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Imperial Valley press., 1940-02-28

TINE are devoted to the report made
by Gen. Tasker H. Bliss, military |
representative of the United States |
on the Allied supreme war council,
to Lansing on Feb. 10, 1920.
Bliss relates the Allied difficulties
arising from the lack of coordinat-
ed leadership and his own efforts
in behalf of creating the post of
communicative chief for all of the
armies, a plan which finally was
adopted Marshal Foch of the
French army was selected for the
post.
He discussed suggestions which
had been made shortly after this
nations entry into the war that
available ships should be used for
transporting supplies instead of SOL
diers to the Allied forces. But once
in France he was told by Gen.
Robertson, British chief of staff
that the state of the French NOR
ale, both civil and military, required
the prompt presence in France of a
large American force
The early lack of unity of control
among the Allied armies was at
tributed by Bliss to military jeal-
ousy and suspicion as to ultimate
national aims" He warned the US.
war department at the time that
national jealousies and suspicious
and susceptibilities of national tenn
perament must be put aside. .
| m a ~
have died in vain
Blockade Justified
Bliss went into the blockade SyS-
tenn thoroughly, saying, with some
degree OF prophecy, that the char
acter of this latest and, probably
of future wars justifies the extreme
blockade Of U. S. irritation re-
garding the blockade in the early
phase o. the war continued until
the United States learned that a
ruthless blockade was to her own
interest as we'll as to that of the
European Allies" he said.
Lansing did not deny the NUM-
tionS charges but referred the COM
mittee 70 the cargo manifeSts of
the Inflated vessel, which showed
that it carried various articles OF
war equipment, including ammuni-
ton, as we'll as some materials
which, while not strictly of a mill.
tary nature, was considered con-
traband by Germany.
Lansing also advised the commit.
tee that neither Wilson nor Bryan
had warned Americans against tax
ing passage on the Lusitania. HI
added, IN response to another ques
ton, that the sinking of the vesse
Was only one in a series of Incl
though in some respects tn,
most monstrous" - which led thu
United States into the conflict.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-02-28

ing, and general improvement
In the Ell Centre elementary
school district six men are doing
carpentry, repairing, janitor work,
tree planting and landscaping the
school grounds.
The Ell Centro Union high school
district is using eight men. They
are doing janitor work, levelling
sports fields, removing old school
equipment, and eliminating fire
hazards on the school grounds.
Library Uses Three
In Ell Centre the Toy Loan IL
brary is using two men and one
woman.
Maintenance of parks and park
ways in Ell Centro utilizes 10 men.
Calexico city officials have a
force of IL men working on street
and park improvements and irri-
eating city property.
Twenty men are at work in Holt
vile in project providing for in
Stallation of new water mains
Imperial Valley press., 1940-02-28


work which we left unfinished.
This, and other confidential mat
ters regarding American foreign re-
lations during the 1914-1920 period,
is contained in hitherto unpublished
letters written by Lansing to vari-
GUS officials, including Wilson. The
correspondence was made public by
the state department today. An
other volume, the first in the two
volume set, was published last week.
The letters cover wide field,
discussing intimately the behind
t.le-scene maneuverS of the Wilson
administration to effect a strong
military alliance with the ABC pow
ers-Argentina, Brazil and Chile
and again, Lansing,s plea with Will
son for financial assistance to the
notorious Mexican bandit and revol-
utionist, Pancho Villa.
Letter to House
Lansing's forecast that dictatorial
governments must be exterminated
to assure world peace was contained
in a letter, dated April 8, 1918, to
the ubiquitous COL Edward M
House, Wilson's special international
envoy. Surprisingly, Lansing came
out in the letter against the League
of Nations proposal, Wilson'S cher
ished dream.
Instead Of League of Nations
consisting of democracies and auto
cracies, Lansing suggested the for
nation of league of democracies
dedicated to spreading the doctrines
OF democratic government through
out the world. Once all nations be-
came democracies, he wrote House
there would be no war, no neces-
sity for treaties. II am willing to
lely on the pacific spirit of demo-
cracies to accomplish the desirable
relation between nations he said
Until autocracy is entirely dis
credited and democracy becomes not
only the dominant but the practi-
cally universal principle in the pol
itical systems of the world, I fear
a League of Nations, particularly
one proposing to employ force, would
not function" he wrote.
"It seems to me that the proper
course, the one which will really
count in the end, is to exert all our
Imperial Valley press., 1940-02-28
Japan Viewed as Major Ogre
By India, Says Trade Leader

p2ndCncn no ono can say
Malik.s only comment on Ma
hatma Ghandi, leader of tho Indian
ladcpcndencc movement was that
he is a man Of unquestioned sim
cerltTs
Malik a sort of travelling sales
man for his nation. endorsed the
United states reciprocal trade pro-
gram sponsored by Secretary OF
state CordelI Hull.
This trade program, he said. was
PECULIARLY adaptable to India-U S.
relations because the exports of the
two countricg are largely "cCmpe-
mentarv and non competitive" He
cited hemp. tea and shcllac as cx-
ampleS.
Trade Endangered
Malik acknowledged that war is
now seriously jeopardizing Ameri-
can-Tndian trade. He originally
came to the United States in 1888
as head of a commission to pre-
serve and increase the 500, 900 900
annual business between the United
States and India.
Malik formerly was British war
pilot. He studied at oxford where
he was a teammate of Roger Weth-
cred and Cyril Tolley, British golf
Imperial Valley press., 1940-02-28

efforts toward the establishment OF
the democratic principle in every
country of sufficient power to be
menace to world peace in the event
it should be in the hands of am
bilious rulers instead of the people.
Unless we can accomplish this, this
war will, in my opinion, have been
fought in vain.
Crush Prussia!
I'VE must crush PrussianiSm SO
completely that it can never rise
again. and we must end autocracy
in every other nation as well. A
compromise with this principle OF
government, and an attempt to form
League of Nations with auto
cratic governments as members will
lack permanency. Let us uproot the
whole miserable system and have
done with it.
g. 1 simply cannot think with
complacency of temporizing or COM
promising with the ruffians who
brought on this horror, because to
do SO will get us nowhere, and some
future generation will have to COM
plete the work which we left un-
finished"
The abortive effort 10 form q
powerful alliance with the ABC
countries in an effort to guarantee
the territorial integrity of the west.
ern hemisphere republics is told ir
a series on letters by William Jen-
nings Bryan, Lansing's predecessor
House, Wilson and Lansing him
self.
The attempts originated with Viii.
son, Bryan and Lansing, when the
latter was state department coun.
sellor, and found fertile soil in Ar.
gentina and Brazil, Chile baked
however, on one of the provisions
calling for the maintenance of Re.
publican forms of government. An
other setbacl, was the possible diff
ficulties which might arise in the
event any Of the signatories became
involved on either side in the Euro.
pean war.
Military Report
The episode terminates with tht
sending of Telegram on May "a
1917, to the American ambassador
to Brazil, instructing him that thu
state department does not desire thu
Pan-Amerlcan proposal to be taker
up with the Brazilian government
at that time. The ill-fated ides
first came to light two years earlier
Jan. %, 1915
More than 100 pages of the vol
Imperial Valley press., 1940-02-28
Attorneys Fight
Boys Conviction

Las VEGAS, Ncv, Feb. %. up
Attorneys for George HaWlc}
Emanuel, %, member Of a proml-
nent Evansville, Ind. family. today
filed a demurrer alleging statuprt
errors when the youth appeared
before Judge Roger Foley to plead
to the charge ne murdered FLOYD "a.
Brumbaugh. AZ, Goshen, Ind, la't
Feb. 5 near Jean NcV.
Emanucl. formerly employed by
an IngleWood airplanc manufactlW-
ing company, is accused Of shoot
ing Brumbaugh through the hrJd
while riding in his automobile ?ud
robbinp him of one cent.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-02-28

start within the next few months.
In addition to the SRA work
projects, he said, the SRA also pro-
vides men to do the work on Works
Progress Administration projects
throughout the comfy.
The plan under which these SRA
projects work provides for the SRA
to send men or women on relief
to do the work in payment for the
aid given them. The sponsoring
Eency, the city, school, county or
Lher division, must provide the
equipment and materials and at
tend to supervising the work.
66 Men in SRA Work
AS a result of this work plan,
Holmes said, 66 men are working
on SRA projects and "a on WPA
projects. This makes a total of
80 men working for relief.
The first of the SRA projects
is that at the Imperial school dis
trict where seven men are at
work repairing. painting, landscap-
Imperial Valley press., 1940-02-28
Dogs Guaranteed
In San Francisco

SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. % up
"A rigid rabies quarantine Wa
ordered in San Francisco today bE
DR.. w. M Dickie, state health dl-
rector. who gave notice al do
and cats must be kept ON lca;i
when taken from homes or yard.
of their owners
Imperial Valley press., 1940-02-28
Master Harold |ckes, jr., Gives
His First Interview TO Reporter

annoyance at the mention OF COM
pany unions. 1 pointed out that
his own nurse is on duty day and
night, but he dismissed this incon-
sistency by looking hard at the
ceiling and loftily blowing a
bubble.
PUTS THE ICKES
EMPHASIS ON STATEMENTS
Maybe I looked like part of the
unemployment problem, in search
OF solution; at any rate, he began
hurting stuffed animals out of his
crib and jeering as picked them up
This went on until 1 got winded.
Throughout the interview he
clutched noisemaker in his fist
and waved it furiouSly to empha-
size his points.
Feeling, at last, that the inter-
view was not wholly success, and
being trifle tired of bending for
those animals, l went to find my
hostess.
MRS. ICKES
AT TARGET RANGE
Mrs IckeS is an ardent SporUS-
woman. particularly fond of riding
and shooting, and she was on the
target range back of the house at
the moment.
She Smacked a bullet into the
black bull's-eye of the target as
easily as a conductor punching
transfers. and then put up her
rifle and asked how the interview
had gone.
When l told her she smiled and
said she could add little to what
youthful Mr. Ickes had said.
She did hope, hough, that her
son might be more friendly; for a
few days before she had found
him ripping some of the more
vitriolic pages out of copy of his
fathers book about the press.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-02-28
BY GERRY DICK

WASHINGTON, Feb. 28-Going
to call on a cabinet wife is one
thing. Going to call on a cabinet
Wife's small son is another E. es-
pecially when that son is youthful
Harold Ickes, jr., son of the sec
retary of the interior and Mrs
Ickes, and strong minded lad in
his own right.
Maybe his distinguished fathers
diStruSt of the press has been in
herited Anyway, when I started
up the sloping lawn of the Ickes'
Maryland home, two great Danes
came bounding down to meet me-
They did not look in the least cor
dial.
l had been invited for lunch
but the Danes seemed to think
was going to be the entree. 1 got
back to the coupe two steps ahead
of them, and had the door locked
and the motor started when Mrs.
IckeS came to the front door, sub
dued the reception committee, and
invited me in.
MASTER HAROLD
CHANGES FOR INTERVIEW
After luncheon, my card was
taken in to Master Harold. His
nurse came down to report that he
would sec me as soon as he had
changed.
Like his mother, the young man
has bright blue eyes. Like his
father, he looks like born scrap
per. He settled his broad shoul-
derS comfortably and clenched his
fists as the interview began.
Since he was born on Labor Day,
five months ago. l wanted to know
how he felt about unions. He
would say nothing for publication
but he made a gurgling unpleasant
noise which may have indicated
Imperial Valley press., 1940-02-28
Seven Projects = :
Begun BY SRA

All relief and work makes Jack an undesirable clt-
SRA this winter started projects to provide
work for men on relief.
Director Ned Holmes said the SRA work projects
number seven there prospects for several
Imperial Valley press., 1940-02-28

War Forecast in Secret
Letter Of Ex-Member
Of Wilson's Cabinet

WASHINGTON, Feb 28 (UP)-Robert Lansing, Sec
retary of state in President Wilson's World War cabinet
INDUCED private but gloomy prophecy several months
before the Armstice that unless all dctaoral forms of
government swept out of existence some future
Evening star., 1940-07-07

able box Office value. Clark Gable.
making three sensational hits, drew
SO 900 less,
Katharine Hepburn, called "box
office poison" by exhibitors four
years ago. received $4,000 for max
ing Holiday" at Columbia, and
$120, ,l60 for starring in Bringing
Up Baby" which had only slightly
better success, at R-K-O.
Norma Shearer made only one
picture in 1888, Marie Antoinette."
For this she received 100000 from
M-G-M.
In that same year Bette Davis
made a picture called "Jezebel." It
brought her the academy award for
the finest performance by an actress.
Yet Bette received a comparative
pittance of $4,000 in 1888 from
Warner Bros.
Hal Wallis, listed as production
manager" of Warner Brothers,
earned $3.50 900. or more than $780,
600 in excess of the company's two
heads, Harry M. and j. w. Warner.
Boyer's Salary Tops.
Fernand Gravel, widely exploited
glamour boy from Belgium, made
Fools for Scandal for Warner
Brothers in 1888. The picture lost a
small fortune because Gravel wasn't
accepted by American fans. Still, the
, unknown left these shores with
$4,000 for the single chore.
W. c. Fields made single picture
in 1888 C"You Can't Cheat an Honest
Man." one of the poorest of his
career, yet managed to make a
return of S115000.
For drawing S305,00 fourteenth
salary in the entire United States,
Joan Crawford gave in return The
Shining Hour" and 'Ice Follies Of
1888" two Of M-G-M's most dismal
failures of the year.
If money talks, then Charles Boyer
is actually the screens modern per-
feet lover" and the celluloid SOUL
mate of millions of feminine fans.
The want-to-be-alone Frenchman
topped all the screens leading men
/ "ANAA Vo 'o,OOo' ACA4I, OIlC uS SIlON
he made only one picture during
1938-"Algiers" for Walter Wanger.
Most amazing oddity of all, how
ever, is this: Claudette Colbert
(s426 000), Bing Crosby (s410,000)
and Irene Dunno (S405 ,000) led all
motion picture performances in
salaries drawn from the studios
and yet not single member of this
trio is mentioned in the official list
OF 10 best box Office stars of 1899.
Hollywood may be tottering on the
brink of ruin. But it will be mighty
difficult to make laymen believe it
after the Treasurys untimely dis
closures.
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paper Alliance. Inc)
Evening star., 1940-07-07
They're Not Beautiful, Nor Yet Dumb
Hollywood Cameraman Says Need for Intelligence
Has Driven Real Beauties From Films

intelligence and real beauty don't
often go together"
Leon Shamroy is in spot to talk
about beauty, because next month
he will complete his 2t0h year in
pictures. He left college to become a
film laboratory assistant, still man,
then photographer of harum-
Scarum serials and finally a first
cameraman, or director of pho
tography." He has been behind the
camera on such films as -Four
Sons" Lillian RUSSELL and the
current Down Argentine Way"
Betty Cradle is the girl in this one,
and here Shamroy got downright
radical. Most 40 prettiest" lists are
devised as an excuse to include the
star of the current flicker, but
Shamroy says Betty isn't beautiful.
'She's got a lot" he'll admit, "but
I wouldn't call her a real beauty"
He'll pass over Alice Faye, the
star of Lillian RUSSELL" as quickly
Evening star., 1940-07-07

as he'll dismiss Betty. And Claudette
Colbert (the same whose income of
nearly $427,000 for 1888 topped
feminine America's) wouldn't be in
the running, according to Shamroy,
if she depended on looks alone.
The general lack of true beauty"
however, has been a boon to photog-
raphy, in his opinion. When movies
started to talk, they had to put in
telligence higher on their list of de-
mands from talent and let the make
up man and the photographer take
care of the rest.
so we had to experiment with
new lighting and new angles" he
explained, ito photograph the intel
ligent girls to best advantage. Every
actress is a different problem, and
there are no general rules for max
ing girl screen more beautiful than
she is. But there are few of them
that can't be helped in one way or
another"
Evening star., 1940-07-07

eyes and a delightful Scotch burr
creeps into his voice despite his
complete Americanization. He is
quiet, but extremely forceful in ar
gument and yet has the unusual
virtue of paying respectful attention
to the opinions of his co-workers.
More so than any other director, he
abhors the prevalence of yes" men;
likes a positive yes or no answer to
any question pertaining to the work
on hand.
He is forever campaigning to es-
tablish creative independence for
directors and producers; thinks that
responsibility should fall directly on
the shoulders of the maker of films.
Hence he enjoys his present status
as an independent producer, inde-
pendently financed. Thus, under his
own banner, and with Jack H. Skir-
ball as associate, he is making "The
Howards of Virginia" for Columbia
Pictures.
This picture, one of the most
promising in Lloyd's long history, is
based on "The Tree of Liberty" the
best-selling novel by Elizabeth Page.
Fortunately for Lloyd, he was able
to get Cary Grant for the starring
role-a highly emotional portrayal of
a Continental backwoodsman and
hot-head, and as his lady the tai
ented Martha Scott who received so
much merited critical acclaim in
her first picture, 'Our Town" It is
romance of the type Lloyd likes
best-a contrast of types swayed by
tremendous background action.
1t really isn't necessary to say
much more about Frank Lloyd, the
director-his record speaks very we'll
for him.
Evening star., 1940-07-07

@loU,UUU a picture. Also LnaC she
will appear in my newest de luxe
spectacle, Romance and Roses,
which is to have a budget of two
million dollars"
The publicity chief hurriedly calls
staff meeting. The boys rush back
to their typewriters and out of the
mills roll blurb after blurb to en-
phasize the charms and high wages
of Miss Glutz plus the astounding
sum Colossal Films is expending on
her first picture.
That Is what is known in movie
circles as dollar publicity" 1t is
dangerous bait, even when dangled
before a susceptible fan public.
The Hays Office has made feeble,
unsuccessful attempts to put a
stop to dollar publicity.
But, to an industry founded on
ballyhoo and extravaganza and dizzy
boxcar figures, the dollar sign is
considered the most potent weapon
in the drive to lure fans toward
box Offices.
But once year dollar publicity
backflres on the motion picture in
dustry just as it did last week when
the United States Treasury Depart
ment published its list of highest
corporation salaries for 1898. Once
again it was disclosed that the
movie-makers were in too many in
stances paying wages all out of pro-
portion to returns received.
This annual outpouring of salary
figures, always banner lined in the
public prints, hits Hollywood like a
bombshell this year. The staggering
statistics are slapped back at mo-
ment when the industry is weeping
salty tears over its Impoverished
condition. The world market, rep
resenting 30 per cent of the movies
total gross, is gone with the blitz-
krieg. Budgets are being chopped
Stenographers and messenger boys
are being fired Unfortunately. On
some lots even a few of the rela-
tives have been given notice.
So Hollywood and its poor mouth
don't take bit kindly to the figures
just released. On the whole, salaries
paid in 1888 unquestionably are the
highest ever bestowed on screen per-
formers in any period. 1t is un-
fortunate, studio heads declare, that
they must be given out at this time
of crisis Analysis of the Govern
ment'S report reveals interesting
idiosyncrasies in distribution of the
movie dollar. For instance:
Some Differences.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Temple
parents and guardians of Shirley
received checks from goth Century.
Fox totaling sl92, ,166 for overseeing
services. Shirley herself got only
S114,848.
Warner Baxter, 48-year- -old lead
ing man, earned s279, 900 in 1888 fo
making three pictures of question
Evening star., 1940-07-07

as the secretary enters her en-
ployer's Office. Setter likes the first
take and says so.
Yeah. know" Miss Russell Is
quick to put IN. "It was perfect,
everything just right-but let's do
it just once more. That's the way
it's going to be for the next six
weeks"
She was right. Setter did order
the scene shot again-not only once
but twice more.
AS he okays the third "take,"
Setter remarks, well, we're on the
way-there's nothing we can do
about it now"
Except work like mad" says
Aherne.
And hope we're good" adds Rosa
lind.
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Evening star., 1940-07-07

renearSaS ana usually tells quite
definitely whether those weeks have
been we'll spent or wasted. But
with a movie it's a different story.
Weeks of hard work are still ahead
with the final verdict still farther
away.
The set, which represents a swank
and modern Office interior has been
ready since am. 1t is now 10 and
players are still rehearsing and peo-
pie still scurrying frantically about
Important officials from the front
office suddenly descend, shake hands
all around and wish Director Will
liam Setter and his players good
luck. Finally, at 11:05 am. the
place is reasonably quiet and Setter
calls his players for the first take.
Right away there is trouble.
Miss Russell will have to do some
thing about that bracelet she's wear
ing" says the sound man. "It
jingles too much"
Miss Russell smiles agreeably and
proceeds to remove one of the two
charm bracelets she's wearing. Then
she strides to the microphone and
shakes her wrist vigorously. The
sound man places his okay on the
lesser Jingle.
Nov we can co." says Setter.
Aherne takes his place behind a
desk. Miss Russell stands just out
side a door, ready to make an en-
trance. At the last second she re-
members something important. With
a practiced flip she removes the gum
from her mouth and parks it on a
nearby lamp.
The scene is short and unexciting
merely an exchange of greetings
Evening star., 1940-07-07

man.
I'm he" said Lloyd.
"Oh," said the exhibitor, still un-
believing.
Lloyd likes to repeat this incident
in proof of what he calls "the rela-
tive unimportance of film directors" !"
yet there are wise men in the in
dustry who would dispute this mat
ter of Importance with him.
In rs years of steady and dis
tinguished creativeness he has man.
aged to garner more honors than
any other director in motion pic
lures. Only Frank Capra equals
him. For instance, he has thrice
won the coveted Motion Picture
Academy Awards. These for direc-
ton of Divine Lady" "Cavalcade"
and "Mutiny On the Bounty"
Lloyd is the last one to attribute
this success to mysterious capabili-
ties. He holds that director is
little more than an expert specta-
tor who must judge instantaneously
and while the action is in the max
ing, whether the story is credible,
the actors honest in their interpre-
tations and the mood and tempo
Just right"
Apart from these "musts" of the
profession, he inclines to the belief
that a director is secondary to his
finished product and for that reason
he deplores touches little
tricks of the trade which would i'm
pose a directorial trade mark upon
players and action.
"A motion picture is spoiled" he
maintains, when the most obvious
thing about it is the directors tech
nique."
He is feet tall, has clear blue