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Work Under
Contract Is,
Like; Leaning
On Fence
' HOLLYWOOD (UP) Working
under a studio contract is like
spending your life leaning on
fence, Van Heflin feels.
Sure, the contract holds you up.
iW as long as you're leaning on it,
you're not getting anywhere.
.When you get away from that
feJfce post and out.on your own.
maybe youn knees will be a little
wobbly for a while. But you'll see
a doen " roads opening that you
never could travel before.
i;"Behig under contract gives you
financial and emotional security,"
Heflin said. "But you lose the sense
ot accomplishment that goes hand
in hand with being a free agent.
' '"Acting is a creative business.
Nqthing creative functions well
when fenced in or leaning on a
prop. A contract is a fence and t
prop."
There are only two things that
squeeze a good performance out
of-an actor, Heflin said. Either he's
got to be starving, or he's got to
be free to choose the roles he be?
Iieves he can play best.
U i Just Part of Stable
''A contract player has to do
what he's told, and play the part?
others, pick out for him," Heflin
said. "As far as the studio is con
cerned he's just part of the stable.
He's just a chess piece they move
around to protect the king and
queen.
'If he's one of the few top stars
then f course he dictates his own
stories. But most average players
are better off when they cast loose
add take a hand in their- own des-
tiny." .
Heflin is making his first picture
since he broke his contract with
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It's "Cost
of living," a Sam Spiegel produc
tibh for United Artists.
i "That weekly paycheck looked
iwfully good," he admitted. "Bui
his year I'll make four times whal
1 would have at MGM. Best of all
"I'll be playing the kind of parts 1
want to play.
f "I get my biggest fan mail play'
Ing the ruthless lover parts, like
1 did in two loan-outs. MGM had
plenty of other ruthless lovers
They always cast me as the intel
lectual type.
, "I had to offer to do two pic
hires free to get out of my con
tract but it was worth it. I got
qti cheap."
Escaped Convict Back To Prison
.SECOND MCKLE SAVES DAY
iviujsuiN, wis. ivy)-u was
lucky for Tony Genna that he had
two nickles when he stepped into
the drug store telephone booth
The first one he used to make his
call. The second enabled him to
fall police when he came out of
the booth and found that the pro
prietor had closed, the store and
gone home.
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Willie Rector, escaped convict who made a good name for himself
in Tennessee, is visited by his wife and children in jail at Chat
tanooga before removal to North Carolina to face a long prison
term. He was sentenced to death at Morganton, in 1931 on a charge
that he raped the 13-year-old sister of his first wife. The late Gov.
0. Max Gardner commuted the death sentence to 30 years in prison.
Rector -escaped prison in 1944. He Came to Tennessee, adopted the
name of Marshall Evans, married again and became a good citizen
in the town of Spring City. Friends are petitioning North Carolina's
Gov. Kerr Scott to free Rector. (AP Photeo).
7IRST CITY TRAFFIC LIGHT
LAIMED BY CLEVELAND
CLEVELAND, O. (UP) Aug. 3,
1914, is an historic date for Amer-
can motoXgts. It is a day that has
since cost' drivers money, caused
ligh blood pressure and developed
nany bad tempers.
On that day according to the
Cleveland Automobile Club, James
1. Hoge hiing up the first traffic
ight at a now bustling east side
intersection here.
Hoge's first signal was hand
ipcratcd by a policeman stationed
it the carper,' who would ring a bell
ind turn the light on whenever
he nearby .firehouse received a
tall. .
The signals had full approval of
he chamber of commerce and a
'ew months later a second set was
nstalled. However, Hoge's success
vas cut short when the lights were
leclared unnecessary and imprat
Jeal. ': ; ;.;
FOR PLEASURE ONLY
- DETROIT (UP) Shuffleboards
mnst measure at least 12 feet in
length, the Detroit common coun
cil ruled. The council passed an
ordinance controlling their length
after police complained that short
er boards are used as gambling
devices in some taverns.
Maillillikageyeaaegyaye
Is Just His First Name
THEKt'S NO
GEORGES ON THIS
ROAD I'M LUTHER.'
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I MR. (X, I WANT WU TO MEET) '
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AP Newsfeatures
A man in New Orleans carries
the full name of Maillillikageye
aaegyaye Edeyoueayearayilo An
Villyllayio. St. Louis has a Mr.
jMirenhoersterbaeumer. There is a
Mr. Aledasnabajadiedoescheda in
Detroit, and Mr. James J. Pappa
theodorokoummountourgcotopoulos was a Chicago confectioner.
These are among the longest
surnames in the country, says
Elsdon C. Smith, a practicing
attorney who has made a 20-year
study of names. In a new bopk,
JThe Story of Our Names," (Har
per, Smith cites some of the
- lbngest " and shortest " names on
record. Among the latter, he lists
it Mr. Py of Fairmont, Minn , a
Mr.iOi of Chicago, and a Mr. Ax
qf Indianapolis. A Chinese gradu
ate from an American medical
school in 1925 had the shortest
of all, however; the single letter
"Men with odd names have
sometimes attained such, fame
'that the quecrness of their ,
names hag been, forgotten," says
Smith. "In this country alone
there were Preserved Fish the
New York merchant, and Cotton
and Incracse Mather, the New
England divines.
"A railway mail clerk of Meri-
dan, Wis., is Darling Dear. The
Apple family of Chicago had a son
they named Orange. Orange Van
ilia Lemon resides in Boise, Idaho "
Apt occupational names are
easy to find In the United States,
Smith says. He cites Dr. Donat
Yd'6, a dentist of Dayton, Ohio,
and a Dr. Teothachc, also a den
tist at Burlington, Iowa. I Will
Sing s " a 'Chinese" laundrynian
in Thomasville, Ga. And In 1948
Please Wright was a candidate
for postmaster at Oceana, W Va.
Initials sometimes make od
dities m names, says Smith. "The
lawyer, Daniel Ashton Martin, hir
eq Irene Thompson to do his ston
ographic work. In the lower left
hand corner of the letters he dic
tated she dutifully wrote, "Diet
DAMIT."
Champ Wood Chopper Retires
GETS LINE ON LONG-LOST DAUGHTER
r
CHAMPION woodchopper Peter McLaren in action.
Too Much
Sex Killing
The Novel
By PAUL KUTSCHE
United Press Staff Correspondent
LONDON (UP) - The modern
novel will be dead within 50 years
in the opinion of one of Britain's
foremost authors.
Uninhibited descriptions of sex
and over-use of four-letter words
will help kill it, he said.
Compton Machenzie, who has
written 70 books., including 35 nov
els, also maintained that FrCud
was a tremendous blow to fiction.
"Psychology has become a mere
substitute for experience," he said.
"Life has become too comfort
able, with too many passive amuse.
ments, to provide either good nov
els or a novel-reading public," the
67-year-old Scottish-American au
thor observed in an interview at
his country home.
: Laziness Blamed
In the terms of "Aliee in Won
derland," he said, "You wonder
sometimes whether the White King
is part of Alice's dream, or Alice
part of his dream,"
"The free, uninhibited descrip
tion of sex and impulse, with four
letter words, comes from the same
laziness," he said. "It will help to
kill the novel.
"I see no future for writing with
out restraint. You lose intensity
and the public has even got over
being shocked."
Silver-haired, with a small mus
tache and Van Dyke. Mackenzie
looks the typical English country
aristocrat, in baggy, tweeds, faded
sweater and slouch hat. ,
He is not only a novelist, drama
tist and magazine editor, but also
a political historian, - broadcaster,'
world traveler, and supporter of
Scottish, Irish, and Welslf nation
alism. - '. .;
He Made Good
Mackenzie's chief dislike is the
aspiring writer who thinks people
owe him a living.
"He ought to prove himself be
fore he demands support," Mac
kenzie said. '
"I Went through it all myself. At
24 I wrote my first novel and swore
I wouldn't write another word until
it was published. That took three
years, so I got married and raised
daffodils while I waited."
Today Mackenzie has a fine crop
of daffodils, an enviable library
and record collection, and a com
fortable estate tangible evidence
that he knew what he was waiting
AP Newsfeatures
PHILADELPHIA An Australi
an who made wood chopping such
jn art that three kings command-
d performances is retiring at the
age of 68 and going home.
Peter . McLaren was called to en
ertain kings, but colleges and uni
versities hired him as the scientist
A the axe. . . ' ''.;'., ' f
The Melbourne-born king of the
vood choppers became world
:hampion in contests at Melbourne
ind Perth In 1905. He last particip
ated in Australia's .annual world
championship axe swinging con-
ests in 1910. Later, he became
such an undisputed niaster that he
gave challengers a 50 per cent time
bonus. In thousands of contests
he was defeated on that basis but
three times. McLaren has never
been beaten in the United States.
In 1908 his fame was so wide
spread that Kaiser Wi! helm, of
Germany, commanded a perform
ance in Berlin. Three years
later McLaren chopped wood ul
tho behest of King Edward VII of
England, and later made a com
mand appearance before King
V.
Cornell and Yale universities
and Pennsylvania and Michigan
State colleges engaged him as a
forestry . instructor. Yale's famed
coach of championship swimming
teams, Bob Kiputh, had McLaren
teach his swimmers the use of the
axe to harden their bodies.
McLaren has been a wonder in
the world of athletics for nearly 30
years, sine he carried his vigor
ous activity beyond his 40th year
He annually appeared in about 500
contests up to last year barn
storming the United States and
Europe.
Those 10-Cent Shaves
Are Gone Forever
SACRAMENTO (UP) - Union
barbers rubbed their eyes and took
another look but there it was, a
large sign advertising 15-cent hair
cuts and 10-cent shaves, in down
town Sacramento.
What's more, "Wilson's' Sanitary
barber Shop" proudly advertised
"union wages and union hours
established in 1879."' . .
The sign, painted on a brick wall,
came into view with the tearing
down of an old building. Older resi
dents , recalled that as children
they received a big bag of candy
from the enterprising' barber along
with every "haircut. ,
According to the" sign, Wilson's
also dealt in "Corn 'and J3union!
Killer, Chilblain Killer,' Dandruff
Killer, Hair Grower and Fresh Egg
Shampoo Compound."- All services
were "money back" if tho customer
wasn't satisfied.
PAID IN ADVANCE
ALBANY, N. Y, (UP) Frederick
Washington arranged and paid for
his own funeral. His will noted
that he had a "paid in full" re
ceipt for the burial.
THAT'S REALISM
HAMMOND, Wis. (UP) Eddie
Wright was watching a television
wrestling match on a Minneapolis
station, became excited and raised
his fist to his face with such force
that he knocked out two teeth.
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ARRIVING BY PIAN1 la New York from Guilford Surrey, England, Mrs.
Eva Cook (inset) phones her daughter, Mrs, Nancy. Johnson, of Long
Beach, Calif, whom she had not seen in 25 years. Mrs. Cook lost track
v of her daughter when her first husband took the child "on a short trip'1
' and disappeared. Thirteen years ago, Mrs. Johnson, pictured above with
her son, located her mother and urged a reunion. (International)
Grilled in Slaying
'HORSE AND BUGGY' DOC
WANTED IN OLD TOWN
WINSTON-SALEM .(UP) There
is a real deal cooked up near here
for any doctor who longs for the
life of a rural general practition
er, "oldt-fashioned". style.
Old Town wants a doctor and
they want him badly. Five years
ago, the only doctor got sick and
left. Since then there has been
nobody to take his place. Folks say
some deaths might have been
avoided if a physician had been
Mrs. R. Y. Sharpe, loader of the
doctor-getting committee, said the
three schools in the area, Old
Town, Old Richmond, and Vienna,
need a doctor most of all. The chil
dren just have been doing without.
And if somebody will come, the
Old Town people will see to it that
the doctor finds a place to live and
establish Van office. . ., ' i?
mm.
Spar varnish, highly resistant to
dampness and the destructive ac
tion of water, gets its name because
for manv years it was used to coat
spars and ships.
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Marathon Pianist
Plays 7 Days
AUCKLAND, N. Z. (UP) Jim
Montecino claims that when he
played the piano non-stop for 176
hours and 45 minutes he estab
lished a world record. ;
The 45-year-old New Zealander
sat at a piano in Auckland's Tro
cadero cabaret and played for
seven days. He ate three meals a
day, supplemented ' by bowls of
soup and cups of tea, as he played
thousands of tunes and request
numbers.
"The first day was the hardest,"
Montecino said. "The nights pass
ed quickly, but the days dragged."
After six days his feet and ankles
began to swell and slits were cut
in the sides of his carpet slippers.
Montecino chain - smoked 250
cigarettes daily during his endur
ance test, and used powerful smell,
ing salts to fight sleep. At intervals
eau-de-Colone was sprayed on his
face.
His feet were so swollen when
he ended his marathon that he had
to be carried to a couch, where he
slept for 18 hours.
Montecino said he intends to
visit the United States sometime
this year to challenge marathon
pianists there.
Isotopes In Industry j
Raise City Problem
CLEVELAND, O. (UP) Increas
ing use of radioactive isotopes inl
industrial . plants here is creating
an atomic age problem.
II. G. Dyktoij. city commissioner
of air pollution, said the residue
is becoming a menace since it re
mains radioactive for years uid
safe disposal methods have not
been developed. - v
The possibility of dumping in
the sewers has been ruled out,
Dyktor said, for-fear of contami
nating areas through which the
sewars.pass.
It also seems the discarded iso
topes can't even be buried because
continued accumulation might' af
fect the health of the neighbor
hood. Dyktor sajd the only thing left
was to consult the Atomic Energy
Commission for a solution.
Self Contrj
Secret of Fi
Success
HOLLYWOOD iTp
Crawford, at 42. k 0Be';
worlds all-time EUlll(JUr
The secret, she a, u
line. 1
"Laziness, se!t-inritc,.,.
don-t-glve.a.hail6 m -1
llilnoi that . . . 4
- i uwi a pi, "
"Atun tV i - ... 6 '
aV a woman uhJ
ests thpm tnj ., u
.uumiig, mai s all!
But keeping tlum
wuik., merauy. Jjlss f;
U'.ltfhAG lien Ai ..
Kimc auu xerci5fj eei
ing. . ..
The results seem tK
I fort. In a tight, lu,vUi ,
evening gown she wears fur'
I hia'a". Harriet Craig m,,,
lrtnlrs III... At
me wunl
wiiujii won wiiisties. were is
rosiure is the mu,t j,,
uujuiiti 10 glamour," she 0j
wonaer wr.y it k u 0,,t
lected. I refuse to 5iUlin)
stand or hunch over a de--k
read or write. It s upIv ;
bad for you bhysieallyj'ii
your organs function wlun
all cramped in?"
Dieting Simple
Diet with Miss Crawford
ply training herself to sb
trom candy, pastry and star
I don t eat foods that
constructive" to what I
wiy like, sue saia. t don t
look well on that kind of
una mere is no more .fun
world than feeling and
well. :
"The longer you stay awai
candy and rich desserts t
you want them. I have got
my weight stays the same t if
round, and I eat everything
want."
Miss Crawford doesn't Ml
strenuous exercise, She pin
nis, swims and walks the
siei-s io scnooi in tne morai
"And I manage to do
stretching or limbering
each morning," she said.
pends on how I feel about v.
body needs. Sometimes
stretch my shoulders or
kink out of my back."
Miss Crawford's career ii
ter shape than ever at thi
and so js Miss Crawford
OLD FRIENDS STICK
NEWBURYPORT, Mass. (UP
When Mr. .and Mrs. William Hicks
celebrated their golden wedding
anniversary, they had as guests
six persons who were puests at
their wedding 50 years before.. .
TEASPOONFl'L imh;s rii
BOSTON (UP) - Onlv in
spoonful of, fuel oil is reqii
haul one ton of fright on
by Diesel electric locomotiJ
Boston & Maine railroad n
BIRD HEADS EAGLF
GRAND RAPIDS. Midi.
Ralph Bird has been elednl
dent of the Michigan slate
Fraternal Order ot Eagles.
John R. Albert
ACTING oo a tip, police of Millville,
N. J, have been questioning John
R. Albert, 31 (above), a chemist,
in connection with the strangula
tion murder of Lorraine Hess, 17.
Albert, who officials cay has a
past record of sex offenses, was re
portedly seen with the high school
Junior a few weeks before her
violent death. (International)
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Complainant Tripped Up
In Hit-Run Case
ST PAUL (UP) It cost Harry
Fairbairn a $50 fine to appear as
complainant in a hit-run driving
case. ' ..;.,.
In the trial it was indicated that
Fairbairn's driver's license had
been suspended. Patrolman "Wil
liam McKeand followed him from
the building after the court session.
When Fairbairn climbed into a
car and started to go away, Mc
Keand arrested him.
Fairbairn pleaded guilty to driv
ing after his license had been sus
pended and Judge Thomas L.
Bergin imposed a $30 fine.
IT USUALLY RAINS
PETERSBURG, Alaska (UP)
There is no "rainy season" in
Petersburg. The average rainfall
is 120 inches per year, contrasted
to New York City's 42.87. .
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