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Show THE JOURNAL jpATAVUM Dy Jarvis Page 7 ONCE OVER Count Your Bees H. I. Phillips THE ELMER TWITCIIELLS had quite a time with a piece of census mail that arrived yesterday. They can take questions in their stride like most folks, but the ones in this census form baffled them. The first question Elmer noticed was this: any bees owned by you in j This was a new one. Nobody had ever asked Elmer that before by mail, phone, letter or personal call. He hesitated to answer too quickly. He remembered seeing some bees in the summer of 1949 Could there be guilt by association? "Did you see any bees in 1949?" he asked the wife. "Any what?" "Bees , . . you know , . . . . buzz-z-- z "No! 1949 buzz-z-z.- " was the thought you knew." year," replied our wasp wife. "1 Elmer Insisted. "This Is a census blank. Look! It also asks if we owned bees, how many?" "Reading from left to right or vertical?" asked Mrs. Twitchell. "And It asks how many hives did we have and what we made from honey and wax?" "I cant recall any honey in the last fiscal year but Im not sure about wax. The government win $50,000 if the ice on the Yukon shouldnt bring up a matter like river starts breaking up at 6:09 a wax so abruptly. Just say no and m. May 13. He entered the famous tell em we are the hornet type." Alaskan "Ice Pool" through his mother, who lives in Juneau. "How about ewes?" asked et timer's Technique zzles Hollywood Movie Men Low-Budg- GERHARD I By INEZ iNLEY KRAMER made "The for less than $600 tampion Jit will gross more than two made the Brave" for the it had already million. Then he ll ne-ha- Home of d amount; even more, though highly iversial. Hollywood respects but doesn't see how producer does it. His figures oung icture, 'The Men, will make wonder still more. He does buying a really good story, k ig a rehearsal two-wee- be-shooti- ng starts, casting the rather than stars, pick, director for ability, not his and then throwing in just of genius that is purely actors y Elmer. "Watch your grammar!" said Colombia's search for a handsome young southpaw baseball pitcher who can act a romantio role, or a handsome young actor who can pitch the wife. left-hande- d, ended with the signing of Richard Taylor for the romantic lead in "Kill the Umpire", William Bendix starrer. was Taylor, a husky formerly a. professional ball player with Salem, Ore., in the Western International league. six-foot- er, Kramer. John Garfield, director Michael stood out as Curtiz, and writer Ronald Mac-Douga- Lovejoy, who leant Mingo" in "Home of the )" will I in J with Kathleen co-st- ar her American film debut e Sound of Fury", for United release. And Warners have r f him to a contract long-ter- m fre announcing that he is one brightest of the new crop of i stars. His work in their Bottom" convinced them. ( Russell's first car, a Ford ? from the proceeds of her as star Howard 1 Outlaw", still stands garage. She says . shell young men whose ae C, 11 , C known r family to movie-- C make their screen , Tr!po,i Pine-Producti- One is WdnMa-ha- I1 I al-- L as a memento of the rnade her a sensation. ecp on. 10-- Berle. nephew ?.theother,s Pat Ford, Ford, the well- - SrsnCCt0r as been as a screen Jeveral years, but try Ws hand at fS CCessfully Ster )Lg holed up on a telephoneless, ranch while finishing s "The Breaking Point" wanted to keep the plot a secret. Garfield had but, one request.. "All I want," said he, "is more guns than Humphrey Bogart had in Key Largo. Which gives you some idea of what kind of picture it is. Not so long ago when Adele Jur gens was dancing in the chorus of a New York night club her favorite souvenir was a program auto graphed by Randolph Scott. When Warners' "Sugarfoot" is released you'll see her starring with him. . Addle Richton and Lyn Stone, who write CBSs "Hilltop House", the story of a mythical orphanage, have travelled more than 13,000 miles In the last two years getting material. With the regular cast of characters, headed by Jan Miner, "Julie Erickson", sample scripts are acted out before an Impartial jury of women, to make sure of getting absolute realism. ODDS I hm stars11 fage in Wev PJ- - . 'I 4 new many lm for Nicholas JwttUv Ha, u ,pots to give OUSht idea of the much about. " to w the past. i!a.? Po 80 recive a, thorough finely Place", n,0ar rto'? ml j mail-les- 80 ,crn "Th8 TW0 Baak Robbery", will ll AND ENDS . . Vinton Hayworth, who recently starred on "Silver Theatre", was of Course nicknamed "Prince," though hes no relation to Rita . . . After more than four years of appearing on the air in "Rosemary", Patsy Campbell has given up her role, but she will still be heard in another day time serial, "The Second Mrs. Bur ton" . . . After three rides with her English chauffeur, when Jane Wy man was in Londob making "Stage Fright," she began calling him "Smitty." Released by WNU Features Duke, Finding It Costly To Live, Must Sell Land Those Who Seek - A ENGLAND. of Arundel, Sussex, large piece must go under the auctioneers LONDON, Pirate Treasure hammer because the landlord, the duke of Norfolk was finding the tax burden "too heavy." Included in the property to be sold were eight Georgian houses, borough secretarys office, the Westminister bank, county council baby clinic and public library and the fire sta- Rated as Chumps - WASHINGTON. This may be throwing a lot of cold water on a lot of heated interest in burled treasure but according to experts tion. "Im not kidding," STAR DUST BONDS . . . Mrs. Truman receives leaders of next bond drive. There were also the offices of the Southdown bus company, a petrol filling station, a Jewelers, a stationers, a sweet shop, a wireless shop, a corn store, a shop, a butcher's, a bakers, and a house the council has requisitioned for flats. Among a number of tearooms up for sale will be Ye Olde Dairy and Honeybuns Guest house. This is the fourth sale of Arundel property since 1947 by the duke, whose castle overlooks the ancient Highstreet in which 19 of the properties stand. At the first sale he told his tennants that he was obligated to sell "on account of the heavy burden of present taxation. A member of the firm of New-lanTompkins & Naylor, who were handling the sale, said: "The duke has felt it necesprinting and the record, anyone who goes hunting for ptrate gold puts himself in the chump category. Thats the word from Lt. Cmdr. K. D. Ian Murray, formerly of the British merchant marine. lie says he has been checking up on pirate lore ever since he first read "Treasure Island." Murray said that it is quite true that pirate gold exists by the bush- el for those lucky enough to find it. Island Treasure Sites On the island of Trinidad, for instance, he is pretty sure some 30 million dollars is stacked away. He is pretty sure, too, that plenty is buried on Cocos island, off Central America. Furthermore, he says, records are fairly complete of ships that have gone down stuffed to the deck with treasure. But this stuff is almost impossible to find. If to it is in water, It Js now far below sary make further sales owing to the pressure of taxation. He the ocean's bottom. If it is on to afford live." land, the very terrain may have just cant changed so much that even the maps if they still exist no longer are any good. Murray thinks piracy was a pretty good business, back In its day. There have been pirates almost from the time of the first sailors of ship. And pirates still exist off the NORFOLK, VA.-- The China coast. Uncle Sams navy have told the The pirate had a strict big brass to "belay that new unicode, according to Murray, and form." life wasnt all yo ho ho and a botThe gobs were anything but unitle of rum. fied on the question of the new One bluenosed pirate, a Capt. regulation garb for enlisted per- Roberts, allowed no wine, women sonnel. It provided more scuttleor assorted wickedness. And it butt (navy for "gossip") than any- another were ship captured, Capt. thing that has happened since the Roberts turned loose all who could grounding of the "Big Mo." one of the Ten Commandgive any Many of the sailors voiced salty ments. disagreement with an order for One Drawback roomier garb, complete with zipMurray points out one drawback per to replace the customary to modern treasure hunting: There trousers. Pockets, too, would be provided in the new uni- have been no major developments in the science since the invention forms. D. R. Feria, steward, third class, of the diving bell and the diving from the Philippines, mourned the suit. Of modern inventions, he thinks passing of the pants with 13 buttons only the mine detector has many representing the 13 colonies. of uniform our possibilities. "Every part stands for something," Feria said. The commander seems to be do"If they change it, they will take ing all right. True, on his ramaway some meaning that has been bling, he has managed to pick up with the navy for 200 years." only a few pieces of pirate gold. An Atlantic fleet headquarters But he has been acting as technispokesman said privately that in a cal adviser on motion pictures of recent poll aboard the cruiser Co- the sea, especially those with a lumbus not a single man favored piratical twist. the new blues. There Is more than one way to "The new jumper looks like a skin a cat and more than one sack," said Apprentice Seaman way to get at buried treasure. He Jack R. Cunningham, 19, of Ash- didnt say how much he thought tabula, Ohio, who serves aboard was buried in Hollywood. the minesweeper Peregrine. "I dont like the pockets in the pants. Children's Shoes It looks too much like a civilian report that chiloutfit. I enlisted to be a sailor and dren their shoes one to outgrow I want to look like one." six months until they are 15. Seaman, first class, Bobby J. Davis, 19, of Athens, Ala., predictSeamstress Aid ed that a sailor wouldnt have a Newspapers on the. floor around girl In any port "If theyre going to give us civil- the sewing center help catch ravel-lngand small pieces of cloth. ian clothes, they ought to take away our ID (identification) and They are easily rfs Released by WNU Features liberty cards, too," Davis said. d, "This Is spelled 'ewe.' What is a ewe?" "It Is one of the vowels. Dont tell me Washington Is counting them! Just put down that we had two ewes, one new and one used ewe." "It asks here If we had any rams or wethers around," pressed Elmer. "I couldnt be sure. This neighborhood is getting less and less restricted," said the wife. Did we own any rabbits, goats, geese, ducks or pigeons?" "We had a pigeon during the first quarter. I didnt know Washington cared." "What about profits from nuts, fruits, romaine, plmientos, chic (Elmer was ory and escarole? still reading from the form.) . "I made a killing in chicory. But the escarole was in your name," said the wife. (Here the keepers entered and took the Twitchells away. They are looking for the government offi cials who sent them the census form headed, "This Is Your Agri cultural Census Blank. Answer all questions clearly and honestly.") VE GOTHAM BUGLE & BANNER American Sailors Vocal in Protest Against New Garb old-tim- e 13-butt- on - Ghosts are the theme of "Great To Be Alive and we know a fellow who asked that two invisible seats be sent him by phone . ... He is going as a couple of phan toms . . . Suggested musical num ber:' "Dancing Wraith to Wraith . . . Incidentally ye ed thought the new musical delightfully novel and the music swell . . . How about an Oscar to Olivia DeHavilland for the We best collection of Oscars? do not criticise the awards to Miss DeHavilland and Broderick Craw ford for the best picture during but think Vice President 1949, Barkley and the bride should have The 1950 Oscar been second for book dedication goes to Ralph de Toledano and Victor Lasky for their fly leaf inscription In "Seeds of Treason" . . . "To Joseph Stalin, without whose aid this book would never have been written." . Oddity of 1950; "Rain Making . Postponed on account of rain . ... Foot-specialis- ts s |