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Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-11
IT'S THE PRINCIPLE
(San Diego Union)

(San Dleg0 UnlOH)
Cecil B. DeMile is a Hollywood pro
ducer of movie "colossals, and as such
earns a very comfortable salary. But
Mr.. DeMille's showmanship for some
time past has found another vent in the
form of a radio show which he stages IN
person. As a radio performer he was
obliged to take out union card in the
American Federation of Radio Artists
Mr.. DeMille has lost his membership, hay
ing been suspended for refusal to pay
an assessment of 81 levied by the union
to help fight the so-called right to
work" proposition at the recent election
The union SAYS Mr. DeMille will not be
allowed to put his show on the air. Mr.
DeMille says he would rather lose his
So 1000 weekly radio stipend than pay the
dollar. He also says he is going to court
to see if the union can make the assess
ment stick The question, as he puts 1t, Is
this: Can any organization, as such,
usurp the rights of an American voter
and arbitrarily make up his mind for
him that he must support or oppose any
proposition on the ballot?'
Mr.. DeMille's contention is that II an
assessment of 81 can be thus enforced,
an assessment of 500 or $1,000 can ike
wise he enforced. He would like to know,
not on account vi Illc VI wv p'ONN
: q week. but lust. as he says, for the prin-
ciple of the thing. Under our present
income tax set-up the producer broad
caster will save neat sum by giving up
his air show But his curiosity to flnd
out in court what is what in a case ike
this is shared by quite number of Cali
If we balance the budget and give bus
mess the proper encouragement there
will be enough jobs for all. Deficit spend
ing will only put the throttle ON business
Gov. John w. Bricker of Ohio.
At every step we are tripping over enc
nv dead in the underbrush. The woods
are full of dead Krauts.-COl. Glenn ID.
Walker of Clinton, Mass, in Huertgen
forest, Germany.
Our will to resist is the only thing we
have left against the material superiority
nf o,r enemy until the new weapons are
ready for the front.-The Scorpion, Ger
man newspaper distributed to troops.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-11
RE-EDUCATING GERMANS
Riverside Daily Press)

(RiVerSide Daily PreSs)
In discussion concerning the future OF
Germany. Americans generally agree
that the first step is a program OF re-
education of the people. But as to ways
and means of doing that there Is dis
agreement.
Meanwhile. as a columnist points out.
we are overlooking an excellent oppor-
tunitv to begin now. with the thousands
of prisoners nterned in this country.
According to Henry Cassidy, writing IN
the Atlantic Monthly, the Russians have
been more constructive.
There. as here. the strong NazlS rose
quickly to leadership among the prison
ers And as they rose, the Russians quiet
" isolated them. one by One.- With their
removal. the attitude of the rank and file
changed gradually for the better. Aided
bv an intelligent propaganda program,
the Russians have now developed group,
which may number 100000, of equally
strong anti-Nazis who are eager to build
a new and peaceful Germany.
There seems no reason why that could
not be done here We have many influ-
ential democratic German refugees IN
this country who would be glad to assist
The Geneva convention does not specific
ally ban propaganda among prisoners OF
war, and there seems to be no violation
of its spirit in sensible organization and
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-11
THANKSGIVING BASKETS
co BEGGING IN DALLAS

DALLAS, Tex, Dec. IL. (UP)-.
Dallas welfare agencies gave thanks
this Thanksgiving for a blessing
for which they gave the war credit.
In past years, while hundreds OF
baskets were donated each Thanks
giving, a great many needy families
Esd TO be turned down. On Thanks
giving Day 1914 it was Would-be
donors who were turned down, not
the needy families
Welfare officials said that The
only remaining persons actually in
want in the city were the few un-
employables physically or mentally
incapable of working.
"The stimulated demand for
workers of any kind is responsible, F"
they said.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-11
SERGEANT WOULD KEEP
JAPS IN ALEUTIANS'

LUBBOCK, Tex, Dec. II. CUP
'-T/Sgt. Werner B. Eubank's idea
Of fitting and proper punishment
for the japanese is to put them in
the Aleutians and keep them there" )"
Sgt Eubank knows just about
what tough punishment that
would be, for he spent l8 months
on the wind ant rain swept Islands.
1T blew" he says, "all the bless
eo time--and I don't remember a
day when it didn't rain. Not even
the fish fight back"
Sgt. Eubank's hours on the dreary
islands were somewhat lightened,
however, by the occasional rare
privilege of listening in on air bat
ties between Yank and japanese
planes. And, he says, the scenic
language of our pilots, punctuated
by the shrill yipping OF the Nips,
was worth listening to-"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-11
'Nubbins' Makes
Rapid Recovery

DENVER. Dec. IL. CUP-Three-
year-old Forrest "Nubbins" Hoff-
man, for whom pre-dated Christ
mas was arranged when it was
feared he Woulc net live until De-
cember %, was said Monday by
Mercy hospital attendants to be
getting along very nicely
The Cheyenne, Wyoming, boy
underwent an operation last Thurs
day for a congenital bladder ailment
which had threatened his life, anc
has shown improvement daily since.
Barring complications, the lad will
be able to return to his home for
a second Christmas celebration, his
doctor said.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-11
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE OF INTENTION TO EN-
GAGE IN THE SALE OF ALCO-
UOIJC BEVERAGES. & p.

DeCeHDCr u, 1919
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:
Notice is hereby given that flf-
teen days after the date posted,
the undersigned proposes to sell
alcoholic beverages az these prem
ises, described as follows:
459 Main ST., Ell Centre ..t
Pursuant to such intention, the
undersigned is applying TO the State
Board of Equalization for issuance
of an alcoholic beverage license (or
licenses) for these premises as fol-
lows:
ON SALE BEER and WINE
Anyone desiring to protest the Is
Suance of such license ts) may lille
verified protest with the State
Board Of Equalization at Sacrament
10, California. stating grounds Tor
denial as provided by law. The
premises are now licensed for the
sale of alcoholic beverages.
Arthur Nathaniel OPP Morgan.
mo. 97e.., >-se (Dec. III.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-11
Heavy TembIors
Are Recorded

PASADENA, Cal, Dec. IL. (UP)
Two strong" earthquakes, one
in the western part of the Indian
Ocean, were recorded on California
Institute of Technology seismo-
graphs within IL hours Sunday,
scientists disclosed Monday.
A quake of greater intensity than
the one that rocked southern Cali
fornia in 1888 shook the earth in
an unc etermined direction about
6COO miles away at 9:37 am. tPWT)
Sunday. DR.. Beno Gutenberg said.
The Indian Ocean temblor. CEN
tered about $4,000 miles west OF
here, was recorded at 1881 pm.
tPWTO Saturday.
NEW YORK, Dec. II. tUP)-A
fairly severe" earthquake, at a
distance Of about 8400 miles in the
direction of the Solomon Islands,
was recort ed Sunday on Seismo-
graphic instruments at Fordham
university. Father Joseph Lynch,
seismologist, reported Monday. -
Two shocks we're recorded, Father
Lynch said, one at 12;43 pm. lEWT)
and the second at 1880 pm.
(EWT). >
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-11


for lis britches and thinks he can
effect reforms in capital bureau
cracy. you can put him down as a
marked man. He is leading with his
neck. putting his foot in his mouth,
sticking his head into the lions
mouth. stepping into an open man.
hole and offering himself as a sac
rificial goat on the political altar,
all at the same time.
The list of officials who have pre-
ferred to be right than TO hold Ct
flee and who have contigned them
selves to oblivion by sticking up, for
their principles is long enough 10
convince anyone that, in politics,
if at first you don't succeed, stop
trying.
Among the disappointed martyrs
whose badly chawed-up remains are
still scattered about Washington
YOU may remember +, such formerly
impo. t; mt people as Sumner Welles,
G. F.. Wilson of General Electric,
Milo Perkins, and Chester Davis.
low TO BE a HAS-BEEN
Welles. fe1 ling frustrated in what
he considered a todgy Department
of State, thought he could force the
ousting of Cordell Hull He failed
and today he is probably one Of the
NEST disillu5ioned men in the coun-
try for Hull has resigned and
Welle's successor, Ed Stet ttinius.
hClds the number one cabinet post
to which Welles aspired and for
which he was unqueStionably fitted.
Charles E. Wilson. similarly fruS-
trated in trying to force through his
ideas on policies for reconverting
American industry from war to cl-
william production, finally had to
resign his position as vlce-chair-
man of The War Production Board.
Milo Perkins, brilliant and imagi-
native executive director of the old
Board of Econcmic Warfare. found
himself Stymied behind what he
considered the slow-movine, ccn-
Servative policies of Tie old line de-
partment of commerce. But when
he spoke cut Of turn about his am
bitiors TO speed up the war effort,
off went his head.
Chester Dayir's fall from grace
came from his saying out loud that
/ he had been given the job OF man
aging the Wan Food Administration
without the authority to do 1t. That
was lese majeste He offered TO re-
sign at a later date, when he had
completed the food program for the
next year, but he was politely fired
before he could perform even that
service to his county.
YOU CAN'T CRITICIZE THE BOSS
The bigger the fish, of course. the
less likely the chance OF being
caught in one of these foul nets
of circumstance. Henry Wallace
Donald Nel;on and Jesse Jones es-
capped practically untouched in the
riling up of the waters by their sub
ordinates Just as Attorney Genera
Francic Biddle will probably emeIgf
untouched by the charges thrown
at him by Norman Littell.
In all this there is bitter mora
for the political observer in Wash
ington. The subordinate official who
shows too much brilliance, who Il
too sure Of himself, who can't play
the machine game, who can't put
over his reforms within the party
crganization and without upsettlne
the adminittration applecarf-tha'
man is doomed. The man who get
ahead in Washington as elsewhere Il
the man who never, no never, wei
hardly ever, criticize5 his boss, ever
when the boss Is wrong. There!
no future at all in that, sc Mr.
Littell is now finding out.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-11
NUBBINS
BY
BURRIS JENKINS

Speaking of Irwin Cobb, Paul
Jenkins. the publ Usher of this
newspaper. went duck hunt / n e
with him once on the we'll
known Hogg Ranch out from
Houston. There's a fine old house
there and multitude of lakes: so
they have great hunting parties.
Several hunting guests were in the
blinds that morning when ii came
on to rain. The d0wnpour grew
heavier and heavier. until al these
sportSmen gave up and went to the
house, wringing wet. Even Bob Da-
Wis. the famed editor of New York,
gave up. and you know he was
tough. But Cobb would not go. He
insisted on staying the entire day
and Paul couldn't possibly desert
him. so he stayed the livelong day.
The shooting was fair. but CObb's
company was something fairer. He
would never shoot at a flock unless
il was coming up on his side of the
blind. He waited always for his
companion. and then he shot. So
with every single duck that came in,
he shot according to location and
he never had TO beg your pardon.
He was that type of sport, and. as
you know. good company all the
time.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-11
Capital Talk
-by-
Peter on

Presidential firing of Norman Lit
tell as assistant attorney general in
charge of the lands division at the
Department. of Justice illustrates
again the beautiful truth that a
little man in Washington, no matter
how bi illiant or how right he may
be. can't beat the machine system.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-11
DUCKWORTH HONORED

SACRAMENTO, Dec. II. IUPI-
Dl. c. U. Duckworth, assistant di-
rector of the California Depart
ment of Agriculture, has been elect
&c presic ent of the United States
Livestock Sanitary association. the
department announced Monday.
DuckWorth, now attending the
associations annual meeting in
Chicago, is the first Californian to
be elected president. Association
membership includes livestock and
dairy control administrators of the
federal and state governments and
Canadian government.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-11
Editorials and Comment

EDITORS NOTE: The fOllOning edit
Oridls are presented as interesting 0pin-
ions Uoiced by editors elsewhere. They
do not necessarily reflect the opinion or
this paper.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-11
MARINE INJURED

Marine Private John A. German
was found lying in a grease pit at.
q Third an6 Main street service
station Sunday night. He had Sc
we're head injuries. He was taken
to the Marine base hospital.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-11

TRANSIENT FOUND INJURED
Police Officer w. ID. Briggs Sun
cay took John Wiseman, a transient
10 the county hospital after he had
been found lying, injured, in front
CT 100 Broadway.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-11

A birds thighbone is SO short that
it is usually covered by the plumage.
What is known as the knee is really
the birds heel.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-11

About 40 per cent CT British war
production comes from small work
shops. ...a..- cs.s..-laa, q 's-...4 -.'.--.-
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-11

Lady Astor is giving up Parlia-
ment alter so long time. One can
hardly imagine that august lecisla-
tive body without her presence.
American though she was, by birth f,
she won her place there and main
tanned il with more or less excite
mcnt. all these years. She did not
hesitate to come back at the biggest
man. She seemed especially to have
it i'm for Lloyd George. perhaps be-
cause he was quick on the uptake
and on the volley back at herself, Ii
seems that the classic story between
these two old antagonists is the one
i'm which she said to him in great
impatience, IF l were married to
you. I'd give you poison" to which
he reioined like rifle shot, Mad.
am, if l were married to you I'D
take il" =
We cannot vOuch on the witness
stand that this bit of repartee came
from that famous pair, but that
seems to be tradition.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-11

The people of Pekin, Illinois, in
tend to enlarge the background of
their congressman, Everett M. Dirk
sen. He was formerly a baker boy.
They sent him to Congress IL years
aro without dress suit or much
worldly experience. They have made
up their minds that he is good
congressman and they want to make
a better one out of him, so they've
raised something like $4,000 to give
him a trip abroad just as soon as
this session is over and before the
new one begins. The most sensible,
practical and democratic thing that
l have heard of any congressional
district doing i'm donkeys' years.
Best thing we could do for a whole
lot of our congressman, especially
now that we've got to grapple with
foreign affairs as we never have
done before. is to send them abroad
to see what FOREIGN affairs look like.
1t is doubtful if they should be
sent unchaperoned. Hard enough to
tell what a congressman will do
ANYTIME, let alone when he gets
loose outside the lot. Certainly,
plenty of them don't know enough
about foreign affairs to begin study
ing them by themselves. They may
need one or two good old newspa-
permen along, or other Americans
who have lived over there for a
great many years.
Now there was Senator William T..
Borah. who became chairman Of tho
Foreign Relations committee of the
United States Senate, and who had
never been outside the United
States. Now it's no crime never to
have been outside the United States;
but il is crime to become chair
man Of the foreign relations cOrp-
mittee of the United States Senate
and never have been outside the
country. He certainly demOnStratcd
his colossal ignorance and stubs
bornnesS durin~ the time he Qccu :
pied that position. =
william Allen White tells il in las
biography of Coolidge, that one day
the President looked out the sec
ond STORY window of the White
House and saw BOrah out for his
afternoon horseback ride. Coolidge
hastily called to some friend, point
ed out the sight and said, There
goes Borah on a horse and BOraf
and horse are going in the same
direction" Borah is the man wht
Just before This world war, insisted
that he had better sources of in
formation abroad than the govern.
ment had. That's the kind of mer
who made or marred the last wOrlt
peace.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-11

At every step we are tripping over enc
my dead in the underhrush, The woods
are full of dead Krauts.-CoI. Glenn u.
Walker of Clinton, Mass, in Huertgen
forest, Germany.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-11

Our will to resist is the only thing we
have left against the material superiority
of our enemy until the new weapons are
ready for the front.-lhe scorpion, 'er-
nan newspaper distributed to troops.
Evening star., 1944-06-13
Gen. Young Assumes
BeIyoir Command
Gen. Marks Honored
On Leaving for DoIlos

Brig. Gen. Edwin H. Marks was
succeeded today as commanding
general of the Fort Belvoir CVa.)
Army engineer post by Brig. Gen.
Gordon r. Young, formerly COM
mandant of the engineer school at
the post, the War Department an
nounced.
Gen. Marks, who has been atrans-
ferred to Dallas, as division engineer
of the Southwestern Division was
given a farewell review yesterday by
military units at the post.
Gen. Young has been succeeded as
the school commandant by Brig.
Gen. Dwight F. Johns, recently re-
turned from the Southwest Pacific
area, where he served on the staff
OF Gen. Douglas A. Macarthur.
Fort Belvoir's new commander, a
graduate of West Point in the class
of 1918, served in the Panama Canal
Zone until May, 1941. He served
with the punitive expedition into
Mexico in 1916 and also as assistant
to the chief engineer of divisional
areas with the American Expedi-
tionary Forces in France.
Gen. Young's successor Gen.
Johns, is a 1918 graduate Of West
Point and also served with the
Mexican expedition. He holds the
Distinguished Service Medal for his
work in New Guinea from October,
1912, to April, 1943.
Evening star., 1944-06-13
BY HOWARD w. BLAKESLEE,


CHICAGO, June ia new
method of making blood plaSma
declared to reduce the expense and
enabling any hospital with a labora
tory to make its own plasma. was
shown to the American Medical As
sociation today.
This report was made by Drs.
Charles S. White, Jacob J. Vein
stein and J. Lloyd Collins. George
Washington Medical School and
Gallinger Hospital. Washington.
Plasma is made by withdrawing
the red blood corpuscleS from whole
blood. The plasma which the Red
Cross produces for military use is
all the blood except the red cells.
This separation has required eX-
pensive machinery. in the form of
centrifugeS, which are Whlrllng de-
vices that act like cream separators
Also extremely low temperatures
are employed in drying the plasma
The Washingtonians separate out
the red cells without any machinery
whatsoever, They use coin
stacking method. Literally, they
treat the red corpuscles so they
fatten like coins, and stack up in
the bottom of a bottle into which
the donors blood is run direct from
his arm.
This red cell stacking is>known as
Evening star., 1944-06-13
Association Warns
OF Black Market in
Sale Of Used Cars
Declares Price Ceilings
May Force SO Dealers
Here Out of Business

The Washington Automotive
Trade Association warned today that
price ceilings on used cars, which
will go into effect July TO- will result
in a widespread black market and
may force some so used-car dealers
out of business.
Robert L. Lewis, president of the
association, predicted that dealers
would be "by-passed" and their
business dried up" as car owners
decide to evade the ceilings by en-
gaging in private transactions.
He pointed out that most truck
sales have been on a person-to-per-
son basis since the OPA set CELL
ings March l last year. He said
his firm, one of the largest truck
dealers before the war. had not sold
a used truck since that date.
THE trade looks at the new CELL
ings with real apprehensions," Mr.
Lewis declared.
He said the OPA had told in
quirerss that no ceilings would be
placed on used cars until after Con-
gress had extended the agency. The
Saturday announcement of OPA
might have been made lin order to
throw the whole matter in the lap
Of Congress" Mr.. Lewis said.
Additional funds will be required
to place the ceiling program into
effect on national basis, he added
Approximately 200 dealers are now
selling used cars in the Metropoli-
tan Area, and so of these depend
solely on this business to keep 60
ing, Mr.. Lewis said, The remainder
either are selling new cars or Offer
ing repair service.
Evening star., 1944-06-13
Washington Doctors Give ANA
Easy Method of Making PIosmo
Separate Red Cells Without Machinery;
Any Hospital Laboratory Can Adopt Plan

rouleauX formation. 1t is caused
in this new kind of plasma produc-
ton, by coating the inside of the
blood bottle with a chemical called
methyl cellulose.
In six years experiments and use
of this plasma on all sorts of cases
the Washington physicians reported
there haSe been no bad effects from
the cellulose remaining in the
plaSma.
For hospital use, the newborn
plasma does not need to be dried
as is done for military shipment
The plasma in liquid form remains
good for at least a year.
I'VE feel" says the report. that
plaSma can now be made available
to all at very low cost in any hos
pital with the usual laboratory IA
cilities."
The House Of Delegates of the
association yesterday voted to &C
over the heads of selective service
and appeal directly to the Presi-
dent or Congress to obtain more
deferments for medical students.
The house adopted a resolution
that the present policy of the
Army and the Selective Service Sys-
TEN will inevitably result in ar
overall shortage of qualified physi-
clans, with imminent danger to the
health and we'll being Qf our citi.
zens."
Evening star., 1944-06-13
Relief Corps 10 Present
Annual f|aq Day Pr0uram

The Womans Relief Corps, aux
iliary of the Grand Army of the Re-
public, will present its annual Flag
Day program at pm. tomorrow
from the East front steps of the
Capitol Building.
High lighting the program will
be talk by Harry B. Fleharty, spe-
cial assistant to the Attorney Gen.
eral, and a pageant entitled THE
Americas. by the Americanization
School, under the direction Of Mrs.
Helen Herman Vasa.
Mrs. Esther Lippold, president of
the department auxiliary, will give
IA welcome address, and Harry F.
Patterson of the GAR Memorial
Day Corporation will be master Of
ceremonies.
Arrangements are in charge of
past department presidents, includ-
ing Mrs. Myrtle Burke, Mrs, Cor
della Pollard and Mrs. Charlotte
Cary, and Mrs. Genevieve Craig. de-
partment patriotic instructor,
Evening star., 1944-06-13
laWRstoni;nq
.Remmider,@0

Canned Foods, Etc.-Book No. 4,
blue stamps AS through v-8 good
indefinitely. Each stamp worth
10 points.
Meats, Fats, Etc.-All meats except
beef steaks and roast beef now
point free. RED stamps A-S
through W-8 continue good in
definitely for 10 points each. Un-
til further notice, three red
stamps will be validated every
four weeks instead of every two
weeks.
will pay two ration points for each
pound of waste kitchen fats you
turn in The fact that lard, short.
ening and cooking oils have been
removed from the ration list does
not mean fat collection is less
essential.
sugar-Book No. stamps 30 and 81
valid for 5 pounds indefinitely.
Sugar stamp No. 80 good for
pounds beginning Friday. Book
No, stamp 40 good for 5 pounds
for home canning through Febru-
ary %, 1945.
Gasoline-No. 10-A coupons now
good for gallons each through
August 8. B-3, B-4, C-3 and Ca
coupons good for 5 gallons each.
Shoes-Airplane stamps / and 2 in
Book No. 3 good indefinitely for
one pair of shoes each.
Fuel Oil-Periods No. 4 and S cou.
pons good for 10 gallons per unit
through September 80. Period /,
19445 fuel oil ration good now
for 10 gallons per unit.