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The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-27
FOur-State Labor Plan

The Council of State Governments, in bull
four-state plan set up to relieve the manpower
shortage for harvesting food crops.
There has been little notice of the plan in
the public press, but it has the power, with
full cooperation of the participating common
wealths, to go far in solving the farm labor
problem. Under the arrangement the states
will unite in mobilization of workers, par
ticularly for harvesting perishable commodi-
ties.
The states are North Carolina, Virginia,
Maryland and West Virginia.
In order to accomplish the objective the
following considerations will govern movement
of workers:
mo worker will be transferred from
an area where he is engaged or about to
be engaged in essential work.
Inappropriate agencies will designate the
areas from which labor may be recruited
for out-of-state placement.
3-Obligation of state authorities to con-
serve their labor supply is recognized as
is their right to designate recruitment
and placement policies
All interstate recruitment will be done
under the direction of the U. S. Employ
ment Service for processing labor of the
extension service for field labor fter
proper clearance through the governors
offices.
5-Authorities of one state asking agen-
cies of another to recruit workers for them
or permission to recruit them will strive
to prevent employers within their state
from unauthorized recruiting activities.
Employers who customarily utilize labor
from certain areas will file future orders fol
ices, and these services will sponsor extensive
recruitment campaigns in the designated areas
first for jobs within the state and SECOND
tor out-of-state jobs. All reasonable meas
ures will be taken to assure the return oil
workers to their homes when the jobs fol
which they were recruited are completed OF
when the period for which they were sent Out
OF the state has expired.
An educational campaign will be launched
to inform people of the various states of the
emergency making interstate recruitment Of
workers necessary and to insure them such
recruitment will take place only after ind
vldual needs Of each state have been met.
Under the plan the four governors will CO.
ordinate efforts to secure this maximum util
cation OF labor through existing agencies OF
by the establishment of coordinating com
mlttee including agencies such as the ex
tension service and the War Manpower Com
mission, the council said.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-27
MEAT WITHOUT STAMPS

Although the weekly meat ra-
ton in occupied Holland has been
cut to thre ounces per person.
Dutch traitors who volunteered to
fight with the German armies on
the Russian front get plenty of
hot tongue and cold shoulder"
when they come home on leave.
A German-controlled paper in
Holland recently printed the fol-
lowing letter from one such rene
gade Hollander:
Il was in Holland in March, but
my leave wasn't exactly pleasant.
At home I was simply shown the
door and was finally given shelter
by the local headquarters of the
German town command. "-Knick-
erbocker Weekly.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-27
Free Speech

The New York Times points out that we
have been treated of late, AL over the Allied
map,'' to fresh outbursts of plain-speaking
"about our friends, the people who are fight
ing Germany and Japan. 1t will 60 on until
the end Of the war and, while deplorable
in some ways, is in others an excellent idea. y
How much better, observes the Times, is
this system of frank, open discussion than il
our compliments, instead Of going onto the
PLATFORM went about sowing seeds Of dis.
trust and distortion in private conversation
behind the backs of the British, as it were
That way our allies feelings would be spar
ed, but at what cost"
And the Times continues:
The press plays tremendously mpor-
tant part in these exchanges between al
lies in wartime 1t transmits the charge
and it carries back the answer. Further
more it helps, by its own inquiries, to
set forth the true facts, reinforcing the
replies of official spokesman.
The question must often arise in con-
scentious news editors mind whether to
dignity some charges by bringing them
Some are so obviously the product of
preJudlce as TO be ASSURANCES. But ii
the plaintiff is of sufficient stature to be
news" it is a mistake not to publish
them It is certain they will be printed
somewhere and be banded about from
ear to ear. If they are put under the full
light of public scrutiny their absurdty will
in time be made plain. The answer will
eventually undo what little harm has been
done.
The greatest mistake we can make is
to allow ourselves to be too greatly con-
cerned over these normal accompani-
ments of a great joint enterprise and be
distracted from the real business of the
moment. Let the lesser troub1emakers
talk let us make sure that we provide
sufficient rebuttal for honest minds who
are open to conviction, and then get on
with the main interest.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-27

WASHINGTON. - We have the
most practical reasons for needing
stable world organization with
power to prevent aggression.
One Of them is oil. We must look
ahead for decades, and by the
span of generations, as the British
do. We are running out of oil.
Not tomorrow, but perhaps in 30
years or so, perhaps in the lifetime
of the younger generation, just as
the automobile and gasoline indus
tries have grown up within the
span of my memory.
In the United States we have
10 per cent of the worlds oil. We
are serving up 70 per cent of the
worlds production. Nc diagram is
needed to show where that leads.
Our oil people have been more
farsighted than O u government
has been. They were lured by the
search for profits and it has car
ried them far out into the world
where we as a government would
never have ventured to look for
even such an essential resource as
Gil. Whether we have oil or not
means the difference between our
being a first class power and a
third class power, but nothing has
been done except what the pursuit
of private profit has stimulated.
American companies have enor-
NOUS holdings in the Middle East.
We have a quarter share in 1raq
oil. We have a half share in Ku-
wait. all of Bahrein oil and all of
Saudi Arabia, which is a conces-
sion 244,000 square miles, leased
by Standard of California and Tex
as Co. jointly.
There is more American con-
trolled oil in the Middle East than
we have in the ground in the Unit
ed States.
That's the measure of our stake
in the Middle East. And it is pri-
vately owned oil. American COM
panies have gone after it with the
expectation of making big profits.
The royalties they pay to the sur
rounding communities support the
local governments and n Nv e
rulers.
We have usually taken the at
titude that if private American
capital was involved, the opera
ton was just a bit sinister and
certainly nothing that should be
the concern of the American gov
ernment-and never would we be
sending marines out to protect
Standard oil.
Well, in the case of oil, we have
to consider first that the oil is an
essential national resource and
that our national interest is deeply
involved. AS for the private com
panies that happen to carry on
the operations, that is something
secondary, which must not be al
lowed to obscure our national in
terest.
Probably there is no perfect set
up. But OIL is closely linked with
national defense. Operations are
so large and have such political
effect on the localities where the
fields are located that there must
be some political protection. Thev
cannot be left to the mercy of
local political changes, nor can
they on the other hand, be allowed
to run wild.
Discussions are going on here
which may lead to government and
private partnership in development
OF Middle East resources
Also important is stable inter-
national nj organization. Racial con-
1.lcts are severe in the Middle
East, and the chief of Saudi Arahis
Is now trying to develop q Pan
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-27
TAR HEEL EDUCATION

Some of the educatorsr, we OBJ
serve, insist that after the Warrr
children will be taught less of the
classics and more of the handi-
crafts. They could hardly Ne taught
less of them in the public schools
of North Carorlrina unless some
body should be able to think up
something that is considerably
less than zero. Charlotte Oh
SERVER.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-27
AS Others Say 1t
HISTORY TO REPEAT?

London hears the rumor h t
within the next few weeks gigan-
tic German rocket guns will
shell London from positions in
France. Is history again going to
repeat? One of the last sensational
stunts of Germany in the last war
before quitting the fight was their
Big BERTHA shelling of P / s
from rermrote positions. Gren-
vile IS. c. News.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-27
Greedy And Selfish

"A sldehght on one section of the younger
generation was afforded when welder thumb
ed ride in Wilmington with the ultimate
nope OF reaching Goldsboro by successive
thumblngs. He thought he'd 60 even further,
perhaps, if the going was good-maybe to
Newport News-where he thought he might
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-27
"COMMON SENSE

The magazine Common , 2e,;
sends out an appeal for So9' sfe.
tons to help rebuild Ioh59 oricsn
the city is destroyed by a IN ~ r,r.
bombers. But wouldn IL " ii, "a:
mon sense to wait at leaSI +te.
bonbers are finishd Win -
target?-Asheville Times
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-27
lis. STATE prisons ~
RGNDS

American freedom is pre-. ~.
even in Jail. In tn overSa u, =.
ton of the third war loan y. y:
proximately four billions ~,
prisonersr throughout t t ~ ~,
have done their bit, and noie -. -,
quickly exceeded their quo'' r,
this states prison innate nj
quota for the nations sIa.' I.
ems was $500, 900. Last NeTG d !.
total had reached $3.50 0O0 aI-[ IN
returns were still coming
AsheVille Times.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-27
Our Chief Aim
To aid in every way the prosecu-
ton of the war to complete Vic
tory.
THOUGHT FOR TODAY

Never fear to say you're sorry,
Never frown and turn away;
Suns that set on foolish anger
Sometimes fail to rise next day.
Oh, it's hard-admitting crossness
When you're not alone to blame;
But, we'll, other folks have done 1t!
Say you're sorry just the same.
Margaret Sangster, Jr. From EVEN
ing"
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-27
TURNING RIGHT

Someone says that in naming
Messrs. Stettinius and Hartman
to major posts President Roose-
welt shows signs of turning to the
right. Judging from the record
and character of the two gentle
men, however, h seems merely
to hav turned to the right men.
--Wlnston-Salem Journal.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-27
Fair Enough

Editors Note.-The Star and the New, aceept, no
fespon:ibity for the personal views Of Mr. Pexer.
his readers His articles serve the good rxrposs Of
making people think.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-27

Guide and our Lord, sure of Thy
overruling power and wisdom We,
and our times, are in Thy hand.
Amen.-W.T TIE.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-27

Air power will win the war 10: US, even
though it is still being used furnblingly. And
air power will also condition the peace 81 1t
is emerging as the decisive internauonal iat,
tor Just as sea power was in the immediate
past.-Alcxander P. de Severshy'
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-22
| Rise to Remark

and then follows long list, includ-
ing the Japanese situation on the
coast, post war agreements, the
needs of the farmers, the war, and
many others.
In the meantime, the slide rule
boys plan other pleasant arrange
ments for us. My friend, Bob
Franklin who speaks from Fresno
with sincerity and ability, on be-
half of the California farmer,
writes me that the boys now pro-
pose the seizing of all livestock and
poultry feeds, and then rationing
plan to apply to them.
He pictures with some amuse-
ment the pigs and chickens run
ming around with their rations
looks, trying to figure how many
protein points are left and how
much roughage they have left for
the week. Much more serious to
Bob is the sad case of the Mother
hen who hopes that two of her eggs
will not hatch SO she can have their
rations of protein for the rest of
the brood. He fears it is a serious
attack on the mother instinct.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-22
Barbara Parker
Bride OF Officer

Miss Barbara Jean Parker be-
came the bride of First Class Petty
Officer Floyd O. Baker at a quiet
ceremony Friday evening at 8:4s
p m. at the Christian Church par
sonage in Yuma, Ariz.
The Rev. Brown, pastor of the
Christian church, officiated. Mr.
and Mrs. Earl II. Parker, ST.
Hamilton, parents of the bride
were the couples only attendants
The bride was attractive in a
tWo-piece blue dress with con-
trasting pink hat. Her corsage was
of pink rosebuds. Mrs. Parker
chose brown and green print
gown for the occasion.
Following the ceremony a we'd
ding dinner was served at the Rice
Bowl in Ell Centro to the wedding
party which included Mrs. Dean A.
Bennett, the brides sister, Miss
Jonell Withrow and Miss Wanda
jackson, all of this city.
The bride, Well-knoWn in the
younger social circles, is a graduate
of Ell Centre Union High School,
Mr.. Baker, the son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank Baker of Vancouver
Wash, finished at Cotton, Calf.
High school. At the present time
he is stationed at Sandy Beach on
the Salton Sea.
The couple plan to make their
home in BraWley.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-22
Worker Facinq
Sabotage Charge

PHOENIX. Ariz., Aug, 21-(UP)-
Charged with sabotage, John Car
minati, 48 year-old reclamation de-
partment foreman, yesterday ad-
mitted breaking thousands of spark
plugs without knowing whether they
were usable.
Rarminati, employed at the ninth
service command motor transport
division at the fairgrounds appear
ed before the U. S. commissioner to
answer the charges of destroying
national defense materials from Jan.
l. to July l.
The complaint, filed by the
Phoenix agents of the Federal Bu-
reau of Investigation is the first
lodged here under the anti-Sabotage
law.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-22
Paper Contracts
Nav Be Cut More

QUEBEC, Aug. 21.-CUP)-News-
paper contracts already reduced by
80 per cent because of the dwind-
ling Woodpiles in Canada will be
cut drastically next year unless
some means is found for returning
wood choppers to the forests, the
brand names and neWsprint SUBJ
committee of the United States
house of representative was in
formed today.
The wood cut last year was so
much less than had been expected
when the contracts for newsprint
were drawn, that it became nec-
essary later to revise the contracts
downward by 80 per cent, an
executive of one big plant told the
house group during its tour of paper
mills in the province of Quebec.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-22
Prison Escapee
Captured Anew

FOLSOM, Cal, Aug. 21.-CUP)-
Bernard Kimms, who escaped from
Folsom state prison July 13, was
recaptured yesterday near Santa
Barbara by highway patrol Of
ficer, 9. H. Ellis, warden Clyde
Plummer announced today.
Kimms was sentenced to the pris-
on two years ago for escaping from
Tulare county road camp and
escaped while working in the war
dens garden as trusty.
Thomas T. Arnold. Los Angeles
Negro burglar, also was returned to
the prison after escaping from the
prison farm Thursday. He was pick
ed up on a Sacramento street.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-22
THE POST-PRESS

FSfhbllShed 1876.
Published Sundays as combined issue
oi Imperial Valley Press and The
Morning Post. by the Imperial Valley
Publishing Company, 625 State St, III
Centro, California.
Paul Jenkins, Publisher
and President.
A. c. Johnston. Wee President and All.
vertising Manager; Catherine Nj. Jen-
kns, Secretary.
Member United Press, California News
paper Publishers Assn, West Holiday
Co. Inc, national reprc8enlull, es.
Rates, in combination with elher The
Morning Post or Imperial Valley Press:
Single copy. Sc: carrier paid,.n-ad-
vance: l month. $1.oO; 3 months,
S2.7S; 6 months. SIS % year. $40 90.
BY Mail: l month. SlO0. months
$3.50; 6 months, $3.50; l year, SIS. 90.
Outside of California, $1.tO per month
flat
Entered. at FL Centro, Calf, post
office as 2nd class mail.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-22
course at Fort Knox, KY.

course at Fort Knox, KY.
PFC Walter I. Schultz is attend
ing the anti aircraft artillery
school at Camp Davis, N. c.
Cpl. Lewis Bartholomew, brother
of Mrs. Paul Werve of Ell Centre
and son of Mr.. and Mrs S. Bar
tholomeW of Imperial, is taking an
army specialized training course
for engineers. He was at Camp
Haun; was sent to the University OF
Ohio, and later to the University
of Missouri at Columbia, Mo.
Otis E. OsWalt, son of Mr. and
Mrs. E. OsWalt of the Ell Centre
area is now stationed with the
army air force at Kearns. Utah.
He is taking basic training
course.
Joseph Myers, known as Billy
Myers of the Myers-Simmons or
chestra of Calexico, is a private
first class attached to a tank de-
stroyer group at North Camp Hood
Texas. He recently was graduated
from the tank radio school and is
spending leave visiting friends and
relatives in Ell Centro, Calexico, and
San Diego. Before he entered the
service, PFC Myers attended Cen
tral Junior college in Ell Centfo.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-22
Navy Announces
More Casualties

WASHINGTON, Aug. e1.-UP)-
The navy has announced the names
of Ga additional casualties among
navy, marine corps and coast guard
personnel, including five dead, three
wounded and SIS missing.
The list brought to 28,731 the
TOTAL casualties of the naval forces.
lhls includes 1874 dead-7,758
navy, 1884 marines and 1872 coast
guardsmen; 5,036 wounded-24l3
navy. 2,50l marines and % coast
euardsmen; 9,670 missing -8,788
navy, 724 marines and 1853 coast
euardsmen; and 4,151 prisoners of
War-2,225 navy, 1895 marines and
one coast guardsman.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-22
HOLLYWOOD
Ry ERSKTNE JOHNSON
KY ERSKTNF JOHNSON

A star athlete has blossomed into
glamor girl and al 1.-The execu-
tiVes at the M-G-M studio are
running around trading cigars,
patting each other on the back and
saying, Il told you So
Those same executives never
thought of Esther Williams as a
glamor girl, even though she Is
very easy on the eyes, when they
wrote out a film contract Tor the
former national speed swimming
champion and star of Billy Roses
San Francisco Aquacade.
Somebody got the idea of doing
with a star swimmer what Daryl
Zanuck did with his prize athlete,
Sonia Henie. Just melt down the
ice, drop Esther into the water in
a tWo-piece bathing suit as filmy
as the Hays office would permit,
and people would break down the
doors to get into the theaterS,
No, they said, Esther wasn't ex-
actly glamor girl. Too healthy.
SO they would give her the old ALL
American Blii OuflouJ
SOUNDS SIMPLE
So that's what happened and
finally Esther made her screen
debut as Mickey Rooney's new heart
throb in Andy Hardy's Double
Life" There were some swimming
scenes and a -publicized under
water kiss. The picture was re-
leased and the reports started COM
ing in. Esther was big hit
Inter-office memos went out
casting her in five Forthcoming
pictures, including co-starring
role Immediately with Red Skel-
ton in Mr.. Cold" Esther Will
liams as they say in Hollywood,
was "in."
Except for her unexpected sue
cess, Esther's screen career is pro-
crossing exactly according to the
young doctors prescription. Esther
is the wife of DR.. Leonard KoVner,
a young Los Angeles physician,
who would be much happier if Mrs.
Kovner was not a film actress.
If she had to get mixed up with
Hollywood, he said, he didn't want
to come home some night and dis
cover her brown hair bleached
blond or tinted salmon pink or
maybe even purple.
Esther agreed to his suggestion
that she take at least a gear of
dramatic lessons before even step
ping in front of a camera. Il
guess" she says, "he secretly hoped
I wouldn't survive that year
DOCTORS PRESCRIPTION
1t was only after M-G-M agreed
to the doctors prescription, too,
that Esther agreed to sign film
contract. They had been trying to
get Esther's name on the dotted
line ever since Billy Rose took her
out of models job at Los An
geles department store and starred
her in his Aquacade at the San
Francisco Exposition three years
ago.
Producer Jack Cummings flew to
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-22

San Francisco one weekend with
a contract all written out. Miss
williams wasn't interested. She
had just married the doctor and
he didn't like the idea. After the
exposition closed, she returned to
her part-time modelling job in Los
Angeles and started learning how
to be a housewife.
Every week or two, M-G-M tele-
phoned and said, How about it?'
After a year, Esther finally signed
Her success came almost as quick
ly as her first national swimming
title. She won that only two years
after taking her first professional
coaching. She learned to swim in
a municipal pool of her home town.
Inglewood, Calf, counting towels
for an hours free swimming.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-22
NEW TAX plan
IS DRAWN UP
FOR CONGRESS
BY JOHN L. CUTTER

WASHINGTON, Aug. 21.-UP)-
A new tax plan by one of the lead
ing congressional tax experts-de-
signed to increase federal revenue
and build individual and business
reserves against a postwar de-
pression-was expected today to get
early consideration by congress.
The author an influential men,
ber of one of the congressional tax
committees, declined use of his
name.
He estimated that his proposed
revision of federal taxes would yield
the treasury $4,000, 100000 a year
compared with the anticipated $685.
500,000,000 for this year. On that
basis it still would fall far short
of the $12,000,000,00 additional
taxes, savings, or both, already be
ing asked by the treasury for 1914.
NEW PROGRAM
The proposal would replace the
present voluntary war bond pur-
chases with an "inducted savings
plan tied up with Slight revision OF
individual ard corporate income
tax rates.
The five major steps would be:
|. Substitute for war bonds a
new type of non-negotiable, inter-
est-bearing government bonds, re-
deemable after the war.
2. Permit tax Credits" for pur-
chase of such bonds, up to Is per
cent of taxable net income, to in
duce their purchase. The accent on
such bonds would be to get them
into the hands of individuals in
stead of banks and investment
houses.
3. Increase from six to Eight or
even 10 per cent" the Normal in
dividual income tax rate. Leave the
individual surtax rate unchanged.
4. Increase the corporate and sur
tax rate from 40 to 45 per cent.
5. Increase the excess profits tax
rate from 80 to 95 per cent, but in
crease the postwar credit from 10
to Is per cent. The 80 per cent un-
recoverable would remain unchang-
ed.
The whole point of the program,
its author said, is to permit both
corporations and individuals to
build adequate postwar reserves
while financing large share of the
war costs on a current basis.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-22
LUNCH BOX MENU
ROCKS AVAILABLE

Readers of The II Centro POST
Press may receive free copy of
Webers lunch box menu booklet
by writing a post card to the Weber
Baking company, P. O. Box 1880.
Wilshire-LaBrea station. Los An
eeles. In addition to menus for
Workmen and children. the booklet
contains ideas for using left-overs.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-22
TWINS ARE BORN
TO Ell CENTRANS

Mr.. and Mrs Robert E. Burch an
nounce the arrival of twin sons at
the Ell Centre hospital Aug. 18.
The boys were named William Dean
and Robert Jean. One weighed five
pounds and eight ounces and the
other five pounds and four ounces.