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Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-03
Roosevelt Says
j. s. Peace
Vote Will Stand

WASHINGTON, April 3. CUP)-
President Roosevelt has decided that
the United States will not ask for
additional votes for this country
in The proposed world assembly, il
was announced Tuesday.
1t was disclosed last week that
during the Srimea conference, Rus
sia asked for three votes in the
assembly. The White House said
then that Britain and the U. S.
agreed to support this request in
the San Francisco conference.
The White House added in last
weeks announcement: But the
American representatives stated
that, if the United Nations organ
ization- agreed to let the Soviet re-
publics have three votes, the United
States would ask for three votes
ALSO"
LONDON, April 3. (UP)-The
Moscow radio reported Tuesday mass
demonstrations in Albania against
the failure of the big powers to in
vite the little Balkan state to the
San Francisco conference. The
broadcast said in one region alone
% communities demonstrated and
petitioned the Albanian military
authorities to appeal for change
in the Allied decision.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-03
Cold Wave Hits
Across Nation

CHICAGO, April 3. CUP)--Resi-
dents in the northern half of the
nation hung their spring suits back
in the closet Tuesday and settled
down to another cold wave.
The weatherman had nothing but
sad news, as temperatures fell rap
idly in a broad area from the Great
Lakes region as far southwest as
Arizona and New Mexico. The mer-
curry dropped 40 degrees in II hours
in the north central states.
In the northwest, the thermometer
hovered between the s. and 10
degree mark, with reading of
above zero registered at Cheyenne,
Wyoming, during the night.
Intermittent snowfall continued
in wyoming and Colorado and the
west portions of South Dakota and
Nebraska with IL inches of snow
blanketing the ground at Cheyenne,
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-03

Another Ninth army column was
reported racing for the Pied Piper
town of Hameln, on the Weser 158
miles due west of the German cap
ital.
Far to the south, 1t. Gen. George
S. Pattons American Third Army
appeared to have broken loose on
another arrnored run through CEN
tral Germany. Official spokesmen
said Patton's men were only 100
miles from juncture with the west
bound Red army at an undisclosed
point.
Berlin said Patton's men had cap
tured Kassel, pivot of the German
defenses on the Fulda river line
1855 miles southwest of Berlin, and
another Third army force was only
152 miles from the enemy capital at
Eisenach.
NEAR CZECH BORDER
Southeast of Eisenach. Third
Army forces were almost three
quarters Of the way across central
Germany In the Meiningen area
II miles from the old border of
Czechoslovakia and 180 miles inside
the Reich.
Between the Berlin bound Third
and Ninth armies, the American
First army began chopping through
the eastern wall of the great Ruhr
pocket to finish of trapped force
of perhaps 10000 Germans.
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower hail
ed the Ruhr trap as one of the big
gest Allied victories of the war and
predicted that the certain destruc-
ton of the pocketed Germans would
speed the enemy's final collapse.
Censored field dispatches from the
blacked-out Ninth army front said
American tank columns enveloped
the German stronghold Of Biele-
field, 189 miles west of Berlin, and
were closing fast on the Pied Piper
town of Hameln on the WeSer.
The American thrust split through
the hinge of the German defenses
which we're wheeling north in a
desperate effort to check the Brit
ish and Canadian drive.
CLOSED IN RAPIDLY
At Hameln the Americans would
be only "a miles southeast of Han
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Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-03
krug to Start
Rec0nVersi0n
Plans on Autos

WASHINGTON, April 3. (UP)-
War production chairman j. A. Krug
will take a group of experts with him
to Detroit late this week to lay
the groundwork for the reconversion
OF the automobile industry. it was
learned Tuesday.
Before he leaves, Krug is expected
to announce the appointment of one
of his top men to supervise trans
ition of the industry back to the
manufacture of passenger cars.
War Mobilization Director James
F. Byrnes in his weekend report to
congress urged immediate prepara-
tions to enable car manufacturers
to make the change-over quick when
war orders fall off.
The last civilian car rolled off
the assembly line early in February.
1912. Since then the industry has
been engaged entirely in war pro-
duction.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-03

He said the basic reason is very
simple-supplies are down and re-
quirements are up"
Olmstead said various shortages
rapidly are developing" net only in
meats, but in fats and oils, dairy
products. dried eggs, sugar and rice.
Senator Kenneth s. Wherry, (RD,
Nebraska, had some special ques-
tions for food officials.
Wherry said he would try to find
out Cd why VIA lost" $4,000
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-03
By UNITED PRESS

The Chungking radio reported
Tuesday that formidable fleets" of
British destrcyers were attacking
Japanese coastal installations on
Sumatra, the 1000-mile- long Meth
erlands East Indies island which
guards the approaches to Singapore.
The Chungking broadcast was re-
corded by Blue Network monitors
in San Francisco.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-03
-Japs Strengthen
OkinuWd Lines

bardment. Another marine division
has killed 130 japanese while suf-
fering casualties only small per-
centage of that number.
Firtt word that tank-led army
troops had reached Nakagusuku bay
came from an observation plane
which flashed back a message that
it was watching American soldiers
swimming in the nude off the east
coast beaches.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-03
u. 6. Planes Hi&
Horbor Of kieI

Holstein, toward which the Allied
21st army group was pressing.
1t. Gen. James H. Doolittle sent
some $50 Mustang fighters to escort
the heavy bombers on the mission.
Allied bombers last Saturday struck
the heaviest blow of the war at
ports and shipping centers in north
west Germany.
British Mosquito bombers Mon
day night attacked Berlin and the
synthetic oil center of Magdeburg.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-03

WASHINGTON, April 3.
(UP)-Lt. Col. Ralph w.
Olmstead, director of supply
for the war food administration,
told senate Investigators Tuesday
that American and Canadian civil
ians will have to get along with
even less to eat this year.
Olmstead was called before the
senate food investigation commit
tee to explain this nations food
shortages.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-03
Senate Probers Hear Food
Shortages "0nIy Begun"

cases of eggs year age this spring;
CD whether it is true that vast
quantities" of food are spelling in
government warehouses;; and CD
"why we buried potatoes"
A special house committee also is
investigating the food shortage 1t
plans tc start on fact-finding tour
about April l6 to look for black
markets, among other things. Some
of the cities tentatively on the list
are New York, Boston, Cleveland,
Chicago and Minneapolis.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-03

Ballinger said the generals jeep,
followed by command halftrack,
ran into a German tank column
They pulled eff the road and start
ed through field trying to escape
the, Nazi tanAs when they ran into
a German Tiger tank on the edge of
the woods.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-03
Senate Defeats
Manpower Bill

WASHINGTON, April 3. CUP)-
The senate Tuesday rejected the
compromise manpower bill
The vote was as to 20.
The decision had been expected
ever since the bill came to the
floor last Wednesday.
The house previously had adopt
ed the bill by a small margin.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-03
British Fleet
Hits Sumutro

1t said tie British surface fleet
has inflicted considerable damage"
on Japanese shipping In the waters
around Sumatra.
In addition, Chungking said.
British surface units were bonn
harding installations on the Anda-
man islands, Japanese-held group
In the Bay OF Bengal west OF the
Malayan peninsula.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-03

SACRAMENTO, April 3.
(UP)-A majority of the as
sem5ly public health COM
mittee, which is studying
health insurance bills before the
legislature, Tuesday was reported in
favor of delaying action on the bills
for two years while a new study is
made.
Fred Kraft. RD. San Diego,
chat. man of the committee. said he
had signatures of seven of the 13
members CT report asking for the
study.
He said it could be assumed that
the committee would table the bills
at the conclusion of hearing Tues
day night However, one of the
committee members signing the re-
port, Richard H. McCollister. CR0
Mill Valley, said he did not feel
bound to take such action.
WILL MAKE MOVE
McCollister said he would ask for
adoption of amendments either to a
bill favored by Gov. Earl Warren
or one favored by the state CIO
Council to make final approval de-
pendent on a vote of the people.
Assemblyman Albert C. Wollen-
berg. (RD, San Francisco, who in
troduced the bill favored by the
governor, said he would oppose cr
the floor of the assembly any at
tempt to delay action on the bill.
He declared that state and pri-
vate groups have studied health in
surance plans thoroughly.
The assembly development came
as Dr. Nathan Sinai, Michigan
health insurance expert brought tc
California by the govei nor, testified
in favor of Warren's bill before the
senate governmental efficiency com
mittee.
The assembly public health COM
mittee was to resume hearings on
health insurance Tuesday after
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Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-03
Nuzis Kill u. s. General
After His Surrender

The general and his aide got out
of the jeep and stood with their
hands over their heads in surrender.
AS Rose was unbuckling his pistol
holster, he was shot, Ballinger said.
Later, armoreG units returned to
the spot and found the generals
body and the command halftruck
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-03

LONDON, April g. UP)-Ameri-
can Eighth air force bombers at
tackled the big German naval base
and Baltic port of Kiel Tuesday in
a renewal of the campaign against
the shipping facilities behind the
threatened defenders of northwest
Germany.
About 750 Flying Fortresses and
Liberators bombed the city, one of
the main harbors of Schleswig-
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-03
MuenSfer FaI|S
As Push Swinqs
To Weser River
Holland Cleared as Pa++on's Army
Nears Junc+ure With Red Forces;
Central Reich S+ronshoIds Seized

PARIS, April g. (UP)-American and British troops
captured the Westphaan capital of Muenster Tuesday
while tank columns raced so miles and beyond the city
twin drives to enveop Holland and force the Weser river
line on the main superhighway to Berlin.
Muenster, 227 miles due west of Berlin, fell to the
Allies after than three days of savage street fighting
and rakng artillery bombardment that reduced the city
to a blackened rubble.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-03
OKEHS LAND EXCHANGE

SACRAMENTO, April 8. CUP)-
The assembly has passed and sent
10 the senate bill by Assembly,
man Charles Tream, r., San Diego,
permitting the state park commits
sion to exchange lands located in
ANA Desert State Park for feder-
ally owned lands outside the park.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-03
ICaL BOSS RESIGNS

POLITICAL BOSS RESIGNS
NASHVILLE, Tenn, April 3. (UP)
Edward H. Crump, Memphis po-
litical leader, resigned today as ma
tional Democratic committeeman
from Tennessee.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-03

Twenty miles to the southwest soldiers of the Amer
Ninth Army fought their way into Hamm the biggest
railway center in western Germany and began house-to
house mop-up of its bypassed Naz garrison.
Armored spearheads of the Ninth Army already were
more than SO miles of the Muenster Hamm lne split
ting through tie hinge of the German deenses the Weser
rvr on the Ruhr-Berlin superhighway 178 miles from
Berlin and only 81 miles east of Hanover.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-03
ALL ALLIED ARMIES CONVERGE ON Berlin
Health Insurance
Bill Faces Move
For Postponement
Assembly Committee
Majority Said to
Favor "Wider Study"

SACRAMENTO, April 3. UP)
The assembly Tuesday passed and
sent to the senate a bill which
would relieve relatives of old age
pensioners OF responsibility for
their support. The vote was 48
to 25.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-03
D AMBLINe
AEpoRTER
This Is Terrible

This Is Terrible
Assistant Farm Advisor Lee Lam
derman was in bad state Tuesday
morning. He learned that he was
expected to attend three meetings
Friday night. He was called to the
telephone again.
you are expected to attend our
backwards party Friday night" a
voice informed him. And wear all
your clothes backwards"
"If I have on any clothes at all
that night" groaned Lee, I'll be
lucky"
Hot Topics
We can't imagine what table top
les were assigned at the ladies night
party of the Cactus Gavel Toast
masters club Monday night.
OF course, we understand that
the Toastmasters talked long and
pompously in order to impress their
wives But is that any reason for
three tables to burst into flameSP
Toastmasters insist that the fires
were started by spontaneous COM
bustion in the table padding. A very
silly alibi.
BY the way, the fire was the worst
in close proximity to Mr.. and Mrs.
Ernie Frame and Mr.. and Mrs. Bill
Measures.
Another Surprise
And now," grated Toastmaster
Charles Hancock at the same Toast
masters party, I'm going to intro
duce the handsomest man in the
club"
Every man in the room sat up, put
on modest smile, and Strengthened
his necktie.
Hancock meant Bill Fox
Why NOt?-
Colonel w. A. Paul of inland.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-03

Why NOt?-
Colonel w. A. Paul of inland
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Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-03
WEATHER

Maximum Monday 66, minimum
Tuesday 81; am. Tuesday As, hu-
midity 81; noon Tuesday 63, humid
ity II; pm. Monday So, humid. 81.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-09

Hartford, Con-, May 9.-(UP)- Compelled by statute to adjourn in another four weeks, the general assembly still had most of its major business in committees or on the calendars today.
 Virtually all principal appoint ments to state jobs, the minor court judgeships, the biennial budget and nearly a dozen administration en- dorsed bills still were to be con- sidered Leaders were discussing the advisability of extending the work week to five days.
 The Democratic-sponsored bill to set up state department of com- merce which would take over the functions of three other agencies. had approval of the senate today by a vote of 1912. One Republican voted with the Democratic majority. The bill provides for appointment of a $10.000-a-year administrator by the governor for a four-year term. The department would do the work of the development commission, postwar planning board and war council. There appeared little chance the measure would get by the Re- publican dominated house.
 Both parties in the house found themselves in agreement in approv- ing bill setting up Connecticut municipal employees retirement fund. The fund was proposed as Q means
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-09
New Registration Plates
 For State Cars Probable

of enabling every community in the state to provide a pension system for its employees. Both the work CTS and municipalities would con- tribute to the fund which would be administered by the state en- ployes retirement commission.
 Meantime. it was reported an at tempt would be made to revive the fair employment practice bill. ap- proved last week by the senate but recommitted to the labor committee by the house.
 The agriculture committee asked fo, the rejection of a bill calling for the removal of State Milk Ad- miristrator Donald O. Hammerberg A similar proposal was disapproved during the 1943 session. Rejection of companion bill which would repeal the state milk marketing act also was recommended.
 Motor Vehicles Commissioner John T. Mccarthy asked the ap- propriations committee for $280, ,OOO to buy new type bronze alloy reg istration plates to be distributed to ca- owners next year. Mccarthy said that judging from the experi- ences of other states, the new metal plates would be more practical and economical than the plastic type. Several states, he said, had trouble with dogs eating the plastic plates oil parked cars.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-09
Double Cross OnWorScoop Irks Writers

New York, May g 9-(UP)-Robert Bunnelle, managing executive for the Associated Press in the United Kingdom, notified the AP today that he had been suspended from filing privileges.
 Bunnelle reported that no reason was given for his suspension, but the AP here said it presumably was in connection with the unauthorized dispatch which Edward Kennedy, chief of the AP Paris Bureau, filed on the German surrender at ReimS.
 Kennedy, who admitted he had violated SHAEF regulations by fil- ing the Reims dispatch before its release was authorized by SHAEF, said he telephoned it to London where Bunnelle is in charge of the AP.
 Kennedy and Morton Gudebrod, who supervises the distribution of AP news to the French press, have been suspended from filing privi- leges by Allied supreme headquart- CTS in Paris. SHAEF has appointed three officers to investigate Ken nedy's action in sending the un- authorized dispatch, but they have not reported yet.
 Bunnelle was notified of the ac- tion against him by Capt. Harry
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-09
JAP INVASION PLANS MAPPED
 BY UNCLE SAM
BY FRANK TREMAINE

Guam, May 9-CUP)-The joint chiefs of staff are now working on plans for an in- vasion of Japan, Admiral Chester w. Nimitz disclosed today.
 With the war spotlight now focused solely on the Pacific theater, Nimitz also told a press conference, the United States immediately will step up "very materi- ally" it's air bombardment of the enemy homeland.
 He spoke as advers s e weather slowed ground op- erations on southern Okin- ava, where five American divisions were hammering at the strongest Japanese de- lenses in the Pacific only a mile above Mana, capital or the island.
 American battleships and cruisers knocked out enemy gun emplace- ments, artillery and mortars in a heavy bombardment. Illumination shells fired by the Warships at night curbed Japanese infiltration of the American lines.
 Navy patrol bombers sank 14,0OO tons of shipping and damaged $500 in a series of attack in Korean coastal waters Monday. A small freighter transport and large fleet oiler were sunk.
 Other patrol bombers sank two small cargo ships, large fishing craft and a coastal cargo ship in the fourth straight day of raids of southern Honshu yesterday. Four small cargo ships, four large fishing craft and a coastal vessel were damaged.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-09
City Resumes |Wor Efforts
 |AfterV-ED Day

The Steadfast atmosphere of war time awareness returned to Water bury today following relatively minor celebrations of VIE Day con- ducted in Exchange Place last night and yesterday noon. Last night strenuous efforts were made by hundreds of Waterburians to arouse a general enthusiasm for some sort of formal mass celebration such as parade, but the majority of the city'S residents remained at home, while those who did go down town remained in the background to watch the revelry of the few hun dreds celebrants most of whom were teen-agers.
 This morning the city's down. town area resembled minor form of hangover with refuse and rub biSh littering the walks and roads, painting picture of dShevelment. Perhaps the only regrettable result of the celebration was the despoil- ing of the grass and turf of the Green, ripped. torn and trodden by the hundreds who ran, jumped and walked across it's grassy surface rem dered more pliant by yesterdays rainfall.
 Today all local war industries re- sumed full operations and schedules following yesterdays closing at noon prompted by the departure from the plants of hundreds of workers and the general inability of those remaining to concentrate on jobs which momentarily had gone stale in relation to the jubilant
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-09
TEN MILLION AMERICANS TO
 OPPOSE LAPS
BY JOSEPH MYLER

Washington, M ay g. - (UP) )-U. s. armed might which helped doom Ger many, is now turning to hurl it's entire weight against the worlds last Axis nation.
 A total force of 10,000,00O men is expected to be used in the final assault on the Japanese empire.
 Japan, already fighting a losing war, must now get set for blows far heavier than anything she has suf- fered thus far. Her military destruction, assured for some time, will now be acceler- ated.
 She has the choice-stated yester- day by President Truman-of un- conditional surrender or utter destruction of her war-making power.
 Tremendous Shift
 The redeployment of U. s. forces for the final assault upon the enemy in the Pacific is under way. It will take time and tremendous effort, this shifting from two-front to one front war. And the enemy is strong. Admiral William D. Leahy, the Presidents chief of staff has warned that Japan still has perhaps 1000, ,OOO' troops.
 But the process of arraying su- perior might against the easter, enemy has started, and its tempo will be increased until all of this country's power is concentrated fol the climactic blow.
 There are an estimated 1000. O00 army troops already in the Pacific. To them will be added most of the remainder of the nations post VIE Day Army, expected by the War Department to total 6,90O,0OO men
 Already dedicated primarily to victory in the east are the Nays 3,270,000 men and women, the Marine Corps 475,OOO, and the Coast Guards 172,OOO this gigantic force will now give its undivided atten- tion to Japan.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-09
Dutch Aidinq Australians
By DON CASWELL

Manila, May 9.-CUP)-Tank-led Australian troops closed in today on a second oil field in Tarakan Is- land off the east coast of Borneo.
 The drive on Bjoeata oil field, three miles north of the captured Tarakan airdrome, came as other Australian forces and dutch troops frightened a pincers on the Paome- sian field east of Tarakan town.
 Strong forces of Liberators, Mitch els and Lightnings supported the Australian troops who cleared the area around the airfield and pushed northward through broken country to less than two miles from the Bjoeata derricks.
 Combined Australian and Dutch forces at the same time continued their envelopment of the Paomesian oil field east of Tarakan town and seized the Japanese headquarters for the island.
 The Japanese had hurriedly evac- uated the headquarters as the Allied troops circled around the oil field and pushed to within mile and 8 half of Tarakan's east coast.
 GA Japanese Army communique from Borneo, broadcast by Doemi and recorded by EGG, said the AL lied forces on Tarakan had suf- fered at least 1,050 casualties on the land fighting and other losses in the pre-invasion naval operations.)
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-09
School Board Will Get New Member Soon

Education Commissioner Joseph A. DeLuca of 1910 West Main street has submitted his resignation to the Board of Education, after service ot three and half years, and vii. attend his final board meeting next Monday night, it was disclosed to- day
 The commissioner, an employe o1 the U. s. Rubber company, vii move into a new home in Nauga- tuck this month. AS a nonresident of the city, he would be ineligible to ccntinue in office.
 An interim appointment, pending the next election, will be made by Mayor John s. Monagan. Since MT DeLuca is a Republican, a member of the same party will be named as his successor.
 During his term on the board Commissioner DeLuca has been a member of the committee on rules and regulations. He also was named to the joint committee which con- sidered the proposal to equalize teachers pay so women teachers would receive the same compensa- tion as men for similar work
 The resigning education official said today that he had enjoyed his work with the board, and com- mented, We had some very n- teresting problems. He pointed out some of the undertakings he had been aiding have not yet been com pleted, and said he was sorry to leave the post and also to leave the city.
 MT. DeLuca expressed gratitude for the cooperation he had re- ceived during his term from offi- cials and personnel in the educa- tion department.