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Evening star., 1945-04-24

agencies, Is not to force a reduction
IN the prices Of goods now on the
retailers shelves, but to stock the
shelves with lower-cost garments
that have almost vanished from the
stores. Children's pants and panties,
house dresses, work clothes and the
like, quite a long list in all.
The purpose Is twofold. First, to
enable families of modest means to
obtain essential garments. Second,
to check what is considered an ex-
tremely serious threat Of general
imitation.
In calculating what is called the
cost of living the cost of clothing
is found to be an important item,
taking 13 per cent of the average
annual budget of lower and middle
income families. Between May, 1943,
and November, 1914, the OPA re-
ports that clothing costs advanced
IL per cent. An equal advance in
all living costs, in the opinion of
OPA, would have cost the buying
public an additional 100000, 900
and would have shattered the entire
stabilization program.
inexpensive Items Needed.
Actual increase in the prices of
the same garments is said to account
for only one-sixth of the total in
crease, five-sixths being due to the
disappearance of inexpensive cloth
ing. The major undertaking, there
fore, is to bring about resumption
of the manufacture and sale of the
inexpensive items.
During the past two years the
problem has been discussed con-
tinually with representatives Of the
textile industry, the manufacturers
and the retailers, many of whom
have been as fearful of the infla-
tionary trend as the OPA itself. No
other solution having been found,
the OPA Is now directing manufac-
turers to restore average" price
lines of 1912 and 1943 To make
the order effective the War Produc-
ton Board will grant priorities based
on such lines. The manufacturers
of essential low and medium priced
garments will have first claim on
available textile supplies. The di-
version of textiles into less essential
and niger priced garments will be
greatly lessened If not entirely pre-
vented.
That Is the plan in essence. Pro-
visions are made for the protection
of the legitimate interests OF every
body concerned, from the textile
manufacturer through to the re-
taller. For example, unnecessary
markups by jobbers will be elimi-
mated, along with the dummy"
jobber establishments which serve
no purpose except to add to the
prices the retailer and the consumer
pay.
OPA expects within few months
to see better supplies of the needed
low-cost clothes in the shops. Most
of these, in the case of cotton gar
ments, will carry the retail ceiling
price tags affixed by the manufac-
turer. This is intended to protect
the honest majority of retailers, as
we'll as the public, and to make
compliance easier.
Profits to Continue.
While the new price schedules are
designed to reduce current prices
Evening star., 1945-04-24

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maniere pouvor vivre paix.
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Evening star., 1945-04-24
Norden Bombsight
To Be Displayed Here

Washingtonians will get their first
chance to see q Norden bombsight
Thursday at q hearing in the caucus
room Of the Senate once Building
Senator Stewart, Democrat, of Ten
nessee has announced.
The device which has enabled
American flyers to hit targets with
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mention the fact
to their Con-
gressnen. Those
oppose ed are
m a king their
views know n,
L e t ters and
post cards are
uring into
Washington pro-
testing against
the purpose and
plan of OPA
and WPB.
The effort of
the Government,
as represented
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50 per cent Of the thousands Of parts
making up the Norden bombsight,
Senator Stewart explained.
The display is to show the scope
Of wartime activities OF the industry
which will outline the problems con-
fronting 1t during the reconyersion
period, he stated.
Evening star., 1945-04-24
81 D. {. Men Report
To Armed Forces Today

Thirty-seven Washington men are
scheduled to report for induction
into the armed forces today. The
mems y,aynes foJIow.
Evening star., 1945-04-24
By LoweU MeHeff

The OPA is now undertaking, with
the cooperation Of WPB, to bring
down the cost Of clothing. All those
in favor of this might do well to
Evening star., 1945-04-24

Start saving now for those bigger
War Bonds through payroll savings
so that come the Seventh War Loan
part Of your bonds will be paid for.
Evening star., 1945-04-24
Answers to
Questions

A reader can set the answer to any
question OF fact by writing The Eve
ning Star Information Bureau, 316 Eye
street NE, Washington 2. D. c. Please
inclose 3 cents for return postage.
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Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-18
Rofarians Hear
Blind Man.
Naval Officer

El Centro Rotarians Thursday
heard Jack Kenny, Death Valley
blind canary bird breeder tell how
one may be happy although blind.
1t. NJ Chrisman CT the Holtville
Auxiliary Naval Air station told the
club members of the trials and
tribulations arising at the base
through housing shortages.
z. E. Stidham gave three vocal
selections to round out the program
at the regular meeting at the Bar
bara Worth hotel.
E. E. McEuen, president, presided.
Kenny. who conducts free school
at his Death Valley home to teach
blinded persons the simple method
Of overcoming their handicaps, as
he has learned the method. He
pointed out that necessity brought
about working out the system for
himself and that because it meant
so much to him, he decided to de-
vote his time to aiding others. He
raises and sells canary birds to pro-
duce funds necessary for his work.
1t. Chrisman outlined the press
ing needs for homes for men at the
station whose families live in the
valley.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-18

makes up for a lot. We get hot chow
whenever the kitchens can catch
Up with us -. f. hope Jerry keeps
running on to Berlin or gives up be-
fore that. Then maybe we can all
come home where we belong :"
Mothers Day was made especially
happy for Mr.. and Mrs. Forrest
zinn in El Centro this year because
three of the four sons they have in
the service spent the day with them,
this being the first time the three
sens had been together in three
years. Charles ,zinn, electricians
mate second class, came on from
Norfolk, Virginia. Corporal Ernest
Zinn, stationed at Oakland after a
tour of duty overseas, was home.
And Private Cecil Max Zinn, pa
tent at Hoff General hospital at
Santa Barbara for treatment Of
wounds suffered in France last Aug
ust 8, also was home. Private For
est zinn, Jr., was unable to get
home from Ft. Lewis, Washington,
where he has been in training for
the last six weeks. He is with the
army engineers.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-18
GOOD ADVICE FOR PEACE
MEETING DELEGATES

Perhaps it comes a bit late, but a
Washington writer and commentator at
San, Francisco tells the assembled peace
delegates from the more than forty
countries they should do some touring of
places like the Central Valley project.
He could have added Imperial Valley, or
for that matter, hundreds of such areas
in this country
In building the peace organization
structure it would be helpful indeed for
the foreign ENJOYS to absorb some object
lessons as to what paace-loving, war
hating nation has to make life better and
more abundant. They have seen too much
of war implementing too much of fake
grandeur; too much of gold braid and
learned too we'll the goose-step. These
impressions and reactions must be up
rooted before they can get the proper
angle to write a peace pattern.
And no better lesson could be learned
than by inspecting the great food pro-
duction areas in America. These same
ENJOYS would see first-hand the reason
why this country can and does feed the
warning nations again and again. They
would know the value of yielding field
above a military parade ground. They
would see why an industry turning out
farm implements, is better than can
non factory. Above all they would see
freedom of everything that builds for
human happiness and contentment
1t would seem a good idea if all these
visiting peace-pattern makers could be
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-18
SUGAR SHORTAGE EXPECTED
TO AUGMENT BLACK MART
(Riverside Daily Press)

Inc house committee studying the
Iood situation has been turning its atten-
tlon TO sugar. Members of the commit
tee warn that sugar is to get even scarcer
than now, and at time when il is most
needed for home canning and preserv-
ing.
OPA announced on FRIDAY that Indus
trial sugar users may be cut another 25
per cent by midsummer, and that the
nome canning program will have to get
along with at least 40 per cent less sugar
than last year.
Representative Jonkman (R.) of Mich
lgan, member of the separate Republican
congressional food study group, predicts
that a black market in sugar will develop
to parallel the black markets in meats,
poultry and gasoline.
Critics of the OPA and the war food
administration insist that these agencies
are largely responsible for the gloomy
sugar outlook, by not allowing prices that
will stimulate production at home and
abroad and by handling sugar rationing
lneptly. These agencies retort that the
wonder is, not that the outlook is gloomy.
but that it is no worse
In normal years about "a per cent of
the sugar supply in the United States
comes from domestic sugar beets, 5 per
cent from domestic cane, 81 per cent from
Cuba, II per cent from Puerto Rico, IL
per cent each from Hawaii and the Phil
ippines, 3 per cent from other countries.
Now the Philippines are out, and the
Cuban production was badly hi, by hurri-
canes.
Europe's sugar needs are tremendous
the British depended largely on their
island possessions and Russia on the war
devastated Ukraine. And in prosperity
people demand more sugar-the IT, S.
per capita consumption rose from 81
pounds per year in 1918 to 122 pounds in
1941
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-18
TraiIers To Get
Added Comforts

The 72 house trailers allocated
to produce shed help in Ell Centre
and Brawley will be decorative adj
ditions to the two towns due to
governmental permission to use
S14,CO0 in setting them up, County
Agricultural Commissioner B. A.
Harrigan said Thursday.
While Harrigan was in Washing
ton he obtained permission to use
the $4,000 left over from the S40,-
600 granted to pay cost of trans
porting 70 house trailerS each to
Brawley and FL Centre as a help
in solving the housing shortage.
Each trailer and all sanitary
units sent to Imperial Valley with
them will be refinished inside and
cut and provided with coolers, Har-
rigan said, and will be set up in
such a manner that they will be a
distinct improvement added to the
two towns.
The trailers are expected to be
ready for occupancy by June l.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-18
JAPAN INVITES
TOTAL DESTRUCTION

Without doubt the bombing to pieces
of the third largest city in Japan, her
top industrial plants, is indication of
the pace to be set now for total destruc
tion of Japan, just as Germany was laid
waste in comparatively few months
when the Allies were fully ready.
If that is the way Japan wants it,
that is the way she will get it. But it is
the puzzle Of all time why a nation at
war will not recognize the end, especially
with current lesson at hand. The war
lords at Tokyo quite evidently have de-
cided that nothing shall be left for the
victors
The faintest kind of hint that Japan
may begin to think about surrender soon
comes in an article permitted to be print
ed in Tokyo which frankly calls atten-
tion to the Allied air supremacy. The
article goes as far as to fix the number
of planes which the Allies will be able
to loose and continue to loose day in and
day out. A few months ago such frank
statement would not have been printed.
Yet it surely does not require such
publicity to acquaint the Japanese people
with the true situation. Germany did not
permit published information as the
reich began to crumble under the COM
bined air and land invasion that ended
in the destruction of Berlin and several
other large cities. But no one will be-
lieve that the German people did not
know what was taking place and what
was about to happen.
German generals are unanimous in
saying that Germany's fate was sealed
the moment air supremacy passed from
Hitler to the Allies. And that is what
the Jap writer is trying to tell the Japan
ese people in his article.
1t will be the air force that turns the
tide in the Pacific because of the need
to annihilate distance. Soon now the
navy and the marines and the army will
have secured any number of airfields
only few hundred miles from Tokyo.
And the end will come terribly and
quickly
We shall pay dearly in life. Even the
life of one American is too much to pay
for Japans stubbornnass and the mad
rule of the military clique.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-18
BELATED CONVICTION
(Riverside Daily Press)

One need not accept all claims of the
more extreme exponents of air power to
feel that Billy Mitchell's posthumous
promotion to the rank of major general,
and the award to him of the Congress
sional Medal, were not at all impetuous
and premature. Any informed German
or Jap would say that Mitchell's faith in
the efficiency of aerial bombing has been
justified.
Now comes the disclosure of Field
Marshal Karl Gard Won Rundstedt's
statement that he regards air power as
the most decisive factor in the reich's
military failure.
The honors paid to the pioneer of
military aviation may mean that belated
conviction has been forced upon that Off
Ger, now high in authority, who wit
messed the first test sinking of battle
ship by bombs and then told reporters:
Remember, what you just saw you
didn't see. 1t didn't happen. 1t couldn't
happen"
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-18
Moore Refires
From Utility
Company Post

El Centrans were interested in
the news that r. P. Moore, resident
OF El Centro 38 years, recently re-
tired from the California Electric
Power company after 80 active
years
The company and employees in
Riverside marked Moores retire.
ment with farewell dinner May 6
at which time they presented him
with valuable gift.
Moore arrived in El Centre in
1906 as chief clerk OF the old Holton
Power company and various other
interests of w. F. Holt. He was
identified with the company through
the years, playing prominent part
in the business, civic, and social life
Of El Centro. A little more than a
year ago he was transferred to
Riverside. His physician recently
told him he should retire from busi-
ness and take lcng rest. This
summer Mr.. and Mrs. Moore plan
to spend four months at Leevining
creek, company resort. They have
made no further plans.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-18
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA,
IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF
IMPERIAL.

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA,
IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF
IMPERIAL.
No. 300
NOTICE OF EXECUTORS SALE
OF REAL ESTATE AT
PRIVATE SALE
In the Matter of the Estate of
l.. A. BLACKMAN, also known as
LEWIS A. BLACKMAN, also known
as LOUIS A. BLACKMAN, Deceased.
Notice is hereby given that Mervin
L. Dickson, Executor of the Estate
CT L. A. Blackman, also known as
Lewis A. Blackman, also known as
Louis A. Blackman, deceased, will
sell at private sale, in one parcel, to
the highest bidder, upon the terms
and conditions hereinafter men,
toned, and subject to confirrna-
ton by said Superior Court, ON or
after Monday, the 21st day of May,
1945, all the right, title, interest and
estate of the said L. A. Blackman,
also known as Lewis A. Blackman,
also known as Louis A. Blackman,
deceased, at the time Of his death,
which, was a fall fee in and to the
real property hereinafter described,
and all the right, title, and inter
est that the said estate has, by op-
Grafton of law, or otherwise, acquir-
ed, other than or in addition to
that of said deceased, at the time
of his death, Of, in, and to that
certain lot, piece, or parcel of land
situate, lying and being in the
County of Imperial, State of Cali
fornia, and more particularly de-
scribed as follows, to-wit::
Lot Seventeen (17) of Block
Thirty-seven (37), Townsite of
El Centre, together with all
furniture and fixtures therein.
Terms and conditions of sale:
Cash, lawful money of the United
States; ten dO per cent of the
purchase money to be paid at the
time of sale; balance on confirma-
ton of sale. Usual escrow charges
cfio 4SSO4 olAi5 Vi QCCQ az DllC CA
pense of purchaser. Certificate of
title at the expense of the estate.
Insurance to be prorated. The pur-
chaser to assume the payment of
and take the property purchased
by him, subject to all taxes for
1916 1916 of whatsoever name or
nature, which are now or may be-
come hereafter chargeable to or
lien against the property purchased
by him.
All bids or offers must be in writ
ing, and may be left at the office of
Whitelaw & Whitelaw, Attorneys for
said Executor, at 207 Rehkopf Build
ing. Ell Centre, California, or may
be filed in the office of the clerk Of
this Court at any time after the
first publication of this notice and
before the making of the sale.
Dated this 11th day of May, l945.
MERVIN &. DICKSON,
Executor Of the Estate of L.
A. Blackman, also known as
Lewis A. SBlackman, also
known as Louis A. Black
man, deceased.
WHITELAW & WHITELAW
BY r. B. Whitelaw,
Attorneys for Executor.
(No. 73) tM13-21 incl.)
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-18
ASK DEATH PROBE

SACRAMENTO, May 18. CUP)-
Gov. Earl Warren and Dora Shaw
Heffner, state director of institu-
tions, have asked the attorney gen.
erals office to investigate the death
of Louis Banducci, 40, an inmates
of the Camarillo state hospital, who
died Monday assertedly as the re-
suit of injuries inflicted by hos
pital attendant. The attendant, Ben
Kendall. was held in the Ventura
county jail
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-18
FRUIT PRICES HOLD

WASHINGTON, May l8. (UP)-
Ceiling prices now in effect for the
1914 pack of processed fruits, ber-
ries and vegetables will remain in
effect until new ceilings are estab-
lished for the 1945 pack office of
Price Administration counselled pro-
cessors Friday.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-18
BRITISH LOSSES AT SEA
NUMBER 804 VESSELS

LONDON, May 18 (UP)-British
naval losses in World War II have
reached 8e4 ships, one of them a
cruiser rammed and sunk by the
former luxury liner Queen Mary, an
unofficial tabulation showed Fri
day. The loss of 162 of the ships
was revealed Thursday night by the
admiralty. The sinkings had been
kept secret in the belief that the
Germans did not know of them.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-18
PUBLISHER DIES AT DESK

COVINA, CAL, May 18. (UP) =
James Lewis Matthews, IA, publisher
of the Covina Argus, died of a heart
attack Thursday at his office, where
he was writing the obituary Of an
old friend who recently died.
Matthews, born in England, came
to California in 1893 and became a
typesetter on Pasadena daily news
paper, moving later to Covina where
he became a civic and business
leader.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-18
MORE CHICKENS AHEAD

WASHINGTON, May IS. rUPl--
There's to be mere fried chicken
next fall. The agriculture depart
ment reported that the output Of
baby chicks by commercial hatch
cries established an all-time record
in April.
Chicks hatched in April will be
ready for market by late summer
or fall The months production Of
chicks was 34662l 900 or nine per
cent more than last year.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-18
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
CERTIFICATE OF BUSINESS
FICTITIOUS FIRM NAME

The undersigned does hereby GER
tlfy that he is conducting a gen.
eral produce business at Fourth and
Olive Streets, El Centre, California,
under the fictitious firm name of
K BENEDICT PRODUCE and that
said firm is composed of the follow
ing person. whose name and place
of residence is as follows, to-wit:
ROBERT K. DAVIES, California
Hotel, Ell Centre, California.
Witness my hand this Ilth day
of May, 1945.
ROBERT K. DAVIES.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-18
Editorials and Comment

taken across the country in we'll
planned comprehensive tour even after
the UNCIO adjourns. They have much
to learn yet if they are to be instrumental
in applying the rules laid down at the
San Francisco meeting. And they have
still more to do if they help to deliver
their devastated nations out of the chaos
IN which the war has left them.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-18
STATE OF CALIFORNIA

} IS.
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES
On this 18th day of May, A. D.,
1915, before me. REED E. CALLS
TER, a Notary Public in and for
the said County and State, resid-
ing therein, duly commissioned and
sworn, personally appeared ROB-
ERT X. DAVIES, known to me to
he the person whose name is sub
scribed to the within instrument,
and acknowledged to me that he
executed the same.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, / have
hereunto set my hand and affixed
my official seal the day and year
in this certificate first above writ
ten.
REED E. CALLISTER,
Notary Public in and for
said County and State.
My Commission Expires
March %, 1949.
(No. 76) tM18-25; J1-S)
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-18

EDITORS NOTE: The folIoIDing edit
orlois are presented as interesting Opin-
IONS UOiced by editors elsewhere. Theu
90 not necessarily reflect the opinion of
this paper
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-18

i am situated In an old German
house with my radioman, observing
for the nortars." Lieutenant Laur-
ence c. Cook, son of the late John
Cook and Mrs. Cook and former
teacher at Harding school. Our
division has been on line now for
70 days so we are pretty tired as
well as shot up. It's plenty rough
20 worry for 10 days whether you'll
live through the next days attack
or push. We are supposed to be on
line for six days and then go back
for two but it doesn't work out that
way with Jerry on the run. We.
have a time catching up with him
and then all of a sudden he turns
around and lingo! we are up against
the worlds second best soldiers !.
Our food remains quite good which
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-08-23
BIDS ASKED ON
 1 MAIL ROUTES
 OUT OF JUNEAU

Postmaster Crystal Jenne today announced that four Star Route mail contracts out of Juneau are now open to bid for carrying the mails during the five year period from July 1, l946 to June 30, 1950
 The four power boat runs affected are. Juneau to Sitka; Juneau to Skagway; Juneau to Pelican City and Juneau to Port Alerander Information concerning the mail runs and bid requirements is now available at the Juneau post office, the Postmaster declared.
 The bids will be received until -5:15 o'clock p. m, December II, l945, the the office of the Second Assis- tant Postmaster General, Pest Office Department, Washington, D. c.