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Evening star., 1945-12-02

saoss It IS nes sssas the t third city sy Sa
the United States in population
figures. But it is third in its purchasing
Of books. 1t is led only by New York and
chicago. The Capitals inhabitants buy
something over three million dollars
worth Of books every year. The city has
outside New York. 1t is the seat of two
Of the greatest libraries in the, world
and it supports public library of many
branches and manifold activities.
Washingtonians, obviously, mean to
make full use Of the printed word.
This has not always been so spec
tacularly true of the Nations Capital
The past decade has shown steady
growth in its demand for books, pro-
p0rti0nately greater than the demand
Of previous years, with the proportion
increasing sharply in the latter part of
the period. In the past three years, for
instance, the largest book-selling firm
Of the city reports that it has more than
doubled its volume of business. Where
II normally turned over it's stock three
times year, it does SO now seven times.
The increase Of book sales, moreover, has
not been in proportion to the increase
in population. 1t has been in excess of it.
The figures seem to indicate that the
ayidity with which the city consumes
the book stores stocks derives from
something more than mere population
Numbers. It comes instead from the
temper Of the people, alert to the cur
rents Of modern life. They want to know
what is being said by those who are
supposed to know. They are laying
large bet, in time and money, on the
of writer's
That is the foundation of critical
and critical consciousness
ought to be an integral part of the life
Of the capital of any nation.
1t is to meet this vigorous interest
hat The Star this year has inaug-
Evening star., 1945-12-02

this season. One notable volume is "Ber-
nard Lamotte," written by Louis Gauthier.
close friend of the painter, and contain-
ing reproductions not only of Lamotte's work.
but OF a few other great masters. Some of
these reproductions are in color.
"Why Abstract?" is a symposium. ION that
controversial branch of art by Hilaire Hiler
Henry Miller and, of all people. William
Saroyan 1t is just the thing for those people
VINO always seem to be getting mixed up in
drawing room arguments over cubism. i'm
pressionism and other lofty art subjects
Peggy Bacon fans, or just plain cat lovers.
Will be delighted with the new album this
talented lady has brought out in time for
christmas 1t is thicker than her last and
nlled, OF course, with her charming pencil
drawings of cats. The book Is bound loose
leaf fashion, which makes it possible to ex
tract any OF the drawings for framing. Unlike
her last volume, which was restricted to feline
portraits, this latest collection branches ont
SO that nearly half of the soft-line sketches
snow Miss Bacons cats in their properly
honey environments.
For the practicing artist Just beyond the
novice stage, there are two books which
ought to be helpful: Drawing the Human
Figure" by Arthur Zaidenberg author of
the ANY One Can Draw" and ANY One Can
Faint books, and art and ANATOMY" bv
Heidi Lenssen. Mr.. Zaidenbergs contribu
ton presupposes the reader has at least a
rudlmentary knowledge of sketching. The
otner oook Is filled with anatomical charts
and can be fascinating only to the serious
art student.
Evening star., 1945-12-02
Stores Have Wide Variety of Gift Books for Christmas

ume Is John Steinbecks ~The Red Ponv
Another special book is the latest version
OF Tristan and Iseult," translated COM
pletely in English for the first time bv
Paul Rosenfeld who added to the earlier
abridged translation of Hillaire Belloc. The
format of this book is produced with restraint
and good taste 1t contains 20 full-page
block Illustrations gracefully executed by
Joep Nicolas The price is surprisingly mod
est in view of the superb workmanship.
Another book you will see on the gift
tables in local bookshops is Rock Crystal"
an illustrated Christmas story You will also
find appropriate as gifts the comparatively
recent Illustrated Modern Library editions
OF a few of the classics, including Dickens
"Pickwick Papers, Dostoyevskys "The
Brothers Karamazov," and Walt Whitman's
Leaves Of Grass"
Gift Sets
To get one Of the more expensive sets as
gift at Christmas or any other time, you've
got to be especially cherished by one of your
relatives II you're lucky enough you may
wind up with Carl Santiburgs six volumes
on Abraham Lincoln or the new two-volume
Lincoln, the President" by j. G. Randall
Another new set Is benjamin Franklin's
Autobiographical Writings" edited by Carl
Van Doren and boxed together with a new
issue OF Frankiin's autobiography. Peren-
nlally favorite here and at all other points
below the Mason-Dixon Line are Dr. Doug
las Southall Freeman's two monumental con-
tributions to Civil War lore-"R E. Lee" in
four volumes. and Lees Lieutenants," in
three.
If you're in the market for gift books, you
shouldn't overlook the current Omitted States
Camera Annual" edited by Tom Maloney
with the photographs selected by Edward
Steichen, the noted New York Photographer,
who has been serving as a captain in the
Navy Supplement One: The American
Language" by H. L. Mencken, can also be
considered among the higher grades of gift
material.
Art Books
Art books, which have been turned out in
prodigious quantity ever since the publishers
discovered that a lot of people with incomes
under half million a year like to look at
pretty pictures, are With US abundantlY again
Evening star., 1945-12-02
Reading Interests

you have your heart set on giving books
1or Christmas, but you have some trepida-
uons about guessing the literary tastes of
your friends, very simple method of select-
u,s gus Is 10 consider the special interests
OF your friends. Suppose they're home
bodles-like to putter around the house
You ought to find plenty of books that would
make them very happy. "The Gardeners
AImanac,p by Edward I. harrington, put out
oy the Massachusetts, Horticultural Society,
s. a,aauseS tne chores OF the yard neatly by
months and then winds up with a heart.
warming appendix on fertilizers. spraying
solutions and planting dates. Trees. Vines
ana Shrubs. by. George Graves, is. a COM
Evening star., 1945-12-02
BY Norman Kahl

IF YOU'RE in a bookish mood while YOU re
doing your Christmas shopping-and it's
= Q happy mood to be in-you ought to be
able to find something exactly suitable for
even the most eccentric of your friends and
relatives. This Is the season when publishers
let themselves 60. Despite the lingering
limitations on paper and binding materials,
they have done as well this year in bringing
out gift books as you might have expected
them to do In that ancient era before man
kind split the atom
Any book, Of course, is a potential gift
book, depending on the actual taste of the
giver and the assumed taste of the recipient
To try to classify all the books that win
md their way into gay wrappers and be
sprinkled with tinsel would be insane and
impossible. Someone may hand you thing
called AN Intimate Study of Linear Pro-
tections." or The Organic Components Of
Whale Blubber;;" yet it's not very likely
you'd find either one very high up on the
average shoppers list
But that's the way it is about books. II
somebody gives it to you. it's gift If some
BODY gives It to you at Christmas, it's \
christmas gift. And it may not fit into any-
bodys notion, including yours, of what q
Christmas book ought to be.
Evening star., 1945-12-02
The Great Outdoors

FOR the sportsman-the field and stream
man or the connoisseur of horses or dogs
tne pookshops have fascinating collection
1nls year Among them you will find "A
Treasury Of Horse Stories,- bv Margaret
CaoeH Self and illustrated by Edwin Megar-
gee, man evidently very fond of horses;
my Dog Lemon" by Ray p. Holland, who
happens to be president of the American
Game Protective Association, and who has
concocted delightful series of tales about
a sense OF smell; "Fishing's Just Luck" by
Elmer Ransom, collection of lazy anec-
ootes, information and advice, principally
ABOUT winter trout, rainbow trout channel
pass and salmon found off Cape Breton Is
!!aho; Tattered Coat" by Nash Bucking-
Evening star., 1945-12-02

pact guide. with more than 1000 varieties.
complete with Latin names, pedgrees and
photographs And for any one who can get
that excited about grass. there is Better
Lawns" by Howard B. Sprague.
For Sfay-af-Homes
Stay-at-homes will also find many ioyful
hours In Its Fun to Make 1t Yourself"
edited by Stacey Nancy Of the Bureau of
vocational Activities, New York City Board
OF Education. This book consists almost en-
tirely of drawings and diagrams. with ex-
planatory text. A bit more frivolous k
Scrap Fun for Every One" by Evelyn
Giantz, which, the publisher says, tells you
now to make 401 doo-dads, all the way from
paper windmills and potholders to toma-
hawks and cornflower seed necklaces.
You must have friends who haven't q
home OF their own but would like one
Such people will lap UP everything there is
70 read that might help them with their
homes the future, and they will remem-
Der you fondly If you give them Planning
Your Home for Better Living" by Clarence
W. Dunham and Milton D. Thalberg with
more than 100 drawings, photographs and
moor plans, or Planning to Build" by
Thomas H. Creighton, filled with ink draw
ings and written in that peculiarly sprightly
fashion which writer's in this field have
adopted to make hard work seem like gay
adventure.
Evening star., 1945-12-02
Helpful Hints

So the books we're going to talk about here
can be no more than random suggestions
helpful hints that may make your Christmas
shopping just little easier They range
more or less, from the universally acceptable
70 the esoteric, fit only for people with
special tastes or hobbies
6oxed volumes and books on which the
publishers have lavished particular atten-
ton TO produce something more handsome
than their run-of- -the-min merchandise in
ev1tably fall into the class of gift books.
Especially notable in this category are the
tnree boxed volumes Of Thomas jefferson"
Dy Ciaude q. Bowers, the diplomat and his
torian. This set is attractively done up in
crimson bindings, but with the same thin
paper-saving pages on which the work was
originally produced. The three volumes are
Young Jefferson" Jefferson and Hamil-
ton. ana Jefferson in Power!'f mos o.
Z Alsosavailable In an elaborate boues VOL
Evening star., 1945-12-02
Art Books

Art books, which have been turned out in
prodlglous quantity ever since the publishers
discovered that a lot of people with incomes
under half million year like to look at
pretty pictures. are With US abundantlY again
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-22
Z. A. PRODUCE

/ Los Angeles. Jan. %. 1UP1-
AVocados: Steady. Per pound: Fuertes
/ S5-40c No. 2S, 25-3oc; Puehlas' 25-3oe
/ flats. Fuertes, 4.5O-5.30; Pueblas, $50
/ 3.75.
Beans: Light; san Diego limas, pei
pound. 25-30c.
Broccoli: Steady; iced crates Santa Bar
bara, 0-4.50; per pound, s-10c: fair
soc.
Bunched vegetables: Steady. Per crate
Beets, 2-2is dozen, 1.50-1.75; fair. LOO
1.25: ehard. 8 dozen. 1.25-1 so; celery
root. dozen, 1.s0-2.0O; green onions,
dozen, 8. sos rs; fair, 25o-3.00; radishes,
small, red, 6 dozen, 1901. 10; fair. LOO
25; spinach 4 dozen, 2o0-2. so; turnips,
2-2k dozen, 1.25-1. rs; Imperial DOZEN
2.25.
Carrots Steady: dozen bunch. 100
1.25: iced crates Imperial, 6 dozen. 3.75-
3.95; Santa Maria, s dozen, 3.O0-3.50;
local, so pounds, 1.25-150.
Cabbage: Steady; Cannonball crates,
2.25-3O0; fair, 1.5O-2.0O; Imperial, $50
3.T5; Savoy crates. 1.50-1.75.
Celery: Stronger; Pascal 2O-inch crates.
1.50; Sturdee crates, 2.T5-300; Santa
Maria, 3.5o-3.7 rs; fair. S.00'3.25; Golden
Heart, Santa Maria .20-ineh crates, 400
450
Lettuce; Stronger; dry pack Imperial
crates, 4 dozen, 2.o0-2.5O.
Peas: Steady. Per pound Imperial,
12-13c: San Diego, 14ec: Santa Barbara.
fair, S-10c; China peas, Imperial, $500.
Squash: Stronger; white summer Impe-
rial crates, 4.00-4.25: fair. 3.75; all dis
tricts, lugs, fair. 3.00-325; italian, all
districts, lugs, 4.00-4.25; fair, 3.00-3.5o:
No. 2s, 1.75-2.00; Imperial crates. 3.75-
400; yellow crooknecks, 1884. 90 lug.
iidded orange boxes, 5.75-5e5; fair. AS
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-22

HANDY, Ceylon, Jan. 22 CUP)-
The campaign to reopen China's
overland supply route from India
over the Ledo-Burma road virtually
was completed today as a Chinese
expeditionary force and 1t. Gen.
Daniel I. Sultan's First Chinese
army of Burma met in force for the
first time at Muse near the China
Burma border.
At the same time, British inva-
sion forces in southwest Burma
moved against japanese defenders
on Ramree island, 65 miles south
east of Akyab and $50 miles from
Rangoon, after a successful am
phibious landing Sunday in a cam
paign to reclaim the Arakam coast
line.
Closing of the Burma road gap
was reported by United Press War
Correspondent Hugh r. Crumpler
in dispatch from Wanting, cap
tured by the Chinese expeditionary
force Saturday. Wanting was the
last Japanese stronghold along the
road
CA New Delhi broadcast heard by
the United Press in New York today
said troops of the British 14th army
were engaged in fierce hand-to-
hand fighting with Japanese in
Monywa, railroad town about 55
miles northwest of Mandalay. The
Allies were reported to be holding
parts of the northeastern suburbs
of the town.
PINCERS CLOSED
Sultan's troops advanced 16 miles,
clearing ridges dominating the road
south of the Shweli river to reach
Muse and link up with the expedi-
tionary force, which had pushed
south from Wanting to close a pin
GERS on japanese between the two
armies.
The Japanese were caught be-
tween heavy artillery fire which set
the jungle ablaze for three miles
along the Burma road and were re-
ported fleeing south.
Trucks and ambulances were
using the captured road section east
Of Mamhkam and the first China
bound Allied convoy, which has been
waiting at Myitkynina, was expected
to start moving soon.
OCCUPY ARAKAN COAST
United Press War Correspondent
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-22
Sports Leaders
GIum as Ruling
Indicates Dim.out

NEW YORK, Jan. %. CUP - A
duration "dim-out" loomed today
for professional sports unless con-
gress gives unexpected concessions
to athletes in work or fight legisla-
ton or a sudden improvement in
the war picture relieves the demand
for manpower.
Professional sports leaders were
not optimistic, with the sentiment
general that the latest war depart
ment ruling on 4-F athletes posed
the biggest problem they have faced
to date.
The ruling, which provides that
professional athletes no longer will
be given physical reflections until
their cases have been reviewed by
the war department, takes the mat
ter of deferments from the hands
of local Selective Service boards and
puts it into the hands of an undeS-
ignated individual or group in the
war department, possibly wartime
sports coordinator.
Most executives were doing eau
tiouS planning for the coming year,
completing arrangements for spring
training, hotel accommodations and
park renovations in wait and see
what happens" basis. They feel
that the President is anxious for
baseball to continue if it can be
done so without interference with
the war effort.
However, his urgent request to
congress for work or fight" legisla-
ton may have been his own answer
to the question.
Chairman Andrew J. May Cd,
Kentucky, of the house military af-
fairs committee, apparently intends
to fight for a sports stoppage. He
said he saw no reason why some
healthy young men should be play
ing baseball while others are over
seas fighting for their country"
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-22
Mangrurn Shoots
Sizzling "a to !
Win at Tucson f

TUCSON, Ariz., Jan. %. tUP)-
Ray Mangrum, Los Angeles shot
wizard, today boasted a new COM
petitive course record of a sizzling
six-under-par Ga fourth roun d
which won the $4,000 72-hole Tucson
open golf tournament.
The California dark horse, out of
the running until he jumped to a
three-way second-place tie at "a
holes, moves into the next winter
tourney at San Antonio, Texas, next
Friday as a favorite.
Close behind him in yesterdays
closing nine was Byron Nelson, To-
ledo. Ohio, leading golf money
maker last year and winner OF last
weeks Phoenix, Arizona, open. Mel
son needed a birdie on the last hole
to tie Mangrum.
He drove out Of bounds, and the
chip shot which would have given
him the birdie missed the hole by
half a foot. He had to take a fifth
stroke to sink it.
Nelson, leader at the end of the
third round with 2O2, put together
two 67's, three under par, for the
third and fourth rounds for a total
of 269.
Mangrum's sensational 64 over the
rolling Ell Rio Country Club course
came after a 68 in the morning. A
crowd of $500 followed both rounds.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-22
Wallace May Be
One of Most
Powerful Men

WASHINGTON, Jan. %. CUP)-If
and when Henry A. Wallace's NOM
ination as secretary of commerce is
confirmed by the senate, he will be-
come one of the most powerful men
in the government with the respon-
sibility of administering approxi-
mately $4,000 100000 (B) in out
standing government loans and
commitments to big and little bust
ness.
His jurisdiction will include not
only the commerce department but
also the Reconstruction Finance
corporation and its various SUBJ
sidiary and allied agencies.
He thus will be head of the De-
fense Plant corporation, Defense
Supplies corporation, Metals Re-
serve company, Rubber Reserve
company. the RFC Mortgage COM
pany, the Federal National Mort
gage association the Disaster Loan
corporation, and the War Damage
corporation.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-22
Florida Police
Seek Parents

HOLLYWOOD, Fla, Jan. 90
(UP)-Police and the Federal Bu-
reau of Investigation searched to-
day for Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse G. Mil
ler, who left two small children in
repeatedly stolen automobile after
driving here from California.
Six-year-old Margaret Miller and
her infant sister, Shirley Ann. Is
months old, were found in the au-
tomobile Friday Shirley Ann, dress
ed only in diapers, was suffering
from a severe chest cold. Both chill
cren were hungry. Their mother
and stepfather had disappeared.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-22
DODDS ENDS HIS
MILE-RACING CAREER

BOSTON, Jan. %. (UP)-Ameri-
can indoor mile champion Gil
Dodds, who ended his track career
here Saturday with victory in the
tWo-mile run, was expected to arrive
here today by plane at Los Angeles
where he will begin a nationwide
gospel preaching tour.
Dodds, who holds the American
indoor mile record of 4:064, will be-
gin his tour in the west, coming to
New York March l for an appear
ance in the east His last race was
in the 29th annual Boston Y. NJ c.
A. meet.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-22
NJ a R K E. 7 S
". Y. STOCKS

New York. Jan. -. (UPl-Stocks de
clincd today Tor the fourth consecutive
session. but rallied from the lows and dis
played steadier undertone at closing
time.
Early unscttlemcnt was trace to the
appointment of Henry A. Wallace TO sue
coed Jesse Jones as secretary of commerce
and head OF several other government
agencies. The subsequent recovery was al
ff1buted to belief the appointment will
have tough shedding in the senate.
Other factors in the recent decline are
listed as the Russian successes seen as
Fastening the reconversion period with its
many problems, and the securities and eN-
change proposal TO eliminate the floor
trader on the major exchanges
Railroad issues. hardest hit in the early
selling. came back substantially from their
lows. Santa Fe, off at one time. halved
the decline. The steels wiped out losses
that ranged to nearly a point in Bethle-
hem. Low-priced motors turned strong and
active under the leadership of Hudson,
which gained more than a point TO a new
high.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-22
Rain Danlpens
Valley Games

The rain Sunday put a damper
on the winter leagues baseball
schedule although all three games
were started.
The Holtville Naval Air Station
showed up with a short" team and
using Jerry Womach and Carl Gent
as their battery they defeated the
Golden West Sports Is to on the
Ell Centro stadium field.
At Heber the Brawley Aztecs and
the Heber team, (former FL Centre
Townies) halted their game cue to
the rain. At the time of halting the
Brawley team was leading by small
margin.
At Brawley the Brawley Mer-
chants and the Ell Centro Mer-
chants game was also rained out
according to reports from that city
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-22
Special Permit
Duck Season Is
Granted Valley

ANY time pintail or widgeon
ducks are found to be doing
damage to crop fields, hunters
may shoot on Imperial Valley
field, providing the hunters have
a permit from the owner of the
land" Bob Womack, county
game warden advised farmers
and hunters today.
The special permit-hunting
season will be good until March
Is, he was advised. 1t will per-
nit hunters who have the okeh
of farmers, to shoot and pick up
ducks day or night on fields
where duck damage is being
done.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-22
L. A. STOCKS

Los Angeles. Jan. %. CUP)-Trading was
brisk on the Los Angeles stock exchange
today, with II. $50 shares sold. Seven is
sues were up. 19 down and 10 unchanged.
Barker Bros. 100 at 1914. down u Gen.
tral Investment 20 at 81. up - Blue Dia-
mond 100 at By, unchanged; Security Co
30 at IL y, down X Transamerica 100 al
10A. down II Southern California Edison
6 per cent 100 at 30ai, up Il Southern
California Edison original 100 at 43, up 3;
Southern Pacific 100 at 393i, unchanged
Republic Petroleum 100 at 7h, unchanged
Northrup 200 at rs, up u Cessna 100 at
az, down u Consolidated Steel common
100 al 1885,, down u General Motors 100
al 62lz. down / Gladding- Mclean 200 at
16h, unchanged; Hudson Motors 100 al
16is. up y Menasco 400 at 155 un-
changed; Ryan 100 at 7%, down 4
Farnsworth 200 at 1474. down u.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-22
Burma Cap Link
Is Completed

McQuown Wright, with the Seventh
bomb group, reported that ths
Ramree landing, third combined
operation which in less than three
weeks has re-occupied SO miles of
the Arakan coast, was accompanied
by probably the heaviest air strike
of the eastern air command since
the opening of the Burma campaign.
No Japanese fighters were sighted,
but the planes were fired on by
enemy machine guns on the ground.
The attack was opened by war
ships, including cruisers, Smelling
beach defense positions. The bom-
bardment ceased during the air at
tack, then resumed afterward.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-22
L. A. LIVESTOCK

Los Angeles, Jan. %. (UP)-
Cattle-Salable. $500: steady; about six
loads common to medium steers, S14. 25-
Is. few good cows S13.35: medium to
good cows, s12.0o-12.5O; common. $500
1000; Gamers and cutters. S6.00-9. 90;
medium to good bulls, S11 00-12.75.
Calves-Salable, 500: active, steady;
50 00-11 90.
Hogs-Salable, 100; fully steady; good
$50 to 240 pounds, S15.00-15.75; few sows
SD .00-14.75.
Sheep = Salable. sec; active, fully
steady; medium voiced lambs S13.00-
400; medium yearling wethers. S12. so;
medium to good wooled ewes, $3.50.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-22
POULTRY & EGGS

POULTRY PRICES. (All POINTS Imperial
Valley OPA Maximum set Oct. 10, 1943.)
First price-At ranch to wholesaler or re-
taller. Second price-Delivered to whole
saler or retailer. Third price-At ranch
TO consumer:
Broilers. Leghofns. under "a pounds
Soc; 2A TO 3 pounds, 29c; fryers, to 4
pounds, 29c. roasters, all weights, 29c;
fowl, Leghorn. all weights. 35l&c; colored,
all weights, 25l4c; ducks. all sizes, 25c;
rabbits, under pounds, 22-24c.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-22
LOCAL BUTTERFAT
CHICAGO GRAIN

Chicago. Jan. 90 UPl-General liouida-
tion in rye running into stop-loss orders
prompted weak tone in other grain flu
lures on the board of trade today. Fa-
vorable war news continued TO be the
dominating influence but the prospects of
no further liquor holidays also added to
the unsettled, bearish sentiment
Rye finished the day off Is TO 2I
cents a bushel wheat off \ TO Is: corn
off = TO q oats off y to x and barley
off 4 TO cents
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-22
Ry F.AL WOOD

SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. %. (UP)
Short shots:
Owner Charley Graham has his
own idea about how to hight off fog,
cold weather and rain-in the post
war "all-is-gold' era: He would
build huge, 3O0-foot-high roof over
his Seal stadium-"and then what