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Evening star., 1950-05-31
This Changing World
West Would Be Unwise to Ease Guard
On Berlin After Youth Rally Failure

greatest magnitude il it led to any
weakening of our military forces
or to any watering down of our
aid-military and otherwise-to
the countries which have aSsoci-
ated themselves with us in the
defense of Western civilization
against the menace from the East.
There are likely to be other oc-
casions in the not-too- distant fu-
ture when Allied readiness to meet
a challenge will be tested as sternly
as it was tested in Berlin over
last week end. The anti Commu-
mist rioting in Helmstedt is indi-
cative Of the explosive nature of
the still tense situation.
Chance for New Echo.
The German Communist Party
will hold a congress in Berlin be-
ginning July 20. This will pro-
vide new opportunity to echo
on a higher plane-the demand
heard during the youth rally, that
the Western powers-and particu-
larly the United States@get out
Of Berlin. The propaganda ele-
ment in this forthcoming congress
is apparent. for the Communist
Party of Germany is using the
Soviet sector of Berlin as a spear
head in its campaign to force out
the Western powers to as great an
extent as the Western powers are
using their position there as a
bastion Of defense Of their posi-
ton in Germany.
A more serious Communist
threat to the West Is likely to
occur, however. in the prepara-
tions for the East German elec-
tions, now scheduled for October
Is. Although the Western powers
have dared the Russians to hold
all German elections on the basis
Of democratic freedoms with the
aim Of unifying Germany under
its own government, the Russians
will have none of this sort of
thing, which would endanger the
whole basis on which their struc-
ture in Germany is built.
Any of these forthcoming events
in Eastern Germany could provide
the signal for a Russian offensive
led by their German Communist
mercenaries-to get the Allies out
of all of Germany. Whether they
give the signal or not will depend
AS 1t depended in the Whitsun
rally - on the degree of Allied
readiness to make a major issue
Of any attempt at a putsch.
The nerve war is hot and get
ting hotter.
Evening star., 1950-05-31

| x a
that provide cheaper power for
homes and industry and water for
reclaiming arid lands to offer new
opportunities for our people. He is
part of the saga that has made
us a great nation.
Rufus Woods leaves his mon
ument. already built. in Grand
Coulee Dam. of which he had
been called the father. He was
far away from there. at Toronto,
Canada, on trip with his fam
lily, when he was stricken-still
searching, looking into apples for
cultivation in the great agricul-
tural area that Grand Coulee has
opened up, and into power de-
velopment problems. He closed
a full life Of service at 70.
Great Dream Came True.
This reporter recalls the first
time he met the buoyant, ener-
getic editor, back in 1887, on a
trip with President Roosevelt to
Grand Coulee Dam. then in the
process of construction. Rufus
Woods was an excited, eager man
that day-his great dream was
coming true. He got on the Pres
idential special train, his arms
filled with copies of his news
paper containing reprints of an
article he had written 10 years
before, with the long headlines
familiar to small papers of that
era, but telling concisely the
whole story:
formulate Brand-New Idea
for Irrigation Grant, Adams,
Franklin Counties, Covering Mil
lion Acres or More; Last and
Newest and Most Ambitious Idea
Contemplates Turning of Colum-
bia River Back Into It's Old Bed
in Grand Coulee, the Develop
ment of a Water Plant Equal to
Niagara and the Construction of
the Greatest Irrigation Project
in the World-First Conceived by
William Clapp of Ephrata, Wash"
Beside the reprint was a box:
ION July IS, 1918, appeared the
first article ever written on the
Grand Coulee Dam, The Wenat-
chez World editor had gone to
Ephrata. where he met w. Gale
Matthews. Gale said Come with
me. Let's 60 over to Bill Clapps
office. He has a story for you"
Rufus Woods got the story, the
conception of the Grand Coulee
project. and from that day ir
1918 he began a crusade that
eventually brought the hundreds
OF men we saw that day 10 years
later in 1887. tiny ants far be-
low in the Columbia River bed,
working at the dam which since
has been completed and which
President Truman visited again
on his recent trip to the Pacific
Northwest.
Met Usual Skepticism.
Rufus Woods met the usual
skepticism of the pioneer. One
Of his friends. Judge P. S. Steiner
of the Supreme Court, wrote him
after reading his story in the
newspaper: "You are proposing
Evening star., 1950-05-31
THE EVENING STAR Washington, Q. c.
WEDNESDAY.

graciouSness OF q great man. he
said, That's the only place The
Generals happy. Mr.. McLemore,
all the people I knew Is years ago
on the Eastern Shore of Maryland
are dead. ! am quite sure that all
OF The Generals friends are
dead. but that's his home and
that's what he likes most in the
world. Don't you think that I'm
completely obliged TO take The
General in the summer to the
Eastern Shore Of Maryland?"
I asked Mr.. Davis If I could see
The General" I wanted to see
If the cat deserved such lovely
vacation.
Mr.. Henry said. Don't look at
that cat If you are expecting to
Evening star., 1950-05-31

tIl6 TTGG 1cI"
man Youth and the Peoples
Police did not attempt TO invade
the Western sectors of the city
and drive the United States.
Britain and France from their
positions there must be attributed,
in part at least, to two things:
Cd Allied preparations to use
military action against any putsch
attempt and Allied determination
to meet force with force in de-
fense Of their sectors Of Berlin;
and
20 Clear warning by the Allies
to the Russians and the German
Reds that they intended to fight
Father than be elected from
Berlin.
Error to Let Down.
II the words Of German Red
leaders are to be taken as any
indication of their original inten-
ton. they planned to make the
Berlin rally a violent incident
aimed to force the Western pow
ers out of the city. But they did
not provoke any such incident.
Their expressed intentions
changed after it became clear
that the West was preparing to
meet the threat.
AS in all other cases of extreme
tension leading up to a climax
which passes without the feared
outbreak, there may be a tend
ency in the Western nations to
relax, and to assume that all
danger is passed. 1t is reason
able to do so. The greater the
tension the greater the tendency
to let down afterward.
This would be an error of tn.
Evening star., 1950-05-31

see q pretty cat. The General In
sure to disappoint you"
Mr.. Davis brought The Gen.
eral" in. The General" can't
walk any LONGER. He can't hear,
either. For Is years he has been
chewed at. You see, The Gen.
eral" never won a fight.
Let me end this little story this
way; let me end 1t the same way
I started it.
This Is the end Of story about
great cat and a great man.
Distributed BY MeNaaEht syndicate. lrs1
Evening star., 1950-05-31

pushing, alerC,
constantly Gu
rious editor of
a small = town
newspaper in q
still new coun-
try-The Daily
World Of We.
natchee, Wash
ington. He was
a dreamer and
a true pioneer
OF ur n e W
on tt r. a
m a n - m a d e
from tier Of
Evening star., 1950-05-31

The N an s
name Is Elmer
Davis.
M ost news
p a p er m e n
when they pass
through Wash
lngton see to
it that they go
to the White
House, the SEN
ate. Congress,
and Mt. YER
non, but not I.
When I go to
Washington I
wind I'm in Rill
Evening star., 1950-05-31

6cCWIO . VI Tile
city provides a
measure Of re-
lief for tn e
| Western world
from the ten
sion which pre-
c e d e d t h e
| massing Of a
h alf million
| German Com
munist youths.
| The fact that
he Russians
a n d tn e ir
| stooges among
49, E~nA Gn~
Evening star., 1950-05-31
By Constantine Brotrn

The passage of the Whitsunday
youth rally in Eastern Berlin
without violence and without any
kind Of threat to the Western
Evening star., 1950-05-31
By Thomas L. Stokes

A fellow named Rufus Woods
died this week.
You may not have heard much
about him. He was a hustling,
Evening star., 1950-05-31
McLemore-
Story Of The GeneroI'
And Elmer Doyis
By Henry McLemnre

- = "" y AVA Wv d"VtS
This is q story about q great
cat and a great man.
The cats name Is The Gen.
eral"
Evening star., 1950-08-29

these 81 years ago. :. The pixie
face of Helen Hayes in the corner
of page IA is another that will
make you look twice. Best
drama story around yesterday
was the one in Bert McCord's
column in the New York Herald
Tribune. It concerned Celeste
Holm who saw Myron Mccormick
going into the Majestic theater
carrying three large boxes of ia
cial tissue How nice to be in
a play and know you are going to
use all that" she told the South
Pacific" principal. Do facial
tissue company stockholders ever
think of a thing like that? :.
They may for all this department
knows.
Most exciting item on the early
Broadway schedule this fall is
the Oct. IL opening of Call Me
Madam" the Howard Lindsay
Russell Grouse musical relating
70 Mrs. Perle MeSta's life and
work In addition to those
three names. it has the additional
excitement of such others as Ethel
Norman and Irving Berlin as star
and composer. Not so excit-
ing. except to him, is the fact that
Olney press man Bob Ullman will
be Leo Bernstein's assistant on
the show Call Me Madam"
could be the attraction that will
relieve the ticket agencies pressure
on South Pacific" However,
none of the other attractions ex-
pected to serve that purpose has
lived up to expectations IS.
P" still does its capacity plus so
standees at every performance.
and its $50,700 weekly.
Texas, which hit Broadway with
a bang last week with "Borned in
Texas" a new play, and the re-
vival of Texas Lii Darlin'" di-
Evening star., 1950-08-29
Hollywood Diary
Holden Hits Career Peak
In Role Cliff Rejected
BY Sheilah Grdhnm-

yelled, mo, not another bapy!"
All of Arthur's leading ladies are
expecting babies from June Ally
son to Esther Williams-and he
just couldn't take it any more.
Whether Dinah Shore or some
one else plays Julie in "Showboat"
will be decided when Director
George Sidney returns from scout
ing locations in a few days. Mean
while, Dinah is crossing her fin
gers and not walking under lad
ders.
X 4 X X
Still no picture in sight for
Olivia de Havilland. What is this
Oscar" jinx that seems to follow
most Academy Award winners?
Luise Rainer, after winning two,
never made another Hollywood
movie!
Mickey Rooney wires me from
Alabama that his medicine show
tour Is playing to $4,000 people
nightly and he cloves every min
ute OF it." Stars can always pick
up a quick fortune when they
take to the road.
Esther Williams and her hus-
band, Ben Gage, are adding q
drive-in and golf course to their
successful restaurant. I'VE leck-
on" says Esther, people will get
hungry and thirsty playing golf,
then come on in to eat and be
(Released by the North American
Newspaper Alliance)
Evening star., 1950-08-29

minished almost to a whimpel
Immediately The first men,
toned is closed already and the
second is set for exit Sept. 8
Texas being Texas, of course, ii
will be heard from again
Harold Bromley who co-produced
at the Gayety last Spring will be
co-sponsor of the road tour this
Fall of "The Innocents" .. David
Cole, who played the Winslow boy
in the Olney production OF
"The Winslow Boy" will resume
his role in the cast on tour
Irish Mann, the other thriller's
precocious young player. will re-
main in New York.
x X 4
Sunset Boulevard" which will
have its local premiere at the
Warner and Ambassador theaters
Sept. 7, already is threatening to
become one Of the great money
pictures of all time It has
broken box Office records wher-
ever it has been shown and its
big city success is expected to be
echoed in smaller theaters
This is not always the case
Speaking of records, the Peter
Pan" revival with Jean Arthur in
New York will exceed all long run
marks for revivals of that play
when it hits the 15Oth perform
ance on Sept. l The original
run in 1905, with Maude Adams,
was 237 performances and the
1850 producers can already see
it's eclipse in sight.
Mad About Opera" which re-
places "All Quiet" at the Dupont
theater tomorrow. was screened
Yesterday Saints and Sin
ners," the comedy which was seen
recently at the Playhouse, will
have its first and only uptown
showing on Thursday and Friday
at the Apex theater Alexan-
dria'S first art cinema, The Guild,
is of to an encouraging start
It's current attraction is Pass
porl to Pimlico," a corking
comedy .. Variety club and show
business friends of Frank Boucher
are planning testimonial dinner
to the Kogod- -Burka theater man
on Sept. 18 It will be a birth
day dinner, at the Shoreham Ter
race room Just which birth
day is something maybe Mr.. B.
would rather tell you himself
There seems to be something SEN
SiGlve about people who were born
back there at the turn of the
century If Burl Ives ever be-
comes music circus producer
which he may the job he wants
is that of the ballyhoo man.
Evening star., 1950-08-29
Where and When
SWIISHt IHeutEI NttIUClTU
and Time of Showino

Ambassador - Kiss Tomorrow
Goodbye; l, $40. SIS. 7::25 and
9:40 pm.
Capitol-"Stella":: II am, 1:45,
4:30, 7:10, and 10 pm. Stage
shows: 1855, $40. 6::25 and 9:10
pm.
Columbia - Return of Jesse
James; II am, 1910, 2::30, 4:20,
6:10. s and $50 pm.
Dupont -, "All Quiet on the
Western Front; 1::25, 1925, 5:25,
7:35 and $40 pm.
Keith's-"Our Very Own; 11:40
am, 1:40, $40, $40, TAO and
$40 pm.
Little "Rocketship," 1920.
3:05, 5:45 and $3.50 pm.
Metropolitan - "711 Ocean
Drive; 1880 am, 1870, $3.50,
$3.50. 1880 and $3.50 pm.
National - my Friend Irma
Goes West; 11:15 am, 1880,
2:40, 4:25, 6:10, 7:55 and 9:40 pm:
Palace-"Broken Arrow; 11:15
am, 1:20, $3.50, 5:35, TAO and
9:45 pm.
Playhouse - Panic in the
Streets; 1920 am, 1:15, 3:20,
5:25, 1885 and 9:45 pm.
Plaza-"Pagliacci";; 11:45 am,
1920. 3. 4:40, 6:25. 8:05, 9:45 and
II pm.
Trans Lux "Destination
Noon; 11:05 am, 1880, 2:40,
4:25, 6:15, sos and 9:55 pm.
Warner-"Kiss Tomorrow Good
bye; 11:15 am, 1:15, 3:15, Sis,
7::25 and 9:40 pm.
Evening star., 1950-08-29
HOLLYWOOD.

HOLLYWOOD.
William Holden is riding high.
He'll take over for Alan Ladd in
"This Is Dynamite" with Alan set
to go in Rage of Vultures." Will
liam's performance in Sunset
Boulevard" has made him the most
sought after young actor in Holly
wood. I wonder how Montgomery
Cliff feels when he reads the
glowing notices. He turned down
the role accepted by the astute
William.
Kirk Douglas and Irene
Wrightsman set their wedding for
February 1851.
Ginger Rogers remains in New
York until September II, at least.
That is when she does q Theatre
Guild OF the Air radio show with
Paul Douglas.
Laurence Olivier is about to give
his first press conference in Holly
wood. To date. Larry and wife
Vivien Leigh have kept away from
the fourth estaters as from a
plague.
A new star is born-Thelma
Ritter in "A Relative Stranger"
When this Gene Tierney-John
Lund Starrer was sneak previeWed,
every one of the 800 persons in
terviewed by card went into rave
over Thelma. One card read: IT
think Thelma Ritter is better than
Miss Tierney. I'm a male, 10, and
insanew
Clifton Webb, who is usually
asleep at that time, called Paul
Douglass wife Jan Sterling, at
8 am. recently and said, "You
must be the happiest bride in
Hollywood because you are mar
ried to the best actor in the
world" The night previously Cliff
ton has seen Paul Douglas in IA
Hours" at Daryl Zanuck's house.
When Jan asked: "Is it really
that good?' Clifton replied, MY
dear lady, I don't usually get up
at 8 o'clock to tell fairy tales"
X X X X
When girl behind jamie Pow
ell tainted on the set of Royal
Wedding" Producer Arthur Freed
Evening star., 1950-08-29
TODAY'S NEIGHBORHOOD MOVIES

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Air Conditioned
HUMPHREY BOGART. GLORIA GRAHAME
$50.
Evening star., 1950-08-29

racine Tor next summer is a
thought on more minds than one.
-. It just did $82, 900 in one week
in San Francisco.
Maurice Evans will make his
first motion picture in America
with Ethel Barrymore as co-star.
-. They will work for Metro
Goldwyn- Mayer in Kind Lady"
the Edward Chodorov play which
was sensation with Grace George
back in 1885 1t will be Evans
first chore in Hollywood. It
was in Angel Street" in which
she will open at Olney tonight that
Judith Evelyn make her first bril-
= liant landing on Broadway &.
Edith Barrett, scheduled to play
the role, was taken Ill shortly be-
fore its opening Miss Evelyn
took over and became an over
night sensation.
Happiest news of the summer
to John Gielgud's fans is his sue
cess as King Lear in the Stratford
festival production. d.. Last time
In Washington. the English actor
who had made Shakespeare his
speciality. had a feeling that he
had been displaced by Sir Lau-
renee Olivier. It was not
bitter feeling. nor an unkind one.
The two are the best of
friends and have a great mutual
admiration. =. The Gielgud
Lear" sort of restores the bal
ance. incidentally, Gielgud
will make his temperance on
Broadway this fall in the much
awaited 'The Lady'S Not for Burn
ing"
X X X X
Theater Arts for September
takes a long backward glance to
the show season of 1919. >. With
a cover picture of Ethel Barry
more in "Declasse" which shows
how the beautiful woman she is
today was a beautiful woman
Evening star., 1950-08-29
SUNSET DRIVEN

Open 7:30. Starts $40. Today. Tomor-
row. YVONNE DE CARLO. GEORGE
BRENT in SLAVE GIRL" in Technicolor,
at 10. plus ROBERT TAYLOR. BARBARA
STANWYCK in THIS IS MY AFFAIR, I"
at $50. 81 90 plus tax carfull.
Evening star., 1950-08-29
Z. M. LoEW'S MT. VERNON
OPEN AIR DRIVEN

"sPRINGTIME, with CAROL RAVE,
PETER GRAVES. at 7:2O, 9:55. musical
love story Of yesterday and today, bub-
GERMANY YEAR ZERO" One Of the
years outstanding movie achievements, at
Evening star., 1950-08-29
Dronno News and Reviews
Kiss Ne, Kate Sets Record
With $4,000 Boxoffice
By Joy Cormody

The final figures kiss Me- Kate fortnight at the
gate $600 $3 900 for the Saturday
night performance the ra and $45 perform
The total only breaks all boxofce
musical attraction here oklahoma" did $4,000
Natonal-but everybody in excited
Montana labor news., 1950-12-07
IS YOUR LODGE HELPING THE LABOR PRESS?

Union members have always had a pretty high regard fol
then own independence. If they were men and women who
could be herded like sheep until they never would have hac
the courage to Join the union in the first place. The editora
writers for the daily newspapers, the columnists and the radio
commentators are finally discovering this fact about working
people. They are gleefully pointing out that unions don't die
tate how thei members will vote. 1t a matter they could have
discovered any time in the last SO years if they had taken the
trouble.
What the editorial writer's, the commentators and column
lists don't bother to point out is that a lot OF union members &c
to the polls and vote without sufficient information about ne
candidates. We believe that most people vote according to ther
own best interests-except when they are uncertain or confused
The job Of getting the truth through to union members is particu
larly difficult because these same anti-abor editorial writer's
columnists and commentators work overtime trying to confuse
the issues and permitting anything unfavorable about anti
labor candidates to be censored.
From Matt De More s report on Why Labor Lost in Ohio
members in Ohio who voted for Taft were both confused and
misinformed. They lacked important information. We suspect
the same thing is true in many other states.
The question before us is how IAN the labor press and
its associates do a better job of informing our members about
the issues and the candidates.? There is no easy answer. But.
paper being published in their own community. Almost every
town has a local labor paper. If that paper is readable, it should
be supported through subscriptions and financing so that it can
do a better job. If it ism any good, then we should try to find
out why it ism and what it will take to make it better
In most towns. the local labor editor performs a miracle
by getting out any kind of a paper at all on the niggardy
support he gets. If he has the ability, he will do a better job
in proportion to the increased support he gets. If he can't then
he should be replaced by someone with more or better PROBES
sional experience.
In almost every election, local issues play an important
part in making up mems minds on how they will vote. Local
issues cannot be reported by national papers like The Machinst
or by the monthly journals. In most communities, the only way
labor will ever be able to tell its own story is through a labor
paper in its own town. It's time to talk to the local editor and
see what can be done.
Montana labor news., 1950-12-07
PROFITS TAX HYPOCRISY, INC.

A powerful group Of businessmen is doing its best to beat
an excess profits tax. The group took shape Immediately
after the November J election. Victorious reactonaries assured
the business boys a sympathetic ear
So in spite of all time profits the greedy crowd wants
even more profts-at the expense OF he rest OF the American
people.
Beardsley Rum, who saved Big Business millions of
dollars during the war with his pay as yau- go system, is act
ing spokesman for the group.
Ruml showed how thick the hypocrisy Of the group is
when he said November 9, The excess profits tax is not a
burden. but a subsidy, a subsidy to strong and established
business against weaker and growing firms.
The statement obviously was hypocrtcal because the big
guns Of the group-called the Business Committee on Emer-
pency Corporate Taxation-are not representatives of weaker
and growing firms at all. They are Big Businessmen, pure and
simple.
Among them are such business bosses as Hiand Batcheller,
president of Allegheny Ludlum Steel; Marion Folsom, treas
urer Of Eastman Kodak; Jay HORNED, chairman OF the HORNED
meat packing outfit; Philip Reed, chairman of General Electric;
Frank Stanton, president of the Columbia Broadcastng System;
Edward French. president of the Boston and Maine Railroad;
B. A. Iompkins, senior vice president OF the Bankers rust
Co., and Dudley Figgis. chairman Of the American Can Co.
Can't you just see those fellows worrying about the weak
er and growing firms