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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-03-28
Wins ST 900 War Bond

A $1,000 War Bond as first prize
in a magazine contest was delivered
yesterday to Mrs. John Albert, 1928
Upland terrace NV.
The award was made by McCall's
Magazine for the best 250-word
letter discussing the type of archi-
lecture the contestant would select
for her postwar home. Mrs. Albert
is the wife of an architect.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-13

when he stood in the packed audi
torium in San Francisco and al
most cralnmeu the McAuOo nomina-
ton single handed-or single voiced
down the throats of war weary
Democrats. already wavering under
the heavy burden of WilSonian
responsibility. to the jubilant relief
of jim CoX-and eventually Warren
Harding.
Even the offer of the candidacy
for vice president under Cox, which
he refused, could not aSSuage his
DISAPPOINTMENT in the country'S re-
fusal of the League of Nations. He
was power in politics then, with
his Kansas City Post, his pulpit and
the couple of books a year he man.
aged to throw in for good measure,
You gnow, of courSce, who finally
became Cox rL4ning mate, Frank
lin Delano Roosevelt.
AL that is gone now ana the
clock has come just short of full
circle. The ice is thick around the
reeds in Goose Lake, but there's no
Preacher jenkins sitting in the
North blind. with a cud of Ranger
in one cheek, whispering to one of
his boys: Here they come. Take
your time now. You get the first
shot
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-13
ACT OF CHAPULTEPEC
christian Science Monitor)

A promising prelude to San Francisco
has been written at Mexico City IN the
Act of Chapultepec. This agreement pro-
vides for community action against ag-
gresson in the Western Hemisphere. 1t
is to operate whether the aggression
comes from outside or from within the
Hemisphere.
Acceptance in plenary session by the
Mexico City conference will bring the
agreement into immediate effect. For
the time being it will be implemented, so
far as the United States is concerned, by
the power of the President to use Ameri-
can forces anywhere for the protection
of the United Nations cause. For the
future il must take the form of a treaty,
to be ratified by the Senate as provided
in the United States Constitution.
The central significance of the Act of
Chapultepec is not simply its recognition
that aggression anywhere in the New
World is the concern of people everywhere
i'm the New World, but that this fact Is
honored in something more than theory.
The United States, along with the other
nations represented at Mexico City, is
making a commitment of physical sup
port for the concept which Wendell Will
kie called lone World" This concept
now is being mderwritten with force to
the extent that it covers lone New
World" 1t should not be hard to broaden
the idea at San Francisco
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-13
MUDDY WATERS
{ Riverside Daily Press)

Something will have to be done about
people who use long words just for the
sake of using them. Ivor Brown editor
of the London Observer says that some
commentators are capable of sentences
like this: in the opinion of authorita-
tive circles at the higher levels, it is con-
sidered that the situation is showing an
increasing tendency, to deteriorate.o
Meaning: Those who know say that
things will get worse
The next translation of the Bible, Mr..
Brown fears, will discard the phrase
"heal the sick" and substitute something
like "rehablitate those who are suffer-
ing from psycho-physical maladJust-
ment."
Nearly every office has some one who
would write like this if not restrained.
Contrast such muddy writing with the
words Of Field Marshal Montgomery: /
am never anxious when | fight my bat
ties. If am anxious, ! don't fight them,
| wait until am ready
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-13
PATIENCE AND COOPERATION

Many Ell Centric people have expert
enced the use and operations of the So
called car park-O-meter. On the other
hand. installation of the gadgets in El
Centre, and now in use for the first time,
will call for a considerable lot of pa
tience and cooperation. Also it will test
ones alertness of mind for some time for
the instant he steps from a car. After
a while it will become mechanical to
reach for the necessary coin. And coop
GRAFTON comes into the picture when the
proper coin is not at hand. Then the
nearest store or place of business will
step in, for about all the driver can do is
make for the nearest place to obtain
Change" At least it has been thus in
all the nlaces the time-counter has been
installed and kept in use.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-13
WEST, WHERE sun Is WARMER

Preacher Jenkins has gone West
where the Sun will feel warmer on
his broad old back. But before he
left home, the Jewish merchants of
Kansas City matched dollar for
dollar with his congregation to pay
off the last bonds on his church
and the Rabbi came in to help in
the mortgage burning ceremony.
But he couldn't stop working
One of his sons has a newspaper in
Ell Centro and the smell of the
ink came back strong to his nos
trils. I am enclosing a couple OF his
columns under the title Nubbins
which he used for it on the Kansas
City Post in those other days.
You can tell from their tone that
his indestructible spirit still burns
brightly. though the eyes are tired
now. They are fine eyes, Bill, and
unafraid No boy, or man was
ever as lucky as your friend
Burris"
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-13
MORE CONFUSION
{ San Diego UniOn)

Is Congress trying to hold the man
power football until the final whistle
blows? Some such conclusion seems JUS
titled by the curious twists taken by
both house and senate on this legislation.
While the lower house recently passed
work-or-jail bill imposing penalties on
workers, the senate has just passed
bill exempting workers from penalties
and imposing them on employers who
"hoard' labor or violate wage ceilings.
Because of the insistent demand of the
war and navy departments for labor
draft, on one hand, and the opposition of
the labor unions, the National Manufac-
turers Association and the agricultural
interests, on the other, this manpoWer
issue has been a hot potato in the hands
of congress. The weeks spent IN jockey
ing and juggling are climaXed by this
latest flip-flop of the senate in passing
a measure entirely at variance with that
passed by the house.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-13

Recently, when BurriS Jr.. came
here to see our father for what he
knew would be the last time, Bill
Corum in his daily column appear
ing across the continent, wrote as
follows:
This is letter written by a son
about his dad. About a dad who is
so desperately sick in California
that the son has gone to see him
for the last time, as he knows. As
they both know
1t is letter written by Burris
jenkins. Jr.. whom all of you who
read this newspaper know, about his
father, DR.. Burris Jenkins OF Kan
sas City.
Mother. father. sons, they were
such a plain. fine, wonderful fam
lily, as the writer has known them
through almost a lifetime. When
you have read this letter OF the
sons about his father, I'm sure
you will agree:
Dear Bill-There's gap in the
Kansas City skyline these days At
least from my viewpoint and, In
sure, yours. hes gone Irom back
home. The big. old battered chunk
of Missouri We used to know, Slip
ped out of the Union Station just
before Christmas without telling
anybody, or worrying anybody. That
is his way.
And if the x. C. Chamber of
Commerce didn't note his going,
there are plenty out there who did,
and will. All over the state, out
into Kansas and up into Iowa.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-13
AIR CARGO MARKS NEW
MILESTONE IN VALLEY

Imperial Valleys first cargo Of veg
etables by air has become reality and
thereby comes to fruition an ambition and
purpose long cherished. 1t all points to
future activity almost without llmlta-
tion. 1t opens a new vista for the Valley
it has the potential force of a gift to the
country of the superior advantages of
this inland empire in an all-the-year-
around fresh vegetable and fruit supply.
The initial shipment stopped at Cleve-
land, Ohio. The eventual extreme dis
tant market is New York. Development
of the business Will add such large cen
ters of population as Chicago, Detroit,
Cincinnati, Philadelphia, Boston and.
indeed each and every great distributing
center.
OF course there will be a slogan The
speed of air transport means that to-
matoes, for instance, will go to consum-
ers Observation-Disclosures with the dew
still clinging to the fruit.
Long known the country over as the
greatest producer of out-of-Season Vege-
tables and fruits, now with air cargoes
assured success, the prestige and dlStlnc-
tion will draw still greater attention to
the Valley. 1t means a lot, that within
days time. from the moment the article
is picked, it can be on the consumers
tables as far away as Cleveland and III
New York only a few hours later. Start
of this new enterprise also serves to en-
phasize the need and Importance of
municipal airport complete and III full
operation at the very earliest moment
possible. If the venture turns into full
success it will require fleet of planes in
and out daily Tor many weeks of the year.
And the closer of access for such an air
mort the better
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-13
World Aviation Pact Signed

WASHINGTON, March 13. up
President Roosevelt has sent To the
senate fcl ratification tie interna-
tional civil aviation convention
drafted at the International ayia-
tiCn conference in Chicago last year.
There had been some doubt
whether the convention would be
handled rs a treaty requiring ratifi-
cation
The President acted in re.ponse
tc requests by members of ,he SEN
ate foreign relations committee
They contended that the state de
partment was going ahead with ne
gotiations of air treaties without
giving congress an opportunity to
decide on an overall air pclicy
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-13
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE OF PUBLIC WORK

Notice is hereby given that res
olution of intention No. 894 was
adopted and passed on the 2lst day
of February, 1915. in which resolu-
ton it was proposed that certain
alleys therein referred to and here
matter described be vacated and
entirely closed up. Said alleys are
described as follows:
All of the east and west alley
through Block 3, Third Addition,
from the west line of Wilson
Street to the east line OF Lot B
in said Third Addition.
Also all of the alley running
north and south in Block 3,
Third Addition, located between
the westerly production OF the
north line of Lot % in said Block
3 and the westerly production OF
a line parallel with and distant
20 feet northerly from the south
line of said Lot %.
Said resolution O. intention is
hereby referred to for further parti-
Culars.
FURTHER NOTICE Is HEREBY
GIVEN that any person interested
objecting to the said closing OF the
said alleys may make written OBJ
iections to the same within ten
QO) Gays after the expiration OF
the time of the publication OF this
notice, and such objection or oojcc-
tions will be given d hearing BY the
City Council as provided by law
E. PAUL FORD,
Street Superintendent Of
the City of FL Centro.
mo. 81 tM2-l3 melh
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-13
Buffers Seeks
Funds for
Duck Herding

SACRAMENTO. March 13. CUP)
Assemblyman George r. Buffers.
r.. Brawley. has introduced a bill
to provide an appropriation of
S25, 1000 for carrying out a program
of herding wildfowl by airplanes as
Il means of protecting crops in vari-
Gus sections OF the state.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-13
THIS IS GOOD

If you have the time, take a stroll in
leisurely way about your city-El Cen
tro, and mark the many bits of home i'm
provements going on. These little touch
es help perk things up no end, and while
summing it all up, remember such things
come hard these days of limited mater
ial and more limited help. The clerk,
the accountant, the merchant and the
banker are doing the work themselves in
many instances. Besides helping to make
the city in which thev live be more beau
tiful, the exercise will do no harm.
Try it out.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-13
NUBBiNS---
- BY PAUL JENKINS -

'Nubbins' column is in mourning today.
This is its last appearance Actually 1t made Its last
appearance some time ago when DR.. Burris jenkins, its
author dictated the final script despite the pain of the e
fort. . E,
Nor am the son. here endeayorng to pick the fail
ing pen shall pass that to my brother Burrs Jen-
kins Jr of New York and his close friend the widely to
lowed Rl COrum of sports fame.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-13
Rat on Plane
Cheers Pilot

GUAM. March 13. tUPl-Bom-
bardier 1t. Vernon Wheeler OF
Chattanooga, Tennessee, sal d
Tuesday he became certain 30
miles cut from Nagoya Monday
that his B-29 would make it home
safely.
"A rat. ran up my pants leg he
said Il was sure we'd get home
when I found the rats hadn't de-
serted the ship
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-13
Editorials and Comment

EDITORS NOTE: The folioUing edit
OriaIs are presented as interesting 0pin-
ions Uoiced by editors elsewhere. they
do not necessarily reflect the opinion or
this paper.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-13
STARTING AGAIN AT SIXTY:

Next day he sat across the street
in the office of gas station with
his back to the twisted steel and
ashes that had been his life's work.
He was not one to look back, and
already he was drawing plans on the
garage mans desk for the bigger
and better nOn-denominatiOnal
church that was TO take its place
In the meantime, his congrega-
ton met in the Jewish synagog on
Linwood boulevard since it wasn't
used on Sundays, and the neighbor-
ing Catholics furnished whatever
yestments and equipment his prot
estant church services required.
There was the high spot in 1920
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-13

The surest way to guarantee full
supply of fruit and vegetables for home
use is to grow a garden and do as much
home canning as possible.-WFA Admin
iStratOr Marvin Jones.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-13

There will be need for every garden
and for all of the home canning that can
be done this year-WFA Administrator
Marvin Jones.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-13

The farther Germany breaks down, the
worse our service to prisoners of war IS
bound to become.-Richard F. Allen, Red
Cross vice chairman.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-13
BY WAY OF EXPLANATION

Now if people should happen to
wonder that sports columnlSt
should care about Preacher jenkins
as you used to call him), it's be-
cause they don't know either of you
and they're not from Missouri.
They won't realize that for our
money. Preacher jenkins belongs
on any sports page with any list
of sportSmen that ever lived. hot
so much from the way he could
swing a Winchester pump gun over
a wintry slope of corn stubble to
get two or three on the covey rise
without ever doubling on a fellow
hunter.
Nor how he could drop a long.
slippery sidehill putt on the 10th
to go into the semi-finalS OF the
trans Mississippi championships a
round the time of the Scott Fltz-
gerald era. Nor even because he
was once the State Boxing Com
missioner out there.
It's just from the way he always
lived-and is.
You remember him, Bill, tear
ing out the Baccalaureate address
to your graduating class at Mis-
souri, in that laundering oratory Of
his that could put a lump in a
young mans throat and bring mist
to his eyes. But you may not know
that before he could go to the audi
torium that day, Preacher jenkins
had to take shots of morphine TO
stave off the mounting pain OF an
osteomilitiS attack that had swollen
his leg to double its normal size.
He got through the speech and
caught a train to K. c., and hos
pital, without letting anybody know.
That leg plagued him after that
until they cut it off. This, too, he
tried to keep a secret. But when
the news leaked out in the papers,
the Catholics said special prayers
for him, the Jews held special SER
vices, and an Episcopalian minister
hurried to him to administer the
Last Rites, which he didn't need
then.
THE same sort of thing happen
ed when his church burned down,
They woke MIN III Jne middle OF
the night to tell him No use call
ing me, he said, call the fire de-
partmentr ana wen, pack to sleep.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-13
new kind of
ASPIRIN tablet
doesn't upset stomach

When you need
quickrelieff from
pain, do you
hesitate to take
aspirin because
it leaves you
with an upset
stomach? If so,
this new medi-
cal discovery.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-13

y
SUPERIN, is "just what the doc
cor ordered" for you.
syperin is aspirin plus contains
the same pure, safe aspirin you
have long known-but developed
by doctors in a special way for
those upset by aspirin IN its ordi-
nary form.
This new kind of aspirin tablet
dissolves more quickly, let's the
aspirin get right at the job of re-
lieving pain, reduces the acidity OF
ordinary aspirin, and does not ir-
ritate or upsetstomach-even after
repeat doses.
Tear this out to remind you tc
get Superin today, so you can have
it on hand when headaches, colds,
etc, strike. See how quickly it
relieves pain j how
fine you feel after Es"sraSI..s ~
taking Atyourdrug- Good !.s.,a Hsg,.s.'pi.I/
yist's, 15e and 1885,. s..~=s-ss
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-03-27
WAC Corporal, Ex-Teacher
AT GaIIaudet, Wins Bars

Second 1t. Elizabeth M. Benson of
Frederick, Md, former assistant pro-
fessor of speech at Gallaudet Col
lege, yesterday was promoted to
WAC commissioned rank from cor
poral. She thus became the first
WAC to receive a promotion directly
from enlisted ranks under a War
Department directive authorizing
commissions for persons having
skills needed in the Army's rehabili-
tation program.
1t. Benson taught lip reading at
Gallaudet College for II years. She
is graduate of Washington College
of Law and member of the District
Women's Bar Association.
She joined the WAC in August,
1943, and for more than year has
been on duty at Borden General
Hospital in Chicasha, Okla, where
she taught lip reading to deafened
soldiers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-03-27
Saturday Is DeadIine
For Paying D. {. Taxes

District Tax Assessor Edward A.
Dent warned yesterday that Sat-
urday noon is the deadline for pay
ing the second installment of Dis
trict real estate and personal prop
erty taxes and that penalties for
nonpayment are an additional
charge of l per cent a month.
Mr.. Dent said the District should
be S12, 100000 richer at the end of
the month than it was March /,
with $11,000,000 expected to come
from real estate taxes and 81 $780, 600
from owners of personal property.
The real estate taxes will come
from assessments on about $1,370,-
100000 of taxable property. an all
time peak for the District. The per-
sonal property tax is levied on such
items as jewelry and household
furnishings and livestock.
Mr.. Dent also reminded District
taxpayers that local income tax re-
turns must be flied on or before
April Is. Half of the payment on
income is due at the April date
and the balance on October Is.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-03-27
Borrowed instrument
Lost, Man Held 10 Jury

Failure of Sid .Willoughby, 40,
musician at the China Clipper, 1016
Fourteenth street NV, to return a
musical instrument he borrowed last
summer yesterday resulted in his be-
ing held for action of the grand jury
on larceny charge by Municipal
Court Judge Walter Casey.
Judge Casey set bond at 5000 after
Joseph L. Boyle, owner of the res
taurant at $50 Pennsylvania avenue
Sc, testified Willoughby had not
returned the keyboard of solo
vox.' an electrical attachment for
pianos, after borrowing it last June.
He said Willoughby had been asked
repeatedly to return the instrument.
but had failed TO do SO, although
each time he promised to return it.
Willoughby. who lives at All
TYenty-fourth street north, Arling-
ton. told the court he had lent Mr..
Boyle's instrument to musician
friend and had been unable to locate
the friend.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-03-27
Woman Admits Her Attack
Story 10 Police Was False

Mrs. Regain Darnold, %, of 1906
wyoming avenue NV, admitted to
police yesterday that a story she
told Saturday of having been
slashed and robbed by a colored
man in the Zoo grounds was false.
Mrs. Darnold, wife of a naval
lieutenant, told Detective Sergts.
George Cooper and Otto P. Fuss of
the robbery squad that her COM
plant to police grew out of an
argument she had with her hus-
band Saturday, during which he
threatened to send her home. They
have been in Washington only about
a month.
Cuts on her wrists and forehead,
she said, were inflicted by scratch
ing herself with her fingernails.
At the time she made her COM
plant, Mrs. Darnold said she had
asked directions of a colored man
she believed was Zoo attendant.
After directing her to footpath,
she related, the man attacked her
with a knife, cutting her and TAX
ing her wallet containing $40.
The story at the time momentarily
led police to believe they might be
on the trail of the colored man
who fatally stabbed and robbed
Miss Frances N. Erickson last Au-
gust 6
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-03-27
Contributions Of Clothing
Being Accepted al Depot

Contributions to the United Ma
tional Clothing Drive for the relief
Of war victims will be received now
at the central depot, 469 G street
NV, although the drive does not
start until next Monday, Charles
Stofberg, director of organization,
announced yesterday.
The collection depot will be opened
by request to Inspector Clement Cox
at police headquarters or to Horace
Walker, executive secretary of the
District Salvage Committee.
Maury Maverick, chairman of the
Smaller War Plants Corp, has au-
thorized various agencies under his
supervision to conduct a co-ordin-
ated drive. The clothing collected
will be turned over to the larger
city-wide drive.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-03-27

last year granted $3.50 picnic
permits and figures that 623 1888 per-
sons were thus exposed to the great
outdoors. This year she wouldn t
be surprised if the permits hit the
10000 mark and the total attend
ance reaches 10000.
More Permits This Year.
She reasons this way: Last year
A permits were issued in March
and this year 80 permits were
granted in the first 20 days of the
month. That represents a trend
she believes.
'Of course a lot depends on the
weather" she said.
There's no red tape in connection
with permits. Miss Mayfield says.
All you do Is give your name, specify
the time and size of the party and
the permits yours. If you have a
particular spot you'd like to use
name it and often you can have it.
If some one else got there first, of
course, you're out of luck.
Up to 10 persons can use the picnic
groves without permit, provided
they don't plan to make fire. II
you want to roast as much as a
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-03-27
Return Of Woman
To Hospital Sought

DR.. Joseph L. Gilbert, chief
psychiatrist at ST. Elizabeth's Hos
pital, yesterday said he would seek
recommitment to the institution Of
36-year-old mother of three chill
dren who was discharged from
there week ago. and who was
found unconscious Sunday night on
the kitchen floor of her home, with
all burners on the stove open.
She is now in Gallinger Hospital
psychiatric ward undergoing mental
observation and her condition is
good, DR. Gilbert declared.
In seeking the recommitment, he
said the womans case would be
certified to the court for another
hearing before the Commission on
Mental Health" According to DR..
Winfred Overholser. superintendent
of st. Elizabeth's, the woman was
discharged from that institution on
recommendation of the commission
but against the advice of mental au-
thorities.
According to DR.. Gilbert, the wom-
an voluntarily entered Gallinger
Hospital for mental observation
more than month ago. After psy-
chiatrists there certified her to Dis
trict Court as mentally unsound, he
said, the Commission on Mental
Health recommended 30-day COM
mitment to st. Elizabeth,s until
further hearing.
When her case came up before
the commission last Wednesday, her
release from st. Elizabeth's was rec
commended despite requests for re-
commitment from DR.. Overholser.
st. Elizabeth's psychiatrists and the
woman herself, according to DR.. Gil
bert.