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Daily News from New York, New York • 36

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rvrwww jg -imx -sfssss 'siey Tretff Screens VWCWSi. -J Gospel of Uncle Remus Jiv DOROTHY Walt Disney's latest triumph stems from the gospel of Uncle Iiemus, an old man imbued with infinite wisdom about the ways of folks and critters and story-teller par excellence to prove it. In "Song of the South," RKO Palace has a Technicolor-fully beautiful treatise on the I Bobby Driscoll begs Uncle Remus (James Baskett) for a story in. Walt Disney's "Song of The South" which opened yesterday at the RKO Palace. 4C- vv Paul Cutrusello, 26, 340 E.

114th and Joseph Pagano, 18, 2250 Second who did have a hunter's license and was wearing a. hunter's costume. However, the third Negro, Canute Morrison, of 8 E. 119th said it was an attempted holdup. He didn't have any money on him, either.

Nab Yonkers Cop As Bicycle Thief Patrolman Stephan Spiak, 32, a Yonkers cop, went through the familiar police routine of arrest, booking and bail yesterday only this time it was in reverse. Spiak, indicted by the WTestchester Grand Jury, was released in $1,000 bail in the theft of three bicycles from the Second Precinct, where he pa trolled. Cops Trap 3 'Hunters' Stalking Wrong Bucks Three Thanksgiving hunters who never got into the woods but had a good, tall yarn anyhow, were held in $10,000 bail each in Felony Court yesterday for attempted robbery and violation of the Sullivan law. PAYING OFF WITH BALES OF BIG BILLS Industry Head is Found Nude, Dead in Woods (Special to The Newpl Easthampton, Nov. 27.

A nude body found in the woods here by horseback riders Sunday noon was identified today as that of Donald R. Green, 52, of Northampton. District Attorney Harold I. Grousbach said a murder theory was being investigated. Green was president of the Hol-yoke WTorsted Co.

of Holyoke and brother of a Smith College professor. Soil on Body Is Clue. Identification followed discovery of Green's automobile about a mile from his body. Soil found on the body was different from that of the immediate locality, supporting the th'eory of foul play. Police were trying to learn when Green had last been seen alive.

His wife, the formr Constance McLaughlin of Chicago, had been in Washington several days and did not return until today. No marks were reported found on the body, but Grousbach said that the death "definitely was not suicide." Green, a native of Holyoke, was educated at Hotchkiss School and Yale. He was a major in World War 1. He was the father of three children. Court Weighs Refugees' Fate Jerusalem, Nov.

27 (U.R). The Supreme Court of Palestine today delayed its decision on whether the British Government may disregard ordinary legal processes in deport- i i (r 1 tt Cyprus. As a result, 3,300 Jews who arrived yesterday on a dirty little ship and were put aboard three British transports only after a fierce battle with British soldiers, will have to remain aboard the transports in Palestinian waters until the court decides one way or the other. The court was" expected to hand down a decision tomorrow or Friday. The Enlisted Veterans would seek "to see that in future all commissioned officers are selected from the ranks and that they do not assume the rank of God over the enlisted men." Want Conscription Broadened.

The confederation promises to "see that no veteran is ever forced to become a member of or pay dues to any organization in order to work or go into business." It favors conscription of "capital, industry, business and labor as well as fighting men" in time of war. MASTERS Ye Know Not Day ITor Hour Battle Creek, Nov. 27 (U.R). Msgr. Maurice Walsh, pastor of St.

Philip's Church, warned in a funeral sermon today that "no man can know when death may come." Then he collapsed in the pulpit. Doctors pronounced him dead of a heart attack. Flag Violation Sends 3 to Jail Eight CIO unionists, who used the Stars and Stripes to gather cash handouts during the 1946 May Day parade at Union Square, yesterday were given 10-day workhouse sentences in Special Sessions, but only three of them will have to serve the time. Charles MacLaren, 465 Fourth Elmer Stafford, 620 Franklin and Wesley Mitchell. 1199 E.

Broad all Elizabeth, N. must go to jail. Sentences of the other five were stayed psnding good behavior. All eight are members of the Elizabeth Local of the CIO's United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers. MacLaren is the local's president and Stafford its treasurer.

The defendants were convicted Nov. 14 after testimony that they had carried a large flag parallel to the street with placards asking donations to support CIO strikers against the Phelps Dodge Products Corp. The coins, it was testified, weighed down the flag so that it dragged in the street. To Seek Cultural Exchange Berlin, Nov. 27 (U.R).

Assistant Secretary of State William Benton stopped off here tonight en route by plane from Paris to Moscow, where he said he would confer with Soviet officials on the possibility of setting un student and professional exchanges between Russian and American universities. Tents, Steal A money and will also be closer to the nation's center of political action, its leaders figure. The decision to leave New York was reached at an executive session of the CIO-PAC at Atlantic City, following the recent CIO convention there, a high official said. Contributions to PAC dropped sharply during the last year, and foibles of man and beast. As Uncle Remus so aptly puts It, there's no place far enough to be away from troubls, and when an unhappy little boy decides to run away from home, the old fellow deals with the juvenile crisis by uooi.iea iluunfuoo The ruse is so successful that Bre'r Rabit, Bre'r Fox and Bre'r Dear are summoned for two other animated sequences parodying human experience.

The tar baby, the get-away through the Briar Patch and the laughing place stories are ail excellently handled. Although plot is practically ignored. Disney has worked a lot of magic with brilliant animation, directive atid wonderful music, besides having made the very possible choice for Uncle Remus. James Baskett, who portrays the sagacious dean of plantation workers, has both the benign appearance and mellifluous voice to make him the perfect spinner-of-tales. It's largely through his philosophical whimsy that "Song of the South" is so delightfully charming.

There are a few things that can't bo given unstinted praise, such as the vague trouble which separates the young lad's parents and one overplayed beside sequence, but Disney has stuck to a simple theme and made it highly appealing for adults as well as children. His climax, in which cartoon figures join the youngsters and Uncle Remus in" a trek over the hill, is a masterpiece. Advanced Technique. The scvera lsequences in which Animated animals share the screen with real people display a remarkable advancement in cartoon technique. In fine support of Baskett are, Bobby Driscoll as the lad whose troubles prompt a recital of the folktales; Luana Patten and Glenn Leedy as his playmates, Ruth Warrick and Eric Rolf as the parents.

I.ucile Watson is excellent as the grandmother and llattie McDaniel's performance is outstanding. "Song of the South" is rich in melody, several of the tunes already familiar to the public. Besides "Zip a Dee Doo Dan" and Sooner or Later," the numbers are How Do You "Uncle Remus Said." "Look at the Sun," "Every-Lodv's Cot a Laughing Place," Who Wants to Live Like That," the title song and two Negro spirituals, "Let the Rain Tour Down" and "All I want." PA to Fold Bowing to times that are adverse to it financially as well as politically, the CIO Political Action Committee has decided to economize by closing its present headquarters at "05 K. 12d St. and moving to Washington.

D. The News learned yesterday. By combining national headquarters and the Washington regional office, the organization will save Two radio patrolmen cruising Harlem were stopped at Fifth Ave. and 115th St. at 5:45 A.

M. by a Negro. Three men in a blue sedan had held him up, he complained, but he didn't have any money on him. At Lenox Ave. and 112th the cops met another Negro who told the same story.

He didn't have any money, either. Hunting, They Said. Finally, at Fifth Ave. and 119th the cops spotted two men talking to a Negro with his hands high in the air. At the curb, in a blue sedan, was a third man with a shotgun in his hands.

When the cops inquired, the men said: "We're on a hunting trip and we're just trying to get directions how to get out of the city." Thev identified themselves as Ryan Scion Divorced' Reno, Noy. 27 (U.R). Mrs. Alberta Eaton Kyan today divorced Thomas Fortune Ryan III of New York City and San Francisco, descendant of the late New York financier of the same name. She charged mental cruelty.

A sealed property agreement also provided for custody of three minor children. They were married Sept. 30, 1924. at El Paso. Charles Diaz, 22, of 337 E.

109th way to Capitol drastic cuts in expenses were deemed necessary. No date has been set yet for moving, as difficulty is being experienced in finding the desired space in Washington. But officials expect to solve this soon and have the new headquarters in full operation by the time the new Congress convenes. Southern Vets Form Group to Fight Unions Raleigh, N. Nov.

27 (U.R). The American Confederation of Enlisted Veterans," pledged to "keep America white and free" and to fight the closed shop, received a state charter todav. Its leaders denounced the Negro- baiting Columbians and the Ku Klux Klan as "anti-American" organizations. Manley Blevins, 37, organizer, led 12 charter members here from West Jefferson, N. and received the charter from- Secretary of State Thad Eure.

Ex-Marine and Newspaperman. Blevins said he formerly worked on- the Honolulu Advertiser and the Nashville Tennesseean and is now a free-lance newspaper correspondent. He was a peacetime marine and served in the Army during World War II..

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