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, 1950-03-29

a champion of their cause.
They have come out of loyal
ty and devotion to a govern
ment with the traditions of
the great U. S. A. back of it.
They have come to join me in
extending a hearty welcome
to our visitors from the main
land and to wish that they will
enjoy during their all to brief
a stay the sa1ubrity of the ben
ign climate of the island.
They have come to join me
cax,;no RI nl1r visitors from
Evening star., 1950-02-26

VoU'vE seen news pictures of men and
Il women. dazed and shaken after narrowly
escaping DEATH And you've undoubtedly
asked yourself: How would behave under
similar circumstances"
Nobody can answer that question for you,
but Maurice Robert Reddy, American Red
Cross disaster fighter, can make pretty good
guess. He has learned great deal about
human behavior in crises - and one lesson
from his experience can mean life instead of
death for you For 20 years Reddy has raced
up and down the Western Hemisphere. help
ing people get back on their feet after being
struck down by hurricanes, fires, explosions
earthquakes, tornadoes mine disasters, race
riots and other unpredictable calamities.
Reddy is not the man to make snap state
Evening star., 1950-02-26

ments. When I asked him what the custom
ers in the restaurant where we were eating
would do if they heard terrific explosion
several blocks away, he half closed his eyes
ringed with dark circles, chewed on the end of
his pencil, and thought for full minute.
Running for Trouble
AT LEAST half of them would jump up and
run straight for the scene of the trouble" he
finally answered, land their blind curiosity
may kill them. At the very least, it will prob
ably aggravate the catastrophe by delaying
rescue efforts. I've never covered a major
disaster where we didn't have at least three
times as much manpower as we needed"
Often, on the other hand, rescue efforts
have been impeded by the curious. After
Evening star., 1950-02-26

tornado all but obliterated the town of Pryor,
Okla, in l941. Reddy jumped into his car in
Tulsa and started toward the scene. But the
roads were so choked with the autos of sight
seers that he finally had to turn back, post
pone his mission of mercy. Reddy has seen
many an ambulance inch along in a traffic
jam at five miles an hour when the lives of the
injured survivors inside depended on speed.
And the sight-seers themselves are often the
victims. The fire that started on freighter
at Texas City sent up huge columns of
multi-colored smoke, attracted specta-
tors from miles around. Suddenly the series
of terrific explosions in the ships hold began.
Trapped in the city, the sight-seers were deci-
mated. A similar tragedy followed the shat
tering explosion of a huge liquid-gas storage
Evening star., 1950-02-26
CURIOSITY CAN KILL YOU

hit chances good
Red Cross disaster
that death
Evening star., 1950-03-19
Rockville Youth Accused
OF Driving Hit-Run Auto

A Rockville youth yesterday was
accused of being the driver of a
hit-and-run automobile which had
injured a Washington pedestrian
a few hours earlier.
Montgomery County police ar
rested Robert E. Carlin, 10, of the
TOO block of West Montgomery
avenue, Rockville, after they
traced a license number given
them shortly after the accident
by cab driver.
According to police, the cab
driver reported he was approached
at Wisconsin avenue and the Dis
trict line shortly after 2 am. yes
terday by a man who said. Where
can I get drink? I need one
because I've just been in an acci-
dent" The cab driver gave DO
lice the license number of the
car. They arrested Carlin in
Rockville yesterday afternoon.
He is accused of striking Young
Wong, 68, of 929 New York ave-
nue. NV, as he was crossing at
Tenth street and New York ave-
nue. NV. The victim received a
broken arm and bruises. Carlin
was charged by District police
with driving without a permit,
leaving after colliding and failure
to give the right of way to a pc
deStrian.
Evening star., 1950-03-19
DR.. F. M. Potter Dies
IAt 76 in Rome, N. Y.
Y the Associotsd Press

ROME, N. Y, March 18.-Dr
F.. M. Potter, rs, retired vice presi-
dent of the General Gable Corp,
died here today.
He is survived by his widow, q
son, F. M. Potter, jr., of 1926 Ne
vada avenue NV, Washington,
D. c., business manager of the
American Automobile Association,
and two daughters, Mrs. w. B.
Van Orman of Rome and Mrs.
Curtis Dawes of Winnetka, III.
Evening star., 1950-03-19
Democrat Criticizes
National Committee
On Health Plan Stand

DR.. r. 3. Robins, Democratic
National Committeeman from
Arkansas, last night renewed
criticism of the Democratic Ma
tional Committee in connection
with endorsements of President
Truman's compulsory health in
surance proposals.
DR.. Robins contends the COM
mittee has been placed "in the
grave position of violating the
Federal lobbying law" by 1.-THE
reckless and unauthorized loan OF
Its name" to the Committee fol
the Nations Health. The latter
group is a staunch advocate OF
the compulsory insurance pro-
gram.
To a statement entitled. "Here
Is Proof" DR.. Robins attached
reproductions of an envelope con-
tanning the Democratic commit
tees letterhead and postage per-
NIT. The envelope, he said, con-
tained pamphlets and question
naires bearing the name of the
Committee for the Nations
Health.
Or. Robins said the Democratic
Party never has gone on record
as favoring compulsory health in
Kilrarce in anv form,
Here Is proof" his statement
said, "of my charges that Demo
cratic Party auspices are being
brazenly misused to distribute
compulsory health insurance
propaganda for a private pressure
group
Evening star., 1950-03-19
Bar Association 10 Hold
Institute for LAWYERS

An all-day Institute of Organi-
rational Problems of Small Busi-
ness, sponsored by the District
Bar Association, will be held Sat-
urday at the Mayfiower Hotel.
The institute, first Of its kind
IN Washington, will provide "prac-
tical, down-to-earth discussions
OF the problems for lawyers. 1t is
intended to inaugurate a program
OF continuing legal education for
lawyers" explained James D.
Mann. association executive sec
retary.
Sessions, open to all ATTORNEYS
whether association members or
not. will begin at 8 am. and con-
tinue to 1 pm. Besides several
lectures, the institute will include
q panel discussion moderated by
Municipal Court Judge Frank H
Myers.
Panel members will be John l.
Laskey, bar association president;
AL Philip Kane, and Randolph c.
Richardson. both members of the
association. A registration fee OF
IS will cover all costs, including
literature.
Laurel outlook., 1950-04-26

Was on the train up to Central
City the other day and when the
conductor came around, 1 asked
him why their ticket punches make
such odd-shaped holes in the ticket.
every conductor in the country
has a different design for his
punch" he tells me. "Some even
show up a fellows preferences.
Now take mine. The hole it makes
looks like a beer goblet"
Sure enough! Then he went on
to say that the punch is just like
the conductors signature. Makes it
easy to trace tickets 90. to check up
if something happens.
Laurel outlook., 1950-04-26
TREWIN

Mr.. and Mrs. Godfred Harding
were in Billings Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Kappel
spent Tuesday evening at the
Charles Grubs home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ted Berst are par
ents of a baby girl born Saturday,
April Is, in the Columbus hos
pital.
E. H. Reimann and A. l.. Grubs
were among those who attended a
farm sale near Belfry Tuesday.
Mrs. Kenneth Shay and daugh-
ter Lila Joy of Joliet were dinner
guests at the Grubs farm home
Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Willis Quinn Of
Billings were visiting the Kappel
families Sunday.
Mrs. George Frank. Mrs. Pete
Frank and Mrs. Charles Grubs at
tended a Stanley party at the
Charles Stonerock home in Park
City Thursday night.
Charles Griebel of Billings was
visiting friends here Sunday.
Laurel outlook., 1950-04-26
and her sister, Mrs. Alex Shimskey

and her sister. Mrs. Alex Shimskey
and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Burt Minor of Liv-
ingston. en- route to Fort Morgan,
Colo, were overnight guests of Mr..
and Mrs. R. w. Davis Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Duane Nelson of
of Billings are the parents of a
daughter, Susan Lynette, born in
a Billings hospital. Tuesday,
April IS.
Mrs. Helen Braun returned home
Monday from Billings where she
spent a few days as a guest of
Mrs. Emma Brown.
C. V. Mosier received word of
the death of his mother, Mrs. Mary
Mosier, SO, at Beach. Iowa, April
10, and was buried there April 13.
Mr.. and Mrs. Allen Whitcan-
ack and family went to Helena
Sunday where Mrs. Whitcanack
spent a few days with her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Knapp.
Betty 10 Daniels who has been
visiting at the home of her aunt
accompanied them to her home in
Townsend. Mr.. Whitcanack went
on to Missoula where he attended
the state school administrators
three-day meeting. He will be
chairman of the Park City school
board.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. o. Nelson spent
Sunday at the home of Mr.. Mel
sons brother, Charles Nelson and
family at Fromberg. =.
Mr.. and Mrs. l.. j. wallace OF
Hardin were guests last Sunday OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Eastlick.
Mrs. R. E. Plowman returned
home the last of the week from
Denver where she spent a week
with her mother, Mrs. Jessie
Walker.
Laurel outlook., 1950-04-26
Avoid BrOoder Fires

Check over the heating facilities
and electric equipment in the
brooder houses for any defects
which might result in fires. So
called accidental fires often could
have been prevented by making
proper repairs long before the fire
broke out.
Laurel outlook., 1950-04-26
Alabama Cotton

In 1949 Alabama cotton showed
the highest grade index of the
southeastern states. Using the
grade "Middling White" as 100,
Alabama cotton averaged 95.6.
Georgia followed with 94.1; North
Carolina, 92.4; and South Carolina.
90.
Laurel outlook., 1950-04-26
Unique Colony

The only territory in the world
to straddle both the equator and
the international date line is the
Pacific ocean Gilbert and Ellice
islands colony of Great Britain.
Laurel outlook., 1950-04-26
Giants of Northwest

Giant Douglas fir trees of Oregon
and Washington may grow to 300
feet in height, as large as IL feet
in diameter and weigh as much as
200 tons.
Laurel outlook., 1950-04-26
From where | sit by Joe Marsh
His Punch
is His Signature
Advertisement

From where I sit, even though
your ticket is punched differently
from mine, it still gets you where
you're going. Just like people with
their opinions. You might like cof-
fee, another person, tea-and I'll
settle for a temperate glass of
beer. But what does it matter, so
long as we respect the right of the
other to have tastes and opinions?
We're all trying to go in the same
direction - towards a friendlier,
more pleasant world for all of US.
& M~4e
Evening star., 1950-03-31
Drama News and Reviews
Jurors Trying Love Slayer
Fall in Love at Warner
By Jay Cormody

AS there is this Hungarian playwright, Bus
Fekee who had to change the spelling of his because Amer
leans kept confusing him with transit company
In Hungarian bus pronounced bush and while this may
that because not
Evening star., 1950-03-31

is rather more the right size for
the present set of performers.
The basic assumption of per
feet Strangers is that jury can
be a funny collection of people.
This is rather sound since the
jurors, headed by Miss Rogers and
Morgan. also include number of
Warner Bros. more competent
character players.
On the whole, the jurors are
an agreeable lot and as varied as
any clever trial lawyer could want.
AS the two who fall in love,
while trying the poor man who
fell in love, no pair could be nicer
than Miss Rogers and Morgan.
They are SO normally decent that
neither of them really wants to
do his municipal duty by serving
on the jury.
Neither of them really wants to
fall in love with the other. either.
1t is just that jury duty intimacy
is so non-routine that a person
is without his, or her, normal de-
fenses against emotional attacks.
It is not a snappy affair, nor is
it conspicuously dishonorable of
the victims. That they cannot
help themselves is the point that
the script has to make, a point
that has to have its ultimate bear
ing upon the case at trial.
X 4 X \
Miss Rogers and Morgan are
old hands at the sort of thing
they do. in Perfect Strangers. -
There is nothing in their work
that requires them to be brilliant,
but they are quite workmanlike
about everything including their
moral obligations to the defend
ant. This makes rather a mildly
comic affair of their being locked
Evening star., 1950-03-31
By Harry Macarthur

Having investigated the peddling
of brushes, Red Shelton now ID
exploring the possibilities of driv-
ing hack, in what may be part
of whole series devoted to we'll
known American trade names.
The newest Shelton enterprise is
yellow Cab Man." and it turned
up yesterday on the Capitol
screen.
The things that happen to an
ordinary cab driver probably
shouldn't happen to him. but the
things that happen to Shelton in
his new frolic shouldn't happen
to anybody. Except. of course,
that he gets the girl and she is
Gloria de Haven and. that is nice
getting.
yellow Cab Man." which was
written by Devery Freeman and
Albert Reich and directed at a
goodly clip by Jack Donohue, casts
its leading comic as one of those
people to whom accidents are
always happening. He is such a
case that he has his doctors name
and phone number printed in large
block letters on his undershirts for
handy reference. He also invents
safety devices, his latest project
being something called Elastiglass,
which is glass that bends like rub
Der instead of breaking.
The circumstances by which he
becomes a cabbie probably are
funnier in the picture than they
would be here, but he becomes
one, all right, with the aid of
Evening star., 1950-03-31


Hungarian named Bus-Fekete.
Any questions?
No? Well, this man once wrote
play about two handsome young
people who met on jury duty.
The case they were trying was
that of a man accused of mur-
dering his wife of Is years that
he might marry a younger and
prettier woman. Bush-Fekete
(the current spelling) thought it
would be dramatic to have the
young jurors, both of whom were
married, fall in love just as the
accused man had done.
The question thus posed for his
play was: How would such a case
affect the two jurors, and its cor
Rotary, how would they affect the
case?
Both parts of the question are
answered for your entertainment
in Perfect Strangers" the ro-
mantle comedy at the Warner
theater which stars Ginger Rogers
and Dennis Morgan.
Although the situation is more
novel than most of those en-
countered in the movies, it is not
as exciting as you might expect.
Director Bretaigne 'Windust and
the others are more interested
in stressing its comic than its
melodramatic aspects. In some
strange way-and don't be too
startled by this-it works out bet
ter on the screen than when Helen
Hayes played it on the stage un-
der the title, Ladies and Gentle
men"
This is not to imply that the
movie cast is in Miss Hayes class.
1t is simply that the little story
Evening star., 1950-03-31

up in the same hotel for several
weeks and eating all their meals
together in side street restaurants
The subordinate cast lends
creditable assistance all through
the limited movement of the piece.
The funniest member of this
group is Thelma Ritter. as the
wife of a truck driver. who never
really understands the case and
only took the job because she
needs money for the sixth baby
then on the way.
Miss Riiter's dumbness is quite
amusing, but SO is the snobbish
blonde from Pasadena played with
just the right polish by Margalo
Gilmore. Anthony Rose as the
wolf in jurors clothing is another
laughable type and SO, in their
lesser ways, are Charles Meredith
Alan Reed, and Howard Freeman
1t is not convulsive comedy by
any means, but if you don't ask
too much, it will serve better than
some things lately called funny.
Evening star., 1950-03-31
Where and When
Current Iheoter Attroct tions ond
Time Of Showing

Time OF Showing
STAGE.
New Gayety -- Goodbye, My
Fancy; $3.50 pm.
Catholic University Theater-
"Oedipus, the King: $3.50 pm.
SCREEN.
Ambassador-"P Perfect Strang-
err; 1:3O. $3.50. 5:35, 7:35 and
s:4o pm.
Capitol - "The Yellow Cab
Man; II am, 1:45, 4:30, tbs
and 10 pm. Stage Shows: /,
3:45, $50 and 9:15 pm.
Columbia-"Beau Geste":: 1925.
1920 and 8:15 pm.
Dupont-''Tight Little Island:
IL am, 1880. 2:40. 4:30, $40,
8:15 and 1910 pm.
Keith's Cinderella; 1920
am, 1885. 2:25. 3:55. 5:25, 6:55,
$3.50 and 10 pm.
Little-"Tight Little Island;
II am. 1880, 2:40. 4:30, $40,
8:15 and 1910 pm.
Metropolitan "Barricade";;
11:25 am, los. ESQ, 4:35, $40.
8 and $50 pm.
NationaI-"Road to Rio; 11:05
am, 1880, 2:40, 4:30. 6:25, 800
and 10:15 pm.
Palace-"Three Came Home;
10:45 am, 1855, sos. $40, 7:30
and $50 pm.
Playhouse-"The Third Man;
9:15 and 1925 am, 1:25, 3:25,
5:25. 7:35 and $40 pm.
Pix-"Night At the Opera; 4. 7
and 10 pm.
Trans-Lux-"The Red Shoes;
I'll am, 1880, 4, 6:35, 9:10 and
1880 pm.
Warner Perfect Strangers; =;
11:25 am, 1:25, $3.50. $50, 1885
land 9:45 pm.
Evening star., 1950-03-31

PERFECT STRANGERS" a Warner
Brothers release. produced by Jerry Wald,
directed by Bretaisne Windust. screen
play by Edith Sommer from the play
by Charles Macarthur and Ben Hecht. AT
the Warner.
Evening star., 1950-03-31

James Gleason. His first solo ex-
perience as a cab driver is a fine
slapstick sequence of mounting
pandemonium which ultimately
involves police, fremen, a bomb
scare, kidnapping cries and
wrecked cabs.
Throughout the rest Of the film
Shelton devotes more time to fee
ing for his life than he does, to
making money pushing a hack,
There's a pack of unscrupulous
parties headed by Edward Arnold
and including Walter Slezak and
Jay c. Flippen bent upon getting
the formula for that glass that
bends out of Skeletons head.
This involves some funny busi-
ness in the Shelton apartment,
which is equipped with the most
spectacular fire prevention sys-
tenn and burglar alarm ever to
thwart a villain, and some more
funny business in a fine hypnosis
Evening star., 1950-03-31
Fight
Night
Met 'Burricode'
One Big BrowI
With Good Cast

Every other movie recently
seems to have had its brutal
brawI sequence. "Barricade," the
Technicolor melodrama at the
Metropolitan. is the champion OF
the lot. 1t is just one long fistic
frenzy which may leave you with
the punch-drunk notion that you
have just travelled rs fast rounds
with Joe Louis in his prime. !.
All this could be Warner Bros.
answer to the condittoning people
have had watching wrestling on
television the last two seasons. Il
it has higher dramatic purpose,
it is not visible to the naked eye
despite the fact that "Barricade"
is cast with many actors capable
of better things.
Among these are Dane Clark.
Raymond Massey. Robert Douglas
and also that pretty thing, Ruth
Roman. Even Miss Roman gets
into the fist flinging and illegal
kicking with the result that she
goes around full of contusions and
quite disarrayed in her dress.
The story is laid in the Western
gold mining country. Here Massey
is mine owner who offers refuge
to the criminal riffraff of the
country. This is no generous i'm
pulse on his part. He has nothing
but savage contempt for his men
and they hate him. Each merely
figures the other to be useful in
his amoral way.
The exceptions to this rule are
Clark, Miss Roman and the char
acter played by Douglas. These
are none too good, but they look
like shining angels in this par
ticular environment. At the end
Of all the beatings,, the dynamit-
ings, holocausts and gunplay, they
remain alive to inherit the mine
and live happily ever afterward.
At least more peacefully. j. C..
Evening star., 1950-03-31
Shelton Hacks for Laughs in Capitol Film

sequence done with distorted pic
lures. The chase and the picture
wind up with a wild climactic pas
sage at a Home Show, in which
almost everybody gets wound UP
with one Of those houses of the
future that turns with the sun
when it goes berSerk.
yellow Cab Man" isn't likely to
win any prizes. but Shelton is an
amusing young man in his slap
stick way and the script takes fair
advantage of that fact. It's for
laughs, all right.
* X *
The Capitol's stage show is
headlined by Eddie Hanley. whose
business also is comedy. He does
that burlesque blackout about the
rube whose drink is doped by a
dance hall girl and the imitation
of woman getting dressed. which
does not overload him with orig
inality, but he gets along well
enough. Others are Lander and
Holland, dancers: Susan Miller
singer. and Wells and the Foul
Fays.
Evening star., 1950-03-17
Labor Majority Reduced
To Five by Death Of MP
BY the Associated Press

. LONDON, Mar. 17.-Adam S
McKinlay, Labor Party member
of the House of Commons, died OF
a heart attack today at his home
in Dumbartonshire, Scotland. He
was "a.
His death cut to five the overall
majority Of the Attlee government
in the House elected February 90
1t will force the first by-election-
election to fill vacancy-of the
new session of Parliament.
Mr.. McKinlay, who had been
an MP continuously since 1941,
defeated his Conservative oppo-
nent in the West Dumbartonshire
district by 613 votes last month.
F. A. Burden, 45-year-old Con-
servative member, fell and broke
his leg today while rushing to
meet quorum call in the House.
A quorum is 40. When the lack
Of one is noted, a bell is rung.
Unless enough members arrive to
make up the difference inside of
two minutes, the House adjournS.
Evening star., 1950-03-17
Six Prisoners Suffocafed
By Fire in Carolina Jail
BY the Associated Press

SPRAY, N. c., Mar. 17.-Si,
prisoners-five men and a woman
-perished in the Spray jail today
after a mattress caught fire
Three were white and three col.
ored.
The fire was found by Desk
Sergt. P. L. Mcbride when he went
to the second floor of the City
Hall Building to lock up another
prisoner. The time was 2:4O am
All of the six who died hao
been charged with public drunk
enness.
Police said there was a posi-
bility that one of the six-al
faced trial this morning-hac
deliberately set the fire. The jai
was only slightly damaged.
The victims were Lucille Vim.
bush, 80; Junior Marlborough, %
and Marion Morrison, 25, al
white, and Harvey Cole, "a; Jot
w. Willis, 81. and Bonie Martin
"a. colored.
They apparently were asleer
when the fire started and were
suffocated.
Spray is textile town in NORTH
Central North Carolina.
Evening star., 1950-03-17
By jones J. CulIinone

There was sorrow abroad in the
land today because the shamrocks
from Erin intended to brighten
st. Patrick's Day for many lad
and colleen were piled high in the
city Post Office here.
In their bright green boxes
addressed to the Doyles and
O'Donoghues. the Murphys and
Mulvaneys all over the country the
shamrocks were caught in the
workings of one of the Nations
agricultural programs.
Shure, Uncle Sans scientists
said, there's a wee worm on the
roots of shamrocks that might
destroy potatoes.
Destroy potatoes! That was
enough for the Department of
Agriculture. Out went the word:
Save the potatoes! And orders
were flashed to every customs
office: Hold those shamrocksl
Evening star., 1950-03-17
BY the Associated Press

HYDE PARK, N. Y, Mar. IT,
President Franklin D. Roosevelt
kept a copy of almost every letter
he wrote, and almost every letter
he received after he began his
political climb.
Today more than million of
these letters became public prop
erty-a mirror to one of the vital
eras of world history.
Brief ceremonies marked the
event at the Franklin D. Roose-
velt library here. 1t took two and
a half years to index the papers.
There are letters to kings and
to high and low born men whose
names are marked forever in his
tory. And there are humble let
ters, the voice of the average
American as he took pen in hand
and wrote to the White House