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...pride to the F.B.I. investigation of the Vultee strike and calls the strike Communists inspired. Representative Dies plans to conduct his own little "investigation" of the strike this next week. The public is being treated to the disgusting spectacle of a tragi-comic feud between the F.B.I. and the laurel-laden Dies Committee, over which of the two can conjure up the biggest bogey, with the tin cup of hysterically patriotic approval going to the winner. Chief among the side-line rooters are our patriotic business men who stand in high-minded solidarity in decrying any labor activity today...
Died. James Butler, 49, rich Manhattan grocery-store and real-estate scion, head of Empire City race track and co-owner of the Maryland State Fair track at Laurel; on the eve of the fall meeting at Empire; of a broken neck, when his horse failed to take a fence jump near Katonah...
...only six of the 45 big race tracks in the U. S. (Aqueduct, Belmont Park, Saratoga, Pimlico, Delaware Park, Laurel Park) can railbirds see the sportiest of all horse races, a steeplechase. Last week, when beautiful Belmont Park opened its 24-day spring meeting, most of New York's racing fans looked forward to seeing Bimelech and his high-toned contemporaries in some of America's most famed flat races. Dyed-in-the-tweed "regulars" were equally eager to scan the 1940 crop of jumpers...
Married. Film Comedian Oliver Hardy, 48, plump half of Laurel & Hardy; and Virginia Lucille Jones, 26, studio script girl; he for the second time; in Las Vegas...
...Roach has had a brainstorm. In a fit of temporary insanity he conceived a movie combining Disney fantasy, Runyon plot, West-Lamarr sex, and Laurel and Hardy slapstick. The chaotic and riotous result is "The Housekeeper's Daughter." Rarely on the screen has there been a set of characters doing more incongruous things. Rarely has the screen seen a funnier comedy...