PAGE SIX “JESSE JAMES” ANNOUN- CED AS EFIC OF A LAW- LESS ERA, A GREAT HIT Technicolor Film Due at Grand Thea- tre on Sunday and Monday With Tyrone Power in the Lead. The most romantic outlaw in the history of America, the desperado whose daring colored a whole era and endowed it with the title of the “Ser- ious Seventies,—the man who invent- ed bank holdups and introduced train robberies—hnas been brought to the screen at last in Darryl F. Zanuck’s | the 20th | production, “Jesse James,” Century-Fox tecnicolor epic, starring Tyrone Power, Henry Fonda, Nancy Kelly and Randolph Scott, which will be the attraction at the Grand Thea- tre, Patton, on Sunday and Monday next. One of the most difficult problems facing producer Zanuck, who had al- ready shown his good judgment by casting Tyrone Power in the title role |, was to ascertain a fairly accurate pic. ture of what Jesse James was really like, and then to present that picture with as much authenticity as oossible, taking care neither to whitewash nor blacken the character of the man. Two years of research into the life and times of this fascinating character before the actual production of the film was begun. Henry King, the distinguished direc- tor of such hits as “Lloyds of London,” “In Old Chicago,” and “Alexander's Ragtime Band,” was entrusted with the megaphone, and made a trip into the Ozark region to select actual lo- cales. The little town of Pineville, Mo., was finally chosen and It was here that a vast company, including besides Power, Fonda, Miss Kelly and Scott, Henry Hull, Slim Summerville, J. Edward Bromberg, Brian Donlevy, John Carradine, Donald Meek, John Russell and Jane Darwell, travelled to shoot this gripping photo play. Nunnally Johnson, the author of some of the screen’s greatest successes, was selected to weld this colorful mass of story material into a screen play that throbbed with life. Johnson also acted as associate producer on the production. “Jesse James” opens with the intro- duction of the ‘Iron Horse” in its jour- ney through the old west, cutting ru- thlessly across the farms of the simple, hardy pioneers. It shows how Jesse James and his equally notorious brother, Frank (Hen- ry Fonda) began their career of crime as a direct result of the murder of their mother by an unscrupulous hir- eling of the St. Louis Midland Rail- road, in the person of one Barshee, plaved by Brian Donlevy. Jesse shoots Barshee and swears to avenge his mother’s death. A murderer with an ever increasing price on his head, he goes from raid to raid. Loves comes to Jesse in the person of Zerelda better known as Zee, and played by Nancy Kelly, a gentley nur- tured girl, who gave up a life of ease to share the wild, reckless life of this hunted outlaw, as bis wife, and to bear his son alone in the hills. When Zee finally leaves him, Jesse becomes a cold and ruthless despera- do, and the film follows his reckless deeds across five states, climaxing In his betrayal and death at the hands of Bob Ford, the “dirty little coward” of song and story, who sold him out to the law. Perhaps good bad man the best picture of this is contained in the words of the mayor of his home town of Sedalia, uttered months after Jesse James had died in the arms of his be- loved bride. The occasion was the dedication of an obelisk on the old James farm. 'PLANS UNDER WAY TO nlUOPEN MUNE OF 1T'dE | LOGAN COAL COMPANY Beaverdale-—Plans looking towarc resumption of work in the pits of the Logan Coal Company, closed down for | ‘he past week, have been launched by the Johnstown Coal and Coke Comi- pany. It was reported last week that if arrangements can be made with cre- ditors of the company, operations pro- baoly would be resumed in tne com- pany’s mines, The Logan pits have been closec down since last rricay a week when miners refused to work in protest ot non-payment of back wages. It was re- ported that the company is in finan- cial straits and unable to make pay- ment. Andrew B. Crichton of the Johns- town Coal & Coke Company said that he has been working on a plan in an attempt to have work resumed at the local mines. Ihe company owned by W. J. Faux of Philadelphia, is understood to have an indebtedness of aproximately one million dollars in taxes, mortgages and bank loans. According to Crichton, attempts are being made to reach an agreement with creditors to permit resumption of woik at tne pits. He intimated that un- less such an agreement is reached, the company may he forced into bankrup- tcy or receivership. ST. BENEDICT BOYS RIFLE THE POSTOFFICE Two youth charged with robbing the St. Benedict postoffice were lodged in Lbensburg jail last Friday night to await hearing before Justice of the Peace Charles P. Rowland of Ebens- buig. The prisoners are John Malloy, 16, and Joseph Ohman, 16, both of St Benedict. Entrance to the postoffice, was effec. tad through a coal bin attached to the building with a trapdoor to the base- ment. The two were arrested by Pvt Leo Miller of the Ebensburg substation of the State Motor Police and County Celective Charles Cowan. Loot from the postoffice included one dollar's worth of stamps and 50 pennies. Miss Rose McDivitt, postmistress, told police that one of the pennies was bent and a search for this coin resulted in the crrest of Malloy when he attempted to pass it at a St. Benedict store. Malloy admitted the robbery and implicated Chman. PENNSYLVANIA IS SECOND IN NATION second In the of unemploy. in Noven:ber in the total Board Pennsylvania stood Nation in the amount ment benefits received and December and first for 1938, the Social Security reported last week. The total for the year in Pennsylva- nia was $71,589,690, almost twice as much as the $39,908,987 paid out in Michigan. However, Michigan was first in both November and December rayments. They totaled $4,162,200 and $6,404,694 as compared with Pennsyl- vania's $3,584,677 and $4,003,685. The total paid in the Nation during December was $22,066,740, a decrease of $1,834,662 from November. This dis- bursement brought the total for 1938 10 $396,432,097. “Jesse was an outlaw, a bandit, a criminal,” said the Mayor, “but we aren’t ashamed of him. Maybe its be- cause we understand a little that he wasn’t to blame for what his times made him. All I know is, he was the doggonedist, dadblamedest buckaroo that ever rode across the United Sta. tes of America!” 13 a1 THE BUY OF ULE T GENERAL WITH SELECTI Sub-Freezing Storage Moderate Temperature and High Humidity Storage Safety-Zone Gen®tal Storage Jrints Thrift REFRIGERATORS AIR CONDITIONS High Humidity, Low Temperature Storage “GET THE INSIDE STORY!” \ NN ELECTRIC VE DOYLE SPICHER BARNESBORO, PA. THREE HIGHWAY FATAL- THE UNION PRESS-COURIER. NO NUDE NUPTIALS FOR CAMBRIA COUNTY STATES JUDGE NELSON Any couple desiring to cmulate the man and woman in Colorado who have anounced their intention of being mar- ried, clothed only in their birthday suit, had better say away from Cam- bria County. Although an assistant attorney gen- eral of Colorado declared he could not find any law to prohibit such a marriage, Judge A. A. Nelson of the Cambria County Orphans Court last Friday declared that “law or no law n Pennsylvania, no such marriage would be permitted in this county by me.” “If some couple desires to take a chance of getting pneumonia by hav- ing their marriage ceremony perfor- med while in the nude on top of Chickaree Mountain some cold day. they certainly will not be permitted to do so,” Judge Nelson said. “I would refuse to order Michael J Hartnett, clerk of the orphans court, t; issue a marriage license to persons cesiring to make a show of themselves in this manner. “There is nothing in the Pennsylv- ania statutes covering marriage licen- sos which specifically prohibits a cou- ple entering a marriage ceremonv without being garbed in any more than rature gave them. However, there is such a thing as public decency and while the would-be participants might not think it is indecent to be married m the nude I would most emphatically consider it so.” Mr. Hartnett declared that in the event any couple desired to get mar- ried while garbed as Adam and Eve, he, too, would refuse to issue the licen- se. He agreed with Judge Nelson in the latter's position that any such cere- inony would be a violation of public morals. Judge Nelson also declared that even though the license were issued | “there is not a minister of the gospel. ’ an alderman or justice of the peace in Cambria County who would perform any such ceremony.” “I know that men in this county au- thorized to perform marriage cere- monies have a higher regard for public decency than to engage in any such affairs,” Judge Nelson said it also was suggested that if any couple in “this neck of the woods”de- sires to have a. “nude ceremony” they had better seek a warmer clime, least at this time of the year. at ITIES ARE LISTED IN OUR COUNTY IN JANUARY Twelve violent deaths, including three automobile fatalities, occured in Cambria County during January, ace- ording to a report issued by Coroner Fatrick McDermott. Thursday, February 16, 1939. RLING AIR COOLED TIRES -- "it's ‘Air Cooled’ Against Blowouts and Its TWO - TREADS "WHAT MAKES THIS TIRE SO MUCH SAFER?" Never Wear Smooth TAD ERLIN U0 TREAD AIR COOLED —— LOW PRESSURE _ Smooth! 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Pittsburgh station had made rapid pro- As usual, fatalities in which auto- mobiles figured led the list of violent ceaths. Of the three car fatalities, one was recorded in Johnstown and the other two on highways outside the city. The January auto toll was an increase over the corresponding period in 1938 when two occurred. There was one murder—listed as homicide in the coroner’s records— during January. This was the first in more than 13 months, no murders hav- ing been committed last year in Cam- bria County. Other deaths resulting from vives causes in the opening month ot 1939 in- cluded one fatality each in mining, railroad and streetcar accidents, two suicides and one fatality each in ac- cidents involving burns, suffocation ana falls. All toid, the coroner and his deputy investigated 51 accidents in the first 31 days of the current year. This total included 39 sudden natural deaths, in | addition to 12 violent fatalities. { "The majority of the natural deaths investigated resulted from heart at- tucks. There were 12 heart cases. Cere- bral hemorrhages claimed the lives of four, while six expired from pneu- monia. The officials held eight inquests and three post-mortems during Jar- | uary. GROUP AT PATTON APPROVES PROJECT | Support of the move to construct a “fisherman’s paradise” in Beaver val- ley near the Old Gates Dam, was voted by the Patton Sportsmen's Association at a meeting last Thursday evening after Boyd Troxell of Blandburg had spoken in the interest of the project. George Hoppel was appointed chair- man of a committee which will con- tact state legislators and Congressman Harve Tibbott to solicit their influence in advancing the plan. The local sportsmen also adopted a resolution favoring an increase in the, bounty on weasels to $1, favoring the removal of all protection on skunks, favoring the placing of racoon on the game list and making hunting of rac- con legal from sunset to sunrise, and ¢pproving hunting and digging for groundhogs during a season extending from July 1 to September 30. Robert Miller, new president of the association, presided. The meeting was held in Moose Hall. Another session of the group will take place March 7. TWO TONS OF COAL YIELD TON OF OIL Pittsburgh—Reporting the extrac- tion of a ton of oil from two tons of bituminous coal, a federal mines ex- pert forsaw the time when this dis- trict, known as “the workshop of the world,” may also be the nation’s oii capital. i The tremendous coal reserves of the area, a primary cause for the growth of Pittsburgh as a steel center, are best adapted for conversion into oil, accor- ding to Director John W. Finch of the United States Bureau of Mines. He added, however, that present cost Clean Up of Winter Coats and Dresses | — —— sass —— —_— —— ss A S——————————— —— sms Er — a ———— Sa a Dresses, $1, $2, $3 and $5 Coats, $4.95 to $9.95 Ta Dresses, Hats, Children’s Winter Apparel, At Real Savings. We Want to Clear Our Shelves, and If Price Concessions Are A Factor, It Should Be Very Easily Accomplished. Fannie C. Wetzel, Carrolltown, Pa. meta eS tate set ecb sits ase eattociertgrrput irae pt ems Sis asym eesti a ee ele aise St mim
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