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Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-07
SPORTS PAGE
Fans Pay Tribute
Attendance Record
Set at Thriller
Tuesday Night

In tribute of D-Day nearly 300
Softball. fans and players stood in
silent tribute Tuesday night before
the opening of the game in El Cen
tro stadium. Fans and players alike
joined announcer Sgt. E. S. Nc
Carthy in this hcnor and personal
prayer that the French coast
beachhead will be secure and that
God will guide our courageous
fighters to victory and safe home
coming.
IN one of the tightest games OF
the season the Holtville Navy Fly
ers defeated % the Troy's Drive
Inns 4-3. Umpire Pat Patterson
ruled that one run of the Rlyers
did not count when a runner on a
third out failed 10 touch third base,
and ruled the game no contest.'
However. no protest was reported
to Clyde Lee, league president.
For three innings the game went
scoreless behind the fast fielding
and good pitching of Schumard OF
Troys and Gibson of the Flyers. In
the first inning Palmer of the Fly
ers hit a double and Aguire a SIN
gle. Louthan doubled and also
failed to score in the third.
In the fourth inning Palmer OF
the Flyers led eff with a single
Aguire got on on an error by VIM
berlv, and MaSSek sacrificed both
Palmer and Aguire over the plate
for two runs. The next two men
struck out.
In the fifth TIE Troys team got
their first hit when Womack dou-
bled but was out at third TroyS
/ held the Flyers scoreless in their
/ half of the fifth. The Flyers came
back in the sixth tC score on two
hits. Palmer got on on a single
and Aguire hit a home run which
the base umpire ruled out as he
failed TO touch second. The two
previous men had struck out.
In the sixth j. r. Henry of Troys
walked johnson hit out, Everett
to Massek. Mitosinka hit a single
scoring Henry. Schumard and E.
/ Henry grounded cut. In the Flyers
half of the seventh Massek scored
after his tWo-bagger put him in
position.
Troy's left-fielder Harvey and
. second baseman Maljan each got
on base in the seventh on long hits
dropped by the fielders for errors.
They later scored on Wcmack's
long drive against the left-field
/ fence which was caught in a great
/ play by Palmer. Wimberley ground
ed out Everett to Massek, ending
+ the game.
Line score:
Navy Flyers ...... 900 POI IA 2
/ Troy's Drive Inns 900 O01 2-3 ? l
Thursday night the Baptists and
/ Telephone Company teams will
play. Neither team have won a
game. Friday night will be a
block buster" when the B&G
/ School at the Marine base meets
the Marine Flyers. the league lead
ers. Friday nights crowd is eX-
pected to draw one of the biggest
crowds this season.
Monday and Tuesday nights of
this week have been we'll attended
with Tuesday nights crowd setting
the record for nearly 800 fans No
admission is charged to the game.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-07
L. A. LIVESTOCK

Los Angeles. June :. dPl = Livestock.
Cattle. Salable 1000. very slow. early
sales about steady. supply largely COWS,
but good grades all classes lacking le"
common 10 medium steers 10 5O-l3. com
mon 10 good heifers ll-145o, common Ia
medium COWS 5O-l1. odd heads 10 i,
cutter and common - >, Gamers and
cutters 5.5O-775; medium 10 good bulls
95O-12: calves salable 20 very hlile
done. underione weak.
Hogs Salablc 500 holdovcrS 740. slow
steady. few good 10 choice l9o-210 lbs.
topped At IS. medium l6O-25o lbs. II. 30
u so medium 10 choice Sows D-lO.5o
fedeer pigs s.5u-lu some held around
II
sheep: Salable 4ua from load good IL
choice % ID yearnEs with No. 3 prlts l3.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-07
BY JACK CUDDY

NEW YORK, June 7. CUP) -
Cmdr. Jack Dempsey sums up the
big invasion in this fashion: THE
toughest body of fighting men in
history is tackling perhaps the
toughest situation any war has
known"
Commander Dempsey of the U. S.
coast guard warns, Don't sell those
Germans short. They'll put up one
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-07
Last Rites Held
For Ex.Resident

Funeral services for James Wes-
ley Smith, 72, former resident of
Holtville, were held at 10 am, Tues
day at IngleWood Park Cemetery,
IngleWood.
He dieo at Washington hospital
in Culver City last Sunday.
He lived in Holtville for 10 years
before he moved to Culver City IS
years ago.
Survivors include his wife; two
daughters, Mrs Lucille H. Evans
and Mrs. Bee White, both of West
Los Angeles; three sons, j. M. Smith
of FL Centre, H. V. Smith of Melo-
land, and T. CT. Smith of Escond-
lido; and two brothers, B. r. Smith
and Sam Smith of Wilmington.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-07
ASSESSED PENALTIES

In police court Wednesday morn
ing Carl Froth, 45, vagrant, was
given a 30 days suspended sentence.
Jose L. Rivera, 30, Ell Centre farm
laborer and Jose Ramirez, So, In
perial farmer, charged with intoX-
ication were given 10 and so days
sentences respectively. Ted I. eagle,
81, fruit worker, paid a $50 fine
on a drunk and disturbance charge.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-07
DoubIeheader

Troy's Drive Inn softball team is
contracting the Yuma Air Base to
schedule a game to be played fol-
lowing the summer softball league
game Friday night. The Yuma
team has been rated as fast team
and Troy's have been one of the
league leaders. This game, if sched-
uled, combined with the two Ma
rine teams game, will make a full
evening CT softball for the fans.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-07
NJ a r K ETS
I. 4. PRODUCE

Los Angeles. June :. O-P1 - Produce.
Asparagus: Stronger Per III. local eN
fey and select l4-l6c. colossal l6-l7c.
fey 13-15c. choice 9-12c small and crooks
Beans. Weaker. Per TO- local and san
Diego Co ks. valentines and yellow WaN
1l-12c. ordinary 6-Sc
Bunchcd vegetables: Dull Per crt:
bccfs 2is-3 doz 75c-1 90. carrots doz
] 25-1. 81 faif 75c-l 90 iced crtS doz
] 10. green onions : dog 20o-2 ~. -
Sol. -. kale 2is doz $50; leekS Goz
g. 2nO-a -. mustard ! doz 75c-loO. parS-
ley doz 1oo-1.5o red 6 do l-m-l 81.
su.raaf furuFnS d. 3 doz I W-1 p
Cabbage; Dull: cannonball cris 1oo-l >.
iboS and ordinary 50-75c. So lb skS 1850.
rcd . 7u-3 90 pei c"t Savoy cfiS liaE
! -
Caa,aloupes. Stronger: Imperial crts
ibo a6>-45s o0-S 90. std 45s 6.0O-7 oa.
uany 45s-5is 4o0-5.oo. jbo - 7.oo-7.5 81.
Std 0atp l2s-l5s 2.50-260 HaUcNhal's
.1o s6s-45s 30 std 45s = So
Caulaower. Dull, local pearl type ie'-
tuce crtS untrimmed 129-1.50. No. :
5Oc, Santa Barbara Co 500 a
CeIeH: Stronger: local Pascal e0--2 IN.
crtS best n17.O OD, fair 5o-5 80. ord.-
nary 0O-3 80. lettuce crtS ordinary 81
Sturdee crtS ST doZ 6'-7 no "''
Cucumbers: Steady: field grown Imper-
ial local and san Diego Co 10.1c lh-
CriS y luCs 1u#.C lb.
Lettuce. Steady. dy pack Santa Barbara
Co crts doz q SD 10. - 3.pu-35 81. local
As 25p-3o0. 3 doz 125-l.72. ordinary
Tel -
onions Dun 10 slightly weaker; street
sales 80 10 SKIS local spanish lep-l2'.
Peas Stronger on best. Pc lb Santa
Barbara CO q-11C fair sc. ordinary 3-4c
Pcufcr>. Steady: green chill imperial
Nly 21-25c fair l5c 10. yellow chill I'm
ncrial Wy & san Diego Co 3o-35C
squash. Dull. white summer imperial
WY crtS 75c-1.00: No. IS SOC local lugS
: 81 81. No. = 5O-75c Italian Imperial
viz crtS 75c-i. 90 No. 2S soc; local lugs
O0-l ~. No 2S SOC: san Diego Co lugS
75c-1.o0. No. 2S SOC; yellow crookneck
Jugs 50. san Diego Co lugS 1On-150.
Banana Imperial Wy 5-6C 10
Tomatoes: Firm: Imperial Wy CrtS 9-l2
tops 1.5O-2O0. los 9OC-1 %. loose ugS
5O-75c. lugS 5N5S and 5x6S 1.5u-l.75.
Watermelons: Steady. per ID small lois
/ Imperial Wy klondIkeS sc.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-07
JUNIOR EVENTS

All boys interested in entering
the races of junior roping event
are urged to contact the chamber
OF commerce offices.
Prizes for the events will be $50,
and $25 war BONDS and for third
place $3.50 in war stamps. The entry
fees will also be split up among
the three winning contestants on
percentage basis.
Entries to date are Chip Quinn,
Eddie Quinn and c. C. Quinn of
Imperial in roping events; Charles
Dawson, Ell Centro, team roping;
E. E. Wake, roping; Bert Morley,
calf and team roping; Bud Gilli-
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-07
REPORTS HOLD-UP

Joe Reece, El Centro taxi driver
reported to police Tuesday night
that two Marines had held him up
and robbed him of $40. Through
cooperation of the California High
way Patrol the Marine station was
notified and the two men were held
by the station, according to the
police.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-07
STOP CRACK TEAMS

BERKELEY, Calf, June 7. CUP)
The crack Texas Women's doubles
team Of Margaret Warner and Mary
Cunningham was ousted from the
California state tennis champion
ships Tuesday, losing a fourth
round match to Louise Snow of
Bakersfield, Calf, and Jean Doyle
Of Los Angeles, 6-2, 6-3. Ellis slack
of University of California pro-
duced an upset in mems singles. de-
feating the former Irish Davis cup
per, George l.. Rogers, 6-2, 7-5.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-07
District 0kehs
Oil Lease

The Imperial Irrigation district
Tuesday has approved an oil lease
with the Amerada Company for
535 acres in the Heber district.
The tract includes tax decided
lands lying northeast, east and south
of Heber The lease also was approv-
ed in form by the county supervisors.
Incorporated in the lease are sew
eral points which the district in
sisted upon, which include: agree
ment to drill at least 5000 feet, and
to drill within two years within two
miles OF the exterior boundaries of
district lands.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-07
BOSOX MEN REJECTED

BOSTON, June 7. (UP) - Bobby
Deer, star second baseman of the
Boston Red SoX, and two of his
team mates, outfielder Leon Gull
berson and Catcher Roy Partee were
back with the club Wednesday, all
having been rejected for military
service Tuesday.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-07
MAJORS PARKS DARK

NEW YORK, June 7. OUP) !
Major league baseball resumed ac-
ton Wednesday following the can,
collation. of both scheduled games
Tuesday in observance of D-day
Presidents Branch Rickey of the
Brooklyn Dodgers, scheduled to
play the Philadelphia Phillies, and
Bill Benswanger of the Pittsburgh
Pirates, scheduled against the Gin
cinnati Reds, expressed a desire
to keep their parks darkened last
night.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-07
PEP DECISIONS KOGON

HARTFORD, Conn, June T. up
Willie pep. recognized b. the new
Willie Pep, recognized by the
New York state boxing commission
as the world featherWeight cham
picn, Wednesday held his most I'M
portant victory since receiving his
discharge from the navy three
months ago. Pep victorious in 73
of IA profes sional fights. took an
easy lO-round decision from Julie
Kogon of New Haven here Tues
day night.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-07
CHICAGO GRAIN

Chicago. June = CUPi -- Invasion news
caused grain futures 10 move erraucally
on the board Of trade Tuesday Grams
made strong advances on the close.
Wheat finished the day up ! l. TO t"o
cents d bushel oats up * to IA; re
up 2h TO p. and barley up 4 to y.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-07
l.. A. GRAIN

Los Angeles. June :. tUPl-
wheat. sacked. 295-3.OO; grading barley,
Grain market. No = hard or soft white
40 lbs. sacked > u - > .77is; No. oats. 35
lbs, sacked, 31O-3.l5; No. > yellow corn,
bulk. no offers; NJ. milo, sacked, no
offers.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-07
LOCAL. RLTTERFAT
l.. A. HAY

Los Angeles. June s. OUPI-
u S. No ! extra IeaIy 54.50-36. so; U.
; No. ! S31. 5O-33.5O; L. s. No. S3l. 80
80 so: L. S. No. : ieGfy or No. green
$50. So 81. 50: L. S. NJ. S29-31 per ton.
No / barley hay $3O-31; No. l oat hay
S37- -38
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-07
Sc, ol S
{ eud
By UNITED PRESS

The san Francisco Seals regained
undisputed possession of first place
in TIE Pacific Coast league pennant
scramble Tuesday night. trimming
Sacramento So while the Portland
Beavers were dropping a half game
off the lead through idleneSS.
Oakland defeated Seattle So in
l3 innings. sinking the RainierS into
fourth place. u games behind san
Francisco and a half game behind
Hollywood Los Angeles at Port
land was postponed because Of
travelling delays. and san Diego At
Hollywood was called Oft in obSer-
vance of D-day.
SouthpaW Ten Seats tWirled a
siX-hitter for the Seals. while his
teammates were battering Steve Le-
gault and Guy Fletcher for II. Le-
gault was driven to cover by five
Seal hits that netted three runs in
the second inning.
Seattle held a tWo-run lead going
into the ninth. one Tailed on Roy
Johnson's homer. but Oakland raj
lied to tie the score ana win with
a three-run assault on Hal Tur-
pin in TIE thirteenth. Jack Letz
was the winner.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-07
POULTRY & EGGS

POULTRY PRICES: (An points Imperial
Valley OPA Maximum set Oct. u. 1943.)
First priCe-At Ranch to Wholesaler or
Retailer. Second price - Delivered TO
Wholesaler or Retailer. Third price-At
ranch to consumer:
Brollers, Leghorns. under pa lbs, SOC,
2A TO 3 lbs. 2Sc; fryers 81 lbs. 29c;
roasters all weights, 29c; fowl, Leghorn.
all weights 25Ac; colored, all weights
25hc: ducks. all sizes 25c; rabbits. under
> lbs, 2224c.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-07

Entries for the Imperial County
Bond Rodeo are pouring into the
Chamber of Commerce offices in
FL Centro and Brawley this week
as the county gets set for the big
gest bond drive opening Sunday
afternoon at the Imperial County
fairgrounds.
Setting Sunday afternoon, June
Il. as the "D-Day' for the county's
Fifth War Loan drive to reach its
So 100000 bond quota, the Imperial
county committee, headed by Herb
Fawcett hoped to reach its quota
in a fast-moVing attack to prove
to the men on the invasion fronts
of France that this county will
back them with their dollars.
Fawcett said Tuesday that the
Rodeo next Sunday is just the be-
ginning and with the cooperation
OF the citizenry the quota would be
reached in two weeks or at least
record time to put the county over
and make a splendid showing to
the state and nation.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-07

Los Angeles. June :. tUPb Eggs
Wholesale prices consumer grade: Large.
grade a IS 5l.-37, grade b 2s-29; medium
grade A 3O-3l. small, grade A 22-23.
Retail prices 10 consumer: Large, grade
AA 46-4s. grade 4l-43. grade b 36-37
medium. grade AA 394l, grade 31-3s :;
small. grade A 29-31.
Candled graded eggs to retailers (cases)
Large. grade AA 4O-42. grade A 3T-3S.
grade 1894; medium, grade a 31-33;
small, grade A 2325.
Butter: Grade AA 43, grade A 42
lsrade 42l4 grade c ia.
Poultry: Brolers under "a lbs 2s-30,
broilers ii -2L lbs. 1922. Leghorn broil-
ers pa 3 lbs 3O-32. fryers 3, lbs. 1922,
roasters 3O-32. Leghorn fowl lbs. or
over 22-24. Leghorn fowl "a lbs. 1920,
colored fowl 25-27is ducks 26-2s. do
nestle rabbits under 5 lbs white. "A,
rabbits colored F. o. B. ranch, %.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-07
Markets at a
Glance
Bv UNITED PRESS

Stocks .rreguIary lower in quiet trad.
nE
Bonds lower L. S. governments quiet
Curb stocks irregular.
Cotton of as much IS 50 cents "a naIe.
Wheat of and 5 cents huS'cI
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-07
Is NO SACRIFICE

You do not buy bonds, you in
vest in America, you back the man
facing the machine gun and mortar
fire on the battlefields of France
and Italy as we'll as the South
Pacific you are not asked to
sacrifice anything because the bonds
you buy will pay you interest"
FaWcett declared.
The special events committee for
the drive announced that ten entries
to the big bond rodeo had been re-
ceived. Issuing agencies in the city
are now selling bonds and giving
tickets to the investors for the big
event that will display all the tai
ent and the events regularly sched-
uled to a bronc-buSting event of this
kind.
County communities organized on
the call of chairman FaWcett Tues
day as mayors of eight towns is
sued proclamations asking the citi-
zenS to observe "Rodeo for Bonds
Week.
Scheduled for the big three-hour
program at the fairgrounds begin
ming at 2:3G pm. Sunday are trained
horses, calf roping, calf stopping,
steer roping teams, wild steer rid
ing-bareback, wild horse riding
bareback, saddle bronc riding, thor
oughbred race, pony express relay
cold blooded, foot races, and a
junior calf roping event The entry
fee on the rodeo events is S5, on
the foot races $3.50 and no fee on
the junior event.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-07
LinesCOrea

Sacramento OO1 600 O01-2 6 .
San Francisco OBJ 0lO O0x-5 Il 3
Legault, Fletcher ~ and Rossi;
Seats and OgrodoWski.
Oakland OOO 600 0O2 600 3-5 10 >
Seattle Ol0 OOl 900 600 % 10 /
Lotz and B. Raimondi; Iurpln
and Sueme. BuonarigO ll31.
Los Angeles at Poruand post
poned.
San Diego at Hollywood pest
poned.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-07-28

the secret military organization using
terrorist methods in Palestine.
By condoning or supporting such
activities, Hoover contradicts his own
avowals of adherence to the Anglo
American-Soviet accords. AS for Gov
ernor Dewey, he has shown himself
an apt pupil. His belated lip-service
to Allied cooperation should confuse
no one. since at no time has he given
any leadership whatsoever in the fight
for measures that would strengthen
the coalition or against measures that
would weaken the coalition.
The American people have too much
at stake in the 1914 elections to allow
themselves to be swayed by double
talk or demogoguery. Partisanship
is out "for the duration" AS one sol
der put 1t, when you and your bud
dy are up against the ferries, you
don't ask him what his political party
is; it's how he fights that counts
The same qualification is being APP
piled to candidates in the 1914 cleo
tions, and the best proof of how they
will fight is given, not by promises
Of great valor in the future, but how
they have been waging the fight up
to now.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-07-28
FULL FACE Herbert Hoover
BY ROBERT w DUNN and CHARLES i cOE

To tell the truth, Marsh, the amDl
ton of my life is to crush out Sovie
Russia" is what Herbert Hoover told
Benjamin C. Marsh, secretary of the
Peoples Lobby, according to Marsh's
interview with the San Francisco
News published August 10, 1881.
Even if you starve the women and
children?" asked Marsh who was try
ing to raise funds for Russian relief
Yes was Hoover's reported reply
When Hoover was voted out of Of
flee in 1882 by the largest margin ever
registered up to that time, most of us
assumed that Hooverism was dead and
buried. In American political life we
have a tradition that once an ex-
President is out of the race we bury
him, dead or alive, and this tradition
has given Hoover a cloak of invisi-
bility which has greatly aided him in
carrying on his political maneuvering
and continuing his campaign against
the USSR.
What is the explanation for this
mans blind hatred for the Soviet
Union? Some people believe that his
hostility stems from the cancellation
of his mining concessions in 1918,
which he held in partnership with the
Russian Tsarist family and which al
legedly constituted the biggest ven
ture of his career as a promoter.
Hoover had gone to Russia in 1910,
and, with his brother, had launched
in rapid succession some ten oil COM
panies in which the British public in
vested-and approximately $14,-
10000. In these wildcat Maikop oil
ventures, it has been charged that
drilling was started on lands for which
no mining rights from the govern
ment had been obtained and others
were abandoned before drilling had
really begun. Cries of deliberate
fraud" filled the British investment
journals after the Maikop bubbles had
burst.
Then came Hoover's Russo-Asiatic
Consolidated Limited capitalized at
G12,000,000. Both the British and
Russian governments had raised ques-
lions about the non-payment of taxes
on high wartime profits from it's cop |
per mines and then in 1918 the Soviet |
Union cancelled it's mining conces-
sions. Hoover's office at No. 1 Lon
don Wall Buildings filed a claim
against the Soviet Government for
$280,O00,000 as compensation for
properties" probable" ore, and
probable" profit. According to John
Hamill in his book, after Hoover be-
came President the shares of this COM
pany shot up, and the company foisted
another 8 u million shares on the Bri-
fish investing public at a premium of
nearly so per cent
Hoover as Relief Administrator
Herbert Hoover had better oppor-
tunity than almost any American to
learn the truth about the Soviet I'm
ion. AS U. s. food administrator dur
ing World War |, he could not help
but know about the wanton mass
numbering and plundering of villages
carried out on orders of the White
Guard Russian generals, Kolchak,
Denikin, Yudenich and Wrangel. But
contrary to the official U. S. policy of
Hoover at that time {
gave aid to these counter-revolution-
airy generals while denying food to
the starving people of Russia.
For example, in a partial report by I
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-07-28

Hoover in November, 1919, on the us
of 500 million of funds for famin
relief in eastern Europe, Russia wa
mentioned in three places. One o
the tables in the report contained al
item of $4,600,000 for relief supple.
shipped" to Russia, and another item
for 100000, all of which went to Gen
eral Yudenich, who was leading E
White Army on Petrograd. Another
table listed 22,474 tons of food deliv
cred to the government of North
west Russia"-the same Yudenich
Other amounts were listed as deliv
fered to the government of South
Russia lie. the Denikin expedition
against the Soviets Similarly, the 2,
562 tons of supplies sent to Finland
went into the hands of Baron Man
nerheim's $. White Terror government
The Soviet Government stood firm
despite all efforts by Hoover and his
like to, bring about its collapse. And
so in the end Hoover found himself
perforce administering the 100000, 900
worth of food supplies sent to Soviet
Russia by our government. Whatever
Hoover's own designs for utilizing his
relief apparatus for peaceful interven-
ton in Soviet affairs when military
intervention was no longer possible,
the Soviet Government was by now
sufficiently strong to prevent Ameri-
can aid from being used for anything
Int of1it ri n, nd ND holm
from America was big factor in the
recovery of the Soviet people from the
great famine of 1922 brought on by
the worst drouth in history, coming
in the wake of the years of war, civil
war, Intervention and blockade.
Recognition
In his term of office as President,
1929-1933, Hoover refused to make ev-
en- a gesture in the direction of rec
ognition of the Soviet Union. Even his
Calvin Coolidge, when
President in 1923, in his first message
to regular session of Congress, had
preached the question of negotiations
with Moscow, an approach which the
Soviet Government welcomed but
which Secretary of State Hughes then
rejected.
But Hoover kept glumly to his non
recognition line right UP to the day
Of his defeat by Franklin D. Roose-
welt in the election of 1882.
In his annual message to Congress,
for example, in 1929, the year after
his election, Hoover remained silent
on the subject of recognition, even
though the Soviet Union august u,
1929 had been the first nation to
ratify the Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact,
through which Hoover boosted, "a new
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-07-28
" -.
MANY STATE ROADS
NEED REPAIRS

Many state highways will be in need
of repairs and rebuilding by the end
of the war, according to an office of
War Information report, based on data
from the public roads administration
and state and private agencies. At
present, the most impressive imme-
diate program calls for improving 34,-
600 miles of rural and urban highways
as recommended by the National In
terregional Highway Committee. Fin
al action by congress is pending.