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Richmond Times-Dispatch from Richmond, Virginia • 11

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V'fwwv' 11 iceived a sworn statement from Miss Lee disclaiming any con- Richmond Times-Dispatch Wednesday Sept 13 1950 ABC Asks 'Evidence' Actress is Pro-Red Probe Today May Ansicer Some iWhys) In Train Wreck Which Killed 33 Soldiers Petty Girls Will Appear Here Today the questions of the 33 survivors and the public in an open hearing at Pittsburgh tomorrow morning It made the announcement as military authorities still were striving to identify 10 of the 33 whose mangled bodies were removed from the wreckage after the Spirit crashed into the rear of the troop train at' 5:15 A yesterday Colonel Townend the train commander and other Army officers have been asked to attend Eller of Midvale Pa 63-year -old engineer of the Diesel locomotive will be there He has declined to talk with newspapermen about the accident Officials of the Interstate Commerce Commission and the Ohio Public Utilities Commission which regulate railroads also will be there The Army already is conducting an investigation the ICC will open nection or sympathy with the Communist party Baby Swallows Uranium Radiologist Called In HOUSTON Sept Ten- month-old Dyann Schonenberg swallowed a piece or uranium ore A radiologist was called in He conferred with doctors at a Veterans Hospital who said the uranium although of a poor grade was radioactive so they ued a Twe Shews Every Night WALLACE BEERY MARJORIE MAIN "BIG JACK" COLOR 2 3100 Per Car Plus Tax sxirvasLtsrzszsEZ! Lie sS gZ7'riK stomach pump to take it all away from little Dyann Today Dyann is none the worse for her experience Mrs Henry Schonenberg the mother says the uranium was a souvenir given to her sister Mrs Richard Brown It was in a nut bowl and Henry Schonenberg Jr 31 and Curt 2 thought it was a nut They cracked it Dyann ate it DRIVE -IH THEATRE Fetersbuig Pike 1 SHOWS AND Barbara Stanwyck Jehe Phyllis LUND THAXTER "HOMAN OF HER OWN1 2 Color Cartoons fccARFuvar for a i A iU-C f-W'-if III the 500 Pennsylvania National Guardsmen who were aboard the ill-fated train finally reached their destination Camp Atterbury Ind today and were greeted like heroes The military announced 'that the dead would be sent to Kingston Pa probably tomorrow afternoon Thirteen of the approximately jin reply 50 injured remained in Memorial damage Hospital here Others have been I former Inferred to the hospital at nd author ut Wright-Patterson Air Force Base ntw lhow on ABC near Dayton The families of the deceased were informed today that they would receive pensions and other benefits provided by the Army and the Veterans Administration Brigadier -General Francis Brink commander of the Ohio military district said an Army crew hoped to identify the remaining 10 bodies by tomorrow afternoon The Pennsylvania adjutant-general was to send in by plane today all available records such as fingerprints to help in the process today asked a Legion official network if he has that Gypsy Rose Lee Robert Kintner ABC wired Edward chairman of the Illinois antisubversivc to a damage asked the note that Miss Lee is Channels a private listing 150 radio figures having pro-Communist Kintner replied that mwvwwwwww Barbara Wridrn STANWYCK COBEY Last Day: "THE FIGHTING COMMAND COSHOCTON OHIO Sept 12 UP) The in the West Lafayette train collision which killed 33 soldiers before they had a chance to fight may be answered tomorrow Why did an air hose on their troop train hreak? Why did the automatic safety signals fail to stop the onrushing Spirit of St Louis? Why did the Spirit's engine crew fail to see the red flares on the track? Why did the engineer fail to see the disabled troop train on the same track? Or did the safety signals warn the Spirit's crew? Did they see the red flares and stalled train? And if so what did they do about it? Lieutenant Colonel Frank Townsend commander of the troop train said he and the others saw the Spirit "a mile away" and "thought it would 'surely see the flares and lantern and stop The Pennsylvania Railroad announced it would try to answer 81000-a-Weck Actress Enrolls For Bible Study PASADENA CAUF Sept 12 -(iW Colleen Townsend once a 51000-a-werk movie actress today enrolled In a college for Bible study The 21-year-old beauty started classes at Pasadena College a liberal arts school Last February she gave up her film contract -to follow "the leading of God" She spent the Summer at a church-sponsored war rehabilitation camp near Paris There she helped build headquarters for a Protestant interchurch council She cooked sewed poured cement and laid bricks She said she did not know how long she will attend college "I could go on for several she said "I'm not taking any special course just classes I want Perhaps after six months or a year I will know whether I have learned enough to continue Christian work" She is majoring in Bible and theology and talking one home economics course She is now working with a young group at the Hollywood Christian Church but says she intend to become a minister Elizabeth Plans Trip LONDON Sept Princes Elizabeth will leave London September 17 for the first- time since the birth of her daughter last month OR HEALTH'S SAKE ROLLER SKATE CAVALIER ARENA 3400 WEST BROAD ST Otari I P-BI Speacer Ellieheth TRACY YAYLOR BRIDE" "OUR VERY OWM 3 704 1111 ln74 (fed I fiwt a at arjarl RM Dull Sriaa "THE GREAT JEW El ROBBERY" Fta'M VIA BKFORC voua avia" Jml Trre taia I in aM mm i 402 MArtkjf A Start I CARY GRANT Jese Ferrer "CRISIS 1 ywFj pw mssm Mil HulSt' Slarta I Aedle Wait KLKPItY BKXDBIX I TMftnlMlar "SIERRA" ti lii i rhsftTn 'll HJIS tan a at Vtvece Neat UNDFORS SMITH THIS SICE the LAW1 I NEW YORK Sept The American Broadcasting Company Chicago American to advise the "any evidence" is pro-Com-munist president of damage American committee telegram from strip-tease dancer to begin a network to listed in Red publication! allegedly connections he had re- Walter HCSIOX FURIES hwuwvwwwuuwuvv Q2nxnE Year Iat Chaare ta Sea Last Chapter "GHOST OF ZORA" Bekert Claadette CUMMINGS COLBERT "SLEEP MY LOVE" I riti frwa Cwatry Clafe Mr Raw Hft SrMl thr In Air harS-rarfam ml OR 3 MILES WEST FROM BEIT ELYD1 ON MIDLOTHIAN PIKE (ROUTE 40) Att cowomoMid PARK a JIMMY DURANTE Tarry Moore Tom Drake AIRCONOITIOMBO CARY GRANT Jose Peala PERRER RAYMOND "CRISIS" Aft CONDmOMfD CARILLON DAVID BRIAN "Great Jewel Robber" "Fifty Years' Before four Eyes" Starts TOMORROW iaiJLJSJWgcs one tomorrow and some Congress-are dema: men Most nding an inquiry the uninjured among of Reds From France Arrive in Germany IIOF GERMANY Sept 12 JP A busload of 34 foreign Com munists expelled last week from France as undesirables arrived here today their way to Eastern Europe They were turned over to the Communist East German police Another 84 Communists expelled from France crossed the border on Sunday German official! had word that these Communists were still lodged in East zone camps pending a decision on their final destination PACKARD FREE Cearteajr JlHcn Mats Car Ca Stale Paata! at Theater ram OPED AIR A CARFUL' FOR A DOLLAR Caa SMm ar Idt-TONItNT-ISI Parley Charles GSASGEB BICKFOmD Barmaid Ximr McCOY" NIWS I Actress Jane Cowl jDiedBroke' fa Debt umir vftmr NEW YORK Sept 12 (P Jane Cowl one of fore- most actresses until her death last June died broke aiid in debt In Surrogates Court today her attorney Arnold Weissberger said she left $3000 against debts of $15000 She had no known relatives 8ICHM0IID VIRGINIA SEPT 11 -OCT MKEST LIVESTOCK SNOW IN TNE EAST MAMMOTH FARM MACHINERY EXHIBIT tiraa Sl Sad lint Crifta a WSms "WU Os Paratt" Elates Ebckiul tfiSift SSnIIs Bara Basra Jaefearta Malaraytle Siaah Car-Mitt! 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SUBS TRI MNIlff T'IICOITOITNf50IfAIa fan 3 1 -5 1(501 Vi1 i'i Actress Janis Carter To Shepherd Beauties By Edith Lindrman Four pert and pretty Petty Cirla will arrive this moraine to lend their svelte presence to the opening of "The Petty Girl" at the Byrd and State Theaters The quartet is composed of Shirley Ballard Barbara Freklne Dorothy Abbott and Mona Knox They willbe shepherded through their personal appearances by Janis Carter blonde beautiful and a pin-up glamour-equipped Petty girl In her own right Janis by the way was one of Harry six original models with her face and figure heartily endorsed by Vogue Bazaar and a number of other slick fashion mazagines She took up modeling because what she really wanted to do was have a try at the Metropolitan Opera stage and singing lessons cost money So when she went to Hew York she enrolled with Conover and spent all her spare time exercising her vocal chords After a while she landed a couple of radio spots became so Interested that she turned to radio writing and wrote scripts for We the People snd Gangbusters What with her singing writing modeling and radio careers rolled into one Janis concentrated leu on an opera career Next thing she knew Broadway came knocking at her door and Janis had a Bob in "Du Barry Was a Lady" This was followed by "Panama Hattie" which resulted with an immediate Hollywood contract It took Janis a dozen low-budget pictures to learn how to act for the movies In the past four years however she has been seen opposite Glen Ford in as the feminine heavy in "Miss Grant Takes Richmond" in "A Woman of Distinction" Fe" and others Janis has been married for 10 years to CarfG Prager a musical contractor They make their home In Beverly Hills where she collects antiques plays tennis studies operatic recordings and cooks 'Spanish dishes The four beauties In Janis' charge hail from all parts of the country Shirley Ballard comes from California went to college to study medicine gave up after a couple of years of premed and made her movie debut in 1941 in "The Kid From Brooklyn Since then she's been making mighty pretty backgrounds for many a film Barbara Freking hails from Charleston and spent one college year at Sweet Briar In Virginia Then she went West with her family turned professional model learned a bit about Show business by appearing in the Little -Theater at Laguna Beach Calif never made a motion picture but she went on tour with Harpo Marx last year and liked the travel so much that she applied for a job with the Petty Girl cavalcade Dorothy Abbott was a Kansas City girl She went out to Hollywood four years ago as one of Earl lovelies She wanted to act so got into Little Theater work which in turn gave enough experience to crash the movies She has been in "Neptune's Daughter" 'Take Me Out to the Ball Game" "Annie Get Your Gun" and a number of others Mona Knox from Oklahoma City is the youngest of the troupe and launched her career just a year year ago with an appearance tn "Tarzan and the Slave She has been dancing since she was five years old and intends to make dancing her primary interest Pam On 11 A Cau 1TNN CUries COGORN plus I Ceuta Im I Mniral Xmr I ddl Kraal Xtfrllr Starts SATURDAY MARLON TERESA BRANDO WRIGHT 0 ft Pd Smith Fmnl THBILLS Eddie Sew Dsa landiesiaf MMe Cop THE 12 GLAMOROUS PETTY GIRLS EXTRA! TONIGHT ONLY! On the STAGE! IN PERSON! Direct From HOLLYWOOD of the Original PETTY GIRLS! I who appear in the picture JANIS CARTER! Columbia Pictures Star tovoly Introduced by WLEE's HARVEY HUDSON STATE 7:30 BYRD 9 ONE APPEARANCE AT EACH THEATRE 11:00 A 01 -i.

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