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Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-30
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JOHNSON Ill hNSss

Put it in our date book that
Shirley Temple definitely will star
in the film version of Junior Miss.
Even though Mary Pickford didn't
land the screen rights, Producer
David o. Selznick probably will
Shirley, incidentally, is the most
attractive junior miss in Holly
wood and cinch to break the old
filmtown bugaboo that juvenile
stars never make sensational come
backs.
The famous COburn mOnOcle is
out. Charley discards IL for the
first time for his role i'm Column
bias The Impatient Years" And
says he feels practically naked.
Veloz and Yolanda, the dance
team. will make spring and sum-
mer tour of $50 concerts, including
Army camps and Navy bases. Yo-
landa recently became a mama for
the second time.
A wOuld-be suitOr called up
Paramount starlet Adelaide Nor
ris the other night and Charlie
phone with, "Sorry, but Miss Nor
ris has a date with Edgar Ber-
gen."
Enrol Flynn's next at Warmers
will be another western, San An
tonic"
AS a rhumba band leader, Xavier
Cugat is tops, but MG-M also
thinks he'd make a good comedian.
The studio, we hear, is planning to
groom 1-2-3 bump Cugat for Bob
Benchley type roles.
Incidentally. benchley has now
started work on a new short til
tied, "HOw to Dance on a Crowd
ed Floor"
Band leader Artie Shaw, with a
discharge from the Navy, is reor-
ganizing his band and has offered
fancy figure to Betty Hutton S
sister, Marian, to do the vocal
chores.
Promised and hoped for: Laraine
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-30

Day playing comedy for the first
time in RKO's That Hunter Girl. -
Cowboy star Tex Ritter may turn
executive and produce his own star
ring film, "Swingtime in Texas, "
as an independent.
Warmers is having as much trou-
BILE casting. the role of Marilyn Mil
Ter as SeKnick had with Scarlett
O'Hara. So far Joan Leslie, Ginger
Rogers, Mary Martin, Dolores Nor
an and Alexis Smith have been
rumored for the part. We're hoping
it will be Mary Martin.
Ketti F'rings latest book, Gods S
Front Porch" is one of those books
you can't put down till you've read
the last page.
Muriel Angelus. the singing star
of Broadway's Early to Bed" is
spurning Metro film to remain
with the sh0w-she's that happy
i'm il.
Life begins at 80 for John Alex
ander. After years in Hollywood
working as Donald Meek's stand
in, 80-year-old Alexander is max
ing his screen debut in M-GM'S
Gold Town"
NO SUBSTITUTE
When Hedy Lamar arrived on
the Warner lot to do THE Con-
spirators." everyone was anxious to
get a closeup look. Two prop men
ambled off the set to gaze in awe.
One said, Terrific, isn't she?"
Replied the second, Yes, she is
nice, but she's no Hedy LAMAR
Paramount has scheduled Sc
quel to "Our Hearts Were Young
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-30
Patterson Calls
For Presidents
Service Drafting

WASHINGTON, March 30. up
--Undersecretary Of War Robert
p. Patterson today put the army S
support behind proposals to draft
4-Fs and other men for essential
war work
Testifying before a house military
afairs subcommittee. Patterson
said he was firmly convinced" that
the manpower problem is OF a
critical character" and that the
time has come for each to do his
share.
He recommended that Congress
pass either the Austin-W Wadswcrth
national service act. amended to
include only rfcistrants from IS
TO 81, or the limited service pro-
posal of Rep. C.are 50the Luce
CR.-Conn.p. The Luce bill pro-
vides fer a labor force of $4,000
to 100000 drawn from 4-Fs, dis
charged servicemen, and childleSs
men 38 to as.
Another method would be ex-
tension of the present selective
service mechanism" Patterson said.
THE 4-F's in war activity or other
essential activity would be given
occupaticnal deferments and would
remain as before.
THE 4-Fs not in war activity or
other essential activity and found
by the local boards TO be qualified
for such activity would be inducted
and placed in the enlisted reserve" ."
From the enlisted reserve, they
would be subjeet to assignment by
the army TO industrial or farm
work. Selective Service Director
Lewis B. Hershey yesterday said he
was going to recommend that the
army and navy create such work"
battalions"
Patterson told the committee that
his recommendation for national
service, legislation was in line with
the request made TO Congress last
January by President Roosevelt.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-30
INLAND Awaits
Tomato Fiesta

INLAND, March 30 - The third
annual Tomato Festival will be held
at inland April 81 and % under
the sponsorship of the chamber of
commerce and the Women's club.
Dancing will be arranged in the
women's club house on both nights.
Games OF chance and other enter
tainment will be present in booths
along the streets. The Girl Scouts
will be in charge of refreshments.
AS is customary the kangaroo
Court will be in session with j. D.
Thomson officiating as judge.
Proceeds from the two-day event
will be used for community better
ment and improvements:
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-30
TO CONFER DEGREE

FL Centre lodge No. 394. F. and
A. NJ. viii confer a degree at the
meeting Monday night, 7:30 o'clock,
Masonic temple.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-30
PLEASE NOTE!

PLEASE NOTE!
Inadvertently, w d n eSday'S
Pcst-Press issues carried two
"Out Our Way" cartoons and
no Major Hoople." In this issue
will be found two of Major Hoo
Pile" and no "Ouu Our Way"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-30
PRESIDENT IMPROVES

WASHINGTON, March 80 UP)-
The White House reported Thursday
that President Roosevelt's bronchial
irritation is clearing up nicely"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-30
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Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-30

and Gay" with Diana Lynn and
Gail Russell again in co-starring
roles.
Movie makers are playing smart
again. "In Our. Time" is a story OF
the invasion of Poland. So Warner
Bros. premiered the film in Buffalo,
which has the largest Polish popu-
lation in the country.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-30
PHRASE PLEASES JUDGE

SPRINGFIELD. Mo. March 80.
up - Vic Smith, who has charge
of the courtyard commissary, knows
how to be tactful. One OF the
Judges asked him why he came to
work On a holiday and Smith re-
piled he was there by choice" The
Judge thought a while and then
said: That's a pleasant, diplomatic
way of saying it's none Of your
business. I must remember it.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-30
Partisans Kill
ITO on Isle

LONDON. March 30. (UP) - A
Jugoslav m mmunique reported
Thursday that Partisan troops had
killed 170 German, Italian, and
Polish soldiers in fighting on the
Island Of Evar. off The seaport OF
Split On the Dalmatian coast. The
commur!que claimed Polish soldiers
had been modified forcibly for II
German army.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-17
Berlin
Milepost

The nearest distances 70 Berlin
from advanced Allied lines
today:
WESTERN FRONT-302 miles
from a point east OF Aachen.
Gam OF SO miles in week.
RUSSIA - 800 miles from
Praga. Cain Of eight miles
IN week
SOUTHERN FRANCE 49, 423
miles from a point near Bel
fort. Gain OF 40 miles IN
week.
ITALY-553 miles from a point
north OF Florence. Gain of
two miles IN week.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-17
London's Lights On Sunday
After 5 Years of Blackout

LONDON. Sept. Is (UP)-Five
dark and weary years from the
day when the immortal few" of
the Raj shattered the German
luftwaffe in the Battle of Brit
ain. the time has come for the
lights TO go on again in London.
Tonight is the last night of the
blackout.
Sentimentally. Britain gives
credit fer the new light-up order
to its heroes who shot down 1S5
German planes on Sept. IS. 1910,
thus giving the Raj an ascend
ancy IL never again lost. But
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-17
Soldier Admits
Cottage Killing
Death Accidental,
Comedian Contends

Pvt. Erwin William Stata. an
lS-year-old Canadian soldier. has
confessed 10 shooting and killing
Mrs. Austin Z. Smith of Detroit,
in her summer cottage at Port
Franks. Ont. last Sunday night,
but claimed the Staying was acci-
dental, provincial police said Sat-
urday.
A murder charge was placed
against Stata following his cap
ture in his home town of Toronto
Thursday.
Police said Stata told them he
left the Ipperwash military camp,
near Port Franks. with the inten-
ton of deserving. assing the
Smith cottage, he was quoted as
saying. he saw Mrs. Smiths auto
mobile and tried 10 steal il but the
keys were missing.
He was quoted further as saying
that he broke into the cottage TO
find the keys. While he was stand
ing in the kitchen. the police Of
ficerS quoted him. he felt a re-
volver pressing in his back. 1t was
held by Mrs. Smith.
The officers said Stata told
them he wheeled about and as he
did so the 1903 army rifle he held
was discharged accidentally, kill
ing Mrs. Smith.
Stata said. according to the po-
lice. he then drove away in Mrs.
Smiths automobile, abandoning it
in Kingston, so miles from To-
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-17
Schools 10 Start
Again Monday

The city's $4,000 public and
parochial school pupils will start
school Monday with full day of
classroom work 10 make up for
the two-week delay IN opening
caused by the infantile paralysis
epidemic. il was disclosed Satur-
day by school authorities.
Hamtramck schools also will
open Monday. They will retain
the regular teaching staff of 1877
as a result of court ruling re-
straining the board Of education
from cutting II 10 us.
The polio epidemic continued to
abate with six new cases reported
Friday, bringing the weeks total
to "a and the years total TO 303.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-17
1920 Miles of Driving
Hi-T est Go DoWn SeWer

J. M. Lupusmak. a new driver
for an oil company, made a rou-
tine delivery of 84S gallons
Q2,720 miles, of premium gaso-
line Saturday to a service station
owned by Walter Sacchiari, 80,
at Harper and st. Clair.
Since everybody was busy at
the station when he arrived, Luz
pusmak.a self-reliant chap. went
about the business in his own way.
He found capped pipe, unscrewed
it, let the precious fuel flow out
and then drove away, content in
the knowledge of a duty per-
formed.
II he could have visited the
scene q little later this is what
he would have found:
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-17
w arFronts

FRANCE-Yanks crack Sieg-
fried Line east of Aachen;
reach Belfort Gap. page ID
PACIFIC-Veterans of Guadal-
canal ring vital Palau Island
airfields; Davao being evacu-
ated. Page L.
RUSSIA-Red forces roll into
SOFIA. page ~
ITALY-Greek troops smash
10 edge of Rimlni airport.
Page 81
AIR WAR-Nazis send hit-or-
mis- robot bombs over Eng
land after 15-day hull.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-17
FORD PROMISES PAY RAJ
CT Bill of Rights

w last June the measure was hailed as the most
forward looking instrument ever enacted for the
rehabilitation and security of fighting men and
women upon their return to civilian life.
Sponsored by the American Legion and sup
ported by The Detroit Times and other Hearst
newspapers, the bill guaranteed important bene-
fits covering every phase of the discharged
veterans struggle to readapt himself into the
community.
One of the most important provisions of the
CT Bill of Rights is government guarantee up
to $1,000 on loans for the purchase of homes,
farms and small businesses. Millions of fighting
men see in this life line to economic independence
in the peace to come.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-17
BACKLOG CITED

Because the machine tool build
ers have a huge backlog of high
government orders. they
have been unable TO do more than
accept unrated orders from the
industry, without dates of de-
livery.
Grindley stated that industry
could meet about so per cent of
its machine tool needs from the
thousands of tools now owned by
the government.
They may not he able to find
them all in their own plants"
he said, but in the listings, they
will be able to find at least so
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-17

Firemen and fire apparatus
frantically at work.
A curious crowd held in check
by the police.
City inspectors with worried
faces.
A Disguised Sacchiari explaining
to customers that he didn't have
any premium gas because Lupus
max had poured the S48 gallons
down a sewer instead of into the
underground tanks.
After many hours OF flushing
the drain with a hose. fremen
pronounced the neighborhood out
of danger.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-17

credit also goes TO the Allied air
forces and armies pushing the
Germans back into the Reich.
Tomorrow Britain enters a
stage equivalent TO the "dimout"
which was adopted on the Ameri-
can seaboard.
The Germans sent over num-
bers of robot bombs today for the
first time in - days. They fell
in southern England. causing cas-
ualties and damage.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-17
Nazi Band Holds Out
In Suburban Paris

PARIS, Sept. 16 CTNS)-A, full
three weeks after the liberation
of Paris. a suicide band of Ger
mans. believed several hundred
strong, continued tonight to hold
out grimly in one of the suburban
parks just outside the French cap
ital.
These last-ditch Nazis have de.
family rejected Ia separate de.
mands 10 surrender.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-17
ONLY ONE DRAWBACK
Trolley Strike Voted
DFC LARGE HOLDER

BOSTON, Sept. Is CUP) -
Some 1880 employees of the East
ern Massachusetts Street Railway
Co. voted today 10 strike. "a
hours after the national WLB
had approved wage increases Of
from 10 cents an hour.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-17
u. s. to Sell War Tools
To Auto Factories
BY SILER FREEMAN
Detroit Times Automotlye Editor

Army Ordinance Saturday agreed sell the auomove
industry 250 10000 TOOLS
being used contracts Michigan plants Total
the tools placed at around $10000000
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-17
Marines RinQ
Pa|du Key 10
AirfieId on Island
Surrounded Despite
Heavy Jap Defenses

L. 6. PACIFIC FLEET HQ,
PEARL HARBOR, Sept. is (UP)
Marine veterans of Guadalcanal,
battling through strong japanese
tank and artillery fire, surrounded
Peleliu airfeld in the Palau group
today. and Tokyo said the city of
Davao had been evacuated in an
ticipation Of an American drive
into the southern Philippines from
new invasion sPringbeafds less
than 300 miles away.
Battlefront dispatches said that
the hard-bitten v. s. First Marine
Division, less than AZ hours after
storming into Japans naval and
aerial stronghold of Peleliu. had
curled siege arc around the air.
fields two runways of 4200 feet,
located $50 miles from the Philip
pines and $50 miles east of Davao.
CLOSE ON MINDANAo
Some 500 miles to the south
west. Gen. MacArthur's army
troops. fashioning the southern
claw Of pincers aimed at the big
Philippine island of Mindanao, be-
gan whipping into shape the
newly-captured Morotai airfield,
less than 300 miles below Min
danao and 375 miles from Davao
japanese Premier Gen. Kuniaki
Kolsi. attempting TO boost home
front morale. said that Japan was
preparing 10 launch a great
offensive in the near future 10
crush Britain and the United
States, and Tokyo revealed an
other shakeup in the japanese
naval high command. Adm. Mao
kuni Nomura, former navy min
ister. was installed in certain
important post" and was sue
ceeded as chief of the great
Yokosuka naval station by Vice
Adm. Nishiezo Sukahara.
JAP filters ABSENT
American front dispatches re-
ported fierce fighting against an
estimated 5000 japanese garri-
Soning Peleliu, al the southern
end of the 77-mile long Palau
chain known as the Japanese
Singapore. The marines won a
two-mile-wide beachhead in their
initial surge ashore, repulsed
three strong counterattacks and
then drove inland TO surround
the airfield. American warships
steamed up TO within A few thou
sand yards of shore 10 lombard
Jap strongpoints, and not single
enemy plane dared venture out
agalnstSthem.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-17

D UT three months have passed and not single
ID loan for veterans of World War II has been
negotiated And this is so despite the fact that
thousands of men and women honorably dis
charged from the armed forces already HAVE
MADE APPLICATION.
Inquiry by this newspaper at the Veterans
Administration brought only the reply that 'in.
structions have not yet been received from Wash
ington" and that "details are being worked out"
Not even repeated urgent requests by the Ameri-
can Legion have helped expedite matters.
Along with thousands of veterans and their
dependents awaiting their just and legal due, we
ask:
,"WHY THE DEI,AY7n
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-17
Wants Men
Highest Paid
In Industry
Believes Everyone
Should Get Enough
TO Buy Home. Car

Henry Ford announced satur.
day that he would raise the pay
of all Ford workers "as soon as
the government will permit me-"
He issued the following state
Yy1ant.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-17
SINGLE RESERVATION

The only string on sales 10 pri-
vate manufacturers is that the
machines must be continued in
use on war orders until they are
completed or terminated.
The agreement of Ordnance to
sell the tools to its contractors
was the result of months of work
on the part of the War Produc-
ton Board here. II is expected
to set pattern for the other
service branches.
Robert Grindley. head of WPB's
machine tool section here, saw the
move as a partial solution 10 the
machine tool bottleneck that has
been set as the No. 2 obstacle in
the path of reconversion of the
auto plants.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-17
PILLBOXEs SEIZED

Advancing along q sector wi
dened TO at least Is miles, Hodges
armored formations burst into
Stolberg. six and a half miles due
east of Aachen. as they took over
Steel-concrete pillbox positions on
the eastern edge of the Siegfried
system. with no fixed fortifica-
tons known 10 exist before the
Rhine.
Some So miles 10 the south.
meanwhile, other American units
hammered across the Luxembourg
frontier at new point of entry
into Germany, captured the Ger
man village of Wallendorf, y
miles northwest of Trier, and
swept on another six miles east,
reaching Dierkirck.
Trier was being reduced as
WeStwall stronghold by the guns
of still another American force
which had rammed a l0-mile-wide
wedge 10 the outskirts of that
city, II miles below Aachen.
Between the Trier and Aachen
sectors, another powerful Yank
column, battering down what
Allied headquarters described as
strongly held pillbexes, gaIged
Continued on Page 2, Col. ~
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President Roosevelt and Prime
Minister Churchill, concluding
Atheir historic conference in
ICanada late today, jointly
pledged the swiftest possible
crushing Of Japan and revealed
they have agreed upon the ut
most use of their respective
military forces 10 accomplish an
early victory.
Mr.. Roosevelt announced that
IN the shortest conference on rec
ord he and the prime minister had
reached complete accorri and tn
animity on how TO defeat Japan.
The President said there all
he no overall commander Of all
forces In the Pacific.
The same command set up that
has been M successful In driving
back the Japanese thus far, he
said. will continue.
NO EXACT DATE SIT
The President declared that
Japan will he defeated IN the
shortest possible time but that no
exact date has been set 'or
launching the all-out offcnsives, IN
the Pacific because il cannot he
accurately stated when the var
with Germany will end.
Disclosing in a formal announce
ment that "all aspects OF the war
against Germany and Japan had
been discussed. the two statesmen
declared they had reached "deci-
sions on all points both with re-
gard 10 the completion OF the war
in Europe, now approaching us
final stages. and the destruction
Of the barbarians OF the Pacific.
PROPORTIONS DECIDED
Paving the way for masSing
their Joint land. sea and air forces
for knockout blows against Japan
as soon as those engaged in dc.
l feating Germany can bc freed
from that task. il was revealed
that the proportion Of Allied arms
IN be- used nv America, Britain.
and the British commemorative
has now been decided.
Prime Minister Churchill, on
behalf of Britain, declared we
shall 90 70 the end OF the war
IN the Pacific and President
Roosevelt added that plans had
now been completed for the final
defeat Of Germany, for the after
math Of the war in Europe. and
for smashing Japan with the great
est military forces ever massed IN
the Pacific.
ALL RESOURCES PLEDGED
The two Allied chiefs told the
correspondents that all possible
military resources OF America and
Britain-on land, at sea-, and in
the skies-will be brought swiftly
10 bear against the japanese pro
portionate 10 their strength and
ability" The exact proportions OF
the two powers forces was not
disclosed.
AS to the setup regarding uni
fed command in the Pacific war
theater. the President said that in
such vast and separated battle
fronts as those of the Pacific,
there can be no single overall
commander in chief.
He referred specifically 10 con-
tinuation of the present setup in
the Far East. whereby Gen. Mac
Arthur commands the southwest
Pacific, Adm. NimitZ commands
all fleets in the Pacific, and Lord
Louis Mountbatten is in charge OF
the Burma-India theater.
In a formal joint statement at
the end of the war strategy talks
in Quebec, Roosevelt and Churchill
said:
1.-THE most serious difficulty
Continued on Page 2, Col. 81
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per cent. III the tools owned by
Defense Plant Corp, the air
forces and the navy were also
made available, there would be
enough standard tools for every
one"
DIE LARGE HOLDER
The Defense Plant Corp, alone
owns $4,000 tools valued at more
than S100,000,000 in Michigan and
another $1,000 scattered through
Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. None
of these can be sold without per-
mission of the service branch
under which they are being used.
They must be declared surplus
before they can be offered for
sale. under existing regulations.
According to the record of the
WPB, the automotive companies
up to Sept. have cleared requests
for 5000 key" tools, with a dol
lar value of S2s,000,000.
ONLY ONE DRAWBACK
The only drawback seen ty in
duStry in the sales now of gov
ernment-owned tools for future
use is that under the combined
operations which some of the
plants foresee as long as the
japanese war goes on, some of the
tools they need will be kept in
continuous operation on war or
ders.
Applications for purchases by
contractors and sub-contractors
will go through the office of Col.
l.. f. Ash at the Detroit Ordnance
District.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-17

The tools will be sold immedi-
ately TO any contractor or SUBJ
contractor of the army who wants
them. The price will be in &C.
cordance with the Clayton pricing
policy, based on cost less Is per
cent, with depreciation figured on
a sliding scale.
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THE WEATHER
HOURLY TEMPERATURES

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