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fascinated. It checked and rechecked
the meter and the feed-in systm. It
never could find anything wrong,
except that there never were any
quarters.
So, as any intelligent gas COM
pany would, 1t finally went directly
to the man. It made him an offer
of free gas and no prosecution II he
would tell what his system was.
The man denied there was any
system. He suggested that maybe
evil little people were making of
with the quarters he was deposit
ing.
THE gas company went back to
its investigations, not that 1T be-
lieved the meter was being robbed,
or that the customer was putting In
quarters. Still it found nothing, so
it returned to the patron again with
the same offer and with some argu-
ment that 1t really ought to know
about such systems as his.y
The fellow was In q better mood
on this occasion. Since all he really
wanted was free gas to light his
house ands garden and cook his
meals, he told them his trick. It
seems he was using slugs made of
ice, very trickily designed, intricately
balanced things which naturally
disappeared without a trace"
Keefe's companions asked the
question that naturally has occurred
to you.
what" they asked in unison,
"eyer happened to the guy2 With
q mind like that he should have
been a great inventor. Was he?"
Funny" said Keefe, ''fe never
was. I asked him once why he did
not use such an obvious gift to
nobler purposes. His answer was
pretty final. He Just looked at me
and said, Somehow I can't. can
only invent under pressure"
Francis Swami Of the Baltimore
Swanns who is now In Hollywood as
a screen writer may possibly be on
the fringe OF presenting the movies
with . fresh character type. Fresh"
In the sense of refreshing, not Of I'M
pertinence.
Swann's latest script, an item
titled Hold It, Please. deals with
the life and fortunes Of q sidewalk
photographer.
Jackie Cooper will impersonate
Swann's hero in the picture which
will be made by q new independent
producing group called Comet.
Incidentally, one Of the great DIFF
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B--14 THE EVENING STAR Washington, d q.
II. s4@a
Keith's Marquee Sad to Read
On Best Years Closing Day
By Joy cormody

Iormody
high haunting wistfulness yesterday Kets
marquee, which read
Our Lives
What with Love
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for Love" en- route to washington. this correspond
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nich that Alexis has the most sexy.
neck ii Hollywood Yucca has Just
5made ! bust of Alexis, and It took
quite awhile because he was always
stopping work to admire her neckI
Jean Nesulesco goes nowhere,
these days without his golden frying
panl Jean won It for his musakaI
and mamlya concoctions um spell
ing these phonetically) ID the re-
cent competition at Arthur,s Res
taurant. He insists that Enrol
HynnS Don Juan" picture Is still
very much on IRE. Jean should know
he's directing 1t.
William Holden and Brenda
Marshall are planning to make u
picture together. At the moment
Is
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Here's something new on Alexis
Smith. I'm told by Yucca Salamu-
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W0aL Will Love lOI Love CA
ent has been able to keep up these
last three or four weeks with the
condition Of New Yorker. critic VOL
colt Gibbs. AS press agent for the
show, Willard Keefe has also borne
regular bulletins on Mr.. Gibbs con-
dition. The latest reads, as nearly
verbatim as 1t is polite to quote MIR.
Keefe:
Hes doing well. He's home now,
recupersSing. They operated and
found none OF the things wrong
that they expected. They don't know
what is wrong with him, Of course,
but 1t is not as bad as they feared.
One OF the reasons why Mr.. Keefe
Is the most popular press represent
ative in the theater Is that he Is
one Of the greatest raconteurs In
the theater.
He may not have known as many
beautiful people as William Saroyan
thinks he, Saroyan, has, but Keefe
apparently has missed few OF the
fascinating ones Of the last 25 years.
Moreover, these are not people OF
the drama or the movies, but the
ones any one might run across II
he had Keefe's knack for it.
There was this painter Keefe knew
In California. He was not success
full painter, as relatively few paint
ers are. "But," Keefe recalls, "he
was q resourceful sort.
HE lived In q place which waa
lighted by gas, with one OF those
meters you dropped quarters In. The
lights were on all the time, even In
the garden which was Illuminated
the same way.
1.-THE funny thing was there were
never any quarters In the meter
Naturally, the gas company became
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hculties In forming new movie
company IS finding a suitably colos-
sal name for it.
Comet" obviously was one Of the
few still open.
k*+
What with II Remember Mama"
holding the boxofflce record SO far
in the Washington Theater Alli-
ance's spring festival Of drama at
the Jewish Community Center, con-
lecture Is rife as to whether 1t will
be that way after Thursday night
That's the night the st. Paul
Players present the most ambitious
item on the program as to size, The
Man Who Came to Dinner"
The casts OF the other offerings
seem comparatively modest In rela-
ton to that assembled for the Moss
Hart George s. kaufman comedy
by the st. Paul's group.
"Candlelight" by the Arts Club is
tonight's festival offering.
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EIollyWood
Ann Sheridan
Is Not the Girl
For sSerenade'
By Sheiioh Grohon,

Charles Boyer wants to play the
lead In Mortal Coils" from the
short story, 4The Gioconda Smile, 4
by Aldous Huxley. It's zoltan Kor-
da package with Universal-Inter-
national, which paid $115 coo for the
property. and $780, 600 to Mr.. Korda
to direct and produce.
It's now definite that Ann Sheri-
dan is out of 'Serenade. /" The story
has been completely rewritten and
the heroine is to be Mexican girl
|of II. Mike Curtiz and Jerry Wald
are doing the picture at Warmers.
Orson Welles viii direct and star
in Dearly My Beloved" an original
by Hans Jacoby. It's for the new
Milton Bren Setup.
The Lana Turner-Van Helm
Donna Reed Richard Hart movie,
Green Dolphin Street. cost Metro
in the neighborhood Of $4,250. 900.
Costs Of pictures will have to come
down soon, or else.
Lucille Ball has completed deal
with Metro where she can do an
Independent picture with Husband
Desi Arnaz. The movie they have
chosen Is Follow the Girls" which
Gertrude Niesen did on the stage.
Ed Sedgwick will direct; It's for
United Artists release.
Dane Clark has to knock out Tony
Garland, leading heavyweight con-
tender In ssyVfir,la en- - R1,f nouo
must wait until his injured thumb
heals!
~ NJ
Poor Esther Williams! She has to.
deny at least once a month those
persistent rumors Of marital discord
with Ben Gage. A few days ago
someone called me with the usual
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they have cute arrangement
Brenda. working at Paramount ilI
aWhispering Smith e brings Bill toI
work ct Columbia for The Man
from Colorado Z Then she picks him
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BALLERINA-Sophie Korkoles
is one Of the featured dancers
In the Ballet Soiree dance
troupe, 1ohich wiH present its
second performance OF the
season this coming Sunday
and Monday at the JesDish
Community Center, Sirteenth
and 9 streets NV. The group
IS directed By Marion VendbIe.
Miss Korkoles also dances 1ntth
the Columbia Light Opera Co.
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up at night and takes him home.
That's fine. except that Brenda has
ito report Tor work two hours before
BIZ does. r Just sit around and
Ises GRAHAM, Psse B-i5J
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Mize's Hitting

There seems to be some aStonish-
ment in certain parts that portly
veteran by the name of John Robert
Mize can use a bat so well. The
astonished ones might recall the
fact that the same Mr.. Mize, born
in Demorest, Ga, "a years ago, has
been a solid hitter throughout his
long career.
Standing Subjective, with a dis
placement around 2l5 pounds, may
be more, Mize always has had the
physical bulk needed to get distance.
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Grartlard Rice and S m is
high enough, but
the thought of what might happen
to the human soul and body at any
given second has the call.
II there had only been space
enough. still believe that an
Army-Nctrc Dame football game in
1915 or lHfG-esrcciaIly l9i6-would
have broken all records.
Col. Eff Jones of West Point feels
certain that the two teams could
have played 20 100000 people, pos
sibIy more. The appeal for this
game especially was far beyond the
demand for any heavyweight fight
or world series ball game.
Few off hand. could name the big
gest crowd that ever saw base
ball game: It was a night game in
Berlin. during the Olympic games
OF 1896. I happened to be there. The
| attendance was announced at &c.
GOO. 1t was certainly over 10000,
which is some 5000 or 10000 more
than any ball park in this country
could handle.
It also was one of the worst ball
games ever played, looking down to
| the lowest zone in a class-X circuit.
Biggest Boxing Cro1Uds
The two Tunney-Dempsey fights,
at Philadelphia and Chicago, in 1926
and 1927 lead all fight crowds The
Philly show in the vast Sesqui Gen.
tennial stadium drew more than
| 1000 spectators.
Soldier field in Chicago holds foot
balls record crowd, around 10000.
The 1900 reported at Cleveland
last summer for the National Open
was the largest golf crowd 1 ever
saw on one day, although I UNDER
stand the All-American golf shows
in Chicago have reached $4,000.
Golf crowds are the gamest of the
bunch. They take the major beat
ings. When any crowd passes 10000
the spectator might as well retire.
All he can see is 10000 backs.
We have been trying to do some
| figuring on baseballs attendance
for 1947.
Last season set new major league
records, with something to spare,
as the Yankees alone passed the
100000 mark and most of the
teams beat the 100000 score.
With the two races as close as
they have been, the fading spring
would have given both leagues
large margin if it hadn't been for
the most miserable weather one
can recall.
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CAN'T DRINK PATIENCE,
BY G. KessIer

"Give me some milk! Give me
some milk!' the little girl yelled,
banging her cup on the table.
why, Daughter, haven't you any
patience?' one of her parents mild
ly chided her.
Yes, have" shouted the child,
"but l haven't any milk"
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Well. She Did

Voice on Phone-Are your mother
and father at home?
Little Boy-They's went out.
Voice-They's went out Where's
your grammar?
Little Boy-Oh. she's went out. too.
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Barber's Wife-You're late for
breakfast again.
Barber-I know. l was shaving
and first thing knew, I'd talked
myself into shampoo and a mas
sage.
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A NEAT TRICK

Bride Interviewing new maid)-
Are you efficient?
Maid-I am that. In the last
place l worked, every morning
got up at four, made the fires, put
on the kettle, prepared the break
fast, and made up all the beds
before anyone was up in the house
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|6oil!!i4II|

THERE is always an argument
4 about the size of some record
crowd-the greatest football crowd
baseball crowd-boxing crowd, ct
cetera. But the record usually is set
every Memorial Day in Indian
apolis.
The 500-mile auto race at the In
dianapoliS speedway is the major
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Fair Enough

Teacher - Now, children, we'll
have only halliday of school this
morning.
Jimmie (from back seat)--Hur-
ray! Whoopee!
Teacher-Silence! Well have the
other half this afternoon.
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Uplifting

Professor-Who did the most in
the nineteenth century to raise the
working class?
Student-Please. sir, the inventor
of the alarm clock.
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lure in sport, where
the e S t i m a t ed
crowd runs from
100000 to ITO, 1000
spectators, w h i C h
is no light outpour-
ing of human be-
ings for one days
event.
The thrill of the
speedway lure is
the thrill of danger.
The test of skill
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The Wallace Way

IN HIS CAPACITY of secretary
of agriculture, Henry A. Wallace
and others, including Mrs. Eleanor
Roosevelt, attempted to secure
enactment of bill that, if passed,
would have permitted the secretary
of agriculture to send a merchant
to jail for a year for advertising
that che sold the best flour in town."
The bill would have given the Sec
rotary full authority to punish any
merchant for any advertising state
ment, either direct or by intima-
ton, with which the secretary did
not agree, or considered false or
misleading. There was to have
been no court appeal permitted.
Under present conditions, Wallace,
if still secretary of agriculture,
probably would like such law to
include the President of the United
States as one whom the secretary
could send to Jail for making what
the secretary considered false or
misleading statements. Wallace
undoubtedly would be pleased to
send President Truman to Jail for
the rest of his life under consecu-
tive sentences.
A BOY of some II years was in
the police court for having violated
a city ordinance prohibiting riding
bicycles on the sidewalk. 81 pre-
fer to ride on the Sidewalks" he
told the Judge. land I do not rec
ognize the right Of cheap cop to
stop me-" He got SIS fine, and
found there was someone from
whom he must take orders. He had
not previously learned that at Ell
ther home or school. The boy and
the pedestrian he struck. were both
victims of the sO-called "prOsreS-
sive" educ alton.
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[dI!l||il[g
Tariff Issue Dead

THE TARIFF, as political party
issue, is dead. For many years it
appeared as the leading plank in
both major party platforms. Halt a
century ago Mark Hanna, with a
"full dinner pail" slogan based on
a high protective tariff, elected Nc
Kinley to the presidency on the Re-
publican ticket.
In the 1905 and 1905 and for
the first quarter Of this century,
aside from the second Wilson cam
paign when che kept us out of war"
was of greater appeal than the Re-
publican high tariff, the tariff was
the only real issue between the two
parties. Manufacturing industry was
largely located in the North and
East; food farming was in the North
Central states. The South was al
most exclusively agricultural, with
cotton its one crop.
The manufacturing and food pro-
ducing sections demanded high pro-
tective tariffs. It meant, by pro-
tecting the home market, high
wages, and better profits in the fac
tories, and higher prices on the
American market for food products.
Europe could not feed itself, and
would buy American-produced food
even though we prevented the sale
in this country of its manufactured
products. The South was interested
in a European market for its cot
ton, and in buying the manufactured
commodities it needed from those
who would sell at the lowest price.
The Northeast and North Central
states, with the greater number of
electoral votes, named the Presi-
dent, and picked the man represent
ing the high tariff policy, except
on those rare occasions when the
errors or follies of the Republican
more than offset their high tariff
advantage.
We were then a debtor ma
ton. Foreign capital was heav-
lily invested in development of
our resources, and in our trans.
portatiOn and our industrial en-
terprises. We were paying in
terest, for ocean transportation,
interest to every nation, and
none we're paying interest to us.
The money we paid for interest,
for ocean transportation, for
shipping insurance, came back
to us in payment for our food
products. In those days food and
cotton represented some IS per
cent of our exports.
Today we are the big creditor
nation of the world. We have paid
off the mortgage held by Europe,
and are no longer paying interest.
The result of the war thrust both
financial and political leadership
upon the United States. Instead of
Europe financing our development,
we now are financing Europe In
stead of the interest money we for
merly paid coming back to us in
payment for food, we now are hav-
ing to dig down in our jeans for the
price to provide Europe with both
food and manufactured consumer
commodities, urgently needed if Eu-
rope is to survive.
Conditions have changed our en-
tire setup, and have taken the tariff
out as political difference. In
place Of the tariff as a leading is
sue, we now have the problem:
Shall we, or shall we not, attempt
to finance the rest of the world? We
can have all the orders for what
we are willing to provide the pay
ments. Are we to be the worlds
banker and take our chances on bad
debts? 1t is the pros and cons of
such a program that will be the
leading issue of the next campaign.
t.. lDSII.n. utou
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DoubIe-Headers Coming

More than a few teams have had
many of their big days and, nights
either rained, showed or frozen out.
This will lead to a record list of
double-headers later on.
But no one can say how long
many teams, still in the race, will
be in sight of the leaders after the
middle of July. Once the home
team becomes firmly lodged deep
in the second division, the wild rush
to the turnstiles too often is halted.
The Yankees may still equal or
pass their 1916 record mark by re-
naming in the fight. The Giants,
who drew over a million with tail
ender last year, should add at least
100000 admissions to their 1916
count, and probably pass the Dodg-
ers with something to spare.
Yankees, Giants, White Sox and
Tigers have the only four ball parks
that can handle over $4,000 and all
four should have close to record
seasons with the teams they have.
The Phillies passed the million
count last year and hope to repeat
with hustling, scrappy outfit. The
Athletics, with an improved team,
also should be an improvement
over the past, where more than a
few Philadelphia fans have grown
weary and melancholy at peering at
a tailender year after year. The
Cardinals passed the million mark
for the first time in 1916, but their
groggy start. plus too many rainy
days and nights, may cut this count
down. Especially, if said Cards fail
to win again.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1947-07-04

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Prices effective until the close Of busi-
ness Saturday, February !, i94s, except
produce prices which are subject to daily
market ehanges. NO SALES TO DEAL
ERS WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO
LIMIT QUANTITIES.
The Nome nugget., 1947-03-31
CIO-UAW Denies Communist Charge

DETROIT, Top leaders of the CIO united auto workers took sharp issue Saturday with Michi- gan governor Kim Sigler's testi- mony that the Communist party has gained absolute control of certain unionS.'
 Sigler's remarks Friday before the House committee on un-Amer- ican activities were described by JAW president Walter B. Reuther as part of the current all-out drive which organized reaction has launched against labor and liberal forces in this country"
 Vice president R. J. Thomas and secretary George F. Adde's, two of the three JAW high officials who Sigler testified were "captives of the Communist party in the United States" had quick denials to the charges.
 Adde's, who said he spoke for both, called the Republican gov ernor's statement a "falsehood" which apparently was obtained from poisoned sources" There was no personal comment from Richard C. Leonard, JAW vice president and the third member of thc trio attacked by Sigler.
 Reuther, known in the JAW as opposed to Communist influence within his union, criticized the governors remarks and said he would fight Republican party in- reference in our internal affairs"
 "The CIO opposes Communist interference in our union. And I stand foresquare for that policy" the JAW chief declared.
The Nome nugget., 1947-03-31
Easter Holiday Will Delay Aid Action

WASHINGTON, (P Congress sional plans for an Easter holiday heightened the odds today against final action on the administrations $4O0,0O0,000 Greek Turkish aid measure before the middle of April.
 The homeward trek by the law makers-many want to talk over the diplomatic issues with con- stituents-also stymied the separ- ate measure to authorize $350,000,- 900 of relief for Italy, Greece, Hun gary, Austria, Poland and China.
 There appeared some doubt a quorum can be mustered in the House next week for action on a $2,451 ,497, ,OO0 deficiency appropri- ations bill which includes another $500, ,000 for relief in American occupation zones.
 Should a quorum call be de- manded in a challenge over any of the deficiency bills contents, it might force a delay in action until the House recess has ended April g. In any event, Senate approval of this measure seemed highly un- likely before then.
The Nome nugget., 1947-03-31
Oil Fires Still Rage In Haifa

JERUSALEM (P)-Black smoke lowered thousands of feet over Haifa today from oil fires set by explosions last night while the British were rescuing 1870 Jew ish refugees from rotten, foun- dering schooner built 70 years ago.
 Company technicians estimated the damage at around $4,000,000, but said the fires in the oil install lations along the Haifa waterfronts might continue several days. Ear Her unofficial estimates were that the damage might approximate Sl6,00O, ,000.
 Nearby buildings were damaged severely. The Shell Oil company alone said its loss was $l,000,000. The underground Irgun Zvai Leu mi had claimed responsibility for sabotaging the oil installations ear Her.
The Nome nugget., 1947-03-31
Jerusalem Keeps Holy Week

JERUSALEM, (Py-Observance of Holy Week in this strife-torn land, which began yesterday with the traditional Palm Sunday pro- cession, continued today with a va riety of services in shrines inside the old walled city.
 Roman Catholics made a dawn pilgrimage from St. Saviour's con- vent just in side the city wall to the fifth station of the cross on Via DOlOrOSa.
 The fifth station is a small cha pei on a narrow, dark street, typi- cal of the byWays of the old city of Jerusalem. On one outside wall of the chapel is a small plaque stained and worn by hands that touch it in reverence. It repre- sentS the spot where Christ is sup posed to have leaned in Weariness.
 Eastern Catholics of the Greek and Russian churches will worship tonight in their chapel outside the Holy Sepulchre church.
 The residence chapels of various Christian faiths were filling rapid ly with pilgrims from many lands. The largest contingent is the Egyp- tian copts, who adhere to an an- cient religion related to the east ern Catholic order.
The Nome nugget., 1947-03-31
Vandenberg Asks U. IN. Veto Power Over U. s. Aid

WASHINGTON, (P) - Senator Vandenberg R.-MichJ propos d today to give the United Nations a veto power over proposed Amer ican aid to Greece and Turkey.
 At hearings by the Senate for eign relations committee on legis- lation to authorize $400,000,000 of aid, he suggested writing in an amendment under which Presi- dent Truman would be required to halt the aid when and if the United Nations directed him to.
 His suggested amendment reads:
 "The President is directed to withdraw any or all aid authorized herein under any of the following circumstances:
 T. If requested by any govern ment of Greece or Turkey repre- senting a majority of the people of either such nation;
 "2. If requested by a procedural vote in the security council or a majority vote in the general assem- ply of the United Nations;
 B. If the President finds that the purposes of the act have been substantially accomplished or are incapable of satisfactory accom- pliShment."