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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-03-30

The lumberjacks figured
him for a greenhorn-until
his long shot came through
CoMETHING unusual was going
~ on in the empty lot next to
the Gualala, Calf, general store.
A group of people had gathered
around an enclosure which EVIL
IDENTIFY contained something of spe-
cial interest.
When joined the scene, found
that the focal point of interest was
pig. A pig of ample proportions.
The unfortunate animal was about
to be butchered, and everybody
was engaged in making an estimate
of how much it would weigh when
it was finally halved and hung up.
Frank Souza, the burly Portu-
guese in charge of the crew that
left Gualala each morning to bring
in load of railway ties from the
woods, slapped me heartily on the
back.
Professor, why don't you try
your luck? It'll only cost you two
bits. The fellow who comes closest
to guessing the actual weight gets
the pot, 1t may run as high as
six bucks"
From the expression on his
face l suspected that l WAS
being made an object of ridi-
Guile. Soon after my arrival in
town | became aware that the
appellation of professor and the
occupation of painting, far from
winning respect, served only to
associate me with useless and
inferior class. | felt that here might
be a chance to improve my social
standing.
Pig Didn't Care
WHAT l knew about the weight
of pigs in general was exactly nil.
But l assumed an attitude of pro-
found interest and leaned over the
railing of the enclosure with the
other spectators.
The pig, which showed no inter
est whatever in the proceedings,
was lying on its side in the impro-
vised pen.
Evening star., 1947-10-02

DESIRE ME-" an MGM Picture with
Greer Carson, produced by Arthur Horn
blow, jr., screenplay by Marguerite Rob-
erts and Zoe Akins. adaptation by Casey
by Leonhard Frank. At the Palace.
THE CAST
Evening star., 1947-10-02
Hollywood:
'Mayerling' Role
Joan Fontaine's;
Jennifer Loses
Bv Sheilah Graham

Joan Fontaine has signed to play
the lead in "Mayerling" for the
Hakim Brothers. Jennifer Jones was
in line for the role, but she already
has too much on her schedule
"Mayerling" gets the go signal in
December-after Joan finishes her
current Letter to an Unknown
Woman"
Robert Preston is not working in
"The Walls of Jericho" because his
good friend Gregory Peck is not in
the picture. They are now trying to
get Henry Fonda for the part Greg
was to play. For my money it would
be hard to choose-if you want good
acting Peck and Fonda.
Ingrid Bergman has a suggestion
of a romance in Joan" The man
who almost gets her is John Emery,
and I'm told his part is longer than
Jose Ferrer's-Jose plays the dau-
phin. Interesting item about Emery
Is that year ago he was all ready
to leave Hollywood because he
couldn't get good pictures. Now he
gets Ingrid-almost.
X r. \ X
David Selznick is the lucky one.
With the Mark Hellinger-Humphrey
Bogart setup, he also gets Burt Lam
caster in his KNOCK on Any Door, .
Evening star., 1947-10-02

ming" Barbara adds that during
one presidential campaign she was
Evening star., 1947-10-02

to survive bad news in the convlc-
ton that it was one more official
error. She keeps their house as it
was when Paul left for the last
time, remote house high above the
sea which somehow Is alive with
expectancy.
Into this house, one dour day,
comes Jean Renaud who was in
prison with Paul and who tells her
he saw the latter shot to death
by the Germans.
Jean is a rapacious type, and 1t
is his conviction that having listened
to Paul's story of his love for Marise,
that he has inherited the husbands
place. Her first reaction to him is
one Of revulsion, but Jean is the
persuasive sort, adaptable, patient
and totally without honor. He plays
his victim with all the guile that he
has learned in the back streets
and alleys OF his native Paris, and,
as simple hearted Norman girls
might, Marise eventually succumbs.
The next day, as it happens in
the movies, Paul comes home-as
the prologue between Marise and
a psychiatrist made it clear.
It turns out not to be too late
for him to save Marise, and their
love, but 1t is much too late to
save Desire Me-"
| X r II \
'Desire Me" is q screenplay that
goes in heavily for atmosphere,
but 1t never succeeds in making
this look less than synthetic. This
is most painfully true of a long
sequence devoted to a Norman re-
ligious festival, the Feast OF the
Pardons, an affair which Is as
stagily labored as the semifinals
of a beauty contest.
Miss Garson's, Mitchum's and
Hart's efforts to fill the emptiness
of Desire Me" are almost COM
pletely unavailing. AS Marise, the
feminine star, is limited to arrang-
ing flowers, shifting the sea air as
liz breathing it brought back some
thing OF her Paul, and staging a
slow, but losing, battle against the
athletic amorousness of Hart as
Jean.
The best few minutes Of the film
are those which belong to Mitchum
Tin a final sequence IN which he
stalks down the craven invader
of his home and his love and tosses
|him into the friendly sea.
Both he and Miss Carson, how
ever, are much more deserving
than so lifeless a legend.
Evening star., 1947-10-02

the end of the story at the begin
ming, or why it was told at all except
for one or two rather wasted Sc
quences.
The novel Carl and Anna" Is the
reported basis of Desire Me" whose
principal characters, oddly enough,
are named Paul and Marise. The
locale is a fishing village on the
Normandy coast and Marise Is the
heroine of the narrative. For
France, the war is over, but not for
Marise: The War Office has told
her Paul is dead, shot on the last
of his desperate and repeated tries
to escape a German prison camp.
She does not believe the War Office
Instead, she pins her faith on the
power of their love in which death
was not accepted as possible factor
Except for the prologue which
shows otherwise, Marise would seem
to be getting along we'll with her
lonely waiting, woman with faith
Evening star., 1947-10-02

| This is a terrific story and has a
wonderful part for Burt.
| Arthur Kennedy is coming back
to Hollywood to play Ben in Look
Honeward Angel" Arthur is the
boy who knocked them for a loop in
the New York play, "All My Sons" -
after Hollywood let him go. Now
every studio will give him any kind
of contract he wants. But the boy
prefers to free-lance.
Esther Williams will do a personal
appearance tour with her picture,
This Time for Keeps"
Peggy-Ann Garner is a Junior at
University High School, in nearby
Westwood. She plans to get in a lit
tie formal education before making
any more movies.
Joan Crawford was met at Homo
Evening star., 1947-10-02

wonderment would be filled II he
could introduce her to Fred Mac
Murray and Gregory Peck. It's in
the bag.
Barbara Stanwyck, when ask her
on the set Of B. F.'s Daughter" If
she will take an active interest in
the presidential campaign next year,
replies, 'it depends on who Is run
Evening star., 1947-10-02

the wrong time, is merely able to
drag itself across the screen.
Miss Garson's public, which has
not had a glimpse of her for more
than year and half, can hardly
be rabid enough in its enthusiasm
to enjoy her temperance in DE
sire Me" 1t is hard to tell whether
she looks more forlorn as the wife
who got emotionally mixed up, or
the actress who found herself as the
star of so uninspired screenplay
The odds are that it is the latter.
There Is no directoral credit on
"Desire Me-" which Is at least one
crafty gesture on the part of the
one, or more, responsible for the
screenplay. As a result, no one
knows who is to blame for telling
Evening star., 1947-10-02
ADJUSTMENTS

(See GRAHAM, Page A-230
Evening star., 1947-10-02

. nN Wv Ii. 53H
HealthfulIy Air Conditioned
Double GAL,
YVONNE DE CARLO. ROD CAM
ERON: GAS HOUSE KIDS GO
WEST" EMORY PARNELL, CHILL
Evening star., 1947-10-02

lulu, according to her secretary, by
the Mayor himself, plus every re-
porter and photographer on the
islands. And you can bet that Joan
put on a great show. She is one
star who never disappoints.
X X X
Eddie Cantor's former school
teacher, Catherine Luddy, having
the time of her sweet life in Holly
wood, told him that her cup OF
Evening star., 1947-10-02
De Briac to Films

Jean de Briac, one-time leading
man opposite Sarah Bernhardt In
Paris, has been signed by Warner
Bros. to portray a French philo-
sopher in ITO the Victor" Richard
Brooks drama of conditions In
postwar Europe.
Dennis Morgan and Viveca Lind
fors are co-starred in ITO the Vic
tor"
Evening star., 1947-10-02
A-22 **THE EVENING STAR, Washington D. c.
",
Desire Me- Grows Romantic.
But in Odd, Lifeless Way
By Juy Cormody

lot Of people gave up centuries the notion that the legend
Of Arden could sufficiently justify
optimistic
Me- which the Palace chances
Carson
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-06-26
The Scontify Of The IndividuoI
By RUTH TAYLOR

nation well individual is known by what it believes
The beliefs Of ALL They believe
sanc and of the state and the complete suburence
OF individual He Iis religion
his children directly under the control Of his master the state
He listen
what they wish Even his beliefs regulated and regmented
The direct democracy
they the the individual.
composite its citizens a
considered capable and intelligent enough himself with
his fellows
freedom to all by cooperation for the good
He may where when will-provded
harms affects him that he becomes charge
the state he doesn't like job locality, he is free
and
He worship in his way-eey and with only his
determine his beliefs faith the
dictate 1t is between himself and God
His home is nvoa protected from the State itself by
the Bill of Rights His children provided they
educated, guide him.
long as he fulflls his duty of atherhood.
He what he wishes listen freely and speak his
openly and according to his convictions without fear of favor of the
State And that State will him when he speaks dis
with it.
In democracy the individual is ready up
be counted Under totaran regime by whatever
calls itself, be NaZi Fascist Communist he a
Let those who wish to be free therefore, consider what they
beheveand let all the
imperfect though be- still procms the sancty of the ind
vdual freedom
of freedom to each succeeding generation.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-06-26
Trumon Swomped
BY Veto Appeals

Washington (LPA)-For three
weeks before President Truman
vetoed the Taft-Hartley slave labor
bill the White House was deluged
with an unprecedented number of
messages on the legislation.
Nearly 100000 messages-post-
cards and letters-were received at
the White House and the major
ity, it was admitted, asked for a
veto. However, this flood did not in
clude hundreds of petitions signed
by AFL and CIO members deliver
ed by Congressman and others to
the White House. 1t did not in
clude petitions containing 100000
signatures delivered at the White
House by CIO Legislative Direc-
ton Nathan Cowan two days before
the veto message, nor dozens of
AFL petitions presented by Sen
ators, with lists of 500 to 1900
names.
1t was known that Truman was
given a tabulation of the totals.
Whether or not that influenced his
decision as far as labor's voting
power in 1948 was concerned was
not known. 1t was cellar, however.
that after the White House was
swamped, top Democratic leaders
and officials of the DemocraticS
Natl Committee took the figures
to senators who were said to be
wavering and convinced them.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-06-26
Add z Sfofes To
Conference Unit

Atlanta (LPA)-The giant chain
of the Southern Conference OF
Teamsters-AFL forged a new link
when it added North and South
Carolina, following affiliation OF
Drivers, Chauffeurs, Warehouse
men & Helpers Local Union II
whose jurisdiction covers Charlotte,
N. c. and vicinity.
In the past the Conference has
been known as the 10-state area.
With the addition of the two Car
olinas it will henceforth be known
as the 12-state area The Southern
Conference of Teamsters was form
ed in New Orleans in November
1943 with "Organize the morgan
lied Teamsters in the South" as
the theme. From that date a con-
tinuous organizing drive progress
ed all over the south and at each
annual Teamster session huge
membership increases have been
reported. Membership jumps rang
ing from 50eo to 1000 together
with increased wage rates were
cited here last week.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-06-26
Senufe Passes
Monopoly Bill

Washington (LPA)-The Reed
Bulwinkle bill, which opponents as
sailed as a "green light" for mo-
nopolistic rate-fixing on the rail-
roads, swept through the Senate
last week by a 60 to 27 majority.
Transportation interests put on
a powerful campaign for the meas
ure, and mobilized outside support.
Also, some rail unions backed the
bill, contending that the conference
method of rate-fixing legalized un-
der the measure constituted the
only feasible method for establish
ing transportation rates.
Before its passage by the Senate,
some amendments were enacted
carrying purported safeguards
against abuses.
Nonetheless, many leading Sen
ators denounced it. Alben w. Bark
ley 3D., Ky.), minority leader, call
ed it "vicious legislation" and "an
effort to impose a transportation
monopoly"
81 fervently hope the President
will veto this: l can't imagine a
more justified veto," he said.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-06-26
Refuses To
.Arbitrdte

Cumberland, Md. (LPA) - The
strike Of 5000 workers at the giant
Celanese Corp, Of America plant
here is deadlocked as it enters it's
third week. Despite the proposal of
Allegheny County's delegation to
the state assembly that company
and union submit unsettled issues
to arbitration, the company stead
lily refused.
The strikers, members Of Local
1874, Textile Workers Union of
America are convinced that the
company can afford to meet their
demands. They point to the sal
aries paid to top Celanese officials,
as well as the almost unbelievable
profits chalked up by Celanese.
President II. Blancke got 157,695
in salaries and bonuses, and the
two Celanese vice-presidents raked
in s132,136 and $11S,047 respec-
lively.
At issue now in the strike are
the questions involving holidays
with pay, premium pay for Sat
urday and Sunday work, improv-
ed vacations, a work-load clause,
a seniority clause, and a wage re-
opening clause.
This is the forth strike in the
past IL years at the tremendous
plant which dominates whole val
ley. Workers point to the record
breaking profits Of Celanese: in
1945, s7613,492; in 1916, $16,-
059.416: in the first quarter of
1947, 6,180,564. The union estimates
that at this rate 1947 profits Will
be more than $25,000,C00, or more
than 1945 and 1916 combined.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-06-26
Comment On World Events

special interest to the home and
family.
Canada has had long distrust
of lawyers taking part in labor dis
putes,. and has had curb on their
participation written i'm it's laws
for more than 40 years.
This was brought to attention
by an item in the June Machinists
Monthly Journal, official publica-
tion of International Association
Of Machinists, which emphasized
Canadian labor's continuing dis
trust of lawyers in labor relations.
In memorandum from the Ca
madam Trades and Labor Congress
to the ministers of the Dominion
Cabinet, presented by Percy Ben
cough, member of the lam, as
head Of the TIC, labor urged that,
in setting up proposed new ma
tional labor code to supplant the
Industrial Disputes Investigation
Act of 1907 and the Order in Coun-
Gil passing out with the end of
the war emergency, the restrictions
on the appearance of counsel or
solicitors be placed in Dominion
regulations.
"ThiS was one of the best fea-
lures in the Indstrial Disputes In
vestigation Act and in operation
over many years has proved its
value" the labor deputation said.
The section of the Canadian law
restricting lawyers provides that,
mo counsel or solicitor shall be
entitled to be heard before the
board except with the consent of
the parties to the dispute and not
withstanding such consest the
board may decline to allow coun-
sci or solicitors to appear"
Jewish displaced persons, them
selves in dire need, have appealed
for help to be sent to Austrian So
cialists in a letter received by the
international Solidarity Committee,
303 Fourth Avenue, New York 10,
New York.
The letter points out that the
Jewish groups in the DIP camps are
very grateful for whatever food
and clothing they are getting from
America which helps them bear
the very difficult conditions under
which they live. At the same time,
they urge that help be sent to the
Austrian Social Democrats in Salz-
Durg.
"We owe very much to the Aus
,rian Socialists in Salzburg who
are doing everything in their power
o aid u.s." H. Rosenfeld, secretary
If the General Jewish Workers
Union in Austria, writes on behalf
If the DPS. "They have given US
lelp, advice and encouragement.
We beg you to send these Austrian
Socialists food and other necesssi-
les for which they have desper-
tie need"
Phil Heller, executive director of
he International Solidarity Com
nittee, commented, "This moving
lppeal is, indeed, tribute to the
deals of international brotherhood,
nd an example of human solidar-
ty to all mankind. These Jewish
)Ps, still homeless after so many
ears of suffering, still think of
heir fellow-men. This should in
pire every American progressive
nd trade unioniSt to act now and
end help to their suffering broth
RS overseas"
The International Solidarity
has the names and ad-
resses of the Austrian Socialists
eferred to above. Write for name
nd shipping instructions or con-
ribute for food packages. The COM
littee sends help to anti-fascists
all nationalities and has on hand
ames and addresses of Spanish,
ierman, French, Jewish and other
ationalities who have suffered in
camps. VI
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-06-26
lam Aids Texas City Victims

Washington (LPA)-In an ex-
traordinary appeal, the Int'l Asso-
citation of Machinists last week
asked its members to add to the
$4,000 gift made by the lam to
the survivors of eight members
killed in the Texas City blast, and
to aid the Is additional lam work
ers who are seriously injured and
still hospitalized. Many of the
beneficiaries are children of the
dead men.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-06-26

Some 100000 children in Eu
rope alone ar living a life OF
near starvation, and in the fal
East, there are that many ant
more who need to be fed. Hope
for at least some of them lies il
the proposed international Emer-
gency Children's Fund, authorized
by the General Assembly of the
United Nations. Funds from the
member nations are to be sought
The goal is to give one good
meal day for year to 20,C00,-
600 children. That number in
cludes babies for whom extra sup
plies of milk are needed, and il
also includes supplementary
feeding for pregnant women. The
individual cost is put at $50 per
year per child.
The United States is ready to
aid in the work Of the .Children's S
Fund as soon as Congress votes
this nations share of the money
for it. President Truman has sig
nified his support and has ap-
pointed Katherine F. Lenroot,
head of the U. S. Children's Bu-
reau, as the American member of
the funds executive board.
g Il 4
The American Federation of La
Dor believes that constructive
policy in Europe should include
the economic rehabilitation of
Germany as an integral part of
sound European and world econ
omy.
"This requires" in the words of
the American Association for a
Democratic Germany, "the restora-
tion of German industry to point
where it will be able to supply the
essential domestic and export re-
quirements of the German econ
omy. 1t assumes a dietary level
sufficient to maintain the produc-
tive capacity of the German peo-
pie.
'It furnishes" the Association
adds, "the only alternative to the
perpetuation of the system, harm
full alike to Germany and to the
rest of the world, whereby the Ger
man people subsist on relief sup
piled by their conquerors because
their own economy is too derelict
to meet their elementary needs.
And it offers the only possible way
in which Germany may be able to
significantly to the re-
of the other nations of
Europe"
The Swedish Cooperative Union,
showed continued gains in 1947, ac
to statistics just released
at Stockholm. During the year the
membership increased with 22,-
GOO to a total of 851, ,576, divided
676 branch societies.
The Cooperative Wholesale So
ciety's various production enter
prises now include 3 flour mills,
a margarine factory, vegetable
)il factory, crisp-bread bakeries,
fish and vegetable canneries, fruit |
preserving plants, shoe factories,
a rubber factory, as well
rs production facilities for ready
made clothing, incandescent lamps,
.ash registers, wallboard, house
lold porcelain, washing machines,
scales, lifting jacks, agricultural
and artificial fertiliz-
er.
Through a special educational
department., the Cooperative Union
ries to reach as many housewives
Is possible by arranging demon
;trations in cooking and lectures
m household subjects. About 26O
have organized courses in
gymnastics especially adapted to
About $4,000 women
low take part in these classes.
Iore than $4,000 men and women
make up about 4,400 study circles.
he subjects cover cooperative
principles as we'll as questions of
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-06-26
career WON an!

Meet the greatest career woman of all!
She doesn't manage business, write
novels, or sing over the radio. But her
jobs big and its important - she runs
a home!
What job that is! In year she
washes more than tons of dishes,
cooks more than 1000 meals, wades
through mountains of laundry.
The more Nom depends on electric
service, the less work is in her house.
work. And how little electricity costs!
A penny's worth day will rescue Nom
from the drudgery of dishwashing. A
few more pennies daily will cook her
meals. Electricity does her laundry for
less weekly than the cost of a bar of soap.
And when Nom balances her budget,
she's bound to note that electricity is
one of its smallest items. Actually, the
average family now gets fwice as much
electricity for its money as it did about
20 years ago. This bargain comes to
Nom = and to you, too = through the
practical experience of your friends
and neighbors Il this company, under
sound business management.
. Listen TO fhe New Electric Hour - fhe
HOUR OF CHARM. Sundays. 4:3o PM. EDIT. ces.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-06-26

| do fairly we'll in handling my
personal affairs, except when world
tidal waves upset my plans.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-06-26

The only satisfactory substitute
for brains is silence,
Evening star., 1947-01-21
Greenberg Frets About Stork
More Than Pay Talk With Bucs

Naturally. after this long and
pleasant relationship" Greenberg
continued, II am disappointed to be
sold from the Detroit club and
waived out of the American League" ;"
Greenberg. whose A home runs
paced the majors last season, re-
fused to comment on wild rumors
about my retirement" and added
that wild speculation over salary
terms he will demand from Pitts
burgh officials had embarrassed
him.
Meanwhile there was considerable
chatter over the manner of Green
berg's passing from the American
League If the magnates had stuck
to the letter of the law, President
Walter o. Briggs of the Tigers would
have had no recourse but recall the
waiver or let Greenberg go to an
other American League club.
Under the new ruling passed by
both major leagues during the Los
Angeles meetings last month, each
club is allowed three cracks at any
player put on the waiver list. A
request for waivers on any player
can not be withdrawn by the same
club more than twice in any calen-
ldar year.