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Imperial Valley press., 1942-02-17
10000 JAPS LAND
FOR BURMA ASSAULT.

CHUNGKING, Feb. II, up -
Tho japanese have landed 10000
troops, including 500 mechanized
men, at Haiphong, Indo China, for
use on the Burma front, the Chin
ESQ military spokesman said today
The troops were landed between
Feb. 4th and Feb 9th There has
been no report that Chinese troops
sent to aid in the defense of Bur
ma have contacted Japanese or
Thialand troops, he said.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-02-17
Java, Australia
Fear New Blows
On Pacific Front

Of the Burma road and moving
ahead sharply.
Batavia expected thr japanese
soon would launch a direct attack
ON Java. chief scat OF United Ma
tons power III U.c area. natives
we're being instructed how TO act
in event of parachutl>t landings
and we're advised to scorch the earth
rclcntlesSly.
London reported Russian forces
are advancing on the southeast
front. south Of Smolensk. Berlin
admitted penetration of their lines
south of Smolen5k but claimed the
Russians later we're wiped out
Imperial Valley press., 1942-02-17
Rambling Reporte,
CONTINUED from page one

fCOntlnued from page ONO
then. Graham had complaint,
Where the ?? ~ is my pill
low" ne demanGed from tho COM
fort Of his bcdroll. If somebody
doesn't give back my pillow there's
going to be mayhem.
Elmorc, impressed ~ tho dow of
language and intrigued by the my-
story Of the missing pilcp -tartcd
search He looked almost cvcry-
where. No pillow. There WI only
one more place TO search. He
searched it. On his face when he
rose was a CLEAN ol !Icudlah tn
umph.
Slim" he said hcrc is yGur pill
low. rs under yOU fe"r."
Imperial Valley press., 1942-02-17
Board 10 Discuss
Auto Purchases

The FL Centre rationing board
will have a special meeting at city
hall at l p. m. Friday to confer
with these who purchased new
cars which were not delivered on or
before Jan. /, l942 and the deal
ers who are holding them.
All these who purchased the
cars and the dealers should appear
at the Friday meeting to have the
applications acted upon as the ap-
plications must be in by Feb. 26.
They must furnish the board
proof or evidence of purchase.
At their regular meeting Mon
day, the FL Centro rationing board
released new passenger car to
j. f. Brock of FL Centro and one
TO w. Winner CT Holtville
Imperial Valley press., 1942-02-17
Gas Sale CurfeW
Foreseen i'm East

WASHINGTON. Feb. Il. up
Petroleum Courdinator Harold L.
Ickes, disclosed today that the pet
roleum industry had recommended
a p. N. to : a. N. curfew on all
retail sales in the east with no
sales on Sundays. as a last ditch
move to avoid rationins III the sea-
beard area.
Ickes made the disclosure before
Imperial Valley press., 1942-02-17
Shed Worker Dies
Following Stroke

Shirman r. George, employed at
the Martin Wahl vegetable pack
ing shed in FL Centre. died after
he suffered a stroke while at work
ON the shea monday afternoon,
Deputy Coroner Herbert Hughes
said Tuesday.
He was taken TO a doctor and
later to a hospital. He died soon
after he arrived at the hospital.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-02-17

Sir Stafford CrippS. often Aen-
tion as candidate for war cabl-
net post, attended the first session
since his return from Moscow.
The discussion following Church.
ills speech was noteworthy for lack
of direct criticism OF the prime
minister.
Capt. Frederick j. Bellenser, La
bOrite was the harShest Of Church.
ills critics implying that the prime
minister should be ouSted or super
seeded.
The whole conduct of the war
depended on the right kind of lcat-
er and the right kind of policy"
he said There is in this countrl
and in this house n present a feel
ing that We have not got the right
kind of person for direction of tho
war to satisfactory conclusion.
Churchill announced that tic
government was holding a secret
inquiry regarding the successful c5-
cape of the German ships from
BrcSt.
The abandonment Of BrcSt as
a base was decidedly beneficial -
US and a threat to our conveys was
removed he said.
"A heavier scale Caerial attack
on Germany is now possible
Imperial Valley press., 1942-02-17
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Imperial Valley press., 1942-02-17
Continued from page onc1

.'CODtlnueO from l)dBf Ollc'
and three deStrOycra.
A revealing dispatch by Harold
Guard veteran United Press staff
correspondent who has reached Ba-
tayia from Singapore cast considct.
abb light on tho Singapore dcbaclc.
Guard placed the blame for the
rapidity with which Singapore col
lapscd upon an extensive fifth col
umn. bureaucratic cOmplacency OF
British colonial officials, lack OF
promised air support and complei :
failure of the British TO make any
effort TO mobilize the vast man
power reserves Of the Malayan ma
tives in defense OF the strategic
area.
BURMA HOPE SLIGHT
The increasingly critical Burma
situation was admitted by British
spokesmen both III London and
Rangoon. A British commentator
in London said there was little
hope for arrival Of effective rein
forcements in Burma from India
due TO lack of roads.
Tho Rangoon communlquc ad-
mittcd a general British retreat in
the face Of japanese attacks OF m
crcasing severity. The British had
abandoned ThatOn and were falling
back 10 a line alons the Billln river.
The japanese we're within 30 miles
Imperial Valley press., 1942-02-17
Bureaucracy. Conceit
Bring Sinsop ore Tragedy

EDITORS NOTE united press
War Correspondent Harold Guard
VA with the defenders of Malaya
and Singapore from the time tho
japanese landed Dec s at the TOP
of the peninsula until the last hours
Of the British basu0n He shared
tho dan,tre and hardel1lpS and
hcart-brcak Of what US from the
first a losing battle. Readers Of
tho cst-Prcss Will recall his vivid
dispatches OF the fighting and the
defeat In the following dispatch
he analyzcs the factors responsible
for il.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-02-17

The city of FL Centro Tuesday
finally was about to complete thu
task of digging itself out of the
lg4O earthquake, and the last phys
ical evidence of that disaster was
vanishing from the principal bust
ness thoroughfare as repair WORK
progressed on two Main street build
ingS.
simultaneously, work of dcmolish-
ing the Central Union High scho,l
Imperial Valley press., 1942-02-17
CAN'T KEEP
GRANDMA IN
her CHAIR
Shes as Lively as a Youpgster- =
Now her Backache is better

Many sufferers relieve nnrging bs~LAch"
quickly, once they discover that the rcsl
cause of their trouble may be tired Lidpeys.
The kidneys arc Nature'e chief way of tsk-
ing the cAccss acids and waste out of tho
blood. They help most people pass about )
pints DAY.
hcn disorder OF kidney function permits
poisonous matter to remain in your blood 1t
may cause naggng bsekacLe, rheumatic pains.
nights, swelling, puffiness under the eyes,
headaches aud diEIinoss. Frequent or scanty
passages with smarting and burning some
times shows there IA something wrong with
your kidneys or bladder.
Don't wait! Ask your druggist for Dosns
Pills, Used successfully by millions for over
40 years. They give happy relief and will help
the J miles OF kidney tubes fush out poison
Qua waste from your blood. Get Doaps Pills.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-02-17
POLICY DEFENDED

The position of the German
ships at BreSt was a serious pre-
occupation for the admiralty for
they Lay on the flank of our man
convoy routes. on Which they could
make sorties at any time into the
Atlantic or go to the Mediterran-
can.
Accordingly the admiralty press
cd for continual attacks from the
air. These continued for 10 months,
during which time the ships ua-
doubtedly were hit by bombs.
There is no doubt that our naval
position in the Atlantic so far from
being worSened has definitely i'm
proved
The bombing of the ships be-
came so serious Che continued that
tho Germans evidently came to tn"
decision that thcy could not main
+ tam tHcm amy longer at BTcSi.
To have had heavy lOrCcs plHce.
! ready to intercept the German ahlp,
3 il the North sca would laHC CX-
posed our ships to tho same scale
Of air attacks as chose on the Ger
man ships at Crest
Imperial Valley press., 1942-02-17
Legal. HOLIDAY

SACRAMENTO. Feb. II. CUP)-
Next Monday. Feb. %, will be legal
holiday in California, the secretary
of states office announced today.
Tho state political code prescribes
Il holiday on Monday when any
legal holiday falls on Sunday. such
as Washington birthday next Sum
dnV
Imperial Valley press., 1942-02-17
TIRES AND WHEELS STOLEN

r. S. Obergfcll asked peace Off
GERS TO help search for four tires
and wheels taken off his pickup
truck at his place a quarter OF 4
mile west of FL CCatro.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-02-17
Scanning I.V.
News Horizon
DECREE GRANTED

A iinaI divorce decree was grant
ed in superior court to Nora Burch-
fiel in her suit against Fred c.
Burchfiel
Imperial Valley press., 1942-02-17
OBTAINS DIVORCE

10 Stewart Monday was granite /
an interlocutOry divorce from Rob-
Crt Stewart.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-02-17
NO AIR POWER

Lack of air power WAS another
factor in the defeat. The defenders
had few planes at the start, none
at the finish.
Chinese volunteers were organized
only week before the invasion OF
Singapore Island and were sent
out TO fight with only ShotGuns
against japanese dive-bombers and
tanks
There were nc plans 10 use Ma
tive man power and no effort To
mobilize or encourage tho natives
to defend Malaya though the Tam
lis. fierce native tribe. wanted 10
fight tho invaders.
The British never were able to
oppose the Japanese effectively in
the air In the final phase OF fight
ing the Imperials we're forced to
lie hour after hour IN the mud
while enemy planes. including dive
bombers. attacked them at will.
IF we only had something
against their dive-bombing we could
hold out" one British artillerynan
said after the battle reached Sing
apore Island. But how can We
fire the guns when our men are
moved down whenever the Japan
ese feel like it?"
Nevertheless. the ImperialS fought
bravely and skillfully and might
have neld out if even part OF the
often promised allied aerial rem
fcrcemenLs had arrived.
The complacement refusal Of the
colonial bureaucrats to recognize
the obvious was appalling.
On April IS. l94l, almost eight
months before the attack, l wrote
a dispatch that tho jungle OF the
malaya peninsula. did not. in thf
opinion Of military men. offer Suf-
ficient protection against an at
tack Oh Singapore from tho rear
The military censor al Singapore
approved the dispatch only because
as he told me. it Was so absurd
that I would appear ridiculous.
WHO'S RIDICULOUS
During the next few months il
became known that there were
paths through the thickest jungle
which could be used for military
operations-that the jungles were
net impenetra BILE In fact, it is nov
eSta blished. the Japanese fifth col
umnistS had been long busy in the
Jungles. bribinG native trlbeSmen
and learning the secrets Of these
paths over which they led their
troops
This betrayal of the defenders OF
Ma, va was made comparatively
easy for the japanese because OF
tho actions OF interruptions traders
who had cheated the tribesmen or
many occasions. The government
had bclatcdly introduced social anc
economic reforms but progress was
slow Tho JapancSe were speedy
Many of tho colonial bureaucrats
were mere time servers" Theil
idea was TO get out Of Malaga as
soon as possible with as much as
possible Many lacked acquain-
tance with native problems and ma
tive officials and were vastly ignor-
ant Of the true situation. They were
interested mainly in their comforts
and pensions.
NO LEADERSHIP
Many believed that the japanese
flood could have been Stemmed by
the natives early IN December Il
Imperial Valley press., 1942-02-17
ny HAROLD GUARD

Copyright 1852. by United Press
BATAVIA. JAVA Feb u up
Singapore was lost in 20 days By
bureaucracy, complaccnCy. and a
legion of fifth columniStS
Fifth C0lumnlStS had >Warmcd
through the jmplcS and towns Of
the peninsula for years The ma
tive tribcsmen. having beCl unfair
ly exploited by seme British trad
crs, were quick to accept japanese
bribeS to and these fifth ColumnlStS
in guiding the japanese through the
iunglcs which enabled the enemy
time and again to outilank the de-
fenSe forces.
Bureaucratic complacenCy had
stood by in idlneSs for months. Su-
promcly confident that Japan could
not drive through the Julalcs and
attack Singapore from the rear
and would be forced 10 make a di-
rect attack on tie strong sea de-
fenScS
Imperial Valley press., 1942-02-17
Churchill Defends
Policy Says Nazis
Feat Aided Allies
CANDIDATE ATTENDS

Continued From Page One
office He was chcerCd by the house
Imperial Valley press., 1942-02-17

OFFICIAL STUPIDITY
As the war moved southwark
Evening star., 1942-12-10

for this contry by the owl Film
Unit, Might Shift" will be distrib-
uted to over $4,000 theaters by the
War Activities Committee of the Mo-
ton Picture Industry on December
10. :. The secret English armament
plant shown in Might Shift" is oper-
ated by force of 1000 women =.
With no help from men, the girls
operate the heaviest kind of equip
ment, and handle every piece
OF material that goes into the
making Of gun and cannon.
Most Of the women shown at
the machines are veteran record
breakers In the middle of the
night the shift takes an hour for
dinner, dancing and entertainment.
The most popular tune with these
workers is the old American favor
lite, Some Of These Days" The
fierce determination of the women
OF Britain to do everything they can
Evening star., 1942-12-10

forth be addressed as Chief Barker
OF Washington Variety Clubs Tent
No. II. . That was Producer Max
Gordon treating his leading lady
Virginia Field. to an E street fish
fry. . Should have taken along
Arlene Francis of The Doughgirls, -
who, according to the script, loves
to eat fish. :. Nicholas Schenck OF
MGM, Spyros Sjouras of Twentieth
Century-Fox and Barney Balaban
OF Paramount huddled with Assist
ant Secretary of the Treasury John
L. Sullivan, over constructions on
creative talent. They are not con-
cerned over the $25,000 wage ceiling
but are worried over what it will do
to contracts with stars. They made
their plea and submitted briefs.
Mrs. Jack Joslin (nee Flora Mac
Donald and a Washington society
EDITOR, has been appointed executive
secretary of the Washington Com
mlttee for the Celebration of the
Presidents Birthday. Ward
MorehouSe. columnist, has signed a
contract with J. B. Lippincott Co. to
write the life of George M. Cohan.
X X
Col. Zanuck at Front.
Sergt Edward de S. Melcher. who
once filled this space in The Star,
Is on his way to the North African
front . . Col. Daryl Zanuck of
Hollywood, who was Mr.. Big of the
Twentieth Century-Fo Co., is in
the thick of the fighting in North
Africa, taking actual battle scene
pictures for the U. S. Signal Corps
-. Col. Zanuck is having his second
brush with the enemy, for in mid
June he accompanied British Com
mandos in their daring raid on
Boulogne, France The Walt
Disney Studio is furious at the Hays
Office because they refuse to let
them include swishy character
singing Der Fuehrer's Face" in a
feminine voice. Code specialists
dubbed 1t immoral The sea-
sons big surprise is the hit made
by Arleen Whelan in The Dough-
girls" A former Hollywood mani
curlst, She was placed in a studio
school and then given glamour girl
roles, with no opportunity for acting
Evening star., 1942-12-10
'Defnites' Announced
For Moscow Mission

HOLLYWOOD.
With production started last week,
five top roles in Warner Bros, Mis-
sion to Moscow" today were an
nounced as definitely cast.
These are Walter Huston as Am
bassador Joseph E. Davies, Ann
Harding as Mrs. Davies, Joyce Rey-
nolds as their daughter, Emlen
Knight Davies; Victor Francen as
Evening star., 1942-12-10
Where and When
Current Theater Attractions
and Time of Showing

anu llIlC VI CllOWluK
Stage.
NationaI-"The Doughgirls," new
comedy with local setting: Tonight
at $50.
Screen.
Capitol-"White Cargo" saga OF
Tondelayo and her lurong: II am,
lao, 4:25, tbs and 9:55 pm. Stage
shows: 1850, $40, $50 and 9:1O
pm.
Columbia-"For Me And My Gal"
Judy Garland in songs and dances:
11:25 am, 1:25, $3.50, $50, 7:35 and
$40 pm.
Earle-"Gentleman Jim," life
Of the boxer: II m, AS, 4:30, tbs
and 1905 pm. Stage shows: /, $50,
6:35 and 900 pm.
Keith's-"Seven Days Leave" con-
centrate of music, variety and
Victor Mature: 11:45 am, 1:45, 3:45
5:45, 7:45 and 9:45 pm.
Little-"Ghost Breakers" Paul
cite Goddard going mad with Bob
Hope: II am, 12:40, 2:20, 4:05, 5:55,
7:45 and $40 pm.
MetropOlitan-"My Sister Eileen"
magazine to stage to screen: 11:25
am, lbs, $3.50, $50, 7:35 and 9:40
pm.
Palace-"The Major and the
Minor" Ginger Rogers in pigtails
and farce: 11:45 am, 2:15, 4:40, 7:l0
and 9:40 pm.
Pix-"The Late Matthias Pascal" !"
French film with Pierre Blanchar: !:
2, 4:50, 7:30 and 1920 pm.
Trans Lux - News and shorts:
Continuous from 10 am.
Evening star., 1942-12-10
A. Y. vyshenski and Barbara Ever

A. Y. Vyshenski and Barbara Ever
est as Nine. Maxim Litvinofi.
This will be Huston's third con-
secutive important role at the stu
dio, he having played Jerry Cohan
in Yankee Doodle Dandy" and be-
ing before the cameras at present in
Edge of Darkness" Miss Reynolds
is the recent acquisition from
U. C. l.. A. who makes her impress
sive screen debut in George Wash-
ington Slept Here"
Michael Curtiz will direct the film
with Robert Buckner producing.
Evening star., 1942-12-10

production by
M o t ley. . . .
These volunteers
are from t h e
18th S &c / a |
Service Unit, the
1322d S e r v l C e
Unit a n d t h e
603d Engineers
Camouaage Bat
talon. A
b US, specially
charted by per-
mission of the
War D e p a r t.
ment, will bring
the CO m p a n y
Evening star., 1942-12-10

Baltimore to Fort Meade and to
their Philadelphia train. Col. O. S.
Wood, officer commanding, will greet
Miss Cornell and her company and
entertain them during their after
Moons visit. The occasion will
mark Katharine Cornells first per-
formance for an Army camp.
Sam Wheeler, head Of the Goth
Century-Fox Exchange. can hence
Evening star., 1942-12-10

t building the three settings
| designs used in the regular
Evening star., 1942-12-10

for their country is expressed by
one girl In the gun factory who says:
Wed much rather be firing them
than making them"
Evening star., 1942-12-10

the magnet this week Walton
c. Ament, chairman Of the newsreel
division Of the War Activities Com
mittee, has submitted an analysis
which shows that 1873 per cent of
all newsreel clips from December
9. 194l, to November 10, 1912, had
war significance Total output
for that period was 1858 subjects,
according to records submitted by
Movietone, News of the Day, Para
mount, Pathe and Universal ,
OF this number Ament said, only
$50 did not in some way reflect the
present crisis. These dealt with
domestic, non-war news events .
A breakdown of product of the five
newsreels as presented by Ament
follows:
Subjects dealing with some as
poets of the fighting of the global
war, 920; activities on Americas
production front, 357; our armed
forces at home, 1888; subjects deal
ing with the Treasury's War bond
and stamp campaign, including
Minute Men, 164 clips on other
Government agencies, such as
WPB's scrap campaign, FBI round
up of aliens, etc, 416, and clips por-
traying some phase of hemisphere
relations, or showing Latin-Ameri-
cans, 1863.
British War Subject.
Might Shift" a film record of
how the women of Britain have been
helping to keep the war production
program going full blast, will be the
second British Ministry of Informa-
ton short to be released throughout
the United States by the Office of
War Information film unit D.. Brit
ish women have been working in
the factories, on the night and day
shifts, doing the jobs of men for
over three years Today, in
most parts of the country, American
women are beginning to take their
place on our assembly lines and
millions more will be needed to man
our machinery before the war ends
The new British short shows
10-hour womens night shift
operating huge gun factory. Edited
Evening star., 1942-12-10
Fort Meade Soldiers Get
Katharine Cornell Play
Col. Daryl Zanuck
In North Africa With
American Fighters
BY ANDREW r. KELLEY.

Mdweek roundup of fact
1000 Fort Meade soldiers aar production
Sisters Sunday afternoon 15cent
Fort Meade performance directly negotiated Major
special the direction
formerly
Evening star., 1942-12-10

the fattest comedy lines, reveals
good acting ability. is likely to be
"discovered' by Hollywood as a
first-clas light comedienne :. The
ater Guild will toss an after-the-
first-performance party for the
company, critics and others after the
farewell bows of The Russian
People next Monday night :.
Whoopee is scheduled for the May
flower.
Whacks L. S. CensOrs.
Hollywood must be grinning over
Brendan Bracken'S caStigation of
its movie censorS in House of Com
mons, during which he called them
"old maider-aunt like" Warner
Bros. has long been threatening to
pull out of the Hays organization
because of production code re-
strictions and other dissatisfactions
Difficulty is that most chain
theater operations are restricted to
running only pictures which have a
production code seal Mr..
Bracken, the information minister,
is wrong when he says Noel
Cowards picture, I'm Which We
Serve" is barred from American
screens ?. 1t has been approved
after the elimination of the word
BASTARD and minor deletions
which do not affect the continuity
-. In fact it is booked to be shown
on F street some time late in jan
uary M-G-M has been peeved
because the production code made
them adhere to policy whereby all
who commit murder must be suit
ably punished. M-G-M wanted to
kill a Gestapo agent for cause, let
the culprlt go free . Permission
was refused While Brendan
Bracken was speaking to Commons,
Monroe Greenthal of the War Pro-
duction Board was showing I'm
Which We Serve" to Col. William
Donovan's Office of Strategic Serv-
ices Insiders feel that Mr..
Bracken was launching little
ballyhoo, inspired by his good
friend, Noel Coward.
X
Newsreels VS.. War.
New Statler Hotel on Sixteenth
street will be opened in time to take
a prominent part in the Birthday
Ball celebration late in January. At
the Paramount exchange late yes
terday they screened the rough draft
of the two-reeler Army Chaplain"
with Chief Of Chaplains Arnold as
the special audience. This is the
short in which the Rev. Gilbert v.
Hartke OF Catholic University plays
the lead =. Trans-Lux Theater re-
ports remarkable attendance when
the war news is good, with Mask of
Nippon" and japanese atrocities
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1942-06-13

by on orc Of newly acquired bases, America hos
wide open back door through the wilderness Of
conodo.A Thot door leeds straight, to DstrOit's
defense Observation-Disclosures thot feed wor mo-
teriOI for the entire world.
"" -. and you. home i. olonS'id' Now
perhaps you know, os you never did before, why
you should be sossr to lend your money for wor
bonds.
Lend thot money freely. Buy oil the stomps
and bonds you con clifford. Then buy more.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1942-06-13

len look twice ar this startling map how enemy
planes might drop in by Americas back door!
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1942-06-13

III cont happen TO me. I'm in the sofest spot In
the world. live in Detroit"
If thot's whot you think you'd better Isorn this
little geography lesson. And learn it quick.
Look at the mop osoin. Follow the GROWS from
Norway. They make it terribly clear that Berlin
bomber, using Greenland as stepping stone, could
drop its load on Detroit costly as on New York
And military experts soy thot this is just the
course enemy air attack would probably follow.
For while the Atomic eoost foirIY we'll protected