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EDITORIALS
The Abilene Reporter-S2tws
SUNDAY, MARCH 17, 1946
RECURRE
that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains
Bec had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither
could any man tame him.—Mark 5:4.
They can only set free men free: And there is no need of that; Free men set
themselves free.—James Oppenheim.
Union Terminal
BLOOD BANKS ,
Neighborly Concern*
Saar
Happy Returns
Our town passed its 65th milestone the
day before yesterday. It was on March 15,
1881, that the Texas & Pacific railroad cried
the townlot sale of its "Future Great." Bid-
ding was brisk, the crowd was colorful and
in holiday mood. So busy was the auctioneer
that it required part of the 16th to wind up
the odds and ends.
But Abilene was already a busy town be-
fore the official townlot sale took place. Ad-
venturous souls had pushed in weeks earlier
and set up business in tents. The railroad it-
self had "opened the town" around the end
of February, by installing its agent in a ca-
boose or maybe a retired box car.
The tracks had reached this spot shortly
before or at mid-January, 1881. and by Janu-
ary 22 had been pushed seven miles west.
This spurt of speed was attributed to the
arrival and subsequent dynamic activities of
Maj. Gen. Grenville M Dodge, the. Down
East Yankee who had chief-engineered the
great Union Pacific railway and was chief
engineer of the Texas & Pacific in 1879-1881.
The boys had been building a mile and a half
of track a day after General Dodge got after
them with a sharp stick, and a goal of two
miles a day had been fixed. The road was
headed for the Pacific coast like a wild mus-
tang. but it never did reach there. It stopped
at Sierra Blanca, and to this day the T & P
uses Southern Pacific tracks into its west-
ern terminus, El Paso.
The town was quite a success. It was born
amid the jeers and hoots of the scoffers and
doubters, but then as now it was far too
busy to be disturbed or dismayed by the
pessimists. Its spirit always has been on the
optimistic side, and we hope it always re-
mains that wav
It has been accused of being smug and
cold We should be less upset by such charges
than moved to rectify whatever faults we
may have A town, like an' individual, can be
helped by criticism, however just or unjust,
reasonable or unreasonable But neither
should be overwhelmed or routed by it. Self-
improvement is the unending goal.
It was an ambitious, hopeful, enterprising
and virile crowd that took over Abilene 65
years ago. It had pursued Opportunity to the
jumping off place, to the end of the rails, and
it would not be deterred by stern w arnings
that the T. & P.’s "Future Great" would be
a flash in the pan. The railroad, said the Mon-
dav morning quarterbacks of the time, had
picked this as the site of the biggest town
between Fort Worth and El Paso, a distance
of some 600 miles, and the T. & P. was going
to be fooled They were descendants of the
wise guys who stood around and poked fun
at Noah.
In passing, the first edition of this news-
paper came off the press June 17. 1881—
three months and two days after the townlot
sale.
We can only hope that the town is half
as proud of the newspaper as the newspaper
is of the town. From the vantage point of
more than 31 years on the staff, this writer
is equally proud of both. That is not a boast,
but a humble tribute to a couple of early
settlers who have been keeping company for
65 years.
We are happy about the whole thing, but
not cold, not smug, and certainly not satis-
fied There is no sense in closing the door to
improvement and progress. Heaven is the
only perfect place
Ten-Minute Holocaust?
In a newspaper interview a few days ago,
Maj Gen. Curtis LeMay, "The Cigar," ex-
pressed belief that the country is fast slipping
into a dangerous state of unpreparedness.
"We couldn’t even fight our way out of a
paper bag today," said the man who devised
the Flying Fortress tactics against Germany
and directed the Superfortress raids on Jap-
anese industry."
He is deputy chief of air staff for research
and development, and as such the country s
aerial defenses will be kept abreast of the
times—unless a penny-pinching congress
starves research and development to death
through a mistaken policy of economy. The
cost of this war, heightened as it was by de-
lays and errors due to long years of virtual
paralysis of our armed services, proved again
that penny-pinching is not only dangerous
short-sightedness, but false economy as well.
"The country has the scientific brains."
says General LeMay. "We need money to put
these brains to work."
Let scoffers deride his remark. "I expect
to live to see the day when a rocket vehicle
can be sent to the moon and back.” if they
will; but the fact is that this incredible feat
isn’t as crazy as it sounds. Science already
knows it can control such a vehicle by radar;
all that remains is to devise a fuel powerful
and concentrated enough to hurl the rocket
through the earth’s atmosphere. The answer
to that may be atomic energy.
One LeMay utterance is worth remember-
ing. It was: “We must never,relax. Genius
doesn’t get inspiration from the air. It takes
laborious research. The more you put into
it—brains, manpower and money—the more
you get out of it."
Another: "Our strongest defense in the air
will be a strong offense, because the advan-.’
tage is increasingly with the attacker as the
speed of the attack increases.”
In any case, the old pattern of military pro-
curement won't be worth shucks from now-
on. As General LeMay points out, a plane
manufacturer in the old days was willing
to spend 15 or 20 thousand dollars of his own
money producing a new model which he
hoped the government would buy.' He can't
do that any more, for a really new idea in
warplane construction may cost 15 million
dollars in future, simply because it involves
endless research and experimentation.
The atomic bomb cost two billion dollars,
and was worth it measured in terms of Amer-
ican lives saved on the beachheads of Japan.
It may be that private industry, using its
own money, might have produced the bomb
in time; but what private industry could
raise two billion dollars for the scientific
research and the mere human drudgery re-
quired to deliver the miracle in three years?
The case for continued research and de-
velopment in the interest- of national defense
is clear-cut and inescapable We must have
the very best there is to be had. at all times,
or we risk our liberty, our happiness and our
lives in some future electronic-atomic war
for mastery of the world.
If we are reluctant to have our sons pre-
pared for battle, we should have no objection
to spending money to keep our country
abreast of scientific advancement as a guar-
anty that they won't be wasted in some fu-
ture “ten-minute” holocaust.
IN OLD LANG SYNE
BULLFIGHT BOOMS ‘
Mexico Goes Wild Over Sport
Bv THEODORE A EDIGER
MEXICO CITY March 16.—P)
—It s been a hard season on
bulls in Mexico, and Manolete.
a slender matador from Spain, is
largely to blame
Blood and sand performances
formerly were strictly a Sun-
day afternoon spectacle here,
but since the arrival of Manolete
“the monstrous stupendous one ’
they have been held as often as
four times weekly.
Federal District Governor Ja-
vier Rojo Gomez, himself a de-
vout fan told the managers of
Mexico City’s two largest bull
rings that hockings at the na-
tional pawnshop had increased
40 percent since the advent of
midweek fights, and wouldn’t
they please limit their shows to
Sundays
Despite record high prices.
Mexican fans who have been
packing the old El Toren"
which holds 20.000, filled the
47,000-capacity "Plaza Mexico,”
world’s newest and largest bull
dispatchery. Tourists, too, who
seldom leave Mexico without see-
ing a corrida, were more in evi-
dence when the Monstrous One
considered by most fans the best
Matador of Spain, performed
with the cape
PRICES RISING
e
Whereas in El Toreo prices
range from 3 pesos (60 cents U.
S.) to 75 pesos ($15.00) per seat
season ticket prices for four per-
formances at the new bull pit
scaled tip to 1,000 pesos ($200
for a ringside pew This included
800 pesos for the season reser-
vation and 50 pesos for each du-
cat Fans could not resist even if
it meant a trip to the pawnshop.
The name Manolete" is deriv-
ed Irom his real one Manuel
Rodriguez His father also fought
bulls under the nom de guerre
Manolete" Under his fathers
tutelage the Monstrous One
learned the art early. "I began
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By ELLA TARBELL PRICE
Associated Press Staff
DALLAS, March 16— (—The
old-fashioned neighborliness that
used to get Texas pioneers up
from bed to ride many miles in
the cold to help a sick friend has
been brought up-to-date.
Take Mrs. L. L. Long of Deni-
son, Tex., for intsance.
She has the kind of blood that
ran in the veins of our most help-
ful ancestors—and she puts that
blood to use for her own com-
, munity’s health in the best way
she knows how.
Fourteen times in the last four
years Mrs. Long, a husky, heal-
thy housewife with two children,
has donated a pint of blood to
the Grayson County account at
the William Buchanan blood
bank in Baylor Hosital, Dallas.
She has never had to leave her
home town to do this, and many
times she has replaced blood in
the bank which was used for a
friend.
Her last donation was for a
unit of plasma given a baby in
the community who was suffer-
ing from Leukemia When asked
why she participated in every
collection. Mrs Long explained
simply that she "thought it was
a good idea."
So many people in Denison and
Sherman are eager to help the
county's medical facilities by giv-
ing their blood in return for plas-
ma processed in the Buchanan
Center, that collections have
been made there twelve times
since the statewide service was
made available four years ago.
ors to rest on, and supplies light .,
refreshments for everyone. They
help register donors, and assist
the trained crew from Dallas in a
other ways. v
Buchananan Center, however,
provides all the technical equip-
ment and know-how, nurses and
technicians.
The blood is processed in the
Baylor laboratories, and art
equivalent amount of plasma is
sent to the community or credit-
ed to it in the Dallas center. At a
cost of 55 per unit, which just
covers the processing expenses,
plasma which would normally
cost $25 or more is at hand w hen
needed. Ten percent is retained
in Dallas for experimental pur-
poses.
The patient pays the $5 cosh
Some simply ask a friend or reel
lative to pledge a pint of blood
in the next local collection to
replace that used. The alterna-
tive would be a $25 charge and
direct purchase from Buchanan
Center
Smaller communities can make
collections if their own doctors
or hospitals borrow the quipment
from Buchanan Center and ship
the blood within 24 hours to
Dallas for processing.
.***
NAMED FOR PARENT
The William Buchanan Blood.
Plasma and Scrium Center was
established in 1939. It was nam-
ed for the father of Mrs Stan-
ley Seegar. of Texarkana Mrs.
Seegar and her husband, Dr.
Seegar gave S12.500 toward the
founding of the blood bank.
Dr I M. Hill, director of the
ABILENE AND BAIRD
Center, was one of the first ex-
perimenters with plasma to dis®
cover a practical method for dry-
Other Texas towns which have
built up a. supply by this inex- ------r-------
pensive means are Longview, • ing plasma and using it wide
Marshall. Commerce. Arlington, ---------f---The Tex-
Clarksville, Corsicana, Fort
Worth, Gladewater, Leonard,
Kaufman Mt Vernon. Abilene.
Nacogdoches. Alvarado, Kilgore.
New London and Baird.
in a concentrated form. The Tex-
as system is the first regular ser-
vice supplying dired plasma, and
the laboratory at Baylor Hospital
the largest of its kind in the
Abilene 25 and 50 Years Ago
The following was published
in the Abilene Daily Reporter
25 years ago
Abilene people are beginn-
ing to get their thinking appara-
tus to work on the problem of
manufacturing for the All West
Texas Fair a slogan that will
be typically expressive of the
aims and ambitions of this great-
est of West Texas entertain-
ments. One of the most attrac-
tive and appropriate of the slo-
gans received to date is "Not
the Oldest—Not the Biggest-
Just the Best " A meeting of
the executive committee of the
fair has been called by President
Will A Minter Jr. for 7:30
o'clock this. Thursday night, at
Member ef Associated Press
An erroneous reflection upon the character standing ar
reputation of any person firm or corporation which may
occur in the columns of THE REPORTER NEWS will be
gladly corrected upon being brought to the attention of the
=---
The publishers are not responsible for copy omissions
typographical errors or any unintentional errors that may
occur other than to correct in next issue after it in brought
to their attention. All advertising orders are accepted on
mis basis only.
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lighting bulla at the age of 10,”
he said.
At the new bull ring, Manolete
received 120,000 pesos ($24,000)
per afternoon when he confront-
ed two bulls and 180.000 ($36.-
000) when he risked his life
against three
Mexico s needy came out
ahead too The Federal Public
Welfare Department collected
125.000 pesos ($25,000) per bull
fight at the Plaza Mexico and a
percentage of receipts at El To-
reo.
Breeders of fighting bulls also
cashed in They are paid close
to 1,000 pesos per animal but
these must be courageous speci-
mens The mother is tested for
courage before breeding by see-
ing how she responds when pok-
ed with a lance and the papa
must be a good fighter After the
kill the fighting bull is sold to
a butcher shop
LOST TO BILL
Manolete had his ups and
downs in Mexico A bull got him
in his initial performance, but
he recovered within a few weeks
Then peppery Mexican food
got him down The shy lad from
Southern Spain, land of gypsies
and wine, couldn t resist Mexi-
can fiestas That meant eating
chiles, and they made him sick.
He was in bed one day when he
was billed to fight, so the bull-
fighters' union suspended him
for a year After arguments that
were taken to the government,
the suspension was lifted
The name of the colorful 28-
year-old torero who speaks with
the S-dropping accent of his na-
tive Cordoba, is on the tip of
nearly all tongues in Mexico
The poise of the 5 foot • inch.
138-pound matador in the arena
and his daring in letting his ad-
versaries fan his ribs with their
horns spurred his Mexican con-
temporaries to greater efforts.
the Chamber of Commerce
rooms At this meeting plans for
the repair and remodeling of
the building at Fair Park and
the erection of new buildings
will be considered
Two horses hitched to a farm
wagon caused considerable ex-
citement Wednesday afternoon
when they ran away from a
point east of the city and dash-
ed through the business dis-
trict without any appreciable
damage other than to the wagon
which was torn literally to
pieces After running for more
than ten blocks, barely missing
several cars and pedestrians,
and crashing into a big truck and
leaving two of the wagon wheel
tires hanging over the front
end of the truck, the team final-
ly came to a halt on the T. P.
lawn Parts of the wagon were
strewn for more than two blocks.
Dr C. J Crow of Muldoon.
Fayette county. Texas. is here
visiting his brother, W P. Crow
and family.
All set for opening exhibi-
tion game of the season here to-
morrow. Friday afternoon, at 4
o clock Columbus, 0 . American
Association vs Abilene Eagles
West Texas League. Indications
are pointing to a large crowd,
and the fans of the city are ex-
pected to turn out en masse and
there will be quite a few from
nearby towns
BIG SPRING. March 17—The
annual banquet of- the Big
Spring Chamber of Commerce
in honor of Porter A. Whaley,
and John C. Wells of the West
Texas Chamber of Commerce
was held at the Texas and Pa-
cific dining hall Tuesday night.
March 15th. W. W. Rix. presi-
dent of the Chamber of Com-
merce. acted as toastmaster, one
hundred and seventy-five plates
being set for the occasion
The following speakers gave
short and interesting talks B
Reagan, Dr. Kendrick. Miss
Hatch. Mrs Karenkamp. Mr
Cunningham Miss Barnes. Mr.
Flaniken. Mr Mundell. Mr.
Brooks, Mr Greer, Mr Eteson.
Col Enders, of Boston. Mass.
Mr J M Charlton. J. C Wells,
and Porter A Whaley At this
banquet definite plans were dis-
cussed in connection with loca-
tion of the new A. & M. College
at Big Spring
50 YEARS AGO
The following items were re-
corded in The Abilene Reporter
Friday morning edition, 50 years
ago
A good warm rain just now
would, greatly benefit the grow-
ing crops of oats wheat, grass
and vegetation generally in this
section Sunday and Monday
, nights' frosts, it is feared, have
greatly damaged the fruit crop
in this snd other portions of
Texas
Mr J. C Lee of Longorio sold
to Tom Cole, proprietor of the
Abilene Roller Mill of our city,
300 bushels of 60 pound wheat
this week that was raised in
1894 and still some of our old
fogies who stand around and
let moss grow upon their backs
will continue to howl detrimen-
tal epithets against the Abilene
country" as a farming country
Among other substantial im-
provements in progress in the
city the past week are the stone
sidewalk curbing fronting and
extending along the entire
width of the church and par-
sonage property of the Episco-
pal church and active prepara-'
tions for the building of a
stone culvert and crossing on
the south side of North Second
street, from the northeast cor-
ner of the Windsor Hotel to the
brick building on the east oppo-
site corner.
At Simmons College Friday
afternoon. March 27. at three
d'clock, some members of the
music class under the direction
of Miss Elizabeth Jones will give
a recital in the College chapel.
They will be assisted by some
members of Miss Warren s class
in elocution Names appearing
on the program were Miss Ma-
belle Robertson. Mr Walter
Thatcher. Miss Bessie Hanks.
Miss Jeanne Logan. Miss Qra
Ingel. Miss Mary Parramorc.
Mr. Harris Walthall and Miss
Susie Parramorc
The Manufacturer s Record in
last week's issue notes the sale
of a site in Abilene by C W.
Leake to Little Rock and Pine
Bluff parties, who will erect
thereon a $15,000 ice plant and
cold storage house.
An advertisement in the pa-
per read as follows: "The Re-
porter" Sewing Machine and
one years subscription to The
Reporter for the insignificant
sum of $20.00. freight paid to
your nearest railroad depot Ad-
dress Abilene Printing Co.,
Abilene, Texas
Here’s how it is done:
Some organization in the com-
munity. such as the womans
club, obtains enough pledges
from residents to make it worth
while for a collecting unit to
travel to the town from Dallas
The Buchanan Center figures
one donor for each mile, with 30
percent over to allow for those
whose blood can't be used.
In Grayson County the medi-
sal auxiliary,-under the chair-
manship pf Mrs Max Woodward
of Sherman, takes care of the
publicity and local arrangements
The sponsoring group secures
a gymnasium, church, or similar
hall, puts up a few cots for don-
Southwest
Most people are satisfactory
blood donors The blood is ty ped
in Dallas, and not only classified
plasma sent to the communities
but a list of typed donors for di-
rect transfusions.
Of course there are several
things that can disqualify one as
a donor These include anemia,
certain disease history, or a com-
mon cold. Even age has some-
thing to do with it. as Shirley
Ann Ewing of Sherman discover-
ed during a collection in 1943.
Shirley Ann was told a donor
had to be at least 1R years old
to give a pint of blood •
"I’m nine, can't I give a half-
pint?" she begged.
BY MEL
AP News
SAARBRUECK
faced German c
this bit of Pennsy
ing country on t
man border say 1
that they are su
annex the rich I
she held in Lea
custody for 15 y
6/plebiscite in 183
pied ten years la
French official
have said annexa
We are not li
is the comment
towns. "We have
common with th
the English.” Th
when asked, "a
with the German
At stake i5 a s
ed territory alon
including mines,
steel mills, mac
other factories—
heart of the Fr
French have bee
mines since July
ican Army move
months' occupati
just assumed wa
mines, although
still belongs to
German state.
In some ways 1
* the Saar resemb
• time greater Gei
Reich, was tryin
sace-Lorraine. T
packed more the
of the 737 squa
past few week:
probably the bes
mans.
The miners' 1
ary in unts to 3
day- as much as
gets While othe
calories. Frenc
• Grandval of the
papermen it wa
the miners shar
with their' relati
whole population
efited and for
official bread ra
ed from about 1
month of Octol
pounds for Janu
tion is almost as
This is all th
because the Saa
• Nazi province
zone, in terms o
bers. More thar
the population
part of Nazi G
The French adr
1 500 original ft
nicians still sup
erstions are elig
under the anti-
—but there is n
them Measures
SIMPLIFIED GI LOANS
One Signature Starts .Process
By ROWLAND EVAN'S. Jr.
WASHINGTON — No longer
will veterans wanting GI loans
wear out their pen hand signing
documents. New Veterans Ad-
ministration (VA) loan regula-
tions, the result of the amended
GI Bill call for the veterana
signature in one place just
once
Take the form being distribut-
ed to supervised lending institu-
tions to be used when a veteran
wants a government guaranteed
home loan under the. GI Bill
'Similar forms have been issued
to cover farm and business
loans 1
Three-quarters of the way
down on the back of the applica
tion form is a box headed “Must
be signed by veteran." It reads
(a) "I declare I do not have an
application pending for a loan
for the purpose stated herein;
(b) I previously have used my
guarantee benefit for other loan
or loans as follows $.......
for real estate, $ ..... for
non-real estate ' .
GREATLY SIMPLIFIED
Then follows the request to
the administrator for endorse-
ment of honorable discharge or
certificate of eligibility for what-
ever the amount of the requested
guarantee happens to be
Below is the space in which
the veteran will put his John
Henry - =
It’s as simple as that, and a far
cry from the old, complicated
form which had lenders and vet-
erans tearing their hair out by
the roots.
Here are some other new and
simpler loan regulations
The only authority vested in
VA is that of appointing local
appraisers to see that the price
of the property involved in the
loan is “reasonable."
It used to be "reasonable and
normal " Since few values today
are “normal." many otherwise
sound loans could not be made
DISCHARGE IS CERTIFICATE
The veteran's honorable dis-
charge now automatically be-
comes his certificate of eligibil-
ity He doesn't have to apply to
the VA for one
Veterans who have no honor-
able discharge still have to make
application to VA for the certifi-
rate of eligibility The VA lakes
a keen look at the conditions
surrounding his discharge, and it
they are not dishonorable a cer-
tificate is issued.
The new loan regulations also
do these things:
1 Increase the amount of the
guarantee to $4,000 on all real
estate loans. The maximum used
to be $2,000.
2. Extend the time during which
veterans may take advantage of
to 10 year after the official end
of the war
3. Extend the period in which
loans must be repaid to 23 years
for home loans and 40 years for
farm loans
VA INSURES LOANS
4 Provide for the VA to in-
sure loans instead of guarantee-
ing them VA can insure 15% of
the aggregate of loans made by
any one leader to any number of
veterans VA says this plan
should broaden the scope of
credit assistance to veterans
5. Allow the cost of a lot on
which a veteran wants to build
a home to be included in the
loan.
6. Allow GI loans to veterans
for delinquent indebtedness.
7 Broaden and liberalize farm
loans so that the loan may be
used for practically every ordi
nary farming purpose
R Allow inventory and work-
ing capital to be included in
business loans
9 Extend loan privileges to
men on terminal leave and serv-
icemen who are hospitalized
pending final discharge
GO TO YOUR BANK
If you re a veteran and want
a GI loan, don’t write the Vet-
erans Administration about it
The VA lends no money.. The
place to go is your local bank or
trust company.
Tell the loan section of your
bank that you want to borrow
money under the GI Bill of
Rights and show your honorable
discharge. After the loan has
NEW YORK STAGE
Theater Obituaries
BY JACK O'BRIAN
NEW YORK. March 16—P—
If Ray Bolger were some sort of
musical atlas he might possibly
be able to turn "Three to Make
Ready,” into something attrac-
tive. "As it is, this skinny danc-
ing comic almost lifts the show-
above the quicksand of boredom
all by his nimble lonesome. N-
most. I said. -
For despite the fact that Ray
Bolger is a wonderfully agile
and delightfully inventive danc-
er. and possesses a bright, antic
feeling for revue sketches when
they have any sort of imagination
and sparkle. Three to Make
Ready" must be listed as a dis-
appointment.
This is the third of a series
of revues, the first two of which
were named One For the Mon-
ey" and "Two For the Show."
The earlier musicals were much
more diverting, even though
thev, too, were not what could
be called excellent Mostly they
had delusions of Noel Coward
and Cole Porter and occasional-
ly almost paralleled the elegant
mood of both these talented gen-
tlemens efforts But they were
shallow, minor bits of fluff re-
plete with references to Elsa
Maxwell. Lucius Beebe and the
more popular exquisites, as if
such mention meant a great
probing awareness of the things
of the moment.
LITTLE MERIT
Three to Make Ready"
doesn’t possess even this speci-
ous quasi-quality. The sketches
attempt to dig into popular top-
ics such as Russian relations,
housing shortages, even a satire
on the sort of musicals written
by Rodgers and Hammerstein.
But the digging is less than skin
deep the humor has more of a
‘ bludgeon stroke than a rapier
touch and. most generally misses
its point I laughed at a good
deal of the antics on stage hut
as I hark back, it strikes me that
it was almost always when Ray
Bolger was involved
Nancy Hamilton wrote both
the sketches and lyrics, neither
of which contain anything more
than passing polish or verve
Morgan Lewis composed music
which is generally ordinary, at
best only slightly more than that
and frequently pretty bad Mar-
garet Webster, noted usually
for her Shakespearean staging,"
directed the sketches The set-
tings by Donald Oenslager are
bright and gay but, inexpensive
looking John Murray Anderson
devised and staged the entire
production.
FITFULLY WORTHWHILE
The whole affair looks as
though the management first
signed Ray Bolger and then
tried to write a show around
him Without him "Three to Make
Ready would be a sorry failure: .
as it is it manages to he only ’
fitfully worth while.
For the record: "Truckline
Cafe." Maxwell Andersons play
which received bad reviews from
the New York critics, a situa-
tion which moved Anderson and
the producers of the drama to
retaliate in paid newspaper ad-
vertisements with attacks on the
competence of the aisle seat progs
fessionals. closed last Saturday®
after 13 performances
"Little Brown Jug." which re-
ceived a pair of admiring re-
views but was otherwise .looted
at with critical derision, quit the
Martin Beck theater after five
performances It was written by
Marie Baumer and produced by
Courtney Burr. Percy Kilbride
of the movies was featured
Bobby Clark s farcial excur-
sion into the classics, his own,
adaptation of Moliere’s LE
Bourgeois Gentilhomme," which
Bobby re-titled "the would-be
gentleman," closed at the booth
theater tonight after 77 perform-
ances Mike Todd produced
Todd s most recent produc-
tion. the sorry little study in
suburban manners called Janu-
ary Thaw ” also closed tonight
after a disastrous and brief en-
gagement It opened February 4
End of the week's theatrical
obituary' column. ”
Tri-Directioned Street
Pearl Street. New York City,
runs in three different direc-
tions It touches Broadway twice,
but never crosses it It begins
downtown at east side of Broad-
wav. runs eastward and swings
off southward in a wild art
that leans west until it once more
encounters Broadway in the far
downtown district
te
been made, the VA will guaran-
tee a certain portion (not to ex-
ceed 50% i of it. The guarantee
simply acts as security for the
lender and thus makes it easier •
for you to get your loan.
More than 76,000 GI loans have
already been made They: repre-
sent a guarantee commitment of
almost $13312 millions. To date
VA has paid to lenders a sum of
$42,673 on 51 loans which have
resulted in claims.
Fat Caused Revolt
India’s Sepoy mutiny of 1857
was caused by cartridges greas
ed with animal fat Hindu sol-
diers refused to accept the greas-
ed cartridges because they re-,
garded the touching of cow fat
as contamination worse that
death, so British authorities im-
prisoned great numbers, causing
revolt
•LADY FF
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Rep.
By HENRY
AP Nev
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