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DENYING charees auto Indus- try lacks competition, Harlovr H. Curtice, General Motors president, tells Senators fight lor new business has never been SO aggressive. diternntional) Coquille Man Held For Molesting Youngster Coquille (U.R) A 48-year-old electrician, charged with lur ing a nine-year-old girl to his home and attacking her as she was returning from Sunday school, was lodged in city jail here today. The man, James Harrison Tip ton, has been charged with rape and molesting the girl, accord ing to Coquille Police Chief G. V. McMullen. The first chief of the United States Forest Service was Gifford Pinchot (1905-1910). European Film Community To Share Stars and Costs Rome (U.R) Europe s movie makers are siting up a united Europe with more movie fans in it than Hollywood could ever hope to find in the United States. The Project, designed to share film costs as well as stars, is a European film community. It will have a whopping box-office potential of 280,000,000 cinema goers, more than double the United States potential of 130, 000,000. "The result is going to be more films at a cheaper cost to everyone," said Eitel Monaco, spokesman for Italian produc ers whose current film output is second only to that of Ameri ca on the world market. In a United Press interview, Monaco, chief of the National Association of Motion Picture Producers, Distributors and Lab oratory Owners (ANICA), ex plained the latest move to turn the continent into one big movie land. "Our industry," he said, "has found that co-produced pictures pay off. They split investment risk and speed up the pay-back by being released onto more than one market. European Community This led, in the past, to Italian co-production pacts with France, Germany, Spain, and Argentina. Now the plan is to bundle up these separate co - production pacts into a European communi ty of producers a widening of the field everywhere somewhat along the lines of the European coal and steel pool "I recently signed an agree ment in Paris with the French Producers Association creating a committee to look into this," said Monaco. The new association, techni cally known as the Committee cf Study and Liaison for a Euro pean Film Community, included at first only French and Itailian producers. "But we invited German and Dutch producers to come in with us," said the ANICA chief, adding, "the group is open to everyone." The 52-year-old industry lead er explained the committee cur rently is working at an indus trial level, with inter-governmental talks to come later. As an example of the fruits of co- production he cited Italian and French producers who, over the past five years, have made joint ly 120 films. "They are favorites in France and include some of the best movies to come out of Europe in these last years," said Mona co, citing "Fan Fan Tulipe" with Gina Lollobrigida and "Theo dora, Slave Empress" with Gian na Maria Canale, both successes in the United States. Room for Hollywood "There is no reason why a European film community should harm Hollywood," add ed Monaco, stating that recent ly in New York he attempted to show American producers it would be to their advantage to sign an accord with Italy for co-production as distinct from AFL Sailors Led Out of Joint Group Washington (U.R) Harry Lundeberg, head of the AFL Sailors Union of the Pacific, to day led AFL unions out of a year-old joint AFL-CIO maritime organization and said the organi zation "ended." Elmo Smith To Address Oregon GOP Group Portland (U.R) Elmo Smith, president of the Oregon Senate, will address the Multnomah chapter of the Oregon Republi can Club Wednesday noon at the Benson hotel. His topic will be "The Oregon Legislature and the 1956 Election." Lundeberg's action split up the conference of American Maritime Unions, which was formed for purposes of cooper ating on common problems. The action posed new problems for the overall AFL-CIO merge plans. Lundeberg, West Coast sailors leader, said the break was main ly over his plan to reduce labor costs on bulk cargo American ships in an effort to compete with foreign flag ships. Joseph Curran, head of the CIO National Maritime Union, representing most East Coast sea men, had called Lundeberg's plan a "sell-out." current practice of major studios making 100 per cent American films in Italy. Monaco then cited figures to demonstrate the growth of Italy's film industry from a 1949 postwar, neo-realistic baby in 1949 into today's big-line chal lenger for world markets. Production of feature-length films climbed from a mere 60 in 1949 to 1954's 150. Domestic earnings leaped from $16,000, 000 in 1949 to $60,000,000 in 1953. Net foreign revenue also rose from $2,000,000 to today's $10,000,000. Over the same period, movie fans grew from 600,000,000 to 800,000,000 in Italy alone. To accommodate them, movie houses also increased from 5,000 in 1938 to 7,000 in 1943 to to day's 12,000. 80 Color Films Included Italy's annual production in vestment now exceeds $50,000, 000. It includes 80 color films among the 150 feature-length productions, as well as 400 docu mentaries and short subjects, plus 380 newsreels. The ANICA chief admits that film-making for a common Euro pean market will alter some what the character of films. Ex cessively localized stories, ap preciated only in their own coun try, "will not be encouraged," he said. "But remember," he added, "a film is essentially a spectacle, not an effete intellectual state ment. Its purpose is to entertain in any or all countries." Monday. Much 21, 1953 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE FIVE UNAWARE OF MEDICAL MARVEL connected with birth, these twins are thriving at Delaware, O., hospital where Deborah Lyn (left), was born 48 days after brother, Douglas. Mrs. Bernard Bchnees shows no ill effects of delayed birth. (International) Doris Day Given 'Golden Script' Award Hollywood U.R) Actress Doris Day today was given the "Golden Script" award by the interstate circuit of theatres for her "consistently outstanding screen portrayals and her sub sequent effective box office achievement." Distributor estimates placed Miss Day's picture gross during the last seven years at $65,000, 000. Robert J. O'Donnell, execu tive vice-president of the theatre chain, made the presentation. 4-H Club News Trail Club The Trail Sewing Circle met March 17 at the home of Joey and Jackie Hume. We started pulling threads on our head scarfs. Vice-President Willie B. Pointevent conducted the meet ing as President Toni Miller was absent. Jackie Hume, Reporter. O'Shaughnessy dam, a part of the San Francisco water system located in the high Sierra, stores 117 billion gallons of water in the Hetch Hetchy reservoir. Nippy Weather Greets Spring Debut in State Portland (U.R) Spring, 1955, made its debut in Oregon at 1:36 a.m. today but anyone up at that hour found the wea ther rather nippy. It also rained over parts of western Oregon, although the weather bureau said the precip itation would let up by Tuesday. Coldest spot in the state early today was Lakeview where a low temperature of 17 degrees was recorded. It was 18 at Burns and 19 at Baker. Portland had a low of 39. i V us Selling fj I fJ 11 Get THE Genuine UJHTCR BIASTER "At,.. omi BALL rLWtrm nticuivft 75ARDWARTORES The CASE of the WASHERS AND 11L1TWM: mm ill is. i. h DRYERS! 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