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Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-03
Airline Speeds
Set-Up for
Valley Service

How Imperial Valley soon will be
connected with coastal cities and
the entire nation by fast airline
service was explained to group
of valley civic leaders by airline
officials Thursday evening.
Representatives of Western Ali
Lines met with Ell Centro officials
and members of the Associated
chambers of commerce aviation
committee at dinner meeting in
the Barbara Worth hotel, where all
phases of Inauguration of the SER
vices were discussed.
1t is hoped operations may start
by January l, according to Rich
ard A. Dick, general traffic man.
ager. Exact dates, however, cannot
be set until final authority from
government offices has been re-
ceiyed
TWO FLIGHTS SCHEDULED
There will be two flights daily
according to the plan. The initial
flight will leave Los Angeles at
tbs am, arriving at Ell Centre
via Palm Springs, at 8:45 am
From here the plane will fly to
San Diego, and thence to Los An
geles via Long Beach. 1t will reach
the Burbank terminal at IL am.
The second flight will come here
b? way of Long Beach and San
Diego, leaving Los Angeles at 1.3O
pm, and arriving here at 3:35 pm
The plane then proceeds to Los
Angeles via Palm Springs, arriving
at Burbank at $40 pm.
Mr.. Dick announced that a Ia
passenger Lockheed Lodestar has
been authorized by the governmen.
for the operation. This, Dick said
is the fastest passenger plane used
on scheduled air lines.
Plans were discussed for the in
PRODUCTION of airmail, passenger, and
express patronage and valley repre-
sentatives outlined various pro-
grams for acquainting the public
with the air service.
ATTEND MEETING
Accompanying Mr. Dick, were L
W. Cate, advertising manager OF
Western Air Lines, Roy Backman
district traffic manager, and Ray
Grant, representative for express
operations.
Participating in the Inauguration
plans were Allen T. Witter. presi-
dent Associated chambers of COM
merce. ArnO q Vaapke1 ,,rac;Joo,
Ell Centre chamber of commerce
Mayor H. w. Hatton, Ell Centre, and
the following committeeman: j. d
Thompson, inland; Mrs. Tracey Sor-
ensen, Calipatria; Charles Nice
Brawley; George Parr, Imperial,
E. P. Pearse, Seeley; K. K. Sharr
and L. A. Watson, Holtville; Fern
Young, Calexico; Ben Herring anc
Paul jenkins, Ell Centro.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-03
q AMslINe
EpoRTER

A Letter From Billy
(This letter came in the mail Fri
day from our young friend and
neighbor, Billy Shultz. Billy thinks
we don't know him but we do. We
know that Billy is fine, loyal, pa
triotic American boy. He is merry,
good natured, full of fun and has
zest for living He is in the navy
We all have reason to be proud OF
Billy. Here is his letter.
Dear Rambling Reporter: You
don't know me but l am boy who
used to live in Ell Centre before I
enlisted After eight weeks of boot
camp I was sent here to Norman
in the middle of Oklahoma. It's
pretty nice, I guess, but California
is better. There are several boys
here from California and we're
proud of it.
In the USO here all the states
are represented by their respective
flags but California. Speaking for
all the boys here, we wondered if
lou would use your influence with
the chamber of commerce or some
body and send us Bruin flag?
There are three of us that I know
cf that are from Ell Centro The
others are Robert Knudsen and
Fred Hafliger.
1--WE would appreciate it very
much if we could get flag to rep
resent the best state of them all
I don't know the address of the
USO but you can send it to me and
I'll see that it is placed among the
other flags. Yours very truly, Billy
Shultz.
"P. S.-My address is William Ell
don Shultz, &c Barks 157 A.OM.,
NA.T.TC., Norman, Okla.
Up s No 2-Merru Christmas
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-03

erS in the Bismarck Sea.
Using the Empress Augusta bay
beachhead as a springboard, pick
ed force of 600 marines landed three
miles behind Japanese lines Sum
day, whipped twice their number
of enemy troops and smashed big
military stores at the enemy's Kai-
aris supply concentrations.
The 40-hour "hit and run" attack
cost the marines Is dead and II
wounded, Admiral William F.. Hal
seys south Pacific headquarters said.
tThis raid may have been the one
Continued on page 6, COL d
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-03
Nips Again Rip
Yanks.-By Radio

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 3.
(UP)-Tokyo radio asserted in
a China dispatch today that a
large formation of japanese
fighters and bOmbers "pulver-
lied runways and military es-
Establishments at the American
air base at Hsuichuan. The
Japanese claimed they shot
down five P-4O fighters, dam
aged another fighter and a
BIS bomber On the ground.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-03
PLAN GASOLINE SCRIPT

WASHINGTON, Dec. 3. (UP) =
Numbered gasoline ration coupons
similar to strips of motion picture
tickets, will be issued to "B" and
&c" card holders about April l., it
was learned today. The office of
price administration announced
that the new 1T" coupons for COM
mercial vehicles and taxis would
be of this type effective Jan. /.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-03
Lost War Writer
Pens Last Tale

Editors note: The following
dispatch was written by Lowell
Bennett, war correspondent of
International News Service, just
before he took off with the Royal
Air Force for raid on Berlin
from which he did not return. 1t
was telephOned to International
News Service i'm Londan by the
ministry of information. A spOkes-
man for that government bureau
said he had left it with the COM
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-03
HIT OLEO BILL

CHICAGO, Dec. 3. (UP) - The
national cooperative milk producers
federation appealed to congress to-
day to defeat the Maybank bill,
which would remove federal regu-
lations on the manufacture and
sale of colored oleomargine until
six months after the war
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-03

mander of the X. A. F. bomber
station with instruction it was to
be forwarded to his office i'm the
event he did not come back from
the attack.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-03
It's Ration Points

It's Ration Points
There is only one thing in the
world that would make Mr.. and
Mrs Tiny Hill sell or give away a
puppy. Lack of food.
Since they are trying to get rid
of some pups, we feel safe in saying
that the must be running out of
meat ration points.
Rioht9
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-03
Roosevelt, Stain
And Churchill
Sound Warnings
"Surrender or Suffer Destruction"
Will Be Cryptic: Word Coming
From Triple Conference on in Iran
- BY ROBERT DOwSON =
United Press Staff CORRESPONDENT

LONDON, Dec 3.-An Istanbul dispatch passed by the
British censorship said today that President Roosevelt
Prime Minister Churchill and Premier Stan in conference
in Iran drafting ultimatum Germany to sur
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-03
US. Airmen Sink
Jap Transport,
2Wurships
Marine Raiders Slaughter Enemy in
Foray on Bousainvi||e. Smash Military
Stores After LANDING Behind Isle Lines

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Southwest Pacific, Dec.
g. (UP)-U. S. marine raiders killed 200 japanese in
daring foray Bougainvlle communque disclosed to-
day. and berators possibly exacted toll of thousands
by sinking loaded transport and hitting destroy
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-03
WEATHER

Maximum Thursday 70, minimum
Friday 38; s am. Friday "a, humid
ity 40; noon Friday SO, humidity
20; pm. Thurs. SO, humidity l6.
Evening star., 1943-06-20

Continued on Page C-50
Evening star., 1943-06-20

companying plane is impressed by the
apparent slow rate. But things happen
when the bomb hits and explodes-very
quickly and conclusively.
AS the bombs are released from the
speeding airplane they fall on a forward
slant roughly corresponding for fractions
of seconds to the speed of the carrier
from which they dropped. Then they
lose forward momentum and begin to
drop in more or less of straight line.
But the entire trajectory is curved.
A bomber trying to lay his egg at
Fourteenth and streets, if he came in
from the south, would YELL bombs away"
over Alexandria. If he came in from
the east he would drop them over East
ern High School or the Anacostia River.
From the north he would release his
eggs over Soldiers Home.
These are not official air force con-
clusions, but a heavy bomb dropped at
10000 feet from an airplane travelling at
300 miles an hour travels forward about
$4,000 feet, or nearly miles before it
strikes its objective.
Amazing Accuracy.
So accurate are Air Force bombardiers
that I saw men in the noses of a fight
of B-25s, the same type airplane which
bombed Toxic, lay 43 of IS eggs squarely
in the middle of a 1o0-foot target cut
out of sandy waste in North Florida.
Two of their 50o-pound bombs fell out
side the circle but within 2o0-foot cir
Gle centered around the middle of the
target. That was pin-point bombing
from planes travelling at about 5000 feet
above the target. Later, Bits came
over at 5000 feet and dropped smaller
bombs with the same precision.
Dive bombing is going out of favor
with the Air Force. 1t is quite diff
ferent method from level bombing from
high attitudes. In dive bombing the
plane sights its objective by pointing the
ship itself, hurtling down from the upper
levels at high speed, the pilot releasing
the bomb at the lowest point of the dive.
Other methods are taking the place of
dive bombing. A dive-bombing plane
must drop in a straight line for a con-
siderable distance, during which it is
exposed to concentrated fire from auto
matte weapons, and dive bombing itself
Evening star., 1943-06-20

is bad but whether it alone will kill at
long range we do not know
The augmentation effect of $500
twenty-pound bombs has the same
punch as 100000 rounds of rife
fire." he said. That explains, in part,
the reason the United States Army Air
Force goes in for use of more smaller
bombs than a few single big ones But
he added that shattering of brick struc-
lures by heavy bombs, the peeling off
of surface brick from the facade of a
modern office building will kill many
people by flying bricks and fragments.
While Col. Williamson who has written
handbook on air bombing designed as
a guide for the Bomber Command, be-
lieves that use of heavy bombs has its
Evening star., 1943-06-20

points, he also is firm believer in use OF
more and lighter bombs rather than con-
centration of few Of the bigger bombs.
One Of the reasons, he said, is that the
blast effect of air bombing decreases
inversely approximately as the cube of
the distance. So detonation of a num-
Der of small bombs, such as thousand
Founders, would cover a wider area than
the effect of single heavier bomb
Big bombs are bulky. The 1000
pound block buster. for example, is about
Is feet long and takes up lot of space
on the carrying airplane. The same
airplane could carry more conveniently
the same weight of metal and explosive
packed into smaller packages to accom-
plish the same effect. So the Air Force
believes
Evening star., 1943-06-20
By George M. Roberts,
Former Superintendent OF Weights,
Measures and Markets,
District of Columbia.

OtSI LCL " IOtuHtO|u.
Under food rationing, food scarcity,
black markets and high prices, house
wives in the District and elsewhere find
themselves in the front line of an econ
omic battle. They now occupy positions
of greater responsibility than ever before
in the largest normal business of Amer
lea, that of retail purchase and sale of
food. They must stretch ration coupons
and money to the limit to provide neces-
sary suStenance for their families
In order to perform the task efficiently,
housewives must qualify as careful shop
pers. must watch their weights and
measures, and become familiar with the
tricks which some butchers, grocers and
market dealers have practiced for years
with such deXterity as to ordinarily defy
detection. Most cheating through short
weight and short sales is &C
complished because consumers are care
less buyers. If housewives fail to shop
carefully their family tables may be de-
prived of fair share of the Nations
food supply, ration coupons may not OBJ
tain the quantity of food intended, CELL
ing prices may not be observed, and the
family pocket book may soon reach
point bordering on humiliation.
Black Sheep
1t is not as simple as may at first
appear for housewives to obtain full
value for the money they spend or full
quantity of food for which they pay
Honest butchers, grocers and market
dealers constitute a vast majority, but
black sheep are scattered throughout the
business of selling food just as there are
in almost every other business or pro-
fession. Honest dealers suffer much
through unfair competition of the black
sheep" in any line of business
AS head of the Department of Weights
Measures and Markets of the District
OF Columbia for many years one of
my duties was to direct Investigations
and surveys in the retail food trade to
determine whether sales by short weight
short measure or other practices pre-
vailed which are harmful to consumers
and productive of unfair competition
against honest dealers. In this work,
Evening star., 1943-06-20
Weighing Tricks.

Weighing Tricks.
The prevailing impression that short
weight sales usually result from use of
defective or incorrect scales is a delusion.
Correct scales enable a merchant to
arrive at correct weight, but do not pre-
vent sales by short weight, if merchant
desires to resort to that practice, any
more than will watch registering cor
rect time prevent a man from misin-
forming you Of the time If he so desires.
A merchant selling by short weight is
usually careful to have correct scales
because he mistakenly believes that fact
will aid in his defense if hailed into court
The old-fashioned trick of weighing
the thumb or attaching something to
the scale is generally outmoded The up
to-date cheater employs methods of
much greater refinement. Most of them
are unique in simplicity, but are rarely
noticed by consumers when buying.
One scheme probably used more than
others in retail sales of meats and other
high-priced foods weighed at time of
sale is to quote price per pound in odd
Evening star., 1943-06-20

Washington housewives were often en-
ployed as shoppers to buy foods for the
Weights and Measures Department pre-
cisely as they would buy for their own
homes.
In 1941, in addition to regular routine
buying, following many complaints,
somewhat limited special survey was
made.
Short Weights.
In one group of stores, 100 purchases
of meats, fish and poultry out of total
of 49, were short of the weight repre-
sented. Short weights ran to 13 per cent,
and the average of the lis purchases
was 1882 per cent short weight.
In another group of stores, 40 out Of
So purchases of meats and fish were
short weight. The greatest shortage was
over 16 per cent and the average was
424 short weight.
In a smaller group of stores, the great
est shortage in 20 purchases of meats
was 2034 per cent, and the average was
5 per cent short weight.
Purchases in group of stores catering
to rather discriminating trade revealed
that short weight was sold 4s times out
Evening star., 1943-06-20
Good Advice From Food>Buying Expert

cents, sometimes including fractions OF
cents In that way a quick mental CAL
culation by the housewife to arrive at
the correct total for the quantity pur-
chased is made difficult,
When the housewife asks for a certain
weight of meat, cheese or other product
which cannot usually be cut to exact
weight, the tricky dealer places the guam
tity cut on the scale, removes it very
quickly, and without stating the weight
announces total price in excess of the
correct total based upon the true weight
at the price quoted. The housewife does
not often notice this trick and pays the
excessive amount without objection. Re-
peated many times in a busy store, this
trick will add tremendous, unwarranted
profits to the owners take within a
month or year.
Another practice, widely prevalent,
which enables a dealer to conceal evi-
dence of short weight, if so inclined is
to trim meats after weighing, but before
same is handed over to the purchaser
In such instances reweighing will not
reveal short weight, if any The evi-
dence has gone with the trimmings into
the scrap box under the counter.
Concealed Scrap.
scheme recently brought into play,
to defraud in both quality and quantity
of meats is to conceal within cuts OF
rolled roastS quantity of scrap meat
which could probably oe sold separately
only for dog food; also to include sheet
of unedible fat, never part of the roast,
the kind customarily sold for manufac-
ture of tallow or soap
:; A trick employed IN selling dressed
poultry by short weight consists of quot
ing price per pound, placing the fowl
: selected on scale. removing it quickly
and announce total price in excess OF
the correct amount as in case of meats.
then offer to prepare the fowl for cook
ing by removal of head, feet, and intes-
tines. Unsuspecting purchasers consider
this an extra gratuitous service, and
usually accept the offer. The operation
destroys all evidence of short weight
Tests of what would happen in in
stances of this kind by having weights
and measures shoppers in Washington
decline the offer of free service and take
away the fowl as weighed and paid for,
EN
Evening star., 1943-06-20

is not highly accurate. Anti-aircraft fire
has been developed to degree Of ac-
curacy highly lethal to dive bombing
planes.
A bomb penetrating comparatively
soft material such as earth or even
macadam digs wide deep crater. The
bomb burst goes upward in a Towering
bush pattern if the bomb digs in. But
if the bomb bursts on impact the burst
pattern spreads over wider arc and
lateral augmentation is more complete.
Col Williamson explained that bombs
dropped on airfields for the purpose of
destroying enemy aircraft are set to go
off on impact so augmentation will cover
a wide area laterally.
Modern American steel and concrete
buildings, constructed as the human body
is built. with steel frame and concrete
floors, corresponding to the bones, sur
rounded by shell of brick, are highly
resistant to impact and explosion of
heavy bombs. Such structures as some
of those at Fourteenth and F streets
would resist the power of heavy bombs,
although their windows would go out,
doors would be torn from their hinges
and brick facings would collapse into
the street.
Vulnerable Germany.
In contrast to American construction
the type of structures in German cities
are duck soup for heavy bombs Unlike
buildings in this country Col. William
son said, many German buildings are
constructed without internal bracing, the
walls supporting the floors and roof.
When the walls are blown apart by shock
of the blast or actual impact of a bomb
the entire house collapses. This would
not follow in the case of structures
braced internally as modern buildings
are constructed in this country.
One of the main objectives of the big
type of bomb, the block buster. is shat
tering of glass in windows for hundreds
of yards around the target. Col. Will
hanson said he does hot know how many
yards this shattering of glass would
cover but he said shat when windows
are blown out humans suffer from flying
glass.
One corollary, he added, is to create
drafts for fires which follow. Fire de-
partments have bad time when WIN
Evening star., 1943-06-20

dows are gone and drafts sweep the
burning buildings" Modern bombing
technique calls for preliminary shatter-
ing of buildings and glass followed by
dropping of incendiary bombs.
Evening star., 1943-06-20

These tUo fragments of metal held by Army Officer,
formed part the demolition bomb dropped
in the test Demolition bombs depend for poe upon their
blast effect than flying fragments ich secondary
in production OF damage in the this type OF bomb
Evening star., 1943-06-20
Bombs Fall Slowly.

Bombs fall with tantalizing sloWness.
The bomb bay opens and the big bombs
appear, falling horizontally at first, then
as the air catches their vanes, they turn
over and plummet down, seemingly at
slow speed but actually in the case of
heavy bombs, at a rate of about 1000
Evening star., 1943-06-20

1T is a matter of opinion whether
the blast or shock of detonation of
block buster alone will kill human beings
at distance of three or four blocks"
he said. "Of course we know the shock
Evening star., 1943-06-20

The pictures presented herewith the first actual
graphs of 1000 pound bomb tests
United States The photographs taken at the Army Ordnance
Proving Ground Aberdeen, Md illustrate the steps taken
loading the bombs the bomb being dropped the actual erpo
son the crater caused after the h fragments of
exploded bomb. Aboue fins being attached Red flag
aOarning to keep a10ay.
Official Photos, U. S. Army
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1943-12-16
TWO CHILDREN DIE In
BURNING HOME

Early Tuesday, according to in
formation reaching us, the home
of George Stewart of near Pound
was burned and two children,
alone in the home, were burned
ito death. 1t was said that Mr..
Stewart had gone to Neon, KY,
to buy Christmas toys and other
things for the children. His wife
was out of the house for few
minutes and on her return she
found the home in flames with
the children trapped inside. She
was unable to reach them and
they persisted in the flames. The
children were one and three years
of age.
This family had only recently
bought home near Pound to be
near Jenkins, where Mr.. Stewart
was employed.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1943-12-16
GAS VAPORS CAUSE ILLNESS
IN HAYSI SCHOOL

More than 20 children sudden
ly became i'll at the Haysi elemen
tary school one day Last week
from some form of gas generated
supposedly by the heating stove.
The exact cause of the illness was
not determined by the safety in
spector who was sent to Haysi by
the Bureau of Mines at Norton
1t was his opinion that the gas
was caused by stick of powder
which had accidentally been left
in the coal when it was mined.
Although all the children re-
covered several were sick for a
few days and required the atten-
ton of a physician.
Several of the good citizens of
the community were firmly Of
the opinion that the gas had been
caused by German spies.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1943-12-16
KIWANIS ELECT OFFICERS
FOR COMING YEAR

At a recent meeting of the To-
cal Kiwanis Club the following
officers were elected for the com
ing year: President, James M.
Skeen; Vice-pres., Elmer Poore;
Secretary-Treasurer, A. A. Skeen
Jr.
w. nj. McFall is the retiring
president, and will automatically
continue on the board of direc-
tors.
The club is active at this time
in raising funds to purchase food,
toys etc. for several needy fam
lilies at Christmas.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1943-12-16
HUGE MOONSHINE OUTFIT
DESTROYED ON SOUTH OF
CUMBERLAND

Grant Mullins, carrier on the
Clintwood- Almyra mail route,
reports that a huge moonshine
outfit was destroyed near Phlpps,
in the south of Cumberland, late
last week by Wise county ABC
men. According to this report,
from 1900 to 1900 gallons of
mash was found at the place and
destroyed.
According to neighborhood re-
port, the still had been in opera
ton ait the place for near a year.
Jerry Bryant, residing in that
section reports that he has been
able to step out into his back
yard any morning during the
past several months and enjoy
the wonderful aroma of g pure
corn" drifting upward from the
dark hollow where the still was
located.