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'Tramp Chair' Mrs. Jackie Baker sits in an 1875 "tramp
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lection presented to the Smithsonian institution, Washington.
NIGHT CLUBS FORGOTTEN
Lana Turner Now Home Girl
And She's Mighty Proud of It
By BOB THOMAS
Hollywood, Dec. 7 tfP) Meet the self-proclaimed-and-proud-of-it
new Lana Turner.
"I'm strictly the home girl now," she says. "You wouldn't
know me."
The same goes for husband Bob Topping. "We're very folksy,"
she told me in her studio dress-1
ing room. "Surprised? So are
we. "
And so will be all Hollywood.
Time was, even on a dull night
the hot spot photographers could
almost always count on Lana to
Dut in an appearance. Now, she
says, they haven't been to
night club since they dropped
Into a sunset strip spot after a
premier a couple of months ago.
So what do they do?
"We Just stay home. Bob
plays tennis and we both watch
television. Every Saturday night
I get the urge to go to a movie.
But Bob says, 'you know the
theaters are crowded on Satur
day night; I'll take you any
other night of the week.'
"But all the other nights, I'm
too busy watching television. So
we just stay home."
Television is the Toppings'
passion. They have five screens
In their new home and a forest
of aerials on their roof. Lana
indicated one of the aerials is
high enough to be a danger to
aircraft. Their favorite program
is the kiddies' show, "time for
Beanie;" the household drops
everything at 6:30 p.m. to watch
it.
Lana the homebody has amaz
ed many people in her new role,
Including her publicity chief.
She said he shook her hand one
day and said, "Lana, I want you
to know how proud I am of the
fine way you and Bob have been
conducting yourselves. I know
It's hard for you."
"This may be hard to be
lieve," she answered, "but I like
It.'
"And I do, she told me. "This
is the good life. And amazingly
enough, Bob likes it, too. You
know, he's had his share of night
life, too."
Right now, Lana is more than
eager to get back to work. She
returned here June 30 to begin
"A Life of Her Own" on July
15. Five months and three
scripts later, she is still waiting
to start the picture.
"It's none of my doing that we
haven t started, she said. "Ev
erybody agrees that the script
is still a pile of junk.
"I'm anxious to get started.
By the time this one comes out,
it will be almost three years
since I was last on the screen
in 'Three Musketeers.' I don't
think it's healthy to stay off the
screen that long.
"I would like to either start
making pictures again or give
them up one or the other. But
I don't like this waiting."
She added that she preferred
to stay in pictures, at least for
a while. "But that doesn't mean
I'm going to do them until I'm
99 years old.'
Small-Town Doctor
Praised for Work
Washington, Dec. 7 (U.R) Dr.
Andy Hall, a small town phys
ician ol Mount Vernon, 111., to
day was named the outstanding
practitioner of the year by the
American Medical association
Hall, who will be 83 next
month, was first choice of the
AMA's house of delegates meet
ing here this week in their in
terim session. Second choice
was Dr. Thomas Edward Ryan
ol Thornton, Ark.
Dr. Hall, who was born in
1865 on a farm in Hamilton
county, 111., still has an active
practice in Mount Vernon. He
is in Washington to attend the
AMA s sessions.
Later in the week he will be
formally cited and will be given
a gold medal. Hall typifies the
average small town doctor in
that he has delivered, on the av
erage, 60 to 70 babies a year.
It is estimated that in 50 years
he delivered some 3500 chil
dren which Is about one-tenth
population of his home county-
Free Operation for
Young Cancer Victim
Portland, Dec. 7 IP) Doern-
becher hospital Tuesday offered
free eye operation to Dean
Ault, 2'k -year-old Seattle boy
who is suffering from cancer.
A Seattle doctor advised the
boy's parents that he must have
the eye removed or he would
die.
A spokesman for the hospital
here, where an Elks-sponsored
eye clinic is located, said the
operation would be performed
without cost, but the boy's par
ents, because they reside out of
Oregon, would have to pay hos
pital costs.
SET OFF 'FIREWORKS'
'Russians Got Me Promoted1
Declares G. Racey Jordan
Washington. Dec. 7 VP) G. Racey Jordan, who has touched off
an investigation by charging that atomic materials were sent to
Russia during the war, says "the Russians got me promoted"
from captain to major in the air corps.
Heavy set, with gray and balding hair, Jordan has a back
ground as a member of the aire
corps in world war i ana as a
beer advertiser.
He told the House un-Ameri
can activities committee that he
has an apartment in New York
City, a country home at Punx
sutawney, Pa. and an 80-acre
ranch at Bremerton, Wash.
He was dressed before the
committee in a gray double
breasted suit set off by a match
ing tie and pocket handkerchief
of red and blue.
He didn't explain how the Rus
sians got him promoted but he
said he was assigned to help
them get American lend-lease
planes overseas. He was station
ed at the lend-lease 34th Sub
depot at Great Falls, Mont.', as
liaison officer in 1943 and 1944.
He said he has worked at mer
chandising and selling and has
been advertising manager of the
Ruppert, Schaefer and Piel
Breweries in New York.
Jordan said he was a sergeant
in the first World War in the
air corps with the "Old Ricken-
backer outfit under Billy Mit
chell.
In the last war, he said, he
went into the air corps as cap
tain on May 1, 1942, and was
stationed at Newark airport as
acting executive officer. He said
he was also appointed to liaison
work with Col. A. N. Kotikov
of the Russian purchasing com
mission. He said .he was transferred to
the air base at Great Falls on
January 1, 1943, after the losses
of planes in the Atlantic route
to Russia became severe and it
was decided to fly them to Rus
sia by way of Alaska. He said
Col. Kotikov also was shifted to
Great Falls.
Later, at a news conference,
Jordan said:
"It wasn't until Mr. Truman
said the Russians had the atomic
bomb that I realized I had been
a party to it."
He testified that he learned
that atomic materials were being
flown to Russia by poking into
the shipments. That was be-
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Jordan said he had talker'1
with some members of the join:
atomic energy committee but
that no date had been set foi
any hearing before that group
Jordan said he didn t think too
much about the material he had
until a senator asked him "a
couple of questions" about his
job at Great Falls. , This was
around 10 or 12 weeks ago, he
said.
He would not identify the sen
ator.
News commentator Fulton
Lewis, Jr., who was present at
the news conference, said he
got the tip from the senator and
went up to interview Jordan on
Oct. 26. Jordan told his story
a Lewis broadcast Friday
light. I
At one point, Jordan told re-
Mrters:
"Everyone seems surprised
ibout Hopkins. (He testified
hat the late Harry Hopkins,
lide of President Roosevelt, had
iven orders to expedite impor
tant shipments to Russia.)
"The Russians contacted Hop
kins all the time. If you want
ed 10 pilots, all you had to do
was tell the Russians and they
would get in touch with Hopkins
and he would get them."
Jordan said that when he
opened the Russian suitcases he
had to do it over the screaming
protests of a Russian armed
guard.
"This Russian tried to guard it
16 Capital Journal, Salem, Ore., Wednesday, Dee. 7, 1949
with his body and when I broke
into the suitcase he screamed
'Diplomatique! Diplomatique 1',"
he related.
"A Russian colonel came up
and said I would be. removed
from my job for what happened."
Jordan was never taken from
his position, and that he didn't
believe that the Russians really
wanted him removed.
"I dont think they complain
ed too much," he said, "because
they were afraid there would
be an investigation and this
little rat hole would be stop
ped." Defense officials said Jordan
served at Great Falls until July
6, 1944, when he was assigned
to a base unit at the Washing
ton airport.
He was honorably discharged
September 4, 1944,
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construction work in South
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Jordan said he is an assistant
to the president, and is also a
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