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Evening star., 1941-03-20
Army Now Planning
To Demobi|ize Guard
After One Year
Policy Also to Apply
To SeIectees Unless
Situation Grows Worse
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
A high Army authority disclosed
today that, barring the gravest
emergency, the War Department
had decided to demobilize National
Guard units on completion of their
year in Federal service.
The same policy also will apply, it
was said, to the thousands of men
who have been or are to be inducted
into the Army for a years training
under the Selective Service Act.
Reports have circulated in recent
weeks that the Guards tour of ac-
tive service might be extended six
months or even year, in view of
world conditions. 1t was understood
that some National Guard officials
favored this lengthening of the
training period.
The War Department has been
studying the question for some time,
in regard both to Guardsmen and
Selective service traineeS. Congress
sional approval would be necessary
to extend the training periods, un-
der existing circumstances.
Training of Large Numbers.
The Army's decision against re-
questing any extension in the Serv-
ice periods was because the primary
purpose of the present peacetime de-
fenSe preparations was to train as
large a number of men as possible.
Therefore, the land forces will be
kept up to their intended strength
of 1,4l8000 men by the induction of
fresh selective service quotas and
additional three-year enlistments in
the Regular Army.
The full strength of 1,4l8,000 will
be reached in June, according to
present plans. The Army then will
be composed of about 100000 reg
ulars, 100000 to 375,0O0 guardsmen
and 100000 or more selective serv-
ice trainees.
National Guard units, making up
18 divisions, will begin reaching the
end of their years service next Sep
tember and in the ensuing six
months all should be demobilized,
unless circumstances dictate a new
decision.
Under the 1920 National Defense
Act, the Guards active service in
time of national emergency is lin
tied to one year. In normal peace
time it is limited to two weeks
summer training. Selective service
soldiers become reservistS at the
end of their year, and are subject
to call by the Army at any time.
The possibility that Congress
might be asked to extend the period
of the Guards active service arose
from a belief in some quarters that
Guard units would be needed to
assist in training the new men con-
stantly being inducted as selective
service traineeS.
Only recently Gen. George C. Mar
shall, chief of staff, expressed doubt
the Army would be strong enough
to permit demobilization of the
trained and seasoned guardSmen
next fall and winter. Recent sur
veys of the progress of the train
ing program, however, were under
stood to have removed those doubts
and to have persuaded him to de-
eide on the present policy.
Evening star., 1941-03-20
U.S.. Matching Europe's Spring
Production, Plane for Plane
82Ton Super-Bomber, With 7,700-MiIe
Runge, HiehIights American Effort

model of the Lockheed P-38 twin
engined interceptor pursuit. now
undergoing Air Corps tests after es-
tablishing what is claimed to be a
world speed record while in sub
stratosphere flight. The P-38 is not
new, but the first model was de-
stroyed in a landing accident, set
ting back performance trials and
production. Consequently the P-38
actually is 1941 spring develop
ment from the production stand
point.
The first P-38, responsible for the
newly claimed high altitude speed
record, already has been followed
by the second plane of the type.
and others are coming along the
production line. With its prelim-
mary trials behind it, at Union
Air Terminal, Burbank, Calf, the
first P-38 has been turned over
to the Air Corps for detailed test
ing at Wright Field, Ohio.
The United States has ordered
several hundred of the P-38s and
Great Britain nearly 1000. They
are being produced powered with
1,100-horsepower Allison liquid
cooled engines.
Flies Higher Than Germans.
Because of its unparalleled per-
formance at high altitude. the P-38
Is regarded as of outstanding i'm
portance, in view of the fact that
the faster German bombers now
are able to attain attitudes of 10000
feet or more.
Construction by the Curtiss Aero
plane Division of Curtiss- Wright
of new type dive bomber said to
have a probable top speed of at
least $50 miles per hour with twice
the bomb load carried by similar
types in Europe was announced a
few days ago. 1t also will have
twice the range Of present types
and twice the gunfire of any other
single engined Navy airplane.
The famous German Stukas have
a top speed Of about $50 miles per
hour.
The three principal new Ameri-
can pursuit and interceptor air
craft now going into production
the P-38, the Bell P-39 Airacobra
and the Curtiss P-4O, all carry
cannon, which the British have
found to be necessary to stop the
new armored German warplanes.
The War Department announced
this week an award of a S7,255 900
contract for equipping a plant and
for initial production of aircraft
cannon to the Munitions Manu-
featuring Corp. of Poughkeepsie,
N. Y.
Evening star., 1941-03-20
$4,000, 1000, 900 Nazi Levy
On Victims Reported
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, March 20.-R. A. But
Ter, parliamentary undersecretary for
foreign affairs, told the House of
Commons yesterday that five Euro
pean countries occupied by Germany
had been forced to pay the Reich the
cash equivalent of s4200,000, 900 an
nually above their losses in industrial
supplies, foodstuffs and confiscations.
He estimated that Norway had to
pay the highest per capita cost for
support of the German occupation
army-S272, ,000, 900, or about 500 per
person.
Denmark's share, he said, was
about $1O4, 100000, Belgium's, $780,
100000; Holland, s216,000,0O0, and
France, $3,3o8 900 900.
Estimates for Czecho-Slovakia,
Poland, Rumania and Bulgaria were
not available, Mr.. Butler said.
Evening star., 1941-03-20
Italians Organizing
In U. S., Dies Charges
Ey the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Chairman Dies said today the
House Committee on Un-American
Activities had information indicating
that Italy was attempting to draw
Its nationals in the United States
together into what he termed a
"super-state."
He said Italy, working through its
consulates, Italian-language news
papers, fraternal organizations and
insurance societies was asking its
citizens to join Nationwide Or
ganization to which they would
make contributions and for which
they would work.
'They want to form one big Or
ganization of loyal Italians in the
United States" Representative Dies
said.
Details will be presented to a Fed
sral grand jury here soon, he said.
Evening star., 1941-03-20
NEW YORK.-ARMY DRAFTS
DIRECTOR RIGHT INTO

NEW YORK.-ARMY DRAFTS
DIRECTOR RIGHT INTO
GUARDHOUSE When 1t.
Paul J. Brienza Cleft in upper
picture) read the soldiers
oath yesterday to Frank Mon
cada fright, %, who said he
was a member of a religious
sect opposed to military serv-
ice, and asked him to say 81
do" the inductee replied, II
won't"
Moncada was drafted de-
spite his objection. He was
carried forcibly dover pic
ture) from the induction CEN
ter to a truck and officers said
it was headed for Camp Up-
tons guardhouse.
With a Bible under his arm,
Mr.. Moncada appeared at an
Army induction station at the
order of his local Brooklyn
Draft Board and announced
he did not intend to join the
Army.
He passed the physical ex-
animation, but refused to an
swer questions. An Army
truck was summoned. Mr..
Moncada refused to get in.
The soldiers assisted" him.
"A. P. WirephotoS.
Evening star., 1941-03-20
FraiI Man Is Snowbound
5 Days With Dead Sister
RS the Associated Press-

By the Associated Press.
WINDSOR, Conn, March 90
Too frail to clear a path through
the drifts, 63-year-old James Leary
remained five days in his snow
bound cottage here with the body
Of his dead sister.
D. Aaron P. Pratt, medical ex-
aminer, said today that when the
sister, Miss Mary Leary, So, was
taken Ill last Thursday, Mr.. Leary
attempted to shovel his way out
to summon aid.
He returned to the house to find
the sister dead. and exhausted by
his efforts, remained there until
Tuesday, when the sun had melted
the snow sufficiently to allow him
to go for help.
DR.. Pratt said Miss Leary died of
. heart ailment.
Evening star., 1941-03-20

Two disturbances have developed since
Wednesday morning, one over the western
Gulf Of Mexico and the other over the
southern Plateau region. Milford, Utah,
1001.7 millibars (29. So inches, and Gall
weston, Tex, 1O1O.S millibars (29 .S5
inches) The Gulf disturbance is causing
heavy rain in Louisiana and portions OF
Eastern Texas and Southern Mississippi
Houston, Tex, reporting the greatest
amount, 3.16 inches. The western disturb
ance has been attended by precipitation
in the Pacific States and portions of S:le
Plateau and Northern Rocky Mountain
region. Pressure is still low. but rising,
east and southeast Of New England. Carl
bou, Me. 1o02.4 millibars (29.6Q inehesl.
High pressure prevails over the North
Pacific States and from North Dakota,
Minnesota, and Michigan southeastward
@ soaIn over he sSass nG senSs
pax, and Medtord. oress ioss: Z miiiibeTs
1O23.4 millibars t30.22 .inchesl. The tenn
perature has continued to rise over the
eastern half of the United States and it
Is. now above normal a. far as the lower
Ohio Valley and the upper Lake region.
Evening star., 1941-03-20
Weather Report


District CoubiaMostly cloudy little
tonight and tomorrow lowest temperature tonight SO degrees
Saturday COLDER gentle variable winds tonight
VgniaMoy cloudy, southeast central
cloudy portion
beginning afternoon night; Saturday colder
Maryland-Mosty cloudy with little change tonight
tomorrow; Saturday and colder.
West VrgniaMosy cloudy tonight followed by
south portion afternoon night in south
Saturday and colder.
Evening star., 1941-03-20
illustrator Will Lecture

E. Simms Campbell, illustrator
and cartoonist, will lecture in
Rankin Chapel, Howard University,
tomorrow at 7:30 pm. Many Of
his original drawings will be on
exhibit in the gallery of art of the
university after the lecture.
Evening star., 1941-03-20
Three-Cent Check
From A. A. A. Proves
Hard to Cash
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
GREENVILLE, S. c., March
20.-Not all Uncle Sans checks
are easy to cash.
A co1ored woman who re-
ceived a Scent check for par
ticipation in the A. A. A. farm
program took her check to a
bank-where a teller informed
her it would cost her 10 cents to
get her money.
Sadly she returned to the
Greenville County farm agents
office for advice. Administrator
W. W. Cromer gave her three
new pennies for the check.
Evening star., 1941-03-20
Congress in Brief

Senate:
Considers $3,446, 900 900 naval bill
and $l9l, ,753,544 deficiency appro-
.priation.
Committee to investigate defense
contracts studies procedure.
Appropriations Subcommittee
opens hearings on $1,000, 900 900
British-aid fund.
House:
Debates cotton storage bill.
Military Committee studies Ten
nessee Valley Authority problems.
Evening star., 1941-03-20
Riffenhouse New Aide
Of District Court Clerk

Col. Charles E. Stewart, clerk Of
District Court, today announced the
appointment of william A. Ritten-
house, 1881 Kaloran,a road NV, as
assistant clerk.
Born in Virginia, Mr.. Rittenhouse
was educated in the Capital, attend
ing George Washington and Nation
al University. In 1887 he received
his bachelor of law degree from Ma
Evening star., 1941-03-20
Train Clips Shoe
Of Sleeping Drunk,
Doesn't Hurt Him
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHARLOTTE. N. c., March
20.-A police patrol car sent by
radio to pick up a man found
him on the railroad track.
He was asleep, his foot still
resting against the rail. and the
tip of his shoe neatly clipped
up close to the nail.
The police said an engine had
sliced the shoe away from his
toe-and left him still sleeping.
The man was charged with
drunkenness.
Evening star., 1941-03-20

UlOIldl university
and was ad-
mitted to prac-
tice here the
following year.
M r. Ritten-
house was as
sociated wit h
Attorney Horace
S. Whitman in
general practice
and handled a
number of cases
before the Court
of Claims and
various o the r
govern m e n t a !
and
Evening star., 1941-03-20

The worlds first commercial tele-
phone exchange was opened in 1878
at New Haven, Conn.
Evening star., 1941-03-20

commissions. His 80 years old and
is married to the former Miss Vir-
ginia johnson of Alabama.
Evening star., 1941-03-20
Report for Last "A Hours.

Record for Last "a Hours.
From noon yesterday to noon todsy.)
Highest, 40, noon today. Year ago. 66.
Lowest, SO, 1880 an. today. Year
ago, 40. =.
Record TemDeraturss This Year.
Highest, 66, on March B.
Lowest, ID. on March Is.
Humidity for Last "A Hsars.
tFrom noon yesterday to noon today.D
Highest. ~ per cent, at 8 am. today.
Lowest, II per cent. at $50 p.m. yes-
terday.
River Report.
Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers muddy
at Harpers Ferry; Potomac River muddy
at Great Falls today.
- Tide Tables.
Furnished by Omitted States Coast and
,Geodetic survey
Today. Tomorrow
High - 1875 am. 2:39 am.
Low H3v, ------r----- sS:d5 am. 21 y:2S Am.
Low h1sn ------ s:ef XXI p.m. Dm :9s s:ss D.m. Dm
The Sun and Neon.
Sun, today - e:is ;'' s:ls S
Saa; Soon. 'oSS.so.- soa.s- Yab In. 1YY:zS 1YY:zzS an.
AysSF AysSFGs,,s s,.. iiEhts n4a nus. must - turned %
Evening star., 1941-03-20

ForeiEn Stations.
moon. Greenwich time, today)
Temperature. Weather.
Horts Uayal). Azores I 6S Cloudy
Current obsertationSl
Gan Juan, Puerto Rico 7e Cloudy
41Veues CUPS ----- Cl0Qqy
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-07
NOW THERE CAN BE
NO DOUBT LEFT

If there had been any doubt left in the
mind of anyone that the United States
is a non-fighting ally of Great Britain
in World War No. 2, the Presidents mes
sage to congress should have dlspelled
that doubt.
More than that. If anyone doubted
that this republic is face to face with
a declaration of war itself at some unde-
termined future date, he should not
doubt now. The President said:
"Our most useful AND IMMEDIATE
role is to act as an arsenal for them as
well as for ourselves" (The capitals are
ours. That word, immediate" deserves
close attention)
And here is another quotation that
deserves notice as an historical slgnpost:
I'VE are committed to the PROPOSE
ton that :. considerations for our own
security will never permit us to acquiesce
in peace dictated by aggressors
The plainest possible Interpretation of
that declaration is that we shall go to
war against Germany if Great Britain Is
defeated. Since our present national pol
icy is a commendable one of stern real
ism. it seems safe to believe that we
would not wait until British defeat be-
came an accomplished fact, but would
step in the moment it appeared imminent.
OF course, we might not wait that
long-but speculation along that line is
going behind the record. Here we are
considering only the Presidential pro-
nouncement of policy-a matter of record
for all the world to read.
We see in the Presidents message no
war mongering, no beating of the
drums" no effort to frighten the people.
We see simply an effort on his part to
do what he has done 50 little in the past
bring to the people a realization Of
what faces the nation. We believe he is
to be commended for the effort. If there
is any criticism, it should be aimed at
the policy of "all aid to Britain so
heartily supported by an overwhelming
majority of the people-for it is that
policy which leads directly to the things
the President has so frankly pointed out.
Since it is too late now for criticism
of the "all aid policy, we might as we'll
face the facts as they appear-and there
has been no better summary of them
than the one given by President Roose-
velt on Monday He has told us what we
are up against; it is up to the nation to
get ready for the critical days that are
coming.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-07
by Paul Harrison -.
HOLLYWOOD S Fads, Fancies and Foibles

jade dragons or champagne corks.
Neither have they arranged for q
pretty admirer to handcuff hersel1
to him at a premiere. He never
has been photographed with
Great Dane, astride a skyrocket, or
whipping up some crepe suzettes.
Almost every other notable in
town. if you can believe the stories,
has unearthed a fine gold mug
get while planting petunias, or has
been Willed a fabulously rich mine
by a prospector once befriended.
Welles doesn't seem to have any
such luck. He wasn't a great attn
lete at college. His house hasn't
been burglarized, nor did he ever
thwart a holdup with a neat bit
OF jiu jitsu.
Only once did it appear that
Welles might adapt himself to
Movietown. That was when it was
reported he had developed an
amazing allergy. After eight months
here without his beginning pic
ture, it was explained that the
emulsion on movie film made him
violently i'll.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-07
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
No p1S2

Estate of MIKE SMITH, also
known as Nykefor Suptelny, de-
ceased.
Notice is hereby given by the
undersigned, M. d. Zinn, Public
Administrator, as administrator OF
the estate of Mike Smith, also
known as Nykefor Suptelny, de-
ceased to the creditors of and all
persons having claims against the
said deceased, that within SIX
months after the first publication
of this notice they either file them
with the necessary vouchers in the
office of the Clerk of the Superior
Court of the State of California, in
and for the County of Imperial, or
exhibit them with the necessary
vouchers to the said NJ. ID. Zlnn
as administrator Of said estate, at
the office of -. b. Roberts, POT
Bank of America Building, Ell Cen
tro, California, the same being the
place for the transaction OF the
business of the said estate in the
County of Imperial, State of Cali
fornia.
Dated at Ell Centro. California,
this 9th day of January, 194i.
M. d. ZINN,
Administrator of the Estate
of Mike Smith, also known
as Nykefor Suptelny, De-
ceased.
(J7-14-21-28
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-07
by Willis Thornton
He Meant What He Said

The eighth anniversary of Hit
ler's assumption of power in Berlin
is Jan. %. This is not exactly a
holiday for other countries. regard
less of how the Germans may feel
about it, but in view of what has
happened since. it can scarcely be
ignored. No other single event of
the decade has cost the world so
much.
When Hitler assumed the German
chancellorship, few read the sig
nificance of the day. So astute an
analyst as H. V. Kaltenborn wrote
New Republic, Feb Is, 1889, He
is sworn to obey the Constitution
and is likely to do so. The time for
a Fascist coup detat is past :.
the March 5 election . will not
give Adolf Hitler the opportunity
to establish his long-heralded Drit-
ell-informed, felt the same way.
This was to be just another phase
in the disorderly history of post
war Germany
1t was, unfortunately, six years
before Europe began to take Adolf
Hitler seriously. The world did
not take him seriously when he
said to a mass meeting shortly after
becoming chancellor:
1--WE want a break with what
rotten brand Of democracy has pro-
duced and realize that all that is
great can be produced only by
the strength of individual person
ality and that all that is to be
preserved must be entrusted again
to ability and individual personality,
while the parliamental- democratic
system must be fought"
The average reader shrugged and
added mentally, lin Germany And
he didn't care much what happen
ed within Germany, especially since
it had been teetering on the edge
of going Communist anyway. So
we all turned TO our own domestic
troubles, which were plenty.
Had Hitler confined himself to
abolishing parliamentarian govern
ment within Germany, nobody would
have cared much, except those Ger
mans who still loved liberty (and
there were some). But next came
the effort to extend the Eitlerian
sway to Germans outside Germany;
later the effort to extend it TO
Czechs, Poles, Norwegians, Dutch,
Belgians, French, and Danes.
Thus the smallness, once again
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-07
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
x...E FOR PUBLICATION
DEPARTMENT OF THE
INTERIOR
rn.,n,aI VonI nffian of vOS
General Land Office at Los
Angeles, California.

Angeles, California.
Dec. 10, 1910.
NOTICE is hereby given that
ESTHER M. DOOLITTLE, Of 22l8
South Hobart Blvd, Los Angeles,
California, for the heirs of Mary l..
MacCarthy, deceased, who, on Nov
ember 7, 1880, made Desert Land
Entry, No 047777, for Lots 4, S.;
SEH HNWA Section 16, and E@NEA
of Tract 199 in Sections 16 and II,
Township 15S, Range 13E, S.B. Mer-
idian, has filed notice of intention
to make final proof, to establish
claim to the land above described,
before Erna NJ. Pound, Notary Pub
lie, at 730 "a" Street, BraWley,
California on the 18th day of Feb
ruary, 194l.
Claimant names as witnesses:
Franklin B. MacCarthy, 1l09
Rives-Strong Building, Mary Mac
Carthy, both of Los Angeles, Cali
fornia; Earl C. Pound, 730 GA
Street. Brawley California; T. r.
Lytle, Box 264, Ell Centre, California.
PAUL B. WITMER,
Register.
CD25, J1-8-15-22)
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-07
THE FLAG
IS STILL THERE
{ tNeVada State JOurnaD J

Malta, the British Mediterranean out
post close to the Island of Sicily, is one
of the maj or mysteries of the war. Ever
since Italy began to take an active part
in the present struggle people have Won
dered not what would happen to Malta,
but when it would happen.
Strangely enough, the British flag still
flies over Malta. Its capital, Valletta,
has been bombed more than 200 times
More than $50 homes have been destroy
ed, besides a church and the thirteenth
century fortress of Saint Angelo. But
the people of Malta go about their busi-
ness without much fuss.
They have dug tunnels in the rock to
serve as air raid shelters but, if reports
are correct, they rarely bother to use
them (Strangest of all is the fact that
most of the damage done by Mussolini's
bombers has been to civilian possessions,
not to the army and naval bases.
The inhabitants Of this island, less than
one hours flight from Italy's air bases,
under constant danger of attack and an
Inhalation, have taken a leaf from Eng
lands book. They are even more enthus
iastic in their defiance than the British
who have been saying, eve can take it.
The men Of Malta say, Hold fast and we
will WIN"
Apd here, of course, is that quality
which caused so much speculation during
the early days of the war-British con-
fidence, British inability to imagine de-
feat. To some, as the German war ma
chine picked up speed and strength, that
blind belief in victory seemed a liability
rather than an asset But later events
have proved that the opponent with con-
fidence in himself is the most dangerous
foe Of all.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-07
THE PATH SMOOTHED

The United States Supreme Court de-
cision in the Merced-Corcoran cases up
holding the right of irrigation districts
to avail themselves of the federal munlc-
ipal bankruptcy act has direct applica-
ton to the Imperial Irrigation Districts
refunding case.
1t removes one major point-possibly
the biggest issue of them all-upon which
dissenting bondholders are likely to ap--
peal to the circuit court, and later to the
supreme court, if District Judge Ralph
E. Jenney approves the local refundlng
case after hearings this month.
1t leaves only one issue upon which
an appeal can be taken from Jenney's
judgment-if it is favorable one, as
seems likely That issue is fairness of
the terms of the plan itself. The consti-
tutional question is disposed of in the
Merced- -Corcoran ruling.
To the people of Imperial Valley, the
supreme court ruling is a welcome one.
1t should, in the legal course of events,
mean less delay before final end is
written to refunding litigation. Any
thing reducing possible delay in conclu
sion of this matter is Of vital Importance
here