Santa Cruz Sentinel from Santa Cruz, California • Page 2

i Thursday, August 20, 1942 TWO SANTA CRUZ SENTINEL-NEWS, SANTA CRUZ, CALIFORNIA Howard Named To Be S. C. Postmaster Fred T. Hale, Santa Cruz postmaster since 1934, will retire August 31 to be replaced by Orin Howard, secretary of the Central Labor Council, as acting postmaster. Howard will take office on September 1 and immediately take a civil service examination to qualify for the $3600-a-year postmaster position.

Howard said he had not received any notification of his appointment as acting postmaster, although he had received word from Senator Sheridan Downey that the senator had recommended Howard for the position. Third Term Howard, now in his third term as secretary for the Central Labor Council, said he would look to Fred Hale for advice and counsel for the postmaster's job if he receives the appointment. He will probably resign from his present position when the postmaster's appointment becomes official, it was believed. Formerly student body president and football star at Riverside College, Howard was with the United States Forest Service for two years and was superintendent of foundry installation for the Aluminum Company of America for three and one-half years. He came to Santa Cruz six years ago with his wife.

They have two sons, Stephen a and Fred, both born here. Howard was born in Bishop, California, on February 19, 1913. Hale Succeeded Howe Fred Hale was appointed Santa Cruz postmaster, in April, 1934, succeeding Fred Howe, and remained postmaster here ever since to his retirement due to the age limit, August 31. A Democrat, Hale was A born in Brooklyn, New York, but spent most of his childhood in North Carolina. He went to school and college in England for six years.

Upon his return to America, he joined the engineering corps of the Atlantic Coast Line railroad, and served as a civil engineer with that line and the Chesapeake and Ohio line for six years. Later he volunteered for service in the Spanish-American war, serving as a non-commissioned officer. In 1900 he came to California. Here he was engaged in mining for 15 years, serving as resident manager of the large Placer Gold Mines. He was postmaster at Orleans for many years during this period.

Secretary To Major In 1916, while traveling in Central and South America, he was secretary to Major Edward J. Hale, United States envoy to Central America during the Wilson regime. During the World War he served as a director of the Red Cross, dock commissioner of the city of Fayetteville, N. and other positions. Later he was vice-president and managing editor of the Fayetteville Observer for several years.

He came to Santa Cruz in 1919, was associated with the Henry Cowell Lime and Cement company for six years as superintendent of the quarries. For seven years he was in business partnership as a civil engineer with Arnold Baldwin, county engineer, previous to his appointment as postmaster of the Santa Cruz postoffice. In 1937 he was elected to the board of directors of the California chapter, National Association of Postmasters. City Purchase Of War Bonds In Line With Other Towns The city of Santa Cruz' investment of $20,000 of surplus water funds in war bonds was in line with similar investments throughout the state, city officials revealed today. They pointed out that already millions of dollars of municipal funds have been invested in war savings bonds and cities are rapidly rallying to the program of instituting payroll deduction plans whereby their city employes may make voluntary and systematic savings.

"Early in August a Treasury Department letter went to municipalities which are not yet enrolled in the program urging immediate participation. The first essential step for such cities is council authorization for payroll deductions. This can be done either by resolution or by ordinance. City employe organizations are taking the lead in implementing the program. FATHER AND SON DRAFTED TOGETHER By United Press Newton, Aug.

20. Thomas W. Petrie, 44, and his son, 21, of Waltham, reWilliam. ported today to their Newton draft board. The father served 18 months overseas in the World War I.

Dr. Ray G. NEWCOMER OPTOMETRIST 69 Pacific Avenue Phone 2667 Henry Kaiser To Start Building Cargo Airplanes Oakland, Aug. 20 Henry J. Kaiser began working today on plans to develop his own raw materials and build huge flyTing cargo planes in the Pacific coast shipyard.

He expressed confidence he could be in full production within ten months after plans are completed, producing 1500 airplane engines a month in one yard alone without interfering with ship construction. "Fundamentally the big problem in any production is raw materials," Kaiser said on his return from Washington where he discussed his revolutionary idea with army, navy and WPB officials. "It's necessary to get the materials out of the ground. That's where we will start in our air cargo program." Kaiser said he would confer with west coast airplane producers before deciding whether to produce the 70-ton Mars type of cargo carrier, mammoth 200-ton flying ships, or the Army's 30-ton C-46. "If the auto industry can't build engines for the flying freighters, we will do it ourselves.

We did that at the Joshua Hendy Iron Works," producing Liberty engines for ships built in west coast yards. "There's a way to do everything if you've got to do it. If we are compelled and permitted to, we can produce 1500 airplane engines a month at the Vancouver plant without interfering with ship production." E. F. Pages' Son Signs With Navy Mr.

and Mrs. E. F. Page, 20 South Parkway, have received word that their son is again in the United States Navy. The letter was from New York City, but they are not aware where he is going.

He has the rank of yeoman and had served six years in the United States Navy before the war. As We See It News and Views by Sutton Christian By Sutton Christian It is proper that I should give an explanation for suspension of this column for the duration of war, and as I get into the opening paragraph the impulse to reminisce has been conquered. This will be no summation of the abundant which have come to me a newspaper pleasures, in Santa Cruz, nor will it be an attempt at valedictory excellence. If I have not conveyed my joys and my convictions within six and onehalf years of residence, then it would be futile to try to rectify the shortcomings in the space of a single column. For a long time I have felt that newspapers are performing the most necessary functions on the civilian front, but that has not removed my desire to enter service with the armed forces.

I leave today for Washington, D. to attend a school conducted for field directors of the American Red Cross, following which I will be returned to San Francisco before being shipped to a foreign front. When the war is over, and the redwoods are a few inches taller, I shall return to Santa Cruz to join my wife, who will remain in this city. On that unknown date I shall resume my work with the Sentinel-News, thanks to the indulgence of a good boss. Police Cases Three prisoners were brought to Santa Cruz from Watsonville by Constable T.

Arano yesterday. The men were Joe Herrara, 54; Rheuben Grebs, 50, and Bert Duncan, 51, each to serve five days in the county jail for disturbing the peace, the officer said. FAIR ENOUGH BY WESTBROOK PEGLER draft. If it appears that he has waited until he is about to be taken anyway, they usually discount entirely the subject's willingness to volunteer as an officer, and reject him. Of course, labor is backing up the fighters, although it must be said that the effort is considerably short of that degree which the British have taught us to call "all out," what with strikes and slowdowns and stalling.

But what else would labor be doing just now, when it is considered that war work is the principal industry of the entire nation? And for whose benefit is labor doing this, anyway, if not for labor's own benefit and, therefore, why all the oratory and the awards and flattery? Practically all of the United States is labor. This is a nation of working people and if the war is lost it will not be some vague cartoonist's symbol called Wall Street or the interests but labor who will suffer degradation and poverty. The answer is, of course, that it isn't labor but the politicians of that group who presume to speak for labor and who play labor for a political imbecile who do the boasting about labor's effort in the war. The people who do the work mostly keep on at their work, but the speeches are made by the Administration men and the boss unioneers, and all the organized tieups are the work of professionals who use their power to hamper real labor's work. Does any one mean to suggest that labor is doing any one a favor in producing what it takes to fight the people's war? Happy BIRTHDAY To You LAURA RAWSON, Birthday Editor AUGUST 20 Frederick A.

McAdams Joanne Carroll Ebe Beltrami Jane Wilma Kroesen Joe Bellus Mrs. Edith Geyer DEL MAR PHONE 80 NOW GREAT MAN'S Favorite LADY Spy Stanwyck Kyser McCrea Wyman SANTA CRUZ PHONE 780 STARTS TODAY Outlaws Of the Desert Bill (Hopalong) Boyd puS Date With the Falcon George Sanders Brazil Rushes Preparations For Joining War By United Press Rio De Janeiro, Aug. 20. Brazil rushed preparations for war today, while Brazilian, British and United States planes swept the sea in relentless hunt for Axis submarines. They already had flushed and attacked at least seven U-boats, of which one, probably two, were sunk.

Minister of War Gen. Eurico G. Dutra ordered 10,000 Brazilian officers and privates on leave or doing special training to rejoin their regiments immediately. Crowds still roamed the streets clamoring for war against the Axis. Demonstrators swarmed into the "Buenos Aires" restaurant here yesterday and threw pots, pans, dishes and sausages into the street.

They broke down the front door of the Martinelli building, owned by Italians, but a police guard prevented them from wrecking the interior. Curfew regulations were ordered to prevent night disorders. Robert Stuck Soon To Get Commission In Air Force Robert E. Stuck, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Leon H. Stuck, '32 Van Ness avenue, is a member of a class of student officers and aviation cadets to be graduated from the Air Force Advanced Flying School at Stockton Field, Calif. The graduates will be commissioned as second lieutenants in the air force reserve. Before entering final and advanced course at Stockton Field, Cadet Stuck completed 20 weeks of primary and basic training at Santa Maria and at Lemoore. He was a student at Salinas Junior College, and San Jose State, where he won awards in track and skiing, and was a member of Alpha Eta Rho fraternity.

Sidewalks Being Installed For Irwin Way Bridge Concrete for sidewalks on the Irwin Way bridge at Boulder Creek, across the San Lorenzo drive, have been poured and rails will be installed next week, County Surveyor Arnold Baldwin announced yesterday. Roadmaster Frank Clement is now making the approaches and grading on the project. Grading is being done by Contractor Leo Cardwell on the Mill creek culvert. Brush and rubbish are being placed preparatory to making the fill on the Swan Lake bridge. The will will eliminate the necessity for installation of pipe and trestle on the project, thus creating a saving of about $4000 worth of vital war materials.

CLIFF WAY FIRE A fire alarm was turned in yesterday to the fire department at 1:44 p. m. for a grass fire at 187 Cliffway. There was no damage, records show. DANCING EVERY NITE 7 NIGHTS A WEEK In Person M.C.A.

Presents ART ROWLEY HIS ORCHESTRA and Entertainers Admission 55c, Incl. tax, week nights-77c, Incl. tax Saturdays Special rates to men in uniform LADIES FREE WEDNESDAYS Coming Sept. 5 and, 6 HENRY KING IN THE TROCADERO Sammy Herman's Orchestra and Fioor Shows Nightly CASA A DEL REY OCOANUT GROVE Santa Cruz Beach! Schools Must Go On, Says Janie Stocking "This year in our rural elementary schools every effort will be made to hold children to their normal programs that their education may continue as stable as possible," Mrs. Janie M.

Stocking, county superintendent of schools, said today in discussing the fast-approaching September dates on which county schools will 1 reopen. "Sane guidance will stimulate the very best of planning and organization by our teaching force so that children may feel as much security as possible in these insecure Mrs. Stocking declared. Extra Duties "Extra duties and overtime work in war activities will be demanded of all. Therefore attention to good health habits must be observed if we achieve effectively.

Let each seek to find the niche where we can most enthusiastically serve in addition to immediate school duties. To win the war is the foremost project of our schools if present achievements are to be maintained," Mrs. Stocking stated. Final Rites For Jackson Shannon Funeral services for Jackson Shannon, who died on Tuesday at a rest home near the city will be held tomorrow at 2 o'clock. There will be graveside services at the Soquel cemetery and rites will be conducted by Rev.

John F. Wilson of the First Methodist church. Wessendorf mortuary will be in charge of the services. Election Supplies Being Prepared Deputies in the office of County Clerk H. E.

Miller are busy getting the county election supplies ready for the precincts of the county. All supplies for the city of Watsonville have been sacked ready for delivery, Miller said. Capital RAYMOND CLAPPER Washington. War production figures for July should be coming out soon and indications are they will show up rather well. June was a bad month but in July some lines went ahead of schedule.

One gets dizzy in the din around here. But so far as I can shake down the essential facts the production job is going well but not as well as it could. We can feel pride, but not complacency, in the achievement. With that said, the defects can be emphasized without getting out of focus. The defects are serious.

They will tax all of the drive and ingenuity that Donald Nelson has. He knows it. He will need a lot of help. First attention is now going to raw material shortages. Our war plants can chew up more materials than will be available in the last half of this year.

Steel, for instance, will be several million tons of needs. A decision had to be made as to how to spread it. Instead of spreading it thin over the whole program, the program has been broken down into groups. First come those fighting weapons needed this year by American fighting forces. Raw material sufficient for those needs will plied no matter what else suffers, and a lot else will suffer.

You may see some idle war plants. But that will be a sign that the material which they otherwise would use is going into fighting weapons needed now. Second, whatever material is left over from the immediate needs for fighting equipment will be available, for the bare essentials of the civilian economy. That doesn't mean morale stuff, or things to make people comfortable. It means repairs for locomotives and freight cars, for mines whose copper or nickel is urgently needed.

It means chlorine for water systems to prevent epidemics. It means only such materials as are needed to prevent a breakdown behind the lines. Some debate occurred over this group. The services Registered Voters Total 3,751,296 would rather not have probably had this category included. WPB felt that it was essential to prevent breakdown that might seriously a interfere with urgent production and that view has prevailed.

Third on the list come those imbut secondary needs. New portant locomotives, new freight cars, exwhich would be detra equipment sirable but which can be sacrificed if necessary. That is the order in which short raw materials will be made Expediters are being assembled to check the flow of these materials, to see that they go out in accordance with this program and only in amounts currently ed. The job there is to squeeze the fat out of inventories, to be sure that no stocks of short materials lie around waiting for future use. Closely related to this is scheduling of the flow, so that the expediters will know exactly how much of a given material is needed at a given plant and when.

Germany has only five per cent of the world's nickel and gets along. Our side has 95 per cent of it and still is short. The trouble is bad management of the supply. This problem has been long neglected, and we are now suffering. It is being corrected.

Another thing is that American and British war production must be looked at as one. That approach was the purpose of the recent visit of Oliver Lyttleton, British war production chief here. Take steel again for illustration. If we send unfinished steel to England instead of making it up into war weapons here, we lose the scraping averaging about 15 per cent of the tonnage. We are short of scrap, and can ill afford to lose that amount.

Yet unfinished steel can go over as ballast and therefore does not take up cargo space. Cargo space is the tighter bottleneck. So the dilemma is resolved in favor of sending as much steel as possible in ballast to save cargo space for other finished war material. The object is to get the San Francisco, Aug. 20 California's citizens of voting age, 3,751,296, or more than 84 per cent, are qualified to take part in next Tuesday's primary election.

The figures, disclosed today be the state chamber of commerce. are based on an analysis of regis tration records made by the chamber's research department. They. showed the present regis. tration to be only 7-10 of one per cent less than for the primary of 1940, a presidential election year.

The number then qualified was 782.702. Registration is up from August, 1940, in seven of California's 58 counties, the gains for the most ties population increases part having, been made by coun have resulted from war activity. Solano county, with booming Vallejo as its population center. has 21.2 per cent more qualified voters than two years ago. Contra Costa has gained 14.3 per cent; San Mateo, 8.1; Alameda and San Diego, each 5.5; Inyo, 3.3, and San Francisco, 1.1.

The chamber interpreted the registration of so large a percentage of eligible voters as indicating "an active public interest in the elections this year." Sea weed continues to be washed ashore and lands upon the beach and litters the sands. maximum of war equipment across. That must always be the controllfactor. tr For some time several of these questions have been the subject of much discussion and some differ ence of opinion. Most of the decisions now have been made.

The task of carrying them out has begun and the success of war production over the last half of the year will depend upon how effec tive WPB can make these decisions in action. NO MORE VACUUM TINS TILL VICTORY! LABOR IN WAR New York, Aug. 20-Naturally, a man who is working at a war job enjoys his belief and has a right to believe he is backing up the fighters and helping to beat the enemy and preserve American liberty. But no sensible man SO employed should take seriously the ballyhoo or propaganda deliberately and mechanically produced by men who make a specialty of such emotional effects, which depict him a hero of the assembly line who is making a great sacrifice in freedom's name. Of course, there are exceptional men and women who will have chucked everything and taken substantial losses so as to find places where their hands could be put to the task, but I am dealing with the majority who must work, anyway, and would be miserable without work.

It isn't very long since millions of Americans knew the spiritual agony of idleness, because there was no work, which was just as painful to the souls of men as their bodies. Nowadays, generally speaking, work is plentiful everywhere and most of it is war work. In another year, very little or, anyway, much less, work will be unrelated to war. 0 What else would our people be doing if they weren't engaged in war work, with so many nonessential tasks and services eliminated? Last winter Joe, the man who ran the service station and sold gas and oil, saw it coming, closed out his place, took a quickie to sharpen up his mechanical skill and went into a war plant. Is he SO vain or stupid as to tell himself now.

or believe it when others tell him, that he is a great fellow for doing this, when he knows that if he weren't doing war work he would be out of a job altogether and not eating regularly? Would he turn down a raise of $10 a week from some company doing work because he felt that this non would be a minute but personal betrayal of the boys? The likelihood that he will be put to any such test diminishes day by day, but for him to take a top-lofty attitude today toward another man still hanging onto his old non-war job is to claim a virtue where only necessity is apparent. They recognize this sort of thing in the Army, Navy and Marines. If a young man puts in for a commission in one of the specialty lines, they ascertain first whether his number is up in the WAKE UP YOUR LIVER BILE Without Calomel -And You'll Jump Out of Bed in the Morning Rarin' to Go The liver should pour 2 pints of bile Juice into your bowels every day, If this bile is not flowing freely, your food may not digest. It may just decay in the bowels. Then gas bloats up your stomach.

You get constipated. You feel sour, sunk and the world looks punk. It takes those good, old Carter's Little ing freely to make you feel "up end up." Liver Pills to get these 2 pints of bile flowGet a package today, Take us directed, Effective in making bile flow freely, Ask for Carter's Little Liver Pills. 106 and LOOK FOR EDWARDS COFFEE IN THE NEW VICTORY BAG Goral Here's how we can make Go DWAROS this change and still A As always, Edwards is delivered direct from the roaster. But buy.

This is nature's own way of protecting freshness. In now it's kept in the bean and not ground till the minute you guarantee freshness EDWARDS COFFEE is sold past peak goodness. Only with this step-by-step control could enjoy coffee addition, There's we that's luxurious sales been guarantee no are Edwards so change freshness carefully in knowing in the the it's watched blend. new the same You that victory can rich, not bag. one full continue -bodied pound to COFFEE been the favorite of thousands for over 35 years.

And if you've never tried Edwards, so much the better! A new coffee thrill is waiting in your first steaming cupful. Have your grocer grind a pound for you tomorrow -exactly right for your favorite coffee maker. Notice Edwards' low price compared to other quality coffee. Then try Edwards on our money guarantee. Buy extra WAR SAVINGS STAMPS with what you save.

EMERGENCY A DEFENSE EDMIRROS COMPANY METALS 1 14 9 13 94 794 145 0 RE DUE NO Always oven-fresh because of these important steps! Edwards is roasted daily ED It's only delivered kept when in the direct you to buy. bean. your ground grocer. GRIN REGULAR FEATURED BY San DWIGHT Francisco EDWARDS Los COMPANY SAFEWAY Portland Denver Dallas Washington, D.C...