WEALTHY MEN SERVE

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXIII, Issue 25, 29 December 1942, Page 5

WEALTHY MEN SERVE

AMERICANS IN PACIFIC.

SYDNEY, Dec. 23

Members of multi-millionaire American families, and men whose mimes are household words in their own country, are serving in the United States forces in the South Pacific, reports a . Sydney Sun war correspondent. Lieutenant-Com-mander Gene Mnrkey, Hollywood producer, and cx-husband of screen stars Joan Bennett and Hedy LnmaiT, holds a senior post in Navy Intelligence. For a time he was on Guadalcanal. Suave and polished, he, is an excellent organiser and immensely popular witn officers and men. . , , In Navy Operations is youthful Lieutenant Clifford Mallory, heir to the Mallorv Steamship Line, whicli operates a big fleet along the Nortn and South American coasts. Young Mallory's sister is running the line in his absence. Marshal Field, of Chicago, young heir to the Marshal Field fortune, which includes America's biggest department store and the newspaper Chicago Sun, is a junior officer on on American aircraft-carrier. I Another millionaire doing his bit h Captain Walter F. Mclllhcny, United States Marine Corps, a to ng member of the American sauce and salt family. A daring officer and a crack shot, lie took command of a unit of snipers on Guadalcanal.