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whole future Of our country neces-
sarily rests upon sound national
finances Is = foundation"
Huge Budget Inevitable.
while 1t is too early to foretell
what the amount OF the Nations
postwar budget will be-" his state
ment said, I'VE do know from past
experience throughout our coun-
try's history that 1t will likely be
several times as great as in the pre-
war period-even under the extrava-
gance Of the New Deal
Individual and corporate taxes
will have to be 50 adjusted as to
produce maximum revenues con-
sistent with maximum encourage
ment to private enterprise. There
is no question but that present tax
rates have passed the point Of
diminishing returns.
"We found out after the last war
that we could reduce taxes and still
get as much revenue as before, due
to the stimulus thus given to indiv-
idual and business initiative.
Another important consideration
which must not be overlooked in
postwar taxation Is the fact that
under present tax rates 1t is virtu-
ally impossible for young man or
a young woman to accumulate suf-
flcient capital to set themselves up
in their own business, buy a farm,
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Fomous Type Designer
To Lecture at LibruN

Frederic w. Cloudy, dean Of
American type designers, will lee.
ture at S pm. Thursday In the
Whittall Pavilion of the Library Of
Congress, Archibald MacLeish, IL
brarian, announced yesterday. He
also said the Library had purchased
the Cloudy collection of Topographic
cal materials.
Mr.. Goudys subject, "Prelum
Vicanum Renascitur," or THE VII
lage Press Revived" will cover type
designing and PHILOSOPHERS and con-
illusions reached while he ran the
Village Press at Deepdene, Mari.
boro. N. Y.
The Cloudy collection contains
original type designs, drawings, ma
trices, type specimens, proofs, book
jackets of the Cloudy design and
keepsakes and special editions from
the Village Press.
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and that civilian goods became
scarcer as the year went on.
Ordinarily such buying pressure
which was only partially Offset by
taxes and purchases of War bonds,
would lead to a much more rapid
price rise than actually occurred"
For the war period as whole, the
overall price advance has been
much smaller than in the World
War, Miss Perkins said. From July,
1914, to November, 1918, the cost of
living rose 81 per cent and whole
sale prices climbed 1903 per cent. In
comparison, from August, 1889, to
December, 1943, living costs were
shown to have increased 81 per cent
and the wholesale prices 81 per cent
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Treanor Succeeds Bitner
In WPB Printing Division

Py the Associated Press.
Arthur R. Treanor, former deputy
director, has succeeded Harry NJ
Bitner, director of the Printing and
Publishing Division of the War Pro-
duction Board.
Announcement that Mr.. Bitner's
resignation became effective Friday
was made by Harold Boeschenstein,
acting directorfof the WPB forest
products bureau.
Mr.. Treanor's first official act after
assuming Office was to announce the
appointment of Allen E. Norman,
Hartsdale, NY, secretary of Fawcett
Publications, Inc, as chief of the
magazine and periodical section to
succeed Walter ]. Risley, jr., who
resigned to return to the Curtis
Publishing Co., Philadelphia.
Mr.. Treanor, whose home is in
Saginaw, Mich, is vice president
editorial counsel and chairman of
the labor committee of the Booth
Newspapers, Inc, of Michigan.
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Holsey Forecasts Great,
Decisive Victories in ~

SOUTH PACIFIC ALLIED HEAD
QUARTERS, Jan. l P.-Admiral
William F. Halsey today voiced as
surance that 1874 will be a year of
great, decisive victories for the cause
of Pacific freedom"
A year ago, he said, the Allies still
faced the japanese across the jungles
and beaches of Guadalcanal. Since
then, American troops have moved
into the Northern Solomons and
struck Bougainville from the list of
effective Jap bases"
Admiral Halsey, commander of
South Pacific forces, added in his
New Years Day statement:
1--WE can promise for the coming
months so many staggering blows
against the enemy in so many places
and from so many directions that
his reluctant retreat will be disas-
trously quickened as he backs up the
road toward Toxic. It Is q pleasur-
able note that such retreats are diff
cult to halt. The Jap won't halt his. +"
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|knlison Sees Annual
Postwar Tax Load
|0f Over 3 Billions
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
A postwar tax load of 500, 600, 000,-
600 to $4,000, 600, 900 annually was
foreseen yesterday by Representa-
tive Knutson, Republican, of Min
nesota. Current Federal income Is
more than 10000, oon, 900 a year.
Mr.. Knutson estimated fixed
charges of Government in the post
war period may easily reach ST.
DOC, 000, 900 a year as follows:
Interest on 5000 ,OOo, 900, 900 ma
tional debt Cat per cent)-$6, 0O0,-
000, 900.
Civil expenditures-$4, 000, 900 900.
Army and Navy costs trough es-
timate) "a 900 600 900.
Veterans relief-$3, 900 ,000, 900.
con top Of this" he said in a
statement, lit may be necessary to
appropriate several billions for un-
employment and agricultural relief,
rehabilitation loans domestic and
foreign, and other relief measures
Thus the immediate postwar cost of
government may be around $685.
600 ,000, 900, perhaps tapering of to
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". Carl Wyatt Retires
From Public Roads Post

w. Carl Wyatt, 57l6 Sixteenth
street NV, received a new watch
when he retired Thursday from his
position of administrative assistant
in the Public Roads Administra-
ton after AZ years of Government
service.
Other gifts to Mr.. and Mrs. Wyatt
included a dozen red roses. a floor
lamp and an ottoman.
Mr.. Wyatt, entered the Federal
service in 1901 with the Agriculture
Departments Bureau of Soils. He
became chief clerk in the Bureau
of Public Roads in 1908 and resigned
in 1921. He returned to the bureau
in 1880 as administrative assistant.
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Miss Perkins Reports
1913 Living Cost Rise
Smallest Since 40 !
By the Associated Press.


The brakes Of Government con-
troll held the overall increase in
prices during 1913 to the smallest
margin since 1910, Secretary of
Labor Perkins reported yesterday.
She said the rise in the average
retail cost of staple goods was 31a
per cent in the last 10 months, with
food and clothing price increases
the major factors. That compared
with a 9 per cent climb In 1912
over the previous year which saw a
10 per cent boost over 1910.
GA War Labor Board committee
is now studying the cost-of- Living
question, having been appointed by
President Roosevelt after complaints
from organized labor that present
indices are not Adequately
Wholesale Priced Compared.
Wholesale market prices were up
2 per cent, compared with 8 per
cent in 1912 and II per cent in 1941.
The rise in both the wholesale and
retail fields had been only l per
cent in 1910, the year the Nations
defense program got under way.
The sharpest food increases dur
Ing the year were for eggs, fresh
fruits and vegetables, fresh fish and
poultry. In large cities eggs retailed
In November at an average of 81
cents dozen, compared with SO
cents a year earlier and 80 cents in
November, 1899.
Potatoes reached a wartime high
IN May. with prices skyrocketing "a
per cent above the previous year
before they turned downward
Fresh fruits and vegetables averaged
10 per cent higher and fresh fish
20 per cent than in 1912.
Meat Prices Drop.
Counterbalancing somewhat, meat
prices were down on an average of
z per cent and butter almost cents
pound. Government subsidies
lowered these prices.
THE continued rise in prices for
farm products was principal factor
in American markets during the
year." Miss Perkins said. Prices
received by farmers were 20 per cent
higher than in 1912 and the cash in
come from farm marketings was up
by about Is per cent"
In the clothing field, a 6 per cent
rise was attributed partly to dis
continuance of lower price lines
and partly to upward adjustment
of some OPA maximum prices to
compensate for higher labor and
material costs.
OPA Credited With Curbs.
Crediting price curbs in 1943 to
development of OPA's price con-
troll and rationing measures, and
to voluntary cooperation of manu-
facturers and dealers, Miss Per-
kins said:
THE small rise is an especially
good record in view of the fact that
income paid to individuals in the
United States increased by ST.
000, 000, 000-from the already high
level of Sis, 600 OOO,O 900 in 1912 to
an estimated $4,000, 600, 900 in 1943
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thrift dresses
. rayOn crepes
. fpOOL mixtures
. gdbardines
hrn,cr

. Regularly S.95 to 1925
Misses dresses in tailored or
dressy styles in black or colors.
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the heavy fighter opposition that
was met in the last previously an
nounced raids on those two points
The third raid took medium bomb
ers over labor, in the Jaluit Atoll
The Navy statement, prepared by
Admiral Chester w. Nimitz, COM
mander in chief of the Pacific fleet,
omitted any reference to opposition
there, but did say no American
planes were damaged. In the raid
on labor, ground installations were
strafed as we'll as bombed.
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Pacific
Continued From First Page. }

Continued From First Page.)
countered little opposition, the Navy
reported yesterday.
No interception was encountered
when heavy bpmbers hit Kwajalein
and light bombeys escorted by Air
ocobra fighters attacked Mile.
This was in sharp contrast with
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acquire . home. or save for their
old age.
That Is why postwar tax read
justments must extend to all
groups, and not be confined to the
upper surtax brackets or TO
business"
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,.esxass

IL JUNIOR DRESSES in wool, rayon
crepe or gabardine, mostly tailored.
Colors and black. Sizes 9-155. Reg.
1895 90
10 JUNIOR DRESSES in tailored
and dressy styles, in wool, rayon
crepe or gabardine in colors and
black. Sizes 9-15. Reg. 1925, 7.o9
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better sse
,,lEI|1l,0rfssreGs. Uulases

SPORT SUITS, some all wool, some
part wool, in novelty stripes and
plaids. Sizes IL to 10. Reg. 1895 to
1895 5.OO
JUMPER DRESSES in all-wool shet-
land or rayon gabardine. Sizes 10
to 10. Reg. 7.95 -------------5 500
RAYON JUMPER DRESSES in
bright colors. Sizes 1913. Reg: 3.95
and Z.67
SKIRTS in solid colors, checks and
plaids. in wool and rayon. Sizes "a
to 80. Reg. $50 to 395-=-----2.67
BLOUSES in plain and novelty
rayon fabrics. Sizes 80 to SO. Reg.
$50 to 5---------2.67
SPORTSMAN THIRD FLOOR
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Is MISSES AND WOMEN'S
DRESSES in rayon crepes, woods,
gabardines, velveteens. Reg. 8.95
and sos .8S
Is MISSES DRESSES in assorted
colors and styles. Reg. 10.95- --7.8S
THRIFT SHOP THIRD FLOOR
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200 pieces, reg. SOC --------3oe
Pins, necklaces, bracelets, earrings
In wood and plastic.
$50 pairs Earrings. Reg. 100
In plastic, sterling or gold plated.
Screw and slipon types in many
colorS.
so Lapel Pins. Reg. 1.00-----59e
Wood animal designs; lucite and
metal pins with safety catches.
(plus taxi
JEWsLRY ... STREET FLOOR
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-14
Beer-Drinkinu
Duck Ruffs
Nippon Rooster

AUCKLAND, N. D., March Ia
(UP>-Siwash, beer drinking duck,
adopted by a marine battalion
during its encampment in New
Zealand, wen belated recognition
for moving down one Japanese
rooster during the marine invasion
of Tarawa last November
Lit. Gel. Presley M. RiXey, COM
mander of the marine battalion in
which Siwash served as official
mascot, entered the fowl in the bat
talion's records with this citation
-Four courageous action and
wounds received at Tarawa: With
utter disregard for his personal
safety SiwaSh, On reaching the
beach, with hesitation engaged the
enemy in fierce combat, namely
one rooster of japanese ancestry.
Although wounded On the head by
repeated pecks he routed the op-
position. He refused medical aid
until all wounded members CT his
gun crew had been cared for
Siwash's fayorite sport, the
colonel added of the record, is
tavern-trippirg with the marines.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-14
DUES WANTED

Washington DC, Evening Starr
The attempt by an AFL local union
to impose a checkoff arrangement on
prisoners of war working in New Jersey
should occasion no particular surprise,
since this is the same union which de-
manded and received union dues when
American soldiers were sent into South
Jersey cannerieS to help save the 1943
tomato crop.
In this instance, however, there is
possibility that the union will not get
the dues. Both union officials and the
War departments should not come ou,
Of the S0-cent daily wage which is paid
to war prisoners. The employer pays
the difference between the so cents and
the prevailing wage rate to the treasury,
but the War department is emphatic in
saying that the union cannot collect from
the treasurys portion.
That leaves the employer If he wants
to pay the prevailing wage rate for the
prisoners and also pay the dues to the
union he probably will get the labor that
he needs to keep his plant running. But
if he is not willing to pay the dues as
well as the wages, the indications are
that the union which has closed-shop
contract, will not permit the prisoners
to work, and in that event the employer
will have to get along as best he can.
In itself, of course. this incident is
relatively unimportant and the total Of
the dues involved is small 1t is sgni-
fled, however, of the extent to which
some union officials will go, under a
closed-shOp agreement, in putting the
interests of the union treasury ahead Of
any and all other considerations.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-14
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
No. 5546

ESTATE OF PEDRO AGUINO,
also known as PEDRO T. AGUINO,
also known as PEDRO T. AQUINO,
DECEASED.
Notice is HEREBY given by the
undersigned, M. D. Zinn, Public
Administrator, as administrator OF
the estate of Pedro AguinO, also
known as Pedro T. Aguino, also
known as PeCro T. Aquino, deceas-
ed, to the creditors of and all per-
sons having claims against against
the said deceased, that within six
months after the first publication
of this notice they either file them
with the necessary vouchers in the
office of the Clerk of the Superior
Court of the State of California,
in and for the County of Imperial,
or exhibit them with the necessary
vouchers to the said M. D. Zinn, eS
administrator of said estate, at the
office of D. B. Roberts, 207 Bank
of America Blcg., Ell Centro, Cali
fornia, the same being the place TO-
the transaction of the business of
the said estate in the County of
Imperial State of California.
Dated at El Centro, California,
this 4th day of March, 1914.
NJ. d. ZINN,
Administrator of the Estate e
of Pedro Aguino, also known
as Pedro T. Aguino, also
known as Pedro T. Aquino,
Deceased.
NO. 50) (M7-14-21-28)
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-14
New B!uebeard
Hits Paris

LONDON. March Il CUP - The
charred and dismembered skeletons
of rs women, apparently murdered
by a new Persian bluebeard, have
been discovered in an abandoned
house at q Rue Lesuer, only few
doors from a neighbCrhood theater
chewing The Murderer Lives in
House Number 21," the German
DNB news agency reported in a
dispatch from Paris.
The murderer, said DNB, chopped
up the bodies Of his victims and
burned them in the furnace at No.
81, an empty house near Arc De
Triomphe. which was said to have
been rented by a mysterious DR..
Marcel Petiot. -..
A brick we'll II feet high, had
been erected around the house and
behind its cover, DNB said, the
"Bluebeard" built lime pit in
which he dipped the bodies in an
effort to remove all traces of his
crime. The bones and skulls of his
victims were piled up around the
pit and near the furnace.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-14
caplitaI Talk
bly,
Peter Edison

Another of the postwar problems
which as yet hasn't been given
much attention is what to do with
the results of all the government
financed research which has been
conducted at an accelerated rate
during the war.
No definite detailed compilations
have as yet been made. but it is es-
timated that at least 100000, 900
of public money has been spent in
developing new ideas, new processes,
new techniques-all of which have
been applied to improving or speed
ing up the production OF materials
OF war War and Navy Departments,
National Research Council, National
Inventors Council have had the
most important hands il this devel-
Jpment, after financing work in the
research laboratories of private in
dustry This s2O00,000.000 research
expenditure. by the. way. is esti
mated to be as much as was spent
on research in the United States, in
the 20 years between the two wars.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-14
Japs Adopt Use
OF Wood BuIIef

EOUGAINVILLE, S. L, March a..
-CUP)-The Japanese are using
wooden bullets in jungle fighting
on this northernmest Solomon is
land, u. S. army officers disclosed.
A .25-caliber cartridge clip con-
tanning three wooden bullets and
two grenade-propelling charges,
found by American soldiers, was
described as having been the type
used by Japanese snipers who fire
the wooden cartridges when shoot
ing back toward their own lines.
The wooden bullets have damag-
ing effect at close range, but quick
ly lose velocity, it was explained,
japanese snipers use the wooden
bullets when they want to keep
from endangering their own men
if they miss their targets, officers
said.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-14
FUNDS FOR CONVERSION

christian Science Monitor)
The fact about the reserves business
has been able to accumulate from war
profits appears to lie about half way
between the fabulous amounts accredt-
ed to industry by certain labor leaders
and the penury that some business
groups have way of claiming
This is brought out in the Department
of Congress survey of current business,
where the surprising, and on the whole
cheering, conclusion is reached that
American industry will have sufficient
cash reserves to finance its own transi-
ton to peacetime production. The De-
partment computes that after deduct
ing such items as tax accruals, and after
adding the cash due in settlement Of
war contracts to the $4,000, 900 900 in
present undivided profits, there will be
somewhere between S10,000,O 100000 and
SIC, 1000. 100000 available for the conver-
sion job.
If it is clearly understood that this
cash is not for postwar stockholders
melons, but definitely earmarked for the
transition job, the picture of present
profits will sit easier on the national
conscience.
The Department Of Commerce believes
the 10 billion to 20 billion dollars will be
enough. Considering that the postwar
job may be one of horizontal change
without requiring vast plant expansion
and that quantities of tools and great
reservoirs of workers not requiring ex-
pensive training will be available, there
is much to Justify the Departments op-
timism.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-14
Masons to Honor
Grand Master

Claude H. Morrison, grand master
of Masons in California, will pay
his official visit to the lodges CT
the lO8th district next Monday
night. t'f
A reception in honor Of the
visitor will be held in the El Centre
Masonic temple under the auspices
of the Imperial Valley Masonic Of
ficers' association. All Masons are
welcome to attend and to hear the
message which Morrison will de-
liver at the reception, said Viggo
E. Hansen, president Of the asso-
ciatiCn.
Preceding the reception will be a
pot luck dinner served in the bail
quet room at 6:45 2. m.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-14
Sergeant Scores
As Speaker

Sgt. Robert Hansen, editor of
Desert Diggins, made his first
speech for the Cactus Gavel Tcast-
masters club Monday night and won
the vote as best speaker OF the
evening.
Bill Fox was voted most i'm
proved, the ether speakers being
Bill Outlook, Shields Charlton,
Dorsey WhitelaW. Al BeVan.
Mark Hebbelthwaite was toast
matter, Vladimi. Arcnovici chief
critic, and Al Shaller, Leon Miller.
Frank Rood. Glen Bowers, Everett
Shaw, Hayden Sears, critics.
Miller, president, presided in
the absence of Foster Mcclure,
president.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-14

Almost the entire technology of
working synthetic rubber may be
said to have been developed in gov
ernment-finaneed, govern m e n t.
owned, Defense Plant Corporation
factories. operated by private man.
agement under contract to the gov
eminent. Patents have been pooled
and freely snapped. knowledge
gained in one plant has been passed
on to peacetime competitors. In
many cases, basic patents held by
cne company have been improved
upon AND improvements shared.
royalty free-all in q generous effort
to help win the war quickly.
When the war is over, however,
disposing OF the Sl5,500 ,000,0 900 worth
Of government plants will be cinch
in comparison to untangling the
patent situation, all because there is
net clear-cut policy on ownership
and control of patents developed on
public funds.
A simple case in point is best il
Illustrated by West Virginia Senator
Harley M. Kilgore'S military affairs
subcommittee on war mobilization,
which has been digging into patent
monopoly and has just issued new
volume OF hearings and exhibits on
this subject Included is statement
presented by Assistant Attorney
General Wendell Berge on the de-
yelcpment OF vitamin D, synthetic
form OF sunshine essential to bone
growth and prevention of rickets
and tooth decay.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-14
ARMY INVESTIGATES
PRISON CAMP HANGING

PHOENIX, ArlZ., March IA IUP
Military authorities Tuesday in
vestigated the hanging CT a Ger
man prisoner of war and an escape
attempt by two other prisoners at
the Papago Park interment camp.
The body Of Werner Dreschler
was found in an empty barracks
building Monday shortly after two
other prisoners had made their waJ'
through an electrified wire fence
surrounding the camp. They were
recaptured. Col. A. H. Means,
commanding officer of the camp,
refused to speculate whether Dres-
chler had taken his own life or had
been slain by his fellow prisoners.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-14
DISCOVERY PATENTED

In 1923, DR.. Harry Steenbock,
working in the Wisconsin Agricul-
tural Experiment Station, discovered
that by irradiating certain foods
with ultraviolet rays, they became
enriched with what is now known as
vitamin D. DR.. Steamboats, research
was financed in part by federal
grants-in-aid, in part by state funds.
When the discovery was made it was
patented but DR.. Steenbock pro-
posed that it be given to the univer-
sity.
Wisconsin's regents declined the
offer, feeling they were not in a pO-
sition to commercialiZe them, but
through the president of the alumni
association, George l. Haight, a
patent lawyer Of Chicago, the Wis
consin Alumni Research Foundation
was founded to undertake exploita-
ton of Steenbock's patents. Up to
1910, the foundation received $780,
900 in royalties, though it was Or
ganiZed as non-profit body to pro-
mote research. University OF Wis
consin has no real connection with
the foundation, whose profits are in
vested and their income is utilized
for research.
BY selective licensing, however,
the foundation has restricted use OF
/ Steenbock's processes and patents to
certain food and drug houses. They
can be used only by licensed pro-
ducers of flour, dairy or stock feed
products. Even the quantity of vita
min D units used in any product is
restricted, its price fixed,
The question posed by this case
is whether patents developed even
in part by public funds having such
admittedly great public benefits if
made generally available, should be
restricted in any way, or made pub
lie property for anyone to use. And
what should be the application of
this principle to chronological dis
coVeries of the war?