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THE FRESNO BEE FRESNO, TUESDAY EVENING. AUGUSTS, 1945 Delinquent Tax of mvt is Paid In 15 Years George Vogeler, Fresno County auditor, today reported the total taxes delinquent in the county dropped from a peak of $327,063 for the fiscal year 1937-1938 to only $17.363.74 on June 30th of this year. While a partial payment property redemption plan inaugurated I by the legislature in 1932 to rpijevr hard pressed delinquents has had little effect on the year to year local total of $2,732,148 of delinquent taxes and penalties has been paid since a has been distributed among the county and its various political subdivisions. Fay In 10 Years In 1932 the legislature passed law permitting owners to redeem delinquent property over a period of 10 years by making an initial payment of 10 cent of the taxes due, plus interest of 6 per cent annually on unpaid balances. In 1939 it proclaimed a one year moratorium on all delinquent taxes and limited the accumulated interest penalties to a total of 15 per cent, regardless of the length of delinquency, but changed the partial payment plan to require a 20 per cent first payment and shortened the redemption period to five years, with interest of 6 per cent annually after the first year.

Restore Normal Penalty At the end -of the moratorium the normal penalty, which is interest of 1 per cent a month during the first year and per cen armually during the remaining fou years, was restored. Vogeler said the partial redemption plan has been a boon to many property owners in diffi cult times and has permitted th redemption of a large amount property which otherwise would have been decided to the state. Cities and school districts have received the lions' shares of delin quent tax money paid under the plan. For example, delinquent tax money, including a small balance from the previous year, apportioned among the county government and the various political subdivisions at the end of the fiscal Committees Are Chosen For Lake Health Workshop Committees which will direct the California Community Health Education Workshop, which will open next Monday in the quarters of the Sierra Summer School of the Fresno State College ul Lake, were announced today by Mrs. Cecyi Nelson, supervisor of the project.

The committee members were Suburban Area Fire Hits Home, Garage, Stores A fire of undetermined origin late yesterday destroyed a residence and a garage and damaged two storerooms in the 100 block of Wost Belmont Avenue with a loss which estimated at $12,000. The property is just outside the city. The state division of forestry fire-suppression crew reported the blaze started on the back porch five room residence on the of First Lieutenant Edmond D. Boles of Fresno, right, receives the Distinguished Flying Cross from Brigadier General selected by Mrs. Nelson and Verne Landreth, chief of the state divi- occupied by the Fresno sion of physical and health educa- Mot Inn at 105 West Belmont ion, who is the director of the! Avenue Perr Dresser is the own- project.

Sponsored By State The project is sponsored by the state department of education in cooperation with the department of er. automobile is shown burning in a garage' Solon Suggests Soldier Use As Farm Harvesters A potential source of harveit labor for San Joaquin Valley eot- ton growers was suggested yesterday by Congressman B. W. Gearhart, who told a group of representative cotton men the army's redeployment program might provide needed harvest help. "The movement of men from the European theater of war to the Pacific may offer the possibility of holding some experienced cotton pickers over for a month or six weeks to help ease the expected eW --'I th 6MttHl 8 WaS deStr ed OT clarhTt llarV6St tE MrS perty thf Fre MOtOT at W5 West j.

for calling the cottages making up the autoi Avenue. health and financed by the KelloKeif ou re savcd from the flames Foundation. the fire suppression" crew. Approximately 150 persons will! Aut Is Destroyed participate. i Dresser estimated the value of Among those who will address I 8 8 an( "ntents a various sessions are Dr Wilton lim also mcludc a Halverwn.

state director of publi 1a9u om bii valued healthj Walter F. Dexter, state di-F-- --'d 51 dama 8 to a rector of public instruction; Dr. Ellis Sox, in charge of local health! storeroom its Robert Johnson. year ending June 30th last amounted to $64,612.07. The apportionment was as follows: To the cities.

$25,403.59, or 39 per fc-cent; school districts, $20,370.13, or per cent; county government, $15,474.61, or 24 per cent; miscellaneous districts, $1,123,44, or 3 per cent; special districts, $1,240.30, or 2 per cent. Delinquent taxes paid under the partial paymen'. plan beginning with the 1932-1933 fiscal year were as follow: '1932-1933, 1933-1934, $307256; 1934-1935, 1935-1936 1936-1937, 19371938, 1938-1939, 1939-1940, 1940-1941, $189989; 1941-1942, 1942-1943, 1943-1944, 1944-1945, $62,695. TL. A 1 1 Cut 11(71 United Depa: Weather Bureau rtment Of Commerce Fresno, August 1, 1945 Tuesday's Weather Forecast San Joaquin and Sacramento Valleys-Clear tonlcht and Wednesday, little temperature change.

San Francisco Bay Region--Clear to- niKnt and Wednesday except mornlnc hlch f.OK Fog on beach all day. Little temperature change. Moderate westerly winds In afternoon. California--Clear tonight and Wednesday with fop on the coast. Not much temperature change.

Gentle to moderate westerly wind off coast. Sierra Nevada--Scatterd clouds tonight and Wednesday. A few thunder showers In nigh mountains. Not much temperature change. Liyerraore and Santa Clara Little temoerature chariRe.

Salinas Valley--Clear tonight and Wednesday. Morning; hlgti fotj. Little tem, perature change. I Southern California--Generally clear to- night and Wednesday except tor night and morning low clouds along coast and in coastal valleys and widely scattered thundershowers In afternoon over mountains surrounding Owens Valley. Slightly cooler west portion and slightly warmer desert regions, otherwise little change in tempera- Lowest Highest Last Yesterday Night Precip.

Bakersfield 302 fig .00 Coallnga 98 fi.3 .00 FRESNO 99 60 00 Red Bluff 95 64 Merced 94 54 .00 Los Angeles 79 61 .00 Sacramento SB 54 no San Diego 78 fifi San Francisco 68 54 00 Stockton 8fi 50 Boston 7,1 57 110 Chicago SB 2 .00 Denver 72 59 17 Detroit .....81 64 ioo Phoenix .105 74 'QI Pittsburgh SI 64 .51 Salt Lake 90 64 'no San Antonio 98 72 'oo Seattle gg 6 i 'o St. Louis 87 65 .00 Washington 82 69 .00 Fresno Normal maximum and minimum temperatures. 100 and 61. Maximum and minimum temperatures this date last year. 95 and 63.

Time of sunrise. 6:09 o'clock; time of oset. 8 o'clock. Restaurant Men Call Parley On Ration Problem The problems faced by restaurants in supplying food to their customers under rationing will be discussed at a meeting of restaurant owners in the Fresno district at 3 o'clock Thursday afternoon in the Californian Hotel. The meeting was called by Dean McCauley, executive secretary of the Fresno Hotel and Restaurant Owners Association, who will leave tonight for San Francisco, where he plans to discuss the plight of restaurants with officials in the regional OPA office.

"We are interested in drawing as many non members of the association to the meeting as possible," McCauley said, adding restaurant owners of the San Joaquin Valley who are interested'are invited. "We selieve our organization will be able to help many restaurant owners who are -having difficulty with points. "Many restaurants have not ob- all the points they are en- to. Assistance in auditing files may show many restaurants how to overcome some of the shortages." McCauley said 20 restaurants lave called his office recently stat- ng they will have to close if they cannot obtain more points. He es- irnated 50 restaurants in Fresno LU v.iuac AUgUSL J.OU1 if they cannot find some way of solving their difficulties.

"One of the eating places which called me was overdrawn 2,000 points," he said. 'This restaurant is only one of many that have overdrawn on points." McCauley said many eating places are closing for vacations at present to save points so that they can operate for the rest of the period. The district office of the OPA said it is aware of the situation of many eating places and that it has made constant pleas to the regional office in San Francisco for relief USAAF Photo DFC Is Awarded Fresno Soldier Extraordinary achievement while participating in aerial flight against the enemy in the Mediterranean theater of operations has won for First Lieutenant Edmond D. Boles of Fresno the Distinguished Flying Cross. Boles, a lead bombardier on a Liberator, recently returned to the United States after participating in 45 missions over Germany, He is with an AAF headquarters.

The award, made during a ceremony in the war department in Washington, D. was presented by Brigadier General Robert Johnson. The citation said throughout many combat missions against highly important and strategic enemy nstallations, Boles demonstrated the "highest order of professional skill, heroism, leadership and devo tion" to duty. It said that despite heavy enemy opposition encountered and severe and adverse weather conditions, Boles showed "outstanding leadership, personal example and tactical skill" which contributed materially to the defeat of the enemy. In addition to the DFC, Boles vears the Air Medal with two oak eaf clusters and the distinguished unit citation with one cluster.

A former student at the Fresno State College and a graduate of the Roosevelt High School, Boles is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Roscoe A. Boles of the Malaga district. Before entering the service in 1942 he was euipiuyea oy Montgomery Ward Company in Fresno.

services for the state and Dr. Jessie Bierman, chief of the state bureau of maternal and child welfare. Health Aide Is Chief Miss Bernice Moss, consultant.in school health education for the state department of public health, will be the general chairman. The committees are as follows: Healthful school environment, J. F.

Graham, district superintendent of schools in Lemoore, chairman- Lloyd E. Webster, director of the T. W. Gwillin. the owner of soft drink establishment at 109 West Belmont Avenue, reported 51,500 damage to a storeroom and its contents at his place of business.

division of health and education, Los Angeles physical County; James Bradshaw, coordinating director of health, physical education and recreation for the Fresno Cit-" Schools, and C. F. Perralt, principa of the Turlock Union High School. Health service, Margaret Cann supervisor of health, and physica education in the Madera County Schools, chairman; Dr. J.

Lyle Spellman, Stanislaus County health officer; Dr. John L. Coffin of Lcs Angeles; Helen Moser, women's physical education instructor in the Modesto Schools, and Miss Marion Lewis, acting principal, Alexander Hamilton Junior High School Fresno. Two Wounds For Marine Are Termed'Not Anything Specia th? Wu nz el Mandarich. 20.

a ma- Mrs. some nd service. tTt on the army to assist in an emergency labor shortage and the indications are cotton growers are going to face an emergency. Offers All Help "I will help all I can in assisting the cotton growers of nia to obtain needed labor to harvest their vitally important food I crop and I believe I can say rme private, when questioned about his experiences, replied: There was not anything special." Mandarich sort of brushes over Whites Bridge Road, and Private E. D.

Pretzer, husband of Mrs. Marjorie Pretzer, 3943 Balch Avenue. Pretzer is at Camp Aries awaiting transfer is at a a to go outside the city to fight a for restaurants. As a result, local OPA officials said, the regional office asked Washington to take action on the matter. The present regulation requires a restaurant to have a 20 per cent increase in business during one rationing period, two months, to obtain more points.

The regional office, spurred by the requests of district offices, asked officials in Washington to lower the increased business requirement to 10 per cent. The request was denied. The local officials pointed out the regulations concerning restaurants are national in scope anS only Rancher Is Held On Morals Charge Cleveland Hotchkiss, 33, a rancher residing at Olive and Clovis Avenues, today is facing charges of attempted rape and contributing to the delinquency of a minor involving a 15 year old Calwa girl, who accuses the rancher of attempting to assault her. Deputy Sheriff Harold Emick sajd Hotchkiss took the girl and other members of her family to a swimming pool near Fresno Sunday. During the afternoon, the girl said, Hotchkiss took her father back to Fresno.

fhe girl said he then drove to an isolated spot northeast of Fresno and there attempted to attack her. She got out of the car and fled, running through an orchard to the home of W. G. Doidge-of Route 2, Box 51, at the end of Sweden Avenue. She sought refuge with the Doidge family, and Emmick said Doidge refused to turn her over to Hotchkiss when the latter appeared at the house and demanded she be Study School Lunches The school lunch, Mrs.

Mary Paterson, counselor, Roosevelt High School, chairman; Mrs. Christine Heller, nutritionist in the state department of public health, San Francisco; Mrs. Olivia Hathaway health coordinator, Ventura Schools and George Krause, principal, John Burroughs School. Health of the teacher, Henry Newbold, principal of the Gustine Union High School, chairman- Dr 1 C- McColm, Tulare County health officer; Mrs. Jean Smith women physical education instructor the Kingsburg Schools; Mrs Lrene Hughes, nurse in the Visaha Union High School.

Health instruction, Fred Beyer, curriculum coordination, Stanis- aus County Schools, chairman- Miss; Moss; Mrs. Gertrude Smith jealth coordinator, Jefferson High School, Los Angeles; Mrs. Olivia Jathaway, a coordinator, Ventura schools; Mrs. Nettie bcott, health coordinator, Edison Dr Hugo Kulstad chairman of the American Association! Dr Malcolm, and Mrs. Alma A We gart, science instructor in the Oak dale Joint Union High School, Scan Functions Functions of a school health co ordmator, Jeanette.

health coordination, Reedley Join High School, chairman; Mrs Lois Chambers, health co Madera Union i i i CL lire only when it is necessary to prevent damage to property within the incorporated area, to protect federal government property or the case of, emergency such as a fire in a hospital or a school. Giendaie Man Is Beaten, Robbed By Hitchhikers H. W. Grapes, an employe of a Wendale trailer manufacturing con- ce rte( he was beaten and robbed of his wallet and automobile by three hitchhikers who left him bound and gagged at the side of the Golden State Highway near owler early this morning. Deputy Sheriff William Tienken said Grapes told him he picked up men and a woman near Bur- 8 on Degerolmo is at the Le Havre" Port hand.

Was Leading Patrol "I was leading a patrol when the Japanese opened fire on us," he explained. "We took cover, but when I came out of the cover and i ovi WL ui i i a Jrresno Fire Department equip- the fact both his wounds are small rnent stood by to prevent the miracles, in that considering the spread of the fire to property ev 'ents surrounding them he got by the city. Fire Chief L. A. Moore h'ery fortunately.

said the department i3 authorized On Peleliu when a machine gun ofTnTbarkation: sliip- got after him he escaped from to this country with only a wound in his Fugate saw France, Rhineland and central Germany and Degerolmo fought in the Rhineland sector and southern Germany. Overseas for 16 months, Fugate wears four battle stars and Deeerolmo, two battle stars. SERVES ON MINDANAO Sergeant William H. Sanders, husband of Mrs. Elma Sanders of 1333 Palm Avenue, is a member of the service company of the 124th Infantry, with the 31st Division in Mindanao, which has been awarded the meritorious service unit plaque for 18 months of "outstanding devotion duty in the Pacific." The plaque was awarded by Manor General Clarence A.

Martin, commander of the 31st Infantry Division. The company was the first unit of the 31st to arrive overseas and it worked in assembly line fashion to put together hundreds of the division's vehicles. It moved its regiment into combat at Aitape, British New Guinea, on three days' no- bank last night. By Passenger Early this morning near Fowler me of the men. who was in the back seat, seized Grapes by the neck and slugged him.

Grapes said he feigned uncon- jciousness to avoid serious injury, ie said the men then pulled him from the car and forced him to accompany them to the railroad right of way at the side of the highway. There they searched him and took rom him his wallet containing S12 cash and identification cards and papers. They used towels they took from rapes' car to bind and gag him, eavmg him lying in the weeds on he railroad right of way. The trio unhooked the trailer and drove away in his automobile. Beport To Constable Grapes rolled to the side of the rieht.

of wav nnrf the Held, a got after me. I just started running as hard as I could. He hit my hand, but I never even stopped to see what happened to him." At Okinawa on May 13th Mandarich suffered his second wound. were riding along in a said, "when an artillery shell hit us. I was the only one left sitting in the jeep.

The other men were either killed or seriously wounded Mandarich received a slight brain concussion, but the outstanding memory of Okinawa is not his wounds or the fighting going on all around him, but the flies. Flies Are Numerous were more numerous "The than the Japanese, and it got so we were as leary of the flies as we were of the enemy. Everything was so torn up and there was dead livestock and civilians all over the place, so the flies moved in." just naturally Mandarich has been in the marines since March, 1943, and since April, 1944. he has been based on New Caledonia, Guadalcanal. Russell Islands, Peleliu, the Admiralties and Okinawa.

A graduate of the Roosevelt Hieh School, he is a son of Mr and Mrs. Eso W. Mandarich, 444 Deering Avenue. SOLDIER IS ENROUTE HOME Master Sergeant Alex Horn of Fresno is enroute to the United States with the 550th Field Artil- ery Battalion, which, after 26 in combat zones, holds the hard luck record of earning not a single battle star. The 550th, formerly the 2nd Bat- of the 30th Field Artillery tice.

In Mindanao, the company distinguished' itself by volunteering as a human pack train to carry food and ammunition to troops fighting the mountains. wrmT EV ACUATION OF WOUNDED Lieutenant Colonel Robert H. Blount, a former base surgeon at the Hammer Field Hospital and chief flight surgeon of the 5th Air Force Troop Carrier Command, directed the air evacuation of more than 60,000 sick and wounded American soldiers in the Philip- during the first six months of 1945. Air evacuation flight nurses and medical technicians under Blount's command fly to combat areas in troop carrier planes and evacuate casualties to the rear area hospitals on 'return flights. The m- 1 I rtuniti responsibilities and i of health aspects education, Harold Coles Seasonal precipitation, trace.

formal prcclnitatlon. .01 inch River Reports River-- Piedra 7 A stag 4.61 feet: discharge. 2.240 second feet. San Joaquin River Kcrckhoff Power House (average for 24 hours to last mid- nlcht). 2.470 second feet.

FROM Old Virginia Turpin's ceived Core Hawicins handmade-- have just re- a shipment of CHAIRS ROCKERS and FOOT STOOLS Prices Range from 5 75 College Alumni Unit Names Aides Benton L. Paschall, new president of the Fresno State College Alumni Association, last night appointed new members of the board of directors and other officers of the organization as the old board met at the home of Paul R. Bartlett. The new officers 'who will serve with Paschall are Harold Coles, first vice president; Mrs. Dorothy Coleman DeRemer, second vice president; Arthur Safstrom, execu- Hotchkiss was arraigned before Justice of the Peace George M.

DeWolf and his preliminary hearing was set for August 14th at 2 P. M. He was released on $3,000 bail. tive secretary, and Hume, treasurer. Miss Adele New members of the board are Lee Bodkin, Glenn Sheets of Clovis, 'Walter Hinkle and Edward Chevalier.

Members of the 1944-1945 directors who were named to serve another term include John Olson of Sanger, Lloyd W. Kiggens, Sergeant Kermc Anderson, Maurice Abbott and Mrs. Marjorie Tanzer Zelhart. The new directors will have their first official meeting early next month to lay plans for the work or the association in the coming the meeting last presentation of a gift by Paschall to George W. Danielson, the past president.

year. A feature iiight was the Couple Get Jail Term On Delinquency Charge Loyal Morton, 39, a.truck driver, and his wife, Mrs. Edna Morton, 34, each was sentenced to five days in jail on charges of disturbing the peace and contributing to the delinquency of minors after they pleaded guilty in the police court today. The sentences are to be served concurrently. Detective Sergeant Jack McCoy, the head of the police department special service bureau, said the couple have been living at 845 Weidon Avenue for the past two weeks and have been drinking excessively, neglecting to properly care for their two small children, 3 months find 39 months oll nty cho chairman TM health supervisor Fresno County Schools; Mrs.

Ruth director women' health and physical education, Fres- and Miss Wh ss betn Kelley, department of physi- teachers in education for a general sec ondary credential: wlterman John 3 vlal SU- of the Fresno City Willa Marsh, vice Fresno Technical nlC Lindsa State department of education; Miss To- the Patterson Kratt Will Preside will be chairman of one the sessions and Irwin O. 0 superintendent, will lpate on one of the panels. Mitchell P. Briggs, dean of the ses- Fresno State College Summer sion, is in charge of facilities and Mrs. Waterman is in charge of college credit administration.

Registration will open Monday noon and the project will be opened officially Monday evening at 7-45 clock in the social hail of the Sierra Summer School. Safe Crackers Fail Sheriff's deputies are investigating an unsuccessful attempt to crack a safe stolen from Bradley's Store in Centerville. Undersheriff John Ford said the safe was stolen and taken back of the store where an attempt was made to batter it open. EVERYTHING You Need in Hardware Because have always maintained one of the largest stocks of hardware in the valley, we are now able to supply our customers with hard-to-get For Hardware Set lydt's First GIFTS--HARDWARE-SPORTS GOODS 1321-31 Phoflt 3.4255 Sunnyside Unit Calls Organization Meeting The Sunnyside Property Owners Protective Association will meet tomorrow at 8 P. M.

at the Sunnyside Country Club' to elect permanent officers and perfect its organization. "All property owners, including both husbands and wives, are vited to attend this organizational meeting," said N. A. Webster, who was named temporary chairman of the association at a preliminary meeting July 25th. Webster explained the organization has as its objective furthering the interests of all Sunnyside district property owners and the setting up of an association through which all can be represented.

Member Of CYA Will Address Kiwanians Lewis Drucker, a member of the California Adult Authority and formerly a deputy attorney general of California, will on The California Adult Authority and The New Prison System at the luncheon meeting of the Kiwanis aoout it minutes succeeded in releasing himself. He hailed a passing truck and went to Fowler where he reported the matter to Constable Elmer York. He said one of the men was about 40 years old, weighed 19( pounds and was about 5 feet 10 inches tall. He was wearing a blue pin stripe suit. The other man was about 25 years old, weighed 165 pounds and was 6 feet tall.

He described the woman as about 23 years old. Grapes was bruised on the jaw but suffered no serious injury. DDT Is Used In Pest Control DDT insecticides are being used the Fresno Mosquito Abatement district in specific phases of its work, and officials of the district lope they can be employed on a much larger scale within a relatively short time. This hope is based upon informa- contained in reports by the United States Department of Agriculture on the work done by the department's scientists in develop- ng DDT for use by the armed 'orces against malaria and other mosquito borne diseases. The United States Department of Agriculture officially reveals mosquitoes and other insects which ransmit disease can be controllec over large areas of land and water With an airplane and new devices "or distribution it is possible to reat more than 500 acres with 800 gallons of DDT spray within 30 minutes.

With small airplanes only one to two quarters of 5 per DDT in No. 2 fuel oil an acre vill kill both larvae and adults of he malaria mosquito. The department warns, however, is possible DDT cannot be used or broadcast spraying over large areas in non combat localities be- ause of the possibility that it may upset the balance of nature by 'illing beneficial insects and by illing fish, birds or other wild ticipation stars once by six degrees latitude and again by six days and six miles. And the worst jjart of it is one star would put many members over the critical 85 point score and two stars would entitle 80 per cent of the battalion to discharges The battalion went to Kodiak Alaska, in 1942 and there became the most heavily armed artillery unit in existence. Redesignated the 550th upon its return to the United States, the artillerymen trained infantry troops tor the big pushes in the European theater and then went to Europe in March, 1945.

The sergeant is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Adam Horn of 2150 Nicholas Avenue. fe either directly or by feeding insects killed by DDT. Re- earch is under way to determine acts as to this danger and devise rocedures for the safe use of the ew insecticide.

Club in the Californian Thursday noon. Hotel Drucker served as clerk in the superior court in Los Angeles for many years, during which time he also served as judge pro tem. He oecame A deputy attorney general in 1939 under Governor Earl Warren, 'who then was attorney Drucker was appointed chairman of the adult authority in May, 1944, and served in that capacity until June, 1945. Workers Are Needed In Naval Territory The need for male workers for urgent work in the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard and in numerous other naval establishments in the 14th Naval District, Territory of Hawaii, today was announced by Dale Farren, civil service recruiting representative who is stationed in the USES office, 2146 Inyo Street, Thirty five types of positions are open, the most critical need being for ship, shop, radio and sound electricians; inside and outside machinists; boilermakers, a makers, pipefitters, shipfitters and a i a mechanics. Additional workers are being sought as store- ceepers, patrolmen, auto mechan- cs, laborers, refrigeration mechanics and helpers in 12 trades.

Workers will be assigned to duly at one of the naval establishments upon their arrival in Hawaii. They include Pearl Harbor Navy Yard, five naval air stations, five supply and ammunition depots, two naval hospitals and the district public works office in Hawaii. Men between 18 and 62 years of age will be eligible. Those hired must sign an 18 month contract. Salaries are at out of the country rates and start the day the workers board ihip.

Dormitory quarters at $10 a mnnth are available at the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard, MERIT AWARD For Ms meritorious performance of military duty as a gunner between August 7, 1944, and May 8, 1945, Corporal Albert J. Rhoads, 34, has seen awarded a certificate of merit Rhoads participated in the battles across France from the break at St. Lo to the Saar, into Ardennes Forest, the crossing of the Rhine and the drive through across to Austria. Before entering the army four and a half years ago, Rhoads was employed by the West State Gaso-! me Company. Although a former of Fresno, his father.

A. Rhoads, now lives in Lemoore. SOLDIER TURNS ENTERTAINER After two months of gruel- ling combat duty with the 35th Regiment of the famed 25th (Tropic Lightning) Division, Private First Class Bennie V. Dunn of Fresno laid down his rifle and armed himself with a trumpet. Dunn, 19 year old son of Mrs.

Mary Dunn, is now touring with the regiment's talent show, The Cacti Caravan, which is entertaining servicemen on Luzon. Inducted in December, 1943, Dunn took his infantry training at Camp Jannin, Tex. He was shipped to the Philippines last March and joined the 35th Infantry on May campaigns in New Guinea, the Dutch East Indies and the Philippines and currently are evacuating patients from Okinawa. A graduate of the University of Texas Medical School, Blount has been overseas one year and has been awarded three campaign stars to his Asiatic-Pacific theater ribbon. He replaced Lieutenant Colonel Walter F.

Heine as base surgeon at the Hammer Field Hospital in 1943 and was stationed at the local camp hospital for more than a year His wife. Mrs. Helene H. Blount, their small daughter live at 514 Shields Avenue. He is a son of Y.

Blount of Houston, Tex. SERVES FORT Sergeant Kenneth J. Caudle of Selma, son of J. H. Caudle of Highway City, is a senior gunner on a Super Fortress of the 58th Bombardment Wing, now stationed on Tinian in the Marianas Islands.

The unit formerly was stationed India and China and launched the first B29 attacks against Japan in June, 1944. From his new station on Tinian, Selman will participate in com- jat missions against the Japanese industries on the empire mainland. His wife lives in Watsonville. GETS Private George Baptista got a thorough battle initiation in his first combat operation against the Japanese on Mindanao. In one particular engagement a shell fell 20 feet from the Fresno soldier, killing three of his buddies and wounding several more.

His wife, Mrs. Margaret Baptista, makes her home at 1316 Street. ASSIGNED James A. Christopher, aviation radioman third class, son of Mr. and Mrs.

P. J. Christopher, 668 Terrace Avenue, this week reported for advanced radio instruction at Naval Air Technical Training Center, Memphis, Tenn. Christopher was with an aircraft service unit attached to the Pacific Fleet. His major engagements include Leyte and Palawan.

Private Richard C. Brown, a son of Mr. and Mrs. J. J.

Brown, 2515 Ventura Avenue, has been enrolled at Scott Field, 111., Army Air Forces Training Command School. Brown has also been trained as a radio operator mechanic. Before his entry into the armed forces in August, the cotton men." The cotton industry leaders, who met with representatives of agricultural extension service and the farm production council, to discuss the chance of obtaining additional prisoners of war to help ease the expected labor shortage, heard a gloomy forecast of the labor picture. Demands Not Answered Frank Buckner, deputy director of the farm labor emergency project, asserted the current allocations of prisoners of war for the cotton industry do not provide enough men to answer the demands of the growers, and said the only answer is to obtain more men. "It will be impossible under the allocations to send men to any new labor camps or increase the manpower of established camps between August 15th and November 15th," he declared.

"We cannot get any significant number of prisoners of war before November 15th, "We realize the number of men we have available does not meet the problem of the grower. The only solution appears to be an increased allocation if we can get it. I think the agricultural extension service would support a request for additional men." Must Consider Need In answer to a question as to whether additional prisoners of war, if obtained, would be assigned to the cotton industry, Buckner said: "The need of employers at the time men become available has to be considered. But if labor comes into the state it will have to go into the cotton fields, there is no place else to put it." Eugene Hayes of Madera said he believes the cotton growers should work in cooperation with sugar 3eet and tomato growers to seek additional men, and J. E.

O'Neill suggested a campaign spearheaded 3y the agricultural labor bureau of the San Joaquin Valley to obtain additional men. Wants Fast Action "It is important that we act fast and show the state and federal authorities of the need for men help harvest the crop," he asserted. On a motion by O'Neill, the ci.fei.iicu uii 0.11 etiSeSSmtmk- OI $1 a prisoner to be collected to finance a trip to Washington for a representative of the valley to seek additional Named on a finance committee by Ben Hayes of Madera, president of the labor bureau who acted as chairman at the session, were Harry S. Baker of Fresno, Louis Robinson of Corcoran, O. L.

Frost of Bakersfield and Leland Martin of Tulare. ord. He participated in the battle of Balete Pass on Luzon, a struggle which lasted 120 days and opened the Cagayan Valley to American penetration. Dunn, placed right in the front lines, said he was plenty scared the first night, "especially when I had to leave my foxhole." Now, Dunn as.oert.e, playing before a critical GI audience does not bother him in the least. The army man is a graduate of the Central Union High School where he wasjictive in athletics.

AWAIT A I Three Fresnans are now at United States deployment camps in France awaiting either shipment home or to the Pacific, The men are Corporal Archie B. iugate, a son of Mr. and Mrs. 1 (Continued On Page Eleven) Brown was employed by thc- overnment as a heavy equipment operator. His wife, Mrs.

Ruth L. Brown, makes her home at the Ventura Avenues address. Early Outlawry In' County Is Described The relationship of early out- awry to the development of Fresno County was described by Ben it. walker, state inheritance tax appraiser and lecturer in social science at the Fresno State Col- ge at of the High Twelve Club today in the Californian Hotel. The speaker described the conditions in California dur- ng the Civil War and told how sympathies were divided between the North and South.

The arrival of the a i a known as the Octopus, and the op-' portunity it provided for banditry was explained, by Walker. "A good deal of popular resentment against the railroad encouraged train robberies," he said. Walker narrated the story of an early train robbery near Collis (now Kerman) by John and George Sontag and Chris Evans. "Popular sentiment aided the escape of the men into the mountains," the speaker said, "John later was killed in a gun battle but his brother George and Evans escaped from the Fresno County Jail and George lived long enough to write a book later on." The speaker told of the difficulties of early vigilantes and of the night riders who attacked growers who refused to conform on attempts at price stabilization. Upstairs, 1256 Fulton St- GBADUATED Among the graduates last week from the enlisted tank maintenance course at Fort Riley, was Private Marion Lawrence, who was inducted into the army last Novem- 'gr and received his basic training Truck Owners Attention NEW BROWN-LIPE TRUCK TRANSMISSIONS We Have The Following Models in Stock: Also Genuine Brown-Upe Replacement Parts FRESNO AUTO PARTS NBW AND USED 460 IROADWAY AT VENTURA Fritndly Strvict The Enemy of Good Vision The magic of properly fitted glasses with the style and comfort they give, caa make you look years younger.

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