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Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-12-24
FEUDIN' IN UTAH

In 1928 Rogell took his shepherd
of the Hills" cast and crew to Ce-
dar City, Utah, for location scenes.
Shortly afterward Edwin CareWe
brought Dolores del Rio, Warner
Baxter and the rest of his "Ra-
mona" company TO the same city.
Rogell met CareWe in hotel lobby
kiddingly said, What are you try
ing to do-Steal our backgrounds
Bystandars overheard it. developed
it into a first-class feud.
Only Rogell and Carewe knew
it was a gag but they remained
discreetly silent John Boles, Alex
Frances and Molly O'Day of Rogell's
cast wouldn't speak to members OF
the other cast. Miss O'Day hauled
off and slapped Miss del Rios face
when they met in a cafe one night.
CareWe hired a crew of tough-look-
ing gents to parade the streets in
front of his hotel with SaWed-off
;hotgunS.
Rogell finally asked the governor
TO call out the militia before blood
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Face

By BRYDON TAVES

GEN. MACARTHUR'S HEAD
QUARTERS, Australia, Dec. "a
CUP)-The situation of japanese
forces in eastern New Guinea must
now be regarded as desperate" the
Allied high command announced
today.
Australian and American forces
led b. light tanks, had further re-
duced the japanese beachhead ii
the Buna Mission area, occupying
more jungle between Sinemi Greek
and the sea.
Americans whiting the beach
head on its north end had crossed
Entrance Creek, tough natural de-
fense for the japanese i'll the mis-
sion BUILDINGS.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-12-24

Memories: Director Albert S.
Rogell, the old reminiscer, was in
a reminiscent mood.
Rogell was directing-he's been a
director for 20 years-a scene for
Republics big musical comedy,
Hit Parade of 1913" but he still
had time to talk. And of many
things.
A decade or SO ago a Rogell troupe
was on its way to South Dakota
for a picture and the director franz
ed the two leading men into making
a play for the leading lady during
the train trip. The heroine fell for
the spusuit of the men and decided
on one.
Then one night in the dining
car the other drew a gun. shot his
rival. who fell dead" The heroine
screamed and tainted. Walters
dropped trays. One waiter jumped
through a window The film COM
pany received a bin for 1919 dam
ares
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-12-24
Diplomats Caught
In Axis SpyPIot

MEXICO CITY, Dec. 244.-tU.Po
Two South American diplomats and
a Mexican government official to-
day were reported involved in an
Axis espionage ring smashed by
secret agents of the Ministry OF
Interior.
Lieut.. Col. Jose C. Balbin, for
mer military aItache of the Ar
gentine embassy. it was learned,
haG been declared persona non
grata several weeks ago and had
left Mexico.
The newspaper La Prensa said
he was one of the rings leaders
and that police had been able to
implicate since his departure an
consul of Uruguay, an official
in the Mexican Ministry of the
Treasury, three Germans, one Jap
anese, an employee Of one of Mex
leo City's most fashionable bars
and some 90 others.
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age in existing bases. We have the
advantage in the amounting size OF
our air force and in the develop
ment of new bases We have en-
countered much delay from bad
Weather but the work is going on.
we are constantly improving our
lines of communication, particular
L. in the Mediterranean which is
ROW far safer for conveys than be-
fore the occupation of North Africa.
The wisdom OF the British in
holding on to Malta is now bearing
fruit. Malta now is in the position
where she is harassing enemy con-
voyS from Sicily to Tunisia and do
ing it very effectively"
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-12-24
Rv NJ. s. HANDLER

MOSCOW, Dec. "a. CUP)-Rus-
sian troops, ripping through then
second German division within q
hours in their middle Don offensive
have captured a divisional general
with 1000 of his men, the Red army
high command announced today.
(The text of the noon communi-
que as heard by the FEC from the
KhabaroVSk radio said II high Off
GERS of the division were captured
Two powerful Russian armies
were smashing through regiment
brigade and division Of demoraliz-
ed German troops behind then
Kim VOroShiloV tanks.
They had all but surrounded the
he? junction city of Millerovo on
the Rostov- Voronezh- Moscow rail
road, a vital line to the Germans
for lateral communication, and they
we're driving through village, col
lectiVe farm center and town which
the Germans had fortified and pro-
visioned for a winter reserve line.
NAXiS ABANDON ARMS
Communiques and special dis
patches alike spoke more and more
of pursuit" and "rout," and the
fast mounting toll of rifles captured
told how the Germans were run
ming for their lives, throwing away
their arms.
The German divisional command
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-12-24
Raj Planes Blast
70 Italian Plants

LONDON, Dec. 24.-(U,PD-Roy-
al Air Force bombers in four heavy
raid between November 20 and De-
cember 9 seriously damaged 70 inn
portant Italian industrial factories
and workshops, including 10 Fiat
airplanc plant units at Turin, the
Air Ministry announced today.
The communique, the first Off
cial British report detailing de-
struction by the Raj in a series
of attacks on the soft underbelly'
of the Axe, said about an acre OF
the state arsenal was destroyed.
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Imperial Valley Press

vance; 3 months. S21O months
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In conjunction with the PoSt-Pirss
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money.
Great days. those" says Rogell.
But the story we liked best of all
is his encounter with a tempera-
mental actor during the silent days
OF the screen. For several days the
actor and Rogell tangled over the
way the actor was playing the role.
Finally Rogell changed the script.
He called for a gun and 4 blank
cartridge, and had another player
kill off the temperamental fellow.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-12-24
American Bombers
Back Up British
Burma Offensive
BY DARRELL BERRIGAN

NEW DELHI, Dec. "a. (UP)-
American bombers are backing up
the British offensive in northwest
ern Burma with heavy raids on
vital japanese base, it was revealed
today.
Anglo all raids this
week have hit almost every major
Japanese air base in Burma, from
Lashio to Rangoon, it was said.
Although the American raids were
all made in daylight, the L. S. army
communique said only two Japanese
fighters were encountered in three
dagS, indicating that the enemy air
strength in Burma had been divert
ed elsewhere.
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TRENCHES MET

A mixed force Of Australian ano
American iniantrymen made Slight
advances down the Soputa-Sanan-
anda truck road and began encoun-
tering enemy entrenched positions
set up for defense Of the japanese
beachhead at Sanananda This action
Is IL an ;..od ABOUT tWY and q hal.
miles north of the Buna beachhead
fighting.
The Allied air force dropped hun
dreds more augmentation bombs on
the Mambare estuary area, 40 miles
up the coast, further to haraSs and
decimate the Japanese troops and
supplies put ashore there last week
in largely thWarted enemy naval
attempt at reinforcement.
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WANT AID

WANT AID
LONDON, Dec. "a. = CU.PD-An
advertisement in the German
Frankfurter zeitung. quoted today
by the British radio, said:
"Wanted-Unfurnis room for
q foreign workers.
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SUPPLY BASE HIT

Heavy and medium bombers rang
ed yesterday over New Britain is
land, from whence any more REIN
forcement would have TO come. One
bomber unit attacked a japanese
airport at Cape Gloucester. Another
bombed and strafed an enemy cargo
vessel, shot down one Zero plane
and damaged two others in the
Jacquinot bay area.
Further evidence OF the close
quarters at which the ground fight
ing has been carried on in New
Guinea and of the determination
of all hands to see it through to
victor came today in news from
the front that three American brig
adler generals had been wounded
in action.
Earlier this week it was revealed
that the Japanese commander, 1t.
Gen. Tomatari Horii had been killed
in the Buna campaign.
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SWEEPS INTO BURMA

Raj fighters and bombers made
sweeps again last night and yeSter-
day well into Burma, while the
japanese bombed the port of Chit
TAGGING, near the frontier, with cas-
ualtieS and damage reported, in Il
BRUSH cOmmuniQlc. as small. The
Japanese bombed also in the FEM
area, on the border northeast of
Chittagong, but Raj fighters shot
down one of the raiders.
1t was revealed that the daylight
RAIDS on Rangoon, Burma, Sunday
and Tuesday, were made by Ameri-
can bombers, OF the China Burma
India command.
Raj planes yesterday made Of
fensiVe sweeps in the Mayu river
valley and the MagWe area, south
west of Mandalay, against air
dromes, refineries, supply building
and loading facilities.
An antiaircraft battery was bomb
eel at the Magwe airport, and pilots
nuts and plane dispersal areas were
attacked with machine gun fire
Fighter planes then attacked, from
low level, an Gil refinery and adj
Jacent buildings at Yenang-Yaung
81 miles up the IrraWaddy river.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-12-24
ANNIVERSARY

As Allied air forces continued
sweeping attacks against Japanese
objectiVeS, it was recalled that a
year ago yesterday Japanese forces
first attacked Rangoon. This week
American bomberS raided three
times the Mingaladon airdrome at
Rangoon from which Japanese
bomberS may be taking off for the
nuisance raids on Calcutta
With Rangoon the most import
ant supply port for the Japanese
forces in Burma, the American
bombing of docks there was regard
ed as certain to affect Japanese
resistance in the Arakan north
WeSternl section of Burma.
Against that area Gen. Sir Archi-
bald p. Wavells ground forces are
believed to plan an offensive,
cautiously Worded announcement
having been made last Saturday
that some units had advanced into
Burma toward the Port of Akyab.
American bombing of railroads,
it was said, will slow down Japa-
nese reinforcement of vulnerable
points along the extensive Indo-
Burma frontier.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-12-24
AMERICAN CASUALTIES

The American brigadiers wound
ed were Hanford MacNider, by !;
grenade in the abdomen and head
Nov. %, Albert Waldron, shot in
the shoulder by a Sniper at Buna
Dec. 3, and Clovis b. Byers, shot
IN the hand Dec. Is. All are eX-
pected to recover.
Gen. Douglas Macarthur awarded
the Distinguished Service Cross to
Waldron for extraordinary heroism
in action.
The headquarters communique re-
ported that the Australian corvette
Ar!nidale was sunk early this month
$50 miles north of Darwin by sew
eral Japanese planes. Fifty sur
Vivors had been picked up and an
undisclOsed but small number of
The crew were missing and preSum-
ed lost.
y headquarters spokesman said
that while the Allied air force wa:
active spectacularly and effectively
en- all fronts today, including Beau
fighter Strafine Of the Buna Mis-
sion area, the days operations were
highlighted by the Jacquinot ba.
raid.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-12-24

XEROS DOWNED
There, $50 miles northeast of Blu
ma, unit of Boeing fortress planes
carried OH a 25-minute running fight
with six to nine japanese Zero fight
eIs. One Zero was seen to explode in
the air Two others dived through
clouds, trailing smoke and flames,
but were not claimed as definitely
destroyed.
FrCnl lew Guinea. United Press
Correspondent Don CasWell report
ed that MacNider, So, former ma
tional commander of the American
Legion and assistant secretary OF
var III the Coolidge cabinet, was
wounded while visiting the most
advanced patrols at Cape Endaia
dere.
Just before grenade fragments hit
him, japanese dive bomberS had
wrecked the native hut where he
had been sleping and working.
MacNiders home is at Mason City
Iowa.
Evening star., 1942-02-22

Principal Of the worlds supply Of qunne the isond
of ovo Here Cnchono onsponted from South Amer
hos been ponokney cultivated by the thrifty potent Dutch
give eeot increased yield Of quinine The qunne is
octed from the bok Of the After stripped from the
the bark is dried in the this picture
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-11-05

No u. S. bombers could get to the
boys on Bataan, but they can get
to the marines on the Solomons from
at least three different u. S. bases
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the enemy and how to keep from
being kicked.
Nothing fancy here. It's all
rough-and-ready, hard work, tough
ening up. No frills. And they eat
it up. These kids are great. They
average around % years and most
of them never had chance for any
form of athletics before. They find
out what it does for them in just a
few weeks. ..- .-.s
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There timber building
soldiers
Before thatch the tied
which
the framework all completed Little forks that
of scratching
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Manpower Recruitment Hampered by Settlement Laws

CHICAGO.-Present state settle
ment laws, by their lack of uniform
ity, can seriously hamper the volun-
tary migration of industrial and ag-
ricultural manpower to localities
where it is needed most for the war
effort.
Solution of the problem, the Amer
lean Public Welfare association said,
would be to make settlement re-
quirements uniform, repeal them al
together or suspend them for dura-
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state which considers them nom
residents after six months absence
may hesitate to move to state re-
quiring two years residence before
settlement is granted, even though
jobs may be available there which
would make them self-supporting.
They are aware that if they should
become destitute in the second state
after the first six months of living
there but before two years have
passed, they could not secure even
temporary financial aid from eithe'
state
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ASK ME- =
ANOTHER Z
A General Quiz
A General Quiz
The Questions

1. A harp usually has how many
strings?
2. Regular army khaki is. made
of what?
8. The combining form "xylo,"
as in xylophone, means what?
4. How old was Ludwig van
Beethoven when he started to lose
his hearing?
S. What are the most widely
used given names in the world?
6. In which ocean is the inter-
national date line established?
Z. Why is a recruit soldier called
a private?
8. What is a kumquat?
9. Who said: Handsome is that
handsome does?
10. Are horses natural jumpers?
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ATROCITY PICTURES

A strong debate is raging among
propaganda chiefs over the question
of atrocity stories and pictures. The
government has received a lot Of
such material from Allied sources,
especially the Chinese and Poles, in
Guiding such horrible scenes as jap
anese attacking Chinese women, and
pouring oil on live bodies before
setting the torch to them.
Opponents of publication argue
that the atrocity stories of the last
war were largely invented, and
when so exposed left the public dis
illusioned; thus the people might
now react unfavorably and charge
the government with pulling the
same tricks.
Other officials argue, however,
that the material is authentic, that
it is not posters and rumors, but &C
tual photographs, and the public
should know what sort of enemies
we are fighting.
1t is apparently a part of the Ger
man psychological warfare to treat
British and Americans with reason
able humaneness in order to keep us
lulled in a state of moderate war
fare. They save their worst tricks
for the conquered nations and the
Russians.
The Poles and Chinese are urging
use of the material as necessary
means of fully arousing the Ameri-
can public to the menace.
Elmer Davis Office of War Infor-
nation is set to 60, once the debate
is settled.
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FORTY SEVEN YEAR OLD, 30
pound handbook Jack Dempsey
was putting in another busy day.
Now lieutenant in the coast guard
at Manhattan Beach, the ex-heavy-
weight champion is directing the
conditioning of several thousand
men, who need this conditioning
badly.
/ spent the day with Lieutenant
Jack, and I've never seen buster
man at work. From seven-thirty in
the morning until nightfan he and
his staff of instructors handle 5000
recruits every day.
The wind was whipping in from
the ocean as Jack moved from
group to group, speeding up their
work, giving out encouragement,
helping his assistants on the job.
"They are great fellows" Jack
said, ''but they need this badly.
More than anyone might believe.
Do you know that out of 5000 men
here more than $500 never boxed,
wrestled, or played any game to
speak Of? You'd be surprised how
many couldn't even chin themselves
once-just once. When they came
here they didn't know how to hold
their hands-nor how to stand. Look
at 'em now"
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ton of the war.
All states except one-Rhode Is
land-now have laws which require
persons to be legal residents before
they become eligible for public as
sistance of any kind, including relief.
The requirements vary in the diff
ferent states from six months to five
years. Loss of settlement usually is
specified on the same basis.
AS a result of the lack of uni
formity, families receiving relief in
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rN1l|yaQaa,
|MERRG0-Q0uND |
0REW PEARSNN
Washington, d. c.
DEMOCRACY STREAMLINING

DEMOCRACY STREAMLINING
If the President and the country
want to get full realization Of how
democracy is streamlining for ac-
ton they should think back to the
summer of 1941, just one year ago,
when, for what seemed like unend-
ing weeks, the congress stewed over
extension of the selective service
act.
Senate and house isolationists were
haranguing the galleries on the iniq-
uities of keeping the boys more than
one year in camp; telling the public
how the navy was already convoy
ing ships; revealing in advance that
Roosevelt had sent troops to Ice
land.
Finally by the thin margin of one
vote, 203 to 202, and thanks to the
sage generalship of Speaker Sam
Rayburn, the selective service act
was extended. Had it not been for
that narrow victory, we should have
had no army to rush to Australia,
and the whole war effort would have
received a tragic setback.
But last week, war-geared house
of representatives passed the 1919
year draft extension act in three
days; and it should be passed by
the senate and signed by the Presi-
dent inside the week.
Politically and personally, nobody
wanted the 1919 year draft extern
sion. 1t was the worst time to pass
it, just before elections. But con-
gress is doing much better job
than most people realize for stream
lined democracy.
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Building Confidence

What we are working on beyond
fitness" Jack said, els speed and
poise. But more than all, confidence
in themselves.
"When they first come here they
have no confidence at all. In about
three weeks they are different fell
lows - heads-up, come-and-try-to-
take-me fellows"
Jack moves around-"Hey, keep
punching - keep punching - keep
those hands up-what's the trouble
-one in the stomach? Well, take
little rest. Then 60 and get him."
You would be more than surprised
to see the difference between first
week classes and classes.
The improvement in speed, skill,
poise, toughness and stamina is
amazing.
Each group gets two hours day
of this in addition to coast guard
duties, and that leaves little time
for any resting spots. Putting in
eight or nine hours a day, Dempsey
at 210 looks as fit as he did at Maui
NEE Bay % years ago. AS fast?
That's something else that belongs
only to youth.
about Louis and Conn
I asked Jack what he thought
about the heavyweight situation.
"After another year in the army"
Dempsey said, ''neither Louis nor
Conn can expect to be near the old
fighting form. Louis isn't a kid any
longer. A years layoff, or a longer
layoff, is sure to tell heavily on his
speed, his timing and his refiexes.
81 laid off at times too long my
self. I know what it means to see
punch coming, but seeing it too
late--or rather, not being able to
call on my refexes in time-is some
thing else.
"If Louis and Conn remain in the
army two years, it will be a mira
Gle if either ever can come back to
championship form. Both are great
fighters and great fellows. But army
training is entirely different from
the speed and the sharpness you
need in the ring.
"And there's that thing they call
coordination. After long layoff
they just don't gel any more-there's
no team play between them.
"Joe and Billy may be better than
anything left after the war, but they
won't be the Louis and the Conn we
saw in their big fight"
Dempsey and Football
They have crack football team at
this coast guard station, ably ham
died and coached. Football is out
of Dempsey's sphere. But the team
hasn't a keener rooter along the
beach.
with a little more practice" ~
Dempsey said, "we could beat any
body. Well, maybe not those Chi,
cago Bears.
ever see that Pug Vaughan from
Tennessee throw football?
"He's another Baugh."
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The Dempsey Program,

1t was put up to Dempsey to work
out this program and he's done a
great job. We moved from group
to group = 100 fighters here, 100
wrestling close by, a jujitsu class,
a calisthenics class.
whats this?" I asked Jack.
'"That's our kicking squad" he
said. "We teach 'em how to kick
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The ANSWERS

l. Forty-six.
2. Cotton.
3. Wood.
4. Twenty-eight.
5. Mohammed and Mary.
6. Pacific.
7. Because he holds no rank or
distinction.
8. A citrus fruit.
9. Goldsmith.
10. No. Horses have been known
to have died of thirst in sight of
water holes from which they
were separated by only a three
foot fence.