Santa Cruz Sentinel, Volume 89, Number 127, 28 May 1944 — Page 4

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SANTA CRUZ SENTINEL-NEWS, SANTA CKUZ, CALIFORNIA Sunday, May 28, 1944

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LITTLE STORIES ABOUT THE MEN IN B 26 BOMBER BASE A B 26 Base in England, May 27. (By Wireless). Sergeant Phil Scheier is a radio-gunner. That is, he operates the radio of his B-26 bomber when it needs operating, and when over enemy territory he switches to one of the plane's machine guns. It's hard to think of Sergeant Scheier as a tough gunner. In fact it's hard to think of him as an enlisted man. He is what you would call . "officer type" he would seem more natural with a major's leaves on his shoulders than a sergeant's stripes on his arms. But he doesn't feel that way about it. "I'm the only satisfied soldier in the army," he says. "I've found a home in the army. I like what I'm doing, and I wouldn't trade my job for any other in the army. Not that he intends to stay in after the war. He's 28, but he intends to go to college as soon as he gets out of uniform. He has been a radio script writer for several years but he wants to go to Columbia School of Journalism and learn how to be a big fascinating newspaperman like me. Sergeant Scheier's home is at Richmond, Staten Island. Like the others he has a DFC and an air medal with clusters. ' "When I won a Boy Scout medal once they got out the- band and had a big celebration," he says. "But when you get the DFC you just sign a paper and a guy hands it to you as though it was nothing." Later, when I mentioned that I would like to put that remark in the column, Sergeant Scheier laughed and said: "Oh, I just made that up. I never was a Boy Scout." Sergeant Kenneth Brown, of Ellwood City, Pa., is one of two men in my barracks who have won the Purple Heart. He was hit in the back and arm by flak several months ago. He is a good-natured guy, and he has the next war figured out. . He isn't going to go hide in a cave or on a desert island, as so many jokingly threaten to do. He thinks he has a better way. The minute the war starts he's going to get a standtable and start making humps and valleys and drawing lines in the sand. He figures that Will Qlttnmaf make him a general and then he'll ue an ngm. Sergeant Kenneth Hackett used to work at the Martin dant near Baltimore, which makes these B-28 bombers. He is 34, and he had supposed that if he ever got into the army he would be put in some backwash job far removed nuin comDai. ''I sure never figured when I was helDM? hllilri thono nlnn.c h. some day I'd be flying over France in une oi mem as a radio gunner " he says. But here he is, with half his allotted missions already run off. Sergeant Hackett's home is at North Miami. In fact his father o ? u 0 police in thalt section, But the sergeant's wife and daughter are in Baltimore. Hackett showed me a snapshot of his daughter Theda sitting on the fender of their automobile. He said she was 12, and I thought he was kidding. She seemed so grownup that I thought she must r be his sweetheart instead of his daughter. But I was convinced whSn,fie1?h.er bys chimed in and ...said, "Tell him about the lipstick" bo here is the lipstick storv. JLf ens Jheda wrote her daddy that all the other girls her age were using rouge and lipstick and was it all right if she did too. Well, it wasn't all right. Sergeant Hackett says maybe he's old-fashioned but he sent word , back to Theda that if she started using lipstick now he'd skin her alive when he got back, or words -to that effect. And he didn't take time to write it in a letter He sent it by full rate cablegram Sergeant Howard Hanson is - acting first sergeant of this squadron. He's the guy that runs the show and routs people out of bed and hands out demerits and bawls people out. In addition to that he is an engineer-gunner. He has long ago flown past his allotted number of combat missions, and he is still flying. Sergeant Hanson is 37 and therefore is automatically known in the army as Pappy. Any soldier over 35 is almost always called Pop or Pappy. Sergeant Hanson doesn't care. He likes his work and has a job to do and wants to get it done. "I know what I'm fighting for," he says. "Here's what." And he hands you a snapshot of his family Wedgewood Ranges Butane & Natural Gas Appliances Automatic Systems for All Kinds of Heating Equipment Butane Fuel Co. GEORGE HAGEDORN 101 Front Street Phone 3460

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wife, girl' and boy. The girl is almost grown and the boy is in the uniform of a prep school. Hanson's home is at Topeka, Kas. Pappy used to be in the motor freight business before the war. I suppose in a way you could say he's still in the motor freight business. Kind of ticklish freight, though. Old Santa By far the biggest industry which touched the county from one end to the other, and gave more employment than any other, was lumbering, which started with the Isaac Graham mill in 1843 along Zayante creek near Felton. Judge William Blackburn also started a mill in 1848 in Blackburn gulch and nearly every forested gulch and canyon has been milled at some time in the past. Unless he is a Californian who knows, the stranger gazes on second growth redwood trees unaware of the diameter and height of the original trees that were there at the time of coming of the missionary fathers in 1791. Close to the mission then, along the hillside, along what is Evergreen street and where is located the Evergreen cemetery and the extension on the hillside of Mission Santa Cruz was a redwood forest, so the Fathers for the rafters and wood needed in the construction, did not go far. Their own lumber was all hewed by hand. Not only did mills use the redwood but also much split stuff was produced and used locally and shipped from this port. HARBOR NEAR BY Santa Cruz had the harbor near by to its forest, which was very necessary, and the redwoods and shipping facilities made it the biggest shipping point for lumber in the early days, long before the advent of the railroads, in the middle seventies. Horse, mule and ox drawn wagons and trailers came down the canyons and gulches. At times there would be as many as ten schooners in the bay at one time and at one time there were three wharves. Schooners would be waiting alongside to be loaded with Santa Cruz lumber to go far and wide. Something necessary for a saw mill is a creek, for a mill pond;and practically everv canyon then as now had flowing down through it, a stream of water, waiting to be damned for a mill pond. Lumber in all shapes and sizes came, through the city accompanied by the ringing of the rows of bells above the necks of the mules or horses. There was the tall front seat many feet high and by a single rein the expert driver could guide the animals. PICTURESQUE OXEN Picturesque were the ox teams. with their wooden yokes and the bull puncher at the side, walking, using the sharp steel prod on the animals. The oxen were used in the lumber camps for numbers of purposes. When lumbering was in it height before and even after the coming of the railroad for some time, one mule or ox team after another came slowly down Pacific avenue with the tall and heavy loads to the wharf for shipping on to the planing mills for the production of the finished product. Frequently one of them would get stuck in the mud to be dug out PLANING MILLS The first planing mills in town were two, one on Pacific avenue opposite Cathcart street with George Gragg in charge. The other was on Second street, Beach Hill, where Younger Way is located, close to the main shipping point, the wharf off from Mai Later the Grover Mill and Lumber company put in another planing mill at Lower Pacific avenue where Cacace and the Cowells are now located. The Loma Pricta Lumber company and the Hihn Lumber company were the last of th onH lumber companies to have planing mills in town between Washington and Center streets, below Laurel street. The hum and buzz of the saws was music and in the morning, at closing time, at noon, starting timo for the afternoon and closing time in the afternoon, the whistles sounded, as they did also on spe cial mxasiuns, 10 welcome trie New i ear s or to mark victories LIVELY TIMES The lumber industry meant the bringing of scores to town for week-ends, especially before Boulder Creek became a center and a shipping point. Not onlv was Santa yuz iivenea Dul also Soqucl and Aptos. All lumber mills rlncnH down for the greater part of the winter season. Numbers would re main in lown all winter. Special hotels and lodging houses catered to the workingman as they were Pacific Ave. SAHmCuz.Ctttf

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Price Support For 180-lb. Hogs Santa Cruz hog growers may be interested in the amended support price of $13.75 on hogs at Chicago which was extended May 15 to include hogs weighing down to 180 pounds, according to Henry Washburn, county farm advisor. Support prices heretofore have covered hogs weighing 200 to 270 pounds and the new extension will protect producers unable to get adequate prices for hogs under 200 pounds.

Cruz ... By Ernest Otto known. Every mill had many employes in those days as much of the modern machinery which always means fewer employes, had not come into use. The woodsmen crew was greater than now. The fallers of trees were experts. SKID ROADS There were skid roads running from the mill site to the virgin forest and over these roads were hauled the logs to the mill pond. The road was like the rocky road to Dublin, made of small logs. "Greasing the skids" was about the dirtiest job around a saw mill. It was a job for the boy who had just left school and only a small proportion ever entered the high school. They applied the tallow to the log road bed and it was not an easy job. in the mill pond were seen ex pert log riders who were adept at balancing themselves on the logs before the logs were hauled into the mill by chain to the sawyer. There was the sawyer, an expert, who kept the circular and saws used in the woods sharp and ever ready for the work. The lumber when cut would be hauled outside and piled in the lumber yard, ready for loading to the ox or mule teams in the earlier days. -THE V-SHAPED FLUME In the very early days at what was known for years as the flume house beyond Boulder Creek, started the V -shape flume. The lumber or split stuff was placed into the flume and it started its course down the swiftly flowing water to the end, a distance of around 10 miles or more to Felton where starting in the late seventies it would be loaded on the narrow gauge flat cars to be hauled by rail to Santa Cruz for shipping, hauled by the engines "Santa Cruz" and "Felton." The flume crossed high gulches and to this small boy as he looks back it seems as if it was in midair and it would fairly frighten him when he would see the flume tender walking the plank at the side of the flume with his sledge hammer at bis side. Other places the flume would be below ground. At Felton one could see the falling water and lumber shooting from the flume to again be piled for shipping. The woodsmen, the mill men, the flume tenders, the teamsters, the men on the railroad, the crews on the boats and the loaders, meant a prosperous county made by the hard and persevering laboring man. SPLIT STUFF Not only were there mills but throughout the county, especially where land was being cleared for cultivation and farms, were there those who were falling trees for split stuff. Some of the tree camps were of some size. The writer remembers one on the mountain side not far from Boulder Creek with a street of small cabins for those who were getting out ties both for broad and narrow gauge roads and Santa Cruz ties went throughout the entire west when railroad construction was at its height. The split stuff also included pickets as the redwood picket was sought everywhere. Then there were the stakes of all shapes and sizes. Many were grape stakes, piles and telegraph and light poles, as it was not yet the day of electricity or telephones. Another industry in connection with the redwood was that of making shakes, used much in those days instead of shingles. FIRE WOOD When it came to getting out fire wood, it was usually four-loot wood not only redwood, but fine, live oak, tan oak, madrone, redwood limbs, and lilac limbs and manzanita roots and what was more beautiful than the manzanita roots throwing forth the sparks when in the fireplace! Here wood only was burned for heating, cooking and other purposes and this meant much to the farmer who at one end of his farm had a stand of timber. The results of farms in a timber section is especially to be noticed in the vicinity of Bonny Doon on Ben Lomond mountain with large redwood stumps still remaining in the hay fields and orchards. There were tan bark camps where the tan bark was peeled from the tan oak, much needed by eight tanneries of the county. The writer will tell what he remembers of mills next week. Murder Trial Of Two Boys Set For Monday, June 19 The case of Manuel Serrano and Max Allen Wilson, Watsonville juveniles facing murder charges, has been set for jury trial to start Monday morning, June 19, by Superior Judge James L. Attefidge. Wilson and Serrano pleaded "not guilty" to the charges growing out of the death of Restituto Tabares, Davenport Filipino, in January. Felix Alvarez, having been found guilty of murder charges in the same case, has already started in to serve a term at San Quentin. Mrs. Iva Byer went to San Jose to attend the funeral of her brother, Lucian Clyde Hinkle. ,

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NEW ROUTES RUN FOR HIGHWAY TO EAST None of the tentative routes being surveyed by the state engineering crew for the realignment of the Soquel highway can be accepted as final until the highway department makes its decision, but public interest can be and is being shown in some of the lines of stakes that have been set up. One survey swings south from the present highway at a point between Paul Sweet Lane and Paul Minnie avenue and angles slightly south until it drops to Soquel river. The crossing (by this particualr survey) would be a short distance Delow tne boquei scnooi nouse, alter which the line would follow the nor border of the Capitola airport, cross the Southern Pacific tracks somewhere around Seacliff Park, cross Aptos creek slightly to the south of the present highway and emerge to use the present underpass just east of Aptos. ROUTE MUST LINK WITH OCEAN SHORE All of the surveys for the new route from Santa Cruz to Rob Roy junction must be made with a view to eventual linking through this city with the Ocean Shore high way. One route considered would bring the highway from the east in about at Morrisey Boulevard, cross the San Lorenzo in the vi cinity of Felker street and dumb to the hills at the west back of High street somewhere. , However the state engineers have recently been running lines along Broadway which, if that route should be adopted for the future link between the Soquel highway and the Ocean Shore, would mean Laurel street would furnish the western outlet from the city. EAST IS WEST FOR TRAINS LEAVING S. C. By a peculiarity of railroad technique, every time a freight train pulls out of Santa Cruz for Watsonville it is considered "west bound." San Francisco is the western terminal of the entire Southern Pacific system. All trains moving toward San Francisco are said on the operating timetables to be westbound. Any train- running east out of Santa Cruz is west bound toward Southern Pacific's, western terminal. VANCOUVER BOUGHT VEGETABLES HERE Captain George Vancouver, three and a half years out of Falmouth, had explored the Pacific northwest,' made a couple of side trips to Hawaii and was at Monterey for the third time when, in November, 1794, he applied to California authorities for permission to buy fresh vegetables for a voyage home. Governor Diego Bonca, who had begun to have his doubts as to the advisability of Vancouver's ships. the Discovery and Chatham, sailing up and down the coast, told him that Padres Salazar and Lopez at three-year-old Santa Cruz mission across Monterey bay, had a good garden growing on the flat near their establishment. Borica hurried a horseback mes senger around the bay with word that three small boats were coming, that the priests might have their Indians deliver vegetables to them, but that the priests were to have nothing to do with the Englishmen. The same courier carried instructions to Corporal Jose Antonio Sanchez of the mission escolta that he was to keep an eye on the transaction. The note-to the priests, written by the sub-comisario at Monterey, contained the information that the three boats wquld be under command of a petty officer named Swain. It is to be wondered if the old Spaniards might not have been having trouble , with the English language, and might not, if he had been pressed, have written that the officer's first name was "Boats." MILL MACHINERY WAS PRICE PAID Corporal Sanchez, reporting immediately to his military superior, Alferez Heremenegildo Sal at San Francisco presidio, gave that officer sufficient apprehension that he rushed five more soldiers down to Santa Cruz to help handle the situation. The three boats left Monterey November 24 and were back on November 28, so they apparently spent three days here anchored outside the surf. Corporal Sanchez sent a report to Borica that none of the sailors had visited the mission and none of the priests gone down to the beach. The five-man contingent of military reinforcements returned to San Francisco with word that the boats had departed. Despite Borica's precautions some contact must have been established. Padre ,Isidro Salazar, who returned to Mexico the following year, wrote there an account, "Condiciones Actual de California" in which he said that Vancouver had presented to Santa Cruz mission iron work for a grist mill of a value of 1000 pesos.

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Vancouver's supply of fresh vegetables, undoubtedly grown on the flat where our buisness district is today, certainly did not last his voyage home. The Discovery and the Chatham did not arrive in the Thames until October 20, 1795. Vancouver died less than three years later, before he had finished writin his account of his exploration, which was finished by his brother, John, assisted by Captain Puget, both of whom had been with the two-ship fleet. ARTISANS CAME TO ERECT MILL Records of Spanish days in California show that in 1796 Governor Borica sent to Santa Cruz artisans from Mexico to erect a mill, which was without doubt that which the Briton had donated. Branciforte records in the county recorder's office contain a communication from the priests to the civil authorities across the river asking help in transporting mill stones from San Juan Bautista. , When Santa Cruz mission was secularized, which meant that the priests were changed from the status of missionaries to that of parish ministers, its lands and chatties were distributed among the Indians who promptly got rid of them. No record exists of what became of the Vancouver mill unless the thread can be picked up in court records of American days. JOHN FLECK HAD MILL IN 1865 T men nA u t . i t-. i i

i iii ious ot-yeai-uiu juimi riecK, a rennsyivania lony-nmer, acquired on a mechanic's lien Bolcoff's mill, which to then had been op erated by Jose Bolcoff, the Russian and Eli Moore. Early maps show Fleck as owner of .land on both sides of Laurel street, all the way from Mission street down the hill, a tract which was later the property of Kirby, Jones & Co., and site of their tannery. A record of 1885 says that Fleck owned the "Santa Cruz mission flouring mill, along Major's spring creek, near Kirby's tannery and adjoining the property of Jose Feliz and A. A. Hecox,' Feliz' adobe was where Dr. Stanley Dowling's residence now stands. Hecox had built his home fronting Mission street just north of the little stream. ITS LOCATION WAS ON LAUREL STREET More of the story is from an interview in 1933 with James H. Roxburgh, son of an early day lumberman who lived on Mission street about where Miss Alice Neary's residence stands today. (An irrelevant fact is that Roxburgh was the first Santa Cruz baseball player to go to the major leagues; he was catcher for the Philadelphia Athletics in 1886 and back in Santa Cruz catching for the Dolphins in 1889.) Fleck, in 1860, married Mary T. Clark, a daughter of John Clark. Her sister, Eleanor, was Roxburgh's mother. Roxburgh, who died in San Francisco February 23, 1934, said in his interview the previous year, that Fleck's mill was on Laurel street just below the Kirby tannery. He said that Fleck lived in the hollow "across Laurel street;" that his mill or Fleck, or both, moved to Soquel in 1866. and that later Fleck went to Guadalupe, Santa Barbara county, where he died. FLECK MOVED TO SOQUEL IN 1866 More of the story is from county records. The great register of 1866 contained the name of John Fleck, millwright, aged 45, a native of the United States, living in Santa Cruz. Two years later he registered as 49 years old, millwright in Soquel, a native of Pennsylvania. In 1867 he was accused of an attempt to murder Andrew Thompson, a Norwegian ship's carpenter who settled here in the fifties and married Ysabel Poile, a granddaughter of the Feliz family. Court records of 1866 show that in that year Fleck lost his mill on a $2586 mortgage to James A. Prcwett and Joseph C. Riley. Riley left no other record of himself in Santa Cruz and may not have been a resident here then. "Prewett' was probably James L. Prewitt, a forty-niner from Alabama who lived here irom 1850 to his death in 1893. In his earlier years here he ran a livery stable and blacksmith shop; lived at Pacific and Elm. In his later years he ran cattle in both this and Monterey county. . SEVERAL NEW MILLS ABOUT THAT DATE Only a possibility is a connection between the Vancouver machinery, which must have been well worn by that time, and the fact that Daubenbiss and Hames built at So quel their four-story flour mill about mets. Another mill may have begun operating at Soquel at the same time. On March 14, 1866, Wilson and Martin advertised in the San ta Cruz Sentinel that they were opening the Soqucl Steam Flouring Mills, at First and Main streets, in Soqucl, Wilson, of the partnership,, was

National Whirligig By Ray Tucker FAMINES. The seemingly unrelated moves which Democratic strategists are making in an attempt to advance a fourth-term nomination and election intrigue experienced observers in the capital. With the government, which means the administration, in control of certain legislative and executive agencies, it is not difficult for key men to issue politically profitable decrees. The lifting of meat rationing was the most spectacular example of how Washington handles every problem from a partisan" standpoint. Supplies of lamb and beef are scarcer now than ever before in most sections of the country, proving that there was no basic reason for doing away with the coupon system. The only meat that is plentiful is pork, which is not a summer dish. Federal experts admit that certain kinds of clothing should be rationed. Present and prospective shortages of textiles are much greater than the public knows. Because of the present refusal to insist on an allocation of garments and meat stuffs, there may be serious famines but not until after the election. AUTOMOBILES. Petroleum is another commodity which many believe should be curtailed for the consuming public. The amounts allowed to civilians were reduced sharply on the eve of the Eisenhower invasion of North Africa in November of 1942. But now, although the Allies are preparing for considerably more extensive operations in Europe and the Far East, there is no thought of reducing the mileage allowances for non-military personnel. As recently revealed by the writer (May 25), Donald M. Nelson has given the green light to many producers of domestic goods, including automobiles, flat-irons and general household equipment.

His ukase was issued in spite of the protest of army-navy heads, who contend that the industrial plant should not be shifted to the manufacture of civilian articles for at least two years until victory over Hitler and Hirohito is assured. JUICY. The administration has scorprf its arpntf;t suprpecpc in. ward the fourth-term try on Capi tol Hill. It silenced two committees whnKP rpvplatinne hari hppn damaL'inp the nnlitirnl renntatinn of the man in the White House the Dies and the Truman investigating units. , Two of the Dips prnun wprp knocked off in the primaries by the efforts of the C. 1. O. Committee for Political Action. Chairman Martin Dies has announced that he will not seek re-election. As a result, only two Republican members survive, and it is doubtful whether they will hold any hearings between now and November. The organization may be revived along different lines in the next session, but for the moment it is moribund. The Truman committee is temporarily dead. This body has done an excellent job in showing up waste and graft in several federal aeencips It has fnrppH tho and -navy to tighten up its system oi procuring war weapons. Chairman Harry Truman of Missouri has even been mentinnpH as a nnccihin vice presidential candidate. nut the Missounan is a good Democrat and party foot soldier. a millwright who had been at Corralitos as early as 1860 and who later moved to Redwood City, although he returned temporarily to Santa Cruz in 1876 to take the contract to erect the big Centennial mill on lower Pacific avenue. . Martin, nf thp ship, is difficult to trace. In SepleniDer, ihoh, wnison sold his interest to one S. H. Martin, who reconveyed to a Henry Martin. It is more than probable that the partners were merely lessees operating Daubenbiss and Hames Mill. Another possibility as to the disposition of the mission mill machinery is in the fact that in 1868 the Sentinel announced that Charles Keaton, partner in Keaton 4 Walker's planing mill on Water street opposite the gas works, had installed in connection with the planing mill a "small grist mill." SAVE YOUU TIRES GOOD FRONT WHEEL ALIGNMENT assures longer tire wear and safer driving Drive In today for free Inspection COMPLETE MODERN EQUIPMENT USE OUR BUDGET PLAN Nothing odown, 6 to 12 mo. to pay MUVE IIV TODAY! PBOLO Chevrolet Co AUTHORIZED CHEV.-OLDS-STUD. & NASH SERVICE Tel. 490 293 Pacific Ave. "Where Friend Meets Friend"

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WHY NOT HAVE ELEANOR RUN FOR THE VICE PRESIDENCY WITH FDR? New York , May 27 To the new Communist party of Sidney Hillman, known by the demure name of the American Labor party, and to the left wing of the Democratic party, known as the Liberal party, may an old sparring partner address a few words of advice in this solemn hour of decision? You boys have made a mistake n nominating Henry Wallace for the vice presidency this time, not only because certain mysterious letters, of which Charles Michelson made mischievous mention re cently, will surely plague the nation's most noted Indian wrestler in the campaign, probably at the cost of some votes, but also be cause there are two other citizens available, both Roosevelts, who are much more authentic heirs to the president's powers, political fortunes, purposes and traditions. These are Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt and Colonel James Roosevelt of the marine corps reserve, the eaglet who served for a time as one of his father's selfless anonymities and lobbyist, at $10,000 a year. Either would do admirably as a running mate for the president in quest of a fourth term; and a ticket composed of Roosevelt and Roosevelt would present an irresistible appeal to those who, believe that there can be no such thing as too much Roosevelt. If the ticket were elected, either the wife or the son of the , president could be relied on to carry out faithfully every design of Franklin D. Roosevelt, in the event of his decision to resign in order to shape the peace in the councils-of that brave new world of the future. In fact, secure in the knowledge that his wife or son would succeed him and that he thus could continue to be president, though yielding up the title, Mr. Roosevelt should be more likely to resign than if Mr. Wallace were the runner up; because the president surely has not forgotten that an illustrious relative, Theodore, once made the mistake of resigning, as it were, leaving William Howard Taft to carry out his policies; and that Mr. Taft dumped them in the ash can. Nobody who knows Mr. Wallace would suggest that he might repudiate Mr. Roosevelt's policies, but he has shown sharp symptoms of willingness lately and, once upon the throne, and armed with those mighty prerogatives which Br. Biddie has called the president's aggregate powers, he might decide to subordinate the name of Roosevelt and write the name of Wallace even higher in the sky and in letters of yet more ruddy hue. He has been chosen by the Communists and the Liberal party, with a program embracing socialism, fascism and anti-catholicism, as a man who would loyally obey his chief in all events, even to succession through resignation. But the man has a strong neck and a will of his own and he has not looked on the president's performance and his He came to the capital as a product of the infamous Pendcrgast school, and his transformation into a crusader for civic decency was one of the wonders of Washington. But now Harry is a principal advocate of a fourth term; and he is also an old friend of Robert E. Hannegan, Democratic national chairman. So don't look for any more juicy stories from the Truman files until after next November. It has succumbed to the silent treatment through the acquiescence of its chairman. , ' HEROES. Americans of Greek descent feel that they have a legitimate complaint against the Roosevelt-Churchill-Stalin attitude to their homeland. They believe that these Allied chieftains do not give sufficient weight to Greece's contribution to Hitler's eventual downfall. H. B. Johnson, after a stay here, went to Rock Springs, Wyo. Army

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CORNER PACIFIC AND LOCUST

By O Westbrook Pegler

firm but quiet dismissal of old servants without realizing Mat it he were president, he too, could be president entirely, abiding no rivals. As to the mysterious letters, it may be anticipated that, this time they mUst become a subject of campaign whisper if not an open issue, for even though Mr. Michelson did write in his confessions, The Ghost Talks, that they were of doubtful authenticity, there is no reason to assume that public curiority, now aroused in .this strange manner, will resolve that doubt in Mr. Wallace's favor. Why Mr. Michelson chose to do this at this time, he did not explain, for their existence had been kept quiet by Republicans and . Democrats, dike, in 1940. His revelation mav not prove to be a kiss of death, but it easily could be a kiss of serious illness, nd this from, of all men, the one who enjoys a reputation for something on the order of wizardry in creating and smothering publicity in the interests of the Democratic party. But, if there be those who like to suspect that the letters of doubtful authenticity were of the same mood and type as the Woodrow Wilson mash notes, let it be said that, among journalists who heard of them at the time and since, they were believed to deal with matters occult and a distinct cut above fortune telling. That there could be any constitutional objection to the election of Mrs. Roosevelt as her husband's partner in politics is an idle thought considering the score and force of the president's aggregate powers and the present personnel of the supreme court. So Mrs. Roosevelt would seem to be a shade preferable to her oldest son, although only a shade. Her acquaintance is greater among the groups who have interesting talks and advance unusual ideas and, after all, the lady has had 12 years' experience as president without certificate of election. After Mrs. Roosevelt's term, or terms, there would still be time for James and even, after him, Elliott. r Political Advartliamant WANTED 25,000 Registered Signatures to place with Retirement Payments, Gross Income Tax Initiative Constitutional Amendment on the ballot November 7, 1944 Only 19 days to go. Friends, get busy; circulate the petition and do it now, not tomorrow but right now. This is your job. More workers makes the job easy and gets results. If this fight is lost it is the lazy people that sit back for John or George to do the job, and . they will be the first men on the job when pay day comes. Sacrifice a few days to this great cause. Come out and finish the job. This program will keep the wheels of Industry turning after the war and furnish jobs, not charity for our men and women in service, Expari WATCH and CLOCK REPAIRING ; Quick Saryica Raaaonabla Pricn Ray Rawlings 21 Clinton St., btwn Cayuga and SMbrlghl COCKER PUPPIES and PERSIAN KITTENS WADE'S 46J Soquel Ava. Ph. 1421-W Top quality Horsemeat for your pets

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