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This week Colonel Bendetsen got an unexpected, embarrassing sequel to the Japanese migration: when a young Japanese-American citizen violated curfew regulations, Portland's Federal Judge James Alger Fee ruled that the curfew law covered aliens only, that General DeWitt had no power over citizens. The reason: martial law had never been declared, was merely assumed. Possible results: 1) declaration of martial law on the Pacific Coast; 2) increased difficulty in enforcing dimouts, etc.; 3) court action by citizen Japanese who may construe from Judge Fee's ruling that they are illegally kept in camps...
Winding up a week's shooting of the Chaplain school and the life of a typical chaplain in training, the location will move to Fort Blanding, Florida, for action shots. A duplication of Guardalcanal has been built there for the more martial scenes...
Persuasion in Court. Their trial brought out the young officers' reasons for the assassination. They hoped to strike terror in capitalist and governing classes and bring about martial law, which they believed would be equivalent to military dictatorship. For a while they had considered mass slaughter of the House of Representatives. They thought about murdering Ambassador Grew and U.S. Consul General Arthur Garrels. They even considered shooting Charlie Chaplin who was then visiting Japan...
...most ambrosial lady he has ever teamed with. But Astaire underplays his lively feet and Miss Hayworth overplays her lovely hand. Even so, Astaire's dancing has the staccato precision of a military command, and Rita Hayworth, merely walking down a staircase, is something to risk court-martial...
...Nazi General Paul Bader decreed martial law throughout Serbia...