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Evening star., 1961-08-08

One such was a woman
who for a brief space was
employed at the Jai-Alai
Sports Palace where I am
the butler-host. Suffice it
that I call her Mrs. s.
For q reason no concern
of mine, she was dismissed
from the service of the pal
ace. Blissfully unaware even
of her existence I was taking
a stroll one Sunday evening
when I encountered Mrs. s.
standing beside her motor
car.
"CalI Me Dolores"
I was a little unprepared
when she blurted out: "Oh,
Mr.. Cronin, isn't it terrible?
I have just resigned from
the palace and I am heart
broken at the idea Of never
seeing you again"
AS we had never even been
introduced ! regarded this as
an intrusion; nevertheless, !
said: my dear Miss er. :"
"Call me Dolores" she put
in.
well, my Dear Miss Do
lores," I continued, "I am
sorry but really you must
not take on so about it."
Since she wouldn't be see
ing me again, would I like
to escort her and her friend
to a cocktail party?
! glanced inside the car
and saw there another fe-
male, who promptly gave me
a big smile. Noticing my
reluctance, Miss Dolores add
ed: Don't worry, Tom, Mar
gle can act as chaperon If
you want it that way"
I "mmed" but since I could
see no easy way of extricat-
ing myself, I foolishly al
lowed myself to be ushered
into the car.
The car was started, then
it swerved out from the curb
and at once came violently
into contact with another
vehicle.
The male occupant Of the
other car seemed extremely
annoyed.
AbSented Himself
Since the collision was
none Of my making, I said
Excuse me-" Then I neatly
got out of the car and said
"good-by," setting off at q
brisk gait toward my hotel.
But no. When I was within
yards Of my hotel doorway
q heavy hand was laid on
my shoulder and the voice
of q police officer said: I'm
Evening star., 1961-08-08
Have a Question?

Have a Question?
M. O.: Your History of
Will County" Chicago, l877),
compiled by G. H. Woodruff
and others, is a SIS to $40
book at retail if in fine con-
dition.
P. NJ: Your second edition
Of "The Ingoldsby Legends"
Gondon, l877, with the
George Cruikshank, John
Leech and John Tenniel IL
lustrations. is a mildly scarce
book. Fine copies retail for
around $25 to $50.
j. C. P: Your j. Hamil-
ton Moore's 1.-THE Young
Gentleman & Lady's Moni-
tor and English Teachers
Assistant" (New York, 1799) ,
is a scarce book. A copy in
fine condition should be
worth around $35 at retail.
Mrs. K. G.: Your listing
of copyright dates alone is Of
little help to a dealer in de-
Evening star., 1961-08-08

ments as"Piles have ceased to be
. problem!" And among these
sufferers were "a very wide va
riety Of hemorrhoid conditions,
some Of Toto 20 years. standing.
All this, without the use OF
narcotics, anesthetics or astrin-
gents Of any kind. The secret is
. new healing substance (Bio-
Dyne0) - the discovery Of q
world-famous research institu-
ton. Already, Bio-Dyne is in
wide use for healing injured
tissue on all parts of the body.
This new healing substance
is offered in suppository or oint-
went form called Preparation
H9. Ask for individually sealed
convenient Preparation H Sup
positories or Preparation II
Ointment with special appli-
Gator. Preparation II is sold at
all drug counters.
Evening star., 1961-08-08

when he died, was the IL
censee of q public -house
called "The Crown" which I
was won't to frequent in Lon
don.
Constant visits to "TIle
Crown" brought me more
closely in touch with Lillian
Groom than with her elderly
husband, and something Of q
close affection developed be-
tween US.
I decided I would fly to
England and marry Mrs.
Groom in absolute secrecy.
Employs q Disguise
Whereupon I purchased q
false moustache and o pair
of dark glasses and, in the
name of Thomas Boeing,
boarded a Jet plane to Lon
don.
The door to "The Crown"
was opened by Mrs. Groom
herself and to her I said with
out more ado: Lillian, I have
come home to marry you and
to take you back to America"
Immediately, her heart was
aflutter.
So that we could marry,
Mrs. Groom promptly saw
to transferring the license Of
1.-THE Crown"
Mr.. McAndrews has prom
ised to set us UP in q busi-
ness of our own-in q motel
so that my bride may con-
tinue to turn to account her
talent for hospitality. So, as
I am now drawing Q re.
tanning fee Of $140 q month
during the closed season., 1t
has been with o splendid
sense Of security that ! re-
turned to America.
Tomorrow: Thot Terrible Groueho
Evening star., 1961-08-08

to the medical society,"" What
do you think?-Mrs. x.
I THINK THAT the doc
tors of your local medical So
ciety will be pleased to hear
your complaint. (There are
special committees to hear
laymen's problems.) My
guess is that there are no
such fee schedules in most
(if any medical societies.
DR.. Stetncronn'S ledtlet,
"HoD to Stop Killing Your
self" t0ilI be mailed on re-
ceipt OF C stamped. selt-Gd-
dressed ervelope and 10 cents
in coin for handling. address
DR.. Steinerohn In care Of The
Euenino Star.
CBell Syndicate Feature)
Tomorrow: TosetheFf
Evening star., 1961-08-08

termining age or value. The
date q dealer wants to know
about is the date Of publica-
ton, which almost always
appears-if given at all-on
the title page of . book. The
copyright date is usually on
the back Of the title page.
Mrs. A. e. N: Yes, your
Alfred Tennyson's Poems,
Chiefly Lyrical" Oondon,
1890. with page 81 misnun-
bered 10, is Q first issue Of
the first edition. Your blue
morocco binding has been
supplied by q former owner;
the first edition was issued
in boards. Your book should
be worth $50 to $75 at retail
If in good shape.
Selected reader questions
wiH be ansUered In this
column. Address Van Allen
Bradley In care OF The Eue-
ming Star. .
(copyrisht 1861, General
Features Corp)
Gold in Your Attic eppeaFS
Evening star., 1961-08-08
DEAR ABBY
He Sounds Somewhat OH-Beot
sy ABIGAIL VAN BUREN,

throws bread in his. yard
every day to feed, the pi-
geons. The pigeons fly back
and forth from his roof to
mine all day long. They
have nests In my chimney.
I don't have to tell you what
a couple of hundred pigeons
can do. 1t is impossible for
me to hang out my washing.
And to enjoy sitting outside
is out of the question. Every
day more join the flock. Do
you or any of your readers
know any way to get rid Of
pigeons? Or do they do some
good that I don't know
about?
PIGEON HATER
The most cons tructive
function ever credited to pi-
geons was carrying messages.
and Alexander Graham Bell
put them out Of that busi-
ness years ago. But pigeons
can still carry diseases. II
your neighbor is impossible"
to talk tO-talk to the Board
of Health, and the Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Animals.
&& =
Everybody has a problem.
What's yours? For a personal
reply, ,orite to Abby in care
of The EDening Star. IN
close q stamped, Self-Gd-
dressed envelope.
For Abby'S booklet, "Ho1D to
Haze a Lonely Wedding"
send SOC to Abby, Boz 1865,
Beverly Hills, Calf.
distributed by McNausht Syndicate
Inc)
Evening star., 1961-08-08

afraid you must come with
me to the police station, Mr..
Cronin."
And sure enough I was
charged with leaving the
scene of an accident" and
made to pay bail of $78.
I hurried at once to see
my employer, Mr.. Roy Nc
Andrews, who is a gentleman
as well as a millionaire.
He at once arranged for
me to be represented by the
leading local lawyer, his re-
mark being: "You must not
be found guilty, Tom"
The case was made quite
intolerable a few days later
when Mrs. s. announced sud-
denly that "Cronin was driv-
ing"
Quite extraordinary!
The judge apparently
thought so too, for on. the
day of my trial he threw the
whole sordid affair out Of
court.
Reputation Unscathed
I had emerged with my rep
utation> unscathed, but I
wondered how much longer
a bachelor could hope to
challenge the might of Amer
lean womanhood.
There seemed to be but one
answer-matrimony. I sud-
denly remembered some news
from England concerning the
death of an old friend, Mr..
Ivor Groom.
Out Of the remembrance
of this came to me the cheer
full face of his wife, Lillian
Groom, now a widow. It beck
oned toward me like Q
friendly beacon in a troubled
sea.
Mr.. Groom, a man Of 7S
Evening star., 1961-08-08
OIL SAY, THESE AMERICANS! .,s4e*r'.sssss essss1
British Widow Rescues Cronin
From Scheming U. S. Females
BY THOMAS CRoNIN

North American Newspaper Alliance
MIAMI, Fla, Aug. g.
Truly the war of the sexes in
America is conducted with
the same tropical ferocity as
the war of the fishes in the
deep seal
That is why I went to
England to secure for my
self a wife. Now that I am
happily married, I feel COM
PEELED to disclose the shame
full way they took advantage
of my innocent gallantry in
my bachelorhood.
Evening star., 1961-08-08

Ever since he orrived in America 10
months oso, Thomos crOnin hos
been bounded by designing women.
In this chapter in series Of 3D.
ventures in this country, he ex-
plains how he solved his problem.
Evening star., 1961-08-08

Gold in Your Attic eppearS
Tuesdays.
Evening star., 1961-08-08

Tomorrow: That Terrible Groueho
Evening star., 1961-08-08
Reputation Unscathed
By VAN ALLEN BRADLEY

ments dated September,
1864, bound in at the front.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-05-05

istration fire on the press may be a
good way of smothering criticism
just as the mobilization of Nixon, Eli
senhower, Rockefeller, Goldwater, ct
al, seemed to some observers to indi-
cate elements of panic. But kicking
reporters is scarcely an adequate ex-
PLANTATION for what happened.
The fact is that the Washington
press corps, or important segments
of it, knew months ago that Cubans
were being trained for an invasion.
Not word of this was printed under
a self-imposed decision by news
papermen mot to help the enemy"
Castro kept talking about the Gin
vasion" and undoubtedly he had men
planted in the invading" army. 1t
is doubtful that he could have moved
SO swiftly as he did without excellent
espionage.
AS / see it the Administration has
overlooked an important element in
the fight against Castroism.
When Fidel started to fight Batista,
there were reverses for many years,
some of them bloody. Even a month
or so before Batista's end a general
strike failed in Havana. 1t took five
years to get rid of the former Cuban
Why should anyone assume
It will be easier to get rid of the pres
emit dictator, who has the added adj |
vantage of expert Soviet assistance?
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-05-05

content of large part of our soils
| Garfield county had only 8 inches
of rainfall this past year, fertilizer
likely. The addition of fertilizer only
helps to burn out the crop during
dry spells.
DR.. Renne agreed with Setterstrom
that in damp conditions fertilizer
makes land progressively more profit
able. The Flathead county extension
agent increased the use of fertilizer
80 per cent last year.
Consolidated Mining Co., which
has phosphate reduction works in
Trail and Kimberly, B. c., has given
up the idea of having a fertilizer
plant in Montana but would release
$4,000 tons of rock annually for the
next ten years to anyone who wanted
to invest the millions in such a plant
The discussion of fertilizer came
about during discussion of the fate
of the potato in Montana. No increase
in production is seen in the near fu-
ture because sugar beets are COM
handing the irrigated acres, since
the Cuban situation.
Montana's specialization in seed
potatoes will continue because the |
average price ranges over three dol |
lars per hundred weight. The indus |
trial spuds of Idaho cut the average
price of their tubers to only buck |
and half. The isolated valleys of
Montana produce the finest seed.
They are disease free and hardy be-
cause of the early frosts.
The processing of spuds has reached
such a high degree of efficiency that
it is no longer profitable for insti-
buttons or restaurants to peel their
own anymore. When the question
came up as to what guy is going to
10 to get a meal if he can't peel
'puds, Ken Todd of the Mountain
States Telephone responded that he
AN always wash dishes.
Ken hasn't had to look for a meal
ecently anyone can see because most !
# the dishes are washed by machines. I
The council helped Planning Board |
Director Tom Collins with arrange
nents for the meat packers confer ]
nee to be held in Bozeman May 10.
Ifs ,
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-05-05

Monday was May Day. By law it il
known as Loyalty Day. In Helena il
was beautiful day. The weather was
perfect.
| The lawn around the Capitol build.
| ing is beginning to come back to life
The Supreme Court has begun to
settle down to business to clear the
calendar in expectation of the sum-
mer recess. Justice Stanley Doyle
came out with decision on a case
with house of prostitution locale
that showed not only final law in
the matter but also a certain literary
flair.
Gov. Don Nutter launched a new
attack on Montana State College
prexy R. r. Renne, MISC has closed
ranks in Bozeman solidly behind the
college president who has given higher
education in Montana an information
al status.
Montana Power Company's Bob
Corette went over the press release
attack on Renne with Nutter. Nutter
was so delighted with the handiwork
that he took MY copy out of the of
flee and home with him.
I watched the preparations for the
savings bond drive which is being
urged" upon the guys and dolls
who dream out the stuff on the Off
cial communications networks. The
National Guard practiced walking
around the Liberty Bell with the
pretty handkerchief tied around their
throats. Walter Marshall assumed his
usual position next to the microphone
which lead to the loudspeakers
on blue Volkswagon truck. |
The men from the boiler house pro-
yided him with rope to tie to the
bell clapper.
Then as l was about to go into the
Highway building / saw bale of
lay on the lawn. Inside the building
could get no logical answer as to
Why the hay.
Now reporting is seemingly a form
# stupidity in professional status,
nut this was a new depth for me to
ink to. "Hey, ah, what's this hay?",
Leaving the building what should
Ippear on the lawn but cow.
I've been around the Capitol long
nough now to not be taken in by
What anyone's senses would believe
0 be halucination. Lots of people
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-05-05
Planning Board
Talks Fertilizer

MISC President R. R. Renne had
to straighten out Montana Power
Co.'s industrial promoter Dick Setter
strom on the use of fertilizer in dry
land farming as practiced in eastern
Montana. Setterstrom made the state
ment at the Planning Boards Advis-
DRY Council meeting, Wednesday,
that only ten per cent of the ferti-
lizer needed for soil productivity was
being used
Due to the extremely low moisture
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-05-05

THE SEARCH FOR A SCAPECOA1
On what undoubtedly was for him
the darkest of the First 100 Days,
President Kennedy took note of the
fiasco in Cuba and recalled an old
Chinese proverb. 1t goes: "Victory
has hundred fathers, defeat is an
orphan"
The President was applauded for
his philosophical attitude towards
what must have been an emotion
SCATTERING experience. Here, 80 miles
from our shore, fanatic dictator
was haunting the United States of
America, using Soviet armor to crush
his own people, employing the firing
squad Unfortunately - and we
seemed powerless to do anything
about it.
Since the President made his first
comments, however, there has been
a hardening of attitude on the part
of the Administration. From feeling
of helplessness about combating
Castroism, there seems to have de-
veloped feeling that someone must
pay for subjecting Mr.. Kennedy to
his tremendous humiliation.
The natural object of public criti-
cism has been the Central Intelligence
Agency. Since we do not know who
in che agency had charge of the Cuban
affair we have no way of knowing |
this person and his subordi-
mates were well-advised, fully famil-
lar with Latin American traditions,
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-05-05
Olsen Introduces
Bill to Suspend
Merger Authority

WASHINGTON, d. C.-Congress
man Arnold Olsen of the LIST District
of Montana yesterday introduced
legislation to temporarily suspend the
authority of the Interstate Commerce
Commission to approve consultations
notifications, or acquisitions of con-
troll of railroad properties. Olsen
said, "that history has proven when
mergers are accomplished, competi.
ton vanishes, good service becomes
legend, yet the cost steadily rises.
Economic progress is no longer the
outlook for the future. The national
defense efforts are jeopardized. A
merger at this time would tend to
eliminate competition between the
roads and the public services will be
neglected and suffer.
Further, serious hardship upon the
railroad workers, their facilities and
the businesses which depend upon
them would take place.
According to figures of the
Railroad Retirement Board the
employment in the railroad industry
dropped by 100000 from December
of 1855 to December of 1860.
'Today a new threat to railroad
has appeared in the wide
spread move to merge and consolidate
railroad properties said Olsen.
Railroad labor has estimated that
if all proposed mergers are allowed
to proceed to a conclusion, it will
mean a loss of 100000 additional
Jobs in the industry. This is because
5he so-called economies of railroad
merger result basically from the cur
of railroad services and facil- |
ties.
"Our national transportation poll
les have long recognized that the
diverse effect of railroad mergers
lpon railroad workers certainly must |
'e considered as part of the public |
interest and Congress has instructed
he Interstate Commerce Commission
o weigh such affects before grant
ng it's approval to such consolida-
IONS"
Olsen states that many commune |
les and thousands of industries have
een established on the basis of avail
bility of railroad service. To reduce
r eliminate this service over thou
ands of miles of railroad, as is pro-
osed in the pending merger plans
to create depressed communities,
isrupt established homes and place
bstacles in the way of growth of our
alton.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-05-05

Montana Powers Claimed Higher Wage Co
Eureka, I've Found II!

One of the gives seeking 2s
100 per natural the
increases granted its employees the
several years
Now as we've pointed out before MPCos total wage bill
the past five has less than five cent while
it's CATER taxes soaring by almost 80
and stock dividends skyockeng by almost
80 per cent
So couldn't be the wages doed the ordinary
.help"-ncluding lower grade supervisory-which gave
the illusion that they going broke
they enough of rate increase those
merous wage increases The lay somewhere
in companys Meeting stockholders
what found concerning the wages of
In 1856 President Jack Corette was having tough
of making ends 100000 year salary. His
of Is per cent.
s"Wages" annually paid out to other top officers
members the companys board by than
40 per cent from $2364s3 to $335,6s7 last year.
Speaking of wages the Brotherhood of
recently completed study
specific employment
with the the decade and the effect of
study MPCo annual other official
of electric increased by
during the
1929 total
nues but less than in 1860.
pense cent in 1850
Wages reports shows
fancy
pension coee and cialdom tOaed
paid in preferred dividends
spot percentage oper
in
per in 1860 1884 per n 1850
attempting
utility
reaching this office hard feel
that the additional requesting would
only $3848O
they half of the annual salary of the president
upwards of four million dollars year.-HLB
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-05-05

expert in propaganda techniques and
otherwise equipped to handle an
undertaking of this sort.
Certainly the ola pulled some
colossal boners, including it's de-
cision to segregate the leaders of the
anti-Castro movement in their quart
ers while the attack was under way.
Also, it seems, the GA was discourag-
ing Cubans with social reform, or
left-of-center viewpoint, from active
participation in the anti-Castro re-
volt.
But putting the blame exclusively
on the CHA seems the sort of over
simplifying that went on when Nc
earthly was blaming our China policy
on perverts in the diplomatic corps.
DID THE PRESS ALERT CASTRO?
1t must have occurred to some of
the Presidents advisers that putting
all blame on the CHA was causing
skepticism. So now, without much
documenting, top Administration Of
ficials have begun to turn their fire
on newspapermen in Florida.
Some newsmen, it seems, were fill
ing stories that were too full of de-
tail about the impending military
action, or too inaccurate, or both.
This, SO the argument goes, alerted
Castro to the dangerous situation
and allowed him to move his Soviet |
equipment into position to crush the
invaders.
The technique of turning Admin
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-05-05
WATCH ON The POTOMAC

By ROBERT G. sPIvACK, Washington. D. c.
Evening star., 1961-02-21

come onto the Fitzgerald prop
erty. But Judge Magruder, with
Judge Charles Fahy agreeing.
said the proof Of viciouSness
would have to be supplied be-
fore the 5000 award to Mr..
Fitzgerald could stand up. The
case was sent back TO District
Court.
Bowser died in June, 1859, of
heat prostration.
Evening star., 1961-02-21

examine the controversial So
year pilot retirement ruling.
which prohibits pilots from fly
ing commercial airliners after
the sixtieth birthday.
! Mr.. Halaby was questioned
by Chairman Magnuson, Dem
ocrat Of Washington, about
possible overlapping. of FAA
and Civil Aeronautics Board
functions. He replied. Il have
some questions about. it. but ]
do not have any convictions
at the present. I'll carry out
the act as written. If. aftel
some experience. I reach
Evening star., 1961-02-21

Iwon o 5000 judgment against
Mr.. harlow after he contended
Bowser's owner should have
known the dog had vicious ana
dangerous propeosities and
was accustomed to attack
people"
Judge Magruder said there
was no evidence that Bowser
was accustomed to attack K
people"
Liked Wheels
He said the only evidence
even bearing on this issue
showed tnat Bowser had .
fascination for turning wheels
and would chase automobiles
and ':bite the moving wheels Of
| q lawnnaower or baby carriage"
Mr.. Fitzgerald in his coEn-
plant, in which he sought
| SIS, 900 damages. contended Mr.,
HARLOW violated the Districts
leash law in letting the dog
Evening star., 1961-02-21
HoIoby, FAA Nominee,
Confident on EIectros

81 persons. The FAA fined
Lockheed 5000 on February Z
after ruling that the firm de-
livered a number Of the planes
to three airlines without ade-
quate inspection. The aircraft
has now been modified for
greater safety. Federal officials
said last month.
Early Confirmation Seen
Mr.. Halaby's confirmation by
the Senate Is expected soon
without opposition. He drew
high praise from members OF
the committee during their
questioning Of him today.
! He also promised to re.
Evening star., 1961-02-21

was charged with having bitten
william Fitzgerald, formerly OF
5O2S Klingle street NV.
The opinion recalled thai
BOwser came into the Fitz-
gerald yard and got into Q fight
with Mr.. Fitzgerald's dog. Tn
result was q bite on, Mr.. FitS-
gerald's arm.
Last June, Mr.. Fitzgerald
Evening star., 1961-02-21
THE EVENING STAR
Washiasisa o. c. HAMMNAI NANwR b-I
TUesdsy, FsbeusU n, 1861 $SuSA0s SNSWS ~

conviction. I'll express 1t to
you.
Electra Data Checked
Mr.. Halaby said he antici.
pated questioning on the Elec-
ira and went through all the
data II could find and reviewed
1t personally. I talked with
pilots.
II flew the plane myself
over two hours In Q carefully
planned test program. ! tried
to stimulate some Of the operas
tional accidents. ! flew it
through gusty air beyond the
speed it was supposed to fly;
"I am personally convinced
the plane Is sound"
Evening star., 1961-02-21
Book to Be Reviewed

Mrs. J. Allan Maphis. chair
man Of the All Saints Epis-
copal Church Book Review Sc
ries. will review Shadows on
the Grass" by Isak Dinensen
at noon Thursday in st. john.
Episcopal Church, Lafayette
Square.