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I Western Powers Stand Firm To the request of Foreign Minister Vishinsky that the clock be turned back hi Germany and that Potsdam be used as a fresh starting point, the three western foreign ministers have turned a deaf ear. Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin and Foreign Minister Robert Schuman have rejected all the proposals of the Russian delegate that the slate be wiped clean and that everything be started all over again on the basis of the-Potsdam agreement. For good reason have they taken this stand. Much has happened since Potsdam and most of it has convinced them that the Soviets have no intention of keeping their agreements when these agreements do not happen completely with Russian desires. Potsdam set up a four-power control of Germany and Berlin.

When things dra not work out as the Soviets believed they should, they broke their commitments and walked out. They began the split which ruined four-power control of Germany and they widened it to the extreme extent at present through their currency and blockade policy in Berlin. The Allies countered with a substantial currency in the western zones, the airlift and the establishment of a western state, all of which have succeeded. Now the Russians want to wipe the slate clean and start all over. This cannot be done and will not be done.

All of Mr. Vishinsky's famed oratory cannot erase the memory of the past three years and cannot undo what erroneous Russian policy in Berlin and the remainder of Germany has done. It was preposterous of him to suggest it, but no more preposterous than his suggestion at the outset of the Council that a Jap, anese peace treaty be considered on the agenda and that the Soviets should share in control of the Ruhr. When they clearaway this nonsense, perhaps they can get something done. None of the western leaders will be misled by this sophistry; he is too late.

His act has been spoiled by Molotov and by history. Job Outlook Steady A nation-wide survey of the job outlook fOF-the June graduate is not too discouraging, according to the report by the family economics bureau of a large lif company. ff It is not as good as it was a year ago, but it is better than it appeared to be six months ago. Two-thirds of 133 colleges and universities have found that their job demands equal or fall 'Only slightly below that of 1948. Five out of every six schools report starting salaries to be higher Than last year.

Prevailing range of offers is from $200 to $275 per month for business administration and liberal arts seniors, ano; from $225 to $325 for engineering seniors. Competition has returned to the job market; employment standards are up and mediocre students are more difficult to place. Employers are more selective. Demand for teachers remains high. There is an oversupply of accountants, women are more difficult to place except in secretarial and office jobs, and men are in demand for sales and marketing positions.

These are the trends as they have been found by the placement bureaus of representative American colleges and universities, which also report that the present situation is better for the graduate, also. From Brown University comes the comment that today's graduate is more intelligent about capitalizing on his assets; he is aggressively interested in a job rather than employment at a sensational figure. This indicates, "also, that there is a more mature attitude upon the part of the graduate and, to some extent, the-employer. People are settling down to and this may have a reflection in other facets of the employment picture, also. Agricultural Camp As long economy of this area demands large numbers of migrant workers to harvest the crops, some, provision must be made for their residence, action taken by the Kern County Supervisors is "a step in the The establishment of a migrant agricul-" tural camp in the Caliente Wash district with sanitary provisions was ordered by the board following the recommendation- of the Citizens Sanitation and Development Committee which made an intensive study of tBe relationship between lack of sanitation and housing facilities-in this area and the incidence of disease and death.

The relationship, has been shown to be close, and this is recognized by authorities who have contended for a long time that it is 3etter economy to spend.money to prevent disease than to pay the high cost of treatment and after it arrives. The cost of last year's epidemic was high, in money and in suffering, and Kern county achieved the dubious distinction "of having one of the highest infant mortality rates in alifornia. These facts spurred citizens to action and the Citizens Sanitation and Development Committee was the result. The findings of this committee. have indicated that proper sanitation for the agricultural workers in this area are necessary for the health of the community as a whole, and this has in the request for the camp site at Caliente; The committee is to be commended for its thorough and enlightened approach to the problem and the board is likewise to be commended for its prompt action.

Thanks are also due to the owners of the land, upon which the camp will be located for their generosity. It is to be hoped that this is the first of a long series of solutions to one of the most pressing problems faced by the people of this A Great Work When you buy a poppy from the ladies this week, you may rest assured that you have contributed to one of the finest movements to aid disabled veterans of world wars. The American Legion and American Legion Auxiliary and Veterans for Foreign Wars and Auxiliary this by their work. For example, here in Bakersfield, an outstanding record of achievement has been put up; the Legion auxiliary here has 10 adopted veterans to whom it sends contributions each month, besides birthday and Christmas presents. The unit has made 1250 disposal pads, 30 chair robes, 35 pairs of scuffles, more than $500 worth of Christmas gifts, collected more than.

250 books and performed other services in a short space of time. Taking the poppy as an emblem of faith to the dead-through service to the living, the veterans "group sell more than 25,000,000 poppies made by disabled veterans each year and every penny goes toward the help of the veterans who need it. The veterans who make the crepe paper flowers receive compensation but they are the only ones. The money goes for help and rehabilitation work for veterans of both world wars. Every dime you give, through purchase of the poppies, goes into the fund for this work, which also includes aid to needy veterans and their families.

Each year the veteran groups stageJheir poppy sale, and it is hoped that this year its success will be greater than ever. The need is Buy a poppy and help a veteran help himself. Random Notes We cannot" see any logic in the contention advanced by a representative of the National Lumber Manufacturing Association in Washington that no further assistance be given to protect the forests of the nation. According to the Associated Press, the representative of the association, Richard A. Colgan, declared that there is no justification for further federal aid to states in forest protection.

He opposes any expansion of the replanting program and any funds for furnishing technical advice and assistance to private forest landowners. Mr. Colgan also opposed the appropriation of funds for the construction of access into national forest timber One wonders where Mr. Golgan thinks lumber comes from and how he expects lumber supply to sustain the drains upon it Congratulations to Jim Vigneau, star student and activities. leader at Bakersfield High School, for setting another record, 12 years wjpiout being absent or tardy.

It is hoped that some form of recognition will be extended to him officially for fine performance. Peter Edson TODAY- IN WASHINGTON The new 'Brannan farm plan may "get-a trial run on pigs. Senator Elmer Thomas of Oklahoma and Congressman Harold Cooley "of North Carolina, 'Chairmen of Senate and Honse Agriculture committees, have' introduced a bill to make this experiment. The legal lingo of the bill isn't help in understanding how things would work under today's plan and the Brannan plan. But experts say the situations would spell out about like this: Live hogs today are selling at around $17.50 a-hundredweight.

A year ago -the price was $31.00 With today's-big pig supply and favorable corn prices, no great, gift of prophecy is required to see that the price of hogs may drop further. Trouble Seen in Fall Market When the fall pig rush to. market trouble may be expected. Under the present law, the govermuenj: will have to go into the market and buy pigs to keep the price from falling below $16.50 a hundredweight, which is 90 per cent of parity. The government could buy live hogs, but that isn't practical.

If it buys hogs, it would have to buy them on the farms, then feed and pay the farmers to feed them. So the government would have to buy dressed'pork and find cold storage space tp keep it. It can be kept for only about The government can't sell it below market price and it can hardly give it away. To do so only drive hog prices down further and make the government's problem worse. Eventually the pork would have to be destroyed, converted into protein tankage feed for hogs, or made into fertilizer or soap.

all this operation, the government would have to operate with a ticker tape in oro hand and a checkbook in the the market whenever the price sagged below $16.50 a hundredweight. How much this would cost can't be-predicted accurately. But for the sake of a guess, assume total U.S. hog marketings of 20,000,000,000 pounds-this year live weight. Then assume that the government would have to buy 1,000,000,000 pounds to support (Distributed the market.

At $16.50 a hundredweight, the sovernnient would buy worth of live hogs. If the government bought dressed pork, the cost would be $230,000,000, according to Secretary Brannan. Prospects Brighter Under Brannan Plan This is the prospect which faces the government under the present law. Now take a look at how it might work under the Brannan plan. In the first place, there would be no government buying to keep up the market price.

The government would allow the market to find its natural supply and demand level. Suppose the price dropped to $15.50 a hundredweight, or a hundred below the present 90 per cent of parity support level. Under the Brannan plan, the government would have to pay the fa-rmers the difference between the market level of $15.50 and the "income support standard price." This is the calculated price based on the average price over the past 10 years, stated in terms of today's devaluated dollar. This figures out to about $17.50. In other words, the government would have to pay the farmers the difference between and $15.50, or $2 a hundred for whatever pigs they sold at the $15.50 price.

On 2,000,000,000 pounds live- weight, or 10 per cent of the year's pig crop, the cost to the government would be $40,000,000. On 10,000,000,000 pounds, or half the crop, the cost would be $200,000,000. Both these figures are less than the cost for 1,000,000,000 pounds under the present law. The consumer would 'be ahead too. Under the present law, the government an artificial scarcity by withdrawing some of the supply from the market.

This keeps prices' high for the consumer. The consumer also pays for the government buying in higher taxes. So the consumer pays twice. Under the Brannan plan, the consumer would get the benefit because the market price of dressed pork would be allowed to seek its natural level. And the consumer would have to pay less In taxes.

1948 by NBA) Hal Boyfe AMERICAN OBSERVER Now is the golden time at end for many a rose-lipped maiden and many a light-foot lad. This is the season when alma mater opens her iron gates. And out into) an iron world she hurls her annual tide of graduates. It is always a trembling hour When mother deliberately unties the apron strings that bind her to her children. Freedom and are so strange and new.

Goodbye to brackety-yackety- yack: Farewell" dear campus so well beloved, but never so loved as now. Hello, world, so wide and terrible. Ah, me! Ah, youth! Ah, wilder- derness! Aw, hell! Don't look so forlorn, son. Life isn't all fang and claw and a sharp tack in a tight shoe. You're just a freshman in a bigger university in which it is terribly important to pick the right professors.

Until now there has always been somebody ready with a handkerchief to wipe your nose. The" first thing you have to learn in this new university attending-is to keep your nose out of 'places where people will make it bleed. There are tough kids around, who live by the creed that a gun in the hand is worth two in the head. Don't play with them. Stay with the nice boys.

There are cleared places in this age-old jungle that is your new campus. Work with the people that want to tear some of the choking moss and chop down some of the dead trees-that hide the sky. The best fun is to leave something better than you found it. And iiPyou don't help clear the campus, the moss will smother you in time, as it has so many, and you will become a dead tree in a dying part of forest Okay, son, I-know that sounds highfalut'n. Get the glaze out of your eyes.

I know what's on your want a job. Fine. Drop that sheepskin from your warm little hand. Here's a broom. Get busy.

What's that? You don't want to push a Why not? Do you want the broom to push you? Oh, you'd hoped for something' better? Well, so do we all. But you have to learn to saw wood before you can make a cabinet. Listen, little acorn, it takes more than ambition to be an oak tree. It takes years. Ever hear of Spyros the motion- picture poo- bah? He makes more money than 'most anybody except Uncle Sam.

Kaow how he started? Working as a busboy in a St. Louis hotel. Any job is better than no Isn't as important where you start as it is where you go from where you start. The nice thing about starting at the bottom is that there is only one way to Work and brains and friendliness will get you anywhere. And honesty will help keep you there.

Of course, you can always marry a rich lady and live a life jjf ill- ease. But experts "in this field all agree there is nothing harder than working at matrimony for a wealthy woman. Do marry as soon as you have a job and are sure you can hold it. There is no future in being a he- moth. And a good wife is worth her weight in income tax exemptions.

And she can" help you get more income tax exemptions worth having. Whom to wed? A girl with a warm heart, my boy. Never mind her face. Itll change. But a good heart doesn't wrinkle.

Above all, my boy, don't marry a drinking you want to spend your life listening to a talking hangover. Never niarry a woman to reform her. 1949, by Associated Press) From the Files of The Califomian TEN YEARS AGO (The this date. 1939) Headlines: Kern May Trade Library Lot to U. S.

for Tost Office: Sabotage Hinted in Sinking of Squalus: Bund Leader Jailed, The city school board has refused to reconsider the wage scale of teachers here. J. E. Elliott has closed many areas of Sequoia National Forest because of fire danger. Sirs.

Edna Keough was the speaker of the day at the Lady Civitans meeting. TWENTY YEARS AGO (The this U'L'9) Headlines: Lindbergh, Miss Morrow Marry; May Keep Western Pacific Out of San Joaqnin Valley; Miss AVillebrand to Quit Office. Eighty-four cities have adopted Bakersfield's plan for traffic safety. The Board of Supervisors has purchased land for the Shafter Legion hall. Murray Cuddeback of Tehachapi.

Stanford star athlete, has accepted a position as assistant coach. Mrs. F. C. St.

Clair has been seated as president of the Woman's Club. THIRTY YEARS AGO (The this date. Headlines: Wings Atlantic: Yankee Aviators and NC-4 Safe at Lisbon; Fly From Azores in Nine Hours. parade will open a four-day celebration here tomorrow; Captain John R. Quinu will lead the line of inarch.

Mrs. Allen B. Campbell has been installed as new president of the Woman's Club. Mrs. O.

C. Sehatz has-been named heafl of the Standard School manual training department. FORTY YEARS AGO (The Califomian. this dale, 1909) Headlines: Temperance People Commend Taft and German Emperor: Roasted Alive on Steamer; Pedestrian Reaches Denver. It is reported that Leo Pauly will be asked to serve again on the county board of education.

Dick Hyland is down to 130 in. his training for Bat Nelson. Captain John Barker, the oldest county resident, is ill. He is 77. FIFTY YEARS AGO (The Califomian.

this date. 1800) J. A. Hughes has been elected president of the newly formed Western Oil and Development Company. John TV.

Frye is here from Ventura. The Kern City schools have insufficient money to complete the term. Drew Pearson MERRY-GO-ROUND DREW PEARSON SAYS: Maryland post office in a cow pasture remains open because of senatorial pressure; Lily Poiis, Uie opera singer, mails her Christinas cards from Lilypons. Democrats and Republicans over Alaska and Hawaii. WASHINGTON Lilypons, lid a post office literally in a Miir.vlaud cow pasture from which the funions opera singer, Lily Tons, mails her Christmas cards every year, has been kept open by the.

post department at a cost of about $5000 a to political pressure. be discontinued," font-hides Hie re- "inasmuch as it would not work a hardship nil the two companies and it would save the department 1 In other words, the goldfish company not only pot the benefit of a private post office, but WHS paid a year rent by Tncle Sam and No private individual person sets year for truck hire, on top his mail at Lilypons. It serves one OT wu Oeorpe Liecester Thomas, goldfish one else. Local liiTve petitioned th one of the owners of the firm, served for a time as postmaster. government to have the post office vt the Maryland senators Questions and Their Answers Q.

Were they any survivors of the eruption of the volcano Mont Pelee on the island of Martinique? J.E.C. A. Of the 40,000 who are believed to have been in Saint Pierre, the port of Martinique and a flourishing city at the time of the eruption in 1902, only one criminal in jail and a few sailors on a ship survived. Q. Is Alaska a part of continental United States or A.

The Division of Territories and Island in construing the meaning of the phrase as used in certain Acts of Congress, has taken the view that Alaska is beyond the continental limits of the United States. Q. What are the meanings of the names Matthew, Mark, Luke and Matthew means "gift of the Loaf'; Mark, "of Mars" or lit- 'erally "a Luke, John, "the Lord's Grace." Q. Where is the largest game sanctuary? D.M.I. A.

The world's greatest game sanctuary is Kruger National Park in the Union of South Africa. Named after Oom Paul, president of the old Transvaal Republic, the sanctuary covers 8000 square miles and abounds in lions, elephants, hippopotami, giraffes, zebras and other typical African fauna. A reader can get the answer to any question of fact by writing The Bakersfield Califomian Information Bureau. 316 Eye Street. N.

Washington 2. D. C. Please enclose three (3) cents for return postage. FROM THE READERS' POINT OF VIEW EDITOR'S should be limited to 150 words: may attack ideas but not persons; must not be abusive and should be written legibly and on ona side of the paper.

The Califomian is not responsible for the sentiments contained therein and reserves the rlEht to reject any letters. Letters must bear an authentic address and signature, although these will be withheld if desired. BE CAREFUL Editor The Califomian: With Monday a holiday for many of us, the highways will have more than normal traffic. That usually means an in accidents but it need not be that way. As a matter of fact the" accidents, compared to the.

volume of traffic, are probably less than a normal week end. Now there is no simple rule that will assure your safety on the highway. Many things will aid you and likewise there are some that will hurt you, such as drinking while you drive." But in general one thin? will help a lot is what you can do to help'the other fellow on his -way. The more you do to nelp smooth the traffic for the other fellow, the greater are your chances for a safe trip. Put the other chap first and you will find driving a real pleasure and your safe arrival is practically assured.

F. B. WILLIAMS. ROADS AND Editor The Califomian: I wish to congratulate our smooth roads have. Here a while back, I broke a car spring and it cost me $17.50 for a new one.

Last Saturday night I broke another one and I was stone sober as I don't drink. to be in this condition. Kern county is one of the richest counties in the state and has the poorest streets of any town I know. Come on, supervisors, we elected you to nave you forgotten the promises you made about this and that? And now the thieves: I wish to thank the thieves who tried to steal my battery Thursday night 1 had the car parked on the corner of Kern and Kentucky and they disconnected my battery cables and broke the posts. I made it" home O.K., but the next day I couldn't get the car started.

I was pushed to the service station and the attendant said my battery was beyond repair. S.o that is $15 more for 'a new battery. I can guess who it was but I won't, say, but just one thanks a lot and if I catch you guys around my car again "I'll break your necks." HUMAN GENETICS Editor The: Califomian: Statistics reported by the in human genetics at the hist World Eugenics Congress in The Hague, were most impressive. These estimated more than a dozen types of blindness were inherited. They indicate a tendency" of the There is no excuse for our streets blind to marry blind jfaates.

both were carriers of the same type of defective genes, the offspring were blind in about 192 cases of some 200 studies. The scientists have grasp as to the facts. The average layman lacks such knowledge. Ordinary folk therefore, if intelligent, ask questions. There was reported the case of a young woman in love with a man.

In both families there had been occasional cases of blindness. The young folks consulted a physician. He said, "Go ahead and marry. Tour fears are groundless." Net result is reported: "Five children, all blind." In said case the physician lacked education in human genetics. Such tragedies inevitably result in protracted gossip.

The thoughtful therefore hesitate when family histories are doubtful. Should we not have clinics in human genetics in all our larger cities? J. F. WOODARD. Today's Thought As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far 25:25.

-Though it be honest, it is never good To bring bad news; give to a gracious message An host of tongues; but let ill tidings tell Themselves when they be felt. closed. Yet it is kept to the mysterious influence of Maryland Millard Tydings. Reason for this waste is not the famed opera singer who mails her Christmas cards from Lilypons. She has nothing to do with the case.

probably doesn't even know about it. happened was that the two men who own the goldfish company hired two attorneys close to Senators Tydiugs and O'Coiior. Prior to that, the two senators seemed quite willing to close the post office. But after their bosom friends were retained, suddenly they didn't though Senator O'Conor says lie merely attended a meeting, in Tydings' office and is not particularly interested. The story sounds fantastic but illustrates certain points set forth by the Hoover commission recently regarding post office waste and subsidies.

The Lilypons post office appears to be such a subsidy to the Three Springs Fisheries Company. Post Frowns What happened was that last fall post office inspectors reported that this post office in a Maryland cow pasture should be closed. "The: Lilypons post office serves no patrons except the Three Springs Fisheries and the Thomas Supply Company," states the official report. "Mail is not received for any other firms or persons. The em- ployes of the- companies number only ten.

and the employes do not live at "At'-this season of the year, incoming mail to the firms at Lilypons is small in amount, sometimes only five pieces are received. During the peak season about 100 pieces of mail are received daily. Mail dispatched varies according to the season of the year and the amount of advertising being done, but will about 75 pieces. "Discontinuance of-the post office at Lilypons will not work any hardship on the Three Springs Fisheries or the Thomas Supply Company. It will, of course, be necessary for them to receive and dispatch mail at Adamstown, 3.2 miles away, or through the Adamstown rural carrier 1.2 miles away, and the company will be deprived of rent and the mail messenger allowance; the former amounts to a year, and the latter to $960 a year, contract for which is held by Thomas Fisheries, Incorporated.

It is necessary, however, for the Three Fisheries to dispatch a truck or day for the purpose of shipping their fish by express. made no objection to closing this office in a cow pasture. Then suddenly the Thomases, owners oC the goldfish company, retained Francis Petrol t. close friend of Senator O'Oonor, and William Storm, close friend of Senator Tyd- gs. This was approximately nine months ago.

Since then the official recommendation of the post office department, plus (he protests of many taxpayers in the vicinity have been ignored. l.ilyponds. still remains open receiving only five pieces of mail a day. Alaska vs. Hawaii A hot backstage row over statehood for Alaska and Havvaib has the House rules committee in a tb.zy.

Republican members, led by Ohio's Clarence Brown, have served, notice on Chairman Adolph Sabath of Illinois, Democrat, that, they will block action on statehood for Alaska, which normally votes Democratic, unless Sabath also agrees to act on statehood for Hawaii, which is controlled by the U.O.P. Republicans contend that if Alaska is to have two Democratic senators, then Hawaii is entitled to two Republican senators. Statehood for both territories was promised in the Democratic platform, but Sabath evinces little interest in Hawaii. In this he is privately supported by Speaker Snm Rayburn. For the two Democratic leaders haven't forgotten bow tlm Republicans rammed, a Hawaiian statehood bill through the House in the Eightieth Congress with no thought of Alaska.

Later the bill died in the Senate. Meantime, rules committee Dixie- crats, led by Georgia's Gene Cox. are opposed to Hawaii supposedly because of Communist influence in the islands. Ironically, the Communists' chief propaganda'weapon is the refusal of Congress to grant promised the real reason for Dixieorat opposition is the fear that. Hawaii would send Japanese-Americans to Congress.

Meanwhile, Joseph Farrington, Hawaii's G.O.P. delegate to Congress, points out that statehood would be a "vote of confidence" causing many workers in tba islands to renounce leftist leaders. betting is that statehood bills for both Alaska and Hawaii will die In the rules com- ucilc mittee unless they are forced out other vehicle to Adamstown every by a discharge petition. Even some of the strongest, liberal champions of the Truman platform are now J.JOi-1 "The department is of the opinion saying that Alaska is "too small that the Lilypons post office should to have two senators. (Copyright, 1949, by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) Erskine Johnson HOLLYWOOD ROUNDUP Rita Hayworth, the movie queen, has become Princess Aly Kahn.

Maybe you'd like to hear "The Rita Hayworth Story." The first time I ever heard of Kita she wasn't Kita at all. She was black-haired Margarita Cansino and she was 16. The year was 1934. -She was dancing with her father as her partner at the old Foreign Club in Tia Juana, Mexico. Before that, ever since she was five, she had toured in vaudeville, with her family, which was billed as "The Famous Dancing Cansinos." The first time I met her she was still Margarita Cansino.

That was in 1935 when she made her film debut, dancing an adagio number'in a night club sequence for "Dante's Inferno." I remember two things about that meeting. Her father, Edwardo Cansino, never left her side. "He's terribly worried about Hollywood wolves," a press agent said. The second thing I remember about Margarita was her beauty and her black hair. She had an unusually low hairline with a striking widow's peak.

Later, when she bacame Rita Hayworth. she had electric treatments and raised the hairline a half inch. Later, I heard she had signed a contract with Columbia studio and had changed her name. She worked in several pictures as an actress, not a dancer, and then in May of 1937 I reported her marriage to Edward Judson, the ex-husband of toothpaste heiress Hazel Forbes and a one- rime New York automobile salesman. Buildup Started Judson was Rita's first date.

They were married three month's after their meeting. It was Judson and a Hollywood press agent, Henry Rogers, who gave Rita the gjgnjjjr buildup and sex appeal. Rita Hayworth of 1937 had little ambition to be a star. She dressed badly, was overweight and had never taken dramatic lessons. Judson supplied that ambition.

He helped her buy clothes, put her on a diet, sent her to dramatic school, hired a press agent. He suggested the electric treatments for her low hairline and talked her into becoming a red head. People who Vnew them then remember: "Rita was a girl who never had anything to say. Judson did all the talking. He fought for her career 24 hours a Press agent Rogers gave Rita the glamor buildup in a series of photographs which cracked every newspaper and magazine in country.

He remembers: "It was the greatest display of sex in Hollywood history." And it paid off. At the height of the campaign, when she wag earning only $400 a week at Columbia, Rita was borrowed by Fox to co-star with Power and Linda Darnell in "Blood and Sand." That picture made her a star. Then Ann Sheridan was suspended at Warner Brothers and Rita replaced her in "The Strawberry Blonde." She became a bigger star. Bat stardom resulted in a divorce, in 1041, for Rita and Judson. As part of their property settlement, Judson received $10,000 in cash.

For two years Rita dated most of Hollywood's eligible bachelors Hughes, Tony Martin and Vic Mature. The Mature romance looked serious. She promised to wait for him when he went into service. Met Welles But when Mature went to war, Rita met Orson Welles. Orson and Joseph Gotten wsre staging a magic show in a tent for the amusement of service men visiting Hollywood.

As part of the act, Orson sawed Rita in half at 9:32 every night, twice on Sundays. In 1943 Rita and Orson jWers married. The news crackled out to a ship in the North Atlantic, where Mature was told that best girl had married Orson. Said Mature: the first time I knew a way to a girl's heart was by sawing her in half." Orson and Rita bac-ame the parents of a daughter, Rebecca, in 1944. Then came separations and re- conciliations, and finally there was a divorce, final on November 12, 1948, after Orson turned her into a platinum blonde and.

directed her in "The Lady From Shanghai." At the time of her divorce from Orson, Rita said she'd marry again "when I find the right man." (Distributed 1919 by MIA).