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Evening star., 1942-03-18

which Army officers and men were
assigned.
Paraueling the announcement OF
forthcoming ofncial reviews Of the
military situation, the statement said
that the War Production Board
will publish at frequent intervals a
production communique which will
enable the public to judge whether
the production program is progress
ing satisfactorily or not"
Agency's Pledge.
In general, the o. F. F. restated
and explained the policy already be-
ing followed in releasing information
on the Nations war effort.
Here Is its pledge:
Under no circumstances does the
Government publish information
which is known to be untrue.
Under no circumstances does the
Government withhold news from
publication on the ground that the
news Is bad or depressing.
When news Is deliberately with
held, it is withheld for reasons of
military security"
Evening star., 1942-03-18

Flowing matches are still being
held in Fire.
Evening star., 1942-03-18
Canada S Approval Clears
|Way for Road 10 Alaska
|. BY the Associated Press.

! By the Associated Press
The War Department announced
yesterday that the Canadian gov
eminent had given final approval
to construction Of the new high
way to Alaska.
This approval. the department
said. was the final step in formal
negotiations by the United States
and Canadian governments on
these projects. which had been
agreed on generally by March 6.
Contrary to published reports, -
the department said. at no time
were negotiations hampered by lack
of cooperation by the Canadian
government"
A recent incident in which an
American commercial plane char
tered by the United States Govern
ment was halted and turned back
by Canadian officials was due to a
misunderstanding. the department
said, explaining that the Canadians
were in no way responsible. The
plane flew into Canada before the
responsible Canadian officials we're
notified of the agreement for char
tered flights, officials said.
Evening star., 1942-03-18
Both Good and Bad
War News Will Be
Issued by Government
o. F.F. DiseIoses Policy
Reports Will Include
Production PROGRESS
Production Prooress

The Nations military leaders soon
will begin issuing authoritative gen.
eral reviews Of the military situation
The innovation was announced
yesterday by the Once OF Facts and
Figures in statement of the Gov
ernment's wartime information
policy.
That policy, o. F. F.. said, is ito
make public the maximum of in
formation on military, naval, pro-
duction and other matters concern
ing the war. which can be revealed
without giving aid to the enemy ."
based upon the firm conviction that
the people OF a democracy are en-
titled to know the facts, whether
they are good or bad, cheerful or
depressing"
Restriction Modified.
Lists Of men killed in action will
be given out. but with the stipula-
ton that the press and radio will
not publish Nationwide roundups,
but Conflne themselves to listing the
names of casualties from their own
localities. That modified somewhat
a previous censorship restriction
against publication of casualty lists,
except stories obtained In a news
papers local field from the next
of-kin of the deceased service man.
Even In the future, to prevent
valuable information from sitting
through to the enemy, the ranks and
ratings Of Navy officers and men
killed In action will be withheld, as
will the designation OF units to
Evening star., 1942-03-18
Yorro Went Down Fighting.
Naval Reservist Soys

B- the Associated Press.
SYDNEY, Australia. March 18.-
The mystery Of the missing sloop
Yarra was dispelled yesterday.
The little Australian warship went
down with all her guns firing in the
gallant but hopeless defense Of a
convoy against three heavy japanese
cruisers and two destroyers off Java
Every ship Of the convoy then was
picked of by the murderous Japa-
nese broadsides.
The story Of the Yarra's last fight
was related by Sub. 1t. F. r. Mar
shall Of the Royal Navy Volunteer
Reserve, who has reached an Aus
tralian port. His minesweeper was
destroyed along with the Yarra.
He said six vessels escorted by the
Yarra left Batavia for Tjilatjap on
the south coast Of Java February q.
A submarine attack February %
was beaten of with depth charges.
A second mine sweeper and an
Indian sloop joined the convoy in
time to fight of another submarine
attack March 3.
Then at dawn March 4 the Jap
anese cruisers and destroyers we're
sighted. The convoy scattered, the
Yarra staying behind to lay a
smoke screen and try to delay the
attack.
But the situation was hopeless
The convoy had a maximum speed
Of IA knots; the enemy could ma
neuver at more than 80 knots.
Against the 8-inch guns of the
cruisers and 5-inch guns Of the
destroyers. the convoy could mus
ter one anti-submarine gun. some
machine guns and the Yarra's
three-pounders.
At point-blank range the Jap
anese concentrated on one after
another until every ship was sunk.
1t. Marshall and 13 of his IS men
drifted on two floats for three days
until Dutch ship rescued them.
Survivors of the British destroy
ers Jupiter and Electra, sunk in
other sea fighting of Java, also have
reached Australia. They organized
crew for an ancient coal-burning
vessel at Tjilatjap, and with refugee
passengers acting as stokers sailed
her to safety.
Evening star., 1942-03-18
British Army Officer
And Consul Help Fire
Rescue Ship's S Boilers
Vessel Reaches AustroIia
From Java After Dodeine
Two Submarine Attacks
By TIE Associated Press.

By TIE Associated Press.
MELBOURNE. Australia, March
18-After dodging two submarine
attacks, Capt. Henry Steel. British
Army public relations officer, has ar
rived in Australia from Java on a
boat on which he and the British
Consul served as stokers because
the ship was short of crew.
On the same ship were a number
Of wounded American survivors of
the naval battles of the Sea of Java,
but Capt. Steel said he was without
news Of Witt Hancock, Associated
Press correspondent, or w. H. Nc
Dougall, United Press correspondent.
Capt. Steel said he left a Java
port March 3 after getting out the
majority Of British and American
newspaper correspondents and ar
ranging for the exit Of Hancock and
McDougall, but in the confusion
arising from the night embarkation
on a number Of vessels with different
destinations, he was unable to say
positively that Hancock had Sue
ceeded In boarding a ship.
(The Associated Press has not
heard from Hancock since March
2. United Press offices in New
York said they had not heard
from McDougall.
(Hancock. a native of West
Virginia. worked on newspapers
in that State and North Caro-
lima before joining the Associated
Press at Raleigh in 1929 and 60
ing to London in 1896. He has
been correspondent in Moscow
and Ankara, Turkey, and in In
dia)
For Capt. Steel the voyage from
Java was much like that from Sin
gapore. where he was the last British
Army public relations man to leave
A few hours after he had sailed
with p. Peterson, Australian COM
missioner in the Netherlands In
dies; j. Walsh, the British Consul
General at Batavia; British and
American Navy wounded, and
American and Dutch civilians. a tor
pedo passed under the ships stern
and another appeared to go directly
beneath.
He, Walsh and some of the Of
f1cers took turns firing the boilers
during the eight-day voyage and
kept deck watch with rifles and
machine guns, while women pos
SengerS helped out the skeleton
Javanese crew by cooking the meals.
Evening star., 1942-03-18
ToImodge Will Leuve
Sweet Smell Behind
BY the Associated Prass

By the Associated Press,
ATLANTA lP.-Gov. Eugene Tai
madge has ordered the State Ento-
mology Department plant six crab
apple trees on the executive man
sion lawn and four on the capitol
lawn.
He also directed that some sweet
shrubs be planted at both places.
Said the Governor:
It's 50 we'll leave things SMELL
Ing sweet when we leave here"
Evening star., 1942-03-18
Son Missing in Action,
Businessmen EnIists
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
HOUSTON, Tex. (R.-A Houston
business man, notified that his son
was missing In action. gave the
Coast Guard his 40-foot cabin
cruiser and headed for q naval
training station.
Claude William Washburn, 80
was enlisted as a machinist's mate,
second class, after he laid the no.
tice concerning his son, Claude
jr., on a recruiting oficer's desk and
said:
Here I am. I am going to take
his place and get myself few of
those Japs"
The motor cruiser is named I'm
Ready"
Evening star., 1942-03-18
ADVERTISEMENT.
WHEN CHILDREN have
REPEATED COLDS

Il = wise to start building their re-
dstance by giving them Father johns
Medicine II their repeated colds ARE
due TO lack Of vftAmin A. It Is ex-
cellent for children, and is free from
alcohol and all harmful drugs.
Father Johns Medicine also gives
prompt relief from coughs due to
colds by soothing throat irritation.
It Is pure, wholesome, nutritive, and
rich in vitamins A and D. Over IS
years In use.
Evening star., 1942-03-18
From All Directions

CHICAGO R.-Julius 6chefner
owner OF a trucking company. re-
ported to police the 18th burglary
In eight years Of his onces. Bur-
glars have entered through sky
lights. and by forcing front, real
and side doors and on the last trip
threw brick through the quarter
inch-thick front window.
Evening star., 1942-03-18
Gripe Box Is Installed
For Army Complaints

BY the Associated Press,
CAMP FUNSTON, Kans.-Order
Of the day: Gripe as much Is you
like!
A grippe box has been installed in
the mess hall for soldiers unsigned
letters Of complaint.
Army omcials believe morale may
be improved by remedying many
conditions called to their attention.
Evening star., 1942-03-18
All ConstobIes Women

QUINCY, Mich. (P).-Women will
serve as constables in Butler Town
ship next year. Four have been
nominated for as many ofices by
the Republican party, which is un-
opposed.
Evening star., 1942-03-18
laps Try 10 Turn
MacArthur's Shift
To Propaganda Use
Toxic Seeks to Compare
Move With Flights Of
WuveII and Bennett

president Roosevelt harmed
yesterday that AriS short -1Ddpe
propdgdndists mould try to make
capital OF Gen. Douglas MacAr-
thurs transfer to Australia by
picturing it as abandonment OF
the Philippines. FOLLOWING is the
first japanese reaction to the
transfer to be broadcast.J
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-21
Local Navy Man
Back from Dead

People can talk all they want
to about foreign travel but there's
no place like the U.S.A. to me-,
said E. J. Afford, back in Imperial
Valley on 80 days leave from the
u S. Navy.
No wonder he feels that way
about it. He was aboard the U.SS.
Marblehead, the ship that return
ed from the dead" after being re-
ported a victim of the enemy many
times.
He said he thought things were
shaping up for real trouble when
he joined the Navy in September of
1899. He was on board the Augusta,
sister ship of the Houston, before
he was transferred to the Marble
head. He and Frank MousSeau an
other FL Centran both were aboard
the Marblehead when it was bomb
ed last Feb. 4.
Afford left the Philippines last
Nov 81 and was in North Boreno
Dec. 7 when the japanese shelled
Pearl Harbor and precipitated the
United States into World War No.
2 The Marblehead was bombed by
the japanese Feb. 4 and the next
day % more bombers came over
in search of the Marblehead to
finish the job they began the day
before. They couldn't find the Mar
blehead, he said, so they fired on
the destroyer, Paul Jones. They
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-21
Professor Charges
BIackmaiI Plot

CHICAGO, May 81 CUP - Ern-
est Lauer, Al, former history pro-
Terror at Northwestern University,
demanded $4,000 from a beauty
operator today ON grounds that
she had ruined his career and OBJ
tanned $4,000 from him by threat
ening to expose their illicit rela-
tionship.
The demand was made in answer
TO a suit brought by the beauty
operator, Mrs. Grace Stoner, AZ, to
compel payment on a $4,000 check
Lauer had given her last winter.
He ordered his bank to stop pay
ment of the check.
Lauer charged that Mrs. Stoner
had published to his friends, rel
atives, students and faculty Off
cials that she had maintained i'm
moral relations with him" after he
stopped payment of the check. AS
a result, Lauer said, he resigned
from the Northwestern faculty.
His petition alleged that Mrs
Stoner previously had obtained
amounts totaling about $4,000
from him by threatening to expose
their relationship.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-21

fired eight times and missed, the
anti-aircraft guns forcing the
planes to keep high.
SUICIDE PLANES
"On Feb. 4 we finished off three
of those suicide planes that tried
to land on the Marblehead with a
load of dynamite. Afford said.
we gunned two to the water and
shot the other to pieces before it
reached the ship"
He said they received mail on the
ship. Nov. 20 and the next mail
after the heroic Marblehead reach
ed a port in eastern United States
at the end of a three-months trip.
A trip during which it made five
stops for temporary repairs. When
the ship locked there were los
sacks of mail awaiting the men on
board, including many OF the back
issues of the PoSt-PreSS. No one
knew where the boat was so the
mail was held for them.
With orders to be back on the
east coast b. June 10, Afford PLAN
ned to visit his brothers in Imperial
Valley and relatives in San Diego
and Long Beach. He will be on the
Marblehead temporarily at least
but later may be transferred. Al
ford attended Central Union High
school in FL Centre and had half
a year at junior college. He is a
seaman first class.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-21
Hoover Asks Full
Powers for FDR

NEW YORK, May 81, CUP)-
Herbert Hoover urged last night that
President Roosevelt be given "dicta-
torial economic powers" to win the
war.
The former president, politically
foe of Mr.. Roosevelt and long
time critic of New Deal economics,
told the Goth annual assembly of
the National Industrial Conference
board that there must be no hesita-
ton" in giving the President these
powers land upholding him in
them"
His address was broadcast nation
ally. Paul V. McNutt, federal secur-
ity administrator and chairman of
the war manpower commission, and
Robert P. Patterson, undersecretary
of war, also addressed the meeting
Observing that there will be no
personal liberty anywhere if we
lose the war;" Mr. Hoover said:
ITO win total war President Roose-
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-21
Taxes Dig Deep
Into u. s. Income

thority to withhold" 10 per cent of
wages, salaries and dividends re-
ceived by any person with allowance
for personal exemptions. 1t was adj
yanced as a sure fire collection
method and a weapon against in
flation.
The committees decision on in
come tax rates was announced late
yesterday 1t will bring an additional
So, 750 100000 into the treasury.
BY indirect.on tie committee re-
iected President RooSevelt's recon-
menddtion to congress that no per-
son be allowed to retain for his own
use more than $25,000 after taxes.
NEW RATES
1t voted to start 81 per cent sur
taxes on income OF 100000 or more,
but the new rates would permit a
taxpayer to retain nearly 100000
if he earns 100000. To be able to
keep 25,000 taxpayer would have
to earn $4,000.
! For Americans earning up to $l0,-
! 600, whether or not tax withhold
ing is finally adopted, March Is,
1913, will be a day of reckoning like
it never was before.
A couple with no children and an
income of $4,000 would pay $306
under the committee rates. This
year it paid $l38 (These figures
do not take into account deductions
that the family might be able to
make for contributions, interest,
etc.
A family with a $4,000 income and
two children would pay 1852. This
year it paid $58.
EXEMPTION LOWERED
It will cost a single person with
no dependents SAT- to earn $4,000
if the committee rates are finally
adopted by the house and senate.
This year such a taxpayer paid
1921.
Until this year a family with no
children and an income of $500
paid no taxes the committees rates
would make that family owe the
government $45. The committee has
reduced the personal exemption Tor
such family to $1,000.
But in the income brackets up to
5000, the blow can be much worse
if the rates originally proposed by
the treasury are adopted.
The treasury recommended break
ing up the first Surtax bracket of
$4,000 into four new brackets so
that the rate on taxable income be-
tween $500 and $4,000 would have
been % per cent. The committee
retained the present bracket and
imposed only II per cent surtax
rate on it.
The surfaces voted by the COM
mittee yesterday would apply to
all income over the taxpayers per-
sonal exemptions and legal deduc-
tons. There is no earned income
credit for surfaces.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-21
Specialists Study
Farm War Problems

Sacramento, May 81. (UP)-Agrl-
cultural specialists met with the
state association of county agricul-
tural commissioners here today with
the general theme of farm produc-
ton during wartime highlighting
most of the talks and programs.
T. d. Urbahns of Sutter county
is president of the association.
Harold j. Ryan, Los Angeles coun-
ty agricultural commissioner, describ-
ed the farm labor problems resulting
from the evacuation of Japanese
and shift of workers to war indus
tries. He said most of the vacated
japanese farms had been taken
over by non-Japanese operators in
the Los Angeles area, the second
largest receiving market in the ma
ton for fruits and vegetables.
Ryan said some difficulty is eX-
pected in replacing celery acreage,
strawberries and perhaps bushber-
ries. A farm to farm survey is under
way through the county USDA war
board to determine crops to be har-
vested
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-21
Divorce Planned
For vanderbiIts
InNevada Court

LOS ANGELES, May 81 up
Mrs. Manuela Hudson Vanderbilt
has established residence incognito
near Las Vegas, New, preparatory
/ to instituting suit for divorce from
! Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, mil
| lionaire turfman, the Los Angeles
Examiner said today.
The report could not be confirm
ed at once. The paper said Mrs.
Vanderbilt was stopping at the
exclusive Hidden Wells ranch near
Las Vegas, registered under an as
sumed name. The ranch cannot be
reached by telephone.
Mrs. Vanderbilt is the former
Manuela Hudson, daughter of Will
liam G.. Hudson prominent Mon
terey, Calf. attorney. She is
cousin to Mrs. Anita Howard, for
mer wife of Lindsay Howard, whose
father, Charles Howard, is the
owner of Seabiscuit.
Vanderbilt has been frequently
with Gloria Wood, film actress and
daughter of Producer Sam Wood.
She is known on the screen as X.
T. Stevens. The Examiner said they
expected to marry as soon as Mrs.
Vanderbilt obtains a divorce
Mrs Vanderbilt filed suit for
divorce in New York last summer,
but the action was dropped before
announced an "amicable" separa-
the case came up in court. They
ton.
The Vanderbilts were married in
June. 1888, eliminating romance
which began at Santa Anita Park,
where Vanderbilt was racing hts
horses and Miss, Hudson was a
guest of the Towards. They have
one child, Wendie, born in March,
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-21

welt must have dictatorial economic
powers. There must be no hesita-
ton in giving them to him and up
holding him in them.
Moreover, we must expect a
steady decrease in economic free
dom as the war goes on.
We must start our thinking with
q disagreeable, cold, hard fact. That
is, the economic measures necessary
to win total war are just plain Fas-
cist economics. 1t was from the war
organization developed by all ma
tons, including the democracies,
during the first total war; that the
economic department of Fascism was
born.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-21

WASHINGTON, May Il. (UP)-
The house ways and means commit
tee, having voted to double and
triple income taxes in the low and
middle brackets, will decide soon
whether to collect part of 1912 in
come taxes in advance through pay
roll deductions.
The treasury has asked for au-
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-21
Here Are Examples
Of How New Taxes
Take Income Toll

WASHINGTON, May 81. CUP)-
The following examples of typica
taxpayers illustrate the extent the
new income tax rates, if approved
by the house and senate, will cut
into the average mans income:
A SOLDIER EARNING
$500 A YEAR
A bill is pending in congress tc
raise the pay of buck privates tC
$50 a month - $500 a year. This
year such soldier would have to
pay nothing. Here's how he would
have to figure his tax for next year
From total income of 5000 deduct
$500 for personal exemption, assum-
ing he has no other dependents.
That leaves 500 net income aSsum-
ing that q soldier would not have
other deductions such as contribu-
lions to charity and state taxes to
make.
On the 500 net income he would
pay a II per cent surtaX or Sl2.
From the net income he could de-
duct earned income credit 30 per
cent of total income, or $50, leaving
$40 on which to pay the normal tax
of six per cent, or S2.40.
Surtax plus normal tax would
make his tax bill $14.40.
FAMILY WITH $1,000
INCOME AND 2 CHILDREN
Regardless of whether the family
income is earned by one or both
spouses a single joint return must
be filed.
From its total income of $4,000,
the family would deduct personal
exemption of $1,000, plus $500 for
each child-a total of $4,000.
Assuming the family contributed
to charity and church and paid
state taxes and interest on it's home
to the extent of 5000, it would de-
duct this amount from the income
in excess of personal exemptions
leaving a net income of $500. On
the. $500 it pays II per cent sur
tax, or 500. Deducting $500 earned
income 90 per cent of the $4,000
total income) from the $500, it pays
a six per cent normal tax, or $50.
Total taxes for this family are
Sl26 because of the miscellaneous
deductions. Taxes without deduc-
tons for charity, taxes and inter-
eSt-the committee samples in ia
bles-Would amount to $162
This year the family would have
paid less than $50.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-21
RIVERS FLOOD
BRAZIL TOWNS

PORTO AGEGRE, Brazil, May 81.
tUP) least 80 towns in south
western Rio Grande Do Sui state
were flooded today when torrential
rains sent the Guiaba, Taquari and
Jacui rivers out of their banks.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-29

CHICAGO. Nov. IS CUPl.-The
International Harvester Company
announced today it has perfected
a mechanical cotton picker, long
the dream of inventors and a de-
vice which would give the cotton
industry its greatest labor saving
instrument since Eli Whitney pat
ented his cotton Gin IN 1894.
Fowler Mccormick, C. ON p n y
president, said tests have cStab-
lShed that the machine will do the
work OF 80 10 80 hand pickerS a
day. Thus, lac SAID. IL could become
"a powerful factor in solution OF
the manpowCr problem If the gov
ernmcnt approves the necessary
.prioriticS.
Mccormick said tests also have
demonstrated that the machine
does a more thorough job than
hand pickerS, resulting in a con
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-29
COttOn-Picker InUented,
After 40 Years Effort

siderable saving" in cotton ordi-
narily wasted.
The machine. he said, was per-
fected after 40 years Of expert
mentation.
at has proved 10 he the most
difficult designing and engineer
ing job In the modern history Of
agricultural machinery" he said
Up 10 now we have never said
that we had successful cotton
picker"
He added. however. that the
company does not claim profitable
operation al the machine under
varying conditions i'm less import
ant cotton areas.
Importance Of the device In tho
manpower scheme draws emphasis
from the fact that for generations
the harvesting OF cotton has re-
quired proportionatcly more human
labor than any other crop.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-29

Three Comic Pages every day
in Daily Detroit Times.