The Bristol Daily Courier from Bristol, Pennsylvania • Page 11

BRISTOL COURIER LEVITTOWN TIMES Actors Guild Plans Movie Industry Strike John Wayne, David Niven Back Move By VERNON SCOTT UPI Hollywood Correspondent HOLLYWOOD Actor- producer John Wayne and Academy Award winner David Niven today agreed to back the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) in its threatened strike the motion picture industry March 7. The SAG annnounced yesterday its 14,000 members, including many big name stars as well as thousands of bit would tie up the industry in its bid to share in the profits the are expected to accrue from the sale of post-1948 pictures to the television industry. Opposes Action Dick Powell, actor, producer and a member of SAG, opposed the action. a Powell said. industry will be hurt.

The ones who voted for this are unemployed Wayne, however, said 100 per cent behind the board (the Niven concurred. Renew Negotiations Thursday Renewed negotiations between the SAG and the industry were set for tomorrow in an effort to avert the threatened strike could be the death knell for the giant motion picture studios. Hie threatened strike involves both major studios and independent producers. The action by SAG also lent support to the Writers Guild of America which has been on strike against studios for the past month over the same issue. The studios claim payment of residuals would amount to pay to actors who were compensated when they made the pictures.

The actors contend that release of the post-1948 films to TV will cut into the motion picture market. Fans will not bother to leave their homes to see them in theaters, they said. Other Hollywood luminaries reported favoring the strike action include Jeff Chandler, Tony Curtis and his wife Janet Leigh, Glenn Ford, Debbie Reynolds and Shirley MacLaine. To Be No Picketing SAG President Ronald Reagan said all actors are members of the guild and that most appear in favor of the strike. He also said there would be no picketing by the SAG.

Charles S. Bloren, executive vice president of the Motion Picture Producers Association, said the strike thousands of jobs in the industry as well as the institutions of the He said he was hopeful the renewal of negotiations tomorrow would bring the parties closer together. Studios reported periled by the threatened strike were the giants such as Allied Artists. Columbia, Disney, Metro Goldwyn-Mayer, Paramount, 20th-Cen- tury-Fox, Universal International and Warner Bros. Trial DA Continues His Acid Summation LOS ANGELES Clifford Crail is the master of sarcasm.

Yesterday he took the defense story at the Finch Tregoff murder trial ami turned it on the surgeon and his mistress. The district attorney, making the first closing argument in the case against Dr. R. Bernard Finch, 42, and Carole Tregoff, 23, made his points by asking questions and letting the jury answer for themselves. Crail resumes his acid summation today, posing more questions like these: Princess Anne Makes First Public Speech LONDON (UPI) Princess Anne Tuesday made her first public speech 13 words long.

Queen Elizabeth's 9-year old daughter drew in a royal breath and told fellow Brownies: would ask you to light, this candle for us for Brownies Then the blonde i smiled, handed the candle to Lady Baden Powell and rejoined her fellow Brownies of the elite Buckingham Palace Pack. The candle presentation to the widow of the late Lord Baden- Powell, founder of the Boy and Girl Scout (Guide) movement, highlighted the pack's observance of Fellow Brownies later reported Anne took no chances. She had memorized the speech and rehearsed it for days. SHALLOW WELL First natural gas well in the United States was drilled at Fredonia, N. in 1821, three years before the first railroad line was built in the country.

The well was only 27 feet deep. If Carole and her lover hired a Las Vegas racketeer simply to get divorce evidence against Barbara Jean Finch, why did they buy him a plane ticket to Phoenix. instead of Los Angeles? Why did Finch run back into his garage after shooting his wife last July 18? To Kill Marie Anne Lidholm, their Swedish maid and only eyewitness? When he was tackling Miss Lidholm in fear she had a gun. why did he stop first and turn off the ighLs? Was it fear of Why did he beat her head into the wall after he found she had no gun? Why didn't he call an ambulance after fracturing his skull to end her attempts to shoot him? As a doctor didn't he know better than to try to put her into a car? If his wife ran out into the night with a gun. why did she continue to scream? And Why did Finch follow her? Crail pinpointed 15 major ernn- fiicts in the story told by Finch on the witness stand and that of Miss Lidholm.

He said in most respects Finch had tried to the pattern to the of the story because there was little question whom the jury would believe. The prosecutor wound up the day with one final barbed question about hiring convict John Patrick Cody. go to Las Vegas and pay a man more than $1,000. They get a receipt. They pay in cash to do a job.

What was that Crail was expected to conclude his argument by noon. Then attorneys for Miss Tregoff were scheduled to take over. Frank Plane Crash Caused By Explosion WASHINGTON (UPI) Investigators have found the answer to one mystery in the Julian A. Frank airliner was a dynamite explosion in the plane which carried all 34 aboard to their deaths. A second, bigger mystery remains unanswered did Frank, heavily insured Westport.

lawyer, carry the dynamite aboard the National Airlines plane and, if so, why? The DC6B, on a New York to- Miami flight, went down Jan. fi near Bolivia, N.C., killing Frank and the 28 other passengers and the crew of five. mangled body was washed ashore on a beach about 20 miles from the wreckage. 'Chairman James R. Durfee of the Civil Aeronautics Board told the Senate aviation subcommittee Tuesday that a painstaking investigation by his agency uncovered evidence of a dynamite explosion triggered by a dry-cell battery in the vicinity of Frank's seat.

Durfee also said Frank, 32. carried more than a million dollars in life and accident insurance, all of which was obtained during the preceding This was an increase from an earlier CAB estimate that Frank carried almost $900,000 in insurance. Was Under Investigation At the time of his death Frank was under investigation for several financial deals. Subcommittee Chairman A. S.

Mike Monroney (D-Okla.) said after the hearing that testimony reaffirmed his belief that evidence pointed to Frank as a bomber with Durfee said the FBI was investigating the possibility of criminal action. Monroney said that charges of complicity could be brought against anyone who helped Frank make a bomb. Widow Charged ith Hiring Killers Inayrng DETROIT (UPD A striking silver-blonde grandmother was accused with her alleged lover today of hiring three men to kill her wealthy husband who was bludgeoned and shot to death last April. Only last week Mrs. Nellie Lassiter, 38, a shapely former mrfdet.

sobbed and became hysterical with apparent grief while testifying against the three men on trial for her slaying But Tuesday she was picked up by police at a hospital where she was visiting her daughter and newborn grandson and herself charged with masterminding the slaying. Hours later. Gordon Watson, described by police as a lover of Mrs. Lassiter and former business partner of her husband, was arrested at Los Angeles, where he has lived with his wife and two children since shortly after the killing. Halt Murder Trials Their arrests brought a startling, dramatic halt to the first degree murder trials of three men for the beating and fatal shooting of Parvin Lassiter, 38, former Royal Oak auto dealer.

Two of the men all of them described as hired killers have changed their pleas from innocent, to guilty to a reduced charge of second degree murder. They are Roy C. (Buck) Hicks, 37, and Richard Jones, 27. The third man, Charles Nash, 43, said he would make a similar change of plea when court resumed this morning. The arrests of Airs.

Lassiter and Watson, 44, brought disclosures that authorities believe a small army of persons was involved in the slaying. Name Six Others In addition to charges of first degree murder and conspiracy to MRS. NELLIE LASSITER commit, murder against Mrs. Lassiter and Watson, authorities named six other persons in warrants charging conspiracy. They were Hicks, Jones and Nash, brother, Herbert, a Detroit truck driver named Joseph Gunna and a man identified only as Authorities did not disclose the nature of their evidence against the six alleged conspirators, nr against Mrs.

Lassiter or Watson. But they did indicate that the placing of charges against Mrs. Lassiter and Watson stemmed from statements given by Jones and Hicks. Policeman Sweating Out Meningitis NEW YORK Patrolman Thomas F. Reilly Jr.

gets a headache or a stiff nerk today, he may never see his children again. Just a week aqo, Reilly tried to save the life of a woman who seemed to be choking to death. He used mouth-to-mouth artificial respiration. The woman. Miss Concetta Loria, 38, was dead when the ambulance arrived.

Reilly went back to his radio patrol car. He learned later that the woman had died of highly infections meningitis, a disease that attacks the brain and spinal cord. Police doctors gave the 33-year- old patrolman heavy doses of antibiotics and ordered him to home They told him to stay away from his wife, Dolores, and his two children, Kathleen, 7 and Thomas, 4. The children have been told Daddy see them because he has a cold, given that kind of first aid Reilly says, if necessary I'll do it The symptoms of meningitis are a headache, fever, chills, stiff neck. They usually take four to eight days to appear.

Iteiily is waiting. Business Improves Across The Country WASHINGTON (UPI) Business across the country improved again last month as metal producers and users continued to recover from strike caused steel shortages. Stepped-up production trimmed an expected seasonal cutback in jobs, and personal income rose to a record annual rate of 393 bil- lion dollars. Consumer buying, rei ting the income abo went up. SAME TEMPERATURE According to authorities, temperature of the air is not higher in the sun than it is in the shade, but people think it is because the sun heats their clothing and skin.

Hearing Aids Featuring "Radioear" Batteries Cords and Accessories 10 Discount Call Wl 5 2000 For Appointment BOTH STORES OPEN TOMORROW 'TIL 9 P.M. $500 Case Solved KETTERING, Ohio When the police found -12-year-old George Ray Marshall late last night they bagged the kidnaper, the kidnaped and the ransom demander all in one. George left for school Tuesday at 8 a.m. At 9:37 a.m. his mother, Mrs.

Charlotte Marshall, answered the telephone and heard a voice growl, you want to see your son again, well, have; to pay 500 The caller hung up abruptly. Mrs. Marshall called Beaver Town School and learned with horror that her son had not arrived there. She called the police. The police brought in the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and a 12- hour hunt began.

But Kettering Police Chief John Shryock was already suspicious. Five hundred dollars was small change for a man risking a naping conviction, and Thomas Marshall was only a post office; worker in nearby Dayton. Be-! sides, George had run away from home four times before. When it got dark and very cold, a hitch-hiking boy knocked on the door of Mrs. Willa Mae Shoemak- home at Waynesville, about 20 miles south of Kettering.

boy said he was hungry. Mrs.) Shoemaker called police. George was waiting with a Den-1 nis-the-menace smile when Sgt. John.D. Murray arrived.

George said, he made the ransom demand by disguising his voice, and hung up then because he know what youa were sup- posed to say next. were tickled to death to see said Murray. much better than having something laying in a thicket somewhere. He's a likeable kid, one of those boys that have those wan-1 derinu New Jersey Floor Greatest Carpet Value of 1960 100 DUPONT NYLON BROADLOOM COMPLETELY INSTALLED WALL-TO-WALL INCLUDING CARPET, PADDING and TACKLESS INSTALLATION r. Sq.

Yd. Completely Installed Wall-To-Wall SOLIDS GORGEOUS COMBINATIONS INCLUDING BLACK AND WHITE THE FOLLOWING LISTING INCLUDES EXAMPLES OF THE LOW COST OF THIS EXCEPTIONAL CARPETING COMPLETELY INSTALLED, WALL-TO-WALL. PRICES INCLUDE CARPET, HEAVY BIGELOW PADDING, TACKLESS (HOLLYWOOD) INSTALLATION AND LABOR! ABSOLUTELY NOTHING ELSE TO BUY! NO MONEY DOWN TAKE 36 MONTHS TO PAY! NAME OF HOME AND AREAS COVERED PRICE FULL PAY MONTHLY LEVITfOWNiR Living Room. Entrance Area and $290 9.85 RANCHER Living Room and Halls 283 9.61 JUBILEE IJving Room, Hall and Stairs 304 10.33 PENNSYLVANIAN Living Dining Room, Entrance Area, Halls Stairs 409 13.90 COLONIAL Living Room, Dining Room, Foyer, Stairs and Upper Hail 499 16.96 COUNTRY CLUBBER Living Room, Dining Room. Foyer, Halls and Stain 546 18.55 FAIRLESS HILLS (Coronado No.

3) Living Room and Hall. 234 7.95 FAIRLESS HILLS lHall Crest) Living Room, Dining Room and Hall 290 9.85 PASTEL SHADES SO RIGHT FOR MODERN DECOR AND MATCHING COLOR THEMES USE OUR SHOP-AT-HOME SERVICE PHOMK OWen 5-6139 or DUdley 7-0222 PHONE AT ANY TIME! WE HAVE 24 HOUR TELEPHONE SERVICE INCLUDING SUNDAYS! Our decorator-consultant will be pleased to bring samples of this lovely broadloom to your home for your selection at your convenience, day or evening. 102 NORTH BROAD OPEN MONDAYS and RING Co. STREET, TRENTON, N.i. THURSDAYS Until 9 P.M.

Open Dally 9 A.M. to 5 P.M. Parking Refunded with Purchase AND IN LEVITTOWN, N.J. IVP Mile South of Levittown Exhibit Center ROUTE -130 Opposite A. P.

OPEN MON. WED. THURS. FRI. 12:00 Noon til 9 P.M.

Tuesdays and Saturdays 9:30 A.M. to 5 P.M..