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Evening star., 1950-05-28
NEW YORK.

SNA" ANAsAA'
Ruby Keeler. dancing star OF
the '20s and the SOS. Is probably
the Nations happiest exponent OF
motherhood. housewifery and golf
The bronze-haired. petite star
who has been retired since 1888
except for q single television ap-
pearance last month, is enchant-
ing New York audiences again
with the same charm and grace
that zoomed her to stardom while
still In her teens.
Her figure hasn't changed Q bit
and she's the mother Of five
children. Her face Is that Of q
20-year-old. temporarily decorated
with q black-and-blue welt the
size Of q pullet's egg which s.
year -old Christine inflicted with
her head the other day. Christine
was resisting her mothers efforts
to wash her feet.
Her dancing-to remembered
strains of Charleston" "42nd
Street" and other old tunes-is
wonderful. Dan Daily. who can
do some fancy dancing himself
was sitting in the rehearsal audi
ence at the Roxy quietly mutter-
ing to himself in admiration.
Yah" said the blond movie
star. they start dancers at the
end today. not the beginning
They can't dance like that. It's
clean. The taps. Listen. the taps
you can hear every single one"
But Ruby. nervous and slightly
bemused by all the fuss. insists
she's not making a comeback"
Family Keeps Her Busy.
"As soon as the shows over -
she said firmly. I'm going back
to John and the children. This 1,
fun. and sort of q change"
John is John Lowe. the Var
Nuys, Calf. real estate subdividei
Ruby married in 194l. The fam
lily lives on a five-acre place In the
country, ranch house with
horses. chickens and everything
else a miniature farm can hold
Ruby. with string Of children
the youngest. John. jr.. is 4-
is kept pretty busy with her fam
lily. Her outside interest is golf
Ken Murray. who yanked her
out Of retirement for an appear
ance on his television show. 4;
pleased with the reception she's
had on TV and in New York.
"Of course" he said. with 9
wave Of his cigar, I've earned the
undying enmity of five children
and husband. And understand
I've loused up the local woman.
golf championship. but every ont
else is pleased"
Started at 13.
Although Ruby Keeler was borr
in Halifax. Nova Scotia. she really
is a New York girl. She was raised
in Yorkville-"St. GATHERINGS o1
Sienna's Parish"-and took dane.
ing lessons. When she was 13 she
sneaked off to answer q chorus
call and landed a job.
Those were the teeming '20s
Ruby worked at Texas .Guinan's s
the Silver Slipper and El Fay.
THE Gerry Society caught ur
Evening star., 1950-05-28
.OId-Age
Plan
Lew Ayres Finds
His Contentn7ent
In Painting
By GIorio Yorbroush
HOLLYWOOD.

Lew Ayres has q new kind OF
old-age insurance.
He's preparing himself. he says,
for o contented old age as a
painter. But that doesn't mean
he plans to quit the screen, yet.
Painting is peaceful" ex-
planned Lew. land you have COM
plete freedom. Sometimes there
Is q lot of worry and confusion
connected with making a motion
picture" (Some people might
claim that is the understatement
Of the week.
Although painting is an ex-
cellent means Of personal express
sion," he added, lit is by no
means an excellent way to make
money"
Lew has been studying art for
the last four years. It's some
thing I wouldn't have done sew
eral years ago." he admitted. Il
was as impetuous as any youth
and would have felt that five years
preparing for something was an
eternity"
Perhaps Lewis costume - in
cluding gray beard and graying
h0ir-f0r his role as on old mo y,
in New Mexico" sets his mood.
"As one grows older" he con-
tinued, "you acquire patience. A
week is as one day. Time goes
much more quickly; yet you seem
to have more time for everything
than you ever had before.
Life is more intense. You find
JOY in the simple things. A sin
gle growing leaf is filled with
mystery and fascination. I'll
never tire exploring life"
Evening star., 1950-05-28
ruby Kee|er, Dancer,
Also q Happy Mother
Stoge ond Film Doncing Stor Scores O Hit,
But Insists She Is Making No Comeback
By Cynthio Lowry

with me-" she said. so I had 70
so 10 continuation school You
could study almost anything as
long as you showed up at school
once q week. and ! picked home
economics. Mamma finally got me
out Of it."
Dillingham; saw her dance and
signed her for The Sidewalks Of
New York" Ziegfeld saw her and
signed her for "Whoopee"-out Of
New York. An old Roxy elec-
trician came up the other day to
remind her they had worked to-
gether In Bye. Bye, Bonnie" In
which she did her first speciality.
In 1928. when Ruby had Just
turned Is. she married Al Jolson.
then in his 40s.
A Series Of Hits.
She did q movie test and War.
nerS signed her. Her first pic.
ture. in 1892. was "42nd Street"
with a cast including Dick Powell,
Ginger Rogers and Joan Blondell.
The stars were Bebe Daniels and
Warner Baxter. Ruby was the
ingenue. doing the title song,
Shuttle on to Buffalo" They
made me sing in the musicals"
she says, "a couple of bars. very
low"
Gold Diggers OF 80" followed.
and she and Powell got to be
a team. They made series OF
hit pictures together. Then. in
1899. she and Jolson were di-
vorced
Il retired" she said. ~ was
fed up and I retired. played
golf. Then I met John"
When their first child was
born. John was at sea with the
Navy and didn't see his baby
until Theresa was 8 months old.
Ruby didn't even do any dane
ing through the years and even
now shes just doing some old
dances" Ken Murray-an old
friend-called me for che TV
show. and said yes because
Johns mother lives in Maine and
We decided We could do the show
and also visit her
A week or so later, Ken called
her again. at the golf club. and
asked her to star with him in a
stage show of one of New Yorks
biggest theaters.
Evening star., 1950-05-28
The Other
Woman
She's q Menace,
But She Can
Save q Film
By Harold Heffernon
HOLLYWOOD

A@O1AA@A w S<<A<t
"The Second Woman" is a sub
ject that continually gives Holly
wood casting directors grave con-
cern. Unheralded. unsung by the
tub b-thumpers, the second woman
is usually the menace with the
important but unballyhooed part
that invariably can make or break
a movie.
Most exciting of the No. 2 per-
sonalities to float across the silver
screen in many a day is voluptu-
GUS brunette named Marie Wind
sor. Within a couple of years,
Miss Windsor has attained the
enviable rating of Hollywood's
foremost second woman. She's
made eight pictures and has been
the heavy in six of them. Most
recent is the siren who menaces
Shelley Winters and tries to steal
Joel McCrea from her in
"Frenchie."
Second-woman Marie Windsor
has no qualms about remaining a
heavy in the deuce slot for some
time to come. She points to long
succession of top stars who began
successful film careers as second
women before they made the top
spot.
Myrna 10y, whose movie life
has included every type of female
known to man. was first seen as a
leering. exotic danger signal of the
Far East. For years the average
fan on the street would pass Miss
10y without ever recognizing her
because on the screen Myrna's
eyes were always slanted and she
wore a headdress that looked like
the mooring mast on the Empire
State Building. She played sec
ond-woman roles to sweet young
things like Dorothy Mackail and
then went on to greater fame long
after the Mackails became
obscure.
History Repeats.
Rosalind Russell spent many
years in travelling stock compa-
nles playing second leads to now
forgotten stars of the sticks before
She crashed through as Holly
woods No. comedienne. Marilyn
Maxwells sexy siren parts were
known for years, more recently in
champion and opposite Richard
Basehart in Outside the Wall"
Shelly Winters, who is currently
playing leading lady to Marie. also
began her career in that category
when she played the empty-head-
ed victim of Ronald Colman's
homlcidal tendencies in "A Double
Life" The career of Mary Astor
has been one of history repeating
itself in this respect. AS far back
as THE Maltese Falcon" Miss
AStor was one of the most CLAM
orous celluloid menaces. She sof-
tened up for a number of years
and played nice demure leading
ldoy roleS, out is currently return
ing to powerful second string
heavies.
The Importance of the second
woman on the Hollywood scene
has long been recognized in such
austere company as the Academy
OF Motion Picture Arts and Sci
ences. There is always an Oscar
awarded to the best supporting
actress of the year. In 1916, it
went to Ann Baxter for her SYM
pathetic characterization of the
second woman who couldn't help
being heavy in The Razor's
Edge" Since then Ann has tray
eled to the heights.
One supporting shrew who al
(See HEFFERMAN, Page C-7.)
Evening star., 1950-05-28
Reds Confused
BY the Associated Press
HOLLYWOOD.

people keep accusing me Of
talking to myself" pouted Red
Shelton. And all that I'm doing
is rehearsing.
"You see, I play three different
guys in this picture and in one
scene they all talk to each other.
It's awfully confusing"
But not only does he play three
men. but three different genera
tions. He's literally his own grand
pa.
AS the son. father and grand
father, Red is-are the three own
ers of camera shop in watch
the Birdie" Photography is Red S
favorite real-life hobby. too.
Evening star., 1950-05-28

(See HEFFERMAN, Page c.
Evening star., 1950-11-10
Group Asks Curb on Flying
Flags With Old GLORY

The Congress Heights Citizens
Association last night unani-
mously adopted resolution op-
posing the flying of any flag, ma
tional or international, parallel to
or above the flag of the United
States.
Benson Taylor, the newly
elected first vice president of the
group. said in introducing the
resolution that American blood
has been shed in order to per-
petuate the ideals and institutions
of this Nation which teach love
and respect for the American flag.
In another action. the associa-
tion asked the District Highway
Department to paint white lines
on the Eleventh street bridge and
the South Capitol street bridge as
traffic guides.
In addition to Mr.. Taylor, other
new officers are Warren r. Ferris,
president; Mrs. Alma Allen, Sec
ond vice president; William l..
Bryan, treasurer; Mark Metrick,
financial secretary, and John j.
Braund, trustee.
Harry A. Leibrand, retiring
president. conducted the meeting
in the Congress Heights School,
Fifth street and Nichols avenue
Sc.
Evening star., 1950-11-10
a Montgomery Youths
In Judging Competition

Four Montgomery County youths
will represent Maryland at the
Interstate All judging contest of
the Eastern National Livestock
Show tomorrow at Timonium, Md.
Members of the Montgomery
County judging team are Millard
Lethridge, 10. Ashton; Harold
Mullinix, 18, of near Mount Airy;
Donald Hobbs, jr., Is, Sandy
Spring, and Herbert King, 18,
Gaithersburg.
The team won first place in
livestock judging at the Atlantic
Rural Exposition at Richmond
last month. They will compete to-
morrow with teams representing
five other Eastern States. Accom-
panying them as coach will be
Roscoe M. Whip. assistant county
agricultural agent.
Evening star., 1950-11-10
Decision Due Today
On Alexandra Suit
To Annex Fairfax Area

A final decision in Alexandria, S
annexation suit against Fairfax
County was to be announced this
afternoon. Details of the settle
ment will be worked out after the
decision.
A three-juoge court already has
indicated that the city will be
awarded the rs square miles il
seeks. The decision Is expected to
determine the amount of bonded
indebtedness the city must as
sumo. Yesterday, Alexandria and
Fairfax county attorneys proposed
formulas for a financial settle
ment.
Horace Edwards, counsel fol
the city, agreed that Alexandria
should assume a portion Of 81
million school debt. He added
that the city should not be re-
quired to assume responsibility for
any part of a sos million school
construction bond issue approved
last May. The bonds have not
been sold.
Says No Debt Exists.
Nor, said Mr.. Edwards, should
the city be required to help paw
off a $3.50 900 bond issue for an
addition to Fairfax courthouse,
No debt exists, the attorney con-
tended, because no construction
contract has been awarded.
John Alexander, attorney for
the county school board, told the
court that if Mr.. Edwards views
were upheld it would be almost
impossible for any Virginia county
adjoining a city to sell bonds"
Robert j. McCandlish, counsel
for the county. presented a plan
for settlement of the So million
bonded indebtedness of Sanitary
District No. i. Almost all of the
annexable territory is in the
district.
Mr.. McCandlish said the city
should contribute. throughout the
life of the bonds, proportion
ate share of taxes and service
charges which the county would
receive if there were no annexa-
ton. Mr.. Edwards had suggested
that the city agree to pay a share
Of any deficit the county might
incur in meeting bond issue
payments.
Commends School Board.
Mr.. Edwards accused the county
of selling the entire sanitary dis
trict sewer bond issue earlier this
year ito get a So million talking
point in the annexation suit" He
commended the school board for
its decision to sell the $10.2 mil
lion school bond issue in blocks
of approximately SO million.
Sale of the entire sewer bond
issue at one time. the attorney
said, "wi1l cost the county SITS, 900
before the money can be used"
Evening star., 1950-11-10
By Benz Price
Asseeietsd Press Foreign Correspondent

Assoeioted Press Foreign Correspondent
HAMHUNG, Korea, Nov. 10
Seaman First Class Leroy Taylor
is a candidate for both a silver
star and another court martial
And both apparently are a mat
ter of indifference to the 22-year-
old San Francisco sailor.
Taylor. a lanky. 6-foot 2-inct
youth, likes the rugged life.
He left his unromantic joE
aboard a fleet tug for the second
time to join the Marines now
fighting northwest of Hamhung-
a major North Korean east coast
industrial city.
Taylor was pretty sure the Navy
was going to take a dim view ot
it this time.
He left his tug owe were the
best ally the North Koreans had
Their airplanes didn't hit nothing
but we rammed a tanker") the
first time back at Inchon, onthe
South Korean west coast.
For IL glorious days he fought
right up to the outskirts of Seoul
with a mortar company.
AS for that silver star recon-
mendation from a Marine Corps
battalion he said, Nov I don't
known exactly what that was for
There was that time when
everybody in the company was
pinned down when a machinegun
opened up and I got cut by one OF
their shots. We were in a house
and I took out the back way and
kept carrying wounded back and
forth, and on the way me and a
Evening star., 1950-11-10
County EmpIoye Fired
For Political Activity
Al Rockville Polls

A Montgomery County employe
has been dismissed from his job
for engaging in political activity
during Tuesdays election.
He is Ellis Wells Smith, So. of
It's Brent road. Rockville, a relief
jail guard.
County Manager Irving G. Nc
Nayr told Mr.. Smith in a letter of
dismissal yesterday that he had
been observed working at the
polls on election day.
The dismissal is the first of its
kind since the merit system for
county employees was placed in
effect about four years ago. The
regulation prohibiting county en-
Iployes from participating ''in any
political activity" or working at
the polls in any capacity was
adopted about a year and half
ago, when the County Council set
up a personnel board.
Mr.. Smith, who retired as a
White House police sergeant in
March, 1947, had been in the jail
post since October / at an annual
salary of $2,420. He served as a
Metropolitan policeman from 1918
until 1926. when he went on the
White House force. He also had
served as a relief guard on a per
diem basis for a number of months
before control of the Jail was
transferred from the sheriff S
Office to the county managers
Office on October /.
Since Mr.. Smith was working
under a temporary appointment,
he is not entitled to any hearing
by the personnel board, Mr.. Nc
Nayr said.
Il regret having to take this
action" Mr.. McNayr wrote Mr..
Smith. "but I am certain you will
understand that you have COM
rnitted a serious offense in violat-
ing a provision of the charter and
in violating one of the county
personnel boards regulations.
Mr.. McNayr's letter went en- to
say the regulations were adopted
to preserve the political neutrality
of merit system employees. and to
protect them from being "ex-
plotted" financially Or otherwise,
for partisan political purposes.
Evening star., 1950-11-10
Eisenhower Urges
All Men 10 Be Proud
OF Military Service
By the Associated Press

COLLEGE STATION, Tex.
Nov. 10.-Americans, young and
old. were adjured by Gen. Eisen-
hover to be proud of their
military service.
The general told 5000 Texas
A. and M. ROTC cadets yesterday
that young Americans must accept
such service proudly. cheerfully
and as a personal obligation.
Older men. he said, must look
back fondly upon prior military
service regardless of red tape
and martinets.
Until this is done, he said, the
Nation will not be as strong as
it could be.
Gen. Eisenhower was the prin-
cipal speaker at inaugural cere-
monies for DR.. M. T. Harrington,
twelfth president of Texas A. and
NJ, an institution that has seen
thousands of its ROTC graduates
serve in the military forces.
The general was to speak before
two more student groups during a
busy intinerary today in Houston.
He was to appear on the Univer-
sity of Houston campus this
morning, at the Rice Institute
this afternoon.
Gen. Eisenhower said he is con-
fldent Texas A. and M, under
DR.. Harrington. will take an ac-
tive lead in the responsibilities Of
colleges and universities in the
current years of high and perilous
stakes.
The Nations educational sys-
tenn. he said, "can prod US all
into vigilant awareness and can
arm us with the knowledge we
desperately need"
Evening star., 1950-11-10
Business Group Elects
In COLLEGE, Park

Charles v. Joyce. jr.. has been
elected president of the College
Park Business Association. Other
officers named are:
Albert Kirwan, vice president:
Elizabeth Steely, secretary, and
Arthur McCathron. treasurer.
Board members are Charles
Gentle. Emanuel Zalesak. Maui
rice Fox, Andrew Mothershead and
Edward McKeoWn.
Evening star., 1950-11-10
London Offers Danny Kaye
S240,0O0 for Weeks
By the Assoeiafed Press

HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 10.-Danny
Kaye has been offered a record
$4,000 a week for IL weeks at
the London Palladium as part of
the 1851 Festival of Britain, Hayes
manager. Ed Dukoff' disclosed last
night.
The $4,000 (f85 ,ooo) offer
was made by Harry Foster, repre-
senting the management of the
Palladium, where Kaye broke all
attendance records in 1949.
Mr.. Dukof said he and Kaye
will meet with Mr.. Foster tonight.
but that a decision is not likely
for a week. The manager said
Kaye has received another offer
$4,000 a night-from Sol Hurok,
American impresario for United
States concert tour next summer.
The London deal. Mr.. Dukoff
said, calls for IL weeks during
June, July and August, with two
shows nightly six nights week,
but no matinees.
Evening star., 1950-11-10
Air Force Keeps Silent
On Rebuying Of $3.50
.Equipmentfor $4,000

The Air Force. its collective face
more than a little red, officially
had no comment today on disclos-
ures that a Texas farmer bought
1853 aircraft f1re-control computers
for less than cents each. or
$3.50, and later sold them back
to the Government for $63, 900.
Senator Lyndon B. johnson,
Democrat, of Texas revealed the
story yesterday as a warning to
Government agencies against the
hasty sale of surplus military
equipment.
Senator johnson is chairman of
a Senate Armed Services subcom-
mittee keeping tab on the coun-
try's vast rearmament program.
He said the computers cost
ST 200 each or total Of 81 200 500.
Storage Costs Cited.
The Air Force. asked about the
matter. said officially there could
be no comment since it was al
ready before a Senate committee.
But unoficially those familiar
with the circumstances of the
surplus sale and the repurchase
said 1t was "just one of those
things. that happens and
shouldn't happen"
1t was surmised that some one
looked at the stock of instruments,
all of the latest design, during
the demobilization program in
1916, considered they were un-
needed junk and disposed of them
at the give-away price of less
than 5 cents each.
Maybe it was thought that
would be simpler than trying to
explain a $4,000 storage on the
instruments" it was said.
But. a spokesman added sadly,
there's just no convincing ex-
planation" of what happened.
AS disclosed by Senator John
son, what happened was that a
Texas farmer. former naval Of
flcer. glancing over a Government
catalogue Of surplus items, noticed
that aircraft computers" were
listed for sale.
Was Held to Contract.
Thinking they were something
like a slide rule and might be used
for computing farm areas, the
farmer put in a bid for 1853 of
them at Al cents each. Later he
discovered what they were-after
finding himself the owner of the
complicated instruments used in
co-ordinating the fire of aircraft
guns.
He sought to get out of the deal
but the surplus officer held him to
his contract. The bulky instru-
ments. about two feet square ac-
cording to staff members of Sena-
tor Johnson's committee, were
hauled away and stored.
Later the farmer wrote the Air
Force asking If it had any use for
the instruments. The upshot of
it was that the Air Force bought
them back for S63, 900. giving the
farmer net profit of nearly $780,
600 after storage and hauling
charges were paid.
Senator johnson said the trans
action was wholly within the law
and was cited merely as warn
ing to halt the unwise sale of
valuable defense material"
Evening star., 1950-11-10
Marvin Church Wins
Council Approval for
Rezoning for Addition

| Despite a vigorous dissent by
two members. the Montgomery
County Council has voted to grant
a request of the Marvin Metho-
dist Church. Four Corners, for
commercial zoning of adjoining
land to permit construction of an
addition.
The action was taken yesterday
at a meeting postponed from
Tuesday because of the elections.
In the majority were J. Douglas
Bradshaw. A. r. Selby. Harold F.
Hammond. P. G. Ligon and
Thomas C. Kelley. The dissent
was registered by Council Presi-
dent Frederic P. Lee and Mrs.
Dorothy Himstead.
The council yesterday also ap-
proved purchase for $4,012 of a
2la-acre tract. part of the Clar-
ence Chapman property in Kens-
ington, as site for an animal
shelter. The site had been pro-
tested by about so nearby resi-
dents, but council members visited
it yesterday and decided it is ideal
for the structure.
County Manager Irving G. Nc
Nayr said plans for the shelter
probably will be ready in from
six to eight weeks. He said it is
expected the building will cost
from $4,000 to $4,000 and will
be completed within six months
after work is begun. ..5
The Marvin Methodist Church
applied for the rezoning, after the
Board of Zoning Appeals refused
to grant variance from the rear
lot line requirements. The land.
to the east of the church, was
zoned Residential A. under which
a building cannot be placed closer
than 20 feet to the property line
The church wants to build an ad-
dition up to within l foot of the
line.
Denial of the application was
recommended by the planning en-
gineer of the Maryland National
Capital Park and Planning Com
mission. The engineer said the
application was not in conformity
with the zoning plan for Colesville
road, near which the property lies.
But the commission itself, the
county council noted, strongly
urges the approval of the appli-
cation, even though a deviation
from the adopted plan of the
commission
Among other rezonings was one
covering the remaining frontage
of the Congressional Airport on
the Rockville pike. The change
to commercial D was granted in
accordance with the planning
commissions sectional zoning plan
of the pike. The strip rezoned
is 762 by 300 feet. A 150-foot
setback from the center of the
pike, however. is required for any
development under the rezoning