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Evening star., 1943-12-29
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Chicago Grain
z, the Associated Press

BY The ASSoclated Press.
CHICAGO Dec. 2a-Grsms opened
slightly lower today rye showing the
viries' decline Trading was moderate and
confined mostly TO operations of commits
sion hcuseS.
Wheat started Is lower to = higher;
May. GIL 5Ga4, oats were UNCHANGED to
Ia lower; May. 7Si7. and rye was un-
chansed 10 l , lower May. 1861 257s.
Evening star., 1943-12-29
CHICAGO Produce

CHICAGO Dec % p -<Butter. firm;
recelDtS 200 5s3; market UNCHANGED
Eggs. receipts $50. unsettled specials
-, u TO f.. al. - to iull. extras.
-, 80 to 3al2, current receipts, 33 to
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far this wear e5G, extra n s. o. eX-
ira. zoe extra, m 81 80 ext!a. . Paic
IN 1872. SlO.NO eXtra
Evening star., 1943-12-29
CHICAGO Grain

CHICAGO. Dec - ~ -Buylns sup
port which came from mIIlins interests
and house with export connections gave
The wheat market arm undertone today,
but other srains worked lower. Oats
were under pressure. dropping more than
a cent at one time, on fears permanent
ceilings Will be below present temporary
maXimums
There were rumors in the wheat plr
that buying OF September bread cereal
contracts represented liftlne Of hedees
on sales OF wheat TO Mexico Some
grain men thought Mexico was also buy
ing futures. Rye trading was nervous
and dealers said there was no evidence
Of shipment of the cash rye which was
delivered recently on December contracts.
Chicago Cash Market.
Wheat, none. Corn. No ; yellow.
,o124, sample srade yellow, aai4 Oats.
No. / mixed. So Barley, mating.
% al i4i2 nominal: feed, ll5I2-
! .e@iz Field seed. per 100 pounds. TIM
othy. 575-S ~ nominal. rcd top. "A 0n-
3 od. nominal. red clover. 2 50. nom
NAL sweet clover. 10 so nominal
Open High. Low Close.
Evening star., 1943-06-24

NTATk Shows : and q.
"1OUNG Mr.. PITT ROBERT
Evening star., 1943-06-24
A Sport Is Betty Hutton
The Studio Cheered as She Broadcast
Apologies to Director and Cast

RKO. II the deal is set Luise will do
another Good Earth" impersona-
ton for China Skies" Warner
Bros. will shortly announce a re-
make of the Colleen Moore silent
hit so Big" for Bette Davis. That
makes five pictures on Bette's future
chart. . Paramount has granted
Veronica Lake long summer vaca-
ton to recuperate from the double
operation she underwent early in the
year. Veronica and Rita Beery, ex-
wife of Wally, will sojourn at the
Beery ranch in Arizona.
Cecil B. de Mile emphatically de-
nies cancellation of The Story of
DR.. Wassell" because of too many
war movies" He says production will
start about August /
Dennis Morgan couldn't possibly
lose the way a Warner Bros. call
sheet for Animal Kingdom" had
him pegged the other day The sheet
read: Exterior Cafe stage IL, scene
54 through Sc dennis Morgan pro-
poses to Ann Sheridan. If weather
bad will shoot interior Connecticut
house, stage /. scenes 81 through 80
dennis Morgan marries Alexis
Smith,"
Players returning from Army
camps report that the tenor of the
soldiers desires in entertainment
has changed. They don't want en-
tertainment that smacks of bur-
lesque. Many actors have men,
toned this, Bob Hope in particular.
Bob used to include few off-color
cracks in his routines. but now has
abolished them Carole Lands
bad luck with dogs continues. She
lost her fourth pet within three
years last week when Donner,
Great Dane, 5i2 years old, died of
heart trouble. The dog was given
to her by Comdr. Gene Markey.
All the political controversy over
Mission to Moscow" seems to be
settled by James Francis Crow,
brilliant Hollywood newspaper critic,
in one succinct sentence, The right
way to think of the picture is not in
terms of affront to our political
SenSlbilitieS, but in terms OF the
lives of sons of America saved by an
earlier victory"
Judy Garland and the MGM COM
pany making Girl Crazy" returned
from Palm Springs location trip
the most sun-burned outfit on any
lot. The temperature at the desert
resort right now runs as high as
lis degrees. The films makeup man
Is slowly going out of his mind try
ing to keep the actors compleXions
the same shade from start to fade
out Usually one of the best
dressed men in pictures, Bill Powell
In The Heavenly Body" wears
droopy tweed suit throughout the
action. The suit had to be made to
order because Bills wardrobe failed
to turn up droopy tweed
Scene where Ida Lupino meets Paul
Henreid in In Our Time" requires
according to the writer Ida to
wear ladys small watch that plays
a couple of bars of Chopin. That
was cinch for Leo Lynch, Warmers
prop man. He just laughed, picked
up the phone and in few minutes
Evening star., 1943-06-24
BY HAROLD HEFFERNAN.
HOLLYWOOD.

Sights and sounds:
, Even Preston Foster himself
, rubbed his eyes a bit over this sud-
den Transformation. Within Is
minutes on the Goth Century Fox
lot he went from the role of Roger
the Terrible Touhy in Roger Touhy,
Last of the Gangsters," to the char
acter of Father Donnelly in Qua
dalcanal Diary" hard working
Betty Hutton always has stood ace
high with co-workers, but her stock
leaped to new level on the set of
ParamountS And the Angels
Sing" Betty and her director,
George Marshall, came to hot words
over touchy sequence and Betty
fled the set in tears. She dis
tinguished herself after lunch by
taking to the public address system
and broadcasting an apology to
Marshall, the entire cast and crew.
That's real sportsmanship, not often
encountered among actresses.
Luise Rainer, whose option was
dropped by Paramount after making
Hostages" is talking business with
Evening star., 1943-06-24

the watch was on its way to the
studio. Writers seem to like that
WATCH" said Lynch. I've been
renting it off and on for 20 years
now"
It's something entirely new for
Martha Scott to remain herself in
Hi Diddle Diddle" She ages only
two days, the time covered by the
story. In four previous movies Miss
Scott became known to the public
mainly as an actress who grew old
gracefully and convincingly.
released by the North American
Newspaper Alliance, Inc.)
Evening star., 1943-06-24
Thief Protests as Loot
Proves Bross, Not Gold
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
LOS ANGELES.-'You in my
opinion are the worst bunch of
crooks on the coast" said a posi-
card received by H. M. Katz, owner
of a gold-buying agency.
The writer said one lot of sup
posed gold he'd obtained from the
Katz agency, bearing a 800 price tag,
was worth only 81.
For reasons of my own I wish to
remain anonymous" he added.
Katz and the police department
explained: The man had stolen
brass. which Katz had substituted
for gold, as precaution, in his
show window.
Evening star., 1943-06-24

= a ACUTnN 3166 Wilson Blvd,
. 32OH ! VN Open las PM.
ICE CArADES REVUE THE FAIL
CON STRIKES BACK"
Evening star., 1943-06-24

Have they been innoculated? Gn-
deedD And heaven knows how
many more queries Of the like.
When the deal was finally con-
cluded the legal department ad-
mitted 1t was more complicated than
Evening star., 1943-06-24

had ever heard Of Fred's bulldogs
before. and questions began to pour
over the wires to New York, such
as rs this q dog act?" (You betD
How many dogs in the troupe?
(PlentyD Are they insured? CYesD
Evening star., 1943-06-24

signing Ginger Rogers. Ginger, It
is we'll known, has more details In
her contracts than any star in town.
from the size Of her makeup mirrors
to the dimensions Of the type in her
billings.
Evening star., 1943-06-24
CANNES Also Demand
Detailed Contracts
By the Associated Press.

Dy the Associated Press.
When Kay Kyser starts on
picture, veterans around his studio
began asking each other What
next?" For anything can and does
happen on a Kyser picture. Latest
complication is Kay's whim to sign
some vaudeville acts for the new
opus, including one act called
"Fred's Bulldogs"'
When the casting director sent
the contracts down to the legal de-
partment, the fun began. No one
Evening star., 1943-06-24

Domestic help is hard to find
but you may find it through a
Want Ad" in The Star.
Evening star., 1943-06-24

ONE FAMILYS WAR EFFORT-Mrs Peter De Rose a. national
director OF the AWVS her rting
shoulder as he etouches tune the composing for
the mare Island Foes" production ,ui be STAGED by
the 1oorkers OF Mare Island Navy Yard Vallejo Calt
Evening star., 1943-06-24

n rr Shows : and q.
Akk A Treat for the Entire Family
LUCKY JORDAN" YER ONICA
LAKE, ALAN LADD.
Evening star., 1943-06-24

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KEEPER OF THE FLAME" KATH-
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Evening star., 1943-06-24

ARLINGTON Gsi; Gs;. Fit* st. *! s s :sgs: 81;
''rLlGHT FOR FREEDOM" ROSA
LIND RUSSELL, FRED MacMURRAY.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-23
Allies Admit
Son1os Loss

Cairo, Nov. % - (U.P) The
British middle Eastern Command
today announced the fall of the
Aegean Island Of Samos and indi-
Gated that the Allied garrison had
been withdrawn successfully before
the Germans launched their main
attack on the island.
A special communique said all
the British and Greek troops on
Samos were evacuated without loss
several days ago, along with some
of the Italian garrison and most Of
the civilian population.
While the German occupation of
Samos eliminated the last major
Allied holding in the chain Of is
lands hanking the west coast Of
Turkey, the communique said Allied
forces were continuing patrol and
harassing operations, in the
Aegean area.
The evacuation of Samos, it add
ed, was undertaken after the gar
rison had accomplished their
task"
British forces had moved into
Samos, LeroS and Coo in September
Immediately after the italian arm
istice, in an apparent attempt to
secure a foothold on the island in
vasion route to Greece and the Bal
kans.
Coo was recaptured by the Nazis
several weeks ago and Lero fell last
Tuesday night after a five-day
struggle into which the Germans
threw in overwhelming ground and
air forces from their neighboring
strongholds in the Dodecanese Is
lands and on Crete.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-23
Quiz Lad In
Girls Death

Circleville, O., Nov. 23-(UP)-
Albert Hawkins, II, was questioned
today about the death Of his girl
friend, Gladys Zimmerman, Is. He
had delivered her body to her faith
er after sitting beside 1t in park
ed automobile for almost "a hours.
SlMy1ff Charles Radcliffe said
IaawKins mao Jolu conflicting and
hlcollerent stories Of the manner of
her death. Radcliffe said she was
pregnant.
Hal. kins first told him, Radcliffe
said, that he had called for the girl
at her home in Atlanta, O., Satur-
day night. They stopped at road
side park where both went to sleep.
They awakened in the morning and
Hawkins said he took walk and
returned to find her dead. Later
he told the sheriff that he drove
into the park to change tire Sat-
urday night and found her dead
after he had finished.
An autopsy was performed on the
body Sunday night and revealed a
drug in the girls stomach.
Radcliff said Hawkins had met
the girl five months ago. He had
been working on pipe line ada
cent to the big inch"
Hawkins drove to the girls home
with her body Sunday night. Her
father called county authorities.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-23
Anti-kosIeys
Stoge Scene

London, Nov. 23-(UP)-A near
riots broke out among 1000 Gail
Mosley" demonstrators in Parlia-
ment Square today while Home Sec
rotary Herbert Morrison was in
forming Commons that he released
Sir Oswald Mosley, British Fascist
leader, on medical advice to save
him from death in prison.
Hundreds of men and women
surged against the gates of the
houses of parliament, shouting and
fiouting banners proclaiming "Jail
Mosley." and Morrison must go!''
-Four mounted police joined at
least SO boobies in attempting to
control the biggest demonstration
of its kind since the start of the
war. One sergeant who rode into
the angry mob was almost pulled
from his horse.
The demonstration had reached
threatening proportions when Will
liam GALLAGHER. only Communist in
parliament, left Commons, and was
hoisted to the shoulders of some
demonstrators. He appealed to
them to dispense and go quietly to
nearby CaXton hall for a protest
meeting.
Most of the crowd followed Gal
lacher to the hall. Leaders of the
demonstration said the participants
represented 10000 workers from all
parts of Great Britain. The demon
stration had begun in a good
humored mood, but became angry
as its size increased.
MOrTis0n's Decision
Morrison told Commons that he
had decided to release Mosley, head
of the outlawed British Union of
Fascists. after medical men, includ-
ing Lord Dawson of Penn, the kings
personal physician, and DR.. Geof-
frey Evans, had agreed that "fur-
Their confinement would mean a
thrombo- phlenitis would produce
substantial risk that extension of
Continued on Page A.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-23
Yonk Drive
Two Pronqed

Washington, Nov. 23-(UP)-Sec-
rotary of Navy Frank Knox said to-
day that the American invasion OF
the Gilbert Islands marks the be-
ginning of new drive aimed direct
ly at Japan across the central 'aci-
f!c.
He told news conference that
the drive had two immediate stra-
tegic detectives: First it is designed
to drive the Japanese out of the
inundated islands; second, 1t is in
tended to shorten by hundreds Of
miles American supply lines to the
southwest Pacific.
This operation directed by Adj
miral Chester w. Ninitz, command
er of the Pacific area, is the begin
ming OF a new campaign from the
central Pacific on a much direct
route toward Japan, lie sal0.
Up to the present time no ele-
ments Of the japanese surface fleet
has appeared to oppose the Gilbert
landings, he said, and added:
1.-THE threat has not a. yet pulled
the Japanese QUE OF their shelter"
Knox believed that the nearest
place to the Gilberts where th' jap
anese fleet is gat lered In any
strength is Truk, the powerful en-
envy naval stronghold in the south
west Pacific.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-23
Patterson Defends u. S.
Canada Oil Field Plan

Washington, Nov. 23-(UP) -
Secretary of War Robert P. Patter-
son said today that the joint Army
Navy chiefs of staffs decided last
month that the "Canol" Oil pro-
jecting Canada should be complet-
ed to supply aviation gasoline for
O major air offensive aimed at the
heart Of the Japanese Empire"
He told the Senate Truman COM
mittee that the joint chiefs of staff
reviewed the criticized project as
late as Oct. 20 and determined that
completion and operation OF the
Canal Project Is necessary to the
war effort" The decision was
based on the belief. he said. that
Alaskan air and naval bases should
be made self-suificient with re-
spect TO oil.
The $3.50. 900. 900 project lad been
assailed as wasteful by Petroleum
Administrators Harold L. Ickes ana
War Production board and budget
Bureau officials. They said II
should be dropped.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-23
Cop Held For
Talking Out

New York, Nov. 23.-CUP)-De-
partmental charges were filed today
against Brooklyn patrolman who
criticized Mayor F. H. LaGuardia
and the police department as Po-
lice Commissioner Lewis j. Valen-
tine prepared to appear before a
grand jury which found lawlessness
and prostitution widespread in the
Little Harlem" section of Brook
Ign.
Inspector John Copeland of the
18th police district announced he
had filed four charges against Pa
trolman David Lehman, who told a
Brooklyn mass meeting Sunday
night that morale in the police de-
partment was at 10-year low. The
charges. contained in a report to
Valentine, accuse Lehman OF a
violating regulations providing that
policemen shall treat as confiden-
tial the business of this depart
ment; (2) disrespect to superior
officer while being questioned; 90
causing a condition to exist which
might have caused riot; az failing
to identify himself property after
being questioned by officers.
The third charge apparently re-
ferred to the uproar at the meet
ing when Lehman referred to sun
burned elements" while he was talk
ing about mugging offenses In the
Little Harlem area.
Copeland also announced that
Liebman's vacation had been can
celled and that he was under orders
to return to duty tomorrow morning.
Lehman was brought before q po-
lice investigating body last night to
cxplnln his accusations.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-23
Gen. Patton
In Trouble
Over Frocos

Allied Headquarters, AlgierS, Nov.
23-( UP)-A high staff officer dis
closed today that Lieut.. Gen. George
S. (Old Blood and Guts) Patton,
Jr., struck a shell-shocked soldier
twice in Sicilian hospital tent,
then apologized for his conduct
which later was criticized "merci-
lessly" by his commander, Gen.
Dwight D. Eisenhower.
The incident, the officer revealed,
occurred last August when Patton
picturesque American Seventh Army
commander, called the soldier
yellow bellied" and berated him as
he wept because he had to leave the
front.
Investigation showed the 24-year-
old soldier twice refused to leave
front lines and finally did so upon
orders and was back in the fight
ing week after Patton saw him.
The officer said Patton was not
relieved of his command because of
the episode or reprimanded for
mally by Eisenhower because he was
necessary and valuable to Allied
operations in Sicily and because Of
his record
Dressed Down
Eisenhower did, however, obtain
full report and took the hide off
Patton for his action, the officer
said.
Patton apologized at once to the
hospital commander a nurse and
doctor who watched the episode
(Hha, Aian11nd On Dana Al
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-23
CAPITAL GETS TERRIFIC FASTING
Marines Slash To Take Another Island
RUSSIANS
PUSH THROUGH
NAzILINES

Moscow, November %. -
(UP) = Russian assault
forces have broken through
the German lines south of
Kremenchug in a 12-mile
plung which carried to the
Dnepropetrovsk bridgehead
and posed a new threat to
hundreds of thousands of
Nazis in the Dnieper bend,
front reports revealed today.
The Russians were reported to
have inflicted the worst rout of the
Germans since the Dnieper cross
ing to unite the Kremenchug and
Dneppropetrovsk bridgeheads in
achieving the strategic break
through.
Red Armies appeared to have firm
control of the situation on the
Ukrainian front and its TANKS.
They had stopped the desperate
German ter-onslaught in the
Zhitomir sector and were smash
ing through less than six miles from
the last escape railroad and high
way out of Gomel, the White Rus
sian base.
The Kremenchug break through
climaxed 72-hourd battle into
which the Germans threw all avail
able strength in a futile attempt to
ward off the threat to their Dnieper
Bend positions.
Field dispatches reporting the
new Ukrainian victory, tending to
neutralize the German stand in the
Zhitomir area to the northwest,
said the Russians had destroyed or
damaged 1873 German tanks in the
last 48 hours, together with 80 field
guns.
Loss Admitted
"a dispatch from Stockholm said
the Germans had acknowledged the
loss of all railways out Of Gomel,
leaving only loophole to the north
west through which the garrison
could flee. The dispatch gave no
further details, however, and the re-
port seemed premature.)
Soviet artillery and long-range
mortars were raining shells on the
narrowing escape corridor north
west of Gomel and the fall of the
city, southern anchor of the Ger
man defense line in White Russia,
was expected soon.
The Soviets all but sprung the
trap on Gomel by forcing the Sozh
river to the northeast and, break
ing enemy resistance, selling Radu-
Continued on Page A.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-23

Gas and electric facilities
in many sections of Berlin
have broken down as a result
of the raid, reports to Stock
holm said. Traffic was
described as "paralyzed" and
tens of thousands of persons
were said to be walking to-
ward the places where they
work.
Berlin was ripped from its great
central avenue, Under Den indeflx
to the industrial suburbs. Reports
from Stockholm said there was q
Strong possibility" that govern
ment buildings had been hit and
one of the most heavily damaged
sections of the city was the Alex
anderplatz where the Gestapo
prison IS located.
Reliable Reports
Reliable reports to Stockholm
said the Swedish legation had been
demolished, but that the personnel
escaped injury by going to air raid
shelters. Among those who went at
the legation was Count Folke Ber-
nadotte who was returning to
Stockholm from Switzerland. Bern
reports said some damage was done
to the Swiss legation in Berlin.
The Raj, hammering away at
Germany's war production, was said
in neutral reports to have done
heavy damage to the industrial
suburbs of Siemensstadt, Spandaus
Neukoelln, Lichtenberg and Pankow.
"First reports indicate the bomb-
ing was highly effective" the city
air ministry announced.
The ministry described the raid.
ing force as of Every great strength
the first time this phrase ever has
been used in connection with a raid
on Berlin--and thus indicated that
1t probably numbered 700 to 800
four-engined bombers.
Experienced observers believed the
force was somewhat smaller than
the 1000 planes which divided more
than $500 tons of bombs between
Continued on Page A.