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Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-29
GIorifying
Yourself
BY ALICIA HART
NEA Staff Writer

All the "tattle-tale gray you've
heard about isn't concentrated in
clothes that won't come clean in
the wash. 1t is to be found in 4
great many elbows, too
Girls who spend hours tending
their hair and compilations, often
completely neglect elbows and the
backs of their heels, and as re-
suit they turn rough and gray.
Famous beauties, such as 49,
year-old Miss America, Jean Bartel,
know the Importance of guarding
against dry and rough skin, Winter
and summer alike, they use a wind
and weather lotion on their ankles
and arms-giving special attention
to heels and elbows-after their
bath.
In the case of your heels, in
cidentally, you'll find that in keep
ing the skin soft this winter it will
cut down the wear and tear on
stockings by half.
However, if the damage has al
ready been done and your elbows
stubbornly remain gray looking
Jean suggests that you use a bit
of lemon juice to bleach them, ano
after your daily bath smooth them
with a pumice stone before apply.
ing the lotion.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-29
INDUSTRIAL FEEDING

Maybe the Inter-Agency Committee on
Food for Workers is a good thing. May
be cur war production is being threaten
ed by unbalanced diet durable only by
industrial feeding which is bureau
ese for cafeterias or food trucks in fac
tories. Maybe the problem requires the
services of 10 directors, acting directors,
chiefs and consultants, recruited from
the Food Distribution Administration,
War Manpower Commission, WPB and
OPA, and appointed to the committee.
Perhaps even there is urgent need of
the program initiation and planning,
claimant agencies, priorities actions, re-
cruitment and training programs, nutr1-
ton education, and all the requirements,
provisions and adjustments set forth in
three tightly-packed pages announcing
the birth of this committee.
Maybe it's all to the good. We Just
haven't happened to hear of any factory
workers going hungry.
Time was when a person who was
strong enough and smart to work full
shift making war tools was considered
smart enough to get cook and eat his
food without any help. But not now A
committee from the agencies sits down,
in an atmosphere heavy with bureau
cratic pargon, to plot out spoon-feeding
program that must make the worker
wonder if he is man, guinea pig or kim
dergarten pupil.
Sure, food is rationed and some of it
is scarce and shopping is difficult for
women workers. We just wonder if ap-
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-29
Gen Strong Tells
Of Russia's Part

LOUISVILLE. KY. Oct. 90 UP)
Maj Gen. George v. Strong, CHIEF
of army military intelligence serv-
ice, asserts that the odds would be
five to one in favor Of the NaziS
over the Allies ''if it were not for
Eus5ia's aid"
In addressing conference of
labor, civic and industrial leaders
from IL midwestern states yester-
day Strong said that German air.
craft production had isen Is per
cent during the first six months of
1943.
The japanese probably have in
creased their plane production at
an even greater rate because their
production centers have not been
bombed as have German factories"
he added.
1--WE must not forget that the
Japanese are not SO hard-pressed
for manpower as the Germans, and
we have yet to meet a main line of
Jap resistance"
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-29
BY GAYNOR MADDOX
NEA Staff Writer

Thick soups can do lot to i'm
prove Mondays menus without
extra work But plan your soups
on Sunday when preparing the big
dinner. Save all bones and scraps
of meat and use them to- make a
clear meat stock. Keep all vege-
table trimmings, celery tops, and
pieces of lettuce not quite good
enough for salad.
All these are good foods and
should be intelligently put to-
gether the next day for rich, thick
soups which often are nutritionally
capable of being the main dish for
luncheon. 1t is important, remem-
Der, to refrigerate all trimmings
and left-overS carefully.
Potato Chowdcr
(Serves 81
Three large potatoes, pared and
diced. | large onion, quartered, z
cup diced celery, 2A cups water. J
teaspoons salt, 4 teaspoon pepper,
IL cups evaporated milk, tea
spoon bacon drippings, teaspoons
chopped parsley, dash Of paprlka.
Cook potatoes and onions in the
water until the vegetables are ten
der. Do not drain! Mash thorough
ly. or put through a sieve. Stir in
the evaporated milk slowly. Add
bacon drippings. Heat1horoughly
Add chopped parsley and paprika
Cream of Leftover Green
Vegetables tServes5)
Two tablespoons chopped onion
" tablespoons shortening, 2 table
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-29
Editorials and Comment
pointing still another committee is tn
solution.
k.WS VIA JEEP AND JUNGLE

-'''lristian Science Monitor)
We think those American war CORE
spondentS who have gone on to cover
wider fronts and farther shores beyond
our present ken, would like the thought
of having the twelve new Liberty SHIPS
named for them. 1t is fitting tribute,
we'll earned by those who battled with
the weapon "mightier than the sword
and sacrificed all in the effort to insure
that such ships might continue to- ply
the seas in the name of liberty. For
them it was much more than the excite
ment of telling first-hand the biggest
story in history to the folks at home it
was having their share in the common
fight for freedom.
A full share it was, and is. Due to re-
Taxed restrictions governing the move
ment of correspondents in combat areas,
writer's no longer report battles from be-
hind the lines at headquarters. In jeep,
bomber, warShip, tank and by Shank,s
mare, they go forward side by side with
soldier, flier, sailor, and marine, armed
only with typewriter, book, and pencil.
Headquarters had to issue an order to
reporters to stop going ahead of combat
troops
As a front-line correspondent of this
newspaper has pointed out, many writ
ing man, with no further physical prep
aration than pushing pencil, has pushed
beside his well-trained comrades through
miles of jungle mud, up steep cliffs, and
over hazardous trails for days and weeks.
And then gone many weary distance
further to get his stories through. Such
men not only have earned the respect OF
their fellow fighters, but several have
been cited for gallantry under fire far
exceeding the duties of war correspond
ents.
These men report the war as they live
it. for us and for succeeding generations.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-29
Mind Your
Manners

Test your knowledge of correct
social usage by answering the
following questions, then checking
against the authoritative answers
below:
l. Is it good manners to blow on
coffee or stir it vigorously in order
to cool it?
2. Should boys be taught not to
comb their hair in public?
3. Should children be taught not
to say Yeah" and "Okay" to
groWn-ups?
4. If you can't count on your
children being fairly we'll behaved
should you take them with you
when you call on friends?
5. Might a woman take a sweater
or jacket with her when she spends
the evening in the home of friends
who have an oil furnace?
What would you do if
You plan to go somewhere with
friend in his car
"a Call and tell him you would
like to go earlier or later
than the time he set?
tb) Go whenever he says?
Answers
l. No.
2. Yes.
3. Yes.
4. No.
s. Yes
Better What Would You Do"
solution-(b).
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-29
Search for Slayer
OF Nurse Goes on

POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y, Oct. 30
CUP : Search for the slayer of
pretty Lucille Elizabeth Lawrence,
l9-year-old student army nurse,
turned today to a dark-complexion-
ed youth seen near Vassar brothers
hospital about the time the girl was
believed slain. He was believed to
be a parolee or escaped inmate
from a state institution.
The description was furnished by
James Creighton, who was waiting
in an automobile Tuesday night for
his wife to finish work at the hos
pital. He said he saw the man
standing near a wall of the hos
pital shortly after he had heard
screams, apparently from the vic
tim, whose head was Dashed in and
whose body was left in a clump OF
bushes.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-29
he REQUIRES NO DEFENSE
(San Diego Union)

tSan Diego UnlOn)
Central councils of the AFL and CIO
and the East San Diego chapter of the
Communist party have protested, directly
or indirectly, the lecture appearance here
Oct of Rep. Martin Dies, chairman of
the house committee investigating un-
American activities.
Although the position of the Commu-
mist party is understandable enough, con-
sdering Dies unflagging campaign to
expose those who seek to overthrow the
United States government and constltu-
ton by force, the motives behind the la
Dor stand are rather obscure. Both ALL
and CIO are firm on-the-record advo-
Gates of free speech and Americanism,
vet both express a desire that San Dleg-
ans should be denied the opportunity to
hear an outstanding defender of the
American way.
The CIO protest accused Dies of being
an ally of the Nazis, a charge so absurd
as to require no denial. The AFL, more
cautious, exhibited mastery of equivoca-
ton with a protest that was not sup
posed to be protest. After asserting
that the council considered this an in
appropriate time to schedule a speech by
anyone with the reputation of Dies"
the AFL declared it was not protesting
Dies right to appear and speak. In one
breath. the AFL grants right; in an
other it says. in effect: Don't use it
Dies requires no defense; he can stand
on the record of his long fight against
subversion, against both the Communist
and Fascist elements which have sought
and are still seeking to destroy American
liberal institutions.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-29
WE
the Women
By RUTH MILLETT
JOHNNY DOUGHBOY,
SOMEWHERE OVERSEAS,

JOHNNY DOUGHBOY,
SOMEWHERE OVERSEAS,
DEAR JOHNNY:
We've been hearing about your
enthusiasm for pin-up girls-those
gorgeous creatures, produced by
photographers with knack for
glamorizing a pretty girl until she
looks like something out of this
world
Well, don't get too crazy about
your pin-up girls, Johnny. Don't
let them become your ideal of
femininity.
If you do, you may be disap-
pointed when you get back home.
Because the girls aren't concentrat-
ing on glamor these days-not the
girls in your home town.
Sally Smith has chopped off that
long flowing bob of hers because
the WACs say hair must be above
the collar line.
Susie Jones, who used to spend
hours each day on her looks, has Il
job in war plant and wears
overalls to work.
Mary Brown is working so hard
as a nurses aid she is too tired at
night to sit around the local night
clubs looking beautiful but bored.
NOT THE PIN-UP TYPE
The girls you are coming home
to aren't the pin-up girl type,
Johnny. They aren't making
beauty a career. They're capable
working women, and proud of it,
And what's more, they aren't the
helpless creatures the pin-up girls
appear to be.
They can take care of themselves.
And they have some ideas they
think are worth your listening to.
If you're expecting them to be de-
lightfully dumb-you are in for q
shDck.
But don't feel too bad about it,
Johnny. Even if they can't COM
pete in glamor with your pin-up
girls, they have one mighty impor-
tant thing in their favor. They're
real.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-29
S. Burton Heath
Writes:

the pieces and leaves you all con-
fused once more.
For example, out in Detroit the
contract between General Motors
and the United Automobile Work.
ers c. I. o. is expiring Oct. 5. OBJ
viouSly it mustn't be renewed intact.
There have to be changes. OF such
IS progress made.
In the good old days up to 1912
the procedure would have been
taken for granted The UAW would
nave canvassed it's membership for
suggestions. More pay, shorter
hours, a tighter union shop, i'm
orovement in grievance procedure,
Improvement in promotion or up
grading methods, liberalization OF
overtime provisions. =.
These certainly would have pro-
vided the backbone of the impos-
ing list of demands which the
union would have presented to
management at the first bargaining
session.
Then, in most negotiations, the
management would have turned
down the demands coldly, COM
pletely, unequvocally and finally.
The union would have threatened a
strike. The management would
have said "go ahead" The union
would have withdrawn demand
or two, the management would have
accepted a few, with or without
modification. Ultimately, perhaps
without cessation of production. a
compromise would have been reach
ed at about the point both parties
mad in mind from the beginning.
But here is General Motors
breaking the rules. The corpora
ton has stolen the unions thunder.
1t has canvassed its entire super
visory organization, from fore
men to general managers and has
put its wealth of bona fide con-
structive recommendations" into
demands" which it has presented
10 the union.
And what cid these demands
cover? Except for the pay scale,
identically what the UAW would
have included under the horse-and-
buggy procedure in use back in
1912 - hours, union shop formula,
grievance procedure, promotion
methodology, overtime provisions.
Needless to say, the union, caught
relatively prepared by having the
man bite the dog, could think of
nothing better than to do what en-
ployers used to do. 1t rejected the
boss demands coldly, completely,
unequivocally and finally.
Now let the bargaining begin. =.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-29

The figures on the Third War Loan
drive are good, but it's an absolute fail
ure for one who has not bought extra
war bonds This war loan is as personal
to us at home as Nazi or Jap bullet
is to our son and our neighbor's son.
There is no excuse for not buying bonds.
u. s. Treasury Department.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-29
MODERN MENUS

spoons all-purpoSe enriched flour.
l teaspoon salt, Is teaspoon pepper,
11a cups vegetable liquid or water, l
cup chopped, leftover cooked or
canned green vegetables, 112 cups
evaporated milk.
Cook onion slowly in hot Short
ening for 5 minutes. Blend in the
flour, salt and pepper. Stir in slow
ly the vegetable liquid or the water.
Boil slowly for minutes, stirring
constantly. Add chopped vegetables
and milk Note: The basic sauce
may be made hours ahead of time,
covered and stored in the refrigera-
tor. When ready to use soup, re-
heat sauce, add vegetables and milk
and heat thoroughly. ...
MONDAYS MENU
Eat the Basic Every Day.
BREAKFAST: Stewed pruncs.
oatmeal, raisin toast, butter or
fortified margarine, coffee, milk.
LUNCH: Cream of leftover
broccoli SOUP whole wheat toast,
grated carrot salad, crackers, cot
tage cheese, preserves, tea, milk.
DINNER: Tomato juice, left
over meat, gravy and vegetable pic
with mashed potato cover, enriched
bread, butter or fortified mar
garine, lettuce and chopped cab
Gage salad, fruit bowl, coffee, milk.
Fortified margarine is one of the
! Basic Seven Foods.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-29
MEAT PACKER DIES

CHICAGO, Oct. 20 (UP)-Gusta-
vus F.. Swift, 81. vice-president of
the board of Swift Meat Packing
company and the youngest of seven
sons of it's late founder, Gustavus
F.. Swift, died at his home last
night of a cerebral embolism. He
retired as president of the company
in 1887.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-29

1t is getting so that a fellow
doesn't know what to expect. The
facts of life are all mixed up. You
can't go by the rule books. Just
when you think that life is settling
into an understandable pattern,
somebody comes along and kicks
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-29
NEW LIBERTY SHIP

WILMINGTON, Calf. Oct. 20
CUP)-The S. S. David Rittenhouse,
named for the American mathe-
matician, astronomer and instru-
ment-maker, slid down the ways to-
day. 1t was the 22nd California
Shipbuilding Corp. Liberty tanker
to hit the water.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-29

to shorten supply lines to the
Middle East and the Far East,
actually had to be delayed twice
for months because of a lack of
equipment
Combined American British
Canadian operations against North
Africa were first discussed in de-
tail while Prime Minister
Churchill and the British chiefs
of staff were in Washington in
January, 1912. They were again
considered when Churchill came
to Washington in June, at which
time invasion was planned for
early fall. But again the in
vasiOn had to be delayed until
November in order to receive
landing craft from the shipyards
and train crews in their opera
tiOn.
Success of the North African
campaign hung on the greatest of
hazards. The air forces. save for
carrier-bo aircraft and a few
bombers and transports, had to be
funneled through single restrict
ed airfield at Gibraltar. This field,
General Marshall reveals, could
have been put out of action in an
hour, had the Germans known of
the plan.
The North African invasion was
assigned to three task forces, each
with naval escort. One sailed
directly from the U, S. for landings
at Morocco. A second force of U,
S. troops sailed from Britain with
British navy escort for Oran. The
third combined American British
force sailed from Britain for AL
gierS.
NAZI ADVANTAGE IN TUNISIA
All task forces were unuer orders
not to fire until fired upon. French
forces had been instructed to dis
play certain signals to indicate
their non-resistance. But a code
signal was to be flashed to all in
vading troops at the first hostile
act on the part of the French in
any sector The signal was, PLAY
BALL"
American reverSes at KasSerinc
Pass in late February are cX-
planned i'm General EisenhOwer's
own words: "Our present tactical
difficulties resulted from my at
tempt to do possibly too much"
The rains finally ended, the roads
were improved, the railroad re-
vitalized and 10 pipelines laid, per-
mitting movement into Tunisia of
more American troops for the final
victory on May 8.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-29
AFRICAN CAMPAIGN DEAYED

AS these possibilities we're wiped
from the slate, defense require
mentS in the Caribbean were al
tered, so that today there is no
justification for maintaing large
air and ground installations in the
Caribbean from Trinidad to Cuba.
or even in the Panama Canal Zone.
The North African invasion
planned to remove German threats
against Morocco and Dakar. as
well as to open the Mediterranean
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-29
TaIk
-by-
Peter Edison

Now it can be told" incidents on
European phases of the war and its
strategic planning are revealed in
profusion in Gen. George c. Mar
shall's report as chief of staff, just
released.
After the British disaster at Dun
kirk in 1940, the British Isles were
left practically defenseless, all the
British field army equipment hav-
ing been lost. In this situation.
American stocks of arms and NUM-
tionS and explosives remaining from
the first World War were imme-
diately released to the British, leav :,
ing this country with only enough
equipment for an army of 1.8 mil
lion men. For the United States,
General Marshall reveals, the mill
tary issue Immediately at stake was
the security of the British fleet to
dominate the Atlantic.
Deficiencies of arms for U. S.
defenses of the western hemis-
phere, the Panama Canal and
Alaska were then so great that
reinfOrcements for the Philippines
would have left the continental
United States in great peril and
this situation remained till mid
1941.
Vitally important to the U. S. at
this time was the defense of Brazil,
which offered the nearest point of
approach to this continent from the
east. U. S. troops were sent to
Brazil and air bases in Belem,
Natal, Recife. The strategy then
laid out had to take into conSidera-
tion the possibility that a great
tragedy might befall the United
Kingdom, with a constant threat
of German occupation of Dakar
and Morocco.
Evening star., 1943-12-23
Ii. Col. Baker Awarded
Silver Star for GaIIanfry

1t. Col. Herschel D. Baker was
among 40 officers and LOG enlisted
men awarded the Silver Star, the
War Department disclosed today.
The award was made for gallantry
in action in North Africa
when an enemy armored force
made surprise attack on our po-
sitions before dawn" the citation
reads, "Col. Baker, skillfully lead
ing his unit against forward ele-
ments of the attacking force, sue
cessfully destroyed more than 30
enemy tanks and inflicted extreme
ly heavy casualties upon supporting
enemy infantry. During this entire
action, the superlative leadership
and courage displayed by Col
Baker under heavy enemy artillery,
tank and Small-arms fire were an
inspiration to officers and men of
his battalion"
Col. Bakers mother, Mrs. Mauds
Baker, recently was employed at
the Veterans Bureau here.
A native of Nationwide, Ill, Col
Baker is West Point graduate.
During the first World War, he was
awarded the Order of the Purple
Heart for wounds received in the
battle of the Argonne.
Evening star., 1943-12-23
Mayo Doctors Find
PeniciIIin Combots
ReIapsing Fever
BY HOWARD w. BLAKESLEE
Associated Press Science Editor.

NEW YORK, Dec. 23.-The Mayo
Clinic reports evidence that penicil-
lin is good for relapsing fever.
This fever is one of the serious
war diseases, and a menace in some
parts of the world, but has ap-
peared in the United States only
in mild form. 1t is caused by
spirocheteS, which were described as
snakelike by the first scientist to
see them under the microscope, in
lS68-the German, Otto H. F.
Obermeier.
At the Mayo Clinic fatal inocula-
tions of these fever organisms were
given to mice recently. OF the
mice untreated. rs per cent died.
Of those treated with penicillin only
one died, and that one did not die
with symptoms of relapsing fever.
but the cause of its death was not
learned.
The Mayo report says that as
result of these mice experiments it
is hoped that penicillin will be
more effective treatment than the
medicines heretofore used. The
main remedy has been arsenic,
which attacks these fever spiro-
chetes much as it does those Of
syphilis.
The bad forms of relapsing fever
are transmitted by lice and some
times have been 80 per cent fatal.
In the United States the fever is
transmitted by ticks and its presence
has been reported in 13 Western
States. The ticks are carried by
rats, mice, chipmunks, squirrels,
opposums, rabbits, porcupines, mon
keys, foxes, hedgehogs and dogs.
The fever in its first attack usually
lasts three to five days, and relapses
occur at irregular intervals of two
to nine days apart.
The Mayo experiments were re-
ported by Drs. F. R. Heilman and
W. E. Herrell. Constance Garter and
Nellie Greenburg assisted in the
work.
The clinic also reports that penic-
illin cured cases of infection of the
frontal, or forehead bone, after
sulfa treatments had failed. This
type of infection is often an after
math of sinus troubles and usually
is dangerous.
The report was made by Drs. H. L.
Williams and D. r. Nichols
Evening star., 1943-12-23
Milk Subsidy Expected
To Be Continued Month
BY fhe Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
The Government subsidy to dairy
men, averaging about three -fourths
of cent quart on fluid milk, is
expected to be continued a month
beyond its December 81 expiration
date to prevent a further sharp drop
in an already short level of produc-
ton.
Food Administration officials said
they had ascertained from congress
sional leaders that continuation of
the subsidy for a brief period would
not violate an agreement that the
administration would inaugurate no
new subsidies pending settlement of
the food subsidy controversy.
The milk subsidy was started in
October to compensate dairymen
for higher feed and labor costs
without raising consumer prices for
milk. It's cost to the Government
is expected to total about $50, 900, 900
for the three-month period.
The Coolidge examiner., 1943-07-23
Pilot Credits P-38
With Turning Tide
Of Pacific Air Battle

lst. Lieutenant Robert +. Doug
las OF Portland. ore. who recently
Was assigned 10 Williams Field on
his return from New Guinea
battle area. credits the PCS fight
er with turning the tide of air
battle in the Southwest Pacific.
Lieutenant Douglas. who has
flown P.40s and pass on $50 tao
tieal missions against the Japs
expressed AN overwhelming pref
erence for the Lightnings. He
states that until the P-3Ss arriv-
ed. American fliers were al a
great disadvantage at high alti-
tudes.
But when we got the Light
i,ings. we were able TO outfly an1
outshoot the Zeros. states Doug
las. They're the best fighters in
the Pacific-good for strafing. in
perception. bomber and transport
escort. dive bombing an dleyel
bombing"