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THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER. WEDNEDat RW TIC 27. 10 10 3D Capital Capers Gossip of the Nation The L.abor Front FBI Hunting Red Spies at UnionSession Rowers Come Cut Rate For Vanderbilt Wedding NEW YORK. April 26. fcouolla Parsons La Goddard Next to Make Film in Italy HOLLYWOOD.

April 25. ALTHOUGH Paulette Ooddard went to Mexico to get hervlf divorced from Burgess she wasn't ROADWAY. THE STREET OP ger Rogers embellishing the at Table 50 chaperoned by Morrow WASHINGTON. April 26. tectlve Kingsleys J.

Di Maggio at the "Home of the Brave" opening without a cane or ilmp Beautiful Mrs. David a Niven and groom acting like By Elise TT 7 EDDINGS and VV the week-end. dings was that three of garden One of parties occupied the capital over the fine touches about the wed the fanciest were held at St. Mat thew's Cathedral, and the three brides' families including the family of Sylvia Szechenyi Szapary, whose mother is a Vander- A js 1 honeymooners at Armando's. She looked so very happy and no wonder.

AH this and Nlven, too Hedda Hopper, the mad-hatter, without one Bette Davis, a 5th ave. shop-hopper Admiral Nimitz enjoying the Navy quips in "South ciflc." The gorgeous Valli in a nearby pew Faye Roosevelt taking a raincoat out of her purse for Grandpa Fala, who had Elliott out for a stroll Alger Hiss waiting for a Madison ave bus in the rain Dr. Ralph Bunche of the U.N. with his little son at the circus Mrs. Bobo Rockefeller (freed from the hospital) being clip-clopped swanky event In a fur coat, too a friend.

Mtdnighter: The Times reported that singer John Garrls last appeared here appeared at Carnegie Hall in March, want to question a chap first-named seen with Garris Kitty Carlisle at the St. Louis opry this summer. being coached in the art of castanet-clicking Met's Aida Alvarez Billy Eck-stine biggest biz at the Paramount since them in They say the "Kiss Me, the happiest backstage group In D'Arcy and Joan Lyle (Gene Tierney 's uh-huh Parody telegram to Eddie Knew Hooper, Like I Know Hooper. What a Girl!" (or Why Movie Editors Gray Young): issue of a national fan mag features which Paulette Goddard absolutely any divorce, to wit: "I've been in enough not to pay any attention she said, "but this latest pipe-dream am going to divorce Burgess Meredith weeks, well. It's just a pipe-dream.

No people say, neither of us has any intention divorcing!" papers last week: "Paulette Goddard against B. Meredith in Mexico today." Jean Sablon's "Comme Ci. Comme Machito's Afro-Cuban boper in Revue- "The Berkleys of Astalre and Rogers t. Dan "The Horses," in Holiday via ABC Carlos Ramires thrashing Berie Rhumba" at Havana-Madrid. rt i I si Walter WUtchcll DREAMS Gin Stork Club Room the Sidney IO TOWN business is like Mary went to a Borrowed from Memos of a the slain opera in '47, He last '48 Gendarmes Earl, often plays "Carmen" She is by the is doing the Sinatra packed Kate" troupe is years Alex lookalike) are Cantor: "If You Oh, Oh, Oh! SIDE-SHOW The May an article in denies getting Hollywood long to columnists," of theirs, that I in a few matter what of From the filed for divorce Curtain Calls: Ca" at Versailles teevee's "Broadway Broadway," with Parker's feature, "Theater USA" "The Milton soloist at which cost I'm glad I never pet cat eats only Diit pooiea tneir resources ana Dougm the flowers and marquee cooperatively.

"It takes a Vanderbilt to get something cut-rate," one woman remarked. Sylvia, the last unmarried daughter of Gladys Vanderbilt Szechenyi and the late Count Lazlo Szechenyi, former Hungarian minister to this country, was mar ried to Count Anthony Szapary. The other weddings were those of Miss Rosalind Rust and Cmdr. Benjamin Talman, and Miss Barbara Leachman and Edward Michael Tierney, Jr. The Szechenyi wedding reception was full of old world atmosphere, and lost-great-world nostalgia.

It was done in a style and tradition suitable to the Van-derbilts and Hungarian nobility cham- fiagne, red-coated Gypsies playing, beau-iful buffet. Among the out-of-town guests were Miss Elena de Hellebranth and Miss Berta'de Hellebranth from Vent-nor, N. J. Tttr-a tr.v Trill ft VlfM PMcM.nt lil.Nl.tK KOUtltS around the park in a hansom. Sallies in our Alley: At the Banshees event for the visiting newspaper publishers yesternoon some of them discussed the best newspaper slogans.

"My favorite ts Scripps-IIoward's." said one: 'Give light and the people will find their own way'." Another offered Hearst's: "Get it first but first get it right I Our pet is the same publisher's: "Qet the story on the streets before the innocent bystander hits the A group of actors were panning the three actors clubs. "The Lambs," said one, "are actors trying to be gentlemen" Another offered: "The Friars are gentlemen trying to be actors" "And," flipped a third, "The Players are neither, trying to be both." MRS. MAX TRUITT Smalltalk: Flip Phillips, featured sax Bop City, tootles on a solid-gold sax him (he reports) 9 Os Things IDNIGHT Vignette: Show this Mary McCarty crashed heights late last the Broadway season in "Small Wonder" knew before: That Ida Lupino's salami and drinks only black Java Although the Royal Roost click big with its revue, they will shutter Berlesday night henceforth. Too much competlsh There's a mldtown beanery that Is so tough the wags say you have to have a parole card before you can work there as a counterman Betty Bradley, the thrush, weds H. Denmark tomorrow Ted Lewis starts at the Strand May 6, his 33d wedding ann'y.

The critics showered her with superlative praise The offers from radio and television poured in She inherited an Important role in "Miss Liberty," which starts rehearsals soon, and she was a belle of the town In the same time several show gals wound up with mink coats The other night Listen to Walter Winchell over WFIL every Sunday at 9 P. M. Dart-ion Walker NEW YORK, April 26. BROADWAY BEAT: A famous International political and military figure (not Chinese or Russian) has had his request for a visit to the U. S.

turned down Chief Justice Vinson of the Supreme Court, who has been writing some of the President's comeback, television can be thanked Vaudevillians now complaining that what circuit bookings are availablein spilt weeks and one-night stands call for overnight Jumps of more than 350 miles Real estate interests again trying to persuade the Rockefellers that It would be a good Idea to reopen the Rainbow Room as a night club. Frltsi Scheff, who recently made a television audience sit up and take notice, will resume on the night club circuit at George Eberhardt's Cafe Grinzlng May 2 Ginger Rogers mother, Leila, coming to New York in June to set up theatrical producing activities John Huston flying to New York from Paris for the Astor Theater premiere of his new film drama, "We Were Strangers." Barkley's slim, attractive daughter and official hostess, had a party late Sunday afternoon, to which lots of official and social Washington struggled after, or before going to Mrs, Joseph Davies' garden party and a party at the French chancery given by French Minister and Madame Andre Berard. Barkley, who has more vitality than men half his age, was the best looking man at Mrs. Truitt's party. Other guests Included the bridge-playing, fun-loving Supreme Court Chief Justice Vinson with his wife; the President's military sidekick.

Gen. Harry Vaughan, wth his sweet wife; Mrs. Perle Mesta and Postmaster Genera) and Mrs. Jesse Donaldson. Sunday was a wonderful day.

which must prove that Mrs. Joseph Davies knows how to read an almanac. The second and last of her annual garden parties went off beautifully, and several experts said that the azaleas and dogwood, wisteria, tulips and everything else were better this year than they have been for 10 years. Mrs. Kenneth wife of the retiring Secretary of the Army, was pouring tea, and Mrs.

Clark Clifford, wife of the Presidential assistant, poured coffee. They both wore blue. One of the prettiest women in the mob of extremely pretty women was Mrs. Davies daughter, Mrs. Eleanor Close de Bekessy, a thin, lovely blonde.

Other guests were Madame Frances Perkins, the former Secretary of Labor; the counselor of th Portuguese Embassy, Manuel Rocheta, with his beautiful wife, Marie Louise; Senator and Mrs. Kenneth Wherry of Nebraska, Attorney General and Mrs. Tom Clark, the Norwegian Ambassador and Madame Munthe de Morgenstierne, and Senator and Mrs. William Knowland of California. Representative Katharine St.

the Congresswoman from New York State, is having a dinner party tomorrow night at the 1925 Street Club for her sister, Mrs. Reginald Fellowes-Gordon of England. Tonight the Senator from Vermont, hardworking Ralph Flanders, and his wife are entertaining at dinner at the Sulgrave Club. The Ambassador from Israel and Mrs. Elath are entertaining next Wednesday evening at a reception at the Shoreham Hotei celebrating the first anniversary of their country's Independence.

Pan-American Day was celebrated belatedly over the weekend with a most colorful reception at the Pan American Union Building. The Council of the Organization of American States gave the reception. Flowers were flown from South America, the buffet was elaborate. Tom O'Reilly Penny pinching Senators Hunt For Missing $336,643,129 Sylvia Porter Tax Dispute I Bill Merits Support THERE'S a bill befort Congress today thai every American has ever paid an Income tax ought to know about and ought to get behind In a hurry. Became, for the flrt time, thU ti4 would aet up an Independent Tax Settlement Board board designed to arbitrate Quickly and inexpensively any ease in which a taxpayer disagrees with the Internal Revenue Bureau about his tax And that, might mention here.

covers an awful lot of eases. That, 1 might emphasize here, would be a major gain for us the taxpay. crs who often get into honest disagreement with the tax collectors, but who have neither the time nor the money to defend our positions. Representative Wilbur MM of Arkansas 1 author of the bill. Hi main purpose is to give the little business taxpayer a better break In settling tax fights with the Government.

Ha expects the House Ways and Mean Committee to take up his measure within the next couple ot months and he says he'a gathering onaiderable support for it among other Congressmen. I think he merit that support. ITS so obvious an answer to the problem of handling tax dispute that It seems strange that a board of this sort wasn't set up long ago. And it would be a ehame if it establishment la again delayed by our ignorance or indiff er-encs. Thousands of tax squabbles come up every year in our country, just this past year, more than 15,000 cases were brought before the special technical staff of the Revenue Bureau.

Many, many times 1S.000 went only as far as the bureau's lower echelons. Most of these are honest differences of opinion on tax accounting the taxpayer figuring his bill one way, tea bureau figuring it another. Settling these disputes under cur present machinery is a tough job. And the way mattera shape up today, the email business taxpayer who honestly believes the bureau ha over-assessed him ia frequently Just out of luck. There are only two things he can do: try to reach an agreement with bureau agent at the lower or top levels: go to the Tax Court or a Federal district court.

THIS is simply not fair to the smaller taxpayer, for when he applies to the bureau's agents, he scarcely can expect an impartial hearing. (The tax collector's Job is to collect taxes, remember.) But usually, his best bet 1 to accept the decision whether it's fair or not for if he takes his case to the Tax Court, he must hire a lawyer, saddle himself with other heavy legal expense a the case drag on, give up a lot of time he cant afford to lose. Under Mills plan, the smaller taxpayer would get a thoroughly impartial hearing. The Settlement Board would be entirely independent of the bureau. It would con-duet hearings Informally, without legal trappings.

The taxpayer could appear for himself, with or without his accountant or lawyer, as be chose. The board would try to reach a settlement acceptable both to the bureau and the taxpayer. But either still would have the right to take the dispute to court if either disapproved of the decision. This setup would save time and money for both sides the taxpayers and the Government. And with the board handling the aimple disagreements, the new overloaded Tax Court (it has a backlog of 8000 pending cases!) would bo free to handle the intricate legal questions.

OUR system today Is utterly obsolete and antiquated. It was established a quarter-century ago. when there were only 4.000,000 income-taxpayers. Now, there are more than 50.000.000. It was designed to handle disputes arising out of a simple income tax law applying to a relatively small group of Americans.

But In recent years, tax laws have been plied on top of tax laws until our structure has become monstrously complicated. Thus, the machinery that may have been all right in the 20s is Just not all right In the '40s. It should be overhauled; it should be simplified. It can be Improved. The more I study this proposal and check on it among objective tax experts, the more sense it make to me.

I hope it goes through. It will if you know about It and knowing about it, support it. YOUNG'S two "retired" sisters. Sally recent speeches, will accompany Mr. Truman on his stump-speaking tour of the country this summer Pressmen who attended Gen.

Mark Clark's recent conference still grinning over the General's fluff in referring to his commander-in-chief, "President Roosevelt" Eric Johnston being urged by some of his Republican friends to run for the Senate from his home State of Washington in opposition to the Democrats' Senator Magnuson Five pretenders to non-existent thrones are gathered in the small Portuguese fishing town of Casclas The Alice Satterthwaite black market baby trial will be back in blir headlines around fouy Ann Young, beginning to think of movie comebacks Rudv Vallee By Victor Riesel JF YOU don't think union leaders of "anonymous" waiters, pretty hatcheck girls and hotel personnel are as much interested in tips on Communist undercover activity as they are in tips on tables, you're not up on the latest in espionage techniques. Nor will you understand why a special corps of FBI agents and special Immigration Department investigators are roaming the block-long lobbies and lush bars of Chicago's behemoth Stevens Hotel where 1000 delegates of the Hotel and Restaurant and Bartenders Union (eighth largest labor outfit in America) opened their convention Monday. That union, led by a genial old crusader, Hugo Ernst, has been unable to shake a tough Communist cadre of special operators out of its ranks. the union is the sole important base of Bolshevik maneuvering inside the huge AFL. This week will see a bitter battle by rightwingers to oust what they consider a Communist espionage network from the union.

IT MUST be understood that this is a brand of highly Important spying, different team the garden variety. Military sscrets are not involved Just scouting travelers and filching documents carried by men in whom the Reds are interested. As far back as 1930, the International Communist Trade Union Section in Moscow set up classes in special "university" training centers for agents designed to teach espionage in hotels, restaurants and clubs. In 1934, one Communist leader in the field returned to America after four years training in Moscow. He reported to party leaders here that they were to capture the American hotel and culinary industry.

He explained: Inside hotel switchboard operators could monitor calls of guests under surveillance by party agents. Chambermaids could go swiftly through baggage and cover up so the traveler would never know his belongings had been frisked. Waiters could listen in on private dinner parties where people eat, drink, grow convivial and talk freely. ND hotel-room frame-ups are the oldest routine in the world. For example, back in 1946, the International Hotel and Restaurant and Bartenders Union authorized two of its vice presidents to investigate leftist activity in their outfit (which nationally is led by loyal anti-Communists).

One v. Ed Miller, and a colleague, put up at a hotel in New York, which is the center of Communist power in the field. Here the party runs unions with 42,000 members. Miller (now secretary of the national union) completed his investigation, documented his findings and wrote a long report. He assembled the dossiers in his hotel room, and went to dinner.

When he returned, all his papers had been stolen. Of course, the hotel had no way of knowing which of its thousands of employes had taken the documents, or whether they just fingered the room for special operators to move in and lift the reports. HOWEVER, the documents were duplicated, and in 1947, the top officers, with headquarters in Cincinnati, put a receiver in charge of the New York outfits. But In two years of maneuvering by Red leaders, some of wliom are up for deportation and contempt of Congress, they managed to capture considerable power in last December's New York elections. Now they're whooping it up against the Atlantic Pact, against ERP and for national Communist Party leaders now on trial.

In a i i 1 to keeping a strangle-hold on giant hotels in the East, the Reds want to keep power there for another reason they're slowly being pushed out of other unions and are trying to make a comeback in the food and brewery industries. SO LEADERS of the hotel worker' international union have double trouble. Tips are falling off. The restaurant Industry is hard hit and Jobs are decreasing. They maintain a steady fight against prohibition forces so bartenders' employment and restaurant income should not be slashed by dry laws.

They campaign against the use of barmaids. They must run an international outfit with 713 affiliates and members in the U. S.t Canada, Hawaii and Alaska. To drive the Communists out at the same time is a big job. THEY'LL DO IT EVERY HENRY CAN a new band and go on tour this fall talks of appearing in a film with and her infant daughter A.

C. (Peggy Fears' ex) trying to sell his Re-f Mexico City because of the devaluation censored, "This Is My Beloved" has a record by John Dall, with a Vernon background By special permission to the press), the old Kaufman-Hart Sing" will be revived at Jay Oomey's Kaufman talks of rewriting and date. will give an exhibition of his paintings from Jamaica Elena Nikolaldl, contralto, makes her Boston bow tour that will cover the Nation diving exhibitions and water ballets new Shorehaven Beach Club, opening May 28 Not since the early Sinatra Paramount Theater been so mobbed as Eckstlne's current engagement. Some nearby hotel rooms so they can be when the box office opens! called the Kate Smith of Puerto All-Latin bill at the 3000-seat San opening Friday. May 2 when she will start nammg nationally prominent persons who adopted babies through her.

REGISTERED NURSES from out of town up in arms over the State's $20 license fee, at a time when their pay is less than most stenographers All that publicity about Lauren Bacall having discovered Kirk Douglas when he was behind a soda fountain is pure baloney. Kirk had some pretty good roles on Broadway before he ever hit Hollywood The "Cold Peace" will be the subject of a new satirical musical by the boys who originated "Call Me Mister," before Melvyn Douglas took over (Leonard Kay and Bill Watters.) The Palace Theater, at long last, reverts to its old vaudeville policy May 19. with eight feature acts and a movie. The house closed today for renovation and remodeling. If vaudeville does succeed in making a too busy to listen to and accept B.

p. Bchuiberg offer to star In "Qoft and the Duchess of Alba." Lion classic. Ben, who had i or eight months to get financial backing, telephon from New York to UU rTT gosbaxs me that win make this mm1i In Italy with Italian lira. Th -angel" behind it is arteo BorJ-fieo, American-Italian who had a lot to do with th distribution cf -Paisan" and "Open City. Paulette plays the court lady who had such a torrid romar.ee with a great Spanish painter.

Ill bet Paulette gets a percentage. 8 ha Is a very smart business woman. Gregory Ratoff, who took off for New York to meet Alex Korda, his movie partner, spent the last day hero closeted with agent Phil Berg. Greg came hero especially to sign Edward Robinson, who Is represented by PbiL for "My Daughter, Joy," in which, as I told you, Constance Bennett and Peggy Cnmmlni play mother aad daughter. Well, Greg signed Eddie, who leaves in Jane for Italy and Algiers, where the movie will bo made.

Gladys Robinson, who has an art exhibition in Chicago, tells me she will go on to Europe and join Eddie. She will hare another exhibition in Paris. Last ear, while we were there, she was a sensation in art circles. I must say have never seen Joan Blondeil look so well and happy. She is here with her mother to see her sister.

Gloria, who's recovering from an operation. She said Gloria Is much better, but was still quite sick. Joan leaves tomorrow or next day. She said she's already homesick for Mike Todd. "Aren't you ever going to work? asked her.

"Mike brings plays home." she said, "but we haven't found anything we both like." Mike told her over the telephone that since the Irene Rich stcry in the papers, they are breaking down the doors to "As The OirLs Go" to get a look at Irene. Joan says her son, Norman, is president of the freshman class, and that he and Ellen go to a little school near their home on the Hudson. I'm so proud of our Hollywood people who are putting op such a strong front against the Inroads of Communism. Next Sunday night members of filmland's guilds and unions III sponsor a monster patriotic loyalty Day parade along Hollywood boulevard to counteract RussU's traditional May Day celebration. At two o'clock in the afternoon Archbishop Francis Mclntjre 1U stage a spiritual rally in the Los Angeles Colioeusu Catholics, of course, will attend, but many members of other faiths will Join in this religious meeting.

Snapshots of Hollywood Collected at Random: Talk Is cur- rent acam that a 1 1 Russell and Ouy Maduon are once ro discus a i a plans. teen year -old Suzanne Dura nt, dsvuh- OAIl at IS ILL first girl so young to receive this honor. Margaret Whiting leaves no middle of next month for New York to join her husband. HubbcU Robinson, vice president of CBS. Up to now she has had radio commitments which have kept her here.

Harry Crocker is giving Georgo Jesse I competition as tbo most sought after M. C. In town. Sunday be was at the Beacomorrs where be introduced "The Fash-lonettea But there's no Jealousy between Georgie and Harry. Jes-sel has signed him to play an M.

In "Bandwagon." I stopped to chat with Constaneo Collier and Gladys Cooper at Scandia, where they were having dinner. Two great actresses. By Ivan H. Peterman Italian colonlos settled. Wo are afraid Russia's devious moves all! evolve some sort of Pour-Power deal In which the Reds will create another "Berlin- in Libya.

The U. 8. won't take a trusteeship, as practically everyone la JJJS. desires: but we do want a base there If real trouble cornea. So we wind up Inviting four or five others Into the party.

Including France, to the disgust of all Arabs In North Africa. If the U. 8. now goes for Staiin belated bid on Berlin Just when the West Germans have agreed to a Western State you can mark American policy in this colt! ar down at any bargain price you wlah. It'll bo strictly for the be-ment if it goes through Joe "mill" again.

ti 1 i I I i VjH ORETTA GEN. MARK CLARK Eel Sullivan in enough money to fly the parents to New York with their 7-month-old twins, in a desperate attempt to cure the blindness that accompanied the premature birth. Or when you read in the papers that Providence, R. firemen successfully chopped through a foot-thick concrete wall and safely extricated 3-year-old Carol Ann Russell from a 7-inch crevice into which the tot had slipped and wedged herself. EVEN the tragic finale of the Kathy Fiscus rescue attempt uplifted you because of the tremendous volunteer effort of townsmen, who labored through the night to reach her in time.

Stories like these never come out of Russia. Probably because in a dictator state, they apply the law of nature, which is the survival of the fittest. In our country, the law of God, which dignifies the unalienable rights of the individual, naturally leads to the protection of the weak. From now on, whenever you read a story about some great kindness, I wish you'd send it along to this desk, and once a week, we'll make up a column of such experiences. I think we all could stand a weekly review of American kindness.

It reminds us that 98 percent of By Jimmy Hatlo jtiiane ana wistfully planning to form Bill Robinson Shirley Temple Blumenthal orma Hotel in of the peso. Considerably been made into Duke musical (and not open hit "Of Thee I dramatic workshop. bringing it up to Noel Coward on his return sensational Greek May 8 In a concert WPIX to televise direct from the in the Bronx days has the during Billy fans have taken first in the lineup Blanquita Romero, Rico, heads the Juan Theater, WT ELL, it was bound to hap- pen. Somebody down in Washington has misplaced They just can't find it. An outfit called the Commodity Credit Corporation seems to have stuck the money in a drawer some place, between July 1, 1942, and June 30, 1945, and now nobody knows where the deuce it is.

The United States General Accounting Office says it Is probably the result of "inefficiency, sloppy accounting methods and poor management." Some stenog probably had a big date at the Mayflower, shoved the stuff under a blotter, in a hurry to keep her appointment, and then forgot all about it. It wouldn't surprise me if it fell on the floor and got swept up with a pile of old Kiplinger Letters and such trash. IT IS little things like misplacing $336,643,129 that discourage a man trying to do a big job. Now, I suppose, some officious ass will want to upset the whole joint going through every drawer In the Pentagon Building or some other busy place, looking for the pesky stuff. No wonder they have such a hard' time getting really BIG men to work in Washington.

There are so many unimaginative little jerks around asking silly questions like what became of that $336,643,129. They are constantly diverting the minds of the really big people from the work at hand. THAT is the way I feel about that missing $336,643,129 Just petty cash. It's a shame to have penny-pinching Senators like Jack Williams of Delaware, Ed Martin NEW YORK. April 26.

REMBRANDT, Gainsborough, Da Vinci, Corot. Hogarth and other famous painters have contributed great happiness to the world, but in the happiness department don't overlook those 96 AFL house-painters in New Brunswick. N. even though their canvas will never decorate the Louvre. These 96 union painters fashioned a masterpiece in 2 minutes and 32 seconds, completely painting the one and one-half-story home which will be occupied by a United States Marine hero, and his bride, after Bob Hoelzle marries her on June 12.

Hoelzle lost the use of both legs when nailed by a Jap sniper at and his neighbors, union and nonunion, decided to do something about it and did it! They contributed the house, and the painters left it gleaming white. YOUR heart wrinkles up in a smile when you read a story like this out of New Brunswick. In a welter of depressing happenings, an experience like this Rives each of us a personal lift, and you agree with the songwriter that 'it's a big, wide, wonderful world that we live in" (the songwriter, incidentally, is John Rox). You feel the same way when you read that New Orleans neighbors of the Andrew Hoflmans chipped TIME 1T21DE tXVAJ WlTM of Pennsylvania and Bob Hen-drickson of New Jersey disturbing the whole game by looking under chairs and picking up the rug to see if they can find it. Those three birds even want to have a Senatorial investigation.

Don't they realize that the hour Is getting late? The thing to do now is deal. Leave that lousy for the cleaning women. It is quite possible that somebody, unaccustomed to a big-time money game like this, stuck that $336,643,129 in his watch pocket after the first pot. That often happens in poker games. I REMEMBER one time as a kid reporter getting in a game where I didn't belong.

I had 10 bucks and I walked Into this place for a quiet beer. The proprietor, bartender and a cattle dealer were waiting for another fellow to come along so they could start a poker game. When I walked In they said, "Sit down until the other fellow comes." I didn't want to sit down, but the boss" whispered that it was stud and I wouldn't, even have to bet. Just sit there for 10 minutes and then beat it. So I sat down and got dealt aces, back to back.

I BET a dollar and everybody raised. In no time at all my 10 was in the pot and I was 10 "light." The. aces stood up. And right after that hand I quietly stuck three 10s in my watch pocket and decided to play with their, money. It was a cute maneuver.

Nobody saw me but the other three players. Well, that night. I couldn't lose for winning. About 5 A. M-, when It was a good eight-handed game, rolling along, I went home with money hidden in every pocket of my clothes.

Two weeks later I even found a 20 in my hat-band. AND that is probably what happened to that $336,643,129. Some guy got in the game over his head. He was a little nervous. So he probably sent his suit out to the cleaners with that petty cash in the watch pocket and now some poor pants presser is sailing yachts and smoking big cigars.

That sort of thing happens every day. I particularly liked one paragraph in the report of the General Accounting Office. It said clearly, "The accounting deficiencies encountered were so substantial and the Inaccuracies cited in this so material that we cannot express any opinion that the financial statements prepared by the corporation present fairly the financial position of the Commodity Credit Corp." Aw, who cares? Its only $336,643,129. Petty cash! Inquirer on File At Free Library BOUND flies of the printed" editions of The Philadelphia Inquirer, starting with the year 1831. and a file of the microfilm editions or The Inquirer, starting with the Issue of Jan.

1. 1941, are available at the Newspaper Department of the Free Library of Philadelphia. Logan square (Parkway at human beings are decent, well-intentioned people, responsive to distress, solicitous of others. PHILADELPHIA A's, 25 to 1 at the start of the season, now down to 10 to 1 Palace Theater, as itemed here-, going in for 8-act vaudeville on a low budget Jimmy Durante and Lou Clayton breezed in to set Jimmy's September date at the Copacabana. Jolson back to the coast for a spell before returning for a TV deal Impossible to get steamship passage to or from Europe Mark Kelly.

20th Century-Fox aide to Harry Brand, did more than any other one Individual to keep Notre Dame on the Southern California grid schedule (plenty of pressure to keep the Irish out of coast stadia, by big nine coaches, but Kelly's a battling red-head and he won!) a WHAT wins an American League pennant? It could be a $5000 bonus paid to a ballplayer who didn't expect to get it. The ballplayer was Ken Keltner. relates Lou Boudreau, in his "plavrr-manager" book with Ed Fitzgerald, a Brown-Little publication. Bill Veeck had promised Keltner a $5000 if he hit .280 in 1947. Keltner didn't do it.

Veeck gave him the bonus anyway, for playing heads-up baseball. Keltner was so touched by this that ia 1948, he hit .299 with 21 homers thrown in. Bill Dickey suggested to Boudreau that Bob Lemon, outfielder, might make a great pitcher. Bill McKechnle advised Boudreau to use Larry Doby In the outfield, not the infield. This, I think, is the greatest of the baseball books, converting the cold type of a box-score into a moving, human experience.

Continued From First Page to defend the defensive North At-lantlo Pact? Better to have announced it, and let Stalin figure out what it meant. Why assure China's Commies we had no intention of supporting Chiang Kai-shek any longer? Why keep sticking out our chins so Uncle Joe can belt us with that handy olive branch? On Monday, American influence canceled further plenary procedure on Cardinal Mind-szenty's case in U.N. Nobody knows exactly why, but it was rumored we didn't want to appear to be railroading the issue. The Moscow puppets did a fair Job railroading Mlndszcnty. of course.

On Tuesday it became evident we are ready for some compromise involving a lot of things, to get the 'OKAY-BUT SNAP INTD "THIS MORNING? I HAVE :30 APPOINTMENT AT THE IT IM NOT IM THE. TAXI BUSINESS GET hot put Your PUDS Or4 BEAUT PARLOR iLL BE ill HURRy- Headline Hopping Alien Husbands Ask Russia For Freedom of the Shes By OIlie Crawford TNTTED NATIONS protest Russian blockade on wives of or-I I eigne rs. No nation should come between a husband and wife, except to save the poor guy's llf e. What the U.N. really want Is freedom of the shes.

A Chilean rapped Russia for keeping his wife over there. He admitted that Chile was chilly, but said the brush-off he got from the Reds was chillier. After the wedding, the Russians threw old shoes at him and left their feet in them. He was-all set to carry bis bride across the threshold when the Reds carried him tvcroas the border. He was healthy one minute and had borderline anemia the next.

Gal who marry foreigners In Russia go from Miss to Mrs. to mlslnc. When the NKVD hears of a courtship, it puts the guy on a port ship. It makes the bark of matrimony sound like a howl. The Red have decided that If they keep one and one apart, the gal wont start putting two and two together.

The Soviet have come between more young couples than a mother-in-law. Russian are singing: "Here comes the bride: there goes the groom." When a bride wants to know why she can't go with her husband, the Cossack Chorus sings: "Because." The gal goes to the altar with a train and the poor husband leaves it on a boat. instead of carrying his bride into their new home, the foreign husband has to leave her on the steppes. He starts marching down the aisle and the OGPU says: "Okay, bud. Keep on marching! The Russians nay our women are household slaves.

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