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Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-31
City Finances in
Healthy Condition

Indications that a healthy finan-
ial condition exists in Ell Centre
was seen in statement by City
Clerk Neal Gavin Wednesday, in
which he declared that approxi-
mately Is per cent more has been
collected in city taxes than had
been collected at this time last
ear.
This condition exists, he said, in
spite of the fact that in some in
stances veterans of former wars
who ale again serving in the armed
forces are not being given their ex-
emptionS. Wives of such service
men may petition for their legal
exemptions up to $1,000 assessments,
the clerk explained.
Deadline for paying second in
stallments on l942-43 city taxes is
April %, while after April 20 sec
ond half county taxes become de-
linquent.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-31
Allies Ready for
Quick Invasion

LONDON, March 81 tUP)-Specu-
lation over the impending Allied
invasion-or invasions - of Europe
increased today and German
spokesman acknowledged that the
crescendoing Anglo-American aerial
offensive had reached a scale which
might presage the opening of a
western front.
Though we'll informed Allied
sources cautioned that the date of
the invasion was at least weeks and
perhaps months away, evidence that
preparations are reaching an adj
vanced stage was seen in the
tightening of travel restrictions in
British coastal areas and Prime
Minister Winston Churchill's dis
closure that British troops ARE in
position" on undisclosed fronts.
The Anglo aerial Of
fensive, which high Allied officials
already have announced is designed
to soften Hitler's European fortress
was believed to have gone into an
other lull last night, presumably
because of bad weather over the
continent.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-31

Terminating a one-year contract
with the C. J. Lyons company, the
City of Ell Centre will begin the
collection and disposal of its own
trash on Thursday.
To handle the undertaking the
city council has ordered a packer
type body for one of It's trucks and
has constructed a large rack body
on another Capacity load of the
packer body will be approximately
so yards of compressed trash, Wal
ter Heinecke. director of public
works, said. The rack body will
hold 81 yards, he said. Until the
body arrives collections will be
made by other city trucks.
Collections will be made daily ON
Main street and twice each week in
residential areas.
On Mondays and Thursdays trash
will be collected in the area bor-
dered by State and Vine streets be-
tween Eighth street and the rail-
road tracks east of the city as we'll
as from Woodward to Broadway
between the railroad tracks and
Eighth street.
Collections will be made in the
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-31
Murderer Lives in
Fashionable LA.
Hotel for ; Weeks
Police Get Confession
From Raymond Latshaw,
18, for Five Slayings

LOS ANGELES, March 81.
(UP) = Raymond Latshaw,
18, confessed slayer of five
members of his family, serv-
ed for three weeks as theater
doorman on the busiest corner in
downtown Los Angeles while a state
wide search for him was in prog
reSS.
ally when Traffic Patrolman Clar-
ence E. Clarke recognized him from
police photograph, also said he had
been registered at the fashionable
Biltmore hotel here, checking out
only when he ran out Of funds.
is RELIEVED
The youth appeared relieved when
he was arrested and described with
out apparent emotion how he shot
and killed his father, Amos, 38, his
stepmother, Olive, his grandmother
and grandfather, and his six-year-
old brother, Charles, last Feb. IL
on their ranch near Loomis, Cal.
Police accepted his account of the
Slayings but were not entirely sat
isfied with the motive he advanced.
The youth told them he shot his
father for striking his mother but
police were unable to ascertain why
he killed his mother.
"If you loved her." he was asked.
"Wh? did you shoot her?"
To COVER ZIP
Il got into a terrible rage" Lat
shaw said. II guess I shot her to
cover up the shooting of my father"
His grandparents, Charles, So and
Bertha, 55, heard the shots and
Continued on Page 6, Col u
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-31
0PA Puts CeiIinq
On Used Trucks

WASHINGTON, March 3l.-(UP)
The Office of Price Administra-
tion today placed maximum ceiling
prices on all used commercial mo-
tor xehicles, sharply reducing alb
normal prices being charged by
some sellers.
An OPA survey revealed that ac-
tivities of spectators had resulted
in some prices that we're 200 per
cent or more over the normal val
ue of used truck and in some in
stances prices that are higher than
the price of a new truck.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-31
Synthetic Rubber
Plant PRODUCING

BATON ROUGE, La, March 81
tUP)-Climaxing one of the fastest
building schedules of the war pro-
gram, the first synthetic rubber
plant completed under government
supervision since the Baruch re-
port, began production here to-
day.
The flow of butadiene, styrene
and other necessary chemicals
through the miles of piping and
processing equipment began less
than five months after blueprints
were taken over by the H. K. Fergu-
son company, industrial engineers
and builders. Cleveland and New
York, and the Firestone Tire and
Rubber company
Operating the synthetic rubber
plant is the Co-Polymer corpora
tion, a consolidation of six rub
ber professors.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-31

mace Gle cndrSe dICer III was re-
vealed that Moore had given form
er Leon C. Phillips $5O00 The dis
closure was made before a joint
legislative investigation committee.
Moore, a 1910 Willkie Democrat,
defeated Josh Lee in the Oklahoma
senatorial election last November.
Phillips. who was governor at the
time, bolted the Democratic party
to campaign for Moore.
Phillips disclosed the gift in tes-
timony before the legislative COM
mittee Monday. He said Moore had
sent him the $4,000 December 81,
1912, for services still to be rem
dered."
Phillips later elaborated on his
testimony in statements to news
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-31
Davis Condemns
Last Meat Spree

WASHINGTON. March 31.-tUP)
Elmer Davis, director of the Of
flee of War Information, said to-
day that the principal cause of the
meat shortage on Monday was the
buying run" of last weekend
when he said, so many of us went
out whole hog for the last steak
Davis added that the general inn
preston that we are running out oil
meat is definitely not true"
He said that a check of the Of
flee of Price Administration and
the Department of Agriculture re-
vealed that the worst shortage areas
are in the Pacific, Atlantic and
Gulf coasts.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-31
American Bombers
Raid Rotterdam

LONDON, March 81. = tUP)-
American heavy bombers attacked
Rotterdam today and one plane is
missing, joint United States and
British communique said tonight.
Flying FortreSses raided Ship
building yards in the Rotterdam
area and saw their bombs bursting
in the target zone. Heavy clouds
made observation of the results
difficult.
Royal Air Force, Dominion and
Allied fighters supported the
bombers over the target area and
carried oEt diversionary sweeps.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-31
NlRB Meets in
&c. for HearinQ

The National Labor Relations
Board Tuesday held hearing in
Ell Centre on an AT of L request
for an election to determine which
union has majority membership
among employees of the Imperial
Ice division of the California Elec-
trio Power company.
Officials of the AF of L alleged
that an independent employees
union was defunct and the AF of L
should be made the bargaining
agent.
Examiner G.. E. O'Brien took the
matter under advisement at the
close of the one-day hearing and
will make his recommendations to
the NLRB in Washington. The
boards decision in the matter will
be made later.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-31

six-cent advance but felt they
could break even with the increase
allowed. They had previously op-
Grated at loss, they declared.
The price of buttermilk also rises
under the order and will now sell
for three-fourths of cent more
than in the past.
The Imperial County prices will
be on a par with those charged in
Los Angeles County. San Diego
County's price of $113 per butterfat
pound is the highest in the state.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-31
AMERICANS, BRITISH NEARING JUNCTURE
$4,000 to Buy
Dog for Boy

NEW YORK, March 81 tUP)
-Freckle- faced Frank kOmin-
sky, l3, wondered today whether
he could buy a dog with the
Sl3,929 he found in an old box
outside junk shop.
Frank walked into police
station with the money yester-
day after a conference with his
folks. He was told that if no
ono claimed the money within
six months every penny of it
would be his. He was asked
what he'd do with it.
"Me?" Frank replied, "Oh, I'll
buy dog. I'll buy dog be-
cause l like dogs, sec?"
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-31

cupants of the plane. This plane
was taken back to the Ell Centre
Marine air training station, where
1t was based, and was being in
spected
1t was explained that officers
were investigating the causes of both
accidents.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-31
Marines Here See
Humphrey Boqart

Men stationed at the Ell Centre
Marine air training station were
entertained Tuesday night by Mr..
and Mrs. Humphrey Bogart of mo-
ton picture fame, and a group of
other ste.s and featured players.
Highlight of the show was a COM
plete film made up of the many
different scenes in which Bogart
has met death in films of the past.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-31
True Pension Plan
Goes to Assembly

SACRAMENTO, March 81 CUP)-
4. constitutional amendment to
make state old age assistance a
genuine pension rather than
charity relief went to the assembly
today as the governors pension
committee debated an immediate
increase.
The constitutional change, au-
thored by Assemblyman Lee Bash
ore. r., Glendora, and John B.
Pelletier, D., Los Angeles, was rec
commended favorably by the as
sembly committee on constitutional
amendments. If approved by both
houses of the legislature, it would
he referred to the people on the
1914 general election ballot.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-31
Quake Causes Rail
Line TO Slump

NORTHAMPTON. Mass. March
3l.-tUP)-h slight earthquake
caused a long section of the Bos-
ton & Maine roadbed to slump into
the Connecticut river today. put
ting the northbound main line tenn
porarily out of service.
There we're no casualties.
The railroad embankment for
about 40 rail lengths slid into the
munication system were crippled.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-31

out suffering critical injuries. The
plane was based at the Ell Centre
Marine air training station.
During the morning Tuesday, a
navy plane developed trouble in
the area northeast of Brawley, and
the pilot succeeded in making a
forced landing without injury to oc-
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-31

men. He told them that Moore had
telephoned him, saying that you've
rendered your state great service
and you're leaving the state tired
and sick and broke. You've no bus
mess getting into business for
while
1t was shortly after that, Phil
lips said, that he received the $4,000
AT Washington, Moore said he
gave Phillips the money because
the former governor had done the
state a service by ridding 1t of fac
tions which almost had made II
bankrupt. Moore said the money
was not for services still to be
rendered" and that Phillips appar-
emily had misunderstood.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-31
City Collects
Trash Hereafter

district between Vine and Ross ave-
nues from Eighth street to the
tracks on Tuesdays and Fridays and
from Ross to Woodward between
Eighth street and Imperial.
The entire area east of the tracks
will be covered on Wednesdays and
SATURDAYS.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-31
Naval Pilot Porochutes
To Safety: Plane Ruined

Two navy planes were involved
! In accidents in Imperial county
Tuesday without resulting loss of
life, 1t was revealed Wednesday,
A plane piloted by Ensign W. H.
Ward crashed east of Calipatria
ton picture fame, and a group of
Ward. tine onfy man in the plane,
parachuted to safety when the
trouble developed and landed with
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-31
SoIon Accused
o. Buying Sect

OKLAHOMA CITY Okla, March 81. (UP)-Another
heated controversy of the type that distinguishes Okaho
politics developed today the basis of charge that
D. H. Moore Tulsa Republican, bought" his seat in the
United States senate. Gov Robert S. Kerr Democrat
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-31
First Army Neors
Bizerte i'm NORTH
In Latest Attf x
RommeI Continues to Flee oast
From Advancing Eighth Arm, rs;
May Take Stand 40 Miles from ( oes

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS North Africa March 81
(UP)-Marshal Erwin Romme hastily hauling
and equipment northward through the Gabes botteneck
tonight and additional pressure from the British First
the north made appear that the complete development
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-31
Father Confessor
Of Marines III
Chaplain Who Buried Men on GuadaI
oHe Had Married in States Nov in
Naval HOSPITAL in Northern California

OAKLANDj Cal, March 81. (UP)-The padre of the
uadacana junglers who buried many of the mar
he had married. recovering today at the Oak Knoll
naval hospital from infection contracted in the Solo
mons. Chaplain 1t Thomas Reardon, US.MC., once a
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-31

Revealed At Last
Deputy District Attorney Don
Bitler appeared in the door of
the stenographic retreat in the
Continued on Page 6. col. 50
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-31
The Old Maestro

The Old Maestro
About all that was heard around
the Post-Press Monday and Tues
day had to do with a fishing trip.
Practically all the masculine men,
berS of the Post-Press family hied
themselves away on a fishing trip.
Such a fuss as they made get
ting ready. Such brags did they
made about the fish they were 60
ing to bring back.
They brought back a lot of stories
but no fish.
They looked pretty silly Tuesday
afternoon when Dulane Dover, 12-
year-old Post-PreSS carrier boy, dis
played l5-pound catfish he cought
in New river.
ITS between 30 and 20 inches
long, Dulane said. At that point
i'm the conversation the faces of
the masculine members of the Post
Press family became between 30 and
H29 inches long.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-31
y AMBl|Ne
\EpORTER
What's On The Fire.

What's On The Fire.
T.. ID. Mccall is determined To
start a column of old-time recipes
so the moderns will know how the
pioneers got along and profit by
early day experiences. Here is his
recipe for corn sticks: Ears OF
corn always have even numbered
rows of grains. Cut into sticks
when green and dry, cob and all,
Sprinkle with salt and eat on the
cob, raw or cooked. Lay up a
nyear's supply and you are safe from
Dhunger With corn sticks and wa
ter you have the necessities of life.
All above that line are luXuries.
.Jerky and water mean the same
thing
Please pass the corn sticks, perky
Dand water.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-31
REmEMBEH THESE DaTEsl

REMEMBER THESE DATEsI
Gasoline
"A" Book Coupons
No,5-Valld March 22-May -.
Shoes
Stamp No Ill pair I'll June IL
Coffee
Stamp No. 26-1 ID. To April 2d
Sugar
Stamp No. 12-Good for pounds until
May II
Canned Goods
Blue Stamps A. p and c. in
Book No 2 good till April /.
Red Stamp "A good till April 30.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-31
WEATHER

Maximum Tuesday 82, minimum
Wed. So; am. Wed. 81, humidity
SIS; noon Wed. 81, humidity 10; 5
pm. Tuesday 79, humidity 81.
Evening star., 1943-04-05
Prince Has His Old Charm
In Mr.. Romberg's Operetta
+. That Is to Say, He Still Can Draw
A Large Audience, as Nationals
Tuneful Revival Illustrates
BY JAY CARMODY.

~ WI Inc common man whose century may be dawnng in the
OF the moment has lot his
time out to listen Charming
Sigmund
tended make the world audience
further of that
Evening star., 1943-04-05
Michele Morgan
To Sing Now
HOLLYWOOD,

Green eyed Michele Morgan,
French film star who made her
American bow with Paul Henreid
in Joan of Paris" returns to RKO-
Radio for a top role in Producer
Director Tim Whelan's screen
adaptation of the Rodgers and Hart
Broadway musical success, Higher
and Higher"
In sharp contrast to the highly
dramatic part which marked her
sensational United States debut, Miss
Morgan, whose background includes
extensive voice and piano study,
draws singing assignment in the
forthcoming musical and will intro
duce several numbers.
Actress will find herself in musical
big time. for already announced for
Higher and Higher" are Marcy Nc
Guire, pert redhead and Frank
Sinatra, newly signed singer who
leaves Tommy Dorseys band shortly
with a long-term film contract at
RKO-Radio.
Evening star., 1943-04-05
Where and When
Current Theoter Attractions
and Time Of Showing

Stage
NatiOnal-"The Student Prince "
with Everett Marshall: $50 pm.
Screen
CapitOl-"Three Hearts for Julia :"
Ann Sothern not as Maisie: 1918
am, 12:45, 800, $50, 8:25 and 10:55
pm. Stage shows: 11:50 am, 2:20,
4:55, 725 and 9:55 pm.
Columbia - Random Harvest"
true love and difficulties: II am,
1:40, 4:20, 7:O5 and GAS pm.
Earle-"The Hard Way" tale of
two diverse sisters: 10:45 am, 1:3O,
4:2O, ITO and 10 pm. Stage shows
l, $50, $40 and $50 pm.
"Hitler's Children" vir-
tues of not being one: 1925 am,
1:25, $3.50, TAO and 9:45 pm.
Little - THE Great Dictator"
Chaplin right in Der Fuehrer's face:
11:10 am, l AS, 4:20, and $40 pm.
Metropolitan-"Air Force" Flying
Fortress avenges Pearl Harbor:: II
am, 1:35, 4:l5, 6:55 and 9:35 pm.
Palace-"1mmortal Sergeant" in
spiration of a fighting man: 11::55
am. 2:20, 4:45, 7:10 and $40 pm.
Pix-"Seige of Leningrad," the
Soviet record, Edward Murrow mar
rating: continuous from pm.
Trans Lux News and shorts
Continuous from 10 am.
Evening star., 1943-04-05

people on the distaff side of the
Hollywood employment roster.
With nothing to say about their
males, the studios are working earn
estly in behalf of the girls. RKO,
for instance, is pointing out how
wonderfully Bonita Granville is de-
veloping as dramatic actress,
which she is in "Hitler's Children. :"
Metro : GoldWyn Mayer is telling
about Donna Reed, the twins in
the next Andy Hardy picture. War;
ner Bros. who gave Alexis Smith
the lead in the Animal Kingdom
mot to be confused with THE Male
Animal') when Olivia De Haviland
decided she wanted to rest, is beat
ing the drums very loudly once
more in Miss Smiths behalf,
The same studio is calling every
ones attention to another new
conner, Irene Manning, a pretty girl
who buttresses her chances for glory
IN the cinema by being able to sing.
Miss Manning will have the lead
In The Desert Song" which, Incl
dentally. will have very timely
locale, that of French North Africa.
X
Women suddenly plopped into
positions of authority might find
Ina Ray Hutton, the baton woman,
a helpful adviser in the way to
handle men in groups. There was
no war, although rumors of it were
rather common, when Miss Hutton
became a pioneer in the field of
woman = conducted dance bands.
She has been at it ever since and
has never had to deal with any,
thing resembling a mutiny in spite
OF the fact that her orchestras
always have been all-male.
Miss Hutton attributes her sue
cess IN dealing with her male musi-
cal associates to the fact that she
does not pull glamor on them. She
believes men will take orders from
a woman who knows what she
wants to do and does it, and who
allows glamor to have the appear
ance OF being merely incidental.
Think OF yourself as working
girl first" she counsels members of
her sex who have become working
girls.
Evening star., 1943-04-05

oAAAS Ny q SdSb 4lCdOCu NY
Everett Marshall, Frank Hornaday
and Barbara Scully, was presented
under the auspices of those classi-
cists, the Shuberts.
The Student Prince" is not what
1t was when it first came along a
couple of decades ago. 1t was trim,
sleek and checked then and
there was a pleasant opulence about
1t, nothing offensive, understand,
just enough of opulence to indicate
that the people were doing well by
their prince and getting their
moneys worth in his pretty court
: ship OF the commoner, Kathy. The
intervening years have been tough
on every one. especially royalty, and
"The Student Prince" has been no
exception. He has grown a little
paunchy and his cuffs and lapels
are somewhat threadworn. Those
OF his friends are even more So
Kathy is still lovely, to be sure, but
you think of her-through your
own silly sentimental fault-rather
more paternally than romantically
1t is quite proper attitude to take,
as If she were the daughter of the
old Kathy you knew, but it reminds
you how fugitive are the years and
gives the operetta different mean
ing. Where it used to be some
thing half gay, half sad, it is now
about one-quarter gay, three-quar-
ters sad.
This, as we say, is the fault of
fate more than of the Shuberts,
Fomberg or the cast which has
come to sing again of Golden
days" and Drink, drink, drink"
overhead the moon is beaming."
Deep in my heart" and all those
other tunes of youthful zest, and
love and heartbreak. They still
are songs to make the beer garden
and beer hall ring, but you cannot
forget that beer halls later rang
with the Horst Vessel song and
became the scenes of putsches.
Time and events impinge that way
and 1t is impossible to escape aware
ness Of it, especially when you no
tlce times definite marks on the
settings, the costumes and the other
material aspects of The Student
Prince"
Miss Scully, Mr.. Marshall, Lo-
falne Bridges, Ann Pennington and
Evening star., 1943-04-05

number of others do their brave
best to sing and dance you into the
original mood of the operetta. how
ever-to make you forget that there
has been such thing as time since
Karl Franz first broke his own and
Kathy'S heart. and damaged that of
the lovely Princess Margaret.
1t is quite praiseworthv of them
and makes The Student Prince"
kind of wiStful adventure. That's
something.
Outside of young Butch Jenkins.
the freckle-faced ,5-year-old who
steals The Human Comedy" from
Mickey Rooney and all the lesser
others, male acting finds" in the
cinema are unlikely to get the usual
buildup. Any such who may come
along will be allowed largely to
lnsinuate his way into the public
heart, if he can make it. Holly
wood hopes that any possible dis
coVerles will be able to do that, but
1t must let them go it sadly alone.
That is because the chap is likely to
be either 4-F or heavily burdened
Tor bulwarked) with dependents.
Neither has ever fitted into the
Hollywood promotional pattern, as
witness the cases of Don Ameche
and Phil Reagan. a pair of attrac-
tive fellows who had large families
and correspondingly small publicity.
So the field is pretty much wide
open to young Butch.
He will have the competition, how
ever, of great many glamour
Evening star., 1943-04-05

THE STUDENT PRINCE''-A shubert
Bros production starring Everett Marshall,
music by Sigmund Romberg, book and lyrics
by Dorothy Donnelly, directed by Barrie
ODaniels with settings by Watson Barrett
At the National.
First Lackey------------H Howard Roland
second Lackey George Tallone
Third Lackey key-----Co Colin Harvey
Fourth Lackey - Ken Harlan
Prim, Minister Won Mark - Victor Morley
Everett Marshall
Prince Karl Franz Frank Hornaday
Ruder Landlord Of Inn Of Three Gold
Gretchen (Maid at the inn), Ann Pennington
Detlef "a student LEADER Roy Barnes
Won Asterberg (another student leader.
Lucas (another student leader,
Kathie (niece of Ruder, sHhais Barbara ihg seully
Lutz tvalet to the Prince) Detmar poppen
used Guoert nnebva She valet yalen Harry Morton
Princess Marsaret (f1nancee Of Prince
Capt. TarnitZ - - Joseph Toner
coYntess pn Leydon uady-in-wait!ng to ne =,
Rudolph cousin of Kathie,. -Nena AosSe'l
Herman Magidson
PoStilllon Jimmy Russell
ginia Mckay, Jane Stanley Audrey
Schreib Judy Turnbull, Phyllis Manning.
Virginia Atkinson, Grace Taylor, Evelyn
Students-Coln Harvey. Eden Burrows,
Fred Sheldon. Earnst Noble, George Tai
lone Max Plaemann. Kent Williams,
my Russell. Herman Magidson, Howard
Roland, Bob Rogers. Don Power, Ken
Harlan. Robert LAMAR.
Evening star., 1943-04-05
Ritzes Acquire a Plot
At Any Rate, It's Movie
That Has One, Just for Once

I'm buying big ranch and I'll sell
the produce in the United States
And dye know something else? In
come tax in Mexico is only II per
cent?" With which happy thought
Oliver goes into his scene.
He sits on a settee, and is sup
posed to snatch a drink from Stan
Laurel who is concealed under the
settee. He gets the drink all right.
But not from San-who is home
sick with a cold. But don't say !
told you
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