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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-02-28
SKIPPER PRAISES HIS MEN
Survivors of Torpedoed
u. S. Coast Guard Cutter
Write New Heroism PAGES
SOME ESCAPE DEATH TN STEAM

, crashing against two of the life
boats.
Calmness II Praised
The officers Of the Hamilton
were unanimous in praising the
discipline and oalmness of the
men. many Of whom were sppren-
tioe seamen making their first trip.
we had = lot Of untried men
aboard" said Lieut.. d a. y W.
fChickl welch. Of Mount Kisco,
-. Y. but they were superb.
Il was In my cabin when !
heard . duh roar and felt .
sudden list. went out the
escape hatch Two shots were
fired from our ship for atten-
ton hut we saw no sign of
any submarine.
The men hurried 10 their boat
stations in perfect discipline"
Welch told how one blinded
man. whose burned hands were
like raw meat" succeeded In
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-02-28
Nv PHIL AII.T
nited Press Writer

REYkJAyIk. Iceland = surviv-
ors Of the iorpedoed American
coast guard cutter Alexander
Hamilton have written new pages
into the saga Of heroism Of the
L. 8. naval service.
II can now he revealed that
the Alexander Hamilton. which
WA skippered by Comdr. A.
G. Hall OF Hartford, Conn,
Was torpedoed practically on
the front step Of this Ice
Iandic harbor.
There were at least 90 survivors.
The death toll may not be re-
vealed.
The torpedo hit the cutter amid
ships on the stsrboard side just
behind the bulkhead separating the
fire and engine rooms.
The explosion hurtled a steel
door through the air and sent IL
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-02-28
Meeting Cancelled
For World Affairs

Because Of illness ~ the speak
or. the Tacoma World Affairs
council meeting scheduled for nest
Monday evening at the College ~
Puget Sound has besn cancelled.
II Was announced Friday ny
Chairman Rasfsric Olxsndsna.
Baron Paul dEsfournslies A.
Constant vss IN have lscfursd
upon The topic Tradition ana .
World in the Msking
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-02-28

FRESNO. Cai.--capt. Elliott
Roosevelt. second son of thu pres..
dent. has been Transferred 10
Hammer field. Fresno. for duty
with thu army air corps, II was
revealed Friday.
The nature Of Roossvslt's as
signment was not disclosed. He
recently had been with the axth
reconnaissance squadron at nnroe.
Cal.
His wife and three children
Will Join him At Fresno.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-02-28

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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-02-28

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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-02-28
Income Tax
Information

This 10 one OF . series Of short
articles based on the internal revenus
code Read them daily In The Ia
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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-02-28

opening = companionway deer
TO free four companions whe
were trapped BY escaping
steam.
He told Of another member Of
the crew who fell Is feet through
= warped grating into the steam
ing cauldron that VAS the engine
room and crawled up q stanchion
10 reach a ifeboat.
The steam was 80 terrible
Welch said. that when he
crawled out his normally
straight hair had long rurls."
Among those killed was Engi-
neering Warrant officer Ludwig
Sleek, who was in the engine room.
Sleek had been recommended for
commission. Officers credited
his strong hulkhead construction
job with keeping the Hamilton
aflost after the explosion.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-02-28
Aunt Het
~ RoHsRr CULLEN

"Moybe I'm iust enviou<.
but blesf II | con think good
for-nothin' people innporont
Just becouse their eronopos
mode O Iot o. money"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-02-28

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Naval elstftst hAs announced
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-02-28

The first wire suspension bridge
in the United States VAS erected
IN 1916 in Philadelphia.
Your postmaster can tell you
how TO invest In u. s. Defense
Bonds.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-02-28

Roy Roberts. Barnard. n. c.
raises skgaks on hs farm and
sslls them for pets.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-20
GARDENS POINT
A WAY OUT

(Chrlstlan Science MonitOr)
Chlcago's South Side "blighted area
that section between the Loop and the
Stock Yards which once housed perhaps
ZO0,O00 persons-presents an aStonlsh-
ing picture to the returning traveller who
knew 1t when it was teeming with human
life. Thousands of houses and other
structures have been razed, principally
to alleviate the tax burden, and acres of
empty lots which once were mounds OF
rubble or cinders have been converted
into lush Victory Gardens. How they ever
were made to produce is a secret known
only tofthe patient planters.
Only about third of the old wooden
houses remain of those that reared huge
families who kept Aldermen Michael
'Hinky Dink' Kenna and "BathhOuse
John Coughlin in office for decades.
Poplar trees have sprung up between
them, real grass is to be seen here and
there, and the gardens add distinctly
pastoral tone
The point that occurs to Us is that II
"blighted areas" can be thus altered by
the hand of nature and the Victory gard
ener why can they not eventually be re-
claimed by governmental authority not
as federal apartment projects, possible
"slums of the future" but as areas OF
modest individual homes? Doubtless the
situation is common to many American
cities. 1t is a problem for the planners.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-20

must have 10000 tons.
With $4,000 tons produced syn
thetically here and in Russia, the
United Nations would have a 1912
surplus of 428,000 tons. So it looks
as though we were going to have a
wonderful time. But
Next year we shall require 100000
tons for military use, plus 100000
tons for essential civilian use, a
total lof 100000 tons.
And because we shall carry over
some 100000 tons less than the
Pearl Harbor stockpile, we are 60
ing to end 1943 with a deficit of
5000 tons even if we succeed in
making 100000 tons of synthetic
rubber during 1913.
We hope to make more. The goal
is $4,000 tons. Even that would
only overcome the deficit and leave,
to carry over, less than the mini
mum backlog essential to care for
the mechanics of distribution
among rubber users scattered all
over the United States.
Wilcu Jilio plODleIl ID DIOhCli
down into the three-month periods,
as the B. F. Goodrich Company has
done, the picture is more unplea-
SAINT. For if India and Ceylon
should be lost or cut tff, from
July 1943 to July 1914 at no time
would we possess tn absolute mini
mum of rubber without which our
military and essential needs can
not be supplied.
Perhaps we won't lose India and
Ceylon Do we golfers, bridge-play
ers, picnickers and swimmers have
the right to ask Washington to
gamble the freedom of the world
on our guess that we can hold
those distant rubber sources and
keep ships coming from there?
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-20
GLORIFYING
YOURSELF
BY ALICIA HART
NEA Service Staff Writer

Correct posture is an absolute es-
sential to health and beauty
Rocking back on your heels in
those now -so-fashionable low and
wide -heeled shoes should give you
fine start to attractive posture,
once you get over your always-in-
stills bad habits.
ID get a good standing position
if you've never felt sure you had
it, just approach any wall-back
wards. When your shoulders touch,
SO should your derriere, and you
shouldn't be able to put a foot
stool into the space in bewteen
shoulders and hips. In other words.
there should be no exaggerated
hollow in the middle of your spine.
If lou thus discover q need for
Improvement, stand with heels
about three inches away from the
wall feet together, knees slightly
bent Now touch head and entire
spine to the wall by pulling the
stomach and diaphragm in and up.
Relax and repeat You should do
this several times day.
Later, try the same stunt, but
with arms raised high overhead,
sliding or reaching up the wall
as high as possible while the en-
tire back is kept flat against the
wall
Another idea, used in most
gyms, ais to sit with both feet
stretched out in front of you on
the floor, Grasp a light stick-a
broom will do-with hands wide
apart, and slowly raise the stick
overhead and back as far as you
can. Lower the stick, relax, repeat.
GOOD POSTURE
HELPS BREATHING
Good breathing repireS good
posture and free expansion of the
chest sideways. Stand correctly.
Place the palms of your hands on
your ribs. Now push with both
hands as you exhale to the count
of three. Release the pressure OF
hands, but keep them on the ribs,
and inhale to the count of three.
You will feel the chest cavity
expanding properly. Notice. too,
ypur upper chest does not expand
forward very much. Repeat this
exercise five times daily.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-20
S. Burton Heath
Writes:

For some reason the tragedy of
the rubber situation has not sunk
into the public consciousness
That is unfortunate. If the United
States continues to fiddle nor a few
more months, we may lose more
critical battles as a result. The loss
of such battles or campaigns-may
cost thousands of American lives
1t is unfortunate, also because the
essentials which concern the man
in the street are not complex or
mysterious, and have been repeated
in print and in speech many times.
President RooSevelt'S press con-
ference statement that all civilian
tires may have to be seized should
be the tipoff, if there had been no
other.
Presidents with Mr.. Roosevelt S
political astutenesS DO not even
hint at such drastic steps until
they are driven close to despera-
ton.
This may be repetitious, but it
needs to be repeated until it sinks
into the public mind or until we
lose this war because we have
Shilly-shallied too long.
When Japan conquered most of
the Far East, we lost the source
of 81 per cent of our rubber.
We can get only a little from
Latin America Most of the deficit
has to be made up out of syn
thetic buna type rubber, whether
that be made from petroleum or
from grain alcohol.
For the Army, Navy, Air Corps,
Maritime Commission and the mill
tary needs of our allies, Leon Hen
derson last month estimated mini
mum requirements of $4,000 tons
of rubber this year,
For absolutely essential civilian
use. Mr.. Henderson estimated we
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-20
3Drunk Cases0n
Police Log Here

Three Ell Centrans, charged with
drunkenness, were given varying
sentences by Police Judge Lee Nuf-
fer Monday morning and another's
trial was set
Rahmat Ullah, Hindu, forfeited
$40 bail when he failed to appear
for trial. He had been arrested
Saturday. Felix Casio, Mexican, was
given a choice of serving 10 days
in Jail or paying a $40 fine irwin
E. Fox, 81, was given a Today su-
spended sentence.
w. " Lamoreax's hearing was
set for pm. Thursda". He had
been released on $40 bail after be-
ing arrested for being drunk Sun
day.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-20
CONSISTENCY, PLEASE
Sacramento Bee)

sacramento Bee)
There is enough confusion surrounding
the rubber tire situation without Cover
nor Olson adding to it.
On the one hand, he announces the hold
ing of local fairs in California should be
discouraged this year, in view of the rub
Der shortage.
On the other hand, he sees no objection
to the 40-day horse racing meet scheduled
for Pleasanton in Alameda county, per-
mission for which was granted by the ap
pointees on the California horse racing
board and the military authorities.
Yet how are thousands of racing fans
and bettors going to get to Pleasanton
from San Francisco, Oakland and the
peninsula? BY stage coach or pony eX-
press? Obviously in most cases by auto
mobile.
Science would tell us, if it were asked,
that tires wear out just as fast rolling
toward a horse race in Alameda county
as toward county fair in some distant
rural community. And the horse race at
tracts a great many more sets of tires
than does the county fair
A little more consistency in high places
would contribute much to the publlc's
willingness to go all out for salvage and
other community affairs.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-20
WASHINGTON
HERE AND THERE

Over 24,G00 women are now en-
ployed in aircraft factories, out of
a total employment of two million
Paint brush models have been re-
duced from 500 to $50 A mechani-
cal spinach picker has been per-
fected in Oklahoma. U, S. Employ
ment Service has filled 2.5 million
war jobs. Experiments are being
made on salvage of copper from
brass scrap. Since the beginning.-2 Of
the defense effort 100000 new work
ers have been signed up for ap-
premiership courses, running up to
four years. ODT can now order eX-
port freight moved out of any port
if it interferes with troop move
ments. The converted auto indus
tries in April, last report month,
had 100000 men employed on war
work and were producing goods at
the rate of $4 billion year En-
in the auto industry or
June /, l941, was 5000.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-20
Hipass Full Up.
Brenfs Reports

Hipass Health Camp is full to
capacity.
That was the report brought back
Monday by Max Brents, who was
one of 18 Legionnaires and Auxil-
iary members at the camp Sunday.
If anyone desires to send his or
her child to camp it will be neces-
sary for them to contact the child
welfare chairman in their commun-
ity Mrs. Edmund Giles is in charge
of enrolment for the FL Centro area
Mrs. Sam Maggie will prepare her
famous Italian spaghetti for the
youngsters next Sunday. This meal
is also available to the public for a
reasonable charge.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-20
Sailor browns In
Fall From Ship

ALAMEDA, Cal, July 20 UP)-
Walter c. Newmayer, % firemen
second class, from Compton, Cal. i,
drowned last night in the Alameda
Estuary as he boarded his vessel
after returning from shore leave.
Witnesses said Neumayer slipped
on the gang plank of the vessel,
striking his head on the dock as
he fell into 80 feet of water. When
graphing hooks failed, a Navy
diver was summoned and recovered
the body after three hour search.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-20
THEY'RE MIGHTY PROUD
OF SOLDIER son

Then, too, they are prouder than
he'll ever know of having a son in
the service. They want to know
whenever he does we'll at a job
or gets chosen for some out of the
ordinary assignment.
And then there are their friends
who say, What do you hear from
Bob?' It's little bit humiliating
to have to say time and time again,
We'll, we haven't a letter for sew
eral weeks. l guess he's pretty
busy"
Then, too, those letters add ex-
element to dull and sometimes
lonely days The mailman leaves
letter for Mamma and right away
she telephones Dad to say, There's
a letter from Bob He says he's
fine and.
Any boy who realized just how
much his letters meant to the folks
back home would write them as oft
en- as is possible.
We hear a lot about how the
soldiers look forward to mail time
and how disappointed they are
when there is nothing for them. But
they couldn't look forward to mail
any more eagerly than do their
parents-who often go to the front
porch fifteen or twenty times be-
fore the postman stops, hoping, of
course, that therell be a letter
from Bob.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-20
ONLY CONCERTED ACTION
WILL BRING DESIRED RESULTS

We neither endorse nor diSapprOVe of
the recommendation of Economists Poll
and Nielsen, which would attempt to en-
courage greater operator ownership of
farms here by: 1.-levying a transactions
. tax on land sales made shortly after pur-
chase ;2.-enacting homestead tax eXemp
ton laws; 3.-setting up cooperative
land-purchasing and land management
agency; Establishing differential wa
ter assessments favoring Owner-operat-
ors; and 5.-revising federal farm pro-
grams to favor resident family-siZe farm
ownership
We have not sufficient information,
and have not become thoroughly cOnvers
ant with the facts, sufficiently to say
whether the recommendations, in whole
or in part, are good ones.
We do know that they provide a start
ing place toward the solution of prob
lem, and offer the foundation for plans
to bring about condition which would
stabilize agriculture and bring greater
prosperity to the whole valley. We realize
that when this is done, some peoples toes
are going to be stepped on, and opposition
is going to be strong. If the valley is to
own its own soul-for farming is the
soul of this communicative must harden
ourselves against the necessities
One thing alone should be sufficient to
point out now necessary IL is TO eSlaDllSn
home ownership of our lands. That is
the fact that, with 46 per cent of our
farm lands owned by absentees, large
share of the profit from 46 per cent of
our whole valley is never placed in cir
culation here. That figure will run into
the millions of dollars. They are dollars
for merchants, dollars for laborers dol
lars for everyone in the valley. Only,
with absentee ownership, they go out of
the valley without a single stop-over.
There are scores of reasons why home
ownership is desirable from the stand
point of everyone who lives in the valley
To bring it about is job that will
take the energies of everyone.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-20
Sleep Interrupts
Railroad Journey

A peaceful snooze almost brought
l. B. Samuel, 23-year-old Negro,
into city Jail Monday morning.
Samuel told Police Judge Lee
Nuffer that he had fallen asleep
Sunday night in the railroad ticket
office while waiting for a train to
take him to inland. Officials in the
office apparently thought he had
chosen their premises to spend the
night SO they called the police.
Samuel was booked on a vagrancy
charge.
Nuffer dismissed the case to al
law the Negro to continue his in
terrupted Journey.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-20
Answer these Questions and
make a good laxative choice

Ques. Can any laxative be of help
when you feel listless, logy, or have
a coated tongue? Ans. Yes, If those
conditions are the result of con-
stipation. Ques. Why has Black
Draught been such an outstanding
~ popular laxative with four gen.
erations? Ans. Because ii is purely
herbal, and usually gentle, thor
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-20
Boy Scouts Go
To Summer Camp

Seven Boy Scouts of troop II
began a two-week's stay at summer
camp near lake Cuyamaca Monday.
Joe Stull Robert Darter, Charles
Nails, Earl Moroni, Joe Thomas and
George and John Kennerson left
Ell Centre accompanied by Assist
ant Scoutmaster Dave Goddard and
Junior Assistant John Mclaughlin
Sunday. They were transported by
a navy truck driven by C. A. Steele.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-20
COINCIDENT
GRANDPARENTHOOD

BUTTONWILLOW. Cal, July 1G
-UPD-Mr. and Mrs. w. f. Lewis
became grandparents twice in the
same day recently A girl baby was
born TO Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Lewis,
the former a son; and a boy baby
was born to MI. and Mrs. Robert
Latham, the latter a daughter Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-20

ough, prompt when directions are
followed. Ques. What's another rea-
son for ,Black-Draughts great pop
ularity? Ans. 1t costs only 25c for
25 to 40 doses.
Don't wait! Get Black Draught
in the familiar yellow box today.
Many prefer the new granuiated
form. Follow label directions,
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-20
ABSENTEE OWNERSHIP A
PROBLEM FOR EVERYBODY

Everybody talks about the problem of
absentee farm ownership in Imperial
Valley, and few do anything about it. The
trouble is, lot of business men, parti-
cularly, are too inclined to look upon it
as problem of the farmers alone, when
actually it Is the business men who suffer
most.
1t is a certainty the farmers who aIa
not here and have never been here are not
concerned about our 46 per cent nonresi-
dent ownership of farm land. The farm
ers who already own their land have
done their part to solve the problem. The
absentee owners of the rest of the land
just naturally don't care.
So, if anything is going to be done about
it, somebody besides the farmers-or in
addition to the resident farmers. we
should SAYS going to have to get busy.
Among the few who have done some
thing about the problem are the United
States Department of Agriculture and
the local farm advisors office, represent
ed by Frank Beyschlag. They have gone
as far as they can go, up to date.
The nonresident ownership survey by
Farm Economists Adon Poll and Ralph
l.. Nielsen of the University Of California.
in cooueratiOn with Beyschlag's office and
in behalf of the L. S. Department of
Agriculture, was an exceedingly good
thing for the valey-but it will result
in absolutely nothing if it is allowed to
become just another survey gathering
dust in official files 1t is there with its
recommendations to be acted upon. With
out action, it might as well never have
been made
Action suggested in the survey can
come partly from the federal government.
but much of it must come from local
sources. Even government action, we sus
pect, will be withheld unless more inter-
est is shown locally in meeting this pure
ly local problem.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-20
Engaeement of Lois Huffman
To John Waqner Announced

Kamm, Dick Hansen, C. j. Park
Wayne Hudson, Charles Layton,
Lee Percival, Lulu Wake, Edward
Bisgaard, A. L. Bernshouse, Sam
uel Johnston, Herbert Huffman,
Halbert Huffman, Ira Huffman and
the hostess, Mrs. P. w. Huffman.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-20

Scolding is not going to produce rubber
where there is no rubber, or let loose a
pound of steel when it should go else
where-James NJ Lands, chairman Of
flee of Civilian Defense.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-20

Every person in Canterbury would be
willing to take this and much worse, in
return for such achievements as that of
the RAF over Cologne.-William Le-
Fevre, mayor of Canterbury, England.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-20
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA
IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF
IMPERIAL
SUMMONS
DELMA BASS, Plaintiff

DELMA BASS, Plaintiff
VS..
ALBERT M. BASS, Defendant
CLARENCE B. SMITH, Attorney
for Plaintiff
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE
OF CALIFORNIA SENDS GREET
INGS TO ALBERT M. BASS, De-
fendant.
You Are Hereby Directed to Ap-
pear and answer the Complaint in
an action entitled as above, brought
against you in the Superior Court
of the County of Imperial, State of
California, within ten days after
the service on you of this Summons
if served within this county; or
within thiry days if served else
where.
And you are hereby notified that
unless you appear and answer as
above required, the said plaintiff
will take judgment for any money
or damages demanded in the COM
plant, as arising upon contract, or
Plaintiff will apply to the Court
for any other relief demanded in
the Complaint.
Given under my hand and the
seal of the Superior Court of the
County of Imperial, State of Cali
fornia, this Goth day of June. 1912.
w. j. McClelland,
County Clerk
BY G. o. KENYON,
Deputy Clerk
mo. So (J l3-20-17
A 3-10-17-24-3l S y
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-20
CURRENT QUOTATIONS.

We had a wrong idea of total war. Peo-
Pile thought of it as total danger. 1t isn't
that exactly. It's total Jonathan
Daniels, assistant director of the OCD.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-20

In these times the public is looking for
men, and for party labelst-A. A. Berle,
Jr, assistant secretary of state.