The Fresno Bee from Fresno, California • 7

i 'i nrnr Dorothy Dix Honeymoon In Blue What should a young hride do whn sha find herself involved In an eterral triangle? Read how Carol Hibbard solve this problem In Louise Holme' latest romantic serial story now appearing dally in The Fresno Bee For Round advice nnd entertaining read-Ins Dorothy Plx's advice to the lovelorn column la to be highly recommended It appears daily on The Bee women' pace THE REPUBLICAN VOL 41 FRESNO CAL SATURDAY EVENING NOVEMBER 14s 1342 Meat Hits Fresno As Supply Dwindles $150000 Incomes Received By Two In Fresno County FRUITS OF VICTORY IParents Demand Secret 'Social' Clubs Be Probed Voluntary Rationing Of Two And Half Pounds Not Followed By Consumers Returns Listed For 1940 Show 5689 Persons Made Total Of $10409520 P-TA Reveals Move Offers To Aid School Leaders fn Investigation Two persons In Fresno County had Individual Incomes of more than 1130000 and under 200000 during 1940 and another had an Income of more than 60000 and under 70000 The Fresno County Chamber of Commerce has listed returns filed by 8420 persons In the county who paid taxes and 3687 of that number made returns totaling 10409-520 In net Inromes non taxable due to exemptions Statistics complied by Charles McColgan state franrhlse tax commissioner covering 1940 returns on personal Income tax today revealed Fresno County led the San Joaquin Valley with 28-181092 In net taxable inromes and a total of 220982 paid In taxes Other Valley Counties Figures for other valley counties are as follows: Kern 23511573 taxable net Incomes and 149-604 tax: Tulare 10887936 Income and 65006 tax Kings 4 806982 income and 39806 tax Merced 5-452293 Income and 34433 tax Madera 2192890 income and 12-721 tax and Mariposa 732602 Income and 6240 tax In 1939 the tax commissioner listed net incomes Including non taxable ones for Fresno County at 30830221 and an assessment amounting to 171359 "With farm prices up 30 per cent and the earnings of individuals appreciably increased the 1942 state income tax Is expected to be materially boosted over the 1940 figures" said Lohse secretary of the chamber of commerce Many In 3000 Bracket There were twenty five returns filed In Fresno County with incomes under 1000 representing a The command at the United Staten Army Air Forces recently established basic training center at the Fresno County Fairground are Colonel Pratt left and Lieutenant Colonel Roy Leggett the commanding officer and executive A demand by numerous Fresno parents that steps he taken to eliminate secret or borderline "social" clubs In high schools was revealed today by leaders of the Fresno City Council of Parents and Teachers They made their disclosure In announcing the council standi ready to cooperate with the Fresno City Board of Education in a study of the club situation which waa brought to a head when Robert Huff 16 year old Fresno High School student was seriously injured during an Oxford Club Initiation ceremony last Wednesday night Huff who is in the St Agnes Hospital with a paralyzed left leg and spinal Injuries suffered when he was struck with a heavy paddle Wednesday night passed a comfortable night hut the paralysis continues hospital attaches said today Dr A Goldberg attending physician said the complete recovery may take si months Reveals Calls From Parents Mrs Osborn Bradley president of the parent-teacher council said "We have had a number of calla from parents who feel something should be done to eliminate such Another P-TA official said: has been talk for years against these socalled club groups" vs waiting for the board of education to show tha way" commented another Sought Way To Proceed Mrs Bradley said there has been a "great deal" of talk against tha clubs in the past but the P-TA leaders have not known just how to proceed feeling that "whatever we tried to do would run Into a officer respectively Staff Photo Fresno Pilot In Pacific War Wins Third Decoration Quarantine To Balk Fruit Moth Cited At Parley Kirst Intimations of a Pacific Coast meat shortage reached Fresno till week and weekend supplies of both wholesaler and retailers were shorter today than at any previous time Local diKtrlbutois said a combi nation of factors wore responsible for the pinch being felt here One of the largest local packers and distributors virtually withdrew from the retail field thia week and began slaughtering exclusively for the armpd forces The customers of this firm attempting to order elsewhere found other packer unable to supply their regular customers October Quota Oversold Some wholesaler oversold their October quota set by the government as HO per cent of last year sales for beef 73 per cent for pork and 95 per rent for lamb The resulting shortage began making it- self felt here this week The situation here was considerably leas serious than in some Pa-rifle Coast cities where an Influx of population to defense Industry centers had resulted In meat demand In excess of supply Fortland Plants Clone News dispatches from Portland Ore reported residents were preparing for forty nine virtually meatless days as small meat packers dosed their plants because they have exhausted their 1942 meat quotas A further cut In beef to 70 per rent of the sales for the last quarter of 1941 was ordered by the Onvernment this week lit was explained some wholesaler 'd not realize the seriousness of the situation when quotas first were imposed early in the Fall and continued to fill orders on a somewhat more libera basil than was Justified Refore the first of the year many will have exhausted the quota for the whole quarter Hold Out Before Noon Retail markets reported popular meat items sold out before noon todsy Lamb was particularly Short and beef appeared second on the scarcity list Veal seemed In most abundant supply and pork second Poultry was reported a little less abundant than normal The suggested voluntary rationing of customers to two and a half pounds a week £or each person Is being followed by only a small percentage of consumers here Retail meat distributors were not attempting to restrict customers exrent by suggesting alternate when desired ruts were not obteirahle Fish Poultry Fuhtltutes Some mnrket men said they have been railing fish and poultry to the attention of their customers It was repo rled the supply of fish has been relatively abundant and of good quality A shortage of such items as heart kidneys and tongue became evident nearly ten (lays ago In comparison liver has been more easily obtainable though not In normally abundant supply This is part of the victory bazar which is being staged this afternoon and evening in the Fresno Memorial Auditorium Mrs president and bazar chairman respectively of the Halycon Club appear amused as they display fruit which will go in exchange for victory bonds and stamps Staff Photo net income of 17412 and tax of Lloyd Berglund left and Mrs Driver 37 3170 returns listing incomes over 1000 and under 2000 4-470471 income and tax of 12159 1643 returns over 2000 and under 1000 4205159 income and 11 269 tax 1629 returns over $3000 and under 4000 5611927 income and 16701 tax 3 The daring exploits of First Lieutenant Ray Melikian of Fresno and other American army pilots in the South Pacific war zone have brought them new decorations today for gallantry in action A war department announcement coming from the general headquarters of the southwest Pacific ares says Lieutenant General George Kenney eommander of the Allied air force there announced the award of oak leaf clusters to thirty five army pilots Press dispatches said Lieutenant Melikian participating in an aerial combat near Darwin Australia August Zird disregarded heavy machine gun fire and shot down one Zero thus permitting other members of his flight to make an attack on enemy bombers Gets Oak Leaf Cluster It is Melikian' third such decor Throngs Buy Myriad Articles Health Aides Fear On Sale At Bond Sale Bazar Fraction nffpre Hundreds of Fresnans thronged through the Fresno Memorial Au-I 101 1 JUI Ivl From Rare Fever WOwTnd Blood specimens Sy of income and 10966 tax 134 reUirns There and today from J- Moody 68-of the board Thursday before the regw over 7000 and under 8000 399-1 Pnt hii a wf 1 205 Inea StrPet estate broker ujfr board session at which Super- blank wall "I feel we have to reach the parents some way" Mrs Bradley said all only a relatively small number of students are involved and yet at least twice a year they disrupt the whole school with their rushing activities" Through Dean James Malloch school board member the P-TA communicated Its desire to cooper- mm crowd would be on I Sf 14 4 Si A vB Irw I i-vni is VBkwIS 4 1 Miry Murphy loprinoi is loloiit I Intendenfc Homer ation since the latter part of Sw- the timber On the first occasion Quarantine regulations designed to prevent the spread of the Oriental fruit moth in California were outlined to San Joaquin Valley deciduous fruit growers today by state department of agricultural officials at a conference In the Hotel Fresno Harry A Hunt assistant chief of the bureau of entomology and plant quarantine said the quarantine has been established In Orange County following the appearance of the moth in that region and In bordering areas in Southern California Make ISA Interceptions "During the past two years we have intercepted the moth In ISO instances at the state border" said Hunt "The rigid enforcement of the quarantine against Imported fruit his kept the state free of the pest except for the outbreak In Orange County" Mackie chief of the statq bureau of entomology described the moth as attacking twigs on deciduous fruit trees In the Spring and the fruit during the Summer months The state officials said the Fresno conference Is one of a series being conducted throughout the state to familiarize growers with the moth and to determine the extent of infestation They said surveys so far have failed to reveal any Infestation in valley rounties Farm Leader Participate Agricultural commissioners participated in the conference directed by Lyman Lanlz a former Fresnan and assistant director of the atate department of agriculture The commissioners are studying control methods and considering legislative recommendations covering quarantine regulations Under the present quarantine In Orange County deciduous fruits and second hand boxes rsnnot he moved out of the area unless treated and rertlfied hy Inspectors wsi stricken ill five wmVi Wilson wsi The victory auction was scheduled 111 delegated to investigate seem clubs to follow the concert sgo while hunting deer In the Dinky locletin ocal Several hundred seats were avail- Cree vision with symptoms slm-j and to report to the board on what able in front of the stage for the Mar to Rocky Mountain spotted action It might take concert and for the auction fever I Ordered To Cooperate At the entrance of the audl- The specimens were ordered lntructed torlum the Epsilon Sigma Alpha the state department of public Uant to Sorority stationed a fortune teller health and will- sent to eastern 11 JfJL "eceMBrlr It was not disclosed what the fees medical laboratories for analysis to a were but patrons were advised to determine whether Moody is i other rouPa ln tbB buy more victory bonds among fering from the fever a rarity lnJ fhJBrr Brf other things the San Joaquin Valley nd ted Program Arranged Transmitted By Ticks I gaJiIratlonl Itudent or An International program was Physicians said the disease Is in addition to the Oxford duh slated to take place beginning at transmitted to humans through the those mentioned In the above cat! 4:30 PM bite of ticks which pick up the! jrory Include Kappa Kays at tha Shannon and Maylene Wong will rom n'ma They reported Alexander Hamilton Junior 'Ugh sing and dance in a manner native Entre Nous Azulcjos Bon- to China while Jean Urdesich will 0hef thannes Amies Demoiselles Aonlas and play acrordfon solos representative Mu Lea Debonnaires organ iza- of Yugoslavia I LionB o' the Fresno High mountains of his life and ft Fresno pilot was decorated with the Silver Star medal and an oak leaf rluster the equivalent of second medal Today's announcement reveals he was awarded another oak leaf cluster The decoration of the Silver Star is a general award issued by the United States Army for gallantry in action and where a soldier distinguishes himself in equal measure on more than one occasion the oak leaf clusters are issued In lieu of additional medals The dusters are made of bronze and are attached to the ribbon of the medal MeliklRn is the son of Mr and Mrs Edward Melikian of Kerman He received his wings at Kelly Field Texas In August' 1941 and was sent to the South Pacific area the latter part of November of the same year His parents recently received a letter saying he had returned to duty after enjoying a twenty day furlough tarsi" mw aoron hBnd or auction sale which rhfduled from 3 to 4:30 533616 income and 4794 tax I je doors of the auditorium With Over 9000 opened at 1 nnd before long Tnsre were 58 returns over the building was filled with pros-9000 and under 10000 S54M83pective victory bond and stamp income and 5883 tax 46 returns buyers and u1dPr 11000 Many persons viewed with inter-t8135 Income and 5655 tax 29 rat some of the ilems in the pit Bnd the foot of the stage which will 12000 333301 income and 4235 he offered to the highest bidder tBXJ on! this afternoon and evening by Auc- under 11000 216500 income ind tioncer Borges EJEFlSJSEr P000 Merchandise Is Varied and under 14000 228217 income and 3361 tax The array of merchandise all do- In the brack covering Incomes I nBod bF ocal merchants included over 14000 and unde- gisooo mmy lmps pottery dresses costs there were 14 e-turns 202528 ln-bankPa' hand made work a roast come nnd 3378 tax C2 returns Uurkey several antique articles over 15000 and under 20000 1 8 mon whlch wprp a sandwich 1087660 Income end 20 656 vase and a quadruple 21 returns over 20000 and under 25000 460261 Income and 10- Children crowded around one 554 tax: 13 returns over 25000 and hooh "here they rould purchase under 30000 350848 Income and victory stamps and thus obtain 9921 tax 9 returns over 30000 the privilege to drive a midget auto and under 40000 300461 income Mrced Street back of the audL and 10381 tax lorium which Is roped off for the Four Over 10000 ncraslon Four returns listed inromes of Canned goods were prired from over 40000 and under 50000 1 to 5 worth of stamps Small 180972 Income and 7981 tax 3 package of candy and individual returns over 50000 and under articles for children were OOtli 165732 Income and 8506 tax priced as low as a 25 cent stamp The net income of the two per- At hostess booths persons relaxed sons with Inromes over 150000 and enjoyed refreshments the one over 60000 totaled 37tl- Tea Cakes Served Kurz Resigns As 8PA Chief Here most had School or the Thmrfnr A Russian dance will be present-bllten Kores of tImM UjnHh and the ed by Vera Bellravich accompanied tiM without serious ronxemirnivs riVi tne Cambridge by Sam Klsnurh The Mlchaelian fe atd his feve bT twins Armen and Ara will sing de-re- but that st the i Present have comPled Armenian songs Jennie Garlbed Ian time ft is cnnsldcrabl Improved! clubsd orVanTraMon? will be teatured In an Armenian although he still runs a daily tern- of whFch haie dance accompanied by Quennle perature wnirn naie imnn rr Dr Giniburg director of An accordion band consisting of the Fresno County General Hns- students of Permelia Snider will pital said to his knowledge there 9 play several selections for the never has been a case of Rocky V-OUIIlV American portion of the program Mountain fever treated in the coun- k1ulv' The members are Donald Scheldt ty hospital sy i rp Donald Sinnar Donald Sutton Don- II- IfflcnlinP I nv Husband Missing For Two And Half Years Is Sought By Wife 217 with a tax of 32689 aid MacAlpine Shirley Smith DAW LIIJ I a Janice Braun June Fairchild and nrlmnTm' Burglaries Here DrODS $25000 1 Fo re ritortlVM fncUv the 7 Miss Snider will the detectives said today the dealth Department Gets Reports On 31 New Venereal Cases The resir at Ion of Fred Kurz Fresno district manager of the Office of Price Administration was announced today by Francis Car-roll of San FTanrlsco Northern California state director for OPA Kurz a Fresno automobile dealer Is leaving the OPA he said to devote hts full time to business In trrests here He was appointed local manager of the government agency In June when the district otflce was opened here Bert Green head of the district of ice's legal staff has been appointed acting manager by Carroll pending the naming of Kurz successor Kurz said he will continue to assist In the operation of the local office "In an advisory until his successor Is appointed Carroll said: We greatly regrrt the loss of Kurz services He has given unselfishly of his erforls and personal time In this Important position The International Institute was irrvlng tea and cakes the Royal Neighbors of America were offering toffee and sandwiches or cake while the Young Womens Christian Association drew customers with Irider and doughnuts The drinks at these hoolhs were Driver Seeks Strange Street Auto Crashes Motorist Is Cited play accor- warrant for imHWHt dion and sing and dance Richard hungry of Liquor Store 2817 A "arraat Ior 11166626 rep- Fairchild will sing and Morris Ce- Vpnu Avenue the Cannon resenting Fresno appor- ell and Barbara Scott will dam-e pr0her i Service Station 285 North tlonment of the state gasoline tax JJJSKKS E'n 3aSl 'STnJS strolling minstrels Streets all within recent months I September 30th was received The afternoon program will he hve been cleared up by the ronfes- today by County Treasurer Scott completed with Russian songs by a Angeles hoy Wood Motile Marshall and Armenian hp'd hJ Lo Angeles authorities Tht apportionment Is S25A4348 songs by Michael Sohlglan The hoy Is said to have admitted below ths 13 121172 received tor A fashion show will highlight the (aking twenty seven cartons of the asms three month period last vlrtory auction planned for this rlBrpta and $2 In cash from the year a reduction of 1862 per cent evening at 8 o'clock Mrs Howard MMor store and a total of 10 County Expert Lari Wallace Jackson fashion show chairman In cnah from ervlce sts- said the fund will be divided among said twenty young women will ttnna- faces charges of armed the five supervisorial districts of model the dresses which Borges wlllrohhory Angeles County the county as follows: auction off First district 3357025 second Mrs Minnie Simmons of 3103 Belmont Avenue Issued sn appeal in San Francisco yesterday for aid in lornting her husband who left his home In April 1039 to go to the world's fair in San Francisco nnd has not been heard from slnre The husband's name Is Burdette Simmons lie was married to Mrs Simmons the former Mrs Ports in San Francisco In taw Mrs Simmons said she ran assign no cause for her husband': disappearance He sppnrenlly was normnl and In good health when he left home She said she Is certain he Is not In the San Joaquin Valley herause "he could not atnnri the rlimnle here" She said an inveallgnlor has made one trip to Simmons' former home In Missouri In a vain attempt to find trace of him Correspondence with his three daughters and twn sons also has brought no word of his whereabouts Mrs Simmons asked anyone with Information concerning her husband's present address to mmmunl rale with her at the Fresno Communleable diseases reported to the elty health department in Oetoher include twenty aeven new man of syphilis and four new cases of gonorrhea II: Sumner public heallh laboratory technician reported 670 blood tests were given for syphilis and nine examinations made for gonorrhea Eighteen old syphilis rases were reexamined and twenty seven positive rases were referred by draft hoards Inrluded in the blood tests were eighty seven pre marital seventy two pre natal and 108 of persons were examined In the Fresno County Jail Other rommunlrahle diseases listed are as follows: tuberculosis 44 whooping rough 21 rhirken-pox 11 mumps 9 scarlet fever It measles 1: epidemic meningitis 1 diphtheria 1 poliomyelitis 1 and hnrlllary dysentery 1 There were 179 births of whlrh 101 were hoys and 78 girls and 72 deaths of whlrh 43 were male and 29 female district 18985 JV) third district 248792 fourth district 7y Band What You Buy With The Hnmmer Field ploy from 7 to 8 The next lime Donson 31 flTHMisriInVasulrad1 a mi jB gl OOI Wl Rlflmp HM IrQUITMi of 302 Effle Street wanla to find Among the Itema prired for a S25 a strange street ho probably will victory bond were various home look st a city map before he gets made cakes a hand of bananas into his automobile antique glassware fancy potted Donson was cited hy the police plants dressed chirkens and boxes for driving on I he left side of Bel- of randy ment Avenue when Ills automobile At the Amerlean Womens Volun-rollldrd with a parked rar He told lary Servleea booth a set of five the police he was trying to rend naira of draperies was priced for the name of the street from the 52WO In bonds and camphor chest rurb and while doing so did not no- for a 560 bond tire his autnmohile gradually was Other Items in the upper price edging toward the left aide of thr range Include a rare dessert set si reel or snake skin pattern complete Thnmas Mullins 18 of Route w-llh a dozen sauccrx a $11X10 bond 2 Box 330 preferred two days in an unique early Amerlran llqunr the police traffic srhool to paying! bottle of pressed glass equipped a 10 fine for rareless driving wHIi a lock 1000 and hand woven Joseph A Lane 33 of 1826 Orange Grecian wool hlnnkrf 300 Avenue waa fined 3 for the same Jelly Is On Kale offense Jxrs of Jellies brought up to 3 The police riled Cerll Howard and a small hag of rookies 230 411 Durant Avenue for rareless drlv- Stalks of rclery sold for 1 and Ing charging he drove a motor- fancy hoxes of figs were bought ryrle at forty miles an hour on with 23 30 and 73 bonds Blarkstone Avenue from Belmont Beginning St 3 In the Avenue to Dlvlssdero Street lafternonn the Hammer Field Band Premiere Features Victory Sentenced To Jail 65280 srnl fifth district 20960SL A still greater reduction Is expected In the gasoline tax funds received for the current quarter as a result of the start of gasoline rationing next month The counties' share of gasoline tax collections Is apportioned on a basis of Agusllne Ramirez 40 of 771 Slaa ford Avenue a laborer was given thirty days In the Fresno Jail and placed on probation months hy Police Judge Melvin i given pi 4 1 ohow lomsnt From primary trainer pianos airmen of tha army and navy are graduated to advanced trainer planes larger and In some cases multiple motored -Advanced trainer planes for tha navy cost about 460001 Glhbs late yesterday when he A bran1df mot vehicle registration JiMw iA 4tiin npw 11 being given its pre- niwni rUmm mlw here snd its title cannot he ovcrenst rmm a local revesled-and four ads of vsude- a Ufl hi Ift iliii! i Mil featuring talent from the ne VY 0 6 fl when nicd uo hv nrtrolmSn rlnrdBle army tBmp Bre hp Hprp report for when picked up hy a patrolman prosram fnr lhe victory midnight Thursday: matinee being sponsored hy the four local American Legion posts Ji linur inrii jmrru An Lrj5inn pnai Luclcey Man Bride To Be Brave Jinx Seek Marriage License Superman Prepared! Jerry Siegel ana Joe Shuster Ut midnight tonight in the fox wii 'son Theater The show Is a benefit for child welfare and war veterans rehabilitation programs sponsored by the legion posts and auxiliaries and all proceeds will go for this purpose Frank Oneto rommnndrr or American Legion Post No 4 said Ihe vaudeville will Include mutlrsl specialties by former professionals of top flight ranking now soldiers ln hp nnedale ramp The Iii( master of ceremonies will he the iv 41 i camp's commander Lieutenant Colo-! fw'r ncl Carroll Miller Normal timiiuim sn4 m-n'm-im SS Sri Of nt it (lp'o 71 in Orval Lurkey 38 of the Alameda Naval Air Base and Gladys Brown 32 of 954 Salford Avenue apparently take the surname literally They were one of the two couples to brave the traditional III lurk or Friday the thirteenth oy applying for marriage licenses In the Fresno County office Miss Brown aald she Is a bookkeeper The other on pie first to apply were Harold Teeter 16 of 2539 Madison Avenue and Lydia Biller in or 603 Street the daughter of Rev and Mrs John Bitter Rev Ritter is pastor of the Wart-hurg Lutheran Churrh Teeter la the son of Mrs Sarah Teeter Training In these larger planes Is tha last step before tht pilot Is skillful enough to handle tha glanl bombers and multi motored tornado plane Our avlnlori must have the arivnnlage of the best training equipment for air superiority over our enemies is essential If wa are to win this war Ynur purelinse of Victory bonds and stamps will give them this advantage Invest at least 10 per rent of your Income In Victory bonds every pay day I) 8 Tmiiuiy Department I in rr9'pK(itn ihii UU iml inrM Ullrif NiaiiffQ Kirc rr 1 A 04 foot i tr'iVi I ti tiFf llitiia tt ''1 hturt Isi rfit iu4 llKlil 1 ftni fMt hoys appeared In show in Ihe Fresno l'SO Club recently and they were a sensation" ssd Oneto Tickets niny he olitiined st any I theater or from legionnaires yusiwues -rtorT-g-T I 1 ipeuwjv1!.