Show Anniversary of Sound Movies Recalls Early Panic of Star Truman Purge Aimed at Restoring Party Machinery Public By BAUKIIAGE Newt Analyst and Commentator the development of the breechIVNU Service 1616 Eye Street NW and the perfection loading firearm Washington D C — the making of spiralled WASHINGTON D C— Before the of rifling Paris Peace conference even got grooves inside the barrel whicha that the gave the bullet or projectile we learned underway movement and kept it which heard so twisting rules committee "head over heels" much heated or from tumbling This increased range and accuatory was as as the racy powerful was still on the The emphasis powerful rules of the rifleman rather than the artillery committee as we have statistics of house repre- and such indicate that the infantry in the sentatives - Prussian war of 1870 It wasn't until Franco after the pri- wounded 10 times as many men as mary returns the artillery did Undoubtedly the were in and bayonet claimed many however Representative artillery By (Truman - hater) the wounded produced Slaughter of Mis- showing the rapid advance which souri a mem- in part made experts forget the ber of the rules rocket again was committee Artillery according to the old defmounted defeated that most laymen real- inition is of that battle of caliber ized the importance firearms greater than stuck his that of small arms" This definition and why the President he did in helpneck out as far as to include could easily be made the firearms shells or bombs caring to beat him now as ried by planes or contained in the I can see the President he looked up with that pert birdof a rocket I mention like glance he has— Just enough of the effectiveness of a smile to make you try to listen "artillery” in the latter sense sympathetically — and say that if not to belittle the doughboy who was right he (the Presi- is really the "ultimo ratio” but be Slaughter cause the projectile dent) was wrong either carried In a Think what Slaughter could have in a plane or by propulsion rocket is what might be called the said if he had been elected! But he was defeated — and the definitive weapon The point is we did not develop day after the primary the real sigbecame the rocket in the Civil war because of the battle nificance we felt we had something clear better Never in American history has rifled artillery And again the any administration been up against and small arms) the situation which developed when rocket was set aside by a decision the Roosevelt arrived at before we engaged honeymoon ended am not arguing how or why that actively in World War II when our came about But the fact experts situation both in the army and out where of it including is we have had a situation the great indusparty lines meant little and the trialists who could gauge our proof majority rule duction capacity felt the airplane principle as a on which the theory was a superior weapon congress has is organized We did not entirely neglect study working body been violated and experimentation on the rockwas the et during the war however example and Outstanding There were five now we are probably rules committee farther ad— southerners vanced in this type of "artillery" and than any other nation Democrats —on that committee We also with Slaughter's help they could have learned to project our "artiltie up the vote and tie up any legis- lery" by means of the "drone” lation Truman asked for On (pilotless airplane) August 7 Now maybe the fact that the ad- the duties droned their way from ministration couldn't get its legis- Honolulu to California One ef them or couldn't dropped a bomb The rest landed lation before congress was a successfully A plane with no pilot get it passed when it did I am not discussing can bomb a nation that far distant good thing 1 that what hap- without risking human life that merely say pened Is not a good thing for the And as the situsystem It Thia the ation grew more acute congress Army Mr Jones? wasn’t a working body In World War I when YMCA of a Let’s take the testimony and Red Cross canteens were mem"thoroughly loyal Republican ber of the committee and acting established right up into the zone and even nearer leader Representative of the advance minority Michener of Michigan If the Dem- the front some of the “old timers” ocrats retain control of the house of those days wrote to the editors the Civil war was won insisting that Michener said the absence of Representative Slaughter will permit on "salt horse and likker" (I recall the rules committee to function the that phrase in one of the letters) and we were Just softening the boys way It was intended to function Well it didn't soften them too the of the namely legislation soft for Chateau Thierry and the party in power will be sent to the Argonne floor Then came World War II and That didn't mean Michener wanted the rival' party's legislation some of the veterans of the earlier war their eyebrows at the passed It simply meant he knew USO raised dinners at the front turkey that Slaughter teaming up with ice cream (inthe Democrats on Thanksgiving salmon corn willy and the Republicans was able to stead of beans or nothing) tie the vote and stymie action But soldier you ain’t heard And that isn't governnuttmt ment When they say "This is the army Mr Jones” to you future GIs Big you’ll hardly believe it Killer in War Did you hear what Field Marshal This has been an aviation year sand and green for the (blood The first peacetime hedges) year that Normandy Montgomery America has been acknowledged had to say? He believes enlisted as mistress of the air as well as men in the British army ought to of the sea and the land It has live like other folks Bedrooms not been a time of reminiscence of barracks as well as forecast "You had your breakfast in bed recapitulation and foreshadowing' before” goes the warning song I remember the interview I had "but you won't have it there any with a certain army official dur- more" Maybe not But if Monty His impatience has his way the war British soldiers can ing read in bed smashing the ordinary rules of cenhad revealed the secret And what about those tricky unisorship of the bazooka kept "confidential" forms American soldiers are going long after It was in use and the to wear? details of which Germans had long Blue! (like the boys in blue who since learned to their sorrow to Blue Bell) (The said And bazooka on the rocket perhaps functions with a lighter shade for the trousers! And principle) The officer pointed to an old overcoats AND CAPES! You aren’t In the army now Mr print on his wall It was a picture soldiers discharging Jones You're in grand of American opera! in the War of a rocket projectile And then there is that terminal 1812 leave pay bill passed by congress if the rocket princiI suppose to pacify the fellows Why then ple was known to us in those early who got out of the army without days did we not develop it as the knowing what they were going to Germans did I asked miss Almost three billion dollars reason the The rocket was dumped into GI pockets to even in the Civil war period them up with what the officers reneglected was because told was I ordnance ceived for furloughs they hadn't on taken concentrating experts were BARBS by Roy G Ownes said to be an enoffers me (and gineer economist Only by supyou) this suggestion plying the mouse with cheese to can the point of be taught to abstain the mouse from stealing He says man is much advanced beyond this point Remember that track a little rain onto each must fall race- Daukhage It seems to me White Russia and Ukraine have as much right to a separate vote in the UN as do California and Maine not to menUon the District of Columbia which ought to have a vote somewhere Automobiles soon will be sold through army post exchanges Neither Jeep ncr cheap Press Editor’s Note: While Win- chell is on vacation Jack Lait is acting as guest columnist Unenthused at Sound to motion came fastest Federal pictures just 20 years ago yet most of the excitement over the invention that today makes movies one of America's chief Industries didn’t come from the press or public but from stars who were panicked by the realization that their voices might not be pitched for recording public Despite an unenthusiastic and skeptical producers of the first talkies "The Jazz Singer” starring was May McAvoy and A1 Jolson released in 1927 From then on a star’s voice was recordable or he was through John Barrymore and Conrad from made the transition Nagel to sound without a hitch silence who was under contract to Nagel MGM at the time and receiving $2500 was loaned to every other in Hollywood and in the company first two years of talkies he made 31 films Take Lead Westerns for Westerns sound Recording at first seemed impossible but Fox i' y‘ t" EARLY IN CAREER Douglas Fairbanks acclaimed as Idol of the screen Is shown with his first camera staff ing one of his early pictures Actress Bessie Love played star in above picture title unknown made “In Old Arizona" with Warner Baxter as the star and such greats as William Boyd now Cassidy and the late Bill Hopalong Westerns Hart rose to their fame film WsAAs- JWSi'U &r- J- Si TH- T'l ' HISTORICAL STARS Among the most famous stars in early days of silent films were Charlie Chaplin and Jackie Coogan shown here in a scene from "The Kid” OLD WESTERN by millions while makopposite the total more box office receipts any other type of picture Joan Crawford and Greta Garbo both thought someone now than was playing a Joke on them voices men’s by substituting when they first heard recordWaings of their own voices made a talkie llace Beery for Paramount — his first — promptly was fired and went there to He’s been MGM ever since Zazu Pitts of silent days was cona great dramatic actress sidered track on the sound voice Her ruined it all and she wisely switched to comedy and made her Charlie fortune as a funny girL silent and sound comedian Chaplin even now is of the early days a comeback after six planning of absence years’ Started In 1927 Picture and sound recorded and on the same piece of synchronized when film caused little excitement it first was shown to the public Y N in Schenectady in 1927 So the late Charles A Hoxie of Schenwho developed it in the ectady laboratories of General Electric as he carted his Kinemagraphone called it back to the plant It wasn’t until a year or so later that the president of the company took it with him to Europe to introduce an educational film There it was received with such enthusiasm that company officials believed the movie was perhaps best talking Besuited to educational purposes fore more educational movies had however the movie been produced use into the put general industry Hoxie machine Today it is used by practically every movie company in thi country Farmers Pack Guns to Curb Rustlers WENDOVER of the Civil war con—Reminiscent troversy is the move sponsored by 2000 residents of the Utah part of salt flats town this little Bonneville of 2500 to secede from Utah so they can Join their other 500 townsof Nevada where folk as residents a man can do anything he wants— well almost anything "Utah doesn’t even seem to know we’re in the state and apparently doesn’t even care if we’re in the Lester Giflen Union” bewailed for the secessionists spokesman Main complaint against Utah is the fact that the Beehive state's laws are too strict from the "A tourist coming East stops in my place and looks for the slot machines” explained a cafe owner on the Utah side "I have to tell him we can't have to heck with so he says them s Atlantic City shut up tighter than The cops Just seat the ever sad word around and the wheels Jack Lynch stopped rolling who lost his historic club on Walton hotel roof when Philly’s sudden fire regulations closed it is r spot hunting a new there meanwhile he wants to take over the now dark Rainbow room in “iladio City— but the Rockefellers don't seem to need the money When George White whess "Scandals" rivaled Ziegfeld's “Follies" ran Into trouble in San Diego the sup- hearted bard Broadposedly way boys called a meeting and chipped in for a defense fund Buddy de Sylva was the leader The kitty went to (50006! Faye returns STYLE MADISON WIS — Defying modern methods of criminal detection Wood county farmers have bandvigied together in the lante system to curb a recent outbreak of cattle rustling here An SOS over a rural party telethe first conphone line prompted certed manhunt when 50 farmers packing guns in old vigilante style for rustlers set out on a quest They beat a wooded sector from midnight until dawn but the rustlers had disappeared who lives in Bernard Kroening nearby Rock saw a car slip up to XIouse-IIunter- in a Garden of Eden-BAmerican ' Divorce and issued by is the decree Judge Moore in St ThomIt as Virgin Islands U S A takes eight hours to get to St Thomas from New York via plane flying the new nonstop route after six By a new regulation residence the decree is weeks’ signed eliminating long periods of other and delays pertpublication inent to Reno or Miami divorces The Virgin islands are a practically unknown paradise — few tourists best Scotch on earth at (250 a fifth cigarets 50 cents a carton shopping for native woven products at prewar prices and your Two buck worth 100 cents American hotels — Hotel 829 and the government - run Bluebeard’s 60 Castle — total accommodations The Virgin islands people! divorce decree is the only one in the country signed by a federal judge who is appointed by the No V I divorce has President yet been contested by any state Lawyers feel that the federal character of the decree puts it above In this tropical Capri protest the American finds new world comforts along with authentic old world atmosphere like the South Sea islands once Natives live in tiny huts had the beaches are blue and coral the water crystal clear with vast acres wild awaiting settlement The government— local and national— is eager to sell at ridiculously low fiAt Cineel bay on St gures John (one of the U S Virgin the most group) on earth rests its spreading beach white arms in cool tropical splendor — with an average of three bathers a dayl Cabanas furnished by the U S are usually empty Unshackled ‘Talkie’ Advent a woods on his farm two occupants emerging and entering the chaswoods He fired three shots ing the men deeper into the woods his wife got busy on Meanwhile to round the party Line up the gang farmers however Before their arrival the mysterious car raced off down the road Kroening gave chase In the his car but lost quarry Kroening told the vigilantes he believed the two strangers still were in the woods and that the car had been who had driven by a third party remained in it of 50 you'— and drives to Nevada” While sell only keepers some of the West same innkeeper can beer his fellow barthe state line have bars in if "In Nevada drink he orders he's happy — and said "In Utah permit go to the and buy a quart has to drink the he doesn’t show nhxt day” Petitions will be presented to and if apthe Utah legislature proved there must be accepted by Then conthe Nevada legislature gress will be asked to alter the boundary to include all of Westover in Nevada Covet — Covetous CALIF SAN JOSE glances from myriad during the current housing shortage are being attracted by a mansion here which originally to appease ghosts Started 37 years before her death wife of by Mrs Sarah Winchester the inventor of the Winchester rifle of Civil war fame the spravding "crazy quilt" structure soon became an architectural horror construction and reno Constant this 32 across the acfoss'the border Although hampered by fog the beat through bushes and thickets for hours without finding the rustlers Two Marshfield traffic officers and several deputies helped them An electric wire which charged a fence on the Kroening farm had been turned off by the thieves and the farmers theorized that the men had made careful preparations for herding the animals the fence when a truck through farmers arrived later In a previous incident rustling fired on a mysterious strangers farmer who came upon them unon his farm near Wisexpectedly consin Rapids Texas High School Boy Presents Own Program on Radio - TEXAS MESQUITE Although only 17 years old Dale Berry Mesquite high school senior has been booked on a sustaining program over radio station WRR with his own cowboy band Berry who secured his own sponsor for the program formerly played with Bill Boyd's and was on the Cowboy Ramblers Grand Ole Opry program over a Nashville station Berry plays the guitar and other members of the band are Robert Jenkins Cleo Landolt Benny and Matt McGlothern Instruction in piano and a few lessons guitar represent Berry’s He is a son only musical training of Mr and Mrs R S Berry of Mesquite Mansion Built to Appease Ghosts vation forced many of the hundreds of windows in the house to Some of the open on solid walls doors on upper floors open directoutside with no stairly on the more though ways provided than 40 stairways each with 13 steps are scatttered through the interior Many of them like the windows and doors have no utility value except for ghosts lurking in the maze of secret passages hidden panels and trap doors the death of her husWinchester became by the lethal role of the rifle in war and peace and built additions to the house to and entertain the ghosts "pacify of She continued gun victims” building additions for many years each providing a new monstrosity Every night for 37 years servants prepared and served lavish banquet spreads as Mrs Winchester chatted with her “guests” Following band Mrs Emerson (Mrs Roosevelt) to the stage at Cape Cod Mass August 12 In “Here Today” a warmed-ove- r Ruth Gordon r of 1934 It’s official— Joan Crawford’s next Is “Possessed” with Van Heflin based on a Cosmopolitan novelette magazine “One Man’s Secret” by Rita W elm an Civil aeronautics bureau may not know this When it approved an around - the - world route for TWA linked with Northwest Howard Hughes who owns TWA had an option on control of NorthTWA west is to fly N Y to Shanghai via Europe Northwest is to pick up there flying to Alaska and Seattle Hughes’ option was to become effective if aa and when Northwest got government permission to fly the Pacific So it appears Hughes who broke the air record has in hand the route he laid out on that famous And zoom with announcement of the license plus the approval of the Constellations with changes TWA stock leaped so that Hughes’ holdings have been rising at a rate of about (1000000 a day — as he lies and listens to his ribs knitting Jack Dempsey and Jake Amron former Hollywood restaurant boss have made a flossy offer for Henry Lustigs Longchamps restaurant chain ’Tobacco Road” earned a fortune largely cause Harry Oshrin doesn't go wild on payday John Barton will draw (350 a week starring as r Lester on tour next season which gives you a sougjr idea of what the lesser hillbilly performers will rate Saratoga bit deeply Into New York nightlife The best and steadiest spenders have flocked to the which Spa with all its hopes didn’t anticipate such a The OPA doesn't seem to have penetrated there Prices were pegged steep for a short season But when the New York Influx fluxed In the natives took up some notches in the jacks Now the common man with a $5 bill doesn’t know whether to lay it on the favorite to show or buy a bot dog |