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Evening star., 1948-04-22
Murder in The Big Clock
Is a Laughable Pastime
By Joy Cormody

impossible that will enjoy The Big Clock which
opened today at the Palace Theater.
Miland Charles Laughton has
these comedy some we'll
qualities useful
Evening star., 1948-04-22
Where and When
Current Theoter Attractions
..1 T:-. .f cknu,u~

and Time OF Showing
Stage.
National-"The Plays the Thing;
$3.50 pm.
Screen.
Ambassador-"The Sainted Sis
ters";; lis, 3:20, 5:25, 1880 and $40
pm.
Capit0l-"Are You With It?"; II
am, 1:45, 4:30, 7:20 and 1905 pm
Stage shows: 1880, 3:35, 6:25 and
9:10 pm.
Columbia-"S Sitting Pretty: II
am, 1880, 2:35, 4:25, $40, 8 and
$50 pm.
Dupont-"Captain Boycott; l,
2:45, 4:30, $40, 8:05 and 9:55 pm.
Evening star., 1948-04-22
Dramatic Account
Of Irish History
In Captain Boycott

CAPTAIN BOYCOTT" Universal
International release produced by Frank
Launder. screenpiay by Launder and Wolf
rang wilhelm from the novel by PHILIP
Rooney, additional dialogue by Paul VIM
cent Carroll and Patrick Campbell. Al
Evening star., 1948-04-22

violence, however, only makes the
situation worse. That Is where 1t re-
mains until Parnell comes along
with his land league, a union Of
tenant farmers pledged to passive
resistance, to leaving the land fall
low, the crops unharvested, and
Capt. Boycott to his own devices.
In other words, the Irish boycotted
Boycott, and eventually broke him.
The camera narrative of this
serious business carries a neatly in
terpolated love story acted by
Granger and Miss Ryan.
On the whole, 1t makes an ef-
fective dramatization of bit of
history that was made on a somberly
beautiful stage by group of hand
somely expert actors. ]. G.
Evening star., 1948-04-22

THE BIG CLOCK" Paramount pic
ture produced by Richard Maibaum. d.
rected by John Farrow, screenplay by
Jonathan Latimer from the novel by Ken
meth Fearing. At the palace.
Evening star., 1948-04-22
Hollywood:
All Is Merry
On Bette Davis
Comedy Set
By Harold Heffernon

Everything appears bright and
sprightly with Bette Davis and
the troupe now rehearsing June
Bride" at Warmers. It's the first
comedy she has attempted since
THE Man Who Came to Dinner.
of five years ago, and only the fifth
of her entire 60-picture career.
Bette skips from the grimly de-
pressing backgrounds of Winter
Meeting" into small Midwestern
town-Indiana is the alleged site
where she and Robert Montgomery.
as a pair of national magazine
editors, take over a wedding and
dominate it completely for their
own circulation purposes.
From the way the script reads, 1t
should prove most hilarious
undertaking. Patterned somewhat
on THE Man Who Came to Dinner"
idea, Betty and Bob move in on the
surprised household, preparing their
own sort of conservative wedding,
and soon are in absolute charge OF
all operations.
They order the house redecorated
to the magazines taste (for picture
purposes, of course), dictate the
wardrobe for the entire wedding
party, plan the reception and
honeymoon and leave nothing to
the decision Of the bewildered
principals.
Magazine editors won't like it a
bit, but there's a good chance the
Davis fans will be pleased to the
/ extent of letting Bette hang onto
her career a while longer-perhaps
going so far as to wipe Winter
Meeting" from their memories.
| That new threat to the male
heart-throb field is heading this
way once more. and Hollywood,
hereafter, will be his permanent
home. Gov. Jimmie Davis Of LOU
isiana, who starred year ago in
a successful movie named after his
State, vacates the Governors man
sion in Shreveport May II and
heads right back to movieland.
Monogram has signed the singing
Governor to a long-term contract,
and he plans to buy a ranch In the
valley and settle down to the life
of country gentleman. The film
business is a lot more permanent,
anyway, than running the State of
Louisiana. One term Is the limit
there, but a politically ambitious
Governor can take powder and try
again four years later.
But that's not to Jimmie Davis
liking. He's in movies to stay. JIM
mics first comeback number is
titled Manhattan Melody" In
which he'll sing his way from the
farmland of Louisiana to Broadway
there to become famous and
wealthy in true Horatio Alger style.
Harpo Marx and his brother
comics, the moving spirit behind a
film industry drive to raise funds
for the new Westwpod Hospital, hit
upon a forceful method of shaming
donations from tardy industry big
shots. More than 600 top figures
received in their mail letter con-
tanning a crisp, new one-dollar bank
note and the following prod:
Dear sir: Enclosed Is one
dollar bill. You may keep this dol
lar If you think you need 1t more
than the unfortunates whom our
hospital will care for. If you don't
need the dollar. return 1t to us with
all the additional dollars you pos
sibly can afford"
The idea proved huge success.
but you'd be amazed to hear the
names of five big timers who kept
the dollar and made no return
/ (Released by North American Newspaper
/ Alliance)
Evening star., 1948-04-22

Stuart Parnell - Robert Donat
The mere thought of making a
movie of how the word boycott"
got into the language would drive
Hollywood bald-headed. The British,
on the other hand, have made an
exciting screenplay out of 1t in
Captain Boycott" which opened
yesterday at the Dupont
To be specific, which the picture
itself is, Captain Boycott Is the
violent tale of Ireland's tenant
farmer revolt in 1880, the days of
Victoria and Parnell.
As revolutionists, Of course, the
Irish have magnificent dramatic
possibilities. The Dupont's feature.
from the novel Of Phillip Rooney.
cashes in on them effectively. True,
it is not the most brilliantly edited
piece of cinema any one has seen
this season, but it has the retrieving
grace of a cast which is expert. At
the head of the player list are Stew
art Granger, Alastair Sim, Cecil
Parker and Kathleen Ryan. Right
behind them come those Abbey play
ers who made odd Man Out" such
screenplay to remember.
There is wit and tenderness as
we'll as emotional explosiveness In
Captain Boycott" Moreover, In view
of the improvement in their rela-
tions in modern times, there is even
an archly kind word for the ad-
jacent British. 1t Is a considerably
less than black picture that is
painted Of James Boycott. himself,
although the evils which he SYM
bolizes are called badly by their
harsher names.
Boycott, the picture recalls, was a
landlord in the grimly beautiful
county Of Mayo. His excessive rents
we're first the despair of the tenant
farmer class, later the inspiration
of their violent resistance. The
Evening star., 1948-04-22

Hippodrome-"volpone";; 2. 3:55
$50, 7:45 and 9:40 pm.
Keith's-"Casbah";; 1l::15 am,
1:20, $3.50, 5:35, 7:45 and $50 pm.
Little-"To Live in Peace II
am, 12A5, 2:35, 400, $40. 8 and
9:45 pm.
Metropolitan "The Fugitive;
1880 am, 1880, 3:35, 5:35, TAO and
9:45 pm.
Palace-"The Big Clock: 10:45
am, 1855, 3:05, Sis, TBS and $40
Evening star., 1948-04-22
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While they do not believe one ex-
aggerated word of 1t, the players
in The Big Clock" enter almost
frantically into the mad spirit of
the story. Milland and Laughton
play their duel with finely simu-
lated fervor; Maureen O'Sullivan is
good as the poor young wife Of the
editor, and there's a whopping COM
edy bit by Elsa Manchester as a
lf-demented impressionist painter.
BY now, If Hollywood has any
sense at all, Miss Manchester must
be recognized as one of the best as
sets any picture can have.
Especially one as basically deliri-
GUS as THE Big Clock"
Evening star., 1948-04-22
'Volpone' Gets Fifth

Saturday marks the beginning of
what the Hippodrome management
insists is positively the final week
for "Volpone." That will make
total of five weeks for the Harry
Bauer comedy. On May l 1t will
be replaced by the English feature,
/ The Tawny Pipit."
Evening star., 1948-04-22

Pix-'T've Always Loved You:
Ills, 2:10, $50 and 9:15 pm. j..
Trans-Lux - News and shorts,
Continuous from 1915 am.
Warner-"The Sainted Sisters;
1870 am, 1:25, $50, 5:35, 7:4o
and $50 pm.
Arizona sun., 1948-06-18
Fathers Day
Sermons on "Good
Citizenship"

New ork-MiniSter of every
denomination, race and color will
mark Sunday, June Goth, by lead
ing their congregations in Fathers
Day Services. Once again, people
of every race and creed will unite
in active fulfillment of the Biblical
admonition, Honor Thy Father"
From the beginning, religious
leaders of all races have given
their sincere and ardent support
to this day which in essence en-
courages love and respect on the
part of the child, and affection
and responsibility on the part of
the parent.
Fathers Day is day of
spiritual stocktaking, when fathers
ask themselves, "Have I been a
good father?" There is something
about Fathers Day that is far
bigger than the usual flippancieS
and timeworn jokes about Dad.
Even Balzac, the cynic acknow-
lodged the magnitude of father
hood. "Since I have become a
father" he said, II have come to
understand God"
"Father-To God Himself we
cannot give a holier name," said
WadSWorth.
Arizona sun., 1948-06-18
jim, Crow Ban
Defeated

The attempt to keep Jim-Crow
out of the peace-time draft bill
which is nearing passage met GER
tain defeat in the house of repre-
sentatives, last Tuesday.
Foremost in his efforts to keep
Jim Crow out of the armed forces
was one of the two Negro repre-
sentatives in Congress, Adam Clay
ton. Powell Jr., New York. The
proposal was voted down 1888.
Powell proposed that racial dis
elimination be forbidden but this
proposal met defeat 1924.
Rep. Rankin, of Mississippi, took
a firm stand against the bill, and
a representative from Michigan in
timated that Powell had indicated
that he himself wanted segregation
by marrying woman who is a
Negro.
Arizona sun., 1948-06-18
Proclamation
FATHERS DAY

WHEREAS, Fathers Day is de-
dicated to the building of strong
America through wholesome child
upbringing; and
WHEREAS, the Fathers of this
great country are responsible for
their children as future citizens;
and -
WHEREAS, for the last thirty
eight years the American people
have paid special homage to their
fathers by setting aside one day
in the year for special commemora-
ton of Fatherhood,
NOW, THEREFORE, I, Dan E.
Garvey, Acting Governor of the
State of Arizona, do hereby pro-
claim Sunday, June twentieth,
1948, as
FATHERS DAY
and call upon our citizens to COM
memorate this day with proper
religious worship and public cere-
monies conducted in the spirit of
this years theme, Good Citizen
ship Begins at Home Honor
Father, Builder Of each Father
for his unselfish service and un-
wavering loyalty and guidance
throughout the year to all of those
within his household.
Arizona sun., 1948-06-18

Before leaving Coach Johnson
contacted the Phoenix Chamber of
Commerce, The Phoenix Retail
Trade Bureau and the Phoenix
Junior Chamber of Commerce in
an effort to obtain a complete
western outfit for Glenn but failed
in each effort. Rather than dis
appoint Glenn, he decided to con-
tact Negro professional and busi-
ness men asking for donations, and
this time his efforts were not in
vain.
So in behalf of Mr.. and Mrs.
Eugene Whitmore father and mo-
ther of Glenn and Coach Johnson
the Arizona Sun would like to eX-
press their deepest appreciation to
the following professional men and
business establishments whose con-
tributions and cooperation made it
possible for Glenn to go back east
dressed in complete western out
fit plus a few other necessities.
Southern Drug-Tom May, DR..
David M. Solomon, Ramas Phar-
macy, Hodges Famous Barbecue,
DR.. Lowell Wormley, Johnson's
Pharmacy, DR.. and Mrs. r. B.
Phillips, Bill Vaughn, Norman IS
Pharmacy, Fred Wilson'S Trading
Post, Ragsdale Mortuary, East
Lake Cleaners and Laundry, Willie
Smith, Town Talk Famous Barbe-
cue.
Arizona sun., 1948-06-18
Statewide Surrey
Made bv Asses \

A statewide job inventory which
has just been made by the Arizona
State Employment Service, shows
that there were 4,3O6 untitled open
ings on file at the 18 Employment
Service offices over the state as of
the 1st of June. This compares
with 3,159 such openings untitled
at the same time month ago.
In reviewing the inventory, Jas.
A. Rork, Director of the Employ
ment Service Division of the En-
ployment Security Commission of
Arizona, pointed out that this in
crease in labor demand is largely
accounted for by the 1888 orders
for farm workers that have been
added. These, said Rork, included
new orders for 700 melon pickers
in the Yuma area, where the har-
vesting of this crop is now just
starting. Also, there have been add
ed orders in the Phoenix ES Farm
Office for some $50 farm workers,
and in the Mesa Office, 225 for
piece work in the Food Processing
Industry.
Arizona sun., 1948-06-18
Phoenix Visitor
In Train Wreck

Mrs Josephine Micks and her
year old son of Springfield, Il
linois were passengers on the Sante
.Fe train when it derailed near
Peoria, last Tuesday.
Mrs. Micks who was on her way
here, states that though she was
severely shaken up and suffered
back injuries son Ulysses,
miraculously escaped injury solely
through her efforts.
A piece of railing pierced
window only four seats from where
she and her son were riding.
Among others of this city carried
ito the hospital for physical ex-
aminations but were later released
were: Clyde Phelps, %, 1921 E.
Madison St.; Vance Ray, 81, Alt
South 18th Ave. and Tollie New
some, 81 of 600 w. Grant st.
Arizona sun., 1948-06-18

Native of Iowa-daughter of the
late Charles H. Converse, attorney
at law, who practiced in Iowa
and California prior to his death
in 1912.
Came to Arizona in 1928-ad-
mitted to Arizona State Bar in
1885 while living in Florence.
Moved to Phoenix in 194O-in
general practice here since then
Member of Arizona State Bar
and Maricopa County Bar ASH.
Membership: Vice-President OF
the Business and Professional
Women's Club of Phoenix-Past-
president of the Zona Club Of
Phoenix Can international organi-
zation of executive business and
professional women) American
Legion Auxiliary.
Chairman of the Committee on
Uniform Divorce Laws for the
Arizona Bar Association last year;
reappointed for the coming year
Two children, Robert Thomas
and Barbara Converse.
Assistant attorney general under
Joe Conway 1898. On staff OF
Maricopa County attorney-1940
Served as special master by ap-
pointment of the late Judge j
c. Niles in contested probate ac-
counts,
Arizona sun., 1948-06-18
Congressmen Ponder
Over Just Who Will
Return to Washington

Washington Capital observers
this week were revising their
estimates of the makeup of the
81st Congress, which will convene
next January, as additional mem
bers of the House of Representa-
tives announced plans for the fall
elections.
Joining the ranks of those who
definitely will not seek a return
to Washington for the next session
was Arizona's junior Congressman,
Richard F. (Dick) Hairless, who
now is ending his sixth year in
the nations capital.
Hairless, who announced his can
didacy last week for the governor
ship of Arizona, is one of a number
of Representatives seeking guber-
torial posts in home states.
Most Congressman who have de-
cided to seek governorships are
placed in a somewhat embarras-
ing position. Due to the pressing
legislation now before Congress,
they must stay here and fulfill
their tasks. This duty, of course,
will require several of the guber-
Material candidates to open their
campaigns later than politically
expedient, and their opponents
have the opportunity of spading
the ground early.
Hairless candidacy was viewed
here as of extreme Importance to
his home state. Members of Con-
gress and a number of Washington
newspaperman looked on the an
nouncement as presaging great
benefits 10 Arizona.
Hairless, occupied with legislative
matters, has delayed full con-
sideration Of campaign details unit
his return to Phoenix, which will
be June Goth at the earliest under
present Congressional plans for
adjournment.
Arizona sun., 1948-06-18
What's Happening
Around East
Lake Park

The Teen-age Canteen will be
open three days week-Thursday,
Friday, and Sunday only.
All small boys and girls who are
interested in arts and crafts are
asked to come to the recreation
center daily except Saturday, and
Sunday. Miss C. Harris is in charge.
Mr.. Johnson, Director of Re-
creation asks all persons or organi-
cations who wishes to reserve the
Shell to please call 3-1679. There
is no charge.
Attention Girls: All girls who are
interested in being in the Omega
Psi Phi Bathing Beauty Contest,
contact William Johnson, by calling
3-1679 or 1894. This annual af-
fair will be held about the middle
of July.
Arizona sun., 1948-06-18
Hairless Announces
Entry In Arizona
Governor Race

Richard F. Hairless, Arizona con-
gresham, has announced his can
didacy for the Democratic nomina-
ton for governor of Arizona.
Hairless said that he had reached
his decision to make the race after
conference today, and that "having
reached the decision, there is no
point in Withholding announce
ment.
He said in his formal statement
that petitions for his candidacy
would be circulated throughout
the state beginning Friday morn
ing. The petitions will require an
approximate 1900 signatures to
validate the candidacy under Ari-
Zona law
The congressman refused to
speculate on either the names of
possible successors in congress, or
upon the race for the gubernatorial
nomination.
He said that he will not return
to Arizona to press the campaign
personally until congress has COM
pleted it's job"
"I believe" he added, "that the
congress will adjourn June 18, and
that I can return to Arizona short
ly thereafter.
"In the meantime, there are
many matters of great Importance
to be voted upon, and I do not see
how I can take time off for any
personal politics. There are some
matters of Colorado river legisla-
ton pending. There are the appro-
priationS bills, the draft, possible
further action on the reciprocal
trade agreements, and many other
matters which are of Importance
both nationally and to Arizona.
Therefore, I shall remain here, de-
spite the pressing personal reasons
for an immediate return to Ari-
Zona.
Hairless said he had put aside
all requests for an announcement
of his candidacy earlier "out of re-
spect for my close personal friend,
the late Gov. Sidney P. Osborn.
Governor Osborn was vital factor
in the life of Arizona, and the many
legislative acts in which he was in
terested helped greatly in bringing
our home state to the FORE"
He said that he will outline a
platform later, but added in gen.
eral statement, that he will "run
on the record established in con-
gress."
Arizona sun., 1948-06-18
Schoolboys Make Fine
Gesture Against
Discrimination,
Says DR.. Jansen

Taken from the Brooklyn Eagle
1t is "a heartening gesture that
has been made against racial dis
elimination by DR.. William Jansen,
Superintendent of Schools; the
superintendents of Catholic Schools
for Brooklyn and New York and
the Automobile Association of
America.
Fifty-one schoolboys, chosen as
outstanding school safety patrol
men, boys who help the younger
children to learn habits of safety
in our city streets, were to join
in a parade of safety patrolmen
in Washington. Four of these boys
of fine character have darker skins
than the others. That is, they are
Negroes. In Washington, they
would not be allowed to sit down in
a restaurant and eat with their
white friends nor sleep in the same
hotels. So the above gentlemen
called off the Washington trip.
This city has reason to be proud
of them. In the South-even as
far North las Washington-people
consider the matter of discrimina-
ton between skins their business
and none of ours. This incident of
the At and four brings home to
us the fact that it is nothing of
the sort. Discrimination is a dis
ease that spreads. When injustice
in one section of the country brings
injustice to people here, the fact
that we are affected by its eX-
istance- anywhere inescapable.
It is too bad that these 81 fine
young schoolboys lost their trip to
Washington but there was some re-
compense in the high honors paid
them here and in the program of
sightseeing an d entertainment
furnished them in this city. The
boys and the schools and the Auto
mobile Association are doing a
service to their country and all
the people in it by refusing to col
laborate in the practice of discrmi-
nation.
Arizona sun., 1948-06-18
A Mother Started
Fathers Day in 1910

New York-Father's Day, which
will be nationally observed this
year by Americans, Negro and
white, on Sunday, June Goth, was
not the brain child of a group
of disgruntled Daddies who resent
ed all the attention Mamma got
on Mothers Day. According to
the National Fathers Day Com
mittee, a volunteer organization
of notables from every walk OF
life, united to promote better
father-child understanding, Faith
er's Day was launched on June
1880, three years before the Of
ficial Mothers Day.
A mother created Fathers Day.
Mrs. John Bruce Dodd of Spokane,
Washington, suggested the idea to
honor her father, William Smart,
a Civil War Veteran, who reared
his six motherless children on an
Eastern Washington farm. William
Jennings Bryan was one of the
first to give endorsement to Mrs.
Dodd's plan, and James Whitcomb
Riley wrote, "My heart is with
you in this great work." In 1924,
President Calvin Coolidge was the
first Chief Executive to recon-
mend National observance of
Fathers Day.
Dedicated this year to the build
ing of good citizenship at home,
Fathers Day will be greater than
ever. Americas children of all
races and colors will need little
reminder to honor the greatest
American of them all-The Ameri-
can Father-on Sunday, June 10th.
Arizona sun., 1948-06-18
MINORITY GROUP ISSUE,
AROUSES HECTIC DEBATE
IN COLLEGE FORUM

DR.. ]. J. Deboer, Professor of
Education at the University Of
Illinois, uttered words in his de-
liberation, setting forth the five
principles which the educator of
the present day school should re-
cognize, that DR.. Gammage, Presi-
dent of Arizona State College at
Tempe challenged for panel dis
cuSSion.
Speaking to the summer students
in assembly Wednesday,, DR.. De-
boer pointed out that the educator
must keep abreast of social changes:
that he must participate in social
reconstruction; that he must de-
fend his freedom to participate in
social reconstruction; that he must
assume his proportionate share of
civic responsibility; and finally, the
educator must play the role of the
good samaritan" even though it
is purely social in scope.
Verbal fire works began, however
when DR.. Gammage ridiculed the
idea of an educator in one depart
ment of the school curriculum
speaking authoritatively on sub
jects which involved the duty of
one who was officially appointed to
do so. From this statement the
president became the victim of a
direct questioning assault.
The question of dealing fairly
and effectively with minority
groups to better the social condi-
tions, created quite an argument.
DR.. Gammage argued that the
school was merely an agency to
do the wishes of the people, but
he was Immediately challenged, by
a member of the audience who was
disturbed over the presidents state
ments, who asked the question,
''what do you mean by fthe people?'
Who are tthe people?' "The people
do not want the educational pro-
ceedures such as they are witness
sing today he said. You are not
doing the will of the people! You
are doing the will of the few when
you fire a teacher because he
doesn't teach what you want, or
would like for him to teach"
Rabbi Krohn stated that it had
been said that the Negro didn't
take advantage of his opportunities
for example in a city where there
should have been 35 Negro Doctors
there were only five, if even
there had been 35 doctors it is
doubtful if they could have made
a living. Rabbi Kron further stat
ed that it was the educators role
to refrain from reflecting the
prejudices of minority groups.
One aroused questioner asked,
what are the social consequences
of some of our congressional legis-
lation? And commented as an after
thought, "it seems that our educa-
ton need may be getting away
from us and when it does, goodbye
democracy" He further struck at
present day procedures by saying
in effect, we educate the youth
for action, unless there are
changes made, we may wish we
had educated them for inaction!