Radio Stars
Go to Capital
Life in Washington
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' Presenting a timely and human
comedy of these amazingly hectic
days in the nation's capital, "So
This Is Washington,' RKO Radio
release, stars the quaint, tremend
ously popular screen and radio
characters, Lum and Abner, the
film opening today at the Grand
theatre.
. me story revolves around an
invention of Abner, who tries to
concoct a synthetic licorice for the
Pine . Ridge, Arkansas," children,
dui insieaa gets a substance re
sembling synthetic rubber." Lum
insists they submit it immediately
to Washington.
' Hilarious misadventures beset
them, but at last they get into the
outer office of a. government bu
reau head. There the path . Is
. blocked by a beautiful secretary,
wim wnom a young newspaper
columnist, friend of Lum and Ab
ner, is in Jove.
; That's where the novel, refresh
ing love story of the picture be
gins. It doesn't help Lum and Ab
' ner to get to the harassed bureau
crat, however, as he has thousands
of appointments before" their's. So
Lum and Abner knock around
town and set themselves up as
park bench - advisors of senators
and congressmen.- The Arkansas
common sense they give out soon
has lines of solons eagerly, await
ing to consult them.
. Finally they meet the bureau-
-crat, who has been trying to get
to them in their "office."' Then
Abner gets knocked on the head
and forgets his invention formu
Ja. Forgets even Lum and Pine
Ridge; thinks he's from Paris,
x ranee: In a mirth-packed wind
up his memory is restored and
all's well.
Chester Lauck as Lum and Nor
ris Goss as Abner keep the center
of the screen, but excellent roles
are filled by Alan Mowbray, as
the bureaucrat, and Mildred Coles
and Roger Clark as the young lov
ers. The fast-paced, laugh-filled
movie is a Jack Wm. Votion pro
duction, which Ray McCarey di
rected and Ben Hersh produced.
Leonard Praskins and RosweU
Rogers wrote the screen play.
Appearing also on the double
bill are George Sanders and Mar
guerite Chapman in "Appointment
in Berlin." The features olav
jnrougn Wednesday,
Th OREGON STATESMAN. Solera. Oregon, Sunday Morning, November 7, 1943
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'Great Dictator'
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Star-Studded
Ice Extravaganza
Is Co-Feature !
Keynoted to a world ( which
largely has been dominated by the
Austrian paper-hanger, -Hitler,
Charlie Chaplin's satiric version
The Great Dictator" will! delight
audiences anew when it opens. to
day at the State theatre. Co-fea
tured is Belita in "Silver Skates'
with Kenny Baker and Patricia
Monson. j
Chaplin, master of tragedy and
comedy, portrays the dual jrole of.
a lovely Jew and the Nazi leader.
It! 1 a
ni&n comeay note is tne scene
when; Benito Mussolini i (Jack
Oakie) arrives to confer with Hit
ler.
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Stocks Finish
Worst 7eek
Selling ! Slackens;
Peace psychology
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Drop
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Packed with stars and rhythm, one of the grandest
shows of the season Is "Stormy Weather," gay
new 20th Century-Fox musical now playing at
the Elsinore. It's the story of swing and features
Lena Home, Bill Robinson and Cab Calloway and
tus band. Tne spirit of the carefree film, which
presents a world of grand entertainment, is por
trayed above. On the doable bill Is "Alaska High
way," starring Richard Arlen and Jean Parker.
Surgical Techniques Plus American Grit
Build New Men From Disabled Veterans
Tckes Grants
Half Ton Increase
Of Household Coal
WASHINGTON, Nov. 6-;p)
The solid fuels administration to
day increased the maximum an
thracite coal delivery for house
hold use from a half a ton to
ne ton.
Administrator Harold I ekes
jaid the change in delivery maxi
mum was made to ease the strain
on dealers equipment and man
power supplies.
No change was made in the re
gulation providing that only
householders with less than ten
days' supply of anthracite are eli
gible for coal delivery.
Rally Ends Before
Date for Starting
CHARLES CITY, Va.-()-Put
Charles City County down for
getting things done quickly. The
county's quota for the third war
loan campaign was $10,500. Citi
zens held a rally and raised $20,-
000 in war bond sales the
amount being . raised two nights
before the campaign was due to
get underway. ,
Around Oregon
' By the Associated prm
. Juvenile delinquency in Wash
ington county mounted to 400 cas
es in the last six months with
halt of the cases among newly
arrived families and 75 per cent
..in -.-homes where both Darenfc
worxea, Harold Meyer, - juvenile
ana probation officer reported V
a j .
iuiiu wmcn wm open
lumber land at the top of the first
Cascade range and end at Canby
is unaer cons unction by three log
.. ging firms yry-: j. :. . .
' Bids to build' a new well a t Can
by were opened by the city wa
' -.ter works . . . Oreeoh State Vol.
lege elected Peggy Mahaffy, Cen
tralia, Wash as yell king and had
cnange the title to yell queen.
; . . All the crew escaped when a
smau reconnaissance plane from
Redmond air base developed en
gine irouwe on a test flight and
burst into flames after a forced
landing . , .
Oregon won western state hon
ors xor voluntary naval enlist
ments during October, with Bend
taxing rirst place among Oregon
uuatauans,, ana -followed , in
oraer of rank by Klamath Falls,
Astoria, Eugene,Salem, Corvallis,
Marshfield, and The Dallas
Oregon State college's junior RO
TC students, just back from Camp
Roberts, Calif, will study only
military ; and physical education
courses until January in order to
help out with' administrative work.
Oregon State college's faculty
turned over $5134.73 to the war
fund drive, and students $1300,
sending the campaign far over the
top .V.
By FRANK CAREY
(Associated Press Science Writer)
WASHINGTON, Nov. 6&(Jpy-
The newest surgical techniques
share a place with that old Amer
ican grit in rehabilitation of the
casualties of war.
New chapters in army and navy
surgery are being written as sur
geons salvage broken, torn bo
dies by such bold measures as
Transplanting nerves from the
amputated leg of one man to fill
a gap made by a piece of shrap
nel in the nerve network of an
other man's back.
Using a once-discarded by-pro
duct of human blood plasma pro
duction in order to check hemor
rhages of the brain.
Actually linking, in isolated
cases, an artificial arm with the
muscles of the human stump in
an attempt to achieve more life
like motion.
But the surgeons say that sur
gical skill is only part of the job
of rehabilitation.
Courage of the men themselves
is a big factor like the courage
of Pvt. Joe Roeder of Brooklyn,
who lost both his legs in Tunisia,
and who now is being conditioned
for some tailor-made legs at the
army's Walter Reed hospital.
Joe drove a big fruit truck be
fore the war, working a night run
between New York and Philadel
phia. He was driving a quartermas
ter's truck laden with supplies
for the troops near Bizerte on
May 11 the day before the
campaign ended when he "cot
his."
He told about it as he sat in a
wheelchair on the lawn at Walter
Reed and held up the stump of
his ; amputated left leg in the
like a wilted rag
crok of his arm
dolL
(That's a favorite trick of the
boys who lose their legs. Another
is to rest the stump on the han
dle of a crutch.)
He bled for two hours; before he
was picked up. Later surgeons
amputated both his legsi
Now there's only one thing wor
rying him. He wants to drive a
fruit truck again, and hi' anx
ious to get his artificial legs to
see how hell go.
."It's going to be tough, 1 think,"
he said. "You know, you have to
use the double clutch on those 'big
trucks but I'm going to try to
make it once I get those legs!"
Let's change the scene to the j
united States naval annex at
nearby Arlington, Va., where
Marine Sergt Maurice Pion is
standing the day watch. Youll
note an unnaturalness in his left
arm. It's artificial.
His left arm was amputated
as he lay in the muck of a fox
hole in QuadalcanaL The oper
ation was performed by two
pharmacist mates nsinr a pen
knife. It didn't take them long,
because a shell fragment had
virtually torn the arm from
Pion's body while he was on a
dangerous mission with a Mar
ine raider battalion.
That was more than a year ago.
Pion underwent further surgery,
was outfitted with an - artificial
arm, and rated as ready to return
to duty.
Let's change the scene again . . .
Now we're in front of a little
cigar stand not far from Chicago's
loop and we talk with Harry,
the chap working behind the
counter.
We learn that before the war,
he used to sell ice skates, made a
specialty of fitting them for big
name professional skaters.
Harry lost the sight of both
his eyes at Guadalcanal. While
he was in the hospital, he got
to thinking he might like a
whirl at running a little shop
or nis own where he wouldn't
have to move around much.
; After his discharge, his rehab
ilitation was continued under the
veterans administration, through
wnose aid he now is learning the
tjrame system. He's even taking
a course of salesmanship in
Braille. While he doesn't own his
own shop yet, he fills in for
friend who owns one. j
Tnese three cases the soldier
at Walter Reedj the Marine at the
navy annexs, and Harry illus
trate three stages in rehabilitation
of war casualties. ; j
The first represents the thou
sans of men who are in hospitals
either as battle casualties ori-vic
tims of disease. The primary aim
of the armed forces in their cases
is to restore them to duty-4pre-ferably
to duty on the firing; line,
" ltUIins mat, to limited duty.
. . uouici goai can oe accom
plished, the aim then is either to
restore them to civilian life as po
tential workers, or to make! easy
the transition to further hospital-
iuon or renabilitation by aeen-
wca uuisiae tne services.
xotn army and navy doctors
say casualties have been relative
ly light so far, but that more can
be expected as the campaigns ex
tend in scope.
They offer no conjectures as to
the expected number of wounded
for the war, . declaring that such
factors as the terrain of fighting,
the weapons used, the weather
and duration of. the conflict all
enter the picture.
In the first world war, with
4,800,000 men under arms, there
were 236,000 wounded. Now, with
our aimed forces approximately
doubled, it is considered reason
able conjecture that at least 570,
000 will suffer wounds in this
war.
The navy estimates the mortal
ity rate among its wounded has
been cut to 2 per cent, compared
with 7H to 8 per cent in World
War I. The army says the death
rate among its wounded is just
about half what it was in the last
war.
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A tC5SaJZ i.BUt fe-travagan -Silver
, ,T. T er " "tricU Morison. "Sfl ver Skates"
b featured with -The Great Dictator- starting today at the ' SiSe
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Who Got Bawled
Out? Police Car
Involved in Crash
TAMPA, Fla.-ypy-n was a po
lice car this time, the chief said
in his report to the board of
aldermen, that was involved in
an accident A tire blew out and
the police car swerved into a ma
chine owned by Manuel Garcia.
The report was accompanied -by
a bill for $99 for repairs xn Gar
cia's automobile. .
The greatest company of skat
ing stars ever assembled in a sin
gle motion picture, in addition to
an acting cast of screen favorites.
comprise the cast ol the co-fea
ture, Monogram's . dazzling ice
spectacle, "Silver Skates." , r
Heading the specialty perform
ers is blonde. statuesaue RfUia:
ice ballerina who is'recognized as
the world's outstanding feminin
figure skater. Kenny Baker and
famcia Monson appear in the
principal acting roles, and with
Belita make up the romantic tri
angle in the story. Other skatine
luminaries are Irene Dare, youth
ful prodigy who has already star
red in her own right in ice pic
tures; Fnck and Frack, Swiss
wizards of off-balance locomo
tion, and the leading comedy
team ofthe ice; Eugene Turner,
skating partner of Sonja Henie
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jus no use irying to get . straight-faced Virginia I O'Brien, the
cigarette girl In MCOTb smash musical comedy, "Dm Barry Was
now piZTing at the CapiM theatre, to open up. Red Skelton
and Gene Kelly have been through all aorta of tests, and deadpan
Virginia is still holding out according U last reports. "Secrets of
the Underground, starring John Hubbard, Nttt HamuUn nd Yr
ginia Grey completes the double bill at the Capitol. '
Robinson, Horn e9 Calloivay
in stormy Weather
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"Zr Lr'. ---Hjazz, ragtime and blues to the
From vaudeville, night clubs and musical comedy as well
as from Hollywood, 20th Century-Fox has assembled an array
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vr earner, wmcn opened last, night at the Elsinore theatre. A
: Something new in musicals,' "Stormy Weather" has a film.
full of stars combined with, a story that is a cavalcade of rhythrn
wusuag uie ws; lunes oi au9 lis
the finest ever filmed. "Stormy MOIia JLee 1 lllUall
weainer' is the story of swing on
By BERNARD S. O'HARAl M i
' NEW VORK,-'; Kpv. 6-VP)-$M
stock market tbday . finished His
worst week sinte (the Mussolini
dowhfaU tin the! latter part i kt
July andi while sellihg slacking
recoveriei; ?ere elective d4
generally! unimpressive. 1 p
' The market, did not have a sln
gle averaee iunturk Anrimr 'u
5-day wek. j Peace psycholoS
received fhe principal blame . idie'
the relapse. U ,.. -,A m
The Associated Press 60-stofck
average as off tl bt a point at
49 J and pn J the! week showed! a
net decline bt 1.6 points. Of 673
issues traded! in , the short
sion, 265 1 wete jdofm against 40
up or unchanged. Dealings weVi
slow except lor sizable blocks 'ot
Coixvmonvliealth t . S out Yve' a
wmcn imisned au even. Transfers
for. the two hours' amounted '4
337,110 , shares I compared wkM
337,630 aeekagof - . ... -. . l
' PORTLAND. OrL Nov.
Samuel 14 Stang k glad a superil
stitutious Shief ribbed him. p
The thif took 26 from Stangl'i
money boi but left $16 in 12 biJI
untouched-evidently believing in-
wjc mnuuon Tnai a SZ bi 1
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and many others, including a
skating ensemble of 36 of Holly
wood's most beautiful girls.
"Silver Skates" was produced
by Lindsley Parsons, and Leslie
Goodwins directed from an orig
inal screenplay by Jerry Cady.
Songs for the production were
written by David Oppenheim, Roy
Ingraham and Archie Gottler, and
played by Ted Fio Rito's Orches
tra. The entire production was
supervised by William D. Shapiro.
torrid, "tuneful temnos of todav.
Lena Home, Bill Robinson and
Cab Calloway and his band top
the cast of the tune-packed film.
The story, which covers the pe
riod right after the last war up to
the present day, sets the stage for
the musical numbers by4 ingenious
use of the flashback device. Di
rector Andrew Stone paced the
numbers to the individual and to
say the cast is admirably fitted
for the job at hand is to put it
mildly. Each and every one is a
"wow!"
Lena Home, who burst on the
Funeral Is Held
AURORA Mona Lee Tin
dall, six-year-old daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Ernest Tindall of route
2, Canby, passed away at a Port
land hospital Tuesday after a lin
gering illness. She was bom Sep-?
tember 15, 1937 at . Woodburn:
Surviving besides the parents are
a sister, Patricia, at home; grand
parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Ja
cobs of Hubbard, and Mrs. Kate
Tindall of route 2, Canby. i
Jfuneral services were held Sat
urday morning at the Canby fu
neral home with interment in
Zion Memorial park, Canby.
f I . Ti - I I-ena Home, who burst on the
.Loyalists Jbiiiter horizo? how wond t Deserves KP j b.
(year, handles most nf th v.ai TCS AV1 U1J9
TTS A ftfi l?ra4r h2"1' and she can sing with the Has 10,000 Recipes
PORTLAND, Nov, 6 -JPr-A
member of the former Snanish
There Are
No Two Ways About Love," I
Can't Give You Anything But
Love," and especially the tantal-
Loyalist cabinet, forbidden entry izing title number, "Stormy Wea
Emigration Reduces
Eire Unemployment
DUBLIN, Eire (P)-Large scale
emigration to " Britain since war
started , has partly solved Eire's
unemployment problem. During
1942 nearly 52,000 travel permits
were Issued," compared to 35,000
in 1941 and 26,000 in 1940.
to the United States by immigra
uon officials, was,, given permis
sion to disembark today.
Jesus Hernandez Tomas, ex-
minister of education in Spain,
his wife, and his secretary, Anton
Sanz Pascual, will probaply be
taken to Seattle to await a state
department decision on their re
quest to cross the United States
into Mexico, R. P. Bonham, dis
trict immigration officer, said.
Permission to land was granted
after attorneys for the trio pre
sented in federal court a statute
which grants aliens the right to
remain in this country while pre
senting an appeal.
Immigration officials had re
fused the refugees entry on the
ground that their Spanish visas,
issued by a government no long
er in power, were invalid. The
three, who escaped to Russia after
the victory of Franco, hold Soviet
visas for travel to Mexico.
Duke of Windsor
Mentioned to Take
India ViceroyPost
PORTLAND, Ore- Ner. 6-JP
The Right Rev. R. Anderson
Jardine, who married the for
mer Wallis Simpson to the Duke
of Windsor,, said here today that
Britain's ex-king should be vi
ceroy of India.
The duke, Jardme asserted In
an Oregonian interview, is the
world's greatest democrat. "If
Edward had been appointed vi
ceroy, things would be in' fine'
shape over there now."
ther," are rhythmic masterpieces,
As for Bill Robinson, there nev
er was a tap dancer who could
touch him and that holds true in I years.
"Stormy Weather." In addition.
Bill proves himself a talented com
edian by his deft handling of the
key role,
Cab Calloway, renowned for his
band's music as well as his own
singing, stands out His capers
are aimed at bringing smiles, and
nis music sets one s toes a-ting-ling
as they play "Walkin' the
Dogs," "Ain't Misbehavin' " and
"Diga, Diga Doo."
new tunes from the picture
which are headed for great pop
ularity include "There's No Two
Ways About Love," "That Ain't
Right" and "My, My, Ain't That
Somethin."
Other headliners in the cast in
clude Katherine Dunham and her
troupe, Fats Waller whose ma
gic at the keyboards is sensation
al and the Nicholas Brothers,
masters of the art of terpischore.
Ada Brown and Dooley Wilson.
ine companion feature stars
Richard Arlen and Jean . Parker in.
."Alaska Highway
FORT OGLETHORPE, : Go.-VP)
wnat to have; for supper will j
never bother- Helen- Jacobson,
now a private in the Third WAC
Training Center here. She esti
mates she has 10,000 clippings of;
nousenold hints and recipes in
scrapbooks carefully kept over the
- Today-Monday-Tuesdav
Jammin'est
Jivin'esl Jubilee
Musical History!
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CLEARWATER, Fla.-(yP-N o t
Ian is rejoicing here over the re
cent removal of lighting restrie
tions.
Accustomed to the - dimout,
many residents are now com
plaining that they can't sleep. The
lights get in their eyes.!
STARTING TODAY!"
Two Redheads Draw Laughs
In Technicolor Hit Du Barry9
Redhead meets redhead. in "Du Barry Was a Lady" for an
explosion of laughs, cannon load of music and a machine gun full 1
of beauty and bombardment bf entertainment. The redheads are
Red Skelton and Lucille Ball. The picture is now at the Capitol
theatre. .;, - . ; .' I
-They're the generals in fun who lead Gene Kelly, Zero Mos-
tel, "Rags" Ra.glan d, Virginia 1
y,
O'Brien, Tommy Dorsey and his
swings ters, plus 26 dancing beau-
ues ana an even dozen of gorge
ous show girls in a rainbow pa
rade of technicolor splendor, i
Red Skelton plays a cloakroom
attendant who drinks a "mickey"
and dreams he's Louis XV nf
rancet Redheaded Lucille Ball,
his -secret love. Is. a reincarnation
of the Du Barry in his dream.
ruu Barry Was a Lady" la
first musical since "Ship Ahoy."
This is the first :. time he teams
with Miss BalL but it isn't the first
timef the "Ball" of fire dances or
sings. She started life as a chorus
girl, proved she could act in Da
mon fRunyon'a "The Big Street,"
u now noi oniy sings and dan
ces but takes tip where she left
off as a Carnegie model and wears
a complete wardrobe of Irene cre-
auons. - . -
Then there's Gene Kelly, tit
too, started life as a dancer. Mario
"For Me and My Gal" that he won
a dramatic role in "Pilot No! 5.?
There's still moije Tommy Dor
sey and his swingsters give forth!
with the jive. This is a repeat per
formance for. him and his - gang
after "Ship Ahoy Virginia O'Bri
en; fast becoming the screen s live
liest "dead-pan," Is another grad
uate of that hit musical. A new
addition is impressionistic comic
Zero MosteL imported from New
York. -
There's nothing repetitious about
the Du Barry ; beauties. Theyre
the cream of the crop a treat toM
the eyes and ears. .:
So are the songs"Do I Love j
You?" "I Love An Esquire Girl,"
"Madame, I take Your Crepe Su-
zettes," - "Friendship,".- DU Barry
Was a Lady " lust to menuon a
few. "Secrets of the Underground"
featuring John Hubbard, Virginia
Grey and Neil Hamilton completes
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