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House Committee
Trims Bud get

ations to eliminate the S44, 4,46c, 400
defense training program under the
federal security agency.
For VINO, however, the commit
tee proposed to slash S31,G0).000
from the budget estimate of s93,-
100000 bringing the committee rec
ommendation 20 $4,000 600. Mr.
Truman's proposed VINO reductions
would have totaled s10,3O0o00.
The overall reduction in this ap-
preparation of approximately one
third of the requested appropria-
tions is recommended because it is
perfectly manifest that war pro-
duction needs during fiscal year 1916
Continued on Page 2, Column g.
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Churchill Plans
To Keep Post;
Raps De Valera
Pledges Britain To
Defeat of Japs;
Maps Europe Course
By PHIL AULT

LONDON, May ID, (UP)
Tired but defiant, Prime
Minister Churchill indicated
in his victory speech Sunday night
that he intends to lead Britain It'll
the whole task is done and the
whole world is safe and lean"
Churchill warned the people of
Britain that they still face fight
to beat Japan and to preserve de-
mocracy in Europe.
In what observers interpreted as
warning that Britain would not
tolerate strong arm politics,
Churchill said there would be little
use in Furnishing Hitlerites x
if totalitarian or police governments
were to take the place of the Ger
man invaders"
BLASTS DE VALERA
Churchill also took the opportun-
ity to let loose five years pent-up
anger on Eire's prime minister
Eamcn de Valera, scoring him for
the shame" he had brought Ire
Continued on Page Col. 81
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United Nations conference.
He also voiced only his suspicion
that trades and deals we're being
made backstage and warned that
such devices could only "subvert'
the proposed peace league.
OUTLINES VIEWS
Eyatt said that Australia was in
favcr of regional defense systems.
but believed firmly that they should
operate directly under the security
council of the world organization
not independently as the Latin
Americans demand.
Pan Americanism is valuable"
he declared, but unless the au-
Continued from Page u
thority of the central security
council is maintained, it may de-
velop into a form of isclationism
which is calculated to destroy the
world organization at its birth"
Unless the supremacy. Of the Sc
curity council is clearly established,
he warned, regional wars may be
precipitated without the world or
ganizaticn being given the right to
suppress the aggressor.
CITES "BUILD-UP"
The Australian official said 1t was
surprising to note how many Latin
American countries-countries which
originally wanted security council
of l3 or Is seats-switched in COM
Continued on Page 2, Col. 81
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LONDON, May IA. (UP)
- Red armies and Yugo-
slav patriots were believed
Monday to have crushed the last
diehard German resistance in
southeast Europe, finally stillirg
the guns of war on the continent
nearly week after the Reich's
surrender
(BBC said a detachment of
British troops has taken posses
sion of the fortified German is
land Of Belgoland in the North
sea-
At sea, IA German submarines
and two motor torpedo boats had
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-14

weapons-including the ami-tank
''Molotov cocktail against the
two marine and two army divisions
attacking along the five-mile Naha-
Shuri- -Yonabaru defense line.
The Sixth marine division dug
in on the northern rim of Naha. a
rubbed community with a pre-in-
vasion population of 65.000
Ahead of the leathernecks lay
wide mud flats of the Asato river
valley. A crossing would take the
marines practically under the muz-
zles of japanese guns.
The Sixth repulsed an attempted
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-14
WANT DOENITZ TRIED
Rancher Missing
In European War

Private John Ram, 81, who lived
on a ranch a mile and three quar-
ters south Of Seal Heights, was re-
ported missing in action in Czech
oSlovakia April Is.
He was inducted in the army
February 1943, trained at Ft. Knox,
Kentucky. studied languages at the
University of Pennsylvania for a
year, and went overseas last Janu-
ary. Private Ram attended the
high school in FL Centre before en-
tering the army.
His brother, Henry, enlisted in
the navy and is a seaman first class
tn the navy. He is somewhere in the
Pacific war zone
Private Ram lived with his broth
sr, Frank RAM, and his sister, Es-
ther, while attending school.
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WASHINGTON, May IA. UP)-
The house appropriations commit
tee Monday recommended an ap-
preparation Of 1.OS6,0O0.0 900 to run
the labor department and related
agencies during fiscal 1916 after
looping off s77,OoO,000 for certain
war activities.
The cuts were in line with recon-
mendations sent to congress May
by President Truman but were
much deeper than he suggested
when it came to the war manpower
commission.
TO END PROGRAMS
The President and committee were
in agreement in their recommend
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front in Europe prior to the MOI
mandy landing.
I'VE understand the Russians aIe
in need of a rest period after We
day." the newspaper said 1T
seems bit too much to ask them
to make another sacrifice of hu-
man lives at this moment, but the
war against Japan is not Chinese
war.
For the sake Of international
peace, the Russians have a moral
obligation to open another front
in the northern part Of the Asistic
continent"
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-14
WACs Parade
In Paris

PARIS, May H. CUP)-In the
first parade of women soldiers in
the history of Paris, 1000 American
WAC'S led British and French SER
wee women down the Champs Ely
sees Monday in celebration Of the
WAC's third anniversary.
The parade was reviewed by high
ranking American officers, WAC
Commander Col. Anna Wilson of
Studio City, Calf, and Gen. Pierre
koenig, military governor of Paris.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-14
DRIVER SUFFERS INJURY
WHEN AUTO TURNS OVER

Mrs. F. c. Bradford, 29. and Ruth
Vanorn. 81. Yuma residents, suf-
fered slight injuries at 10:45 pm.
Saturday when a sedan driven by
Mrs. Bradford skidded in the sand
on highway 80 in the sandhills and
overturned.
Highway patrolmen said sand had
drifted across the pavement. The
sedan was badly damaged. 1t landed
On its top.
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Last Of Europe War Guns
Geese, Secs Freed Of Ndzis

high commands orders to sur
render.
Rear Admiral Burening, Ger
man commander in charge of tor
pedo boat operations from Dutch
bases, accompanied two of the
boats into Felixstowe on the Eng
lish coast Sunday. The boats
were escorted into the harbor b.
British motor gunboats and board
ed by armed search parties.
Bruening later was reported in
conference with British naval Of
ficers at Dover on the location
and clearance of mines in English
channel, North sea and Baltic
sea.
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put into British ports and sur
rendered.
Eight more U-boats were eX-
pected at the American naval
base at Londonderry in northern
Ireland Monday.
A Soviet communique reported
that Red armies had taken 1,060,-
600 prisoners in the first five days
after Germany's unconditional
surrender became effective last
Tuesday midnight.
Of these, nearly 100000 German
troops were captured in Czecho-
slovakia and Austria, where die
hard Nazis fought on despite their
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indicted Himmler said the Russians
also had charged him with mass
murder.
Great Britain, Belgium, France,
Czecho oslovakia and the Neither
lands have submitted to the COM
mission separate charges of war
criminality against Himmler. The
multiple indictments against him
specifically included mass murder
and systematic terrorism-both list
ed as war crimes by the Hague con-
vention He was named both in
his capacity of Nazi interior minis
Continued on Page 2, Column A.
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Country Hits
Bond Sale Pace

Committees and statesmen swung
into action in El Centre Monday
morning in the Seventh War Bonds
drive. Their slogan was Let's hur-
ry" The goal, s1,23o,2 $50. The ap-
peal, Everybody get in and help"
Almost before the call was issued,
a buyer appeared in the office of
Viggo Hansen. city chairman, and
laid down the cash for $1,000 bond.
Full speed marked the official
opening of the drive in all parts of
the county, Herb Fawcett, county
chairman announced.
Open and ready for business was
bond booth on FL Centros main
street.
Six navy men, forming an enter
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-14

tainrnent gr3up will be in the coun-
ty through the week.
Their first appearance will be
Wednesday at FL Centre Central
Union high school. The same eve
ming they will be at the FL Centre
Elks' lodge room and on Thursday
noon will entertain members of the
Rotary Club.
Final appearance will be an open
air program at some point on Main
street Saturday at 5 pm.
In addition to programs at Braw-
Icy and Calipatria, the navy enter
tainers. viii take part in a bond
rally at Imperial Union high school
at 7:30 pm. Thursday when admis-
sion will be by purchase Of stamps
and bonds.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-14

Aboard Admiral Turner S
Flagship off Okinawa, May
IA. (UP)-(Via Navy Radio)
-Japanese mortar, sniper and ar
tillery fire stalled tie American ad-
vance in heavy fighting on southern
Okinawa Monday.
Marines battling in the northern
approaches of Naha, the capital
city, and soldiers punching at the
defenses of Shuri were brought Writ
ually to standstill by strong en-
emy resistance.
The japanese used variety of
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-14
Windsor Slated
For Highest
Post in Canada

DETROIT, May a. CUP)-The
Detroit Free Press said in a special
dispatch Monday that the Duke Of
Windsor will become the new gov
ernor general Of Canada, probably
within month.
The story credited the informa-
ton to a high dominion official"
who said that the appointment of
windsor was expected to build strong
Canadian-American relations. Wind
scr and his American born duchess
are in New York.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-14
Two U. S. Aces
Freed From
German Prison

LONDON, May IA. eUP)-Lt. Col.
Francis S. Gabreski of Oil City. Pa,
and Col Hubert Zenlke of Missoula,
Mont, two of Americas most fam
GUS air aces of the European war,
have been liberated from a German
prison camp, it was announced to-
day.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-14
Blum Arrives
In Home City

PARIS, May IA. CUP)-Former
French Premier Leon Blum, who was
liberated from a German prison
Camp last week. arrived here from
Naples Monday. He was met by a
personal representative of Gen
Charles De Gaulle.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-14
Delegates Views
Move as Thrust
At World Peace
Charges Latin American Countries
Seek Own Safety at Expense of
Success Of Conference Main Aim
BY X. III. SHACKFORD

SAN FRANCISCO. May IA. (UP)-The dispute
regional defense systems blew wide open Monday with
charges that Latin American countries deliberately not
threatening to destroy the world organization its
BIRTH
The blast from Australian Foreign Minister Her
bert " Eva in statement denouncng the Latin American
campaign to give the panAmerican security system
tOnomy from the world organization being up by the
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-14
Per Capita Money
Boosted S31.m

WASHINGTON. May IA. (UP)-
Total money in circulation per cap
ita on April 80 amounted to s188.11,
a rise of s3165 in the past IL months
the treasury disclosed Monday The
Increase since March 81 was 81.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-14
Chino Press Urges Soviet
To Open Front On Jops

a northern front against Japan.
The editorial. urging the attack
on what it termed Japan's most
vulnerable spot. recalled Russias
request for opening Of a western
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CHUNGKING, May IA.
(UP) - The c gking
newspaper Shih Shih Hsin
Pao has called on Russia to open
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-14

At least five Allied governments
have lodged charges cf war crimi-
nality against Himmler the be-
specialized former school teacher
WHO became Nazidom's chief hang
man.
HELD FOR LIDICE CRIME
The war crimes commission has
indicted him. it was revealed, on at
least seven counts. It ranked him
No. on the list of Nazis charged
with the obliteration CT Lidice in
an orgy of revenge for the assassi-
nation of Reinhard Heydrich, and
with wholesale atrocities in NaZi
concentration camps.
The disclosure of the indictments
against Himmler came as Re ap-
parently played an elusive game
of hide and seek with Allied au-
thorities in northwestern Europe.
Reports that he had fallen into
Allied hands were denied. One said
he had been seen at the headquar-
ters of the German high command,
under the wing of which he evi-
IDENTIFY was seeking sanctuary until
the status of that body and Ad-
miral Karl Doenitz's government is
decided.
WANT DOENITZ TRIED
The Russian government organ
Izvestia demanded the immediate
arrest, trial and execution of Doe
uitz. Iss reflected a Soviet feeling
of urgency that Doenitz. Reichmar-
shall Hermann Goering, Col. Gen.
NikolauS Van Falkenhorst and
other accused war criminals be
dealt with as soon as possible.
The same source which revealed
that the war crimes commission had
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-14
Poker Faces, Too

Poker Faces, Too
They've lot of good poker play
erS a. the San Francisco peace con-
ference" said Major Raymond Hart
ney of Ell Centre. "and they're play
ing their cards close to their Stom-
achs."
Right. and what's up their sleeves?
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% AMyllNe
u EpoRTER
Up In The Air

Up In The Air
Star gazers in Imperial Valley
were promised rare treat at 1923
pm Monday when the moon will
cover Saturn for nearly an hour.
Binocular owners will get the best
view but, say those who know about
those things, Saturn should be Wis
ible to the unaided eye just before
it disappears behind the moon at
1923 pm.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-14
AUSTRALIAN CHARGES coli LuSl0N AT UNCI0
HimmIer Branded
Top Criminal
United Nations Indict GestapO Chief For
Massacre at Lidice and Wholesale
Killings Carried Out by Hitlers SIS Gang
RY ROBERTS
BY EDWARD V. ROBERTS

LONDON. May IA. (UP)-The United Nations war
crimes commission has indicted gestapo chief Heinrich
Hmmer charges of murder in TIE notorious
of Ldice and the Jewish determination program it
.,oI
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The Perfect Guest

We heard a good one on Mike
Yeargin
One time he was supposed to at
tend a Democratic dinner meeting
in an FL Centre hotel. He saw a
crowd in room and went in and
Continued on page 2. col. o
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WEATHER

Maximum Sunday SO, minimum
Monday So; am. Mopday 63; noon
Monday. SO, humidity AZ; 5 pm.
Sunday 83, humidity %.
Evening star., 1945-10-26
Briggs Co. 10 Relocate
Offices at Bethesda Site

The Briggs clarif1er Co., manu.
facturers of oil filters, will move its
efhces, which have been scattered
at locations in Georgetown, to its
new offices and laboratories at River
road and the B. & o. tracks, Be-
thesda, 1t was announced today.
1t is expected that all offices will
be moved within Today period.
Tiled locker rooms, showers, a cafe
terra and a company bus afford a
new headquarters contrast to the
old livery stable under Key Bridge
in which the company started pro-
duction 10 years ago.
The new location comprises eight
acres of ground and 10000 square
feet of floor space.
Evening star., 1945-10-26
Schedule for Navy Day

Record Navy Day crowds are ex-
pected to turn out tomorrow to in
spect Uncle Sans fighting ships
and equipment on display at sta
tions of the Potomac River Naval
Command for the first peacetime
"open house" since 1910. The sched-
ule of principal events follows:
9 to IL am. and / to 4 pm. tomor-
row and / to 4:30 pm. Sunday
Navy Yard. Four famous de-
stroyers, three submarines, de-
stroyer escort and an LIST will
be on display. Plane will be
catapulted from river barge every
hour and Marines in amphibious
trucks will Invade" the port in
stallation. Deep-sea diving dem
onstrations are scheduled.
8 am. to sunset-Anacostia Naval
Air Station. Buses will take visi-
tors from main gate to display of
naval combat planes. Fighters
will make hourly flights. Com
mercial bus will operate between
main gate and Howard road and
Nichols avenue Sc, beginning at
5 am.
9 am. to 4 p.m.-Naval Observatory.
Visitors will be shown huge tele-
scopes, nautical navigation instru-
ments and the clock house, zenith
tube and other apparatus used in
determining the Nations time.
Admission will be by card only
from Z to II pm.
9 am. to 5 pm.-Alexandria Naval
Torpedo Station. Manufacture
and use of torpedoes viii be DEM
Evening star., 1945-10-26

onstrated at both main pls.. and
. Franklin street annex, aided by
continuous motion pictures. Two
Navy diving parties will demon
strate methods and equipment
from diving boats near plants.
3 am. to 4 p.m.-Naval Mine War
fare Test Station, Solomons, Md.
Mines, torpedoes and minesweep-
ing gear will be exhibited and a
destroyer will be moored nearby
for inspection.
10 am. to 4 p.m.-National Naval
Medical Center at Bethesda, Md.
Guides will be available to show
visitors points of interest in the
new hospital, one of worlds finest.
10 am. to 2 pm.-Naval Powder Fac
tory, Indianhead, Md. Conducted
tours of the plant, two band con-
certs and an exhibition softball
game are scheduled.
IL am.-Ceremonies at John Paul
Jones Statue near Tidal Basin at
foot of Seventeenth street.
pm. to 5 p.m.-Naval Air Station,
Patuxent River, Md. Speedy air.
craft will be put through combat
maneuvers in a program including
tours of the base and q visit to the
giant flying boat Mars and to hos
pital planes of the naval air trans
port service.
] p.m.-Navy Day dinner at May
flower Hotel sponsored by the Dis
trict Council Of Navy League.
} pm. to midnight-Dance for en-
listed men of ships participating
In Navy Day celebration, to be
held at Stage Door Canteen.
Evening star., 1945-10-26
Woman Deans 10 Meet
Tomorrow at GEORGETOWN

Behavior problems of adolescent
girls will be discussed by DR.. Thomas
Vernon Moore of the department
OF psychology and psychiatry of
Catholic University at a meeting
tomorrow afternoon of the regional
Association of Deans of Women
at Georgetown Visitation Convent
Junior College in Georgetown.
Representative Hays, Democrat
OF Arkansas, will be the principal
speaker at the morning session. He
VIII discuss "Education's New
Mandate"
Mrs. Estelle s. Phillips, dean of
women at Woodrow Wilson High
school, president of the association
will preside. Delegates will attend
from high schools and colleges OF
the District, Maryland, Virginia
and Delaware.
Evening star., 1945-10-26
Montgomery Women
Plan Talks on Law

A series OF group meetings Of
Homemakers' Clubs of Montgomery
County has been arranged by Miss
Edythe M. Turner, county home
demonstration agent. The meetings
will discuss legal subjects of interest
to women.
Rockville lawyers, assigned by Cliff
ford H. Robertson, president of the
Montgomery County Bar Associa-
ton, will be speakers. The schedule
follows:
November l, at Colesville Method
ist Church, with Colesville, Burtons-
vile, Fairland and Four Corners
Clubs participating. Leo Bender.
speaker; subject, Mortgage Fore
closures"
November S, Methodist Church at
Potomac; Potomac Valley, Potomac
Valley Gardens. Potomac-Glen and
Travilah-Darnestown Clubs. WAL
ter w. Dawson, speaker; subject.
Sale of Property Under Partition
Proceedings"
November 8, High School at Dam
ascus; Browningsville, Cedar Grove,
Damascus clubs. Mr.. Robinson,
speaker; subject, Orphans Court
Administration"
November 13, Rockville Circuit
Courtroom; Garret Park, Rockville.
Washington Grove, Laytonsville.
Olney- Sunshine and Gaithersbure
clubs. Judge Stedman Prescott,
speaker; subject, wills"
November IA, Glenmont School:
Glenmont, Silver Spring and
Wheaton clubs. Mrs. Emma B. WAL
drop, speaker; subject, Adoption. :"
| November is, Clarksburg School:
Clarksburg, Germantown, Comus
and PooleSville, Barnesville, Dicker-
son clubs. John E. Oxley, speaker;
subject, Joint Ownership Of Prop
erty."
Evening star., 1945-10-26
Col. Sheldon Killed
In Alaska Air Crash

1t. Col. Howard G. Sheldon, $500
Brite drive, Bethesda, Md, was one
of 19 Army men killed Sunday in
the crash of an Army transport
plane near Elmendorf Field, An
chorage, Alaska, the War Depart
ment announced last night.
Chaplains of three faiths con-
Quoted funerals for the victims at
Fort Richardson Cemetery, where
many Alaskan soldiers, including
the late Maj. Kermit Roosevelt, are
buried.
News of the 56-year-old engineer
officers death reached his wife, Mrs.
Myrtle D. Sheldon at Columbia Hos
pital, where she is recovering from
an operation. Three children Grant,
Charles and Margaret Sheldon also
survive.
Col. Sheldon was on his way to
Washington for discharge. He had
been stationed in Alaska and the
Aleutians for two years.
A construction engineer before he
entered the Army, in August, 1912
Col. Sheldon served in France in the
World War. When this war started
he was an engineer with the Recon-
struction Finance Corp. Col. Shell
don was a graduate of Syracuse
University and prominent athlete
there.
Evening star., 1945-10-26
Services on Sunday
Open Girl Scout Week

Washington Girl Scouts will at
tend city-wide church services Sun
day to mark the opening OF National
Girl Scout Week, October 28-Novem-
ber 8, which has been dedicated this
year to Citizenship in Action"
In recognition of the place of the
Girl Scout program in the building
Of the future of the community
religious leaders of the city have
sent messages of congratulation to
Scout leaders on their annual
celebration.
While most Girl Scouts in the
city are to attend church in uniform
Sunday, special afternoon service
has been planned at st. Marks
Episcopal Church, Third and A
streets, for all Scouts in Washing
tons first district. This includes all
roops in Southeast and Southwest
Washington, and some troops from
the Northeast section.
Mrs. Frederick A. Bloomer, In
charge of arrangements for the
special program, estimates more
than 200 girls will attend the serv-
ice which is scheduled to begin at
4 pm. Ministers of five different
faiths will take part.
Girl Scout Sunday is observed
every year on the Sunday preceding
October 31-birthday of the organ
ization's founder, Juliette Lowe.
Evening star., 1945-10-26
Post Office Here
lengthensWeek
10 Speed Work
N-Hour Schedule
Blamed for Drop
In Mail Delivery

Postmaster Vincent G.. Burke an
nounced today the Washington Post
Office Is returning to the 46-hour
week in order to end the impairment
in the service which resulted from
the return to the 40-hour week two
weeks ago.
For the time being we are re-
storing the 46-hour week until we
can train sufficient number of
new carriers" Mr.. Burke said. The
situation will all be Strengthened out
In couple of weeks and we can get
back to the 40-hour week"
He said efforts will be made to
employ so additional carriers. The
employment situation is easing he
said, and while experienced postal
employees are not yet returning from
the armed services in any appreciable
numbers, other veterans are becom.
ing available for employment.
The restoration of the 46-hour
week. which was the rule during the
war period, came after it was found
necessary on occasions to suspend
afternoon mail deliveries in 40 or
80 delivery areas. Mr.. Burke said
heavy absenteeism, In addition to
the shortened week had brought
about these suspensions on DAYS
when the mail was Eight"
We could do the work if everyone
remained on the job" Mr.. Burke
said, but we are powerless when
our people take time of on some
excuse or other"
When the mail is heavy, Mr..
Burke said, carriers work additional
hours to deliver the afternoon load.
II the afternoon mail is light. how.
ever. and there aren't enough car
riers available, the mail is delivered
the next morning.
MIR. Burke stressed that suspen-
sion Of delivery has occurred infre-
quently and that most of the time
the morning and afternoon delivery
goes according to schedule in most
areas.