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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-18
Fifty Years Ago in The Star !.

On July Is. 1904. The Star disclosed
that Senator William A. Clark Of
Montana had been
Senator Clark married to Anna E.
Married La Chapelle Of Butte.
He had been q Wild
over since 1893, when his first wife,
Kate L. Stauffer of Connellsville, Pa,
died. Miss La Chapelle. daughter Of
Canadian physician, was his ward and
had been educated under his direction.
The Senator had gone to Europe to
see the young lady. and the marriage
took place in Marseille, May IS, 1901,
when he was So and his bride about "a.
Despite the disparity of their ages. the
union was happy. Two daughters. Au-
dree and Huguette, were born. Senator
Clark died March 2, 1925. His widow,
still beautiful. has homes in New York
and Pasadena. She comes to Washing
ton occasionally and still generously is
interested in the Corcoran Gallery
where the Senator's art collection IS
housed in a special wing.
Dan Emmett. famous minstrel and
composer Of Dixie" died ct Mount
Vernon, Ohio, June 90,
Author Of 1904, and The Star for the
DIXIE. next day published an in
teresting account of his
career. He started life at Mount Yer
non in 1915. AS q boy he learned the
printers trade. Later he served in the
Army and was on the road with Oscar
Browns Circus company. In association
with Frank Brown. William Whitlock
and Richard Phelan he organized the
flrst Negro minstrel troupe the Vir-
GINA Minstrels and he made his first
appearance In blaclface at the Chat
ham Theater In New York In I842.
Thereafter he played In Boston and In
England. where the group broke up.
Dixie" Vas written while Em17ftt was
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-18
BY Frederick Brown Horris
Minister Foundry Methodist Church;

Chaplain. United States Senate
soul than any other creation in the
un0ofnhla trinCdOnn That rnverent
alteration for trees is mirrored in this
sentence Of his: MANY village owns
the TRANQUIL lordship 81 one supreme
tree. I'd which all visitors are expected
to make uilgrimage and pay reverent
court. And the pride Of many rural
neiphborhOod centers IN one gigantic
elm which. like the old cathedral
builders. has levied contributions on
everv side for 4 century ia rear rs
huge temple. spreading its wide-arch-
ing branches In span Of q hundred
feet IS II ambitious. ike Michelangelo,
to hang the Pantheon in air.
No wonder IN the history of worship
we And that groves were the flrst
tenplesl And how trees have figured in
the great Judeo-C Christian tradition!
Moses, whose colossal form seems to
bestride those early centuries, had an
engagement with q tree which, for him.
proved . vital factor Ia his destiny and
that OF the horde OF slaves he freed.
He turned aside to see and listen as
8 bush burned and was not consumed.
AT that tree the aweSome commission Of
the God Of Abraham and Isaac and
Jacob was put into his hands.
~
And does not the Psalmist liken
man who delights in the law Of the
Lord to 5 tree planted by the rivers Of
water, which brfngeth forth fruit In its
season, and declare that the righteous
shall flourish like the palm tree and
grow like cedar In Lebanon! The
great, glowing invitation Of the New
Testament is for sin-smitten human
souls to shelter under the Tree of Life
whose leaves are for the healing of the
nations.
At the very heart of Christianity is
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-18
Potential Criminals at Large

While the questioning Of 80 people in
the Florida kidnap-murder of little
Judith Ann Roberts shows prompt
action, why is it that 30 men whose
records are such that there is remote
possibility Of their having committed
such an outrage are at large?
Is not the safety of our children in
finitely more important than the cod
ding of potential criminals? Is 1t not
possible to be so lenient to the wrong
doer that we forget we should do every
thing possible to thwart any possibility
of his having criminal opportunities?
Equal justice under law should not be
construed as slanted for the criminals
benefit. much as society may wish to
reinstate him as a possible convert to
permanent good citizenship.
Florence M. StelIwagen.
Evening star., 1954-05-06
The Passing Show
Crosby's Eyes Blue as Skies
In Film of VistuVision Size
The Possinq Show
By Joy Curmody

Driving the Feeway late at night after reviewing what
is that just got reviewed find ourselves dabbing with
the strangest notions.
Such aspect ratios for instance.
a man, not by over-exposng
Evening star., 1954-05-06

him to the voice of Marjorie
Main or the expression in Mari
lyn Monroe's eyes, but by show
ing him new film processes. Life
which used to be an occasional
breakfast with Vera Ellen, Nina
Foch, or 18 appalling holes of
golf with Judy Holiday is now
almost exclusively a matter of
studio executives and wizards in
optics.
This is a of difference.
Yesterdays executive and op-
tical wizard were Barney Bala-
ban, president of Paramount,
and Lauren Rider, Balaban's
Merlin so to speak. They came
here to show VistaVision, the
latest development in how to
make movies so big and beautiful
that televiSion will die of shame.
This about television is not
Mr.. Balaban's idea, just our
hyperbole which has not been
exercised much lately. Fact is,
Hollywood is reconciled to tele-
vision. 1t even credits it, smiling
pleasantly the while, with STIR
ring up Hollywood's big-screen,
deep-Screen excitement. For in
stance. ViStaVision.
AS each of the other develop
mentS has been, VistaVision is
a marked step forward. In shape,
1t is rather more like the earlier
movies were, more vertical and
less horizontal. The resem-
blance, we hasten to add, ends
there for the focus, depth,
clarity, size and color of Vista
Vision are so superior as to be
startling.
Part of the specimen film
shown yesterday was an excerpt
from White Christmas" the
first which will be shown in
VlStaViSion. and theF blue of
Bing Crosby'S eyes had the ar
resting quality of a June sky.
tHyperbole is getting a lot of
exercise on this typewriter to-
day..
The main thing about Vista
Vision. apart from CroSby's
eyes, is that everything in it is
in focus in spite of its size. Miles
away in the background, noun
tainS look as sharp and clear
and mountain-like as they do to
the naked eye when it views
naked mountains. Horizontally
or vertically, you can get a whole
elephant easily into a closeup
and the tail is as clearly defined
as the trunk.
This is where aspect ratios
come it, little bit. In Cinema
Scope, the sideways movie
making process, the aspect ratio
is 2.55 to l, which is to say, the
screen is 2.55 times as wide as
1t is high. The difference in
aspect ratio in VistaVision is
cozier. 1876 to l, normally but
adaptable to any from 1.33 to
to 3 to /.
This adaptability is of small
interest to the moviegoer. It is
important to the exhibitor-the
poor devil caught in the cost or
re-equipping a theater-in that
he does not have to buy a spe-
cial screen. new projection ma
chimes. or have his theater torn
down and rebuilt.
X \ X X
While ViStaVision is a Para
mount development, as Mr.. Bal
aban is nightly happy to say, it
is available to everyone at no
cost for a license to use. Any
moviemaker can snag on to it
with no more difficulty than
finding a VistaViSion camera.
This is quite a difficulty right
now but the camera manufac-
turers are working like demons
Evening star., 1954-05-06
Where and When
Current Theoter Attractions
And Time Of Showing

Stage.
Arena Stage - "The Cretan
Woman; $40 pm.
National-Ballet Theater; $3.50
pm.
Sam s. Shubert-"The Moon
Is Blue; $3.50 pm.
Screen.
Ambassador - "The Jolson
Story; 1880, 4:10. $50 and $50
pm.
Capitol - Rose Marie; II
am, 1:10, 1920, $50, 7:40 and
$50 pm.
Columbia-"E Elephant Walk;
II am, LOS, 3:15, 500, 1880
and 9:40 pm.
Dupont Julius Caesar;
1855. 2:55. $40. 7:25 and $40
pm.
Keith's - Carnival Story;
11:40 am. 1:40, ,3:45, 5:45, 7:50
and 9:55 pm.
Little-"Miracle of the Bells:
5:45. 7:50 and 9:55 pm.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.; 6:15,
sos and 9:55 pm.
Metropolitan - 1.-THE Jolson
Story; 1880 am, 2, 4::30, z and
9:40 pm.
OntariO-"Lure of the Sila":
1:10. 2:50, 4:30. 6:10, 1855 and
$40 pm.
Palace-"Executive Suite: IL
am. LOS, 3:20, $50, TAO and
$50 pm.
PlayhOuse-"Knock on Wood:
11:1O am. lis, 3:20, 5:25, 7:35
and $40 pm.
Plaza-"Will Any Gentleman;
IL. lao. 3:20. sos, GAS, $50
and 10:05 pm.
Silver Spring - "Limelight":
6:20 and 8:45 pm.
TranS-Lux-"Beat the Devil":
11:25 am. 1:20, 3:O5, 4:45, $3.50,
8:15 and 10 pm.
-"This Is Cinerama":
2:30 and $40 pm.
Evening star., 1954-05-06

on it. Paramount, as the devel-
oper of the new camera, has first
call on the first cameras but it is
determined not to be piggish.
If he wanted to. which he did
not. Mr.. Balaban could para
phrase that famous remark
about what's good for so-and-
so is good for such-and-such.
when you look at the films
in the new processes" Mr.. Bal
aban says, you not only recog-
nize with delight why audiences
are returning to movie houses
but you are also surprised that
they stayed with us as long as
they did in the days of now OBJ
solete methods
1t is the remark Of a man
who feels good. And confident.
r X X 4
MIDWEEK MEMOS: The big
excitement about the reissued
''The Jolson Story" which comes
to the Metropolitan today is
what the new sound does to the
maestro's old songs. D.. Vir-
tually a whole months festival
of dance begins Saturday at Ev-
elyn Davis Dance Playhouse,
children's department Three
hundred youngsters will be TAX
ing part. Kent Smith has
been added as the leading man
in the four-weeks' Helen Hayes
festival at Dick Aldrich's, Fal-
mouth, Mass, theater in July.
>. There will be another audi
ton for talent on Sunday at the
YWCA, 4 to 5 pm. for singers
and dancers for Middleburg's
summer theater Stanley
Raitt will be the man in charge.
q. darlington M. E. Church's
Mems Club will present 1.-THE
Yoeman of the Guard" in two
performances May IA and IS.
:. Col. Ed Kirby will give
party this afternoon for his war;
time colleague, Broderick Craw-
ford . It has to do with the
announcement of new tele-
vision project involving Craw-
ford. Academy Award winner for
his "All the Kings Men" per-
formance. It is a whopping
sort of show the Patuxent Naval
Air Station is planning for to-
night and tomorrow night in
connection with it's Charity Car
nival. One prize is a trip to
Hollywood and date with Para
mount starlet, Mary Murphy,
with Paramount picking up the
check. The bands for the
two nights are Lionel Hampton's
tonight, tomorrow Woody Her.
mans.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-11-14
Baltimore Huntinq
Motorisf Who Fled
Girls DedI Scene
-AP Photo.
BY the Assoeiated Pres.

BALTIMORE. Nov. 13.-Police
investigating the murder of IA
year-old Carolyn Wasilewski to-
day hunted man they said knew
the girl and drives a two-tone
car similar to one reported seen
near the spot where Carolyn's
body was found.
A Baltimore County fireman
said he saw such q car on the
Belvedere Avenue Bridge the
night before the girls body was
found on railroad tracks under
the bridge.
1t. Charles F. Morris said he
saw q car parked on the bridge
with its lights out at 11:40 pm.
last Monday. An autopsy re-
port fixed the time Of the girls
death as around II pm.
Chased Car But Lost Race.
1t. Morris said the car he saw
was driven by q man who sped
of as 1t. Morris car approached,
the other vehicle went through a
red light near the bridge. The
lieutenant said he gave chase but
lost the other car.
Police meanwhile still held a
28-year-old man for questioning
and sought still q third man.
Police said he is % years old.
The girl is believed to have
been murdered in a field near
her home and her body then
brought to the bridge and
dumped on the tracks. She had,
been beaten to death.
The detectives were checking
out all reports of bloodstained
cars or clothing. Still missing
was the Southern High School
students skirt and jacket.
Gondola Suicide Still Probed.
Police still had not closed their
file on a neighbor, Ralph B. Gar
rett, As. a mechanic found hang
ing from a gondola car on q
railroad siding near the murder
scene.
He had been missing from
home since Monday afternoon.
The medical examiner said he
died sometime Wednesday. The
death was listed as suicide by
hanging.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-11-14
7SouihernGo Governors
Hit Segregation Ban
AS Conference Ends
BY The Associossd Prsss

BOCA RATION, Fla, Nov. Ia
The Southern Governors Con-
ference adjourned today without
taking formal action on the
school segregation issue, but
seven Governors and one Gov
ernor-elect issued a joint state
ment later registering q protest
against efforts to force mixing
Of the races in public schools.
The statement said the signers
would attempt by constitutional
methods ito preserve the right
Of the States to administer their
public school systems to the best
interest Of all our people"
1t was the first meeting of
Southern Governors since the
Supreme Court outlawed segre-
cation in the public schools on
May IT.
The Governors signing the
statement said experience had
proved the wisdom of separate
but equal facilities for the races
and it would be damaging to the
public school system If schools
in the South were desegregated.
Signers Are Listed.
Those signing were Cows.
Thomas B. Stanley, Virginia:
Robert F. Kennon, Louisiana;
James F. Byrnes, South Carolina;
Allen Shivers, Texas; Herman E.
Talmadge, Georgia; Charley E.
Johns. Florida, and Johnston
Murray, Oklahoma, and Gov
Elect George Bell Zimmerman,
jr., of South Carolina.
This group said Gov. Hugh
White of Mississippi and Gov
Elect Leroy Collins of Florida
had left Boca Ration before the
statement was drafted.
Five other Governors and one
Governor-Elect attending the
conference did not sign the state
ment. They were Cows. Theodore
r. McKeldin, Maryland; Law
renee w. Wetherby, Kentucky;
Frank G. Clement, Tennessee;
Francis Cherry. Arkansas. and
William G. Marland, West Vir-
ginia, and Gov. ELECT James E.
Folsom of Alabama.
Gov. McKeldin issued a state
ment of his own in which he
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-11-14

said that In his opinion II was
the duty Of every citizen to &C
5cept the Supreme Court decree
regardless of how he felt about
the matter.
ANY other course would I'm
.dermine the very foundations Of
law and ORDER" Gov. McKeldin
said.
McKeldin Cites Procedure.
Gov. McKeldin. the only Re-
publican governor attending the
conference, said the proper pro-
edurewould be for the States to
file briefs with the Supreme
Court and to make oral argu-
ments at q hearing set for De-
cember s on ways and means Of
putting the May II ruling into
effect.
North Carolina and Delaware.
other members of the conference.
olonb have their governors here
and Gov Gordon Persons Of
Alabama did not attend.
A resolution by acting Gov.
Johns. of Florida. which would
have put the conference on rec
ord as favoring the constitutional
amendment to maintain sepa-
rate but equal school facilities
did not get a conference vote
since it was rejected by the reso-
lutions committee.
Several members of the COM
mittee said they didn't consider
this a practical approach to the
situation. Gov. Johns said he
regarded the joint statement on
the matter "a moral victory for
my stand"
The conference elected Gov.
Wetherby chairman, succeeding
Gov. MURRAY,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-11-14
Oklahoma Files Brief
On Segregation Cites
Financial Problems

Financial problems to be faced
IN ending racial segregation In
public schools were called to the
attention Of the Supreme Court
yesterday in q brief filed by
Oklahoma Attorney General Mac
@. Williamson.
Tomorrow is the deadline for
filing briefs requested by the
Court In preparation for oral
arguments starting December 6
on methods of putting into
effect the May II decision that
segregation is unconstitutional.
Six States. including Virginia
and the District of Columbia
have not yet. filed their briefs.
District officials announced last
week they will formally submit a
report tomorrow that an integra-
ton program already is in opera
ton here. Kansas and Florida
submitted briefs last month.
Attorney General Tom Gen.
try of Arkansas said the brief he
will file asks that Congress be
given a chance to adopt appro-
pirate legislation on Indignation.
He also urges gradual adjust
mentS."
Fiscal Factors Cited.
The Oklahoma brief requested
the Court to consider the States
financial problems as an i'm
portant factor in setting a date
for the end of segregation in
public schools. It expressed con-
f1dence that the Court will make
due allowance for State fiscal
conditions.
"The problem of the State of
Oklahoma in adjusting or chang
ing the financial structure for
maintaining public schools is a
serious one, grounded on con-
stitutional and statutory pro-,
visions of long standing, the up
roofing of which in an effort to
conform, will take time" Mr..
Williamson declared.
Noting that the laws of Okla
homa require segregation, he
wrote:
"And principally because of
both constitutional and legisla-
tive restrictions as to the financ-
ing Of separate educational facil-
tiles for white and Negro chill
dren, it is probably more con-
cerned than some, if not all, Of
the other States having segrega-
ton. in whether this Court
directs that existing segregated
systems be stopped Immediately
or adjusted gradually to a pro-
cedure not based on color dis
tinction."
Tax Structure Explained.
One Of the financial problems
in Oklahoma, he explained, was
that district schools, usually for
white children, are financed by
a school district tax levy. Schools
maintained mainly for Negro
pupils are financed by a county
wide levy. The taxes are admin
istered by different officials.
Mr.. Williamson estimated that
necessary fiscal legislation prob
ably will be enacted before next
June by the State legislature. He
noted, however, that future A.
nancing Of an integrated school
system will require State con-
stitutional amendments.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-11-14
District Boy, ;, Is Injured
BYIruck in Front Of Home

A S-year-old boy was injured
seriously yesterday when he ran
from behind a parked car into
the side Of q moving truck in
front OF his home at GLIB Emer-
son street NV.
The child, William r. Rods,
was admitted to Childrens Hos
pital with a possible skull frac-
ture and cuts on the forehead.
Police identified the driver of
the truck as Francis Jenkins,
colored, .26, of the 900 block of
Florida avenue NV. No charges
were placed against him.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-11-14
FOUND.

FEAEfER rue. approx. Z mo, Vic:
herne. Call AD. 4-2363. Ext. 700.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-11-14
Wilson Gets Briefinq
sOn Aims of Reservists

Organization Of the Active
Duty Reservists Association and
Its aims have been announced in
q letter to Defense Secretary
Charles z. Wilson. according to
Col. Robert j. Philpott u. s.
"A. r., president of the new
group.
In his note to Mr.. Wilson, the
officer said the organization in
tends to maintain an active lobby
here and it will attempt to over
come the "inferiority complex
being developed among active
duty reservists Of all services
because of many "inequities."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-11-14
GU Varsity Scholars
Tie Minnesota u.

Georgetown University's "Var-
sity Scholars" last night tied the
University Of Minnesota on
MICS College Quiz Bowl" radio
show. This was Georgetown's
second appearance. They remain
in the contest until defeated.
A rematch for the now
doubled $500 prize viii be staged
next Saturday at 7:30 pm. on q
two-college 1ookup with the
New York moderator.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-11-14
Alumni to Hear Hannah

DR.. John Hannah, president of
Michigan State University. will
speak at meeting of the Mich
igan State Alumni Association at
8 pm. Wednesday in the Dodge
Hotel.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-11-14
SaIionsiaII Seeking
Bigger Reservisf Role
In Next Draft Law
By. A. oLeary

|
Chairman Saltonstall Of the
Senate Armed Services Commit
tee called on the new Congress
yesterday to consider o mora Eff
fective military reserve training
program as part Of q new Selec-
tive Service Act.
The. present draft law expires
next June, and It's re-enactment
In some form Is expected in view
Of the continued unsettled con-
dition Of world affairs. But Sem
ator SaltonStall said the Inn
provement Of the reserve syae
tenn should 60 hand In hand
with re-enactment Of the draft
law.
!, "As long as there Is no shoot
ing war we should try to cut
back the standing armed forces,
but that can be done only with
an adequate ready reserve" said
the Massachusetts, Republican.
, Senator Jackson Agrees.
Senator Jackson, Democrat, Of
Washington, q member Of the
Armed Services Committee
agreed that the whole reserve
program should be thoroughly
looked into at the coming regu-
lar session. He said we have
"only q paper reserve now"
One part of the study, In
Senator Jackson's opinion, should
be a search for some method of
enabling boys to complete their
schooling. He said one plan
worth studying would be to let
them take four months Of basic
training and then serve four
years in an active reserve COM
ponent, to which they would re-
port for training every week. He
said this might be followed by
one year Of full-time service and
the reserve period.
\ Senator Jackson said there is
no trouble getting reserve officers.
but the weakness is in the in
.fantry enlisted reserve.
". Defense officials have been
struggling with the problem Of
how to improve the reserve Sys-
tenn for months and are expected
ITO brief the National Security
Council on possible solutions this
week.
~ Draft Law Is Cited.
. I When Congress passed the
present draft law in 1851 it laid
the groundwork for q limited
form Of universal military train
Ing under an organization to be
known as the National Security
Training Corps. The idea at that
time was that 18-year-olds
would take basic training for six
land then enter either
the National Guard or an Army
Reserve unit for seven and one
half years. But Congress tied
strings to the program and never
enacted the follow-up legislation
required to put it into effect. A
commission created at that time
- still studying the problem.
X Senator Saltonstall said he
tried several times in the last
session Of Congress to get the
administration to submit q plan
for overhauling the reserve sys-
tenn but agreement had not been
reached on recommendations. |
1t is expected the subject will |
be laid before Congress soon
after it meets in January. If the |
lineup Of the new Senate re-
mains as at present Senator |
Russell, Democrat, of Georgia,
Is expected to become chairman
ot Armed Services, but Senator
Saltonstall probably will con-.
tinue as q member Of the COM
mittee.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-05-31

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