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Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-24
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Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-24
WE
the Women
BY RUTH MIILETT

Things a lot of women are doing
this summer that they did not do
last:
Living in Slacks
Riding a bicycle to the grocery
without feeling silly.
Saying, IN take it" instead oil,
charge and send it. please, " When
they go shopping
Doing war work instead of play
ing bridge.
Walking, not for the exercise -
but to get places.
Taking loving care of worn house
hold equipment and being thank
full to have it, instead OF buying
new on the installment plan
Spending more time in their veg
etable gardens than before their
mirrors.
Parting without regret with Their
long, glamor hairdos.
Learning how to can their own
fruits and vegetables.
EVEN JUNIOR
DOESN'T ARGUE
Being more partial to guests who
take no sugar in their coffee than
to those who thicken it with the
precious stuff.
Carrying the family's ration
cards and an old toothpaste tube
in their already crowded handbags
Wishing they weren't too tiet
down to get into the women's army
Wearing old ciotneS Withou
even minding.
Telling Junior he can't have tn
car and having no argument oi
their hands now.
Say to their friends, NO, W
aren't taking a vacation" withou
l q L. L. L.. II. "a
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-24
De af Prevention
Clinic Slated

This summers last deaf preven-
ton clinic will be held Thursday
at the Scout hut in Ell Centre from
10 a. m. until noon and from
p. m. to 4:30 p. M, Mrs. Margaret
Radcliffe announced Wednesday
The clinics are expected to be
resumed in the fall
Hearing tests, advice as to proper
diet, residual hearing training and
advice as to >.leuical and hearing
aids will be given at the clinic.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-24
Spanish War Vet
Official COMING

l.. l.. McClary of Hollywood, de-
partment inspector of the United
Spanish War Veterans, will attend
a camp meeting at Veterans Memoir
ial hall in El Centro Thursday
night.
Preceding the meeting which was
scheduled at pm. the camp auxil-
larry will serve a dinner at the hall
at 7:30 pm.
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Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-24
Ne ct Friday

Members of the Eastern Star will
meet at the Harmon Tyler home at
663 Brighton avenue at 7 pm. Fri
day for pot luck dinner.
After dinner, the members will
have a white elephant party.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-24
Phone 800

The marriage of Miss Melba Hen
ry, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. w. L.
Henry of FL Centro, and Walter
Lancaster, soldier and a son of
Mrs. Ruth Lancaster of Los Angeles.
was solemnized at the First Baptist
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-24
new BOOKS

At the El Centre Public Library
FICTION
Advance Agent, John August.
Blood On Her Shoe, Medora Field
Trail South From Powder Valley,
Peter Field; Murder For Christmas
Edith HOWE; Big Ben, Earl S.
Miers.
NON-FICTION
Good Housekeeping Cook Book
American Scenes, William Kozlen-
ko; My Name Is Frank, Frank
L Lakkier: The Pool OF Memory, E
Phillips Oppenheim.
Evening star., 1942-05-17
London Police Campaign
Against Poison Liquor

WlQP WOTlQ.
LONDON, May 16-The police
campaign against peddlers of typical
bootleg 'hooch" blamed for Is
deaths kept the British public oc-
cupied this week, along with the
government refusal to ration beer
and its restrictions on luxury meals
The source of much of the bootleg
liquor was said to be wood alcohol,
apparently siphoned from drums at
docks awaiting transportation.
Other types were believed to be
methylated spirits chemically treat
ed to look like whisky, or a drink
made in back-alley stills from such
ingredients as potatoes, mailing
barley. sugar, yeast and raiSins for
coloring.
The reason for the bootleg? Prob
ably the fact that legal liquor is
hard to obtain and is heavily taxed.
Britain foleer drinkers cheered
the governments refusal to ration
beer on the grounds that such COL
ing out would cause widespread dis
content and a probable decline in
industrial production"
An added official comment was
that much of the quantity of beer
being drunk in wartime Britain
was water. anyway.
Evening star., 1942-05-17
Recreation Facilities Urged
For Merchant Seamen

Provision Of recreati0nal and re-
lief facilities for the merchant sea-
men ashore was urged yesterday by
Constantine Raises, 1920 Thirteenth
street NV. He pointed out that
while these men risk their lives on
the high seas just as do men in the
naval service. there are no orga-
nized recreational facilities for them,
nor assistance when they are in
distress or on shore leave.
In a letter to the Maritime Com
mission, Mr.. Raises, former secre-
tary and managing director of the
American Merchant Marine Library
Association, administrative travel
director of the University Travel
Association, known as the Floating
University" and commissary sup
ply officer of the New York State
training ship Newport, said that
today there are 1900 American ships,
manned by $4,000 seamen and Of
ficerS on the high seas.
"a new, fine type of young Amer
ican now goes to sea and this brings
the responsibility for preserving his
enthusiasm by meeting the prob
lem in a modern manner" he wrote
the commission. yet, very little
has been done to ease the situation
he faces while ashore in a domestic
or foreign port.
1.-THE answer to this pressing prob
lem" he continued, is the estab-
lishment of Merchant Marine Serv-
ice Centers for American seamen in
every domestic and foreign port
where the need for such service is
urgent"
Evening star., 1942-05-17
New York Seen in Bombing
Range Of Norwegian Coast

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May 16.-Belief that
enemy planes could leave the Nor
wegian coast with 1,000-pound loads
of bombs, dump them over New
York and return" was expressed to-
day by Dr.. Samuel G. Hibben, re-
search director OF the Westinghouse
Electric & Manufacturing Co.
DR.. Hibben addressed the 18th
annual convention of the New York
State Society of Professional Engi-
neers, which earlier had given a re-
ception in honor of President Man.
uel Prado Of Peru, who declared:
The liberty of the world is at
sake, and l am sure there will be
better days soon for humanity"
Gov. Herbert H. Lehman, visit
ing the Peruvian President at his
hotel suite, assured him that "eV-
erything possible" was being done to
cement the very important" good
relations between the people Of the
United States and good neighbors
to the south"
Mr. Prado. who arrived here
Thursday after visiting Detroit.
Buffalo and Boston. will consult with
President Roosevelt in Washington
Wednesday.
Evening star., 1942-05-17
World Conflict Described
As 'Eight-CyIinder War
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LYNCHBURG. Va. May l6-Call-
ing the present war an "eight-cyl-
inder war which cannot be Won
on one cylinder" Miss Thomasine
Campbell of New York, representa-
tive of the national federation,
speaking tonight to the Virginia
Federation of Business and Pro-
fesSional WOmen's Clubs, told her
audience that all resources, includ-
ing contributions of such groups
as that she represents, must be
thrown Fundamentally into the
war effort.
Officers were elected as follows:
Mrs. Nina Horton Avery of Rich
mond. president; Mrs. Lucille Niche
of Charlottesville, first vice presi-
dent; Mrs. Lena R. Cobb of Dan
vile, second vice president; Miss
Evelyn Andrews Of Petersburg, re-
cording secretary, and Miss Mary
Bell Goodwin of Suffolk, treasurer
The corresponding secretary, Mrs.
Ruby E. Boward of Waynesboro,
remains in Office.
Members at large, elected today,
include Arlington, Miss Sally Low
ing; Fredericksburg. Mrs. Ida Beck;
Harrisonburg, Mrs. Ethel M Lucas:
Lexington, Miss Martha E. Brame;
Potomac, Mrs. Annie E. Waltz, and
Staunton, Miss Ruth Vest.
Evening star., 1942-05-17
Y Pun-Americun Club
Makes Plans for Fiesta

The Pan-American Club of the
Central Young Mems Christian As
sociation will hold its annual fiesta
at 8:15 pm. June for the benefit
Of Camp Let's, the Y. M. C. A.
boys camp near Annapolis. A pro-
gram Of entertainment is to include
singing, dancing and instrumental
music.
In an address st a meeting of the
club Friday night. held at 1876 G
street NV, Rodolfo M. Fernandez,
representative of the petroleum di-
vision of the Mexican government,
praised the club for its work to pro-
mote better understanding between
the United States and other ma
tions of the Western Hemisphere.
The Friday night program included
vocal selections by Anna Sablukova,
contralto; Estelle Peterson, colora-
tura soprano. and David Manley,
tenor. Matt Windsor and Elena
Paige were accompanies.
The speaker was introduced by
Judge George D. Nelson Of Police
Court.
Evening star., 1942-05-17

A dispatch from Calcutta, India,
said the A. v. G. flyers and a
tough provincial governor. Lung
Yuen, had hurled the japanese back
in that area last week. The Japa-
nese brought up reinforcements and
since have returned about 125 miles
up the road, but their first chance
at lightning conquest of the
province was snatched away.
From the India side. United States
Army bombers and the r. A. F. con-
tinued to harass the japanese.
Thursdays American raid on the
Myitkyina airdrome in northern
Burma was reported today to have
destroyed Is japanese planes. The
British again bombed Akyab, Burma
seaport near the Indian border.
Lord Linlithgow, viceroy of India,
returned to New Delhi from a 5000.
mile tour of the endangered eastern
frontier of India, and declared that
the war workers in that zone were
"on their toes"
Evening star., 1942-05-17
Fairfax Bar Prepares
Anniversary Memorial

Circuit Court will be asked by a
committee of the local bar to order
the recording of a memorial, COM
memorating the 200th anniversary
of the formation of Fairfax County,
being observed this year.
Members of the bar committee
preparing the memorial are former
State Senator John w. Rust. chair
man; John S. Barbour, Wilson NJ
Farr, F. D. Richardson, George B.
Robey, Judge A. c. Ritchie, Charles
Pickett, County Clerk John M
Whalen, w. Lindsay Carne, Hugh
B. Marsh. Mr.. Brown, Delegate
Robert j. McCandlish, jr., w. Lewis
Leigh, John H. Rust, 1t. C. Penn
broke Petit, Hardee V. Chambliss,
S. Gail Landau, jr., 1t. James Keith
Harry L. Karrico and Walter 1.
Oliver, jr.
Evening star., 1942-05-17
Co|ored High Cadets
To Compete tuesday
In Annual Drill
Cordozo and Armstrong
Out to Beot Dunbar,
Winner Lost Year
Star Staff Photo.

Eleven companies of cadets from
the three colored high schools will
hold their 50th Annual competitive
drill at Griffith Stadium beginning
at am. Tuesday.
Units from Cardozo and Arm
strong will be out to beat Dunbar
whose B and D companies took first
and second in the event last year.
At stake is the diamond Teachers
Medal presented by the teachers Of
the colored school divisions to the
captain of the winning company as
well as other awards.
In the last II years, Dunbar COM
panies have taken first six times,
Cardozo four and Armstrong once.
Gen. Davis Reviewing Officer.
The final review will be held at
4:30 pm. with Brig. Gen. Benjamin
o. Davis, ranking colored officer in
the Army, as reviewing officer.
The cadets of the three high
schools constitute the oath regiment
and are commanded by Col Earl
Scott of Armstrong. whose staff is
also from that school. Col. Harry
o. Atwood is professor of military
science and tactics and directs the
competition.
Members of the Board of Educa-
ton and officials of the colored
schools are expected to be on
hand for the final review
Dunbar First on Field.
Dunbar companies will take the
field first TO the music of bands of
Armstrong and Cardozo. The bands
include six majorettes, two from
each school.
Among those expecting to attend
the drills is Benjamin Washing
ton, now a teacher at Armstrong,
who on May 10, 1893, was command
ing officer of the winning platoon in
the first competitive drill for
colored cadets in the Metropolitan
A. NJ E. Church. Mr.. Washington
has attended each drill since then
wearing his medal.
The 700 to 300 rifles used by the
cadets must be returned to the War
Department by June Is under a
recent order and steps will be taken
Immediately to prepare them for
shipment.
Evening star., 1942-05-17
THE SUNDAY STAR WASHINGTON D. C., MAY H. 1e42r
Mass Meeting Leads
Capital Observance
OF American Day
Churches Also to Join
In Patriotic Occasion
Proclaimed by President

II Am an American Day." the
presidentially proclaimed occasion
ito impress upon all our citizens -.
the duties and responsibilities of
citizenship" will be observed in
Washington today with a mass
meeting and other programs in
which the citys clergy will take a
leading part.
Citizens who have reached their
majority during the last year will
be given seats of honor in most in
stances and will be impressed with
citizenship's special responsibilities
in a nation at war"
The mass meeting will be held at
the Departmental Auditorium, be-
tween Twelfth and Fourteenth
streets on Constitution avenue NV,
at 8 o'clock tonight. Invocation will
be delivered by the Right Rev. James
E. Freeman, Bishop of Washington,
and speakers will include DR. Will
liam F. Russell, dean Of the Teach
ers College, Columbia University,
and Marshall E. Dimock, War Ship
ping Administration personnel chief.
Bond Drive to Be Launched.
AS another feature, William C.
FitzGibbon. representing the Treas
ury Department, will speak on
Your Bill of Rights" inaugurating
the War bond drive of Il Am an
American Day" suggested by the
Americanization School Association
Of the District.
Music will be furnished by the
Navy Band Orchestra under the
direction of 1t. Charles Brendler,
and by the A Cappella choir of First
Congregational Church. A pageant,
Fiesta Pan-Americana,' will be
presented by a group of South
American students from the Ameri-
caniZation School.
At 2 O'Clock this afternoon. in
another program dedicated to new
citizens, Henry Grattan Doyle, dean
of George Washington University,
will speak in the second annual
observance of citizenship reCogni-
ton day of Roosevelt High School.
The program will be sponsored by
the Fort Stevens Post 80 of the
American Legion and the District
Community Center and Playground
Department, in cooperation with
several civic groups in the North
Washington area.
SDecial Church Programs.
Many churches throughout the
city will observe the day with spe-
cial programs or with special men
ton from the pulpit during regular
services.
All over the Nation patriotic
gatherings viii be held. Short-wave
radio will carry the message TO
Latin America. and national radio
hookups will broadcast 1t to this
country.
A huge rally Will be held in New
York's Central Park, with virtually
all of the citys patriotic and civic
groups participating. Seven thou
sand personals are expected to attend
outdoor patriotic rites which will
follow a mile-long parade in Albeny,
Indianapolis will have a labor vic
tory dav" celebration with Federal
Security Administrator McNutt and
c. I. o. President Philip Murray
among the speakers.
Some cities held their programs
Friday and others yesterday The
main part Of the celebration at
Birmingham. Ala. will come We'd
nesday in the form Of a massive
victory sing"
Evening star., 1942-05-17
White House Text on Ships
180-Doy Schedules Cut in Half os Program
Is Speeded; 120 Vessels Built Since Jon

der IS days. Already one has been
completed in 83 days.
On maritime day two new records
will be made in Portland, Greg. The
Jonathan Edwards, liberty ship,
will be put in service so days after
its keel was laid and the Thomas
Bailey Aldrich will be launched in
36 days.
From a construction standpoint,
the shipbuilding industry is in a
far better position today than it was
during the last war. Then it took
shipbuilders from 10 months to a
year to produce merchant vessels.
Eight yards on the Atlantic averaged
$50 days per ship, eight on the
Pacific 309 days and two on the Gulf
5l2 days. That average was es-
tablished throughout the entire pro-
gram. including the peak of pro-
duction.
120 Ships Since Jan. 1.
Today the shipbuilders are yet to
reach the peak of production. but
they are, on an average, meeting
their 105-day schedule. From Janu-
airy to May 10 they delivered 12O
merchant ships into service. This
is 20 per cent more than they built
in all of last year. Productivity of
both labor and management is in
creasing in the shipyards each sue
ceeding month. A maximum Ship
building program, like any other
part of our effort, is dependent upon
our production as a whole.
The progress made thus far is
easing our shipping problem. but
there will be a shortage of ships
until sinkings throughout the world
are brought under better control
and the shipbuilding program gets
into full production.
The American people can be as
sured that the shipyards will do the
Job assigned to them.
Evening star., 1942-05-17
Woman Promoted to Detective
For racing Missing Girls

now become one of the two women
precinct detectives. The other is
Pearl Phythian Of the Women's
Bureau.
Mrs. Douglas. who joined the po-
lice department in 1929, was with
the Women's Bureau and was trans
ferred about six years ago to the
public relations branch The pro-
motion. recommended by Maj. Ed
ward j. Kelly. superintendent Of
police, and approved by the Dis
trict Commissioners, will give her
a yearly raise in pay of s240
Among those who attended the
ceremony yesterday were Maj Kel-
ly. who administered the oath;
Capt. John Fowler, Police Academy
director, and Inspector Harvey j.
Callahan, assistant superintendent
of police.
Evening star., 1942-05-17

A pleasant, smiling woman. who
has tramped the streets of Wash
ington and Travelled many hundreds
of miles to return missing girls to
their homes. was sworn in yester-
day as a precinct detective
She is Mrs. Dorothy F. Douglas,
who for years has been doing most
of the work on cases of missing
girls referred to the public relations
squad of the Metropolitan Police
Department. Her promotion meant
the creation of a new Office in that
unit.
Into her ears have been poured
many stories by heartbroken par
ents and young girls, who have left
home perhaps because of. unhappi-
ness at home or of difficulties at
school. AS a reward for her patient,
day-by-day work, Mrs. Douglas has
Evening star., 1942-05-17
Last Desperate Stand
In Burma Planned BY
Small British Force
Prepares for Reor-Guord
Action as Comrudes
Make Way Into India
By the Associated Press.

LONDON, May ia hardy
Army in Upper Burma is preparing
a last desperate rear-guard action
against the Japanese along the
Chindwin River parallel to the
Indian border while its spent and
wounded comrades are withdrawing
westward through the savage hill
country, London military COM
mentator said today.
For the second successive day the
New Delhi military spokesman said
there had been no contact with the
enemy during the last "a hours, but
the London commentator said Gen.
Harold Alexander was posting those
of his men who still had equipment
to hold the japanese back from
India as long as possible.
The wounded and those who have
lost their equipment are making
their way into India to rest and re-
organize.
This movement led to reports here
yesterday that the army already
had retired into India, the COM
mentator said, but there has not yet
been general withdrawal.
Total Only 5000 Men.
All the remnants of the British
who have fought rear-guard actions
all the way up from the Bengal
coast are estimated to total only
5000. however. and the number
available for the latest stand was
deemed to be pitifully small
The scene is in the forested hills
through which the Chindwin races
southwestward at distances VARYING
from 80 to so miles from the frontier
OF Manipur State, in India. The
river, which in the dry season is
extremely shallow, rises as much
as so feet during the monsoon sea-
son now beginning.
There are no roads, though trails
which bear the name of roads wind
up the valleys, impossible for
Vehlcles larger than bullock carts.
indicative of the areas isolation.
the London commentator said the
British had established contact with
the Japanese north of Shwegyin.
but this report apparently had taken
several days to reach London, be-
cause New Delhi said there was
now no contact.
On the other side of all-but-lost
Burma, the Chinese reported the
Japanese were attacking Kengtung,
in the Shan States so miles west
OF the Yunnan province border of
China and just north of the Thai
land frontier.
Fighting now is in progress south
east OF Kengtung in the vicinity of
the villages of Monglin and Mong-
hal, the Chinese said.
No New Word of Thrust.
OF the japanese thrust up the
Burma road directly into China
there was no new word.
Evening star., 1942-05-17
Save Gasoline

We've got a big army and a big
air force in Australia.
They're getting bigger every week.
But Australia is $500 miles away
from our California ports, and
battleship on convoy duty needs
1,500 900 gallons of fuel oil to make
the dangerous trip out and back.
That oil could be distilled into
gasoline enough to run 1000 cars
for full year.
1t isn't such long walk to the
movie, after all.
Evening star., 1942-05-17
Tire Lootinq Repeated

KENOSHA, Wis, May Is DP,.-
John BAIL a factory worker re-
ported three weeks ago that his
automobile had been stolen. 1t was
found the next day. three tires miss
ing.
The machine was missing again
yesterday. The police found it to-
day in a cemetery, the front tires
missing.
Evening star., 1942-05-17
Col. Charles Ki|burn Dies
Al Florida Air School
By the Associated PreSs.

BY the Associated Press.
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. May 10
1t. Col. Charles L. Kilburn died
here tonight after a heart attack.
He came heer two weeks ago to
attend the Army Air Force Officers
Training School Before that, he
was a civilian executive with the
War Department in Washington.
Col Kilburn is survived by his
mother, Mrs. w. Kilburn, of Chevy
Chase, Md.
Evening star., 1942-05-17
The tert OF the White House

The tert OF the White House
statement on the merchant ship
building Situct,on tolloUS.
The latest reports on the prog
ress of the victory fleet program are
reassuring and should clarity some
Of the confusion as to shortage
of ships They show that there is
no lag today in cargo shipbuilding.
The United States has been short
of merchant tonnage since the war
began in 1889 The condition has
been aggravated continuously since
that time, particularly since De-
cember 7, due to the far flung bat
tie fronts of the World War and to
increased activity of Axis subma-
rines.
To offset this situation, currsrt
reports by the Maritime Commits
sion show that American shipyards
are building merchant vessels faster
than ever before in the history of
the world. Liberty ships are be-
ing built in less than one-half the
time originally allotted. Some ship
yards are well ahead of schedule;
others are on schedule; few are
behind but are catching up rapidly.
The overall average, however,
shows that the program is on sched-
ule. At first the task appeared fam
tastic, but now records are being
made that were once believed i'm
possible.
los Day Schedule Set.
The speed of construction is gain
ing momentum. In some yards lib
erty ships are being completed and
delivered into war service in less
than 90 days. Or nal schedules
called for delivery on an average of
180 days. They have been shortened
los days. Some ships now under
construction will be completed un-
Evening star., 1942-05-17
NEW TAXICAB SUBZONE RATE SYSTEM-The above is a map
axcab and the sbzones approved
Commission The principal changes

1. A trip confined to Zone l or to
any subzone of Zone 2, 3 or 4, zone
charge.
2. A trip between point in Zone
1 and a point in Zone 2, ozone
charge.
3. A trip between a point in Zone
! and q point in Zone 3, 3-zone
charge.
4. A trip between a point in Zone
! and a point in zone 4, 4-zone
charge.
S. Trips originating in one sub
zone and terminating in another,
the rates shall be as fallows:
Evening star., 1942-05-17

l. which has
reduced in size The following key with rates explains the rate
into effect l.