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Nogales international., 1943-03-05
ARIZONA GOVERNOR SEEKS
RELAXATION OF RATIONING
REGULATIONS AT NOCALES
Chief Executive Appeals To Washington To Modify
Rationing Regulations AS Applied To
Folks OF Ambos Nogales

the residents Of NOgaleS, Ari-
zOna, and NogaleS, Sonora.
The letter was in response to a
telegram from city, county, and
chamber of commerce officials of
the American side of the line and
the Nogales, Sonora, Chamber Of
Commerce.
The message to the chief execu-
tive followed a mass meeting here
last Friday afternoon at which local
folks were informed the OPA would
soon very likely permit registration
of Nogales, Sonora, residents for ra-
tioning so they could shop here in
the same manner as do the people
of the American side of the line.
Up to pm. yesterday such per-
NIT had not yet been received from
either the San Francisco Or Wash
ington office IF the OPA, County
Rationing Chairman Paul Arend
announced.
It was brought out at tile meeting
Friday that rationing of various
commodities was gradually paralyz-
ing trade on the border.
Various citizens stressed the good
neighbor policy, built up here for
more than half a century.
It was empfe sized that the two
border cities were dependent upon
each other Hilliard Brooke and
Temple F. Penrod, Arizona ration
ing officials, were here for the
meeting.
Nogales international., 1943-03-05
Mesa Men On
Trip To Guaymas

H. B. Griffin, Cecil Drew, P w.
Guerrero and Den Strauch, Mesa
business men, were here Tuesday
enroute home from a fishing trip
to Gn2ynaas
Griffin, Arizona Republic and
Phoenix Gazette representative, is
a member of the Mesa Rotary Club
and has never missed a Rotary
meeting in 201a years, a record
quite similar to that of Rotarian
John Jund of Nogales.
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Youth Enlists In
Army Air Corps

Craig Pottinger, Jr., IT, eldest
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Craig Pottin-
ger, enlisted at Tucson Monday in
the Army Air Corps for flying duty
and took his physical and mental
examination at Davis-Monthan
Field, Tucson, Tuesday.
He is scheduled to be sworn in as
an aviation cadet in about ten days
and be subject to call for service
when he reaches his 18th birthday
May 25-three days before he grad
yates from Nogales High School
May 28
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show it's 300 men who are in the
service that they are back of them
100 percent" stated Marcus, and
added "the way to show them is
that we have gone over the top in
the Red Gross Drive, which is the
only organization with them in the
field"
Nogales international., 1943-03-05
HERE ON FURLOUGH

Pfc. Rafael L. Mrrillo, son of Mr..
and Mrs. R. Murillo, is here on a
15-day furlough visiting his parents.
He is stationed at Camp Roberts,
Calf, where he is in the field ar
tillery. He is a Nogales High School
graduate and former employee of
La Vile de Paris.
Nogales international., 1943-03-05

Governor Sidney p. Osborn, in
a letter addressed Tuesday to
Prentis NJ. Brown, administra-
tor, Office of Price Administra-
tiOn at Washington, requested
serious consideration of a mOdi-
ficatiOn and relaxation of ra-
tioning regulations as applied to
Nogales international., 1943-03-05
Wally Smith
Ensign In Navy

WalIy Smith, who resigned
last spring as coach at Nogales
High School, has been commits
stoned as an Ensign in the
Navy, the Nogales international
was advised in a letter Tuesday
Nogales international., 1943-03-05
FROM COSTA RIGA

Charles E. Gates arrived this
week from Costa Rica to visit Dr. E.
G. Houle. He is a former resident
of this district.
Nogales international., 1943-03-05

These handsome young {left)
Gilbert G. Solo, ight)
M Solo, and nephews Eddie Soto, serving gunner
Atlantic, Henry Soo IS
year-Old high school student.
Both volunteered for servc Oscar in the air
days after the
attack Gilbert then I7-year-od high
school boy.
and is soon
to receive his radio
applying to become flying cadet
not months His last letter
dated 10 and apparently from
Pacific believed have been in the fighting Guadalcana
Nogales international., 1943-03-05
MANY HAPPY
RETURNS

Judge Chas. E. Hardy, 80 on April
Evening star., 1943-01-31

Later he moved to Congress street,
in large, three-story- -and-attic brick
house and two-story back building, the
site including fine, large lot, on
which was also his cabinetmakers
shop, In which he made f1ne furniture.
His plant here also included stable,
sheds for drying out and seasoning
the different fine woods used by him
in his business, and here he employed
John Dickson, an expert chairmaker,
In whose memory his son, Henry Dick
son, founded the John Dickson Home.
Few people with large fortunes ar
range for the best disposition Of their
wealth after their death, but with
Henry Dickson that proved to be the
case, for in founding the home In
memory Of his father he left his money
to a most worthy cause, one Of the
greatest monuments to charity he could
possibly have thought Of. However. in
this connection, 1t is the late John
B. Larner whom we also have to thank
for this wonderful bequest, for we are
told 1t was he who made the sug-
gestion to Henry Dickson when he
was drawing his will back In 1906 and
when that document was under dis
cussion.
Mr.. Larner's idea, which was later
carried out. was that the residue OF Mr..
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cash and the income from the Maison
Busby at Nice, France, were turned
over to the trustees Of the home for
its building and maintenance. The
home can take care Of about 90 guests.
John Dickson, for whom this home ID
named, did not continue to work for the
first william King, but later went into
the chair business on High street for
himself The building into which he
moved is said once to have served Is the
residence Of President James Madison,
but there is probably no evidence to sup
port this statement. Later, a. 1918
Thirty-second street (now Wisconsin
avenue) It was occupied by Dick
Morgan As a restaurant.
Subsequently, John Dickson went into
the lumber business with Mr.. Pickrell,
as stated, and 1t was during this time
that the second william King, who as .
boy had occupied the trundle bed In Mr..
Dickson's room, became the third part.
ner in the lumber Arm Of Dickson, Pick.
rell Il Co. Later Dickson and King sold
out their interest in the lumber business
to Pickrell, King bought an interest In
the coal and wood business Of Dickson
b Gordon, and this Arm became Dick
son, Gordon q Co., which has as It's sue.
cessor today William King & Son.
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when the city was first settled is con-
tanned in local advertisement of No.
vember 80, 1895, which says: "All the
wood standing on $50 acres of land in
the City Of Washington near the Little
Hotel and belonging to Messrs. Comfort
and Sands is for sale" This hotel, we
are told. was located on the north side Of
F street. IS feet east Of Fifteenth street,
and that it was built by James Hoban.
However, as the wood began to give
out, the coal began to come into use
in increasing quantities. and in 1881, =
consignment of anthracite coal was an
nounced as arriving at Bradleys Wharf
next to the Long Bridge, which was
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Christmas here. It is . realm Of crea.
ton where, apparently. there can be no
Christmas. Some just fall asleep. Some
start a 5-and-1o stud poker game to
speed the intolerably wearisome hours.
The motors continue lullinsly humming
and midnight is gone. 1ao- q
Stransest Christmas
And one by one all these shared In the
strangest Of all strange Christmases fall
into cramped, uneasy sleeps to awake in
the utter calm Of the cloud realm morn
ing with an orange-yellow band circling
the horizon. Very suddenly the sun is .
binding ball of fire in the East It ap-
pears through the arch of q towering
bridge Of clouds.
The descent has started. A mist
shrouded land rises out of the sea, its
surface . geometrical pattern Of fields
and fences. The plane hops and skips
over the waves Of = sheltered bay-And
this strange Christmas eve is over.
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BY 1t. John McClain
las Told to GIadiv;n Hill,
Associated, Press Stan Writer.

AbSOClAte0f ffeSS 6t4n writer,
LONDON.-I was sent to London on
a special mission" In mid October I
got orders to report to the flag officer
in a certain port for training duties"
and when>I looked up I was in Algiers.
Three days after the assault I walked
ashore. 1t. Kenneth Pier who landed
with Commando unit, r. r. Rhea,
chief specialist photographer and I were
assigned, to work under Col. Daryl
Zanuck Of the Army Signal Corps. We
started out in convoy for Bone on q
British trawler can't tell you how long
1t took us to get there, but there were
dive bombers and torpedo planes and
submarines all the way-fortunately
most Of them manned by Italians.
We got to Bone In the morning and
decided to 60 up to the front. Then we
found a couple of generals arguing about
who was going to drive jeep, and real
lied the transportation problem was
tough
We located silly-looking French de-
A'OAy WoeOA III a SdI dSC. IL was Ul dllu
new, but 1t had been standing in the
garage year and needed new batteries.
Chief Rhea told the British supply officer
he had high blood pressure or something
and absolutely had to have batteries to
keep him alive, and we got them.
We loaded the truck with our photo
graphic equipment and three tommy
guns and hand grenades, and convinced
the British the three of us were really
six officers and 20 men who'd been
stranded and had to eat. So we got
food enough for that many and started
out.
Enemy Planes Sighted.
We got about 200 miles the f1rst night.
We'd been told to watch for German
planes strafing the roads so we stuck
Chief Rhea on a box in the back of the
truck looking out that. way for planes
and Pier and kept looking up ahead
II Rhea saw plane he WAS to signal by
beating three times on the side Of the
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son brothers, William J. and Ambrose.
entered the coal trade in 1870, as sue
cessors to 4 Mr.. Gait, with yard and
ofiioe at Seventh Street Wharf and up
town once at the southeast corner OF
Twelfth and D streets.
E. G. Baum, George Bogus and S. P.
Brown d Son, had their coal ofYices here
in 1857, and Philip Pollard probably
entered the business few years later.
Other well-known coal merchants of so
years and more ago. include Clark &
Given, J. Maury Dove established 1850.
william H. Richardson g. Co., John
Miller, Robert H. Dunn. v. Baldwin
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good. 80 we started back to Medjes II
Bab
A little way along IN American ofacer
stopped US. He said the road was blocked
further down by German tanks and
paratroopers. We saw farm little way
OF the road and drove into 1t ana hid
the truck
A British oficer appeared and we dis
covered 1t was an artillery position-a
battery Of two 25-pounder guns. Just
then soldier came up and said some
German tanks had just come around
the corner" down in the valley. They
were the same bunch that had been
after us before. There were 80 OF them.
Right away the oflcer said, Lower
your sights to 800 yards and fire." They
knocked out seven of the tanks. and
turned back the attack. Pier got swell
pictures Of it.
There were great many casualties In
the battery. asked the ofIlcer II could
do anything. He said might help bring
up more ammunition. was standing be.
hind big rock and that's . good place
to be IN situation like that. Now help-
ing carry ammunition meant getting out
from behind that rock. don't like NOV
ing anyway, and think leaving that
rock was the hardest move ever had to
make. was really frightened. I started
to 80 pick up some shells. Then they
said had better help with the wounded.
! picked up one fellow and the oficer
said, you don't need to bother about
him right now. He's dead" A thing like
that really stops you.
Tough SERGEANT.
That night the three Of US helped stand
guard duty. Around midnight . couple
OF American soldiers drove up In q jeep
and Rhea, who was standing guard, chal-
lensed tough seageant The sergeant
thought Rhea might be German, ana
stuck tommy gun in his stomach and
said. who are your" Rhea told him he
was one Of the boys-from the United
States Navy. The sergeant said, well,
II you're from the Navy, what the he'll
are you doing here?" Rhea had to show
his dcg-tag identification before he was
believed.
We stayed at this farm and kept TAX
Ing pictures Of the fighting, from the
side Of the hill Pier would 60 out for
. couple Of days ct . time and then
come back. We kept that up for about .
week. until the rains started. Thsn thav
eepsd ~ baek.
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Scene IN Georgetown along the old Chesapeake Ohio
Canal along phich coal shipments frequently
bdrges.

johnson. johnson Bros, and quite a
number Of others.
However, about the oldest coal firm
doing business In Washington, and
which has been thus continually engaged
since 1885, is the Arm OF William King &
Son, which now really means Roy King
The members Of this company from the
first included John Dickson and David
8. Gordon. But prior to this John
Dickson was in the lumber business with
a Mr.. Pickrell on the present site Of the
Georgetown ONCE Of William King 6S
Son. Their business was growing fast,
and some one was badly needed to at
tend to the ONCE work, 80 Dickson went
to william King with an offer to make
him . member Of the firm II he would
take over the duties Of the ONCE.
Dickson had been for years q friend
Of the King family. Indeed, If any,
thing. more than friend. for the pio-
neer William King, father of the first
coal merchant referred to, had always
treated him as = son, for whom he
worked and In whose home, then on
Congress- street {now Thirty first street, j.,
he lived. and the son. William-the
A Kin9 Comes to GEORGETOWN.
second one in nne-slept in the same
room IN q trundle bed. -
Perhaps 1t might be Of interest to
interrupt the story and give = brief
account Of the coming to Georgetown
Of the pioneer William King, who, as
the son Of Francis King, was born in
Ireland September %, It'll, and was
brought to America three years later,
landing in Baltimore. Since the records
of troops of Maryland serving in the
American Revolution give but one Fran
els King, it can be assumed that he was
the ancestor OF this branch of the
Georgetown family OF this name. On
February 26, i777. he joined Capt. Andrew
Hynes' company, first lieutenant. John
T. Jacobs, Is q private, and was dis
charged on January /, 1880, presumably
on account of wounds or illness, since
he was on the Army payroll as de
fective' as late as 1882, when he was
residing in Washington County. Md.
William King, son Of Francis, learned
the trade Of cabinetmaker and moved to
Georgetown June 6, 1895. at first living
In . house on the west side of jefferson
street, little below where the canal
Is now, and here he started in business
In line with his trade.
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casualty list errors
and said that 1t was
now known that
my brother was
safe in a German
prison camp"
"At least I know
this is Christmas
said another British
soldier, a former
Afric an explorer.
"Once In the desert
I lost all track Of
time and didn't
know Christmas had
passed until 10 days
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replaced BY the present Highway Bridge
across the Potomac. This delivery Of
coal was accompanied with . detailed
account Of how to use 1t, which was
deemed quite important for . public un-
familiar with its use.
Subsequent to 1850, when the Chesa-
peake h Ohio Canal was completed to
Cumberland, Nd. coal from this part
Of the country began to come to George
town in large quantities, and the amount
brought to Georgetown and Washington
gradually increased to such an extent
that by the early 70s the canal company
was operating 400 boats constantly dur
ing the boating season. This required
the use Of 1000 head Of mules, and gave
employment to 1000 persons directly.
The mules. 1t is stated, consumed at
least $4,000 barrels Of corn, 3,S4o bushels
Of oats and 1900 tons Of hay. This
provender cost the company 1000. and
for the services Of its employees It paid
$156,80c.
And. according to The Star Of that
period, the Consolidated Coal Co.,
from orders transferred from Liverpool,
England" were shipping large quanti-
ties Of Cumberland coal 70 Bombay,
Point de Gal. Auden East 1ndies). Ma
deira, Alexandria, Egypt: Rio de Janeiro.
Aspinwall, st. Thomas, Martinique, Ha-
vana, Valparaiso and other foreign
points. But. before this, In 1866, We
found ourselves importing no less than
685 900 tons Of semi -bituminous coal
from England and the British provinces.
First Coal Merchants Here.
OF the early coal merchants in WASH
ington. as they appear in the city direc-
tory for l843, the writer finds the names
Of David q. Day and George Mcdowell,
whose place of business was on Tenth
street between D and e. In 1850 J. s.
Harvey 6s Co., were IN business here,
also John P,rdy, J. Pettibone q Co.,
George Collard. and w. ]. sibley co.
George l.. Sheriff entered the coal busi-
ness at least as early as 1860. At first
his ofice was on -Four -and-a-half street
(now Fourth street, and later on D
street opposite The Star ONCE, where
now stands the Post once Depart
ment Building
In the directory for 1866 appears the
names of Walter H. NARROW, which Is
the same business now being conducted
as the NARROW Coal Co.. and William. J.
Stone and Richard Petit. The Stephen
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Is full moon in the sky above the
clouds The plane speeds to meet the
rising stars. It orients itself In the
emptiness by blue Sirius ana red Betel-
geuse a the constellation ot Orion and
BY tho bright yellow capella. The giant
planet Jupiter rises over the horizon.
Later in the night appears the red star
Of wal, Mars. Ominous Saturn is in the
sky. The moon is more silvery than it
usually is when seen from the earth.
It will get yellower as 1t goes down with
Evening star., 1943-01-31

the Christmas dawn,
says the planes cap
tain, a confidence
inspiring S o nth
Texan who says "he
does a lot of think
ing on, hts hundreds
Of long flight t S
t ugh the star
fields.
Now and then the
plane dips into clouds.
It is submerged en-
tirely In q luminous
mist.
But nothing hap
pens. There is no
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thoughts. They were
thinking of OF h e
Christmas ewes, OF
the folks at home
trimming trees, OF
fruit cakes and egg
nogs, Of wives and
children. That was
the strangest feature
of this stran g e
Christmas eve 50 far
above the world-it
was no Christmas eve
at all. 1t was Just a
long WEAKNESS, with
the only music the
everlasting monoto-
nous roar of the mo-
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COA AldIly OdyS ~AS'" "
they had fretted while they basked on
the beach Of winter resort awaiting
their constantly delayed departure for
Europe. 1t came when the hotel at
which they were quartered was deco
rated with holly leaves and mistletoe,
and folks were making their last
minute purchases Of Christmas gifts.
Sunset Take.off.
They departed on the long Jump with
q pinkish yellow sunset trimming the
world over skyline Of cloud towers and
steeples the plane humping on noun
tain peaks Of grey mist.
A few minutes and the clouds were far
beneath a boundless billowing waste of
steel blue. The world below, where
candles would be burning in windows
and church bells ringing, was shut off
by an impenetrable barrier and this little
group were in universe all their own
with deep valleys and interminable ice
fields below them instead of evergreen
forests and folks going to church services.
But there were very high patches Of
blush clouds like great birds flying into
the infinite. The sunset here was paler
than sunsets ever are on the earth and
it faded into a greenish-gray lumines-
cence tinted with patches of orange.
Then came the night and there was an
unbroken wall OF blackness between the
men in the plane and Christmas on
earth.
correspondent. felt none Of the cheer Of
Christmas. They were silent with their
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had them. One Of them carried a cas-
ualty list. My kid brothers name was
among those listed as killed. knew he
was IN Africa but had heard nothing
about him for long time.
You can imagine how I felt. But
m that same lot Of papers was one
printed three days later. This issue
apOloRized for the = :
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Ihere was Morgan
Beatty, radio broad
caster; Ed Lockett of
Time M a gain e.;
Burt Perkins of the
Fairchild Publica-
tions: Marc Peter,
jr., of the OCD;
Robert Micklejohn;
several other Wash
ingtonians on secret
missions; and a d.
verse group Of other
Government agents
and Britishers re-
turning to tn e / r
homes.
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tors, which seemed to hypnotic the con-
scious mind.
The travellers read or sat dreaming
Finally one of them, a British soldier,
remarked:
II had real Christmas present today.
At the hotel I picked up some British
papers three months Old A fellow from
my home town was stopping there and
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Navy Film CrewIs Trapped by Foe

Editors note-Here's one Of the strans.
. photosraphic crew from the Navy that
was trapped BY German tanks The crew
os + r.. nessd mo2n. qas pe9t q
director and INCLUDED +. John .-MeClain,
men. It. Kenneth Pier. who helped Ford
nlm the Battle Of Midway" and r. Il.
Rhea, chief photographer specialist)
Evening star., 1943-01-31
BY Thomas r. Henry,
Star Stan Correspondent.

LONDON (Delaye d).-Thirty- five
Americans, including is from Washing
ton, spent q strange Christmas eve.
War and weather had conspired to
place them mile above the Atlantic
Ocean that night when their children
at home were dreaming of Santa Claus.
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truck. The first time he signaled, we
were all in the ditch before his second
beat.
The second night we got to Baja. well
beyond what we had thought was the
front. The town had been bombed and
abandoned and the only people there
were some French soldiers-mostly un-
derground
We asked them where the best hotel
IN town was and one Of them said he'd
show us. He took us to the best hotel
but 1t had been hit and gutted and was
only she'll
We asked the soldier "can we sleep
here?" and he said you didn't say any
thing about that" He'd just taken us
to the spot like we'd asked to see Radio
City or something.
The next morning, about 20 miles out
a British reconnaissance group told us
Tebourba had been taken. So at mid
night we loaded our stun into the truck
and started cut on the road that ran
from Medjez El Bah to Tebourba. About
IN the morning we came to Tebourba
It's in valley-an orange grove and a
cluster OF houses,
Awakened by Stuka Patrol.
We drove the car into deserted farm
and slept under haystack. We were
awakened by Stuka patrol. They
seemed to think we were some kind Of
military objective. JUSss came over one
after another and bombed the orchard,
I don't think there was a second all day
when there weren't German planes in
the air.
There was windmill on the farm and
we got it working and it started the light
plant. We found some wine In the cellar,
and had . sensational dinner.
About 10 the next morning some Brit
1sh infantry came up and we saw about
20 tanks lining up on the brow OF the
next HILL We thought that was fine, at
last our boys are catching up with us. I
said to the British captain, I'm glad our
tanks are coming up because we we're
just starting to wonder what the situa-
ton was"
He said, well, the situation is that
we're cut off-and those are German
tanks"
He said there was q chance we might
get through the shelling "a the road. md
ws bstesr ~ out whils tns going waa
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passed until 10 days Marc Peter,
later" JT.
A few other anecdotes Of this sort
The night is interminably long. There
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Christmas Eve Mile High Over the Ocean

The fotlo1Ding accounts OF last Christ
mas eue as spent by Is Washtngtontans
high in the skies OF Britain has Just been
received from Thomas r. Henry, men,
Der OF The Star staff.