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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-05-27
Detroit Cash Grain

WHEAT No. .. tl7OM.
OATS-N0. 2. white. s0.Slc.
Mailing BARLEY-range. Sl.lt
l52; barley needles. si.26.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-05-27
PetltlonA Elled

fetltlons Filed
With the deadline for returning
nominating petitions for School
Board members set for 4:30 today,
two petitions were on file for Leroy
Bush. and two for J. Lynn Houck,
both present board members whose
terms expire this year. At least two
more petitions. N for each OF the
two men, were expected to be filed
at the office OF the Superintendent
OF Schools this afternoon.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-05-27

Mohoay
NBC-s 90 a. m.-Mirth and Mad.
ness;
1880 p .m.-(Also BLU lt5) -
Presbyterian General Assem-
bly,;
6.l5-Serenade TO America.
CBS-s:l5 4. m.-Sing Atoms;
400 p. M Broadway Matinee;
~5:30-Jack Smith. Three sisters,
BLU-li a. m.-Breakfast At Sar.
dis:
5:ib p. m.-Hollywood Star
Time;
4:lS-Don Norman Show. new
series.
MBs-l?: S0-Aberdeen Band;
2:1s-Pan.American Music.
4:3o-Music For Halt.Hour.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-05-27
Pick Of The Air TODAY

BLU 5o-ssnmy Kaye sere.
made.
1oo-Lits OF Riley;
5;oo-Nary Small Revue:
6:oo-Hall OF Fame, Kate Smith.
Eddie Cantor. Al Jolson;
Souls Kids:
S:3O-Ksepsskes Music;
s:l5-Bssin ST.;
:0o-Listen the Women.
MBS-2:00-Musie for HAlfHour.
t;oe-Wide Horizons, Don Gen.
tile:
6;30-Bulldog Drummond:
7:oo-Old Fashioned Revival.
s:oo-Mediation Board;
s:N-Mexico symphony Finale
l0:lS-Good VIII Program.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-05-27
Girl Reprlmsnded

Girl Reprlmsnded
A seventeen.year.old girl vas
reprimanded by police Friday eve
ming and placed in custody OF her
rather after she was found frequent.
Ing a local tavern.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-05-27
Ypsilanh Briefs
ArtIeles Stolen

SFhiSlcs otolcn
William Geddes. % y. Washing.
ton St. reported to police Friday
evening that a set OF golf clubs,
n and onehalt dozen golf balls,
a pair OF shoes. and a ten inch fan
had been stolen from his automo-
bile while parked on Wsshtenaw
Ave, sometime during the evening.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-05-27

IoNlaNt
NBC-S o0-Abie's Irish Rose;
S:So-Truth or Consequences;
9:00-Barn Dance;
s:S0-Can You Top This;
l0:00-Bsrry Wood Party:
lo:SO-Grsnd ole opry.
CBS-7:30-Bob Hawk Quiz;
s;00-Groucho Marx;
9;00-Hits and Sinatra:
9:45-Jessiea Dragonette;
lo:45-Sen. z. H. Moore on Mont.
gomery Ward Case.
BLU-7:O0-Good Old Days;
7:S0-Music America Loves;
30-Boston Pops Concert:
l0:00-Guy Lombard M~usic;N
lO:S0-Army Service Forces.
MBS-7:00-American Eagle in
Britain;
S~:30-Cisco Kid:
:00-Chicago Theater Symph.
ony;
l0:lS-Detective Mystery;
II 00-Californis Melodies.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-05-27

National erosdesstins Company
RED NETWORK-WLW 100. WWJ
$50. WHAM 1850. wMAQ SO.
BLUE NETWORK-WXYz li1o
Columbia Brosdesstlns Company
WJR $50, WBBM $50. wCKY 1880
WFBM 1850. VICAR i+so. WBNs
1850. WOOD 1910.
Mutual Broadesstins Company
BLUE NETWORK - WLw 20,
CKLW 500. wJBk 1890 WON T2v.
RED NETWORK WLW 100.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-22
ElRE'S NEUTRALITY
(Christian Science Monitor)

(ChriStian Science Monitor)
Although the De Valera government
has refused the American request to eX-
pei diplomatic agents, the question is not
closed The Joke about the lrishman
who knew who he was neutral against
we'll expressed the widespread unofficial
friendlineSs in the Free State for the
United Nations cause. The people of
Fire have thousands of sons in the Brit
ish army. grandsons in the American.
They cannot feel easy about an official
neutrality which. whatever its good faith,
does give aid and comfort to Germany.
When President De Valera says that
no American losses will be caused
through indifference or neglect of its
duty on the part of this state he may be
technically correct. Fire may have done
what it considered necessary to prevent
espionage. although the fact that the
German diplomatic staff was for long
much diversified and the State Depart
ment's information about radio sets rails
es a question as to whether more could
not have been done Possibly that is the
main purpose of the American note-to
encourage more vigorous measures.
Fire undoubtedly has obtained some
material advantages from neutral posi-
llOQ. SOuInefn lTeldHu Has uOt DeeIl
bombed. Her people eat better than do
Orangemen. Scots, Welshnren or English
men. A majority have supported official
neutrality. But the fact that her people
are proud of the sons they have sent to
fight in the British army-even though
those sons cannot come home in uniform
indicates that many of them were un-
willing to do nothing to halt Hitlers new
barbarism or to accept protection against
the tide of Axis conquest. Indeed, it is
hard to believe that Fires neutrality is
not founded more on the ancient grudge
against England than on any enjoyment
of a sidelines position in such fight as
this.
Possibly the American note will do
more than increase pressures to check
espionage 1t may help the people of
the Free State to see that in larger
sense Mr. De Valera's words cannot be
true For in the fight against the evil
of NaZi aggression and oppression neu-
trality itself is neglect of duty" by
Christian and civilized state in the STRAIT
egic position of Fire. And if the Ameri-
can people have felt that the neutrality
of Argentina was endangering the lives
of their sons, how much more must they
feel it about the neutrality of country
in the position of Fire.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-22
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
PROPOSAL FOR BIDS FOR THE
PURCHASE OF TAX DECIDED
PROPERTY .

Notice is hereby given that bids
for the purchase from the City OF
FL Centro of the tax decided prop
erty hereinafter described will be
received at the office OF the Clsy
Clerk of the City Of Ell Centre a.
the City Hall in said City up to and
until 500 o'clock pm. of the 3lat
day of March, 1914, and SAID plds
will be opened and considered bv
the City Council OF the City OF Ell
Centre at the next succeeding
meeting, or at such subsequent
meeting to which such considera-
ton may be continued. The City
reserves the right to reject any and
all biCS.
Said property is described as
follows:
Lot 26, Block 20, Townsite, City
of Ell Centre -.
All of Block "a, Second Addi-
ton, City of Ell Centro
Lot 6, Block 27, Second Addi-
ton, City of Ell Centro
Lot 5, Block 90, Second Addi-
ton, City of Ell Centro
Lot 6, Block l, Second Addition,
City of Ell Centro
Lots l and 2. Block 3, Second
Addition, City of FL Centre.
NEAL H. GAVIN,
By: Mary Freeman,
Dep. City Clerk of the City
of Ell Centro.
Dated: March 81, 1914.
(No. 60) (M22-29)
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-22
Coca Cola Works
Speeds Musical
instrument Drive

G.. I. Joe is net only going to
continue blasting Japs and Nazis
at an ever-increasing rate, but he
is going to do it to music-thanks
to nationwide campaign to COL
lect musical instruments for the
boys across the seas. This cam
paign, now going into its final
week, is being sponsored in Ell
Centro by CocaCola Bottling Works
at the request of the War Dep
artment.
Small instruments such as mar
mcnicaS, ocarinas, accordlans, gull
tars. banjos, etc, are particularly
needed. Those wishing to donate
are asked to take them to any
Coca Cola" dealer. "Coca-Cola
trucks will pick them up and tor
ward them to the Army. which
will send them overseas at cnce.
In Ell Centro there are hundreds
of musical instruments that would
delight the hearts of lonesome
soldiers. Everyone is urged to dig
down in Easements, attics and
storage rooms for those musical
instruments that aren't being used
and take them to the nearest
"Coca-Cola" dealer
There are few if any comforts
around a foxhole. The least we
can do is give our boys a little
music" according to Herb Fawcett,
manager of the Coca-Cola Bottling
Works, who is in charge OF the
local campaign.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-22
Red Cross Gets
Praise for
Overseas Work

"The Red Cross really does a
bang-up job fer the soldiers. II I
had it to do over again I would be
a little more generous in my praise
Of the Red Cross so wrote Majo
Merritt C. Garfield, former FL
Centro physician, in letter tc Mr.
and Mrs. George Kirk of El Centre.
Major Garfield is with the Army
medical corps overseas and while in
his letter he said nothing about his
location, he presumably is in Eng
land or an English possession as he
Wrcte that he understood the
English people better and that he
had difficulties with the different
types of coinage.
In his letter Major Garfield
praised the American Red Cross's
work for enlisted men overseas,
work that is made possible through
the contributions of citizens in the
natiCn.
To carry on these activities and
many others for the armed forces,
the American Red Cross is asking
for the largest sum of money in
history during this current war
fund campaign which closes
March 81.
With only 10 more days to &C, w.
A. Tondro, chairman Of the drive
for Ell Centre, has announced that
$4,000 has been collected in the Ell
Centro area with approximately
$4,000 more to be raised.
Tcndro, at board of directors
meeting Monday night at Red
Cross headquarters, urged every
one to send contributions directly
to the chapter headquarters, l2o
North Fifth street. Since everyone
has been so busy, it is impossible to
get a sufficient number of workers
to call on citizens personally. Those
who have not been solicited are
asked to send their contributions in
without waiting to be called upon,
said TOndro.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-22
pitoI Talk

More and more, opinion in Wash
ington leans TO the idea that ways
must be found to keep in postwar
operation g large part Of the gov
ernment- built war plants-or face
the prospect CT vast unemployment.
Before the War. The American in
dustrial plant was valued at ap-
proximately 80 billion dollars.
One-half of that has been con-
verted TO war production, the other
half still functiCning on civilian
production.
On top of this, some 20 billion
dollars worth of new plants have
been built to manufacture planes,
tanks, ships, guns and other ma
terials OF war. Three-fCurthS of
this new productive capacity has
| been built and is owned by the
government. one-fourth financed by
private capital The question IS
what to do with the Is billion COL
lars worth of government owned
plants, now operated under lease to
private management.
fTODUSdlS lOA uISt)O.dl VI liASSS
government-owned war plants are
numerous and varied:
LOCK UP, SELL,
LEASE, TRADE
Lock them up the day the war
ends and throw the key away, so
that they won't te placed in COM
petition with private industry. This
idea is modified to the extent of
keeping the plants in standby
condition till the next war GENES
along.
Sell them cheap and let private
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-22
vesuvius PeriIs
$4,000 People

Five days after the start of its
worst outbreak in modern times,
the great volcano has gone COM
pletely erratic.
The main lava flow now has
shifted from the northwest to the
west slopes and is moving down
like a fiery snake on the coastal
towns of Tore Del Greco, Tore
Annunziata. and Resina, site OF
the ancient town of Herculaneum,
which was buried in the great erup-
ton of 70 AID.
The seething cone of the volcano
glowed with such intensity that
Italian experts warned it may break
suddenly and send terrific over
flow of lava in all directions.
Not a single life has been lost
thus far, largely because of the
prompt measures taken by the army
to remove reluctant civilians from
their homes, but millions of dollars
worth of property have been ruined
and parts of the finest vineyards
in Italy have been wiped out, in
cluding the famous Lacrima Cristi
vineyards.
It was estimated that cultivation
on the lava-wasted soil would be
impossible for at least a century.
The village of San SeoaStiano and
Massa Di Somma were all but
obliterated Tuesday by the lava
wall moving down the northwest
slopes and two-mile-high column
of fine dust peppered Naples and
SalernO.
The road to the Royal Vesuvian
observatory, where experts up on
the slopes were watching the ac-
tivity, was closed to all traffic ex-
cept officers on duty.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-22
WAVES SHOW SPEED

SOUTH HADLEY, Mass. March
%. CUP)--Wave ensigns in their
early 2Os proved more than a matcn
for college freshmen and sopho-
mores in their late teens in an ard
uous obstacle race held recently
to test speed and agility. The aver,
age ensign negotiated the test in
one minute and 10 seconds while
the average Mount Holyoke college
underclassman required one min
ute and 20 seconds.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-22
-by-
Peter Edison

industry out OF its own ingenuity
find new uses for them. Charge
eff the loss as necessary cost of
the war.
Let the government operate the
plants as a kind CT glorified WPA,
at loss if necessary, to provide
useful work, instead of leaf raking,
for the unemployed.
Let manufacturers trade in old
and less efficient plants, then scrap
the old plants.
Lease them to private industry,
keeping them under government
ownership
All such proposals smack pretty
much of the idea that all this new
productive capacity will be a post
war liability for which the tax
payers will in the end have to pay,
Any idea that these government
war plants represent an asset which
can be cashed in on is thus dis
missed too easily.
WPB's planning division has
estimated that 30 per cent of these
new plants have little CT no value
for the production of peacetime
articles. Another 20 per cert can
be converted to useful peacetime
production. The remaining 40 per
cent, says WPB, is capable of pro-
ducing metals, chemicals, tools and
industrial equipment which should
find postwar markets.
PLANTS NOT A. TOTAL LOSS
Using those figures as basis for
conversion possibilities it can be
seen that there is no need for
writing off this whole expansion
of industry as a complete less.
Latest group in Washington to
come out in favor of making the
fullest possible use of all these
facilities is the powerful Truman
Committee in the Senate which, in
its third annual report, brands as
selfish and self -centered all argu-
ments that the plants should be
shut down or that the operators of
thoce plants today should be paid
profits which would enable them to
build up reserves for pest war
operation.
The question as to whether gov
ernment-built plants are to be
closed, says the committee, must be
decided squarely upon the issue of
whether the United States is to re-
turn to 1899 when there were nine
million unemployed and five mil
lion less workers, or whether there
is to be full employment for every
one who wants to work, regardless
CT whether the plants are publicly
or privately owned, to maintain and
improve the American standard OF
living by mass production of needed
goods.
AS a basis for disposal, the COM
mittee proposes that all plants not
needed by the War and Navy De-
partmentS be sold at cost of con-
struction, less the percentage by
which the cost of war construction
exceeded the probable cost OF
i peacetime construction.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-22
TO PRESS FOR CANAL
ChGD A6ENIIn hdornh 9

- Immediate construction of the
Friant-Kern canal of the Central
Valley project will be urged by the
California water project authority,
officials said after caring
an opinion from the state office of
the war manpoWer commission that
sufficient labor is available. Con-
struction of the 140 mile canal
from Friant dam into wectern Kern
county has been urged by the au-
thority on grounds it would add
irrigated land for 100000 pounds
of additional food production. 1t
would not be brought into produc-
ton until about 1948.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-22
JAIL SHORTAGE FILLED

BOSTON, March %. 0UPJ-l lle
Charles st. Jail hadn't needed =
barber, william Hagerty might not
be spending a three-month sen
tence there. Hsgerty, who had
pleaded guilty to a vagrancy charge,
once claimed he was one OF the best
BARRIERS in town. SO when an as
sistant district attorney said the
jail needed a barber, Hagerty agreed
0 The SENTENCE.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-22

ON THE SLOPES OF MOUNT
VESUVIUS, March %. (UP)-Three
Italian coastal towns harbouring 86,-
900 people were menaced Wednes-
day by shift in the lava flow from
erupting Mount Vesuvius, and eX-
perts warned that the volcanic cone
might burst at any moment and
bury the countryside unde- tons Of
molten rock.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-22
ANOTHER BAD GUESS

(Santa Ana Register)
The French underground reports that
old Marshal Petain hopes to jump on the
allied band wagon, when the invasion
comes, by setting up a last-minute demo-
cratic constitutional government.
This, if we recall correctly, is the same
Petain who despite the stubborn defense
of Nerdun. was sure that the boche
would win World War |; the same Petain
who refused to believe that another war
threatened who was sure England would
fall; who thought Hitler would treat him
honorably; that France would embrace
his weakened brand of fascism that
both the Germans on his doorstep and
the Americans in North Africa could be
successfully defied.
If the aged marshal puts faith in this
contemplated eleventh-hour gesture, he
will probably find that once again he has
his money on the wrong horse.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-22
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA,
IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF
SAN BERNARDINO.


No. 1921
NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL
PROPERTY AT PRIVATE
SALE
In the Matter Of the Estate OF
JOHN w. HART, Deceased.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that the undersigned, ETHEL
HART, the Executrix of the will
of JOHN w. HART, deceased, will
on or after the 10th day of April,
1914, sell, at private sale, to the
highest and best bidder, upon the
terms and conditions hereinafter
set forth, and subject to confirma-
ton by the above named Court, all
| of the right, title, interest, and
estate of said decedent, which said
decedent had at the time of his
ceath, as we'll as all of the right,
title, interest. and estate which
has since accrued, by operation OF
law, or otherwise, to the estate of
said decedent since his death, in
and to the following described
property, to wit:
An undivided one-half inter-
est in and to the following de-
scribed property, to wit:
PARCEL l: The North half
OF Tract SO; the Westerly
20O.3 feet of Tract 1O2, and the
Westerly 200 feet of that por-
ton of Tract 116, lying South
OF the North line of Tract 98,
produced Easterly, all in Town
ship IA South, Range IS East,
S.B.M., in the County of Impe-
rial, State of California, as per
Map of the re-survey approved
and filed in the United States
Land Office at Los Angeles,
California.
PARCEL q The South half
OF Tract 98 and the West 200
feet OF Tract 101, in Township
IA South, Range Is East, S.B.M..
IN the County of Imperial, State
OF California, as per Map of the
re-survey approved and filed
in the United States Land Of
ice at Los Angeles, California.
TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF
SALE are as follows Cash, in law
iui money of the United States;
ten per cent of the amount bid to
be paid at the time of the accept
ance OF the bid, balance on confir-
nation OF the sale by the Superior
Court. Commission, not exceeding
i've per cent, will be allowed to the
real estate broker whose bid is
accepted by the court.
All bids and offers must be- in
writing and delivered to the nm
derslgncd Exocutrix al 31l Emmons
bulldil1g, Ontario, California or
may be filed in the office 81 The
Cterk OF said Court above names
sale. 'i'o uaoe OF
Dated this 18th day Of March.
ETHEL HART.
Executrlx Of the will of
JOHN w. HART. Deceased.
NV g" lM2l-3l incp
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-22
Editorials and Comment

EDITORS NOTE: The foIOring edit.
0riais are presented Gs interesting Gpin-
ions uoiced By editors elsewhere. They
do not necessarily reflect the opinion of
this paper.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-22

Berlin is doomed-it has ceased to be
a capital or even a town.-Swedish trav-
eler
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-22
WE
the Women

The other night 1 went to see
Frank Sinatras new picture just
tc study the teen-age girls who
sigh and shout when he starts to
Groom.
I thought it was going to be Ell
ther an amusing or a disgusting
sight. But it was neither. 1t was
little pathetic.
The girls went into the movies
in twcs and threes and fours. They
weren't especially attractive girls.
For the mcst part they were too
fat girls and too thin girls and
-pretty-enough girls.
They didn't have dates, and it
was easy to imagine that with too
few boys to go around in schools
these days, these girls were the
ft-overs-the ones who didn't
have d steady, and probably not
even a date for high school dances.
They locked. as they streamed
into the theatre and as they came
out. as lonely and pathetic as an
other group of lonely women-the
war wives, who go around together
in an effort to make the evenings
seem less lonely.
GET LITTLE SYMPATHY
Only the high school kids who
have had the fun of girlhood
snatched from them by the war
don't get much sympathy or under
standing Everyone seems to think
they will have plenty CT time later
for romance and parties and fall
ing in love.
But they don't think so them
selves. Talk to them awhile and
You'll find they are secretly lone
ly. afraid, unfure of themselves
and scared to death they'll be wall
flowers all their lives.
So it's no wonder that when a
crooner comes along who looks
young enough to be in their age
group and sings sadly romantic
songs that reflect their own state
of mind, these girls make an ldcl
of him.
All they need is more l6-year-
old fun-par.ies, dates, and nigh
school football hero TO sigh over.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-22
New Books
Books Released By Library March
%. 1914:
NON-FICTION


NON-FICTION
Heading the ncn-fiction list this
week are two interesting travel
books: Netherlands American, the
Dutch Territories in the West By
Philip Hanson Hiss. These Dutch
Colonies have come into prominence
because all other Dutch possessions
have been seized by the Axis pew
ers and because Of their oil and
bauxite, needed in the war effort.
Mr.. Hiss has given us information
difficult to find elsewhere in a clear
and informal manner. He Is an
excellent photographer and there
are pictures in abundance.
Top Hats And Tom-toms by Eli
zabeth Furbay. This is a colcrful
account of life among the aristo-
cratic American Negroes who rule
the Republic of Liberia. The author
lived in Monrovia, the capital OF
Liberia, for three years while her
husband was the head CT the COL
lege of w. Africa. A short history
of the country precedes her OBJ
servations on present day customs
and manners which are amusing
and interesting.
Lifeline, Robert Carse; Top Hats
And Tom-tom Elizabeth Furbay;
Square Knct, Tatting, Fringe and
Needle Work, Raoul Graumont;
Netherlands America, Philip Hiss;
The American People, Walter Hay
Ward; Betrayal From the East,
Alan Hynd; Best Plays of 1942-43,
Burns Mantle; The Gay Illiterate,
Louella O. Parsons; Mending Made
Easy, Mary Picken; Through Japa-
nese Barbed Wire, Gwen Priest
wood; Cooking Without Meat, Bar
bara Rae; Letter Writing In War
time, G.. A. Reeder; Gliders And
Glider Training, Emanuele Stieri (;
Sharks Fins And Millett, Ilona r.
Sues.
Battling Detective Stories; The
American House, Virginia Chase
The Smoking Iron, Peter Field
Gods Front Porch, KEITH Frings
Hangman's Tie, Frances Stevens;
A Tower of Steel, Josephine Law
renee; The Golden Fleece, Norah
Lofts; Pr4ze Stories of 1943, o
Henry Memorial Award; The
Thursday Turkey Murders, Craig
Rice.
BOOKS FOR BOYS AND GIRLS
Pegs of History, Rafaello Buscni
Young Americas Aviation Annual
1914, David Cooke; Some Follow
the Sea, Gregor Felsen; Tibby'S
| Venture, Ruth Holberg.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-22

Lend-Lease records don't show it, but
someone surely slipped in a few steam
rollers with the tanks Stain got to send
Hitler's hordes reeling back.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-22

We shall be thoroughly glad when
this expression soldiers vote is thing
of the past It's got so it appears the
country is trying to do a special favor for
the fighting men. And goodness knows
they don't want it that way. Just want
to be treated like the rest Of us.