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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-05-31
HOLLYWOOD.


The night Alan Ladd's
daughter appeared on the radio
and TV quiz show, You Bet
Your Life" she told Groucho
Marx her father was in the
movies.
els your dad Laddie, son Of
Lassie?" Groucho asked.
On another show, Marx told
an Egyptian contestant: Il
used to know a red-hot
mummy from Egypt. We were
terribly wrapped up in each
other"
Once a jackpot hopeful said
he designed everything from a
safety pin to a locomotive.
"Wait a minute-why would
q locomotive need safety pins?"
Groucho interrupted. "Oh, I
guess when they change en-
gines."
This sort Of impertinence
has established "You Bet Your
Life" as one Of the top three
TV shows and made Groucho
one Of the highest paid and
probably the least worked of all
performers in show business.
In recent audience ratings,
the Marx show ranked third
only to IT Love Lucy" and the
Arthur Godfrey Show-"and
Lucy had to have a baby to
pass us up" The reasons for
this success are analysed by
Groucho himself:
Hos Humon Interest
There's a certain fascina-
ton in watching other people
win money. It appeals to the
gambling instinct, I guess.
Also, we have a lot of human
interest. We don't just whisk
the contestants on and off.
We establish their characters.
We try to have six interesting
people a week.
Its the kind Of show that
appeals to every one. Strangely
enough, kids like it, even
though there is no action. Yet
We don't play down to the
audience"
Whatever the reasons, You
Bet Your Life" is a solid Sue
cess which is gratifying to
Marx In some respects. an
noying in others. The pleasant
side includes his victory over
the medium.
II had been in radio IL years
and was always getting fired"
he told me. 1.-THE sponsor
always said he liked my show.
but at the end Of year I'd be
dropped.
On One Condition
when I was approached for
You Bet Your Life six years
ago, I was skeptical. All the
quiz masters I had heard on
radio were the bubbly kind
who enthused about every
thing. I said I wouldn't do the
show unless could be myself.
II think in the first year on
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HiqhIiqhts

1885, WTOP - Invitation to
Learning: Author Jay Richard
Kennedy and Historian Maxwell
Geismar discuss Balzac's Cesar
Birotteau."
1:OO, WRC-Youth Wants to
Know: Sir Roger Makins, Brit
ish Ambassador to the United
States.
1:25, WWDC-Baseball: WASH
ington VS.. Boston.
1880, WRC-University Of Chi
cago Roundtable: How Can
Medical Education Be Better
Financed?"
$3.50, WTOP - World Music
Festivals: Leopold Stokowski
conducts the Santa Cecilia Or
chestra of Rome in Bach's "Toc-
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Brahms Symphony No. / in c
minor" and four Sandman
Dances from 'Nuraghi" by Ennio
Porrino.
$3.50, WRC-American Forum
Of the Air: Mutual Security Di-
rector Harold E. Stassen reports
on his trip to the Middle East.
1880, WTOP 49, Richard Dia-
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new mystery-adventure series.
$500, WCFM 49, National Gal
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concert in the American Music
Festival is presented.
$500, WTOP-Bergen-McCar-
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$3.50, WRC-Theater Guild on
the Air: Jean Arthur stars in
Elmer Rice's 1.-THE Grand Tour"
story about a school teachers
first European trip.
8:45, WOL-Lord Booth: Lord
Paul Gore Booth, director Of the
British Information Service in
the United States, discusses
Marshall Plan Scholarships"
800, WTOP - Hall Of Fame
Playhouse: The drama is 1.-THE
Helping Hand"
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gress: Senator Hubert H. Hum
phrey. Senator Robert s. Kerr,
Senator Homer E. Capehart and
Senator Wallace r. Bennett,
1880, WTOP - Glass Of SO:
United States Supreme Court
Justice William o. Douglas mar
rates study of minds, morale
and morals Of the present teen
age generation.
1890, WOL-New York Times
Youth Forum: Can Peace Be
Achieved by Negotiation and
Meditation"
, 1953-06-12
COMMUNISTS

COMMUNISTS 49,.
vision which had been almost
surrounded after throwing
back an even earlier assault.
In the meantime South Ko-
rean troops continued counter
troops who dented the main
Allied line to the east where
fighting was still in progress.
Allied and communist staff
officers are meeting in separ-
ate groups to work out admin
istrative details to the armis-
tice plan under consideration.
But South Korean officials
continue their opposition to a
truce along such lines.
President Syngman Rhee
says he cannot agree with Pre-
sident Eisenhower that the
truce would be advantageous
to South Korea so long as
Chinese troops remain in the
country. AT the same time
President Rhee urged his peo-
pie to be sure that they did
not get unruly in the demon
STATIONS against the truce and
promised severe punishment
to any South Korean who
should cause physical harm to
any UN soldier.
, 1953-06-12
PROGRAM
RADIO STATION WIvI
1880 on your dial
The Little Station With
the Big Reach

The Little Station With
the Big Reach
SATURDAY
6::55 Sign On
TOO Morning Deyotions
7:3O Rise and Shine
7:45 NEWS
800 Rise and Shine
$50 |"
900 ST. croix Special
1000 chiIdren's Hour
HOO Songs Of France
1880 The Stars Sing y
1890 Excursions in Science
1915. Musical Roundup -.
1890 Island Bulletin Board
12:45 Musical Roundup
100 This is the Hour
1.2n /" =
ZOO French Program
800 Latin RhYthms
$50
400 1890 Club Request Show
4:3O
500
$50 The Bonnie Benjamin Hour
900 NEWS
6:15 Rhythm Rendezvous
GAS Evelyn Knight Show
ZOO NEWS
tbs Danish Tunes
7:30 Candle Light and Silver
800 Vic Damone Show
8:15 Radio Newsreel
$50 The MindY Carson Show
900 Mystery Tune
$50 Cruzan Confusion
1000 NEWS
1915 Sign Off
, 1953-06-12

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III it takes is is pufs Of air, some water, = ~ Ns
S.ef fun at tlc 5sprh il iheic GSn backward.
, 1953-06-12
PROGRAM
RADIO STATION VISTA

RADIO STATION VISTA
The Voice Of the Virgin Islands
SATURDAY
700 7:3O Colgate Breakfast
Club
$780, 900 Over the Coffee Cup
900 8:15 ChinnerY's Mystery
Tunnel
800 9:15 Morning Devotions
9:15- $50
800 1000 Swap Shop
1000 -l0:15 AIRS News
1915 1890 Four Knights
1890 HOO Antigua Antics
100 1900 WSTA's Story Hour
1900 1915 Music fill
1915 1890 United Nations
1890 12:45 Front Page News
Pan American
100 200 Siesta Time
l2:45- 100
2:l5- 2:30 Sacred Heart Prog.
800 800 Musical Matinee ~
Western)
800 400 Musical Matinee
400 4:30 WSTA's Story Teller
4:30- 600 Responsibility Yours
600 Oils Schlitz News Prog.
6:15- $50 Music for you
$50 6:45
u.45- 700 Dept. q Health
TOO 7:3O Salon Serenade
z Queens Quarter
100 7:45 Navy Star Time
7:45- 800 Land Of the Free
800 900 Amateur Hour
800 9:15 AIRS News
$40 1000 Broadway Show
Tunes
1000 11:00Moon Noctune
Evening star., 1953-10-04

more heartening, they seemed to
have confidence in my ability to
work out of the jam at a time when
/ was having trouble finding con-
fidence in myself.
At first, / confess, the response
surprised me. Now feel that the
warmth and decency I encoun-
tered were neither unusual nor
unique. simply gave them
chance to happen. And that is why
wrote this article. The threat of
unemployment is not large or gen.
eral, but it is present. Like dis
ease, it doesn't need an epidemic
to make it catching. Should you be
hit, it's worth remembering that
you don't have to 60 it alone
M Kept Mum"
My FIRST impulse was to do just
that to reooil, to fall back on
myself, to maintain a fixed smile
and a bold mien to preserve the
appearance of business-as- usual.
1t was, of course, necessary to
spread the word in the trade to get
my job-hunting under way. But
elsewhere and among other people
there seemed to be no advantage
to broadcasting my plight. So l
kept mum. That, too, had its dis
advantages.
Waiting for an elevator at my
old Office, after dropping by to
pick up my final check, l met a
colleague in the corridor. He was
IN shirtsleeveS, with an armload of
work. We already had said good
by. In the few moments before
the blasted elevator appeared, we
created a vacuum that was a little
wonder. Finally, with an effort at
Evening star., 1953-10-04
81 GOT FIRED!"
Continued from page Seren

wryness, said, "You should have
a job like mine. / get half days"
1t wasn't much, but he laughed
immoderately and we both began
breathing again. After that / tried
to have few wiseCracks handy.
like mints, to forestall discom-
future.
The squeeze began after several
weeks of unproductive bird-dog-
ging. Jobs did not exist, had just
been filed or were in the offing -
and our cash was running low. The
severance pay had been reasonable
in the circumstances but would
not carry us much farther. In spite
of economies our Week-tO-week ex-
penses s-including the living-roo
rug and the freezer being bought
on installments - remained high.
And our savings had been de-
pleted in the purchase of a new
house more conveniently To-
Gated to the job now lost.
AS the days went by, it became
more and more apparent that time
was the governing factor. 1t was
not a question of finding a salts
factory job l could do well, but of
finding anything at all before an
arbitrary time limit, imposed by
our bank balance, expired. My
wife and / had had many budget
meetings to estimate how far our
resources would stretch. 1t still
was a guess. Only our creditors
could say exactly how much lati-
tude we had. l finally heaved a
sigh and decided to bring them
into the problem.
l wrote a form letter outlining
the situation to each of them.
had become unemployed, with
Evening star., 1953-10-04

consequent interruption of income.
Uncertainty loomed. What if l de-
layed payment of my bill a month?
Several months? How would they
want the delinquency made up?
And would this impair my credit
with them in future?
The letter went to four depart
ment stores, a mail-order house,
two credit outfits holding the time
contracts for installment pur-
chases. the telephone company
and the utilities people, and the
home mortgage society. l dropped
in for talk with the Federal In
come Tax Bureau, my insurance
agent and the local gas-station
proprietor. l did not involve the
grocer or the dairyman. The gro
Ger was a small independent who
might have been prevailed upon to
extend credit, but his food and the
dairy1nan's milk products were
items which could only be reduced,
not eliminated. Somehow we would
pay for them.
The Mortgage Man
EVEN those / wrote / did not ex-
pect to carry us completely or in
definitely. There was no reason
why they should. l hoped only
that they might help lengthen our
time allowance.
They can and do. The mortgage
man put it best, in fine, turgid,
mortgage mans language. "By
examining your problem, he said,
''by preparing yourself, mentally
at least, for its consequences, and
by letting us in on it at an early
stage, you give us the opportunity
Continued on page rs
Evening star., 1953-09-06
Top Reds Contest
For 0ne-Man Rule,
BedeII Smith Says
BY the Associated Press

CHICAGO, Sept. 5.-Under-
, secretary of State Walter Bedell
Smith predicted tonight the
struggle for power in the Krem-
lin will continue until Premiey
Malenkov or someone else wins
one-man control of the Soviet
dictatorship.
Gen. Smith, former ambas-
sador to. Moscow, said the strug-
gle is a source of weakness tc
the Communists but at the same
time it carries a danger of some
precipitate action which would
1mperil world peace.
Stalin's Place Untitled.
A dictatorship, Communist or
Fascist. ultimately demands
one-man control" Gen. Smith
told the Jewish War Veterans
convention. He added that no
body has yet achieved the power
welded by the late Premier
Stain.
"Malenkov is Prime Minister,
but he is a long way from Stalin's
position in Soviet affairs" Gen.
Smith said.
This situation implies a
struggle for power.
The fall of Lavrenty Beria,
former chief of the secret police
and widely hailed as the Soviet
Unions No. 2 man only two
months ago, suggests that this
struggle for power began even
before Stalin's DEATH"
Free World Korean Victor.
Asserting the free world won
victory in Korea, Gen. Smith
said the 16-nation pledge to
resume fighting in event of d
new outbreak of aggression was
sound deterrent to the Com
munists. He counseled patience
and a sense of realism" when
the forthcoming political con-
ference with the Communists
gets underway.
Gen. Smith said the United
states stands ready to do what
1t can to help when any Middle
Eastern nation makes clear 1t
wants American aid and is ready
to develop its defenses.
But we will make aid avail
able only for purposes of self
Defense" he said, 1--WE have no
intention of imposing our will
on any nation in the Near East
Evening star., 1953-09-06
Romonio Cuts Taxes,
Eases Harvest Quotas
VIENNA Austria Sent

VIENNA, Austria, Sept. 5 (P
Red Romanian today ordered
a series of tax cuts for individual
and collective farmers and told
them to forget their obligation
to complete delivery of last falls
harvest to the markets.
Bucharest radio, heard in
Vienna tonight, announced the
new measure and said it was
decreed today by the Romanian
government of Gheorghe Gheor-
giu-Dej. The reductions of state
and municipal taxes will become
effective Immediately, the broad
cast said.
The waving of delivery arrears
includes all vegetable products
like potatoes. beans, peas, onions,
etc. and apples to individual
small and middle peasants as
we'll as farmers in agricultural
co-operatives and the Commu-
mist party controlled collective
farms. The tax reductions also
apply to both private and COL
lective farmers, but according
to Radio Bucharest, only for
those who will have made their
compulsory deliveries of agri-
cultural products from the cur
rent harvest.
Radio Bucharest said the tax
reductions will vary according
to the rate of output. The larg-
est reductions are granted to
bee-keepers and shepherds.
Evening star., 1953-09-06
Long Bomber Flights
End Over Dayton Today
BY the Associated Press

DAYTON, Ohio, Sept. S.
Bombers from opposite ends of
the earth-England and Japan
will make nonstop runs to this
city tomorrow.
The Air Force said a Convair
B36 will fly more than one
quarter of the way around the
world from training exercises
in the Far East.
The giant 10-engine bomber
will cross over Dayton Municipal
Airport at about 4:12 pm.
(EDTO at the same moment
that eight Boeing BAT Strato-
jets arrive from Fairford, Eng
land.
The B36 will complete it's 35-
hour flight at nearby Wright
Patterson Air Force Base.
One of the Stratojets also will
land at Wright-Patterson The
others will continue to their
home station MacDill Air Force
Base, Tampa, Fla. along with
a second element of eight BATS
which will pass over the air
field at 1851 pm.
The Air Force said the Strato-
jets will have completed the
longest operational training
flight by jet airplanes on record
more than 5000 miles in 111a
hours.
Evening star., 1953-09-06
Truman and Union Leaders
To Deliver labor Day Talks

Top AFL and CIO labor lead
ers will broadcast Labor Day
messages today and tomorrow
over most of the Nations major
networks.
The two labor organizations
have combined their efforts to
present former President Tru-
man to radio and television
audiences when he appears as
principal speaker at a Labor Day
rally in Detroit.
Mr.. Truman's speech will be
heard over the American Broad
casting Co.'S network from $3.50
to 4 pm. (EDT) tomorrow and
will be carried by the National
Broadcasting Co.'S television net
work from 1880 to 2 pm. In
addition NBC radio will carry
the speech in a delayed broad
cast at 10 pm.
AFL President George Meany
will appear on a Columbia
Broadcasting System television
Evening star., 1953-09-06

show at 4::30 pm. today. He will
take to the airwaves again to-
morrow in a radio talk at 10:45
pm, broadcast over the CHS
network.
Charles MacGowan, AFL vice
president. will be heard over
the Mutual radio network at
7:15 pm. today, and George M.
Harrison, another vice president.
will deliver a radio talk over
the ABC network at Sis pm.
tomorrow.
CIO President Walter P.
Reuther will appear on the
Man of the Week" television
show of the CHS network at
$50 pm. today. Tomorrow he
will address a Labor Day rally
in Akron, o.. and deliver a
special radio address over the
CHS network at 2::30 pm.
James B. Carey, CIO Secre-
tary- treasurer, will be heard on
the NBC Radio program. View
point USA" at 11:15 am. today.
Evening star., 1953-09-06
Lewis Asks Workers
To Force Action on
Single Labor Union
BY the Associated Press

John L. Lewis yesterday called
on the Nations union members
to rise up" and force their lead.
ers to merge labor organizations
into one big federation.
The AFL and CIO recently
have renewed merger talks, but
they did it without consulting
Mr.. Lewis. His statement yeSter-
day said they were "conferencing
the matter to DEATH" and never
would get anywhere unless forced
to it.
The Lewis statement was one
of series of Labor Day week
end messages from the Nations
top labor leaders. Most Of them
dwelled heavily on the dangers
of communism and the superior
position of American workers
over those elsewhere in the world.
Such statements came from
Secretary of Labor Durkin, AFL
President George Meany and CIO
President Walter Reuther.
Cartoon Sets Mood.
A cartoon labelled "Pravda,
Please Copy" on the front page
of the AFL weekly newspaper.
the News Reporter, summed up
the idea expressed by most. 1t
showed happy worker Juggling
a well-filled picnic basket out to
his car with his smiling family.
Under it legend described the
American workers benefits and
asked: What does Soviet Russia
the largest company union in
the world-offer its workers?
Gag rule. novels for homes, poor
food, low quality clothing and no
right whatsoever to complain or
strike against intolerable condi-
tions."
A business leader, President
Richard L. Bowditch of the
United States Chamber of Com
merce, had a, word of praise for
workers, saying that Gin spite of
some disputes and strikes, labor
as a whole has worked more in
the past year than ever before"
Most workers." Mr.. Bowditch
added, "have had some increase
in wages and in some cases in
supplementary pensions and
other benefits. This is as it
should be. America is a land
OF promise and progress. We
all expect to live little better
year by year"
Lewis Unity Plea.
Mr.. Lewis, in his plea for labor
unity, said a single federation
is needed if labor's voice is to
be effective in solving economic
and social problems.
"The United Mine Workers,
Lewis said, express fervent hope
that a year hence will see the
labor movement united and
working as one for the economic.
social and political welfare of
the people. However, this will
not be realized unless the mem
berships of the trade unions rise
up and insist upon the leader
ship of their unions consummat-
ing organic unity without con-
ferencing' the matter to death"
Secretary Durkin, Mr.. Meany,
Mr.. Reuther all cheered the re-
cent revolt of workers in East
Germany and expressed hope
they will continue to fight Com
munist oppressors.
I'VE in America pray that the
workers in foreign lands will
fight on as we have for freedom
and progress, and that eventually
they will win," Mr.. Durkin said.
Evening star., 1953-09-06
Experts Hope to Reconcile
Reed and White House Bills

week the committee and Con-
gress might eventually agree on
a drop to so per cent. Chairman
Reed and several other commit
tee members Indicated earlier
they believe the full decrease
should take effect on schedule.
The excise tax bill, if offered
separately by the committee,
repeatedly would propose a gen.
eral realignment and redistri-
button of such levies without ma
terially increasing or decreasing
the total revenue. Such a bill
under committee auspices will
not propose a general Federal
sales tax. according to present
indications.
Z Great as is the curiosity con-
corning proposals to be made
in the House COMMITTEES bills,
there is even greater specula-
tion as to the ultimate contents
of the White House program.
Sales Tax Discounted.
Despite plenty of rumor. there
is no authoritative report THAI
the White House and Treasury
will suggest some form of a ma
tional sales tax to replace the
hodge podge of excise taxes.
There, nevertheless, is stronger
ground for belief that the ad
ministration may recommend
continuance of the corporate in
come tax at present levels and
possible boosts in excises on some
products.
Task forces in the tax legis-
lation territory insist it is too
early to say-much less guess
what the various bills will con-
tain. They note that the fiscal
picture is still changinga They
explain'that the tax picture will
continue to be affected by the
extent of savings in Government
operations. the condition of busi-
ness and employment and other
factors between now and next
January.
Evening star., 1953-09-06
Governors Apples
And Garage Used
For Trusty's Brew
RY the Associnted Pres.

NASHVILLE, Tenn, Sept. S.
A State prisoner has been placed
in solitary confinement for max
ing "Applejack'-in the garage
at the Governors Mansion.
The trusty was one of 10 men
assigned to work detail at the
Executive Mansion.
A guard found the concoction
Thursday in fruit jar in a sell
dom-used section of the large
garage building. The convict,
who was not named, apparently
made the alcoholic brew from
apples and peaches picked up in
the Governors garden.
In Chattanooga. Gov. Frank
Clemnet chuckled when in
formed of the incident. I'm
Clement chuckled when in
he said. "They did right in TAX
ing the man back to prison"
Evening star., 1953-09-06
London Bobby,
g Feet 3, Takes
Bride 5Feet 7
BY the Assoeioted Press

LONDON, Sept. 5.-The tall
est of London's tall hobbies was
married today. He stands
feet 8 inches. The bride is 5
feet 2.
The young couple-26-year-
old Arthur Cook and Miss Mar
garet Beck-were married at
a register Office in cycling
clothes. At a sidewalk recep-
ton outside the Office, friends
drank a toast in milk.
Then began what the couple
calls an unconventional honey
moon"-a cycling tour of the
pretty Devon and Cornwall coun-
tryside. They are going to sleep
in the open since the groom has
an aversion to hotels. The beds.
he said. are never long enough.