Warriors & Aides

Navy Lieut. Richard Barthelmess swore in his son, Stewart, at Norfolk's naval recruiting station.

C.I.O. Man Phil Murray's son, Joseph, enlisted in the Army at Pittsburgh.

Newly enlisted Private Clark Gable tried a secret trip from Los Angeles to his training camp in Miami, but women along the route heard rumors, jammed depots, mobbed him by hundreds in Houston and New Orleans.

J. P. Morgan posed for a good wartime capital-and-labor picture in one of his rare public appearances (see cut). Occasion: Award of a joint Army and Navy "E" pennant to Federal Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. in Kearny, N J.

Private Lew (Dr. Kildare) Ayres, who quit a conscientious objectors' camp for noncombatant service, finished his basic training at Camp Barkeley, Tex. Said his commanding general: "an excellent soldier."

Carrying On

Saratoga Springs, N.Y., the plush old-fashioned spa whose social season starts with the races, would have been a pleasant spot last week in which to relax from the war. Still preserved there, with its ancient hotels, its elms and its barouches, was Saratoga's Victorian status quo. Faintly, war rippled its quiet eddies with occasional benefits and a scattering of tailor-made uniforms. Society reporters made mention of track fans' brothers and husbands and sons who were absent. But nearly all the old, familiar faces were present, some, doubtless, to relax from nursing classes and canteen duty. Among the better-knowns who have been noted in their accustomed boxes this season: Army Air Corps Capt. John Hay ("Jock") Whitney; his exwife, Mary Elizabeth Altemus ("Liz") Whitney, up from "farming for defense" on her Virginia estate; Mrs. Payne Whitney and her daughter, Mrs. Charles Shipman Payson; improver-of-the-breed Joseph E. Widener, Philadelphia's multimillionaire art collector; Herbert Bayard Swope, up from Washington; Boatswain Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt's exwife, Manuela Hudson ("Mollie") Vanderbilt; Mrs. William G. Cavanagh of the A.W.V.S.; Mrs. Harrison Williams, once the world's best dressed woman; Chocolate Heiress (Milky Way) Ethel V. Mars, who outspends everybody for yearlings ($643,300 in the last ten years); steel-wealthy Mrs. Henry Carnegie Phipps; William A. Julian, Treasurer of the U.S. (the man who signs all the folding money).

Worldly Goods

Disagreement between Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and the former Lady Ashley over rights to two marble statues and a tigerskin rug has held up the settlement of the late actor's estate. Neither could they agree on her $2,500-a-month allowance from the estate. Meantime, pending final reckoning October 12, a Los Angeles court ordered the widow's allowance cut to $1,500.

Joseph Morgan, a mountain hermit near Livingston, Tenn., willed his estate to "My friends, Cordell Hull and Franklin D. Roosevelt," a week later died.

The 25-room Los Angeles mansion of theatrical producer Oliver Morosco, with stained glass windows and gold-plated lighting fixtures, was knocked down for $300 to a wrecking firm.

Prospect

Jacksonville's Boatbuilder Frank Huckins had a new customer to look forward to after the war: Major General F. A. M. Browning, chief of Britain's Air-Borne Command. In the U.S. on a secret mission, the general paid a visit to Huckins, with whom he had had a long correspondence. He had written that he hoped to buy a Huckins boat if a book his wife was writing proved a success. Huckins replied: "I never heard of your wife and I have never read any of her books. In fact, since I finished at Harvard some 30 years ago I have read no books at all and am practically illiterate." Amused, General Browning kept up the correspondence. His wife is Daphne du Maurier; the book was best-selling Rebecca.

Justice Owen J. Roberts of the U.S. Supreme Court rummaged his farm near Pottstown, Pa., assembled his private scrap collection for the war effort (see cut).

Among personal effects and household furnishings of the late John Barrymore to be auctioned next week in Hollywood: a gilded bed with a mermaid on the headboard; a crayon portrait of him by John Singer Sargent; an antique cuspidor; a rare 15th-Century volume in vellum, valued at $5,000, which the actor used as a doorstop.

A Hollywood contribution to the scrap metal drive: two half-ton iron deer. Donor: Walt (Bambi) Disney, who had them on his lawn (see cut).

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