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Evening star., 1941-04-20
Aborigines Increase
In One Australian Area

Australia's aboriginal population
has been declining steadily in all
states except Queensland. the latest
census figures given out in Brisbane
show.
The increase in Queensland is 367.
The tribes now congregate in gov
ernment sanctuaries such as Palm
Island and the various islands OF
Torres Strait. The number of Iull-
bloods In Queensland proper. ex-
cluding those in Torres Stait. Is
1888. Victoria can boast only So
full-bloods while New South Wales
has l,l25, a decrease Of 20 since the
preceding census.
South Australia has 1745; West
Australia 1898. The Northern
Territory, with 32.5l0, completes the
known number in controlled areas,
but many thousands more live in
wild state in the northwest and
gulf country.
Evening star., 1941-04-20

Losses in War at Sea
By the Associated Press.

following
of from April April H. inclusive:
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Windsor and Adviser
From Washington
Confer al Palm Beach
Dukes Financial Aide
To Fly Back to Copitol
This Afternoon
By the Associated Press.

PALM BEACH, Fla, April ls.-
The Duke Of Windsor arranged q
brief conference tonight with his
personal financial adviser, Sir Ed
ward Peacock, who few here from
Washington to see the former Brit
ish King.
Sir Edward arrived late this after
noon and went Immediately to the
Everglades Club, where he planned
to talk briefly with the duke before
the latter left for q small dinner
party at the jungle gardens home
of Mr.. and Mrs. Claude K. Boettcher
of Denver.
The adviser declined to discuss
his mission with the duke, but said
he would fly back to Washington
tomorrow afternoon.
1t was previously announced that
the main discussions between the
duke and Sir Edward, who is q
governor of the Bank of England
and q member of the British Pur-
chasing Commission. were sched-
uled for tomorrow. The talks will
concern the dukes personal finan-
cial affairs.
Except for brief shopping expe-
ditions and luncheon with Mrs.
Margaret Emerson, mother OF Al
fred and George Vanderbilt and
Mrs. Henry J. Topping, the Wind
sors remained in their apartment
at the Everglades Club during most
of the day.
Evening star., 1941-04-20
Army 10 Buy Food
Under New System
b. the Associated Press.

BY Ire Abeoclated PreSs.
Marketing specialists scattered
over the country will start placing
orders this week for fresh fruits
and vegetables under q new Army
purchasing system designed to af-
ford small producers better op-
portunity to obtain orders.
Announcing this field ration
plan" the War Department said
yesterday it would permit purchases
at more frequent intervals and in
smaller quantities than the gar
rison ration" which it replaces at
all Army posts of more than 1000
population. Under the garrison
system, an Army mess officer was
allotted funds based on the number
of soldiers he had to feed, and nor
mally had to make contracts for q
3o-day period of delivery.
Thus far, the Army has designated
28 market centers. near major troop
concentrations, for trial of the plan.
Fresh fruits and vegetables will be
purchased in carlot or truck guam
titles when the rate of consumption
allows, but mixed carlots and small
lot purchases will be made. All
purchases will be in the open mar
ket.
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Horticultural Society
Headed by Dr.. Kraus

DR.. E. J. Kraus was elected presi-
dent OF the American Horticultural
Society at its annual meeting yes
terday, at the Shoreham Hotel
Elected to serve with him for one
year were DR.. D. Victor Lumsden,
first vice president; Mrs. Robert
Woods Bliss, second vice president; {;
Miss Cary B. Millholland, secretary,
and Col Henry P. Erwin, treasurer
Directors elected for two-year
terms were Mrs. Robert H. Fife, Mrs.
Mortimer J. Fox. Mrs. Fairfax Har-
rison, B. Y. Morrison and DR.. Donald
Wyman.
Mr.. Morrison, the retiring presi-
dent. and DR.. Kraus both spoke
briefly at the luncheon which fol-
lowed the business meeting.
The principal address was made
by Mrs. Fife. who Is president of the
Garden Club OF America.
More than 100 members attended
the luncheon, large number of out
of-town clubs being represented.
In the afternoon the delegates
visited the gardens at the home Of
DR., and Mrs. E. A. Merritt.
Evening star., 1941-04-20
Maj. G. L. Berry Heads Union
With 32-Yeor Peace Record
Pressmen's Home
Is Tennessee's
Happy Valley
BY the Associated Press.

by IDe hS6CCldIeC fTess
PRESSMEN' HOME, Tenn, April
l9-In these days of labor strife,
It's difficult to visualize the head
quarters OF a powerful labor union
and its leader in the remote peace
fulness of a place named Little
Happy Valley.
Here, sheltered from the storms
by the timbered mountains of East
Tennessee, are Maj. George Leonard
Berry and his International Print
ing Pressmen and Assistants Union
of North America.
From a window behind his desk
the major can see the structures on
the 2600-acre campus of the press
mems home. There are memorial
chapel, a dormitory for superannu-
ated pressmen, hospital for union
members suffering from tubercu-
loSiS.
Mai. Berry's favorite topic is in
dustrial peace Peace and pros
perity, he says, are his business.
Boasts of 80 Years Of Peace.
The major boasts that the Press
mems Union has had 324-years of
peace with the American Newspaper
Publishers Association and sug-
gests the reason Is to be found in
the international arbitration agree
ment that was instituted at the
outset.
Now in his 58th year, after 4s
years of work and fighting during
his "roustabouting" in newspaper
pressrooms, through the gold fields
of Nevada and into labor leadership,
he Is not ready yet to call 1t quits.
His health is robust.
My chief ambition in life has
been to produce wealth." he says.
Il learned when I was only 9l2
years old that wealth came only
from hard work. I was alone. I
worked long hours. I slept on a
stack of papers in a corner of
pressroom. I got my food and
clothing only through work.
He has come a long, hard way
since he was orphaned at 4. His
father, a United States marshars
deputy, was slain from ambush in
moonshining territory. He lived
with an aunt in Des Moines for q
time and later was sent to a planter
near jackson, Miss, but at the age
Of ga he ran away and began
learning his trade in pressrooms.
After working in Nebraska, Colo
RADIO and California, he found him
self in the gold fields of Nevada.
Elected to Union Post.
Upon his return to San Francisco
from the gold fields he was elected
a delegate to the 1907 convention
of the Pressmen's Union at New
York. There he was chosen presi-
dent, the post to which he has
been reelected annually ever since.
AS the union grew and prospered,
Mr.. Berry's reputation expanded.
He has been chosen as a Tennes-
see delegate to sevral Democratic
national conventions.
During World War days he was
a member of an industrial commits
sion which President Wilson sent
abroad early in 1918 to coordinate
industrial activities of the Allies
with those of the United States.
This errand discharged, he ac-
cepted a commission as major in
the Engineers Corps and returned
to France. After the armistice he
remained in Paris until May, 1919,
as President Wilson's liaison officer
with labor of the world.
In 1924 his name was among
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those placed in nomination for the
running mate of John w. Davis,
Democratic presidential nominee.
Mr.. Berry lost by three votes to
Nebraskas Gov. Charles Bryan: -
In earlier New Deal days he
served as an assistant admins ira
tor of the National Recovery Ad-
ministratior1 and was on the alloti
ment board for the ALLEGATION of
public works funds, and the Cotton
Textile Industrial Relations Board.
In 1887 Gov. Gordon Browning ap-
pointed Mr.. Berry to succeed the
late Nathan l.. Bachman in the
Senate until the next regular elec-
tion. In the August 1899 primary
Maj. Berry was defeated for the
nomination.
Evening star., 1941-04-20

Argentinas economic depression
has halved its movie attendance.
Evening star., 1941-04-20

Grenada has placed strict gov
ernment control over all paprika.
Evening star., 1941-04-20
Red Cross Asks Linen
For Babies Luyettes

The District chapter of the Amer
lean Red Gross yesterday issued an
appeal for pieces of old linen needed
for the preparation of layettes for
babies in the war zones.
Each layette must contain a
square piece of pure linen. which
is used as a dressing. The local
committee is assembling 1000
layettes. The linen can be left
at the chapter house, 1880 !
street NV.
The local chapters has accepted
the largest garment quota ever as
signed to it, officials announced
under a program which calls for
the District group to turn out 159,-
100 garments.
Evening star., 1941-04-20
Cupt. B. 5. Purse Dies

DAYTON, Ohio, April 10 (P.-
Capt. Benjamin S. Purse, 81, retired.
who for five years was auditor of
the Warm Springs (GaJ Founda-
ton, died today. The former ofiicer,
native Of Savannah, Ga, was a
civilian employe at the 'Army's
Wright Field.
Evening star., 1941-04-20
National Gallery Draws
3Ol.342 in First Month

Visitors to the National Gallery
of Art during the first month fol-
lowing its opening have reached a
total of 301 ,342, including 1892 per-
sons who attended the dedication
ceremonies March II.
1t was announced today that the
average daily attendance, March 18
to Friday, has been 9.436.
David E. Finley, director, COM
menting on the figures tabulated,
said: I'VE have been delighted to
find that whole families, including
babies and grandparents, come to
see the pictures"
Evening star., 1941-04-20
Copt. Roosevelt Leaves
Bride, Flies to Honolulu

Ey tfe Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO. April l9--
Capt. James Roosevelt, son of the
President and a bridegroom Of four
days, kissed his bride good-by, waved
cheerily and climbed aboard a
Clipper bound for Honolulu late
today.
Capt. Roosevelt is being trans
ferred to Honolulu for Marine Corps
duty.
He said his bride, the former
Romelle Schneider, and her mother
would return to Los Angeles.
Evening star., 1941-04-20
Indies Declare Three
Balkan Nations Enemies
Hy the Associated Press.

BATAVIA, Netherlands Indies,
April 19.-The Netherlands Indies
government announced today that
Bulgaria, Rumania and Hungary
now are considered enemy territory.
The government previously severed
diplomatic relations with the three
dominated countries.
Evening star., 1941-10-04
Pix Theater
With
New Wine
Ilona Massey Stars
In Film Full of
Schubert Music

NEW VINE" Gloria Pictures Aim
starring Ilona Massey and Alan Curtis,
produced by Douglas MacLean. directed
by ReInhold Schunzel; screen play by How
ard Estabrook and Nicholas Jory. relea sed
by United Artists. Al the Pix.
The Cast,
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By HARRY MACARTHUR.

With an invited initial audience
wallowing happily in flood of i'm
mortal Franz Schubert melodies.
the Pix Theater, latest addition TO
the roster of downtown movie
houses. last night made its debut.
New as motion picture theater
the Pix is not really new at all,
however, being located in the famil-
lar Masonic Auditorium at Thir-
teenth street and New York avenue.
Something in the same vein might
be said of New Wine" the opening
attraction at the Pix. 1t is. sure
enough, a new picture, but it isn't
really new at all, playing on the
familiar theme of Franz Schubert's
struggles to win recognition. Some
effort has been made, it is true. to
lend freshness to the yarn by way
of a combination of laxity and in
ventiveness on the part of the script
writer's Unless you have always
considered that Schubert's early life
was something of clumsy comedy
the piece won't ring with the clear,
true note of versimilitude
Letting the fancy roam thus has.
however, accounted for some of the
better moments of the script. There
is, for instance, the case of Ludwig
Won Beethoven and the Schubert
music. Somewhere, once upon a
time we remember being told that
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mously and kept their identity secret
during the two meetings in which
she closed the deal. MetroGold-
wyn-Mayer thought the script was
by Hecht and Macarthur and. saws
Miss Hepburn. were quite charm
ing about the whole thing. We had
one meeting lasting an hour and
another, a few days later, lasting Is
minutes. That was all
Altogether, it would seem reason
able to refer to Miss Hepburn as an
excellent businesswoman. She res
cued her own career single-handed.
As an example, she says. They
made a mistake with me at R-K-O
and renewed my contract. They
shouldn't have done that. I was
washed up. If I had gone on max
ing pictures that year I would have
been not only washed up, but en-
shrouded and buried. So I bought
out my contract"
With the money she would have
made on the contract, the price of
this decision to Miss Hepburn was
about S250.000. She went to New
York-where all the drama critics
remembered of her was a grisly or
deal named The Lakeland gam
bled her future as well as another
big lump out of her sock on ''Phila-
delphia Story" by Philip Barry.
1T wasn't until eight months after
the play opened that the movie Of
fers for the play with me in it be-
came firm. All that time I sat with
1t in my lap, wondering should !
take the large profits they were
offering without me in it. But. you
see. I'm not a good businesswoman
I refused ali the profits-what good
businesswoman would do that?-and
insisted that go with the property.
Well, 1t worked out okay, as YOU
will see by Miss Hepburn's next in
come tax report when it gets pub
l1shed in the papers.
(Reeased by the North American
Newspaper Alliance, Inc)
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simplicity, picture to demonstrate
that the village pastor is a man
whose life is endlessly adventurous
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Beethoven didn't recognize the
Schubert genius until it was too late
to help. But here he comes upon
that genius in the middle OF the
picture and is so kindly disposed
that he pours hope into the heart
of the pretty girl whose head Franz
has turned with a serenade. And
the scene allows Albert Basserman
to give us q fine brief portrait OF
Beethoven and permits the intro
duction OF that most familiar theme
of the Unfinished Symphony as
old Ludwig reads the score and
hears" the music.
There are other bright moments,
most especially for the music lovers,
the sound track providing liberal
Schubert concert. Ilona Massey, who
is so pretty she never would have
TO. proves she can sing, too, con-
tributing two solos and a rather
special version of Ave Maria" ac-
companied by a boys choir. Be-
tween the songs and the orchestral
selections a lot of comedy is at
tempted. some of it coming off, much
of it being in the hands of Binnie
Barnes and the spluttering Billy Gill
bert.
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get deserves.
For Miss Hepburn is not a movie
picture Lulu-the kind that has a
veritable Shakespeare among faces
and the brains of a blue-plate Spe-
cial When gouging at her people
of good taste around here pass up
the kitchen knife or the spung Of a
beer barrel and choose the broken
off neck of a champagne bottle.
Miss Hepburn thinks the slur is
good, too. Amusing" she said.
She believes Dorothy Parker's re-
mark about her running "the gamut
of emotions from A to B" in play
called The Lake" was quite anus
ing and entirely fair at the time"
For some inscrutable reason she is
fond also of Noel Coward's observa-
tion-"Kate looks as if she ought to
look like her sister, but doesn't"
Miss Hepburn says she has no
theory as to why everybody is will
ing to help her down the hill with
a knock. But we've been poking
around a bit on our own and have
come up with this: Everybody
around here makes a business Of
attracting attention to himself. The
trouble with Katharine Hepburn is
that she is actually the only star
who does exactly what she wants
to do.
For instance she can be seen now
every day keeping herself in shape
for Woman of the Year" IA film
she is engaged in at the moment
with Spencer Tracy. by running
along behind or alongside of her
car. holding on to the door handle
or back fender with one hand
Although oblivious Of the reason
for her katharine of Arrogance"
reputation, Miss Hepburn is aware
that those on her side are going
around touting her as an extraordi-
narily shrewd businesswoman. Only,
being a smart girl, she says to the
reporter, It's not true, of course.
What I know about dealing with
money I learned on Broadway, and a
little bit here, too. of course.
But my first job on Broadway
paid me $50 a week. and I went in to
the producer to ask for a SIS raise,
and said, Don't you think I could
get little more money. IS or so
more?' I didn't have chance. So
then I worked out a formula, and
there is really nothing extraordinary
about it. I ask what I think the
other side will pay-a little bit more
at first, and then come down" How
does she decide what the other side
will pay? Il don't know. I Just
think it up"
The last figure Miss Hepburn
thought up was the attractive one
of s211, 900. She arrived at this by
simple arithmetic-s10O,0 900 for her
services in the picture, 100000 for
the authors, Ring Lardner, jr., and
Michael Kanin; $4,000 for the
agent, who had nothing to do but
wiring his hands with worry: 81 900
for expenses plane fare
out here, etc.
The deal, as you may remember
took deal of doing. The authors
were unknown and would have been
satisfied with, lot less than 1OC
grand. The movies had never paid
more than s75 900 for an original
So Miss Hepburn had the authors
send a 90-page synopsis of Woman
OF the Year" to the studios anony-
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touching story with implications
reaching far beyond the dark, ILL
furnished parsonage with is leaky
roof. They saw it as a narrative
of lives interlaced with the dramatic
inescapable intimacy which nodded
q country. Seeing it that way they
were able to make out of it a motion
picture more distinguished than you
are likely ever to become accustom-
ed to.
The accent of One Foot IN
Heaven" is where it should be. on
character. In Father and Mother
Spence-with March and Miss Scott
to play them-it is blessed with two
remarkable. colorful, yet simple fig
ures. Father Spence is a brave
man, a determined intelligent, ener-
eetic saviour of souls. But he is
also human and full of such frail-
ties as WearineSs of spirit and mar
row -mindedneSs, and the eye he
keeps on Heaven is sometimes pa
thetically blind to the needs OF his
family. 1t is an honest portrait,
just as Hartzell Spence wrote 1t
when he concluded his father was
fine material for a book.
There is equal sincerity in the
treatment of Mother Spence, She
is the wife men dream of in the
depth of her devotion to her hus-
band and children. She lives to
love and serve them, but they can
exhaust her patience and, father
especially, can leave her wondering
now and then if he is not the least
practical of men.
The incident which Casey Robin
son, who adapted the novel to the
screen, chose to point the drama
of the Spences is of a piece with
the simplicity of the characters. 1t
rings true, with comedy emphasis
that is yet never far from tears,
from the first foot of the film to
she last. There is the arrival of
the well-dressed pair at primitive
little Laketon, hub deep with mud
and populated by gossipy little peo-
pie who live vicariously the lives
of all their neighborS. There is
the discovery that pastors are COM
munity property, their homes sub
iect TO the grossly limited aesthetic
sense of the parishioners. There is
the poverty that can be begotten
only by q salary of $685. a year, a
poverty that intensifies with the
birth of first son, then daughter.
There is the appalling sense of
Illustration that overcomes min
lister when. always in the midst of
preparing a sermon. the fire depart
ment next door is besieged with
changing alarms.
The children grow up full of ques-
lions as to the advantage of being
the progeny of a village pastor.
They are always under community
surveillance Hartzell cannot put
his arm around a girl because you
know how ministers sons are"
Eileen cannot dance, and young
men are afraid of her.
That is the stuff of which "One
Foot in Heaven" is made, little and
living material which gives skilled
cast a chance to be brilliant in
portraying what is usually called
trivial. The principals are not alone
IN their excellence. Beulah Bondi
turns in a remarkable performance
As the bigoted, naughty dame will
ing to change her religion when
she cannot dominate the one Pastor
Spence represents. Gene Lockhart
Is brilliant as the crusty banker,
Laura Hope Crews as his stuffy
Evening star., 1941-10-04
Where and When
Current Theater Attraction.
and Time of Showing

Stage.
National-"Hold on to Your Hats
musical starring AL Jolson: 2:30
and $50 pm.
Screen.
Keith's-"The Little Foxes" with
Bette Davis as the chief Spoiler:
10:45 am, 12:55, sos, Sis. TBS
and 9:35 pm.
EarIe-"One Foot in Heaven"
screen version of the best-selling
biography: IL am, 1:45, ABS, 7:30
and 1920 pm. Stage shows: l.,
$50, $40 and $50 pm.
Palace-"Sun Valley Serenade," >"
musical with Sonia Henie: HIS
am, l:20, 3:25, $50, 7:35 and 9:4O
pm.
CapitOl-"Smilin' Through" as
sung by Jeanette Macdonald: IL
am, 1:45, 4:30, 7:15 and 9:55 pm.
Stage shows: /, 3:45, $50 and 9:15
pm.
Little-"Mata Hari," espionage a
Ia Garbo: II am, 12:45, 2:25, 4:l0,
5:55, 7:5O and 9:45 pm.
Metropolitan-"Nav Blues" mu-
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sical with Ann Sheridan: IL am,
los, $40. Sis, 7:20 and $40 pm.
Columbia Lady Be Good"
Eleanor Powell dances again: 10:45
am, 1855, 3:05, Sis, 7:25 and
9:35 pm.
Trans-Lux News and shorts;
continuous from 10 am.
Evening star., 1941-10-04
Musical Moves

Lady Be Good" the musical in
which Eleanor Powell has returned
to the screen, turns up now at the
Columbia for another week on +
street. Miss Powell is supported by
such able folk as Ann Sothern, Red
Shelton and Robert Young, Miss
Sothern reminding film audiences
she can sing, with some of the old
Gershwin tunes and the newer Last
Time I Saw Paris"
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Series Pictures
At the Trans.Lux

The World Series opener, sports
fans in general and Yankee ad-
m1rers in particular will be glad to
know, has been covered from almost
every conceivable camera angle by
the newsreel photographers. You'll
find the pictures at the Trans-Lux
along with Sundry other pictorial
report on world events, of wal
games and defense works.
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wife, Moroni Olsen as the broad

wife, Moroni Olsen as the broad
minded town physician and Harry
Davenport as the humble gardener,
who gives the pastor much-needed
lesson in faith and humility. The
others are equally fine
1t will do you good to see them.
The stage show at the Earle is
another one of those snappy, verve-
full things which Harry Anger puts
together. Its headline item is the
Martins, that mixed quartet whose
amazing tricks with song always
are the neatest of the week. The
Whitson brothers and Toy and Wing
plus the ever admirable Roxyettes
complete the nicely paced and neat
ly blendid program.
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and worthy of
your attention
as dramatic ma
terial.
Warner Bros,
and very espe-
cially Director
Irving Rapper,
have been highly
alive to the pos
sibilities of the
Spence family S
saga. They saw
it as a story of
SIN a ii tow n
A m lea, a
poignant, hum
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Blues at the Met

Navy Blues" the musical about
sailors troubles and life on the
beach at Waikiki, has moved now
to the Metropolitan for q second
week downtown.
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One Foot in Heaven Finds
High Drama in Little Lives
Earle PicturesIs Excellent Adaptation
Of Best Seller Based on Adventure
In Life of Iowa Village Parson
By JAY CARMODY.

1t and touching portrait OF and dramatic slice
Harze
One Heaven Those qualities happily identical
the found which
he
is
Evening star., 1941-10-04

ONE FOOT IN HEAVEN" Warner Bros
production starring Fredric March and
ton of Hartzell Spence's popular book; di-
rected by Irving Rapper
Evening star., 1941-10-04
At Last There's a Nickname
That's Worthy of Hepburn
BY IRA WOLFERT.
HOLLYWOOD

The nickname around Katharine Hepburn Kah-
aine Arrogance"
finally
wir
the mllnitin tar. -