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Hartford chronicle., 1946-08-17
THEATRE
By OTIS iCAVRELL

Anna Lucasta so often respected as a play about Negro problems was originally conceived with Pol is h protagonists but Broadway .wise-guys figured that making the characters colored would offer more box office appeal
 Owen Dodson, up-coming Negro playwright will direct his own work 'tDivine Comedy" at Hamp- ton Institute.
 In Playwright as Thinker" young, brilliantly provocative Eric Bentley has formulated an aesthe- tic for modern dramatic criticism that disposes even of Eugene O. NeilPs regality with accusations ot exploiting the great"
 MT. O'Neill incidentally makes his long awaited - theatrical re- turn with his latest play "The Ice Man Cometh."
 Richard Wright is reported ir Paris where his works are being published in French.
 French dramatists following Jean-Paul Sartre are innovating z new play construction called Exist entialism. When asked what tn, enigmatic Existential theatre wa. Monsieur iSartre answered, "It i. what I make my living by."
 The movie ''The Last Chance (not trite enough to be la box of flee success) was produced il Switzerland. The plot follows tn travels of ansescaped English ant American soldier who with othe refugees of mixed nationalitie attempts to cross into neutra
Hartford chronicle., 1946-08-17
Best of Friends"
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 tone to a throaty low sob. She sets an impressive blue mood with
 Miss Holman's most effective her solo scene and song "The Par tvs Over"
 costumes are white terry cloth bathrobe and a bare-midrif white jersey Grecian evening gown.
 Both of them are striking against her ever-bronzed complex ion.
 MT. Rosenthals rather creaky plot has the standard marital and extra-marital involvements, lead ing to a particularly unbelievable ending. This ending may help the versatile young man out of play writing but it leaves the au- dience with let-down feeling. One hopes that this will be a ma jor revision before the show opens in New York, as is planned.
 tsThe Best of Friends" ran for an exceptionally successful week at the New England Mutual Play house and another such week at the Cambridge summer theatre. It was produced here by John Huntington and Lee Falk, and staged by Rex O'Malley.
Hartford chronicle., 1946-08-17

Switzerland. Interesting in con- ception is the character of the CT who is attributed Gin European eyes) typical American traits, that is to say, he is of course naive, but r.e ertheless good hear:ed. Euro peans are shocked at the idea of American culture.
Evening star., 1946-03-10

the safe to block of high explosive ur-
der some debris. When the engineers
had examined the building, they found
still another BOBBY trap concealed in
side the safe.
we got the safes and equipment back
to headquarters without much difficulty
but getting the safes opened provided
real headache. We advertised for anv
and all safecrackers on the island to
try their skills. A few amateur Jimmy
Valentines showed up, but most of them
Millions of Yen
Left Behind by Japs
1--WE finally had to call upon the en-
gineers to blow the safes for us. When
the safes were opened we stood amazed.
There were millions of yen left behind
by the Japs!"
Similar caches were found in two
other banks captured by the Ameri-
cans, the Bank of Taiwan and the Postal
Savings Bank. Among the documents
captured by 9th Division troops were
Japanese Army payrolls with ready cur
rency to cover them.
The two officers were faced with the
problem of counting and moving the
captured currency, and for several days
they slept fitfully in the wealthiest
surroundings on the island, the walls of
their finance Office lined with 1000, 1000
American dollars and more than 9,000,-
600 Japanese yen.
While the battle for the hills behind
Garapan progressed. Maj Price found
a tlve-room farmhouse with a concrete
kitchen that had been used as a storm
shelter by former tenants. The farm
house became a beehive of financial
activity.
Evening star., 1946-03-10
Higher Pay Proposed
ToKeepG

expenses. Chief justices in PENNSYLVANIA
earn $4,000 and associate justices
$l9,50o yearly.
Chief Justice Stone of the United
States Supreme Court receives $40 500
annually and the associate justices
$4,000. Justice Stone actually receives
$1,000 less than the chief justice of New
York, and only $500 more than a Justice
in Pennsylvania. The same mathe-
matics apply to the associate justices
of the Supreme Court.
Two States Pay More
For Comparable Work
Federal Circuit Court judges receive
sl2,500 a year while New Fork jurists
are paid $1,000, and Pennsylvania
judges $4,000 for doing similar work.
United States District Court judges
get $4,000 annually. Comparable posi-
tions in New York are worth $4,000
yearly, from $1,000 to $4,000 in Penn
sylvania and $4,000 in Massachusetts,.
All down the line, the men who pass
on the law for the Nation come second
to thoses who do similar tasks for GER
tain States.
Retired English jurists, in similar po-
sitions, receive higher pensions than all
United States judges, except those of
the Supreme Court.
British jurists. retiring after IS years
OF service, receive 900 annually if
they were Lords of Appeal in Ordinary
tsimilar to associate jutices of the Su-
preme Court and $4,000 yearly if they
Evening star., 1946-03-10

were justices of appeals Oike Circuit
Court judges or jurists of the High
Court of Justice District Court judges.
Evaluating the English pound at 81,
the Lord Chancellor earns S40, 900 yearly.
He receives $4,000 of this for services
as Speaker of the House of Lords and
$4,000 for his judicial duties
Lords of Appeal in Ordinary earn
$4,000 annually, 81 900 year more than
our Supreme Court associate justices.
British Lord Justices of Appeals and
judges of the High Court of Justice re-
ceive $4,000 yearly. This is $500 and
$4,000 more than their respective equals
in the United States.
Twenty years have gone by since Con-
gress last raised the salaries of its Fed
eral judges. In that time corresponding
positions have steadily increased in in
come. In addition the salaries of Fed
eral judges have since been held taxable.
In 1873 compensation for the Chief
Justice and Associate Justices of the
Supreme Court was fixed at slO5O0 and
$4,000 annually. In 1903 the salaries
were raised to $4,000 and 1880 yearly,
and eight years later to $4,000 and
sl4,5oo. The present rate was set in
1926.
Circuit Court judges were compen-
sated at $4,000 year in 1869, 81 900 in
1908, $500 in 1919 and s12,5oo from
1926 on. District Court jurists earned
$4,000 annually in 1891, $4,000 in 1903,
$500 in 1919 and the present scale of
$4,000 in 1926.
The Revenue Act Of 1892 provided
that salaries of judges who took Office
Evening star., 1946-03-10

Parcel post service to China
has been resumed and buSi-
ness is picking up in this San
Francisco Chinese postal Sta
tion, the only one of its kind
in America.
Guiding the cities of Gorilla, Trieste and
Pola.
The following articles may be included
In gift packages: Foods. of the nom
perishable variety, including coffee;
wearing apparel including shoes; soap,
medicinals Qess quinine) and surgical
dressings.
Not to be shipped are: Written and
printed matter, perishable foods, sac
charine and saccharine products and
products under State monopoly control,
viz: Tobacco in any form, cigarette
lighters, lighter fluids, matches, flint,
salt and quinine.
Poland
Although duties are not levied, a small
customs examination fee is charged.
A nominal delivery fee is paid by the
addressee. Recipients are not required
to surrender ration coupons for rationed
commodities.
All items for personal use may be
sent with the exception of guns, am
munition, drugs medicine and alcohol.
Tobacco is limited to so grams Zap
proximately It's ounces or so cigar
cites.
Norway
Gift shipments of food and used
clothing weighing up to II pounds will
be admitted free of import duties and
taxes until March 81. There is no OBJ
lection to other articles being shipped
subject to acceptance at the discretion
OF customs officials, according to a no.
tice from the Department of Com
merce.
Greece
Addresses are not required to pay
import duties or taxes, obtain import
licenses or surrender ration coupons for
goods contained in gift packages.
Evening star., 1946-03-10

Gift packages for overseas
shipment should be securely
and substantially wrapped.
Improperly 1Orapped packages,
such as those sho1o1 aboUe in
the "hospitaP of the City Post
Office during pre-ChristmaS
rush require special and de-
laying handling.
Star stan Photo.
Chahar. There is as yet no parcel post
service to Manchuria. Parcels are sent
at the sender's risk. There is no insur-
ance service available.
Generally parcels may not exceed 18
inches in length or go inches in length
and girth combined. In certain cases
when 1t is known that steamer or rail
facilities are available to the destina-
ton, dimensions may be increased to
AZ inches in length. or "a inches in
length and girth combined.
There is no provision for special Gus
toms treatment of gift packages. Gifts
dAc uutidulc III lNe same manner as
commercial shipments. 1t is believed
that Chinese customs authorities con-
tinue to follow prewar practice and
permit duty-free admission of articles
on which the duty amounts to less
than approximately 81.
Hungary
Gift parcels do not require import
licenses and generally are admitted
duty-free in Hungary. They may con-
tain foodstuffs, clothing, and other COM
modities for personal use of the re-
ceiver, with the exception of certain
state monopoly articles, such as salt,
tobacco, and saccharin. A low con-
sumption tax is imposed upon certain
items, notably sugar, meat, and canned
hsh. Coffee and tea are limited as to
the quantity admitted duty free. Only
four or five parcels may be received per
year at one address.
Evening star., 1946-03-10

The Ueight limit for parcel
post to liberated European
countries is II pounds per
package, and only one pack
age may be accepted each
week from the same sender
to the same addresSee. Above,
parcel post packages being
Weighed at Washington post .
office. Star stan Photo.
ration coupons. No transmission and
luxury taxes are collected, If the pack
age is bona f1de gift.
Italy
The italian government is not collect
ing duty on gift parcels. Service has
been resumed to Vatican City State,
Sicily, Sardinia and the mainland ex-
cluding the provinces of Fiume, lara,
Gorilla, Trieste and Pola, but not ex-
Evening star., 1946-03-10

Toilet preparations, tooth brushes,
dentifrices. ETC., are exempted from all
duties and pertinent charges, provided
the amount OF duties and import charges
normally do not exceed 81.
Sweden
Articles both old and new, including
secondhand clothing and footwear are
dutiable at the reduced rate of IS per
cent OF the cost-insurance-f freight value
which means its actual value, plus ship
ping charges. The recipient must certify
that contents of packages are intended
for his own use and not for commercial
purposes.
Some foods, including honey, spices,
chocolate, candy, canned goods Except
canned vegetables are subject to i'm
port license.
Fire
There is no provision granting any
special customs treatment for gift pack
ages. They are not subject, however, to
quota restrictions applied to certain
commercial shipments. Duty rates are
based on cost-insurance-freight value
Gifts of tobacco can be received only
If the recipient presents an import lie
ense, which may be obtained by ad-
dreSsee after arrival of packages. A
minimum duty of about so cents is COL
lected on each individual class of duti-
able goods contained in one package
Except bound books, novels and religi-
Gus books. The duty has been sus-
pended in the case of foodstuffs sent as
gifts. There is also a clearance fee of
about 10 cents on each package contain
ing dutiable goods.
Czechoslovakia
Gift packages are exempted from
import duties and licenses until the
end of 1916. Foodstuffs, clothing, sta
tionery, sewing materials and toilet
articles may be sent. Luxury items and
jewelry are prohibited. Contents must
be for personal use. Ration coupons
need not be surrendered for rationed
commodities. Coffee, tobacco. spices
and tea are limited as to quantity.
Denmark
According to the Department of Com
merce, gift packages are now subject to
import duties and taxes Secondhand
articles for INDECENT families and articles
for charity institutions are admitted
duty-free.
Palestine
All articles sent as gifts are generally
subject to regular customs duties. How
ever, used clothing of wool, linen or cot
ton may be imported at a reduced duty
of less than 2 cents per pound. Articles
not intended for resale imported by
religious, educational, scientific and
charitable organizations are, as a rule,
admitted free of duty. Books, news
papers and periodicals to any addressee
are duty free. Limit of weight is %
pounds.
China
Parcel post service to China has been
resumed to all of China proper except
the provinces Of Shansi, suiyuan, and
Evening star., 1946-03-10

Capt. Salley said. THE first of these
the Bank of Taiwan-was leveled. OF
the other two, the Bank of Garapan had
been the scene of violent fire fight
and there were dead japanese in all the
various rooms.
1T seemed little strange that there
was no money in sight. Naturally we
were tempted to search the safes, but
the invitation was little too obvious.
One OF our men took cautious look.
Sure enough, it was booby-trapped
There was wire, little thicker than
thread, running from the handle of
Evening star., 1946-03-10

THAT was rugged trip" Capt. Salley
said.
I'VE certainly got a thunderous re-
ception to Saipan'
Captured Banks Found
Full of Booby Traps
snipers were still being blasted from
Garapan's cellars and garrets when
intelligence reports advised the finance
officers that the city's banks, strong
points OF Japanese resistance, had been
taken.
There were three banks in the town" !"
Evening star., 1946-03-10
Yankee Dollar 1nvades Saipan Along With Army

fWhereDer Uncle Sans armed
forces Uent in World War II, the
Yankee dollar 1Uent ,Dith them. This
1Dds not dlways an easy job for the
Army's finance department. As an
example OF its operations, this story
by an Army staff ,ortter tells for the
FIRST time details OF our monetary in
DaSion OF Saipan.)
BY Sergt. Thomas Dundon
Written for the Assoeiofed Press
r APANESE planes circled overhead
like multi-horsepowered vultures
hungry for the kill The LIST
y shuddered to the thunderous hic-
coughing of ack-ack batteries in its
gun tubs
Maj. David S. Price of Douglas, Ga,
strained his eyes to make out the dark
blob rising out of the horizon ahead.
Saipan! On D plus 5!
What a place to get caught with
million dollars in cash!
AS LIST and crewmen fought for life,
Maj. Prices eye wandered apprehen-
sively from the attacking planes to tar
paulin-covered ammunition boxes on the
deck containing bags of glittering new
coins and neat bundles of crisp American
bills.
LISTS Split Cargo
Of 2 Million Dollars
Behind him on another LIST was Capt
Jack A. Salley of Gulfport, Miss, with
another million dollars. The Army's
finance department had split the
$2,000,000 cargo as a form of insurance
In case either of the LISTS was sunk.
Coughboys of the Army's 9th Infantry
Division, engaged in wrestling the island
from the Japanese, had a payday COM
Ing soon and one of the responsibilities
OF the two officers was to make sure
the Army met its obligations to its men.
Seven days before the island was
declared secured" Capt. Saley recalled,
most of the troops were paid"
Maj. Price was ashore and had set
up a temporary finance Office in what
was left of a Garapan schoolhouse
when the LIST carrying Capt. Salley
and the second million dollars wallowed
ashore at the height OF q Japanese
air raid.
Evening star., 1946-03-10

The Lord Chancellor, Sir
William JoaDitt (shown carry-
ing the purse for the Great
Seal of England) is paid S40,-
900 yearly, tDice as much as
the salary of Chief Justice
Stone of the United States
Supreme Court.
Wide World Photo
after its enactment might be included
in gross income for Federal income tax
purposes.
The Supreme Court upheld the con-
stitutionality of this in 1899 in the case
of OMalley VS.. Woodrough. The court
ruled that 'the application of a general
and nom discriminatory income tax to
the salary of judge who took office
after the passage of the taxing statute
was not a diminution of compensation
within the meaning of the Constitution"
The Public Salary Act of 1899 extended
the tax to those judges who took oface
before 1882.
Taxes Make Inroads
On Stabilized Salary
Attorney General Clark believes these
taxes represent a cut in salary that
Congress has not yet adjusted He also
points out that the Public Salary Tax
Act Of 1889 provided Government con-
sent to taxation of 'its employees and
officers salaries by local taxing authori-
ties" In effect, this opens judicial SAL
aries to State and even city taxation.
Congress now has before it proposed
salary scales for Federal judges that
authorities cognizant of the situation
believe, can be used to entice leading
lawyers to the bench and to keep out
standing judges on it.
The scales provide annual wages as
follows: Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court, SIC, 500; Associate Justices of the
Supreme Court, $4,000; judges of the
Circuit Courts of Appeals. s22,5o0, and
judges OF District Courts, 10000.
Available figures indicate 1se Fed
eral judges and 94 United States at
torneys would be affected Assuming an
average of 5000 in salary increase
would be passed for the 283 men in
volved, the total sum to be appropriated
by Congress would be less than 81 500 900.
Big-Money Farmers
Found Best Qualified
The Attorney General is convinced the
proposed salary scales would be effec-
tive in keeping able men on the Federal
bench. He noted recently that some
people had criticized the appointment of
lawyers who had made big money by
representing large corporations.
1T Is almost impossible to find a really
capable person to take Federal Judge
ship unless he has already made money
working for large corporation" Mr..
Clark declared. The alternative In
either men of lesser caliber or of mex
perience"
If Government wants a man to de-
vote his career to its service, she must
take care financially of the people who
do so. We should always have the
highest type of man on the bench, one
who can be independent because he is
not worried by economic conditions.
Raising salaries will assure the mainte-
nance of our present high quality Of
men administering justice in our Fed
eral courts"
Evening star., 1946-03-10
Saipan Converts Fast
From Yen to Dollars

Posters in Japanese and Korean ex-
planned the exchange value of yen cur
rency to civilians in the internment
camp. Soon long queues of civilians
appeared to convert their yen into
American cash at rate of cents
each. the standard previously deter
mined by the Treasury Department.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-16
QUOTATIONS

Although in March we thought it was not
possible to prevent famine, there is now no
mass starvation on earth. - Herbert Hoover,
Chairman Emergency Famine Relief Board.
When acouple marry. not two people but
eight people stand before the alter. There is
the intellectual person, the social temperament,
the physical being and the spiritual creature
in each party to the marriage. Each must
maintain harmony with the other in all these
aspects of personality. - Methodist Bishop
Schuyler Garth of Madison, Wis.
If the IS, 900, 900 holders of government sec
urities can be made conscious of their power,
they can become infinitely more forceful and
influential than any pressure groups this
country has known. Emil Schram, presi-
dent New York Stock Exchange
There is a field of opportunity for women in
local affairs. They must be interested in all
community problems, but there are some they
are better able to deal with, such as education
hospital service and infant and child welfare
Alice Bacon, British MP
Growing effectiveness in the United Nations
will logically be by a step-by.
step reduction in the resources we are now
compelled to devote to our security. - Gen.
era1 Eisenhower.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-16

mass Of military personnel and civilians
amounting to more than q, 000,0 900 per-
sons. 1t was as though the entire popu-
lation of the States of New York, New
Jersey and Pennsylvania had picked up
and settled elsewhere in the space OF
three years.
From Pearl Harbor Day to March,
1915, Uncle Sam called 10000 900 men
and women from their homes for mill
tary service in the United States and
in other lands. During that same period,
Is, 900, 900 civilians left their homes,
more or less by choice, and pushed out
into other counties and into other
States"
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-16
Pershing Rings The Bell

General John J. Pershing at sc has
the same indomitable spirit with which
he guided his American Expeditionary
Forces to victory in Europe in World
War I. Celebrating his birthday at
Walter Reed hospital in Washington
on Saturday, BLACK Jack" as he was
affectionately known in the years of
his active military career, issued a state
ment at the request of the Army and
Navy Journal, in which he repeated the
position he took as that other war drew
to a close in 1918.
He stood out then for ending the
conflict in Berlin. Now he says, "had we
dictated our terms in Berlin and brought
home the suffering of occupation to the
German people, and, at the same time,
had maintained a respectable posture of
defense on land and sea and in the air."
the victory would have insured peace.
Now, he adds, we have again learned
that preparedness is the guardian of
peace, particularly in the age of the
atomic bomb and guided missiles. . i"
He grows trite, perhaps, in adding:
LET us not forget this important lesson,
but observe it with national unity, so
that u future shall be secure in peace
and our influence effective in stopping
aggressors from daring to impose their
will upon humanity" But, trite or not,
it is a clear statement of our national
and effective influence
against agressors.
1t is not hard to believe that the aged
hero of World War l was thinking of
the conditions that have existed since
the fighting stage of World War II end
ed, during which Russia has become an
aggressor state and our influence in
bringing the world back to peace has
steadily waned.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-16

WASHINGTON, Sept. Is up =
High tariff policies advocated in a
number of foreign countries are
complicating United States plans %
lower prewa- trade barriers, gov
eminent officials said Sunday.
Several nations seeking to in
dustrialize have made it plain that.
while favoring the United States
approach to the problem, they feel
a need for high tariffs to protect
their new industries.
Since American trade proposals
center around the simultaneous
cutting of tariffs by all countries.
American government trade ex-
perts acknowledge their task ap-
pears more difficult than first con-
templated.
The United States has learned Of
the hish-tar-iff attitude Of various
countries through recent confer
ences held by State department
commercial experts with trade
representatives OF otner govern
ments.
Although officials decline to iden-
tify the nations that expressed such
sentiments, it is known that coun-
tries like Brazil, Mexico, Chile, In
dia and Australia have industriliza-
ton programs under way or blue
printed.
These authorities say that some
foreign countries point to the record
of the American government as a
high tariff nation and tell Amer
lean officials, in effect, that the
United States has denied any such
motive and has pointed to its more
recent record in providing financial
and technical assistance abroad.
The American government als"
has emphasized to these countries,
official ssay, that it realizes their
new industries will need economic
protection but asks that they con-