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Evening star., 1940-04-07
of foreign government or a politi-
cal group in a foreign country.
Would Check on Income.

Such groups would be required
to disclose their headquarters, names
ana addresses of their officials, quail
ifications for membership, aims and
purposes of the organization, sources
of income and to file copies OF
their charters and publications.
The Secretary of State also could
require them to file such other
information as he determined, in
Guiding membership lists.
Organizations failing to file state
ments would be subject to a fine
of $4,000. Any organization ofIicial
who filed a false statement would
be liable to two years imprisonment
and fine of $1,000.
Hearing for Reds Tomorrow.
Hearings will be held at District
Court tomorrow for Philip Frank
field and Thomas F. P. ODea. Bos-
ton Communists whose release from
Jail was ordered yesterday when
Justice Jennings Bailey signed writs
of habeas corpus.
The men. jailed Friday for con-
tempt of the House for refusing to
answer questions of the Dies Com
mittee, were ordered freed on $1,000
bond each pending hearing on the
writs.
Appearing for both. Attorney Sol
Cphn told Justice Bailey that i'm
prisonment in the cases was illegal
and that the complete impropriety
of the warrants under which they
were arrested was so serious as to
render the warrants complete nulli-
ties"
Citation Method Attached.
The habeas corpus petition at
tackled the method by which Mr..
Frankfeld and Mr.. ODea we're
cited by the House. The governing
statute. Mr.. Cohn said. provides
Evening star., 1940-04-07

MR.. PFALZGRAFF AND THE BRITISH PILL BOX-The Brit
sh Embassy, where Washington police maintain 24-hour
guard has put up little house shelter the
Standing in front of the pill box is Policeman
Pfalzgraf, whose grandparents born Germany Mr.
Pfazgra served United States submarine during the
World War and says he gets along fine with the British
Star Staff Photo
Evening star., 1940-04-07

Argentina is shipping 5000 tons
of meat to Italy.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-03
Candidate Gains
Place on Ballot
Through Petition

SACRAMENTO, Oct. 3 (UP) -
Clay A. Womack today qualified
as an Independent candidate for
the state assembly in the 45th
district, Los Angeles, to oppose
Thomas j. Doyle, the incumbent,
who won both the Democratic and
Republican nominations in the Au-
gust primary election.
Womack presented petitions bear
ing 883 valid names of voters who
aid not vote at the primary elec-
ton. The requirement was 1886
names under terms of statute re-
quiring five per cent of the eligi-
BILE voters in the district.
The petitions were certified to
Secretary of State Paul Peek by
the Los Angeles county registrar
of voters, Officials of the secretary
of states office said it was the
first instance of an independent
candidate qualifying for the ballot
since the petition requirement was
raised from one per cent to five
per cent six years ago.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-03

has so much to defend elsewhere.
Such doubling of sea power in
North America would violate the
principle of economy of force.
There may be political reasons
why the British government should
not become the guests of any do
minion government whatever. In the
first place, they would be overshad-
owed by the independent govern
ment of such a dominion, and in
Canada they would be overshadowed
also by the United States. In the
second place, the king is the symbol
of empire and in a dominion that
symbol would deteriorate.
If the British purpose to defend
the British empire and to continue
the war against the axis powers
remains steadfast, in spite of a re-
tirement from Great Britain, there
is only one part of the world where
these objects can be pursued, and
that is the Indian ocean. We may
expect the king and court to go
to Simla and the ministry and parl-
lament to go to Delhi.
The British fleet would then be
based upon two powerful positions,
namely, Singapore and Trincomalee
on the island of Ceylon. The great
naval and air base at Singapore is
we'll known.
Trincomalee is one Of the half
dozen greatest and best sheltered
harbors in the world, and it is CEN
trail for the task which the British
naval power must assume if the
bases in England and Scotland are
abandoned.
One has only to spread out map
of the world to see the degree to
which the British empire surrounds
the Indian ocean. The Union OF
South Africa, Tanganyika, British
East Africa, Aden, British Somali-
land, India, Burma, Ceylon, British
Malaysia-all face this sea. Outside
of this area and the Americas, the
only exposed British possessions are
on the west coast of Africa.
A superior fleet in the Indian oc-
can covers Australia, New Zealand,
and the. whole south Pacific, and
also the Dutch East Indies, the
Philippines, and much else besides.
From Trincomalee through the
Red Sea and Suez, the navy can
contest the war in the eastern Med
iterranean better than from Ports
mouth or the Severn. It can pro-
tect Egypt, Palestine, Arabia, Iraq
and Iran and the sources of oil sup
ply that come down to the Persian
Gulf.
The location of the British king
and government in India might
have political results of high i'm
portance. In India the English king
is emporer. To have the Raj in their
midst might appease the Indian dis
satisfaction. At any rate, in India
there are three hundred million
people, and India is the greatest
and richest element in the empire.
1t is the one place to which the
English king could go with an ade-
quate task of government and with
out adding a fifth wheel to the
structure OF dominion government.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-03
luke Box Revives Penny Arcade Days
As HOLLYWOOD Fad Catches On

or vaudeville skit. and there are a
few melodramas. The price is 10
cents throw.
Young Roosevelt, who came to
Hollywood to learn the film industry
in one year, started the trend by
joining with Fred Mills of Chicago
to form Globe Productions, Inc.
They held the world premiere" for
their motion picture juke boxes a
few days ago and signalized their
venture by signing a contract with
the Screen Actors Guild and in
vited amusement men from all over
the country to dicker for distribu-
ton rights.
Their amusement machine is call
ed "Soundie" and amid free sand
wiches they ran off a film showing
native island musicians playing
hotcha for a writhing dancer in
scant costume. The show ran three
minutes.
De Mile, pioneer -direc-
tor, saw the possibilities in the field
and announced he would embark
on similar project.
He said he would join with Neil
Mccarthy, attorney and sportsman,
in competing with Roosevelt and
other groups branching out into
the new enterprise. Their firm will
be Hollywood Quality Pictures, Inc.
It's all based upon the squirt into
popularity of the juke box. An an
alysis by Variety claimed that in
New York alone more than s65. .OOO.-
0OO is spent each year on phono-
graph boxes, the annual take
throughout the nation being an as
Economical figure.
The movie juke box will probably
be at your favorite club any day
now
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-03

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 3 CUP)-
Days of the old seaside catch penny
arcades have been revived in new
setting of Hollywood glamour. James
Roosevelt and Cecil B. De Mile are
doing it with the lowly juke box
Only the tall, beaming son of the
president and the hitherto producer
of film colossals have started a new
industry juke box movie. Folks
who went to the Chicago worlds fair
of 1893 and squandered their money
on clicking and creaking gadgets
giving out peep-shows, electric shocks
and lung tests wouldn't recognize
the new machine.
1t combines all previous fads into
a fancy lighted box which gives
for the usual coin-in -the-slot a
piece of music by name band and
a short motion picture projected
upon a screen at the top of the
machine. Sometimes the film is a
dancing girl in a South Sea island
setting, othertimes it is a comedy
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-03
War Department
Selects Sites for
u. s. Mobilization

WASHINGTON, Oct. (UP)-
The war department has selected
sites for 13 reception centers where
the first conscripts will be mobilized
in November, it was learned today.
The centers will be established at
existing posts in the nine army corps
areas. Small army posts will serve
as temporary receiving stations in
the most populouS corps areas. Ex-
isting buildings will be supplemented
by new construction to house the
conscripts.
The new recruits will remain at
the reception centers four or five
days for elementary military train
ing and for classification as to ap-
titudes. After that they will be as
signed to units of the regular army
or national guard for their basic
and advanced training.
The sites chosen and their ca
pacities include:
9Th corps area-(Tex., Okla, Colo,
N. NJ, part Wyo., and Ariz, except
Yuma)-Fortn Sam Houston, Tex
1000
9th-(Wash., ida, Ore, Mont,
Wyo., Utah. New, Calf, Alaska
and Ariz)-Fort Lewis. Wash, 500,
and Presidio of Monterey, Calf,
1000.
The joint army and navy selective
service committee prepared to avoid
confusion over regulations that will
govern occupational deferment from
the draft by arranging a series OF
conferences with state advisers. All
meetings will be addressed by Maj.
Joseph F. Battley, adviser on occu-
patton deferments to the draft COM
mittee.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-03
Elaine Won't Keep
Date with Profile
In |. A. Courtroom

HOLLYWOOD, Oct. (UP) -
Elaine Barrie, curvesome fourth
wife of John Barrymore. decided
not to keep a court engagement
with him today.
Her attorney and counsel for Bar
rymore entered into a stipulation
to postpone the preliminary hear
ing on the Great Profile's divorce
suit, and the court continued an
injunction against Miss Barrie
which forbids her calling on the
actor at his Tower Road home.
The injunction also restrains her
from disposing of any of their
community assets.
Barrymore sued his full-lipped
brunette wife for divorce on
grounds of cruelty, charging she
caused him mental suffering and
inflicted bodily injury upon him.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-03
Britain Would Operate FIeetFrom
Singapore In Event Of German
Victory in Battle For England

Editors Note: The following is
by Maj. Gen. David p. BarrOws,
U. S. A., retired. noted American
soldier, educator, traveller and au-
thor. Former president of the I'm
iversity of California, he Is now
on the faculty of that university.
In this dispatch he analyses the
future defense prospects of the
British empire.
by Maj. Gen. David P. Barrows,
u. S. A. Retired
If the British government should
be obliged eventually to abandon
London and England, the British
fleet in all probability would be
based on Singapore and the British
government would continue empire
rule from India instead of from
Canada, as now generally supposed
AS a consequence. the United
States, under the terms of its new
mutual defense agreement with Can
ada, would be left to assume de-
fense, with the help of Canada
of the entire western hemisphere
That, of course, would reverse the
present spheres of action of the two
fleets. The American fleet would
gather in Atlantic waters and the
British fleet would operate from
Singapore and Ceylon for the de-
fense of the Indian empire, the Ma
layan states, Australia, New Zealand
and all Pacific possessions.
The above is predicated on the
possibility that Britain might be
defeated.
First of all, let the opinion be ex-
pressed that Great Britain will not
fall; that its government will not
be driven from its island home nor
the British fleet from its bases in
Great Britain and Gibraltar.
Nevertheless, as the German attack
moves now into what may be its
most intense and destructive form
the possibility must be faced that
the British government, the Brit
ish fleet, and such British armed
forces as could be withdrawn may
have to abandon England but with
out abandoning the war. And this
raises the question, where would
they go?
There seems to be a sort of settled
American opinion that in such a
contingency the British crown, min
istry and parliament would be trans
ferred to Canada and the British
fleet to the st. Lawrence river and
Halifax, but this seems to me highly
improbable.
The president of the United States
with the overwhelming support of
opinion in congress and in the ma
ton. has made explicit Americas
intention to defend Canada and the
Atlantic and West Indian British
possessions.
If Great Britain is confident. as
she may well be. that the United
States will undertake this respon-
sibility, there would be little sense
in adding her own fleet and military
power to this hemisphere where she
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-03
Cartons Visit
Friends in PaIa
ELM NOTES


While at Palo over the weekend
Mrs. Ruby Carlton, teacher at Elm.
and daughter, Lillian, were the
houseguests of Mr.. and Mrs. Har-
ry Stanton. Lillian remained there
and will visit this week at Ocean
Beach and in San Diego, returning
in time for junior college.
A guest at the home Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Ted Roe this week is Mrs.
Roe's grandmother, Mrs. Clark OF
Jacumba.
Kenneth Taylor of Calexico visited
at the Willard RAIDER home over
Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. l.. H. Boone and
children came down from San Diego
Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Hopkins were
in the valley Saturday from Jacum-
pa. --''~
After a few days visit in the val
ley Philip Boone returned TO San
Diego. He visited with his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. M. L. Boone.
Teddy Roe is vacationing with
friends on ranch at Ell Cajon.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-03
Ranlparfs Producer
Fiqlrts Censorship

PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 3 CUP)z
Time, Inc, producer of the news
reel feature, The Ramparts We
Watch, announced today that it
would appeal to the U. S. supreme
court from a lower court decision
upholding a Pennsylvania ban on
the film until a portion of it is
deleted.
Louis de Rochemont, publisher Of
The March of Time and producer
of the film distributed by RKO
Pictures, Inc, announced that "all
legal steps" would be taken to re-
verse the ruling.
The Pennsylvania board of CEN
sors two weeks ago banned the
film on the grounds that it con-
tanned Nazi propaganda. The board
originally passed the film but
charged that portion of the Ger
ulan-made picture, Baptism Of
Fire, was inserted.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-03
Peace Officers TO
Hold 1sf Meetino

CALEXICO, Oct. 3.-The Imper-
ial-Yuma Peace Officers associa-
ton will hold their first meeting
this fall at the International Coun-
try club here at p. m. Friday
night.
Earl Roberts, police commissioner
of Calexico, was appointed enter
tainment chairman of the evening
by Undersheriff Rodney Clarke, as
sociation president. Arnie Lohman
of the customs service and Wen-
dell G. Pearce of the immigration
service will preside as chairman OF
the evening.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-03
GOOD WILL GROUP
FORMED IN LOS ANGELES

SACRAMENTO, Cal, Oct. | cUP)
"A Los Angeles group seeking to
develop, maintain and foster SYM
pathetic understanding and cordial
relations between the peoples OF
North America and Of the coun-
tries of Central and South Ameri-
ca" today filed articles Of incorp-
Grafton with the secretary Of states
office for United Americas Society,
Inc.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-05-23

xhe Ford Motor Com
pany was the first large
company to establish the
8-hour day-also in 1914.
And the 4O-hour week
was inaugurated by the
Ford Motor Company in
1926, years before any
such laws existed.
he Ford Motor Com
pany employs men with
out regard to race, creed
or color. 1t is common
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-05-23

1905, when the action of "Gone
with the Wind" takes place.
Studied Swatch Books
Travelling there, the designer
studied swatch books that dated
back 100 years-no mean task in
itself, inasmuch as the mill
doomed around 800 patterns per
year.
"Luck had a LOT to do with
this, of course" explains Plum
kett. 1--WE were lucky to find just
the right mill-and luckier that
the swatch books from as far
back as 1910 were still stored
there.
= One. sof the books provided the
material that fitted Miss Nit
che1l's description. It was a deli
cately lowered muslin in the
right shade of green for Techni-
color.
| Then, adapting a design from
an old Godey's Ladies' Book,
Plunkett outlined the costume for
Miss Leigh. The design, however,
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-05-23

screen.
Miss Mitchell, with never a
thought that her now famous no.
vel would be the cause of an up
heaval, wrote: "Her new green
lowered muslin dress spread it's
twelve yards of billowing mater
ial over her hoops" And that's
where the worry started.
The costume, of course, was
worn by Scarlet O'Hara-the
role in the film played by Vivien
Leigh. Long before Miss Leigh
was selected for this role, Plum
kett had started his search for a
material and a costume to fit the
description Miss Mitchell sup
piled in the opening pages of her
book.
On an extensive tour of the
South, where he collected a veri-
table library of reference mater
ial, Plunkett learned of small
mill outside Philadelphia, Pa,
which has loomed many fine
prints since long before the
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-05-23
Biggest Scene
Ever Shot In
Film History!

The filming Of the biggest
scene ever photographed was
made possible by construction OF
the largest motion picture came
ra crane. A giant boom with an
extension of IS feet in any direc-
ton, including a direct vertical
one, was designed to photograph
1900 extras on the forty-acre At
lanta, Georgia, set in "Gone with
the Wind the Technicolor pro-
duction starring Clark Gable,
Leslie Howard and Olivia de Ha-
villand and presenting Vivien
Leigh as Scarlet O'Hara. The
picture opens May 20, on the
Parkway theatre screen.
So enormous was the cranes
weight-140 tons-that concrete
runway two hundred feet long
and twelve feet wide was built
along the track where the crane
moved. The largest camera crane
previously in existence had a
! boom reach of only 80 feet, en-
tirely inadequate for the scenes
proposed by Director Victor
Fleming. It was desired to shoot
closeup of Miss Leigh as Scar
lett O'Hara, and swing from that
directly to long shot of Union
and Confederate wounded just
brought to the Atlanta railway
station from the battlefield, in
July, 1864.
Giant Camera Boom
The giant camera boom was
built with a contractors rigging
crane, mounted with its caterpil-
lar tractor on two trailers, and
supported by forty-six truck
sized pneumatic tired wheels. The
crane was designed to handle such
heavy loads as structural steel
members, tanks and electric
signs, so it was rigid enough to
support the big Technicolor CAM
eras without vibration.
A ten-ton truck supplied the
motive power for moving the
crane along the runway, and the
boom itself was moved by 49,
motor mounted on
the platform of the crane. Be-
cause of the noise of these power
full engines, a special arrange
ment was made for recording
sound in the crane shots.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-05-23
Finding Of Dress
Material For Bio
Movie Real Job
Details of Difficult Search De-
scribed by Walter Punk
EFT, the Designer.

Just ten words of description
from the pen of Margaret Nit
chell about a dress-a very spe-
cial dress, of course-unwittingly
brought about what is probably
record-breaking hunt by film
studio for a particular material.
This was disclosed by Walter
Plunkett, costume designer for
David O. Selznick's Technicolor
production of "Gone with the
Wind" starring Clark Gable, Wv
len Leigh, Leslie Howard and Oil
via de Havilland under Victor
Fleming's direction current
ly showing on the Parkway
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-05-23
Real 'Rhettn In
Film Version OF
Gone With Wind
Alicia Rhett Makes Her Movie
Debut in Role of Leslie
Towards Sister.

A real Rhett, from Charleston,
S. c., home of the fictional Rhett
Butler, of "Gone with the Wind"
fame, is playing in her first mo-
ton picture.
She is Alicia Rhett, descendant
of a family long famous in South
ern history, and her first screen
role is in the Technicolor produc-
ton of "Gone with the Wind
to be shown at the Parkway thea
tire.
It was Miss Rhett's family, SO
the story goes, that contributed
one-half of the 'fictional Rhett
Buffers name. David o. Selznick
saw Alicia acting in the Dock
Street Little Theatre in Charles
ton and signed her for the role OF
India Wilkes in the film.
Clark Gable is playing Rhett
Butler in "Gone with the Wind
and one of Miss Rhett's first days
was spent working in scenes with
him. AS India Wilkes, she plays
the sister of Ashley Wilkes, por-
trayed by Leslie Howard.
Had Own Notions
Like many Southerners," said
Miss Rhett, Il had my own no
tons as to how the characters in
Gone with the Wind should look
and Pm happy to find that the
players, settings, costumes, ev-
erything, in fact, comes up to my
highest expectations"
Vivien Leigh, who plays the
widely discussed role of Scarlet
.O'Hara, particularly interested
Miss Rhett.
She's Scarlet to a t." Miss
Rhett said, emphatically.
The Rhetts, incidentally, first
came to this country in 1890. Miss
Rhett's great-grandfather, Robert
Barnwell Rhett, was known as
the Father of Secession" during
his years as United States Sena-
tor.
-.Aicia's first movie role, though
comparatively small, is of consid-
cradle Importance in "Gone with
the Wind" inasmuch as she por-
trays Scarlett's most acrid femi-
nine foe. Starred in the film are
Gable, Miss Leigh, Howard and
Olivia de Havilland. Victor Flem-
ing directed.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-05-23
Hattie Mcdaniel
Is Most Famous
NANNY In Films
Noted Colored Actress Has
Another Great Role In
"Gone With Wind"

When Hattie Mcdaniel was
signed for the role of NANNY"
faithful servant of Scarlet o.
Hara, in David o. Selznlck's
"Gone with the Wind" to be
shown at the Parkway Theatre
she turned back the calendar
NEARLY three-quarters OF a cen
tury. Hattie's grandmother lived
and worked on such plantations
as the Taar described in Marga-
ret Mitchell's best selling novel OF
the Civil War South.
There is no better known
nanny" in films than Hattre
Mcdaniel. Her round, beaming
face, great size, expressive eyes,
and versatile talent keep her IN
demand at all times. She aver
ages sixteen screen roles year.
Hattie was born in Wichita,
Kansas, on June 10, 1898, the
daughter of Susan Holbert and
Henry Mcdaniel. Her mother
was born in Nashville, Tennessee,
and her father in Richmond, Va.
She was the thirteenth child. Her
father was a Baptist preacher,
whose sermons were enlivened by
songs offered during the services
by Hattie's mother.
Fame at Seventeen
Fame first came to Hattie when,
at seventeen, she sang over the
radio in Denver with Professor
George Morrison's orchestra. She
was the first colored girl to Groom
over the air-waves. Her contral-
to voice has remained one of her
assets. In the picture, SHOW
boat" she sang II Still Suits Me"
with Paul Robson, and another
number with Irene Dunno.
At eighteen, Hattie won a me-
dial in dramatic art from the Wo-
mems Christian Temperance I'm
ion of Denver, for reciting "Con-
vict joe" After that she launched
into her stage career, having
gained some experience by tour
ing with the Morrison Orchestra.
She played the entire South for
the Shrine and Elks circuits and
headlined the Pantages circuit in
1924 and 1925. She became known
as the "colored Sophie Tucker"
and the female Bert Williams.
In Kansas City she wrote her own
act, with songs she herself COM
posed.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is re-
membered by Hattie as the city
where she got her most unusual
break. She was broke when she
reached there, and found no job
waiting. All she could get was a
place as maid in the ladies'
room of Sam Picks Suburban
Inn.
One night, after midnight, when
all the entertainers had left, the
manager called for volunteer ia
lent from among the help. That
was a clarion call to action for
Hattie. She came right out of the
ladies' room and launched into
sSt Louis Blues" After that she
! never went back to her maids
lob.