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ued. ''For example, Benton county's
I ,958 farm family workers have
found their job of increasing pro-
duction made more difficult because
of the shorter farm labor supply,
higher farm wages and limited
availability of farm machinery and
supplies.
"The latest census counted 4s6
regular hired hands in the country.
Since that count was made, farm Ia
Dor has decreased as much as SO
percent in certain areas and UP to
SO percent in some Washington dis
tricts," French said.
But despite the labor curtailment,
he said, past performance indicates
the farmer can approach food pro-
duction goals. In ten years, covered
by recent government reports, the
farmer had increased his productive
efficiency by 252 percent. The av-
erage farmer, the survey revealed,
fed lit prisons in 1929 and ten years
later was feeding al persons from
his fields.
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Large Birthday Cake
Decorated Dinner Table

FTNLEY-Mr. and Mrs. Virgil
Masters and daughter, Merle, and
MIR. and Mrs. Ernest Sherry with
Mr.. and Mrs. Willard Campbell of
Kennewick, enjoyed a dinner Tues
day evening at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. Wallace Preston in Ken
newick in honor of the birthday of
Mrs. Sherry, also honoring Mrs.
Virgil Masters. A beautiful, large
birthday cake, baked by Mrs. Wal
lace Preston, decorated the table.
Mrs. Earl Stewart and daughters,
Bonnie and Earline, and Mrs. Nc
Donald of Seattle, who spent the
past four days visiting Mr.. and Mrs.
Harold Whitman and family, left on
Wednesday dor their home. Mrs.
Stewart is a sister and Mrs. Nc
Donald, the mother of Mrs. Whitman.
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Employment Office
Calling Registrars
For Essential Jobs
Skilled workers being
offered special work
onthe war effort

Study and Classification of the oc-
cupationa1 portions of the selective
service QUESTIONABLE is now under
way at the local office of the u. S.
Employment Service, it is disclosed
10y John Slack, manager. 6 =,
AS a result of the study, 1t IS ex-
pected that a number of opportuni-
ties for employment of men skilled
in critical occupations will develop.
Slack said that the current compila-
tion is the first comprehensive at
tempt to catalogue the working abil-
tiles and experience of the American
people.
~Cau in" cards are being sent to
men whose missionaries indicate
thtey are skilled in lines in which
shortages now exist, Slack reported.
On the basis of ensuing conferences
employment in critical war indus
tries is expected to be offered to
many who are now engaged in es-
sential work.
."The bottom part of page two of
the occupational QUESTIONABLE was
detached and released to the employ
ment service. A cross-index is be-
ing compiled of these cards, showing
by occupation the various skills of
each registrant. . F.:
when a call comes for workers
for one Of the critical war indus
tries, we are able to go through the
file for men with that particular skill
then call them and offer work on
job needed for the war effort"
Critical skills," include macl1in-
lists. airplane mechanics, ship lofts
men, foundry workers, metallurgists,
instrument makers, radio technic-
ians, Welders and host of Others.
Employment Officials, as well as
those of the selective service, dis
tinguish between critical and essen
tial skills. Critical occupations. are
Those in which shortage now exists
and which have an immediate i'm
portance to the war program. Essen
tial occupations also have an inn
mediate Importance, but their short
ages are potential rather than act
ual. .s ne
Acceptance of positions at the
present time is purely voluntary, it
was pointed out. If the worker re-
fuses, nothing but an appeal to his
patriotism can abe made, in spite of
recent announcements from state Sc
lectiVe service headquarters that
eventually men of draft age would
have to join the army or work in "a
war industry. zsas Ia
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Benton County
Crop Spoilage
Can Be Halved
Better packing and .
handling to increase
net returns

Prevention of waste in food dis
tribution will be a vital factor in
the effort of Benton county'S 7,454
farm operators and workers to
achieve their wartime harvest goals,
it was indicated today in a survey
by a leading distributor of Wash
ington farm produce.
At least half of the estimated $15,-
100000 annually lost from spoilage
and damage to matured Washington
fruits and vegetables alone can be
prevented by the use of better grad
ing, packing and by better and more
direct distribution methods, Earl
R. French declared in the surveys
summary. He indicated that fur
ther savings could be realized from
improved handling of other Wash
ington farm products.
eff Benton county farmers, work.
ing with distributors, cut by half the
average 10 to - percent of fruit and
vegetable shipments. lost Through
damage and spoilage, they will have
achieved the equivalent of a to
percent increase in production
without any extra acreage, equip
ment or farm labor" French said.
Under wartime conditions, use
of efficient handling methods on
the farm and utilization of efficient
distribution channels is becoming
increasingly important" he contin-
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Shipyard Worker Home
With Parents This Week

HIGHLANDS -Merlyn Giles, who
has been. working in the shipwards
in Bremerton, is visiting at the
home of his parents this week.
Herbie Traegger, who has been
a patient the past year in the or
thopedic hospital in Seattle, has
returned to the home of his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. John Traegger.
Clyde Heberling has returned
from Colville, after spending a va
cation with his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. w. r. Heberling.
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Al Busy Bodies Meet
Friday With Leader

EAST KENNEW1CsK-Tlie Al
Busy Bodies met Friday at the home
of their leader, Mrs j. III. Carlton,
for an all-day meeting. The group
enjoyed watching the wheat har-
vest. Norma Smalley gave a dem
onstration. Miss Berry was a guest
at the meeting.
T'heo Lampson and Norma Berg
plan to go to Bingham Springs,
Oregon for few days outing.
Mrs. Burton is quite i'll with torl-
silitis.
Mrs. Odes Sloan went to Spokane
Friday to visit her husband.
Mrs. Fred Cole has been ill all
week..
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.NNNSFSSNSM>MA@S
O B UAR,S
Laura Bell RiChmOOs

Laura Bell Underwood ma.
October 10Th, 1870 in BeceIsrS !, e
Virginia and passed awaV Is,l We !
1912 in the PascO hOspitsI
August II. 1893 she was -. 3
o. r. Richmond at Grow, We. !. |
ginia. Nine children were 49, -. y
this union, five HAVING ~. WI
here in death. O''
The family came west In ,o0,
lived in Tacoma until 1a,S o.. :,
they moved to Benton coun,v 'a !
1913 they moved to BensoS =.
where they have lived SinOe y
became united with the -, ~
church in early girlhooo ava
lived a. sincere Christian Ne =
has been a true and loving WI. :,
a devoted mother.
She is survived by thna
Paul. Waldo and Roscoe ali ot -
newick, and one daughter pS ~
chileS of Salem, Oregon, and y,
MagelSen, grandson, who l,r.'
Kennewick and three other vys,,
children, three great grandcSils,
and one sister and one brother !,
living in West Virginia.
Services will be held in the chm
at Benton City July 81 at 2:sO :
DIR. r. L. 1aMott Of the Ken,
wick Methodist church in ch,.
Of the service. Interment VI,
made in the Benton CITY com.,,'
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Finley Residents Picnic
In Sacajawea Park

FTNLEY-Mr. and Mrs. William
Wilson, Mr.. and Mrs. Winfield Gil
more and Mrs. Clara mccarthy and
Mr.. and Mrs. Bud McCarty and two
daughters, Leila and Betty, enjoyed
a picnic Sunday in the Sacajawea
park, near Pasco.
Mrs. Leo Glassner of KenneWick
visited with Clint Glassner Sunday
night.
Frank Bens visited i'm Sunnyside
Wednesday. !.
j. F. Brock returned home Satur-
day from a weeks business "trip ito
Portland.
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Important in the survey is the
fact that at its conclusion, the oc-
cupational missionaries of every
man between the ages of 20 and IS
will have been catalogued. When a
need than arises for workers in any
line, immediate information as to
available requirements will be at
hand,
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FOUND-Silver locket with AS 1856
OAR on back. Owner may have
locket by calling at this office and
paying for ad. /
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Too Late to Classify

LOST-Black coat on the Fourth,
Masonic pin in lapel. Reward for
return to this office or E. E. Tooth
aker. l8p
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LOST DOG-White Sealiham with
brown spots, female, is wearing a
collar with paddock. Answers to the
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-11
We Must Win War
On Home Front Too

WASHINGTON, June II eUP) -
Under-Secretary of War Robert
Patterson said last night that for
our soldiers to beat the enemy on
the battlefront. We at home must
win the battle of prices
Every man, woman and child, he
said, must fight against rising liV-
ing costs.
we will all have to pay heavier
taxes" he declared We will in
vest 10 per cent of our income in
war bonds. Business men will have
to be contented with low, reason
able profits. Workers will have to
forego wage increases except for
substandard and inequitable wages.
Farmers will have to hold agricul-
tural prices to parity levels. House.
wives will have to buy less of eV-
erything, to use old things more
carefully. We will have to reduce
our standards of living"
Creation of war contract adjust
ment boards will save the govern
ment an estimated $350,000000 on
Army and Navy contracts, he de-
clared.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-11
Axis Shows Alarm
In Propaganda On
Action in Pacific
BY UNITED PRESS

A note of alarm was increasingly
apparent Thursday IN Axis broad
casts on the battle Of Midway is
land.
Going through the Axis propagan-
da mills, the story emerged as a
Japanese victory which had terror
lied the United States and sent its
fleet to refuge in American Pacific
ports.
But in story after story from To-
kyo and Berlin. down at the end or
buried in the middle, the claim was
advanced tnat Japan in attacking
Midway and Dutch Harbor had at
tackled United States naval, submar-
inc and air bases and had made it
more difficult for the United States
to take the offensive, and to bomb
i Tokyo.
Inasmuch as the Japanese high
command knows what really hap
pened it seemed increasingly cellar
that the attacks were actually in
tended to Slow up an inevitable
American offensive and that heir
complete failure was a defeat even
more portentious to Japan than the
blow to its main fleet and its pres
tige.
As part of the milling process,
some European countries-like Vichy
France-suppressed even japanese
official admissions of losses, pub
fishing only japanese claims of A
merican losses.
Sword at throat OF United
States" solemnly headlined the Ber-
lin Boersen- -Zeitung.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-11
ALASKA SAFE:

WASHINGTON, June Il tUP) -
Military and naval sources, scoffing
at Japanese claims of troop land
ings in the Aleutian Islands, today
believed the Japanese probably
would try more hit and run raids
in the Alaskan area
Those sources indicated that all
was quiet in the Alaskan area for
the present, but emphasized for
the present. They have not ruled
out the possibility of further at
tacks such as that on Dutch Har-
Dor a week ago yesterday.
One expert suggested that the
japanese propaganda claims may
have had these detectives:
l. To divert American naval
forces searching for the badly bat
tered Japanese fleet sent against
Midway Island.
2. To cushion the shock of the
Midway setback for the japanese
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-11
IMPERIAL VALLEY PRESS, Ell CENTRo, CALF.
.khorkov Scene
Of New Battles

, Germans were found on the streets
of the village and on its outskirts
kHARKON OFFENSIVE
On the northern front, the COM
munique asserted, German infantry
tried to drive a wedge in Russian
lines After a furious battle. the
few Germans left alive retreated.
The German offensive on the
Kharkoy sector was revealed in last
midnight's communique, which said
only that "Wednesday on the Khar-
kov sector battles occurred with
German troops who were on the Of
fenSiVe.
Apparently the immediate Ger
man intent was to regain the posi-
tionS they lost when the battle of
Kharkov quieted two weeks ago.
Marshal Semyon Timoshenko won
considerable territory by striking
May -. beating the Germans to the
punch. and he was believed to have
firmly consolidated his positions.
Losses on both sides had been
heavy in the battle of Kharkov. but
both sides had brought up rein
forcements and regrouped them in
preparation for the renewal which
now was underway.
Southeast of the -Izyum
area. the theater of a German
COUNTER offensive last month, the
Red army enjoyed a favorable posi-
tiOD aStrile a river
The German offensive may be the
curtain-raiser of Adolf Hitler's
summer offensive" to win or lose
all in Russia. There was no indi-
cation whether it was coordinated
with the assault on Sevastopol, but
it could easily be.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-11
WANTED! MEN AND
WOMEN WHO ARE
HARD OF HEARING

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over a million packages sold. Safe
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day about Ourine. For sale by
Clements Drug Co.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-11
CZECH VILLAGE SLAIN

LONDON. June Il. UP) The
Czech nationalist government today
characterized as the most bastard
]y German act since the Dark
Ages" the Nazi slaughter of the
entire male population OF a town
near Prague in reprisal for the as
sassination OF Reinhard Heydrich.
The Nazi Gestapo leveled the
town of Lidcice yesterday. executed
every male, sent the women to con-
centration camps and carried the
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-11

Germans were found on the streets
of the village and on its outskirts
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-11
BIG ADVANCES

The spokesman said the japanese
right prong, pushing south south
east from Nanchang, penetrated
Tsungjen on Tuesday and now had
reached Nanfeng, 124 miles below
Nanchang.
The middle prong, pressing south
east by way of FuchoW, has reached
Chinhsi, 80 miles southeast of Nam
chang, and the left prong still is
battling the Chinese between Tung-
slang and Yingtun, 35 miles to the
east along the Kiangsi-Chekiang
railway, he said.
The spokesman warned that the
middle column now was in a posi-
ton to outflank Yingtun and move
northeastWard in an attempt to
Join the column pushing westward
from Changshan, near the Kiangsi
border. TIE latter column reached
Changshan after a 20-mile advance
from Chuhsien.
The Chuhsien defenders have TAX
en- a toll of 10000 japanese casual
ties during five days OF bloody hand
to-hand fighting.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-11

children off to educational institu-
tions.n
It was regarded as the start of
new reign of terror in CzechoSlo-
vakia growing out of the death of
"Hangman" Heydrich, No. , man
of the Gestapo and protector of
Bohemia and Moravia.' Since he
was fatally wounded by Czech pa
triots two weeks ago. at least 328
innocent persons had been slain,
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-11
Salesman Turns
In Biggest Record

NEW ORLEANS, June Il. CUP)
Michel Brener. 32-year-old furni-
ture salesman, left his job last night
after the most successful day of his
career.
Brener, who will be indicted into
the army on Saturday. decided to
spend his last day at the furniture
store selling nothing but war bonds.
His total for the day was S18.5OO
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-11

MOSCOW, June Il fUP) - A
new German offensive threatening
to develop into a major onslaught
involving millions of men and thou
sands of planes and tanks ragged
around Kharhoy today.
At the same time. the Germans
threw new reserves into their as
Sault on beseieged Seyastopol
where they already were sacrific-
ing 10000 men,
The Soviet army organ Red Star
said that a number of heights near
SevaStopol had changed hands sew
eral times yesterday but at the
end of the day the Germans were
where they had started
The defenders were sheltered in
deep dugoutS blasted below solid
rock and in iron and concrete
Notifications that have proved in
vulnerable to the Germans worst
pounding. Red Star said. Soviet gun
emplacementS maintained a steady
bombardment of the enemy
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-11
public.
CLAIMS EXPLODED

Whatever their motive, the Axis
propaganda claims were pretty well
exploded by a Navy spokesman. He
said:
we have no information about
any Japs landing on Alaskan soil
Certainly. none of our inhabited
areas, islands or rocks are troubled
with any unlimited visitors up To
this time
This statement indicated that
military and naval authorities were
in touch with the various U. S.
government posts on the island
chain.
It did not, however, preclude the
possibility that the Japanese may
have landed on some of the isolat-
ed. uninhabited islands.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-11
Three Jap Columns
Make Long Strides
In China Attacks

CHUNGKING, June Il. tUP)-
Three large japanese columns,
pressing east and southeast from
Nanchang, have made long strides
during the past "a hours and threat
en- to outflank Chinese positions
along the middle section of the
Chekiang -Kiangsi railway, mill
tary spokesman said today.
He declared that the Chinese sit
uation was growing increasingly
critical, but reported that a Chinese
garrison, now in the sixth day of
siege, still held out behind the wall
ed defenses of bomb-shattered Chus-
sien, key rail center in western
Chekiang.
A strong enemy force, however,
had by-passed Chuhsien and was
driving westward to join a column
moving east from Nanchang, pro-
vincial capital of Kiangsi. Their
juncture would cut off the 150-mile
stretch of the Nanchang-H -HangchoW
railway still in Chinese hands.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-11
IN SIXTH DAY

Though the Russian air force was
operating from narrow, exposed
territory, Red Star said it was con-
stantly aloft, fighting German
planes.
The German offensive there was
in its sixth day Nowhere had the
Germans been able to penetrate Sc
vastopols iron ring of defenses, it
was said, but Col Gen. Fritz Erich
Won ManStein was pouring every
man. plane and tank he had into
the battle and the pressure steadily
tightened.
The first Soviet communique to-
day said there was no material
change in the front during the
night. 1t added however. that a
Soviet unit on an undisclosed Sec
tor had broken the resistance of a
German garrison and occupied an
inhabited point. Hundreds of dead
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-11

] not including the unknown tota
at Lidcice.
Thirty-one persons were executed
yesterday, 25 at Prague, six a;
Drum. The known victims of the
blood bath included at least d
women.
Lidcice had a population of l.50O
To 1000 It was near Kladno. 20
miles west of Prague.
NAME ENTINGUISHED"
After aSeertaining these facts all
the male groWn-ups of the town
were shot and the women were
placed in a concentration camp and
the children were entrusted to an
propriate educational institutions.
The township was leveled to the
ground and the name of the COM
munity has been extinguished, the
Germans said.
The Kladno area, Czech sources
here said, mas been a resistance CEN
ter to the Germans since Adolf
Hitler first marched into Prague.
IN June, 1899. the district was fined
100000 crowns because a German
policeman had been slain.
Allied sources felt Lidcice would
not become a forgotten village" 3"
as the Germans wished The Brit
ish Broadcasting company. in pro-
gram beamed TO the continent, said:
STAIN ON GERMANY
This will be stain on the name
of Germany for generations. These
deeds will be added to the long and
frightful bill to be paid by the Ger
mans. Something on account will
be extracted from the German peo-
ple-perhapS tonight, perhaps to-
morrow. And Czech airmen will be
among those who will present the
receipted bill"
Elsewhere in Europe. the Axis
struggled to cope with unrest. The
italian official Gazette published
a decree proviGng death for those
who provoke epidemics through the
spreading of pathogenic microbes,
who poison water or food or mani
pulate food and IenGer it danger
Gus for public health"
The Axis satellite. Hungary. ap-
proved appropriation of all Jewish
real estate and possessions.
Evening star., 1942-07-16
Contractors Urged 10 Hire
Kin Of Men in Uniform

Undersecretary of the Navy James
v. Forrestal yesterday appealed to
the Nations contractors to employ
members of the families of former
employees now in the armed services.
He asked fullest possible considera-
ton" to these relatives as a means
Of meeting critical labor needs In
war production.
"This policy will bring income to
families who may be making serious
financial sacrifices during the war
time absence of their male relatives" !"
Mr.. Forrestal's announcement said
"In addition, this freedom from
financial worry of the families nat
urally will further the morale of the
fighting men at the front"
Citing the aircraft industry as a
leader in employment of women,
Mr.. Forrestal said the War Man
power Commission had reported that
approximately 10 per cent of war
workers at the start of the year
were women. 1t is estimated that
this ratio will go up to 20 per cent
by January /, 1943, representing an
increase Of from SOC, 900 to 5000, ,0OC
women workers by that date.
Evening star., 1942-07-16
<n;oeJ Young Girls Sisterly Kindness
Made Russions Tell All


/ those family ties which they missed
SO sorely. They turned to her as
they would to a kindly sister or
sweetheart, and discussed their prob
lens, both personal and military.
The latter were, without delay,
transmitted to the German general
staff.
It was when these young officers
were about to rejoin their regiments
at the front that Maria played her
master stroke. Until after the war
was ended she would be as a dear
sister to these youngsters. After
that--who could tell? But, in the
interim, she would not rest unless
she knew all that they did, and
thought. So they would write often,
and at lenrtht
Evening star., 1942-07-16
(Fitth Of a Series.)

II you're in the Army, Navy,
Marines, Coast Guard or any sort of
war work remember that the best
spies don't look like spies. That is
one Of the things that makes them
so dangerous. Distrust, above all
else, the sympathetic soul who is 80
interested" in your problems. Even
though they remind you OF dad,
mother or the girl back home, look
out, and don't talk. Back in 1915
one Of Germany's most dangerous
spies looked just like some ones
sister, and used that quality.
Unlike Mata Hari, whose sole
claim to a place in the annals of
espionage was that she looked like q
Evening star., 1942-07-16
Girl Scouts Helping Drive
OF Community War Fund

Fifty intermediate and senior Girl
Scouts will volunteer every day this
week and again in August to solicit
funds for the Community War Fund,
according to Herbert L. Willett, jr.,
executive director of the Community
Chest and newly appointed director
of the Community War Fund.
The first volunteer workers out
side Of the Organizing Committees
to offer their services to the War
Fund, the Girl Scouts are working
in groups of six or eight ia mailing
material to. last years Community
Chest campaign solicitors. The girls
ars earning credits for community
service by their work.
The War Fund includes the Com
munity Chest, the USO and foreign
relief organizations.