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Nogales international., 1941-08-15
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Shop Nearing
Completion

Work is to be completed in Sep
tenper on Paul Showalter's new
workshop and home in Patagonia.
TEE building, which will house
Showalter's Saddlery, is beng erect
ed eI the main thoroughfare of the
town near the cattle guard just as
you enter the town sfrom the direc-
ton gl1 Nogales-
Showalter's present location has
beconns toe small to handle his fast
growing saddle business and in his
new location he will put in "a stock
of boots. and Stetsm 7trats.
The new saddlery viii be of Span
4sh style architecture. 1T will have
large redwood doors with ornamen-
tai = hinges and surrounding the
building will be an ocaallo fence.
Tine strurture will have a 48-foot
frontage, D. showroom rabeut t6x30
feet, and a-7Workshop 1ax18.
The part of the building to be
useu by Mr. Showalter and family
as living quarters will have three
rooms and al bath.
Nogales international., 1941-08-15
CORONADO MEMORIAL
Derby Drivers
Guests Of Lions

Soap Box Derby drivers in the
recent races at Nogales and Tucson,
and Football Coach Wally Smith,
were guests of honor at Tuesday S
Lions Club luncheon in the Monte
yuma Auditorium, presided over by
Judge Gordon Farley, president OF
the club.
Frank Alonzo, George Karam,
Joe Karam and Billy Hafford, who
won heats in the Tucson derby, re-
ceived their prizes at the luncheon,
and George Karam was given a
medal with the official Soap Box
Derby emblem for winning second
place at Tucson.
A motion picture of the Nogales
derby was shown by DR.. Zenas
Noon.
Nogales international., 1941-08-15
THIS WEEK In DEFENSE

WASHINGTON, DC, Aug. IA
President Roosevelt placed airplane
fuels under export control, limiting
shipment to points in the Western
Hemisphere, the British Empire and
unoccupied territories of countries
resisting aggression. Secretary Hull
told his press conference any move
of Japan into Thailand would be a
matter of concern to the Un1Ted
States. Treasury Secretary Nor
genthau announced the lend-lease
administration has ordered 10000
600 yards Of cotton grey goods to
make uniforms for Chinese soldiers.
AID TO RUSSIA
The State Department announced
extension of the trade agreement
between the U.S.S.E. and the Unit
ed States until August 6, 1912, to
insure continuance during the
emergency period Of our establish
ed commercial relations with the
Soviet Union on the basis of the
1897 commercial agreement" Rus
sia will pay cash or will earmark
gold for all materials bought, the
Department said.
SILK
The Office of Production Man
agemaent "froze" all silk supplies in
the country because minimum re-
quirenGnts of the Army and Navy
for silk powder bags and parachutes
will consume total stocks. Price
Administrator Henderson said the
action should not result in retail
stocking price increases for stocks
on hand. OPM formed a special
commodity section to handle prob
lens of obtaining substitute mater
ials, allocating rayon yarn and
manufacturing capacity.
Federal Security Administrator
McNutt called for immediate regis
tration by State Employment Serv-
ices of the approximately 5000
silk industry workers being forced
out of work by the raw silk short
age. The Department of Agricul-
ture reported more than $50 differ
ent cotton stocking designs are
available to the hosiery industry,
and stated 80 per cent of the 10000
Nogales international., 1941-08-15
Rainfall Here
Past Week .86

Rainfall the past week up to S
pm, yesterday was SO of an inch.
There was .02 August 7th, .43
August 9th, IL August 9th, and
80 Wednesday night.
Added to the 1.99 inches.
which fell between til first
and seventh of August, the to-
tai for the month up to PM.
Thursday was 2.85 inches
just 1.2O inches less ian the
total of 4.05 inches 70 the en-
tire month of August a ,ar ago,
and the month is -lOt yet half
over.
A heavy rain fell early Wednes-
day afternoon at Rancho Grande
and in the vicinity of Circle z
Ranch.
Nogales international., 1941-08-15

The condition of former Gov
ernOr Bob Jones, who has been
critically ill in Los Angeles since
Saturday night, continued to
improve yesterday.
ellis temperature is normal, he is
cheerful, and we think he is going
to pull through" employees of his
drug store in Tucson were advised
in a long distance call.
Jones is fighting against periton-
tits which followed an emergency
appendectomy.
During the operation it was
found that Jones appendix was
ruptured.
The acute appendicitis attack oc-
Cured while Jones was on a busi-
ness trip. He had left for the coast
city following the Soap Box Derby
in Tucson Sunday, Aug. 3, at which
he presented the M. E. Coyle trophy
to the winning driver.
Nogales international., 1941-08-15
District COnfab
Here Cancelled

The Rotary district president S
and secretary's meeting scheduled
for August "a and 25 at Nogales has
been cancelled.
Tom j. Davis of Butte, Montana,
president of Rotary International,
has called a meeting of all Rotary
presidents and secretaries in this
district for Phoenix on Tuesday,
August 10.
Since the Nogales meeting was
scheduled for the following week
end, it has been decided to cancel
it and have just the one meeting in
Phoenix.
Nogales international., 1941-08-15

support to the military service ex--
tension bill.
Murray was engaged at Phoenix
Tuesday in a hearing of a special
senate subcommittee on strategic
minerals.
The Montana senator advocated
a complete return to the policy of
the freedom of the seas.
1--WE never should have included
Ireland in the war zone," Murray
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Air Base Chief
Visitor Here

Lieutenant Colonel Guy Kirksey
and wife were here Monday from
Tucson visiting MIR. and Mrs. John
w. Larimore.
Kirksey was transferred about
three weeks ago from the army air
base at Fort Bliss, Texas, to have
charge of the new air base in TIC
son.
Mrs. Kirksey and Mrs. Larimore
have been very close friends fer
many years.
Nogales international., 1941-08-15
| Annual County
Fair i AT .Sonota
October l1-l2

Saturday and Sunday, October II
and II, have been set as the dates
for the 26th annual fair of the
Santa Cruz County Fair & Rodeo
Association, it was announced by H.
B. Thurber and Ed LeGendre, visi-
tors here Saturday rom Son0ita,
location of the fair grounds.
Thurber is president, and LeGen-
DIRE, secretary, of the fair assocfa-
tiO1.
Nogales international., 1941-08-15

knitting machines can knit cotton
as we'll as silk.
ARMY
The War Department announced
6, campaign to convert to armament
production thousands of consumer
goods factories facing eventual shut
down because of diversion of raw
materials to the defense program,
and said it already has list of 500
such plants.
The Department expanded it's Of
ficer candidate schools to provide
opportunities for one in each 100
soldiers to receive commission.
Advancement during the first year
will be available to about So per-
cent of all trainees, the Department
said. 1t reported 100 Canadian Of
ficers and IS junior officers from
the Latin American republics are
now enrolled in various courses with
the us. Army.
OIL
Petroleum Coordinator Ickes said
he was satisfied with first results of
the nightly blackout of East Coast
gasoline stations, but asked motor
lists to redouble efforts to cut motor
fuel consumption voluntarily. He
made recommendations for opera
tors of commercial vehicles which
he said would cut gas consumption
about 80 percent, and announced
the oil industry will give its patrons
windshield st1cKers pledging the
use of one-third less gasoline than
usual. He said 80 insurance COM
panies have contributed to the
"share-your-c campaign" by re-
vising underwriting rules to enable
motorists to carry paying passen-
gers to and from work.
LABOR SUPPLY
The OPM said railroad labor and
will help meet skilled
labor shortages in defense industries
out of the available supply of rail-
road workers, which includes 10000
skilled mechanics now unemployed
and 10000 apprentices who could
be promoted to release other work
ers. The OPM also announced 81
Gulf Coast shipyards have put into
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Nogales international., 1941-08-15
Fiesta Pictures To
Be .Shown Today

Motion pictures of Fiesta de Las
Flores, held at Nogales early in
May, will be shown at today's Ro-
tary Club luncheon by Harry
Chernin, program chairman 1or to-
days meeting.
w. c.. Wilkinson of San Francisco,
a Red Cross official, was guest
speaker last week. Other guests
were P. j. Bughman, Nogales; c.. G.
Cheshire, Flagstaff; Tom FafMey
and Ferd LAUDER, Tucson.
Nogales international., 1941-08-15
Combined Tax
Levy To
Drop 43 Cents

Indications are that Nogales resi-
dents will pay a combined tax levy
CT $6.87 on each $10O of assessed
valuation in 1941, a drop Of 43 cents
from $3.50 last year.
The official city and county rates
will oe fixed Monday.
Rates for 1910 and 1941 are ex-
pected to compare as follows:
Nogales international., 1941-08-15
Fisher Buys
Adams Ranch

Lee Fisher of Wilcox, formerly of
Maria, Texas, has purchased the
Roy Adams 45-Bar ranch on the
west side of the Tucson road six
miles north of Nogales.
The deal also included the Adams
cattle of about 600 head.
Nogales international., 1941-08-15
Last Rites For
Rev. McGaugh
At Riverside

Last rites were neld in Riverside
California, Friday afternoon for the
late Rev. William r. McGaugh, for
mer pastor of the Methodist church
at Grand avenue and Potrero
street, this city, who died a week
ego Tuesday.
Cause of the well known minis
ter's death, which came as a shock
to his host of friends in this city,
was "carbon monoXide gas" A card
received here said ''he vent out to
his car and turned on the gas
Rev. McGaugh had been in poor
health for years, and suffered a
nervous breakdown last spring from
which he never recovered. A short
time before his death he spent two
weeks in the mountains of southern
California seeking relief from his
nervousness.
HERE FIVE YEARS
Mr.. McGaugh was pastor of the
local church for period of five
years until his transfer on July 4
of last year to Riverside where he
filled the pulpit of the Arlington
church, the third largest Methodist
church in that city.
Altogether, he lived in Arizona
II years, having been a pastor at
and Miami, before locating in No
gales. During his residence here
he was very active in church affairs
and belonged to the Rotary Club.
He is survived by his widow and
one daughter, Daphne, and three
sons, Billy, Dana and James.
Nogales international., 1941-08-15

The decrease in county and in
crease in state levy result principal
ly from new legislation governing
school appropriations. The increas-
ed city levy is due to heavier bud
getting for bond requirements.
The combined Nogales rate is just
As cents higher than the new Tucson
levy of $64132.
Nogales international., 1941-08-15
AshAppears
To Your
Congressman
&&
By JOHN r.. MURDOCH

WASHINGTON, DC, Aug. II
Congressional proceedings in the
House on Monday, August 4, were
rather significant for Arizona, be-
cause al bill concerning the Corona
do international Memorial was pass
ed, and the Ways and Means Com
mittee proposal to require a marida,-
tory goint income tax return fo1
Husbands and wives was defeated.
OF course I voted to strike out
the mandatory YAK provision. Ari-
zorla is enc of the eight states OF
the Union having the law of COM
nnunaty prosperity.
However, the defeat of the COM
mlttee provision was not by the
eight community property states
alone, but in conjunction witk that
of eastern states where the wemen
insist that equal rights, with all
that it implies, shall be retained by
them, including the right of a mar
ried woman to ale a separate tM-
cGme tax return.
CORONADO MEMORIAL
The Coronado international Mem
orial will be located on the border
betWeeln Arizona and MeXico. not
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Nogales international., 1941-08-15
Rancho Grande
Re-Opens Oct. l

P. G.. B. .(BuO Morris and bust
ness partner, Bob Simon, are re-
turning from California the first of
the month to spend September pre-
pairing Rancho Grande for opening
of the fall and winter season Octo-
ber l. x#A
Nogales international., 1941-08-15
Many Happy Returns

Arda Mary Wilson, native daugh-
ter of Nogales, five years old August
9. Parents are Mr.. and Mrs. Harry
A. Wilson. Mother born in Oregon,
dad in Texas.
Nogales international., 1941-08-15

BURT FOR THE is four TEACH SEASON and these
foot Johnny Gee (for Giovan f &partaburg, S. &C. quoe
shown herende panepea6es nquoe lend their charm
Newark N j. plant inauguration of nationMdecea
holding buffer bar Tseepaign led by chain oresto market
while sXfoo coWorkethS years bumper crop-estmated
hammers in rivets which stca &c. 100000
planes outer skin to framesAt1yfS ggrowers
Evening star., 1941-06-19

British are more than fair. But
in some military quarters there is
a certain amount of uneasiness.
Syria was to be what is called a
coup de main"-a quick action
followed by a lightning success.
This can no longer be the case.
In the meantime, the morale OF
the French troops fighting against
the British and the Gaullist
forces has been increased. Doubt
full officers have been removed
from their command and few
have been shot. New hundred
percenters have replaced them.
Other "doubtfuls" have definitely
been gained to Vichy's side by
promises of promotion or by
threats to their families living in
France.
These officers might have throw
their hand if the British-Fret
French forces had not met witt
any setback. But now they ar
more likely than not to continu
to fight under the new tricolor
behind which can be easily dis
cerned the Swastika.
Evening star., 1941-06-19

Catroux, whom they knew and
admired, than on the side of a
government in which, 1t was
hoped, they did not believe since
it associated itself with the enc
mics of year ago.
Based on this belief, the Brit
ish-Free French forces began the
operations with what may be
called a handful of men-some
$4,000. Gen. Wavell is said to
have informed the Middle East
command that he could spare
them nothing more than the
troops from Palestine and Trans
jordania and the reinforcement
of the aviation of the command
with units from Iraq, which were
available after the collapse of the
pro-Nazi move in Baghdad.
Wavell knew he could not spare
any men from Africa because OF
the impending Axis attack. His
request to London that at least
an additional army corps be sent
to the Eastern Mediterranean was
turned down because of the lack
Of transports. An army corps
composed, say, Of 10000 men
needs 10000 tons of shipping. 1t
is estimated that for each man
of an expeditionary corps seven
tons of war material, equipment
and supplies are necessary. And
under the present circumstances,
the British Government can i'll
afford to risk some 100000 tons
of shipping to reinforce the
Wavell forces. All the available
tonnage is being used to carry
supplies of all kinds to the exist
ing army.
Defections Slow Down.
Since it was evident that the
invading force could not rely on
any actual reinforcements, it was
hoped that the French officers
in command Of the heterogeneous
Syrian force under Gen. Dentz
would cross the lines to the Free
French-British camp with or
without their units. The Senega-
galese, the Anamites and the Mo-
roccoans are good fighters as
long as they are led. But when
they are deprived of their officers,
they disperse.
Evening star., 1941-06-19
The Political Mill
McCorron Bill to Merge Air Arms Under Single
Department Faces Stiff Fight If Pressed

Chairman Walsh of the Senate
Naval Affairs Committee is in
clined to agree with the House
chairman.
Naval Arm Defended.
The need, Mr.. VinSon insists,
is for unified command in naval
operations, with the ranking
naval officer in control. The
same, he maintains, is needed for
military operations ashore. 1t
appears. therefore, that whatever
may be the decision in regard to
the Army air force there will be
serious resistance to any effort
to take from the Navy its air arm.
The Piles for an independent
air force, free of any Army and
Navy control, is not new. 1t was
advanced 16 years or more ago
by Brig. Gen. william Mitchell,
and so forcefully advanced that
he was court-martialed and found
guilty of characterization. He
was sentenced to be suspended
from rank, command and duty,
and to forfeit all pay and allow
ances for five years, and he re-
signed. 1t was his contention
then, as 1t is Senator McCarran's
now and of those who believe
with him, that one man should be
placed in charge of aviation, and
that all military power should
be eventually concentrated under
a single Departmental depart
ment of defense.
Senator McCarran has not
gone the length of demanding a
single department of defense,
with three co-ordinated branches
governing the Army, the Novy and
the air force, but he is demand
ing prompt action to establish
an independent department of
aviation. 1t Is his contention
that to be safe a nation must
control the air above it, just as
1t must control its own land the
seas around it.
Germany Co-Ordinates Forces.
Germany has a setup that
co-ordinates the army, navy and
air force, although each remains
in a measure independent. All
three are under supreme COM
mand, which assigns each its own
particular task when the objec-
tive has been fixed. This comes
nearer to a single department of
defense, certainly so far actual
military operations are conc
erned.
Whether the air force can
grow and develop better as an
independent organization - as
Evening star., 1941-06-19
BY GOULD LINCOLN.

A United States Air Force, I'M
der the jurisdiction of a new De-
partment of Aviation, is provided
for in a bill introduced by Sena-
tor McCarran of Nevada. Under
the terms of the bill, the air
forces of the Army and the Navy
are to be transferred to the pro-
posed Department of Aviation,
which will have sole jurisdiction
over 'the activities of the Gov
ernment relating to military avia-
ton and over the operation and
maintenance of the air force"
The bill has been referred to the
Senate Military Affairs Commit
tee, whose chairman, Senator
Reynolds of North Carolina, has
declared himself in sympathy
with the plan for a separate and
independent air force.
If the plan should be adopted,
the United States will have
copied the set-up of the British
with a separate Royal Air Force.
The McCarran measure, however,
has a long and difficult road to
travel before it can be adopted
and the chances appear to be
distinctly against its adoption
right now. Probably only the in
sistence of the President himself
would bring about the bills uti-
mate passage.
The Importance of the air arm
has been demonstrated conclu-
sively in the war abroad. 1t is
Senator McCarran'S opinion that
Evening star., 1941-06-19

plants it must be allowed to acquire
the facilities built up during the
emergency. 1t has specifically said
it does not wish such right. Sec
retary Ickes, however, reveals the
handwriting on the wall when he
testifies that the Government will
insist, in awarding management con-
tracts, on the right in the future to
operate as well as to lease or sell
any plants built now. Such a policy
has not been sanctioned by Congress
and unless repudiated by President
Roosevelt will do more to undermine
the morale of American industry
than any other circumstance related
to the national defense program.
Testimony Recited.
Here are the exact words Of the
testimony on this point:
Senator Brewster of Maine-"In
Justice to the representative of the
Aluminium Company who appeared
here. he testified that the Aluminium
Company would not stipulate any
such requirement and that they
would be ready to undertake man
agement proposals such as you had
in mind without insisting on the
right of acquisition"
Secretary Ickes-"That would be
satisfactory so far as am concerned,
reserving, however, as I said, the
right to the Government to con-
tinue to operate or to lease or to
SELL"
1t is not clear why that right
should be interposed now, but in
the same testimony the Secretary OF
the Interior gives his ideas OF what
competition ought to be after the
war and what prices should be and
he openly declares that large units
should be Offset by new units OF
smaller size. helped presumably by
these Government plants, or else the
Government would use its plants a.
a club over private industry.
Evening star., 1941-06-19
Political Delay in Syria
Eliot Sees Need Of independence of Action
To Bring Compoign to Speedy Victory

Indeed, the Syrian situation pres
ents q rather curious paradox, in
which-again on the face of things
unfortunate results have so far at
tended too great political interfer-
ence with the military on the Brit
ish side, and lack of political COM
petence on the Free French side.
There seems to exist a lack of
centralized authority on the spot,
able to act and to take decisions
whether of military or political
character without reference to Lon
don.
Calm Despite Criticism.
American correspondents and OBJ
servers returning from the Middle
East have been rather sharp in their
criticisms of the British high COM
missioner at Cairo, Sir Miles Lamp
son, both as to his Arab and Egyp-
tian policy. And yet, again, from
this distance one hesitates to join
in this criticism. After all there
has been no serious trouble in Egypt,
where it was anticipated that Axis
propagandists would be able to cause
crippling disturbances; the Iraqi
revolt has been dealth with; there
have been no great uprisings in
Palestine; Trans-Jordan remains
firm in its British allegiance; Ibn
Saud refused to aid the Iraqi rebels.
And while delay may be deplored, it
is too early yet to say that the
Syrian campaign is failure or any
thing like it. 1t may turn out a
drst-rate success.
A successful defense of Syria, or
even an unduly protracted stand
by the forces under Gen. Dentz,
might so add to the prestige and
authority of the Vichy government
at home as to make it possible
for the Germans-if they can handle
their advantage with real finesse-
TO bring about the intervention Of
the French fleet in the Eastern
Mediterranean to relieve the Syrian
garrison. The Germans must by
this time be convinced that their
prograss toward conquest of all the
Middle East would be immensely
hastened if they could overcome the
British advantage of command of
the sea.
1t is quite possible the Dunkerque
has now been repaired and made
ready for sea, so that the French
may possess in their base at Toulon
two excellent, modern, fast armored
ships. to which may be added (also
at Toulon) probably seven cruisers,
30-odd destroyers and a strong
flotilla of submarines. If this force
could be reinforced by Italian ships
perhaps manned in part by Ger
mans-it is capable = causing Sir
Andrew Cunningham serious trouble.
AS a partial offset, however, it
may be noted that the French
battleship Lorraine, four cruisers,
six destroyers and four submarines
now lie demilitarized at Alexandria.
Naval possibilities with the French
would certainly release the British
from any obligation not to use these
vessels, and crews for them might
be found in part from the rescued
crews of British warships lost dur
ing the battle Of Crete. 1t would
take some time, however. to put
them into effective fighting trim.
1t is quite possible the whole naval
situation in the Eastern Mediter-
ranean might be upset by the inter-
vention Of the French feet, and
such Intervention Is made more