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Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-31
Swing
Scores
reoty
Declares Pact
will "Chea+"
War Veterans

WASHINGTON, Jan. 81.
(UP) - Veterans rights in
the area below Boulder Dam
will be jeopardized if the
proposed Mexican wa 'e r
treaty is adopted, a Califor-
MIA witness told the senate
foreign relations committee
Wednesday.
Phil D. Swing, state deputy at
torney general and former con-
gresham, asserted that the Boulder
Canyon Project Act guarantees
veterans preference to homesteads
in approximately 100000 acres of
public land below the dam.
MUST HAVE WATER
The land, he said, is utterly
worthless without water" Conse-
quently the Mexican treaty, which
guarantees Mexico 100000 acre
feet annually of Colorado River
water, would take water, he said,
that is necessary to develop the
region.
For every acre put under cultiva-
ton in Mexico with Colorado river
water" Swing asserted, IAN acre
in the United States must remain
forever desert because admittedly
there is not enough water in the
river to meet all future require
ments in both countries. Veterans
are rightly complaining that this
treaty violates the promise congress
made to them"
Committee members, led by Sem
Continued on Page 6, Col. g.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-31
Royburn Spurs
Service Bill

plead for the bills approval as it
was reported by the house military
affairs committee.
He said he referred to such
amendments as the proposals by
Representative Frank A. Barret, (R)
Wyoming, to keep the manpower
program on voluntary basis; the
Wadsworth anti-closed shop am
endment, and the "FEPC amend
ment which will be offered by some
body"
The so-called FEPC amendment
would outlaw racial discrimination
in the hiring of workers.
1.-The people who are offering
these amendments are assuming a
tremendous responsibility" Rayburn
said, pointing out that adoption of
the revision would kill off zone
bloc of votes here and another
bloc there, endangering the whole
bill.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-31
IL War Workers Children
Meet Death i'm Blaze

were burned severely.
Behind her came Mrs. Fournier,
who grabbed up the two cribs.
These were the only two boarding
babies saved. y
Meanwhile, Mrs. La Coste's son,
Laurent, picked up his brother Nor
man and carried him out, while the
third brother Guy escaped unassist-
ed.
WAR WORKERS CHILDREN
The city welfare department said
that the victims-the oldest only
about eight-were the children OF
war workers employed in plants in
the industrial twin-cities of Auburn
and Lewiston.
"A spokesman for the department
saic they had no jurisdiction over
these children, who apparently were
boarded out by their working par
ents.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-31

WASHINGTON, Jan. 81.
(UP)-Bernard M. Baruch
warned Wednesday that de-
spite the new wave of good
war news from all fronts
production of goods must be
continued 'to the uttermost
necessary" until the uncondi-
tional surrender of both Ger
many and Japan.
"It would be REASONABLE
to our fighting men" to think
of anything else, he told the
United Press.
Baruch is a longtime White
House adviser on production, role
similar to that which he occupied
during World War I, and is the
"father" of administration plans for
limited reconversion when military
needs permit. But he warned IN
his statement to the United Press
against permitting temporary opti-
mism to influence premature effec-
tuating of those plans.
He pointed out that provisions
already have been made for protec-
ton of war workrs and industries
against sudden end of the war. so
that there need he no grounds for
fear of peace jitters." Indirectly
addressing war workers considering
return to civilian industry jobs
because they fear postwar unem-
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-31

her three sons, Laurent, IA, Guy, 9.
and Norman, 6; Mrs. Loretta Four
nier, an employe, and two of the
boarding babies.
"Our best count now," said SAT-
fore, lis that total of "a persons
were in the house when the fire
started"
Mrs. La Coste gave an hysterical
account of what happened. She said
she was awakened by "a terrific eX-
plosion" just before dawn, and found
the interior Of the house roaring
inferno.
She leaped from her bed, she re-
lated, and grabbed two of the bab-
ies-cribs and all. AS she raced for
safety, she said, she stumbled and
fell, dropping both cribs and their
tiny occupants.
Crazed with fear, she said, she
caShed out of the building, leav-
ing the babies behind. Her arms
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-31
Guard Battalion
Receives 0keh

Passed inspection OK" was the
statement made by First Lieutenant
Robert H. Ward of the ninth SER
vice command after he completed
official inspection of the California
State Guard battalion in Imperial
county.
Lieutenant Ward inspected all
companies in the county and went
over all equipment during the week
he spent in this area.
During his visit the battalion
received command car and two
trucks to- be used in State Guard
activities in the county. The new
equipment is kept in the county
garage in FL Centre.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-31

WASHINGTON, Jan. 81. (UP)
The house Wednesday rejected,
l78 to 142, the so-called Wads-
worth anti-closed shop amend
ment to pending "wOix or else"
bill. The anti-closed shop amend
ment, offered by Representative
James w. Wadsworth, (R), New
York, would have exempted from
compulsory union membership
any men who might be assigned
to war plants operating under
closed shop contracts.
WASHINGTON, 5aL. 81. (UP) -
Taking an active lead in an ad-
fight for enactment OF
limited national service legislation
Speaker Sam Rayburn Wednesday
urged the house to reject all amend
ments proposed to the bill.
Rayburn told press conference
he would make one Of his unusual
on the house floor to
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-31
Fa|a's Honeymoon
Ends in HOSPITAL

WASHINGTON, Jan. 81. CUP)-
Fala, President Roosevelts Scotty,
may go down in the books as hav-
ing put new twist in the old news
paper adage that dog biting a
man is just ordinary but a man
biting a cog is news.
With Fala, it's dog bites dog"
And is it news!
The story kicking around here is
that Fala is in the army's Walter
Reed hospital suffering from dog
bite as the result of difference
OF opinion with his lady love.
Mrs. Roosevelt disclosed earlier
this month that Fala was "in the
country and we hope he's having
wedding" Nothing much more
was said officially but now reports
have it that the presidential pooch
subsequently was admitted to the
army medical center's veterinarian
department at Walter Reed, suffer-
ing from a bad bite in a very pain
full place"
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-31
II University Heads BoIk
On Compulsory Training

WASHINGTON, Jan. 81.
(UP)-Twelve of the ma
TONS leading university pres
idents asked President Roose-
velt Wednesday to delay ac-
ton on compulsory postwar
military training until the
end of the war so the people
could reach "a wise decision
-. after a cool and d'eliber-
ate debate.
1.-The adoption of peacetime con-
scription would be revolutionary
change in fundamental American
policies" they said, land to effect
such a change under stress Of war
is unwiSe."
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-31

AUBURN, Me-, Jan. 81.
(UP)-Trapped in their beds
and cribs, II small children
and one adult were burned
to death or suffocated early
Wednesday when an explo-
sion and flash fire destroyed
a boarding home for babies of
war workers.
While firemen still probed the
smouldering ruins of the story and
a half wooden house for other pos
sible victims, City Manager Ira B.
Stafford announced that Is bodies
had been recovered, including II
children and the body of Miss Rose
Cote. SO, an employe.
SEVEN RESCUED
He said that five children and two
women were saved. These were Mrs.
Eva La Coste, o. .rator of the house:
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-31
RUSS ADVANCE TO So MILES FROM berlin
LEST We FORGET
II. Christian
SucCunbs TO
Battle Wounds

Mr.. and Mrs. Ben Christian
received word Wednesday morn
ing that their son, First Lieuten-
ant william B. Christian, %,
died January IA in France of
wounds suffered the day before.
They were notified Tuesday he
had been seriously wounded in
action January 13.
Lieutenant Christian was exec
utive officer of a rifle company
of the 314th Regiment, 10th In
fantry Division, which is part
of the Seventh Army. He took
part in three major battles-the
beachhead at Normandy, the
drive across Northern France.
and the battle of Alsace-Which
entitled him to three gold stars
on his European Theater of OPP
erations ribbon.
Born in Ell Centro, Lieutenant
Christian was graduated from
Meloland grammar school, Gen.
tral Union high school, and the
University of California at Los
Angeles. At the latter he was a
member of Sigma Nu fraternity,
Scabbard and Blade, and won his
letter as a member of the univer-
sity rifle team.
He entered the army on active
duty in May, 1943 from ROTC
and received his commission as
a second lieutenant in the in
fantry in September of that year.
He left for overseas in May, 1914,
and joined the 10th Division in
France early in July.
In addition to his parents,
Lieutenant Christian is survived
by a brother, Alfred EIDE, of Ell
Centro, and sister, Mrs. Will
liam j. Dickey of Watsonville.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-31
Garden, Flower
Show Studied

A combined garden and flower
show for each community in I'M
perial county was one of the sug-
gestions made at the County Vic
tory garden committee meeting in
El Centro Tuesday.
Farm Advisor George Winright
suppested that the products of
Victory gar~cns would combine
we'll with flower displays at flower
shows and help boost the Victory
Garden idea in the county.
IF there are no flower shows
being held" Winright told members
Continued on Page 6, Col. g.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-31

In letter to Mr.. Roosevelt, urg-
ing him to delay his message on
peacetime conscription at least until
Germany's cefeat, the educators
said supporters of such legislation
showed their distrust of the people
in arguing that the program would
fail to go through unless congress
acted under stress of war.
1T is to imply that the people
cannot arrive at a wise decision
on great issue through the DEM
ocratic processes their letter said.
The nations experience with pro-
hibition, they said, indicated "the
unwisdom of attempting to deter
mine long-run revolutionary policies
in wartime"
The letter was signed by Presi-
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-31

'front.', he SAID, will be mastered
in spite of ali"
ADMITS DESOLATION
He admitted that hundreds of
thousands" of Germans are now
homeless refugees.
Hitler's speech was made frcm
his headquarters according to the
German radio. 1t was reported by
the DNB Nazis news agency.
I'm the IL years before I was en-
trusted with the chancellorship,"
said Hitler, "the general situation
was marked by economic destruc-
ton and unemployment"
Hitler began with his habitual at
tack on the Weimar republic.
after 1918,' he said. 1T was un-
derstood that it was necessary to
replace sick institutions by healthy
ones. Behind the destruction OF
Germany by the Weimar constitu-
ton was the ghost of Bolshevism.
During the six peaceful years OF
Nazidom, Germany accomplished
much. We complis h e d huge
things, planned additional huge
ones. We succeeded with superhu-
Continued on Page 6, Col. -
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-31

Along with Landsberg, key juno
tion on the Berlin-Danzig railway,
Marshal Gregory K. Zhukov's army
overran Meseritz, Schweibus, and
Zullichau, vital transport centers
and defense posts some dozen miles
inside German Brandenburg.
Stain, in his first special orcer
of the day since Monday, hailed
zhukov's First White Russian army
for the four-ply victory on the
outer approaches of Berlin. He
called the captured towns large
communication centers and power
full strongholds of the German de-
fenses covering the approaches to
Frankfurt"
28 MILES FROM ODER
At Landsberg the Russians were
% miles from the ODER at Kustrin,
where the Warthe flows into it and
the Berlin trunk railway crosses it..
Disaster-laden Nazi broadcasts
said Marshal Gregory K. zhukov's
First White Russian army was driv-
ing inexcrably toward Berlin from
the northeast, east, and southeast
ON a broad front.
Moscow dispatches saio that after
crashing through the Obra river
defenses just inside Germany, Zhu-
kovs forces were rushing westward
along the main roads converging
on the capital. The Soviet reports,
which usually are we'll behind the
events, said the Red army van-
guard was roughly rs miles from
Berlin.
Bitter fighting in the areas Of
Solcin, Landsberg, and Zielenzig
was reported by Nazi broadcasters.
whose stark admissions of landslide
advances by the Soviets lacked even
Continued on Page 6, Col. u
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-31

dents James 3. Conant OF Harvard:
Oliver C. Carmichael of Vanderbilt;
Edmund E. Day Of Cornell; Harold
w. Doc dis of Princeton; Rufus c.
Harris of Tulane; Robert NJ Hutch
ins of Chicago; Frederick A. Mid
dlebush of Missouri; Deane w. Mall
lot of Kansas; Robert @. Sproul OF
California; Donald b. Tressider OF
Stanford; Herman b. Wells OF In
diana and Hery M. Wriston OF
Brown university.
The university heads asserted
that the people are fighting in hopes
of securing an enduring peace. and
that adoption OF permanent con-
scription now would be interpreted
"as meaning that we must continue
to live for an indefinite period In
an armed camp"
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-31
Hitler Visions
Full ictorV

LONDON, Jan. 81. (UP)-Adolf
Hitler Tuesday night summoned ev-
cry man, woman and child, young
or old, sick CT well, to defend Ger
many with promise that "our
gruesome fate in the end will be
mastered"
Speaking in subdued tones to the
imperilled Reich on the 18th ami
versary of his assumption of power,
Hitler told his people that he would
''gc down the road without COM
promises."
He said that those who sought to
stab Germany in the back" would
be destroyed.
THE terrible fate of the eastern
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-31

at OlOnSdpO.
through lanes of cheering natives.
BY nightfall they had penetrated
II miles inland, taking San Marcel
ino and it's airdrome - the 23rd
field captured On Luzon-and were
pushing through Castillejos Pass to-
ward Olongapo, nine miles away
on the east shore of Subic Bay.
About 200 to 300 japanese in the
area scattered down into the hills
of Bataan at first sight of the big
invasion armada and dispatches
from the scene indicated that in
the past "a hours the Americans
were tanning out across the l8-mile
wide base Of the peninsula toward
a juncture with other invasion forces
moving dawn highway three on
Manila.
So complete was the tactical and
strategic surprise that the japanese
were unable to put UP the slightest
resistance on the beaches or any
where ashore in the first day, elm
mating all preliminary shore bomb
ardment by the planes and war;
ships of the big amphibious force.
The capture of San Marcelinos
airfield put American planes within
few minutes flying time of Manila
Bay and was expected to play a
major role in the reduction of the
forts guarding the sea approaches
to the Philippines capital.
Headquarters observers believed
the Japanese would hang on and
fight to death, but their position
now was regarded as hopeless.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-31
Three-Woy Drive
Speedily Hens
In Reich capital
Mobile Forces Seize Soldin, Big
Transport Defense Center;
Enemy Admits General Falling Back

LONDON Jan. 81 (UP)-Russian mobile forces sweep
ing toward Berlin broad front Wednesday captured
Landsberg SO miles northeast of the capital and topped
the three anchor bases of the Na defense line 80 to 80
miles due east of the threatened German capital.
Marshal Josef Stain announced the Soviet victor
archng battlefront moving in against Berlin and
the rail junction of Soldn SO miles northeast of the city
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-31
WEATHER FORECAST

Cloudy Wednesday and We'd
nesday night with light showers
Wednesday afternoon and night.
Partly cloudy Thursday but in
creasing cloudiness Thursday
night. Cooler Thursday with max
imum temperatures around GO
degrees. Temperatures at night
above 80 degrees.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-31
Boruch Sounds Call to Keep
War Output at High Speed

Baruch's statement was in re-
sponse to this question: do Allied
military successes call for read
justment now of wartime business
controls to allow gradual reconver-
sion to civilian productions"
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-31

ployment, he added:
"If we use half our sense in max
ing peace terms, there will be for
many years more work than there
will be minds and hancs with which
to do it,"
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-31

In another Of the bold amphlblouS
strokes that have rolled the Japan
ese back across New Guinea, the
Halmaheras and the central Phil
ippines, the newly constituted U. S.
Eighth army established a solid
eight-mile beachhead between San
Felipe and San Antonio, some As
miles northwest Of Manila, without
losing a man, ship or plane.
The first assault troops hit the
beach at $3.50 am. Monday, without
firing a shot, and in few hours
more than a division of veteran
jungle fighters were speeding inland
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-31
Yanks Chase Nips
On Bataan Beach
Surprise Move Swings Inland as
Enemy Retreats Without Shot:
New Momentum Given Isle Conquest

GENERAL MACARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, Lu-
ZOn JAM 81 (UP)-Amercan troops returned in triumph
to Bataan Wednesday after boodless landing the
of Luzon that cut the Japanese island defenses
four doomed pockets and already have overrun
the former U. S. naval base at Olongapo
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-31
u AMBllNe
REPORTER

Dear Public
While the pros and conners are
.slugging it out on the question OF
housing for servicemen and their
families, will you please provide a
few more rooms SO we can get some
of these people under roofs these
cold nights.
Thank you. Public, you s'ever
fail. -
Colossal Joke
1t was a solemn occasion N the
California assembly.
A vote was to be taken on the bill
to provide $4,000 to pay expenses
to fight ratification of the Mexican
water treaty. Assemblyman George
Buffers of Brawley, of course, was
on rins and needles over the vote.
Everyone in the assembly faced
the big board where green lights
record "yes" votes and red lights
mo" votes.
The chairman called for the vote.
Every light on the board was red
except one, the green one OF But
ters. The Imperial county assembly
mans chin dropped foot.
Amid howl of laughter, the
chairman waved his hand and all
the green lights went on.
Even the lawmakers like their
joke.
An Ultimatum-
If Roy Simpson, alleged weather.
man, doesn't dish up some better
winter weather than this : s. we'll
revenge is sweet.
Of all the clouds and high cloudi-
ness and showers to soist on us. Why
not stick to tradition, Roy, and
give us genuine winter weather?
Don't try to be different.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-31
WEATHER

Maximum Tuesday IL, minimum
Wed. "a; 5 am. Wed. 46, humidity
S6; noon Wed. 81, humidity 65; 5
pm. Tuesday 81, humidity 38.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-31
ADMITS DESOLATION

'front.' he said, will be mastered
in spite of ali"
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-15
.omdnSurViVes
4-Story Plunge

Regainlng consciousness after a
plunge from the fourth floor of
the apartment building where she
lived at 9765 N. Martindale early
today, Mrs. Shirley Wilmott, 25,
told police:
81 must have been out Of my
mind"
The woman was questioned by
Detective Sgt. Edward Reilly al
Receiving Hospital where she was
taken after being found on the
sidewalk at 6:36 a. m. by a pass
erby, Daniel Jaffa, 90, of 3770 w
Boston.
She suffered fractures OF both
legs, the left elbow, face lacera-
tions and pelvic injuries.
Awakened by police, the hus-
band, Percy Wilmott, said he did
not know his wife had left their
bed.
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-15
Big Sara Brings
300 Vets Home

SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. IA
GNS)-The USS Saratoga, queen
of the flattops aid veteran of air
battles from Guadalcanal to Two
Jima, was home today with 300
naval veterans of the Pacific war.
The big Sara" took aboard
a party of 43 newspapermen. who
met her under the gray skies off
the Golden Gate as sirens sounded
throughout San Francisco.
The big aircraft carrier, now
transformed into a -troopshiP. has
5000 hunks four deep on her
hangar deck.
In addition to the 300 pas
Sengers, the Saratoga carried her
regular crew of $500 men.
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-15

TOKYO, Sept. Ia GNS)-Gen.
defended his admins
ratlon of the occupation of Japan
today and at the same time
blasted the L. S. press for criti-
cism oil his alleged soft policy"
The text of his statement fol
lows:
have noticed some -impa=
tience in the press based upon
an assumption of so-called
soft policy in Japan. This can
only arise from an erroneous
concept OF what Is occurring.
DISARMING FIRST STEP
The first phase of the occu-
patton must of necessity be
based upon military considera-
tiOns which involve the deploy-
ment forward of our troops and
the disarming and demobiliZa-
tiOn of the enemy.
This Is coupled with the para
mount consideration OF with
drawing our former prisoners
of war and war internees from
internment camps and evacu-
ating them to their homes.
Safety and security require
these steps shall proceed with
precision and completeness lest
calamity may be precipitated.
The military phase is pro-
ceeding in an entirely satisfac-
tory way. Over half the enc
my's force in Japan proper is
now demobiliZed and the entire
program will be particularly
complete by the middle of Oc-
tOber. During this interval OF
time and complete security
must he assured.
When the first phase Is COM
pleted, other phases, as pro-
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-15
Standard Oil Raises
Pay, Reduces Hours

Salaried employees and wage
earners of the Standard Oil Co,
Detroit division will receive IS
per cent base pay increases and
working time will be reduced TO
90 hours, p. A. Raupagh, local
manager, announced today.
Nearly all the company's 10000
employees will be included in the
changes, Raupagh revealed. The
shorter week is to become effec-
tive Oct. !.
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-15
Woman Faces Trial
For Drunk Drivinq

Mrs. Margaret Mckinney "A,
OF 1887 Lane, accused of driving
while drunk, hitting parked cars,
and leaving the scene of two ac-
cidents, today was free on cash
bond of $3.50 her trial set for Oct.
5, by Traffic Judge Watts.
Mrs. Margaret p Wilder. 3S. of
12157 N. Martindale. charged with
leaving the scene of an accident
Thursday, was referred TO the
probation department:
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-15
State Parole Board
Acts 10 Fill Vacancy

LANSING, Sept. IA vacancy
on the state parole board will be
filled temporarily on q rotating
basis by employees Of the parole
board bureau, il was announced
by the corrections commission
today.
Detroit parole office head Clare
Spears will serve on the board
from Sept. is 20 Oct. 16 and then
another member of the staff will
be named for the following month.
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-15
Macarthur RebUIkeS
U. 9. Critics of POLICY

vided I'm the surrender terms,
will infallibly follow. No one
need have any doubt about the
prompt, complete and entire
fulfillment of the terms of sur
render. This process, however,
takes time.
This natural impulse, how
ever, should be tempered by the
fact that security and military
eXpediencY still require an eX-
ercise of some restraint.
JAPAN EXHAUSTED
Economically and industrially,
as well as miIitarily, Japan Is
completely exhausted and de-
pleted. She is in n condition of
utter collapse. Her government
tai structure Is controlled COM
pletely by occupation forces and
Is operating only TO the extent
necessary to insure such an or
derly and controlled procedure
as will prevent social chaos,
disease, and starvation.
The overall objective for Ja-
pan has been clearly outlined
In the surrender terms and Will
be accomplished in an orderly,
concise, comprehensive way
without delays beyond those i'm
posed by the magnitude of phys
ical problems involved.
1t is extraordinary difficult
for me at times to exercise that
degree Of patience which is un-
questionably demanded II long
time policies which have been
decreed are 10 be successfully
accomplished without repercus-
siOns which would be detri-
mental to the wellbeing Of the
world, but / am restraining my
self to the best of my ability
and / am generally satisfied
with the progress being made.