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Louisiana Judge Rules Criticism Press' Right Lake Charles, La. (U.R) A Louisiana judge has ruled that criticism of public officials is the right of the press. The Judge said there was no evidence of "actual malice" in freeing five newsmen Friday of charges that they defamed 16 parish officials and three ad mitted gamblers. Indictments Thrown Out The verdict by Judge J. Ber nard Cocke threw out indict ments against William H. and Thomas B. Shearman, co-publishers of the Lake Charles American Press; Managing Edi tor Kenneth Dixon, City Editor James W. Norton and Court Re porter Carter George. The indictments were returned by a grand jury called to in vestigate vice conditions in Cal casieu parish after a People's Action group backed by the newspaper launched an anti gambling crusade. Right of Press Judge Cocke, who was ap pointed by the Louisiana Su preme Court to hear the case, said it is the right of the press and sometimes the duty to com ment upon public actions of public officials and "criticism of -the public acts . . . may well rebound to the benefit of the public." The newsmen were charged with defaming 13 members of the Calcasieu parish police jury. District Attorney Melvin H. Wetherill, Sheriff Henry A. Ham Reid and the three gam blers E. J. Miller, Sam Smith and Claude Williams. Knots Help Trees Solve Knotty Problem Kent, O. W.R Knots gen erally are not wanted by home craftsmen or carpenters, but they help the tree solve the knotty problem of self-preservation. So says Martin L. Davey Jr., tree expert, who points out the knots are merely the gnarled growth provided by nature In healing over the wounds where branches were shed. As branches grow and crowd each other, trees do some self pruning and shedding of branches, he explained. The first transcontinental tele graph line was completed on October 24, 1861, nearly eight i years before the continent was crossed by rail. ? x i V -.'J-j jtj ' f- -i-iiiiffn:(iirir REBELS AGAINST FLYING Lt. Verne Goodwin (left), first of 13 reserve flying officers to be courtmartialed at Biggs Air Force Base, Tex., for refusing to fly, was sentenced to two years in prison. Goodwin testified he refused to fly because ae feared his nervous and pregnant wife .vould lose her Baby. Mrs. Goodwill (right) holds the 2-montr-oi'" Roger, bom two months prematurely when she heard her husband was to be courtmartialed. Given Away May 17th To the Lucky Number COSCO TABLE And De Lux STEP -UP STOOL Value $30.90 Your FREE TICKET Can Be Obtained at PAR STORE You Don't Hare to Buy to Participate You Don't Have to Be Present to Win COMPLETE LINE . . . Home and Auto Supplies Garden Tools Fishing Tackle Refrigerators Stoves Deep Freeze Electrical Appliances Trade In That Used Mower on a Johnson 18 or 21 Inch POWER MOWER S&H GREEN STAMPS DOUBLE WED. IP AM ST0IHUE MAIN & HOLLY PHONE 2-5550 ! Around Hollywood Hollywood (U.R) Television furrowed the brows of the mighty theater owners. But it T caused an even !s greater crisis at a tiny the ater on a quiet sidestreet in Hollywood. This movie house is the one in the world that shows silent pictures exclu- Aline Mosby sively. When TV started running some antique films, the theater played to some empty seats. "Those old films that televi sion started with were horrible," says John Hampton, owner of the silent theater. "They gave a lot of people the idea that all old movies are like that. "Television hurt us, but we're still plugging away." No Double Features This theater has no double features, usherettes in fancy uni forms, popcorn or glittering mar quee. Hampton paints the neat posters out front and carefully assembles lobby displays that tell whether Mary Pickford or Rod La Rocque is appearing. The walls inside the 250-seat theater are a sober brown. Hampton and his wife, Doro thy, from Oklahoma, opened "The Movie" 10 years ago this month. Mrs. Hampton sells the tickets. Her husband runs the projection machine and syn cronlzes recorded music to the action. . Not To Be Laughed At To the Hamptons, silent mov ies are a serious art form and are not to be laughed at. They call their theater a shrine to talk-less pictures. A sign out front says it's ("dedicated to those who cherish the movie as the living history of your chang ing styles, manners and cus toms." "Sometimes new customers get too boisterous and we ask them to leave," says Hampton. "But most get over that laughing at the different styles In acting and clothing. Sound was a great step forward, but there's still a place for silents. They're vlrtu all another medium." Old-Timers Drop In Old-times like Mack Sennett and Harold Lloyd drop in to see their early works. Gilda Gray was a customer last week for her "Piccadilly." This week: Jean Harlow's first movie, a Laurel and Hardy com edy, "Double Whoopee," and Constance Talmadge in "A Pair of Silk Stockings." As you sit in 1 MORRELLS PRIDE Another 2000 Lbs Arriving Tomorrow - Same Price Sorry We Sold Out So Early Friday Quality Market 222.. West Main BUY YOUR PICNIC TOMORROW . CLOSED SUNDAY By ALINE MOSBY United Preis Correspondent the quiet theater, the images float across the screen, larger than life, with the strange, dis embodied poetry pf the silent film. The actors, unhampered by earthbound dialogue, exist In their own dream-like medium that talkies have never fully recaptured. Next week: Eric Von Stro- heim's "Merry-go-round," and "Tillie's Punctured Romance," with Marie Dressier and Charlie Chaplin. Bring the kiddies. Spectacular Plane Reported Success In Maiden Flight Fort Worth, Tex. (U.R) The nation's most spectacular new aircraft the ultra-secret all-Je YB-60 global bomber was pro nounced a success after a maiden flight which only "modestly' tested its capabilities. "It rides like a Cadillac," said one of its pilots, Only top Air Force and Con solidated Vultee Aircraft offi cials were allowed to abserve the YB-60 streak off the runway and land again at Carswell Air Force base after 1 hour and 6 minutes in the air. Spectators Line Runway But several thousand specta tors, Including Air Force per sonnel from Carswell, the home of the B-36, lined the left side of the runway, the roads outside the base and stood on rooftops for a from-afar glimpse at a mighty big, queer-looking air plane whose details still are top security matter. The needle - nosed, secretly built craft is almost triangular shaped with swept-back wings, almost as big as a giant B-36. Its eight jet engines trail plumes of vapor and there s a shrill, whining overtone to the deep roar of the engines. Puerto Rico May Get New Legal Holiday San Juan, P. R. (U.R) This island, which has 18 legal holl' days every year, will get an- other if a bill now before the insular house of representatives is approved. The proposal calls for annual commemoration of March 8, 1952. as the day on which Puer to Rico's home-written consti tution was ratified In referendum. Besides Christmas and New Year's days. Puerto Rico enjoys a mixture of U. S. and local holidays. HE SHOULD KNOW Milwaukee (U.R) J. Arthur Butler won first prize In the liars' contest of the Milwaukee Round Table Club. Then Butler noticed how late lt was and asked, nervously, "What will I tell my wife? Weaving is one of man's old est crafts, but man probably made felt cloth before he made any woven fabric. ANNOUNCEMENT For SALES AND SERVICE et the Famous ELECTROLUX Cleaner and Air Purifier and other Horn Malnteiuncf Products pleat .1 . . Phone 2-5000 A bonded, authorized represen tative will promptly respond, I tl-Cent A Gallon Synthetic Gasoline Reported Possible Washington (U.R) Secre tary of Interior Oscar L. Chap man is "very encouraged" by an engineers' report indicating synthetic gasoline can be made to sell for 11 cents a gallon. He said the report by Ebasco Services, Inc., New York, show ed that the Bureau of Mines is working in the right direction and should continue research in converting coal Into oil and chemicals. Dispute on Coils The report was made for Chap man because there was a dis pute between the bureau and the National Petroleum Council over how much it costs to pro duce a gallon of gasoline by the coal hydrogenation coal to - oil process. The bureau said the cost should be slightly less than 11 cents a gallon for motor fuel, but the Petroleum Council said a truer figure would be about 41 cents a gallon. Sunday, April 10, ltSl MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE NINE Ex-Convict Sentenced On Kidnaping Charge Kansas City, Mo. (U.R) A 28-year-old California ex convict faced a 50-year federal prison term Saturday for the kidnap rape of a 12-year-old Jasper, Mo., girl he promised to take to town to buy a birthday present. Judge Albert A. Ridge, who passed sentence on Warren S. Campbell of Los Angeles, told t h e Callfornian he probably would have received the death penalty if a jury had heard the cse. Campbell pleaded guilty and admitted gaining confidence of the girl's father, a tavern keeper, then kidnaping and raping the child after promising to buy her the present. Auks and murres lay but a single egg; hummingbirds, two; robins, three to five; grouse, eight to IS. The number is prob ably an adaptation to the dan gers to which the eggs and young are subjected. 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