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Average Londoner Enjoys Country Trek Get Away from Not-So-Drab Big City By GLORIA SWANSON Wrilten for United Press London (U.R) With rain and fog and Somerset Maugham there was no doubt I was in England. Sjspeciay on a week end, wSen the average Londoner leaves the city to enjoy good, bad or indifferent weather in the country. Nothing ever inter fere with his week end. ; If this description gives you the impression that London is drab, let me say that this is not true. Don't let anyone tell you that it is not a city of gaiety. The automobile show is here and withQor without it, the ho stels and restaurants are full. oPeople ress formally, more so than in any other city I have been in, and the food in most restaurarSs can be compared to the best on the continent. Peggy and J. P. McEvoy, writers for the "Reader's Di gest," and I spent three hours over luncheon because Capt. Cunningham, the proprietor of a most interesting restaurant, held us speechless an achieve ment with two gabby women like Peggy and me. He kept us fascinated with stories which ranged from his first job open ing oysters in a restaurant when he9 was a little boy learning the art of antiquing pewter a censored story and now own ing and running very success fully several restaurants iru Lon don. . With our minds and tummies full we returned to the hotel. Mac promptly left us to take a nap and Peggy, finding out that Somerset Maugham also livid in the. same hotel, acted like a school girl. Since she had always thought of Maugham 1 terms of her literary "dream boat" and read every word he has written, I goaded her into inviting him to a cup of tea or something stronger ' Bless his heart, the old boy accepted without hesitation. As he entered the apartment he asked a favor of these two silly American females. "Don't gush, please don't gush or I. shall leave," and promptly, sat himself down to a gin and tonic. Alter 40 winks J.. P. McEvoy joined us, and Roger Dann who meantime had arrived "for 3 spot of tea." He ia the French actor who twft years ago had that New York success in "The Happy Time." Presently he is playing here in "Romance in Candlelight." J. P. has a way of drawing people out, so before Maugham realized it, he was fascinating us with his viewpoint on a va riety of subjects. We discussed, grandchildren, whom he doesn't understand at all, and especially their con versation. -He confessed to be interested only in people of his own age and no more than one generation removed. MRS. GEORGE FRIES stands in kitchen doorway Jthrough which escaping San Quentin convict, Warren E. Daley (left), entered hecjgan Rafael home Wednesday night. Daley terror ized Mr. and Mrs. Fries for an hour before he'fled with stolen clothes, money, auto. Police caught him later. (International) Quotes From the Hem By UNITED PRESS Duluth Adlai Stevenson declining an invitation to enter JVIin nesota's , presidential primary election next March: As I have said before, I will make known my intention re garding the presidential campaign in Chicago. That still stands." Igglesund, Sweden Lenna-r Petterson, 25, on trading wires with his next door neighbor: "Suddenly I stopped eating and told Tom what we ail knew already ... I was in love with his wife. He told me he was in love with mine, and we agreed to trade." New York Racehorse trainer James J. (Sunny Jim) Fitzsim mons on the late William Woodward Jr.: 1 "Mr. Woodward was a high-class sportsman and as plain as an old shoe. There was nothing, high hat about him." Independence, Mo. Former President Truman on whether he would support Sen. Stuart Symington (D.-Mo.) who has been mentioned as a candidate for the presidential nomination: , "I don't know about his ambitions. He told me he didn't have any." . Madrid Playboy Sheppard W. King on his latest romance with a 23-year-old Venezuelan beauty, for whom he is willing to embrace-Catholicism: , "It wasn't love 'at first sight. This was something different it grew slowly." - - . . : New Orleans Marshall Igiald Jr.. publisher of the Chicago Sun-Times, on the danger in government control-of news in the Uiited States: , . , "It is extremely dangrous when the people's right to know is gradually being whittled down." Chicago Dour Coach Paul Brown on the 26-20 victory over the Chicago Cardinals that pu his perennial champion Cleveland Browns in undisputed possession of first place in their division of the National Football league: "Wetoould have lost if the game had lasted a few minutes longer." - . s ; ' 7-V9 BOTTLING COMPANY Bedford, Oregon To a point-blank question as to why he no longer wrote, Maugham said he would be old fashioned which, of course, all immediately disputed. I accused him of using this merely as an excuse just because he no longer had any real interest in present day life. With a twinkle in his eye he admitted that this was the truth. Naturally I did not have nerve enough to ask, but I was won dering why the crown had not knighted him. Somebody later ventured the idea that maybe he did not want it, because the honor that had been bestowed on him, that of the Order of Merit, is a much greater one. Dr. Schweitzer has come here to receive this same award. How love got Into the con versation I don't recall, but it and sex always manage to some how, probably via Princess Mar garet and Group Captain Peter Townsend, which is still a great topic on the tips of tongues. Maugham had a good chuckle when he told us how madly in love he once was with a woman because of her beautiful, husky voice, but unhappily when she recovered he discovered it was nothing but a cold. O&C Petition Slated For Public Hearing Portland "(U.R) A Clatsop county petition to open some 94, 570 acres of O and C timber to its logging industry will be dis cussed at a public hearing here Jan. 20, Secretary of Interior Douglas McKay said today. The petition asks the interior department to reconsider a 1947 policy excluding Astoria and adjacent communities from O&C master units and marketing areas. Th areas were not de pendent on O&C lands for logs wheti the policy was effected. The hearing also will discuss the possibility of including parts of Columbia. Tillamook and Washington counties , which were excluded along with Clat sop county by the 1947 policy. The tract of land involved would have an annual sustained yield of 28,300,000 board feet of timber. Herbert Hoover Joins Truman Library Committ Los Angeles (U.R) Former President Hoover has joined the sponsors of the Harry S. Truman Library Committee of the South west, it was disclosed today. . Mr. Hoover wired library Vice-President Edwin W. Pauley M1 y.:. ACTRESS Maureea O'Hara shown entering Santa Monica courtroom to approve amend ed settlement in long divorce battle with her husband, Will Price. (International) that he "would be glad" to be one of the committee's sponsors. Mr. ..Truman will be guest of honor and speaker here.NoVi'28 when a , fund-raising dinner is held in ' behalf of the library, Pauley said. Monday, October 31, 195S MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE Deputies Quell Union Disturbance St. Helens (U.R) The picket ed St. Helens plant of the Fix Tex Insulation Company was quiet Sunday after a near-riot Saturday. Some 50 deputy sheriffs were posted around the plant for the midnight change of shift, but further violence failed to mater ialize as non-striking workers en tered the plant. When the 4 p.m. shift changed, rocks were reported thrown and windows smashed, but no in juries were reported either- by police or strikers. 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