Victims

Adolf Hitler's name was prominent--said radio reports--on leaflets secretly distributed throughout Germany. They offered ten marks (40-c-) for Hitler's capture, were signed Karl Goerdeler (see FOREIGN NEWS)--the fugitive mayor of Leipzig, on whose head after the recent anti-Nazi bomb plot the Gestapo set a price of 1,000,000 marks.

Henry Morgenthau was reported by Berlin radio to have stolen the great Bayeux Tapestry, the 231-foot masterpiece showing the Norman invaders, during the Secretary's recent visit to Normandy--thus adding the charge of libel to those for which Germany's war criminals may be tried.

Sir Howard Walter Florey, thin-lipped, bespectacled, Australian-born half of the famed Florey-Fleming penicillin team, after twelve days at Manhattan's Ritz-Carlton was caught by a reporter, ejaculated: "It is not my practice to be interviewed by the press. I'd much rather be let alone."

Pfc. Alton W. Knappenberger, 20 years old, 120 lbs., who knocked off 60 Nazis on the Anzio beachhead, arrived practically broke in his home town, Spring Mount, Pa. Explained the Congressional medalist: "I saved up $150. .. . Then while I was in Naples a pickpocket took it all. The people there are pretty hard up."

Vince Di Maggio (batting average: .264), slick-haired, outfielding elder brother of peacetime Yankee Outfielder Sergeant Joe, vigorously ignored the $4.50-a-day meal ticket allowed to Pittsburgh Pirates on the road. In a single Philadelphia sitting he ate $9.97 worth, charged it to the club. Possessor of a priceless 4-F rating (for stomach ulcers), he dared the Pittsburgh management: "If you think I eat too much, trade me."

Herbert George Wells, in a fit of Blimp-like indignation, haled his landlord, Lieut. Colonel Sir Thomas Moore. M.P., into court, got him fined $29. Reason: over the doorway of the building where Wells lives, Sir Thomas had posted a large sign for a Salvation Army Service Club on the premises. Fumed the novelist: "[I am] entirely hostile to this needless cheapening of one of the best sites in London." Fumed the M.P. (who refused to tear down the sign): "They may prosecute me again. ... I shall bring the matter up in Parliament."

Seers

Lieut. General Mark Clark, fighting forward in Italy with his Fifth Army, disclosed his peacetime ambition: to retire to Puget Sound's Camano Island and "fish for the rest of my life."

Vice Admiral Marc A. Mitscher, wizened, air-wise, U.S. Navy carrier task-force commander in the Pacific, got a Navy bronze star at his advance base in the Marshalls from CINCPAC Admiral Chester W. Nimitz. Said Nimitz: "Ninety-one years ago a naval officer opened up the ports of Japan, and now another officer is doing his damndest to close them."

Winston Churchill was quoted by Columnist Hannen Swaffer in the London Herald as remarking at a dinner party: "There will soon come a time when the sands will run out and I shall pay a little visit to the country to write a few notes on the events of the past five years."

Artists

Henry Berger (1844-1929), Prussian leader of the Royal Hawaiian Band for over 30 years, received 100th-anniversary honors in Honolulu. Of the four Hawaiian monarchs Berger served, the most enthusiastic was King Lunalilo. As his first kingly act, following coronation services in Kawaiahao Church, Lunalilo said to his bandmaster: "Now, Berger, I am King and I am going to play the bass drum. . . . We are going to march around the palace three times and all you fellows who expect to hold your jobs tomorrow will fall in behind." After three turns around the palace, Berger clicked his heels, bowed, took away the drum and announced: "Your Majesty, you're drunk."

Victor Mature, No. 1 Coast Guard showpiece, now touring the U.S. in Tars and Spars, admitted he had given up hope regarding his onetime fiancee, Mrs. Orson Welles (Rita Hayworth). Moaned he: "The guy married her while I was at sea. What could I do? I'm still heartbroken. ... I got another girl in Hollywood. . . . I'm madly in love with her ... I don't know her last name."

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