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4 1 i i f-A nCI'OUB THE KINGSPORT TIMES KINGSPORT TENNESSEE THURSDAY JUNE 22 1939 GUESS WE BETTER NOT WAIT UP Washington FailsHTo See Excuse For General VaivIn British-Jap 1 i Dispute Despite! 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sketch your world exactly as it goes Byron solo when he indicated it would Apparently he had not gone into the matter tnoroughly The 300 bad fellows now on the rock are mostly escape artists and rioters from other prisons They were put there because no other prison could hold them or could keep them orderly Any move to redistribute them back to other federal penitentiaries would probably cause a riot in Mr own Bureau of Prisons The only thing Murphy can do is to recommend that Congress appropriate another $3500000 what Alcatrez cost) to build an inland Alcatraz some place in the middle west where the tough Crowd could farm Congress would have to think about that By PAUL MALLOjt WASHINGTON June The men at the official international spyglass here cannot see 4 general war break coming out the Jap effort to lash the British aftd French out of China This is not? the time for it (which is probabljl the way the Japs figured it) The trouble might stat'Ja chain of events which would ltad to war but that chain already has too many links in it to make another one seem alarming-A settlement out of coprt is generally executed The Fetish and French will keep what they can and settle on that basis They may lose a little face but they huye been scratched up around the-wprid similarly for the last few fcarS without fatal results I 1 NB The Japs have the edge in the argument because thijy a trained well-equipped army in the field and the only navy thereabouts Alcatraz- was former Attorney General Homer answer to the national surge of prison rioting and it worked Mr Cummings is reported in a grade A dungeon since reading his remarks i 4 tractors labor In a recent dispatch from Washington Bruce Catton of NEA Service related important news regarding materials For many years according to Secretary of Interior Ickes the government has been receiving identical bids for building materials particularly cepient But that appears to be a thing of the past Henry Kaiser a newcomer to the cement business on the west coast submitted a price for cement for Shasta Dam which was $1500000 lower than other bids The six companies which lost the contract pro-I tested They sought to have bid thrown I out on technicalities But Comptroller General Fred Brown has ruled that his office will not question the award This savings is only a small step when the entire construction industry is taken into account Whether it can be extended throughout the materials division and whether costs can be reduced similarly in distribution contracting and labor must await conclusion of the justice inquiries Only a slight reduction in these costs might give the home building business a spurt hich would return it to the prosperity of a former day NOT TOO GOOD A NEIGHBOR In its effort to be a to the nations of South America the United States is extending financial credit to some them through the Export-Import Bank First Brazil then Haiti then Nicaragua sent their emissaries to Washington and returned with funds to support their currency in dealing with American business men and to assist in public works The most recent agreement is with Paraguay and these but deal is treaty Paraguay equipment for non-competitive closer with benefits northward pour- but fortune in up as films cent of story of 19 at the have any illu-I an act-I and career to live hard- 'The threat of Justice Department prosecution against insurance companies apparently was just-a long range threat no one tltre fe working up the case Everyone is busy on something else might get around to pinching the( insurance people Cin six mopths prtso but probably not sooner This does not mean the prosecu tors are afraid of the case Offhand they seem to thihk tftpy could use the national economic -committee evidence very effectively to indicate that many an Insurance rate is based as much on what fhe traffic will b'ear as uppn Mortality rates The Wagner Rogers bill to let7 20000 German children into Hii3 country will jbe amended to k' ii the within the quota limits It is evident congress will insist on this sharp restriction not because the legislators are' hard-hearted but because one-third Is ill-clad under- -nourished and ill-housed according to official estimate Furthermore if the quota bars are let down for German children they should be let down for Chinese Spanish and even Ethiopian children opponents of the bill contend The Friends Service Committee and others backing the bill rightly say the amendment will destroy Ks virtue as a humanitarian gesture but the way it is Paul Mallon of this nation Water We will soon be coming to the time of year when if the weather man acts like his usual' self he will treat us to a long spell of hot dry days when we will be suffering from a lack of rain Then the shower baths in innumerable homes will be wdrked overtime and gardens and lawns so carefully tended all spring will begin to demand the help from man that nature denies A corollary of this is that then the water bills go up As we hold the nozzle of the hose or carry buckets to parched plants we know that as the flowers grow so will the water bill The results in fact are worth it Flowers and green grass are lovely to look at even if it takes a lot of water to keep them looking that way But water bills are not so lovely to look at All of which is leading up to the suggestion that perhaps it might not be out of order for the powers to consider the possibil- ity of a reduced water rate for the three hot months of the year We are sure that everyone who loves his bit of and who does not? would welcome the gift with delight There may be of course financial complications that would make it more difficult than appears on the surface and if so we will forget it and try to remember the look of the garden when we pay the bill But it is possible that the reduced rate 1'ExD6im6t St3Q6 would be offset by the increased con sump- I tion of water and that there wouldrjbe' no Of Food Stamp PlaiT Looms loss of revenue at all Is it worth thinking about? one with Chile is in prospect Advocates of financial pacts claim many benefits for them three important effects which the Paraguay expected to have are: 1 Blocking of commercial development which Germany had hoped to conclude with 2 Increasing business of road building manufacturers who will furinsh machines highway construction which credits will finance 3 Reduction of price of several Paraguayan prouducts by bringing them to market via the new roads American citizens want to be good neighbors South America They also expect to seesome from these agreements start flowing soon They all hope that our statesmen are not ing good money into a rathole UNCONVENTIONAL ENDING In the movie land of make-believe the pretty penniless young girl who seeks fame and Hollywood somehow always manages to wind I a success How different the fnen and women of the I are off the lot and what fate awaits 95 per the histrionic hopefuls is brought home in the of Marie Rogers deep-eyed Montana brunet I who sought a career in the cinema Without funds or experience Marie stopped I home of and Mrs Jack Cartwright who known Hollywood long enough not to have sions They advised her to return home Then they introduced hereto Lois Wilson ress whose counsel is based on 15 years of stage screen experience 'girl should try to start a Hollywood I without an independent income and a family I she told Marie Marie now is back home in Montana striving er than ever to save enough to return to time with sufficient funds and with her Whether she wins movie fame or marries she gets another chance Marie Rogers will Miss Wilson and the Cartwrights a thousand I By BRUCE CATTON Fans Will Have Trouble Recognizing Stars As Result Character Changes Ordered-Even Myrna Assumes iWicked Role The National Economic Committee is creating a record upon which the next reform Wave will be built Save your' copies of the hearings because the evidence will furnish the basis fpr the' program of the next depression or ihe third term or both if any There never has- been a time the last six years when the fun ny money bloc was weaker Senator Elmer Thoma is congressional leader for all he little (printers be careful with this one) -the committed of the nation the Coughlinites the Rene Leonists LeBlancs and some others He issued A i proclamation summoning his senators to a mass meeting to prepare their latest onslaught Nine sendtors--exactly 9 out of the 96 appeared In answer to the call i When they were assembled Sen ator Thomas made a speech saying their aim was raising commodity prices raising the standard of living and oh just raising everything The meeting dispersed on that DOte- 4 -1 Alcatrez will not! be raovecpr abandoned anytime soorj Attorney General Murphy was just talking Mr Roosevelt and Agriculture Secretary Wallace have been lobbying heavily on the inside to get the congressional conferees to trim the farm bill but have met strong resistance Over the weekend Mr Roosevelt is supposed to have slipped a proposition to the boys calling for a $190000000 reduction in the appropriation but they turned it down By PAUL HARRISON XEt Sort k-e Stuff Correspondent even have a clean dress as she plays the daughter of a tugboat campain in an actress incidentally finally destined to go places MIXED GENDER Usually an English lord or rich Britisher Aubrey Smith becomes a very poor man in And Virginia Weidler top brat turns out to be shy sweet and quiet in the same picture Irene HOLLYWOOD June There Hollywood I something new under the sun--this mother I pmema- Current caat" before I nS3 have given complete changes thank I character to many of the top- times players The actors themselves are happy about it Myrna Loy dropped her aura of wholesome domesticity and dashed over to 20th-Fox to be Lady Esketh in Rains such a wicked role that Lady Esketh finally has to be killed off At least temporarily Anita LoUtse' has got away from cloying sweetness by becoming -a perfect you-knowwhat in Glamor Basil Rathbone has checked his Kingsport Times Washington Correspondent The administration is getting scary about the senate debate on neutrality They fear another reorganization bill or supreme court fight and well they may Senate Leader Barkley was saying a week ago that Congress must stay here to repeal arms embargo Now saying iS one of the things that should be considered at least rehabilitation of the Dead End Kids who will do a right-about face in a military school picture In Wlash Their they righteously help to scrub up city politics And two of them Bobby Jordan and i Billy Aialop already have sympathetic roles in Be My I JANE WITHERS GROWING UP Jane Withers who got her first screen kiss pin is practically an ingenue in Wagon You have seen the last of the chuboy tomboy who though held in class pictures maintained a place as one of the 10 leading box office stars figure-conscious and boyconscious now an awakening which took place during the production of Jane suddenly began to shun the hot-dog and ice cream peddlers who visit the sets and her costumes had to be refitted Once careless about clothes she began to be as finicky as glamor girl during wardrobe sessions She never had worn makeup on the screen i but now demands it Her bangs are gone and wear ing a Lammarish shoulder-length bob A few months ago Jane weighed 110 pounds Now two inches taller and standing about five1 feet she has reduced to an even 100 I Fresh Fruits JNow in Season Are iii Important Elpment in Diet WASHINGTON June The food-stamp experi-1 sneer he impersonates Sher-ment is slowly picking up speed I jock Holmes again and in one se Originally it was to be a six-city experiment Now quen'ce he actually becomes a song with- the plan in operation in Rofchester and Dayton and-dance man in a checkered suit and due to open next in Seattle I Mickey Rooney and Judy Gar-the Department of Agriculture land pay part of in people have stopped talking about in blackface And Tyrone Power six cities Instead saying wears brown makeup and a turban cities probably will keep on going from one city to another without stopping at six Significance of this is that vit could foreshadow quite a change in approach Under the first plan results in the six for his role of an East Indian doctor In the first four reels of Greta Garbo will look even plainer than she does offscreen Bette Davis is ugly however regal as Queen Elizabeth and Alice Some eighteen- hundred odd appointments to state jobs replacing as many job holders appointed by Mr Browning or some one else is the splendid housecleaning record of Governor Cooper Every one of the changes are of course for the good of the service and there is possibly not a single political henchman in the entire lot It's a very fine example of a merit system Dunne is waiting tables these days and tough mug John Garfield has gone bucolic to the extreme of milking a cow Paul Harrison Priscilla Lane is just a sweet httle country gal Sandra Henville only 18 months old already is embroiled in a sex problem Cast as a baby boy in Side of she stole the picture and now is obliged to continue the male impersonation in Takes a The studio is squirming with embarrassment and trying to think of a third story which might gracefully restore its surprise star to her true gender There are extensive plans for the By DR MORRIS FISIIBEIN Editor Journal of I the American Medical and of Ilygcia the Health Magazine At this season of the year fresh fryits are available in most markets at reasonable prices Fruits aie exceedingly valuable in the cities were to have been carefully paye 3 taking custard pies in the kisser as her introduction to slap stick comedy Virginia Grey usually a snobbish clotheshorse weighed and tested before the thing was carried any farther Officially the weighing and testing are still in the cards but by Ambassador Joseph Kennedy he of the large family remarks with fervor that the handshake of President Rooseyelt and King George was the most important of modern Thanks for that Mr? Kennedy we would not want that handshake to mean too much 1 Chivalrous Galahads Are Hanging From Every Subway Strap ince Broadway's Beauteous Chorines Moved To Suburbs proceeding gradually without any Bruce Cithw limitation on the number of ex-i perimental cities the line between I purely experimental work and full-speed-ahead might be awfully hard to see 1 Incidentally you can look for a new wrinkle in I the game soon The orange stamps (which clients must pay cash for) may be dropped entirely in one or more cities and only the free blue ones used Theory has been that orange stamps were By GEORGE ROSS NEW YORK June The needed to make sure that the relief clients I subways are alive with chivalry and side of the table came to the rescue Those who profess to sniff a good wine from the bad declares he are professing bunk The only udge of a fine vintage is the palate and even the most uneducated palate knows the difference in quality Women according to him ate better judges than men for their tastes- are delicate and therefore more critical MEETEK SUPPORTS BALL CLUB The most famous of the Jeeter Lesters in I the imperishable is back in his role af ter a long recess -I these and some- shock tenderness afternoons evenings thing to 1 Canned fruits vary gTeatly in the amount of sugar that they contain and anyone who is planning to use canned fruits as a part of the diet has to know the per- centage of carbohydrate Nowadays however many fruits are being canned without added sugar so that it is possible to figure the diet on the basis of the fresh fruit When fry its are cooked the fibrous material which the fruit contains becomes softened This makes the fruits more digestible -However fruits are in general -quite digestible the ease of digestion depending on the nature of the fruit and its degree of ripeness Everyone knows that a ripe apple is digested with reasonable ease but a green apple may take much longer One of the questions most fre-quently raised nowadays is the question of eating fruits which may have been sprayed with toxic materials to prevent infestation by parasites Under the laws of various states fruit growers and packers are supposed to wash fruit to remove dangerous quantities of these substances Special washing solutions have been devised which tend to invalidate the toxic sub- stances which havf been left on the fruit Furthermore it is advisable for people to wash fruit before eating in order to make certain that any -fX contaminations are removed from the surface An estimate of the food value of fruits is conveyed by the fact that an apple will provide 100 calories three plums or three prunes will give 100 calories and a two-inch slice of watermelon will give 100 calories a whole orange-will provide 100 calories but it also takes a whole cantaloupe to provide 100 calories For this reason a 'slice of cantaloupe which is very filling is a good substance ina reducing diet I diet because they aije among the richest of sources of vitamin and are also quite rich in pro-vitamin A or carotene The fruits which are richest in vitamin C- are the oranges lemons grapefruit and limes and those Which are yellow colored are also tho ones which are most rich in pro-vitamin A 1 Friiits also pro vide some sugar varying from 3 to 18 per cent but jjthey do not provide much in theway of fat except for olive3 $nd avocado pears These are exceedingly rich in fat Few pepple realize what they provide in the" way of cal ories Olives give 30 caIories per ounce half an alligator pear will provide from to 500 calories -The fuel value of fruits is usually low because I of the large amount of material taken in relationship to the sujar "pontent Bananas give about as many calories an ounce as fish but most fruits contain so much that the fuel valuer may bp 'ignored For that reason fruits tplay an important part in the Fruit gives bulk without calorftj content Dried fruits -of course fgeti rid of the water and thus provide calories in considerable anJduts at a low coEt- FLAPPER FANNY By Sylvia simply fill upon the free commodities and divert their lordinary food expenditures into other channels By doing without the orange stamps in certain cities results there could be checked against the results where the orange stamps are being used and thus the departmnt could get a pretty good line on the extent to which the whole scheme actually does increase food consumption i WAS BRITISH SUB VICTIM CONSERVATISM? Private talk among navy men here is to the effect that the loss of the British submarine Thetis may be another sacrifice to traditional British con- servatismd No one offers any criticism of British naval per-I sonnel or performance but the tars do say the British subs are far behind Americans in the matter of safety appliances British subs they say use a water-tight door which may require five min I utes to close tightly lack up-to-date apparatus for oxygen or compressed air into a tightly flooded compartment Much British submarine gad- C0PR 1939 BY NEA SERVICE INC REG 5 PAT 0FF- THE SARABIA TRAGEDY The profound sympathy of the whole United States goes out to Mexico in the tragic death of Francisco Sarabia This daring and skillful airman who recently broke the record non-stop flight between Mexico City and New York -died in the wreck of his ship as it plunged into the Potomac at what was to have been the start of a return non-stop flight Sarabia was an important man in developing Mexican aviation industry a pioneer in establishing the lines which are linking up widely-separated parts of the republic to the south But he )vas first of all a flyer with that touch of daring and jecklessness which have made flyers the idol of youth in every country Sarabia" knew well that the type of plane he flew had killed Lowell Bayles Russell Boardman Florence Klingensmith Cecil Allen and Granville one of the builders But with that touch of fatalism common to all the great pilots Sarabia shrugged smiled and pushed the plane through first to a new record then to his death A gallant and skillful pilot he joins the company of of the for whom he had named his plane TRAILING THE TRAILERS Ever since the invention of the auto-trailer local laws and regulations have been trying to catch up with it Four new court decisions according to the Ameri can Society of Planning Officials have helped to clarify the problems which have grown up around the trailer The Indiana Supreme Court for instance has held that cities have a legal right to limit the stay of trailers within their limits even though parked on private land This the court held was a reasonable exercise of the police power to protect the lives health and property of citizens A Michigan justice court decision made trailers subject to local housing acts New Supreme Court ruled that a portable lunch-wagon set up on a foundation and connected with electricity is taxable as real A district court in Texas ruled in an insurance case that a-trailer detached from its auto is a building for legal purposes Thus the laws freedom from which was one of the attractions of are beginning to catch up with the trailers GOOD NEWS The anti-trust division of the Department of Justice is pursuing a widespread investigation of why it costs so much to build a bouse This inquiry is aimed at 'four materials distribution con- the imaginations of those who be lieveded the courtesy was dead among male strap hangers Men actually rise to their feet to make way for the ladies But a catch! The ladies are an unusually shape lot a be witching bevy of redheads blondes and all showgirls and chorines who work at the Paradise Cafp the International Casino the getry they add is of a type the navy discarded I Aquacade and Diamond Horseshoe before the World War i For since many of the hotels have" They point to British experience at the battle of raised their fees during Jutland as a parallel case British ships then had Fair-time these gals now live in" continuous powder passages from turrets to handling Brooklyn apartments and commute rooms a direct hit on a turret could send a flash daily to and from their Broadway into the magazine and a whole ship up That sank three British ships at Jutland After the battle Britain hastily reconstructed the system making changes the navy had made as far back as 1906 INLAND WATERWAYS PLAY IT SAFE Inland waterway transportation people here are pulling hard for passage of the Bland bill which curean banquet the other night to would put them under jurisdiction of the Maritime sample their liquid wares Commission! Not that in love with the Maritime Commission but the Wheeler-Lea bill (which stands a good chance of passage) would put them under' the Interstate Commerce Commission and their rate advantage over the railroads would probably vanish They hope that if the Bland bill I suffer an inferiority complex Some gets through first the ICC menace may disappear can tell the vintage of a wine by around the bend I I I sniffling the bouquet I un less the vineyard were to send me EX-FASCISTS HAVE TIGHT LIPS a social telegram announcing the Difference between investigating- Communists and birthday of the particular vintage investigating Fascists is explained by a member of As each wine was served the ex the Dies committee: easy to find plenty of perts rubbed their noses affection ex-Communists who will come in and tell all the ately against the glass I could not dirt but so far the committee been able to dig up one ex-member of one of the shirt organiza tions who will volunteer to give away secrets The committee has no idea why this is so but does know it works out that way BROADWAY DEPRESSION NOTE Business in nocturnal hangouts has been so poor lately according to one wag that the night club proprietors will have to cut their throats instead of their prices yy The best-known Jeeter of course is James Barton hoofer who spent five year the Georgia turnip 4lch before he quit temporarily 1 Barton wasn't eager to return to his tattered role inl'JTobacco He was pretty tires! of the monotonous life of a sta'ge sharecropper For his own diversion he had bought himself a aball team on Long Island and if had turned out to be an expensive? hobby Although his Babylon Orioles are able roughs in the diamond ihey are not attracting enough- bibx office receipts So Barton is making up the deficit The pay he takes out of he back into his costly nine i There a jclJknce that his source of livelihood will peter out be here for- £Kr A Australia and Antarctica are the only two continents that have no land connections with other con tinents and are the only continents that lie entirely south of the equa tor A custom of the Dutdh people at St Nicholas (Dec 5th) is to give each person in the family his initial in chocolate and pastry Icombing what it was: Coupla years ago you eould always find somethin' valuable like a light bulb or thunk-of There are still more than 70 toll bridges on the public highways of England i-.