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Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-07
IoCE CUaNCE

LOSE CHANCE
Mel Ma7zera, the chunky Italian
outfieidcr of the san Diego Padres,
will have 10 give Up his ambitions,
temporarily. nj least.
Mazzera was all set to quit base
ball this season and take job as
. ratrolman in Stockton, California.
Then he ruined his chances of get
ing on the force
But We must say he ruined them
in an odd way. Ma2zera started
hitting so regularly that he ended
up near the top of the column in
Just atout every division Of the
&hilaleh swinging department in
the Coast league this season.
His batting average at the END
of the season was over the 300
mark. and he was consistently the
best hitter the Padres mad. So what
happened? He was sold to the Chi
cago White GOX.
Now the 23-year-old outfielder
will have - pr+ off his policeman
dreams for a while until be piles
up a little of that green stuff which
the major lcaeuers often draw.
That's really 4 touch break
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-07
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Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-07
Team,
Hold S
Props

Twenty slightly out of :
condition baseball players
showed up Sunday afternoon
for the first scheduled prac-
tice Of an Ell Centre baseball
Evening star., 1942-04-26
GLOBE

bers of my family, including six grandchil-
dren, in Alaska" he said.
Gentlemen, we run no risk if we build this
highway" the gray little engineer continued
I'VE only run risk if we don't build it. If we
need it and haven't got it, it will be sad,
sad story - another blunder."
i HE highway will start at Dawson Creek
which is just across the British Columbia line
from Alberta 1t will extend up the east side
of the Rocky Mountains, through Fort Mel
son. where the scarlet jacketed Mountles are
stationed, and into Watson's Lake. There are
major Canadian airfelds at both Dawson
Creek and Watson's Lake, and Dawson Creek
is connected by railroad as well as highway
with Edmonton. From Watson's Lake the
new road will swing westward across the
Continental Divide and into Whitehorse, in
the Yukon Territory.
From Whitehorse road already goes to
Kluane, and from Kluane the new highway
will twist through the Yukon wilderness to
Tanana Crossing Almost mile for mile, the
route Macdonald blazed through the fast
nesses will be followed by the new highway.
When at last Americas Burma Road is
completed, soldiers and armored equipment
will reach Fairbanks in 80 hours from Edmon-
ton. Now the ocean journey from Seattle
Evening star., 1942-04-26

takes eight days to Anchorage, and an
other day to Fairbanks.
Donald Macdonald believes that the high
way will be more than road to Alaska; he
is sure it will also be a thoroughfare to Asia,
Burma Road tying together two immense
continents. So sure that he has written letters
to Joseph Stain, urging him to build net
work of roads in Siberia which can be con-
nected across the Bering Strait with the
Alaskan Highway!
And why not?" he asks 1T can be extend
ed readily from Fairbanks to Nome. The
Bering Strait is only fifty-five miles across,
the water is less than sixty feet deep. Loads
could be taken over by boat or across the ice.
Plane ferries for such short distance would
be fast and economical. There is open water
from June until November. If Russia would
build roads on its side of the Strait, war mate
rials from our factories could be taken by
land all the way to Vladivostok and Irkutsk.'
But this is the second step. The first step is
Donald MacDonald's original idea = the
highway to Alaska. The main task is to push
through pioneer road. This will be done by
our Army Engineers Senator Charles l..
McNary of Oregon says the Public Roads
Administration will construct the permanent
highway later on. The immediate objective
is passable road, a road over which trucks
and tractors can make their way. The first
version of the highway will be like the cor
duroy Iumberjack roads in the woods of
Oregon and Idaho.
Call Of the Wild
IT WILL be distinctly wilderness job. Once
Fort Nelson is left behind, the road crews
will be in some of the densest fastnesses on
the continent From Watson's Lake to White
horse an unexplored section of the Rockies
will be braved. The men will live primitively.
They will eat caribou meat and wild duck;
cooks from the mess halls will whip foaming
streams for trout and salmon. The forests
will provide wood for fuel and shelter. Hun
dreds of waterfalls will generate power wher-
ever needed There are even oil fields just
northeast of Fort Nelson.
The highway will cost approximately
S4O.OOO,OOO Anthony J. Dimond, Delegate
in Congress from Alaska, points out that
this is less than the cost of one battleship
and can never be sunk and will be perna-
nent asset for centuries to come"
1t may also be the key to an attack on
Japan alaska has the greatest offensive
possibilities of any base under the American
flag" says Alaska's Governor Gruening.
The road will bring Alaska much closer to
the forges and fires of the arsenal of democ-
racy. A shipping shortage will be relieved.
There will be no danger that Aaskas supply
line might be cut Reinforcements can be
rushed; the slow trip by sea will not be re-
quired.
Donald Macdonald believes that compile
ton of the Alaskan Highway will bring thou
sands of Americans to our vast territorial
possession in the north - American soldiers
today, American families after the war He
thinks Alaska will become Promised Land.
1>I.-o -, "a III froo l,pI in - c tho Iacf
Evening star., 1942-04-26


Donald Macdonald believes that compile
ton of the Alaskan Highway will bring thou
sands of Americans to our vast territorial
possession in the north - American soldiers
today, American families after the war. He
thinks Alaska will become Promised Land.
There is still free land in Alaska; it is the last
frontier Once it is brought within easy access
of the average American great new indus
trial commonwealth may be the result.
Our Burma Road will be completed without
fanfare War is no time for frills. Yet this
graying engineer will be certain to be present
when the first brown Army truck - the first
land vehicle ever to reach Alaska from the
United States under its own power - rolls
across the Yukon boundary.
1t will be a great day for Donald MacDon-
aid - and sad one for Hitler and Hirohito.
The End
Evening star., 1942-12-24

SO you want Toxic bombed again?
Well, bombs cost money, SO help buy
some with War bonds and stan
Evening star., 1942-12-24
James Melton, Opera Tenor,
Sings Today at Sisters Wedding
Prepares to Return
As SoIoist With
Symphony Jan. 81

The famous tenor voice of James
Melton, popular radio and concert
singer who recently made his debut
at the Metropolitan is caroling to-
day at his sisters wedding at the
Walter Reed Hospital Memorial
Chapel.
"Oh Promise Me" is the song that
he is singing for his sister, Miss
Virginia Melton, who is marrying
1t John Cain, u S. A, former Jes-
tice Department attorney. Miss
Melton is employed at the Co-or-
dinator of Inter- American Affairs.
Fresh from his recent debut at
the Metropolitan, where he sang
The Magic Flute" Mr.. Melton is
preparing arias from that Mozart
opera and from Don Giovanni" by
the same composer. which he will
sing with the National Symphony
Orchestra on January 81.
The Georgia born singer told re
porters of the 20-below weather he
experienced at his Westport home
Sunday. With one of his antique
electric cars, he and John Charles
Thomas, noted singer. pushed mod
ern gas-driven automobiles up Slip
perry hills all day. Mr.. Melton gen.
orally drives Stanley Steamer,
vintage 1910.
Along with other musical artists.
Mr.. Melton, who has sung 43 times
for soldiers, sailors and Stage Door
Canteen performances. has a high
Evening star., 1942-12-24
Alexandria Child Cenfers
Seen Opened By Jan. |

Having filed an application for
Lanham Act funds to establish day
care centers, the Alexandria Dav
Care Committee is confident that
the centers will be able to open
shortly after January /.
Every effort is being made to rush
through approval of the project.
which has been long delayed because
Of difficulty in getting approval for
temporary WPA appropriation and
rejection of the application by the
State WPA office.
Mrs. Faith Hackman, director of
the program. has asked women who
plan to take jobs after the first of
the year and who wish their children
to be enrolled in one of the centers
to telephone Alexandria 1859 for an
interview.
The committee hopes to locate its
centers near the homes of families
whose children will be cared for in
Evening star., 1942-12-24
Rickenbocker's S
Crew Evoded
Doctors Orders

F. ne Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 24.-John
K. Durkin, the Navy doctor who
treated Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker
and his comrades after their % day
crdesl on life RATS in the Pacific.
told today how his patients put one
over on him and made him fear they
were going to be much sicker than
they had been.
Dr Durkin few to the island
where the Rlckenbacker party were
taken after their rescue and accom-
panied them back by plane.
We made one stop for lunch, he
said, and had to arrange details
Of the ulp, so I left them tempo
Tarlly. When got back found they
had ordered three bowls Of soup
two plates OF ice cream and glass
sitter glass of ice water.
L thought I would have nothing
but sick men aboard that plane dur
ing the rest Of the trip. but they
fooled me They got along swell,
even though before that they had
eaten nothing but sips Of tea and a
little beef broth
Dr DIrkin is here n spend the
holidays with his mother.
Evening star., 1942-12-24
III. ). Sues Anaconda
For $4,000, Over
|Wire Sold 10 Army
CompIoint Accuses Firm
Of Supplying Defective
Cable to Armed Services
BY the Associated PreSS.

BY the Associated PresS.
NEW YORK. Dec. 24-A civil ac-
ton asking $4,000 900 damages from
the Anaconda Wire & Gable Co.
and five employees was filed yester-
| day in Federal Court in the name
of the United States by Moses B.
Sherr, attorney.
The action was an outgrowth of
an indictment voted Monday by a
Federal grand jury at Fort Wayne,
Ind, against the company and the
five employees.
Charges made by Attorney Cen
eral Biddle that the defendants
conspired to foiSt defective wire and
cable on the armed services from
the firms Marion GndD plant were
repeated in the new complaint.
Defendants Named.
Individual defendants are Thor s
Johnson, general manager. Frank
E. Hart, manager of the firms Ma
ron division; Don r. Carpenter
superintendent; Chalmer Bishop,
chief inspector, and Frank Kunkle
assistant chief inspector at the Ma
| rion division.
MI. Sherr set forth in the COM
plalnt that the Government was
suing through him and that the ac-
tlon was filed in behalf of the Gov
eminent as well as for himself.
Beginning in 1886, the firm re-
ce1ved contracts totaling more than
$4,000, 600 for manufacture and de-
livery Of wire and cable to the ARMY
Signal Corps and the Navy, the
suit contended
Wire Declared Defective.
The complaint alleged the wire
and cable was defective in five spec
lf1cationS, namely, that its resistance
was substantially less than the re-
quired 1900 megohms per l 900 feet,
that the wire was poorly impreg-
mated, that the braid had insuffi-
cient mechanical strength, that the
rubber insulation cracked when bent
and that the impregnation COM
( pound separated from the braid.
Charges that the defendants re-
moved inspection labels from tested
and approved wire and cable and
placed them on untested and de-
fective material and that they in
stalled a transformer or circuit
breaker" on the test equipment to
raise the galvanometer reading 10
times the actual resistance of the
wire cable also were alleged in the
action.
Evening star., 1942-12-24
CIock of Military Boots Jars
Nativity Scene in Bethlehem
Correspondent Visits Christ's Birth place;
Finds Tourists Are Chiefly Soldiers

iSh House Of Commons I heard the
question raised whether Christianity
is an issue in this war and the gov
ernment's answer was yes"
Then again I might tell you that
in my travels both in the United
States and abroad l find a growing
feeling that a spiritual and moral
wave is moving across numerous
countries, including our own.
A lot of prominent people sub
scribe to this view and I have had
hard boiled politicians confide in me
that they thought it the only thing
which would put the world on It's
feet again.
Well. I believe that one OF the
things we are fighting for Is to pre-
serve Christianity. And I think
there are indeed signs OF a moral
myself faltering a bit when I try
to make a Christmas carol out of
either subject.
So I am just going to tell you of
a rather lovely little incident I en-
countered in Jerusalem while doing
the stations of the cross. This hap
pened at the second station, over
which stands the convent school of
the Sisters OF Zion.
Convent Built Over Ruins.
This convent Is built on the ruins
of Pontius Pilates palace, parts of
which have been preserved to this
day. 1t was here that Christ was
imprisoned and scourged.
Here, too, PLATE faced the crowds
which were demanding the Sayior's
crusifixion and washed his hands of
the death of this man in whom he
found no fault.
Nuns act rs guides for visitors and
I was assigned to very tiny and
wholly charming sister who also is
a teacher in the girls school. She
was an exceedingly good guide and
knew how to make her subject in
teresting.
AS We neared the end of our tour
Evening star., 1942-12-24

So you want Toxic bombed again?
Well, bombs cost money, so helm buy
some with War bonds and stamps.
Evening star., 1942-12-24
June Knight Divorce Suit
Ties Up Cameron Wealth

B, the Associated Press.
HOUSTON. Tex, Dec. 24.-prop-
erty OF Arthur A. Cameron wealthy
Houston oil man, has been placed
in receivership. pending trial of a
divorce sought by June Knight
Cameron, stage and screen star.
District Judge Ben Wilson ap-
pointed Attorney Wright Morrow
receiver. Mr. Cameron was not in
the courtroom.
The actress was asked on the wit
ness stand whether she really was
In need of cash. CHer petition asks
$4,000 monthly maintenance, pend
ing the divorce triaD.
Yes and no" she answered.
Didn't Mr.. Cameron give YOU
500 900 for both your use and his?"
asked Shirley Helm. Mr.. Helm rep
resented DR.. and Mrs. G.. f. Cam
eron, parents of Arthur Cameron
and co-defendantS in the amended
divorce petition.
He did not" the plaintiff as
serted. He gave me $4,000 a
couple of years ago when I pro-
tested at him flying all the time
and not carrying any insurance. 1
put 1t IN trust and have not touched
it."
Evening star., 1942-12-24

she remarked You come from
America. don't you?"
1t was rhetorical question, for
she already had her answer in my
accent. However. l pleaded guilty
Il always like to meet Americans,
she added, for they bring back
happy days I spent in the United
States"
Where did you live?" I asked.
In Lewiston, Me" she answered
Il was educated there 80 years ago
l came down from Canada"
A little later. as I was about to
leave, she said Give my Christmas
greetings to America"
And who shall I say sent them q
I inquired.
The little lady smiled.
Just say, Sister Mary of Zion, -
she replied.
Evening star., 1942-12-24
ChrYsIer Seeks ST, 500, 900
Pay Raise for Employees
~ the Associated Press.

DETROIT, Dec. "a. - Chrysler
Corp. Yesterday asked the War
Labor Board and the Bureau Of In
ternal Revenue to approve raises
Of $40 TO $l8 month for more
than 12.500 Salaried employees who
now receive $3.50 month or less
and who are not represented by 9
certified labor organization.
The raises. the corporation said
In statement, would become ef-
fective January and would
amount TO about $1,5O0,0O0 year
Twenty-Five ChrySler Corp. plants
In Ohio, Illinois, Indiana and Mich
'gan are included in the applica-
ton.
AT the same time. the company
gave labor unions which have been
certified TO represent about SOC
salaried employees making $3.50 a
month or less an opportunity to
join with it in the application for
approval OF the raises.
Chrysler said the purpose OF the
step was TO keep the salary rate
structure OF the corporation and Its
subsidiaries in balance with changes
that the National War Labor Board
ordered for hourly rate employees"
Evening star., 1942-12-24
u. 5. and Mexico Sign
Pact 10 Speed Trade
In Wartime Goods
18th American Republic
And 18th Nation TO Join
HuII-Sponsored Proerom

BY the Associated Press
The United States and Mexico
allies in the war against the Axis
signed reciprocal trade agreement
yesterday sweeping aside long
standing barriers to peacetime COM
merce and opening the way to a
greater wartime exchange OF goods.
Secretary of State Hull signed
the bulky document with DR. Fran
cisco Castillo Najera, Mexican Am
baSsador, bringing the 18th Ameri-
into the international trade pro-
gram Secretary Hull has advocated.
Tariff Cut on IS Items.
The United States obtained tariff
reductions on rs items, while the
duties on 1877 others were frozen
at present levels. In return more
than so items exported to the
United States by Mexico are af-
fected by the agreement.
Among the concessions made by
Mexico are the binding of the pres
ent duty on automobiles, trucks and
tractors of which Mexican pur-
ChaSes in 1910 amounted to $685.
900; a reduction of so per cent on
the duty on machinery and ap-
plianCes, of which the United States
supplied 10 per cent of Mexicos
imports in 1910 valued at $685.
900, and II per cent decrease in
the rate on radios and radio equip
ment, 81 ,482 900 item in this coun-
try's 1910 foreign trade.
Other tariff reductions included:
Wheat, 40 per cent: lard, at per
cent; refrigerators, 20 per cent.
War Items Affected.
Many items vital to the war figure
in the concessions made by the
United States to Mexico and sig
nificantly the pact removes all
quotas on importation of crude
petroleum and fuel oil at the frozen
rate OF one-fourth cent a gallon.
Previously Mexicos exports OF petro-
leum crude and fuel oil to this coun-
try at this rate were limited by
quota while all in excess of the
quota was subject to one-half cent
gallon duty.
The pact automatically ends sim
liar quota limitations on imports
of oil from Venezuela. Colombia,
the Netherlands Kingdom and other
countries.
Evening star., 1942-12-24
D. {. Youth Here on Leave
After Two Torpedoinqs

Alfred B. Roper, II, son of Mrs.
Melissa Roper. 801 Varnum street
NV, arrived in Washington yes
terday from an Eastern port after
having served aboard the torpedoed
Leedstown in the first North Afri-
can convoy. He had previously
served aboard another cargo ship
which was torpedoed in the South
Atlantic. but managed to make port.
When my leave is up am going
back to sea-" he said, that's the
only way to win this war"
His mother, Mrs. Roper, is in the
Adjutant Generals Office of the
War Department.
Evening star., 1942-12-24

regard for the musical appreciation
of Servicemen.
There's hardly a popular opera
that they don't know the big, dark
tenor said.
The servicemen and the Nation.
he believes. have yet to hear a real
ly flrst-class American war song.
SO far he thinks the best song COM
ing out of the war has been a Chi
neSe marching song. He does not
like Praise the Lord and Pass the
Ammunition.
Evening star., 1942-12-24

order to eliminate transportation
problem.
Immediate application from moth
ers will enable the committee to
survey the localities where centerS
are most needed.
Detroit evening times., 1942-10-11
CHALLENGE MET

A MERICA has met that challenge and intends TO
n il with sugmentihg might until the challenge can exist
And America meets the challenge Of empire in the
Pacific has America perorc turned back upon Europe
where by of the srsngest prversons in all history
Japan has npSerupaleas
The ordeal Of ''goba' warfare in which we are now
engaged may be long may be beyond any ordeal
that country has before had endure America
viii prevail
The course Of empire will 90 further west than
here-and it shall return to Europe either.
The New World history which Christopher Columbus
insuguraed in 1892 has merely reached climax in 1912
and il will continue long aerward.
And when the last shot in this been fired con.
quered nations will be set free again and oppressed people
will come into their
Detroit evening times., 1942-10-11
92--AMERICA--19
Will Civilization
Columbus Founded
Keep Marching On?
By E. F. TOMPKINS

VIZ HEN Christopher Columbus and his mariners de-
w barkcd from their storm-batered caraves upon the
shore of San Salvador the that has since been
known as that OF Modern History began.
The year as every schoolboy knows, was 1892.
The Modern Age has been long oneonly 450 years.
as compared with the centuries of the Middle Ages
with the thousands of decades Of anquity little than
breath of time in the OF geological surveys.
Yet these 450 years have been the period crowded
with great achievements and most prolific of progress in the
span of human existence.
The year 1912 may be designated in future annals
other monumental year.
For word-shakng events that set into swift motion
in this present year may deermneprobaby will determine,
ndeed-wbeher the Modern Age of Occidental civilization
coming end whether that Age will maintain its
march and continue besow the increasing blessings Of
science and Of advancement upon mankind
1892 a resplendent year because by OF the
voyages and discoveries of Christopher Columbus brought
the New World of the Americas into the knowledge and the
neighborship of the Old World of Europe
1912 may be either tragcal triumphant year be-
viii show whether not the New World has the
weight and the pusance TO redress the broken balances of
the Old World TO restore tranquility warravaged cont
and reestablsh principles OF right and Of justice
among the peoples Of the earth
Detroit evening times., 1942-10-11
HISTORY EPTTOMIZED

pISHOP BERKELEY produced one of the immortal lines
~ Of English literature when with his minds upon the