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EDITORIALS WASHINGTON NEW YORK BOLLYWOOD SERIAL Editorial- Lining To Stocking Troubles It's an ill wind that blows nobody good, and maybe that's what will happen in our economic warfare with Japan. For instance, maybe the shortage of silk will become so acute that women will take to some other equally enticing limb coverings, and, parenthetically, some that are a wee bit cheap- Already there are several other types of hosiery on the market, but for some reason women have clung to the silken output of a tiny worm. Nylon is acceptable Jn some circles, but it accounts for only 18 per cent of the need of milady. Maybe it is elusive to the old garter grip and is BUS, ceptibla to the bagging tempta- tion around the knees, but it is a step toward solving the hosiery problem. Now is the time for chemists to put their heads together In solving this great national crisis.

The whole defense effort might conceivably be held up until the problem is solved, for the little woman won't even venture to town unless her pedal extremities are shown to best advantage. In the alternative, perhaps eome fertile mind could hatch up a campaign to popularize runners. Thus, any woman with the tell-tale frazzling about the legs would be instantly known as a patriotic soul, sacrificing style for the nation's safety, proudly sprouting runners for defense. Maybe she would do this for Uncle Sam. It's more than we have been able to have her do for us.

MADE UP TO KILL by Kelley Chapter IS UEE GRAY CALLS "It's too bad, Mr. Morris, that your first visit to New York should turn out to be so unpleasant for I said. "You must hate our -fair city." "Your fair city hasn't aroused me to any emotion, let alone the one of hate. And as for your murders, -we have them in London, too. However, in London we are permitted to ignore them." Jeff tossed the clippings on the table.

"Look, Morris, why do you act so bored by this murder?" "I am bored. Must I be intrigued by the death and the attempted murder of two American Actresses who are famous for nothing but their death and attempted murder?" Jeff looked disgusted. "It doesn't ring true. You're detained here by the police for this murder. You happen to be a suspect You at least be mildly interested.

Your boredom is a little too like a character in one of your plays." "A compliment, I assure you." "You are a suspect, you know. It was possible for you to have poisoned CarSl Blanton." "So I've gathered from Peterson. However, it wasn't possible Jor me to have stabbed your leading lady, since I wasn't at the theater last night" "You mean you weren't seen at the theater last night." "I wasn't seen?" Morris was puzzled, then he smiled. "Oh, yes, of course! I had forgotten that I'm able to turn myself into a pumpkin at will. Was a pumpkin seen at the theater last night, Mr.

Troy "Where were you between nine- thirty and ten-thirty, Mr. Morris? "After a very bad dinner which was brightened only by the fact I was alone, I walked. I walked and walked. Probably eight until midnight" "Do you know where you were about ten o'clock "Yes. That place the Bat- Watching the ships leave for England with tears streaming my cheeks." i "Nobody saw you?" "With my eyes all red and I hope not!" "I mean," Jeff said, with nairable patience, "you don't have any witnesses that you were where "you say you were when Eve North murdered?" "No, of course not.

Of course I could stone myself. One always have a witnes walking. But I left -il my in London. In So careless of me." I could have kissed the moth tele- phone for ringing that time. ris was having too much fun at -Jeff's expense.

Jeff reached over the table and swung the receiver -to his ear. "Hello. Yes, yes, pu her on." He turned to Morris "Some pest. I'll gel rid of her for Hello yes this is Morris made a quick movemerv jtoward the phone. "I'm quite cap able it!" Jeff yelped.

"She "hung up! Operator! Operator!" shouting into the mouthpiece trace that call! Trace 'Jt right away! Yes, you can. Damn it, stop talking and do it! Listen Baby. Have you heard about the Colony Murder Case? Have you read about a girl named Le 'Gray? Oh, you have! well, tha was Lee Gray on the wire! Now for God's sake," he pleaded, "wll "you trace that call?" He dropped the phone tnto cradle and turned to us. "She'll call me back. Miss Le Gray calling Mr.

Greeley Morris What about it, Mr. Morris?" "A very Ingenious trick an fairly amusing. However, I have no idea who the lady is nor why should be calling me. If she JWM." "Jeff," I said, "what was her voice like?" "Like I don't know. All she was one word: Greeley." She calls me Greeley, does he?" "Yes, and you don't know her, do you? Like hell you don't." "I've heard shopgirls call His Majesty In a remarkably short time the hone rang again.

Jefi answered He listened for a moment, said hanks and hung up. "Well, Jeff?" "She called from a pay station a drugstore at four fifty-four Madison Avenue," Jeff was dis- justed. "A drugstore pay station! lot of good that does us. But he called Mr. Morris and that's omething." "Yes, isn't it?" Morris said.

"But what?" "I wish you'd tell us who she "I don't know," he said wearily. "And I don't believe you," Jeff said. "And as for your walking alibi, I don't believe that either. I doubt if you've walked fifty consecutive steps in your life. If you had, you wouldn't look so Dilious.

C'mon, Haila." Lee Gray. The girl 110 one had ever seen, or knew, or even heard of. The police, for all their un- imited facilities, could find no of her. And yet she was in York; she must eat somewhere and sleep somewhere, and somewhere'in these seven million people must be those who were friends. She had slipped into the Colony Theater two nights ago and.

left a note for Carol Blanton, and at five minutes before one o'clock' today she had entered a drugstore at Madison Avenue and Fifty- fourth and telephoned to Greeley Morris. How had she managed to elude the nets thrown out for her by the police and why, if, as they believed, she had known of Carol's danger and had even tried to warn her of it, hadn't she come forward of her own accord? And the Lee Gray enigma was only one of many. Two short days ago we had been, ostensibly at least, a normal group of people working together toward one objective, the success of Green Apples. Then suddenly the once affable Philip Ashley was quarreling with Eve North and snarling at me when I ventured into his dressing room. The once gay, irresponsible Tommy Neilson now scowled and swore and drank too much.

Carol had lost her voice and miraculously regained it Alice McDonald, almost madly ambitious for success, ran away from it and refused to tell why. If Carol had not been poisoned if Eve had not been killed, might all these mysteries have passed unnoticed before our unsuspecting eyes? Or could they be in some inexplicable way, as Jeff seemed to think, all links in thia chain of murder that was tightening around poor Carol? As I turned the key in the lock a tall hawk-nosed man stepped out of the shadows at the end ol the corridor. "Wait a minute there, Sister!" With long, quick strides he was Dana Andrews Has Makings Of Stardom By BOBBIN OOONS HOLLYWOOD New star bet: Dana Andrews. He is 29, six feet, broad-shouldered, the hero of "Swamp Water." He is no "overnight success." He's been working at Hollywood for 11 years. Everything happened to him, including being "split" more ways than a watermelon.

His contract is shared by two studios. His earnings are split even shares go to two business friends who staked h's career, to his agent, the residue to himself. 'Tin a split personality," he says. On location down in Georgia he met Vereen Bell, author of "Swamp Water." "You look like a country boy, all right," said Bell. He also looked like a young army officer in "Kit Carson," like the young plantation man in "Tobacco Road." He was born in Collins, son of a minister, home town now is Huntsville, where, he went to college and decided to become a singer, became an accountant.

Stead- er pay. But finally he hitch-hiked Hollywood. Closest he got to a movie studio was a filling station in Van Nuys. He pumped gas by day and studied music by night Tho sta- owners stepped in, finally, a deal; $50 a week for full- FRIDAY, AVG VST 8, 1941 Man About Manhatta Rossi, Well-Liked Italian By GEORGE TUCKER NEW pals are wondering what Count Rossi, has the happened to Italian speed- ion vith ime study, in exchange for a five- year share of possible later earn- ngs. Two years ago, signing.with joldwyn, Dana began paying off.

He's still grateful. His wife died, leaving him a baby son. Four years later, after igning for pictures, he thought he could bank on the future enough to marry again. Mary Todd, an actress at the Pasadena Playhouse where Andrews often worked, had said "yes" but friends at the studio advised them to consult Goldwyn first. Marriage of a possible romantic lead is serious business to a producer.

They took the advice. As Dana was about to pop the question, a studio fire broke out. Goldwyn ran to the fire, so did everyone else. In the -excitement Goldwyn spotted the actor. "What is it? Tell me now?" he yelled over the uproar.

"I want to get married, Is it all right?" Dana yelled back, "loldwyn beamed paternally. "I'll think about it Let you know." They waited. Dana weat back, tie thought Goldwyn had about it "Oh," said "Yes. married." Sam, boat fancier and sportsman who won 10 many cups in America before war and so many friends. When last heard of he had returned from an excursion to the Red Sea, was in tho army and stationed near his at Turin.

But this was a year ago, and now two events have taken place that bring the Count to the minds of his friends. One was the surrender of the nuke of Aosta at a place called Alagl in Africa a few weeks ago. Alagi was an Important name to Rossi. Alagi and Aradsm are twin mountains captured by the Italians during the Ethiopian campaign. The Count named two of his fast- st boats the Alagi and the Ara- lam and won many cups with hem in America ana throughout Europe.

These sleek, speedy craft were powered by motors used by Balbo when he made his spectacular flight from Italy to Chicago during the Century of Progress Exposition. The other item which recalls the 'ount is on the blacklist of fascist irms in the western hemisphere published by the government the other day. The Count is owner of a great vermouth house that, in addition, makes more than 60 other products. Times, as the Count must certainly be reflecting nowadays, have changed. It's things like this that occupy baritone Conrad Thibault on his days looking up oddities in history of ancient music.

The flute, says Thibault, was 'the "avorite instrument of the old Romans. They passed a law lorbidding more than 12 flutists play at any one funeral. Wales it used to be against the aw for any one save the king and his satellites to own harps. In our own country, the Puritans ooked upon the fiddle as the devil's own instrument. They frowned on musio it was hymnal or connected with congregational When Gossec introduced the cornet in Paris the critics denounced it as uarsh and unfit to be played in the decent society of oboes and vio- ins.

After listening to some of Jiese swings bands, I think maybe they had something there. The actor Burgess Meredith is building a 50x75 foot swimming pool on his country place on Camp He was under contract to 20th 2entury-Fox when loaned odt for 'Kit Carson." He had a big part, but nobody on the lot seems to have seen it There "were some at 20th, including the lady in charge of passes for contract players, who didn't know he was under contract. He dates his discovery" on the lot from a test he made support' ing Dorris it came Tobacco Roal," then "Belle Starr," finally "Swamp Water." "Everybody's so busy, and there are so many of us trying to gei attention, you can't blame them for not knowing you're he says. "I was lucky." beside me, peering down into my face. "Oh, it's Miss Rogers, huh? That's okay, Sister, you can go In.

I'm Crowley." His hand, made brief contact with the -brim of his hat and he was gone, lost in the shadows again. Carol shuffled the hani of solL taire she was playing when I camft in. Sketchily I told her of our morning's interviews and she listened in silence. Her eyes flew to my face when I spoke of the telephone call at the Gotham. "Oh, Hatla!" she breathed.

"If they could trace her through thru call, If they could find her "If they could find her we'd probably know all there is to know." "But will they be able to? A drugstore) Does anyone -notic who comes Into a drugstore?" I shrugged. "I don't know. Jeff Continued On Page 6 Defense Bond Quiz Q. In what denominations are the Treasury Department's Tax Savings Notes issued? A. There are two series, A and B.

Series A notes are issued in denominations of $25, $50, and $100 each. Series notes are issued in denominations of $100, $500, $1,000, $10,000, and $100,000 each. Q. Do these Tax Savings Notes earn interest? A. Yes, provided they are used to pay income taxes.

Q. How much interest do these notes earn A. Series A earn about 1.92 percent a year; Series notes about 0.48 per cent a year. complete information about the new Tax Savings Plan, ask your banker or write direct to the Treasury Department, Washington, D. C.

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Now Meredith has another dog, another Great Dane named "Hamlet." The late Lou. Gehrig had a dog, too a boxer, and a highly trained mutt it was. Now that Gehrig's life is to be made into a movie, Lou's dog has been "signed" to play the role he played for the last two years in real life. The dog's name is "Kim," after Kipling's hero in the novel by the ScUYlB H3J316, Dorothy Thompson Sayi RAF FLIERS OVER NAZIS, By DOROTHY THOMPSON (By With out exception the R.A.F. fighters with whom I have talked claim complete superiority in the air "as far as our fuel will take us." They do not claim merely man for man and plane for plane, but as a fighting force.

They acknowledge a radical numerical superiority ol nazis. When I asked. "Before the Russian they answered, "not altogether. But In the first two weeks of the Russian campaign there was nothing rubbish In the air, We have pulled a lot of first-rate naz! pilots hack from the eastern front." The nazi numerical superiority does not bother the R.A.F fight- PERB5CTL.V ers, however They remember when it was overwhelming, when man for man and plane for plane superiority accomplished wonders. They say, "the original enemy tactic Is no good.

Too many planes aro as bad as too few. When the air is black with them it is like flying Into a flight of wild geese. Maybe you came down, but you also had a chance of bringing down five or even ten of them. They got in each other's way. They even had to paint the noses of their planes yellow to distinguish their own." They say contemptuously, "the nazis are a brave lot when they outnumber us ten to five, but they won't come in even with' tactical advantages even when fighting over their own soil where they could ball out in relative safety unless they are numerically superior.

There are occasional exceptions, of course, but that holds as a generality." The R.A.F. men have great strategical disadvantages in daylight bombing over Germany. Except from great heights made increasingly effective by the new American bombers capable of carrying heavy bomb loads it is out of the question because no fighters can fuel themselves to Germany and back. But within an area which they can cover they fear no nazi planes, or fleets of They declare they are pushing the air battle front further and further into France. They also are convinced of the superiority of their fighting planes in speed and height.

But above all they are convinced of their superiority in personnel, initiative, teamwork and sheer guts. "If the nazis could add to their operational tactics half of the British guts they would be Invincible," one airman said. The R.A.F/S attitude toward the nazis is that of members of the free corps toward a mass of men. Personally I am inclined to think that the British airman is nearer the sailor than the soldier, whereas the nazi airman is nearer the soldier than the sailor. The nazi airman is-a man in boots; the British airman is not.

Like the sailor he counts continually with the unforseen, counting on leadership and improvisation whereas the nazi counts on staff work. The sea made Britain and British education has salt air in it at all times in the emphasis on personal leadership. The German is accustomed to battling against other men; the Briton is accustomed to battling against the elements, and the elements are arbitrary and do not take orders from the luftwaffe command. British airmen have had opportunities to encounter many nazi pilots who have been shot down. They characterize them on the whole as a boastful lot.

"Disgustingly arrogant," they say. "Lately," they add, "they have been less so." Some nazis have given themselves up docilely and confessed they were glad to be out of it But as a rule, the British airmen say, the nazis have an unshakable, servile confidence in the fuehrer, who in their minds can make no mistake. "He made a mistake about being in London by September fifteenth, last year," one Briton twitted. "He changed his mind," a nazi airman replied coldly. The British airmen say, "the nazis believe their own propaganda is a jolly good thing for us." The nazis for instance are surprised at being fed in England.

They expect brutal treatment. They do not get it from the British airmen, but get the British tion. neither do they airmen's admh-a- AAA Compliance Check Near End Measuring of Howard county farms for compliance in the AAA program is nearing completion, M. Weaver, county administrative officer, said Thursday. He expects field r.ieasurements to be completed, sometime next week, and witrfin a few days will have applications for payments ready for farmers' signatures.

At the same time farmers sign applications for conservation payments, those who have earned them will be issued surplus cotton stamps, which they may trade for cotton goods. Virtually all cotton goods retailers in the county have signed agreements to accept the stamps at face value in exchange for cotton goods. These stamps may be deposited in local banks at face value by merchants. Consumption of tinplate used in manufacture of tin cans and tin- ware in the U. S.

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