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Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-02
BY JOHN SPRINGER

FRESNO. Cal, Nov .. up
Frank Fox, 75-year-old San Joaquin
valley farmer, has Iad misfortunes
which would cause many men to
tess in the sponge Among other
handicaps, Fox has been blind for
the past % years. Yet he continues
to aStoniSh neighbors by capably
performing chores such as milking,
picking grapes and feeding live
stock-in fact, all the work neces-
sary to operation of his thriving 10
acre ranch near Herman, California
Thirty-five years ago. Fox lest the
sight of one eye after being Strutk
by blazing cinder in the railroad
yards in Omaha, Nebraska. Shortly
thereafter, while repairing a fence,
he was stricken totally blind when
piece of wire snapped out of hand,
piercing the retina of his other eye.
Then he began casting about for
another occupation. eventually set
Ting Cn his present tract, and has
learned to do a job of farming
which would do credit to any man
} of 75-eyeS or no eyes.
Two years ago-at the age of .73-
Fox was attacked by a maddened
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-02
CERTIFIES COAST CASE

WASHINGTON, Nov. .. CUP)--
Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins
has certified TO the War Labor
Board a dispute between Lockheed
Aircraft Corp, Burbank. California,
and 60500 employees represented by
the International Association of
MachinistS tAFL). Issues include
upgrading, lunch period. settlement
of grievances ana classification
plan. She also certified a dispute
between three lamp manufacturing
companies in Cleveland and 2C35
employees represented by the United
Electrical Workers (CIO. The
companies involved are Cleveland
Lamp Works, East Cleveland Lamp
Works and Euclid Lamp Works. The
issue is reclassification of en-
ployes.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-02
Chinese Editor
Strikes at
Chungking Regime

RUNNING. China, Nov. 2. CUP)-
The Yunnan Daily News, independ-
ent provincial newspaper, bitterly
criticized the Chungk.ng govern
ment Wednesday for corruption,
retreatism, waitingism"
This dispatch was transmitted
from Running, capital of Kunwing
province, by United Press corre-
spondent Albert Ravenholt, and
cleared censors at ChungkingD
Replying to accusations by the
national army newspaper Sac Tang
Pao that Yunnan province was
guilty of provincialism' in pub
licly requesting additional arms and
equipment for Yunnan troops, the
Daily News said "provincialism"
might prove more beneficial to
China than "FaScism which de-
prives the people of their demo-
cratic riohtS."
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-02
Il Rise to Remark"

er than five minutes after being hit.
In such cases, the percentage saved
is 81. I have seen men who were hit
in Normandy and were i'm England
tive hours later. Front line atten-
ton; field hospitals; base hospitals.
special hospitals and methods; all
these back up today's soldier. I
sometimes think he is in less danger
than driving an automobile on the
highways of California in peace
time.
Let me give you the illustration
I've been using at the talks I've
made since coming home. 1t is an
extreme, yet because it is extreme,
vcun understand what is also being
done in simpler cases. / know of
this case. 1t is a young lieutenant
who was shot in the abdomen on
D-day. In World War I, 30 per cent
of such cases died. This boy had a
severed intestine On D-day plus 40
he was back in Normandy fighting
with his troops. shall write a little
more on this subject next week.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-02
CLAIMS BIG MARGIN

William M Malone, Democratic
state central committee chairman,
countered with an assertion that
President Roosevelt would carry the
state by from 100000 to 100000 votes
with considerable Republican sup
port"
Campaign activity until the elec-
ton will be confined to local meet
ings, Malone and Reichel said, with
10 political big names scheduled to
appear i'll the state.
1t was uncertain whether Cover
nor Earl Warren'S illness would per-
nit him tC make full-dresS appeal
for California votes for Dewey. 1t
was understood that radio time for
a speech Friday night was being
saved for the governor in the event
he is sufficiently recovered from
kidney ailment to speak.
Warren may issue prepared
statement on Dewey's behalf if he
is unable to deliver the speech, it
was reported.
Meantime, Reichel asserted that
the real betting odds favored
Dewey to win a majority in Califor-
mia, although San Francisco bet
ting commissioners have made
Roosevelt a 5-to-1 favorite in the
state. Reichel said that bettors ia
voring Dewey had been unable this
week tC find takers.
The pro-DeWey allied Demo-
Gratis" organization and OF ther
trends within the Democratic party
will offset the 10000 registration
majority ned by The party, he
claimed.
USED PRESSURE
Reichel also insisted that the
d mocratic registration majority re-
suited III part from pressure on
workers to register Democratic and
from the failure of the state perma-
nent registration system TO reflect
changes in party sentiment.
Malone said he based his predic-
ton for a Roosevelt majority on a
belief the d mocratS are going to
vote this year" He estimated that
between go and 85 per cent of the
registered voters would go to the
polls Tuesday and said that the
high vote and the record regiStra-
ticn of 4,141. .331 persons in the state
would help the Democratic side.
In an 81 per C Mt vote III 1910
President Roosevelt was given
5000 majority over Wendell Will
kie in California.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-02
NEAR MIRACLES

and the plan has been set up after
approval by the "GI.'s" themselves.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-02
BY Congressman John Phillips

There are questions in the minds
of fathers and mothers; of wives
and sweethearts; of the sisters and
the brothers of fighting men, which
they voice with some hesitation but
which l find, in the few weeks I've
been home, they'd really like to
know.
I can't give all the answers. can
only speak for the European theater
of war at hest. I can at least offer
encouragement and perhaps some
comfort. The question, briefly put,
would be: How are the men cared
for?" The uneXpressed question
would add. g. in the camps, in
the fighting areas, if they are
wounded?"
To the few whose men have made
the greatest sacrifice which a free
nation can ask of its citizens, there
is the further unexpressed question,
What happens to the soldier who
is killed."
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-02
BELONGS TO PEOPLE

China belongs to her people and
not to any particular person or fam
lily. AS a matter of fact. the ham
ding of cur national affairs cannot
be monopolized by any particular
person or family.
The Chinese people have been
deprived of the opportunity to
realize the real situation as a re-
suit of strict censorship in an at
mosphere which lacks freedom.
what is more, we cannot eX-
press any of our true opinions on
the situation. Our eyes are covered
up with dense screen.
In newspapers and magazines,
every page is flooded with beautiful
words such as the longer China
fights, the stronger she becomes;
and China has become one of the
four great powers.
THE ones who say such things
never feel responsible for these
groundless statements. Consequently,
readers and listeners (the Chinese
peCple) never take them seriously.
RECALLS DEFEATS
The newspaper recalled the Chi
nese defeats at Loyang, ChengchoW,
Hengyang and Changsha and said
1T is true that great number
of our men sacrificed their lives for
the cause of the nation. but not a
few have retreated without fight
or even shamelessly surrendered to
the enemy. The military crisis is
caused by gravity of the political
situation.
The lack of democratic spirit has
given rise TO corruption and other
evils. 'ProVincialism, if it can actu-
ally mobiliza the people, will prove
more beneficial to China than re-
treatiSm and waitingism; the prin-
ciples of Chinas number one traitor
Wang Ching Wet or that very
Fasci5m which deprives the Chinese
people of their democratic rights
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-02
BUYERS GO TO COAST
ON GIFT SEARCH

Mrs. Winifred MacIvor CT the Oh
flee Supply Co, 521 Main street, is
attending the Los Angeles gift mar
ket this week to obtain some of the
aSt-minute Christmas items now
available.
She and Mrs. Georgianna Rogers
of the BraWley store will visit the
toy show at the Biltmore Hotel as
well as those fer books and gifts.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-02

and the plan has been set up after
approval by the "GI's" themselves.
NEAR MIRACLES
The individual casualty is trag
edy to the individual family; the
low total, the low percentage is a
monument to the skill and care of
the medical corps and the allied
services. The care of the wounded
soldier in many cases is little short
of miracle.
The commanding general of the
medical arms in the European the
ater said to the congressional group
that he gave credit to three things:
the quickness of attention; the
blood donated in America and by
Americans in England, and the use
of he new drugs and methods
which this war has produced.
Today the corpsmen go with the
combat troops. 1t is rare dn the
European theater, and I suppose
the same in the Pacific theater)
that man receives attention long
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-02
WELL CAREE FOR

The men are we'll cared for. War
is not a nice thing. The reactions
of war, and the conditions of war,
are not those of a Sunday school.
1t is to the credit of the young men
of America that the percentage of
these who get into trouble of any
kind is SO low, and undoubtedly less
than the percentage of the same
men if they have stayed at home
in private lives. *" rations are not
offered as the equivalent of home
cooking Camps in Alaska or in Ice
land or in North Africa are not
substitutes for hCme. The soldier re-
serves his historic and inalienable
right to grouse. We said 25 years
ago that there were three ways of
doing any thing, the right way,
the wrong way, and the army way,
and l hear the same comments
today.
The soldiers of America are bet
ter cared for, better fed, better
clothed, better paid and have bet
ter opportunities waiting for them
cn discharge, than the soldiers OF
any other nation. I said in pre-
vious letter that the people of Amer
ica may be proud of the way oul
boys have conducted themselves un-
der the crowded and difficult con-
ditions in England. I shall write in
future letter of the conditions OF
demo bilization now being worked
out In the last war, the men were
mustered out in groups. In this wal
certain conditions of the individual
soldier will control the discharge
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-02
TEXAS PRISON RODEO

HUNTSVILLE, Tex, Nov. 2.
CUP)-More than 200 inmate con-
testants are taking part in the an
nual famous Texas prison rodeo.
This years rodeo is called the vic
tory" edition because all profits will
be invested in war bends.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-02
Party Leaders
Make Claims
AS Vote Nears
BY LLOYD LAPHAM

SACRAMENTO, Nov. 2. CUP)-
Republican and Democratic party
leaders entered conflicting claims
Thursday to two-party support for
their presidential candidates in Cal
ifornia as the last week of the cam
paign was under way.
William F. Reichel vice chair
man of the state Republican central
committee and northern California
campaign manager, predicted that
hundreds of thousands CT registered
Democrats in the state would vote
for Governor Thomas f. Dewey and
that Dewey would carry the state by
10000 votes.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-02
Now Many Wear
FALSE teeth
With More Comfor

FASTEETU. pleasant alkaline mon
acldI powder, holds false teeth NOR
flmy. To eat and talk in more com
fort just sprinkle little FASTEk'TH OF
your plates. No gurlmy, gooey, paSu
taste or feeling. Checks plate odor'
tdentute brcathl. Get FASTEH1'lI at any
drug store.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-02
ONE LIFE IN THREE

The total lives of the three Eng
lish poets, Byron, Keats and Shell
ley. amounted to only 80 years
Byron died at 36, Keats at 26 and
Shelley at 80.
Evening star., 1944-12-22
Youths in Stolen Car
Arrested in Chase

Five Washington youths-l4 to IT
years old-were arrested last night
after an 85-mile e-an-hour chase over
slippery streets in the District and
nearby Virginia.
The chase began when Policemen
William Gator and George Gems
mer. cruising in an Alexandria
scout car. noticed a car speeding at
the Potomac Yards Bridge.
When the car drew away the off,
GERS said they fired three shots,
one of which punctured rear tire.
The youths were captured when the
car crossed the Highway Bridge and
crashed into a steel railing east Of
Fourteenth street and Maine ave-
nue. S.W.
The five were put under arrest
by Pvts. Charles E. Tucker and
Henry r. Kershner of the Metro
politan Police Force, who were sent
to the scene by the radio dispatcher.
Police said none of them was in
jured The car was reported Satur-
day by Charles M Beddow, 1900 East
Capitol street, as stolen.
Evening star., 1944-12-22
CHICAGO Livestock

CHICAGO. Dec; a2 ~ cwFAl >-salsbl.
slow with few early sales barrows and
gits 100 pounds and over about steady at
14.6o-14 .65, with q top OF 1915 paid
sparingly, but later trade and close un-
evenly 1910 cents lower with bulk sales
for the day 25-40 cents OF At l4.35-l4 so;
however. markets closed fairly active at
the full decline. Weishts under 100 pounds
scarce and 20 cents lower with 150-1so
pounds, 13.75-14.35; sows steady at 400
selling; complete clearance.
Salable cattle, 1000; total, 300; ssla.
BILE calves. 700; total, 700; very limited
supply medium to choice grade steers
steady with Thursdays late declines; top,
1925: bulk, 13.00-15.09; heifers carrying
nesh steady, best, 15.4O; all thin fleshed
cattle unreliably wanted due mostly to zero
weather conditions; beef cows steady but
Gamers and cutters 25 cents or more
lower. Bulls and vealers weak. stockers
and steer trade at standstill following very
draggy week at 1o.o0-12.50 mostly.
Salable sheep, 1000; total, $500; steady:
part load good and choice 104-pound ma
tive lambs. 1900: few medium and good
natives. 13.5o-14.25, with common light
weisht, IL 90 down; about 400 head good
and choice fed wooled Western lambs held
ground s,.,n 1910; co eommon 2 and medium
practically absent but quoted 1907 e5;
late Thursday two loads medium and good
61-pound feeding lambs, 11.75.
Evening star., 1944-12-22
Probe Keeps Bosses Away
From Stop Nut Plant
BY the Associated press,

BY tne ASsoclhted PfesE.
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 22.-David
Shaw-Kennedy. New York City. q
director of the Elastic Stop Nut
Corp. Of America, Union, N. j., said
today during Securities and Ex-
change Commission investigation of
the company that his chief worry
concerned "all the executives being
down here and none over there to
run the company"
There are hardly any executives
here on the job" Shaw-Kennedy
said In answer to SEC Investigator
Douglas M. Orr's question as to
whether In his opinion the company
had suffered any setbacks during
the past month.
Mr.. Shaw-Kennedy said "he
prayed for new, big, chief executive
to guide the company" and would
like to see the board comprised Of
fewer directors who would represent
all classes of equity securities.
This company could 60 to town
right now and the commission. and
the public and the Army, could be
better served" Mr.. Shaw-Kennedy
said, explaining his theories for
board revisions.
The witness called William T.
Hedlund, president of the company,
- war casualty" Mr.. Hedlund
committed suicide November 20.
Earlier Maj. william Naftzser,
assistant chief of the contract ter
mination section for the Eastern
district of the Army Technical
Services, New York City, quoted an
unnamed high-ranking oflcer as
saying there probably would be no
B-29s flying today : were it not
for the production record" of the
COMPANY.
Evening star., 1944-12-22
Cafe Man Serves
Holiday Meals
Without

Patrons of Barnhart's Chevy
Chase Restaurant, $50 Connecticut
avenue NV. will find at luncheon
today that they are guests of the
house, and the cash register will be
closed.
This will be a continuation of
Emery r. Barnhart's Christmas-time
entertainment of his customers,
which began last night when about
1,100 customers ate $1.50 turkey din
ners. and instead of paying their
checks merely thanked Mr.. Barn
hart.
The free meals are for the regular
patrons, but when strangers appear
they are welcomed, and a couple of
hundred appeared last night.
Mr.. Barnhart said IT started en-
tertaining my customers before
Christmas several years ago at Bed
ford, Pa. and / decided to continue
1t when came to Washington.
Evening star., 1944-12-22
Grain

CHICAGO, Dec. 81 tP.--Grain markets
were nrm to strong today with prices
in all pits showing important saink Both
commission houses and local traders were
light.
Rye led the advance and at times was UP
nearly 3 cents 4 bushel Flrmness Of cash
markets led shorts to cover.
The demand for rye vas stimulated BY
z report on the trading floor that 10000
bushels Of the brown cereal had been sold
to Eastern distillers. Commission houses
and local operators we're on the buying
s nnit, the MsY n conf1.ea @ 'e b.ont eonins
Commission houses with Southwestern
connections sold wheat. but not until the
market had advanced abont q cent. The
offerings were absorbed without difficulty.
The sharply higher. rye market was =
major influence in the pit.
At the finish wheat was ia TO Ia
higher :, than yesterday's :. close. May.
Ill. Oats were / to n higher, May,
66b: Rye Was la to ~ hisher May,
| l10h-1s1l; Barley was up to 2ss.
Evening star., 1944-12-22
Gift Buying Drops,
But Trade Remains
Well Above 1o43
BY the Associated Press.

rs
NEW YORK, Dec. 22.-Holiday
gift buying dropped somewhat this
week from the seasons peak week
ago, but retail sales were II to Is
per cent higher than last year, ac-
cording to Dun & Bradstreet, Inc.
Customers willingness to accept
higher-priced merchandise was said
to be partly responsible for the gain
in dollar volume over last year." the
private business research firm said.
Women's wearing apparel and
flrst-floor articles shared in the high
sales volume with luxury" items
such as jewelry, cosmetics and small
leather wear popular. Sales in lin
gerie departments were termed "tre-
mendous" and dress and coat buy
ing for gifts was said to be heavier
than in recent years. In resort wear,
beach fashions were selling particu-
larly we'll.
Christmas tree decorations sales
were high over the week end and
toy sales were estimated at 10 per
cent over & year ago. Florists said
the demand for Christmas flowers
and plants Is well above the supply,
but tree stocks are ample.
House furnishings sales were mod
erately higher than a year ago, with
interest centered on small glass and
wooden ware items and odd pieces
Of furniture.
Regional percentage gains were:
New England, 8 to 10; East, IL to is;
Middle West, 8 to 13; Northwest, 8
to IL; South, 13 to II; Southwest,
II to Is. and Pacific Coast, IS to 10.
Evening star., 1944-12-22
Carrier Shares Lead
SeIectiye Recovery
On Stock Market
BY VICTOR EUBANK,
Associated Press Financial Writer


NEW YORK, Dec. ~. - Selected
stocks, paced by rails, returned to
the forward ranks In today's market
and favorites rallied as much as 2
or more points, q few to 7-year tops.
The comeback started In the sec
ond hour, after sluggish opening,
as buyers converged on the carriers
and other issues that stand to bene-
fit by the whipping up Of armament
output to stem the Nazi tide in
Europe.
The ticker tape acquired consid-
cradle speed for q while under in
sistent demand but there were inter-
mittent slowdowns after midday
and near the close extreme recov-
cries were reduced in the majority
OF cases. Transfers ran to around
!, 800 900 shares.
Commitments were reinStated
here and there on the thought that
the list may have enjoyed a rea-
sonable technical correction and
would now be able to attract sizable
amounts Of idle investment funds
which had retired temporarily pend
ing better purchasing opportunities.
Many customers, though, stood aside
to await the war news and because
Of the forthcoming Monday holiday.
Baltimore 81 Ohio, Grumman Air
craft and international Telephone
were In the new high" division.
The last named was buoyed by re-
ports the concern was negotiating
for sale Of its Spanish properties.
Conspicuous on the swing were
Santa Fe, Southern Pacific, South
ern Railway, Bethlehem, United
Aircraft, Glenn Martin, Western
Union "A", United States Gypsum
and Montgomery Ward.
Railway bonds held the center
of the loans section.
Evening star., 1944-12-22
Record Income Expected
In Virginia F|ue-Cured
BY the Associated Presx

os the Associated PreSS.
RICHMOND. Va, Dec. 22.-Vir-
ginia flue-cured tobacco growers will
probably receive an au-time record
sum OF money for the 1914 crop on
the basis of high production esti-
mates and high average prices.
Federal and State agriculture ON
cials said today.
Production of fiue-cured this year
is estimated at 5000, 900 pounds,
greater than in any year except 1899
since records were first kept. The
1899 production was 107, 200 900
pounds.
Oficials estimated that if the
comparatively high prices are main
tanned for this years crop, total
valuation will be from 20 to Is per
cent higher than the $34 ,956 900 re-
ceived by producers last year. and
may exceed the record $36 1853 900
paid in 1919.
Evening star., 1944-12-22
Washington Produce

From the War Food Administration,
prices paid net fob. Washington:
EGGS-Market Arm. The moderate IN
crease in receipts Of fresh eggs continues
light and short Of demand. Storage sup
plies practically. exhausted. Prices nom
inally UNCHANGED. Prices paid for Federal
stations December ~, whites, browns
and mixed colors: U. 3. Grade A. large,
56-57. average 56la: U. s. grade A,
3, l-rge. 47-4&, average am: U. 8. grade
c. 30. current receipts, nearby ungraded
eggs, mostly 40, few a. and 46.
TURKEYs-Two small truck LOADS we're
reported on the market this morning:
scattered supplies reported bypassing the
similar to that existing prior to Thanks
givinS; large-size birds predominate the
light ay liable supply.
Evening star., 1944-12-22
V-Weupons
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the man In q foxhole, who may stop
anything from a machine-gun slug
to a 14-ton rocket.
To him 1t is all question of accu-
racy. The rife is more accurate
than artillery, and artillery is more
accurate than the flying bomb. But
all have their place.
During recent weeks American and
British troops in rear areas have
been attacked by Wis. V-2s and the
latest V-weapon-which has been
likened to heavy artillery. American
troops who hear them droning over
head toward rear areas would like
very much to hear them going the
other way.
1t Is now no secret that flying
bomb attacks on London came closer
to disrupting that great city's life
than the 1910 air blitz ever did. The
German attempt failed only because
the Nazis did not have the air force
to protect their bases and eventually
had them overrun.
One of the main objectives uf the
American Air Forces is to choke
Germany to death by paralyzing the
Ruhr. AS result OF the current
German offensive the Ruhr Ger
tainly is no closer to our ground
forces than it was three months ago.
Many more months of hard fighting
are in prospect before it feels the
weight of Allied guns. At the same
time winter is curbing the Allied air
forces.
But the worse the weather the
better the flying bomb works, and
every part of the Ruhr could be
within range of Allied flying bombs.
In all the world there probably is no
better target for flying bombs than
the Germans packed industrial CEN
ters. Furthermore, we have the
planes to protect launching sites
from aerial attack
The value of the flying bomb is
one-half damage and one-half
psychological effect.
No factory can maintain full pro-
duction with the workers ears
cooked for the drone Of flying bombs
night and day. Air raids, no matter
how violent, end sometime, but the
flying bomb offers a continuing
menace around the clock, subjecting
the populace to unending strain.
These psychological factors are
recognized by men at the front, who
have undergone artillery lombard
ment for days on end and know
what 1t does to the nerves.