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'IP J' 1 1 1 1 D4 ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH METRO MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1999 www.postnetcom Jo Mannies On Politics running a charity food pantry from DEATHS ELSEWHERE Death row mercy brings lessons' from Ashcroft Collector Store's photographs are disquieting to some Continuedfrom Page Dl its dust jacket. Caughron chose two of those black and white photos one of a smiling Hitler talking on a telephone and one of Hitler greeting a man formally dressed in religious robes to enlarge and display. Why? "Everybody collects something," he said, seeing no problem with sharing a little of his hobby with the public. As evidence of his own humanity, Caughron will remind you that he has been lauded for years for tures (later Allied Artists) as the Bowery Boys.

They made 49 films under that tag, ending the series with "In the Money" in 1958. MILLS E. GODWIN 84, the only Virginia politician since the Civil War to have served two terms as governor and a dominating figure on the state's political land-scape of the 1960s and 1970s, died of pneumonia Saturday (Jan. 30, 1999) in Newport News. Mr.

Godwin's influence on the state and its politics transcended his two terms as Virginia's chief executive. As a state legislator in the 1950s, he was a champion of the ultimately futile policy of massive resistance to school desegregation. By the 1960s, as governor, he was the Police ask for help in identifying woman's body progressive architect of the state's first sales tax, the godfather of its system of 22 community colleges and the engineer of a constitutional revision that -v 4 Godwin helped modernize the state government. As a Democrat, Godwin was chief executive from 1966 to 1970. The Virginia Constitution prohibits a governor from succeeding himself.

In 1973, he was elected governor again, this time as a that same store, at 1837 Delmar Avenue. He also gives Christmas presents to children of the poor. And the Hitler pictures are hard ly alone in the shop's eccentric de cor. He has a large painting of an aircraft carrier, for example, and a depiction of Jesus Christ with some angels. A picture of President Franklin Roosevelt signing the So cial Security Act is nearby, and across the room hangs what its owner believes is a 14th-century tapestry.

There is even a framed photograph of Caughron himself, black and blue from the beating he got from robbers at the shop back in 1994. The inscription he added to it might as easily apply to the Hitler pictures too. It says: "This could happen to you." Oak cutoff that leads to Lake Saint Louis Boulevard. Bolen said the unclothed body probably Jiad been in the creek a couple of days. He called the situation "suspicious Police have sent notice of the discovery to authorities in several states.

Police also are trying to identify the woman through her fingerprints. Anyone with information about the woman may call Lake Saint Louis police at (314) 625-8018. of new beats were enjoying the music as much if not more than the enthusiastic audience. Origin was formed a little more than a year ago, and Corea and his cohorts are still pushing the limits of the band's capabilities, exploring different, instrumental combinations and musical directions every time they take the stage. Origin created quite a few moments of musical brilliance Saturday at the Sheldon, but in the process, the band members slipped into musical excess several times as well.

I enjoy hearing a talented band stretch out and explore different musical twists and turns, but Origin seemed to take the long way around a few too many times during its Sheldon performance. For now, I'll chalk up Origin's self-indulgent approach to a desire to explore in detail the nuances of the new compositions the band just finished recording and focus on the muscular power the musicians created at their peak moments on HUNTZ HALL, 78, rubber-faced, smashed-nose, pop-eyed comedian who made 120 films including 87 with the durable tough-talking Dead End Kids, later called the East Side Kids and the Bowery Boys, has died. Mr. Hall died Saturday (Jan. 30, 1999) in his Los Angeles home of heart failure, his son, the Rev.

Gary Hall of All Saints Church in Pasadena, said Sunday. The actor, who performed in dinner theater productions of "The Odd Couple" and "The Sunshine Boys" into the 1990s, was on screen for two decades with his late sidekicks Leo Gorcey, Gabriel Dell, Billy Hallop and Bobby Jordan. In 1935, he appeared in Sidney Kingsley's Broadway play "Dead End, about the problems of New York slum life. Two years later, Mr. Hall, then 16, followed the cast West to make a film version for Samuel Goldwyn and spring the Dead End Kids on a welcoming nation.

Mr. Hall played Dippy, the dumbbell and best friend of Gor-ceys gang-leader Spit. They made such films as "Crime School," "They Made Me a Criminal" and "Angels with Dirty Faces starring James Cagney and Pat O'Brien for Warner Bros, in the late 1930s. Moving to Universal in the 1940s, the group became the East Side Kids. After World War II, the youths again changed studios and names going to Monogram Pic Review Jazz Jazz man Chick By Terry Perkins Special to the Post-Dispatch Throughout his career, Chick Corea has exhibited an exuberant, effusive approach to music.

From the hard-charging fusion attack of Return to Forever and the avant-garde experimentation of Circle in the 1970s, to the dual outlets of his Elektric and Acoustic bands in recent years and his innumerable solo projects, Corea always seems to be pushing his music in a variety of very different directions. That ebullient musical philosophy was clearly evident Saturday evening at the Sheldon Concert Hall, when Corea and his most recent band, Origin, made its St. Louis debut. Over the course of two lengthy sets, the sextet of musicians performed a wide array of original material they recently recorded for a new album to be released later this year. The compositions primarily branched out from hard bop roots to explore Third World rhythms and Latin beats, and the members credit for taking a stand that he knew would prompt some flak.

"It took a lot of courage on Carnahan's part," said mayoral aide Tom Villa, former aldermanic president and a former state legislator who voted to reinstate Missouri's capital punishment law in the early 1980s. Even Mayor Clarence Harmon, a former police chief and death penalty advocate, said he understood. "It's hard to refuse the Holy Father when he asks you, on a personal basis, to spare somebody." The region's senior congressman and most outspoken death penalty opponent, Rep. William L. Clay, said he hoped the governor's act of mercy might be extended to others.

Either way, most area Democratic leaders expect no lasting damage to Carnahan's effort to oust Ashcroft. But the GOP already is raising other questions. What about other differences that Carnahan has with the pope? On abortuon, for instance. The pope is strongly anti-abortion. Carnahan is arguably state government's strongest defender of abortion rights and has vetoed various measures deemed a threat to abortion rights.

Does this mean, some Republicans asked coyly, that Carnahan might reconsider his abortion stance out of respect for the pope? (No way, Carnahan allies reply.) "I think he's opened up a can of worms," observed state GOP spokesman Daryl Duwe. "He shouldn't have let his emotions get in the way of the proper administration of justice." But while criticizing Carnahan, Ashcroft and state Republican leaders have to tread carefully. Speak too tough about Pope John Paul II, and they run the risk of alienating Missouri Catholics who, according to recent Post-Dispatch polls, account for at least one of every four residents in the metro area. Outstate, about one in five are Catholic. And for the past two decades, Missouri Catholics once die-hard Democrats have become notorious for their willingness to vote for Republicans, especially on the state and national level.

Ashcroft has been one of the biggest GOP beneficiaries. That may help explain Pope John Paul IPs other stunning political victory, this time at his departure ceremony. He got Carnahan and Ashcroft into the same room. Officially, Sen. John Ashcroft said, "No comment," when asked about Gov.

Mel Carnahan's decision to heed Pope John Paul IPs plea and not execute convicted killer Darrell J. Mease. Unofficially, Ashcroft weighed in big. Without comment, his staff faxed over 12 pages from Ash-croft's book, "Lessons from a Father to His Son," published last year when he was exploring a GOP bid for president. Now Ashcroft is focused solely on defending his seat in 2000 from his Democratic threat: Carnahan.

Ashcroft's book contains a whole chapter on his views on capital punishment during his own two terms as governor. Ashcroft credited, Ronald Reagan with helping him sort out his thoughts on the death penalty. Although Carnahan has executed almost four times as many killers as Ashcroft, expect to hear the following quotes repeated a lot. "It was not my responsibility to second-guess the people," Ashcroft wrote. "It would have been arrogant and irresponsible for me to commute every death sentence, or the death sentences passed on newly converted Christians Becoming a Christian may remove us from eternal penalties, but it does not relieve us or others from the consequences of our acts." Since commuting Mease's sentence, Carnahan's office has gotten more calls of complaints than support.

The calls reinforce what Carnahan and other politicians long have known: The pope may be anti-death penalty, but most voters Catholic or not embrace it. Recent polls show the American public favors the death penalty by a ratio of about 3-to-l. On ABC's Internet site, an unsci entific poll on Carnahan's decision backed that up. By a ratio of 2-to-l, the who registered an opinion (some may have voted repeatedly) said they were "outraged" by Carnahan's act of mercy. Which may explain why, at St.

Louis City Hall (arguably Missouri's most Catholic and Democratic seat of government), the mood the day after Carnahan's announcement wasn't jubilant. "I believe that many Catholic elected officials have a different opinion on the death penalty than the church," said Alderman Steve Conway, D-8th Ward. And that also holds true, he added, for most of their constituents. For that reason, though, some said Carnahan actually deserved Corea ven tures forth in the lan Police were trying to identify the body of a woman found Sunday afternoon partly submerged in a creek south of Interstate 70 in Lake Saint Louis in St. Charles County.

The woman was black, about 5 feet 3 inches, 140 pounds and probably in her early 40s, Lt. Don Bolen of the Lake Saint Louis Police Department said Sunday night. Bolen said a motorist on the South Service Road noticed the body about 3:40 p.m. near the Bent terms of adding variety to his arrangements and that's exactly the approach he pursued. Most of the tunes were centered on the basic interaction between Corea and the rhythm section of Cohen and Ballard, with the three-pronged attack of Davis, Sheppard and Wilson used to add spicy accents or initiate changes in musical direction.

For example, on "Psalm," Corea, Cohen and Ballard opened up by working variations on a loping, angular melody, then bringing in the trombone, tenor and alto sax to cap the initial approach with a finely balanced unison chorus. Then the basic trio began to push the music harder, and Sheppard and Davis took turns building the tune's energy with thoughtfully constructed solos. Then Corea, Cohen and Ballard returned once again to kick the energy up another few notches, setting up a powerhouse finale augmented by another tightly arranged section with the saxes and trombone. It was evident that the musicians of Origin used a varied instrumental attack throughout their Sheldon performance. Corea focused on acoustic piano for most of the evening, but also bounced to the other side of the stage on several occasions to pound away on vibraphone.

Steve Wilson played alto and soprano saxophones as well as flute. Bob Sheppard added bass clarinet and flute to his fine work on tenor sax. Jeff Ballard augmented his drum kit with a seemingly bottomless box of African, South American and Pacific Rim percussive instruments. In addition to energetically attacking the frets of his acoustic bass, Avishai Cohen also used the side of the instrument to tap out percussive effects with his fingers. Trombonist Steve Davis was the only band member who focused on one instrument throughout the concert and on' occasion even he borrowed the odd item from Ballard's percussive grab bag to add rhythmic accents.

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