The arrests for narco, burglary, theft and half a dozen other crimes are behind him, he thinks.

‘Clean’ for Seven Months

At the weird exercises Jesse was honored for (1) receiving his discharge
papers from his parole officer, and (2) having stayed “clean,” off the junk, for a personal record of seven months.

Last Saturday I devoted this space to a situation which I considered a very unfortunate one.

At that time, the body of Carl (Alfalfa) Switzer, a onetime “Our Gang” star, lay in the County Morgue, and because of legal technicalities which delayed its release, a funeral planned by his parents had to be postponed.

The body was being held at the morgue by coroner’s officials, who claimed they couldn’t release it to the family until Switzer’s ex-wife, Dian Collingwood Switzer, gave them approval. The family indicated to me that they had tried unsuccessfully to contact Mrs. Switzer at her home in Hutchinston, Kan.

I printed the story. And it’s one of the perils of journalism that as it was going to press, Mrs. Switzer’s wire arrived in the coroner’s office.

Wanted Legal Advice

It should be made clear that the young lady wasn’t deliberately avoiding
giving consent to release of her ex-husband’s body for burial. Because of the divorce situation, she wanted the telegram to be dictated by her Los Angeles attorney. And, as soon as she was able to reach him, the telegram went out.

The question of who wrote the original story for the motion picture “The Brave One” has been dumped into the laps of the Screen Writers Guild this week.

A leading contender for the honor is the deceased Spanish-born writer-dancer-actor, Juan Duval, whose posthumous candidacy I revealed last week.

And adding new support to his claim is Dale Robertson. The western star
telephoned me after reading my column- with the information that he, personally, had taken Juan Duval’s script about a boy and a bull to a number of producers in town.