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Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-14
Japanese Trap
British Unit
Inside ImphoI
Enemy Smash Way TO Fortress
From All Directions as
Moun+ba a++en Faces Loss of City

; NEW DELHI, April Ia.
(UP) japanese jung e
troops were reported closing
in from all sides on Imphal
Friday and an allied COM
munique indicated that the enemy
siege line virtually has isolated a
mixed force of British and Indian
veterans inside the fortress town.
Tanning out through the hills
bore ering the southern end of the
Imphal plain, Japanese flying col
umns struck toward the Bishenpur
threatened momentarily to sever
British communications with the
main railway line 10 airline miles
west of Imphal.
simultaneously, other en- m y
forces moved in from the east and
north against the Imphal outpost
lines.
One Japanese column striking
along the Tamu-Palel highway to-
ward Imphal attempted to break
through the British defenses south
east of Imphal but was beaten back
with heavy losses, the communique
said. One huncred enemy troops
were killed in this action.
The Japanese Domei news agen-
cy asserted that the entire Imphal
plain has been surrounded by Jap
anese forces, and predicted the de-
struction of the British Indian de-
Continued on Pg. 8, Col. 2,
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-14
Ickes
Eyes
Future
Would Install
Soldiers in
War Factories

SAN FRANCISCO, April
Ia. (UP)-Secretary of the
Interior Harold l.. Ickes Fri
day proposed an American post
war frontier" in which 100000
returning men and women war vet
Grams would be given shares in the
ownership and control of war plants
now owned by the government.
Speaking before the common
wealth club here, Ickes rejected
turning over of government-buil
plants to existing monopolies" or
continued government ownership
and operation, which he termed
negative answer" to the prob
lem.
Instead, he suggested, the Ameri-
can principle of real free enterprise
would be maintained by giving to
the men and women of the armed
forces ownership and control of
a giant segment of American in
duStry.'
REVIEWS SCHEME
1T would be the most appropri-
dIc dllu JllC lliOoI OCliCAASAoA AoAA Al
of a bonus payment to them"
Ickes said. "It would amount to
giving these ten million young peo-
pie shares of stock in the America
for which they have risked their
lives.
These are the people who, we
can be sure, will be interested in
maximum production - and maxi
mum employment"
Ickes said that if his proposal
were adopted, the enterprise would
enjoy no privileges which are not
the equal right of every other cor
poration.
Perhaps the first directors would
have to be appointed by the gov
ernment," he said. Beyond that
there should be no special relation
between the government and the
enterprise. 1t would be free under
taking within the framework and
geared to the objectives of private
enterprise"
The secretary listed four prin-
Continued on Fg. 8, Col. q
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-14
Death Summons
Phi|ant,ropist

Iona LINDA, CAL. April IA
CUP>--Dr. Robert Watchorn. phil
anthropist and former immigra-
tiCn expert and Oklahoma oil eX-
ecutive, died Thursday following an
illnecS of several weeks.
Watchorn was the first Secre-
tary of tie United Mine Workers
of America and under Theodore
Roosevelt's administration was in
charge of the Ellis Island immigra-
ton port.
His public gifts included the
Lincoln Memorial shrine at Red
lands, and church mansc and
recreation park at Alfrcton. Eng
land, his birthplace.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-14
Cemetery Helper
Held After
Disturbing Body

REDWOOD CITY, Calf, April IA.
(UP)-Under a dark and cloudy
sky, a father Thursday night re-
turned to the new grave of his
beautiful 2l-year-old daughter to
fulfill deathbed wish only to find
that the body had been disintered
from, tie coffin and her silken
shroud cast aside.
District Attorney Gilbert Farrell
of San Mateo county announced
several hours later that Walter
Perry, 80, cemetery caretaker and
gravedigger, confessed that he had
removed the body of Dolores Sifu-
entes from her collin and covered
it with earth after the funeral six
days ago.
Had No Reason
II don't know why l did it," he
said.
The body had not been molested
and there was no indication of rob-
berry, authorities said, but Farrell
promised thorough investigation
of the case, including the circum-
stances of the fathers visit to the
cemetery.
As Dolores lay dying of tubercu-
loSiS last week, she expressed the
wish OF her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Andrew Sufuentes, that in the event
of her death some high school COM
positions she had written be buried
with her.
Dolores died Thursday She was
buried in Holy Cross cemetery in
Menlo Park Saturday. In their grief
over her death, the family had for
gotten her wish. Sifuentes recalled.
Wednesday night, he said, Mrs.
SifuenteS dreamed her daughter
was calling to her from the grave
for the manuscripts. Thursday
night Sifuentes and friend, Agus-
tine Ochoa, Redwood City, went to
the cemetery intending to bury the
papers.
Suddenly they came upon pair
of gray gloves, such as those worn
Continued on Pg 8, Col g.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-14
Battered Forces
In Full Flight
Lack Vessels
On Black Sea
For "Dunkirk"

MOSCOW, April Ia. (UP)
Red armies completed oc-
cupation of four-fifths of
the Crimea Friday and swept
to within 35 miles of Sevas-
topol with prospects of laying siege
to that big Black sea naval base
by the weekend.
The remnants of an axis garrison,
once estimated at more than 100,-
900 men, were in pell-mell flight
toward Sevastopol at the south
western tip of the Crimea for an
anticipated last, desperate stand
against overwhelming Soviet forces.
FEW HOURS AWAY
Vanguards of Gen. Feodor I. Toll
bukhin's pursuing 4th Ukrainian
army were within a days drive of
Sevastopol at their present record
pace of more than a mile and
half an hour, but stiffening Ger
man resistance on the approaches
to the base was expected to delay
their arrival cay or two.
More than 600 towns and vii
lagos, including Simferopol, the
capital, and the ports of Yevpa-
toriya and Feodosiya, were overrun
yesterday by the 4th army and Gen.
Andrei Yeremenko's Independent
coastal army in the swiftest ad-
vances ever made by Soviet forces.
Pouring westward from the Kerch
peninsula, Yeremenko's army PEN
etrated the Murym mountain range
at a number of points, with one
column moving down the coastal
highway toward Yalta, only size
able southeast coast port remain
ing in German hands, and others
surging along high roads through
the mountains.
ROUND UP PRISONERS
Both armies were rounding up
prisoners by the thousands in their
advances, which ranged up to 81
miles Thursday. BY "Wednesday.
more than 10000 Germans and Ru-
manians had been captured.
Front dispatches said Russian
tanks, guns and infantry-laden
trucks were racing over the Grim
can roads in clouds of dust whip
ped up by high winds from ground
dried by bright sunshine-weather
and terrain ideal for the mobile
campaign undertaken by the Sow
lets.
Directly across the bay from Yev-
patoriya and 81 miles to the south
lies Sevastopol, which already was
tCcntinued on Pg. 8, Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-14
y AMBlINe
X EpoR1ER
Oleander Bureau

Oleander Bureau
OleandcrS to the BraWlcy Mems
chorus for the success of their first
annual minstrel slow, In the first
place the proceeds from the two
performances went to the Brawley
Youth Recreation fund, a worthy
cause. In the second place 1t waS
good show and ncttcd more than
$500. In the third place the music
was good. In the fourth place all
the acts were good. In the fifth
place it was lot of fun for Tie
audience and the cast.
Harold Brandt was WCW as the
interlocutOr. He was dressed to the
teeth in ii white satin suit which
contracted violently with the
checkerboard horrors affected by
the end men Leaverette House, Bill
Farrar, Allen Griffin. C. K. Scott,
Badly Quintero, Bill Benson, Wal
ter Burr, and Walter Walsh. Each
pair of pants knocked the eye out
of all teholders.
If we live to be $40 years old
we will never forget low Scott
looked as the Negro preacher. My
word, what face and pate! He
looked like nothing human.
Bernice Knutson was a riot as
the gay ninety singer especially in
her numbers 1.-The Bird on Nellie's
Hat and the THE Face on the
Bar Room Floor"
And may we have the pieacure
of presenting a very nice little
Continued on Fg. 8, Col. q
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-14
House Speeds up
Vast War Funds

WASHINGTON, April IA. up
The house was expected to COM
plete acion Friday on the 22,647,-
1885 navy supply bill and to initi-
ate action soon on a $4,000, 900, 900
measure for the war department.
The army bill would include only
about $4,000, 100000 in new funds,
with the difference being composed
of reappropriations of previously
authorized but unexpended monies.
The army budget for the current
fiscal year totals $74.000,0 900, ,000 in
Guiding $4,000, 100000 in new funds
and 5,0O0,0OOO0O in reappropria-
tionS.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-14
Catt|emen Hear
Leader Picture
Industry Peril

"Cattlcmen of the United States
must organize if they hope to un-
tangle the government red tape
which has resulted in too many
cattle and too little meat" Loren
Bamert, president of the California
Cattlemen's association, told Impe-
rial and Sa nDiego cattlemen at a
meeting in Brawley Thursday.
He declared that cattlemen must
organize if they hope to be recog-
nized in Washington and have any
effect on the various bureaus which
make the livestock industry diff
ficult one in wartime"
TOO MANY BOTTLENECKS
Bamert said tht there are too
many bottlenecks resulting from
conflicting orders and restrictions
imposed by the government bureaus
tht there is a beef shortage in the
United States in spite of the fact
that the cattle population is the
greatest in the history of the ma
tien. ''e-> = ''st---s
Ceiling prices onu feed used for
finishing cattle for the market"
Continued on Page 8, Col. y
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-14
Senators We uId Not DeIdv
kin1mel, Short CourtmortioI

WASHINGTON, April Ia.
(UP) = Prominent senator's
have renewed demands for
an early court-martial trial of Rear
Admiral Husband E. Kimmel and
Major General Walter C. Short on
charges OF negligence in connec-
ton with the japanese surprise at
tack on Pearl Harbor.
Secretary of Navy Frank Knox
said earlier in the week that the
Kimmel-Short situation was CON
fused" and that he had asked the
justice department to look into it.
The army and navy favor a delay
unil after the war. but this has
met opposition in congress.
Rear Admiral Thomas G.. Hart,
retired former commander of the
U. S. ASiatic fleet. has arrived in
Honolulu to begin taking testimony
from various naval officers in con-
nection with the Pearl Harbor de-
bacle. Hart was assigned by Knox
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-14
Macarthur Urged
By Backer to
Break Silence"

WASHlNGlON, April IL. tOf)-
General Douglas Macarthur, Al
lied supreme commander in the
Southwest Pacific, has been urged
by an active supporter to break his
political silence Immediately and
state unequivocally whether he is
available for the Republican presi-
dental nomination, it was revealed
Friday.
Representative A. L. Miller, tRO
Nebraska, who has been working
independently in MacArthur's be-
half, urged this step upon him in
the latest letter in an exchange of
correspondence. It was a reversal
OF Millers previous recommended
ton to Macarthur that he not be a
candidate but permit himself to be
drafted and then accept the nomi-
nation "aS candidate for COM
mander-in-ch of all our armed
forces"
MACARTHUR REPLIES
In a letter, dated September 18,
l943, which contained that proposal,
Miller told Macarthur that unless
this New Deal can be stopped this
time, our American way of life is
forever doomed Macarthur re-
piled on october 2, 1943, that he did
not anticipate Miller's flattering
predictions about his pre- sidential
possibilities. but added that Il do
unreservedly agree with the COM
plete wisdom and craftsmanship of
your comments"
Miller pointed out that MacAr-
thur polled more than 100000 votes
in the Illinois primary on Tuesday,
in which his name was entered
Continued on Pg. 8, Col 3,
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-14
Oil Firm Sues
For S2,180,231

LOS ANGELES, April 14-tUPo
The Treasury Company, an oil
production corporation, has asked
Debretteville, president of the
Recons struction Finance Corpora
ton and the Defense Plant Corp
Grafton over condemnation OF oil
properties in the Del Ray hills.
The judgment was requested in
an answer tc an amended condem-
nation complaint of the RFC. Gus
EcE;.ettt'ille, Is t;;dont of 9
oil company, said that oil lands
WORTH $2,000,0O3 and production
equipment worth $180,23l.82 were
condemned and confiscated by the
RFC Sept. 20, 1912, without pay
ment to the Treasury Company for
its personal property and oil rights.
The company asked return OF
the lands on the basis it is insult
able for storage of natural gas,
for which it said the Defense Corp
Grafton was planning to use it.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-14
vinson Demands
Oil Land Deal

WASHINGTON, April IL. up
Chairman Carl Vinson CD, Geor-
gia, of the house naval affairs COM
mittee proposed congressional action
to force condemnation and purchase
of the Elk Hills oil reserves owned
by the Standard Oil company of
California.
Speaking in the house Vinson
assailed what he called AN attempt
to use the war as a pretext for ex-
plotting and developing oil in these
reserves which the congress has said
repeatedly must only be touched
to prevent drainage
This pressure is not new" he
said. 1T has been on the congress
ever since the greedy eyes of the
Oil operator surveyed the oil re-
sources of the government"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-14
Ace Promoted
To Majority

A l. l. E D HEADQUARTERS
Southwest Pacific, April ID. CUP)-
Captain Richard l. Bong, Poplar,
Wis, was promoted to a major We'd
nesday, the same day he shot down
his 26th and 27th japanese planes
over Hollandia, New Guinea, to be-
come Americas s all-time fighter ace,
it was announced Friday.
In conn nection with Bong S
achievement, it was recalled that
when Captain Eddie Rickenbacker
visited the Southwest Pacific a year
and half ago, he promised a case
of Scotch to the first pilot who
broke the record of 26 planes he
shot down in the first World War.
Bong is a teetoler, however, and
if he collects the Scotch, he prob
ably will throw party for his
unit.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-14
GERMANS SEEK ESCAPE FROM CR|mEA
Mind Reader
Wins, and
Loses Bouts

NEW YORK, April IA. tUP)-
Joseph Dunninger, noted mind
reader, answered the payoff ques-
ton when he appeared in traffic
court charged with overtime park
ing-but it cost him money.
Magistrate Anna M. KrosS ad-
mitted Dunninger was correct
when he told her she intended
to send her daughter to Oberlin
college. How about your
fine?" she asked. Il can read
your mind, but 1 can't change it,
said the mind-reader That's
correct" the magistrate said,
you're fined $4."
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-14
Children Killed
By Acid in Food

NEW LONDON. Conn, April a.
-CUPD-Boric acid accidentally
administered in the milk formulas
at Lawrence and Memorial assoc
lated hospitals has caused the
death of four infants in the past
three days. and affected 20 others,
some of whom may also die, Rich
ard J. Hancock, hospital admin
istrator, said.
Boric acid crystals, which Han
Geek said resembled dcxtroSe cry
stalls used in the formulas. were
used "by one hospital employe,"
whose name will not be disclosed
until such time az absolute facts
lead to this one employe being the
cause" of the tragedy.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-14
kuriiIe
Drive
Grows
yanks Hammer
At Widely
Strung Isles
PEARL ARBOR, April Ia

PEARL ARBOR, April IA.
(UP) = American bombers
blasted enemy bases from
New Guinea to Japan's northern
empire "Wednesday, hitting the Kur-
lie islands for the third straight
day. it was disclosed Friday.
Ventura bombers of fleet arriving
four and army Liberators from
Aleutian bases raiced 150-mile
stretch of the Kuriles, hitting Mat
suWa, 1869 miles north of Tokyo,
Shashikotan, the big naval base at
Paramushiro, and Shumushu, be-
tween Paramushiro and the Siber-
ian Kanchauxa peninsula.
FIRST TIME OVER
1t was the first raid of the war
on Shashikotan, a bleak volcanic
island 100 miles south of Paramu-
shire, and the fourth attack in a
month on MatsuWa.
The new assaults came while
Liberators, MitchellS and Boston
bombers of the Fifth air force
struck the New Guinea coast, 4,000
miles to the south, hitting the large
enemy supply port OF Hcllandia
with 322 tons of explosives.
DOWN EIGHT PLANES
The airmen shot down eight enc
my fighters anC damaged 10 others
out of a japanese intercepting
force of 20 planes, and swept over
radjoining Humboldt bay to destroy
or damage 10 enemy ships.
One American plane was lost
and several others damaged in the
raiC, the fourth this month on
Hollandia, where recent attacks de-
stroyed a concentration of 288 ene-
my aircraft
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-14
Blaze Destroys
Airport Office

A fire, famed by high winds de-
Stroyed the office at the Imperial
County airport Thursday evening
about $50.
Imperial Fire Chief w. II. Burton
said the blaze started in the attic
of the building which is located on
the northeast corner of the grounds
and spread rapidly.
Mexicans living in the building
were unable to save any of their
household goods. Chief Burton said
he estimated the building loss at
least $500 and the furnishings at
about $500. One Mexican, whose
name. was not learned, lost $l6O in
currency, it was reported.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-14
Tops Ceiling
On Liquor Sole

The auction, conducted by GUS
toms men, cleared out stocks of the
rare commodity from the govern
ment warehouse.
OPA enforcement attorney said
his opinion was that the govern
ment couldn't sell above ceilings any
more than an individual, but local
officials must await instructions
from headquarters in Washington.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-14
Dry Candidates
Qualify First

SACRAMENTO, April l4-tUP)
The Prohibition party became the
first to qaulify Presidential and
Vice presidential candidates in
California for the Nov. general
election. Secretary CT State Frank
M. Jordan announced.
Claude A. Watson. Los Angel
attorney and Free Methodist min
lister, is tie party's presidential
nominee, and Andrew Johnson,
listed as a teacher, author and
Methodist minister. is the vice.
presidential candidate.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-14

While stressing that there Is still
much to be done, Representative
Walter {. Ploeser, lRJ, Missouri,
an appropriations committee MEM
Der, told the house Thursday that
no military authority expects tht
Pacific war TO be over before two
years after conclusions OF hostillticy
in Europe. He said this was one
reason why 1t was necessary 10
continue TO provide the armed forces
with what they need and why
budget OF between $4,000. 900, 900
and s55 900, 100000 would be recon-
mended for the war department
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-14
Giraud Loses
hiqh Post

LONDON, April Ia. (UP)-Gen.
Henri Honore Giraud has been re-
moved formally from his post as
commander-in-chief of French arm
eel forces and placed on the reserve
list" radio France announced in a
broadcast from Algiers Friday.
The Committee of National Lib
GRAFTON at Algiers voted to retire
Giraud, effective Immediately, the
broadcast said.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-14
School Elections
Set May 1q

School election will be held
throughout Imperial county May
10, County School Supt. E. l.. Hite-
man announced Friday.
The last day for candidates or
their sponsors to file declarations
of their candidacy is April 10.
Vacancies on school boards in
rural and city schools will be filled
at the annual election.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-14
Strikers Return
AT Gas Plant

TORRANCE, Calf, April a. CUP)
"A thousand construction workers
were back at work Friday at a
multi-million dollar gas refinery
following a satisfactory adjustment
ending a 24-hour strike.
Members of the Los Angeles
Building and Construction Trades
council (AFLD stopped work We'd
nesday afternoon when a non-union
electrical crew started work on elec-
trical and transformers and power
connections.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-14

LOS ANGELES, April IA. UP)-
The OPA was checking Friday to
sec If Uncle Sam had violated his
own price ceiling act by auctioning
unclaimed liquor at considerably
more than regulation figures.
One case of Scotch, ceiling $6l.l8,
went for $1OO.50. Another case, pre-
war value So a bottle, went for
1892 q bottle.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-14

NEW YORK, April IA. tUPI-
Daily newspapers consumed 20l ,7O8
tons of newSprint in March of this
year, compared with BILL in
March, l943, and 258,518 in l94l,
the American Newspaper Publishers
association announced Friday
During the first three months
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-14
War Spending
Hits Peak

WASHINGTON, April IA. 'UPD--
United States war expenditures hit
a record monthly high of $7,948,-
00G,O00 in March to push the gov
ernment's total war outlay from
July |, 1910, through March 81 to
$176 500 100000, the office of war
information reported Friday.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-14
DahyNewspapers
Cut Paper Use

of this year reporting newspapers
used 578,885 tons of newsprint, a
decrease of 1879 per cent under the
first three months of 1943 and 1872
per cent under the same period in
l94l. Reporting papers had news
print stocks amounting to 48 days
supply on hand at the end of Feb
ruary. "A
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-14

STOCKTON, April ii.
CUP)-Informed sources re-
ported Friday that Britain
and the United States had asked
Sweden to cut off all exports of
ball bearings to Germany.
The request was contained in
notes unC CerStood to have been pre-
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-14
Warren, Bricker
Plan Par|ey

SACRAMENTO, April IA. CUP)
Gov. John w. Bricker of Ohio,
arriving in California Friday on
a pre-convention campaign tour,
will come to Sacramento Sunday for
a luncheon with Governor Earl
Warren at the executive mansion,
the governors office said Friday
Bricker and Warren will attend
a meeting of the California Re-
publican assembly in San Jose.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-14

to this task to obviate the necessity
of officers in the Pacific travelling
here to tell what they know. Many
of these officers are on hazardous
duties and Knox explained he want
ed to have their stories available,
if only in deposition form, for the
court martial.
Chairman David I. Walsh, CD
Mass, of the senate naval affairs
committee said while he had no
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-14

sentcd to the Swedish government
yesterday by American and Brit
ish ministers in connection with
U. S. Secretary of State Cordell
Hull's warning to neutrals against
trading with Germany or it's aSso-
ciates.
These sources said, however, that
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-14

knowledge of what Knox had In
mind, he hoped personally that
the courts martial are started be-
fore June 7, the date to which
congress EXTENDED the statute OF
limitations in the Kimmel-Short
case.
Sen. Edwin C. Johnson, Cd,
Colo, high-ranking member OF the
senate military affairs committee.
agreed.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-14
Greek Saboteurs
Blast Germans

CAIRO. April a. CUP)-Reliable
sources said Friday that Greek
saboteurs blew up a German troop
train leaving Athens, causing heavy
casualties
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-14
u. S., Britain A SIX Sweden
To Cut Ties With Nuzis

the notes did not contain any pro-
vision for possible action if Swed-
EN- continued to supply Germany
with ball-bearingS. an integral part
of mechanical equipment.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-14
WEATHER

Maximum Thursday II, minimum
Friday 50; 5 am. Friday 81, humid
ity 40; noon Friday IS, humidity 20;
S pm. Thurs. 10, humif ity 80.
Enakopravnost. [volume] (Cleveland, O.[Ohio]) 1918-1957, 1944-11-27

iel in ze v bliznji bodocnostl l.
menoval novega drzavnega tai
nika, obenem pa obstoji tudi
moznost, da predsednik utegne
pustiti odprta vrata "a HUI
low poznejsi povratek.
v zvezi z ugibanjem, kdo da
DO Hullov naslednik, sc omenja
zlasti tri imena, in sicer ,vojno-
mobilizacijski ravnatelj James
F. Byrnes, podpredsednik Henry
A. Wallace in drzavni podtaj-
mix Edward r. Stettinius jr.
Poleg teh Sc omenja tudi biv-
sega drzavnega podtajnika
Summer Wellesa in pa sedanje-
ga poslanika v Londonu, Johna
Winanta.