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The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1945-04-21

New YOrk-The famous Deep
River Boys, sensational NBC-CBS
Singing Stars currently playing
theaters and nightclubs on the
West Coast. Recent guest stars fea-
tured on the Philco Hall of Fame
and Kate Smith Hour Programs.
More than 400 radio stations
have over IT'S Deep River Boys
transcribed songs in their libraries,
in addition to their Victor luebird
records.
Nick Kenny. N. Y. Daily Mirror
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1945-04-21
NEW HOPE MISSIONARY
JUNIOR LEAGUE. GEORGETOWN

The Junior League Mission of
New Hope Baptist church sent two
delegates to the Kinds County As
ISOLATION April Is. Miss Debora
Webster, president; Miss Helen
Brown, secretary.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1945-04-21
Late President Proclaimed
May Day This Year As Birth
Registration Day
Mississippi State Board Of Health
100 Per Cent In Accord With
Proclamation

One of the last proclamations, if
not the very last, issued by Presi-
dent Roosevelt was signed by him
on April 7, setting apart May Day
this year as birth registration day,
and calling upon the people in each
community ito use that day as an
occasion to impress upon parents
the importance of registering the
birth of every baby born in the
United States"
DR.. R. N. Whitfield, with every
other state registrar of vital stat
istics, is bending every effort to-
ward making May Day this year
the occasion for 100 per cent birth
registration of all babies, especially
those born within thel asst twelve
months.
The Presidents Proclamation fol-
lows:
WHEREAS, the health and vigor
of the nations citizens are not
only essentials in the achievement
of peace but also goals for the full
est enjoyment and perpetuation of
peace; and
WHEREAS, it has been demon
strated that many physical defects
which handicap large numbers of
adult citizens are evident during
childhood, and could be prevented
or corrected with proper care at
that time; and
WHEREAS, good community
planning for the health and care of
our children starts with the regis
tration at birth of all babies; and
WHEREAS, each year the births
of tens of thousands of our babies
are not officially registered; and
WHEREAS, the Congress by joint
resolution of May ID, 1928, author
lied and requested the President
of the United States to issue annu-
ally proclamation setting apart
May / as Child Health Day:
NOW, THEREFORE, /, FRANK
LIN D. ROOSEVELT, President o.
the United States of America, do
hereby designate the first day of
May of this year as Child Health
Day.
And I call upon the people in
each community to use that day as
an occasion to impress upon par
ents the importance of registering
the birth of every baby born in
the United States; and I further
urge our citizens to mobilize COM
munity resources for the better
care of our children so that the
growing generation will be strong
to mold the peace.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, have
hereunto set my hand and caused
the seal of the United States OF
America to be affixed.
Done at the City of Washington
this 7th day of April in the
year of our Lord nineteen hun
dred and forty-five and Of the
independence of the United
States of America the one hun
dred and sixty-ninth.
(SeaD Franklin D. Roosevelt
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1945-04-21

John C. Luckett, member of
the base unit at Pratt army air
field, a BIG training base at Pratt,
Kans., was recently promoted to
theg rade of corporal. Cpl. Luckett
is the son Of Mrs. Ella Cobb Luck
EFT, 5l8 N. Farragut street, Jackson.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1945-04-21
jackson Soldier
Wins Promotion
In Italy

Johnnie Rhymes, Jr, of 804 West
Pascagoula street, Jackson, has been
promoted to technician fifth grade,
according to recent announce
ment from his unit headquarters.
T-5 Rhymes, who has been a MEM
Der. Of the army since March ~,
l943, is the son of MIR. johnnie
Rhymes, ST., of 804 West Pasca-
goula street, Jackson.
It's Johnnie Rhymes has not on
ly qualified as a lineman, but also
as an auto mechanic, with 18th
air force service command signal
construction battalion.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1945-04-21

cOlumnist, saluted the boys on their
seventh anniversary on the air.
waves, saying: These five lads
are all graduates of the famed
Hampton Institute in Virginia.
Their sentimental ballads have
brought them into the best seller
list in the recording field. Their
theater dates are sellouts. Their
material has always been refresh
ingly clean. That's why the column
today salutes these five happy
hearted sons of the most musical
race on earth.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1945-04-21

THE voice of the small church.
j. S. Butler, Pastor.
Evening star., 1945-05-29
Bad Role May Be Too Bad

Betty Cradle James and daugh.
ter Victoria will accompany their
bandleader husband-father to New
York for his six weeks engagement
at the Hotel Astor beginning June 8.
Movie makeup has birthday this
week. It is IS years old. Max
Factor, jr., calls attention to this
milestone, pointing out that it was
in May, 1910, that liquid grease
paint was first applied to a screen
actor. His name was Henry WAL
thall. hero of "The Birth of a
Nation"
Director John Ford, making "They
Were Expendable." revives an old
custom almost obsolete. He pro-
vides mood" music for his players
on the set. An ex-vaudeville &C
cordionist whips up the tunes.
Norma Shearer, now retired, was
last Of the screen heroines to de-
pend upon music for getting proper
reactions.
For "Yolanda and the Thief" Fred
Astaire has invented a fast new
stepping routine, but can't figure
out name for it. It blends Amer
ican jive with South American
rhythms, punctuated by q lot OF
handclapping between Fred and his
partner, Lucille Bremen.
Beside Andy Devine q beer mug
looks like 2-ounce glass. So for
Frontier GAL" Universal had blown
specially three man-sized mugs
holding 80 ounces and from these
Andy sips the suds.
(Released by N. A. N. AZ
Evening star., 1945-05-29

The War Bonds for Babies Cam
paign is still popular. Over SOC, ,O0(
Walt Disney certificates for babies
showing all the famous Disney char
acters, have already been dis.
tributed.
Evening star., 1945-05-29

tiers which will open their doors at
1880 pm. include the Apollo, Ava.
lon, Avenue Grand, Colony, Home,
Savory, Seco, Takoma and York.
Kogod-Burka theaters also will hold
special matinee showings.
more bonds, more power-moro
strength to Macarthur"
Evening star., 1945-05-29
BY HAROLD HEFFERNAN.
HOLLYWOOD

4AOASA VVNA1s
Sights and sounds: Reports crop
out that both Goth Century-Fox ex-
ecutives and Star Gene Tierney
are frightened over the grim ma
ture of the heroine role Gene plays
in Leave Her to Heaven" In
actual production it is said to give
out with more horror than was in
d1cated on paper. It's too late to
call q halt now, for the film Is
about half way finished. Genes
Is something heretofore untouched
by Hollywood in bad heroine roles.
The Ben Ames williams story re-
wolves around beautiful ELLEN Ber-
ent," who wants to be loved as in
tensely as she herself loves. Ellen
stops at nothing to achieve her
aims. To have her husband COM
pletely to herself, she cold shoulders
her mother and sister, antagonizes
his closest friends, lets his crippled
brother drown, kills her own un-
born child and, when she finally
ends up as a suicide, deliberately
makes her death look like murder.
Gene figures her big problem now
is 10 get the role finished, the
picture shown and still retain some
sort Of a fan following. Regardless
Of what happens, this actress will
60 down as the most courageous
in the business. It's doubtful If
even Bette Davis would have under
taken the job.
X T. 4 X
Closeups: MGM is welcoming back
Capt. Van Hefiin, discharged after
a head injury suffered in Europe.
He's been of the lot two years, but
Is unforgotten because of his me-
morable performance in Johnny
Eager"
Evening star., 1945-05-29

musical points out was to be q noble
backyard for every one to play in
and bonanza for Tweed and his
hangerS-On.
The city was enjoying, rather
than suffering, growing pains and
the period was on the whole dra-
matte one. The Irish colleens were
dreaming Of marrying the Wander
bilts, their fathers were dreaming
Of helping Tweed become feudal
owner of the municipality, the New
York Times was campaigning fol
cleaner and better politics and life
was generally quite exciting. More
so, by rather a lot, than life has
been in many of the musicals
spawned by New York and New
YorkerS.
The position taken by the dra.
matists in "Up in Central Park" il
that while Tweed and his hench.
men were the devils disciples, the
city survived their evil doings anC
can afford to look back upon then
now with amusement. That is no.
an unsound position and it &C.
counts for considerable of tn.
frolicsomeneSs of the charade al
the Century.
John Kennedy who staged thu
book of up in Central Park" ha.
had no trouble in infusing his cast
With the idea that the 7Os of the
last century were roaring in theil
way too. He gets bounding, prop
erly bizarre performance out of the
comic Miss Bruce as the daughter
of a subforeman on park labor
project; another from Miss Cannon
as the lively, stubborn and some
what wistful heroine who wants to
become a great musical comedy star
and suitably dashing and hand
some looking one out of Evans as
the crusading New York Times re-
porter. Beery'S boisterous style OF
acting fits Tweed better than his
own able tailor was able to do it.
and Walter Burke and Charles r.
win cut agreeable capers in their
roles of couple of the boss's most
loyal minor bandits. Several of the
others are equally facile in helping
to make the dramas point that New
York was quite a lively community
in those days also.
The music which Mr.. Rombere
has devised as Todd's agent on this
occasion is not the kind to be
snapped up by the conducer of any
angelic choir, but it has a way OF
being consistently pleasant to the
ear. To compare with that of sew
eral contemporary song shows, OF
course, it would have to be better
than it is.
1t does have the advantage, how
ever, OF being sung primarily by
Evans and Miss Cannon. He IS the
more gifted of the shows vocalists
but Miss Cannon is so pretty to look
at that one forgets any margin OF
difference in his favor vocally. The
most listenable tunes in up in Gen.
tral Park" already have been estab-
Evening star., 1945-05-29

also nave a reasonably pleasant glow
over what Mr.. Todd did achieve
What he achieved with the help of
authors Herbert and Dorothy Fields,
composer Sigmund Romberg and
such ingratiating performers as
Wilbur Evans, Betty Bruce, Noah
Beery, Maureen Cannon and others,
of course.
1t ought to run long time, con-
sidering the number of New York
ers who probably would rather have
the city's history sung to them
than learn it the hard, old-fash-
ioned way by reading it in a book.
We mean to be unf1attering to no
one who ever taught us, or tried
to teach us, when we say that the
Misses Bruce, Cannon and those
other female teachers on Mr.. Todd's
current faculty are the kind to
whom one pays the strictest of at
tention.
*
The era of Boss Tweed was the
one the Fields chose for Todd's
melodious satire on how New York
became what it is. The big thing
of the time was the development
of Central Park, which the Todd
Evening star., 1945-05-29
Where and When
Current Theoter Attractions
and Time Of Showing
stage.
National-"Rigoletto": $40 pm.


National-"Rigoletto": $40 pm.
Screen.
Capitol-"Tomorrow the World:
10:45 am, lis, 4:1O, Z and 10 pm; !;
stage shows: 1885, $3.50, 6:25 and
9:15 pm.
Columbia National Velvet: ::
1880 am, 2, 4:30, 7:05 and $40
pm.
Earle-"Counter Attack: IL am,
LAO, ABS, 7:10 and 9:55 pm. Stage
shows: los, 3:45, $50 and 9:15 pm.
Keith's - "Salome":: 11:15 am,
1:25, 3:35, $40, 7:50 and 10 pm.
Little-"The Lady Vanishes":: Ii
am, las, 4:30, tbs and 1905 pm.
Metropolitan - Roughly Speak
ing: II am, 1:35, AIS, $50 and
$50 pm.
Palace - Diamond Horseshoe:
11:40 am, 2:10, 4:4O, 7:05 and $40
pm.
Pix-"Beloved Vagabond": 2, 4:35,
7:10 and 10 pm.
Trans-Lux News and shorts.
Continuous from 10 am.
Evening star., 1945-05-29
Bond Prizes Ready
For Theater Winners

Two War Bond prizes of 500 each
one appropriated by the Motion
Picture Theater Owners, the other
personally set up by Fred S. Kogod,
D. C. chairman Of the motion pic
ture industry for the Seventh War
Loan Drive, await the Washington
theater managers who come through
with the best bond-selling record
for the entire drive, April l through
June 30. Supplementary bond
prizes of $50 and $25 will also be
awarded.
Evening star., 1945-05-29

lished as 1T Doesn't Cost You ANY,
thing to Dream, "Close as Pages in
a Book" and when She Walks In
the Room"
Others which carry along the
story, and its biographical implica-
tions, are some called up From the
Gutter" "Carousel in the Park" I"
BOSS Tweed" and "Currier and
Ives"
The ensembles which have been
selected to back up the principals
are capable enough, the feminine one
the more so which is usually the case
in these days of manpower short
ages.
Helen Tamaris is responsible for
the choreography of the Todd show,
and while she has been quite imag-
NATIVE about 1t, she Is unlikely to
become your favorite in that de-
partment of musical creation.
The odds are high that you will
be much more impressed by the
varied settings created by Howard
Bay who has an admirable feeling,
as against a feeling of admiration
for the period. He is colorfully ir-
reverent in many OF his back
grounds. Grace Huston and Ernest
Schraps designed the costumes for
"Up in Central Park" and the re-
suits are quite happy altogether.
Evening star., 1945-05-29
Gotham's Old, Shabby Politics
Make an Amusing Musical
BY JAY CARMoDY.
Drama Editor of The Starr
NEW YORK.

Michael Todd Of Chicago sort Of original thinker thinkers 60
the conclusion several months that history
could be knsaded into one Of srGadways greatest musical ump
thing there musical that running along popular under the
title feeling that the at
the another "Okahoma"
Evening star., 1945-05-29
Memorial Matinees
Listed by Theaters

AL Warner Bros. neighborhood
theaters will hold special holiday
matinees on Memorial Day, May 80,
it was announced by John ]. Pay
cite, general zone manager. Thea
Evening star., 1945-11-14
Transit Wage Truce
Ends in One Week

Negotiators in the Capital Transit
Co. wage dispute, who are to meet
again at 2 pm, have seven days left
IN which to reach an agreement be-
fore expiration of the truce which
ended two-day walkout here last
week.
Company officials have been
meeting with representatives of the
Labor Departments Cancellation
Service and Local 689 Of the Anal
gamated Association of Street, Elec-
trio Railway and Motor Coach En-
ployes, in an effort to settle the
unions demand for 30-cent hour
ly wage increase for bus and street.
car operators and maintenance men.
The company has offered to in
corporate a 7-cent bonus into the
basic wage scale and has promised
continuation OF overtime pay
throughout the life of the contract
which expires next June 80.
Negotiators have indicated hopes
of reaching an agreement before the
deadline, November 81. After each
session they have reported matters
were proceeding satisfactorily and
harmoniously. Unless an adjust.
ment is made by next Wednesday
union officials have said, the men
again may stop work.
Evening star., 1945-11-14
Australian Papers
Plan World Conference
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
SYDNEY, Nov. 14.-Rupert Hen
derson, president of the Australian
Newspaper Proprietors' Association,
today announced plans for an in
ternational press conference in Aus
tralia next September or October to
consider measures for defending the
freedom of the press.
MIR. Henderson said Brian Penton,
editor of the Sydney Daily Tele-
graph, would leave shortly to see
British, American and Canadian
newspaper publishers. Sir Keith Muir
doch, chairman of the Board of Di-
rectors of the Melbourne Herald and
Weekly Times, will make similar
trip next year.
Evening star., 1945-11-14
Mrs. TilIie Doran's S Songs
Sunu at Her Funeral

Two of her own compositions
were sung during funeral services
for Mrs. Tillie Mcclure Doran, 55,
Monday at the Hines funeral home,
2901 Fourteenth street NV. Burial
was in Greenmont Cemetery, Balti-
more.
Mrs. Doran, widow Of William
Matthew Doran of the old Veterans
Bureau, died Thursday at Casualty
Hospital 80 minutes after she had
collapsed at her desk in the credit
department of the Hecht Co. She
lived at 1854 Euclid street NV.
The selections, 20 Love Divine
and Nothing More to Say" were
chosen from her book of songs en-
titled Songs That Are Different
now in the hands Of publishers.
Mrs. Doran Is survived by a broth
er, Thomas c. MCGUIRE of Balti-
more
Evening star., 1945-11-14
De Gau|Ie Confers Today
On Selecting Cabinet

By the Associated Press.
I PARIS, Nov. l4.-Gen. Charles de
Ganlle invited the leaders of
Frances major political parties to
meet with him today for the pur-
pose of forming new cabinet to
help administer the provisional gov
ernment during the seven months
while the new constitution is being
drawn.
Gen. de Gaulle, who was unani-
mously elected Provisional President
by the Constituent Assembly yester-
day, was expected to divide the cabi-
net posts in fourths, with equal
shares going to the Communists, So
cialists and MRP Popular Repub-
lican Movement) and the remaining
fourth being shared by minor
groups.
Georges Bidault, MRP Deputy
probably will remain as Foreign
Minister.
After his election yesterday Gen.
de Gaulle announced that he would
try to form government on condi-
tion the Assembly accepts his lin
tied program of must" legislation.
Gen. de Gaulle cited the need for
drawing up budget before the end
OF the year, and said he would pro-
pose essential reforms" concerning
credit institutions, public utilities,
the administrative system and laws
governing magistrates and Frances
armed forces.
Gen. de Gaulle's election, his first
to a public Office, is for a seven
month term while the Assembly
writes new constitution.
Evening star., 1945-11-14
Plane Bears Thomas
Body 10 Rites in Idaho

A plane bearing the body of SEN
ator John Thomas, Republican, of
Idaho left National Airport at am.
today for Gooding, Idaho, where he
will be buried tomorrow afternoon.
A funeral party Of 10 Senators and
4 Representatives accompanied the
casket.
Senator Thomas died at George
Washington University Hospital Sat-
urday afternoon of a cerebral
hemorrhage
The Senate adjourned yesterday
in respect to Senator Thomas after
hearing eulogies of his career de-
livered by Senators Taylor, Demo-
crat, Of Idaho and Vandenberg, Re-
publican, Of Michigan.
The funeral party included Sena-
tors Taylor. Wheeler, Democrat, of
Montana; johnson, Democrat, of
Colorado; Taft, Republican, of Ohio;
Evening star., 1945-11-14
Broadway 10 Undergo
Extensive Face-Liftinq
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Nov. 14-Broadway
is due to get a mammoth face
lifting job soon.
There will be a building in the
shape Of a perfume bottle, with
the stopper hvable penthouse, and
with a sign showing the growing of
flowers while passerby are sprayed
with various scents.
Also huge coffee pot, spoutine
steam and permeating the area with
the aroma Of the bean; a building
in the form of drinking glass
filled with orange juice, and a
weather forecast sign complete with
simulated weather conditions, in
cluding fog and rain.
The. Broadway Association. in
announcing plans yesterday for the
building program, said streetcars
would be eliminated from the area
subway kiosks would be removed
and the street repaved.
Evening star., 1945-11-14
Truman 10 Broadcast
March Of Dimes Talk

President Truman will make a
special broadcast January 30, key
noting the Nations fight against
infantile paralysis, Basil OiConnor,
president Of the National Founda-
ton for Infantile Paralysis, an
nounced today. The broadcast will
be made on the birthday anniversary
Of the late President Franklin D.
Roosevelt, and will close the 1916
March of Dimes, to be held next
year from January IA to 81.
In accepting the invitation to
speak, President Truman said
There can be no showdown in the
fight against disease"
Mr.. Truman's participation In the
March OF Dimes carries on a tradi-
ton begun by Mr. Roosevelt, who
created the National Foundation and
became symbolic of its organized
campaign against polio
Evening star., 1945-11-14

ington. He was on the National
Oil Policy Committee of the Petro-
leum Industry War Council and
was first vice chairman of the In
terstate Oil Compact Commission.
A native of Thurber, Tex, he
had been engaged in the oil busi-
ness since 1926. Previously he lad
been a lawyer and county Judge
in Texas. He was president of the
Midcontinent Oil and Gas Asso-
citation and member of the Board
of Directors Of the American Petro-
leum Institute and the Independent
Petroleum Association of America.
In Washington Judge and Mrs.
Hunter lived at the Shoreham Ho-
tel. His office here was in the In
vestment Building.
Besides his widow he is survived
by son, j. c. Hunter, jr., of Abb
lene,
Evening star., 1945-11-14

10 De nelQ To-
day at Abilene,
Tex.
Judge Hunter
was S tri C k e II
with a heart at
tack November
l en- route by
t ra in to his
home in Abb
lene, and was
removed to an
Altoona hospital,
where he died.
Since the war
he had spent
m u C h of his
time in WASH
Evening star., 1945-11-14
Funeral Services Held
For Joseph B. Holmes

Requiem mass for Joseph B
Holmes, So, supervisor in the ad-
jutant generals Office Of the War
Department, who died Monday at
Mount Alto Hospital, were held at
10 am. today at the Holy Com
forter Church. Burial was to be in
Arlington Cemetery.
Mr.. Holmes, a native Of Wash
ington, served with the Army during
the World War. He later joined
the War Department as a civilian
employe.
He is survived by two sisters, Mrs
Robert l.. Greenwich and Miss Mar
garet E. Holmes, both of liz Twelfth
street Sc.
Evening star., 1945-11-14

Brooks. Republican, OF Illinois; But
Ter, Republican, OF Nebraska; LANCER,
Republican, of North Dakota: MUIR
dock, Democrat, Of Utah; Millikin,
Republican, Of Colorado, and Rob-
ertson. Republican, Of Wyoming, and
Representatives Dworshak, Repub-
lican, OF Idaho; White, Democrat,
OF Idaho; Halleck, Republican, OF
Indiana, and Robinson, Democrat
of Utah.
Evening star., 1945-11-14
Dr.. ". N. Cunningham.
Educator, 81, Dies
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 14.-The
death OF DR.. Wallace McCook Cum
ningham, "a, one-time acting dean
of the University Of Southern Cali
fornia, was disclosed yesterday by
his mother, Mrs. Binnie Cunningham
of Glendale. DR.. Cunningham was
president of the California Stock
Exchange from 1928 to 1880 and
formerly served on the faculties at
New York and Oglethorpe Univer-
stiles. He was unmarried.
DR.. Cunningham retired as pro-
fessor of economics at Webber Col
lege in Florida a year ago because
of i'll health,
Evening star., 1945-11-14
TotoI Press Freedom
Pledged by PoIund
,y the Associated press

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Nov. 14.-Polish For
eign Minister /Wicenty Rzymowski,
taking note of British representa-
tions to Poland to preserve freedom
of speech and press, yesterday as
serted Poland would do so without
interference" from other countries.
He said Poland was wide open for
foreign correspondents and declared
they could write and send dispatches
without interference, even those
which might be ''odious and incor-
rect"
Evening star., 1945-11-14
More Police Protection
In Benning SOUGHT

The Benning Citizens Association
voted last night to send a petition
to John Russell Young, chairman
OF District Board Of Commissioners,
seeking adequate" police protection
in Benning. F. E. James presented
the motion at the meeting in Ben
ming School, Benning and Foote
roads NE.
Brighter street lights also were re-
quested for the area.
The treasurer reported the associ-
atoms funds at $229.47.s
Evening star., 1945-11-14
Uarn uf Thanka

McCAMBRIDGE, ADELINE D. The sons
OF the late ADELINE D. McCAMBRIDGE
gratefully acknowledge and thank the
many friends and relatives for the floral
tributes and their kind expressions Of
JOHN A. AND JOSEPH A. MccAMBRIDGE