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Evening star., 1950-12-06


little. Turn off the heat a little
Get me an aspirin. Tuck in the
covers. Get me a lighter blanket.
Hand me a cigarette. I'm out
of matches. Call this number.
Call that number"
Centipede on Bicycle.
A centipede on a bicycle couldn' t
have covered the miles around
this house that I have been cover
ing. And I have answered more
calls for attention than F. Night
ingale did in the whole Of the
Crimean war.
The last thing I want to be is
heartless, but I can't help feeling
that a certain person isn't as
sick as made out to be. I've been
living a long time and I never
saw a really ailing gramophone.
The last straw-well. the next
to the last. anyway-came today
when, after cooking breakfast and
serving 1t on a tray, I was told
to go marketing for stuff for
lunch and dinner.
I said to make out q list and
I'd call the grocer.
The patient wouldn't stand for
that. and proceeded to give me
a 15-minute talk on how much
cheaper I could get food simply
by taking the market basket and
doing my shopping with the push
cart venders on Third and Second
avenues.
Knowing I would never hear
the last Of it if I didn't yield,
yielded and. taking of my apron,
slipped the basket on my arm and
headed for the pushcart district.
Miles Of Pushcarts.
There are miles of these push
carts along Third and Second, and
I must say they have some mighty
fine edibleS.
I bounced rutabagas in this
block, pinched tomatoes in the
next block, gazed closely into the
Evening star., 1950-12-06
Ross. War Casualty
Truman's Press Secretary Carried
HEAVY Load of Grim Information

Raleigh. N. c., publisher and for
mer White House secretary, who
has just written a friendly biog-
raphy Of the President. "A Man
Of Independence" came swiftly
into discussion. President Roose-
velt's press secretary. Stephen T.
Early. who recently quit as Under
secretary Of Defense. might be
drafted for emergency duty. Mr.
Early returned to his job with the
Pullman Company and is under
doctors orders to give himself q
break, orders that have particular
cogency now.
Mr.. Ross assistant. Eben Ayres
is on the job. and William D. Has
sett, a former assistant to Mr.
Early. is one Of the Truman Sec
retaries who might serve tempo
rarily.
These men Mr.. Truman knows
well. which is almost a must for
work in close daily contact with
him. That is why Mr.. Ross, q
boyhood friend, is such a loss to
him. He had that ease with him
possible to such long association
and his absolute trust. It is the
President who tells how his old
teacher told reporters after Harry
Truman entered the White House
"Oh. Harry Truman wasn't my
brightest boy: Charlie Ross was"
Evening star., 1950-12-06

eyes Of fish, and wandered block
after block looking for the green
est. freshest watercress, endive,
and lettuce.
I had shopped almost an hour
and my basket was loaded to the
gunwales and weighed what
seemed to me a hundred pounds.
In my enthusiasm to save a few
pennies I forgot to look where ]
was going and when I had finished
I was a cool Is blocks from home.
Naturally. I called a taxi to
get me back home. I had to tip
him extra because he wasn't too
crazy about carrying a vegetable
market In his new cab.
The doorman had to have a
little money for helping me get
out and taking the stuff to the
elevator. And the elevator man
naturally had to be rewarded for
helping me unload
The patient was delighted that
I had sa ed so much money by my
market basket shopping, and she
can go on being delighted.
There are certain things in a
Evening star., 1950-12-06
This Changing World
Is Soviet Divisions In Manchuria
Reported Ready For Kill in Korea

organized by the recipients of the
Military Aid Program.
Only last September, while we
were engaged in the Korean war
the Western Europeans demanded
in fear Of an early Russian ag-
gression, that we increase our
European force by at least six
new divisions.
Meanwhile, all our efforts to add
to Western Europe's defense the
ground forces of such non-pact
members as Germany and Spain,
remained fruitless. The French
opposed the creation of a regular
German army while they, together
with the British, refused to enter
tain the idea of providing Spain
with military equipment to i'm
prove the armament of some
500. 900 Spanish troops. The op-
position did not come from the
British, French or American
general stats, but from the
Once more dire military neces-
sites were made subject to the
whims Of vote-catching politicians.
Panic Feeling in Europe.
The complete unpreparedness
'of Western Europe to meet a
grave emergency accounts for the
panicky feeling which is spread
ing throughout Europe today
Europe wants to remain free, but
1t feels that unless it Is defended
by Americas manpower, its days
are numbered.
Any further involvement of the
United States in Asia-an area as
vital to our security as Europe
Is considered by Paris and London
to reduce Europe's defensive po-
tential to naught. There is a
strong possibility that the major
portion Of the divisions we now
have engaged in Korea may be
so severely chewed up that even
If we did reach a bargain" with
the Reds, we might have \only
enough troops left to garrison a
sulky and frightened Japan.
Mr.. Attlee and his European
colleagues believe, however, that
an appeasement arrangement in
the Far East might delay the
Russian drive long enough to give
us a chance to reorganize our
ground forces. The British
prime minister, like many in the
State Department. believes in the
effectiveness Of the United Ma
tions, provided q war with the
U. S. s. r. can be averted. And
while continuing to reassure us Of
the full cooperation of Great
Britain and other Western Eu-
ropean nations, he wants us to
get out of the present Korean
adventure" as quickly as possible
even at the price Of handing the
whole Asiatic continent over to
the Kremlin.
This alone. in Mr.. Atlee's think
ing. may spare Europe. tempo
rarily, at least. from fate worse
than it encountered at the height
Of Hitler's power.
Evening star., 1950-12-06

IL o D ~ AA -, p
background Of Constantine Brown
impending military disaster that
the talks between President Tru-
man and Prime Minister Attlee
have taken place.
The British prime minister
speaking for the Western Euro
pean nations which now oppose
any further involvement in the
Far East, is said to have presented
powerful arguments In favor OF
a face-saving agreement with the
Asiatic Communists.
Norway Alone Offers Help.
OF all the North Atlantic pact
nations, Norway alone has indi-
Gated that if America continues to
fight in Korea, it will be ready to
send whatever help 1t can afford.
The realistic Norwegians are aware
that their own fate may be jeop-
ardized II the Western Powers
take the appeasement road, which
sacrificed Czechoslovakia in 1898
and one year later opened the
way for Hitler's aggression.
Mr.. Attlee is said to have ar
gued that Korea is a. Soviet trap,
intended to engage the bulk Of
Americas military forces in the
Far East and leave Western pow
ers at the tender mercies Of the
Kremlin.
The situation Of the European
Of the Atlantic pact is
difficult. It is true that Commu-
nism as q political doctrine is
receding. But the Communist
Party, as such, is extremely power
full in France and Italy. It could
destroy all efforts to resist Soviet
aggression by strikes. sabotage
and other tactics provided in Mos
cows handbook for fighting cap
italism."
The European armies intended
to defend the Elbe and Rhine po-
sitions exist only on paper and
in the minds Of the respective
governments. Although we have
been shipping war materials across
the Atlantic for more than a year,
no new ground forces have been
Evening star., 1950-12-06

about. Like the President and the
others who are involved in the
conduct Of today's affairs he had
to work long hours and share
terrible responsibilities. He was
also a thoughtful man with the
imagination to perceive what all
that now transpires means to
people and the country.
Courage Never Failed.
His courage didn't fail. He had
had some heart fiutters but he
never even mentioned them when
bending an elbow in conviv'al
intimacy with the former col
leagues who were the companions
of his relaxed hours. AS the news
worsened and the struggle to pry
1t out became correspondingly
keener he got a little short tenn
pered-like his boss-but he never
pleaded for mercy.
He had just concluded one Of
these encounters when the end
came. 1t was brisk but he was
laughing and joking with the
radio men who were arranging for
him to make a recording of his
formal statement regarding the
second day of the Truman-Attlee
conferences.
Charlie Ross did not interpret
his job to mean that he must
give other than routine light and
leading to the press and pre-
sumably the President agreed
with him. He had been "think"
writer and unpublished spot news
did not canker or consume him.
Reporters had to accept this situ-
alton as one Of the facts Of life
with Mr.. Truman and 1t was
made easier because they really
liked and admired the press sec
retary as q person.
His death is a tremendous loss
to the President both because Of
the present critical situation and
because the President is what
he Is.
Place Must Be Filled.
Some one must be brought in
Immediately to take his place;
events will not wait these days,
and the White House is the only
channel for the most important,
which are the Truman-Attlee
ones. The State Department ex-
poets to begin briefing the press
after the military decisions are
made, but so far it had been en-
trusted to Mr.. Ross.
The name Of Jonathan Daniels,
Evening star., 1950-12-06

1OT peace, Tree. Ao"@s IL SsoAes'
dom and justice under law. That
began with the League Of Nations
which ultimately went down in
the fight and let the torch burn
out under the threat of dictators.
But the spirit of the League
survived and was born anew in
the United Nations which now
faces the threat Of new dictators.
Flame Can Never Go Out.
Throughout history, in wars for
freedom, there were periods when
the outlook was dark and almost
hopeless; but men who would
not give up, often a literal hand
full, gathered together, sometimes
in hidden refugees, keeping the
faith, and came out to fight again,
eventually to win.
Freedom and the integrity of
the individual are consuming
flames that can never go out.
1t should give us courage and
hope in the ordeal we now face,
and bring its meaning home to
us, to recall a determined man
surrounded by other determined
and ragged men who endured the
terrible winter at Valley Forge
and came out to fight again. In
that struggle for freedom, as in
all wars for freedom, the tide Of
battle rose and fell and rose
again.
Or, close to our time so that
all Of us can understand, the way
the British stood up on their
island inundated with fire from
the air and threatened by invasion
from the sea, and made ready,
under the dynamic leadership of
Winston Churchill, to make a
stand from the beaches and
hedgegrows with the old rifle,
or clubs, or stones, or whatever
was handy.
Or, closer still, when United
Nations armies were pinned to an
edge of Korea and fought their
way out of that.
So we come to our trial to-
day, perhaps the greatest in the
history Of modern civilizatio
Evening star., 1950-12-06

forts but he
was a sensitive
/ n t e lie c t ual
W ho h a d no
place to hide
from the war
and all its i'm
plicationS.
His job put
on him the
heavy load OF
grim informa-
ton about al
most insoluble
problems which
t h e President,
too. must carry
Evening star., 1950-12-06

hind the Com
munist lines, on
the Siberian
M a n c h u r ian
b ord er, are
about Is Soviet
divisions, fully
mechanical and
supported by an
/ m p o S | n g air
force, ready to
enter for the
kill" in the
Korean War.
It Is against
this GLOOM
Evening star., 1950-12-06

AAS>AAA~SA S3 WA
household was
selfish enough
to catch the flu
and go to bed
with it, leaving
me with all the
cooking an d
hand -and- foot
waiting on to
do.
Raise the
window. Shut
t he window.
Get me a. glass
Of water. Turn
Evening star., 1950-12-06
By Doris FIeeson

Charlie Ross died in battle, too.
President Truman's press secre-
tary, unlike the troops in Korea.
was surrounded by creature COM
Evening star., 1950-12-06
McL-emore
Bosket-Shopping
'Suves' Him Money
By Henry McLemo ore

I'm in a kind Of snarly, ugly
mood today, and I don't care
who knows it.
It all started when q certain
Evening star., 1950-12-06

mans life that are not q woman's
business.
distributed BY McNaught Syndicate, Inc)
Evening star., 1950-12-06

lot Cae pTu1Cl-
piles for which
we created it.
That has been
the history Of
all movements
for the freedom
Of man. AS 1t
has been true
Of individual
nations, so 1t
has been true
in our era--of
the next step,
the organiZa-
ton Of nations
g. 49,
Evening star., 1950-12-06
Bv Constantine Brovn

OV . UWStUWtEHb OTUWW
Not only are our hard fighting
forces being defeated by a Chi
nese Communist force which is
far superior in numbers, but be-
Evening star., 1950-12-06
By Thomas L. Stokes

It was almost inevitable that
the time would come when the
United Nations would have to
fight with its back to the wall
Evening star., 1950-11-21

in a lifeless, tiny vacuum of a
voice are uproariously comic. I.
is between them that the star of
Born Yesterday" must build the
good girl who has been circum-
stances quite pathetic victim.
Deadpan stupidity simply never
concealed so much of happy
wonder before.
1t would be outrageous to type
an actress who has this much OF
talent, but it should be arranged
for Miss Holiday to revive Billy
Dawn periodically. say every pre-
sidential election year.
x 4 Y X
Producer Gordon is man of
too good taste to let Miss Holli-
day struggle alone with such a
rounded and expert comedy as
Born Yesterday" Naturally, he
could not have been lucky enough
to have Paul Douglas available
for his old role as Harry Brock.
but he has not let this wreck the
plays balance. He has found a
capable fellow for the junk baron
IN Actor Judson Pratt, a lusty
type who would corrupt Senator
as readily as he would vulner-
able blond of Billy's build.
The other key roles are also ef-
fectively filled. Randolph Echols
acts convincingly like New
Republic Washington correspond
ent who could expand his ideal
ism to include the re-educatioI.
of a Billy Dawn. There is a
pleasantly winning warmth in
this Characterization and the
same may be said for Otto
Hulett'S portrait of a once decent
lawyer who could be tempted to
do Harry Brooks dirty work
These four are the main per-
formers who make that $235-a-
day hotel suite as belatedly anus
ing to Washingtonians as it has
been all these last several years
to the rest of the country.
This town can use Miss Holli-
days Billy Dawn, if not as a
representative type. as an escape
from types that are judged more
representative.
Evening star., 1950-11-21
Where and When
Current Theoter Attractions
and Time of SHOWING
Ambassador Rio Grande

Ambassador - Rio Grande"::
ITO, 3:20, 5:25. 1880 and 9:40 p m
Capitol - "Tripoli'';; IL am.
las, 4:25, 7:10 and 10 pm. Stage
shows: 1880, $3.50. 6;15 and
9:05 pm.
. Columbia-"To Please a Lady,,
1885 am, lao, $40, 5:45, 7:45
and $50 pm.
Dupont-"Bitter Rice; /, $40,
Sis, 7:30 and $40 pm.
Keith-"Wyoming MALI; 11:25
am. 1:30. $3.50, 5:35, TAO and
9:45 pm.
Little 1.-The Long Voyage
Home; 1920. 1928, 6:35 and $50
pm.
Metropolitan "Breakthrough";;
11:25 am. 1:25, $3.50, $50, 7:35
and $40 pm.
National - "Mr. $780,; 11:25
am, los, 2:45, AIS, 6:10. 7:5o
and $50 pm.
Palace-"All About Eve; 11:10
am, AS. 4:20, 6:55 and $50 pm,
Pix-"International Burlesque";;
2:15, 4:50, 1925 and 10 pm.
Playhouse-"Trio";; 1885 am.
LOS, 3:15, 5:25, 7:40 and 9::55 pm.
Plaza-"My Brother Jonathan; :;
II am. LIS. $50, 5:45, 8 and
1920 pm.
Trans-Lux-"Pink String and
Sealing Wax; II am. 1925, 1855.
$3.50, sos, 6:45. $40 and 10 pm.
Warner-"Rio Grande";; 1l:15
am, 1:20, 1925. $50, 7:35 and
$40 pm.
Evening star., 1950-11-21
HOLLYWOOD.

Ingrid Bergman, SO I hear, is
coming back to Hollywood in the
spring to make a picture for a
top studio. Previously. of course.
she will reunite with her daughter
Pia in Europe.
We won't see Jimmy Durante
here until January. Then he will
stay for two months and star
in Casey Jones" at Universal
International.
The British press had Stewart
Granger married to Jean Simmons,
with Cary Grant and Betsy Drake
as best man and girl, when
Howard Hughes piloted them all
recently to Nevada But Stew
says no. They'd rather wait until
Jean is through with her Rank
contract. She leaves next week
for Italy and "Androcles."
X II u X
Ave Gardner's back to work in
"Showboat" after a bad spell of
intestinal flu Ave is not the
robust type-gets colds and flu
easily.
Clark Gable and Sylvia have ap-
parently Cancelled the trip to New
Evening star., 1950-11-21

AS a matter of fact, the regular
political actors could learn a lot
from Miss Holiday about how tc
make their work more amusing to
the electorate which is at least
deserving of that much.
The interesting thing is, and
how well Producer Max Gordon
knows it, that Born Yesterday
with Miss Holiday is still the fun
niest spectacle on the national
horizon. The play itself has been
around four seasons and the
present production is naturally
deficient in polish, but somehow
these are of inconsequence with
Miss Holiday taking things into
her fluent hands.
The other parts are we'll enough
filled in to provide her with the
proper atmosphere in which to
make Billy Dawn the liveliest
figure since, say, Dolly Madison.
(This department will accept
challenges from anyone who re-
members Dolly and would like to
make something of that state
ment.)
It is an odd thing, and an extra
dramatic dimension, that it took
Born Yesterday" all these years
to reach Washington.
With Miss Holiday as it's star,
It is unquestionably the funniest
caricature (to use a tactful word)
ever written about the native
political life. It is probable that
the figure in the play in whom
Author Kanin was most interested
was Harry Brock, the multi-mil-
lionaire junkman who is the vii
lian of the comedy. Kanin is
dubious about the purity of junk
men and political figures and he
deals with them mighty scathingly
in Born Yesterday"
His play never did work out that
way, however. Miss Holiday stole
1t on opening night and Harry
Brock. Carson Kanin or no one
else ever got it back from her-or
ever will.
This is as it should be, proper
reward, too, for the girl who
stepped into the role that every
one has forgotten was intended for
Jean Arthur
X **
The delightful thing about Miss
Holidays Billy Dawn-the dumb
blond who wrecked Harry Brooks
junk yard empires that basic
ally she is a strict stencil. Chorus
girl mistresses of tycoons, who
take it into their empty heads to
reform, are almost as old as sex
in the art of playwriting. Not this
one. AS she is fieshed by Miss
Holiday, she is one of the great
comedy characters of the Goth
century.
No girl was ever so dumb as
Billy Dawn. or any so golden
hearted. She is innocence fairy
clamoring to be corrupted and If
others beat Junk Tycoon Harry
Brock to the invitation, he put
the finishing touches on COM
parative masterpiece. That is his
frmest of a number of firm con-
victions. at least, and it also is
his biggest mistake for just when
it seems that he has written
fnis to Bills innocence, it re-
asserts itself and destroys him.
It requires absolute virtuosity
to get the full portrait of this
hilarious heroine on the stage.
This is exactly what Miss Holli-
day gives it. The lines she reads
Evening star., 1950-11-21
Hollywood Diary
Ingrid Reported Coming
for Hollywood Film
$500 By SheiIoh Grohom

York and Nassau. They just like
to stay in their little gray home
in the West.
Robert Taylor expects to leave
the San Francisco Hospital a
week after the operation. His
next picture. Man on the Train, /"
depends for its starting date on
his speedy convalescence.
Ethel Barrymore is getting the
Continued on Page A-21, Col. a.
Evening star., 1950-11-21
Drama News and Reviews
Judy Holiday Captures D. c
In q BeIoted Flank Attack
By Joy Cormody

Inc happlest news today that Judy Holiday is
Born Yesterday Heaven only knows since
anything nice this The politics of
which Miss Holiday is the the the
community sheeres folly not to
take advantage of their and
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1950-05-05
Spring Comes Late This Year to Owe Jensen
Home on Shores of Beautiful Northern Lake

little things like magnets for
kitchen cupboard closures. 1t
makes building interesting!
Eve miss all our good friends
in Chapel Hill and hope that if
we ever get our building pro-
gram over we can take a trip
down there for sheer enjoyment.
/ doubt if ornithologically we
ever have as interesting a place
as we had at Chapel Hill. We
have planted $4,000 evergreens
and hope that we shall have a
real refuge for birds some day.
At present we keep salt block
out for the deer. They come to
it every night, and their tongues
have left deep groove in it.
''I'm so busy trying to get
settled, and have to give a talk
to the teachers at Traverse City
and also talks to Women's Clubs
at Omena, Sutton Bay, and
Northport, and another talk to
the P.T.A. at Cedar"
Mrs. Jensen doesn't mention
the subject of her talks, but
birds would be a good guess.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1950-05-05
NOTICE OF SALE

Under and by virtue of the power
conferred upon me in certain deed
of trust executed by Rhodes Mark
ham (widower) dated September IL,
1949, and registered in the Office of
the Register of Deeds of Orange
County in Book los. at page 120 to
secure the Indebtedness therein de-
scribed, and default having been made
in the payment of the said indebted
ness, and having been requested to
do so by the holder Of the note evi-
dencing the said indebtedness, the
undersigned Trustee will offer for
sale at public auction, to the highest
bidder for cash at the Post Office
Door in Chapel Hill, North Carolina,
at 1900 o'clock noon, on
TUESDAY, MAY %, 1850
the following described land, to-wit:
All that certain lots or parcels Of
land lying and being snort distance
North of the Town, of Chapel Hill,
~ c., on the West side Of Num-
Street Extended, beginning at an iron
stake in the West property line Of
said Street Extended where said
property line intersects the Southerly
line of the tract conveyed to Luther
Edwards by Ed. Stewart and wife,
also corner of lot conveyed to Luther
Edwards and wife, to Merritt; run
ming thence North So West 18O feet
to an iron stake in j C. Merritt's
line; running thence with his line
North 6 3O' East 104 feet to an iron
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1950-05-05

In a letter. written April rs
from the Owe Jensens' cottage
on a lake in northern Michigan,
Mrs. Jensen says:
Eve just can't believe spring
can be so late up here. After a
mild winter, April is really put
ting on a show. The ice went out
of our lake today, exactly one
month later than last year.
However, it still looks like
winter since it is showing now"
The Jensens, who formerly
lived here in Westwood in the
house now occupied by the Matt
Thompsons, spend the winters
in Chicago and the rest of the
year on Glen lake near Maple
City, Michigan, where they are
preparing to build a larger home
than the cottage they are in
now.
Here are other excerpts from
Mrs. Jensen's letter:
'"This will eventually be our
guest cottage. Our program this
year is to build our permanent
home. One Of the most unusual
things about Glen lake is it's
beautiful skyline and its ex-
quisite coloring. To make the
most of this, we are planning to
have 16 feet of thermal-pane
glass overlooking the lake. Even
on our porch we shall have plate
glass at eye level, with screen
ing above and below. We hope
to utilize a few new ideas too
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1950-05-05
School Children's EyesigA

School children's eyesight and
how it can be helped will be the
main topic of discussion at the
N. C. Optometric Society at its
annual convention this coming
Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday
in AsheviIle.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1950-05-05

feet to the Beginning, being Lots
Nos. IA and Is in the plat Of Luther
Edwards Ed. Stewart property as
surveyed and plated by J. Ralph
Weaver, Reg. Co, Sur, May 9, 1946,
and being a part of the same land
conveyed to Rhodes Markham by deed
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1950-05-05
Mrs. PeIl's New Grandchild

A daughter was born to Mr..
and Mrs. Robert Gordon Quincy
of Charlotte on Thursday, April
27. Mrs. Quincy is the former
Miss Edith Pell, daughter Of
Mrs. w. E. PeIl of Chapel Hill.