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Evening star., 1953-10-28
1925 Mines Made Safe

NARVIK, Norway. - Norwe-
gian mine sweepers have
brought ashore and rendered
harmless a total of 1926 mines
since the end of World War II.
Evening star., 1953-04-29

unfair labor practice by virtue
Of the Federal law.
But whatever possible loss
would be felt by removal of that
protection, AFL officials said.
would be more than Offset by its
advantages.
For instance, the union could
make a closed shop agreement
with employers in States where
that is not illegal. This was a
traditional practice until the
1947 Taft-Hartley Act outlawed
the closed shop.
About a dozen States now have
laws forbidding the closed shop.
One of Senator Smiths main
purposes in writing the amend
ment, it was said, was to free
the. NLRB of some of its work
and take at least a part of labor
management relations work out
Of the Federal Government.
Evening star., 1953-04-29
Senator Offers Bill to Free
Building Trades From Taft Act

& The Senate Labor Committee
apparently is ready today to in
dorse q bill which would amend
the Taft-H Hartley Law to free all
building trades unions, all so
cal" public utilities such as bus
and streetcar lines and all firms
employing less than 10 persons
from Federal regulation.
The measure was introduced
by Chairman Smith of New Jer-
sey. It has the reported backing
of the labor laws co-author,
Senate Majority Leader Taft,
even though it goes much fur
ther than changes he originally
suggested earlier this year.
/. In addition to freeing build
ing trades. utilities and smaller
businesses from the laws re-
strictionS, Senator Smiths meas
ure also would:
/. Exclude from Federal law
all employers whose interstate
commerce business does not ex-
ceed specified amounts, writing
into the law criteria which are
now part of NLRB regulations.
Evening star., 1953-04-29
Citizens Head Lauds Star
For Aid on Mail Service

The Star was praised last
night for its successful efforts to
improve the mail services in the
District.
John F. Hardie. president Of
the North Capitol Citizens AS
sociation. told members that
soon after citizen groups, includ-
ing North Capitol. began to COM
plain about postal service cut
back. the Star publicized the issue
with a series of articles.
The result, Mr.. Hardie said,
was public response that the
Washington Post Office could not
ignore.
The meeting of the group was
held at the Lutheran Church
House, IA Rhode Island avenue
NE,
Evening star., 1953-04-29

2. Bring employees of Federal
Reserve banks, now exempted
from the Taft-Hartley Act.
within its Jurisdiction.
8. Forbid the NLRB from Civ
ing the States jurisdiction over
any labor dispute which fell
within the provisions Of the
amended Taft-Hartley law.
The proposed change affecting
the building trades goes much
farther than a proposal made
early this year by Senator Taft.
who would merely have removed
the closed shop ban on such
unions.
Under Senator Smiths pro-
posal, a union such as the car
penterS or bricklayers would be
entirely exempt from the Taft
Hartley Act if it's employer is
primarily" engaged in the build
ing and construction industry.
This means it could not compel
an employer to bargain with it
under terms of the Taft-Hartley
Act. Nor could it charge anv
Evening star., 1953-04-29
HiIIeI Literary Awards
Go 10 3 CIV Students

Three George Washington Uni
versity students have won Hillel
Foundation awards for literary
accomplishment. The winners
are: >
Audrey Thomas, 254 Portland
street Sc, winning poem: Eu-
gene Feehan, 2002 G street NV,
winning short story, Guilty as
Charged" Charles Nearman,
2l24 H street NV, winning
essay, THE Pigeon Is a City
Bird"
The winners were selected
from a group of so poems, 10
short stories and five essays.
Awards will be made Friday eve
ming at Lisner Auditorium,
Evening star., 1953-04-29
Five Burned 10 Death
After lightning Hits
Oil Tank in Texas
BY the Asseeiaied Press


KILGORE. Tex, April 29.-
Five persons were dead here to-
day after a flood Of fire flve feet
high" struck their home when
lightning exploded a crude oil
tank.
Seven homes were destroyed
and two others damaged yeSter-
day when the bolt OF lightning
struck during a violent rain and
thunderstorm.
The dead. all colord, were
tentatively identified as Mrs.
Christine Beck, "a; her children,
Lorenzo, 6, and Elizabeth. 4:
Brenda Alexander, 4. and an I'm
identified woman believed to be
the Alexander child's grand
mother.
The exploding tank set fire to
another 500-barrel storage tank
and other oil field equipment.
Although many oil wells dot the
area none was ignted.
An eyewitness, Mrs. B. l..
James, said she heard the blast
from her home and looked out
a window to see a FLOOD of fire
five feet high rolling down" to-
ward the residences occupied by
the colored persons. Six or seven
screaming women ran from the
houses near the tanks, Mrs.
James said.
w. G. Carroll, another witness,
said the houses-all located at
the end of a block near the
tank and about seven blocks
from Kilgore's business section
were on fire within 30 seconds"
after the explosion.
Flames shot 40 feet into the
air, Mr.. Carroll said, and a great.
black cloud of smoke boiled up-
Evening star., 1953-04-29
Miss HiIIiq Honored

Miss Jane Hillig, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Hillig. 1910
Forty-third street NV. has been
awarded a four-year scholarship
to st. Joseph's College, Emmits-
burg. Md. Miss Hillig will be
graduated from Holy Cross
Academy in May.
Evening star., 1953-04-29

listed for four
more We arS,
officials an =
nounced to-
day.
Vice Admi-
raj c. Turner
oy, N val
A c q d e m y
Supei ntend-
ent. congratu-
lated the vet
eran chi ef
petty officer on
his long Serv-
ice. The mu-
Sician has been
Evening star., 1953-04-29

with the band for IS years.
Born in Bohemia, now part Of
CzechoSlovakia, Mr.. Mrlik came
to the United STAKES in 1906 at
the age of IA. He joined the
Naval Academy Band in August,
1919, and has been there since.
Mr.. Mrlik lives at 119 Monticello
avenue, Annapolis, Md.
Evening star., 1953-04-29

ward as heavy rain continued to
fall. It began dying out about
two hours later.
Kilgore is an oil well derrick
dotted East Texas city of around
10000 persons. Many homes
and business houses have pro-
ducing oil wells in the yards.
Evening star., 1953-04-29
Bandsman for 36 Years
EnIists for -Four More

With 36 Years naval service
behind him, Chief Musician
Michael Mrlik. 81, of the Naval
Academy Band, has lust re-en.
Evening star., 1953-02-19
Where and When

stage.
NatiOnal-"Bell. Book and
Candle: $3.50 pm
Sam S. "Stalag IT.;
$50 pm.
Arena-"The Country Wife;
$3.50 pm.
Screen.
Amba asSadOr THE Jazz
Singer; /. $40, $50, 1880 and
9:40 pm.
CapitOl-"Niagara";: II am,
LAS. 4:3O, 7:15 and 10 pm.
Stage: 1885. $40, 6;25 and
9:10 pm.
Columbia-"Ivanhoe";; II am,
1:10. 800. $50, TAO and $50
pm.
Dupont-"High Noon; /. 2:45.
4:3O, 6:15. 8 and $50 pm.
Keith's-"Peter Pam; II am,
1855, 2:50, 1850, 6:45, 8:45 and
10:40 pm.
Little-"Limelight"; $40, T:25
ana $40 pm.
MacArthur-"No Time for
Flowers; $50, $40 and 9:55
pm.
MetrOpolitan-"HanS Christian
Andersen; 8:45 pm.
OntariO-"The Stooge";; las,
$3.50. $40, 7:50 and GAS pm
Palace-"MisSisSippi Gambler; u
1925 am, 1870, 3:35, $40. 7:45
and $3.50 pm.
Pix-"A Night at the Follies";
6:10, A:20 and 10:40 pm.
Evening star., 1953-02-19
Love's LoborWon, NotLost,
In Arenas Country Wife

Restoration comedy which is a
kind of paradoxical staple in the
larder of Arena Stage provides
it with its lenten dish in william
Wycherley's ''The Country Wife" :"
which opened last night.
At the age of 278. Wycherley's
comedy possesses something of
the secret of immortality. One
guess, if one happens to have
missed reading or seeing THE
Country Wife," should be suf1-
cient to fix upon this ssecret
something as the relations be-
tween the sexes. These relations
are as comic as they are strange
to those of us who have come
down from Wycherley's day, and
both points are zestfully made
in Arenas production, directed
by Zelda Fichandler.
Arenas Country Wife" takes
the authors word for it that
love was the exclusive concern
of Restoration England. It was
a time when everyone knew then
what only DR.. Kinsey knows now
and this was all the knowledge
anyone needed to live busily and,
Wycherley says, cheerfully. Well,
perhaps not ANYONE" but surely
those involved in this ripe old
fable.
While not all of Arenas "Coun-
try Wife" players are so COM
pletely at home in artificial COM
Evening star., 1953-02-19

edy as to make this production
ideal, it nevertheless is clear
that this is a funny as we'll as
a bawdy play.
Also scattered through the
cast are enough superb pre-
tenders to give it becoming
zip. A corking specimen of this
sort is Miss Frances Sternhagen,
an Arena newcomer who achieves
headlong rapport with Wycher-
ley. Hers is the title role in the
play and in it Miss Sternhagen
sheds repressions with one of
the seasons most contagious en-
thusiasmS.
Her partner in the fervid buSi-
ness of amour is another player
of skill and perception, Joseph
Gistirak, in the role of Master
Horner, the classic conniver of
the last three centuries. Another
of equal caliber in amorous Gag
mess, and in handling the plays
tricky cadences is Miss Marian
Reardon as the resourceful and
attractive Lady Fidget.
With such others of Arenas
competent repertory group as
Henry Oliver, Allen Joseph,
Hillary Knapp, Ethel Casey,
Jacqueline Dudley, George Griz-
zard and Stanley Pitts, they
make "The Country Wife" quite
lusty joke. Not unremittingly
funny, but funny enough to re-
veal the secret of its great dur
abilitY=J. c..
Evening star., 1953-02-19

not Everyman, but Chaplin him
self, seemingly come to collect
the worlds tears in payment for
the laughter he so bountifully
gave it.
This is a harsh, and possibly
an ungrateful, judgment of
Chaplin's swan song. Neverthe-
less, it seems an accurate one of
the overlong melodrama which
is so clouded with moralizing
and only f1eetingly echoes its
creators authentic genius. Chap
Inns right to change styles and
modify his famous touch is in
diSputable but his right to disap-
point his admirers is one he
abandoned decades ago.
"Limelight" and all the con-
troversy its merits and defects
will inspire are exclusively his
responsibility. Again he pro-
duced, wrote, directed and acted
his work and. for good measure,
has assembled the musical score.
X X x X
In Chaplin'S favor, it will have
to be granted that the clown he
wrote and acts in "Limelight"
could not be based upon a better
model than the one he has lived.
No one has more honestly earned
the right to do his autobiography
in cinema terms. 1t is his privi-
lege even to turn the idol he was
into the sagging, pitiable figure
he portrays. This, however, re-
mains a disService to the image
of a man that is unlikely to earn
him the gratitude and affection
inspired by his earlier work.
It is a basically simple, famil-
lar plot that Chaplain uses for
''Limelight." The character he
plays, in a kind of death-mask
makeup, is a clown come down
from Olympus to the sordid type
of London music hall.
The hurt in this man is not
that of the professional who has
lost prestige and top pay. 1t
is the wound suffered by the
artist who has run out of in
spiration and run into age,
deeper suffering.
AS the story opens, this
drunken, wintry creature returns
to his boarding house just in
time to save the life of a girl
neighbor whose gas jets are run
ming full tilt. In this act, ne
changes from the man willing
to die to the one who must live
to restore the fragile. beautiful
young ballerina to physical and
mental health.
In this situation, the plum
melting genius whose fall must
pull its successor to the top,
Chaplin's story has no room for
dramatic surprise. It is as pat
as elderly man-meets girl-loves
Evening star., 1953-02-19

girl-loSeS girl always has been.
AS If in defeated recognition of
this fact, Chaplin seizes it as an
inspiration to spout long, reiter-
ative speeches on the meaning
Of life, especially to artists.
That he has earned the right
to philosophize thus is perhaps
beyond argument, but audiences
willingness to pay the debt is
highly questionable.
X X X Il
If it moves slowly and un-
evenly. "Limelight" nevertheless
achieves moments of brilliance
which almost seem to justify
even its worst flaws. The best
of these are the passages in
which the hero dons Chaplin's
classic costume and plays his in
comparable tragi-comic little
man.
This is one of the goth CEN
utry's great figures and he has
never been more welcome than
in his appearances in Lime
light" In the repeat of the
flea act, a recall of the waddling
little tramp, and similar bits and
pieces from his past, Chaplin
lifts the picture to the level of
wonder expected of him.
It is in this mood that the
picture reaches its indispensable
quality, in a slapstick concert
sequence with Buster Keaton as
Chaplin's partner. This rep
resents the very zenith of Chap
Inns comedy art and, in doing
so, contradicts the maip line
of the story that time can van
quish such a man.
Another of his great talents
that comes through undimmed
in "Limelight" is his unerring
taste in casting his picture. In
Claire Bloom as the ballerina
he has chosen with as sound an
instinct as he ever showed in
his life. Miss Bloom is a COM
bination of Cinderella and Juliet
which could not be excelled.
Another choice in which
Chaplin can take pride is his son
Sydney as the young composer
in the film, of Andre Eglevsky
and Melissa Hayden as its ballet
dancers, and of Keaton as his
associate in 'Limelight's" most
unforgettable sequence.
Evening star., 1953-02-19

HOLLYWOOD.
Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis,
sweeping the awards board, are
being honored by Redbook mag
azine. Dean, by, the way,
called yesterday to say he hasn't
dated and doesn't plan to see
any girl for a year. and he's
still hoping to reconcile with
his estranged wife Jeanne.
Incidentally, the Tyrone Pow
ers' marriage is really Wobbly.
But one will get you two
that the Donald O'Connors rec
oncile.
Yvonne de Carlo told the Brit
ish press: ALEC Guinness doesn't
often get a woman with my
shape in his pictures. 1t might
help him with romantic appeal"
A note from Humphrey Bo-
gart explains the how of that
recent accident-hiS chauffeur
drove straight into a brick wall
for no reason except that ne
couldn't decide whether to go
right or left! And letter
from Cornell Wilde informs that
Marrakech lis like Palm
Springs" He was invited with
his wife Jean and Rita Gam
to the Pasha's palace. The old
boy is over 80.
\ +
Bette Davis keeps two Oscars
In her dressing room at the Alvin
Theater in New York. =. And
Gary Merrill lives in the guest
house behind their home in Los
Angeles until Blueprint for
Murder" is canned-then he'll
head back to New York and
Bette.
Rhonda Fleming and her hus-
band, Lew Merrill, are having
those firSt-year blues.
Evening star., 1953-02-19
Hollywood Diary
Martin and Lewis
Add to Lourels
By SheiIoh Grohom

A touch of influenza last week
cost Robin Raymond a role in
"Donovan's Brain" At the speed
they're going. the studio couldn't
wait.
Metro is rushing to premiere
Julius Caesar" for the Ides of
March. And John Gielgud,
who plays Cassius, is admitting
Il enjoyed myself in Hollywood.
though I wouldn't say ! was
wildly happy. I still loathe film
ing"
Because of Anne Baxter's big
hit in II Confess" Alfred Hitch
cock has tabled her for his
"Whirlwind" thriller.
\ X
Attention Dore Schary: Good
looking Metropolitan Opera Star
Brian Sullivan stars Sunday in
La Boheme" on TVS hour-and-
a-half Omnibus"
The Arthur Lubin-Stephen
Longstreet picture package. "The
Travelling Saleswoman," is head
ing toward Goth Century Fox
For whom? Marilyn Monroe,
match. Adding to the awards
rash-Katy Jurado got an ariel"
from Mexico for Women in
Jail"
Dotty Lamour, after two ter
rife weeks at the Last Frontier
in Las Vegas, returned here to
find her 7-year-old Ridgley has
the mumps.
Joan Bennett concludes her
tour of Bell, Book and Candle"
next month-unless she decides
to take it to Philadelphia for an
indefinite run.
Metro wants another name
for Edmund Purdom. signed for
his work in Julius Caesar"
(Released By N.A.N.A)
Evening star., 1953-02-19
Current Theoter Attractions
And Time of Showing

PlayhOuse-"Come Back, Little
Sheba";; 1925 am. 1:25. 1925,
$50, 1885 and 9:40 pm.
Plaza-"Limelight";; 1890 a M,
1880, $40, $50, 7:50 and 1910
pm.
Observation-Disclosures and
the Lion; II am, 1880. 2:40,
4:30. 6:25. BIS, and 10 pm.
Warner-"The Jazz Singer;
11:15 am, 1925, $3.50, 5:35, 1885
and 9:40 am.
Evening star., 1953-02-19

The Cast.
Evening star., 1953-02-19
The Posing Show
Chaplin Sings d Wan Adieu
In lineIight, Last Film
By Joy CormodY

Charles Chaplin of the artistic century
makes rather exit in Lmeght which opened today at
the Plaza and Little theaters.
The who played better any his time the
agi-comedy of the film to fade
personal note The plays Iimeght"
Evening star., 1953-02-19

'LIMELIGHT," q United Artists pic
ture. produced, directed and written by
Charles Chaplin. At the Little and the
Plaza
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-06-29
TODAY'S
STOCK MARKET

NEW YORK 1.-THE stock mar.
ket was mixed in early dealings
today, with most changes either
way in small fractions. Volume
was light. Brokers said traders
were awaiting action on the excess
profits tax in Washington and hop
ing for a solution in Korea.
Most groups presented an ire
gular appearance, including the
steels, motors, distillers, utilities,
and rails. Oils were mostly lower
while small gains predominated in
the chemical section.
Some specialities were active. st.
Regis Paper rose % to 217s and
U. S. Leather was up IS to 14ss.
Both have oil interests.
Small losses were shown by
U. S. Steel, Chrysler, Consolidated
Edison, Anaconda, Westinghouse,
Baltimore & Ohio, Southern Pacific
and Sinclair. Higher were Bethle.
hem, General Motors, National Dis
tillers, Commonwealth Edison, Ke.
nnecott, American Cyanamid, New
York Central and Eastern Air
Lines,
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-06-29
PARTY PURGE TOLD

VIENNA, AuStria6, Up - A high
Czech official says the ruling Com
munist party is being purged in
the Moravska Ostrava coal mining
region, where poor production has
damaged the entire Czechoslovak
economy"
The move to jack up coal output
in the key district was disclosed
in a Prague radio broadcast yes
terday of an address by party
presidium member, Vaclav Kopec-
ky.
dwelling a tablet in the region
in memory of the late President
Element Gottwald, Kopecky said
the government chief had been
'tormented" by the bad production
of the Moravska Ostrava mines be-
fore his death last March. How
ever, "great purge" of the Com
munist party and other measures
have been taken TO remedy the
situation, Kopecky declared.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-06-29
MAYOR HARVEY
(Continued from Page Onel

Continued from Page One)
the smoker had anything to do
with it.
And today, an official of the
American Legion denied that lewd
films, allegedly shown at the par
ties were borrowed from them.
Vance Stirrup, former Command
er of Arthur Sawyer Post %, said
that the statement is inaccurate
- we don't keep a supply of them
here"
He added that the Post Com
mander will undoubtedly write to
Pearson in protest.
Mayor Harvey said that Pearson
was slated to call him and tell
him where he obtained his infor-
nation, but he had not heard from
the columniSt. Pearson has been
the defendant in numerous suits.
At least three Navy men have
been convicted for the parts they
played in the smoker on charges
ranging from sodomy to conduct
of nature to bring diScredit to
the armed forces.
Four more face trial. No word
has been forthcoming from the
Navy as to the status of charges
held against 1t. Comdr. Jerry Nc
Daniel, former public information
and personnel officer at the Naval
Air Station.
Mcdaniel was scheduled to 90
to trial on charges of conspiracy,
willful diSobediene of a lawful
order and conduct unbecoming an
officer and a gentleman.
Others to be tried in Charleston
include Seaman Vintor M. Cram
er, and Boatswains Mate Raymond
r. Robinson. Both have been
charged with conspiracy. The Ma
Wy has not revealed when these
men went to trial - or if they
have already been tried.
Altman Robert w. Spangenberg
of the Naval Air Station, received
the Stiffest penalty when he was
sent to prison for year and given
bad conduct discharge from the
Navy. He had been charged with
Sod0my and conduct of a nature to
bring discredit On the armed fore
eS.
Randall D. Sparks was given a
two month jail term and a third
Navy man, Chief Leroy D. Law.
Ter, was fined $3.50.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-06-29
ISL Directors
Exchange Heated
Words At Meeting

ORLANDO Up - Heated words
were about all that came of a
special meeting of Florida State
League directors here Sunday.
Leesburg owners Paul Husebo
and Wendell Husebo, who asked
The meeting, protested to Jack
Dempsey, league president from
et. Augustine, his 3O-day suspen-
sion of Chico Fundore.
Fundora was suspended for re-
pOrtedly laying his hands on an
empire In a game at Sanford.
Dempsey refused TO review the
Fundora case.
Most Of the hour and Is minute
meeting was occupied with ex.
changes of words between the
Husehos and Dempsey.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-06-29
The
Weatherman
Says
The


Key West and vicinity: Partly
cloudy, scattered showers and
thunderShowers thru Tuesday. Lit.
tie change in temperature. Moder-
ate to fresh easterly winds, mod
erately strong offshore. SMALL
CRAFT WARNING.
Florida: Clear to partly cloudy
thru Tuesday except light showers
extreme south portion.
Jacksonville thru the Florida
Straits and East Gulf: Small craft
warnings are displayed on lower
Keys. Fresh easterly winds over
south and moderate easterly over
north portion. Weather clear to
partly cloudy thru Tuesday. Few
scattered showers south portion.
Western Caribbean: Fresh east.
erly winds over north and moder-
ate mostly east and southeast over
south portion. Weather mostly
cloudy thru Tuesday. Occasional
local showers.
Weather summary FOR the Tropi-
cal Atlantic, Caribbean Sea and
the Eastern Gulf of Mexico: A
showery wave extends from Cuba
southwark over the western Carib-
bean but there are no signs of a
developing disturbance anywhere
in the tropical areas today.
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Parish Hall, 1915 pm.
CAP. Cadets, at National Guard
Armory, 1880 pm.
Poinciana Jayteen Youth Cen
ter, movies from 8 pm. to 10
pm.
v. F. W. Post No. SS11, VFW
Post Home, 8 p. m.
Dorcas Society, (former Ladies
Aid unit, Grace Lutheran
Church, at church, 1880 p. m.
Elks Lodge, meeting at club
house, 8 p. m.
Circle II First Methodist Church,
3 p. m.
JULY B.
IT. Taylor Duplicate Bridge Club,
at IT. Taylor, 8 pm.
bowling alleys.
Knights Of Pythias. meeting at
KIP. Hall, 728 Fleming ST 8
pm.
Old Fashioned hymn sing and
fellowship program, Poinciana
Baptist Church, $50 pm.
Navy Thrift Shop, / to S pm.
Jayteen Youth Center dance,
Poinciana, 8 to IL p. m.
owe. luncheon at IT. Taylor.
SubRon Wives unit hostesses.
Cocktails at 1890 pm.
Officers Club Fern Chapter No.
Il Order Of Eastern Star,
Scottish rite Temple, 8 pm.
Cayo Hueso Grotto, meeting at
Rednen's Hall, 8 pm.