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Montana farmer-stockman., 1950-04-15
Protective Service
Deserts Racket
for Real Work

RUM "A MILL w Ed L TAlenn pdPCl
comes this interesting story of
young magazine sales racketeer who
decided he would rather haul ma
nure on farm than use a mislead-
ing high pressure scheme to sell
magazines This young man had the
usual training in which he was told
exactly what to say and coached in
his lines before taking to the high
way
This fine, wholesome looking fell
low came to a farm house door in
North Dakota awhile back.
81 am a veteran" he said. Then
he faltered, forgetting exactly what
it was he was supposed to say next.
What Are You Selling?"
''There are a great many veter-
ans" the farm wife said, land
know several, but none of them look
as young as YOU What are you sell
ing?"
The young man regained his COM
posture and took another stab at his
canned speech. ''I'm not selling
anything" he said, II am just out
getting points which can turn in
for money when school starts, and 1
get them with this list of maya
zines"
So that was it-another door
opening speech. 1--WE don't want any
of the magazines you have, the
farm wife said, and started to close
the door. The young man paused,
blushed and blurted:
II Don't Lie Easily"
''You know, lady, I'm just glad
you didn't buy any. If you had, 1
guess I'd have kept right on telling
everybody around here the lies l
have just told you. OF course I'm
no veteran, but I am a college stu
dent and do need money. That part
of what said was true. The rest
/ was told to say, and don't lie
easily, guess. Do you suppose your
husband would have a job for me?
The farm husband, listening in on
the conversation and catching a
glimpse of the youth, invited him tc
come inside.
All of this conversation took place
on Saturday morning. Monday
morning the youth showed up fol
work and worked all week hauling
manure, got his pay check the fol
lowing Saturday noon, and on Mon
day, his between semesters vacation
ended, he returned to school,
One of Many Tricks
And this story is just one disclo
sure of the many tricks used by high
pressure magazine statesmen to ge
their foot in your farm door. Mon
tana has seen this and many varia
tions of such methods. The lates
reported has been a polio-subscrir
ton campaign in which statesmen ar
using another sympathy "crutch
to get into the farmers pocket bool
Montana farmers or their wive
are urged to write Montana Farm
er-Stockman protective service, Be
1929, Great Falls, Montana, concern
ing the activities of such high pre-
sure magazine crews. Your nan
will not be used, but the informs
Montana farmer-stockman., 1950-04-15

Tests have shown that treating
small grain seed can result in yield
gains of up to Is percent.
Evening star., 1950-11-30

were like in that wobbly day,
Lloyd plays a football team water
boy who becomes a hero in spite
of himself.
A semimad elderly alumnus of
the school gives him job as a
reward for his wanton conduct on
the football field. After holding
this job % years, as the dullest
small-time bookkeeper in this his
tory of American business, he is
fired.
1t was clearly Sturges' inten-
ton that the real comedy of
Mad Wednesday, should begin
at this point. He suddenly endowS
his ex-mouse with a devil-may-
care. attitude toward American
business and his condition of job
lesSness and this should be fun
nier than it ever seems to be.
The reason it fails to come off
is that the nonsense Sturges has
imagined from this point on al
ready has been overworked. The
hero's first adventure in the first
deviliSh mood of his life is to
discover the deceptive ecstasy of
strong drink. In this condition, he
takes one look at himself in the
saloon mirror, decides he looks
like a tired workhorse and sets
forth to make himself a sporting
figure who will stand out from
the mob.
His old zest for jests Of this sort
seems lacking in Lloyd's perform
ance, especially in those passages
in which he is becoming the towns
biggest playboy on a betting spree
in which he runs his life-savingS
into a fortune. He manages con-
siderable redemption of his old
mad style in the climactic scenes
in which he tries to sell a circus
to New York's biggest bankers on
the theory that bankers ought to
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Where and When
Current Theoter Attractions
ond Time of Showino

Ambassador - "The West Point
Story; lis, 800. 5:25. 7::30 anc
9:35 pm.
Capitol-"Two Weeks - "Witt
Love-; II am, LAS. 4:30, 7:15
and 10 pm. Stage shows: 1885
$40, 6:25 and 9:10 pm.
COlumbia-"All About Eve;
11:25 am. 2, 4:30, 7:05 and $3.50
pm.
Dupont-"Bitter Rice; I. $40
5:15. 7:30 and $40 pm.
Keith's Mad Wednesday,;
HAS am, LAS, 3:45, 5:45, 7:45
and GAS pm.
Little-"Grand Illusion: 1915
2:10. 4, 5:55, 7:50 and 9:45 pm.
Metropolitan - "Rio Grande":: !:
11:15 am. 1:15, $40, 5:25, 1880
and 9::40 pm.
National Going to Town;
11:15 am, lao, 4:10, $40 and
9:05 pm.
Palace king Solomon's
Mines; II am. LOS, 3:15, 5:25,
7:35 and GAS pm.
Pix international Burlesque";;
2:15. 4::50. 7:25 and 10 pm.
Playhouse-''Trio":: 1885 am,
1905. 3:l5. 5:25, TAO and 9:55 pm.
Plaza-"Paloma":: 1920 am,
1925. 3:35. $40. 7:50 and 10 pm.
Macbeth" IL am,
1855, $50; 4:40. $40. 7:55 and
I9:45 pm.
Warner "The West Point
Story; 11:15 am, 1:20. 3:25. $50,
I7:35. 9:4O and 11:50 pm.
Evening star., 1950-11-30

Stein is dead and the word has
become common property again) i,
this would be inaccurate.
Even with Preston Sturges as
his writer director producer
Lloyd's Mad Wednesday" is at
best only moderately funny re-
minder of what a funny man he
used to be. Its highest moment is
a climax which echoes the hilarity
of those old scenes in which Lloyd
was trapped on the ledge of tall
building and seems momentarily
destined to plunge TOO feet into
New York's masses.
What leads up to this situation
is hardly what the comedy-fam-
ished mob has come to expect of
a Sturges plus a Lloyd.
XIX x
Lloyd's hero in Mad Wednes-
day" is a facsimile of the bumbler
he made famous years ago. He
wears the same glasses and the
belt-line has remained the same.
Clearly Sturges' as author and di-
rector of the revival of Comedian
Lloyd has tried to compromise be-
tween old-fashioned movie COM
edy and the new! His star is
caught in the compromise and so
is the audience except for several
sequences that are irresistibly
funny.
Mad Wednesday" has come up
with one of the best names ever
worn by Lloyd He is a dope
named Harold Diddlebock whose
antics begin with a sequence re-
putably shot back in 1923 when
the movies were silent. In this
funny memoir of what the movies
Evening star., 1950-11-30

MAD WEDNESDAY" an KRO Radio
release, produced, written and directed by
Preston Sturges. At Keith's.
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do something to keep every one
from hating them.
* X

do something to keep every one
from hating them.
X x X
Like Lloyd's, a touch of weari-
ness has come into the comedy for
which Sturges was the movie in
dustry's brightest hope only a few
years ago. He still knows the
tricks of making minor characters
come up full size but his inspira-
ton falters on gags he once made
funnier than any other film di-
rector. a
There is more than meets the
eye, for instance, in the passage in
which the suddenly reckless
Mi]quetoast bets his first $1,000
on a Is to l shot against the coun-
sci of his newly made friends
among some barber shop buns.
The same is true of the fadeout
gag in which the hero discovers
that he married the dream girl
of his life while in his alcoholic
blackout.
It could be. Of course, that no
one could decide whether Mad
Wednesday" should be a Sturges'
comedy or an old-fashioned Har-
old Lloyd one.
x **
Minor roles are played, as usual,
by those funny characters who
seem to appear on the surface
of Hollywood when Sturges calls
them. For one, there is Jimmy
Conlin, playing a character
named 'Wormy" and being fun
nier than any one else inspires
him to be. Among the others are
Airline Judge (surprise), Edgar
Kennedy, Lionel Stander, Frank
lin Pangborn and Jackie, the
Lion.
Jackie must have wondered
many times during the making
of this slapstick why he did not
show at least one or two of his
co-workers that he represents the
king OF beats. He gets quite q
comic pushing around.
Evening star., 1950-11-30
Chimp to oAppeor

Cheeta, the chimpanzee Of nu-
merous "Tarzan" films, will make
a personal appearance tour of Sid
ney Lust's Maryland theaters this
week and next. The first appear
ance will be made tomorrow at
the Cheverly Theater at Z and
9:15 pm. The chimp will do mat
inee and evening performances on
Saturday at the Viers Mill and on
Sunday at the Marlboro Theater
Other dates for Cheeta include
the Milo in Rockville on Deem
ber Z, the Bethesda On December 8
and the Hyattsville on December 8,
Evening star., 1950-11-30
Philosophers TO Meet

The Philosophical Society of
Washington will hear a talk by
Lawrence r. Hafstad of the
Atomic Energy Commission at a
meeting at 8:15 pm. tomorrow
in the Cosmos Club Auditorium.
Mr.. Hafstad will speak on 1.-THE
Reactor Program of the Atomic
Energy Commission"
Evening star., 1950-11-30
ReIiqious PIuy

1.-THE Greatest Of These" a re-
ligious drama of the First Cen
tury, will be staged tonight and
tomorrow night at 8:15 o'clock in
the Undercroft Auditorium Of the
Mt. Vernon Place Methodist
Church. It is being presented by
the Community Club Children's
Theater Of the New York Avenue
Presbyterian Church.
Evening star., 1950-11-30

ADJUSTMENTS.
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To ODen Season

Miss Hart's Light Up the Sky
will open the 1950-51 season for
the Essayons, 100-year- -old the
atrical society at Fort Belvoir. It
will be presented December 6, z
and 8 at 8:15 at the Essayons
Playhouse on the military reserva-
ton.
Evening star., 1950-11-30
Drama News and Reviews
Horo|dL Lloyd Back Again,
Turning Mouse Into Man
By Jov Cormody

Harold Lloyd out of that ederdownned retirement
early movie stars play another of his
Mad Wednesday at Keiths.
able to say
at least the realm of Alas
Evening star., 1950-07-06

Republican candidate for Presi-
dent, who has renounced further
White House ambitious. said that
despite the fact that we are in
a shooting war 5000 miles away,
in Korea 1--WE find in this country
politics as usual. business as usual
and strikes as usual"
ut seems obvious to me-" the
New York Governor added "that
the time is long overdue for the
National Government to match
the gravity Of the times with equal
gravity and vigor of attitude and
action"
Gov. Dewey said:
There should be a full, frank
and honest statement by the ma.
tional administration to the
American people that Communist
aggression has been waging ane
winning a cold war against the
free world for five years; that il
has already conquered one-thirc
of the world and that the remain
ing free world is in the direst
peril in history"
Gov. Dewey commented or
Korea at a news conference, held
J about half an hour before PreSi-
Evening star., 1950-07-06
$4,000 Barn Fire
Started by Tractor

Fire yesterday destroyed a barr
and threatened 10 other buildings
on the M. E. Weaver cattle farm
near Bethesda before it was
brought under control.
Richard M. Lumpkin, manager
of the 260-acre farm on Bells Mil
road, about five miles from Be.
thesda, estimated damage at $10,'
900. Mrs. Lumpkin said the barr
contained farm machinery, ar
automobile owned by her sor
Durward and about IL tons o.
hay.
She said several sticks of dyna'
mite stored in the barn exploded
before firemen arrived.
Firemen prevented the blaz'
from spreading to the 10 othe
farm buildings and to 350-gallol
gasoline tank.
They were hampered, however
in their fire-fighting efforts b,
lack of water. They got their sup
ply from a creek a mile away.
Mrs. Lumpkin said she believed
the fire resulted from the backflr.
of a tractor her husband drov,
out of the barn. She said a Sparl
ignited the hay and the flame.
spread to the rest of the building
Evening star., 1950-07-06
Best Is Denied Appeal
On Treason Conviction
BY the Associated Press


BOSTON, July 6.-The United
States Circuit Court of Appeals
today denied the appeal of Robert
Henry Best Of Sumter, S. c., from
his conviction for treason.
The 54-year-old former news
man was sentenced two years ago
to life imprisonment and fined
$4,000 for broadcasting Nazi
propaganda to the United States
during World War II.
The courts opinion, written by
Chief Judge Calvert Magruder
found no reversible error" It
was concurred in by Judges Peter
Woodbury. and Herbert F. Good
rich.
Best is expected to appeal to
the Supreme Court.
Evening star., 1950-07-06

dent Truman discussed the situa-
ton with newsmen in Washing
ton.
Mr.. Truman said there are no
present plans to call the National
Guard or reserves to duty and
that he has no plans now to seek
additional military funds.
Gov. Dewey asserted that mo
luxury production should be al
Evening star., 1950-07-06

lowed to Interfere with the pro-
duction of overwhelming material
force necessary to prevent the
catastrophe of World War III"
He said that the Federal ad-
ministration should instantly use
the appropriations which have
been made available by Congress
to produce all the materiel neces-
sary to match and then outstrip
Soviet production of arms"
Evening star., 1950-07-06
Conservutionist Dies

WAYNESBORO. Pa. July 6 (P.
Wilbur Harlan Stevenson, So,
outstanding soil conservationist,
|died in Waynesboro Hospital yes
terday. He was, soil conservationist
for Franklin County, Pa, and
Washington County, Md, for II
years.
Evening star., 1950-07-06

tion due to lack of dietary bulk, try
this: eat an ounce of crispy Kellogg's
ALL-BRAN daily, drink plenty of
water! If not completely satisfied after
10 days, return empty box to
Kellogg's, Battle Creek, Mich. Get
DOUBLE YOUR MONEY BACK
Evening star., 1950-07-06

patton cramps since l
started eating ALL
BRAN every day!"
Israel Baum, 3601 W.
Roosevelt Road, Chi
cago "a, Ill. Just one
Of many unsolicited
letters from ALL
BRAN users. If yom
suffer from cnnstina.
Evening star., 1950-07-06
BY the Assoeioisd Press

ALBANY, N. Y, July 6.-Gov
Dewey today called for all-ou:
production of essential materials
necessary to match and then out
strip Soviet production of arms"
Gov. Dewey. the twice defeated
Evening star., 1950-07-06
ADVERTISEMENT.
FREED FROM
CRAMPING LAXATIVES

Thanks from the bottom of my
heart for what ALL-BRAN has done
for me. No more medicines or consti-
Evening star., 1950-10-01

To the Is Senior Recipe Contest Winners
IS grand pgzss $50 sseh-wiA cstfEy STAMP $t0o each
To the % Juni0r Recipe Contest Winners
Is grand prizes SIS saeh-wth eeeirsy Stamp $50 each
Also-a trip to New York City and two-day stay
for each of the 100 grand prize winners (75 seniors
and rs juniors) in order to compete in the Grand
Ballroom of the Waldorf in the Baking Contest.
A like trip will be provided at Pilsbury expense
for one parent other approved adult for each of
the Is junior grand prize winners
To the rs runncrs-up in the Senior Recipe Contest
IS prizes Of S25 saeA-wih esdissy Stamp $50 each
To the winpers of the Senior Bnking Contest
First Prize. 81. .50o-vA estiTsy Stsap $25,oee
Ssess1 Dsizs IS 5,eo0-wih estfrsy stanp $1e.eee
Tjn pvize. :. s 2,eo0-wA eedivsy Stsap 5 A,eee
Evening star., 1950-10-01
DOUBLE YOUR PRIZE MONEY

Sesd Arthur Godfrey Ssaap wiA Ot'ieisl Eaav BGaaki
Get Arthur Godfrey Stamp at your grocer's. If
grocer's supply is gone, write Ann Pillsbury,
Minneapolis 2, MINI.
Get official entry blank in sacks of Pillsbury's
Best-or by sending your name and address
and dotted circle seal from top of any sack of
Pillsbury 3 Best Enriched Flour to Ann Pillsbury,
Minneapolis 2. MINI.
Evening star., 1950-10-01

Scene of great excitement, color
and interest of the LIST Grand
National Recipe and Baking
Contest, December, 1949. This
years "Bake-off" will again be
held in the Grand Ballroom of
the Waldorf Astoria hotel in
New York, on December l 1, 1850.
Evening star., 1950-10-01
$4,000 FIRST PRIZE A''':;; !:
with
Arthur Godfrey
Stamp
$135, $50 in prizes! 5s7 Prizes
in al liaeIuding Junior csntest)

SIX BEST of Class" Ataards
BAEADS. ......... .$5ee-wilh es1lTsy Stamp 1900
CAKES. .......... .$5ee-wisA es6fIsy Stssp $1,oeo
PIES ...........$ .$5e0-wilh esdirsy STAMP 81 600
COOKIES ........ .$50e-wiiA esdlTsy stsnp $1.oee
ENTREES. .$5oe-wilh esafTsy STAMP l.oee
DesSERTS ....... .$see-with esshsy Stamp $l.0e0
To the ntnncrs of the Junior Rnking Contest
First Prize -. $2.5ee-wish esdhy Stamp $s.eee
ssesad psizs. :. .$l,5eo-witA esshy STAMP $3.eeo
Third pizs IS 5eo-with esdfTy Stsms 1909
To the 100 entrants in the Baking Contest at the
Waldorf Astoria
100 cssssal EIeetie shstekass pssA. Dsatss Ranges
100 esaesM Eleea1ie ni1oss
10 esses udlin Tal6es aad Pssisss- ssek Chairs
Evening star., 1950-03-26
High School Dedicated
AT Damascus, Md.

The need for educating students
to meet the complexities of life"
was stressed yesterday by Uni
versity of Pittsburgh professor at
the dedication of the new Damas-
Gus (Md) High School.
DR.. Lawrence C. Little, professor
of education, said students must
be taught to understand problems
resulting from chronological ad-
vances.
Approximately 1000 persons at
tended the ceremonies, which
were preceded by luncheon given
by the home room committee Of
the schools Parent-Teacher As
sociation.
Other speakers included DR.. Ed
win w. Broome, Montgomery
County superintendent of schools,
and Mrs. Durward Sandifer, presi-
dent OF the County Beard Of Edu-
cation. The Invocation was given
by the Rey,. Afford Osteen,s pastor
of the Daniascuf MSthoSst
Church. :
Mrs. Sandifer presented w. o.
King. president of the parent
teacher group, with the keys to
the 10-classroom structure. The
school, which has been occupied
about a month, also has four con-
ference rooms. a library, audi
torium- cafeteria and gymnasium.
After the dedication, the Cedar
Grove, Damascus and Brownings-
vile Homemakers' Clubs gave a
reception in the cafeteria.
Evening star., 1950-03-26
Sasscer Says Hospital
Has Paid Dividends
To Prince Georges

Operation of the Prince Georges
General Hospital by the county
has paid off in dividends" Rep
resentative Sasscer, Democrat, OF
Maryland, declared yesterday.
At the laying of a cornerstone
for q ,123-bed addition, Mr.. Sass
Ger asserted,
Too much stress cannot be
made of the wise course followed
by the county commissioners when
they sponsored the hospital as a
county project. rather than to, fol-
low the course of other suburban
Washington areas where the hos
pitals were sponsored by non-
profit groups made up of a few
citizens without any particular
status"
The hospital. Mr.. Sasscer re-
called, opened on March 81. 1914.
The original 100-bed section was
built by the Federal Government
under the Lanham Act at a cost
OF $750.000 and subsequently was
sold to the county for $150,000,
he said.
The addition, as we'll as new
central heating plant, are ex-
pected to be completed this year.
Total cost of this construction
will be $1.270,000, of which $413,-
900 has been received from the
Government under provisions of
In 4fillnRurton Hospital Con-
Fstftiction Act.
Evening star., 1950-03-26
Takoma Park
To Elect Mayor,
Council tuesday
Question of Paying
Municipal Officials
Also to Be Decided ;

A two-way race for mayor, and
council contests in two election
districts, will be decided in the
Takoma Park municipal election
Tuesday at. the firehouse.
The voters also will act on a
proposal to pay the mayor $500
year and the councilmen $500
a year each. They now serve
without pay.
Councilman Ross H. Beville and
John F. Sidell. a former council
man, are opposing candidates for
mayor. John c. Post. incumbent,
is not seeking reelection.
There are three-way contests
for two council seats in two elec-
tion, districts.
Candidates Named.
Candidates in the district, in
Guiding the 4th and Goth Mont
gomery County precincts, are
Walter H. McClenon and H.
Brooks Perring, incumbents, and
Maj. William F. Fischer, former
councilman.
Charles H. Klinck, James B.
Parkhill and Mrs. Philip w. Woods
are seeking two seats from the
election district composed of the
9Th and 21st election precincts.
Incumbent John H. Mes is un-
opposed from the election district
Evening star., 1950-03-26

High School. Portsmouth, won
third prize of $100.
Young REM placed second in
the same contest last year, when
the Weinberg youth came in first
and Miss Jennings, third. Henry
is the son of Mr.. and Mrs. H. A.
REM. 200 North Wayne street.
Arlington. He is co-editor of the
school annual, THE Blue & Gray"
Miss Jennings will go to the
regional contest in Richmond
April S, when she will appear
against winners from Washington.
D. c.. North Carolina, Maryland
and West Virginia.
Judges in today's contest were
Thomas J. Niche. Charlottesville
attorney and past Virginia De-
partment commander of the Le-
gion; Emerson S. Overman, po-
litical science professor at the
university; H. H. Territt, speech
professor, and Marion Harrison,
a graduate student in speech at
the university.
Evening star., 1950-03-26
2 a. - 7f.f.'t- l-.!'F q, = ~.
Highway Projects j
Listed for Virginia
By the Assoeiofsd Press

RICHMOND, Mar. 25.-Plans
for 81 new highway projects, cov-
ering 81 miles or roadway, five
new bridges and a major high
way railroad grade separation
were announced today by the
State Highway Department.
Bids will be opened April 18.
If satisfactory proposals are re-
ceived. the department said con-
struction would begin this spring
The projects include:
Arlington-Route 1877 OF a
mile of concrete pavement at the
intersection of Route so, widening
the intersection. "a
Arlington-Route 237-A double
box culvert west of Glebe road.
Fairfax County-Route IA of
a mile Of four-lane divided con-
crete pavement between the Shir-
ley highway and Alexandria,
closing a narrow gap between
four-lane sections.
Augusta County - Secondary
Route 730-1.3 miles recondition-
ing and resurfacing between
Stokesville and Mount Solon.
Agusta County - Secondary
Route 605-128-foot bridge over
Mattaponi River and S of a mile
of approach road west of Bowling
Green.
Orange County .- Secondary
Route 644-2.3 miles of stabilized
base and hard surfacing from
Route 33 to Route 600.
Evening star., 1950-03-26
Water Connections
To Revert 10 Agency

The Washington Suburban
Sanitary Commission will take
over maintenance Of all sewer and
water house connections in the
area it serves as soon as Gov. Lane
of Maryland signs legislation pro-
viding for such action. .
This was announced yesterday
by Commission Chairman Dwight
B. Gait. He added that the
agency will resume making the
connections to new homes after
July !.
Water and sewer house connec-
tions. which had been made by the
sanitary commission from 1918
until January /, 1949. were taken
over by private plumbers after
that date under legislation passed
at the 1948 session of the Legisla-
ture.
This action. according to Mr..
Gait, was the result of arguments
by builders and plumbers that
Such connexions were not being
installed fast enough to meet
building demands.
The commission continued,
however, to maintain all connec-
tions made by it or under its
supervision until October, 1949.
This meant that home owners
then had to pay for breaks in
their water or sewer lines.
Mr.. Gait said residents then
complained that plumbers
charges for house connections
were too high. The State Roads
Commission also charged that
plumbers were refilling street ex-
improperly.
Evening star., 1950-03-26

judgment dictates, and freedom to
act in accordance with ones
choice" he said.
Three former presidents of the
college took part in the cere-
monies. More than $50 dignitaries
representing 80 colleges and uni
versities and seven organizations
attended the Inauguration.
DR.. Charles C. Wright, secre-
tary of the board of trustees and
acting president in 1948-49, pre-
sided over the Inauguration; DR..
Paul H. Bowman, Bridgewater's
third president, delivered the in
vocation; and DR.. John S. Flory,
second president, pronounced the
beendiction.
DR.. v. F. Schwalm, president
of Manchester Und) College.
brought. greetings from the
Church Of the Brethren commit
tee on higher education.