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Nogales international., 1942-12-18
Bicyclist Hurt
In Crash Here

Losing control of her bicycle after
its brakes failed to work on steep
Hudgin street hill, Miss Bertha Sal
damando, daughter of Carlos Sal
damando, suffered a badly injured
right eye when she crashed into a
pest at the Postoffice Service Sta
ton, Morley avenue and Hudgin
street, about 2:30 pm. Monday.
Miss Saldamando guided the bike
against the post to avoid a collision
with a car on Morley avenue.
Nogales international., 1942-12-18
Nogales Defeats
Patagonia Hoopsters

The Nogales High School basket
ball team defeated Patagonia High
1926 at Patagonia Wednesday even
ing. At halftime the score was
knotted at 1913 and at the close of
the third period the Nogalians took
the lead, 1924.
Louie Lomeli, accurate Nogales
forward, took scoring honors with
13 points. Jack Combs, Patagonia
eager, tailed IL points.
Nogales international., 1942-12-18
Cleanup Drive
Proposed
For Nogales

City Attorney James v. Robins,
City Sanitarian Walter Noon and
Chief of Police j. A McGimsey
were instructed to draw up ordin-
ances prohibiting prostitution and
lewdness following meeting of
city and county officials Wednesday
night.
They were also instructed to draw
up some sanitary ordinances.
Nogales international., 1942-12-18
Chicagoan To Spend
Holidays At
Law J2 Ranch

James B. Meigs Cf Chicago, ad-
vertising manager of The American
Weekly, weekly magazine section of
the large number of Hearst news
papers, is arriving tomorrow to
spend the holidays with his wife,
daughter and two sons, at Lazy J2
ranch in San Rafael Valley.
He is brother of Merrill G. Meigs
of Chicago, vice-president of the
Hearst Corporation, who was loaned
to the government by the Hearst
Corporation to be chief of aircraft
production at Washington, DC,
the past two years.
Nogales international., 1942-12-18
Mrs. Bulge, 80
Years OF Age,
Taken By Death

Following a long illness, Mrs.
Emma Bulge, 90, resident of this
city about 40 years, died at st.
.Joseph's Hospital at am. Satur-
day.
Last rites were held at the Epis-
copal Church Sunday and the aged
pioneer was laid to rest in the Ma
sonic Cemetery beside her husband,
Will G. Bulge, railroad man, who
passed away about Is years ago.
Nogales international., 1942-12-18
Nogales Girls
In Fiesta At
New Orleans

Misses Marie Louise and Elinore
JCffroy, daughters of Mr.. and Mrs
Albert Joffroy, who are attending
st. Mary's Dominican College in
New Orleans, took part in fiesta
for the benefit of the USO at New
Orleans a few days ago.
Attired in Mexican costumes, the
two girls did number of dance
specialties.
Nogales international., 1942-12-18
Aged Chinaman
Passes Away

Woo Ben, about 83 years of age,
known as Patag0nias famous old
Ben" died Saturday while being
brought in the Carroon ambulance
from Patagonia to Nogales for
medical treatment. Funeral serv-
ices were held here Tuesday.
The aged Chinaman came to the
United States in 1877, Arizona 1890,
and to what is now Patagonia in
1891.
Nogales international., 1942-12-18
Auto GraUeyards
Yield 99,O18
Pounds Of Rubber

Arizona's auto graveyards yielded
99,018 pounds of scrap rubber to the
nations stockpile during November,
reports made by G. w. Collins,
Phoenix, and D. L. Bouse, Tucson
War Production Board auto grave
yards inspectors, reveal. The har-
vest netted more than three and
one-half times the October crop.
Wrecking of 2,204 decrepit auto
mobiles turned up the rubber.
Nogales international., 1942-12-18
Ted Quiiroz
Assigned To
Navy Here

Nine days after he enlisted in the
navy at Tucson Dec. 7, Ted Quiroz
arrived here Tuesday to be station
ed in this city, where he used to- be
manager of the Safeway Store.
Quiroz is a yeoman 3rd class and
before joining the navy was employ
ed at the Sears Roebuck store at
Tucson. His wife will join him here
soon.
Nogales international., 1942-12-18
Rotary Xmas
Party Today

Rotarians and Rotaryanns will
hold their annual Christmas party
today noon at the Montezuma Ho-
tel. Harry Chernin is to be pro-
gram chairman.
THE club will accept the usual
Christmas donations at Fridays
party" j. C. Tovrea, president of
the organization, said yesterday.
Nogales international., 1942-12-18
"a Carloads Of
Cattle Shipped
By Elias Company

Forty four carloads of Sonora
cattle enroute to northern Arizona
were shipped through Nogales yes
terday by the Elias Brokerage Com
pany.
A week ago yesterday the Elias
company shipped so carloads (about
1900 head to New Mexico and
Lower California.
Nogales international., 1942-12-18

OSCAR r. SOTO, Nogales High
Schools most popular boy, will be
crowned as King Oscar I during
the annual Junior Glass Prom in
the Montezuma Ballroom tomOr-
row night.
Soto, 19-year-Old son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank (PacO) Soto, 234 Ter
race avenue, was elected king by
the schools student body Dec. 2.
Besides being king, he is presi-
dent of the Mis-. student body,
one of the managers of this years
football team, honorary member
of the Nogales Rotary Club, and
was all-state miller in track last
Spring. He will graduate from
high school in May.
Nogales international., 1942-12-18
Drilling In Oil
Well At Sonoita
Down 1864 Feet

A depth of, 1854 feet had been
reached in the drilling for Gil near
Scaoita up to pm. yesterday.
I'VE have had oil and gas show
ings right alonc, there has been sew
eral electric loss made Of the we'll
and the situation looks very good,
it was declared this week by a per-
son interested in the drilling.
Nogales international., 1942-12-18
Manuel Loaiza
Building Home
In Nogales, Sonora

Manuel Loaiza Of Hermosillo is
building a very large home on Her.
rera street west of the Gonzalo
Armada residence in Nogales, Son
era.
Mr.. Loaiza is the father of Mrs.
Ignacio Gaxiola of Nogales.
Nogales international., 1942-12-18
Willie Joffrov
Now Corporal

Willie Joffroy, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Alex Joffroy, who is with the
American army somewhere in Alas
ka, has been promoted to- corporal.
He is private secretary to the
colonel of his regiment and stem
ographer of the military court
Nogales international., 1942-12-18
JOHNNY PETERSON TO
SPEND HOLIDAYS HERE

Johnny Peterson is arriving Sun
day from U. S. Navy airport at
Oakland, Calf, to spend Christmas
with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
George Peterson of American ave-
nue.. He has been in the navy since
early in July.
Nogales international., 1942-12-18
Mrs. Luisa Mascarenas, Resident OF
NogaIes 60 Years,
Passes Away Here At Age OF Ninety

Mrs. Luisa NJ de Mascarenas, 80,
died suddenly at $50 pm. Friday
at the home of her daughter, Mrs.
Luisa M. F'leischer, 202 Perkins
street.
Surviving relatives besides the
daughter, Mrs. Fleischer, include
Nogales international., 1942-12-18

SIldIG.
''The Office of Price Administra-
ton is doing everything possible to
see that inequities are smoothed out.
but the program of supplying the
Army, Navy and foreign forces must
come first
Nogales international., 1942-12-18
FNLTSTS IN ARMY

George Logan, Nogales high
school student, enlisted in the army
at Phoenix Saturday and left Men
day for Fort Macarthur, San Pedro.
He is a son of John j. Logan, 1876
Elm Street.
Nogales international., 1942-12-18
MANY HAPPY
RETURNS

Miss Ruth Jones, Dec. II.
Alan Houle, 18 on January 8.
Mack Lewis, Jr., 18 on January 9.
Nogales international., 1942-12-18

the holidays
Sgt Willis and Sgt Douglas NJ Edgen, 20,
right Of C. Edgel of Patagonia
coming the 393rd
Douglas who enlisted in October
expected yesterday field artillery at F SILL
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Weather Bureau
| Lifts 5O-YeorR Rule
| To Hire Women

Due to demand on its personnel
by the military services, the Weather
Bureau at the Washington National
Airport will break a 50-year-old
precedent and employ women as
assistant and junior observers, c. O.
Schick, meteorologist in charge, an
nounced today.
Explaining the local bureau will
become the first in the United States
to put such a plan into effect, Mr..
Schick said there are openings i'm
mediately for 10 women.
To be eligible for assistant OBJ
server, an applicant must be be-
tween Is and So years of age and
must have completed successfully
two years Of college, with year
each of instruction In college math-
ematics and physics. Those eligible
for the junior grade must be IL tc
IS and must have high" school edu-
cation, including algebra and
physics.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-04-03
Enemy Bombers
Attack Church
On Good Friday
Manila Boy Forts
Again Are Torsets
Of Light Roids
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The defenders of the Philip
pines Bataan Peninsula repulsed
several light japanese attacks
last night, the War Department
said in a communique today, and
inflicted considerable enemy
losses"
For the eleventh consecutive day
the Manila Bay forts were attacked
by enemy bombers, but the raids
were described as light. An srtil-
lery duel took place, meanwhile, be-
tween the forts and Japanese bat
teries on the south shore of the
bay.
The communique said a Japanese
air attack was reported to have
been made on Good Friday on a
church at the village of Miral, near
Digos, on the southern island Of
Mindanao. Digos was the scene OF
a raid two days ago in which %
Japanese military warehouses were
destroyed.
The text of the communique, No.
174. based on reports received here
until pm. follows:
1. Philippine theater:
During the night of April 2, there
were several light attacks by the
enemy at various points along our
front line. All of these assaults were
repealed by our troops with consid-
cradle enemy losses. Bombing of
our front lines by the Japanese con-
tinued today.
There were several light air at
tacks on our harbor defenses today.
These were accompanied by Smelling
from enemy batteries on the Cavite
shore Our forts returned the fire.
Good Friday was marked by a
report Of a Japanese air attack on
a church at Miral, near Digos, on
the island of Mindanao.
%. There is nothing to report
! from other areas"
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Police Break Up
| Youths Pose as
Macarthur Pilot
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MELBOURNE, Australia, Satur-
day, April 4.-Australian police to-
day ended a 16-year -old youngsters
masquerade as the pilot of the plane
which brought Gen. Douglas Mac
Arthur out OF the Philippines.
The youth, posing as a lieutenant
in the United States Army Air Corps,
toured Melbourne's residential dis
trict seeking accommodations for
American troops. The lad was
dressed in civilian clothes, but had
an airman's wings sewn on his blue
shirt and wore an Australian Navy
League cap to which he had added
an American eagle badge.
In his leather shoulder strap hol-
ster police found toy water pistol.
The boy produced an excellently
printed American identification card
which, police said, he had made him
self. He finally gave himself away
by his American accent" which
faltered and changed to his native
Australian when he was being ques-
toned.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-04-03

nv kJCAidbO1 4JdflhCl 4OQuCot, a
subcommittee of the special Senate
committee which is investigating the
national defense program conducted
hearings at Las Vegas in March, and
yesterday filed with the Senate a
report which termed a lease agree
ment between the Defense Plant
Corp. and Basic Magnesium, Inc,
involving magnesite deposits, "one
of the most fragrant attempts at war
profiteering"
Celebrating today, Senator Bunker
read a list of salaries of officials Of
the company, and added that later
In an address to the Senate he would
'tie the ends of this amazing scam
dial of war proflteering together"
Salary List Disclosed.
The list of salaries included names
and positions of more than 40 ON
Gals, whose salaries ranged from
$3s, 200 a year to $4,000. Among
them yere:
H. C. Mann, project manager,
$50, 900; D. w. Stewart, assistant
project manager, $40, 900; w. F. Way,
project manager of construction,
1880; G. B. Kaufman, managing
engineer, $4,000; J. r. Charles, Eng
lish consultant, $4,000; w. w. Pat
noe, chief engineer, $500; S. j.
Fletcher, English consultant, $l2 900;
Harley c. Lee, technical advisor,
$4,000; w. R. Battey. director Of
electrical design, SIC, 400; w. B. Dyer,
chief engineer, $l0,lo4; r. c. Kelley,
director of purchases, $4,000, and
C. A. Warne, controller, $4,000.
It hesitate to make this very in
teresting and unusual list public for
fear of the reaction it will have
from the men who are training,
fighting and dying for their country
at 81 per month; for fear also Of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-04-03
Opening Bid Wins
Bel Air in Thriller,
Returning S11.D
Bowie's Double S25.40;
| 1900 Watch Sport
Under Summary Skies
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BOWIE, Md, April 3.-The Bel
Air, this afternoons 51a-furlong
feature, brought a thrill to the
crowd of $4,000. w. w. Cren-
shaw's Opening Bid ran the dis
lance in 1908, winning in the
final stride.
Far back in the early running
Charlie Wahler brought Opening
Bid wide into the homestretch. He
piled his whip vigorously then and
had the colt up in time to win and
return his hackers s1150 Ella K.
Bryson's Marksman, odds-on fav-
orite, took place from Henry II
Hecht's Firebroom.
The day was balmy and the track
lightning fast.
Long-shot players collected $3.50
when T. Nesbitt's Wilton, a recent
arrival from California, got up in
the final stride to nose out the Chris
tiana Stables SobriQuet. favorite in
the fifth. Sobriquet set the early
pace and just failed to last. Mrs.
]. Y. Christmas aged Rough Time
was third.
Moon Drift Wins Fourth.
Stepping to the front soon after
the start, william L. Brann's Moon
Drift easily won the three-Quarter
fourth. She paid 5000. w. w.
Crenshaw's Neddie Boy, after suffer-
ing early interference, came from far
back to take place from M S. J. B.
Bonds Most Alert. The Oh istiana
Stables Kentucky Derby ca didate
Half Crown raced poorly.
B. Frank Christmas Molasses
Mibs. after breaking slowly, circled
the field to win the mile and one
sixteenth of the third in a driving
finish. She paid $4.20. Mrs. B
Ryan's Richestan took the place
from Watt Elliott's Kimesha.
Form players collected S7.10 when
D. J. Sullivan's Rissa sped So fur
longs In LOTS to capture the second
easily. Sylvester w. Labrot's Nick
and Miss Jayne Waugh's Last Bet
finished as named.
Double Pays $3.50.
The daily double combination of
8 and 6, consisting of the Blenheim
Farms Four Stars and Rissa, paid
SIS 40.
Four Stars closed with a rush to
win the opener in the closing strides.
She was timed in o:48b and paid
$3.50. w. C. Stroube's Ariel Beam,
set the early pace and outgamed
Gustav Rings Fresh Money and
nine other 2-year-olds for second.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-04-03
Vanderbilt Quits Racing Posts,
Seeks Commission in Navy
Wealthy Turfmon
To Retoin Breeding
Form in Maryland
BY the Associated Press.

By the ASsoclaSd Press.
BEVERLY HILLS, Calf, April
3.-Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt,
29-year-old millionaire turfman,
said today he has applied for a
commission in the Navy.
At his apartment here, he said
he had mo idea whether the ap-
plication will be accepted or not,
but I hope 1t is, and soon"
II he isn't accepted for the Navy,
he will try for another branch of
the service, he said. He has asked
appointment as an aviation special
ist with the rank of lieutenant,
junior grade.
He has resigned as president of
Belmont Park and of the Pimlico
race track at Baltimore, and as di-
rector of the Saratoga Racing Asso-
citation, the United Hunts Club and
the Turf and Field Club. He will
retain his racing stable of about 20
horses at Sycamore Farm in Mary
land.
Mr.. Vanderbilt said it was his I'M
Outstanding that the Navy Air Force
needs men for administrative jobs to
free pilots for flying duty
And if I can be of any help !
want to do it." he commented.
Mr.. Vanderbilt has been one of the
country's foremost turfmen At the
age of 81 he took over the Sycamore
Stables established by his maternal
grandfather, the late Capt. Isaac E
Emerson.
Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, ST.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-04-03
Bomber Falls and ExpIodes,
KiIIinq Crew Of Five
Nv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
WEST GREENWICH, R. L, April
3.-An Army medium bomber
crashed irto the woodlands here
today and exploded, killing all five
occupants, two officers and three
enlisted men, the LIST Corps Area
announced.
The plane was on a routine flight
and craft of that type was over
due at Westover Field, Chicopee,
Mass, the announcement added.
Military intelligence at Mitchell
Field on Long Island identified the
victims as: Second 1t. George L.
Dover, "a, pilot, Shelby, N. c.; Sec
ond 1t. N. w. Frame, "a, co-pilot,
Porterville, Calf; Staff Sergt. r. H.
Trammel, 81, radio operator, Bruins
wick, Ga; Pvt. r. r. Meredith, 81,
bombardier, Memphis, Tenn, and
Pvt. T. j. Rush, q, gunner, Phila-
delphia.
Residents reported that they found
two bodies, but could not get close
to the plane because of terrific
heat and dense smoke.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-04-03
Office Machinery Output
For Civilians 10 Stop
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Manufacturer of Office machinery
have been notified by the War Pro-
duction Board that their civilian
production must be halted and plant
facilities converted entirely to war
work, it was learned today.
Future production of the industry
must be confined to equipment
needed to fill Army, Navy and other
essential Government requirements.
w. P. B. disclosed that members
of the Office Machinery Industry
Advisory Committee were told yes
terday that output of cash reg
listers, coin-handling and change
making machines, envelope-han-
ding machines and other equipment
used primarily in civilian activities
must be discontinued. During the
immediate future, the industry has
been instructed to concentrate on
accounting, addressing, billing, du-
plicating, adding, debating, calcu-
lating and computing machines, and
interpreting devices.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-04-03
Municipal Center Site Urged
For War Worker Dormitories

I workers dormitories on Union Sta
ton Plaza and other areas down
town. - $780,
would be a flrst-aid building and a
public cafeteria. One of the areas
where the new developments may
be erected was said to be the Gov
eminent reservation along Pennsyl-
vania avenue east of the National
Art Gallery.
Mr.. Delano was accompanied by
j. c. Nichols, member of the Plan
ming Commission, and w. E. Rey-
nolds, commissioner of public build
ings.
Temporary housing for women
war workers was erected on Union
Station Plaza during the First World
! War.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-04-03
Barrow Cracks Par Again
To Lead at AsheViIIe
BY the Associateo Press.

By the Associated Press.
ASHVILLE, N. c., April 3.-Her-
man Barron of White Plains, N. Y,
shot his second straight par-smash-
ing round today to take the lead
after So holes of the 72-hole Land
of the Sky Open golf tournament
at 1877. .t.3
Barron, one of four leaders with
a SO yesterday, carded a 68-three
under par-today. He had four
brides going to No. 10, where he
hooked his second shot in the woods
and took q five.
Herman Keiser of Akron, Ohio,
shot a SO for a 36-hole total Of 142,
and Ralph Guldhal fired u to
60 with his f1rst-round II.
Chandler Harper of Portsmouth
Va, who with Keiser won the Miami
four-ball, got an even IS on the out
nine. He had u yesterday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-04-03
SfiIweII's Chinese Troops
Attack laps Near kyonqon
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
CHUNGKING, April 3.-Gen
Joseph w. Stilwell's Chinese troops
attacked the Japanese south of
Kyongon Wednesday after driving
the invaders from the town three
days earlier and capturing quanti-
ties of booty, Chinese communique
said today.
A Kyongon, on the Chinese blocked
road to Mandalay, is 10 miles north
of Toungoo, which the Japanese won
early this week after the fiercest
battle of the Burma campaign
against determined Chinese gar
risen which finally fought its way
out Of enlightenment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-04-03

Tentative approval was given to-
day by the Commissioners to a
proposal by the Park end Planning
Commission that the large parcel
of the Municipal Center site to the
south of the East Administration
Building be made available at once
for a site for dormitories for Gov
eminent war workers.
The Commissioners said the ar
rangement hinged on whether the
city government would not lose the
$4,000 year it now gets as park
ing lot rental for the land.
Frederick A, Delano. chairman OF
the Park and Planning Commission,
said he believed an agreement could
be reached
The Federal officials also revealed
tentative plans for erection of war
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-04-03

the reaction of the men, women and
children who are putting their dol
lars. dimes and pennies into war
bonds and stamps" said Senator
Bunker.
But in keeping with my state
ment previously made on the floor,
I believe the Senate and the pub
lie are entitled to know how the
taxpayers money is being spent by
Washington department ofncials.
Pay Exceeds MacArthur's.
cit will be noted that IA of these
officials are receiving more pay than
the base pay Of Gen. Douglas Mac
Arthur, who has literally offered his
life for his country.
The figures I present are official
and do not take into consideration
any raise in pay which I under
stand has already been effected In
some instances.
ut should be remembered that
the salaries of these officials are
being paid out Of the taxpayers
money advanced to Basic Mag
nesium, Inc. of Cleveland, Ohio
operating in Nevada. by the Defense
Plant Corp.
TN view of these figures 1t leaves
1;ttIa reoso, IN woY,der that labor
is insisting on reasonable hours
and good salaries In war industries
"It is my humble and studied
opinion that the members Of this
special committee investigating the
national defense program are per-
forming one of the greatest services
to America that has been performed
by any group who sit in the United
States Senate"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-04-03
Axis Submarines Sink
Three More Ships;
II Men Missing
Two Merchant Ships,
Tug and Borses Lost
In Eost Coust Roids
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Three new ship sinkings in the
Axis submarine campaign
against American shipping were
announced today by the Navy.
Seventeen men were missing
from their crews.
Maritime sources in Havana said
fourth United States ship, a
freighter, had been torpedoed and
sunk somewhere north Of Cuba.
The lost ships announced by the
Navy included two medium sized
merchant vessels sunk several weeks
ago in the Caribbean, and small
tug, towing three barges, sunk with
two of its train of the Atlantic
Coast.
Survivors of one of the freighters
told in New York how the radio
operator, Ignace Shoinacki, "a, Of
Brooklyn remained alone aboard his
sinking vessel to send the SHIPS
position. Then he leaped into the
water holding his pet baby African
bush monkey in his mouth.
Crew of IS Rescued.
Mr.. Shoinacki said he knew the
two lifeboats had left the ship with
the crew and officers, but my job
was to stay until I had sent sos
reports" His six calls for help were
heard in a British port and the en-
tire crew of IS was rescued IA hours
after two torpedoes struck their
ship.
The attack came at night and Mr..
Shoinacki was pulled aboard one of
the boats only because he took with
him a flashlight to signal his COM
panions from the water. The monkey
died shortly before.
Survivors of the second freighter
said In New York interviews, that
they spent six days in open boats
and sailed 545 miles in shark
(see SINKINGS, Page 2-X0