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Died. James Cruze, 58, longtime cinedirector (Old Ironsides, The Covered Wagon, Merton of the Movies) of a heart ailment; in Hollywood. Born James Cruze Bosen, one of 23 children of Mormon parents, in Ogden, Utah, he was an actor in cinema's early days, became one of the highest-paid and fastest-working directors of the silents. At one time Paramount paid him $1,000 a day every day in the year whether he worked or not. The second of his three wives was Actress Betty Compson...
...obvious that the thought never occurred to them that they might soon be slaves of Nazi Germany. A few days ago a large section of the Cairo fire brigade, dressed in the finest robes, marched through the streets before and behind a shiny red hose wagon, on which rested a bedecked coffin...
...There will be makeshifts and stunts. Playgoers will share their cars and form taxi groups. One producer has acquired a hay wagon. Marengo, Ill. dolled up in Gay-Nineties style, drove to the play in buggies...
...Lancaster, Pa., during the week after Pearl Harbor, small, 84-lb., 13-year-old Star Scout Daniel Flory marched up & down the streets politely ringing doorbells, politely asking housewives for old newspapers. In seven afternoons he collected in his little wagon the last ton of the 9,500 lb. of paper he added to the eleven tons the rest of his troop had collected...
Marias. In Nashville, Tenn., Police Chief John Griffin decided to put a lock on the patrol-wagon door after a prisoner ran away. In Kearny, N.J., four men who lived on a garbage dump were convicted of vagrancy. After looking them over, police refused to let them enter their shining patrol wagon, carried them to jail in a garbage truck...