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Evening star., 1948-09-28
Fat Man in Dilemma
HOLLYWOOD

dOlL4 WOOO.
BY virtue. Of q doctors order to
eat five meals a day instead Of
three. has brought Sydney Green
street. famed Warner Bros "fat
man." out of a horrible dilemma,
which was caused by the Is pounds
he lost during a recent illness.
"I was about to collapse from
nervous indigestion" said Green
street, with happy sigh. Il
couldn't make UP my mind to
remain thin, or more correctly,
thinner, which is far more pleasant
and comfortable for me, or to try
to regain the portliness which made
me popular with my fans"
Mr.. Greenstreet is confident that
by the time his next picture,
"Flamingo Road" gets before the
cameras. he will be his usual ro-
tund self.
Evening star., 1948-09-28
Hollywood:
Diamond Kings
Story on Screen
Is Dropped
By Sheiloh Grohom

MovietoWn gossip, as heard along
Broadway, over the week end: Jack
Lait and Lee Mortimer have signed
a contract to do a Chicago Con-
fidential" along the lines of their
very successful New York Confiden-
tial." for which Marathon Pictures
paid $4,000 to turn into a movie.
Jack and Lee are sitting very pretty
with their book Brain Child"-lt
will also be turned into revue on
Broadway.
Rosalind Russell and Fred Brisson
have Cancelled their life story of
Barnato, the diamond king who died
recently. And this is blow for
Tony BARLEY, the good-looking hus-
band of Deborah Kerr. He was writ
ing the story. Now Tony is PLAN
ming to go into television as a pro-
ducer. If he produces as well as
he flew planes during the war he
will do all right.
Lana Turner has decided against
returning to Hollywood until after
the baby arrives. So, for the next ID
months, Lana will divide her time
between New York's Savoy-Plaza
and Bob Topping's mansion in Con-
necticut. Her mother and her
daughter, Cheryl, will visit with her
in the East.
Poor Basil Rathbone! AS fast as
he earns a buck, wife Ouida wants
to spend it entertaining his hun
dreds of most intimate friends. At
the moment Mrs. Rathbone is put
ting the finishing touches to the
decor of the big, new house they
have purchased in New York. Then,
brother, watch for some parties as
will be parties!
Marie MacDonald further
squelches the talk of troubles with
mate Harry Karl, with the informa-
tion that he is joining her in the
East next week for the world series.
X II X \
Danny Thomas who starts at the
Roxy on Wednesday, wires me that
his mother is recovering from the
serious heart attack she suffered
two weeks ago. Danny made so
much money in his Chicago appear
Evening star., 1948-09-28


scene could be comedy or tragedy of
any of the levels between the two.
Lamentably enough, the stimulat-
ing query went unanswered. This
was not because the drama desk was
disintereSted, or indifferent, or even
lazy-at least not that particular
day. The reason was the better one
that the quizzical telegram arrived
Friday night but was not read by
the drama desk until the following
Monday morning.
BY that time, it seemed too late.
The difficulty in selecting such a
scene as Mr.. Blumenstock had in
mind-for what purpose we still
don't KNOWS not that there are so
few of them, but so many. They
tumbled over one another in the
mind in such turbulence that selec-
ton of one was impossible.
Chaplin, before he developed Mes
sianic ambitions, played dozens upon
dozens of such scenes; so many OF
them in Modern Times" that it was
an acting masterpiece.
A specific scene that came clamor-
ing for attention was that in which
Wendy Hitler, as Eliza Doolittle
walked up the grand staircase on
her way to the Palace ball in "Pyg-
malion." There are many who will
tell you that the movie camera never
photographed so much Of trium-
phant beauty in an equivalent foot
age Of black and white film. IT
will be interesting to see where that
one ends up in Mr.. Blumenstock's
apparent symposium of memorable
movie scenes.
Evening star., 1948-09-28
Indians Win Fight for
Fair Deal in Films
By the Associoted Press

HOLLYWOOD.
American Indians are tired of be-
ing pushed around in films. Two
groups have made successful pleas to
RKO to modify scripts so that the
pictures won't be "prejudicial to a
campaign to help the Navajos and
other tribes in desperate need and
ito improve Indian relations in
general"
In one film, Station West" an
incident portraying Indians as tools
of a crooked game was deleted en-
tirely. In the other. Rachel and
the Stranger" several scenes of In
dian raiders, and an attempted
scalping, were cut out or revised.
Evening star., 1948-09-28
Janis Gets Yet
Another Title
HOLLYWOOD

Name on the door of Janis Paige's
fancy portable dressing room at
Warner Bros. studio, where she's
currently starring in The House
Across the Street" is Miss Jelly
Beans" It's her nickname, bestowed
by co-workers because of her ex-
traordinary fondness for that kind
of candy.
Evening star., 1948-09-28
Labor SHORTAGE Eases

New Zealand has a general easing
in its labor market after a labor
shortage in every branch of eco-
nomic activity for many years.
Evening star., 1948-02-12
Gurmotz Discloims Part
In CIO Plan to Back Him

BALTIMORE, Feb. IL (P.-Repre-
sentative Garmatz, Democrat, of
Maryland said today he was not. a
party to the CLOS decision to sup
port him in a recent election which
resulted in indictment of the union
under the Taft Hartley law.
The indictments charge Philip
Murray, CIO president, and the
organization with using union funds
for political purposes, inasmuch as
Mr.. Garmatz' congressional cam
paign was indorsed in the union
financed CIO News.
"I am not responsible for, do not
endeavor, nor do I intend to exercise
any control whatsoever over the ac-
tions of any individual or organiza-
ton" Mr.. Garmatz said.
Mr.. Garmatz won special election
last spring when Thomas D'Alesan-
dro resigned Maryland's Sd district
seat to become Mayor of Baltimore
Indicating that he would probably
be candidate for reelection, he
said he would continue to welcome
Evening star., 1948-02-12
Unions Political Drive Hit Hard
BY Indictment, Split in Ranks

favoring the Taft-Hartley law
These plans haven't jelled, either.
Some CIO officials claim the in
dictment of Mr.. Murray will arouse
sympathy among unionists and
prompt them to greater political
efforts.
Mr.. Murray and the CIO were in
dicted for publishing in the union
financed CIO News an Endorsement
for a Democratic congressional can
didate in Maryland. They claimed
freedom of the press entitled them
to do it.
Senator Taft, Republican, of Ohio
co-author of the labor law, told re-
porters the political spending ban
should be eased. He said labor
newspapers circulated to regular
subscription list should have the
right to print political comment.
But, he said, he. opposes changing
the law to allow use of union dues
for printing 'prely q campaign
papers"
Evening star., 1948-02-12
By the Assoeiated Press

Organized labor's drive to
swing the 1948 elections ran into
double trouble today.
The two big complications seemed
to be:
/. The possible chilling effect of
a grand jury indictment on union
political spending.
2. Divided. political loyalty within
the ranks of both AFL and CIO.
The indictment was returned by a
Federal grand jury here yesterday.
It cited the CIO and its president,
Philip, Murray, under the section of
the Taft Hartley Act which bans
use of union money for political
purposes.
A CIO strategist said privately the
indictment is bound to discourage
unions from campaign spending.
Even if the unions doubt the Gov
ernment ncap> make. the, Indictment
stick, he said, "as practical mat
ter it will deter them.
The CIO contends the section Of
the law involved is unconstitutional.
Its lawyers hope to get Supreme
Court ruling before the high tri-
rbunal takes its summer recess in
June ,,.s @>f. .-,.v~- j..
Both the AFL and CIO have as
their aim the defeat of members of
Congress who voted for the Taft
Hartley Act. But both are finding
it hard to make their members stay
hitched to a single line of political
action.
The union term for such differ
ences of opinion is "factionalism."
Factionalism has hindered an
early start for the AFL's Labor
League for Political Education" a
counterpart of the, CLOS Political
Action Committee.
Top AFL officials failed, at their
recent Executive Council meeting
in Miami, to agree on league di-
rector. There Is more turmoil about
this than appears on the surface. :
William Hutcheson, head of the
AFL carpenters and a lifelong Re-
publican, has refused to go along
with the others. There are reports
that Daniel J. Tobin, head of the
Transfers Union and one of the
stanci1est Democrats among the
AFL leaders, may make his OWL
separate political plans, too.
As for the CIO, group of its
unions representing about 1,250,00(
of the CLOS claimed 100000 mem.
bers have indicated they may sup
port Henry Wallace's third party
Mr.. Murray and the rest of the CIC
have come out against a third party
| this year.
| A third group of unions, represent
ing more than 100000 rail work
ers. formed another political league
opposed to members of Congress
Evening star., 1948-02-12
u. 5. and Yugoslavia
10 Reopen Talks in
Dispute Over Assets
ny The Assoeiossd Press

Prospects frightened today for the
United States settlement OF a major
postwar quarrel with one Of Russia's
Balkan satellites.
This is YugoSlavia's two-year-old
demand that the United States re-
lease some 0,000. 900 worth of gold
and other assets which were frozen"
| in this country in wartime.
The Belgrade Communist govern
ment has a heated protest awaiting
consideration by the United Nations.
Now, however, Marshal Tito's Am
bassador has indicated to the State
Department that Yugoslavia is ready
to resume the negotiations which
were broken off months ago.
u. S. Attorneys to Seek Accord.
A note delivered last week, Dip
lomatic authorities disclosed, desig-
mated two American attorneys who
will try to reach a settlement.
The dispute involves American
counter claims against Yugoslavia.
These demand payment for two
American planes which YugoSlav
fighters shot down Is months ago
and for American-owned properties
which were taken over when Mar
shal Tito's regime won control of
Yugoslavia with Moscow,s backing.
Secretary Of State Marshall has
insisted there can be no settlement
Of the gold issue until Tito pays
these bills. Gen. Marshall has stuck
to this position despite barrage of
Yugoslav charges-among them that
the United States is being tougher
with Yugoslavia than the other war
time allies, and that it aims to "ob-
struct" Yugoslavia's economic re-
construction.
The original United States price
tag on the seized American proper
ties was $42, ,300,0 900. American Off
cials offered to scale this down to
$40, 900, 900, but Yugoslavie said this
was SIS, ,000, 900 too high.
Yugoslavia paid this country $780,
600 in October, 1916, for the deaths
Of the five American flyers shot
down in August of that year. The
unpaid bill for the two planes has
never been officially disclosed. 1t
has been reported, however, to
amount to around 100000.
The fact that the two attorneys
have been retained for new negotia-
tions has led to belief that Tito may
be willing to make better offers in
order to recover the gold.
Evening star., 1948-02-12
China Proposes u. 5. Loan
To Reform IFS Currency
BY the Assoeiaied Press

NANKING, Feb. 12-China today
proposed that the United States
grant special loan to finance re-
form of this nations highly inflated
currency.
Premier Chang Chun told the Off
cial Central Daily News that China's
foreign exchange position already
was somewhat improved because oi
new controls.
He did not mention the amount
of the proposed loan. Other sources
said it would be about $500, 600
and in addition to the $570, 0,000, ,00C
interim aid loan now under con-
sideration.
American sources considered it un-
likely that any proposal for helping
China to bolster her currency would
be favorably received in Washington
until conditions here improve. They
noted that China "proposed"-not
''requested"-the loan.
TheEChinese yuan is about 10000
to 81 in the black market. It was
1000 to 81 18 months ago.
Evening star., 1948-02-12
Grain Slump Seen Ending
Farm Tools Black Market
sy shs Assoeiessd Press

Falling grain prices may soon
break the backbone of 'fblack mar
ket' operations in farm equipment
q witness before the House Agricul-
ture Committee testified yesterday
J. M. Tucker, vice president OF
Massey Harris Co. of Racine, Wis,
told the committee:
Keep up the falling grain prices
another few Gays and the black
market problem will be over. Farm
ers won't be able to buy tractors If
they could get them"
The House committee, headed by
Representative Hope, Republican, of
Kansas Is investigating the shortage
of farm machinery and the effect OF
irregular sales methods on Amer
ican farm production.
i think that before long we're
going to worry about how to sell our
tractors rather than about the black
market" Mr.. Tucker said.
Evening star., 1948-02-12
New Big Ice Breakup
Threatening in Ohio
By the Assoeioted Press

CINCINNATI, Feb. 12.-United
States Army engineers said today
continued rain in the Ohio River
Valley hourly increased the threat
of another major ice breakup.
The critical spot, the engineers
said, is q miles upstream from Gin
cinnati, where mile-long ice jam
is piled 10 to Is feet high between
Moscow and Neville, villages on the
Ohio shore.
Should that mass Of ice break
loose it would crash into another
jam backed up in dam 35's pool at
New Richmond, Ohio. Both masses
of ice then might sweep into the
Cincinnati Harbor, causing $1,000
600 damage.
There were several ice breakups
in the harbor area. and downstream
yesterday.
Evening star., 1948-02-12
Probe of Maryland Ferry
Grounding Is Delayed
ky the As,ocioted Press

BALTIMORE, Feb. 12.-The Coast
Guard has interviewed only three
of the nine passengers who COM
planned about service on the State
ferry the night it was II hours
overdue, and a report won't be filed
for another 10 days at least, Comdr
A. w. Kabernagel said yesterday.
After reports on all the interviews
are turned in, the Coast Guard will
decide whether to drop the case
or hold a hearing on the charges
he said.
The ferry boat Gov. Herbert r.
O'Conor was grounded 13 hours
in Chesapeake Bay January 80
Comdr. Kabernagel said bad wealth
er held up the interviews.
An average of 400 girls week are
joining Britain's Land Army.
Evening star., 1948-02-12
Federal Employees Local
Opposes DuyIiqht Time

The Feoeral Employees Union No
los is on record as opposing day
light saving time. The union is
composed of women employees of the
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
The groups correspondence Sec
retary will announce the unions
stand to the District Commissioners
and to the congressional commit
tee that will handle any proposal
for a time advance.
Miss Nicie B. Perrell has been
nominated for president for the
coming year.
Evening star., 1948-02-12
{. l. Foster Gets Post
On National VFW Unit

Appointment of Edward L. Foster
of Silver Spring as vice chairman of
the Legislative Committee Of the
National Veterans of Foreign Wars
was announced today by Com
mander in Chief Ray H. Branna-
man.
Mr.. Foster served during World
War II as lieutenant commander
in the Coast Guard in both the At
lantic and Pacific. In 1945 he re-
sumed the practice of law in the
District and Silver Spring:
Evening star., 1948-02-12
Church, Hospital Share
In Estate of Miss Pfuff
BY the As.oeio.sd Press

BALTIMORE, Feb. IA gift OF
5000 to the Maryland Convention
Of the Protestant Episcopal Church
for its Bishop Murray fund was
among the bequests disclosed yes
terday when the will of Miss Henri
eta Pfaff of Baltimore. who died
Saturday, was filed for probate.
About $83,500 in specific bequests
also included $4,000 for the Church
and Home Hospital in Baltimore.
Evening star., 1948-02-12
Steals From CeIImute

SIOUX FALLS, S. Oak. R.--
Wilbur Voight of Sioux Falls is doing
six months as the result of breach
of jail ethics. Voight pleaded guilty
In Circuit Court to grand larceny
He was accused of stealing the over
coat of cellmate in the city Jail
where he originally was held on a
charge of intoxication.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-11-11
Bluffton College Will Play Defiance
Yellow Jackets Here Next Saturday

Bringing their 194S football sea-
son to a close in an attempt to rack
up their victory of the year, Bluff
ton college gridders will play De-
fiance colleges rugged Yellow Jack
cts next Saturday afternoon at the
Harmon field stadium, here.
Although beaten last Saturday at
Ashland, 26 to 6, the Beavers came
out of the tilt with few injuries,
and should be in fairly good physical
condition to take on their old foes
from Defiance. Frost, hurt Satur-
day, was the only player who missed
Mondays practice.
The Yellew Jackets will be a form
liable foe, for the team coming here
Saturday lost to Ashland by only
ne-touchdown margin. On the
other hand, Bluffton was beaten by
Ashland, 25 to 6.
However, since the Beaver re-
vearsal at the hands of Findlay, the
Bluffton team has come a long way
in showing improvement, winning
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two of the next fve games against
elevens from much larger schools.
The Defiance game here Saturday
afternoon will be Bluffton's third
home appearance of the year, the
most contacts played here by the
Beavers in one season since before
the start of World War II. The tilt
will be the last one for Howe,
Boorse, SoIdner and Rickert, seniors.
At Ashland last Saturday, the
Burckymen ran into a team that
carried too much power for the out
manned locals. The Eagles scored
on a 65-yard off-tackle run on the
first play after the opening kickoff
and intercepted a Bluffton pass for
a second touchdown in the first
period.
After scoring again in the second
and third quarters, Ashland was
shut out in the fourth period, but
Bluffton racked up a touchdown of
its own to break into the scoring
column.
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Pirate Eleven Will Close Season
At Columbus Grove Friday Night

Bluffton High gridders will close
194S season play this Friday night
at Columbus Grove, but the Putnam
county gridders who in recent years
have been more or less of a setup
for the local team loom as a serious
threat this year.
The nearest dopesters can come in
analyzing comparative scores of the
two outfits give Columbus Grove the
edge, as one indication of the test
Bluffton viii face in the Friday tilt.
Only common foes of the two
teams has been Pandora. Bluffton
beat the Fieetwings early in the sea-
son by score of 13 to II, but Co.
lumbus Grove last week soundly
trounced Pandora, q to 0, in an
indication of the improvement shown
by the Grove eleven.
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SPORTS IN SHORTS

Sunset Inn, of Lima, defeated
Bluffton Sportsmen in the locals first
start of the season by a score of As
to 35, last Thursday night on the
local court Which and Neff each
got six points to top Bluffton scoring
Also in the Sportsmen lineup
were Zuercher, Moser, Everett, Hilty,
Which, Moore and Fett.
Beaverdam High school cage fol-
lowers 'had one on the house" last
Friday night when the Beavers met
Vaughnsville at Beayerdam in the
seasons basketball opener No
admission was charged for the initial
Beaverdam tilt out of appreciation
to voters who approved two-mill
levy by a four to one margin last
Tuesday Regular admission
charges will be made for the remain
ing games on the schedule
Bluffton High school athletes last
year suffered 13 injuries for which
$500 in payments were made out
of the statewide insurance setup
maintained by the Ohio High School
athletic association Ada had only
two injuries, but the cost was $21.5C
Lima South with 16 injuries
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Buttons team, too, has come a
long way since its early-season as
signment against Pandora, and the
Pirates will have an additional in
centive for a victory this week will
give the team an even break in sea-
son play, four victories against four
defeats.
Last Fridays heavy rainstorm was
blamed this week for preventing
Buttons typing the won-lost records
last Friday in a scoreless battle
fought in the mud by Bluffton and
Bellefontaine.
The Pirates had all the better of
the going in the contest, twice driv-
ing inside the 10-yard line, while
Bellefontaine never threatened. How
ever, the muddy playing field and
slippery ball made it impossible for
the locals to score.
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SPORTSMEN COLUMN

Anyone interested in deer hunting
in Ohio contact Donald Range, Allen
County Game Protector, who will
issue the S5 permit formerly pur-
chased through the District office in
Ottawa. Range resides at 11S
Poplar St., Bluffton.
1t has been requested by the game
protector that each and every trap
set for fur bearing animals have at
tached thereto a waterproof tag, or
stamped into the trap, with legible
letters, the name and address of
person trapping.
r
A Lima man was tried and convict
ed in the Justice of Peace Court in
Cairo for the following game law
violations: Shooting and possession
of pheasant, $50 and costs; hunting
on Sunday, $25 and costs; and hunt
ing without permit, so and costs.
The arrest was made by County
Game Protector Donald Range.
Emil Liesner, Route /, Minister,
was arrested and fined $50 and costs
for each of two pheasants, cock
and a hen. He was charged with
shooting out of season.
Leisure paid a total of $1O9.80 in
the court of Magistrate Gene Nichols
at Port jefferson. The arrest was
made by Karl /. Keller, Dayton, and
Paul Keckler, Xenia, Game Protect
ors.
Keckler, who is a member of the
Flying Squadron Game Protectors,
formerly resided on Poplar street
while connected with the Allen Coun-
ty Game Protector.
ANY person knowing of violations
notify the Ottawa District office,
collect, or call Range, Bluffton phone
t77R. A rebroadcast will be made
through the Lima State Highway
Patrol Station and picked up by the
Game Protector in his radio-equipped
automobile.
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Mrs. Amos Bracy and daughter
Clara and Mrs. Clara Light ac-
compa1ied by Mrs. Edward Rice and
daughter Marjorie Of Lima, were
weekend visitors in the home of Mr..
and Mrs. Earl Rice in Detroit. They
were also callers in the home of Cor
don Baumgartner and family and
Mrs. Elizabeth Gerber while there.
Richard Frantz is driving a new
Oldsmobile.
Dwight Geiger is working at the
Pandora Post Office.
The Lammont OILERS from Bluff
ton moved into the Diehl apartment,
c. d. Steiner has been indisposed
lately but is some better.
The Pandora Garden club met in
the home of Mrs. Cynthia Davidson
one evening last week.
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costing $173 topped other schools in
this area.
This winters district and exempt
ed village basketball tournament
again will be held at Celina, it was
announced this week Dates for
the tourney will be Feb. Ia, Is, 10,
% and 26 Bluffton High will be
one of the 10 teams competing in
the event Winner and runnerup
will play in the district meet to be
held at Celina in March -
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NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT

THE STATE OF OHIO
Allen County. IS.
Estate of Noah s. Hilty. Deceased
Ray s. Hifty of BiufTton. Ohio. has beer
appointed and qualified rs Administrator witt
will annexed Of the estate of Noah s. Hilty
late of Allen County, Ohio, deceased.
Dated this 22nd day of October 1e4s,
Raymond p Smith, Probate Judge 81