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Henry Huddleston Rogers III, bespectacled Standard Oil heir who enraged the folk of Bethel, Conn, by grazing sheep on his lawn last June, moved into a new estate at Southampton, L.I., shortly trotted to police with a complaint of grand larceny. Standing on the $100,000 estate when he bought it, he said, was a holly tree. Now it was gone. Cried Rogers: "I liked that tree. My wife liked that tree." The chief of police went on a vacation...
Still head of Bodelschwingh Institute at Bethel (founded by his father), he last year defied Hitler's order to release several thousand defectives from that charitable institution. His reason: belief that they would be killed according to Nazi euthanasia theory. Nonetheless the Nazis tried to make capital of him in South America by a drawing (see cut] showing a British bomb hitting the Institute...
...Joseph Kesselring, 39, got the idea for Arsenic and Old Lace by considering what would be the most unlikely thing his gentle grandmother might do. Born and raised in Manhattan, as a boy he sang at the Church of the Epiphany, went to Stuyvesant High School, taught at the Bethel Mennonite College in North Newton, Kans. He has acted on the road and in Chicago, has written pulp stories, vaudeville sketches, two Broadway flops. His press agent Richard Maney swears that Mr. Kesselring has recently lived on "herbs, wild berries and pemmican...
...military fields through the main body of Alaska is the airport system of Pan Am's sourdough subsidiary, Pacific Alaska Airways. Bossed by Alaska Veteran Joe Crosson, P.A.A.'s pilots operate in & out of Fairbanks, Whitehorse, Burwash Landing, Tanana Crossing, Ruby, Nome, McGrath, Ophir, Flat and Bethel. To help civil aeronautics and, in the long run, the defenses of the northwest frontier, the Civil Aeronautics Bureau is dotting Alaska with emergency fields, installing radio range stations for navigation at night and in bad weather...
...Point Barrow (where Will Rogers and Wiley Post were killed), at Nome and probably another near the Canadian border, against the possibility of an air invasion across the top of the world. Advance fields will dot the Seward peninsula back of Nome, the lower Yukon Valley back of Bethel and the tundra south of Point Barrow. This summer the U. S. Army landed at Anchorage the first big contingent of troops the territory had seen in 40 years. The only other sizable garrison in Alaska consists of some 400 infantrymen at Chilkoot Barracks, a station not far from Skagway which...