anaheim-gazette 1944-08-24

Thursday, August 24, 1944 WASHINGTON As Seen By CONGRESSMAN JOHN PHILLIPS Let me illustrate what I mean by the statement in last week's column that Lend-Lease is such an attractive proposition that I wish that we here in the United States could get in on it ourselves. Understand me, I am not against Lend-Lease. I have voted for it every time it has come up since I've been in the Congress. It was a great idea to meet an emergency. But remember that Lend-Lease is a war measure. The material transferred under it is presumed to be material of war necessity and the nation which receives it is presumed to be an active ally, using the material for war purposes, directly or indirectly. I told you I spent an afternoon in Mexicali. Nothing that I say is critical of that city nor of the people. I am convinced that their opinions of such a situation coincide with ours, just as I know from personal contacts that we gain no respect from the people of the South American countries by our policies there. But if the slide rule boys in Washington insist on giving away a lot of things the people didn't ask for and often didn't know about, can you blame them for taking what is offered? I was never able to BUY respect by giving an impression that I was inexperienced, ignorant, extravagant, and mildly insane. I doubt if a nation can gain respect that way. In Mexicali I found no lack of zippers nor of elastic nor of what the ladies now call "foundations." In Mexicali I found no lack of zippers nor of elastic nor of what the ladies now call "foundations." Every shop from novelties to hardware sold silk and nylon stockings. All the alarm clocks, electric irons, electric razors, electric toasters you want, if you want to pay for them. The clocks were $10. I counted 150 boxed Stetson hats of the best quality in a men's wear shop. Shoes were of good quality unrationed. There are apparently no ration problems. Everything in common use was there—except gasoline. If anything wasn't there, an offer was made to send over to the United States and get it, if you could wait a few days. Gasoline was very scarce; much scarcer than here. There is a great deal of building. Two new large movie houses, new store buildings, new office buildings, new hospital, new Chamber of Commerce building (although some of the Chambers in the 22nd District would be glad to have the old one), two new drug stores, cabarets, saloons, or if you prefer, cocktail parlors. This is the border. Men back from Mexico City say you can get even more things there, including tractors and trucks of the sizes and kinds we need in Southern California right now. Many are standing idle on the floors of Mexican showrooms. I don't know how it's done. Perhaps it's done with mirrors! Probably I'll get a letter telling me it isn't Lend-Lease at all. All right, all right. I won't argue; it's just another one of the alphabetical agencies, all hatched from the same nest, which won't in some cases even let the allied nations pay for the things they expected to pay for, as in the case of the Russian butter, or the Chinese legation's new automobile. I haven't an atom of jealousy in me on the subject. I am glad all the neighboring brothers and sisters are getting some of these much needed States manufactured articles, I'd have to give up my American citizenship and become a citizen of some other nation to get them. That's all. Deciding Game for Post Softball title Played Aug. 28 The third and final game for the post softball crown will be played between West Coast Hdqs and the Section A-1 team next Monday, August 28th at 5:30 in the Santa Ana Bowl. The first contest of this nip and tuck series went to A-1 by a 4-3 score with West Coast coming back to even the series in an extra innning battle 3-0. West Coast will probably open with the same lineup that took the measure of the Administrative boys in the last game which means that Joaquin Gonzales, West Coast's fine hurler will once more face his old rivals from the air base. A-1 plans to use Joe Hardesty on the mound in the crucial struggle with George Conaway slated to open in left field in place of Steve Yost. Dave Satkin, A-1's leading slugger, who missed the second game of the series, will be back at his post in right field. Once more the game and the championship are rated as a toss-up with the probably deciding the ultimate winner. — Santa Ana Cadet. A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Tony Lamas on Tuesday, Aug. 22, at the Anaheim Lutheran hospital. The Lamas home is at 1927 North Street. Railway shipments of watermelons, cantaloupes and peaches during the week ending July 29th exceeded 7,400 carloads, providing strong competition for the citrus total of 3,500 carloads. Mr. and Mrs. David Harris of Route 1, Box 685, Orange, are the parents of a son born on Monday, Aug. 21, at the Anaheim Lutheran hospital. Contributions made by residents of Anaheim to the Anaheim War Chest help the California War Chest finance the work of United China Relief under whose auspices the blood bank was established, Chairman Pearson explained. Here are a few things Glen learned about the German soldier during the early weeks of the fighting in France: 1. He fights hard and with courage. But when he goes tough, he's likely to quit. 2. He doesn't like to fight a night. And that's a good time to go out and get him. You can pick out his position better at night by following the line of the tracers from his machine guns. Day it's hard to see him because he fights behind hedgerows and his powder is smokeless. 3. He's very tricky. If you give him a chance to pull a fast one on you, he'll go ahead and put it. Watch him when he surrenders. German soldiers have been known to surrender with a white flag in one hand and a potato masher in the other. When they get close to you they are liable to let you have the grenade right in the face. 4. He's inclined to be trigger happy. Sometimes he will aimlessly just to build up his courage. Generally, however, he a good shot and a dangerous man with a gun but he's no match for our men with a bayonet. Physically, this 1944 edition of the German soldier is thinner and shorter than the 1940 model. The early Superman is dead, or wounded, or guarding the front at home. His successo on the fighting fronts is a lesser man physically and psychologically according to reports printed in STARS & STRIPES and other newspapers abroad. Gone is the arrogant, fanatic Nazi who laid waste the entire continent of Europe. His place has been taken by a smaller shabbier, less enthusiastic and more bewildered soldier—a man who doesn't want to fight so hard, but who still knows how to do it. To sum it up, the German soldier today isn't the fighter he once was, but he still is quick and smart, he's tough and he wicked. Don't let him fool you. No Anaheim resident can afford to be without The Gazette at the small cost of only $2.00 a year. same nest, which won't in some cases even let the allied nations pay for the things they expected to pay for, as in the case of the Russian butter, or the Chinese legation's new automobile. I haven't an atom of jealousy in me on the subject. I am glad all the neighboring brothers and sisters are getting some of these much needed States manufactured articles, I'd have to give up my American citizenship and become a citizen of some other nation to get them. That's all. BITS AND PIECES Only beef now rationed is steaks and roasts from commercial, good and choice grades. All other beef is ration free after a WFA food order amendment removed all utility beef from rationing on August 13. Pork hams and loins went back on the ration list on that date. Feed wheat obtained under the CCC Feed Wheat Program may now be used for any and all classes of livestock and poultry. Restrictions regarding its use which resulted from the tight feed situation have been removed. Farm real estate taxes per acre during 1943 remained about the same as in 1942 and at about the same level as in 1934, the low point for taxes during the depression period. More than seventeen million boxes of grapefruit were harvested in Texas in the past season and nearly half of this record breaking crop went into canned grapefruit juice. More than half of Southern California's 57,500 carload crop of valencia oranges remained to be harvested after August 6th, according to the Orange Administrative Committee. Everybody reads the Gazette. THIS IS AMERICA THE LARGEST EMPLOYER OF A BOR IN THE UNITED STATES, GENERAL MOTORS CORP., IS OWNED BY 422,000 AMERICANS, WHO REACH FROM COAST TO COAST. MANY SHAREHOLDERS ARE EMPLOYEES AND SMALL BUSINESS PEOPLE, ASSERTING THE RIGHT OF AMERICANS TO BUILD UP AN INDEPENDENCE. HALF OF THEM ARE WOMEN—HOUSEWIVES, TEACHERS AND OTHERS. WHAT BENEFITS INDUSTRY BENEFITS MANY MILLIONS OF AVERAGE AMERICANS, TODAY BUYING WAR BONDS BUT IN NORMAL TIMES DEPENDING ON INDUSTRY FOR INCOME ON THEIR SAVINGS. DRAFT BOARDS WILL AID GIS IN GETTING JOBS AFTER WAR One of the biggest concerns of American fighting men overseas is this one: "What kind of a job am I going to get after I come marching home again?" The answer: You can have your old job back if you want it. And if you don't, you will get a crack at another one, a job for which your training in the service has fitted you. Here's the way it's going to work: A new memorandum on veterans' assistance has been issued by National Selective Service Headquarters appointing a re-employment committee to every local board in the country. His job is to help place you in employment after the war. Let's suppose, for a starter, that the job you left behind isn't available when you return. Maybe you employer went out of business. Or maybe your old job doesn't exist any more. In either case, your first course is your old draft board. There you will be placed in contact with the reemployment committee who will review your service career, find out just what kind of work you are qualified to do. Then he will go to bat for you. If you can't get or don't want your old job, you will probably be referred to the veterans' employment representative of your home town U. S. Employment Service office. He will be in touch with employers not only in your community but all over the country and he'll be able to recommend the best place to get the kind of work you want and can do. added to their scores in Government examinations and those with service connected disabilities will have ten points added. Also, a new Civil Service policy reserves 25 per cent of all Federal jobs for returning war veterans and examinations for many jobs will be open only to veterans. If you want to buy a farm or rehabilitate your old business with the aid of a Federal loan you can get one through the G Bill of Rights. And if you want railroad job you will be referred to the nearest office of the U. S Railroad Retirement Board where you'll find out what jobs are open and how you can qualify. HAS MAJOR OPERATION Mrs. Roy Cooke of this city underwent a major operation at the Anaheim Lutheran hospital on Tuesday, Aug. 22. Mr. Cooke is an employee of the City Park system. 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