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Promoted to major general with 22 other brigadiers last week was Claire Lee Chennault, commander of the new Fourteenth Air Force in China. Upped with him was his former commanding officer, Clayton Lawrence Bissell, head of the Tenth Air Force in India...
Died. Frank Clayton Ball, 85, fruit-jar tycoon; in Muncie, Ind.* When the Mason jar patent expired in 1883, the Brothers Ball (Frank, Edmund, George, William and Lucius) turned from fish kits to glass preserving jars, acquired a virtual monopoly in manufacturing them, became one of the Midwest's wealthiest families. Aged Frank, who spent his summers in Leland, Mich., commuted to work by plane...
...gorgeous showgirls, is making his first real nose-to-nose appearance in twelve years. Schnozzle ("I know I'm not good-lookin', but wot's my opinion against tousands of odders?") has aged but fortunately not mellowed, is again in the vein of the late, great Clayton, Jackson & Durante act, able to concentrate on his own mad, multileveled comedy which Hollywood usually heavily diluted with other men's ideas. He brings on his old partner, Eddie Jackson, partly to strut, mostly to stooge; fetches his fans with old favorites like Inka-Dinka-Doo; he insults waiters...
...DELHI--Brig. Gen. Clayton History, commanding United States Army Air Forces in India, Burma and China, said today he believed there was no truth in reports of friction between Brig. Gen. Clairo Chennault, commanding the air army task force in China, and other officers...
...Justice Department's Anti-Trust division, the irreverent, irrepressible Assistant Attorney General had long since reached a dead end. First capital, then labor had been irritated by his monolithic determination to enforce the Sherman and Clayton anti-trust laws. Two years ago Arnold's brisk roundup of labor unions for trade-restraining practices was brought to an abrupt halt. The Supreme Court virtually forbade anti-trust prosecution of organized labor...