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Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-03
Plane Production
Hits New Peak

LOS ANGELES, April 3. (UP) =
The army air forces, last month
received 27O3 war planes from seven
major Pacific coast airplane plants,
an all-time record delivery, Briga-
dier General Donald F. STAGE said.
More efficient use of manpower
made the increase possible, he
added.
Companies delivering the planes
were Boeing, Colsclidated-Vul
Lockheed. North American, North
rup, Ryan, and Douglas.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-03
VaIIev WrestIers Place
Con Twelve Places at Southland
Meet, Four Men Take Seconds

on Plummer and pinned him to take
the match by one point.
ALSO TAKE SECONDS
Childers of Ell Centro also took
a second place on decision that
looked like it could have been his.
He defeated an Indian from Sher-
man Institute, that won over Bornt
of Holtville by a fall, but was de-
feated in the finals on a close de-
cision. Monroe of CaleXico, like
most of the other valley men, wreS-
tied three times to get into the
finals. He was defeated in a close
decision by an Indian from the
Sherman Institute.
LOST BY FEW POINTS
With very few exceptions, every
valley wrestler lost his final match
by a very small margin, and in most
that defeated the valley contestants.
The preliminary matches, and those
boys who failed to place, made their
opponents stretch themselves to gain
decisions, according to the three
coaches, Lee Boyle of Calexico, ELL
wood Spencer of Ell Centro and John
Madden of Holtville.
Ralph Ogier Of Holtville who
placed second last year took fourth
this year. He lost on a 5-5 decision
by the official. Several valley boys
wrestled each other for places. Dove
Holtville turned the tables in the
next match when Joe Muller bested
won over Leimgruber for third place,
Thompson of CaleXico.
Medals will be awarded the IL
winners by the CI.F.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-03
Barbara Worth Team Jumps
Into Lead for Sears Cup

Worth team Is warned that therell
be another story on the score
sheets.
Sundays team results were:
Del Rio Club Barbara Worth
Lamberson Birchfield
L. Marsh 0 r. Mcbride
Paul Post F. Ferguson
N. Brazelton Y Tom Ritter 2la
Elmer Sears E. Ferguson
Les Rogers 0 Glen McNay 3
Cliff Allen w. Ramsey
B. Benson y Jack Davis 21a
Totals .....-........ Total ............ IL
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-03

NEW YORK, April 8. (UP)-Pro-
moter Mike Jacobs began negotia-
tions for a third title fight between
Lightweight Champion Bob Mont
gomery of Philadelphia and Beau
Jack of Augusta, Ga, as result of
Jacks win Friday night over Juan
zurita of Mexico, recognized as
champion by the NBA. Jacobs said
he would attempt to sign zurita to
fight the winner and clear up the
lightweight title muddle.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-03
FUNERAL ANNOUNCED
FOR l.. A. PIONEER

LOS ANGELES, April 3. (UP) =
Funeral services will be held Tues
day fer Charles H. Stillwell, 81
year-old business pioneer who
started the first cafeteria and the
first automobile rental agency in
Los Angeles. He died Friday.
StillWell opened the city's first
cafeteria in 1911 and built the Still
we'll hotel in downtown Los Angeles
four years later. He also helped
design and build the 300-guest
Stillwell auto court which operated
until last year. Burial will be made
at Ontario, Canada, his home town.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-03
kPLS. FLAX FUTURES
CHICAGO GRAIN

Chicago, April 3. tUPl = Gralh IuluIts
displayed on easier trend led by a down.
turn in rye on the board of trade to-
day.
Wheat rallied on the close unchanged
TO up II cent a bushel; oats unchanged
to off,; rye off * TO q, and barley
quoted off * to 4.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-03
DAY-PUGEL PIN WINTERS

ST. LOUIS, April 3. CUP)-Ned
Day Of West Aillus, Wis, and Rudy
Pugel of Milwaukee, won the ma
tional match game bowling doubles
title from Nelson Burton and Frank
Mataya Of st. Louis, 29l2 points to
25 ., Sunday night despite a bril-
liant high-scoring rally by Burton
and Mataya in the series.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-03

The Brawley Merchants are the
Imperial Valley Winter league
champions by virtue of their de-
feat of the FL Centro ToWnieS 8-4
Sunday.
The Merchants lost only two
games out Of ten this season.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-03
Wanted! Men and
Women Who Are
Hard of Hearing

TO make this simple no risk hearing
test. If you are temporarily deafened,
bothered by ringing buzzng head noises
due TO hardened or coagulated war (ceru-
mem, try the Ourine Home Method test
that so many say has enabled them to
hear well again. You must hear better
after making this simple test or you get
YOUR money back at once. Ask about
Ourine Ear Drops today at Clements and
drug stores everywhere.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-03
L. A. HAY

Los Angeles. April 3. tUPl-
HAY MARKET: :.
u. s. No. ! extra leafy S34 50-36 50; U.
S. No. ] S31. .5o-3350; U. s. No. S3l. so
$3.50; u S. No. leafy or No. 2 green
$50 O-32 so; U. s. No. 2 S29-31 per ton.
No. ! barley hay S30-3l; No. l oat hay
$37 -3s.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-03
WOOL SOCKS, MOZART'S

Not being able to afford wood to
heat his room, Mozart, famous COM
poser, wrapped his hands in woole.
socks while he wrote his immortal
music.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-03
Markets at a
Glance
BY UNITED PRESS

Stocks lower in quiet trading.
Bonds lower; L. S. governments quiet.
Curb stocks irregular
Cotton off as much as so cents bale.
Wheat unchanged 10 I cent higher.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-03

nents cold Tor the full three points
while two other teams halved one
nine to take 2l2 points each.
DEL RIO TEAM OFF
The Del Rio team played off their
usual game. Their short game was
not up to it's usual par. mainly due
to the fact that they were not used
to the grass greens but al
though the score was top-heavy for
the B. w. team the Brawley team
fought the whole distance.
WILL BE DIFFERENT
Next Sunday, when the second
half of the team tourney will be
PLAYED at the Del Rio, the Barbara
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-26
Hardest Fighting Ahead

Withdrawal OF the Japanese naval force from
the Philippines after suffering heavy losses
under the fire of the Halsey-Mtscher task
fleets offers additional evidence that the Jana.
nese Navy has no intention of fighting il out
with American warships short of Japans
home waters. g
In every naval engagement from the battle
of the Coral sea to the latest engagements
around the Philippines, the Japanese have
turned tail as often as attacked, even by
smaller segments of the American Pacific
fleet
However gratifying it is to know that the
enemy has no stomach for free-for-an COM
bat at sea, it is to be noted that in all con-
tacks our naval leaders have established, and
however splendid their performance, the mar
fleet of Japan has avoided battle and its
losses have not included many heavy ships
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-26

We have still to send its battleships and most
of it's heavy cruisers down.
Obviously these are being saved for defense
of the homeland and for resistance when Ad-
rairal Ninitz starts his thrust for China S
coastal area, from which it is believed ma
jor attack is to be directed against Japan
when the ring has been further frightened
around the island through the capture or iso-
lation of the remaining principal sea outposts
Japan has been at such pains to fortify and
arm during long period of time.
Some of Japans heavier sea armament has
been put out of commission but for the mcst
part Americans have been able to prey only
on destroyers, cargo ships, transports and
small craft. If Japan's Navy has the strength
it is supposed to have, the naval fighting
ahead must engage the eneny's full fire pow
er at sea before victory in the Pacific can
be achieved.
That will come in time, but it. would be
unwise to think that because OUR Pacific fleet
has been repeatedly successful in destroying
Japanese ships and sending squadrons scoot-
ing, the main fleet will not fight, and fight
hard, when finally cornered.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-26
By JOHN SELBY
Dy JUN SELbY
''FAIR FANTASTIC PARIS" by
Harold Ettlinger Bobbs Merrill;

"FAIR FANTASTIC PARIS" by
Harold Ettlinger Bobbs Merrill;
S3).
p! think most people who know
Paris even slightly will find some
thing very attractive in the late
Harold Ettlinger's Fair Fantastic
Paris.'' Mr.. Ettlinger first expert
enced Paris about ten years be-
fore the war, and he lived there
until the Germans came. He was,
however, working newspaperman
and not a conventional expatriate.
Nor was he continually drunk on
atmosphere"
"Fair Fantastic Paris begins as
if Mr.. Ettlinger were about to do
Julian Street book on romantic
Paris. There is lot about the
side of Paris in which tourists
were almost exclusively interested,
in the late 'twenties-the last mo-
ment. incidentally, when anything
resembling the old Paris was to
be seen, perhaps forever. Mr.. Eft
1inger does a round of the cafes,
of Montmartre, of ,Montparnasse,
of Les Halles and the two lies in
The Seine and all those once CLAM
orous'' places. He even takes his
reader on a long hunt for a pair
of brass hinges in which good
deal of the city is laid out for
inspection.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-26
The Literary Guidepost

It seems to me this is a perfect
approach to more serious consid-
erations, because of two things:
Paris was always France, the tail
that wagged the dog, and second,
the Partisan tradition of live and
let live, which was not RESPONSE
BILE for the events of the 'thirties,
but certainly made possible the
growth of reactionary parties and
policies. MIR. Ettlinger first sensed
that many French people were
peering with approval over the
Rhine and over the Alps just be-
fore the Stavisky scandals, and
the whole CHASTITY mess was plain
to be seen on February 6, 1884,
when the Fascist groups tried to
storm the Chamber of Deputies.
The next milestone was the re-
organization of the Popular Front
government, which succeeded
amazingly well, Mr.. Ettlinger
thinks, for coalition which SEEM
ed impossible even to its organ.
izers. But the life blood Of France
had been given malarial faint;
the period of Chamberlain and Mu-
mich and the declaration of war
were lived through in an atmos-
phere curiously like that of a pest.
house. Mr.. Ettlinger has provided
a background for the incredible
sickness Of the fatal decade.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-26
South Carolina Horse Trader

ing the lowdown way they treat
ed you. Now, how are we going
back to my OUTFIT"
It developed that Georges
guard knew where German Of
ficers had parked a captured
American jeep. George, being
cavalryman and allergic to
walking, persuaded him to go
steal it.
Which is how it happened that
four days after he was listed as
missing, Corp. Scruggs drove
back to his outfits headquar-
tiers and apologized for his en-
forced swap of an armored car
for a jeep.
But since he brought back a
prisoner and plenty of valuable
Information to boot, officers
Whereabouts considered it q
fair to middling trade for a
young fellow.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-26
BARCLIFT HEADS
LOCAL MINISTERS

The Rev. C. D. Barclift, pastor
of Fifth Avenue Methodist church
yesterday was elected president
of the Wilmingtn Ministerial as
ISOLATION to succeed the Rev Carl
Fisher, pastor of St. Matthews
Lutheran church.
The Rev. H. J. Wilson, Of Fourth
Street Advent Christian cnurcl
was named vice president and j.
D. Huntington, secretary Of they,
M.C.A., was reelected secretary
Outgoing vice president is the Kew
Harvey w. Glazier. Mr.. Hunting
ton has served as secretary oine
association for "a years.
The association, as its spec.'
session yesterday, assumed ne
responsibility for presenting b.
bles to all persons being natu2l1'
ed here, and endorsed the nation
al effort through the churches 10
collect used clothing for dlstflHu'
ton in Europe during the week
starting October 1.
An appeal from the Rev. D. =
Herbert, asking for active supper.
for the teaching of Bible IN ue
schools, was heard, as well as s.s
statement from Scout Director Odi
roll Tinsley, regarding MS "O''
with the churches.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-26
More Gasoline With VE-Day

Robert E. Wilson, president Of the Pan
American Petroleum and Transport compa-
ny, addressing the Empire State Petroleum
Association in New York. says that an IN
crease of at least Is per cent in the ration
allowance of gasoline after VE-day is mot
only possible but desirable"
He explains that military needs now take
40 per cent of the nations gasoline-some
300 600 barrels daily, half for the European
war zone, one-fifth for the Pacific and the
rest for domestic military activities. With the
European war ended, he says, the military
demand for high-grade gasoline should drop
materially. 'This should permit at least res
toration of regular gasoline to u octane and
the removal of present limitations on the out
put of premium gasoline"
Whether the petroleum administration will
take this view is something else again. We
have had too long experience of the admins
trations laundering policies to believe that it
will unless public pressure becomes heavier
than it can resist.
Granting, however, that it should adopt a
program equivalent to that proposed by Mr..
Wilson, the additional gasoline for public
consumption inevitably would lead many thou
sands of auto owners to take to the high
ways, very natural proceeding considering
the restraint they have been under so long.
And if they do, using their aged cars which
are very near cracking up or falling to pieces
and without securing new and sturdy tires,
the casualty lists might equal those coming
at greater and greater length from the combat
zones.
Probably not one OF thousand automobiles
now in use could make cross-country run.
They are not only decrepit. It is next to
hauled Garage operators, like most other
business concerns not engaged on war con-
tracts, are unable to maintain adequate crews
OF competent mechanics, with result that their
shops are perpetually overcrowded with lame.
duck cars We know Of one ordinarily simple
job on tenders which was put off for two
months because the garage man could not get
around to it sooner.
Usually the garage man will agree to put
a motor into running order temporarily, but
will not guarantee the job. He can't do that
because nine times out of ten he cannot get
new parts and has to do a keen job of patch
ing to get any results at all.
Unless something is done to flood the coun-
try with new automobiles simultaneously with
the granting of more gasoline, travel by auto,
which used to be such fun, is only too liable
to involve hazards no person should take.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-26

which was where his shooting
ended and horsetrading started.
He sat down and began a
heart-to-heart talk with the
German sergeant assigned to
guard him.
The scandalized and shocked
sergeant hadn't been told
word about the Allied landings
in southern France - to say
nothing of having been kidded
into believing the Normandy
''beachhead" had been booted
back into the sea.
well, I'll be doggoned,' ex-
claimed George, OF words to
that effect. "Your officers are
just downright lying to you.
Now let me tell you the straight
story
When George had finished,
the German sergeant exploded:
I've had enough of this. sur
render
you're doing exactly the
right thing" said George, judi
ciously, respectfully consider
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-26
STREET RESURFAClNC
UNDER WAY AT BEACH

The contracting firm Of +, y
Cline, of Raleigh, YESTERDAY s' s+'.
ed resurfacing streets at "Ilga aod
vile Beach which were oaillS5'N
during the storm on Angus y =.
the company was AWARDED a l AZ
s13,34S.24 contract on Sept Nv
after the Federal Works AgeA =,
approved an emergency gram 1iI;4 "
$4,000 for repairs and rehaOll and
ton of the resorts streets '-'
boardwalks. point,
q. p. Younts, of High + po Sin'
who was awarded ST. 1892 10 w. !,
tract to repair the boaro"aiA''
expected to start work soon. +ss
The rehabilitation work al u u
beach requires the removal d VIM
1853 cubic yards Of sano' LION .ai M
of 1,455 cubic yards Of gray ray, M on
shoulders, 4,287 cubic yaFaSs n
streets, and 200 square yaroS +s "
surface treated patching; ana "a NJ NJ
regarding and repairing Of '0'"'
square feet of boardwalks'
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-26
BY KENNETH L. DIXON

by hEN M n II. DlAON
WITH THE AAF IN
FRANCE, Sept. 19.-Delay-
ed)-RE Around these parts
Corp. George D. Scurggs Of
Spartanburg, S. c, is consid-
cred some shakes with 37mm
shooting iron and a fair to mid
ding horse trader.
George is an armored car
driver in a mechanical caval-
ry reconnaissance unit. The
other day orders came from
his commanding officer, 1t.
Col. Charles J. Hedge of Short
Hills, N. j., a former Wall
street investment broker, to 60
bull up enemy traffic along a
certain highway.
The first German tourists
soon arrived aboard mark
V tank. The biggest equalizer
an armored car boasts is it's
37mm gun, which has about
as much business bucking a
mark V as a small boy with
a BIB rifle.
But George knew the tough
est tanks can be hamstrung. so
he simply shot its track off
while the German crew looked
around wondering where those
funny little pinging sounds
came from.
Somewhat upset by Georges
uno-thodox tactics, the enemy
armored commander down the
road a piece sent a self-propell-
ed 88 up to eliminate the Dixie
upstart, but Scruggs never bat
ted an eye.
Realizing that if an 88 ever
drew bead on him his mech
anized horse would disintegrate
George craftily kept out of sight
while the enemy gun jockeyed
around $50 feet away.
Then the South Carolina kid
came out slugging. His third
round damaged the 88's driv-
ing mechanism and right track.
He scored a clean kayo by
setting it ablaze with his ninth
round.
Now the German commander
took no chances. He sent a
whole armored unit accompani-
ed by infantry. AS a result
George was taken prisoner.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-26
1t. Ledley B. Symmes
Awarded Air Medal

1 18TH AAF IN ITALY, Sept. Is.
The Air Medal today had been
awarded to End 1t. Ledlev b
Symmes. son of Mr.. and Mrs. led
ley B. Symmes of 116 South 6tn
St., Wilmington, N. c., "for meri-
.orious achievement in aerial
Illgnt while participating in sus-
n operational activities
against the enemy" He is a navi-
gator with B-24 Liberator bonn
per group, and has flown On bonn
ping missions over Germany
france, Italy, Austria and the
Balkans.
lieutenant symmes is a gradu-
ate OF New Hanover high school.
class OF 1910. He entered the serv-
ice on September "a, 1912.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-26

The War
BY KIRKE L. SIMPSON
Associated Press w. soN

British Brit airborne forces, S1sss
~ Syd mixed as yet with Field Ms sllae',
Montgomery's ground ANN rHiarshal
Holland, appeared to baua IN
only a precarious toe.hoId i is stu
nhem-Emmerich gateu IN the
the north German plain, b b'1t i, to
A "A salient of which thew S, fo NE
the apex is Significantly wida 1osn
at its base. "1ueAlag
1t seemed obvious
Montgomery was bent on r,; mat
elbow room within which IL o' ns
sufficient power for quick AND naa
cisive exploitation of the bs. ae'
through to out-flank the sie ptes4'
line when it came - and cono S1I,ea
ly confident that it would po
soon. eoMs
His forces pushing northws,s :.
ward the Dutch-Belgium bord 70.
between Antwerp and EindS Y,ues
were reported losing contact WIEN
the .retreating Nazis. His air so "'a
discerned evidence of Nv.
man flight eastward from wes ass'
Holland through the narrow sra
hem-1jssel Nicer (Zuider Zee, Mills
cape hatch. The implication Wy w
that a Nazi stand behind the Ma sas
der Rhine and the canal fronts s,
1jessel running through eastsr rs
Holland via Deventer and zwon.
would be attempted. WIG
Anthem is the key to that no,4A
ern extension of the Siegfried lirs
however. Its fate as well as tb',
Of the main trans-Rhine deferss s
against which American armis,
are beating depends upon what
happens at Anthem.
Meanwhile a double Allied
wedge apparently aimed at ths
southern gatepost of the Arnhem.
EI1lIIleflCH gap, hleVe, is on or
beyond German frontiers on a con
siderable front east OF Niimegan
The exact position of Russian
columns moving northeastward in.
to the Hungarian plain from Ro.
mania was not indicated. These
two Russian driven prongs pointed
at Budapest are still far apart
nearly 200 miles crow flight but
they form the jaws of potential
! trap, that could bite off all Tran.
sylvania and it's Nazi garrison
forces within the southern arc Of
the Carpathians, and are closely
threatening all escape lanes north.
eastward for the foe.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-26
Jewish People
Observe Start
Of YomKippur

The Jewish Day of Repentance,
Yom Kippur, will be observed as
a day of prayer and fasting begin
ming this evening and continuing
through tomorrow evening.
The prayers of THE Day" en-
phasize the fact that men and
nations may be heir to all the
technologies and still violate ev-
cry dictate of the law of God. One
of the great tea chings of the Day
Of Atonement which is of especial
interest in these days of stress on
democratic ideals, is symboized
in the reading of the Book of JON
ali with it's perennial emphasis
upon the equality of all men be-
fore God.
Services for the day of Atone
ment will be usnered in tonight
at 8 o'clock in the Temple of Is
rael, with the rendition of the ira
ditional Kol Nidre, the opening
prayer, by the choir. No one will
be allowed in the Temple during
the singing of the sacred melody.
The morning service tomorrow
will begin at 10 o'clock. At 1880
pm. the Junior congregation serv-
ice will be conducted. The after
noon service will commence at
2 o'clock, and the memorial SER
vice at o'clock. Rabbi Mordecai
M. Thurman will preach during
the evening and throughout the
day services. A special welcome
awaits the members of the mill
tary personnel. Mrs. Eric Norden
will play the traditional Kol Nidre
as a violin solo during the eve
ming service.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-26
Daily Prayer
FOR A SENSE OF PRoPOklIlovss

FOR A SENSE UF FK0 - tbe
To the Eternal Ruler o. .sngs
Universe, who holdest all I.o '5r
great and small, in his As' hin.
and who delights to naAe No d
self known by the dear ns snyio1,
Father, we commit our a., al- MAJ
and disturbed minds, thal W. oeacs.
be sharers of the Divine ne, d pL v,
In these days of bewll0etln ro and
would be simple and slncet .',.tirs
sane in all our thinking, pu Thee
first things first. We peseeum orking
the living God, who art wO out
Thine inscrutable purpos , yav;;;
We cannot understand my , "
but we can trust Thee. So os- 4bts
us from ill proportioned sn .s1fi.a.
and from all pettiness anu s s,oetet,
ness. Open our eyes to the ve and
deeper meanings of this day. 1,o+be.
permit us to be labofefS w. S5,orld.
with Thee in redeemlng our
Amen.W. T. E