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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-01-12

MANY Or our young set
could give their elders manners
in department, but a few either
forget or are not familiar with
some Of the niceties that stamp
one as either we'll bred or care
less.
And with the young set so
in evidence entertaining
soldiers giving dances and
attending theaterS and hotel
dinner parties, We are starting
today a three-day series Of
columns on hints for the teen
age while dining or appearing
IN public.
Follow Host
When entering a dining room
in either cafe or hotel, let the
host take charge. The young
men and possibly girls. too, will
leave their coats and hats at
the checkroom. then 90 to their
seats. Don't stop at tables even
though you see acquaintance on
the way. Speak to them but
pass along 10 your own table.
The girls VIII all be seated be-
fore the boys sit down. If the
dinner has been ordered before
hand it will not be necessary
10 look ar the menu but the host
Viii always Jet you know.
When given a menu. one
Should look 10 over and order.
II III is 10 be a dinner, don't
order sandwiches. and don
order food not listed on tho
menu While no well-bred girl
or boy would think Of selecting
inc most expensive dishes. Just
for tho fun Of IL. don't try 10
Skmp too much either.
Observe Custom
The point Is 10 observe Gus
tom IN ordering Don't expect
breakfast dishes Al luncheon,
nor luncheon things for dinner.
The host may make arrange
nentS 10 have special things
ordered ahead. or do all the
ordering himself. blt the safe
way is 10 order from the menu
for that day
S1t correctly not too tar away
from thu table. nor TOO near
those az The right .or left Don't
handle the silver or play with
matches before dinner is served.
Look at the place before you
and al the sides. Be sure the
glass ~ water is not too near
Nodr elbow The Waiter.will put
D. IH the right place Leave it
tHorc
Uprt -tpr goodness sake in
.I,f on mixing Your oNn salad
dressing in a public dining.
room. You may know how 10
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-01-12
Cranky
Since That,
Coll?

That little crosspatch needs help
not punishment. She needs real
build-up" food. Give her hot
brown Wheatens for breakfast. Ia
natural wheat supplies the 10 ESSEN
tial protein elements found in steak,
milk and eggs. These vital 10" ara
needed for health, growth, resistance.
Wheatena costs less than Is bowl
yet this cereal with milk Ia one Of the
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-01-12
Ne Defen.e

ON The other hand fyou dc5
eide 70 90 M. Nou may ro' ue
able 90 offer oue hed proc Z
argument IN your defense And
people will boo yoU and set mad
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-16

El Centro's chamber of commerce
was all set Tuesday to begin a
share your car" campaign with the
ultimate purpose of cutting down
on use of rubber.
The chamber was officially deS-
ignated by Mayor Bob Hatton as
the agency to handle group riding
in FL Centro after Eatton end
Corn Reed, fire chief, attended
meeting of defense transportation
officials in Los Angeles last week.
Secretary Ben Herring said that
the campaign will probably take
the form of a crusade in which all
service clubs, churches and other
organizations will be asked to cen
stantly keep the Importance of saw
ing rubber before their members.
Because there are no large indus
trial centers where a great num-
Der of men are employed in the
valley the local application of the
plan will probably be confined to
group riding to defense ccnstruc-
ton jobs and to other towns where
three or four men are working.
Even if four or five men work.
ing in Ell Centro would alternate the
use Cf cars, each taking the entire
group to work for period, the re-
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-16
Army Needs Scrap
Rubber TO Keep Up
U.S.. War Machine
Success of Campaign
Is Military Necessity
Declare Officials

WASHINGTON, June 16.
(UP) -. Undersecretary of
War Robert p. Patterson, re-
vealing that the army has
already been forced to cut its
rubber consumption by 25 per cent,
today said success of the national
rubber collection drive was a mill
tary necessity"
The army conservation program
is reaching a point where further
savings will be difficult and may
affect detrimentallv the task of
organizing our armed forces" he
said.
Although the program generally
has not resulted in loss of efficiency,
he said, the changes in tank con-
Struction to cut the amount of rub
ber in treads and padding have Gre
ated additional noise, greater diff
Guilty in production, an increase in
driving problems and more mainten-
anCe difficulties.
Patterson joined other officials in
urging the donation of every bit of
scrap rubber available to the war
effort and a reduction in civilian
use to bare minimum"
In an address last night, Sen
Harry S. Truman, D., Mo-, charged
that an "orgy of consumption" OF
crude rubber by civilian users in
l941 was the chief cause for failure
to build up stockpiles.
Petroleum Coordinator Harold l.
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Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-16

The British, taking terrific
beating on the Libyan land front,
landed a big convoy at Malta and
Tobruk which may turn the tide OF
battle on the desert. London an
nounced that the convoy escaped
from very heavy attacks" by su-
perior Axis naval and air forces
in a Mediterranean battle in which
units of the American Army air
corps participated. A communique
called Axis claims of from 20 to
80 Allied ships sunk fantastic" but
admitted that undisclosed losses
were suffered.
The United States operations,
which already had cost the enemy
at least six or seven ships sunk or
damaged off the Aleutians, were
continued in fog that still clouded
the outcome of action hundreds OF
miles west of our base at Dutch
harbor
The blows struck at the Japanese
in the north in addition to more
than so enemy ship casualties in
the Midway and Coral Sea battles
may prove of tremendous import
ance in turning the tide OF the Paci-
fic war, but a realistic appraisal OF
the results cannoo be attempted
until the trend of the Aleutian
fighting is more definite.
There was major fighting on
other fronts throughout the world,
however, with the Axis forces STEM
med in Russia but holding the in
itiative in Libya, the Mediterranean
and China.
Developments on the main fronts
included:
RUSSIA-Soyiet dispatches indi-
Gated that the Germans are being
held on the vital Kharkov and Sew
astopol sectors after suffering heavy
losses, but battles continue; Berlin
reports German air attack on Mos
COW defenseS.
LIBYA British driven from FL
Gazala stronghold west of Tobruk
but break through Axis trap and
establish strong defense around To-
bruk. Axis claims that large British
force was trapped are denied.
MEDITERRANEAN - Axis CON-
muniques claim three-day battle OF
Continued on Page 6; Column A.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-16
Son on War Front
Writes TO Parents

Mr.. and Mrs. p. H. Judd of e.
Centro were happy Tuesday because
they received a letter from their
son, Lieut. Dan Judd, now in the
air corps in the Hawaiian islands.
He said the excitement there was
terrific and declared the United
States gave the Japs a beating re-
Gently Judd said he was unable to
give details but explained that the
morale of the Americans was won-
derful.
Il see Leonard Moore often" "
Judd wrote, ''and he is feeling fine.
Be sure to tell his folks that he is
just fine" He said he had seen
Preston Goar and Howard May, al
so of Ell Centro, frequently and that
they are we'll He had not seen
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Hawk for some
time, he wrote, as they had moved
to the mainland.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-16

"The hope we can extend
to the peoples of this world is
Americas ideal of this warL'
said Major Elmer H'eald Of
CalifOrnia's state guard at
the Ell Centro combined Elks Flag
Day ceremony and town meeting
Monday night.
Heald, who is Imperial county's
district attorney, delivered the prin-
cipal patriotic speech of the evening
as Ell Centro's citizens gathered to
honor the nations banner and well
come 25 new Americans.
The district attorney used the
newly made Americans who received
their final papers Monday night as
an example of the many national
tiles that can live in peace under
federation, and voiced the solemn
hope that the many nations that
have joined together now to battle
aggression may sometime join as
federation of peaceful states.
The flag is an symbol OF a group
of sovereign states" Heald said. For
every state in the union is sde-
pendent of each other and its citi-
zens are qualified not only to par
ticipate in national government but
also in state, county and local city
government.
EX-ALIENS PRESENTED
The class of former aliens was
presented by Edmund Gies, natural
ization inspector and citizenship
certificates were given by w. j..
McClelland, county clerk.
Another group, Company I, Eighth
Regiment of the California state
guard, was presented to the over
flowing of spectators who came to
watch and participate in the color
full ceremony.
1t John Kepley led the company
through a series of intricate preci-
sion maneuvers, which displayed the
quality of the voluntary training
impaired in less than two years since
organization of the guard began.
Bill Outlook was the master of
ceremonies for the evening and he
troduced Norman c. Deaton, secre-
tary of the only fraternal organiza-
ton that holds mandatory celebra-
ton of Flag Day every year. Deaton
reviewed the history of the flag
from the time that John Cabot plac-
ed the Red cross of England on
American soil in 1897 to the present.
Continued on Page 6; Column a
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-16
heavy FIGHTING RACES
in ALEUT|AN STRUGGLE
He Was Simply
0beying Orders

LOS ANGELES, June l6
(UP) - Pvt. Sam j. PontellO's
diligence on guard duty prov
ed very embarrassing to him
today.
POntellO, a member of the
California State Guard Marine
corps, was instructed by Sgt.
Claude Mckee to challenge all
cOmers three times and then
fire if they didn't halt.
So. Pvt. POntellO alertly
shouted three times at a run .
ming figure at the corps San
Pedro base last night, then
fired.
The running figure proved to
be Sgt. Mckee. Mckee was TAX
en- to the San Pedro receiving
hospital with a wound in the
leg. POntellO was held tempOr-
arily on suspicion of assault
with deadly weapon.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-16
Scrop p
Heap
3I,I8O Pounds of
Rubber Collected
During First Day

Nipples from baby's bottle
grandma's overshoes
shower curtains tires and
tubes hot water bottles ;.
These articles and many
more went into the scrap rubber
salvage campaign Monday to run
up an Imperial county total in ex-
cess of 31,180 pounds for the first
days effort.
Service station men all over the
county unloaded, weighed, and re-
ceipted literally thousands of articles
containing rubber. The whole con-
tribution will be added to the stag
gering gross receipts expected to be
collected in the county in the two
weeks scrap rubber salvage cam
paign launched by President Roose-
velt to stave off gasoline rationing
because of a shortage OF rubber tires
Some cities were unable to sub
nit total for Monday as theif
system had not been perfected as
yet. In Calipatria almost every sta
ton in town had around a truck
load of scrap rubber but the total
had not been run up by noon Tues
day.
In Ell Centro, Imperial. and Holt
Vile areas the total was 1850
pounds. In BraWley the total was
10000 pounds, in CaleXico 5,50O
pounds, and in Westmorland 7l7O
pounds. Some of the scrap col
lected in Imperial and HoltVille
had not been totaled.
SCOUTS HELP
The Boy Scouts entered the cam
paign with o vim Tuesday when
Hugh Wilcox, scout executive, SAID
the El Centro troops will make a
house to house canvass. They will
tour the eastSide district Thursday
the area north of Main street Fri
day, and the area south of Main
street Saturday. Housewives were
Continued on Page 6; Column b
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-16
House 0kays Fund
Bill With Money
For GuayuIe Work
Catch-All Measure Cut
Below Estimates for
Government Dep'ts.

WASHINGTON, June 16.
(UP)-The house today pass
ed by a voice vote and sent
to the senate an omnibus de-
ficiency and supplemental
appropriations bill of $50 3.548, ,099, of
which $8,235, 900 was earmarked for
the development of guayule and
other rubber bearing plants.
House action came two hours al
ter the bill had been approved by
the appropriations committee.
Rep. John z. Anderson, r., Calf,
told the house that he believed
guayule plants would provide "a
substantial supply of rubber in the
next few years"
Rep. John Taber, r., N. Y, rank.
ing minority member of the appro-
priations committee, disagreed with
Anderson, but said the rubber situ-
alton was so critical that I've cam
not afford to take any chances"
The largest single item in the
catch-all bill was a $38,688, 900 ap-
preparation for the post office de-
partment for the balance of the
fiscal year ending June 80.
THE unprecedented volume of
mail and postal business have caus-
ed deficiencies in postal appropria-
tions," the committees report said.
AT the time the original 1912 pos
tai appropriations were made by the
congress, more than year ago, the
revenues were estimated at $685.
100000 and the expenditures at
$846, 900 900.
Due to increased business. the
revenue for the fiscal year l942 will
approximate $3.50 100000, an increase
of sos, 100000 over the original esti-
mate, and the expenditures are esti-
mated at 1878, 100000, an increase
of $32, ,0O0,0 900 over the original esti-
mate"
The committee, in recommending
total appropriation of $50 ,548,O99,
trimmed the estimate of the budget
bureau by $l,417, 400. The committee
cut $9l5,000 from the budget esti-
mate of $9,750000 for emergency
rubber planting projects, and 1t dis
allowed another 100000 which the
J budget bureau had requested for
reimbursement of President Roose-
velt's blank check emergency fund.-
The 100000 was advanced by the
President to the department OF
| Continued on Page 6; Column 81
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-16
Married Men Get
Draft Deferment

WASHINGTON, June l6-tUP)-
The house today completed coH-
gressional action on bill provid-
ing financial assistance for depend
ents of enlisted men of the four
lowest grades in the armed forces
and authorizing defermcht of mar
ried men with legitimate home ties.
The measure was sent to the
White House fer presidential ap-
proval when the house adopted the
conference report on it.
The legislation sets up a schedule
of allowances and allotmentS, IA
Guiding $50 month for the wife of
one of the lower rank service men
$22 from the mans pay and $28
from the government.
The government also would cCn-
tribute $l2 a month toward support
of a child, plus $40 a month for
each additional child. Smaller al
lowances would be made for other
dependents such as parents or
brothers or sisters.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-16

make better soldiers than older men
with family responsibilities, who
lave grown cautious with age.
Official estimate that lowering
he minimum draft age from the
present 20 to 18 would add about
100000 men to the reservoir of
potential draftees.
In this connection, the war man
power commission in a statement
today virtually set a maximum of
100000 men in the armed forces
II said the goal for men in the
armed forces was 6,000000 to T.
100000 by the end of l943 and
eventually might reach l0,000,O0O
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-16


as is legally required.
County Supervisor A. Y. Preble
in a supervisorial board meeting
Monday flatly denied that he had
leased or rented any equipment OF
road district No. for use on fed
eral Construction jobs. However,
road maintainer from district No.
3 was seen on the job Monday at
the airport site at Seeley and 1t
was ascertained that VinSon, Prin-
gle and Webb, construction con-
tractors, agreed to pay SITS an hour
for its use. Preble is said to be
equipment superintendent for VIM
son. Pringle, and Webb at salary
of 5000 per month as well as county
supervisor and head of road district
No g.
Official board minutes show that
the board granted permission for
Supervisor I. Schlatter of CaleXico
to rent a shovel from road district
No. to the contractors at $500 a
month. Supervisors B. VI. Graham
of Brawley was granted permission
to rent the company level Tor
rs cents a day Both these last
named deals were in order and
according to the regulations as eX-
planned to the board by Deputy Dis
trict Attorney Charles G.. Halli-
day. There was no mention of the
deal for the road maintainer from
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Share Your Car
Campai9 Ready

duction in rubber use would be
noticeable, Herring said.
Group riding together with the
accumulation of scrap in the rub
ber drive, might stop plans for ma
ticn-wide ratiCning of gasoline,
Herring reminded, and is Of utmost
Importance.
One phase of the group riding
which the chamber has been vol
unfairly carrying out for a short
period of time has already brought
good results. In the last 80 dayr
over 100 people have gotten rides
to Los Angeles and San Diego
through the Ell Centre office.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-16
1st Summer School
Under Way inE.C.

Imperial Valleys first summer
school began Monday night with an
enrolment of more than 60 and
enrollments were to be accepted
throughout the week, Dean Glenn
Kieffer of Central Junior college in
Ell Centro said Tuesday
A total of 90 enrolled in the
morning civics class, 10 in the typ
ing A class, 10 in the bookkeeping
class, in the shorthand class, and
4 in the physics class. The enroll
ments in the night classes were
not compiled because many had not
paid the required fees, Dean Keiffer
said
Unless there is a change in the
enrolment hours, he said, begin
ming typing will be offered five
nights week from pm. to 8 pm.
and beginning shorthand five
nights a week from 8 pm. to 8 pm.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-16

house is expected to act tomorrow
1t was believed that any sugges.
ton for lowering of the minimum
draft age at the present time woulo
create considerable cY troversy
Some legislators were said to fear
possible repercussions in the No
vember elections.
The war department has urged
that it be allowed to draft 10 and
10 Year olds ever since the selective
service law first was enacted two
years ago Last year it renewed its
plea for permission to induct teen
age youths but, as in 1910, in vain.
The Army feels that young men
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-16


The indictments, charging mail
fraud and conspiracy in connec-
ton with operation of the Republic
de Cuba hospital funds lottery,
Havana, Cuba, were returned June
but were ordered suppressed by
Federal Judge Ernest A. O'Brien to
facilitate arrest of the defendants
at II am. today.
The indictments climaxed a two
year nationwide investigation led
by Postal Inspectors Ernest j
Mansfiel of Jacksonville, Fla, and
Tennyson Jefferson of Boston, Mass.
Mansfield said he believed the
lottery operation was "the biggest
in the countrv," The gross take"
from it, he said. amounted to ap-
proximately sl,0OO,OOo a year In the
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-16
Lawmakers Reject
Limit on Incomes

WASHINGTON, June 16 WP)
The house ways and means
committee today shelved the
administrations proposals to
limit the annual income Of
single Americans TO S25.G09 and
of married couples to S50,0OO.
The committee adopted a
motion to defer the proposal
for further study" MeT,5Grs
interpreted the action as kill
ing the proposal so far as Ori-
gin house action on the tax
bin is concerned.
They explained that the post
pOnement came at a time when
except for disposal of the sales
tax Issue. the new tax bill is
about ready to go TO tho floor.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-16
That's Stretching It

That's Stretching It
A small boy, impelled by patriot
ism and commercialiSm alike, haul
ed a little wagon load of scrap
rubber into Imperial county filling
station, and demanded payment
from the attendant.
The attendant sorted the articles.
Among them he found belt which
contained no mere rubber than a
bit of fresh air.
This belt hasn't any rubber in
it, Sonny" the attendant said. 81
can't pay you for that"
ok, Mister" said the boy in
a tough voice, you wanted rubber
didn't you? Either you pay me
for that belt or you dent get moth
in else in that wagon
The attendant paid up for belt
and all.
And Ell Centro isn't the only city
that had experiences. Read these
notes collected by the United Press
The government wants scrap rub
ber Here 1t comes.
At Albany, Ore, E. j. Derry and
f1OWthlu hthtoOli Ddoocl up bilC
trout and bass and angled for dis
carded tires in small fishing
stream. Haul: three bcatloads
totaling 1900 pounds.
At Napa, Cal, r. Van Hoosear
Sonoma county milling operator
delivered 16 truckloads = 62,860
pounds-of worn out tires to a SER
vice staten.
At Spokane, Wash, the Athletic
Round Table (Which initiated the
Bundles for Congress" idea when
congress voted itself pensions)
urged its members to pay club dues
with rubber floor mats from their
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Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-16
z |. v. Men Stage
Chance Reunion

whistled and called to him. The
truck stopped and the two friends
had reunion while the other Ma
rines waited
They met several times after that
and Hancock asked Ward to take
his watch to his parents. Hancock
left Jan. and was at Dutch Har-
Dor in Alaska for some time before
being sent to the tropics.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-16
Sedition Suspect
Held forC CONTEMPT

los ANGELES, June l6-(UP)-
Ellis o. Jones, on trial with Robert
Noble on sedition conspiracy
charges, was cited for contempt TO-
day by Federal Judge Ralph f. Jen-
ney.
Jones, co-promoter with Noble OF
Friends of Progress" again re-
fused to identify a certain United
States senator" who Jones said had
written him a letter praising the
Noble Jones organization.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-16
County Board In
Study Of Budgets

Imperial county supervisors Mon
day began their annual struggle
with the preliminary county bud
gets and planned their program SO
the budgets may be adopted and
the annual tax rate set by Sept l.
They will meet Thursday for con-
centrated study of the preliminary
budgets prepared by the heads OF
count" departments.
On July 6 the supervisors will be-
Elm sitting as a board of equaiiza-
ton and will meet daily for three
weeks so that taxpayers may OBJ
iect to their tax bills if they are
not satisfied with them.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-16

United States alone.
The indictments, which also nam
ed 81 co-conspirators, most OF them
from Detroit and Michigan, charg-
ed a conspiracy TO mail and trans
port tickets of some as different
lotteries and a scheme TO defraud
through use OF the mails.
Named as ringleaders OF the
group by the postal inspectors were
defendants Park Mullinix OF New
Jersey, Loyal T Sprague and Tyler
Sprague of Illinois, Louis Leven-
stein and Charles Weinberg OF New
Jersey: William Dennison, Leigh
Lawrence Kaplan and Louis Pata-
lano of New York, and Harry Freiv-
felt OF Nahant. Mass.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-16
FDR Will Ask Draft for
Teen-A9e Youths in '43

WASHINGTON, June 16 CUP)-
The administration, barring change
in plans, expects to ask congress
early in 1943 to lower the minimum
draft age from 20 to 13, a con-
gressional source reported.
President Roosevelt was under
stood to have told congressional
leaders there would be no further
revision of the selective service law
this year, as far as he is concern
ed, after congress completes action
on the dependency allotment bill
Only house approval of the con-
ference report is needed to send
that measure to Mr. Roosevelt The
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-16

Charles sent you his watch"
Mr.. and Mrs. w. E. Hancock
stared in amazement at their son S
watch held toward them by Bea-
man Ward, member of the Merchant
Marine. home for a visit with rel
atives in Ell Centre
Ward described chance meeting
with Charles Hancock, United
States Marine, on tropical island
about month ago. He said he was
walking along a country road when
truck load of U. S. Marines
passed him. Ward recognized Han
cock as he passed in the truck and