Narrow Escape Traffic Officer Ray Pierce lifts the Right
Reverend Richard H. Hammond of Oakland, Calif., from his
car on the edge of Lake Merritt, in downtown Oakland, after
the car had swerved off the street, overturned and flipped
into the lake. Investigating officers reported the monsignor
had apparently fallen asleep at the wheel. (AP Wirephoto.)
Bible Is Full of Good Movie
Scripts, Says Producer-Parson
By BOB THOMAS
Hollywood, March 9 VP) Film producers should turn to the
Bible in their search for vital movie suDjecis.
This advice comes from a fellow producer, but one cast In a
different mold. He Is Rev. James K. Friedrich, Episcopal min
ister and head of Cathedral Films. He has produced several dozen
wpll-made films which are1
shown in Protestant churches,
and to Catholics and Jews as
well.
"The major film companies
could do a great Job for relig
ion," Rev. Friedrich remarked.
"But they are too wrapped up in
making 'entertainment' pictures.
"The trouble Is that the pro
ducers portray their own idea
of entertainment. That's why
we see so many race track pic
tures." He indicated that movie matt
ers could make exciting and
significant pictures from Bible
stories. But not, he added, the
scriptures according to Cecil B.
DeMille.
"Mr. DeMille's 'King of Kings'
took decided liberties with the
story of Christ," said the parson-producer.
"I haven't seen
'Samson and Delilah, but
friends of mine say there is not
much resemblance to the Bible
story and there Is some mystery
as to what the message is."
The minister declared that
Protestants have received little
attention in film subjects. '
"It is our own fault," he add
ed. "We have failed to organize
as the Catholics have. A pic
ture about Catholicism has
ready-made audience,
He said that one of the few
pictures about a Protestant
preacher, "One Foot in Heav-.
en," was "an insult. It showed
the minister (played by Fred
ric March) as a blackmailer,
forcing the town merchant to
contribute to building a new
church or be exposed."
Rev. Friedrich became inter
ested In the Idea of religious
films' while studying for the
ministry at Virginia seminary.
He realized the dramatic power
of the scriptures and wrote a
scenario on the life of St. Paul
as his thesis.
Using an inheritance, the min
ister founded Cathedral Films.
His first and only feature film,
"The Great Commandment,"
was bought by 20th-Fox for
$170,000. Profits from the sale
were put back into Cathedral,
which is not a money-making
venture.
Unfortunately, 20th-Fox did
little or nothing about releasing
"The Great Commandment." "I
don't believe it was a deliberate
sabotage," said Friedrich rue
fully, "but it is too bad that the
picture's message cannot be
heard."
He said that many churches
opposed the use of films in
teaching, considering movies 'an
instrument of the devil." But
they have been won over.
His figures recorded the
growth of religious films in
1940, only 25 of the nation's
250,000 churches had their own
sound film projectors; today
50,000 are so equipped.
Pendleton's Cily
Manager Rehired
Pendleton, March 9 VP) City
Manager C. V. Signor has his
job back again today after he
was asked to resign a week ago
by five councilmen "in the best
interests of the city of Pendle
ton." Last night the city council
quietly cancelled its request for
his resignation as a result of a
long meeting with "interested
citizens before council time.
Signer's resignation made last
' . ursday, was never accepted
. the council.
The council offered only this
reason: "Due to a discussion be
fore with Mr. Signor. at the re
quest and in the presence of In
terested citizens, the council has
idecided not to accept his resig
"Our greatest lack in churches
today is lack of proper instruc
tion," he said. "Most children
ar,. introduced to religion by
Sunday school teachers who are
unable to do the best possible
job, despite their good spirit,
Religious movies are one meth
od of curing that deficiency.
Census Shows
Buying Power
Businessmen throughout the
country are vitally Interested in
the information on income
which will be collected during
the 17th decennial census of the
United States in April, 1950,
These data will provide mar
ket surveyors with precise in
formation on the relative buy
ing power of various sections of
the country. Advertising cam
paigns, sales quotas, bank fi
nancing of old and new enter
prises and similar economic
programs will depend on the in
come information collected ir
the census.
In the 1950 census the amount
of income from three sources
wages or salary, own business,
and sources other than earnings
will be reported for a sample
of one in five persons 14 years
old and over and one family in
five. The reason for obtaining
these data on a sample basis is
that it would be too costly to
attempt to get the Income infor
mation from everybody m the
country.
Information on the income of
men and women living in urban
and rural areas, and working at
various types of jobs will be
tabulated by the census bureau
for the nation, for regions, for
states, and for metropolitan
areas. Family income tabula
tions will also be made along
similar lines and will include
also statistics for each county
and each urban place.
It is expected that the Income
figures obtained in the census
will reflect some of the momen
tous economic changes which
have taken place in the United
States during the past 10 years,
An indication of the magnitude
of some of these changes is re
vealed by estimates from a re
cent special census bureau sur
vey which showed that the in
come of wage-earner families
has more than doubled since the
last census.
Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon, Thursday, March 9, 195013
President Again General
issimo Chiang Kai-Shek is
shown as he told a group of
high officials in Taipaeh, For
mosa, that he had decided to
resume as president of China.
Behind Chiang is a painting
of Dr. Sun Yet-Sen, the father
of the Chinese Republic. (Ac
me Telephoto.)
Miss America at '42
Divorces Comedian
Hollywood, March 9 U,f9
Film Actress Jo Carroll Denni-
son, 25, "Miss America" of 1942,
divorced Comedian Phil Silver
Wednesday on her testimony his
staying out late at nights was
"quite unbearable."
When he was in the New York
play, "High Button Shoes," he
frequently left her home alone
all night, the beauty told Super
ior Judge Ingall W. Bull. His
staying away became worse
when they came to California,
she said.
They were married in 1945
and the actress moved out of
their home here last Oct. 19,
leaving Silvers there with his
mother-in-law.
Under a property settlement,
Miss Dennison got $11,500 cash,
a car and their home, from
which the comedian has now
moved.
Letters Little,
But Error Big
Vowels make a difference
when names get in the news,
and the wrong vowels in the
right places led to a mistake in
identification of the principal
in a burglary ease.
Monday two men were arrest
ed by the Marion county sher
iff's office for the theft o bonds
from a Keizer man's home. At
that time, one of the men was
identified as a Jack Troxell of
Salem. The city directory lists
only one, an employe of the
Oregon Pulp & Paper company.
But he was not the man held by
tne sheriff s office.
me complaint in the case
taken before district court on
ruesaay, identified the man
charged with the crime as Jack
Troxall.
A check of the sheriff's office
Wednesday showed that th
prisoner signed his name, Jack
Truxall.
The Capital Journal regrets
the unfortunate Implication that
Truxall and Troxell were the
same individual.
Wheel Spin on Snow
May Be Outmoded
Des Moines, March 9 fl")
Your future car may not get
stuck In the mud or snow as of
ten as your old one.
Archibald S. Alexander, as
sistant secretary of the army,
revealed in a speech here today
that the army ordnance depart
ment is having a new type of
differential developed for it that
will prevent one rear wheel
from spinning while the other
stands still.
"When this is perfected," he
said, "It will not only take an
army truck out of the mud. It
should also enable General Mo
tors and Chrysler and Ford to
give you and me a vehicle which
will not so often get stuck in
mud or snow."
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