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2 Fridoy, December 15, 1944 ghe CalttOtltfan Little Hope for More Smokes Before V-Day WASHINGTON, Dec. 15. (Senate investigators are about con; vlnced today that the way to end the cigarette shortage is by winning the war. As long as the war lasts, Senator Ferguson (R-Mich.) summed up, there's little that can be done to bolster civilian stocks, and the crisis will become more acute. "It looks as though the smokers will have to hurry victory along by putting their money behind the soldiers and sailors through bond purchases," he told a reporter.

Ferguson, Chairman Mead CD- Is. and other members of the war investigating committee who conducted two days of hearings to determine the cause of it all, and the solution, if any, rested from their labors today. Their next step, said Mead, is "to digest the testimony." Admittedly there is little of a digestible nature, from the smoker's viewpoint. Usually ready with a bill when the occasion demands, senators couldn't think of one thru would come up with more cigarettes promptly. HOT SALE OKLAHOMA CITY, Dec.

15. Hundred? of persons lined up to advantage of one of the hottest fir" sales in fire extinguishers, sponsored by the fire department. Fire Chief G. R. McAlpIno said the extinguishers, purchased by the civilian defense corps-- earlier in the war, couldn't be sold because they were allocated by the government.

Popularity of the items heightened after word passed mound that they would make good garden sprayers-. formerly iiitd only by physicians, hospitals and industrial clinics the same tcientific product used in many in- JL dortrial clinics to combat absenteeism caused by common bead colds. Now you can buy TOPACOLD at all druggists. ToPAOOLO is differcnt-compleUly different-from anything yott have ever tried before. Actual records show that in the majority of when TOFACOLD waauaed, the patients were regarded as clinically cured upon re-examination next day.

But remember: TOPACOLO mtul be uted within 14 hours of the start of the common head cold. Don't let a head cold keep you Ifrom your job. Keep a supply of TOPACOLO on hand at all times. It may be used on both adults and children. TOPACOLD DO STORIt Date for Meeting of Big Three Set Continual From Pane One ai-p spending lavishly of our blood and treasure in the wnr ami we have a right to a voice in the peace terms which follow, That right must not be denied." President Roosevelt has arranged for his customary Christmas Eve broadcast to his countrymen.

Tie must hi.s annual and budget messages to Congress the first week in January. Ho must be on hand -0 for his fourth-term Although it. too, may bo unlikely, another meeting between tho President and Churchill somewhere be- twprn these dates is not precluded. I The British prime minister spent I his Christmas In this, country. He could get hero easily in time for another.

And certainly enough purely Anglo-American arc-as of disagreement have developed since the President and Churchill last met In Sep- lomber to justify their hoping for some solutions in their Christinas stockings. Yrt there are factors operating against another immediate meeting of the two. They would not, for instance, Russia to get an impression they were ganging up, or seeking a solid array of plans and opinions, In advance of a conference with Stalin. FINLAND WANTS TO PAY Dec. War-liruised Finland is reported willing to pay another semi-annual installment on her debt to the United Stales today.

But whether Hie, I'nited States vlll accept it is uncertain. June 15. when the last payment was made, this country has broken diplomatic relations, with the Finns. Story Behind Suicide of Lupe Velez Revealed we-l mother or ''murder" the infant. "It's my baby," she told Eslelle Taylor, former wife of Jack Demp- xry.

"I could have done away with It. But I couldn't commit murder and still live. I would a-ather kill myself." Forty minutes later, at 4 a. m. yesterday, the 34-year-old "Mexican Spitfire" said good night to Mi.ss Taylor and Mrs.

Jack Oakie, wife of the screen comedian, put on a pair of robin's egg blue silk pajamas, and took a lethal dose of sleeping pills. She tucked a pair of to her secretary and one to her sweetheart, Harold the nearly bottle and slipped into the mammoth silk- sheeted bed. A little over five hours later, shortly before she was to see her manager about an appointment with a doctor, the secretary found her body. Ramond, 27, an Austrian-born Frenrh actor, said he was astounded. "1 can't understand why she broke our engagement," he said.

"She had told 'me we were going to have a child, and I was very happy. Then on Saturday she said she was not going to have a child and asked for her ring one she had given me to measure for a wedding ring. "I loved her very much and wanted to marry her. We just couldn't agree on the date." Autopsy Surgeon Victor Sefalu said Miss Velez definitely was about to become a mother. Dr.

Ed Gourson, Beverly Hills police surgeon, said a preliminary examination showed she was to become a mother in a few months. It was this realization and the failure of Ramond to marry the Mexican ac- Continued From Page One THERE'S ONLY ONE lElfER IUY IN IONDS WAR BONDS GLBNMORE DISTILLERIES COMPANY Incorportted C. LOUISVILLE. KENTUCKY tress, Mlis Taylor said, which drove Miss Velez to suicide. The note she left for Ramond was bitter and tragic, it said: "May God forgive you and forgive me too, but I prefer to take my life away nnd my baby's before I bring him with shame or kill him.

How could you, Harold, fake such great love for me and our baby when all the time you didn't want us. Love. Lupe." Her manager, Bo Roos, said Ramond had proposed a mock ceremony. "I had an appointment to talk to her at 10 o'clock yesterday," Roos said, "but by then she was dead. "We who loved'her can be grateful for one way she chose to die.

She just went to sleep." The note to the secretary, Miss Beulah Kinder, said: "You and you alone know the facts and the reason why I am taking my own life. Forgive me and don't think bad of me "Her note to Ramond explains what she meant." the grief- stricken Miss Kinder said. "I can't add anything to it. No funeral arrangements were made pending the arrival of a sister, Mrs. Josephine Anderson, from San Antonio, Texas.

Miss Velez' mother was ill at San Luis Potosi, Mexico. She left an estate, valued at between $100,000 and $200,000 to Miss Kinder, and her family, which included her mother, three sisters and a brother. POSTPONED MARRIAGE FOR HI SINKSS ENGAGEMENT HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 15. Harold Ramond, handsome, 27- year-old French film actor, named by Lupe Valez as the father of her unborn child over whom she killed herself, said today he loved Lupe and knew about the child "but I didn't know what to do." The debonair actor, native of Austria, but of French parentage, said he had taken out American citizenship papers and was worried about the outcome of the tragedy.

"I loved her very said. "Only I told her I couldn't marry her for the next 10 days or so because I had several business engagements." Ramond said he met 1 tempestuous Mexican about a year ago on the set of "Frenchman's Creek," in which he was a French pirate. She came to visit Arturo de Cordova, a countryman, but was fascinated by the delicate manners of the artistic Austrian. "The first I heard of her, outside of her international reputation, was when she called me and said she admired my performance and wanted to see me in person," he explained. PLAID SHIRTS We used to call them but now even the girls arc wearing them.

We have a very fine large assortment at the present time.Colors... bright and or subdued tones to fit most any taste or purpose. 5.951018.50 FIZSNO AMD RABIES CLINICS SET FOR KERN DOG OWNERS URGED TO PROTECT PETS Dr. William C. Buss, Kern county health officer, today advised dog owners to have their'pefs vaccinated against rabies.

Clifford Baughman. chief sanitarian, announced that at the beginning of the new year, the sanitation division 'of the Kern county health department will conduct rabies vaccination clinics throughout the county. The. dates have been set for vac cination clinics from January 6 through February 1. Clinic Sites The dates and places for such clinics will be as follows: January 6, Taft fire station; January 7, Fellows fire station, -from 1:30 to 4 p.

m. at Derby Acres Service Station; Janu ary 8, Maricopa fire house and Me Kittrick fire station; January 9, Old River Richfield Station, Pumpkin Center fruit stand: Greenfield fire house; January 10, Rockwells Station at Rosedale, Eagles' Service Station at Fruitvale; January 11, Tupman, in the Elk Hills store, the flrehouse In Buttonwillow: January 12, Lost Hills flrehouse and the Pond post office; January 13, Weed Patch Garage and Lamont fire station; January 14, Ar vln fire station, the DIGiorgio Farms office: January 15, McFarland county yard and Wasco fire station; Janu ary 17, Shatter fire station January 18, Wheeler Ridge Switzers' garage and at Frazier Park store. January 19, Niles Point flrehouse, Edison flrehouse; January 20, Oildale firehouse, Southgate Wayside store and Mayflower at Jack Craig garage; January 22, Casa Loma. Per kins Norris School Garage January 23, Culiente store, Four Corners; January 24, La Cresta fire house; January 25, Glennville Gen eral store, Woody post office; Jan nary 27, Tohachupi Bartlett Rich field station; January 28, Mojave fire station; January 29, Rosamonc Texaco service station, Amargo Slg nal service station; January 30 Randsburg fire station, Ridgecrest post office, Inyokern sheriff's office and February 1, KernyUle fire house. Kern county ordinance No.

198 re quires the tagging and vaccination of all dogs each year, Doctor Buss said. is the one disease which is always fatal to man. There is no record of recovery after the symptoms of tho disease once appear. It is 100 per cent fatal. "It is often erroneously believed lat rabies is most prevalent during he so-called "dog days" of August.

a matter of fact, rabies Is gener- lly more prevalent at other seasons the year. Climatic factors, such temperature and humidity, play part whatsoever in the rise and all of rabies. Doctor Buss urges the co-opera- on of all dog owners in the vac- inatlon of the animals against abies. MAY FLY AGAIN PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 15.

The first American flag to fly over 13-starred banner raised in 853 by Commodore Tiake a return visit with General Douglas MacArthur. The board of trustees of the At- vatcr Kent museum, where the tat- ered relic is now on display, are lonsiderlng the proposal that it be ent to MacArthur to accompany ilm on his invasion of "the land of he rising sun." Churchill Favors Russian Claims Continued From Page One President Roosevelt and Marshal Stalin to meet him "at the earliest possible moment." Apparently distraught over diplomatic developments which have raised differences among the United Natiorls, the prime minister confessed disappointment that it had "been found impossible to arrange any meeting of the three great powers." (This coincided with a copyright Associated Press dispatch from Washington forecasting no such meeting couM take place before the end of January.) Bluntly warning that the "largest Senate Rejects Valley Amendment Continued From Page One report restoring the controversial amendment. The rider is opposed by Interior Secretary Ickes and this raised the possibility of a presidential veto. Senator Hatch (D-N. suggested three alternate' results from the central valley controversy.

He said opponents of the amendment might have the votes to defeat the conference report, they might filibuster, or allow passage hoping that President Roosevelt would veto the bill. In the House yesterday, Representative Voorhis (R-Callf.) declared battles fought in this war" will occupy the spring and summer, Churchill reported that 6,000,000 or 7,000,000 Germans already had been killed. Churchill said President Roosevelt had been informed of Russian-British decisions of Poland, but "I find great difficulty in discussing these matters because the attitude of the United States has not been defined" with precision. However, he said "the President is aware of everything that has passed." Placing before Britain's lawmakers what he called "the bare grim bones of the Polish problem," Churchill made these points 1. The Poles have no alternative but to meet Russia's demands for a western frontier along the Curzon line.

2. In return, Poland would be compensated with territory "at Germany's including Danzig and all of East Prussia south and west of Konigsberg. 3. Mass transfers of population would be made to prevent minority disputes from troubling the future peace. Between the lines of Churchill's speech apparently lay agreement between Britain and Russia on perhaps even more than the problems of Poland.

His pronouncements took an increased significance in the light of Britain's policy in the' affairs of Europe's restive lands, contrasting to the. hands-off attitude laid down by the United States. From one of the first members to, rise after Churchill Henry Ralkes, conservative barrister who once served in the R. A. came the sharp retort that "the Atlantic Charter has become a ghost." that big landholders would benefit if the valley is exempted from federal laws limiting to 160 acres the land any one owner can irrigate from federally financed projects.

Patch's Army in 3rd Reich Invasion Continued From Page One by street through Fraulautern, the eastern suburb of Saarlautern, The Three Hundred Seventy-ninth Regiment of the Ninety-fifth Division now held one-fourth of Saarlouis- Roden, northern suburb of Saarlau- tern, where the Third Army won its first bridgehead across the Saar river. Lieutenant-General Courtney H. Hodges' First Army reduced the last German strong point west of the Roer and north of Duren. The One Hundred Fourth Division's infantry stormed and seized Multenack castle, just north of Pier, in a night assault. C.

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