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Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-25
Tape Disposal
Hits TangIe

PITTSBURGH, Jan. 25. CUP)-
The simple disposal of some left
over elastic tape originally pur-
chased for a WPA sewing project,
snapped back in the faces of city
officials.
The OPA ruled that a high bid
der exceeded ceiling prices, and the
red tape involved in selling the 453
gross yards of elastic tape threat
ened to send at least one city father
to jail
Not only that, but instead of
one dealers profit amounting to
more than reported $4,000, it will
be cut by OPA regulations to a
mere S23, if all the legal refunds
are enforced.
1t all started when Supplies Di-
rector Harold F. BurnWorth sold
the tape to a high bidder Abe Rab-
ner, who exceeded the OPA's CELL
ing price. Rabner, junk dealer, in
turn sold the goods to whole
saler, who disposed of it to SO re-
tailerS.
BurnWorth almost found himself
in jail when OPA officials informed
him he had violated the Federal
war emergency law, and impounded
the elastic. But council members
rescued him by authorizing a re-
fund of s1,667 to Rabner, repre-
senting the amount he paid in eX-
cess of the ceiling level and retain
ing the legal balance of 1924.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-25
OPA PLANS PROGRAM
ON NEWSPRINT

WASHINGTON, Jan. 25. CUP)-
A war production board official
said Tuesday that neWsprint appeal
grants this year would be "draSti-
cally reduced" because estimates
show that only 1.3 per cent Of the
total newsprint available can be
used to meet appeals and other
contingencies.
Arthur L. Treanor, director OF
WPB's printing and publishing div
ision, told a special house COM
mittee investigating newsprint that
any tonnage remaining after ap-
peals would be credited to the
newspapers.
The WPB had been asked by the
committee chairman, Rep. Lyle H.
Boren, D., Okla, to explain reports
that WPB was planning to create
a "stockpile" out of extra tonnage
promised by Canadian manufactur-
erS
obviously" Treanor said, there
will be no stockpile, nor is it the
intention of the WPB to take any
action seeking to create a stock
pile"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-25
s. Burton Heath
Writes:

This war has already begun to
send back to us the inevitable sad
procession of men who must bear
for the rest of their lives the dis
figuring scars of battle. The bitter
fighting that lies ahead will add
thousands to their number. They
will be, as they always have been,
among the most tragic victims of
any war, and there is little enough
that any of us can do for them.
But at least we can start thinking
about our sponsibilities to them.
And we can heed the advice of I
group of Army nurses who are
home from II Atlantic crossings in
hospital ship that carried many
of these Scared and mutilated SOL
diers.
The nurses told of the dread with
which these men look forward to
the first meeting with their loved
ones. They urgently advised famil-
les to get a description of the SOL
dier's wounds before they see him,
and then to make every effort to
conceal the distress that the first
sight of him may cause.
1t is hard to imagine the depth
Of anxiety in which the soldier
awaits such a reunion. But 1t takes
no great perception to realize that
a thoughtless remark, or a sudden
surrender to emotion by a mother
or wife, could inflict a deeper and
10
shrapnel. 1t is serious thing for
a family to realize how much this
wounded soldiers readjustment and
whole future life depend upon
their first reaction, and the tact
and consideration with which thev
try to re-establish his former way
of living.
And a Lesser obligation rests upon
all of us. Each time anyone stares
with curiosity, or turns away with
aversion, he is reopening the wound
and making it harder for that dis
\ figured soldier to return to the
everyday life which he left as a
hale and handsome youngster.
It will be hard to meet these
men without elf-conSciouSneSs. 1t
will be easy to see the scars and
forget how they were received. But
we should all make up our minds
that our duty of consideration to
these victims of war is not going
to end when peace again becomes
a habit, and heroes are forgotten.
OVERCENTRALIZED
The following is offered as
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-25
THANKS A BILLION
(Christian Science Monitor)

How much is a billion? Don't answer
too quickly. A little reflection will dis
close it to be a variable quantity For
example, for several years before the
war, the Republicans and Democrats
or at any rate the New Deal Democrats
had quite different ideas about bill
lion To the one group it seemed like a
great deal. to the other it seemed trifle
Or that is the impression we got from
the debates over fiscal policy.
The disagreement was not confined
to American politicians. 1t was an inter-
national affair, and still is. The British
have been in the habit of regarding
billion as I million million while Amerl-
cans were content with billion winch
contained only a thousand million. IhlS
difference would seem to be wider even
than that which divided the American
Parties. 1t made some people wonder
how you could ever have peaceful
world. with cooperation and good will
and all that sort of thing when peoples
so similar as the British and the Ameri-
cans couldn't get together over the CUES
ton of few ciphers more or less in a
mathematical expression.
1t is with a smile of satisfaction, there
fore and grlmace toward Hitler and
his llk. that we note that the London
Economist pillar of the British way OF
life. has now adopted the American way
of figuring For some time it had used
billion" to represent thousand million
IN all articles on American affairs. But
now it has extended this use to all its
columns. When history, from the per
spactive Of a few hundred years, analyses
the effect Of the Economists departure,
the moving finger may write that it was
from that time onward that Americans
and Britons began to understand one
another better than Republicans and
Democrats ever intended to.
american style.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-25
AirIines Boom
Looms i'm u. s.

Il have been thinking about start
ing an airline and wonder how
to go about it."
MANY ROUTES
If all the applications were
granted, the United States would
have the widest system of air
routes that Imagination could de-
wise. Taxicab companies, under
takers, department stores, trucking
companies, railroads, and bus lines
would be flying their patrons to
and from work, on honeymoon
trips to Niagara Falls, on week
end trips to Florida and finally to
the graveyard.
Newspapers would be delivered
by plans, baby chicks would be
flown to market, and helicopter
service would be operating up and
down the Grand Canyon.
Applications now are coming in
at the rate of so to 60 a month.
The rush started last April or
May, according to Mrs. Catherine
Williams, chief of the CAB docket
section, where the applications are
received. She believes that the idea
began to spread after Northeast
AirlineS filed an extensive applica-
ton to blanket New England with
helicopter service. Helicopter ap-
plicationS to serve New England
have been particularly numerous.
BRINGS BABY
Some applicants come in person.
Mrs. Sadie Garelick Of Brooklyn
came to CAB with her baby in her
arms to explain that she and her
husband planned to buy Liberator
bomber after the war to start a
New York-Los Angeles air route.
Of the total applications filed,
800 are for new routes, 100 are for
extensions Of present service, in
Guiding additional stops on author
lied routeS-and the rest for mis-
cellaneous." There are SO applica-
tions for overseas service and six
more for Alaskan service. Helicop-
ter feeder routes are asked in 70
applicationS-and 81 others woull
provide feeder service with conven-
tional planes. Others call for char
ter service with plane or helicopter
and pickup service by pickup
devices attached to planes.
Eight steamship companies, eight
railroads, and 76 companies are
among the applicants.
PILOTS APPEAR
Several pilots now in the Army
or Navy have applied to operate
air services, recalling that World
War I ace Capt. Eddie Ricken-
backer went into commercial avia-
ton to become president of Eastern
Air Lines, one Of the four largest
domestic lines.
1t is not yet known whether the
large airlines will expand to serve
the small towns or whether the
local aviation enthusiasts may take
to the air and serve their own
communities. The trial feeder line
recently awarded to Essair, Inc, of
Texas may help decide what sue
cess a local airline can have.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-25
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE

Imperial Irrigation District will
offer for sale on February 8, 1914
the following described property:
That 50-foot by 140-foot one
story building located on the
southwest corner of Sixth and
Main Streets, Ell Centro, Cali
fornia and more commonly
known as the California Elec-
trio Power Company office
building, together with the air.
conditioning system, venetian
blinds, plumbing and lighting
fixtures, and linoleum, all in
stalled therein.
Sealed bids should be presented
to this Board on or before Febru-
ary 8, 1914 at ten o'clock am.
The Board reserves the right to
reject any or all bids.
Oral bids may be received at time
of sale provided the first oral bid
is at least ten per cent higher than
highest sealed bid. Thereafter oral
bids of not less than five per cent
of highest bid will be received.
IMPERIAL IRRIGATION
DISTRICT
G.. L. DERMODY,
Secretary.
CNo. 39) (J25-28; F1-4
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-25
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE

Imperial Irrigation District will
offer for sale on February l, 1914
the following described property:
All desks, tables, filing cabinets,
chairs, metal suitcase stands,
dressers, waste baskets, letter
trays together with one 12-foot
by 12-foot rug with pad and
other sundry office furniture
all located in the front room of
the building located on the
southwest corner of Sixth and
Main Streets, El Centro, Cali
fornia.
Sealed bids should be presented
to this Board on or before Febru-
ary l, 1914 at ten o'clock am.
The Board reserves the right to
reject any or all bids.
Oral bids may be received at
time of sale provided the first oral
bid is at least ten per cent higher
than highest sealed bid. There
after oral bids of not less than five
per cent of highest bid will be
received.
IMPERIAL IRRIGATION
DISTRICT
G.. L. DERMODY,
Secretary.
(No. 400 (J25-23)
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-25
HlNGS LOOK
BARK FOF HITLER

= The time seems at hand when Hitler
must draw once more on his inspired
Self for help. Prongs of multiplying
drives are pointing straight for Berlin
and the ring of allied steel is reducing its
diameter daily. And in the background.
awaiting the signal due any moment, is
the invasion from the west. Military and
eivilian observers are agreed that Der
Fnehrer is nearing the final and crush
ing blow. Many observers believe Hitler,
too, sees the end.
FaThere is no doubt that the Germans
llever can recover from their defeats in
Russia and strike east again. While 1t
night appear that the allies Italy cam
paign has moved slowly, nevertheless.
the Germans have been on the defensive
there from the start and have been back
ing up all tn time. From that direction
q brushing blow can, and will fall soon.
The naZi central front in Russia has been
bulged to the north and SOUTH this hap
pened when the Russ went straight
through into Poland Large bodies Of
Hitler's soldiers are pocketad in the Len
inprad offensive; similarly, many dlvl-
sions probably can't be extricated at the
extreme southern tip of the Russ front.
Tn the Balkans both the military and
political tide is turning against the Ger
mans and a sweeninp collapse there is
now momentarily likely.
sPerhaps the most perilous situation
for Hitler is in the almost complete con-
trsl bv the allies of his far-reachlng sup
lfly lines. The Mediterranean has been
cIssed for months. The Atlantic has been
ranaoved from his U-boat menace and,
what perils him most, perhaps is the de-
,solishment day by day of vast Industrial
areas within the bounds of the Reich as
vel as in occupied countries. Norway
Is not nearly the military asset 1t has
lr-an from the start of Its occupatloh'
Maintenance of control armies IN the oc-
tirpied countries now is a terrltic Dram
On the fighting man-poWer OF the 1ef-
n-sns. He also has reached the END OF his
String in expanding into hitherto unoc-
6ried nations. like Spain and Portugal. l..
From now on Hitler must draw the
,haior parts of his war sinews from Ger
ranv itself. No one knows how long ne
dajo do that. but there is plenty OF mol
cations that the German people not only
can't. but won't. do much. All Is not
serene on the home front.
Most certainly it is not to be easy 60
;ag for the allies. but as certainly der
FTyehrer has passed his peak and 1t re-
rrsins only to be seen how long ne can
haf+le the overwhelming odds that tin9
md Justice have been laying up against
Gnn. :, H.. ao,,,
sMost outstanding of all the dark
things charging in Hitler's wake IS the
ecrr increasing. unending flow of war
cnnnlies from the United States
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-25
FLAX SEED BY-PRODUCT
EXEMPTED BY OPA

Seed flax tow, a by-product of
the seed industry in Imperial
county, which is used mainly as a
raw material in the production of
cigarette papers, will be exempted
from price control as of Monday,
January "a, according to an an
nouncement made by the Ell Centric
OPA office.
There are four imp porta n t
sources Of this product and it's out
let was termed so limited that the
OPA decided to drop price control
if the sellers file with a listing of
prices for March, 1912, for current
sales and an agreement not to
change future prices without 30
days notice to buyers" the an
nouncement said.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-25

WASHINGTON, Jan. 25. (UP)-
The hopes and ambitions of many
an American citizen as we'll as the
postwar plans of all the large air
lines are outlined in the $50 appli-
cations now pending with the Civil
Aeronautics Board.
The law requires that public
hearings be held on all applications,
and the Realistically perfect docu-
mentS OF Pan American Always
await attention long with many a
letter from individuals who say,
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-25
MIND YOUR
MANNERS

Test your knowledge of cor
rect social usage by answering
the following questions, then
checking against the authorita-
tive answers below:
l. In conversation is it better
to speak Of a "house" or resi-
dence"?
2. Is it better to say II am
planning to purchase or Il am
planning to buy?
8. Is it better to say Il recall
or L remember?
4. In introducing person
should you Say,"I want to make
you acquainted with" or II want
you to know?
5. Is it better to say Il will
inform you" or It will let you
know?
What would you do if
You are describing house
(a) Say that it is an elegant
house?
(b) Say that it is a beautiful
house?
Answers
l. A house.
2. The latter.
3. The latter.
q. I want you to know.
s. The latter. Simple words are
always better than pretentious
sounding words.
Better What Would You Do"
solution-(b).
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-25

clnching proof to those who have
been maintaining right along that
we depend too much on our central
lied government.
The other day in WASHINGTON. a
young husband came home to dis
cover that the little woman had
skipped town with an oily, rascally
rival.
Did the young husband rush forth
with fire in his eye, full of righteous
indignation and pioneer spirit, with
fists clenched or, perhaps, packing
a horsewhip?
He did not. He rushed down town
to the United States attorneys Of
flee, breathlessly announced that
someone had stolen his wife, and
asked for a warrant.
Last we heard, the United States
attorney was holding up the war
rant, trying to determine whether
theft of a wife is grand or petty
larceny.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-25
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
OF DOING BUSI-
NESS UNDER FICTITIOUS
FIRM NAME

The undersigned do hereby GER
tify that they are conducting a
business of operating motion pic
ture theatres and other properties
under the fictitious firm name of
SILVER CREST THEATRES.
The principal office of said bus
mess in California is Del Mar The
atre, Sorensen Street, Calipatria,
California.
The said firm is composed of the
following persons whose names and
places of residence are as follows:
B. v. Sturdivant, 2266 North Hol-
liston Avenue, Altadena, Los An
geles County, California.
E. B. Sturdivant, Yuma, Arizona.
E. N. Sturdivant, Somerton Hotel,
Somerton, Yuma County, Arizona.
Carolyn Kuschell, 1247 South
LongWood Avenue, Los Angeles,
California.
Harry T. CAN'T, 748 Magnolia
Street, Brawley, California.
Witness our hands this 10 day of
jan, 1914.
B. v. Sturdivant,
E. B. Sturdiyant,
e. N. Sturdivant,
Carolyn Kuschell,
Harry T. Can't.
STATE OF CALIFORNIA }
} SIS.
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES
On this 10 day of January, 1914,
before me, the undersigned, No
tary Public in and for said County
and State, personally appeared B.
v. STURDIVANT, :, E. B. STURDI-
WANT, E. N. STURDIVANT, CAR
OLYN KUSCHELL and HARRY +.
CAN'T, known to me to be the
persons who signed the foregoing
and acknowledged to me that they
executed the same.
Witness my hand and official
seal.
M. w. DWYER,
(SEAL) Notary Public in and for
said county and state.
My commission expires
March 20, 1916.
(No. 36) (J18-25-F1-8)
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-25
REPUBLICAN LEADER
ATTENDS MEETING

Fern Young, CaleXico, Chairman
of the Imperial county Republican
central committee has returned
from a meeting of the executive
campaign committee of southern
California held on the coast At
this meeting comprehensive plans
for the 1914 campaign were dis
clude the presidential as well as
cussed and formulated. Plans in
state and county campaigns. All
attending tHc meeting, said Mr..
Young, declared present trends in
sure a sweeping Republican VIC
tory
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-25
GETS POsTHUMOUS AWARD

LONDON, Jan. 25. CUP)-Pos-
thumous award of the distinguish
ed service order to Acting Wing
Commander Lance Wade of Tucson.
Ariz., one of the leading fighter
pilots in the Mediterranean theater,
was announced by the air ministry
Tuesday. The Royal air force flier
was killed when his plane crashed
in italy last week. He already held
the distinguished flying cross with
two bars. After winning the second
bar, he destroyed five more enemy
aircraft, making a total of at least
% victories.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-25
First WAC Wins
CoIone|cy Rank

WASHINGTON, Jan. 25. UP)--
The Women's Army Corps had its
first lieutenant colonel Tuesday.
She is Betty Bandel, former Tue
son, Ariz., newspaper reporter who
was graduated with the first WAC
officer class and rose rapidly to
become deputy to WAC Director
Col. Oveta Culp Hobby. She is visit
ing WACS now in England with
Col. Hobby.
Her promotion from the rank of
major was announced by the war
department Tuesday.
Col. Bandels chief duties are
supervising activities of all WACS
at army air force posts in this
country and advising on WACS
abroad.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-25
LAUNCHING SET

NEW YORK, Jan. 25 (UP)-The
mightiest battlewagon of them all,
the new 45000-ton U. S. S. Missouri
will slide down the ways at the
Brooklyn Navy Yard next Saturday
to take her place in the greatest
war armada of history, Rear Ad-
miral Monroe Kelly, commandant
of the yard, announced. More
powerful than any craft ever to
sail the seas, the Missouri, on COM
pletion, will be the fourth dread
naught of the Iowa" class to be
put into service by the navy since
the start of the war.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-25
GETS PARDON

WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 tUP)-
President Roosevelt has pardoned
Lieutenant General Robert c..
Richardson, Jr, commander Of the
army's Hawaiian department, who
was cited and fined for contempt
by a federal judge in Honolulu.
Richardson was cited several months
ago by Judge Delbert E. Metzger
when he refused to recognize writs
of habeas corpus calling on him to
produce in civil court proceedings
two military prisoners of German
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-25
SUPER NAZI ACE DOWNED

LONDON, Jan. Is. tUP)-Major
Prince zu Sayn- Wittbenstein, COM
mander of German night fighter
squadron, has been shot down after
having scored his 83rd night fighter
victory in destroying five British
bombers," German high command
communique said Tuesday The an
nouncement, broadcast by Radio
Berlin, said he died heroically in
a night engagement against enemy
terror bombers," and that Adolf Hit
Ter had honored him posthumously
with oak leaves with swords to
the knights cross of the iron cross.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-25
Mexico States
Raising Of
Railroad Rates

MEXICO CITY, Jan. 25. CUP)--
Anglo American railroad circles
here interpreted Mexico'S new rail-
road law. which gave the govern
ment power to take over all for
eign roads in event of an emer-
gency, "legaliZation' of de
facto condition.
They do not think it preSaged
confiScation, as some quarters Sug-
gested, but admitted it might be
a preliminary to raising railroad
tariff rates, which are the lowest
in the world.
TO PUSH CONTROL
Veteran railroaders said it SEEM
ed to them the principal purpose
of the law, which President Man.
uel Aviia Camacho asked Congress
to pass, was to extend the gov
ernment's control to the many
feeder" lines, mostly owned by
American mining companies, which
heretofore have been outside Mex
ico's direct jurisdiction.
With that control guaranteed
now, tariff rates can be hiked uni
formly throughout the republic so
that the Mexican national treasury
can benefit from the war-boOm
freightage rolling at an unprece-
dented pace to the United States.
There have been various reports
that the Southern Pacific Roalroad
of Mexico, the Southern Pacific
Co.'S big Mexican subsidiary, and
the Mexican Railroad Co., English
owned, would be absorbed into the
national governments network Of
lines.
Spokesman for both companies
said the new law did not worry
them.
"Confiscation of our lines, and
even militarization, are out of the
question" one official said. When
Mexico was in actual danger of in
vasion and attack, as she was at
the beginning of the war, it was
plausible. But not now
OUTLINES VIEWS
THE law merely legaliZeS a de
factor condition, and brings the
small feeder lines under the same
control we are subject to-
"If it tpresages' anything, it pres
ages tariff rates hike. Right now
Mexico has the lowest tariff in the
world, lower even than in Eng
land"
Southern Pacific is the second
largest American enterprise in
Mexico and, except for the govern
ment-owned National Railways, is
the largest railway system. 1t en-
ploys more than 5000 workers and
netted about S240,000 in 1941, the
first profit ir rs histo,y. 1t is ex-
pected, when bookkeeping rs COM
pleted, that 1943 viii show q mi
lar net.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-25
TAKEN TO l.. A.

TAKEN TO l.. A.
A 15-year-old boy who started
a career of crime in FL Centre two
years ago, has been taken to Los
Angeles by officers of that city to
face charges. Latest of his esca-
pades was an attempted break
from the county Jail in Ell Centro
where he was held at the request
of the Los Angeles officers. The
coast officers said he escaped from
juvenile hall there, stole a car, and
started to Arizona with a 17-year-
old ward of the Los Angeles jul
Venile court.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-25
SEE MONOPOLY

WASHINGTON, Jan. Is UP)-
The department of the interior
protested today that the Alaska
Fisheries bill sponsored by Sen.
Mon C. Wallgren, D., Wash, would
aid the creation of monopoly .
Herbert j. Slaughter, assistant
solicitor for the department, at a
commerce subcommittee
hearing filed a lengthy report on
the bill, which would establish new
regulations for the $60,000000 a
year industry.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-25
DIES IN AIR CRASH

SHREVEPORT, La, Jan. 25 (UP)
The names of five men who we're
killed in a bomber crash at Barks-
dale Field here Sunday night were
announced today by field officials.
The dead included Second Lieu
tenant Richard Taylor Robinson,
27, pilot, Bostonia, Calf.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-25
Editorials and Comment

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