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Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-18
Princess and German Student May
Have to Grow Wings 10 Comply
With u. 5. Order 10 Quit Country

WASHINGTON. Dcc. 10. tUP)-
A Hungarian princess who is 9
friend Of high Nazi officials and 6
young German student at DenVel
university today faced the possibil-
ity of long voyages across the Fa-
cific ocean to Asia to comply with
q Justice Department order u leave
the United States.
Unless some other country Of
fers them refuge, they must either
return to the country issuing their
Ssport-Hungary and Germany
or face deportation proceedings.
Attorney General Robert H. Jack
son announced last night that Phin-
cess Stefanie Hohenlohe-W Walden
burg g-Schillingfurst Of Hungary, sale
to have been the leading Nazi
hostess in London prior to the war,
and Karl Scheuring, 18 year ole
Nazi sympathizer, had been denied
applications for renewal of then
permits to visit this country. The
princess was ordered by the i'm
migration and naturalization SER
vice, at the request of Jackson, tC
leave by Saturday; Scheuring by
Dec. g.
A department spokesman said
that until the departure dates, it
would be assumed that they would
leave as ordered Referring to
Scheuring's statement in Denver
that no ships are going to Germany
the spokesman pointed out that
ships still are crossing the Pacific.
Use of the transatlantic clipper
by Scheuring was impossible since
all flights stop at Bermuda, a Brit
ish possession. It was believed that
the princess, too would avoid such
a stop.
Scheuring told reporters in Den
Yer that he would return to Ger
many "if that is the order, but it
locks like l will have to grow wings
and fly He said he might sail on
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-18

WASHINGTON, Dec. 18. tUP)-
Short -of-war aid to Great Britain
is headed today toward its maxi
mum limits
President Roosevelt is exploring
a program of paying for and loan
ing or leasing to the British all
types of armamentS except naval
vessels.
Merchant vessels bulk large in
the contemplated program. Any YES
sci, airplane or munition advanced
on loan would be covered by a
mortgage.
Mr.. Roosevelt is confident that
that could be done without increas-
ing the danger of the United States
being involved in war
He revealed, also, at yesterdays
press conference that there are two
or three cases of industrial nom
cooperation which are under inves-
tigation in connection with the pow
er to take over such facilities to
obtain the maximum national de-
Tense effort.
National Debate
The ,lease-loan plan invites ma
tional debate and bitter congreSSlon-
al controversy. 1t was outlined short
ly after Secretary OF Treasury Henry
Morgenthau, jr., informed the house
appropriations committee that Brit
iSh officials say they cannot order
further armaments here without
financial assistance.
Scattering congressional reaction
foreshadowed the dispute to come
Sif Mr.. Roosevelt seeks from con-
greSS next month the legislation and
appropriations which would be nee
essary to put the plan into effect
He said he sought to remove the
dollar sign as factor in further
aid to Great Britain. He dismissed
as commonplace or trivial
the idea that the Johnson act or
neutrality act should be repealed to
permit loan of funds to be spent
here by the British. He considered
the suggestion of outright gifts as
almost as bad although he said it
might come to that.
Asserting that the best defense
of the United States is the contin-
ued success of Great Britain in de-
Tending herself, Mr.. Roosevelt out
lined the program which would ex-
pand our munitions production and
give Great Britain a share OF it
on loan or lease. He excepted naval
vessels in response to u direct queS-
ton although the late Lord Lothian,
British ambassador, had been press
ing for naval aid
Rep Sol Bloom, D., N. Y, and
Sen. Sherman Minton, D., Ind,
gave the lease-loan plan speedy
endorsement. Rep. John M. Tabel
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-18
Laval Freed as
Petain Confers
With Nazi Envoy

VICHY, France, Dec. 18. (UP)-
Pierre Laval, ousted foreign min
lister and vice premier, left ''pri-
vately" for Paris last night at the
same time Otto Abetz, German
diplomatic envoy, returned to the
capital after obtaining an explana-
ton from Marshal Philippe Pc
tain for Laval's dismissal, it was
made known today.
Laval, freed from house arrest
after Abetz arrived, had taken part
for half an hour in a three-hour
conference between Petain and
AbetZ.
Petain was expected as the result
of his conference with Abetz, and
the Qualification of the Laval af-
fair, to speed up plans to remove
his headquarters to Versailles, in
German occupied territory outside
| Paris.
Petain had been preparing to
move to Versailles when his quarrel
with Pierre Laval led to a crisis
which caused Laval's dismissal
from the cabinet.
The talk he had with Abetz yes
terday was believed to have re-
suited in clarifying the atmosphere
and making it plain that he intend
ed to make no change in French
policy toward Germany.
If Petain moved to Versailles, he
would maintain an alternate head
quarters here. The foreign and de-
fense ministries and other minis
tries which share the administra-
ton of the colonies would remain
here Indefinitely.
Petain was expected also TO has
ten the Inauguration of a consul
tative body, substitute for par
lament, TO share with him some of
the responsibilities of government.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-18
Leasing Or Loaning Vessels and All
1Ypes Of Armament TO Great Britain
Studied in Campaign for More Help

r., N. Y, said he would prefer a
money loan as "less likely to get us
into war" Sen. Rush d. Holt, D.,
w. Va, denounced the suggestion
as nothing more than evasion, sub
terfuge and hypocrisy obviously de-
signed to circumvent the johnson
act"
Meet Half Way
Il think l speak with authority
said Sen. Frederick Van Nuys, D..
Ind, when I say that any move
to amend the Johnson act or the
neutrality act would not receive a
majority support in the senate. But
if England will meet us half way
by comforting title to some of her
bases, 1 think we should give her
aid"
Formal notification to congress
that Great Britain sought financial
assistance was given by Morgenthau
before the appropriations committee
this way:
Morgenthau-"So if it gets down
to the question of-Which it has
Great Britain needing financial as
sistance to pay for the orders she
wants to place with us, think it
is a matter for congress to decide
as to how that financial assistance
should be given to Great Britain" +"
Rep. Louis Ludlow, D., Ind.-"But
you feel that she has arrived at
the point where she needs financial
assistance"
Morgenthau-"I said so-they have
so advised me as TO further orders.
They do need financial assistance
for the orders they want to place
with us for airplanes and boats and
munitions"
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-18
Bonus Delayed
For State EMPLOYEES

SACRAMENTO, Cal, Dec. 49,
(UP)-Fred w. Links, chief of the
state division of budget and ac-
counts, said today every effort was
being made to issue salary adjust
ment checks to 1000 state employees
by Christmas but it was likely that
only $50 Sacramento employees would
receive the bonus" before the holi-
day.
The checks, covering retroactive
salary increases totaling 1898 1882
for low-salaried employees who have
not received pay adjustments this
hiennium, probably will be mailed
Monday or Tuesday, Links said.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-18
FARM CENTER PLANS
THURSDAY NIGHT MEET

The program at Alamo Verde
farm center at 7:30 p. m. Thurs
day night will feature poultry prob
lens. Hans Heuberger, director, an
nounced "Wednesday. II. Lee Lam
derman will talk about Poultry
Production Problems" and j. c.
Hammond will discuss Poultry
Meat Production" A motion pic
ture, Shorts" and a round table
discussion of poultry problems will
complete the program.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-18
Coal Oil Blast
Kills Youth

SACRAMENTO, Dec. 10. up
"A coal oil lamp explosion was blam-
ed today for the death of Robert
Nelson, %, Gait, and severe burns
suffered py his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. James Nelson, and their daugh-
ter AlVitia.
The elder Nelson said he believed
he mistakenly filled the lamp with
was destroyed by fire which fol-
lowed the explosion.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-18
kazi ScuttIers
Will Be Interr,ed
In CCC Camp

WASHINGTON, Dec. 18. CUP)-
The crew that scuttled the German
liner Columbus last year will be
interned in a Civilian Conservation
Corps camp at Fort Stanton, N. NJ,
the justice department said today.
The 450 German sailors, now held
at the immigration station on Angel
Island in San Francisco, will be
moved to the Fort Stanton camp as
soon as the CCC company occupying
the site can be transferred to Capt.
tan, N! M.
The immigration service, part of
the justice department, will admin
, lster the former CCC camp.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-18
Pilot Lands on
Planes BeIIy'

SACRAMENTO, Cal, Dec. 18
CUP)-First Lieutenant William E
Elder of the army air corps received
the plaudits of his fellow pilots
today for his successful belly" land
ing of a plane at the Sacramento
army air depot when the retractible
landing wheels could not be lower
ed.
Elder and M. C. Rowan, jr, flew
here from Hamilton Field. Neither
was injured and damage to the
plane was negligible.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-18
EYE TO MEET WITH
SCOUT COMMISSIONERS

RclGn1 f. Dye. Geouty regional
executive, win met with Imperial
county scout commissioners to-
night in Calipatria ut o special
meeting at the II bbard home. ac-
cording to Hugh Wilcox, .cout ex-
ecutiye.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-18
Swedish Steamer
Sunk, II Drowned

LONDON, Dec. l8. OUP)-Stock-
holm reports said today that the
Swedish steamer Gwana, 1858 tons,
had been sunk with a loss of II
lives. Four persons, including an
English messboy, were reported to
have been landed at Gibraltar The
Gwalia, built in 1907, was registered
out of Gothenborg.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-18
Japanese boat.

Tho princess plans were not
known, but it was reported in San
l Ifane.sco that she was somewhere
in the San Francisco Bay area. pre-
sumably preparing to leave the
country"
Evening star., 1940-01-06
Now Garbo Laughs
At Columbia

"Ninotchka," the picture which so
pleasantly removes the crepe from
Greta Garbo, and which landed on
most 40 best" lists as result,
started making F street merrier yes
terday at the Columbia. In addi-
ton to demonstrating Miss Garbo's
impressive talents for comedy
dead pan, high, and broad
"Ninotchka" is the more amusing
for the fun it pokes at Russias
political religion.
The character which engages the
Garbo genius is that of a serious
minded, plainly dressed agent OF
Moscow sent to Paris to dispose of
a lush batch of old Romanof Jewels.
Her seriousness gradually dissolves
under the spell of romance and the
glittering shop windows of the
coutouriers. The picture is engag-
ingly directed throughout by Ernest
Lubitsch who has recaptured the
Lubitsch touch. Melvyn Douglas
and Ina Claire, she as slick as you
please, head the supporting cast.
Among other things, the picture
demonstrates that sophisticated
comedy has needed Miss Garbo all
these years, quite as much as she
needed it. J,C,
Evening star., 1940-01-06
Talk to Congress
At the Trans.Lux

Europe's affairs take back seat
on the Trans-Lux screen this week.
There the major news story of the
moment is the pictorial report on
President Roosevelts address to the
returning Congress. Also on the
political front are Vice President
Garner's visit to the White House,
Charles Edison's appointment as
Secretary of the Navy and Senator
Taft's account of his views on the
budget-balancing situation.
For sports fans there are the
New Year bowl classics-the Rose,
Orange, Sugar and Cotton Bowl
contests-with some fine action
shots. Other news notes include
that apartment house fire in Minne-
apolis, Philadelphia's Mummers Pa
rade, Al Smiths celebration of a
birthday anniversary, sundry activ-
tiles of the United States Army and
marines and note on bathing suit
fashions.
Shorts are a travelogue which
visits Chile, Bits of Life" pair
of dramatic short stories; "Ice Cut
ters," report on ice hockey, and
Mother Goose in Swingtime."
H. M.
Evening star., 1940-01-06
Where ar When
Current Theate. actions
and Time of Showing

Earle-"The Great Victor Her
BERT" with % of his melodies: II
am, 1:35, 4:l5, 7:O5 and 9:55 pm.
Stage shows: 1910, 3:2O, sos and
1855 pm.
Palace-"Another Thin Man." new
adventure of Nick and Nora Charles:
1905. 2:25, 4:50, 7:10 and 9:35 pm.
Capitol-"The Earl of Chicago, !"
Bob Montgomery goes sinister again:
II am, 1:45. 4:35, 7:2O and 1910
pm. Stage shows: 1875, 800, 6:10
and 1855 pm.
Keith's-"The Hunchback of Notre
Dame" melodrama with Charles
Laughton: 11:15 am, l:5O, 4:25, 7
and 9:35 pm. March of Time:
1:30, 4:05, $40 and 9:15 pm.
Metropolitan-"Four Wives" lat
est adventure of the popular -Four
Daughters: 11:20 am, 1:25, $3.50,
$50, 7:45 and $40 pm.
Columbia - "Ninotchka," Garbo
goes gay in Paris: 1875 am, 2:l5,
4:40, ITO and $40 pm.
Little-'My-Man Godfrey" that
daft and deft comedy with Carole
Lombard and William Powell: II
am, 1:20. 1925, 5:35, 7:35 and 9:45
pm.
Trans-Lux - News and shorts.
Continuous from 10 am.
Evening star., 1940-01-06
OurWives'
Nets New
Tenants
Lemp Family Saga
Carries. Girls to
Motherhood

The four daughters who made
lovers of the simple life on the
screen so happy are -Four Wives"
now at the Metropolitan. That's
a deal Of progress for the girls to
have made, but they have not
changed much. In the new pic.
ture, their main concern is mater
nifty with its moments of bliss and
torment, but the incidental action
is composed of such plain, whole
some stuff as spring housekeeping,
family dinners. music lessons and
the like. Heart-warming is the
word for 1t for those whose hearts
warm to the unpretentious.
Unlike its predecessors in the
series OF which this film is the
third, -Four Wives" has it's troubles
getting under way. Before the
script really begins to produce the
standard. honey drama expected of
1t, the impression arises that it is
going to be an artificial affair. When
the stork begins to hover over Pris-
ella Lane, however, and Rosemary
shows signs of landing a fine young
man at last, the picture gets into
the normal stride of such things.
The major dramatic element is
provided by the psychologist COM
plications which beset the Lemp
sister portrayed by Priscilla. She is
a widow. remember, and just as she
is about to marry for the second
time. the family doctor whispers
something in her ear which is cal
culated to make her remember her
dead husband. And how, one might
say purely for the sake of being def
tnitive! The case is one that re-
quires lot of Strengthening out and
before that is accomplished it is
necessary to make use of the ghost
of Mickey Borden. That it is plau-
sible use is tribute to the skill of
Director Michael Curtiz in han
ding such misty material as the
wrath of suicide composer.
Weakest story of the three so far,
that Of -Four Wives" is not so weak
as to betray those who have faith
in the Lemps to keep the domestic
drama simple and interesting.
J. c.
Evening star., 1940-01-06

father (the famous Stanley Lupino
of English musical comedy urged
me to accept. My first year in Hol-
lywood was the unhappiest of my
life. I was Is and didn't know
what it was all about. I hated
everything here - especially the
climate. I was supposed to play
Alice in Alice in Wonderland In
stead I was starred in little num-
ber titled Search for Beauty"
In the few years that followed,
Miss Lupino alternated between be-
ing sick and playing leading roles in
such pictures as Paris in Spring"
Peter 1bbetson, zone Rainy After
noon,'' THE Gay Desperate" and
Yours for the Asking" During this
time she was blond-she is now a
brunette, and it suits her enormous
ly. At this particular moment, how
ever, Ida wants to talk about her
illnesses.
I'D only been here six months
when I got infantile paralysis-1
caught 1t from a swimming pool
(Which is why there is no pool in
her present domicile). I had a
temperature of 104 and was desper-
ately i'll for three months. Not only
did they think I'd never act again,
but 1t was doubtful If I could ever
use my hands again. LEGACY of
this sickness is Ida's inability to
close her hands completely I got
better; then I got fat-1 had to diet
to remove two of my three chins. I
was all set to work again when I
had to have my appendix out. After
that had adhesions."
After this, Ida met Louis Hay
ward, they were married over year
ago., and life seemed much bright
er. She was 18, and she was still
being paid large salary, but her
pictures were taking a downward
lunge. His career" says Ida, went
up as mine went down. I was glad
for him, of course, but, when I'd
hear people congratulating him on
this and that role. I'd reflect to
Evening star., 1940-01-06
myself, Say. I was considered good
orco v,,vco1fDo

once myself"
Shortly before her goth birthday
anniversary, Idas contract with
Paramount lapsed and it was not
renewed. TT was simply awful to
realize I was through. You don't
believe it at first. You keep waiting
for picture offers. Oh. the agony
of having people saying, What is
your next picture?' or What are
you doing now?' and there's no
way of replying. At first I wallowed
in self-pity. Then I resolved I'd
get back somehow even if l had
only 10 lines to speak in a picture. T"
First step on the comback trail
happened a year ago, when Ida,
backed by Agent Arthur Lyons, made
a couple of B pictures for Columbia
at fraction Of her former salary.
A radio appearance with Orson
Welles followed. Daryl Zanuck
heard 1t; signed her for one picture
with Twentieth Century Fox. From
there to the fat role in "The Light
That Failed" was a short step.
William Wellman (who directed
it, had promised me the part two
years ago-but I didn't think he'd
remember" says Miss Lupino. I
doubt whether he would have if Ida
had not kept in picture circulation
via the BIS. II don't ever want
to be star again." Ida concludes
Il just want to play good parts in
good pictures!"
(Released by the North American
Newspaper Alliance, Incl
Evening star., 1940-01-06

surprising coming from him, but
which has tendency to CRATE later.
The story starts as plain comedy,
dealing with Silky as a Chicago
mobster before he inherits the title
and estates which take him to Eng
land. His sudden interest In what
kind Of fellow he really is. when an
intelligent lawyer whom he has
framed becomes his companion and
character analyst, has its moments
of high comedy competently played.
The psychopathic tone of the
story, which shadows it with the
tragedy to come, is not heard until
Silky has moved to England and
intruded his mobster manners upon
the ancestral estate and its startled
servants and tenants. Many good
comedy scene is worked into this
area of the story. one of the best
of them that in which a bewildered.
frightened Silky takes his place in
the House of Lords with the idea Of
becoming political racketeer. Fine,
too. are the passages in which he
learns from his butler how an earl
is supposed to act and the correla-
tive ones in which he attempts to
put his new knowledge into prac-
tice. A beautiful bit of bungling
is this, in which he calls one awe
some servant Miss" attempts to
tip a proud tenant who gave him a
piece of cake and otherwise learns
there are certain things MILFORD of
the manor is not supposed to do.
1t is grim ending which brings
the hanging of this fascinating fel-
low, but it is softened by one of
the most deft touches of the whole
picture. the old buffers smiling
pride in the young master as he
marches bravely to the scaffold.
The 70-minute flash of flesh,
spectacle, song, dance and comedy
which Fischer has put together for
the stage show finds its foundation
in its glittering girls and its ca
pricious, insinuating staging. This
broad. if any, minded reviewer
found it distasteful in only two
areas. where it combines too much
nudity with too much movement
under lights toe bright. 1t found
it disappointing to the greatest de-
gree in its elimination of those un-
graceful, violent flying splits from
the can-can number, without which
no can-can, even graceful, we'll
dressed one, seems justified.
Among the many specialists who
contribute spice to the saucy Pari-
sian revue, old fayorites Emile Boreo,
iil Lamb, the Briants. George Buray
and Myrtill and Pacaud still domi-
nate the program. Boreo's novelty
songs, the Briants' incompatible
and Buray's trick dance
ensemble are the outstanding in
dividual acts of the copious spec
tacle.
Evening star., 1940-01-06

Vic otdA eA1lS PhAIsAAAICA ~ OAASC woo,
Just one of those standard recipes
any Hollywood chemist can whip
up in a jif1y.
A standard recipe can be at least
easy to take, Of course, providing
it is sugar.coated, even II the sugar
coating has q familiar taste. Ger
tainty 1t is nice to see Miss Myrna
10y and Mr.. William Powell back
in the gay guise of Nora and Nick
Charles. They glitter and they are
pleasant people to sit around with
for an hour or SO. And If this "An-
other Thin Man" had not been pre-
ceded by so many others Of its
genre, 1t might even have been a
Knockout mystery comedy. AS it
stands 1t is passably amusing, below
the old Thin Man" standards. but
not so far below as some Of the
other copies.
All the same old gags are here,
though-Asta's attraction to a fire
plug, Nicks attraction to that we'll
known import from Scotland and
several other trademarks you will
recognize. They may not prove
boring. but they do prove that
familiarity breeds something short
Of hilarity. There are moments of
fun In Another Thin Man." to be
sure, but there also are a number
of moments when you feel you must
be q reincarnation, that you have
been here before sometime.
Irritation with these trite little
touches, however. does not make
Another Thin Man" anything like
a total loss. Some of the old whimsi-
calities Of the Charles family still
will make devotees of the whodunit
happy enough with the Charles
latest adventure 1t is whooping
melodrama which could have come
from the pen Of Owen Davis and
even that standby trick of picking
the most innocent-appearing men,
Der Of the cast shouldn't help you
solve it before the cinema's most
happily married detective does.
This time Nora, Nick, Nick, jr.,
and Asia arrive in New York for a
quiet vacation. The quiet vacation
consists of a trip to Long Island
which involves a murder or two or
three and enough lurking, leering
suspects to test the aplomb of even
Nick Charles. Things become more
than mildly confused for awhile,
but Frances Goodrich and Albert
Hackett, the script writers, have
managed. with what must have been
heroic effort. to arrive at a solu-
ton which is practically logical.
The cast, in addition to bringing
Mr.. Powell back to the screen after
his two-year absence. in addition
to Miss Logs perfect wife" is
graced by C. Aubrey Smith, Virginia
Grey, Nat Pendleton, Otto Kruger
Ruth Hussey and baby named
William A. Poulsen. But in spite
of all they do, in spite of all Director
w. S. Van Dyke. I'd, does to keep
this swiftly paced, there is temp
tation to say that the Thin Man"
is wearing very thin indeed.
Evening star., 1940-01-06
'Hunchback' Rings
Bells at Keith's

That horror Of horror films, THE
Huncl,back Of Notre Dame" which
R-K-O intended should be the hor.
ror of horror films, has earned Q
third week at Keith's, thus offering
ample proof that a great many
moviegoers do not share this de-
partment's dislike of some of its
qualities. AS twice stated previously,
these are its tendency to be too
colossal in stature, too repulsive in
the early phases of Charles Laugh
tons portrait of Quasimodo and
too overdone In its mob attack on
the cathedral
Apparently it was just too, too
bad We felt that way because no.
body else did. J.C. ,