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Evening star., 1942-02-27

MacArthurs stand IN the Philip
pines - 8 victory. when everybody
knows he can't win" She added
that she did not mean to belittle
his courageous stand In any way"
by this observation.
Mrs. Whitehurst said people In
this country are complacent for two
reasons. One is that the people
really don't want to 60 to war;" she
said, adding that they had been
working for peace 10 long before De-
cember that "it's difacult for them
to suddenly change their outlook. I"
The other reason is that they don't
realize the country is In such .
dangerous position"
Evening star., 1942-02-27
Arlington Camera Club
Opens Show Sunday

The Arlington (Va) Camera Club
will sponsor its fourth annual show
In the foyer Of the National Mu-
scum, Smithsonian Institution, be-
ginning Sunday and continuing
through March.
More than 200 photographs are
included In the exhibit which is d.
vided into two parts. The first is q
collection Of the South American
section of the Inter-American Pho
tographic Salon and the second
comprised Of prints made by club
members.
Among Washington people repre-
sented in the show Is Miss Eleanor
Parke Gusts, well known photog-
rapher.
Evening star., 1942-02-27
New ItoIion Law Puts
Regulations on Labor

- the Associated Press.
BERLIN (From German Broad
cast, Feb. n. - A new Italian
law regulating the conscription of
civilian labor and placing the work
power Of all men from 1s to IS at
the disposal Of the state was re-
ported yesterday in dispatches from
Rome.
Giuseppe Lombrassa, 36-year-old
Fascist labor newspaper writer, who
fought In Italy's campaigns in
Ethiopia, Spain and Greece, was
appointed undersecretary of state In
the Ministry of Corporations to
supervise the new regulations.
Evening star., 1942-02-27
Library Group to Meet

DR.. Wilfrid Parsons, s. j., will re-
view 1.-THE Keys Of the Kingdom. u
by A. j. Cronin at a meeting Of the
Study Guild Catholic Library, 1725
Rhode Island avenue NV, at 8:15
pm. Tuesday. DR.. Parsons recently
returned from Hollywood where he
assisted in directing the film version
of the hook
Evening star., 1942-02-27

Macarthur Cant VIM"
She said she thought 1t was
wrong" to puhicize Gen. Douglas
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-17
Navy Investigates
Crash of Bomber
SAN FRANCISCO Nav Is CUP,

SAN FRANCISCO, May 16 CUP)
= The Navy today began an in
veStigation into the death of seven
members of the crew of an Army
bomber which crashed in the ocean
of Humboldt Bay while on Navy
supervised patroi light.
Impact of the crash tore the
bomber to pieces, witnesses said,
and while small parts of the craft
were located and identified, no
bodies were Immediately recovered.
Victims of the crash were:
Lieut.. w. D Froehlingsdorf, USA,
North Virginia, Mimi, pilot; En-
sign A. c. Maher, USNR, New Or
leans, La, co-pilot; Sgt. w. j. Gals
sic, Chelsea, Mass; Sgt. w. E. An
dreWS, Putnam, Tex. Sgt. i. M.
Christian, Shawnee, Okla. Corp.
S. E. Shaw, Richmond, Va; Sea-
man End Glass u. Il. Jones, radio
man, Los Angeles.
The captain of a tanker saw the
bomber plunge into the sea and
stood by urtl it was joined by a
schooner, two coast guard boats
and a coast guard airplanc from
the Eureka coast guard base.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-17

LONDON. May 16 tUP) - Brit
ish military quarters reported to-
day that the intrepid Russian gar
rison of Sevastopol, Gibraltar of
the Crimea. had started an often
sive and neutral sources in Swift
zerland asserted that the German
high command regarded the Rus
sian offensive against Kharkov as
serious.
The attack of the SevaStopol
garrison, which had withstood an
active siege and countless ferocious
attacks by German, Italian, Ru-
mani9n and Hungarian troops and
massed German dive bombing
planes, for months seemed to be
for the present of diversional ma
ture.
1t was designed, apparently, to
relieve pressure on the Russians
defending the eastern end of the
Kerch peninsula against Germany's
first important spring offensive
movement.
GERMANS WORRIED
But it seemed possible that the
Red army forces, now attacking
all along the line north of the
Crimea, might essay major break
through movement after feeling
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-17
The SUNBCNNET
SHINES AGAIN
(Christian Science Monitor)

(Christian Science Monltor)
The sunbonnet will be widely worn
this summer, fashion experts predict.
The sunbonnet has ever been a symbol of
earnest endeavor. When men roll up
their sleeves, it signifies that they have
a difficult task ahead and are determined
to get the job done without loss of time.
When women don this not unbecoming
though utilitarian headwear, it means
they are getting ready to do mans
Work-hoeing in backyard gardens, man
ming reapers in wheatfields, trucking
harvested grain to market-all in add-
ton to seeing that the household machin-
cry is kept running smoothly.
American women wore the sunbonnet
during the days of civil strife when, their
men called to the defense of the republic,
they worked the farms to feed their
families. 1t accompanied them when,
by prairie schooner or by oX-team, they
ventured into unsettled areas to carve
out new homes for themselves and for
the thousands that Were to follow in their
wake. Wherever the rifle of the pioneer
went, the sunbonnet was not far behind
1t has come to stand for quiet persist
ence and dauntleSS determination.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-17
VOTING AND
FIGHTING

Fridays startlingly light vote in
school district elections was no compli-
ment to the sense of responsibility shown
by Imperial county residents. 1t was .
critical display of the same kind of leth
argy which sent America into this war
unprepared.
Voting in public matters, and voting
as wisely as we can, is as much a part
of the war effort as making guns. After
all, high among the things for which we
are fighting is the right to vote freely
in deciding governmental policies.
1t has been said that the school cleo
ton balloting was light because public
interest is completely centered on the
war. If that is true, it spotlights lep-
rehensible state of affairs in the public
consciousness of what this war is about.
We say we're fighting for freedom, for
economic equality, for religious tolerance.
The schools and the homes are the
fountanheads of those qualities, and the
success with which they are operated
depends upon those who are given the
responsibility for their administration.
Nature establishes the responsibility IN
the matter of the homes, but the voters
decide who is going to formulate the
policies of the schools If the voters fall
down on their Job, it is they who must be
blamed in tho event the schools, also,
fall down on theirs.
AS vital today as guarding Australia,
or protecting the British Isles, or helping
Russia to defeat the Axis terror, is the
job of keeping Democracy alive right
here at home. We cannot afford to fix
our eyes on some distant horizon to the
exclusion Of all else, and still expect not
to stumble along the path we are travel
ing.
We've got hard job to do, and voting
is part of it. Next time, let's see that
we do not shirk the responsibility.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-17
Laval Announces
vichy Will Refuse
ToGive Up Rights

VICHY, France, May Is. up
Chief of Government Pierre Laval
announced today that he had told
the United States that France
would always refuse under any cir
cumstances to abandon any Sover-
eign rights" But that French war
ships in the West Indies would
not fall nto any foreign hands.
In a statement to the press, Laval
said he had made clear the attitude
of the Vichy government toward
the United States negotiations with
French authorities at Martinique.
Admiral Georges Robert, governor
of Martinique, acveG under the au-'
thority of the French government
in the negotiations, and Vichy IS
in full accord with Roberts acts,
Laval added.
(Washington previously m d e
clear that it was negotiating not
with Vichy but with the Martinique
officials, who assured the United
States that French Warshlps there
were immobilizedD
Laval said no decision would be
taken at Martinique without assent
of the Vichy government, given
| through Robert, who is July quail
fled by Vichy to act.
He said the French warships and
cargoes in West Indies ports would
not fall into foreign hands.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-17
LET REASON REIGN

Imperial Valley will lose a lot of good
citizens between now and next Thursday
noon. That is the deadline for the evacu-
alton of all persons of japanese ancestry
from this county.
In all frankness, we do not lament the
loss We feel that the path of wisdom
is being followed - that these people
should be moved out, as they are being.
We do. however, deplore the hysteria
which has caused some to label every
person of the japanese race an enemy.
It would be lust as logical, we believe,
to call every person of German ancestry
an enemy. Yet we all know that some OF
our most loyal Americans trace their
families back to Germany.
There are many of the japanese race,
born in this country, taught in our schools,
reared in our ways of life, whose thoughts
and acts are as American as yours ana
mine We do not spek from theory. we
have known them, as any Imperial valley
tie could who would take the trouble TO
make their acquaintance. They have no
more link with Japan, and the militaristS
of japan, than has Gen. Macarthur
These folk of the japanese race, but
of American loyaltieS, are entitled to the
sympathetic treatment our government
has assured them. They are entitled to
the same treatment from persons OF the
white race who are their fellow Amerl-
cans. They are called upon to make eco
nomic sacrifices greater than any of
ours, when their only fault has been that
we have not the time nor the personnel
to make such exhaustive surveys as would
determine which of them are the dlsloyal
ones
In the necessities Of war, let us not
give way at home to the kind OF terror
ist prosecutions which are the hallmark
of the Axis countries. Let us, rather,
remember that our whole government IS
founded upon tolerance, and upon recog-
milton of the rights of others.
Our Jananese residents are leaving us,
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-17
GOING TOO FAST
{ Sacramento Union)

sacramento Unlon)
Official Washington has called a halt
on one of the more drastic plans put for
ward for the mobilization of manpower
during the war. This is in the abandon
ment of immediate registration of all
women for possible service in defense in
duStrieS.
The announcement is made that suf
ficient labor exist without calling on the
women on an about work basis.
In the confusion of modifying the ma
ton for the victory effort government
agencies may be excused for being over
Jealous about their plans. But it would
be less disconcerting to the people if pre-
mature announcements were withheld and
the war leaders determined before max
ing them just what they actually intend
ed to do.
Before drafting the women this coun-
try can extend the work week, as Great
Britain is now planning. Far more eff
ficent production can be obtained by
using the skilled help already employed
in industry on longer work-week basis
than by cluttering up the factories with
novices who are as yet unframed.
America must win this war and will
win it. But the quickest way to win is
to make the greatest possible use of the
skilled workers that are already employ
ed in the armament factories
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-17
Nazis Retreat

attack and were fighting German
shock troops in the hills to the
west
ANOTHER ATTACK
There were reports Also uncon-
firmed here, that the intrepid gar
risen of Sevastopol, their spirit I'M
dimmed after months of blazing at
tack, had struck out in an attack
OF their own, possibly a relieving
movement to aid the peninsula
forces.
Russia's noon communique, report
ing stubborn fighting in the pen
insula, said the Russian offensive
at Kharkov continued in this its
fourth day.
The communique asserted that
the Russians, driving through de-
lenses it had taken the Germans
painful months to build in the
limb freezing winter, were retain
ing towns and villages and inflict-
ing tremendous losses on the firing
enemy.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-17
Churchill Sees
War Ridge Ahead

LEEDS, Eng, May 16. CUP)-
Prime Minister Winston Churcnlli
said in a speech today, I'VE have
reached a period of war when IL
would be premature to say we have
topped the ridge, but we see the
ridge ahead now
1.-The United Nations will come
on top of the ridge" he continued,
land then they will have the chance
not only of beating down and sub
DUNG those evil forces which have
twice let ruin and havoc on the
world, but they will have further
and grander prospect beyond the
smoke of battle and the confusion
of the fight.
I'VE sec that perseverance, I'M
flinching, logged, inexhaustible,
tireless, valiant, will surely carry
us and our allies, the great nations
of the world, and the unfortunate
nations who have been enslaved, on
to one of the deepest founded move
ments of humanity which have TAX
en- place in our history"
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-17

nets which flows about 25 miles
east of the city,
TANKS ATTACK
Picked Red army infantrymen
borne in new monster tanks, verit-
able land battleships, hurled them
selves against the weakening Ger
man defenses before Kharkov on
a front of 40 miles or more, with
their main pressure toward the
southern end of the line.
Guerillas, charging out on Ger
man defenses from their Businesses,
were striking against the enemy
rear in q new threat and dispatches
indicated their parachutists, maSsed
in the fighting zone, might be
thrown into the battle at any mo-
melst, to help in reducing the
thousands of strong points in the
German hedgehog defense system.
1t was reported that the hard
fighting Russians forces in the Kerch
peninsula had dashed out from
Kerch city in a smashing counter
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-17
Bv DON CASWELL

MELBOURNE, May Is (UP) -
Gen. Douglas MacArthur's United
Nations planes caught the Jap
anese asleep at their important Lac
| invasion base on the Huon Gulf of
northern New Guinea yesterday and
in one of their most effective raids,
rained bombs on runways and
started big fires in buildings, it was
announced today
1t was the first time the United
States and Australian filters. in their
new American planes, had been
over Lac since a accommodating
flight May 7, during the last phase
of the Coral Sea battle
Then the Allied planes were
locking for signs of japanese re-
Inducements
SURPRISE COMPLETE
In their raid yesterday, they were
exclusively on the attack and it
was indicated that they left the
much bombed base in chaos.
Macarthur said in his communi-
que that the japanese were taken
by surprise and that the Allied avi-
ators landed all their bombs in the
target area.
MacArthur's communicate, No. 20
from his southwest Pacific general
headquarters, said:
New Guinea-Lae: Our air force
carried out surprise attack ca
the airdrome. All bombs were drop
ped on the runway and building
area. Large fires we're started
HUNTING INVADERS
The Lac raid Immediately fol-
lowed shattering attacks Thursday
on nearby Rabaul, in New Britain
Island, and on the enem='s increas-
ingly important seaplane base at
Deboyne Island in the Louisiades.
The pattern of Allied bombing in
the northeastern invasion area
plainly indicated that MacArthurs
aircraft were still on the hunt for
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-17

order of the day captured by the
Russians in an offensive which in
creased hourly in ferocity against
Russia'S fourth city, industrial cap
ital of the Ukraine.
1t ordered the new defense line
built half a mile west Of The river,
which the Russian command did
not reveal.
tThe river might be an" of sew
eral, including an ann Of the Do
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-17
WASHINGTON CREEPERS

Direct and work relief payments
have dropped from the peak of $50
millions in 1889 10 about $40 mil
lions for fiscal 1912. Anyone can
now rent a typewriter but the
freeze is still on typewriter sales.
Feeding nipples have been rede-
signed to save rubber Railroads
have been asked to space out main
tenance-of- way work SO labor de-
mands won't compete with peak
farm labor demand. Recommended
legal maximum truck length is not
less than As feet" Machine tool
production, still a bottleneck, is now
r1slning at over 24,0O0 units a
month, 70 per cent increase over
March, 1871. No more metal pen
ellis and no more metal bands on
pencils after present stock OF eras-
erS are used up. Ud, Of lead
Cgraphite) pencils is still permit
ted.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-17
SevostoPoI Reds
Open Offensive

cut the Axis strength.
The Swiss dispatches, which quot
cd neutral advices from Berlin,
were the first to reveal German
concern over the nature of Mar
shall Semyon Timoshenke attack
on Kharkov.
Newspapers here blazoncd re-
ports that thd Russians had broken
through Kharkov's defenses and
were fighting in the city, on its
outskirts and 10 miles from 1t.
These reports were not borne out
by dispatches from Russia.
But apparently reliable reports
from Stockholm said the Russians
had broken and almost wiped out
the German 10th infantry division
and that there was street fighting
in a small town not far east OF
Kharkov.
RAILROADS HELD
Military experts said it should
become clear soon whether limo
shenko intended to take Kharkov
or pass it by to north and south,
contenting himself with cutting all
German railroad communications
in order to save the men who
would be sacrificed in a frontal at
tack on such a strongly defended
city.
The Russians were reported to be
astride two and perhaps three I'M
portant railroads extending south
from Kharkov and had bitten a
deep salient to the north.
1t was believed here that even il
Kharkov held, the Russians were IN
good position to isolate 1t and
leave the artillery and air force
to hammer it at leisure.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-17
Bv HENRY SHAPIRO

MOSCOW. May 16 CUP) - Ger
man commanders have ordered
their men to retreat to a river line
before Kharkov for a last ditch de
Tense and blow up all arms and
ammunition in their wake, special
dispatches from the front said to-
day.
The order for the retreat was
contained in an enemy divisional
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-17
Jops Mapping as
Big Bombs Drop
(NEA Radiophoto)

the assembly of enemy naval and
transport forces and of reinforcing
airplanes, especially the seaplanes
based at Deboyne Island.
Australia was still on the alert
for new japanese move, and kept
in mind that Macarthur, in report
ing the repulse of the enemy fleet
in the Coral Sea emphasized that
fighting has ceased only temper
arily.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-17
CURRENT QUOTATIONS

Americans on the home front must do
the hard job, the dirty job, the long job
and the Job left vacant by the departure
of the stronger and the more skilled.
Jonathan Daniels, assistant civilian de-
Tense director.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-17

The civilian population of Germany
can escape the seventies Of our bombers
by abandoning work, going into the fieldS
and watching the home fires burn,
Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-17

Appaasement, like dreaded plague
brought by Undetermined men, must
be forever quarantined from America;
Director J. Edgar Hoover of Federal
Bureau of Investigation.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-17

because we fear that some Of them may
be dsoyal We are not sorry to see them
90. but we are sorry that circumstances
arose under which they had to go.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-17
Editorials and Comment

EUITUR'S NUIE: The fOIIOtCIng edit
oridis are presented as interesting opin.
ions roiced by editors eiselclere. They
do not necessarily reflect the opinion Of
this paper.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-17
CAPITAL TALKS
by
Peter
Edison

Field representatives OF DEM -
the Office for Emergency Manage
ment, top administrative holding
company" of the war agencies
were given a smart assignment a
short time ago when they were told
to go find what was worrying the
American people the most What
things about the war program
were misunderstood? What things
had to be explained to them more
fully in order to get wholehearted
support for all the restrictions and
changes being imposed on 'liie as
USUAL?
The list of worries, If YOU
want TO call il that. was ra-
Their amazing, for il showed
i'm spite of all the high-power-
cd publicity. the efforts of the
press, the radio and the other
media of communication in this
free speech country had not yet
trickied down to the bottom.
This is important because ii
this war IS to be won at home
i'm the manner best suited to a
democracy, il behooves every
one who docs understand these
reasons to make himself into a
One-man propaganda agency
TO explain what the war effort
is all about to the people who
don't understand It.
Things that have to be explained
range all the way from trivialities
like why you have trouble buying a
spool of silk thread, up through
economic theories on price fixing
or the relation of wages to the
cost of living. People are willing
to make sacrifices, the investiga-
tors discovered, but people still
want to know why. It's the why
that needs to be emphasized,
Silk thread is scarce for civilians
because silk thread is stronger than
cotton thread, and the strongest
thread available is needed to sew
up parachutes and smokeless powd-
er bags.