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Inside Washington
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House Committee Besieged
Special lo The Baytown Sun
WASHINGTON — So-called "special Interest
(roups are besieging the House ways and'means
committee with-demands'for repeat of this or that
sjvs ;sns?-k-
**'Meanwhile other Industries whose product l| lux-
M'*nwml*,oicomp1alnlng bitterly that they've
ministration opposes It,I feeling that excises are a
vital source of revenue which must be continued
Should the movfe bill come out of committee,
c.iancoa are that Congress will almost be forced
hot-under-the-collar groups by giving
to appease
them similar relief.
A GOP Congress Is trying to
ury-taxed are
gotten nowhere. These Include owners of baseball
flubs, fountain pen manuf^urars, liquor firms, fur
makers and many others. They want to know
why theater'operators have received what appears
to be preferential treatment.
°However, the bill to repeal movie admission ex-
For one thing, the ad*
elsei Is far from passage.
WING CUPPING
strip a Republican President of some of his powers.
Political observers are puzzzled by this development,
which threatens to bring President Eisenhower into
confl'ct with OOP-controlled bodies on Capitol Hill.
In three Important instances,. Republicans have
tried to clip the President’s authority. In one, the
reorganisation of executive agencies, the adminis-
tration won out. The other two art still pending.
They involve attempts by GOP legislators to curb
the President's treaty-making powers and his au-
thority to pass upon tariff revisions.
In both Instances, administration officials are
making a determined effort on behalf of the Presi-
dent' to - block the proposals.
The moat serious challenge to the President s au-
thority is posed In a resolution sponsored by 64 sen-
ators for a constitutional amendment restricting the
chief executive in his authority to make treaties.
Sponsors include Senate OOP leader Robert A.
Taft, of Ohio, but Taft says he does not know for
lure that action will come at this session of Con-
gress.
ing in Washington, announced that the fl»t 78 days
of the Eisenhower administration constituted a
period of "memorable and significant results.
• creation of the new De-
enhower would appear to be ,
pregnable as of thl, springtime 1933 P°ltlca*
DEFENSE STRATEGY The Democrats, Judging
from publicity coming from the national committee,
are staying on the defensive and letting Republi-
cans call the plays.
The GOP national committee, at its recent meet-
The Republicans cited creal„.-
departments, and the administration * stiffened for-
eign policy-among numerous other things.
In answer, the Democrats dredged up a quotation
from of all people-GOP Senate Leader Robert A.
Taft, who said recently: "Some progress has been
made, but It seems slow and will seem to be slower-
'Vhe* Democrats added that nearly all the criticism
of President Elsenhower has come from Republi-
cans and that his main support has come from
their own ranks.
On the basis of the claims and the reply, Mr. Eis-
The sovereign state, of North m ^ ,
are quarreling over Just where Indian a* j
Bull I, burled. Thl. seem, a hardly 1
enough matter over which to go on the ]
Some of London’s atatues, w* reld
died up for the coronation. Wouldn't 'a' “1
to have Britain’s past look too seedy?’ *1
This Is the time of year when your fav»ri, I
writer makes the annual baaeball pennant,'I
dictions which he hopes you will have for.
about come next September. 11
MY NEW YORK
By Mel Heimer
NEW YORK — It took Benny Goodman to get
Maurice Evans out of my innards, and if that
sounds cryptic, read on.
It is a gray, raw spring afternoon, the k nd of
dav on which a man who doesn't take his first mar-
needs cheering up in some
IT'S A LONG CAB HAUL from 106th, East, to 48th
way.fold up the typewriter, take a cab up to the
vnr- television studio at 106th and Park, a g.
2-A and
SSiS&ma*
Watching Evans do "Hamlet" is like It u«d to be
watching Babe Ruth hit a home run-the blgges
man in the business doing-the biggest thing in the
business. This version of the wonderful ol<1 P1®^'
wkh its melody of words and its crescendo of
drama, must be about the sixth that Evans has
learned. „
vfavhp it'll be the best Hc’e doing it on the Hall
“n£,t dramatic ,how In video's brief history.
The big 60-foot studio has a hushed ,barn-like
silence ^about it. as Tat bespectacled young George
Schaefer who staged Evans famous GI version
of the play, quietly and colloquially makes sugges-
tions here and there to his actors.
"You become a little more smoochy," he tells
Joseph Schildkraut, playing'the King, and 'you can
hear old Will Shakespeare grumbling in his grave
Some of the actors are reading their lines from big
leather-bound scripts, but Evans has none.
A pleasant girl named Mildred Freed Alberg sidles
up to us. "He doesn't have to learn any lines, she
gays. “He knows every word in the play. All he has
to learn Is what words to leave out, In this cut
version. And me’’-she looked woebegone- all I
have to do is cut them. Cut Shakespeare. I should
be handed!”
The amiable Evans—here, surely must be the
greatest English actor (now an American)—finally
ends a scene and comes over, impeccably clad in
•ports Jacket, gray slacks and the polished brogues
of the Briton, and drops Into a funeral-parlor chair.
West,
man,' whorls ^to the* clarinet as M. Evans is to
Shakespeare, has gathered up as many of his orig-
inal musicians as possible and is putting them
through their ABCs in preparation for a six-week
concert tour he’s making with Louis Armstrong,
boy trumpeter. __
They are in a ground-floor rehearsal room, a
vaulted, gray, cathedral-type room, and I hear them
through the door and go in and sit down, and sure
enough, there I am back In the middle 30s.
Nobody is a bit older. They are rolling through a
rock-and-sock version of "Blue Skie* make rile a
boy again, just for tonight - and Krupa on the
drums, looks the way he did IS years ago. The dour
Ziggy Elman, who blows out his cheeks and looks
so bad playing the trumpet and sounds
hasn't aged a day.
good,
Is that Teddy Wilson, expressionless as ever, play-
no- the piano as beautifully as ever? It is. And
Vernon Brown, the poet of the trombone, scratching
his red crew cut? It ll obvious these gentlemen all
have been in the deep freeze, suspended
Dorian Gray would simply spit.
In time.
THERE IS GOODMAN, looking a little shorter but
just as preoccupied, a genius in a gray suit and blue
And how does it go Mr. Evans? How do you feel?
“I'm -H#f” ha
“I'm scared stiff,” he says pleasantly.
sweater^ playing that wonderful, fluid clarinet and
making the boys go over and over a certain passage
until they get it right. The Ray, they ifsed to call
Mr. G., a stern taskmaster whose angry eye would
make his musical urchins meditate thoughtfully on
their sins. *
I took around at all the Huckleberry Finns—the
shirt-sleeved, cigaret-emoking men to whom music
is life and life is music ("How you talk,” they
would say)—and listen to them attack a thunderous,
roaring, brass passage with the delicacy of a Reese-
to-Robinson double play. Every foot in the room is
tapping. And I wonder again the old questiqp—why
don’t you hear stuff like this any more?
Then, reluctantly, I leave. Out in 48th street, it is
late afternoon and the Broadway area U stirring to
life. My head is full of "Blue Skies” and I stop and
think. Who was it I saw before this? Evans. Evans?
Drums? Sax? Maybe a guitar player?
LOOKING AT LIFE
By Erich Brandeis
WHAT IS IT that makes people almost divine in
come respects and devilish In others?
One of my favorite television programs is "Strike
h Rich." Unfortunate! come on this program and
get a chance to win up to $500 in prizes.
Immfeiately after they tell their story, the phone
begins to ring. Manufacturers, store keepers and
• private Individuals call to offer all sorts of things
to the participants. Clothes, wheel chairs, baby car-
riages, refrigerators and numerous other appli-
ances, and articles of all sorts are freely donated.
Whenever I look at the progrram, I sort of get a
new lease on life. It makes one feel as If there
atlll is an awful lot of good In the human race,
after all.
THIS IS NOT the first time that homes for the
aged, institutions for the incurably ill or for handi-
capped children, went up In smoke and killed many
of the inmates.
Nor was it the first tlme. when a couple of weeks
ago, that a race track stable caught fire and many
horses were burned to death.
Washington Marry'Go-Round:
Secretary Dulles Objected
To Foreign Policy Address
WASHINGTON—It’i Ihi «IM SVIwBSj
that the “big speech’’ delivered by pushed us back in th. ,^
President Eisenhower last week tie of the Bulge. Eisenhow
was prepared and launched while tary prestige hung i„X*L
Secretary of State Dulles, the al- It was at this moment that*
leged chief architect of American proximity fuses were flows L
foreign policy was out of town. °p* *nd used against the
It’s also significant that there 11 was their firil
was some difference of opinion be- , wound wgf.S
tween the man who supposedly * >°t to do with toiS*
guides foreign affairs and a White “*5*'rTJan *dvan5*'
House adviser who ha* become ,man w*>o develo.
extremely close to.Ike—C. a Jack- N»e is being]
son. former publisher of Fortune “Jgh ** happens to be,
magazine ii1C*a2° was f,rst awM
At first Dulles didn’t entirely like R*^lc*n »<3|
the idea of the speech. Jackson H^rto politics has Dlaved j
.pushed it hard. And it’s barely pos- in ,hf‘ delicvate scientific I
sible that the speech might not
have been deliveaed had it not been
for ‘the much-publicized Dulles
ments of the Bureau of Sta]
WE «*N«vde%en ft;
press Pre= JJJ»**£. * each c «,
of the United States officially den- ££* £*£
^This included the background keen getting from the govei
statements on Korean peace terms
and on Formosa which Dulles
ssss-itrsa ass * areas
ated around the globe,
ing with the electrifying
;ed around the giooe, kw has^already ^
Prior to this. Dulles had tatimat- b**a
ed to J a ckson that he should keep ft*?*
his nose out of State Department J5 2K?5!-"2
business. After the Dulles flub.
howem! Jackiob had ths uppe^
hand.
Dulles’ skepticism regarding the ^TtSphTm HwVsui
(Oop/rlthA Mi, Kiss l«M Smdio.Uk too.)
BIRD'S NEST SOUP
speech was based on the reasoning der>
for every hottentot” idea of Henry
ETJS A K-fS *»
tious approach. , ~ . ...
Jackson, on the other hand, tr- J- The startling relez
gued that the United States could- nine doctor, who h*d boon
n’t play second fiddle to the Rus- of poisoning Andrei 5
sians regarding world peace, that Pravdn has attacked th
we must either grasp the present state security mmiitfr,
•opportunity to lead the world, or Ignatiev, for political bli;
quit kidding ourselves about world pressing the "falso chafi
leadership. Ignatiev Waa known ts
V '
Malenkov man, was Just i
DANGEROUS HAIR-PULLING— by Malenkov to th« *
ONE WONDERS whether this neglect of our citi-
zens to demand that such institutions MUST be
built of stone or other fireproof materials does not
spring from a complete callauaness toward those
who can no longer be of use to us.
Among those who died in the Largo fire was a
well-known song writer, Arthur Fields who, In ear-
lier years, was feted and wined and dined.
Then luck went against him. He was sent to the
Tummy Ache Cure— i
Agriculture Department Does Eveyrthing
BUT THEN comes a story like the one from Largo,
Fla. - a story which is so horrible that It makes
you forget all about the inherent goodness of man.
It makes you wonder whether the human being is
really the child of God or whether the devil may
not have had a whole lot to do with Its creation.
The argo story, you may recall, was about a fire
which destroyed a wooden building used as a nurs-
ing home. .
Fifty-seven patients were housed in this building,
their ages ranging all the way from 55 to 94. Many
•of them were so senile that, childlike, they refused
tp leave their -vVarm beds and save themselves.
Thirty-two of the patients were burned to death in
the fire, as well as a heroic nurse who rushed into
the flaming building time and again to rescue many
of the patients.
By HARMAN W, NICHOLS Bulletin No. 1963. Just writs to ths apron from 114 yarda
WASHINGTON, April 31—(IB— Department of Agriculture, Human shrunk, colorfast good*.
The Agriculture Department^does Nutr(t|on and Home Economics Then:
sides of
men iuck went against nim. «e was sent to me t* nreieribeo a ’ ” ------- ----------- -------
home and, at 655, died by fire. One of the last songs . w,, tnmmv »ehe and Division, Washington 25, D. O “Baste hem
he wrote was “And the Angels Sing.” telj* how * to manicure an What I like about the depart- shoulder strap
=~£iiS~S 3SSr==t KlsXrirss „ _ _ __ . ___
their usefulness. himself an apron. * «0,?e n a v v edjres Stitch darts in the anron 200 bureau scientists resign in ferev &ffairgo0f itate. The most i
grrs. ‘-"d
rons are Interested, this apron in- a pair of shears and a pattern. ” d Research and Development Board. Si t c0Pme from Mzlenkl
cut the *tl‘C0h ™ ^ ^ the organization which has did"1 come - 1
apron ^ d Y * 1 charge of new inventions for Jhe
Me, I didn’t even I
How come there is so much kindness in those who
offer gifta on television and so little in those who
'et our old folks and our horses burn to death?
It can’t be just the publicity the television donors
pt fnr thpir honevnlonna T’il katA 4U1.I. rrtlifP
mu vcicviaiuii mm gu nine in cnose wno row ------ j----- ~ f ”
let our old folks and our horses burn to death? formation ia contained in Farmers Using the pattern you
get for their benevolence. I’d hate to think THAT
about the human race.
ALONG BROADWAY
Grab Bag Of Easy Knowledge
one for $1.29.
By Jack Gaver
A Central Pres* Feature
ALMOST EVERY Broadway season can be counted
upon to produce at least one play that raises tem-
peratures. causes old friends to re-examine each
other’s astuteness and generally stirs the dust of
controversy. This season it's "Camino Real.”
' This Tennessee Williams play has been called
everything from sophomoric goulash to the great
American drama. Williams has been called a char-
latan and the finest dramatic poet of the modern
theater.
Some people who claim to understand it don’t like
it; others who confess they’ve been zeroed in by
the playwright think it's tremendous theater re-
gardless.
These dramas may or may not have major sup-
port from the critics. In the case of "Camino Real”
only one of the daily newspaper critics gave it a
really fkvorable notice.
The cast and fanatical admirers of Williams’ play
The Answer, Quick!
1. Who wrote a
book
in Montaud on May 12, 1842. He
titled, studied at the Paris Conservatoire
have been engaged ever since it opened in a cam- The Nigger of the Narcissus"^ ^ wd^wo^a^prize for his cantata.
charge of new inventions for me Malenkovs poJ
search and Development Board ^kf“ WheU Stal
Sa,I'This closely knit program can- Mfllenko^haTpr*!
not be disturbed without major dis- {rom the J
„ £-T7~Z—7 ruption in the national defense w,_apers Hit j
By Bennatf Cerf program. If dissolved, years would ^ “,.ash 'printed let
needed for its re-establish- hasnt been printea j
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Try And Stop Me
once that Dr. Astin's work once had a tions of Pravda. a J
,wrxtrt_ ... ... ____i__/-<__ r«me »l 1
as™ isatsasmss sssas ts;., l—>
One thing everyone seems to be agreed upon
about this play is that Eli Wallaeh gives a remark-
ably ingratiating performance as a sort of All-
American young man whom the author has chosen
to call Kilroy after the GI mystery man of World
War II.
13, 1912. What was his name?
2—This American author was
GREGORY RATOFF was
born in Oneida. N. Y„ on Sept. 14, called upon to give an improvi- great dea] t0 do wj.j, saving Gen- Malenkov’s "®me * idel
1873. He was a newspaper re- dent relative a job. The fellow era! Eisenhower's military position would have been con.
porter and editor, and, served as reported to the studio with. ‘So in the latter stages of the war. rilege In Stalin * W-
DATELINE: HOLLYWOOD By Aline Mosby
IF IT WEREN’T for a' question asked by a house-
wife named Mrs. Haze! McCann, 10,000 people
wouldn't be working on a multi-million dollar movie
; today.
Mrs. McCann, living in Canton, Ohio, in 1939,
wrote a fan letter to novelist Lloyd Douglas asking
what became of Christ’s robe for which soldiers
gambled at the foot of the cross.
She suggested the answer to her question might
make a story.
, The result of her query was Douglas' best-selling
, novel, The Robe and the wide-screen film from it
that producer Frank Ross tdbk ten years to get
on the screen.
« Mrs. McCann was imported by 20th Century Fox
‘ studio from her present home at Alameda, Calif.,
« to inspect the supercolossa! production she in-
• spired.
“Mr. Douglas did not want a ‘circus’ made of this
film,” the housewife said firmly as she walked
through the impressive sets of false marble and
metal, peopled with milling extras in whiskers, to-
gas and Max Factor Pancake No. 5.
« “I hope the message in the story is not lost.”
! Mrs. McCann said she decided to .write Douglas
“because the idea for the story occurred to me and
wouldn’t get out of my mind. I believe in those lit-
tle voices, you know, and one told me to do it.”
“A week later my husbantf— he was ill at home-
called me at the store where I was working and
told me I had a letter from Lloyd Douglas in Los
Angeles.
“I had forgotten about my letter, and had to stop
a minute to think who it was. I never dreamed he’d
Happj Birthdaj
Queen Elizabeth II of England porter and editor, and served as reported to the studio with,
in the spotlight for today’s war correspondent in World War here I am. what am I supposed
birthday greetings Leonard War- 1. “Stanford Stories” is the first to do?” “It’s a kind of public rela-
ren populuar opera baritone, and of his book slisted. He wrote “The tions job,” whispered Ratoff. 'But
Stan Rojek big leage baseball City That Was, “The Hamadryads, don’t make it public that we're re-
Dlaver also rate natal day con- “Old Chinatown,” “The House of la tions.”
emulations today. Mystery,” “The Red Button,” “A
K Reporter at Armageddon,.” “The A CINCINNATI housewife awoke
Watch Your Language Thirteenth Chair,” “Christ or in the middle of the night to find
CAPTIVATE — (KAP-ti-vate) — Mars,” “Highlights on Manhat- her spouse shivering violently, with
verb transitive: to acqiure as- " ”'rv'- u~— ^ J ^ '*
WILLIE
—by Loonoi’d
in?
cendancv over by art or attraction:
to fascinate; to charm. Synonyms:
answer.
The late Douglas not only thanked Mrs. McCann
for the idea, but sent her $25,000.
He kept her posted by frequent letterj as to the
book’s progress. He sent her chapters as he wrote
them and asked her suggestions.
The book was dedicated to “Hazel McCann, who
asked a question.”
Transport, infatuate, enamor, en-
rapture. Origin; Latin — Capitiva-
tus, past particple of Captivare. to
cap’.pre, from Captivus, captive.
tan,” “The House That Shadows his lees sticking out of the covers
Built,” “Lute Song” (a play with at t he bottom of the bed. "You
Sidney Howard), “Spy and Count- idiot,” rasped the wife, “put your
erspy,” "The Making of a Report- feet under the blankets." "Nothing
er,” "The Babes of Belgium," doing," protested the husband.
‘‘T’W- CnlA«el:J C4a— Vnroc " “Vrtii /4nn'i nnlnk mn miHinn tViAca
It Happened Today
753 B. C. — Rome founded. 1836
— Battle of San Jacinto, when a
Texas army under Gen. Sam
Houston, routed a Mexican army,
The Splendid Story of Ypres, * ^a,, ..,v •.
and many more, also fiction and ice-cold things in bed with me
articles for magazines. He died
ucies
Feb. 24, 1948. Who was he?
(Nams atbottom of column)
Your Future
Diplomacy is the keynote of to-
RICHMOND MILLER tells about
a kindly old Quaker who used to
reit on a bench in a public park.
He was quite deaf and carried ah
ear trumpet. One afternoon some
V
You're Telling Me
establishing Texas independence, day’s birthday. If you concentrate young hoodlums approached polite'
1945 - In World War II. Russians
entered Berlin.
By William Ritl
Folks of Fame — Guess the Name
The stock exchange must be an odd place, Indeed.
At news that peace might break out at any minute
the market doesn’t leap up—It nosedives with joy!
In England someone has brought out a new c(
nation drinking glass. How much does it hold-
Today's Bible Verse
CAST THY BURDEN upon the Lord,
j I and he shall sustain thee: he shall never
suffer the righteous to be moved. Psalms
I 55:22
imperial quart?
Hollywood hopes those new Three-D pictures wUl
also have three-dimensional financial results— high,
wide and handsome.
Zadok Dumkopt says It isn’t officially spring until
the weather gets so warm he feels no regret over
pawning his overcoat so early.
Fatso Malenkov may not measure up to the ’sta-
tu*# of a statesman but yqu^must admit he's built
1 newsreels.
business in the, year ahead,
material and intellectual expan-
sion seem assured. A quick wit,
originality and good-nature are
indicated for today's child.
It’s Been Said
He is ungrateful who denies
that he has received a kindness
which has been Hfestowed upon
him; he is ungrateful who con-
ceals it: he is ungrateful who
mnH
ly enough, but then shouted ob-
scenities into his hearing aid. The
gentleman listened quietly until
they had finished, then arose with-
out a word, walked to the public
foun’am. and calmblv washed his
ear trumpet thoroughly.
Quotations
makes no returii for it; most un-
grateful of all is he who forgets
From Great—Near Great
it—Seneca.
How’d You Make Out?
1. Joseph Conrad.
2. Thomas Jefferson’s.
3. The Arc de Triomphe.
4. Czechoslovakia.
Rear Adm. Ellis M. Zacharlas,
one of the nation’s top experts on
military intelligence: “It is as
dangerous to over-estimate Russia
as "to under-estimate them. They
have a strong military wall, a
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1—Here is one for opera lovers.
He was a French composer, born
5 The ehrief rebel angel. Satan, mainly defensive air force incap-
1— Jules Massenet. able of offense and about 250 sub-
2— Will Irwin. , ' marines.”
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Secretary of Commerce Sinclair 2Ma!enkov’s announces
Weeks, who fired Dr. Allen Astin, j,, was "voluntarily” givtngl
N*- director of the bureau, is piqued at post of Communist party!
the Defense Department because it Ury This post was the sol
has been referring work to the bu- gtalin’s massive power, tfcej
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shoulder strap- Lap straps at cen- But the Defense Department, in t,0„ in this light.)
ter back. Turn raw edges in. In- turn, is wearied over the fact that jcov>a. announcement wuj
sect a loop for the corner at lower some, of its most delicate experi- mount to abdication.
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