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Evening star., 1950-11-17
Earth s Center of Iron Believed
Growing7OO, 900 Tons oSecond

the planets appears to be differ
ent. Earth is only about IS per
cent iron. Mars is about 80 per
cent while Mercury, it can be
calculated, contains as much as
63 per cent. Venus is assumed
to be of about the same chemical
composition as the earth.
While the flow of iron to the
earth's center at a rate of about
100000 tons a second would ex-
plain the present puzzling changes
in the rate of the day. DR.. Urey
said, it cannot have continued at
this rate throughout history. It
would have produced the present
core of the planet in about bill
lion years. There are a half
dozen reasons for believing that
the earth has been in existence
around billion years.
Reasons for Flow Unknown.
The reasons for the flow of iron
are unknown, DR.. Urey said, but
tremendous forces must be in
volved which during the last so
million years have been important
factors in mountain building. He
pointed out that this condition
does not exist on the moon, with
the result that the earth's satel-
lite has no great folded mountain
systems. Apparently very little
iron exists in the moon.
Fortunately for man, DR.. Urey
said, crust about 200 miles
thick shields the earth's surface
from these tremendous forces
operating underneath.
The earth's mightiest mountain
chain. the Himalaya, now appears
to be in a stage of rapid growth,
DR.. Peter Misch of the University
of Washington, reported to the
biologists. The great earthquake
in the Assam province of northern
India last winter, one of the
greatest yet recorded on earth,
was one episode of this growth, he
said. This mountain rampant
across Asia, he said, started its
growth about 20 million years ago
with great unheavals and has
been growing by fits and starts
ever since.
Evening star., 1950-11-17

was named assistant chief barker
Of Variety Clubs International
sometimes called "the heart of the
show business"
Mr.. Barron was equally inter.
ested in civic and welfare work
He had been a member of the
board of directors Of the Wash.
ington Board of Trade since las
year and was a member of tht
Executive Committee of the
Greater National Capital Com.
mittee.
An active Democrat, Mr.. Barron
was friend and admirer of the
late President Roosevelt. For /:
years he served as chairman o.
the entertainment committee o1
the Birthday Balls, beginning II
1884. The parties here set the
pace for the similar charity af.
fairs throughout the country. By
coincidence, Mr.. Barron's birthday
was on the same day as President
Roosevelt's.
He was a member of the boarc
of directors. District chapter
American Cancer Society. and 8
member of the executive commit.
tee of the District chapter, Ma.
tional Foundation for Infantilt
Paralysis. For years he served or
the board of the Metropolitan
Police Boys Club.
Mr.. Barron was chairman o.
the public information committee
for the Districts chest X-ray sur.
vey of 1948. He led the District!
Red Cross campaign in 1949 ant
served as co-chairman of th'
Christian committee for tn,
United Jewish Appeal in 1947.
The theater executive fount
time, both during and after th'
war, to help organize campaign!
for the sale of Government bond
here.
Official for Two Inaugurals.
In 1910, Mr.. Barron was II
charge of music and entertain
ment at the Democratic Nationa
Convention in Chicago, which
nominated President Roosevelt fol
the third term. He was an officia
at presidential inaugurals here II
1941 and 1949. He served as vict
chairman of the Community Ches
Campaign in 1949.
BY December of last year, Mr.
Barron's friends began to notice
that his pace was telling on him
Nevertheless. he continued hi.
work as executive vice chairman
of the Sesquicentennial Commis.
Evening star., 1950-11-17
Britain Urging U. 5.
To Continue ECA Aid
Through Next June
BY the Associated Press

LONDON, Nov. 17.-Britain Is
urging the United States to keep
Marshall aid dollars flowing into
her treasury until the end of next
June. s
Qualified sources reported yes
terday four main British requests
will be put forward when the two
countries. begin formally reviewing
Britain's current and future needs
for Marshall aid:
1.-She wants the United States
to give her most of the 1925 million
balance Of direct aid which she
had expected to get in 1950-51.
2.-She wants the United States
to underwrite an amount of $50
million-Britain's initial debit on
the books Of the European Pay
ments Union.
Guarantee Sought.
3.-She would like the United
States to continue to guarantee
Britain against any loss of gold
through paying off old debts to
Europe through EPU.
4.-She wants the United States
to keep on providing Marshall aid
for various dollar-needy develop
ment projects in her colonial en-
pire.
The United States already has
announced that even if Marshall
aid to Britain is suspended in the
light of her strengthening eco
nomic position, standby" help
will be available.
Talks to Start.
Formal talks between the Eco
nomic Cooperation Administra-
ton and Treasury experts are
ready to start.
The United States decided to
review the whole question when
Britain and her sterling-area
financial partners this year began
to earn more dollars than they
were spending. Gold and dollar
reserves have more than doubled
in the IA months since the pound
was devalued.
The American Government felt
it could not justif1ably continue
direct dollar help to this country
merely in order to strengthen her
reserves. The declared purpose
of the Marshall Plan was to help
the war-battered countries Of
Europe to recover.
Evening star., 1950-11-17
Capital to Pay Tribute to Carter Barron at Rites Tomorrow

sion, to which President Truman
had appointed him.
Meanwhile, Loew's sent an of.
fetal to relieve Mr.. Barron of some
Of his regular duties, including
visiting out-of- town theaters. tx
allow him to devote more time tt
planning the celebration here.
Mr.. Barron took time off fol
fishing excursions, including one
to Florida last winter. and another
to Nova Scotia last summer. But
his favorite relaxation was or
Capt. Langley's boat. the Annie B.
operating from the Solomons Is
land area.
Beginning in early April anc
continuing well into October, Mr.
Barron went fishing almost every
Sunday for the last Is years. A.
soon as Carter, jr., was big enough
to hold a rod or bait a hook, he
went along.
Football or Fishing.
In the fall, Mr.. Barron's friend.
said. he often was torn between
the desire to take a few rockfisf
from the bay or follow his favorite
football teams - the Ramblin
Wrecks Of Georgia Tech and the
Washington Redskins.
Many stars of stage and screen
as well as Mr.. Barron's friends
around Washington, accompanied
him on his fishing trips.
He would introduce them to his
friends among the oystermen and
boatmen, or to his favorite dishes
as cooked by Capt. Langley's
mother-corn pone, turnip greens
and vinegar to go with steaks OF
blue fish fresh out of the bay.
Carter Barron enjoyed the out
doors and the companlonship o1
men with similar tastes. He never
cared for humor on the boisterous
side, but got kick out of sing
ing old ballads or college songs
with his companions.
Mr.. Barron's vocal ability would
never have won him a contract
with one of his own theaters, but
he was a highly audible graduate
of the John Russell Young School
of Expression, an informal group
organized by Commissioner Young
to promote barber shop harmony
and few light beers on the side
One of Mr.. Barrons and Mfr
Young's favorite photographs
shows them singing when Irish
Eyes Are Smiling" with the late
George O'Connor, Washington
businessman and willing min
strel at untold banquets and en-
tertainments here. The occasion
was a party at the Variety Club
Married in 1928.
In June, 1928, Mr.. Barron mar
ried the pretty and popular Velns
Smelling of Bostwick. Ga. Carter
jr., was born in 1888. Mrs. Bar
ron's health confined her in late,
years to their home.
Often when Mrs. Barron felt TOT
weak to descend the stairs, he
husband would carry her dowr
to the living room to visit with
their friends.
Mr.. Barron was a member O
the Sigma Alpha Epsilon Frater
nifty, to which he was bid o,
entering Georgia Tech. His in
terest in fraternity matters con
tinued through the years, and h
was one of the most active alumni
in the Washington area.
He often planned the annua
Founders Day banquets here ant
kept in touch with the chapter
here and at Tech. For mum
ber Of years, he led drives to rails,
funds for new buildings at hi
alma mater.
Mr.. Barron's other clubs in
cluded the Alfalfa, Rotary, Touch
douya opd rho farI,oy
Evening star., 1950-11-17

will contribute to the welfare o.
fellow residents. The corneas o.
his eyes were removed soon after
death to aid in restoring the sight
of some person who would other
wise remain blind.
Physicians said it was Mrs. Bar
ron's wish that this be done. The
body was removed to Episcopal
Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital for
the operation.
"Mrs. Barron felt that. this
would have been her husbands
wish," DR.. Protas said, because
he always did everything he could
for others, and she knew he would
want some one after his death to
use his eyes to see again"
Cancer of Brain.
Mr.. Barron died of cancer of
the brain. The diagnosis of his
fatal illness was made as early as
November, 1949, at Mount Sinai
Hospital in New York. Later he
responded favorably to treatment
but developed intense pains in hi:
head last summer. Then hi
again appeared to be recovering
Late in October, he felt wei
enough to go to Atlanta to attene
the homecoming football game O
his alma mater, Georgia Tech
There he had followed in th'
footsteps Of a famed brother
David I. ReO Barron, to pla.
halfback on a team coached b.
the late Bill Alexander.
Mr.. Barron, his friends said
probably knew at the time h
was saying farewell to Georgia
Nevertheless, as chairman of tn
William A. Alexander Memoris
Fund, he worked with his usus
zeal to raise funds for a new fiel,
house.
Went Fishing Sunday.
He returned to Washingto
on October % and managed t
get his work done. An enthu
siastic sportsman all his life,
returned last Sunday to long
familiar fishing grounds in tn
Chesapeake Bay for a few houl
Of angling with old friends an
his only son, Carter Barron, jr
16, a junior at st. Adams Schoo
Here again it seemed to thos
who knew him well that Mr.. Bal
ron was saying good-by to pee
pie and places nearest his hear
He had been an ardent bay fish
erman since he came to Wash
ington in 1882 to enter the er
tertainment field here.
President Truman, an old frien,
was informed of Mr.. Barron
death at his press conference yes
terday afternoon.
I'm very sorry to hear it," tt
President said. Garter was or
Of the ablest fellows around tt
town, and one of the create
assets the District had"
Tributes poured in from mar
sources, high and low. Mr.. Ba,
ron had played a major role
getting SO million from Congre
for the Sesquicentennial Celebr;
ton. AS an official of the Wasl
ington Board of Trade, he hs
served as program director of tt
Cherry Blossom festivals.
Planned Inaugural Activities.
He helped plan inaugural fe
tivities and was a leader in Il
Evening star., 1950-11-17

Plans for final rites were being
completed today for Carter T.
Barron, 45-year-old theater execu-
tive, who died yesterday afternoon
after a long career Of distin-
guished service to the community.
President Truman led the trib-
utes to the genial, willing Geor-
gian, who for years was first to be
called upon to organize civic. well
fare, political and fraternal ac-
tivities in the Capital.
Funeral services will be held at
8 pm. tomorrow in the All Saints
Episcopal Church, Chevy Chase
Circle and Western avenue, and
burial will be in Atlanta. About
IS honorary pallbearers will in
clude motion picture producers,
theater executives and many
prominent Washingtonians in pub
lie and private life.
Although Mr.. Barron had been
in failing health for the last two
years and must have known his
days were numbered, he continued
active almost until the hour of
his sudden death in his home at
6661 Barnaby street NV.
Mrs. Barron, semi-invalid,
who has been confined to her
home for the last 10 years, found
her husband apparently in a deep
sleep and was unable to arouse
him. She telephoned for a doctor
and also called for help from Mr..
Barron's assistants at his office in
Loew's Capitol Theater.
Revival Efforts Futile.
Orville Crouch and Jack Fox
rushed to the home, as did DR..
Maurice Protas, Mr.. Barron's ply
sician. Meanwhile, the Bethesda
Chevy Chase Rescue Squad had
been summoned. The firemen ad-
ministered oxygen for more than
an hour in a futile effort to re-
vive Mr.. Barron. DR.. Protas pro-
nounced him dead at 2::30 pm.
In death, as in life, Mr.. Barron
Evening star., 1950-11-17
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Evening star., 1950-02-10

produced by Samuel Goldwyn,
baseball was the most signal flop
amcng screen sports themes. This
one paved the way for such an
other boxofice. if not artistic,
success called THE Babe Ruth
Story"
Then last season came the mo-
ton picture which accomplished
both purposes, making money and
looking something like the real
thing. This was "The Stratton
Story" the cinema recall of the
career of a young White Sox
pitcher who lost leg in a hunt
ing accident and managed to
work his way back into organized
baseball afterWard.
Boxing was another longtime
film flop until Body and Sour
made more money than Joe Louis
and was followed by an even more
successful expose of the sport,
THE Champion" Another more
modest film, THE Set-Up" was an
equal artistic success and a profit
maker for its producer and fixed
the sport as a big-time film theme.
If golf catches in on an equiv
alent interest-and Hogan's story
should be the perfect test-the
movies may begin to get back
some of the money they fancy
themselves as having lost to these
intruding entertainments.
Who knows that tennis won't
make the select circle, especially
considering that Southern Cali
fornia is virtually its headquarters
and the Pancho Gonzales story is
lying under the studios eyes?
X
Barter Theater's travelling COM
pany will make its second appear
ance of the current season in the
Washington area next Thursday
night. The group will present
Dangerous Corner" the j. B.
Priestley psychological thriller at
the Arlington Farms Recreation
building at $3.50 pm. that night.
Tickets may be purchased at
the Farms recreation building or
at Mrs. Stabler's Ticket mart.
Seats are not reserved. 3
X X X X I
Howard University players, rest
ed from their several months
tour of Scandinavia and Germany.
will launch their 1850 drama sea-
son next week with mo More
Peace a comedy by Ernst Toller,
for which the music was COM
posed by Herbert Murrill and the
lyrics by w. H. Auden.
DR.. Anne Cooke has directed
No More Peace" which requires
a cast of % and whose leading
performer will be Carol Foster.
Miss Fosters last previous i'm
pressive role in Howard produc-
tions was that of Sabina in Thorn
ton Wilder's "The Skin of Our
Teeth"
The play viii open on Tuesday,
February IA and will run through
Evening star., 1950-02-10

R4cy VAN SoAA4S OoG
This Indifference toward golf
as a feature picture theme, or
basis, is about to be summarily
ended. RKO, out of a clear sky,
announces two such screenplays
for immediate production and
this is virtually certain to start
a trend. 1t is a cinch to do so
If either, or both, of these should
make money.
Most interesting of the projects
is that which will bring the story
of Golfer Ben Hogan's comeback
to the screen. Hogan, who was
almost killed in an automobile &C
cident just a year ago, was the
winters most luminous sports fig
ure with his doughty performance
In the January Los Angeles open
tournament. In that, his first
competitive golf since his nearly
fatal mishap, he tied Sam Snead
in the original 72 holes of play,
lost to him in the playoff, 72 to 76.
Producer Howard Hughes, who
caught the drama of Hogan's per-
formance before any one else,
purchased the rights to the story.
He has not announced the casting
but whoever plays the title role
will look absurd unless Hogan is
used as his double in the actual
g0lf SeoIIoncnc
The golfer does not exist who
could mimic the Texas mite when
1t comes to hitting a golf ball.
Not among Hollywood's best ac-
tors, some of whom shoot a re-
spectacle quality of golf.
X x X X
Competitive professional sports
have been familiar screen sub
ject over the years, baseball,
prizefighting and football. Gen.
orally speaking they have been
financial diSappointments despite
the huge fan folowings the differ
ent sports have built up.
Until Pride of the Yankees"
the Lou Gehrig film biography
Evening star., 1950-02-10
HOLLYWOOD.

EOLLY WOOD.
A promised motor trip by Ezio
Pima to his two children is cost
ing him $4,000. He is due to re-
port to Metro June /. Instead,
he is buying a big new car and
will drive his children and wife to
Los Angeles upon leaving South
Pacific" May 81. He won't get
here until June Is, losing two
weeks pay and one radio show.
Bob Hope and his producer,
Robert WEIGH, are trying to get
Lana Turner from Metro to CO.
star with Bob in THE Lemon
Drop Kid The idea is not as
dreamlike as it sounds. Metro
owes Paramount a big something
for the loan of Betty Hutton in
Annie Get Your Gun"
Robert Taylor and Lana Turner
will co-star in This Side of
Innocence" if Metro can pry
the property loose from United
Artists.
Dick Powell has something like
a million dollars invested in Mrs
Mike" with Partner Sam Bischoff
But everything is going to be all
right-the movie is going great
guns, especially in Canada.
David Niven says, THE day
finish this ('The Toast of New
OrleansO I sail duty bound for
England" Sir Alexander Korda
will then grab him for three weeks
of extra work in "The Elusive
Primpernel." l." Then I finally take
the plunge into the theater. I'll
do two months this summer,
probably in a new Noel Coward
play" David will also, do Happy
Go Lovely" with Celeste Holm in
England, then Winter Sport" in
Switzerland.
Twenty one year = old Allene
Roberts plays a 12-year-old blind
girl in "Union Station" This is
the part declined by Wanda Hen
dirk.
X X X II
Gilbert Roland is rolling with
his career. He is now up for a
good spot in "Showboat." Now the
question is, when will Judy Gar
land be strong enough to make it?
Gloria Grahame denies the re-
port of a reconciliation with Nick
Ray. "We just had dinner to-
gether, and spent the evening to-
gether afterward. But we're still
planning to go ahead with the
divorce" -
John Loder and Sylvia Sidney
take Anne of a Thousand Days"
on the road this summer. John
Evening star., 1950-02-10

the following Saturday night at
Spaulding Hall on the university
campus. Reservations may be
made by calling Dupont 6100.
X X X
Three performances of Oscar
Wilde's comedy, The Importance
Of Being Earnest. will be, pre-
sented by the Westmoreland Play
ers in the social hall of the West
moreland Congregational Church
February 1913 inclusive. Joan
Connor, "a graduate of Catholic
University's speech and drama
department has directed the
Wilde production.
Evening star., 1950-02-10
ADJUSTMENTS

ADJUSTMENTS
HELP REPEAL 209o TAX on your
movie tickets. Sign protest cords al
oil our theoters and phone your Con-
eressmon-NA, 312o.
Evening star., 1950-02-10
Easier to Be a Heel
BY the Associated Press

HOLLYWOOD.
It's easier to portray a heel than
a nice guy, says Jeff Corey, who
is currently playing a model gen.
tleman and finding it> hard work.
ut takes an awful lot of effort"
Corey explains. You have to keep
thinking of other people and curb
the desire to lash out at things
that disturb you. But when you
get a. 'no-good' role. you can let
your hair down and your animal
instincts go. It's easy.
Just like in real life-it's
harder to be good than bad"
Evening star., 1950-02-10
CHEVERLY D.fsns. Hlshwey

MARI. .RnR0 Upper Marlboro, Nd.
Last Day, DOUBLE HORROR Show
LON CHANEY in GHOST OF FRANK
ENSTElN' and son OF DRACULA."
Last Double Feature S:33.
Evening star., 1950-02-10
Hollywood Diary
Hope Wants Lunu Turner as Co-Stur
'By SheiIoh Grohom.

hopes his ex-Wife, Hedy Lamar.
means it about living in New York
I'D see more of the children"
he explains.
Kirk Douglas picture. young
Man With Horn" comes up with
a happy ending, by order of Boss
Jack Warner. 1t wasn't that way
in the book.
Dan Duryea takes over the
Lawrence Tierney role in Win
chester 49, This will be the
last in Dams contract at U-I. In
it, Dan will co-star with Jimmy
Stewart and Shelley Winters. Then
Evening star., 1950-02-10
Where and When
Current Theoter Attractions
and Time of Showing

and Time of Showing |
Stage.
Catholic University Theater-
"The Would-Be Gentleman" $3.50
pm.
Screen.
Ambassador-''M Montana" lis,
$3.50. $50, 7:35 and 9:45 pm.
Capitol "Malaya";; IL am.
las, 4:30. tbs and 10 pm. Stage
shows: 1855, $40, 6:25 and 9:1O
pm.
Colu bi BATTLE-GROUND;
10:45 am. ITO, 3:20, 5:35, 7:45
and 10 pm.
Dupont-"Love Me Tonight; /
1855. 6:55 and 10 pm.
Keith's-"The Man in the Eiffel
Tower; 11:15 am, lis, 3:2O
$50, TAO and e::45 pm.
Metropolitan Follow the
Boys; 1920, 1925, 6:35 and 9:4s
pm.
Little-"Kiss the Boys Good.
bye; II am, 2::10, 5:25 and 8:4s
pm.
National-"Lady Eve; 11:3s
am, 1:30, sos. 4:45, $40, ane
9:35 pm.
Palace-"The Heiress";; HAS
am, 2:15, 4:45, 7:20 and $50 I'm
Pix-"City Without Men; 2:45
7:27 and 1905 pm.
Trans Lux my Foolish
Heart; 11:10 am, 1:05, 2:55
4:50 6:15, $40 and 10::30 pm.
Playhouse - Cali the Kings
Men; II am, l, sos, $40. 7:2s
and $40 pm.
Warner Montana; 1870
am, 1:35. 1886, $40, 7:45 and
$50 pm.
Evening star., 1950-02-10
SIDNEY LUST THEATERS-
Nj. Roinier, Nd.
CAMEO

WA. e746. Two HtsI
Last Day, ROBERT YOUNG, JANIS
CARTER. ROBERT HUTTON in AND
1DONNELL, FARLEY GRANGER, HOW
ARD DE SILVA in THEY LIVE BY
NIGHT" Last Double Feature $40.
Evening star., 1950-02-10

ADJUSTMENTS A
Evening star., 1950-02-10
Drama News and Reviews
Hogan Adds to His Loure|s,
Puts Golf Into the Movies
By Joy Cormody

You might have thought from the movies attitude all these
chat golf was without drama This of
mlsconcepon as Hollywood should have known Surely
been the scene of missed sinch puts
American municipality perhaps considering the
shaky emperamea actors producers directors
Evening star., 1950-03-18
Junior Hodossuh Dance

A charity dance will be held by
the Washington unit of Junior
Hadassah tomorrow at 9 pm. in
the Ambassador Hotel. Proceeds
will go to the fund for the Meil
Shefah village in Israel.
Evening star., 1950-03-18
By the Associated Press

American families are getting
bigger and larger homes are need
ed for the growing crop of chill
dren.
That tip to the home building
industry comes from top Gov
ernment analyst, Evan Clague,
commissioner of the Bureau of
Labor Statistics.
Mr.. Clague told reporters yes
terday that marriages, which
doomed after the troops came
home after the war, now have
settled back to a normal prewar
rate. But births are tipping right
along at almost million year.
His conclusion: THE families
we're creating are getting bigger.
That raises a question of whether
the homes we're building are big
enough"
Mr.. Clague said figures show a
rising trend toward three and four
children in single family. Other
figures show that builders are con-
centrating on four and five-room
dwellings.
To Mr.. Clague this means the
families are going to have to find
three and four bedroom places, or
stack the kids in bunk beds in the
Evening star., 1950-03-18
Church PIoy Tomorrow

A religiuos drama, Were You
There?", will be presented at 8
pm. tomorrow in Woodside Metho-
dist Church, 1914 Georgia avenue,
Silver Spring.