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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-05-08
RUNYON's IDEA

When Damon Runyon gets IN
idea he doesn't let grass grow
under hrs fret. Maybe that why
he is considered the top Hearst
reporter. He sees George Raft in
the story he is now writing, This
is My Own" and has conferred
with Raft several times SO far
the script is not finished. but
when II is DamonS suggestion
will be George Raft and Lynn
Bari. That Bari gal, for my
money is one Of the most attrac-
tive actresses on the screen today.
II George and Damon get to-
Cether on the story Raft would be
on the same lot with his former
Sweetic, Betty Cradle. The story
is about a lad with 4 prison record
who redeems himself IN the World
War.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-05-08
GOVERNMENT GAL

THINGS ARE happening fast
for Dudley Nichols sthis week and
the last word is he will direct
Olivia De Haviland in Govern
ment Girl" Dudley who adopted
Adela Rogers st. Johns story 10
the screen, will make his debut
as q director.
Heretofore he has been one Of
HollywoodS foremost writer's. 1t
all happened when Jean Cabin de-
Cided he didn't want 10 co-star
with Luise Rainer in "A Thief in
the House" Quick as a flash
Charlie Koerner called off the
picture and after consulting with
David Hampstead. producer OF
Government Gal" decided 10
make Dudley a director.
All hands are looking for a
Luise Rainier story and Charlie
says the deal with Cabin is out
- the window.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-05-08
THE HARD WAY

OF diving board az Palm
Springs went tall beauteouS Alexis
Smith the other dav and M smack
on a man, plunCing him to the
bottom Of the pool When she
pulled the spluttering gaSping
half-drowned gent 70 the surface
ne turned out 10 be Robert Young
ooh. Mr.. Young" said Alexis
enthusiastically 1--WE always
wanted to meet YOU"
Thanks" gurgled the water
logged Bob "but did YOU have TO
do II the hard waN?"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-05-08
TARTAN AGAIN

TarZan swims again, As soon
as johnny WeiSSmuller completes
"TarZan and the Shcik' for Sol
Lesser he's going 10 take leave
Of absence from films and 90 on
q cross country tour with his own
water carnival. He and 30 RooS
have formed company 10 pro-
duce the show. and RooS. who IS
Just back from making prclmi-
nary arrangements in New York
and Now England. tells there are
i swimming arenas in the vicinity
Of Boston alone and all eager 10
have JohnnyS show.
COLLECTED AT RANDOM
RITA HAYWORTH whose argu-
ment with Victor Mature last
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-17

nations unpreparedneSs.
He flayed the present policy of
the government which, he claimed,
was planning our diplomacy behind
closed doors. IF the government
would give us the facts about our
diplomatic relations with Great
Britain, Russia, China, France and
Italy, the people would come to a
wiser conclusion than their leaders
will reach behind closed doors, y
Willkie said.
THE administration plays the
an accordion - it SaturateS our
neWsreels, our radio programs, it
manipulates the release of news to
suit its purposes it has come
to know too we'll all the division in
our society-racial, religious and
economic-and plays one against
another" Willkie continued
"Since the Democratic party is
unable to rid itself of a leadership
which millions of its members
would like to see changed" Willkie
said, land because that party to-
days a combination of discordant
elements held together largely by
the manipulation of conflicting
social groups and the vast power
of its leadership, I believe that the
only instrumentality that can be
used to end that power is the Re-
publican party.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-17
Edgar Speaker at
KiWar1is Meefinq

Evolution of business from the
days of the small store to the era
of chain stores was described by j.
II. Edgar for the KiWanis club at
its meeting Friday noon in the
Barbara Worth hotel.
Increased cost of service and op-
Grafton from 10 to 80 per cent was
cited, the speaker pointing out that
the modern customer demands a
great deal more service than did the
customers of the small grocery and
drug stores. In the growth OF the
chain stores much of the pride of
ownership that the small Storekeep-
er had is lost, he said.
Edgar compared conditions dur
ing this war with those in the last
when there were no ceiling prices,
giving instances from his own buSi-
ness and stating that in his opin-
ion, the bottom will not fall out
at the close of the war as it did
in the last, for OPA will maintain
its program of fixing prices.
DR.. Sem Bacon was chairman of
the day and w. H. Tyler, Jr, club
president, presided.
Next week Kiwanis will meet in
Joint session with Rotary.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-17
GASOLINE RATION CUT
(San Diego Union(

(San Diego Umonl
A gallon cut was made yesterday in
the value of western gasoline coupons,
but little grumbling was heard. Unoffl
cially forewarned, motorists had filled
their tanks the reduction itself was ac-
cepted calmly, apparently because west
erners realize consumption is being ac-
companed by an expansion of offensive
operations against the Japanese.
Fuel demands of the Pacific war have
increased enormously. For the year
1912 western production was adequate
TO fill both civilian and military require
ments; gasoline was rationed on the
Pacific coast only to conserve rubber.
But this year the picture has changed.
From holding operations, the Allies have
progressed to large-scale attacks upon
enemy positions, and the military de
mand for gasoline has scared correspond
ingly.
Thus the reason for the ration cut is
sound. But if warnings of further re-
ductions are not idle, the west had better
concern itself with the matter of in
creased production of oil. Military de-
mands must be met, of course, but SO
must essential civilian requirements.
Western public transportation already is
overtaxed; if automobile operation is to
be reduced almost to the vanishing point,
street cars and buses may not be able
to carry the additional burden. Unless
workers get to their jobs, fighting men
in the Pacific will not get the machines
to use the gas which is being withheld
from civilian consumption.
Reese H. Taylor, president of the
Oil Co., said yesterday that lack of sound
planning by oil regulatory bodies was
responsible for the western ration cut.
He cited the OPA's refusal to permit an
increase in crude oil prices and added
that shortage of manpower and drilling
equipment also had contributed to insult
ficient production.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-17
Luftwaffe Nav
Be First foCrack

LONDON, Oct. 16 UP)-Mount-
ing evidence that the German air
force is scraping the bottom for
planes to meet air attacks indi-
Gated today that the reich's de-
fenses may crack when the aerial
war reaches it's climax sometime
soon.
Airmen have felt ever since the
battle of Britain that the luft-
waffe's failure to carry out the
tasks given it by Hitler was the
outstanding German weakness of
the war For at least a year many
experts have thought the luftwaffe
would be the first Nazi armed serv-
ice to crack up, as it was in the
first World War.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-17
WiIIkie Wants Economic
Busis for World Peace

ST. LOUIS, Oct 16-CUP)-
Criticizing postwar planners who
would balance defensive and Of
fensive military alliances to estab-
lish world wide peace, Wendell
Willkie last night asked the repub-
lican party to lay an economic
basis for its peace plans rather
than a military one.
Speaking to a gathering of Mis-
souri Republicans, Willkie said the
American people, tired and dis
illusioned with the present admin
istration, are watching the Repub-
lican party with an~eye of close
scrutiny, resolved that this coun-
try cooperate effectively that
peace may be preserved for their
own economic well-being and for
the economic well-being of man
kind.
The 1910 Republican presidential
nominee explained that to make
exclusive offensive or defensive al
liances will originate wars ION such
scale that no organization of the
nations can possibly stop them. "
The only answer, he said, was
peace on an economic basis.
HITS ADMINISTRATION
Willkie attacked the Roosevelt
administration for curtailment and
encouragement of free enterprise
He said the way was open for the
Republican party to lead the Am
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-17
SAILO NAPLES PUZZLE

(Tulsa Tribune)
Somewhere out in the Pacific fighting
the Japs there is a 19-year-old sailor by
the name of Curtis Maple from Nowata.
A couple of months ago as he eagerly
pushed through the crowd at mail call
he was handed letter from his employer,
the United States government. 1t was
from the Department of Agriculture ad-
vising him that he owed $89.18 as pen
atty for growing 1872 too many bushels
of wheat in 1941.
Someday soon Sailor Maple may land
on reconquered Pacific island and hear
the starved natives crying piteously for
food and he will hear some commissioner
from the United States rehabilitation
bureau explaining that the United States
can't send very much food because it is
so short itself.
And Sailor Maple may tune in on a
short-wave broadcast and hear some high
priest in the New Deal temple advocat-
ing fourth term for the President on
the grounds that the President saw the
war way ahead and planned everything.
And Sailor Maple may be puzzled.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-17
DISABILITY DISCHARGES

Since Pearl Harbor almost 100000
men have been set free by the army be-
cause of physical disability. The largest
groups suffered from nervous, heart,
vision and pulmonary defects, or were
disabled by wounds. Neuro-psychiatric
discharges are on the increase.
Relatively few of the discharges thus
far are direct results of war, judging
from this record Most of them are be-
cause of flaws shown up by the siren
uous nature of army service. The casual
ty lists have yet to overbalance this struc-
ture.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-17
Congressman See
Paper Exhibition

WASHINGTON, Oct. 16.-UP)-
Members of the House Newsprint
committee, visibly impressed by
their first encounter with recovery
of pulp from waste paper, looked
forward today to the next phase of
one of the strangest demonstra-
tions ever staged before congress.
James H. r. Cromwell, onetime
minister to Canada, and chemist
Francis Snyder have taken over the
committee room with their Cookers,
mixers, bottles of chemicals and
other equipment for demonstra-
ton of their Greenwood process"
of de-inking and repocessing waste
paper.
They contend they can reclaim
every year pulp equivalent to "a
belt of trees a mile wide stretching
from NV 1orx TO Washington, and
- - Oi.to.,, LsaAaraI EinaapiflO
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-17
AIR POWER DETERMINING
FACTOR IN WAR, PEACE

Air power has proved to be one of the
predominant factors in this war and will
lead eventually to victory. In winning
this victory it will also have great IN
fluence in shaping the pattern of the
future when peace has once more settled
upon the world.
Without the British fighter force in
the dark days after the fall of France
successful invasion of the British Isles
would more than likely have been in the
cards for Hitler. But those valiant await
ors were able to turn back the Luftwaffe
and force the Nazis to turn their ground
forces elsewhere.
Britain's presence in the war forced
the Nazi war leaders to divert much of
their strength from the Russian front
in order to be on guard against any sud-
den English rejuvenation. Those troops
would have enabled the enemy to push
the few extra miles into Moscow early
in the eastern campaign which may have
demoralized the entire Red defense.
Mass bombings will definitely affect
the peace if allowed to continue long
enough BY blotting out Axis production
centers the heart of the war machine
would be cut from the wretched body
which has brought so much suffering
upon this world. 1t would take much
time to build up these vital nerve bodies
again, thus at least prolonging the period
of time during which the aggressor ma
tions would not take up the sword.
The best bet is, however, that the Nazis
will lie down their arms before the de-
struction of their homeland is completed.
In any event air power will have a
definite bearing on keeping the peace.
ANY country with large, modern and
well-trained air force would be 'in the
drivers seat" and will be able to main
tain world domination.
Let us pray that it will be our country
with such force at our command. Then
peace will be ours.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-17
Japs Open Drive
In Burma to
Expand Positions

CHUNGKING, Oct. 16 CUPI -
Japanese troops have opened a new
campaign to expand their positions
on the western shore of the Sal
ween riyer in Burma, and fierce
fighting has ragged all week along
the entire front, military quarters
reported today.
Launching multi-pronged Of
fensive to the north, the enemy al
ready has seized the strategic town
of Pienma, 140 kilometerS (88 miles
north of Lungling on the Burma
road, 200 kilometers Cl27 niles
northeast of Lashio. Chinese mill
tary sources have admitted the
towns capture.
DRIVING NORTH
The enemy was driving north
from bases at Lungling and Teng-
cheng, so kilometers (32 niles to
the northwest, toward points high
in the Kaolinking mountains paral-
leling the SalWeen.
Chinese military quarters ad-
mitted loss of other points in the
area, including TatangSe, ll0 kilo-
meters go niles north of Lung
ling.
The enemy has resumed artillery
shelling of Chinese positions on the
east shore of the SalWeen, and the
Chinese returned the fire from high
positions.
Front reports indicated the Japa-
nese were pouring in reinforce
ments as observers speculated on
the opening of a full scale Allied
| offensive for Burma.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-17
REORGANIZATION

Commerce Secretary and RFC Chair
man Jesse Jones believes that when the
war is over local business should be given
first chance at buying the government
owned war plants and converting them to
civilian use The RFC has more than
OO0,000,OO0 invested in such factories.
In general, business will welcome this
attitude, as well as Secretary Joness in
sistence that the government should not
manufacture for civilian use after the
war. Some plants will prove suitable
only for use by major producers But
many can be converted to the purposes
of relatively small Independent business
pS
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-17

erican people into an expanding
economic world, where every Amer
lean will find opportunity to in
vest his capital in any pioneering
enterprise he chooses.
He cautioned, however, that a
land of opportunity must not only
guarantee a chance for every man
to work, but must also protect
everyone with social insurances
backed by growing America.
The Indiana porn lawyer said
the present administration has be-
come distrustflu of the people. He
recalled that ambassador Grew
had warned President Roosevelt of
Japan's Warlike intentions long be-
fore Pearl Harbor, but that the ad-
ministration had failed to inform
the people. Then, he said, the ad-
ministration turned about and
blamed the people and their con-
gressional representatives for the
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-17
State Grange Asks
0PA Adjustment

SACRAMENTO, Oct. 16.-(UP)-
Delegates to the list Annual Con-
vention of the California State
Grange headed for home today
after putting their organization on
record as favoring abolition of the
Office of Price Administration and
coordination of all food agencies
under one head.
The convention also passed a
resolution to oppose any change in
national immigration laws" after
tabling a measure presented by a
Somoma county unit specifically
urging defeat of congressional legis-
lation to repeal the Chinese ex-
clusion act.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-17
s. Burton
Heath
Writes:

1t was unfortunate that word
about Canada's intention to dis
band some of her home protection
units had to reach the United
States just when we were all upset
about the father draft. Under such
circumstances it may have been in
evitable that some protagonEts
should have misunderstood what Is
happening in Canada.
The Dominion is not reducing her
armed forces destined for overseas
duty. On the contrary, she is act
ing to expand them at the expense
of the home guard. The miXup
arises, perhaps, because not all
Americans understand how the
Canadian forces are raised.
Up to now Canada has produced,
out of a population of about H.
500 900. some 100000 men for over
seas duty. These all are volun-
teerS. No drafted men are avail
able for service outside the con-
tinent.
Canada's O0,O00-man volunteer
army for overseas duty is as I'M
pressive, in view of her population,
as though we had raised 8,4OO, ,0OO
volunteers on this side OF the
border. We haven't done that. We
haven't raised that many soldiers
by all methods, and we do not pro-
pose to do so. Considering other
services, we just about match
CanadaS contribution.
The disbanding that created SO
much interest was of drafted home
defense units. Two divisions are
affected. The purpose is to free
these men for two purposes when
now, with the Axis definitely on
the defensive, appear more impor-
tant than home defense. Some will
be induced, by application OF gentle
pressure, to enlist for overseas
service. The rest will be put into
war production.
These home defense units never
have been very stable affairs. Theli
personnel has changed rapidly, as
their members felt the urge to gel
into actual fighting. With all the
scores of thousands who have beer
called for induction. it never has
been found possible to keep the
home defense outfits filled up be-
cause so many, faced with the
necessity of donning uniforms, have
decided they would rather get into
the real war.
Canada's disbanding of these two
divisions has nothing to do with
our own argument over the drafting
of fathers. IT'S up to us to stane
on our own feet, in that contro-
versy, and decide for ourselves
whether 100000 men in the Unitee
States do or do not constitute ade'
quate backing for 100000 mer
abroad. ..-
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-17

The French have been defeated but
they have not been vanquished. They
are still ready and willing to take up the
fight They are crying for help. Are we
going to turn deaf ear to their plea?
-Comdr. Redvers M. Prior, R.N., Dieppe
raider who escaped Nazi prison train.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-17

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, South
west Pacific, Oct. 16 CUP)-Allied
air and sea forces attacked Japa-
nese shipping and air bases along
the western invasion route to
Eabaul, New Britain, in swift
follow-up to the crippling air blow
struck at that stronghold earlier
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-17
WE
the Women
BY RUTH MILLETT

Don't be too critical when you
see a bunch of women playing
bridge these days. Before you con-
denim them for wasting time when
they could be doing worthwhile
work, find out what the women did
yesterday.
You may discover that little Mrs.
Smith, looking so frivolous and
carefree. spent yesterday from Q
until in the Red Cross rooms,
rolling bandages.
You may find out that Mrs. Jones
put in hours as nurses aide yes
terday.
And that fat, jolly Mrs. Brown
spent yesterday canning, not only
for her own family, but for her
daughter, who works in war plant,
and who hasn't the strength to
come home and can fruit at the end
of tiring day in noisy factory.
You may discover that two-thirds
of the women looking SO carefree
as they sit concentrating on their
cards have either husbands or sons
in service, and that far from not
knowing that there is a war going
on, they think of little else. Listen
to their falkland you'll see that
the latest letters from their men
are what they want most to dis
culss.
Sure those women playing bridge
may look as though they are SO
many time Wasters, who aren't
touched by the war and aren't do-
ing anything about it.
THEY SHOULD RELAX
But before you put that down
as a fact-talk to a few of them.
You may find that this bridge
game is their time off"-their pe-
riod of getting dressed up and get
ting out of their houses for a while.
Even soldiers have time off-so
1t ought to be all right for house
wives to get little relaxation once
in a while.
or course, If you talk to them and
find out they were playing bridge
yesterday and the day before, you
have a right to condemn them.
But find out first You may be
surprised.
POPE GIVES AUDIENCE
LONDON, Oct. 16 CUP - The
Swiss radio reported that Pope
Plus XII held a lengthy audience
with the German ambassador In the
Vatican t0daV .,.-- .~.-..-----
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-17
Editorials and Comment

EDITORS NOTE: The fOilOUing edit
0riaIs are presented as interesting Opn-
ions uOiced by editors elsewhere. They
do not necessarily reflect the opinion OF
this paper.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-17

We know that just as there were enemy
agents thickly and strategically located
throughout Poland, France, Holland,
Norway and other European countries,
so, too, there are many of them right
Thomas A. Terry.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-17

Constant reaching out by national tax
collectors is making it increasingly diff
fcult for the state and local governments
to collect enough taxes to carry on.-GOv.
Leverett Saltonstall of Massachusetts.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-17

The majority of organized labor is
just as honest, Just as patriotic and made
up. of just as fine citizens as any other
group.-Roane Waring. ex-national COM
mander. American Legion.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-17

An island hopping victory with extrav-
agant losses and slow progress is not my
idea of how to end the war as soon and
as cheaply as possible.-General Mac
Arthur.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-17
THEY SHOULD RELAX

OH Y OHVEo HODIENOE
LONDON, Oct. 16 (UP) - The
Swiss radio reported that Pope
Plus XII held a lengthy audience
with the German ambassador In the
Evening star., 1943-09-03
ArmyCa Charged
With Window wPeeping
Aeer Citizens Group
Urges Court-MortioI

Army officials today had request
from the Ager Citizens Association
to hold military trial for an Army
Air Forces captain who is accused
of being 'peeping Tom" and ter
rorizing women in the Queens
Chapel Manor area in Prince
Georges County.
George Brawthen, president of the
Ager group, said the letter request
ing military action in the case was
sent to the captains superior officer.
He said the letter was approved last
night by the Prince Georges County
Federation of Citizens Association.
According to Mr.. Brawthen, the
captain was seized Wednesday
night after he had been seen looking
in window at the home of H. F..
Lennon, 5622 Thirty first avenue,
Queens Chapel Manor, by Mr.. Lem
mons 14-year-old daughter
Mr.. Brawthen said the suspect
escaped a group of citizens who for
the last go days have kept a watch,
but was later captured by police
when he returned in a taxi to get
his automobile. Mr.. Brawthen said
police had found the car parked and
had taken it to the Hyattsville
headquarters after a search of the
vehicle revealed an Army officers
cap and dress shoes.
He said the captain was identified
by the Lennon girl and by several
other women in the Queens Chapel
Manor section. and admitted to
police that he had been in the area
on several occasions.
Mr.. BraWthen said the captain
was released after a hearing at
Hyattsville yesterday, at which As
sistant States Attorney Ignatius
Keane told residents there is no
statute under which the captain
could be charged.
Mr. Brawthen quoted police as
saying residents would have to erect
mo tresspassing" signs on their
property if they wanted to prosecute
peppers.
Evening star., 1943-09-03
FischeIis, WPB Aide,
Gets Pharmacy Medal

DR.. Robert P. Fischelis, head Of
the chemicals, drugs and health
supply branch of the War Produc-
ton Board, has been awarded the
Remington Honor Medal, conferred
each year by the New York branch
of the American Pharmaceutical
Association for "the man or woman
who has done the most for Amer
ican pharmacy during the proceed
ing year or during a longer period
of outstanding activity and of fruit
full achievement" according to word
received here today.
DR.. Fishelis is chairman of the
Council of American Pharmaceutical
Association and president of the
New Jersey Pharmaceutical Asso-
citation. He is also a member of
the Revision Committee of the
United States Pharmacopoeia, and
served as pharmacy's representative
at the National Health Confer
ence called by President Roosevelt
in 1898.