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THURSDAY, JULY 7, 1949 10 By DREW PEARSON GRIN AND BEAR IT By Lichty TAMPA MORNING TRIBUNE Published Every Mornlns by THE TRIBTJKB COMPANY. 805 X. Lafayetts Tmp. rift. MEMBER OP THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Subscription Rate bv Mall or Carrier The A5cciatl Press 1 entitled exclusively tj the for If.

S.T 3.T2" 1 Te- publication of au the local news printed In this newspaper, aod Sunday tl8.20 $9.10 $4.55 $1.55 a well a all AP new. dispatches. Daily only 13 00 6.50 3.25 1.10 Sunday only 5.20 2.60 1.30 .50 JO Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation Subscriptions Payable In Advance MERRY-GO-ROUND WASHINGTON. July C. latest gadget the American Medical Association lobby is using in the pressure campaign against federal health insurance is a post card, distributed from doctors' offices, which threatens vote retaliations against members of Congress who support the health program.

The card reads: "As for myself and family, which consists of votes, ie are unalterably opposed to compulsory health insurance or any other legislation which tends to regiment our population and socialize our government." The sender fills in the blank with the number of votes in his family. Senator Pepper, a leading sponsor of health insurance, reports he has received hundreds of the stereotyped cards. Some have also been mailed to President Truman. One sender, whose wife recently underwent an operation, wrote Pepper that he was "compelled" by the doctor performing the operation to fill out and sign the card. Another reported that he feared he would "antagonize my doctor and nurse" if he didn't comply with their wishes.

Both these individuals informed Pepper that thpy strongly supported the health insurance program. Similar cards also are being distributed by Florida insurance salesmen. BIBLE THOUGHT Every mortal is entitled to a fair chance. Every race and creed has a vested interest in the prodigal generosity of the Infinite. To deny thpt leads to wars.

The profit of the emh is for all. Ec. 5:9. involving fewer than 6000 workers, came closer te grounding trie Berlin airlift than the Russians ever did. That was the reason the Air Force urgently summoned both sides to the Pentagon last week to settle th strike at a dramatic, all-night session.

Here, for the first time, is the inside story: After negotiations broke down at South Bend, Secretary Symington personally invited Bendix-boss Malcolm Ferguson to Washington. Simultaneously he sent an Air Force plane to Detroit to pick up Walter Reuther, chief of the United Auto Workers. The two men were brought to to see Symington separately. The secretary warned both that plans production would be crippled, the Berlin lift forced down for lack of key parts if the strike continued. It was Reuther who suggested they sit down on the spot and settle the strike.

"With all this talent from both labor and management," he declared, "if we can't settle this strike, then it just plain can't be settled. And I'm willing to sweat it out-Ferguson was brought in, and 'the two men met face to face. "I am convinced that by using the democratic processes," Reuther offered, "we can settle this strike, and by doing it in that way, we will enable the air force to continue to defend the democratic processea we are using." Ferguson' promptly agreed. Assistant Secretary of Labor Gibson also was called in, offered to serve as arbitrator. For several hours the two' sides haggled behind closed doors, took time out only for quick snacks.

Symington kept a Pentagon kitchen open all night to accommodate them. By 3 A.M. the negotiators were still deadlocked. Finally Reuther blurted out: "The thing that bewilders me is how a situation that has dragged, out 10 weeks and should have been settled at the outset, yet has been handled with good faith and good will and intelligence, could have gotten so 'snarled' up as it is tonight." Reuther used one word that can't be repeated here which caused the tense, solemn group to burst out in laughter. This broke the ice and started the negotiators on the road to settlement.

By 11 A.M., almost 24 hours after they started negotiating, an agreement was reached, ending one of the most critical strikes since V-J Day another triumph for. the democratic processes. OLD SOLDIERS. Five hundred forgotten soldiers, who survived past wars but are victims of old age, are. waiting to get into the National Soldiers' Home at Washington.

But there's no room. Those on the inside would like to make room by building new quarters. They have plenty of money $33,000,000, every cent contributed through the years by enlisted men. But the money is held in trust by the Treasury Department, and the ex-soldiers can't get it out without an act of Congress. Though this money belongs to the soldiers and not the taxpayers, the Budget Bureau has turned down a request to release $16,700,000 to expand the soldiers' home.

The bureau's recommendation has influenced Congress to refuse use of the funds despite the fact that the Soldiers' Home hasn't been expanded since 1911. Meanwhile, the waiting list of aed, lonely ex-sol-diers is growing longer. "Well, yes I have noticed a difference, the short time you've been on a diet you're more irritable and quarrelsome than usual MARQUIS CHILDS VACATION WITH POLITICS THREAT TO BERLIN AIRLIFT. The public was never told how the Bendix strike at South Bend, WESTBROOK PEGLER HAROLD ICKES' GIRL FRIEND appointed one of his closest friends and most devoted and influential political supporters, B. K.

Roberts, a Tallahassee attorney. The new Justice must, to remain on the bench, run in the election of next year. Because he enjoys a large and lucrative legal and is reputed to have a big figure income and a considerable private fortune, it was regarded as unlikely that Mr. Roberts would be willing to take a public office of uncertain tenure, paying only $10,000 a year. However, he evidently desired to serve on the state's highest tribunal, with the prospect of regaining his practice if and when he leaves the appellate bench.

Mr. Roberts is esteemed as a progressive citizen and ah able lawyer. The retiring Justice is a native of Hillsborough County, born in Plant City, and, Selected to the Supreme Court to succeed Justice Armstead Brown, retired, was appointed by Governor Caldwell to the court for the period before his elective term began. He has been in the judicial service of the state for 24 years, as Judge of the Dade County Civil Court of Record and the Circuit Court. He will go at once to his new duties at the University.

At 55, he is entitled to retirement pay of a year, two-thirds of his salary as Justice, and this will not be affected by his resignation "from the court and his assumption of another position. A Record In Fatality Tragically discouraging is the final total of Fourth of July accident fatalities, as summed up by the United Press. From 6 P. M. Friday to midnight Monday, comprising the holiday weekend, 805 lives were lost.

Of these, 321 were killed in highway traffic, 277 were drowned, 57 were victims of overheating, 18 died in airplane accidents, and 131 succumbed to miscellaneous mishaps. That is an all-time record. The heat wave which prevailed over the country added to the death toll. It impelled many to out-of-town trips and to swimming. The number of deaths by drowning exceeded all past counts.

President Dearborn, of the National Safety Council, which has steadfastly and persistently urged the utmost caution during holiday rushes, says that most of the traffic deaths were due to ''cheating on traffic rules and to poor sportsmanship on the roads, that the nation would not tolerate for a moment in a ball game or other athletic events where life and death are not involved." It is "shameful and disgraceful," he added. Just why the average person, taking the wheel of an automobile, will be less cautious when the highways are crowded in holiday periods than under ordinary circumstances is one of the unexplainable features of American habit. A local case in point is that of the driver who, with 50 Negroes returning from a Fourth of July picnic packed in a truck, drove 50' miles an hour, missing a curve, overturning the truck, killing two and injuring 18. Academic Freedom DEBATE on the move to oust or bar members of the' Communist Party from teaching in American schools and colleges is exciting at the teachers' convention in Boston. Buel W.

Patch, of Editorial Research Reports, discusses the issues involved, particularly the question raised as to the propriety or necessity of such action, and as to its consistency with the tradition of academic freedom. It is contended on the one hand that the mere fact of membership in the Communist Party renders a person unfit to teach. Others have questioned whether party membership constitutes a sufficiently "clear and present danger" to warrant a blanket ban on employment of Communists as teachers. Meanwhile various legislatures have been tightening existing legislation or enacting new laws, designed to keep not only party members but also fellow-travelers out of tax-supported institutions. The principle of academic freedom is supposed to assure a teacher liberty to pursue his appointed tasks, free of non- academic interference or restraints.

At the name time, it imposes upon the teacher or research scholar the duty to maintain independence of judgment, honestly seek the truth, and expound his subject iairly and frankly. In addition, it is an accepted part of the principle that the teacher, outside of the classroom, shall enjoy the same rights as other citizens and be free to write or speak without institutional censorship. The question now being discussed is whether or not it is a violation of academic freedom to dismiss or refuse to hire teachers on the sole ground that they are Communist Party members. Those who support such action contend that party membership, i ui with undeviating adherence Incapable of to the Soviet party line not True Teaching ony in political affairs but also in every branch of cultural affairs, destroys (he intellectual integrity of a teacher and makes him incapable of objective teaching or critical analysis. To persons holding this view, it is not a matter of guilt by association; to them, joining the Communist Party is an overt act demonstrating unfitness as a teacher.

Another group, emphasizing the principle that guilt is personal, would not discharge Communist teachers as Communists. On the contrary, they would treat each case individually and countenance disciplinary action only if the evidence showed that a teacher was actually using his position to spread subversive doctrines or was in fact so biased as to be adjudged professionally unfit. Opponents of any blanket ban on Communist teachers fear that such a departure rom the usual methods of determining pro-essional fitness or unfitness would lead in dme to restrictions aimed at teachers who leld merely unconventional or unpopular, ut not subversive, opinions, and thus remit in fatal impairment of academic On the other hand, so staunch a de-'ender of academic- freedom as President Tonant of Harvard has declared that Com- munist Tarty members are "out of bounds members of the teaching profession" and lhould be treated as a "single exception, in this Arctic book, reveals that she knew the score by innings, herself. I wondered why Johnson kept referring to her as "this very charming person" In revealing the fact that all she did for the railroad for her $6000 a year, plus $7 a day, was make some deadhead trips along the line and write some pieces for sale. He intimated that she even got the proceeds of the sales.

That would be a question of principle rather than amount, for three of her masterpieces showed up in Soviet Russia today, and Communist papers don't pay much. She could do better selling to the New Yorker and still feel at home. The blurb data reports that Miss Gruber got her degree of Doctor of Philosophy in 1932 at the age of 20 after one year at the University of Cologne. Shu was born In Brooklyn and had been around the ivy circuit like the tramp athletes of old, with stops at New York Mt. Holyoke, Harvard and Wisconsin.

Vllhjal-mur Stefanson, the explorer, wrote a preface. With the blubber scraped off, this name becomes plain William Stevenson and he is an American from North Dakota. After certain meanderings. Miss Gruber went tn Moscow and Interviewed Prof. Otto Yulievich Schmidt.

Like me, you may be ashamed to admit that you never heard of the professor, Ralph Barnes, the Moscow correspondent of the New York Herald Tribune, was very alert and like to blow a gasket when she told him the professor was sending her on a trip through the Arctic. Ralph is the brother of Joe, the author of the Herald Tribune's peculiar policy toward Communists in our midst for several years. Ruth says many persons offered her advice, among them Hanns Eisler. the Communist who was barred from this country until Eleanor Roosevelt butted In with the State Department, not once but twice. Doctor Gruber has quit a time standing off th sex-starved Russian wolves in the Arctic, but she is not only very charming, but a determined woman.

The episode of the faithless interpreter, a dirty dog who pitched woo at the very charming girl friend of the sentimental pld curmudgeon while pretending to translate scientific remarks to her from a savant named Vassya, is stuff you seldom come upon in the formal humdrum of Washington bureaucracy. The interpreter, that dirty dog, said it was most ironic to be the medium between two people in love when he loved her, too. Yes, he loved her but he was plain and good-hearted whereas the other was handsome but cruel. Ruth felt a flood of denial welling up and I can assure you that love among the pheedees is just ft rarified version of the sweetest story ever told. faintest hint from their man as tm any future Intentions.

When 'Interstate Commerce Commissioner Johnson, an ardent Truman admirer, made a quip about another term in the President's presence at Little Rock recently, Truman did not spurn the suggestion. One consequence of the Nov. 2 victory was to confirm in the men around Truman the conviction of the President's superior political judgment. They see him now as exercising that judgment with a long view of his own and his party's future, countering the grave handicap of the opposition from Southern Democrats. The Nov.

2 triumph strengthened the President's deep feeling of loyalty to those who stand loyal to him. The men around him believe this is often in his mind and it explains certain of his moves that otherwise seem inexpicable. The President will not soon forget these days of late September and October when the Republicans were flush with money and overconfidence, aided and abetted by virtually all the press and radio. He will not forget the afternoon in early September when he personally made an almost abject appeal to a group of prosperous Democrats who had been dragooned by Democratic Chairman McGrath into coming to the White House. That appeal was received with something less than enthusiasm and the committee continued to live from hand to mouth.

This feeling is behind the break with Baruch which was aired last week. Baruch last Fall tersely rejected a suggestion from Truman that he take part in helping to raise party funds. Even though it would do him no good politically, if the President visits Hawaii, he also will visit Cocoanut Island, the private island in the Hawaiian group belonging to Edwin. W. Pauley, the oil man, and some of his associates.

To several friends Pauley has hinted that the President hoped to visit him on Cocoanut Island. In 1952 the President will be 68 years old. But in terms of the inheritance of longevity which he appears to have from at least one side of the family, that is not old. His mother was 94 years old at the time of her death in 1947 and hale and alert up to her last illness. WASHINGTON, July 6.

Like most other Americans, President Truman has been thinking hopefully about vacation plans. So long as Congress Is in session, any plan must remain a. tentative and wistful hope," But in the White House there has been discussion of a possible trip that would take the President to both Hawaii, and Alaska. If Congress should adjourn by the middle of August or earlier, the President might go through with the plan. Since he would travel in his own plane, the Independence, the trip to Honolulu would be a matter of hours rather than days.

After a relatively brief stay in Hawaii, the President and his party would fly to Alaska and from there back to Washington by way of the Pacific Northwest with a possible stopover of a day or two in California. The trip, if it is made and there are many would not have altogether the look of a vacation. The issue of statehood for both the territories will be one of continuing urgency and the President would have a legitimate interest in making a firsthand Inspection. Gov. Gruening has long urged Mr.

Truman to visit Alaska. This last is an important consideration in every move the President makes. Anyone who expected Truman after his surprise victory of last November to coast gently through his first full term toward retirement from public life has by now had a chance to correct that impression. Here at the halfway mark of the first year of the new term is a man acutely conscious of his stand on the major issues of the day as that stand relates to his own future. One of the most astute and sensitive observers in the administration who had considerable" to do with the campaign last Fall puts it this way: "I've never heard him say a single thing about it.

But if I had to make a guess today, I would say that he would run again in 1952. He is handling every issue in such a way that his position will be clear and unmistakable in a future campaign." That view is confirmed by others close to the President," all of whom agree that they have had not the NEW YORK, July 6. For all the money that he spent on publicity for his projects, Harold Ickes somehow seems to have gone bashful about his charming girl friend, Ruth Gruber, the dead-head employe on the payroll of the Alaska Railroad, who got $6C00 a year and $7 a day subsistence for composing articles about the scenery and kindred subjects. This lady was mentioned in a memorandum introduced in the trial of Judith Coplon, another cheery and, to some sus-ceptibles, irresistible bundle of bureaucratic femininity. The memorandum, discovered by the FBI in the purse of Miss Coplon, and introduced at her trial, said that "Gruber" was reported to have been a "contact" of F.

A. Garanln of the Soviet Embassy in Washington. Ickes reacted violently. He said that if Ruth was a Red he was a Hottentot, an outbreak of racial bigotry against an underprivileged minority which the human rights division of the United Nations surely will make note of. Here we have a Hottentot-baiter in our midst all the time, serving on committees and subscribing to angry resolutions to camouflage his secret anti-Hottentot-ism.

Wait until the Anti-Defamation League hears about this! As to whether Miss Gruber is a "Red," whatever that is, you may require something better than the word of Ickes which, in my rate of exchange, continues to fluctuate between Confederate dollars and Romanoff rubles. But the very charming lady herself asserts that she was not a Communist as of 10 years ago. However, the declaration occurring in a book called "I Went To The Soviet Arctic," left me with an impression of affection for the Soviets. On page 107 she tells us that she worked on a paper called Arctik's Bolshevick in the port of Igarka, although only as a guest. She was actually a correspondent of the good old mock-Republican New York Herald Tribune.

The book is nippy narrative, nicely mingling sexology with straight, descriptive Sunday feature stuff. I gather that this "very charming person," as Congressman Jed Johnson, an Oklahoma Democrat, often called her, was on the cuff, or a guest of Soviet Russia. As chairman of a sub-committee of the Committee on Appropriations, Mr. Johnson, 1946, mede a campaign to roust out of soft government jobs individuals who were planted there by bureaucrats for obscure reasons. Johnson said Miss Gruber had been planted on the Alaska Railroad, a government property, in the highest salary bracket next to the general manager, after a season of work in Ickes' own office at the Department of the Interior.

Gruff as those old curmudgeon are, their repulsive exterior sometimes masks a tender and affectionate nature. Miss Gruber, ROBERT C. RUARK STANTON, July 6. The old man who says he is Jesse James lies all day in a cabin under tall trees, close to the Meramec Caverns in which history says he once hid out from the law. The old man, who is called Uncle Jesse by the people who look after him, is completely bedridden by a broken hip, but at the age of 102 his mind is still whip-sharp, his memory remarkable, and his arguments convincing.

He is nearly blind and a touch deaf, but is handsome still and full of scrap. The old man's name was J. Frank Dalton before he rediscovered himself. Even at his great age, his resemblance to the authenticated photos of the outlaw is amazing. There are the same cavernous eyes, the same sharply cut nostrils, the same sweep to his hair, the same scraggly growth of beard, the same set to the ears.

Jesse James was supposed to have lost a finger tip in a gun accident. Old Man Dalton's left hand shows a ruined, twisted nail. The resemblance to the young James is more striking than the resemblance of the photos of the dead Jesse to the live Jesse. The live Jesse had the lean look of an ascetic, and he was very sparsely whiskered. The dead Jesse's photo showed a heavily dark-bearded man of a definitely burly look.

On coincidental resemblance, the old-boy could easily be the man he claims he is. His age is exactly right. Much more than mere looks have led a sober, conservative newspaperman named Frank Hall almost to dedicate his life to substantiate the story he broke in Lawton, in 1948. Hall has become obsessed with Jesse James: he believes firmly that the old man is the supposedl dead outlaw, and offers a skein of remark ED SULLIVAN MEN, MAIDS AND STUFF IS HE JESSE JAMES? That the man who was killed in St. Joe by the Ford boys may not have been James is easily believable.

There was written expression of doubt at the time of the killing. The body was hurriedly identified by a few intimates, swiftly buried in Jesse's mother's yard, and disinterred. a full 20 years later for burial at Kearney, Mo. It was past all recognition then. Ex-City Editor Hall believes there were some peculiar political doings at the -time, and that a deliberate hoax was worked to allow James to escape.

It is odd that the Ford boys, the killers, gave themselves up; it was odd that they should have been pardoned immediately by Gov. Tom Crittenden; it was odd that Frank James should have turned in his guns a short time later, to receive full pardon. What is odder still that 50-some years after, the Governor's son, Houston Crittenden, should have chosen a man named J. Frank Dalton to write an eye witness account of the doings of the James boys for his father's biography, the Crittenden memoirs, published In 1936. Houston Crittenden is now dead, and cannot answer why he arbitrarily chose Dalton to deal with the chapters on outlawry, but the fact is he did.

Why? I don't know whether the old gent is in reality who he claims to be, but his story is remarkably tight. Dozens of his statements have been checked accurately by Hall. The tale he tells cannot, in my estimation, be a whole-cloth invention, any more than the bullet holes in his old carcass were invented. As Hall says, if he isn't Jesse James, who is There is no question that he was parcel of the rowdy life of that time. At this point I am 60 per cent sure he is the old outlaw, and in tomorrow's piece I will probably convince myself the other 40 per cent.

How Red This Herring? The conviction of Judith Coplon and her to penal servitude, after a thorough and fair trial on charges of stealing secret government papers with intent to aid a foreign power and of unlawfully removing confidential documents from government files, prompts a question for President Truman: How "red" is that "herring?" Mr. Truman, it will be remembered, attempted to ridicule and belittle all the investigations of alleged subversive conduct in the federal government by terming them "red herrings." Later he denounced such probes as "headline hunts" and "hysteria." With the proof of actual spy activities in government offices adduced in the Coplon trial and with the additional evidences of subversive practices developed in the Chambers-Hiss' investigation, we are sure the President will revise his derogatory appraisal of the patriotic efforts of those agencies, particularly the FBI, which have been busy uncovering the spy infection which evidently has been spreading through various federal offices. Mr. Truman should be aiding these investigations, not sneering at them. able evidence.

i' AS TRIBUNE READERS SEE IT WASTERS CRY FOR SESSION LUTZ. Thanks to The Tribune for editorial, "A Teacher Speaks," and thanks again for exposing waste and extravagance of a few elected officials and bureaucrats, nearly all of whom are crying for an extra session of the legislature. I hope they don't get it. There is nothing the matter with state finances that wise and businesslike handling would not cure, and do it without sacrificing necessary services no extra money is needed. L.

C. HANNA. A-hich is the unique product of our While educators have been debating these questions, new statutory bars to employment of Communists in tax-supported schools or in other public posts have been raised in several states. Georgia, for example, now requires all public employes to swear that they are not members of the Communist Party and have no sympathy for Communism. A new Maryland law describes the Communist movement as a clear and present danger, requires all public employes to declare in writing that they are not subversive persons or members of subversive organizations, and sets up special procedures for investigation of subversive activities and prosecution of subversive persons.

In New York the state board of regents has been directed by law to draw up a list of subversive organizations, membership in any of which is to be cause for dismissal of teachers in public schools. Our own view is that a person who is either a member of a Communist organization, or who has intimated or expressed sympathy with Communist ideas, should not be permitted to" teach the youth of this country. Roberts Succeeds Barns As indicated by The Tribune June 28, and emphatically denied at the time, Supreme Court Justice Paul D. Barns has resigned, to go back to his home city, Miami, as a professor of law at the University of Miami. When The Tribune stated tbat he planned to resign" about July 1, to return to Miami, Justice Barns said: "There's nothing to it.

I don't know anything about it." His resignation fully confirms The Tribune's report. Governor Warren lost no time in filling the Supreme Court vacancy. Yesterday he Not much rain until St. Swithin's Day, when 40 wet days are in prospect, postcards Brooklyn prognostics tor L. S.

Smith. Bobby Clark illness forcing Mike Todd to post closing notice for "As the Girls Go." Red Sox flingers discovered DiMaggio's weakness, home runs, flips wee Willie Shore. Waldorf after Dinah Shore for a September session. With Lou Costello flat on his back since April.i unable to make personal appearances, Bud Abbott wires, that the $83,000 mortgage on the Costello Youth Foundation can be lifted only by the Ike Williams-Enrique Bolamos Coast fight, July 21 (If the, fight flops, the foundation shutters). Add Trends? Wall Streeter Eddie Nesbitt to operate a chain of dress shops! Cantor and Phil Greenwald blazing.

Argentina's Peron 'ok'd Charlie Chaplin's "The Great Dictator" (Buenos Aires now chuckling at Jack Oakie portrait of Mussolini that reminds Argentinians of Peron) Tyrone Power and "The Black Rose" technicians from French Morocco to London for final shots. If you've got an invite," you can eye the Hope diamond and other rocks on the 12th. C. R. Smith, American Airlines' prexy, brags to stockholders that his line isn't indebted to.

or subsidized by, Uncle Sam. Eric Von Stroheim back to Paris to resume as star-director in French flickers. Cast will be on Ronald Reagan's leg for months. Joan Fontaine gets Joe Cotten for her Hal Wallis film "September," to be shot in Italy. The Johnny (WNJR) Clarkes named him Christopher.

Heroin peddlers operating openly on Broadway, between 48th and 52nd. CBS-TV captures the Paul Winchell show come September. Ink Spots to England next month. Birthday congrats to Gertrude Lawrence, Louis B. Mayer, George Murphy, Alec Templeton.

Edith Piaf and Marcel Cerdan have resumed in Paris. Alan Lustig granted a pardon. Nancy Walker and Gar Moore may try it again, Joe Mos- cowitz off to Europe to meet Zanuck. Lee Tracy to revive "Last Mile" next season. Mary Rogers and Ed Randolph an item.

The Dick Buckleys have named her Laurie. Rossellini 50 days behind with his Ingrid Bergman flicker in Stromboli. Joey Adams and Junior Standish at it again. Pat Henning offered the Myron McCormack role in London company of "South Pacific." Both Warners and 20th Century-Fox after Byron Palmer in "Where's Charley." Roy Campanella and Jackie Robinson purchased Long Island homes. Judy Coplon anticipated the by really exploding, snaps Bill Berto-lotti.

Harvpy Stone hopes the next mayor is Bs.O. K. as D. Sonja Henie and Winnie Gardner ice. Burris to Europe.

Lita Grey Chaplin returning to the screen. Hill Hartley takes over as editor of Modern Screen with Wade Nichols going to Redbook. The William (Carol Marcus) Saroyans have reconciled. (He planed in from Europe to patch the rift.) Add oddities: Skouras Theatre at Hempstead, L. only movie theatre with escalator.

John Talbot with blonde Barbara Trout. Marilyn Maxwell awarded the next Gable picture, "Key To The City." Felix Young in from the coast. John Conte and Look's Pat Coffin a penthouse twosome. Add Earfuls: Thelma Carpenter's "It's A Great. Wide, Wonderful World-' at the Capitol.

Wesson Bros, claim Joe DiMaggio is positively homeric. Jean Paul Satre consoling Ellen Adler, Stella's lass. Rockefeller Room site, with Norman Bel Geddes. Orson Welles wearing tights in "Black Magic!" Jose Ferrer so good in "Whirlpool" with Gene Tier-ney, Arthur Freed now wants him for Spencer Tracy's "Basra." Bob Taplinger saw Peggy Cummins off for Europe. Jack (WINS) Lacy weds Agnes Code on the 21st.

Cornel Wilde and Pat Knight leave for coast soon as her injured ankle heals. (Returns here for Summer stock in, new Theatre Guild play). Sir Stork winging to the Jess (Olen and Johnson) Kimmels. the Buddy Lesters, the Ted (Curtis Pub. Co.) Cavanaughs.

Comebacks of 1343; Joe DiMaggio, Assault, Sam Snead. CAMERA-CONSCIOUS GOVERNOR SARASOTA. The Tribune is not only just but generous to publish camera-conscious Governor Warren's statement on the original stories or story in The Tribune concerning his loan on his Cadillac. Having contacted several banks without reference to the Warren transaction, I learn $1800 would be a generous loan on a 1948 Cadillac "without too much mileage and in good also If relevant that such loans are usually based on a month-by-month system rather than 90 days. Plainly, Warren received the loan as a personal one, either because his credit is far above average or because he is the Governor of Florida.

To which no one should object. But what is objectionable is his eternal yen for personal pictures and publicity, even when he borrows The citizens of Florida would consider not only Warren but the legislature much more kindly if. instead of trying to pry more money from all of us which means additional cost to the Florida visitor, and if carried far enough will result in drop in tourist trade cut costs to fit present taxation. That it can't be done is, of course, pure rot. EUGENE JONES.

THE THREE AGES TARPON SPRINGS. When Oscar Wilde wrote "When we are young we know everything, when we are middle-aged we doubt everything, and when we're old we don't know anything," he must have had in mind a psychologies' principle of paramount importance. When we're young the world is a brand new place for most of us. We're too busy observing and enjoying our surroundings to look We're then experiencing a long, tranquil period of snug extraversion. At the end of this period, faint and at times irksome forebodings begin to cloud our azure skies until they blacken them completely and the first drizzles of manhood and womanhood's sense of duty drive our spirit indoors.

We are slowly becoming Introverts and in this state desperately try to explain the "within" with our knowledge of the When, during this stage we sit back and say, "Well, what can I do about old age has set in. The elite, the blessedly gifted members of old age then begin to explain the "out" in terms of the For all of us the "out" is the reflection of the You can only see so much in things as your "within" will permit, for the "out," from another point of view, is nothing but the testing ground the strength of the ARISTOPHANES. Others Were Hotter Yes, it has been warm in Tampa over the Fourth of July holiday period, but Tampa has compared favorably with other cities in more northern latitudes, which should have been cooler. On Tuesday, Tampa's maximum was 91. The same day, Chicago's was 97, Cincinnati's 94, Cleveland's 96, New York's 94, Washington's 96, Philadelphia's 99 and Pittsburgh's 97; while, in other Southern cities, New Orleans and Houston reported 94, Richmond 96.

These comparisons are not exceptional. On many Summer days, Tampa's maximum temperature is lower than that of other cities. NO PARKING FEE TAMPA. Just how cheap can a piker get? In driving around Tampa streets I've noted several very new looking autos parked at meters that plainly showed overtime no ticket instead, a big tag that tells the world that this car belongs to one of Warren's ward heelers, a tag Inspector. A little old five-cent piece standing between them and being within the law.

By what authority do they default on a tax that we, the people, have to pay ry day? R. W. C..