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Evening star., 1943-02-04
Condition of Soldier Hit
By Streetcur Critical

Struck by streetcar at Fourteenth
and F streets NV. last night, Pvt
Harold B. Cannon, Is, stationed al
Boiling Field, remained in Q critical
condition today at Walter Reed
Hospital.
The soldier was removed to Emer-
gency Hospital and later transferred
to Walter Reed, where he is under
treatment for a fractured skull
Police listed the driver Of the street.
car as Floyd Little OF 1854 Quincy
street NV.
Evening star., 1943-02-04
Funeral Rites Today
For Mrs. George Fisher

Funeral services for Mrs. Alice
Catherine Fisher, wife OF DR.. George
J. Fisher, deputy chief scout execu-
tive Of the Boy Scouts Of America
will be held this afternoon in Scars
dale, N. T., where she died Tuesday
Burial will be In Brooklyn.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fisher were well
known in Washington. Mrs. Fisher
assisted the American Red Cross
and other agencies during the last
war. Besides her husband. she is
survived by son. 1t. Condr. G
Gordon Fisher, U. S. N. R., sta
toned here, and sister, Miss 6
May Richter of Hartsdale, N. Y.
Evening star., 1943-02-04
Bud Van Dover Dies

CHICAGO. Feb. 4 tP,.-Frederick
w. (Bud Van Dover. IS, singer and
comedian with the Tom, Dick and
Harry Trio Of Radio Station WGN
and the Mutual network, died Of a
heart attack yesterday a few min
utes before the trio's matinee show
was to 60 on the air. Mr.. Van
Dover played the part Of Tom.
Evening star., 1943-02-04
Thomas B. Tollmodge,
Portroit Painter, Dies
By the Associeted Press,

By the Associated Press.
LYNEBROOK. N. Y. Feb. A.
Thomas Duncan Tallmadge. 70. por-
trait painter and mtniaturist, one Of
whose best known pictures was Of
Marx Twain. clad. in = white linen
srit and smoking . pipe, died yes
terday.
Among those who sat for him were
Mrs. Charles Evans Hughes, wife of
the retired Chief Justice of the
United States; Mrs. Calvin Coolidge,
Mrs. Otto H. Kahn and Hubert C.
Work, former Postmaster General.
Evening star., 1943-02-04
DrathH

Tuesday, February ., 1913, after short
Illness, ROAM WINSTON. He leaves to
mourn their loss loving wife. Eva
ether relatives and friends. Remains rest.
ing at the Barnes (, Matthews funeral
home, GA 4th st. s.w.
Services at the above funeral home Feb
ruary s. at PIN. 1nterment Lincoln
Memorial Cemetery.
WISSMAN. ANNIE ELIZABETH. Or
Monday. February /, 1913 ANNIE ELIZA
BETH WISSMAN of Lanham, Nd, wife oi
the late Edward F. Wissman
Funeral from the Chambers Riverdals
funeral home. on Friday, February 5. al
9.30 am. Mass ct st. Jeromes Church
Hyattsville Md, at 10 am. Interment st
Johns Cemetery, Beltsyille, Md
Evening star., 1943-02-04
Women Dies at l0l

ORLANDO, Fla, Feb. 4 tR.-Mrs.
Miriam J. Gernsey of Winter Park,
former resident Of wellesley. Mas.
who would have been 102 years old
In May, died yesterday Survivors
include IS grandchildren and II
great-grandchildren.
Evening star., 1943-02-04
Seoqrom OfficioI Die.

LOUISVILLE, KY, Feb. 4 (R.-
Harry Q. Hagstrom, 50, head of the
purchasing department Of Joseph
E. Seagram & Sons Co. and afYlliates
SINCE 1885. died yesterday. Before
joining the distillery concern he was
an executive OF the Otis Elevator
Co. in New York.
Evening star., 1943-02-04

stamp, stamp, stamp, the boys are
marchins-and 50 are the girls-to
the War savings stamp windows Of
post offices everywhere. Are you in
the parade?
Evening star., 1943-02-04
WyIer Unhurt in BIost

AT A BOMBER STATION
SOMEWHERE IN ENGLAND. Feb
4 tP)-William Wyler, Hollywood d.
rector best known for his work on
the picture Mrs. Miniver," mar
rowly escaped serious injury yester-
day when a 5O-mm. aerial cannon
with which he was training exploded
near his face.
Evening star., 1943-02-04

On the metal collection drive you
have an s card. &c the limit.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-05-02
HOW She Did Id!
HOLLYWOOD. Ma.

HOLLYWOOD. May /.
IF BETTY HUTTON hadn't
L got burned up at herself seven
years ago during a performance
with Vincent Lopez Band she
might still eb just another blonde
canary but because
friendly musician tipped her off
that she was due 10 be fired. she
got sore sore at herself for
Hopping on her first big job
when she came out on the stage
10 do her number she felt like
tearing the joint to pieces =.
and practically did.
She stomped. shouted, batted
the mike around. waved her
arms and threw vicious punches
al the air and by way of a
finish she climbed on the piano
and screamed out the final bars
of her song When she got
through IT was the audiences
turn 10 tear up things and they
nearly took the theater apart.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-05-02

long as It is a living idea II is
enough.
This Is Of course the chief
point 10 ne made about Mr..
kInCsley's play II comes TO Us
in a time when what IL says may
be considered along with the
way n says II,
As basis Of criticism u is
risky 10 he sWaycd too far hy
the playwrlght's choice Of sub
lect 1t Is what ne docs with II
which must finally measure has
success As an artist
Yet even while We recognize
the mpcrfcctIons in Mr.. Kings
ley'S play land The prize award
makes no effort 10 conceal
them, We must examine us re-
lation 10 the moment.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-05-02
They Can't lake II Away

SO successful has been Fred
Stones company in You Can't
Take II With You that the en-
Eagement has been extended
still another week and viii def
nitely close at the Lafayette
May Is.
on May is, Ruth Chatterton
and Ralph Forbes will open in
Private Lives, the amusing re-
Viyal of the Noel Coward COM
pany which has had such sue
cess in Chicago.
Miss Chatterton will play for
two weeks anC then 60 on tour
and Frank McCOy's revival OF
"Abic'S Irish Rose will come in
for an extended summer engage
ment.
With all this immediate aCtiv-
ity in the theater. there are also
the two May festivals.
The Music Festival in Ann
Arbor-a golden jubilee event
starts Wednesday, while the HUI
rok Ballet and Music Festival
starts the following Tuesday,
May II, in the Masonic Audi
forum.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-05-02
Staged at Right Time

a doctor who finds a cure for
a disease IS a great man at. any
time but one who discovers a
cure in the midst Of an epidemic
is bound 10 have his fame
measured BY the emergency.
To see Washington and JEFF
ferson and Hamilton in the IL
tanic drama which threatened
Continued on Page ID
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-05-02
By CHARLES GENTRY

THE theater IS a giddy girl
= Last week u was serious
thought and fierce Illustration
than this week all mirth and
murder. what with Junior
Miss opening al the CaSs and
The Bat opening at the VIII
son.
has been several Seasons
since The Bat vas revived
and We have 10 bark back 10 our
lollypop days 10 remember when
we saw IL az the old Garrick.
But We do remember one thing
about those dim, dark days that
The Bat" scared Us so that our
parents refused 10 take Us 10
the theater II We ever behaved
Ike that again.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-05-02
Mrth and Murder in Junior Mis-"
And THE Bat" Fill Detroit Thedters

company this last winter and can
recommend Junior MISS for
genuine fun.
The company here will feature
Rosemary Rice. Cora Sue Col
Inns Robert Allen, Effie Alton,
Katherine Anderson, Lynne Ar
len, Edgar Mason. Ellen Morgan
and a host of youngsters.
The same pair Of playwrights
who converted the McKenny
tales into My Sister Eileen
have done the same job In this
instance, Joseph Fields and Je-
rome Chodorov being most adept
adapterS.
Junior Miss opens al the
CasS Monday night for a limited
engagement.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-05-02
Lives a Quiet Life

Ann will never talk about the
little boy, but she used TO bring
him 10 see me, and he was an
unusual child. She took HIM
when he was z years old. and
even now she cannot hear his
CONTINUED on Next Page)
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-05-02
Humorous Mysteries

SINCE JANE DARWELL was
stricken III with influenza in
New York during rehearSsls last
week. kathryn GlVney whom
YOU last saw here with Jane
Cowi in Old Acquaintance wifi
take her place, the part Of the
mcnaced matron VINO owns the
house where The Bat IS sup
pOsedly hiding Creeps,
With Miss Pitts viii be Mar
garet Callahan, Lawrence Fetch
or, Lowell Gilmore Frank Lyon,
Don Koehler Brent Sargent. Al
fred Webster, John Holden and
Russell Fillmore. who has also
staged the thriller.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-05-02
Takes New York

Fifteen-year-old Betty found
lerself a comedy sensation d.
and she's been running riot ever
since a year later Lopez
signed 10 open the Casa Manana
for Billy Rose in New York =.
Betty, new 10 the big city, was
given the thankless job of going
out as the first act on the sup
per show 10 warm up the au-
dience for the big name acts.
She warmed them up all right
broke the mike leaped
about the stage and at the
end OF the song rushed for the
wings, grabbed the curtain and
swung off the stage on il. sing
ing as she went =. when a wild
ovation brought her back she
came out weeping After that
New York was hers.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-05-02
Magazine Is Godfather

The New Yorker magazine
has been the godfather of a lot
OF click comedies, because
sketches like those of Ruth Nc
kenney's gave birth to My SIS
ter Eileen and Jane Thurbcr's
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-05-02
Author Is in Army

/, so happens that Mr.. kings
ley himself Is now SCI. kipgsieN
fighting for the principles eN-
pressed in his play. and there is
a further coincidence in the fact
that. at his request the plaque
has been cast not in silver. as
usual. but IN plaster, and the
silver equivalent gwen 10 the
Stage Door Canteen.
This fact is worth noting be-
cause the great statue In the
new Jefferson NJ emorial IN
Washington is also cast in plas-
ter. pending a durable metal and
durable peace. Thus we have
an accidental emphasis placed on
the fact that at the moment We
are not concerned with the ma
terial. but with the idea. As
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-05-02
BY JOHN ANDERSON

where Washington used 10 do
his ardent playgoing when he
was first president, and living
around the corner-and Mr..
Kingsley's play is, of course,
about Washington and JEFF
ferson and Hamilton IN the
tumultuous days of the young
republic.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-05-02

Astrid Varnay, prima
donna soprano of the Met
ropolitan Opera. will sing at
the Golden Jubilee May Fes-
tival at the University Of
Michigan in Ann Arbor.
mad "reminiscences parentcd
The Male Animal. %
Latest and one Of the most
amusing Of the stories 10 be
translated 10 the stage are those
Sally. Benson stories about
Junior Miss" the little girl
who is tectering on the border
of adolescence and finally falls
in.
We saw one by the Chicago
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-05-02
HOH She Did Id!
Betty Hutton in dntrum
CIinches Job as Canary
BY HARRIET PARSONS
special 10 THE DETROIT TINES

came production head Of Para
mount and summoned Betty TO
Hollywood for a boisterous role
in The Fleets In" in her
second picture, Happy Go
Lucky" she was raised to star
dom in in Star Spangled
Rhythm" Para's all-star musi-
cal, she stole the show.
Now her fan mail is running
5000 letters week Betty
started life in Battle Creek,
Mich, on Feb. rs. 1921 /.
Little later her mother became
the sole support of Betty and
older sister. Marion They
moved 10 Lansing where there
we're factories in which Mrs.
Hutton could find work.
Hired by Lopez
Betty used to worry about
her mother and told her:
"SOme day I'll see that you
don't have to work and I'll buy
you a fur coat that'n reach to
your ankles"
Betty and Marion took over
the wage-earning as soon as
they could In fact Betty
was singing on street corners
and in cafes when she was only
II =. When she was Is she got
a chance 10 sing with an orches-
ira al a local hotel. =
Vincent Lopez happened to be
staying at the hotel. heard her
and gave her a Job singing with
his band Soon after she
bought the fur coat for her
mother she and her mother
are very devoted.
Betty now has an apartment
in Beverly Hills, while her
mother and stepfather live IN a
small house in Hollywood
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-05-02
How She Got Hattie

Near the end of '3s she left
Lopez to do a solo act in vaude-
Vile =. Then she sang in Two
for the Show -. more vaude-
VILE this time as a headhner,
until the summer of 40
Then, involved in a contracFdis-
agreement she decided typlcally
TO consult one of the top law
yers IN New York She
Stalked into his office. talked
herself into a conference with
him, and told him her troubles
with All the emotional abandon
ana frantic gesticulauon she
uses in selling a song.
5000 Letters . Week 3,
The lawyer was hit by an in
spiration one Of his clients
was having difficulty finding the
right girl for a Broadway show.
He thought Betty might fill the
bill.
The client turned out 10 be
r G. DeSylva. the show,
Panama Hattie
Betty got the part and was a
hit coincidence from the open
ing night .. After DeSylva be-
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-05-02
Inside of Heartbreak

] said:
"All right, Ann, I get the idea.
You mean that when you marry
Bob YOU intend To take time of
10 raise a family"
"Now you are just fishing for
a story" she laughed, being a
cagey lady, But II I do marry
him I am certainly going TO have
children"
One thing Ann doesn't deny
is that she and her favorite fiier
are in love. And where many
stars talk a good game about
the Joys of home and the fireside.
J believe Ann really means what
she says
Not many people know the
inside Of the heaTtbreak Ann
had with the little boy. David
that she had in her house for
two years. She loved him like
her own child and when his
family came 10 get him and take
him away with 13 other children
back TO the life he had led
hefore-she cried for days. She
had given the child not only
physical comforts but love and
he adored her. But there was
no way 10 keep him.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-05-02
viii Ann and Robert
Get Married Friday7
Don't Bet Against II
HOLLYWOOD, May 1

WILL Ann Sothern and her
W air cadet hero, Robert Ster-
ling, be the next surprise" mar
riage in Movietown?
Don't bet against n. May Z
is next Friday and that is the
day that AIMS divorce from
Roger Pryor becomes final.
Wild horses cannot drag from
Annie the admission that she is
engaged 10 young Sterling She
says she doesn't believe in en-
gagements. Particularly as an
nounced by woman who is not
yet free legally. But she does
say she is in love and may marry
him.
And" she adds, at won't he
an eIOnemPut don't heIieye I'm
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-05-02
Why Hers Didn't Work

AIMS conversation on the
subject of marriage-and what
makes a successful one in Holly
wood. is interesting.
There's no substitute In the
world for happy marriage and
a child" Ann told me. Pane.
money and adulatiOn cannot
take the place Of home with
children. The happy marriages
~ the movies are between the
people who have children.
when any woman attempts
Ia try to make movie career
take the place of children In
their home and In her life, I be-
lieve she il asking for heartache
and eventually for divorce.
Roger and I had no children
although that wasn't the only
reaso our marriage did not
work out. But we both had
careers Of our own-and II there
had been a child, perhaps we
could have avoided separation.
1T is the mutual bond that
holds two people together when
they are In danger OF being too
selfish about their work and Of
putting too much Importance on
separate careers"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-05-02

And" she adds, at won't he
an elOpement. ! don't believe In
those trims IN Yumats
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-10
BY ARTHUR HOFFMAN

Approximately 95 per cent of all
rice is produced and SonSumed in
Monsoon, Asia. Roughly, four out
Uf the earth's habitants prefer and
Wonsume predominantly rice and
wheat ranks with rice in food
uses.
Within history times, rice has
been the preferred food of the yell
oW and black races, while for sew
eral centuries wheat has been the
preferred food of the white race
Rice and wheat are about equal
in volume of production. Rice.
however, looms larger in the daily
lives of people than does wheat
There is no question about it, that
the farms of the world whose
crops are rice far outnumber
those whose principal crop is wheat
There are several thousand more
or less distinct cultivated kinds of
rice more than there are known
for other cereal.
ASIATIC ORIGIN
Rice most probably originated in
the southwestern part of the Asiatic
continent, although the exact place
OF origin cannot now be deter
mined Classical Chinese rice cul-
tivation is synCmonous with agri-
culture. and in many Asiatic re-
gions, rice and food are synono-
nous. This would suggest the
1rlgin of rice long before recorded
history. 1t was certainly known in
India and China by 5000 BIC. BY
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-10
Surgical Dressings
Cenfers Open In
Imperial Valley

Brawley, Holtyille, ri Centre,
now have surgical dressings cen-
ters, with Calexico about to open
the fourth headquarters where vol
unteer workers. women of the val
Icy, may devote their time 20 this
important work for the Red Cross.
Brawley's center opened March
3 in the basement of the presby-
terian church with Mrs. John FL
more as chairman and Mrs Har-
vey Hastain, Mrs. Loveridge Marsh.
Mrs. William o. Gerry as super
visors.
Holtvilles center is i'm the Vet
erans' hall with Mrs. J. V. Year
gin, chairman. Mrs. r. NJ Lang
ley, vice-chairman, Mrs. Lottie
Rice, Miss Marguerite Anderholt.
supervisors. Mrs. r. G. Clemons
is Red Cross chairman for Ell Cen
trc with the center in the Ten
Thousand club, and supervisors are
MeSdames S. Emmitt Allen, NJ. r.
Brents, T. H. Gebbie, r. H. Mad
dux, Allen p. Nuffer.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-10

the time of Alexander, rice cultiva-
ton was we'll established in West
ern Asia. 1t was perhaps intro
became known to Asia through AL
exander's campaign, although it
was probably not cultivated there
until much later. BY the time Of
the early Roman empire it was an
expensive import used in part by
Grecco-Roman physicians for the
property of an emollient drink.
The Malays brought rice to Ma
dagascar, the Indians to East Af-
rican islands. The Moors intro
duced rice in Spain even exporting
some outside of Europe. The Span
iards brought it to Italy while
rice boom occurred in Milanese
there. and the Venitian territory
The Turks brought it with them
in their invasion of Southwestern
Europe, where it once spread over
much of the Balkans, and at the
time of Maria Theresa rice was
grown in Southern Hungary and it
was also cultivated in Southern
France.
SPREAD ~ EUROPE
The spread of rice culture in Eu-
rope was sometimes opposed by the
government for reasons of public
health (Malaria in the 10Th and
18th centuries; cultivation near
towns was forbidden. Rice came
later to the Americas and Oceania.
The Portuguese probably introduc-
ed it in Brazil. The Spaniards in
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-10
" ORGANIZATIONS AT
ALL TIMES PREPARED

Defense on the home front be-
comes more important every day
and the need for perfecting the
civilian defense machinery becomes
more acute as the passage of time
dulls the keen anxiety civilians felt
Immediately after Pearl Harbor was
devastated by the Japanese.
1t can't happen here" is heard
less and less frequently these days
but public apathy still is a great
stumbling block in the civilian de-
tense program in Imperial Valley.
The danger of invasion, of course,
becomes greater as the war enters
new stages. The need for practice in
the defense program outlined by
officials never was so great.
STILL FAITHFUL
Still faithful after more than a
year of war are the men and Wom-
EN- whose duty it is to see that the
rest OF us play our part in the
event of invasion, major disaster
OF some kind, or evacuation of war
refugees through Imperial county
from some other area.
Head of all the civilian defense
activities in Imperial Valley is the
Civilian Defense council composed
OF representatives of the county
board of supervisors, the Imperial
Irrigation district and the city
council of every city in the county.
The council acts in an advisory
capacity and has appointed master
committees to assist in all phases
OF home defense. Charles Bratton
OF Ell Centre is chairman of the
county council of defense.
MASTER CCMISITTEES
The master committees include
civil protection; fire protection
human resources and SkillS: health
welfare, and consumers interest:
transportation works and facilities
industrial resources and production
public information; Red Cross
highway patrol; civil air patrol;
evacuation; salvage; and agricul-
tural manpoWer.
District Attorney Elmer Heald is
the executive vice-chairman of the
county council and Mrs. GLADYS
Clements is his assistant. Count,
Clerk w. j. McClelland is the secre-
tary and Deputy District ATTORNEY
Don Bitter is the publicity chair
man.
This county defense council wa,
set in motion by an official emer-
gency ordinance passed by the
county board of supervisors alonp
the lines recommended by the state
defense council in accordance witt
instructions from the federal coun-
Gil of defense.
FOLLOW PATTERN
Patterned exactly after the coun-
ty council is the defense council in
each city. Each city has a chair
man OF defense and system of
committees delegated to handle the
various phases of defense.
The county has a control cente,
as has each city. Into this control
center will come the reports OF
disasters in the event of invasion
or bombing. Out from this control
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-10
Prominent Imperial Valley Rice Expert Traces
History Of Rice From 0riqin to Present Status

Central America and part of Soutn
America.
1t was introduced into the Unit
ed States in 1894 in Charleston,
South Carolina. The development
of rice culture in the Americas
drove out much of the European
acreage. Rice did not reach Ha-
waii, New Caledonia or New Guinea
until the last century. 1t was
French brought it to New Caledonia,
the Germans to New Guinea
Although varieties differ one from
the other in general the rice plant
must have high temperature and
an abundant supply of water for
termination and growth. The high
water requirements of rice mean
that the temperature zones of the
world are far less favorable for rice
cultivation than the tropic and sub
tropic. The water requirements of
rice are SO high that the desert
semi-arid and humid parts of the
tropical and sub-tropical zones, ex-
cept for such areas in them as are
easily irrigated, are much less ia
vorable for rice cultivation thar IL
humid parts.
NEEDS LEVEL GROUNE
The consequence of the nigh wa
ter requirements for the cultivation
of rice tends to concentrate on lev
ell and gently sloping land with soils
enthusiastically heavy in type.
Control and retention of adequate
Continued on Page 5, Col. s.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-10

hers of the defense councils In the
county that their system is 100 per
cent perfect but they also hope that
there never will be an opportunity
for them to. try 1t out in an actual
invasion or bombing.