Stokes: Post-war jobs
By Thomas L. Stokes
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‘Fraternization girls’ of 1918 are gray-haired women now
**And they bring out pictures of first army of occupation
By Thomas R. Henry, North American Newspaper Alliance
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Gracie Allen Reporting
By Gracie Allen
George Bernard Shaw, the famous old playwright, who always seems to be losing his temper, just celebrated his 89th birthday.
My butcher told me about it. My butcher said Mr. Shaw is a vegetarian, and that if you want to be 89 years old and smart, the way to do it is to live on carrots and rutabagas, and not come around pestering butchers for steaks and pot roasts.
Personally, I don’t think much of Mr. Shaw’s vegetarian theory. I always wanted George to be literary, so I once put him on a vegetable diet for three months, and at the end of it he still couldn’t write a line.
In fact, he’s been kind of delicate ever since. I pointed out to George that Mr. Shaw spent his 89th birthday working. George said he didn’t mind waiting until his 89th birthday to go to work.
That about-face decision –
No wonder Argentine rates New York a lair of boxing gangsters
By Dan Daniel
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Kaiser’s auto will be made on West Coast
Motor industry to be decentralized
By John W. Love, Scripps-Howard staff writer
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Girl who dropped 80 floors smiles
NEW YORK (AP) – The elevator girl who fell nearly 80 floors – about 1,000 feet – when the cables of her car in the Empire State Building were snapped by an Army bomber crash Saturday, was alive and smiling today at Bellevue Hospital.
She is 20-year-old Betty Lou Oliver of Fort Smith, Arkansas, who took a job as elevator girl in the world’s largest building while she waited in New York for her sailor husband to return from overseas. She had given notice and was to have quit this week.
Betty Lou was alone in the car when the fog-blinded B-25 crashed into the building Saturday, and she remained fully conscious during the elevator’s terrifying descent. She is suffering from burns, bruises and a possible back fracture.
Anti-collision system discussed before New York crash
NEW YORK (UP) – Less than 24 hours before a B-25 bomber crashed into the Empire State Building, the installation of an anti-collision system on the building to prevent such an accident was under discussion, it was disclosed Monday.
Panoramic Radio Corporation engineers met with Civil Aeronautics Administration officials here last Friday to consider the possibility of installing one of the systems, known as a stratoscope, on the building.
Dr. Marcel Wallace, Panoramic president and inventor of the system, said that if it had been installed before Saturday, radio signals emanating in all directions from the top of the Empire State would have warned the bomber pilot in time to prevent the crash.
Franco would drop Falange
Seeks to reestablish relations with Allies but hold control
By Leigh White
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