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Evening star., 1947-07-12
Where and When
Current Theoter Attractions
and Time Of Showing

Stage.
Catholic University-"All Gaul L
Diyided"; $3.50 pm.
Screen.
Ambassador Great Expecta-
tons; /. sos, $40, tbs and s:3(
pm.
CapitoI-"Cynthia" 1915 am.
1855, 3:35, $40, and 11:40 pm
Stage shows: 1905, $50, $50, BIS
and 10:55 pm.
Columbia Miracle on 34th
Street; 1925 am, 1880. 3:35, 5:35
7:4D. 9:45 and HAS pm.
Earle Great Expectations"
10:45 am, 1888. 3:05, Sis, 7:25 and
9:45 pm. and -.
Hippodrome The Years Be.
tween; 2:2o, Ais, sos, 8 and s:5t
pm.
Keith's-"Ivy";; IL, 2:25, 4:5O, 7:20
9:45 pm. and 1915 am.
Little-"Storm in a Teacup";; 1:3(
am, 1880, $3.50. $50, 7:35 and
$40 pm.
Metropolitan odd Man OUT;
11:10 am, 1:20, 1925, $50, TAO, 9:4s
and 11:55 pm.
PaIace-"The Macomber Affair"
IL: 40 am, 1:25, $3.50, 5:35, TAO, 9:4s
and 11:50 pm.
Pix-"Lucrezia Borzia"; 2:15, 4:50
7:35, 1915 pm. and ! am.
Trans-Lux News and shorts
continuous from 1918 am.
Evening star., 1947-07-12
Hollywood:
Players Given
The Last Word
BY Columnist
By SheiIoh Grohom

Greer Carson is getting very un-
fair treatment here, simply because
she made Adventure" with Clark
Gable. This, as you know, was pretty
much of a flop at the box office.
Then there were all those rumors
about her last picture, originally
titled woman of My own" and
now called "As You Desire Me-"
Then Deborah Kerr was signed by
MGM. Immediately, the rumor-
mongers tried to create a feud be-
tween the two gals by saying that
all the best pictures on the lot
would go to Deb, not Greer. When
Miss Kerr became an expectant
mother, they limited that this was
Just what the doctor ordered-for
Greer. Here is Miss Garson's "last
word" on the subject: Il don't have
to wait for Deborah to get pregnant
to get good pictures at Metro" And
by golly, she's right.
\ X X \
Orson Welles is furious over the
printed item that he has exceeded
his $7O0,O00- 0-something budget for
Macbeth" and that it has already
been upped to 100000. "Ill bring
in the picture of the budget we
agreed on, and not a cent over,' says
Orson.
I was able to get a last word"
from Phyllis Calvert about the
handshake contract she was sup
posed to have made with j. Arthur
Rank, British movie tycoon. mo
one ever has a handshake contract
with Mr.. Rank" Phyllis assures me
in her dressing room at Paramount
where she is co-starring with Mel
vyn Douglas in my Own True
Love" ''It was Mr.. Ranks own
idea that British stars should come
to Hollywood and make one picture
and then 60 back. That's what
I'm doing. I'll do one year here
and one in England annually" With
regard to the story in a national
Evening star., 1947-07-12

'"Ihe Short Happy Life of Francis
Macomber," In an anthology several
years ago, Hemingway rated it as
the most reprintable" OF his pieces.
The movie version indicates other
wise for "The Macomber Affair" on
the screen is not merely nstless,
unexciting narrative, but one which
comes of with strange comedy ef-
fects which can only startle the
daylights out of old Hemingway
admirers. The story he once set
down on paper is substantially re-
tanned in the Palace picture, but
| it is extraordinarily non-photogenic.
Surprisingly enough, this seems to
be inherent in the narrative for
those associated with "The Macom-
Der Affair" are respectable lot with
an obvious high respect for the
Hemingway material. The dramatic
values of the fiction simply do not
transmit in the new medium. The
major characters look more like the
sort to be found in cheap adven-
ture tales, not those worthy OF be-
ing collected in the anthologies OF
the writing aristocrats.
"The Macomber Affair."" United
Artists product sponsored by Bene-
dict Bogeaus and Casey Robinson,
might well have deceived any Holly
wood Hemingway enthusiast that 1t
would make sturdy screen fiction.
It is an account of the emotions of
three humans on a big game hunt
in Africa. The emotions have a
tendency to turn primitive under
such conditions and Hemingway
found them dramatic and exciting
in his original report.
The trio is composed of the
Macombers, Francis and Margaret,
his beautiful wife. and Robert Will
son a lanky. white hunter who is
quite expert on such safaris.
The Macombers are not getting
along at all we'll, after some years
of grating on each others nerves,
when the animal shooting junket
begins. He has plenty of money, a
quality in him that she likes. What
she does not like in him is sense
of inferiority which inspires him to
cowardice in the presence OF the
strong, brutality when face to face
with the weak. The idea OF both
Macombers, at least vaguely, is that
dose of triumph over a few lions
and other royal beast will cure
Macomber of what ails him.
Wilson, the hunter impersonated
by Peck, is aware of the strained
relations of the Macombers. AS
members of his profession usually
are, he is determined to remain
Indifferent to the domestic affairs
of his employers. 1t turns out,
however, that Mrs. Macomber, dis
appointed in Francis, is more preda-
tory than the animals the hunter
is familiar with.
Under normal circumstances, 1t
would be a foul to tell how the
triangle works out. However, the
picture itself bothers with no such
restraint. 1T opens with prologue
which shows that Macomber was
Killed by q shot in the back and
then retraces the story Of the hunt
to . let ;, the audience determine
whether his killing was accfdefltaf.
y X X X
There is a curious lack Of action
Evening star., 1947-07-12
Two-Way Radios Installed
In ARLINGTON City Cabs

The Arlington City Cab Co., Inc,
today announced it has become the
first taxi firm in the county to in
stall two-way radios in its cabs.
Robert Waller, president, said
Evening star., 1947-07-12

only two other taxi companies in
the Washington area, both in the
District, have two-way radios.
The Federal Communication Com
mission authorized the Arlington
installations some time ago, and a
radio tower has been installed at
the company's ofices, 1l26 North
Hudson street.
Mr.. Waller said installation al
ready have been made in about half
Of the firms cabs and the others
will be equipped in a short time.
Evening star., 1947-07-12

THE MACoMBER AFFAIR" United
Artists Picture with Gregory Peck and
Joan Bennett produced BY BENEDICT !
by Robinson and Seymour Bennett. from a
story by Ernest Hemingway. At the
THE CAST.
Robert Wilson Gregory Peck
Margaret Macomber -----Joan Bennett
Francis Macomber ----- Robert Preston
Capt. Smollet ---- Reginald Denny
Aimee Jean Gillie
Evening star., 1947-07-12

in the screen treatment OF 1.-The
Macomber Affair."" which might
have been avoided if the producers
had chosen to tell the story in the
straight line followed by Heming-
way when he wrote it. What ex.
citement is injected into 1t is in.
troduced in sporadic spurts with
much too much time spent drink
ing, eating and sleeping in the
hunting party's tents.
Occasional shots, camera type
shots, of wild game herds fleeing in
the distance provide the film with
more thrills than those when the
lens is bearing directly on Peck
Miss Bennett and Preston.
Actually, it is one of the latter
that completely nullifies Heming-
ways dramatic peak in the story
In this, when Macomber fees from
his first lion, the whole crux OF the
trouble between the husband and
wife is revealed. That is to say it
is in the original. In the movie
the audience just laughs, as it does
at a number of other wrong places.
That is what is wrong with "The
Macomber Affair"
Evening star., 1947-07-12
Hemingway's Macomber Tale
Loses Flavor on Screen
By Joy Cormody

gm-faced of great
Toll" Killers
especial blessings there bound to be exception only
writer 1t
Macomb Affair with Gregory Peck Joan
its principals
In to which titled
Evening star., 1947-04-27
the Time
By VIOLET FAULKNER
Food Editor

Ns~@3s
Food Editor
% AKING HAS COME a long
- way since grandmother's
time.
Setting the sponge" the
night before baking was a
regular procedure for grand
mother. Maybe she didn't
fully understand all the tech
nicalities concerning the
growth of yeast. but she did
know the yeast cells would
multiply in lukewarm water
to which a sweetening had
been added. Neighbors passed
bits of the precious sponge"
on in the event some careless
soul ran out of it. Today, we
60 to the corner grocer for
small cakes of yeast whenever
we need them.
Now comes an even easier
way to do the family baking.
This new method involves
no kneading, the breadmak-
ing time is actually cut in
half. and from one basic
recipe you get an endless vari-
ETY. of delicious breads, rolls,
or coffee cakes.
The speedy pan rolls shown
here require no kneading, no
shaping and only an hour to
make. Sounds too good to be
true, but this is how it is
done:
In a good sized bowl, COM
bine one cup lukewarm water,
one-third cup melted shorten
ing, one tablespoon sugar. and
two teaspoons salt. To this,
add two packages yeast.
either the compressed or dry
granular kind, mix we'll and
blend in one egg, Add three
and one-half cups sifted flour
and mix the dough until it is
smoothly blended and soft.
Now, turn the dough out on a
well-foured board and roll it
TO fit a 12x8-inch pan. Cut
INTO rectangles, as illustrated,
and set in a warm place to
rise until double in bulk
about 80 minutes. Bake in a
not oven t425 degrees F. for
20 minutes.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-04
Total Represents Decline
OF 81 Per Cent On
1916 Figures

RALEIGH, July 3-Highway &C
cidents during May killed 45 per-
sons, a decline Of 80 per cent from
the 66 who met death on North
Carolina highways during May,
1916. Col. Landon c. Rosser, com
missioner of motor vehicles, re-
ported today.
Rosser said 1913 persons were m
iured in May, compared with olo
injuries in May. 1916.
Ten of the fatalities and 1923 in
iuries occurred in $40 accidents
in cities and towns. On rural
highways there were 458 accldents
with IS persons killed and 1863 m
jured.
caused by motor vehicle running
off road; IA by collision between
two vehicles; four by collision with
pedestrians; three by COLLISION
with trains; two by o~verturn1ng
in road; enc by collision with AMI
mai.drawn vehicle; and n mis-
cellaneous accident.
Rosser said a decrease OF II
per cent was noted in pedestrian
fatalities over May, 1916.
Charlotte led all cities in fatall-
ties with three persons killed.
Charlotte has had 10 fatalities dur
ing the first five months of this
year, and has led cities in fatall-
ties every month SO far.
Mecklenburg and Wake led all
counties with four fatalities each.
Rowan and Surry had three each;
and these counties had two: Ca
tawba, Cleveland, Columbus, Dur
ham, Forsyth. Castor, Gulford'
Union, and Wayne.
One fatality was noted in each
of hese counties: Berthe, Bun
combe. Davidson, Lenoir. Lincoln,
New Hanover, Orange. Pitt, Polk,
Rockingham, Stanly, Transylvanla
and Wilson.
During the first five months OF
this year, 1923 persons have been
killed and 2,367 injured as a result
| of 1905 accidents. These figures
show a decrease of 10 per cent. in
fatalities over the same period
last year, when 403 persons were
killed and 2,436 were injured in
4,131 accidents.
Mecklenburg and Wake also
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-04
Robson Jury Holds
MocksviIe Man On
Manslaughter Count
special to the Star


LUMBERTON. July ga Robe
son county coroner's jury yestes,
day found probable cause to hoio
Wade D. Holland of Mocksvllle 1o1
manslaughter in the death OF OsN
Brooke, 19-year-old Indian OF Max
ton, Route 8.
The jury found Brooks died from
injuries sustained Tuesday nlgh1
when he was struck by the auto
mobile driven by Holland on high
way "A, four miles west OF Pem'
broke. Brooks was riding a olcy-
Gle at the time.
Paul Brooks, 16, who was riding
a bicycle with Brooks, his COUSIN
was critically injured in the same
accident and is a patient in, the
hospital here.
Investigating officers found the
car was travelling at a high rate
of speed. They testified the car
in which Harold G.. James, owner
and Oscar Cook we're passengers
with Holland, contained severa.
cases of beer and a pint of whis
key. The jury also learned the
bikes had no lights.
Funeral for Brooks will be hele
at 8 pm. Sunday at Harpers Ferry
Baptist church.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-04
RADIO
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announcing staff will be. at the
mikes on Derby Day in order to
keep race fans all over
southeastern North Carolina info--
med as to every happening at
Derby Downs.
News that WMFD will broadcast
the event was one of many things
which happened around Derby
headquarters yesterday. Topping
the list, perhaps, was the receipt
from National headquarters in
Detroit of the N. Dreystadt champ
ionship plaque which will be award
ed to the Wilmington city champ
ION at the conclusion of the final
heat.
The plaque, n Of the hand
soonest awards yet given by the
president of Chevrolet, will be
placed on display early next week
with a host of other fine prizes
TO be awarded on Derby Day.
Chairman James Copeland of the
Derby parade committee, informed
headquarters that he is working
on a plan which may develop
INTO one of the most colorful events
Put on here in years.
While keeping rather mum On
the details, Copeland assured
headquarters that the parade on
Derby Day morning will be worth
going miles to see.
Invitations were mailed yester-
day to service clubs in ali county
seat towns o. the Wilmington trade
area, urging the staging of Soap
Box races in each of the commu-
rites with the winners to be sent
to Wilmington for the big Derby
here.
And from that Derby will come
the new Wilmington champion-the
boy who will represent Wilmington
and The Star-News in the National
finals at Akron, Ohio, on August IT.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-04
D0UCHT0N
CONTINUED From Page One)

the senate, also asking anonymity,
said 4 preliminary check indicates
that a veto might be upheld in the
senate.
Senator Millikin G-Colo), fl
nance committee chairman told
newsmen that the prospects Of ov-
erriding in the senate clocks good
and I'm hopeful.
Senator Byrd O-va), who has
been lining up Democratic support
for the new measure, still claimed
81 certain senate votes to over
ride, with an additional 10 or IA
IN prospect.
II Mr.. Truman vetoes the new
measure, it would require "a votes
70 override If all senators were
present and voting.
Debt Payment
house Ways and Means Chair
man Knutson (R-Minn.) author Of
the bill, said it would yield $780,
900, 600, 900 in revenues in the fiscal
year ending June 30, 1948-enorsn,
he said, ito pay at least S 1000,
900, 900 on the nations debt in the
next IL months.
The bill approved today is iden.
Hcal with the measure vetoed by
Mr.. Truman June 16 as the wrong
kind Of tax reduction at the wrong
time-except that the effective date
Of the tax cut is next Jan. i in.
stead of July 1. 1947.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-04
Long Weekend Holiday
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

49,
With July 4 coming on a Friday,
thousands Of North Carolinians
made a long weekend of the holi-
day by forgetting their jobs until
Monday in favor Of the beaches
and mountains, and attending
sporting events and special INDIE
pendence Day festivities arranged
in many cities.
The weatherman said today
would be a perfect day with one
exception. That was a disturbed
condition off the North Carolina
capes. However, that moved north
westward out Of the state.
Thousands of textile workers
will be free until Monday, many
Of them having started their sum
mer vacations a week ago.
ALI governmental offices in the
state will be closed today, excep'
essential public services such q:
police and fire protection, al
banks will be closed this legal holi
day, but many Of them will be
open Saturday, a normal half
holiday. Postoffices will observe
holiday hours but return TO regu-
lar schedules Saturday.
Most retail stores will be closed
and resume business Saturday
morning.
Rail, air and bus lines were pre-
pairing for the usual heavy holiday
traffic. Police chiefs asked mo
torists to be extra careful over
the holiday.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-04
Pleasure Hating Baptist
Preacher Chains Child

KNOXVILLE. Tenn, July 3-W.R
f. A pleasure-hatin2 Baptist
preacher chained his daughter to
a bedpost today, augmenting his
usual weekly belt-lashing of the
pretty blonde girl so she would
be safe from worldly associates
on her 10Th birthday, police said
tonight.
Mortified authorities released
the sobbing child, who bore livid
welts on her body from the repeat.
ed 'beatings. They took her father,
short swarthy and bespectacleo
William Massengill, so. to jail. The
tight-lipped stepmother - Mas
sengin's third wife also was
held for questioning.
Geraldine Jerry) Massengul,
the daughter, owed her escape te
her own ingenuity. AS her 16tt
birthday dawned, she said, Mas
sengil came in her room ane
%padlocked a big iron chain arount
her ankle. He padlocked the Other
end OF the chain to the bedsteae
in her dingy room.
The chain gave the girl enough
freedom of movement to get t.
the window and when she spied {
little friend, eight-year-old Ed
ward Johnson, playing on the side
walk she scrubbed a note on ar
old Christmas card and dropped
it TO- the lad.
Friend Calls Police
1t was addressed to Barbars
Jean Rutherford, a neighborhooc
girl Jerry's. own age. Daddy has
chained me to the bed, please
call the police" the note said. Ed
ward took the card to Barbara
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-04

and she Immediately called the
police.
Capt. c. v. Christenberry and
Patrolman Henry Grady arrived
within an hour. When Christen-
berry saw the fettered, bruised
child he called Chief Of Police Joe
Kimsey 50 he could see it for him
self.
"It's the worst thing I've ever
seen in America" said Chief
Kimsey, as the police struggled
with the locks and chain. Massen-
gill came home and gave them the
keys to release Geraldine.
He readily admitted claiming
her to the bed and said 81 guess I
am ashamed of this, but it was
the only way I could keep her
home so she wouldn't get into
trouble"
Admits Whipping Her
"You won't believe me, but I
loved her." said the father, blink
ing through his thick glasses and
showing a blue stubble Of beard.
When police questioned him about
the raised red welts on the
girls hips and legs, Massengill
admitted that he was in the habit
of whipping her.
cat least every week." broke
in the weeping girl.
Massengill then produced a col
lection OF belts that he said he
had used to administer the beat
ings one of them a stout strap an
inch wide.
Neighbors in the poor-class dis
trict, said that 'he beat hell out
OF her at times" Mrs. Delbert
johnson, mother Of the boy who
delivered the note, said that Ger
aldine was a quiet child who stay
ed at home virtually all Of the
time.
l. ''Thank Goodness"
Geraldine said that she had nev-
err been to a movie. gone swim
ming or attended a party because
Of her fathers harsh rules. Her
brother, Edward, 10, ran away
from home almost a year ago be-
cause of the sever beatings he
received from his father, the
girl said.
Jerry will be placed in a jul
venile home where she can re-
ceive proper care, officers said,
and when they told her she said
through her tears thank good
ness"
Formal charges had not been
placed against Massengil or his
wife. The mother OF Jerry and
Edward died some years ago and
Massengill's earlier wife had
also died.
Police said that Massengill was
an ordained Baptist minister but
had no regular pulpit. He came
,ere sboat five pears ago.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-04
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Sunday when the weekend vaca'
toners will be returning to their
homes.
The Cape Fear hotel is booked
for the weekend and the Hotel
Wilmington is booked except for
a few available reservations.
In Wilmington all stores and Of
fees will be closed. State en-
ployes will be given a three day
holiday. Stores and offices in the
city hall and courthouse will re-
open as usual Saturday morning.
No deliveries will be made at
the postoffice and all windows will
be closed.
Safety associations over the
country expect 275 persons to lose
their lives in holiday accidents
and automobile associations pre-
dict more cars to be or the roads
than ever before.
1t might be the biggest Fourth
of July ever.
It might also rain.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-04
Accidents Take
Toll Of45L Lives In Nav

nave led in fatalities for tbo
five months of this year. WIKI nFSt
fatalities occurring in MeckIenh, 70
and Is in Wake. Fatalities in
err counties over the ~fiye.nosogG '
yeriod follow: 'N'
Nash, IA; Robson, IL. D..
combe and CASTOR, II each. r 11l'
beriand, 10; Rowan and Dnr Sar'
nine eacn; Forsyth and Johna''1,A'
eight each; Rockingham and sUl'
ry, seven each; Catawba. CTav vs.'
Guilford, Randolph, Wilson
Halifax, six each; Caldwen 1 ~
lumbus, Davidson, EdgecortsVa
Lenoir and Union, five each, ,",
Caharrus, Carteret. Wilkes. cr Sma
vile and Rutherford, four each
Burke, Cleveland, Duplin, H..
derson, Iredell, Martin, New H.,
over, Pitt, Richmond, Tran'ri'
vania, Vance, Arson, Lee ~,
Sampson had three fatalities ea r'
and Avery, Beaufort, Haywoo5
Jones, Onslow. Orange, Scotlsn5
Stanly, Watauga. Wayne, ALL.
ghany, Caswell, Hoke and Tvrrsr
each had two.
Twenty-Five counties had On.
fatality each during tine first fly.
months of this year, leaving onI,
10 counties with no fatalities.
Col. Rosser said Guilford CONT,
had the greatest decrease in hig5
way fatalities. with six person,
killed during the first five mon5b,
of 1947, compared with q fatal
ties for the same period in 1914
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-04

officials of the New Hanover coun-
ty- Health department announced
yesterday.
Veterans and n%on-veterans are in
vited to join Company l, 18th
Infantry Of the National Guard,
which meets next Tuesday at
Eighth and Nun streets, T-Sgt. F.
C. Mason said yesterday. Mem
bers get training in technical
skills, sports physical conditioning,
and a chance for a vacation at next
summers camp" he said.
A coroner's jury last night alb
solved l.. E.. Rawles, Safeway
Transit company bus driver, Of
all responsibility in connection
with the death of Thomas Bryant
Long, 80-year-old resident of 1905
Market street, who died Of in
juries sustained when he was
struck by a bus driven by Rawles.
The accident was declared un-
avoidable by Coroner Gordon Do
an.
Applications may now be filled
out for occupational therapist po-
sitions in Veterans administration
hospitals and regional and branch
offices throughout the United
States, the United States Civil
Service commission announced
yesterday. Applications must be
received by the Board of U. S.
Civil examinations by Aug. II. APP
plications may be secured from
the commission secretary, Win
ston-Salem, post office building.
The North Caro1qa Veterans
commission will be closed July 4
and 5 in observance of Independ-
ence day, Leonard w. Barrett,
state assistant service officer, an.
nounced yesterday.
The Rev. Malcolm G. McIver,
j., of Tuscaloosa, Ala, will con.
duct services in the P~earsall Ne.
mortal church Sunday morning,
July 9Th, at IL o'clock. He is the
son Of M. c. liver and wife, I'll
North Sixth street.
Sandy Daniels instituted suit r
county court yesterday agaiAs'
Fannie Jane Smith and other
claimants to property and a small
house at Ninth and Wooste,
streets in which the plaintiff ask.
that the property be sold and thu
proceeds divided among the heirs
Daniels seeks a 5000 judgment
the amount the plaintiff says hi
paid Fannie Smith for the property
and $3.50 which, he declares he
spent in repairing the house. Basi.
of the suit was that the plaintiff
said at the time OF the purchase
ne was unaware there were othe,
heirs to the property.