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Movie Industry Unleashing Film Barrage in Bid for Lost Business Editor! nntu FotlAwinv I. th firm f a two-part aerlei on the motion i-ctiire industry's new fight to krp U share of the mow buitneii dollar. By ALIKE MOSBY United Press Hollywood Writer Hollywood W Now that television's too programs have slowed to sum mer re - runs, the movie in dustry , is un leashing a bar rage of care fully selected pictures in the hope that its i f f j lost business I . . f $2. , I i win return to Aline Mosby the theaters. some industry leaders even predict the future road of the picture business may be found in the results of the summer t faf y Khrushchev Says Red China Milking Soviet Reds Dry London OP) Soviet Commun ist Party Chief Nikita Khrush chev has complained that Red China "is milking us dry", diplo matic sources said Saturday. Khrushchev made the remark to East European leaders during recent negotiations for increased Soviet aid to the satellites, the sources said. The Peiping regime is under stood to be insisting that Russia fulfil her commitments to supply Industrial goods and raw ma terials on which China s eco nomic planning depends to an important degree. Under Pressure Russia, although under pres sure for more assistance from her satellites in Europe, cannot afford to rebuke Red China, on whose political good will she is at present more dependent than ver. Khrushchev said in Czechoslo vakia that Russia's strength lies in the aid which she dispenses "with great joy" to other commu nist states. But there have been signs for some time that the growing call of Soviet assistance is severaly testing Russia's strained econ omy. These demands compete with Russia's offers of economic as sistance to underdeveloped coun tries, made in the last 12 months in a political contest with the Vfest over the neutralist nations. Lead lo0More Claims - The latest shakeup in Moscow may lead to more satellite claims on Russian assistance. Khrush chev has indicated during his Czechoslovakian tour that Rus sia will help the satellites in raising their standards of living. China's communist boss Mao Tse Tung is expected to visit Moscow later this month after is call in Warsaw. Iron curtain sources say that the question of future Russian supplies to Red China will be among the topics of discussion. boxoffice grosses. , " Summertime has become im portant to the movie industry the hot months when TV relaxes its grip on the public, school is out and citizens seek air-conditioned comfort. The movies now the underdog of ' the show business world have slipped in to try to capture some cus tomers. Despite official smiles of opti mism, "Industry executives pri vately admit movie business in recent months has been at an all time low," according to Variety, a show business trade paper. "If an expected boxoffice in crease does not result this sum mer, serious consequences for the film business may result," Variety says. "A large number of theaters have their backs against the rope." Studios Take Action While TV takes a rest, film studios have rushed out "Love in the Afternoon," "A Hatful of Rain," "The Pride and the Pas sion," "The Sweet Smell of Suc cess," "An Affair to Remember, "Les Girls," "A Face in the Crowd" and "Bernardine." The summer splurge is an other sign of an industrial phe nomena of this generation the rapid change in the movie in dustry and even in the physical community of Hollywood. Ten years ago the movie busi ness ruled the entertainment scene, but TV and a change of America's living habits have brought a revolution. Hollywood is replacing New York as the TV capital. Next fall 70 per cent of the nation's net work evening shows will origin ate from here; last year it was 54 per cent from Hollywood and 48 from New York. TV pro ducers report a flood of TV ac tors moving here from the East. Twentieth Century-Fox is busy digging for oil and has a long- range plan to subdivide some of its valuable real estate for public sale. RKO and Columbia also plan to drill for oil on their lots. Every major studio " including MGM is either renting space to TV producers and or pro ducing films for television. The Screen Actors' Guild reports 50 per cent of the employment for its 8,500 members comes from TV. But the movie industry is forg ing ahead. Hollywood is produc ing 365 theatrical films worth 400 million dollars this year, compared to 296 in 1956 and 286 in 1955. A glance at the financial state- Esgro Convicted in Television Trial Texarkana, Ark. tin James Moore, a 19-year-old Negro was convicted of murder in the first degree Friday night in a trial that was the first in Arkansas to be photographed by television cameras. Moore, who was tried for the second time on the charge, was expected to be sentenced to die in the electric chair. An all- white, all-male jury returned a guilty verdict that did not rec ommend mercy. Moore was convicted of par ticipating in the $10 robbery and fatal beating of 76-year-old M R. Hamm. A first trial ver dict of guilty for Moore and three other Negroes was re versed by the Arkansas Supreme (Sburt, which ordered separate trials. Youth Killed When He Falls off Truck Port Oxford HH Dennis Neely, 14, son of Mr. and Mrs. d Neely, Port Orford, was fa tally injured Friday when he fell off the back of a truck on Sixes river road six miles from here. The coroner's office said young Neely and 14-year-old Robert Gilbreath were riding on the bed of the truck operated by Gilbreath's grandfather, B. E. Rice. The Neely boy apparently lost his footing and fell from the truck against a bank as the vehicle rounded a curve. He then rolled back under the truck and his head and chest were crushed by the rear dual wheels. He was pronounced dead on arrival at a doctor's office here. Shah of Iran Takes Control of Relief Tehran, Iran OPl The Shah of Iran Saturday took per sonal control of relief operations for victims of last week's earth quake that killed 2,000 persons, injured 5,000 and left tens of thousands homeless. The Shah himself planned a trip to the devastated Caspain sea coast to see what can be done to aid some 5.000 children left motherless and homeless and threatened with starvation. nj-urrtj-LjxnjTJTJTJxr Memo from Reddy , . A-X -n yoaOPZ a. 7-counAfc dimmatt ments issued by the studios shows a general increase but helped apparently details never are released by the sale of old films to TV, production of new TV series or other subsidiaries. Columbia Pictures, for exam ple, reveals that for the fiscal year ended June 30 its TV unit, Screen Gems, grossed 20 million dollars compared to 11 million the previous year. But the com pany's theatrical output resulted in only one solid hit, "The Eddy Duchin Story." Next: How to make a movie hit these days. Indian Government Reverses Decision Bombay, India OPl The In dian government reversed an earlier decision Saturday and is sued a passport permitting an Indian beauty linked romantical ly with Roberto .Rossellini, to leave the country. In doing so, the Indian gov ernment acted against the wish es of the woman's husband, In dian film director Hari Das Gup ta, who had petitioned against issuing a passport. Das Gupta, in asking the gov ernment last May to prevent his wife, Sonali, from leaving In dia, claimed she was prepared to skip the country with Ros sellini, Ingrid Bergman's mate. Attorney May Seek to Dismiss Clinton Case Knoxville, Tenn. HP) A defense attorney said Saturday that unless the government of fers better proof that 15 Tennes seans "conspired" with John Kasper to hinder the integration of Clinton, Tenn., High school, he will ask the court to dismiss the case this week. The government has connect ed 11 of 15 Tennessee defendants with Kasper during three days of testimony, but chief defense counsel Robert L. Dobbs said there has been no proof that they conspired with the segrega tion leader to violate a federal court order banning interference of integration at Clinton. Bead and Use Classified Ads The Low Cost Way to SeU Monday, July 15. 1957 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE SEVEN Navy Checks Report On Sub Near Alaska Anchorage, Alaska (IP) The Navy Saturday was checking out reports of an unidentfied sub marine within the three-mile limit of Alaskan waters. The Civil Aeronautics admin istration confirmed the report made Friday by a barge skipper for Morrison-Knulsen company. Inc. The skipper said the sub surfaced about 200 yards from his vessel at 3 p.m. pst just south of Dutch Harbor in the Aleutian Islands. The Navy said no American submarines were known to be in the area. 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