The Herald-Sun from Durham, North Carolina • 10

Earl Wilson by Jimmy Hotlo 'They'll Do It Every Time' It Happened Last Night Funds For Public Health Nurse In Person Donated Hedda Hopper Hollywood At a party at Stanley Garfinkel8 Berle was demonstrating his great memory to Dave recalling all the acts that played in a vaudeville show with then long ago in Denver "Weber Fields headlined" Berle said The Russian Apollon said "Veber Fields? Dat I don't "Hugo Steinbeck's piano act" Berle said Apollon said again "Dat I don't remember" Berle went on and each time Apollon said "Dat I don't "And then there was Berle said "and I was lousy' "Dat" said ApoUon beri" THE MIDNIGHT EARL Who's News: Joan Caulfield and writer John McClain ring-sided at Eddie Condon's 3 consecutive nights Joan leaves shortly for a Canadian skiing trip Ed Luckenbach called friends here to report his Boston opening of The Men We was well received Bob Topping is 2 diamond clips poorer as a result of Lana Turner's Christmas present Lex Thompson turned down Walter AnncnbergL fabulous offer to buy his Philadelphia Eagles pro football club Jean Sablon will receive 98509 a week his highest fee 'to dale when he opens at the Beverly Country Club in New Orleans Jan 4 Cleveland Mayor sent Billy a copy of the City Directory Jokes IS years old are supposed to be ney Max Eastman enjoyed Eddie Cantor (in a movie) trying to sell himself on the auction block: "I can wash dishes I can mop the floors I can take care of the children and if there aren't any children I can take care of that" Show people love stories of Joe Frisco the stuttering comedian Peter Lind Hayes recalls when Joe phoned him from the swank Hotel Blackstone in Chicago "This" Joe said "is the b-best h-hotel I ever a a Ever mired on a mud road? "Iowa has abolished bad Mrr Marshall Davis of Gray Iowa writes me "If it's bad we don't call it a we call it a I go back to 1906 and to Presidential Candidate William Jennings Bryan for this folk tale Speaking to a great crowd in an open field Bryan climbed onto a manure spreader (so Frank Donahue of Omaha tells me) "All my life been a Democrat" he orated "and now for the first time I find myself speaking from a Republican platform" Georgie Jcssel and two other kids one named WinchelL sang and danced in a nickelodeon years ago and the other kid got fired but Jessel stayed The management posted a sign: worth 5 cents alone to bar Little Georgie Jessel sing" Thirty years later wrote "And it still goes!" Few people "top" Milton Berle California Leaning Democratic In '48 But Third Party Ticket Poses Threat Hbxboro Jan 2 Unable to gain the necessary funds from Person County to employ a junior public health nurse Dr-O David Garvin tri-county health officer revealed today that the required funds had been contributed by unidentified interests Dr Garvin said he was not at liberty to reveal the identity of the sources giving the money but stated it was large enough to insure the employment of the nurse for the next six months The donation he said was made with the hopes that the county would appropriate enough money to provide for her employment beginning July 1 It is expected the county commissioners will consider the matter in their regular January meeting Monday Jan Person Lodge Will Install Officers Roxboro Jan 2 Recently appointed officers for Person Lodge No 113 A A will be installed in a special ceremony at the lodge hall Tuesday night Jan 8 Oscar Hull Is the new Master with ML Hicks as senior warden Other officers are Foushee junior warden William Harris Sr treasurer emeritus Clyde A Bowen treasurer CL A Harris secretary William Hicks senior deacon Bolick junior deacon Sam Byrd Winstead senior steward Earl Bradsher Jr junior steward nd Rev el Manets chaplain i Dial F-115 for Newspaper Service Folding Ploy Fan What makes America laugh? One way's to deflate Well I think Billy Rose has fallen right on his fanny (and I don't mean Brice) in his new Diamond Horseshoe spectacle "Violins Over Broadway" But my Beautiful Wife adores it you like 25 guys in red tails playing violins don't miss it! Will B'Way go for a show without a spoken word (save for songs and intros) ia which not one bit spoken of Dancers Mata and Hari are dreamy: the side-burned fiddler Harold Sandler But do I need them all night? Give credit for trying something besides his longstemmed babes like Laura Gur-nalL His black walls are painted well the Clark Gable masks on the fiddlers are enough though to make me hate Clark Still the loves that sweet music! The wiseguys say Billy has a lot of guts (cat-gut that is) that they'd like the resin concession to his joint But be broke when counting the sugar from this one because natch you got to see it so you'll know for your very own self Gifted comic Jack Carter says Cary Grant walks as though just backed into a javelin And Ralph Caton figures should get the skis to the city Detroit's rivalry with Cleveland was emphasized long ago (Mary Ann Schwartz tells me) when Detroit's Mayor circulated a tale that evangelist Billy Sunday wrote to the Cleveland Mayor asking for names of citizens especially in need of prayer The Detroit Mayor says the PANEL CRIB Sturdy construction in maple or birch finish with spring bottom and drop side $2750 SALE DESKS! Ll 11 Claude Jarman has gone home to Nashville Tenn to enter public school there But he will return here for the Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings story "A Family for Jock" as soon as the script is ready Claude has grown so fast- since starring in Yearling" that he is a head taller than his father Marc Platt planed in from Rome where he made Eternal Melody" in time to spend the holidays with his family Janis Carter his co-star in the film accompanied him as far as Cleveland where she stopped off with her folks Martin Broones and Dorcas Cochran wrote a musical titled "Yuma" which they hope to take to Broadway come Spring Metro is rushing Martin "Musical Merry-Go-Round" shorts in the hope that one will capture an Academy JOY Harry Sherman and daughter Teddi are en route to Honolulu for three weeks Teddi is 23 and has finished collaboration with Graham Baker on her second script Partner" which will star Joe McCrea Harry is dreaming of getting Barbara Stanwyck to play the duchess in the film Papa Harry tells me that first picture "They Passed This Way" is the best western he ever made In it nary a shot is fired and there is no heavy Herb Sterne who did such a good job of publicizing 'Susan Peters' last picture is now in Tahiti working on a book He writes me: do 1 do when I arrive in Papeete the moat wicked city in the Pacific? I see my pal Hedda act In an old Henry Aldrich movie And here's a scoop Remember the Tahitian-French girl Reri who was picked up here and starred Tabu went to Broadway for the last and played in John The She's back here under her old name Anna Chevalier and will marry an anti-Nazi German who was interned here during the war In the Fiji Islands I met the Arthur Rank company which was shooting exteriors for The Blue My new novel Thirty Pieces of Silver is half written I'm so tanned people thing Doraldina's brother" RETAKE "Are You With turned out so well that Universal-International is cooking up another picture for Donald and Martha Stewart Mary Martin who is touring in "Annie Get Your Gun" writes: "As Irving Berlin said There's no business like show business' and combined with traveling it's wonderful Hope to see you in Hollywood next May I think you will approve of my daughter Heller a real trouper Loves every day except Sunday We don't play on Sundays and to her the oily dull day of the week" Heller has a part in "Annie" which stars her mother Never thought I would receive a jewel from the farmer's market but I did Walter Wright of their handicraft center made me a silver ring in the shape of a hat box Inside is a miniature telephone typewriter and photograph adorable Cobina Wright is back from the royal wedding and full of amusing stories Kay Thompson made such a hit at Ciro's that I asked Charlie Morrison who owns the Mocambo why he didn't hire a singer for his place "What go back to vaudeville again? You only get a Kay Thompson once ih a generation and Heyer got her" Publicist Jerry Hoffman and his wife are celebrating their 24th wedding anniversary Bruce Cabot got his former houseboy Dick Gregson a bit part in the play "Make Mine a TOR One" Roz sister Mrs Chet La Roche leaves for Florida with her mother who has been quite ilL Stale National Guard Officer Is Appointed Roxboro Jan 2 Wallace Wright of Roxboro haa been appointed a second lieutenant in the Roxboro company of the North Carolina National Guard Battery 113th Field Artillery Battalion it was announced today by Adjutant Gen Van a Metts in Raleigh The new guard officer is a veteran of World War IL having served in New Guinea with the Fifth Air Force for about 15 months He was a pilot in a low-level attack group and was released from active duty with the rank of captain At the time of the first in the United States 1949 49 per cent of the people only JONES' PORK SAUSAGE JONES SAUSAGE CO GARNER CL have a petition signed by 10 per cent of the total vote cast at the last state-wide election This involves a very substantial number of names An estimated 2752)00 would be required California with 25 electoral votes was during the New Deal years of President Roosevelt almost as Democratic in presidential elections as some of the states in the solidly Democratic South Its conversion to the Democratic party in 1932 helped even up the score of Democratic versus Republican victories in the last twelve presidential elections The state went Republican six times Democratic five and was earned by the independent ticket (Bull Moose) of Theodore Roosevelt in 1912 Roxboro Request For Radio Station Brings Opposition Roxboro Jan 2 Opposition from two points has been felt by the Moxboro Broadcasting Company in their plans to get Federal permission for the operation of a 100-watt day and night radio station in Roxboro officials of the company revealed today They have been notified by the Federal Communications Commission that two other North Carolina stations High Point and Roanoke Rapids have objected to the granting of the license however it is not known what grounds their protest is based upon With the objection a hearing will have to be held on the matter and local officials indicate that it would take more than six months to complete the hearing and they are thinking of changing their application The new application will ask for a 12100-watt day time only station No definite action has been taken yet officials indicated and the matter is still being studied Patrolman Promoted Raleigh Jan 2 MV-CpL Charles A Speed of the State Highway Patrol has been promoted to sergeant and transferred to Smithfield where he will have charge of Division Six of Troop Col Hatcher patrol commander announced today Speed is from Ruth erf ordton At Smithfield he will succeed Sgt Mallard who resigned recently LAST DAY A TORNADO OF EXCITEMENT! RUSSELL HAYDEN JENNIFER HOLT THE NORTH BEGINS" 2 BIG HITS 2 When Lee takes a crack at kyp-eatisni tkiazs start cracking np aU ever I LEO GORCEY and the BOWERY BOYS "MR HUNTZ HALL Werld News A Carteea -lupToaxi One of the threats to the Democratic Party in California is a third party ticket which might split the Democratic vote A third-party movement headed by Robert Kenny Los Angeles lawyer and former State Attorney General has been causing much smoke and some fire during recent months Kenny is co-chairman of the Progressive Citizens of America and one of the sponsors of Henry A third party candidacy In California a new party to win a place on an election ballot must Rocket Used By Army To Shoot Phone Wires Washington Jan 2 A method of shooting telephone wire over rivers ravines and cliffs by the use of rockets has been developed by the Signal Corps the Army reported today In emergencies the rocket may be fired without the conventional rocket launcher simply by digging a wedge-shaped hole in the ground Distances up to 150 yards are attainable by this method New wire developed for rocketlaying methods weighs only 48 pounds per mile about one-third the weight of ordinary field telephone wire Dial F-115 for Newspaper Service ASTOR Today CHARLIE CHAN I CHA SHANGHAI Plus 3 MESQUITEERS in SMOKE RANCH Plus 2 CARTOONS! yss- wmihc LAST TIMES TODAY High Powered Action Among Thrills of the Rodeo! With GABBY HAYES SERIAL THE VIGILANTES" Mickey Mease Cartoea ESgar Kennedy ConieSy 1 FLOWERS HIBBERD Florist PHONE CORNER CABINET Glass doors and roomy AIVB cupboard space Vl CREDENZA BUFFET Ample storage for linens dishm silver 077 Quality Built KROEHLER Living Room Suite A fine way to beautify your home creating fortable and attractive setting for your family joymenL The new KROEHLER 2-piece suites will give you more for your money in 1948 and many wtoMB II (O PlCffl UtUla oee ee ee eeeoo By GEORGE GALLUP Director Aaefieu TnatHaic ef Public Opinion Princeton Jan 2 California which has been the happy hunting ground of the Democrats in national elections for more than 16 years continues to lean Democratic for 1948 but by a reduced majority indicated in state-wide polling by the Institute on the party preference of voters A total of 53 per cent say they prefer the Democratic party which compares with a vote of 58 per cent in 1940 and nearly 57 per cent in 1944 Voters were asked: "If a presidential election were held today which party would you vote for the Democratic or the Republican? CALIFORNIA (Major Party Vote) Dem -Rep 1932 610 3907 1936 679 321 1940 581 419 1944 561 432 Today 535 485 Previous reports by the Institute have covered five other large states One has been found leaning Republican the other four leaning Democratic as follows: fJMYWIID mmRpsi News Of Day Celer Cartoon Dacia TeaTa Cafeaaa" Last Timas TaOay ad lie naarais 103W BUCKAMOS: News Of Day Celar Cartoon Bay Whitley RIALTO Last Times Today DOQSSt UTTOI Color Cartoon Blalto Comedy Chapter No 3 The Black Widow" REV Starts Sunday Ends Jan 14th Smooth hardwood sides and hinged floor On rollers $1495 it CLEARANCE KNEEHOLE STYLE Your choice of I beautiful period designed models in handsome mahogany Val-from 68989 to $862)0 at one low clearance price $4900 5-Pc DINETTE IN MAPLE iST'S practical it's pretty! low in price high in quality! 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