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Marquis Merry del Val, 79,
Former Ambassador, Dies

By the Associated Press.
MADRID May 28.-Alfonso Merry
del Val y Zulueta, the Marquis of
Merry del Val, 10, for 13 years Span
ish Ambassador to London, died at
San Sebastian Wednesday night.
The Marquis was one of Spain's
outstanding diplomats throughout
the Goth century. He served in the
London post from 1918 until 1881
and was previously personal secre-
tary to the late King Alfonso XIII.
whom he taught English. He served
as Minister to Tangier and Brussels
before his assignment to London.
His brother Rafael, who died In
1880. was a Spanish cardinal and
secretary of state to Pope Plus X
Evening star., 1943-05-28

and president of the Camarlengo
Apostolic Council under Plus XII.
When civil war broke out in Spain,
the Marquis was living in retirement
In Biarritz, but he Immediately Of
fered his services to the Nationalist
cause.
His son, Pablo Merry del Val, was
Evening star., 1943-05-28

until recently chief Of the Spanish
foreign censorship, while another
son, Alfonso, was in the diplomatic
service.
Funeral services we're held at San
Sebastian last night.
Evening star., 1943-05-28
Six Killed, Two Hurt
In Army Bomber Crash
3y the Associated Press.

NASHVILLE, May 2S.-A B-24
Liberator bomber crash at the
Smyrna air field near here last
night took the lives of six men and
injured two. Capt. Harold Sweetser,
public relations officer, announced.
The two injured men were res
cued from the plane after it had
burst into flames. Capt. Sweetser
said they we're expected to recover.
Evening star., 1943-05-28

and periods of silence were OBJ
served by all employees of the Ford
company and pupils in Detroits 319
schools.
Evening star., 1943-05-28
Hnnrilin1

SACHS, LOUIS. Relatives and friends
are invited to attend the unveilins Of .
monumssnt mon, zen st to the late LOUIS SACHS at the
II 80 m. Sunday, Nav 30, 1913.
Evening star., 1943-05-28
Garn nf Thanka

MEYERS, MILDRED BARTON. The fam
i3y of the late MILDRED BARTON MEYERS
wish to thank their friends and organiza-
tons for their kindness and sympathy dur
Ing their recent bereavement.
THE FAMILY.
Evening star., 1943-05-28
Fly Swutter Inventor Dies

FULTON, Mo. May % (P).-B. F..
Douglass, inventor OF the screen type
Of fly swatter. died at his home here
Wednesday. He would have been SO
years old June 2.
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Where and When
Current Theoter Attroc tions
and Time Of Showing
STAGE

stage.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS of 1912" NIL
steal revue of the Shuberts: To-
night at $50.
Capitol - The Crystal Ball
Paulette Goddard as the gazer: II
am, l:50, 4:35, 7:25 and 1910 pm
Stage shows: 1880, $3.50, $40 and
9:l5 pm.
Columbia-'Meanest Man in the
World" Jack Benny. none other:
ll:35 am, 100. 3:05, $50, 6:35, 800
and 1905 pm.
Earle-"Air Force" one Flvinc
Fortress VS., the Japs: lO:45 am
100, AIS, 7:05 and 9:55 pm. Stage
shows: i, $50, $40 and $50 pm
Keith's-"S Shadow of Doubt ;
thrills by Hitchcock: HIS am, l:25
3:25, $50, 7:3o and $40 pm.
Little - Our Town" Thomas
Mitchell in the Wilder story: II
am, los, 3:l5, 5:25, 7:30 and s:45
pm.
Metropolitan 49, Yankee Doodle
Dandy biography of George M
Conan: ll:25 am, 2, 4:30, 7:O5 ano
9.35 pm.
Random Harvest" Hill.
tons love idyll on the screen: HOS
am, l:45, 420, and $40 pm.
Pix-'Lost Horizon" Ronald Col
man In Shangri-Ls 2, 1855, 6:3s
and $50 pm.
Irans-Lux - News and shorts
Continuous from 10 am.
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Your old friend Sharkey. the seal
who should have college degree,
has returned with his straight-man
and flsh-tosser to headline the stage
show. In addition to playing a tune
on the bells. balancing things on his
educated nose. etc. Sharkey has
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perfected vocal and quite liberal
impersonation of Hitler, and learned
a thing or two about coaching Sam
Jack kaufman's boys in the pit.
Those warm voiced antitheses of the
angular figure, the Murtah Sisters,
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Hitchcock Still Is Eerie
~
But on a Lesser Scale
Shadow of Doubt Reveals Master
Operating on Restricted Basis
In Field of Charming Crime
BY JAY CARMODY,

War has cut the of Alfred Hitchcock
the nerves of the people He longer
frontiers
artist, think still
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ieweled and wheeling" they epit-
omize all that is wrong with the
world.
1t is not necessary to understand
his case to find it an exertmely in
teresting one Like his prede
cessors in the Hitchcock gallery OF
heroes, he is winning, highly
gifted young man. You never see
him actually engaged in his life's
work of doing something about the
widows who get so violently on his
nerves. On the contrary. he is
charming, full of consideration for
the children, warmth for his doting
married sister, graciousness to the
neighbors, and only now and then
dark with the intimation of unclean
hands.
What horror you feel for the fell
low in spite of yourself (and because
of Hitchcock is conveyed through
Miss Wright. She plays the role Of
his niece, a worshipful niece, whose
spiritual kinship with the bland
young man enables her to penetrate
the veneer and find the somewhat
cockeyed violence which RACES be-
hind it.
The roles may strike you as rather
strange things for Miss Wright and
the amiable Gotten to be playing.
Perhaps they are. but thew enjoy
them to that fullness which Eng
lands most agile mystery actors once
showed when they were working for
Hitchcock.
The local, or domestic, setting for
Shadow of Doubt" puts rather a
restriction on the dialogue of the
picture. Its people naturally can
not have that old world wiseness
and wit which marked those of The
Lady Vanishes" and some other eff
forts OF the master. They are just
small town Californians, remember,
and while they have been given some
droll things to say. they have not
been in Biarritz, Nice, Cannes and
those other places where the talk
was always brilliant however small
The limitation of locale has not
kept Hitchcock from peopling his
picture with young and old who are
characters" more definitely than
you usually find them. Apart from
the principals, there is bookish
girl child who is engagingly quaint,
couple of small town detective
story fans who spend their time
working on the perfect murder of
each other, an arch widow, a stuffv
banker and few others who can
hold your attention. 8 So
These lesser ones are played agree :
ably by such performers as Henry
Travers, Patricia Collinge and Mac
Donald Carey, to mention but three
Of them.
AS we saw 1t is a curtailed Hitch
cock, but still recognizably the one
who tops the lot in artful melo-
drama.
Uncle Sam, Walt Disney and the
newsreel men contribute the minor
items which complete the bill.
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By ]. w. STEPP.

1.-THE Crystal Ball. not large
budget motion picture, will not be
selected the sleeper" of l943. 1t
should not be considered a best bet
even for sleep-inducer of the year,
although it has certain dictinct pos
sibilities along that line. The Capt.
toll feature for this week at best
offers Ray Milland, a pleasant look
ing fellow, and Paulette Goddard
who makes nice pin-up girl in any
military camp. AS for the effect of
the films incidental-it is surely
ncidental-content, it is the same
as that of shiny bauble from the
leftover counter of Woolworth's
The producers once again have
subscribed to the formula that
somehow synonymizes comedy
romance with silly. This formula
runs: A couple of stars, sophistica-
ton in varying lesser degrees, and
any kind of activity which might
manage to draw giggles out of an
audience. There may be bright
lines, If the script writer's are ca
pable Of them, and an attempt to
establish humorous situations as
they may pertain to the male
female triangle: or touch of slap
stick then may be larded in for good
measure, should the rest not come
off so we'll even for the producers
tastes. The finished product is as
1ndlScrlmlnate as the formula
sounds, primarily because no one
seems to give hang whether the
ingredients take definite shape or
merely float around, so long as they,
isolated or not, get their giggles. It
Is these scattered noises which keep
most Of the theater patrons awake
during Crystal Ball"
This comedy-romance character
istically is glossy. It's inhabitants
are well-heeled people who live in
well-appointed surroundings, such
as lawyers Office and Park avenue
hostelries. Their dialogue is vogue
approximat ton of S. N. Behrman,
except that 1t is never clever. but
bluntly cute and foolish Incidents
verge on the slapstick all the way
through, up to and including the
traditional waiter showing his face
into the traditional cake. Every one
of upper billing in the cast wears
fine clothes and looks we'll in them,
Miss Goddard especially although
she is supposed to be penny arcade
fortune tellers assistant, not a high
station Mugging, admittedly of a
conversative sort, is rampant, too,
as if you need be told.
Like crystal balls everywhere, only
cliches emerge from the one at the
Capitol.
Your old friend Sharkey, the seal
who should have a college degree.
has returned with his straight-man
and flsh-tosser to headline the stage
show. In addition to playing a tune
on the bells. balancing things on his
educated nose. etc, Sharkey has
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chopathic killers as the central fig
ures of his pictures. With the one
In Shadow of a Doubt" which
opened at Keith'S yesterday. he does
very we'll, indeed Not on the old
scale, mind you, as nothing is on
the old scale, but we'll enough to
prove that he still can come closer
than any one else to making a
Hitchcock picture.
HitchcOck'S latest melodrama is
90 tight in locale that that quality
alone contributes to its suspense.
1t is such a strange element to find
in his Work-a story set in a simple
average family home in a small
California city-that you sit there
waiting for the moment when it
shall spill all over the map. The
confinement becomes part of the
eerieneSs which surrounds Teresa
Wright, Joseph Gotten and the
others who participate in the latest
OF the murders which Hitchcock has
made so gay, charming and Witty
all these years.
Three prominent creative minds
went into the writing of Shadow
Of a Doubt" They were those of
Thornton Wilder, Sally Benson and
Alma Reville CMrs. Hitchcock. The
hero they concocted is a handsome,
urbane, joking young man who has
spiritual misery which he allevi-
etes by hating rich widows. Why
rich widows should annoy him so
much is beyond both us and them,
but when he thinks of them sitting
there at bridge table, bored, be-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-03-12

SHADOW OF A DOUBT" Jack skirball
production, starring Joseph Gotten and
Teresa Wright, directed by Alfred Hitch
cock. story by Thornton Wilder, Sally
Benson and Alma Reville At Keiths
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Rembrandt Listed

The second portion of the United
Nations Film Festival sponsored by
the USO and the Jewish Community
Center will open Wednesday night
with a program honoring the people
OF the Netherlands. Rembrandt, ;"
starring Charles Laughton, will be
shown, while Baron van Boetzslaer
Is scheduled to speak. The program
takes place at the Center, Sixteenth
and Que streets NV.
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Shuberts Did 1t

A precedent in the history of the
National Theater will be set next
week when "Priorities of 1912" plays
its third consecutive week. The
Notwithstanding engagement will
be accompanied by the replacement
OF Gloria Swanson by Carmen
Amaya and her f1amencan dancers
and by Barton and Mann, come
dams. The latter team formerly
appeared in a production of He'll
ZapOppin'."
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THE D. FRIDAY MARCH r. 1913
Another Jaded Crystal Ball
The Film, Crystal Ball. at the Capitol
Applies an Old Comedy r omance Theme

I, THE CRYSTAL BALL" United
Artists release. directed by Elliott Nugent
screen play by Virginia Van Upp. AT
the Capitol
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Children's Theater
Plays Announced

Titles of the two remaining plays
sponsored by the Children's Museum
OF Washington are announced as
Captive Maid of Old Carlisle" and
The Emperor's New Clothes" to
be presented on the mornings of
March q and April 10, respectively
Both will be presented in the Ma
tional Theater.
Captive Maid" is production OF
Clare Tree Majors Children's The
alter OF New York, while the other
play will be brought in by the Chill
dren's Theater of Evanston Ill)
Reservations are available at the
museum. 42l5 Massachusetts ave.
nue. NV.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-03-12
Kay Francis Stock Rises
That Extensive Jaunt to the Battlefronts
Apparently Has Opened Many Eyes

is he doing it?" I ask George. ooh,
it's a gag, don't you know" He
says, and as this is the longest con-
versation ever INDUCED in inside a
studio by the Junior Mr.. Sanders,
this reporter does not feel too badly
when he now fades away into an
armchair and closes his eyes.
Carl Esmond is dead for his pic
ture, Of course. And Brian Aherne
has to sling him over his shoulder
and carry him out. But I'm a big
man." says the charming Mr.. Es-
mond, land Brian has been sick. SO
l try and help him-until my direc-
tor yells, Hey, you're supposed to
be a corpser"
Released by the North American
Newspaper Alliance Incl
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-03-12
Cummings Ready

Irving Cummings. who directed
louisiana Purchase" outstanding
box office success, soon will return
to Paramount to direct Salty
O'Rourke," it was announced today.
This is an original story by Milton
Holmes. who is working with Earl
Baldwin on the screen play.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-03-12

divert attention from those voices:
Neal Stanley impersonates persons
of note: Martells and Mignon dance.
and the Rockets present another one
of their advertisements in luminous
paint.
Evening star., 1943-05-28
Essen Pounded
Again by Raj in
Night Assault
% Bombers Are Lost;
Nuzi War Industries
At Jena Hammered
By the Associated Press.

by the Associated Press.
LONDON, May 28.-A great
fleet of heavy RAF bombers at
tackled Essen and other targets
in the Ruhr last night. a few
hours after speedy Mosquito
bombers had made daring dusk
attack on important German
war industries in Jena, the Brit
ish announced today.
The Air Ministry news service said
the attack was the heaviest Essen
has suffered this year and that the
planes attacked in 10 waves. dump
ing their bombs within so minutes
in accordance with "saturation"
technique
The Air Ministry said new
wave-bombing plan was employed,
with each wave of about equal
strength, but varying bomb cargoes
so that each load caused the great
est possible devastation at success
sive stages of the attack.
Well over / 1000 tons of explosives
were cascaded into the Krupp works.
which was at standstill for at
least month after three terrific
assaults in March and April, the
ministry said.
A returning pilot said the fires
appeared to weld themselves into a
solid mass over wide area"
% Bombers Are Lost.
Twenty-three bombers were lost
in the Essen attack, said the an
nouncement. which declared the raid
was carried out in great strength"
The number of planes engaged last
night was reported only slightly
fewer than the total sent on the
record raids against Dortmund and
Dusseldorf.
The Berlin radio, in broadcast
recorded by the Associated Press,
acknowledged considerable damage"
in Essen. 1t claimed 20 planes were
shot down.
Other British planes laid mines
IN enemy waters during the night.
p Miles From Dusseldorf.
Essen Is 20 miles northeast of Dues
seldorf, which was blasted by the
Raj In a smashing assault Tuesday
night.
Essen became the most heavily
bombed city in the world after the
last PREVIOUS raid on April 3o-an
assault which brought the total
weight Of high explosive and fire
bombs dumped on this target to
more than 10000 tons since the start
OF the war. Last nights raid was
the Seth on the city.
The offensive was continued by
daylight today, RAF fighters sweep
LSHA n 4 -H-.E-S---
Evening star., 1943-05-28
Michigan Is Surprised
Al Plans for Night Game
BY the Associated Press.

by the Associated Press.
ANN ARBOR, Mich, Nav 28.-
Herbert o. Fritz) Crisler, athletic
director Of the University of Mich
igan, said today he was quite sur
prised" at the announcement of K.
l.. Wilson, director of athletics at
Northwestern, that the Michigan
Northwestern football game this fall
would be played at night.
The game has always drawn well
in the daytime and I don't know
what will be gained by playing at
night" Crisler said A night game
would require the Michigan team to
remain another night in Chicago, he
added.
Crisler said he would be glad to
discuss the game with Wilson, how
ever. Wilson had said 1t would be
played the night of October 2 in
Dyche Stadium.
Michigan athletic authorities also
announced that after more than 30
years Of service, Prof. Ralph w. Aig-
Ter was retired as an active member
Of the university board In control
Of intercollegiate athletics.
A revision Of the university by
laws, recently adopted, provides that
. member may serve on the board
for only two consecut11e terms.
Evening star., 1943-05-28
Will Beaded
By Committee
Of f50fficiia|s
Judge Fred Vinson
To Take Post as
Sterilization Chief
BY ]. A. FOX.

President Roosevelt today re-
organized the Nations war ma
chinery, creating an Office of
War Mobilization, under James
F. Byrnes, with overall powers
"to keep both our military ma
chine and our essential civilian
economy running in team and at
high speed"
Mr.. Byrnes has resigned as direc-
tor of economic stabilization to ac-
cept the new post and will be sue
ceeded in his former office by Justice
Fred M. Vinson of the United States
Court of Appeals in the District.
1t was announced at the White
House that Mr. Byrnes is planning
to make an important speech on
production at his home town OF
Spartanburg, S. c., at pm. Mon
day.
The new Office will develop uni
fed programs and establish policies
for maximum use of Americas nat
ural and industrial resources for mill
itary and civilian needs, for effective
use Of national manpower outside
the armed forces, for maintenance
and stabilization of civilian economy
and for adjusting that economy to
war time conditions.
A statement issued by the Presi-
dent said the new establishment,
which will be supplemented by War
Mobilization Committee, will unity
more closely the work of the war
agencies concerned with the produc-
ton, procurement, transportation
and distribution of military and ci-
william supplies, materials and
products
On the War Mobilization Com
mittee will be the director, who will
act as chairman. and the Secretary
OF War, the Secretary of the Navy,
the chairman of the Munitions AS
signment Board Harry Hopkins), =,
the chairman of the War Production
Board donald M. Nelson) and the
| director of economic stabilizat ton.
| Order Defines Duties.
An executive order prescribes these
duties for the Office of War Mobil-
ization, which will act in consulta-
ton with its committee and be sub
| ject to the direction and control of
the President:
l. To develop unified programs
and to establish policies for the
maximum use of the Nations nat
ural and industrial resources for
military and civilian needs, for the
effective use of the national man.
power not in the armed forces. for
the maintenance and stabilization
OF the civilian economy and for the
adjustment of such economy to war
needs and conditions.
2. To unity the activities of Fed
eral agencies and departments en-
gagged in or concerned with pro-
ductlon, procurement, distribution
(See WAR OFFICE, Page A-20)
Evening star., 1943-05-28
Four Survivors Of SINKING
Fit After 39 DAYS at Sea
Sy the Associated pros

BY the Associated Press
Four survivors of torpedoed
British merchant ship were rescued
by a Navy patrol bomber several
days ago after 80 days on life raft
In the Atlantic.
Today's announcement said the
bomber. on routine patrol was
piloted by 1t. Maurice kaufman of
Wappingers Falls. N. Y. The waist
gunner, j. Albert Wiley, aviation
ordnance man. second class, of
Alexandria, Ind, sighted a smoke
bomb signal that led to discovery of
the raft and it's occupants. The
plane landed safely alongside and
four men were picked up.
Navy doctors ashore pronounced
them remarkably fit. No other sur
vivors of the medium sized ship have
been reported.
The rescued crewmen reported
their passengers had included wom-
en- and two small children. Two tor
pedoes hit the ship at night.
The survivors reported their food
supply was nearly gone when the
plane picked them up.
Evening star., 1943-05-28
New Methods Aid Allies
In Fighting Submarines
(See RAIDS, Page A-4)

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, May 28.-New methods
OF fighting submarines are showing
such notable results that informed
quarters here viewed the whole pic
ture of the battle of the Atlantic
today as "the most encouraging"
since the start of the war.
These quarters, who may not be
Identified by name, said the Ger
man undersea offensive on which
the Axis pinned its hope of staving
OIL invasion of the continent was
not only being held-but smashed.
More and more ships are getting
through safely, while the number of
submarines being sunk is mounting
rapidly, these sources said.
Moreover, the devastating air raids
on German bases was said to be GER
tainly hampering the output of new
submarines.
Evening star., 1943-05-28
Barrett Appointed
Chief Of Detectives;
Mansfield Retired
1t. Strange Named
Assistant Head of
PloincIothes Bureau

Acting Capt. Robert ]. Barrett
today was appointed chief of de-
tectives by the District Commits
sioners, who at the same time
voted the retirement of Inspec-
tor Richard H. Mansfield, the
present detective chief and as
Sistant superintendent.
The retirement of Inspector Mans
field is to become effective August
81, since he has accrued leave which
will run to that date.
Acting Capt. Barrett was given a
temporary grade of inspector and
assistant superintendent, without
additional compensation, until Sep
tember l. It is presumed he will
be given permanent rank then.
Strange Made Assistant.
It. Clyde N. Strange was pro-
NOTED to the temporary grade of
acting captain of detectives, and will
serve without additional compensa-
ton until September l.
The promotions were ordered by
the Commissioners upon recon-
mendations by Police Chief Edward
j. Kelly. Retirement of Inspector
Mansfield was ordered on the report
|Coo pApp~T noC. oI
Evening star., 1943-05-28
Doughton Believes
War Retail Sales Tax
Might Be Necessary
Will Consider Plea for
$4,000, 900, 900 More
After New Bill Passes
By the Associated Press.

Chairman Doughton of the
House Ways and Means Commit
tee, longtime foe of a Federal
retail sales tax, said today he
might favor such a tax "as a
last resort" to help finance the
war.
Il am speaking for no other men,
Der OF the committee" he said, but
for myself, believe that sales tax
should be adoptd only, if at all, after
all other reasonable means of taxa
ton have been exhausted"
Mr.. Doughton expressed this view
as Capitol Hill began specializing on
how to raise $4,000, 900, 1000 addi-
tional, in taxes and compulsory saw
ings, as recommended by President
Roosevelt. q.
Other lawmakers, speaking pri-
vately, predicted Congress would
consider a wartime retail sales tax,
possibly ranging as high as 20 per
cent on selected items.
There was talk also of possible
taxes on spending" The admin
istration last year opposed any Fed
eral sales taxes, but plugged for a
spending levy.
The Ways and Means Committee
will start work on q new general
tax bill "as soon as practicable Mr..
(See TAXES, Page A-80