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Evening star., 1938-12-17


it, the studio adhered to the idea of
a literal transcription, a form of
reverence for which it deserves the
respect of every one who believes
good stories merit no tampering. In
sofar as possible, which was very far
indeed, it picked the dialogue
straight from the novel. That ges-
ture has very pleasant part in
creating the impression that there is
something from the long ago and
far away that still has it's meanings
and values intact.
1t is a strange thing that the
fidelity of the production to the
original tale provides at the outset
a bit of difficulty in accepting the
narration. The people of the i'm
agination, however, are merely COM
ing to life on the screen and once the
film has had chance to prove that
it Is going to do nothing to your con-
ception of the characters, everything
goes along handsomely.
A great deal of trick photography
has been resorted to in order to
transport Scrooge-as the guest of
the various spirits-through his
dream. Nearly always, however, it
Is very convincing photography.
And sometimes it is beautiful, too.
Especially Is the latter true of that
journey which the irascible old miser
makes to the scenes of his own child
hood with the spirit OF past Christ
masses.
The accent of the Dickens tale is
preserved through the commendable
policy of giving the picture a vir-
tually all-English cast. Reginald
Owen makes an altogether convinc-
ing Scrooge, Terry Kilburn is an
extraordinarily affecting and pa
thetic Tiny Tim, Gene Lockhart
does one of his customarily fine jobs
as the genial, tender Bob Cratchit.
The others from the young lovers
to the spirits, the Cratchits and in
cidental characters are portrayed
with fidelity to the authors speci-
fications that is altogether capti-
waiting.
The ghost of Marley. played by
Leo G.. Carroll, is the ghost OF your
memory of "A Christmas Carol"
Metro has done nothing fancy or
modern with regard to clothing him
tn modern celluloid trappings. He is
just specter of clanking chains,
tormented memories and dire warn
ings; quite the old tragic, impressive
figure he was when you first en-
countered him around the fireplace
at home on Christmas eve.
Every one knows the story that
Evening star., 1938-12-17

Is narrated in the film, the tale Of q
mean miser's reformation on Christ
mas eve through the medium of q
dream which taught him the ugli-
ness Of self1shness and the beauty
OF its reverse. It has lost none of
its charm in this retelling, making
it the incest possible Christmas gift
from M-G-M to people who have
been reading some pretty ghastly
tales in recent years.
1t probably is the fault of the pic
ture and not the stage show that the
mood created by the former scarcely
prepares one for what is to follow.
One should, one supposes, have
learned from Scrooge to be kindly
toward the undeniably talented Roy
Smeck who comes right after the
overture and the opening number of
the Chester Hale Comets. Mr.. Smeek
starts his act with the banjo which
he has used for so many records and
radio performances, but it is just not
the instrument for that spot. No,
no matter how well he plays it.
The bill is headlined by Henry
Cross and Alan Dunn, the radio
songsters who can do more tricks in
vocal Interpretation of popular music
than almost any pair you can name.
They run through several, duet and
solo fashion, all of them pleasant.
Rex Weber adds bit more vocal
lzing to the bill, none of which is
either very bad or very good, even
If that does sound as If the spiritual
good of the film were wearing thin
at this point.
Mr.. Hale's Comets, all "a of them,
are good in three precision numbers.
But then they always are.
Evening star., 1938-12-17
The Impeccable

The straitjacket which Adolphe
Menjou wears in 20th Century-Fox's
Thanks for Everything" was select
ed by the sartorial king from Is
picked up by Property Man Duke
Abrams, who canvassed all Holly
wood costume companies. Jack Oakis
and Jack Haley wear the same
affairs, but were satisfied with first
fitting. Straitjacket or tails, Menjou
must be immaculate!
Evening star., 1938-12-17
With Cagney Again

Ann Sheridan will be James Gag
ney's leading lady. again in Each
Dawn Die" as . result of her work
with the star in Angels With Dirty
Faces" Warner Bros. announce.
John Garfield also is in the cast.
The studio is negotiating with
Burgess Meredith to play q principal
role in the film adaptation Of Jerome
Odlum'S best seller.
Evening star., 1938-12-17
The Wife Wins

Admittedly one Of the screen
colony's best hunters, Gary Cooper
was forced into back seat at Sun
Valleys skeet course by none other
than his Wife. The Coopers had
repaired to the fashionable resort
immediately following completion
Of the stars work in Samuel
Goldwyn's '"The Cowboy and the
Lady" Mrs. Coopers score broke
the course record for women with
~ out Of Is. The very best that
her famed husband could bang out
WAs q scant 3.
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England dinners.
And so she eats
the French food
and likes it
Spencer Tracy,
Hedy L a m a rr,
Frank Borzage
and Lew Bor-
zage felt like
skating the other
day, and worked
as extras in ice
FollieS of 1889"
r on q Id Col
man has a tennis
party at night
and plump Nigel
Bruce SWipes too
Evening star., 1938-12-17

hard at ball and strains his hip.
Douglas Corrigan gives Director
Leigh Jason 80 heart attacks when
he tries to 60 up in a 21-year-old
plane. But learned to fly on a
thing like this" Doug protests.
Jason's reply is an order to empty
the gasoline from the decrepit ma
chine Leslie Howard driving on
Sunset boulevard in a red open car
and smiling benevolently at the
other occupant-his pretty secretary
Oracle Fields has lunch with
w. c. Fields and discovers he knows
more about England than she does.
Fields (who is no relative) toured
England extensively during his
vaudeville days.
Andrea Leeds, watching the polo
at the Riviera Country Club, wear
ing mink coat over pajamas :.
Mrs. Gary Cooper, who had film
aspirations under the name "Sandra
Shaw" was quite put out when she
saw a sign with that name over q
hat shop on Hollywood boulevard
she called it getting business under
false pretenses. Fortunately, high
wind came along, blew the sign
down, and it has not been put back
again. The funny part of the epi-
sode-Sandra Shaw is not Mrs.
Cooper's legitimate name, either
she was born Veronica Balfe {.
Wayne Morris tells me he is through
with women-"until this picture is
over" ("Broadway Cavalier'-which
gives him two weeks to go-then he
heads altarward with Bubbles
SchinasD.
Andy Devine, John Carradine and
Thomas Mitchell dine at the Brown
Derby, all sporting terrific boards
(for "Stage CoachD william
Powell at the desert to get himself a
sun-tan as usual, Loretta Young
gives a special Christmas party for
the local orphanage in which she
found her adopted daughter Judy
WOOA . 4dUCoC 6dIllC ID CdllCO
yum Yum" If you want to know
how to play it, ask Robert Taylor or
Barbara Stanwyck, who invented it.
I'm very tired, Clarence" says
Norma Shearer to Clarence Brown
in the middle of making idiots De-
light" She goes to Palm Springs
to rest up, and it is safe to assume
she will be much too tired to journey
to New York to refute those recent
stockholders charges anent her
oversize salary :. Il hate sitting at
tables with people I don't know"
says Oracle Allen peevishly in the
crowded Metro Commissary. But
every one knows you," replies the
tactful waitress. But that doesn't
pacify Oracle, who is very disturbed
over husband George Burns dimcul-
ties with the Federal Government.
tCopyrisht 1888, by the North American
Newpaper Alliance. Ine.)
Evening star., 1938-12-17

A natural salt deposit ut Weeks
Island, La, averaging 80 per cent
pure is more than mile and half
in diameter and Of depth as yet
unknown.
Evening star., 1938-12-17
Law and Order Win Twice
At the Earle This Week
Heart of the North Brings Mounties
To the Screen and Cans. Busters
Shoot Up the Stage
Bx HARRY MaaARrHI1R

Everything M al night and the law stu has the hand
allied with the forces Of order this right
and that good tumph sending
OF the North the
ers to the Earle Mounted Police
Evening star., 1938-12-17
Capitol Film Faithful
To Dickens Original
"A Christmas Carol Has Haunting
Humanity and Beauty of Classic;
Stage Bill Is Varied
BY JAY CARMODY.

1t not world all ugne
nave oeen TINS Christmas Into it has come Aim Transcription
DICKENS "A Christmas Carol the
offerings Embodng all the haunting beauty
OF the original the picture
value by of its
the
Evening star., 1938-12-17
Myrna Loy's Cook Refuses
To Boil a Boiled Dinner
So She Eats French Food and Likes It;
Hedy Lamar and Spencer Tracy
Get Bit of Extra Work
BY SHEILAH GRAHAM.
HOLLYWOOD.


Alan Mowbray gives musicale and figures out swell method Of
holding the interest of his At cocktail
the and 6gue Another cocktail
Smart boy, Alan hires
England boiled
Evening star., 1938-12-17

UkIIIR IUIIIS CIIc UI.
disagrees, but new
r to find than New
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-05
COSTS UP FOR
VALLEY SUGAR
BEET GROWERS
Wallace Orders Hike in
Minimum Wage Level
For HaryeSterS

Minimum wage levels for
sugar beet laborers, affect
ing a considerable acreage
in Imperial Valley, were set
for the nation Tuesday by
Secretary of Agriculture Henry A.
Wallace. Observance of the scale
is a prerequisite for payment OF
benefits. Wallace ruled. New mini
ma represent a countrywide in
crease of 8 to 10 per cent over min
imum wages paid for harvesting
the 1887 crop.
Imperial Valley growers, to quail
fly for benefit payments, must OBJ
serve these rates: Blocking and
thinning, Sc per ton or 35 cents an
hour; first hoeing, LIS per acre
or 80 cents per hour; second hoe
ing, SIPS per acre or 30 cents per
hour. The rate for pulling, topping
and loading ranges from $l.50 pei
ton for production up to 6 tons
per acre to SO cents per ton for a
yield of II tons or more per acre
The scale was drafted, Wallace
said, after hearings this spring al
key points in the sugar beet areas
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-05
WOMAN KILLED
HUSBAND SAYS
NEVADA MIN Err
Disappearance of Pair
May Be Solved by
Confession

RENO, New, April 5 (UP).
Buck Biamont, 81, and
Carl Ramser, 50, mining
partners, were to be return
ed to Minden. New, today
while authorities of two counties
checked Biamont's sworn state
ment expected to solve the mysterl-
Gus disappearances of two former
Californians.
Biamont's affidavit. made to
Sheriff Ray Rott of Reno, charged
Mrs. Marion Gilbert. daughter of
a San Francisco postoffice employe,
killed her husband, James Gilbert,
former Oakland street car conduc-
tor, so that she could be free to
carry on a romance with RamSer.
Mrs. Gilbert has been missing
since she disappeared into bliz-
zard near the Detroit mine. Is miles
south of Minden, on Feb. 6.
Sheriff Root said the investiga-
ton was being turned over to Sher-
iff William Park of Minden, who
planned to send Indian trackefs
into the snow laden Pine Nut
mountains in a renewed search for
traces of Mrs. Gilbert.
Park and Root also expected to
intensity their questioning of RAM
ser on details of Biamonts confess
sion, which said that Mrs. Gilbert
shot her husband to death in a
ranch shack near Centerville Nov.
IA and then drove away in a truck
with Ramser to dispose of the
body.
Ramser so far has remained ST.
lent except to deny his partner's
allegations
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-05
PIONEERS PLAN
ANNUAL PICNIC
HEREO APRIL9

Imperial Valley pioneers will
dust off their memories April 9 for
the annual picnic of the Pioneer
association at the county fair
grounds at Imperial.
Special entertainment, including
a fiddlers contest, will be presented
under the direction of Earl V. G..
Northrup, entertainment chairman.
The annual business meeting will
be held at 1920 am. in order that
most of the day may be devoted
to "reminiscences and renewal Of
friendships made in early settle
ment days.
Announcement of the meeting
was made by Dan L. Grumbles, as
sociation president.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-05

fore they we're beaten brutally and
shot to death at a desolate spot
near here last week.
The mysterious coupe. apparently
the same as that described by sew
eral other persons, had yellow Ii
cense plates, Wells said. He did
not remember what kind of car
it was, nor could he give authori-
ties a detailed description of the
two men.
He saw the F'rome Packard, with
the two women in it, between Road
Fork and Balmorhea The aban-
doned automobile was found at Bal
morhea, which is so miles across
desolated west Texas country from
Van Horn.
Wells version differed from that
of some other persons who report :
ed having seen Mrs. Frome and
her daughter in that he said he
saw no women in the black coupe
that followed the F'rome machine
Sheriff Chris P Fox of El Paso
said the information from Kansas
City that Los Angeles murder
suspect was in this area would De
investigated thoroughly.
kansas City police wired that
Leo Wahler, alias Waller, re-
ported drug addict, was in this
area last week." Fox said. ut IS
entirely possible drug crazed per-
son may have committed these
murders. That angle might explain
the brutality The information sale
Wahler was accompanied by q
woman and we already are certain
a woman stood by while the Frome
women were killed"
From the stories told him by
residents of this wild, frontier coun-
try, Jackson attempted to recon-
struct the apparent facts of the
crime. He believed that the women
were killed by two persons who
tortured their victims with lighted
cigarette butts; knocked then
down and stomped on them, ther
Dashed in their heads and shot
them.
The purpose of the torture, Jack
son theorized, was to make Mrs
Frome and her 23-year- r-old daugh-
ter Nancy, disclose where they had
hidden a large sum of moneJ
which the men believed they had
been carrying.
District Attorney Jackson said
today that it was possible, how
ever, Mrs. Frome and her daughter
were slain by someone whom they
believed to be their friend
Footprints and clues discovered
in the sand where the bodies were
found indicated, he said. that they
Continued on Page 2; Col. -
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-05

B. Bankhead.
William E. Borah, r., Ida, i'm
mediately declined an appoint
ment to the committee. Sena'e
Minority Leader Charles McNary,
r., Ore. also declined on the
ground he is too busy to serve.
Ten senate and house members
were originally appointed.
I don't believe in investigations
by town meeting" Borah told re-
porters.
If it had been committee OF
three or five senators, would have
been glad to serve.
Or if it had been committee OF
three or five members of the house
it might be more effective. I've
never seen any good come OF joint
investigations"
Garner would not discuss the re-
fusals of Borah and McNary to
serve on the committee, nor would
he indicate when their replacement
would be named.
House Minority Leader Bertrand
Smell, N. Y, said "as far as the
house is concerned, I think it is
a pretty good committee. I'm sat-
iSfied.'
Sen William H. King, D., Utah
said he considered it very unfor-
tunate" that Borah and McNary
declined to serve. King, with Sen
H. styles Bridges, r., N. H, was
one of the instigators of the IVA
Investigations.
Garner appointed Sens. Vic Do
haney, D, O.; Fred H. Brown, D.
N. Y: Harry H. Schwartz, D., Wyo.
Charles l.. McNary, R., Ore; ant
William E. Borah, r., Ida.
In the house Speaker Bankheao
appointed Reps. James M. Mead
D., N. Y, Rep. William j, Driver
D., Ark, Rep. R. Ewing Thomason
D, Tex, Rep. Tom jenkins, r., o..
Rep. Charles A. Wolverton, r., N
j., as house members of the com
mittee.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-05
COUNTY PLANS
CITY LOT SALE
HERE APRIL II.

Eight residential lots in south
west Ell Centre, site of the old
county road yard, will be knocked
down to the highest bidders gat
public auction at the county court
house April IL.
County supervisors authorized
preparation of the ordinance set
ing the date of the sale at their
regular meeting late Monday. The
road yard for the Ell Centre dis
trict was abandoned when new
quarters we're constructed on d
site outside the Ell Centre city
limits on south Eighth street.
The county granted easements
to the city for streets running
through the tract. A map of the
plot was ordered filed with the
county recorder.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-05
WESTMORLAND
POLITICAL POT
BOILS IN SUIT

WestmOrlands political turmoil
echoed in superior court Tuesday
when City Judge Sam p. Rowe
requested a court order to force
U. E. Bailey, former city judge, 10
release court records and receipts.
Rowe was appointed judge Jaa.
3, 1888 after Bailey, who also is
justice of the peace, held the posi-
ton from June 18, 1887. Bailey re-
fused, Rowe charged in his petition,
to release certain books and pa
pers relating to city business and
in particular, triplicate copies OF
certain receipts. The receipts, Rowe
charged, we're issded by Bailey as
city judge for monies received.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-05
BARCELONA PARALYZED
BY POWER SHUTDOWN

BARCELONA, April 5. (UP) =
Barcelona was paralyzed for more
than one hour tOiay by an electric
power failure as Generalissimo
Francisco Frances forces moved in
to districts commanding the great
hydraulic plants of northern Spain.
Official sources confirmed that a
drastic cabinet shakeup had been
carried through, making Premier
Juan Negrin virtual dictator Of
Loyalist Spain as premier and min
lister of defense, finance and econ
omicS.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-05

presented testimony on l3 counts
in a Is count grand jury indictment
returned against LaRue. The case
against the dealer went to trial in
Judge Vaughn N. Thompson's divi-
sion of superior court Monday af-
ternoon. The checks mentioned in
the indictment total more than
$4,000 and were given, it is alleged,
to pay for hay bought from Impe-
rial Valley farmers.
The jury is composed of nine
women and three men. They are
Mrs. Elva L. Harder, Mrs. Ida
Tabor, Virginia Rodeman, Mrs,
Charles Bramkamp, Mrs. Gertrude
Schmidt, Marion Hughes Aten,
Mrs. Alice Diver. Edison ]. Smith.
Mrs. Patty B. Ostrander Mrs. Myr-
tie E. Suttle, Helen Niles, and Nor
man l.. Little
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-05
FRANCO TO DEMAND
LOYALIST SURRENDER

HENDAYE, FRENCH SPANISH
FRONTIER, April s. UP)-Gen-
eralissimo Francisco Franco, Span
ish Nationalist commander in chief
Is planning an ultimatum to the
Loyalist government demanding un-
conditional surrender, it was re-
ported today.
The alternative, it was reported,
would be a merciless attack on Bar
celona by every agency of war ut
the Nationalists command, includ-
ing a renewal of the mass airplane
bombardments that brought protests
from foreign governments
AS the report came, the Nation
aliSts outside Tortosa commanded
with their artillery the Barcelona
Valencia road, last great artery of
communication between Catalonia
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-05
FRANCO PUSHES
FOR SURRENDER
BY UNITED PRESS

on two major war fronts Tues
day decisive battles were in prog
ress. while elsewhere world capiUols
rocked to developments Tightening
the strain on already shattered in
ternational nerves.
In Spain Generalissimo Francisco
Franco planned an ultimatum to
the Loyalist government demanding
unconditional surrender.
In Central China war planes took
to the sky to batter ground troops Of
the "Maginot Line"
In Tokyo and Moscow authorities
exchanged curt, angry messages over
alleged Soviet military aid to China,
and the Domei (Japanese) News
, Agency reported a holy war in
northwestern China against Soviet
influence.
" France faced internal disorders
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-05
UNION HEADS
FACE CHARGES

PHOENIX. April 5. (UP)-Seven-
teen union organizers, pleading in
nocent to riot charges, today faced
trial June 81, but planned to file
demurrers and other special plead
ingS and ask Severances.
The alleged rioters, including A.
A. Evans, so, Butte, Mont, president
and secretary treasurer of the Sheep
Shearers union of North America,
were charged with attaching a
shearing plant near here last Feb.
Is, and using force and violence"
on guard, foreman and shear
er. Six shearers also were abducted,
officers said.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-05
WATER USERS
TO REFINANCE,

PHOENIX, April 5. (UP) = The,
Salt River Valley Water Users asso-
citation was ready today to move
forward in its 100000 refinancing
program by selling S4,l35, 900 worth
of bonds.
The bonds will be sold April 10
to the best bidder.
The re-financing program will re-
duce interest and extend payments
on principal over longer period
of years than previously, officials
said.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-05
ATTACK CASE
CHARGE FILED

SAN BERNARDINO, April s.
CUP)-A complaint today charged
H. H Austin, 81 year old day laborer.
with attempted rape. 1t was signed
by the mother of Betty Craven, IL.
slugge1 and attacked after being
taken to a movie by Austin the
night of March 81. District At
torney Jerome B. Kavanaugh an
nounced other charges will be is
sued later.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-05
Cemetery Battle
To Be Renewed in
Superior Courts

Evergreen cemetery, center of a
legal battle for more than a year,
again will feature at hearings in
Imperial county superior court.
Notice of a motion to set aside
judgment of the court and a mo-
ton for a new trial were filed by
Mrs. Emma Stensrud, recently ad-
judged to have a life interest in
the burying ground. She contended
she had a deco in joint tenancy
with her late husband, C. o. Stems
rud
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-05
TRUCKING RATE
SET APRIL 20

Rates for hauling produce by
truck from Imperial Valley to Los
Angeles will become effective April
30, the California railroad commits
sion announced Tuesday.
The schedules were formulated
by the commission after a public
hearing held in Los Angeles Marcn
II before Examiner Howard G..
Freas. The rates, the commission
announced, are deemed Just, rea-
sonable, and non discriminatory
minimum rates, rules, and regula-
tions."
Truck operators. growers, and
shippers may obtain copies of the
commissions decision by writing
the commission.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-05
Valley Officers
Hunt Assailant

BRAWLEY. April 5. = Officers
throughout Imperial Valley are
searching for Augustin Rios, wanted
in connection with the stabbing of
Rafael Gutierrez. %, here Sunday,
The victim is in the county hos
pital suffering from stab wound
in the stomach. He accused Rios
He told officers he had been drink
ing Sunday before he went to Il
downtown beer parlor for three
more beers. He met Rios, sup
posed friend, in the beer parlor.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-05
2 SWISS CLUB
HEADS RESIGN

HOLTVILLE, April 5. CUP)-Two
veteran officers of the Imperial
Valley Swiss club, Secretary Theo-
dore Ming and Treasurer Adolph
Odermott, had resigned today be-
cause of the press of personal
business.
Albert Miller was appointed Sec
retary and Mrs. Odermatt took her
husbands place as treasurer.
The designations were handed in
and the new appointments made
at a meeting of the Swiss clubs
board of directors Monday night.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-05
New Tax Bill Pledged
To Promote Business

prove our existing revenue system,
to remove inequities, to equalize the
tax burden and to stimulate busi-
ness activity"
Harrison asserted in the commit
tee report that under present con-
ditions it seems of the utmost i'm
portance to bring about greater
business activity and a freer flow
of capital into productive enter
prise"
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-05
Judge McPherrin
Issues Hurry-Up
Call for Jurors

A hurry-up call for special
venire of 80 prospective jurors was
issued by Judge R. D. McPherrin
Monday for a trial scheduled for
his department.
Work on the farms resulted in
large numbers of the regular panel
being excused from service, court
attaches said.
Jurors were selected Tuesday from
the special venire and the case of
Narajan Singh against M. C. Gullett
and Mangal Singh went to trial.
The plaintiff filed suit for payment
of $1,000 allegedly due for tractor
work.