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ex me 'zflie'BiqD'vwn mm ajpfe fife mi tmn 11111 Dorothy Kilgallen The Brighter Side Illness Does a Man Good PAGE SEVENTEEN MINNEAPOLIS, FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 1940. Excerpts From Miss Midnight's Diary WELLES BACK-BUT NOT TALKING LR OLD MAN said it sometimes did a man good to be laid up awhile by illness, allowing that it was not fatal or permanently disabling. He said it gave the invalid the opportunity of doing a lot FROM the look of Broadway these evenings, I ia a rJftA whtfr wuuiu say Limb j.uuj motion picture people go when they are not in New York, which is seldom. The bistros are full of of thinking and of getting a different view of many situations. He said a long stretch of lying in bed Spring Is Inevitable! Melting 'Air Iceberg' Means Winter Doom showed a man that things .4 s- he thought were of 'vital importance did not matter so much after all.

He said an illness had the same general effect as the system some old monarch he had read about was sup Stupendous Mast of Frigid Air Hangs Over Conti Zanuck starlets, Academy Award winners, producers, directors, and other citizens normally found strolling in the Sunset Strip. Rosalind Russell is skimming around town driving the girls daffy with her wonderful millinery; she dined at Bill Bertolotti't Tuesday night with Mary Brian and a group of Beverly Hills expatriates, and the little lace hat she wore had necks stretching to unbelievable lengths all over the room. Simone Simon enlivens the scenery around and about, accompanied alternately by her mother, Mrs. Monique Simon, and her beau, Freddie de Cordova (the difference being that she doesn't hold hands with her mother), and the night places are sprin Fl flic nent, Blocking Warm Weather Cheerful Note: It's Dwindling posed to have employed whenever he was beset by I too many worrisome prob. lems of state.

The old boy would just order all correspondence and petitions and I other documents locked up kled with such cinema characters as Joe Schenck, and would not look at them 1 for several months. By that time the dire emergencies I indicated in the corre- Damon Kunyon spondence would have passed. Our old man said he knew of nothing that gave Bert Wheeler and Jimmie Fidler. Fidlers Execute a Congo AT Leon and Eddie's the Jimmy Fidlers (Mrs. Fidler is petite and brunette and looks like Russell Patterson drawing, which she used to be) executed a conga, a rhumba, and even what my eyet took to be a shag, but they retired gracefully for the Boomps-a-Daisy number and left the field to Bert Wheeler, Lois DeFee, and Hal Le Roy, who ft man a better line on his own weight in the world than a spell of illness.

He said that many a man was the evening's guest of honor. Milton Berle turned up with mama and a couple of new gags. "The electric company shut off our lights," he confided. "Mora made a mistake and sent the monthly check to Mickey Rooney!" By THOMAS R. HENRY Washington, March 28.

(NANA) Winter is melting like an iceberg which drifts into the Gulf stream. Spring weather over most of the United States east of the Rockies may be expected, unless the weather map changes decidedly in the meantime, early in April, in the opinion of U. S. weather bureau forecasters. When spring arrived, according to the calendar last week, there was an enormous mass of cold, heavy air with its center in the McKenzie river basin of northwestern Canada.

It covered approximately a million square miles and was close to two miles thick. It was like a gigantic atmospheric iceberg, continually growing thicker as cold air was fed into it from the North Pole. Began to Dwindle There was plenty of springlike air around Hawaii and the southern Pacific, but the iceberg was so big and thick that nothing could get around it. Late last week this great mass of cold air broke loose and began to drift southeastward over Canada. As it arifted it was subjected to a hotter sun and began to dwindle away.

Tuesday its center was over the Ohio valley and it was only a few thousand square miles in area. Cut loose from the source of supply of cold air, it was melting fast. When the iceberg started to build up with the advent of spring weather forecasters were rather pessimistic. They had seen the same thing happen in January, resulting in the coldest winter on record. But then there had been no melting in the winter air of the middle latitudes.

The Writhing Line Washington, March 28. (AP Wirephoto) Returning today from his fact-finding trip to Europe, Sumner Welles, undersecretary of state, drove immediately to the state department from Union station. With him was Mrs. Welles and her dog Toby. From the state department Welles went immediately to the White House to report to President Roosevelt.

He would not comment for publication regarding his European findings. rER at LaConga, things were very merry. Th writhing conga line had for its component parts such divers dancers as Mr. and Mrs. John Garfield, Betty Grable, the DeMarcos, Ted Husing, and Geral-dine Spreckles.

Sidney rhumba'd with her husband, Luther Adler, and Elaine Barrie, in ani who though he was indispensable in his own field discovered when he was knocked out by sickness that things went along in his sphere about the same as usual and maybe a little better than usual. He said a few weeks of helpless confinement generally showed a man that he was not absolutely essential to the world, no matter what his He said that after the first anxious inquiries and cheering messages and perhaps the man found that life was proceeding in the world outside his sick room without missing a beat and that even in his own household things had settled down after a brief uproar and were going along as evenly as if nothing had happened. A A pVUR OLD MAN said this was a painful disillu- sionment to a man who had an idea that his little world revolved exclusively about him and that if he was incapable of activity everything would come to a halt. He said it was a surprise and a shock to many men to learn in illness that laughter continued around them and that gay music was not stilled. Our old man said that personally he vld not have it any different, but that he supposed he had become more philosophical through experience about these matters than the average man.

He said he had weathered several protracted spells of illness in his lifetime and that he had learned through them that he was important only in proportion to his ability to be on his job. He said he thought he was all the better for his illnesses, morally, if not physically, because he usually came out of them with his cranium deflated and his spirit greatly chastened. He said that mated conversation with her spouse, John Barry- the full heat of the sun and delay its melting. As a result, warmer, nights can be expected to be very much warmer. The normal expectancy would be cold rain over much of the country, and probably snow in the north.

But the inevitable cannot be delayed very long. The cold mountain will melt, and when it does there will be nothing to prevent balmy weather over most of the country. With no obstacle the Pacific and Gulf of Mexico air will overflow the continent. The presence of the ice mountain, weather forecasters say, has been responsible for a paradox during the past few days. The warm air mass which had been building up over the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic could not come inland until it had drifted about as far north as Nova Scotia.

Then it hit the cold air again and was shunted inland in a spiral path. This brought it over New England from the northwest and folks wondered why relatively balmy weather was coming with a northwest wind. While the prospect is fairly clear for a few days ahead, say the weather men who are cautious of long-range forecasts, nobody can tell how long the spring weather will continue. There is always the possibility of another enormous iceberg being built up over the Arctic and breaking off. It now will be more difficult for it to get south, however, with the broad, vigorous river of warm air from the Pacific blocking its way.

Spring Is Inevitable Once the January high over Canada had broken off and drifted south, they point out, more than a month elapsed before a similar mass had an opportunity to build up. If there had been a vigorous inflow from the Pacific, February would have been a mild winter month. With the steady journey of the sun northward the Arctic itself will soon be feeling the first touches of spring. A warm sun, shining even for part of each day over the icy wastes, slows down the building up of new atmospheric icebergs out of the constant supply of warmer air moving over the North Pole from the south. That is why, in the final analysis, spring is inevitable.

State Checks on One-Pupil Schools more, got so gay with her gestures she almost singed off his moustache with the lighted end of her cigaret. Michael Whalen, at a ringside table, Transfers Considered Answer to Problem tion facilities are available in an war surrounded by beauty Helen Mack, Olympt Bradna, and Mary Healy; while not far away, with another belle, was Miss Healy's former beau, Fran-chot Tone. adjoining district." school and the teacher has little to do beyond building a fire and making out the "no attendance" The department therefore is urg ing small school districts to con sider transfer of pupils but fre quently, Mr. Rockwell said, school board members reject the idea on the ground it is their problem. Scattered over Minnesota are some 15 rural elementary schools in which the full services of a teacher are being lavished on two, three and four enrolled pupils, with attendance sometimes' limited to one, records in the state department of education disclosed yesterday.

Dr. John G. Rockwell, state education commissioner, said there are 1,400 schools in the state that have eight or less pupils, a situation which he described as uneconomical in view of the constant level of expense. Survey Being Made Youth's First Holdup Job Ends in Capture Warm Air Drifts In As soon as the stupendous Alone with Myrtle Earl, 25, of 175 Goodrich avenue, a waitress, record. Six schools have three pupils each and the rest, four.

Attend Other Schools Because of the expense involved, averaging $1,000 for the school year for each school, regardless of attendance, numerous districts made arrangements with adjoining districts where there are more pupils to make room for non-resident pupils. Under this arrangement, pupils receive the benefit of contacts with others in their grade and' consequently a better elementary education, Dr. Rockwell said. The only expense involved is a tuition fee to the school taking the pupils and transportation. "The very small schools are economically unsound," Dr.

Rockwell said. "In the financing of our schools, we have no right to expect the people of a district to assume the burden of a school in which the per capita cost is higher youth drew a pistol in a coffee mass Droke loose an almost equally enormous mass of warm, moist air, whose center had shop at 372 Robert street, St. Paul, yesterday and induced her to hand been in the Pacific a little north of Hawaii, had a clear road into over the cash register change. But The figures are being checked when Mrs, Helen Housek, 26. of the North American continent Diosa Costello, who usually can be found at LaConga when she's not shaking the foundations of the Imperial Theater, could be glimpsed at Colbert's recently assassinating a thick sizzling steak, while her Forty-sixth street neighbor, Betty Grable, exhibited a duplicate lack of regard for her waistline.

Betty, who is usually the prettiest girl in the room no matter what room it is, drew admiring once-overt from Joe Schenck, Paul' For De Kruif, and Maestro Meyer Davis, who was waving, instead of a baton, a fork. Autograph Hunters' Heaven A autograph hunter would have been in heaven at the Algonquin Supper club the other night. Roland Young was there chuckling at John Buck-master's version of Roland Young, Francis Lederer was paying all kinds of attention 'to Margo, and the best tables were filled with Judith Anderson, Georgo S. Kaufman, Carl Van Vechten, Margalo Gilmore, Oscar Levant, Monty Woolly and Burgess Meredith. Doris Carson, back from her Hollywood safari and looking even prettier than she looked when her twinkling ankles were enlivening the Broadway stage, sat hemmed in by three handsome beaux.

If there were any producers in the place, Carson is probably now engaged to do another musical; if there weren't, she may get to finish her vacation. 278 South Milton street, the pro from Alaska to California. It began drifting through in great prietor, appeared from the kitch en, the bandit fled. He was cap er and greater quantities as the "iceberg" melted. he generally returned to his work with greater energy than ever before and with a determination to prove his value and that thus his productiveness was increased for a time.

TTE SAID he generally had a kindlier feeling to-ward his fellow citizens, too, including those that he knew had been viewing his illness from the standpoint of possible self-advancement. Our old man said he never felt bitter toward a pal who had probably been figuring that his illness might open the way to the pal's promotion, even though the consummation of that thought could be arrived at only through his departure from this world. Our old man said that was just human nature and that you could not change human nature. He said he remembered with shame that he once felt a vague glow on hearing of the illness of chap whose in a comprehensive survey of the rural school problem of the state which, so far as expense is concerned, runs into some $16,000,000 of state funds distributed through various aids. Four of the schools in the list of 15 have only two pupils each.

On The warm air mass had been tured by Larry Schmitt, 26, of .788 East Atlantic street, a passerby. The captive told police his name was Fred Heintiz, 21, of Carson, N. D. He insisted the cafe fiasco was his first holdup job. building up constantly during the long time it had been re strained.

At the same time other masses of warm air began drift bad days, neither of them get to 'than need be when equal educa ing in over the southeast from the Gulf of Mexico, contributing still more to the melting process. Enjoy Kathleen Norris' New Novel 'LOST SUNRISE9 Start It Today passing would leave a vacancy that he would almost Iceberg Still Stands Still spring is a few days off. The iceberg still stands today in the center of the continent like a great dome. When the lighter, moist air hits, it climbs over, is cooled in the process, and clouds are formed in it. These clouds shield the mountain of cold from surely be called on to fill and that after that he never blamed a man in whose path he stood who came to his bedside when he was ill and spoke words of sympathy with a slight gleam of anticipation in his Court Action Filed on Census What's Gone Before Greenfield, March 28.

P) A superior court order was sought today to prevent census tak Our old man said he realized that it was quite possible for a fellow citizen to feel truly sorry for him in his 'illness and yet at the same time be ers from inquiring into personal incomes. Acting on a petition of a retired army officer, Judge J. considering the eventualites of the illness from a Welles Gives F.R. Facts He Arthur Baker directed Clarence N. Durant, census personal standpoint.

He said he was quite sure that no man ever hoped for the worst for him but supervisor for Franklin, Hampshire and Berkshire counties, to appear in Pittsfield court Tuesday to just felt that if the worst was bound to happen, show cause why a temporary restraining order there was no harm in looking at the personal possibilities of the' Our old man said this pOLLY HENDERSON, assistant librarian in the Sacramento public library, arrives at the run-down Washburton house in the sleepy California town of Kenhill the day before the wedding of Sheila, elder of the Washburton daughters, to Link Baker, rising young lawyer. Sheila is assistant in the Kenthill library and Polly formerly had worked there with her. Polly is greeted joyously by Gwendolyn, the ugly duckling who at 22 has developed into a striking young woman, and is welcomed by Gwen's stout placid mother, her gentle unsuccessful inventor father Peter, and Peter, junior, who is working in a mill because of the family's decadent fortunes. Polly joins in the feverish wedding preparations which the dynamic Gwen is handling with surprising efficiency. After the church rehearsal at night, Link, whose name is really James Gunthcr Baker but is always called Link because of his resemblance to Abraham Lincoln, tells Gwen he is sorry to take Sheila from them as her father fears the strain of household work will be too much for his wife's weak heart and he cannot take a regular job because his invention demands all his time, Gwen laughs this off, saying his inventions always demand his time.

After talking, with Link for a long time in the moonlight, Sheila joins her sister in'their bedroom and hesitatingly says she wishes she hadn't fallen passionately in love with Tony Lamorrt seven years ago, and asks Gwen if she wasn't right in not telling Link about it. Found Abroad should not be granted. was not ghoulishncss at all, just more human nature. White House Is Silent After TTE SAID he had found illness a great time in 90 Minute Talk Peace Hope Held Slight which to reflect on his mistakes. He said he could always see quite clearly, when stretched out N.

Y. Doctor Wins High Award Cleveland, March 28. IF) Dr. Rene J. Duboi of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, was designated today by the American College of Physicians as the 1940 recipient of its Johns Phillips memorial award.

This is North America'i highest award in internal medicine. Dr. Dubos, a New Yorker, will receive the award for his work in finding the effect of agents extracted from soil micro-organisms upon experimental bacterial infections. Now Read the Rest Washington, March 28. (A1) In cn his back, his errors of omission and commis sion.

He said it was then that he most keenly re. gretted the hours he had wasted, and the things he an historic, hour-and-a-half conference, President Roosevelt today re had said, and the friends he had neglected. ceived the results of Sumner Welles' He said he had never failed, in illness, to firmly fact-finding mission to Europe resolve that if permitted to escape from his bed of and the general opinion here to pain he would straighten out his whole life, and how it is with me, Sheila. I'm terribly and perhaps my saying, 'O yes, I and then sitting there in the office shaking for hours. When I had a bad cold he put a little box of tablets on my desk with a card that said, 'Plenty of orange juice, plenty of water, not much night was that the talk could have that this resolution lasted until he could again take raised no hopes for an early peace.

a firm step. Our old man said then he found he was just the same as before his illness. He said Extraordinary secrecy was ob served as the President, Secretary he guessed he had the same trouble as the devil, of State Hull and Undersecreary Welles put their heads together in and I told him I was taking my library exams in March, and that I wanted a position in a library. He said then that his aunt was on the board of the library in Sacramento and she would do all she could for me if I passed. He was terribly kind and so interested; of course he seemed to me such a big persons to be interested in me! "Well, on Christmas eve he came in with a book, and said he'd like to give it to me; it was one of his favorites.

He'd written my name in it, but I cut that page out and brought the book home and nobody noticed it. It's there there in that bookcase. 'Far Away and Long by Hudson." the President's second-floor, White House study. All others even the recounted in an ancient rhyme "When the devil was sick The devil a monk would be. When the devil was well The devil a monk was he." closest of White House aids were I have that card yet.

"I don't know why I'm telling you this, Gwen. God knows 1 hate remembering it all, and the fool I was." "Don't, then!" Gwen said in a whisper. (Continued on First Comic I age) excluded. The only interruption was when Stephen Early, presidential secre THE BAER FACTS: tary, looked in a moment to ob tain the President's approval of a statement drawn up for reporters. The census violates the bill of rights by about two million volts.

Before the government tabulates the rings In "Yes, I know. I read it," Gwen said with a dry mouth. "Afterwards, when I said I'd liked it, he said he would like so much to travel in queer places, and I said I'd always wanted to see the pampas of South America, and Buenos Aires. He laughed and said, "Why South America with so many other places to Then he told me that he was not happy, that he and his wife had decided to separate when the children were old enough for boarding school. Margot was about 5 then, and Rand 7.

He said that she was not happy as his wife, wouldn't be happy as any man's wife, that she hadn't wanted the children. She sang, Rita did, you know. Used to sing at concerts and go into San Francisco for lessons from Alesso. He said they'd had separate rooms since Margot had been born, and that he was the loneliest and most defeated man alive. "I can't lell you, Gwen, how hearing that from a man you like oh, like terribly affects you.

He was so handsome and so serious, and he told all this in a philosophical sort of way, not whining, just just that it made him jealous to have me talk of my mother, and how happy we all were at home, because he'd never had anything like that in his life. "Then quite suddenly, we knew that we liked each other horribly, hopelessly. We didn't say much. It was all almost businesslike. Just, "You know CHAPTER 2 There was a long silence, then Sheila said, almost with an air of weariness, of indifference.

"I was madly in love with Tony Lamont." "In the office?" Gwen presently asked in a whisper. "Well, that was where I first knew him, "of course. I was working there, just as a clerk, but I was studying to pass my civil-service exams as a librarian. I did some research in the files for him. I thought he was wonderful, of course, I was 20.

After that I saw him now and then, and he was always wonderful. Dressed for golf or tennis, you know, and coming in just for a moment on hot Saturday mornings, brown as an Indian." "He was married then, Sheila." "Oh, of course. He was 33, I suppose. He'd been married about eight years to Rita Raymond. They had Rand and Margot it was before Rand's accident.

He was 7. "For weeks suppose we just looked at each other. He'd -come in on some little bit of business, speak to someone else, and give me one look as ha went out. I'd live on that look for days dream of it nights. "Well, just before Chirtsmas they sent me into his office.

He had aske' for me; I found that out later. He wanted a stenographer on a case he had had me work on before, and he knew I understood it. One afternoon when I stayed late we got talking, Gable, Crawford our bathtubs we would like to answer a question This statement said: "Neither the President, the secretary of state nor the undersecretary of state will have any word to say, following their conference, to the press or to any of their friends or to anyone any where." Horse Sense Test By DR. GEORGE CRANE, NORTHWEST-ERN UNIVERSITY PSYCHOLOGIST Select the answer ivhich you consider best. The last problem counts five points.

1. Latex is used in the manufacture of STEEL RUBBER CHEESE BREAD. 2. Which of the following is th poorest conductor of electricity RUBBER IRON SILVER COPPER? 3. Rubens is most famous in MUSIC SCIENCE POLITICS ART.

4. Which of the following is farthest north BOSTON MINNEAPOLIS SALT LAKE CITY TORONTO, CANADA 5. Beginning with the dark of the moon, how many weeks are required to give us a full moon 1 WEEK 2 WEEKS' 3 WEEKS 4 WEEKS? 6. A farmer put a peck of wheat in a large grain sack and tied a stout piece of binder twine around the middle of the sack. Then he put in a peck of oats and tied the top of the sack.

But he knew he would have to get the wheat out before he needed the oata. How could he do this without mixing the grain or cutting hole in the bottom of the ack? Answers on first comic page. Look in Your Minneapolis Morning Tribunt for New Test Tomorrow and Rogers Films Banned in Detroit with a question, Have we gone completely nuts? Or has the gov ernment taken leave of its census? Arthur (Bogs) Baer. The Information that Welles brought apparently was considered Detroit, March 28. (INS) The too delicate to entrust even to latest pictures of Clark Gable, Joan coded cables.

When Ojibway Indians ceded to tha United States all the pine forests on the St. Croix and all the rivers that flow into it in 1837 they received less than two cents an acr for them. Crawford and Ginger Rogers were 24 Indictments Out under a ban in Detroit tonight. Police Commisisoner Frank D. Eaman explained that in his opin On Monopoly Count Cradle Snatchers There are a lot of guys whose hair line arches their ears, who have married recent graduates from tothood.

For a view of the career ahead of the young bride and Pappy READ HERB GRAFFIS TODAY The Times-Tribune New York, March 28. W- ion "Primrose Path" tended to spread the idea that girls need not work for their livelihood, but need federal grand jury today indicted 18 individuals, five associations of electrical employers, and local of the International Brotherhood of 0 ssZ ii HiwiiiIMii. 1 MINMCSQTA 1 I only to go out with men. "Strange Cargo," he said, "has Electrical Workers for 10 con general spirit that is contrary to spiracles to restrain trade in viola- certain, religious ideas." tion ot the Sherman anti-trust law,.