2 Editorials and Comment WAR LEAVES HERITAGE TO COMMERCIAL AVIATION Commercial aviation inherited from the war the greatest single aid to safety that has been developed since the start of passenger flying—radar. Its benefits are none the less astound ing for ocean transport, but for flying it overcomes obstacles peculiar to that means of travel. In war, radar served as the total agent for halting the blitz on London and de stroying Germany’s submarine power. Radar almost can “see through a stone wall.’’ Fogs and clouds nd longer consti tute a deadly perils to flying and it »nly is at its beginning. This new agency for man’s use enables the pilot of a plane to see a storm and to fix its exact locale so that he pass around it. Or. if the pilot encoun ters a storm or hits fogs, radar enables him to see through it—he has a picture of the terrain and can know to an inch the elevations of mountains and hills; he can know whether he is flying over desert or heavily timbered areas. Through radar, the pilot can be di rected unerringly to the landing field and can land his plane when there is absolutely no ceiling. In this perform ance he has the aid of ground operations and the combination almost brings dan gei to the zero point. One of the main hazards in flying has been lack of perfect instruments to des ignate the actual altitude of a plane. That is, the exact distance between the plane and the ground at all times. Radar removes this peril. Experiments have shown that the pilot can know his alti tude over a given spot when railroad r. ils comprise the "increased elevation” at that spot. Radar gives him that accu rate a picture through the fog or dark ness. Radar came into its own in the war when London was fighting off the blitz. Stations located on the channel were able to detect, the approaching German sky raiders miles away and in plenty of time to permit the defending fighters to get into th'? air and meet the Nazis before they were within striking distance of their objective. It guided the final blast ing from the air of the great German cities and led in the Normandy invasion and it licked the enemy in the Belgian bulge. But for radar German U-boats might have had their way. Radar does not see through water, but pilots scouting for the subs could locate the surfaced boats through cloud and fog and then, keeping the radar picture of the sub on the spot, dive and (annihilate the sub before it could submerge. That is the way the U-boat menace was destroyed. In peace years radar will help us for get the horrors of war because it came to us through war. FILLING IN GAPS OF WAR IMFORMATION Now that hostilities have ended, the danger of giving aid to the enemy has ceased, the nation gradually is learning the full story of casualties and acts of valor as well. Only a few days ago first official word of the sinking of the great cruiser In dianapolis was made known by the navy department. Kin of the casualties had been advised, but only the bare facts. For the added casualties there is sor row and horror as the total mounts and mounts. But to offset this dark picture, there are the hundreds and thousands of acts of courage and valor to remind us that the great tradition of our people lives on. So many instances coming to light of comrades saving comrades by sheer courage and devotion ; of single acts of heroism saving a whole group of fight ers—all will help to give fringe of HJT QUK WAY ' ? 7 WHOOH- AWP- AP/ 7 WELL, PUT \ A I Ijj’/ WHY, EVEN FROM / \US DOWN / ' u here that awful. f an’ we ll \ ' r-p .uLTWipiT* I—_ OLD PIPE GAOS ME, UCAmYOU / T? ” ’ i Sfefc/kT \ TURNS MY STUMMICK, I IM* ’ , \ MAKES ME y \ I ——p—— k an' VIOLENT ILL ) J Ew i i! k 1 '1 r- I WP-- ■faafefk 1, SAT I, U hi \ . I r> I J Rvyk"- ]HF '’-'tv.''’ iOr Sss _ . k’u. 71||8y jr-v. V., THE LESSON COFA. 1945 BY NEA SERVICE IJC._T. » ’^RJGJ^S^PaT^ CfF. ■ J Phone 300 brightness to the dark and tragical pic ture of these years of bloodshed and slaughter. One is a memory, the other belongs to the future. EDITOR'S NOTE: The following edit orials are presented interesting opin ions voiced by editors elsewhere. They do not necessarily reflect the opinion of this paper. DEMOCRACY BEFORE SOCIALISM (Pathfinder Magazine) There are predictions that the free enterprise system is doomed in Great Britain, as a result of the coming of a labor government with a huge majority in parliament. These gloomy prophets overlook one important consideration. This is the fact that the British Labor party has always been more interested in Democracy than in Socialism. And England, from the American viewpoint, is undemocratic in several respects- it has a semi-feudal agricultural sys tem, with huge tracts of land owned by noble families and rented to tenant farm ers whose agricultural labor is distinct ly an under-privileged class. Until 1914, four dollars a week, with a 12-hour day, was standard for the English farm lab orer. England also has a highly aristocratic educational system, with university training almost closed to members of "the lower classes.” There is no coun terpart for our state universities and agricultural schools. More opportunity in agriculture and ■education for the lower classes is a pri mary objective of the British Labor party. It will also move for nationaliza tion of basic industry. But most of those who think Attlee will put Socialism ahead of Democracy have probably never read the not-so-revolutionary pro gram on which his party came to power. MORE FACE-LIFTING FOR RIVER (Riverside Daily Press) A new scenic, attraction for tourists, when there are any tourists, is the dream of Congressman John R. Murdock of Arizona. He would create a new lake on the Colorado river between Boulder dam anil the Grand canyon. This would come through the construction of a 750-foot high dam. already contemplated by the United States Reclamation bureau. The project would bring within tourist range the southern end of the Grand can yon, pow unknown by the average sight seer Not the least interesting spectacle would be the life of the Havasupai In dians, who live on a shelf of the canyon and raise crops on irrigated fields on the canyon floor. Lake Mead, the product of Boulder dam, already bids fair to transform the life of the adjoining parts of Nevada and Arizona. The new lakes created by the dams on the Tennessee river will doubt less do so as time goes on. They have already provided splendid facilities for camping, fishing and Qther pursuits of leisure. The proposed Missouri Valley Author ity would probably create several new lakes as a .by-product. Present-day resi dents of various parts of the United States might not recognize their com munities if they visited them a century later. CURRENT QUOTATIONS There are many things a prospective farm buyer ought to know about the busi ness he proposes to enter. The first one is how to value the land which will be his capital investment.—Fort Smith, Ark., Southwest American. IMPERIAL VALLEY PRESS- EL CENTRO, CALIFORNIA By J. R. WILLIAMS State Considers Travel In, Out ; SACRAMENTO, Aug. 28. 1 State agencies will start counting the number of persons leaving Cal ifornia as well as the number ar riving in an effort to estimate pop ulation. William T. Sweigert, execu tive secretary to the governor, an i nounced. Sweigert instructed A. A. Brock, j whose agricultural department ' checking stations count incoming cars, to work out a counting system on 16 major highways on outgoing cars with the reconstruction and re-employment commission. The on ly present check on departures is at the Arizona border by checking sta tions of that state. Brock reported that despite dwin dling war jobs before the Japanese surrender the number of cars enter ing the state averaged about 30,000 per month more through July of this year over corresponding months of 1944. Admiral Recalls Relief Work After Japan Quake WITH ADM. HALSEY S THIRD FLEET IN SAGAMI BAY. Aug. 28. iUP i—The occupation of Yokosuka naval base will mark the second eventful visit to Japan for Rear Adm. Oscar Charles Badger, com mander of task force 31 of the third fleet. he 55-year-old officer first went to Japan in 1923 when his ship, the armored cruiser Huron, entered Yo kohama after the earthquake. He was a gunnery officer with the Asi atic fleet at Shanghai at the time. For a fortnight. Badger, then a lieutenant commander, labored amidst terrible devastation to save the Japanese. Not a single building was standing and the Japanese were without food, water, transpor tation and homes. The navy did ev erything possible, under Badgers direction, to save the Japanese. When his job was done. Badger did not get so much as a thank you. This slight he repaid with in terest when he commanded the Mu roran bombardment July 15 and the Hitachi strike the night of July 17. Our fliers gave him an assist by sinking the Japanese battleship Ise in the inland sea recently—the ship upon which Badger made his headquarters during the Yokoha ma relief mission. Badger was born in Washington. D. C. His father was former com mander in chief of the navy. Young Oscar attended Annapolis and gain ed distinction when he led the first company of blue jackets ashore at Vera Cruz. Mexico. For this he was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. Publisher Fears Newsprint Dearth Is Far From End NEW YORK. Aug. 28. iflPi- William G. Chandler, Scripps-How ard Newspapers executive, and pres ident of the American Newspaper Publishers Association, returned from Europe Monday with a predic tion that the world newsprint short age would continue for several years. Chandler arrived at La Guardia Field on an air transport command plane from Stockholm after a 32- day overseas trip on behalf of the State Department and the War Production board. With h'im were J. Hale Stein man, director of the WPB printing and publishing division, and Rich ard Slocum, general manager of the Philadelphia Bulletin. Dr. Gerald Ldrocque, another member of the party, remained in London. Chandler said the group had studied the newsprint requirements of the liberated countries and the Scandinavian supply situation and had found "there is no immediate chance to alleviate the newsprint shortage.” He pointed out. that Great Brit ain has today only 22 and one half per cent of its pre-war newsprint tonnage and that newspapers in France, Holland and Belgium are reduced to one half sheet daily— the equivalent of two tabloid pages. Contracts Let On State Roads SACRAMENTO, Aug. 28. Director) of Public Works C. H. Pur cell has] awarded two new highway contracts and announced comple tion dates of three on which con struction is in progress. In Kern county 4.7 miles of state route 33 between Lost Hills and Wasco will be repaired by the Oil sfield Trucking company, Bakers field, for $66,403. In San Diego county, a reinforc ed concrete girder bridge will be constructed over San Mateo Creek 18 miles north of Oceanside by Oberg Bros., Inglewood, for $146.- 867. This project will be financed with federal funds. In Ventura county, the repair of 3.4 miles of state route 60 between a point northwest of Hueneme road and Calleguas Creek will be com pleted Aug. 31. In Sonoma county, repair of three miles of state route 51 between Bel tane and Aqua Caliente. Aug. 31. In Yuba and Sutter counties, the repair of portions of state route 3 and state route 87 between Morri son Crossing and Linda Corners, between Yuba City and Lomo and between Sutter by-pass and Tudor road. Sept. 1. KEEPS MESSAGES FLOWING NEW ORLEANS. Aug. 28. (UP>— Western Union has handled mare than 10,500,000 expeditionary forces messages since June. 1942. according to J. C. Jackson, local superintend ent of the company. Jackson said service personnel sent 2.6 messages from overseas for each one they received from heme. Of Interest to Women Gloria Worthy Becomes Bride Of James Elliott Adkins, Navy A double ring ceremony at the First Methodist church in Calexico at 5:30 p.m. Sunday united in mar riage Miss Gloria Worthy, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Worthy of Calexico, and .James Elliott Adkins. Navy, son of Mr. and Mrs. Bert Adkins of El Centro. Rev. Bennett officiated at the Lillian Fleming Becomes Bride Of Ja mes Coin An informal ceremony in Yuma August 21 united in marriage Mrs. Lillian Fleming and James Coin of El Centro. Mrs. Fleming is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A J Delozier, who accompanied the cou ple to the Arizona city. Also present for the ceremony were Blanche Hackenberger and the bride's two children, Joan and Nor man Fleming. The bride chose a white jersey dress with blue trim and blue ac cessories for the occasion. Following the ceremony the cou ple left for San Diego and are now honeymooning in the Laguna moun tains They will be at home to their friends after September 12 at their home. 1223 Hamilton avenue RATION POINTS KEO STAMPS, Book I Good through August 31 Q 2, R 2 S 2. T 2, U 2. Good through Septtmber 30 V 2 W 2. X 2, Y 2, Z 2. Good through October 31 —Al, Bl Cl. Dl, El. Fl. Gl. Hl, 11, JI, KI SUGAR STAMPS Book 4 Stamp 36 good lor 5 pounds through August 31. SHOE STAMPS Book 3 Stamps 1. 2, 3 and 4 good indefi nitely. CALENDAR TUESDAY Senior Scouts, 7;30, fire house. Eagles, 8, Eagles Hall. Educator Says German Youth Look to Power BERKELEY. Cal . Aug. 28. «UPi —German youth is watching for another chance to fulfil the Ger man dream of world domination. Dr. Robert Gordon Sproul, presi dent of the University of California, said on his return from a three months visit to Europe. Sproul acted as senior advisor to the American delegation to the European reparations conference in Moscow. German ambitions will be thwart ed for "many years” by the devas tated condition of the Reich's heavy industry, Sproul predicted. He said a similar stripping of Jap an's heavy industries might prove to be an effective means of curbing Nippon's power to threaten world peace. Sproul expects to go to Jap an in the near future. Sutter Points To Drop to 12 WASHINGTON. Aug .28. The ration point value of butter will be reduced from 16 to 12 red points a pcunc for the period be ginning September 2, an Office of Price Administration spokesman said Tuesday. The reduction will hold good for both household and institutional users. This will be the second cut in butter point values this summer. In mid-July it was reduced to 16 from 24 points. LEGION PLANS VETERANS’ AID POST IN HONOLULU INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Aug. 28. (UP)—The American Legion an nounced Tuesday that it would open an information center in Honolulu for service men and women and discharged veterans in the Hawai ian islands. Bernard A. Cates, Denver, Colo., was named as one of four national field secretaries who will organize the center. Cates, a veteran of World War I. will head the coun selling service. PROBE HOUSE BREAKING Investigation was being made Tuesday of a report to the sheriff's office that the house on the Mes quite Lake school grounds had been entered Monday afternoon. ... TOPS FOR QUALITY Pepsi-Cola Company, Long Inland City. A'. Y. PEPSI-COLA BOTTLING COMPANY OF FL CFNTRO I ceremony, which was performed be ' fore a background of white gladioli | and asters, lighted by candelabra. Before the couple took their vows. Miss Ruth Young sang T Love You Truly", accompanied by Miss Mary Kubler at the organ. Miss Kubler also played “Always." “Ave Maria' and the wedding marches. Given in marriage by her father, the bride wore a white gown of bro cade. designed with long sleeve’ and a train. Her fingertip length veil was fastened by a halo of orange blossoms. She carried a fan-shaped bouquet of gardenias, centered with an orchid. Miss Patricia Ray was maid ot honor, wearing a pink net dress over taffeta and carrying a nose gay of queen asters. Bridesmaids were Miss Charlene Mandrapa, in a blue dress styled like the mail, of honor’s, and Miss Florence Ol sen. wearing yellow. Ray Higginbotham served Mr. Ad kins as best man. while ushers were Harold Maddux and Lloyd Ca-t- all of El Centro. Following the ceremony a recep tion was held at th? Worthy home in Calexico, which was decorated with fern and Mexican rose Mrs Worthy, mother of the bride, greet ed guests in a rose dress with black accessories and a white gladioli corsage Mrs. Adkins chose a dre.ss of blue silk with black acci .< r;e and a gladioli corsage. Refreshments were str.tri from ; table decorated in the bridal theme and with Mexican rose. The couple left for a honeymoon in San Diego after the reception the bride wearing a turquoise blut suit with black patent accessorie and an orchid corsage. They will make ’heir home in San Diego, where the groom is stationed in the navy. Mrs. Adkins is a graduate of Cal exico high school in the 1945 class, and was elected queen of ’heschool her senior year. She has been prom inent in the activities of the young er group in the border ci’y. Mr. Adkins is a graduate of Cen tral union high school, where he was prominent in football and oth er athletics. She entered the jiavv last .spring. Lawmaker Would Keep Combat Men From Pacific WASHINGTON. Aug. 28. ’UP Rep. Chet Holifield California, , has asked the war department to i halt any a.-signments of European combat veterans to the Pacific un til a survey can be made of other army manpower available for oc cupation tasks. In a telegram to Undersecretary of War Robert P Patterson made public Holifield said l?e understooo the redeployment schedule had been accelerated If the schedule calls for shipment of combat veterans to the Pacific, Holifield said it should be immediately stopped. He said before veteran were as signed to occupation force;-,, a sur vey should be conducted to esti mate the availability of men with no combat service. Holifield also asked that the program be delayed "pending action by the military affairs committee." SENTENCES WRONG MAN DALLAS. Tex., Aug. 28. Dancing couples at. a wayside tav ern thought it was “just a brother act” when two swaggering, rakishly dressed “twins” burst onto the dance floor, flourished six-guns and ordered: "All right, shell out the cash!” The optimistic impression van ished when one of the robbers fired a bullet through a peanut machine and another into the floor under the dancers' feet. The holdup men, resembling a vaudeville "brother" act in sporty white straw hats, white sport: shirts and dark trousers, netted $258 when the dancers decided they'd better "shell out the cash." The oldest resident at the Heart Mountain, Wyo„ Relocation Center was 93-year-old Mrs. Eka Inouye, who recently returned to her for mer home in San Francisco. HOLLYWOOD Claudette Colbert, the lady who leaps from comedy to drama and back again with the ease of the dai - ing young man on the flying trap eze. almost fell off a couch in het living room the other day It was her own fault—Don Ameche wasnt there to hold her Or maybe we were to blame. We were getting the lowdown on her comedy technique and. to prove point h went into a scene from her new movie. "Guest Wife, in which she flirts with a preoccupied Ameche. She flung herself on the couch, lifted herself up on one elbow and fluttered her -eyelashes. With Ameche it might have been good. But in the Colbert living room the balance was wrong or something. She started to fall and before regaining a lady-like posi tion. looked like a test pilot coming out of an outside loop. "That, she laughed, "is what I mean by broad comedy." The secret of being funny on the screen. Claudette Colbert con fessed. is not to be funnv at all. Comedy, she said, is much harder to do than heavy drama, has more pitfall.-, yet receives less praise than a dramatic performance. She was the most surprised person in town she said when they handed her an Oscar lor a comedy. "It Happened One Night." 80l QI ET FOR WRITERS But don’t forget the screen writ er'’. says Claudette. Thty should be the highest paid <,ph m the business They're the boy-. ~nd girls who do the work When ver a producer asks me to do a picture and outlines the story, nr. ‘ir.-t question is: 'Who's going to wri’e it": I.ia.ily. he has had director who up. re'cited her views on play ing i' raight in comedy scripts. Ihe e always let me do it my own way. The only director who ever Mexican Nationals Stir Problem 1.0. ANGELES. Aug. 28. ’UP L-i.-.p . mon of 175.00 b Mexican na tional brought here to fill wartime labor needs wa.s presented to a house ’ubcommittee here as this ■real most pre.--ing problem. Lo Angeles Immigration Director Alber' Del Guercio told Rep. Sam uel Diekstein D.’ N. Y.. that of the thousands of Mexican national brought here during the war. the majority nave not returned to their home- and that some course must be planned for caring for them. Diekstein said some of the prob lems facing his committee are what to do with the Germans who want to come to this country, and the status of alien Japanese. We should try to assimilate the Alien population here and we should have tolerance for refugees." Imperial Valley Press Esb.blisl >■>] Apr !! m IfW.’l. Ptibl sb» ti evenings •\y Sund:.v. in Hrtr.bniatmn uit:. the Stnm.-jv POST-PRESS, bv the Impe lai V Publishing <\rr P anv. G’.!s sute St. El Centro. Calif. Paul Jenkins. Publisher and President 4rjr.hr*! l isted Press. California XVws -1 ape. Publishers Assn.. West Holliday ' !?>'■ . national rep!esentatives. (including Sunday Post-Press‘: Sr <'»!*>. sr: -c. lor DC I COMPLETE PHYSICAL EXAMINATION 9 CAMERON HEARTOMETER ■ X-RAY FLUOROSCOPE ■fl • DRUGLESS TREATMENT • PHYSICAL THERAPY H ■ • COLONIC IRRIGATION ■ PHONF. 1080 FOR APPOINTMENT ■ Ist Office off State Street on Fifth—Look lor “I.MI EKI Al.” TUESDAY, AUGUST 28, 19! showed me exact?. 1. .scene was Ernst Lub:T*ch H . of the funniest men .n Hon. I "I had to sit on Gai C . i and feed him unoi.., v. • . hated Lubitsch .- .an. 1 ■ show you how eet r a on Gary's lap and ■ a : . to do. as only Lubit.-vh can was hysterical I > pied exactly aiiu .t v..;.- SHE WOX 1 ‘. VAIBIJ Most big Holiw ...d lot mid th... own mui-pvi, . making compana wit such plans. "When I cam? into :‘a. I vowed that I would alv. for someone, never for ::i. •. not a good gamble) Golf, she admitted. leave her a nervous wn-. plays a good game of can ski and she's a whiz "But golf I can't figrr? always hitting tht run . i the ball. And v.hen 1 do ..■ ball I never know when it. I've hit my teacher m tht live times Jack Benny ing a lesson one day. v ... to the teacher and whi "Young man ’hi You should take out ’ : surance policy." EWnFiGI! Last Times tonight “OV Eli 21” Irene Dunne. Alexaiidii hum Also “Tw o o’( lock ( (Hit aye Ann Kutheilord -The valley -J I ut-sday-VVedne>ua \ Man i\hl !'.i «•< t ■ Also J “Roughly Speaking Jack < arson i Fox Capitol Theatre Last limes Tonight "SONG OF BERNADI I I I Jennifer Jones Also "THE GAY SENoRI I V Broadway Thea! re Tuesda v - <