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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-09
BY Villa Martin,
Associated Press Stan Writer.

NEW YORK.-About 26 years ago,
James Montgomery Flagg drew a bold
poster of Uncle Sam pointing his finger
and saying: Il want you" Four mil
lion copies were made and spread across
the Nation, and the Army and Navy
credited it with thousands of volunteers
When the Second World War started,
the officials in charge of posters said,
well have to get out some new posters
something smart and modern" Artists
designed some bright sleek distractions,
but they didn't produce desired results.
So they pulled out the pointing Uncle
Sam and put him to work again.
Meanwhile, in his New York studio,
James Montgomery Flagg-autocratic,
opinionated, witty, now 66-rolled UP
his sleeves, too, and went back to pa
triotic painting. Il feel should grab
my hat and leave" he said, "for this is
where I came in
His famous drawing of Uncle Sam
was only one of the At posters Flagg did
for recruiting and Liberty Loan drives
In the last war. After studio hours. he
went to various clubs and painted por-
traits free for any one who bought a
$1,000 bond. Often he did 8 or 10 a
night.
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Uncle Sam Has Flagg in This War Too

enjoys painting handsome woman Of
her type-with strong sculpture in her
face, thick eyebrows and a brooding
look-partly because the Barrymore IA
cial traits are so familiar to the artist,
who was one OF John Barrymores best
friends.
One of Flaggs best oils, Of John
Barrymore as Hamlet, was hung on the
stage in the actors last Broadway
vehicle, my Dear Children"
Born in fashionable Westchester
County, this artist never has had any
patience with bohemians and never
even in the beginning-did he live In
the Village. For years his studio has
been located in an apartment on Fifty
seventh street, the musical and art CEN
ter of New York. He has q skylight,
high ceilings and every inch of space IL
covered either with Flagg original or
a reproduction. Some of them have
become quite dusty, yet the studio has
fascinating air. There is so much
light and the easels are large and work.
able and the painting nostalgia.
Flagg does not consider himself a
great artist-but he says no one can
make fool of him when it comes to
craftsmanship. He's best with water
colors and black and white drawings
Che hates to have them called
"sketches'D, less successful with oils
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-09

At his peak, the popular illustrator
made as much as $4,000 year. Then
came lull. But today posters and
other assignments keep Flagg, recog-
nized everywhere by his heavy eye
brows and thick gray hair, busy again.
But his income is small fraction of
what it was.
illustrators do not lose their voices
like singers, but they 60 out of STYLE"
he said realistically the other morning
in his studio. The art directors look
through your samples and say, we're
tired of him. We want something new
And what they get is often jazzy and
illegible, but it's new"
Flagg, caustic-tongued, is always quick
to show his Impotence with the school
Of illustrators who started their careers
working from photographs rather than
models. These younger men are good
designers, he comedies. But to Flagg
they have lost some of the old flare.
Flagg says we are born with an abil-
lty to observe, an appetite, but taste
must be cultivated. He never has liked
woman who wasn't beautiful and the
Flagg ideal of beauty has fair skin, a
turned-up nose, high forehead, voluptu-
GUS lips. She is not intellectual, though
she looks as If she was a lady most of
the time.
F1agg has painted many types OF
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-09

Few Of the old-time fishermen who
many years ago operated boats which
daily brought from Chesapeake Bay and
the lower reaches of the Potomac
thousands of pounds Of fish, oysters
and other varieties of sea food to the
old Fish Wharf and Market on Wash
ington Channel at the foot of Twelfth
street S.W. have survived the ravages
of fast motor transportation. Yet the
supply of sea food of every conceivable
kind is more abundant at the modern,
sanitary fish market maintained by the
District government at the site Of the
old wharves than was the case during
the old days Of slow-going sailboats
which 40 years ago supplied washington
with sea food
In former years 40 or so boats would
often be docked at the old piers, all
laden with oysters or with fish and
other products. Now there is rarely
ever more than four or five boats at
q time docked at the piers. However,
a few of the old-time fishermen still
cling tenaciously to the traditions of the
past. ply the river and bring boatloads
of oysters or fish to the wharf and
market every week unless prevented by
the river being frozen over, making
navigation impossible.
Most of those who now run boats
to the wharves started in the fish bust
ness when boys, working on boats with
their fathers. Among them are Her.
man Evans, Leslie Tyler, E. c. Pruitt,
Austin Daily and Dewey and Otis Evans.
George H. Stanford, one of the old
rivermen, recently quit the business and
retired. He started in business with his
father. Capt. Isaac w. Stanford, when
only 10 years old.
II came to this wharf for the first
time on March 2, 1884" Mr.. Stanford
stated a few days ago. 81 remember
the date distinctly because two days
later Grover Cleveland was inaugurated
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-09
Visit to Municipal Market Recalls Fishing Fleet

coast come mackerel, red snapper and
shrimp in tremendous quantities.
Some years ago, the United States Bu-
reau OF FISHERIES called attention to tbs
practice prevailing at one of the largest
1sh centers Of this country, of washing
fish IN harbor water which was known to
be polluted. Similar conditions prevailed
at that time at several other fish centers.
But at the Districts Municipal Market,
Supervisor Bell explained, water used
Tor washing fish and for every other pur-
pose, including scrubbing stalls, comes
from the Districts filtered water supply,
known to be one Of the purest In the
world. No contamination whatever can
come from water used, which accounts
for the low rate Of spoilage at the
market.
Daily Inspections.
Mr.. Bell makes daily inspection of
all supplies held for sale in each of the
stalls, and dealers are required to i'm
mediately remove any products found in
the least suspicious. CAS- a matter of
fact" Mr.. Bell says, "our dealers are
alert and rarely have to be required to
remove suspicious products from sale.
They have become so thoroughly trained
in the benefits derived from having
fresh, wholesome stocks on hand that
they need no compulsion to cause them
to sell only the best"
Since meat rationing started, the con-
sumption Of fish and other sea foods
have substantially increased. Many fam
lilies eat fish instead Of beef or pork at
least one or two days week, and Wash
ingtonians are fortunate to have a mar
ket where the highest degree of santa
ton is observed, and only the best and
freshest supplies obtainable are placed
on sale.
Mr.. Bell estimates that the annual
business at the Municipal Fish Market
reaches total of 100000 pounds of
sea food, amounting to between Sc, 0OO,-
600 and $7,000,000 That does not in
clude many thousands of watermelons
brought to the market by boat during
the summer season. The finest melons
come from the Rappahannock Valley of
Virginia, the Eastern Shore of Maryland
and Virginia, and the Eastern Shore of
North Carolina.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-09
By Ruth CoWan,
Associated Press STAFF Writer.

assoSidtcu rieos otdn WIlteT.
WITH THE WACS IN BRITAIN
Scene: A United States Army Air Force
base somewhere in England-just Is
minutes as Messerschmitt flies from
Hitler's European fortress.
There's an enemy fight coming out
over France!"
AS she spoke, Pvt. Basic Mosley of
Houston, Tex, calmly put aside her
novel and adjusted her earphones so
she could hear more clearly.
She was sitting beside 12-by-12-foot
table, known as an interceptor board,
Belgium and Holland, and the opposite
coast of England.
Plotting Aircraft Movements.
On it were marked known air sta
tlonS-German and Allied-among them
the Marauder headquarters where slim,
blond Bassie and her WAC mates were
helping to plot the movements of all
aircraft in the area.
Basic selected strip of metal about
three-quarters of an inch wide from
box at her elbow On it she began
placing colored discs-magnetized so
they would stay in place and bearing
figures to denote the number of planes,
their type and altitude, that had begun
to wing over the Channel
She picked up small red arrow used
to indicate the direction of a flight.
Then, with long stick like a croupiers
rake, she pushed the marker and the
arrow out into a numbered square in
the Channel section. The whole map,
land and water, was marked with these
numbered squares.
Like a Game.
There was something of the atmos-
phere OF roulette room-the table,
the players moving markers, the keen
attention of by-standers, that soldier on
a ladder in front of a blackboard along
one wall, the officers and sergeants
behind long, high desk overlooking
the interceptor board.
This interceptor room has been set up
In rambling old English country house.
The blackboard, on which is tabulated
flight information, covers the windows.
Day and night the room is guarded by
military police.
dozen-plus pairs Of eyes watched
that red arrow as Bassie showed it out.
The flight was half way across the
Channel-and the arrow was pointing
to this area!
1nterceptors Move Out.
Across the table, Pfc. Lola Mccoy,
"a, of Rensselaer,, Ind, picked up other
discs and, from information coming
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under insanitary conditions, but de-
termined that no such conditions should
prevail at this market"
A Model Fish Market.
Within a few days after taking charge
OF the market, Mr.. Bell called a meet
ing of all dealers in the market and
explained to them the advantages of
maintaining their premises In clean,
wholesome, and attractive condition.
They were shown how to display their
stocks attractively, and business soon
began to increase.
A plan of having every stall scrubbed
and washed out every day was in
augurated. Interiors of stalls we're
painted white, attractive signs were put
up in front of each stall, and rigid
system Of daily inspection by the super
visor was started. Any unwholesome
condition found was Immediately
abated.
Mr.. Bell also started a system of
grading each stall daily as to sanitary
conditions. display of stocks, and gen.
eral appearance similar to that now
proposed for restaurants in the Dis
trict That caused dealers to compete
with each other to see who would get
best grades, and the results were amaz-
ing.
Sea Food for Washington.
. A large part of the business at the
Municipal Fish Market is wholesale but
retail transactions reach a considerable
total. It is the central point of supply
for sea food in the District, and retail
dealers from all over Washington and
from nearby points in Maryland and Vir-
ginia go there to buy daily supplies for
ginia stores. Many consumers also buy at
the market because the large supply of
fish and other sea foods with very wide
variety enables them to select whatever
they may wish.
Supervisor Bell explained that no mat
ter what kind of sea food purchaser
may desire, suitable selection can usu-
ally be found in stalls of dealers at the
Municipal Market. From Chesapeake
Bay come such well known varieties as
oysters. clans, hard and soft shell crabs
shad, herring trout, blue fish, cells and
mackerel. Salmon and sword fish come
by fast express from the Pacific Coast.
HOLSTERS, haddock, cod and delectable
lobster tails come from Boston and other
New England points. From the gulf
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-09
WACS Trace Enemy Planes Over England

ment OF the rake, swung 1t back: The
Germans had tented at change in
direction but now were coming straight
in.
Behind the long desk, 1t. Orval Jones
of Corbin, KY, in charge of the plotting
room this night, lifted one OF the phones
in front of him.
Get me the guard house. Hello?
We're having raid on the coast. Please
stand by"
He turned to Sergt. Fred Constantine
OF Brooklyn, N Y flying control clerk,
and said:
Better get all stations in our area
on the phone and tell them to stand
by for an alarm"
The Crash Alarm.
That red arrow was the magnet OF
every ones attention. Bassie pushed ii
forward again. 1t. Jones, his voice calm,
asked Sergt. Constantine: "Have you
got everybody on the line?" yes" re-
piled the sergeant
Then give them the crash alarm!"
Pfc. Mccoy Lit cigarette. Then
quickly She leaned forward to move
her Raj markers. They were coming
over to meet the enemy.
Outside the sirens walled.
"Listen!" said Second 1t. Stanley
Neslin Of Patterson, N. Y, flying con-
troll officer. you can hear the planes"
Clearly came the whirl-whirl- of
plane motors-enemy aircraft overhead.
1t was quiet in the ROOM One seems
to grow long-eared like a rabbit at mo-
ments like this. Bassie's stick scratched
on the map as she showed that red arrow
right onto the name marking this
base
Some one came in from outside to
report that searchlights were poking
into the sky.
A Bomb Drops.
The stiffness within the plotting room
was interrupted by dull boom.
Tomorrow" smiled 1t. Jones' You'll
read in the newspaper that enemy raid
ers dropped few bombs on the coastal
area"
There was a rustic of movement as
Lola moved her Raj marker. "One
Jerry has fighter right after him."
she chuckled.
Basic began pulling the enemy
marker back out over the Channel.
The enemy was being driven of.
Those in the plotting room relaxed,
laughed
June settled back in her chair. She
would be on duty for few more hours
1t might be little monotonous sitting
there with ear phones clamped to her
head. She got out a book It's title?
PHILOSOPHY and Living" by Olaf Staple
don.
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President the first time" he related.
'1 have been in business either at this
wharf or running boats on the river
ever since that day, but recently quit
and intend spending my time now on
my farm in Maryland or at my home
in Washington"
Recalls Early Fishermen.
Mr.. Stanford recalls wildly many Of
the famous rivermen OF the early days.
Among those he mentioned were Capt.
Jerry Gibson and Capt Frank Russell,
both Of ST. Marys County, Md. Then
there were Capt. Bill Swami, Capt. Will
Duncan Of Westmoreland County, Va,
and many others.
Il have counted from 40 to more than
SO boats, all loaded with oysters at the
wharves at one time Mr.. Stanford
said, land on the lower river, the Bay
and tributaries, I have seen as many
as 300 to 400 boats at time with owners
longing oysters for Washington and Bal
timore markets.
In those days people from all over
Washington, rich and poor alike, came
to the wharves to buy fish which they
took home and dressed. oysters sold
by the bushel, and people either took
them home and shucked them or had
one Of the many regular shuckers at
the wharves do the work for them.
Oysters sold at from 40 cents to IS cents
bushel." A bushel will shuck out q
gallon or more. At one time Mr.. STAN
ford operated five boats regularly. He
stated that boat load of oysters or
fish would be sold in day, whereas
now it requires four or five days.
Most of the fish and oysters from the
lower Potomac and Chesapeake Bay
now come to the market by truck. 1t
affords faster transportation which has
resulted in putting most of the boats
out of business.
In place of the old wooden piers and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-09

old frame shacks which formerly oc-
cupied the water front at the foot Of
Twelfth street, there is now a modern,
sanitary fish market and concrete piers.
The market and piers are In charge of
Charles o. Bell market supervisor. Mr..
Bell is a regular human dynamo of
energy, and the market is regarded as
one of the most sanitary institutions
OF its kind in this country. For years."
Mr.. Bell stated, fish and other sea
foods were handled at most markets
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-09

over her phone, began filling out a
marker to indicate the number and
position of Raj nightfighters rising to
tackle the invaders.
Pfc. June Granz, Is, of San Francisco,
Calf, pushed out some small white
ship-shaped counters to indicate the po-
sition of conveys. She also got ready
some sos markers to be used in case
a plane was shot down over the Chan
mel and rescuing-or capturing parties,
as the case might be-went out from
the British coast.
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beauties but all somehow have little
Of that "Flagg look" More than por-
trait artists, he gives his sitters his own
trademark. Often it enhances their
spirit, again the result is hardly a
likeness.
An impressive portrait of Ethel Barry
more is getting dusty in his studio be-
cause Ethel said she would not buy it
unless some one else threatened to.
It's good likeness, partly because Flagg
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-09

Seconds passed. Bassie moved the
red arrow closer-closer to the coast.
In plotting rooms at other air bases
throughout England, other men and
women soldiers also were charting this
nights air drama. Back in German air
bases the enemy doubtlessly was keep
ing similar track of its outgoing craft,
just as these same WACS follow the
movements of Allied planes on missions
over the continent.
Basic nudged the red arrow to point
northward, then, with quick move
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-09

He works In blue pajamas and smock,
keeping a smock until it falls apart.
The day saw him, he had on a COM
paratively new one which he'd worn
only since 90
OF all his hates, businessmen stand
pretty close to the top of the list They
can't believe that an artist wouldn't
paint anything just for the money" he
says. They call us wacky because We
are more interested in living"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-09
By George M. Roberts,

ntendent of Weights Measures and Markets OF the
District of Columbia.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-28
OpA BUYS PAMPHLETS TO
UNTANGlE OWN TANGLES

Even the dyed-in-the-wo new dealers
and OPA's most persistent defenders
couldn't deny themselves a laugh the
other day when it was disclosed that that
bureau had purchased 5000 copies of
puslnessmen's primer on price control
rulings which had been compiled and Is
sued by group smarter than the makers
Of the rules. And after this it will not be
hard to believe the fantastic stories re-
counted of alphabet bureaus inconSiSt-
encies
But after indulging in a laugh over
this latest incident, there should be some
calm thinking. and there will be, too,
simply because this disclosure only goes
to prove that business and the public
are entitled to complain and that the
country can't stand up much longer un-
der all this senseless and wasteful regi-
mentation.
After all, perhaps it isn't the actual
system that is off the beam as much as
the crazy ventures into dreamland at
Washington. The nation accepted price
control as a wartime necessity. But 1t
did not accept it with any idea of all
this meddling with the natural economic
system Stripped of crack-pOt ideas and
crack-pot administrators price control
ard other wartime measures can help
bridge over time of great stress, and
are doing needed part of the entire pro-
gram.
They had to come, especially since the
administration had been so busy trying
I'd regiment this and that long before the
war, so that we came up to the moment
Of war poorly equipped to put our econo-
mic machinery into war gear. We have
met conditions despite, not because OF,
much of the regulations promulgated and
slapped down on patriotic, wiling
people
iOf course the new deal claims credit
for the vast moving, effectual wartime
program A worker of miracles, II these
claims be true But as matter of fact 1t
was the indomitable will and zeal of l3O
millions of Americans and through the
great system built up by free enterprise,
that this nation is the most powerful in
the world today in producing means for
prosecution of the war.
And it all would have come easier and
more speedily if the new deal had not
been using every notion in the world to
hamper and throttle this same free enter
prise.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-28
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
PROPOSAL FOR BIDS FOR THE
PURCHASE OF TAX DECIDED
PROPERTY

Notice is hereby given that bios
fer the purchase from the City of
e. Certro Of the tax decided prop
erty hereinafter described will be
received at the office of the City
Clerk Of the City of Ell Centro at
the City Hall in said City up to
ard until 500 o'clock pm. of the
Isl day Of May, 1914, anc said bids
will be opened and considered by
the City Council Of the City of Ell
Cersro at the next succeeding
meeting, or at such subsequent
meeting to which such conSidera-
ton may be continued. The City
reserves the right to reject any
and all bics.
Said property is described as fol-
lows:
Lot 81, Block 2, Townsite, City
Of FL Centre.
LIT 8, Block 2, ToWnsite, City of
Ell Centre.
Lot II, Block 2, Fairfield Addi-
ton, City of Ell Centre.
NEAL Fl. GAVIN,
City Clerk of the City of
Ell Centre.
DATED: April 81, 1914.
mo. 800 (A2l-28)
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-28
MODERN LANGUAGE TREND
Riverside Daily Press)

This is time of unlovely termnology'
The language may be growing more pre-
else and efficient, but it loses smoothness
and melody.
More and more for example, words
tend to end in "ee,' which is never a
pleasant sound. Thus, instead of enlist
ments" and enlisted men" as in former
wars we have "inductions' and "lnduc-
tees" Such terms probably come from
the lodge-rooms, but that doesn't neces-
sarily recommend them for general pur-
poses. Then we have a deluge OF such
modern. manufactured words as de.
feree." "selectoe,' "trainee, "returnee
and so on.
Most of these newly adopted terms are
unnecessary, and merely clutter up and
break down a once-beautiful language,
Chaucer and Shakespeare would doubt
less be mortified if they could see and
hear what we are doing to their ancient
well of pure English undefiled.
But then. in the words of philosophic
educator, at always was breaking down.
And probably nothing can be done about
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-28
HOW MUCH AIR HAMMERlNG
CAN GERMANY STAND?

With the world on edge waiting the
moment for invasion of continental Eur
ose-for the final blasting blow at the
asis-the question arises as to how much
more hammering from the air Germany
can stand without throwing up the
stonge.
Some observers undertake to answer
that question in their own minds by con-
trasting the sir raids on Germany with
those on London in the blitz days But
that isn't the approach, since 1t was
question more of morale with the British
than with destruction. Britain recovered
from both. Can Germany stand the pres
sure as we'll?
Look at it this way. For more than ten
davs there have been as high as 5000
planes dropping bombs over axis areas
constantly, day and night. Germany
proper, including Austria has an area of
225,256 square miles. Or $4,000 less than
the state of Texas or once and half
TIE size of Montana How long could
Texas hold out if that many planes con-
stantly were out bombing? And when it
ia considered that Germany has hundreds
of vital cities to Texas few. the chance
fbr destruction in Germany becomes stag
gering.
If the air bombing is prelude to the
big invasion, the time can't be far off.