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Evening star., 1940-02-13
Luxury Liner Bids
To Be Opened Muy7
BY the Associated Press.

BY the ASS0Ciated Press.
The Maritime Commission will
open bids at noon May Z for con-
struction Of two 35,000-ton luxury
liners to ply between San Francisco
and the Orient.
The commission said the ships, to
be the largest ever built in an Amer
ican yard, could be converted to air
craft carriers in an emergency.
Carrying 1000 passengers and q
personnel of 500, each vessel is to be
759 feet long, with a beam on the
water line Of 9s.2 feet. The designed
speed Is "a knots.
Evening star., 1940-02-13
Cost of Operating
Navy Bombers $22.71
An Hour and Going Up
Ey the Associated Press.

ky the Associated Press.
Here's one for the motorist
who thinks it's expensive to op-
crate his automobile:
The operating cost of the
Navy bombers. now on neutral
ity patrol, has been $22.71 an
hour-and it's going up.
This cost, Rear Admiral John
H. Towers told the House Ap-
propriations Committee, did not
include overhaul and deprecia-
ton. The cost was rising, he
said, because the newer models
require higher quality gaso-
line than the older ones.
Evening star., 1940-02-13
Godoy and His Wife
Form Dance Team
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Feb. 13.-Arturo
Godoy and his wife, Ledda,. have
formed ballroom dance team.
The Chilean fighter who lasted Is
rounds with Joe Louis will show his
prowess at the tango, the conga and
the rhumba, with the tall, pretty
brunette from Buenos Aires he mar
ried eight months ago.
Evening star., 1940-02-13

13 days OF bitter fighting, Finnish
military authorities announced
today that all positions of stra-
tegical Importance on the Ka-
relian Isthmus had been won
back by Finnish counterattacks.
B, the Associated Press.
HELSINKI, Feb. 13.-The Finnish
high command announced today
that its forces had repulsed day Long
Russian attacks on the Karelian
Isthmus, making several successful
counterattacks," and farther north
had driven Russian detachment
back across its own frontier.
The daily communique said that
fighting was continuing on the 18TH
mus today, 18th day Of the Russian
assault there.
The Firms said they destroyed
the greater part of an enemy column
of 100 sledges among the Pitkaranta
Islands. along Lake Ladoga's north
ern fringe, and reported they had re-
pulsed Russian attacks northeast of
Lake Ladoga and the Kuhmo sector
still farther north.
The Russian force thrown back
across the border was advancing
to the west" in the region of Raate,
east of Suomussalmi, at Finland S
waist"
Attacks Continue Unabated.
The Russian attacks on the 18TH
mus continued undated" through
out yesterday, the Firms said.
Today's communique said there
was fighting yesterday also at Muo-
lajarvia and at Taipale on the
isthmus.
In the Pitkaranta Islands north
east of Lake Ladoga the Firms said
they destroyed" a Russian column
of 100 sledges, and they reported
capturing several Russian machine
gun nests in the Kuhmo region.
At Raate. the Firms said, they
drove Russian detachment back
beyond the frontier"
The Firms said they had de-
stroyed 23 Russian tanks on the
isthmus and 2 more northeast of
Lake Ladoga. They said their pur-
suit planes and anti-aircraft guns
had shot down four Red planes in
the various war zones.
Russians Strengthen Forces.
There were indications that the
Russians were throwing reinforce
ments into the isthmus attack.
One source said Ave Soviet divi-
sions, including reserve lines, were
occupied in that sector, although
no definite figures we're available.
The strength Of a Russian division
is estimated at $1,000 men.
The deep-throated bark of ar
tillery continued steadily as the
Karelian Isthmus battle went on.
A famous Finnish athlete, Gun
mar Hockert, was reported killed
in the isthmus fighting Sunday.
Winner of the 5,000-meter run
in the record time of 14:22.2 in the
Olympic games of 1886, Hockert also
held the world record of 8:148 for
the 5000 meter run. He was the
second noted athlete to die in the
war, Speed Skater Birger Wasenius
having been killed In December
while leading a ski patrol across
Lake Ladoga.
Interest in Baltic Reports.
Finnish leaders in Helsinki ex-
pressed interest in reports that Lat
via and Estonia possibly were ap-
preaching a crisis in their relations
with Russia, with whom they made
military pacts last autumn.
In Riga, Foreign Minister William
hunters of Latvia said, however,
that relations with the Soviet Union
were very satisfactory, and inquired,
where's the Sovietization of which
we were warned? No one in Latvia
can say the Soviet Union intervenes
in our home affairs some way or an
other"
Finish rejection of Russian de-
mands for a similar pact and terri
(See FINLAND, Page AID
Evening star., 1940-02-13

Foreign
Reds are repulsed at two points,
Firms declare. Page Al
Allies to watch U. s. exports to Reich
neighbors. Page AZ
Nazi crew on British cruiser after
firing ship. Page Az
Dutch will protest to Reich against
liners sinking. Page Az
Japanese emigrants' recall from U.
S. rejected by Arita. Page "A
Britain acts to smash Nazi mine
bomb blockade. Page A-4
italy reported speeding Brenner
Pass fortification. Page AS
Notionol
Hull against invoking Neutrality
Act in China. Page Al
Swedish purchase of IA U. S. war
planes is revealed. Page Al
Roosevelt to confer with advisers on
foreign affairs. Page Al
$500 attend marathon New York
tax hearing. Page Az
Washington and Vicinity
Cassini and Warrenton girl married
IN Fredericksburg. Page A.
Evening star., 1940-02-13
Summary Of Todoy's Star

General overhauling forecast for
D. C.. Revenue Act. Page B-1
Schultz arranges for exposure Of
mediums "fakery" Page B-1
"High-test" gasoline hearing to be
held this week. Page B-1
Evening star., 1940-02-13
Ruling Sought
On n. |. R. B.
lobbying
Boards Activities
Violated Statute,
Folond Implies
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
Special House committee has
been Investigating National La.
Dor Relations Board since De.
cember. After hearing testimony
indicating dissension on board
and alleged partiality of some
feld employees for C. /. o., COM
n'tttee gaUe board members op-
portuntty to present their pieUs.
Evening star., 1940-02-13

(See APPROPRIATIONS, Page AS
Evening star., 1940-02-13
Reds Repu|sed
Al Two Points,,
Films Declare
Most of 100 S!edqes
Are Reported
Destroyed
BULLETIN.

.HELSINKI, Feb. 13 R.-After
13 days OF bitter fighting, Finnish
military authorities announced
today that all positions of stra-
tegical Importance on the Ka-
relian Isthmus had been won
back by Finnish counterattacks.
Evening star., 1940-02-13
Naval Budget
Cut III Millions
In House Report
Committee Urges
Worships Superior
To Those Abroad
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
President Roosevelt proposed
budget Uhich mould not necessi-
tate raising debt limit IT $780,
100000 of ne1D defense tdreS lDere
leDied. Congress economy ddpo-
Gates, ho,Deper, haze been seek
ing to trim Presidents figures to
point Dhere they can apoid either
national debt increase or enact
ing ne,0 tares in election year.
Evening star., 1940-02-13

(See FINLAND, Page Aid
Evening star., 1940-06-23
Hitchcock Finishes
Film for Wanaer

After more than three months in
photography with his company di-
vided into two land on some occa-
sions three) units, Director Alfred
Hitchcock has completed production
of Foreign Correspondent" at
Walter Wanger studios. Four weeks
of editing more than 100000 feet
of film lie ahead. The film will be
released early in the fall. Because
the producer anticipated certain
changes in the European scene
through invasion the Wanger film
has suffered not at all from the turn
in events abroad. 1t presents the
thrilling adventures of a romantic
young American newsman attempt
ing to get the "low-down" on those
who make war through double
dealing.
Foreign Correspondent" has In
its principal roles Joel McCrea, La
Evening star., 1940-06-23

into his trunks and dives or falls
overheard.
That's excuse enough in Jimmy s
mind for the ownership OF a 65-foot
yacht.
Eddie Albert, the rumple- haired
young actor, who gets lost in Mexico
periodically, is one of Hollywood S
newer boat owners. He is rapidly
becoming sailor and not a docker
For a time the Warner Studio re-
called him for picture work every
time he started out in his new boat
He made three false starts for Cata-
lima during the filming of Episode. "
Sailor to Decker.
Eddie says he'll be a real sailor
before he quits. Both he and his
boat will soon be poking around the
coves of Lower California search
ing for treasure again. The same
treasure. no doubt, that Robert
Louis Stevenson hunted when he
lived in California.
Although he is such a real sailor
at heart and is Hollywood's only
owner of a worlds master certifi-
cate, Donald Crisp has lately become
a docker His large boat, in which
he used to take long cruises half
way around the world, has been
sold and its smaller replacement
has been growing barnacles for
months on end while Crisp worked
in one Warner film after another.
George Brent is an on-again, off,
again sailor. No one can follow his
ownership or non-ownership of a
boat. When he has one, he likes to
sail it. When he hasn't a boat, he
wishes he did have. Just recently
he bought fine one. No one seems
to know where he keeps it, however,
or how much he uses it. But he can
be called sailor.
Dick Barthelmess, who has been
working lately with Brent in "You
Can't Escape Forever" used to be a
boat owner. His boat was the
Pegasus and he was, generally
speaking, a docker. All he has left
of the boat now is the wheel-it
filled the spot above his beach house
fireplace very neatly.
Evening star., 1940-06-23

idiocy on field of rampant gags.
film horizon and cast the die. The
must make the best of it. for Little n
Graham Baker, the loudly qu
while the merely loud Gene Towne
was out of town arranging the film
debut of one Elsie, noted Jersey
that will play the role of Buttercup.
Audiences" said Baker, "are dy-
ing for laughter. The theater's the
place for them to get it. If they
want drama and tragedy they can
get it from the papers and the air.
It's not fair to ask them to spend
their money to get more depressed
than they are. And so-o@"
They Have an Excuse.
It's not the first time Towne and
Baker have tampered with the
standard" works, but it is the first
time they've had what they consider
an unanswerable excuse. The
changes in Little Men" have been
made primarily for laughter"
To the late Miss Alcott's placid
tale of doings in 10 and Prof. Bhaers
little school the boys have added
plot, a confidence man and his
comic assistant (Jack Oakie).
The con man was originally
character they created for w. C..
Fields, who is scarcely Louisa NJ
Alcott material, and that goes to
show.
Little Men" chosen like swiss
Family Robinson" and Tom Browns
School Days because it is still wide
Evening star., 1940-06-23

contract. Neither do Universal,
R-K-O or Columbia.
Carroll blames the immigration
situation of 40 years ago for the
disappearance Of the blond.
"At that time a flood of immi-
grants from the Mediterranean
countries arrived in America" he
pointed out. These people mixed
with the Nordic stock already in
this country and the mixture is
beginning to show today. In other
words, the brunette strain of the
Mediterranean countries is domi-
mating the blond of the Nordic
countries"
He pointed out that of the five
natural blond stars, three were i'm
ported from Nordic countries. Miss
Dietrich Games from Germany, Miss
Carroll from England and Miss
Henie from Norway.
Evening star., 1940-06-23

eyes-which is what Miss Shearer
needs at this moment.
Has marriage hurt the popularity
Of Clark Gable or Carole Lombard?
Definitely not. How about Nelson
Eddy or Jeanette Macdonald? The
only thing that hurts this couple
is bad picture. Gene Raymond's
flm eclipse at the time of his mar
riage to jeanette was coincidence
and the result of mediocre films, not
the result of his marriage.
I think you will find in all cases
that where the career of a star dis
appears with marriage it was due
for a fadeout anyway.
(Released BY the North American
Newspaper Alliance. Inc)
Evening star., 1940-06-23

ly read, is proving just as embar-
RAISING to deal with.
A Movie Can't Ramble.
I'VE almost regret the books pop
ularity because it means more peo-
pie to check up on us" Baker put it
wryly.
This" he said, opening a much
marked copy of the book, tells the
whole story of our problem, in the
authors own words"
Chapter eight begins: LAS there
is no particular plan to this story,
except to describe a few scenes in
the life at Plumfleld for the amuse-
ment Of certain little persons, we
will gently ramble along in this
chapter and tell some of the pas
times Of Mrs. Joe's boys"
Baker shrugged. Obviously, no
movie could gently ramble along"
Evening star., 1940-06-23
Graham
Continued From First Page.)

her marital oats and is acting up
at the studio. One day she says
she will retire, the next she reports
for work, the next she is seeking
refuge in a hospital on the plea. Il
am tired" But as Joan Fontaine
proved with "Rebecca," the more
difficult you are in Hollywood (at
the right time, of course, and with
the right people,, the more of an
acting genius they think you are.
They are afraid at Universal that
if Deanna Durbin varies Vaughn
Paul it will take the edge of her
film popularity. I doubt it. What
difference would marriage make to
Deanna's beauty, attraction, sing
ing or acting ability? No differ
ence. And, after all, the reason we
60 to see Deanna is because of the
quality of her attraction, beauty,
singing and acting.
Metro executives don't want
Norma Shearer to marry George
Raft-chiefy because they think it
will hurt her with the fans. Per-
sonally, I think marriage to Raft
would help Norma with the fans.
They would look at her with new
Evening star., 1940-06-23

influence in their control of theatre
cal real estate. That is, practically
all legitimate playhouses on Broad
way are owned or controlled by the
managers being lined up with
Golden.
Playwrights Approve.
There must be a control board
with playwrights. producers and ac-
tors having equal decisions" Golden
said. And I think the producers
should be so strongly organized that
they will force me into the Mana
gers Union, and when they do that
1 will donate $1,000 to the stage
relief fund" ED: The Stage Relief
Fund is charitable fund for the
relief Of aged actors and actresses)
Elmer Rice, Pulitzer Prize drama
tist and head of the Dramatists'
Guild, said the playwrights have
given their tentative approval to
Golden's plan for a new organiza- =
ton which will have all branches of
the theater working together, and
perhaps with others than the mana
gers sharing in the financing. This
plan is already true of the play
wrights company in which Rice,
Robert E. Sherwood and several
other dramatists finance their own
productions.
Under Golden's plan, unruly pro-
ducers can be banned from Rroad.
way by the simple expedient of play
wrights refusing to write and actors
refusing to act for any manager who
doesn't adhere to the rules of the
Producers Organization. So far, all
groups have approved-on paper.
Evening star., 1940-06-23
They Are Either Sailors
Or They Are Dockers
Navigating Habits of Hollywood's
Boat Owners Vary, Some Never
Leaving the Pier
HOLLYWOOD.
By Carlisle Jones.

Hollywood boat either sailors dockers
Sailors sailors
lot In things like
about how beyond running
slap dab into the side Of anchored battleship.
a
Evening star., 1940-06-23


and so far no scientist has discov-
cred a method of blondining a
brunette personality.
Earl Carroll, beauty impresario,
became the first to point out the
phenomenon Of the vanishing blond
when he called attention to the
ranks of his chorus beauties today.
OF go Carroll girls now working
in Paramount's "A Night at Earl
Carroll's" only 1 OF the girls are
natural blonds.
Few Among Stars.
This compares sharply with the
proportion of natural blonds in my
shows of IS years ago. he said.
I'm those days the blonds ranged
from one-thrd to one-half OF the
girls. In other words. there are
probably only about one-fifth as
many young blonds today as there
were Is years ago"
A check Of the star roster Of Hol-
lywood seems to bear out the state
ment. OF the major stars in Holly
wood only Sonia Henie, Marlene
Dietrich, Madeleine Carroll, Pris-
ella Lane and Alice Faye are nat
ural blonds. Most of the others
are either red-heads, brunettes or
artificial blonds. There are some
stars with auburn or chestnut-col-
ored hair.
immigration Blamed.
Metro Coldwyn-Mayer does not
have one natural blond star under
Evening star., 1940-06-23

ayers are being organized into their
own union, with John Golden as
chief organizer. He has enlisted
the assistance of the playwrights
and is trying to bring in other
branches Of the theatrical profession
to get the producers into a group
that will have complete control Of
Broadway productions.
Golden tried to organize the man.
ayers three years ago, but his prob
lem was that such a group would
not be workable unless it had the
ective cooperation of actors, play
vrights, directors. stagehands and
all the other branches of the theater.
Written Many Plays.
THE only way it can succeed is
for the managers to have a closed
shop among themselves on Broad
way" Golden said. Such a group
must have the power to punish its
members for infractions of rules"
Golden is the author of numerous
Broadway plays and songs, and is
today one of the Rialto's top pro-
ducers. His one association with
movies is that he wrote the story
and titles and composed the musical
score for the original Marie Dressler-
Charles Chaplin comedy, "Tillie'
Punctured Romance" Golden got
the title from a Broadway play he
had written for Miss Dressler called
~Tillie's Nightmare"
Whether Golden and other Broad
way managers can organize a group
of impresarios into such a union
Is naturally a question that will be
decided only when their group is
operating. But, they have a strong
Evening star., 1940-06-23
Two Busiest

James Stephenson's assignment to
Rivers End" at Warner Bros, gives
him tie with George Tobias for the
title of busiest actor on the lot"
Stephenson is also appearing in THE
Letter" at Bette Davis request, and
in "The Man From Fleet Street."
starring Edward G.. Robinson. To-
bias is appearing in Rivers End"
"City for Conquest" and Flowing
Gold"
Evening star., 1940-06-23

WEEK or JUNE %

WEEK or JUNE 90
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Apollo
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Avalon
bs12 Connecticut Ave.
Avenue Grond
645 Pa. Ave. S.E.
Beverly
18th and E sts. NE.
Bethesda
Bethesda. Md.
Buckingham
Arlington. Va.
Calvert
1924 Wisconsin Ave.
Cameo
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Carolina
11th Il N. c. Ave. Sc.
Central
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Circle
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Colony
Ga. Ave. and Farrasut
Congress s'shs,s SSsf snd
Portland st. Sc.
Dunborton
1349 Wis. Ave. NV.
FoirIown
Anacostia. D. c.
Greenbelt
Greenbelt. Md.
Hippodrome
E near 9th
The Hiser
Bethesda. Md.
Home
18th and c sts. NE.
HyottsvilIe
Hyattsville. Md.
Jesse
18th nr. r. I. Ave. NE.
Kennedy
Kennedy nr. 4th NV.
Lee
Falls Church, Va.
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sos 9th St. NV.
Marlboro
Marlboro. Nd.
Milo
Rockville. Md.
Newton
12th&Newton sts,N,E.
Palm
Del Ray, Va.
Penn
$50 Pa. Ave. Sc.
Princess
18th and H SITS. NE.
Richmond
Alexandria. Va.
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Alexandria. Va.
Savoy
303O 14th st. NV
Seco
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Ga.Ave.& Sheridan st.
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9th and c ets. NE.
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Falls Church. Va.
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104 R. I. Ave. NV.
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Ga. Ave. e. Quebec Pl.
Evening star., 1940-06-23
ANU s EN- EN- T s.

raine Day, Herbert Marshall, George
Sanders, Robert Benchley, Albert
Basserman, Edmund Gwenn, Harry
Davenport and Eduardo Ciannelli.
A total of 1904 extras was employed,
SO actors had speaking parts and
$50 studio technicians, working four
shifts day, were needed for build
ing and operating 78 different sets.
Evening star., 1940-06-23


Enrol Flynn is a sailor. A sea-
faring sailor. He isn't afraid to get
his boat, the Sirocco, out beyond the
Smile limit and to turn her loose
when he gets there. He started out
to race to Guadalupe a few weeks
ago, with a stiff breeze and a few
chosen companions, but they ended
up at the Coronado Hotel In San
Diego.
They had a good time there, &C
cording to later reports, but they
didn't win any trophies such as John
Barrymore used to get with his fast
sailing vessel, the Mariner.
Nevertheless, Flynn can be listed
as real sailor. He has owned sew
eral boats and has wrecked most Of
them on uncharted reefs of the
South Seas. He wrote a book about
one of them and he has pictures of
some OF the others.
Jimmy Cagney, on the other hand,
must be called docker. He keeps
his boat, the Martha. tied up at Bal
boa, not far from little Collins Is
land, which he bought to serve as
an anchorage for his yacht. Only
the Government spoiled his plans.
His boat stuck out in the bay so far
1t was dangerous to other shipping,
the authorities said, so Jimmys boat
was docked elsewhere and Jimmy's
island was offered to the public for
subdividing.
Excuse Enough.
In spite of the fact that Jimmy Is
not an expert sailor and admits that
he gets seasick on occasion, he likes
his boat and he spends lots of time
on it during his vacations. He took
it to the Catalina Islands to use as
his training ship while preparing
for "City of Conquest" in which he
plays fighter.
1t Is such a comfortable ship when
docked, as it almost always is, Gag
ney explains, that he has dispensed
with a home swimming pool on his
new estate in Coldwater Canyon.
When he wants to swim he just
drives to Balboa, goes aboard, climbs
Evening star., 1940-06-23
An Institution Passes
Blends Are Fewer and Fewer,
Earl Carroll Finds


gentlemans standpoint America is threatened with
catastrophe.
rate.
substitute hardly it that the hair the
Evening star., 1940-06-23
Theatrical Producers
Look to Organization
By tbs Associated Press.

BY ths Associated Press NEW YORK
Since the strike just after the World
heater has been closed shop
Actors must be members of equity to work the
urigh members Of the Dramasts Guild
play; electricians
unions before they enter
question
Evening star., 1940-06-23
There'll Be Some Chances
In Screens Little Mem
By Robin Coons,
Associated Press Stafi Writer.
HOLLYWOOD.



To the rescue OF movie wordTovne
production
idiocy field taken
film horizon Acot
Graham Baker the loudly quiet told
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-04-26
Native Son Who
Is Minister Is
Here for Burial

Rev. Harry M. Davis, pastor of
the Benton Avenue A. M. E.
church, Springfield, Mo-, a native
of st. Paul, is in the city to at
tend the funeral of his brother,
John L. Davis, who was buried
Tuesday.
Rev. Davis is an alumnus of the
University of Minnesota. In his
youth here he became we'll known
as a baseball and basketball play
er, especially in the southern part
of the state.
He left the Twin Cities 10 years
ago to enter the ministry and is
one of the native sons in this Sec
ton who has entered the ministry.
He is delegate to the A. M. E.
general conference which meets
next month.
While in St. Paul he is stop
ping with his nephew and niece,
Mr.. and Mrs. Leonard Davis of 949
st. Anthony Ave.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-04-26
Anti-Lynch Bill
Broadcast April 20

Washington, D. CA nation
wide broadcast urging passage of
the Federal anti-lynching bill will
be made Monday, April 20, by Sen
ators Robert F. Wagner of New
York, Mathew M. Nicely of Vir-
ginia, and Arthur Capper of Kan
sas, it was announced here today.
The broadcast has been arranged
through the National Broadcasting
Company over it's Blue Network
from 1890 to II p. M, eastern day
light saving time.
The three senators, who are
staunch supporters of the bill, will
insist that it be taken up before
Congress adjourns and that it be
given a chance to be voted on on
it's merits. They will denounce in
advance any attempt at filibuster.
1t is their contention that the fill
buster is undemocratic because it
permits a very small minority of
the Senate to block the will of the
majority, not only of the Senate,
but of the American public. 1t is
expected that they will advocate
the imposition of cloture (limita-
ton of debate) in the event a fill
buster should develop.