SIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Wednesday. April 8, 1950
....AROUND HOLLYWOOD
By VIRGINIA MiePHERSON
United Pratt Correspondent
Hollywood, Apr. 5 (U.R The
"singing telegram" Is back
and for one whole day the An
drews aisiers
went with it.
Every wire
that came in to
the local West
ern Union of
fice sent them
warbling "hap
p y birthday"
over the tele
phone to some
goggle - eyed
listener on the
other end.
And, at the
are coining money these days we
was getting something like
$5,000 worth of free entertain
figure every birthday celebrant
ment for 30 seconds.
The recipients must have fig
ured the same thing. Because 9
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something nobody's done to the
Andrews bisters since iney mi
the Big lime m years as"-
A rtai tha first ehnrk most v
erybody recovered long enough
to sputter a few "oohs" and
"aaahs." One enterprising wolf
rppnvered in time to ask em
for their telephone number.
Bang-Up Rt-Opening
All In all, according to F. I.
Sanders, general sales manager,
it ...as a hnno.iin rp-nneninff for
a service that got "bumped off"
the wires ngni aner fan n
bor. "We used to send boys out to
people's homes," he explained.
"But we ran into a lot of trouble
that way with female wolves.
They used to get their eye on a
handsome messenger and then
send themselves telegrams so
he'd deliver them."
Now Western Union sends out
its "happy birthday's" by tele
phone. When the Andrews Sisters
agreed to kick off the singing
telegrams they worked hours
river a fancv arrangement of the
birthday song. Figured they
m Eht's well do tne tning up
right. .
No Shenanigans
That's when they bumped
smack into the federal commun
ications commission. No siree,
said the FCC, They had to sing
it the way it's always been sung
and no shenanigans about it.
Singing messages must con
tain only straight lyrics of the
tune as paid for by the sender
without any embellishments, the
FCC ruled.
But even the old-fashioned
way sounded good coming out of
Patti Mnvinp nnri I.avprne. One
of the listeners said it was "the
best birthday I've ever naa.
Four-year-old Bobby wanted 'em
to rush right over to his party.
Another, a surgeon, didn't
tarry long to listen.
"We probably caught him
rioht In thp mirlrlle nf nn opera
tion," Patti giggled. "Imagine,
having somebody opened up ana
a nurse comes in to say: There's
a singing telegram for you, doc
tor.' "
In the pre-war days the West
ern Union singers got a buck
per birthday. All the Andrews
Sisters got were three sore
throats.
"And a lot of laughs," Max
ine added. "At least nobody
asked 'who're you'?"
JUST IN TIME
Tucson, Ariz. (U.R) Norrls
Murdock wasn't a moment too
soon. He took out a complete
automobile insurance policy at a
downtown office. After the pa
pers were sinned he left the
1 building and found someone had
stolcnt his automobile.
Actress To lose
Boston Accent in
Cowtown Location
By Patricia Clary
United Press Correspondent
Hollywood U.PJ Ruth Roman
left for a cowtown movie loca
tion talking like the late George
Apley and expects to come back
drawling like Gene Autry.
"It's one way to get rid of
my Boston accent," she shrugged.
"I lust hang around the cowboys
and listen to them talk. Wal,
pardner, I kin tell ya, it shore
do worn.
Miss Koman had been trying
to strain Boston out of her voice
for several years before she
went to visit the cowpokes at
Victorville, Cel.. a desert ranch
town where nobody comes from
Boston. The "Lightning Strikes
Twice" company from Warner
Bros, was shooting on the
North Verde ranch near there.
"It was only a few days before
I Improved my 'r's," she said.
"They're hard as a wrangler's
now.
She's also losing those broad
"a's" and other ' Boston-bred
tones cowboys never use.
No Accent Best
An actress, Miss Roman be
lieves, ought to talk with a uni
versal accent, by which she
means no accent at all.
"Then she can play almost
any kind of role," she said, "and
not have to worry about sound
ing like she's from Boston when
she's supposed to have been born
in the bouth Seas.
"I've been working on my
speech industriously ever since I
decided to become an actress but
it s pretty hard to get your native
locale out of it."
Miss Roman finds the best
nlnce to hear un-Boston talk is
the Main street drug store.
That's where all the townsfolk
and ranchers gather for coffee
and a cigarette.
'The great danger Is in listen
ing too much and too long." she
said. 'Then I'll start talking like
Calamity Jane. And my only
future on the screen will be tak
ing second billing to Trigger or
Champion."
Atomic Energy Used
As Rat Exterminator
Atlanta (U.R) In a sort of
Pied Piper routine, the U. S.
public health service is turning
atomic energy on rats.
Harry Essick, of the typhus
control division, says supersonic
waves, so high on the scale you
can't hear them, "drive the rats
as nuts as a person who was
shut up in a closet with a blaring
auto horn."
Then something called "black
light" locates the rats while they
are still alive. They are poisoned
with radio-isotopes.
The drawbacks, Essick said,
are expense and danger to hu
mans'fighting the rodents.
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Copr. 1950, King Features Syndicate, Inc., World rights reserved.
Taft-Hartley Labor Law Produces
304 Lawsuits During First Two Years
Washington (U.R) The Taft-
Hartley labor law has produced
304 law suits during the first two
years of its life, a survey shows.
The government started 65.
The statute was passed by a
republican congress June 23,
1H47. During its nrst year.
through June 30, 1948, 153 suits
were filed in federal courts. The
next year there were 151.
There were no criminal ac
tions. The great bulk of the cases
were between employers and un
ions. Many of them were dis
missed before opposing parties
could face each other in court.
This trend suggests that the law
thus far has had greater effect
outside the court room than as a
means of redress for harm actu
ally suffered.
The government used the law
56 times against unions and five
times against employers. Two
suits were brought against both
at the same time, and two against
a state commission. The actions
were taken to require obedience
to subpoenas; to force collective
bargaining, and to enjoin strikes,
lockouts and unfair labor prac
tices banned in the law.
Cases Still Pending
All the cases have not been
concluded. But the government
has won 18 of its suits against
unions and lost 10. Nine were
dismissed. It won three com
pany cases and lost one. One
was dismissed.
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In one suit against both com
pany and union the government
successfully prevented a strike at
the Oak Ridge atomic plant. Its
most famous case was the suc
cessful one against John L.
Lewis, president of the United
Mine Workers, in the spring of
1948.
Both unions and employers
have sued the government, most
ly over election procedures of
the National Labor Relations
board. Records do not show thry
won any of the 29 cases started
during the two-year period. Com
panies brought six cases and lost
four. Unions started 21 and lost
11. Some are still undecided and
some have been dismissed.
In industrial disputes where
the government was not in
volved, management filed about
twice as many suits as did un
ions. The proportion changed
sharply from the first year to the
second. Employers brought 72
suits against unions the first
year, almost three times the num
ber that unions filed against
them, 25. But the second year
employers filed only 50 suits,
and unions, 36.
Other suits showed individual
workers bringing actions against
both companies and unions. A
few suits were brought against
state labor relations boards by
both labor and management.
Many Issues Raised
Actions between employers
and unions were brought to en
Join strikes, picketing, lockouts,
and secondary boycotts; to col
lect damages caused by strikes;
to compel arbitration of disputes;
to demand redress for alleged
breach of contract, and the like.
Of the 122 suits filed by em
ployers against unions during the
two years, 80 have been dis
posed of. Only six cases actu
ally came to trial. The employer
won two and lost four. Sixty
nine cases were dismissed, 38
before an answer even was filed.
Six dismissals were at union re
quest. Five cases were remanded
to state courts.
Of the 61 suits brought by un
ions against employers, 38 have
been concluded, 31 by dismissal.
Twelve dismissals , however,
were on motion of fhe employer.
The unions won four judgments
and lost three.
New York federal courts led
the states in number of cases
filed with 69. Pennsylvania and
California had 27 each: Ohio.
18; Indiana. 14; Illinois, 13; New
Jersey, 12; Missouri and the Di
trict of Columbia, 10 each; and
Massachusetts. 9.
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Cop Decides To Take
Sides In Street Fight
Houston, Tex. U.PJ When
Patrolman H. R. Huckaby an
swered a call to break up a fight
he found two of the five parti
cipants were his brothers, who
are twins.
"I broke It up," Officer Huck
aby later reported. "Everything
was under control when I left."
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Sergeant C. C. Divine that Huck
aby report was correct. He had
broken up the fight. What the
officer failed to mention, though
was that he stopped the brawl
by joining sides with his two
brothers.
Sgt. Divine recommended
three-day suspension for con
duct unbecoming an officer.
PROF IN DUTCfl
Coral Gables, Fla. (U.R) A
baby food formula cost a Uni
versity of Miami law professor
$450. Prof. George H. Pickar
was fined that amount in munici
pal court for disturbing the
peace. He said a quarrel with his
wife started when he -found that
she had hiked the pablum con
tent of their baby's formula with
out getting the doctor's approval.
BREAKS COME FAST
Fort Worth, Tex. (U.R) Rob
ert Lloyd Green, 18, entered a
hospital here for the eighth time
with a broken leg. The eighth
break occurred when he over
turned on a motor scooter near
his home.
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planes are criss-crossing the area
around Arguello light station (1)
Calif., where Coast Guardsmen
reported seeing a surfaced subma
rine eight miles offshore. The
strange sub was seen ISO miles
north of Catalina Harbor (2) from
which Theodore Donay, a convicted
traitor, disappeared after renting a
motorboat and sailing seaward.
Earlier a Navy patrol plane re
ported spotting a strange sub 40
miles off Cape Mendocino (3).
Fishermen at Eureka (4) had
made a similar report.
He Just Wanted To
Have Ample Security
Menomonie, Wis. (U.R) For
the loan of $130, all the collat
eral Walter Jump wanted was
the following:
A chattel mortgage on a 1947
truck;
A load of lumber hauled from
Popple creek to Wheeler;
Two trailers hauled from Wil
son to Wheeler, about 30 miles;
Twenty-five dollars in cash;
Tea per cent interest on the
loan.
When Oscar Beckwith protest
ed the terms, Jump cut the price
to the 10 per cent interest and
the trailer delivery, or the $25.
Either way, a Menomonie jury
said, it added up to usury. Jump
was fined $50 with no interest.
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