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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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young are subjected.
If the Territory of Hawaii be.
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more obscure islets will Join the
Union along with the larger, better-known
Islands of Hawaii,
Maui, Molokai, Oahu, Lanai, and
Kauai.
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New Zealand, deep In the
southern hemisphere, abounds in
fish and trees imported from
North America. A natural short
age of game fish resulted in the
"planting" of brown and rain
bow trout from Canada in the
streams. Forest depletion called
for new timber, and such trees
as Douglas fir and Monterey
pine were brought in to build up
reserves.
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