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Nogales international. [volume] (Nogales, Ariz.) 1926-1979, 1945-02-02
Partly Destroyed
Letter Received

A partially burned letter revealed
this week to Mrs. Refugio S.. Orozco
why she had not heard from her
husband, Raul Orozco, who is in the
Army in France.
The letter was postmarked Dec
II and forwarded here by the New
| York postoffice department Jan. 81
With the letter was a postoffice
note reading as follows: This letter
was recovered from mail-carrying
airplane that was in an accident"
Nogales international. [volume] (Nogales, Ariz.) 1926-1979, 1945-02-02

In memory of 26 service men
from this county who have lost
their lives the past year, and also
in memory of the late j. c. Tow
rea, for many years a member OF
the Nogales School Board, trees
will be planted at 2 PM, today
at Lincoln School in observance OF
Arbor Day.
Today will be the third Arbor Day
observed by the school since the
United States entered World War
II in December 1941.
On the first occasion a tree was
planted to victory and to the war
dead in general. The second year
a tree was planted for Frank Reed
and last year 10 trees were planted.
The public is cordially invited to
today's ceremony, program Tor
which is as follows:
THE PROGRAM
Song, 1--WE Love the Leafy Trees"
All.
Poem, "a Sampler: Dorothy
! Nickles.
Exercise, What Do We Plant
When We Plant a Tree?": Joe
Arvizu, Lloyd Ledford, Paul Brack-
err, Joel Barbee, Betty Jean RAIDER,
Alma Hernandez, Alice Stiles and
Nancy Neumann.
| Song, "Our Fir Tree: Nan Holt
Jamelle Karam, Alice Manson anc
Jean Clarke.
Poem, my Way for Arbor Day;
Gregory Decker.
Choral Readings, Natures Hired
Man" and What the Trees Teach"
Barry VINEYARD, Arda Mary Wilson
Robby Shane, Louis Miller, Davie
Karam, Shirley Morales, Sammy
Barton, Sylvia Clarke, Carmen Jen'
lkins, Norman Algert, Virginia
Meadows and Robert Chrisman.
Song, Again Do We Gather OF
This Arbor Day: by Miss Prices
and Miss Decker's rooms.
Poem, planting the Trees"
Amelia Ayala and Eddie RosaS.
Exercise, Trees: Asusensa Soto
Bella Catalan, Joanna Hughes, Err
Nogales international. [volume] (Nogales, Ariz.) 1926-1979, 1945-02-02
Widow OF First
War Victim,
Nogales Visitor

Mrs. Virginia Arias Horrocks Of
Elgin, widow of James w. Horrocks,
first man from Santa Cruz County
to be killed in World War II, was
a caller yesterday at the office OF
the Nogales international.
Her husband, a sailor on the
Battleship Arizona, died when the
Japs attacked Pearl Harbor Dec. Z,
1941.
Nogales international. [volume] (Nogales, Ariz.) 1926-1979, 1945-02-02
4 Air Corps Men
Just Back From
Overseas Visit City

Four Army Air Forces men
William Billiard, Carlos Canter,
Howard F'urlong and John Johnson
Just back from action in Europe,
we're visitors here Saturday from
Davis-Monthan Field, Tucson.
Following 30-day furlough in the
states they expect to be sent over
seas again.
Nogales international. [volume] (Nogales, Ariz.) 1926-1979, 1945-02-02
Raul Saba
Prisoner OF War

Raul Saba of Dallas, Texas, for
merly of Nogales, who was reported
missing in action, is a prisoner OF
war in Germany. it was learned this
week.
He used to be a gunner instructor
at Davis Monthan airbase, Tucson
Nogales international. [volume] (Nogales, Ariz.) 1926-1979, 1945-02-02
Santa Cruz
Exempted From
"Brown Out

The War Production Board Wed
nesday exempted Santa Cruz Coun-
ty from the brown out" order pro-
hibiting use of electricity for seven
types Of outdoor lighting.
Notification of the actio1 was re-
ceived by Del Mitchell, manager OF
the Citizens Utilities Company here.
Nogales international. [volume] (Nogales, Ariz.) 1926-1979, 1945-02-02
26 Tk.,o ~ BE PLANTED
TODAY AT LINCOLN SCHOOL
In MEMORY OF WAR DEAD
Tree Also To Be Planted At Arbor Day Observance
In Memory Of Late j. c. Tovrea, School
Board Member Many Years

nestine Reagan, Della Siqueiros,
Hector Anthony, Gus Gomez, Feb
rinico Hernandez, Carlos Baldeneg-
70.
Dedication of Trees: Mrs Doris
Bynon.
"Star Spangled Banner; All.
Nogales international. [volume] (Nogales, Ariz.) 1926-1979, 1945-02-02

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Evening star., 1945-11-04
One Point Of Agreement

The report of the special commit
tee set up by the Joint Chiefs OF
Staff to study the question is a good
argument in favor of unification of
the military services under one de-
partment. But as it is an argument
which rests in the main on an able
presentation of a theory, it might
be said to be Cancelled out by the
able presentation, in the Eberstadt
study, of an argument which reaches
the opposite conclusion.
1t would be helpful to an inter-
ested public if some of the argu-
ment in favor of a single depart
ment could be bolstered with fac
tual accounts of where, in the past
war, the two-department system fell
down. That would permit analysis
of the causes and a more realistic
approach to the question whether
they would be removed by unifying
the departments under a single ci-
william secretary and single supreme
military commander. 1t is possible
that as many mistakes could be
found within single component of
the military services as resulted
from lack of unified direction at
the top level. But until such fail
ures are available for objective
analysis, the case for unification
rests largely on theory.
Whether the Joint Chiefs of Staff
committee report will answer any
objections to uniflcation remains to
be seen. 1t is strengthened by the
apparent prevailing belief of officers
interviewed on the subject-at least
those who have not changed their
minds in the meantime-that unfit
cation would be good thing. But
the report is especially helpful in
its outline of proposed permanent
Joint Chiefs of Staff organization,
with statutory authority. Both the
opponents and the proponents of
uniflcation are in agreement on
continuation of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff. And instead of letting the
future organization of the Army and
Navy Departments bog down in a
dispute over unification, it would
seem that here is a question on
which Congress might legislate i'm
mediately. The actual experience
of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, func-
tioning under law and operating to
coordinate the peacetime planning
of national defense, might point the
way, more clearly than any number
of reports on the subject now, to our
future course in maintaining sep
arate War and Navy Departments
or combining them.
Evening star., 1945-11-04
For q Resources Inventory

In his statement before the joint
Senate Commerce and Military
Affairs Subcommittee, Bernard M.
Baruch said pretty much the same
things as the President and other
authorities in advocating legislation
for permanent Federal agency to
promote scientific research and de-
velopment, but he added point not
heretofore emphasized at the COM
mittee's hearings-the point that
such an agency, besides its other
functions, could help to conserve
our natural resources.
AS he sees it. Mr.. Baruch would
have the proposed new organization
pursue conservation as one Of its
major detectives, along with such
other objectives as the spread OF
scientific information, the stimula-
tion of basic research, the intensi-
fication of the war against disease,
the constant development of new
weapons for national defense and
the increase Of scientific brain
power" by promoting talent in Amer
lean youth through scholarships and
other aids. In the new age of cleo
tronics and atomic energy. most OF
these objectives speak pretty much
for themselves, but the relationship
of an overall science agency to con-
servation is perhaps less clear.
Mr.. Baruch, however, shows that
Evening star., 1945-11-04

SO the Army will have to try again,
with all signs indicating that 1t may
succeed soon enough.
The Observation-Disclosures fight
covered 6,544 miles. some 800 short
of the 7,158-mile record achieved in
1888 by two British planes flying
nonstop from Ismelia, Egypt, to Port
Darwin, Australia. We can be pretty
confident that American airmen will
better this figure in the near future,
the reason being that the Army is
expected to. return several hundred
B-29s to the United States by way
of the North Pacific and that some
of these Super Fortresses will be
designated to keep travelling until
they reach Puerto Rico or Batista,
Cuba.
From Hokkaido Island, in North
ern Japan, to Batista the distance is
1858 miles, and to Puerto Rico it is
8,088 miles. BY flying nonstop to
either place, a B-29 thus will make
the United States the record holder.
All the Army Air Forces want is rea-
sonable weather. Given that, it
should be not too difficult to do bet
ter than the British did seven years
ago.
Evening star., 1945-11-04

the projected agency, as the co-ordi-
nator of a national scientific policy,
would have good reason to direct an
expert inquiry toward conservation.
How much of our resources has
been depleted?" he asks "How much
of our land needs to be restored?
How much of our mineral and forest
wealth has been used up? What
would be the demands of another
great WARP" Answers to these ques-
tions are necessary not only as a
guide to future scientific research
and development but also as basis
for the intelligent direction of our
financial and economic policies.
During the past several years,
there has been a tremendous drain
on the natural wealth of our land.
We need to know what has been
taken away. We need to know what
is left now, and what will be avail
able in the future, and what can be
done to guard against waSteful de-
pletion. An inventory of the sort
advocated by Mr.. Baruch could be
carried out most effectively, in con-
cert with other agencies, under the
supervision of the proposed scientific
agency. This is another of the many
reasons why the early establishment
of such an organization is impera-
tive. The need is so clear from
every angle that there should be no
unnecessary congressional delay in
meeting it,
Evening star., 1945-11-04

was richly rewarded, for it is impossible
to imagine a pair more thoroughly
suited"
The Star of November /. 1895, fea-
tured an advertisement of the Bon
Marche, 314-3l6 Sew
lnvitotion to enth street, columns
Buy wide and i2h inches
deep, setting forth the
attractions of gigantic sale of coats"
and declaring: I'VE may as well be
frank about it. The winter season has
been very backward, and we are heavily
overstocked with coats and capes. Every
garment Is Of the very latest style, and
many Of them are in styles not shown
BY any other house in Washington. In
order to crowd q weeks business IN a
single day we have divided
nearly the entire stock into three lots.
These lots will be placed on separate
tables and an extra large force Of clerks
assigned to them to insure you prompt
and satisfactory selection" Goats for
merly priced sssS. $l048 and sio.s3
were displayed on Table No. | at $s.s6.
The second and third tables were
punched" at $l1.13 and $l4.6s, respec-
lively. And the weather report for the
day Of the gigantic sale" supported the
contention that @the winter season has
been very backward"
Evening star., 1945-11-04
Only Part of the Problem

One of the most idiotic proposals
yet advanced before the House Dis
trict Committees subcommittee on
traffic is the suggestion that the
ellipse, south of the White House,
be turned into huge parking lot.
Yet it is not beyond the realms of
possibility that preoccupation with
merely one phase of the tangled
traffic problem in Washington
where to park automobiles might
make the idea receptive For if the
problem represented is merely where
to park automobiles in the daytime,
the emphasis placed on finding a
solution alone might conceivably
override such considerations as pre-
serving the parks for recreation and
as beautiful establishment of the
Capital. There doubtless are some
people who would prefer to see the
Mall paved with concrete, from the
Monument to the Capitol, and made
into a regular humdinger of park
ing lot.
1t is unfortunate that the peren-
nial revival of the parking problem
cannot be made part of a study of
the traffic problem as whole. The
parking problem is merely one part
of it. AS helpful as Representative
Hebert's open forum on parking
might be, it would be still more help
full if the District legislative and
appropriations committees could
designate a joint committee to
study a number of proposals de-
signed to meet the problem of post
war return of the automobile. One
of them is subway or underground
trolley construction. For while it is
improbable, even if the parks are
converted into parking lots, that 1t
will ever be economically feasible to
find all-day automobile storage in
downtown Washington for every
body, means of quick and convenient
substitute transportation must be
available.
Evening star., 1945-11-04
Fruxinus Americana

The white ash tree has rich and
interesting history. Myths and leg
ends from yesteryear cluster about
it. Centuries ago when Morse myth
ology was evolving its delightful
stories. the white ash was called
"Igdrasil"-the tree of creation or
the source of origin of all animal
and plant life. Traditions and super
stitions are part of its lore, for when
Pliny was writing he said that snakes
were afraid of the branches of the
ash.
1t is, however, beautiful and
widespread American tree. Since the
days when the first settlers began to
hew nation from virgin wilder
ness the ash has played an impor-
tant role in the drama of the coun-
try's growth. From Nova Scotia to
Minnesota and south to Florida and
Texas, the early farmers. explorers
and settlers used the beautiful
straight-grained wood for their
purposes. "As straight as a white
ash" was proverb among country
men, the hard, clear wood made
handles for axes and hoes, handles
for shovels and hatchets. The red
men used it for their canoe paddles
long before the pale faces sailed
across the Big Pond.
Tall and straight, Fraxinus reaches
a height of over 100 feet. It's beauti-
full bark is divided into slender ver-
tical ridges. The twigs at the end
Of the sparse branches are scraggly
and make an appealing pattern
against a winter sky. The ovate
leaves are a glossy shining green
with tiny featherlike veins. When
frost time comes and the seasons
end approaches. the foliage makes
one Of the loveliest sights Of Nature.
Over all the eastern half of the
Nation one finds the sturdy, tall
growing trees They supply wood
for mans uses but they also add
beauty to the landscape. Many a
farmer, working in his woodlot in
the winter, leaves one OF the great
friendly trees as he cuts for the
seasons needs. The countryman
knows that man does not live by
bread alone.
Evening star., 1945-11-04
Lotrobe Drawings

The Library of Congress, as an
nounced by DR.. Luther H. Evans, is
in receipt of three large volumes
of original drawings by Benjamin
Henry Latrobe, presented by Cap
tain William Claiborne Latrobe,
U. S. N, a great-great-grandson of
the celebrated engineer and archi-
tect who twice brought to approx
mate completion the Capitol OF the
United States.
Born at Fulneck in England, May
/, 1854, the man whose name thus
returns to public notice, it seems,
was a product of the rich Moravian
civilization which still influences
American art and science particu-
iarly in Pennsylvania and North
Carolina. His earliest known en-
deavors were two translations of
historical papers relating to German
military worthless. He studied under
Samuel Pepys Cockerel, claSsicist,
and John Smeaton, builder of the
famous Eddystone lighthouse. For a
while he served as surveyor of the
police Office in London, but the death
of his young wife and period of
distress and confusion in his affairs"
prompted him to emigrate to Vir-
ginia in 1885,
During the following year he de-
signed and supervised the construc-
ton of penitentiary at Richmond.
Other works to which he applied
himself included the long arcade
and portico of Greenspring, near
Williamsburg, and the completing of
Jefferson's State Capitol Building.
The books now given to the world S
largest photographic establishment
represent his genius in full flower
while he yet was young. Sketches
for a hotel, theater and assembly
hall projected at Richmond and a
number of other Virginia enterprises
erected or proposed" as well as a
design for city hall in New York
are listed in DR.. Evans press release.
The Library already possessed La
trobe's drawings for the Capitol, the
White House and the Bank of Penn
sylvania at Philadelphia.
What other material of the same
classification remains uncollected is
& matter OF speculation. Some
papers of Importance are supposed
to be in the District of Columbia
collection of the Department of State
and others are reported to be in the
ONCE of Public Buildings and
Grounds in the War Department.
Evening star., 1945-11-04
ON Lining BY Faitb
By the Req. W. Barker Hdrdtson
Minister, Westouer Baptist Church, Arlington, va.

Sometimes we hear the remark
facetiously made that faith is the
willingness to believe q thing whether
it Is true or not. Actually, we know
that to live by faith is to live by that
which is ultimately good, ultimately
true, ultimately beautiful. To put 1t
another way, to live by faith is to
live by the conviction that God is real
and that He is adequate for the deep
needs OF the human spirit.
Some time ago I was talking with
medical student at the University
of Virginia, a young man very deeply
interested In cancer RESEARCH. I said,
do you think medical science ever
will conquer cancer with the thor
oughness that it has overcome many
other diseases?" Without the slight
est hesitation, he replied: Certainly,
somewhere hidden away In the vast
riches of nature Is the answer. We
may not have found 1t yet. We may
have found 1t and do not yet know
how to use it. But the answer is
there"
In matters of the spirit that Is the
attitude of faith. When we have con-
fronted the moral demands Of living
and failed, when uneasy fear grips
the heart, when sorrow and frustra-
ton cast their shadows Of gloom,
when the heart aches with the
haunting hunger for an assurance
that the grave is not life's destiny,
then comes the answer OF faith.
Somewhere in the limitless grace of
God there is the answer. We may
not yet have discovered 1t in personal
experience. We may not have learned
how to use fully the resources of God
that we already know. But the life
gripping conviction is there that our
Father Is sufficient for every one who
ventures to follow His way.
There then Is an element Of refiec-
ton in living by faith comparable to
the time that the scientist spends In
the library and in the laboratory.
learning the secret Of nature-refiec-
tion by which we discover the re-
sources Of God. The Psalmist sang,
BE still and know that ! am God"
And the prophet taught: I'm quiet
ness and confidence shall be your
strength" There is the venture of
prayer and quiet reading of the
Scriptures. There is the reverent
Evening star., 1945-11-04
Distance and the B-2os

If everything had gone according
to plan, one of the four B-29s which
arrived here last Thursday to COM
plete the first nonstop flight from
Japan to Washington-an impor-
tant feat in itself-wouId not have
landed, but would have proceeded to
Puerto Rico to establish new world
record. Bad weather and fuel
consuming headwinds over the Pa
cific, however, prevented this, and
Evening star., 1945-11-04

solemnity of worship and the renec-
tions OF man in his easy chair
when the mind is permitted to
wander in the gardens of God. In
these moods We discover In personal
experience the meaning Of divine
love, the stern demands OF conscience,
the reality OF forgiveness, the secret
OF inner renewal, the daily presence
of the Eternal. These are the re-
sources on which faith lays hold.
1t should be made clear, however,
that to live faith Is not to live pas
sively. Faith in its truest sense is
never an escape from life. Rather to
live by faith is to translate the re-
sources of God which we have dis
covered in terms of the commonplace
things Of every day. Turn to what
ever source we may where great men
of faith are named, and we shall find
that without exception they lived
strenuously. They were forever yen-
turing with God to gain the mastery
over life and its circumstances. It
appears, then, that to live by faith is
to appropriate the resources Of God
In the home. in the market, in the
Office, in the school. In every area in
which life is lived.
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Now, it is worthy of note that to live
by faith is to gain the mastery over
life. The Apostle wrote: "And this
is the victory that overcometh the
world, even our faith" This is not to
say that we all shall attain the stature
of the great men of the ages. Every
one of us must live in the framework
of his own ability and situation.
Within that framework every man,
by faith, can gain the mastery
In Jesus story of the talents, one
man had two talents. These two
talents defined his ability and situa-
ton. But he was commended equally
with the man who had five talents,
because in the framework of his own
personality he was equally victorious.
The man with one talent was con-
demned, not because he failed to gain
five other talents or two other talents,
but because in the framework of his
own ability he failed. And so we may
not all be great in the common sense
of the word, but by faith we can ap-
propriate the riches of Gods grace
and thus gain the mastery of our
own lives.
Evening star., 1945-11-04
Crisis Over zionism

The coincidence of widespread
terroristic sabotage attributed to
Zionist Jews in Palestine and equally
widespread riotous anti-Zionist
demonstrations in Egypt and other
Arab countries emphasizes the grav-
ity of the crisis which has arisen
over the clash between Zionism and
Arab nationalism throughout the
Near East. Indeed, the repercus-
SionS of that crisis are literally
worldwide, because Zionist aspira-
tions are indorsed by most Jews
everywhere and are sympathetically
regarded by large section of Chris
tian public opinion, while Arab ma
tionalism is backed for both re-
ligious and political reasons by vir-
tually the entire Moslem world
Here, then, is a major problem of
world affairs with grave possibilities.
The problem itself is not new. It
began to assume tangible form to-
ward the close of the Nineteenth
Century, when the Zionist doctrine
of a return to Palestine, preached
by Theodor Hertzl and other Jewish
thinkers conceded with the spread
of nationalist aspirations among
the hitherto politically inert Arabic
peoples of the Near East. Since
Arab nationaliSm considered Pales-
tine an integral part of its projected
federation, it was bound to clash
with the Zionist concept of Pales-
tine as the restored Jewish home
land.
So long as Palestine formed part
of the Ottoman Empire, the issue re-
malned academic. But the breakup
OF Turkish rule during the First
World War set the stage for a con-
test between zionism and Arab ma
tlonalism. The problem was both
obscured and complicated by the
course of British diplomacy. In No
vember, 1917, Lord Balfour, then
Minister of Foreign Affairs, issued
his famous declaration" in the
form of letter to Lord Rothschild,
one of the heads of the Zionist Fed
GRAFTON. Voicing official sympathy
with Jewish Zionist aspirations, 4"
the letter went on to say: His
majesty's government view with
favor the establishment in Palestine
OF a national home for the Jewish
people, and will use their best en-
deavors to facilitate the achieve
nent of this object, it being clearly
understood that nothing shall be
done which may prejudice the civil
and religious rights of existing nom
Jewish communities in Palestine"
A careful reading of this crucial
document clearly discloses that the
astute Lord Balfour was trying to
harness to the advantage of British
policy both Zionism and Arab ma
tionalism, whose common support
Britain badly needed at a crucial
Juncture of World War I. This i'm
mediate aim was attained. Jewry
was immensely heartened, while the
qualifying clauses were stressed by
British agents to reassure Arab ap-
prehenSions. And this policy of
carrying water on both shoulders
has been consistently maintained by
Britain since it obtained a League
mandate over Palestine. It's in
herent contributions, however, have
inf1amed Zionist and Arab national
ist aspirations which are logically
irreconcilable. The Balfour dec
laration has thus turned out to be
veritable apple of discord. 1t is
highly significant that "Balfour
Day"-the 28th anniversary of the
declaration-gave the signal for
current Jewish and Arab excesses
which are alike so unfortunate and
deplorable.