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Evening star., 1951-02-05
France Shows West
Weapons, Including
Two FoxhoIe Diggers
BY Eddy Gilmore
Assoeioted Press Foreign Correspondent


BAUMHOLDER, Germany. Feb.
5.-France let representatives of
the Western world have a quick
peek Saturday at her new war
weapons - including mechanical
foxhole diggers.
What she showed was impress
sive, but there was a strong i'm
preston she still has lot on the
Super-secret list.
Just be sure" cautioned De-
fense Minister Jules Moch. "you
take no photographs"
Those on hand for the show in
cluded military observers from the
United States, Britain, Belgium,
the Netherlands and Luxembourg
and several hundred French off,
GERS.
Baumholder, scene Of the dis
play, is a French military camp
in corner of Germany. The Ger
man army once trained here and
the late Field Marshal Erwin
Rommel used it in preparing for
certain phases of his desert cam
paign.
Most impressive of the stuff put
on view was:
A one-man rocket launcher, as
easily set up as a home movie
screen and operated about as ef-
fortlessly as a garden hose.
A recoilless 75-millimeter gun
weighing less than $50 pounds.
A bazooka. lighter than heavy
rifle, that hit moving tanks with
startling accuracy at relatively
long distances.
A 12-ton, eight-wheel armored
reconnaissance tank, which can
go backwards as fast as it can
forwards.
A 5O-ton tank with a 100-milli-
meter gun.
And-two mechanical foxhols
diggers.
Evening star., 1951-02-05
ST Lincoln Day Supper Here
To Begin z, ,OOOG.O. P. Rallies

The Lincoln Day one dollar box
supper at the Uline Arena at $50
o'clock tonight sets off a series
of more than 1000 Republican
rallies and dinners across the
Nation in the next three weeks.
The box supper, at which Re
publican leaders from all parts of
the country will speak briefly, is
sponsored by Republicans in
Congress and the League of Re
publican Women of the District Of
Columbia.
Republican National Chairman
Guy George Gabrielson said to-
day, announcing the Lincoln day
parties which are to be held from
Maine to Oregon and from
Minnesota to Texas: "Our homage
to Lincoln is peculiarly fitting
this year. Our country is again
in danger, as it was when Lincoln
Evening star., 1951-02-05

took the helm as the first Repub-
lican President. And like him, the
Republican Party of today is
dedicated to the cause Of freedom
and its preservation"
Republican Governors. Senators
and Representatives are included
in the long list Of speakers for
the Lincoln Day observances,
among them Gov. Warren of
California, Gov. Bracken Lee of
Utah, and Senators Taft and
Bricker of Ohio. Dirksen OF nli-
nois, Brewster of Maine, Know
land of California, Malone OF
Nevada. Nixon of California
Margaret Chase Smith of Maine
Welker and Dworshak Of Idaho
and Representatives Brown OF
Ohio, Hallack of Indiana, Leonard
Hail of New York and Dondero OF
Micnigan,
Evening star., 1951-02-05
voluntary Draft Program
For Rabbis Worked Out
BY the Associoied Press


NEW YORK, Feb. 5.-The ma
tional Jewish Welfare Board has
worked out a program for a "vol-
untary draft" Of rabbis into the
armed forces as chaplains.
Rabbi Aryeh Lev. director of
the boards religious activities,
said yesterday eight rabbis will
enter the armed services this
month.
The program, agreed to by Or
thodox, Conservative and Re-
formed Jewry, is backed by sane
tions imposed by rabbinical
groups, Rabbi Lev said.
He said that the plan would
insure a steady flow of rabbis to
augment 81 full time and 205
part time Jewish chaplains now
serving the armed forces through
out the world.
Evening star., 1951-02-05
District Price Office
Waits for Approval
OF Enforcement Staff

The District Office of Price
Sterilization today was waiting
for an enforcement staff against
a backdrop of complications over
whether the Justice Department
or the OPS national office would
enforce the law.
Norman Kuhne, information
consultant in the District office,
said it is up to the Richmond
regional Office to act on the re-
quest for an enforcement staff for
Washington. Recommendations
have been submitted to Richmond
he said.
The District office Is seeking six
enforcement agents. They may be
transferred from other Govern
ment establishments, the informa-
ton consultant added.
Attorney Joseph B. Danzansky
counsel for the National Associa
ton of Meat Wholesalers ane
Professors. said today he hopes BY
March l the national OPS will
have definite dollars and cent
ceilings on meats. This, he ex.
planned, will make the law easil,
enforceable and the housewife, a.
well as everybody else down tn,
line, will know definitely what ha
to be paid.
Mr.. DanZansky said that tn,
national Office is also considerin,
a plan submitted by his grou)
that figures to be used as pric,
ceilings must be based on at Ieas
rs per cent of a days sales. HI
said this suggestion was made SC
that merchant could not base 6
ceiling on an isolated high-price
sale during the December 10 tc
January Is base period.
Evening star., 1951-02-05
Hoover 10 Be TeIevised
In Foreign Policy Speech
BY the Associated Press

NEW YORK, Feb. 5.-Former
President Herbert Hoover will de-
liver an address on radio and
television Friday night on the
subject, I'VE Should Revise Our
Foreign Policy"
The speech will be broadcast
and televised over the Mutual
Broadcasting System from 8 to
$50 pm.
Mr.. Hoover's Office said last
night the address will be IAN ex-
tension" and "updating" of the
address he made to the Nation
last December 20.
Evening star., 1951-02-05

that this short-sighted policy be
abandoned"
The committee also agreed with
the President that this is an ap-
propriate time for expanding the
Social Security program.
The committee called for all
possible economy in Government
expenditures but added that "the
possibilities Of economy in the
non military field are frequently
exaggerated"
I'VE doubt that the most rigor-
Gus economy could achieve a re-
duction of more than 81 or 81
billion from the budget estimates
of 1951-1952." the report said
Evening star., 1951-02-05
The Weather Here and Over the Nation

fair tonight, lowest in low 20s west
and middle or upper 20s east por-
tlon. Tomorrow some cloudiness
with moderate temperature.
Wind velocity at 1870 o'clock
this morning. 9 miles per hour;
direction, north-northwest.
Evening star., 1951-02-05

tIldt tIlc EOA
is "r a in g.
| S t e n o g raphic
| and secretarial
| help with the
lure of higher
| wages. r..
Some Of the
d e p a r t m ents
are fuming over
what they as
SefC is Il . "A S
| policy Of paying
| higher salaries
for stenograph-
ers, typists and
secretaries than
Evening star., 1951-02-05
Senate Unit Orders Probe
OF Lustron Plane PIuns-
BY the Assecioted Press

The Senate Banking Committee
today ordered an immediate in
vestigation of plans to convert the
big Lustron prefabricated housing
plant in Columbus, Ohio, to war
plane production.
Chairman Maybank announced
that subcommittee composed of
Senators Sparkman. Democrat, Of
Alabama and Capehart, Republic
can, of Indiana, would go to Co
lumbus next Tuesday to start
hearings.
Evening star., 1951-02-05
Dr.. Kiefer to Direct
Civil Defense Medicine

DR.. Norvin C. Kiefer, 4602
Cheltenham drive, Bethesda. has
been named director of the health
services and special weapons de-
fense division Of the Federal
Civil Defense Administration, it
was announced today.
Associated with civil defense
planning from the beginning, DR.
Kiefer has been serving as director
of the health resources Office of
the National Security Resources
ROard
Evening star., 1951-02-05
Alexandra Service Dance

The Servicemen's Lounge OF
Alexandria is planning a Valen-
tine dance for men in uniform
Friday night at the recreation
center, 1905 Cameron street
Hostesses for the party were urged
to register in advance at the
lounge. 602 Cameron street.
Evening star., 1951-02-05

District of Columbia-Mostly
sunny and milder this afternoon,
high near As. Fair tonight, low
about % in city and "a in suburbs,
Tomorrow some cloudiness with
moderate temperature.
Maryland and Virginia-Mostly
Evening star., 1951-02-05

are generally paid in Govern
ment.
Many employees in other agencies
are reported leaving their jobs to
take similar positions at higher
salaries in ESA. With the extreme
shortage these days of stenog-
Iraphers and typists especially
this situation is considered serious
by many Government personnel
officials.
Complaints have been lodged
with the Civil Service Commission
and the commission has been
asked to warn ,ESA against up
grading any jobs.
Personnel officials making the
charges against ESA claim that
the new agency is paying salaries
from one to two grades higher
than are paid in most other Fed
eral agencies.
Not only are some of the old
line departments disturbed over
the situation, but some units
directly connected with the ma
tional emergency program are also
unhappy. Among them are the
State Department and the Eco
nomic Cooperation Administra-
ton. which claim to have lost the
services of essential people to the
ESA.
Charges of personnel "raiding''
are not exactly new in Govern
ment. such complaints having been
made in the past when other new
agencies were getting underway
But the extreme shortage of
clerical help has made the pres
ent protests even stronger than
usual.
WHO ARE THEY?-Milton Man.
dell, Civil Service Commission
official, in a speech before a grour
OF promising young Federal EN-.
ployes being trained for execu.
tive jobs, gave them a word pic
ture Of three men in their 20.
and asked them to rate the indi.
viduals as to potential executive
ability.
Number one was "pudgy in ap.
pearance, genial, open, and some.
times rude. Not brilliant or in
cisive." Number two was "o1
medium height and thin, wear.
glasses, has an unpleasant toothy
grin, and wears affected f1ashy
clothes. Speaks indistinctly and
stumbles." Number three was
average. college student. Well
bred but not particularly charm
ing. Artificially serious of face
and rarely smiles. People con-
slider him arrogant"
The trainees, who did not think
too highly of any of the trio's
prospects of becoming successes
were surprised to learn that they
were, l. Grover Cleveland, 2
Theodore Roosevelt, and 8. Frank
lin D. Roosevelt.
X X
SALARIES-The average salary o1
Government employees in Washing
ton who are under the classical
ton act is $4,000 a year. The
average salary of Federal worker,
throughout the country is $3,G61
a year.
/ Civil service says the reason fol
a higher salary average here i.
the greater number of executive
positions In Washington.
| II X
FLEXIBILITY-The Civil Servics
Commission has given agencie!
more discretion in shifting EN-
ployes about In order to make
room for returning veterans whtr
the national emergency is over
Previously, agencies had to dis
miss or denote employees who were
occupying the veterans jobs.
The new ruling still assures the
veteran his old job, but it gives
the agencies the authority to
make any reorganization of non
veteran personnel that it considers
more practical in order to make
room for the returning veteran
X
JOBS-The Navy Gun Factory has
job openings for women ordnance
operators. The pay is $10.08 tt
S11.28 a day. The Navy Cur
Evening star., 1951-02-05

Snow urries expected tonight in the Northern
Rockies the mountains of Wyoming and Colorado Snow
the Northern Plains eastward into the Upper Great
Lakes in the Lower Lakes and much of the
New England States The Northwest section expect rain
showers will be colder upper New England States west
ward into the Eastern Lakes region and in the Ohio Valley but
warmer conditions predicted for the Gulf States
-AP Wirephoto.
Evening star., 1951-02-05
The Federal Spotlight
By Joseph Young

A major feud is brewing be-
tween many of the Government s
agencies and the new Economic
Sterilization Agency over charges
Evening star., 1951-02-05

Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest, II, on January 19.
Lowest, 13, on February 3.
High and Low of Last "a Hours.
High. "a, at 3:15' pm.
Low, 30. at 7:05 am.
Tide Tables.
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River Report.
fFrom U. s. Ensineers)
Potomac River muddy at Harpers Ferry
and at Great Falls; Shenandoah muddy at
| Harpers Ferry.
Evening star., 1951-02-05
The Sun and Noon.

Precipitation.
Monthly precipitation in inches in tn
Capital (current month to date):
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(Furnished by United States Coast an
Geodetic Survey)
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tReadings at washington Airport)
Evening star., 1951-10-24
Germ Attack on i. ).
Declared Possible
BY the Assoeioted Press

Brig. Gen. William M. Greasy
the Army's top man in biological
warfare research. says "the pos
sibilities are great" for a damag-
ing germ warfare attack on this
country.
But. in speech to a group of
scientists here last night, Gen.
Greasy said the possibilities "are
frightening only if We give way
to panic or if we fail to insure
that We are ahead Of any other
nation in knowledge and prepared
ness in this field"
The general called germ warfare
essentially public health and
preventive medicine in reverse, '
and he continued:
Except for novel methods of
achieving deliberate dissemination
of pathogenic' organisms, it is a
form of warfare which nature has
Waged against man for thousands
of years, and against which mod
ern health practices have produced
effective defenses."
The general is chief Of the re-
search and engineer division,
Army Chemical Center. His audi
ence was the Washington rubber
group. made up of Government
scientists and others and affiliated
with the rubber division of the
American Chemical Society.
Evening star., 1951-10-24
Mental Patient Slain
In Gun Fight After He
Kills Officer, FeIIs 8
By the Associoied Press

PETERSBURG, Va, Oct. "a
A badly wounded mental patient,
shotgun still Graded in his arms,
died yesterday in q fuSillade of
bullets that ended a seven-hour
gun battle in which State police
investigator was killed and eight
other persons hurt.
Police shot down Herbert john
son. 81. colored, after storming an
unoccupied two-story farm house
in which he had taken refuge
following his flight from the near
by Central State Hospital.
Johnson had one shell remain
ing in his gun and was still on
his feet when 10 officers ended
the siege by moving in under
clouds of tear gas and barrage
of covering fire from an armored
car circling the building.
Spotted on Upper Floor.
The officers, on the lower floor,
spotted Johnson upstairs through
holes made by fire from their riot
guns. Two of them fired. john
ton fell.
Until that time, police had been
hard-pressed to stay out of range
as johnson fired with a gun he
is believed to have found in the
residence just after he fed the
hospital,
Investigator Wallace NJ. Simp-
son. 80, was killed by a close
range shot from the window as
he tried to rush the house. Three
other officers were wounded
slightly trying to recover Slmp-
sons body.
Also wounded during the siege
in which johnson held off some
35 officers were two patients and
three hospital employees.
Working on Farm.
johnson, a patient at the hos
pital about six years but not re-
garded as a mental case with
criminal tendencies, had been un-
der treatment in a ward but re-
Gently was allowed to dig potatoes
on the prison farm.
Angered yesterday when he was
given definite working instruc-
tionS, johnson fed. Then he holed
UP in the house.
For several hours after Simp-
sons death. there was silence and
officers thought johnson had been
hit. But then there was a shot
and the police answered Shortly
afterward. they made the rush
that ended Johnsons life.
Evening star., 1951-10-24
Yard Once Was Distance
Between Nose, Thumb

LONDON.-In the 18th century
King Henry I decreed the legal
yard was the distance between
the tip of his nose and the end
of his thumb.
In the 10th century the lawful
rod was the combined length of
the left feet of 16 men as they
left church on a Sunday morning
Evening star., 1951-03-15
Drama News and Reviews
Bonzo Cuts Funniest Figure
In His First, and Last, Film
By Joy Cormody

In whisky saloons and cocktail lounges there subject
for today.
subject the chmpanzee of Bedtime for
died before he could start his second
nipped the would
that Bonzo flash the
Evening star., 1951-03-15
Where and When
Current Screen Attractions
and Time of Showing

Stage.
Arena - School for Wives"
$3.50 pm.
New Gayety Know M!
Love-; $50 pm.
Screen.
Ambassador-"Su "Sugarfoot"; lis
1920, 5:25, 1880 and 9:35 pm.
Capitol - Air Cadet; 11:0(
am, las. 4:30. 7;20 and 10:0(
pm. Stage shows: 100, $40, 6:3t
and 9:l0 pm.
Columbia -" Kim: 11:00 am.
lilo, 500, $50, TAO and $50 IN
Dupont-"Of Men and Music"
100, 2:45. 4:35. 6:25, 8:15. 10:5(
Keith's-"Bedtime for Bonzo"
1l:50 am, 1:50, $50, $50. 7:5(
and $50 pm.
Little-"Hoboes in Paradise
2:30, 4:2o. $40. sos, 1000 pm
Metropolitan-"H Hitler's Strang'
Love-Life"; 1850 am, 1855. 400
sos, sos and 1910 pm.
National Born Yesterday"
l1:15 am, 1870, 3:25, 5:35, 7:4t
and $50 pm.
Palace-"I'd5 Climb the Highes
Mountain: HAS am, 1:45, 3:45
5:45, 7:45 and GAS pm.
Pix-"Ecstasy";; 200, ASS, 7:5I
and 1915 pm.
Playhouse-"Fourteen Hours"
9:30, 1920 am, 1925, $3.50, 5:35
7:45 and 9:55 pm.
Plaza-"The Mudlark":; 10:1:
am, 1910. 2:05, 400, 5:55. 1850
and 9:45 pm.
Trans-Lux-"So Long at tht
Fair; l1:10 am, 100, 2:45, 4:30
6;15, 800 and $50 pm.
Warner - "Sugarfoot";: 1l:2s
am, 1:25, $3.50, 5;35. TAO anc
GAS pm.
Evening star., 1951-03-15

Bonzo" makes a kind of silly sense
but when a girl as beautiful as
Miss Lynn is introduced into Rea-
gan's bachelor home as Bonzo'S
governess, the Hollywood roman
tic formula begins to take over.
Once it gets a firm foothold, Bonzo
has tough time getting the pic
tuTe back into groove he can
control.
AS a comic, Bonzo has certain
undeniable gifts or had" them
before he was asphyxiated.
Like Francis, a mule actor on
Universal internationally pay roll,
he can move his lips and make
noises which any good sound
mixer can weave into the move
ment of a film story. At one
moment, he can be made to sound
like freshman giving a lusty
bronx cheer to the president of
the college, and at another as
if he felt sorry and understand
ing for Miss Lynn when love
seems to be going awry.
1t is when he is being physi-
cally funny like Milton Berle that
Bono is at his best, however.
At such times, he dons baby's
"sleepers" and puts on a becom-
ingly ridiculous visage, or puts
on a Hopalong Cassidy suit and
looks not unlike any one else
in a Hopalong Cassidy suit-in-
cluding Bill Boyd.
The acrobatic Bonzo, to be sure,
is the truly talented one. What
he can do to frustrate humans
chasing him up the sides of build
ings or through the branches of
trees can be basic. if not ac-
tually original, comedy. 1t is
this in several of the better Sc
Evening star., 1951-03-15

A44SNASoSNASs
No habitue of either the
whisky saloons or the cocktail
lounges, this reviewer is not going
to be drawn into such a contro-
VerSy
1t seems calmer and more judi
cial minded merely to observe that
in his first work, now at Keiths
Bonzo is considerably funnier than
his human associates. This is
true of both the actor and writer
humans, especially the latter who
have strained themselves danger
ously to be amusing without haV-
ing actually achieved it.
What Bonzo does, tear up
feather pillows, dangle from tall
buildings, rob jewelry stores, and
the like, is a variety Of healthy
low comedy that provides Bed
time for BonZo" with its best
moments. These are not calcu-
lated to dislocate any vertebrae
but in the antic fashion of animals,
they have their merit.
The humans thus out-cloWned
by Bonzo include such as Ronald
Reagan. Diana Lynn. Walter
Slezak and a new, prettyish girl
named Lucille Barkley.
X X X
Writing stories for gifted ami
mails. except possibly dogs, is per-
haps the most thankless job since
the invention of the quill. In the
case of the first (and laSt) BonZo
picture, four authors worked on
the script and even now may be
drawing workmens compensation
for all this correspondent knows.
What they came up with is one
of those stories laid in the CLAM
orous setting of a small far west
ern college. Here Bonzo plays the
role of a morbid little monkey
pining away in the college lab.
Reagan, who teaches psychology.
takes pity on the melancholy mite,
then seizes upon their instructive
liking for each other as the occa-
sion for an experiment.
He is going to prove, so he an
nounces, that environment is a
bigger influence than heredity by
turning Bonzo not merely into a
well behaved monkey. but also he
can be taught to repay affection
with kindness.
Up to this point, Bedtime for
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quences of the romantic farce at
Keith'S.
+ \ \
To their credit, Bonzo's fellow
actors are not feazed by the fact
that he is going to steal every
possible scene from them. Reagan
as the psychology professor who
is handsome enough to make all
his feminine pupils neurotics is
an obviously willing straight man
to the chimpanzee throughout the
picture.
Similarly in the specifically
embarrassing role of governess to
BonZo. Miss Lynn plays with an
earnestness and energy that is
practically praiseworthy.
1t would be interesting to know
just how they, and the rest of the
Bonzo associates, feel about the
imbossibility Of a sequel to the
Bonzo film.
Naturally, 1t is much too deli
cate a subject to be brought up
at a time like this with BonZo
dead at the very pinnacle of his
publicity and the very beginning
of his screen career.
Evening star., 1951-03-15

BEDTIME FOR BoNZo," a Universal
picture, produced by Michael Kraike, di-
rected by Frederick de Cordova. screen
play by Val Burton and Lou Breslow.
story by Raphael David Blau and Ted
Berkman. At KeithS.
The Cast.
Professor Peter Boyd Ronald Reagan
Jane Diana Lynn
Professor Hans Neumann Walter Slezak
Valerie Tillinghast - Lucille Barkley
Babeock Jesse White
Dean TillinghaSt - Herbert HeyeS
1t. Daggett ---- Herbert Vigran
knucksy ----------------.H Harry Tyler
Foskick - Ed Clark
Policeman " Ed Gargan
Ar. De Witt - Joel Friedkln
Chief of Police Brad Browne
Miss SWithen Elizabeth Flourney
Policeman " Howard Banks
Fireman Launders
Student johnson
Student - -- Bill Mauch
Telephone Operator ---Ann Tyrrell