San Bernardino Sun, Volume 49, 19 December 1942 — Page 4
SAN BERNARDINO DAILY SUN, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1942 Wallace Urges 'Constructive, United' Thinking on Problems of Peace
AHE TWO
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PREPARE FOR POSTWAR ERA, SAYS OFFICIAL
Rickenbacker, Mother Are Reunited in L. A.
'My Happiest Day Says Elderly Woman as
She Greets Long Missing Flier-Son
Favors Education for Backward
People, Outlines His Views In Published Interview
(By Associated Praia)
CHICAGO, Deo. 18. Vlce-Presl
dent Wa.lle.ce believes the common
people should do some constructive
ana united thinKing ebout our
peaoe and postwar problems In
their homes and churches and town
mattings.
He euQined his views in an In
terview which was printed as
Christmas message today in the
Christian Advocate, official pub
lication of the Methodist church.
Wallace also advocated a com
prehensive program of education tor peoples of "backward" nations.
URGES LITERACY
"We must push for positive com
mitments on the part of the trustee nations to bring about a reason
able standard of literacy in the areas under that control and bring It about within certain time limits," he said. "Before any nation an rise toward . democracy and elf-government, its people must learn to read and write and to become literate with their hands." The vice-president, told that pubUe opinion was not being created to support postwar planning stated: "If It be true that official Washington does not feel that the time la ripe for a thorough-going discussion of postwar aims and I can
not agree that that is wholly the case there is nothing to prevent
private agencies, such as the church, from engaging in such dis
cussion and making such recommendations as they feel will help
the government. NOT BY FIAT
He opined that adequate solutions of postwar problems can not
come by fiat from Washington, Moscow or London, but would come when and If the common people do
some united and constructive think
ing on the subject wherever they
assemble.
Wallace was asked if there) were signs that such problems as trade
regulations, economie and political Imperialism, racial antipathies and hatred and vengeance were being
licked.
"The aigns, I am sorry to say,
an point In the wrong direction,'
ha replied. "But I have faith that
men of faith in every walk of life, seeing the signs pointing the wrong
way, will swing into the action
necessary to prevent the ooming peace from being just another in
terval In a long series of wars.
By LISLE SHOEMAKER
(United Press Correspondent) LOS ANGELES, Dec. 18. Greyhaired Mrs. Elizabeth Rickenbacker and the son she refused to give up for lost, CapL Eddie Rickenbacker, were reunited today when the famed flier arrived here from San Francisco.
Tears came to the eyes of the kindly old lady as her son stepped from the army transport, saw her
in the crowd waiting for him and dashed over. HAPPIEST DAY "This is the happiest day of my life," Mrs. Rickenbacker said as she hugged and kissed her son. "It thrills me to sae him again. You know, I don't get to see him very
often."
And as Rickenbacker affection
ately squeezed her he said, "Don't
worry, mother, I'm okay."
Rickenbacker then turned rrom
his 78-vear-old mother to greet his
brother, Dewey Rickenbacker, who was accompanied by his wife and
4-year-old son, Edward.
of his 24 days adrift on a life raft In the Pacifio when he picked up the child and the effort obviously was a
strain on him. His brother took the child from Captain Rickenbacker's hands and told him to "take it easy, Eddie." "It's a good thing my brother Dewey stays around," Captain Rick
enbacker told his mother during the family reunion. MAINTAINS SILENCE When asked about a more dedetailed account of his experiences after the bomber transporting him on a fecret war department mission was forced down in the Pacifio, Rickenbacker said he could not say anything more at this time. The noted flier spent less than an hour In Los Angeles before departing for the east. Following the brief press conference, Rickenbacker got into the back seat of an automobile and sat talking to his mother and family without leaving the field until the plane was ready
Rickenbacker showed the effects I to depart.
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FIE WESTWARD
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Townsend Party Ruled Oat When
Light Vote Cast
(By Associated Press)
SACRAMENTO, Dec. 18. The townsend party of California Is officially dead due to the Insufficiency of the vote It polled In the Novem
ber general election, Deputy Secretary of State Charles Hagerty an
nounced today.
To keep a political party alive,
the state constitution provides that one candidate must poll at least S
per cent of the total vote cast. The
"minimum was 67,929. High vote re-
delved by a Townsend candidate
Kathan T. Porter, running for gov
ernorwas only 15,501.
It Is the fourth party to be disqualified since 1938. The others were the Commonwealth, Socialist
and Progressive parties. Still recog
Bleed are the Republican, Democratic, Prohibition, and Communist
parties.
Hagerty said the Townsend, or
any other legally defunct party, could be revived for the next elec
tion by registering 22,643 persons as
affiliates or by petition of 10 per cent of the total vote In the last
election, which amounted to 2,284,-
288.
R,A.F. Stages
Germany Raid
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communique said several places were attacked in the German northwest coastal district and that 21 bombers 14 of them four-en-gined craft were shot down . by night fighters and anti-aircraft artillery. Low clouds prevented observation of the results, the air ministry said. It added that mines were laid in German coastal waters. The previous attacks on Germany this month were on Frankfurt Dec. 2 sutd southwest Germany Dec. 6. Meanwhile some German raiders were active over England last night and today. Fewer than 10 enemy planes visited northeast England last night, but they caused some damage and casualties. The German high command said heavy explosions and
fires war observed along the Humber river. It admitted the loss of two planes. Two villages in Kent and Sussjx were bombed by daylight today.
way out of the Wadl Matratin trap
before the British consolidated their line, but still surrounded were
most of Rommel's 15th tank divi
sion and 8,000 to 9,000 men of his 90th motorized division, the only one to escape Egypt without deci
mation.
With these forces were most of
Rommel's anti-tank artillery, the observers believed, adding up to by far the stronger portion of the army which began the retreat from
El Agheila last Sunday.
The remnants of the German 21st tank division were reported ' to be the backbone of the axis ' forces
still in flight which also included columns of "soft," unprotected
transport trucks which were being
systematically ripped to pieces by
allied planes.
Extensive fighter patrols have entirely prevented" enemy planes
from interfering with this bombing and strafing or with the advance of the eighth army, the com
munique said.
(By United Press)
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS,
North Africa, Dec. 17. (Delayed) The axis has been rushing reinforce
ments into southern Tunisia for the past several days, apparently in the hopes of opening an escape route for the fleeing remnants of Marshal Erwin Rommel's Africa corps should it be driven past Tripoli, It was revealed here today.
Greetings by Wire
To Halt on Dec. 21 (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Dec. 18. Christ
mas messages by telegraph in the
United States after Dec. 21 were banned today by the board of war communications.
Revising a recent order, it direct
ed telegraph companies not to ac
cept any messages of greetings, felicitations or congratulations, effec
tive Dec. 22, if they originate within
the country for some other point in the nation.
This rule would not ban greetings
by wire to men in the armed serv
ices outside the continental United
States.
F. B. .ARRESTS
SECRET BRIE TELLS JURY OF DEATH THREAT
Battle in Auto, Which Ended in Slaying of Officer, Described In Trial for Murder
' HEAD
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of the six arrested here to Los An
geles. They are: '
Bell and Ash well; J. Fred Burkey,
50, Oakland, ambulance repair man;
Harold Von Norris, 41, Martinez;
Max Theodore Miller, 33, Mountain
View, and Jacob Gloeckler, 56, Den air, chiropractor.
Others arrested included Ray
Burns Sharpe, San Jose; Eugene
Wadsworth Brown, Los Angeles; A.
Ray Elsea, Los Angeles, and Shanna
Jakeman, Los Angeles.
Bell, "The Voice," wrote a book
entitled "Mankind United," predict
ing that the group would uproot
the causes of war, end poverty, ush
er in an era of peace; give everybody at least $3,000 a year for work
ing four hours a day, four days s week and eight months a year.
A world-wide 30-day program
during which the organization's se
cret discoveries would be unleashed to the world and an election held on 100 ideas was announced in the
book," Pieper said.
Bureau managers, captains and
lieutenants conducted meetings ex
pounding the program and allegedly
advised members to avoid military
service and other defense measures.
New Weapon Helps
In African Battle
(Bv Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Dec. 18. A new
tank-destroying weapon, capable of
Dlasting an enemy tank with a sin
gle shot, may be helping to hammer Marshal Erwin Rommel's Africa corps to pieces in a trap on the
Libyan coast
Not only could such a weapon de
stroy a tank, but it could presumably outrun or at least equal in speed any enemy tank and at the same time bring to bear great fire
power.
Developed In closest secrecy by
American ordnance experts, details of such a new weapon still are shrouded in mystery.
But it is known that many experi
ments were pointing toward the mounting of a big field piece on a
speedy tank chassis, thus providing
a fast-moving and highly maneuver-
able heavy weapon that could stay at the front in swift assaults or pur
suits.
Russian Army Drives
On, Nears Smolensk
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mans were killed in the struggle for one village which the red army
lost to the enemy and then regained
witn a counterattack.
Three Nazi tanks were destroyed
in the engagement, and six more
were disabled in another sector of
that front where the Germans have mounted stubborn counterattacks for several weeks, the Russians said.
Northwest of Stalingrad between
the Don and Volga rivers, where the red army has been trying to close a huge trap on the enemy's Stalingrad siege army, the communique said
two German infantry companies
were wiped out in a struggle for one hilltop. Otherwise the Russians
were still fortifying their hard-won recent gains.
Another enemy company was de
clared destroyed In brisk fighting
on tne southern outskirts of Stalingrad Itself as the P""ina method
ically lought to o . ;
from the city in a block-by-block struggle. Action within the city was confined to artillery and mortar duels interspersed with small shock groups attacking each others dugouts. REPULSE NAZIS Another German Infantry company was reported wiped out and eight Nazi tanks disabled in the repulse of an enemy counterattack in the Mozdok area of the mid-Caucasus. (The Germans claimed gains between Volga and Don and reported the repulse of Russian attacks in the Terek-central Caucasus, Stalingrad, central front and great Don bend sectors.)
A scornful denial of German
claims to have killed or captured nearly 20,008 Russians near Toro-
pets lifted the veil from the central
front operations northwest of Mos-
ins cow.
(By Associated Press)
BISBEE,. Ariz., Dec. 18. Nervous
and at times weeping, Margaret Herlihy told the jury in her trial for murder today that Capt. David
D. Carr assaulted her without warn
ing the night of Aug. 14, shouting
"I am going to kill you."
She said Carr suddenly stopped
his automobile as they returned
from an Agua Prleta, Sonora, Mex.,
night club and began choking her. She fought back, she testified, and the fighting continued as Carr drove her home and after tUey reached
her mother's bedroom. There, she
related, she fatally wounded the
man she had secretly married two
months before.
TELLS OF TERROR
"For no reason at all he came
lunging at me, grabbed me by the throat and said he was going to
kill me," testified the attractive
red-haired defendant, daughter of
Lleut.-Col. Edward G. Herlihy, for
mer infantry commander at near
by Fort Huachuca.
"I kicked him in the throat," she
continued, "then we started fight
ing. I was terrified. I tried to
scratch or do anything to keep him
from choking me.
"He was making beastly noises,
muttering foul words.
"I maneuvered the door open and
fell out so I could run away. He
came after me and I kicked him,
He got hold of my arm and pulled
me back Into the car. 'TERRIBLE NOISES' "All this time he kept making ter
rible noises.
He said no one would ever ac
cuse him of doing It. They wouldn't find anything except my bones on
the desert. They would say the Negro soldiers had done it."
Only a short time before the at
tack, Miss Herlihy said, she and
Carr had been sitting at a table in
an Agua Prieta night club, drinking and talking of their future.
Margaret told the Jury that she
and Carr fell desperately in love
shortly after they' met at Fort Huachuca last May 10. She said he told her he expected to obtain a divorce any day from, the woman
he married when he was a 17-year-old University of Nebraska student
Professor Makes
Good on Pledge,
I o Some Extent
(By Associated Press)
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 18. Being : man of his word, Prof. Frederic
P. Woellner today carried out (with
reservations) a promise made 11 years ago that if U.C.L.A. ever beat
a University of Southern California
football team he would appear in class drunk and lecture his students
In Latin.
Thousands tried unsuccessfully to
crowd Into Professor Woellner's
class in education. He lectured In Latin, all right, and there was an Interpreter there to tell everybody
what the good professor was talking
about.
As he got warmed up, Woellner
drank rom a quart bottle containing a colorless liquid. It was labelled gin. He spat on the floor. A revolver was to have fired to denote the potency of the liquid, but the man behind the gun was guilty of bad coordination.
Everybody agreed that Woellner put on a good show, but the students know him too well to take any stock in the bottle label. It seems the good professor teaches Sunday school In Pasadena. 1 Approval Given to Naming of Schauer
(Bv United Press) SACRAMENTO, Dec. 18. Appellate Justice B. Hay Schauer of Los Angeles today was approved for appointment to the state supreme court by the qualifications commission. His choice by Gov. Culbert Olson was required by law to be confirmed by a statutory commission consisting of Attorney General Earl
Warren, Presiding Justice Phil Gibson of the state supreme court and presiding Justice John Nourse of the appellate court, District 1.
Moratorium Ordered on Sale of Qasoline in 17 Eastern States
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per cent of all motorists hold "A" books "anything more than a brief
suspension of their coupons would place an impossible burden on the already overloaded mass, transpor
tation facilities." Henderson's announcement was
In keeping with President Roosevelt's expressed hope that the emergency ban could be lifted In a day
or two.
The moratorium was clamped on
at noon today and applied equally to "A," "B" and "C book holders an estimated 7,000,000 private motorists in all. While the ban is in force, . they may redeem only one coupon and that for emergency use only. 'EMERGENCY' USB Henderson, expanding on an earlier unofficial explanation that the emergency coupon could be used for such as driving to a hospital or a doctor, said it also would be good for use by workers in war plants where their transportation to and from work depends upon emergency rations. Spared from the "no sale" order were all commercial vehicles trucks, busses and taxicabs which will receive gasoline as usual. Mr. Roosevelt explained the sudden emergency resulted from a hurry-up order from north Africa for gasoline. He said this could be filled faster by shipping motor fuel directly from the east coast rather than from Texas.' PICTURE NOT ROSY It was expected the amount of gasoline to be made available when the suspension Is lifted would be based on the results of a survey
of supplies being made by Petro
leum Administrator Harold L.
Ickes.
Ickes, who was in New York,
painted anything but a rosy picture. He indicated pleasure car drivers have little chance of get
ting the ration restored. Specifically, he said he thought pleasure
drivers "will have a hard job getting the gasoline they have been getting." Whether this meant "A" coupons would be cancelled and the value of "B" and "C" coupons reduced was uncertain. The original plan
was to suspend "A" coupons indef
initelya move that would have
forced 6,000,000 private passenger cars off the streets.
MAY CUT VALUE Officials here said It was quite
likely that when the suspension is
lifted, the gallon value of ration
coupons may be changed. "A" coupons, it was expected, either would remain suspended -indefinitely or their value cut drastically probably to one or two gallons. "A" coupons are now worth three gallons in the east.
Christmas excursions seem defi
nitely out
Gasoline dealers feared that If
the ban remains in effect more than "a few days" thousands of
small operators would be forced to
the wall.
Traveling salesmen were among
those hardest hit. It was indicated
that some provision would be made for those in transit so they could return home.
The suspension came as a com
plete surprise to "B" and "C" coupon holders. It had been expected that only "A" coupon books would be affected.
SHORT NOTICE Officials said the blanket order
was issued on short notice to pre
vent runs. But the rush already was on. . Not only "A," "B" and "C" cou
pon holders are hit by the mora
torium. It applies as well to "E" and "R" coupons those covering farm vehicles and so-called nonhighway . motors such as bull-doz
ers, steam shovels and other construction work Instruments. Offi
cials explained, however, that most operators of such vehicles undoubtedly would have enough fuel on hand to tide them over. States affected are Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida, Critical Fats, Oils Lack Seen (Continued From Page One)
not be quoted, said that apparently action would have to be taken to limit consumption of some of the fats and oils, or shipping need
ed for war purposes would have to be used to bring in supplies from South America.
Before the war, the United States
imported a substantial portion of its vegetable oils from the orient These sources were cut off after the attack on Pearl Harbor. To meet the deficit the government encouraged farmers to increase the production of soy beans, peanuts and flaxseed, It asked also that hogs be fed to heavier weights so
that lard production might be increased and that more milk be produced for making butter and other
dairy products. j
AXIS CRUISER, TROOPSHIP HIT
(Continued From Page One) been turned to torrents in places. French forces, also active, announced the capture of an Important place near Pont-du-Fahs, southeast of Medjez-el-Bab and about 35 miles southwest of Tunis. Billy Mitchell (North American B-25's) and Martin B-26 twin-motored bombers rounded out today's eighth successive day of blistering air assault on axis positions with a a sharp raid on the railroad yards at Sousse, just south of Tunis. Direct hits were seen along' a 2,000-foot section of the yards and bombs were also believed to have hit the roundhouse. The bomber crews said they saw one big explosion In the yard. The smoke was visible for 35 miles. Two of the Martin bombers were) lost when the raiders encountered Intense flack from ships in Sousse harbor. One of the two, with on motor knocked out, was last seen descending while still under control and with all its guns concentrating on one of the ships.
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The limited supply re maining was quickly put on the tables of the millions of workers whose pay checks are double that of last year; and did you know you and I and these millions of workers in California alone ate 52,121,635 (that's millions) more pounds of butter than we produced last year?.
Butter must be rationed just the same as sugar and coffee . . . Then everyone will get his share.
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