davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
, 1948-06-30

The debate was on the re-
charter bill to advance 81, $50,
900 to the Virgin Islands Conn
pany of which $4,000, 900 was
to be used to make loans to
people in the Islands who are
without bank facilities in that
the one bank located there
holds the position Of a virtual
monopoly and will not ex-
tend loans and let them adj
venture in their own way.
Congressman Fred Craw-
ford, Democrat of Michigan
led the discussion with a bril-
liant defense for the passage
of the bill. Congressman Mil
Ter Republican of Nebraska
who recently visited the is
lands outdid himself trying
to defeat the measure. For
some unexplained reasons Mr..
Totten said, his remarks do
not appear on the tear sheet
of the Congressional Record.
Congressman Herman Eber-
harter, Democrat Of Pennsly-
vania said in part, sit seems to
Continued on Page a
, 1948-06-30
Dewey Warns Against
War Over Berlin

Governor Thomas E. Dewey
Republican presidential can
didate warned that the Rus
sian blockade of Berlin was
indeed very grave but warned
that it must not lead to war.
He acknowledged. that he
has followed the reports and
has been in telephone commun
ication with his foreign adj
visor, John Foster Dulles, at
least twice a day.
, 1948-06-30
Cong. Miller Opposed Aid 10 v. /.
CONC. PoWELL. EBERHARTER SCORES HIN

with Senator Hugh Butler. has been revealed as one Of the
most vigorous opponents Of aid to the Virgin Islands. While
q transcript Of the Congressional Record is being awaited
word has been received from Ashley Totten in which an OUT.
line of the debate Is Given.
, 1948-06-30
cLELLAND TO BE
T DIR. OF +

L. v. Nc Clelland, Extension
Agent at the Agricultural Sta
ton, will be Acting Director
during the absence of Director
Ben Foster who left for the
mainland for a four-week
stay.
, 1948-06-30
WIN. BREWTON. EXT.
AGENT. RESIGNS

William BreWton, Extension
agent at the Agricultural Sta
ton, rendered his resignation
to become effective today.
It is reported Mr.. Brewton
plans to re-enter college.
, 1948-06-30
u. S. Asks Moscow
About Elec. For Korea

United States Ambassador
Walter Bedell Smith has taken
up with the Kremlin the ac-
ton Of Soviet authorities in
cutting off electric power
from Southern Korea, which
is said was unjustified.
Repeated protests by Cen
eral John Hodge, proved fu-
Continued on Page AZ
, 1948-06-30
Miss La Bega Bride
OF Ben Foster

Miss Gladys Eugenia La
Bega of Christiansted became
the bride of Ben r. Foster Of
the Agricultural Station in a
quiet but beautiful ceremony
in the st. Johns Anglican
Church at 8:45 this morning.
The ceremony was performed
by the Rev. Father Bernard
Mac Laughlin of the Holy
Cross Anglican Church.
The bride was given in mar
riage by her brother, Carlos;
the groom's best man was
Malcolm Skeoch. Only a few
close friends witnessed the
ceremony.
Immediately following the
ceremony the bride and groom
left for Benedict Field where
they boarded the Caribbean
Atlantic plane for San Juan,
from thence they will go to
Miami and on to Dalton, Geo
gia, home of Mr.. Foster, to
visit his mother and spend
their honeymoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Foster expect
to be away at least four weeks.
, 1948-06-30

Commander r. G. A. Jackson, re-
Gently began work as the United
Nations ninth Assistant Secretary
General. After a distinguished
career in the Australian Navy.
Commander Jackson served az
Deputy-D Director of UNRRA frer
1945 until the end of that %
, 1948-06-30

being rushed to the area. Cen
eral Eichelberger reports that
the relief situation is well in
hand. $50 doctors and nurses
have been rushed to the
stricken area.
Ninety-three per cent Of
Fukwei was destroyed during
the war; so per cent was re-
constructed but now the city
is a total loss. American G Is
rushed to the spot with every
available vehicle using gun
carriers as amblances carry
Continued on Page Al
Evening star., 1948-02-16

Palm Springs. How can she beal
to leave town now? 7 guess she Il
trying to keep calm amidst the
growing certainty that she viii
snag the top Oscar.
Kathryn Grayson has Hubby
Johnnie johnson conducting her
numbers as her singing personal
appearance tour opens in San Fran
cisco. Johnnie, of course, will also
sing with Katie. They expect to
clear $4,000 a week between them
Bonita Granville will make her
movie, Strike It Rich" entirely
on location In East Texas oil fields
owned by her millionaire husband
Jack Wrather, who struck 1t rich
In said fields.
Howard Hawks and United Artists
have patched up their quarrel. That
means we will soon be seeing
Howard's Red River"
Ava Gardner is very popular at
Universal-International. She's made
several movies there on loan-out
from Metro-including Singapore
and "One Touch of Venus" Now
they want her for the top spot in
Larceny" with John Payne.
After he finishes THE Pitfall,"
Dick Powell plans to fly to South
America, then to Canada, to estab-
lish new branches Of his f1ying-by-
mail business.
Everywhere Jennifer Jones trav-
eled in Europe, she registered as
Evening star., 1948-02-16
High Merit of The Heiress'
Most Apparent at Matinee
By Jay Cormody
NEW YORK.

Even those seven out Of nine gave
1t opened
last how good it is
could seeing the play with Of those
mat audiences
ngrosng play in the face Of Of these well
Evening star., 1948-02-16

new quarter; two rows back this
time.
1t started with "a violent series OF
coughs from a woman who an
nounced with her first free gasp OF
breath: "I've got d coughing spasm. u
1t was perhaps the most super
fiuous remark in the history Of the
drama and the Immediately ad-
jacent matinee goers properly re-
sented it.
"Why doesn't she go home?'
one of them wanted to know.
why didn't she stay home?" a
still more angry one demanded.
The cougher's answer to this was
another, more explosive outburst
followed by a thunderous buzz OF
resentment. 80, ~,
This is the worst coughing spasm
ever had" the woman wheezed
in nervous apology.
BY this time, the woman who
goes to matinees with this cor
respondent was beginning to get
into the spirit of the thing.
How nice of her to have had 1t
here where we could get in on 1t, "
she remarked. The coughing spasm
woman could not have overheard
this, but she opened up again as If
in response to praise. The buzz
this time must surely have reached
the stage, but If so, Director Jed
Harris performers ignored it beau
tifully.
The woman with us was thor
oughly enjoying the adventure by
now.
"Is 1t true" she asked, ''that
Harry Thormeau left for Walden
right after attending a matinee?"
When the question was ignored, she
provided her own comment.
"He couldn't have had a better
reason" she said.
BY this time, the coughing woman
had either died Of her spasm or
had it under control. In the silence,
the play began to come through.
It turns out to have been an in
teresting adaptation of James
Washington Square" that Ruth
and Augustus Goetz have made, al
though it is Jed Harris direction,
and Miss Killers performance as
Catherine Sloper, that every one is
talking about.
Stripped now of its original verbal
excess, the story is shining speci-
men of theater as Harris produces
it. 1t is in effect four character
drama with the quartet composed
of the morbidly shy Catherine
Sioper, her sadistic father, the
fortune hunting phony, Morris
Townsend, and the girls feather
Drained Aunt Lavinia.
AS the baleful DR.. Sloper, Rath-
bone is bent upon devising ever
more cruel vengeance upon his
plain, painfully reticent daughter
whom he blames for his wife's
death in childbirth. This he &C
complishes principally in the tortu-
Gus process of proving that the man
she has Historically accepted as
suitor Is a cheap scoundrel. 1t is
the fathers inhuman aim that the
wretched girls life shall be as love-
less as she has made his own.
Vindictiveness and its effects have
rarely been so sharply summoned as
in the conflict between Miss Hitler
and Rathbone. Each performance is
piece Of polished perfection, hers
the more simpressive II only because
of the deep sympathy It evokes.
Author James, now reaping the
harvest Of a prolific writing career
in a popularity he never knew in his
lifetime, could not ask more
brilliant revelation Of his observa-
tions on American life than that of
Miss Hitler in 1.-THE Heiress." Nor
the often murky art OF acting a
more vivid practitioner.
And this, remember, is a matinee
iudementi
Evening star., 1948-02-16

lines. Even Jimmy Cagney couldn't
swing 1t with Bette In "The Bride
Came @. o. D." When Bette makes
ETHAN Frome," it's dollars to moth
ing that Agnes Moorehead will play
the spinster aunt.
Claudette Colbert has been PACED
by Fred MacMurray to be his lady
love in Innocent Affair" And
she's the gal most likely to get the
role because of their big success to-
gether in "The Egg and l." Norma
Shearer, I am told, also wants a
crack at the part. So do Myrna 10y
and Ginger Rogers.
** kk
Marie Macdonald got tired of all
play and no work so she marched
in to see Louis B. Mayer and said,
How about picture2" Mayer an
swered to the effect that the studio
was now planning new type OF
low-budget picture-and he'd be
using her soon.
All of Betty Hutton's maternity
gowns were made for her by Mitchell
Leisen, the boy who directed her
recent movie, Dream Girl"
David Selznick has set a price
of 100000 for loaning Valli to other
producers.
Burt Lancaster will be starred
in "Arabesque"-Hal Wallis hopes.
He bought the story of present-day
Arabia with Burt in mind.
Sam Wanamaker back to Holly
wood for his role in Christ in
Concrete" His wife Is not with him
this time. She is staying in New
York because of their expected
baby.
Rosalind Russell getting away
from the pre-Academy Award ex-
citement with another month in
Evening star., 1948-02-16
Hollywood:
'Heiress' Cost
Is Assembled
By Wyler
By SheiIoh Grohom

Ray Milland and Frederic March
are the two boys to costar with
Olivia de Havilland in "The Heir
ess," from the New York stage sue
cess. Milland is set, and March will
be when he reads the script be-
cause he wants to work again for
Willie Wyler, who directed him in
his winning role, 1.-THE Best
Years of Our Lives" Paramount
paid $350,0O0 for the play plus s
per cent of the picture profits.
Shooting will start here within 10
weeks.
Diana Lynn and Guy Madison as
the stars of the remake Of Seventh
Heaven? That's the plan of Pro-
ducer Robert Golden, who has the
pair costarred now In Texas,
Brooklyn and Heaven" Bob is ne
gotiating for the movie from Goth
Century-Fox
Betty Davis has postponed her
"June Bride" comedy. The trouble
its hard to get good leading man
who is also good at delivering funny
Evening star., 1948-02-16
Where and When
Current Theoter Attractions
and Time of Showing
Stage.

Stage.
National - Pickup Girl"; $3.50
pm.
Ambassador - "The Voice of the
Turtle; 1:20, 800, 5:25, 7:3O and
9:35 pm.
Capitol - "You Were Meant for
Me-; II am, lao, 4:25, 7:15 and
1905 pm. Stage shows: 1880, 3:35,
6:25 and Oils pm.
Columbia THE Road 10 Rio:
11:35 am. 1875, $3.50. $50, 7:3O and
$50 pm.
Hirpodrome-"I Know Where I'm
Going, 2:15, 4:05, 5:55, 7:45 and
8 80 pm. .48S - j q
Keith's - "Bambi":: 1910, 2:15,
4:25, 6:45, s:25 and 1910 pm.
Little-"Shoe Shine; 11:05 am,
12:45, 2:30, Ais, 6, 7:50 and 9:40 pm.
Metropolitan - Albuquerque; II
am, LOS, $40, $40, 7:30 and GAS
pm.
Palace-"Captain From CASTLE;
10:45 am, 1:25, 4:05, 6:45 and $50
pm.
Pix - "The Patient Vanishes";;
2:10, 4:50, 7::30 and 1910 pm.
Trans-Lux News and shorts;
continuous from 10:15 am.
Warner-'"The Voice of the Tur-
tle";; 1920 am, 1:25, $3.50, 5:35,
TAO and GAS pm
Evening star., 1948-02-16

until something better comes along
this will do as miracle.
There were, to begin at the begin
ming, the two mad matinee goers
In the row just behind. Basil Rath-
bone, for all of that beard and
frock coat, was not to them the
DR.. Austin Sloper of whom Henry
James wrote, the sadistic father
Of the drama going on on the stage
"See," said the more vehement
one, hes got his arm out OF the
sling. He broke 1t falling while
chasing his dog across the street
IT was his right arm"
Actor Rathbone was trying his
best to be- DR.. Sloper, but these
two were not taken in by that.
Hes not really mean," the COM
panion to the first monster com.
forted the Rathbone arm expert
"I heard him on Betty Crocker's
program. He said that while they
seem to hate each other on the
stage, they are all good friends after
the play"
"Um hunh," the other agreed, 81
read where they play chess, OF
something"
Rathbone, Wendy Hitler and the
others were getting on with "The
Heiress" despite the competition
They finally captured the attention
Of the Betty Croker pair before
the play was seven minutes old
The attack, however, began from a
Evening star., 1948-02-16
Hope Has Troubles
BY the Assoeiofed Pres.

HOLLYWOOD.
Bob Hope, who gets portly If he
isn't careful, has taken up horse
back riding since he has been elect
ed honorary Mayor Of Palm Springs
my political advisers deem II
necessary for me to become an
expert rider" said Bob. AYou know
-parades and all that stuff"
At the moment he Is a standing
Mayor. He says it isn't fun to sit
down. For his equine activity he
has chosen a pale blue riding en-
semble-the one he wore in Pale
face"
Evening star., 1948-02-16

"Mrs. Robert Walker" Maybe that's
why she wasn't pestered too much
Bob isn't as well known over there
as Jennifer.
Robert Montgomery has found a
sure-flre way to keep his contractees
happy. When he signed Thomas
Gomez to a contract he promised
that, when he loans Gomez out, he
will split $3.50 on what he gets
for him above his usual salary.
Released by North American Newspaper
Alliance)
Evening star., 1948-02-16
Likes Antiques
By fhs Assoeioisd Press

HOLLYWOOD.
June Havoc has gone on an an
tique buying spree. She allocated
most of her salary from "The Iron
Curtain" to the purchase of furnish
ings for her new Bel-Air home, and
at the last accounting she had
bought more than $4,000 worth.
She even sold her sailboat to aug
ment the fund, on the theory that
it's more fun to buy old china and
old chairs than to 60 sailing.
Evening star., 1948-02-16

ADJUSTMENTS
Evening star., 1948-03-08
\XZE:;::: W. i 5:
GOSPEL SINGING.

GOSPEL SINGING.
Old-fashioned hymn singing, Central
Union Mission, 613 G street NV 7:3o
O'CLOCK '0n'sh'i 'iLuNcHEoNs.
Exchange Club; Congressional Room
Vail street Journal Parbr c.. Willard
Hotel. 1915 pm. tomorrow. Members
Federal Deposit insurance Corp: Parlor
D, Willard Hotel, 1915 pm. tomorrow
Members and guests: ,,,, u..,
1918 pm. tomorrow Members and
Advertising Club Of washington; South
tomorrow Members and guests.
Hotel statler, 1890 pm. tomorrow. Mem
0eFs Washington ahf Claim Managers Associa,
ton, Town Room. Hotel Statler, 1880
pm. tomorrow. Members and guests.
MUSIC
Wade n Stephens organ recital, Church
Of the Latter-Day Saints, 8 O'Clock
Rsesmsnno IN psno fscta yt
Phillips Memorial Gallery $50 O'Clock
Soldiers Home Military Band concert,
Stanley Hall, $50 pm. tomorrow Mem
bers and guests.
SPECIAL EXHIBITS.
Corcorzn Gallery Of Art, Seventeenth
street and Constitution avenue NV, open
pm TO TSesdays ae RM MnufS shqoush Fridays, am
Sundays: Water colors by artists Of Wash;
European master drawings. from private
Public Library. Eighth and K streets
NV. open am: to Pm Weekdays; eeks vs.
from from the Joseph J. Nardone collection. in
the technology division through March 1s;
prints by Jack Perlmutter. in the arts di-
'SiGbi Llbrars p Of consress. First and East Cap
Mondsss No ss.ssti through fPidays an: e Pm:
oaeinai oiplaasI Laeocf se Abbey copy Of the MAGMA
sh aesss until IT thIeepaae o5Saa nsoS
bition depicting ideal of UNEsco' through
PAN American Union, Seventeenth street
and constltution avenue NV: w., open pen 8
'hfs Barne. lrUa Asi Aden Gsilery, A ~ Randolph
place NV. open to 10 Pm; ni,.,nal weekdays sSS
drswines ara 50 Of D Haitian Subjects By James
A. Porter, through. March.
Connecticut Gallery. 1884 Connecticut
sssRdsy., .ysRas SMd snd Sfsn e II h water
color paintings Gf BSs Rase
i National Van GALLERY Hf of Art, sixth street and
Constitution avenue NV, open 70 am.
to 5 pm. weekdays and to 10 pm.
prising the Mellon, Kress, Widener and
Dale collections and gifts from other do
hibit, "Art Of France in Prints and Books"
for an indefinite period.
Fish and Wildlife Service, under main
lobby in Commerce Department Building,
Fourteenth and streets NV, open 8
am. to 4 pm. daily: Display Of animals
and fresh-water fish. for an INDEFINITE
period
Dumbarton Oaks Museum, Thirty-drst
and streets NV, open 8 am. to 4 pm.
Evening star., 1948-03-08

daily: Collection of Byzantine and related
arts for an indefinite period.
Whyte Bookshop and Gallery, 1913 Con-
necticut avenue NV, open o:30 am. to
g pm weekdays: Recent paintings Of
Edward Rosenfeld, through March.
SQUARE DANCE.
Square dance with string band and
caller, Tomson Center, Twelfth and L
streets NV, $50 O'Clock tonight.
FOR SERvICEMEN.
Soldiers, Sailors and Marines Club,
ing desks, billiard tables. radio.
Servicemen's Victory Center, lib Penn
sylvania avenue NV; lounge, recreation,
free canteen: open daily, noon to midnight,
Informal table games, all evening"
dancing to juke box, 9 o'clock, and games
in gymnasium, $50 O'Clock tonight
Evening star., 1948-03-08
PAC Urges Coy to Keep
Bon on Radio Editorials

The CIO Political Action Com
mittee today made public letter
from Jack. Kroll, its director, to
Chairman Wayne Coy of the Fed
eral Communications Commission
urging retention of the FCC'c policy
Evening star., 1948-03-08

against naturalization by radio
station licensees.
The commission held hearings
last week on the matter.
Mr.. Kroll charged radio commen-
Evening star., 1948-03-08

! Penthouse Service Center. Seventeenth and
| K streets NV.
Card games and music In lounge, s:16
o'clock tonight, Armed Services, YMCA.
l736 G street NV.
Evening star., 1948-03-08

tators had maligned the PAC for
years and added the organization
had been refused radio time to
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1948-05-11

leader of the 18th district, and
Ludlow Werner, editor and pub
Usher Of the New York Age, are
cycling the Republican congress
sional nomination this year.
Grant Reynolds, former preach
er and now a law student, who
sought unsuccessfully to defeat
Adam Powell two years ago, plans
to try for the nomination again,
but Mr.. Reynolds has weakened
his case with the powers that be
in several instances.
When he was defeated by
Powell, Mr.. Reynolds was granted
a liquor store license which, as a
former veteran, he operates on
St. Nicholas avenue. His recent
appearances before the senate
armed forces committee in Wash
ington have been spectacular and
controversial.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1948-05-11

Here in. New York, Councilman
Ben Davis berated both Randolph
and Reynolds, while Frank Cross
waithe, former associate of Ran
dolph, takes sides with the latter
and fails away at Davis. Both
have sent letters to the local AM
sterdam News, of which Mr.. Cross
waithe's borders on the unpublish-
able.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1948-05-11
Young Rockefeller
Says Jim Grow
Must be Studied

NEW YORK, May IL. (ANP)
EFF the Negro veteran is to get
equal opportunity, it canot be too
strongly emphasized that now
more than ever before in the his
tory of our country must we study
the facts of racial prejudice and
discrimination, realistically and
courageously."
Two years ago, Winthrop Rookie
Teller, then ust out of the United
States army, made this statement
in a report submitted government
official following an extended
tour of the nation studying vet
erans' problems.
"The record of PROCESS which
has been made by the Negro in
almost every field in the past 80
| years against the most unbeliev-
| able odds in an achievement OF
! which any people could be truly
| proud. For us or for them, to
| plan for the future, without a
realistice recognition of the fact
that in spite of these spectacular
| advances, tremendous race preju-
| dice is still existent, would be my
topic, to say the least.
"Since the white population is
in a dominant position, it is more
than appropriate for them to take
| the leadership in planning and as
surfing equal opportunity for ALL"
the report concluded.
At the time, Mr.. Rockefeller
was interested in u~nification of
| government services to aid vet
Grams. He pointed out that moth
ing could be more appropriate
than giving Negro veterans great
err opportunity in civilian life.
During his military career, he
was prone to promote competitive
! spirit among the troops under his
command. There was a number of
Negro trops involved in several
| of these events in which race was
the smallest factor.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1948-05-11
Covenant Decision
Will Increase Prices

LOS ANGELES, May II. =
Large scale property transfers &C
companied bp price gouging were
forecast this week as a result of
the decision of the U. S. Supreme
court outlawing court enforced re-
s~trictive covenants as a bar to
legitimate real estate transactions.
H. A. Howard, president and
general manager of the Broadway
Federal Savings and Loan asso-
citation of this city, expressing the
views of many savings and loan
association people, predicted also
an increased demand upon lend
ing facilities by Negroes seeking
finance for the purchase of homes
in areas newly opende by the de-
cision.
"We can expect almost immed-
lately certain transfers of prop
erty to Negroes by those whites
who have all along been willing to
make such sales, but who were
prohibited by virtue of these
caluses," Mr.. Howard asserted,
promptly, too, we can expect
price increases on those dwellings
which do become available. Ulti-
mately, 'last-ditch' whites will re-
linquish some of their property,
either because they want to take
advantage of a sellers market or
because they prefer to live else
where"
Regarding financing problems,
ne declared That the reluctance OF
the usual neighborhood institu-
tons to make loans to Negroes is
we'll known. On this basis, he
urged Negroes to organize and
support their own savings and loan
associations.
Howard foresees in the mot to
distant future" an expansion of
Negro communities all over the
country, heretofore "hemmed in
by restrictive covenants on their
borders.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1948-05-11
N SUPREME
COURT Law CLERK

WASHINGTON, May II. GAN
P)-William T. Coleman of Phil
adelphia has been appointed law
clerk to Justice Frankfurter of
the United States Supreme court.
This marks the first time a Ne
gro has been appointed law clerk
in the 1853 years of existence of
the United States Supreme court.
Coleman is a graduate in law
from Harvard university in 1916,
and served as law clerk to Cir
cult Judge Herbert F. Goodrich
of Philadelphia for the past year.
1t has been a tradition from the
time of Justice Gray that Har-
ward law school pick the clerks
for the justices occupying the
New England chair on the high
bench. In selecting his aide Justice
Frankfurter said he gave the
school only two qualifications
professional equipment and char
acter."
Coleman, who is 26 years old,
is married. and has a one-year-
old son. He will receive a salary
of around $4,000.
He served in the army from
1943 to 1916 and was in train