Daily News Record (Newspaper) - March 31, 1986, Harrisonburg, Virginia 153 28 Pages March 1986 4332702 20 Cents Cagney Dies At Home NEW YORK AP James who won an Oscar as the song and dance man of Yankee Doodle Dandy but earned his place in movie history as the pugnacious hoodlum of such classics as The Public Enemy and Angels with Dirty died He was who suffered from had been in declining health in recent He was released from Lenox Hill Hospital last where he had been treated for a circulatory and died at his Dutchess County farm north of New York Marge his manager and said then that he was returning to his farm in the Dutchess County communi ty of Stanfordville to be among the surroundings he On she would only say that he had She refused to give other Jimmy Cagney was the classic American success lifting himself by determination and hard work out of poverty to na tional President Reagan said in a I believe the entire nation loved Jimmy Cagney and I think he must have loved 1 he always gave us his very dear who is vacationing at his California said he and first lady Nancy Reagan have lost a dear friend of many years today and America has lost one of her finest He was the most powerful ac tor on the actress Virginia Mayo told CBS The most It was like fireworks going Anna widow of acting teacher Loe said she and husband both knew Cagney Lee thought that he had so much He certainly did give the world an image of didnt he I always thought that he uplifted Cagney had suffered a minor stroke in 1977 after being hospitalized for It in because of his health The doctor says keep the man Cagney recalled that he emerged from 20 years retirement to star in Ragtime in career spanned six de He the other great Hollywood heavies Humphrey Edward Robinson and George all of them his co Asked in 1984 how he wanted to be Cagney shot I dont want to be remembered at Then he gave a big stage and He was a screen idol who had little use for Hollywoods a superstar who despised the word You dont hear them speak of Shakespeare as a super You dont hear them call Michelangelo a They only apply the word in this mundane he once I was whaddaya call a journeyman he Do the job and I dont need the But he drew ovations for a wide range of roles including mobsters in The Roaring Twen ties and White the neu ship captain in Mister Lon Chaney in Man of a Thousand and George Cohan in Yankee Doodle the role for which he won tub only Academy The Cagney stance balanced on the balls of the shoulders fingers snapping or fist smashing into opposite palm and staccato delivery became a favorite of But one of their most common lines was a according to Cagney I never once said in a You dir ty When he retired in 1961 after appearing in 62 Cagney was still the 5foot8 bantam when he returned to the screen in the jutting jaw was encased in the legs moved slowly but the electricity was still James Francis Cagney was born July on New York Cagney won an Oscar for Yankee Doodle Dandy in Citys Lower East the second of seven children born to a gambl alcoholic father and a tive Visits to his a barge and brief family moves to Brooklyn and Long Island instilled in him a love for the quiet but he spent most of his youth in the Yorkville section of The area is now among the ci tys most exclusive neighborhoods it was among the In later when Cagney portrayed gangsters in the some of his childhood friends were the real Every now and then Id get a telling me I did a fine job in so and so and that 1 looked he From that was the A Cagney trademark the shrug that seemed to start at the feet and writhe up through the shoulders also was an artifact of those early When I was a there used to be a pimp who worked the block and 78th streets on First Tall dude with an electric blue All hed stand around and do See Page 3 Thousands Of Koreans At Kwangju Rally South Korea AP Up to people rallied in the streets of Kwangju on Sunday to demand direct presidential elections and other democratic Police stood by during the main which went off but later used tear gas to disperse youths trying to stage a No ar rests were The huge rally was the third held by the opposition New Korea Demo cratic Party since it began collecting signatures last month on a petition to amend the Earlier rallies were in Seoul and the southern port of The demonstration at Kwangju held special significance because this provincial capital was the site of a bloody antigovernment rebellion which was put down by troops in May with at least 191 people President Chun Doohwan was a general at the time and took power with military backing a few months Rally organizers said more than people took part assembling around a YMCA building to hear speeches by party leaders over Government authorities said only to people In dependent observers put the number at to with about peo is 200 miles south of As night hundreds of youths sat in the street near the rally chanting antigovernment slogans and singing protest Riot police sealed off the block and after more than an moved in to See Page 3 Christians Celebrate Easter Pope John Paul II celebrates Mass in Peters BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Christians around the world cele the resurrection of Jesus by attending Easter services to pray for spiritual renewal and for peace in a world wracked by Fear of terrorism kept most wor shipers from the site of Jesus resur rection in Only a few hundred people attended Easter Mass in the Church of the Holy Sep unlike the vast crowds of previous Many tourists have shunned the Middle East since June when Lebanese Shiite Moslems hijacked a TWA airliner and held Americans hostage in Beirut for 16 In Oc Palestinians hijacked the Italian Achille Lauro cruise ship and killed a 69yearold On Arab gunmen killed 20 people in the Rome and Vienna air and the confron tation last week in the Gulf of Sidra brought renewed calls by Libya for attacks against Pope John Paul who was seriously wounded by a Turkish ter in denounced guerrilla warfare and abortion in his traditional Easter The pope told a crowd of in Peters Square to accept the great challenge of To choose peace means to choose Men continually inflict death upon people who are often innocent people not yet Is not the method of death found in the method of the method of the bloody conquest of the method of the selfish ac cumulation of the method the poverty that thrives on hatred and the longing for the method of intimidation and the abuse of the method of torture and terror he In the popes Cardinal Jozef the Roman Catholic primate of criticized com munist ideology for hindering the nations moral In a pastoral letter read in Catholic Glemp expressed dismay that abortion and dishonesty in the workplace has spread among One should stress that the work of the church on the moral renewal of man not only did not receive sup port from lay but was clear ly impaired by said Glemps West German riot police battled about 350 antinuclear militants who tried to batter down a fence around a nuclear power plant construction site in authorities No injuries were The violence broke out on the se cond day of Easter weekend pro No other violent incidents were reported as about nu clear foes demonstrated in more than 70 cities in West The archbishop of the Most Robert told Britons that Christians must be the sworn foes of poverty and Preaching in Canterbury the spiritual leader of 70 million Anglicans said the root of See Page 3 Soviet Economic Reforms Wont Slow Arms Plan WASHINGTON AP Soviet leader Mikhail am strategy for modernizing his nations troubled economy isnt likely to slow plans for building new military according to an assessment by two major intelligence agencies that was released Soviet military leaders general ly support economic although that backing could wane within two or three according to the Central In Agency and the Pen tagons Defense Intelligence The report was made March 19 in a classified meeting with the congressional Joint Economic A declassified version was made public Sunday by William a member of the The study noted that since Gor came to power in March he has announced plans to overhaul and modernize the Soviet plans call for boosting economic growth through massive replacement of outdated plant and equipment and an em phasis on hightechnology in the study Achieving his goal would re quire record growth in the machinery allocated for ing Soviet plant and it noting that the machinery is produced by the same sector of the economy that builds military In the near the Soviet defense establishment is well posi to accommodate the possi ble shifts in machinery demand implied by the industrial moder program because defense industries have been upgraded in the past the study But it noted that competition for resources could be intense for some basic materials and some in such as high quality steel and microprocessors and for skilled labor resources traditionally supplied on a priority basis to military Despite that Gor economic policies appear to command widespread political support even among the military because military leaders agree that industrial modernization is necessary and because defense programs likely wont be hurt in the short it The real test of See Page 3 Spends Per Person WASHINGTON AP Uncle Sam spent about for every woman and child in America last year with Alaskans topping the list Hawaiians receiv ing the highest federal Florida leading in individual aid and Connecticut the first choice for the federal government spent billion in fiscal the Census Bureau reported Sun That amounted to for every The study of federal found that billion was distributed as direct aid to in such as Social Medicare and food about 7 percent more than in fiscal Purchasing for various agen including the Defense was up 10 percent to the study Salaries and wages for federal employes climbed 6 percent to and grants to state and local governments totaled an increase of a sparsely populated state with considerable defense and other federal garnered the highest average ex at per Maryland was second at followed by Virginia with average spending of Averages for those states are affected by their proximity to with many federal workers and agen cies now located in the resulting in increases federal spending in those Helping Alaska to its 1 posi tion was the fact that federal grants to stale and local per are highest for that Uncle Sam gives Alaskan gov per a figure topped by no other Wyoming is second at and Montana third with Hawaiians collect the most in federal salaries and averaging per Of not everyone in Hawaii works for the federal gov But the figures for salaries and wages paid in the state are averaged among all state residents for and large defense establishments on the islands help raise the total Alaska ranks second in federal salaries and averaging per followed by at with its large elderly population collecting Social Secu rity and Medicare is the state with the highest average federal payment to at Second on that list is West averaging followed by Pennsylvania at Angry Workers Rout Subic Strikers CLARK AIR Philippines AP Hundreds of barmaids and taxi furious over tost routed Filipino workers blockading the Clark Air Base on Sunday and tore down barricades the pickets had Filipino police fired pistols into the air to break up the 20minute melee in which at least four people were in including one man who lost a front tooth when a rock hit him in the One bar hostess threatened strikers with a broken and a male comrade toted a About 300 attackers came throwing rocks and waving Many of the barmaids wore skim py shorts attire often worn at their jobs and sported flowers in their hair during the afternoon skirmish against members of the Clark Union of Filipino Civilian i After the ISO strikers on the bar the hostesses and taxi cab and passenger jeep drivers rip ped out the workers sound smashed the windows of a pickup broke chairs and set fire to a tarpaulin the pickets used as a They then cheered military personnel who returned to the base after being stranded outside by the 9daypld About Filipi no civilian workers represented by a union federation are demanding higher severance pay from Subic Naval Base and six smaller The barmaids said the strike See Page 3 Ole Virginia Horn closed today for spring
