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Tuesday, April 27, 1943 PAGE TWO SANTA CRUZ SENTINEL-NEWS, SANTA CRUZ, CALIFORNIA Morgenthau Finds Rural U. S. People Are Mad-Fighting Mad Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler Thought For Today By W. P. BeloU War Loan Drive Enters Final Week Washington, April 26 The goal assured, the government's second war loan drive today entered its final week.

The Treasury announced last night that the drive will close next HIGH PRESSURE New York The Doakes kid, Joe, Junior, was taken into the army the other day. He is 18 years old and a very patriotic American, but a new and different sort. Young Joe Doakes was born in 192S and was a little less than 8 years old when President Roosevelt was inaugurated the first time. He has lived all of his conscious life to date under the rule of Mr. Roosevelt and the New Deal.

In his mind, Mr. Roosevelt, Mrs. Roosevelt, Henry Wallace and Harry Hopkins are the fixed government of his country for he has never known any other. Unconsciously, during these years between babyhood and young manhood, the Doakes kid has been influenced by the events, the methods and the ethics that have swirled around him. He can't remembmer when it was improper to toss a solemn promise and break it with a mocking grin, when gangsters were held to be outlaws; when the government was scrupulous to obey the laws and disdained clever tricks upon the people, when high personages were careful not to claim special privileges on a pretense of public service and a citizen could oppose a policy without fear of personal reprisal, ft ft ft He does remember, because it happened after Pearl Harbor, that, after President Roosevelt had taken a public vow not to deliver a lot of coal miners to John L.

Lewis, a man named Steelman, acting in the president's name in the role of arbitrator, did for him precisely what he had sworn he would not do. Because his government did that and because this is the only government he has ever known, the Doakes kid thinks that was pretty cute and his regard for his own promises is affeceted accord ingly. He has a sense that the best cit- ienship and the best way to get along is to belong to the crowd that is in power for he has seen that iracketeers who string with his government can get away with In Africa POLITICAL CARDS FOR MAYOR F. Roy Fulmer I consider it the duty of this office to cooperate with the greater Santa Cruz trading area, thereby promoting the prosperity of our city. FOR MAYOR Fred A.

Herbert! A businessman who believes War Needs Come First LET'S MODERNIZE OUR CITY WITH "THE CITY MANAGER PLAN" KILFOVL For Commissioner A NATIVE OF SANTA CRUZ For the Benefit of the WHOLE COMMUNITY VOTE IT FOR Paul Edward McDonald Peretto COMMISSIONERS Support the 2nd WAR LOAN DRIVE C. M. ALDRICH for COMMISSIONER City Election May 4th Chas. C. Houck for CITY COMMISSIONER 22 Yearn JUSTICE OF THE PEACE in Santa Cruz Victor Durdcn COMMISSIONER YOUTH IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE FUTURE Youth Must Have A Voice In The Government re.elect AMOS H.

ROFF (Incumbent) CITY COMMISSIONER a. 4 HMsVK MaaaaVBH 3sn Our Men In Service Mure than 1800 men from the north end of Santa Cruz county are now listed in the Snutinel-News card index of the men who are in training or fighting in Uncle Sam's armed services. The Sentinel-News is trying to keep the home folks informed of their activities. Relatives and friends are invited to send contributions to this column. AMOLSCII Private First Class Ralph Amolsch has been in contact with the enemy in the South Pacific, according to information received here bv Mrs.

C. Larson. His address is Pfc. Ralph Amolsch, C. K.

161 Inf. A. P. O. 25 in care of the Postmaster, San Francisco, California.

DAVIS Lieutenant Donald L. Davis spent a few days here visiting his mother, Mrs. lone Davis, 227 East Cliff drive. Lt. Davis is stationed at Walla Walla, which is a training base of the army air corps.

He has been at the Washington base since last June. EVANS Pvt. Ross B. Evans is now stationed at Shawnee, Oklahoma, where he will undergo five months of army flying instructions. During this period he will take numerous academic courses, as well as elementary flying training, which will qualify him as a pilot, naviga-tor or bombardier.

Evans is the son of Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Evans of 31 Buena Vista avenue.

HUFF Pvt. Phillip C. Huff is stationed at the Fresno air base for basic training. He was inducted into the army March 30. Pvt.

Huff is the husband of Mrs. Lois Huff and son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred D. Huff of 13 Laurel street.

Previous to entering the army he was employed at the U. S. naval air station in Alameda as aircraft mechanic. Before going to Alameda he was with the Heple Transportation company in this city. JONES Bud Eldred Jones, 2nd class seaman, U.

S. son of Mr. and Mrs. Eldred Jones of Santa Cruz, is "getting along fine" at San Diego, a letter received by his parents stated. He joined the service in February.

TEMPLEMAN Kenneth Templeman, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Templeman of Me-der street has been promoted to a warrant officer and is now stationed at Dyersburg, Tenn.

Templeman is a member of the army air corps. While he was a technical sergeant he was stationed at Clovis, New Mexico. His address is: Kenneth Templeman, 502nd Bomb. Army Air Base, Dyersburg, Tenn. WALTRIP Corporal August F.

Waltrip ar rived here Saturday from Camp Chaffee, Arkansas, for a four-day visit with his parents Mr. and Mrs. William F. Waltrip, 619 Ocean street. Corporal Waltrip has been in service five months and has been stationed at Camp Chaffee during that time.

This is his first visit home. He is to report back for duty May 3. Corporal Chaffee a graduate of Santa Cruz high school. Board Asks Curb On Use Of Cars For Joy Riding Chairman J. II.

Garrett of the local rationing board asks filling station operators and parents to cooperate in curbing the use of cars for joy riding purposes by young people. "We face the increasing problem of juveniles who either have cars of their own or use those of their parents for purposes contrary to their intended use," Gar rett said in a letter addressed to filling station operators. "Our investigation reveals that certain stations have accepted loose stamps and even accepted i 'T' stamps for use in passenger vehicles. "You should be familiar with the regulations. However, we are asking your cooperation in an attempt to correct certain abuses which have crept in.

We feel that every effort should be made to discourage use of cars for joy riding purposes. "The public should know and feel the request of a filling station operator for the book is entirely proper, and in fact positively necessary." Miss Jackie Davis has been visiting in Santa Cruz, her former home, for several days. She now lives in Los Angeles, where she is a student at Woodbury college. Cedar Rapids, April 26 Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, gazed out of his hotel window and saw a quiet, mid-western town; but when he talked to the quiet town's ordinary people he found they were fighting mad. This- was Morgenlhau's report of, his three-day- visit to Cedar Rapids.

He came here to feel the pulse of rural America, to find out what the farmers, shopkeepers, office workers and housewives of this food belt city were thinking. He left for the west coast convinced that in Cedar Rapids the determination to win the war is greater than it is in Washington, D. C. "If there were 1,000 more Cedar Rapids in this country, we wouldn't need to worry about -making our war 'bond quota," he said, "You can't get anything like this in Washington. You have to come to a city like Cedar Rapids to see just how much our people on the home front are cooperating." To Visit West Coast Before Morgenthau returns to Washington to direct the final phase of the second war bond drive he will visit Portland, and San Francisco.

He chose to visit Cedar Rapids first because Cedar Rapids is the nation's first city to win the treasury department's flag for participating more than 90 per cent in the payroll allotment plan for war bond purchases. Morgenthau concluded his visit by interviewing on the radie pro gram, "We the People," a cross-section of Cedar Rapid's popula tion. He talked with a dirt farmer, Arthur Williams, and his wife, whose only son, Greeley, was killed during the first day of the war in the Philippines. He chatted with Lieut. Bill Grafton, resting up from piloting a bomber on the North African front.

Questions Chinese He talked with a negro porter named "Wimpy," and he questioned Pin Wang, whose father, a Chinese general, was assissinated by the Japanese. He visited with Lieut. Arthur Hodges, of Cedar Rapids, who bombed Tokyo with Maj. Gen. James Doolittle.

He talked with a former Jewish judge in Germany, who spent four years in a concentration camp, and a street cleaner from the brave little village of Lidice in Czechoslo vakia, which was destroyed by the Nazis. They all agreed that Cedar Rap ids' most important jobs were buying bonds and raising food to Win the war. Confirms Faith "From my hotel window today could see the people walking up and down Main street," Morgenthau said. "Farmers come to town" to shop. In every direction I could see the American flag flying.

This was a quiet picture of a peace ful town, but' the people of this town are mad fighting mad. These people believe in the American way of life above everything 'This visit has confirmed my own faith in America. Some people still ask what are we fighting for: We're fighting for Cedar Rapids, and all the towns like Cedar Rapids in New York, Cali fornia, China, France, Russia. Shall we be more tender with our dollars than with the lives of our sons?" Harvest Aid Bill Signed Into Law Sentinel-News Capital Bureau Sacramento, April 26 Prepar- ing the way for greater use of student labor in the harvests, assembly bill 789, streamlining the procedure for shortening the school year, has been signed by Governor Earl Warren and is now in effect, Assemblyman Jacob M. Leonard, the author, said today.

The urgency measure, intro duced at request of Thomas Mae-Quiddy, Watsonville city school superintendent, provides that dur ing the war between the United States and another power, the superintendent of public instruction with consent of the governor may permit a school year of less than 170 days, Leonard explained. At present, this power is vested in the state board of education with approval of the governor. The board meets regularly but four times a year a fact which in the past tended to delay action on requests from local school boards, he added. Students To Keep 'Vest Pocket' Record Washington, April 26 All high school students soon will be equipped with a "vest pocket" record of their educational and work experience, the war department announced today, The war department is distributing 5,000,000 cards to schools on which students' school and job histories will be listed. The cards will be carried by students and in Mayor Rich Urges Participation In 'Learn To Swim' By Edwin L.

Rich Mayor of Santa Cruz Today as never before the leaders of America's armed forces are determined that the men of the navy, the coast guard, the army, the marines and the merchant marine shall have a working knowledge of the fundamentals of swimming and water safety. It is interesting to note that the various services are now stressing swimming above all other sports. In view of the fact that this war is being conducted "on the water," "over the water and "in the water," the need of a knowledge of aquatics is paramount. The Santa Cruz chapter of the American Red Cross in conjunction with the Sentinel, for a number of years has conducted a "learn to swim and water safe-" ty" campaign at the beach plunge for the youth of this community. This season's campaign from May 3 to IS inclusive, offers a real opportunity to grade and prep school students to participate in the same work that is being taught the thousands of young men who are now fighting our battles.

Swimming is more than a sport and a pastime. Do not wait until it's too late. Learn right now. Someday it may mean the def-ference between life and death. Waterfront NEWS NOTES Gathered by Ernest Otto No Italian fishermen left the wharf Sunday.

Easter Sunday is a day observed by them and most of them were at mass and it is said it is years since so many of them approached holy communion. With so, many of their sons in the service and war conditions they were drawn to their church, especially for this the greatest day of the church calendar. No salmon or trawl fishermen were out. The deep sea fishermen were out in numbers. Net fishermen have practically given up fishing for sole, flounders and other flat fish and are now after salmon.

Only 19 boats of all kinds were out, according to the port captain on Sunday and only 24 yesterday. United States Coast Guardsman Carl Hart, with headquarters on the wharf, proves a good boat builder. He is building a "dingy" or skiff 10 feet long and is proving an adept boat builder and is at work in the municipal warehouse and it will soon be ready for painting. The A. Paladini company drag boats, which often drag in the bay, are now dragging in Humboldt bay and out from Eureka.

The Western California company drag boats have not been dragging in this bay for five days. Joe Olivieri, at the head of the A. Paladini company, spent Easter in Berkeley. Work of repainting the "Buddy" and "Caterina is going on rapidly. Only about 20 were fishing with lines off the end of the wharf on Monday.

A great Easter Sunday crowd was along the wharf and board walk on Easter Sunday. Harold Williams, with the Gen eral Fish Corporation, was at Monterey on Monday on a business trip. Flood And Erosion Control Club To Meet On Tuesday Santa Cruz Flood and Erosion Control club will hold a special meeting at the Greystone hotel, 315 Pacific avenue, Tuesday at 8:15 p. nr. according to George Bertolucci, president of the club, There will be a discussion of the report of the federal board of engineers for rivers and harbors on the organization's effort to se cure channel improvement and levee at the mouth of the San Lorenzo river.

This project has the recommendation of the board's engineer, whose report will submitted to the federal board for consideration and recommen dation. House, Garage, Tank House Burn A deserted house, garage, and tank house at 13th and Prospect streets burned Sunday morning A fire truck from station No. 2 on Soquel avenue was sent, and state truck remained at the scene until noon. Origin of the fire wnicn Degan anout a. was unknown.

highway robbery and that when congress tries to abolish their immunity, the president slips the word to a couple of his trained senators to kill the bill because it would embarrass the boys. He noted, in his juvenile way, that Harry Hopkins made a nice piece of change out of magazine stuff which he didn't even have to write himself, at a time when the president was damning war profiteers and, further, that although Hopkins warned the common citizens, that they must live a hard life, Harry is living higher and making more money than ever before in his life. The Doakes kid has' heard his old man mutter that such a way of doing ain't right and grumble that they didn't do that way before 1933 but the day before 1933 is just olden times to him and he fig ures that his old man is getting along. ft ft ft The old gent has tried, at times, to explain that right is right, but he hasnt' a very good command of language or logic and goes by instinct so he hasn't made much of an impression. The kid has never known anything else but the New Deal and its moral code, and he is just one of a whole generation of Amen-; cans, boys and girls, who have been so conditioned as the ideol- ogy writers would say.

That is why the Doakes kid I doesn't take very seriously all he hears about the four freedoms! everywhere in the world. He fig-! ures, what the hell, promise them anything and appoint an arbiter to break the promise, keep yourself in power and take care of your own mob and if one of those small nations puts up a beef, put it on the defensive with your propaganda. Without conscious reasoning, Joe Doakes, Junior, reckons to deal with the rest of the world as he has seen his own government deal with the people of the U.S.A. because that is the code under which he grew up and he knows no other. By Ernie Pjle There are many of these tanks scattered miles apart through- the valley.

On the hillsides you can still see white splotches powder marks from our exploding artillery shells. Gnarled lengths of Signal corps telephone wire, too mauled to retrieve, string for yards along the roadsides. There are frequent filled-in holes in the macadam where artillery dive bombers took their toll. Now and then a little graveyard with wooden crosses stands lone-soraely at the roadside. Some of the telephone poles have been chopped down.

There are clumps of empty ammunition boxes. But for all these things you must look closely. There was once a holocaust here but left only a slight mark. It is sort of hard to disfigure acres of marigolds and billions of blades of fresh desert grass. Sidi bou Zid is the little white village I saw destroyed by shell-fire back in February.

It was weeks later before I could get close enough to see the details, for the village remained German territory some time. This was one of the little towns I knew so well, and now it is pitiful to look at. The village almost doesn't exist any more. Its dozens of low stone adobe buildings, stuccoed a snowy white, are nothing but rockpiles. This village has died.

The reason for the destruction of Sidi bou Zid was that German and American tank columns, advancing toward each other, met there. Artillery from both sides poured its long distance fury into the town for hours. There will have to be a new Sidi bou Zid, ft ft YT Faid Pass is the last pass in the Grand Dorsal before the drive eastward onto the long flat plain that leads to the Mediterranean at Sfax. For months we looked with longing eyes at Faid. A number of times we tried to take it and failed.

But when the Germans' big retreat came they left Faid Pass voluntar ily. And they left it so thoroughly and maliciously mined that even today you don't dare drive off onto the shoulder of the road, or you may get blown to Kingdom come. Our engineers go through these mine fields with electrical instruments, locate the mines, and surround them with warning notices until they can later be dug up or exploded. These notices are of two types either a white ribbon strung around the mine area on knee-high sticks, or else stakes with oppositely pointing arrows on top. The white arrow pointing to the left meaning that side is safe, the red arrow pointing to the right meaning that side is mined.

And believe me, after seeing a few mine-wrecked trucks and jeeps you fear mines so dreadfully that you find yourself actually leaning away from the side of the road where the sins are, as you drive past. Threats of inflation may pass if the powers that be in Washington have the intestinal fortitude to really freeze wages at the prevail- ing level. The vicious circle of higher wages, then higher prices, then h'Sher wages, then higher prices, on and on, round and round, cannot continue; any man who thinks at all knows that the above statement is true. Furthermore, one can readily understand that it was necessary to create the 40-hour week during the depression so as to spread employment when millions could not obtain work. However, why it is necessary to retain the 40-hoitr base week with time and one balf for every hour over that under present conditions is causing many men to wonder what is back of it all, for we are told that industry must work 48 hours per week, but pay overtime for those extra eight hours.

The man who is caught in the middle is the one who is going to pay and pay for the theorists' belief that we should proceed on the same lines in times of war that we do in times of peace insofar as hours of work are concerned; or possibly it is the union leaders and those firms that are working on a cost plus base, or perhaps it is the professional politico who is likewise actuated by self interest. At any rate it is the middle man who is being squeezed the hardest. A man is proclaimed unpatriotic by the interested ones these days if he questions the actions of the politicians, the theorists, the professors and the economists, but in view of some existing eon-j ditions a vigorous opposition is healthy sign, provided that the) politician in his eagerness for par-1 ty spoils does not proceed to ex-1 tremes and undo some of the de-j sirable things that the present ad- ministration has accomplished. One of the things that the politico of both the major parties could unite on without offending the man on the street would be the; total abolition of the pressure! groups, for those groups are in- strumental in pulling some fasti ones at times. For instance, why should the federal government pay more for' silver than the world market price i calls for? Is it the silver bloe inj congress that is to blame? Los Angeles Has Blackout Los Angeles, April 26 Los Angelesall except the Mayor's officedoused its lights quickly last night when a 56 minute blackout provided an unusual climax to the city's Easter observance.

The army reported "unidentified targets later identified as friendly" brought on the alerts and the subsequent blackout. The yellow alert was ordered at 8:19 p. m. The blue at 8:26 p. m.

And red, insuring radio silence and blackout at 8:30 p. m. The all clear was given at 9:26 p. m. Civilian defense authorities said the blackout was the most complete and efficient of any previous and that civiian defense workers were at work immediately following the blackout signals.

At the city hall police discovered lights burning brightly on the second floor Mayor Fletcher Bowron's office. Officers and reporters broke into the mayor's office and turned out the lights, which had brought in a flood of protesting telephone calls. The alarm was the 20th for Los Angeles since the outbreak of war and the blackout was exceeded in length only by those of April 8 and Feb. 25 in 1942. INCREASE EXPECTED IN GIRL SCOUT CAMPERS A marked increase over the Girl Scouts who went camping last year is expected during the coming summer.

With added emphasis on the health, safety and training needed for children in wartime, more Girl Scout camps will be opened to meet the demand. In spite of difficulties with transportation, rationing, and labor shortages, the Girt Scout organization considers it a patriotic duty to serve the country by building healthy, alert children through a sound camping program. ENDS TONITB The Amazing Mrs. Ilolllday Daanna Durbin Edmoad O'Brien Plus THE ARMY CHAPLAIN 1i I Ends Tonus MISS ANNIE ROONEY ShlrUy rtmpia WllUam Garaan Saturday. Sales of Treasury 2V per cent bonds of 1964-69, 2 per cent bonds of 1950-52, and per cent certificates of indebtedness will stop, but individual investors will be urged to continue to put 10 per cent or more of their income in war bonds.

This final week of the drive will be marked by the opening of the books to commercial banks for of subscriptions to the 2 per cent bonds of 1950-52. These bonds will be available to the banks Thursday, Friday and Saturday and subscriptions of $100,000 or less will be allowed in full. Subscriptions over that amount will be allotted on a percentage basis. Gen. McNair Wounded On Africa Front Washington, April 26 Lt.

Gen. Lesly J. McNair, 59, one of the United States army's top leaders, has been wounded on the Tunisian front. Although the war department's announcement today gave no details of Friday's mishap to the commanding general of all army ground forces, Col. R.

Ernest Du- puy, chief of the news bureau of public relations, reported later in the army hour broadcast that the general was seriously wounded. The war department said the "exact circumstances are not yet known." Slated For Reeall Lt. Gen. Ben Lear, commander of the second army with headquarters at Memphis, was called to Washington to take temporary command of the ground forces. Lear, who only last week received the distinguished service medal, is due to be retired May 31 under the statutory age limit of 64, but is scheduled for immediate recall to duty.

The announcement of McNair's wounding was the first disclosure that McNair was in Africa. The army said he was on an inspection trip. McNair has had a distinguishd army career, and once was described by Gen. George C. Marshall, chief of staff, as the "brains of the army." Wins Decoration Graduated from West Point in 1904, he served with the Funston expedition to Vera Cruz, in 1914, Gen.

John J. Pershing's expedition to northern Mexico in 1916-17, and with the first AEF in France. He was decorated with the distinguished service medal in 1918. Lad Killed, Brother Is Injured When Shell Explodes Monterey, April 26 Richard Reams, 11, Seaside, was in a serious condition at a hospital today while funeral services were being planned for his brother, James, 13, who was killed when an artillery shell they found on the Fort Ord target range exploded. Late Saturday night, the boys were reported missing by their mother, Mrs.

Ruth Dinehart. Searching parties were sent out and early yesterday Richard, his right foot mangled, was found in a semi-conscious condition near the target range, inree nunareci yards away searchers found Jame body. Richard, whose foot was amputated by army surgeons at Fort Ord, said his brother had picked up the shell and it exploded in his arms, killing James instantly. Despite his injuries, Richard had tried to crawl to a nearby road in search of aid. CARRIER LAUNCHED Newport News, April 26 Launching of the navy's newest aircraft carrier, the Intrepid, was marked by quiet ceremonies here today.

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C. Poulsen, D. C. Phone W-W 111 Pacific Ave. I TUNISIA COUNTRYSIDE ESCAPES BAD SCARS Northern Tunisia (By Wireless) Thousands are the soldiers who want some day to bring their wives and children back to Tunisia, in times of peace, and take them over the battlefields we have come to know so well.

But except for the cities they will not find much to remind them of the ferocity that existed here. I have recently traveled over the Tunisian battle area both the part we knew so intimately because it was on our side and the part we didn't know at all because the Germans lived there at the time. You don't see the desolated countryside we remember from pictures of France in the last war. That is because the fighting has been mobile, because neither side used permanent huge guns, and because the country is mostly treeless and empty. But there are some marks left, and I'll try to give you examples.

ft ft ft East of El Guettar down a broad valley through which runs a nice macadam road, you see dark objects sitting far off on the plain. These are burncdout tanks of both sides. A certain two sit close together like twins, about a mile off the road. The immense caterpillar track is off one of them and lies trailed out behind for 50 feet. The insides are a shambles.

Seared and jumbled personal and mechanical debris is scattered around outside. Our soldiers have already retrieved everything worth-while from the German debris, but you can still find big wrenches, oil-soaked gloves and twisted shell cases. And in the shade of one tank, not five feet from the ereat metal skeleton, is the fresh grave of a German tanker, marked by a rough wooden cross without a name. Santa Cruz Sentinel-News Established 1855 Published dally with a Morning Edition, except Monday, and an Evening Edition, except Saturday and Sunday by the Sentinel Publishing Company, at 23 Church Street, Santa Cruz, California. Phone 3800.

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