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Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-26
'Buzzer Pilot Gets
Extreme Penalty

LUKE FIELD, Ariz., May 26.
CUP)-A general court martial has
imposed one of the most severe
penalties possible for a violation
of flying regulations by sentencing
Second Lieutenant William r. Grif-
fits, Commerce. Texas, flying in
structor, to dismissal from the Serv-
ice. Colonel John K. Nissley, Luke
Field commandant, announced the
courts decision.
Lieutenant Griffitts was assigned
to the Ajo airbaSe, Luke auxiliary
base. when the violation occurred
March 20 at that base.
The accusation against Lieuten-
ant Griffitts charged that he flew
an airplane at an altitude of less
than 100 feet and against traffic
over the runway at the Ajo base.
Charges were preferred against
Lieutenant Griffitts in accordance
with the AAF policy of strict discip-
line in regard to flying regulations.
The sentence is subject to review
and approval by higher authoity.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-26
SMALL LOAN BROKERS GET
WARNING ON BOND STATUS

SACRAMENTO, May 26. CUP)-
The state corporation commission
er's office expects to be asked to
assist in a projected drive against
small loan brokers who accept war
bonds as collateral for loans, Com
missioner Edwin M. Daugherty said
Friday.
Daugherty said that he is inform
&c that the federal treasury de-
partment plans vigorous prosecu-
ton of such Brokers. U. S. savings
bonds, series "A through ID and
war savings bonds series &c" through
&c" have been ruled ineligible for
use as collateral for loans, he said.
Daugherty pointed out that three
brokers in the San Francisco area
have been indicted for making
loans totaling over $4,000 in which
bonds were useo as security.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-26
BUREAUCRATIC
QUIZ KIDS

(The Watsonville Register Pa aiaronian)
Do you have a small group of close
friends? If you do, and if you happen to
live on a gOvernment-reclaimed farm in
central California. the bureau of agri-
cultural economics people want to know
about it. They would also like list of
the families with whom you visited regu-
larly last year, and the names o1 your
most intimate friends.
They are curious, too, about the size
of your 1943 income, whether the interior
of your home is clean or dirty, and a lot
of other gossipy back-fence subjects.
Such things were once considered no.
bodv's business but your own. That, how
ever. was before the busy bureaucrats
started playing Quiz Kids, and sending
out special Investigators armed with
missionaries.
The disclosure of these questionnaires
brightened an otherwise arid discussion
of irrigation by a senate subcommittee
in Washington the other day. One of the
agricultural economics field representa-
tives explained how come. The purpose,
he said, was to inform the government as
fully as possible about communities built
around reclamation projects and to get
an idea what to expect in future develop
ments of the same sort
Well, you ask, why must the govern
ment be informed? Is it going to keep
Gestapo-like doSsiers on your finances,
friends, and church and organization
membership Chats in the questlonnalre,
too)? Do you have to pay with your prl-
vacy for piece of vernment-reclalmed
land? Is your wife's housekeeping mat
ter of legitimate government concern?
Before the prospect scares you to
death, let us suggest that the situation IS
not as alarming as it appears. The chief
trouble simply seems to be the old COM
plant-too many people on the govern
ment payroll.
1t is extremely unlikely that Mr.. Wick
ard or Mr.. Ickes or any other high otfl-
cial gives two whoops about how many
times a California farmer attends church,
or if his wife sweeps dust under the bed.
But that doesn't really matter to the
busy little people who collect facts as
others collect match covers, and with as
little purpose. It's a relatively harmless
pastime. and they haven't much else to
do. 1t helps them feel important, maybe
wins them promotion.
So the Gestapo-like dossiers on the
California farmers will probably wind
up in Washington's commodious Archives
building, or in the paper salvage drive.
Mr.. Ickes won't interfere with your
choice of Saturday night bridge part
ners. Tfe busy little people will dream
up something else.
And the taxpayer will keep on paying
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-26
WHY NO LEGISLATION
TO PREVENT STRIKES?

AS strikes continue to multiply IN
every part of the country, closing one
vital war plant after another and plac-
ing thousands more on the idle list, the
question of why there has been no leglS-
lation to prevent this vast hindrance to
winning the war demands an answer.
Why is it proper to enact eXacting
laws regulating all industry to the needs
of war and not a single statute affecting
labor in a similar way?
The administration lost no time in
restricting industry and to legaliZe Selz-
ure of plants and factories. At the same
time all that was required of union lead
ers was the mo strike pledge.
There you have it. On the one hand
a must policy. on the other a mere
pledge. Has it worked? The record of
strikes from small groups to the million
coal miners is the answer. This policy
failed to work in the early stages of war
production; it is failing to greater de-
gree now when every energy the country
can produce is needed to bring the war
swiftly to an end.
Take a glance at the current strikes.
In Detroit there are many. In the
Chrysler plant alone $4,000 men are idle
CAS- many as 10000 were idle this month
in that beehive of war Industry. bak-
ers' strike idles 1000, cuts output in 5000
plants; paralysis of power plants in St.
Louis threatens as strike brewS where
immense war production is at stake. In
a vital Illinois chemical plant, 1000 idle;
in Pennsylvania 1000 idle in a big car
foundry; in an Illinois steel plant, 1000
off their Jobs; in Ward affiliate (seiz-
ed) 500 not working; $500 idle in Mas
sachusetts leather factory at a Gary,
Indiana steel plant another lot refusing
to work; 1000 loafing in an Illinois road
machinery factory. In the NorthweSts
great lumber and logging industry, so
vital to turning out ships, 10000 idle men
and the strike spreading And so on.
Would and could this happen if unions
had been subject to seizure the same as
industries? Industrial plants are not
individuals, neither are unions. If one
can be seized. why not both?
The fact is the mo strike pledge never
was kept and in the face of the multi
plying strikes, will not be kept-if it
ever was intended to be kept.
We insist there must be legislation as
effective to prevent strikes as to penallze
industry. Industrial seizures come about
only where there are strikes and war
output fails.
This is not an anti-labor attitude 1t is
plain horse sense and if plain horse-sense
doesn't soon begin to function, we have
ONLY begun to see the havoc that is being
wrought to the need and desire for unity
so necessary to complete victory.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-26
Poor Brandy
To Be Saved

SAN FRANCISCO, May 26. CUP)
approximately $6,000,000 worth of
Portuguese brandy quarantined by
the state board of public health in
February because of alleged i'm
purities will be refiltered and Ie-
bottled under state supervision,
Goulard Da Costa, Portuguese con-
sui here, safe.
The brandy was impounded be-
cause the state division of food
and drugs inspection reported par
ticles of glass in the bottles. Da
Costa said the impounced brandy
represented only a limited number
of the many Portuguese brands sold
in the state
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-26
BRAWLEY MAN APPOINTED
TO HAY WAGE POSITION

Cecil B. Marking, Brawley ac-
countant, was appointed admins
trative officer and secretary OF the
newly organized Imperial Valley
alfalfa wage committee Wednesday
afternoon.
Chester F. Fry, state supervisor,
said Markings duties would re-
quire only part-time work for the
temporary period of 60 days,
All inquiries relating to the wage
ceilings established on the harvest
ing of alfalfa hay and baling of
flax straw should be directed to his
offices in the Bank of America
building in BraWley after Monday,
Fry said.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-26
Talk
--by-
Peter Edison

of the enlisted man. But there are
inspectors general in each theater
of operations responsible to the
commanding general of that thea
ter, and as each major unit goes
overseas it takes along its own
inspectors general who then become
responsible within the theater. Only
the reports of things that the War
Department can fix come to Wash
ington. There are 388 inspectors
general overseas now, and the num-
Der will grow.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-26
Church Stresses
Economic Needs

success which Goes not get all
peoples employed with a prospect
of an equitable share in the goods
God makes available to our world"
he said.
Nor can there be stability and
mutual goodwill in any country
where financiers, businessmen, in
dustrial workers, and farmers are
not pulling together to raise the
ne ational stanc ard of living and
where government does not try to
assure every group of cosumcrs
is full part in the nations good
things
He called for an end to secretar-
ianism, racial strife, and inequities
among people.
The general assembly was sched-
ulcd to adjourn May 81.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-26
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA,
IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF
IMPERIAL.
No. 20S01
s u M nj o N S

s U M nj o N S
Harry w. Horton and George r.
Kirk, Attorneys for Plaintiff.
IMPERIAL IRRIGATION DIS
TRICT, Plaintiff,
VS..
B. L. VICKREY, ct al, Defend
ants.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE
OF CALIFORNIA SEND GREET
INGS TO: B. L. VICKREY AND
JANE DOE VICKREY, his wife,
CHARLES P. MARTIN AND JANE
DOE MARTIN, his wife, WILBUR
STROBE AND JUNE STROBE, his
wife, w. j. BRYANT AND JANE
DOE BRYANT, his wife, ROSE S.
BISHER, SECURITY TRUST AND
SAVINGS BANK, a Corporation,
CREAME NASSAU, JESSE SANDS
AND MARTHA IRENE SANDS, his
Wife, j. GOLD, j. o. KELLSTROM,
E. M. HENDERSON AND DORO-
THEA HENDERSON, his Wife.
CALIFORNIA TITLE INSURANCE
COMPANY, Corporation, as
Trustee, MARIE F. LOWMAN,
JAMES E. STEWART, JOHN DOE,
JANE DOE, RICHARD ROE,
JOHN DOE COMPANY, a Corpor-
alton, RICHARD ROE COMPANY,
a Co-Partnership, j. DOE, as Exec
utor of the Estate of r. ROE, De-
ceased, and j. DOE, as Adminis-
traitor of the Estate of r. ROE, De-
ceased, Defendants.
You are hereby directed to ap-
pear and answer the Complaint in
an action entitled as above, brought
against you in the Superior Court
of the County of Imperial, State of
California, within ten days after
the service on you of this Sum-
mons-if served within this Coun-
ty; or within thirty days if served
elsewhere.
And you are hereby notified that
unless you appear and answer as
above required the said plaintiff
will take ucgment for any money
or damages demanded in the COM
plant, as arising upon contract, or
plaintiff will apply to the Court
for any other relief demanded in
the Complaint.
Given under my hand and the
seal of the Superior Court of the
County of Imperial, State of Cali
fornia, this 18th day of March,
1913.
w. j. McCLELLAND,
County Clerk.
(SEAL) BY Citha LamSon,
Deputy Clerk.
(No. 88) (Ml2. 10, 26; J2, 9.
16, %, 30; u. 14)
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-26

CHICAGO, May 26, tUP) The
Rev. DR.. Henry Sloane Coffin, pres
ident of the Union Theological SEM
mary at New York, recommended
that the Presbyterian church take
a definite stand calling for economic
justice in the world.
Obsolete economic structure must
be torn Gown and carted Off" DR..
Coffin said in the opening address
of the i56th general assembly Of
the Presbyterian church in the
United States. Our generation has
been shown the intimate connec-
ton between the political and econ
omic arrangements of a nation and
of mankind.
mo plan of international cooper
alton to maintain order and secure
peace has the slightest chance of
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-26
WANT HOMES FOR WOMEN

SANTA CRUZ, Calf. May IS.
(UP) = Establishment CT hospitals
and homes for women veterans of
the war was recommended Nv the
California department of the United
Spr nish War Vet torans at the an
nual encampment here Thur day
which elected Daniel S. Hewitt san
Francisco. department commant"r
.ucceeding CharloS Andersen Of
Pa adena.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-26
Editorials and Comment

EDITORS NOTE: The fOIl0cinQ edit
oridis are presented cs interesting GPin-
ions roiced by editors eiseUhere. They
do not necessarily reflect the opinion of
this paper.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-26

You have only to compare results in
two major theaters to realize the I'M
portance of heavy armament. In Burma,
where we are properly equipped, we are
more than holding our own. In Honan
Province, where we have only light arms,
the recent reverses have taken place. But
ther is no chance of China's being knock
ed out of the war.-Gen. Chang Chen,
chief of Chinese military mission to the
L. s.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-26
CURRENT QUOTATIONS

The invasion (tension) has added great
ly to the strain of wartime living. Inc
number of nervous breakdoWns has IN
creased markedly-Dr. Guy F. Witt,
Dallas, Tex, psychiatrist.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-26

(The Watsonville Register aiaronian)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-07
Buy War Bonds & Stamps
Current Rationing Regulations
MEATS AND FATS

 "C8' in Book w. each worth 10 points each point, be used change. III will be valid through March marked the face of the
 PROCESSED FOODS Book IV each worth be used through May 2o Blue tokens each worth one point Green stamps " retain the values printed will be valid through March 20
  No 30 in the back of Book " valid for five pounds indefinitely will be valid for five pounds for home canning through February 2S. 1s4S
 
 stamp IS Ration pair will Ration Book III is valid indefinitely for pair designated shortly effect
 GASOLINE No coupons gallons B and B-l coupons valid for gallons B-2 . coupons valid five gallons.
  three will be in March 1S Period four coupons valid to September 3O gallons and five worth 50 gallons
 dwelling including private rented o hotels numbers of occupants and of cupancy Notice tenants Form D completed the Area Rent Office within five all rented dwelling units other than oonng houses and hotels
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-07
HOME FRONT FORECAST IMPORTED GOODS RUNAWAY PRICES ARE BEING CURED
NEW CLEANING WOES

NEW CLEANANG WOES
 Your cleaner may be in more than his usual trouble for time. Military demands for chlorinated solvents are such that none will be available for civilian use. This means that about IS per cent of the dry-clean- ing establishments, equipped to use only this type of solvent, must look around for someone to take over this part of the operation. The dif- ficulty is expected to clear up soon, according to War Production Board informants, with the big cleaning establishments which are equipped to use other types of solvents in- creasing their output.
 ODDS AND ENDS
 Members of the Toy Industry Ad- visory committee have advised WIPE that removal of restrictions on iron and steel would save manpower and wood, and result in more serviceable, lower-cost toys A slight increase in the number of passenger and truck tires released for March ra- tioning quotas has been announced .. As part of the push to get the surplus crop of potatoes consumed, Dr. Henry c. Sherman, chief of the Bureau of Human Nutrition and Home Economies, points out that potatoes are teeming with vitamins, and a fair-sized potato contributes only 100 calories to your diet, the same as an apple or three-fourths of a glass of milk. It's the butter or gravy that Is fattening.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-07

than sixty million. It won him the Peabody Medal for the outstanding l dramatic broadcast of the year. The first authorized edition Of the play itself now appears in Corwin's new Book More By Corwin, (Henry Holt and Company, Inc, $3.00) which made It's bow 10 the reading public yesterday.
 Like himself, and like his pre- vious book Thirteen by Corwln' More by Corwin' Is in a class by itself. It is sheer joy. In its four hundred pages there arc crowded phantasy and romance, humor and tragedy, realism and patriotism, all handled in a way, l for one nave never seen these handled before.
 Take the first play in the booK, Mary and the Fairy" It was pro- duced in Hollywood on August 5, 1 l94l under Corwin's direction. It was written especially for Elsa I,anches- ter who played Mary, and Ruth 1 Gordon, who played the Fairy. It has q deceptlvely simple theme. IL concerns Mary Pooter, "a good girl who worked at the perfume coun- ter in a five-and-ten cent store and took to heart everything she read and everything she saw and every" thing she heard
 She is lonely. She has dreamed of romance and glamour, hugged pillow i'll bed, looked with envy and self-pity upon happy couples in the park. When things are quiet in the perfume department, she gets to building pre-FTanco Spanish castles In the PunxSutawney (Pa) air"
 Mary wins q contest conducted by Crinkly -Crunky bread. And the Crinkly -Crunkly Good Fairy calls upon her to grant her five wishes. The wishes that Mary makes and how they come true constitutes the play. And the results are far dtf- ferent from anything any of us have ever conceived. and are there fore titillating.
 But that is only one chapter. Take another with the unappetizing title of Anatomy of Sound which Norman wrote for Gale Sonder- gaard, and which was produced by him in Hollywood on September 2, l941. Now, of course, and without doubt 1t Is absolutely impossible for any one to write pungant, spark. ling radio essay, even a dull mean- ingless. befogged imitation of one on such a subject as the Anatomy of Sound" And yet Norman Cor win has done that very thing. Don't ask me how he did it. The fact re- mains he did. And the result is swell. The piece is really treatise for solo voice, and 1t opened that September day in Hollywood with Gale Sondergaard saying: We are concerned tonight with the anatomy of common sound - your sound and my sound, and everybody'S sound. Let's talk first about the unpatent. ed, royalty-free, public domain sounds made by man and beast and wind and rain and cricketS and dy- namite. After all, our lives are full of sounds and furieS Signifying everything from the coming of dawn, as In the cockcrow, to the coming of doom, as the tolling of a Sexton's bell as in Gray's Elegy ."
 Doesn't sound very promising, does 1t" And yet sometislng-that 'ibtle something which corwin pos-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-07
WE, THE WOMEN
Successful" Woman Is One Who Shines Outside Home
From Jay Thorpe)

And, the other person starts right in to ask such questions, re- served for the successful, as Your job sounds terribly interesting; do you mind telling me how you hap pened to get started in it?" FAMILIAR FORMULA
 And she listens spellbound while the housewife tells just why she did decide to spend her life as home maker.
 And then the other person says flatteringly, You must be terribly busy. And yet your job must be very satisfying. certainly envy women who DO things. But I'm just a career woman and guess I always will be-"
 Chances are you've never witt messed scene like that. But in reverse-when the career woman is introduced as a SUCCESS-you've heard or been part of 1t numerous times.
 That shows how strongly Ameri- can feel that the successful wom- an is the one who shines outside the home, not inside it. And I wouldn't like to bet any money that our attitude, immature as 1t is, will be changed any time soon.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-07

Tonight, at 10 o'clock after yeai on the movie lots of Hollywood Norman Corwin returns to CBS in new Tuesday night series, co. lumbia Presents Corwin." The series will star Corw1n ss producer, direc- tor and, for the most part. author and they promise to be as elegant a dish of radio entertainment as can be found in a day of dialing For this Norman Corwin is a re- markable man.
 Author, producer, and director. he was born in May 3. 1910, in Bos- ton; spent the first ten years of his professional career as a news paper reporter. columnist and radio editor, was engaged by CBS in 1888 as a director producer.
 Within a year he attracted na- tional attention by producing Words Without Music" This won him the Institute of Education Award "aS the series best demon- strating the cultural, artistic and socially important uses of radio"
 On Pursuit of Happiness in October, 1899. he introduced the La Touche- Robinson "Balled For Americans to the country, and early in l941 he embarked on the titanic job of writing, directing and producing for 26 consecutive weeks the cycle ''26 by Corwin," which won the American Writers Congress Award as the best series of 1941. In December, 194l, he presented on all networks his brilliant and now his- toric We Hold These Truths"
 We Hold These Truths was written at the invitation of the U. s. Office of Facts and Figures and produced in Hollywood. December IS, 1941, under Corwins direction. The cast included Edward Arnold, Lionel Barrymore, Walter Brennan, Bob Burns, Walter Huston, Mar jorie Main. Edward G. Robinson, James Stewart, Rudy Vallee, and Orson Welles. Bernard Herman composed the score for the dramatic portion of the program, conducting a symphony orchestra in the studio in Hollywood, while Leopold Sto- kowski led the New York Philhar- monic Orchestra from New York City in the national anthem. Presi- dent Roosevelt spoke from washing ton.
 No other single dramatic perfor- nance in history. so am told, ever enjoyed so large an audience. Esti- mates based on Crossley reports placed the total number of listeners to the original production at more
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-07
Revival of Middy Mode
By EPSlE KINARD NA Stan Writer

New York - The middy outfit - which makes a girl look young enough to roll hoop In the park - leads a flock of long torso fashions which click this spring. The middy, the overblouse. the tunic, and adap- tltions of these, are a salute to a famous jumper of the past-made fashionable on two continents by Madame Gabrielle Chanel, the French designer who sponsored Etyli7ed simplicity.
 The silhouette of the middy is elim, tubular and smooth, with not an inch of superfiuouos flesh al- lowable underneath. It flatters a tidy waiStline and long, lean curves that rise above and slope beneath 1t. When it appears in jersey, as 1t often does, 1t fits the figure as sleekly as 8 stocking fits leg. Fre- quently the middy is a saucy con- tradiction of no sleeves or very ecant ones - neck as high as crewman'S sweater. One sleeveless jumper style, which contrasts a horizontally striped overblouse with a solid color skirt, has rolled col lar that rides as high as your choker beads, short cape sleeves and a massive belt.
 The revived middy is often an ensemble of two colors, with one whooped up and the other played down. Red, for instance Is starred in 8 jacket, while beige plays the supporting cast in a one-piece mid Gy dress, made to look like two pieces with a hip-hugging tuck or make-believe hem.
 In one important spring showing, where the middy style was launch ed, it appeared for around-the- clock wear. The daytime middy, cheered most loudly for its youth 3ul charm, was in 8 bright colored jersey - flerman's red or electric blue - relieved only by a round, white piQue collar and bow tie, both reminiscent of Buster Brown. For evening, sleeveless white jersey mid- dy dresses, tricked out for festivity, sparkled with paillettes and sequins.
 The two-piece overblouse out fit interprets the long torso fash- ion with 8 long-sleeved, waist fitted dressmaker blouse that fits snugly over the hips of dark, con- traSting skirt. When the long over- blouse appears in bright print and has a lowered waistline, 1t smackS of the Russian tunic. One successful style. launched by an exclusive de- Eigner. has red and white print overblousing, long full sleeves, soft, oow-tied collar, and is worn over black crepe skirt.