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Sleepy Report. In Oakland, Calif., Mr. & Mrs. Leo W. Gero were reported to have slept while the rug and floor blazed under their bed, slept while the fire apparatus roared up to the house, while the firemen piled in, while they fought the blaze and put it out, and left, carefully locking the door behind them...
...Emperor, the Japanese are seen in prayer before Shinto shrines. A U.S. flyer is executed by a firing squad while the radio yelps that the Mikado's cities have been "treacherously and inhumanly" bombed. Tiny children in uniform are shown being trained to fight. Tokyo, its streets a blaze of light, is obviously sneering at blackouts. Jap propaganda films "prove" that only force pays, that by its victories the nation already possesses sufficient rubber, timber and other raw materials to carry on a war that will wear out the rest of the world...
...must prepare for a future of nothing but struggle and war on a stupendous scale." For, says Mrs. Buck, the day of little dark brothers and the white man's burden is over. When the Axis falls we shall find ourselves faced by the blaze in Asia. It will be fanned by the irresistible wind of Asia's determination to be free, and kept alive by men who outnumber us by millions and who possess raw materials which reduce the natural resources of even America to small proportions...
...picture is worth seeing-its great excerpts from the past are tributes to directors of genius and to a nation which, for a while, gave them a chance to work as cinema talents have seldom been permitted to work. Even in mangled form, such scenes as the silver blaze of ripe wheat and sunflowers full of struggling men, crazed horses and black explosions (in Director Alexander Dovzhenko's Shors) are still able to make any perceptive U.S. filmgoer who has seen only the best advertised native films wonder, seriously, whether he has ever seen a real moving picture before...
Hearst Moves In. But then the press took up the story. The Hearst newspapers, the Los Angeles Examiner and the Herald & Express, and Harry Chandler's Los Angeles Times began to blaze. Late-afternoon editions printed black-faced leads about a purported anonymous call to headquarters: "We're meeting 500 strong tonight and we're going to kill every cop we see." The Hearst Herald & Express bannered: ZOOTERS THREATEN L. A. POLICE...