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Exiled Armies Strain For Return Match With Hitler
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By JUDSON O'QUINN
AP Features
LONDON — Armies in exile—
Poles, Norwegians, Dutch, Bel
gians Czechs — await the hour to
( strike at the Nazi conqueror of
their homelands.
Highly-skilled mountain fight
ers from Norway, and commandos
and parachutists from Belgium
and the Netherlands, are ready.
The Dutch, Belgian, Norwegian,
and Czechoslovak units are small.
But what they lack in size they
expect to make up in special
'asks alongside their big allies.
Polish forces were reorganized
after the German victory, and
now more than 100,000 troops are
in Britain and Italy — about a
third of them in Britain.
Strong Polish tank, artillery,
parachute and infantry units were
built up on this island, and Polish
fliers with the Royal Air Force
have been hitting the Hun s nce
before the Battle of Britain.
The Polish air force in the RAF
—more than 12,000 men — have
dropped 14,592,151 pounds of
bombs since 1940.
Vessels of the Belgium, the
Netherlands and Norway mer
chant marine have been massed.
The 1,304 ships of the Norwegian
merchant marine, once fourth
largest in the world, proved in
dispensable while Br tain and
Broadway Howls Down His Storm,
But Cy Howard Still Gags On
W By CLAYTON IRWIN
AP Features Writer
NEW YORK — Cy Howard is
the kind of gent who could break
a leg, and on the way to the hos
pital, come up with a gag that
would land on somebody's radio
program next week.
He can’t help it. He's a profes
sional gag man, and his mind runs
to gags the way a doctor's runs
to microbes. He probably could
do it just as well for free, but
that would be silly, as long as he
4 collects as much as $1,000 a week
for it.
A lot of Broadwayites asked
‘‘Who’s Cy Howard?” when he
came to town a few weeks ago
to throw ’em his change-of-pace
ball as a double-*alking comic in
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CY HOWARD
. . . He Gags for $1,000 . . .
Maxwell Anderson’s war play,
“Storm Operation.” You couldn’t
blame them. Although Howard
was established as a top-drawer
radio writer around the Califor
nia and Middle-West circuits, this
was his first professional appear
ance on a Broadway stage.
He's Down—He’s Up
“Storm Operation” flopped, but
Howard didn’t. Within a few
hours after the show opened, he
had been offered a movie con
tract, a featured part in a net
work radio program and a role in
a forthcoming stage production.
When Howard sat down to pon
der this sudden acclaim he was
speechless, and a speechless Cy
Howard is unique.
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Pursuing his trade as a gag
writer, Howard prowls hotels lob
bies, crowded street cars and
busses, and eavesdrops on peo- j
pies' conversation, then rewrites
it, building around it situations
of his own design.
He is a slight, intense young
man of 30. a native of Milwaukee,
and had his first contact with
Broadway when he came East six
years ago to work for a casting
agent. One day he called on a
producer to discuss talent for a
forthcoming show’, wangled a role
for himself and never went back
to his own office.
Coast to Coast Background
The show didn’t open and How
ard drifted back to the Middle
West, got into radio production
and writing and then into the
Army, from which he received a
medical discharge a few months
ago.
His role in ’ Storm Operation”
ranged from slapstick comedy to
heart-tugging tragedy and death,
full of pitfalls for even a veteran
actor. Howard avoided hamming
it up, he says, by thinking of
anything but the part he was
playing.
“While I was carrying Mab
roukha (his native sweetheart,
killed by German strafing) around
the stage, I kept thinking about
my shirts that didn’t come back
from the laundry, how big the
house was, and how I’d get money
enough to pay my income tax.”
Some people think Howard is
a genius and Howard is not ready
to disagree.
“A fellow came up to me the
other night,” he says, “and told
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America rushed shipbuilding and
ba'tled U-boats. The Dutch
brought 2,800,000 tons of shipping
and the Belgians 350,000.
The Princess Irene Brigade is
the principal Dutch formation.
Dutchmen fly with the RAF and
some are fighting in the far Pa
cific.
There are Belgian squadrons in
the RAF as well as small ground
forces.
me I was a genius. I think his
name was Lewis—Sinclair Lewis.
Or it might have been Fulton
Lew's. You know, the guy that
invented the steamboat.”
GARDENING HINTS
Here are a few hints for the
gardener hobbyist that may prove
of importance during the coming
gardening season:
1. Withhold water the day
before transplanting to prepare
the plants for the shock.
2. Set plants in a slight depres
sion and pack soil firmly around
the roots. The depression catch
es the water and holds it near
the roots.
3. To protect from cut worms,
leave a paper collar or tin can
around the plant, extending one
inch into the soil.
How deep to set plants:
Tomatoes — Lay the stem on
the ground and cover up to the
leaves. Pluck leader bud to make
plants bushy.
lelery — Do not set too deep.
Keep the heart above the ground.
Th< heart forms at the juncture
of the first two leaves.
Cabbage and cauliflower can
no be strengthened by deep
planting and must not be pruned.
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Dance at the high school gym
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Inland Czechoslovakia had a
tough lime getting men out of
the country, but some left after
Munich. Others now fight with
the Red Army. One unit of Czech
forces operates with the British
here and Czechs fly with the
RAF.
All nationals from other coun
tries join the Czech forces vol
untarily, because they have re
ceived no call-up.
PROMOTION GIVEN
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CAMP COOKE, Calif.—Pro
motion of Cpl. Vernon N. Fisher
of Unalakleet, Alaska, to the
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grade of sergeant was announced
this week by Lt. Col. A. V. Inge,
1 commanding off.cer of the Elev
enth Armored Divi ion's 56th
Armored Engineer Battalion
Sergeant Fisher, a son of Ma
jor Emil B. Fisher of the Alaskan
Territorial Guard, at'ended High
school in Red Bluff, Calif., and
also attended Santa Rosa, Calif..
Junior College. He entered the
army at Santa Rosa, Calif., on
Jan, 18, 1941, and has been pro
moted success vely from Pfc to
corporal, to sergeant.
Sergean* Fisher served prev
iously with K Company. 184th
Infantry, 40th Division, and with
the 323rd M. P. detachment as
a corporal in both outfits.
LOCAL ACS BOYS
ENROUTE TO SEATTLE
Sgt. Harold Weymore and Pfc.
J. Biggs, left via plane yesterday
for Seattle, where Sgt. Weymore
will visit with his family, his wife
and new baby son, and Pfc- Biggs
will attend Officers’ Training
School.
STOKES BROTHERS'
ESTATE SOLD TODAY
This morning at 10:00 a m., the
east end property of the Stokes’
brothers, was sold at public auc
tion by the attorney of the estate,
C. C. anner. The house was pur
chased by Joe Mullins, proprietor
of the Lincoln Hotel and Bar, for
SI.000.00. and the nine beach lots
were bought by Mrs. Cyril Cal
kins for S20.00.
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