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a amt going fo quibble aBbut a few laughs, tears or heartaches? =~ Por instance, “The picture you will remember for all time” I doubt that. And, “The plctuse with 80,649 laughs, thrills and heartaches,® I had a hard time countirig 10 laughs, two real thrills and one heartache. I'm not discounting the fact that the heartache might’ Have been heartburn. “The screen's greatest love story,” was good but certainly not the greatest. % When 1 saw “The year's funniest. picture,” I definitely, didn't roll in the aisle. I wasn't impressed with the publicity for this “funnybore classic” which blared forth that it had “The BEST associate producer, BEST third assistant cameraman, BEST, second-hand scenery, BEST all-around extras and

the BEST supporting actors to the supporting actors.” So it was a good picture. So what? So Hollywood is of of—adjectives, Every so often the colossal stuff drives me ‘to the time-honored, ridum, shootum, thrill-packed Western movie, Don't laugh. Your best friend might not tell you that he ‘spends an hour or two every week at a

‘ Jocal 'six-shooter” house.

The fine part about cowboy pictures is that when they're over, you have that refreshed feeling. ‘No psychological disturbances, no heartaches, no conflicts gurgle under your breastplate. Nothing but a good red-bloodéd feeling that the ‘crooks in Eagle. valley are no more, the stagecoach 1s safe, and the hero has won the love. of the sheriff's daughter and now is hoeing a truek garden as the “un seta” in the golden west,

Such a picture was “The = Paso Kid.” Starring i

THE EL PASO KID COMES THROUGH— Thewscreen pick-me-up—is still the fast-moving, shootin’, ridin’ Western,

Barge Business WASHINGTON, May 9-Cap’n A. C. Ingersoll Jr., president of the Inland Waterways Corp., reports he's a glorified steamboat pilot. Says he's been a riverman ever since he was knee-high to a peanut. He sounds a little like Mark Twain, all right, and looks like him, too, but I wish Cap'n Ingersoll hadn't shown up in Washington in a lpand-piiited Becktle, Kind of ruined the illusion. Today the Cap'n has got to’ ruin * some more. It is his sad duty to tell congress how the government's Mississippi barge line has been paddling in a river of red ink for the last 18 yegrs, Most of the Cap’'n’s towboats are worn out; their engines wheeze and their paddlewheels clank. Dhree-quarters of his barges leak through the patches on their patches. Some experts estimate it will cost $15 million to put the federal barge lines in good working order. These things the Cap'n must explain to the lawmakers who have no river romance in their souls. As an old St. Louisan who hung around the wharf as a boy and regarded the packet Golden. Eagle as the most beautiful thing this side of paradise, I think I'll stay away. I don't believe I can listen any more to the story of the snags besetting -the government as a river pilot.

No Sympathy THE LEGISLATORS plainly have no sympathy. In the proceedings I did hear it come out that when Henry Wallace was secretary of commerce, he recommended the government quit the barge business. Rep. William H. Stevenson of Wisconsin said this surprised him. “Maybe he wanted to buy it out and go out of the Jeed corn business,” suggested Rep. William 8. Hill of Colorado. “Whenever . congress sets up a corporation, they never make money and they never quit drinking out of the public trough,” said Rep. Stevenson, looking

Sunset Garson. rrp ———

"smoke out the crooks. + Sunset admits he’s the El Paso Kid. mah medicine, sheriff.” Sally heaves a hopeful sigh

~ Justice.

work on Santo.

Hooray Is Short

THE OPENING scene showed Laramie otty being shot up oy gold-hungry desperadoes, Could such lawlessness be Will Laramie City be another ghost town? Dadgummliit—NO. + The retired sheriff foresakes his retirement to fli the shoes of his late . Sally, his daughter, a goiden-haired. ploneer of the wild and wooly west, objects, Dadesyou have done your job (sniff), Let some younger man do this ‘job,’ Sally says at a town meeting. “Gal—which will it be—mah safety or Laramie City?" the former sheriff asks. Silly question. Of course it's Laramie City. Hooray. The hooray was short. At that very moment, the skunks of Laramie City were robbing a safe upstairs, Under the very nose of the néw sheriff. The varmints, Something goes wrong. A guard gets plugged. The citizens of Laramie are furious. So is the El Paso Kid. An unenthusiastic member of the Santo’ gang, the Kid (in calico circles he is known as Sunset Carson) likes easy money but-—not murder.

‘Sunset’ Weakens WITH HIS buddy, Jeff Winters, he pulls stakes. And without his share of the loot. Blood money? No thanks, Santo. Sunset and Jeff décide to plunder on their own. The Santo gang surprises the gold-laden stagecoach. Sunset and Jeff surprise Santo. Sally surprises Sunset and believes he saved the stagecoach, Daddy wants to make Sunset a deputy, Sunset backs. down, Santo likes the idea and blackmails Sunset in accept-

The , plot and: the popcorn move along swiftly. The seats sway along with the thundering horses on the screen. , . Bunset begins to weaken. Jeff, his partner, is gone after getting a good look at the little white cottage and Sally's vittles. Everyone is pulling for Sunset to go straight. Everyone but Santo. Santo is pulling a daring job and involves Sunset up to his ears. The hero is in a spot—practically under a tree limb, But righteousness is.triumphant. Sunset leads posse to the gang hideout. There he beats up on to. personally while the sheriff and the posse

“Give me of relief and puts her gold dust on the nose of

Next scene. Headlines proclaim the governor has pardoned Sunset of his past crimes in lieu of his

‘Next scene. Sunset and gally run into. each other's arms. The golden west is safe and the popcorn is all gone, even the kernels and part of the sack, “Excuse me, pardner, ah’'m leaving this here theater.” - :

By Frederick C. Othman

pointedly at the Cap'n. The latter sat there miserably, rolling himself a home-made cigarette. “The government is.a nice jersey cow,” the gentleman from the dairy state continued. “And they all are there milking her all the time.” ;

Hungry Life THIS REMINDED Rep, Hill of a stoff. “1 found out the other day why they call the President's air‘plane the Sacred Cow,” he said. “She is always letting somebody milk her.” Eventually we got back to the subject of steamboating on the Mississippl. W. G. Oliphant, the general traffic manager of the government's barge line, was the witness. It turned out. that the house small business committee had been holding hearings at Chicago, St. Paul, St. Louis, Omaha, Memphis and New Orleans. In this last city a private barge line operator charged that Mr. Oliphant spent so much money hiring so many people to turn out so many freight rate schedules that if all the paper were loaded on the government's barges they would sink. The partly bald, black-mustached Mr. Oliphant said this was not true. He didn’t look like a steam boat man; neither did he sound like one. In the fiattest possible voice, he read figures which he said indicated how efficiently his office operated. The congressmen must decide whether to let the barge line sink on July 1, give it a little more cash so it can splash along as at present (the deficit momentarily is better than $2 million), or spend a lot of money in the hope that somebody’ll want to buy it. My guess is that the government will get out of steamboating and. J don't kmow where Cap'n Ingersoll can find another Job. The Golden Eagle long

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night. :

ages of the sundry sphinxers |

that adorn the Egyptian] room. of the Murat temple held the trace of a smile, Their ears

were red along with Governor Gates’ and 1000 other greats and near-greats of Hoosierland and other parts of the U. 8. A, who

paid $12 a plate to view and listen to “the Fidgits of "48." |

the guests of the Indianapolis Press|

club heard Stephen, C. Noland, gen-| ft Kim Sial hi} ist | t eral chairman of the Gridiron com.. (left) and Michigan Governor Kim Sigler (right) stand close to

mittee call out:

'we all know that Indiana is re- home on a bumping parlor car on | to get picked for a job like dis. I

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FRIDAY, MAY 9, 1047

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‘SECOND SECTION

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Ears of Near-Greats, £ Greats Grow Red |

Hoosier politicos finally got what was coming to them last

Even the inscrutable vis-

Their stomachs comfortably filled, AT op . GOVERNORS THREE—Ohio Governor Thomas J. Herbert

| offer condolences to Indiana's Governor Gates, target of most of the "roasting" at the Indianapolis’ Press club's first annual gridiron ; | dimer last nighs. Friendly Fun | tive's back was a big “48.” (In| Philippi; Rev. Mr. Blow, Mr. HolHe turned the microphone over | case you don't know, Governor |lingsworth, and Leo Scharffin, Bill to the president of the Press club, | | Gates ‘would “accept” the vice Brennan.

“The convention will please come to order.”

Donald D. Hoover, who struck off | | presidency in "48. Or he would set-| Mr. Scharfin, politico deluxe, the keynote: | tle for a good cabinet job.) opened the convention with: “Our show pokes fun at the pol “Homeresque” shows the Indians | “Hi-ya, folks, glad to be witcha.

tics of our Hoosier state . and | congressional delegation returning | Dis is some stuff for a guy like me

asked Ralph what I should . talk Hero Overton, George Spelvin, [about and he said he didn’t give a Joe Cravens, Mr. Gronendyke, Lar- dam’ as long as I didn't say nutry Richardson, Bob Stranahan, Joe | | tin’ dat; would embarras de admin- | Palmer, Ike Miller, Wilbur Negley, istration. ‘aot Bill Madigan, Ed Sovola and Ed! How Steamroller Works | Ziegner "impersonate the congress- | men who. hp Sento ye + 4s

garded as the cradle of politics, We | | the Pennsy.

trust that the joking will be received in the spirit in which we offer it— that of friendly fun.” Then came the Press club roastmaster, Eugene Jepson Cadou, widely known as plain “Jep.” “Mr. Hoover has given me an

the armchair to introduce our guests of honor,” Jep declared. 4 Up popped celebrities like popcorn on a Hoosler farm in deep

‘Many Brave Cops’ [tion of 1948 when Senator - Willis

High spot of the local political WAS dealt out. faster than you

situation was ther uproarious skit entitled, “Many Brave Cops are Jenner said. “Gentleman, this comes

August. . Asleep on the Beat.” As a chorus as a gréat surprise. . . .” Tom Bath Off-the-Record Talks |of cops plot in song Safety Board | #85 available for every nomination

Winding up the preliminary bouts President Will Remy, Mayor Tyndall | ‘and ‘finally settled for his present were Judge Earl Cox, on the sub-|and Prosecutor Judson Stark “see, | ob, secretary of state. : “The Democrats Speak,” and hear and speak no evil.” | Interwoven between the skits was Governor Gates, on “The Republic-| Chief Sanders is fired by the Gen- the flitting about of the old-time ans Speak.” Their talks were off- eral for suggesting that police tour, Shadow of the Republican party— the-record. Then the show was on. ye neighborhoods instead of ar- Tue] Treasurer Bob Lyons in a Behind the Pearly Gates” was resting people for smoking in bed | white sheet, and poor John Q. PubNo. 1 on the hit parade. lic, who wanted only a low license Go Cuies i {and streetcars and. for walking nu ber 1 1948, OSE i woe ns 2 red lights. mber for inary Saw themselves as olhers see! ‘g4mpie dialog: le Rovk of Ages’ The scene was in the governor's Chief Sanders: “I sort of thought| “Draw Polka” taking place in the | office. There was the “guy,” weil it Would be a good idea to make a (Indiana General Assembly for 1947, impersonated by Gordon Graham! list of all the places where there is! featured Randolph Coats, (he works for WIBC because you'll 8ambling.” | known portrait painter, in a politibe asking what he does), Secretary] Mr. Remy: “I want you to know cel caricature. =~ Ruel Steele (Art Wright) Superin-|there isn't any gambling in Indian- | “Rock of Ages, Cliff for Me,” was tendent of Public Instruction' Ben | apolis and I can prove it. My|Aa well-acted skit depicting the Watt (Ben Cole), John Hano” (Bob statistics show there hasn't been a frantic efforts of the state DemoHoward). Jess Murden (Maurice person convicted of gambling since ‘cratic bosses last year to find a Gronendyke), Clarence Masten! we went into office.” {candidate for U. S. senator to run (Howdy Wilcox) and John Q." Mr. Stark: “And ‘as prosecutor, I against overwhelming G. O. P. opPublic (Bob - Hollingsworth). {want fo assure you that this record position. ‘Radical Views’ { will not be broken.” .r { Clifford Townsend, played by “Mr. | After John Q. Public was tossed, Winkin’ and Blinkin’ | Spelvin,” gracioysly accepted after | out: by ‘Mr. Steele Gov G ’ the boys hauled him into state! y : e, vernor Gates| State politics ame in for AN- | headquarters in a casket. That was | stated the aims of the administra- other fast whirl in “Winkin’, Bilak-/ only after practically every other tion: in’ and Nod, featuring that latest Democrat in Indiana said “phooey” “I'he issues. ate Slear Gut. s/s jong hit, “We Got Plenty of Mun- (5 the request they get into the ic Everybody must honor his father | - THE SCENE: Indiana state oon- Go B : and mother. Everybody must piant [vention of the Republican party. ing the leads in the skit also a garden. We must hoflor the flag |The ch _| Were Herb Overton, Bill Gordon, The characters and their imperson . : and the home. We must have bet- ators were: Bob Stranahan,” Art Tiernan’ ana ter highways, taxes must -be re-| Delegate, Bob Benjamin; reporter, Joe Cravens, . duced. Government spending must Ben Cole; G. O. P, editor, Harry| Rep. Jess Andrew, chairman of be cut out, I know these views are | Selby: George Henle ./the ways and means committee, vy. ge Henley, Glenn Long;

radical, but , , ." |A. V. Burch, Frankie Parrish; Gov-| muttered constantly, “They don't Diligently scratching -his back'|ernor Gates, Mr. Graham; Tom get. a dam’ cent, that’s for dam’ with a scratcher, Governor Bath, Bill Wildhack; Clark Spring- | sure.”

Gates’ fidgeted and fidgeted. Mr. ler, Art Tiernan; Senator Jenner,| It was a case of everybody trying

since blew up and sank. It's a hungry life on the Mississippi these _days for steamboat pilots, however glorified.

Sob Story

By Erskine Johnson

HOLLYWOOD, May 9.—Remember the girl who cried because she was afraid of dying during child birth in “Miss Susie Slagie's”? Remember the girl who shed buckets of tears in “Shepherd of the Hills” because her child was ailing? Remember the girl who cried because she was

. afraid of identifying the wrong suspect for Linda

Damell’s murder -in “Fallen Angel”? Remember the girl who cried over Maureen O'Hara's death in “Sentimental Journey”? Dorothy Adams is her name. Dorothy Adams is dimpled, happy-go-lucky and has a mischievous look, but Hollywood has typed her as “the human walling wall.” Whenever there's need for & good crying scene Dorothy gets the call. She's sobbed her way through an even 100 movies in her 14-year film career. Right now she's shedding

* tears over the illegitimate birth of Rex Harrison in

“The Foxes of Harrow.” How: does she get in the mood as a weeping willow? Dorothy whispered her secret: “It might sound better,” she sdid, “if I theught of sad music or the travails of the world. But the truth is I think of a howlingly funny story, laugh till IT cry, then just control the amount of variety of weeps and ‘wails when I go into a scene.”

Likes Ranch Life

CLAUDETTE COLBERT'S pre-war leading man, George Reeves, will get the romantic lead in “The Night Has a Thousand Eyes” at Paramount. He was ~with Claudette in “So Proudly We Hail” before going into the service. Sue Carol Ladd, once opposed

to ranch life, now would, like Alan to sell thelr town house and permanently move to their San Fernando valley ranch. The censors, prodded by the State Department, are discouraging all studios interested in a film biography of Al Capone. . , . Dancer Johnny Coy may . get the role Gene Kelly created on the stage’in the Janey Cagney film version of “The Time of Your ‘Life

Befter Story S80 ORSON WELLES would like to do the life story of Caruso, The life story of Orson Welles starring Orson Welles would be a lot more exciting. e comedy sketch used by Esther Willams to rtaln troops during the war will be used in her new M-G-M film, “On An Island With You.” The sketch was titled, “I Can't Do Anything But Swim,” Paul Henreid’s first independent movie, “The Heaven We Chase,” will be filmed on location at Westerly, Rhode Island. Paul sent a location scout east to pick out a typical Connecticut village, The Rhode Island town was his final choice. During filming of “Arch of Triumph,” Louls Calhern and Prince Mike Romanoff had to appear together in a closeup; which is now on the cutting room floor, by the way. Director Lewis Milestone winced on seeing the small Mike beside the six-foot three Calhern. “Maybe,” sald Milestone to Mike, “we better get a box for you to stand on.” “Certainly not, " snapped Romanoff. “Calhern’s monstrosity merely accentuates my normalcy.” :

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We, the Women

BOSTON'S HUSKIEST baby sitter, a 285-pound tackle on the Boston university football squad. s former day- laborer, and a bomb loader with the army, says. those jobs weren't hard at all, but “this baby sitting is really a tough one.”

Settling Down Toughest

JUDGING FROM HIS testimony; it's getting the little darlings into bed and settled down for the night that really whips him, * And yet it's a safe bet that whet ‘that young man marries and has his own children, he'll see remarkable in the fact that his wife can go ' d day's work, ¢ook and serve dinner, wash dishes, get ‘the eliiliren bathed and in bed, and then emerge

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By Ruth Millett

dressed in her best for an evening out, He probably won't even be impressed by her competence when she crowds the cooking and serving of a dinner for six or eight into the tag end of a day, watching the kids with one eye and the roast with the other.

They Take It For Granted

HE WON'T IF he's a typical husband. He'll fust||. / A Soll

take it for granted that women are born to manage such things.

But maybe a man who has done baby sitting as

Steele finally took off the governor's Mr. Sovola; Raymond Willis, Dale to straddle every issue, teachers’

assignment that takes me out-of | Vile AD “extemporaneous” speech. | dominated state Republican conven=|

could say “Angola, ” and when Mr.|

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ogether ‘and en roasting Republicans got at. the Gridiron r are ; state. Democrats Bowman’ Elder, Frank McHale, Shidey Wilco Sherman Minton, U. S. appellate judge at Chicago: Albert Har Cole, ‘Peru attorney: Pleas Staenise, and former * duplemg judge Micheal Fansler. ] y

DEMOCRATS ALL—Grouped h

MR. INDIANA--JR. AND SR.—Neither diana would yield as junior Senator William E. Jenner and Senator Homer E. Capehart tried to outalk” gach other Gridiron dinner. . . Ladi

To the accompaniment of one of Babin neve oer Pet en itor Burch's famed ac- on ; State Auditor Bur Red "| rone, editor Of The Times. \ N. Hult, Mutual Broadcasting |tem vice president; Basil L. Waltess, (Chicago Daily News executive editor editor; Ulen, Lebanon. * ?

'sembled politicos sang}. . | “Oh, we're back in the straddle again, “It's the again, “We must not hurt the Slate “Don’t forget "48, “So we're back in the straddle again,” u {. 2 When Senator Capehart was men. tioned as’ a vice presidential possibility, Governor Gates fainted and was immediately operated upQn. The probing surgeon’cut into the prostrate form of the governor and |. came out with unused ballots, campaign buttons, a duck that couldn't find Wolf Lake and finally a huge A banner entitled in ~ block-high 2 letters— “Pidgits of 48.” Distinguished guests at the banquet included: Roy W. Howard, president of The Times; George B.

old. fwiddle-twaddle. . Bo orm a Se dR

shirt. Painted qn the chief execu; | Burgess; Walter Frisbie, Wendell | pay, bonus, etc.

Truman Birthday The Heart of America—

Celebrated Quietly

WASHINGTON, May 9 (U. P)—| President Tru topped off his’ 63d birthday anniversary yesterday by dining out with his family. The President, Mrs. Truman it] their daughter Margaret, pho in fporfi. New. York in the afternoon, yere guests of ‘Attorney General

Many Survivors of 1937 Flood Refuse To Méve to New Town Nearby

By ELDON ROARK, Scripps-Howard Staff Writer and Mrs. Tom C. Clark at a private’ SHAWNEETOWN, Ill, May 8—For an hour we sat in the upstairs dinner party at a downtown club, |living room of the old brick home beside the levee. We looked through Earlier in the day the President the window at the Ohio, river, heard the wind moaning around the held a news conference at which he eaves, and listened to slim, white-haired Louis W. Goetzman., predicted there would be ‘lasting! After the disasterous flood of 1937 a new Shawneetown was built peace. | about Maree miles west of old Shawneetown, financed by state, WPA and RFC funds. Despite the attractive propositions made to the residents, many~—especially the oldtimers—re- | fused to move to the safety of the new town. Among them are the Goetamans, - On High Foundation “This is home to use,” Mr. Gotez{man said, and I glanced around at | {the antique chairs, marble- topped | tables, and mirrors. “We're too old | to move now. I'm 87, and my wife will soon be 86.” Wasn't he afraid living there | right up against the levee? “Oh, no,” he said, “In thé 1937 flood the water didn’t quite get up| here into our second story.” The house is built on a high] foundation, and the ceilings are] high. The Goetzmans had a supply of food and were prepared to stick it out, but rescue workers came in boats and insisted they leave. “We love it here beside the river,” sald Mr. Goetzman. “There is never a lonesome moment. We can hear |the boat whistles, and we can look out at the water and the gulls and the ferry. My wife likes to work at her sewing machine by the window.”

Wed 60 Years

The Goetzmans soon will celebrate_their 60th wedding anniversary. “Their two children are dead. i i ha? They live alone. . aon 9 |. Mrs. Goetaman, medium - slzed corm. 1047 ov wei sevice me. 4. WL U. 8. rom. with pretty white hair and a wide came up ‘from the garden.

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Carnival—By Dick Turner

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"We're in a a hurry for the voids of this poll! Just ask ann women the questions and multiply the ansyers by twol'* a

walked into the room. He is proud

Old Shawneetown, li., Still Keeps Residents Who Call It Their ‘Home’

" Cloetzman beamed when shel

Parker, editor-in-chief, = Scripps-;

of his wife and her industriousness, He had her bring out ber rag rugs and china she had painted herself. “She never throws anything away,” Mr. Goetzman said, “Those rag rugs were made out of old dresses. See these pants’ I'm wearing? They were my grandsons ‘when he was at West Point. She found them in the attic and cut them down to fit me. I'll never live long enough to wear them out.” Operate Farm Property Mr, Goetzman has lived in Shawneetown since 1871. Until recently he ran a store. . He still operates,

farm property. Just about a hundred yards down the levee from the Goetzaman home is a little brick house. We walked | down there to see a plaque. It said: ro |The John-Marshall residence which housed the first bank in the Illinois territory, chartered Dec. 16, 1816." The house is now occupied by the | Ancell williams family,” Mr, Wil{llams is a paperhanger.

Lincoln Was There

Two blocks away is the building | {in which Robert Ingersoll had an 4 lofhce. Abe Lincoln, as a young! | liawrer, frequently came here to}

court. z Another old-timer who has Te. (uted to move to new Shawneetown | 7 {is Bill Zachmeier, a 65-year-oldiZ< | bachelor. Mr. Zachmeler couldn’ leave the river on sccount of . job. He goes up and down the in his motorboat, servicing iights for the coast total run is 19 miles—11 J a nice job in summer, but in bien }