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Since the fall of Hankow and Canton last October, fighting in China has remained desultory. Best reason for this has been that the Japanese military could not decide whether to pursue Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and his Communist allies into the ragged highlands of southwestern and northwestern China (which foreign observers estimate would require another 500,000 men) or to spread out beyond the roads and rivers and really take over the territory the army has only penetrated...
...BIGGER THEY COME-A. A. Fair-Morrow ($2). Introducing fat, profane Detective Bertha Cool and her runty assistant Donald Lam. Slot-machine racketeers in a Southwestern locale, with a jackpot ending that turns on a neat legal trick...
SHANGHAI--Monday--Japanese armed forces today drove deeper into Central and Southwestern China, ignoring parallel diplomatic protests from Britain, France, and the United States against their increasing control of China...
Claiming that because of its topography, vistas of New England Fall foliage exceed those of less rugged sections, Wyman states that there is only one small region in South America, one region in Southwestern Europe, and one other place in North America where there are such colorings...
Fourteen years ago Eleanor Getzendaner, a young wrangler who was riding as a jockey at outlaw tracks and country fairs, saw Elmer Gantry when he was a thoroughbred yearling on a southwestern Nebraska ranch. She tried to buy him, failed be cause the price was too high. She kept her eye on him. Few years later, after he had been wintered outdoors in a poor pasture until he was so thin and rough as to be practically valueless, she was able to buy him for a song. She found him amazingly intelligent and adaptable, soon had him trained...