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Evening star., 1943-05-07

Czechs' highly efficient disposal of
Heydrich. 1t follows closely enough
the contemporary journalistic ac-
counts which seeped out Of Prague
to raise no questions on that score.
1t reveals rather Interestingly that
before they got around to shooting
him, the Czechs almost goaded
Heydrich to suicide by acting gross
ly unslavelike. This they accom-
plished by showing him technique
in production sloW-do which was
a masterpiece the master race could
not tolerate.
That is where the story begins
and the rest of it is word for word
what you think 1t is going to be.
The participants in the unrelieved
gloom Of "Hangmen Also Die" are
a capable enough lot AS the beau
tiful young Czech girl who carries
secret knowledge of Heydrich's s
killer-carries it to an extreme really
Miss Lee is very effective in the
established way of oppressed hero
ines. The secret is one she must
keep not merely from the Nazis but
from her young lover, Dennis
O'Keefe, who makes the burden of
the girl almost as unendurable as
do her Nazi inquisitors.
Mr.. OKeefe is kind of unwilling
villain, not the hero, of the piece.
The heroics are left to Brian Dom
levy who achieves nicely balanced
portrait of patriotic killer who
does not know whether to surrender
himself to save innocent hostages or
to keep silent and perform other
necessary killings for which he has
the special talents The transition
from villainy to heroism is accom-
plished rather we'll by Donlevy. but
no better than that Walter Brennan
achieves in playing the part of a
kindly, gentle Czech scholar who
comes back to political murder after
years in clustered classrooms.
Others who modify the tedium of
"Hangmen Also Die" include Mar
garet Wycherly as a loose e-tongued
Czech spinster, Gene Lockhart as a
snlVeung 62ulSllng, and Alexander
Grannach who personifies the evil
OF the Gestapo with a perfection
that Is monstrous at minimum,
X X X
Jackie Green, a much more nim-
BILE product of Hollywood than the
picture he supports, is headliner on
this weeks Capitol stage show. He
turns out to be an entertaining fell
low, though whether he is Holly
woods favorite" as billed is some
thing unclear to one not watching
H'wood's amusements these days.
A. Robbins, the pantomimist who
works with an illegal bunch of
bananas-unless they are props.
which they might be-also is on the
comedy side, with Marion Bellett
and the English Bros. and the
Rhythm Rockets handling the de-
partment OF the dance.
Evening star., 1943-05-07
Freddie Is in Heaven

fered to take a role in it herself, no
matter how small it was.
Gypsy Rose Lee will turn on her
G-string when she sees what they
have done to her G-String Muir
der" best selling book, for the
screen. The most interesting thing
about Lady of Burlesque" movie
title for the book is the tremendous
expanse of exposed feminine flesh
that somehow or other got past the
cutting scissors of the Hays office.
The most alluring torso belongs to
Star Barbara Stanwyck who has
never worn quite so little in all her
screen life.
Evening star., 1943-05-07

''HANGMEN ALSO DIE" starring Anna
Lee and Brian Donlevy a United Artists
release produced by Arnold Pressburger,
John Wexley. based upon an original By
Mr.. Lang and Bert Brecht. At the Capitol.
The Cast.
Evening star., 1943-05-07

through an interminable number Of
take-o11s, landings and crashes;
such things as svelte Miss Russell
hanging her fascinator on a man
nish pilots club hat peg, and rather
remotely entertaining the amorous
advances of Fred MacMurray and
Herbert Marshall. For your infor-
nation, Mr.. Marshall gets the lemon
as usual, although neither, dern it,
actually gets the girl.
Evening star., 1943-05-07
BY J. w. STEPP.

When all but the final Of some
dozen of air races are finished in
Plight for Freedom" the film be-
gins to get suspenseful BY that
time, unfortunately, Rosalind Rus
sell has just about negotiated her
crash dive into the sea, for glory or
less, and it is time to go around the
corner and catch a midday coke to
pull yourself together. Yes, the
usually convincing Miss Russell is
that inconceivable as a globe flyer,
and the substance of Plight for
Freedom" is that close to being no
substance at all.
Persons who may have visited an
other downtown theater not so long
ago when the life of Amy Mollison
reached the screen in a concerted
din of aircraft motors will find the
experience at Keith's this week
much the enervating same. The diff
ference between the two lies in the
fact that the Mollison item tried in
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-02

LOS ANGELES, April 2.-(UP)-
Madame Chang Kai-shek, wife OF
the Chinese generalissimo, declar-
ed here today that postwar prob
lens must be settled now, and that
the American people could best aid
China by acting on their own think
ing with emotional and intellec-
tual honesty.
In a press conference held at the
Ambassador hotel, with the usual
request for no direct quotations,
Madame Chang said that she did
not see how anyone could think
that postwar problems could be
settled when they occurred.
She quoted Chinese provero
1T is no use to put out the fire
when it has reached your eye
broWs."
Everything must be done to win
the war, she said, and also every
thing must be done to win the
peace.
SHOULD STUDY PROBLEM
When asked what Americans
could best do to aid China, she
said they should study the world
situation, not specifically, but
deeply and honestly and do their
own thinking. Americans, she said
must act with emotional and in
tellectual honesty.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-02
Must Win Peace.
Says Nine. Chions

. From the military viewpoint,
Madame Chang said that the ques-
ton of servicing American planes
in China necessarily preproposed
enough transports to carry gaso-
line. At the present time, she said,
the Chinese were giving all gaso-
line available to the American air
force in China and that from the
Chinese viewpoint, their own air
force and the American air force
were really one.
LOOKED TIRED
She looked tired, and her voice
faltered several times during the
half-hour conference.
Incidental to another question,
she said that the last report she had
from her doctors was that they eX-
pected to pop her back into the
hospital, upon her return to New
York.
Speaking of India, and the ques-
ton of its freedom, Madame Chang
avoided a specific statement, but
said that there was happy rela-
tionship between India and China,
and that the generalissimo and the
Chinese people feel that whenever
country is ready for freedom she
should have it, but that the major
problem was when and to what eX-
tent q country is ready.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-02
Ford Workers Halt
Vital War Job

CHICAGO, April 2 (UP)-A dis
pute over the seniority rights OF
two workers halted production o,
war materials today at the Ford
Motor assembly plant.
Six hundred production and
maintenance workers, members OF
the United Automobile Workers
CCIO), walked out yesterday in pro-
test against the transfer of two
men from the plants protection
unit to production work. They
charged the transfer violated a
seniority clause in the production
workers contract with the COM
pany.
The workers voted to hold a "a
hour meeting to protest against the
transfer. The night and overnight
shifts, comprising about 200 work
ers each, failed to report last night
and the plant remained idle today
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-02
Airn1en
Down
IL Jops
Naval Avia+ors
Destroy Zeros in
SoIomons Area

WASHINGTON, April 2.
(UP)-The navy today re-
ported a sharp flare up of
fighting in the Solomons in
which American airmen shot
down 16 Japanese Zeros during a
fierce air duel near Guadalcanal.
Other U. S. fliers attacked an enc
my sea force to the northwest
Six American planes were shot
down in the Guadalcanal air battle
which involved a force of between
80 and 40 ZeroS. Two of our pilots
were saved.
9O2 PLANES RUINED
The Japanese losses raised to at
least 902 the number of enemy
planes destroyed in the SolomonS
campaign.
The presence of such a large
Continued on Page 6. Col. -
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-02
Govt Plans Diet
To Keep Civilians
Of Nation Healthy
OFD to Stock Stores
With Foods Designed
To Balance Diets

WASHINGTON, April 2.
(UP)-Plans are being de-
veloped with a view to max
ing certain that grocery
stores are supplied with the
food necessary to provide a basic,
nutritious diet for all, it was learn
ed today.
Discussions have been going on
between the Office of Price Ad-
ministration, which has charge of
rationing, and Food Distribution
Administration officials for some
time.
Agriculture Department dietary
experts are developing a basic diet
of foods needed to sustain health,
with variations for individual tastes
as we'll as needs based upon cli-
mate and types of work.
The Food Distribution Admins
tration would undertake to see that
every grocery store is kept supplied
with the foods that go to make up
the minimum diet. The Office of
Price Administration would arrange
coupon values SO that each house,
wife could purchase the necessary
food, and perhaps have a few left
over for extras as they are avail
able.
Nutrition experts say ration al
lowances first announced, especial
ly on canned fruits and vegeta-
bles, are insufficient to maintain
health and working efficiency, un-
less supplemented with large
amounts of foods not on the ration
list.
Here is what the Agriculture De-
partment says is the best, loW-cost
Continued on page 6, col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-02
Pre.war Fathers
Will Serve Soon

WASHINGTON, April CUP) -
War Manpower Commission and
Selective Service officials admitted
today that the time is fast ap-
preaching when the ban on the
drafting of pre-Pearl Harbor faith
ers will be lifted.
Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey told
or informal press conference yes
terday that the drafting of fathers
is approaching much more rapidly
than you would desire" and that
through sentiment" he is putting
it off as long as possible.
In preparation for this, Selective
Service officials are preparing to
erase the dependency classifications
and put married men in class IA
If they have no occupational claim
to deferment
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-02
Woman Confsses
Staying Of Three
I|Iegitimate Babies
Denver Career Girl
Gives Birth to, Kills
"Children of Sin"

DENVER, April 2. (UP)-
A statuesque blonde career
girl admitted in an emotion
less monotone today that she
gave birth to three illegiti-
mate babies in the past three years,
drowned each of them in a bath
tub and hid their tiny bodies in a
hope chest because they were chill
dren of sin"
Arrested after the manager OF
her apartment round the bodies in
the basement, Bernice Williams, %,
told authorities she thought the
babies should die because l didn't
want anyone e:5e TO have them and
| didn't believe l could raise them.
OVER -SEXED'
Il couldn't help it because they
were born" she said. I'm just con-
stituted that Way. I'm over-Sexed.
Miss Williams, who dresses mod
ishly and is employed by a large
department store as buyer of in
fants wear, described the Slayings
in detail. Each birth, she said, was
unattended.
Il performed what surgery was
needed with a pair of scissors" she
said. Each baby cried, but l chok-
ed off their cries with my hands
SO that no one could hear. Then
l knelt beside the bathtub and held
the baby under water 20 minutes
until l was sure it had drowned. y
PUT IN BOX
Then, she said, she placed each
baby in a small cardboard box and
put each box in the hope chest.
She knew, she said, that some day
she would be discovered, so the
presence Of the bodies in the base
Continued on Page 6, Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-02
De ANA Riders TO
Make Annual Trip
Here on April II
CabalierOS Will Not
Ride on Date of Nv.
Cavalcade This Year

CALEXICO, April 2.-The
famous De ANA Caballeros
will start their annual horse
back ride between Riverside
and CaleXico April II, start
ing the trip in Riverside.
This year the ride will not COIN
eide with the Cavalcade of Impe-
rial Valley in CaleXico, as it was
impossible to work out the details
in war time. To date. a total of Is
will start from Riverside, each man
carrying food and water on pack
horses 1t will be leach man for
himself as each rider will have to
do his own cooking and look after
his own animals.
The ride will end in Calexico
April %.
Imperial county riders still are
debating whether to take the ride
this year, or skip it until after the
war 1t is understood, however, that
more than a dozen already have
decided to make the trip.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-02
Ways, Means Head
Heads for Home

WASHINGTON, April 2 (UP)-A
Walk-out by Chairman Robert l..
Doughton, D., N. c., of the house
ways and means committee today
apparently has blocked immediate
reconsideration of pay = as you-go
tax legislation.
Doughton. announced that he was
going home"-Laurel Springs, N
c., according to the congressional
directory-and would not call his
committee into session until April
IL, at which time renewal of the
reciprocal trade act will be the
order of the day.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-02
RommeI ATTEMPTS
To Escape Trap:
1st Army Gains
yanks Meet Jabs
Of Panzer Units;
Leaders Confer

ALLIED HEADQUAR-
TERS, North Africa, April
2. (UP) - Marshal Erwin
RommePs A fri k a Korps,
making a desperate bid to
break an Allied trap, struck the
American lines east of Ell Guettar
today with 32 tanks, while front
dispatches revealed that Gen.
Dwight D. Eisenhower and Gen.
Sir Bernard l.. Montgomery had
held a council of war in the field
to perfect plans for smashing the
last Axis bridgehead in Africa.
There was no immediate indica-
ton of the degree of success, if
any, the Germans had in their
counterattack. In the same sector
the Americans re-occupied a hill
used as an observation post, ano
were Smelling Axis positions heavily
(Tne Algiers raGio reported a
junction of the American forces ir
south Tunisia and the British
Eighth army, but dispatches from
the battle theater gave no substan-
tiation and indicated the gap oi
some 40 miles between them hao
not been narroWed.)
The conference between Eisen.
hover and Montgomery was helc
Wednesday, according to a dispatch
from Eighth army headquarters il
south Iunisia. Other ranking of
ficers of the Eighth army attended
A delayed dispatch from Phi
Ault with the American forces sale
United States yesterday attacked
toward Meberi Zebbeus, six mile:
north of Maknassy, and reached
the edge of the town.
Allied planes, striking hard al
AXIS bases and supply lines, made
heavy raids on the ports of Sfax and
Bizerte.
The steady, all-out aerial Of
fensive-despite unfavorable wealth
Continued Oh Page 6, Col. .
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-02

1TedIeSJ WOIIy VI IdtlOll uodiu
officials was occasioned over the
small allotment of 54 truck tires.
Eighty three such tires were allot-
ed Ell Centre in the first March
quota and that number fell far
short of needs.
ALSO ALARMS
Shortage OF quota in grade three
tires has also caused alarm and
several hundred applications have
been approved but are withheld be-
cause of lack of sufficient quota
The board was allotted "a grade
three tires this month as compar-
ed to 55 on March.
Grade one, 81; grade two, as; pas
senger tubes, las; truck recaps, 78;
tractor and farm implement tires,
10; truck tubes, 48, new passenger
cars IL.
Following were the allotments re-
ceived on the first of last month !:
Grade one. 101; grade two, 26;
passenger tubes, 1873; truck tubes,
"a, truck recaps, 73; tractor and
farm implement tires, is; new pas
senger cars, eight.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-02

were wise, a survey revealed
One restaurant owner said he did
not object to the demands of the
inspector but bitterly resented the
manner in which they were given
in front of customers. I'VE did not
mind doing what he asked but
did feel that he should have been
more civil in his manner and not
created a scene," he said.
CAN'T MEET DEMANDS
I'VE can meet the city, county,
and state sanitary demands" one
fountain operator said, but we
can't meet the army demands. We
have lost 10 or II mattresses be-
cause we asked them to wash
glasses in water so strong with dis
infectant that it eats their fingers
and makes their hands sore. We are
ordered to put in three more sinks
Continued on Page 6, Col II
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-02
Fire Department
Answers qCaIIs

The city fire department answer
ed nine calls during March, it was
revealed in a statistical report COM
piled Friday by Fire Chief Corn S.
Reed.
There were three passenger car
fires, one truck fire and one trash
blaze, the report showed. A fire
in an electric motor was eXtinguish-
Ell as was a tranformer fire.
One cah vas Ior smoke scare
and one in answer to a false alarm.
Property loss was negligible,
Reed said.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-02

workers are urgently needed, adding
that it was the patriotic duty of
Americans to switch from non-es-
sential occupations into war jobs at
once.
Plans are under way for the i'm
portation of 500 additional field
workers from Mexico, he stated, but
added that this would in no way
improve the machinery situation
as its operation requires skilled
workers. With so per cent in
crease in the acreage of flax alone,
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-02
Govt Indicts 218
In Lottery Case

CHICAGO. April 2. - (UP)-A
federal grand jury today indicated
218 persons for alleged conspiracy
to violate federal lottery laws in
four nationwide rings.
Assistant us. District Attorney
Maurice Walsh, who directed the
grand jury investigation, said the
number of defendants was the
largest ever indicted in a single
lottery conspiracy case.
The grand jury returned four in
dictments before District Judge
John P. Barnes, naming alleged
principals, statesmen and agents for
the Mutuel, Lucky Strike, Fair and
Square and Flyer pools.
The pools handled a $2,000,000
annual business, Walsh said
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-02
Officials Try to
Arbitrate Strike

HAZLETON, Pa, April (UP)-
Officials of the Duplan Silk Corp.
engaged in the manufacture of
parachutes for the army, will SUBJ
nit a back-to-work plan to $500
striking employees at its Hazleton
ard Berwick plants today
The 1900 Hazleton employees, who
walked out four days ago after the
Regional War Labor Board re-
fused to intercede in wage dis
pute, were joined yesterday by the
500 workers at the Berwick plant.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-02
Herring Named
owl Representative

Ben Herring, chamber of COM
merce secretary, has been named
representative for the Office of War
Information for the Ell Centre area,
he said Friday.
His task will be to distribute
posters dealing with war campaign
and Ell Centre Boy Scouts have been
selected to aid in this work.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-02
; British Army in
Northern Tunisia
Threatens Bizer+e

WITH BRITISH FORCES
in Northern Tunisia, April
2. (UP)-British troops and
armor advancing six miles
eastward from Sedjenane
today passed Ell Aouana station, %
miles southwest of the Bizerte nav
al base and only four miles short
of the bare hills from which the
Germans attacked month ago.
The British First army pushing
toward BiZerte so far had made
only light contact with the retreat
ing Axis forces. Armored units set
ting the pace for the advance had
met no tank opposition, and were
engaged chiefly in ferreting out
machine gun nests and mobile artil-
lery.
STEMS COUNTERATTACK
| The British vanguard easily STEM
med a brief counterattack yesterday
and then resumed the advance.
Axis forces of Gen. Jurgen Won
Arnim struck back at the advanc-
ing British troops along the road
to Mateur, which is "a miles east
of Sedjenane and 18 miles south
west of Bizerte. The three cities
form a triangle at the extreme
northern end of Tunisia.
AS the German attack failed.
French Moroccan troops patrolled
the area east of the road from
Sedjenane to Cap Serrat. meeting
only light enemy resistance.
TAKE PRISONERS
British officers revealed that
more than a score of deserters from
Austrian mountain regiments Of
Won Arnim's forces walked to the
Allied lines carrying safe conduct"
leaflets that had been distributed
behind their lines The pamphlets
told the Austrians the treatment
they had received compared to that
of German units.
Rain has kept roads and fields
mired for several days but has not
seriously hampered troop move
ments. Natives thought that the
rainy spell would end soon and give
way to extreme heat.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-02
Brawley Grocery
Store BurqIarized

BRAWLEY, March 2.-The Fred
Quon grocery on East Main street
was burglarized Thursday night,
deputy sheriffs were informed Fri
day.
The missing articles included $50
in cash, a meat cleaver, two
butcher knives, two gasoline ration
books, and two Mexican 50-cent
pieces
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-02
British Ban
Song Crooners

LONDON, April 2 (UP)-The
austere British Br0adcasting
company waging war on "slushy,
debilitated" singers and songs,
today took five more crOoners
off the air and out of the ears
of the British public.
They not only went after the
mOoing chest singers but also
banned some more of their
songs, the tune Miss You"
joining such throaty popular
numbers as $50 Deep in the
Night" and Concerto For Two"
i'm the official BIC ash can.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-02

benefit payments in the computa-
ton of parity prices for purposes
of fixing ceiling prices on farm
commodities.
TERMED INCONSISTENT
Mr.. Roosevelt said the bill was
wholly inconsistent with our stab
ilization program and, therefore,
dangerous alike to our constructive
farm policy and to our whole war
effort
Obviously mindful that an at
veto, the President in his message
to the Senate appealed Ito the con-
sidered Judgment of the Congress
to reject the measure.
The President forecast a run
away initiation spiral if the admin
istration'S present anti-inflation
line is broken down.
The Bankhead bill was aimed at
a portion of Mr. RooSevelt'S price
stabilization order instructing that
payments to farmers under the soil
conservation and domestic allot-
ment act. the adgricultural ADJUST
ment act or incentive subsidies
shall be deducted in computing the
parity price below which ceiling
prices cannot be set.
FARM ARGUMENT
Farm leaders pushed the bill
through both houses of Congress
with an argument that the price
stabilization act, on which the or
der was based, did not grant any
one the right to deduct such bene-
Continued on Page 6, Col. A.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-02

Faced with a grave shortage of
farm machinery operators in this
area War Board officials in FL
Cen,Io prepared Friday to request
Gen. j. l.. Dewitt, chief of the
Western Defense Command, to
grant temporary leaves to tractor
and thresher experts to aid in har-
vesting Imperial Valley grain crops.
Alarmed over the farm labor
shortage, Tom Finney, chief of the
us. Employment Service here, said
approximately 1000 agricultural
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-02

arranging a 40 camp to add to the
festivities. There also will be a
dance for servicemen.
Residents of Calexico already are
getting their Cavalcade costumes
ready as the many delightfully."- in
teresting costumes make the annual
"H1ebration colorful and historic
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-02
German TANKS ATTACK AMERICAN UNITS
Farm Army Needed

demand for skilled machine opera
tors will be great with the opening
of the harvest season next month,
he explained.
Finney also painted a dark pic
ture around sugar-beet harvesting
which is scheduled to get under
way in several weeks. He said that
because of lack of a sufficient num-
ber of beet workers, several hun
dred tons of beets rotted in the
ground last year.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-02

UIlt MthICdH VlIIdBe 10 DC StV UP dJ
Fourth and lockwood streets all
that day. Miss Rosa Perez, club
president, said there will be Mexi-
can food served in the village and
there will be Mexican entertain
ment and music to divert visitors.
That night there will be three
dances in Calexico. Costume balls
will be. held at the De Anza /
and at the Elks club, the club -. - :.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-02
CuIexico Makes
Fete Preparation

CALEXICO, April 2--Plans for a wartime Cavalcadt
of Imperial Valley went forward rapidly Caexco Fri
day residents prepared for the reamned sched
uled for May l.
The members of the Euerpe club will have charge OF