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Evening star., 1950-02-05
|NoW Metro
Discovers
|Veru-ENen
By SheiIoh Grohom
HOLLYWOOD.

I'm the girl who is always being
discovered" says Vera Ellen. the
star with hyphen and the bright
est dancing future in Hollywood.
Tied Lewis discovered me, 50 did
Billy Rose. Dick Rodgers and Sam
Goldwyn. And now I've been dis
covered at Metro. I hope for the
last time" 1t looks like tat
least for the next seven years. Just
before "On the Town" she gave
her dimpled signature for long
term contract to the Metro Lion.
Before delving further into her
history. I get out my tape and
measure the Vera Ellen waistline
after hearing Fred Astaire, her
dancing partner in Three Little
Words" call it the smallest in
Hollywood. Loose. the tape reg
listers 20 inches. A squeeze and
it's 10. She's the winnah!
Year 1850 looks very bright
for me-" says Miss We. Every
one, of course, always asks her:
why the hyphen?" MY mother
dreamed it when she was expect
ing me-" is the reply. "And she
gets furious with people who for
get it. Hollywood has the Body:
Marie Mcdonald, the Look Lauren
Bacall, and the Voice, Frank Sina-
ira. I'm the Dash. From my first
contract on, I've had it written in,
that they cannot leave out the
hyphen.
Once q Rockette.
'I've already danced with Gene
Kelly Gin "On the TOWN.. Now
I'm dancing with Astaire. There's
also talk Of my doing q picture
with Dan Daley at RKO-Two
Tickets to Broadway What t
dancer could ask for anything
more?
Ten years ago I was a Rockette
at Radio City. A year ago I was
up in lights doing Slaughter on
Tenth Avenue in Words And
Music Last Christmas I was
starring on the screen there in
ON the Town Life's wonderful
isn't it?"
It's also a lot of work. ''I work
harder. actually, when I'm not
making movie says the blond,
brown-eyed actress. Her dancing
coach is Nine Nijinska-sister of
the famous dancer-still, by the
way, in a European mental
institution. when you're just an
actress, you can wear skirts. In
dancing you have to get down to
bare facts. Also, dancing calls
for sacrifices. You have to give
up friendships. night life, eating,
drinking, smoking. You have to
watch your health and your figure
all the time
More Mature Now.
When I first saw Vera she was
making her movie debut opposite
Danny Kaye, who was making his
in Wonder Man" All the baby
fat from that period has gone.
THANK goodness. My more
mature look makes me more be-
lievable in dramatic roles. I'm so
glad I've graduated from being
the sister of leading men like
Danny Kaye. Now I'm THE
girl"
Right now she is the wife. Mrs.
Bert Kalmar, to oAstaire in Three
Little Words" Next step prob
ably is Paris, with Kelley again,
in "An American in Paris"
MY big dream now is to do a
movie with both Fred and Gene.
Then ! can do every type of danc-
ing in one picture. It's funny
They're both so. in awe of each
other. When Fred saw On the
Town he called Producer Arthur
Freed and said. Why didn't you
tell me about it?' When he came
on the set to congratulate Gene
they were both shaking"
How much time does all this
Evening star., 1950-09-28
Chest Workers Urged
To Help Cut Deficit
|0f Last Year S Drive

Key workers in the District Gov
ernment Unit of the 1851 REQ
Feather Community Chest drive
were urged today to help make ur
for last years campaign deficit
and to provide services to the
armed forces.
Hugh K. Duffield, chairman OF
the campaign, reminded municipal
workers meeting in the boardroom
of the District Building that last
years campaign fell $450,000 short
of its goal. causing many needs
to go untitled this year.
In addition, he pointed out that
$230,000 is being sought in this
campaign to aid members of the
armed forces.
This years campaign provides
an opportunity to prove the merit
of the unified drive in providing
Evening star., 1950-09-28

many types of welfare services, he
said.
Selective Service Director Lewis
B. Hershey urged the workers to
attack the problem the way it was
done in war; time 1914 when 108
per cent of the goal was reached.
The meeting. attended by the
three Commissioners, was pre-
sided over by Assistant Engineer
Commissioner c. H. Whitesell,
District drive chairman.
Meanwhile, Community Chest
drives across the Nation will get
a sendoff from President Truman
and a group of Hollywood stars
in a coast forecast radio broad
cast at 10 pm. tomorrow.
Mr.. Truman's talk will be heard
here from 10 to 1890 pm. over
all major network stations and
on Stations VOL, WWDC and
WINK.
In a special broadcast preced-
ing the Presidents address, Lionel
Barrymore, Bing Crosby. Bob
Hope. Dennis Day, Lucille Ball,
Mr.. and Mrs. Ronald Colman, Art
Linkletter and Kirk Douglas are
to appeal for support of the Chest
Evening star., 1950-09-28
BY the Assoeiofed Press

CHICAGO, Sept. 28.-A means
of developing electricity from
atomic energy has been worked
out by Chicago scientists.
Work on the technique was be-
gun in 1912 but has been yelled in
secrecy. The Atomic Energy Com
mission lifted it's ban on news of
the conversion Tuesday.
The method involves a neutron
thermometer previously used only
to control atomic furnaces. Heat
generated by atomic lombard
ment of fine wires in the ther-
mometer automatically is trans
formed into electricity: The wires
Evening star., 1950-09-28
BY the Associated Press

SYRACUSE, N. Y. Sept. ga
5year-old boy, who has been ir
a continuous coma for 2O7 days
has gained IA pounds and grown
10 inches during the period, Syra-
cuse Memorial Hospital reported
today.
Charles v. Ryan of the town OF
Lyme, Jefferson County, was in
jured last March 5 when a car
struck him while he was dragging
a sled up a hill near home.
The hospital said he was 80
inches tall when he entered and
now measured 40 inches. It said
the coma was caused by damaged
brain tissue resulting from a frac-
tured skull.
DR.. Sol Browdy, who is attend
ing the child, said he could not
Evening star., 1950-09-28
Electricity From Atom Energy
Achieved by Chicago Scientists

are made of metals known as
chromel and alumel.
Leaders in the research were
John L. Kuranz, 20, vice presi-
dent of the Nuclear Instrument
and Chemical Corp. of Chicago
and Robert j. Moon, 80, assistant
physics professor at the Univer-
sity of Chicago.
The thermometer, measuring
612 inches long and a half inch
in diameter, may be the key to
development of many new atomic
measuring devices. Mr.. Kuranz
said. The electric current gene
rated amounts to only a quarter
of a watt. It's only use has been
to activate controls on the atomic
furnace itself.
Evening star., 1950-09-28

"Brigadoon" over the NBC net
work.
The Chest Federation announced
today that it is mailing $50, 900
copies of "An Invoice to the Peo-
pie Of the National Capital Area"
containing a budget breakdown
for the 1851 campaign.
Evening star., 1950-09-28
Boy, 5, ,inComo 2O7 Days, Gains
74Pounds and Grows 10 Inches

state definitely whether he would
regain consciousness.
Many such cases have recov-
cred, but it is a waiting game. We
have done everything possible, and
only try to make him comforta-
ble," the physician said.
Evening star., 1950-09-28

campaign. The drive opens here
October IL.
Mr.. Duffleld is to respond to
President Truman's remarks.
The Theater Guild on the Air
program Sunday at $3.50 pm. also
is to salute the 1851 Chest cam
paign during its broadcast oi
Evening star., 1950-09-28
Ancient Coins Found

Silver coins which comprised
the pay of a Roman soldier 19
centuries ago were found recent
ly in excavating an old fort at
BirdoSwald, England.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1950-05-19
| Was A Center
President

Continued from Page 10y
that most people affiliated with
Center work feel and know only
subconSciouSly and t III is that
members of JWB's staff are tire
less, unflagging and indefatigable
workers, persistent and persever-
ing in the detectives of JWB and
so completely exuberant about
their work that they literally eat,
sleep and drink JWB, even dur
ing supposed moments of relaxa-
ton.
While no doubt the ideals of
the professional Center worker
are lofty and altruistic, one learns
that lay lie a d err and the COM
munity in general expect too
much idealism and altruism from
the Center worker. They forget
that Center work is not only a
profession, but way of living;
that the Center worker has the
same social impulses, needs and
desires that are common to all
people; that the Center worker
wants, needs and hould have
some feeling of security in the
community in which he is work.
ing and that he desires and should
become a part of the Jewish COM
munity he is serving.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1950-05-19
West Palm Beach, Florida

ate a person of a crime only be-
cause of his claim that refusal to
perpetrate the crime might have
exposed him to punishment is
fantastic concept of justice. Had
Harlan shown that he was a VIC
tim of duress, the verdict of ac-
quittal might have been justified.
But in fact there was testimony
that Harlan gave the film "anti-
Semitic" juice of his own and
that he worked with a zest and
enthusiasm that came from with
in rather than from without.
The Harlan case. the case of
the Bonn deputy justifYing Hit
ler's policy of exterminating
Jews. the multiplying instances
Of dissertations of Jewish ceme-
teries and sYnagogues and the
mounting wave of anti-Semitic
manifestations all point to the
fact that it may take decades. if
not centuries. before Germany
rids itself of the stencil of Hitler
ism.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1950-05-19

We are ready to concede that
German courts haven't yet gotten
around to an understanding of
the concept crime against hu-
manity" and that, therefore, it is
difficult to secure convictions on
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1950-05-19

those grounds. What we are not
willing to concede is that Ger
man jurists have forgotten the
distinction between pressure"
and "duress" in law. To eXoner-
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1950-05-19
THE STENCIL IN GERMANY
BY NATHAN ZIPRIN

Vit Harlan the director of the anSemitc Nazi film Jew
Seus in his land Twice within he has been
completely crime against
humanity his that
he produced film under Naz pressure
The Nome nugget., 1950-08-07
Tuesday. August 8. 1850

4uSS0oys S10S1~S4 VI SSSS zoo a.m.-Morning Melodies 7:15-Morning Devotions 7:3O-Musical Clock 8:00-Gary Moore 8:3O-Not So Quiet, Please 9:O0-Beulah
 9:15-Melody Roundup -Mid-Morning Melodies 10:00Jack Berch 10:15-Vocal Spotlight 1O:3O-Fred Waring l1:OO-Club Fifteen 11:15-Remember 11:30-I. & E. Special Noon-Luncheon Turntable 12:3O-Jimmy Carroll Sings 12:45-At Ease l:00-Magic Carpet
 1:l5-ack Smith
 1:30-Yesterday's Best 2:O0-Around World In History 2:15-Matinee Melodies 3:OO-News of the World 3:15-Interlude of Western Music 3:3O-Name It For A Song 4:00-Curt Massey 4:15-Words With Music 4:30-Musical Varieties 5:00-Afternoon Reveries 5:15-I. & E. Time
 5:3O-Date With A Duke 6:0O-NewS of The World 6:15-Variety Time 6:30-Bing Crosby 7:00-Turntable Time 8:00-My Friend Irma 8:30-The Air Force Hour 9:OO-Dennis Day
 9:30-The Whistler l0:00-One Night Stand 10:30-Dancing In The Dark 11:00 p.m.-Sign Off
The Nome nugget., 1950-08-07
Steamer BaranOf Sailed On Time

SEATTLE, P)-The Steamship Baranof, with a full crew of se- curity-screened stewards aboard, sailed for Alaska Saturday morn ing.
 The Alaska Steamship company vessel sailed under the same agreement which allowed her sis ter ship, The Alaska, to depart Friday after a 24-hour delay.
 The stewards, members of the Marine Cooks and Stewards Un- ion (CIO), had objected to pro-. cedure for screening out bad se- curity risks. A temporary agree ment was reached Friday in lengthy meetings between union and company officials for secur- ity check by the Coast Guard. The check is required under the na- tional security act.
The Nome nugget., 1950-08-07

WASHINGTON, (P)-The gov ernment harvested lighter than usual crop of seal skins in Alas ka's Pribilof Islands this year.
 Secretary of Interior Chapman reported today that the annual harvest from June 10 through July 27 yielded 6O,O9O skins, com pared with 70,891 last year and a 1O-year average of 66,92O. Pelts are taken chiefly from three-year old males.
 Chapman said fewer seals were killed this year because of ''nor- mai fluctuations, such as occurr in all wild life populations"
The Nome nugget., 1950-08-07
Finds, Keeps, $lOOO Charged with Theft

BATON ROUGE, La. (P)-Sup- pose you were sweeping up bank and saw a bundle of $20 bills mixed up with waste paper on the floor.
 Police say it happened to Der non Lee Otis, 24-year-old porter in a Baton Rouge bank, two months ago and that Otis pocket ed the bills-S1, ,OOO worth.
 Detectives E. J. Dominiguez and R. s. Trigg arrested Otis Friday and charged him with theft. They sai they were led to the man by his heavy spending-$500 down on an automobile, $200 for food and clothes, the rest "just good times" No cash was recovered.
The Nome nugget., 1950-08-07

MT. and Mrs. E. Marlin. teach CTS of Diomede Island and their daughter Edwinna, arrived from Diomede enroute to Kipnuk near BetheD where they will be sta toned next as teachers for the ANS.
 Mrs. Martin stated that they had seen no Russians during the winter nor had any been reported by the natives. However, she has had word from the Motorship Health" which is at Diomede,, that Russian boat was on the in- ternational border when they put in to Diomede and scrutinized the Health" thoroughly through field glasses.
 Mrs. Martin praised the Dio- mede people for their co-opera- tiveness and stated she had en- joyed working with them.
The Nome nugget., 1950-08-07

nicipal baseball field. But the feat didn't get into any baseball score book-police put it instead on their blotter.
 They said someone literally stole home plate. Tire tracks found on the field showed some one had backed a car onto the baseball diamond last Thursday night and ripped out the 18-inch pegs which held the plate to the ground.
 Police said home plate was val ued at SIS.
The Nome nugget., 1950-08-07
NEWS IN BRIEF
Continued from Page One)

Continued from Page One) church for the past II years. As we'll as working for II years in Ketchikan, the Rev. Fosso ans wered his first call at Teller, Alas ka, 32 years ago.
 Services will be conduc e d Wednesday in Anacortes, with graveside services at the Pacific Lutheran ceremtery, Seattle.
The Nome nugget., 1950-08-07
SATURDAY GAMES

American League Detroit 9, Washington 8. Cleveland 4, New York 2. D1.<o~ 70 Ch;norO
The Nome nugget., 1950-08-07
JOINER HEARING POSTPONED UNTIL AUGUST 10

In the matter of the investiga- ton of the operations in air trans portation of Eugene Joiner, the CAB have announced that the hearing which was adjourned in June will be resumed on August 10, 1850, in Kotzebue.
The Nome nugget., 1950-08-07
Baseball Scores By The Associated Press)
FRIDAY GAMES National League

National League Philadelphia 4, St. Louis 2. Brooklyn 2, Cincinnati l. Boston 10, Chicago 2. New York 3, Pittsburgh 2.
 American League Washington 5, Detroit 2. Chicago 3, Boston 2. Q0 innings Philadelphia 12, St. Louis 9. New York 1, Cleveland o.
 Pacific Coast League Oakland 9-4, Portland 5-1. (2nd game called end sixth, curfeW). Seattle 6, Hollywood 5. Sacramento 8, Los Angeles 5. San Francisco 6, San Diego 5.
The Nome nugget., 1950-08-07

Cape Griz Nez, France, (P - Murlat Guler, 21-year-old Turkish student, waded into the water at 3:30 pm. today to try to swim the English Channel.
 Shirley May France, 17-year- old Somerset, Mass, girl and Flor ence Chadwick, San Diego, Calif., stenographer, plan their tries ear ly tomorrow morning. Roy Sutter, Denison, Texas, made the first 1850 attempt on Saturday. He lasted only an hour and 40 minutes due to a pulled leg muscle.
The Nome nugget., 1950-08-07
A. F. R. 5. MARKS AIR FORCE BASE NOME, ALASKA
Monday. August ,. 1850

Monday. August 7. 1850 5:OO-Afternoon ReVerieS 5:15-I. & E.. Time 5:3O-MuSic from America 6:OO-News of The World 6:15-Variety Time 6:3O-Twenty Questions 7:00-Turntable Time 8:O0-Amos n Andy 8:30-Mr. President 9:00-Judy Canova 9.30-Sam Spade 1O:0O-One Night Stand 10:30-Dancing In The Dark HOO p.m.-Sign Of
The Nome nugget., 1950-08-07

700 a.m.-Morning Melodies 7:15-Morning Devotions 7:30-Musical Clock
 8:00-Gary Moore
 8:30-Not So Quiet, Please 9:00-Beulah
 9:15-Melody Roundup -Mid-Morning Melodies l0:O0-Jack Berch 1O:15-Vocal Spotlight 10:30-Fred Waring 11:O0-Club Fifteen 11:15-Solitary Singer 11:3O-I. & E. Special Noon-Luncheon Turntable 12:3O-Jimmy Carroll Sings 12:45-At Ease
 1:OO-Magic Carpet
 1:15-Jack Smith
 l:3O-Yesterday's Best 2:O0-Around World In History 2:15-Matinee Melodies 3:00-NeWs of the World 3:15-Interlude of Western Music 3:30-Name It For A Song 4:00-Curt Massey 4:15-Words With Music 4:30-Musical Varieties
 5:00-Afternoon Reveries
The Nome nugget., 1950-08-07

VINELAND, N. J. >R- Some one stole home at Vineland's mu-
The Nome nugget., 1950-08-07
SUNDAY GAMES American League

AmeflCdn League New York 9, Cleveland 0. Detroit 4, Washington 0. Boston 9-4, Chicago 2-3. St. Louis 10, Philadelphia 3.
 National League Cincinnati II, Brooklyn 2. New York 5-3, Pittsburgh 0-0. Boston 5-1, Chicago 2-9. St. Louis 7-2, Philadelphia 10.
 Pacific Coast League San Diego 3-5, San Francisco 2-6. Sacramento 70, Los Angeles 4-5. Hollywood 8-3, Seattle A. Oakland 12-5, Portland 2-4.
Evening star., 1950-02-18
FEC Asked to Consider Curbs
On Comedians Own LAUGHTER

from the microphone?" Mr.. Gore
inquired.
Il think, if you would just cut
out all the comedians who laugh
at themselves, that would do it,"
Representative Phillips, RepUb-
lican, of California suggested.
obviously, they have to pay
somebody to laugh" Mr.. Gore
went on. because much of the
vulgar nonsense is devoid of hu-
NOR. Even so, it is a bit CALLING to
hear the same persons night after
night, laughing loudly right into
the microphone. Have you really
given any thought to that?"
mo. we have not" Mr.. Coy ad-
mitted.
Mr.. Gore suggested it was
about time" the FEC did some
thing about it.
Mr.. Phillips said the best solu-
ton is to push a button" on the
radio set. cutting off the program.
Mr.. Coy agreed. Of the commits
sion, he said:
IF we had the authority to de-
termine the kinds of programs
that would suit us, do not believe
we are smart enough to pick out
what would satisfy the American
people. We are a group of people
with widely diverse interests, and
I think it would be very danger
Gus for seven people to have the
authority to determine what went
on the air"
Evening star., 1950-02-18
Whole Town Turns Out
To Greet DIP Girl, II
BY the Associated Press

MONACO. Pa, Feb. 18-This
Western Pennsylvania steel town
today gave an 11-year-old Yugo-
slav girl the first real home she
can remember. -
She is Dragica Grujic, one ef
Europe's millions of displaced
persons. She is displaced no
longer.
THE whole town population
10000 has turned out to meet
her said her aunt and foster
mother, Mrs. Peter Sharatz.
Many of the visitors have
brought gifts. The kind Dragiea
likes best are food and clothing.
She's like a kid at Christmas
time said her uncle, Peter
Sharatz, who is now her father
by adoption.
Dragica's parents were killed
early in the German invasion.
Her grandmother took care of her
after that. They lived in caves
and in woods, eating anything
they could find. Her grandnoth-
er died last December.
1ne little girl first saw white
bread on the ship that brought
her over.
Her new parents met her in
Philadelphia and brought her
home last night on a plane.
Evening star., 1950-02-18

If the U. S. S. R. Constantine Brown
has the slightest intention OF
getting into step with nations
which are anxious to see peace
established, it can assume a less
offensive and more cooperative
attitude in that peace-making
body. But so far all that Rus
sian delegates have done, on Or
ders from Moscow, is weaken the
United Nations by repeated vetoes
and walkouts.
The State Departments most
severe critics agree with it's pres
ent attitude in regard to another
direct approach to Russia. Expe-
rlence shows that whenever we
have gone to the Kremlin, hat in
hand, and begged Stain to talk
directly to our representatives, we
got our fingers burned and pro-
Vided the Soviet Union with prop
aganda material.
The last time we made such an
approach was the summer OF
1948, at the height of tie Berlin
crisis. Stain received American
Ambassador w. Bedell Smith and
his British and French colleagues.
smiled pleasantly over special
Kremlin cookies and tea and
promised to lift the blockade. But
nothing happened. 1t was not un-
til months later, when Moscow
realized that it could not defeat
the airlift. that the blockade
ended.
Experience Offers Warning.
Those whe favor direct ap-
proaches to Russia should also
remember that every time we have
made such contacts at the highest
I level we lost our shirts.
The present critical situation in
the world springs from two fatal
conferences held by President
Roosevelt, Prime Minister Church.
i'll and Stain. The foundations
for Russia's claims in Central and
Eastern Europe were laid at the
Teheran Conference in 1943. AT
Evening star., 1950-02-18
On the Other Hand
Old Master Painter of Tennessee
Hills Has UNIQUE Farewell Party

Weather Bureau began exchang-
ing daily data on the Mississippi,
Ohio and Tennessee by phone and
wire.
The Tennessee enters the Ohio
above Cairo. Anticipating the
danger stage, the IVA began to
discharge water from the big Ken
lucky reservoir on the Tennessee
lat relatively high rates in order
to pass the excess water down the
Ohio and Mississippi Rivers ahead
OF the flood crest. This was con-
tinued until it became desirable
to reduce the discharge and thus
lower the crest at Cairo.
When the crest arrived January
IA, the release from Kentucky Dam
was reduced from $4,000 cubic
feet per second to 10000 feet
On January 16 it was further re-
duced to 100000 feet and held at
that rate until the crest had
passed and the flood began to
Irecede.
This discharge" say the en-
Igineers, was about 10000 cubic
feet per second less than that
which would have been flowing in
the river If there had been no
dams there to regulate the flow. -
David Lilienthal did not invent
flood control. But his was the
master hand in the building of
IVA. but for which there would
have been different story to tell
along the Mississippi a few weeks
ago.
Evening star., 1950-02-18
Truman Appoints Board
10 Study Communications

President Truman yesterday set
up a flve-member board headed
by DR.. Irwin L. Stewart, president
OF the University of West Virginia
to make recommendations for
promoting the adequacy and eff
cheney of the country's communi-
cations services.
The President asked that three
points be developed.
Most important, he said, is the
| problem of the meeting of the
domestic demand for radio fire.
quencies and the equitable distri-
button of available channels in
ternationally.
| The questions of merging over
seas operations of commercial
communications companies and
the extent to which the Govern
ment should continue to maintain
its own war-born facilities were
also urged for study.
Evening star., 1950-02-18

Radio comedians who laugh at
their own jokes, and laughing
stooges who crowd the micro
phone, should be the concern of
the Federal Communications Com
mission.
This is the view of at least two
members of a House appropri-
ations subcommittee.
But the FEC hasn't given any
thought to this particular peeve
against broadcasters, according to
Chairman Wayne Coy of the COM
mission.
At an appropriations hearing
Representative Gore, Democrat, of
Tennessee congratulated Mr.. Coy
''for taking the initiative in cur
failing these putrid. awful give
away shows"
Mr.. Coy pointed out that the
FEC issued a regulation against
them but was hauled into court
and prohibited from enforcing the
order, pending a judicial review
He said give-aWays are waning
in popularity and might disappear
before the case came up for hear
ing, but he thought the commits
sion should pursue the court fight
in support of it's ruling.
Have you ever given any con-
sideration to requiring these deep
abdomen, vociferpus, hired laugh
ing participants on the supposed
ly funny man. wise = cracking
shows to stay a certain distance