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From the Advocate Archives
June 18, 1940
Pigeon comes down in garden
with fishermen’s message
A carrier pigeon, evidently weary and ill, dropped into the garden of the home of Mr. and Mrs. John I. Shaw on Bradford near Howland Thursday morning, unable to go farther on its mission — a mission that still has something of mystery about it.
Around one leg of the tired pigeon was the red band of identification with the registry number 1F-38-SPC-36 on a ring inside the band. On the other leg was the tiny aluminum tube with the message the pigeon had been sent to deliver. It was written on extremely thin paper with pencil and the words, even with the aid of a microscope are very difficult to decipher.
On the surface, at least, the message is little more than greetings and instructions from a fishing party. No address is given. The pigeon was supposed to know that. But on Sunday morning, in spite of all the ministrations of the Shaws, their efforts to make it comfortable and save its life, the bird died, its mission never completed.
This is the message it carried, “7-9-40–8 miles S.E. of W Long 40-25 N Lat 72 –11:45 a.m. Heading S E trolling squid. No fish sighted. Spoke to boat from “Shinnecock” 11:30 a.m. to verify compass reading. Will work SE by E to point 387 and south of center of Rose and May and back towards Montauk. Sending two pigeons with duplicate messages. All well. John over his sea-sickness. Send two pigeons by Payton to Montauk if possible and plenty of food and telephone Dr. Kayser at Princeton.
June 13, 1968
Three youths held
In bomb scares
Three Provincetown youths were bound over to the October session of the Barnstable County Grand Jury Tuesday when they appeared before Judge Gershon Hall in Provincetown District Court on charges involving them in the bomb scares last month that closed local schools.
Michael C. Edwards, 17, of 26A Conwell Street, was held on four counts charging violation of general laws dealing with transmission of false reports concerning explosive or dangerous devices causing fear, anxiety or unrest, and on one of the counts with conspiring with another defendant, Timothy F. Atkins, 19, of 9 Alden Street, in transmission of false reports. Cash bail of $500 was set on each of the four counts.
Timothy Atkins was charged with conspiring with Michael Edwards to violate the state law, in that he and the Edwards youth “did falsely transmit or cause to be transmitted a communication falsely reporting the location of any explosive or dangerous substance or contrivance causing anxiety, fear, unrest or personal discomfort to any person or group of persons.”
On a second count, he was charged with falsely transmitting such a report, knowing it to be false, or with causing it to be transmitted. Similar bail, of $500 on each count, was set.
Roger A. Prada, 17, of West Vine Street, was charged with transmitting such a report or causing it to be transmitted, and on a second count, with conspiring with Michael Edwards to violate the law. Bail of $500 was set on each count.
John B. Rice, 18, of North Truro, was found not guilty on a charge of transmitting a false report, knowing it to be false, or causing it to be transmitted.
Michael Edwards was represented by Atty. John C. Snow. Atty. Charles E. Frazier Jr., of Wellfleet, defended Roger Prada and John Rice and Atty. Frederick V. Long was counsel for Timothy Atkins.
The youths are Provincetown High School students. The bomb scares occurred on May 7, 9 and 16, when an anonymous voice on each day phoned the high school to report a bomb on the premises.
Classes were dismissed and police and fire departments called to search the premises. On the third bomb scare, Veterans Memorial School and St. Peter’s School were also closed on the advice of Police Chief Francis Marshall.
Chief Marshall was complainant against the defendants in District Court.
June 19, 1975
‘Female Trouble’
New Waters premiere Thursday
Time waits for no one, to be sure, but even so, it’s a bit staggering to be reminded that just five summers past, John Waters was a skinny, scraggly-haired clerk at the Provincetown Bookstore, and his 300-pound superstar, Divine, hustling pots and pans at Ciro Cozzi’s La Dispensa.
Waters’ second full-color, full-length feature film opens next Thursday (June 26) at the Art Cinema, and, like its predecessor “Pink Flamingos,” “Female Trouble” has already become something of an underground sensation on the East Coast.
After premiering in Baltimore, (Waters’ home town and most of his company of actors’ and actresses’ as well), “Female Trouble” broke into New York City’s “straight” market by opening at an uptown East Side theater. A month-long run there was accompanied by major media coverage — features in the Village Voice and Oui Magazine, and reviews in New York Magazine (favorable) and the N.Y. Times (negative) before the film eventually made it to a Greenwich Village moviehouse.
The film itself is basically a vehicle for Waters’ grotesque images of decadence and stars his usual cast of characters. Among them are a handful of Provincetown residents: Cookie Mueller, Channing Wilroy (whose restaurant of the same name opened this spring), Howard Gruber (another restaurateur), and Eddie Krout. All are expected at the Provincetown opening as is producer-director-writer Waters, who now summers here, while working on the script for his next picture.
A synopsis doesn’t do the film justice, but, briefly, the story line follows Ms. Davenport’s development from small-time juvenile delinquent who leaves her family to mass murderer who machine guns her audience as the climax of her night club act. Along the way, her sister is knocked off, and she is made into a beauty queen by a band of deranged hairdressers.
The film ends with Dawn’s (Divine’s) electrocution — filmed on location at the Baltimore County Jail, surprisingly loaned to Waters company by the warden, who, it is alleged, is a great fan of Waters’ film.
Divine himself is unlikely to be at the premiere. He is currently living in Beverly Hills, where he is writing a Las Vegas revue for himself. But he’ll be back with Waters.
“He loves being in John’s movies,” one member of the company said this week. “He’ll be in John’s movies forever.”
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Jun 16th, 2005