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Nogales international., 1943-02-19

toward some big produce distribut-
ing center in the United States or
Canada. Mr.. Manson says some
cars are bought at the border by
produce firms and go direct to a
certain wholesale market. Other
cars are started toward distributing
points on the West Coast, Middle
West or the East and are sold en-
route to be delivered at some city
where favorable market prevails.
For example, a car may be routed
toward Chicago but if shortage
Of tomatoes develops in ST. Louis
when the car reaches that vicinity,
it may be delivered to that city in
stead OF it's original destination
Many cars of tomatoes from Mex
leo travel. in bond over American
railways to Canada. Of course, no
payment of American duties are re-
quired on these shipments. How
ever, a procedure little known to
anyone outside the trade is for to-
matoes to be shipped in bond toward
a Canadian market and sold in
transit for delivery to city in the
United States. Duties are then
collected at the point of delivery
instead of being paid at the border.
This practice seems of little I'M
portance to the outsider, but Mr..
Manson says it sometimes saves
around two weeks interest or
money required for customs pay
ments, a considerable item when
deals amount to many thousands of
dollars. Perhaps as many as 80 per-
cent of the cars routed for Canada
are delivered TO American market1.
This custom is followed with all
classes of tomatoes, but the Ameri-
can and Canadian markets prefer
entirely different grades of the vege-
table. Canadians like small sizes
for quartering American house
wives want larger tomatoes suitable
for slicing.
Mr.. Manson mentioned only the
main points of distribution. Tomato
men up and down the street all
agree it is a problem containing
little but trouble. Each has his own
pet peeves.
Sometimes the cars need ice to
keep the vegetables from spelling.
When blizzards are raging, heaters
have to be put in the cars to keep
the tomatoes. from freezing. Neither
ice nor heaters are needed to regu-
late the temperature of tomato
man. Good market news warns
the cookies of his heart. A slump
freezes the marrow in his bones.
Nogales international., 1943-02-19
Produce Distributor Has
Followed Game Over
Half A Century

Between telephone cOnversa-
tiOns with Chicago and other
large vegetable distributing cen.
ters, Willis Urick, dean of bor-
der tomateros, did his best to
break down the technical
classificatiOns into which pro-
duce men are grouped SO the
definitions could be understood
by people outside the trade.
The vegetable business looks like
jigsaw puzzle to the general pub
lie. People in several completely
separate occupations play part in
the seemingly scrambled affair Us
ually the outsider can get by with
general terms like 1.-The tomato
business" and ''tomatero. But
what are you going to do when you
have to be specific with words like
grower, distributor, broker. and
shipper? We went to Mr.. Urick.
A grower, in the language CT the
trade, isn't always what the word
implies, according to the head Of
the local office of Urick & Hollis.
The actual growers are farmers and
men with agricultural holdings who
plant, raise and harvest tomatoes
and other winter vegetables. A
tomatero lays claim to being a
grower usually because of financing
and providing services which enable
the real growers to make a crop.
A distributor acts as the selling
agent for the growers. They are
the middlemen in the vegetable
game. Mr. Tricks firm comes un-
der this heading.
Brokers buy the cars of produce
from the distributors They act as
Nogales international., 1943-02-19
Markets In Canada And
US. Supplied BY Cars
Going Through Here

The process of transferring
tomatoes from fields in Mexico
to millions of tables in Ameri-
can and Canadian homes is a
highly complex affair, according
to James w. Manson, head of
the Pacific Brokerage Company.
Whereas most other tomateros are
concerned with some angle of buy
ing and selling vegetables from the
Mexican west coast, Mr. Manson's
firm performs the seemingly hope
less task of easing cars of produce
through a maze of Mexican, Ameri-
can and Canadian customs regula-
tions so they can roll onward to
distribution points all over the
United States and Canada.
The travelogue of a car of toma-
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-05-26

Answer 20 yesterday S puzzle.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-11

Hundreds Of reports on chemi.
cal research relative TO the wal
will be made in Detroit next week
when 1000 scientists and indus
trialists convene Monday for the
1o5th American Chemical Society
meeting at Masonic Temple.
Extending through Friday, the
meeting will feature papers on
synthetic rubber, petroleum, agri-
culture and food. industrial water
supplies, civilian preparedness for
chemical warfare, gas and fuel,
chemical education. sugar chem
istry and technology
On display will be thousands Of
chemical patents taken over from
enemy nationals by the Alien
Property Custodian.
Besides the long war sym
poSia, two 81 900 awards will be
made Wednesday at the general
session.
Or. Earle o. Whittier, bureau of
Dairy Industry, Y. S. Department
OF Agriculture, will receive the
Borden award for chemistry Of
milk.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-11
$500 Jobs
But No One 10 Take Them
in Chicago

CHICAGO, April 10 QNS)-
More than $500 defense Jobs in
war industries in the Chicago
Metropolitan area are going beg
ging it was revealed tonight.
The figure was disclosed after
the war manpower commission
made a checkup of war plants in
this area and, il was understood,
the checkup was principally re-
sponSible for the decision over the
weekend TO freeze war contracts.
William II. Spencer, regional
VINO director. warned that
within six months Chicago may be
declared a Cup area in which
tAa 4S-hour week would apply.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-11
ONTARIO
Night: Pain in Neck
Day: Pain on Neck

POCATELLO, Ida. April 10
tUP)-Marjorie Ring, Bull, Ida,
student al University of Idaho, had
sore throat. and, while half
awake one morning. she decided 10
massage her throat with vaseline.
In the dark her fingers found
the wrong jar. Came the dawn
and She discovered she had coy
cred her throat with a generals
ssPplifhon Of permanent bi3-
black AK.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-11
SoIdier-Author
Basis Of Drama

Convicted q the Crime He Pic
tured in His Murder Novel" will
be the title OF one OF the articles
IN The American Weekly coming
10 you with next Sundays issue
OF The Detroit Sunday Times.
II will tell Of a soldier who ran
out on the British Army because
he wanted TO be an author. like
Edgar Wallace. so his jailers let
him write mystery thriller
and then they knew that the killer
IN the story was-himSelfl
This article has been made the
basis OF Front Page Drama radio
program. of the same title as the
article, which The Detroit Sunday
Times viii sponsor over IA radio
stations in Michigan and Ontario.
next Wednesday, Thursday. Friday
and Saturday, the day of the pro-
gram differing on various stations,
as indicated below:
MICHIGAN
WIDE. Flint, 9;l5 p. m. Friday:
WOOD-WASH, Grand Rapids
$50 p. m. Friday; WIBM. Jack
son, 8 p. m. Friday; WIN. Lam
sing. 9 p. ~. Friday; WKBZ,
MuSkegon. 7:l5 y. m. Friday;
VICAR, Pontiac, 2:15 p m. Thurs
day; WSAM, Saginaw. us p. m.
Friday; WTCM, Traverse City,
$3.50 p. m. Wednesday; WILLS.
Port Huron, 1l.30 a. m. Friday.
ONTARIO
CFCO. Chatham, $50 p m.
Thursday; CkOC. Hamilton. lis
p. m. Saturday; CKCR, Kitchener,
3 P. m. Thursday; CKOC, Ottawa,
6:15 p m. Friday: CJCS, STRAIT
ford, 7:45 p. ~ Friday
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-11
Scientists to Meet Here
To Discuss War Chemistry

The Eli Lilly Co. award will be
given Prof. Herbert f. Carter,
University of Illinois, for research
in biological chemistry.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-12-01

Julius Kesales Distilling Co.. Ina.
Laird and Co.
Large Distilling Co.
Lehish Warehcuss D Transporsatsa CO.
&egfried Loewenthal ca.
Lynndale Distiliery Co.
Marques Del Merito. Ia9
II. AeKenna, Inc.
Mat Springs Distiiiesy Co.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-12-01

Aount Vernon Distillesy Co.
National Distiiless Products corporation
Old colonel Distillery Co.
Old Grow Distiilery Co.
Old 0rand Dad Distillesy Co
Old Kentueky Distillery
Old Taylor Distiilery Co.
A ovesholt o Co.. Inc.
Park o Tilfeca Distilisrs, Inc.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-12-01

Fiisehmann DistilHnx corporatioa
Frankfest Distilleries. Inc.
". o A. oilbey, Ltd.
oiszmors Distilleries Co.
0ondeThasn o Worts, La.
0vynne Fails Distilling Co.
Hartford County Distillery Co,
The Hermitage Disiiiesy Co.
James Distiiiery. Inc.
William yamsssa q Co., Inc
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-12-01

JesepA 2. &sagram o $eas. Iae.
San Rraneiaeo Warehouse Co.
ahewaA.Jon Inc.
Southend wasehouss Co.
Sunny Brock Distiilery CO.
Waken O AeLaughlin. Ina.
Hiram Walker Q Sons, Yae.
Frsak Z. Wight Distilling &C,
wilseA Dis4iiliag Co., Xae.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-12-01

Baltimore Pure Rye Distilling Co
James Barclay q Co., Ltd.
8ardstown Distillesy, Inc.
Belle Meade Disabling Co.
Bellows and Co, Inc.
Blair Distilling Co.
Drown-Forman Distiile1 Cooperation
Browns-V intners Co.. Inc.
Calvert Distilling c.
Cam0m Warehouses
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-12-01

IS. Isa true that large dstEers trying to buy add
tionGl whiskey. u'hen available?
Yes Any large dister brands and trademarks
protect naturally will try to buy any acceptable whkey which
However, the purchase of Whistles by from
another does decrease, by single the
supply available for sale to the consumer.
IL. Are consumers boarding whiskey?
Beyond question, many have bought beyond their
immediate needs they have done with other products
IL. Has the trade been boarding uhiskey?
Whoz,ak stocks than at any
Retail stocks much lower than normal Some package
thereby avoiding sales to those who might be hoarders spee
lators or black market operators
IS. Is there black market in whiskey?
There is undoubtedly black market in whkey there
other commodities where shortage exists and where the
ea @ o E1 pab ien as yon eH
rigorous enforcement the resumption of whskey
duction.. correct it.
10. Are the profits of the dsting industry larger tban
those of other American industries?
According to report printed sea in the Nw York Journal q
18th position among 6 major industries from the standpoint
percentage profit sales and likewise the percentage
OF proht to invested capital
TO- Ise shortage of sviskey and higher faxes bringing
the bootlegger back?
Yes The greater the incenve-the greater the temptation
I'll. Why do disers continue advertise their prod
mcts svhen retailers haze such meager supplies?
The trademarks and trade Of producer among his
most valuable assets The dsts! like other producers j.
will not be forgotten.
q. Why is rum and gin plentiful than Whskey?
Today and gins imported largely from the West Indies
Mexico and South America The alcoholic base for these bever
distilled from backstrap moae and the labels indicate
that they products made from and from
CONCLUSIONS
shortage whsey present abnormal rate
Of demand fully satisfied the supply would be exhausted
less than year.
Even under the present aonng programs the individual dis
tlers conditions will progressively aggra-
waited because single whiskey sold October 1912
being replaced The public realize that its consumption
whkey be curtaid has its all other
commodities.
There solution present shortage until beverage
production resumed
Black markets and other violations resulting from the shortage of
liquor condemned by the responsible members Of the industry
just severely they are by enforcement officials
We Of other industry in America which devotine
for billion dollars in Federal annually
and, at the time 10 filling portion Of the
these facts isn't It fair to ask Your understanding and
cooperation under the present difficult conditioner
Beverage Industries, Ii
NEW YORK. NY.
venoap stuay JesepAE ssaxram sss
Nadna Disuess
Old colona Disdnery aAewaaJons.
Old Grow Disinery Co Southend Warehouse Co
Old 8annyB
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-12-01

Is Have dsfillers raised their prices on whiskey?
OP.A. regulations provide that distier prices shall
exceed those effect during March 1912 However the
ons do permit the addition Of Federal Excise Taxes and
the elimination Of promotiona discounts just there
sales Of drug items today special sales
Of canned goods cigarettes and other commodities greatly in
demand there of course sales Of whskey.
Wholesaler and retailer ceiling prices also governed by
OP.A regulations which provide fixed profit ceilings.
II. Haze the disers requested permission to resume
the making of sVhiskey during the sVav?
The position Of the industry has been that long the
Government requires its entire disting facilities for the pro-
ducon of waracoho these facilities should be devoted 1902
that purpose When the total facilities longer needed
by the Government the distie feel that least partial
resumption Of the making Of whskey should be granted
order alleviate the critical shortage and its resulting evils
Imperial Valley press., 1943-11-08

NOT SatlS1leQ WITH ueIllaHulllS I'LL
mediate discharge of such an Off
cial or employe, the directors de-
manded that he be barred from
further government employment
and barred from transfer to any
other government department.
Directors declared they wished
to show their opposition to any
evasion of the law by government
departments and intend to send
copies of their resolution to every
Farm Bureau in the United States
and the California senators and
congressman SO that similar action
MAJ be taken by the various groups
and the senators and congressman
be advised of what is going on. The
resolution also will be placed be-
fore the state farm bureau fedora
ton this month.
The resolution, which originated
in the Spruce e-Westmorland farm
center, was passed by unanimous
vote at the regular November meet
ing of directors Saturday afternoon.
Farm Bureau opposition to con-
Continued on page 2, col. II
Imperial Valley press., 1943-11-08
Bride Survives
PeriIous CROSSING
To Wed &c. Man
Ship on Which Sidney
Girl Travelled Burns;
Miss Leighton Injured

Suffering the narrowing
experience of a sever-hour
fire at sea during when he
lifeboat she was III capslzed
as it was lowered, plurging
her into icy water, Mary Teresa
Leighton of Sidney, Australia, ar
rived safely Saturday night in Ell
Centre, to be greeted by her fiance,
Bob Eyer, to whom she is to be
married on Thanksgiving day.
Seldom has a bride of even pio-
neer days gone through a more
perilous journey to meet her future
husband than Miss Leighton. Sail
ing a month and half ago from
Sidney on a Swedish ship, she was
five days out of Honolulu, when at
1926 pm. fire of mysterious orig
in broke out in the ships hold.
PASSENGER THIRSTY
Only because one of the passengers
was thirsty, were the rest saved
from certain death. This one pas
senger being thirsty went down
little after midnight to the lounge
to get a drink. Smelling smoke, he
opened door leading below and
Continued on page 2. col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1943-11-08
Marines Celebrate
1b8fh Birthday

The 168th anniversary of the
founding of the United States ma
rine corps will be celebrated in El
Centre Wednesday with a stupend-
Gus demonstration staged by men
from the Ell Centro marine air
training station.
Mayor Robert Hatton Monday is
sued an official proclamation call
ing on the residents of Ell Centre to
commemorate the day and join in
the celebration. His proclamation
said in part:
WHEREAS, the marine corps
was founded on Nov. 10, ITS, and
WHEREAS, Wednesday is the
l68th anniversary of the founding
of the corps, one of the most i'm
portant anniversaries celebrated in
the United States, and one in which
every Ell Centran should take part,
NOW, THEREFORE, 1, as
mayor of the city OF Ell Centre. do
hereby proclaim Wednesday marine
anniversary day in Ell Centre"
Imperial Valley press., 1943-11-08

ters without committing himself.
SaTing that if he found the situ-
alton warrants he would be unstlnt-
inc in his recommendation for gov
ernment control on rents in this
area, Diffin left to null over testi-
mony given by military officers,
real estate dealers and interested
townspeople of El Centre Saturday
afternoon at a special meeting.
McQUADE TESTIFIES
1t. Col. #. j. McQuade, command
ing officer at the Ell Centre mar
inc air base, told of difficulties en-
countered by officers and men In
der his command in obtaining
houses. He complained bitterly of
the tactics of a few landlords who,
he charged, fixed eXorbitant rents
for the few rentable houses they
owned.
Other officers from the base told
similar tales.
Tom Finney, director of the
United States Employment Service,
warned that the seasonal influx Of
migrant agricultural population is
expected in Imperial Valley soon
and that Ell Centro would be with
out housing facilities for them.
The general trend of the teSti-
mony was that the city is without
enough houses to go around. This
may force situation to develop
which will see Immigrants bidding
against each other, offering re-
wards and using other means to
obtain houses, it was pointed out.
NO DESIRE
Before the testimony began Diff
fin had declared that the Office
of Price Administration had no
desires to bring rent control into
the valley unless he found that the
Continued on page 2, col. II
Imperial Valley press., 1943-11-08
Community War Chest to
Begin Drive Monday AM.

FL Centro's Community War
chest campaign with goal of $685.
400 will be launched officially at Il
breakfast Tuesday morning, TIL
O'Clock, in the California hotel.
At this breakfast campaign work
ers and committee chairmen will
obtain their final instructions from
ROY H. Womack, chairman for Ell
Centro's drive, beginning their
campaign for funds that day.
This year both the community
chest and the various agencies
which have to du with help for the
fighting forces and relief to the
suffering allies are included in one
>nig drive with the exception of the
American Red Cross which will
have its annual campaign in March.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-11-08
Railroad Chiefs
Say Wage Boosts
Unsatisfactory

WASHINGTON, Nov. 8.
(UP)-B. M. Jewell, char
man of the wage committee
of Is incorporating railway
unions, said today that new
federally-approved four to ten cent
an hour wage increases for l,l0O,-
900 union members were "unSatls-
factory and will not resolve the
issues"
JEWELS criticism came shortly
after Economic Sterilization Direc-
tor Fred M. Vinson had approved
the four-to-ten cent increases rec
commended by President Roosevelt's S
special railway panel. His stand
indicated that the unions would
continue with their present strike
vote.
Jewell said that the proposed
increases would not be any mora
satisfactory than what we've had
before. They will not resolve the
issues"
Testifying before the senate in
terstate commerce committee en-
Continued on page 2, col. -
Imperial Valley press., 1943-11-08
Counts Defense Is
Shaken by Grown

NASSAU, Bahamas, Nov 8. (UP)
The crown shook the defense of
Alfred de Marigny today, forcing
his chief alibi witness to admit that
he had signed a police statement
saying he had not seen de Marigny
during the hours that de Marigny'S
multi millionaire father-in-law, Sir
Harry Cakes was beaten and burn
ed to death.
Crown prosecutor A. F.. Adderley,
a negro, hardly had asked a dozen
questions of the handsome Marquis
George de Visdelou GIimbeau, be-
fore he had the witness shouting
and waving his arms trying to
extricate himself from the con-
tradictions between a statement he
signed for police Immediately after
the crime and the testimony he had
just given in behalf of his best
friend.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-11-08

A man believed to be Policaipo
Enrique Luna died Sunday night in
Ell Centre from injuries suffered
when he was struck by hay truck
near Fourth and Broadway in one
of three Imperial Valley accidents.
The Mexican and the truck COL
lided as he was walking across the
street, Deputy County Coroner A.
T. Lyons said Monday. The Mexi-
can died in an ambulance en- route
to a hospital. An autopsy report
showed that he died from ruptured
liver and spleen. r. E. Little, 81,
employe of the Joe Anderholt of
Holtville, was the driver Of the
truck. Lyons said an inquest into
the death would he held later.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-11-08

Killed or MANNED nearly cFeIyOile
inside.
Rescue squads worked all night
and most of today to dig out the
bodies of the servicemen-possibiy
including American Soldiers-Schooi
boys, war workers, and their girl
friends and they overflowed the
local undertaking parlors Into a
theater lobby.
The exact death toll was with
held by censorship authorities, but
an official communique acknoWl-
edged that it was considerable, >
possibly the largest in single in
cident since the days Of the Ger
man "blitz" in 1910 and 1941.
Details of the tragedy were plec-
ed together from the stories told
by dazed survivors, most of them in
hospitals for burns, bruises and
broken bones.
The dance hall was a converted
billiard room on the second story
of a building on the main street
Of London suburb. In the United
States, it might have been the
local Odd Fellows hall. It opened
for dancing two or three moths
ago and the slogan OF the dance
orchestra was, "Blitz or no bntz,
we play on"
Eileen Page, II, lying in blood
stained bed in hospital, told how
she had just finished a dance in
the paper-Streamered hall when
the proprietor, Jack Riley, stepped
in front of the orchestra and an
nounced that an air raid warning
had been sounded.
But the "blitZ' had been over
now for more than 212 years and
no one left the hall.
The band went into the strains
of BLACK Flowers
THE whole place was swaying
Continued on Page 2, Col. y
Imperial Valley press., 1943-11-08
. AMsl'Na
~ EpoRTER
Held II, Men

Held II, Men
The editorial staff of Desert Dig
gins" the official publication OF
the marines at the Ell Centre ma
rire air training station, was in
conference. The staff members were
discussing future policies OF the
paper.
I've a brilliant idea" said one
of the men whose name is a secret
and you'll soon know why, I'm
going around and ask the enlisted
men what they think of their
superior officers and then I'll write
it up for cur paper
There was long, long silence.
Well" said one of the staff
members in an aWed tone, "the
staff has been thinking Of doing
that at some distant date in the
future. After we do it the rank
and addresses of all staff members
will be the same, Pvt. So-and-So
Guard House
Imperial Valley press., 1943-11-08

first major port above Naples-the
troops could hear repeated heavy
explosions, possibly indicating the
Germans were engaged in system
attic destruction of the harbor, be-
fore returning toward the plains of
Rome.
Bitter fighting ragged on both the
Fifth and Eighth army fronts, with
sharp enemy counterattacks above
Venafro, all of which were beaten
Imperial Valley press., 1943-11-08
Himm!er Said in
Charge in Reich

BEIN, Nov. (UP) - German
frontier reports said today that
Adolf Hitler, alarmed by reverSes in
Russia, had put all the key positions
in the German high command
under the direct control of Helm
rich Himmler, gestapo chief and
interior minister
Accounts through reliable chan
nels said Hitler had reshuffled
numerous high positions in his mill
tary hierarchy, in effect giving
virtually unlimited power to Him
mler who only recently acquired
control of the German home front
when he took his gestapo authority
into the interior ministry.