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Evening star., 1947-03-27

never thought to find, no matter
how fantastic his imagination, that
Olsen and johnson and Mr.. White
played In the same league.
But the Laugh Foundation, which
sounds madly amusing when you
call 1t by its name, does have a sort
of leg to stand on. The slapstick
Of the comedy pair and the quiet
wit of Author White do make people
laugh, but pretty muc:l In the diff
ferent ways that having lived 100
years or being hit with an atom
bomb makes them dead.
They simply cannot be put to-
gether except on an alphabetical
list by an organization which calls
itself the Laugh Foundation.
n \ X Il
II the foundation is trying to
find out at which type of laugh
maker gets us, that Is simple. White
is our man. But we don't think
of him as a laugh-maker, for all
the couple Of decades in which he
has contributed so utally to making
life more amusing, bearable, or ln-
derstandable.
It is inconceivable that he ever
sat down at his typewriter in New
York, or In the middle Of a snow
storm in Maine, and told himself
Evening star., 1947-03-27

brook Pegler and Mrs. Roosevelt
laughing together over cocktails at
the Stork Club.
X r
1t is downright supplying to find
oneself confronted suddenly by the
request to make a choice between
Olsen and johnson, the comic team,
and E. B. White of the New Yorker.
Until the Hulnor Hall OF Fame
ballot came along, it Is inconceiva-
BILE that any one ever thought to
compare Olsen and johnson and
the philosopher wit Of America.
The sensation it produces Is like
no other sensation one has ever
known.
As to what the sensation is like, a
man cannot even describe it to him
self. He can only say lamely that
it is like being asked quickly which
he would prefer, being hit in the
face with live chicken or in the
mind with an idea.
Nothing in human experience fits
a man for such a moment. He
Evening star., 1947-03-27

man just gives UP IN despair and
throws everything into the waste
basket. The only rational excep-
ton is the envelope addressed in
ink and written in what seems to
be a dainty feminine hand.
That last observation may seem
ungrateful to the typewriter people
without whom these words certain
ly would not be written, but even
they must face the facts of life.
But, to get back to the National
Laugh Week Foundation, even a
man who threw away its previous
literature is halted In his wind-up
by its latest piece.
This one is in the form of a bal
lot. 1t contains a. long, alphabetical
listing of names from which Sc
lected list of voters is to choose
"25 all-time all-American comedians
and humorists."
The names on the list must give
any man pause. Politics, at the
peak of their frenzied workings,
never produced a stranger assort-
ment Of bed-fellows. In a way, the
list itself is funnier than anything
ever produced by the laugh-makers
nominated for what seems to be q
humor hall Of fame.
Why is this? Well. it is because
it couples names with an appalling
kind of incongruity, somewhat as if
a drunken gossip columnist reported
he had seen Tommy Manville, West
Evening star., 1947-03-27

that what he was about to do will
kill EN-" From what we gather OF
him, White detests loud noises, of
which laughter Of certain kinds can
be the most detestable. Even under
laughing gas, it is unthinkable that
he might get the notion that living
was q mirthful matter.
There probably are men who take
life more seriously, even though he
can wiring a wry laugh out Of it for
himself and his fellow man in his
contemplation of 1t. We have not
read their writings. or heard them
Evening star., 1947-03-27

from = pulpit, stage or a radio stu
dio, however.
In none Of this sort Of meditation
is there anything that eases the
shock Of finding Olsen and johnson
on the same ballot with White.
The only worse shock the numbed
mind can imagine at the moment is
that when the votes are counted, O.
and J. will be elected, or at least
come closer to II.
It is in the vane hope Of avoiding
just such a disaster to taste this
voter spurns the Laugh Foundations
Evening star., 1947-03-27
From Lift to Fame
BY the Associated Press

HOLLYWOOD.
Still another joins the ranks of
stars whose rise to fame literally
includes whatever lift may come
from serving as an elevator girl.
Newest Of the ex-lift lassies Is Betty
Garrett, signed by MGM as a result
Of her hit role in Broadway's Call
Me Mister" Betty, the wife of
Larry c'The Jolson Story") Parks,
was operating an elevator in Seattle,
Wash, when she won a scholarship
to study in the Neighborhood Play
house in New York City.
Evening star., 1947-03-27
This Humor Hall Of Fame Group
Asks the Funniest Questions
BY Jay Carmody

communications which probably should been
wastebaske National Laugh
daton explained it well to the motives
organization
Evening star., 1947-03-27
Where and When |
Current Theoter Attractions
and Time Of Showing

and lime OF showing
Stage.
National-"The Iceman Cometh"::
7:30 pm.
Capitol-"Swell Guy; II am,
1:45, 4:30, tbs and 10 pm. Stage
shows; 1880, 3:35, $40 and 9:05
pm.
Columbia - Boomerang; HAS
am, 1:45, $40, $40, 7:35 and $40
pm.
Earle-"Johnny O'Clock; 11:15
am, 1:20, 1925, $50, 7:35 and $40
pm.
Hippodrome - Lies Miserables";;
2:05, 4:05, 6, 8 and 9:55 pm
Keith's-"The Best Years Of Our
Lives; 9:15 am, 1920, 3:25, $50,
and 9:35 pm.
Little-"Henry the Fifth; 2:30
and $3.50 pm.
Metropolitan Framed: 11:40
am, 1:40, $40. $40, TAO and 9:45
pm.
Palace-"My Favorite Brunette;
11:20 q m. LIS, $3.50, 5:35, TAO and
9:45 pm.
Pix - "Bargekeepers Daughter; !;
sos, 5:35, 7:55 and 1925 pm.
Trans-Lux News and shorts.
Continuous from 1915 am.
Evening star., 1947-03-27

offer to vote for IS candidates on
the ballot.
Instead, he casts all as Of his votes
for Candidate White. even though
he knows they won't be counted.
Evening star., 1947-11-30
Death of Marshall Plan Held
Reds Aim in France and Italy

Middle of the road FTeitchmen
say the strikes are ordered by the
Cominform and are intended to
weaken France to a point where
communism can take over.
Labor Unity Endangered.
But If the strikes are intended to
wreck the country's economy, they
also are endangering the unity Of
the country's labor movement as
represented by the General Confed-
Grafton of Labor.
The Workers Force" which con-
trolls IA national unions has ap-
pealed to n-Communists to re-
main on their JOBS. 1t Withdrew
its adherents from the striking
postal, telegraph and telephone
union.
The Syndicalist Action Commit
tee, which originally founded the
General Confederation of Labor,
split with the Communist leader
ship in the organization, declar-
ing this was "a strike to enslave the
working class to the Eastern bloc"
The passive resistance to strike
orders within the ranks of labor
is a minority movement, however.
Meanwhile, damage is being done.
About 10000 tons of sorely needed
coal are going unmined every day.
Thousands of tons of food are being
left to spoil for lack of transporta-
ton to market Bread shops in
Paris announced they would be out
of flour by Monday. The Minister
Of Production, Robert La Coste, said
the capital would be without coal
TO provide electricity by Tuesday.
Mr.. La Coste. said the strikes were
a progressive paralysis of the
French economy"
20 to 25 Per Cent Raises Asked.
Workers on strike include rail-
waymen, longshoremen, seamen,
truck drivers, metal. automobile,
chemical, textile, leather, pottery,
pharmaceutical and building work.
ers, flour millers, coal miners, gas
works employees, coal handlers,
postal, telegraph and telephone en-
ployes and schoolteachers.'
They are demanding pay increases
ranging from 20 to Is per cent and
revisions upward every three months
| it the cost of living continues to
rise.
The Communist journals wage
open attacks on the United States
One bit of propaganda passed
around from mouth to mouth
from taxidriver to doorman to
elevator operator-is that the United
Evening star., 1947-11-30
Miller, Recreation Board
To Inspect Fairgrounds

Chairman Miller Of the House
District Subcommittee on Health,
Education and Recreation, will ac-
company the District Recreation
Board on an inspection of play
grounds Tuesday.
The group will start at $50 from
the recreation Office to look over
improvements made to playground
facilities during the past year. They
will visit the following Fairgrounds
Hamilton, Banneker, Watts Branch,
Ridge, Lincoln, Gallinger, Chevy
Chase, Happy Hollow and Kaloralna
Besides board members and Mr.
Miller, the group will include Wal
ter L. Fowler, District budget Of
fficer; Irving c. Root, superintend-
ent of National Capital Parks and
Thoms G. Jeffers, representing the
National Capital Park and Planning
Commission.
Evening star., 1947-11-30

united the parties Of the center anc
right on foreign policy.
They are not SO united on domes.
tic policy.
Government of Action Pledged
AS he walked into Elysee Palace
to present his cabinet to President
Vincent Auriol, Mr.. Schuman sale
his would be a government of actor
and few words. After one week, he
had:
/. Arrested 10 Soviet citizens and
reported them for interfering In
Frances internal affairs"
2. Discharged 66 police commits
sioners because OF their political
views, apparently fearing Com
munist control of the police.
3. Asked the National Assembly tc
dissolve II of the IS national guard
companies in France because theil
intentions were unreliable"
4. Agreed to grant $12 month
increase to workers as an "indem-
nifty" to meet the cost of living.
S. Summoned more men to the
army.
6. Asked for a new national de-
tense" law to curb strike agitation
advocacy of violence and sabotage
7. Threatened to use force il
necessary to break the strike. Cen
trist leaders began hoping that Mr.
Schuman would prove strong enough
to end the strikes without being
obliged to use force.
If he did not succeed, these lead
ers knew there was one man left tc
whom they could turn. His name Il
De Gaulle. Many Frenchmen die
not want to go that far, but they
Evening star., 1947-11-30
War Stress Is Subject
OF Medical Meetino

The reaction of the human body
and its various organs to the stress
Of war will be the subject OF three
day conference this week at the
Army Medical Center.
The symposium on military phsy-
iology which begins Thursday, is
expected to attract outstanding SCI
entists in the armed forces and in
civilian research work.
1t will be carried on as a regional
meeting of the American Physiolog-
ical Society, whose members, stu
dents and associates have been in
vited to attend.
The opening session at 1890 am.
Thursday will present research ac-
tivities in nine Army, Air Force and
Navy laboratories.
Maj. Gen. Raymond w. Bliss,
Army Surgeon General, and Maj
Gen. A. H. Watt, chief of Chemical
Corps, will speak of the part played
Evening star., 1947-11-30

down on reaching agreement for a
unified Germany.
There is only one important fore
ign policy for France to follow to-
day." a spokesman for the Radical
Socialist Party declared. THAT is
France must look to the United
States"
That opinion seems to have
Evening star., 1947-11-30
BY the Assoeioted Press

PARIS, Nov. pa cold civil
war" Is being waged in France by
the Communist Party. which Is
openly attacking the government
and the national economy by in
stigating a wave of strikes which so
far has affected at least 100000
workers.
There have been shots fired in
Marseille and tear gas bombs ex-
ploded by police in the streets OF
lyon, but so far the civil strife has
been confined principally to bare
fists and night sticks.
But in anticipation that the
battle for political power might turn
into a hot and bloody conflict, the
government has modified the equiv
alent of Is divisions into the regular
army and the forces of the interior.
That means that about 100000 men
have left their jobs to carry arms.
Their first task may be the policing
of railway yards, mines, seaports
and factories.
Premier Robert Schuman today
asked the National Assembly to give
him strong powers for six months to
deal with sabotage and with govern
ment employees in nationalized in
dustries who advocate or provoke
violence.
Marshall Plan Seen Target.
In turn the Communist press de-
clared tine republic is in danger"
warned of rightist coup and COM
pared the situation to that when
Napoleon III came to power.
While one sharp armed clash con-
ceivably could precipitate open civil
warfare, political observers, both
French and foreign, were convinced
the Communicated strikes were in
tended to drown the Marshall plan
in France and Italy by preventing
the recovery of the two nations
Followers of Gen. Charles. de
Gaulle, whose new French Peoples
Party showed itself the strongest
single party in France III the mu-
nicipal elections last month, believe
the strikes also are intended to bring
their chief into government leader
ship by forcing the political leaders
in the center to admit their failure
The DeGaullists think the Com
munists hope to force a showdown
with the General during the dreary
winter months ahead when condi-
tions may be the most difficult. The
DeGaullists admit they would rather
wait until Spring before trying to
come to power.
Evening star., 1947-11-30

States is an enemy OF France and Is
trying to rebuild Germany.
The independent L'Intransigent
said the government could put
400 900 men into action Immediately
to meet a Communist revolution.
The Communist Party now claims
100000 members.
Premier Schuman who came to
power a week ago appointed Georges
Bidault, his old colleague in the
Popular Republican Party, as
foreign minister. Mr. Bidault is ex-
pected to join Britain and the
United States in proposing West
ern German state if the Foreign
Ministers Council in London breaks
Evening star., 1947-11-30

by their respective services in re-
search in the field Of physiology.
Fridays session will take UP the
work being done at 10 leading uni
versities, with military support, in
the study of breathing and respira-
tory problems.
The closing session will be de-
voted to physiological research be-
ing conducted by other Government
agencies and civilian laboratories.
Evening star., 1947-11-30

wanted coal in their bins, food In
theft cupboards.
While the theological struggle
represented by East and West was
being fought out in France. the man
in the street trudged grimly down
snowcovered walks and buttoned up
his collar. There was a cold wind
blowing from the east.
Evening star., 1947-11-30

HARBOR POLICE TO THE "RESCUE"-When a tugpoat cap
tain sighted body floating in the Georgetown Channel
terday rushed to the Lifting it gently
aboard the policemen found it the weldressed dummy
by Corp Arnold Jackson left and Sergt Roy A.
The dummy GI trousers brown shoes and
jacket reposed last night the Harbo Police dock pend
ing dentifcation Star Staff Photo
Evening star., 1947-11-30

Nitrogen, being a nearly inert gas
is useful as a kind of guardian in
many industrial applications to give
protection against some chemical re-
actions.
The Omaha guide., 1947-12-20
Lubricate That Car

Have your cars chassis COM
pletely fabricated by your dealers
fabrication man to insure use Of the
right fabrication in the right
amount in the right places.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-09-10

groups National Council on Admin
istration for Action.
In the prediction session, the
delegates deviated from the VFW's
previous hard and fast stand
against any moves for increased
immigration. Instead, an approved
resolution said the group opposes
proposed revision of United States
immigration laws at this time"
until housing and employment prob
lens for the present population
are eased
Another resolution asked that an
Americanism division be set up
within the State Department to con-
duct a program Ito indoctrinate the
American people in the Nations
history, traditions and ideals"
Delegates also authorized VFW
sponsorship of model airplane clubs
and shows for youths throughout
the Nation and directed that paid
director establish the Program. 1t
will be patterned after the model
air show held in Washington during
July, under the joint sponsorship OF
The Washington Star and the Dis
trict of Columbia department OF
VFW, officials said
After a heated debate for more
than an hours time, delegates voted
to meet next year at st. Louis. The
convention will be held from August
20 through September 3.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-09-10
By the Asseeidted Press

CHICAGO, Sept. 10.-A Nobel
Prize scientist said today a
worldwide and persistent misuse
of atomic energy could ultimate
ly destroy the human gene
system and result in the disap-
pearance of mankind for hun
dreds OF millions Of years-if not
forever.
He also maintained an atom bomb
killing 100, 900 persons in large city
would plant hundreds of thousands
of minute. delayed action time
bombs" in the germ cells of the sur
vivors resulting in a scattering of
hundreds of thousands of deaths
from now on through the very dis
tant future"
The observations were made by
DR.. H. j. Muller, professor Of 70
ology at Indiana University, who was
awarded the Nobel prize in medi-
cine and physiology last year for
discovering that gene mutations
(changes) can be produced by x
rays. .-
Genes are the tiny essential par
ticles in all living things which,
when transmitted from parents to
children, make the offspring what
he Is. Genes are the heredity
elements that cause children to
resemble their parents in some
respects.
Another scientist, Prof. Edward A.
Shils Of the University of Chicago,
said that unless an international
atomic agreement Is reached soon,
the United States should withdraw
from the United Nations Atomic
Energy Commission and try for a
solution directly between President
Truman, Premier Stain and Prime
Minister Attlee.
Prof Shils, who also is a reader
in sociology at the London School
of Economics, advocated that the
United States undertake $50, 000,-
100000 program of economic aid to
the Soviet Union and other countries.
Both statements were made in
the Bulletin Of the Aatomic Scien-
lists.
DR. Muller said that after a
hundred thousand or so generations
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-09-10
Frederick ). Warren,
NAM Official, Dies

Frederick s. Warren, 48, an off,
cial OF the Washington office of
the National Association of Manu-
facturers, died yesterday at Episco-
pal Hospital after long illness.
A native Of Ohio, he came to
Washington six years ago after 20
years as a staff member of the
Denver Post. While with that pa
per he was leader in the organi-
zation of the Denver Newspaper
Guild and served a term as its
president. For many years he COW
cred the State House in Denver
for the Post.
He originally moved to Colorado
for health reasons, after illness
forced him to withdraw from West
Point following his first year there.
Before joining the NAM, he did
public relations work with the Fed
eral Home Loan Bank Administra-
ton and the National Housing
Agency.
He was member of the Ma
tional Press Club and during the
war had served with the volun-
teer Potomac River Patrol. He
lived at 1900 F street NV.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Jan
Warren; a brother. Robert Warren,
New York City, and his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick H. War
rem, Fostoria. Ohio.
Funeral services will be held In
Jestoria tomorrow afternoon.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-09-10

nations lined up behind the Mar
shall plan estimated they will need
$21 200, 10000 from the United
States in the next four years to
spend abroad for food and the
means to produce it.
81 Wheat Was Forecast.
OF this amount, it was estimated
that $ls,75l, 900, 900 would be spent
for grains, fats and oils and meat
during the four-year period.
The sharp price rise in grains at
the Chicago Board of Trade yes
terday was set off by trade reports
that wheat might go to 81. The
reports were attributed to unnamed
realistic" officials In Washington.
Later. however, Agriculture officials
In Washington said the report "just
doesn't make sense" and said they
did not expect wheat to 60 above
the So mark established last March.
An all-time high for choice light
weight steers was established in the
East st. Louis cattle market yester-
day when 1925 was paid. In Chi
cago hogs, cattle and sheep were
generally steady to so cents lower.
Butter and eggs were higher.
The lard price advance was based
on talk Of increased exports.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-09-10
Labor Law Settles 81 WuIkouts
In Permitting Workers to Vote

In 81 of them the workers voted
to accept their employers last set
tlement offer. In Is the workers
voted against it. Results of the
other elections have as yet to be
reported by field Offices.
The Cancellation Service disclosed
that it began this week with only
1874 strike cases involving $4,000
workers on its docket. about the
lightest load it has carried since
the war ended.
A Labor Department tabulation
today showed there are only mine
strikes over the entire Nation where
1000 men or more are idle. The
biggest Is the East Coast shipyard
strike, with $4,000 idle,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-09-10
Scientist Says Misuse of Atom
CouIdMokeM Mankind Disappear

an individual gene will undergo a
sudden change and become a diff
ferent kind Of particle than that
transmitted by either parent. 1t is
the accumulation Of the gene
changes that has caused evolution
down through the ages. he said.
DR.. Muller found that X-rays
could greatly speed up gene changes
and that similar mutations mostly
harmful were brought about by
radioactive substances and pene-
trating radioactivity. He added:
Finally, they must cause the
dying out of one of the descendant
individuals that carries harmful
mutations, either through his direct
death, in consequence of it, or
through his failure to reproduce
in either case his "genetic death"
Experiments with many hun
dreds Of generations of fruit flies,
he continued, ALLOW us to infer,
with considerable probability, that
when an atomic bomb is set of
IN large populated area and kills
hundred thousand people directly
enough mutations have been plant
ed IN the survivors. living on the
edge and fringes of the explosion.
to cause at least as many genetic
deaths as this, but dispersed
throughout the future population
over a period of not merely hun
dreds but thousands of years.
Mutations Would Be Scattered
These mutations would be scat
tered over many future generations
but not so drastically as to affect
any single generation. If, however.
the exposure to the radiation were
repeated in this way generation
after generation, it could in time
destroy the human gene system
beyond recovery" he added.
Prof. Shils asserted the Russians
were Ignorant of the significance"
Of the atom bomb and that the
yes men" in the Soviet Union told
their superiors only what they
believe their superiors would prefer
to hear" about the bomb.
He said the Soviet ruling group
should be made to see that their
own we'll being and security de-
ponds on an agreement for effective
control OF atomic energy.