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Thursday, February 26, 1953
By Dan Barry
By Lee Falk and Wilson McCoy
By Leo Falk and Phil Dart*
Byjohn Cultm Muxpbf
By Fred LessmeU
By George McManus
By Paul Robinson
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‘Caine Mutiny’
Now Cleared
For Filming
By 808 THOMAS
HOLLYWOOD If) The embat
tled USS Caine has survived in
spection by the Navy and is ready
to set sail on the Hollywood seas.
That’s the report from Stanley
Kramer, the producer who owns
the film rights to “The Caine Mu
tiny.” The novel, which depicts a
mutiny on an American ship dur
ing World War 11, ranks with
“Gone With the Wind” and “The
Robe” among the best - selling
books of modern times.
The film version has been the
subject of controversy ever since
Kramer bought the rights. There
had been reports that the Navy
brass had turned thumbs down on
the picture. The unstable captain
of the Caine, Queeg, was depicted
as an Annapolis man; it was re
ported that the Navy insisted that
he should be shown, as a reservist.
“I don’t know how some of these
reports get started,” Kramer com
mented. “They certainly aren’t
true. The Navy has been very co
operative, and we now have a
script which has been approved.
“The character of Queeg re
mains intact. Nothing has been al
tered.
“Of cours?, the Navy had cer
tain suggestions to make; some
we agreed to, some we argued
about At die outset, they didn’t
want us to use ‘mutiny’ in the
tide, but we talked them out of
that We had to make some chang
es with the character of Lt. Keefer,
particularly in some of the lines
he delivers.
“For instance, we couldn’t use
flit line: ’The Navy is a master
plan devised by geniuses and ex
ecuted by idiots.’ But we could
afford to sacrifice that for the
many other things we were al
lowed to keep.”
The producer added that the only
thing holding up the start of the
picture was a decision of what di
mensions to shoot it in.
“A picture like “The Caine Mu
tiny’ it a natural for 3-D,” he re
matked. “But I can’t decide which
technique to shoot it in until I
find out which is going to be gen
erally accepted in the theaters.
Offhand, I would say that the
methods that require glasses will
not survive. I think the public will
eventually become annoyed with
having to wear the glasses.
“1 believe that the big-screen
type of picture—Cinerama or Cine
mascope-will prevail. But we will
have to learn how to use it. It
would be too limiting to have the
hig screen throughout a picture;
there would be no chance for
doeeupe or intimate scenes. I be
lieve the regular-size screen will
be used for interiors;, then the big
screen can open up for the out
door spectacle scenes.”
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Gunfighter's Return
by Leslie Ernenwein
Chapter Six
HE thought that would end it;
that his blunt rejection would
convince Bonn so thoroughly that
he’d leave him alone with Eve.
Rimbaud went on eating for
a moment. Then, observing how
surprised and disappointed Bonn
seemed to be, he said flatly, “I’m
through siding underdogs. It’s a
losing proposition.”
Charley Boon sat there for a
moment, absently tracing the
steepled sweat stains on his hat
band with a big-knuckled finger.
Finally he said, “I calculated
you’d be a man who’d pay a
debt.”
“What debt you talking about?”
he demanded.
“You mean you don’t know?’
Bonn asked. “You ain’t funning?”
Rimbaud shook his head.
“Well, according to what Doc
Featherstone said two years ago,
Sam Maiben saved your life.”
“Saved my life?” Rimbaud
echoed.
Then abruptly he understood,
and the knowledge shocked him.
He hadn’t seen Maiben since that
eventful night when the home
steader had picked him out of the
road and toted him to town in
a wagon.
“I’d forgotten what his name
was,” Rimbaud admitted. Aware
of Bonn’s intent gaze, he added,
“It’s my habit to pay a debt.”
"‘Then you’ll protect Sam’s
place?” Bonn asked eagerly.
Rimbaud nodded. He looked at
Eve and shrugged, and said, “So
I take one more ride with the un
derdogs.”
“Them Roman Four toughs
won’t be so brash when they hear
you’re at Boxed M,” Bonn pre
dicted smilingly. “They’ll think
twice before tangling with you.”
But Rimbaud paid him no need.
He was looking at Eve’s com
posed unsmiling face, wondering
at her gravity and wanting to
kiss the soberness from her lips.
When Bonn had left Rimbaud
told her, “This deal will delay
my plans a trifle, but they still
stand, just like I said.”
That seemed to embarass Eve.
*1 didn’t think you’d ever
change,” she murmured, as much
to herself as to him. “I thought
you’d go on being what you were
as long as you lived.”
Then she held up her left hand,
and as Rimbaud peered at the
small diamond ring. Eve said
quietly, “I’m engaged to Sam
Maiben.”
. For a moment, while the ironic
significance of her words lanced
through him, Rimbaud stared at
the ring.
A self-mocking smile formed
on Rimbaud’s whisker-shagged
face as he reached for his hat
“A shiftless saddle tramp thanks
you for a fine supper,” he ac
knowledged, remembering what
she’d told Limpy Smith.
“Jim, I’m sorry,” Eve said in
a sincere, subdued voice that was
scarcely above a whisper.
“That also is a losing proposi
tion,” Rimbaud told her, and
went on into the dining room.
L'RNIE LINK had been assigned
" the chore of watching the
rear entrance to Eve Odegarde’s
restaurant “Maiben will be get
ting hungry,” Lew Stromberg
had predicted. “He might just be
fool enough to sneak in for a
late supper.”
It was a loco idea, to Ernie’s
way of thinking. A useless waste
of time. But there was no use
trying to reason with Lew Strom
berg. He was in a lather about
losing that Mex graze in Sonora.
Standing in the shadow of Gab
bert’s wagon shed, Link watched
the resaaurant’s lamplit doorway
and caught a brief glimpse of
Jim Rimbaud moving across the
kitchen. Ernie grinned, recalling
how spooked young Buck Aubrey
had been when he found out who
it was he’d mistaken for Sam
Maiben. Buck wasn’t much ac
count with a gun, nor with his
fists either, for that matter; and
Rimbaud was supposed to be a
heller from here to who hid the
broom. Even Lew Stromberg
wanted no part of him in a gun
fight
Link shaped up a cigarette and
thought how it would be to have
Rimbaud’s reputation. A man
like that could draw top wages
anywhere, and have his pick of
pretty girls.
Ernie observed Charley Bonn
sitting at the kitchen table with
Rimbaud. Mildly curious, Link
eased across the moonlit alley
and was standing close to the
doorway when he heaxl Bonn
ask, ’Then you’ll protect Sam’s
place?”
There was a brief silence be
fore Rimbaud said, “So I take ore
more ride with the underdogs.”
Ernie wasn't sure what that
meant, until he heard Bonn say,
ITS
“Them Roman Four toughs woc*t
be so brash when they hear
you’re at Boxed M. They’ll think
twice before tangling with you!”
That was enough for Ernie
Link. Going quickly to Main
Street, he nurried toward the
Shiloh Saloon. Lew would want
to know about this. Perhaps Lew
would want Rimbaud stopped
right now; tonight It occurred to
Ernie that the man who killed
Jim Rimbaud would make him
self a rep in one fight He would
be known lar and wide as being
faster with a gun than Jim Rim
baud.
“He’d be famous,” Link thought
aloud. Then he skidded to a stop,
barely missing a collision with
Lew Stromberg’s daughter, who
came out of the Bon Ton Mil
linery with a huge hatbox in her
arms.
She was a brunette beauty, this
Della Stromberg. Just past nine
teen, she seemed more like a big
city girl than the of a
Quadrille Basin cowman. She
said smilingly, “You’re just the
man I’m looking for, Ernie,” and
pushed the hatbox into Link's
hands. “Take it to my rig at the
hotel while I pick up some yard
goods at the Mercantile.”
“But Tm in a big rush,” Ernie
objected. “Got somethin’ real im- !
portant to tell the boss.” !
Della laughed at him. “It cant.
be that important,” she said, and '
left him standing there with the*
hatbox.
When Ernie came to Della’s
red-wheeled buggy at toe Alham- •
bra hitch rack he observed Swede
Severide and A1 Shumway loaf
ing in front of the hotel. Hal
hoped they wouldn’t notice what
he was toting, but they neared'
at the hugehatbox ui Swede
said wonderingly, “Must be a.
new style Stetson built special
for Roman Four hands.”
With a thrusting —tw+ et tre
mendous outrage propelling him.
Link drew hit gun, lunged for
ward with it held head-high, and
whipped it down. Severide at
temped to dodge, but the banal,
caught him acroas the left tuple
He expelled a yeasty sigh and
staggered sideways, colliding with
A1 Shumway, who tried to prop
him up. But Swede want entirely
limp, and Shumway, eased ms
friend to toe plonk walk.
“That’ll learn him not to cell
me comical,” Link muttered,
backing slowly out Into the
street.
By fa** Saham and Bod Bmd \n\n NOTAS CUBANAS
Por RAOUL ALPIZAR POYO
NUESTRA COLONIA
Muchas personas, entre ellas,
amigos cordiales, se han acercado
a mi a pedirme que escriba acer
ca del actual estado de nuestra
Colonia cubana.
No he querido complacerles. En
estos pueblos pequeños, es natu
ral, que por algunos se cultive
la rencilla y hasta el cuento
malvado, pero como la mayoría
de los que integran nuestra coto
nía de cubanos y descendientes,
está integrada por personas bue
nas y decentes, he pensado que
nuestra labor ha de ser siempre
de estrecha unión entre todos los
que tenemos el propio idioma y
las mismas costumbres. Ejercer
el papel do crítico, seria a nues
tro modo de ver las cosas, una
labor contraproducente, que nos
llevaría a una desunión, que no
debe de existir entre nosotros.
Las cubanos de este Cayo siem
pre dieron -nuestra de fraternal
afecto. Aqui. desde el año 1850.
i vivieron cubanos y su lema fué
siempre amarse tos unos a tos
í otros, practicando asi la cristiana
máxima. Y si eso fué lo que hi
cieron nuestros padres y abuelos,
ingratos y olvidadizos seriamos, si
ahora, en vez de cultivar la reli
gión del afecto, nos fuéramos a
entretener en buscar querellas y
malquerencias entre los que aqui
tenemos nuestros bogares.
Nada hay tan hermoso, como
es el espíritu fraternal entre to
dos los hombres. Y si estos tienen
el mismo idioma, si tienen la pro
pia descendencia, estamos más
obligados aún a respetar ei pasa
do y procurar mantener siempre
enhiesto, el estandarte del afecto,
de la comprensión y, sobre todo,
el de la tolerancia, que es la que
une más estrechamente a tos hom
bres, por distintas que seaa sus
creencias y sus acciones.
Los que aqui nacimos de pa
dre cubano, tenemos que recor
dar que todas tifos, sin exrrp
ciones de dase alguna, procuraron
ha roer de La sociedad cubana déi
Cayo, t.n núcleo de hermanos,
prestos siempre a ofrecer la ayu
da, cuando esta fuera solicitada.
Por algo nuestro genial Apóstol
Marti, en carta dirigida al Sr.
José Dolores Poyo en el año 1881,
decía: "quiero qua *1 cubano da
Cuba sea como la as *1 cubano da
Cayo Hueso." Es decir, nuestro
Maestro reconocia en los cubanos
residentes en el Cayo, disciplina,
patriotismo, espíritu de sacrificio
y un profundo respeto a las le
yes. Estas virtudes resultan para
nosotros, a manera de una sa
grada herencia, que no podemos
olvidar en ninguno de bs actos
qve aquí realicemos. Por otra
parte, nada hay más bello y
elocuente que la mutua enmpren
: sión entre los seres humanos. Ella
es la base principal de la felici
dad. Las familias forman bs puf
K, os y estos las naciones y cuan
do todos tienen el propio anhelo de
luchar correctamente, de no ha
cer daño al prójimo, de tolerar
, as faltas teciprocomente. es
ruando las naciones llegan a dis
frj r de la breve felicidad que
c' i de obtener en este mundo.
F eso nosotros, que nos senti
m •> übanos. que habiendo naci
do - este querido Cayo, del cual
nue ’ *s padres fueron pioneros,
solo deseamos sinceramente, de
todo corazón, que si alguna dife
rencia existiera algvna vez entre
bs roanos residentes, que a pro
vee . b este año en que cele
brama el Centenario de! naci
mierto del más grande y puro de
bs cubanos, se olviden esas pe
queneces y unidos todos, nos dis
pongamos a luchar por mantener
aqui el crédito de Cube, por vivir
en par con bs americanos, que
tan ge-tc. osa mente no* Ofrecieran
sie-vre su hospitalidad y su ca
riño.
Sob sal, nuestra Colonia seré
grande y respetada por propios y
Míranos. No se comprende que en
un núcleo relativamente pequeño
de hirnbret. que seo amigo*, exis
ta diferencia de criterio tan
grande, que les separe y les ha
gan verse con sospechosa actitud,
.ando en el fondo solo ha habido
seguramente, falta de compren
sión, falta de acercamiento sinco
ro, cuando al final, asta moa con
vencidos de que todos, sin excep
ción, lo que deseamos os estar es
trechamente unidos, para realisar
obra buena y perdurable, come
una ofrenda al recuerdo da nues
tro# progenitores, que ye duermen
el sueño eterno, unos bajo la tie
rra del Cayo y otros, 100 más di
chosos. bajo la tierra de la Patria
que ellos ayudaron a libertar.
Ojalá que tatas palabras escri
tas con toda la sinceridad posible,
sean bien interpretadas y qua ce
sen las diferencias entre loe cu
banos y sus descendientes, pera
mostrar a los extraños que nos ob
servan, que como en toda familia
humana, pueden haber criterios
opuestos, opiniones contrarias, pe
ro después de todo, eses sen co
sas triviales y pasajeras, que no
pueden ni deben de disminuir lee
lasos de fraternidad y de com
pañerismo que son los que aten y
unen s los hombres y le* Reven
por camino* de progreso, de pros
peridad y les hacen sentir felices
en la colectividad donde Meada
sus hogares.
Hagamos, pues, votos muy ato
ceros. porque en esta Centenario
del Apóstol Marti, los cubanos del
Cayo y sus descendiente*, recor
dando el gloriosa pesado de les
emigraciones revolucionarias, re
presentado par la labor generosa
que realizaron nuestros mayores,
todos sintamos el anhelo de vivir
en paz, de sabernos tolerar lie
unos s los otros y aprovechar, no
mo lo hiciera nuestro gran Marti,
b que de bueno hay ea cada ee
razón. Gracias a ello, w pudo ha
cer la libertad da bs Estado* Uni
dos y la de Cuba. Mientras las
hombres ae miren con sospechas,
vivan temiendo ser atacados per
lo* demás bombea, ae hay posi
bilidades de qu* la paz cristiana,
tan necesaria, exista ea aeto mato
do en que vivimos.
‘ Amaos bs saos a las atrae
doctrina de amor, ha atoo ala df
da. la que ha praporetanada al
mundo su progresa y su cuitara, ya
jante*. olvidamos sus lírflMlfl— fah
tas y sob alcanzamos a ver y §
admirar na virtudes.