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Evening star., 1946-10-13
The Iceman' Awaits You
No Matter What You Read of 1t, the Play
Alone Can Tell O'Neill's Story
By Jay Cormody

Eugene oNel himself said Iceman Cometh" just
play Director Eddie Downg
planned really very simple Its characters these
deg see? They lived in the backroom Of bar in dump
front They sustained themselves
rotten whisky and dreaming that tomorrow
everything would be just fine.
That the way oNe Dowlng connected with it
spoke he Iceman cometh in advance Of the New York
Wednesday night
strange thing they right The play just what
they said way all the astounding
should hailed Immediately after the opening as one
likely that
oNe the Nobel coittees
literature, could find enough meaning In such dregs as
Pubication Raised New Doubts.
This dubousness publication of the play
than week before the premiere 1t mace gooo aang
reading reading There gaps an nnnude
filled filling confusing business obvious
y what it said vast amount OF
dialogue like sheer drunken babbng
went around asking themselves and any one
else who might know Just what Perhaps Its significance
was something private Oe could not communicate something
destined locked in the mans own mysticism .
tragic thing befal the foremost paywr1gnt Of
worried great men OF good viii who DO
who would the latter who mentioned
also had written oaoom pay Inc lime Oh
Your Life characters in fallen
deamers differing degrees Of tarts and
other alcoholic crackpos.
1t puzzlng of oNell
The dramatic impact Cometh was mraculosy
heightened by such feelings as these such tak as thus
How could it fail 1t turned ou-n the playing for
which Comeh" writenthat the author was 'ah
ing the whole human race
These were not drugged Harry Hickey
Pearl Mrge Chuck This was the whole OF MANKIND
room blowsy found theirs IN the bottom OF
bottle nothing the writing OF oNe to indicate ne
thinks way pipe dreaming is different from any other He
dream perious oros way man taVe
and that IN disiusonment and death
Martin Beck Thear learned that the thought
of saroyan with him. never entered their
again commentator the many even menoeo
1t and he conspicuous note of apology.
oNe and there is only Every one in the nrst-
night audience knew it, Ruth whatever
arrangement Of Babe Ruth and Elsa Maxwell
written other person IN the mooern
theater write.
the to the nnal revela-
ton mind There denying obviously
that Those who admired
1t most its early production little uncertain OF It's
endurance because they said, it is such gloomy play
Comedy Hysteria Level.
right being gloomy But oNel has wrienfor
much goosome OF the most naous
Historically nterude that have been seen upon
the opening night the hor
of irresistible eoquence of that the
actors participating Of the hyea gripping
the audience sardncay clearly coming
to them for their of familiarity with the
rehearsal.
that great play written for an audience
greatness realized
matter much read about it, which
in decade all its meaning ana It's
surprises waiting when lucky enough
tickets.
Evening star., 1946-10-13
HOLLYWOOD.

You'd think that when the CLAM
orous ladies and the fascinating
gents of the screen had the grease
paint scraped of in late afternoon,
hoped into .low-slung converhbles
and sped homeward, that their trou-
bles would be over. at least until the
start of another day.
But it's not that easy. Getting a
nights sleep Is not always simple
act for movie star. Sometimes it
gets to be very complicated. Screen
folks are an emotional, high-struiig
class of people, so sensitive they're
prone to toss on their lily white
sheets wooing Morpheus as des-
perately as any common everyday
insomniac.
On top of all that, Los Angeles has
become q noisy metropolitan center
with folks jammed into the worst
housing mess of perhaps any city
In the Nation.
Sometimes studio officials are
obliged to step in and help remedy
a bad sleeping situation. Only a
short time back Goth Century-Foz
was forced to snatch its million
dollar star, Peggy Ann Garner, from
a motor court. After her one-start
hit via "A Tree Grows In Brooklyn,
you'd think Peggy Ann would have
been able to find o house. But no
The motor court was dismal, card
board sort of a place In the Valley
with folks running in and out at all
hours of the night. The child was
reporting for work red-eyed and
sleepy. In order to protect its in
vestment the studio hauled Peggy
Ann and her family out Of the place
and inside It's lotto occupy the
bungalow once used as dressing
room by Shirley Temple. Only a
few weeks ago the Garners found q
house. ... -
Soothed by Music.
Sonny Tufts and Yvonne de Carlo
were other motor court tenants, for
a long time, until their respective
studios took a hand and saw to 1t
that places were obtained wherf
they could get a few consecutive
hours of sleep. John Lund and Bart
Lancaster. two newcomers from
New York, and both now on the
high road to stardom, drove from
New York to Hollywood, couldn't
find rooms and slept In their auto
mobiles for many nights.
On the other hand, fancy quarters
and lush mattresses mean nothing
in many a sleep-seeking case. Take
poor Maria Montez, who has a silk
canopied bed, electric blankets and q
buzzer system that will instantane-
ously summon a maid to her side
stu Maria found she was staying
awake too long. She tried to 1ead
herself to sleep. She counted sheep
No dice. The solution was found in
an automatic record-p player which
turns off after doing dozen discs
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-01-27
Recreation Centers Plan
Full Week OF Activity;
Dance Thursday

AS the March of Dimes cam.
paign winds its way into the fina!
phases of the drive for funds te
fight Infantile Paralysis, William
K. Rhodes, Jr., county chairman
urged recipients of letters con
tanning contribution checks to re
turn them to his office before
Thursday when the campaign
closes.
A total of 1000 blank check:
were mailed to city and county
residents, Rhodes has disclosed
with only $50 being returned tt
his office. The returned check!
amount to over $1,000, he said.
Rhodes also announced partia
tabulation of the campaign con
Quoted among school students
With four secondary schools ane
New Hanover High school yet t.
make returns the collection!
amount to $1,175.78, the chairman
said:
In many instances, Rhodes point
ed out. the students contributed
their lunch money to the fund.
''If children can go withou
lunches to help the work of the
National and County foundations
those persons who have received
letters should be able to make a
contribution, he declared.
A variety of programs at the
respective recreation centers dur
ing the coming week with pro-
ceeds going to the fund have been
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-01-27
ASSOCIATED CHARITIES
TO SEEK COUNTY'S AID
CONTINUED From Page One)

mated on JAM /, according to Off
Gals of the Chest.
The Rev. Alexander Miller,
president of the board of direc.
tors, said last night that funds
have been exhausted and thai
some plan would have to be
worked out to assure the future
operations. He declared thai
many of the cases, which would
ordinarily be the work of the Wei
fare department, have been re
ferred to the Charities for care
This has helped increase the bur.
den he paid.
Both Mrs. Ellis and the Rev. Mr.
Miller explained there were times
during the depression when the
agency was forced to appeal tt
county commissioners for aid anc
that the Charities had always
managed to find way out oil
similar circumstances as they
arose."
The annual financial report Of
the Charities, as of Jan. L. dis.
closed the organization to possess
a l,O39. 66 deficit at that time
including a direct operating deficit
OF $188.17 and unpaid bills Of
$851.49
In 1945 the total expenditure oil
the Charities was $24,547.31, ex
elusive of the deficit. Of this
amount, $23,375.45 were total re-
celpts from the city, county, Com.
munlty Chest, James Walker
Memorial hospital and friends.
During the coming year at least
$500 of this sum will not be
available, that amount being the
aid given by the Chest during
1915.
In addition to county and city
funds, James Walker Memorial
hospital allows $275 a year applied
toward hospital treatment for
cases coming under Jurisdiction of
the Charities.
Currently, the only known avail
able funds for the entire year OF
1916, including county, city and
hospital funds, amount to abou:
$1,000. This does not include
donations from "friends," which
IN 1945 amounted to $1,293.O7, &C.
cording to the annual report for
that year.
On paper, if the Charities ex-
pendltures and income approx
mate 1945 figures, they are faced
with a potential 1916 deficit of
some $1,000.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-01-27
Lost Their ToiletKits.
Guardsmen HuntMot0ris

Two Y. S. Coast Guard hitch
mixers who left bag of shaw
ing needs including an electric
razor In a Wilmingtonian's car
enroute to Richmond, Va, last
MONDAY night sent a letter to
MISS Minnie A. Payne, secre-
'ary OF the Wilmington branch
OF the Carolina Motor club, ask
ing her to help locate the hau
On fifty dollars a month ;,
wrote Sanford Klein, one Of the
hitch-hikers, "the stuff in that
Dag cant be replaced so easily.
especially the electric razor
SO you see, we hope you can
help u.s."
The letter explained that the
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-01-27

man who was about 40 years
old, medium build, slightly grey
and drove a 1941 black Ford
sedan, was a member of the
automobile club.
The motorist was going as far
as Richmond and gave the men
a ride. After arriving in Rich
mond the hitch-hikers realized
to late that they left the bag
in the car.
Klein said if the man was To-
Gated to please have him send
the bag COD. to S. Klein, 702-
932, United States Coast Guard
Lifeboat station, Kill Devil Hill,
North Carolina.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-01-27
Light Resp )nse Reported
To Paralysis Aid Checks

planned by the city recreation de-
partment.
Included will be a benefit bridge
party at Lake Forest, date to be
announced, a series of four one-ac'
plays at Cornelius Harnett, Thurs
day, January 81, and an oper
house for children, basketball
game and a dance at Hewes center
the same night.
Vance center has planned a full
program for Wednesday, Jan. 20
including an afternoon party fol
children, a basketball game in
the evening. pre-game party
card games and games in which
contestants will compete for
prizes.
Highlighting the weeks March
of Dimes activities of the de-
partment will be an "All Star
Benefit Show in the recreation
center on Princess street. Capt.
Louis Keith will act as master-of-
ceremonies for the show which
will include radio acts, hill-billy
music, comedy and many popular
local musicians.
The major event of the March
of Dimes" drive, locally, will be
held in the form Of a semi-formal
ball in the Cape Fear armory on
the night of January 81, with dane
ing starting at 9 o'clock.
Music for the affair will be fur
nished by the Camp Lejeune dance
band. The American Legion Post
No. 10 dance committee, Harry
Dosher, chairman, have charge OF
arrangements.
Tickets for the affair can be
purchased from members of the
committee and in local stores.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-01-27
STEEL OUTLOOK DARK

PITTSBURGH, Jan. 26.-UH-
Hope for an early settlement of the
great steel strike faded tonight af-
ter Philip Murray, president of the
CIO United Steel Workers, said he
had no idea what the next develop
ment might be.
The strike of $4,000 union mem
bers approached its seventh day
as Washington observers expected
new government pressure on the
steel industry to accept President
Humans wage formula of an 10
IL cents an hour increase.
The rejection of Mr.. Truman S
proposal by U. S. Steel Corp, was
the switch that threw the strike
machinery into action one minute
after midnight Sunday.
Murray prepared to leave for
Washington Sunday night, where he
will testify Tuesday before the
Senate Education and Labor COM
mittee.
At a news conference today, the
union leader said, Il have no plans
to see the President"
The strike has choked off 1900
600 tons of raw steel in six days,
caused wage loss to steel work.
ers' alone of $39,Oo0,OOo and has
idled a total of more than 900,0
workers in the steel industry and
allied fields. It's effect was still
spreading.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-01-27
WEATHER

IC0ntlnued From Page One)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2s.-(R-Weather
bureau report of temperature and rain
tall for the "a hours ending pan.:
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-01-27
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The Wilmington morning star., 1946-01-27
MEAT PACKING PLANT
STRIKERS EXPECTED
TO RETURN MONDAY
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NOo"eN FROM Page One)
A spokesman for Armstrong
said livestock could be started
into packing plants over the
weekend and ''by Monday we
should have a good volume of
operation, but not nearly 100
per cent"
Meantime, a fact finding
panel working all week in
Chicago on the meat strike con-
troversy finished its hearings.
Its chairman, DR.. Edwin E.
White of the University of Wis
consin, said the panel had
gathered ga great deal of valu-
able information in the shortest
possible time'' and believed it
could "reach a conclusion in
the shortest possible time"
Moving to Washington, the pane
Will study the testimony Monda,
and tuesday, meet with OPA of
lcials Wednesday and hear fina
Thursday. The Other
members are Judge Raymond W
Starr of the Michigan Supreme
court and Clark Kerr of the Uni
1ersity Of California.
If the parties can adjust this
natter before next Thursday. mo-
'aly the panel but the entire
country will be grateful to you,'
Dr.. Witte said.
A telegram from Secretary An
lerson to the leaders of both AFT
and CLIO unions played key role
n the CI0 reversal of ,c+io,o II
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-01-27
1t Happened Here:

The next time Elijah Jack
son, Negro, lilo North Second
street takes drink from a bot
Tie OF whiskey offered to him
by all unknown person he will
PROBABLY ask the price. Yester-
day morning, according to his
report to the police, he took a
drink from bottle owned by a
woman whom he knew only as
SISTER, Jackson claims after
ne had taken the drink, isis
ter" demanded a dollar. Upon
MS refusal to pay she stru ..
MN over the head with the bot
tie. jackson was treated for
decorations of the forehead at
James Walker Memorial hos
pltal and released.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-01-27
TO DEMAND RAISE

NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 26.-U.D-
The Textile Workers Union of
America (CIO) will demand a Is
cents an hour general wage in
crease and minimum of 70 cents
an hour from lat southern cotton
mills in which the union is the
bargaining agent, it was disclosed
today by local union officials.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-01-27
old AGE AID UP,
REPORT DISCL0SES

IA per cent. increase in the
.n,ber of old age assistance cases
Zinc ha handled by the county well
.sre department, combined with a
. .a of Al applications for assist
w.. nce which cannot be granted, due
T. insufficient funds, was revealed
~, J. R. Hollis, superintendent,
yesterday
Hollis has been notified by the
toto board of public welfare that,
s"e 10 statewide increase in the
prober of dependent old people,
4ha monthly allotment of state
t,nds cannot be increased.
The New Hanover superintendent
,;eclosed that the entire monthly
1ilotment is now in use; therefore,
. a Al applications cannot be aided.
Ne reported that 533 cases were
belped this month, an increase of
q, over the 483 handled during last
The marked increase was attri-
buted by Hollis to the following
factors;
The return of relatives of aged
narsons from the armed forces
resulting in the cessation of month
w allotnents. Many of these vet
.rans have not been able to find
omnloyment, or are making such
email salaries that they are unable
N more than support their i'm
mediate families.
During the emergency period and
consequent labor shortage, num-
ber Of elderly persons were en-
nIoved, but have since lost their
jobs. ..
explained to Hollis in the following
letter from R. Eugene Brown, di-
rector of public assistance.
Expenditures for old age as
sstance payments for the month
of January amounted to $469. 1000
which is $4,000 more than the total
allotted to the counties on month
" basis. For this reason it will
be necessary for each county to
STAY within its monthly allotment
in order to avoid the necessity of
having to terminate large num-
Der of grants, or to reduce grants
near the end of the fiscal year.
New applications for February
payments will have to be returned
to counties if the amount of new
applications would cause February
payments to exceed the monthly
allotment. No new applications or
revisions upward should be sub
mitted by counties if the monthly
allotment is now being entirely
used, or has been exceeded, until
such time as Examinations reduce
expenditures below present month
ly allotments.
"All counties should continue to
accept new applications and handle
them in accordance with the pro-
visions of the manual. Applications
from persons found to be eligible
should be approved and reported
statistically as applications ap-
proved but receiving no assistance"
if the county is now using all of
the monthly allotment Grants
should not be reduced in order to
provide grants for new applicants.
"As basis for making inquiry
as to the possibility of securing ad-
ditional funds for 1946-47, we are
asking that you submit on the at
tached form the following informa-
ton by January 81:
"1-Number of OAA applications
approved but receiving no assist
ance.
"2-Number of OAA applications
not approved by Board but already
known to be eligible.
''3-Number of OAA applications
pending investigation"
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-01-27

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The Wilmington morning star., 1946-01-27

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The Wilmington morning star., 1946-01-27
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approval of any wage increases the
fact-finding panel might recon-
mend.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-01-27
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Before World War II, the
average American bought about
three pairs of leather shoes an
nually.
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1946-02-01
Replace Our Shadow Mayor

Mayor William F. Devin is attempting some
thing which, if successful, would Guido splitting
of the atom as an achievement in physics. He
is trying to make a shadow succeed ITSELF
For nearly four years this gossamer-thin ecto-
plasm has sat in the mayors chair shrouded in
metaphysical fog, emerging in the flesh only
on rare occasions and only for long enough to
confirm the growing suspicious of our citizens
that he doesn't know what it's all about
Recently in fact, he admitted the truth of this
to the extent of rs per cent when, as a
plea for continued voter support, he argued that
his first three years on the job were spent in
getting the seat warm, at the expense of Seattle
taxpayers, and that if, now he should be dis
missed from the post by the citys electorate this
tuition, paid by the public for his education in
politics and government, would have to be written
off as total loss.
If it required three years for Devn to "get
the feel" of office, he must be even less respon-
sive to external stimuli than we suspected, and
we are led inevitably to speculation as to how
long he would have to sit on hot stove before
he learned it was hot.
Whatever else may be said in criticism of
Devin's record" all must admire his frankness.
When the head of great world port of half
million souls is so naive as to admit he is three
years behind the march of the people, the surge
of city toward it's destiny, there's little can be
done more than to send an ambulance and take
him to the nearest field hospital as casualty
He can't keep up with the marching columns.
Upon his taking office in 1912 Devin clustered
himself figuratvely on pallet of straw in
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1946-02-01
National Paradox

America has just fought and won war for the
liberation of oppressed peoples without thought
of conquest or material gain. She pours out bill
lions of dollars and millions of tons of food to
relieve misery and starvation in every corner
of earth
From our acts of generosity we may get the
idea that we have achieved very high degree
of civilization We are justly proud of ourselves
We are open-handed. We are our brothers
keeper In the parlance of the street, we are
soft touch"
But we shall hang Yamashita and shoot
Homma For the sake of variety, we shall prob
ably boil in oil the next top Japanese military
figure our trial agencies convict
So, just beneath our thin integument of civil
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1946-02-01
By Al VA r @

cation, we're pretty tough hombres, after all.
Diminishing for the moment the thought that
the world is trying to turn over new leaf, by all
the old rules of an eye for an eye and tooth for
tooth, stimulated by the sadistic demands of
retribution, Yamashita and Homma and other
misguided losers should die, we suppose They
permitted cruelties, even if they did not inspire
them and order their commission.
But has our vaunted sense of orderly justice
been erased from our national conscience by the
rough abrasives of war? Has our quality of mag
nanimity been purged as weak sentimentality?
It would, of course, be unthinkable to COM
pare events in the struggle between our North
and South with the embitterng trials in our war
with Japan; and it would be cruelty unjust to link
the atrociously treacherous Japanese with our
Southrons who were and race of noble men
who fought valantly for cause they believed
to be just.
But put them back as will, nevertheless
thoughts of our War Between the States and of
Grant and Lee and Appamattox come to mind.
Of the rifles left with defeated and humbled
enemy in order that they might shoot game and
live in devastated land. Of the mules sent home
with them in order that they might raise the
dawning seasons crops.
Of course, the Confederates did not practice
crueties, as did the japanese. But while the
South's war-prisoner camp at Andersonville was
in the general direction of present-day Miami
the luckleSS Northern soldiers there confined
to starve and die did not regard it as precisely
a pleasure resort; and Libby Prison probably
would have suffered by comparison with Palm
Springs caravansarai.
Recalling these prisoner peSt-holes would have
started a leader less humane than Ulysses S.
Grant on instant search for brick wall and
firing squad when the great General Robert E.
Lee handed over his sword
Grant returned the sword
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1946-02-01

the back door with the family groceries. In
stead of being greeted with sympathy, they were
met with brooms and mopsticks.
The average American housewife is a good
union man today. 1t will save American bust
ness lot of propaganda money if they remem
Der this tomorrow.