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Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-26
Move Started
For Annual
County Roundup

Charles Bramkamp, president CT
the FL Centre Chamber of Com
merce, under direction Of the cham
ber,s board of directors fortnight
will name a committee of three
from Imperial county to draft plans
for the final organization CT the
Imperial Valley Roundup Associa-
ton. This step insures an annual
rodeo under the authority of the
American Rodeo Association and
that it will he a county activity.
The board took this action after
hearing a detailed report on the
success of last weeks rodeO in
which all communities in the coun-
ty shared.
Present members CT the commit
tee, who had charge of the recent
exhibition, are Oley L. Bane, chair
man, and Ned Mcretti, LON
Thompson and w. A. Scheniman.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-26

tnecKeG tnrOugn QlSOrganlZed Ger-
nan opposition.
There was every possibility that
he Third Army would cross the
Danube into Austrian soil near Pas
sau within a matter of hours, if it
had not already done SO, to close
The northern arm of the Soviet
American pincers on the inner de-
lenses OF Nazidom's Bavarian re-
doubt.
Two Third Army infantry divis-
ions forced the Danube barrier at
three points on an 18-mile front
east and west of Regensburg, So
odd miles northwest of Passau, early
Thursday. They broke into Reg
ersburg and stabbed ahead within
about 80 miles of Munich.
Other Third Army troops drove
up to the Danube farther west in
the IngolStadt area, only AZ miles
north-northweSt of Munich, and a
third column was nearing the river
in the Straubing area, almost mid
way between Regensburg ard Pas
sau.
MUNICH MENACED
Munich, the capital of Bavaria
and cradle of NaZism, also was men,
aced by American Seventh Army
troops farther west. Unconfirmed
reports said the Yanks there were
only 80 miles northwest of the city.
The Danube crossing shattered the
last natural defense lire before the
Nazi Bavarian redoubt itself and
spilled torrent of American troops,
tanks and guns into the streets o.
RegenSburg main outer fortreSseS
covering Munich and the roads to
BerchteSgaden.
Field dispatches said Gen. Patton's
Third Army veterans were battling
into Regensburg on the south bank
of the Danube from the east and
west against half-hearted enemy op-
position.
German resistance was breaking
wide open on the last lap of the
bloody road to Berchtesgaden and
farther west where the U. S. Sew
enth and French First armies were
acrCss the Danube in force, pound
ing in to join the battle for Munich
and the redoubt.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-26
,! AMBl!Ne
~ Ep0RTER
Bouquet Bureau

Bouquet Bureau
The following note from service
man was turned over to RR SO that
the usually unhonorcd and unsung
heroines of the volunteer USO per-
sonnel may get little of the praise
so justly due them. 1t was entitled
"A Salute to The Women Of the USO
Snack Bar"
''El Centro is city of an approxi-
mae twelve thousand people today.
A city that has in every respect met
the demands OF the servicemen that
are stationed at air bases nearby.
Il am one of these servicemen who
frequently visit El Centre while on
liberty. There is always one place
l make it a point to visit. One in
particular. This place happens to be
the SNACK BAR or more COM
monty known es the USO.
81 want to compliment the women
that work in the USO, for their free
time that they give to the upkeep
of this wonderful place. They are
always there to greet you with a
Continued OH Page 2, Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-26
Imperial Council
Names City Judge

IMPERIAL April 26.-Imperial city
councilmen Wednesday night ap-
pointed j. R. league city police
Judge to take Office May l.
Heretofore the council appointed
the duly elected justice of the peace
in the Imperial township to serve
as police judge, thus combining the
two offices. The positions will be
separated henceforth, councilmen
said.
Meanwhile, supervisors of Imperial
county searched for an office for
Imperial justice court which had
been located in the Imperial city
hall. Councilmen asked that the
Justice court be moved from city
hall by May l.
At the meeting Wednesday night
councilmen granted the state high
way commission permission to run a
four-lane divided highway past the
airport, the road being one of the
postwar projects designed to i'm
prove transportation and traffic by
providing the four-lane route run
ming south from Brawley.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-26
Voting Problem
Keys O pening
Of Peace Meet
Early Showdown
Seen as Main
Session Starts

SAN FRANCISCO, April
26. UP) = United Nations
delegates assembled Thurs
lay for their first working
session with prospects of a
quick showdown on Russia's re-
quest for three votes at the confer
ence, the question of Argentine par
ticipation and, possibly, some new
move on the deadlocked Polish is
sue.
Molotov arrived at the Veterans
Building, where the steering COM
mittee met, in large limousine with
the Red Soviet banner flying from
the front right fender.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-26
/. T.. Private
Is Wounded

Mrs. T. w. Holmes, 434 Olive, Ell
Centre, received word Wednesday
night that her son, Pfc. Warren
Waters was wounded seriously in
Germany April II. The brief war
department telegram said he had
been hospitalized and further in
formation would be forwarded as
soon as possible.
Pfc. Waters arrived at his over
seas destination at the end of
March and wrote his mother from
Germany April 6, indicating he was
a replacement in an infantry divis-
u ion.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-26
Marshal Petoin
Enters France

Walter Stuck, former Swiss minister
| to Vichy, would be Petains first de-
fense witness. Stuck arrived at
Weesen "Wednesday empty hand
ed, and left with big protfolio of
documents.
Petain's entourage entered France
Wednesday, but he remained in
Switzerland for orders from the
French government.
The 89-year old hero of Verdun'
was penniless. The Swiss federal
council was paying his bills at the
old hotel Mariahlden in the town of
Weesen, overlooking the dark waters
of the Wallen Sea.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-26

and veal and one point fer most
beef steaks; decreases of one to
two points en- beef roasts and other
cuts Of beef: increases of four
points for margarine, and two
points for grade one cheese.
Butter and hamburger remain
unchanged at "a and 6 point per
pound. So do ration values of lard,
shortening, cooking and salad oils,
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-26
Nozi Poison Cos
Shells Seized

WITH U. S. THIRD ARMY IN
GERMANY, April 26. (UP)-Ameri-
can Third army troops seized an
estimated 2,500,O0O poison gas shells
in German supply dump 20 miles
southeast of Bayreuth Thursday,
Col Raynar E. johnson, Columbia,
South Carolina, and Capt. George
CORY, London, Ohio. who inspected
the gas cache, estimated that the
dump had been established no more
than two weeks ago, suggesting that
the Nazis might have intended to
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-26

PARIS, April 26. (UP)-Marshal
Henri Philippe Petain started for
France Thursday to face trial as
traitor to his country.
Swiss dispatches reported the aged
Marshal and his party left the
Swiss mountain town of Weesen at
a. m. for the frontier town of
Vallorbes, where his extradition will
take place at $3.50 o'clock Thursday
night.
Petain's secretary said he would be
arrested by French authorities at
the border.
The secretary also said that DR..
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-26
OPA Order Puts All Meats,
Except Mutto n, on Points

WASHINGTON, Apil 26.
(UP)-Price Chief Chester
Bowles Thursday brought
99s per cent of all meat under
rationing in order to apread more
evenly civilian supplies expected to
drop another six million pounds in
May.
Beginning Sunday and contin-
uing until the start of the next
ration period June 2, all meats ex-
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-26

use poison gas against the Thirc
army.
The dump was hidden in a dense
pine forest near Grafenwoehr, and
CORY said there were signs that
the Germans still we're rushing IN
gas shells when the Americans
reached the area.
The shells ranged up to l30 milli-
meters and many we're designed for
use In new rocket projectors which
also were captured at the supply
base.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-26
ondon Freed
OF Rockets

LONDON, April 26. CUP)-The
end of German rocket attacks on
Englard was proclaimed formally
in the House of Commons Thurs
day by Prime Minister Churchill.
He credited the British Army with
stopping the attacks by overrunning
the launching sites.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-26
Text of Truman address
0ppedrs on Page 4.

He strobe into the building, sur
rounded by staff and bodyguards. A
state department official greeted
him and, saying, Fright this way, :
led him through lane of spec
tators held back by military police.
Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden
arrived a moment later.
Can you tell me whether the
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Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-26

cept mutton will require red points.
including Gull and utility grades of
veal and lamb and all grades of
less popular cuts CT veal and lamb
such as breasts, shanks, necks and
flanks.
Other changes in the--meat and
fat rationing program for May will
be increases of one to two points
per pound for most cuts of lamb
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-26
MussoIini FIees
/. To Swiss Town
BY United Press

Swiss press dispatches to the Of
flee of War Information Thursday
said Benito Mussolini had fled in
disguise from Milan to the Italo-
Swiss border town of Como, tC es-
cape capture by italian patriots
The Swiss Telegraph agency was
quoted as saying that Mussolini was
accompanied by Roberto Farinacci
former secretary of tie Fascist
party.
Both men were said to have been
recognized by servants at theil
hideout in Como.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-26
Patton CI oSes
Trap on Last
Hitler Citadel

PARIS, April 26. (UP)-Gen. George S. Pattons
Third Army Thursday closed the Bavaran fortress of
Assau 67 miles north Of Berchesgaden and 90 miles from
Red Army forces stormng in from the cast close trap
N Htlers last citadel.
Deaed front dispatches, tagging u hours and more
behind Patons racing tanks said the Americans only
II miles from Passau Wednesday night and rolling un-
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-26
Meet Packer Sees Subsidy
As OnIv Black Mart Cure

uation three months from now"
Cooney said the only cure was tC
make subsidies high enough to en-
able legitimate meat industry men
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-26

to do business without going broke.
And if you do that, he said,
you'll make a lot of honest men
out of black marketeers.'
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-26
Attention.!

Due to delay the Ernie Pyle
story will not appear today.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-26
REDS SEIZE PLANES READY TO TAKE OFF

Moscow dispatches said Russian troops had
the Tempelhof ardrome and captured number of planes
with warmed-up motors, apparently preventing last
minute escape flight by Naz leaders.
The Hamburg radio reported the fighting in the Pots
damer Plaz and in the middle of Berns Tergarten
Faltering Naz radio reports insisted that Adolf Hit
ler himself and prize lot of his henchmen in Berlin
and Moscow dispatch said that if Hitler is there, "the
Russians will have him dead or alive.
The Russian army organ Red Star referred to the
tie of Berlin mopup" Soviet front dispatches sai
there longer any continuous front line in the ruins
OF the German capital RUSSIAN spearheads were gougng
into the heart of the city, and wild fighting swrled deep
behind the Nazi barricades.
500,0O0 GERMAN TROOPS TRAPPED
Soviet dispatches said the struggle swiftly approached
its climax and Red Army assault forces driving into
Some 100000 German troops reported trapped in the
doomed city.
Some 70 miles south of Berlin Moscow sad other
Soviet forces struck west the Ellie river practically
to within sight of American First Army troops along the
Nude river Official accounts put the Russians II miles
from the First Army of Wednesday.
The battle of wrecked Berlin roared into its sixth
day in what Soviet front dispatches described Jungle
of stone above ground and in the dark treacherous
erns of the cty's subway system below.
Four more city districts cleared Wednesday and
both the Spree river and TetOw canal crossed despite
ferocous counterattacks by the fanatic enemy garrison
Thirty distrcts-nearly twOthirds of the ctynow
were in Soviet hands
REDS SFURN REST IN SEEKING VENGEANCE
Moscow said the Russians, spurred by the of the
final kill fighting without relief in final act of
vengeance. Berlin said to be going down in vast
rubble heap"
and filled them with stones to barrcades Nazl
broadcast admitted that Soviet artillery hitting single
targets among the Germanheld ruins with amazing pre-
cision.'
Insisting that Hitler still was in Berlin the German
radio sad
There the will be decided
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-26
WEATHER

Maximum Wednesday 81, minimum
Thurs. 60; am. Thurs. go, humidity
73; noon Thurs. 68, humidity 80; 5
pm. Wednesday 81, humidity 20.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-26
RevengefuI Russians Cird
For Knockout Blow
Advance Troops Atop Headquarters
Where Fuehrer Is Said To Be
En+renched and Directing Defense


that American Russian joined 12l2
LONDON April &c. (UP)-The German radio said
Thursday Red Army troops had broken into TIE Posdamer
Platz the of Berlin only 400 yards the
central headquarters where Adolf Hitler reported d
recting the defense of his ruined capital,
If Hitler in Bern-as the Nazis have insisted for
four days-time running short for him. Berlin
surrounded by Red Army troops and by land
all but impossible The Berlin garrison being pressed
into a tight pocket in the center of the city.
Evening star., 1945-10-30
House Group Rejects
Overdssessment Bill

A House District Subcommittee
today reported adversely a bill to
reimburse property owners who paid
special assessments for street paving
improvements which later were held
by the Court of Appeals to have
been void and erroneous payments.
The committee rejected the bill
after Corporation Counsel Vernon L.
West said its passage would mean
the District government would have
to return approximately $500, 900
to property owners. Mr.. West said
there was no revenue available to
pay the sum.
The bill would amend legislation
passed in 1929 which granted relief
to some property owners who were
found to have been assessed taxes
unfairly. Supporters of the bill con-
tended today that 1t was only fair
that the rest of the taxpayers
affected also should be reimbursed.
The hearings were conducted by
the Judiciary Subcommittee of the
House District Committee, headed
by Representative McGehee, Demo-
crat, of Mississippi.
Evening star., 1945-10-30
Ickes Gets Protests
From u. ). Workers
On Mall PARKING

Protests of Government workers
against new parking regulations on
the Mall were in the hands of Sec
retary of the Interior Ickes today.
In a letter to Mr.. Ickes, signed by
nearly 100 Federal employees, OBJ
jections are raised to new restric-
tions along two streets on the Mall
which had been open to unlimited
parking during the war.
According to Park Police, the fol-
lowing parking limitations went
into effect about 10 days ago.
Two-hour parking on the south
side of Madison drive, from Ninth
to Twelfth street, and on the
north side of Jefferson drive,
between the same two streets.
Madison and Jefferson drives are
two parallel roads which bound the
north and south sides of the Mall.
The rule against parking at any
time is still in effect on all other
streets on the Mall.
Park police said the new regula-
ton was designed to give sight
seers chance to park their cars
when they visit Government build
ings along the Mall.
In their letter to Mr.. Ickes, how
ever, Federal workers objected to
the change in regulations on the
ground that they have no place to
leave their cars during working
hours. They pointed out public
transportation systems are still
overcrowded and that many Federal
employees carry carloads of people
to work from outlying districts.
Evening star., 1945-10-30
Birthday Fete tomorrow
To Honor EUGENE Never

Eugene Meyer, editor and pub
Usher of the Washington Post, will
be honored on his 10th birthday an
niversary at luncheon at pm.
tomorrow at the Statler Hotel.
A committee Of friends in charge
of arrangements is headed by Rob-
ert v. Fleming, president of Riggs
National Bank; Bernard M. Baruch,
and the Rev. DR.. Maurice S. Sheehy
OF Catholic University.
Those who will speak in tribute
to Mr.. Meyer include Secretary Of
State Byrnes, Mr.. Baruch, Frank B.
Noyes, president Of The Evening
Star Newspaper Co.: Virginius Dab
ney, Richmond editor, and others.
Evening star., 1945-10-30

garbage collection, which she de-
scribed as very irregular" When
she first moved in, she said, the
garbage was picked up every day.
Now, however, it is picked up three
times a week, sometimes she
added.
Similar complaints were made by
Mrs N. A. Compton and Mrs. D. F.
Sumner, both of whom live in the
same building as Mrs. Wall; Mrs.
Lily Ginsburg, 4730 Homer avenue,
and Mrs. J. B. Attaway, 4762 Homer
avenue.
According to Mrs. Mary Cutler,
resident manager for the Berens
firm, two painters are on duty at all
times to take care of complaints.
She contended they just can't re-
decorate every ones apartment right
away and are way behind now" She
emphasized that all complaints are
cared for eventually" adding that
many of the conditions complained
of are caused by the tenants them
selves.
Leon Kaye, manager of the apart
ments owned by Suitland Manor,
Inc, blamed the lack of mainte-
nance on the manpower and equip
ment shortage.
MIR. Kaye said he has been unable
Evening star., 1945-10-30
Public Housekeeping
Pay Hearing Set Tonight

A proposed 60-cent increase in the
daily minimum wage for women and
minor boys doing split-shift work in
some 10000 Washington hotels,
restaurants, rooming and boarding
houses will be the subject of a public
hearing at 8 o'clock tonight in the
Alcoholic Beverage Control Board
hearing room at the Municipal
Center
The proposed increase would be
tackled on to an already approved
wage order granting a blanket in
crease in minimum salary of ap-
proximately IS per cent, according
to Edith Reiger, executive secretary
of the Minimum Wage and Indus
trial Safety Board for the District.
The new wage order for the public
housekeeping establishments will be
the first since 1888, and it will be-
come effective about January /. It
is the first of a series establishing
changes in minimum wages for
woman and minor boy employees in
other types of semidomestic work in
the city.
Evening star., 1945-10-30
Junior Police Aid
In Arrest Here of
Robbery Suspect

The quick work of five small boys,
three of whom are members of the
Junior Police Corps, resulted yes
terday in arraignment of a 81
year-old colored man in Municipal
Court on charges of assault and
lmpersonating an officer.
Policeman Donald Weber of No. 1
precinct told how the boys watched
Saturday when the man, Will
liam F. Washington of the 100
block of E street NV, arrested"
Raymond E. Bradford, Is, of the
200 block of E street NV, after
asserting he was detective from
No. precinct.
Mr.. Bradford then repeatedly was
led into nearby alley, where he
was struck on the head with a bottle
and robbed of $23 A telephone call
by one of the boys brought the off,
Ger to the scene.
Judge Ellen K. Raedy held Wash
ington in 81 900 bond for the grand
jury on the impersonation charge
and granted him jury trial Novem-
Der 80 on the assault charge.
Mr.. Weber said an additional charge
of robbery would be presented to
the grand jury.
The five young witnesses, ranging
In age from 9 to 16, are listed as:
Harold r. Jordan, 205 e street
NV; James j. Utz, 511 Third street
NV; Bryan P. Mulkerins, 512 Sec
ond street NV; Eugene Whitmire,
210a E street NV, and Thomas
Smith, 101 E street NV.
Evening star., 1945-10-30

Pugh to scout Manila for a Cath
olic priest and to explain to the
priest the circumstances of the
cremation.
Pugh returned with the priest
late in the day and at about
o'clock our little group went to the
hospital, under heavy guard, claimed
poor Bills remains and were driven
to Fort Mckinley.
Mckinley looked bleak and bar
ren. 1t hurt to see the Rising Sun
f1uttering from the same pole where
I had staged so many ceremonies
under our own flag. The place was
jammed with Jap troops The cem-
etery, once neat and well ordered
was forlornly unkempt. The Japs
had dug a great, long community
grave, like a common pit, and had
filled half of it with dead Amer
leans and Filipinos-buried without
Identification.
We chose spot for the urn that
held our dear friend. Sergt. Carroll
dug its little grave and fashioned
little white cross, while made
a sketch of its location for Bills
wife. The Catholic priest, who
shrugged sadly and said that this
was war, read the full burial service
over the ashes and we said our own
little prayers until we were prodded
in the backs and told it was time
for us to return to our quarters.
Tomorrow: The Japs question
Wainwright about the SI5,000,-
600 he hid.)
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Syndicate, Inc. Reproduction in
tOhole or in part strictly prohibited. J
Evening star., 1945-10-30

to obtain lawn mowers and has been
forced to have the grass cut by
scythes. He added that grass is
constantly being planted on the
lawns, but that children run across
the lawns and prevent the grass
from growing.
Check All Complaints.
"We have policy here of check
ing all complaints and deciding
whether they are valid" Mr.. Kaye
declared. IF we think the apart
ments should be redecorated, we dc
it. We take care of all complaints
as soon as we can. After all, under
OPA regulations, an apartment
should be painted only once every
three years. Our policy is much
more liberal"
He attributed the broken glass in
many Of the apartments to vandal-
ism. He said there is a $3.50 worth
of damage in broken glass every
Halloween because of vandals.
The cracks in the rooms were
caused by green lumber, according
to Mr.. Kaye. who emphasized thai
the project was built three year.
ago when it was very difficult tx
obtain materials. He declared tina
as soon as the cracks are repaired
they break out again.
Evening star., 1945-10-30

has been without a chief since DR.
John F. Owen resigned last June
in protest against inadequate IA
cilitieS.
DR.. WeXberg, who also will have
charge of the departments alcoholic
clinics, arrived yesterday from Cal
ifornia and conferred with Health
Officer George c. Ruhland and
others who will work with him.
Declaring he was used to working
under all sorts of conditions" the
56-year-old psychiatrist, who has
published five books in his field
said he was ready to build from
scratch"
During Army service, DR.. Wex-
berg spent IA months in Panama
where he said he had considerable
experience with youthful alcoholics
because the boys, in an inactive
theater of war, did not know what
to do with their spare time.
DR.. Wexberg, who is European
born, took his medical degree at the
University of Vienna. He came tt
the United States in 1888 and taught
at Louisiana University for about
eight years.
Funds for the mental hygiene
service were appropriated in July
1914, but officials spent 10 month.
searching for a bureau chief. DR.
Owen was appointed May l, 1945
and resigned 80 days later.
Evening star., 1945-10-30
Two Held for Jury
In Safeway Robbery

Two men were held for the grand
jury today, charged with house.
breaking and grand larceny after
pleading not guilty and waving pre-
liminary hearing before United
States Commissioner Needham C.
Turnage. The two men, arrested
yesterday by police, were Simon
Milloff, 81, of the 1000 block of
Aspen avenue, Takoma Park, Md,
a shoe store manager, and Milford
H. woodward. 26, of the 1900 block
of M street NV.
A third man, William A. Reed,
26, of the 200 block of Twenty-sec-
ond street NV, also charged with
housebreaking and grand larceny,
pleaded not guilty, but since he did
not have an attorney, his case was
continued until November 5.
The three men, charged with
stealing safe valued at 1897 SIS in
cash and an adding machine valued
at $25" from a Safeway store in
the 1400 block of Seventh street
NV, were held in $4,000 bond each.