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Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-04
SENATE EDUCATION GROUP
DEFEATS "TRUANCY" BILL

SACRAMENTO. May 4. (UP)-
The senate education committee has
defeated proposed legislation giving
school boards power to require mar
ried girls under 18 years of age to
attend school
Married persons are exempt from
the present compulsory education
law. Educators told the committee
that IS and 14-year-old married
girls often get into trouble while
their husbands are in the service.
The next thing you know schools
will want the right to investigate
how girl is getting along with her
husband Sen. Hugh Donnelly Cd
Turlock, told the committee.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-04
Senators Press
For u. 5. Control
OF Pacific Bases

SAN FRANCISCO May a.. CUP)
-Four United States senators are
here to ask the American delega-
ton to the security conference to
demand that the United States have
complete control over Pacific ISL
ands formerly inundated to Japan.
The senators are Harry F. Byrd
CD Va, Charles Tobey (R0 N. H.;
James o. EaStland CD Miss, and
Homer E. Capehart (R) Ind.
The senators came to San Fran
cisco after Chairman David 7. Walsh
Cd Mass, Of the senate naval af-
fairs committee advised the state
department that he wanted men,
berS of that committee to present
committee views to the American
Immediately invited Walsh to send
any committee representative here
that he chose and assured them
that they would be permitted to sit
in on as many meetings as possible.
The senators flew here from WASH
ington and had lunch with Secretary
of State Edward r. StettiniuS, Jr.,
chairman of the U. S. delegation.
1t was understood that the SEN
ate naval affairs committee was
seriously concerned lest the con-
ference permit action which would
deny to the United States the alb
solutc control which the committee
feels the United States should ex-
erciSe over Pacific islands Of STRAIT
egic value to this country.
Earlier, however, the American
delegation made it plain that the
security conference would not deal
with specific areas subject to trus-
teeShip.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-04
BY ERNEST BARCELLA

MANILA, May 4. CUP)-Manila
Is murdered city, wantonly butch
cred by the Japanese.
1t Is grotesque symbol of the
effects of total war--total destruc-
ton. What once was the pearl of
the Orient now is a gingantic Junk
pile. Not single structure south
OF the paSig River escaped the fury
of war.
MASS OF RUBBLE
Modern buildings, built to with
stand earthquakes, are a mass Of
rubble. The Legislative building,
made of reinforced concrete and
steel, was no match for concentrated
artillery fire. 1t is bent and broken.
as if giant hand had crushed it to
the ground. The city hail. complet-
ed in 1889, is shell. its walls blast
ed by bullets and its dome a skele-
ton of steel against the skyline. The
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-04
PopuIace Raids
Hitler Beer
Hall in Munich
BY MALCOLM MUIR. JR.

MUNICH, May 4. CUP)-While
the German radio announced the
death of Hitler, German people
looted the cellar of the beer hall
where he began his rise to infamy.
A huge, underground cellar was
the only part of the legendary
Buergerbrau Keller that remained
intact. This was where the Nazis
had begun their march in 1923.
But now German people crowded
its narrow entrance, fighting to get
at the wines, beer, and cheese inside
They went away triumphantly, their
arms loaded down with all they
could carry.
HOLLOW BRICK SHELL
The rest of the beer hall was a
vast hollow brick shell, which look
ed like a trolley barn. Inside, the
rostrum where Hitler narrowly es-
capped death from a bomb in 1889
still jutted out But directly in
front of it was a deep hole made by
an Allied bomb.
This birthplace of NaZiSm looked
as dead as the Hamburg radio said
the father of Nazism was.
The famous Brown House, once
Hitler's residence and headquarters,
was wrecked. 1t was pile of pink
brick, green wallpaper, and twisted
plumbing. The house was blasted
by a direct hit during an RAF raid
last February.
Nearby the modest cement monu-
ments the Nazis called the Eternal
Watch" The eight black bronze
coffins, bearing the bodies of eight
Nazis who fell III the 1923 Putsch,
were untouched.
But the wooden pedeStalS where
picked SIS sentries were pledged to
stand guard forever were ripped to
splinters. Civilians said the guards
fled when the first bomb fell, and
never did come back to their "Etern-
al Watch"
STREET ONLY RUBBLE
The wide Rosenheimer StraSse,
where Hitler and his cohorts once
marched, was lined with rubble. And
the same German people who once
Historically heiled them lined the
street to hail American troops as
they captured the city.
A skeleton of steel was the re-
mains of the once-impoSing Bayer-
ischer, Hof where Prime Minister
Neville Chamberlain stayed in 1889
when he found peace in our time. "
Beyond the Odeonsplatz, one wall
was left Of a tiny beer hall called
Ferneckerbrau. That was where Hit
ler and six others sat at table and
outlined the Nazi party in 1920.
On the wall of this tiny tomb
stone someone had scribbled in
chalk Hitler Verecke"-Hitler sunk.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-04
SENATE APPROVES BUS
FRANCHISES IN CITIES

SACRAMENTO, May 4. tUP)-
The senate has passed a bill per-
mitting railroad or bus companies
to acquire franchises for operation
OF public vehicles on state high
ways within city limits.
Sen. Jack Tenney (R.) Los Angeles,
introduced the proposed legislation.
He said issuance of franchises will
permit utility firms to operate or
. permanent basis. Railroad and bus
companies now operate on permits
issued by the California Railroad
Commission authorizing use of state
highways within city limits. These
permits are revocable at any time.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-04

we know that many eastern companies
are planning postwar manufacturing and
distribution facilities in new territories.
Wehaye consistently sought to develop
manufacturing Along our lines, for new
industries are major source of traffic.
For this purpose we have long main
tanned an industrial department. And
this is the reason Southern Pacific
makes freight rates that make it pos
sihle for the industries we serve to
assemble raw materials and market
finished products.
AS one of the forces that be{peJ fe-
velop America west of the Mississippi,
Southern Pacific continues its efforts to
bring even greater prosperity to its
territory, knowing that such prosperity
will benefit our railroad, too.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-04
City Of Monilo
Mass Of Bubble

! Manila Hotel, once a luxuriant
structure, is fire-blackened mass
of shattered concrete.
Entire buildings have been leveled
to the ground-put to the torch by
the Japs, blasted by artillery fire
or reduced by demolition charges
left by the enemy. Nothing was
spared by the demoniacal enemy
churches, cathedrals, government
buildings, downtown business es-
Establishments, bridges, modern apart
ment buildings and humble dwell
ings all suffered the same fate.
Only northern Manila escaped
the full fury of destruction. That
was because American troops moved
in too quickly for the Japs to do
anything about it. There, the Mala-
canan-the magnificent presiden-
tial palace with its rich trappings
and massive chandeliers-sta un-
touched.
BODIES STILL THERE
But southern Manila is a vast
mass of wreckage, for it was there
that the Japs converted the city
into a fortress for a fanatical last
stand. Hundreds of dead Japs still
lie beneath the wreckage, trapped by
their own suicidal tactics.
The Japs mined streets and build
ings. SapperS have cleaned out
most of these death traps, but an
occasional Filipino still is killed by
the hidden charges as he forages
the city for sticks of wood to build
his family a shelter.
U. S. Army Engineers have accom-
pliShed miracles in cleaning up rub
BILE, But a gigantic task still lies
ahead. 1t will take years to re-
build the city; some architects es-
innate as much as 25 years.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-04
WINS $1,000 WAR BOND

HOLLYWOOD, May 4. UP)-A
$1,000 war bond was en- route to
Charles Byrne, Minneapolis, Mimi,
high school student who won Com
edian Eddie Cantor's essay contest
on Juvenile De,inquency-Its Cause
and Solution" Dolores P. Fields of
Des Moines, Iowa, was second and
Paul l.. Raymond Of San Francisco
was third.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-04
COPS KEEP THE PEACE

PLYMOUTH. Ind. May 4. UP)-
Plymouth police, attracted to Bum
Haven" by a quarrel between two
guests" found the dispute to be
over an electric light. One wanted
it off, and the other wanted it left
on all night. The one who insisted
that the light be left on had $3.50
in his pocket and distrusted his
roommate in the dark. Police settled
the argument by agreeing to care
for the s490 overnight and turned
off the light.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-04
CTS PLOW As ACRES

CAMP ELLIS. ILL.,, May 4.-Sold-
gardeners at Camp Ellis have
plowed 45 acres for victory gar
dens" SO far during 1945. The gar
dening detail" hopes to surpaSs its
1914 total of more than 100000
pounds of food, 80 varieties of vege-
tables, 230 acres Of cultivation
and savings of approximately $50,-
900.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-04
PLANS DOCTORS PROGRAM

AUSTIN, Tex, May 4. CUP)-
Special courses for doctors who
rushed off to war without complet-
ing contemplated post graduate
work have been arranged for the
medical branch of the University
of Texas. Regents approved pro-
gram to be carried out at the med
ical school in Galveston, Tex.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-04
How S'P is seeking rev industry
tor your corSnUnity

We thought you would be interested in knowing
what Southern Pacific is doing to encourage the
location of new industries in your community and
other communities along lines.
We have just conducted an extensive advertising
campaign in national magazines and eastern news
papers, telling about the industrial opportunities in
the West and offering nep to executives who wanted
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-04

to be given a furlough home. He
has completed "a months service
with unit of the army air force
on the Gold Coast of Africa.
Private First Glass Maurice (Bus)
G. Greeley is somewhere in France.
He wrote that he is sleeping in Ger
man homes which are as good as
some of the best in the USA. In
some places w-lere the Germans
surrendered Greeley wrote, the
people treat us with the highest of
hospitality. Heat the water and
allow us to go in their homes (where
they have the finest of tile bath
rooms to take our baths and to
shave. They can't seem to be nice
enough to us. The Heinies are sur
rendering every day by the thous-
anGs. Uncle Sam is very good to us.
We are well cared for. We eat
better than the German civilians.
1t is good to see the Germans throw
down their arms to us. Just like
taking candy from kid. We get
all the cigarets we want and the
Germans walk around picking up
the snips we throw away"
Pfc. Greeley is graduate of Gen.
tral Union High school, having
grown up in FL Centro. After fin
ishing school he went to San Diego
where he was emp.oyeG at the Ryan
Aircraft corporation. A year ago
ne was inducted into the army. His
wife and two children live in San
Diego and his mother, Mrs. j. G.
Hester, lives in El Centre. He also
has a brother and sister living in
San Diego.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-04
Our Men in Service

Private Jack Thornburg, son OF
Mr.. and Mrs. w. j. Thornburg of
El Centre, arrived Wednesday at
Ft. Leonard Wood, Missouri. He
recently was inducted into the army
at Ft. Macarthur.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-04
JOHNSTON REELECTED

WASHINGTON, May 4. OP)-
The U. S. Chamber of Commerce
board Of directors has elected Eric
A. Johnston, Spokane, Wash, to an
unprecedented fourth term as pres
ident of the chamber.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-04

I'm getting a good coat of tan
and am in the best of health" Herb
Brown, seaman first class, wrote
friends in Ell Centro. He is n the
South Pacific.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-04

President Andrew Jackson, on
June Is, 1886. signed the Act of
Congress which admitted Arkansas
to TIE Union.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-04

John Dragoiu. Jr., postal officer
at the Ell Centre marine air station,
recently was promoted to the rank
Of first lieutenant. A former en-
listed man, Lieutenant Dragoiu
spent 10 months in the Pacific area
as an aviation mechanic. He and
lis wife, Elizabeth, live in El Gen.
tro.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-04

specific information about locating plants branch
plaSts in this terri-pry.
Southern Pacc is certainly not forgetting its first
job, which is to help end the war as quickly as
possible.
But we are also thinking of the future We are think
ing OF the million new people, the vast new indus-
tries, the rich natural resources of this area.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-04


I'm getting a good coat of tar
and am in the best of health" Hert
| Brown, seaman first class, wrote
friends in Ell Centre. He is n the
| South Pacific
Corporal Sid L. Goddard and wife
spent five days with his parents, MIR
and Mrs. S. C. Goddard, 727 South
Tenth, Ell Centre. He was en- route
from Inglewood where he was at
tending an army air corps school
to Tampa, Florida He has been in
the army 26 months.
Hello, Nom, I am in Germany
now with General Patton's third
army" Private First Glass Herbert
Spence, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. E.
Spence of El Centre, wrote recent
ly. Not so bad after all but the
Germans are plenty tough" Pfc
Spence is a paratrooper and has
been overseas year and half
He was based in England and fought
in France, Holland, and Belgium
before going into Germany.
At Camp Roberts Paul M. Wheel
er recently was promoted to staff
sergeant. His home address is 1927
South Fourth, El Centro.
First Lieutenant Robert A. Hes
semer, "a, of 635 Park, Ell Centre
is pilot attached to the lombard
ier and air gunner's school at the
Ell Centro marine air station.
Friends of Walter Bucket of Holt
vile will be interested in the news
that he has been promoted to staff
sergeant. He has been stationed in
Africa for the last two years, at
Casablanca at present.
Technical Sergeant James A. Nc
Keen is serving with the ninth army
in Germany. His wife and daughter
live with Mrs. McKeen's parents
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Bucket of Holt
vile.
The 204th quartermaster battal-
ion, commanded by Lieutenant-Col-
onel Gus H. Montgomery of Ell Gen.
tro, received the Meritorious Ser
vice Unit Plaque, according to word
received by Mrs. Montgomery, who
lives here with their children, Bill
and Patsy. The citation for the
unit, which has been in action in
Italy since the landings at Anzio
read For superior performance OF
duty in the accomplishment of ex-
ceptionally difficult tasks from JAN
uary to March l, 1945, in italy
Bill Sessions has written his par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. R. L. Sessions
that he and Joe Maloof, son OF
Mr.. and Mrs. John Maloof of E.
Centro, are planning a weekend
reunion in New Orleans Bill is q
| fireman second class in the navy
stationed at Gulfport, Miss. Joe is
in the army, stationed at Camp
Shelby, Miss.
Staff Sergeant Lewis r. Nichols o.
FL Centro recently enjoyed a 're-
cess" from aerial warfare at an all
service command rest center, al
English seaside resort hotel. He i.
one of the airmen who provide aer.
ial cover for Allied armies in Ger.
many. Sergeant Nichols has com.
pleted 80 missions over Nazi-domi.
mated Europe.
I Among those graduating recentl,
from an intensive course of signal
men training at service schools a
Great Lakes, Illinois, was Kenneth
Elroy Boxley, 18, of 618 Euclid, E
Centre. He is son of Mrs. Franz
Gray of Holtville.
Coast Guardsman Clyde w. Blunt
machinistS mate second class, par.
ticipated in the landing operations
at Okinawa, about $50 miles from
the main islands of Japan He wa,
aboard coast guard-manned in
vasion transport. This former z
Centre resident is a son of Mrs
Cora Keen, previously saw actor
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-04

technical Fifth Grade Oliver L.
Eustace of Seeley is a member of
the headquarters section of the
749th tank battalion which recently
vas commended for its continued
high standard in performance of
duty while in support of the 10th
division in France. He entered the
armed forces JUne 2, 1889 and is
entitled to wear one battle partici-
patton star on his campaign ribbon
and has been awarded the Good
Conduct Medal and the American
Defense Service Medal.
Private Robert Reed, son of Mrs.
EStelle Reid, is a paratrooper in
Germany and has been overseas two
years. He is awaiting permission to
return to Italy to be married His
bride-to-be is attending the Univer-
sity of Naples and is in her sopho-
more year.
Frank MousSeau, gunner's mate
in the navy, is in rehabilitation hos
pital on the east coast He is said to
have suffered g: Pc cent deafness
as a result of an explosion aboard
the Marblehead. He will be provided
with hearing aid and is being
taught lip reading. 1t is expected
that he will be given a discharge
soon.
Private Russell M. Brodbeck,
whose wife is living at Calipatria,
has been assigned to the veteran
32nd Red Arrow division. it was
announced in Pangasinan province.
Philippine Islancs. He was trans
ferred from the service and ammuni-
tion battery of the 126th field ar
tillery battalion. 3roadbeck's duty
in his unit is that of truck driver,
driving trucks loaded with ammuni-
ton and supplies. He is a son of
Russell Brodbeck, ST., Of Ell Cetro.
Raymond Odell Eaves. II, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Ausie C. Eaves of
Brawley area, enlisted in San Diego
as seaman first class in the naval
reserve. He is awaiting call to
active duty. He already has passed
the Eddy test for radio technicians
and will be sent to the Great Lakes,
Illinois, training center. He is
graduate of Brawley Union High
scchool. His brother, Cecil Eaves,
, is corporal in the army air corps.
Technical Sergeant ChriSty w.
Plemons, "a, son of Joseph E. Plem-
onS of SAB El Centre, FL Centre is
one of group of overseas returnees
just flown back from Africa and the
middl0 east by ocean spanning
planes of the air transport COM
mand. After clearing at Miami
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-04

in the assaults on Normandy ano
Southern France.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-04

Corporal Sid L. Goddard and wife
spent five days with his parents, MIR.
and Mrs. S. G. Goddard, 727 South
Tenth, El Centre. He was en- route
from Inglewood where he was at
tending an army air corps school
to Tampa, Florida. He has been in
the army 26 months.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-04

army air field, Sergeant Plemolis was
to be given a furlough home. He
has completed "a months service
with unit of the army air force
on the Gold Coast of Africa.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-04

Coast Guardsman Clyde w. Blunt,
machinistS mate second class, par
ticipated in the landing operations
at Okinawa, about $50 miles from
the main islands of Japan He was
aboard coast guard-manned in
vasion transport. This former El
Centre resident is a son of Mrs.
Cora Keen, previously saw action
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-04

Among those graduating recently
from an intensive course of signal
men training at service. schools at
Great Lakes, Illinois, was Kenneth
Elroy Boxley, 18, of 618 Euclid, FL
Centre. He is a son of Mrs. Frank
Gray of Holtville.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-04

Staff Sergeant Lewis r. Nichols of
El Centre recently enjoyed a re
cess from aerial warfare at an air
service command rest center, an
English seaside resort hotel He is
one of the airmen who provide aer-
ial cover for Allied armies in Ger
many. Sergeant Nichols has COM
pleted 30 missions over Nazi-domi-
mated Europe.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-04

At Camp Roberts Paul NJ Wheel
er recently was promoted to staff
sergeant. His home address is 327
South Fourth, El Centre.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-03-15

the Mexican agave and are native
to that country, while bouvardia is
believed to have originated in the
Western Hemisphere.
To South America is the world in
debted for one of its most popular
garden flowers: the nasturtium. Thus
is this gaily colored little plant
mentioned in a European botanical
book of the end of the 18th century:
the nasturtium "is native of Peru,
and is said by Linnaeus to have been
first brought to Europe in the year
1884"
Another South American flower
which is mentioned in European bo-
tanical treaties of the last century
(1830) and one which is also today
a favorite, is the petunia, "a native
of Buenos Aires"-some say that
the first were gathered upon the
Uruguay near the Rio-Negro-"a and
like other herbaceous plants from the
same country, quite hardy in Eng
land during the summer"-to quote
one author.
The four o'clock-"romatically
known as Marvel-of-Peru" comes,
naturally from Peru and was intro
duced to the Old World sat an
early date, being very much admired
there, it seems.
Also from South America are a
number of species of Verbena, al
though the common garden variety
has now become practically a
mongrel.
Dahlias, poinsettias, tuberoses, ma
stutiums these are but a few of
the many ornamental blooms that
have spread from the Americas to
the rest of the world. How they
were carried from this continent to
the others is not always easy to
trace.
They tell of European wild flowers
whose SeeedS came over TO the west
ern Hemisphere in the heels of boots
that had tread the fields where they
grew in the Old World.
By other such strange roundabout
ways some of our indigenous plants
may have reached land of cultivation
in the other hemisphere, while many,
we know were taken over as price
less treasure and treated as such by
loving naturalists.
Oblivious of their origin, they-the
flowers grow, spontaneously, and will
ingly as soon as they find themselves
in an appropriate medium. They
share alike their beauty, their color,
their brilliance with the Old World
and with the New.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-03-15
IN APPRECIATION

Your kind expressions of sympathy
will always be gratefully remembered
and deeply appreciated in the bereave-
ment and Memorial Service of our be-
loved son and brother, James H. Am
stutz.
We are very thankful to Rev. V. C.
Opperman for officiating at the men,
orial services and American Legion
for their part in the services; Paul
Diller for his arrangements, the sing
ers; also those who remembered him
with flowers and everyone who aided
US in the service and otherwise.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Amstutz
Mr.. and Mrs. Rayon Boutwell,
Mary Jane Worthington
Mrs. Eli Amstutz.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-03-15
Farm, Machine Ceiling
Will Curb Spectators

Many items of used farm equip
ment were placed under price cell
ings more than two years ago "to
help farm production and keep such
machinery out of spectators hands,
according to H. G. Bogart, district
o. P. A. director.
dealers, auctioneers and farmers
have been cooperative in keeping
farm production prices down by COM
plying with the regulations" added
Mr.. Bogart. "In only a few in
stances has it been necessary to i'm
pose sanctions for violations.
Recently, Federal Judge Kloeb of
Toledo granted ninety day injunc-
tion against Donald Day of Egerton,
Ohio, restraining him from the sale
of farm equipment above ceiling
prices"
Mr.. Bogart also pointed out that
price clerks OF War Price and Ra-
tioning Boards are always glad to
give complete information on the
ceiling price of used farm machinery.