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Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-23
Cologne Counts
10000 Dead
In NIGHTS Raid

STOCKHOLM, April %. OUP)-
The Stockholm Aftontidningen said
in an undated dispatch that more
than 10000 persons were killed in
the Raj blockbuster raid on Co.
logne Thursday night.
Hundreds of persons were burned
to death by flaming phosphorus and
scores of victims, burning like
torches, threw themselves into the
Rhine and were drowned, the news
paper said.
The dispatch, apparently based
on information broadcast by the
clandestine European radio station
Atlantic, said the railway tracks
through Co:5gne were damaged SO
heavily that at least week will be
required to complete repairs.
Aftontidningen also said hundreds
OF train passengers were killed on
the same night when British bombs
scored direct hit on a Berlin
Cologne-Paris express train near
AiX-La-Chapelle.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-23
Labor Dispute
Slows Down
0ctane Output
WILMINGTON, Ca.

WILMINGTON, Calf, April %
Jurisdictional friction between
two members of the iron workers
and boilermakers unions, both
AFI4, Saturday led to a walkout OF
$50 men employed in constructing
high octane gasoline refineries for
Union and Richfield Oil companies
John r. Prussing, director of con-
struction for the petroleum ad-
ministration for war, said he feared
30C0 others might quit work Mon
day if the dispute was not settled
He said heads of the two unions
were meeting in Washington tc
iron out the dispute over which
unon should handle certain types
of work on the refineries.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-23
Speaker, Writers
Group Clash

heran agreement, we feel we cam
not have you as a guest the con-
gress said in cancelljng the his
torian's scheduled talk Friday night
The strong minded Salvemeni told
the congress he preferred to keep
his soul.
Roosevelt and Hull know less
about Europe than l know about
Kentucky" Salvemini said, in a
press conference Wednesday charg-
ing that the United States few
contacts with politicians and mon
archists is creating distrust among
the Italians"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-23

w WAOHlNGI April 22.
(UP)-Democratic and Re-
publican senate leaders to-
day hailed the proposal of
Secretary of Treasury Henry
Morgenthau, Jr., for direct con-
greSsional participation" in expect
ed international conferences on
postwar world monetary stabiliza-
tion.
Under tentative plans, details of
which were announced simultan-
eouSly here ano in London FRIDAY
night, the United States would con-
tribute between $2,500,0OO,OOO and
So, 100000 to proposed SS,O00,-
100000 international stabilization
fund. Twenty-Five per cent of the
American contribution would be in
gold. The fund would be used to
stabilize the currency of the worlds
nations in international trade.
Secretary of State Cordell Hull
praised the agreement as the frame
work of a plan that will bring
prosperity to our own country when
the war is won."
Thirty nations already have
agreed upon the plan, Morgenthau
TOLD senate and house committees.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-23

HOLLYWOOD, April %. (UP)-
DR.. Gaetano Salvemini, Harvard
professor and self-styled bewildered
"18the century liberal Saturday
told the Hollywood Writers Congress
to keep their money and go to hell
after they cancelled his lecture for
criticizing President Roosevelts
handling of Italian politics.
Unless there is definite asusr-
ance that you do not attack the
United Nations or the policies of
the United States as embodied in
the Atlantic charter and the Te-
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-23
D AMBLINe
EpoRTER
A Lesion to Him

A Lesson to Him
Tech Sarge bCO Raoun did deal
of stewing about tic other morn
ing because he could not find his
gas ration book.
What did you do with it?" he
asked his wife in that accusing
masculine ,one that never fails to
infuriate the ladiea.
i haven't seen it,'' Mrs. Rabun
snapped, as who wouldn't? The
frenzied search CT the Rabun do
micile continued in strained silence
fol several minutes.
"You threw it away" said the
man of the house, that's what l
think"
Il haven't seen the old gas ra-
ton book" she insisted. Look in
your pockets He gave her a
whitening stare and said he already
had searched lis pockets. The at
mosphere was a bit frosty as he
departed for camp.
He came home at noon still stew
ing about the lost gas ration book.
But the Tech Sarge hadn't been
home long before he found the
missing book inside a notebook he
was carrying in MS vest pocket.
Now, isn't that just like a man?
Right!
Simply Exhausted
There were some persons besiGec
Etr o.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-23
U.S.. FIiers Speed up
Pre-Invasion Raids
Big Bombers Hammer MerciIessIy
At Ruhr and RhineIand Areas;
Berlin Claims Allies Lose HeaviIv

LONDON, April %. (UP) - Hundreds of American
bombers carried the pnvasion attack on Europe through
its sixth straight day Saturday and the Berlin radio
ported violent battles over western Germany this evening
against strong forces of United States planes
Nazi propagandists said powerful United States bomb
formations with formidable fighter escort flew in
over the Rhneand and Ruhr and engaged in fierce
combats by German planes which great number
of the raiders crashing in flames.
Allied had made of an attack
Germany toward the end of alday assault by
Of u. S. heavy medium, and light bombers.
HEAVY AIR BATTLES
Berlin reports of allied flights northwest south
west and central Germany said especially heavy air battles
were fought the Ruhr area.
Even before the abuaton of statistics the days o-
erations, it estimated that ZOO allied planes had
hammered the continent this week offensive described
as the first phase of the western front.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-23
Editors Join i'm Demand
For Free Flow Of News

consistent with security ON all in
ternational conferences bearing on
the war, the peace settlement and
peace table negotiations.
Still another resolution said there
was a "pernicious system of de-
pantmental and bureaucratic prop
aganda disseminated by a veritable
Continued on Pg. 8, Col. A.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-23
B|innp Crashes,
Nine Men Die

NEW ORLEANS, April %. CUP)-
A navy blimp from the Houma, La.
lighter -than-air base crashed into
the Gulf OF Mexico and killed nine
members of its l0-man crew. The
Eighth Naval district headquarters
announced Saturday.
The blimp was wrecked Wednes-
day about 25 miles south of the
mouth of the Mississippi river The
only survivor was Ensign William
Thieves of Lakewood, Ohio.
The navy also revealed that two
other blimps were destroyed and
a fourth badly damaged Friday
morning at the Houma base when
they were torn loose from their
moorings inside the hangers by
a freak, tornado storm of approxi-
mately 60-mile-an-hour winds
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-23
SKY BATTLES RAGE OVER WESTERN REICH
House Group Asks Funds
To Save GuayuIe Crop
Special Committee Calls for Harvest
Of Present Paintings and Moves
To CONTINUE Growino on Private Land

WASHINGTON, April %. (UP)-Five members Of a
special house agriculture subcommittee investigating
ue rubber production in the United States unanimously
believe the present federal program should be continued
Chairman w. R. Poage, d., Tex, declared Saturday.
The subcommittee, which returned last week from
trip into Texas and California to examine the and
processing facilities has taken steps to obtain ap-
preparation to continue guayule cultivation of than
1000 in California
Invited to appear before senate agriculture appropri-
atons committee Friday, the group urged that provision
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-23

1t was called the first phase be-
cause the targets included strategic
rail hubs, aircraft centers, and mill
tary installations behind the Nazi
west WALL" and was part Of the
offensive expected ito continue until
the invasion.
Flying Fortresses and Liberators
of the 9th U. S. air force were idle
Friday following Thursdays 1000
bomber attack on the invasion coast,
but medium bombers carried on the
assault.
Twin-engined Raj Mosquitoes
struck before dawn Saturday ait
Cologne, Germany's third city and
one of the main railway bottle
necks east of the channel coast.
Continued on Page 8, CAL g.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-23
Showgir| Accuses
Army Aviator

HOLLYWOOD, April %. CUP)-
Army authorities investigating
charges of an Earl Carroll show
girl that a veteran army aviator
beat her into submission after a
movieland party announced Satur-
day that a second army officer had
been cleared of any connection with
the case. Pretty Caprice Captron,
Is, arrived home early Friday
morning, ragged, torn and bloody
Taken to police headquarters by
her mother, she accused Captain
Morrison Wilkinson, 28, veteran of
air fighting in China.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-23

The secretary plans to recommend
to President Roosevelt that he call
a world conference to effect for
NAL agreement.
In such a conference, Morgen-
thau said congressional participa-
tion would be invited. His decision
to recommend the world conference
was baseo upon the reception given
his progress report to congression-
al committees Friday
Democratic Leader Alben W.
Barkley, KY, approving the idea of
an international conference, said
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-23
laps Removal
Case Goes
To High Court

SAN FRANCISCO. April 90.
tUPp-A tWo-year-old test case
on the legality of orders exclud-
ing japanese from the western
defense command was certified
to the U. S. supreme court Sat-
urday by the federal circuit court
of appeals.
The case was filed by Mitsuye
EEdo, %, former state employe
at Sacramento, who charged that
as an American citizen she was
held Illegally in war relocation
authority camp in Utah.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-23
Jail Escaper
Faces Charue

LOS ANGELES, April %. UP)-
William A Stone, 43, fugitive from
San Bernardino Jail, Saturday
was held in $25,000 bail ON federal
charges of transporting explosives
from New Mexico to California and
having no draft card while the
sheriffs office prepared to file rob-
berry charges.
FBI agents who arrested Stone
Friday said they found burglars
tools and six $1,000 bons in the
name of the Bit of Sweden cafe in
bis car.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-23

mouse last mOntn-De 0eleteC from
the agriculture appropriation bill by
the senate.
CALL FOR 7 MILLION
They urged that approximately
$7000,000 necessary to bring the
present crop to maturity be in
Guided to protect the more than
$34,000,000 already spent on the
project.
The acreage now under cultiva-
ton was planted from one to two
years ago, Poage said, and its pres
ent rubber content is only a frac-
ton of what it will be in another
18 to "a months. Liquidation as
called for in the house bill would
force the government to clear all
lands of the crop, most of which
would be total loss since present
processing facilities could handle
only small percentage, and that
unprofitably, he said. ITO do SO
would result in complete waste
of both the money expended and
research which may be the basis
for a new and profitable field of
agricultural enterprise. That is the
unanimous opinion of the commit
tee."
NEED CITED
Immediate utilization of the pres
ent crop at its maturity is assured,
he said, by the continual decrease
in the US. stockpile of raw natural
rubber which has fallen from 400,-
600 tons at the outbreak of the war
to $4,000 pounds now. Raw rubber,
of which guayule is one variety,
must be used entirely in heavy
Continued on Pg. 8, Col Q
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-23
NEW STATE MINING BOARD
MAPS MEETING NEXT WEEK

SACRAMENTO, April %. CUP)-
A new state mining board appoint
ed by Gov. Earl Warren will holo
its first meeting in San Francisco
next Wednesday, Warren T. Han
mum, director CT natural resources,
announced Saturday. The board
will hold an organizational session
in tie morning and will invite
public testimony on mining prob
lens in the afternoon. The meet
ing will be in the state building.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-23
Congress Invited to Assist
In Mappinq World Finances

it was "a very good idea" to have
congress. which ultimately woulc
have to approve United States par
ticipation in the stabilization pro-
gram, participate actively in the
conference.
such participation Barkley
said, which woulc be both non
partisan and bipartisan. would
give congress a working knowledge
of the plan we would eventually be
called uron to approve.
Republican Leader Wallace II.
Continued on Pg. 8, Col. ID
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-23
BASEBALL
By UNITED PRESS

NATIONAL LEAGUE
New York .......... .l0l 900 000-2 IL 0
BROOKLYN ........... 900 00l 000-1 7 0
Voiselle and Lombardi; Webber,
Warren and owen.
Philadelphia oil 00l 0O0-3 0
Boston ............... 900 200 0C0-2 6 2
Raffensberger and Seminick; Jaw
ergy, Barrett and Klutz.
st. LouiS-Chicago postponed.
Only games scheduled.
AMERICAN
Washington ..... 100 10 000-3 2
New York 900 102 2lX-6 II 0
Wolff, Carrasquel and Ferrell;
Chandler, Donald and Hemsley.
Boston ............0 600 100
Philadelphia 800 90
Bowman and Conroy; NeWsom
and Hayes.
Detroit Cleveland postponed.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-23
KILLED BY RIFLE SHOT

RIVERSIDE, Cal, April %. CUP
Funeral services for Edward Bon
ne.t, 10, Stanford student acci-
dentally shot after he had come
home to await army induction, will
be held Monday. Bennett dropped
bed roll with a diSassembled %
caliber rifle in i: as he returned
from a hunting trip. A bullet went
through his head.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-23

LONDON. April %. CUP)-The
London Daily Sketch said Satur-
day that the chiefs of the German
army, navy, and air force have COM
PEELED Adolf Hitler to accept an
advisory committee of Interpreters
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-23
Hitler Stripped
Of Full Power

to scrutinize his orders before they
are sent to fighting fronts.
"Inasmuch as Hitler previously
was supreme In strategy and tactics,
this is an indication both OF his
loss of power and OF self-eoDfi-
dence," the newspaper said.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-23
MINISTER ACQUITTED

LOS ANGELES, April %. UP)-
A federal court jury Saturday found
Rev. Roy E. Davis, Upland minis
ter, innocent of charges he imper-
sonated a federal officer in raising
funds for the Ussher-Davis founda-
ton orphanage at Upland.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-23
SPORTS WRITER DIES

Les ANGELES, April %. CUP)--
William S. Hunt, SO, sports writer
fer the Los Angeles Herald and
Express, died at his home in Glen
dale last night from heart all
ment that had confined him to
hospitals and to his home Tor
several months.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-23
FACES CHARGES

SAN FRANCISCO, April %. UP)
Richard j. Heinrich, 36, Palo Alto,
Cal, was arrested in Reno today
on a San Francisco grand theft
warrant charging that he collected
$500 payment from a night club on
the false representation that he
had liquor to sell
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-23
Excl Centran
Tells About
Youths Center

Interesting phases of the juvenile
recreation program as worked out
in Albany, Ga, were described in a
letter received recently from Lieu
tenant Albert DeVore, former Ell
Centran, now stationed with the
army at Turner Field, Georgia.
They opened a so-called dry
night club in Albany for the young
things" Lieutenant DeVore wrote
Serve cokes, have a juke box,
and the kids were allowed to dec
crate the place themselves. It's an
old pavilion in one of the parks
that was, in years gone by, used
for fancy balls.
Apparently it is going over big
with the kids and the set-up is
supposed to be one of the best
anywhere in town of comparable
size. They also have boys club
with upwards of a thousand men,
berS.
Albany could show Ell Centro a
few things. Several years ago they
put on a big crepe myrtle planting
drive. Now they have thousands
Of these trees, all OF which will
bloom next month. The streets are
a beautiful sight when these blooms
are out. Ell Centre had a good pro-
gram with its oleanderS but let it
die about the time it was well un-
derWay.
incidentally, no adults had to
do any work with the young peo-
pies program. They simply pro-
vided the place and the city council
voted them free utilities"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-23
WEATHER

Maximum Friday IS, minimum Saturday 46; s am.
Saturday So, humidity 40; noon Saturday 78, hu-
midity 20; pm. Friday IS, humidity IS.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-23

l. A. HAY-U. s. No. S31 1880; U. s. No. 2 leafy
l. v. $30.5O-325O; No. 2 S29.O0-S S31 90; Sept flax
S3.96N.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-23

Simply Exhausted
There were some persons besiCec
Continued on Fg. 8, Col. 9
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-23

Detroit Cleveland postponed.
Evening star., 1944-06-01

Hines funeral home. 2ooi Fourteenth
street NV.
Evening star., 1944-06-01
Appreciation Certificate
Given D. {. Bar by Navy

The District Bar Association has
been awarded a Certificate of Ap-
preciation in recognition Of volun-
tary services performed in the legal
assistance program contributing to
the morale of naval personnel and
to the successful prosecution OF the
war;" the Navy announced today.
The certificate is one of seven
awarded to bar associations, and the
certificate will be formally presented
to the local organization on June 13.
The associations and their mem
bers, the Navy said, collaborate with
legal assistance officers in the Navy,
Marine Corps and Coast Guard,
who advise Navy personnel and
their dependents on their personal
legal problems.
Evening star., 1944-06-01
D. {. Ceilings Raised
On Four Vegetables

Price increases for four vegetables
in the OPA community ceiling prices
on fresh fruits and vegetables for the
Washington area, effective today
for this week, were announced today
by Robert K. Thompson, District
OPA director.
Yellow onions moved up 2 cents
on 3 pounds. and California peas,
best quality, have increased u cent
pound. All varities of snap beans
showed an increase Of / cent a
pound, while spinach rose 2Ha cents
a pound.
The only price decrease was shown
in carrots, with tops removed, which
moved down u cent a pound.
Absent from last weeks list, a
ceiling price was agains established
for Strawberries at SIS cents quart.
Prices on all other fruits remain the
same as last week.
Evening star., 1944-06-01

Thompson, associated with William
A. Gallagher in the defense of Her.
man Schwinn and Hans Diehel, al
legged West Coast German propa-
gandists, told the court that he had
conclusive evidence one of the docu-
ments offered by the Government
had been tampered with since it first
was idnetified in court.
Special Prosecutor Burns resented
the charge, referring to it as
"a false statement" Mr.. Thomp-
son took of his glasses, shook
his right arm and started around
the tables in the cluttered court
room in the general direction of the
prosecutor, exclaiming: He can't
call me liar in this courtroom
As Mr.. Thompson raised his voice,
repeated his angry words and shook
his arm at Mr.. Burns, Justice Eicher
sent the jury from the room and an
nounced that the defense attorney
was fined 500 for deliberate con-
tempt of this court"
The trial continued today with
three of the defendants absent with
the courts permission.
Gerald B. Winrod was allowed to
return to his home at Wichita,
Kans., to be with his father, who
was reported critically Ill and calling
for his son. David Baxter was sent
home to be with his 9-year-old son,
David, jr., who was taken Ill at
school here yesterday and later was
reported to be suffering from either
mumps or diphtheria. The third de-
fendant, Howard v. Broenstrupp,
was excused to receive treatment for
a carbuncle on his head, described
by his attorney, Ira Chase Koehne,
as dangerously close to the brain.
Evening star., 1944-06-01

later attended Pennsylvania State
Normal College, Indiana, Pa, and
George Washington University. He
received his LII. NJ, B. A. and M. A.
degrees at the latter institution.
He was appointed a teacher at the
Van Buren, School In Anacostia in
1891, but three years later left to
accept post with the Indian
Agency Bureau in Oklahoma. He
returned to the District in 1894 and
rejoined the school system here.
At the Emery School he organized
the first Boy Scout troop in q public
school in America and the first
group of Campfire Girls in the Dis
trict.
He fostered the Blake School here
in the interests of tubercular, amaze
mic and backward children. The
Gales School, near Union Station,
the direct result of Mr.. Ely's promo
tion, was the first to feature "oppor-
tunity classes" in District public
schools.
Headed Citizens Group.
Mr.. Ely was president of the North
Capitol Citizens Association for
seven years and was leader in the
drive which resulted in the erection
Of Mckinley High School for chill
dren Of that neighborhood.
He was a member of the National
Education Association, Federal
Schoolmen's Club, Grade Principals
Association, Monday Evening Club
and the Temple -Noyes Lodge Of the
Masons. He was also vice president
Evening star., 1944-06-01
ForresiaI Says Officers
Will Come From Ranks

Increased opportunities for pro-
motion of naval enlisted men to
officer status are resulting from the
expansion Of the United States Fleet,
Secretary of the Navy Forrestal re-
ported yesterday.
He also told a news conference
it is expected that hereafter the
only men commissioned in the Navy
from civilian life will be specialists
and I'VE hope to get all officer
personnel from the ranks
Vice Admiral Randall Jacobs, chief
of the Nays Personnel Bureau,
joined with Mr.. Forrestal In de-
scribing the growth of opportunity
for men" in advancing in the Navy.
He said the Navy now has As, ,93T
officers who were appointed from
enlisted grades during the period
of personnel expansion from Decem-
ber Z, 194l. to May /, 1914.
Evening star., 1944-06-01
lnquesfs Scheduled Today
In Death Of Two Men

Inquests were scheduled today in
the deaths of Alex Koffer, SO, who
was fatally shot Monday night in
his delicatessen at q Third stree.
NV, and John r. Sirovek, 49, no
fixed address. who was fatally in
jnred during an argument Sunday
night.
George T. Jordan, 25, colored. of
Pomonkey. Md, who is charged with
robbery and attempted robbery, will
appear at the first inquest. Released
last week from Lorton Reformatory
he has been identified by Mrs.
! Sophie Chyatte as the man who
threatened her with a revolver in
her grocery at 228f Stanton road
Sc, and by Alphonse Fernandez, a
grocer. of 2629 Fourteenth street
NV. as the man who robbed him
Of $40 at gun point.
Mr.. Sirovek was fatally injured
when struck with board in front
of the home of Robert e. Andrews,
46, of Terra Gotta, d. c., police said.
Evening star., 1944-06-01
Luncheon Given Members
OF Animal Rescue League

A luncheon was given members
of the Washington Animal Rescue
League yesterday at the Shoreham
Hotel, following the monthly meet
ing, by Miss Lucretia Clark, presi-
dent; Mrs. Merton E. Twogood, a
past president, and Mrs. Charles A.
Simpson, first vice president Mrs.
w. L. Capps of 1923 Jefferson place
NV. was the guest of honor.
Those attending the luncheon
were Mrs. Truman Palmer, Mrs. L.
B. Brubaker, Mrs. E. K. Morris,
Mrs. Robert Watson, Mrs. j. Dan
Faber, Mrs. William Hamm, Miss
N. r. Macornb, Baroness Madeline
Stackelberg, Mrs. Spencer Crosby,
Mrs. Beverly Robinson, Mrs. Charles
Hamilton, Mrs. H. C. Moses and Mrs.
Peyton II. Dunn.
Evening star., 1944-06-01
Theodore Peyser Heads
Hebrew Congregation

Theodore D. Peyser was elected
president of the Washington Hebrew
Congregation at the annual meet
ing last night. Rabbi Norman Gers
tenfeld offered prayer and made a
brief address.
Other officers elected were: DR..
Bernard A. Baer and Elmer B.
Young, vice presidents; Herbert j.
Rich, treasurer; Adolph Kuntz, as
sistant treasurer; Milton w. King,
secretary; David Bornet, trustee;
Norman Fischer, Emanuel Haas,
Philip Rosenfeld and Albert Small,
board of managers.