Around Hollywood
' Hollywood U.PJ On the
back lot at Warner studio they
are burying the corpses of thous-
anas ui suns
that made
their exit in
W e dnesday's
fire.
They never
posed for
cheesecake or
had dialogue.
But the 150
roll top desks
. . . the rou
lette tables
Alin. Mosby
from the Napoleonic era . . and
the tiny miniatures of cars and
airplanes for trick scenes con
tributed to the magic of the mov
ies, too.
A two - story warehouse filled
with props, collected during 30
years of movie-making, is ashes
and rubble now.
"We'll have to start from
cratch and. build the props as
'we need them," shrugged Ar
mor Marlowe, assistant to the
head of the prop department.
"It will take 20 years to get
the prop supply almost back to
what it was. Many item's can t
be replaced."
An old-fashioned peanut veil
ing machine, complete with a
whistle, took its last bow in "The
Story of Will Rogers". It's a
charred mess now.
Oihsrs Gone
Other props which will never
see celluloid again include show
cases for 1910 meat market sets,
Joan Crawford's lucite dressing
table from "Flamingo Road,"
gymnasium equipment, an old
fashioned soda fountain and sev
en different sets of chairs and
tables for French sidewalk
cafes.
The prop men also are minus
10,000 arrows and 100 bows and
quivers, 5,000 spears and lances,
1,500 Vienesse chairs, gas chan
deliers and the inside of a sub
marine. Two authentic Civil War
cannon are blobs of metal.
The remains of the outdoor
street sets and the prop ware
house stood silent and black un
der the sun, and it could have
been a set for an atomic war
movie. A hot wind swirled ash
es around 1,000 burned World
War II Army helmets.
$10,000 Coach
"For the 'Iron Mistress' we
made this beautiful 1850 coach
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with rolled gold trim. It cost
$10,000," sighed Marlowe, and
pointed to two burned wheels
and a twisted frame.
Marlowe had rushed into the
burning warehouse to save 70
Arabian saddles and other props
needed to complete "The Desert
Song.'-' But the prop men have
to scramble to replace 500 1910
theater . seats, a marquee, pos
ters and backstage equipment
for "Broadway Revisited."
"We lost the theater sets in
the first studio fire in May. We
re-built them and the second
batch burned," he said. "And
the period black horse-hair
chairs we lost. Why, you can't
even buy the material any
more."
City's Residents
Aiding Clean-Up
After Big Fire
Battle Ground, Wash 0J.R)
Resident of Battle Ground Mon
day turned out to help clean up
debris from a fire which de
stroyed property valued in ex
cess of $200,000 Sunday,
The fire totally destroyed the
Clark County Dairymen's Asso
ciation grain elevator and a food
market owned by Ernie Dun
ning, and caused damaged to the
Red and White Food store own
ed by John Reick who estimated
his at $60,000.
Threaten Post Offies
For a time the flames threat
ened to wipe out the post office
and theater.
The fire broke out about 1
rj.m. in the warehouse, one of
the largest in the northwest, and
spread to Dunning's market and
to the Red and White store
across the street.
Sparks from the burning grain
in the elevator placed the entire
town in danger.
The fire departments of Van
couver, Hockinson, and Battle
Ground battled the blaze with
help of numerous volunteer fire
fighters. Firemen believed the
fire was the result of spontan
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1938.
GOP Veep Candidate
Target of Red Press
Moscow U.R) Sen. Richard
M. Nixon, American Republican
vice presidential nominee, has
been characterized in the Soviet
press as an "extremely reaction
ary who supported repressive
legislation."
Newspapers printed a Tass
Agency report saying Nixon
"played a most active role in
persecution of trade union lead'
ers and intellectuals suspected
of progressive views."
They described his nomina
tion as a rubber-stamp affair,
with Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhow
er, the presidential nominee, se
lecting Nixon in a conference
with several political bosses.
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Shady Cove-Trail News
Shady Cove-Trail Mr. and
Mrs. Rudolph Wagner of Lincoln
Valley, N.D., were recent guests
of Mr. and Mrs. Grant Hubbell
of Trail on their way to Lodi,
Calif. Other guests of the Hub
bell's have been Mr. and Mrs.
John Clark of Long Beach, Cal.
and Mr. and Mrs. Al Kusler of
Grants Pass. Mrs. Kusler is a
sister of Mrs. Hubbell and the
Hubbell's and Kuslers spent the
July 4 week-end .at the Hub
bell's home at Trail.
Guests of the Harold Barbers
of Trail have been Mr. and Mrs.
Fred Wait and daughter, Sylva
of Sumner, Wash., and Kenneth
Schwab and Lewis Combs of
Sherman Oaks, Calif. Guests
over July 4 were Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Pierce and Mr. and Mrs.
B. Reno, of Sumner, Wash.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Green of
Sacramento, Calif, were present
for the birthday dinner, July 4
of Mrs. Green's sister, Mrs. Dale
Sawyer of Shady Cove: Also at
tending was Jim Sawyer of Trail
brother of Dale Sawyer.
Delegates from Steelhead
Post No. 6881 VFW to the VFW
convention in Astoria were John
ny Walker and Kenneth Oliver,
post commander; Zuba Walker,
district president of the auxil
iaries; Pat Close, president of
Steelhead Post auxiliary and Ed
na Bryson, Jr., vice president of
the auxiliary, and Dorothea Gus
tafson, conductress.
Mrs. Gloria Carr and daugh
ter, Derithe, are staying with
Mrs. Carr's sister and husband.
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Oliver of
Shady Cove a time while Mrs.
Carr's husband is in Korea.
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Wilson and
family of Shady Cove spent the
July 4 week-end attending the
rodeo at Klamath Falls accomp
anied by Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd
Dusenberry and children of
Sams Valley.
Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Clark of
Big Butte, Trail, had a picnic on
Clark's creek the 4th with their
son and family, Mr. and Mrs.
Donald Clark of Medford and
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This
and
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Weber of
Trail.
Mrs. Don Wallace and children
of Newport Beach, Calif, were
guests of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard
Henry of Shady Cove recently.
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Hess and
son, Richard, made a trip to their
farm at Estacada and expect to
be moved there before school
starts. Hess is at present taking
treatments at Deer Lick Min
eral Springs in California.
Captain and Mrs. Percy Berg
erson and son, Kenneth, of San
Francisco were recent visitors
of Mr. and Mrs. Carroll Watson
of Shady Cove. Bergerson has
been captain of the Nowalk Vic
tory and has made many trips
into Korean waters and to Japan
since the beginning of the Kor-
ean war. He is employed by the"
American President lines. Oth
er visitors of the Watsons over
the 4th were Mr. and Mrs. Cass
Bergerson of Vernonia, Ore.
Airman Shot by Friend
In Scuffle Over Gun
Portland (U.R) Vernon Wil
son Pond, 17, of Grand Junction,
Colo., was dead Monday and a
hometown buddy was being held
on a charge of manslaughter as
a result of a playful scuffle over
a gun.
Sheriff's deputies said young
Pond, an airman 3-c, stationed
at the Portland International air-!
port, was the victim of what
"probably was an accident."
Lawrence Leroy Rice, also an
airman 3-c, from Grand Junc
tion, said he and Pond were in
a wooded area near Viking park,
target practicing with a .22 re
volver. He said he thought he
had emptied the weapon and
then he and Pond struggled for
possession of it.
Rice said he pulled the trigger
six' or seven times before the
gun fired, striking Pond in the
side.
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Monday, July If. 1952
Democrats Dig Up
Washington uJ.R) Admin
istration foreign policy experts
and Democratic party strate
gists are digging up what they
hope will be convincing answers
to Republican complaints about
the Korean war.
The ' intensive search for a
counter attack against the 30P
platform reflects administration
belief that the war and the year
Georgia GOP Filed
Atlanta (U.R) A bitter
fued between Georgia Republi
can factions which spilled over
into last week's GOP National
convention ended Monday.
Ray Foster, head of a pro
Taft group recognized by a Geor
gia court and two Republican
National committees but repud
iated by the full convention, is
sued a statement saying 'the
fight is over."
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Answers to Korean War Criticisms
long truce talks with the Com
munists will be a hot issue in
the forthcoming presidential
campaign.
Informed sources say the ad
ministration, from President
Truman and Secretary of State
Dean Acheson on down, is will
ing to air its side of the Korean
issue regardless of whether a
truce is achieved during the
summer.
Declared Settled
to accept his support in the
coming presidential campaign
and asked that the two factions
"unite in a common effort to
establish a two-party system in
visa ..la.
Lexington, Tenn. (U.R) Jack
son Massey, who seeks election
to the state railroad and public
utilities commission, came up
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Advance word on the admin
istration counter-offensive indi
cates that answers to the GOP
charges will be pinned to the
Republican statements and ac
tions before and after the war
began on June 25, 1950.
The foreign policy plank ap
proved by the Republican con
vention last week charged the
administration with pulling oc
cupation troops out of Korea too
soon, declaring that Korea "was
of no concern to us," and then
deciding to fight back. It also
complained of "hampering or
ders" producing "stalemates and
ignominous bartering" which
offer "no hope of victory."
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