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MARKETS
v. y. STOCKS
NEW YORK. Aug. 17. (UP' Weakness
in raitrnad 'hares turned the stock mar
ket lower F’lday after an initial show of
strength T ading picked up and topped
the million share level.
Rails were under pressure at the start
of d»«dings b u t m pt the heaviest selling
' Fe had hit 80% for a net
loss ■ ! nearly 7 points. The group re
flected tie almost complete stoppage of
war si iptnents.
sections of the list responded
hulh' at first but immediately after
mid-d'’ began to sell off as rails accel
it* their decline. Chemicals offered
* sis’ '»• to the late trend, scoring gains
ang ’•>: to more than a point in Allied.
< sler, selling ex-dividend, had an
advance of more than a point but
Id gave up most of the rise. With
H< ;r os pert blight for accelerated pro
«h »n of cars. Commercial Credit and
( i Financial Corp., both engaged in fi
n ing motor car purchases, turned firm.
<tr losses in the rails extended to
nv e than 4 points net in Santa Fe and
J- isas City Southern preferred. Aircrafts
w«:*e down more than a point in Doug
-1 . Caterpillar Tractor, Pullman, West
• i Union A. Standard Oil (N.J. >, and
• ti'.nal Distillers were down a point or
more each.
L. A. STOCKS
LOS ANGELES. Aug. 17. (UP) Prices
remained fairly steady on the Los Angeles
stock exchange Friday but trading was
noticeably off with only 9100 shares.
changing hands. Ten issues were up, 15
down and 11 remained unchanged. The i
list:
Bandini 100 at 3% unchanged: Bolsa
Chu a 100 at 1\ down %. Sinclair 100 I
al 15% down ’■»: Pacific Western Oil;
OKI at 20% unchanged; Richfield 100!
at 12 unchanged ; Republic Petroleum 200 |
at 7 up %: Sunray 100 at 6 up %; So.;
* <lif. Edison 100 at 30% down % ; Aireon
Mfg 200 at 5% up %. Broadway 100
at 22 i up -, i: Consolidated Steel 100 at
17% down %; Consolidated Steel Pfd. 100
at 29 unchanged; Creameries of America
100 at 11 unchanged: Fa rn worth 1(M) at
15 % unchanged; Hudson Motors 100 at
30 up % . Hupp .Motors 200 at 6 unchang-j
»d. Mcnasco 500 at 2.10 down 15: Ryan i
400 at 7 down %; Transamcrica 200 at j
12% down %.
CHICAGO GRAIN
CHICAGO. Aug. 18. (UP' Grain fu
tures moved unevenly lower on the board
of trade Saturday Outside interest in
grains continued light pending the peace
time direction of the market
Deferred wheat, all deliveries of oats,
and Julv rye rallied on the close to I
light gains Wheat finished the day off ,
i to up % cent a bushel; corn off ;
ho •’% ; oats up % to %: rye unchanged !
to off 1. : and barley off
L. J. GRAIN
LOS ANGELES. (UP» -Grain market
change. No. 1 hard or soft white wheat,
bulk, 2.62’%-2.65; grading barley, 46 lbs.,
bulk. 2.27%-2.30; No. 2 oats, 35 lbs.,
bulk. 2.60-2.65.
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you are saving for a new home is in Victory
Bonds. The government wants us to keep on
buying ’em and holding them until our victory
job is completed!
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L. A. PRODUCE
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 17. (UP? -Pro
duce:
Avocados: Steady. F<-r IL. Nahals 2f»-
23c, Anaheims 18-20 c, Queens 18-22 c. Itz
manas 15-l Sc.
Beans: Steady. San Diego Co. & North
ern best 14-15 c, low 16c. fair 10-12 c
Bunched vegetables: Steady. Per ert
beets 2-2'l doz. 1.25-1.50, green onions
8 doz. 6 50-7.00. Parsley 6 doz. 1.50-2.00:
radishes small red 6 doz. 2.00-2.25. fait
1.50, white 4 doz. 1.50-2.00, spinach 4
doz. 1.50-2.00.
Carrots: Firm. Iced erts. 6 doz. Salinas
mostly 3 95. 5 doz. 3.35
Cabbage Stronger. Local Cannonball
erts. 2.50-2.75.
Cantaloups: Slightly weaker on local
steady on Mendota; Mendota ibo. erts i
27-45 S 3.90-3.92.
Cauliflower: Steady. Santa Barbara Co i
A- San Luis Obispo Co. lettuce erts. un
trimmed 173-2.25, best mostly 2.00-2 25
fair 1.25-1.50.
Celery: Stronger. Pascal Venice 20 in
erts. best 3.00-3.50, mostly 3.25-3.50, fair
2.60-2.75. old. 1.50-2.00.
Corn: Steady. Local lugs Golden Cross
3 doz. 1.25-1.50. fair 75c-1.00.
Eggplant: Steady. Coachella Vly per lb
810 c. few lie, fair 5-6 c. holdovers low
as 3c. San Diego Co. 7-Bc. few 9c.
Grapes: Steady. San Joaquin Vly. Seed '
less per lb 7.2-B.lc. white Malagas Ri
biers & Lad.'. Fingers 7.2-B,lc lb.
Onions; Unsettled. Street sales 50 sks
Spanish medium 2.10. Jbos. 2.15-2.30.
previous shipments medium 2.35-2 J.',;
Jbos 2.50-2.65.
Squash Weaker. White summer San!
Diego Co. lugs 2.50-3.00, Italian San
Diego Co. lugs 2.50-3.00.
L. A. LIVESTOCK
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 17. (IT)—Live
stock:
Cattle: Salable 150. slow', for week to
date, cows, steady to 25 cents lower, some
common steers 25 cents or more lower,
other classes and grades about steady;
odd good steers 16; common to medium
heifers 11-13.50; medium to good cows
11 75-1'1.25, (Utter to common 9.50-11 50,
canners and cutters 7-9.25; Wednesday
medium good fed steers 15-16.80; common
to medium 12.25-13.25; rows to 1-1.00.
Calves: Salable 200. very slow, few
sales about steady; medium to good
Texas calves 14.25, some held higher;
Wednesday medium to good calves J ;
14.75.
Hogs: Salable 300, includes 37 bought
to arrive and 135 feeder pigs, active
on barrows and gilt, steady: 170 pound
upward 15 75 coiling; sows 15.
Sheep: Salable none, good to choice
wooled spring lambs quoted 14.50-15.
MPLS. FLAX FUTURES
May $3 05
July $3.05h
September 53.05 b
DULUTH—
May —53.05 a
LOCAL BUTTERFAT
Market Milk. FOB Ranch 1 02
Mfg. Milk 79
First Grade Cream 52
Second Grade Cream 50
Third Grade Cream 4f
POULTRY & EGGS
POULTRY PHIUES. (A 3 points Imperial
Vnllqj- OPA Maximum set Oct 12, 1943.)
First price—At ranch to wholesaler or re
taller. Second price—Delivered to whole
’frier or retailer. Third price—At ranch
to consumer:
Broilers. Leghorns, under 3(4 pounds
30c: 2(4 to 3 pounds, 29c; fryers, 3 to 4
pounds, 29c; roasters, all weights. 29c;
fowl, Leghorn, all weights, 35(4c; coloped
all weights. 25tic; oucKs, all sizes. 25c
rabbits, uncer 6 puunds, 22-24 c.
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LOS ANGELES. Aug. 18 (UP' Eggs
Wholesale prices consumer grade: Lai go
grade A 52%. grade R 45%, medium
grade A 17%. small grade A 40%.
Candled eggs to retailers: Large grade
AA. cases 56. cartons 58; medium grade
AA. cases 19. cartons 51; large grade
A. cases 51. cartons 56; medium grade
A. rases 49. cartons 51: small grade A.
rases 42, cartons 41. large grade B.
rases 17, rartons 49.
Retail prices to consumers (carton-:
Large grade AA 61. medium 56; large
grade A 62. medium 56. small 49 large
grade R 55
and >'fu7’iy han • i t
ceilings.
Sold Mikado Steed
Emperor Hirohito’s fanJ ou s
white charger, which - Japs
have claimed is of Arabian
blood, is just an American cow
pony of pinto stock, says Dewey
H. Burden, noted Los
Angeles horseman. He ought to
know, because he’s the one who
sold the stallion to the Mikado a
year before Pearl Harbor.
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Coast Pitchers
Highlight Tilts
By JACK DAILY
Cniletl Press Staff Correspondent
The Pacific Coast Baseball league
came dose to meeting a record Fri
day night when only one relief
pitcher was called in from the bull
pen io rescue a starting pitcher.
Otherwise, all starting hurlers fin
ished in tiie approved fashion.
.Standout mound performance Fri
day night was given by 17-year-old
Joe Vivaldi, who restricted Holly
wood to three hits while his Sacra
mento teammates pounded out a 2-0
victory. The runner-up spot for
pitching efforts went to Charley
Cuellar, of Los Angeles, who turned
back Seattle with five hits in win
ning a 3-0 victory for the Seraphs.
BEAVERS STOPPED
Oakland stopped Portland, the
pacesetters. 5-4. with Damon Hayes
besting Roy Heiser. Frank Seward
won his 14th pitching victory for
San Francisco with a 5-1 triumph
over San Diego.
Young Vivaldi was making his
debut as a starting pitcher and he
held the Stars hitless until the fifth
inning when Hollywood goU two hits
and followed with their final hit in
the next stanza.
This game also saw Newt Kimball
lose his 18th game of the season. He
laniro Wins Out
Against Greco
NEW YORK. Aug. 18. (UP>—The
first of the star post-war fighters
may have emerged Saturday in the
babv-faced personage of Tony Jan
iro of Youngstown, O„ who clubbed
Johnny Greco of Montreal into de
cisive submission Friday night be
fore 16,237 fans.
Janiro, aspiring to welterweight
champion. Frcd di e Cochrane's
crown and to laurels in the weight
ier brackets, had the more experi
enced Greco reeling at the end of
the eight-round bout—limited to
that distance because Janiro is not
yet 20.
He thus gained revenge for a nar
row loss to Greco less than a month
ago when he fought the Canadian
on fairly even terms in the same
Madison Square Garden ring but
missed the judges’ nod because
Greco showed more stamina.
FIGHT RESULTS
SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 18. <UPt
-Harold Blackshear. San Fran
cisco Negro heavyweight, knocked
out Tiger Sheppard, 179-pound
Houston, Tex., fighter in the third
round of a scheduled 10-round bout
here last night.
Other results: Sammy Hughes,
160. Detroit, won a four-round de
cision over Speedy Cannon, 152.
Seattle: Joe Borjan, 126, Stockton,
downed Ai Rodriquez, 126. of Hay
ward. nt the first round: Bill Carl
isle. 139. Stockton, knocked out Del
Williams. 135, Oakland, in the open
ing of a four-rounder, and Syls
Smoke, 136, Daly City, put away
San Kalikini. 142, Honolulu, in the
final stanza of a four-round bout.
STATE AMATEUR GOLF
TOVRSEY SEPT. 4-9
PEBBLE BEACH, Cal.. Aug. 18.
< UP'—The 34th annual California
Golf Associations amateur cham
pionships will be staged over Mon
terey peninsufe courses September
4-9, inclusive, it was announced
Saturday.
A limitation on the number en
trants—7s0 —has been set for this
yean. Last year 588 golfers com
peted.
Tuesday and Wednesday, Septem
ber 4-5 will see 13-holc qualifying
rounds hot on Pebble Beach and
Cypress Point courses. Match play
will get under way on Thursday,
September 6. on the Pebble Beach
layout, continuing through Friday.
18 holes in the morning, 18 in the
afternoon in the championship
flight.
The semi-finals will be played
over 36 holes on Saturday, witii
finals on Sunday.
yielded a run in the fourth on a
double by Jess Landrum and Eddie
Zipay. In the seventh a single by
Jack Calvey, an infield out and a
hit oy Jo-Jo White Drought home
the final Solon run.
Las Angeles scored their three
payoff runs in the eighth inning
Rip Russell batted in the first two
scores with a single. He then stoic'
second and came on across when
Mel Hicks rapped a single off Short
stop Joe Dobbins' shins.
Seward gave the Padres one hit
after the third inning. Neill Shcr
ida and Ray Perry, each with threc
for-five, paced the Seals' 11-hit
attack.
BRIEF LEAD SPOILED
San Diego took a brief one-run
lead in the third but that was
promptly wiped out in the next
frame when San Francisco scored a
pair and followed through with two
more in the fift hand an extra t al
ley in the sixth.
Oakland bagged one run in Che
second frame, but Ted Gullice sent
the Beavers ahead in the same
frame by clouting a homer with
Charley English on first by a hit.
Oakland came back in the fifth
when Roy Hosier made two walks
and two hits. Portland tallied its
last run in the seventh.
Linescores:
San Diego 001 000 000 —1 5 6
San Francisco 000 221 OOx —5 14 1
Ferguson. Morales (8> and Grigg;
Seward and Spring.
Los Angeles 000 000 030 —3 8 0
Seattle 000 000 000—0 5 3
Cuellar and Kreitncr; Fischer and
Finley.
Oakland 011 210 000—5 9 2
Portland 020 100 100—4 9 2
Hayes and Kearse; Heiser and
Adams.
Sacramento 000 100 100 —2 9 1
Hollywood 000 00Q. 000 —0 3 0
Vivaldi and Schlueter; Kimball
and“ Hill. c
IMPERIAL COUNTY COURT
I PHELI) IN DECISION
In a decision handed down Fri
day by the district court of appeals,
judgment of Superior Judge Vaughn
N. Thompson was upheld in the case
of Mabel Aten against Ira D. Aten,
on a property settlement.
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Betz and Osborne
Battle at Net
CHEUTNUT HILL. Mass., Aug.
18. <UP i -National Champion Paul
ine Betz of Los Angeles and Mar
garet Osborne of San Francisco,
who have divided their two previous
1945 tournament matches, meet Sat
urday in the finals of the Longwood
Cricket Club Women's Inuitational
Tennis Tournament.
Miss Betz advanced into the fi
nals by defeating Louise Brough of
Beverly Hills. Cal . 10-8, 6-2. in a
match marked by Miss Betz’ in
spired rail, after she trailed by five
games in the first set. Miss Osborne
eliminated Mrs. Sarah Palfrey
Cooke in a minor upset. 6-8. 6-2, 6-4.
In doubles play. Miss Brough and
Miss Osborne will play Miss Betz
and Doris Hart of Miami, Fla., for
the championship.
The Brough-Osborne team de
feated Mrs. Patricia Canning Todd
of LaFayette. Cal., and Barbara
Krase, San Francisco, 6-0, 6-1. The
Misses Betz and Hart eliminated
Mrs. Cooke and Dorothy Bundy, 6-1,
2-6. 6-2.
In the men's finals, defending
champion. J. Gilbert Hall, Sodth
Orange. N. J., meets Arthur Wilson.
New York, for the title.
Handley Draws
Suspension
For Rough Acts
FORTLAND. Ore., Aug. 18. <UP>
President Clarence Rowland of
the Pacific Coast league Friday
announced the indefinite suspen
sion of Gene Handley, star second
baseman of the Sacramento base
ball club.
Rowland rough tactics and abu
sive language during an argument
over a play in the Sacramento-
Hollywood game of Wednesday
night was the cause for the sus
pension.
Umpires Cicero Falls and Al
Fioresi were the objects of Hand
ley's actions, Rowland said, "so I
made it an indefinite suspension
pending further reports and inves
tigating.”
There is a movement in Texas
to call the residents Tcxians in
stead of Texans.
COASTING
ALONG
By HAL WOOD
SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 18. 'UP'
—The war is over and the gentle
men who have had a monopoly the
last few years in the west coast
horse-racing indsutry can expect
some competition.
Where tracks in operation have
been few and far between since
Pearl Harbor—and even before that
time new, mililon-dollar racing
plants are expected to mushroom
in every new populous area along
the Pacific slope during the next
year.
Currently operating along the
west coast are Longacres at Seat
tle; Bay Meadows, San Francisco:
Hollywood Park and Santa Anita,
Los Angeles; Del Mar. San Diego,
and Hipodrom de Mexico, at Ti
juana < formerly Agua Caliente i.
LOOK TO 1946
But already new and old plants
are preparing to share in ihe lush
profits (they hope' during the 1946
season. Among the new, a track is
being planned at Portland, and the
controversial Puente layout in Los
Angeles is going ahead with op
erational plans—already hav in g
nearly completed th e important
task of laying the oval.
Add to these such former well
known layouts as Tanforan at San
Francisco and the ill-fated Golden
Gate at Albany outside Oakland,
and racing may become as big an
industry in the west as it is in the
east.
Already the tracks out this way
offer more in the way of purees for
stake races than do those in the
east.
However, everything may not be
as sunshiny as it appears. Bill
Kyne, general manager of Bay
Meadows and rated one of the
keenest turf minds in the west, isn't
too sure about the future.
He doubts that money will flow
quie as freely now that the govern
ernment spending has all but
stopped. He expects a short period
of heavy mutuel play—then a swing
toward the normal.
Increased population th a t has
zoomed the city dwellers in the west
by tremendbus proportions during
the last four years is bound to
make anything in the prewar days
look small-time.
MAY MOVE WEST
It may be that with the increased
stakes, plus the big choice of tracks,
the future may find Kentucky Der
by, Preakness and other big-time
eastern winners making regular ap
pearances in the west. It will take
a lot of thoroughbred talent to
supply all the racing dates.
There also is the probability that
when the day comes that there are
three tracks in the Los Angeles
area and three in the San Fran
cisco bay region, tiiat meetings will
be held simultaneously in both ends
of the state.
In the northwest. Portland and
Seattle are expected to alternate
dates. Spokane probably will reopen
and there also is the chance that
Tacoma and some of the other
larger cities may find themselves
the scat of regulation racing.
The hosre-racing industry, riding
the crest of its lushest wave of
popularity, is planning further ex
pansion.
Only time will tell whether the
expansions are warranted.
THE STANDINGS
COAST LEAGUE
Teams. W. L. Pct. G.B
Portland 87 53 .621
Seattle 80 59 .576 6
Sacramento 75 66 .532 12
San Francisco 72 69 .511 !5
Oakland 68 71 .479 211
San Diego 65 78 .455 .’3
Los Angeles 61 80 .433 26
Hollywood 56 85 .397 31
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Pittsburgh 000 020 000 2 6
New York 020 100 OOx 3 10 .
Gables, Cuccurullo <B> and Sal
keld; Brewer and Kluttz.
Chicago 010 010 011—4 6 '
Brooklyn 010 000 002 3 7 2
Passeau, Prim <9» and Gillo m-
Williams <9»; Gregg and Peacock.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Philadelphia 010 000 003—4 ;; ’
Cleveland 000 131 lOx—6 in 1
Newson, Marchildon is>, Bowie.
(7) and George; Harder, Gr.-nr .
(9) and Hayes.
Boston 020 003 300 8 15 0
Chicago 010 000 100 -2 8
Clark and Steiner: Humphry
Johnson (7>, Touchstone <Bi ami
Tresh. Castino <Bl.
Washington 000 101 001—3 9 o
Detroit 100 000 000—1 7
Heafner and Ferrell; Ovcrmin
and Swift.
AMERICAN
New York 100 000 000 1 4
St. Louis 000 400 OOx—4 9 0
Holcombe, Roser (7) and Robin
son; Potter and Mancuso.
St. Louis 000 101 000 -2 8 o
Philadelphia 001 000 20x 3 9 :
C. Barrett and O'Dea; R. Barre'
and Seminick.
PASTOR LEAVES EL CENTRO
TO AWAIT NEW CHARGE
The Rev. Howard W. Potts,
cently pastor of Edwards Chap-
El Centro will 'eave soon fcr 1
Angeles where he will attend t i -
annual conference of his chut
and receive a new assignment
While in El Centro he has ser*.
as scoutmaster for Troop 172 a
of Cub Pack 172.
He will deliver his farewell .
mon Sunday morning.
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It was a big day in Washington, D. C., when Buddy Lewis, left
an Army officer for last four years, returned to Senators' outfield
and ran into an old teammate, Pfc. Jake Early, former catchei
c o Both saw service overseas. Lewis as flver in China.
Russia Slates
Trades for
Land in China
CALCUTTA. Aug. 18. -UP'- In
formed persons arriving from
Chungking believe that Soviet Rus
sia has agreed to “soft pedal" the
Chines' Communist issue in return
for considerable territorial and eco
nomical concessions in North China.
The terms are believed to involve
three Chinese concessions:
1. Chinese have agreed to a free
port for the Russians at Port Ar
thur.
2. China is ceding to Russia the
strategic Tanu Tavu area on the
border of outer Mongolia and Si
beria. and giving the Soviets a free
hand in outer Mongolia.
3. Considerable concessions have
been made in long disputed
Siankiang area where the central
government recently replaced the
pro-Soviet governor with a diehard
Chiang Kai-shek follower.
These sources believed that China
has retained -inner Mongolia and
obtained control of Manchuria,
without which China cannot be
come an industrial power.
The Chinese are also believed to
have a"reed to a Soviet sphere of
influence in Korea.
Hewsprint Remains
On Scarce List
WASHINGTON. Aug. 18. 'UP'
A War Production Board of'iia)
said that therr arc no immediate
prospects for lifting restrictions on
newsprint.
The restrictions will be among
the 30 or 40 WPP. orders that will
be retained after WPTJ revokes some
360 industrial regulations in the
next day or two.
Another WPB official said that
there was no prospect for anv relax
ation in the restrictions during this
quarter. The fourth quarter quo
ta- will depend on official notifica
tion as to what Canadian pulp mills
will be able to provide. Such no
tice has not yet been received.
A disp :ch from Toronto said the
Toronto Finan ial Post will say to
morrow that Canadian paper mills
mav be able to make a "modest"
im rease m newsprint shipments to
the United States in the last quar
ter of this year.
ST. LOUIS AMATEUR PUTS
STOP TO NELSON’S SURGE
MEMPHIS, Tenn., Aug. 18. <UP'
(mt <>f the amateur ranks came St
1 oi:is' Bob Cochran Saturday to
make it virtually certain that Byron
Nelson's remarkable golf tourna
ment winning streak is about, to
end.
For nine holes in the Memphis
International Tournament Friday
Cochran traveled at record pace.
1 hushing the round with a 30. best
card for the distance ever chalked
up over the Chickasaw club course,
lie cooled off only a little on the
backside, finishing the day with a
seven under par 65.
That gave him a two-day total of
133. two strokes ahead of another
outsider. George Low of Clearwater.
Fla.. who had a 135, and nine
strokes ahead of Nelson, whose 142
to'al made him 13th in the field.
Contrary to general opinion, the
'-called standard gauge of rail
road tracks is the same in Eng
hnd and the United States, name
ly 4 feet. B'2 inches, measured be
tween the inside running edge of
the rails. However, the clearance
of bridges, stations, and buildings
adjacent is less in England, mak
ing it impossible for British trains
to operate in America, reports the
British Railways.
IMPERIAL ICE
In Business 38 Years in Imperial Valley
Welcomes Ex-Servicemen
• Mechanics
• Welders
• Electricians
• Refrigeration Egineers
Main office:
Railroad and Commercial
El Centro, Calif.
Plants in all Valley Towns
SUNDAY, AUGUST 19, 194
CIO Begins Drive
To Boost Wages
WASHINGTON. Aug 18 IP
The Congress of Industrial <
ganizations has opened labor
drive to obtain pay boosts under
the government's newly liberals' 1
wage policy.
President Truman rnnmmr •
Thursday that the War Id
Board will be allowed dm me 'he ic
conversion period to permit all vol
untary wage increases which are no'
unstabilizing and to ordet stvh
raises as are necessary to ' effective
reconversion.
The President is now drafting an
executive order to this effect. It
will clear the wav for the Wi.B to
break, discard or ignore the Little
Steel formula, which held vv'irlime
wage increases to 15 pct nt above
January, 1941, levels
CIO President Philip Murrav di
closed that ail CIO unions will -
employers for collective bargaining
conferences to negotiate Imili"
wages in the light of the President'■
new policy. Most CTO unions h iv
a clause in their contract permit -
ting reopening of the question of
wages i' the national poll y change
Murray also indicat'd CIO', will
ingness to continue its no-s'iii'.c
policy during reconversion. He said
a meeting of ClO-vuc-j te•.,<), p ,
here yesterday adopted ;• resolution
calling on CIO unions and employ
ers to observe their contracts which
customarily provide for n> strike:,
and no lockouts.
This resolution was not, however,
the unqualified renewal of the war
time no-strike pledge asked by the
President.
WIN DIVORCE DECREES
r Bran'ford Friday was
granted an interlocutory decree of
i.,v a „iinst Mdwari Bransford
and given sole custody of six minor
children. Interlocutory decree was
also granted Maud Florence against.
Francis Florence and I.er maiden
name of Maud Golden restored
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Giving You
A Good Deal
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when you receive the fairest
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for our policy includes giving
all of our customers a fair
deal.
Leslie F. Rogers
Dodge-Plymouth and
Dodge Trucks
761 Main St. El Centro
Phone 13M