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Evening star., 1948-02-09
Sliding Scale Of Pay
In Service Disability
Retirements Sought
BY the Assoeiossd Press

Partial pay for partial disability
that's the key idea as Congress tries
to frame new rules for Army and
Navy officers retired on physical
grounds.
They now get rs per cent of base
pay, tax free, no matter what the
disability for which they are re-
tired.
The idea is to lessen the number
of cases in which ex-oficers can
draw monthly disability checks and
at the same time earn big salaries
on jobs with which their ailments
do not interfere.
The current study was set OF by
the case of Maj. Gen. Bennett E.
Meyers, disclosed in a Senate in
vestigation of his wartime business
activities to be drawing $3.50
, monthly disability check.
Problems Outlined.
But the House Armed Services
Committee, which Is making the
study, is having trouble deciding
Just how to apply graduated scale.
Typical problems:
/. What percentage Of compensa-
ton to give a man suffering from
some ailment that incapacitates
him for military duty but leaves him
able to carry on certain sorts OF
civilian work.
2. How to equalize treatment OF
a young man with only brief serv-
ice record suffering partial dis
ability that would interfere little
with civilian life, and of an older
man with the same disability but
with years of military service and
presumably less chance at good
private job.
For the latter case Representa-
tive johnson of California, chair
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man Of q continuing subcommittee
on disability. suggested q solution
yesterday. He told a reporter his
idea is to set up two credit tables.
A 10 per cent disability Of itself,
for instance, would entitle the Of
ficer to certain percentage of pay.
And he would get more money in
ratio to his years Of service.
No Conclusions Reached.
Mr.. johnson said no conclusions
had been reached by the committee
yet on that point. Neither, he said
has anything been decided about
how to apply an officers civilian
capabilities as an Offset to military
disability,
He said he personally did not
see how a mans capacity for
civilian work unrelated to his mill
Evening star., 1948-02-09
United Nations Lawyers
List Gross as Speaker

E. A. Gross, legal advisor to the
State Department, will speak at
the first annual conference of the
United Nations League of Lawyers
at the United Nations Club, 1701
Nineteenth street NV. at $3.50 pm.
Friday.
A business session, starting at
pm, will be followed by a cocktail
party to be given in honor Of visit
ing notables at $50 pm. Ambassa-
Evening star., 1948-02-09

dor Alexandra Parodi Of France,
permanent delegate on the Security
Council Of the United Nations, who
is executive vice president Of the
league, will call the meeting to or
der. Mr.. Gross will speak at the
evening session.
The Committee on Arrangements
comprises Col. G. r. Powles, coun-
selor of the New Zealand Legation;
Evening star., 1948-02-09

Dr.. Paul r. Douglass, president Of
American University: John Foster
Dulles, Mime. Sophie Grinberg
Vinaver. Miss Mary II. Donlon, Miss
Alice Mary Dodd and Col. Mary
Agnes Brown.
Evening star., 1948-02-09
Dokotons Plan Joint Dance

The South Dakota State Society
win join the North Dakota State
Society in leap year dance which
will start at 9 pm, February 20, in
the terrace room at National Air
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tary duties could be charged against
his disability credit.
The committee Is awaiting q study
on such points which it asked the
Army to start last year.
Evening star., 1948-02-09

port. Members of the congressional
delegations from both States are
expected to attend.
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Evening star., 1948-08-15

Philadelphia. But, in addition
to Princeton University and
other educational institutions,
the locale is historically re-
membered by Americans be-
cause the Battle of Princeton
took place here when WASH
ington surprised and defeated
a British force in 1777. Nassau
Hall, Princeton's oldest and
most historic building-dating
back to 1756-was used as q
Evening star., 1948-08-15
s..dsy sss, pors ese.;ne s.hi.soa c. August IS ls4s

capital. later on, New Amstel.
It was at q point now known
as Strand and Delaware
streets, in New Castle, that
william Penn first landed on
American soil. George WASH
ington was q wedding guest
at Amstel House In that city
in 1784, the year after the
Treaty of Paris.
Through Penns Grove and
Bridgeport we travel north
east over u. s. $50 to Cam
den, settled by the Quakers in
1881 and once the home of
Walt Whitman. Another great
American writer. James Feni-
more Cooper, was born but II
miles away, at Burlington,
through which we pass en-
route to Bordentown. North
of Bordentown lies Trenton,
capital of New Jersey.
Trenton, once called The
Falls" was occupied in 1776
by the British in their pursuit
of washington. The impress
sive Battle Monument. Oh the
highest ground in the city, at
the intersection of North War
rem and North Broad streets,
and Pennington, Brunswick
and Princeton avenues. COM
memorates an important VIC
tory in Continental Army his
tory, the day after Christmas,
rs. On this elevated ground
Gen. Greene's artillery opened
fire on the British and Hes
slams and secured their sur
render for Gen. Washington,
whose forces had crossed the
ice-clogged Delaware on De-
cember Is.
The Old Barracks at South
Willow and Front streets
were occupied during the Rev.
olutionary War by British
troops, Hessian mercenaries,
American colonials and Tories,
and the structure is well
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worth visiting. At Trent
House, in Bloomsbury court,
the visitor may see where
Washington, Lafayette and
Rochambeau were entertained.
Eleven miles north, on u. s.
206, lies Princeton, seat of the
university founded by royal
charter i'm 1746. In this city
the Continental Congress met
in 1883 when mutinous SOL
diers drove its members from
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Duplicate of the hut used George Washington VoIey Forge

hospital during the war. Here
it was that the Continental
Congress, meeting In 17S3, re-
ceived the word Of the Treaty
Of Paris, which ended the
war with Great Britain.
Moving southwest through
Lawrenceville, We cross the
Delaware to Morrisville, tax
ing q. 8. to Philadelphia,
where stops should be made
to visit Independence Hall, the
Betsy Ross House on Arch
street, where Washington first
saw the Stars and Stripes:
Congress Hall and the Letitta
Street House, built by william
Penn for his daughter. Many
other buildings and parks are
worthy Of visits before moving
on to Norristown and the VAL
ley Forge State Park.
Valley Forge, shrine Of the
Nation, Is part of the 2.O19-
acre tract about 8 miles west
of Norristown, where WASH
ington's half-clothed. half
starved army spent the ter
rible winter Of 1777-8. WASH
ington's headquarters still
stands, and hospital and res
idential huts and shelters
have been reconstructed with
painstaking accuracy.
The return is made over
u. s. 202. through Paon,
scene of the so-called ''Paoli
Massacre" and West Chester.
and then over Pennsylvania
So to Kennett Square. From
here take U. 8. l back to
Washington, through Oxford
and then into Conoyingo, Md.
U. 8. goes right over the
Conowingo Dam and the Sus-
Quehanna River. It is one Of
the largest hydroelectric pow
er projects in the United
States, and visitors are well
come.
Through Poole and Bel Air
we return to Baltimore and
back to the District, the Sec
ond leg of our tour having
consumed 196 miles.
Evening star., 1948-08-15
A Tour for August
BY WALTER w. HUBBARD
THE AUTOMOBILE trip

THE AUTOMOBILE trip
l. suggested today may be
described as a sort of Revolu-
tionary War tour. It includes
such historically important
places as Philadelphia, Tren-
ton, Princeton, Valley Forge
and Paoli.
The trip. as outlined ON the
accompanying map, covers
375 miles of motoring, and to
benefit from it don't try to do
it in less than two days.
Stretch it to three days If your
budget permits, and start with
the l80-mile leg from Wash
ington. which includes a
large part of New Jersey, just
east of the Delaware River.
Take q. 8. 1 to Baltimore,
and If you have time there
pay a brief visit to the Wash
ington Monument ON Mount
Vernon place. This is said to
be the first monument built
to honor the Father of His
Country, its construction, as
an 188-foot column, having
begun in 1915. 1t Is surmount-
ed by q 16-foot statue.
Continue northeast over U.
s. 40 through Aberdeen, where
artillery and explosives such
as Washington never dreamed
of are tested by the Govern
ment. After Havre de Grace,
locale of one of the most ia
nous race tracks In the East,
we cross the Susquehanna
River, heading for Elkton,
formerly the Maryland "Gret-
ma Green. Sixteen miles to
the east lies New Castle. DEL,
where we take the ferry to
Pennsville, N. J.
New Castle was once the
capital of the Dutch colony in
this part of North America.
Here, after taking the land
from the Swedes, they built
Fort CaSimir and named the
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(This is one Of Q series Of astje1es
o. oeek-en6 sst0sso00e tytpe to
places Of tsterest Gsugsd walk
f1gtox. prepared especially for tie
Pictorial Naosziss b. the Axsest-
cGn Axtomoot1e AssocjGtioaJ
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-01-24

seems somewhat Inconsistent to
you-as it does to me-go see a
good psychiatrist.
Speaking of Goldwyn, however,
brings us, a bit unwillingly, to an
item called the Bishops Wife"
which has been perpetrated on
us by the gentleman in question.
This is probably just what he
had in mind when he said
Hollywood was 'treadlng the
road to ruin" This. as director
Herbert Biberman was saying a
few weeks ago. is the kind Of
thing that killed vaudeville and
will probably catch up with the
movies in time.
The entertainment or edification
value of Observation-Disclosures
with angles left me feeling pretty
sad after the second one. But still
they keep coming.
In the Bishops Wife" the
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Lifhon dancing for an independent
film producer in New York, who
exports these film shorts to France
and other countries in Europe,
where they're extremely popular.
Radio station WINS comic,
Morey Amsterdam, drew lot Of
protests from taxi drivers when
he made what was supposed to
be a wise crack about taxi driv-
ers taking the long way home to
make more money out of their
fares. Later that night, on an
other program, Amsterdam apollo
gized. But all throughout that
program and, of course, while AM
sterdam was apologizing, a record
of background music was being
played titled-Long Way Home.
The play wasn't really as bad
as all that, but they're saying
around town about Crime and
Punishment that the production
was a crime and the audience took
the punishment.
Hear that Frank Kingdom may
give up the idea of fighting for
the New Jersey Democratic Party
nomination for Senator.
Word from the West Coast
that all hell broke loose last
Wednesday at the Hollywood
Newsreel Theatre. The sound
effects got juggled with yhe re-
suit that the fade-out of the
Warner-Pathe News carried over
into Metro Goldwyn Mayer
short.
When Leo the lion opened his
mouth to roar. all the customers
heard was the lustY crow of the
rooster.
This has been on my desk for
several days but haven't used it
under the impression that all the
papers were running it. But till
now haven't noticed it in any of
this towns press.
The Allied Independent Theatre
Owners, organization of the movie
theatre owners in mid-western
states, have condemned the film, |
The Senator Was Indiscreet, stat
ng that it might be used as "vi-
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woo:
HOLY 7:S:}; ''s'''..
Orson and Babe Ruth only one
of many film casting naturaIs'

b J.
n OY Del Ruth Allied producer reported
II sent off script of his Story of Babe Ruth
Italy play the
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-01-24

top men in the industry.
Goldwyn said Hollywood was
threading the road to ruin !.
It is a Startling indictment of our
industry that with employment
throughout the nation at its high
est peak in history, box office
receipts have been going down"
Putting his finger ON the source
of the trouble, Goldwyn added
that he thought the basic element
of picture making was a good
story. He ought to know. He's
produced some good stories him
self-films like North Star" and
the BEST Years of Our Lives"
All of which gives me a chuckle
mot very loud one to be sure,
but chuckle. 1t was just about
month ago that all the big pro-
ducers got together in New York
at the invitation of Eric John
ston and. summarily canned the
only writers on their lots who had
ideas, who could write the kind
of pictures that Goldwyn is say
ing Hollywood needs. 1t seems
they were dirty Reds and con-
temptuous Of the Un-American
Committee.
Prominent among the boys who
put their little KS on the line
Qxactly Uhara Johpcfon and tho
bankers told them to was none
other than Sam Goldwyn. If this
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-01-24

pr o d u C e r was
quoted as saying
the oth er day
that poor pic
lures will even
tually ruin Holly
wood. That's not
a really original
idea, but it car
ries some weight
coming as it does
from one of the
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-01-24
scORECARD
*#ssExcellent; s.*Good; *Fair;
Indifferent; None, stinker

lnulI lCICHSs 1NOtiCt 0tfhACE
Anthony Adverse
***s Best Years of Our Lives
- Black Narcissus
It Had To Be You
*** Body and Soul
**** CrosSfire
Daisy Kenyon
- Deep Valley
Forever Amber
$685. Gentleman's Agreement
*** Great Expectations
I Love Trouble
Black Gold
*** Kiss of Death
- Life With Father
*+* Long Night
Lost Moment
**** Monsieur Verdoux
- Ride the Pink Horse
*** Romance of Rosy Ridge
SIS Secret Life of Waite
NIFTY
~ The Senator Was Indiscree&
Foxes of Harrow
Miles Daughter
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Movie beet
Mr.. GoLdwyn and
the Bishops Wife

angel is Cary Grant. He comes
down TO earth to straighten out
David Niven, a young eager
beaver type minister who wants
a big, swank cathedral, and Lor-
eta Young, his patient, lovable
wife. It's all about spiritual tram
guilty and as fascinating as an
old soap opera.
don't know what's happened
to Goldwyn. In the past, he's al
ways shown some taste, intelli-
gence and a genuine interest in
human problems. Most Of his
movies showed that he considered
film making artistic creation. But
Bishops Wife" is way off the
beam. It's slick and has some
amusing scenes, but otherwise
almost impossible to tell from the
kind of tripe that MGM and Para
mount pour out by the barrelfuI.
II this is any indication of
what the white terror is going
to do to Hollywood. we'd all
better sharpen up our pinochle
games and forget about the
movies. y
TYCOON" is the kind of thing
that makes our good neighbors
to the South SO unhappy and
makes our neighbors up here in
the North positively sad. 1t seems
that this gringo engineer, John
Wayne, is building tunnel
through helluva high mountain
down in Latin Amer
lea. The local bigwig gets mad
when our hero looks at his daugh-
ter as if he-the hero-were hav-
ing a gall bladder attack. The
Tycoon correctly interprets this
grimace as love-h sure had me
puzzled-and tries to stop him
from building the damned thing.
But, hell, you can't stop an
that way. In fact even
the mountain falling down on his
partner doesn't stop the gringo-
he just goes ahead and builds
bridge instead, honest.
Lippy Durocher will be doing
a considerable service
when he gets LARAMIE Day off
travelling with the Dodgers and
out of things like this.
! SENT one of my spies over
to sit through a number called
THE Fabulous Texan" He stag
gered in all green around the
gills to report that there's nothing
in this-he-and you, too-haven't
seen 600 times and suggested that
The Star start a campaign to get
those old Western serials revived
and shown at first run houses.
With great logic he asks why
take an inferior imitation when
you can get the real thing?
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cious propaganda by subversive
elements.s =. :" This movie is
merely mild spoofing of GER
tain type politician and the pro-
ducers, as mentioned in this paper
previously, tried to appease the
Un-American Committee by toss
ing in caricatured "bolshevik."
Then, as itemed here the other
day, they moved to prevent its
sale in non-English speaking coun-
tries abroad.
The National Council on Free
dom From Censorship has stated
These theatre owners quite evil
IDENTIFY are inundated by the at
mosphere of fear engendered by
the recent House Un-American
Activities hearing.
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the nature of a
forum with Steel
m o d e r a t i n g .
H e n ry Wallace
and Sen. GIL e n
Taylor have al
ready agreed to
be among Steel's
guest speakers.
Martha era
ham, Anita AL
xxaroz Il Y11o
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in Hollywood historical pix. And
ii readers of Time magazine have
written to that publication to sug-
gest that Bob Hope be cast as
Paul Revere. The film, no doubt,
10 be titled The Road to Licking
ton and the key line to be: Zone
if by Crosby, two if by Lamour." ..
NUNNALLY johnson, erstwhile
producer of The Grapes of Wrath
and currently getting plaudits for
The Senator Was Indiscreet, was
not one of those who joined the
Committee for the First Amend
ment to protest the Thomas COM
mittee's un-American attempts at
intimidating the film industry.
Now the independent theater
owners of Nebraska have called
upon their members not to play
The Senator because it makes fun
of our public officials and, as
such, might give aid and comfort
to "subversive elements"
The producer is naturally upset
not only because of possible fl
nancial loss but also because his
film has been cut 10 the bone to
avoid giving offense to anyone or
appearing to portray any real-life
politicians. He has made state
ment that, If this Nebraska ban
goes through, it will be the be-
ginning of the Censorship, by
fear and intimidation" which is
the aim of the Thomas committee.
AS one who deeply respects him
address the following memo to
him: Dear Nunnally johnson:
Where were you when the 10 were
called to Washington? How did
you protest? If the present action
is what you say it is, you can
count yourself among those re-
sponsible. BY your silence two
months ago, YOU ASKED FOR
IT,.
e.
ODDS AND ENDS: Vincent
Price plays Richelieu in MGM's
musical The Three Musketeers.
Lana Turner, Gene Kelly, Van
Helm, June Allyson and keenan,
Wynn have already been cast .
Luther Adler, appearing with Rita
Hayworth in The Loves of Car
men, has been offered top male
spot in the stage production of
Piranello's AS You Desire Me,
with Marta Abba Republic
has started filming Ted Strauss
novel Moonrise with Dane Clark,
Gail Russell, Ethel Barrymore,
Allyn Joslyn and Rex Ingram I'M
der Frank Borzage's direction.
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I;32;I;R;i :
Johannes Steel
to go back
on the air
By BARNARD RUBIN

OHANNES STEEL will be
back ON the air shortly on
a major New York station-spon-
sored by the Voice of Freedom
Committee. Program will be in
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oUItdH Oh SWAY LII
That is casting with an eye to realism for
Orson would be perfect for the part. And with him
jim it, this might at last be the GREAT picture about
Jour national pastme that we've been waiting for
Other look-alikes: Sam Wanamaker, whom
you'll in his first film My Girl lisa Gnci-
!dentaliy, very heart-warming piece about irnmi-
grants at the turn of the century,, would be
derful Tom Dewey Ga statement which, probably
being registered Democrat, he'll doubtless resent.
Comedian Benny Baker, in the same film, is
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-01-24
By BOB BENNETT

q AM Goldwyn, who IS q cut
y above the ordinary or
swimming pool type Hollywood
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deadrnger for literary critic H. L. Mencen if
film the autobiography authority
American
Sir Stafford Grips, In the labor Britain
always get part playing
Montana labor news., 1948-07-29
DEMOCRATS PLANK: TIL REPEAL

The Republican platform promises, as
the Associated Press summarizes it,
continuing study to improve labor-man-
agcmcnt relations in the light OF expert
ence and changing conditions"
The Democratic platform says flatly in
these exact words:
eve advocate the repeal of the Taft
Hartley Act"
Those labor leaders who have been
talking as if they might throw their sup
port to the Republicans in this election
should be asked to explain Just why they
consider the Republican plank and the
Republican record better than the Demo-
cratic plank and the Democratic record.
The Democratic platform says in eight
words exactly and completed what oroan-
ICED labor has been saying ever since the
nefarious legislation was passed over
President Truman's veto.
Try to say it any more plainly and
briefly than those eight words put it:
"We advocate the repeal of the Taft
Hartley Act"
Montana labor news., 1948-07-29
HOW RICH ARE UNIONS?

Life Magazine ONE time ago described
unions in America as "vigorous and
rich.' Vigorous, yes, but rich-the an
swer must be no.
The thirty-two largest unions in
America control at the maximum less
than 50 0,000,0O0 in assets for any and
all emergencies, less wealth for ALL
unions, than the profit alone, last year,
of more than a dozen corporations, and
far less none for the COMBINED unions,
than the assets Of at least seventy indi-
vidual corporations in America.
The combined assets Of ALL the ma
Montana labor news., 1948-07-29
IT'S GETTING WORSE

The prices-wages situation reminds us
of that little dog in our neighborhood who
spends a lot Of time chasing his tail.
He gets out in the front yard and goes
around and around and around. He makes
a lot of noise. But he never catches his
tail.
It's a tiresome performance-but not
a bit more tiresome than this business of
getting a pay cut nearly every time you
turn around.
It's happened in 10 of the "a months
that have passed since OPA was killed.
Each increase in prices equals a cut in
pay Gas if you didn't know it). The cost
of living has gone up in all but six of the
"a months of the post-OPA period, ac-
cording to government figures.
And there's every indication prices will
rise again-perhaps rather sharply-be-
tween now and the end of the year.
This would cut into the wage hikes the
unions have been securing in an effort to
regain the lost purchasing power result
ing from previous price increases.
Where-and when-will it end?
Nobody seems to know when, but
there's fairly general agreement as to
where. It will end in an economic crash
and another terrible depression unless
something is done to change the trends.
Montana labor news., 1948-07-29
MoDERN1zED SOCIAL SECURITY

Not that this or any other fractional
Congress controlled by the big employ
ers will do anything about it, but because
it is an interesting development pointing
the way to progress which the working
people of America approve, the advisory
council on social security has just recon-
mended to the United States Senate that
the whole structure be modcrnized.
The advisory council is comprised Of
II leaders in business, industry and
labor. Here is what it asks Congress to
do:
Extend the coveragc of the law so that
at least 90 million more American t%oilcrs.
including self employed and farmers, will
pay taxes and be eligible to benefits. The
council would strike out the present ex-
emptions, especially those proposed by
Republican Representative Gearhart Of
California. Tt would cover government,
state and city employees, persons in the
military service, and those employed by
non-profit groups. The council also g
raising of the tax and boosting of the
benefits.
Such modcrnization of social security
is greatly needed. Tt is one Of the goals
which will be attained when the working
people are aroused, and when they 90 to
the polls and vote for candidates for con-
gress who represent honestly the gen
eral public. The present Congress, how
ever. will give it little time.