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Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-12-27
BY ERSkINE JOHNSON

Exclusively yours. IL BttJlilB W
be that time of the year SO today,
as is our annual custom, We stick
out our neck and pick the 10 best
motion pictures of 1912:
l, Mrs. MiniVer; 2. The Pied Pr
per; 3. Yankee Doodle Dandy; 4,
My Sister Eileen; 5, Random Har-
vest; 6, Road to Morocco; 7, Kings
Row; 8, This Above All; 9, Tales
of Manhattan; 10, In Which We
Serve.
There's no argument about the
best feminine performance of the
year. It's Greer Carson eight
lengths ahead for Mrs. Miniver
The best male iob-Jimmy Gag
ncy in yankee Doodle Dandy
Mary Carr, veteran Hollywood
character actress and the star of the
famous over the HILL is recup-
Grating at her home following a
serious illness. Swell gag in
Producer Sol LeSser's "Tarzan Tri-
umphs." in which Tarzan battles
the Nazis. Cheta, the monkey
starts jabbering into a German field
telephone. The German officer at
the other end of the line does a dou-
BILE take and says. Eye Gads, Hitler
HIMSELF" Orson WelleS and
Hedy Lamar have discovered each
other.
WAR SPIRIT NOTE
Bill Goodwin reports this sign on
a valley store whose owner has gone
to war-"Closed for alterations. ;"
Gale Sondergaard, who has
been conducting a one woman cam
paign to free herself from the class
of screen menaces, has won a new
deal. AS result of her non-men-
ace role in THE Frightened Stiff, p"
Columbia is paging her for straight
roles in THE Glove SINGERS and
The Happy Leader
1t was bound to happen. Fred
die Slack has written a new tune,
THE A Card Blues" Fritz
Field and his wife, Virginia Chris
tine, are celebrating their second
wedding anniversary, his 25th year
as an actor. her contract renewal
at Warner Bros, and, he adds, "a
B card from my gasoline rationing
board" Claudette Colbert, YER
onica Lake and Paulette Goddard
wear only -glamorous Army
nurse uniforms in so Proudly We
Hail But Palette has talked the
studio into filming an added scene
of her in black lace nightie
ELEVENTH HOUR STUFF
1t happens even TO the best OF
actors. Sir Cedric HardWicke, dis
appointed with recent roles. was all
set to return to New York when
he suddenly landed the best film
role of his career in The Moon Is
Down"
There arc a lot CT trick angles
and odd Photographic effects in
RKO's chiller-diller, Il Walked
With a Zombie." but none caused
Cameraman Roy Hunt so much
trouble as one shot past the nose
of a white horse. The horse was
supposed to have Whiskers that
would show. The nag had them,
but they were white and refused
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-12-27

Frances Foulds arrived Christ
mas eve to spend the holidays with
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Scott b.
Foulds. Frances is student at Arr
iona State, at Tempe, Arizona.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-12-27

Judge and Mrs. A. C. Finncy spent
Christmas eve and Christmas day
with Mr.. and Mrs. C. l.. Smith and
their two little daughters to whom
Santa brought their chief desires
a big doll for each. MI. and Mrs.
Cal Rector were guests for break
fast Christmas morning. two SER
viccmcn dining with the family
Christmas day.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-12-27

Dinner guests of Mrs. j. w. Don
ol,uc at Rancho Donean Christmas
day were 1t. and Mrs. Richard
Heat. Mrs. Donohue has as hel
house guest : man from the San
Diego naval hospital, Carl Iierk-
strotcr who is recovering from
wounds received In battle.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-12-27

Mrs. c. V. Munson and her son,
Alan, who is stationed in Santa
Ana with her for Christmas, as
we'll as her daughter, Jean for San
Diego, and Chuck and Jimmy Mum
son. Alan came from Santa Ana
with group of boys from the valley
james Cope, Milton Damron. How
ard Rhodes, Bob Mack.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-12-27

+ Mrs. Mont j. Reid and Mr.. ano
/. Mrs. d. B. Roberts joined forces
Christmas, having a dinner party
together at the Reid home on San
dslWood Drive. A Christmas tree
centered the table. and Christmas
tree cards marked places for Mrs
Mary Jane Neal, E. A. Nance, Har-
land Butler of Imperial, Mrs. 0
p. Glaze, Eleanor Roberts, Mrs
Reid. Mr.. and Mrs. Roberts ant
tc. two soldiers.
Evening star., 1942-09-02

Cabinet with many uses, with a.
steel base in baked white enamel
finish :. 27x22 inch stainless por-.
celain top. Cutlery drawer, linen
drawer, bread drawer and double
pan compartment.
Porcelain top base, 2ox16x32 inches.
white enamel finish SS9S
Porcelain top steel base with linen
or cutlery drawer. Large compart-
ment with shelf S1I.gS
Kann's-Housewares-Third Floor.
Evening star., 1942-09-02
soul Of Polish People
Lives, FoiIing Nazi
Triumph, Ber|e Says
Nation Has Risen Stronger
From Other Attempts to
Crush 1t, He Declares
z. the Associated Press,


Germany's attempt three years
ago to terrorize the civilized world
into submission through ruthless
extinction of Poland has failed,
Assistant Secretary of State A. A.
Berle, jr., said last night.
The German plan failed, Mr..
Berle said in an address broadcast
IN Spanish to the Americas, be-
cause 1t did not reckon with the
TACT that a nation is undefeated
as long as the soul of it's people
survives.
AT the very moment when the
German legions were reaping
harvest on the Polish plain" he
said, "the mills of the gods began
to grind.
They ground courage in a people
faced with impossible odds.
They ground hope out of despair.
They ground out an iron resolve
that these numbering. oppressors
should find no inch OF Polish soil
on which they could be safe.
The mills of the gods ground out
the seed of worldwide resistance,
and the resentment of a world wide
horror. First England, then other
nations, took up arms. They ground
the slow accumulation of terrible
force, which has grown in three
years to a great army of nations"
Adolph Hitlers invasion of Poland
was not the first attempt in history
tc extinguish that nation, Mr.. Berle
continued.
Has Risen Before.
''Indomitable, she has risen again,
stronger than before. From her
example we who are also engaged
in that common struggle must draw
firm determination to wipe
tyranny out of the earth"
Recalling that "our ancestors in
the new world challenged the
mightest empires and made them
selves free" he concluded:
"To deserve that freedom and to
make ourselves safe, we must now
make freedom universal.
AN emblem of our certain vic
tory must be the restitution of free
dom to the deathless Poland-the
Poland of history, the Poland of
arts, the Poland of Chopin's music
and the Poland of unconquerable
soul"
Evening star., 1942-09-02
Oldest Inhabitants Group
Honors Heurich Toniqht

Christian Heurich, who will be 100
years old September IL, will be hon
ored tonight by the Association of
Oldest Inhabitants of the District of
Columbia, Of which he is vice
president.
At its meeting at Old Union En-
gine House, Nineteenth and H
streets NV. the program will be
devoted principally to paying trib-
utes to the centenarian, few days
before the anniversary.
Among those to take part will be
John Clagett Proctor, vice-presi-
dent, presiding; Charles H. Bates,
chairman of the entertainment
committee, and Fred A. Emery, on
whose motion the celebration is to
be held.
Evening star., 1942-09-02
Mon Held for Grund Jury
In FutuI Stubbinq Here

Edward F. Deenihan, "a, of 1913
H. street NV, was awaiting grand
jury action today on a charge of
fatally stabbing Joseph Lacoppidan,
70, of 220 H street NE, last July
with butcher knife.
A coroner's jury yesterday order
ed him held.
The jury was informed at the in
quest that the attack occurred on
the street near Mr.. Lacoppidan S
home. Deenihan is confined to Gal
linger Hospital pending a sanity
hearing.
Evening star., 1942-09-02
Fathers Record Puts
Youths in Murine Corps
Py the Associated Press.

Fy the Associated Press.
SAN DIEGO, Calf, Sept. 2.-The
distinguished record his father made
as Marine in the World War has
enabled Arthur Corey, 16, Wood
stock, Ill.,, to become the youngest
Leatherneck in the corps for duty
in the present war.
His brother, Leroy, II, marches
with him in the same platoon. Sons
of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Corey, they
found their father, Woodstock
justice of the peace, no obstacle
when they announced their plan to
enlist. The fathers letter to Wash
ington brought permission for the
enlistment.
The father joined the Marines at
IT. When he returned to civilian
life, he had II citations and dec
orations, including the Distinguished
Service Cross, the Order of the
Purple Heart and the Croix de
Guerre.
Evening star., 1942-09-02
Barber Mends Rovuqes
Of Army Huircuts

By the Associated Press.
TOPEKA, Kans.-L. D. McClain,
Topeka barber, encamped recently
with the State Guard, in which he
is a sergeant. 1t gave him an idea.
Now he's passing out business
cards reading:
"Servicemen's barber shop. Army
haircuts repaired"
Evening star., 1942-09-02
X FOR VICTORY: 4

Bonds or bondage-was there ever
an easier choice? Get yours now.
Evening star., 1942-09-02

India is exploring its war poten-
tial in minerals.
Evening star., 1942-09-02

"A harmless chemical that absorbs
excess moisture from the air and
eliminates dampness and extreme
humidity in closed places. Very
effective against mold, mildew, rust
and odors due to dampness. Con-
veniently packaged.
Notwithstanding Floor.
Evening star., 1942-09-02

Complete 7-pc. set choice Of
three styles! Colonial urn or ball top
or 18th Century style log burning
andirons. Complete with three-fold
wire mesh fire screen with brass
trimmed top and matching four.
piece fire tool set.
Kann's-Housewares-Third Floor.
Evening star., 1942-09-02

Fine, soft blankets, 75%o cotton,
20% rayon and SO reprocessed wool
-. unusually warm, though so light
in weight. Rayon satin bound; pas
tells and dark colors The imperfec-
tions are the slightest cannot
possibly harm the durability of the
blanket.
Kanns-Blankets-Sneet Floor.
Milford chronicle., 1942-12-04
ENDORSE GAS RATION
COUPONS AT ONCE

By properly endorsing their cou-
pons at once, motorists and others
holding gasoline rations will avoid
the inconvenience of having to do
so whe nthey buy gasoline at SER
vice station, OPA pointed out re-
Gently. They will also help protevt
their ration books from possible
misuse in the case of loss or theft.
Under the new rationing regula-
tions dealers must require correct
notations on the back of all cou-
pons they accept
A, B, c, and D coupons must be
endorsed ON the back with the car
license number and state of regis
tration. Passenger feet operators
using interchangeable coupon books
must write or stamp the fleet name.
T coupons must be endorsed on the
back with the War Certificate Num-
ber or the fleet name. e and r cou-
pons must have the name and ad-
dress of the user written on the
back. All endorsements must be in
ink to prevent alterations.
1t will be exceedingly difficult for
thieves and black market operators
to use coupons which they acquired
if those coupons bear the
proper identifications.
Milford chronicle., 1942-12-04

Announcer: 1--WE find the existing
situation to be so dangerous that
unless corrective measures are
taken Immediately this country will
face both military and civilian
collapse. In rubber we are a
Have Not nation"
Mr.. Henderson: Does the War
Department believe that statement,
Mr.. Patterson?
ty per cent of all our former sources
of crude rubber are in the hands of
the Japs. The shortage of supply is
so serious that we in the Army have
had to cut our requirements for
crude rubber almost so per cent.
We have had to replace rubber
treads for tanks, with steel treads-
that's how short we are.
Mr.. Henderson: Does the Navy
Department agree there is an acute
rubber shortage, Admiral Jones?
Admiral Jones: Every day we in
the Navy are haunted by the real
ization that every tire not used for
absolute essential driving will have
to be replaced in some manner by
rubber that the Navy
needs-needs for things like life
rafts-yes; the kind that saved
Captain Eddie Rickenbacker.
Mr.. Henderson: While you're at
1t, Admiral Jones, what about the
stories of great new supplies of
crude rubber in South America?
Admiral Jones: We will get some
help there, but it will take several
years for those plantations to be
'eally productive.
Mr.. Henderson: And synthetic |
rubber?
Admiral Jones: AS our rubber ex-
1erts have said time and again. Full
production will not materialize un-
il 1914.
Mr.. Henderson: There is the ans
YER to the self-elected experts who
ell the people we have enough rub
)er.
Milford chronicle., 1942-12-04
ON THE HOME FRONT


An area almost half the size Of
continental United States was won
for the United Nations without a
shot when the civil and military au-
thorities of Dakar accepted Allied
jurisdiction. Dakar is more than
the largest and finest hafbor on
the west coast of Africa, it is also
an outlet for products of great
economic and strategic value, the
bulk of which hitherto have gone
to the Nazis-peanut and palm oils,
cocoa, coffee, cotton, castor beans,
bananas, gum copal, diamonds,
sisal a substitute for scarce ma
Mia fiber) and crude rubber in
small quantities.
A Front From Dakar TO MurmanSk
The loss to the Nazis of West
African vegetable oils, cocoa and
coffee, as well as the other products
needed foP their war machine, will
be almost as great blow to Hitler
as was his failure this year to seize
the main Russian oil fields. But the
adherence of North and West
Africa to the Allies has given the
Nazis and their satellites greater
cause for worry. From Dakar to
Tunisia, from Tunisia to Stalin-
grad by way of Egypt and the Near
East, and from Stalingrad to Muir
mansk in the far North, the Allied
battle front extends for a distance
of more than 5000 miles-and it is
a single front, its sectors linked by
land routes and air fields all the
long way. a front which is a great
steel moose tightening about the
Axis.
We all have reason to be thank J
full that we have witnessed the pre-
lude to eventual victory within
less than a year after entering the
something that did not seem
possible at the years beginning.
But these encouraging events must
not blind us to dangers still
the home front, which
could nullify many of our mil
itary advances.
Chief of these dangers is the pos
sible weakening of our common
economic front through individual
of those wartime regula-
tions and rationing which protect
the interests and security of the
whole country. or from localized
claiming special privil-
eyes which jeopardize not alone the
national well-being, but the very
conduct of the war itself.
In some parts of the country, in
recent weeks, agitation has spread
for a delay in nationwide gasoline
rationing. This agitation is based
III the plea that gasoline is plenti-
full in these areas, and that people
are keeping to the 35-mile an hour
speed limit. Slower driving, tire
and car sharing are all
good-but they emphatically are
not enough to insure an adequate
supply of wartime tires. The
3aruch Committee, which had full
lccess to the facts and the conf
lence of the American people,
Urged, among other necessary
measures, early adoption of nation
wide gasoline rationing as an abso-
ute check on unnecessary driving.
Regardless of recapping possibili-
les, it has been estimated that
lnless we take every possible mea-
sure to save tires, up to one-half
If our desperately needed passen-
ger autos will be laid up next year. Z
lOr would thirteen and half mill
ion motorists, deprived of their
,ars. find other means of transpor-
alton. We must save those tires, !.
There's No Pool To Draw On
Milford chronicle., 1942-12-04
MILFORD NECK

r"Never to tire spiritually, nev.
er to grow cold; to be patient, sym
pathetic. tender; to look for the
budding flower and the opening
heart; to hope always; like God, to
love always-this is Duty"
Methodist Church
Rev. Harry II. Conner, Pastor
Sunday, December
2 p. m. Sunday school. H. A.
Thompson, superintendent.
Christmas is coming, boys and
girls. Come out to Sunday school.
Filing out the banner,
Let it wave;
Jesus came to earth to save"
2:S0 p. m. Sermon by the pas
tor.
Let us be vigilant for Christ and
His Kingdom. Plan to attend
church services this Sunday.
The Ladies' Aid will meet in the
church on Friday evening, Decem-
ber II. Mrs. James Webb, presi-
dent, will preside.
Tine Methodist Youth Fellowship
will meet in the church this Friday
evening, December 4. Joan Merritt.
president, will preside. Francis and
Beatrice Austin will have charge of
devotions. All of you young people
plan to attend this meeting.
Have you read chapter in your
Bible today? If Jesus should come
for you today-would you be ready?
Mr.. and Mrs. John Lindale of Mil
ford visited Mr.. and Mrs. John
Macklin last Sunday afternoon.
Mrs. Alice Croft Bennington, r.
N, and daughters, Blanche and Ger
aldine. of East Petersburg, Pa.
spent the Thanksgiving holidays
with Mrs. George Bond.
Mr.. and Mrs. John S. Hammond
and Miss Annie Beswick entertain
ed their relatives from Wilmington
and Newark. at Thanksgiving din
ner in honor of their brother, Ed
ward S. Beswick's 74th birthday.
State Master and Mrs. Clarence
E. Jester have returned home safe
ly after having made an extended
trip through the West and spend
ing several days in the State OF
Washington in the interest of the
Delaware State Grange.
Miss Ellen Chambers, r. ~,
night supervisor of the Milford
Memorial Hospital. was a dinner
guest of Mrs. G. w. Bond last Fri
day.
above the hills of time the cross
is cleaning; have you come to the
foot of that cross with your whole
heart beaming?'
Mr.. and Mrs. H. A. Thompson
were Thanksgiving Day dinner
guests of Mrs. Wilbur E. Mills in
Milford.
Mr.. and Mrs. John French and
children of Nassau spent Friday
evening with their parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Charles P. French, Sr.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Lewis of
Westville, n. j., spent Thanksgiving
with Bills parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Fred Lewis.
Thou wilt keep him in perfect
peace, whose mind is stayed on
Thee; because he trusteth in Thee.
Isaiah 26:3.
Milford chronicle., 1942-12-04

money orders up to $25.
! Selective Service registrants viii
be required to carry classification
cards as well as registration cardi
with them at all times, beginning
January ].
Farm Production and Prices
Agriculture Secretary Wickart
announced 1943 Food-for-Freedom
goals asking the highest produc,
ton in the history of American
agriculture. The goals will shape
next years farm production to the
needs of the United Nations, and
are aimed at maintaining or eX-
ceeding the record level attained
this year. The 1943 corn acreage
allotment for the commercial corn
area will be 43,423,000 acres, as
compared to 41,33S,0O0 acres in
1912, in order to insure feed for
1914 and beyond.
To combat a critical butter short
age, the WPB prohibited dairy pro-
ducers from distributing whipping
cream or other heavy cream. The
order does not affect coffee cream
and does not apply to any farmer
who delivers up to four quarts of
heavy cream per day if his deliv-
cries averaged less than one gallon
daily in the three months ended
November 25.
Labor Supply and Disputes
Selective Service Director Her
shey instructed all, local draft
boards to refuse releases for en-
listment of essential aircraft or
shiipbuilding workers-registrants
employed in these industries who
are OF should be classified in class
2-B or 3-B. War Manpower Chair
man McNutt announced that COM
prehensive list of essential occu-
pations hras been prepared to guide
Selective Service boards in deter
mining occupational deferment and
to aid the U. S. Employment Service
in deciding activities having a prior
claim on a worker available for
placement
The Office of War Information
reported that approximately Is
million U. S. women-less than %
per cent of the total female popu-
lation-are now gainfully employ
ed. 4 million of the min war jobs. /
The Office estimated there will be
Is million women in paid employ
ment by next year, million of
them i'm war industries. Germany
as early as 1889 had 81 per cent
of her women working. The WLB
announced the number of man-days /
lost from war industry strikes de-
creased from 31S,S92 in September
to 1885 in October-the lowest /
since last January.
Transportation
The Public Roads Administra
ton saids its surveys show the
average speed of passenger cars
on rural highways since the insti-
tuition of the 35-mile-an-hour speed
limit has been reduced to 81 miles
per hour and trucks to sc miles
per hour. Another survey showed
that in ~ war plants in six states
The majority of the employees trav-
Ell to work by automobile. Office of
Defense Transportation Director
Eastman recommended that buses
and street cars space their stop
ping places in cities as distances
from 600 to 1900 feet. He said any
distance less than 500 feet would
be wasteful of rubber, gasoline and
equipment.
Milford chronicle., 1942-12-04

The need for economy in ever
form of transportation is urgent
Z for our combined transportation
systems are interlocking, an,
( there's no pool of new equipment Il
draw from. By reducing the mum
ber of passenger stopping placei
on bus and street-car routes from
an average of eight to six through
out the country, more than 2K
billion stops would be eliminated
representing a tremendous tota
saving in bus tire rubber, and il
running time for both buses an(
streetcars. The Office of Defense
Transportation recommends thai
Victory Stops" be placed not less
than 600 to 1900 feet apart.
Another danger, both to wal
economy and to war production, is
the manpower shortage, which has
grown more acute with each month
and will continue to be critical for
the duration of the war. The sim
pie truth is that we have set our
selves the biggest job in the his
tory of the world-to put into ac-
ton huge land, air and sea forces,
to feed and equip them, to supply
our essential civilian needs, and to
minister to those of our allies, the
United Nations. The president has
said, mo one will go hungry or
without the other means of liveli-
hood in any territory occupied by
the United Nations, if it is humanity
within our powers to make the nee
essary supplies available to them"
When we engage to do that it
means that all our potential man
power must be fully employed to-
ward wartime ends, and no other.
Labor Shortages Grow Clearer
There will be need of many more
women workers in our war plants
next year-the manpower shortage
will be even greater than it is to-
LAY. Already the inter-city bus in
1ustry is critically short of good
mechanics and service men, and so
IS the truck-for-hire industry.
Track workers are needed on
Western railroads, and there are
10000 job vacancies among the
public carriers. Farm labor of all
Kinds must be found in order to
BOOST agricultural output by ten
ler cent next year. Radio, tele-
graph, telephone and street rail-
way companies have been warned I
hat they are war industries and |
ihould not refuse to hire workers |
BECAUSE Of prejudices involving
ace, creed, color or national .
'rigin.
Industrial and other accidents, on .
nd off the job, cut deeply into our /
supply. More than 40,-
90 workers have lost their lives
uring 1912 in various ways, twice
s many have been injured. Abb
ences have cost war production
more than 120 million man hours,
+ enough to have produced 5000
xtra bombers. The more than L.
90 labor-management committees
n war industries are helping to
ure this complaint and to save
by encouraging training
rograms, finding shortcuts in
reduction.
Another great saving in man
over and materials will be ac-
under the Retailers
economy Drive for Victory Plan
program for curtailing many
eacetime retail services without
ceiling prices. The plan
lso includes wider use of self
ervice. reduced inventories, pooled
staggered payrolls and
iork hours, shorter store hours.
nd encouragement of economy
ieas from employees. II