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Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-05
Chapter AVHas
Varied Program

Chapter AV, PEG, Monday en-
joyed a delightful combination of
music and readings at the program
presented for the group by Mrs.
Donna Holloway at her home, $40
/ WenSley avenue.
Mrs. Holloway first introduced ES-
ellie Livingston, talented and charm
ing pianist and teacher, who played
two piano numbers, including the
lovely TSchaikoWSky composition
which has been popularized under
the title, None but the Lonely
Heart. Mrs. Livingston's playing
is always marked by facility and
beauty of tone and she was at her
best Monday.
After Mrs. Livingston's numbers,
Mrs. Holloway presented Mrs. c.
Ben Herring, contraltO, who sang
three charming songs in a most
appealing manner Down Here,
Purple Shadows, and in honor
of the approaching Mothers day
observance For My Mother.
Mrs. John E. Kearney was a SYM
pathetic accompanist.
Mrs. Holloway herself then read
two refreshing excerpts from David
GraIson's books, Adventures in
Contentment" and Adventures in
Friendship, explaining that the
authors philosophy of finding pleas
ure in the simple things of life had
brought her much comfort. The de-
lightful simplicity and the emphasis
on essentials contained in the two
readings were particularly welcome
Mrs. Elmer w. Head revealed
that she has several talents, for she
proved herself TO be an able accord
ionist as we'll as pianist playing
group of thoroughly delightful
accordion solos as concluding num-
Der on the program.
Members present were: MeSdameS
j. D. Adams, P. P. Anderson, STAN
ley Bigelow, Don G. Bitter, Roy E.
Breedlove, Warren Currier, Earle
G. Davis, Laural M. Ferguson, Ell
mer w Head. c. Ben Herring, Ross
T. HiekcoX, Donna Holloway, Harry
w. Horton, John M. kepley. For
rest E. Kutz, Chancellor Livings-
ton, Henry l.. Loud, R. d. McPher-
rim, Howard P. Meyer, Minor o.
Simms, C. E. Sprouse, Vaughn N,
Thompson.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-05
Clubs
Society

pastel blue, her corsage being pink
rosebuds.
Joseph C. Lewis attended Mr..
Ritch as best man.
Reception
After the ceremony a wedding
reception took place at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. Victor Alvarado,
where beautiful spring flowers
made charming background. The
table was centered with a pretty
arrangement of white stock. roses
and Queen Annes lace. Mrs. l.. C.
Stahl, ST., and Mrs. Marcia Sull-
van poured. Mrs. w. E. Brown
and Miss Marcia Sullivan assisted
in serving and Miss Mildred Al
vajado presided over the guest
book.
AT noon Mr.. and Mrs. Ritch left
on honeymoon trip to Los An
geles, returning Tuesday to FL Cen
tro where they are making their
home.
Mrs. R.tch is a granddaughter
of the late O. F. Townsend, Yuma
pioneer, and comes from one of
Yuma's Oldest and best known
families. She attended the schools
in that cit% and has been active
in the Junior Delta as we'll as in
other social and civic affairs.
Mr.. Ritch, who is native Of
Texas. came to Yuma in 1888 where
he was connected with the Yuma
Sun. In December of l941 he be-
came a resident of FL Centre and
is now connected with the Post
Press.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-05
HoIIywood's
Funcies -.
By Paul Harrison

he declared, all seven of the beau
tiful leading ladies were to be
viewed in their scanties. The stu
dio censor had been called out to
decide whether the boudoir Sc
quence would get by the Hays Of
flee.
So off galloped Harrison to the
other end of the lot Van Helm.
the leading man, was Just coming
out of Stage 10. He said, "Golly!
You shoulda been here a while ago.
They had all the gals"
Il know 1 said. But what's
happening now?"
Nothing" said Heflin. The
company just quit for lunch They
finished the bedroom shot"
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-05

HOLLYWOOD, May - Movie
plots are a good deal more pre-
dictable than movie production,
and as this is written your pant
ing and frazzled reporter has come
in from a 50-mile reconnaissance
of three studios without witness
ing anything he set out to see.
Out at Metro, for instance, word
was received that mayhem, bat
terry and wholesale destruction we're
being committed on Stage 81, where
Norman Taurog is directing Mickey
Rooney and others in "A Yank at
Eton." 1t seems that Rooney leads
his high-hatted classmates in
wrecking an offending night club,
and a free-for-all fight between
about so youngsters and a dozen
husky walters and musicians ought
to be something to see.
When I got there. the camera
was recording the efforts of a
clustered fat boy to extricate him.
self from busted bass drum. This
and other closeups would go on
for hours, Taurog having decided
he had better get them before the
main braWl began.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-05
Parents Council, Canteen Aid
Classes Sponsor Dinner

serve a menu which will illustrate
the results of their class study.
This menu will combine all the
requisite factors: low cost, nutri-
tional, and at the same tine, de-
licious food will be served.
Any P.-T.A. member and any
resident interested in attending the
dinner will be welcome but must
have a reservation as the number
is limited to 300. Reservation is
by ticket and these tickets will be
available wednesday at the high
school or from any member of the
Council executive board.
The dinner will be served at 7
pm. and the Parents Council pro-
gram and business meeting is sche-
duled for pm.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-05
EGYPTIAN INTRIGUE

Back across the huge lot to
Stage 4, where there was supposed
to be a vast and impressive scene
for Cairo" the new jeanette Mac
Donald picture in which she, as
a HOLLYWOOD singing star on a
world tour, gets involved in a mess
of war intrigue in Egypt.
The set in use. however was
one corner of a room, and the
only players on it were Miss Mac
Donald and Robert Young. Actu-
ally a secret agent, he was apply
ing for a position as butler, and
she spotted him as a phony. IF
There On the Seven Sisters" set,
making musical pictures" she was
saying scathingly, "it's how to rec
ognize bad acting
While I was waiting to speak
to Miss Macdonald, a photographer
from another company drifted by
and whispered that if I wanted to
see the scenic sensation of 1912
I'd better drift out to Stage 10.
There an the Seven Sisters" set,
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-05

Just how delicious an emergency
dinner can be prepared by the can
teen aid class graduates for eVac-
uees or for citizens made home
less )y svme C'Saster, auch as
earthquake or flood. will be DEM
onstrated at the JOINT dinner meet
ing Of Parents Council of Central
high school and junior college, and
the class members.
This dinner will be served on
the junior college lawn Tuesday
night May 12, and will serve as
o test for the members of the can
Teen aid class From their head
quarters in the home economies
laboratory where the Red Cross
canteen IS set 10 with all its equip
merit for feeding 800 or more in
the event of emergency, they will
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-05
SeeIey S
Club Party

SEELEY, May 5: Seeley Women S
club members entertained their
husbands and their children at a
party Thursday night, a party at
which Mrs. Thomas Dyer won the
coveted prize handsome quilt.
The Rev. Mr.. Dyer, new minister
for the Seeley church. with Mrs
Dyer and Mrs. o. G. Carleton, coun-
ty instruction supervisor, were
special guests
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-05
Birth of Son
Announced

Mr.. and Mrs. Jim Evans have an
nounced the arrival of son. Rich
ard Anthony, born May 3 in the City
of Angels hospital, Los Angeles,
weighing ~ pounds.
Evening star., 1942-03-27

is suspected has been the case
with some of II Duce's subma-
rines in the Atlantic-is OF course
not known here.
The reaction of German naval
officers must have been powerful,
when news of the Italian defeat
reached them. According to news
that seeps through from Italy
and Germany, Hitler has hesi-
tated to ask his subordinate in
Rome, Benito Mussolini. to turn
over the navy to him, as he did
with the Italian army fighting
in Libya and Russia.
The pill may be coated with
an announcement that in order
TO obtain greater unity of COM
mand the Italian naval forces
will cooperate more closely with
the Germans in all theaters of
war. and that German naval Of
ficers henceforth will assist"
their Italian colleagues in the
operation OF the Axis navies
wherever they fight.
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men is shot to pieces. Reports
received in Washington last week
TO the effect that the Italians are
fed up with the war seem to
have been fully substantiated by
the battle near Malta.
Hearts Weren't in Battle.
1t appears that the British
transports and merchantmen
headed for Malta we're extremely
important They evaded Nazi
submarines and air raiders due to
the secrecy surrounding their de-
parture from Alexandria, but
were spotted as they sped west
ward toward Malta. The Italian
naval detachments were ordered
to give chase and to intercept the
merchantmen and their escorting
warships.
Since the Italians did not know
what naval force might have
been added to the few British
cruisers and destroyers, and in
order to avoid another setback,
a large force comprising battle
ships, heavy and light cruisers.
destroyerx and aircraft was
ordered TO sea.
The eyewitness reports of
American newspapermen aboard
q British man -of-war have told
US the rest OF the story. The
fact that the British Navy can
shoot straight is nothing new.
The British feet Is as good as
ever. But what attracts more at
tention than the bravery of the
British Is the fact that the Italian
commanding offcers threw their
ships into battle unhesitatingly,
and in what should have been a
sure victory. in view of their
enormous superiority, were lam
entably defeated. This means
clearly that the men did not
have their hearts in fighting and
were glad to run away after in
fiicting only slight damage.
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10 spill rivers OF blood? The
question is terribly important. for
people do not see their fields laid
waste, their homes DESTROYED.
their sons slaughtered, for
hopeless cause.
The answer is that the Yueo-
slavs, neither then nor now. be-
lieVed that they would lose.
Yugoslavia might lose. But not
the cause with which they allied
themselves.
Recall the circumstances: Po-
land had fallen, France had
fallen, everything attacked had
fallen or was falling except Brit
ain. The question was whether
the Yugoslavs would allow their
country to be used as a base of
operations against Greece. Their
neighbors, Hungary. Rumanla
and Bulgaria, had bowed before
the Germans. Turkey was neu-
tral. Russia was not in the war.
The United States was far away
and her position questionable.
Uprising Was Spontaneous.
What, then, did the people OF
Yugoslavia see before them?
They saw defeat. Why, then,
did they fight? Because they
also saw resurrection.
The uprising Of the people was
spontaneous, but it was not with
out leadership. Where in the
people was the leadership? For
one thing, among the priests
the priests of the Orthodox
Church, in Serbia a pure church
and close to the masses of the
people and the army: the Catho-
lie priests in Slovenia, and some
in Croatia. The church always
is cautious. But the religious
heart has the deepest wisdom. 1t
knows that death is a part of life,
and that the full man 80 lives
that he can die any moment"
Therefore, the choice of the
Yugoslav was not whether he
would die, but what would live.
And what did he believe would
live He believed nationhood,
and personal and political free
dom and the idea of equality
would live
He was not impressed by the
Fascist-Nazi legions. He be-
lieved they had no future.
Knew She Had Allies.
Without allies Yugoslavia knew
she had allies. For these primi-
tive peasants-as they seem to
Western Europeans-were closer
to the spirit of the times than
Evening star., 1942-03-27
The Great Game of Politics
Rigid Ceiling on War Profits and Wages Urged
As Proposed by Boruch 20 Yeurs Ago

late to recapture excessive profits
already made on war work and
force restitution Of bonuses already
paid, Congress certainly can legis-
late to put q rigid ceiling on profits
Of the future and Congress can out
law the bonus game.
Though 1t burns the New Dealers
to admit 1t, It Is too clear to dis
pute that failure to follow the
Baruch advice has added billions
to the cost of the war and greatly
retarded production.
Mr. Baruch has urged this in
season ana out. He has pointed out
that one should not be imposed
without the other: that both are
necessary to a successful war effort;
that the experience Of the last war
makes action along these lines
clearly In the interests Of all.
Takes Months TO Get Action.
One OF the most inexpncable
things about our present situation is
the reluctance to adopt the counsel
OF the man recognized as the high
est authority on war-production
problems. Mr.. Baruch not only had
an experience in the last war which
no one else had but since 1919 he
has devoted more thought, time and
money to r-production problems
than any one else. His experience,
his ability and his patriotic disin-
terestedness are conceded.
Yet. though eventually the ad-
miniStration is forced in the direc-
ton he points. 1t takes months OF
pounding to get 1t to move. In
the meantime the country pays
high price for the lost time. That
was the case with the single head
OF the production machinery, whom
it took 20 months to get the presi-
dent to name. 1t was the case with
the industrial committees, recently
announced by Mr.. Nelson, more
than year late. 1t was the case
with other recommendations, ip-
nored at first and finally adopted
because there was nothing else
TO do.
In the end. it will be that way
with the ceiling over profits and
wages. because nothing else makes
sense and public sentiment will
make action compulsory. The sig
niflcant fact is that from the be-
ginning the people have been ahead
Of the administration in these mat
ters. Public sentiment forced re-
organization Of the original absurd
o. c. D. setup.
Public sentiment brought about
the singIe-headed w. P. B. Pub
lie sentiment soon may force action
on the neglected issues OF profit
regulation and wage control. And
public sentiment may so strengthen
those who are fighting to eliminate
the N. Y. A.. c. C. C. and other
Government non-defense agencies,
which waste money and material
needed for war purposes. that ad-
ministration resistance will be over
come. II public sentiment does not
do these things. then they will not
be done.
(Copyrisht, la42)
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ly war with no move made in that
direction. The strange resistance to
the lessons of experience which
characterizes this administration
has prevented elimination Of an
evil which undermines national mo-
rale as 1t adds to the burdens OF
the people.
After what happened in the last
war. common sense would Seem to
have made this one of the first of
our defense moves. Apparently it
is to be one of the last. though
public approval OF drastic action
along these lines at any time would
have been practically unanimous.
Thus far, except for frustrated at
tempts by Congress to act, the only
indication OF interest in the matter
has been the White House state
ment that it is being considered"
However, recent disclosures by a
Senate committee not only OF out
rageous profits by specific firms but
OF evasion OF excess-profits tax by
payment to ofiicers and employees
OF huge bonuses as we'll as huge sal
aries have stirred public indignation
to a point where something now
seems certain to be done.
No Excuse for Condition.
While 1t is true that many pants
with war contracts are not making
excessive profits or paving unduly
swollen salaries, it is also true that
those which have been revealed as
operating the bonus racket and pill
ing up too heavy profits are not
Isolated instances. A good many are
making too much money and there
Is no excuse whatever for continu-
ing to permit it,
| Particularly Is there no excuse
for those who are outraged by the
efforts of the labor leaders to hold
on to the 40-hour week and push
/ forward to their joint labor-man-
agement goal not to be equally out
ragged by the corporate heads who
are gouging the Government for
more than a fair return on their
/ war work
Baruch's Advice Ignored.
The first can be accomplished by
means Of the new tax bill now
taking shape in the committees.
! Whether or not Congress can legis-
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YueosIovs Fought Year Ago Today Because
They Had Better Insight Than Neiehbors

the rolling hordes that threat.
ened them. Their sons had gone
to America, into coal mines and
steel mills. lumber camps and
harvest fields and brought back
a picture of a great dynamic
country pledged to freedom and
seeking to build a new equality.
So although we were not In the
war, they believed in America,
and Joined us before we joined
them.
They believed in Russia. Rus
sian politics concerned them not
at all. But they believed in a
dynamic emanating from Russia,
impelled by faith in the future
OF the common man. So they
Joined Russia before she joined
them.
Are these Yugoslav peasants
'primitive?" Is it primitive"
not to be impressed by smooth
machines, technical progress,
consummate skill-if they are all
devoted to senSelesS cause?
Had Prescience Of Events.
These people, close to the soil
and to reality, had prescience of
events Of which there was as yet
no sign. At that time there was
little unrest in France, and the
conquered small countries. They
lay shocked and supine. Who
could tell then that another
Polish armv would soon stand on
Russian soil? Who could tell
then that Russia would soon be
smuggling arms to Poles, and
that there would be guerilla war
fare and sabotage over enormous
areas of Europe?
The answer is: They could
tell. They knew it. They might
have answered Hitler in his own
words: If a people but desire
freedom, weapons will grow In
their hands"
They and every other country
had been offered by the Nazis
slices Of their neighbors' land. II
they would but bow down and
worship Hitler. But the South
Slavs knew that that, too. is not
the dynamism OF our times.
Brought Own Revenge.
And how right they were! A
horse trading in peoples brings
its own revenge. Poland and
Hungary shared in the looting of
Czechoslovakia. only to become
victims themselves. Then Ru-
mania was split up, and the long
disputed Transylvania promised
to Hungary. But the Rumanians
delivered more troops TO the Nszis
than the Hungarians-so now
they are demanding .Transyl-
vania back-and threatening to
fight each other.
Was it primitive" that the
South Slav peasants were not
taking any of this sort of thing?
The least primitive statesman
of Southeastern Europe, Count
Teleki, Prime Minister of Hun
gary, told me in the spring Of
1910: am a Transylvanian and
Hungarian. But I would
rather wait two generations for
the return of Pennsylvania than
get 1t from the Nazis as the price
of betraying Yugoslavia. And he
killed himself, rather than make
that deal.
iPek hv tho all Cyn5;ca,.
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This Changing World
kozis May Assist tto|ions in Running
Navy in View Of Setback Near MoItu

The only redeeming factor
which can be found in favor of the
Italian admiral commanding the
fleet. Is that he did not make the
mistake Of Dutch Rear Admiral
Karel w. F. M. Deoorman. who
commanded the Allied fleet in
the battle of Java. Admiral
Deoorman attacked after the jap
anese destroyers had laid down a
thick smoke screen. The Italian
admiral kept carefully away from
the smoke screen of the British
destroyers; otherwise his losses
might have been heavy.
The result of the battle near
Malta is said to have made the
Nazis hopping mad. They have
no naval forces in the Mediter-
ranean and they did not use their
bombers for these operations be-
cause, according to available re-
ports, the grouping of the Nazi
air fighters in the Mediterranean
has not yet been completed.
According to these reports, i'm
portant concentrations of the
Nazi air force are now taking
place and it appears that the bulk
Of the striking power is being
massed mostly in the Eastern
Mediterranean. between Sicily
and the Greek and Italian is
lands OF the Turkish and Syrian
shores. The dispatch of a large
force from that sector would have
meant delay in the prospective
campaign in the Near East.
May Delay Axis Plans.
The setback suffered by the
italians may not change, al
though it may delay the Axis
plans in that zone Of operations,
But 1t is expected that the Nazi
naval high command will hence
forth take more powerful hold
on the Italian Navy. Whether
Nazi officers will be placed on
board Italian men-of-war-as it
Evening star., 1942-03-27
BY CONSTANTINE BROWN.


Another shift In the Italian
naval high command Is con-
sidered inevitable In well-in-
formed Washington quarters as
. result Of the pounding the
Italian sea elephants took from
the British mosquitoes.
American and British naval
officers cannot understand how
the Italians. using 8 and 15-inch
guns on vessels which equal the
British In speed and outrange
them greatly in artillery. and
with almost two-to-one numeri-
cal superiority. were ignomini-
ously defeated in Sundays battle
in the Mediterranean. Accord
ing to reports. the British light
cruisers and destroyers received
scarcely a scratch while the
British claim at least one sure
torpedo hit on a battleship.
The only available explanation
in naval quarters is one word.
morale. The morale OF II Duce's
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m a n a & e m ent
and labor tao
ticianS. 2 a c h
group seeking its
own gain.
Actua lly, how
ever. there is a
FUN d a m e ntal
prin cipl 2 in
volved W h ! c h
goes to the root
of effective ad-
ministration in
wartime.
Thus the de-
mand for leeiS-
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Australia telling
how the Jap
anese are con-
fusing our avi-
ators by giving
them false COM
mands over the
radio in perfect
English. Pilots
have been lured
to the wrong
landing fields,
told to stay in
the air when
their place was
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emily on this
s u b ect ever
since. No one
has dispu t e d
the soundness of
the idea nor dis
agreed with the
methods he has
suggested sfor
putting 1t into
effect.
Yet. here we
are, up to our
national neck in
a far greater
and more dead
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overthrew an
a p peaSement
& o vernment,
a n d joined
t h e t r e e
world.
On the sur
face, it was
an aCt of
p u r e S t quiX
o t r Y. T h
YugoSlavs did
not have a
chance. Why,
then, did they
choose again
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.McLemore-
'Sukiyoki' Lingo
Is q Tough Dish
BY HENRY McLEMORE.

wonder how many officers or
men in the American Army speak
fluent japanese without an accent.
Stories have been coming In from
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THE opinions OF the rtters this page their oDn
necessarily The Stars opinions presented
Stars effort to oue all sides OF questions OF interest
readers although such opinions may contradictory among
themselves and directly opposed to The Stars.
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On the Record
By DOROTHY THOMPSON.

A year ago today the Yugoslav
people, surrounded on every
frontier by the legions of the
Nezis and the Fascists, rose,
Evening star., 1942-03-27
BY FRANK r. KENT,

It was almost 20 years ago that
Bernard M. Baruch evolved his slo-
gan Take the profit out of war"
He has spoken and written consist
Evening star., 1942-03-27
Cost Ceiling
On Output
Advocated
Plan Linked With
Authority for
FIexibiIity in Hours
By DAVID LAWRENCE.

On the surface, the controversy
over overtime penalties beyond 40
hours a week on defense work looks
as if it is a mere conflict between