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THE EVENING SUN, HANOVER. SATURDAY. AUGUST II, 1U5 PAGE FOUR THE EVENING SDN PARK THEATER BOOKS PATRICK THE GREAT THE SUN DIAL C. I. And Shai.spear Japans Peace Offer The liar Today 'VS sc-- iM irl Hu of aJ Rev.

York decla pcki pride aU si those perso lv ui of th "Al the i its and Fathi parti1 and victir temp ing I gbilit Fi bless) talen cal maCT secur credii ackn) thanl ness, glory one i raise utter divim gbsoii Fat form were Calvii to them: Lovol Jesus reorgi Thom kiiled acv; to romec CANINE WAR VETERAN Rusty, Irish setter at whom his master. Capt. W. L. Monson of Salt Lake City is mil.

inc onre belonged to a German general and understands only Italian. Monson smuggled Rusty tut this country. Faith For Donald O'Connor And Peggy Ryan Co-Star In FUm Opening Three-Day Run Next Friday Donald O'Connor and Peggy Ryan, a popular young screen team, are starred in Universals Patrick The Great," opening a three-day engagement at the Park theater, West Chestnut street, next Friday. Described as a singing-dancing drama of show people, the new picture features Frances Dee, Donald Cook, Eve Arden, Thomas Gomez and others. The story, said to be tailored to exploit the unusual talents of its youthful stars, deals with the career of an ambitious youngster who happens to be the son of a famous musical comedy star.

Donald OConnor appears as the aspiring performer. Donald Cook portrays the father. Miss Ryan is seen as OConnors romantic dancing partner. Frances Dee Is cast as the object of young OConnors affections and later as his father's bride. The transition solves one of the story's Interesting problems by permitting the younger actor to take his fathers place in a spectacular Broadway production.

Irving Bacon, Andrew Tombes and Gavin Muir figure importantly In the dramatic plot development while OConnor and Miss Ryan present most of the films singing and dancing specialties. Musically, "Patrick The Great boasts a score which has six excellent numbers. "Frisco Sal, Universal picture starring Susanna Foster as Sal, and Turhgn Bey and Alan Curtis, will play the Park next Wednesday and Thursday. It is a fast-moving story told against the colorful background of the Barbary Coast in the Nineties. Susanna, as Sal, a New England choir singer, arrives in San Francisco to trace her brother, who is believed murdered.

She maneuvers herself into a singing Job in Turhan Beys music hall, suspecting him of some connection with her brothers disappearance. Bey, who is having trouble with a gang of hoodlums led by Alan Curtis. at first wishes she would go back to New England. But gradually he and Susanna become attracted to each other. Their romance Is short-lived, however, when Susanna is told by-one of Curtiss men that Bey murdered her brother.

It Is only after she walks out on Bey that Susanna gets a clearer perspective on the track that leads her, not to her brothers murderer, but to her brother himself. Enemy Of Women, Monogram production relating the career of Germanys minister of propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, will play the Park on Tuesday, Paul Andor has the title role. Donald Woods, Claudia Drake, Ralph Morgan and H. B. Warner head the supporting cast.

COUNTY FIREMEN PLAN CONVENTION (Continued From Page One) York County was organized in 1912 for the purpase of promoting the organization of fire companies in towns and villages, then without such protection, and to encourage a fraternal friendship among firemen of all companies within the city and county, and to (Jissemi-nate information in connection with fighting fires and fire projection. Serving as the first president was Jacob E. Weaver, York, long known for his wholehearted support of firemen and their organizations. Mr. Weaver was followed by other prominent firemen of York county in the office of president, including William H.

Long, Hanover; James E. Chalfant, York; William E. Williams, Delta; John Butcher, Dallastown; Harry B. Slagle, Hanover; Howard Sheeler, Red Lion; L. Ellis Wagner, York; Eli Stare, North York; Fred H.

Voorhees, York; R. B. Strasbaugh, New Freedom; Lee F. Reary, York; J. William Strayer, Dover; C.

D. Rex-roth, Red Lion; W. T. Mummert, York; ar.d J. Curtis Kunkle, stew-artstown.

The association has had a steady growth over a period of 33 years and the present membership is 1,332, including 165 serving in the armed forces of the United States. Due to war time regulations, no parade can be held. Arrangements are being made for a large attendance. A group of candidates has presented applications for membership. The present officers are; President, Edgar J.

Fuhrman, Hanover; first vice president, Charles G. Hammer, Wrightsville; second Vice president, Ray S. Shearer, Jacobus; third vice president, W. Henry Graser, Glen Rock; financial secretary, Marvin A. Hahe, York; recording secretary, Lewis E.

Hankie, Hanover; assistant recording secretary, Curvin A. Sheffer, Dover; treasurer, J. Ellis Wagner, York; chaplain, John D. Ferree, Yorkana. As there has always been plenty of good clean fun and even some not entirely immaculate in the comedies of William' Shakespeare, the report that delegations of American G.I.s are reveling in the recreational facilities of Stratford-On-Avon ought not ot come as a surprise.

Moreover, soldiers tastes in amusements must necessarily cover a pretty wide field. It smacks of patronizing a citizen army to think otherwise. Some of the boys attending performances at the Memorial Theater in the birthplace of the Bard may encounter his works for the first time on the stage and, with a fresh viewpoint, discover certain of his creations to be genial and folksy. Certainly Falstaff is and there is plenty of dash and flavor in Prince Hal. and Petruchio.

Other members in these military audiences must be finding old friends. The detached service plan, by which 30 of the boys are sent to Stratford each week reportedly works well and no resentment has been displayed at the explanatory lectures. Indeed, complaint is registered that these are not long enough. In addition the tracking of some old vaudeville, burlesque and cabaret jokes to their original lair must provide its compensations. Roots in Shakespeare are impressiv-ly abundant.

Philadelphia Bulletin. WESTBROOK PEGLER Country Place Now Scorned (Continued From Page One) a quiet refuge from these strains and for the natural loveliness of hills and trees and even of drifts in winter. The drifts, to me, are less attractive than they were ten years ago but younger men and women might enjoy them as once I did. But I cant see how Mrs. Roosevelts idea could work.

Land in the pleasant far suburbs of New York costs at least $100 an acre and nowadays would be nearer $150. In any extensive place this always has Included the woodlot and swamp which would produce no crop. To be sure, those who dwell In some New York apartments pay $35 a cord for 18-lnch butts for their fire-places for aesthetic effect. But harvest the wood, bring it to the road and deliver it in town and your profit is small wages for very hard work. A small farm-house burned recently not many miles from Mrs.

Roosevelt's estate and the estimates for replacement run around $5,000. This, however, is to be a prefabricated house against which Mrs. Roosevelts most devoted friends, the union officials, have a furious prejudice, although It probably Is made by union labor In the factory. The same house, erected the old way, under union restrictions, undoubtedly would cast $1,000 more. Then, It happens that there are a dug well and a pump left from the old place but dug wells are inadequate for the present bathing customs of most Americans, so, if we consider that we are starting fresh, we must reckon on about more for a drilled well and the ump and wiring.

If we have been lucky enotfgh to find 40 acres of good land with no waste, at $100, our investment Is now But we still need a tractor, a mower, and other equipment and we should have a horse for rainy spells when a tractor would get mired in the meadow and even on the sidehlll patch. And the horse needs hay which calls for a helper at certainly no less than $5 a day in haying season, although some 16-year-old boys have been getting $6 a day this year and we haven't even thought of the barn or chicken house and brooders and all. In the country where the Roosevelt estate Is. the old-timers give the late Mr. Roosevelt no reputation as an over-generous employer.

He paid only the local price for farm work which never has been sufficient to buy land, build houses and barns and eoulpment since the horse and buggy days. Contrary to Mrs. Roosevelts concept, city people have been a boon to this countryside. They make salaries or profits in town and. loving the country as country, restored old houses and built new ones and cleared thousands of acres which had been worked out and abandoned as the farmers gave up and moved to the towns for factory wages.

Naturally, that Increased values but these values represent an enormous aggregate investment of money, not Inherited but earned by the work of those who revived a neglected countryside. The dick. i appea time Memb auditc thir Ject Dead. The not 1 acient pende, ciples said. Foi preacl never as nc which world death.

Christ time a "Hei scientl Wells nurser has bombs rest, i interv) wisdon "Am more more and ct In ani the gr neglec pushes and 1 faith i 'THE CORN IS 0REEN OPENS HERE FRIDAY Bette Davis Heads Cast Of Film Version Of Stage Success Comui To State Next Week The Corn Is Green, Warner Bros, film in which Bette Davis r. turns to the local screen, will oner, a three-day engagement at the State theater, Frederick street, next Friday. "Thrill Of A Romance, technicolor musical show with Van Johnson, Esther Williams, Lauritz Melchior, Tommy Dorsey and his orchestra, and others, which onened yesterday at the State, will remain for one week, concluding its engagement next Thursday night. "The Corn Is Green. the feature at the State next week-end.

include; in its cast, in addition to Bette Davis, John Hall, Nigel Bruce, Joai. Lorring and Rhys Williams. It is a warm and tender tribute to all met. and women of good will and to everything they have ever belleveo in and loved. Acapted from the successful New York stage play by Emlvn William.1! The Corn Is Green" concerns itself with the tireless efforts of a warmhearted Englishwoman (plaved bv Bette Davis to bring the light education to the legions of miners who dig for coal in the damp mine-of nineteenth-century Wales.

Thwarted at first by the domination of the local Squire i Nigel Bruce), who sees in her plan for local education a threat to his Interests, and heartbroken by the appalling ignorance she sees all about her, Miss Moffat (Bette Davis) finds the courage and determination to continue her work when she discovers a spark of brilliance in a voung, uneducated miner, Morgan Evans (John Dali). In the two years that follows, Morgan Evans absorb! all that Miss Moffat's driving will forces upon him a.id the vouna man stands ready to test his knowledge against others in a public scholarship competition for Oxford University. But Morgan Evans and Mias Moffat have not reckoned with the willful scheming of attractive Bessie Watty (Joan Lorring), a snitefui cockney girl. Hating Miss Motfai, and determined to hurt the schoolmistress in whatever way she cam Bessie sets her cap for the youthful scholar. Their romance, however, is shortlived and Morgan returns to his world of books.

Soon the younc man finds he must make a strange choice between a brilliant career in letters in the world beyond his Welsh hills and his return to the drudgery of the mines to eke out an existence for his child, bom to Betty Watty. The film comes to a terse and dramatic climax as kindly Miss Moffat battles to convince the sensitive boy that his duty lies, noi toward the vain, frivolous young woman, but toward the world. Based on the highly successful Broadway play, The Com Is Green" reaches the screen with four important supporting roles enacted bv Rhys Williams, Rosalind Ivan, Mildred Dunnock and Gem Ross, original members of the New York company. Prepared for the screen by Casey Robinson and Frank Cavett and photographed by Sol Polito. AB.C The Com Is Green was produced bv Jack Chertok and directed by Irving Rapper.

Arrested At Gettysburg Lawrence Duncan, of no fixed address, was arrested last night by Gettysburg police on a charge of disorderly conduct. He was lodged in Jail to await a hearing this afternoon before Justice of the Peace John H. Basehore, Gettysburg. Pat Arnold, Flora Dale, was also arrested last night by Gettysburg police. A charge of drunkenness anfl disorderly conduct was laid before Justice of the Peace Robert P.

Snyder. Arnold was released this morning upon payment of a fine of I3 and costs. Entered nt the Hanover Poatoftce aa second class mail matter. Published dally except Sunday, at ISO Carlisle Street. Hanover.

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SATURDAY. AUGUST 11. 1945 WITH THE PARAGRAPHERS Of course, many people always thought that Marie Corelli, who wrote The Mighty Atom in 1896. was about 50 years before her time. Christian Science Monitor.

Despite growing restrictions, there is every indication that people are still traveling around. A few more restrictions, however, might catch them at the wrong end of the trips. Kansas City Star. Washington stores are selling three times as many bow ties now as ordinarily. Some who wonder why might find an answer- in the fact that President Truman habitually wears that style.

Sioux City tla.) Journal-Tribune. The scientists have spent a lot of time learning what every country boy knows that the only sure preventive for poison ivy is to stay away from it. Boone (la.) News-Republican. This week-end marks an imperceptible cut in the length of the day in this area. Tomorrow the sun will begin to rise after 6 o'clock, and on Sunday it will begin to set before oclock.

New York Sun. HAPPENINGS 15 YEARS AGO James Albert Little died at his home in Emmltsburg from a heart condition at the age of 75 years. At a meeting of the county Democratic organization in Gettysburg. Miss Lillie Dougherty was elected treasurer, and Raymond C. Dear-dorff as secretary.

Mrs. Jennie Bell, Unlontown, died- in the Maryland University hospital, Baltimore, at 63 years of age. Mrs. Lillie Hertz, 383 High street, received news of the birth of a son to her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs.

Anthony Assmann, Upper Darby. EVENTS 25 YEARS AGO TODAY Efforts were being put forth in Abbottstown to organize and incorporate a bank in that place and the following committee was ap pointed to take charge; W. E. iuI Haines, chairman; Paul F. Wolf, J.

A. Kinneman, Lewis S. Wolf, Reuben Altlandf A. O. Oobrecht, H.

A. Waltman, Samuel J. Meckley, Jeremiah Lilllch, Charles W. Albert and S. J.

Diehl. Mr. and Mrs. George F. Miller, York street, were spending several days at a house party near Annapolis.

Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Phreaner, daughter Jean, and sons George and Charles, Elchelberger street, left to spend some time at South Hemp, ton, Long Island.

The Rev. David H. Baker, aged 83 years, fell from the porch steps at tl the home of his son, William R. Baker, Abbottstown, with whom he resided and suffered a sprained foot and bruises about the body. LOCAL LIMA BEANS FOUND AT MARKET (Continued From Page One) 6 cents each; beets and carrots, 10 cents a bunch; squash, 5 to 15 cents each; celery, 25 cents a bunch; Iceberg lettuce, 18 cents a head; green stringbeans, 13 to 25 cents a quarter; wax beans, 25 cents a quarter; corn beans, 30 cents a quarter; hulled beans, 20 cents a pint; onions, 15 and 20 cents a quart box; broccoli, 20 cents a bunch.

Elderberries, prized for jelly and pies, made their appearance at 15 cents a quart 'box. Summer Ram-beau apples sold at 25 and 30 cents a quarter peck. Large South Haven peaches brought 25 cents a quart box. Homegrown Bartlett pears were 25 cents a Quart box and Cali fornla fruit sold at 5 cents each. California Tokay grapes were 30 cents a pound; oranges, 45 cents a dozen; lemons, three for 10 cents: grapefruit, four for 25 cents: Ann Arundel cantaloupes.

35 and 40 rents each; Eastern Shore cantaloupes. 20 and 25 cents each; large watermelons. $1.25 each. Chickens were to be had at 58 to 70 cents per pound, dressed weight, and ducks at 50 cents per pound dressed weight. Salami bologna sold at 35 cents a half-pound and swiss cheese at 59 cents a pound.

Pies Including elderberry and other fruit pies ranged from 20 to 45 cents each. Egg prices started at 30 cents a dozen for peewees. Cracks were 40 cents a dozen; pullets. 45 cents: mediums, 49 to 52 cents; regulars. 53 to 55 cents; oversized.

60 to 64 cents. Large gladiola sprays were still to be had at 75 cents a dozen. Other garden flowers at 15 to 25 cents a bunch included hydrangeas, phlox. zinnias, black-eyed susans and other blooms. Eastern Pennsylvania and Maryland Fair and slightly warmer today and tonight; Sunday Increasing cloudiness with showers by night.

HANOVER WEATHER REPORT (Observations at 8 a. Rainfall previous 24 hours None Temperature 66 degrees Lowest during night 64 degrees Highest yesterday 85 degrees Highest year ago 99 degrees Lowest year ago 66 degrees Weather year ago Clear MINIATURE ALMANAC Sun rises tomorrow 6.13 a. m. Sun sets today 8.08 p. m.

Moon rises 9.40 a. m. Sets 10.24 p. m. First Quarter, Aug.

15. Full Moon, Aug. 23. J. M.

Roberts, Jr. (Substituting Fot DeWitt Mackrnue) Allied acceptance or rejection of the Japanese offer of surrender hinges on the question of whether we shall accept the enemy reservation that the Emperor retain his sovereignty. This reservation or the making of any other condition is of course a deviation frem unconditional surrender. So far as concerns the Mikado, the Allies never have said that they would depose the Emperor, and they never have said they wouldn't. His status is one of the important matters which had been left open for decision after surrender, and so acceptance of the Japanese condition would place us in position of deciding the matter forthwith.

This accounts for the time consumed by the Allies in replying to Tokyo. Had the Japanese government offered unqualified acceptance of the Potsdam terms, the peace bells cculd have started ringing within the hour. As it is, the Allied answer won't be long deferred. And whether it accepts or refuses to consider any condition whatsoever, we can be sure that the war is in its death throes. The Jap militarists have tossed the towel into the ring, and that means they are licked, reservations or no reservations.

Perhaps they would continue to struggle if they were told now that they must give up their Emperor. Indeed, there seems to be an intimation ol that in the declaration of the Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun that "the elder statesmen should first of all exert their utmost efforts, even at the cost of their lives, for the welfare and preservation of the polity of our country. If Asahi uses polity in the sense that we do, it refers to the permanent form of the Japanese government and religion. The Em-perlor is head of both state and church. However, the Japanese press today ubl is soberly warning the public of the extreme gravity of the current war situation" and is urging the people to maintain "calmness in any contingency." I think we may assume this means that the public which likely hasnt been told of Tokyo's offer to surrender Is now being prepared for news of capitulation.

One surpects that Tokyo would bow forthwith to an Allied reply that surrender must be made without any reservation regarding the Emperor. but that his status would be considered later. However, even if our answer should be favorable to the Mikado and the Japanese should try to continue the struggle, it is clear that the backbone of their resistance is broken and the war couldnt last long. This problem of the Emperor Is no light one. His people have for some twenty centuries regarded him as their living God.

He Is the principal dlety of their national faith. There are two schools of thought among Allied statesmen. One says "Hang the Mikado and the other feels that it would be unwise to take such action against the head of a national religion. Certainly the situation presents a question which nobody thus far has been able to answer satisfactorily, and that is what the effect of thus dealing with the Emperor would have (1) on the Japanese nation and (2i on other Oriental peoples. It isn't a matter to be decided in haste.

While this is being debated we get from Admiral Nlmitz the businesslike announcement that all armed forces in the Pacific areas will continue offensive action against the Japanese unless otherwise specifi cally directed." BUCHEN RESIGNS HIS COUNTY POST (Continued From Page One) on January 4, 1942, with Robert I. Shadle, York, also an assistant. The trio has formed an efficient team. Mr. Anstlne and his aides conducted the duties of the office with dispatch, adopting new preedures and and improving old ones.

It has been a most business-like administration of the district attorneys office in recent memory. District Attorney Anstine indicated he likely will not name a successor to Mr. Buchen for the reason that only four months remain of his term. He said that by the time another assistant would become familiar with his duties, his term will be over. Mr.

Buchen was nominated by the Republicans for district attorney without opposition at the June 19 primaries. He enjoys the support of all factions of the Republican party. Mr. Buchen, who resides at 310 Baltimore street, is a member of the law firm of Laird Buchen, Hanover Trust Company building, being associated with Former Judge Robert M. Laird.

OBITUARIES (Continued From Page One) Althoff, East Walnut street, and Mrs. Robert Althoff, York street. Funeral arrangements are incomplete, but private services will be conducted at the Frederick Bucher funeral home, Frederick street, and interment will be In the family plot in Mt. Olivet cemetery. The family has requested that flowers be omit ted.

MRS. ELLA FORRY Mi-s. Ella Forry, Black Rock, died yesterday at the Springfield State Hospital, Sykesville. where she had been a patient. She was 63 years of age.

Surviving are two sons Raymond. Hagerstown, and Vernon. Baltimore; also the following brothers and sisters: Henry Strem-mel. Hanover; Joseph Stremmel. Glen Rock: George Stremmel.

Hanover; Mrs. Calvin Wildasin and Mrs. William Walker, both of Black Rock Services will be conducted Monday, meeting at 1.30 p. m. at the funeral home of Jacob Wink's Sons.

York street. Manchester. with further rites In the Black Rock Church of the Brethren and burial In the adloinlng cemetery. The Rev. Noah Sellers will officiate.

more wear-weary than ourselves. Despite their war-weariness, they have decided to make the additional sacrifices necessary to hasten the end of the war. But they, too, want desperately to see the fighting cease. Since the objective is the same, de-lavs over the details cannot endure overlong. (From New York Herald Tribune) America will not have won the war in the Pacific if the peace terms are such that Americans must face Japanese aggression in the foreseeable future.

The need of security is, therefore, the essential question to be considered in relation to the present Japanese offer to surrender. The offer contains one highly important reservation that acceptance of the Potsdam ultimatum shall not prejudice the prerogatives of the Emperor of Japan as a sovereign ruler. It is this reservation and its effect on the future peace of the world that is the real point for discussion. The problem plainly is being considered with the utmost care in Washington and it should be. Our loss of thousands of young men will have been in vain if our sons and grand' sons must fight again on the waters of the Pacific a generation hence.

To answer the essential question there must first be a study of the precise quality of the prerogatives of the Emperor as a sovereign ruler ar.d of their relation to our peace terms, as outlined in the Potsdam ultimatum. In essence, the powers of the Emperor are absolute. He is the sole repository of authority in Japan. He is both king and high priest. Under the Japanese constitution, amendable only at the initiation of the Emperor, the occupant of the throne is sacred and inviolable.

He is commander of the army and the navy. He apprflnts the ministers of the government and they are responsible only to him. He is of such superhuman stature that any criticism of him is not only revolutionary but heretical. The reaction of American officials to the Japanese offer, as indicated by their delay in comment, appears to be one of extreme caution. They are not giving way to exultant shouts nor are they proclaiming that the war is ended.

Thev presumably ars trying to decide whether the Allies have an opportunity to end the war quickly with assurance that we have won all the important things for which we struggled. Their caution is justified. It would be as foolish to accept offhand a bargain offered by the treacherous Japanese, as to re-pect it without examination. The decision should be reached only after careful study. There should be no acceptance of a surrender so qualified that it would endanger the lives of our sons.

Must Be Lasting Peace (From the Philadelphia Inquirer) Before the awesome power of the atomic bomb and the hammer blow of Russia's entrance into the war, he fanatical resistance of Japan has cracked. In our eagerness for peace; in our longing for the return of our loved ones; in our rising hopes that at last the agony of the most terrible struggle In all human history shall be ended, let us not snatch at the shadow of victory and accept it as the reality. On the face of things the enemy has made a proposal to surrender by radio and through neutral governments. But in its form this proposal is a paradox. It suggests that Japan is prepared to surrender unconditionally, on the basis of the Potsdam ultimatum of July 26 but with a condition; the preservation of the throne, the "power and the prerogatives of the Emperor of Japan.

Americans and millions of others throughout the globe who have suffered the unspeakable horrors of this Binful world war must not make the tragic mistake of accept, ing another deadly armistice that could be nothing more than the preparation of another sweep of aggression and ruthlessness in five years, 6r in ten or twenty. This time, if peace Is to be brought about. It must be nailed down. It must be a peace for which our children and theirs will bless us. The Potsdam Declaration presented to Japan conditions which would strip away her evilly gained conquests, eradicate her war-making power military and industrial and punish those guilty of horrible atrocities.

At the same time the Declaration offered to the people of Japan the clearest prospect that through their own return to decency and peaceful order they may achieve a future as a good-citizen nation in the world We seek peace. But it must be a peace that will last. Japans Bid For Peace (From the Baltimore Sun) The Japanese offer, whatever its limitations, surely means that we are not far from our objective in this war. When a Government goes to the length of accepting the harsh terms of the Potsdam declaration, It can only mean that its desire for peace is irresistible. If the Japs Insist upon reservations today, tomorrow they will scale down their reservations.

That is the way wars come to an end. The present reservation is, of course, that the surrender shall not "comprise any demand which pre-ludices the prerogatives of his Majesty as a sovereign ruler." Thus the Japanese drag out of the Potsdam ultimatum the remarkable (though perhaps deliberate) omission of any reference to the Emperor and seek to exploit it for their profit. It is hard for us to know precisely what this phraseology means. It could mean one thing to Mr. Truman and quite anoth to Generalissimo Stalin.

What it means to the Japanese may be something quite different from any Allied interpretation of it. To them, the Japanese Emperor is not only a temporal ruler. He Is also, in some manifestations, the Japanese god. The religion which makes him that, the religion of Shinto or Emperor worship, has been assiduously preached to the people for many years. But the strongest factor in the present situation is that Americans now expect the war to come to a quick end.

That desire is paramount. It will have intense political repercussions. The accompanying danger is that the American demand will be so insistent that the hand of our Government will be weakened in anv negotiations which may bevelop between ourselves, the Russians and the British on the one side and the Japanese on the other. The best attitude for Americans to take at this time is to muster what patience and self-control they can command and trust to the orJ-wlll which prevails among the Allies to find a satisfactory solution. The Russians, after all, are With Oklahoma!" entering Its sixteenth week at the Forest Theater Monday (August 13), only four more weeks remain of the extra' ordinary engagement of the Theater Guild's fabulous success in Philadelphia.

Although the box office demand indicates that the musical could remain until the holidays, bookings long since made for both play and theater will not permit its continuance in Philadelphia after Saturday, September 8, when it will move on to Washington, subsequently going to the Pacific Const, All of the current Cavorites will continue in their regu ar parts during the remainder oi the engage- ment James A.exand Betty Jane Dav- Watson, Dorothea MacFarlam id Morris, Walter Donahue, Mary Mario, David Mallen, Norman Mac-Kay, Ona Skever, Dania Krupska. Erik Kristen, Alfred Cibelli, Jr, and Gemze de Lappe. Edouard Nies-Berger, the celebrated French organist will join the faculty of the Peabody Conservatory of Music, Baltimore, when it opens its winter term, September 28, according to an announcement by the Director, Reginal Stewart. Mr. Nles Berger, who is the official organist of the New York Philharmonic Or chestra, is one of the formidable virtuosi of today.

As an excellent artist, a brilliant organist and a fine musician he will bring further luster to the already renowned faculty of the Peabody Conservatory, one of the oldest and most renowned endowed schools of music in the country. Mr. Nies-Berger was born in Strasbourg, France where he received his early musical training and later pursued his studies at Milan, Salzburg and Vienna. The Lunta Return: The first couple of the American theater, Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, returned to America this week after a four month tour of the Continent which somehow managed to stretch Itself into two years, during which time they showed London and GI audiences their There Shall Be No Night, transported overseas after its success here and a new play by Terence Rattigan, Love In Idleness. The- latter will be done in the fall under its new title Oh Mis tress Mine, under the joint aus-G pices of The Theater Guild and John C.

Wilson. Their last performance overseas took place In Munich on Sunday night last before an audience of service men and women: on Wednesday they were in New York after planing home, and Thursday afternoon saw them off for Genesee Depot, Wisconsin, where they will rest at their farm until beginning in the newly titled comedy. A step unprecedented in the history of summer music in America was recently taken by the Board of Directors of Robin Hood Dell Philadelphia's famous al fresco summer music center In the engagement of Dimitri Mltropoulous, distinguished Greek American maestro, as artistic director and principal conductor for the next three years up to and including 1948. Mr. Mitropoulos, regularly head of the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra and returning to the post, held since 1937, in October, was tendered his three-year contract following his splendid achievements as Dell artistic director and principal conductor for the 1945 seven weeks series which closed on August 4 with a record audience of 17,000 rising and cheering the popular leader, denoting enthusiastic approval of his choice.

Lionel Kaye, the daffy auctioneer, is the headliner at the Capitol Theater, New York. The screen fare, starring Frank Sinatra and Gene Kelly in Anchors Aweigh is in Its fifth week. Roger Stearns, pianist-host of the 1-2-3 Club, New York, Is pleased to announce that Diana, the popular chirognomist (or palmist, il you prefer) will return to the Club on Tuesday, once again to read the future of patrons in their palms. Diana, who was a major attraction at the 1-2-3 until the edict banishing palmists and fortune tellers from cafes a few months back, will be on hand from 5 p. m.

until 10 every evening except Sunday. Judging from her' previous popularity, 1-2-3 Club patrons desirous of conferring with her are advised to make reservations well in advance. Because the laving of 750 square yards of heavy red carpeting and the redecorating of the huge rococo room are taking longer than anticipated. Billy Rose, bellwether of the boite bosses, has postponed the premier of his new show at the Diamond Horseshoe until August 21. The new show, which Is expected to outlast all previous productions at the Ideal subterranean bomb shelter.

Is another nostalgic revue. Titled Toast of the Town and dedicated to the flamboyant days of the mauve decade, the musical will bring back such old-time favorites as Joe E. Howard. Fritzie Scheff, Ann Pennington and Emma Frances. New York Night Club Notes: Art Mooney, the lanky "Stokowski of Swing now highlighting his orchestra in the Blue Room of the Hotel Lincoln, Is gratifying the score of fan clubs that have sprung up like mushrooms since his phenomenal rocketing to the ranks of the name bands with a copv of his capricious compositions: "Looney Mooney Tunes" Broadcasting nightly over Columbia, WOR Mu-tual, and National Broadcasting Company networks.

Art features Frjin Warren, Dick Wise and Don Darcy with his orchestra. Bobby Baxter, hilarious comic-magician, will join the entertainment in the Glass Hat Room of the Hotel Belmont Plaza next Thursday night. Continuing in the blithe and breezv show are the famous Kathryn Duffy Dancers, Norman Law-rence. Jhe baritone. Pavson Ee and HU Orchestra, and Nino Morales Rhumba Band.

Faces of the Week: Judy Garland doing a double i ti t- 1 1 5 i vfi Tj it it 4-. t'4 i 43 f-! i I- 3 fll I- 5 -4 Greer Garson, now working with Clark Gable in The Big Shore Leave, will appear opposite Robert Montgomery in her next Metro picture, Great Temptation. a a Lucille Ball and John Hodiak will have the starring roles for Time for Two, a story by Leslie Char-terls and Ethel Hill. Jules Dassin will direct. a Katie for Congress" has been set by David O.

Selznick as the next for Ingrid Bergman. The film will be based on a Finnish play, Hulda for Parliament. The play, under its Finnish title, Juurakon Hulda, was written by Juhnl Ter-vataa and was produced in Helsinki and Prague in 1937. Affording the first comedy characterization in the career of the actress, the new vehicle will follow Notorious," an Alfred Hitchcock production, on Miss Bergmans schedule, and will precede The Scarlet Lily, in which Joseph Cotten will be her co-star. The Andrews sisters will vocalize the romance of two hats, for a sequence of Walt Disneys Make Mine Music.

He is calling the song Johnny Fedora and Alice Blue Bonnet." Ghost-starring" In the film will be Nelson Eddy, who will give voice to The Whale who wanted to sing at the Metropolitan; Dinah Shore, who sings Two Silhouettes; Benny Goodman and his band, who have recorded All the Cats Join and the Goodman quartet in "After Youre Gone. Studios have now before the cameras five major productions, with six more scheduled to start by the end of August. Currently In the making are Heartbeat, starring Ginger Rogers and Jean Pierce Au-mont; Cornered, which stars Dick Powell and Walter Slezak: "Chamber of Horrors, the Boris Karloff horror production; "Master Minds, a Wally Brown and Alan Camay comedy, and Sunset Pass. Figures (especially nicely rounded ones) are always fascinating but heres some numbers about Hollywood you micht be interested in. There are 31.000 persons employed in the industry now cost of film production in 1944 was an Increase of $61,781 000 over the 1943 figure Hollywoods 1944 payroll was $191,590,400 studio Investments are estimated at $217,500,000 Extras registered with Central Casting: 5,243 daily placements: 1.058 average dally wage: $12.71.

Current and choice pictures according to Time: Anchors Aweigh, Frank Sinatra, Gene Kelly, Kathryn Grayson, Jose Iturbl. Story of G. I. Joe, Burgess Meredith, Robert Mitchum. A Thousand and One Nights, Cornel Wilde, Evelyn Keyes.

Back to Bataan, John Wayne, Anthony Quinn, Beulah Bondi. Rhapsody in Blue, Robert Alda, Oscar Levant, Joan Leslie. Blood on the Sun, James Cagney, Sylvia Sidney. take at Peter Donald's double-talk at the Chateaubriand. Maid Marion, the Hutton-Tot, dining at the Enduro Cafe.

Long, lean and lanky John Carradlne, doing a walkie-stalkie through the Henry Hudson lobby. Nestor Chayres, the Mexican tenor, who has been called everything from "chairs to "cherie by these Americanos, grinning as a group of shortsoxers hail him with "Hev Nestless! outside the Mutual Playhouse. ST. The tor of New ister a row at Luthei Harry The i cedes will the evi gregat; church Union Dr. Englisl college ter at o'clock church pastor, preced! ducted ning a tion church union SI God sermon Levi Luther, morrow morn in The St general Myers, NEW Th 1 tor of Will Col to St.

Baltimi 10:30 which shio Much crincipi Khool. Johns 1 Littlest) er- The McSH A sur the fan ch Sunday mi. CHur Swvic fthet Sunday charge sujwrlm fo1 toe Re, Pastor th 'hrist clock i Ti 7 i li sele he Punic HOLIDAY FROM HOLLYWOOD Actor Helmut Dantine ol movies as he dines at Stork Club, New York, with lovely Andrea King. Both were in the metropolis lor a series of personal appearances. TU bet he hasnt seen a girl in years! Did you notice how he stared at us?.