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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1945-11-01

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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1945-11-01

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Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-16
Hearing Slated
On Bill to Bar
Political Zee"

SACRAMENTO, March 16. (UP)
The assembly industrial relations
committee Friday set for hearing
in April a bill forbidding labor Or
ganizations to levy political assess
mentS after its author charged that
the committee chairman was at
tempting to stall" action on the
bill
Chairman John c. Lyons (R0 Los
Angeles, put the bill on the COM
mittee calendar after M. Philip Da-
Wis, the author, said he repeatedly
had asked for the bill to be set and
that Lyons had been "evaSiVe.'
The refusal of Cecil B. DeMille,
Hollywood motion picture executive
and radio master of ceremonies to
pay an assessment by his radio un-
ion to fight an anti-labor measure,
which led to DeMille'S suspension
from the union, prompted introduce
tion of the bill, Davis said.
He asked that the bill be set for
next Thursday tut accepted the
date of April H.
7 h e committee recommended
passage of a bill to permit garment
manufacture in homes. 1t was OPP
posed by c. j. Haggerty, secretary
of the State Federation of Labor,
who declared it Woulc create sweat
shop" conditions.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-16

and parked their cars on downtown
streets for long periods, thus pre-
venting other persons with busine IS
to transact downtown from finding
parking space
Now hearken unto Mrs. r. G.
Howe. of Huntington Park, visitor,
who parked her car Thursday on
Main street:
Huntington Park has had park
ing meters for a long time and the
lcsic ents there favor them. A city
as progressive as Ell Centro cer-
tainly should have ana welcome
them. 1t is a splendid idea. Not only
Goes it increase the citys revenue,
but enables motorists to readily
find parking space in your business
district
Along about here a small boy was
observed on Main street offering
pennies to motorists at four for a
nickel.
And now a dissenting voice from
James Fulhum, Cosy Auto Court.
100 Imperial avenue:
Not the thing for farming COM
munity like Ell Centro. In my opin-
ion the people won't go for them
They are okay for San Diego and
large cities but not for this city.
There should be no charge here for
parking"
Mrs. C. L. Stiles, 859 He'll avenue,
speaking:
I'm a way they are a nuisance,
For instance, today l parked my
car in front of iewelry store had
no coin to deposit and if I asked
the jewelry store to change a bill,
I woulc feel obliged to purchase
something-and I am not in need
of jewelry at this time"
Continued on Page 3, Col y
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-16
Roundup Prepares
To Name Queen

The flower of Valley feminine
beauty is expected to be entered in
the contest for the selection of a
Miss Imperial Valley, Queen of the
Imperial Valley Roundup, who will
reign over the three-day program
to be held at the Imperial County
Fairgrounds April 20, q and %, it
was announced Friday by the pro-
motions committee Of the roundup,
CT which Harry Free is chairman.
Miss Imperial Valley will be
chosen by a group of judges from
various valley cities, including Holt
vile, CaleXfto and BraWley, and will
be selected from a total of eight
who will be in the final competition,
one to compete from each of the
following cities; inland Calipatria,
CaleXico, El Centro, BraWley, West
morland, Imperial and Holtville.
Each of the eight communities
will hold preliminary contests March
25. There will be no age restrictions
but each contestant must appear
fer the contest in a western cos
tune and mounted On a horse Only
bona fide residents of the county
may compete. The final contest will
be held April l at Maguire's corral,
one-half mile south Of FL Centre on
the Calexico highway at p. m.
In addition to handsome prizes
for the queen and her retinue. the
queen will head the parade on open
ing day and also will te presented
with a beautiful western co'tume,
Prizes will be presented to Tie
queen and her retinue on the stage
at the United Artists theatcr at a
date to be determined.
After the queen has been selected
in the final competition, the re-
naming seven girls will serve as
her ietinuc and will receive prizes
and appear at the u A. theater
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-16
Traffic Victims
Family Files
Suit for S25,000

Suit for $4,000 damages was
flied against Perry Burke, 81, Thurs
day by survivors of Clifford Sulli-
van, sailor struck and knocked into
the Alamo river west CT Holtville
February 10 by car Burke said he
was driving
The suit was brought by Sullivan's
widow, Mrs. Bobbie Mae Sullivan,
and her two children, Mary Eliza
beth, 2 years of age, and Bertha
Mae, 9 months old; and by j. C.
Sullivan, brother of the sailor.
Filing of the civil suit in Imperial
county superior court in Ell Centre
came the same day as an inquest
held in Holtville Thursday after
noon.
A coroner'S jury found that Sulli-
van came to his death from being
struck or hit by an automobile
driven by Perry Burke, accompanied
by w. S. Harris
Impact of the car, Deputy Coroner
O. val Walker said, threw the sailor
into the liver. The body was re-
covered by navy personnel WedneS-
Continued on Pg. 2, Col. a.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-16
Cuban Government
Thwarts Revolt

HAVANA, March 16. CUP)-A
conspiracy against the Cuban gov
ernment has been put down and
&C persons have been arrested, the
presidential palace announced Fri
day.
Col Jose Eleuterio Pedraza, who
was chief of the national police dur
ing President Fulgencio Batistas
government, was among those ar
rested, the palace announcement
said.
There were no immediate details
on the uprising, but a brief state
ment from President Ramon Grau
San Martins office said the revolt
had been broken"
(Batista, who was replaced by
Grau as president last December,
was reported en- route to San Fran
cisco Friday after completing a tour
Of Latin America
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-16
LEST WE FORGET
f. {. Private
Dies of
Battle Wounds

Private Elton Marshall Perry,
20, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Loree
Perry, died in a New Caledonia
hospital Tuesday from wounds
suffered in the invasion of the
Philippines, Imperial Valley rela-
tiyes were informed Friday.
He had been overseas eight
months, serving with an army
engineering combat battalion.
Private Perry was born in El
Centre but he and his family liv-
ed in NorWalk in recent years. His
parents both attended the high
school in E. Centro.
His granc parents arc Mr.. and
Mrs. M. L. Boone of El Centre.
Other relatives are three aunts,
of El Centro, Mrs. Robert Van
Der Linden. Mrs. Lester Patton,
and Mrs. Frank Armstrong. An
uncle, Oral Perry. lives in Holt
vile.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-16
Battle
Of Two
Closed
Last Of Japs
Overcome
At Heavy Cost

GUAM Saturday, Mar. II.
(UP) - The battle of Two
Jima ended Friday after 26
days of fighting which cost
the United States marines
1888 casualties - highest
toll of the central Pacific
campaign-it was announced
Friday.
Fleet Admiral Chester w Nimitz
announced that organized Japan
ese resistance ended at pm. Fri
day when marines overcame the last
desperate remnants holding out at
the northern tip of the 81 square
mile island
Niml,z saiG Jnat enemy resistance
ceased when elements of the third
and fifth marine divisions drove
through the enemy lines, breaking
them up and reached Kitano Point,
northernmost point of the island.
High tribute was paid to the mar
ines by Nimitz, who said the 3rd,
Continued on Pg. 2. Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-16
State Chamber
Backs Access
Highway Plan

SAN FRANCISCO, March is. tUPl
The state board of directors of
the state Chamber OF Commerce to-
day endorsed a 3305-mile limited
access" system of super-highways.
Financing of the superhighway
system would be done through the
state highway fund and an ad-
ditional one-cent state gasoline tax,
the board proposed
The program called for establish
ment of a legislative committee TO
study the necessity and extent of
further highway improvements. One
Of the functions of the committee
would be to determine whether pri-
vate and commercial users of high
ways were sharing costs equitably.
The boards recommendation fol-
lowed those urged by major high
way development committee. COM
posed of three automobile aSsocia-
tiions and the league of California
cities. The sta'e legislature is
study the proposals.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-16
Lewis Demands
Meet Refusal

WASHINGTON, Mar. l6. CUP)
The United Mine Workers pol
icy committee Friday unanimous
ly rejected counter wage propos-
ais mace earlier in the day by
soft coal operators.
WASHINGTON, March 16. CJP)
Soft coal mine operators Friday
formally rejected the 10 wage con-
tract demands of the United Mine
Workers. But they offered counter
proposals ON six of the demands
which they said would acd $l69 a
week to miners basic earnings.
The operators presented their an
swer to the union demands at a
morning session of the joint wage
conference which is seeking to
draft a new contract to replace the
one which expires March 81. The
conference Immediately adjourned
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-16

SAN FRANCISCO, Mar. 16. CUP)
"A large group of American and
British soldiers liberated from Jap
anese prison camps in the Philip
pines arrived aboard ship Eric ay
and received a tumultuouS harbor
welcome.
Sirens and whistles sounded off
in a massed and noisy greeting as
the ship carrying freed heroes of
Bataan, Corregidor and other los
ing battles of the early Pacific war
slipped through the net inside the
Golden Gate.
Heroes who suffered but lived
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-16
Ssoviiets
ffurI
Alta C.
Strike Smashing
Berlin Blows
On Double Front

LONDON, March 16, (UP)
--Nazi radios said Friday
that Red armies had opened
violent new offensives on
both wings of the Berlin
front, in Silesia and before
Stettin, to set the stage for
the grand assault on the
menacad capital.
Berlin broadcasts reported that
Marshal Ivan S. Konev's First Uk-
rainian army attacked on broad
arc south and southwest of Breslau
and that Marshal Gregory K. zhuk-
oV's First White Russian army
stormed the Nazi bridgehead across
the lower Oder from Stettin.
POUR ACROSS ODER
Directly before Berlin, Soviet
forces were reported pouring across
the Oder into a growing bridge
head some 80 miles east of the capi-
tai for the final push forecast for
some days by both Berlin anG un-
official Moscow dispatches.
The battle of the Baltic coast was
drawing to a close. with Russian
armies clamping a new assault arc
on the East PruSsian capital of
Koenigsberg and storming the out
posts of Danzig and Gdynia.
All signs from Berlin and Moscow
indicated that zhukov was about
ready to light the fuse of his pre-
pared explosion against Berlin,
which the Soviets have predicted
confidently will end with the Red
banner flying over the heart of
Nazidom.
Ernst Won Hammer, Nazi commen-
tator who reflects the word of the
German high command, sale Konev
launched violent break-through
attempts" in the Oder bridgehead
north of Ratibor and south of Bres-
lau Thursday.
At the same time, Won Hammer
said, the roar of Soviet guns OPEN
ed a new battle along the Glatzer
Neisge river, which angles across
southern Silesia some 40 miles
south and southwest of Breslau.
Continued on Pg. 2, Col g.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-16
AriZonan Calls
For Defeat of
Colorado Treaty

PHOENIX, Ariz, March 10 CUPD
U. S. Senator Ernest w. Mcfarland
of Arizona Friday was urged to op-
pose ratification CT the U. S.-Mex-
leo water treaty on grounds that lit
gives Alizona's Colorado river wat
ers to Mexico and endangers ma
tional defense"
The plea was made in a telegram
to Mcfarland by group headed by
Representative Sidney Kartus of
Maricopa county.
Kartus also sent the senator 2
letter claiming that the treaty,
coupled with the Santa Fe compact,
would make Arizona the graveyard
of TIE 48 states"
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-16

until tomorrow. Both sides went
into individual sessions to plan for
continued negotiations tomorrow.
The operators flatly rejected the
unions demand for a 10-centS a ton
royalty which would be used for an
insurance and disqualification fund
unter the unions jurisdiction.
The operators charged that this
proposal presented an entirely new
social theory and philosophy" which
would affect every industry in A.
merica.
AS such dD must be considered
and acted upon as a national prob
lem and not as one relating to the
coal industry alone" the operators
said. And in the judgment of the
committee, we repeat, it is one to
be considered by public legislative
bodies"
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-16

SDOndent, said all information re-
garding the German approach was
communicated Immediately to the
United States and Russia.
The correspondent said the Ger
man approach was regarded in Lon
don as a typical instance of Ger
man efforts to SOW dissenSion among
the Allies, and it was firmly ig-
nOred."
The association said it is author
itatively stated in London" that the
Nazi feelcr was made "at the begin
ming of March" along the lines of
Swedish newspaper reports. They
said a Nazi envoy tried to get in
touch with a junior member of
the British legation in Stockholm.
The Press associations report cir
culatod soon after a German for
eign office spokesman termed the
Swedish reports as Just a plain
Swindlc.'
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-16
Hundreds Killed
In London by
Nazi V.RoCkefs

LONDON, March 16. CUP)-Cen-
sorship permitted the first dis
closure Friday that hundreds of
Londoners have been killed CT
wounded by German V-2 strato-
sphere rockets.
1t had been permissible only to
say that V-2 bombs fell in southern
England
How many rockets have fallen in
the metropolitan area and the spe-
cific places they have hit remain
a closely guarded secret.
W. casualty figures here since
the first iockets crashed to earth
from heights up to 10 miles were not
revealed, but censorship permitted
the use Of the word hundreds IN
describing them.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-16
NAZI PRISONER ESCAPES
HELD BRIEFLY IN L. c.

Military police late Thursday
brought three German war prison.
ers, who escaped from a prison
camp in northern California to
Mexico, from Mexicali to Ell Centro
on the first lap of their journey
north.
The prisoners were Manfred Witt,
2l, Rudi Muller, 81, and Helmet
Schemet, %. They were lodged in
the Imperial county Jail and dur
ing their detention there were ques-
toned by the agents of the Fed
eral Bureau of Investigation.
Mexicans arrested the fugitives
below the border.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-16
Civilian Output
Stays Frozen

LOS ANGELES, March l6, up
The War Production Board Friday
extended for 80 days the freeze on
civilian production it imposed last
December.
Under the freeze, civilian produc-
ton will be permitted only where
firm actually faces shutdown or
where the government wishes to
keep a plants working force intact
pending future war orders.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-16
Evee C lsIdnds
Prisoners land

through nearly three years Of in
ternment lined the rails as a fleet
of harbor boats operated by the
San Francisco port of embarkation
escorted the ship to its berth on
the embarcace ero.
Most of the returning veterans
were liberated from Cabanatuan
and Bilibid A preliminary, unoffi-
cial list gave a total of l6 names OF
American servicemen. In addition
there we're approximately Is British
soldiers and one of the first group
of American civilian interneeS 70
return to the mainland since they
were freed.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-16

But it is a matter of national
decency that this nation help feed
those who do not have enough to
eat, he said.
Mr. Roosevelt said he could not
bring himself to think that this
country had suffered greatly or was
going to when the American stand
ard of living is compared with that
of other countries.
He added that he thought his feel
ingS reflected not only the attitude
Of the administration but that of a
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-16

WASHINGTON, March 6.
(UP) - President Roosevelt
Friday vigorously defended
the administrations policy
of having this country help
feed other less fortunate ma
tons.
He said he was aware of some
opposition TO ecucing American
consumption of certain items so that
people in other nations do not
StarVe
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-16
Roosevelt Ho Ids America
Must Send g cd Abroad

large majority of the American pop
ulation.
The President got into a discus
sion of this nations foreign export
POLICY in referring TO the recent Gre
alton of a government committee
which will examine and control the
export of items other than actual
military and lend-lease shipments.
This, the President said, had led
to criticism in some quarters and
the assertion that this country
would be starved TO feed other ma
tionS.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-16
Americans Widen
zamboanqa Hold

MANILA, March Is, CUP)-Am-
erican troops firmly secured a %
mile long beachhead around zam-
bonga on the southwestern tip of
Mindanao Friday and were pursuing
the japanese more than five miles
inland
Gen. Douglas MacArthur's COM
munique also disclosed that other
u. S. forces smashed a Japanese
attempt to land approximately 100
men on Luzon's Batangas Bay, while
American bombers delivered another
heavy attack on FormoSa.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-16
China Selects
Peace EnvoVs

CHUNGKING March 16. CUP)-
T. V. SOong, acting president of the
executive Yuan and concurrently
foreign minister, will head the Chi
nese delegation to the San Fran
cisco security conference, it was
learned authoritatively Friday.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-16
DI AMBlIAe
EP0RTER
Half Right

You hit that man with a brick, :"
an attorney said to a defendant in
a case.
Il did not" the defendant denied
Yes YOU did the attorney in
sisted, several persons saw you"
Well =" demurred the defend
ant 1T was only half a brick"
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-16
The Deserted Nillagc-

And we do mean El Ccntro's
downtown district since the park
ing meters have s'artcd clicking.
Tricycle. Smith. the traffic cop,
,heard a good one. Il want my nickel
back, big man draWled after tin
kering with a meter for a while. 4
didn't get no music"
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-16

1893 Woodward avenue, FL Centre
talking:
Il am in favor of the parking
meters. In the past many motorists
took advantage of the free parking
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-16

lit ENEMY IN REAR
Striking in concert with the Unit
cd States Seventh army's frontal
assault on the Saar from the south
Patton apparently was wheeling tho
main weight of his Third army
across the Moselle to take the Ger
mans in the rear and squeeze their
remaining forces back behind the
Rhine.
Less than 50 miles of thinly-held
enemy territory separated the ram
paging fourth army division from
Seventh army forces battering
northward on a 50-mile front be-
tween Saarbruecken and the Rhine.
At the western enc Of Patton's as
sault line the gap was barely %
miles and narrowing by the hour.
The fourth division, whose tank
and motorized infantry task forces
blazed the way for the Third army
sweep through the Eifel mountains
to the middle Rhine week ago.
Continued on Pg 2, Col A.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-16

SACRAMENTO, Mar. 16.
(UP)-Gov. Earl Warren's
program to continue state
tax reductions for two more
years was over its second
hurdle in the legislature Fri
day after winning an Is to 3
vote of approval in the as
sembly revenue and taxation
committee.
The committee vote brought the
tax rate legislation to the assembly
floor where it will be ready for ac-
ton next week.
Earlier in the week similar senate
bills were approved by the upper
house tax committee. They also will
be up for debate after the week.
end recess.
In another financial development
ASsemblyman Albert c. Wollenberg
CRO San Francisco. announced af-
ter closed policy meeting of the
ways anC means committee he be-
lieved S1C,000000 or more could be
saved from budget estimates submit
ted by the governor.
DELAY DEFEATED
Opponents of Warren's tax bills
which continues in effect reductions
voted by the 1943 legislature, at
tempted to delay assembly action on
the measure. However, their post
ponement motion was lost by a 13
to vote.
ASSemblyman Thomas H. Werdel
tRD Bakersfield, presented the bill
in committee hearing which last
ed only an hour. He declared the
legislature should first determine
how'much money the state will have
and then consider spenci ing plans.
The tax reductions, Werdel said
would save California residents
S90,000,000 in two years, including
$50,000,000 on sales taxes, $25, 900, 900
on income taxes and S15,LOO.00O on
bank and corporation franchise
taxes.
Wollenberg's statement that a
Continued OH Pg. 2, Col. -
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-16
Don't Laugh Now

We
Margaret Foster of the Ell Centro
ration board ran out OF gas the
other day and had to walk and
walk to a service station to get some
to pour in her car
That's o. X Margaret, that
makes You enc Of tho common herd.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-16
British Press
Confirms Nozi
Peace Gesture
Proposals Made at Stockholm From
Hitler Quarters Communicated
To London and Washin9+on al Time

LONDON March 16. (UP)-The British Press associa-
ion Friday quoted authoritative London
rmng that NaZ put out feeers to represen
atves of the British government in Stockholm early this
month.
TIE association in dispatch by its dipolmatic
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-16

posts can't talk and give the folks
away, a strolling reporter for the
Imperial Valley Pres and Morning
Post became the listening post and
chronicler of the passing views and
words.
Here is Mrs. w. K. BuSkirk, Of
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-16
PoISing Among Park-o-Meters
Users Differ on Godset to
Click Off Sta yins Time
Some do, some don't


1t takes all kinds of people to make world the saying
and too regards how they take the newly
installed auto parking meters in Ell Centro
Some are beWildered, paeved, some are
happy.