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The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1948-10-07
Montsarada Grange
Has Booster Night

At the Montsarada Grange Boo
ster Night held recently, greetings
were extended to the members and
friends by the Master, w. B. Leath-
erman, and special musical numbers
were presented by Kemp Kretzer
and Mr.. Burk.
Following the reading of the ma
tional Masters address, a playlet,
''Exemplifying The Principles of the
Grange" was given by: the Master,
w. B. Leatherman; chaplain, Ray
mond Baker; lecturer, Elva Leath-
erman; legislation chairman, Charles
Grab; agricultural chairman, Rus
sell Iseminger; Ceres, Lorraine
Baker; and home economics chair
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1948-10-07

strict orders from Washington that
none of these arms were to be re-
moved At later date some writer
saw the gun room and pronounced
the old house fort" supposing
that this gun room had been there
since pioneer days, and that the guns
were used in protecting the family
from the Indians. But this room
and its contents were of much later
date.
Miss Kennedy, later married to
Findlay, recalled in her history that
there was a tradition that at the
southeast corner of the lot once
stood a building for slave quarters,
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1948-10-07

man, Mrs. Ada Hammond. The
audience participated in the play
let by the singing of songs.
Attorney Charles Wagaman, of
Hagerstown, reviewed the book, Il
Chose Freedom" by Ivan Kravchen-
ko, which was very enlightening and
instructive. Deputy l. Keller Shank
was present and also gave an in
spring talk.
The newly purchased grange
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1948-10-07

There are many more interesting
things to be told about this old
home, especially those that happen
ed during the Civil War. These will
be told in this column next week.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1948-10-07

plaque was displayed in the grange
hall. Visitors were present from
Hagerstown, Leitersburg and Harp
ers Ferry
At the conclusion of the program,
refreshments were served. The next
meeting will be held on October IL.
Evening star., 1948-05-31

sessions Of designing clothes Tor
Osa Massen, whom she Is dressing
for her role in Million Dollar
Week End"
Spencer Tracy is spiking all pos
sible rumors of marital trouble by
having his wife and children join
him in London this sssummer. From
time to time one hears stories OF
discord. That may have been so
once, but it isn't true now.
Shelley Winters tells me that she
had a date yesterday with John
Payne-but all he talked about was
his estranged wife, Gloria De
Haven. That guy" summarizes
Shelley, has got it bad"
Joel McCrea is dickering with
Dan Duryea to play the heavy in
his Milton Sperling western, Drums
Along the Amazon" Watch for
more and more westerns on the
future screen. They are the answer
always to sagging market.
Yvonne De Carlo calls to explain
that she is not being difiicult. or
even high hat, by hiding away
from the telephone, and coFase-
quently her studio. I'm not an
swering the phone says Yvonne,
because when I first came here /
made the apparent mistake OF
loaning money to relatives and
friends. Now they keep calling me
for q quick touch. So I don't
answer the phone for any one"
Peggy Cummins calls with the
Joyful news that she will co-star
with Van Heflin in Berkeley
Square" at the La Jolla Playhouse.
Evening star., 1948-05-31
Hollywood:
Sonia Henie's
Nephew Gets
Film Career
By SheiIoh Grohom

The Jeanne Grain Dan Daley
picture, "You Were. Meant for Me-
is running into a lawsuit. Winnie
Garrett, vice president of Famous
Records, Inc. is bringing suit be-
cause there is a Famous Records
Company in the movie, and in the
movie the company goes broke! A
horrid coincidence, but, Miss Garrett
wants $l50.000!
Sonia Henie, family gal from
way back is sponsoring the movie
career OF her four-year-old nephew,
Billie. She starts. the boy at the
top with good part in her own
picture, THE Countess Of Monte
Cristo." To introduce the boy to
his new public, Sonia plans a
gigantic kids party for him, next
month.
Ingrid Bergman's leading man
job in Under Capricorn" is still
open, learn from London. /
thought some one was dreaming
when I was told that Jack La Rue,
who used to play gangster parts
In Hollywood, had been signed for
Bergman -
Walter Pidgeon swinging upside
down in a trapeze act. for sweet
charity-for st. Johns Hospital In
Santa Monica to be exact-is some
thing I definitely want to see. But
take it easy Walter-remember what
happened when you did the big
apple in a picture with Claudette
Colbert. You had to get around
on crutches for weeks!
Victor Mature, in spite OF his
coyness anent the role of Samson
in C. B. DeMille's Samson and
Delilah," really wants to do the
part like nobody's business. He is
currently on a strict diet to lose
poundage because, if he plays Sam
son, he will have to show a lot
of that beautiful torso.
Orson Welles just giggles at the
rumor that he and Rita Hayworth
have a rendezvous in Italy, as a pre-
lude to patching up their marriage
They had plenty Of time to get to-
gether in Hollywood if they had
wanted to make up. And Orson Is
so infatuated with his current Ital-
ian lady-loye that he just babbles in
coherently when you talk to him
about her.
Gene Tierney, who loves to speak
French-she went to school In
Brooklyn and Paris - gets the
chance she wants in THAT Won
derful urge" We wont be seeing
Gene again in Hollywood for one
whole year. And that doesn't make
her mad -
Phillip Reed has rediscovered
Barbara Barondess MacLean. They
have been twoirlg it around town
Phil and I went to school to-
gether," Barbara tells me, between
Evening star., 1948-05-31
DC. Schools Rate a Critics A
For Their Tastes in Movies
Ry-Jny Cormody

Metropolitan Washngtonx children have sound taste m
slightly here and there perhaps but nothing 70
excited about. * q, ... -.
performers Peck and Ingd Bergman az
And If they want TO tnk m
about too different with sucn
Evening star., 1948-05-31

B.CC and Wilson go, respectively
for Cary Grant and Gary Cooper.
- ~
Alan Laid. more bloodthirsty
type in his screen assignments, gets
a lot of attention from the boys in
the Junior high balloting, turning up
as a co-favortte with Bing Crosby
at Kensington. and the leader at Le-
land. Deals man is Bob Hope and
the runnersup is Sir Lawrence
Olivier. Junior high girls are not
consistent in the men they favor
but they do run to. a type-and not
a two-gun type. At Deal, their
Ideal is Peter Lawford. Kensington
goes for Larry Parks. and at Leland
(probably more loyal group to
the older sgeneration it is Tyrone
Power.
There is tendency to run the
gamut when junior high students
get on the subject Of their favorite
actresses. Boys and girls together,
they give Miss Bergamn the most
polite nod, and then start tossing
in the names of Betty Cradle, Lana
Turner, Esther Williams, Larraine
Day, June Allyson and, bless their
loyal little hearts, Shirley Temple
as a sort of after thought.
4*'*
Any notion that local adolescents
are obsessed on the subject of love on
the screen is not supported by. the
Film Councils survey. Loves all
right, naturally, in its place-but its
place Is never better than second.
Drama is the big winner in this cate
CORY.
| At Bethesda Chevy Chase. the
girls voted drama first, love second
and historical films third. The boys
ignored love altogether with his
tory first, comedy second, and drama
third Friends boys and girls agreed
on drama as their favorite cinema
theme, never gave love look-in,
and voted for musicals and history
as the runners up. Wilson's girls
choose drama, love and historical
as their three favorites and the
BOYS rated them comedy, drama and
historical.
Comedy is the big item on the
movie menus of, the junior high and
elementary groups with boys and
girls in complete agreement. In the
runner up categories, Westerns stand
second among the elementary grad
ers. Apparently, however, by junior
high age, horse opera begins to
lose its grip in favor of such higher
things as drama, history and even
love.
Animal stories lose their follow
ing as homo sapiens becomes what
he thinks is more sapient. They
are big, however. In the elementary
graders affections and even hang
on into the junior. high group in a
Evening star., 1948-05-31

limited way. (Some critics, prob
ably cases of arrested development,
20 on liking them right through
adulthood. s.
Il y
If HOLLYWOOD executives would
like to know where Washington's
school children stand on movie
source material, they will keep right
on buying best seller novels. Senior
and junior high school students get
"As' on rating novels first as movie
materials, screen originals second,
and Broadway plays as third. At
least, any critic will give them "A's'
for that ratinng.
Elementary pupils think screen
originals are best, which has its
points.
: On the whole, the Film Coun-
Gil indicates that the young 10.
cally are not doing badly on the
movies; not from a drama desk's
view.
Evening star., 1948-05-31

high schools, junior highs ana
10 elementary pupil groups figured
in the balloting.
4,
Miss Bergman is the big winner
among all the screens stars in the
councils survey of the senior high
schools. Out of possible six
first places-the favorite actress Of
both boys and girls in all three
high schools-she wins five. Both
boys and girls voted for her at
Bethesda Chevy Chase and Friends,
but the male students Of Wilson be-
trayed Miss Bergman by naming
Lana Turner as their favorite. Miss
Bergman is the pet of the Wilson
girls, however. In time. it is pos
sible they may convert the schools
male students to their sense OF the
fitness of an actress.
In the high school group, Peck
makes a complete sweep among the
girl voters, but is the favorite
only among the boys yat Friends.
Evening star., 1948-05-31
Where and Wien
Current Theoter Attractions
and Time Of Showing

= .& Stage.
NationaI-"II Harvey; 2:3O and $50
pm.
Amba bassador-"Silver River; los,
3;15, $40, 7:25 and 9:35 pm.
Capitol--"Green Grass Of Wyo-
ming; 1925 am. 1:05, 3:45. 6:25,
s:O5 and 11:40 pm. Stage shows
1915, 2:55, 5:35, 8:l5 and 1885 pm
Columbia-"Unconquered";; 1o:40
am, 100, 4, 6:45 and 9:25 pm.
Dupont-"The Mill on the Floss:
.12:45, 2:35, 4:30, $40, BIS and 1910
pm.
Hippodrome-"The Tawny Pipit";;
2:25, Ais, $3.50 and 9:35 pm.
Keith's-"Berlin Express; HAS
am, 1:45, 3:45, 5:45, 7:45e and 9:45
LittIe-yDie Fledermats"; 1925
am. 1880, $3.50, 5:35, TAO and 9:45
pm. ". y: .N
Metropolitan - 1.-THE Fighting
seth";; l1:25 am. l:25, $3.50, 5:35
TAO and $50 pm. ..
Playhouse-"The Search: 1l:15
AM, ! 20 800, 5:25, 1880 and 9:35
pm. ..rG5
Palace - Homecoming; 10:45
am, 1855, 3:05, Sis, 7:25 and 9:35
spl11. .3siSs f3a -,
Pix-"A Night in Casablanca"
3:35, $40 and $50 pm.
Trans.Lnx. -a News and shorts
Continuous from 1915. .AszAss.-s-@. .,~-,
Warner.-"silver R4YsrSiIf If a.ma
1:o5.. 3;ls.,be25, TBS ahd $50 pm. |
Evening star., 1948-05-31

When Gregory Peck first asked
Peggy to- do it, she said, Il don't
think I'm good enough! That's
refreshing. Incidentally, Peggy tells
me that she is not marrying Bob
Landry or any other man-her
career still comes first.
Bette Davis can't sell her Butter
nut" estate in New Hampshire, 50
she has decided to vacation there
this sumrner-after completing
June Bride" She'll take her young
daughter and Hubby Sherry along.
too, OF course.
Gregory Peck has pretty shrewd
Evening star., 1948-05-31

as. Cary Grant and Gary Cooper.
1t Is down in the junior high
school group that taste really be-
gins to run to variety. And it may
be even a bit more varied in the
elementary pupil group. Miss Berg
man and Peck have virtually no
followings among this set of movie
goers, which is inclined to favor
such liveuer spirits as Abbott ana
Costello, or a noble. cowboy type on
the order of Randolph Scott.
This intelligence is provided by
the Community Film Council, head
ed by Mrs. Henry F. Hubbard, which
has Just completed a survey OF
the movie habits and tastes oil
Washington's young. Three senior
Evening star., 1948-05-31
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THE EvENING,STAR Washington. D. c. '"A-13
sS.

idea of the identity of the man who
is spreading those marriage-trouble
rumors. And heaven help the guy,
If Greg stumbles across his path
which he aims to do very soon.
released by North American Newspaper
Alliance
Evening star., 1948-04-20
Far Northwest Area
Citizen Council Urged

The Shepherd = Park Citizens
Association will attempt to organ
'ize new council consisting of all
citizens associations in the ex-
treme Northwest area.
The Shepherd Park association
appointed a committee last night
to invite all of the eligible groups
to discuss the plan with them. All
associations west of Rock Greek
Park, east of North Capitol street,
and north of the territory covered
by the Northwest Council Of Cjti-
zens' Associations would be eligible
for the proposed council.
DR.. Benjamin Striner. intro
duced the motion, calling for the
new council.
DR.. Howard Baker of the Agricul-
ture Department discussed Japa-
nese beetle control with the asso-
ciation.
Mrs. Margaret Zwolak gave a
talk on the current chest X-ray
campaign.
Edmund J. Wells, president of
the association, appointed nOmi-
mating and auditing committees to
prepare for election of new officers
next month.
The meeting was held in the
Shepherd Park Elementary School,
Fourteenth street and Kalmia road
NV, aid was conducted by Mr..
Wells
Evening star., 1948-04-20
Gun-Toter Gets 6 Months
And $50 Fine for Threats

Judge Ellen K. Raedy yesterday
sentenced a man to six months in
Jail for carrying a loaded pistol
and imposed an additional $50 fine
for threatening a cab driver with
the weapon.
The sentences were imposed on
George Washington Scriber, 33,
colored, of the first block of Eye
street NE, who pleaded guilty to
the gun-carrying charge. but de-
MED he threatened Edward S.
Jones, also colored, of the 1900
block of California street NV.
Mr.. Jones testified that Scriber,
whom he had picked up as fare,
got into an argument with him
over his refusal to hand over his
hackers identification papers. The
driver said Scriber finally reached
menacingly inside his coat and
threatened to make him produce
the papers.
Police arrived and saw the de-
fendant f1ourishing loaded small
caliber revolver at the hacker, who
had stopped his cab in the 1900
block of Benning road NE.
Evening star., 1948-04-20
D. {. Urged TO Halt Driving
OF Visitors Unsafe Autos

The Fort Davis Citizens Associa-
ton will ask the Metropolitan Police
Department to stop out-of town
automobiles that look unsafe" and
prohibit them from driving in the
District.
The citizens voted last night to
take this action to protect inspected
District autos from cars that come
from States with no inspection laws
The motion was made by Mrs
Edward B. Morris, chairman of the
Public Order and Welfare Com
mittee. ~t-- go.
Another motion offered by Mrs.
Morris was accepted, asking that a
white line be painted in the center
Of Pennsylvania avenue from Branch
avenue to Twenty-seventh street Sc.
The association also agreed to
sponsor Fort Davis softball team
in the Hilltop Recreation Council
League. Boys from to IL will be
eligible. The first game will be
played May at Fort Davis Park.
In another action the citizens
asked that the Soap Box Derby
course on Pennsylvania avenue Sc.
be made permanent.
Last nights meeting was con-
Quoted by William F. Osche, presi-
dent, in the Ryland Methodist
Church, Branch avenue and S street
Sc.
Evening star., 1948-04-20
Marsha||'s Counsel Seek
To Bar Use Of Ries Speech

Attorneys for George Marshall, on
trial in District Court on a charge
of contempt of Congress, today
sought to bar submission of five
and-a half year-old speech by Mar
tin Dies, former chairman of the
House uh-American Activities Com
mittee.
Marshall is on trial on a chcarge
of refusing to produce for the COM
mittee records of the now defunct
National Federation for Constitu-
tional Liberties, of which he was
chairman. He is now chairman of
the board of the Civil Rights Con-
gress.
The controversial Dies speech was
delivered in 1942 after the fedora
tion had issued a pamphlet calling
for a grand jury investigation Of
Mr.. Dies.
When the defense indicated to
the court that it's arguments against
admittance of the speech would take
several days" Justice Richmond B.
Keech recalled the jurors to the
courtroom and dismissed them until
tomorrow. The case is in its fourth
daV
Evening star., 1948-04-20
Hearing Called April y
On Bus Line Extension

The Commissioners yesterday an
nounced the Public Utilities Com
mission 'will hold a public hearing
at 10 am. April % to consider ex-
tensions to existing bus service in
the Manor Park, Trinidad and
Woodbridge areas.
. The Manor Park Citizens Associ-
alton and the Hampshire Heights
Citizens Association requested an
extension of the Military road cross
town bus line. The extension would
go east to North Capitol street, then
south over North Capitol street.
Hawaii avenue and east again over
Taylor street to connect with other
bus lines serving Northeast WASH
ington.
The other request would provide
direct bus transportation between
the Trinidad and the Woodbridge
areas. This was requested by the
Trinidad Citizens Association.
Evening star., 1948-04-20
Commissioners Veto
C|app Nomination

The Commissioners today disap-
proved the Board of Public We'll
fares nomination of Raymond F.
Clapp to be District Welfare direc-
tor, succeeding the late Ray L. Hu1.
Mr.. Clapp has been acting director
since Mr.. Huff's death last De-
cember.
The city heads gave no reason
for the rejection. Their decision
was handed to the three members
of the Board Of Public Welfare
Edgar Morris, A. j. Driscoll and Fred
S. Kogod-at their weekly board
meeting today. The board had NOM
mated the 57-year Mr.. Clapp last
February, but their selection was
pigeonholed at the time for fur
ther consideration. Today's devel-
opment leaves the welfare direc-
tors post still open.
Under District procedure. the
board nominates the man 1t wishes
to serve as Welfare director. The
Commissioners have the authority
to approve or disapprove nomina-
tions.
The board now must come up with
another candidate suitable to the
Commissioners.
Evening star., 1948-04-20
BY the Associeted Press

MANILA. April 2o.-President Ell
pidio Quirino appealed to the Phil
ippine press today to give me a
chance to conduct IAN honest, free
government before condemning his
administration.
Mr.. Quirino became chief execu-
tive after the death of President
Manuel Roxas Thursday.
He told news conference:
IF, in my short administration I
can accomplish these two things
(domestic) peace and order. and
restoration of the peoples faith in
their government shall consider
my term a success"
Mr.. Quirino said he would retain
for the time being his foreign sec
retary's post because the nation can
not afford to lose the momentum of
the policy laid down under Mr..
Roxas.
He said he considered IAN express
sion of confidence" the resignation
of the Roxas cabinet members and
declared he did not intend to ac-
cept Immediately any of them
The famed Philippine Scouts, in
which Mr.. Roxas was a brigadier
general during the dark days of
Bataan, will form part of his funeral
cortege Sunday. He will be buried
with full military honors.
Other United States Army units
and a 20-man honor guard from
the British cruiser Constance will
participate.
Evening star., 1948-04-20

leaders in the 20 senatorial regions
and 237 senatorial colleges get to-
oether and work out the disposition
of wasted" votes in the compn-
Gated proportional representation
system. Only candidates VINO set
IS per cent OF the vote are elec'eo
outright. l,;+
The extreme left refused to aomit
defeat and continued to charge tne
Christian Democrats with frauo'
The communist line newspaper, La
Republica, attempted to sno" INA.
the Christian Democrats thus 1ar
have only 43e per cent OF tne Vo'e
and the front had All per cent: ~,
The Interior Ministry's 3ao,oou
heavily armed men continued tnelf
vigilance after bringing about an
ELECTION more quiet and orderly tnan
had been thought possible after tne
violence OF the three montns o.
campaigning.
Italians Celebrate.
Manv italians celebrated a.
though an anti-Communlst VICTORY
was an accomplished fact.
In the Piazza Colonna, scene o.
some of the hottest campaign hghts
in recent weeks, there were vochel
ous shouts of viva America ano
Viva De Gasperi." ~
Thousands gathered in the streets
last night to get the election re-
turns The Communist organ
I,1Jnita had a big electric board or
which figures showed the Popular
Front out in front. CroWds "atcn'
ing it slowly drifted away as they
heard of different versions from
other sources. L'Unita's board "en'
off the air early.
I'm London. the Communist
Dailv Worker headlined its story
on the Italian elections: "Real
figures show 1taly's democratic
front leading"
lTass said in a dispatch date
lined Rome that several persons
died in polling booths because
they were taken from slckbeds
to vote Communist. 1t also
charged that priests and nuns
voted two or three times each,
using forged or purchased pa
pers)
The Parliament. the Italian Re-
publics first, meets May 8 to organ
lie and on May 10 it will choose the
renublics first President. for seven
wear term. The President picks
premier, who must keep the conn
dence of both Houses OF Parliament
The Senatorssserve six-year terms
the STA Deputies, chosen by proper
tional representation, serve nVe
years.