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The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1944-11-16

Maryland's new five-judge Court
of Appeals, authorized by the voters
in last weeks election, will not be a
reality until several years hence, al
though it becomes effective January
l next The reason is that the
amendment provides that no elected
judge of the present eight-judge ap-
pellate court shall be removed from
the court until he reaches the re-
tirement age of 70, the end of his
elective term, or, of course, dies.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1944-11-16

A reduction of Is per cent has
been effected in the fire insurance
rates on the coverage of some $780,
100000 worth of State buildings, in
situations and their contents at a
saving of approximately $4,000 a
year, Hooper S. Miles, State Treas
urer, disclosed Thursday.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1944-11-16
CONFUSING BUT AMUSING

Post Office Department officials re-
Gently issued bulletin advising Army
and Navy personnel in the San Diego,
Cal, area that mail was being de-
posted in trash boxes on street corners
throughout the city. Servicemens ap-
parently mistook the trash boxes for
street letter boxes.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1944-11-16
cHocoLATE-coATED CRISIS

m, f5- III CHOCOLATE COATED CRISIS
L/T6 an The dive bomber, because of a broken oil
f1V2SSTK line, forced down in the South Pa
SNNSNMY%SC cifc miles from anywhere. The radOman-
gunner broke out a Iife-raft, and just be-
plane sank, looked pilot
faring during the critical moments There he was
said the radiOman gunner climbing out of the plane with
the plotting board in one hand and box of sandy in
the other"
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1944-11-16
NAVY INTELLIGENCE

NAVY INTELLIGENCE
The three white stripes sailors collar don't stand for
anything at all The United States Navy is the only
in the world which never has had mutiny Be-
he his right hand to pipe officers the side
the bosn is allowed to salute with his left hand The
rank of commodore recently restored to the u Navy
equivalent to brigader general in the Army
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1944-11-16

Pvt Quentin Norris, son of Mr..
and Mrs. E. E. Norris, 118 Alexander
street, has been reported wounded
in action in the European war zone,
and is now in hospital in France.
Private Norris was wounded ear
lier in the invasion, but recovered
and was able to rejoin his unit.
The date of his second wound was
not announced.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1944-11-16

Cpl. Ralph ". Myers, son of Mrs
Maize V. Myers, Clear Spring, Rt. 1
has been reported wounded ir
action in France on October 26
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1944-11-16
BUILD A BETTER MOUSE TRAP


At Pacific base, Marine his crystal
repair facilities hand
fully faced the fact that he would be without the his
piece But browsing through the post exchange he got idea.
He bought transparent plastic cigarette
and with his pocketkne fashioned crystal that fit
watch perfectly swaped with his
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1944-11-16
lust WARMING UP FOR MAIN EVENT

VW{ EGp just
EASMS A Marine sergeant, light-heavyweght boxing
N@$N champion of this artillery unit, had battle
SI@T when he and acknowledgements went ashore in
49, the invasion of Saipan. He wearing a black
eaaz&% eye handed him by American sailor during
shipboard the
nevertheless
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1944-11-16

During the past week the follow
ing local and county war casualties
have been reported:
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1944-11-16
CANNED GOODS

Blue stamps, A8 through 70
and AS through WIS, in
Book No. 4, are good now.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-31
Postwar Plans
Make Headway

Continued from Page One)
political subdivisions back on their
own resources, which generally are
non-eXistent today, and on federal
aid, it was pointed out.
STILL IN DOUBT
How much the state will appro-
pirate to subdivisions, and to which
subdivisions it will appropriate, and
in what proportion was another
question raised. The state has cer-
tain projects of its own afoot, main
ly the improvement of certain rivers
and about 20 miles cf state-owned
cost-line. 1t also is interested in the
improvement of the entire state
coast-line, notably as an attraction
to tourist trade, and probably will
be generous with maritime counties
for this reason.
q Further, Les Angeles with its 81
representative in the state assem-
bly,, and San Francisco with its
eight, undoubtedly will insist on the
appropriation of postwar funds on
a population basis, whereas the Cow
counties" will seek appropriation on
a tax contribution basis, the speak
ers said The tax basis would entitle
Imperial county to or per cent of
the $900,000,000 which may be dis
tributed, or $6,300000.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-31
SERVICE

Pea harvest is practically over
and but a light movement may be
expected out of the San Joaquin
Valley during the next two weeks.
Harvest Cf the tomato crop in the
central areas of the state is over. A
few cars may be expected out of the
Imperial Valley toward the middle
of the month.
AID TO WHEAT SHIPMENTS
To enable sellers to dispose of
wheat outside their normal market
ing areas and thus facilitate the
movement of grain to points where
it is needed because of shortages of
war-made demands, the Office of
Price Administration has authorized
producers, country shippers and
merchandisers Of wheat to add
transportation costs to their basic
ceiling prices at shipping points
The authorization becomes effective
December 4.
The new pricing method-use of
the point of origin ceiling price plus
freight-is an optional pricing meth
od, which may be used at the cleo
ton of the seller. UP to now wheat
has been priced on a delivered basis,
that is, at a delivered price, which
includes transportation expenses
This method of pricing has proved
satisfactory on sales within the
sellers usual marketing area. How
ever, when wheat is sold to a buyer
at some point outside the sellers
usual marketing territory. frequent
ly more transportation expense is
required than the seller can fairly
absorb.
GROWTH IN BEEF CATTLE
Importance of continuous growth
in beef cattle is the subject of a
new bulletin of the Agricultural Ex-
pertinent Station University of Cal
ifornia, which will be of special in
terest to cattlemen of Imperial
county.
"A major problem CT cattle pro-
ducers in California is how best to
utilize the natural vegetation" says
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-31
Shoe Rafioning
Due to Tighten
Throughout 1q45

WASHINGTON, Dec. so. CUP)-
Drastic tightening of the shoe ra-
tioning program was forecast Sat
urday by informed persons who
said purchasers may be limited to
che pair Of shoes every eight months
or so.
The present ration is one pair of
shoes approximately every six
months, and the valuation date for
new ration stamp was scheduled
to be next May /.
Under the more stringent civilian
war policy now prevailing, OPA
sources said another shoe ration
stamp will not be validated before
midsummer or possibly later.
OPA officials said. however, that
they did not anticipate invalidation
Of current shoe stamps.
1t was believed that the OPA
would follow its drastic food ra-
tioning action of this week with an
early announcement that a cut is
due in ratione6 footwear.
The major reason for the expect
ed cut is anticipated falling off of
production of civilian footwear as
military requirements for shoes and
other leather products go up. There
also have been reports of heavy
buying of shoes by consumers who
feared invandation of their ration
coupons after invalidation of fooc
ration stamps earlier this week.
Airplane stamps l, and 3 now
are good for shoe purchases. 1t is
not believed that the OPA will
change its policy of providing extra
shoe stamps for children since the
already has announced
a program calling for greatly STEP
ped-up production OF children's
shoes next year.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-31

Truck crop movement as of De-
cember as given by the California
Crop and Livestock Reporting Serv-
ice follows:
Artichokes should hold at about
present levels during the fore part
of December but available supplies
depend upon favorable weather and
lack of serious frost.
Bean harvest is about complete in
all areas, with the exception of the
Coachella Valley which is furnish
ing supplies for local markets.
Broccoli should continue fairly
plentiful, and shipments should hold
at close to present levels during the
month of December.
Cabbage should be in more plenti-
full supply during December, with
most of the cabbage available in the
southern areas of the state.
Carrot growers are harvesting to
full capacity and as fast as the con-
dition of their fields permit. 1t is
expected that the rail volume will
hold at present levels during the
next few weeks.
Cauliflower shipments should re-
main at present levels with lighter
rail shipments out of southern Cali
fornia, but with a heavier movement
from the coastal counties.
Celery shipments will remain steady
and be fairly heavy during the fore
part CT December. The bulk of the
movement will come from the delta
area, but substantial shipments are
expected out of the Salinas and
Guadalupe districts of the central
coast.
Lettuce harvest is practically over
in the coastal districts, with late
paintings in the San Joaquin Valley
being used mainly for local markets.
The Imperial Valley NOV m n t
should start within a few days, but
will not be heavy during the month
of December.
The late onion crop is at the pres
ent time moving out of storage. De-
cember shipments should be lighter.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-31

Farm Advisor George Winright.
Figures from a recent study given in
this new bulletin show that 70 per
cent of California's 1912 beef pro-
duction was derived from range fer
age, field cleanup and the hay pro-
duction that is integral part of the
range cattle business. Beef cattle
utilize and convert into human food
the forage production from an esti-
mated 40,000,000 acres of range
lands, amounting to 40 per cent of
the land area of the state"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-31
Chaplin Case Nears Finish

Miss Barry's attorney, Joseph E
Scott, that Chaplin was a reptile
q liar, a Svengah, a buzzard, a
lecherous hound, and a cockneyed
cad.
Scott decided yesterday not TO
call Miss Barry back to the stand
as a rebuttal witness and launched
into a two and a half hour speech
to the jury, in which he said his
client also was guilty in the bed
room romances which led her to
motherhood, but reminded them
that the suit was brought in behalf
Of her child, who is entitled to sup
port from its father, regardless of
the guilt of its mother.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-31

GLOBE, Ariz., Dec. 30. CUP)-
Death has claimed the second vic
tim of a Christmas Day shooting
in barroom hc"e.
Edward S. Williams, SIS, a veteran
of World War I, died at Gila county
hospital Friday from a stomach
wound suffered when he was shot
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-31

HOLLYWOOD. Dec. 80. CUP)-
4 New Years recess Saturday de-
layed Attorney Charles E. CPat)
Millikan's defense CT Charlie Chap
IN In the last round of Joan Barry's
paternity suit.
II Will be Tuesday before Mill-
ken replies to the accusations of
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-31
Second Shooting Victim Dies

by U. L. Holley, s5-year-old Negro.
Morgan Nelson. who provoked the
shooting by refusing to serve Hol-
ley drink, died en- route to the
hospital shortly after he was shot.
Two other bystanders were less ser
iously wounded.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-31
DEGREES GRANTED

An interlocutory divorce decree
was granted in Imperial county
superior court Friday to Lois Grace
Bonesteele from Leroy R. Bone
steele. A similar cecree was granted
to Carl A. Myers in the suit against
Beulah Ruth Myers.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-31
SUE FOR DIVORCE

Divorce complaints were filed in
El Centre Friday by Georgia Anna
Matthews against Charles Ernest
Matthews and by Alfred H. Moore
against Catherine Anne Moore.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-31

Cary Grants new movie, The
Greatest Gift" gets under way jan
uary IS. David Hampstead will pro-
duce.
Evening star., 1944-09-26
By HAROLD HEFFERNAN.
HOLLYWOOD.

StllulOlu Jdlduc,
George Murphy, new president OF
the Screen Actors Guild, is engi-
neering proposed contract changes
that would make the life of a screen
actor paradise by comparison with
today's standards.
! Most vital is a clause that would
give the actor cut in the amount
of money a studio gets for loaning
him to another lot. Many actors
shooting up suddenly are rented
| to other studios at 10 times the
weekly wage they receive on their
home lots.
Some independent producers, In
fact, have been earning a swell liv-
ing without making movies. They
own live-Wire human chattels and
profit immensely by concentrating
on loan-outs.
Until few weeks ago when his
contract was adjusted, one promi-
nent character actor was drawing
$500 a week for himself but studios
paid as much as $1,000 a week for
his services.
And that, according to Mr.
Murphy and his association, ain t
cricket.
Cary Grant is one actor who is
quietly performing brilliant job on
the Purple Heart circuit. Most
of Cary spare time is spent visiting
service hospitals in the Los Angeles
area. Wounded men are asked If
they would like to talk to relatives
back in the old home town Almost
all of them do and the toll charges
go on Grants bill, which sums up
to a very neat total each month.
X
The monthly paper of Northern
High Schools journalism class in
Detroit was little late in going to
press but they got the facts
Pete Daley. head of Universal's S
publicity department In Hollywood,
picked up his phone the other day
and the operator said, Detroit call
Evening star., 1944-09-26

the dogs. Miss Franken will have to
share the credit for the ability OF
her comedy to rise above its defects
with a number of others. Most of
all she must share it with Martha
Scott, a young actress of charm,
Frieda 1neScort, a more mature ac-
tress with charm, and Glenn Anders
and Myron Mccormick, couple of
male players who know their way
about an old-fashioned. living room
Soldiers Wife," produced by VIII
liam Brown Meloney, makes a grab
at the problem of eStrangement in
marriages that have been inter-
rupted by the war, but it is at its
best when it forgets that complex
problem and becomes a kind of
wartime sequel to Claudia" What
ever may have been Miss Franken's
intention with reference to the
deeper theme of her play, her pub
lie will settle with her for the
Claudia flavor-and leave it to
time and events to settle the graver
matters Her Kate Rogers, once
she gets her hands on the play in
the second act, is warm, caprici-
Gus, lovable mink, endlessly winning
when she is saying sophistication be
damned, what she wants is husband,
baby and home.
That is good human substance on
which to build comedy. far super
ior to psychic race horses, Brooklyn
poker clubs, and wartime biology in
London which have been the themes
this season until Soldiers Wife"
came along
1t is hard on Miss Franken's play
that it starts off with the implica-
ton that it is going to be a solemn
examination of what wartime sep
aration means and what is to be
done about it. In such a play the
husband, home from the horrors of
battle, would have to be a much
more highly accented character.
Here he is just pipe-smoking gent
who settles back in about 20 minutes
to become an amused witness to
the spectacle of his giddy wife being
suddenly best-selling author. You
settle back with him and are even
more amused, the problem entirely
forgotten for the time being.
There may be those who hope Miss
Franken some day will get Claudia
out of her system. We are not one
of them We like the feather
Drained, beautiful young female.
whose dizzy facade is the complete
denial of the wisdom and emotion
that lie deep inside her For her
Miss Franken can write dialogue
that is not endlessly clever, but IS
brighter wittier and wiser than most
of the chatter that goes on behind
todays footlights. She hardly will
come up with the solution of the
wars marital aftermath through
such character-which is more
involved than is intimated in
Evening star., 1944-09-26
Murphy Plans a New Deal

ing" 1t was Detroit all right, and
one Mary Kanite. on the other end
of the wire, asked, Are you sure
Turhan Bey and Susanna Foster
aren't married?"
Daley answered, mo, they're not
mSrried-yes, I'm sure and then
asked cautiously. ARE you calling
collect?"
NO" said Mary, we're ready to
go to press and just heard the rumor
We had to check the facts"
And so the beginning and end
OF a typical Hollywood rumor.
Close-ups: Most important things
to soldiers in the South Pacific, ac-
cording to recently returned Jack
Benny, are % mail from home,
90 movies, 49, transcribed shows
like Command Performance" and
Mail CALI and 81 the visits Of en-
tertainers. Watching its ex-
tended runs throughout the country,
Paramount executives now revise
their estimated gross on Going MY
Way?" to $4,000 900. Some even
think 1t will approach the $50, 0,0OO.-
600 record mark established by
Gone With the Wind" George
Sanders minor illness last week was
the first which prevented him from
reporting for work in all his years
IN HOLLYWOOD. 1t. John Howard.
who was reported engaged to Hedy
Lamar before she married John
Loder and before Howard went over
seas IN njpocu,oooor 3S h,ol, l.,
this country and may be in Holly
wood soon. Howard was the towns
NO. bachelor. >. Sidney Toler is
taking no chances on his revived
career as Charlie Chan at Mono
gram.' He has written a new Chan
screen play which the studio has
accepted.
Strange things occur in the name
OF technicolor. Several tons of
beach sand hauled up from the
ocean for scenes in Thrill of a
Romance" at MGM, had to be
cleaned and dyed so it would photo
graph in its natural color. In
the same picture, Van johnson takes
no chances on his romance with
Esther Williams going sour. While
he makes love. Opera Star Iauritz
Melchior sings Please Don't Saw
No" while Tommy Dorsey's expen-
sive band plays the music.
X \ X
Fashion note: Greer Carson is
wearing the biggest black hat and
Joan Crawford the shortest bob in
HOLLYWOOD. 49,
tReleased by the North American
Newspaper Alliance. Inc
Evening star., 1944-09-26
Little to Offer
Premiere Tonidht

A Washington premiere Of Voice
In the Wind" starring Francis Led
erer, will be presented for the bene.
fit of France Forever at the Little
lheater tonight at 9 pm. In addi-
ton to the feature a French re-
slstance short entitled "Ceux du
Maquis' will be shown. All seats
are reserved.
Evening star., 1944-09-26
Where and When
Current Thsotes Attractions
and Time Of Showina

| and Time OF Showing
Stage.
National-"Soldier's Wife: $50
pm.
Capitol-"Wilson":: $50 am,
1875, $40. 6:45 and $50 pm. Stage
shows: 1918. 800. 6:25 and $50 p.m.
Columbia Double Indemnity:
ll:50 am, ais, 4:40, 7:05 and $40
pm.
Earle-"The Impatient Years.:
II am, las, 4::3O, 7:15 and 10 pm.
Stage shows: los, $50, 6:35 and
$40 pm.
Keith's-"Casanova Brown: 11:15
am, 1:3o, $40, 5:35. TBS and 9:40
pm.
Little-"Mr. w: 11:20 am. 1:40,
$50 and 6 pm. Voice in the Wind"
premiere, 8 pm.
Metropolitan-"Janie": IL M, 2:4O,
S, 7:20 and 9:45 pm.
Palace-"Sinc You Went Away:
$50 am, 1880, $3.50, $50 and $50
pm.
Pix-"Kiss Of Fire: $40, 5:35,
7:50 and 1915 pm.
Trans-Lux-News and shorts, con-
tinuous from 10 am.
Evening star., 1944-09-26
Crowther to Speak
Before Local Group

Bosley Crowther, motion picture
critic Of the New York Times and
former chairman Of the New York
critics, will be guest speaker at q
luncheon meeting sponsored by the
Once Of War Information Wednes-
day, September ~. at 1890 in the
Rose Room of the Washington
Hotel. Mr.. Crowther has been with
the Times l6 years. and in addi-
ton to the drama, has served in
many capacities during that time.
Evening star., 1944-09-26

SOLDIERS WIFE" 4 comedy drama
by Rose Franken IN three acts with Mar:
by Miss Frarken. with setting BY Raymond
Sovey. At the National
The Cast
Evening star., 1944-09-26

Anders' chore, and an excellent
finish he gives it.
AS the husband who does not have
time to be maladjusted, McCor-
mick Is reliable fellow to have
around, judgment which applies
to Miss Inescort and to Lii Darvas,
who gives one of those lacquered,
and relacquered, success women the
works.
Raymond Sovey designed the old
fashioned living room which goes 50
cozily with Soldiers Wife" once it
gets past the problem and becomes
unpretentiouSly a domestic comedy.
Evening star., 1944-09-26

Soldiers Wife"-but she can skirt
some of its happier manifestations.
What actually seems to have
happened in Miss Franken's play Is
that her problem was kicked out
the window the instant Kate Rogers
got her husband inside the door. II
ever there was type to make a man
forget the wild crescendo of war in
favor of the chaotic minutiae of
apartment life, plus a sudden SEN
satlonal literary success which she
Is totally unable to comprehend,
Kate would be the girl Between the
baby, the baby's teeth, the sudden
catastrophe of being the kind who
is interviewed by the sophisticated
press, and promoted by the canny
success set. Kate is in furore which
SO engrosses her husband that he
might as we'll never have had a
military past and a wound In the
abdomen
This, we insist, will be quite all
right with every one except possibly
Miss Franken and If she would
change her first act accordingly, it
would be even better.
AS We need not say again, Miss
Scott is blessed with an engaging
role which she plays to the hilt.
Next to her the playwright has
done best by another type who never
is let down by her, the jaded gent
of cafe society who has a kind Of
weary yearning to write plays which
he sublimates by talking like one of
his own bitter characters. He would
not mind wrecking home, even one
which he finds drearily conventional
and badly decorated, in his quest
for excitement, but when the light
really hits him, he is still able to
recognize it. This lad Is Mr..
Evening star., 1944-09-26
National Gets a Cozy Comedy,
Mixed Lightly With Drama
By JAY CARMODY.

laughter heard National
feel he had had
others hmpng comparatively speaking
Soldiers
Completely