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Evening star., 1945-04-12

Is a little man
in spec t a C | e S
named Fri e d =
rich Hayek, now
in this country,
chasing an an
cient economic
theory around
the lecture cir
cult.
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didn't plan it
that way. He
didn't plan it at
all. He doesn't
believe in plan
n ing. All h e
Evening star., 1945-04-12
OUR PLEDGE

X Make every bag carry full load.
X Not to use bag within bag except when abso-
lutely necessary.
X To wrap for protection rather than for appear
ance.
X To salvage all unusable paper and paperboard.
Evening star., 1945-04-12
By Lo,reH MeIlen

The big news out of Vienna isn't
the fact that the Russians are chas-
ing the Germans around the Ring
strasse. The big news out of Vienna
Evening star., 1945-04-12
Answers to
Questions

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Evening star., 1945-04-12

@. What is the inscription on the
Washington Arch in New York City?
M. T.
A. Let us raise a Standard to
which the Wise and the Honest can
Repair The Event is in the Hands
of God"
Evening star., 1945-04-12

@. What are electrons?-L. M. P.
A. Electrons are tiny particles in
atoms. Under the influence of very
high electrical voltage, they can
move with speed approaching that
of light. which is approximately
1856 900 miles per second
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-15

NAMES w. HALL, "A, had mis-
sion. 1t was mass murder. In
- a few moon-mad months, Hall
hitch-hiked through II counties in
Arkansas, killing as he went. His
score was at least five before police
got him.
In between his operations as an
cXecutioner, Hall drove cab at Lit
tie Rock ard peddled copies of the
Bible. But certainly he never paused
long enough to fasten his eye on the
Sixth Commandment - Thou shalt
not kill'-or even the Eighth-"Thou
shalt not steal.
Murder became a mania with him
He took pride in it. 1t was such an
obsession that when, at last, iron
gates closed against him, he boastcd
about his crimes. He put the mum
ber of killings at II, including the
massacre OF ten MeXicans in Arizona
and Slayings in Kansas and Texas.
MeXcanS to make himself look good.
lie clung to his story of the Kansas
and Texas crimes but nobody be.
llevcd him after checking.
Hall killed to steal. He confessed
that. But he gambled his lie at
penny ante stakes. In all, he OBJ
tanned less than 5000.
Hall started on his career last
summer by killing his bride Fay.
rennc ClCmmODS Hall, 10, who was his
second wife That was at Little Rock.
AS he told it, he invited her for a
walk in the woods on a dark night,
He knew what he was going TO do.
lie was going to finish her off, he
said, because she was wasting the
money he made as n cab driver
Unsuspecting, she went willingly.
When they reached a spot near tho
Arkansas River, about mile beyond
the city limits, he obcycd his impulse.
just killed her with my hands, u
he told detectives as he led them to
the scene.
The girls body never was found.
Police didn't even know she was dead
until Hall told them. She had been
reported missing by her parents and
she had not been traced. At the scene
fragments of bones were found TO.
gether with a faded skirt and blouse.
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-15

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When a iawbone was ri
discovered Hall spoke up:
yep, that's hers. / 4
can tell by the crooked
tooth
During the search Ne
truck driver arrived with
a grim souvenir. 1t was
a Womans skull. lie ---
said he had found it a -
few weeks before while
Chopping wood near the
spot and had taken it
home as a plaything for
his children.
After his wife was out
Of the way, Hall went
back TO hacking. Then
he went 10 Texas, where
he bought the Bibles
When he spent the profit
that their sale brought
him he returned TO his
cab at Little Rock
Last January Hall bor- -
roWcd a taXicab and a W.
revolver and drove to
Camden, Ark There he met
G. +. Hamilton, q barber. Hall
invited Hamilton for ride. lie
accepted. When they were out
side the town, Hall shot Hamilton,
stripped the body of all valuables ana
left it in the woods near the banks
of the Ouachita River.
Back in Little Rock two weeks
later Hall thumbcd a tide south with
l.. G Adams, a War-plant worker from
humboldt, Kans. Near Fordyce, Hall
showed his gun and ordered Adams
out OF the car. They walked about
TOO yards into the woods, where Hall
dispatched Adams with a single shot
Hall made off with his victims
travelling bag but he couldn't find the
keys to Adams car. So he hitch
hikcd to Camden, locale Of his sec
ond killing.
A week later, back in Little Rock,
Hall got a lift from Doyle Mulherin,
a packing firm salesman, swho was
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-15

driving a truck. Just outside Brum.
nett. Hall told Mulherin 10 stop the
truck. Then he shot him and dumped
the body in a ditch. Hall drove the
truck into Stuttgart and hitch hiked
back TO Little Rock.
Halls fifth victim was J. -. New.
comb, 50, chief boiler Inspector for
the Arkansas State Labor Depart
ment. Hall hailed Newcomb u miles
north of Little Rock and rode about
ID miles with him Then. on one of
the busiest highways in the state, he
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-15
Murder
- on
l()\lF

Hitch Hiking Through
fhe Arkansas Hills. He
Peddled Bibles. Then
Robbed and Killed to
Satisfy a Mass-Murder
Munio
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-15

ordered Newcomb TO get in the
back seat. Newcomb started TO
run and Hall shot him in the
back. There wasn't any place
to dispose of the body immedi-
ately, so Hall drove the car for
\ hours in search OF one, taking
\ his victim with him.
The highway feute took Hall
through half a dozen towns OF
10000 or so population. But he
drove through them unnoticed.
even though blood was spilled
on the running board Of the
car. He travelled 175 miles, look
ing for a river, but he couldn't
find one. Then the car had
two blowouts and he couldn't
90 on. 50 he snatchcd New
combs wallet and set fire to
~ the automobile.
! Hall might bo going on yet
! driving cabs, thumbing rides,
selling Bibles numbering men
except for Ncwcomb's promi-
ncnce. Rewards Of more than
$1,000 were offered for informa-
ton leading 10 the arrest and con.
' ltIltti Ol .NtNNDlllD - sid u. ~
woman tipped off officers that she
recently had heard Hall say he was
going out on the highway "and make
some money"
Arrested, Hall confessed coldly,
calmly, quickly. But at his trial for
killing his wife he pleaded not guilty,
baSing his defense on hereditary in
sanity. Or. A. G. Kolb, superinten-
dent Of tho Arkansas Hospital for
Nervous Diseases, testified Hall "
sane and the jury found him guilty -
Hall was unmoved by the verdict.
The only time he showed any emotion
was when his father, minister,
visited him in the prison. When he
heard the death sentence he said:
"They gave me the works but l can
take it..
Now he reads his Bible daily-too
late-in the death cell at Tucker
Prison Farm, where he must die.
THE ANEnUCAN N'FFEUK
Bradley beam., 1945-07-21
Civilian Employees Association

Have you heard There's going to be another Employees Associa- tion party and as usual very spe- cial one and unique for this time of the year. The date has been set for SUNDAY, AUGUST NINE TENTH, and will be all day. The affair is to be one of those good old CLAMBAKES for which River side is famous and promises to be a gala occasion. It will take place rain or shine.
 Miss Irene Vannie, the newly elect ed Chairman of the Entertainment Committee, has certainly started off the Associations new year with enthusiasm and she is being as sisted by a splendid group of CO., workers. You will be hearing from them shortly as to details. The menu really is FOOD. There vii also be games and entertainment plus dancing, and all the varied fare that RIVERSIDE PARK dishes out.
Bradley beam., 1945-07-21
U. $. Studies Peacetime Draft Army z

velopment of youth; (3) The bene- fits of health, fair play and dem ocracy could better be obtained by a national health program, educa- tion and elimination of racial and religious prejudice; (4) Training today would be forgotten or out moded 10 years or so from now; (5) There would be undue empha- sis on shining brass and the other clements of garrison life, instead of on the fundamentals of actual combat; (6) Military spokesmen for conscription are special plead CTS" and their viewpoint is natu- rally prejudiced.
 The Veterans of Foreign Wars offer a compromise: training over a 3-year period at home, along: the lines of the National Guard before the war, a system which would in sure preparedness without taking youth from it's home community and without interfering with edu- cation. The VFW, however, will go along on conventional training if it's plan is rejected.
Bradley beam., 1945-07-21

Grew, Under Secretary of State; Eleanor Roosevelt; Maury Mayer ick, chairman, Smaller War Plants Corp; U. s. Chamber of Commerce and the National Association of Women Lawyers.
 Daniels Heads Opponents
 Opponents include: Josephus Daniels, Secretary of the Navy during World War I; National Wo- mans Christian Temperance Un- ion; spokesmen for the AFL, CIO and railroad brotherhoods; Norman Thomas, Socialist leader; represen- tatives the American Education Association, American Council on Education, Association of Ameri- can Colleges, the High School Teachers Association of New York City, and other educators groups; Dr. Robert Hutchins, president of the University of Chicago; Rep. Emanuel Cellar O., N. Y.); The Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America, and other Pro testant organizations.
 Favoring postponement of the decision until peace are the Ma
Bradley beam., 1945-07-21

tional Council of Parents and Teachers, with a membership of 3,500,000, and the Very Rev. Msgr. Howard J. Carroll, secretary, Ma tional Catholic Welfare Council.
 In general the pro-conscription arguments are :(1) We must not be caught unprepared again as we were at the time of Pearl Harbor; (2) We must be able to use force if necessary to maintain peace, in accordance with the United Ma tions charter; (3) The draft will teach youth to care for it's health, and would show the value of exer- else, group teamwork, and fair play; (4) Serving in the Army is a "lesson in national democracy; =(5). There is no feasible substitute method of protecting the nations security. .= === ==:" =* :. X
 Military Caste Feared
 Opponents of the peacetime draft say: CD It would create military frame of mind and a military caste which would promote instead of help prevent war; (2) It would in terfere with the education and de-
Bradley beam., 1945-07-21
By Camp Newspaper Service

By Camp Newspaper Service
 One big question nowadays in home-front forums of public opin- ion is: Shall we have compulsory peacetime military training?
 It's mighty important issue, too, for never in our history have we had conscription without war or the immediate threat of war. The proposal to have it, however, is not new. George Washington recommended it to the first Con- gress back in 179O, so did Wood row Wilson, in 1917, and Franklin Roosevelt, shortly before his death. Various veterans organizations plugged conscription between the two world wars. >~.....:. .. ;.
 And now editorial writers and radio speakers are discussing all the angles. The House Committee on Postwar Military Policy has just concluded hearings on the con- troversy and backed universal training, 16 to 6. %
 Preparedness an Issue
 The main argument has always been and still is that knowledge
Bradley beam., 1945-07-21

of the use of arms by the citizenry is required for the security of the nation. Opponents, however, say that peacetime training breeds a war mentality, is contrary to our historically peaceful way of life, and will encourage war rather than help prevent it.
 There is also a third position that decision should be postponed until after the duration, when we shall no longer be affected by "the heat of wartime emotions" and after "the boys come home."
 Heading the list of those favor ing one years peacetime training are Secretary Stimson, Admiral King and Gems. Marshall, Eisen- hover and Bradley. Others on the same side of the fence are the American Legion; Col. Arnold Whitridge, chairman of the Citi- zens Committee for Military Train ing of Young Men; Dr. R. L. John son, president of Temple Univer- sity; The New York Times; The New York Daily News; Rep. Ever cit Dirksen (R., Ill.); Joseph C..
Bradley beam., 1945-07-21
Tanks Lousy as Lovers, Some
 French Girls Say

Paris (CNS)-Are Tanks lousy lovers?
 Some French girls think so, ac- cording to a poll conducted by the Parisian weekly, Saturday Night"
 Many Tanks, according to the poll, are either "too loud," "too devil-may care" or "too unbear- ably drunk" French girls believe
 Another complaint is that GIs are unable to distinguish respect able women from the other kind
Bradley beam., 1945-07-21
It's a Lot of Gas

ETC (CNS)-Between D-Day and VIE Day, the Transportation Corps delivered 1,645, ,145,840 gal Ions of petroleum products to the continent. In 1941, this would have carried every car in the world from New York to Chicago.
Bradley beam., 1945-07-21

Take a tip from me Bud" and watch the SAFETY JEEP." Safe driving pays dividends by eliminating accidents. (See Page D. ".> .=.
Bradley beam., 1945-07-21

"WHATS THIS MORALE BUSINESS?" dictionary and found couple meanings which capable o How do it? Gan you turn on o off?
 everyday life that conduct IS nsht
  spshod job individual that makes the morale Of the and punch toward VICTORY There's punch shorten the by
  be that suggestion you been meanns to put the Employee lationsO
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Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-09
McCarran Seeks
Billion Fund
To Boost Aviation

WASHINGTON, Jan. 8. CUP)-
Joint Federal, state and city ex-
penditures of ,000,00O,000 for con-
struction or improvement of 5000
airports after the war were pre-
posed Monday in a bill by Senator
Pat McCarran, CD, Nevada.
Based on the national airport
plan" recently drawn up by the
civil aeronautics authority, the bill
would authorize a federal appropri-
alton of SlO0,000000 fer each of five
postwar years, to be matched on a
$3.50 basis by states and cities.
The CAA proposed to carry the
development out over a 10-year Pc
riod but the McCarran bill reduced
the length to five.
THE sooner we get this program
completed, the faster cur civil avia-
ton industry will grow" he said.
A somewhat similar bill by Sem
ator josiah w. Bailey, CD, North
Carolina, proposed yearly appro-
priations of $10,000.000 ever a 10
year period for the same purposes
McCarran's bill places the con-
struction of larger airports under
the cities and the construction OF
smaller airports under the states
He pointed cut that a federal-city
relationship is already in successful
operation in many areas.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-09
Lawmaker Wants
One Food Chief

WASHINGTON, Jan. 9. CUP)-
Representative Walter c. Ploeser,
(R), Missouri, charged that the beef
shortage was the result of poor
management" by government agen-
cies, and called for creation OF a
single food authority responsible to
the President and Congress.
Placing the blame on the Office
of Price Administration and War
Food Administration, Ploeser said
he would submit his plan for a uni
fled agency tc Sterilization Directo.
Fred NJ. Vinson sometime today. V
will be accompanied, he said, with
a proposal for ceiling prices on live
stock
Ploeser said he had already con-
ferred with Vinson, who is study
ing the OPA's plan for ceilings on
live cattle, and that Vinson hac
promised to study his plan before
reaching any decision.
He said the basic reason for mos'
of the present meat price difficulties
was the failure Of OPA and VIA
to establish slaughterer's maxi
mum selling price based on the cos
CT live animals. He said there shoult
first be a ceiling on feeders selling
price and that the slaughterer's salt
price should allow for operating
costs, and a minimum profit.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-09
Last Rites Set
For Pioneer

Last rites for William M. Belford.
80, Imperial Valley pioneer, will be
held at the Community church IN
Imperial at 2 p. m. Thursday.
Burial will be beside his wife and
mother in the Riveryiew cemetery
at Brawley.
Death came to Belford at the
home of his daughter, Mrs. Marion
Miner, in San Diego, after several
weeks of illness.
Belford was born at Holly, Mich
igan, December IL, 1865. He came to
Imperial Valley in 1907 with his
family. He homesteaded land neaR
the Highline canal east of Brawley
and lived there until 1918. At THAT
time he moved to Imperial where
he resumed his trade as a painter.
His wife died there in 1888. After
that he left the valley to make his
home with his daughters in San
Diego.
His survivors include two daugh-
ters, Mrs. Milner and Mrs. James
Dougherty of San Diego; two grand
children, Ann Marie and Don c..
Miner of San Diego; brother,
Edwin Belford of Imperial; two
nephews, Claude and Vern Austin,
both CT BraWley, and a niece, Mrs.
Walter Rodeman of Long Beach.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-09
FLIGHT STRIPS
(NeW York TimeS)

kNeW \ 0fk 1lmeS)
After the war we shall need a greatly
expanded airport system. This will mean
much larger fields for the use of COM
mercia airliners. For the convenience of
the private flier number of interest
ing plans have been suggested. One of
these is an extension of the system OF
flight strips"
A flight strip is not an airport in the
accepted sense but merely a surface
landing area contiguous with a highway.
1t differs from the airport in that it is
not separately financed, directed, or
maintained; its construction and main
tenance is a function of highway depart
mentS.
The chairman of the Civil Aeronautics
Board recently told meeting of State
highway officials that in order to realize
the greatest usefulness of both highways
and airports, landing fields fulfill this
condition ideally. They should be closely
connected with through highways Flight
strips have much to recommend in them,
in addition, because in many instances
the necessary easements and contiguous
areas are already controlled by the high
way departments, which also have the
necessary machinery and training to lay
and maintain the strip.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-09
AMERICAN RED CROSS PRAISED
Sacramento Reel

(Sacramento Bee)
Writing from a German prison camp,
a Tulare county flier has requested his
parents to give the local Red Cross chap
ter 500 of his savings.
Months ago his plane was shot down in
flames He fortunately escaped alive,
though severely burned when he was cap
tured by the Nazis.
In the meantime, whatever little COM
fort he has enjoyed under the circum-
stances has been made possible by the
Red Cross workers.
Through this organization his parents
first learned he survived, and through it
he periodically has received packages to
ease the ordeal of confinement. And his
case is only one of innumerable instances
of the kind.
Packages are more plentiful this year
and other Red Cross activities have been
expanded because the home front gener-
ously oversubscribed the fund asked in
1914.
Preliminary plans are being made for
the 1915 campaign in which the nation
wide goal will be S180,000,000.
The Lindsay servcemens gesture comes
as a timely reminder to people in plan
ming contributions to deserving causes
next wear
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-09
Warren Advocates
Management
And Labor School

SACRAMENTO Jan. 0. (UP)-In
his message opening the 1945 session
of the state legislature, Governor
Earl Warren recommended estab-
fishing a school of industrial rela-
tions in the University of California
fer training experts i'll the field OF
Encouragement problems.
Warren said complete under
standing" cannot be accomplished
by legislation but that such un-
derstanding can come only in the
cource of collective bargaining by
people who appreciate the common
benefits to be derived from open
and honest labor management rela-
tionships."
The necessary techniques are at
least as important as those in the
fields of business management and
archaeological DIV n c m n t Tor
which our schools offer special
training" the governor declared.
He proposed that the school OF in
dustrial relations should offer train
ing to "those who have the vision
and the urge to learn what can and
should be the guide-posts to ad-
vancement in this important field"
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-09
STATE LEGISLATURE OPENS
MOMENTOUS SESSION

Not since statehood has the Califor-
MA legislature launched into a more mo-
mentous session with a more far-reach-
ing program than that which opened
Monday. Never before has it been more
urgent to proceed with caution and at
the same time determined prospective.
Although the war still is on and victory
time uncertain, the legislature must move
courageously toward definite and COM
prehensive postwar program.
There is the ever-present and pressing
matter of tax rates, coupled with budgets
and distribution of revenues. Well aware
of the future calls to liquidate the feder-
al debt, state legislators have a doubly
hard task and this problem alone we'll
might be enough for any one legislative
session.
Consideration of any longtime econ
omy program necessarily must be chart
ed with the uncertainty of the end of the
war and almost surely with the war in
the Pacific still going on after end of
hostilities in Europe. Manifestly the
Pacific coast states, and indeed the entire
far west, will be hard put on reconver-
sion because of that factor.
Governor Warren and each and every
senator and assemblyman deeply sense
the tremendous responsibility placed up
on them and can be counted upon to fix
the most advantageous course possible.
They should have from the outset the
greatest of cooperation from the public
and no doubt can count on it.
This session will see real test of the
recess system which is under study by a
number of other states.
If it is a dominating aid to proper and
adequate legislation then this year the
plan will receive its heaviest call.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-09
THE BRIDGES CASE
(Santa Monica Outlook

(Santa Monica OutloOk)
The State American Legion voiced
widespread public sentiment when it de-
manded at recent executives meeting
that the deportation order against Har-
ry Bridges be enforced as quickly as his
final appeal to the supreme court has
been decided.
The Bridges deportation order was is
suea many, many months ago. 1t was
appealed to the district and then to the
circuit courts. Both of them upheld the
order. He had 80 days from September
27 to appeal to the supreme court. When
it will pass on it is a matter of specula-
tion The Justice department under Mr..
Biddle, who decided that Bridges was a
Communist, has not urged early hearings
on the appeals.
The delay in this case is a serious re-
Election on the Department of Justice.
1t is proving once again that under the
present administration we have one kind
of law enforcement for Mr.. Roosevelt s
political allies and quite different kind
for other Americans.