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Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-15
MuniIu
Slowly
Cleared
'Armored Column
OF yanks Hits
Along Waterfront

MANILA, Feb. Is. (UP)-
American troops threw an
armored Gordon. across the
burning Manila waterfront
Thursday and swung in from
the south and east to storm
the last big center of Japan
ese resistance in the old wall
ed city.
Twenty-Five miles to the west,
American warplanes were hammer
ing away at the fortress island of
Corregidor in the mouth of Manila
Bay to clear the way for a sea-
borne landing on 1.-The Rock"
,Recapture of Corregidor would
enable the big guns of the Ameri-
can battle fleet to work over the
remaining japanese cefenses inside
Manila at close range and probably
would wipe out all resistance in
short order.
SHELL CORREGIDOR
(Tokyo broadcasts said American
warships shelled Corregidor heavily
on Tuesday and that minesweepers
had begun clearing the channel
between the island and Bataan
peninsula, suggesting that a naval
assault on Manila Bay was immi-
e4elt) .t.....t. -....s- =.
Inside Manila, the bulk of the
Japanese defenders we're being
herded slowly back behind the
massive walls of the Spanish city
the Intramuros-under savage at
tack by tanks an6 infantrymen of
the U. S. first cavalry and 9th
infantry divisions.
Most of the Japanese artillery
III the area already had been sill
enced, and the main opposition
came from machine gun nests, snip
ers and hundreds of mines soweG
through the streets.
ADVANCE IN ORDER
The Yanks were making no at
tempt at spectacular sweep into
the walled city but were advancing
deliberately from block to block,
clearing out every possible enemy
hideout as they went forward.
The storming of the Intramuros.
however, was expected to be a
quick and bloody affair. Many of
the enemy in the waterfront trap
we're known to be Imperial mar
ines, the toughest and most fanati-
cal CT all japanese troops, and it
was likely that their last stand
would be a no-quarter fight to the
death.
A smaller pocket of enemy. resist
ance, centered around Fort Nc
Kinley on the southeastern out
skirts of Manila, also was being
reduced slowly by American artil-
lery and dive-bombers.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-15
Democrats Block
Amendments TO
Wallace Measure

WASHINGTON, Feb. Is. CUP)-
The George bill survived its in
itial house test Thursday. Demo-
Gratis, by 202-to-192 vote, blocked
a Republican move to send the
measure back to the rules commit
tee.
The vote was an acceptance of a
rules committee decision sending
the bill to the floor without special
safeguards to assure consideration
of broad Republican-sponsored
amendments.
The vote came after Representa-
tive E. E. Cox, CD, Georgia, a
rules committee member, said ap-
proval of the bill by the senate
and subsequently by the house bank
ing committee was a vote of lack CT
confidence" in Henry A. Wallace.
The bill would divorce the federal
loan agency from the commerce
department. Its passage is expected
to clear the way for confirmation
Of Wallace as secretary of ccm-
merce.
Republicans argued that the bank
ing committee had not given thor
ough consideration to the bill. They
insisted that the house should be
given an opportunity-denied by
the rules committee deciSion-to
vote on all proposed amendments.
Cox said, II am not hostile to
Mr.. Wallace" A ripple of laughter
swept the house.
st do know his idea of Utopia
in which nobody works but father
and he won't work all day--is sheer
nonsense" Cox added.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-15

Canadian units SlOgSed up the
Kleve-Emmerich road to the bank
of the Rhine in an advance of near
ly two miles from the hamlet of
Warbeye, three miles north Of
Kleve. The ferry installations were
taken easily.
GAIN SPRINGBOARD
Capture of the crossing terminus
gave the Canadians springboard
for a Rhine crossing that would
open up the gates of the Ruhr and
flank the main Notifications of the
westwall to the south.
Scots manning the south wing of
Crerar's offensive pushed out from
Viller to overrun Kessel, three and
half miles northwest of Goch.
They pushed on down the highway
toward Goch several hundred yards,
and apparently were in position for
direct assault on the big road
junction.
Other units expanded the eastern
most of two -bridgeheads over the
Nier to mile and three quarters.
The two footholds across the river
west Of Goch were expected to be
joined soon. es
German resistance still was tough.
Additional reinforcements were be-
lieved to have moved in before
Crerar's front.
Hazy weather held down air activ-
ity. The first tactical air force re-
ported 121 fighter-bomber sorties
by noon.
A series of heavy explosions from
the Arnhem area 16 miles north of
Kleve aroused speculation that the
Germans were dynamiting the
Rhine dikes and locks there to spill
new floods down on the advanc-
ing Canadian army.
FIGHT SAVAGELY
The Germans were fighting saw
agely with their backs to the Rhine
and pumping in fresh reserves
hourly to bolster their line, but
tielo dispatches said the re-appear-
ance of Allied airpower over the
battlefield had given new lift to
the British drive.
The Canadians captured War;
beyen, three miles north of Kleve,
and drove ahead almost two miles
into the river hamlet of Huren-
ceich, directly across the Rhine
from Emmerich.
German infantry and armored
forces were reported battling des-
perately to prevent crossing, back
ed up by heavy artillery fire from
the far side of the Rhine.
Southeast of Kleve, spesrheads of
the famous Black Watch and Cor
don HignIancers battled through
wall of steel and concrete pill
boxes on the road to Calcar, driving
within three miles or less of that
fortress town.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-15
Property Levies
Reach S1,480,505

Property taxes levied by Imperial
county and school and special ciS-
tricts within it's borders total ST.
480,505 for 1944-1945.
In 1943-1944 the same agencies
levied $1,323,4l6 in property taxes.
This excluded city levies, the Cali
fornia Taxpayers association reveal
ed Thursday.
County property tax levy for this
year amounts to 1851 ,442, compared
with $748,373 levied for 1943-44, the
association found.
School district taxes levied total
$620,015 for 1944-45, compared with
$566, ,454 for 1943-44.
Special district tax levies total
$9048 for 1944-45, compared with
$3.50 for last year.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-15
Former Fl Centrans
Son Killed in War

Second Lieutenant James F. God
frey, only son Of DR.. E. B. Godfrey
former Imperial county health Off
Ger, was killed in action in Belgium
January 16, Imperial county friends
were informed Friday.
The lieutenant was 80 years of
age and had been serving as an ar
tillery officer after volunteering
more than two years ago. He had
been overseas since July of last
year.
DR.. and Mrs. Godfrey are living
in Minden, Louisiana. The soldiers
wife lives in Detroit, Michigan,
where he was employed in the ac-
ministrative department of the Ford
Motor company before entering the
service.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-15
Massera Funeral
Rites Arranged

Requiem high mass for Al Mas
sera, 36, Imperial Valley produce
man who drowned in the Westside
main canal early Tuesday, will be
held at st. Mary's Catholic church
in Ell Centro at 10 am. Friday with
the Reverend Father Dennis Barry
officiating.
Rosary was scheduled at the Lem
ons-W Wiley mortuary in Ell Centre at
$50 pm. Thursday. Burial will be
at Modesto.
Pail bearers will include Sam
Beard, Mike Hubbard, Bill Hub
bard, Ralph Smith, Pete Labruch-
erie, and Pete Pasquinelli, all of El
Centro and John johnson of Braw-
ley and D. v. Edwards of Holtville
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-15
Weuthermun Saws
Farewell Frost

Jack Frost played a colossal joke
on Weatherman Roy Simpson by
playing return engagement in I'M
perial Valley this weekend.
Simpson was all set to start TAX
ing down the 40 temperature sta
tions Friday and begin packing
them up for storage. The advent
of Jack Frost, however, will delay
his departure from the valley by
approximately two weeks. The
United States weather bureau main
tains fruit-frost service in the
valley through the frost season but
otherwise provides no regular serv-
ice for the valley.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-15
E| Centran Gets
Army Promotion

Hampton Foreman, formerly en-
ployed by Maggie Brothers in Ell
Centro and son of Mr.. and Mrs.
w. A. Foreman of Ell Centro, was
discharged from the enlisted ranks
where he was staff sergeant and
commissioned a second lieutenant
in the infantry, it was learned
Thursday.
He wrote his wife that he also
had been awarded the Bronze Star
somewhere in France but was not
permitted to tell her what he had
done to earn the award. After he
was commissioned January 18, Lieu
tenant Foreman was assigned to
a different unit, the thirty-sixth
division.
He has been in France since last
December His wife and small son.
Billy, are living in Ell Centre.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-15

The frost season opens November
l and usually continues until short
ly after February is. The weather
forecasts in the valley will con-
tinue through Saturday OF this week
but after that will be discontinued,
Simpson said.
Mr.. and Mrs. Simpson and the
baby will go to Marines and then
to Okanogan. Washington, wherc
they will remain until mid-June.
They then will go TO Mt. Shasta
where they will remain until Nov
vember l. the date OF their sched-
uled return TO Imperial Valley for
the winter frost season.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-15
Chamber States
Roll Campaign

Under authorization of the board
of directors, the membership COM
mittee of Ell Cenero Chamber of
Commerce soon will launch a roll
drive to bring the membership to
100 per cent of possibilities. So
announced Milton Zinn, chairman
of that committee, after board
meeting Wednesday night.
Other members of the committee
are o. f. Bane and Robert Ware.
Date set for start CT the drive has
not been announced but committee
members are busy working out plans
and an early start is assured.
In connection with the drive it
aleo was announced that within
a few weeks a membership meeting
will be held as required by the by
laws. At that meeting the cham
bers entire program for the year
will be presented, it was pointed out.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-15
johnson. ConnaIIy Clash
At Water Pact Hearing

year-old johnson, his quavering
voice becoming firm with indigna-
ton. "The chairman is attempting
to arrogate to himself all direction
of this committee"
That's all right" Connally snap
ped, but I'm not going to turn
this whole thing over to Mr.. Downey
of California. Under all the rules
OF other committees, senators who
are not members have no right to
ask questions at all. have permit
ted it, and shall continue to permit
1t, but those are the rules"
"Mr. Chairman" Downey began
Continued on Pg. 8, Col. a
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-15
Pay Raise Given
{. E. Employees

All permanent employees of El
Centro with the exception of regu-
larly elected officials will find a
bit CT bulge in their pay checks
coming next pay day.
Councilmen so ordered Wednes-
day night in an adjourned meeting
The increase of a flat 5 per cent
is operative for the stated period
from February Is to June Is, under
the councils resolution.
Members CT council, the city treas
urer and city clerk in his capacity
as clerk will not come under the
raise. Approximately rs employees
will benefit in the increase, it was
announced.
Whether the higher pay will con-
tinue after June IS was not indi-
Gated in councils action.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-15

WASHINGTON, Feb, Is.
(URO-Senator Hiram John
son (R.) California, charged
Thursday t h a t Chairman
Tom Connally (D.) Texas, of
the senate foreign relations
committee has "arrogated to
himself" the direction of all
testimony on the proposed
Mexican water treaty.
In the bittrest of the many per-
sonal clashes which have occurred
during the three weeks of hearings
on the treaty, johnson objected to
Connally's Interruptions Of Senator
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-15

WASHINGTON, Feb. Is. (UP)-
U. S. combat casualties announced
here reached 782,180 Thursday.
This was a jump of 17,348 from
last weeks compilation.
Secretary CT War Henry L. Stim-
son said army casualties compiled
through February totaled 693,342
These casualties, reflecting losses
through January, included 1850
killed, 408,553 wounded, 58,556 pric-
oners of war, and 90,723 missing.
Of the wounded, 202,813 have re-
turned to duty.
To the army total was added 88,-
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-15
War Casualties
Reach 782,180

1893 navy, marine corps and coast
guard casualties announced up to
Thursday. They included 1886
dead, 40,607 wounded, 10,221 missing
and 4474 pi isoners of war.
Stimson said army ground forces
alone have suffered 394,874 casu-
alties on the western front from the
June 6 D-Day to February /. OF
these 63,4lO were killed, 27c',997
wounded and 57,467 missing.
He said ground force casualties
Oh the western frcnt in January
were 61,962, including 8848 KILLED,
41,325 wounded and 11,789 missing
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-15

Sheridan Downey CD California,
and declared:
when a witness or member OF
the committee or a member of the
senate attempts to ask decent
question. see no reason for you
to interrupt continuously and place
your view of his question in the
record"
DISPUTE ARISES
The dispute arose when Downey
attempted to question r. j. Upton,
Denver engineer, who was testify
ing.
Let him finish,' Connally de-
manded.
II object to that" said the 78-
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-15
Would Swap Nag
For 800 FaQs

KOKCMO, Ind, Feb. Is. (UP)-
Farmer D. d. Ousley, an optimiSt
if ever there was one, today offered
through an advertisement in a Ko-
komo newspaper to trade a two
year-old colt-"a good one too
for Is cartons of cigarettes.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-15
Doctor Orders
Pope TO Bed

LONDON, Feb. Is. CUP)-Vatican
physicians have ordered Pope Plus
XII to bed for treatment of a throat
ailment, the London Daily Mail re-
ported in Rome dispatch.
The cispatch said Pope Plus
caught cold while making an ad-
dress on Tuesday.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-15
40 PASSENGERS DROWN
WHEN CHINA BOAT SINKS

CHUNGKING, Feb. Is. tUP) =
Forty passengers were reported
drowned Thursday when the steam
ship Changyuan of the Ho Steam
ship Company capsized in the Yang
tie river between Ipin and Hanchi.
Sixty passengers were rescued.
The accident occurred when the
ship struck a shoal.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-15
WEATHER FORECAST

Clear Thursday night and Fri
day. Cooler days with maximum
temperatures around 10 degrees.
Nights considerably cooler. Wind
Thursday night will keep temper
atures slightly above 81 degrees.
Temperatures Friday night around
20 degrees in coolest locations.
Continued frost Saturday night.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-15
Canadians Block
Fleeing Nazis:
Open Ruhr Gates
Key Ou+pos+s and Transport Center
Lost by Germans in Hard Fighting;
Siegfried Line Bends Full Length

PARIS, Feb Is. (UP(-Canadian First army troops
seized the western TERMINUS of Rhine river ferry crossing
from Emmerich Thursday and to the southwest captured
Kesel key outpost of the Goch transport the
north end of the Segfried line.
The capture of the Emmerch ferry terminal broke up
traffic the Rhine at crossing where the Germans
had been evacuang forces falling back before General H.
D. G. Crerar's offensive toward the Ruhr.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-15
Congress Gets Measures
On World Financing

$3,175,COG00O toward the 10000
100000 capitalization of the propos-
ed international bank.
The fund would be used to stab
ilize world currencies and to pre-
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-15

vent wild fluctuations on interna-
tional exchanges. The bank would
make loans to stricken countries
for reconstruction and development
work.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-15

For Want of Shoe -.
The person who accumulated
Darrell Dixon's shoes at the bowl
ing alley in Ell Centre the other
night left poor Dixon in as sad a
plight as we ever heard of.
Dixon wears size eleven and a
half in length and quadruple A in
width. No one makes shoes that
size and width unless forced to do
SO by special order. Dixon's shoes
cost $40 . when he can get them
He changed his best pair of shoes
for his bowling shoes the other
night. When he finished playing
his best liz AAAA models had
vanished. He is crippling around
in an old worn out pair of bro
Continued on Page 8, Col. q
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-15
D AMBL!Ne
NEpoRTER
The Last Crack

The Last Crack
Myrel Gillett, who was born on
Christmas day, was telling his
mother, Mrs. Nellie Gillett,. goodbye
before he left for the army on
Valentines day.
We'll, mother" he said with a
grin, II was a Christmas gift for
you but I'm Valentine for Uncle
SAM"
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-15
WEATHER

Maximum Wednesday 81, minimum
Thurs. 43; am. Thurs. 60, humid
ity So; noon Thurs. 81, humidity 45;
pm. Wednesday 81, humidity Al.
Evening star., 1945-08-31

Millard w. Rice, national service
director for the Disabled American
Veterans, reported there are $50, 600
disabled veterans of World War ]
and $780, 900 Of Void War II now re-
ceiving pensions. He estimated the
number for this war will reach
1000 900.
The disabled veterans of industry
and agriculture should work with
disabled war veterans, he said,
since what the Government does
for disabled veterans 1t eventually
does for civilians"
Warning against amateur groups
taking undeserved credit for help
ing the handicapped, Virgil smir-
now. chairman OF the Washington
Council for the Handicapped. OBJ
served that disabled veterans hsVe
added more glamour to the hobby,
and even ladies sewing circles are
hopping on the bandwagon."
Handicapped workers already are
losing war jobs and they no longer
can afford to wait months for social
agencies to process their cases, he
said.
The members voted unanimously
Evening star., 1945-08-31
SchwelIenboch Asks Expansion
OF Aid for Handicapped

Secretary Of Labor Lewis 3.
schwellenbach, in his first public
speech since he opened the SEN
atorial campaign of President Tru-
man In 1910, last night advocated
greatly expanded Federal service
for the physically handicapped.
The lame, the halt, the blind
and the deaf-came to hear him
speak in the auditorium of the
National Press Club. Interpreters
repeated his words in sign language
for members of the American Fed
Grafton of the Physically Handi-
capped.
Leaders Of the AFL and the CIO,
on the platform with him, called for
full employment legislation as the
only way to preserve the war gains
of the physically and economically
handicapped.
Paul A. Strachan, president of the
AFPH, demanded that the work of
40 Federal agencies now dealing with
the Nations 25000,oOo physically
handicapped be centered in one
agency within the Department OF
Labor.
Mr., Schwellenbach. who has asked
for authority over independent labor
agencies, did not mention putting
the expanded service for the handi-
capped in his department. Cues
toned about it later, he explained:
They will think am trying to
grab everything"
His address called for an Efficient
1y organized and operated program
which will take the handicapped
man from the doctors Office "to his
proper place in plant or office. =
Education, training and place.
ment, the three fundamental steps
In completing the rehabilitati ton
process should be undertaken by ex-
perts working together for COM
mon purpose under one common
roof" he said.
we must" he added, "solve the
problem of the returning veterans,
the displaced war workers and the
emptying war production centers.
They all are part of common prob
lem, the attainment of freedom and
the abundance for ALL
James B. Carey, secretary treas
urer Of the CIO, said the people are
wondering why so many good things
are associated with war.
I'VE spent two billion dollars to
develop the atomic bomb. Why not
spend an equal amount to preserve
and improve the resources of this
Nation in their highest form-the
human being? We got excited about
plowing under cotton. But we can't
get excited about plowing under
human beings"
More than a dozen speakers ham
Evening star., 1945-08-31
WIS \X&&'::;: !: 5;
"
DANCE.

DANCE.
Marine Barracks of Eighth and I
streets Sc, Willard Hotel, so'clock
tonight. Members and guests.
EXHIBITS.
Italy at War" in water colors and
drawings, by Sergt. Joseph Kimmel,
Public Library, Eighth and K
streets NV, 8 am. to pm. today
and 8 m. to pm. tomorrow.
John Barrymore as Hamlet,
painting by John Slavin, national
collection of fine arts, Museum of
Natural History. 9 am. to 4:3O pm.
daily through Monday.
Samuel Pratt paintings, Corco-
ran Art Gallery, noon to 4:30 pm,
Monday; 8 am, to 4:3o pm. today,
tomorrow and Monday, and 2 to 5
pm. Sunday.
Outstanding Army art, National
Gallery of Art, 10 am. to 5 pm.
weekdays and to 10 pm. Sundays.
through Tuesday.
New Uses for Old Buildings"
photograph exhibit, Library of
Congress, Auditors Building, Four
teenth and Independence avenue
S.W, 8 am. to $50 pm. weekdays,
through September IS.
Bonnard paintings, Picasso musi-
cal instruments, Daumier litho-
graphs, Phillips Memorial Gallery,
II am. to 10 pm. Mondays; IL IN.
to pm. Tuesdays through Satur-
Gays, and to pm. Sundays,
through September.
Arts Club members paintings,
20l7 I street NV, II am. to S pm.
weekdays, through September.
German surrender documents,
war documents and papers and
museum pieces of late President
Roosevelt, National Archives audi
torium, 8:45 am. to Sis pm. week.
Gays and 1880 to pm. SUNDAYS
through November.
MUSIC.
Army Air Forces Band, east front
OF Capitol, 8 o'clock tonight.
TRIP.
National Capital Parks barge trim
along c. q o. Canal, leave George
town, lock 8, Thirtieth south of M
street NV, pm. tomorrow, or
leave Brookmont, Md, lock 5, at
4:30 pm. tomorrow.
FOR SERVICEMEN.
Stage Door Canteen, Belasco The
ster, tonight: Military District of
Washington Dance Band and Sa-
bar the magician.
Moonlight cruise, leave USO Club,
Eighth and Pennsylvania avenue
NV, 8 o'clock tonight.
Oflcers.
Dance. officers Club Of YMCA,
1888 G street NV, $50 o'clock to-
night.
Dance, Army and Navy daueh-
ters, Officers Club of United Ma
tions. 8:45 o'clock tonight.
Service personnel may obtain
more information by calling the
United Nations Center, National
5000, or any Of the following UsOs:
Republic 1927, Executive 042s, Ma
tional 3431 or National 06l4. Col
ored personnel may call USO, De-
catur 1854, or War Hospitality, De-
catur 7768.
Evening star., 1945-08-31

mered home three main points.
/. Rehabilitation services for the
physically handicapped are woe
fully inadequate. The taxpayers are
paying heavy price for their fall
ure to train the handicapped to
contribute their share as productive
members Of society.
2. Government, industry and ag-
riculture should provide definite
employment opportunities for the
handicapped, always heretofore "the
last hired and the first fired" His
contribution in winning the war en-
titles the handicapped to better
treatment.
8. Full employment and proper
placement of the handicapped indi-
vidual go together. The Federal
Government will have to plan to
provide enough jobs and take the
lead in fitting the handicapped into
the right slots.
Evening star., 1945-08-31
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james and Alice Cooke. siri.
Jack and Mary COOPER. sirl.
James and BETTY corcoran. boy.
Leroy and Mary Corridor. boy.
Frank and Lucy Corrisan. boy.
Leonard and Doris Cross, boy.
Ernest and Marjorie Devillers. boy.
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Maxsiis and and Iuciie EIIison. Boy.
John and Eleanor Endre. boy.
Edgar and Pauline Ernst. boy.
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Sidney and sue Heller, Eirl..
Donald and Rsba Hummei. boy.
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