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68, No. 5 November 11, 1942 No Armistice Day Willkie to Lead G.O.P. Fight Over Chairmanship 5 Simple Rules for Keeping Fit in word or act. He will demand the full testament from his firmly convinced that only in this way can the mistakes of the last peace be averted. Mr.

Willkie was hailed as a crusader "by his followers in 1940. He will fulfill the role and on this international issue to the hilt-from here out, in a way that will challenge not orily the latent isolationism within his own party, but a hesitancy and timidity that he professes to see in Roosevelt administration. It is wisely admitted that Mr. Willkie has grown in stature in the last two years, has acquired a grasp of intematiorfal problems, since his 1940 campaign, and has a voice that will not be silenced. In this fight he will array himself against the old line party leaders who have a distaste for the man and his views, chiefly because he spurns the course of expediency which the party is inclined to follow.

He realizes this. It whets his appetite. Herbert Hoover is a party to the fight against Willkie, and Alfred1 M. Landon, the 1936 nominee, undoubtedly will be found in the anti-Willkie element on a showdown. Mr.

Willkie will accept no sideline role, it is certain. It may be recalled that he forced the republican national committee, at the April meeting in Chicago, to accept a resolution against isolationism and for participation by the United States in world affairs. He operated by telephone from New York, constantly threatening to descend on the meeting with a personal appeal. -v. a He may be counted on to do the.

dramatic when the party elders meet at St. Louis. Mr. Willkie will be on their necks, and they might as well expect it. (By Thomas L.

Stokes in the New York World-Telegram) The republican party, once again a healthy and lively organism, offers in its 1944 presidential nomination a rich prize that already dangles before the envious eyes of several hopefuls, some of them elevated to a grasping position by last weeks elections. Consequently there will begin soon, and continue until the national convention opens in less than two years, a struggle for control of the machinery and domination of its policies. The first round in this fight will occur less than a month from now in St. Louis, where the republican national committee meets on Dec. 7, the anniversary of Pearl harbor, to select a new chairman to succeed Rep.

Joseph W. Martin, Mr. Martin has resigned from the chairmanship to give his full time to the minority leadership of the house, an office now clothed with great responsibility by last weeks gains. The St. Louis meeting will be lifted above the routine by two factors the added power and prestige of the party, and the fact that Wendell Willkie will enter the fight over the chairmanship.

Mr. Willkie will insist that the committee elect a chairman sincerely committed to our fill participation in creation of a world order that, will end imperialism, free subjugated nations and races all over the world, and guarantee that they can live in peace and security fjio longer the pawns of empire or dictators. This new American responsibility in world affairs is the gospel Mr. Willkie has been preaching and will keep on preaching, come what may, from now until the convention meets in 44. He will accept no quibbling.

He will take no half-way expediency U.S. and British Navies Adding 10,000 Warships! to Improvise Hurriedly Published every day except Sunday by John Scrlppa Newspapers at 567 Santa Clara street, Ventura, Calttornla. Roy Pinkerton, editor; tiarry Green, business manager; Frank Rogers, managing editor. Entered as second class matter April 10, 1937. at the postoifice at Ventura.

California, under the act 1 March 3. 1879 The Ventura County Star-Free Press Is the result ol consolidations which merged the ldenuues ot the following newspapers: The Ventura County Star, established June 15. 1925; The Democrat, later The Post. 1883; and the Ventura Free Press, Nov 6. 1875.

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75 cents for one month; from newsboys and newsstands, 4 cents a copy. Member Audit Bureau ol Circulations, United Press Associations. NEA Service. Inc, California Newspaper Publishers' Association. Official Newspaper of the City of San Buenaventura A DIFFERENT ARMISTICE DAY ARMISTICE DAY is being observed this yeap i1 a new mood and a new fashion.

It is being observed rather than celebrated, it is. being observed as a day of war effort, not of national jubilation. On that first Armistice day of 1918, we thought we had won the war. During many succeeding November llths, we clung to the belief. Now we know differently; now we know that the 11-11-11 armistice of 1918 was an armistice and nothing more.

We know that our invasion of north-Africa, our expeditionary efforts in the Pacific, our military operations around the globe are just an extension of the conflict in which President Wilson and his generation carried the Stars and Stripes abroad. Historians doubtless will detail the. events of chapters one and two, but lump them together as twin parts of the Twentieth Century So, on this Armistice day it is fitting that we pay full tribute to the thousands who died in that first episode and realize that other thousands now must die in order that the chapter be brought at last to a definitive conclusion. And with these somber realizations in our minds, let us look forward to future Armistice days, days that will be more than armistice days, days that represent a new era of peace and the enjoyment everywhere of all the freedoms. You, too, can be a salvage commando.

Parachutist recruit tells us the suspense isnt half so terrible as it would be if there werent any suspense. SPOKESMAN FOR CALIFORNIA IT IS gainful for Californians to contemplate their representation, during this war, in the U.S. senate. Downey his moments of clarity and strength but offsets them with periods of strange vagaries and vacillations. Hiram Johnson is pitiful.

Earlier this year, and not many months ago, the senior California senator arose in the chamber with the craven demand that the American navy be brought back from its task duties of convoying and battling the enemy in distant seas in order that IT MIGHT GUARD OUR SHORES. He and some New England member clamored to have the warships patrol California and New England coasts to save the cities from enemy invasions! Had such a policy been adopted, no doubt both coasts now would need such immediate protection, no doubt we should in fact be suffering invasion attempts rather than north Africa and the Solonons! More recently, only a few days ago, Senator Johnson arose with another contribution, an effort to restrict or totally forbid the use of 18 and 19-year-old selectees, contrary to all the recommendations of our responsible military leaders. He spoke repeatedly on that theme'. Hene are some typical paragraphs, as culled from the Congressional Recorcr: A senator has a right to come upon this floor and say a word in behalf of children. It is a terrible thing to contemplate a committee sitting in their seats and being beautifully photographed.

Oh, yes; they had their photographs taken and the photographs appeared in various newspapers. It was a beautiful thing for them. And to have a man in front of them, one of the gentlemen who presides over our destinies, militarily speaking, saying to them, These youngsters of 18 years of age are the best troops in the world. They are not the best troops in the world; The record shows they are not and every authority bears that out. They are more adventurous, perhaps, and they will do things which older men will not do, but they are actuated solely by the peculiar love of adventure which is characteristic of youth.

Therefore we should not accept the views of our military leaders in this regard. Oh, no; oh, no; it does not occur to us to adopt a rule that we should fight only upon our own shores. No; that would be the most absurd thing that was ever heard of; and as for any man who would stand here on the floor and talk about fighting only upon our own shores he is gone, he is gone, he is gone. Yes; that is the truth, and w.e recognize it to be the truth. Those who are so ready with names and so eager with epithets will use them to the utmost in denouncing one who takes such' a stand.

That is the manner in which the State of California is being represented in the United States senate. The life of the party these days often is the one who can shout louder than the radio. In Washington right now. Judge Byrnes seems to have the floor, and the ceiling too. WERE NOT DOING IT ALL AMERICAN shipyards are making marvelous records in the race to provide cargo craft for war use.

Henry Kaisers succession of feats has caught much of the publicity, but at the same time other yards are performing what, but for him, would be front-page miracles. The secret is pre-fabrication. We think of this as a prime example of Yankee ingenuity. But the British ask us to remember that with little fanfare they have been breaking shipbuilding records themselves through pre-fabrication. Blackouts forbid the 24-hour operation which is common over here.

Yet one yard is launching a every three weeks. Eighth grader we know says he wishes his high school sister would take that domestic silence course. ARMISTICE DAY IN EUROPE ARMISTICE DAY came to Europe with Germany violently destroying its armistice agreement with France and sending the nazi columns across the hitherto unoccupied part of that bedevilled country. Thus, Hitler, by again breaking his word, has freed Marshal Petain from his moral straight jacket, and it would appear at this writing, unified the French people on all-out cooperation with the United Nations. (From the International Teamster) The average teamster is a healthy fellow who can take a lot qf physical punishment.

But that is no sign he will stay healthy or that he can continue to take it. In fact, the federal government is beginning to worry a bit about the health of teamsters as well as all other citizens. One reason for this is that so many doctors and nurses are going into the military service that civilians cannot receive the medical care to which they have become accustomed. They will have to take care of their own health, instead of leaving it to the doctor. To compensate for the scarcity of doctors, the life insurance companies have inaugurated a nationwide health program with the cooperation 04 Dr.

Thomas Parran, United States surgeon general, and Paul V. McNutt of the -manpower commission. They have adopted five simple rules by which the average person can keep himself in good health during the emergency. The rules are reprinted for your bene fit. And they apply to the fam ily, too.

1. EAT RIGHT Milk, butter, eggs, fish, meat, cheese, beans and peas, fruit, green leafy vegetables and the yellow ones, whole-grain or enriched cereals and bread these are the key foods. Eat plenty of them. And eat three meals a day. 2.

GET YOUR REST Regularity counts most. You cant catch up on lost sleep or missed relaxation! Try to keep on a regular schedule every day. Take it easy for a little while after lunch and dinner, Go to bed on time; get up on time. 3. SEE DOCTOR ONCE A YEAR You have your car checked and serviced every thousand miles.

Do as much for your body. Physicians can prevent many diseases and illnesses for both children and grown ups nowadays. Give your doctor a chance now, BEFORE you get sick. Go to see him! 4 KEEP CLEAN Plenty of baths, lots of soap. Clean hands, clothes, houses, beds! Get fresh air, sunshine.

Drink lots of water. 5. PLAY SOME EACH DAY Romp with the family, visit with friends, take walks, play games or do whatever you like to give your mind and body a change from the daily grind on the job. All work and no play makes Jack st dull boy. These sound easy, but try living by them.

If you can't be bothered for your own sake, take them on for America. The necessity for a health program is reflected in the statistics which show that absences from work because of accident and illness are losing Americans the total of a years work by 250,000 persons. Healthy men have fewer accidents. This Lizard Is Our Pal! (University of California News Service.) People continue to permit alligator lizards to be killed, not realizing that they are their friends, being exterminators of black widow spiders, declares Dr. Raymond B.

Cowles, zoologist on the Los Angeles campus of the University of California. These lizards feed on black widow spiders and their eggs, and, along with certain parasites, are able to halt the increase of this spider. The lizards are commonly known as the San Diego species. They are able to get into crevices where the spiders live and they destroy them rapidly. Unfortunately, cats do away with the lizards.

The latter are described as having a long, slender, snakelike body, rough-scaled, with legs shorter than those of most lizards. In length they become 14 to 16 inches, the common ones being about 10 to 12 inches. Dr. Cowles tells of a former student of the -university who fed 1,000 black widow spiders to each of three lizards over a period of two years. The student, Samuel Hinton, is now director of the Palm Springs museum.

HATES A YEAR During a' summer, vacation, Booth Tarkington was introduced to a grumpy old chap who seemed to have it in for the world. He complained about everything and everybody day in and day out. The water was never hot enough, the eggs were never cooked enough, the sun was too strong, the room was too breezy. Tarkington listened to these complaints until he could stand no more. What makes you so mad at the world? he asked.

0 Every man is entitled to at least two good hates a year, returned the other. Perhaps so, agreed Tarkington. But must each of them last six months? Milwaukee Journal. PLAYING SAFE A new comet discovered by a South American astronomer will be visible through a telescope next year, but it isjiot expected to come near the eartn. This is understandable.

Punch. Hitler Has (By Louis F. Keemle, of the United Press War Desk) Hitler has been thrown on the defensive in Europe before the American campaign in North Africa is fully four days old. His move into unoccupied France is one of desperation. Gone is the mockery of collaboration with the puppet Vichy government.

Hitler has taken over, not for offensive purposes but to defend the vulnerable southern coast of France from invasion. The dispatch of fighter planes and air-borne troops to Tunisia in North Africa is an equally desperate move. Unlike such previous Hitler operations as the invasion of Crete, it was not carefully planned in advance but done on the spur of the moment, born of necessity. The Tunisian move seems designed primarily to delay the advancing Americans and help save the remnants of Marshal Erwin Rommels shattered Afrika korps in Libya. Hitler also must have some forlorn hope of saving Bizerte, the powerful French naval base in Tunisia, which in allied hands would be a dire menace to Sicily and the coast of continental Italy.

American forces are reported to have crossed the Tunisian frontier, in line with President Roosevelts announcement that they intended to do so, and the first direct land clash between German and American forces is imminent. The co-incident Italian occupation of French Corsica apparently is designed to protect Italys northwestern flank from invasion rather than a move toward Africa, since the axis already is established in Italian Sardinia to the south. Hitlers problem is manifest. He no longer is in the position of being able to call the play and force the allies on the defensive at the spot he chooses. Hitler was forced to march into Do You Recall These Days? TWENTY FIVE YEARS AGO O.

J. Solari and sons, Augustine and Gabriel, will open their new confectionery store in the Chaffee building tomorrow. A. L. Cagnacci was installed as president of the Latin American union at a barbecue and induction meeting last night.

FIFTEEN YEARS AGO Pan-American No. 1, discovery well in the new Hobson field seven miles northwest of Ventura on the Rincon, today was reported to be still clouded, with the oil somewhat slow in clearing up. Jewelry estimated at about was stolen early this morning by a burglar who entered the A. Delmas store in Oxnard, the sheriffs office learned. FIVE YEARS AGO Dedicating its pompous celebration to everlasting peace, the county of Ventura today observed the 19th anniversary of the signing of the Armistice while the overseas world became more embroiled in warfare.

Back at the helm of the California Fruit Growers exchange for the 18th consecutive year, C. C. Teague, Santa Paula, today prepared to lead California citrus men into another big season. of war in the modern navy. And! that figure of 10,000 new warships seems to me to emphasize, as dramatically as anything could do, the immense extent of the naval effort that the United Navies have to make in order to( maintain the freedom of the seas' for the movement of their sup-' plies and their armies.

Remarkable Remarks The enemy hopes to win before we can get going. He lashes his enslaved workers for more production. We appeal to free labor and we believe that free labor will win. So hurry, keep ahead of those schedules. Brig.

Gen. Raymond F. Fowler, chief U. S. army engineers supply.

I came back (from England) very much encouraged by what I saw, and I was particularly filled with admiration for the women of England. Treasury Secretary Henry Mor- genthau, jr. To America the world looks for leadership. Let us not be fear- ful or shackled by the past. Under Gods guidance let us dare to launch out into the deep and go forward with courage and with wisdom and with faith.

Francis B. Sayre, former Philip- pines high commissioner. The needs of the war effort have multiplied our demands for a maximum and integrated war production, not only at home but in every country of the United Nations. President Roosevelt. Wool mills in Uruguay are working three eight-hour shifts but still have a large back-log of orders from domestc and foreign markets, the department of commerce reports.

Approximately one-half of the retaik establishments in the United States are so small that they have no hired employes, the department of commerce says. Expenditures by the American public for personal services dur- A mg 1942. will total $1,962,000,000, an increase of 10.7 percent compared with 1941, according to the department of commerce. TO SAVE AMERICA SAVE GREASE! (By H. C.

Ferraby in recent BBC war review broadcast) While I was compiling some of the statistical information about the war at sea which one has to keep up to date as a check upon ones line of thought in these commentaries, I came across a rather startling figure. At first I could not credit it, but cross checks and recounts persuaded me that it was worth quoting, not as a figure which is exact in itself, but one which gives some idea of the immense naval-construction program we are engaged in. The figure was this. Taking all classes of warships that is everything from battleships down to small craft the British and American navies are on the way to adding something in the neighborhood of 10.000 new warships to their strength. The American government has made public an exact figure of its program.

The plan provides for the building of 5,334 new warships of all types, from big battleships down to motor-torpedo boats. The British government has issued no figure, but we know that the admiralty found it necessary in the last war to add something like 4,000 ships of all kinds to the pre-war fleet, and we can take it as probable that the effort in this war is at least as big. Let me emphasize that these figures include warships of all types, and of that of gourse the great majority are small craft. But this fact in itself is an indication of the variety of ships Will X-Ray All Swedes (By American-Swedish News Exchange.) The National Association for the Combat of Tuberculosis in Sweden is planning to take X-ray photographs of every Swedish citizen so that a complete picture of the spread of tuberculosis in the nation can be secured. The work will be done by means of traveling laboratories built into special motor busses, containing X-ray apparatus and waiting rooms.

The capacity of the laboratory will be 100 X-ray photographs an hour. The first bus of the series to be used in the work is now being constructed. Examination of Swedens citizens will start in the northern province of Angermanland. priceT jump A young artist of the impressionistic school of art went to the gallery to see how his masterpiece had been hung. When he reached the first picture he was gratified to find a sizeable group of art-lovers gathered before it, but was shocked to discover it had been hung upside down.

Hastening away to the chairman of the art committee, he complained bitterly about the injustice which had done to his masterpiece. But we have sold your picture for you, said the official placat-ingly. The artist brightened perceptibly. And furthermore, announced the official triumphantly, by turning your picture upside down we got sixty-one dollars for it, whereas the price you had marked on it was only nineteen dollars. Christian Science Monitor.

southern France and will have to improvise coastal defenses. He has little chance of matching the powerful fortifications of the northwestern French and Belgian coasts before the allies are ready to attack, if they do select France for the next phase of the second front. Hitlers problem does not end there, however. The allies have fredom of choice and do not have to attack through Francg. Sicily and Italy lie within inviting range of Tunisia.

Then there is the Balkan peninsula, through Greece and Jugoslavia. If all possible points for an allied invasion of southern Europe are to be protected, it means wide dispersal of the axis forces and consequent lessening of the power to resist. If Italy is to be defended. Hitler will be obliged to come to the aid of the Italians. That would require diversion of heavy forces to guard the Italian coast from the plains of Lombardy to the southern War Shifts Many Things You cant sell your yacht to an alien without first getting permission from the government.

Prices of rifles and pistols for sale to civilians have been frozen at levels of last Jan. 10. Summaries of September store sales show drops for filling station, auto dealers, furniture and hardware stores, and building materials dealers. All other retail sales were up, food and drink places being up 28 percent. Army is using 2700 Pullmans and 2600 day coaches continuously, to haul troops.

Peak U. S. railroad movement for one day is 25,000 trains and 1.5 million cars. Price increases have now been permitted on six types of food, including listed canned fruits, frozen fruits and vegetables, butter, canned shrimp and crab-meat. MASON PLUS DIXON Washington is a place where all accents meet, particularly where north meets south.

A Bos ton mother who recently moved to the capital and hired a colored maid from Virginia as nurse for her young daughter, was astounded the other day to hear the daughter announce that she had to go to the bawthroom to wash her haid. Now the father wants to hire an elocution teacher to make the child speak English Peter Edson. QUOTED WITH CREDIT The army recently received a raw recruit of education and culture. On his first day at camp he was utterly exhausted after several hours of drilling. At ease, finally ordered the officer.

How wonderful is death, muttered the recruit. The officer turned like a flash. Who said that? he demanded. The culprit smiled wanly and replied: Shelley, I believe, sir. Phoenix Flame.

shore of Sicily. It could not be done without dangerously thinning other fronts, notably Russia. Another problem Hitler has brought upon himself is the reaction of the French fighting forces, land and naval, to the occupation of the whole of France. There is some prospect that the French troops in all North Africa may swing to the allied side, now that they have not even the shadowy Vichy government for leadership. The navy, too, might follow Darlan if he changes allegiance.

The section of the French fleet which is at Toulon is a question mark. Even if Hitler gets his hands on the ships, there is the business of manning them. The odds are greatly against their French crews fighting willingly for Hitler. Find Poisons In Pastures (University of California News Service) Poisonous plants are the cause of heavy losses annually among all kinds of domestic animals maintained on range or pasture. Perhaps nothing causes more vexation and discouragement than losses ascribed to this source.

Stockmen have long recognized in general the causes of such trouble, yet relatively few are familiar with the poisonous plants found on their ranges. These are statements found in Bulletin 593 of the university of California college agriculture, written by Dr. Arthur W. Sampson, professor of forestry, and Harry E. Malmsten, formerly assistant professor of forestry.

The bulletin may be obtained free from the college of agriculture, at Berkeley, or from any advisor. The chief object of the bulletin, it is explained, is to summarize the present knowledge and field observations of the stock-poisoning plants of the state. Although the total number of poisonous species occurring on ranges of California is large, most of the deaths among range livestock are caused by species embraced in relatively few genera. The bulletin discusses first the plants of primary importance, then those of secondary consideration, and finally those which are local or which cause only occasional loss. EASY ESCAPE Nancy I just saw two cops chase a holdup man through a drugstore? Sluggo Did they catch hint? Nancy No, he stepped on a scale and got a weigh! ACCENT ON FEW Gladys: Was the bracelet Charlie gave you set with precious stones? nm Dorothy: Precious few.

Atlanta Two Bells. Some motion picture theatres in the Dominican Republic admit, females at a price less than charged males, says the department of commerce. Production for war will account for two-thirds of total industrial output in the United States during 1943, the department of commerce reports. 4.