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Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-16
RI ERSKINE .l0HNSON

When 7 first me Dil1 Pine oad
Bill Thomas the, were Hollywood's
most imaginative press agents.
They had rounded up so parrots
and were teaching them to yell 1T
Amt No Sin"
The novel idea was part of their
publicity campaign on Mae West
picture titled TT Amt No Sin"
The parrots were to be set up on
perches in theater lobbies to startle
passers-by with shouts Of ut Amt
No Sin, It Amt No Sin ad nau-
seam.
Ii was a colossal idea except for
one thing. Two weeks before re
lease Of the picture. iust as the
parrots were driving themselves
crazy. after months Of practice,
with shouts OF 1T Amt &c Sin
the studio suddenly changed the
title Of the picture to I'm No
Angel
Bill Pine and Bill Thomas were
beaten. disconsolete men.
That was seven years ago. I'm
not sure whether the sad case of
the talking parrots had anything
10 do with it but Pine and Thomas
eventually RESIGNED &C prees aga11ts
and became producers of their
own pictures, co-starring Richard
Arlen and Chester Morris.
THE WHISTLE MOVE
Pine and Thomas turn out action
picture5-l4 in the last two years
for Paramount. The pictures not
only move at breath-taking tempo
on the screen but also are filmed
at a rapid-fire pace-from 10 to 10
days
There is, for example. the "whisle
move"
Doc Norman, production man.
ager extraordinary, carries In MS
pocket whistle. When shooting
of a scene nears completion, he
blows out a blast. The blast is the
signal for everybody on the set to
go into action arranging a new set
up for the next scene. Everyone
grabs some thing. The rule is Run,
Don't Walk" The record for a
whistle move" is six minutes flat.
In just six minutes the cast and
crew of one of their films, "Torna-
do" moved from a coal mine set TO
the living room of palatial man
sion on an adjoining stage.
Even lunch is made to count in
filming a Pine-Thomas picture.
Tables are spread in the office
of Bill Thomas, who magically and
deftly extracts, from desk drawers,
soup, salad, entree and dessert.
Players, director and key tech
nicians dine with the producers off
picnic plates. 1t gives everybody a
chance to talk about the work done
in the morning and to be done in
Inc afternoon ahead. Nobody is
ever late getting back from lunch
GETTING THE NEEDLE
Needing is practiced literally if
not painfully, on the set.
Part of the working equipment
of the redoubtable Doc Norman is
a vicious looking, 10 inch long
needle. When Doc decides that
work is tagging through some in
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-16
WRA Prepares 10
Separate Japanese

WASHINGTON. July 16 GpD-
The War Relocation authority to-
day Il preparing 10 SegreCatc III 4
single community Japanese cVae-
uccS considered hostile 10 the
United States and 10 release loyal
evacuccs for jobs that aid the war
effort.
WRh Director Dillon S MYer
said last night IN q rido address
that the japanese loyalistS would
be removed as Soun 9G tran7porta-
ton can be arranged sometime
within the next few weeks.
In a vigorous indictment o[ the
relocation center system, he con-
tended that the remaining Japar
nese those who are thoroughly
American in their lOYalticS' could
render valuable assistance TO the
war effort by working on farms and
i'll war Industries.
He said WfIA since last July has
released 10000 evaCuees 10 take
permanent places in normal COM
muuitieS. An additional 6000 have
been granted temporary leave to
work on farms.
I'm all these months" he said,
not one case of disloyal activity
on the part Of these people has
been reported from any reliable
source"
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-16

states Commercial Corporation,
+ the Rubber Development Corpora
tiou and the Petroleum Reserve
Corporation, and all other sub
sdiaries engaged in foreign financ-
ing. That left in question the fate
of the Metals Reserve Co, and the
/ Rubber Reserve Go.
Jones will remain 3s chairman
! Of the Defense Plant Corporation,
War Damage Corporation, De-
] Tense Supplies Corporation and as
nominal head OF the RFC Mort
gage Co, the Federal Mortgage
/ Association and the Disaster Loan
/ Corporation. He also is a member
! of the War Production Board and
was not removed by last nights
WhirlWind In addition he has a
dozen other responsibilities includ-
| inc membership on the National
Munitions Board and representa-
ton in the office OF Economic
! Sterilization.
II was learned that Milo Perkins
executive director of the late BEW
considered himself out of a job
under provisions of Mr.. Roosevelt S
order, ont would make himself
available to Crowley for any assis-
tanCe desired during the transition
period. Perkins called his chief
assistants into conference today
and urged them to keep BEW op-
erations going without interrupt
] ~, i1,c
Crowley.
Mr. Roosevelt md1 lsF.seVe WAL
lace at .crlc later date with d war
ef!ory assignment But until he
does, capital politicians will as
sumo that WaIlaCe'& political star
IS descending and that Mr.. Roose-
welt will choose some other as a
running mate next year il there is
to be q fourth term try.
MI RooSevelt'G CURLY Worded
joint letter to Wallace and Jones
was not one Of the jaunty Dear
Henry or Dear jesse epiStles for
which the White House is noted,
but began abruptly with the single
word.
Gentlemen.
81 have come to The conclusion" :"
it continued, that the unfortunate
controversy and acrimonious public
debate which has been carried on
between You in The public press
concerning the administration of
foreign economic matters makes it
necessary, IN the public interest, 10
tran"tcr these matters to other
hands.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-16
sEhfISHNESS BIGGEST
OBSTACLE

Even in The trade associations
Administration Brown believes that
the membership it not all cold Oh
OPA. headers in the merchandiS-
ing world he said. will tell us
privately that what we're doing is
okay, but they won't say so public
ly. Their point of view is an adj
mission that they've got TO join in
the hollering against OPA to help
out some Of their members who may
OF bc doing so we'll under the re-
striCtion5.'
This all bOlS down to the simple
fact that anyone will agree price
control Is Il good thing for what he
has To buy, but no good on any
thing he has to sell. Human self
ishncSs comes in here as the great
est force Of obstruction to every
phase of The Stabili1ation program,
whether it is control of wages,
prices, rationinG, food distribution,
civilian supply, transportation, or
control OF manpOWcr.
And yet, tho Price Administrator
emphasizes, there arc hundreds of
items under price control or ration
ing which arc now established
practices and which are causing no
particular confusion. Steel, other
metals, all materials going into war
equipment arc under controls which
are saving the Taxpayers billions
of dollars on the cost Of the war
Mr.. BrcWn conceded readily that
mistakes have been made by OPA
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-16

and = half at point blank range TO
stop The tanks that broke through
the lines and headed for the Celia
beach,
Today VIC are firmly established
aud hundreds OF German and Ital-
ian prisoners stream hack from
the front as tho troops battled their
way inland. 1t is rigniticant that
prisoners from The GOcring division
are mostly youths in their 203
with little or no combat experience.
The Germans made their fatal
mistake when they failed 10 fol-
low M their tank attacks with in
fantry VIC managed to put only
u few tauEs and field guns ashore
for defense when the first armored
drive hit, Only stout hearted de-
Tense turned the tide.
IN my opinion it was the great
est exhibition Ct quits and discipline
in the history Of the American
army" said Ut. Col, Curtis of
Amarillo, Tex.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-16
FDR Removes Power from
Hands CO. Jones. WoEluce

WASHINGTON, July 1G UP1-
The Wordy sham battle Of Wash
ington was adjourned for the
duration today on motion of preSi-
dent Roosevelt who ordered his
appojntivC officials to cease calling
each other liars, Instructors and
such-liEe, or TO resign
The Presidential directive went
forth i'll the form of a joint letter
to Vice President Henry A. Wal
lace and Secretary Of Commerce
JecSe Jones a circular to all heads
of agencies and departments, and
an executive order which abolished
the board Of economic warfare and
stripped Wallace and Jones Of
duties in the foreign economic war
effort.
This action was invited by u
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-16
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Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-16
yonks Beet Three
Enemy Divisions

WITH AMERICAN OOPS,
Sicily, July IL Delayed up
Within 43 hours after landing on
Sicily, American troops met and
defeated three enemy divisions, in
cluding the famed German Her.
mann Goering Panzcr division.
The Americans fought tanks with
everything but their bare hands to
do it. Coloncls manned anti-tanlt
guns. The navy sent shells over
their heads into the enemy Amcri-
can infantry attacked while being
attacked
Tanks smashed to within loco
yards of the brideghCad cast of
Gcla but still the Yanks fought on.
And they whipped the enemy to a
gtandStill.
The fight ragged for 10 hours yes
terday and il ended with collapse
of the threat 10 The central 5ector
of he American INVASION front.
Thirty enemy tanks we're knocked
out.
SAVED FRONT
A military spokesman said the
only thing that saved the Amcri-
can central front from being over
run was the magnificent fighting
of front line troops and lack II
coordination IN the encmH'6 three
pronged drive that came from the
cat. west. and north.
"a dispatch by H. f. knlcker-
booker, also representing the COM
bined American press, said that at
ono point destruction Of II enemy
tanks by a cannon company head
cd by Capt. Thomas l.. O'Brien, 81,
of Lincoln, n. f., saved the Amerl-
cans from disaster. O'Bricn's COM
pany fired 1000 rounds in an hour
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-16
EY pETEE EDSON

WASHINGTON, July l6.-tNEA)
As seen from the vantage point OF
a bombproof observation post in
Washington, the most confused sec
tor of the entire home front war
has been in the battlelieldS of price
control and rationing.
And yet. said the Price Admin
istrator. ex-senator Prentiss M.
Brown: Il deny that people feel that
way about OPA, outside Of Wash
ingtOn."
What was that again please? Was
The Price Administrator intimating
that all is we'll with OPA and its
policies. and that il has the sup
port OF The country outside the
capital?
Not 100 percent support, of
coursel,' he admitted, but went OH
TO explain his view that the con-
Sumcr groups are not vocal, except
through labor organizations which
support price fiXing and rationing
as measures to hold down thc cost
of living.
The assertion is confirmed by
reports from OPA's own field Of
ficcs. Up 10 the time of the PrcSi-
dents "Hold-thc-line" order of
April 8-which, incidentally, Sen
ator Brown forced on the then
Economic Sterilization Director
Justice James E.. Byrnes, who sold
il to tho PrcSidcnt--moralc in OPA
offices WAS pretty low.
CONFIDENCE GROWS
The "Hold-thc-Line" o + Il c /
changed this feeling TO some eX-
tent, but the first three weeks Of
June. said The Administrator, mark
ed revival Of morale in OPA,S
regional offices. it was caused by
the good showing made by OPA be-
fore the House Appropriations Com
mittee Even Staupch Republican
congressman on, The committee
John Taber of New York and j.
William Otter Of Pennsylvania, en-
dorsed the principles on which
OPA is new operating. And the
full HoIGc committee gave a un-
animous recommendation for con-
thihdtioil III SIb, Cuttllib ITO iuituh
only per cent.
Although the final appropriation
was considerably less than Brown
wanted, it still docs not explain
where SO much Washington disap-
proval and confusion over OPA
comes from.
1T comes" said the Price Ad-
miiStratOr from ihc tremendous
drives of pressure groups. represent
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-16
Brown Denies U~ s. Thinks
OPA Is Confused, Muddled

ing the people whose incomes are
going to be affected by price con-
troll"
What these pressure groups arc,
by name, Mr. Brown doesn't care
10 mention. Anyone familiar with
The heavy lobby aoaist specific
price and rationing restrictions can,
however, make up his own list of
commodities whose trade aSsocia-
tons have been active in opposi-
ton to OPA regulations - farm
products, foods, such as canned
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-16
HOLLYWOOD
RN ERCKFNT JOHNSON

div.dual taking Jo5 nue1 Tine n
IT, .uh. he produces the needle
brandishes it menaeuglg before
the face of his victim and then
makes a terrific alb at his victim
posterior. Although the needle p
made of rubber, the effect is always
stimulating. t
Bill Pine and Bill Thomas are
not ashamed of thcir speedy pfo-
duction methods Their pictures
regularly hit the box office jack
pot, and they have contracts 10
produce Is more for Paramount.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-16
Illinois Approves
Nevada Divorces

Gal FSBURG. III, July lG dUpl
"A ruling by tho appellate court
hcld today that Nevada divorces
are valid in Illinois.
1t was the first time an illinois
court upheld the validity Of Ncva-
da divorce dccrecS, which hereto
fore had been unrcCogni1ed in
Illinois.
The court based its ruling on The
u. S. supreme courts decision that
all state courts must recognize
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-16
CHANGE DEADLINE

SACRAMENTO, July 10 CUr)-
Homer w. Buckley state director
OF civilian protection. today an
nounced that deadlinc for obtain
ing new permits and headlight
mask devices for driving during air
raids or other emergencies had
been shifted from next Sunday TO
Sept. |.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-16

itself. It's greatest mistake, he
considers, was the failure of the
OPA staff 10 sense that the Stab
ilization act OF October. 1912. total
~ changeG &c price policies of the
administration. Mr.. Brown should
know about this, for as a senator
he played the major role in writing
the Act and fighting for its pas
sage. The OPA organization, how
ever. went right ahead on its old
policies of trying to control not only
prices but also profits, and even
business practices.
DENIES MEDDLING
WITH BUSINESS
The Administrators emphatically
Insists that those are not The
policies of OPA today. Twice re-
Getty. he has gone to Congress 10
explain that, "thc Office of Price
Administration has no program
with respect to the reduction of
profits" and to deny that, in
dividual officials in OPA are out TO
use price control TO change the
American system of free enter
prise"
Loose charges by pressure groups
that OPA secretly has mapped out
business reform program have
contributed materially to the con-
fusion and have made more difficult
OPA'S job CT price Stabilization
Brown said that the inclusion OF
manufacturing standards III price
regulations does not constitute any
insidious RECOMMENDATION of busi-
ness As an example, he mentioned
the hosiery regulat tionS. which have
caused considerable pickering i'll
the industry and have been the sub
jcct Of countless conferences. AL
these standards did, said the adj
mnistrator, was to fix prices in
accordance with the number of
threads and strands. 1t was like
saying that bu5hcl Of potatoes
should weigh 60 pounds. Permitting
the sale of q 50-poCmd bushel for
the price of 60-pound bllshel
wouldn't prevent initiation. For hos
icry. there would be no price con-
troll if we didn't fix the standards y
These are some of the things
which haven't been made clear to
the public, nor to Congress, for
that matter.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-16

!
Jones begun on June % when the
Vice President said the secretary Of
commerce had tailed dismdllya to
build uE adequate StOcEpIles OF
stratcgic war materials and Oh
structcd the war effort OF the board
of economic warfare lie accused
Jones Of lying,
GOT TOGETHER
War Mobilization Director Jame5
j.. ByrncS got the two men to-
gcther but there was no peace.
Jones on July S issued his own
statement accusing Wallace, in
turn, of lying and of iIl-planned
and "hyStericaI' Procurement Of
strategic materials at excessive
cost to the taxpayer.
The dispute widened considerably
to involve government spending
policies ana rCtt-War ideologies.
Grass roots reports convinced the
White House that the people were
shocked and aStoniShed by the per-
formance. ByrneS laid o n Mr.
RooSevclt'5 desk q recommendations
that ne act to reas5urc the people
that he was boss Of the nome front
and Wa capable Oi enforcing
discipline He acted last night.
There has not been in genera
tion such a rebuke and repudia~
ton by a President OF Officials Of
his own choosing.
Wallace was chairman Of the
board Of economic warfare sum-
marily abolished last night In It's
place was set up new office CT
economic warfare headed by Leo.
T. Crowley, q phOtogCnie Wi5eoh-
sin industrlalist who already is ef-
ficiently performing the duties Of
alien property custodian and chair
man of The Federal Deposit III
surance Cooperation, That move
Just about eliminated Wallaee from
specific partiCiDatjOn in The war
effort other than in his capacity
as Vice President,
JONES HAED H5T
Jones was hit hard, not SO hard
as Wallace. Jones remains rs
secretary of commerce and, as such,
he will control the Reconstruction
Finance CORPORATION which Is at
tachcd to his department. But
RFC'5 subsidiary corporations haV-
ing Ia Go with economic warfare
on the forcinm front are trang-
ferred lo Crowley along with The
f'Enorl-Inport BauE specificallY
listed tor transfer we're the United
Askov American., 1943-06-10
Pokegama To Hold
Weed Control Meet

To assist farmers in identifying and
controlling new weeds which make
constant inroads weed identifca-
ton and control meeting will be held
at the Pokegama town hall Tuesday
evening, June Is, at 8:15 p. m. This
meeting is held at the request of the
weed inspectors of Pokegama and
neighboring townships to help farm
ers with their weed problems.
D. w. Frear of the State Weed and
Seed department, and Professor A. H.
Larson of the Botany and Plant
Physiology department, College of
Agriculture, University of Mime
sofa, will be present. Mr.. Larson is
considered one of the best author
tiles on weeds in the state. He is
an interesting speaker and will give
many tips in weed Identification.
Farmers are urged to bring in spe-
cimens of weeds which they do not
know. Everyone interested, men,
women, boys and girls and All men,
bers are invited to attend.
Askov American., 1943-06-10
L Farm Graduates
To Hold Reunion

Graduates and former students of
the University of Minnesota, School
of Agriculture, will hold their an
nual midsummer reunion at Univer-
sity Farm, st. Paul, Saturday eve
ming, June IL.
The chief speaker at the program,
which begins at 7:30 o'clock in the
University Farm auditorium, will be
George Wilkens, School of Agricul-
ture graduate of 1888 and now a
member of the Department of Re-
search and Statistics, Federal Reserve
Bank, Minneapolis. Dr. j. o. Chris
tianson, superintendent of the school,
will bring greetings. Featured also
on the program will be music by
Mrs. Graydon McCulley, Maple Plain;
Rev. Nathaniel Carlson and Miss Vio-
let Carlson, Minneapolis; and David
Boland of the School of Agriculture
music department. Mrs. Philip j..
Larson, st. Paul, will lead commun-
ity singing.
A dance in the gymnasium will fol-
low the program.
Askov American., 1943-06-10
AskOu Youth Third
In Slogan Contest

Winning first place in Pine county
safety slogan contest, Werner Mix
kelsen, son of Rev. and Mrs. NJ
Mikkelsen of Askov, placed third and
won $5 in war stamps in the state
wide event, his winning entry being
''35 in the victory drive" The an
nouncement was made Tuesday by
j. l.. Markham of the Hennepin
County Review, Hopkins, chairman
of the Minnesota Editorial Associa-
ton Traffic Safety committee which
sponsored the state contest
Werner also receives S. in war
stamps from the Askov American
for being first in the countrywide
contest sponsored by this newspaper,
and in which nearly 200 entries were
submitted by the high school STU
dents eligible to participate. The
judges of the county contest were A
Gravesen of Askov, Jas H. Hogan
of Kerrick and R. w. Barstow of
Sandstone.
First place in the statewide con-
test and S25 war bond went to a
Minneapolis West High girl with
Remember to say, I'll be careful
today" and second place and $40 in
war stamps to Carlton school girl
with stop, look, listen, or you might
be miSSin'."
Askov American., 1943-06-10
International News Review

will ever be made in just so many
words that the general offensive has
started-events, when they come,
will, so to say, announce themselves
and therefore a good many persons
feel that perhaps that offensive al
ready is on the way, for the bomb
ings form a most important part of 1t.
So does the war in Russia,
effective to the extent that Hit
ler's soldiers are being kept there,
and cannot be used on other
fronts where he might like to
employ them.
Reports continue to indicate that
the German and the Italian dicta-
tors are beginning to realize that just
now they are the victims of ''war
of nerves." much like the one they
inflicted on their enemies, most prob
ably, it will soon be succeeded by
what Hitler in apt German called
"Blitzkrieg";; only-he had thought
that it was he himself who was to
carry that out.
ReVOlutIOn.
South America, once most un-
rulX continent, has for a long time
been unusually calm, due, it seems,
to the fact that all Latin-American
countries had been welded into an
anti-Axis unit-all, with the one con-
spicuous exception of the Argentine
Republic.
Here, the other day, revolution
took place-a brief and not a very
bloody one-against the government
of President Ramon Castillo because
he had maintained consistent neu-
trality and kept up his diplomatic re-
lationships with the Axis powers,
long ago cut off from all connection
with all other South and Central
American nations. Castillo was forced
to flee, finally to surrender to the
revolutionists who set up new gov
ernment headed by General Arturo
Rawson, who % hours later was
forced to resign.
The new regime is expected to
Continued on Page 81
Askov American., 1943-06-10
Pick Board For
Quality Program

Officers and members of the board
of directors of the newly organized
Pine County Quality Program are:
President, Albert Schmidt, Hinckley;
secretary treasurer, Alvin ]. Jensen,
Askov; c. L. Smith, Finlayson; JOS
Di Santo, Duluth; H. L. Bennett, Will
low River; Elmer Henderson, Be-
roun; Oscar Opsahl, Hinckley; Henry
Christensen, Sturgeon Lake; August
Peterson, Pine City; Reuben Maaske,
Brook Park; S. A. Striegl, Pine City;
L. c. Hansen, Pine City; and Edward
Swanson, Braham.
Arthur Laufenburger of Winona
has been engaged as fieldman, begin
ming his new duties June l. His
headquarters are in Sandstone, at
the office of the county agent, Clyde
P. Shumway, with whom he works
in close cooperation.