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Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-14
A LAME EXCUSE
(San Diego Union)

A great many persons doubtless Will
look to the Senate Finance Committee
for more intelligent explanation of its
refusal to levy 5 per cent tax on pari-
mutuel betting than that which was con-
tanned in Washington dispatches yester-
day. The only reason given was that
strong pressure" had been eXerted by
states which permit such betting.
Congress has been asked by the treas
ury department to increase tax revenues
by more than 10 billions of dollars. The
House baked at going higher than 81
140,000,000 and sent the bill to the Sen
ate, where it has undergone revisions
trimming it by about 216,000,000.
No tax bill ever is popular, and admit
tedly the Congress is between two fires.
But how the Senate can double the amuse-
ment tax on theater tickets and then elm
mate it altogether from pari-mutuel bet
ting at race tracks is one of those things
which passes all understanding.
Race track interests are strongly or
ganized and have maintained powerful
lobbes for years. ready to combat those
periodical attacks upon horse racing
which occur so frequently. Few persons,
however, imagined that these lobbies
were strong enough to interfere with an
important wartime tax bill.
OF all luxuries which the American
people enjoy and the one which would
seem to provide source of revenue, the
levying of which would work hardship
upon none, horse racing and par-mutual
betting would seem to head the list.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-14
Vinson Outlines
Low Priced
Factory Output

WASHINGTON, Dec. Ia. tUP)-
Manufacturers will be virtually
forced to produce large quantities
of low-cost basic consumer items
instead of devoting most of their
output to higher-priced lines under
far-reaching new policy laid down
Monday by Economic Sterilization
Director Fred NJ. VinSon.
The immediate effect of Wilson's
policy is expected to be the return
of low-priced women's dresses, chill
dren's and infants clothing, and
mems and women'S underwear
which virtually, have disappeared
from the market during the past
months. Other types of civilian
goods will be affected as materials
and manpoWer become available.
VinSon instructed the war pro-
duction board and the Office of
Price Administration to act Jointly
to improve the output of essential
utilitarian goods for the great
number of consumers"
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-14
STAR GAZING PAYS
BIG DIVIDENDS

~ Stop a moment these clear December
evenings and scan the heavens if you
are one who gets THRILL from celestial
wonders Overhead rides one Of the ma
jor consultations known as Pegasus.
Standing out unusually brilliant is the
Great Square of Pegasus-four stars,
the brightest Andromeda. To the east
half way to the horizon in midevening,
!. you will see lesser group, Taurus the
Bull and close to the horizon blazes
Aquila, the Eagle. 1t is easy to recognize
many other travelling clusters in the
mighty heavens-especially If one gets
away from light reflections from the
ground. The Milky Way alone is worth
awalk to the deserts rim these nights.
geg Pegasus, four stars, like all other ma
jor consultations bears a legend. 1t is
the story of Medusa, embodiment of ter
hror and horrible fate credited with ability
TO turn living human beings into stone.
sShe was feared as well as hated by other
agods. Finally Perseus rose up and slew
her. severing her head in the act. Accord
ING to this legend, from her blood sprang
Pegasus. in the form of winged horse,
,etprnally to ride the heavens.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-14
PATTERN OF TRANQUILITY
(Christian Science Monitor)

lOnflSJla0 Science MOHllor)
December is the month of months for
looking at the stars. Come its clear
frosty nights deepening into the long
est of the year, and the great bowl of
the heavens shines with myriad sparks
of light, breathes and glowS with varied
astronomical fires. From a country hill
side like the shepherds of old, or on
daily wartime journeys to and from
work, early and late, aerial patterns are
seen spread out above us unrivaled by
any man-made show.
In the Northern Hemisphere four great
planets dominate the December sky
scene. High in the east, above the black
fretwork of treetops, is Venus, golden
jewel of the paling dawn. Overhead, the
big fellow flying in formation with a
lesser luminary is the Planet Jupiter,
with Regulus ION his wing Off to the
west are two others: ruddy Mars, who
we'll may blush at what he could see on
the Planet Earth, and bright-eyed Saturn
of the misty veil, whose rings can easily
be discerned with small telescope. The
dog Sirius, brightest star in the sky, is
also on the December show bill
Looking up at these great lamps over
head. at the wide path of the Milky Way,
at Orion, Cassiopeia, the Pleiades, and
Ursa Major, we find momentary rest in
their vast quiet We who lift our eyes
from the Earth planet bursting with ex
ploSives and hot with hurry to the starry
reaches of the sky can be thankfully
aware of their orderly silence.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-14
Council Warns
On YuIe Candle

CHICAGO. Dec. IA. CUP)-The
National Safety Council warned
Tuesday against using candles on
Christmas trees this year.
Candle companies, the council
said, are Swamped with orders for
Christmas tree candles for the first
time in years, due to shortages
IN light cords and bulbs for tree
lighting and because some sections
of the country are conserving cleo
trical power for war production.
Using lighted candles on Christ
mas trees is one of the nations
most dangerous holiday customs, the.
council asserted.
Even electric lighting is danger
GUS unless equipment is in good
condition, the council said, because
Christmas trees contain resinous
substances which are easily ignited.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-14
Veteran Sticks
To Slogan.
In Jungle War

BOUGAINVILLE, Dec. Ia tUP)
The cid tradition of don't fire
till you see the whites of their
eyes" still holds good in the AM
erican armed forces-and it still
pays off although it is now known
as fire discipline
During an action involving a
Jap COUNTER -attack against our
positions, a company commander
on a flank position sighted and
heard a group of men moving in
the nearby underbrush. He pick
ed up the telephone and called his
superior officer, 1t. Col. Ralph
King of Rockville, Md, who en-
listed in the Marine corps at the
age of Ia in the last war
Some troops are moving in
close to us, sir; l can hear them
talking" reported the captain.
King, a bald-headed, grizzled
Marine. replied:
Some of our men are supposed
to be moving through that area
about this time. Don't fire"
Five minutes later the captain
called again:
Sir, they're talking in Japa-
neSe."
King replied:
Don't fire"
Fifteen minutes later came
third call from the worried cap
tain, who strove to keep his voice
cool:
"Sir, they've just thrown a
grenade into our outfit
Drawled King:
Can you see emp"
The reply was affirmative.
son, let EN- have it."
He'd hardly finished speaking
when Marine Iifles, machine guns
and grenades opened up at
range of less than SO yards. Be-
fore the day was over, they had
killed more than 100 Japs with
only fractional loss to themselves.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-14
Capital pi' Talk
bly,
Peter Edison

Herbert Hoover had a name for
it, He called it psychological
depression" Business was going to
hell in a hack, but still everybody
felt Just dandy.
Today, the situation is just the
opposite. If you analyze the statis-
tics. business has never been better
never. Yet so many people
are complaining that they feel ter
rible.
What is this, anyway? Is it an
other psychological depression? An
expert in semantics would probably
have a hard time giving it name.
DR.. Amos Taylor, director of the
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic
Commerce, perhaps comes close to
naming it when he says that while
we are not in a psychological de-
preston" we are in depression
psychology" He hastens to qualify
that nomenclature for the present
period, however, by saying that isn't
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-14
Grocery Clerks
Get Pay Hike

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. Ia. CUp)
More than 1000 grocery clerks in
Los Angeles and neighboring cities
were granted substantial wage in
creases today in a directive order
announced by the tenth regional
war labor board.
With industry members dissent
ing, the board increased the scale
for apprentices from $3.50 to 500
a week for the first six weeks. and
for the second six months raised
the scale from $25 to S32.
In the case of experienced clerks.
the old contract had provided for
four pay claSsifications, each cover
ing one-fourth of the employees.
ranging from S2750 to S35. One
pay classification was established
under the boards decision, with
rates of s34.5O and $37. Each fig
ure provided increases over the old
contractEal rates.
The board also awarded the new
rates TO employees working in the
tri-county Pomona, Riverside, San
Bernardino area on 48-hour week
basis. They formerly had worked
on 54-hour basis
Principals in the case, which
came before the RWLB as dis
pute, are the Food Industries EN-
ployers Labor Relations Council,
Inc, Los Angeles, and Retail Food
Clerks Union, Local 324 of Long
Beach and Local ITO, Los Angeles,
affiliated with the Retail Clerks
International Protective Association
(AFL).
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-14
Higgins Defends
Landing Boats
Cites Handling

WASHINGTON, Dec. ID. tUP) -
Andrew J. Higgins, whose landing
craft have borne American fighting
men in every invasion of the war,
declared today that bad handling
of his boats was responsible for
heavy marine casualties during the
attack on bloody Tarawa."
Higgins said there had been
criticism of the boats performance
by some uninformed officers and
a national news agency" and as
serted:
THE boats could do the job. They
just weren't handled right. They've
got to be driven by someone who
will bang them into the shore at
full speed, not coddle them like an
admiral's launch
Asked to comment on Higgins
charge, Secretary of the Navy
Frank Knox said he would not en-
ter into a controversy with the boat
builder, but he said the men who
handle the Higgins boats are
magnificently trained and have
made an excellent record with
them wherever they have been
used"
The Higgins boat, Knox said, was
good landing craft"
Higgins said he had offered to
charge at his New Orleans ship
building plants, and hopes the navy
will accept.
II design these craft and / build
them," he said. Il think l know
better than anyone in the world
what they will do and how to do it
with them. If 1 can teach some
of this to the men who run them,
l think l can save some lives
The ruddy-faced shipbIilder said
that for several days he has been
showing motion pictures of test
runs to high officials in the armed
forces as conclusive proof that
bad handling and not versatility
of his landing craft was response
BILE for sea casualties in the attack
on the Gilbert islands,
Newsreels of the Tarawa land
ings, he said, indicated that the
boats had ben taken into shore
slowly and many had been halted
by surrounding reefs, forcing land
ing parties to wade. long distances
through neck high water and mur-
derous machine gun fire.
I'VE simulate reefs, like those
the newsreels showed, in our own
test courses" Higgins stated, land
we've never knocked the bottom
out of boat yet
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-14
Navy Man Gets
Jap with Axe

WASHINGTON, Dec. ID. OUP)-
Carpenters Mate &c Carl l. Hull,
46, of San Pedro, Calf, got little
bored on Pearl Harbor anniversary
day. He went out into the jungles
with an axe and came back with a
live Japanese prisoner.
Secretary of the Navy Frank
Knox, in revealing this story Tues
day. repeated Admiral William F..
Halsey's Characterization of Hull as
"hatch-packing Seabee and wor-
thy member of our south Pacific
jungle-hacking. Jap-cracking all
services team" HalSey gave Hull
the Silver Star medal
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-14
Order Strikes
Unfair hirinq'

WASHINGTON, Dec. ID. (UP) -
The presidents committee on fair
employment practices has directed
the International Brotherhood of
Boilermakers and its local lodges in
Portland, Ore. and Los Angeles, to
eliminate all membership practices
which discriminate against work.
ers beCaISe of race or color
In announcing the committees
directive. Malcolm Ross, chairman.
said five west coast shipbuilding
companies have been directed to
reinstate all Negro workers dis
charged because of their refusal to
pay dues to boilermarker auxiliary
unions.
Firms notified by the committee
included Oregon Shipbuilding corp.
Kaiser Company, Inc, California
Shipbuilding corp, Consolidated
Steel corp, and Western Pipe g.
Steel corp.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-14
NEW STORAGE UNIT
FOR. SHIPS

WASHINGTON, Dec. Ia. tUP)-
The shipment of perishable COM
modities between North and South
America, curtailed by the loss OF
special refrigerated ships and their
diversion to other routes, may be
expedited by the use of a new, port
able cold storage unit, according
to a Department of Commerce bull
letin. The containers, invented by
Maj. Elihu Church, USA, are OF
sheet metal and have a capacity OF
approximately 80 cubic feet. Re-
frigeration is maintained through
the ships electrical circuit or, when
in port, through municipal power
plant.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-14
GOOD SAMARITANS
GET A DUCKING

BOOTHBAY HARBOR, Me. Dec
ID CUP)-Capt. Henry Greenleaf
tried to do good deed for a deer
recently-but it only backfired.
The captain and friend were
fishing in the Sheepscot river when
they saw a buck exhausted and ap-
parently wounded by hunter.
They lifted the animal into the
boat intending to release it ashore.
But a few minutes later the deer
suddenly came to life and over
turned the boat, tipping the captain
and his friend into the river.
Needless to say the pair didn't
attempt to play the part of good
samaritans a second time.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-14
TAKING WHISTLES FROM
TRAFFIC COPS PROVES BOON

CHICAGO, Dec. ID (UP)-Chica-
COS traffic cops are better Off"
minus whistles and so are the
citys working people.
The Noise Abatement Commission
recently conducted exhaustive tests
to determine the most dominating
of all annoying noises. Many sus-
pected the clamor of elevated trains,
street cars and automobile horns.
But, to the astonishment of all,
the commission ascertained that
traffic officers small, shrill whistles
created the greatest number Of
sound vibrations approaching the
limit of the human ears endur-
ance.
Consequently, the nerve-Shatter-
ing whistles arc extinct. And,
strangely enough, motorists pay
greater attention to the silent Of
fiCerS.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-14
Winter Sweeps
Wide Areas
BY United Press

The northeastern quarter OF the
nation was gripped by cold wave
Tuesday, and the U. S. weather
bureau warned that relief was not
in sight for at least two days.
Low temperatures were recorded
over a wide area, ranging from the
DakotaS, Iowa and Nebraska to the
eastern seaboard.
The lowest temperature in the
country was recorded at Rosseau,
Mimi, where the mercury dropped
to 81 degrees below zero, and still
further decline was expected. Du-
luth and Bemidji, Mimi, had 18
below and Caribou, Main, cold
spot of the east, reported nine be-
low with the temperature dropping.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-14
DOCTOR TRIAL RECESSES

MONTEREY, Cal, Dec. "a. tUP)
The trial of DIR. Rudolph Gamer
leans are lousy loverso Won Urban
recessed for a breathing spell today
while the state prepared to intro
duce expert testimony that the Ga
year-old "sexologist" practiced med
icine without a license. The prose-
cution declined to- identify it's wit
ness. repeatedly a San Francisco
specialist, who is expected to refute
defense allegations that Won Ur-
bans hot water treatr,ent" for
frustrated housewives was only
similar to taking bath CT wash
ing ones teeth"
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-14
CAMPUS DIRECTORY
'SABOTAGES' SOLDIER

EUGENE, Ore, Dec. ID CUP) -
Editors of the University of Oregon
student directory recently made a
left-handed mistake while placing
an asterisk before the name of each
married student-soldier or civilian
on the campus
When Ufc. Edward L, Amonette
saw an aSterisk before his name he
charged the editors with sabotage,
pointing out they had lowered his
morale to the breaking point.
In dependence to wrote to the
student paper:
please inform the public that |,
Edward l.. Amonette, am not mar
ried, not even engaged.
"P.S.- Interested co eds may
reach me by calling 533.'
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-14
DRIVER UNCONSCIOUS,
CAR TAKES HIM HOME

LIMA, O., Dec. IA CUP)-Herman
Langenberg, AZ, today boasted OF
self driving" automobile.
When a motorcycle collied with
his car the other day, he was
knocked unconscious. When he
came out of it, he was in his own
front yard, still behind the wheel.
The automobile had Travelled
down the highway 10 yards, crossed
a ditch and run up on his lawn.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-14
HUNTER HANGS UP CAP
AFTER THIEFS HAUL

PORTLAND, Ore, Dec. ID up
When Emon Chaloupka returned
he other day from visiting his son
Chick, a naval reservist enrolled in
officers training at the University
of California, he found all his
hunting equipment had been stolen.
His two priced shotguns, his fav-
orite deer rifles and 95 boxes of
shells were gone.
Chaloupka was little consoled by
the knowledge that they were in
sured.
Maybe l could borrow gum he
walled, but where could I get a
single box of shells?"
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-14
10000 SHIPMENTS A DAY

NEW YORK, Dec. Ia. UP)--A
few New York city blocks supply
IS per cent of the ready-to-
goods purchased by shoppers in
the United States. according to the
Railwar Express Agency, which han
dies more than 10000 clothing ship
ments a day More than 100000
persons are said to be employed in
the Industry, which provides Fifth
Ave" fashions for every American
Main street.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-14
MARINES FEAR THE WORD

IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC, Dec.
Ia. CUP)-When "a South Pacific
leatherneck's girl calls off their
romance, he's Just got the word .
according to Marine combat cor
respondent. Neighboring soldiers
give their comrades the same dismal
news with MY girl gave me the
pink Slip"
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-14
UNTOUCHED

BOSTON. Dec. a. CUP)-The
thief who stole packing company
truck in Boston recently either was
absent-minded or suddenly became
conscience-stricken. When recover
ed, the truck still contained 300
pounds of turkey, 200 pounds of
hams, seven cases of chickens and
eight of sausage. Then again maybe
he was a vegetarian.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-14
BOYS GET THEIR TURKEY

FORT JACKSON, 5. c, Dec. IA.
(UP)-More than 10000 pounds of
turkey were consumed by Fort Jack
son military personnel Thanksgiy-
ing day. On the hoof, that totals
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-14
Editorials and Comment

EDITORS NOTE: The foii0Ding edit
oriois are presented as interesting ODin-
ions Uoiced by editors elsewhere. They
do not necessarily reflect the opinion of
this paper.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-14
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE OF INTENTION TO
ENGAGE IN THE SALE OF
ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES

DeCcIiDeT ID, lJ93
To Whom II May COncern:
Notice is hereby given that fif-
teen days after the date posted, the
undersigned proposes to sell alco-
holic beverages at these premises,
described as follows:
$50 MAIN STREET,
Ell CENTRIC, CALF.
Pursuant to such intention. the
undersigned is applying to the
State Board of Equalization for
Issuance of an alcoholic beverage
license Tor licenses) for these prem
ises as follows
ON-SALE BEER AND WINE
ON-SALE DISTILLED SPIRITS
Anyone desiring to protest the
Issuance of such license (s) may
file a verified protest with the
State Board of Equalization at Sa-
cramento, California, stating grounds
Tor denial as provided by law. The
premises are not now licensed for I
the sale OF alcoholic beverages. 2
ROSS CANNON,
OTTO E. STRICKER.
ono. 0O) (D14
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-14


what is it? 1t is psychological
paradox-the paradox of depression
in the midst of prosperity.
CHEERFUL PICTURE
Comparing September 1943 index
numbers-the latest available, with
those of September. 1912. few key
figures, on the basis of the 1885,
1880 average being 100, look some
thing like this:
Income payments, 215 as against
l78. In money, it's $12.5 billion
against sos billion. In September.
1899, it was Sc billion.
Income from farm marketings.
292 against 260. In money, it's OF
billion against SIT billion. In Sep
tember, 1899, the index was 90, the
cash value $500 million.
Industrial production. 247 against
3l3 In September, 1899, it was 119.
Savings of individuals for the
ycar are estimated at $36 billion az
against 1853 billion last year.
Unemployment is down to 100000
rs against IL million year ago.
IN September. 1899, 1t was nine mil
lion.
Industrial failures are down to
.l24 for September, 1943, as against
$50 for September a year ago.
though that figure may be mislead-
ing i'm that it covers only the cases
getting into court, and not the
voluntary lquidations of small
businessmen who may have quietly
folded up and gone into the Army
Building activity, however. is way
)ff, ONLY 1864 million worth of new
construction in September this year,
against $1.4 billion a year ago, The
cetail automobile business is shot by
war restrictions. The newspapers
can't get enough paper for all the
advertising they could sell and all
he news they could print. There
are bad spots, regionally. But by
and large, everything points to the
,Xistence of a first class boom.
MONEY VS.. MELANCHOLY
Still, nearly everyone feels ter
"ible, even if he is making more
working more, saving more, spend
ing more than he ever has before.
low come? What's the psychology
Of it?
Maybe you have your own eX-
1lanation of it, A lot of it may be
the psychology of petty annoyance
over not being able to get as much
filet mignon, as much gasoline, as
much whisky as you can now afford.
That the United States has escaped
he major annoyances OF INVASION
and bombing and famine cuts no
ice.
Maybe fear contributes to 1t. Un-
certainty on postwar employment.
A general suspicion that maybe
his whole wartime boom. being
financed on borrowed money. Will
collapse completely when the war
is over. Fear of the threat of in
flation now and greater fear oil
post-war initiation later.
Maybe restless desire for
change. born of energies pent-up
by war restrictions 1t might LEAD
away from liberalism towards con-
servatism, away from International
ism towards greater nationalism.
Whatever it's underlying reasons,
this depression psychology, this
oaradoxical prosperity or whatever
YOU want to call it, is the most i'm
portant political and economic fac-
tor in the country today. This
psychology could easily swing the
next election.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-14

We do not gloat over destruction of
German cities. But half-measures are
cruel in war; they prolong the agony,
and by prolonging it, waste ife.-British
Secretary for Air Sir Archibald Sinclair.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-14
CURRENT QUOTATIONS

Government must plan its policies so
as to create the conditions under which
private enterprise, spurred on by the
profit motive, will plunge into peace
time production with all the energy and
effectiveness that it has devoted to war
Gov Thomas E. Dewey of New York.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-14

exactly accurate. But for lack of
a better name and for the purposes
of this piece it will have to do.
Accepting the present state of al
fairs as a depression psychology
what is it? 1t is psychological
paradox-the paradox of depression
in the midst of prosperity.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-11
Ortiz Stops
Sa|i(a in 18th

OAKLAND. Cal. March II
(UP) - Little Manuel Ortiz, T.
Centre, Cal, truck gardener, held
undisputed claim to the world
bantamweight title today with an
eleventh round technical knockout
over veteran Lou Salica OF Brook
lyn at Oakland Auditorium last
night.
Salica's manager, Willie Ketch-
.um, threw in the towel after one
minute Of the eleventh round.
1t was Ortiz second victory
over Salica and ended any claim
against the title. Ortiz won the
crown at Hollywood in l2-round
fight last summer, but only the
National Boxing Association rec
ognized it. The New York boxing
commission continued 10 recognize
Salica because the Hollywood fight
was not Is rounds.