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Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-05
vinson Selected
As Federal
Loans Director

WASHINGTON, March 5. CUP)-
President Roosevelt Monday nomi-
mated Economic Sterilization Direc-
tor Fred NJ Vinson to he federal
loan administrator.
The former Kentucky congress-
man and federal judge thus will get
the other half of the job left vacant
when Mr.. Roosevelt summarily fired
Jesse H. jones as secretary of COM
merce. Before coniii ming former
Vice President Henry A. Wallace for
the cabinet post, congress passed
legislation divorcing the multi-bil-
ion loan agency from the commerce
department.
White House Secretary Jonathan
Daniels said the President had de-
cided en- Vinscn's successor in the
office of economic stabiliZation. He
said that would be announced after
the senate acts on Vinson.
There was not expected to be any
vigorous opposition to confirmation
of Vinson as loan administrator.
Some members of congress have OBJ
jected to some of his policies, par
ticularly his orders imposing price
ceilings on live cattle prices and his
wage policies. But on the whole, he
is we'll liked in congress, even among
conservative Democrats who opposed
Wallace.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-05
Hit-Run Victim
Critically Hurt

Victim of a hit-and-run driver,
j. L. Howard, address undetermined
as yet, was in a critical condition in
the Imperial county hospital Mon
day.
He was found on the pavement
at Sixth and Pine streets in Holt
vile shortly after 4 am. Monday
by motorists, who called Holtville
police. He was unconscious when
found and stin was unconscious at
noon Monday.
His name was found in some of
the papers on the man along with
the address of sister living in the
east. AS far as can be ascertained
to date, the man did not live in
the Holtville area and is believed
to have been a visitor in the county
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-05
Bid
Bdr res
Pa cts
u. S. Lacks Title
To Airbases
Paid for Abroad

WASHINGTON, March 5
(UP)-Attorney enera
Francis Biddle revealed Mon
day that the United States
has almost no" legal rights
to postwar commercial use
of wartime air bases it has
built on foreign soil.
In a report to congress on post
war international air transport pol
icy, Biddle took note of recent sug-
geStionS that the United State;
assert sovereignty" ever the all
facilities developed at the cost OF
millions of American collars.
CITES ARGUMENTS
Examination of the agreement;
governing construction of the war
time bases reveals that The United
States has almost no postwar con-
tractual rights with respect to these
bases" he said.
Biddle said, however, that this
was of little moment because the
right to use those bases Should
be ootainable without difficulty" il
the United States actively promotes
the, development of sound interna-
tional air network.
He proposed an internationa,
agreement opening these bases tc
all commercial air lines after the
war.
The report, prepared under pro-
Continued on Page 8, Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-05

turntable of all of Berlin's defenses
on the northern flank.
TRAP. THOUSANDS
Spearheads of two Russian armies
already had been planted on the
Baltic, chopping Pomerania into
pockets for piecemeal disposal and
trapping many thousands OF Ger
man troops in the coastal area to
the northeast.
The Communist party newspaper
Pravda reported in Moscow that
nine-tenths of East Prussia had
been cleared. All along the Baltic
coast German resistance was COL
lapsing.
A Moscow broadcast reported un-
officially that the Red army seemed
to have completed its preparations
for an all-out assault on Berlin, for
which the securing of the northern
flank of the Soviet offensive line
was a prerequisite.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-05
crimeo ParIey Approved
Forced Peace Veto Power

WASHINGTON, March 5.
(UP)-The Yalta agreement
on voting power in the Inter-
national Security organiza-
tion would permit any one
of the "Big Five" permanent
members to veto any direct
action proposed to enforce
peace, it was announced Mon
day.
However, any nation-big or little
involved in dispute would be
barred from taking part in council
deliberation on such preliminary
steps as whether to brand a coun-
try as an aggressor or whether fur
ther Investigations should be con-
Quoted into an international dis
pute.
WAS COMPROMISE
President Roosevelt said at the
conclusion of the big three Crimea
meeting that the agreement repre-
sented compromise between the
Anglo-American and Russian views
on voting procedure as expressed
last year at Dumbarton Oaks.
At that time, the United States
and Great Britain did net want any
nation to have veto power over any
proposed action. Russia wanted any
one of the big five permanent coun-
Gil members to have absolute veto
power. Mr. Roosevelt advanced the
compromise.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-05
Health Measures
Stir Sess

islative problem No. 2. Warren
wants the tax cuts voted in 1943
continued for another two years
while city and county groups are
asking that former rates be restored
and the additional income used for
local public works.
GAS TAXES
Gasoline tax increases also have
been proposed. Urban area repre-
sentatives want the additional mon
ey used for "freeways" and country
groups insist on improvements to
rural roads.
Also in the balance is the re-
maincer of the broad legislative
program Warren has requested. He
asked for improved mental health
services, expansion of the adult anc
youth corrections system, a state
beach and park purchase program
and the establishment of $50,O0e,-
600 reserve for postwar unemploy-
ment relief.
An important part of the cam
paign for adoption of the governors
compulsory health bill apparent,
will be an attempt to sell the ides
to Republican legislators.
! Authors of the bill will be fur
nishec with material showing tha
the 1914 national Republican party?
platform indorsed federal health in
Surance. Quotations from speeches
of Governor Thomas E. Dewey, the
1914 Republican nominee, along the
same line also will be cited.
The authors also will be prepared
to quote surveys made by medical
groups themselves to show that 8
majority neither Of the public nor
of doctors opposes health insurance
SHOW OPPOSITION
Several influential Republican
Continued on Pg. 8, Gel. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-05
Marines Bayonet
japs in Last
Fighting on Two

GUAM, March 5. tUH) - u. S
marines completed the capture OF
four -fifths of Two Monday as the
bloodiest battle of the Pacific war
went into it's third week on rising
note of fury.
More than $4,000 of the original
enemy garrison of 10000 troops al
ready have been knocked out, but
the remainder were fighting to the
death for the shrinking strip of the
north and east coasts still in their
hands.
USE BAYONETS
Stiffened enemy resistance re-
duced marine gains to five to 100
yards Sunday. Hand-to-hand fight
ing with bayonets, grenades and
even knives swirled through clouds
of sulphurous steam rising from
cretices in the volcanic terrain as
the battle entered its final stage.
The Japanese appeared to have
chosen to fight from cave to cave
and pillbox to pillbox until they
finally have been thrown over the
high cliffs of northern Two into
the Pacific. But a last "banzai
suicide charge such as has marked
the collapse of organized resistance
on other islands still is possibility
Even as marines continued their
yard-by-yard advance to the north
seabees repaired captured Moto-
yama airfield No. in southern Two
first of three captured airfields-
sufficiently for hospital planes to
land and evacuate the wounded.
SUPER MAKES LANDING
A Superfortress made an emer-
Continued on Page s, Col. y
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-05

approaches OF Berlin was grlnQlng
up the defenses of Pomerania and
the lower Oder valley. The right
flank of the army poised before
Berlin was being secured rapidly.
some sources predicted an early
frontal onslaught against the Nazi
capital.
Nazi broadcasts acknowledged the
loss of Stargard, biggest anchor
base in the lower Oder defenses on
the road to Stettin. Stargard fell
after violent street fighting, the
enemy radio reported.
SCORE BIG GAINS 3.
North of Stargard, the Nazis said,
Soviet mobile forces scored further
gains in the direction of Naugard,
% miles northeast of Stettin and %
miles from the Baltic.
Thus it appeared that Marshal
Gregory X. Zhukov's right wing was
drawing in line on a broad front
east of Stettin for a push against
the Oder estuary. Even without a
river crossing, strong Russian forces
on the lower Oder could neutralize
Stettin with gunfire across the
stream.
Even while Stargard was being
stormed, other units of Zhukov's
First White Russian army swept
on beyond it to within a dozen
miles southeast of Stettin. Big guns
were being wheeled up to train on
the great Baltic port, which is the
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-05
Alfalfa Disease
Stirs Study

Increasing menace of alfalfa dis
eases in California led the directors
of the Imperial County Farm Bur-
eau Saturday to vote $50 toward
the expenses OF Imperial county
representatives to attend a confer
ence on the subject which will be
held at Davis March 10.
The meeting will be devoted to
study of the disease control meth
ods. While Imperial county is
practically free Of alfalfa diseases,
directors pointed out, it is well to
keep informed on the subject and
is possible prevent trouble in the
future.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-05

blank range to blast path for the.
charging doughbcys, the headquar-
tiers account said.
Smoke and flame was reported
blanketing the entire city, but
there was no immediate word on the
fate of the famous Cologne cathe-
dral.
The sudden breakthrough into
Cologne came as American Ninth
army forces to the north crashed
through Homberg to the confluence
Of the Rhine and Ruhr rivers The
Americans fought their way to the
western end of the road and rail-
way bridges linking Homberg to the
Ruhr valley arsenal of Duisburg.
Continued on Pg. 8, Col. -
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-05

DETROIT, March s. (UP)-Lead-
ers of $4,000 striking Briggs Manu-
featuring Co. employees voted today
against returning to work until Is
men discharged by the company are
back on the payroll.
The action by United Auto Work.
ers (CIO) Union Local 212's execu-
tive board ended hopes for an early
return to full-schedule armament
production in Detroit 1t was taken
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-05
Fire Bombs Rain on Tokyo
AS BIO Raids Increase

Sunday night. 1t dropped its bombs
in the sea and fled, Tokyo said.
The nearly 2C0 B-29s which blast
ed Tokyo in daylight Sunday were
believed to have reduced another
huge segment of the enemy capital
to flaming ruins.
Striking in snowstorm, the big
force of Superfortresses bombed
through a five-miie layer of clouds
with the aid of precision instru-
ments. The bomb load was expected
to equal that of the February 25
raid-approximately 1000 tons.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-05

WASHINGTON, March 5,
(UP) Ten Superfortresses
bombed Tokyo Monday, Jap
anese broadcasts said, in a
follow-up to Sundays de-
structive raid by nearly 200
B-29S.
The giant raiders thundered across
the coast of Honshu, Japan's main
home island, near HamamatSu one
at time and dropped demolition
and fire bombs on the capital be-
tween 1890 and 2:30 am. (Tokyo
time) radio Tokyo said.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-05

France, however, will be men,
ber of the proposed permanent
council CT the world organization.
along with the U. S., Britain, Russia
and China.
The department also revealed that
Poland has not been invited to send
representatives to the conference. 1t
said no such invitation will be Is
sued until the government OF Po-
land has been reconstructed on a
broader democratic basis, as the big
three decided must be done during
their Crimea meeting.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-05

The terms of the voting procedure
agreement were made public by the
state department.
The department also revealed
that France had rejected an invi-
tation to join the United States,
Russia and China in inviting the 80
other United Nations to participate
in the San Francisco conference
starting April 25.
France decided last week tc accept
the invitation. Later it reversed that
position and decided to attend the
conference but not to join in spon-
soring it,
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-05
Tanks Sweep Streets
Of Rhine Fortress:
Nazis Blast Bridqes
Thousands Of German Troops Left on
West Bank as Big Spans Fall;
Roads damned With FIeeino Enemv


cars shot their way through weak German guards in
through from the north that brought the battle of the
Rhineand into it's final hours
The rumble of heavy explosions shook the historic
division sent two columns racing in from the north bid
reach the of the city the German ora
tions on it's western outskirts
Explosion Hints Wreck Of Giant Bridge
One terrific explosion aroused speculation that the Naz
had blown the great Hohenzoen bridge in desperate
attempt to foresta American crossing of the Rhine
FOrty-odd miles to the north, tons of Nazi dynamite
sent two other Rhine bridges crashing into the river between
Hoberg and the Ruhr valley arsenal of Dusburg leaving
thousands of German troops stranded the bank
The Homberg bridges were blown just units of the
American Ninth army had fought up their
proaches -
The Yanks Immediately raced norhward along the river
bank to Orsoy five miles downstream entering the city
just in time to fire few rakng shots at troop packed
German ferry pushing out into the river.
German troop columns were jammed bumper to bumper
along the road leading north and west to Rheinberg and
Wese where the last two bridges still in enemy hands
reported flooded with Naz soldiers and armor fleeing
the Rhine.
Artillery Hammers Columns CeaseIessly
American artillery pounded the enemy columns merci-
eSSy and fast tank formations pushed up from
west to within few miles Of Rheinberg.
The German salient the west bank of the Rhine
around Wese squeezed into less than ID miles, and
every yard under terrific Allied shefire. Canadian
First army troops the northern flank barely
miles from Wesel the outskirts of Xanten, and the
American Ninth army only about eight miles from
Vessel in the Rheinberg sector.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-05
FARMERS MAKE APPEAL
FOR HAY BALE TIES

Lack of hay bale ties, one of the
greatest of farmers wartime bug-a-
boos, again haunted the Imperial
County Farm Bureau meeting Sat-
urday.
Directors set the ball rolling and
asked l.. G. Hawk, head OF the
county war board, to help in getting
a sufficient supply for Imperial
county farmers. Directors also de-
cided to ask the California Farm
Bureau Federation to assist,
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-05
Duck-FeedinQ
Activity Ends

of the programs end.
Officials said they thought feed
ing could be discontinued at this
time without much danger TO crops.
Feed was planted and dry feed
scattered along the shores OF Salton
sea to toll the birds from the fields.
this system being included with the
airplane duck herding project fin
anced by farmers to keep the ducks
from eating and destroying valuable
feed and food crops.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-05
4.H Clubs Slate
Spring Fairs

Complete calendar of All club
fairs in Imperial county this spring
was announced Monday by Assist
ant Farm Advisor Lee Landerman.
Brawley's fair will come April 81,
Bard's April q, Holtvilles April %,
and Ell Centro's May S. Club men,
bers from the designated areas will
display their livestock and poultry,
homemaking and dressmaking ac-
complishments, and other projects
showing what they have accom-
plished. Entertainment and re-
freshments also will be provided.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-05

There was practically no DAM
age" the broadcast, recorded by the
FEC, said.
"a London broac cast heard by
CHS reported that American Fly
ing Fortresses" were over Tokyo
again Monday morning. This was
believed an error, however since
Superfortresses are the only land
based planes so far TO attack the
capital)
Tokyo also reported that a single
B-29 flew over southern Kyushu,
south of Honshu, about II O'Clock
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-05

m e r. n medium bomberS
pounded the Wesel bridges through
the day in an attempt to choke off
the German retreat.
The battle for Cologne entered it's
final phase shortly after daybreak
Monday morning when the Third
armored divisions tank spearheads
lode down weak Nazi opposition in
side the northern limits of Ger
many's fourth city.
At the same time, two American
infantry divisions stormed in frcm
the west and southwest and at last
reports were at or across the city
limits.
Massed field guns and self-pro-
PEELED artillery were pouring salvo
after salvo into the city at point
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-05

SACRAMENTO, March 5.
(UP)-A disagreement arose
Monday over handling of
compulsory health insurance
bills pending before the legis-
lature as the lawmakers re-
sumed their 1945 session.
Fred Kraft (R) San Diego, chair
man of the assembly public health
committee, announced he would
propose at a meeting Tuesday that
the committee delay formal con-
sideration of health bills for several
weeks while it worked on other leg
islation.
Assemblyman Albert Wollenberg
(RD San Francisco, lower house
sponsor of the health insurance
plan proposed by Governor Earl
Warren, said he would have no OBJ
lection to a short delay.
However, Assemtlyman Vincent
Thomas CD San Pedro, who intro
cuced a health bill sponsored by
the state executive council of the
CIO, said he would request that the
committee go to work on the sub
ject Immediately.
FAVORS HEARINGS
Thomas also said he favored hear
ings before the entire assembly to
give members the fullest possible
information on the subject.
Ralph Swing (R) San Bernardo
no, chairman of the senate govern
mental efficiency committee which
will consider health insurance in
the upper house, said his commit
tee would Cecide on procedure at a
regularly scheduled meeting Thurs
day.
Meantime, Assembly speaker
Charles Lyon CR) Beverly Hills.
suggested that time limits on debate
be lifted in consideration of the
health bills, the biennial budget anc
other controversial legislation.
The assembly has a 10-minute
limit on speeches by individual
members on a single issue.
In prepared speech, Lyon de-
clared that never before in the
history of the state have there been
introduced into the legislature SO
many very important and contro-
versial measures as we have penc-
ing before us at this time"
Although obscured by the health
insurance argument, the question of
state tax rates was slated to be leg
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-05
$1,000 Strikers
Remdin | die

as approximately $4,000 Chrysler
corporation employees returned to
their jobs after a Today strike.
The Briggs management previous
ly has refused to rehire the workers
who were discharged on the ground
that they organized previous walk
outs and the present strike. There
was little indication that its posi-
ton would change.
Local 212's decision was announc-
ed by John Murphy, president.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-05

Duck visitors in Imperial county
had their last free meal at the pub
lie feed trough Sunday morning and
from here on have to hustle for
their food.
The feeding of ducks on the pub
lie areas near Salton sea came for
the last time this season on Sunday
morning. Federal wildlife bureau
officials informed the Imperial
County Farm Bureau directors at
their meeting in Ell Centre Saturday
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-05
= AMBlINe
EpoRTER
The High Man

The High Man
Charles Vcnderahe is still at the
head of the list in getting Farm
Bureau memberships. He is credited
with signing up 10 renewals and 25
new members.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-05
Russians SCI ize
Two Cities in
Pomerunid Dri We
Fall Of Main Cen+ers in S+e++in
Push Presases Big Frontal
Assaults Aimed at Reich CAPITAL

LONDON, March s. (UP)-Marshal Stain announced
Monday night that the Russians had captured Stargard
big Pomeranian base southeast of Stettin
The Russians also captured Naugard and Polzin
The Red armys biggest push since its sweep to the
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-05
Main Street Satire

Main Street Satire
Fred Robertson is having himself
time with that Water-filled hole
in front of the Robertson-Duringer
garage on Main street.
He sits out there dangling fish
lire in the water and telling pass
ers-by hcW he plans to freeze it
over Tor a skating rink.
Maybe that's the solution of the
swimming pool problem.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-05

For Pneumonia
The gang at the court house
shivered again Saturday. The fur
mace was fixed but there was no oil
to make it &C.
Purchasing Agent Rance Baker
Continued on Pg. 8, Col. q
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-05
WEATHER

Maximum Sun. SO, minimum Mon.
40; am. Mon, no reading; noon
{ Monday so, mo humid. readD; SPIN.
Sun. SO, mo humid. ready.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-06
German Murder School

When Allied soldiers discovered and cleaned
up German concentration camps where the
most frightful forms of torture had been prac-
ticed it was assumed the worst was known
Of German sadism. Now we learn that in ad-
dition to the abuses visited upon war prison
ers Germany maintained a murder school
where children-Gernan children-were sent
from all parts OF the Reich by the Depart
ment of the Interior to be starved to death
scientifically by the injection OF chemicals
which counteracted and destroyed the food
they received.
Operating under the cloak Of a sanatorium
and insane asylum, it was in fact murder
experimental station, and others like it were
scattered throughout Bavaria and Austria. An
undetermined number of adults and oil chill
dten met death within it's walls Bodies OF
adults in an uncooled morgue weighing less
than 10 pounds the corpse Of ten-year-old
boy weighing % pounds. show how system
atically the staff of doctors and nurses worked
and how successful were their efforts.
The only conclusion seems to be that the
Nazis had launched experiments through
which they hoped to kill off occupying forces
and regain their power. Constitutionally heart
less, and lacking alien subjects, they used
children of their own race as guinea pigs.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-06
Pacific Air Power

When fifteen hundred American fighter
planes and five hundred Superfortresses fly
at will over Japan, setting airfields and cities
afire as happened on the Fourth, without
meeting air opposition the impulse is to as
sumo Japanese airpower has been crushed.
Like Germany, Japan is probably boarding
its air fleet and turning out new planes
against the day of invasion of Japan's home
islands and of China. In the meantime the
Tokyo command will risk the smallest pos
sible number of planes in combat
Like Germany, too, Japan is overlooking the
damage caused by such raids as those of
Wednesday, which if they continue on the
same scale inevitably will so cripple Japans
defenses that the invasion will be accom-
plished more easily than if they were at par.
Germany kept the Luftwaffe aground in the
final stages of the European war or a last
assault but was so weak because of Allied
air attacks upon communications and indus
tries that it counted for little in the show
down. AS history has a fatal way of repeat
ing itself, Japan may find herself in the same
situation when the Pacific showdown comes.