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Evening star., 1941-03-23
200 More Girls Register
In Second Dance Draft

About 200 more Government girls
yielded up such cherished secrets as
their age, weight and telephone
numbers for their country's sake
here yesterday as the second dance
draft was staged at the District
Building.
Most of those who registered got a
chance to go into action on the light
fantastic front Immediately. About
rs of the girls went to Quantico, Va,
to Marine dance last night and an
other Is were sent to a barn dance
in Alexandria, attended by Army
men from this area.
The dance draft was staged by
the Government Employees Service
Committee, which is seeking to build
up reserve corps of 1000 Govern
ment girls to act as partners for
service men at dances in this area.
Those who appeared at the Dis
trict Building yesterday were seated
at desks with volunteer workers
who filled out missionaries.
Some of the volunteers were young
men-who explained that they were
on their honor not to transfer any
of the names and the phone num-
| berS into their personal files.
Men Interviewers Critical.
The girls were asked their height
weight, age, dancing ability and the
interviewers graded their appear
ance and personality as excellent y
good" fair" or poor"
The men interViewerS had a tend
ency to be little more critical in
| their appraisaIs than the women
interviewers.
Il expect III be in one of those
camps before long" one man ex-
planned. I'm trying to give honest
answers here. I know that I don't
want them to send a bunch of dopes
out when I'm there"
The interviewers have found it
necessary to do a little juggling
with the age and weight figures
which some girls give them. They've
had girls with silver threads among
the gold insisting that they were
in their early 20s and have had
heavyweights reducing themselves
to l25 pounds.
Subject to Revision.
All these figures are subject to
revision, and the interviewers go
a little easy in accepting a girls
word that her dancing is excellent
Those who appeared yesterday
got their assignments Immediately,
but before they are put on a
permanent list they will be inveSti-
gated further.
Their section chiefs will be asked
to fill out questionnaires on their
reputation, honesty, prudence and
their loyalty to the United States.
The turnout yesterday was nu-
merically disappointing, since more
than 500 had registered the last
time. Officials said they had re-
ceived protest from Washington
girls who did not work for the Gov
ernment, but who wanted to
register.
A few non-Government girls ap-
| peared yesterday and were regis
tered. Their names will be held
until a decision is made on whether
the dance draft is to be a Govern
ment monopoly.
Evening star., 1941-03-23
By The Associated Press.


BALTIMORE, March 22-Denial
that there will be any extension of
the period in which 1910 automobile
license plates may be used was made
yesterday by Commissioner of Motor
Vehicles w. Lee Elgin.
Motorists holding off on the pur-
chase of their 1941 tags, which will
be required after midnight on March
81, are doomed to disappointment"
Mr.. Elgin said
Reports have reached our Office
that word is being spread that we
are contemplating a time extension,
due to the fact that a few days
grace was given last year while
awaiting a court decision in refer
ence to the payment of automobile
taxes" Mr.. Elgin said. =.
Every indication points to the
Evening star., 1941-03-23
BY & Staff Correspondent of The Star.

ROCKVILLE, Md, March GA
family of II, all of whom, police said,
are listed by welfare officials as un-
employable, was burned out OF its
home today.
The blaze was discovered by one
of the children playing in the yard
while the others, ranging in ages
from l8 months to IS years, were
having breakfast.
All of the clothes, furniture and
other household possessions of the
family of Willie Burriss, At, were
lost, firemen reported.
The house was situated on Con-
duit road near Great Falls. Before
firemen had arrived-there was al
apparent delay in summoning aid
the two-story frame building had
been almost completely burned.
A worker from the Montgomery
County Welfare Department re-
ported she arrived while the Burriss
family was huddled around the
Evening star., 1941-03-23
PIT. A. Units Urqed
To Join CONGRESSES

An appeal to all parent-teacher
associations in Montgomery County,
Md, affiliated with the State and
national congresses to register for
participation in a campaign to To-
cate children who will enter school
next fall was made yesterday by
Mrs. Frank F. Smith, State chair
man of summer roundup.
Mrs. Smith urged that the asso-
Citations contact her at her home
at 9405 Saybrook avenue, Silver
Spring, Md. Several groups, she
said, have already begun to canvass
their local communities.
Evening star., 1941-03-23
Coodjutor Bishop Sought
By Maryland Diocese
Er the Associated Press

BALTIMORE, March 22.-The
Right Rev. Edward T. Helfenstein,
bishop of the Protestant Episcopal
diocese of Maryland, has called a
special convention of the diocese for
April % in the Pro-Cathedral of the
Incarnation to request election of
coadjutor bishop.
If authority is given for election
of coadjutor. the election will take
place at a convention to be held
Nav %.
Evening star., 1941-03-23
Laurel Center Has sGoyOpening
Despite Scarcity of Soldiers
SeIectees Hitch-Hiking Toward Washington
Drafted for Tea Dance by Girls

Committee for soldier recreation.
Backing her are a score of town
groups and organizations - from
Mayor Tolson and the City Council
to the American Legion and the
Baptist Church.
The whole town has furnished the
center, lent to them by the State.
When an old radio was donated. a
local radio store repaired it. For
yesterdays dance, the manager of
the towns 10-cent store loaned from
stock all the coffee cups and saucers.
Evening star., 1941-03-23
Husband Gets Estute

ROCKVILLE. Md, March %
(SpeciaD Under the will of Mrs.
Carolyn w. Perry of near Brooke
vile, admitted to probate in Or
phans' Court here, her entire estate
goes to her husband, John Duffy
Perry, who is named executor. The
estate includes real estate in Wash
ington, Alexandria and Montgomery
County of unlisted value.
Evening star., 1941-03-23
Chevy Chase PIT. A.
To Hold Bridqe Party

The Chevy Chase Elementary
School Parent-Teacher Association
will hold its annual bridge party at
2 pm. Wednesday at the Woman's
Club. Easter styles will be displayed
by professional models at pm.
Evening star., 1941-03-23
Arlington c. of c. Banquet

The Arlington tVaD Chamber of
Commerce will hold its annual BAN
quet at $50 pm. Wednesday in the
washington Golf and Country Club.
Evening star., 1941-03-23

(See ELECTORAL, Page B-3D
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-28
by Willis Thornton
Have You Bought Your Defense Bond?

Yes, there is something you can
dol
You can buy Defense Bonds. The
result of their sale thus far indi-
Gates that not nearly enough peo-
pie are buckling down to their
job. Lending the government part
of whatever money you can spare
is part of that job.
In the first two weeks of their
sale. about a quarter of a billion
collars worth of Defense Bonds
and Savings Stamps have been
bought. That is not nearly enough.
II it were enough the government
would not have to 60 out to raise
another huge loan at this time by
selling ordinary bonds TO the banks.
Once more, let us repeat the ad-
vantageS of the Defense Bond
plan. When the government sells
bonds to banks, that simply ex-
pands the national credit base. IN
flation is brought nearer. But when
you buy Defense Bonds, you lend
your actual money to the govern
ment. What you, lend is not spent
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-28

If you think the United States should
have no interest whatsoever in French
collaboration" with Adolf Hitler, take
look at the map reprinted above. Draw
a line from Martinique to Clipperton
Island (both French possessions), and
see how close that line comes to the
Panama canal. Or run your eye down
from Miquelon and st. Pierre to Guada-
lupe, to Martinique. to French Guiana
and let your mind play with the
thought of what beautiful setup that
would be for someone attacking Uncle
Sam in his own playground.
If you're still unconvinced, look at the
line from Martinique to Dakar, in West
Africa where Germans are right now
establishing military and naval forces.
The line to Dakar, and the other line to
Casablanca, were drawn to show the
routes used right now to smuggle goods
through the British blockade into Axis
dominated countries of Europe. But
you need only to reverse the arrows, and
you have equally good routes TO import
war into the Western Hemisphere.
OF course, France has said no such
thing will be attempted. But France to-
day is Charlie Mccarthy for Adolf Hit
ler-and you don't have to be reminded
of how Hitler has kept his promises to
iihtlobo, anu W Lit noiIh dL
large.
OF the places shown on the map, Mar
Unique is the most vitality important to
the United States today; Dakar is sec
ond. The others are unarmed, or would
need greater armament, to become SER
ious thfeats overnight to the United
States. But today on Martinique there
are several hundred United States-built
warplanes which were stranded there
when France gave in to Germany. They
might be used against this country, if
the Axis powers thought it advisable.
And on Martinique there are fortifica-
tions, and base for warships. Martini
que could be ready tomorrow to provide
jumping off place for an attack against
the United States.
Uncle Sam would do well to make sure
that these points are rendered useless to
the Axis powers. Since war is a hard
headed business, and it is war we are fac
ing, they should be seized if that is neces-
sary. Whatever else is done they should
not be left in control of the Axis. As
long as they are under such control, they
are daggers at our back
of course there are some who will say
that all this is just nightmare-that
the Axis would never dare move into this
hemisphere. Chamberlain believed that
the Axis would never go to war against
Britain and France. Holland and Bel
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-28
The President Points the Way
For the People Of America

President Roosevelt has declared a
state Of unlimited emergency.
This is tantamount TO putting the Unit
ed States on a wartime footing
1t is well that he has taken this step.
The reasons given by Mr. Roosevelt
are cleancut and lucid. They are logical
and, we believe, correct. We think he has
given a mastery summary of the war
outlook; of the factors concerned. We
believe he has defined correctly the inter-
national dangers and threats. Further,
we believe that the vast ma jority of AM
erican opinion will concur with his con-
clusions.
more pronounced leadership, will here
after act more definitely in defining and
administering the national way.
Many have leaned strongly toward such
increased aggressive action by this coun-
try-increased action within our boun-
daries, increased action within this hemi-
sphere-increased action in the interna-
tional field A full, wholehearted commit
ment in all cases, however, has been with
held by most of us, because of the lack
of conclusive information which we knew
Washington had, but we, the people, did
not have.
The period of indecision is past.
Very WE'LL the time for aggressive ac-
ton has come.
And it is time-high time-that Ameri-
ca got down to work in the true Ameri-
can manner, rather than the partial halt
ing manner which, unhappily, has prevail
ed so much during these past months.
America faces a serious challenge
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-28

now, and what is not spent does
not help to raise prices unduly,
which is another word for initiation.
Defense Bonds are debt with a
double purpose. tfar is, to keep
down spending of excess money,
which, too freely spent, tends to
force prices up. They cannot de-
preciate in dollar value, but grow
each year in such way that a
Sl00 face value bond bought now
for $75 pays out at 500 ten years
money. The advantage of all this
hence, or at an appropriate frac-
ton of that any time you need the
is that people will be cashing in
are contracting. 1t will be needed
those bonds later, at a time when
business and money IN circulation
thenand its spending will be a
national benefit instead of a ma
tional inflationary threat as it may
be today.
A quarter of a billion dollars is
chlcken-feed in relation to the
vast amounts that must be spent
for defense, whether there is war
or not. If you're making good
money today. and many people are
better set some of it aside in De-
fenSe Bonds or Savings Stamps
Your bank or your postoffice will
tell you all about them.
The slower the response is to this
effort to get people to invest saw
or deferred wages plan on the
ings voluntarily, the greater will be
the cry for compulsory savings"
Keynes model. We still have COM
plete faith that Americans will
prefer to do the job of their own
free will.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-28
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA
IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF
IMPERIAL.
Notice of Time and Place Appointed
for Proving Will and Hearing Ap-
plicati0n for Letters Testament
airy.
And Petition TO set aside Estate to
Surviving Spouse.
In the Matter of the Estate of
JOHN FROHLY, Deceased.
Notice is hereby given that a
petition for probate of the will and
petition to set aside estate to
surviving spouse of John Frohly,
deceased, and for tie issuance to
Carl Huffman of letters testament
ary, has been filed in this court.
and that Friday the End day of
May, 194l, at 200 o'clock pm. of
said day, at the courtroom of said
court, at the Court House in the
City of Ell Centro, County of Impe-
rial, State of California, has been set
lof the hearing of said petition,
When and where any person inter
ested may appear and contest the
same, and show cause, if any they
nave, why said petition should not
be granted.
Dated April 90, l941.
w. j. McCLELLAND,
County Clerk.
BY MAXINE CONSOLE,
Deputy Clerk.
A23: No. incl3
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT .
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-28

Nazi Germany has shown the world a
new perfection of ability, in brains, in
planning, in scientific development-in
short, in administering modern war
Sad to relate, that high efficiency has
far overshadowed Britain's record. We
can not permit it to overshadow ours.
The United States must demonstrate
that we have all the qualities and re-
quirements in higher degree than has
Germany.
That is the job the president as our
leader, and we, as the people, are under
taking.
Mr.. Roosevelt will bear the gravest
ity of leading us along the path outlined
Tuesday evening, a path designed to de-
fend us against grave danger.
We, the people, assume the responsible
ity of standing behind our leadership
with 100 per cent unanimity and determi-
nation of purpose. This carries with it
the responsibility of self-sacrifice, of
hard and long work. of forgetting politi-
cal prejudice and of overlooking faults,
mistakes, errors and inefficiencies which
must, in the nature of things, occur.
This is no time for tweedle-de-dee and
tweedle-d de-dum 1t is time for fact
and action.
Mr. Roosevelt's action is not idle drum
beating or meaningless sounding of GYM
balls 1t is clarion call to assume
deadly serious task.
We must show that Democratic Ameri-
ca is superior to Dictatorship Germany
We hope and are confident that it is
not too late
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-28
Cranium Crackers
WHAT is so RARE

June is the month of brides and
graduations, but has other claims
to fame. Have a rare time with
these questions about the days of
Our sixth month.
l. If the first day in June falls
on Sunday. on what day does the
last come?
2. What holiday observed in
some states, falls on June Ia.
3. Whose birthday is celebra-
ed as Memorial Day in some sou
thern states. and on what date in
June does it fall?
4. What Sunday in June is
usually observed as Fathers Day?
5. Who wrote the words, What
is SO rare as day I'll June?"
ANSWERS
l. If the first day in June is
Sunday, as it is this year, the last
day is Monday, there being 80
days; four full weeks and two days
over.
2. Flag Day is June ID.
3. June 3, birthday of Jeffer-
son Davis, is observed as holi-
day in southern states.
4. Fathers Day is usually OBJ
served on the third Sunday in
June.
5. James Russell Lowell wrote
What is SO rare as day in
June?' in his Vision of Sir Laun-
fall"
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-28

gium believed they could stay out-that
they were not essential to Axis plans. Sc
did Poland, Czechosloyakia, and the 9TH
ers And the Scandinavian countries, out
of the direct path of war, could see nc
reason why they should be involved nor
why they should become the targets of
Axis aggression.
Yes, you may say, but that is all with
in the confines of Europe.
Very we'll. Then let us base our judg-
ment on tactics, not on geographical
boundaries.
Whatever country he has taken in Eu-
rope, Hitler has first encircled with Axis
controlled territory After the Rhine
land he took Austria, and had the Czech
border tWo-thirds surrounded. SO he
moved in on Czechoslovakia That left
Poland two-thirds surrounded. So Po-
land was next Hitler made deal with
Hungary, effectively surrounded Ruma-
MIA, and Rumania was taken. Hungary
awoke in surprise to discover that the
maneuver had left her surrounded in her
own right. So Hungary went into the
Axis. Her premier committed suicide be-
cause of it. And SO it has been with all
the European conquests.
What of US?
Close to US today are Martinique,
French Guiana, Guadalupe, Clipperton
Island, Mquelon and st. Pierre-all un-
der virtual control of the Axis. The Axis
has established what it calls CONNER
CLAP airlines in South America 1t has
established, also, highly trained large
German populations i'll strategic South
American countries. 1t is propaganda
ing South America daily, hourly, by the
minute. With victory in Europe under
its belt, the Axis would not have hard
time finding South American ally
There's no use kidding ourselves about
that
And that would leave the United States
in much the same position as any of that
long roll of European nations which
thought, ''the war won't reach Ut"
Possibly the war = Europes war :
won't touch us with the actual dropping
of bombs But, if we as nation insist
on playing northumberland, there's
liable to be war that will touch u.s.
and it will be war in our own hemisphere
war coming from three sides: Europe,
Asia and South America
Whether we decide to get into the war
in Europe or not, there is one thing we
should do. We should make sure that
the weapons and the bases of war in this
hemisphere are in our hands or under
our control.
We cannot afford 10 leave the back
door open,
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-28
by Peter Edson...
The Inside Track in WASHINGTON

third dollars, that went for wages
to the men in camps. what the
country got in return is perhaps
beyond value. James j. McEntee,
the present director OF the corps,
stresses the intangible beneflts OF
increased health to the men them
selves, training them TO get along
with other men, keeping them OIL
the streets where they would have
been if allowed to run at large as
unemployed hoodlums. Commun-
ism never got to them. In addition
TO which, most of them learned a
trade. even if it was only to swing
am ak in a lumber camp or drive
a truck. And $1,000 OF them learn
ed to read and write while in CCC
camps, which is rather said COM
nentary on the great American ed
ucational system.
Getting beyond the intangibles,
the list and numbers of parks set
up. trails blazed, forest fires fought
bridges built streams purified,
erosions stopped, dam constructed
floods. controlled. weeds cleared,
pipes laid, wildcats eliminated soils
conserved, stones quarried, tele-
phone lines strung, Waterholes
opened, mosquitoes destroyed, etc,
etc, and etc, is four typewriter
pages long. single spaced,
WASHINGTON
SHORTER TAKES
Army has to figure on 10000
hospital beds, capable of taking
care of a maximum of per cent
of the 1,400,000 men in service.
War and Navy Department head
quarters IN Washington may ask
clerical help to forego vacations
and take double time pay instead.
WPA guides take soldiers on leave
throughold New Orleans. Secretary
of Agriculture Wickard holds
Wheat Marketing Quota Card No.
!. His allotment is for 367 acres.
Washingtonians who have lived in
the capital since the year I ND.
CNeW DeaD say the Presidents
change on the Thanksgiving date
from the third to the last Thurs
day of November is the first admin
stration experiment on which he
has switched policy.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-28
CCC NOW LOOKS
FOR THE BOYS

But for all this hue and cry
CCC goes about its business as
usual, has sized up its situation
quite we'll and found it can do some
cutting of its own. For this year
CCC has had $3.50 million, per-
mitting it to operate 1481 camps for
a peak of 100000 enrollees. For
next year, it is asking only $270
million, permitting it to operate
1865 camps for peak of $4,000.
Congress, of course, may revise
the figures up or down and you
can't tell about Congress.
What is happening is that CCC
like everything else is feeling the
impact of enlistments for the arm
ed services and increased employ
ment in the defense industries. AT
its all-time high, In August, 1885,
CCC had 100000 men in $500 camps
Today men are dropping out of the
camps or being hired away from
them by private industry at such a
rate that from now till the enc
of May CCC is taking in 10000
more boys, the present strength be-
ing only 259,000. Back in 1885,
there were from three to five boys
waiting for every vacancy. To-day
they may not find the 10000. II
April, there was room for $4,000
but only 10000 applied.
The camps that CCC recruits &c
into now have a more military
atmosphere than they did in the
early years, for the program has
been altered slightly to meet the
defense effort requirements. There
are't any guns and there isn't any
drill, but there are physical train
ing exercises and there is heavy
emphasis on schools. There are 17t
full-time schools with an enroll
ment of over 5000 learning to be
cooks and bakers. motor repair
men, radio men, clerks and subal-
terms who can direct camps them
selves. There is no shortage of re-
serve officers to command camps
as yet, but as these officers are
called to active service, they viii
be replaced by CCC-trained lead
erS
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-28
WASHINGTON Nav %

WAoHlN1loN, May 20 III
eight years, the Civilian Conserva-
ton Corps, more familiarly known
as CCC has cost about $2.8 billion.
1t seems like lot of money. And
as the House Appropriations Com
mittee prepares to make its recon-
mendations as to what the organ
ization should have for the next
fiscal year, there are again heard
cries that something should be
done to it.
President Roosevelt has indicat-
ed the outfit might be integrated
mind not even the CCC heads
a little more closely with the de-
fense effort, but what he has in
themselves profess to know.
Secretary of Treasury Morgen-
thau has indicated this is one of
the agencies where cuts might be
made to help save that billion.
Rabid militarists yell that the
boys should be carrying guns and
ardent pacifists scream that the
camps are too military already,
since these boys are mostly 17-21,
under draft age.
Some of the economy talking
congressman say CCC could be wip-
ed out altogether as it competes
with private industry.
congressman from the farm
states, with conservation and soil
erosion problems to think about
counter that CCC work in these
fields must not be allowed to di-
miniSh.