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Evening star., 1942-01-29
Full Indo-China Control
Threatened by Japs
By tbs Associated Press.

By tbs Associated Press.
TOXIC From japanese Broad
casts, Jan. 29.-The Japan Times
and Advertiser intimated strongly
today that Japan might eliminate
the last vestiges Of French control
in Indo-C China unless activities
hostile to Japan ceased.
lThe japanese moved troops
Into Indo-C China last year under
guise Of treaty with the vichy
government for protection Of the
colony, and built the air and
troop bases for the Japanese
sweep through Thailand and the
attack on Malaga and Burma
The Times and Advertiser, con-
trolled by the japanese foreign
ONCE, said force would be resorted
to II Free French activity in Indo-
China continued. 1t said that
French Gov. Gen. Jean Decoux had
assumed full responsibility for the
colony, but that Free French
activities ARE still going on and
are showing no signs Of abatement" 4"
Evening star., 1942-01-29
Advance Of g Miles
On Southwest Front
Claimed by Russia
80 Populated Places Are
Retoken, Broadcast by
Moscow Radio Soys

D, the Associated Press.
MOSCOW, Jan. 29.-An ad-
vance of 80 miles by the Red
Army on the southwest front,
with the recapture of 90 popu-
lated places, was claimed today
in a report broadcast by the Mos
COW radio. -
The exact sector and the time
covered by the operation were not
given.
The Soviet Informat ton Bureau in
its midnight and midday COM
muniques reported continued Red
Army advances which cost the
Germans heavily, as the Russian
counteroffensive ofIlcially WAS aimed
at total victory within the year.
The sinking of q transport by
Russian naval units in the Barents
Sea was announced.
Cavalry played an important part
in the southwestern front advance,
it was said. The 80 populated
points included four large district
centers.
Fortified Zone Pierced.
The Russians said 16 additional
populated points were liberated yes
terday and that fighting is now un-
der way for the populated point
IN" a railway junction In which
it was claimed 400 German dead
lie.
A German fortified zone of the
southwestern front was declared
by the Soviet Information Bureau
to have been pierced by Red Army
unit in an attack which cost the
invaders 370 ofncers and men.
we captured 6 trucks, II ma
chine guns, mortars and 26
trucks and took prisoners, the
bureau said.
A war correspondent of Izvestia,
the Soviet government newspaper,
said Russian shock units of the
southern front had routed four Ger
man infantry reeiments-the 228th,
229th. 399th and 13th-and battered
the 18th motorized regiment and the
Sd Hungarian Cavalry Regiment.
These units have annihilated
about 900 Fascist officers and men
in the last five days, Izvestia re-
ported.
Aerial Defeat for Nazis.
Maj. Gen. Grendal OF the Red
air corps. writing in the Army pub
lication Red Star, said winter had
caught the German air force so
unprepared in Russia that the NaZis
had suffered their worst aerial de-
feat of the war.
He said that in the last 20 days
the Germans could spare only
enough planes for concentrated op-
erations in the Crimea, but added:
1T is not to be concluded. how
ever, that the German air power is
broken"
Gen. Grendal said the Red air
fleet had become increasingly active
while the Germans had dropped OF
from raids on Moscow by 100 to $50
planes in August to raids by only 20
or 80 in the first half of December.
Evening star., 1942-01-29
Veteran Book Dealer Dies

HARTFORD, Conn, Jan. 20 R.-
Leverett Belknap, 80, one Of Hart
ford's best known book dealers. who
knew such literary characters as
Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher
Stowe, Charles Dudley Warner and
Joseph r. Hawley, died last night IN.
West Hartford at the home Of . son.
Evening star., 1942-01-29
Hikes Teach First Aid

NEW YORK (P-Manhattan
Girl Scouts hike not only for health
but to survey the borough these
days. They're finding out how long
it takes to get an injured person
from specific areas to the nearest
first aid station. which can be q
hospital, a clinic or an emergency
first aid setup.
Evening star., 1942-01-29
P. Wirephoto.

Leader Rutland has had no of1cial
connection with the Crown since
1922" No information was available
on his presence in the United States
last year, but 1t was emphasized it
could not have been on official busi-
ness.
Evening star., 1942-01-29
Occupation of Mereui
Reported by Saigon Radio

LONDON, Jan. % R).-The Jap
anese-c controlled Saigon radio said
today the Japanese had occupied
Mergui, on the west coast of the
Burma panhandle. The British an
nounced their withdrawal from Mer-
gui' two days ago.
The Saigon radio also reported the
japanese had sunk an Australian
ship in Netherlands Indies waters.
Evening star., 1942-01-29

A check by the British Press Serv-
ice here disclosed that Squadron
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-03-24
. Menfolks Grinninq Now

For a good many years, men have been
INVITING their womenfolk about hats-in
jest, disgust or deadly earnest. 1t now APP
pears that milady's adornments will join
the nonorganic casualties of the war. A
checkup shows that the hardhearted males
in charge of the WPB's apparel division
think that the alleged weaker sex can
manage without surrealst head coverings
and scrape along with two or three old ones.
Stanley Marcus, the man who has de-
creed that the male of the species wear
cuffess pants and coats minus lapels, thinks
the ladies should cut down on their con-
sumption of wool, too in addition to econ
omzing on chapeaux. I'VE want women to
continue to wear the clothes they have"
he said I've don't want them using up
wool, cotton, rayon and the like, which we
need for more important purposes
Much of the saving will be achieved by
cutting out big sleeves, pleats and flares
if the projected order receives final APP
proval. Simple tailoring will be the mode.
None of the governmenters estimated the
amount long-suffering husbands would save
by the breakdown on millinery, but their
faces bore expansive, cheerful grins.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-03-24
} Don't Worry About The Women

Some of our national leaders have be-
come concerned about the part American
women are taking in the war. Mrs. Gilmore
NJ Herrick. regional director of the NLRB
in New York, has urged that the govern
ment proceed at once to take inventory of
our resources in women.
recent Washington report showed
that of five million workers in war plants
in this country only 10 per cent are women.
This is contrasted to the waning days of
the first World War when % per cent of
the nine million workers were women.
Inasmuch as il is expected that Is million
workers will be employed in war production
jobs by the first of the year, Mrs. Herrick
suggests labor registry be conducted with
out delay.
The problem of labor shortages in de-
Tense industries already is on us, with so
many men marching off 10 war.
We commend Mrs. Herrick's idea of
seeing what we've got in the way of women
workers, but We hope she doesn't worry
too much about the possible failure of our
feminine folk to bear their share. We may
be complacent, but we feel she is going to
be bowled over by the response of our
women-folk. once they know exactly what
the needs are. That. we feel, is all that
really is necessary-tell the women about
it, and watch them sail into things.
Much has been said recently of how
the women of Russia are driving street
cars. busses, tractors and locomotives.
plotting planes. toling at blast furnaces,
helping to produce weapons and ammuni-
ton. They have won praise for their hero
ism on the battlefields and tending the
wounded in hospitals.
We have heard. too. of the fine work
British women are performing in NUM-
tions factories.
Not much has been told of the part our
women are taking. Here and there We read
of a mother whose son met death in the
flaming Philippines, or a widow who glories
in the bravery of her mate who has gone
to heroic death. For us, up to now. it
has seemed to be mostly a mans war.
Though there is now in congress proposal
to set up womens army auxiliary corps,
perhaps most of us have assumed women
would just go on being wives and mothers,
serving in the home, bolstering the morale
of the soldiers, and serving as nurses with
the armies and in the hospitals.
But We have utter faith in the women
of America to arise to the need when they
see it. Our mothers and our grandmothers
might not have worked in munitions fac
tories, but they had what it took when
the emergency became plain to them. We
have only to cast brief glance backward
to the deeds of our pioneer women in
helping to blaze the trail through the
wilderness TO know that they will not fail.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-03-24
. Our Opinion s---
. City VS.. Farmer Again

A split between farm and city forces in
congress Is growing wider by the minute.
The lawmakers from the rural areas are
spanking mad at the fact that there is
now a ceiling on their prices while none
has been hoisted over those of the urban
ties. Inasmuch as agrieulturists suffered
from the depression remember it?) long
before the impact was felt in the markets,
they consider it unfair that they should
be the goats
The cleavage between the two groups
adds to the New Deals overlooking cup
of trouble. In the early days of the Roose-
Welt administration the legislators. from all
sections cooperated beautifully to benefit
each other The hinterlanders approved
huge Works Projects administration appro-
priations and. in return. encountered little
or no opposition to their loan, profit and
parity proposals.
The blowoff came when FDR's wire
pullers engineered cut in the latest sums
set aside for the food producers. Without
the detection of the representatives from
metropolitan sections, 1t could never have
been accomplished. Now the irritated folk
from "out yonder' are looking for lush
city money bill on which to swing their
scythes and taste the JOY of revenge. AT
any rate, the two cliques are no longer hand
in hand and their nerves are frayed and
iittery
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-03-24
. TEST QUESTIONS

Can you answer seven of these
test questions Turn to page 5
for the answers.
l. What Ia the name of the
ruboer-bearing shrub which can
be grown IN southwestern United
States
2. Is Lord Beaverhrook now
member Of the British Cabinet?
5. What famous pro Man
American was recently dismissed
from an important engineering
post in the Norfolk Navy Yard
by Secretary Of the Navy Frank
Knox?
4. Which OF the South Ameri-
can cities has the largest popu-
lation?
5. In what State is Fort Moul-
trie9
s Complete the quotation. "A
word TO the wise .........."
7. Name the three Presidents
of the United States who have
been assa.<insted
s. The Isle Of Man is IN the
Mediterranean Sea. the Pacific
Ocean or the Irish Sea.
Q. Jack London was an Ameri-
can or an English author
10. Which American Colony
was started by James f. ogle-
thorpe
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WANTS JAPANESE
GIVEN A CHANCE

Editor The Times: The young
American born japanese in our
schools and those having gradu-
sted from same. can see the way
OF American life, and can serve
this country far better II we en-
courage them in their efforts
to become good. loyal citizens by
treating them as any other oiti-
zens Of foreign parents. They
can be Of unlimited service TO
our country. II allowed the
chance 10 serve.
These vast screages of gar
dens must be kept producing.
and there is no one better equip
ped and suited and more willing
10 carry on that great industry
than these japanese. They
should be allowed to carry on
this very essential work and al
lowed 10 keep their parents IF
loyal and enough nationals as
would be necessary 10 keep up
the work.
have known of some Of these
youngsters being withdrawn
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-03-24
TUESDAY. MARCH -

This is not an important day
in planetary government. Nep-
tune is in adverse sway late in
the afternoon.
Heart and Home: This is a
favorable rule of the stars for
work that pertains TO domestic
comfort. Ii encourages thrift
and stimulates interest in the
oldfashioned arts Of knitting
and sewing. This is time to
give generously to the wardrobes
of unfortunate victims of the
war. This means that new gowns
for spring should be bestowed
upon those who need clothing
because their possessions have
been destroyed.
Business Affairs: World atten-
ton has been called to the con-
junction of the two major plan
cts, Saturn and Uranus, May 3.
a rare event occurring only once
in forty-five years. Political
troubles in countries ruled by the
sign in which the planets fall
are always probable. The con-
junction of 1912 falls in the last
degree of Taurus and is read as
indicating a change in the Brit
ish Government and constitution.
National Issues: Difficulties in
supporting philanthropic an d
charitable institutions in the
United States will cause the sus-
picion that home needs are for
gotten in zeal to relieve foreign
sufferers. The Importance Of
carefully distributed contribu-
tons is stressed by all interested
in human welfare. Cities and
counties should accept as a first
consideration the claims Of their
local organizations.
Persons whose birthdate il is
have the augury Of year Of
some perplexities Correspond
ence should be carefully watched.
Fair gain is indicated.
Children born on this day
probably will be high-strung and
intense. They will be talented
and able 10 win success.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-03-24
. HOROSCOPE oMr. Fixit

Mr.. Fixit: l. II true a man
drafted is forced to undergo an
operation against his will in
this free country when he suf-
fered years by not wanting TO
be operated on: W. n.
A country at war is not
strictly a free country until the
war is won. A drafted man can
be required to undergo an ope-
ration unless, in the opinion of
medical men. the operation
would endsnger his life. He can
refuse in that case If his life
is, not endangered. he can be
tried in military court for re-
fusing to accept medical stten-
ton.
Mr.. Fixit: Will you kindly
settle an argument for me: Do
the United States congressman
have to pay income tax on their
$4,000 a year salaries l have
heard from good authority that
they do not pay income tax but
would like TO have You verify
this for me. q. l. =.
Neither congressman nor any
other federal officials up to the
president are exempt from the
income tax. Congressman must
pay on their salaries, including
the travel allowances they re
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die just because OF worries, lack
Of proper food and medical care.
We are nevertheless ready to
sacrifice II we must to save our
nation and our democracy. But
We have vast industry in our
nation that Is using UP our sup
plies and goods that we are be-
ing cut down on, and what does
II produce that is necessary
Nothing. That is the liquor in
dustry. Alcohol does not pro-
vide nourishment TO the body.
1t does not provide heat for the
body. and IT does not put a roof
over your head.
On the contrary, l have seen
many cases where IL has taken
all these blessings away and left
hungry, ragged babies and IN
cared for while their parents
were wasting their money on
something that was not food for
the body or warmth or clothes.
The liquor industry uses a
vast amount of manpower that
is needed in war industry. l
heard $40 is spent each year.
per capita. for liquor alone
Think how many bonds that
would buy. II all the potential
man and woman power in this
industry and all the commodities
and other people and things in
directly used could be used in
war defense. what a marvellous
help II could be. / suppose our
people are such slaves To alcohol
they would rather be slaves to
the Jsps than give II up.
n. f. JORGENSON.
1881 So. Ainsworth ave.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-03-24
oRTHoPEDIC GRATEFUL

Editor The Times: The Robert
Reynolds branches OF the Ia
coma Orthopedic association Of
fer their sincere thanks for the
publicity given our garden sale
In your paper.
The sale WAS very successful.
due 70 the wonderful cooperation
We received from merchants and
organizations. as well as the
individuals who patronized US.
Thanks again for your generous
response.
MRS. HOWARD NJ. CARR.
General Chairman Garden Sale.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-03-24
. We The Women
BY RUTH MILLFTT

The phrase everything mon
ey can buy" doesn't cover as
much ground as it used to.
There is a lot that money
won't buy these days-and there
is going to be more as the war
goes on.
It isn't just automobiles and
tires and all the other things
that government priorities have
taken away from US. Money
won't buy as much security as
IL used TO.
For instance. the boy whose
family has plenty Of money and
who. q few years ago. could
have assured him OF a pretty
safe and secure future, isn't any
better off right now than the
young man who hasn't any
money and position behind him
when they both get into a pri-
Yates uniform.
But as money buys less
some things are buying more.
Courage will buy a lot today
because il is so badly needed.
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of placing and provisioning

Of placing and provisioning
troops SO far away il appalling.
Moreover the United Nations
possess smaller volume Of
transports for obvious reasons.
In 1917 we used the services of
countries associated with OF &C.
cupied by the Germans. Our
front line Was flung across
France. not China. Russia. the
Middle East. the Southwestern
Pacific.
These difficulties lie behind Ad-
miral Lands daily exhortstions
to the men on the water front
dock handlers. longshoremen,
shipbuilders. They explain the
cry for a i6s hour week in this
sector. And why some marti-
time men urge that the govern
ment requisition and ration every
ocesn-going vessel flying the L.
S. Gag.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-03-24

from school 10 send them 10
Japan they cried continually.
They did not want to leave here.
I think evacuation Of vital
defense industries should be car
RED out as an outstanding ne
cessity for the safety of a great
er number of people. ! would
not want TO be the one TO say:
1T can't happen here"
LLOYD DAVIS,
Ri. /, Box 155, Sumner.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-03-24
ABILITY ALWAYS
COMMANDS RESPECT

And so Will the ability 10 make
the best Of whatever comes
along.
In : world changing So fast
that No one car safely predict
what even tomorrow vii bring
the person who Will get along
best IS the person who can make
something good out Of what ne
has.
Self-relisnce viii buy more
than ever because in hard and
dangerous times every person
must be able 70 look out for
himself.
So it isn't queer that lately We
haven't been hearing 50 often
the hsf-envious remark, He
has everything money can buy.
Today. someone might -
tempted 70 say. Is THAT all?'
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-03-24

Sula. has been
awarded the
d stir guished
Service Cross.
Do you know
why this pic
tured medal is
given
Lieut. Gen.
Tomoyuki va
ms Shits { O NJ
m a = q $ Jap
troops IN Bur
ma In Amhoi-
na In Sings-
pore IN Su-
matra
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-03-24
DEPLOREs SUMS SPENT
ON LIQUOR TRAFFIC

Editor The Times: An edi-
torial of March IL said 4 state
ment was made that some folks
believe we might have to lower
our standards Of living 10 COM
pare with that of Germany and
Russia IL we are 10 be able 10
outproduce and outbuild the axis
powers Some of us went
through q long stretch Of de-
preston and we know Just what
that means. I had a loved one
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-03-24
He Knows or Find,
The Answers

ceive. deducting only the actual
expenses of their travel.
Mr.. FiNit: When a widow with
grown children marries again,
then dies. does her property she
had before her marriage 10 him
belong TO him or her children,
also the income from that prop
erty. in case there Is no will
lefts r. b.
There's a definite rule on that.
The husband would have the
right 10 go into court and ask
that IL set aside 10 him proper
" Up tn $4,000. or the remain.
der. if there is any. half will go
to him and half to the children.
Mr.. FiNit: We would like to
know If the government insures
homes against being bombed.
A READER.
The House of Representatives
has passed a $1,000. 100000 bill
for insurance Of property against
war damage. We can't tell you
yet where TO learn the details of
it, unless you care to get II from
the Congressional Record at the
library.
Mr.. Fixit: To settle an argu-
menf. how many volunteers did
Lincoln call for at the outbreak
OF the Civil war; Also, how
many soldiers lost their lives
during that war: I. F.
April IS. 1861. President Lin
coin called for $4,000 volunteers
for three months. Nav s he
asked for $4,000 three-year vol
unteers and 22,70o regulars.
Total known losses of the war
amounted 10 524,50e. The Union
lost 259,52s men and the Con-
federacy 164,esl.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-03-24

II rationing actually curbs the con-
sumption of sugar. we should look for an
improvement in the dental condition of
the population.-Dr. Robert kese. Univer-
sity of Illinois dentistry professor.
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. Your Opinions

To correspondents: Because Of
the lack OF space. letters for publ
cation must not exceed 600 words.
This rule viii be strictly enforced
except In some possibly rare In
stanoes when In the judEmsnt Of
the editor the public interest viii
be served by q longer letter.
Letters exceeding the limit ma,
be rejected entirely or excerpts may
be used when In the JudKment Of
the editor u NAV be done without
impairinG the meaning.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-03-24

Joseph Conrad some years
ago wrote many fine novels deal
ing with people, waters and lands
in the Dutch East Indies Was
he a Dutehmsn, Poe, English. or
German
Answers on Page :
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-03-24
. WAR QUIZ

Capt Arthur ". Wsrmuth Of
Chicago, an officer in the 57th
Filipino Scout Regiment. fight
ing the Japs in Bstaan PENN
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-03-24

Only in the language OF the
law is proven used as the prefer
ite OF past psrticiple Of prove.
The correct form Il proved.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-03-24
SOFT HEARTED

Joachim Murat was one OF Ma
poleon's greatest generals, being
given command OF a division In
1899. He married Napoleon's
youngest sister and in 1904. be-