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Wild Bill Elliott Due In Murphy Tuesday With Cannon Ball Taylor and Rodik Twins Rill Eii:> . . - )oy eiven NTuv. *!io ha '.iriiecl the sooriquet uf Wild Bii:. ;nr>'..j!h his ren. ated de luieation of ; ie cluuucter ot Wild Bill Rickok. and who is booked for personal .ippea:ances at the Chic nieater next Tuesday. March 10. at both matinee ,;r.d ever Ins .shorn know about the Aide open spaces .< vg >-lore <>ibilly IjarU s' P i ' fd p!uK::inc '.hem on the radio He is the ?on of .i Pa'.tonsburg. Mo., cattleman and v. a - virtually weined on spurs, ?addles and ton-?allon hats. His name wasn't always Bill El- ( uott. Tiie -V?al?arl wiio ->o mercilessly | pursues villiuns in the movies was christened Gordon Nance and lie had to like it. Hi.- father was first a cat tle rais? i oil a ranch near Pattons burg. Mo., where Bill was born. Then he moved to Kansas City, where Bill's dad became a cattle commis- j won man. Bill had leamc-d to ride a horse j when he was five. His best friends ? were cattle hands and before he was ; ?|uiUr aware of it or could do any thing about it. he was masquerading as a vaquero. What he didn't learn i on the homo rwich, in* nrqn r?y| from watching the colorful panorama it the Kansas City Stock Yards. Slate laws, however, required an education and Bill put in his time a* the Kansas City public schools, high xrhnnln . nd eventually Rook my hum Collate, i' WM in high school that he had his first taste of dramatics. A fortune teller had told his mother that she had a son who was Koiim to become a western screen star and Bill tiad an idea that he might help to uphold the reputation of the siothsayer. After leaving Rockingham College. Elllo'.l I t ?ded for Ho' y wood *nn-ake the prediction come true. Wlien Bill arrived in California he enrolled at the Pasadena Community Playhouse to get sonic pointers on acting. The fiist thing Gilnion Brown, director of the playhouse did. was to change his name to Oordon Elliott. But instead of western hero roles, he was placed in a dress suit and appeared in society dramas. Dis pleasing cls the experience was to the embryo two-gun man, it served two WASHINGTON SNAPSHOTS It's an open secret that Important Administration men have for some time been sounding out sentiment on the creation of a new agency to han dle the shortage of manpower whicn is creeping u pon us. At the present writing, odds are that such an agen cy will be set up within a relatively short tune, according to the best in formed opinion in town. The situation behind the move for b. manpower agency' lines up some what as fololws: There are now 5 million workers engaged in war pro duction. After the President's war buoget message. OPM labor officials estimated that 10 million additional additional workers would have to be ?dded by the end of this year, and that employment in war Industry should reach 20 million by the mid dle of 1943. At the same time, the armed services are working toward an army of 10 million men (highest estimate). All of which adds up to SO million men in the war effort by the end of next year ? more than half of the present number of workers in the nation. The Department of Labor points out that there aren't enough men for the 23,500.000 war Jobs In In dustry and that ,as a result, women will have to t? called upon to fill In dustrial jobs. Meanwhile Senators from major agricultural areas report a critical shortage of farm labor. This Is at tributed to the draft and high wages to defense industries. War factory owners are also complaining. Poor recruiting policy and social pressure ?re. they say, acting to drive key workers into military service. Against this background plans for the control of the nation's manpower ?re proposed. The functions of the new agency ?re not 7et defined. It Is expected that it will serve to alolcate manpow er among farm, factory and the fir ing line, wherever most needed. There Is some talk afoot about es tablishing a labor priorities mUm similar to the one used to rappor Wonlng strategic raw materials. Chief contestants In the undercov 1 er light to control the new agency 1 are Paul V. McNutt. head of the Fed | fjral Security Agency and allied groups. Secretary ol Labor Perkins, who thinks that she should control fU lactlvitles involving labor, and Sidney Hillman, head of the Labor Division of the War Production Board. It Is thought In Administra tion circles that the new position will in many respects, carry power equal tn that of Donald M. Nelson, national production chief. Mr Nelson has instituted a sys tem whereby he can check daily on each of 300 principal military items being produced. | Each day Mr. Nelson and his first I assistants wil Ibe handed a report sheet showing current progress as measured by production goals. The I purpose of these sheets, as explained by Mr. Nelson, is twofold: They will enable the War Production Board to discover instantly the location and cause of production delays "anywhere along the line:" and they will "meas ure the performance of every one of us; alibis wll be impossible." As one of the WPB men succinctly put it. under this system Mr. Nelson wll lbe able to discover any bottle necks in the production program within thirty minutes and give the person responsible "Help or Hell." WPB officials are anxious to ; spread the word to Industry that : nothing should interfere with the - speediest possible production of war j good* jiot even the fear of anti-trust | prosecutions. The question has arisen In connec tion with cooperative moves by In dustry such as the pooling of m? rhnery, tools and other resources by a number of companies in order to , speed up results. In these cases, the ! backing of a government order Is a I good defense of activities which I might otherwise be considered a vio lation of the anti-trust laws. In addition .official spokesmen state that trust buster Thunnan Ar nold. head of the anti-trust division of the Department of Jostles, is agreeable to the suggestion that anti trust prosecutions be tabled Tata the war Is over. purposes. It taught him something tbout acting and it won him a mo tion picture contract with Warner Brothers Elliott's first picture was "Won der Bar," a musical with A1 Jolson Others were " Napoleon. Jr.". "The Private Life of Helen of Troy." and "Broadway Scandal." Then come what In.' thought was his western break. Moonlight on the Prairie "' but It was only an Interlude It took almc : seven yea., for Fl Uott to get the bre;<k h! wanted. C lumbia Pictures u looking for i new western pt nality to ap:<car In . ;e.ial. "Wild BUI Tfeen he did aiuther serial 'Overland With Kit Car.ion " Mtanwhile. tin lliek | ok" picture received such an enthu 1 siastlc response that Hllott mmedl- t atcly was put In feature westerns, j playing the character of Wild Bill i Hickok His first included "The Ijtw I Comes to Texas," "Lone Star Plo . neers." "Frontiers of '49' and "In Early Arliona." Th : was th!X'e years aeo To date. ; k:Uoh >t iupi ared In nv>e than thirty wrsicm features, each on" .. idim :o his popularity until now he : s 'TV , a: 't i>r the five wrs \ t: ? : .t r iu motion pictures : hair. Lj kd; eye bit Ho I ..lurrltL to ' i l'oinit: Hel 1 Jo. v.: ? ri-:'i Mtyc utxl thi-y live oa u i In San Fernando Valley. Oal Duh a Musical Star Dub i Cannonball > Taylor, screen comedian, who also is appearing In prison with Wild BUI Elliott, started his theatrical career as an xylophone player with Larry Rich's orchestra. Later he went into vaudeville and from there to Hollywood, where PruiiK Cnpri discovered htm for mo lion pictures. Identic Twins to Appear ALso on the bill, in pcrsan. will be \ . rn.i and Verda Rodik, slnttln^ c w . who have been seen In mos' i WiU u . pictures. The Rodik at t lentical twins, born in Oltlahom i Thi ir father Is a liews pj i-v; man. CHIC THEATRE MURPHY; N. C. Saturday. March 7 GENE AT TRY Smiiev llurnrtle ? In ? "SUNSET IN WYOMING" Admission 11c; 1 2c Sat. I -ate Show 10:30 Shirley Ross Wm. Lundi^an ? In ? "SAILORS ON LEAVE" Admission. 11c; 30r Son,., Mon.. Mar. 8, 9 Hedy Lamar, Kobt. Tonni ? IN ? "H. M. PULHAM ESQ." Admission, 11c, 3(c Tuesday, March 10 BILL ELLIOTT (DVB) TAYLOR ? AND ? THE RODIK TWINS IN PERSON ON OCR STAGE ADMISSION CHILDREN. 25c ADULTS, 50c Wed., March 11 Only Humphrey Botrart ? IN ? "ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT Admission, lie. Me TUESDAY, MARCH 10TH. MATINEE AND NIGHT DIRECT tRQM On the Screen BrLL ELLIOTT'S LATEST PICTURE "BULLETS FOR BANDITS" ADMISSION CHILDREN 25c, ADULTS 50c Thnre., Frl.. March It, IS RomHiid Saad Don Arnnh* "FEMININE TOUCH" ??, m. Saturday. March 14 Diek Foran, Lro Carina, Andy Deftee ? IN ? "ROAD AGENT lie. tte LATE SHOW Saturday. 10:9* P. M. Alan Baxter Mary CkrHe "RAGS TO RICHES" m m
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