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Evening star., 1940-04-29
ThorkeIson Linked
10 Action Committee
By Sedition Defendant
Leader Cioimed Close
Contoct With Other
Members, Statement Says
BY the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, April 29.-The Gov
ernment introduced statement to-
day at the trial of Is men charged
with seditious conspiracy in which
one defendant was represented as
quoting another as saying that Rep
resentative Jacob Thorkelson, Re-
publican, of Montana was member
of their Action Committee"
The statement was presented as
having been given voluntarily" to
the Federal Bureau Of Investigation
by Macklin Boettger, 80.
In it Boettger was quoted as saying
William Gerald Bishop, defendant
and alleged leader of the Action
Committee, had told him he stumped
in Montana for the election of
Mr.. Thorkelson to Congress and had
assured him of the Representatives
membership in the Action Commit
tee.
Others Named in Statement.
The statement continued:
Bishop said that Congressman
and Senators eventually would be
drawn from Action Committee
groups all over the country, as was
Congressman Thorkelson, whom he
claimed he put into Office.
Bishop also claimed a personal
friendship with Senator Reynolds
and that he knew Senator Vanden-
berg very intimately and that he is
on intimate terms with Senator
Burton K. Wheeler of Montana.
Strike Breaking Claimed.
Bishop said that the Communist
strike at Hershey, Pa, was broken
up by group of A. c. (Action Com
mittee) citizen soldiers; also the
cement mill at Martinsburg, Md,
was closed down by the Communist,
Mr.. Mossberger, who was head of
the G. I. O. union.
Bishop also claimed that the
Boulder Dam in Colorado was taken
over by the Communist-contro
G. I. o. and that here again groups
Of citizen soldiery formed an A. G.
unit and forced the G. /. O. men at
gun point to reopen the water sup
ply valve of the dam for the city
and held the c. I. o. men until the
National Guard arrived to take over
Evening star., 1940-04-29
Stassen Sees 6. O. P.
United on Big Issues
Of 1940Campaign
Republican Keynoter
Is Confident Party Will
Garry Middle West
By ]. A. O'LEARY.

Republicans are united on the
fundamental issues of the 1910 CAM
paign, Gov. Harold E. Stassen of
Minnesota, who will be keynote
speaker at his party's convention,
said today after he had conferred
for 2 hours with a group of House
Republicans from various selections
of the country.
Asked If he found any divergence
of viewpoint on issues, the tall,
rugged young westerner replied
without hesitation:
None of nature to confound
or confuse me. There are always
shades Of opinion, but on the funda-
mental, constructive questions there
is quite general agreement"
The Minnesotan confidently pre-
dicted I'VE will carry the entire
Middle West" when asked how G.
o. p. prospects are shaping up in
his section of the country.
Guest Of McNary.
After conferring with House mem
bers and paying a brief visit to the
floor of that chamber, Gov. Stassen
continued to gather ideas as the
luncheon guest of Senator McNary
of Oregon, veteran Republican lead
er of the other branch. Senator
McNary also invited a group of his
Republican colleagues to meet and
exchange views with the keynoter.
Gov. Stassen told news gatherers
he plans comparatively short key
note address, although House Re-
publican Leader Martin of Massa-
chusetts, who will be permanent
chairman Of the convention, point
(See POLITICS, Page A-4.)
Evening star., 1940-04-29
B U III etin

NORFOLK, Va, April 20 (R.-
Two Navy planes from the air
station here collided today In the
air south Of Virginia Beach. One
fell and burned, carrying to his
death Radioman (Second Glass;
Harold G. Alexander. The pilot,
1t. Allen F. Fleming, escaped in
his parachute and landed safely.
The second plane, piloted by
Ensign Gordon r. Chase, returned
to the air station. One wing of
his plane was badly damaged, but
1t did not fall. Both planes were
,rattached to Squadron u and were
engaged in maneuvers.
Evening star., 1940-04-29
Labor Act Changes
Discussed on Forum

Representative Halleck, Re-
publican Of Indiana will be the
4uest speaker tonight on the
National Radio Forum over
Station WMAL at 1880 o'clock.
Representative Halleck, one
Of the Republican members Of
the Special Committee investi.
tatine the National Labor Re-
htions Act, will discuss pro-
posed changes in that law.
The program IL arranfed BY
The Star and is heard over .
coast.to.coast network Of the
National Broadeastin1 iP.
Evening star., 1940-04-29
32U. S. Citizens Quit
Nuzi Area in Norway
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
OSLO, April 20. = Thirty-two
United States citizens left the Naxi-
occupied area today with special
German visas for Genoa, italy, by
way OF Germany, en- route to the
United States.
Altogether, 80 United States citi-
zens have left German hell Norway
since the invasion Apgil
Evening star., 1940-04-29

LONDON, April % (R.-An un-
identified steamer of about 5000
tons struck a mine and sank yes
terday between the Swedish coast
and the Danish island of Sjaelland,
Reuters. British news agency. re-
ported today from Stockholm.
Evening star., 1940-04-29
Randolph Calls Meeting.

Contemplated action on q revised
bill to hberalize the District unem-
ployment compensation law was de.
layed because Of the absence of
Chairman McGehee of the judiciary
Subcommittee in charge of the leg
islation. Chairman Randolph, how
ever, called special meeting tomor-
row at II am. to pass on the meas
ure which he hopes to have the
House consider the latter part Of
the week.
Mr.. McGehee's failure to report
the bill to the full committee, it was
said, was due to the fact that he
wanted to perfect some Of the
changes approved by the subcom-
mittee last week.
The measure would lower the en-
ployers' pay roll tax from 3 to a.
per cent and at the same time in
crease benefits to the jobaess.
Child Labor Bill Reported.
A favorable report was ordered
by the committee on the contro-
versial bill to revise the child labor
law by permitting children over
IA years of age to take part IN
professional concerts and theatrical
productions for pay.
A bin to amend the local life
insurance code providing for cred
itors' group insurance to secure
loans also was approved.
Following approval of the bill
to amend the Child Labor Act. Mrs
Ernest w. Howard, chairman OF
the Legislative Committee of the
District Federation of Women's
Clubs, sent a memorandum to the
press table declaring her organiza-
ton would continue to oppose the
legislation on the ground it would
lower child labor standards. The
memorandum also said the COM
mittee approved the measure with
out the presence of a quorum.
Insurance Bill Discussed.
For nearly q half hour the COM
mittee discussed a bill designed tt
regulate the fire, casualty, marine
and title insurance business aftel
Albert F. Jordan, District superin.
tendent of insurance, had explained
its purpose. Representative Nichols
Democrat, of Oklahoma, suggested
that legislation to regulate title
companies should be separate, ant
the committee instructed Corpora.
ton Counsel Elwood H. Seal to draft
proposed bill dealing solely with
the title companies.
The insurance legislation, Chair.
man Randolph announced, will bt
the special order of business at thu
committees regular meeting mex,
Monday at 10:30 am.
For the second consecutive weel
John Russell Young, new Districr
Commissioner, occupied a seat O.
honor at the committee table. Thi.
time he did not make q speech, bu
merely observed the proceedings.
During the meeting Chairman
Randolph introduced another CUES
Earl Young, editor Of the Journa
OF the Canadian Parliament, who i
visiting in Washington.
Evening star., 1940-04-29
Summary Of Todoy's Star

Foreign
Three Nazi transports torpedoed and
sunk, British declare. Page Al
Heavy fighting In Morse mountains,
Berlin reports. Page Al
Allies .stidening resistance In Nor
way; 2 sectors fortified. Page Al
Notionol
Supreme Court upholds Walsh
Healey Act. Page Al
Gov. Stassen, keynoter, confident of
G. o. p. victory. Page Al
Two killed four held In Kentucky
political feud. Page Al
Stassen arrives to see @. o. P. chiefs
on keynote speech. Page Al
Bruce, Radcliffe push campaigns in
Baltimore. Page B-1
Washington and Vicinity
House probe Of D. @. ''firetraps" to
be renewed. Page Al
Fireproofing methlds save apart
ment house II bl2As. Pays Al
Evening star., 1940-04-29
ID. {. Fire Probe
To Be Renewed
by House Unit
Stonhope Apartment
Bloze Brings Call
For Action
FIREPROOFTNG CREDITED with
preventing loss Of lives in apart
ment fire. Page B-1
BY JAMES E. CHINN.


The House District Committee
today indicated its desire that the
Police and Fire Subcommittee re-
sumo its abruptly halted investiga-
ton of alleged fire traps" here
following a three-alarm blaze last
night in the Stanhope Apartments
at 735 New Jersey avenue NV.
Acting on the request Of Repre-
sentative Bolles, Republican, of Wis
consin, the committee agreed to call
on District officials for a transcript
Of testimony taken at the coroner's S
inquest into the recent fire in the
White Court Apartments in which
three persons lost their lives.
More Legislation Held Needed.
Mr.. Bolles told the committee the
Police and Fire Subcommittee of
which he Is a member had held one
session following the White Court
Are, but had since been inactive.
The fire last night, he pointed out
showed the need for further in
vestigation in view of reports that
the fire alarm system in the apart
ment which burned had failed to
work.
"The fire hazard situation here. >
he declared, "also shows that the
need for further legislation is ap-
parent"
Evening star., 1940-04-29

(See POLITICS, Page A-4.)
Evening star., 1940-04-29

(See BERLIN, page A-5.)
Evening star., 1940-04-29
3y the Associated Press.

iSee STOCKHOLM, Page A-5o
Evening star., 1940-04-29

(See STOWE, Page A-30
Evening star., 1940-04-29
Steamer Sunk BY Mine

(See CONGRESS, Page A-4.)
Evening star., 1940-03-21
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Evening star., 1940-03-21
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means so much when you're wearing
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Evening star., 1940-11-24
MIR. De Mile Starts
Another Picture

Wheels started turning on the pro-
duction of Cecil B. De Miles next
picture, Reap the Wild Wind" with
the assignment of Dan Sayre Groes-
beck, internationally known artist.
to paint advance "visualizations" Of
the big scenes and principal charac-
tiers in the forthcoming film version
of the story about piracy and swash-
buckling on the Florida Keys.
The connection between De Mile
and Groesbeck began when the pro-
ducer- director signed the artist to
visualize advance scenes for The
Volga Boatman," the first time the
idea had been tried. Groesbeck sub
sequently became favorite with
producers of grand-scale pictures,
and has worked on THE Good
Earth" 1.-THE Buccaneer," Captains
Courageous" and Gone With the
Wind" among others. His most re-
cent assignment was the current De
Mile production, North West
Mounted Police"
Groesbeck's function, as De Mile
explains it, is to paint scenes which
are later duplicated in actuality for
filming by the camera and to CO.
ordinate the ideas of all technicians
and department heads in building
scenes for the picture. An artist of
40 years standing. Groesbeck did the
murals for the Santa Barbara court
house and the Del Monte Hotel, and
has had canvases hung in the
Luxembourg. Chicago Art Institute,
Syracuse Museum and the Indian
apolis Museum.
Evening star., 1940-11-24
Coming Attractions


NATIONA-Dubarry Lady, G De Syvias 50week Broad
with by Cole Porter with Bert Lahr,
williams others in leading roles weeks
engagement night.
picture life
of Mrs with Miriam Hopkins
in the title role opens Thursday plays David
and others in the Laura Hope Crews Helen
Wesley John L and Victor Jory The stage show will star
Badminton Champions Ken Davidson and Hugh Forge
CAPITOI-"Rangers adventure which
PRODUCES Paramounts child star l3year old Betty Brewer
a MacMurray, Albert Decker and
Patricia Morrison, Thursday. Lind Hayes, the
Hollywood mimic will headline the stage show.
Broadway" the film written
produced directed by Hecht scheduled to open
Thursday. Doug Fairbanks Thomas Mitchell. Rita Hay
leading the adventure of
playwright who tries to help who has borrowed
cash he shouldn't have touched.
dealing with
foreign correspondent in this
starring Claudete Colbert and Ray Miland will follow
Escape"
the Marlene Dietrich film in which
of those Singapore gals. meeting up with John
Brodeck Crawford follows the Kay Kyser horror
Find
Evening star., 1940-11-24

store up reserve strength for high
ly dramatic and trying role.
An Unhappy Hour.
Priscilla Lane is another young
lady who has to be forcibly awak-
ened on production mornings and
who starts off to the studio declaring
that she needs more sleep. AS mat
ter of fact, she lives with her mother
and sister Rosemary. and they see to
it that she gets her full share of
sleep every night while a picture is
in progress.
During the filming of -Four
Mothers" her latest picture, Priscilla
averaged eight and a half hours Of
sleep each night, but she got up
shortly after each morning and
she wasn't too happy about it. The
soothing effects OF breakfast in the
Westmore salon, and the careful
ministration of the girls there,
dressing her hair and putting on
her makeup, usually sent her to her
set singing at 5 minutes to 9.
Barbara Stanwyck, playing the
leading feminine role opposite Gary
Cooper in Frank Capra's Warner
Bros. production, Meet John Doe"
is different. She never seems to be
sleepy and she is as good-natured
early in the morning as at any other
time of the day. AS result, Bar
bara is a great favorite with the
working people on the Warner lot.
Very new and young players, tast-
ing the first results of early success
in Hollywood, are the greatest early
morning problems for the makeup
people. They haven't learned how
vital plenty of sleep is to them if
they are to work we'll the following
day.
BY the time they have played one
important role, they usually realize
that their ''night-clubbing" has to
be reserved for weeks when they are
not working at the studio. Then
they stop biting heads off in make
up each morning and begin to make
valuable friends there.
Evening star., 1940-11-24

morning OH, JllelI eyes lldil Opcii,
their cheeks pale, their lips devoid
of lipstick. Westmore's staff has hot
coffee ready for them and after
that has taken effect, they dis
appear into the individual makeup
rooms where hairdressers and make
UP artists, manicurists and others
charged with making them BEAU
tiful for the camera 60 to work on
them.
Most feminine players wake up
slowly and require time to get into
camera condition" Ann Sheri-
dan, young and fresh and healthy,
snaps out of it" within a half
hour, according to Westmore Dur
ing the filming of Honeymoon for
Three" in which Ann is starred
with George Brent, she always ar
rived bright-eyed and cheerful. Love
will do that, declares Perc. She
usually met George Brent there and
had coffee with him before they
reported to the set.
Arrives Half Asleep.
Olivia De Havilland is a real
sleepyhead, according to the makeup
department. She often drove to the
studio herself on the mornings when
she worked in Santa Fe Trail"
and she was almost invariably a
few minutes later than she had
said she would be the night before.
She is still half asleep, her hair
dresser reports, when she climbs
into the makeup chair. Half an
hour later she is wide-eyed and
effervescent, sharp in her lines and
ready to give oral battle to Enrol
Flynn. her friend and critic in this
particular picture.
Bette Davis. who talks a great deal
and to every one around her, Is
usually silent for her first half hour
In the studio. She is one of the hard
est working stars in Hollywood and
Is almost always letter perfect in her
lines when she needs to be-but
she doesn't need to be before 9
O'clock in the morning. During the
filming of THE Letter" Bette used
the early morning makeup hour to
Evening star., 1940-11-24
Broadway's
Villains Are
Nice Guys
Roy Hargrave Is
Latest in the
Tradition
By Mark Barron,
Associated Press star Writer

NEW YORK.
Back in that bad man area of tie
Broadway stage-that would be in
the al Capone reigning days Just
before 1930-the theater was over
run with actors who could play a
villain with all the finesse of a
Simon Legree.
Actors such as Edward G.. Rob-
inson, Chester Morris, James Gag
ney, Paul MUM and the late Rob-
ert Gleckler outdistanced the ro-
mantle romeos of that period as
they gave audiences exciting por-
trayals of the top mobsters.
Just Wanted Homes.
Curiously, none of these top-fiight
actors of the tough roles were any,
thing resembling those roles in real
life. Robinson, from the time he
scored his first hit as Nick Scarsi
in THE Racket" was chiefly in
terested in being a success because
he wanted money to buy the art
collection which is now an avoca-
tion he can afford.
Cagney, MUM and Morris are
strictly family men who wanted to
get out of the theatrical boarding
houses into substantial homes Of
their own. All succeeded.
OF the plays on Broadway at the
moment there is only one in such a
gangster mood, the anti-social char
acter that swarmed across the
Broadway stages in the Capone and
Dillinger days. That is Blind AL
ley" melodrama which is a sue
cess in this revival although it had
only mild reception when orig
inally presented five years ago.
Composes Music.
Roy Hargrave. who plays the gang
ster Hal Wilson in Blind Alley" :"
is as tough looking as Edward G..
Robinson or Humphrey Bogart. He
isn't just obviously and simply tough
in this story of gangster who starts
collapsing as he is minute by minute
being trapped in his hideaway; he
goes further and shows how such a
criminal defeats himself in his own
mind even before the sheriff ar
rives.
Hargrave Is an actor who lives
in a pleasant suburban community
Just outside of New York City. He
composes music and he is also an
author, having written the novel,
Three Brothers" He is also one
Of those very, very rare individuals
he actually was born in New York
City.
And, despite his interest In writ
ing music, Broadway producers prob
ably will continue casting him as
gross villain.
Evening star., 1940-11-24
He's EnviOuS,
Ready, and
He's Able
By the Associated Press.


HOLLYWOOD.
Character Actor George Tobias,
after more than 200 roles on stage
and screen, is envious-but un-
kissed.
He was present to witness the
record 56-second screen OSCILLATION
of Ann Sheridan and George Brent
in Honeymoon for Three"
"A mere peck on the cheek" said
Tobias, unimpressed. That guy
Brent gets kissed all the time. At
least four or five times in every
picture. Take me! Never been
kissed. Eager and ready and able.
But it's sad world" the actor
opines. The one thing I could do
best they never let me do. I'm a
character actor. 1 wear wigs and
whiskers"
There are. however, some compen-
sations. The major one is that he
eats what and as much as he
pleases.
These kissing dudes. now-they
can't eat like that" says Tobias.
"Spoils their figures"
Evening star., 1940-11-24


thrusting a grapefruit into Mae
Clark's face, slapping Loretta Young,
popping Alice White on the jaw
and kicking Virginia Bruce, the
usually two-hsted Cagney has been
0 hero more times than a villain.
In what he terms a ''Cavalcade of
Cagney-or from heel to hero in
10 tough years." Cagney disclosed
that he has been Jailed nine times,
killed seven times, been gangster-
racketeer 13 times, a hero l6 times,
and has been sentenced to either
Jail or death II times. He has been
q prizefghter three times, a sailor
twice and he has had fights in all
his pictures except three.
Now in his Gath film, Cagney is
TO play the role of a bashful, slightly
"dumb" dentist in strawberry
Evening star., 1940-11-24
Heffernun
Continued From First Page)

asking, who is that good looking
boy in the photo?" For a long time,
Sherman only kidded Hayden about
his public" but suddenly he was
forced to give him a chance. The
tall young ex-bookkeeper has been
a Western hero ever since.
Dorothy Lamour is another who
knows the meaning of accidental
tests" She remembers how Director
William Thiele went into a projec-
ton room to see the test of q girl
practically chosen to play "The
Jungle Princess" He was shown
the wrong test-of a newcomer,
Dorothy Lamour, not in sarong cos
tune. But, Thiele never bothered to
see the right test. He selected Doro-
thy right then.
Tests sometimes backfire, too.
Talent Scout Grady was testing
Percy K1lbr1ght IN q scene where
the actor played barber talking to
. customer. The chap who was to
play the customer failed to arrive
so Grady sat in the chair himself
and played the part, keeping up q
running fire of comical chatter.
Two months later another studio
looked at the test-and sent fol-
Grady to play comedy hotel clerk
Now Grady acts in no more tests.
Strange are the ways of Holly
wood. Out here one can never tel
when some tiny act or Insignificant
happening may catapult a down
and-outer to sudden fame. That's
why there's q trace Of hope on every
tired face along the boulevards.
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didn't like it. Miriam Hopkins,
famed for her very blond hair, de-
chned to dye it for Lady With Red
Hair" She wore seven different
wigs instead. Joan Crawford has
made dozen or more shifts in hair
color during various periods in her
career, always returning to reddish
brown. Bette Davis was a platinum
blond for years, but attracted no at
tention until she went natural.
Miss Hayworth, being Spanish, has
a perfect right to claim any color
she chooses, for the Castillian blond
is as famous in the annals of beau
tiful women as the Latin brunette.
It's all right to be red-headed, too,
If you're Spanish.
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