the most helpful man on the s-fuad in guiding them through the tirst ticklish atages of their apprenticeship. Teammate Calls Him 'Xeat Big Leog' When outfielder Hank Bauer came up from Kansas City, reportedly replace the aging DiMaggio. he wa amazed to discover Joe fielding him tip on bow to play hi outfield position.

"Most old-timers." said the gratified Bauer, "would have told a rookie the wron things to make him look flish and protect their own jobs but not Joe. He's, real big leaiiue." At the time Fddie Waitkus. the Philadelphia Phillies first basemen, wa shot by a lovestruck girl fan he had never seen, before. t)'Magir wa being haunted in New York by a young woman exhibiting the same sort of infatuation. She prowled through the lobby and corridors of DiMaggio's midtown hotel, and wrote him mash note which became threatening in nature they were ignored.

Kventually, the police wera brought in. They recom-rneii led psychiatric treatment. Joe refused prosecute and the case got tk publicity. Gossip columnists have found lting Joe rich material. His name ha been romantically linked 'with girt bi dted only once or twice.

to the Turpin-Kobinson fight at Yankee Stadium. OWX through the year there have been recurring report of a reconciliation between J9 anJ Dorothy. Joe's deaira to see the toy enjoy normal companionship bus been responsible for nuny of these reports, friend siy. Last Pet-ember, for instance, Dorothy, Joe and Joe Jr. ame together for a white Christmas in the hill overlooking Reno.

They were snowbound for three or four diy in a chalet perched feet alove the city where they got their divorce a few years before. When Joe came out of the hill, he was asked if a remarriag? wa in the offing. 'I don't know what's going to happen," said. "I hkven't asked her yet." Karlier, asked for comment on reconciliation Atorie. Dorothy had once replied, enigmatically: "It seems that every time we turn around somebody ha us reconciled, and we're getting a little stupid and jerky about it all." In July, 19J, Dorothy married George Schubert, a Wall Street broker.

She divorced him in Las Vegas in July. i'J'tO. charging mental croelty. During thi period, citing the rising cost of living, Dorothy got Joe to shell out additional fund for Joe 'support. Young Joe's schooling and other expenses cost the Clipper about $7,500 a year, roughly twice what the court decreed he should pay.

Joe's friends any that Dmlhjf hat alnaift felt that aha am hi have Joe back whenever the wanted him, brtaiiH of the hitld nhe ha on him through the 6oy. Hut when he ttarted erring Monroe, the SS-year-old newcomer wha the mnt luecioue thing tt come atimg the Hollywood ptke einee Jean Harlow. Dorothy woe no longer eure. In her newborn intreuritu. "I'ver a perunl of year thre h-riii wKih she con- at-r i.n.u.Ml the le9t h'n of rt.ne ty J.

in relation to our 3t to l't rai l.l. Dsir.thy-s attor- th that brrtk th y. Itorolhy tw, ante upet a wnen h-ft Jr. tol hr he had Uited I tn th" Bel Air Hotel p-vl with M.r.lv-, hi ffber and had I miii-tr I cinfer.rtri in whi I tV and TO ALL OF thi tha Yankee Ml" promment part. 1 immorta, a woman.

If. UnZ- tV? Wh'J trf Mirtlvn Joe's free to t-elieve in ratin worJj with whomever he choosrs. on the pres. Through 17 yars of (at I want Ittiu-hie that's almot idolafroii acclamation by Jr I aubjevtd tt ad'ilt con- the American public, baseball fans ahull sometime and therw he ha never under-l. H.ll he by childrtn.

sf hh! why this interest should run hi an.l I live a very peace. over ir.to his private life. Thi fit anl not mil life. I'm wymif to iisteret he ha bitterly regarded h.in it tht way. And 1 don't a an intrusion when a more it- t.

tta ni--t by sorncbotiy's ophi-al man miirht have Btit-hie a very the fa. that this same interest svihwIiU h.y a wondettu' kid and has been in a measure trtMate for the material reward that have Sy thmk that Joe should bten hi over the year. oi. to w.tH the boy' lie ha been portravej a' viriou.