Spats & Raps

Governor Charles Edison of New Jersey took a look at a one-month grocery bill for his "Little White House" at Sea Girt, then ordered an investigation of his quartermaster general's housekeeping operations. Items, in a month, for 20 people: $172 for soda water; averages of $30.23 a day for meat, $22.36 for poultry, $7.83 for lobster, $7.23 for caviar; eleven pounds of butter a day, nine dozen eggs a day. "I would say that was enough eggs," figured the Governor, "for a daily Easter egg roll on the Sea Girt lawn. . . ."

Ogden Hammond's daughter, Mary, was ordered interned as an enemy alien. Daughter of the wealthy ex-U.S. Ambassador to Spain, American-born Mary is married to Italian Count Guerino Roberti, onetime attache at the Italian Embassy in Washington. The Count and Countess will be taken to Hot Springs, Va.

Princess Stephanie Hohenlohe-Waldenbourg-Schillingfiuerst's 27-year-old son, Frangois-Joseph-Rudolf-Hans, professional artist's model, was taken to Ellis Island for a hearing before the Enemy Alien Board.

Laura Ingalls' sentence for failing to register as an Axis agent: eight months to two years in prison.

Larry Allen, U.S. war correspondent who nearly drowned in the Mediterranean when the British cruiser he was aboard, H.M.S. Galatea, was torpedoed, took his first swimming lessons in Miami. He had sworn to learn to swim 20 feet -"enough to escape the suction" in a sinking. When he met the teacher (see cut), he upped the distance to 100.

In & Out

Carl F. Zeidler, tousle-haired, 34-year-old singing "boy mayor" of Milwaukee, "the Personality Kid" who beat Daniel Hoan, Milwaukee's mayor for 24 years, in 1940, enlisted in the U.S. Naval Reserve, announced that he would resign his $12,300-a-year office as soon as he was called to active duty. "What does my life matter when the life of my country is at stake?" cried he. A Naval official said Zeidler would be made a lieutenant, junior grade, or full lieutenant, probably assigned to recruiting or promotion.

George F. Deatherage, brawny founder of the swastika-loving Knights of the White Camellia and American Nationalist Confederation, was discovered to be working as an executive engineer on a secret Government project at the Norfolk naval base. The Navy, its attention called, found that he was "undesirable," declared that he would be "excluded from the site of Navy work."

Vincent Astor, 50, millionaire yachting companion of President Roosevelt, went on active duty as a full commander in the Third Naval District (around New York City). The Navy said his duties were secret.

Lou Ambers, 28, onetime world lightweight champion, enlisted in the Coast Guard.

Zone of Quiet

Mrs. John L. Lewis underwent a brain operation at Johns Hopkins Hospital, was later reported "doing very nicely."

Carolyn Wells, thriller-manufacturer (81 mysteries in 33 years), slipped on a rug in her Manhattan apartment, broke her right leg, right arm. "This is nothing new," she reported. "I've had seven breaks."

Dorothy Gish, ill of gall-bladder trouble, dropped out of the Life With Father cast touring the Northwest. Sister Lillian flew west from Manhattan to take over Mother's role.

Sally Rand (Mrs. Thurkel Greenough) announced she was going to have a baby, hoped for twins.

Awards

Joseph Stalin won an Indian war bonnet of giant eagle feathers from the Indian Confederation of America, which voted him 1941's outstanding warrior, at a Manhattan powwow. The bonnet will be shipped to Moscow on the next boat leaving for Russia.

Mrs. Frances Dodge Johnson, youngest (27) daughter of the late Motor Magnate John F. Dodge, won a court award of a $10,000,000 trust fund, after a two-year family fight. Father Dodge's will provided that $10 million go to her when she reached 25, but her halfbrother, John Duval Dodge, sued to break the will when he found it left him only $150 a month. Members of the family gave him a settlement of $1,700,000.

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