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appointed to learn that the Jewish
group, which comprises large por-
ton of the population in our cos
mopolitan area, did not put up any
queen for the International Carnival
ironical contrast: in Japan
Seattle's Friend Floyd Schmoe and
his helpers are building houses for
Hiroshima and Nagasaki. and in not
far-off Korea, the guns are destroy
ing chickering's of unfortunate people
caught between firings of two fight
ing machines those who filed
claims against the government-and
who didnt?-have a long waiting
period to obtain what they lost dur
ing the evacuation period a
tune being broadcast these days in
dicates the sign of the times: Sousa's
Stars and Stripes Forever"
one sometimes wonders if there is a
Nisei queen contest in Seattle when
ne learns that approximately 80 girls
are entered in the Denver test, nine
in Los Angeles but only four here
a letter from occupied Japan
expresses the hope that the Ameri-
cans would drive the North Koreans
back from whence they came, and
keep the waters separating Japan
from Korea as pacific as the Paci-
fic
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1950-08-05

SATURDAY. AUGUST ). 1850
Evening star., 1950-02-05

tor Pearce. The other day
man turned in 1925 in bills
and sure enough. the follow
ing day, the owner came look
ing for it. 1t represented two
weeks pay and he was plenty
upset because he didn't have
any money to buy food for his
family"
Money, of course, is hard to
identify. but Inspector Pearce
says he can always tell when
the right person has come to
claim it.
Recently. a man found ten
$100 bills on the street and
turned them over to the po-
lice. The money was claimed
by a well-known gambler who
rewarded the finder with $50.
One man found a ring on
the floor of a department
store and turned it in to po-
lice. 1t was worth at least
$1,000. The police kept it for
six months and when nobody
claimed IT, Turned IT, hack tn
the finder.
All lost property not
claimed in six months is re-
turned to the finder, unless
the latter is a policeman. Po-
lice are not allowed to keep
such property.
Stolen property which Is re-
covered and destined for use
as evidence in court usually Is
held by the Property Clerk
pending the trial. Sometimes
valuable belongings are held
for years until the court has
acted.
One piece of evidence has
been in the storeroom for 48
years. It is a piano stool with
which an unknown aSSailant
battered a woman to death In
Evening star., 1950-02-05
PEOPLE ARE HONEST
By Stanley Baitz

a vast quantity of lost. stolen
and abandoned property. in
cluding considerable money
and jewelry turned over to
police by honest finders.
People are more honest
than you think" says Inspec-
Evening star., 1950-02-05

Unlike DIOGENES, Police
- Inspector Robert c.
Pearce doesn't have to 60
looking for an honest man
they come to him.
AS Police Property Clerk, In
Spector Pearce is custodian of
Evening star., 1950-02-05

her home in December, 1901.
The police will hang onto this
vital evidence until the killer
Is caught or is presumed dead
in about 20 more years.
Other pieces of evidence
from more recent murders
also repose in the archives of
the Property Clerk.
Belongings Of persons who
die sans will or known kin
usually come to the Property
Clerk, who keeps them for a
year, after which they become
the property of the District.
Evening star., 1950-02-05

Frequently, tenants are
evicted and when their prop
erty cutters up the street, the
Police Department carts it off
to the warehouse, where the
owner can claim it. All too
often, the owner never does,
and it stays in the warehouse
for years.
With goods pouring in daily
from so many channels, it Is
no wonder that Inspector
Pearce's storerooms look like
a bomb had hit a mail-order
house. Inspector Pearce esti-
mates his office handles from
$2,OO0,O0 to 5000, 900 worth
of goods annually.
The thousands of items in
clude footballs, umbrellas, slot
machines, guns, fur coats,
mems suits, adding machines,
radios, suitcases. gallons of
liquor, baby carriages, artifi-
cial limbs, tires, typewriters,
television sets. and even a
statue of st. Francis of Assist.
Anything you name, we got
it," says Pvt. Stephen F. Cog
gins, custodian of property for
20 years.
The strangest item that
ever came into his custody, he
thinks, was a casket. It hap
pened this way:
The casket and a suit of
clothes had been stolen from
one undertaken and police
later found both suit and
casket occupied by a corpse in
the establishment of another
undertaken. The police re-
moved the body to the
morgue, the second under
taker to jail, and the casket
and suit to the Property
Clerks office pending the
trial.
About once every two years,
the Police Department holds
an auction sale of all un-
claimed property which can
be legally disposed of. Small
weapons and slot machines
are broken up with a sledge
hammer, and beer and opened
whiskey are poured down the
drain.
Policeman Hays Berger
looks over q few of the
orticles. Star Staff Photos
by Francis Routt.
Evening star., 1950-07-16
EROSTEE is deGciousIy differ
and costs only pennies a portion!

. If you like ice cream, you'll LOUe
FrOstee-the wonderful new Upton
dessert that's taking the town by
storm! It's so deiciously smooth, so
economical. easy to make, too.
Frostee is fresh-tasting because you
make it with fresh milk. Enjoy it
''as is" with it's delicate vanilla flavor
Evening star., 1950-07-16

Line dish with ripe banana, quartered
lengthwise. Add scoops Frostee. ToE
with chocolate, other favorite sauces
or preserves. Add whipped cream,
chopped nuts, maraschino cherry.
Evening star., 1950-06-12

one, I'm sorry to say Gagged was
not my own idea. Warmers asked
me to write it. They know I like
documentary type pictures, or
composites as we call them, which
are factual stories slightly fiction
allied to avoid legal reprisals.
This one was exciting and I
leaped to it. There were all sorts
of interesting preparations for
the assignment. Since I was to
go into prisons to study conditions
as an inmate was heavily
insured. Then I had to sign a
waiver that beyond the insurance,
I would have no claims against
the studio"
The assignment has not yet
stopped being exciting, even now,
although the thrill of it to Miss
Kellogg is watching the reaction
to the picture.
She found two kinds of prison
authorities. The few among them
believed that penal reform in
women's institutions justified
complete exposure of the facts.
The others called a muck
maker" an old-fashioned word
full of exciting portent. They
dislike her more than ever after
seeing Gagged"
She started collecting the ex-
plosive material for Gagged" in
the ''best of the four" prisons she
visited, an eastern institution. It
was from the inmates of this one
that she got the names Of the
other three. which produced the
dynamite in her screen script.
They have among themselves
a surprisingly accurate grapevine
on prison conditions" Miss Kel-
logg says.
The author of Gagged" is happy
that it shocks the complacent
public. She is candid about this,
just as bluntly honest about her
method of writing the SCREEN
play.
Naturally" she says. II looked
for the worst aspects of degrada-
ton of these women offenders. 7
could scarcely believe what I
found, yet it makes me angry
when anyone doubts the evidence
the picture presents. Every bru-
Evening star., 1950-06-12
Hollywood Diary
Louehton Heods Goodbye U. S. A. Cost
.By Sheiloh Grohor

some one like Katherine Hepburn,
only shorter. and younger"
Bob Hope loses Jan Sterling as
his leading lady in The Lemon
Drop Kid" Jan won't finish Billy
Wilder's Ace in the Hole" COM
edy. with Kirk Douglas. in time
Kathleen Ryan. the Irish lass
discovered by James Mason for
odd Man Out" is now working
with Reno Cesana in The Sound
of Fury" Kathleen asked Reno,
who played the priest in "Strom-
boli." Why was that picture so
unsatisfactory" Well" he re-
piled, Il had to translate RoSsel-
lini's script into English. A trans
lation is like a woman. When
she's beautiful she's sometimes
not faithful. When she's faithful,
she's sometimes not beautiful"
Seeing Faith Domergue lunch
ing in a corner at Lucey's, stop
to congratulate her on the new
beautiful wardrobe Howard Hughes
had RKO buy for her trip to New
York. Yes. but I don't get to
keep it," says Faith. When
return here. all II gowns go into
the studio wardrobe"
Evening star., 1950-06-12
HOLLYWOOD.

HOLLY WOOD.
Charles Laughton. Glenn Ford
Valli and maybe David Wayne
are four of the five top stars for
Irving Aliens Good bye U. S. A. s.
which he makes in London. Paris.
Vienna. Rome. in five sequences.
with the last at Ellis Island,
Wayne. by the way. Is not yet set
for the Cole Porter musical for
Broadway. His movie career Is
going so well, he hates to leave it.
Mrs. Cornell Wilde-Pat Knight
as she prefers to call herself when
working-goes to Vienna to star
with Anton Walbrook in "The
Magic Face" Irving Refs is direct
ing. And it's a terrific part for
Pat. who will never be completely
happy until she makes good as a
career girl.
Robert Mitchum and Arlene
Dahl will be on stage in Rain
at the La Jolla Playhouse this
summer. Arlene Is so anxious to
play the naughty Sadie Thomp-
son, she called on Mel Ferrer at
his Office to beg for the role.
Dorothy Mcclure wants Mitch
um with her when she does
Summer and Smoke" at the
Playhouse. What with Bob hav-
ing to do Macao" with Jane
Russell next month, 1t looks like
he'll have a busy summer.
''The Alan Ladd starrer, "This
Is Dynamite" has a terrific gang
ster role for Paul MUM. who's
the girl?" I ask Producer Robert
Fellows. Don't know yet. I want
Evening star., 1950-06-12

tality in the picture. every vicious
element it presents is authentic
I saw matrons as evil as the one
played by Hope Emerson, poll
ticians as depraved as those pic
tured, prisoners as young as
Eleanor Parker's character just
as completely corrupted.
And. of course, I saw one
superintendent as kind and deter
minedly hopeful as the one por-
Itrayed by Agnes Moorehead."
The barbarous practice of cut
ting women prisoners hair, of vice
recruiting among the frightened
obviously guilty young offenders
of corruption on the part of sad
istic matrons, all these are docu-
mented in Miss Kellogg's case
against women's prisons.
1T should interest you people
in Washington" she says, that
these offending prisons are all
State institutions. The same con-
ditions are not to be found in
Federal prisons. These are run
on a high level Of intelligent con-
sideration for advanced penology
The one at Anderson in Virginia is
model of these"
Y y 4
Indeed. Miss Kellow says, the
difference between State and Fed
eral institutions in the field of the
morally and mentally defective is
keeping her busy today on script
that is as happy as that o1
Gagged" was depressing.
She is writing a picture tenta-
lively titled Might Is So Deep" II
deals with Veterans Administra.
ton hospitals for the mentally IL
women veterans of recent wars.
I'm a way" she says, "it is ever
a happy picture in spite of its
theme. 1t shows what intelligent
work is being done in restorine
these victims to normal lives anc
usefulness. The treatment is con.
siderate, and the therapy is amaz-
ing. In a way, the story is an
answer to the Snake Pit The
effect Of that picture, to some ex-
tent. was to make the public doubt
all institutions for the mentally
Ill. This one should do much to
eliminate that doubt"
No writer could be more pleasant
or informative over long distance
Evening star., 1950-06-12
Where and When
Current Theoter Attractions
and Time OF Showing
SCREEN.

SChEEN.
Ambassador -" Gagged; 1:15,
800, 5:25. 1880 and 9::35 pm.
Capitol-"The Skipper Sur
prised His Wife: II am, 1:45.
4:30, 7:l5 and 10 pm. Stage
shows: 1855, 3:45, 6:25 and 9:l0
pm.
Columbia-"Blue Grass of Ken
tucky";; IL am, 1880. 2:40, 4::35,
$40 and 1910 pm.
Dupont City Lights; 1870,
$3.50, $50, 7:35 and $40 pm.
Keith's - The Secret Fury;
11:40. am, 1:40, 3:45, 5:45, 7:45
and 9:45 pm.
Little-"City Lights; 1880
am, 1880. $3.50. $50. 7:35 and
$40 pm.
Metropolitan-"South Sea Sin
ner";; 12:45. 3:45, 6:45 and 9:45
pm.
National - Wabash Avenue:
11:40 am, lao. $40, $40, 7:40
and $40 pm.
Palace THE Gunfighter":: !:
11:40 am. 1:40, $40, 5:45. 7:45
and 9:45 pm.
Playhouse-"No Sad Songs for
Me-; II am, lis, 3:25, 5:25,
7:45 and 9:55 pm.
Plaza II Trovatore": 1855
am. 2:15, 4:35, 6:55, 9:15 and
and 1925 am.
Pix-"Lady Of Burlesque";; z
and 10 pm.
TranszLux "The Bicycle
Thief; II am, ], 2:40, 4:25, $3.50,
$40 and 9:55 pm.
Warner-"Caged";; 1925 am,
1:25, $3.50, 5:35, TAO and 9:45 pm.
Evening star., 1950-06-12

warner Brothers man, Bill
Ewing. arranged the date. This
is an old custom in the movies,
getting people together on tele-
phones, but until Miss Kellogg s
name came up, this correspondent
always dismissed it as synthetic
social gesture. AS writer's go, she
is pretty glamorous looking, but
also being writer. she gave prom
ise Of being articulate: somebody
you could talk to instead of merely
being someone you would rather
look at.
AS the author of Gagged" the
melodrama about women's pris-
oners now at the Warner theater
here, there is a sort of timeliness,
as newspaper talk goes, about Miss
Kellogg.
Long distance, a reliable woman
whose other name we do not know,
called at II pm. to say Miss Kel-
logg would be ready at 11:30-
and to make sure we would be, too.
1t was Long Distance, a woman
with a pleasant voice, who did the
actual introduction. Go ahead" !"
she said.
Just as we anticipated, Miss
Kellogg was not the kind of long
distance date who fumbled for
words.
Il just picked an armful of roses
In my garden" she said.
1--WE just got back from a we'd
ding" we said-the first I'VE"
standard, the second that old edi-
torial convention.
That ended the beating around
the bush. The next 20 minutes,
which should have pleased the
telephone company, was strictly
business.
+
Miss Kellogg had quick and
candid answers to any question
asked.
NO" she replied to the first
Evening star., 1950-06-12

kAVWkn Elow., Az. n, IL 11oI1 @
Doors Open g 80. cecil B. De MtIIe's
SAMSON. AND DELILAH" GTeehni-
color. with HEDY LAMARR, VIC.
TOR MATURE. at 7:15, 0:4b spe-
cial Prices for this Engagement Only,
Evening Adults, 81: Children abc
LAn prices include Eederhl tax ~
Evening star., 1950-06-12
ATLAS Iao, u s. Ne. AT. $500
pinsY Branch Rd. and

RED SHELTON in YELLOW CAB
MAN Also First Northeast Show
! ling, ROY ROGERS in "TWILiGHr
Evening star., 1950-06-12
Drama News and Reviews
Author of Gagged Declares
All Its Shocks Authentic
By Joy Cormody

$3.50 the other night Hollywood 80
in Washington always like this night after night
thinks of it except talk long
distance to Screen Author Virginia Kellogg.
The Arizona post., 1950-07-07
MYERS DIARY
CONTINUED from page a

him we can find out how he does it. we can keep open
another Stanley Feldman a happy boy these
He's accepted froSh UCLA Sam RaSkin plan
help Israel time enable the twilight
of their lives spend their remaining Israel His plan
for these Israel in their wills condition that they
be permitted to spend their waning years in Israel He calls the
Raskn Plan" you think? equipped
handle both resident children larger home
3101 E. 25th She calls it the "Rose Play Group"
Tucson Irving Buchanan, of the busiest
contractors town. He just completed fine units at the
of 10th and Euclid for Barney Resnck Another local
tractor who making fine for himself handsome MOrre
putting finishing touches enlargng the VA
stadium doing well helping build greater
Shift built the beautiful church
edices in town. well homes and businesses Dick
GrOuchO Marx story Groucho meeting
to get divorce he his eyeSght?"
officials become terribly tolerant
they're running election again We that examination
their voting records the best test just how liberal they really
Don't be msed oraory and astminue
Fine doesn't make good democrats than waving
flags makes good Americans T rumored that the local Hei
financial aid from the District
Lodge Birth They any truth
Tucsons finest ranches will be converted
fancy supper
Newest entry the be bowtie wearer conesChares Gordon
Av other nominations? Harry Epstein tells the one about the
cowhand who travelling train in
Arizona wrpkled and climbed
aboard of the salesen mrked and nudged his copanon
81 the Queen of Sheba" he remarked I'D
Cleopatra the other said The cowboy chewed his
tobacco moment and then said to the two aesmen 81 wish
it dark"
Merrilrs st, place to
pitcher of beer conditioned
watching set-Reay
Roth renting agent the 0sory office building
built N Stone the Pioneer Hotel tells that
still available for both office and
space Bernie any of his assistants at Roth Realty
Political coop r. Kaufman may be drafted for
Representative Leading informed
represent
Sam hasn't made his mind Mrs Charles Kaller to
tend her best wishes her Dick who associated with
the Grant Realty
sign thought: Pins people
akebot of them worth they lose their
Smyrna times., 1950-05-11
EXPLORER POST
is ORGANIZED
Continued from Page One

Commissioned leaders will be
known as Advisers. The David c..
Harrison Post, No. IA, American
Legion, of Smyrna, is the sponsor
ing institution for this Explorer
Post. When Lee F. Slaughter, Com
mander of the Legion Post, was in
terviewed, he advised that the
membership unanimously approved
sponsoring the Explorer Post when
the need for same was stressed by
both the Del-Mar-Va Council, and
the Department Boy Scout Com
mittee of the American Legion.
This is further evidence that the
local Legion Post is always ready
to provide service to the commun-
ity, as it has been doing in various
ways for many years, especially
through the ambulance service.
The young men registered as chart
er members of the Explorer Post
are: Kenneth Attix, Brooks Banta,
William Bartlett, Charles Brown,
Richard Comegys. oswald Denney,
Smyrna times., 1950-05-11

follows: William M. Doughten, ST..
outdoor training; James T. Pappas,
indoor activities; William S. Will
son, vocational exploration; Lee F.
Slaughter, community service;
Charles v. Williams. social affairs;
Earl F. Ford. advancement and
membership; Neal oechsier, camp
ing and transportation; George D.
Wright, finance, equipment and un-
forms; Charles A. Burrous, Jr.,
publicity, chairman of the commit
tee and institutional representa-
tive. A tentative date of Wednes-
day, May 81 has been set for the
charter presentation by the Scout
Executive of the Del-Mar-Va Coun-
Gil. Arrangements are being made
for this auspicious affair.
Smyrna times., 1950-05-11

Phillip Denney, William Doughten,
Jr., William R. Hudson, Earl Hurd,
James Mood, Carlton Seward,
Thomas Simpson, James Snow, and
Alec Wood. These young men were
all members of the local scout
troop. The Explorer Post Commit
tee were fortunate in securing
leaders desired by the Explorers.
William M. Short, formerly scout
master of the local troop, will be
Advisor. Ronald Grier and Robert
FAIRIES will be commissioned As
sistant Advisors. Members of the
Explorer Post committee, appoint
ed by Commander Slaughter and
approved by the Council, have each
been assigned the duty of promot-
ing certain phase of the program
in cooperation with the Advisors.
Members and their assigned duty
Smyrna times., 1950-05-11
School Building Program

One hundred and twenty
Thousand dollars has been ap-
propriated to the Smyrna
Special School District from
State funds for the expansion
of the school building facil-
tiles in the Smyrna district.
This money, appropriated by
the 1949 session of the State
Legislature, is to be matched
with a minimum of 100000
local money, the sum to be
spent for a new 12-room ele-
mentary school building with
cafetorium.
On September 7, 1949, the
Board of Education of the
Smyrna Special School Dis
trict and Supt. George W.
Wright presented the need for
building expansion in the local
district to the State School
Building Program Board COM
posed of Gov. E. N. Carvel,
Secretary Of State Harris B.
Mcdowell, and DIR. James Bee
be, president of the State
Board Of Education. Unanim-
Gus approval of the need fol
an additional building was reg
istered by the Board.
Why then has there been a
delay of eight months in in
itiating a movement to obtain
the necessary local funds to
proceed with the building pro-
gram?
Supt. Wright advises that
this delay has been forced
upon the School Board due to
recent consolidation Of adjac-
ent districts which has greatly
increased the size of the
Smyrna School District. Until
this new area has been incor-
porated into the School tax as
Sessment, the Board claims to
have no reliable tax figure for
computing the program to be
submitted to referendum.
This assessment is expected
to be completed early in June.
The Board of Education then
plans to conduct an open meet
ing at which time all details Of
the proposed building program
will be available for discus
sion. This meeting is to pre-
cede the referendum on the
School Bond Issue tentatively
slated for June 23rd.
Smyrna times., 1950-05-11
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Smyrna times., 1950-05-11
County POuItrymen Plan Tour


The New Castle County locals Of
the Delaware Poultry Improvement
Association will sponsor a tour to
Lancaster County. Pennsylvania
on Tuesday, June 20. According to
John L. Crothers, Assistant County
Agent, the pouItrymen who partiei-
pate will visit several poultry in
stallations with the minimum Of
travel between stops.
Both broiler producers and egg
producers will be visited. 1t is
hoped that several types of hous-
ing, feeding, range, and manage
ment set-ups can be observed.
Smyrna times., 1950-05-11

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The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1950-12-21
City-County Tax
Rates Unchanged

The 1851 tax rate of both the city
of Hagerstown and Washington
County will remain the same as this
year-ffty cents on the 500 for Ha-
gerstown and $3.50 on the 500 for
the County.
The city's estimated taxable basis
for 1851 was placed at 500, 500, 900
and the total estimated income for
the coming year, from all sources, is
$2,34O,O61.
The budget approved by the May
or and Council for 1851 is $3.50. TAT.
This is $180,686 more than the es-
timated revenue, and the Mayor and
Council voted to take this amount
from the City's surplus funds (if
necessary in order to balance the
budget.
Details of the complete budget
will be available to the tax payers
when copies have been prepared by
the city auditor.
The estimated 1851 taxable basis
for the county is $133, $500 which
IS $5,495,O00 higher than last year.
The county's budget for 1851 will
be approximately $1,000, 900 and will
include $4,000, for operating the
counties school system. (this esti-
mated budget for the school is $685.
600 more than this years budget
and $4,000 for the Washington
Couny Library Ga $4,000 increase
over this years appropriation.
Full details of the 1850 budget
will be available as soon as the tax
bills are printed.