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Evening star., 1945-01-04
Correspondents
Continued From First Page.)

fWere on The scene when the attack
Kicked on in a miserable combina- :
tion of cold, snow, sleet and rain and
followed it through the first day
light hours, did not even have what
surely was. their privilege of being
first to release news of the offensive.
That word came instead from
ESHAEF-and the fact that SHAEF
Twas makfng the announcement did
li1ot reagh us until just before mid
might last night. A plan had beeen
accepted and approved whereby, un-
der the 36-hour embargo which had
been in effect for a week or more,
first stories of an offensive would
go out from 1st Army. headquarters
at pm. moon, EWT) today, and
there would be no earlier announce
ment from any higher headquarters.
THE SHAEF communique left us
holding the bag-a bag full of stories
of deeds of 1st Army doughboys who
launched the attack which, by the
lquirks of censorship, even now can't
be released Immediately.
at is by no means the first time
that 1st Army correspondents have
been scooped by the higher COM
mand on one of their own attacks
and in view of the past precedent we
cannot do much more than hope
this will be the last"
Heated Discussion.
Yesterdays criticism of supreme
headquarters censorship came in
the course of a heated discussion
during which Drew Middleton of the
New York Times called the recent
SHAEF briefings "the worst 1 have
Experienced in f1ve years of war"
Marshall Yarrow, Reuters corre-
spondent, asserted that "if BIC
runs this place let us know and we
can pack up and go to London and
listen to BIC" Edward Angley of
the Chicago Sun said BBC fire.
quently had been enabled to antici-
pate official announcements.
SHAEF announced a 36-hour
time lag on western front news was
being cut to II hours.
After the British Broadcasting
Corp. reported the 1st Army ad-
vance, censorship ruled that cor
respondents might quote BIC to
this effect, but would not permit
them to attribute the information
to supreme headquarters or to con-
firm or deny it on their own
account.
The correspondents protested
strongly. An hour later, nearly II
hours after the original BBC an
|nouncement, headquarters issued
official information Of the 1st Army
attack.
The chief censor at headquarters
promised to investigate the cir
cumstances of the earlier BIC an
nouncement.
Evening star., 1945-01-04
Women Takes Oath
AS Citizen, Drops Dead
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LAWRENCE, Mass, Jan. 4.-Mrs
Catherine Yemma, 81, mother of II
children, wanted to become an
American citizen, so she arose from
ner sick bed in Haverhill yesterday
and travelled 10 miles to Lawrence
to be sworn in with her husband
Salvatore.
She had just signed the official
papers at the courthouse when she
collapsed. She was hurried to hos
pital-but doctors said she was al
ready dead.
Evening star., 1945-01-04

" ~
Hotel, and Philip
Needle, 81, OF
62l9 s eve n t h
street NV, who
S h OF himself
District Coroner
A. M a CRU d e /
Macdonald said
today.
Mr.. Lanou, 9
frequent visitor
to Washington
as a sales repre-
sentative for the
United s t a t e s
Rubber Co., was
iL
Evening star., 1945-01-04
Victims Of Plunge
And Gun Ended Lives,
Coroner Reports

Certificates of suicide have been
issued in the deaths yesterday of
Frank S. Lanou, 40, Allentown, Pa,
who ~leaped from the seventh atloor
Evening star., 1945-01-04

Can This Be The Last Round Up?
Could Be. Buy One Extra War Bond
Today,
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-15
Anderson Gives
Dark View on
Meats Shortages

SAN FRANCISCO, June Is. CUP)
Rep. Clinton P. Anderson CD
N. NJ, newly appointed secretary
of agriculture and war food admin
istrator. brought his house food in
veStigating committee to San Fran
cisco Friday on the final lap of a
weeks tour of the midwest and
Pacific coast.
The five-man committee arrived
from Seattle, and began a survey
Of the fruit and poultry situation in
the San Francisco bay area. Satur-
cay the group will investigate veget-
able and fish problems in Los An
geles before returning east
Anderson, who will assume his
new duties July l, said Thursday
in Seattle that the meat and poultry
shortage cannot possibly" be allev-
lated until the spring of 1916.
Members of the committee in
clude Reps. Earle C. Clements CD
Kentucky; Martin Gorsky CD Illi-
nois; Christian A. Herter CR.D
Massachusetts,; and Hal Holmes (R.)
Washington.
Witnesses at Seattle said 80 per
cent of poultry sold in that area
was being sold at black market
prices from four to six cents a
pound above ceiling prices.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-15
0PA Turns Down
Price Extension
On WafermeIons

Bad news for Imperial Valley
watermelon growers was contained
in a telegram from Congressman
John Phillips Friday in which he
said the Office of Price Admins
tration granted mo adjustments.
nc extensions of price ceilings this
Season.
Tie valley watermelon growers
asked that the early season price
ceiling be extended because the
April frost and 80 days of cold
winds delayed the harvest season
and destroyed part of the crop.
Congressman Phillips i'm his tele-
gram to County Agricultural Gem
missioner B. A. Harrigan said that
OPA regulations require that Off
cials consider an entire area ship
ping to the same market when max
ing Adjustments or extensions of
price ceilings Imperial and Ari-
zona are considered to be shipping
to the same market at the same
time and Arizona is said to have
better than normal yield. This,
Phillips explained. making it i'm
possible to do anything for Imper-
ial Valley
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-15

another delay in United Nations
conference adjournment plans. A
vote on theSe issues may come Fri
day in committee, but the losing
side is certain to want to argue it
again later in the public commits
SIGN sessions.
A lot of work must be done fast
if the conference is to adjourn on
June % as planned.
The committee which is the
farthest behind in it's work is the
one which must reach decisions not
only on the constitutional conven-
tion and withdrawal issues, but also
on expulsion and the secretary gen.
eral. 1t debated for more than two
hours Thursday without voting on
anything.
Even the commission sessions are
getting begged down in debate. The
one On the preamble. principles and
purposes got SO involved in dis-
cussion of one phrase Thursday
that the discussions were carried
over tcAFridGy
ANOTHER FIGHT
Another fight was promised for
Friday The committee on organ
ization principles adopted the sec
ton which guarantees against world
organization interference in mat
ters of domestic jurisdiction. Chile
Continued on Page 6, Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-15
HoItviIIe Hears
From Bond Plane

had met an old friend. You see,
went to Mt Empire Union High
school way back in AZ and we used
to play you in basketball. More
than that, our principal, Mr.. Shib-
ley. used to be your principal at
Holtville, sc we are just one big
happy family 1t really pleased me
to fly that ship this morning and
1 wanted to let you know that your
donation was invested in a very
stable, useful piece Of equipment.
Il am one of some 80 fortunate
West Point cadets taking primary
here at Brady for the summer. We
go back to West Point soon for basic
and then return to academies be-
fore graduation Eext June.
Il wish your student body much
success and congratulate those re-
spcnsible for the generous donation
that bought the ship was for
tunate enough to be flying this
a. m"
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-15
Senators Study
Changes in
Compensation Act

SACRAMENTO, June Is. CUP)-
The senate labor committee Friday
tabled two assembly bills which
would have liberated benefits under
the workman's compensation act
but recommended passage of anoth-
er.
The committee also killed a bill
by Assemblyman George D. Collins
to set up commission in the divi-
sion of industrial relations which
would have had authority to recon-
mend working conditions and mini
mum wages for the female domestic
servants.
The senate committee approved
bill by Assemblyman Thomas A.
Maloney (R) San Francisco, provid-
ing that deductions from perma-
nent disability awards may not be
made on account of temporary dis
ability payments based on the same
injury.
A bill to pay ST to 1894 a week
to dependent minor children in ad-
dition to payments made to the
widow in a workmen's compensation
Death benefit case was tabled by the
committee
Similar action was taken on a bill
by Assemblyman Francis Dunn. Jr.
CD Oakland, which would have
eliminated the present seven-day
waiting period" for benefits under
the compensation law.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-15
Aussies Hammer
Toward Borneo's S
Big Oil Fields

MANILA, June Is. tUP)-The
Australians Friday opened a drive
for the rich Seria and Miri oilfields
on North Borneo, where air and
naval units were reported paving
the way for future operations"
United Press Correspondent Rich
ard Harris reported from Borneo
that minesweepers had cleared lit
mines the last few days along the
jutting piece of coastland where
Miri and the town Of Lutong lie.
PIT boats, patrolling the waters
there, exchanged fire with coastal
batteries just north of Lutong An
American destroyer poured shells
into caves and gun positions along
the coast. And 18th air force planes
strafed the Miri airstrip, probably
destroying six planes parked there.
The Australian ninth division,
after taking Brunei, capital of the
sultanate, struck out along the road
to. the Balik Papan oil fields. Their
next objective was the oil refinery
town of Tutong, 18 miles from Bru-
nei and about halfway to Lutong,
where the naval activity was report
ed. The Seria and Miri oilfields.
which formerly produced 100000
tons annually, are linked with Lu-
tong by pipeline.
Harris reported a dozen columns
of smoke rose inland, indicating the
japanese were burning the oil in
stallations.
wild men from Borneo," fierce
little natives, armed with poison
blowguns and spears, were fighting
the japanese in the jungles as the
Australians advanced.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-15
Owen Valley Wins
In Water Fight

SACRAMENTO. June Is. (UPl-
A victory for residents of Owens
Valley in Inyo county over Los
Angeles which obtains its water
from that area was recorded in the
assembly Friday.
The house passed and sent to Gov.
Earl Warren for signature a bill
allowing valley farmers to appro-
pirate any surplus water for irri-
cation over that taken by the city
of Los Angeles which has prior
water rights.
The bill was opposed by Los An
geles assemblymen who declared
that the city is growing and needs
all the available water.
Assemblyman Allen G. Thurman
tRD Colfax, who handled the bill,
declared it would give Owens VAL
ley residents only water wasted"
by the city.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-15
Deluqe Of De uth Missiles
Wipes Out OK kinuwu Jops

Yeju-Dake plateau behind flame
splitting tanks Thursday and rolled
downhill against the last 5000 t5
10000 enemy troops on the island.
The entire plateau now was under
merciless American gunfire Artil-
lery, flame throwers, tommy guns
and grenadeS were cutting the last
japanese remnants in 12-square-
mile pocket to pieces in savage
fighting.
Sixty-four Marine corsair bomb
bers scared a cave-Studded ravinIs
through the Japanese headquarters
with 1920 gallons of incendiary
jelly and 465 rockets Thursday, then
sprayed the entire area with ma
chine-gun bullets.
FINALLY SURRENDER
Field dispatches said japanese
troops were surrendering by the
scores. something unprecedented in
Pacific wa. Thousands of civil
lians also were crossing over to the
American lines. urged on by Japa-
Incorporating Americans broadcast
ing over loud speakers mounted on
jeeps. On one sector Japanese
soldier shouted in English:
stop firing; I'll bring in my
buddiesl''
He emerged with eight other Ja-
panese troops.
Some japanese wishing to sllrren-
der were being shot down by their
own comrades, however.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-15

All the work of Holtville Union
High school students in their cam
paign to sell enough war bonds to
pay for training plane was made
worthwhile this week
Cadet John E. Molchen of the
United States Military academy at
West Point wrote the following
letter to the students of Holtville
Union High school:
Who am I? Well, let me
tell you why am writing you. This
morning at 0830 I checked out in
PIT. II primary Trainerl at
Curtis Field here in Brady, Texas,
and the ship had a sticker posted
on it common with many planes
that have been purchased by. the
war bond purchases of high school
students. However, when I read
This plane purchased by the war
bond donations of the students of
Holtville High school. I felt like 1
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-15

The planes bombed by instru-
ment through a heavy overcast that
obscured results.
The raid inaugurated the second
year of B-29 attacks on Japan. Gen.
H. H. Arnold, commander of army
air forces, revealed az press con-
ference here what is in store for
the enemy homeland during those
coming months.
TO DOUBLE GERMANY SCORE
SuperfortreSses, Flying Fortresses.
Liberators and the remaining bomb
ers in the American air arsenal will
drop twice the tonnage of bombs on
Japan in the next year as they did
on Germany during the entire Eur
opean war, he said.
Superfortresses of the 2lst bomb
er command alone will deliver l.
10000 tons, he said. 1t Gen. James
H. Doolittle's Eighth Air forces, the
terror Of the European skies. and
Gen. George c. Kenney's Far East
ern air forces will contribute an
other 100000 tons.
Complete and utter destruction of
industrial Japan will be the aim,
Arnold said The program calls for
an average of more than 5000 tons
of explosives day to be heaped OH
the enemy homeland.
I'VE believe we can do the same
thing with industrial Japan that we
did with industrial Germany" he
said. I'VE hope it will ease the load
of the army and navy. but they
aren't going to wait until we fin
ish.
JUST STARTING
I'VE are just starting. Before long.
we will be using more than twice
SIS many B-29s as we ever have be-
Continued on Pabe 6, Col. u
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-15

wine merchant who was an old
friend. Before his entry into diplo-
matte affairs, Ribbentrop was a
champagne salesman.
: The wine merchant refused him
sanctuary, however, and Ribbentrop
went to the boarding house where
he registered as an ordinary guest.
He went unrecogpized and unchal-
lenged until arrested at $50 am.
Thursday.
He walked to British headquar-
tiers in Hamburg with the arresting
officers. A medical examination
there revealed the can of poison He
subsequently was taken to Luen-
berg and confined to the same house
where Gestapo Chief Heinrich Him
mler committed suicide with poison
last month.
Ribbentrop will be flown to an
unannounced destination later Fri
day.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-15
Jap Suicide Plane
Hits Destroyer;
II Dead Missinu

SAN FRANCISCO, June 15.-UP-
A japanese suicide pilot crashed his
explosive-laden plane into the vet
eran destroyer u S. S. Hazelwood
off Okinawa April %, smashing and
setting afire the bridge and super
structure. Ten officers and 81 men
were killed or missing, the Navy
revealed Friday.
The 2,100-ton Hazelwood, commits
stoned June l8, 1943, steamed into
San Francisco bay Thursday, on its
way to Mare Island navy yard for
reconditioning.
Among those listed as dead or
missing, were Commander v. p.
Douw, USN, of Abingdon, Md, and
his relief, 1t. Cmdr. Walter Herring,
Jr., USN, of Atlanta, Ga.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-15
Big Three ParIey
To Be in Berlin

LONDON, June Is. CUP)-The
forthcoming conference of the Big
Three will be held in Berlin, an
exchange of correspondence be-
tween Prime Minister Churchill and
Labor Leader Clement r. Attlee re-
vealed Friday.
Churchill asked Attlee, his former
deputy prime minister in the coali-
ton government, to go with him to
the meeting with President Truman
and Marshal Stain.
In a letter of acceptance. Attlee
disclosed the site of the meeting
with a reference to the prospective
conference in Berlin"
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-15
Blaze Destroys
$500 in Hay

Fire of undetermined origin de-
stroyed baled hay estimated in value
at $500 at the Higgins and Kellar
ranch two miles west of Ell Centre
Thursday night.
Ell Centre firemen fought the fire
eight hours and succeeded in saw
ing 5000 worth Of barley and $50
worth of hay nearby They also
saved the farm buildings which were
threatened.
Firemen reached the fire at 3
o'clock Thursday night, returning
at Ais Friday morning.
The loss is covered by insurance.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-15

into derailed cars of an ore train.
Twelve bodies were removed from
one coach and two other bodies were
found in a combination baggage
passenger car.
The two derailments followed
within seconds Of each other, rail-
road officials said. A car in the
106-car ore train buckled. throw
ing the heavy freight cars in the
path of the passenger train
Engineer n. c. Stratton and Fire
man N. <. Graeff. both Of Sunbury,
Pa. were killed when their engine
struck the wreckage and overturn-
ed
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-15

will to fight is broken" Maj.-Gen
Pedro Del Vale, commander Of the
First Marine division. told United
Press War Correspondent E: G. Va
lens at the front.
BEGIN TO FOLD UP
The enemy is beginning to fold
up through surrenders, suicides
and disorganized resistance"
Tenth Army veterans seized the
highest and last important hill on
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-15

increase the salary of State Liquor
Administrator George NJ. Stout from
$500 to $4,000.
The. committee approved raising
justices Of the state supreme and
appellate courts $1,000 year. the
director of motor vehicles 81, 900 and
the building and loan commissioner
$500.
Approval was given to a bill to
increase the pay of the director OF
industrial relations to 5000 If the
senate passes an assembly bill re-
organizing his department. Division
chiefs in the department would be
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-15
State Senate Group Blocks
General Salary Increases

raised from 5000 to $1,000 under
the same agreement by the COM
mittee.
The committee tabled bills to in
crease the salaries of members of
the board of equalization. director
OF institutions, unemployment in
surance commission and assistants
in the state liquor administration.
A bill also was tabled which
would have stopped the monthly
salaries of members of the person.
mel board and given the SIS a day
while holding meetings.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-15
British Arrest
Won Ribbentrop
Last of Nazi Big
Wigs In Custody;
Found in Hamburg

WITH BRITISH 2ND ARMY, Ger
many, June Is. CUP)-Former For
eign Minister Joachim Won Ribben-
trop, last of Nazi hierarchy not tacit-
ly accounted for, was captured
Thursday in a Hamburg boarding
house where he had lived unrecog-
nized for more than six weeks.
A British lieutenant and two serg-
eants discovered him lying naked in
bed Dressed and taken to British
headquarters, he was found to have
secreted a can of poison in his
crotch.
Ribbentrop registered at the board
ing house under the name of Reise
April 80, but admitted his identity
to his captors. A sister arrested Fri
day confirmed the Identification. !
He had been in disguise.
WANTED FAIR TRIAL"
The foreign minister who engin-.
eered the diplomatic phases of Adolf
Hitler's European conquests told his
captors that he had hoped to hide
until British opinion against Ger
many had died down and he could
surrender for flair trial"
CA London dispatch said Ribben-
t-op was on the individual war cri-
minal list of many countries and
also was accused under the general
classification grouping all members
of the Nazi government. The dis
patch said he probably would be
taken to Britain pending trial.
He had three letters in his pos
session. one addressed to Vincent"
presumably for Prime Minister
Winston Cnurchiii, another to Bril-
ish Marshal Sir Bernard L. Mont
gomery and the third to Foreign
Secretary Anthony Eden.
A British staff officer casually
revealed the prize capture in answer
tn a routine question from news
men about rumors that Ribbentrop
had been captured in the American
occupation zone
FRIEND TURNED HIM OUT
The officer revealed that Ribben-
trop had gone to Hamburg April
80 to seek refuge at the home of a
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-15
Imperial County
Killer Escapes
From San Quentin
Marvin Morris, Slayer
of Special Deputy
Sheriff, Is At Large

Marvin Morris, 30, given a
life sentence for numbering
Special Deputy Sheriff AL
vim Null at service station north
east of Holtville October Is, 1885,
escaped from San Quentin for
estry camp in Modoc county Thurs
day night, Sheriff Robert w. Ware
was informed Friday.
Imperial Valley residents will re-
call the sensational man-hunt,
capture, and trial of Morris, his
brother, Nobel, and Woodrow Cor
ley.
Null was among the officers
hunting three bandits who held
up the Bonds Corner store and took
$50 to sl00. Null and relative
stopped to question occupants of a
parked car at the service station.
AS Null leaned out to speak to the
cars occupants, he was shot four
times by the occupants. He died
a short time later
Tie Morris brothers and Corley
were captured after their speeding
car crashed in the vicinity CT Mid
way Wells while they attempted to
run through a road blockade set
up to prevent them escaping from
Imperial Valley.
All three were found guilty of
murder. Marvin was cent to San
Quentin penitentiary and the other
two to Folsom penitentiary because
they had criminal record at the
time CT the Null murder.
Null's badge, mounted jim men,
orial frame. still adorns the wall in
the Imperial county sheriff's of
flee
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-15
IL Meet Death
In Truin Wreck

MILTON, Pa, June 15.-The Buff
falo-bound Dominion Express of the
Pennsylvania railroad was derailed
near here Friday and is bodies were
recovered from the wreckage five
hours after the accident.
Railroad officials announced
wreckine crews had recovered the
bodies of two crew members and IA
passengers. At least q persons were
injured seriously enough for hospi-
talization.
Six cars of the passenger train
left the rails one mile south of
Milton after the engine rammed
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-15

SACRAMENTO, June Is.
(UP)-The senate govern
mental efficiency commit
tee Friday tabled bill which would
have given every state employee
whose pay had not been increased
since January l. 1914, SIS month
raise
A SIS increase is provided for in
the budget, which has been adopt
ed. The bill to make it s25 was
introduced by Assemblyman Edward
NJ. Gaffney, CD, San Francisco. .
The committee approved bill to
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-15
BY WILLIAM r. TYREE

GUAM, June Is. (UP)-
j a p a n e s. e resistance was
breaking on southern Okina-
wa Friday and a marine command
er predicted complete conquest of
the islands within two days to two
weeks.
We've just reached the turning
point-the point where the Japs'
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-15
Five Rail Workers
Killed In Crash

AMSTERDAM, N. Y, June IS
tUP)-The eastbound water level
limited, New York Central passen-
ger train, plowed into gang Of
section workers near here Friday.
Police reported five members of
the track crew were killed.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-15

ter not sooner than i've years nor
later than TO-
The big powers favcr provision
for such convention but oppose
the specific time reference. The
little nations show no s.gn Of yield
ing. claiming it is "the certainty
of such convention that they
want
DELAY THREATENS
That controversy, and the related
dispute eyer tie right of a member
to quit the organization, threatened
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-15
Patton States
Two-Week Rest

BEVERLY, Mass. June Is. OUP)
Gen. George S. Patton Jr. arrived
at the airport here shortly after
noon Friday from Washington en-
route to his Hamilton estate for two
weeks rest before returning to Eur
cpe to lesume his Third army COM
mand.