The Winnipeg Tribune from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada • Page 7

FRIDAY, MAY 2, 1947 WUaUojiAC6 FMJITA TIVES William Rosenburg Meets Billy Rose buslnesa. What happens? "Look" magazine does a photo layout on how you spend your Sundays. Reporters ask you how you stand on the question of a free Trieste. The bonniest bustles In 14 states warm the bench outside1 our office. The 'grocer who grosses a million brags to his wife he knows you.

Need any more Name four Representatives In Congress from your own Okay. Stand in the corner, you dunce. Now, name the actor who played Rhett Butler in "Gone With the Wind." The prosecution rests. Which is my windy way of saying it's tough to be in show business and not get a swelled head. It's tough not to believe the bilge your own press agent writes about you.

WelU speaking of the big head, I. don't think the bus ness ever had to put up with a more Inflated noggin than the one I was toting around back in 1940. I had two Aquacades going for me one in New York and one in San Francisco. Mile long lines of intelligent people were queuelng up in front of my water shows to give me their forty centses. My night club in Manhattan was playing to almost as mjch business as the subway.

Phot'o mags were popping flash bulbs in my face, and delirious caption writers were dubbing me "Public Showman No. 1." High over the New York States amphitheatre, a block lone neon sign ballyhooed my name In letters of fire. And money? Why, old time gold prospectors were fighting for the chance to pan out my bath water! My ealloping case of stra finally get my missus down. "Say, am sutm mvtsi YOU NEED MORE LIVGn BILE Ideate says FT sWafs eWy, jref mmy A fefMfvM. lit Wis kip tt par I I naturatlinirn.

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1 I in By BILLY ROSE BERG!" (tffo Gross a million dollars in the grocery business. What happens? Your nrother ln laW comes around and tries to sell ycu insurance. Your daughter goes to Miss Finch's School for Young Ladies and chases you upstairs when company comes. When you die, you might get as much as two inches In the Wholesale Grocers' Weekly. Gross million dollars in'show Wonder Boy," Eleanor sarcas ticked one day, "why pay Johnny Wiesmuefler all that money? I'm sure the audience would rather see YOU do a little walking en the water." The world was my oyster all right, all right, but I forgot about the months without an In them.

I got my come uppance that August. I got cut down to size, and, as you may have heard, that ain't big. One afternoon an assistant yes man came panting into my office. Boss, boss." he puffed, "A guy at the other end of the midway is swiping your name. Sells canaries.

Calls his place 'Billy Rose's Pet Shop." To me that was like putting the snatch on the Holy Gra 1. "I'll run him out of the Fair!" I exploded. "I'll get Grover to throw nun off the grounds. My lawyers will bury him In injunctions!" Next afternoon a committee ol e'ght lawyers, managers, Fair of I icia Is marched up to the pet shop. At the bottom of a little store window was a mess of baby turtles with Trylons and Perispheres painted on their backs.

Above them, in little wooden cages, was an assortment of tired canaries. "Live read a tiny sign over the door. Above it, in bigger letters, there it was "Billy Rose's Pet Shop." Breathing fire and acid, I stomped in. My board of strategy squeezed In after me. The shop was empty, except for a wispy little geezer feeding a goldfish.

"Where do you get off using my name on this sparrow loft?" I thundered. 'Tve spent a lot of time and money making the nam? Billy Rose stand for something. Rip down those signs or I'll have you and your two bit menagerie put in jail!" The little pet shop owner never stopped feeding his fish. "Don't holler," he said. "It scares the canaries.

Perhaps you'd like to see my birth certificate. It happens my name For a long moment, nothing ould be heard In that shop but he twittering from the cages. One Sf my lawyers hid his smile behind his brief case. "Run along," I told my committee. "I'll settle with this gentleman myself." A few minutes later I was back on the midway, little wooden cage tucket under my arm.

Tha buck and a quarter canary got a lot of attention in my office that summer. My missus knows the story. Whenever I let the swelling In my scrap book go to my head, she chirps, "Tweet tweet, tweet tweet." I pipe down. It's hard to be uppity when I think of that afternoon at the Worlds Fair the afternoon when I got the bird. 25 Houses to be Built (Special to The Wlnnlpes Tribune) FORT FRANCES, May 2 Tenders for the construction of 25 homes in Fort Frances to be built under Wartime Housing Limited were called for Thursday.

The houses will be built on Phair avenue end the town will put Jn Water, sewer and sidewalks and a graded street. The Quality Tea RTi a a fin AT 'Lnitzi'siit 1111 VuXCAKES 01 BUCKWHEATS) ORANGE PEKOE rl i fox mors Xv HORIZONTAL praertlra part of Building I aioem Female (heap 12 Quack 14 Bquallty 11 Frontlat 15 NlgMtfall II Gown to ouiiie's high rata (f1 Toward, tz By 84 TO wandtr To rocllna 21 Youth SO Ta Seaae Body ot water IS Flail aauee 17 Tumult Mutlci thro 40 Splendor 4t Moana a antrance 44 Arehala pronoun 49 Italian ealn 47 To abound 4 Not at scale It toundtd re aonantly II To alnk eud eerily IS Sleepletsneae II Mtntal Image Alia 1 AdvortUIng IS rrover 14 Slumbartd II taw: thing VERTICAL 1 To behave I Ortk latter I Rlvr In Franca 4 MUtaKe I Colloquial! mother I (hochonun Indian Bomrjait I To toll Slander flnlal 10 To dMlro Therefore YOUR OPINIONS Briefly worded letters on topics et public Interest are welcome In this column. Letters must be accompanied by the name and of the writer. The editor reaervea the right to cut letters when space limitations so require. Income Tax Editor The Tribune Sir: If a person makes a mistake or omits the 16 tax reduction in figuring his income tax he will not lose as the government will return the overpayment.

However there are other overpayments that aren't recognized as such. For instance: The rate on a $1400 income for married without dependents is $65. If the taxable income exceeds this by 25c he has the choice of paying the $1410 rate which is $68 or making a gift to His Majesty of the 25c which reduces his taxable income to $1400. See page 3 of form Tl Special. The taxpayer must send the gift before May 1st 1947.

According to the law of averages two out of every ten taxpayers should profit by a gift. The same applies less frequently to family allowance recovery. An employe with a $1405.21 Income received $278 family allowance. A Gift of $5.21 to the government reduced his income to and saved the 10 family allowance recovery of $27.80. That lsn chiselling so I think every taxpayer should get the henefit of the min mum tax regardless of his IQ.

JOHN W. GILBERT Hanover, Ont. April 17 Jehovah's Witnesses Editor, The Tribune, Sir, On Monday. April 14 you printed part of a speech presented by the Mos Rev. Gerald Murray, Roman Catholic coadjutor bishop of Winnipeg before the Knights of Columbus initiation banquet I am not one of Jehovah's Witnesses but I think an unbiased Christian should not have made this attack against any other Christian denomination.

Jehovah's Witnesses are no more subversive or Ignorant on Bible doctrines than any other Protestant Church body. They are "Stickers" for what they believe, and that Is where the trouble comes in. They have as much right to preach Christ as they believe, as any other church organization, and be unmolested at that. I believe they allow the same liberty to others. The printing of same was not In good taste, but tends to stir tip trouble, setting variances of one Church body against another.

R. LEGATE. St, Charles, Man. April 18. Man, 56, Injured In Tram, Accident John Norrhagen, 56, of 353 Broadway sustained possible fractures to the left ribs and the left shoulder and lacerations to the left side of the scalp Thursday when he was struck by a street car on Broadway just west of Hargrave at about 1.20 p.m.

According to the police, the i street car, operated by Charles Thomas, 799 ElHe was traveling west on Broadway, when it struck Norrhagen, who was walking suoth across Broadway. The Injured man wa taken to the 'General hospital by the police His condition was reported to be good. THE WINNIPEG TRIBUNE PAGE 7 1 BRITICH MIDGET AUTO: A new British midget auto with a one piece aluminum body, and rear twin cylinder, 5 horse power engine is demonstrated in London. The car has top speed of 70 miles per hour and gasoline consumption of 65 miles per gallon. 1' 11' I II 14 l' 19 1 10 if it nr i JS 36 J7i 3 39 40 4 Mill 43 44 JL 45 4 7T vr aipr st $rp" ir ww.w, sn 1 jj; 11 Toll 17 Metal apleula 11 At any time 22 Wlngo tJ 8cpton 21 Wife ot Goralnt 27 To eoniume 2 Smell valley 11 Sound made a horn IS Fundamental tone In a muileal eompoeltlon 14 Before Capital of Egypt SI Pedal dlglti 41 Journeya an toot 45 Remaining fragment 46 make vo'i 41 Egyptian admlnlitra tlvo official 41 Suite Ox of Celebes 12 To flout 54 To allot Relmburiee 1 17 To ecatter, aa I aeed tl High mountain 62 Pronoun Answer te Yeterdaye Funl lieieI (TTs JsTk iTr DM EI lit I KjT A 2 III 1 rJt i sTc a i oa" io 0" 1 rT TJE 0 I A IIS Zl I 111 rIe Dii ol a LTg BEL URO aharTa I'tillA lOlHUlTrS ClBl IHHl For $50.00 Pensions Editor, The Tribune.

Sir, I've been a subscriber for many years and find your "Opin ion" column very interesting. I would like very much to see the ball kept rolling In the column re old age pensions. It seems almost to be a political Issue, it seems very st large to have this bail bounced back and forth from one govern jment to another. It was amazing iand encouraging to see how fast the issue oLraising the tremendous sums of money required to destroy mankind during tne war was ap. proved by our governments.

Why cannot the same harmony exist and money raised for the preservation of mankind. Fifty dollars pension Is not extravagant, but the $25 is ridiculous. I have an oid perton to care for. Let us set up' the alarm clock In the various governments and wake up our politicians before it Is too 'late. JOE STADTHERR Winnipeg, April 17.

Spocncnll rcuSniniQe mil p. r.a. (Water acts com. 3 p.m.) SPORTSMEN'S SHOW AUDiTomur.1 CENERAL ADMISSION1 3Sc Reserved Start 50c 75e Reserved tickets from Celebrity Concert Box Office, Winnipeg Piano 383 Portage Ave. Ne Phene Orders Pleats Bring the Family! According to Culbertson xCopyneht ier, by North's response in today's deal could rcarcoiy have made matters more difficult for his partner! North, dealer tforth South vulnerable NORTH 9 4 9 10 3 8 WEST EAST a i it AS 10 8 7 8 9 8 4 7 5 10 i SOUTH A 10 8 7 8 A 8 7 4 At The bidding: North rait South Fair Pbm 1 tperte imwi Pah 3 nu IrnmD Pa rtlnmonde 3 hrertt pr.M 3 upadrs 4 epaart PaM Paie PaM West opened the club five and before declarer had played many tricks, he found himself in deep water.

One trick in every suit had to be lost under the very best conditions and before declarer was through trying to salvage his diamonds, he had lost a couple of more tricks, for a SOO point penalty. This was a pretty bad result for North South, especially in view of the fact that three no trump would have been easy from the South position. The actual A letter addressed to Premier tarson and to the president of the Manitoba Civil Service association was received Thursday from J. M. Mitchell, Chicago, executive director of the Civil Service Assembly of Canada and the United States, but failed to throw any light on the Intended meaning of a section of a wage report made last February by the Assembly.

In the controversy about adjustment of a rtroactive pay for the civil service which came to a head In the latter days of the Legislative sesf ion, a difference of opinion arose as to whether the Assembly Ely Culbtruoa.) four spade contract resulted from North's Inability to Interpret his partner's two no trump properly. Let us consider: After opening with one spade and hearing a two dlamond overcall from West and a spade raise from North, South had signified willingnesa to reach game in no trump by bidding two odd at that denomination. This was the clearest sort of announcement to North that South had a double stopper in the adversely bid diamond suit, and since he would not have bid the no trump with strength in only two suits, it was entirely evident that he also had something in the unbid suits, or at least In one of them. The two no trump, then, be. aides being an offer to play at a no trump contract, was an implicit suggestion that If North had auxiliary stoppers in the unbid heart and club suits, he should raise the no trump rather than continue with spades.

Certainly South could not have intended to ask North whether he too had something in diamonds by bidding two no trump against Weut'i diamond bid, South waa giving assurance that nothing need be feared in that direction. Instead of making the highly ambiguous three heart bid, North should have raised to three no trump, or at least should have done so after South bid three spades. TODAY'S CRYPTOGRAM WARANT IC MELTHAK ORW LHINUGA CHID CHRXJT Al RDTHEJR EX AGHTT CNXFHTF ZETJTW. The solution to today's Cryptogram will be published tomorrow. Here is the answer to yesterday's Cryptogram: Camera, small as ordinary matchbox, was developed by Americans during the war.

WAGE REPORT STILL CLOUDED report and recommendations In eluded the retroactive pay claims or were meant to be put into effect Independent of them. Both the civil service and the government agreed to write a joint letter to the Assembly and find out. Mr. Mitchell, in his letter, said he would be In Toronto May 5 and 6 and would confer with George T. Jackson and James Murray, Ottawa, Canadian representatives of the Civil Service Assembly.

Mr. Jackson and Mr. Murray did the work of compiling the wage report schedules for the Mahitoba Civil Service report. Firemen Rewarded BRANDON. May 2 The muni cipallty of Elton has made a donation of $25 to the firemen's fund and In addition made payment to the city for the services ot the fire department lit fighting the at Robertson'i general store in Forrest.

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