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Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-17
SHOES, NOT SUGAR
ON STAMP II
(Ontario Daily ReporO

(Ontario Daily Report)
PrentisS Brown gave us an example
of perfect management when he an
nOunced shoe ratoning to the nation the
other day. As he said, We have got on
top of ! problem before it got on top Of
us.
The limit of three pairs Of shoes per
year will not work Il hardship on the
average person. To be sure. growing
school children will often be forced to use
coupons belonging TO other members Of
the family because their shoe sizes change
so often and their shoes wear out so rap
idly. But the plan allows for appeal if
the limited number OF shoes can be proved
insufficient for real need
If our food rationing had been manag-
ed in the same manner as this shoe pro
gram, the shortages now so inconvenient
would never have had time 10 develop
Meat and butter would be reaching con-
SumerS in an orderly and sufficient way
Black markets could not have become
the problem they are today if measures
had been taken when supplies were plen-
tiful enough to ration them.
1t is refreshing to see action from the
new head of the OPA-instead of talk.
Appeals to the people have brought de-
pressing results, not because we are un-
patriotic as a group, but because the few
hoarders among us made the careful
people aware of the futility of voluntary
action
Beginning today, stamp II in ration
book One buys shoes instead of sugar.
The growing need of the armed forces,
especially the fliers, for fine leather
equipment is reason enough for the cur
tailment of civilian shoe buying. We vel
come the order as evidence of prompt
and timely management on the part Of
our government. War needs must con-
tinue to take precedence over civilian.
usc-as-uSual if we expect victory.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-17
Capital Talk
-by-
Peter Edison
Peter Edison

lands. Libya and Panama. Every
one of these regions has distinctive
coloration, distinctive lights and
shadows, and the camouflage for
all must of course be different.
To bring each of these remote
spots to the camOuflage labOra-
tory i'm Fort Bevoir, artists have
labored painstakingly TO build
Old-fashiOned diOmaras - minia-
ture, table sized. three -dimen-
tional replicas of typical arctic
or tropical scenery. Each dio-
rama is perfect As to detail, to
lighting effects and cOl0ring.
Even the intensity of the sun
Iigh' ard glare is accurately re-
produced.
When Il new paint job is to be
done on tank-Say it's for Libya
"a scale model of the tank is
built in perspective 1t is then
placed in the Libyan diorama 1t is
photographed, looked at from
distance. The paint job is chang
ed. Results are compared. The
lights are changed to represent
morning, mildly rain, overcast
or shine. More comparisons. Out
of this detailed laboratory testing,
the ideal paint job is found for
this particular tank. Then 1t is
cODied on the tanks TO be sent to
Africa.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-17
Sarrow Proud
0fDiMag Act

NEW YORK. Feb. IT C5-1
President Ed Barrow of ~ Wv
York Yankees was proud" TO 'ov
that outfielder Joe DiMaggio v,s
enlisting in the army.
we always approve of our pay
ers going into the service" Barrow
said.
Asked what DiMageio's "bs"',cn
would mean to the Yanks in 1923.
Barrow replied.
Il will tell you more about thot
at the end of the season. We still
have GOOD pitching staff and n
good infield."
Charlie Keller now is tie Z "
regular Yankee outfielder left. The
gaps will have to be filled b. Toy
Weatherly, Tuck Stainback, John
ny Lindell, reformed pitc'ler.
and two youngsters up from New
ark, Russ Derry and Bud Metheny.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-17

In a well-camouflaged. highly
restricted one-story brick building
in the woods of the Corps of En-
gineers training center at Fort
Bclvoir, Va, is the camouflage lab
oratory of the US. Army. Here
camouflage is tested before it is
used in the field.
Along one wall of the model
room you can, in one sweeping
glance. take in the Aleutian is
lands, the Belgian Congo, the
American desert, the Solomon is
Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-17
Paro!ee TO Be
Tried Here Soon

Trial in Imperial county superior
court on l3 bad check counts was
ahead of J. II. Van Dorm, 32-year-
old Ell Centre electrician, on parole
from a state penitentiary, Wednes-
day.
Van Dorm will be tried on a
charge of passing eight forged
checks passed when he did not
have sufficient money in the bank
to cover them He was sent to the
penitentiary from Imperial county
on a bad check charge and later
was paroled b.; the state board of
prison terms and paroles
He sometimes uses the name of
Henry Van Dorm and has lived in
Imperial county for several years.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-17
Pen Inmate TO
Counts Here

LES ANGELES Feb. 17.-UP)-
Charles E. McC.intock, 40, alias
Frank Dillon. arrived here today
from the Eastern State penitentiary
in Philadelphia, Pa. where he had
jet completed l0-year robbery
term, to face six more counts of
robbery in connection with the
$4,000 hold-up Of six employees of
the Rosen JeWelry Co., here in
1922.
He was returned by Detective A
c. Stromwell of the Los Angeles
police department.
The SGGC01 worth of loot stolen
III 1882 was never recovered and
MeClintock's accomplice never ap-
pretended.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-17
YOU SHOULD HELP TO
STABILIZE EMPLOYMENT

No matter who you are, worker eXecu-
tive or employer your help is needed to
make the new employment stabilization
program success. In the long run, it
will help you and the war effort
The plan, widely in operation in Los
Angeles and other defense points, already
is going into operation here in Imperial
Valley.
1t is designed for essential industries
first, with prospect that it will move
rapidly to include all activities. Summar-
ized it provides that workers will not
leave jobs without certificates of avail
ability which can be obtained either from
the employer, if he is able to release the
employe, or from the local War Manpow-
er Commission representative, or from
appeals committees of the area and divi-
sion.
TIE plan is to stop the rapid changing
of workers from one JOB to another. Re-
ports show that in certain cases individ-
uals have been in as many as ten jobs in
ten weeks.
Such q condition only makes worse an
already difficult and confused condition
in business, in employment, in war pro-
duction The government threatens to
draft men into essential industry. The
VINO has already tried to force married
men into essential Jobs by threatening
them with draft. Somehow, some way
we all must find our rightful spots and
stick to them, least we injure and delay
the war program.
1t is to the workers interest far more
than the employers, that this voluntary
sterilization program prove successful.
Otherwise. there will be compulsory laws
or regulations.
1t is far better to select a voluntary
plan with elasticity, than bring down on
the heads Of all an iron-bound DO or
Else adict.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-17
Caiship Fits Out
Two New Boats

LOS ANGEL ES, Fob. TIP ---
Two now shipS wore being onttitted
at the harEo~ today following loun-
chings at the yards Ct the Calf
ornia Shiphuilding Corp. and the
Consolidated Steel Corp. yesterday.
CalShip launched the 10500 ton
liberty freighter Josiah Royce. nam
ed in honor of the famed Califor-
MA philosopher, after 81 days on
the ways.
Consolidated launched Che Cape
Sterhens cargo-plsscnle vessel.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-17
FALL OF PONTOON

No one knows just exactly who
ordered it or how or when it hap
| oened, but the correct spelling is
now ponton--not pontoon. Most of
he technical terms in military
science come from the French
words like reconnaissance, cul de
cas-. revertement. enfilade, echelon
md pontoOn. With the fall of
trance, pOntoon seems TO have fall
en- to pontOn. Maybe some of the
lthers will follow.
anyway, old fashioned pOntOOn
bridges l. the kst war were
made of heavy steel or wooden
barges. 1t took one truck or
trailer to carry each of the boats
and. when you consider that il
takes 20 or SO or more flats to
cross a stream of any width, you
c:n see that sometimes ii was
almost impossible to get the
makinsS OF a pOntOOn bridge up
TO where they could be used and
do some good.
TOday's modern pontOn bridges
have the boats made of fabric-re-
inforced synthetic rubber. If you
ay that looks like a waste of pre-
lots rubber in these days of rubber
'hortae S, the Army Corps OF Enei-
'eers will say that it isn't and will
argue that a ponton float made of
7ynthetic rubber actually S YES
rubber. The reasoning behind this
tatenent is that the deflated rub
Der ponton weighs much less than
tie ! or wooden barge. One truck
S thus able to carry number of
compact, deflated pontons and the
aHmber OF men transported to car
~ and initiate the rubber pontons is
orreSpondinglY reduce That
means less rubber for truck or
"ailer tires
Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-17
s. Burton Heath
Writes:

opinion formulates and proclaims
major puolic policy.
The current illustration is not
so good as the $4,000 net income
ceiling order. But it does serve to
show that we still are in an era
Of administrative law and it
raises the question whether we get
as good law in that way as
through the orderly processes es-
tatlishCd by the Constitution.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-17
NON-FICTION

Fest What You Want, Dr. w. w
Bauer: The American Spirit
Charles and Mary Beard; The Un-
1elenting struggle, win IS t o L
Churchill; The Book of Modern
Composers. David EWened; The
Wisdom Of China and India,
Lin Yutang; GB.S., Hesketh Pear
son; This Is America. A Eleanor
Roosevelt; From Ambush to Zig
Tag, Alexander Sturm, Guadalca-
nal Dairy, Richard Tregaskis;
Treasury of the Familiar, Relph
Woods.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-17
WE
the Women
BY RUTH MILLETT

Tf we ever draft women into in
Gustrv here are some types that
should he among the first TO be
oraered into useful production.
The women who pushed and
showed their way in to the Enrol
Flvnn trial.
The women who spend their
mornings gossiping on the tele-
phone.
The able bodied women who COM
plan that they are having a tough
time keeping house for one man
without a full-time maid.
The women who still play bridge
several afternoons each week.
The women who think the war
has hit them hard when it has
brought them nothing worse than
rayon stockings, "A cards, and
cream that won't whip.
The women who still turn up
their noses at WAACS and WAVES
declaring that, after all. war is a
mans job.
The women who, in 1943, still are
clinging vines.
POINTLESS CLUB WORK
The women who have the time
and energy it takes to keep E.) with
the Joneses-but haven't the time
and energy to work as nurses
5ides.
The women who are frantically
busy with the kind of club work
that accomplishes nothing outside
of making its members feel i'm
pOrtant.
The women with plenty of time
on their hands who haven't man
aged to find Just the right kind
OF war wor'
The women without children
Who's husbands haven't gone TO
war, and who still sit around tell
| ing themselves that their only duty
in life is to keep their husbands
| happy.
There is probably not a strong,
healthy woman in any of those
groups who wouldn't be better off
If she were drafted into a war job
Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-17
CURRENT QUOTATIONS

| can assure the mothers and fathers
of the U. S. that the boys have been we'll
received are we'll, made fine impression
and that we've learned to love them very
much-Prime Minister Peter Fraser,
New Zealand
Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-17

In one small limestone cave we killed
II Japs who manned their machine guns
until the last man. Snipers were every
wherein the trees, in caves, behind
rocks-Col. Merritt A. Edison, U. S. Mar.
ines.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-17
NEW BOOKS
FICTION

Five Women in Three Novels
Faith Baldwin; Treveyyan, Angela
DuMauricr: Beneath Another Sun
Ernst Lothar; Danger-Keep Out
T Fiward Nicholas; Dig Me a Grave.
john spain; The Three Bamboos,
Robert Standis:l.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-17

The condition of labor has improved
and is going to continue to improve. Of
course there are growing pains. But in
ne sense is there the confusion that is
talked about.-Charles Z, SOrensen, Ford
Motor Co.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-17

He (FDR) took us in over the citadel
in Haiti without trouble, just from his
memory Of the n|etS and trails.-Capt
Howard NJ. Cone, FDR's Casablanca pl-
lot
Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-17
NATERBUGS co TO WAR


People who have always consid-
we'd outboard motor speedboat and
12terbue racing as the most fu-
lie and suicidal of sports might be
Interested TO know that the us.
Nrmy Corps of ENGINEERS has taken
This idea, enlarged on it, and de-
e!opad a landing barge scooter,
covered by a 50-horsepower out
'oard that can skim over the sur
ace OF shallow water, skip like a
'a' stone onto dry land, and per-
mt detachment of soldiers to
cap into action as a first wave in
'Sf"Elishinc a blideehead. These
military s"ooters are useful in
roSsinS streams too wide to bridge
9TH pontons.
The Russians are supposed to
laVe rSed craft like these success
ully at Sevastopol.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-17

So once again, to preserve ia
bor's gains" everybody else is 60
ing to get squeezed.
That is one of the things that
happens when democratic processes
are discarded in favor of broad
grants Of power to an executive,
who without pressure of public
Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-17

We've had trouble with shortages, but
not serious ones. | think the whole pic
ture is little eXaggerated.-C.E E. Wilson,
president, General Motors Corp.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-17
DECREE GRANTED

An interlocr.ory divorce decree
Was granted in Imperial county su-
perior court Tuesday to Mary A.
Kendall in her suit against Will
liam j. Kendall. She accused him
OF extreme cruelty The couple ar
ranged property settlement.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-17

Perhaps you were one OF those
who listening to early morning
news broadcasts the other day
heard one major chain annoulcer
repeatedly speak of the 48-houf
minimum work week ruling as q
"new law.
He was wrong, of course. The
expression was just Slip. 1t Is
important only because it betrays
trend which many regard as un-
fortunate-an increasing tendency
to forget that in a democracy Con-
eress makes laws and the Presi-
dent enforceS them.
The 48-hour work week order
announced by Sterilization Director
Byrnes was no more than a presi-
Dental decree in pursuance OF
general powers conferred upon the
White House by Congress to ia
oilitate prosecution OF the war, mil
itary and induStrially.
Considering the manpoWer crisis
which appears to exist and the fact
that Mr.. McNutt has felt forced
TO pervert the military draft into
club with which to enforce
manpower draft. the 48-hour mini
mum work week was ordered none
too soon.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-17

The criticism, if any. is that it
leaves all excess work over contract
maxima-usually 40 hours but
sometimes as low as 35-to be COM
pensated at time-and-a-half and
even double time rates.
This has the effect of raising
average wages per hour by at least
81-3 per cent at a time when Mr.
Byrnes is worrying about how to
sirhcn off excess income which is
contributing to initiation.
The only feasible way that will
be found, Judging from past his
tory will be higher taxes and new
compulsory savings m ca ure S,
which will be applied equally to the
beneficiaries Of the premium pay
schedule and to the greater num-
Der who are struggling to get by
on incomes frozen at lower levels.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-17

1t is far better to select a voluntary
plan with elasticity, than bring down on
the heads Of all an iron-bound DO or
Else adict
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-06
Many Unfriendly
To Our Enemies

Though there are rebels In the
ranks of the younger generation,
most of them boot down any at
tempt 10 sign them up on the pro-
Axis side, WRA declared. They
provide plenty OF normal healthy
recreation for themselves by or
ganizing baseball teams. basket
ball games. dances and other
favorite pastimes. All are invet-
crate patrons of the camp movies
usually shorts, newsreels and
second-run features).
The question of whether Uncle
Sam should make a total excep-
ton of these citizens uprooted
from their homes in the name of
national defense and slap on steel
pointed military control has not
yet been answered.
WRA, harried and weary after
almost a year OF playing host 10
the internees. still clings to the
belief that most of the problems
can be "ironed out" or minimiZed
by careful handling. Congress
and some ranking army officers
believe complete military control
lis the answer.
Either way, Uncle Sam has his
hands full.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-06
Most of Camps
Dirty, Scared

Thrown together in haste by the
army quarternaster corps. most OF
the camps are rough. dirty and
SCARED with steam-shovel and
bulldozer wounds.
Two and three generations
representing sharply differing po-
litical points Of view are tossed
into camp together, allowed "a
elect their own representatives 10
the community council. judiciary
co1nmission, police force and other
posts of responsibility and leader
ship. Inevitably violent quarrels
spring up over who should be
nominated and who should be
scuttled or opposed.
A great many of the riots and
Ather demonstrations alarming the
overnment have sprung directly
from these inner-faction fights.
Any pro-Axis influences then do
their best 10 fan the squabble 10
whitehead pitch and sooner or
later a full-f1edged riot is in
progress. Bitterness. some injus-
tice and a camp divided against
itself IN the aftermath OF these
eNItmIrSts
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-06
Outside World
Hostile to All

A rather large number Of the
thousand odd japanese who were
allowed 10 work and live outside
the camp after FBI and other AL.
thorities made certain they had
no pro-Axis connections or inten-
tons, have struggled foriorniy
back To the relocation centers.
The outside world was not only
hostile - but in prosecuting
frame OF mind 10 any jap
American citizen. or not.
Unless there is sudden and
unexpected change for the better,
WRA fully expects 10 have TO keep
the Japanese within the camps
for the duration for their own
protection, as well as that OF ma
tional security. The Nipponese
wards are not wanted outside.
There has been. admittedly,
some unrest In the centers,"
WRA states, "and this can pro-
vide a fertile field for pro-Axis
activity. But let II be said that,
on the whole, the japanese are
not only good citizens. but law
abiding people who want no
part OF the Axis government or
theories"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-06
Quick Work
S o ! der Flees Stoekade
in Stolen Chevrons

FORT CUSTER, Feb. 5.-Pvt.
William Bilbrat. late of Highland
Park, is back in the guardhouse
today after a 24-hour breather
during which he promoted himself
twice, first to a sergeant by bor-
rowing a guardhouse cooks jacket.
This got him out Of the prison
stockade.
He next visited the quarters Of
a colonel and by taking clothes
got his second promotion, rapid
one 10 colonelcy.
Apparently he did not play the
part up 10 standard, as state police
questioned his rank in jackson.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-06
All Internees Are
Treated the Same

The war relocation authority,
anxious to preserve in the Jap
American citizens their knowledge
and enthusiasm for democratic
government. has tried TO place as
much responsibilities possible for
their conduct on the internees
themselves.
The Senate military affairs
committee recently condemned
this practice as "coddling." pam
pering" and letting them have
the run OF the place"
The $4,000 detained Japs
theoretically, into three classes
the "Nesei' (American-born and
United States citizens), "Kibei
(American-born, Jap educated)
and the 'Issei" (Japanese-born)
and all receive the same treat
ment.
Actually pro-Axis Japs can be
found as readily among the Nese
as the Issei and there are in
tensely loyal Americans TO be
found in the group OF Jap aliens
Just as there are in the Nesei.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-06
Dissenters Found
In All Groups

Both older and younger gener-
atoms have their share of those
who believe in the government of
ntheir adoption and those who are
Their dissatisfied or covertly con-
.emptuous.
This indiscriminate herding to-
gether of warning viewpoints &C
counts for most Of the recent
strikes and uprisings in the WRA's
10 camps.
WRA authorities feel the cure
lies in grading" and "reshuffling
the internees according 10 whether
they are loyal. law-abiding and
fully aware of why the govern
ment has made wards of them
for the duration - or unruly
trouble makers and un-American.
But you can't split up fam
tlies-and there are often diff
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-06

( ferences Of opinion and loyal
ties within a family unit" WRA
officials add with a sigh.
4 The first step in the direction
of Kidding the fenced-in communi-
ties OF trouble and pro-
Axis influences has been the
establishment of an isolation camp
in Utah. Those found guilty OF
stirring UP trouble or having un-
American sympathies are shipped
summary to the Utah center
where the discipline Is more
strict, the life less free and the
camp more heavily guarded.
Some OF the most devoted
"nesei" or American citizens have
unfortunately lost a great deal OF
their enthusiasm for democracy
through the actual forced evacua-
ton, the loss of property civil
rights and their present position
as wards OF the government"
Others were detained pending
further investigation in military
concentration camps for months
and emerged with loyalties rubbed
raw and smarting.
A minority. but a strong and
loud one. refuses 10 cooperate
with the WRA system OF allowing
them TO set up community gov
eminent. elect representatives,
etc, resentfuily insisting that the
United States government grabbed
them out of their beds and they
can now darn well run the whole
show and take all responsibility
for What hanpanS.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-06
"Whippet"
II o B E
1896

Do you want a sood-looking, in
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rieh-looking rayon twill that resembles
WOOL. Pastels. Sizes from II to 20.
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-06

The best answer, WRA de
clares. is not to get tougher
or softer-but merely smarter.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-06
By LEE CARSON
international News Service STAFF Correspondent

international News Service san Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Feb 5.-Should the government get
tougher-or softerwh the thousands of japanese now
confined in semconcentration camps called relocation
centers"? ,
Congress insists that we get tougher with them-the
War Relocation Authority charged with their and
feeding that things already tough for them and
points fact that of these detained for the
duration American ctzensthe others at least sup
nosedv loyal United States of America:
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-06

Outbursts.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-06

sentiment
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-06
Relocation Camps for laps
Give Headaches 10 US.
: Rough Shacks Arouse Resentment
Of Families Held for Duration

EDITORS NOTE This is the last Of ttCo articles
by Lee Carson of International News Services Washing
ton staff disclosing the problem Nth Which American
authorities hare been graphing in the handling of the
10000 japanese ho have been evacuated to government
settlements for "safekeepng"