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Evening star., 1949-08-04
Siumese Decree Passes
FIunked Legislators Son
By the Assoeiotsd Press

BANGKOK. - A government
decree gave passing grades to 20
students who funked university
entrance examinations. Within
few days the Ministry of Educa-
ton was deluged with requests
from parents that their children
who fiunked other tests be given
passing marks.
Top Education Ministry officials
sought to resign in shame over the
Thialand cabinets action. but were
persuaded to hang on only because
their terms were expiring shortly
anyway.
The education squable began
when the son of member of Par
lament got 49.6 on an examina-
tion. The passing grade was low
cred from so to include all who
scored 49.5 or better.
Evening star., 1949-08-04
'Czechs Collect Bones,
Rags in Salvage Drive
By the Associated Press

PRAGUE. - Communist run
Czechoslovakia Is collecting rags,
bottles and bones to salvage raw
materials for it's fve-year plan, be-
set by shortages of genuine raw
materials. This is reported by the
same controlled press which daily
gibes at the economic difficulties
of brink of bankruptcy Britain"
Evening star., 1949-08-04
10 Young AustroIions
Stort Crocodile Hunt
By the Assoeiaisd Pres.

DARWIN, Australia.-Ten young
Australians are going out after
big crocodiles and big money. Soon
they will set up base camp at the
mouth of the Macarthur River,
in the Gulf of Carpentaria, 408
miles southeast of Darwin.
They hope to make $3,230 each
before Christmas. They expect
Evening star., 1949-08-04

and Sam Peters of Chattanooga.
A Federal Bureau of 1nveStiga-
ton agent said the foggings were
an attempt to frighten the seven
Negroes off valuable property
along the Rome Chattanooga
highway.
Evening star., 1949-08-04
Beirut Papers Defend
American University
By the Assoeioied press

BEIRUT, Lebanon-A number
of Beirut newspapers have sprung
to the defense of American Uni
versity of Beirut-attacked re-
Gently by one Phalangist publica-
ton as "a hotbed of intrigue
against the Lebanon" AS a result
the attack has died out.
University officials. including DR..
Stephen B. L. Penrose, university
president, have remained on the
sidelines during the battle of the
editorials. The American Legation
at Beirut, likewise. has refused to
take part in the quarrel.
Rome has more than 100
churches, including the largest in
the world.
Evening star., 1949-08-04

and other "Marshallized coun-
tries
The Official Communist Party
organ, Rude Pravo. recently
urged that the nations industry
could use "all kinds of rubbish" "
for salvage. 1t said, however, that
the trash pickers shouldn't be
capitalists, in their business for
profit, but people really interested
in cooperation for the tlve-year
plan.
Evening star., 1949-08-04

to shoot 120 crocodiles q month.
They have a contract with Bris-
bane firm to buy all their skins for
40 cents an inch,
Evening star., 1949-08-04
Surveys Fight Erosion

Aerial photographs are being
used in Southern Rhodesia to
check soil erosion, Salisbury re-
ports. Areas difficult of access by
land now can be surveyed from
the air in a few hours. Photo
graphs will enable conservation
to go to the affected
areas fully equipped with the nee
eSsary materials.
Evening star., 1949-08-04

Athens is the Oldest city in
Europe serving as a capital.
Evening star., 1949-08-04

Hares run faster up hill than
down because the hind legs are
longer than their fore legs.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1949-06-03
Thanks from Clothing Drive Head

The following letter Of apprecia-
tion is issued by A. c. Howell, chair
man Of the clothing collection recent
ly made here BY the Council Of
Churches
"On behalf of the Chapel Hill
Council of Churches, | would like 10
) express appreciation 70 all those who,
by their participation and hard work,
made the 1949 Chapel Hill used cloth
ing collection for world relief sue
cess. The community, including the
campus, Victory Village, and the
cleaning establishments in Chapel Hill
and Carrboro, contributed $3.50
pounds Of used clothing, which was
shipped last week TO the central ware
house of the World Church Service
in New Windsor, Maryland
Particularly | wish to thank these
merchants who contributed their
trucks and drivers the Electric Con-
struction Company, Ogburn Furni-
ture Company, Farmers Dairy, the
sssttreEERsd Meter Company. = J and NJ Roy
Barham; Boy Scout Troops Nos. 8
and 39, who did the actual collecting;
Mrs. E. X. Powe, who handled pub
licity; and H y Stro@d, G. A. Kirk
patrick, William Freeman, K. L.
Hardison, David Sharpe, and Henry
Osinski. who helped with the packing
and shipping. Hundreds of pounds Of
garments were collected from the fol-
lowing dry-cleaning establishments Of
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1949-06-03
Senator Frank Graham Is for Bonds

When U. S. Senator Frank P.
Graham was here at the week-e ne
declared himself in favor of the pro-
posed bond issues for schools and
roads. In a statement given 10 r. W.
Madry Of the University news bureau
he said Tin part);
Il am for the school bond issue
not only because we should catch up
in the desperately needed buildings
which we could not build during the
war and postwar years, but also be-
cause We should work toward equal
izing provision for school buildings
for all children.
'The road bond issue would be a
long-range, sound investment for
both the urban and the rural people.
The total bond issue, if authorized
now, will make for large economies
by making possible comprehensive,
coordinated and long range planning
at the outset. The bonds are to be
issued only as the plans develop over
a six x-year period
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1949-06-03
Garden Club Picnic

About rs members Of the Chapel
Hill Garden Club attended the cIuh7s
spring picnic Monday in the garden
Of Meadowmont Farm. the home Of
Mrs. D. St. Pierre DuBose. The pic
mic marked the close of highly sue
cessful year for the club and the
termination Of Mrs Guy B. Phillips s
two-year term as president. The
members gave her a rising vote Of
thanks for her efficient and tireless
leadership" Mrs. Phillips's successor,
Mrs. T. y. Rose, and the other new
officers were presented
At business meeting following
the picnic Mrs. F. H. Edmister, Mrs.
r. w. Bost, and Mrs. Roy Homewood
reported on the clubs recent two-day
flower show, and Mrs. Fl. r. Totten
gave report on the work done by
the members who decorated the More
head Planetarium for its dedication
ceremonies. Reports on the recent con-
vention in Charlotte were given by
Mrs Phillips and Mrs Rose as off
cial delegates, Mrs Totten as a State
Garden Club official, and Mrs Home
wood as district director.
Arrangements for the picnic were
made under the command Of Mrs NJ,
L. Jacobs ~
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1949-06-03
Villagers on the Deans List

Chapel Hillians who made the
deans list during the winter quarter
in the University's college Of arts
and sciences were Ralph Andrews,
Mrs Christine Beeston, Robert L.
Brooks, Edwin r Cheek, William B.
Cobb, Jr.. John Coughlan, John 7.
Gobbel, Jr., Eldene Grogan, James A.
Hancock, Jr, John E. Hodgin, William
D. Macmillan, William NJ. McCauley,
William f. Mackie, Janet Markham,
Ann +. Martin, Jack E. Mohr, Helen
n. Neighbours, Daniel H. Reaves,
David J. Sharpe, William NJ. Smith,
and Phyllis W. Stevens.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1949-06-03
Co-Ed Advisers Appointed

The following Chapel Hill girls are
among the co-eds recently chosen To
act as advisers 70 new University
women students next fall Carolina
Guthrie, Rebecca Huggins, Bootsie
Lyons, Pat Sullivan. and Bootsie Tay-
lor The advisers were selected by a
committee which included coed lead
ers and Miss Betsy Parker, assistant
director Of the University's placement
service; Miss Gay Currie, executive
director Of the Y.W.C.A.; Miss Twig
Branch, personnel adviser to women
and Mrs Dorothy Dashiell Smith
assistant adviser TO women.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1949-06-03

Albert v Powell, mailman SECOND
class, uSNR, of 33 Davie circle and
William G. Pritchard, Jr., seaman ap-
prentice, USNR, Of West University
drive, were among 400 naval reseryists
recently on a two-weeks training
cruise in the Gulf Of Mexico and the
Atlantic on the destroyers Ault, Eng
iish. Sperry, and Haynesworth.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1949-06-03
Miss Lois Whit Honored

Miss Lois Velma Whit, who will be
married June % to Clarence Richard
Farrell Of Carrboro, was recently hon
ored at miscellaneous shower held
by her mother, Mrs. Clyde Whit, at
the home of Mrs. John Whit near
Chapel Hill. The bride-elect's mother
was assisted by Mrs. Betty Shook,
Miss Annie Laurie Duncan, Mrs
Jerry Cassidy, Miss Margaret Whit,
Mrs Kathleen Whit, and Mrs. John
Whit.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1949-06-03

The proposed bond issue is needed
for the rural people but viii also
serve the urban people. The roads to
be provided will get the farmers out
Of the mud, promote business and ex-
change between rural and city peo-
pie, and save the heavy waste Of
school days lost by rural children in
bad weather The rural roads will
enable children to get to school on
time and in better health and will
enable the people and their children
TO go more regularly To church and
Sunday school
THE rural roads will enable people
in the rural areas to increase their
income By dependable industrial and
commercial work in the towns and
thus increase the prosperity Of the
State and the well-being Of both
rural and urban people. These roads
will make the homes in the country
more accessible to the doctors, will
make the hospitals in the towns ore
accessible to the rural people"
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1949-06-03

the community Twin Village Clean
ers, Carolina Cleaners, Pre-
yost Cleaners, Chapel Hill Cleaners,
and University Cleaners
Because Of the generosity Of our
community, many needy people will
enjoy warm clothing next winter. =
Evening star., 1949-01-31

viewing Richard III" with Richard
Whorf.
This redemption of Shakespeare
by his own milieu, the theater, is
somewhat the result of chance. It
comes out of the Boston Repertory
Theater which was not doing very
well until Whorf's Richard III"
Upon his arrival, the theater began
to do so well that New York thought
it time to muscle in on the attrac-
tion. Muscle in" in a refined way,
to be sure. since it merely purchased
the entire production as is and de-
cfded to transport it to Broadway
for opening February 8.
Richard III" will be entirely new
to this generation of playgoers. The
most recent of Shakespeare's Rich
ards to be seen by American audi
ences was the III" played by Maui
rice Evans almost a decade ago.
MIR. Whorf occupied in Hollywood
during most of the last decade had
small idea of finding a Broadway
vehicle when he journeyed to Bos-
ton for his repertory stint in Rich
ard III"
He is happy man, as such a
superb actor deserves to be.
n u X u
Who-won department (as reported
from Hollywood by Harold Heffer-
nan of the North American News
Evening star., 1949-01-31

paper Alliance: Its generally
agreed that Shirley Temple grabbed
the best publicity breaks of any
Hollywod star in Washington for
the Presidents Inauguration. OF
the close to 80 top personalities on
hand, not more than eight received
the select treatment and of these
Shirley was the figure most sought
after"
Our taste is rather good, yes?
X X X X
Production department: The sub
ject of race relations will be dealt
with in two top-light productions
in Hollywood this season, and pos
sibly there will be others. The cur
rent items are under the sponsor
ship of some of the foremost pro-
ducers in the cinema.
One, "Pinky," represents Daryl
F. Zanuck's attempt to produce a
sequel to his "Gentleman's Agree
ment," this time on the subject of
the Negro's plight in today's social
setup. zanuck's director will be
John Ford, three times an Academy
Award winner, and best known for
his The Informer'' and Grapes
of WRATH" also made under Zan-
uck's auspices. Author of the script
will be Dudley Nichols.
The second project will be the
work of Louis de Rochemont and
will be based upon Walter Whites
Lost Boundaries" Producer-di-
rector De Rochemont, formerly
head of March of Time, has been
one of Hollywood's outstanding
performers in the field of the semi
documentary film, of which the
Ebest known is The House on 92o
's1f'eet'" y = X x
Fiscal department: A great many
moviegoers, ardent admirers of
The Snake Pit" have been fearful
that the screenplay is too grim to
draw the audiences its merit juSti-
fies. They have taken it upon them
selves to chide many a professional
reviewer-no matter how lavishly
he praised the picture-for describ-
ing it with too much somber real
ism.
You make it sound as if people
cannot take it," has been the sub
stance of such complaints.
The answer to the whole thing
is by now rather completely record
ed. The Snake Pit" is not cnly the
best picture being shown around
Evening star., 1949-01-31

the country, it also is the most
popular at the boxoffice.
A neater tie-up Hollywood has not
recorded in years, merit plus
money!
Garbo department: After almost
a year Of talk, it won't be the
biography of George Sand which
reintroduces Greta Garbo to audi
ences who have not seen her in
years. Miss Garbo's first production
for Walter Wanger will be The
Duchess"
The George Sand story has not
been abandoned, merely laid aside
for the time being.
Policy department.: Television
has not been snubbed, merely
politely told that it will not be
allowed to broadcast the ceremonies
incident to this years Academy
awards in Hollywood.
Several stations have bid for the
program and all were told the same
courteous story that the Academy
wished to avoid the slightest hint
of commercialism in connection
with the awards. Despite the vastly
curtailed plans for this years
Academy show, it will still be quite
a performance involving a deal OF
glamorous talent.
Still, the only pictures taken will
be those for the newsreels and by
the studios own photographers and
those of the press associations and
newspapers.
Evening star., 1949-01-31
Hollywood Learns
There's Simplicity
By the Associated Press

HOLLYWOOD.
When Director Nicholas Ray ran
the first completed print OF his film
They Live BY Night" at RKO
studios, he was intrigued by one of
Evening star., 1949-01-31
Where and When
Curreut Theoter Attractions
and Time of SHOWING

Ambassador" Wake of the Red
Witch; lis, 3:2o, 5:25, 7:30 and
$40 pm.
Capitol-"My Own True Love-;
11:o5 am, las. 4:30, tbs and 9:55
pm. Stage shows; /, 3:45, $50 and
9:l5 pm.
Columbia-'That Wonde erful
Urge; 11::55 am, 1:50, 3:45, 5:45
TAO and $40 pm.
Dupont-"The Red Shoes; 2:3O
and $3.50 pm.
Hippodrome-"B Blithe Spirit; 2,
4:35, ITO and 9:45 pm.
Keith's-"Joan of Arc; 11:15
am, 1:50, 4:25, 7 and $50 pm.
Little-"Hamlet"; 2:30 and $3.50
pm.
Metropolitan-"Don Juan; ii
am, los. BIS, $40, 7:30 and s:40
pm.
Snake PITT; 1870 am,
2, 4:25, 6:55 and e:25 pm. Sneak
preview, 11:15 pm.
Pix-"The Grapes of Wrath;
4:10 and $40 pm.
Playhouse-"Mr. Perrin and Mr..
Traill"; II am, 12:45, 2:30, 4:20,
6:05, 7::55 and $50 pm.
Trans "Enchantment" 1910
am, 1910, 2:10, AIS, Sis, 8:15.
1910 pm.
Warner-"Wake Of the Red
Witch; 11:25 am, 1:30, 3:35, 5:35,
TAO md 9:45 pm.
Evening star., 1949-01-31
Hollywood:
Josette Day
Joins Wilde
AS Co.Star
By SheiIoh Grohom

Cornel Wilde gets a famous French
star for his leading lady in 1.-THE
Skiing Story"-Josette Day. You
saw her in Beauty and the Beast
Cornell and wife Pat Knight leave
here in week for Switzerland to
make the picture. And, Pat tells me
"I'll stay over there with Cornell at
least half of the time, maybe more
unless I get a particularly exciting
offer in Hollywood"
Arlene Dahl gets the break of her
sweet young life. playing Van john
ston's wife in Scene Of the Crime" "
Donna Reed who was to have played
the part but is having some kind Of
tizzy with Metro instead and may
check off the lot.
Robert Cummings Is co-starring in
a picture to be made in Sweden with
Marta loren. The movies story
sounds cute and it's true 1t tells
how RKO writer Edmund Blum dis
covered Marta in Sweden a year ago,
and Mr.. Blum will, of course, be
writing this movie.
X X II Il
Jane Russell is now considered
such a hot property by her owner
Howard Hughes, that all loanouts
from now on are taboo, and Jane
will do all her emoting for RKO.
Nowadays you don't hear so much
about JAMES famous figure. The
talk now concerns her excellent
acting.
Henry Fonda is taking ''Mr. Rob-
erts" on the road when, if ever, it
finishes its successful run in New
York. And not until the play has
been seen in every big city in the
United States will Henry stand still
long enough to turn it into movie.
So you can start adding up to
several years before Fonda will ap-
pear on the screen.
Keenan, Wynn and wife Betty
Butler plan a week of honeymoon
ing in New York when keenan, fin
ishes his current Midnight Kiss"
Then, next summer. Keenan, tells
me, I'm taking Betty to Europe.
She has never been there or in
New York. That's why I'm selling
my house now, so we'll have a lot
of cash."
Ed Wynn, by the way, just re-
turned from a PA. in st. Louis,
tells me that he was billed there as
the father-in-law of Miss Butler!
1t happens to be her home town.
II X Il
Things are looking up for John
Kodiak He has been cast as Sitting
Bull in Annie Get Your Gun" has
a big part in "Operation Malaya,"
and something good in Battle
ground"
Judy Garland joins the trek to
the London palladium this sum-
mer. If every star goes to England
who says they are going. we might
as well close up Hollywood because
no one will be here.
June Allyson and Dick Powell are
dashing back to Sun Valley for
some more skiing this week. June
is crazy about the sport, and has
Georgeute, wife of French ski star
Allais, as her private coach. For the
first time in four years June has
Evening star., 1949-01-31

the sound effects-a lonely, eerie
sound Of singing telephone wires.
He looked up the sound experts to
compliment them, and was sur
prised when they looked a bit
sheepish.
The admitted they got the effect
by placing a microphone alongside
a telephone pole on the studio lot.
For once Hollywood did it the easy
way.
Evening star., 1949-01-31

no picture on her immediate sched-
ule, so she can play.
Spencer Tracy is taking his 10.
|year-old son to Europe with him
when he finishes Operation Ma
laya." Spencer wants to show the
boy how the other half of the
world tries to live.
Released by North American Newspaper
Alliance.
Evening star., 1949-01-31
Notre Dome Party Set

The Notre. Dame de Namur
Alumnae Association will hold its
annual benefit card party and dance
at $50 pm. February 18 in the
Wardman Park Hotel, it was an
nounced today. Mrs. William F.
Becker is general chairman.
Evening star., 1949-01-31
Whorf'S Richard III to Fill
Legit's Shakespearian Void
BY Joy Cormody

Classics department The movies the Sir Laurence
had much OF
With exception musical variation
tanning hrews the Bard
popular devices of the cinema.
within by Broadway will begin
Evening star., 1949-09-29

for social insurance-with the industry
footing the total bill. u. s. Steel has
now offered to put up the six cents for
pensions and four for insurance, but
insists that the workers must also make
some contribution.
It is over, this issue that strike threat
ems. On its side of the argument, the
industry has the precedent of employe
contributions to Federal old-age pensions
and the contributory system in effect for
Government employees Many pension
plans are working well on non-contribu-
tory basis, however, and 1t is hard to
discover in this issue any question of
principle that would justify strike and
all of the hardship that strike would
infiict on the country.
As matters stand, however, the industry
now is in a stronger position than the
union. Mr.. Murray is waving his arms
and shouting "pay cut" Since when has
1t become a pay cut for person to make
some provision for his old age? Nor should
it be forgotten that any contribution from
the steel workers will result in larger
pension for the retired employees than the
$100-a-month contemplated by the cor
poration's offer. Is that good or bad?
The simple fact is that it is Mr.. Murray
who is refusing to bargain. He says, in
effect, that the choice is between peace
on his terms or strike. II 1t comes to a
strike in the present circumstances, 1t will
be perfectly clear that Mr.. Murray and not
the industry is responsible for 1t.
Evening star., 1949-09-29
Impusse on Sick Leuve

Star headline carries the bad news
Chances Fade for Teachers Sick Leave
Bill" The story under the headline told
OF an unsuccessful meeting of House and
Senate conferees on the bill to provide sick
leave for Washington school teachers.
The ironic part of the disagreement is
that both House and Senate favor the
principle of the bill. Everybody, generally
speaking, favors it, It is only fair that
school teachers, paid from the same source,
should share the advantages of sick
leave now enjoyed by other Municipal
and Federal employees
Behind the story of the disagreement,
however, one should find moral. A House
committee held hearings on the bill. It
had available the results of studies by the
Board of Education, the school officials
and the budgeting authorities, who had
gathered data on comparable sick-leave
practices throughout the country. All
witnesses supported, without serious dis
agreement, sixty days of accumulated sick
leave. But when the bill reached the
Senate Committee, the sixty-day max
imum was increased to ninety days. The
increase was an impulsive gesture, un-
supported by hearings or testimony by
responsible officers of the schools or
Municipal Government.
That sort of thing has happened be-
fore, when employe unions apply the
heat in a receptive atmosphere and thus
bypass the careful study by official agen-
cies. The practice is bad. It should not
be permitted to continue. The Star hopes
that this disagreement will be quickly
compromised, for the teachers deserve the
paid sick leave-for which they now have
to pay themselves-and they are not
responsible for the work of the pressure
groups which has brought about the
existing impasse. But one can understand
the attitude of Representative Abernethy,
who heads the House conferees, in resent
ing sick-leave provision far more liberal,
and expensive, than was even suggested
when the measure was before his COM
mittee, and which was added without the
benefit of thorough study
Evening star., 1949-09-29

tax frauds, in illicit drug trafic or in
illegal use of the mails.
The Federal enforcement agencies have
done good Job in their restricted fields
of operation. as the heavy population in
Federal jails and penitentiaries attests
But State and municipal authorities have
not always been as vigilant or as deter
mined or as efficient as the Federal Gov
ernment. In fact, Federal investigators
at times have found some> local authori-
ties anything but helpful in the war on
crime. Crime will continue to flourish as
long as enforcement is apathetfc or in
efficient or corrupt. Only If local authori-
ties are seriously determined to reduce
the annual crime totals can they do SO.