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Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-31
WpB Sees Need
To Increase
Output Of Paper

WASHINGTON, Oct. 81 up
The War Production Board esti-
mates that production of 100000
additional tons CT all types OF print
ing papers would lee needed to raise
the nations paper supply TO l94l
levels.
Tie estimate Was based on re-
ports presented at a meeting OF the
newspaper publishers industry ad-
visory committee, WPB said, and
represents the approximate annual
reduction required by WPB limita-
ton orders governing paper.
Pointing out that waste paper in
ventories remain at lew levels, de-
spite current collections of approXi-
mately $4,000 tons monthly, Off
cials emphasized that wastepaper
collection and pulpwood cutting
campaigns must be continued.
WPB announced it had received
a report from a task committee
which has been studying prcspec-
tive imports of Swedish neWsprint
that the U. S. could expect only
about 100000 tons year after the
Nazi blockade is lifted -.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-31
Official Fears
'Sharpers' Will
Cheat Soldiers

SACRAMENTO. Oct. 81. CUP)-
Blue sky" securities peddlers hope
to dc a big business with returning
war veterans and when war bonds
are cashed. Edwin M Daugherty
commissioner of corporations, has
warned
Daugherty told q governors coun-
Gil meeting that while he had no
concrete evidence that promoters
may attempt to pressure the legisla-
ture into relaxing restrictions on
stock investments, "it is. something
to watch carefully"
Benjamin Corlett, also reporting
to the governors council, said regu-
lations for lending money to war
veterans for the purchase of homes
were issued last week by the federal
government but corresponding in
etructions covering farm and busi-
ness loans apparently have not been
prepared.
The delay in getting instructions
TO the bankers to assist them IN
making CT loans has resulted in un-
warranted criticism of banks, Cor
lett said.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-31
Inquiry Seeks
Opinion on
Returning Japs

SACRAMENTO, Oct. 81. (UP)-
Charles M Wollenberg, state direc-
tor of social welfare, disclosed he
had been asked by the War Reloca-
ton Authority to inquire in Cali
fornia counties as to what would be
the public attitude to return to the
state of persons of Japanese citi-
zenship and ancestry.
Wollenberg said he had refused
to make any such investigations on
grounds return of the japanese is
a federal responsibility. He indi-
Gated he believed the request meant
the WRA was contemplating early
return of japanese to the coast
His department apparently was
asked to make the Investigations,
Wollenberg said, because it assisted
in the removal of the japanese
from areas in 1912 when the evacu-
alton was ordered by the western
defense command of the army.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-31
FOURTH TERM:
CENTRAL ISSUE

(ChrlStlan Science M0nltof)
1t is high time the fourth-term issue
was given the attention it deserves IN the
great decision American voters must
make on November Z. We can understand
why it has been submerged by the Presi-
dents supporters. And many Democrats,
Republicans and independents who were
profoundly disturbed in 1910 over the
prospect of a Third Term seem to as
sumo that once broken the two-term
tradition now doesn't much matter.
The Republicans have not made any
major argument for their platform plank
favoring a Constitutional amendment to
set two-term limit. And there has been
very little discussion of the lmpersonal
and nonpartisan objections to foufth
term. This newspaper went into the ad-
vantapes of the tWO-term limit rathef
thoroughly in 1910 and has on several oc-
casiOns this year pointed to experience
with the third term which relntorces oo-
iections to a fourth. We do not intend
70 he put off by the effort to submerge
this issue and the fundamentals when
lie behind it.
People too easily accept the argument
that the voter should not be concerned
about a fourth term, that his problem Is
simply. "Who is better qualified to 90 the
iob?" Is there not another question,
(Which choice will better preserve ana
foster free government IN the Onlteu
States?" ;u4
The two-term tradition was not 1us'
a custom into which Americans drliteu.
It was a precedent established Wltn lore
+honqht bv the same wisdom when es-
tablished the nation. 1t was carried on i
through generations by statesmen IN poth
TO pt q ions TO break II.
The Founding Fathers had had bitter
avnerience with one-man rule and tney
had read history. They had observed the
subtle process by which dependence on
nersonqlitv vitiates the self-reliance re-
anisite to ,self-government. Ihey knew
that the decay of free government peglns
not when one man declares himself TO
ba Indispensable but when the people
come to think him so. 80.
There are also practical political dan
gers which the Founders may not nave
foreseen. They could not know tnat the
t;n,a wonld come when a president
throuoh his control of office : holders
could insure denomination by his party.
Nor could they imagine the day Wnen
there would be 100000 federal employ,
pc making, with their familes o ana
friends. a voting army of some lo'ooo'ooV'
Is II unreasonable to say then that now
ever good Mr.. Roosevelt's intentlohs, we
have in America already the beginnings
of a popular mood and polltlcal hiach-
inc which if allowed to develop, coulo oe
instruments ms ready to the hand Of a
streamlined despot? Can anyone still
COW there is no more involved than the
nsnal question, Which man will do the
better lob? Is it not time to recognize
the fourth term as vital issue?
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-31
Nation S Deayilt
Increases i'm
Children Apparel
Copyright, 1914. by United Press

lSOpyfIgHi, l544, Dy CIhttu TIcs>I
The nation is experiencing q
shortage of children's clothing sc
severe that III five leading cities it is
virtually impossible to clothe COM
pletely q child from the stocks OF
leading retail stores, United Press
survey di5Closes.
The NEST acute shortage is in un-
derwear for boys and girls between
the ages of . and IA. IN all CT the
largest cities it was periodically un-
obtainable. Children's pajamas were
practically non-eXistent. knlcker-
bockers and little girl dresses were
estimated by some merchants at as
low aS Is per cent = the demand.
ORDERS SPEED-CI'
Last week the War Production
Board ordered speed-up production
and distribution OF about 80 0,000,OOO
pieces CT infant and children cloth
ing between December !, 1914 and
, February 28, 1915. The order MADE
available to manufacturers 10000
600 yards of specified cotton mate
rials, such as broadcloth, flannel
ettes. denim. poplins and prints. The
/ order was aimed particularly at pro-
| viding a 1upply of loW-priced items
which, according 70 the United
Press survey, had all but disap-
ueared from the market.
Merchants attributed the short
age to lack CT materials and man
| power
All cities reported that parents
were accepting the shortages philoS-
ophically as one Of the inconvenl-
ences of wartime living. TIE same
layettes were being used by success
sions of babies, being passed from
one family to the next through mu-
tual friends. Older children were
being outfitted similarly in hand
me-dcwns. Mot ers wanting TO
| make underwear, shirts and dresses
on their own sewing machines had
created shortages in plain cotton
cloth.
TIE merchants interviewed ac-
| knowledged increases in prices over
the prewar levels despite OPA price
ceilings. .5...
GIVE COST RISES
New York merchants give these
examples: children's sweaters retail
ing for S5 that formerly sold for
s298, boys suits formerly selling
for $25, now selling at S35 to $40; a
dozen dresses for small girls that
before the war cost S825 wholesale,
now costing SIS.
A Chicago merchant said he had
4 stock Of girl coats, size 4, at $42 50
that were almost Identical" with
coats he sold before the war at SIC.
A San Francisco department store
buyer said $3.50 now was the popu-
lar price for a girls dress. It used to
be S225.
An official of the Atlanta branch
of the Office of Civilian Require
ments said sl.25 now was the lowest
level for children's garments. Before
the war it was so cents.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-31
Editorials and Comment

through having to modify the budget in
the interim Industry and business, as
an entity, should have as little frequency
as possible in fiscal matters pertaining
to the state. A Solid sensible and honest
two-year fiscal program not only is pos
sible. but fully feasible.
Manifestly it would be hard to transact
all the business in 90 days and so the
matter of special sessions still would be
present.
We believe in keeping pace with the
changing times, but we insist that where
an institution like the present legislative
session plan is responsive to all the needs
of the people, it should be left alone.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-31

Rations delivered by air to troops
in Burma are so SUBSTANTIALLY
packed that they can be dropped
safely without parachutes. A ration
of food for one man for "a hours Is
packed in two tins. One contains
corned mutton, the other provides
10 specially vitamized biscuits, tea,
milk in a tube, sugar, two SLABS OF
raisin chocolate, one slab of plain
chocolate, two oatmeal blocks, one
meat block. cheese, 30 salt tablets,
lam, packet of chewing gum bolieo
sweets and packet of "fizz" tablets.
Cigarettes. specially packed in tins
which contain 20, are dropped Sepa-
rately.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-31
HTS K-a CORPS SALES

NEW YORK, Oct. 81. (UP)-The
American Society for the Preven-
ton of Cruelty to Animals joined
the American Humane association in
protest of the army's decision to
sell at auction 1000 K-9 Corps vet
Grams of the war. Criticizing the
armys plan to sell dogs whose for
mer owners can no longer accom-
modate them, Alexander S. Webb,
president of the ASPCA, called the
measure an exceedingly unhappy
and ungrateful means of disposing
CT dogs that have served their coun-
try
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-31
FOOTBALL PLAYERS GIVE
PARTY FOR GIRLS

HCLTVILLE, Oct. 3!.-Members
Of the Holtville High school foot
ball squads entertained a group of
girls at party Monday night.
Games and refreshments of ice
cream and cookies featured the eve
ming in addition to the main part
of the program, dancing.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-31
URGES HOLIDAY WORK

WASHINGTON, Oct. 81. up
Chairman j. A. krug of the war
Production Board called on Ameri-
can war plants to observe full work
schedules en- Thanksgiving Day and
the Thanksgiving Day week end.
THE biggest part of the production
job still remains to be DONE" Krug
said. THE best way we can observe
our holidays is to devote them
wholeheartedly to the bfg job at
hand" Krug's request was in line
with the WPB and armed services
policy of regarding Christmas and
the Christmas week end as the only
holidays on which war work should
be interrupted.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-31

Brigadier General A. G. Gillespie
commanding Watervliet Arsenai
Saws the highly mobile nine-ton sos
can m he towed by an 18-ton tractor
Of a crosc-country speed of at least
rs miles an hour and can De piaceo
in firing position in about four MN, III,
rtes A good crew, he says, can ee'
off about 20 shots minute
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-31

EDITORS NOTE: The foliOwing edit
Orials are presented as interesting 0piH-
ions uOiced by editors elsewhere. 1hey
do not necessarily reflect the opinion OF
this paper.
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900 tons annually, and by the spring
OF 1914 will approach 90 900 900 tons.
The rise in steelmaking capacity and
the apparent passing of the peak
of war demand mean that authori-
ties must now tackle the problem
of how soon and how much to relax
or rescind certain Government re-
strictions. and regulations affecting
the civilian use of steel.
Alvan Macauly, president Auto
motive Council for War Production
The automobile industry will enter
the new year Of 1914 with its 1888
principal war plants converted 100
per cent to war production and
operating at production rate in
excess of $4,000, 000, 900 per year.
During 1913 the automobile industry
produced an estimated $3.50 900 900
in materials of war, and as the
year ends, the industry has a back
log OF orders totaling more than
s14.000, 00O, 900.
John L. Collyer, president b. F.
Goodrich Co.-The Nation must now
rely mainly upon synthetic rubber
F.. Looking beyond the immediate
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Rising Output
Backs Growing
u. 5. Drives
Record Flow Of Steel
Provides Bosis for
Overwhelming Might
BY HUDSON PHILLIPS,
Associated Press Financial Writer.

NEW YORK, Jan. 1.-American
plants drummed out more produce
ton in 1913 than ever before In the
history of the United States as tho
military primed its forces for all
out global offensives in the coming
year.
Overwhelming numbers of ships,
tanks, guns. ammunition, airplanes
and mechanical implements of war
helped use an estimated record high
production Of SO. 4o0, 900 tons of steel
lngots during the year-almost dou-
BILE the output of 50,500, 900 in 1917.
peak year OF the last World War.
United, States production alone
was about IS per cent greater than
the estimated 5000, 000-ton output
OF Germany, Japan and occupied
countries and was nearly double the
81, 300, 900 tons made in 1899. The
United Nations aggregate out
weighed Axis steel tonnage two to
one.
New Petroleum Peak.
To fuel these planes, tanks and
ships, petroleum production was
pushed to around 1,500, 900 900 bar
rels IN 1913. This compared with
1886. 645 300 in 1912, the previous
peak of 1,402 ,228,000 in 1941 and
355 $4,000 in 1918, high for World
War I.
These military oil needs-for tina
campaigns in North Africa, Sicily.
Italy, the Pacific and for European
bombings-kept Americans strin-
gently rationed. One Congressman
estimated We were supplying 80 per
cent OF the United Nations oil re.
quiremerts.
Electricity Needs Increase.
Wartime needs for electricity in
creased 1943 production to a record
estimated 221 ,o00, 100000 kilowatt-
hours, compared to 189, 900, 900 900 in
1912 and puny $4,000 900 600 in the
1918 peak of the last war.
Use of electricity to make precious
aluminium and magnesium and to
process iron, steel and synthetic rub.
Der helped establish the new peak.
About 80 per cent of American
homes now are wired for electricity,
compared with only one out Of three
in the last war.
Utility companies continued to In.
crease generating capacity until it
reached record $4,000 900 klowatts
at the end of 1913 against $4,000, 600
in 1918. About 10000 900 of current
capacity is spare.
Sale Of natural gas to ultimate
consumers Gin millions of cubic feet
were estimated at 4 record high Of
1,s76,4l6 in 1913 against 1,767 ,8l4 in
1912 and 1,318,834 in 1887, while sales
Of manufactured gas were figured at
peak Of 49, 53 for 1943 compared
with 44o,377 in 1e42 and 344,502 in
1887.
Coal Production Boosted.
Coal production reached q record
high Of approximately 585 900 900
tons this year. but the Nation faces
crisis in fuel because more than
A, 900 900 tons were not mined dur
ing the miners strikes. Last year
output was $4,000, 900 tons and in
| 1889 it was 394.855, 900.
Approximately 275,o00 tons of syn.
thetic rubber were made in l943,
against feeble 22,500 in 1912, and
$50. 900 tons are anticipated for 1914.
! New tonnage highs also were set
/ for aluminium, magnesium, copper,
lead, zinc and some other strategic
metals.
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the war require
ments and the
armed force
Long - distance
messages origi-
mating in WASH
ington through
November were
% per C e n t
greater than in
1912.
Govern m e n t
restrictions on
telephone install
l a t | ms have
substantial ef-
feet, IN or,era-
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AaAS IN VI WI
men come the
apparatus with
" h ich victory
will be won. j..
Notwithstanding
the fact that in
the first nine
months of this
year We manu-.
featured an d
shipped m ore
apparatus than
We did In the
entire IL months
of 1912. ur
backlog Of un-
AllAd AHdArS afil1
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By the Associated Press.


The men whose decisions can Gre
ate new factories and even new
industries-and with them Jobs
are planning for peace.
Winning the war is their first
interest. But in nearly every execu-
tive mind there is at least a small
niche for postwar ideas, for analyses
Of conditions after the enemy is
crushed.
They are proud Of the production
they have achieved, production Of
weapons and equipment which di-
rectly and indirectly are winning
this war.
Some are apprehensive of the
postwar period, others are opti-
mistic.
Here is a cross-section Of what
representative executives are saying
as they review l943 and look ahead:
David Sarnoff, president Radio
Corp. Of America-The future of
radio is an ever-increasing circle
within whose orbit new peacetime
services are being evolved through
wartime research and engineering.
e L. - ~
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Store Sales Set
New Record Of
Billions
Higher Prices Account
For Most of Gain
Over 1912 Levels
BY JUDSON PHILLIPS,

NEW YORK. Jan. !. - Americans
bought everything they could lay
their hands on in 1943-from paper
soled shoes to wooden springed
mattresses-and pushed up the sales
of all retail stores to a record
smashing estimate Of 500 900 900, 900.
But, says the Department of Com
merce, Old Man Imitation caused
consumers to put out about one
third more money in l943 than they
would have paid for similar mer-
Ichandise in peace years.
After allowing as far as possible
for price changes" said the Fed
eral agency, "the 1943 total is re-
duced to AT billion 1858 dollars.
only l per cent larger than in 1912. {"
On dollar-value basis, this years
sales were estimated at 9 per cent
higher than the revised 1912 total
io1 s57 100000, 900 - previous high
record.
No 1914 Letup Expected.
Apparently there will be no letup
IN 1914 if the stores can help it.
although they are warily buying
substitutes on a hand-to-mouth
basis as much as possible because
they feel the public will drop such
merchandise like hot cakes the day
peace arrives.
Continuing in 1914 probably will
be the virtual absence of durable
goods-new refrigerators. kitchen
stoves, radios and a myriad of other
articles made from metals. Some
relief may come, however. because
the War Production Board has in
dicated clocks, irons, washing ma
chimes, and similar items may be
produced in limited numbers.
The WPB found in recent sur
vey based on about 5000 interviews
IN 90 representative localities that
Americans were more bothered over
butter than over any other wartime
shortage. Next most worrisome
were shortages of meat, sugar, soap
and canned goods.
The report showed consumers
were annoyed about inability to buy
small items like bobby pins or flash
light batteries. Under a question
What's bothering you most?" were
listed elastic, washtubs. sheets.
pals, dress fabrics, tableware.
Iclothespins. women's girdles, iron
cords and radio tubes.
The Commerce Department t
pointed out that independent re-
tailers were enjoying comparatively
better business in wartime than
chain stores and mail order houses
because price control. ration,ng ana
other restrictions apparently were
more favorable to their merchan.
dising efforts.
Chain CAMS Small.
Independent store sales will show
an estimated gain Of los per cent
over 1912, while chain store bust
ness will be approximately IS per
cent above last year.
Chain stores had an answer for
this, however They charged that
many Independents had frankly
overlooked price ceilings and that
some had got merchandise from the
black market, whereas chains OBJ
served price limitations and got
their products only through legiti-
mate trade channels.
Early estimates on Christmas
sales this year indicated they would
be roughly around 20 per cent high
er than 1912.
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nIled orders etil 0esrse D. buehef.
continues to be over q billion dol
lars. Reconversion Of all our
plants to peacetime pursuits should
be accomplished In matter Of
months.
Ernest r. Breech, president. Ben
dix Aviation Corp.-The amazing
job OF expansion which has enabled
American industry to produce dur
ing lS43 more than $4,000, 000, 900
worth Of planes. representing a 14o
per cent increase in tonnage over
1912, will be continued this year.
What such a giant industry does in
wartime, and what happens to it
when peace returns. is of tremen-
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New York Bond SoIes
Top 3 Billion for Year

~ Ute HoeVSldteu FlesS.
NEW YORK. Jan. 1.-Sales of
bonds on the New York Stock Ex-
change exceeded $1,000 1000, 900 in
1943 for the first time since 1896.
With the figures for part of De-
cember estimated, total turnover
this year aggregated $3,250, O00, 900.
This compared with actual sales of
$2,3l3,l9 ESQ In 1912 and $2,114,098,-
$50 In 1911. The turnover In 1896
vHS 80 ,576 ,878, 900.
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tlldli Ill 4S4Z, ali
increase of %
per cent. Reve-
nues increased,
but not in pro-
portion to the
number Of pas
sengers.
The sale of to-
kens at three for
Is cents rather
than six for so
cents resulted in
a reduction in
the average fare
from IA cents to
6.75 cents In the
latter part of the
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Industry Working at Top Speed Pave Way for Allied Victory
Capitol Leaders Optimistic,
Building Boom Predicted

Washington executives point to
many accomplishments during 1913
and are decidedly optimistic regard
ing the future, as revealed in the
following very brief interviews:
Clarence E. Kefauver, president
OF the District Building and Loan
League. believes all indications point
to a building boom of considerable
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soc iations, in
vestment houses
and other fnan-
cial institutions.
T he b IN ks
b o u 6 h t huge
blocks Of Gov
eminent bonds
for their own
accounts and
distributed mil
lions in ar
Bonds to indi-
viduals and cor
porations during
the special cam
palPnS. Thew
gave an amaz-
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with a gain Of 34,271 telephones in
the District of Columbia in the first
II months of 1912, the gain in the
same 1943 period was only 8,074.
There are indications that the
long-distance traffic resulting from
the war may have reached the peak.
Passenger Records Broken.
E. D. Merrill, president Of the Cap
ital Transit Co., reported IS, 708, 476
more revenue passengers were car
ried in the first 10 months of 1943
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OeliCl t1ACC-ycdI
period, the 1913
sales volume be-
ing % per cent
ahead of 1910.
M ore an
Sill, 900 " as
S p e n t in the
1941 AS period,
increasing the
company's prop
erty investment
by Is per cent.
B q s | c i'm
p row e m ent in
the CO m pany's
financial 81 t u
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Electricity Demand Heavy.

sales OF electric
energy showed
an increase of
1897 per cent
over last year.
Net income in
creased by $751;
826. or 1887 per
cent.
The company
has met all the
e n large war
needs for cleo
trio service from
the Federal and
District govern
mentS. railroads.
street railway
and commercial
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d r e a m e d OF
heights of pro-
d u C tion an
p ! a n e S, ships,
munitions a n d
other vital ma
t e r l a Is needed
for victory, and
now we begin to
see the defeat OF
Germany in 1914
and Of Japan
in 1915.
But the very
fact tn a t we
have come so far
=
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Executives Planning for Peace
Despite HeuvyWor Tasks

dous significance to millions of
Americans. The aviation indus
try has no thought OF being able to
maintain employment Of anything
experimenting wartime levels
but it is within the power Of
American aviation science and in
dustry to contribute substantially to
increased American income in the
future.
Walter s. Tower, President,
American Iron and Steel Institute
The steel industry OF the United
States IN 1913. for the fourth con-