Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1945-02-09
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SohSo Tic IIlOSL COStly COMMA III
u. S. history. >. Many years ago
tariff bill listed articles that were
to be admitted free. One item was
all foreign fruit-plants." But
careless clerk replaced the hyphen
with comma. It caused or
anges, lemons, bananas, grapes
and other imported fruits to be adj
united to the U. S. free of duty. .
1t cost the government an esti-
mated million dollars plus.
A concrete example of journals
tic jiu-jitsu (being thrown for the
county was the story which said that
Dick Merrill, the famed transatlan-
!, tic f1ier, had broken another record
lying from Seattle to Washington
in six hours and three minutes. .
The story was wired from the Cap
ital by one of the news services. .
One night later we grabbed Dicks
paw and shook it hard as we con-
graduated him. II don't know
what it's about" he said. II just
came in from Africa. How could
such story that never happened
get started?"
The terrible crash of the old China
Clipper at Trinidad reminded us of
the flight we made from Natal to the
U. S. The Boeing circled over
Port Of Spain for more than an hour
waiting, we learned, for the man
In charge of the field lights to wake
Upland turn them on. The law
there at the time, it appears, pro-
hibited plane landings at night.
When the China Clipper crashed it
was the first time Trinidad permit
ted planes to land at night.
The author of "Argentine Diary"
Gray Josephs) has an exciting re-
port In Cosmopolitan. 1t is the first
full-length article on Evita little
Eva) Duarte, the girl "behind the
Colonels' clique in Argentina.
We wrote about her activities here
last June-the first story to appear
in the U. S. about her influence in
Argentina. >. Little Eva, we said,
a one-time playboys' gal-pal, worked
herself up, colonel by colonel, to a
top spot in the leading Fascist re-
gime in the Americas. . Josephs'
Cosmo piece is called Under Cow
er Girl" and you'll know why when
you read it. i. His story, he tells
US, was inspired by the item here
about her, and that is why the edi-
tors bought it. :. Two major movie
studios are interested, too, reports
the author. Thus a columnar
item has bloomed
Things like this are making
Sec'y Of State-tinius a very re-
spected gent around Washington.
The other day he invited
Sec'y of Interior Ickes and his
staff to meet with the State
Dept at private dinner. >.
Mr.. Ickes was asked to make
complete criticism of the State
Dept. The idea was to
achieve better teamwork.
Ickes let them have a blistering
attack, and plenty of State Dept
ears sizzled. But the confab
achieved its unique purpose.
1t put the State Dept lads on
friendly, human relations with
the Ickes bunch for the first time
in dozen years.
Add fine screen playing: Mark
Daniels in the Winged Victory" hit.
E. In mid-December the colin pre-
dicted that another strike would
break out at Wright's in New Jer-
sey. The workers there wish it EN-.
phasized that they won't strike and
intend to vote for the continuation
of the no-strike pledge.
A Broadway playgirl was tipped
to a sure-thing four days before
Tropical Park suffered. She
plunged on the horse for a $4,000
killing. :. But the bookie, with no
future in racetrack gambling,
welshed to the coast. Her boy friend
happens to be one of the Easts
toughest Sportsmen. Not new way
of committing suicide, at all.
A Gilmore hatcheck gal got s10O
tip from fellow, who returned two
hours later and said it was a mis-
take. demanding it back He gave
her ST instead. Not bad tip, at
that. {. Havana is "dead''-prac-
tically no tourists. But Cuba has
great prosperity, wages are higher
than ever. The Cuban capital is
guarded by machine gunners, ditto
the Presidential Palace. =. Groaned
one wealthy Cuban planter: "You
people insist on giving our people
milk and ice cream! They hate i'll"
Isn't it true you are richer
than ever?" he was asked NO"
he said, II used to make $500 900 a
month. Now it takes three months
to make that!"
Cole Porter says Of all the songs
he's composed, his pet is Love for
Sale" which radio banned because
of its poetry-and which, conse-
quently. was never done to death"
by the song-pluggers. The Re-