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COP. Senators
Cite Delay on
Soldiers Vote

Continued from page u
Rayburn, house democratic leader
John w. Mccormack of MaSSachu-
sets, chairman Eugene Worley.
Cd, Texas, of the house elections
committee and chairman Adolph
SABBATH, DD, Illinois, of the house
rules committee.
Brewster recalled that after
President Roosevelt demanded speed
in a special message to congress
last week, house republican leader
Joseph w. Martin Jr of Massachu-
sets, requested unanimous consent
TO take up the pending soldier vote
bill Immediately. Rayburn refused
to recognize Martin for such a pur-
pose.
Senator Scott w. Lucas, (D),
Illinois, co-author of the senate
substitute, continued confident,
meanwhile, that the senate will beat
the house TO the vote and pass his
measure by Wednesday at the latest.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-01

compared with $614,572 for 1912
1943, high point for the five-year
Period.
Special district taxes levied in
the county totaled $8,598 for l943-
1914.
Throughout California, county,
school, and special districts levies
totaled S243, ,O48 for 1943-44,
compared with $249, 1903, ,507 for
1942-43 and 1884, 4,887.116 for 1941-42,
the high point for the five years.
County taxes totaled $118,205, ,842,
compared with $125,554271 for
1928, and the l941-42 high of
$126. 6.383,914 School district levies
totaled $lO4 62,937 throughout the
state for 1943-44, compared with
$102 993 052 for 1942-43. and the
1941-42 high of SLOT ,598 780. Special
district levies totaled $2l ,428, ,269
for l943-44.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-01

WASHINGTON, Feb. / CUP) -
Draft boards and induction centers
Tuesday began observing new selec-
tive service regulations designed to
eliminate many OF the ifs and
whens troubling potential draf-
tees.
The so-called screening tests
heretofore given by local boards
will be discontinued. and the navy
will join the army in granting 81
day furloughs to men accepted for
induction.
Local boards also will begin
limiting occupational deferments Of
youths between Is and % in an at
tempt to slow down the drafting
of fathers.
Hereafter, men classified IA will
report directly 10 induction stations
for army-navy physicals and all
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-01
RAMBLING REPORTER

Continued from page i
couldn't see which for the clothing.
They hunted a while west Of El
Centre but had no luck. They drove
over to Bonds Corner. Robertson
hoped out when they reached a
good place full of game He reached
for his gun. II wasn't there. He
had left it leaning against a tree
west of El Centr5l
One day Bill Wallace was pilot
ing a boat through duck
haven somewhere while Ashley was
doing the shooting.
Bang bang bang! bang! went
Ashley's gun. The duck went on
skimming just over the wafer with
Wallace herding the boat in hot
pursuit.
Bang. bang! bang! bang! Ashley's
gun barked.
Wallace manipulated the boat
close to the skimming duck. reached
out with one hand, snagged the
duck, and handed it to Ashley.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-01

WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.
(UP)-Senator Pat McCar-
ran, CD, Nevada, chairman
of the joint congressional commit
tee on relocation of war industries
named a subcommittee Tuesday to
investigate reports that the big
steel plant at Geneva, Utah, is to
be dismantled and shipped to Rus
Sia.
The status of the plant has been
uncertain for some time. 1t is vir-
tually completed but the war pro-
duction board has made no move
to place orders for steel at the
plant.
Describing the Geneva plant as
zone of the several cases we are
going to look into McCarran said
his committee understands that
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-01
Mother and Four
Children Perish

ASTORIA. C.e., Feb. l CUP)-A
mother AID re- four small children
perished in an early morning fire
that broke out in a lumber work
er's home here while members of
the family were asleep.
The father, Frank E. Rummell,
escaped after suffering severe burns
on the head, neck and arms.
Dead, burned almost beyond
recognition, were Mrs. Armeda Rum
nell. %, Marilyn 8, Dennis 5,
Patrick Daniel and Helen Myrtle
4 months.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-01
Board Inducts
Seventeen Men
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tCOnllnued frOfl page y
found they are to be turned over
to the selective service board for
immediate induction. A few have
been located.
Meanwhile the board is studying
quotas and men available for call
in an effort to take only those men
upon whom the least hardship will
be incurred. A recent meeting of
the board with the War Board dis
closed that the bottom of the man
power barrel for the draft had been
reached long ago.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-01
Toastmasters Bid
Member Adieu

Chester Irving. president of the
Cactus Gavel Toastmasters club
presided for the last time Monday
night before his induction into the
marines.
Best speaker of the evening was
Bill Duflock and the speaker
showing the greatest improvement
was Captain NJ. P Hebblethwaite
Cther speakers were Ken Thornton,
Malcolm Macurda and Hayden
Sears. Toastmaster of the evening
was Al Bevan. Everett Shaw was
chief Of critics Other critics were
Al Shaller, Foster Mcclure, Frank
Mitchell, Dorsey Whitelaw, and
Carl SchooSS.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-01
Marine Sergeant
Dies of Crash
Injury at inland

Imperial county's traffic death
toll reached five since January l
when Sergeant Ralph Levins died
at Camp Dunlap Tuesday from in
juries suffered Sunday night at Nj
land in a collision between military
equipment and a Southern Pacific
freight train.
He was a passenger in the mill
tary equipment which was driven
by Corporal Peter Lcpushansky
Marine officers expected the COR
poral to recover
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-01

I'VE know definitely that there
are 2l7,000 rounds of shotgun shells
available for Southern California,
but the problem is the method of
releasing them" declared Rudolph
Miller, secretary of the county agri-
cultural conservation association.
The problem confronting war pro-
duction board in Los Angeles IS
how" to handle the distribution.
Miller asserted on his return from
a state meeting of the agricultural
adjustment administration.
The allotment of shotgun shells
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Continued from page II
present earned income credit; car
ries generally higher excise taxes
and higher excess profits taxes
and more liberal war contract rene
gotiation provisions.
Higher postage rates are included
in the bill. Stamps for first class
local mail, now two cents an ounce,
would go up to three cents; out of
town mail would remain at three
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-01
HOBBY OBJECTIONS OUT


The measure also would preven.
individuals from claiming income
tax deductions for all losses sus-
tanned from the operation of hob
bies as business ventures.
The new income tax provisions
would add 1854 100000 10 the tax
burden Of individuals. This net in
crease resulted from elimination of
the 10 per cent earned income cred
il in existing law and Inauguration
Of a flat three per cent victory tax
rate, regardless of family status,
on all net incomes over S624 a year.
The present victory tax rate is
five per cent gross which is reduced
by a system of credits to 3.75 per
cent for single persons. three per
cent for married persons, with 4
further reduction of one-tenth Of
one per cent for each dependent.
Corporation tax rates would re-
main unchanged but excess profits
taxes would be boosted from 90 %
95 per cent.
While the conferees agreed on
boosting most excise taxes, they
rejected house proposal to tax
parimutuel betting five per cent
of the total wagers placed.
Amendments 10 the war contract
renegotiation law were among the
last issues settled. The conferees
set next Dec. 81 as the date on
which renegotiation will end on
new and incompleted portions of
old contracts. The president would
be authorized to vary that date by
six months either way, dependen-
on the return of normal competitive
price conditions.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-01
Shells Allotment
Puzzles WPB

comes under a special allotment,
Miller said, but the method of re-
lease is in doubt.
Imperial county farmers have
been calling my office telling me
of the damage that is being done
their crops, he declared. For thai
reason it is imperative that we get
that allotment through as soon as
possible.
A special allotment was made
the county last year of 10000
rounds of shotgun shells for killing
wildlife damaging crops.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-01
LEAVES ga GRIND
CHILDREN

MENA, Ar. rep. l (UP) =
James H. Sexton, a native of North
Carolina and a resident of Polk
county for 40 years, died recently
at the age of IS, leaving l64 grand
children. When Sexton died he lett
Uncle Sam 20 grandsonS and 10
great-grandsons in the armed fore
es. His descendants included 6S
grandchildren, "a great-grandchil-
dren and one great-great-9rand-
child.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-01
Session S Bills
Wait Signature
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those of prison wardens must be
confirmed by the senate.
3-An adult authority" composed
of three men at $4,000 a year each,
TO fix prison terms, grant paroles
and advise the governor on pardons
and communications.
Am 11-member board Of cor
rections, including two members of
the present state board of prison
directors. two women members from
the board of trustees of Tehachapi
prison, the director of corrections
and members of the adult and youth
authorities.
5-Abolition Of the advisory board,
the state board of prison terms and
paroles and the department of Pc
nology.
6-Relegation of the board of
prison directors TO function of an
advisory board to the director of
corrections.
HOW LAWMAKERS VOTED
The prison bill was ready for
Warren's signature following final
passage of a joint conference report
So to 13 in the assembly and 33 to
3 in the senate.
In both houses Warren's sup
porters had heavy majorities on all
votes but one. This was the senate
confirmation Of Julian H. Alec, San
Francisco to a 10-year appointment
on the state board of prison direc-
tors. His appointment was con-
firmed by a bare majority of q
to 13. Senate rules require at least
q votes for confirmation.
Alco announced in San Francisco
that he was grateful TO the senate
and the governor for confidence
in my integrity" when he heard his
confirmation had been approved.
At the last minute, the senate
killed a resolution by Senator John
F. Shelley, Cd, San Francisco.
which would have called on the
federal government to provide and
distribute a uniform ballot TO
soldiers.
Senator George j. Hatfield, Mer-
ced, voiced republican objections TO
the resolution by saying he didn't
want the federal government fur
ther to encroach on states rights
by taking over election powers"
Both houses adopted resolutions
asking congress to airmail ballots
to and from serVicemen.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-01
MORE HOPS PLANTED

SALEM, Ore. Feb. ! tUPl =
Willamette Valley hop growers es-
innate 1000 additional acres would
be planted to hops in 1914. in view
of an exceptionally heavy current
demand and forecasts for a good
market. The Marion county record
ers office reported SO contracts for
hops had been filed by one dealer.
Most contracts were based on d
five-year period.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-01
BATTERY

CAMP ROBERTS, Calf. Feb. /
(UP)-Pvt. Alexander Dumas, for
mer Chicago truck driver and des-
cendant Of the famous French nov
eliss, began training here, and
along with some fellow soldiers,
added a literary flavor to Battery
A, 5ith Training Battalion. Others
are Sgt. Alfred Tennyson, Lodi,
Cal, descendant of his namesake,
and Sgt. Tiburcio Cervantes, West-
wood. Cal.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-01
NAZI RADIO GOES
SOUTHERN

CONWAY, Ark. Feb. l tUP) -
S-Sgt Robert C. Allison has writ
ten friends from Sardinia that Ger
man propaganda broadcasts use an
nouncers with Southern accents" "
Allison wrote. Some Of the stuff
these squareheads put out over the
radio Is enough TO choke cow
Berlin plays Yankee Doodle at the
beginning and end of their pro-
grams for us Yanks."
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-01
FARM CENTER
WILL MEET

The Calipatria-Niland farm GEN.
ter will meet in Hoober hall in
Calipatria at D. m. Thursday.
County Farm Advisor Frank Bey-
schlag will talk on the subject, Soil
Salinity Control and Fertilization.
The Calipatria bond committee
will accept applications for bonds,
all sales going 10 the credit of the
Farm Bureau. Motion pictures will
be shown and refreshments served.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-01
U!iimatuln Faces
Franco on War
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about to sever diplomatic relations
with the axis powers not worthy
of detailed comment" in a radio
dispatch recorded here.
Competent Berlin circles believe
that Spain is a country to which
national dignity always has been
of the highest value" DNB said
Those who believe Franco Spain Is
no longer faithful to that principle
are making a mistake"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-01
GETS PROMOTION

SACRAMENTO, Feb. |. CUP) :
James S. Dean of Sacramento
stepped up from deputy director of
finance to director of the depart
ment Tuesday as the resignation
OF John F.. Hassler, former city
manager, became effective. Dean,
former Sacramento city manager,
mas been the policy deputy under
Hassler, who resigned to become
a vice president of the Bank of
Commerce in Oakland.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-01
WILL BE TRIED

John l.. Lewis will be tried be-
fore a superior court jury next
Monday on a morals charge in
volving a 12-year-old girl He
pleaded not guilty Tuesday.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-01
Big Steel Plant Reported
Destined for Russia

and is ideally located from pro-
duction standpoint" McCarran said
I'VE are going to do all we can to
stop such outright destruction of
American industry"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-01
DIVORCE GRANTED

A final divorce was granted Mon
day in Imperial county superior
court to Ayleene NJ. Johnson from
Elmo F. Johnson.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-01

WPB plans to shut it down, dis
Union.
This plant is i'll touch with the
great natural resources of the west
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-01

Making the
decorations
Is Rear Adm.
w. L. Friedell.
Officers receiv-
ing them are
Commander
John A. Scott
neft). Grand
RaDids, Mich.
Navy Cross;
Commander
Philip d.
Quirk, Union
County, n. j.,
Silver Cross;
1t. COmdr.
Albert H.Clark,
Washington,
Legion Of
Merit: fright
insert. 1t.
COmdr. Roger
M. Keithley,
BremertOn,
Wash,
Silver Star,
and COmdr.
Thomas NJ.
Dykers. Santa
Ana, Calf.
Navy Cross
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-01
Tax Bill Neurs
FinoI Action

cents; but airnail rates would jump
from six to eight cents an ounce.
The bill would freeze social secur-
ity taxes at the present one per
cent rate for the balance of the
year and permit the rate to in
crease to two per cent next January
/. 1t would require labor unions
and other non-profit organizations,
except bonafide fraternal bodies.
10 file non-taxe bic international
financial returns with the internal
revenue commissioner.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-01

SUES FOR DIVORCE
Beulah Lee Goddard Monday had
sued David Woodrow Goddard for
divorce, alleging extreme cruelty.
Evening star., 1944-05-10
Hollywood Has the Iitters

THE Song Of Bernadette" is goina
big with all types of audiences every
where, 2oth Century-Fox reports. 1t
will be one Of that company's big
gest money-makers for all time.
Franz Werfel is also doing quite all
right with his book. 1t has sold
more than $4,000 copies in this
country and more than 100000 in
England {. . If Mickey Rooney can
get a deferment, he'll play Andy
Hardy Joins Up" and get his scenes
over within two weeks With the
stork not due until THANKSGIVING
Ann Sothern is already shopping for
baby clothes, and is by all odds the
most enthusiastic prospective mother
in Hollyood They're determined
to make an actor out of Jose Iturbi
at MGM. and he'll do both comedy
Evening star., 1944-05-10
Where and When
Current Theoter Attroc tions
and Time Of Showing
Stage.

Stage.
NATIONAL "Rosalinda": 2:3O anc
$50 pm.
CapitoI-"Andy Hardy's Blonde
Trouble: II am. 1:45, 4:30, TIE
and 10 pm. Stage shows: 1:05, $50
6:35 and $40 pm.
Columbia-"Women of the Town,
HAS am, 1:45, 3:45, 5:45, 7:45
and 9:45 pm,
Earle - Adventures of Marx
Twain: 1890 am, 1:2o, 4:lO r
and 9;55 pm. Stage shows: 12:45
3:35, 6:25 and 900 pm.
Keith's-"Up in Arms: Ills
a m, 1:2o, 800, 5:25, 7:25 and s:3t
pm.
Little-"Seeds of Freedom: /.
am, l 80, 4. $50 and 9:05 pm.
Metropolitan-"Phantom Lady,.
11:25 am, l;3o, 3:35, 5;35, TAO anc
9;45 pm.
Palace-"See Here, Private Har.
grove: 1o:45 am, 1855, 3:O5
Sis, 7:25 and e:35 pm.
Pix-"Conga Girl: $40, 5:55, 81,
and 1925 pm.
Trans-Lux-News and shorts, con
tinuous from 10 am
Evening star., 1944-05-10
ADJUSTMENTS.
TODAYs NEIGHBORHOOD MOVIES
RuuM Bond lands at Anvil

All Time Schedules Given In Warner
Bros Ads Indicate Time Feature Is
Presented.
Evening star., 1944-05-10
BY HAROLD HEFFERNAN.
HOLLYWOOD.


Television hopes and fears are
rampant in the movie industry.
Cecil B. De Mile productions has
hoped on the bandwagon and
others are expected to follow. Mean
time, Independent Theater Owners
of America has passed resolution
stating "unalterable opposition" to
producers or distributors of movies
allowing any of their products to be
used for television purposes. Thea
ter groups tried to snuff out radio
20 years ago by just such tactics.
And look what happened No
one seems to know what's up with
the Rickenbacker life story movie,
which has taken repeated postpone
ments. Latest starting date, May
Is, now appears off. Fred Mac
Murray, said to be the likeliest can
didate for the Rick role, has started
another feature at Paramount and
Director Lloyd Bacon has taken
another assignment :. Phil Silvers
protested about a scene in Some
thing for the Girls" in which he's
supposed to slap Carmen Miranda.
He said folks wouldn't like him.
Carmen said okay, she's slap Phil
So she will.
Evening star., 1944-05-10
What Good Is $10O?'
So He Gives 1t to USO
BY the Associated Press

TROY, N. "a year ago a New
York businessman passing through
Troy saw USO workers feed SOL
diers on trains. He sent the USO q
check for 500.
The USO has just received an
other message from him. 1t read:
Il paid my Federal income tax, !
paid my State income tax. I bought
some war bonds. Then had $l04 81
left over, so I sasid to myself: What
good is $10497.?'
SO I inclose my check for $1OC
Tor ladies who get up before day.
break to feed soldiers"
Evening star., 1944-05-10


more sympathetically now, and one
to be looked at not so much by the
seeker of entertainment as by those
with an academic interest in the
movies and their usefulness as an
educational medium.
Seeds of Freedom" with English
dialogue and such American players
as Henry Hull and Aline Mcmahon
inserted into the flow of it's story, is
strictly message. 1t employees the
misunderstanding back to shots
from the original film-method to
say that the Russians who coined
the spirit of today's resistance to
the Nazis rebelled in behalf of
democracy in 1905, not in 1917 when
communism completed the triumph.
1t required some neat rewriting to
dovetail the old and the new ele-
ments in Seeds of Freedom" and
sometimes it is not neat enough to
cover the points of tapping. It's
producers have been much more sue
cessful in matching the camera work
In Wnlch the photography in pas
sages involving Mr.. Hull, the narra-
tor, look precisely like the 20-year-
old Eisenstein material. 1t Is quite a
trick and gives the film technical
fascination which, logically enough,
excels its dramatic forcefulness.
Much more interesting than per-
feet too is the trick nf adding
dialogue at this tardy date to the
original. "Potemkin" was a silent
film. Its actors were allowed the
extreme eloquence of pantomine that
is permitted by melodrama. To fit
words to their actions at this time
is an undertaking more brave than
dramatically successful, but, from
the technical view point df yours
happens to be- it is an arresting
thing to watch.
Seeds of Freedom to be pointed
Evening star., 1944-05-10

picture was finished and hit the
cutting room, his part was thrown
out entirely.
Demands for extra attention and
service are also met. A compara-
lively minor player with two words
to speak in her entire role de-
manded. and received, portable
Evening star., 1944-05-10

Iabout it. is for the downright curious
seeker of the novel in entertainment.
For the merely casual moviegoer. the
Little also offers the beguiling
companion piece, Journey for
Margaret"
The summer theater, barn drama,
or whatever alias you may find more
pleasing to the ear, may have dis
appeared in New England where
1t once was most vigorous, but not
in this jolly neighborhood.
The days mail brings the definite
news that there will be two such old,
established institutions fiourishing
in, or near, Washington when June's
long twilights come. From Neil
Linger comes word that the Cross
Roads T'heater which defied trans
portation difficulties to operate for
the past two seasons, will do so
again this year. Sophisticated
comedy will be the Cross Roads
fare again as it has been in the
past. A number of the old perform
ers will be back.
Second of the summer groups to
reopen will be the Willard Roof
Players, whose speciality has been
melodrama with all the trimmings,
including beer and boos (pun in
tended, for some obscure reason).
DIRECTOR Dick Midgley, now
wearing Navy blue, will be succeed
ed by Mrs. Dick Midgley in the
supervision of the enterprise.
Mason Terry, who knows his
operetta, agrees with much" but
not all this department said of
"Rosalinda."
The faults with the produc-
ton are to me quite obvious" he
writes, for which such high-class
music and an excellent plot, the re-
suits should have been better. But
the fault lies in the mania today
to have everything funny, assuming
that all classes of mentalties to be
entertained and interested must
laugh. Situations are overdone. or
burlesqued, in order to whip I'D
laughs and I was struck with the
fact that there was not much re-
sponse from the audience"
Mr.. Terry has a point.
Miscellany: "Up in Arms" will
remain q fourth week at Keiths
according to a telegram from
Hardie Meakin which quietly mem
tions that he will observe his 3lst
wedding anniversary today =.
And I'm just over the draft age"
he adds . Which draft age?
Lowell Thomas and Lew Lehr.
courtesy Movietone News, will be
honor guests, and speakers. at Va
riety Clubs Mothers Day lunch
con on Monday Claude Nor
gan. Nicholas Joy, and Estelle VIM
wood have been engaged to COM
plete the cast of THE Little In
dians," Agatha Christie mystery
which comes to the National June
5 The auspices are those of
Lee Shubert and Albert de Cour-
vile Heaven Can Wait"
George Washington University's
Cue and Curtain production for
May, opens tonight at Wardham
Park Theater And, if Margie
Allison, who left us the critics
tickets therefor, will call for it, she
can have her bathing cap which
looked strange lying in the middle
OF a drama desk Press repre-
sentatives have left other items
such as brief cases. case goods of
various kinds, but Miss AS is the
first bathing cap.
Evening star., 1944-05-10
Russians Remodel 'Potemkin,
Premiere Showing at Little
By JAY CARM0DY.

Those a people the Russians have found another
testing their ingenuity in wokng their famous old silent film Poem
Freedom
picture has remodeed and which
giving its Washington premiere today
and probably shall be- the
Evening star., 1944-05-10

and drama in Music for Millions,
in which he has one of the top roles
NJ
These are palmy days for the
actors, especially those names on
the free-lance lists. Well-known
character actor received SIS 900 for
a two-day role recently. When the
Evening star., 1944-05-10
ADJUSTMENTS.

Buy more bonds and bring victory
closer.
Evening star., 1944-05-10

dressing room, which was placed
right alsongside the dressing room
of the pictures star.
tReleased by the North American !.
Newspaper Alliance, Inc.,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-05
Gertrude Wilson
To Give Recital

THE ROBERT NOLAN
SCHOOL OF MUSIC Will present
Gertrude Wilson, 17-ycar-old dra-
matte soprano, m a recital at the
Detroit Institute OF Arts Tuesday
at $50 p. m Miss Wilson has
been studying voice with Celeste
Cole for the last two years and
has Just recently returned from
Chicago where she won the ma
tional first PRIZE in the Scarch-tor-
Talent Contest sponsored there.