Spats & Slaps

Edward J. Flynn, Democratic National Chairman and dairy farmer, won a court order ejecting the superintendent at his farm near Mahopac, N.Y. The two had been squabbling ever since Flynn gave Franklin D. Roosevelt what the superintendent complained was the best cow on the farm.

Henry Ford threatened legal action against the Ku Klux Klan unless they stopped reprinting in pamphlets anti-Semitic articles from Ford's old Dearborn Independent. Through his attorney he pointed out to Imperial Wizard James A. Colescott that he had retracted the articles in 1928. Wizard Colescott said the Klan had stopped circulating the pamphlets the day war was declared.

William A. Julian, 72-year-old Treasurer of the U.S., was ordered to pay $5,000 damages to an 18-year-old caddy who testified Golfer Julian had kicked him, hit him with a club.

Adjustments

Wing Commander Douglas Bader, legless British air ace held by the Germans since last August, waited delivery from Britain of his fifth pair of artificial legs. Bader wrote that being idle made him fat, and the fatter he got, the worse his legs fitted.

Governor Eugene Talmadge of Georgia, cigar in hand, rode the rear seat of a tandem at the head of a bicycle cavalcade through Atlanta to popularize pedaling, declared at the finish that cycling not only saved gas and rubber but beautified the complexion.

Lieut. Douglas Fairbanks Jr. got orders from the Navy to have a haircut. The Navy dislikes long hairdos, prefers a trim a hair's breadth from a crew cut.

Fiorello H. LaGuardia laid up one of his two limousines, moved his fire-chasing gadgets (red spotlights, two-way radio with antenna) to a two-seated coupe.

Giuseppe Di Maggio, 67, father of Ball players Joe, Dominic, Vince, was officially barred from Son Joe's waterfront restaurant, only a few hundred yards from the Di Maggio home. Reason: the restaurant stands in a defense zone, and unnaturalized Papa Giuseppe is classed as an "enemy alien."

Jose Sert, aging Spanish muralist, got $357,893 in the settlement of his late wife's estate--$209,000 of it from Barbara Hutton by way of the late Prince Alexis Mdivani. At Mdivani's death in 1935, trusts established for him the year before by Wife Barbara Hutton went to Roussadara Sert, Mdivani's sister.

Joan Crawford inherited the role in tended for the late Carole Lombard in He Kissed the Bride, agreed to turn over to the Red Cross and other charities her full salary: $112,500.

MacArthur's

General Douglas MocArthur's 43-year-old wife, Jean, and four-year-old son, Arthur, are still in the Philippines, still safe, Cordell Hull disclosed. Meantime in Washington the General's first wife, Louise Atwill, fiftyish, now the wife of ex-Matinee Idol Lionel Atwill, said she has lately been getting "hundreds of letters from hysterical people who demand to know in detail why I divorced MacArthur." Also received: newspaper queries on the color of the General's eyes and hair; a fat offer from a syndicate for his early love letters.

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