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rr 1 it 1 'i --i. til i if Jl 1 4 "I i 1 II si WANTED A WITNESS TO A TRAGEDY! PHILADELPHIA Six- oar-old KIoi.se Dimartocello (right) was killed by a trurk near her home here last February 9. Aside from reports that the truck was passing a red light, no one has been able to supply information that would lead to the identity of the truck driver. So her father has resorted to picketing of the intersection where she was killed. Above, left, Elmer Lewis, an employe of the father, carries a sign asking for information.

International News Photo. 1 NATIONAL BRIDGE CHAMPION NEW YORK The smile belongs to Merwln D. Maier, New Yoik city lawyer, shown with the trophy he won as national contract bridge champion. International News Photo. Jerry Fox9 PRESENT FOR JANE FROM BOBBY BREEN U0LLY1V00D, Calif.

Bobby Breen went to Jane Withers' thirteenth birthday party with four ducklings for the young screen star. Jane's guests dressed as what they wanted to be when they pow up. Bobby went as a clown International News Photo. OBSERVATORY Diogenes, Here's Long-Sought Manl 1 Diogenes, here's your man! I Diogenes' lantern hasn't burnel cut in all these years, and gr he's still Interested in looking for an honest man, Dayton has a candidate to nominate. He i jn i ill JDln YANKEE CLIPPER BACK AFTER TWO ATLANTIC CROSSINGS BALTIMORE, Md.

The 42-ton Boeing flying boat, "Yankee Clipper" is shown approaching the float on the Patapsco river here as it completed an transatlantic Inspection flight. Elapsed flying time for the trip to England and return was 82 hours, 59 minutes. International News Photo. RECORD BARTHOLOMEW THERE, TOO HOLLYWOOD, Calif. Jitterbug contests and a balloon dance were features of Jane Withers' (left) birthday party.

Among her guests, shown here with her, were, left to right, Bobs Watson, Freddie Bartholomew and Virginia Weidler. International News Photo. Walter WinchcW ON BROADWAY James Baker, manager of tie paint department of a downtown department store. Through ah error that passed, unnoticel, through the hands of three persons, he was handed a check fr $100,254.00 instead of fir $254.00, the amount that wis due him, and was honest 'enough to point out the error to Hs superiors! It seems that Baker had wrt-ten the company he represents in the east, asking for an al-vance of $254 from his comms-sion money so that he coiid finance an operation his wife htd undergone. The company ofi-cials in turn, wired the depat-ment store in which Baker is located here, instructing toe auditor to give Baker a chek for $254, and that he would e-imburse the store.

The check was given to Baler, who put it in his wallet withtit careful scrutiny. Taking itto the bank where he asked to jl have it cashed, he Was admn-ished by the teller for en thinking of carrying "so men cash" on his person. Even ten he didn't tumble. Insisting an the cash, he was told by he teller he'd have to wait half an hour or so before the cash cald be obtained. "But," he said, "I can't understand this.

Two n-dred and fifty-four dollars ia't such a great amount, is it?" "Evidently you didn't look at your check," the teller told hm. "The check has been made iut for $100,25,4, and the fumy thing about it is that.it a bona-fide check." Apologizing for the mistike that had been made, Bater pocketed the check once mere, took it back to the store auli-tor and asked for a remide check, one with the protcr amount on it. What happenfd, no doubt, was that somebdy accidently bumped the first ol-umn of figures on the ehek machine before it had ben pressed into the check. By Edwin Cox 'i'-i, IF 9 BLACK CATS f. have 9 lives each; BCOADWAY PRODUCER America, or that the possible victory of Italy, Germany, and Japan; the two former powers united in a revolutionary philosophy hostile to everything that this countryhas ever stood for, could be a matter of indifference to the United States, or that, given such an outcome, this country would be safe.

Jf then, the president uses every possible diplomatic Instrument to avert a world, by warning, by clarifying the issue, by suggesting conciliation in advance of it, it seems that he ought to be strongly supported, regardless of other political differences. The drama and sensationalism are necessitated by the way in which modern politics is played. No democratic nation was the inventor of this new international politics. The secretary of Btate under Coolidge was a co-author of the pact of Paris, under which the Private Lives nations of the world gave a solemn covenant not to resort to war as an instrument of national policy. The United States did not sign the Treaty of Versailles, and is not committed to the maintenance of the status quo anywhere, but unless all our words for 20 years have been merely pious platitudes and if they are we should stop uttering them, for there is no place in the world at present for platitudes then we are committed by word on word and deed on deed to opposing Invasion and aggression as a means of rectifying injustices.

It is the belief of this column that the president's move was a brilliant stroke of diplomacy, and that if anything can stop a catastrophe which has been approaching visibly for years it will be an active policy and not a passive one. (Copyright, 1939, New York Tribune, Ine.) ft f'S. King 1- IT PAIMTS TliuiJ PUCMiTUfct LAHQUE Jowrf HAS BE EM TO SWISS WITM A DAYTON HERALD Spotlight Ohio's Greatest Feature Vniie APRIL 19, 1939 through the Tlcrre lobby and leaving a wake of hush behind them Baney Venuta of "Kiss the Boys Good-bye" kissing a girl ta-ta at Armando's Clem McCarthy in Place Elegante lamenting that his Derby choice, Johnstown, was 15 to 1 a little more than a week ago and now is the fave! Margaret Sullavan with a hair-do that makes her resemble a dandelion Fred Astaire bound for Ireland to see his sister, Adele, who has a castle there Much safer flying there, brother Ginger Roger's intimates arguing that George Stevens is merely her best gentleman friend and willing to wager she doesn't wed him Judy Garland taking the box-office record at Loew's State away from Jack Dempsey Gene Raymond surrounded by movie fan mag writers (fern-1 mes) and male press agents to see that he doesn't have fun and thus give Hollywood a wicked name Eleanor Holm, who practically owns the Diamond Horseshoe and Casa Ma-nana, winning "eight dinners" at the Stork Club. Sallies in our alley: At Ruby Foo's Den last night some of us were pro-and-conning about a showgirl who, everybody seemed to agree, was "on the take" "You've gotta admit," said one defender, "that she has a heart of gold" "Good heavens!" exclaimed another, "who gave her that?" Gladys Faye, who canaries at Jimmy Kelly's, apparently is a newspaper reader When some college boys began heckling her early this yawning, Gladys got a howl with, "Aw, go swallow some goldfish!" i Overheard description of a swanky poddy at Conde Nast's house: "The men look as though they're wearing girdles, and the women as though they're not wearing anything!" Memos of a Midnighter: Richard Carlson, the male lead of "Stars in Your Eyes" (now Hollywood-bound), will wed Kay Mayiield's sister, who is currently a Renotable To the student who says he has wed a tune to a recent Don Wahn poem, because if "Hoagy Car-michael can do it, why can't Hoajrv got permission from the copyright, owners, which you can't get "Information Please" used a famous Ripley Tuesday eve'g. That all the wars the U.

S. waged began in April The Var of 1812 was provoked in April, but started long after "Juarez" Is 16 reels long. Takes 2 hours and 40 minutes to unfold The German bike riders will be split up and teamed with others. They will be listed as "Americans," too "They're rehearsing echoes!" is Broadwayee for "business is terrible" Lou Holtz's advice: "Don't gamble. There is no thrill in gambling unless you are betting more than you can afford" Jos E.

Lewis has a blessed event to report. The India Rubber Man at the circus and his wife had a baby. A beautiful five-pound hot-water bottle! Mldtown Vignette: She is young, lovely, and air-minded. She took flying lessons until she lost her Jab and funds ran out But flying is her r.ne and only love, and she haunted the air-line offices looking for employment Recently she met a Pan-American Airways biggie at a party They talked for an hour about planes and female fliers and such and he prom ised to see what he could do for her And so, two weeks ago she went to work for the Pan-Am. She sits all day at a desk compiling statistics, listing names and numbers in full charge of the records of the pan-Am.

Bowling League! I j4 who invented the phrase, 'Near beer'." New Vorchids: William Wy-ler's wonderful direction of Sam Goldwyn's latest heart-Juggler, "Wuthering Heights," at the Ri-vdli. Don't miss it! Loren Carroll's book, "Conversation, Please" (Bobbs-Merrill). a clinic for gabbers Johnny Prentiss, on local stations, a listen-able record-playing interrupter John Hoysradt's mimicry at the Rainbow Room Virginia Slmm's platter of "Don't Worry About Me" whatta lyric! Lanny Ross's version of "Heaven Can Wait" De Loyd McKay's sepianoing at the Onyx the real McKay. Observations: The models' agency in the RCA where even the stenos and receptionists are garbed in shimmering pajamas The dozen barmen behind the 116-foot bar in the Astor Hotel The young Negro of about 16, a future Paul Robeson, who chants rich-voiced spirituals for the emerging Carnegie Hallers, who chuck pennies at him on Sundays The huge parking lot in the West 50s near 6th operated as a hobby by a retired wealthy man, who helped launch the movie industryWilliam Fox The sign in the bakery window at 181st street near Audubon Avenue: "Special today. Penny rolls 1c each!" The ads for the new flicker -vhich read: "Jaurez Pronounced War-Ezz" A Juarner Brothers picture? The 47th Street midnight Madonna, whom the parked cabmen have nicknamed (of all things!) "Angel." Broadway Confucius's Remarkable Remarks: Real friend tough to find, but much tougher to lose Liquor often make you feel like new person, but soon make you look like old one Never look for trouble.

Trouble has too many entrances not enough exits! Fame surround you with lotta people who bore you while you bore them Girl who fall for every fellow get bounced around Guy who count happiness in dollars gotta read financial pages every day to see how happy he is Girl often seen In cafe seldom make good coffee. Faces about town: Katharine Cornell and Katharine Hepburn treading separate paths itorothif Thompson' ON THE President Moved By Inside Knowledge. I think there is no question that the president's dramatic week-end move was precipitated by knowledge of a very acute crisis. Mr. Knickerbocker of the Hearst Press, who Is an exceptionally well-informed foreign correspondent, reported on April 17 that President Roosevelt had received a verbatim transcript of a conversation between Hitler and one of his most trusted aids, ostensably disclosing the fuehrer's real ambition.

The fuehrer is reported to have said: "I intend to take the whole of Czecho-Slovakia, and by autumn to have brought into a great national socialist federation under the leadership of the reich Poland, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Greece, and possibly Turkey. The countries which willingly consent will be welcome; those which resist will be crushed." The fuehrer counted on being able to neutralize Soviet Russia, an protected at his rear, he would then be able to attack France and Britain. He counted on a short war which would end in the delivery of the British and French fleets to the Germans. The last stage would be the establishment of a Pax Ger-manica in the west, with an overpowering sea force. With the aid of Japan, America would be next in line.

Utterly fantastic as this program sounds, it is the belief of this column that it very closely approximates what is, or has been, in the minds of the axis powers. For weeks there have been leaks to disclose some such program. The extreme nervousness of The Netherlands, a nation which is not given to hysteria, has indicated that that nation has expected a possible "token occupation" while Japan struck at the Dutch East Indies. The Swiss, who are also certainly not hysterical by nature, have been completely prepared for months for war in the west. And the whole program of Hitler, as envisaged, written down and supported for 15 years, has been world power.

The alliance with Italy can only make sense, from Mussolini's point of view, in the contemplation of war in the west, for Mussolini has made enormous sacrifices to Hitler. Gone is the influence in central and eastern Europe which he spent years in building up, and which was exemplified in the pact of Rome under which Italy, until the conquest of Austria, enjoyed special political and trade privileges in Austria and Hungary, and for which, after the assassination of Doll-fuss, Mussolini was actually willing to gojto war with Hitler. The enormous German and Italian activities in South America; the unrelenting intransl-geance over Spain; the fact that the Germans and Italians are, at this moment, in possession of the most strategical military points in Spain and in control of a large part of the Spanish economy, and the report that Germany has sent two or three pocket battleships with cruisers and submarines to Spanish ports, indicating that Germany has learned a lesson from the last war and does not intend to be bottled up in the North sea and the Baltic; the sudden seizure of Albania by Italy, strategically important as a point from which to squeeze both Yugoslavia and Greece, are all parts of the picture. And the sudden sending of the American fleet back to the Pacific certainly was not done without the navy's advice, and the navy has, perhaps, the best intelligence department which we possess. Major Elliot's articles in this month's Current History calls attention to the importance of the new German navy and its collaboration with the German ajr force.

Analyzing the composition of the new German fleet, Major Eliot comes to the conclusion that it cannot possibly be intended as an instrument against the Soviets and that it is indeed "perfectly silly to contend, as German official explanations have attempted to contend, that it is for use against Russia." There is no conceivable use for any such force of submarines in the Russian-German naval situation. "The submarine," says Major Eliot, "has its principal use in the field of commerce destroying." The nation which possesses sea-borne commerce which is vital to her and without which she cannot live, is Britain. And Major Eliot recalls the Emden and the enormous damage which that single German cruiser did before she finally was brought to boot by 40 searchers. He thinks that the German navy today, being precisely adapted to a specific purpose and a specific enemy, is far more dangerous than the German army In 1914. No one can contend that a world war fought on the major sea lanes of the world Is of no concern to the United States of Something To Take Just Before Aspirin.

Sounds in the night: At 49th Street and Sixth Avenue: "This was Sixth Avenue until they took down the 'L'!" In Reuben's "Her figure Is a compliment to anything she wears" In Leon and Eddie's: "Darling, will you take the place of liquor in my life?" In the Glass Hat: "Sorry I couldn't see you last night, honey, hut I was suddenly taken drunk" In the Stork: You can see they're in love. Look at the kisses in his eyes" At the Queen Mary: "Whoops, my dear. He got so maaaaaad he saw lavender!" In the Russian Art: "Listen, feller, what most women mistake for a man's respect is nothing more or less than his restraint" In the Onyx: "She says she's goin' slumming. She must mean she's goin' home!" At Coq Rouge: "She's something to be taken Just before aspirin" In Jack White's: "Oh, you know her kind. She drops her phone number instead of her hanky" In the Paradise: "Pardon my stupidity, but I love you" At the Radio Frank's Ear: "There's more fun in going to one of his parties than to one of his pictures!" In the Casino Russe: "What do I have to give you for just one kiss 1" Big town small talk: MGM breaks the tape with Hollywood's anti-dictator race with "White America Sleeps" at the Capitol, a two-reel factual spy expose.

An eye-opener for people who think the Nazis are 3.000 miles away Overheard about a radio comedian's author: "He's punrh-line drunk!" In Philly Ijclla Carroll the Stripip was advertised as "Clark Gable's glamor girl," which is what most of us thought Carole Lombard was The mentioned so frequently in Ward Morehouse's column is Mary Rockwell, the actress, whose boy friend is the columnist's Boy Friday Heywood Broun is picking on his confrere, West-bwok Peeler, again in Bourn's weekly. The Nutmeg With this "The man who gave I'egler his eolun.n titie, 'Fair mwi have been the same fellow Murray Anderson WHO KEEPS 'EM IN HIS PARK AVENUE PEWThOUSE, WOM'T SOON BE LONESOME. VEAR.LY pay check of A BEL6AM KlN3 IS 15UT YOUUC5 Leopold! DOVOU LIKE LILAC fZ CwMDTUftl tXDES SO MUCH SHE EVEN TOE UNDERSIDES OP HER WITH LILAC" SCENTED KNOWN TO TRAVEL VACATION! SPOTS THE TOURISTS IfJ THIRD CLASS CARRJAcjE..