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FOUR THE MONTGOMERY ADVERTISER FRIDAY, JUNE 18 1943 Henry McLeillOre lei ataallthed 1S2I Pablllhed tvery Mornmt In tht Tot Br THB tDVtllltU COHMNf pro-German and unneutral things the Russians charge. The Allies might well gently intimate that they could make out with less oral affection and more deportment in keeping with the role of a bona fide neutral 'Hot, Ain't ItT Spang 1 -1 1 Jay ALLIES CLOSE SYRIAN GATE Great events seem to be shaping selves in the Middle East after a long period of quiescence. Action of the British in closing the long, undefended frontier between Syria and Turkey no doubt has significance, but one guess is as good as another as to what the true meaning of the gesture may be. The two large armies in the Middle East, which the Allies have for months been quietly building up into formidable striking forces, may now be ready for movement in any one of several directions. But on the other hand closing the border may be meant merely as an effort to deprive the Nazis of what is perhaps their most informative peep-hole into Allied territory.

Usually, however, when a former war theater, long inactive, begins to switch on its lights, it is preparing a new show. No longer is North Africa the focus of attention. With the Mediterranean now, open throughout its entire length, long-planned operations may well be imminent in several selected areas, not the least unlikely of which might be Nazi-held Crete, the Dodecanese, or Turkey may be ready for a gentle push that will put her on the side of the United Nations; though there is little to Justify such an optimistic outlook In the light of the blandly non-committal attitude of Saracoglu, the wily Turkish premier. With the Dardanelles peacefully opened to our fleets, many things could begin to happen, good for us and exceedingly bad for the Germans. The liberation of Greece might go forward even as aid went across the Black Sea to Russia.

Turkey holds the key to the short-cut, she may allow us the use of the key, and when that day comes Hitler's unwilling Balkan satellites may save their skins by hasty, unconditional surrender. But, regardless of what Turkey elects to do In the present circumstances, important moves are evidently about to be made by the Allied armies poised in Syria, in Iran, and in Iraq. We have hardly been 4 VV'1' j4V, -vVe; -'V- lffK- 'c r-r- )'-. '4 Letter (lapper's By RAYMOND CLAPPER (Distributed by United Features) LONDON. (By Wireless.) Great "Britain's future course is bound to be influenced to no small degree by decisions to be made at the British Labor party's conference this week.

The Labor party will vote to continue the political truce which has prevailed during the war. But the policies Of the Labor party must be assimilated partially by Churchill's national government, as he in- dicated was happening in his radio address on postwar social security several weeks ago. Churchill is believed to have selected Anthony Eden as his heir, but the Labor party's leadership will have a deep influence on British policy. The party is expected this week to select as its treasurer Herbert Morrison, the home minister. The treasurer is the party's most important official, controlling enormous funds and party patronage.

In America- a couple of years ago people expected, that Labor Minister Ernest Bevin would be the big Labor man of the future in Britain. Morrisotvds now assuming that prospective status. He is a Socialist who built a strong political machine in London some years ago and rode into party leadership and into the government through that. I saw Morrison when I was here two years ago, when he was reorganizing home air-raid protection and setting up the fire-watching system. His handling of affairs on the home front has strengthened his position.

Now his influence in the government is likely to expand if the Labor party, elevates him to treasurer. Morrison is inclined to give a stronger flavor of socialization to the party program than some others who are primarily trade-unionists. Yet he is not a doctrinaire intellectual but a hardheaded, working-class Socialist. Morrison insists on placing war and postwar questions ahead of internal questions. He says home affairs have been wrecked LONDON, ENGLAND The wartime Englishman not only has a heart of oak he is soon going to have shoes to match.

Because of the leather shortage the country has been warned by Mr. A F. Watts, assistant director of civilian footwear and repair board, that wooden footgear for citir zens is not far away. I The public has accepted this pronouncement with the same stoic calm as it did the news that the Brussels sprouts crop was the biggest in years. Many psychological warfare experts thought that the Brussels sprouts report should be hushed up lest public morale crack but the fearless Churchill government apparently said, "No, people must know the truth no matter how dreadful it is." Personally I am awaiting with interest the arrival of wooden shoes.

I can scarcely wait to step into a shoe store to ask the clerk to show me what he has in the way of good birch brogues, size 8 1-2 pref-eraby ones with Eucalyptus uppers. It will not only be novel, but fun to count the rings in your shoes to see that you have a good, old, seasoned pair and he is not trying to palm off some fresh forestry on you. Life after all is nothing but new experiences and you can't tell me that it won't be good for a laugh to take a pair of shoes back to a store because termites have gotten into them. Imagine also the solid comfort of some soft pine bedroom slippers or the exhilaration of sliding around a dance floor in a pair of beautifully varnished stump Women, of course, are going to suffer a bit unless some of the lovelier woods are used to make their street and dress shoes but they will undoubtedly raise such a clamor that thera will be made some teakwood and mahogany shoes for special occasions. The cost may be very high which may go against the grain with husbands but nobody has ever paid any attention to the howls of husbands before so I don't think they will start at this late date.

The polishing of shoes will be simplified Before a businessman rushes off to his office in the morning he will just call to the maid or to his wife to take tht floor mop and give him a good shine. It seems to me and I have given almost 20 seconds' thought to the subject that if shoes can be made of wood why not other bits of personal attire? Think of the lovely patterns that could be worked out for a Wooden necktie. I certainly would not mind a nice bird's-eye maple bow tie or a nice good fir four-in-hand. I won't go so far as to say that a wooden sock would be comfortable but there is no particular reason why a wooden hat wouldn't be serviceable. Wooden hats for women offer limitless possibilities.

A man could go down tj the lumber yard, get his wife two or three two-by-fours and a jigsaw and she could not only have one hat for each occasion but half a dozen. Another thing to be considered is that wooden clothing will serve a dual purpose. In the Winter the entire family could sit around the fireplace and keep warm before Mamma and Papa's last Summer's wardrobe. Hand-me-downs would be so easy to alter for the children. Give little Johnny a hatchet and he could alter bis older brother's suit while having a hell of a time in the nursery.

The laundry problem would be completely solved. A new coat of paint every year, that's all ou'd need. Wooden clothes would aid in recreation. All a man, who likes to whittle, would need would be a jack-knife and he could just sit and have a bang-up two or three hours carving his undershirt. And, as for SweetheartsMary could carve a heart on Jim's cuffs with an arrow through it and Jim Could whittle you," on Mary's new balsam bonnet.

And, think of the fun you could have at a wedding, throwing these wooden shoes at the. guy who stole your girl. (Distributed by McNaught Syndicate, Inc.) Living Today By ARLIE B. DAVIDSON BELIEVE IN YOUR COUNTRY Your country may not be perfect with respect to its natural environment, its 'people or its forms of social organization, but you should believe strongly in it, nevertheless. And you should believe in it enough to spend your life 'In the effort to make it more nearly perfect than it is.

It is your home, it contains your and it is your political sovereign. It is in part what you do to make it what it is. You may not effect important changes as an individual citizen, but you can do much to improve it along with more than a hundred million other adults. You can easily spend most of your time as a cynic, looking upon your country, particularly its economic and political aspects, with critical and condemnatory eyes. Some do, and they spend their life in bitterness and scorn of things as they are.

They live in their country and receive many benefits from their citizenship but they make no contribution toward any changes for the better. They may have ability above the average but they do not use it in channels of positive constructive improvement. They sit by the side of the road as critics of the passing throng rather than friends and comrades in solving common prob lems as co-workers, not as destructive critics. The cynical attitude toward one's country is often the result of the failure to realize that your country is for the benefit of all its constituents, not you alone. If you expect all good to come to you without regard for others, you will not do much to help yoir country.

Patriotism will be centered in you, not country. You forget that your country is helped by individual contributions in cooperation with millions of others. You are here to aid in building. not in destroying. You will always find bases for criticism of your country and the way it is run.

But you can make it a greater, better country only by believing in it and in vesting your life to make it so. BALCONY BALONEY H. I. Phillips, referring to the many deliverances by Mussolini to hypnotized Italians from the balcony, says: "After Italy gets out of this war she won't allow any public man to appear on a balcony for a hundred years." Speaking from that physical elevation. Mussolini vamped the Italians by promising to restore the Italian empire and made them believe he was a second Caesar.

They were slow to be disillusioned. Henceforth they will follow a Cincirinatus who has his feet on the ground. A balcony lacks a solid foun- datlon, as Anteus could have told the Romans when they were up in the air. They went up from the balcony like a rocket. They are coming down like a stick.

Raleigh News and Observer, performances in "Star tt Garter" and wrote a new act. Each year the publishing house of Farrar and Rinehart conducts a contest for Latin-American writers. This year the prize for the best book 'of non-fiction was won by Senora Argentina Diaz Lozano, who wrote "Pere Grinaje." Senora Lozano received notification that her book had won the prize, she immediately reread the contract she had signed in submitting her man uscrlpt. She came to the phrase about the publishers having the "manuscript in hand' and quickly wrote to Farrar RineharL stating that she had not realized the import of this phrase, and that she therefore was willing to recopy her typed manuscript by hand. (Distributed by McNaught Syndiceje, Inc.) Statered at the Poetofrtea at 41m.

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PHONI ALL PBRTMRMTS I-Ult a It. la 10:10 at. Dally. After 10JO p.m. aad Oa Suadaya Telephone: Hew Department 5201 Weat Ad Department SMI Bulecrlptiea 7740 Colored Neva areao (an 3-3M SOUTH AMERICAN WAT At tht moment a confusing Argentine situation appears to be resolving itself In the typical South American manner as was to be expected.

The Argentines have taken the only way possible to extricate themselves from an embarrassing position which waa speedily becoming The overthrow of the pro-Axis Castillo government was motivated, not by any preponderant love for Democracy or democratic Institutions; but with a view to salvaging as much as possible of Argentina's rapidly waning Influence among Latin Americans. So long as there was a chance for German victory in Europe, Argentina wis sitting pretty with nothing to lose. One it became apparent that German victory was impossible, her position became precarious. It was urgently impera tive mat sne cnecamate me pyramiding hegemony of Brazil in. South America.

And so the comic-opera revolution. Argentina is the least "American" country In the hemisphere according to John Gunther, who says lt is a land where "beef Is king, and Buenos Aires a resplendent queen" of more than two and a quarter million people; the heaviest traffic in the world and not one single traffic light in the whole city! Argentina is the world's first producer and exporter of agricultural commodities. Its soil Is so extravagantly rich that fertilizer is unknown and wheat grows twice in one season; where the finest imported bulls are left to forage- all year and grow to rival the celebrated bull of Paul Bun-yan. It is a land of vast, incredible distances where small estancias may contain anything between a quarter and a half-million acres. One estimable citizen of the country, Carlos Casado, owns a measured fifty-six million acres across the boundary In Paraguay.

Bat the Argentines are intensely nationalistic. They have an exaggerated sense of mission as the leaders of all South America. Moreover, they are a people whose cultural and economic roots reached deep into Europe, and whose spiritual mother was P.aris before the war. One reason for the absence of friendship between Argentina and the United States Is that the Argentines are as far from the Industrial centers of the United States as they are from the factories and consuming centers of Europe. We have refused to buy their beef, while we had no use for their wheat and corn.

Their trade went to Europe. Our steamship lines found little business in Argentina and it was cheaper in time and money for -cargoes consigned to Buenos Aires to be routed by way of London' or Liverpool. Heretofore the Argentines have had no reason whatsoever to fall over themselves in order to secure the 'good opinion of norteamericanos. They are a proud people. They do not lavish affection where lt Is unsought or unwanted.

If wt would forge strong ties with the Argentines our diplomats must learn to talk In another language than that we used to call "dollar diplomacy." In short, it's got to be bully beef or nothing if we want to shoot the bull with los Americanos de Argentine. MUST ENFORCE ITS DECREES After this war, we are told, there must be set up a tribunal to which aggrieved nations can bring their just claims for redress. For a long time to come, such a tribunal will not amount to a whale of a lot unless backed by a police force able and willing to enforce its decrees. One main trouble with the League of Nations was that it was all bark and no bite, and even its barking was oft discordant as members could not agree on how to handle an aggressor, Tennessee's Bell Witch By ALFRED MANDERS In Chattanooga Times Robertson County gained nationwide fame a few days ago when its draft board announced that it would not draft any more boys in the army until something was done about the strikes, and especially John L. Lewis's strike.

Now Robertson County is cited by the Tennessee Taxpayers Association as a model county for good county government. Ever since it was founded, Robertson County has been known for its independence and its outspokenness. The original constitution of Tennessee (1796) is written in the handwriting of William Fort of Robertson County. He wrote what is called "a beautiful hand." And what is more remarkable, the only person who ever cowed Andrew Jackson was a Robertson Countian, or, to be exact, it wasn't a person at all but a witch. i It is a famous story in middle Tennessee, for Andrew Jackson went down to Robertson County to conquer the famous "Bell Witch," but he failed and beat an ignominious retreat.

The story shows the infinte ability of early Tennesseans to play and to joke ana to enter into tne spirit of things. Early in the 1800's John Bell came to Robertson County from North Carolina, bought a tract of land and settled with his large family, and numerous slaves. To add to his holdings. Bell bought a big piece of land from Mrs. Kate Batts, a neighbor, well known for her temper.

It is said that Bell was noted for "an almost grim piety and uprightness," but no sooner had the land been transferred than Mrs. Batts began complaining she had been cheated. She complained about it for years, and on her deathbed, she swore that she would "hant John Bell and all his kith and kin to their graves." Old Kate Batts did come back and she hanted the Bells in a big way. The pious John Bell, and his pretty daughter, Betsy, were her chief targets. Strange to say, the witcn was quite inenaiy to Mrs.

John Ben. The witch believed that hants should be heard but not seen, for no one ever saw her. But it is a matter of record that no one ever visited the Bell home and failed to hear her voice. The famous Bell Witch "spoke at a nerve-wracking pitch when displeased, but at other times the voice sang and spoke in low musical tones." Old Kate threw furniture! and dishes at John Bell and his pretty daughter, Betsy. She "yelled all night to keep them from sleeping and snatched food from their mouths at mealtime." It is also a matter of record that the Bell Witch went to every revival in Robertson County and' "outsang, outshouted, outmoaned the most fervent converts." Old Kate is reported to have been fond of corn whisky and her ghost raided still houses, got roaring drunk, and took it out on pious John Bell and Betsy BelL Pretty Betsy fell in love with a neighbor named Josiah Gardener, and Old Kate, the Bell Witch, took out after Josiah.

She made it so hot for Gardener that he gave up the fight and fled from Tennessee. rin.llu em thm. Hol1 WjV, reached Andrew Jackson in Nashville. Gen. Jackson and some friends decided to go down to the Bell farm and have it out with the Witch.

They started out in a wagon as a sort of a lark, but suddenly when they reached the boundary of the Bell farm the "wagon in which Jackson and his friends were riding would move no farther." The mules tried their best and Old Hickory shouted his loudest, but the wagon wouldn't budge. Finally, from nowhere, came the voice of Old Kate: "All right, General, 'the wagon can move on." And the wagon moved on, while the Witch laughed in derision. i That night the Bell Witch was in her best spirits "She sang, swore, she threw dishes, overturned furniture and snatched the bedclothes from all the beds." And the next morning Andrew Jackson turned tail and fled. As Old Hickory left he shouted to John Bell, "I would rather fight the British again than 'have any more dealings with that torment." The remarkable story of the Bell Witch has never been explained. The voice was certainly there, and it raised the dickens with everything.

It is worth noting, however, that when John Bell died the Bell Witch disappeared. She never came back. Maybe John Bell did not have "that grim piety and uprightness" with which he was credited. Maybe John BelL himself, was the Bell Witch. Early Tennesseans liked to play and joke.

The earlier Tennesseans also liked to tease their pretty daughters, as the Bell Witch teased lovely Betsy Bell. The early Tennesseans held their wives in too much reverence to make them butts of practical jokes, and it is noted that the Bell Witch was- very kind to Mrs. BelL And, finally, if old John Bell, of Robertson County, really liked to joke what more famous person in the world to play a joke upon than Andrew Jackson? Suggestions For South In Kansas City the other day a start was made toward mobilizing the research facilities of colleges and industry with the purpose of developing the wealth of five States in the Midwestern area. Representatives of 10 universities and colleges took the initiative in setting up a permanent research organization which will undertake to develop a blueprint for better economic well-being of the collaborating States. The program has distinctly promising possibilities which other areas and especially the deep South should readily grasp.

What can be said of failure to develop and conserve the resources of the Midwest can be said with double emphasis about the South. Southern problems are more pressing and complicated than those of any other area we know about; but as yet there has been no mobilization of research and planning facilities to point out for action groups the means of their solution. There are strong indications that some of the Southern States have been running an economic deficit. That may be the case in Louisiana where we have had no studies to indicate whether the capital represented by our natural resources is being drawn off at a greater rate than capital is being invested and created in agriculture and industrial plants. Where the average income of the people is as low as it is in the South, there is a strong presumption that capital resources are being nicked to maintain a reasonable standard of living.

Not only is there need of collaboration among researchers to develop new methods and new products, but also to write a balance sheet that will reveal definitely our economic course. When the facts are made available it should not be too difficult to make out a case for the adoption of helpful policies that the people will support. The work that is being undertaken in the Mid-west offers a suggestion for the institutions and industries that command the principal research facilities of the South. New Orleans Times-Picayune. WIRELESS ODORS Broadcasting of odors via radio is forecast for the near future.

Let us hope it doesn't happen during our present State-wide cam-pa i in Mississippi. A broadcast of the odors of some candidates might smell like a shower of polecats and rotten eggs. Jack- The Lyons Den twice in the last generation by internatiorf-al explosions. He says Britain's home life is at the mercy of great unchained forces in the international sphere which will continue to wreck domestic plans so long as they remain uncontrolled. Only after the Labor party has faced this, and determined to throw all its weight on the side of sanity and generosity in the world sphere, can the party devote itself usefully to questions of home policy, in his judgment.

Morrison is not obsessed by a narrow conception of social security, which some reduce to a formula of bigger and better doles. He conceives of. social security as meaning full employment secure and pro- ductive jobs. He believes Britain must get away from privrfte monopoly restrictions on production and trade, and achieve more socialization in industrythough not complete socialization, as he believes many, industries would be better left under the spur of free competition. The Xabor pajrty's executive committee is reporting to the conference a program calling for disarming the Axis, and for maintenance of peace by the four big powers until they can establish a "world political authority" which would be the armed guardian of international peace, also an agency for consultation and decision on great issues arising among nations.

The report calls for numerous other international agencies closely associated with the central authority, including an international labor office concerned with standards of living, and others' concerned with the supply and price of primary commodities, and the investment jjf surplus capital to heal social and economic plague spots. These are long-term propositions but for the immediate postwar course the Labor party executive committee 1 lean heavily on close teamwork among the four chief Allied powers'. It addsthis warning: "The British government for its part must turn a deaf ear to vested interests whose claims would conflict with the needs of international cooperation." i in a poker game with the actors before he went on. Lieut. Commander John Ford, the movie man, returns to Washington this week to await further orders.

Ford, who filmed the Battle of Midway, was in Hollywood on leave and among the first to greet him was a producer with whom he once had battled. One afternoon Ford had requested 1,500 extras for a mob scene. The producer decided not only to show his authority, but also to save expense he hired only 750. Ford dismissed those 750 and shot the scene with only the stars. When the distressed producer saw the rushes the next morning, Ford explained to him: "If you can cut 750 actors from a scene, so can All of Alexander Woollcott's friends who have interesting letters from him are being asked to mail them to Viking Press in N.

which will publish the collection on Sept. 1. Woollcott's secretary, Joe Hennessey, and Beatrice Kaufman are doing the editing. James Waterman Wise also is collecting letters for publication interesting letters written by men in the armed services to their families. The volume will be called "Very Truly Yours." Half the royalties will go to the USO, and each contributor wili receive a copy of the book.

an actress employed by George Abbott notified him that she was retiring to be married, he said; "I sometimes think that marriage is an institution designed to absorb all the bad actresses in the theater." Sergt. Wallace Robert Russell wrote the new hit movie, "The More the Merrier," in which Jean Arthur is starred. It's a comedy based upon the housing shortage in Washington Sergt. Russell, who now is stationed in Washington, earned enough money from the sale of the movie to be married. His fiancee is Margot Stevenson, the actress.

He and Miss Stevenson now are scouring Washington where "The More the Merrier" is a hit, to find a home in vain. They can't even find a landlord willing to take their names and phone numbers in case a vacancy should: occur. Ben Hecht's new magazine assignments are a scrjpl each for Collier's and the Sat. Eve. Post.

incidentally, attended a Writers War Board meeting where a number of eminent playwrights were asked to write one-acters for use in Army camps. Hecht asked: "Who wants to collaborate with me? I have an idea for a play." Another writer asked him: "Why should you, one of the best in America, need a collaborator?" And Hecht explained: "I'm older now and I get lonely." Tunisian victors now are singing a couplet: "Von Arnim. That'll Larn 'im. Rose Lee's en ergy is mystifying George S. Kaufman, who will direct her play.

Between Wednesday night and Monday morning, Gypsy did five building up these large forces Just to impress the Arabs and to help the Fighting French police Syria. Before the end of the month the Middle East may be making the biggest news of the year. CANDIDATE, 1920 MODEL Gov, Bricker of Ohio, dark horse aspirant for the Republican presidential nomination, on a visit to Missouri "confirmed every report that he is a canny and noncommittal individual who never, never gets himself out on the end of a limb," says The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, According to the Missouri editor, Bricker skirted controversial topics, confining himself to such inanities as "a work stoppage is always a bad thing" and an admission that is against "political parasites." There was a day when that sort of stuff went over big, when Republicans ran wild with a candidate who reveled in the of man of mystery and tossed the electorate utterances like unto those of the Delphic oracle, two-faced mouthings which even an Interpreter could not pin down to anything explicit. Such artful dodging went out of vogue when the economic structure of the nation tottered in the Hoovera.

The trend nowadays is toward candidates who talk plain and at' least half-way deliver. It is hard to understand how any Republican in his senses could favor the nomination of Bricker, though it would be a boon to the Democrats. Such a candidate shone only in the days 'when the Republicans normally held a huge majority in the nation and anything running on the ticket got by. They are asleep indeed if they fail to recognize that times have changed. FACTS VERSUS SENTIMENT Some American newspapermen recently visited Sweden, and sent forth stories of Swedish souls pulsating with pro-Ally sentiment, longing, yearning with profound emotion for the day when the vile Nazi shall be laid low.

This reads well, and no doubt registered with a good many Americans, who naturally think of Swedes as decent folks and their country an enlightened land. True, even the pro-Swedish writers admitted certain lapses, like per mitting transport of German troops across Sweden, but still we were assured they are with us, even while helping the other fellow. A Russian writer recently lashed out at the Swedes, calling attention to neutrality Violations which if correctly reported should dim our sentimentality toward those who are giving us their moral support, and very material aid and comfort to the enemy. The Russians claim that Swedish warships are escorting German transports In Baltic waters; that 320,000 German soldiers passed through Sweden last year in guise of men on furlough; that so-called Swedish volunteers fighting with the Finns against the Russians are members of Swedish regular Army units; and that the Swedish Government has failed to Intern crews of German war-planes landing on 8wedlsh territory, although to do so is an international obligation. There is something in the situation akin to the spectacle of the political boss who gives a candidate his personal vote, and throws the weight of his machine behind the unsavory opposition.

It is an admitted fact that Sweden is gulltj" of some of the By LEONARD LYONS Last week Eleanor Roosevelt went to Nor-walk. to participate in the Town Hall meeting, where there was to be a discussion on "Can Democracy Win the War!" W. L. White, author of the current best-seller, "Queens Die Proudly," was the moderator for that meeting, substituting for a local man. he introduced Mrs.

Roosevelt, White received slip of paper on which was written the subject of the debate. It was the wrong slip, for it bore the subject of a future debate there on EH Culbertson's World Federation. He introduced Mrs. Roosevelt, and said she would speak on the topic, "Is the World Ready for Federation?" Instead of reminding him of the error, Mrs. Roosevelt calmly made a stirring, eloquent speech on Federation.

The president of Liberia, who visited Mayor La Guardia's home yesterday, met every member of the La Guardia family except young Eric. The Mayor's son refused to come down from his perch on a tree. Garson Kanin, the movie director, was commissioned as a second lieutenant, assigned to the Office of Strategic Services, yesterday on the second anniversary of his joining the Army. Sinatra, who has been singing Harold Arlen's "Black Magic," will express his appreciation by recording Arlen's songs which were written for the new Fred Astaire' film. To avoid conflict with Petrillo's ban, Sinatra will record it with choral accompaniment.

Some months ago, in a movie fan mag-rlnp tha feature article was sicned bv BettV Grable an article in which the screen star confessed that her suppressed desire was to have a date with Vincent Sheean. night Miss Grable was in the Stork Club with Harry James. Lieut. Col. Sheean was there too and learned of her presence.

They were introduced to each other. Miss Orable, holding hands with Harry James, later confessca that a press agent naa writ ten that magazine article. "In fact, she confided, "the only Sheean I ever heard of is Winnie only James I ever heard of," Sheean said, "is Henry James." Arturo Bickford, the ex-president of Guatemala, attended the recent food confer-ence at Hot Springs. He reports this detail; The State Department supplied 210 secretaries, all chaperoned, for the meeting. At 9 p.m.

the orchestra struck up some dance music and the secretaries were permitted to engage in some chaste dancing with the dignitaries. But at midnight a gong was struck, and like Cinderellas, the girls vanished and rushed to their quarters. Hitchcock's dieting has resulted in his losing 49 pounds so far The mental telepathist on "Hobby-Lobby" last week lost soij News..