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Evening star., 1947-12-14
Hollywood Stages
Lighting Effects
For Christmas

HOLLYWOOD, Calf, Dec. s.
Winter is high candlepower season
in Hollywood.
In the glow Of 10000 colored elec-
trio light globes, Hollywood boule-
ward becomes Santa Claus Lane
for d month. "The Boulevard ,
which is Main street and the swank
shopping center for the stars, Is an
interesting avenue in any season
For the holidays it is festooned with
huge metal Christmas trees, as only
Hollywood can do 1t, with big
aluminium stars swinging overhead
Nightly, Santa rides down the lane
in a two-story high sleigh, his arm
around a star, and a movie-style
snow storm blowing out into the
balmy evening.
Altadena Dresses Up.
In Altadena, suburb Of Pasadena
mile Of majestic 80-foot deodars
is illuminated with 5000 colored
lights. The giant Christmas trees
make a bright lane stretching down
from the foot Of Mt. Lowe. Dark
ened motor cars move in slow pro-
cession down the aisle, their riders
experiencing the spectacle IN husheo
silence.
Glendale nearby, fashions an
other beautiful sight. With 5000
colored lights, in long strings, Glen
dale spins a bright web over Its
main street. The effect, as one
drives through the glow at night, il
just as the name implies "tun.
mel Of lights"
Season Of Premieres.
Winter is premier season in Holly.
wood. The debut Of . new picture
is advertised by . skyful Of search.
lights sprouting from the theater
Out in front, big bleachers is SCI
up where visitors may watch a pro
cession OF limousines and sport car
unload a succession Of stars In {
blaze Of lights. A master Of cere'
monies buttonholes the stars for {
word in the microphone on the wa,
| in.
Winter is also time for top net
work radio shows, most of which
originate in the big modernistic stu
dios on Sunset Boulevard. It ism
easy to get ticket to top show
Being the favorite nephew of ,
radio star helps. A letter to tn
network headquarters, long in ad
vance Of the date, may bring results
Tickets to many shows are avail
able, free Of charge, on a strictly
"frst-come, f1rst-served" basis, a
the Community Visitors Bureau, op.
Grated by the All-Year Club at ST.
West Sixth street, in downtown Lo.
Angeles. Tickets are given out ovel
the counter, only, and none by mail
Evening star., 1947-12-14
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Evening star., 1947-12-14
By Jacques FutreIIe, Jr.
The Sfor's Trovel Editor

slogan. It was designed to promote
safety. When the cry for gas con-
servation became audible, the three
word precaution began to serve a
dual purpose.
While seeing NO reason to recon-
mend cancellation OF vacation
trips, AAA strongly urges all mo-
torists to conserve on gasoline
wherever possible in order to
stretch Out available petroleum
supplies. The adoption of volun-
tary measures by all will do much
to avert a serious crisis that could
well develop in the field of private
transportation"
The tight supply of petroleum by
products is not so simple a prob
lem that it will pass in a week, a
month or even within q year. BY
all signs, it is to get worse before
it gets better. G. Girard David
son, Assistant Secretary Of the In
terror, told d congressional COM
mittee last week severe gasoline
shortage may develop next summer
k+ +**
The three-point conservation code
for individual motorists can save
millions Of gallons of gasoline
Tests made by the AAA Contest
Board before the war have shown
conclusively that avoidance of haste
and speed pays off. Recalling tests
the board explained that three cars
were driven 500 miles each.
Car No. l." the report said, chad
a maximum cruising speed of rs
miles per hour, and averaged 59.4
miles per hour for the entire dis
tance.- A total of 46 gallons of gas
oline was consumed.
Gar No. 2, averaging 535 miles
per hour, with a top speed Of 65
miles per hour, used SO gallons OF
fuel. The maximum speed for the
third car was 30 miles per hour, the
average speed, 41.6 miles per hour
and only 20 gallons Of gasoline
were consumed.
Although during the 500-mile
test, three and a half hours were
saved by travelling at higher speeds
pushing the wind burned up So
per cent more gasoline. The fastest
car got only 1913 miles to the gal
lon, while the car driven at q
more moderate speed averaged 17.2
miles per gallon.
Additional tests eliminating
squirting starts and slam-bang stops
in city traffic show that gasoline
savings up to AIT per cent can be
effected by taking it easy. A car
averaging 20 miles per gallon when
driven 20 miles per hour, got only
8 miles per gallon during continu-
GUS acceleration from 10 to 80
miles per hour"
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AS Don Thomas tells the story
the idea of routing motor tourists
through Beverly Hills and pointing
out the homes Of radio and movie
stars took bit OF selling. The
stars were not (and are not neces-
sarily now anxious to clutter ur
their neighborhoods with traffic
from all the States and the District
of Columbia. Then, too, they fell
there was a hazard in permitting
too many people to know their pre-
else addresses. A rash impulse
might set an autograph fan ring
ing doorbells, or things like that.
But the All-Year Club of South.
ern California, whose chief aim i
to promote that section for vaca'
tions, lately let Fasteners know
they could get specific routing.
through "glamorland" by applying
at headquarters Of the club. It i.
located at SIT West Sixth street, Los
Evening star., 1947-12-14
AAA Urges Gas

Motorists who are planning q
Florida vacation, but are hesitant
about using their cars because Of
the tight gasoline situation, can 60
ahead with confidence, according to
the American Automobile Associa-
ton. Commenting on the rumblings
in the vicinity of Capitol Hill indi-
eating possible return to a pro-
gram of mileage rationing, the ma
tional motoring body reports there
is nothing in the foreseeable future"
which would curb the use of private
passenger cars.
At the same time, it was pointed
out that motorists, collectively, can
do much to tip the 'precarious bal
ance" of gasoline supply and demand
in favor of adequate distribution.
This calls for program of conserva-
tive driving practices, such as was
impressed upon the public conscious
ness in the year or so before war
times scant allotments were i'm
posed. Whatever voluntary or legis-
lative gas conservation methods are
promulgated, the motoring public is
bound to hear more of the part they
can play in avoiding regional gas
famineS.
The principal gas-saving tenets
are the same. Remember them?
l. Drive at moderate speeds.
2. Avoid jackrabbit starts.
3. Keep car in good mechanical
condition.
There are indications that con-
certed educational campaign on US
ing gasoline thriftily will not be
pressed on motorists Immediately.
An official of the Petroleum Insti-
tute, here last week to confer with
Government officials on industry
wide conservation plans, said oil in
terests were planning to pubhcize
in the immediate future only the
needs and methods Of fuel oil econ
omy. Nevertheless, the AAA has
busted of the gas-saving code, used
not so many years ago, for presen-
tation again to its members.
As a matter Of interest, the asso-
citation never has abandoned them.
Moderate speeds and careful driv-
ing are factors in It's Take 1t Easy"
Evening star., 1947-12-14
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.
Madison

OperIookiny ocean at iHtno" Acs.
Atlantic City
Desirable Accommodations Avail
able for Christmas Week.
AMERICAN l. EUROPEAN PLANS
Daily Concerts. Open & Closed Sun Decks.
JOHN R. HOLLINGER, Gen. MGR.
Evening star., 1947-12-14
OES Activities
In Local CHAPTERS

Only special notices will be pub
lished.
Martha Chapter elected Mabel
Cook as conductress and Arleigh
Selka as associate conductress.
Esther Chapter-Tuesday, 5 pm,
rehearsal for officers. Thursday,
initiation.
Bethany Chapter-Monday, Home
Board. with Mrs. Rose Roche.
Wednesday, Star Points Christmas
party, with Mrs. Helen Du Chaine
Thursday, Sunshine Committee,
with Mrs. Catherine Sherman. Fri
day, honoring Mrs. Alice w. New
hard, secretary emeritus.
st. Johns Lodge Chapter-Mon-
day, entertainment and Christmas
party.
East Gate Chapter installed: Ma
tron, Mrs. Eldora E. Hefner; patron
Wilbert A. Gilmore; associate ma
tron Mrs. Marie A. Howell; associate
patron Charles Curtis; secretary
Mrs. Marie A. Caden; treasurer
Mrs. Elsie Hayes; conductress, Mrs
Rebecca Steffen; associate conduc-
tress, Mrs. Esther jenkins; chap
lain, Mrs. Nan Donnelly: marshal
Mrs. LIE Verne Brill; organist, Mrs
Annie Coleman; Adah, Mrs. jean
nette Britton; Ruth, Mrs. Maud
Curtis; Esther, Mrs. Ethel Devlin;
Martha, Mrs. Pauline Farm: Electa
Mrs. Anabel Hagan; warder, Mrs
Ida Mae Elms; sentinel. Robert Hall
Monday, Home Board meets with
Mrs. Marie Howell. Friday, Christ
mas party.
Gavel Chapter-Tuesday, initia.
ton and Christmas party; Thurs.
day, Star Points, with Elsie Douglas
Joseph H. Milans Lodge Chapte,
Thursday, Christmas party. The
Afternoon Bridge Club will meet
with Mrs. Annie Clark.
Loyalty Chapter - Wednesday
Christmas party.
Cathedral Chapter installed: Ma.
tron Lyla K. Fowle; patron Oscar
N. Kolquist; associate matron Agne!
c. Garner; associate patron, Albert
A. Thompson; secretary, Elizabeth
r. Cornish; treasurer, Martha r
Brandon; chaplain, Rebecca H. Har'
will; marshal, Lois F. Van SAINT
organist, Jane G. Duvall; conduc.
tress, Lillian M. Cogswell; associate
conductress, Margaret L. Thompson
Adah, Virginia G. Cady; Ruth, Opa
o. Abels; Esther, Geraldine G. Sper.
ry; Martha, Ethel K. Ais; Electa
Lillian A. Howes; warder, Magic H
Kolquist; representative to Board o.
Directors, Masonic and Eastern Stal
Home, Hazel K. Kephart. The new
sentinel is M. M. Wertz.
Mizpah Chapter-Tuesday, Christ
mas party.
Joppa Lodge Chapter - Wednes'
day, Christmas party.
Congress Lodge Chapter-Monday
initiation and Christmas party.
The Matrons and Patrons of tn
1885 association will hold their an
nual Christmas party and turke.
dinner at the home of Mrs. MARI
Deal Friday at $3.50 pm.
Martha Chapter-Tuesday, Hom'
Board with Mrs. Louise Boteler
Friday, Christmas play by Sta,
Points.
Lebanon Chapter-Tuesday, Hom'
Board with Matron Mary E. Weimer
Mount Pleasant Chapter-Christ'
mas party at the next meeting
Canned foods will be received TO
the Home for the Aged baskets.
Federal Chapter Tuesday
Friendship Club with Mrs. Lillian
Hadley. Bring gift for Blue Plain
Christmas box.
Washington Centennial Chapte
Monday, Young Girls committee
with Miss Marie Miller. Friday
Christmas party for children.
Ruth Chapter-Monday, honorfnl
November and December birthdays
Christmas party.
Chevy Chase Chapter - Friday
Home Board with Grace Dietrick.
Evening star., 1947-12-14
Local Ben Hur News

Christmas entertainment and the
presentation Of gifts will take place
in Potomac Court tomorrow and in
Mckinley Court on Tuesday. Both
meetings will be held in Pythian
Temple.
Congressional Court will have SIM
liar exercises at the home of Elmer
Johnson.
United Court has Cancelled their
December meeting. The next ses-
sion will be held January ~ in
Pythian Temple, when there will be
an election Of officers and installa-
ton by National President A. L.
Saulman of Charlottesville, Ind.
Evening star., 1947-12-14
TRAVEL.
OLYMPIC WINTER GAMES
Conducted tour to Switzerland

Scandinavian Countries
At St. Moritz Jan. 80, Feb. 3.
Holmenkollen, Norway, Feb 1929.
Including Transportation, Hotels, Meals
and sightseeing trips.
Leave N. Y. Jan. IS, ret. March 22, '48.
Fare, $1,84O.
Swedish American Line,
Hobart 4O67. Carl w. Johnson, agent.
Evening star., 1947-12-14
Woodmen of America

Georgetown Camp. Modern
Woodmen Of America, elected: Con.
sui, Joseph A. Clarke; past consul
George w. Hurlebuas; adviser, r
Stanley Beach: banker, Leroy S
Owens; secretary, Jas. H. Mcintyre;
escort, Finley johnson; watchman
Morris Bloom; sentry, A. F. Flack
trustees, E. L. Newton, T. J. Car
roll and Joseph Warner.
The Nome nugget., 1947-08-20
Joe Isn't Santa Claus

THE SOVIET UNION has announced it will export from 40 to 50 million bushels of wheat from it's 947 crop.
 Britain has been negotiating for F million bushels of Russian wheat but balks at paying price above the world market.
 In the face of this the Soviet puppet government in Poland has denounced ''unjust United States de- cision eliminate the Poles from European relief program this year. Poland it's spokesmen assert will need million tons of grain in 1947.
 The question naturally arises, why doesn't .Polar1 get is grain from it's good friend the Soviet Union? Why? Because we giving American grain away, Gs relief measure, while the Russians demand cash CT goods for theirs.
 Soviet charity, if any, is one-way street r,,..2r east--behind the iron curtain.
The Nome nugget., 1947-08-20
Magyar Responsibility
(DenVer POSt)

THE SMALL REGARD in which the Hungarian government holds the United States has been aptly demonstrated by the arrest recently of American citizen in Budapest.
 When Hungarian police arrested Stephan Thuranszky they violated the surrender agreement signed by their government for Allied citizens not liable to arrest by this former enemy nation until such time the Hun garan peace treaty is ratified and becomes effective The Hungarian government knew this, and the Conl- munistcontrolIed police clearly violated their obga tions. Moreover, ThTanszky never released, he about to be taken to the headquarters of the Hun garan political police when he virtually kidnapped by American legation official.
 This action reflects Hungarys attitude toward the United States since she became full-edged member of the Soviet bloc Yet the Hungarans have asked that the United States supply them with heavy industrial and
The Nome nugget., 1947-08-20

road-buding equipment and have already received aid from the United States.
 But the arrest significant in light of the failure of the Allied control commission to act That commission has long beenlittle than liaison gan for the Americans and British, the Soviet Der actually controls the commission, and the Soviet Union is the only power which has occupation troops in Hungary.
 Although the arrest of an American citizen was di- rectly prohibited the commission unable to act No explanation reference to this made in reports from Hungary but it is probable that the American member of the commission unable to get direct tion he has been unable to get action other mat ters pertaining to American citizens and property
 By the illegal arrest and detention of American citizen-When he had committed no crime but denun- citation of the Communist egime-the Hungarian gov ernment has added proof the obvious thesis that contact with the United States only for possible handouts The United States government should take action soon, through the United Nations, to the safety and well-being of Americans in that country.
The Nome nugget., 1947-08-20

great corruption and spreading civil war.
 The Chinese picture is, indeed, 50 black that many have come to the conclusion that the situation is hopeless, tha. the United States has no chance but to wash its hands Of China.
 IL must be admitted that the temptation to do just that is very grea.. Yet such a course would be self-defeating. The war has placed this country in the very front rank of Far Eastern powers and, re- gardless of her internal situation,
The Nome nugget., 1947-08-20
Council Will Meet
 Without AtchesOn

TOKYO, (P)-The Allied coun- cil for Japan is slated to meet to- day with William J. Sebald acting for Ambassador George Atcheson, IT., missing and presumed dead in a Pacific plane crash. It will be the councils 39th session.
 Sebald was counselor to Atcheson, who was council chair man. Also absent from the meet ing will be w. MacMahon Ball, British Commonwealth delegate who resigned Sunday. Tom Eek ersley of Australia is expected to replace him.
 The Russian delegate, It. Gen. Kuzma Derevyanko, who was called to Moscow recently, will be replaced by Maj. Gen. A. P. Vis- lenkt.
 There are no official matters on the agenda.
The Nome nugget., 1947-08-20
China's New Chance
(BY Barnet Nover)

The mission which Lieut.. Gen. Albert C. Wedemeyer is carrying out in China at the behest of Pres ident Truman is good deal more than the fact-finding expedition it is supposed to be. The United States government is not troubled by any lack of data regarding the state of China. Facts about tha. country's economic and political situation pour into the state de- partment in an unceaSing flood. They tell very unpleasant story of administrative incompetence,
The Nome nugget., 1947-08-20
Wednesday, August 20, 1947
The Revival Of German Industry
(The Rocky Mountain NeWS)

(The Rocky Mountain NeWS)
 IT IS NOT EASY to accept in good faith, Polish, Czech and French contentious that revived German industry in the Ruhr would threaten European peace Such talk sounds suspicously like Moscow propa- ganda line.
 We are not dealing with the old German Empire, nor with the Germany of Adolf Hitler but only with western Germany-that part under American British and French control.
 Prewar Germany had of 181 699 square miles and population of 67 million. At Potsdam, this area reduced to 42 200 square miles when East Prussia divided between Russia and Poland.
 The Germany today is divided by Soviet iron curtain which to all practical purposes has brought 46400 square miles and 20 million people into the Soviet Union So western Germany, which includes the Ruhr, contains only $500 square miles, with population of 46 million crowded into the
 A revival of German heavy industry is essential if these people to become self-suStaining.
 Russia objects to American plans to revive this indus trial region unless it is given v6iceand veto-n it's administration. We can't consent to that, of course
 The Russians would come in only to dominate or de- stroy any program. We have had enough of that.
 German recovery is vital to European recovery meaning that part of Europe not under Russian police control
 Before the war, the Netherlands got 23 per cent of it's imports from Germany Denmark 242 per cent, Bel gium and Luxembourg 113 per cent, Norway l69 per cent Sweden 2.2 per cent, Switzerland 232 per cent, Italy 186 per cent, Greece 28.8 per cent
 Exports to Germany were in approximate balance, The German market took nearly all of Greeces export tobacco crop. The loss of that market is major factor today in Greeces economic para yss.
 Success of the Marshall recovery plan will depend largely rehabilitation of Ruhr industry because most of Western Europe must look to that for its coal and steel Polands coal is longer moving west. Br tain isn't producing enough coal for it's consump- tiOn.
 Industrial fuel must come from the Ruhr or there will be recovery.
The Nome nugget., 1947-08-20

China is vital part of the Far East.
 But what can we do in China and for China more than we have already done? Unrestricted aid to that country would mean pouring the American taxpayers dollars down a bottomless well.
 Such unrestricted aid has been ruled out and, we can assume, will continue to be ruled out so far as American policy in China is con- cerned.
 But what else is there for the United States to do?
 An answer is 10 be found in ihe proposal made by General Mar shall regarding European rehabil- itation. That calls. first of all. for self-help and mutual assistance by the various European countries. Once they have demonstrated their readiness and capacity 10 carry out such program the United States will be prepared 10 move in 10 provide that additional aid which may be needed 10 put Eu- rope on inc high road 10 recovery. The real intent behind the Wede- meyer mission is 10 hold out 10 China a similar promise of assist ance. contingent on China putting her own house in order.
 There are reasons to believe that, until recently, Generalissimo Chiang and his government have assumed that the United States had no choice but to help China; all they had to do to secure that aid was to make a few gestures of reform.
 Now they are under notice that while the United States does not intend to wash its hands of China, the extent of the aid we may De willing to grant China will depend on the extent of China'S readiness to help herself.
 Wedemeyer is right. There are "selfless and patriotic" Chinese. Some of them are in the govern rnent, although they are outnum- bered there by corrupt and incom- petent time-ServerS belonging to the die-hard wing of the Kuomin- tang.
 The more honest liberals are brought into the regime and given positions of power the speedier China will recover, and the easier it will be for the United States tc help.
 General Wedemeyer has never himself harbored the once-preva- lent illusion that the prime essen tial was the creation of coalition government that would include the Communists.
 It is doubtful whether any such coalition would have worked bet ter in China than it has worked anywhere else. Yet only if an hon. est, progressive government comes into being in China can the ground be cut from under the feet of Chi nese Reds.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-21
Stadium Parking

Motorists who attend ball games at
Legion Stadium continue to complain
of bad parking conditions.
We are informed that several cars
were stalled in what are almost sand
traps last Saturday night. We have
heard also of drivers whose cars have
been SO tightly stuck that it was neces-
sary to summon wreckers at some ex-
pense.
The situation has been brought to
the Board of County Commissioners at
tention repeatedly and the need for
well graded approaches and parking
areas pointed out, but in vain. The re-
suit is that whatever improvements
have been made within the stadium are
offset by the inconvenience and some
times at the expense of motoring spec
tators.
1t is to be hoped that the conditions
complained of will be corrected before
the next school term, when the stadium
will be in demand for football games
which attract such large attendance.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-21
Editorial Comment
WE'LL TAKE PEPPERMINT

We see by the news columns that three
Denver barbershop quartets are flying to
Scottsbluff, Neb., today to compete in a two
State sing. The winner will go to Milwaukee
in June seeking the international barber
shop quartet championship.
Junior, in his hepcat ignorance, may ask
us, VIVA is barbershop?" What shall we
tell hun? Son, we shall say, barbershop
harmonles are the peppermint drops of
American song. They last and last. You roll
them on your tongue and they are sweet
but not sticky-sweet. Their flavor has a
pungent power that brings mist to the eyes.
That's the peppermint in them.
You boogie-woogie pumpkins are song
savages, Junior. You gulp your melodies
Whole, never pausing to SAVIOR them. Be they
sweet CT sour, after two weeks on the radio
they are gone, consumed, and you are sick
of them.
We your Individually elders, prefer pep
perSnlnt to hotcha-cha. In the evening by the
moonlight, We still love strolling down Melody
Lace with Sweet Adeline. Shine on, harvest
moon.
We don't care if Richard never opens the
door. Does he plead for five minutes more
with Sioux City Sue? We can't hear him,
Tor Caroline is calling down by the old mill
stream. Dear old gal, she's got peppermint
drops. Some day you'll understanding
Denver Post. ~