16 Capital Journal, Salem, Ore., Monday, February , 1950
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'I Am the Father' Italian Film Director Roberto Kossellmi
(right) is greeted by the smiling faces of his movie crew as
he arrives on the set after a visit with Ingrid Bergman
and her baby son in the Villa Margherita clinic in Rome. In
an interview with United Press, Rossellini said "I am the
father" of Ingrid Bergman's baby or.d stated he would marry
the Swedish actress as soon as she gets a Mexican divorce
from her now estranged husband, Dr. Peter Lindstrom.
(Exclusive photo by Julius Humi, NEA-Acme staff corre
spondent) (Acme Radio-Telephoto)
Rossellini Admits He's Father
Of Ingrid Bergmans Baby Boy
By ALDO FORTE
(Copyright 1950 by United Fre&O
Rome, Feb. 6 U.R) Roberto Rossellini, Italian film director,
(aid today that "I am the father" of Ingrid Bergman's baby born
four days ago.
The registration of the birth will bear the notation "Father
Unknown" to prevent Miss Bergman's husband, Dr. Peter Lind
trnm from making any tech-
nical claim to the child, Rossel
lini said.
The interview with the United
Press was the first Rossellini
has Riven since the son was born
to Miss Bergman Thursday
night.
He said the baby's name
would be "Robertino Ingmar,1
the second name being the
Swedish masculine of Ingrid
Jane Froman
I Walks Unaided
Topeka, Kan., Feb. 8 U.R
Radio singer Jane Froman, in
jured seriously in a plane crash
seven years ago, now can walk
without her cane and braces,
her press agent said today.
Miss Froman underwent 25
operations following the crash
of a Pan-American clipper in
the Atlantic Feb. 2, 1943, but re
fused doctors to amputate one
of her legs.
Bud Granoss, New York, her
publicity agent, said Miss Fro
man has spent several weeks at
the Menninger foundation here
building up her mental courage
to walk again.
He said she spoke of the psy
chiatric center as a "big help
in getting over the last big hur
dle." Foundation doctors, ac
cording to Granoss, described
Miss Froman as a "very co-operative
patient."
"Half the battle was her strong
will to walk," one of the doctors
told Granoss.
Rossellini said he would mar
ry Miss Bergman in a civil cere
mony as soon as the Swedish
actress gets a Mexican divorce
from Lindstrom Attorneys for
Miss Bergman have filed a di
vorce suit in Mexico Rossellini
will make a mormal declaration
of the paternity of "my son"
Immediately thereaftci, he add
ed. Rossellini said the full regis
tration of the baby's birth would
be made In the form of "Ro
berto Ingmar, son of Ingrid
Bergman, father unknown.' He
said that would leave Lindstrom
no technical ground to claim
the baby.
Under Italian law Lindstrom
would be registered automatic
ally as the baby's father unless
the "father unknown" declara
tion were made, since he still
Is the legal husband of Miss
Bergman.
Once Rossellini has become
Miss Bergman's husband, he can
give his own name legally to the
child.
Rossellini was Interviewed
outside Rome, where he is
shooting scenes for his new film
on the life of St Francis. Work
on the film was delayed for
some time while his co-workers
congratulated him.
There is a Roman peasant
custom that the fathei of a new
ly born son be presented with a
basket of "Ricotta," a variety of
cream cheese which must be
eaten with coarse biack bread
in the open countryside.
Peasants near the area where
Rossellini Is working brought
their gifts of "Ricotta " The di
rector thanked them and then
spread the sheep's milk cheese
on the bread and ate it as the
peasants shouted their congratu
lations. "Ricotta" Is given ns a sym
bol of good health and prosper
ity for the new child.
When he finished the cheese
and bread, Rossellini turned
and In a mood of sudden exubcr
ation seized this correspondent
and kissed him on both checks.
"I am so happy," he said.
"Ingrid Is so sweet."
Rossellini said the plan for
the form of birth registration
had been worked out because
it appeared that Miss Bergman
would not obtain her divorce In
time to marry the director be
fore the Feb. 12 deadline for
filing the birth statement.
He said he and Miss Berg
man did not plan to leave Italy
any time soon.
"There will be no honey
moon," he said. "I will have to
keep on with my work on the
life of St. Francis, and as soon
as I finish that I will start a
new one with Sir Alexander
Korda." (British motion picture
producer.)
Rossellini said Miss Bergman
shared In every phase of his
work.
"I tell her everything," he
said. "I show her everything. As
soon as scenes are finished and
printed, I run them off for her.
She cries at the sad parts,
laughs at the funny ones. She
is wonderful."
Priests Visit
ingrid Bergman
Rome, Fob. 6 (ff) Ingrid Berg.
man was visited this morning by
a Catholic priest, heightening
speculation that she might be
arranging the baptism of her
baby son, Robertino.
Yesterday she saw a priest
and t'.v' monks in her three-
room maternity apartment at
Santa Margherita clinic.
Italian Film Director Roberto
Rossellini, whom Ingrid report
edly has named as the father of
her son and whom she plans to
marry when she gets her divorce
from Dr. Peter Lindstrom, was
believed to have left the clinic
just before dawn.
Rossellini spent the week-end
there with Miss Bergman.
Associates said Rossellini was
very busy with legal affairs, in
addition to his work on a film
of the life of St. Francis of As-sisi.
Miss Bergman also was visited
by her personal physician today
just before noon, the time of his
usual daily calls.
S.P. Freight Cars
Derailed in Cascades
San Francisco, Feb. 6 W)
The Southern Pacific said five
cars of a freight train derailed
in the Cascades 00 miles south of
Eugene, Ore., last night. No one
was hurt.
The accident, blamed on a
broken wheel flang, will cause
some delay in the arrival at the
Oakland, Calif., terminal of the
southbound Cascade and Klam
ath passenger trains from Portland.
The line was cleared at 7:30
a.m. today.
Denham Lauds
Taft-Hartley Act
Los Angeles, Feb. 6 U.R) Rob
ert N. Denham, general counsel
of the national labor relations
board, described the Taft-Hart
ley act today as "the biggest
step forward this nation has
ever made" toward stable labor
relations.
He credited the controversial
labor relations act with giving
labor unions "an opportunity to
clean house; it has given them
an opportunity to throw out the
communists who have infiltrat
ed into so much of our labor
movement as well as into other
places throughout the structure
of the nation."
In reviewing the accomplish
ments of the Taft-Hartley act
before a Town Hall luncheon,
Denham avoided any specific
reference to its place in the coal
strike controversy.
"I am not going to dwell on
the coal dispute," he said. "It
has already received enough
publicity so that I believe the
general public, if they do not
know what it is all about, at
least have some decided opin
ions on it."
Denham said that the rights
of the labor union were para
mount under the Wagner act,
which controlled company - un
ion relations before adoption of
the Taft-Hartley law.
"The Taft-Hartley act is built
around the rights of the indi
vidual," he said.
'Under this act, the basic
right not to jpin a labor organ
ization is as fully recognized
and protected as is the right to
participate in union activities."
Lila Leeds to Marry
Son of Chicago 'Boss'
Memphis, Term., Feb, 6
Ex-Movie Starlet Lila Leeds,
now on the comeback trail, and
Erwin (Bud) Arvey of Chicago,
announced last night they would
be married.
The 32-year-old son of Jake
Arvey, democratic leader in Illi
nois' Cook county, said no date
had been set.
Miss Leeds, who hit the na
tion's front pages when she was
arrested on a narcotics charge in
Hollywood last year, is on the
nightclub circuit as a singer.
She's currently appearing at a
night club here, warbling blues
and "special material."
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Hubbard Woman Recovers,
Others Hurt in Accidents
Mrs. Alia Mead, 57, of Hubbard, who was hospitalized Satur
day at Salem General after an automobile collision on Highway
99E north of the underpass, was resting well today
Miss Ruth Betts of Lebanon, in another car in the same ac
cident, was released from the hospital after treatment for minor
injuries.
They were hospitalized after
a head on collision of auto
mobiles driven by Ernest Mead,
Hubbard, and Robert Joseph
Moersch, Lebanon. Mrs. Mead
received a fractured right arm
and kneecap and chest injuries.
The southbound Mead vehicle
went out of control on an icy
place on the pavement and
skidded into the path of the
northbound Moersch car. Both
automobiles were extensively
damaged.
John Wiggins, janitor at the
Detroit grade school is recover
ing from leg bruises received
when he was knocked down by
a two-foot deep snow slide from
the roof of the school.
James Edward Saylie, Silver
ton star route, was arrested for
driving while intoxicated and
Carl Benton Riggs, Silverton, a
passenger, for being drunk on
a public highway, after their
automobile collided with a
northbound vehicle near Hayes
ville Saturday night. Both are
in the Marion county jail.
Mrs. Edith Parker, route 7,
was hospitalized late Saturday
night after an automobile driven
by her husband, Charles Lent
Parker, collided with one oper
ated by Cyreno Melvern Stebeds,
Springfield, on Lancaster Drive
near the Silverton Road, Mrs.
Parker was not seriously injured.
An automobile owned by
Larry Fitzwater was destroyed
by fire Saturday in front of his
residence in Rickreall. The ve
hicle was a total loss, according
to Dallas firemen, who report
the loss of a large tarpaulin from
their truck as it was answering
the call.
Two men were hospitalized
Saturday with fractured hips.
Frank E. Needham, 1000 McGil
christ, suffered a hip fracture
when he fell from a stable door,
and Jesse Lucas, 81, of 623 North
Commercial, when he fell on the
ice near his home. Needham is
at Salem General hospital and
Lucas at Salem Memorial.
Typist Who Married
Chief Ouf as 'Queen'
London, Feb. 6 (UP-) Inform
ed sources said today that Ruth
Khama, 24, a former London
typist who married an African
tribal chieftain, probably never
would become the "white queen"
of the Bamangwato tribe in
Bechuanaland.
The source said the British
cabinet decided not to recognize
her husband, 27-year-old Ser-
etse Khma, as chieftain of the
tribe because of native unrest
stirred by hostility against his
marriage.
Seretse and Ruth are now liv
ing in a small bungalow in
Bechuanaland. They went to
Africa from London, where Ser
etse was studying, late last
year.
Officers of the U.S. Public
Health Service bear ranks like
those of Army officers.
POW's Educating 2 Filipinos
Who Smuggled Food in War
By ANTONY ULLSTEIN
(United Press 8taff Correspondent)
New York, Feb. 6 U.R) A Filipino girl and her brother whose
parents were executed by the Japanese for smuggling food and
medicine into wartime prison camps in the Philippines are being
put through college in the United States by the American
internees. -
Maria Escoda, 22, was a guest
of honor at a dinner the other
night at which about 100 sur
vivors of the Santa Tomas camp
near Manila celebrated the fifth
anniversary of their liberation
by American troops.
She is studying for a B.A. de
gree at Barnard College. Her
brother, Antonio, Jr., 19, is a
freshman at Yale. To bring them
to the United States and pay for
their tuition the former internees
of Santo Tomas and other camps
the Philippines created the
Escoda Memorial fund.
Time had erased the marks of
illness, malnutrition and mal
treatment which years of intern
ment had stamped on those pres
ent at the dinner, but everyone
there knew of their debt to a
Manila newspaperman named
Antonio Escoda and his wife
Josefa.
Mrs. Escoda, they reported,
was president of the National
Federation of Women's Clubs in
Manila. By cajoling, bribing and
tricking the Japanese she man-
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