The San Bernardino County Sun from San Bernardino, California • Page 11

11 fi y.y ny WAR CHEST DRIVE IN LAST PHASE (ITY SECTION Page 1 1 Tuesday, October 17, 1944 Workers Gather For Final Check GRIN AND BEAR IT By Lichty Christmas Mail To Servicemen Breaks Record 17,000 Packages Are Received at City's Postoffice Telephone Doesn't Ring Anymore ai Goodrich Home If telephone No. 243-32 doesn't answer, there is a good reason. Mrs. Ruth Goodrich, 4802 Twenty-fourth street, in whose residence the telephone is supposed to be located, reported to police yesterday that her phone is missing. Mrs.

Goodrich told police that she didn't know whether the instrument had been stolen or whether someone was playing a prank. At any rate it had been removed, screws and all, from its accustomed place on the kitchen wall. is; I Amusement Tax Frozen for Use In Postwar Fund First Reading of Ordinance Assures Mandatory Restriction Assurance that all money collected by the so-called city amusement tax, as provided in Proposition 19 on the ballot of Nov. 7, may contribute to postwar construction only, became apparent last night at the first reading of the ordinance by the city council. The proposition will be one of four city measures among others for state or county purposes.

Wording of the ordinance establishing the three-cent tax on amusment tickets makes exclusive use of funds collected mandatory for construction and improvements in the postwar era for alleviation of unemployment. The present and all following administrations are bound to respect this interpretation. Because of the short time until the general election and the desire that the ordinance shall become effective as early as possible, the council adjourned until Saturday at 9 a.m. when the ordinance will be given a second reading. OTHER MONEY INCLUDED Not only does the ordinance make provisions for use of proposed theater tax funds for postwar work, but provides also for inclusion of any money collected in the future for postwar work from "licensing the carrying on of certain business, trades, callings and occupations in the city of San Bernardino for the purpose of raising municipal revenue." The ordinance is designated as providing for postwar public works fund and the method and mode of deposits and withdrawals therefrom.

Mayor Seccombe told members of the council that the Associated contractors, a large number of labor organizations, the San Ber "I don't want to keep this job girl, I want to make a home for serials all Grayson Must Answer to Charce Of Assault on Two Children 3 c' Lillian Fawcett, petite young Viennese soprano, who will sing the leading feminine role in the performance of Verdi's opera "Rigo-letto," to be presented in the San Bernardino Senior High school auditorium Oct. 24 as the first event of the 1944-45 season of the San Bernardino MacDowell club. Soprano Once Held by Nazis to Sing in 'Rigoletto' Here Oct. 24 indefinitely Jike every normal a husband and listen to radio day long." Grayson, represented Ly Attor ney R. E.

Hodge, offered no par ticular defense at the hearing, although prosecution witnesses were questioned. Deputy District Attor ney C. O. Thompson appeared for the state. Taken into custody in front of his home by San Bernardino po lice two weeks ago, Grayson was charged with rape in complaints filed by parents of the children The youngsters were said to have withheld the story of the alleged crime for a short time because they were "afraid to tell," police said.

Grayson's statement -admitting the offenses, said by authorities to have been taken shortly after his arrest, was read at the hearing. New Classes at Adult High School New classes at the San Bernar dino Adult High school were an- pied France and there met ro mance. At Rotary Today Goal of $109,000 Depends on United Citizen Cooperation Swinging into the last phase of their campaign to raise a $109,000 War Chest fund in San Bernar dino, 300 volunteer workers will meet with the Rotary club at noon today in the Y.W.C.A. clubhouse to submit latest reports of contributions to the drive. General Chairman Paul H.

Yel-ton said that the workers are striving to reach their goal greatest in the city's history this week after a brief campaign lasting less than two weeks. ALL MUST HELP Success in the drive is contingent, however, on every citizen making his subscription to the 29 humanitarian agencies in the chest immediately, Mr. Yelton said. He urged the workers to make an intensive effort to contact every potential contributor at once. Subscriptions passed the half- $77,274 From S.B.A.S.C Over the week-end the San Bernardino Air Service command added more than $6,000 to the War Chest fund.

Ths Army air field workers and military personnel have contributed a total of $17,274 up to yesterday, Lt. Harold J. Olsen, employee relations chief reported. The drive, which continues today and tomorrow at the field, is directed at a goal of $20,000. Three sections of the command supply, personnel and training and headquarters have passed their quota.

Statistical control and maintenance sections of the command and the base sections have not yet reached their quota. way mark to reach 561,402 last Friday and several divisions have yet to file their reports. "Workers will meet with the Lions club Thursday in the Y.W.C.A. clubhouse to submit what we hope will be final reports," Mr. Yelton said, "but each worker must intensify his campaigning if the goal is to be reached at that time." He pointed out that servicemen and women stationed in the San Bernardino area are wholeheartedly contributing to the War Chpst because they know of the "splen did work the homefront agencies, the U.S.O.

and all the war relief societies are doing in the war." "The contributions of these members of the armed forces should be an inspiration to the rest of us," Mr. Yelton said. "Men and women in military service have monthly wages equivalent only to the weekly salaries of many civilians yet they are willing to donate money to the War Chest." WALLACE'S Better Service Costs No More Finger Wave $1.00 Soap Shampoo and Wave $1.50 Hot Oil Shampoo and Wave $1.75 Oil Manicure $1.00 Wallack'g Are the Valley's Leading Permanent Wave Specialists. Machine Permanent $5.95 to $15.95 Machineless Permanent $7.95 to $15.95 Finest in Cream Cold Waves $15, $20, $25 The above permanent wave prices include hair cut before blocked. "Wallack's do not block and chop" your hair but shape it before tha oermanent is begun.

Wallack's are now fortunate to have three very experienced and efficient operators to serve you. Call one of the following girls for an appointment ELENORE GREGORY 3 Years Experience HAZEL RUTHERFORD 9 Years Experience OPAL CASTER 12 Years Experience Wallack's Can Solve Your Hair Problems WALLACK'S 425 Fourth Street Phone 424-16 FOR COMPLETE MOTOR TUNE-UP HARMON MARSHALL United Motors Service 416 Fifth Street Phone 4731 aia 4 03: 4 ()(' 9I toll 1V 9O0I it 90 8 9IU A uof7 pif OX ONIdHVNH35r NVS John Steelman Death's Victim Deputy S. S. County Auditor Stricken John Lee Steelman, deputy county auditor since 1931, died Sunday night at St. Bernardine's hospital, where he had been seriously ill for a week.

Mr. Steelman suffered from a kidney ailment. He was 41 years old, a native of Missouri and resided in San Bernardino and vicinity for 34 years. Prior to his employment as deputy county auditor, he was on the staff of the Security Title, Insurance Guaranty Co. Surviving are his wife, Esther J.

Steelman, and two daughters, Mona Lee, 6, and Mary Lou, 2, of San Bernardino; one brother, George R. Steelman, also of San Bernardino, and two sisters, Mrs. Leta Kennobrew of Cutten, California, and Mrs. Daisy Kingman of West Covina. Funeral services will be con ducted Wednesday at 11 a.m.

in the chapel of Kremer Funeral home. Burial will be made in the family plot at Rialto Park cemetery. Wave Recruiting Party Arrives in City Today As part of a final drive to enlist this year's quota of Waves, a spe cial recruiting party will be sta tioned at the San Bernardino Navy office during today and Wednes day. Personnel of the party will consist of Lt. (jg) Veronica Cowan and Specialist Phyllis Dockeray, who will be on duty at the Navy office in the postoffice building from 9 a.m.

till 6 p.m. In announcing the arrival of this special mission, William H. Krips, specialist, 1c, in charge of the re cruiting office, stated that the na tionwide quota for Waves has been nearly filled, and that enlistments will be drastically reduced in the near future. Upon completion of the present quota, replacements only will be enlisted for the Waves. "However," said Specialist Krips, "all classifications are still open, and a properly qualified girl has a good chance of getting into the field that she desires." The British admiralty in 1840 contended that oak was superior to iron and refused to accept the material as a shipbuilding material.

POSITIONS OPEN FOR WOMEN at SEARS ROEBUCK CO. Auto Accessory Dept. Paint Dept. Hardware Dept. Housewares Dept.

Men's Furnishings Dept. Boys' Furnishings Dept. and Other General Sales Work Permanent Positions Excellent Working Conditions Apply 543 Third Street Sears Roebuck and Co. WANTED Experienced SHOE SALESMEN or SALESLADIES Part or Full Time. Good Opportunity for Permanent Postwar Connection.

FLORSHEIM SHOE STORE 339 Street As a chmax to the overseas mailine period which saw last year's volume nearly doubled, ap proximately 1,200 Christmas packages for servicemen were mailed yesterday at the San Bernardino postoffice on the final day of the period established by the Army. Originally, the time limit for mailing gifts to service men overseas had been set as Oct. 15, but because this date fell on Sunday, tlie postoffice extended the limit to yesterday. Relatives and friends of servicemen took ad vantage of the extra day of grace to form a continuous line at postoffice windows. REQUESTS NOW REQUIRED Walter J.

Sullivan, postmaster, estimated the totat number of overseas packages mailed as about 17,000. Total for the corresponding period last year was about 9,800. Mr. Sullivan stated that this sharp increase is undoubtedly caused by the fact that large numbers of troops have been moved to overseas duty since 1943. With the pre-Christmas mailing period now ended, it will once again be necessary for men overseas to request packages before the postoffice will accept them, Postmaster Sullivan said.

This restriction, however, applies to men in the Army only. Packages may be mailed at any time to men in the Navy, Marines or Coast Guard. Suspected Burglars Deny Safe-Cracking Two suspects now being held in Bakersfield denied committing 10 San Bernardino burglaries between July and October, said Police Chief H. D. Allison.

Interviewed by Police Detectives Lee I. Robb and Vernie E. McBride, the men refused to implicate themselves in the San Bernardino burglaries, two of which involved safes. They are William L. Roberts, 34, a former San Bernardino taxi driver, and Clyde L.

Henderson, 24, a service station operator. The two men are being held in Bakersfield on charges of burglary. They are reported to have been caught in the alleged act of burglarizing an oil company office there. Complaints already have been filed against Roberts and Henderson on two San Bernardino burglaries, but they will first face the charges in Bakersfield. Basham Sentenced for Unlawful Use of Car Lewis Basham of San Bernar dino was sentenced to serve six months in the county jail yesterday by Justice Russell A.

Wickizer on a charge of taking an automo bile without the owner's consent. Complaining witness in the case was Glenn F. Hood, who alleged that Basham took his car without his permission on Oct. 5. Basham pleaded guilty to the charge.

Dr. Tatro Leaves for Assembly at Chicago R. F. Tatro left Sunday for Chicago to attend the post-graduate assembly of surgical and medical men. He will return to San Bernardino next Sunday.

Following a talk by Senator Ralph E. Swing who cited the necessity for assisting cities and counties in financing postwar works, the broker voted to ask the return of the state's sales tax to the three-cent level, one-half of one cent to go to the cities and counties. The tax rate of three cents was reduced by legislation to two and one-half cents for a period of two years, to expire next June 30. Senator Swing pointed out that if cities and counties were to be given a share, according to the various, city and county populations, Los Angeles and the Bay cities would receive the lion's share with some of the sparsely settled communities getting little more than a dribble. Senator Swing explained, however, that a plan has been formulated whereby each city and each yesterday by Edward M.

nardino Realty board and many business houses have assured him that they will heartily support the proposition. SOME CHANGE POSSIBLE It is possible, Mayor Secrombe stated, that the ordinance will undergo some slight changes before its final passage, but the underlying purpose for its drafting will remain. Various organizations in the city are already preparing an extensive educational campaign to (Continued on Page 17, Column 1) SSgt. Charles Musso Again Gets Decoration A second bronze Oak Leaf Cluster to the Air medal has been awarded to SSgt. Charles Musso 22, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Charles Musso, 1402 Sixth street, for "meritorious achievement while participating in sustained operations against the ene my." Flying high over the flak filled skies in the Italian sector, is an old story to the youth who arrived in the European theater of operations early last spring. Sergeant Musso was graduated from San Bernardino high school and entered the Army Air forces in 1940. LOST 1 Johnson Floor Polisher Painted Return to Sage's Complete Market, Base Line REWARD $5.00 She met an American volunteer pilot with the French Air force Charles Fawcett, member of a prominent Virginia family. One of the most decorated heroes of the war, Major Fawcett was known to the French underground and the British as "the modern Scarlet Pimpernel," because of the many missions which he flew to bring out of occupied France important leaders in the underground movement or captured British officers whose escapes from the Germans were engineered by French patriots.

MATE SHOT DOWN It was love at first sight, and the Viennese' soprano and the American flier ware married a few months later. Their happiness was doomed to short life, however, as Major Fawcett was shot down over France only a few weeks after their marriage. Mrs. Fawcett came to the Unit ed States to be with her husband's family. Last year she emerged from retirement and began to sing again; playing leading roles with the San Francisco Opera company, the National Grand Opera and the American Music Theater of Pasadena, in addition to, doing considerable motion picture work.

She comes to San Bernardino after just having completed a long run with the operetta "The Waltz King," in which she sang opposite Richard Bonelli. In 1846, the U. S. Navy condemned the U.S.S. Allegheny, second U.

S. iron warship, as un-suited for war purposes. Fisher, director. Plastics will be taught by Fay Tinker, teacher of machifie shop in the high school who will hold his first instructions from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.

in the shop building next Monday night. Sewing and dressmaking will be instructed by Mrs. Ermal E. Ralston, a graduate of Carnegie Institute Technology, who will hold her first classes on Thursday night, Oct. 26 from 7 to 10 p.m.

The sewing and dressmaking classes will be held in Room 6 at the Home Economics building. Badminton will be taught Monday and Thursday nights from 7 to 9 p.m. in the Sturges Junior High school gymnasium with Clifford J. Halstead conducting. Art and Sketching classes will be held at Sturges Junior high on Thursdays from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m.

and from 8 a.m. until noon on Fridays. William Alfred Grayson, 31, former custodian at the war nursery in the old Edison school building at 551 stret, was held to answer to superior court yesterday by Justice Russell A. Wickizer in San Bernardino township court on charges of criminally assaulting two nine-year school girls. Bail was continued at $10,000.

Grayson is held in the county jail on the two counts. The two girls, who were at the nursery waiting for their war-working parents when the alleged attacks occurred, testified at the preliminary hearing that Grayson induced them into an unoccupied room in the old school building where he assaulted them. Conviction Brings Life Sentence for Howard L. Nichols Convicted of second degree bery, Howard L. Nichols, 52, was sentenced by Superior Judge Benjamin F.

Warmer yesterday to life imprisonment in San Quentin. At the same time, Judge Warmer declared Nichols an habitual criminal making the life term without possibility of parole. The law provides that conviction of three prior felonies brands a prisoner as an habitual criminal, automatically carrying a sentence of life in the state penitentiary. Authorities said Nichols admitted serving terms in Folsom for grand theft in 1915, in Oregon state prison in 1926 and again in 1929 on grand theft charges, in Nevada state penitentiary in 1931 for grand theft and in Montana state prison in 1937 for burglary. His latest offense was the robbery of a laborer at Kelso.

He was convicted on the charge in superior court last Wednesday. What's Doing Today: 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Red Cross Surgical Dressing unit, 972 street. 12 Rotary club, 580 Sixth street.

12 M. Business Professional Women's club, California hotel. 5:30 p.m. Unity Women's club dinner, bazaar and card party', 763 street. 7:30 p.m.

Neighbors of Woodcraft, Odd Fellows temple. 7:30 p.m. Central Labor council, Labor temple. 7:30 p.m. Golden State club, 677 Rialto avenue.

7:30 p.m. St. Bernard command- ery, Masonic temple. 7:30 p.m. Townsend club card party, 347 Eleventh street.

7:30 p.m. Gospel class Halloween party, Foothill and Lilac, Rialto. 8 p.m. American Legion post and auxiliary, American Legion clubhouse. 8 p.m.

B'nal B'rlth, Temple Emanu El. Lillian Fawcett, petite young so prano who will sing the role of Gilda in the performance, of Ver- di's opera "Rigoletto, to be pre sented in the San Bernardino Sen ior High school auditorium by the San Bernardino MacDowell club on Tuesday night, Oct. 24, has crammed more excitement into her 26 years than most people do in a life time. Born in 1918 in Vienna, where her father and mother were both prominent in the field of music, she was destined to a career in music from the start. Her parents saw to it that she received thorough training in music and the art of singing.

At the age of 17 she received both the first prize in singing and the "Grand Prix de Virtuosite" of the Paris Conservatory. Then followed several seasons as prima donna soprano at both the Paris opera and the Opera Comique in Paris and then guest engagements with the Vienna Court opera, Salzburg festivals, various Italian opera houses and orchestras and op era companies in Belgium, Switz erland, Czecho-Slovakia and Portugal. SANG IN CAMPS She was in Belgium at the time of the Nazi invasion and immedi ately devoted all her time to sing ing in camps along the front lines. She was decorated by Queen Eliz abeth of Belgium, for extraordinary heroism. During one of her front line appearances, she was taken prisoner by the Nazis and spent wo months in a German prison camp until her release was secured by influential friends of her family in the French govern ment.

She then went to unoccu- City's Ballot wealth, would receive a flat sum under hoped for provisions, and the more populated areas would then receive the major portion of remaining tax monies. The motion supporting the three-cent tax reallocation was made by E. B. seconded by A. B.

Hornibrook and carried without a dissenting vote. FREE TO YOU! A complete examination and demonstration of Colon Therapy treatment to those who have not had the opportunity to avail themselves of this scientific method of eliminating distress and disease. Dr. Roy W. DeWelles.

D.C., diagnostician of Kansas City, will be at this office October 15th to 20th to assist in these free examinations. SEE OUR BIG AD IN THIS PAPER DeSienna Mineral Springs Drs. E. B. and Lois Hartman, D.C.'s 900 So.

Street Phone 433-84 Realty Board Unanimously Endorses Amusement Tax Issue on November Essential Positions Now Open AT SAGE'S COMPLETE MARKET BASE LINE AND STREET EXPERIENCED BOOKKEEPER GROCERY CASHIERS BAKERY SALES GIRL DELICATESSEN COOK DELICATESSEN CLERK BAKERY PAN WASHER (Man Preferred) BAKERY PRODUCTION HELPER (Fry Doughnuts, Ice Doughnuts 'and Cup Cakes, etc.) SEE MISS OUTCALT The San Bernardino Real Estate board, at its weekly meeting held yesterday at the Elks clubhouse, moved unanimously to support Proposition No. 19, the city's proposed three-cent amusement tax to finance in part postwar building and employment. The motion, made by Frank L. Whitelock. and second by Arthur Johnson, was carried without question, and President Thayer W.

Cline of the real estate group named Mr. Whitelock chairman of a committee to actively support the measure. Mr. Whitelock will choose his own committee. The board also voted to assist in financing a campaign in support of the amusement tax issue when Mayor W.

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