MITCHUM CASE REOPENED
LA District Attorney Checks
Possible 'Frame-Up' in Case
Lot Angeles, Btpt. 28 WV-Wi Robert Mitchum'i marijuana
arrest framed?
The diatrict attorney'! office says it is investigating "reporti"
that Mitchum and bit actreu Lila Leeds may have been victims
of Hollywood's purported extortion ring.
H. Leo Stanley, chief inveitl-
gator for the diatrict attorney,
queitioned Miss Leeds aa
JSreBM lor Jane Russell
raided the beauteous blonde's
Laurel canyon cottage a year
ago. Also arrested in the raid
but later freed was dancer Vicki
Evans.
"2 Personality Scores'
Miss Leeds told Stanley:
"I was putting up Vicki's hair
and I was smoking a marijuana
cigarette. Why didn't the cops,
who were outside watching, as
I found out later, pinch me
then?
"They didn't. They waited un
til Mitchum got there."
Stanley said legitimacy of the
arrests is not questioned, but his
office is interested in reports
they were "engineered."
The knowledge about the ex
tortion ring was given to the
grand Jury in a memorandum by
Paul Behrmann, ex - actor's
agent. In testimony, he labeled
Miss Leeds and Miss Evans as
'prostitute extortionists," a
charge which Miss Leeds has
denied "unequivocally."
Miss Leeds told Stanley she
once hired Behrmann as her
agent but broke the contract af
ter six months.
Formerly Mitchum's agent,
Behrmann is in jail without bail
pending appeal on a conviction
of bilking 110,000 from another
client.
Mitchum's testimony in Behr-
mann's trial strengthened the
state's case.
Carmen Miranda
On Trial Separation
Hollywood, Sept. 28 VO Car
men Miranda and Dave Sebas
tian, film producer, are under
taking a trial separation.
They announced Monday
through studio representatives
that the amicable separation is
due to a "diversity of interests'
and xpreased hope that a recon
ciliation eould be effected.
The 14-y.cr-old Brailllan ac
tress and her 40-year-old hus
band ware wed here March 17,
1947. Neither had been married
before.
London, Sept. 28 W.PJ British
critics today hailed Jane Rus
sell's singing vaudeville act as a
triumph of personality rather
than talent
Miss Russell calmed an unruly
audience with low cut evening
gown, a Mae Westian smile and
several songs in a pleasantly
throaty but otherwise undistin
guished voice at the Prince's
theatre Monday night.
The audience was unruly
from that start. Just before her
act, It shouted one comedian off
the stage. After Miss Russell
finished her singing, there was
a moment of tension. Then the
house began to eheer and she
was a hit.
Typical of morning newspa
per comment was the Daily
Mail, which described Miss Rus
sell as a modest girl. The Dally
Express said she gave this coun
try of shortages a "double ra
tion" of entertainment.
Records show that George
Washington bought $200 worth
of ice cream in 1790.
Ask Approval
Of Point Four
Washington, Sept. 28 IIP) Un
dersecretary of State Webb to
day urged congress to approve
President Truman's "point four"
aid program for backward areas
in the Interests of world se
curity."
"Democracy Is most secure
where economic conditions are
sound," Webb told the house
foreign affairs committee.
The state department official
appeared before the committee
as the first of a parade of ad
ministration witnesses who are
expected to ask congress to act
on the program before adjourn
ment. With republican opposi
tion mounting, there seemed lit
tle likelihood that this will hap
pen. The program calls for $43,
000,000 to start 18 kinds of Im
provement projects in the
world's underdeveloped coun
tries. The aim is an eventual
boost in living standards.
In his prepared remarks, Webb
said that ever since Mr. Truman
mentioned the idea of such a
program as a major point in his
inaugural address, it "has arous
ed great interest, great enthus
iasm and great hope throughout
the world.
"As originators of the propos
al, we in the United States are
being looked to for constructive
leadership in carrying it for
ward," he added.
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Truman Woos
Women's Voles
Washington, Sept. 18 VP)
President Truman declared
Tuesday that those who de
nounce his "fair deal" program
as "alien or dangerous" are "just
about 160 years behind the
times."
The chief executive sought
new women recruits for the
democratic party with a campaign-like
promise to press for
ward with housing, educational
aid, expanded social security
and labor objectives of the 1948
platform.
He asked the women of the
country to "look beneath the la
bels to see the facts" an dnot to
be "misled by political slogans."
He said women's interest in
government "goes far beyond
job holding or partisanship."
He spoke via radio from the
White House on "Democratic
Women's Day" on a broadcast
with Mrs. India Edwards, di
rector of the women's division
of the democratic national com
mittee. The president said the demo
cratic party offered the women
a program of "practical measures."
Church Groups Meet
Hopewell There were 14
members of the Hopewell Unit
ed Brethren church at the
monthly meeting of Women'sMis-
Milt Murphy, Ernest Budke and
Walt Zwick have left on a moose
hunting trip, which will take
them into British Columbia.
They expect to be gone about
10 days. Some of the party
made the trip last year with
much success.
Moose Hunters Leave
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