Desc: Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President: Directed by Robert B. Sinclair. With Ann Sothern, Lewis Stone, Walter Brennan, William Gargan. Brooklyn residents Joe Turp (William Gargan) and his wife, Ethel (Ann Sothern), travel to Washington D. C. to call on the US President (Lewis Stone)to make a pleas on the behalf of their mailman, Jim (Walter Brennan), is who about to be sacked for illegally opening and destroying a letter.