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Show THE LEIII SUN. LEW. UTAH wmm New York Heartbeat The Big Parade: Victor Moore-the-merrier . . . Ethel Barrymore, whose acting Is the only spotlight she needs . . . Martha Raye the one-gal Hellzapoppin' . . . Chieo Marx at Leon & Eddie's, In a check ered suit noisier than the floor show there . . . Frankie Hyers, the "Panama "Pan-ama Hattie" clown a grown-up Mickey Rooney ... Mrs. Jascha Heifets coming out of Jay Thorpe's to drop a few coins into the cup of a passing blind violinist . . . Pris-cilia Pris-cilia Lane talking a cop out of giving giv-ing her a ticket near the Lincoln tunnel . . . Bunny Waters of the Billy Rose festival at the Horseshoe wearing a wedding ring. A what? . . . Cafe decorator Vernon Mac-Farlane, Mac-Farlane, studying the ruins of London Lon-don in a newspaper, and exclaiming: exclaim-ing: "Good heavens! My tailor's place has been blown to bits wotta pity!" . . , Beaverbrook's C V. R. Thompson, who calls It "The Italian Quitzkrieg." Sallies In Our Alley: G. Henri-Haye, Henri-Haye, Vichy's envoy to the U. S., is going home. France knows it is important to have a good man in Washington . . . "And," observed a critie, "that ain't Haye!" . . . Eddy Duchin knows an Italian general gen-eral who (in reporting to II Duce) was asked about the Albanian sit-cheeayshun sit-cheeayshun . . . "It's all Greek to me!" was the reply ... At a dinner din-ner the other night, when a speaker remarked that the perfect age for a woman was thirty, Toastmaster Bob Christenberry added: "Especially "Espe-cially if she is forty." Smalltown Vignette: Orson Welles had a lecture date to fill recently in a mid western town ... The date came on a chilly, rainy night, and a thin crowd turned out . . . Moreover, More-over, the committee had neglected to provide a speaker to introduce Welles , . . He stepped onto the platform, looked over the scattered audience, and said: "You probably don't know me. I'm a stage director, direc-tor, producer, actor and designer. In Hollywood I'm a producer, director direc-tor and actor. In radio I'm a director direc-tor and actor. In fact, there's no point in continuing this thing. There are so many of me and so few of you!" Memos of a Midnighter: Doris Dudley and June Havoc no longer share the same apt. Reason: Life mag did a layout on Dudley's manse In White Plains and June hogged the lens tor nearly 70 per cent of the pix . . Margo is expected to file against F, tederer within the fortnight fort-night . . . She's been long-distancing her New York attorney from Hollywood . . . The buzz has Rou-ben Rou-ben Mamoulian stitching with Irene Lee of Warner's story dep't soon . . . Remember Tommy Jackson, who became famous playing the detective de-tective in "Broadway"? Well, he's now on the District Attorney's staff In L. A., as a special investigator . . The gab persists that Dewey will retire New Year's Day for private pri-vate practice ... Hemingway says he is buying a house, in Cuba, not switching citizenship. Manhattan Morals: , The recent snow and slush putting a wet blanket blan-ket on the city's streets. The best Miami Beach ad of them all The bright little Christmas card shoppes that spring up every year at this time adding a little sparkle to the dreary town . . . The sign In the window of a hosiery shop: "Do Your Christmas Shopping, Girly!" . . . The Carnegie Hall Apartments which advertise: "Piano and Bath" . . The excited Broad-wayites Broad-wayites arguing about the headlines, near the Times Building Union Square in a high hat . . Sign In a West 49th Street barber shop featurina a sun-lamn treatment: "We'll Tan Your Hide for 50 Cents." Broadway Ticker-Tape: MGM will exdoit "Comrade X" this way: "It's funnier than Ninotchka and easier to pronounce!" Are Sam Barken Bar-ken (the prop, of Miami Beach's big-time big-time S o'CIock Club) and Barbara MacLean secretly sealed? . . The S. Carmels have separate tepees. He's a noted attorney. She's the "legs" in the Real Silk adverts They are saying Miriam Hopkins' next play: "Battle of the Angels" is the risgayest yet . It's a girl for the Richard Snyders of the Mirror Mir-ror One of the biggest Industrialists Indus-trialists In the nation (whose initials are B. D.) has just bet a small mint that the U. S. will be in a war within 60 days The Mexican president is expected to visit the White House in Feb. New r orchids: Bob Grant's crew toying witb the rhythms at the Savoy-Plaza . Benny Goodman's torridisc of "Benny Rides Again," a Columbia platter - . Connie Bos-well's Bos-well's double-talk warbling of "Stra-va-na-da" via the Bing Crosby program pro-gram Douglas Williams' new book: 'The New Contemptibles." The first book published by Bren- tano's in ten years . Warden Lawes' thrilling book: "Meet the Murderer" (Harper's) Coca Cola's new radio show via CFSun-day CFSun-day . . .J" the KostelannUi SpS jlhfchinnihh Washington, D. C. PARITY PAYMENTS Farm legislation for the new congress con-gress Is still chiefly In the "talk" stage, but one thing can be put down as definite: The parity payment program pro-gram at best Is due for a big slash. In the new budget now being framed, parity payments are not entirely en-tirely eliminated, but they are cut to the bone. Instead of the $212.-000,000 $212.-000,000 voted last spring, the figure under consideration is .only $50,000,-000. $50,000,-000. And even this isn't certain. It is entirely possible, under the policy of holding down all "normal" expenditures to the bone to provide more funds for defense, that the parity item may be eliminated entirely en-tirely before the budget is finished. Some congressional farm leaders are making no secret of their desire to supplant parity loans with a more financially sound plan. Chief among them is Rep. Hampton Ful-mer Ful-mer of South Carolina, new chairman chair-man of the house agriculture committee, com-mittee, who is a strong advocate ef the "Income certificate plan." This is a modified version of the old AAA processing tax under which processors would pay growers the difference between the market price and parity, in certificates purchased from the government. VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS Secretary of Commerce Jesse Jones wasn't exaggerating when he predicted that this would be the most prosperous Christmas in history. his-tory. Economists of the federal reserve board, commerce and labor departments depart-ments estimate a Yuletide business season surpassing even the peak in 1929. According to their private figures, fig-ures, dollar sales will about equal 1929, but business volume will be considerably heavier (1940 price levels lev-els are nearly 20 per cent lower). That is, each dollar spent will buy about one-fifth more than it did in the last of the boom years. This Is the way the experts forecast fore-cast the Christmas season: Employment Because of the vast defense program, employment will be greater this month than at any time since 1929, with more than.37,-000,000 than.37,-000,000 (excluding temporary Christmas Christ-mas employees) on private payrolls an increase of 1,400.000 over December, De-cember, 1939. Payrolls Manufacturing payrolls will be 12 per cent greater than last December. That means $25,000,000 more a week will be paid In wages to Industrial workers. Retail trade Sales generally will be from 8 to 10 per cent greater than 1939. Department store sales will be 9 per cent more than last Christmas, but still under record-breaking record-breaking 1929. On the other hand, mail order and variety store sales will be the highest in history. A very Merry Christmas, indeed. WILLKIE AND NEW CHAIRMAN There is a sputtering of ire among Republican national committeemen when they heard that Wendell Will-kie Will-kie considers it his right to name the successor to National Chairman Joe Martin, who wants to quit in order to give all his time to bossing the house Republicans. Willkie picked Martin, and now takes the position that he also is entitled to select Martin's successor. But to the hard-headed, political professionals, a candidate running for office and a defeated candidate are horses of entirely different col ors. The first is a potential incunr bent who may have patronage and favors to dispense, and therefore commands the right to call the tune, But a defeated standard-bearer is a has-been, and the boys are not in terested In faded hopes. So Willkie's claim to continued party leadership is meeting with very glacial response, when he told some of the national committeemen that they should name the man he wants, the boys tactfully, but point edly, replied that the national com mittee is an elected body and alone has the power to fill a chairmanship vacancy. MARTIN'S SUCCESSOR Martin is very eager to shed himself him-self of the chairmanship. The undercover maneuvering for the strategic place already is hot Tom Dewey, Governor Bricker of Ohio. Sen. Bob Taft, Senator Van-denberg Van-denberg and others, with 1944 in mind, each is determined that no one hostile to him shall get it The situation calls for a neutral, or someone acceptable to a combination combina-tion of the leaders. Martin privately is afraid that it won't be possible to find either and that to avoid a battle-royal he will be stuck as national chairman for some time to come. MERRY-GO-ROUND William Reuther, young, red haired executive of the United AuU Workers, has submitted a plan tc defense authorities whereby,- by us ing the entire auto industry as ont plant, it would be possible withir six months to produce an all-metal single-motor pursuit plane at th rate of 500 a day Under Reuther i sensational program the planes no' only would incorporate all the later developments of Britain's famoui Spitfires but would cost only one third their present price. WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS By Edward C. Wayne Hitler Seeks Way to End Misadventure Of Mussolini Against Battling Greeks; Farm Group Asks New 'Parity' Loans; Lord Lothian, British Envoy, Dies E DITOR'S NOTE Wbe plnlom Uom ! tbt bwi analyst and IRleaed by Wetero (Mi I L; 4. r1 v 1 mMV 1 niotnr hi thi retary of Navy Frank Knox (left) as Y S V IE fenses, "Somewnere in ransma." enown ien vo rigni are; ocwtwij Knox; MaJ. Gen. Jarman, commanding the Panama coast artillery brl-a. brl-a. ii.t nan vn Vnnrhlt. Mmmindlnr th irmt'i Canal forces: 0U, kJl u . wu. - " " - . . F Captain Hickey, 15th naval district Rohsenberger. PEACE TALK: On Many Fronts While cannon roared and ships were torpedoed into the deep, talk of peace broke out in Europe. But there was no peace. The fury on land, sea and in the air did not abate, nor did tjiere seem much chance that the peace moves would be successful. In England a motion was made in commons by Independent Labor-ites Labor-ites from Glasgow that the govern-ment govern-ment seek a negotiated peace. The government's reply was made by Maj. Clement Atlee, Labor leader, who said the choice was not war or peace but "war and what kind of peace." The motion was defeated 341 to 4. The following day in a Northampton election a candidate who campaigned on a "stop the war" platform was defeated 1,167 to 16,587. In Germany there were indications indica-tions that Adolf Hitler was seeking a formula to bring an end to the Italian misadventure against Greece. The effort was handled by Franz von Papen in Turkey who sought to have that nation intervene with Greece. This was Important since any German move to help Mussolini would require movement of Nazi troops through Bulgaria or Jugoslavia Jugo-slavia and risk involvement with Turkey. But Greece was in no mood for a cessation of hostilities. In Portugal there were rumors of underEround movements seeking peace. Many looked upon this as the most logical step of all, since Hitler would rather trust dictator-controlled dictator-controlled Portugal than either the pope or President Roosevelt Also Portugal has for 400 years been allied al-lied to England. War Goes On In Italy, Premier Mussolini was continuing reorganization of his combat forces. Added to the retirement retire-ment list was Marshal Pietro Badoglio, hero of Ethiopia and commander com-mander of all armed forces; Gen. Ettore Bastico, governor of the strategic stra-tegic Dodecanese islands; and Admiral Ad-miral Cavagnari, chief of the naval jtaff who had served Italy in' five wars. The "invasion of Greece" begun a month earlier was turning into debacle. Italian forces had lost all supply bases and airbases in southern Albania. Many of the bases had been built and equipped since Italy took over Albania and all were aimed at carrying on the march toward the Aegean. How far Into central Albania the Italians would be forced to retreat before finding a new defense line was uncertain. un-certain. In Egypt the British opened another an-other blitz against the Italians. For weeks the army of Marshal Graziani sat at Sidi Barrani, 75 miles within the Egyptian border. Then the British struck. In the first three days they took 4,000 prisoners, killed the commanding officer of the post and captured his assistant. All this was aimed at pressing a concerted drive to crack Italy and ut a wedge into the Axis alliance. ithin Italy there were reports of anti-Fascist riots aid murmurs of discontent. Otherwise on the war front: C Britain pressed its case for finan cial aid from the United States and the movement was highlighted by an expression from Jesse Jones, administrator ad-ministrator of the RFC. that he regarded re-garded England as "a good risk." Sir Frederick Philips. British under secretary of the treasurer, conferred in Washington on English holdings in the U. S.. which may not be sufficient suf-ficient to last another year. C The U. S. navy reported its building build-ing program was ahead of schedule and one new ship was being turned out every 12 days. r cipreaied B Iheaa lomnt, thT do! acteasarily ( ttai aewipaper.l newspaper liiilim an xv r. Signal Cnrnn. IT K. A., showing Sec he Inspected the army's coastal de a J chief of staff; and Lieut. Col. Carl LOSS: One Ambassador "It's like a plank had dropped out of things," was one official reaction reac-tion in London to the news that Lord Lothian, British ambassador to the United States, had died in Washington, Wash-ington, D. C Victim of a uremic infection. Lord Lothian was ill but a few days and died at the age of 58 years. Night before his death he had been forced by his illness to cancel an appearance before the American Farm Bureau federation meeting in Baltimore. However, in a speech written by him and delivered by Neville Butler, counselor of the British embassy, Lothian made a strong appeal for more aid by the United States for the British war cause. Announcement of his death followed fol-lowed only by a few hours the news of the speech. Popular in Washington circles, Lothian was respected by his superiors su-periors and his countrymen at home. Official British sources said quite frankly that his Influence in Washington would be sorely missed in these critical days. Lord Lothian came to the United States as ambassador am-bassador in 1939. FARM PROGRAM: Loan Advocated The American Farm Bureau federation, fed-eration, meeting in Baltimore, advocated advo-cated a program, which through the use of government loans, would peg prices of major crops considerably above current market quotations. The federation, which has been pro-New Deal, admitted the plan would require congressional revision of the present agricultural legislation. legisla-tion. The present law permits loans up to 75 per cent of parity rates. The proposed legislation would make loans to farmers at rates equivalent to 85 per cent. Edward A. O'Neal, federation president, said parity prices based on current conditions were about $1.12 a bushel for wheat, 15.75 a pound for cotton and 81.5 cents a bushel for corn. Coupled with the high loan feature would be a system of marketing quotas and heavy penalties for farmers who sold in excess of their allotments. EPIDEMIC: But Not Serious Developing in California and sweeping eastward with reduced strength, an epidemic of influenza sent thousands of people to sick beds but at no time became serious in the eyes of medical authorities. Greatest cause of rejoicing among them however, was the fact that the type of influenza was not the deadly one that covered the nation in 1918-1919. The present type contained con-tained none of the forms of pneumonia pneu-monia present in the World war epidemic. However hundreds of men in army cantonments were placed in hospitals hos-pitals and precautions were set up among the civilian population. Doctors Doc-tors mostly ordered rest and sleep. Right at the moment, there is no sure way of controlling influenza, according ac-cording to the public health service. Medical science is better than in 1918, however, in at least one case the virus which causes the malady has been isolated. SUPERLATIVES . . . of the week Newest A concave screen is going go-ing on the market for movie theaters. thea-ters. It is designed to give a three-dimensional three-dimensional effect to ordinary films. Most FergcUul Atlanta. Ga., forgot for-got about an election day. The liquor stores opened for business and almost everyone forgot to vote. It wss the municipal general election and primaries are what count '.f.Yi 1- n 1 School Days 1 W A r -J LONDON, ENGLAND. A Harrow schoolboy laughingly holding parts of a German incendiary in-cendiary bomb which had fallen on the famous English school during a recent air raid. Slight damage was done to the schools museum, which houses many British relics. LIFE JOBS: At the Top Resignations of Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes and Associate Asso-ciate Justice James McReynolds from the Supreme court are expected expect-ed shortly after the inauguration. It has been gossip in the capital for weeks that Hughes offered his resignation, resig-nation, but was prevailed upon by the President to withhold it until after the campaign. The appointments, which are for life, are greatly sought after by lawyers law-yers who regard it as the highest honor that can come to their professions. pro-fessions. Many have been mentioned for the two places, but there is some indication the chief justice place may be filled from members now sitting, either Mr. Justice Stone or Mr. Justice Douglas. If such would happen, the President could make three appointments instead of two. For the other places there has been mention of Senator Minton of Indiana, who was defeated in the recent campaign; Leon Henderson of the SEC, and Attorney General Jackson. Appointment of Jackson might raise to cabinet status Francis Fran-cis Biddle, now solicitor general. NAMES ... in the news Prisoner Mrs. Elizabeth Deegan, clerk in the U. S. embassy, was taken into custody by German secret police in Paris. The granddaughter of the former senator from North Carolina was accused of assisting British officers escape occupied territory. ter-ritory. Citizen In 1936 Ruth Bryan Owen, daughter of the "Great Commoner" and minister to Denmark, married Capt Boerge Rohde, gentleman-in-waiting to Denmark's King Christian Chris-tian X. Now in Lewisburg, W. Va., the former commander of the king's life guards has taken the oath of allegiance to the United States. He said he adopted citizenship because no other country in the world guarantees guar-antees such freedom. Romance Diego Rivera, Mexican muralist, was married. Cupid shot him in a duel with Freda Kohla, who, incidentally, was the artist's third wife, from whom he was divorced di-vorced in "1939. TRAVELERS: Sea and Air President Roosevelt studied the Caribbean defense situation first hand, on the ground. On the j. S. S. Tuscaloosa be visited French-owned Martinique, British-owned Antigua, in the Leeward islands, as well as American territory. The duke and duchess of Windsor reversed that schedule, coming from the Caribbean Bahamas, where the former king is governor, to Miami, Fla. The voyage was entirely informal in-formal and was to give the duchess an opportunity to visit a dentist Col. William J. Donovan, wartime commander of the "Fighting Sixty-Ninth," Sixty-Ninth," was a passenger on the Europe-bound Clipper plane under the name "Donald Williams." Last July Colonel Donovan visited England mysteriously Just before the swap of U. S. destroyers for British air bases in the Western hemisphere was announced. an-nounced. On this trip his destination destina-tion is unknown and his mission un-revealed. un-revealed. MISCELLANY: L Turkish newspapers reported that approximately 200 Jewish refugees bound from Bulgaria to Palestine were drowned when their ship broke to pieces in rough seas near Istanbul, Istan-bul, Turkey. C After 55.000 uneventful trips on the Chicago-Cleveland route, a United Unit-ed Airlines Mainliner with 16 people aboard crashed at the Chicago airport air-port during dirty weather. Ten were killed, six injured. C For 10 years a gray-haired man lived in Johnson City. Tenn.. raised a family, attained a splendid reputation repu-tation and became a member of the police force. Then it was revealed he was E. E. Sapp, wanted by Texas police after his escape on a 89-year term in connection with murder of his first wife. Fingerprints in another an-other case trapped him. tHeieied by Western Newspaper Union.) THERE'S TIN IN ALASKA . . . BUT 55 MILES OFF SIBERIA THE CLAWS of the communistic Russian Bear are but 55 miles from the United States. Just across Bering Ber-ing strait from Cape Prince of Wales, Alaska, is Russia, with an established es-tablished airplane base at East Cape, to which planes fly each day. To offset that and other Russian bases within easy flying distance of Alaska, the American government is hurriedly building five air bases in the territory at Juneau, Anchorage, Anchor-age, Fairbanks, on Kodiak island and at Dutch Harbor in the Aleutian Aleu-tian islands. - , Should the Russian Bear conclude to take back the then icy waste he sold for $7,200,000 now that it has proved to be profitable and conduct a blitzkrieg, the. little Eskimo village vil-lage at Cape Prince of Wales would first feel the claws. Carl Dreutzer, a graduate of Annapolis, who for some years was an officer in the navy and is now a Chicago attor-ney, attor-ney, visits that .village every summer. sum-mer. On his last visit he brought back four young walruses he captured cap-tured at Cape Prince of Wales for the Brookfield zoo at Chicago. The little village consists of a dozen doz-en Eskimo families, a post office and government-conducted schooL For two years the school was taught by William Albee and his wife. They bad married in Seattle, and for a wedding trip traveled afoot through British Columbia and Alaska, finally final-ly landing at Cape Prince of Wales at a time when a teacher was needed. need-ed. They held the job until another adventurous soul applied to Washington' Wash-ington' and were then replaced. Near Cape Prince of Wales is Tin City, the site of America's only known tin deposits. Three claims are being worked in a small way, but lack of smelter facilities prevents pre-vents sufficient development to determine de-termine the extent of the ore. Two years ago Dreutzer staked some 16 claims for himself and associates but has attempted no development work on them. America uses more than 50 per cent of the world's production of tin. The greater portion of it comes from the Far East, and that supply would be jeopardized if we had war with Japan. Recently the government contracted to take over all the tin production of Bolivia as insurance against the possible loss of the Far East supply. With a government smelter now being built at San Fran Cisco, the tin claims at Tin City may become valuable. PUTTING SKIM MILK AND SUCH TO WORK THE UPHOLSTERING in a 1941 Ford car will be made from soy bean fiber. It represents another step in providing a market for American farm products. Felt hats are now being made from skim milk, of which thousands of pounds are thrown away every day. That is another item pointing to a future for the American farmer. There are some sixty different farm products that are or can be raised in the United States, but which today are being imported into the country to the extent of $1,500,-000,000 $1,500,-000,000 a year. America can keep that money at home by encouraging American farmers to grow these products we are now importing, and the money they sell for can go into the pockets of American farm-, ers. The solution must come from encouragement en-couragement for farmers to produce the crops and encouragement for private industry to provide processing process-ing establishments in which such crops can be utilized. To accomplish it all requires the full play of the American system of free competition, which has created for the American people the highest living standards on earth. With the farms and the laboratories of industry indus-try working together, America can face the future with confidence. MODERN WAR TAKES A NEW TYPE OF TOLL JUDGING from newspaper headlines, head-lines, we would believe that London and other cities of England have been practically wiped out and a large part of the population killed by German bombs. The fact is that in no major war in modern history was the number killed so small as in the present struggle since the French army quit From the most authentic accounts, ac-counts, the number of people killed by German bombs in all England is not as great as 20.000. In the first World war, battles last-ing last-ing but one or two days resulted in far more than that number of deaths. The total number killed in all armies engaged in that war was approximately 6,000,000. German air raids over all of England Eng-land have resulted in killing only about three-tenths of 1 per cent of 6,000,000 people. The value of the planes Germany has lost and cost of bombs she has used probably would be nearly, as great as value of property destroyed In the way of property destruction, destruc-tion, less than 10 per cent of the buildings of London have been either ei-ther completey destroyed or partially par-tially damaged. jv "lHe f rock VOU'LL need an 1 afternoon frock, ies coming on, and. yp-that yp-that Will make Afr particularly rtlmSd A face fresh and apSL or yourself with d2l561 la velveteen, chS0' spun rayon or flat c M See how beautiful th. cut make, it melt K 2 That clever skirt detailing in front Is a perfect way to achieve the smart "concealed fullness." The draped bodice is not only n important im-portant fashion point, but also very becoming to slim figures, because be-cause it tends to round eat the bofsom. Pattern No. 8826 is designei lor siza 12, 14, 16. 18 and 20. Size 14 requires, with short sleeves, 4 yards ! W material without nap; long sleeve 4' yards, yard lace. 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