Production of Civilian Radios Gets Under Way
Production of radios for civilian sale has started in full force. One of the first radio production lines in
the country is pictured at a Plymouth, Ind., plant. The capacity of the plant will shortly be 2,000 sets
a day. This will aid materially in making radio sets available for almost every need. Production has speed
ed up beyond earlier reports with every indication that the market will shortly be well supplied.
Cabinet Meets on Reconversion Planning Program
President Truman calls his cabinet to consider all angles of reconversion brought to a head by the Japa
nese surrender. Photo shows, left to right: Clinton P. Andeison, agriculture; Lewis B. Schwellenback,
labor; John B. Blandford Jr., housing agency; J. A. Krug, WPB; J. E. Snyder, war mobilization; William
Davis, economic stabilization; Leo T. Crowley, foreign economics; Henry A. Wallace, commerce; Abe Fortas,
undersecretary of Interior; Robert Hannegan, postmaster general; Henry I,. Stimson, secretary of war; James
F. Byrnes, secretary of state; President Harry S. Truman; Fred M. Vinson, treasury; Tom Clark, at
torney general; and James F. Forrestal, secretary of navy.
After New Honors
Landing Map of Surrender Group
Weighted with medals and shoot
ing for the national swimming
championship is 17-year-old Frances
Kenney of Kaleiffh, N. C., three-time
Carolina swimming champion. She
also holds three junior AAU nation
al medals as well as relay team
first place.
Official map released by the Japanese Imperial headquarters, show
ing where landing points were made available for the airborne troops
accompanying General MacArthur and his stuff. The main point of con
tact was the Atsugi airfield, 20 miles southwest of Tokyo. Following
the landing by air, strong U. S. troops were to be provided with landing
ports in Yokosuka, south of Tokyo bay.
DeGaulle at Capital
Navy Father Enlists Triplets
Photograph shows Gen. Charles
de Gaulle with President Truman,
during De Gaulle’s recent visit to
Washington. They are shown dur
ing the playing of the national
anthem, as the White House troop*
•aid honor to the French leadef.
As their mother looks on, Charles Allen, James Milton and Robert
Winchester Hardin, left to right, triplets, are sworn into the navy by
their father, Capt. David Winchester Hardin, USX, senior officer in the
Baltimore district. The triplets plan to follow the navy as a career
and later take Annapolis examinations.
Released by Western Newspaper Union.
By VIRGINIA VALE
UNIVERSAL has given us
another of those top
notch psychological myste
ries, one qs good as “The
Suspect.” This time it’s
“Uncle Harry,’’ with a star- i
studded cast—George Sand
ers, Geraldine Fitzgerald,
Ella Raines and Sara Allgood, who.
has only to walk across a room to
steal the scene from everybody else.
GERALDINE FITZGERALD
You’ll see superb acting all through
the picture, especially in some of
Geraldine Fitzgerald’s scenes. It’a a
picture that causes rather violent
reactions — people are going to like
It tremendously or argue about it
for weeks because they wanted a
different ending. And that’s a sure
sign that a picture is exceptional; if
it isn't nobody cares how it turns
out.
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Dennis Morgan, star of “Christ
mas in Connecticut,’’ is the only
Hollywood star who has worked in
pictures under three different
names, so far as we know. At
Metro he used his own name, Stan
ley Morner. At Paramount, Richard
Stanley. Warners’ gave him his pres
ent name.
If you’ve just stubbed your toe on
a disappointment, here’s encourage
ment for you. Clark Gable lost his
first film job because “his ears are
too big.” George Brent and Hum
phrey Bogart were dropped by con
tract holders because they "weren’t
convincing in western drama.” And
Bette Davis' name must still em
barrass certain executives who let
her go "because she has no sex ap
peal.”
-#
It looks as if the movie stars can’t
resist the restaurant business. Dur
ing filming of “Young Widow,” Louis
Hayward had an architect make
plans for a cafe to be opened when
the war ended, and Alan Ladd's go
ing into partnership in a hamburger
stand.
-#
Frank Sinatra seems to be vet for
the next five years in radio. He's
signed a contract for 39 weeks with
a cigarette company, with options
covering that time. He’ll replace
“Which is Which,” for which “De
tect and Collect” substituted this
summer. He’ll be heard Wednesday
nights, on CBS. He says one of the
best things about the program is the
fact that Mann Holiner will be the
producer — thinks Hollner's the best
producer in the business.
The only motion picture rootage or j
the atom smasher, which played an i
Important part in experiments lead
ing to the development of the
atomic bomb, will be seen in "Mira
cle Makers," a Warner’s short sub
ject now ready for immediate re
lease. Dr. O. E. Lawrence, who de
veloped the cyclotron, as It's called,
was technical adviser on the se
quence and appears in the film.
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Jack Smith, who now has his own
show on CBS, joins Bing Crosby,
Ginny Simms and all the others
who’ve started on the air singing
with a trio and graduated to star
dom. Jack was in high school when
he and two friends landed the Job
vacated by Bing Crosby’s Rhythm
Boys at the Cocoanut Grove. He
spends his free time teaching re
turned soldiers at the New York
School of Artcraft Instruments.
-X
Twentietli Century - Fox's "The
House on 92nd Street," dealing with
the development of the atomic bomb,
is based entirely on records of the
FBI, showing their work in counter
acting enemy agents' attempts to ob
tain the secret. It was made secret
ly in New York, Washington and
other locales, and sequences deal
ing directly with the bomb were
omitted till after it had been used in
Japan.
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ODDS AM) ENDS—Guest ghosts
galore will haunt “Inner Sanctum," now
back again, on CHS, with Haul McGrath
as Your Host. . . . Jane W yman liked
that leopurd mat she wears in "The
Lost Weekend" so much that she had
a duplicate made for her own ward
robe. . . . Many of the servicemen now
in hospitals are learning the inside
stories of actions they participated in,
by listening to Dan Seymour’s “Notv It
Can Be Told" series. . . . Bing Crosby
sings 22 songs in Irving Berlin's “Blue
Skies"—a treat for Crosby fans, who
won't be hearing him weekly if he car
ries out his threat to abandon those
Thursday night broadcasts.
Jap Leads Marine Air Attack
From the waist of a marine Mitchell bomber, Japanese Lieutenant j
Minoru Wada leads one of the last raids on Japanese installments
prior to signing of peace. A prisoner of wir, he offered his services to
direct American pilots over the Japanese mainland.
Purple Heart Heroes Play Ball
Pvt. Pen Qualiotto is safe at home in a softball Kamr played at the
Perey Jones hospital during a Purple Heart field day sponsored by the
Detroit hospitals as part of the army’s rehabilitation program.
Doolittle’s Raiders Released
i
lhc first four members of Lt. (Jen. Jimmy Doolittle’s Tokyo raiders
liberated by American paratroopers, before the surrender of Japan be- j
came official. As shown they are: upper left, Dean E. Hallmark of |
Dallas; upper right, Robert L. Hite of Earth, Texas; lower left, Robert
J. Meder, Columbus, Ohio; and lower right, William Glove Farrow, Wash
ington, D. C.
Hide 1,200 Miles on Horses
Photo shows Virginia Conradson and Eileen llolt, who rode from Los
Angeles to Stoneham, Colo. They traveled the 1,200 miles at the rate of
30 to 35 miles a day, sleeping by the roadside at night in bedrolls.
Their horses wore out four sets of “unratloned” shoes, and were fed
breakfast oats during a large part of the trip through Arizona.
The Ladder of Fame
United Nations girls, all prixe win
ners of war bond campaigns, see
New York from a ladder atop the
I roof of their hotel. They visited
Washington and New York, having
won a four-day trip for Uieir meri
torious services in war work and
bond sales.
Heads West Point
Maj. Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor, for
mer commander of the 101st air
borne division, has been selected as
superintendent of the U. S. military
academy at West Point. He flew
from Washington to be with his men,
when they were reported cut off be
hind German lines.
Petain’s Final Exit
Henri Philippe PeUln, who wu
chief of state of France during the
Vichy regime, is shown as he was
escorted from the courtroom by
guards after his recent conviction.
Reconversion Plow
As far as President Harry S. Tru
man is concerned, the war is over
and the tasks of peace now have
his priority. The pun that was on
his desk has been replaced with a
model of a plow.