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Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1943-12-02
you make It your personal duty to take Of the tires

YOU aOm Om1.s -....x
A5w q nuke z1w MWAmyev
Do no unnecessary driving.
Live up to the Government regulaton-don't exceed
IS miles an hour.
Keep your tires inflated up to recommended pressure.
and check them every week.
Avoid hitting holes in the road bruisng your tires
on curbs or stones Don't start stop suddenly. Slow
down for sharp corners.
See that your wheels and axles are in line.
Switch your tires from wheel to wheel every FIVE
thousand miles, and have them inspected regularly for
moval of foreign objects and repair of cuts.
And ;. most important of all :. recap your tires
as soon as they become smooth.
HOW GOOD ARE PASSENGER CAR
TIRES OF SYNTHETIC RUBBER?
It may be long time before all civilians can get syn
thetc rubber tires Meanwhile you should be of the
few who do get them, you will want this nformation
Synthetic rubber tires for passenger good
tires, and will give you satisfactory service you take
care Of them.
You should not think Of synthetic rubber tires m
proved tires but emergency tires And remember that
they have yet had time to prove what they do
Tt is beside the point to theorize how they would
react to the phenomenay high speeds Of prewar days.
Every patriotic American knows that tire treads all
tire teads out faster at high speeds, and drives
at today s recommended speed Of IS miles an hour.
As time goes on, we will learn about the effects
of undernation of rough roads, and of other abuses
They damage all tires Indications that they do pro-
portionately more harm to synthetic rubber tires
Meanwhile oil tires are rofioted to YOU in trust
for the nation: and it is your duty to fake every
possible core of them, to avoid misuse and pre-
vent abuse.
As experience teaches more and more about sym
thetc rubber tires will pass the information along to
you. Meantime, play safe Be careful!
If you use synthetic rubber tubes be sure they
properly installed They should be put into the tire, then
inflated, debated, and inflated again. And they should
never be mounted on rusty rims.
TRUCK AND BUS TIRES
ARE a Different STORY
Truck and bus tires being larger and heavier. generate
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1943-12-02

The B. ?. Goodrich Company
The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., Inc
Hood Rubber Company
Inland Rubber Cooperation ,
The Kelly-SprinsflsId Tire Company
Lee Rubber & Tire Cooperation
The Mansfield Tire and Rubber Co.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1943-12-02

more heat They given long, hard usage all kinds
of highways They are all too frequently overloaded.
Frankly todays synthetic rubber bus and truck tires
will stand the abuse that prewar tires would stand
pecialy overlooking Progress is being made daly-but
overlooking which would have damaged prewar tire
ruin today's synthetic tire.
The Tire Industry is doing its utmost to solve
the serious problem of providing the nations
trucks and buses with satisfactory tires in sufi-
Gent quantities.
But until this problem is solved dangerous threat
exists to Americas most vital transportation.
Therefore, while treads of present truck and bus tires
immensely important. the carcosses Of these tires hare
calae beyond all price to America and to Anercas truck
and bus operatorsi
Unless tires now in use made to last these two
essential services will almost certainly break down! VI
These tires. every one of them must be re-
capped the instant the tread wears smooth
before any damage is done to the carcass: sszsa
They must be recopped not once. but again and
again! High speeds must be done away with :.
especially on hot roads. Overloads must be
avoided. Tires must be properly inflated at all
times.
The responsibility to take Of these tires. to
make them last as long possible is vital necessity
It must be shoudered by all operators by all drivers by
all garage men!
No American can fail to heed this warning! The stu
alton so serious that it is recognized in tire war
ranty But the real job to all ssl
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-28
Capital Tolk j k
-by-
Peter Edison

We'll. gentlemen, we have spent
the morning and have come to no
Senator Brown has read
his statement-I don't know who
wrote it for him. but I know he
didn't write it himself"
Brown grinned. Senator Thomas
iBterpOsed to ask the price ad-
ministratOr how he defined "an
expert" Brown went into long
winded dissertation on the need
of college trained economists. but
Cotton Ed settled il for him
An expert is damn fool away
from home" tfo-
Cotton Ed wanted action, and he
wanted his committee to meet again
in the afternoon.
Senator Wheeler and others men-
toned that the Senate was in ses-
sion, and they couldn't meet then.
"Oh. the windmill will turn"
croaked Cotton Ed, but we don't
have to be there to watch 1t. If we
could collect all the rubber and
concentrate all the gas loosed on
the Senate floor. there wouldn't be
any shortages" .e
Well, the committee couldn't
meet Friday because some other
committee was meeting, but how
about Saturday?
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-28
Editorials and Comment

February that the rate of submarine de-
struction by Allied counter action had
risen so per cent in the preceding three
months, that our losses were then at the
lowest point in more than year and
that, of 100000 soldiers moved by sea
since the wars start, only 134S-less than
half of | per cent-had been lost from
all causes. Or with Admiral Cunning
hams statement at about the same time
that less than per cent of the 7S0 ships
sent by the Allies to North Africa since
Nov. 8 had been sunk by submarines.
Since the U-boatS naturally would con-
centrate on troop transports and supply
ships for Africa, these last outglvngs
seem particularly at odds with the 1ru-
man figures.
Actually these seemingly conflicting
accounts are not ilreconcilable, even ac-
cepting the Truman figures at face value
In their reconciliation, moreover, by the
only plausible hypothesis which can be
adduced, may be found grounds for en-
couragement rather than encouragement.
The theory which seems best to fit the
facts and most successfully to account
for the apparent discrepancies is that
our ship losses were dispropOrtlonately
heavy in the first part of the year cover
ed by the Truman report, but that they
began to decrease, both relatively and
actually, about last August and have
been generally declining since. 1t was
in August that it was announced tor the
first time that the rate of Allied ship
building had reached and passed that of
Allied ship losses. If, as seems probable,
we have since been building faster, CIV
ing better protection to our vessels and
at the same time sinking more subs and
decreasing by factory and base bombing
their relative rate of accretion, it pretty
we'll reconciles all the accounts.
There is considerable support for this
hypothesis in the record of West Allan
tic sinkings for 1912, the only figures we
have which are segregated by months
and reasonably complete, continuous and
authoritative. The West Atlantic, of
course, is only one of the submarine war
fare areas, but what happened there may
be fairly representative of all of them
where the same general anti-sub meth
ods are employed. Based on the Navys
Official figures as to numbers and ships
sunk and arbitrarily assigning an aver
age tonnage of 1900 to each-a commonly
accepted estimate-the 1912 toll of sub
operations in Western Hemisphere waters
runs about like this:
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-28
IT'S NOT AS BAD
AS IT LOOKS
CLOS Angeles Times)

CLOS Angeles Times)
The Senate's Truman committee, which
has earned high reputation for the care,
thoroughness and reliability of it's reports
on the progress of the war, gives us the
sharpest jolt we have had in months
with its figures on our 1912 shipping
losses from Axis submarine action.
According to this computation, the AL
lies lost approximately 100000 tons
of seagoing cargo carriers by this means
in the IL months. That total the report
ADDS, was moro than all the new tonnage
constructed in the same period by the
United States and Great Britain together
Though it does not say So it is also con-
siderably more than twice the peak loss
for any one year of Unrestricted sub
marine warfare in World War ], or for
the matter of that, of any prior year of
World War H. Also it is more than
twice what, at the outset of our partlcl-
patton in the war, was called by some the
maximum "sustainable" Allied shipping
losses. 1t is exceeded only-though by
not much-by Berlin's own claims of
submarine successes.
On its face, this looks very bad indeed,
notwithstanding that Secretary Knox
says the Truman figures are exagger-
ated. 1t is hard to reconcile with the
committees own statement that such
losses are ''heavy but not DISASTROUS 1t
is hard to reconcile with other things as
well-for example, the statement of last
March 80 by A. v. Alexander, First Lord
of the British Admiralty, that in the eight
months last preceding that date new ship
ping tonnage produced by the Allies ex-
ceeded losses by "a good deal more than
1000 900 TONS" Or with the declaration
on last April 13 by Prime Minister Chur-
chill that 1--WE are more than holding our
own" in the Atlantic battle against Axis
U-boats Or with his statement of mid
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-28
GL0RIFY|NG
YOURSELF
BY ALICIA HART
NEA Staff Writer

There is nothing quite SO un-
slightly as lipstick left on the rim
Of your cup or glass. Except, per-
haps, a new coat of lipstick which
has been applied unevenly over the
old layer.
Stage and film stars long ago dis
covered that the secret Of smooth.
kissable lips denpeded on two
things:
First, use a tiny brush to shape
your lips" says talented radio and
stage actress Vicki Vola. start
from each corner of your mouth
and work toward the bow in one
stroke. Then follow the outline of
your lower lip in the same way
Incidentally, this is a good way
to use up the rouge left in the bot
tom of the contairsr,
Fill in with a generous amount
of lipstick," she continues, "and
then press a piece of tissue against
your mouth, to absorb the excess
lipstick. This will leave them satin
smooth"
And to set it so that there won't
be tell-tale marks on cups and
such, Vicki suggests you lightly
powder your mouth and then
moisten your lips.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-28
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
No. 343O

Estate of GEORGE hBRhnhM
LEA, Deceased
Notice is hereby given b? the un-
de~signed, M. D. ZINN, Public Ad-
ministrator, as administrator OF the
estate of GEORGE ABRAHAM
LEA. deceased to the creditors OF
md all persons having claims
against the said deceased, that
7ithin six months after the first
publication of this notice they
either file ther! with the necessary
youche s in the office Of the Clerk
of the Superior Court of the State
If California, in ard for TIE County
of Imperial, or exhibit therl with
The necessary vouchers to the said
M. D. Zinn, as administrator OF
said estate, at the office of d. b
Roberts. 2O7 Bank of America Bldg.
Ell Centre, California, the same be-
ing the place for the transaction
of the business of the said estate
in the County of Imperial, State
of California.
Dated at Ell Centre, California
this 5th day of April, 1943.
M. D. ZINN, Administrator
of the Estate of
GEORGE ABRAHAM LEA
Deceased.
| mo 59) (A7-14-21-28)
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-28
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE INVITING SEALED
Ribs I'M LAND

The City Council of the City of
Calexico will receive sealed bids on
the following described land at z
o'clock P. NJ, May 4, l943 in the
City Hall of Calexico:
The West half of the Sc one
quarter of Section 2, Township
II South, Range IA East, SB.M.
and portion of the East half
of said Section 2, County OF
Imperial total acreage of both
parcels approximately 100 acres.
This land was formerly known
Is the Calexico Municipal Airport
md is situated on the West side OF
Imperial Avenue, U. S. Highway %,
between the Beech Canal and the
Central Main Canal, one mile north
of the north city limits of Calexico.
The land is now planted to flax.
Persons submitting proposals to
purchase this land are requested to
state the total amount of offer and
terms of payment. The City Council
reserves the right to reject any or
all proposals received. ~ =.
The present lessee holds option to
extend lease to July 1, 1914. All
offers are to be made subject to
this option. "t-', ~ -
B? Order of City Council
City of CaleXico. +
Richard S.. Emerson,
City Clerk. lt.a ~.
mo. 00) ~ tA28)
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-28
PEOPLE WANT TRUTH!

All of this squabble between the Tru-
man investigating committee and Secre-
tarv of Navy Frank Knox would lndl-
cate that, more than anything else, our
navy needs to announce full facts TO
meet the demands of the American peo-
pie.
The Senate group reported that dur
ing 1912 our cargo ship losses were some,
thing like 100000 tons. Knox retuted
the assertion with a statement that the
committees figures were exaggerated.
And vet he did not give the American
people any more than few words to
satisfy their Unsuitable desire for the
truth.
This desire for the truth, whether the
news is dstastefu or pleasant, has made
itself evident in the constant scurrying
around of the news agencies, reporters
and other writer's who reflect the wishes
of the people and are merely catering
to their employers-the public. Unoffi-
cial polls of Allied shipping losses have
been kept by the United Press, the Asso-
ciated Press, the International News
Service All of which indicates that de-
sire to know the true status OF the ship
ping picture.
A good psychologist could tell Mr..
Knox and others that it would be better
all the way around to announce the ship
losses month or so after they occur in
stead of several months afterward. We
stated in previous editorial that it was
all right to keep ship losses secret for
awhile, in order not to reveal any infor-
nation to our enemy, but we didn't mean
forever.
Give people facts; they will arrive at
the right conclusion in most cases.
Editors Note: Yesterday. this newspaper
expressed its opinion relative to submarine war
fare. Today, quote the Los Angeles Times
which simultaneously was drawing IT'S con-
clusions. This coincidence merely exempifies
that people will draw their conclusions in their
inevitable search for wisdom. Withholding facts
is conducive to falladsous deduction How can
people rightly if facts are not obtainableo
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-28
Number of
Est.
MONTH
TOTALS

To Aug. /, that is we lost in this area
42S ships of an estimated aggregate ton
mage of 3,210,00O tons out of a grand total
for the year of 564 ships of 4,23O,OO0 tons
aggregate. In other words, more than
thr,e-fourths of the years losses occur
red in the first seven-twelfths of the
whole period covered by the Truman re-
port In no month since have we lost
more than approximately a quarter of the
ships sunk in the peak month of June.
If the same ratios hold for the other
areas, in which about 100000 addition
al tons were lost, it means that close to
100000 of the 10000 900 tons total were
los: in the first half of 1912 and only
10000 to 100000 in the second half.
Such rate of decline, coupled with our
increasing output of new bottoms, justi-
fies Mr. Churchill's statement that we
are more than holding our own. And
this is only one of several indications
that the situation is improving.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-28
Editors MdiIbox
Watchin the Gals work.

watchin the Gals work.
And these town fellers, they are
busy watchin 'em too, and don't
hallway tend to their job to make
a livin for the Old Lady and Kids
at home.
Maybe you know about how they
dress - or almost don't dreSs-to
work in gardens? and it's the most
excitement since that time we had
a bathin beauty show on the
desert and some o the Beauties set
down On some cactus.
Well, the Gals don't like for no
cid men to watch them work and 1t
makes EN- maddern settin hen II
it amt nobody at all watchln.
Sister Joad. she saw 1t wasn't no.
body Watchin her whilst a whole
raft of fGllerS wasa watchin other
places. And she was so mad she
flung her hoe agin the house and
instid of hittin the wall, it hit the
winder and the winder WaSen't open
either. But it was shore open after
that hoe went thru it and hit one
O the kids on the bean. 1t hurt
the pore kid little bit and knock
cd big gap in the hoe.
Then Lafe Buck, he went around
to help one of 'em hoe the weeds
il her garden. Well, they started
down the rows a hoeing and when
she looked back, Old Lafe was. a
trcmpin on one row and a chopin
the devil outn the other one. She
squalled and said tcensored)
"Lafe, Where was yore eyes at?
Brother, she knowed where Old
Lafe's eyes was at and she knoWed
they wasen't lookin at no onions
neither. Then she made Lafe stay
across the fence to watch.
The only days these fellsrs tend
to business good is when its cold
and windy-then it's no garden
work-or anyway wearin a heap o
clothes. Mr.. Editor, if you can't do
nothin about it, Just get out and
watch with the rest of EN-.
Yours truly,
HANK OTHER.
Care Box |, Calipatria.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-28
MIND YOUR
MANNERS

Test your knowledge of cor
rect social usage by answering
the following questions, then
checking against the authOrita-
tive answers below:
|. Should one say "GOcdby" to
ones hostess at a large tea?
2. If you have to leave the table
before the end OF the meal what
should you do with your napkin?
3. When man and woman are
dinner dancing at hotel, which
cne leads the way when going from
the table to the dance floor?
q. Is it good manners in a So
cial gathering to direct all of your
attention to the one or two per-
sons who interest you?
5. Is it good manners to say
"See?" after all of ones remarks?
Answers
|. Unless she is busy talking to
someone else.
2. Put it on the table beside your
plate.
3. The woman.
4. Yo twill be thought more
charming if you make yourself
agreeable all around.
4 No
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-28
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE OF INTENTION TO EN-
. GAGE IN THE SALE OF
ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES


To Whom II May Concern: i
Notice is hereby given that fif-
teen days after the, date posted,
the undersigned proposes to sell
alcoholic beverages at these premis-
es, described as follows:
22l Main Street,
Ell Centre, California. -.
Pursuant to such intention. the
undersigned is applying to the State
Board of Equalization for issuance
of an alcoholic beverage license (or
licenses) for these premises as fol-
lows:
ON-SALE BEER
Anyone desiring to protest the
issuance of such license Cs) may
file a verified portest with the
State Board of Equalization at
Sacramento, California, stat ng
grounds for denial as provided b.
law. The premises are not now Ii
ccnsed fer the sale of alcoholic
beverages.
MACK HUDSON.
mo OW (A28
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-28
Greeks Stage ;
Large uprisings

WASHINGTON, April % (UP)-
The Greek office of information to-
day announced receipt of reports
detailing three revolts since March
25 by Greek guerillas against their
Eazi and Fascist enSlavers. The
uprisings were attributed to en-
couragement given Greek morale by
Allied victories in Tunisia. =
The first occurred March Is when.
on the island of Samos, guerillas
swept down on numerous VILLAGES,
routing enemy garrisons and dis
tributing large food supplies to the
hungry villagers. In a second dar-
ing foray go hostages were released.
This was at Levadoa in the first
week of April. In third skirmish,
rs Italians were reported killed in
western Macedonia.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-28
Much Unsecured
Personal Tax Paid

Imperial county residents already
have paid S40,634.65 Of the unse-
erred personal property tsY for
l943, Assessor-C Collector Dan West
announced Wednesday.
These taxes do not become de-
linuuent until September /.
This is a greater amount than
was paid in at this time last
year." West said. land is an indi-
cation that business is good, and
people have plenty of money to pay
their taxes"
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-28

Charlie Jenkins writes me from
down at camp:
"Dear Joe: Somethin' mighty
swell happened to me on my last
days leave. I'm standin' on the
corner, not KNOWN anybody in
town, when a stranger says
hello, soldier-how'd you like a
chicken dinner at home with me
and the wife?'
"Well, it turns out they were
the kind of folks who couldn't
do enough to help out soldiers.
They'd invited two other fell
lows and just as soon as we're
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-28

When the Hon. Ellison d. Cotton
Ed Smith of Lynchburg, S. C., spits
tobacco juice and cuts loose, the
sessions of the august Senate Com
mittee on Agriculture and Forestry
are more fun than any sideshow IN
Washington. Cotton Ed is chairman
of the committee, 10 these many
years. presiding over as touch
bunch of rugged individualistS OF
both parties as was ever assembled
under one tent-including Wheeler
OF Montana Thomas of Oklahoma,
Bankhead of Alabama, McNary OF
Oregon, Capper of Kansas, Aiken
Of Vermont, and Gillette of Iowa.
Cotton Ed was in fine form
when the committee hailed before
il the Hon. Prentiss NJ. Brown,
ex-senator from Michigan, now
price administrator. There had
been a row about getting Brown
there in the first place. Invited
TO attend previously with Secre-
tary of Agriculture Claude Wick
ard. they had duckcd the invita-
ton at the suggestion of eX-
senator, ex-justice, now Director
of Economic Sterilization James
+. Byrnes. Irate at being put
off in this way, Cotton Ed had
threatened to have the two Of
ficials subpOenaed. They hurried
over to beat the summons, only
to be told to come back later.
which they Obligingly did. And
here they were prompt at 10
o'clock, clean shavcn, clean
shirted. faces bright and smiling
all ready to give their testimony
a~ainst the Pace bill which is in
tended to include the cost of
farm labor in calculating that
great enigma, what is parity.
ADMINISTRATOR BROWN
HOLDS FORTH
Brown was the first witness. He
pulled up a chair near the head
of the long green topped table.
flanked by a hostile Bankhead and
Capper. Behind were three of his
Young economist experts" there
to supply data and answer the
tough statistical questions that the
boss might not know about. Secre-
tary Wickard, by the way, never
clio get called. He sat on a divan,
flanked by his experts and wasted
the entire morning. No, on second
though, it wasn't wasted, either
HC got in on the fun at the end.
Administrator Brown read into
his three page mimeOgraphed
statement. 81 welcome this Op-
portunity to appear before you
bla. bla. bla. mean to
leave no stone unturned, now or
in the. future, i'm putting before
Congress the difficulties which
confront me :. bla. bla. bla. IL
is estimated by my staff that
the Pace bill would raise parity
prices by upwards of IA per cent"
That was good for a half hours
sidetrack questioning.
Between August, 1899, ane
January, 1943,' Brown read on al
last. prices" etc, etc, etc,
"As a result, farm prices which
we're 80 per cent below parity
reached level Is per cent above
parity in January of this year.
There it was. There was the
word parity" and the boys were
off for another hour of abstruSt
wrangling which yielded nothing
net.
COTTON ED SPEAKS
HIS PIECE
When it was all over, it was higf
noon, and Cotton Ed. who had 10
he most part listened to all OF thl
without comment, chewing on tn
end of an unlit cigar and spittinI
in the china spitton at his feel
res red hack in his chair.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-28
From where | sit :.
IyJ Joe Marsh

introduced the lady brings us a
glass of beer before dinner.
1--WE had a fine dinner, talked
till ten Honest, Joe, III never
forget their hospitality. Makes
me feel good fighting for people
like that" s,.'
Thought you might like to
hear what kind o fellows we got
in this army of ours, and how
they like to enjoy themselves
when they get a chance to.
9be M"'1e