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Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-11
WEATHER

Maximum Thursday 80, minimum
Friday So; am. Friday 60, humid
ity 70; noon Friday 80. humidity 81;
5 pm. Thursday 96, humidity l6.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-08-16
Truman Orders
Bureau Closed

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1G. CUPy-
President Truman late Wednesday
deCreed the enc of wartime CEN
sorship and authorized liquidation
Of the office headed by Byron
Price.
MI. Truman acted in accordance
with the recommendations by Price.
He authorized the enc of the ma
tion's voluntary censorship OF press
and radio, effective today
Price also was directed to cease
at once" the censorship Of all in
tern2tiOnal communications
Tie Presidents directive told the
censorship chief to give all his en-
ployes 80 days notice" except for
small group needed for liquidation
Cf the COG.
The American press was it's own
censor, relying for guidance on the
wartime censorship code drafted by
Price and his advisers selected from
the press and radio.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-08-16

Will Rogers il. is the current can
didate to play the story Of his pop s
life. Warner Bros. own the screen
rights to the cowboy humorist 5
film biography Overheard at a
wild west show while a cowboy was
sharp-Shooting cigaretS from a
cowgirl's lips: Shoot the blond
cigarets are hard to get!'
Jimmy Cagney's movie Blood Oh
the Sun. is breaking all records al
the Pavilion theater in London.
The English like TO see the JapS
bite the dust, too . Coming up IS
a film biography Of Enrico Caruso.
who could toss a Groom 300 yards
without the aid Of a mike. A voice,
says George Z. Phair, without a
crutch
Despite its naughty words. an
Anglo American documentary film
of the Normandy invasion is due
for early release under auspices OF
the Hays office Film cenSOrS are
denying all around that the words
would have to be eliminated under
rules Of the censorship code.
Lt.-Col. David Niven has been
discharged from the British army
and returns to Hollywood in pecem-
Der to star in a movie for Sam
Goldwyn Johnny WeissnuIler
did a double take while squirting
at the prop list for his latest jun
gle thriller The list calls for Six
alligators- one must be tam-
Marquee sign of the week: The
Hairy Ape-Up i'll Mabel's Room
CHRISTMAS IN FILMLAND
1t always happens in The good Old
summer time AT Warner Bros.
Enrol Flynn was trudging through
phony snow for a scene III Never
Say Goodbye" !" Monte WoOlley was
drinking Tom and Jerry while Cary
Grant unWrapped Christmas pres
ents in Night and Day" and An
drea King was decorating u Christ
mas tree for The Man l Love
Meanwhile, "ChriStmas III COnneCti-
cut" is a big hit
Twentieth Centmy-FOX will be
the first on the screen with flick
er about Jap Kamikaze pilots, titled,
Before We Die" Two indie
pendent outfits have filed the title
up and Atom, with stories coming
up on the wars greatest secret Wea-
pom . Linda DarnelI gets her first
musical role in "Ccntenuiul sum
mer." Yep, she'll sing, ana without
the aid OF q voice dOubl"
O!yE ABOUT q. Il. :.
Claude Rains tells il about Gcular
Bernard Shaw
While working in ShaW's "Caesar
and Cleopatra in England. Rains
knew Shaw didn't want to change
line of the classic for the film
version. But there was one speech
the actor was sure would get an
unWanted laugh from American
| audiences.
Rains was supposed to say: Am
I Julius Caesar or am ! Il Wolf?"
He explained TO Shaw that wolf
now meant a tWU-lOOJeu instead OF %
fOur-GOOted animal TO American.
Shaw didn't even chucklc Two
days later, Rains cot a postcard
Imperial Valley press., 1945-08-16

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1G. CUP1-
Secretary Of War Henry L. StimsOn
announced that the army hopes
to discharge 100000 men in the
next y months. but point score
required for discharge will remain
at IS for the present.
The required score will be low
cred from time to time in the in
terrsts of orderly demObililati0n.
StimSOn said The armys plan is
to discharge men as rapidly as
physically possible while maintain
ing the needed forces ana supplies
to insure Japan's compliance with
the peace terms.
OTHERS TO USE POINTS
The other services - navy. ma
rines and coast guard also will
release personnel unoer point sys-
TENS
The ns->y announced that it
plans to discharge 1000 600 to D.
500 900 men within the next year
or 18 months under 4 new point
system of its own giving preference
to men who have been longest at
sea OF overseas About 327 600 men
and women are eligible for immedi-
ate discharge
The coast guard will be demotAl-
lied under the navy system.
The marine corp adopted 2 point
system identical tJ the one the
army has been using for the past
three months Ine critical score
is the same 85 points ana scores
are computed al II MAY II, the
present army date Point values are
the same as under the original
army plan. There was no estimate
Imperial Valley press., 1945-08-16
VINO Lists SIashes
In Employment

WASHINGTON, Aug. l6 CUP) -
The War ManpoWer Commission
told where the 6,000,000 unemploy-
ed it expects by December, are COM
ing from.
Here is the expected employment
drop by industries from last July
to next December.
Aircraft, 100000 to 100000.
Shipyards-1,1 100000 to 100000
Ordnance plants-1, 100000 to lOO,-
900.
Federal war agencies 100000 to
100000
Metal al-chemicalr rubber products
industries munitions ~ 900 GOO to
100000.
Within two months. VINO said,
the situation will look like this
Major war industries will be re
leasing 2,500,000 workers with the
total displacement Of war work
ers from all industries totaling be-
tween 3,500,000 and 100000.
Aircraft plants will release al
mcst 100000 workers; ordnance
plants, 100000; and shipyards, $780,
coo. =
Other relatively minor cutbacks
such as the dropping of 25,OOC
aluminium workers, should total
100000.
VINO said Los Angeles and De-
troit will be hit heaviest with 120,-
900 aircraft workers expected tC
be released in each area
Buffalo probably will lose As
900 workers; Chicago and Seattle
10000 each; Baltimore, Hartford
Wichita and San Diego. more thar
10000 each
Imperial Valley press., 1945-08-16
Secret of Atomic
Bomb Guarded

WASHINGTON, Aug. l6. CUP)-
The war department warned that
cessation Of hostilities with ia
pan will not alter security linn
ItatlOnS on release OF information
on the atomic bomb.
All individuals, groups and or
CARNATIONS connected with the
Manhattan project Will continue to
comply with present security reg
ulatlons," the war department said.
Loose talk and idle speculation
particularly by individuals now or
formerly connected With the prof.
ect, jeopardize the future of the
nation. 1t is the duty Of every citi-
zen. in the interest Of national
safety, to keep all discussion of this
subject within The limits of infor-
m;Aion disclosed in official re-
leases"
Imperial Valley press., 1945-08-16
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Imperial Valley press., 1945-08-16
Army to Keep Up
Point Discharge

Of the number Of marines eligible
for discharge.
The plans announced mean that
the army expects to cut its strength
from roughly 100000 to 100000
in a year.
The navy will cut from 100000
TO between 100000 and 13000 0O1
in a year or so.
TO BE LOWERED
Stimson said the army'S critical
score would be lowered from time
10 time in the future to maintain
an orderly rate Of army dischargs.
At & future date credits also will
be allowed for points earned ater
May y. l945, the present terminal
date Of the army's point system, to
insure discharges at the highest
rate permitted by transportation
facilities.
He said army procurement and
expenditures would be curtailed to
the utmost degree consistent with
the needs Of future army obliga-
tions.
Enlisted personnel over 80 years
Of age will become eligible for dis
charge within 80 days after ap-
phcatiOn, StimSon said. This lower
ing Of the age level for discharge
from the former age OF 40 to SO
will make 100000 additional en-
listed men Immediately available
Ior discharge 1or age, Stimson said.
There are 21C,0O0 men in the
European theater who have 85 or
more points. 10000 in the Medi-
tcrrancan theater, 10000 III the
Pacific, 5000 elsewhere overseas,
$4,000 in the United States and
$4,000 Ell route from overseas. Slim
SON said
Imperial Valley press., 1945-08-16

Macarthur Plans
Quick Release
Of U. 5. Captives

WASHINGTON. Aug. 16. (UP)-
Americas S living dead" will be tbs
first concern OF Gen. Douglas Mac
Arthur when he takes over in ia
pan
Some 1900 American prisoners
OF war and interned civilians were
in japanese hands when the last
official report was made.
What their conditions will be
and how many of them are still
alive-remainS to be determined
But officials promised that no time
would be wasted in their rescue.
Top prisoner of the japanese is
1t. Gen. Jonathan M. Wainwright
the man who in 1912 had to sur
render Bataan and Corregidor to
the japanese after one Cf the most
gallant fights in history.
According to the last war de-
partment listing en- Aug. 2, the ia
panese held 13, 3,484 US. fighting men
as prisoners anG an estimated 5000
civilians.
American officials are prepared
W expedite Une rescue OF CNOSe SllIl
found alive Hundreds of medical
personnel will be rushed to the
areas where prisoners are brought
and loads of medical and fCoG
supplies will be enroute to those
points probably within hours.
SKANEATLES, N. Y, Aug. l6
CuP)-MEs. Jonathan M. Vain
wright, wife Of the hero of Bata-
an, waited eagerly for news Of her
husband, prisoner of the Japa-
nese since the fall Of the Philip
pines.
I'm so excited I can't talk" Mrs
Wainwright told United Press
Then she asked: rs there any wore
of the general?"
Mrs. Wainwright has been wait
ing three years to hear that the
general is free to return home He
has been confined to enemy prison
camps in FOrmoSa, Lu2On and Man
churia during that time.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-08-16
.Jdps Hear Plea
! 70 Look Ahead

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. l6. up
Radio Tokyo told Japanese forces
ON the tar-flung Pacific fighting
fronts Wednesday that Japan's
defeat was only temporary
Kusuo Oya, chief Of the overseas
bureau OF the Japan broadcasting
corporation, eXhorted the japanese
troops to face defeat like brave
one
Imperial Valley press., 1945-08-16

FRANKFURT, Germany, Aug.
1G. UP)-The transfer of American
troops from Europe to the Pacific
was halted Wednesday night and
United States army headquarters
announced that 75,O00 high-point
SerVicemen have been alerted for
shipment to the United States.
The 75.U0O high-pointers to be
sent home as a result Of the wars
END comprise five divisions the
69th' 63rd and l03rd Infantry, the
Gth ArnOred and tile l7th Air
borne.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-08-16
Elliott Roosevelt
Gets Army Release

NEW YORK, Aug. 16. CUP) :
Brigadier General Elliott Roose-
welt, second son Of the late Presi-
dent, was honorably discharged
from the army at Governors Is
land late Thursday.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-08-16
TWO YOUTHS FACE CHARGES

Wesley Burke, l8. and Elmer ].
Johnson, 20, both of Brawley, were
in the county Jail Thursday wait
ing hearing on charges of statu-
tory rape, after they allegedly at
tackled a 12-year-Cld Mexican girl
Wednesday.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-08-16

It is impossible to drown in the
Great Salt Lake in Utah, where
the water is 25 per cent salt, but it
is possible TO strangle.
GunpoWder, so desperately needed
by the Chinese, was invented by the
Chinese.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-08-16

Let us all unite together and work
to once again bring our nation up
TO stand as a strong and admirable
nation" he said. We have lost, but
this is temporary
I'VE have bowed to the enemy
material and scientific power How
ever, in spiritual power we have
not lost yet. We dc not think the
way we have thought has been
wrong. OF course, we do not say
that we were right in everything
OF course not"
FEC monitors who recorded the
broadcast said Oya'S voice broke
several times with emotion as he
spoke
. SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. Is. CUPD
Tokyo radio, departing from Gus
tomary procedure, die not abuse
China or the United States at its
regularly scheduled time Wednes-
day, United Press monitors report
ed.
Following one news broadcast the
Tokyo station normally carries q
musical program and a cOmmen-
tary usually abusing the Ameri-
cans or Chinese Wednesday there
was neither music or commentary
Just silence.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-08-16
INDUCTIONS OF WAVES
COMES To CLOSE

SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. IG. ,lu
No more WAVES will be mdu,rr
into the navy. the 18th naval uis
trict announced Wednesday, ON
ers issued all women applicati@
not yet inducJed will be canc,Iu
Immediately. the navy said
Imperial Valley press., 1945-08-16
SEEKS ANNuLMENT

Complaint for annulment of her
marriage to Walter Kennedy was
filed Tuesday by Josephine Ken
nedy.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-08-16

The first American champagne
was produced in a small winery in
Cincinnati, o., in 1912 by Nicholas
LOngWorth.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-08-16
B-2q Production
To Continue

SEATTLE, Aug. 16 CUP)-The
Boeing Aircraft company has re
vealed that it holds government
orders for continued work on aC-
vanced model B-29 Superfortresses,
the huge bombers that played the
major aerial role in smashing ia
pan.
This months schedule of 155 B.
29s from plants in Washington
state will be carried cut, but there
after the output will drop to 1872
planes a month in September and
then level off at 20 per month.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-08-16
CANADA LIFTS RATIONING

CANADA LIFTS KATIONING
OTTAWA, Aug. l6. tUP'-Effec-
i've Immediately. Canat ian gaso-
line rationing and all restrictions
on the use Of fuel Oil have beer
removed, Munitions Minister C. D
Howe announced here Wednesday
Imperial Valley press., 1945-08-16

from the playwright. All it sAN
was
Change VOL to wild beast
Imperial Valley press., 1945-08-16

MARIETTA, Ga, Aug. Is. CUPI
Termination Of a contract for pro-
duction of B-29 Superfortresses at
the huge Bell bomber plant here
was announced by James " Carmi-
chael, manager.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-01-10
FEARED DEAD
IN PLANE CRASH

MIAMI, Fla, Jan. Cup, -
Twenty-three persons aboard a
Pan American Always clipper
which crashed last night off Port.
Of-Spain, Trinidad, were consid-
cred dead tonight. Only eight
bodies, three of them unidentified.
had been recovered.
Seven of the IL crew members
and 10 passengers aboard the
giant flying boat were listed as
having survived the plunge into
the sea, apparently while landing.
Reports from Trinidad said that
Navy divers began efforts this
morning to remove the bodies OF
those trapped in the Wreckage
The plane, originally built as
the China Clipper in 1885 and re-
Gently rebuilt for service on the
Miami-Leopoldville, Africa, route,
blazed the trail of ans-Pacific
operations for Pan American. A
company statement issued here
said it was in use because more
modern equipment was not avail
able due to military demands.
The list of dead and missing
included the entire family of a
missionary bound for Liberia for
the African inland mission of
Brooklyn, N. Y. Paul John Whit
lock, So, mis- wife and their three
children were among the missing.
Only two members of another
family, residents of Rio de Janeiro,
survived Charles Donald Will
liams, 20, and his seven-year-old
daughter, Nancy Lou, were saved
The bodies of two other children
were recovered and the search
continued for that of Mrs. Will
liams.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-01-10
MP Wounded In Fight
With Black Marketeers

LONDON, Jan. 9.-UP)-Pvt.
Frank J. Woods, New York City,
military policeman, was wound
ed in a gun fight with black mar
ket gangsters in northern France,
a dispatch from Paris reported
today.
Woods received his wound when
he and other military policemen,
raiding a black market headquar-
tiers in a hotel, replied to the
fire Of a truck driver who drove
into the courtyard. The driver was
killed.
A United Press dispatch, garbled
in transmission between Paris and
London, reported enormously Sun
day that Woods was killed and the
driver wounded.
Paris reported today that Woods
and other men wounded were ex-
pected to recover.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-01-10
THOMAS SUCCEEDS
REYNOLDS AS HEAD
OF MILITARY UNIT

WASHINGTON, Jan. 9. -(P)-
Senator Ebert Thomas (D-Utah)
was chosen today as chairman OF
the Senate Military Affairs Com
mittee. He succeeds former Sena-
tor Reynolds D-NC), who did not
seek reelection.
To take over the important mill
tary craftsmanship, Thomas resign
ed as chairman of the Committee
on Education and Labor and was
succeeded by Senator Murray Cd
Mont).
The Democratic Steering Com
mittee, which made the selections,
also announced the following new
assignments to other committees:
Agriculture Senators Connally
(Texas), Downey (Calif), Moses
(ND) and Hoey (NC).
Banking and Currency-McFar'
land Ariz); Taylor ddaho) anc
Fulbright (Ark).
Commerce-Chandler (Ky); Mag.
nuson WASH and Mcclellan
(Ark).
Military Affairs, Wagner (NY)
and Stewart (Tenn).
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-01-10
Yanks Undaunted ByHail
OfSnow And Maxi Bullets

ly be heard on this front where the
roar of the wind mingles with the
chatter of German rifle and ma.
chinegun fire and a rain of ar.
tillery shells.
Although the First Army n W
holds a good-size piece of the lat
eral road and the Germans are
not yet making much in the way
OF a counter-attack, drive along
the highway from Sart to Hogan S
Crossroads isn't the healthiest
thing in the world.
1t is only about a five-mile
stretch of road but tonight it was
the hottest thing on the front. This
correspondent, having been assur
ed that "sure, the road is open"
undertook to take a drive along
it. To cover the five miles took
four and a half hours. Three times
in my '1eisurely' drive wa
pinned down by enemy fire.
The situation of our troops car
be imagined - hugging the snow
and crouching in water-filled fox
holes.
The only thing this drive proved
was that our offensive is rolling
ahead slowly because of the
snow. fog, mines and demolitions
but still rolling.
Another three or four days
should prove whether the Germans
will be able to pull their forces
safely back from the bulge.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-01-10
PETER MAY AGREE
ON REGENCY PLAN

LONDON, Jan. s.-CUP)-King
Peter may notify Prime Minister
Churchill tomorrow of his accept
ance OF a regency council for
Yugoslavia, which the British
Government and Peters own min
listers have been urging him to
accept Immediately, it was report
ed tonight.
Peter was said to be concluding
tonight series of conferences
with old-line Yugoslav politicians
and completing formalities for &C
ceptance of the regency before
meeting with Churchill tomorrow.
This would clear the way for i'm
plementing the agreement be-
tween Marshal Tito and Premier
Ivan Subasic, fusing the Yugo-
slav National Liberation Commit
tee and the Royal Yugoslav gov
eminent under Tito's premiership.
Under this set-up Subasic is slated
to be foreign minister.
Peter has been reported for
some days as agreeing with reluc-
lance to the regency council plan
ned under the Tito-Subasic agree.
ment. Several Royalist politicians
were reported using their influ'
ence to delay or prevent the young
king from taking a step which
might cost him the throne per
manently.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-01-10
By LARRY DALE

RALEIGH, N. c., Jan. 10.-UP)
The Page boys were conspicuous
ly absent before the chambers con-
vened this morning.
When the bell rang for the first
session of Thad Eure's school for
members of the General Assem-
bly, Of 1945 those kids beat it. Dom
blame 'em. What's the use of be.
ing page boy if you still got to
go to school?
But the legislators stuck to their
seats. And it wasn't only the 81
freshmen who were paying atten
ton to teacher, there were plenty
a little balder or little grayer
Some must have been post gradu
ates.
Anybody that wants to know
something about legislative pro,
cedure goes to Thad's school to
find out.
Teacher, Mr.. Eure, gets up there
and starts it off strictly on tn.
elementary level.
He tells them where to get thei,
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-01-10
PENICELLIN USED
TO SAVE GUERNSEY
FROM PNEUMONIA

HARDWICK, Mass, Jan. g.
UPl-A lordly Guernsey bull bat
fled for his life against pneumonia
tonight while his owners and a
veterinarian watched the effects Of
penicillin injections, and prepared
10 administer what may be the
final giant sized shot of the miracle
drug tomorrow.
The patient, 1o-month-old Caum'
set. Spitfire, appeared somewhat
improved from the 100000 units
Of penicillin he has received under
a special War Production Board
dspansation. However, his ply
scian" describes him as still a
pretty sick boy"
It's still a qestion of how he'll
make out said DR.. Francis M.
Austin of BelchertoWn, believed
the first one ever to try the won
der drug on an animal. Il think
the penicilhn is helping greatly,
but of course it's hard to say for
sure. Tomorrow's dose may be all
we'll need"
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-01-10
Sad Sartorial Situation
Seen In London Circles

ing, that the Guardian correspond.
ent carefully made clear that the
tren d toward cloth uppers ano
pear buttons was limited to ell
derby gentlemen, and this source
added that it probably was 4 result
Of war neurosis. Probably t h G
same sort which forced the women
of Paris to wear those =" orrible
Ugh ats" during the Nazi occupa-
ton.
He added, however, that the stu
alton was very compile" and that
its manifestations - 'orrible Ugh
ats and spats-still were puzzle
to the scientific mind.
The Guardian correspondent who
apparently devoted considerable
time and much study to the prob
lem before rushing into print, said
that London has been spatless for
nearly IS years. 1t was made clear,
however, that traditional British
tolerance has permitted the exis-
tence of small nucleus of spats
advocates, the possibility was seen
that this group has taken advant-
age of the turmoil of war to
launch a spats putsch. There was
a time, just a few years ago, when
certain commercial interests, less
interested in sartorial elegance
than in the coin or the realm, tried
to encourage the manufacture of
ankle muffs for export. Nothing
much came of it.
In all quarters, official and other
wise, it is stoutly denied that while
British dandies may have original
ed the wearing of spats, they hsI
whatever to do with those
purple ones once commonly seen
in certain American literary cir
cles.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-01-10
BY C. R. CUNNINGHAM

TSIDE PROVEDROU
WITH THE U. S. BIRD IMAM
TRY, Jan. 8.-(Correct)- CUP -
This town is the closest point in
the American First Army's drive
to meet the Third Army coming
up from the south in an effort
to pinch off several thousand Ma.
lis and tonight, amid the whine
and bark of shells, it seemed al
most too close for comfort.
A high wind is whipping h e
snow in the faces of the frozen
lnfantry-nen of the 83rd division
as they struggle through the snow.
drifts south of the St. Vith-La
Roche road in the direction of Bas-
togne.
From where I am writing this
dispatch to the Third Arny's 1O1st
Alrborne Division just north of
Bastogne, it is just little under
II miles. The 93rd and its accom-.
panying Third Armored Division
are fighting to close that gap soon.
A task force under Capt. John
w. Gordan, Pittsburgh, Pa, has
swept through Hebronval and Of
ire and joined a force under 1t.
Col. Walter Richardson, Beau.
mont, tex, which took the village
Of Joubievalet and pressed out to
within coughing distance OF Pro
vedrou.
A cough, however, could hard