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The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-12-19
BEARS ARE NOT
 90 STRONG, SAYS
 COACH WALDORF

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif., Dec 19-4R-"Well, here we go again, sighed Coach Pappy Waldorf as he set about conditioning his Cali fornia Bears for their Rose Bowl encounter with Michigan.
 Holding open house for the press today at the Orange Show Stadium training ground. Waldorf was his usual pessimistic self in delivering himself of the following:
 T can't see how we could be figured as strong this year"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-12-19
JOKE ON THIEVES

CHICAGO, Dec .19-lH-Thieves broke window in Ned Rosin's au- tomobile and stole large, gaily decorated Christmas box.
 q guess whoever took it didn't stop to find out what he had" Ro- sin told police.
 Inside the bulky package, he said, were ashes. Rosin carried them in his car-in case he got stalled on icy roads.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-12-19
GEORGE WASH. U GIEE CLUB TAXES
 TOUR OF ALASKA

WASHINGTON. Dec. 19 = R - Twenty-six members of the George Washington University glee club will leave Friday for an 11-day con- cert tour of military installations in Alaska and the Aleutian Islands.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-12-19
East-Wesi Lining Up,
 Big Gan,e

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 19-R- Football squads of the Shrine East West charity game Dec. 30 were to assemble here today for official check-in.
 Seventeen Eastern stars and 12 Western players had arrived by last night, with the rest to come in by train and plane today. They will be entertained until Thursday, when they will go into training quarters, the West at Stanford and the East at Santa Clara.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-12-19
FIGHT DOPE

Fights last night resulted as fol- lows:
 At Providence, R.I-Rocky Mar ciano. 1904, Brockton, Mass, stop ped Bill Wilson, 229h, Charlotte, NC. 1.
 At Philadelphia = Ike Williams, IA. Trenton, NJ., outpointed Rudy Cruz, 138, Los Angeles, 10 (non- title).
 At Salt Lake City = Jack Nelson, 182, Toele, Utah, knocked out Sonny Orrock, POP, Spokane, 5.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-12-19
s1O,0OO FREE LIFE INS. FOR ARMED SERVICES IS
 PASSED, HOUSE TODAY

WASHINGTON, Dec. 19-RLA bill giving each member of the Armed Services a $10,000 free life insurance policy has been passed oy the House without a dissenting vote.
 The measure now goes to the Senate. It would make the insurance retroactive to June 27 to cover those vho have died in the Korea War
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-12-19
FROM SAN FRANCISCO

R. E. Robertson, prominent Ju- neau attorney, returned on the Baranof. He has. been in San Fran cisco where he represented clients in a case before the Circuit Court of Appeals.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-12-19
Govt. Officials
 Of India Giving
 Views, Cease-Fire
(By Associated Press)

Indian government officials in New Delhi indicated today they be- lieve the United States must revise it's Far Eastern policy if a cease fire order is to be obtained in Ko- req. They added that the Indian government still feels there is some hope for peace through negotia- tions.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-12-19
Commuters Late;;
 Traffic Is Tied Ur
(By Associated Press)

Some 10000 commuters were late getting to their jobs in New York jity this morning when the main inc of the New Haven railroad and m important commuter branch of he New York Central were blocked y trailer truck. The truck ;prawled across all four tracks after crashing down from an embank- nent.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-12-19
D0UBLEHEADER GAME TONIGHT AT 7::30 IN
 JUNEAU HIGH GYM

Play in the Gastineau Channel League swings back to the Juneau side of the channel tonight with a doubleheader.
 First game time is 7::30 and sees the Juneau High Crimson Bears play the Columbia Lumbermen. Sec ond game is between Mikes Mite owls and the Arctics.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-12-19
WILLIAMS E EASY WINNER, CRUZ BOUT

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 19-lRt- lightweight Champion Ike Williams f Trenton, NJ, won a unanimous iecision over Rudy Cruz of Los Angeles, last night, pounding him tt will in 10-round non-title bout 1t the arena. Williams weighed IA, Cruz 138.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-12-19
(By Associated Press)

The big freeze continues in the midwest states and in much of the eastern half of the country. At Wasau, Wisconsin, this morning the mercury dipped to 12 below. It's been showing in the upper Missis- sippi valley.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-12-19
HOLD "DEAD MANS POKER HAkD";; DIES

VANCOUVER, B.C., Dec. 19-'R-- William Holman, 63, looked at his poker hand last night and slumped over the table.
 He held the traditional Chisholm Cattle Trail dead mans hand"- three eights and pair of aces.
 He died a few hours later in a hospital
 The winning hand was worth $30.62.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-12-19
' Fl FORD
-with 43 new Look Ahead lectures

Now Aufomafle Ride Control Advoneed "Hydro-coil" Front Springs. new voriobIe-Rote Rear Spring Suspension and rviscovs-C Control" Shock Absorbers adjust the ride to any road automatically.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-11-05
IF LAST YEAR you had
Il asked Father Bowen of
All SO,,ls-off-Times SQUARE
| L

AL SOUlS-Ou- ultCS S4u0AS
whether or not he subscribed to the Deutero-
nomic doctrine of an eye for an eye, he would
have rebuked you - being good Anglican
- and cited some St. Jamesian reminder,
probably Matthew, o, $3.50. on the Case OF
the Reversible Cheek.
Put the question to him today and Father
Bowen is more likely to rub grin into his
Ieathery jaw and quote that profane author
ity, Ellery Queen, on the Case of the False
Claimant.
Father Bowen's flock being pastured in the
West Forties, it is plentifully mixed with
black sheep Until last year one of his sorr1est
blessings was gay old eve known to the
touts, newspaper vendors, bartenders, cops,
and other habitues of Broadway as the Witch
"a bag with lank gray-blonde locks, cheeks
like bark, and runny blue eyes, who wore
sidewalk-length skirts, an outrageous shawl,
and mans fedora which came from some
night-club trash can.
The Witch lived alone in a basement hole
over toward Tenth Avenue, and she bounced
forth at night to sell violets, corsages OF
gardenias, and policy tickets under the mar
QueeS and neon signs.
TOWARD morning - she was of English blood,
her name being Wichngame - she could usu-
allv be found at some all-night bar before a
long row of empty gin-and-tonic glasses sing
ing Brightest and Best of the Sons OF the NOM
,ug or The Chureh's One Fo''ndot'o" IN a
hoarse, joyful voice.
Her record of attendance at All Souls-of-
Times Square was not commendaole, al
though she could always be depended upon
in the confessional, where she went INTO
enthusiastic clinical detail
Her pastor labored hard in this exasper-
sting vineyard, but he had no cause TO re)oace
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-11-05

Wichingame told Father Bowen - one Erik
Gard, of Fergus Falls, Minnesota, large
sedate Viking who had gone over to the
Anglican Church and become missionary
priest.
Miss Wichingame's Italian, or Spaniard,
turned out scoundrel who left her with
pleasant if not entirely rewarding memories:
the Reverend Gard, no trifier, proposed holy
matrimony Immediately and was trium-
phantly accepted. A son was born to the
Cards, and when he was eight years old his
parents sailed with him to Korea.
For short time the missionary's wife CORE
sponded with her sister. but as Miss Wichin-
games address became increasingly fluid the
letters from the mission took longer and longer
to catch up with her, until finally they stopped
altogether.
Il take it," said Ellery, cautiously shifting
his left leg, that when your communicate
repented her sins she asked you to locate
her sister"
Il instituted inquiries through our mis-
sionary branch" nodded Father Bowen,
"and discovered that Father Gard and his
wife were murdered many years ago and
their mission burned to the ground. Their
son, John, was believed to have escaped, al
though no trace of him was found.
my parishioner." continued Father
Bowen, and he became agitated, revealed
at this point an unexpected firmness of
character. She insisted that her nephew was
alive and that she must embrace him before
she died and give him all her money. Perhaps
you recall the newspaper publicity, MIR.
Queen. shall not try your patience with the
details of our search - it was expensive and
hopeless hopeless that is, to one of little
faith, like myself; for Miss Wichingame's
part, must say she was perfectly confident
through it all"
"And Nephew John was found"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-11-05
Illustrated BY BEN Pvins

until one week last winter, when the Witch
mistook the new snowfall on her sidewalk for
the coverlet of her bed and awakened In
Bellevue Hospital with case of double lobar
pneumonia. She was very i'll. and at some
time during her sojoun in the Valley she saw
the Light She sent for Father Bowen, and
when she changed home in jubilant ambu-
lance she was permanently repentant sinner.
Then what the problem, Father Bowen?"
asked Ellery, wincing as he tried to turn
over in bed He had been laid up for week
by painful attack of sciatica. and he had
been about to 20 mad when the clergyman
called.
THE root of the problem, Mr.. Queen"
said Father Bowen, arranging Ellery's pillow,
sis the love of money See Timothy. Of, 10.
1t turns out that Miss Wichingame is - as
they say in my parish - loaded. She owns
several very valuable parcels of property and
a considerable amount of bonds and cash.
The poor thing was, of course, miser. Now,
in her spiritual conversion, she insists on
giving it all away"
ITO some needy bartender, Father?"
10 her only living neT, Iepheo Tic oiu
clergyman dryly. And he told Ellery the
curious story of the Witch's nephew.
Miss Wichingame had had twin sister,
and while they were identical in every phys
ical respect, their tastes differed profoundly.
Miss Wichingame, for example, had early
shown preference for the wilder variety OF
oat, whereas her twin looked upon spirits as
the devils lubricant and was as moral as
breakfast cereal.
This disparity, unfortunately for Miss
Wichingame, extended to their tastes in men.
Miss Wichingame fell in love with small.
handsome, dark man - an Italian, or Span
lard; after forty-hve years she could not re-
call which - but her sister, whose firm
eugenic credo was like to like" gave her
maiden heart to "a pure Nordic," as Miss
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-11-05

Yes, Mr.. Queen. But there's two of him."
II beg your pardon?"
He appeared at my rectory in two in
stallments, as it were, each part of him fresh
from Korea, and each part of him insisting
he was John Gard, son of Erik and Clemen-
tine Gard, and that the other fellow was a
brazen impostor. An embarrassment of
blessings. Frankly, I'm up the creek"
Il suppose they look alike?"
MOT at ALL While both are blonde, and
about thirty-five - the correct age there's
no resemblance whatever, either to each
other or to Father and Mrs Gard, an old
photo of whom exists. But there is no au-
thenticated photograph of John Gard. so
even their dissimilarity doesn't help"
But / should think" frowned Ellery,
"visas, passports, ordinary proofs of identity.
records of background i"
you forget, Mr.. Queen" said Father
Bowen with a certain sickness that Korea
in recent weeks has not been exactly tranquil.
The two young men got out with mob of
refugees after the communists took Seoul.
There was great deal of official confusion
and relaxation of the normal precautions.
Each exhibits documents in the name of
John Gard, and each came out by plane
from different airfield.'
How do they explain identical documents?
Each says the other stole his credentials
and had them duplicated - except. of course.
for the passport photographs 1t appears that
they were close friends, both working for the
same company in Korea. Unfortunately, the
company records were destroyed. You may
take my word for it, MIR. Queen, there's
simply no way of checking back on their
Identities
ELLERY was surprised to find himself sitting
up in bed, position Inc had been unable to
achieve in a week. And the Witch?' he
exclaimed
''Bewildered, MIR. Queen. The last time
she saw her nephew was when he was seven
years old, just before his parents took him
to Korea. He spent an exciting week in New
York with her - during which week, by the
way. she kept diary. She still has it -"
There you are" said Ellery. "All she has
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-03-26

fore I left for Italy were. Go out
and get brown and practice walk
ing barefoot So on the boat 60
ing over I got a beautiful tan, but
couldn't, of course, walk barefoot
on deck. The first day on the
picture Dieterle said, You're so
pale, go and sit in the sun all
day. I did and got sunstroke."
All the Jobs They Want.
Geraldine's roommate, Lois
Maxwell, is staying over in Rome.
She's having a mad whirl with
Count Francesca de Borghese.
And she says she wants to live
there forever. Orson Welles seems
to be there forever. I saw him
f in a restaurant one night looking
very red and fat. One day saw
Mischa Auer walking along sing
iIs9 on a street in Rome and he
told me, I'm a bigger star here
than I ever was in America.
Any one from Hollywood can
have all the movie jobs they
want"
| Every one in Europe, says Ger
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-03-26
Hollywood Is q T own
Devoted to S|eepinq
Glamour Boys and Girls Need Their
Rest and Can't Dance All Niqht
By Harold Heffernon

sleeper. I've never taken a thing
in my life to make me sleep" said
Samson, the lion killer. "All I've
ever done is lay down and close
my eyes. My only rule is to eat
nothing in the hour before bed
time"
Janet Blair is perhaps the
towns champion marathon nod
der. She invariably sleeps half
the clock around. If retiring at
midnight, as she usually does, the
lovely singing star doesn't get up
until noon. Summer and winter.
Janet never retires without an
electric blanket and a hot-water
bottle at her feet.
Bette Davis is bothered by light
and sound and invariably retires
wearing a black mask over her
eyes and cotton pads in her ears.
But she's a sound sleeper and
usually spends 10 hours in bed.
Betty Hutton suffers from early
morning insomnia. She gets to
sleep fine but always aWakens at
4 am, no matter what time she
retires. How does sleepless
glamour gal spend those lonely
hours until getting up time?
Betty has it solved, She tunes
in disc-jockey programs at her
bedside radio and appraises all
the hit tunes.
Don't Wake Hedy.
Hedy Lamar has as many
strange sleeping phobias as any
actress in this town. No one
ever dares wake the gorgeous
Delilah. She must sleep 1t out
every night, regardless of appoint
ments. Very often she misses i'm
portant dates because of refusal
to have her rest broken. Dura-
ton of her slumber is uncertain;
it may be five hours and it may
be ten. Her bedrooms must be
mechanically aforementioned to
70 degrees and she sleeps with
only a sheet atop her.
Gloria Swanson likes to stay
up late, hates to get up early. She
cannot sleep on soft mattress
and says she would rather sleep
on the hard floor than on an over
cushioned bed. Her own bed is
so wide that she sometimes
sleeps crosswise on it. Unless all
windows in her room are wide
open, Gloria cannot sleep, no mat
ter what the temperature.
Doctors write out more sedative
prescriptions for Hollywood's
liberated, leep-hunting workers
than is good for them, but there
is one new star in movietoWn who
has no such worries. Despite his
neW-found popularity and his
tremendous fan mail, Francis, the
talking mule, sleeps peacefully
and he sleeps standing up.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-03-26
Ronald Reagan Has q Word
In Defense of Actors
By Bob Thomos

never directed a picture without
slapping on some goo and appear
ing in a scene like a transient
cherub.
Il personally am such child
that if Mr.. Hitchcock has a good
role for me, I will gladly work
for him-even if I have to don
knee-pants.'
Reagan's blows were not SC
gentle when aimed at Senator
Johnson, Democrat, of Colorado
who has proposed Federal licens-
ing of films and actors to curb
immortality and lewdness" in the
movies.
Senator Johnson's immunity
on the Senate floor does not grant
him immunity from being g
gentleman" said Reagan. Il be.
lieve he put over a cheap politica
trick to get his name in the papers
in an election year.
Last Boom Town.
If the Senator did his job hall
as we'll as the average actor doe!
his, the country would be in bet.
ter shape.
What Hollywood's critics dom
realize is that this is the last boon
town in the West. This is the onl!
town where big dough can b.
made fast. Consequently, we hay
the same camp followers of an.
boom town. They are the firing
of cafe society, the ones who &c
their names in the headlines.
But the Senator will find tina
most of Hollywood gets up early
works hard and goes to bed early
Il would like to add up Holly
woods standing with Senate
S Johnson or anyone else. will b
the first to admit any sins whic,
t we have committed. But I thin
they will be far unbalanced b
S our virtues"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-03-26
When in
Rome
Life Is Wonderful,
Geraldine Brooks
Says on Return
By SheiIoh Grahom
HOLLYWOOD.

Geraldine Brooks is back from
Italy with fascinating stories Of
Volcano" "Stromboli," Ingrid
Bergman, Anna Magnani and the
American colony in Rome.
Il could have stayed in Italy
forever" Gerry tells me. THE
food is wonderful, the dress shops
magnificent. And the men superb.
I was there six months and felt
like a native right away. People
like Ingrid Bergman, Marilyn
Buferd a former Miss America !.
Mischa Auer and Lois MAXWELL
don't think they'll ever come back.
But me. I had to think of my
career in Hollywood. So I'll do
one more movie, then go back to
Italy to do one a year there"
Geraldine co-stars in her first
Italian movie, Volcano" with the
famous Magnani, previously en-
gagged to Roberto Rossellini. zone
night Anna suggested we all play
the truth game. So I asked
Anna if she'd do a picture with
Rossellini again-she was COM
pletely unhappy you know over
Ingrid. Not now, she told me,
but I will within a year. Anna
thinks she's the greatest actress
and Rossellini's the greatest
director in the world. She says,
for the emotional scenes in their
pictures. he'd make her walk up a
neutrality-suspicious. all night
give her only two hours of sleep,
then put her in front of a camera
and she'd work on pure exhausted
emotion" Geraldine doesn't have
such a high opinion of Roberto.
"A lot of his movies are so bad
they're not even released.
Two Armed Camps.
when Magnani and Director
William Dieterle discovered that
Ingrid and Rossellini were doing
movie similar to theirs, Anna
said, Never mind, We'll make ours
million times better than theirs.
It was like two armed camps
our island and theirs"
The original idea had been for
the Magnani group to call their
movie "Stromboli." But Rossel-
lini beat them to the title. And
into theater release. Now we're
glad we didn't rush. I've seen
theirs-I may be prejudiced-but
I think ours is 100 per cent bet
ter" 1t will be released in May.
EFT was very rugged living on
Vulcana (the island where VOL
cano' was made. There are only
IS people on the island-no heat,
no electricity, no roads, no bath
rooms. There's always the ocean,
of course, and you fill a tin pail
and wash. The scenery is identi-
cal to Stromboli. We had a vol
cano, but ours was just smoking
all the time. Theirs has flames.
I was scared at first, but you soon
get used to it, Geraldine is a
barefoot girl all during the pic
ture.
"Dieterle's first instructions be-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-03-26
This Is
Murder!
Lucille Boil
Suffers for Her
SIopstick Art
By Jack Quieg
HOLLYWOOD.

The dictionary defines slapstick
as: violent physical activity for
comic effect" Lucille Ball will
buy that. The truest part of the
definition, she says, is the adjec-
tive violent"
The vigorous, orange-haired
Coincidence is currently tumbling
her way through her first slap
stick role. She plays a door-t to-
door cosmetics agent in Fuller
Brush Girl"
Its murder" Lucille declared.
II haven't done the hardest stunts
yet, and already I've got ~
bruises"
Lucille has to swing hand over
hand across a long clothesline;
dive into a barrel; make an adagio
leap from a stage into the arms
of Eddie Albert in the orchestra
pit; bounce on a trampolin which
is disguised as a bed; be blown
over the side of a ship by dyna-
mite.
Miss Ball, after all, isn't an
acrobat, but a lot of these scenes
are closeups or medium shots,
preventing the use of a double.
Saving the Worst.
1--WE already lost one days
work." Lucille said. Il was sup
posed to sneeze into my face
powder. I did-and blasted a
batch of talcum under my eyelid.
I'm one simple scene-all I had
to do was run out of room-I
tripped on a rug and went
sprawling. I ripped a stocking
and got a charlie horse. I'm even
getting mangled in the easy shots.
They're saving the worst for
the last. It's a thing I'll have to
do myself, and I've already been
fitted for an iron framework with
wires on it.
I'm caught by the hook Of a
ships crane. hoisted over a
smokestack-and dropped in"
She thinks her next picture
ought to be Emergency Ward"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-03-26
HOLLYWOOD.

| HOLLYWOOD.
So, the idea still prevails that
Hollywood is a wild, wild town,
where the glamour boys and girls
drink and dance and play all
night-rising to their sound-stage
duties red-eyed and weary.
Actually, nothing could be
farther from the truth. Despite
all rumors to the contrary. we are
now forced to conclude that Holly
wood is just 9 o'clock town-a
dismal sort of appraisal brought
on by surveying sleeping habits
of the stars.
Said Ronald Reagan on the
Louisa" set at Universal-Inter-
national: I'm a 10-hour man
myself. Nine hours for sleep and
one for lounging in the morning
I think sleep is wonderful. I must
have at least eight hours to feel
rested the next day."
| Reagan declares the only civil
lied way to live after a good
nights rest is to lie in bed in the
morning slipping coffee, munching
toast and reading the papers.
Charles Coburn, veteran char
acter actor, after IA years has de-
veloped such an efficient habit
of doing in a chair during the
day that he isn't so particular
about full nights sleep as long
as his repose totals eight hours.
Copurn often falls asleep in his
dressing room sitting upright in
the makeup chair. He's so well
conditioned that when the direc-
tor calls Quiet" for q take he
automatically stops snoring, con-
tinues his perpendicular slumber,
and resumes snoring when the
shot is completed.
Some Early Risers.
Richard Todd, the new British
heart throb of THE Hasty Heart, -
believes that it doesn't make
much difference how many hours
he puts in on the pillow as long
as he gets in at least one and
preferably two before midnight.
It's the premidnight hours that
preserve the health, he believes.
Ellen DreW's slumber habits are
still governed by the job she had
as a coffee shop waitress before a
talent scout spotted her. Ellen
had 6 am. daily start behind
the counter which necessitated her
arising at 5. She automatically
aWakes at to this day-no mat
ter what time she gets to bed.
Same goes for Jack Carson, who
was once a travelling salesman for
a refrigerator outfit. To make the
next town at a decent hour for
business appointments, Jack al
ways had to be in bed by 10 to
catch the am. milk train. The
habit still persists.
Most folks wonder about the
constant peregrinating of Bob
Hope and when, If ever, morpheus
caCcneS up With MIN. Physicians
have been heard to marvel that
Bob simply turns it on and off like
electricity. Flying from city to
city, he sleeps most of the time
and is never bothered by the
racket of travel or chatter of
voices around him. Members of
his troupe have watched Bob fall
sound asleep while a professional
masseur mauled him in his hotel
room. On tour or at home the
telephone beside his bed is always
on tap. No matter how important
or disturbing the conversation may
be. Bob's asleep again a moment
after hanging up.
When Vic Mature gets up in
the morning his bed looks as
though a cyclone struck it. He
is thrashing. twisting, tossing