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r ''Tide of Toys' Sweeps Pier;
Europe's Children to Benefit
Philadelphia, Jan. 3 VP) A Delaware river pier is groaning
today under a steadily mounting pile of picture books, dolls,
blocks and cowboy suits bound for the Children of Europe.
The flood of playthings is the nation's response to the Amer
ican Legion's "Junior Marshall
provide toys for European chil--
dren born during or atter World
War Two and (2) by so doing
combat communist propaganda.
Officially designated the "Tide
of Toys," the project got under
way the day after Christmas and
was originally scheduled to end
Jan. 7, 1950.
The response has been so
great, however, that Legion of
ficials announced the final date
for shipment of toys to Philadel
phia has been extended to Jan.
15.
All the nation's children have
been asked to participate by
sending new toys or cash contri
butions. Each toy should have
a letter attached from the young
donor.
While the primary appeal was
to children, toys and money
have been flowing in from
churches, youth groups and civic
organizations. Local American
Legion posts are aiding in the
collection while distribution of
the gifts aboard will be handled
by the CARE organization.
Gifts may be shipped direct to
me simei nan ucgiun, x iti
South, Philadelphia. Toys which
are fragile or difficult to pack
should be avoided, the legion
said.
Electrical playthings also are
of little value because they can
not be used in many sections of
Europe. And above all else,
Legion officials warned, do not
send any war toys such as toy
guns, tanks, planes or metal
oldlers.
Edward P. McGinnis, Legion
director of public relations, said
one million toys are on their
way to Philadelphia from Cali
fornia alone.
Several states, including. Ar
kansas, Connecticut and Virgin
"Tide of Toys Days," while
Pennsylvania's Governor James
H. Duff endorsed the campaign
In a recent statement.
"Response to the Legion's ap
peal has been literally over
whelming," said McGinnis. Ev
erywhere in the nation we are
seeing demonstrations of enthu
siasm. Our Tide of Toys for Eu
rope's children may well be
come a floodtide."
Speaking of communist at
tempts to discredit the Marshall
plan in Western Europe, McGin
nis said:
"A shipload of toys from our
children to youngsters in Eu
rope will help offset this line
of propaganda. The time to
mold the minds of people is
rwhen they are young enough to
be without prejudice."
The toys will be distributed
Milk Re-dislribulor Bob, a retriever, of Fort Atkinson.
Wis., is caught with the evidence after neighbors found
bottles of milk missing Irom the stoops of their homes.
-Marcel Bardiaux works aboard
Four Winds with which he
cruise around the world.
Plan" a drive designed (1) to
in Great Britain, France, Italy,
Belgium, Holland, Norway, Ger
many, Austria, Greece, Czecho
slovakia, Finland, Poland, and
Yugoslavia.
As far as possible, McGinnis
said, the toys will be given to
children born during or after
World War Two because they
have never known a Christmas
"such as we enjoy."
Toys for distribution to Euro
pean childden will be shipped by
all three Salem American Le
gion posts. John C. Kerrick
commonder of Capital post No
9, announces that contributions
are being received at the Le
gion club house at present. Ken
neth Potts, commander of Sa
lem post No. 136, has called
special meeting of the executive
committee for Tuesday night to
plan details for the campaign.
with Bert Walker, second vice
Women of Pacific Give Vet
Idea to Create 'Charm Guild'
By JAMES W. HART
(United Prejw Staff Corrupondent)
Pittsburgh, Jan. 3 U.B) Alan Michel, a 28-year-old veteran
of the Pacific war, had a five-year dream fulfilled the day he
sat down for the first time at his impressive desk in the offices
of Charm Guild, Inc.
"I'm putting beauty on a production line," he said. "I've been
thinking about it for years. Ever
since the first time I saw a native
woman in the South Pacific."
Charm Guild is a combination
beauty salon, modeling school,
fashion center and portrait
photographer's.
A woman can buy the latest
fashion clothes there or get any
beauty treatment she wants. She
can attend Michel's modeling
school or have her picture made
And she can do all at the same
time.
One of the unique things about
Michel's business is that a wo
man, bedraggled after a day's
shopping, can go in for a portrait
and still look like a movie star
when she gets in front of the
camera.
She can have her hair done
and her eyebrows plucked, get
a facial and the proper make up
and be dresse din the latest fash
ion clothes. A trained teacher
of models will help her pose for
the picture.
After the portrait is made, she
can change back into her own
clothes and go home. All for no
extra charge.
Michel got the Idea for his
business in 1944 when he went
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'Aunt Jemima' of
Radio Fame Dies
New York, Jan. S W) Miss
Tess Gardella, 52, "Aunt Je
mima" of the stage and radio,
died early today in an ambu
lance en route to a hospital.
Miss Gardella, a huge woman
who weighed more than 400
pounds, lapsed into a diabetic
coma at her home last night.
Miss Gardella won widespread
fame as a black-face ''Aunt Je
mima" on the radio and in vau
deville. In 1936 she won a verdict of
$115,000 in Brooklyn federal
court against the National
Broadcasting company, General
Foods, Inc., and Log Cabin
Products Co. She charged other
entertainers using her profes
sional name were hired in her
place by NBC.
Montana in
'Deep Freeze'
Helena, Mont., Jan. 3 (U.RI
Montana was in a deep freeze
again today.
The arctic ice box poured cold
air over the state, sending tem
peratures to a seasonal low
far below zero.
Thermometers recorded these
lows early today:
Cut Bank -42, Havre -36,
Great Falls -33, Lewiston -21,
Billings -19, Livingston -18, Kal
ispell -13, and Missoula -9.
The federal weather bureau
saw little hope for above-zero
temperatures in Montana today
and predicted another nose
dive tonight. Temperatures are
expected to begin rising tomor
row. Jap Mine Detonated
Moclips, Wash., Jan. 3 tm
A Fort Lewis demolition squad
detonated a horn-type Japanese
mine on the beach a mile north
of here yesterday. Coast guards
men from the Grays Harbor life
boat station stood guard over
the explosive for 21 'A hours be
fore it was destroyed.
commander of the post, in active
charge, assisted by Peery Buren.
Miss Susan Faharty, commander
of Pioneer Post no 149, says her
group will cooperate but that
nothing has been done because
of her absence from the city, re
turning home only Monday.
overseas as a lieutenant in the
navy air corps.
"Our PBM's operated from
seaplane tenders," he said, "but
we hit a lot of islands, too. We'd
just set down at a likely-looking
spot.
"Sometimes, we'd find an is
land that was inhabited. You've
heard the gags about native wo
men looking better every day
that you spend in the islands
don't believe a word of it. They
look worse every day."
A lot of the time Michel spent
in the Pacific was given to anti
submarine warfare and air sub
port for invasions. But during
the long, lonely hours that fight
ing men spent just sitting and
waiting, he thought of a sub
jeef'that has always been dear
to my heart. Beautiful women."
"You have no idea how hor
rible some of those natives could
make themselves look," he re
called. "Especially on Borneo.
They sprinkled ugly powders in
their wrinkled unkempt hair.
They dyed their bodies and scar
red themselves. They did the
darndest things to themselves.
After looking at native women
for a few months, Michel reached
a decision.
'I promised myself that when
I got home, I was going to do
everything I could to make A
merican women ever more beau
tiful than they already were.
"You might say I felt like i
crusader. I wanted to dedicate
myself to beauty in women."
When he was discharged from
the navy at the end of the war,
Michel studied business adminis
tration at the University of Pitts
burgh. In June, 1949, he was
graduated and started looking
around for business prospects.
He consulted a beauty parlor
operator who had been well
known in Pittsburgh for 18
years. Together they developed
his plans.
"The thing began to snowball,'
Michel said. "Every day we talk
ed about it, it seemed to get a
little bigger."
Beauty to Michel is more than
just having the proper clothes
and hair-do. He thinks women
should have poise and "an air
of regality about them." Hence
the modeling school. The photo
grapher was just an added ser
vice. But Michel is more than just a
crusader. He Ihinks he's got a
pretty good idea for making
money, too.
Oldtimers Get Together Reginald Denny, Claire Windsor
(left) and Mae Murray join movie stars of yesteryear who
met in Hollywood to celebrate the anniversary of "The
Squaw Man," the movie capital's first feature picture which
Cecil B. DeMille said he started in 1913.
How About Hollywood Scandal
Story That's Strictly a Dream
By BOB
Jan. 3 () Let
Hollywood
dream.
The mind doctors say that dreams relate to actual experience.
I can believe that. Because I think this dream is the result of
questions that I am often asked by actors.
Such Questions as:: 'Why is
the press always concerned with!six Miners Killed
Hollywood scandal? Why don't
columnists print more nice things
about Hollywood? Why are film
critics so critical? "
Anywhere, here is my dream:
Once upon a Christmas, every
correspondent in Hollywood was
gifted with a gaily wrapped
white box. Inside the box was a
bottle of champagne and a card
which said, "For a Happy New
Year's eve S. Genesius."
Who is S. Genesius?" one cor
respondent asked another.
"I think he s an independent
producer isn't it Sam Genes
ius?" "Yeah, I think so."
So on New Year's eve, every
correspondent in Hollywood
poured the champagne and toast
ed big-hearted Sam Genesius, the
independent producer.
Now it so happened that the
gift giver was not an independent
producer, but was actually St.
Genesius, the patron saint of ac
tors. And the champagne was not
pure. It contained a magic po
tion of good will.
And when the correspondents
wrote their columns on New
Year's day for columnists must
work on holidays, too they
could write nothing bad about
Hollywood and its people. Their
copy was nothing but sweetness
and light, bristling with the good
deeds done by stars. And all the
pictures they reviewed were
beautifully-acted hits.
After two weeks of this, edi
tors began peppering the cor
respondents with demands to
"get on the ball! Cut out this
sob-sister stuff!"
Then the public became arous
ed. Crowds marched on the
newspaper offices and hurled
rocks through the windows. The
harried editors finally fired all
the good-will correspondents and
hired new ones.
And so the new correspond
ents began writing the kind of
copy that people wanted and
everybody was happy again.
Everybody, that is, except the
actors and St. Genesius.
Charlie Meyers Fails to Make
Fuss Over His 11 0th Birthday
Tomahawk, Wis., Jan. 3 (U.PJ Few people ever get a chance
to learn what being 110 years old is like, but Charles Meyers
says it "feels Just like always."
Meyers celebrated his 110th anniversary. He announced he
was still in the peak of condition
the time."
The aged Wisconsinite, who
still likes to get up early for a
little fishing, took time out on
his birthday to comment on how
the world looked from the vantage-point
of a century and a de
cade. On modern war "one of these
days those scientist guys will
blow up the whole shebang with
their atom bomb."
On work "a lot of hard
work shouldn't keep a guy from
enjoying life and living a long
time."
On modern inventions "auto
mobiles are nothing but a nuis
ance and I don't have any use
for airplanes, either."
On Wisconsin "it ain't no
better than any other state, but
it ain't no worse, either."
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Vienna, Jan. 3 (A1) The Aus
trian press agency reported to
aay mat at least six miners
were killed and eight others in
jurect oy a gas explosion in a
coal mine in the British occupa
tion zone of Austria. Other re
ports, which could not be imme
diately confirmed, said an esti
mated 40 persons were trapped
in the mine behind fallen tim
bers and coal. The explosion re
portedly occurred at Fohnsdorf,
in Styria.
'Any Girl Can
Says Betty Who
By PATRICIA CLARY
Hollywood, Jan. 3 (U.R) Any
Grable contends.
The movie glamour queen says a girl who started as Dracula's
daughter could end up rating whistles if she took the time and
trouble.
"The only question," she said
"is whether it's worth it."
Miss Grable, who needs take
no time or trouble to be glamor
ous herself, explains that lots of
glamour can be manufactured
artificially on the assembly-line
factory in operation at movie
studios.
"But this is an ordeal that
very few women would put up
with, especially as a daily' rou
tine, unless they had to," she
said,
A movie queen spends
hour with a hairdresser, an hour
with a cosmetician and a long,
long time getting fitted for
clothes.
"No wonder she comes out
looking shipshape," Miss Grablei
said. "Who wouldn't?"
Miss Grable goes through the:
routine herself every day for
her movie, "My Blue Heaven," j
at 20th Century-Fox. But off the
screen she bothers with nothing
more than a slap of lipstick, a
two-minute hairdo and casual )
sports clothes. !
The lucky Miss Grable still;
looks glamorous. Most females
"but I sometimes lnse track of
Meyers lives on his 51-year-old
daughter's farm near here.
He still helps around the farm
and spends his spare time read
ing western and detective thrill
ers. Germany's U-21 was the first
submarine to sink an enemy ship
on the high seas.
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Rape of Child
Starts Man Hunt
Lynn, Mass., Jan. 3 The
raping of an eight-year-old girl
under circumstances which had
some fciiTiilarity to a fatal sex at
tack on a Lynn beauty eight
years ago, touched off an inten
sive manhunt today.
Lt. Edward Rny said the
child, whose name was withheld,
was raped in woods in which
Frances Cochran, 19, was slain
in July. 1941.
After the attack yesterday on
the child, she was driven back
to a spot near the former home
of the Cochran girl.
Ray quoted the youngster as
saying a man in a new car" of
fered her a ride to the home of
a playmate but took her instead
to woods near the Salem-Lynn
line.
The child furnished police
with a description of the man
who left her out of his car a
mile and a half from her home,
Ray said.
She was treated at Lynn hos
pital by physicians who said she
had been raped.
Be Glamorous
Ought to Know
girl can be glamorous, Betty
wouldn't.
"I think infinite attention to
every detail will make any wo
man more glamorous, she said.
"A woman who is perfectly
groomed, who has a neat and be
coming hair-do, a clear skin and
shining eyes has glamour whe
ther she's beautiful or not."
Miss Grable contends it's the
working girl or co-ed, and not!
the professional charmer, who i
deserves to be complimented on 1
her looks. ,
"Chances are she can spend
only a few minutes on primn-,
ing," the star said, "but she
comes out looking as provoca-'
tive as many a movie queen."
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Befriended 22 Years Ago,
Man Returns to Repay
Birmingham, Ala.,' Jan. 3 u.m It was cold on a night In 1928
at the City Hall in suburban Hollywood. .-j
Firemen and policemen were huddled around a pot-bellied.
stove. They talked and joked and, at first, did not notice a
boy slipping quietly in the door.
The tall, thinly-clothed youths-
walked slowly to where the
men were seated, placed a bat
tered suitcase on the floor and
asked, "May I warm in here?"
"Sure," they told him, "come
on up to the stove."
He stood with his back to the
stove in silence. Someone asked,
"Hungry?"
"Yes," he said, "I'm hungry."
"Got a place to sleep?"
No sir," was his frank reply.
"I'm tired out. I've been walk
ing all day, and I don't see how
I can keep going without any
thing to eat or any sleep. Is
there a place here I could sleep
awhile?"
They fed him and gave him a
comfortable places to sleep. The
officers furnished him a good
hot breakfast the next morning.
He thanked them for being so
kind, picked up his battered old
suitcase and walked down the
road.
The incident was forgotten
during the next 22 years.
But Sunday night a man. wear
ing well-tailored clothes bright
ened by a silk shirt and a belt
buckle inlaid with gold, walked
into the same city hall with a
big smile on his face.
He told a new batch of cops
the story of the youth who was
befriended 22 years ago.
"I am that boy," he said "And
now I want to prove that a good
deed is remembered."
He drew a $100 bill from his
billfold, hesitated a moment, and
asked: "Do you fellows have
any special work anything that
requires money that you'd like
to put across.
"Well, sir," Lt. Bob Nichols
said, "We've been wanting to
build a camp and boathouse for
our city employes down on the
Coosa river . , , but we don't ex
pect ..."
'I know," the tall money in
lerrupted, taking $500 from his
wallet. "But I want to do this
I've wanted to do it a long time."
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Nichols hands, walked out to th .
street and left in a long, new -automobile.
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Houston, Tex., owner of four
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Gambling Headache
To Illinois Governor
Springfield, 111., Jan. 3 iFl
Commercialized gambling, says
Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson, has
been his "biggest headache" dur
ing his first year in office.
Stevenson, In a radio talk
last night summing up his first
year as governor of Illinois.
said:
"Illinois is getting the reputa
tion of a gambling state. The tri
bute we pay to the slot machines
runs into millions a year."
The democratic governor, inr
his first full scale report on the
gambling situation, termed gam
bling the most "stubborn prob-.
lem."
'It's acainst the law In Till...
nois, he said, and it can only
exist where local officials toler
ate it, either because they think
the people don t care or becaust,
it's politically expedient."
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