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Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-24
Treaty Changes
Aid Water Users,
Horton Declares

Il certainly am glad to be out of
Washington and back home" is the
way Harry w. Horton, legal counsel
for the Imperial Irrigation District,
greeted friends and District officials
Monday night in his arrival from
the national capital where he had
sat in on hearings and Senate de-
bate on the Colorado river water
treaty.
Naturally we were disappointed
that the treaty was ratified without
a reduction in the 100000 acre
feet of water it guarantees Mexico, y
said Horton. But in the eleven
reservations which the senate at
tached to the pact before accepting
it, river water users obtained a de-
gree of protection. Most of the res
ervations serve to curtail the pow
ers of the administrative commits
sion which will carry out the treaty.
"As to MeXico's guarantee on quail
ity of water, critics of the treaty
were given to understand that Mex
leo fully understood this matter
when the treaty was drawn and with
that assurance the senate dropped
consideration of an amendment to
clarity that point" Horton declared.
Next step is up to Mexico" said
Horton and it is my understand
ing ratificatio nwill not come up in
Mexico City until october"
Paying his respects to congress,
Horton said everything is on a
mad-house scale and that in his
Continued on Page 6, Col. 81
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Mindanao Jap
Forces Split

MANILA, April "a. CUP)-Ameri-
can troops split Japanese forces on
Mindanao in two and raced toward
the principal city of Davao Tues
day against only light opposition.
AS the Mindanao campaign neared
its final phase, Gen. Douglas Mac
Arthur announced that 1896 Jap
anese were killed and 1853 captured
throughout the Philippines in the
last eight days.
Those figures brought the total
Japanese casualties in the Philip
pines to 334,465, compared to 34,518
for the U. S. Sixth and Eighth
Armies fighting in the Archipelago.
The American casualties consisted Of
7491 killed, 26,606 wounded and 421
missing, while a great majority of
the japanese casualties represented
known dead.
The japanese on Mindanao,
southernmost of the Philippine Is
lands, were cut in two when ele-
ments of the Oath division spear
ed 80 miles across country and
seized the road junction of Kabacan,
severing the only land communica-
ton between Davao and the north
ern part of the island.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-24
EncircIing Forces
Nab kazi Leaders.
Patton at Danube
Force Of 1000
Tanks Sweep
Into Alps Area

PARIS, April "a. (UP)-
American Third Army roops
broke open the outer de-
fenses of Hitler's Bavarian
redoubt on a broad front
Tuesday and rammed an
armored spearhead up to the. Danube
river on the western outskirts of
Regensburg.
1t. Gen. George S. Pattons Third
army tanks and armored troop
carriers reached the northwestern
bend of the Danube opposite
Regensburg-th old Napoleonic
city of Ratisbor.-Iuesday afternoon
after a 10-mile advance through
weak and disorganized enemy op-
position.
A few Nazi snipers battled the
speeding American armored columns
along the west side of the historic
river, but were cut down.
Field dispatches indicated the
Germans were planning delaying
fight on the eastern bank of the
Danube and inside Regensburg,
where the enemy was reported
throwing up barricades and moving
hundreds of antiaircraft guns into
position for the battle.
Strong infantry forces were crowd
ing up close behind the American
Continued on Page 6, Col. 81
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BERNIE, April "a. (UP)-
Marshal Henri Philippe Pc
tain, chief of state of the de-
funct Vichy government, fled into
Switzerland from Germany Tues
day preparatory to surrendering to
French authorities.
A Swiss government announce
ment said Petain had been granted
permission to enter Switzerland en-
his plea that he wished to return
to France to answer charges of
treason.
The 09-year-old marshal, hero of
World War I, crossed the border at
ST. Margrethen on Lake Constance
at 6 a. m. in nine-car caravan
after spending the night at Bre-
genz. He went there frcm Sig
maringen, seat of his puppet gov
ernment.
Petain will wait in Switzerland
for Instructions from Paris as to
the time and place of his surren-
der, the Swiss announcement said
He is wanted for trial as a traitor
in surrendering France to Germany
in 1910 and subsequently collabor-
ating with the Nazis. His trial was
to have been held in Absentia next
month, but the Swiss announce
ment means that he will be on hand
for the opening.
An official communique said Pc
tain applied to the Swiss federal
council for permission for himself
his wife and a small suite to cross
Switzerland to France 'in order TO
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-24
Leaders Hurry
To s. F. Meet
By ROBERT J. MANNING

WASHINGTON, April "a. CUP)-
The Big Threes diplomatic high
command moved to San Francisco
Tuesday amid speculation that a
compromise was shaping up in the
dispute over Poland
Secretary of State Edward r.
Stettinius, Jr, British Foreign Sec
retary Anthony Eden and Soviet
Foreign Commissar V. M. Molotov
carried with them the drama and
perplexities of a hurried eleventh.
hour search for unity with which
to begin the United Nations Wcrld
security conference.
GUARDED PARLEYS
Three closely guarded meetings
of the foreign ministers and two
conferences between President Tru-
man and Molotov failed to bring
any announcement of an agreement
on the thcrny Polish problem as,
one by one, the Big Three states
men left for the west coast.
1t was drizzling as Stettinius, ac-
companied by II state department
officials and two army officers,
took off from Washingtcn's Ma
tional airport at 1903 (EWT) Tues
day morning Although in hurry,
he was smiling and in good spirits
as he posed for photographers and
waved goodbye to newsmen there
for the takeoff.
Next away was Molctov, whose
plane roared into the night at pre-
Continued on Page 6, Col. p
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GUAM, April "a. (UP)-Ameri-
can forces have captured three
quarters of Olzinawa and have be-
gun converting it into key base
for the next stage of the American
march on Japan and the China
coast, Admiral Chester w. Nimitz
said Tuesday.
Even as he spoke, American B-29
Superfortresses were continuing
their softening-up bombardment Of
Japan proper. A fleet of $50 from
the Marianas hit the Hitachi air.
craft factory at Tachikawa, IA miles
west of Tokyo, for the first time.
Nimitz revealed that development
of Okinawa into major American
base was under way at press con-
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-24
Vatican Shapes
Plans TO Aid
In Peace Terms

ROME, April "a. CUP)-Informed
sources said Tuesday there was a
strong probability that the vatican,
although not represented officially
at the San Francisco world security
conference, would make an effort to
guide it toward vatican ideals of an
international peace organization.
The sources said it was likely
that the Popes admonitions to the
conference would be conveyed either
through Archbishop Joseph NIFTY of
San Francisco or Archbishop Fran
els Spellman of New York.
Two means might be employed:
A papal letter to Archbishop NIFTY
on peace machinery and a conf
dental mission to Archbishop Spell
man to contact delegates, especially
those of Catholic South America, to
make known the vatican's point of
view.
A third method might be an en-
cyclical letter to the United States
or the world episcopacy similar to
the letter issued last week declaring
the vatican intends to neglect moth
ing which may aid the peace makers.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-24
EI Centran Tells
Of 125 Flying
Raids in Europe

A total of 125 missions in the
European theater of war without
being hit, is the record of Lieuten-
ant Colonel Burdette Kinne, former
Post-Press sports editor, who has
been pilcting P-47 in Europe for
16 months.
Colonel Kinne is spending leave
with his mother, Mrs. Grace Kinne,
in San Diego and visited friends
in El Centro for the last four days.
The Ell Centro army flyer wears
the Distinguished Flying Gross
with Cluster, the Air Medal with 20
Clusters, the Croix de Guerre, and
a Presidential unit citation. He is
deputy group commander, having
served as squadron commander for
a year before becoming deputy COM
mander. His group has been sup
porting Patton's army. During the
16 months he was overseas Colonel
Continued on Page 6, Col. ID
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TWO RED ARMIES SLICE THROUGH BERLIN
Assembly Rows
Over Liquor
License Bills
Move to Withdraw
Measure From
Committee Defeated

SACRAMENTO. April "a.
fUP)-The assembly Tues
day refused to withdraw
from committee for floor
consideration a bill which would
place a rigid limit on the number of
new tavern licenses that could be is
sued in the state
ASsemblyman Julian Beck ,DD,
San Fernando, autnor of the bill
said he had been unable to induce
the assembly pubic morals commit
tee to vote on the bill after hearing
arguments on it, His withdrawal mo-
tion was defeated by a 40 to II
vote.
DELAY DEFENDED
The committees action in delay
ing the bill for two weeks was de-
Tended by assemblyman Randall
Dickey, (R) Alameda. He said
the bill "covers subject matter which
should have full consideration
The bill would allow issuance of
not more than one new liquar Ii
cense per month in any county. The
board of equalization has announced
that it will relax on May Is it's rule
freezing the number of liquor Ii
censes at 1889 levels.
Beck argued that all persons
wishing to testify on the bill had
been heard by the committee. He
declared that the assembly might
as well do away with committees
if all bills were to be continued
without action. He charged that the
public morals committee has ap-
proved only six bills SO far this
session.
Assemblyman Lloyd Lowrey, CD
Rumsey, said that bill could be
given "the kiss OF death" by post
poning consideration.
SENATE BILL DECRIED
Committee chairman Harold Sa-
WalliSch, CD, Richmond, said g
bill was being considered in the
senate to take care of liquor license
Continued on Page 6, Col. 81
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Moscow-PoIand
Regime Eyes
Coalition Set.up

MOSCOW, April "a. (UP3-Lead-
ers of the Polish provisional govern
ment said Tuesday that they were
ready and anxious to comply with
the big three's recommendation that
coalition regime be formed in
Poland .a#
At the same time, however, Presi-
dent Boleslaw Beirut and Premier
Edward Osuba- -Morawski said they
could not include in such a govern
ment any members of the rival ex-
lie government in London who
opposed their internal and external
policies.
Their statement at a press con-
ference followed a Russian assertion
that failure Of the Poles to form the
recommended coalition government
should not bar the present provis-
ional regime from the San Fran
cisco conference.
The Soviet statement, issued by
the official Tass Agency, denied for
eign reports that the Crimean con-
ference had specified only coalition
government could be invited to San
Francisco
"At the Crimea conference, this
question was not only not decided
upon, but was not discussed at ALL"
Tass said.
The Crimean declaration, as Tass
said, did not mention Poland's
qualification for attendance at the
San Francisco conference. However,
both the United States and Britain
twice have rejected Soviet demands
for the provisional governments
participation on grounds that only
more representative government
should be invited.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-24
RiifftS
Still
Show
Big Three Fail
To Agree at
Capital Farley
BY LYLE G. WILSON

SAN FRANCISCO, April
"a. (UP)-The United Ma
tions conference on interro-
tional organization was jeop-
ardized Tuesday before it
began as the American British-Rus
sian dispute over Polish participa-
ton was transferred here for adj
justment.
The first plenary conference ses-
sion is scheduled for 4:30 p. m.,
(PWT) "Wednesday. With scarcely
more than "a hours to go, the big
three found themselves in the en-
barrassing position of being unable
to settle a misunderstanding which
they thought they had cleared up
last winter in the Crimea.
Efforts to adjust the dispute in
preliminary Washington discussions
have failed. Some here counted that
failure an ominous prelude to the
Continued on Page 6, Col. -
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mack Massachusetts. 1t proposed
the award in recognition of Roose-
velt's peerless Leadership as COM
mander- -in-chief, his heroic courage
as a pioneer Of new frontiers of
freedom, his gallant 'and unselfish
devotion to the service of his coun-
try, and his everlasting contribut
tion, to the cause fo world peace.
A senate bill also has been intro
duced proposing the medal of honor
for Roosevelt.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-24
OkinuWd Made
Key Air Base

ference on the island following an
inspection tour.
"The acquisition of Okinawa viii
permit us to project cur sea and air
power to the China coast and Jap
anese homeland and will greatly
facilitate and speed up operations
in the future" he said.
"The operations here are going
along as planned and development
CT the island already has started.
Nimitz arrived at Okinawa short
ly after noon Sunday and left Tues
day after conferring with Admiral
Raymond A. Spruance, commander
of the Fifth Fleet: Vice Admiral
Richmond X. Turner commander
of Pacific Amphibious Forces, and
1t. Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckners
Jr., commander Of the 10Th Army.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-24
Could There Be
That MANY?

LOS ANGELES, April "a. CJP)-
Police Tuesday sought two bandits
who raided a tobacco truck of 900
cartons of cigarettes.
Driver Alex Glory reported the
men forced him to lie on the floor
of the cab while they drove to an
unidentified location and unloaded
the smokes. When they returned the
truck, he said, they warned him to
keep on the floor for five minutes
after they left.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-24
Eisenhower Eyes
Hitler 'GaIIows'

LONDON, April "a. (UP) = The
Evening News said Tuesday that
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, on a re-
cent visit to the Eiffel Tower in
Paris, leaned moodily on railing
for a long time looking out over
the city.
When his British escort asked
what was on his mind, Eisenhower
was said to have answered:
II was merely thinking what a
wonderful place this would be to
hang Hitler from"
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-24

The report tailed with an earlier
hint from Nazi sources that the
hard pressed defenders were fall
ing back into the northwestern
quarter of Berlin for their last
stand.
One-third to one-half of Berlin
already had been captured The
usually reliable Luxembourg radio
said red banners were flying ever
the ruins of the Reichstag. Also in
Soviet hands, it said, were Pots
damer Platz, geographical center of
the capital, Anhalter Station and
the famed Tiergarten.
The United Press bureau in Mos
COW cabled flatly that Marshal
Ivan S. Konev's First Ukrainian
Army hao linked up with the
American First Army some so miles
south of Berlin. The First White
Russian Army northwest of Berlin
was rolling toward an imminent
junction with the American Ninth
Army at Stendal, Moscow said
JOIN ON ELBE
Radio Luxembourg, regarded as
the voice of Allied supreme head
quarters, said the Americans and
Russians had joined hands along a
broad front near Torgau on the
Elbe. The Russians reached the
Continued on Page 6. Col. y
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U.S.. Raids Over Tokyo
Destroy $4,000 Homes

In Osaka during the same period
there were $4,000 disaster victims"
and 10000 homes destroyed. ac-
cording to the broadcast. 1t added
27O000 persons and 10000 homes in
Nagoya and 100000 persons and
10000 homes in Kobe suffered a
similar fate.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-24

give himself up to the French court
of justice"
The announcement came on Pc
tain's 89th birthday. He went to
Germany with Premier Pierre La
val and other members of the for
mer Vichy government last summer
when Allied armies began to over
run his homeland.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-24

said $4,000 homes had been des-
troyed and seven wards in the in
dustrial section of the city were
mostly in ruins as a result of
fires
The broadcast did not explain
what it meant by disaster victims" /"
but it presumably referred to those
killed, injured and left homeless.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-24
Congress Views
. Roosevelt Medal

WASHINGTON, April "a. CUP)-
Congress Tuesday took its first Of
ficial action on a series of bills
designed to honor the memory of
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The house judiciary committee
approved legislation to award the
nations highest decoration, the
medal of honor, to Roosevelt post
humouSly.
The bill was offered by house
democratic leader John W. McCor-
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-24
Art..- = t-s#t y 4fIH.A.
D AMBllNe
(AEpoRTER
Not Bad, Eh?

Not Bad, Eh?
Mr.. and Mrs. Clair Burke were
all agog at the rodeo Saturday after
noon. They watched particularly
exciting event with special interest
They thought the cowboy was
wonderful.
THAT, ladies and gentlemen,
said the announcer, was Dan
Poore.'
oh snorted Mrs. Burke in dis
gust, II don't think that was SO
poor
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-24
SENATE VOTE SETS 6 MONTHS
TRAINING FOP. IS-YEAR-OLDS

WASHINGTON, April "a. CUP)-
The Senate Tuesday adopted an
amendent to the select service ex-
tension act requiring six months
pre- combat training for l8-year-
olds.'
The action was taken by vote of
so to 25, despite appeals by admin
istration leaders that the amend
ment would hamper the war effort
and perhaps endanger thousands of
American lives"
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-24
Switzerland Gives Haven
To Aqed Mar shoI Petuin

He set up a puppet regime at Sig
maringen en- the Danube in south
west Germany, but the Nazis were
reported to have moved him to their
southern redoubt last month as Al
lied armies again approached.
Laval repeatedly sought permis-
sion to enter neutral Lichtenstein
Monday, but was refused entry.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-24

The Tokyo domestic radio
said Tuesday that 100000
persons in Tokyo had been
made disaster victims during the
American raids on the. Japanese
capital from March to the middle
of April.
The broadcast, recorded by FEC,
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-24
Something New Added

SOHtCTIIIg NtW NuutU
You should see the envelopes con-
tanning election notices which are
being sent out from the office of
County School Superintendent E. L.
Hiteman.
A hand with pointing finger is
stamped on each envelope directs
attention to the address. The gang
in the office stared at the pointing
finger, reached for their pens, and
began drawing strings around the
fingers.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-24
Russ Bore Way Through Very Heart
Of Doomed German Capital as
Soviets and u. S. Armies Join Up

LONDON April "a GP)-The German admitted
Red flags flying
are tearing down the Soviet emblems
LONDON, April "a (UP)-Russian siege forces were
reported late Tuesday to have driven the Charotten
burg area OF wescentral Berlin apparently after knitting
clear through the heart of the devastated otterng
city.
The imminent fall of Berlin" Moscow radio COM
menator said Tuesday evening 'w break the YES
tges of resistance the last convulsve throes of the wound
ed monster"
Unofficial advces reported that the sieg, ring had
been closed around Berlin in grand scale encrclement
maneuver bytwo Red armies trapping any Nazi leaders
who stayed to see the death of their capital.
u. s. RED ARMIES REPORTED IN JUNCTION
In what Moscow called Berlins last hours United
Press dispatch from the Soviet capital reported that the
Red Army and the U. S. First Army had the long,
awaited junction from and 60 miles south
OF the German capital. The report lacked official
flrmaon by an expected joint statement in Moscow Lon
don and Washington the subject
- The BIC reported that Marshal Gregory X. Zhukovs
First White Russian Army had broken into Charloen-
burg the sprawlng of Berlin lying directly west of
the business Khukovs forces had been beating
straight across the of Berlin siege line between
the northwest and southwest parts of the city.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-24
Turn Backward, Time

Isn't it terrible for those young
boys to wreck their lives the way
they are?" a woman said to Deputy
Sheriff M. c. Finnell while gazing
at row of boys in the tolls of the
law for being slightly naughty.
"Well,'s said Pinnell with an en-
vious expression, Il wish I could be
that age so I could wreck mine
again."
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-24
WEATHER

Maximum Mon. 90, minimum Tues.
81; 5 a. m. Tues. 62, humidity Al;
noon Tues. ga humidity 30; pm.
Mon. 80, humidity Is.
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Bill Ashley, who is attend
ing business college in AsheVille
was home for Thanksgiving.
1t. Jean Ashley, who has beer
stationed at hospital in England
for several months, is home on
a furlough. 1t. Ashley is the
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. w. O.
Ashley.
Miss Mary Lynn Johnson, r. NJ,
will leave Thursday for Spartan
burg, S. c., where she has a po-
sition.
Miss Irene Baldwin, who is a
student at Flora Macdonald col
lege, spent the holidays with
home folks at Lansing.
Mrs. Georgia Bell and family,
were week end guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Tom Miller at West Jeffer-
son.
j. w. Faw and Roy Walker
made a business trip to New
York City, last week.
MIR. and Mrs. E. V. Eller and
daughter, are in Durham ana Ra-
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St. Nick SHED From
attention for His Gifts

The stocking custom is said to
have started with St. Nicholas, orig
inal of Santa Claus, a Greek bishop,
Nicholas Of Myra, who lived in the
fourth century. He was both gen.
erous and shy. and hated to be
thanked for the presents he was
continually making to those in need.
Once he climbed to a roof top and
dropped 4 purse of gold down the
chimney SO that he would not be
seen. The money, instead of falling
in the fire, lodged in a ehild's stock
ing that had been hung up to dry on
the mantelpiece.
His act became known, and there
after whenever unexpected gifts
came from unknown sources they
were attributed to St. Nicholas.
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nize the danger and act to prevent

nize. the danger and act to prevent
it.
SPREE temptatiOn
To prevent initiation the pub
lie will have to 60 on a buying
strike instead of a buying spree.
We will have to look at a shiny
new automobile in a dealers win
dow and decide not to buy one
We will have to let our watering
mouths continue to water over
those washing machines, radios
vacuum cleaners, refrigerators
and "gadgets" which are begin
ming to appear in the stores. We
will have to hold tight to our
pocketbooks and run from temp
tation when we feel the urge to
clutch at some product which we
have been longing for during the
entire war.
But" you may ask, "if the
product is there in the store,
somebody is going to buy it, why
shouldn't II"
The only answer to that rea-
sonable question is: Yes, some
body is going to buy it. But the
less people who fight for it, the
more its price is apt to keep from
rising. The best way to prevent
initiation is to let the few units
Of a scarce product which are
available 60 to those who are un-
able to say "No."
If large enough number of us
could keep our patience under
control for another year, could
keep buying bonds and putting
money in the bank until the
scarcities are ended, the pressure
on prices might be reduced
enough to keep initiation in check
and to prevent peacetime black
markets.