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Show VMERY COUNTY PROGRESS. CASTLE DALE. UTAH Irocliet Table Colorful Incidents Surround Registration S. JOHNSON Of Nations Manpower for Peacetime Draft GENERAL HUGH Jour: w Washington, D. C. Man About Town WAR PROPAGANDA Never in our history has The Big Parade: Millionaire C. V. (Sonny) Whitney, who. Intimate insist, will soon be back in circula- ... g . Rolls-Royc- of a Mldnlghter: Could Pierres sleeping beauty (who took an overdose of sleeping pills and is still unconscious) be Mary Rogers, the Powers model? She hasn't reported for a fortnight . . . Gloria Swansons son is at the Republic Aviation plant at Farmlngdale, learning how to build planes . . . Editor Frank Carson, a great newspaper man, has quit journalism after 40 years for his Arizona ranch . '. . The nearest thing the town has had since Coal Oil Johnny is a handsome young character named Homer Hines. A racetracker. He and his two assist-ants- , H. Crump and Chas. Soott, boss trainers, are the biggest spenders in years. More spectacular than free fireworks. Simplee wunda-ful- l . . . Whats Billy Rose cooking up with the owner of Roseland and the Gay Blades Ice Rink? . . . Harpers fiction editor, George Davis, wants to marry Gypsy Rose Lee. Memos the Hotel war-minde- architects Modern Vignette: Busby Berke ley is one of Hollywoods top directors, who came to town to see the premiere of his recent clicker, He stopped "Strike Up the Band. at the Plaza, if you please, and after two days of being bored stiff with etc., he conferences, meetings, phoned Prop. Proser at The Beachcomber . . . How about rounding up some of the old gang. Id love being with you all once more before I go back to the Coast? he said . . . Proser phoned the "mob, available showgirl including every on Broadway?- - to come to a party . . . You never saw such a crowd of lovely lookers . . . Everybody had a wonderful time, as did the guest of honor, whom nobody met In the excitement, a captain thought Berkeley was a lonely sucker. He ushered him quietly to a rear table to get him out of the way . . . Busby was served two and the check Zombies, chow-meiwhich he paid and then went home He didn't want to interrupt the funl ... n, ... Broadway Rhythm: The Skouras-Newin- s indictment (for allegedly bribing Judge Manton), is coming up for trial on the 28th. The are seeking "Mrs. Newins." If she talks, they say, several famed lawyers may wind up in the clink . . . Alois Fabry, brother of the Esquire cartoonist, and Sally Sawyer of Vogue will be threaded next month . . . Wythe Williams reports that the planned radio program for National Defense is in abeyance until after the voting. The valid reason being: "political commercial commitments have consumed full time . . . Jack Sterling and chornie Dot ONeill are oof-lclubby . . . The Schirmer Jr. Gypsy Markoff-G- . idyll merger talk, which someone planted in the gazettes, put the "iny in stitches. Veddy fuddy . . . "Boyds Daughter" which got the boyd from the critics, cost the berts 20 Gs. there been such open propaganda for offensive action that would make unavoidable our prompt involvement in war on the other side of the war Indeed world over a range at least as wide as the vast stretch from the Straits of Malacca to the straits of Dover. It might be wider. If we enter this war Gen. Johnson on the side of England, whatever we call ourselves we shall be her ally. We must fight wherever defeat threatens, or victory beckons. It now seems quite probable that the direction of the war has turned from westward to southeastward. New Theaters threaten in the Mediterranean, the Balkans, perhaps Persia, the Persian gulf and even unto India. That is the British domain on which "the sun never sets. Propagandists now openly say that to preserve democracy on earth we must preserve the British empire. Perhaps the millions of conquered and exploited black people in Africa and brown people in Asia and Malaysia are their idea of democracy; but to try to push this great, powerful and peaceful nation into wars to protect such foreign possessions is hysteria that has broken all bonds of reason. d men advance These measures which could take us into such remote and sterile fields as "defense of America. They say that the Atlantic and Pacific oceans are no longer barriers of defense, but avenues of attack. Since Hitler miles of the cant cross twenty-od- d British channel to get at Britain with a land army, it is a safe bet that he doesnt turn up his nose at the Atlantic ocean, even if these potential tion , . The newest of the serious romancers, Eddy Duchin and Carol Bruce Jay Carlisle, whose merger with Marcelle Edwards is a Reno-go- , and Virginia Langdon, his next? . . . Isabel Jewell of the moom pitchers and Bob Musel, the reporter, who are . . Gladys Glad, more beautiful than ever, and groom M. Hellinger, who is hardly . . . Congressman Warren G. Magnuson of Seattle and Trudy Burke of the Ed Wynn show having their own New Deal . . . George White and divorcee Doris Donaldson . . . Judy Canova and her rumored new marriage name (in the near future) Johnny Diggs of Hwood . . . Critic John Mason Brown peacocking because of the new baby boy via Medical Center who . . , Lady Brinsley-Plunket- t, e for a will sell her measly $8,000 . . . Harry James, who says hes been studying Milton Berle's new nose for weeks, but still can't tell on which comedian hes seen it before! siders wNUhma Schu- It happened in West 52nd Street early one recent morning . . . Two garbage-wago- n heavers paused to lean against a taxicab while a cooperative taxi driver tuned up the volume on his radio which was giving the news roundup from the foreign correspondents . . . When they ended, one garbage collector jumped back onto his truck, rubbed his hands, and to his partner (who was lifting a refuse can) yelled: Go ahead, Berlin!" of their country's disaster do so every day in their war dancing madness. If we push our belated defense preparations on land and seas as rapidly as possible, the chance of our involvement in bloody war, no matter what may come, is too remote to consider. The catastrophe of our involvement in war would not be merely the bloody loss and danger to life and limb. It would immediately adjourn our free democracy for a war dictatorship. It would permanently adjourn our free economic system of private ownership and liberty of enterprise by so burdening it with additional debt and taxes that the government would control all private property and absorb all private income in the United States. Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON, D. C- Americas first peacetime draft registration was marked with hundreds of interesting and colorful incidents as some 16,000,000 men between the ages of 21 and 35 listed essential information regarding themselves for use by military conscription authorities. RUSSIA AGAIN BUYING COTTON Here is big news for the South. Soviet Russia is back in the American cotton market. She already has purchased 58,000 bales, of which 18.000 are en route via Vladivostok in Greek ships, and has indicated the total orders may run as high as 500,000 bales. To facilitate transportation, the maritime commission last week to Amtorg (the granted Soviet trading agency) for three U. S. freighters, the Carleton, Export and motor ship Excelsior, which will load the cotton at Houston and Good nature, lighted by the usual American wise-craccoupled with an undertone of dead seriousness characterized the progress of the registration in all parts of the country. Minor crises arising from misunderstandings or errors cropped up in many sections, but all were swiftly ironed out. No acts of violence were reported. The registration gave a panorama of life a bit of the heroic, the dramatic, the comic and the routine. Below are presented some of the highlights and sidelights of the event that m'arked the first step toward raising the strength of Americas armed forces through the selective service act. rs k, ... ... ques--ionab- le g ... one-thir- Warren Pershing, son of General John J. Pershing, is should as he registered in New York city for the draft. The son of one of America's greatest and most loved soldiers, young Pershing was men between 21 and 35 years of age who Roy Beadle had to answer only one one of 16,404,000 young essenquestion when he registered in Port- took their first step in military conscription plans by listing service selective officials. tial personal information for land, Ore. His wife was a precinct registrar. "I know all the answers Old memories were brought back Grant, Buck Jones, George OBrien, to these other questions, she said, Rush- James Cagney and William Boyd. for 10 Chicago registrants. but did you put the cat out?" But prominent among Hollywood ing into one of the classrooms when When two Chinese laundrymen, Wong Sam, and Chnio Ho, of Philadelphia, sat down to register, they notebook to the presented a registrar. It contained their histories in Chinese characters just to be certain they could answer all the 100-pa- questions. Do you mean to say you dont know your wifes maiden name? asked a Chicago registrar. The young man shook his head. Nope," he answered, "Ive never met her folks. two-third- the school was opened, they squeezed themselves behind the little desks and sang "School Days," while looking attentively at the blackboards. names registered were those of Robert Taylor, James Stewart, Cesar Romero, Orson Welles, Broderick Crawford, and William Holden. Registration was temporarily postponed in Evanston, 111., when officials ran out of ink. One man had to drive to the city hall for another bottle before the work could be Other movie registrants included Lew Ayres, Henry Fonda, John Payne, Don Ameche, John Carra-dinTyrone Power, Laird Cregar, George Sanders, Eddie Albert, Herbert Anderson, William Lundigan, Jeffrey Lynn, Dennis Morgan, Wayne Morris, Ronald Reagan, Ray Milland, William Henry, Lee Bowman, John Carroll, Douglas Tony Martin, Robert Young, John Garfield, Artie Shaw, Skinnay Ennis, John Mack Brown, Dick For-aFranchot Tone, Lon Chaney Jr. and Noah Beery Jr. A band played lustily in front of Indian Creek school near Aurora, 111., when the first man reported to register. e, Me-Pha- il, School teachers acting as regisRegistration called out three of trars at Nehant, Mass., drew lots Minnesotas highest officials. Gov. for the distinction of registering Harold E. Stassen, 33, Lieut. Gov. e John Roosevelt, youngest son of the C. Elmer Anderson, 28, and A number of children grouped in President. Miss Mary Shea won the Joseph H. Ball, 34, had honor. to report to register. front of one Chicago school and sang, "Youre in the Army Now Draft officials announced that so loud it could be heard for blocks. Surprisingly few of the n, Senator-Designat- top-flig- ht some men between the ages of and 35 will not be registered for several months or even years. Inmates of prisons will be registered on the day of release, but not before. movie heroes were young enough to register. Some of the leading actors who were older than the draft requirement limit of 35 years were Clark Gable, Gary Cooper, Spencer Tracy, Ronald Coleman, Cary 21 Officials had a hard time writing in the name of one registrant who was born in the Philippine islands. His name is Hermonegildo Sobre-vill- a Pagulayan. Two hours after registration opened, one lad rushed up to County Judge Jarecki in the Chicago election boards office with: What do I do now, judge? Ive already lost my card! f DEGINNERS, make an - sion with your handiwrf medallion, Peacock pw easy to crochet, will mah proud as the peacocks spired it. Pattern 6757 contains lastr making medallions; illustrate and stitches; photograph oi a materials needed. Send ordei behind-the-scen- cl os gne rw lid ihoi inn ati ,nd 0l iD Circle Needlecnlti Eighth Ave. Enclose 15 cents In coins g tern No Sewing 82 g- lap Hi! ile fen w Name .. irm Address ber ijee tai How To o Ref msl Bronchiti! am :rn es Creomulslon relieves proof dei cause It goes right to the ne trouble to help loosen ,as germ laden phlegm, and aid if1 soothe and heal raw, flamed bronchial mucotu eat branes. Tell your druggist toi a bottle of Creomulslon with derstanding you must llketh V quickly allays the cough or vo to have 7our money back. 1DC CREOMULSI anti-Britis- fur Coughs, Chest Colds, I i I Ka Certain Not to be avaricious is not to be fond of buying i enue; but to be content! own is the greatest and tain wealth of all. Cicen Wealth Axis-Japane- t Dm ini am ;ar m :ur; t?, aar FOR ARMY t BUYING Here are actual samples of the capsules used in the national lottery to determine order numbers for prospective conscripts under the selective service act. Number 258, as shown above, was the first number drawn during the wartime lottery in 1917. Numbers are printed on white cardboard and inserted inside the capsules, Now that registration is over, young men between the ages of 21 and 35 are asking, "Whats next? For many of them, draft registration means the beginning of 10 to 15 years of obligation for military service. For many it may be months or even years before their "number will be called, requiring them to fill out the detailed questionnaire and report for service. More than 6,500 local draft boards throughout the country are preparing to give each man a number. Every registrant will be informed by mail of his number, but each local draft board will also print and post the entire list of names and numbers. Registrants are required to find out their number, even if they are not notified by maiL Lottery Drawing. The order in which men are to be called into service will be determined by the lottery drawing held in Washington between October 26 and November 2. Numbers are placed Most U. S. Presidents Have Short Life Span y There is little doubt about the constancy of Charles H. Burkhardts love for his fiancee, Florence When he registered in Chicago he listed Miss Heywood as the one person who will always know address. ire 6757. im New Yorkers Several found out they were only 35 and eligible for the draft Their birth certificates were based on the Julian calendar of Russia, but the lag of the Gregorian calendar used in the U. S. made them only 35. ois Pattern DIPLOMATIC CAPITAL It looks as if San Francisco is slated to become the capital for Axis diplomacy in the United States. For several years, the city has been the headquarters of Capt Fritz Wiedemann, Hitlers World war commander and personal representative in this country. And now he has been joined by a new Italian consul general of equal eminence. He is Carlo Bos-s- i, who ranks as high in inner Mussolini councils as Wiedemann does in Hitler's. Bossi, who is carefully avoiding the limelight, played a leading role in Italys support of General Franco against the Spanish Loyalists, and is credited with directing the capture of Barcelona, the blow that crushed h the Republic. He is strongly and has close ties with both Nazi and Japanese bigwigs. It was no accident that Bossi assumed his San Francisco post shortly before the announcement of the alliance. From the Pacific coast city, and working closely with Wiedemann, he will be in a strategic position to represent II Duce in the Far East. NEW SYSTEM Whats in a name? One registrar complained that an applicant had scribbled so badly she couldnt read Hey-woo- The last time Russia bought U. S. cotton was in the early 1930s. Official Russian explanation for the U. S. purchases is that under the latest five-yeplan, her spinning equipment is so rapidly expanding that she needs more cotton than she produces. According to the Soviet buyers their spindle capacity will reach a point in 1942 which will require a 40 per cent increase in cotton supply. The matter of possible Russian reexport of the U. S. cotton to Germany was one of the subjects discussed by Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles and Soviet Ambassador Oumansky, who gave positive assurances that the cotton was strictly for Russian use. ar ST. LAWRENCE WATERWAY bis name. The senate has twice refused to Cant help it, said the man. ratify the St. Lawrence waterway. "First names Ignatius. Never could It never was and never will be a spell it. waterway project. It is a power project It was called a shipway The first man to sign, up in Suto fool the Middle West Actually a Wis., was Woodrow Wilson perior, 10,000 cubic foot diversion into the Franklin, 23, who said he was Mississippi from Lake Michigan named after the World War Presiwhich was bargained for with Can dent who proclaimed the 1917 draft ada in the boundary waters treaty for the Chicago Drainage canal has alThe New York Giants football ready been largely surrendered. team were thrown for a loss when That greatly helped low water navi- 25 of them entered a school to regisgation in the Mississippi. Its surin a body from their ter. render hurt every Mississippi valley hotel,Marching were stopped by a line they state far more than the St Law- of anemic, narrow - shouldered rence can ever help them. clerks. Meekly they fell in at the The plea was "Great Lakes naviend of the line. The facts were that gation. pensive works in the lake outlets Forty midgets from the New York could have raised their levels 10 Worlds fair had to stand on chairs times the amount that diversion low- to register. They all said they wantered them. The motive was not ed to be airplane machine gunners. navigation but power and, in that particular case, private power at Patriotism must be especially Niagara Falls. strong in Philadelphia. A man wanted to register . . . and SHADES OF TEXAS GUINAN a boy who was to be 21 on the folSo Texas lowing Saturday. First the registrar "Hello, suckers! Guinan used to greet her guests said, Too old, then, Too young. honky-tonk- , in her high-clas- s where she sold them champagne which One Oak Park, HI., registrant de they knew to be faked from apple manded two cards, one for his Oak cider, at prices which they knew to Park home and the other listing be multiplied. She fleeced them out- him as a resident of Wisconsin. "Id rageously in many other obvious like to use the Wisconsin address ways from the moment they gave so I can get my fishing license as their wraps to the hat girl to the in- a resident, he explained. "Its stant of their departure. cheaper that way." She was rolling them, but made He got one card from Oak Park, no effort to conceal that process of her methods of doing it Children acted as guides to draftTexas Guinan was tops in inventees at a Philadelphia school. They ing and putting over attractive showed the men the way to the varifakes. She gloried in being able to ous classrooms where registration do that even while laughing openly was being held. at the weakness of their deception and the incredible gullibility of the Several women reported to regis suckers who swallowed them, paid tration places in South Philadelphia, through the nose for them, and Pa., thinking they had to register, clamored for more. too. Sounds in the Night: At the HickGOVERNMENT SPENDING ory House: "See that blonde? Thats Some time before the effort to proAt the Enduro: tect ourselves at a cost of billions. his reputation Why Grandma, what big guys you Assistant Secretary of State Adolf At the Pago-Paghave! "Its Berle boldly told the Senate O' Madifficult to tell which is more business-baitincommittee her conduct or his inten- honey that increase in federal debt and At the Brown Derby: taxes would tions inevitably result in final Shes making a name tor herself, federal ownership and operation of all right. You oughta hear what the all private property. The job was rest of the cast calls her At d complete before the "naArmando's: "He's a friendly fellow. tional defense spending began. You know, the kind guys slap on When the new "national defense" the back and gals usually manage taxes and restrictions are fully apto slap on the face. s plied it will be at least ... By JOHN L. NUGENT (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) d. 1 WASHINGTON.-W- hy would any one want to be President? The mere fact that theres only one living should be enough to scare anybody off. From George Washington down through Calvin Coolidge, Presidents have lived for an average of 13 years after the date of their inauguration to the nations highest official position. Nothing has been said about it publicly, but the defense commission has persuaded the army to make a revolutionary change in its purchasing methods. It will mean juicy orders to hundreds of factories which never had a look in before. The new system junks the old procedure of advertised bids and sub stitutes a modified plan of negotiated contracts. Instead of buying shoes shirts, or raincoats in huge quanti ties from a few large concerns, the army will purchase these goods as far as possible within each of the nine corps areas. This means that small local factories will have a chance to obtain a chunk of the armys business. 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AT YOUR DRUG STfl it.Jy in capsules pictured above, which striking feature of this campaign are then drawn to dethe distribution of the Bullitt speech termine the order in which the men given at Cipher-Ke- y Independence hall in Phila will be called. How much lies in laup delphia. wherewith For example, if the first number This distribution has now reached cipher-kedrawn is 97, then each man numthe amazing figure of 2,384,000. cipher the whole man.-- 1 bered 97 in each draft district will After his speech, Bullitt received be in the first group summoned. no less than 9,000 letters and teleWithin a few days he will receive with unsolicited grams, e an eight-pagquestionnaire which tions totaling more thancontribu $6,000. must be filled out and returned. This paid for distribution of the Answers furnished by these ques speech. . tionnaires will form the basis for Three people saw the Bullitt classification of the registrant speech before it was delivered. One Health, responsibilities, occupation was Stanley state departand religious convictions are factors ment adviserHornbeck, on Far Eastern afwhich will determine whether the fairs, who urged, without registrant shall be subject to imme- that Bullitt tone it down. success, Another diate or deferred calL was Archibald MacLeish, librarian How soon any given registrant of congress, who was elated with ... may be called depends upon the The third person was the President. position of his serial number ii Note Highlight of the Bullitt Washington. The law limits the num speech was the warning: "The Unitber who may be inducted into served States is in as ice in any one year to 900,000 men. as was France a great peril today year ago . . . Un-lePresent plans call for the drafting we act now, to meet decisively, of 400,000 men by March 15, 1941 the threat, we shall be too late. Every man who registered has several definite duties and obliga MAIL BAG tions he must perform. He must S. R., Philadelphia Any man always carry his certificate of reg yet 21 may become to me subject He istration. should watch for draft whenever the serial number and the order num another registration President sets day. Under the ber assigned to him after law he may designate future regis-tratio- n TEACHING A & drawing in Washington. days, and those who have VALUE OF , Every registrant must notify reached 21 in the interval are then local draft board of any changes A child of. wise 100 Iwll required to register. his address, employment, depend taught from early L. P. A., San o Calif. Robcome a regular reader ents, citizenship and physical con- ert Montgomery Mateo, is not an alien. He ti semen ts. In that wayb j dition. He should also keep in touch became an American than in any other cao . citizen many with his local board to see that taught the greatvalueotp hi0' Au3 SUCh he Was Wholly does net miss any notices to report in f'Bhts introducing Will for questioning or examination. 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