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Evening star., 1935-12-06

merely a short, stocky, shaven-headed
man, with small eyes, thick lips and
big heart, who hits poor Mrs. Pat over
the head with poker only because he
cannot stand seeing his sister sell her.
self to the highest bidder.
Villain, if the lady next door will beg
our pardon, Lore is not in this excel
lent film which you should by all odds
see. The murder of Mrs. pat" while
it isn't one of those things which you
would expect every morning before
breakfast, is nevertheless understand
able and it is done in the neateSt pos
sible way and also in the quickest pos
sible time. And Mrs. pat" goes to her
doom with only a small thud and the
smallest kind of sore head.
From then on Crime and Punish
nent" becomes the beWilderingly et-
fective film that has surprised every
body in the town. With Won Stern
berg "A Jumps ahead of the sort of
thing he used to do when he was
touted as the mighty Won Sternberg
because he could photograph Dietrich
better than any one, he and Peter
LORE and Edward Arnold and Marian
Marsh and Tala Birrel have pro-
duced a magnificent job of directing,
acting and philosophic mood-which
from the first drop to the last is emf
nently worth your while.
The Dostoievsky story has been
treated with admirable restraint and a
great deal of pathos. The fight that
Peter LORE has against his conscience
and himself is built up into one of
the most dramatic entertainments of
the year-and while it is cruel and
sad and unhappy in its better moments
it is also one of the films that will
do you good.
Although Edward Arnold is billed
rs the star, the picture actually be-
longs to Mr.. LORE Arnold appears in
one of his familiar police chief assign
mentS very well done), and then up
pops new and exciting Marian Marsh
that blond little girl who formerly
had pretty face, but no voice. She
and Tala Birrell help to make Crime
and Punishment" almost as good as
1.-The Informer''-and since the latter
was probably the best film ever made.
you know what to expect of the new
picture at the Met"
y X
"STRIKE ME PINK" Is the new
title of Eddie Cantor's sixth an
i1ual production for Samuel Goldwyn,
previously known as Shoot the
Chutes," it was announced yesterday
by the producer.
Under the direction of Norman
Taurog, Strike Me Pink" is nearing
completion as one of the most elab-
crate films produced by Goldwyn.
Ethel Norman and Sally EilerS have
the leading feminine roles, with Park
yakarkus as Cantor's chief comic sup
port. Others in the cast are Sunny
O'Dea, Edward Brophy, William
Frawly, Brian Donlevy, Gordon Jones,
Arthur Housman and Jack La Rue,
Evening star., 1935-12-06
STAGES ALC0TT STORY
Triangle Club of Y. M. c. A. to
plax In 0Iittle Women"

Triangle Club OF T. ID. " a. TO
Play in "Little Women"
THE Triangle Club of the Y. M.
l G. A. will present the stage YER
sion of the Louisa NJ Alcott classic,
Little Women" on Monday, Decem-
ber 9, and Tuesday, December 10, at
Sis pm. in the auditorium of the
Calvary Baptist Church at Eighth and
H streets northwest. A children's matt
nee will be given on Saturday, De-
cember 4 1t 2:30. Tickets are OBJ
tainable at the Y. M. c. A., the Y.
w. C. A. or at the door.
The "little women" are Clare Sar-
gent, who plays 10; Rosemary Walker,
who plays Beth; Mary Ray as
Amy and Faithe Howell as Meg. Others
in the cast are John Pierce, A. L.
Diket, Richard Boulger, F. M. Gracey,
Margaret Osterwald and Marguerite
Bone.
The costumes were designed by
Shirley Rowe, and the entire produc-
ton is under the direction of Charles
c. Gilman.
Evening star., 1935-12-06
PERSONALITIES TRADED
IN U. S.-BRITISH FILMS
Another Interlocking of Indus
tries Between Two Countries

AAObhSG 4ALSI4OCAAA6 VI 4AuNo-
tries Between Two Countries
Announced in Hollywood.
BY the Associated Press.
HOLLYWOOD, Calf, December g.
Another interlocking Of British and
American motion picture industries
was announced yesterday by Michael
Balloon, executive of Gaumont- British
Productions, of Londou.
He said an agreement had been
signed between his company and
Twentieth Century-Fox OF Hollywood,
providing for large scale inter-
change of personalities"
by the terms of the agreement the
respective companies have the call on
such Of each others talent as is not
engaged in actual production" a for
NAL statement from Balloon said. ITO
further facilitate the interchange,
schedules of productions are to be so
arranged that respective peaks of
activities for each company will occur
at different times"
Evening star., 1935-12-06

consideration, and he is putting every
ounce of that famous selling charm Of
his into the campaign.
The last of the American pirates,
Jean La Fitte and his brother, jacques,
reached the peak of their activities
between 1900 and 1912. They headed a
tremendous organization and were
recognized by three governments
France, Spain and Mexico, which we're
forced to trade with them since they
controlled shipping.
In the War of 1912, when things
were not going so well for the Amer
leans, the La Fitte boys stepped in and
helped turn the tide when the British
were besieging New Orleans. The
boys really were rogues gallery men,
bers, so Andrew jackson took the bows
for the battle of New Orleans and
the La Fftte boys took pardon and
called it day.
1t is one of the most colorful and
engaging bits of American history as
yet unScreened.
And speaking of pirates, Enrol Flynn
made such a hit with his studio during
the making of Captain Blood" that he
will be starred in THE Charge Of the
Light Brigade"
Flynn has one of the most beautiful
speaking voices in pictures today. 1t
is rivalled only by the voices OF Leslie
Howard and Basil Rathbone. He is
considered among the best stellar
material that our village has developed
during the past year.
It's going to be an educational year
IN pictures. You can take the children
to a show and give them tomorrow's
lesson, whether it's the Crimean War,
the French Revolution or the cruel
history of trading ships. So the new
version of Charles Dickens "A Tale
of Two CitieS'-to which w. P. Lips
comb and Sam Behrman have brought
precise historical accuracy and for
which Carlyle's French Revolution"
and other reference books are given
screen credit-becomes really text
book for those studying the period, as
well as romantic entertainment.
Blanche Yurka, brought to M.-G.-M.
to play the role of Citizeness de Fargo,
undoubtedly will get a long term con-
Evening star., 1935-12-06
DEFENSE TAX PROPOSED

MANILA. December CR.-A bill
to tax each foreign resident of the
Philippines SIS annually was intro
duced in the National Assembly today.
The tax would not apply to Amer
leans.
Revenue thus produced would be
used for national defense and for
schools
Evening star., 1935-12-06
FEATURES AT HOWARD
Mills Blue Rhythm Band to Open
Engagement Today.

T UCKY MILLINDER and the famous
Mills Blue Rhythm Band, with
Vocalist Chuck Richards, and Pianist
Edgar Hayes featured, open today at
the Howard Theater, to headline the
stage show for one week.
Maud Russell, slim princess of
rhythm, who understudied Ethel
Waters in "As Thousands Cheer;
Bessie Smith, queen of the blues;
Wilton Crawley, contortionist; a num-
Der of other stars and the Creole
dancing girls round out the bill of
stage entertainment.
The screen attraction will be
"Dinky," with Jackie Cooper and
Mary Astor. There will be the usual
midnight show Saturday, with all
seats reserved.
Evening star., 1935-12-06
% Hogs Drown.

SPIRIT LAKE, Iowa, December
Or. E. Long, whose farm skirts
East Okoboji Lake, fattened % hogs
for market. Then they disappeared.
He found hole in the ice on the lake
and the hogs drowned.
Evening star., 1935-12-06
Reinhardt Fights to Make
An All-American Picture
Wants to Produce Story of Jean La Fitte
the Pirate, for Screen-Flynn Makes
Hit in "Capt. Blood"
RY MoLLIE MERRICK.

ToILYwooD December CNANA)-Maesro Max Reinhadt is
IL alAmercan
Hoffman, Reinhardt make the
story of La Fne, the pirate
aLAmeEcan story with history the foremost
Evening star., 1935-12-06
Whisky Used in Autos.

CHARLESTON, S. c., December 6
(R.-If a city police car "hiccups"
these cold days, there's reason.
Police are using conf1scated moon
shine whisky instead of anti-freeze
solutions.
Evening star., 1935-12-13

Soft, feecy woolens, fully lined, with wool
interlining for extra warmth. Pleated back;
raglan or set-in sleeves. Good, deep hens.
In grey, brown or blue grey; sizes to 10.
(second Floor Boys Department1
Evening star., 1935-12-13

Checked or window-pane patterned wooden
with inverted-pleat backs and fully belted.
Warmly lined with easy-slip, lustrous sleeve
and shoulder yoke. In grey, brown and blue
grey. Sizes II to II.
(second Floor Boys DepartmentJ
Evening star., 1935-12-13

Warm without being weighty-fne, feecy
fabrics in rich monotones and checks. Half
lined with lustrous yoke and sleeve lining.
Raglan or set-in sleeves. In grey, brown or
blue grey; sizes 16 to % and 80 to 38.
(second Floor Boys Department)
Imperial Valley press., 1935-07-22
HERE'S BATCH OF MEASURES TO
WHICH GOVERNOR GAVE APPROVAL

SACRAMENTO, Calf. July %.
UR)-Bills approved by Governor
Frank F. Merriam in the final
hours of the bill-signing period in
cluded:
ALB 1091-Appropriates $4,000 to
the state board of health to en-
force new standards governing CAL
ifornias industry
ALB 1559-Santa Barbara county
government bill
ALB 1329-Authorizes polite a l
b-divisions to contract with
Central Valley water project for
purchase of water when project is
completed
ABB 1346-Makes it a felony for
prisoners charged with Or convicted
Of felony to escape, or attempt to
escape.
ALB l367-Validate sanit t ton
districts organized under legislative
acts since 1923.
ALB l398-Classifies as felony the
manufacture, sale or possession of
a blackjack, sandbag, metal knuck-
Imperial Valley press., 1935-07-22

a tax for advertising and promo
tional purposes.
AB-1392- A civil service act
which would have set $500 proba-
tionary employees permanent civil
service standing as of February 20
instead of August 20. Until that
time probationary workers may be
dismissed without a hearing.
ALB 1854 Authorized state to
contract on royalty basis for the
private drilling of slanted wells to
tap state-owned tideland oil pools
ALB 1974-Provided for establish
ment of municipal court at Pasa-
dena
State Bears Trial Costs
ALB 2129-Required state instead
of county to bear trial costs OF
habeas corpus proceedings filed by
state prison convicts. Measure re-
quested by Marin and Sacramento
counties, where San Quentin and
Folsom penitentiaries situated.
ALB 2441- Changed regulations
governing sale of dinitrophenol, fat
reducing drug.
ALB 24833- Appropriated $30,562
with which to pay claims of growers
who supplied canning peaches fo1
relief purposes.
ABB 2487-Provided $1,000,000 fol
Los Angeles flood control district.
SB 15-Prohibited attorneys from
soliciting business.
SB 207-San Joaquin county gov
ernment bill, relating to salaries OF
officials.
SB 325-Abolished county prop
erty tax for highway purposes and
substituted district tax not to ex-
ceed 40 cents per $1OO valuation.
SB 398-Provided for extension
of Shallmiller oil lease on state
owned tidelands at Sunset Beach.
SB 05-706-Extended to irriga-
ton districts organized and existing
under the California Irrigation Dis
trict Act the power and privilege to
develop hydro-electrical power ano
to acquire equipment for develop
ment and distribution of same.
SB 936-Would re-eStablish a
board of harbor commissioners for
the Bay of San Diego.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-07-22
TAKES
FIRST PRIZE
At SALINAS

SALINAS, Calf, July % UH =
For the third time in the history
of the annual California Rodeo,
Clay Carr, Visana, held the cowboy
championship today.
Carr put on strong finish in
yesterdays final events to beat out
Leonard Ward, Saugus, Johnny
Schneider of Livermore and the
other rodeo stars. The champion
ship meant $1,000 in cash and a
trophy for Carr.
Schneider appeared for the final
competition with his right ankle in
a cast as a result of an accident
Friday. Despite the fractured leg,
the Livermore performer partic-
ipated in steer roping and placed
third in the finals.
Individual champions in Sundays
events included: Steer roping, Rich
ard Merchant, Kirkland, Ariz.; bull
riding, tie between frankie Schneid-
er and Pat Woods, Emmett, Ida;
broncho riding, Pete Knight
Denver; team roping, Emmett Gill
of Exeter, Calf, and Willard Clay
Visalia; steer decorating, Clay Carr
Visalia; calf roping, Lee Barkdoll
Payson, Ariz.
Eight competitors were injured
yesterday, bringing the total for the
four-day meet to %. Rita Ferris
woman pony express rider, wa,
thrown from her horse when the
animal fell. She suffered head anc
chest injuries and possible fractures
of the ribs.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-07-22
DrotUnS Wife Due
To An Infatuotion
With Young Girl

GRAFTON, Mass, July %. W.R)
Police today charged Newell
Paige Sherman, 26-year-old giant,
with drowning his wife and mother
of his two babies because he was in
fatuated with a 16-year-old girl.
The newest American tragedy
Staying took place Saturday night
on Lake Singeltary, near Grafton.
Police said Sherman took his wife,
Alice, %, for a midnight canoe ride
in a heavy fog. He confessed, they
said, that 200 feet from shore he
tipped the canoe and, when she
screamed, held her under water
until she drowned
Police said Sherman was infat-
uated with a girl who works at the
factory that employs HIM as tool
maker. A former football player
and son of the constable of SUIT
ton, Sherman is six feet four inches
tall and weighs more than 200
Imperial Valley press., 1935-07-22
/. Y. Hardware
Company Buyers
To Visit Markets

Two local Imperial Valley Hard
ware company department heads
will leave here this week on special
business trips for their firm in Los
Angeles and San Francisco.
j. r. Fahs, furniture buyer for
the company's 10 stores, will attend
the furniture markets in Los An
geles on July 90 and in San Fran
cisco on August 5. He will attend
the Western Furniture Federation
meeting in San Francisco on the
latter date.
Over 100 manufacturers are rep
resented in the furniture market
display it was stated here this NOR
ming and a special building is
needed to house the merchandise
which will be on display. This is
the largest meeting of it's kind and
draws retailers and wholesalers
from all parts of the West.
Mrs. L. r. Scott, gift goods buy
er for the stores, will attend the
manufacturers and importers mar
ket to be held in Los Angeles late
this week. Many selections will be
made from this market for the val
Imperial Valley press., 1935-07-22
DISTRICT POWER BILLS AMONG
THOSE GETTING POCKET VETO

SACRAMENTO, July % WP) -
Important measures in the list OF
251 bills, pocket vetoed by Gov.
Frank F. Merriam included:
ABB 618-Legalized dog racing and
provided system of pari-mutuel
betting on such races.
ALB 739-Would authorize county
supervisors to use available funds
for Illuminating highways.
ABB 754-Provided appropriations
of $1,000,000 for sixth agricultural
district and $1,O00,0O0 for District
la, Los Angeles.
ALB 865-Would have permitted
shipping of abalone shells out OF
state.
ALB 1083-Permitted use of purse
and round haul nets to take squid,
anchovies, sardines and mackerel.
ALB 1093-Extended to July, 1899,
power of county supervisors to levy
Imperial Valley press., 1935-07-22

was born. Within a few months
the baby was dead from malnutri-
ton. A day or SO later Ottilie re-
ceived a letter from her father.
She could go home provided she
was alone. Indignantly she refused
There was no money to bury the
baby. Marlene Dietrich, movie ac-
tress, read of the love tragedy and
provided the money that saved the
baby from potter's field.
After a week or SO CT much pub
lie sympathy, they were forgotten
again. Still no work for George.
The owner of their flat evicted
them. They moved to a hovel in
New Jersey, opposite New York.
They lost that and started living
in a tent. The tent leaked. Sat
urday during a heavy rain storm
they took refuge under a wooden
bridge of drainage ditch. A wall
of water raced through. sweeping
Ottilie through the storm sewer to
her death.
George remained voluntarily at
state police barracks today. An
autopsy will determine the cause of
Ottilies death.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-07-22
FORMER STAR
Of STAGE IN
DIRE STRAITS

CHICAGO, July u. UP)-Jessie
Reed, former star of the Follies and
once hailed by Florenz ziegfeld as
"the highest paid chlorine" today
faced eviction from a $5-a-week
hotel room.
Miss Reed, still the divine figure
of her stage triumphs despite her
!, ,38 years, said her four marriages
"have been a mess"
p Asked if any of her husbands
would help her if they knew of her
plight, she replied:
Il would refuse to accept IT,"
Once the toast of the American
stage. Miss Reed is now lonely and
destitute.
Perhaps I have lived too COM
placently," she said tearfully.
Maybe my troubles come from not
having enough worries, and living
too simply and too well.
II don't know what I'll do. I
hate to apply to the relief commits
sion, but unless some friends come
W lily dlb, III ala blletO II nave
to. That would be terrible after all
have had.
When a suggestion was made
that she might be able to make
comeback on the stage, Jessie dried
her eyes. Her lips perked into a
pleasant smile and she said hope
fully:
with a little training I think I
could still find place on a revue
in one of the circuits. All want is
a chance"
Jessie is legally known as Mrs.
Leonard M. Reno. Reno is dec
Grated World war flyer and son of
H. o. Reno, millionaire publisher.
She has been married to Reno
nine years and June sued him
for separate maintenance, charg-
ing he elected her from his domi-
cile and has refused TO support her.
Her first husband was Ollie De-
brow, a trouper. Her second spouse
was "Dashing Dan" Caswell of
Cleveland a millionaire, whose god
father was the late President Nc
Kinley. Her third husband was
William F.. Young, wealthy Chica-
go advertising man.
Dan Caswell is dead now" she
said. II don't know where the
others are"
Imperial Valley press., 1935-07-22
DEATH ENDS TRAGIC ROMANCE
OF YOUNG GERMAN SWEETHEARTS

NEW YORK, July %. U.P)-Ot-
tile Stuffman defied her father,
exchanged wealth for the direst
poverty, watched her baby die of
malnutrition, lived like a vagabond,
and finally died in a storm sewer,
all for the love of George Umbach.
umbach, at the end of a strange
love tragedy sufficiently melodram-
attic and sordid for an opera libret-
TO, explained to police why he did
not weep over Ottilie's death.
I've wept SO much in two years
that l have no tears left"
Ottilie and George were child
hood sweethearts in Hamburg, Ger
many. Two years ago, George
asked her father for her hand. He
said no. George left for America
TO make his fortune, promising to
send for her. Ottilie couldn't wait
longer than six months. She ran
away from her father, a wealthy
furniture manufacturer, came to
New York, and married George.
George had no work, no money,
and because he was an alien illeg-
ally in America, he couldn't apply
Tor relief. They lived in a dark
J Bronx flat and there their baby
Imperial Valley press., 1935-07-22

les or kindred equipment of Grim
inals.
ABB 1650-Increases penalties for
drunken driving of motor vehicles,
reckless driving Or driving while
under influence of narcotics.
ALB 1651-Imposes stricter regu-
lations governing lights, brakes and
windshields of motor vehicles.
Cops Get More Authority
AB 2012-Grants additional au-
thority to state highway patrol Of
ficers investigating motor vehicle
accidents resulting in personal in
juries or deaths.
ALB -2065-2063 2054 2053 -
Strengthens regulations governing
building and loans associations to
give added protection to stockhold-
ers and investors.
ALB 2308-Provides the separate
property of the husband and his
earnings after marriage shall not
be liable for debts contracted by
his wife before marriage.
SB 233-Repeals the law which
requires alternate asphalt and con-
crete bids on state highway pro-
jects.
SB 258-Adds, Martinez, Merced.
Modesto, Redding, Riverside, San
Jose, Visalia, Marysville and Oro-
vile to state teletype system and
appropriates $29,787 for purposes.
SB 287-Authorizes adoption of
codes of fair competition by trades
and industries in which service is
rendered to the public without
necessarily involving sale, manu-
facture or transportation of mer-
chandise or commodities.
SB 229-Strengthens powers of
narcotic division in enforcement of
laws governing sale and use of
drugs.
SB 1112-Repeals law authoriz-
ing taxation of intangibles by To-
cal governments. Solvent credits
such as bank accounts, are not in
cluded in repeal act.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-07-22

pounds. His children are 212 years
old and eight months.
The circumstances of Mrs. Sher-
mans death, as related in her hus-
bands confession, resembled those
in Theodore Dreisers famous nov
ell, "An American Tragedy and
the recent murder of F'reda Nc
Kechnie in Pennsylvania for which
Bobby" Edwards WIS electroouted
Sherman confessed authorities
said, that his wife tried to hold him
around the neck, but that he
pushed her away and left her
pleading and struggling vainly in
the water.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-07-22
FIND PYCN|ES
IN REMOTEST
PART Of ASIA

PARIS, July 90 U.P)-A race of
pygmies has been discovered in
mountainous Amman hinterland of
southeastern Asia hitherto believed
uninhabited.
A tiny man and woman l5ere
captured by natives and taken to
Hue, government seat of the Quang
Binh province. Administrator Pier
rot reported they are being nursed
to health from malnutrition.
The discovery verified Pierrot's
long suspicious that a race of tiny
people lived in the mountains
which few of the superstitious ma
tives have visited.
Typhoons that wrought much
damage through the region gave
Pierrot the first suggestion of the
aboriginal race. While on an eX-
pedition through the stricken area
Pierrot thought he saw a pygmie
clinging to log being carried down
a river. He was unable to reach
the log to save the small man, if
there was one, but the adminiStra-
tor began asking natives if they
had seen any pygmieS.
Pierrot found a few villagers who
said they had seen dwarfish people
occasionally, so timid and elusive
that natives never could catch up
with them.
Lalr the pygmie man and wom-
an were captured and brought here.
Doctor Trehout, director of the
French hospital, recognized them as
belonging to a race closely akin to
the African pygmies.
The French School of the Ex-
treme Orient has been notified of
the find and has begun an inten-
sive study to determine the origin
of this curious race.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-07-22
ARMY PLANES
To TAKE. PART
IN MANEUVERS

RIVERSIDE. Calf, July %. UIp)
Lieut.. Col. John H. Pirie led as
swift Boeing pursuit planes of the
Ut attack group in a takeoff to-
day for Salt Lake City to Join the
7th and 18th bombardment erouns
for three days of tactical exercise
over the Rockies.
Three attack squadrons. the oath.
73rd and 95th, comprised the flight
AS the squadronS pointed for the
Utah capital, the 7th and 18th
bombardment groups were reported
winging their way there from their
respective bases at Hamilton field
San Francisco, and Rockwell field
San Diego.
Brig. Gen. Henry H. Arnold. COM
manding the first wing of the gen.
eral headquarters air force, and his
staff are already in Salt Lake to
direct the maneuvers.
Arriving at Salt Lake, the 18th
attack group will report early to-
morrow in a spectacular familiari-
zation excursion to Boise. Ida. Mai.
Ira G. Eaker, former transconti-
mental flyer, is in charge of the
73rd squadron.
The 10Th bombardment group
from San Diego includes IL Martin
bombers under the command of
Maj. James L. Grisham. This
group tomorrow will undertake a
peaceful invasion of Reno.
None of the ships carried arma-
ment, in contrast to former maneu-
verS.
The flight is designed to famil-
iarize the army pilots with Utah
Nevada, and wyoming, considered
strategic positions in the event OF
alien attacks.