The Alva Review-Courier (Alva, Okla.), Vol. 54, No. 276, Ed. 1 Sunday, August 9, 1953 Page: 6 of 8
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Paga 6— Alva (Okla) Review-Courier Sunday August 9 1953
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SUNDAY AUGUST 9 1953
U ° EXPERT DIGESTS TODAY'S REPORT— j
Fanning the Foreign Front i
By PHIL NEWSOM
United Press Foreign Analyst
The week's balance sheet be- thousands of others might never
tween the good and bad news in return United States rosters list
the hot and cold wars: some 8000 additional Americans as
THE GOOD J missing
1 The first Allied prisoners of j In Washington Gen Mark Clark
war began streaming through Pan- mic1 the Reds hold 2000 to 3000
munjom's “Freedom Gate'’ on the move Americans than they have
way back home Altogether the admitted If so their fate may nev-
Commumsts have promised to re- or b° known Returning prisoners
turn 12763 captured United Na- have told of American officers re-
tains soldiers mclrdinc 3313 Amer-1 cenong last minute prison sen-
icanl Some hid endured three fences on phoney charges of “in-yepi-s
of the horror of Communist s'uiting against peace” Nearly
prison camps Some were so ill every returned prisoner had a
thev had to be earned f'om Com- stoiv of Red atrocities which cost
munist ambulances to the rocep- theusards of other U S lives
tion center But at least they were Flenth trdc unions Com
1Pe' muni t and non-Commumst — de-
2 Biit'--h and Egyptian negotia- (iiiro( war on e economic re-
tois with seme behind the scenes forms 0f premier Joseph Lamel
help fiom the United States wne ! a Soncs 0f paralyzing strikes
trying again to open thn way for The Unites snread through the en-
nogotiations on the future of the tire fIcid of communications ard al-
Suez Canal Both sides had hone of 30 into the gaSi electric and other
success 3ntam already has
Movie Struck
Girl Placed
In Hospital
By ALINE MOSBY
HOLLYWOOD Aug — UP—
Joan Barry the kid from Brooklyn
who wanted to be a movie star and
live In a mansion took up resi-
dence Friday In a mental hospital
instead
Jian Barry was typical of the
beautiful young girls with shapely
belles and eager faces who daily
Join the hopefuls under the palm
trees and sunshine praying they’ll
be the next star to be born
The conVent-reared girl got to
Hollywood via Mexico City where
she met some millionaires at a
party That’s one way of getting
started Somebody sent her to an
agent in Hollywood They were
lunching at a fancy restaurant
when she met Charlie Chaplin the
comedian He put her on his pay-
dramatics only the love scenes
were real
Joan tot a $1500 mink coat and
other things a young girl thinks
mean happiness When Chaplin re-
jected her she put on the coat and
tried to kill herself She refused to
go back to Brooklyn she cried she
couldn't face her friends without
getting into the movies
The girl who wanted to be a star
found out she would be a mother
instead Then came one of the most
lurid court trials In Hollywood his-
tory Blood tests proved Chaplin
wasn’t the father but she won her
paternity suit against him anyway
Monogram Studio decided to star
her in a picture After a screen
test the bosses changed their
minds She became a singer in
small Mid-Western night clubs bill-
ed as Chaplin’s ex-protegee Later
she married a railroad brakeman
in Pittsburgh and had two more
children But the marriage ended
Joan wound up nearly broke in
Hollywood again A week ago of-
ficers found her walking the streets
barefoot and coatless She was
carrying a pair of baby’s sandals
and a child’s ring
Operation Recess
“Tliis is magic”
to the officers
she whispered
agreed to withdraw her 80000-man
garrison turning peace time de-
fense of the canal zone over to the
Egyptians Remairing issues did
not seem insurmountable
3 The pressure of discontented
and hungry East German masses
forced the CommunMs to lift par-
tially their blockade against dis-
tribution of 1 Eisenhower Food
utilities industries
3 The United States and Russia
exchanged angry charges over two
separate plane incidents The Unit-
ed States accused Russian planes
of 1 shooting down an Air Force
bomber on a routine training flight
40 lin'es off the Siberian Coast The
Russians demanded the United
-tetes punish the pilot of a U S
Sabrcjct and pay reparations for a
shot
down m the closing hours of the
war over North Korea
Packagps” Embarrased Red pro-
pagandists called those vho accent- Communist transpoit plane
Hmt'li 51-5 tho dim mrr
ed the free food “bacon chasms''
and “package brcgais” but they
could not ston the flow of the near-
ly two million prisons who now
have received Ammran food
THE BI)
There is no group of fishes of-fieri'-
bearing the name ”sar-
line” The United States herring
1 Dimming the jov at return of 'he menhaden and the European
the United Nations was nnsoners m'ohard are the small fishes that
was the dulling knowledge that generally fill sardine cans
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In the psychooathic ward of the
county hospital her arms were
strapoed to the bed The doctors
said she was "delusionary vague
perclexed” She agreed she need-
ed hospital care and was calm and'
pleasant when they took her away
As she walked down the hall one
o the nurses said
“She shoulda stayed in Brooklyn
and married the guy next door”
Broomcom Cutters
Are Still Needed
OKLAHOMA CITY Aug 8— UP—
More than 300 experienced broom-
corn cutters are still needed for
the harvest around Pauls Valley
Maysville Lindsay "and Chickasha
the State Employment Service said
Saturday
The agency said 2000 men are
working in the fields with a bigger
nroduction than in 1952 The har-
vest peak will hit by Monday and
with many fields ready for cutting
more workers are needed urgently
during the next 10 days
Workers should report to Bill
Waggener of the employment serv-
ice from 6 30 to 730 am in Pauls
Valley in the 100 block on Charles
St to Waggener In Maysville from
9 to 11 am to Couler C Ray of
the employment service at the
Chamber of Commerce office In
Lindsay and to the Chickasha of-
fice of the employment service
The word “Eskimo” means fish-
eater and was applied as a term
of derision by the Algonquin In-
dians In speaking of natives of
Southern Labrador IT!
(Second of two article an congressional reform)
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CONS©
Children Are
Big Problem
In Television
By JACK GAVER
Right now we re in the midst of
NEW YORK Aug —UP— There “under-the-stars” season All
is much more than meets the eye sum)Tier long lovers of good music
to television casting esoecially I can hear a concert every day of
when children are Involved
the week except Saturday They
Waltgr Black and William Men-1 hear four fine bands — the Army
drek found out about this when it
came to putting together the com-
pany for the “My Son Jeep” pro-
gram which they created and
wrote
“The big problem was the cast-
ing of the 10-year-old son” Black
recalled "First we had to sift
through a lot of candidates to find I
the boy who just naturally seemed
to fit the character as to looks and
attitude Marty Huston seemed to
fill the bill and we went into re-
hearsal Problem Solved Over Soda
“Then we ran into a bigger prob-
lem The boy wasn’t at ease with
his video father and sister— Jeffrey
Lynn and Betty Lou Keim He did
bis lines well mechanically but
there was no rapport with the oth-
“r members of the cast This fail-
ure to convey a feeling of real
warmth among the players would
be fatal to a family series”
Black and Mendrek stopped the
rehearsal and took the lad to a
drugstore for a soda
“We talked" Black said "We
'alked about everything under the
sun and gradually we found out
what Marty was Interested In He's
a rabid Brooklyn Dodger fan and
be loves to read science fiction
"That discovery solved the prob-
lem because Lynn matches Marty
in his enthusiasm for the Dodgers
ind Betty Lou Is a veteran of tele-
vision science fiction shows and
can toss the 'space jargon’ around
with Marty The family feeling that
we needed was quickly cemented
and we went back to rehearsal”
Band the Navy Band the Air
Force band and the Marine Band
The enlisted men in these musical
outfits perform on the steps of the
Capitol and at the Watergate Open-
air Amphitheatre on the Potomac
River back of the Lincoln' Mem-
orial Marine Band Is Oldest
If Sammy Kaye had to chop down
the trees and whittle his own ba-
tons the chances are he would
there are free indoor concerts at
various auditoriums around Wash-
ington The famed Marine Band was au-
thorized by Congress and President
John Atoms in 1798 and marched
into Washington two years later be-
fore the city was the capital Wash-
ington in those days was cooped
up in wooden buildings and the peo-
ple found their way around by fol-
lowing the cow paths The first con-
cert was on Aug 21 1800
Music in the Navy goes back a
piece too Unofficially Navy
bands date back to the 1800’s In-
formal groups were organized to
i tootle on special occasions and to
hjpo the morale in those men-of-var
days Officially the Navy
traces its history back to the days
before World War I when a 21-
piece band performed here at of-
ficial affairs
Air Force Band Gets Around
The present Army Band is a step-
child on the outfit created by Gen
John J Pershing on January 25
1922 The talent was drawn from
the Army Music School
Youngest of the service bands is
The organizations do not confine
their performances to marching
music They can strike a hot lick
on St Louis Blues or Sweet Geor-
the U S Air Force group of talent-
gia Brown with just as much har- 6 v
mony as when they play the se-
lections of John Philip Sousa
Music doesn't end with the fall-
ing leaves and frost In the winter
quickly drop the "so you want to
lead a band idea” that hfs been a
sure-fire audience participation
gimmick for his orchestra for a
decade
A Tall Order of Batons
Fortunately there ari others to
do this work so he blithely order-
ed another batch of 10000 white
and black wands this week to be
used by contestants I bye and his
band will be back on television Sat-
urday night starting a new 8 to
8:30 p m Saturday scries on NBC
"I estimate that if 11 the batons
we have given awaj to our con-
testants were placed end to end
they would be 14 times the height
of Mt Everest or 304 times the
height of the Empire State Build-
ing” Kaye said “The total weight
is a mere 4680 pounds since they
are very light”
By the time UP new batch of
10000 is used up Mt Everest Is
really going to look insignificant
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ed musicians It was formed in
1942 but In a little over a decade
it has risen to match French horns
and tubas with tlVe other service
bands
The "Air Forte ‘band 'may be
young In years but it has been
around It is the only American
band to have played for a royal
garden party at Buckingham Palace
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Cl-
Committee Reform Is Key
To Congressional Cleanup
BY PETER EDSON
NEA Washington Correspondent
mASHINGTON — (NEA) — Reform of congressional committee
W functioning is a first order of business in any plans for con- 1
giessional reorganization The reason Is that committee structure
is the bottleneck through which all congressional activities mysC ”
(low ‘
In 1946 all congressional committees had 356 clerks and a total
payroll of less than a million dollars Today the House committees
have 188 clerks and a payroll of $2 million The Senate committees
have 471 clerks and a payroll of over $3 million In addition'
Senate committee expenses are $17 million and for the House 17
million
In spite of the growth of congressional machihory since the end ’
of the war Congress doesn’t seem to get any more work done In
the current session for instance 10000 new measures have been
introduced but only 150 public and 100 private bills have been
enacted into law to date
HTHERE have been several revolts against the present committee
setup in Congress this year Nearly all of them center around
the great power given to committee chairmen by custom and the
seniority system They Indicate some heed to break with outworn i
traditions
Two recent cases involve government operations committees In1 '
the House Chairman Clare Hoffman of Michigan told his four
subcommittees to stop initiating investigations on their own He
wanted this power reserved to himself
In the Senate Chairman Joe McCarthy’s fight over hiring Dr
J B Matthews as chief of the committee staff led to a split Dr 4
Matthews was forced to resign but only after the Republican 9
majority of the committee had voted to give Chairman MeCaithy
full power to fire and hire the staff This led to the resignation f
of the thiee Democratic members Senators McClellan Symington
and Jackson It presages a fight over future committee control
The great congressional reform that now holds the center of
interest is how to treat witnesses appearing before committees
CEN PAT McCARRAN of Nevada has proposed getting around
refusal of witnesses to testify after citing the Fifth Amendment
by giving congressional committees after a two-thirds majority
vote' the right to grant immunity from prosecution to any witness
who gives a committee information it is seeking
Congress had a law of this kind back In the 1890’s It was
quickly turned into an escape route for many law violators and so
it was repealed Today there is strong opposition to the MeCarran
proposal even though over 100 witnesses this year have given the
stock answer: "I refuse to testify on the grounds it might incrimi-
nate me”
the other head of this Congressional investigation reform takes
the view that congressional committees already have too much
power and commit too many abuses of civil rights
Various codes of fair conduct have been drawn up by such con-
gressional leaders as Representatives Keating and Javits of New
York Rep Martin Dies o'f Texas Senators Douglas of Illinois
Kefauver of Tennessee Morse of Oregon and Lehman of New York
The Bar Association of the District of Columbia has also drawn
up an elaborate code for the conduct of congressional investigations
Achievement of something along these lines is probably the
number one reform facing'Congress today
umwmia
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