Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-12
BARRIERS BIND WAR DRIVE

Small businesses taking part in
the war production program are hit
+ Just as hard. or harder, by some
types of restrictive legislation as the
/ big boys State line trade barriers
are bad enough, but within some
states there are county line barriers
which are even worse. In Idaho,
/ for instance, merchant truckers
must pay $500 for a license fee and
post a $500 cash bond with the
county treasurer for each county
they operate in. Idaho having A
counties, merchant trucker re-
quired to operate throughout the
state on a defense pooling arrange
ment, would be forced to fork over
S13,200 in license fees and $50 0J0
il cash deposits S35, 200 in all,
Suspension of all such state laws
for the duration of the emergency
may be necessary.
North Carolina has law requir-
ing Workmen in certain trades to
take out a license in every county
where they may be employed. One
man passed in 81 counties, but fail
ed in the 38th. Los Angeles, trying
to retain its huge new aircraft in
duStry and prevent moving OF
plants inland. has new argument
on the safety of California. 1t is
that Los Angeles is $500 miles from
Tokyo, 500 miles from Berlin, $500
miles from Rome or Dakar.
Gossip reports that Maj. Cor
nelius Vanderbilt had been
awarded the Distinguished Ser
vice Cross for conspicuous dar-
ing at the time of Pearl Har-
Dor had Washington puzzled. 1t
finally boiled down to a letter
of congratulations and a gold
seal of the F.BI. from ]. Ed
gar Hoover by way of thanks
for help from volunteer.
Seror Captain Colon Eloy Alfaro,
ambassador extraordinary and min
lister plenipotentiary from Ecuador
to Washington, is a West Point
graduate. Furthermore, two of his
handsome sons, Eloy and Jamie,
were graduated from West Point in
1889 and the third son. Olvedo, will
be graduated this year The two
elder sons offered their services to
the United States ARM on Dec. 8.
They had been in business in Pan
anna, and SO were assigned to SER
vice in the Canal Zone. OlVedo will
stay at the academy as a Spanish
Instructor unless he can get an as
signment in our Army. One of the
ambassadors most priced possess
sion's is a tobacco pouch in West
Point colors. black gold and gray.
SAFETY FOR POOLERS
Questions of legal liability for car
owners who drive their neighbors to
work in pooling agreements to save
rubber, are gradually being worked
out Where industrial plants are ar
ranging the pools they require the
driver TO take out liability and
property damage insurance.
Most states have made ar
rangements to waive regula
tions which would require We
hicle owners collecting fares for
transportation to register as
common carriers. And federal
have interfered with pooling ar
rangementS for joint deliveries
of competitors will in general
be suspended under an agree
ment between the Department
of Justice and the Office of De-
fense Transportation.
japanese and German diplomats T.
ensconsed in sWank Blue Ridge re
sort hotels, while waiting exchange
with American diplomats in axis
countries, are permitted one daily |
newspaper But there is nothing to |
prevent the foreign diplomats from /.
those newspapers and TAX
ing them out of the country when
they go. TheY would have the last
minute report on what the United /.
States knows and thinks about the /
war. The hotels. by the way, have |
apologized TO their old customers |
fol not being able 10 take care of |
their lISual Easter holiday trade