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Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-10
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Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-10
Marlene Die+rick
Nav S+ay in Paris

PARIS, Oct. 10. CUP-Marlene
Dietrich. Hollywood film actress,
who arrived here last week, said to-
day she would foresake Hollywood
for Paris-if she marries Jean Cab
in
Asked if she intended to marry
the popular French actor, Miss
Dietrich said
Its too soon to say. But If l do
marry him, I will leave the movies
and come to France for good. I
don't dare make movie with Jean
because he is too great an artist"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-10
TO HEAR EANDERMAN

Building Better Rural Communi-
ties will be the subject of a talk
by Assistant Farm Advisor H. Lee
Landerman at the Acacia Farm
Center meeting Wednesday night.
After his talk a motion picture,
Home Is What You Make It." will
be shown. Old-time dancing will
conclude the program. Don Cruick-
shank, director, announced Tuesday.
The meeting will be in Acacia school
at p. m.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-10
WHEN you BUY sHtfr MUSIC .

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Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-10
GIVES FINANCE REPORT

After the adjournment of the
MIA. meeting, Mrs Eugene Water
man gave financial report of the
music scholarship club. Plans we're
made for a concert to be given by
valley teachers the end of February.
with the proceeds going to the
scholarship fund.
At the close of the business meet
ing. refreshments were served by
the hostess. Mrs. North. A visiting
member present was Julia Brackett,
former voice teacher here, who is
spending few days in the valley.
Those present were: Tilla Nc
Campbell, Roberta Tackett, Estelle
Livingston. Oria Kenah, Elizabeth
waterman. Georgiana WaShburn,
Roberta Walters, Wendell Water
man. Frances Farrar, Julia Bracket,
and Mrs. North.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-10
Piling Them On

Deal just piles another on-and we
pay for both. When men quarrel,
there is no one in authority to put
a stop to it. When agencies get
snarled up, there is no one in att
thority to untangle them. Mean-
while, the peoples business goes to
pot and the people are the victims"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-10
NEW RULING NOTED

also maze 1Or 'UTle MUSIC week III
May.
NEW RULING NOTED
A new ruling of the California
Music Teachers associatin was eX-
planned, this ruling requiring the
payment of 25 cents to the state for
certificates of merit awards. which
are won by pupils after eight years
of study. Tilla McCampbell, chair
man, will distribute applications for
the certificates to the teachers.
A code of rules of punctuality,
regularity, etc. to be observed by
local members will be drawn up by
Wendell Waterman and copies dis
tributed to parents and pupils, it
was decided.
Highlights of the state conven-
ton in Riverside this summer were
told by Oria Kenah and Roberta
Tackett. Mrs Kenah's pupil Wini-
fred Anderson played several piano
numbers before the convention.
winning this honor through the
completion of ten years stuoy under
the certificate of merit system. She
is the first valley girl to complete
this study and appear before a con-
vention.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-10
FIRST so HONORED

First Distinguished Flying Cross
awarded to an officer of the Indian
Air Force was won by Acting Wing
Commander x. K. Majumdar, for
courage and example in the Burma
campaign
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-10

while Erskine Johnson is on
vacation, his column is being
written by guest conductors"
from among his fri nds and fans
in HollywOod.)
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-10
!. Y. Music Teachers Plan
Sing, Concert During Year

Plans for various musical activities and code of rules for music
Imperial Valley Music Teachers Association Monday night at the studio
North,
held
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-10
TAJJEST AND SHORTEST

Abraham Lincoln was the tallest
president of the United States. 6
feet inches; James Madison, the
shortest president, was only feet
nches tall.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-10
OBTAINS DECREE

Esther Victoria Castle obtained
an interlocutory divorce decree
Monday from Charles Leonard Cas-
tie Jr.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-10
HOLLYWOOD
BY ERSkINE JOHNSON

that 1t saves us considerable em-
barrassment If Charley pays our
bills.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-10
FACES TRIAL

Trial of E. r. Pacheco. Mexican.
on charge of drunkenness. was set
TOR Wedn' sday at 4 p. m. by Judge
Lee Nuffer in police court Monday.
Evening star., 1944-12-03

BY the Associated Press.
PARSONS. Kans., Dec. 2.-"This
is the first time your Daddy has
ever written to you ="
Out on Palau, Capt. Gerald Mar
nell, 27, penned those words to IAN
important little lady," his 2-year-
old daughter, Geraldine.
Some day. when she's old enough
to understand, it will be a very
precious letter to the child. She'll
know then that on the same day it
was postmarked her father was re-
ported killed in action while serv-
ing with an infantry battalion.
Capt. Marnell wrote his daughter
that she had been so much on his
mind that he just had to set down
a few lines to let you know how
important little lady you are.
II know that you can't read this
letter now, but your Mother will
read it to YOU and she will save it
for you until you are old enough to
read it yourself.
Your Daddy held you in his arms
when you were only a few minutes
old. - Your Daddy saw you grow
He would beam with pride and JOY
Evening star., 1944-12-03
Robin Thomas Leaves
S1,0O0,00O Estate
By the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 2. - An
estate of close to S1,000,000 has
been left to relatives and friends in
the will of Robin Thomas, 29-year-
old son of Michael Strange, novelist
and former wife of the late John
Barrymore, and the late Leonard M.
Thomas, it was disclosed today
when the will was probated here.
Thomas, leader in cafe society
and an art connoisseur. died in his
sleep on his Litchfield, Conn, estate
April TO-
Among cash bequests are 100000
each to his mother, to his half sis
ter, Diana Barrymore, actress-wife
of the theatrical producer, Bram-
well Fletcher, and a niece, Vivian
May Thomas, who also receives
the Connecticut estate.
| A hequest which Thomas had di-
rected was to take precedence over
all others if his estate proved in
sufficient will not be fulfilled, how
ever. 1t is the bequest of 5o,00o and
valuable cigarette case to william
Lloyd Rambo. 22-year-old former
Navy gunner's mate and close friend
OF Thomas, who fell from the 86th
floor of the Empire State Building in
| New York less than four months be-
fore Thomas death.
Evening star., 1944-12-03

daylight, you can't say the police
didn't try.
There was Pvt. Joseph Costello.
for instance. Pvt. Costello saw the
deer enter an alley between Jack
son and Kearney streets NE. AHA
thought Pvt. Costello, "I1l get him
with my squad car"
So Pvt. Costello blocked the alley
with the car. Just then the deer
came charging down on him, run
ming right into the car. The DO
liceman started to leap on his
quarry. At least, that was what he
had in mind.
The deer backed off, shook his
antlered head and sailed over the
hood before Pvt. Costello was even
out OF the car. A trace of blood and
few scratches on the fender were
all that remained of the vanishing
buck.
Earlier passersby had been STAR
tied to see full-grown deer am
bling lazily across Langdon Park.
a small open space at Twentieth
and Franklin streets NE.
Deciding in typical city-dweller
| (See DEEP page A-60
Evening star., 1944-12-03
Daddy Won't Be Back; Letter
From PuIuu Tells Child Why

when he would watch your Mother
rock you to sleep in her arms. Daddy
saw you start to crawl, and how you
did get around. He remembers you
standing alone and taking your first
step and cutting your first tooth
and saying your first word.
Then came a day when your
daddy had to say good-by. You
cried so hard when daddy was driv-
ing away and daddy shed tear
himself. Your daddy didn't want to
leave you but he had to go to help
make your country safe and free
place to live in Little baby, God
has blessed you with the finest
mother in the world and daddy loves
your mother very much. Be good
to your mother, Geraldine, there is
no one else like her in the world.
Daddy won't write much more to
you. He will be back home some day
and you and he will play together
again. Daddy asks God every night
to guide and watch ever you and
your mother
The letter reached the officers
wife. Mrs. Florence Marnell, sew
eral days before the message from
the War Department reporting his
death.
Evening star., 1944-12-03
President Warns Nation
Il Can't Relax and Win
By The Associated Press.

By The Associated Press.
President Roosevelt says ultimate
victory is inevitable. but in the
meantime the American people
must not relax for a moment thei1
infiexible determination"
The Chief Executive couples with
this statement. made in the annua.
United States at War" edition OF
the Army and Navy Journal, re-
newed plea to war workers to con-
tinue on their jobs.
1.-THE weapons of war which
America has turned out and which
have given us superiority on land
on the sea, and in the air, must
continue to flow if we are to attain
that victory. Everybody on a war
job must stick to that job"
Mr.. Roosevelt told the journals
editor in a letter that this has
been a year of outstanding ac-
complishments for the armed forces
of the United States. During the
last year our Army, Navy and Air
Forces have taken part in 27 diff
ferent D-days-eaeh one a tri-
umphal success"
Evening star., 1944-12-03
DeerMokes Flying Tour ofD.C.
Police Escort Finishes Second

If deer laugh, there was one
laughing like mad in the wooded
outskirts of Washington last night
For whole day, this deer-s
white-tailed, large-antlered buck
had evaded four police scout cars
headquarters cruiser, two traffic
cruisers, six motorcycle patrols, SUM-
dry dog catchers armed with regula-
ton nets, IAN old deer hunter" Boy
Scouts and the press.
He had leaped easily over the
largest obstacle the police had to
ofer-a police car. He had been
paced at 80 miles an hour, hardly
painting at all. He had managed q
Isteeple-chase course of neighbor-
hood back fences, overturning gar
bage cans and frightening house
wives.
From the first the police had beer
loath to take on deer hunt. They
had been ignoring reports phonee
in by taxicab drivers who swore
they had seen an antlered deel
frisking freely about Rock CreeI
Park late at night. But once the
deer showed his antlers in broae
Evening star., 1944-12-03
First Postwar Treaty.,
Oil Pact With Britain,
Gets Death Sentence
Failure of Committee
To Act Seen as Setback
To Entire Trade Program
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The administrations program
for international agreements on
postwar trade suffered setback
yesterday through an apparent
Senate committee death sem
tence" on the oil compact with
Great Britain.
Chairman Connally of the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee pre-
dicted that the treaty. which his
group received last August "a, will
never be ratified"
No hearings have been held and
Senator Connallys attitude made it
extremely doubtful that the treaty
will ever get out of a committee
pigeonhole.
First Formal Pact.
The oil treaty is the first formal
agreement the administration con-
cluded on postwar international
trade. Some looked on it as setting
Ia pattern for subsequent interna-
tional agreements on tin, rubber,
sugar and basic alloys.
Apparently the oil treaty has been
wrecked on the rock of resistance
from the American petroleum indus
try, raising the question whether
compacts on other materials could
survive at the Capitol if subjected
Evening star., 1944-12-03
De GauIIe Received
By Premier Stain in
KremIin Quarters
French Leader Expected
To Be in Moscow 4 Duys
For Political Talks
b the Associated Press.

D LHe ASSOClaIeQ FEeSS-
MOSCOW, Dec. Gen. de
Gaulle, who arrived in Moscow
by train today, was received by
Premier Stain tonight in his
quarters at the Kremlin.
The French leader was accom-
panied on his first visit to Premier
Stain by Roger Garreau, chief of
the French diplomatic mission to
Moscow.
1t was reported that Gen De
Gaulle, after a visit of about four
days here, may visit a volunteer
French flying squadron on the East
Prussian front. His aides said such
a trip had been discussed but that
arrangements were incomplete.
French Foreign Minister Georges
Bidault conferred today for so min
utes with Foreign Commissar Mol
otov before Gen. De Gaulle's visit
to the Kremlin.
French sources here said that
Gen. De Gaulle's exchange of let
ters with President Benes, restoring
pre- Munich relations betWeen
France and Czechoslovakia. was evil
dencA of his determination to build
French foreign policy toward Rus
sia on lines which likewise would
wipe out memories of the Munich
agreement.
Gen. JUN is Present.
The presence of Gen. Alphonse
JUN, chief of the French genera
staff, they said, was not an indica-
ton that the French leaders Mos
COW conferences would dwell pri-
marily on military affairs. Political
objectives were declared to be up
permost in his mind.
Gen. de Gaulle arrived in the
middle of snowstorm But his re-
ception on the flag-decked railway
station was a warm one. He was
greeted by Mr.. Molotov and other
notableS
The French leader. here for talks
with Premier Stain. stepped out
onto a scarlet carpet that had been
laid along the platform, while a
Red Army band played the Mar
seillaise and Soviet hymn.
Mr.. Molotov, wrapped in a fur
trimmed coat and wearing a black
fur cap, beamingly shook Gen. de
Gaulle's hand,
Gen. de Gaulle also was dressed
(See De GAULLE. Page A-4D
Evening star., 1944-12-03

BY the Associated Press,
HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 2.-Col
Elliott Roosevelt, son of the
President, and Actress Faye
Emerson left this afternoon by
private plane and it was reported
they were en- route to Grand
Canyon, Ariz., to be married
there tomorrow afternoon.
Destination of the wedding party
was believed to be Valley Field
near El Tovsr Hotel on the rim of
the Grand Canyon The ceremony,
it was said, is to be performed in
the hotel between noon and 2 pm.
tomorrow
Jack Frye, president OF Trans
continental g. Western Airlines, is
to be best man, a previous an
nouncement said, and Mrs. Joseph
Livengood, of Los Angeles. grand
daughter of the late Nine Ernestine
Schumann- Heink, Is to be matron
Of honor.
For the wedding, Miss Emerson
Evening star., 1944-12-03
Blanchard and Davis
Star As Army Wins
From Navy, 23 10 7
West Pointers End
Season Unbeoten Before
10000 at Baltimore
BY FRITZ HOWELL,
Associated Press Sports Write

BALTIMORE, Dec. 2.-Army's
magnificently equipped team hit
the heights of gridiron greatness
today, clinching the national
football championship with a
thrilling % = to 7 victory over
rugged, fighting Navy before
10000 fans in Municipal Stadium.
Showing the same power, alert
ness and deceptive attack which has
characterized the Cadets all season
the Army boys converted two inter-
cepted passes into two of their three
touchdown marches, blocked a punt
for safety, and rounded out CAM
paign of nine straight Wins-first
perfect season for West Point since
| 1916.
The Cadets, needing this one t.
wrap up the national laurels, took
no chances. They whipped through
a 73-yard touchdown march early ir
the second period to take TO half
time lead and won going away with
two quick scores in the last session
as Nays defenses crumpled.
Army Worthy of Grid Crown.
With Felix Doc) Blanchard, plebe
fullback from Bishopville, S, c., and
Glenn Davis, feet halfback from Los
Angeles, spearheading the attack
the West Pointers were a great and
powerful outfit worthy of wearing
the crown as America s kings of the
gridiron.
Davis, who scored the final touch
down on 50-yard run after taking
lateral from Capt. Tom Lombardo
sewed up the individual scoring
championship in the collegiate field
1t was the speedster's goth touch
down in nine games.
Adding to the Army honors was
the fact Dick Walterhouse, place
kicking specialist. made good on al
three attempts at points after touch
downs to run his total to AZ in 5s
tries-a new record eclipsing the a
out of ST, set two years ago by Clyde
Laforce of Tulsa.
The rampaging Cadets, maneu-
verng superbly from the T forma-
ton, tore the supposedly impreg-
nable Navy line apart for 2lO yards
by rushing, while the West Point
Evening star., 1944-12-03
Yanks Drive Into Saar|autern
And Ju|ich> Two Anchor Points
In Main Defenses Of Germany
Americans Captured by Jap Sub
Made to Run Murderous GontIet
Crew WELDING Steel Stonchions SIoys'
Many, Leaves Rest to Drown, Report Says
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
A japanese submarine crew
devised a terrible and murder.
Gus gantlet" for the torture kill.
ing of captured Americans from
a sunken Liberty ship, a West
Coast maritime union reported
last night.
The japanese sailors lined up in
double row, heavy steel stanchions
in hand, and forced SIS Americans
to run between them, said the ac-
count compiled from reports of
survivors. Man after man was
killed" it said, by blows from the
steel clubs.
"AS some of the men attempted
to jump overheard, the Japs would
slash body going over the side, -
the document said.
The report was the most complete
so far made on the fate of a tor
pedoed steamer from which only
% survived of 100 crewmen, gun
crew and passengers. 1t corroborat-
ed previous reports that the Japa-
Evening star., 1944-12-03

nese sub submerged, leaving Ameri-
cans on deck with their hands
tied.
The Liberty ship was torpedoed in
the Indian Ocean July 2. The per-
sonnel Al merchant seamen, a
Navy gun crew of %, IL Army en-
listed men and various other Army
and Navy men abandoned ship
safely.
The submarine came to the sur
face and picked up those in life
boats under threat of machinegun
fire. Five men on a raft refused
to swim to the submarine.
The Japanese. enraged, prepared
to machinegun them" the account
continued. Seeing this. the men
jumped off the liferaft and took
what refuge they could behind it
and in the shelter of the water. The
Japs cut loose with the machine
guns, but strangely enough, failed
to hit any of the five.
There were o5 men on the deck
Evening star., 1944-12-03
Soviet Forces Plunge
To Within IA Miles
OF Austrian Border
Other Units Push North
On West Bank Of Danube
Zogreb RoiI Link Cut
Y the Associated Press

LONDON, Sunday, Dec. g.
Russian motorized troops, in &
major break-through on a ITO.
mile front in Western Hungary
yesterday drove to WITHIN 4
miles of the Austrian province o.
Styria, and also moved 80 mile.
up the west bank of the Danube
to a point At miles south oi
Budapest.
Overrunning 300 localities south
and southwest of Budapest, Marsha.
Feodor I. Tolbukhin's 3rd Ukraine
Army also cut the Budapest-zagreb.
Trieste trunk railway and hurled
the enemy back onto the plain q
miles from Lake Balaton which
guards the southeastern approaches
to Austria.
Berlin, describing the break
through as tragic" said Soviet
spearheads moving up the Danube's
west bank already were attacking
Dunafoldvar, 43 miles from the
Hungarian capital.
Rail Link Cut.
In Czechoslovakia, Col. Gen. Ivar
Petros 4th Ukraine Army stabbed tt
within 2 miles of the big North.
eastern Hungarian rail city o.
Satoraljaujhely, cut that city's rail
way link with Kassa (Kosice) il
Eastern Slovakia, and severed tn,
Satoraljaujhely-Cem highwa.
as it moved westward miles on {
30-mile front beyond the Ondavs
River.
The Russians in Slovakia alst
were only Is miles from Kassa
major Axis stronghold controlling
traffic in the eastern part of tina
Axis puppet state.
Among the important stronghold
and communication centers taken il
the swift advances in Hungary were
PakS and Szekszard, 54 and II mile;
south of Budapest, and Kaposvar
95 miles southwest of Budapest ane
IA miles from the Austrian frontier
In taking Kaposvar and Dem.
bovar, l6 miles to the east, tht
Russians seized 16-mile section o.
the Budapest-zagreb- Trieste rail
way connecting the German de.
tenders in Budapest with those ir
Yugoslavia and Northern Italy
Kapsovar also is only 81 miles east
(See RUSSIA page A-81
Evening star., 1944-12-03
tSee WAR BONDS, Page A-bD
Romanian Cabinet Quits;
New Premier Is Named

BY the Associated Press.
The Romanian cabinet of Pre-
nier Gen. Constantin Sanatescu re-
signed today and King Michael
named Gen. Nicholas Radescu chief
of the general staff to form new
government, the Bucharest radio
reported today. The broadcast was
recorded by the Federal Communi-
cations Commission.
The radio gave no reason for the
cabinets resignation, but said that
the ministers would remain at their
posts until new government has
been announced.
Evening star., 1944-12-03
Fryes Reported on Way
To Western Ceremony

SEDONA, Ariz.. Dec. 2 tP).-Mr.
and Mrs. Jack Frye left their ranch
near here today for Grand Canyon,
Ariz, where it was reported they
would attend the wedding tomorrow
of Miss Faye Emerson, actress, and
Col. Elliott Roosevelt, the Presi-
dents SON.
Bill Steele, a Coconino County
deputy sheriff, said Mr.. Frye left
his ranch in pickup truck with q
full assortment of western regalia.
There's going to be western
ceremony of some kind, I guess, -
said Steele.
Evening star., 1944-12-03

CHICAGO, Dec. 2 (PD.-Police to-
day closed the Eversharp Pen and
Pencil Manufacturing plant after
John L. Fem, chief of the Chicago
Fire Prevention Bureau, charged
quantities of plastic product with
a nitrocellulose base were stored ir
the building where 1900 persons
work
Evening star., 1944-12-03
Servicemen Provided
More Holiday Troins
By the Associated Pres.

By the Associated Press.
The railroads yesterday were
authorized to operate special trains
or extra cars for the next As days
to take care of holiday travel by
members of the armed services.
In granting this permission fol
the third consecutive year, the OF.
flee of Defense Transportation sale
that service cannot be increased
substantially because of limited
equipment.
Evening star., 1944-12-03
Col. Roosevelt, Miss Emerson
Reported Flying to Ceremony
Couple Believed Planning to Wed
Today at Hotel on Grand Conyon Rim

said she would wear blue doeskin
suit, with mink bandeau and muff
and dark brown shoes Her bridal
bouquet will be of white orchids.
The wedding is to be a double
ring affair, with the Presidents son
and the actress exchanging small
y1laj,, oolI bonSe
Evening star., 1944-12-03

Total $5,364, 100000 $4,000, ,ooO, 900
Special attention in the Districts
drive tomorrow will be focused on
the work being done by the students
of the Washington public and pri-
vate schools, as they celebrate
Schools at War" day.
Throughout the city chapel pro-