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Evening star., 1945-04-12
Now This Really Is a Girl!

to her. Not a soul on the lot seemed
aware she existed. In fact, she
can't remember any one saying good
by to her when, after her strange
52-week ordeal, she called for her
final check.
Joan felt pretty rocky about it
at that time. But if she had stayed
at MGM, one of hundred or so
contract girls, she might still be
getting lines like: DIR. Edwards
will see you now" Or pointing:
They went that way" Or Gn maids
costume): Won't you step in?"
Joan's lines are quite a lot more
important today. She got part SO
big at Warner Bros. that it not
only landed her contract, but
made her star.
Every role in THE Corn is Green"
had been filled with the exception
of Bessie Watty. Many girls were
tested for the part, but none
pleased Director Irving Rapper or
Bette Davis, the star Rapper asked
Rhys Williams, a character actor
in the picture as we'll as its tech
nical director, to keep an eye peeled
for suitable girl.
One morning Williams car would
not start After about a miles
hike he got a ride with a small
parts actor headed for Universal.
They talked shop and Williams con-
fided his need of finding a girl for
Bessie Watty. The young actor
raved about girl he knew who
would be just right. Joan was
tracked down and within matter
of minutes she was reading Bessie's
part for Rapper, Producer Jack
Chertok and Miss Davis.
"No test necessary" they agreed,
so Joan walked right into the part.
Evening star., 1945-04-12
BY HAROLD HEFFERNAN.
HOLLYWOOD.


Personality Parade: Give a Holly.
wood press agent a girl like Joar
Loring and it's a natural for him tc
do a ballyhoo job. Joan is one o1
the few newcomers to movies who
has story to tell. No taking need
ed on her biography.
Bob Fender, Warmers energetic
career-builder, sums it up this way:
1t was a pleasant surprise to carve
a publicity campaign around Joan
Lorlng. For once in my life here
was a girl I could make interesting
without sweating from every pore. .
There wasn't lot Fender or any
one else in the Warner f1ack factory
could add to Joan's story. She ar
rived a full-blown publicist'S dream
complete with past and an O.
Henry ending. All they had to do
was take notes as she talked, and
without resorting to the dream pipe
even once they knew they had some
thing. Think of the time she saved
them. Made it possible for them to
JOIN the boys in the back room an
hour earlier every night
= ?
In the first place. Joan Loring
Isn't her name, and her real name
even she won't reveal That's be-
cause her father, an English broker
was captured by the JapS in Hong
Kong and today is held in Stanley
Prison at Shanghai. Knowing the
Jap psychology well, she fears re-
Criminatory action by them against
her father If they learn that his
daughter Is a Hollywood movie
star.
Joan's father, from whom she
hears sparingly, was aware of i'm
pending trouble in the Orient in
1889, the year he shipped Joan and
her mother to this country. Staying
just long enough to clear up a few
business matters, he sealed his own
doom.
When Joan left Hong Kong she
took with her a letter to the elder
Douglas Fairbanks from the bril-
liant Chinese actor, Dr. Mel Lang
Fang. Fairbanks invited Joan and
her mother to party and urged the
13-year-old girl to do some of the
Chinese songs and recitations about
which Dp Fang had told him Out
come of the performance was that
Fairbanks signed her TO a personal
contract. That was in May. He
died. the following December. and
with him died her Hollywood hopes
she thought.
One of the guests at Fairbanks
party was Herbert Marshall, then
looking for a girl to play FIRTH
in his radio production of Paul
Gallicos Snow Goose" Joan got
the job. More radio work resulted
and one summer she did an entire
replacement show Snow Goose
was considered SO good it was re-
corded in album form; also her per-
formance with Ronald Colman in
Lost Horizon Joan seemed on
her way.
Small parts in Song of Russia"
and Bridge of San Luis Rey' led
in time to a contract at MGM,
where, for one solid year, she did
nothing but sit-out of camera
range
Nobody knew her. No one spoke
Evening star., 1945-04-12
Where and When
Current Theoter Attractions
and Time Of Showing
Stage.

Stage.
Catholic University-"Peer Gynt"::
$50 pm.
NatiOnal-"The Two Mrs. Car
rolls: $50 pm.
Screen.
Capit0l-"It'S in the Bag: IL
am, l:45, 4:3O, tbs and 9:55 pm.
Stage shows: 1880. 3:35. $40 and
9:05 pm.
Columbia-"I1l Be Seeing YOU:
1875 am, 1::35, 3:35, 5:35, 7:35 and
9:35 pm.
Earle-"A Song to Remember: II
am, 1850, 4:3O, tbs and s:55 pm.
Stage shows: ITO, 3:55, 6:35 and
$40 pm.
Keith's - Experiment Perilous"
IL, 2:30, 4:55, 7:2O and 9:45 pm.
Little-"In. Which We Serve: II
Evening star., 1945-04-12

am, 1:l0, $40, $40, 7:30 and 9:40
pm.
Metropolitan-"Practically Yours:
1l:15 am, 1:20, 1925, $50, 7:35 and
$40 pm.
Palace-"A Tree Grows in Brook
lyn": lilo am, las, 4:20, 6:55 and
$50 pm.
Pix-'Lake Placid Serenade":: $50,
$40, 7:35 and 9:55 pm.
Evening star., 1945-04-12

bers some other good starts that
blew up in her face. This time
though, we don't think she has to
worry. She may be no glamour girl
but she can act. Hollywood can
use all the Joan Lorings it can get
released by N.A.N.A)
Evening star., 1945-04-12

1.-The Corn is Green" is now re-
ceiving notices from critics. And
heading the praise, in most reviews,
is Joan Loring.
She's pretty happy about it all,
but not a bit cocky. She remem-
Evening star., 1945-04-12
THE EVENING STAR, Washington, D. c.
THURSDAY, I945

Trans Lux - News and shorts
continuous from 10 am.
Evening star., 1945-05-30

may go for swimming can be
counted on one hand"
Swimming is essential for health
and recreation as we'll as for the
preparedness of our manpower as
natural resource, Mr.. Henderson
concluded.
Colored boys desiring to take ad-
vantage of this free offer to learn
to swim should fill in the coupon in
The Star and mail it to Eugene L.
Mitchell, physical education direc-
tor of the Twelfth Branch of the
YMCA, 1916 Twelfth street NV.
Henry Walker, Robert Burke and
James Gordon are the aquatic in
structors at the Twelfth Street
Branch.
Glasses for the white boys will
be held in the Boys Building of the
YMCA, 1882 G street NV, where
the coupon should be mailed to
Ivan Smith. Application may be
made in person at either of the
buildings.
The swimming instructions will be
given starting at 4:45 pm. and con-
tinue until $50 pm. Registration
closes at noon Saturday.
Evening star., 1945-05-30
Dog Earns Reprieve
By Saving 8 in Fire

EDENDERRY, Eire.-Smokey, a
mongrel pup, but the pet of the
O'Connell family. got a bad rep
utation by chasing cyclists and cars.
Some said he was dangerous to
children and had him taken away
to the Civil Guard barracks to be
shot. But early one morning
Smokey broke jail and streaked for
home, arriving to find the house in
flames. His frantic barking awak-
ened the eight O'Connells, saved
their lives and won him a reprieve.
Now he is the town hero, instead OF
public enemy No. /.
Evening star., 1945-05-30

swim campaign
being conducted
by the YMCA
in cooperation
with The Star
f rom June 4
through June 13
for boys 8 to Is
years old.
To-day our
men and women
are travelling far
ana VIDE over
seas" Mr.. Hen
derson S a i d .
Swimming is es-
sential in the
Evening star., 1945-05-30
Grundniece of Car
To Wed u. S. Lieutenant

BY the Associated Press. -
LONDON, May enlargement
OF Princess Xenia, 26-year -old
daughter of Prince Andrew of Rus
sia, to 1t Cachoun Ancrum, jr., of
the United States Army was an
nounced today.
The Princess, now q British SUBJ
ject, is the granddaughter of the
Grand Duchess Xenia, sister of
Gear Nicholas II.
1t. Ancrum is the son of the late
Col. Cachoun Ancrum of the United
States Marines.
Evening star., 1945-05-30

training of mem f. B. Henderson.
bers of the armed forces. Although
more than half of the white en-
trants for naval training were un-
able to swim, only a small per cent
of Negro boys enlisting in the Navy
were able to swim.
Throughout the South" Mr..
Henderson continued, Negroes are
denied access to facilities for swim
ming except the few inland natural
waterways.' In southern cities"
ne said, the pools to which they
Evening star., 1945-05-30
Health Supervisor:
Backs Swim Drive
As Vital 10 Military

E. B. Henderson, supervisor,
health and physical education Of
the colored public schools of the
District, today Endorsed the learn-to
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-04

Gusty Gov. Sir Shenton Thomas broadcast his New Years good wish es, adding, T am sure it will be a victorious year"
 But the unrelenting Japanese flood swept on, swamping Kuala Yumpur, capital of the Federated Malay States, which was surround ed by the funeral pyres of Malay's rich rubber industry, in keeping with the "scorched earth" policy.
 Checked By Aussies
 After Kuala Lumpur the Japan ese flood was checked momentari- ly by Gen. Gordon Bennet's Aus tralian divisions, who went into &C., ton for the first time on Jan. 16, when they relieved the battleweary British and Indian troops in the western areas around GemaS, below Kuala Lumpur
 By this time a teetering civil ad- ministration had lost control and the uncomprehending polyglot pop ulation, with nowhere to look for leadership or guidance, readily turned to the Japanese, who at least had rice to offer.
 Before the end of January it be- came obvious that Malaga was be- ing sacrificed in a vain effort to defend Singapore. On Jan. 31 the Imperial troops were withdrawn from the mainland to Singapore island across the concrete and granite causeway spanning the Johore Straits.
 The siege of Singapore began with the wave of a generals arm sig naling the blowing up of small section of the $12.000,00Q (Straits) causeway at the Johore side. 1m-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-04

On Dec. 8, 1941, Japan StrucK simultaneously at Hong Kong, Borneo and Malaga. Hong Kong was the first to capitulate after IT days wholesale slaughter by the Japanese hordes which, according to British army survivors, kept on coming"
 Hong Kong was never expected to stand. Late in 1940, before l left Hong Kong, the commanding gen. eral outlined plans for the defense of the island, which had an area of 26 square miles and popula- ticn swelled to almost two million.
 Estimated 90 Days
 If Japan attacked Hong Kong they would attack in great strength and 1t was estimated Hong Kong could hold out for 90 days, the gen. eral said.
 Plans for what he called "a mirl- iature Dunkerque" were made to evacuate the remaining army from Hong Kong's beaches to Singapore. The plan envisaged naval cooper ation and 1t is no longer secret that 1t included the United States Navy, Pearl Harbor threw these plans awry and the Hong Kong garrison was surrendered by GOV Sir Mark on Christmas morning
 The news was received in Singa- pore just after the Japanese had advanced halfway down the Malay Peninsula and captured Penang which was Malaya's mortal wound Christmas Day in Singapore start ed with the strains of Christians Awake" from the cathedral organ mingling with the whine of obsolete Brewster Buffaloes winging their cumberson way to meet the ever present Japanese air force. Malaga had started the war with a total of 103 war planes, most of which were out of date.
 Lacked Water
 Singapore's Bishop Wilson, for merly Dean in Hong Kong, offered prayers for the little colony whose surrender was hastened by lack of water to drink.
 For Malaga, New Years Day marked the beginning of the end After the loss of the Prince oi Wales and the Repulse, the Japan csc assumed virtual control of the entire Malaya coastline. They car ried out "leapfrog" landings at will repeatedly landing in the reat oi advanced Imperial troops.
 New Years Day was heralded by an "all clear" signal telling bomb shocked Singapore that the raiders were departed for a brief respite
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-04
Youths Form CoreerArmy General Gilbert
 Organizes GuoT-
 dions of Victory

The Army's plans for raising a volunteer force of guardians of vic- tory" which eventually will replace the Selective Service soldiers in our peacetime Army were revealed to- day by Brigadier General Harold N. Gilbert, 49, U. s. A., newly ap- pointed Director of Military Person. nell Procurement Service.
 Hundreds of recruiting stations will be opened in various parts of the United States and recruiting of- ficers in each Army organization adopting the peacetime in each will emphasize the advantages of Army organization will emphasize the advantages of adopting the peacetime Regular Army as career
 The recruiters will have many persuasive selling points-the lure
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-04

perial troops had marched across the causeway in orderly fashion throughout the night. Although it was bright moonlight, not a shot was fired and not a Japanese bomb was dropped. The entire Imperial army crossed from the mainland on this narrow passage-the Ar gyle and Sutherland Highlanders skirling Cock O the North" bring ing up the rear of the long column of weary warriors, all of whom kept their heads high.
 Japs Bomb At Will
 For a full week Singapore was in a state of siege. Japanese bomb- CTS came over at will, pinpointing chosen targets, but there was no land action.
 On Feb. 5, Maj. Gen. A. E. Per- cival, the COG Malaya, called a press conference ito dispel some ugly rumors"
 Let there be no doubt" he said, singapore will stand -"
 But the bewildered populace were beyond paying attention to platitudes. Theirs was the desire to survive.
 Late night on Sunday, Feb g., the sky over Singapore was ruddy with oil tanks ablaz and quivering with tn blast from trrific drum fire" Japanese artillery barrage which was prelude to their landing on Singapore sland's northwest sector around midnight.
 From that time until the surren- der of Singapore on Feb. 15, the island was chaos.
 Whispered Yes
 On the afternoon of that fateful Sunday, Maj. Gen. Percival almost whispered "Yes" to Yamashita's s harsha will you surrender?"
 And the Japanese flood swept on and on to Burma. Rangoon, "a dead city undr a pail of smoke, fell to the Japanese. In Burma, as in Malaga, the British were not prepared and endorsements came too late.
 Gen. Wavell in India said: eve were always behind the clock. The Japanese moved quicker than we hoped. We could have made ourselves ready only by taking troops from places more immedi- ately threatened or by withhold ing from Russia those supplies which enabled her to make her great recovery. Circumstances compelled us, in a move aimed at saving Malaga, to put into the field troops with little or no training in
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-04

made e hrisadler general 8
 was selected to plan, crgnni2 administer the War Deparlmens ~ flee of Dependency Benefits The ODE handles all family allowanc and Glass E. allotments-o9-pay fek the benefit of more than 10.o00. .Q0a dependents of Army men and Wons en and had, disbursed upwards ai s1l, ,0OO, 900 ct the time General oils bert was transferred to his present post as head of the Arfnys vast new recruiting effort.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-04

won him the Distinguished Ssryios Medal in 1940.
 General Gilbert, a native of Wil- Transport, Pa, also holds the Dis inguished Service Cross, won for heroism as a first lieutenant in France in 1918, and the Purple Heart, awarded him on July 15, 1913, when he was wounded in action.
 General Gilbert was a Heuten- ant colonel when he began the pre- war recruiting campaign and later was promoted to colonel. He was
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-04

Mrs. Leo Laferty and family wis.,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-04

Tomorrow: The Secret of Atomic Potcer.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-04

tied friends and relatives in East Hartford yesterday.
 William Nolan has returned to his home after working in California. His wife the former Evelyn Seery lived at the home of her parents while MT. Nolan was there.
 Mrs. Eleanor Tedesco and chil- dren Ralph and Frederick and Ro- bert Dean were holiday visitors at the home of Mrs. Richard Lane.
 Mrs. Albert Beard of Lone Oak avenue, and her son, Robert, have returned home after spending the past two months at Brentwood, L. l., with her cousin, Mrs. George Artese.
 Walter Bolan of Nottingham Ter race is on vacation from his duties at the Scovill Waterville Division.
 Mrs. Frank Ilnicki and family o1 Cheshire were holiday visitors al the home of her parents MT. ano Mrs. William Dubay of Downes street.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-04
Britain, Unready Lost Empire
 To Japs Lr First Three Months
BY HAROLD GUARD United Press Staff Correspondent

EDITORS first of a series of four dispatches phases Pacific Most of the material IS dispatches written in Hong Ong Guinea Inda which have heretofore been held publication for security reasOns) .
 London Sept UPWe not ready for war in the Far
 Archibald Wave then British Che maoe this statement at shortly after the fall Rangoo Japanese sweeping through Burma threatening India. . .
 simplest explanation given for the rapid succession Of which dnudd Great Britain of all her Far Eastern in file ouer hreem months
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-04
Brigadier-General

of travel; the advantages of acquir- ing occupational skills; the security of an Army career. All recruits, whether they sign up from civilian life or from the ranks of the Army, have the advantage of Office of De- pendency allowances for their fam flies.
 General Gilbert, who has the job of persuading thousands of young Americans to make the Army their career, directed the most recruiting campaign in the Armys history dur ing the period immediately preced- ing the war. His success in achiev- ing more than 100000 enlistments
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-04
WATERVIlLE Correspondent: Mrs. Gertrude Lane: Telephone S.65ll
Army Frees Hubert Pond
 GI, Wife Visit
 Local Relatives

Waterville, Sept. 4.-Hubert Pond, son of Mrs. Alice Wright of Thomas ton avenue, has received his honor able discharge from the U. s. Army and with Mrs. Pond are spending an extended visit at his mothers home.
 The Women's Society for Chris tian Service of Grace Methodist church will hold their regular monthly business meeting in the church parlors tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock.
 MT. and Mrs. Frank Wilson and daughter, Helen, spent the holiday weekend out of town.
 The Swedish Weaving club VIII meet this evening at the home ot Mrs. J. M. E. Johnson on Parker street at o'clocx.
 The Casper s Davis Drum Corp will hold their regular weekly busi- ness meeting this evening in their rooms in the rear of the post office
 The weekly prayer meeting will be held this evening at 8 o'clock at Gospel Hall on Thomaston ave- nue.
 MT. and Mrs. Homer Rood, MT and Mrs. Wesley Rood, and MT. and Mrs. Wesley Rood, Jr., attended the Goshen Fair yesterday.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-04

fungi warfare and the reinforce ments were trained for war in the Western Desert"
 By March IA, 1942, all major British possessions in the Far East were in Japanese hands-only 93 days after the fateful Dec. 8, 194l -fateful days which crumbled the foundations of British prestige in the Orient.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-04

The water level of the oceans would have to be lowered 10000 feet to give the earth an even distri- bution' of land and water.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-23

that phase Of the problem. He said he was earning 800 yen c month, which would have been relatively high salary in pre-war years, put now was barely Keeping himself, his wife and two children alive.
 Transportation Breakdown
 Governmental bungling Of the ra- tionIng system, which the Japanese agree could not have been much worse. has been corrected to Q con- siderable degree since the war eS1d- ed. But any rationing system will prove difficult to operate under ex- isting conditions, because of the lack of transportation and proper distribution outlets.
 The transportation shortage alone Is causing huge stocks of sweet pc tatoes to rot in some regions while the rest of the country is starving for this faycrite vegetable.
 The government has been forced to c large extent, to ignore the bIack-marketeering.
 Big business operators, in order to save their employees time and trou. ble, operate regular black market bureaus which buy food. elCthine and other essentials wherever they gre available. Than they are dis- tFibuted among the Arms employes ak ePsas IA ..A.A.s..s.ss.. .s...4 .s. v.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-23
Boby'sLife HongsonUse Of Drug
 Improved Berth
 Mold Tested
 For Meningitis

Muncie, Ind, Oct. 2S-CUp)--Sci- ence focused It's attention today on the llfe-or-death battle of Q still un- proven drug against a disease ray: aging the body of l7-month-old Gayle Eleanor Harvey.
 AS doctors, hioehemlsts, drug lah- oratories and even Federal Re- aearchers watched for signs of Inc provement, Gayle passed into the critical stage of tuhercular meningt. tls, heretofore almost universally fatal.
 Gayle, daughter of Q former Women's Army Corps member and the late Sgt, Thomas Harvey, Q paratrooper killed In Germany, tossed fitfully in her Ball Memorial Hospital room-unawar0 of the iIn- portance of her case.
 Hope for the infants survival was pinned on the still fully untried drug known as streptomycin, an earth mold product which has reached only the stage of curative development as he'd penicillln two years ago.
 whether Gayle lives or dies, physicians said, results of using streptomycin In the case will provide valuable data for future use of the drug. Streptomycin was developed two years ago by Selman A, Wake- man, dean of antlblotlc research at the U. s. Agricultural Experiment Station ct New Brunswick, N. J. Gayle lay in c coma aS streptoEny- cin was injected into her muscles every three hours, A daily spinal injection of the medicine also was given,
 The baby was given the drug for the first time last Thursday after her physician, pr, Gerald Young secured the nation for sufficient supply, As she went into the third most dangerous stage of the di- sease, her condition was critical.
 Doctors hoped that tho mold derivitlve would destroy tuheroulous bacteria which attacked nieFnbraneA oe the ehild's brain.
 Last December, three Philadelphia scientists employed streptomycir successfully In treating typhoid fey. CT. The Mayo Clinic tried 1t on Sl tuberculosis patients, finding lt did its best work against the little. known forms of the disease-ufin. ary, skin and hillary.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-23

the first of his illegitimate grandsons but still refused to sanction mar" rlage. Instead he gave young Bento e2O.OO0 to stFaighten out his af" fairs.
 10 was while Irene was awaiting the birth Of the second son in ap4S that Bento wandered Into another dance hail for distraction. There he met and fell in love with Maria Lotirdes. Sine soon also became hia mistress,
 Maria Lourdes insisted he get rid Of Irene. Bento said. once ne took Irene to Pequeta 1Slaad-also known ash Lovers fSland--with the Idea of killing her with an oaf, but her loving smiles were 60 tender he lost courage, said,
 A second time, he and Maria Lourdes decided to put ant poison in Irene's beer, but again love stayed his hand, he said.
 The third attempt was success fui, Maria Lourdes suggested the means of disposing Of the body, nc said and they went together to Irene's home with Q saw.
 "First severed the thighs Witn great difficulty because the saw waa no good" police quoted Bento af saving, dso l went out and bought new saw with which ! cut ofi the arms while my girl friend held the body.
 The smell of human fesh made me
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-23
Parade To Open %aA D-- AnUEGU D0 @OUE

A parade will be staged by Boy Scouts and oirl Scouts and members of the U. 8. Time drum corps Erie day night ct the opening of the first annual bazaar of the Church of Our Lady of Lourdes. The bazaar will be held Friday, Saturday, and Sunday nights this week and next.
 Boxing bouts will be featured at the bazaar, with the following pav- ticipants: Charles Eagle and Dula Kovac, Leo and Jack Larriviere, Jack Harmon and Jack Moriarty, and Jack Sharkey and the "Wallop- ing Wop." Charles A. Leogrand will render accordion selections.
 The arrangements committee inc cludes: Martin Mannelio, John Gull 10, Mrs. Anna Mastrionni, and Ter esq Luciano. Rev. A. Santoltni, pas- tor, is honorary chairman.