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News-Pilot from San Pedro, California • 2

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2 SAN PEDRO NEWS-PILOT TLfi War T0f4av Tuesday Evening April 17 1945 1 TT a' lOUfly Yesteryears in San Pedro Roosevelt Will Terms Disclosed USS Topic for B-17 Production Propeller Club Cut 50 Per Cent ing Star jet No output changes have been ordered for the Constellation army transport or the navy PV medium bomber Lockheed said The Golden Gate Fireworks Co Redondo Beach producers of spotting charges was ordered to cut production by 50 per cent Hollywood Ration Boards Combine HOLLYWOOD This home of the superlative today claimed the largest ration board west of the Mississippi in the number of persons served Representing a consolidation of four boards it will distribute ration points to 240000 residents It will have more than 100 volunteer workers Hitler Stands in Fear of Russians By DEWITT MACKENZIE (Associated Press War Analyst) The madness of Hi last-ditch stand in which he is deliberately sacrificing his fatherland in a despairing effort to save his own life is one of the amazing pages of history Having become somewhat accustomed to the upheavals of his abnormal mind one surprised at the violence of the new and perhaps final order to his troops to TEN YEARS AGO The building permit issued here today for rehabilitation of the Point Fermin school estimates the cost at $73800 Bids will be opened May 9 The Point Fermin building is the last to be pleted in the elementary school rehabilitation program here Reminiscent of other days when the Outer Harbor Dock Wharf San Pedro terminal was jammed with shipping seven ships handled passengers and cargo there during a three-day period ending today All seven were of foreign registry Jeanne McKelvey last night was hostess at her home at a post-threatre dancing party Guests included Annette McMillan Naomi Jean Murdock Mrs Pearl McKelvey Mrs Emma Me- NEW YORK fP President Franklin Roosevelt provided in his will that his widow should have the right to selec any and all personal property which she desires and to utilize her lifetime The will filed yesterday with the clerk of the court of Dutchess county Poughkeepsie and made public here by John Farber of the law firm of Farber also makes specific bequests to St James church Hyde Park Georgia Warm Springs Foundation and to personal employes and servants The will was executed Nov 12 1941 The value of the estate was not determined It provides that after Mrs during Backfire The Propeller club whose first vice president Herbert Pickering heads the United Service executive committee will hear more about the USS tomorrow at a meeting at the Hilton hotel Long Beach A Van Buskirk port area executive will discuss Merchant Marine in War and from his background as a Cape Town South Africa exporter -importer and his more recent experience Lillias Gilbert soprano a Hollywood Victory committee volunteer I who has entertained at the San Pedro USS club will sing accompanied by Ludvig Dreyfus Several merchant marine skippers will be guests Phillip Ketchum regional USS director from San Francisco also is expected to be a guest hang on at all costs in face of the great new Russian offensive He runs true to type in reviving his GREEN BAY Wis UP) A A 50 per cent cutback in B-17 production was ordered yesterday at the Douglas Aircraft Co plant at Long Beach The reduction will be gradual and it will be several months before the new rate of production is stabilized At Burbank Lockheed Aircraft Co announced yesterday that its production of B-17 Flying Fortresses will be cue in half over a 60-day period and that building of P-38 Lightning fighters will be tapered gradually starting about the end cf this month The reduced Flying Fortress output will continue to present advice for 18 to 20 i the company said P-38s continue to be built until the 1 end of Revised production schedules call for of the unprecedented rate of production acceleration to the P-80 Shoot- their treatment of the people as German territory has been occupied Of course few will be naive enough to think that either the Russians or the western Allies are going to hang daisy-chains about the necks of the Germans and dance around the May-pole with them However the general German public appears to be faring better than all right GOOD FOOD is Not a Sometime Thing When piepared by tiose possessing the skill and desire to obtain perfection Our chef has made a career of the culinary arts His more than twenty years experience in this work enables us to provide you with food guaranteed to merit your complete satisfaction Green 0 Spot Green Bay school boy had a pal old role of Frankenstein and and he believed a good trick again bringing out what he often until has described as the Bolshevist When the report card monster a fearsome giant which Wasn't much to bring home the he fabricated long ago to terrify pal would sign the name of the he German public mother Recently the boy The Fuehrer declares lhat the I -Bolshevist arch is to wipe out our He shouts that old men and children are being mur and asked his teacher why The teacher showed him a card His ex-pal had written: homework Roosevelt has selected personal Kelvey Mrs Edna Ashley Bruce property the five children shall McKelvey and Mrs George Mc- Millan give my son more Mrs Maritime Notes PHONI SANPtjwc Ilte CABRILL0 Cafe Box Office Opens at 6 pm POSITIVELY ENDS TONIGHT TERROR IS ON THE TWENTY YEARS AGO Announcement was made today that the $80000 Hotel San Pedro soon will rise at 276 Fourth st The building planned as a four-story structure will contain 77 rooms as well as a spacious lobby It is the second hotel planned for the fourth and Fifth st improvement district since the recent paving and grading operations were completed At one of the largest meetings of Native Sons and Daughters ever held in San Pedro 40 candidates last night were initiated into Sepulveda parlor at the regular semi-monthly meeting in American Legion Hall each have the right to select one-fifth of the residue of the personal property Any property not chosen by Mrs Roosevelt or the children the will said shall be offered by the executors as a gift to the United States government for display in the Franklin Roosevelt Library or the Roosevelt main house at Hyde Park The main house and its adjacent grounds were conveyed to the government last year subject to certain rights of use reserved to Mrs Roosevelt and the children The executors and trustees of the estate are Col James Roosevelt the late eldest son Basil O'Connor his former law partner and Henry Haek-ett an attorney of Poughkeepsie Forf- Log Trainer to Go Oversees Warranty Officer Bob Pierce I whose trained dogs already have brought discomfort to the enemy is leaving the Fort MacArthur K-9 training command for over- seas duty the post announced A dog trainer in civilian life Pierce was assigned in the same capacity when he was inducted here in April 1941 and developed dogs which helped guard the local military reservation as well as animals which worked with combat soldiers overseas ROBAL CAFE 201 Beacon St Appreciate Our HOME COOKED FOODS BREAKFAST LUNCH DINNER 6:00 am to 8:00 pm Moderate Prices LAIRD CREGAR LINDA DARNELL IGE0RGE SANDERS Located within the For1 MacArthur Detour on Parific Avenue at 26th Street Open 24 Hours Daily Except Wednesday I Free Parking in Rear of Cafe First of a type of fishing boats called Steel Enders and which as the name implies have steel ends and wood midships sections has been launched at a Seattle machine works Only 42 feet long the craft has accommodations in the bow section for six men and the stern section contains an auto-type gasoline engine driving a level shaft through reduction V-belts The wooden center section largely laminated and prefabricated contains the fish wells and over it immediately upon launching was lowered the prefabricated house Sabins chief engineer for the firm which worked up the design said more than 3000 fishermen manufacturers and suppliers were interviewed over a three-year period while what he hopes will be perfect was developed The ideal he said was an all-purpose boat to catch and deliver more fish at less cost with increased safety and Comfort THIRTY' YEARS AGO More than 5000 persons yesterday attended the opening reception of the First National bank held at its new location 519 Beacon st with Glenn IANGAN Faye MARLOWt Alon NAPIER Club NEWS and SHORT Pigs Do Fly TOMORROW DENTAL PLATES ON EASY CREDIT TERMS: pay by week month dered women and girls are being I reduced to the status of prosti-j tutes and remainder led away to Siberia Drown the bolshevist assault in a blood bath HITLER PROGRAM That would be a strange document to come from anyone but Hitler This man who has no I more conscience than a coyote raves of murder apd prostitution when he himself has given orders for the slaughter of countless thousands of civilians and has made brood animals out of Ger- young girls by teaching them to have babies out of wed-I lock as a patriotic duty so that I the Reich might have more men for cannon fodder order of the day mention the western Allies at all It deals only with the This Bolshevist theme has been one of the main planks in his platform ever since he started his climb to power and he has hammered so consistently on it that many of the German people undoubtedly are fearful of the Soviet Union safe to say that Hitler himself also is afraid of the Russians and with good reason He double-crossed them and broke his bond when he made war on them He has carried out terrible atioci-ties on Russian territory Certainly Moscow has no love for the Nazi dictator and like the rest of the Allies would like to put hands on him RUSSIAN YTEW However an interesting commentary on the situation that just prior to order of the day George Alexandroff the Russian communist party propaganda chief made this striking declaration: Red army fulfilling Us great liberative mission is waging war for the liquidation of army The Soviet government never has and does not have as its aim the extermination of the German people This would be stupid and unthinkable The Soviet people have never considered as one and the same the German population and the criminal Nazi clique ruling Apart from this categorical LONDON UP) Lord Brabazon former minister of aircraft production says he was the first to take a pig up in an just to refute the old saying that pigs cannot fly ROmiMCE DE LUXE tn 4 ittcirif udtili! Bennett Serves of 50 Years Oscar Bennett in his and active will find a host of friends testifying to his 50 years of service to the Knights of Pythias when the district convention of the lodge is held Friday in Wilmington Bennett joined the of in 1895 when he was initiated into San Pedro Lodge 126 For the past 21 years he has held the post of master of finance It was incorrectly reported yesterday that he was a member of Wilmington lodge In honor of his half a century of membership in San Pedro lodge he will be presented with a jewel One of the oldest employes of a local lumber yard Bennett is employed as head tallyman He resides with his wife at 427 Centre st railways" consume about 100 million tons of coal a year YOU ARF SUFFERING with Piles Hemorrhoids Prostate Gland or Constipation you can have quick relief No doctors or medicine soothing and comforting To enjoy good health sleep and rest no man or woman should be without it Send no money just fill in the attached coupon and mail to a PO BOX 2007 OAKLAND 4 CALIF Gentlemen send me one MIRACLE PERFORMER On delivery I will pay the Postman SI 70 plus a few cents postage If I am not satisfied I may return it within 15 days and my $170 will be The tuna clipper Leviathan the first all-steel fishing vessel to be constructed in the northwest in recent years was recently launched from the yards of the Reliable Welding works in Olympia Wash Hanson Seattle naval architect who designed the vessel said she will be a fishing vessel deluxe The Leviathan is building for Capt John Breskovich of Tacoma and will cost approximately $200-000 The 130-foot tuna clipper will have a crusing radius of 7500 miles and will be capable of operating to fishing banks off either the Mexican or South American coasts The main engine will be an 850-horsepower Diesel Name I Address City- State Two large British firms already SEE THE GREATEST nmmvt ms have prepared post-war shipbuild- London Cammell Laird the STARS DIRECT FROM 23 DAY ship construction firm at Birken- mn jVJ head is strengthening its slip- JW LiA statements reports from the war waYs to handle the largest foretheatres have indicated that the seeable types of vessels Already Red armies have been careful in company at the request of the British admiralty is laying down merchant ships as it completes its wartime contracts At the same Clift tiff DAV TklTlC Ckkl ETUI ft I time Vickers-Armstrong Ltd of DllUn vlfvUIllD DAN BrfiUIW London announced its intention of i EARNERS SAN PEDRO THEATRE CHESTER MORRIS NANCY KELLY and OF TIME" NOWH Murderer Ttare 19K20 Murderess? 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