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Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-29

very llcdI fAuOIl I1lClcI D ItclCIlo-
chancellry on the .Wilhelmstrasse,
the Reichstag on the northeast cor
ner of the Tiergarten, the State
Opera House and other buildings in
the the center of Berlin.
SWEEP WESTWARD
A Moscow dispatch said Soviet
Cossack divisions swept nearly so
miles west of Berlin and reached
the Elbe river opposite the Ameri-
can rIinth Army. The Russians
were awaiting an Imminent juno
tion at Torgau, go miles below the
capital. >.ss-aA.A A.
Red Star said only that the two
divisions met the Americans else
where than Torgau and added:
"The link-up of our armies on a
broad front became fact"
At least nine-tenthS Of Berlin
already was un6er Russian control
following a new junction of the First
White Russian and First Ukrainian
Armies in the Charlottenburg dis
trict just west of the Tiergarten.
The remainder of the encircled
332-square-mile city either had been
cleared or was being mopped UP
against varying resistance.
Complete occupation of the burn
ing, rubble- -heaped capital may come
this week end.
All escape from Berlin has been
cut off. The Soviet midnight COM
munique confirmed the capture of
Tempelhof Airdrome. last avenue
to even temporary freedom open to
the trapped Nazi leaders.
Small Soviet bOmbers already have
begun operating from Tempelhof
for pinpoint bombing of the remain
ing German strongholds, a Moscow
dispatch said.
NEW AIR CHIEF
1lle North German radio said
Hitler received the new chief Of the
Luftwaffe, Marshal Ritter Won
Greim, in his underground head
quarters Friday and discussed the
use of Luftwaffe units and anti air.
craft guns "in this decisive hour
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-29
Hewes Outlines
Water Treaty

Reservations forced into the
Mexican water treaty effectively
pulled its teeth such was the
opinion expressed in Ell Centre Sat-
urday by Chairman Evan T. Hewes
Of the irrigation district board of di-
rectors on his return from the treaty
fight in Washington.
"The United States senate ap-
proved the treaty but not before its
hackers reluctantly made II reser-
yations curbing the unlimited, ar
bitrary power of the commission de-
legated to handle treaty affairs, Of
fered some protection to American
rights and properties within the
boundaries of the United States, and
curtailed powers of the American
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-29
Committee Named
To Set Up
Permanent Rodeo

Definite steps were taken Satur-
day to set up permanent organi-
zation for the Imperial Valley
Roundup, thus insuring an annual
rodeo in the Valley. Setting off the
move was announced by Charles
Bramkamp, president of the Ell
Centro Chamber of Commerce that
a committee including himself and
Obey L. Bane and LON Thompson to
initiate the organization.
AS the plan progresses there will
be representation on the group from
all sections of the county and in
the permanent set-up.
First off the committee will con-
duct an extensive survey of rodeos
in other parts of the country and
consider the many phases of actual
ly putting on show.
The Roundup will retain its men,
bership in the Rodeo Association of
America, it was announced through
which only the top talent and live
stock are available.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-29

representatives on the commission"
Hewes said. He explained the II
reservations as follows.
1-Prohib ibits commitments for
works to be built in the United
States other than those specifically
provided in treaty reservations un-
less approved by congress.
2Smposes Statutory and consti-
tutional controls and processes" on
the state department and American
commission insofar as they affect
persons and property within the
United States Hewes is of the
opinion that the word property
means water rights in the Colorado
river and that statutory controls
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Swiss Twice BaIk
Laval Entry

ST. MARGRETHEN, Switzer- land,
April %. UP)-Pierre Laval twice
Friday repeated request for per-
mission to enter Switzerland, 1t was
reported at this border post Satur-
day.
The former chief of government in
the Vichy regime during the Nazi
occupation of France was reported
to have cut off the droopy raustache
which he had worn rmsot of his life.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-29
Offers To Surrender
To ". s. And Britain
Proposal Fully Ignores Russia as
Ally. But Assures Authority
To Garry Out Reich Negotiations
BY PHIL AULT

London April %. (UP)-The government Saturday
took official cognizance, without affirmation denial,
of report that Heinrich Himmer had offered to guaran
tee the unconditional surrender of Germany to America
and Misunderstanding Russia-and has received blunt
rejection
statement from No. 10 Downing Street, apparently
written by Prime Minister Churchill limited that Of
fer of capuaton might be received from the Nazs
time
CHURCHILL AWAITS SURRENDER MESSAGE
The exceptional procedure of issuing such statement,
coupled with it's assertion that the had in
formation the subject at this moment suggeser that
Churchill might be standing by for any proposal.
The report on which the official statement based
said that Himmler German Interior Minister and Gestapo
Chief offered to guarantee the unconditional surrender
of Germany to the United States and Britain.
In the words of the Downing statement the report
added that the Western Allies replied saying that they
will not accept unconditional surrender except behalf
of all the Allies, including Russia"
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-29

connection with the expected fall of
Berlin by saying the news was to
have been the signal for an upris-
ing. ,af
A communique said the leader of
the conspiracy was Gen. Adolfo P.
Espindola, who was arrested this
week. His aides were said to have
included retired army and navy Of
ficers.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-29
Diftmar Predicts
HifIer's Death;
Probable Suicide

MAGDEBURG, Germany, April
%. (UP)-Adolph Hitler will kill
himself or be killed in Berlin within
a few hours or days and she war
will end. 1t. Gen. Kurt Dittmar,
German high command spokesman,
said in his final war commentary
in American custody.
Dittmar, who surrendered to the
Ninth army on the Elbe river We'd
nesday, told his captors that Hitler
and propaganda minister Joseph
Goebbels were in Berlin and will die
there.
The war will end in few days."
Dittmar said. Hitler will either be
killed or he will commit suicide. One
of three generals-Von Brauchitsch,
Guderian, or Won Rundstedt-will
take control and will make peace
Immediately on almost any terms"
The elegantly y-uniformed general
outlined the war situation for cor
respondents, just as he used to do
for radio Berlin listeners when the
Nazi army was overrunning Europe
Asked about the Bavarian redoubt,
he said, There's talk about it, and
the map will show you that two
pockets are being formed one in
the north including Norway and
Denmark and one in the south in
the Alps and Italy. But that is
probably less by intention than by
force of circumstances.
At any rate, he thought. the war
could not last after the fall of Ber-
lin, which he said was a matter CT
hours or at the most days
II saw the war was lost on July
90 said Dittmar, referring to the
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Bomb Hirohito.'
CeIIer Demands

Failure to bomb the palace, Celler
said. only holsters the Japanese be-
lief in the Mikado's divine descent.
What makes Hirohito SO sacro-
sanct to some OF our officials In the
policy-making Departmental" he
asked. do they actually believe ne
IL the descendant OF the sun god
dess?"
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-29

The version of the report as
broadcast by the Allied-controlled
Luxembourg radio and recorded here
by the BBC said:
"The following message has been
conveyed to the Foreign Ministers
of the United States, Great Britain
and Russia:
Heinrich Himmler has sent a
message in which he guarantees the
unconditional surrender of Germany
to the United States and Great Brit
ain. The governments of the Unit
ed States and Great Britain have re-
piled that unconditional surrender
will only be accepted if the offer is
addressed to all the Allies"
ISSUES STATEMENT
Soon after the Luxembourg broad
cast, No. II Downing street, official
residence the Prime Minister. is
sued the fo.mal statement on the re-
port.
Nowhere did the statement say
that the report was false. The inn
plication appeared to be that 1t
might be true The statement said
only that the government had nc. in
formation to give about it.
1t concluded win reiteration OF
the oft-expressed Allied policy:
1T must be emphasized that only
unconditional surrender to the three
major powers will be entertained.
and that the closest accord prevails
between the three powers
Thus was renewed implicitly the
warning to the remnants OF Ger
many that there was no need to try
the old dodge of playing the Anglo
Americans against the Russians.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-29

llOOlls
The decks were cleared, after a
couple of days of stalemate, when
the big surprise Big Four council
was voted into existence by plen-
airy session late Friday.
But delegates who hoped to have
the week end off missed their sight
seeing. Secretary of State Edward
r. Stettinius, Jr., announced that
there would be two-not one, but
two-plenary sessions. That was
in line with growing belief that this
conference should be completed
within month.
TREATY REVIEWS
And there were few dark chinks
in the aura of sweetness and light
which now pervaded the conference
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-29
Argentina Re sime Fears
Uprising After We Day

postal, telegraph, telephone. and
radio communications, both within
Argentina and to outside countries
Details of the decree have not been
published, and there is no indica-
ton whether the censorship has
gone into effect.
The government explained recent
restrictions on press and radio In
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-29

the entire l0-point program announ-
ced by economic stabilizer william
H. Davis Monday-including subsidy
revisions and OPA's new attack on
the black market. Price control is
due to expire June 80.
Meantime Thomas declared that
if Wagner couldn't bulge Bowles,
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-29

WASHINGTON, April %. CUP)-
Rep. Emanuel Celler. CD, New
York, Saturday called on the war
and state departments to change
their policy and let American bomb
ers attack emperor Hirohito's palace.
1T is high time that we bomb the
emperor's palace to bits" Celler said
in statement. 1T is as much a
military target as Hitler's castle.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-29

amendments to the extension bill
would be sought on the floor.
Besides that, he said. there are two
more alternatives:
l. To seek amendments TO the
OPA appropriation bill when 1t
comes along.
2. To demand replacement OF
Bowles' meat officials.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-29
ONE-DAY STRIKE ENDS

LOS ANGELES, April %. UP)-
A one-day strike called when 81 of
200 rubber workers were suspended
for smoking inside the plant was
ended Saturday by the Thermod Co.
OF California. The settlement pro-
vided two smoking periods per shift
for the workers. The CIO United
Rubber Workers did not sponsor the
strike
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-29
.BUENOS AIRES, Apri

BUENOS AIRES, April
%. (UP) = The Argentine
government Saturday estab-
hshed censorship on all commune
cations after squelching what 1t said
was a plot to overthrow the pres
ent military regime simultaneously
with the fall of Berlin.
The censorship decree affected all
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-29
Russians Seize
TierSorten
Park in Berlin

LONDON April 49, (UP)-Russian shock troops
Saturday broke into the Tergarten heart of Adolf Hter
asditch ceense citadel in encirced Berlin Moscow said
the sege of the Naz capital swiftly approaching
end
Reports reaching London also said fighting was raging
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-29
MoIotov Obtains
; UNCIO Votes:
New Rift Looms
vandenbers's Move for Review Of
Postwar Pact Stirs Fish+;
Ste++inius Speeds Up Business

SAN FRANCISCO, April %. (UP)-The United Ma
tions conference, directed officially by super
Gil of Big Four foreign minister's speeded its schedule
Saturday with penary sessions, morning and after
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-29
. D. AMsl!Ne AM! lin!
X EpoR1ER.

A Small World
Nile Morris, IL, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Beauford Morris, believes
people when they say the world is a
small place.
He read in the paper where DR..
Miriam Hubbell was going to Texas
to attend meeting.
That's fine" he enthused. "Since
she's going there anyway she can
bring back the cowboy boots I or
dered from Texas"
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-29

Horse Feathers
The most abused three in the
world Saturday were Corporal Cath
crime Carpenter, Mrs. Vivian Luck
inbill, and Clayborn Poole.
This trio of ultra modern horse
wranglers rolled along highway SO
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Ouch! Ouch!

Ouch! Ouch.
Interested spectators gathered
around while traffic cop wrote out
a ticket for Councilman Spigot
FaWcett's car which was standing in
front of parking meter in down
town Ell Centre.
II just put in penny" sput-
tered Fawcett, dashing up all of a
lather.
". :. and one wheel in the red
zone," said the cop as he went on
with his writing.
What's the use of being council
man if you can't have just one teeny
weeny wheel in the red?
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-29
WEATHER

Maximum Friday 93, minimum Saturday 5s; 5 am.
62, humidity 59 noon Saturday 81, hu-
midity "a p.m Friday 80, humidity 13.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-29

L. A. HAY-No. 1 barley hay s27 a $2s; No. oat
hay, $35 a S36; u. S. No. alfalfa ungraded, $50
a $3.50; u. S. No. 2 alfalfa, green and lcafy, $26
@ S28; No. 2, $22 q S23.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-22
The Hoover Food Program

In a letter to Representative jenkins OF Ohio,
which was read in the House OF Representa-
tives. former President Herbert Hoover de-
clares the national meat control has broken
down and recommends as a cure national
food pool administered by the Secretary of
Agriculture with ceiling and floor prices on
meats, poultry, eggs and dairy products, to
increase production without subsidies, and sell
policing by cattlemen, packers, commission
men and retailers.
Mr. Hoover offers twelve-point program
in the operation of which he believes home
shortages could be overcome and relief afford
ed abroad, and the present fiasco in distribu-
ton and price ended He proposes the COM
plete reconstruction of organization and ad-
rrinistration Under his plan the Secretary of
Agriculture would be the only food admins
traitor, an arrangement already announced by
President Truman, and would have full power,
with the staff of the Office of Price Admin
istration under his direction, concerning itself
only with the mechanical job of rationing"
The other planks in Mr.. Hoover's platform
revolve largely around these proposals. 1t will
be noted that the OPA would be shorn of it's
police powers, that the food industry would
police itself
If no other part Of his plan were adopted,
this alone would be worth while But, consider
ing the break down of control, and the demon.
strated inability of present food administration
t. meet the national or relieve the world food
crisis, there is no good reason why the
program Mr.. Hoover offers should not be tried
out
However greatly one may differ with Mr..
Hoover in politics, his knowledge OF feeding
the masses is too valuable to be discarded.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-22
Strength In Cooperation

In his address before the Kiwanis club on
Wednesday, Elliott O'Neal past president OF
the Junior Chamber of Commerce, outlining
the detectives of his organization, noted that
the Jaycees and the Senior Fraternity of the
Brigade Boys Club are the only organized
groups of young men in Wilmington devoting
their major activities to civic affairs and COM
1nunity development.
The efficiency of both organizations is too
well known, their accomplishments too great,
ito be itemized here. 1t needs only to be said
that each is doing a fine job and deserves
the hearty praise of the community.
Still maintaining separate identities, could
mot both achieve even higher goals, produce
even better results, through close cooperation?
They have the qualities of leadership in a
high degree. They represent the best of Will
mingtons young manhood.
By federating, as Women's clubs usually do,
1T would appear they could create a greater
opportunity for service, and still retain their
own distinctive characteristics
One by-product, incidentally, would be the
example in unity they would set for the city s
other civic organizations
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-22
StilWeu Back In War

Ever since General Joseph w. Stilwell
started for the Pacific for conference with
General Macarthur and other leaders in the
war against Japan it has been hoped that he
would be given a new assignment in that
theater of war Now comes announcement that
he will take over the United States Tenth
Army which cleaned up the Japanese on Oki-
nawa, following General Buckncr's untimely
death
There was no foreseeing General Buckner's
death, of course, and no one will regret it
more than General StilWell but it is deeply
planted belief in non-military circles that in
any event General StilWeI would have soon
been back into the war as a field commander.
His knowledge of the Japanese and under
standing of what is needed to defeat them,
coupled with his ability as a real fighting
man, are too valuable to leave him on desk
job longer than absolutely necessary after his
disagreement with Chang Kai-shek whose
American military adviser he was, until their
clush of wills and Washington's inclination to
appease the Chinese leader precipitated his
recall.
A dozen generals could do good job organ.
izing and administering the nations ground
forces at home. He is needed at the front.
AS he is still in the Pacific area it is probable
that he will take his post at the head of the
Tenth Army without returning to this country,
and as Okinawa has been won it is reasonable
to expect news of new invasion somewhere
in the strategic area occupied by the Japanese
with him in the vanguard
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-22
A Hopeful Sign

An interesting feature of news dispatches
dealing with the wind-up on Okinawa is that
Japanese prisoners are being taken.
This is reversal of the custom of japanese
fighting forces whose instructions, zealously
followed in the past, were to commit suicide
if they could not escape when cornered.
From the time American troops found caves
full of dead Japanese in the AleUtians, slain by
their own grenades, almost down to the pres
ent, the greatest crime japanese could COM
NIT vas to surrender or be captured. Paradise
was sealed against any guilty of either among
them all.
They might take their own lives and enjoy
eternal bliss, but never could they return to
Japan if a hated American had conquered
them.
Now it appears some of Japans armed
forces are not so sure they ought to die for
the Emperor On Sunday and Monday 1856 o.
them surrendered on OkinaWa. Others are sur
rendering daily on Luzon, where American
forces are cleaning up the remnant pockets
of enemy troops.
Obviously the idea that life on this earth
lis preferable to the uncertainties of Paradise
Is sinking in.
Does this suggest that the military overlords
In Tokyo are losing their grip? It could be-.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-22
In The Hands Of His
Enemies

King Leopold of Belgium has never i'm
pressed one, at least at this distance, as pos
'sessing strong character or much will power
On the contrary he has seemed to be- 1T
exactly a weakling, but easily .swayed and
poorly provided with natural attributes fitting
him for kingship.
In private life he would rank as a fine play
boy, genial, hospitable, hail-fellowwell-met in
.heriting none of the stirling qualities of his
father, King Albert, who endured the sufferings
and terrors of the former World war with
his people.
/ It is contrary TO all popular opinion of
leopold, therefore, to learn that despite the
attitude of many Belgian groups he is deter
mined not only to return to his country but
assume all regal authority even though by so
doing he precipitate general strike and pos.
xibly throw the nation into civil war.
Unless the general concensus is false, unless
he possesses power never before suspected,
Il is obvious that Leopold has hardened to the
advice of others, who, it may be surmised,
are seeking not so much to protect him in
his succession to the crown as to serve their
own interests.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-22
No Grounds For Intervention

1t is difficult to see what sound grounds the
London Polish government in exile could find
on which to base an appeal to the United States
and Great Britain for intervention in the SEN
fences imposed in Moscow on twelve Poles
convicted of terrorism against the Russian
Armies
They were tried in open court and for the
most part freely confessed their guilt. The
trial court was clearly within its rights and
by all legal and humanitarian standards leni-
ent in fixing the terms of imprisonment.
The spokesman of the Polish government
in London must have some sense Of the fit
ness of the Moscow proceedings, as he hints
he has 70 reason to believe either London or
Washington will intercede for the culprits, and
even suggests that the British government may
withdraw recognition from the exile govern
ment'' shortly.
Surely Britain can take no other course,
0 a stable government is set up for
and on Polish SOIL Britain, OF any other coun-
try, could hardly extend recognition to, two
governments for the same nation, and certain
ly not to a government which fled when the
nation was in its greatest peril and sought
refuge abroad.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-22
BY ROBERT WILSON
Substituting For
Kenneth L. Dixon))

IN MID-ATLANTIC - DELAYED
-lR-If there is a Naval counter.
part to battalion of footslo2gina
Doughboys it is a tough little de.
stroyer escort, whose officers and
crew receive a call to battle with
the same fear and eagerness as the
+GI.
The 1000 ton DE" was ;nakine
its 14th crossing of the turbulen,
North Atlantic when radio word
came that this was one of the Ia st
conveys this ship would shepherd
through the minefields of European
coastal waters.
That was the tipoff to these TO-
gotten men" Of the Navy who for
more than a year had braved the
terrors of collision at sea, mines
U-boats and storms.
A few days later, it came. It was
a message telling the ship to nro.
coed, not into New York as Man
ned, but to a more southerly port
"for preparation for distant serv.
ice"
The Atlantic fleet was getting
ready to go to the Pacific.
'.It doesn't take much guessing
to know what that means, said 1t
Cmdr. Homer Pogue, (1291 W
72nd TERI Kansas City, Mo. who
already has seen Pacific duty.
Around the mess table the bows
were quiet and thoughtful, like
Doughboys when the captain says
well. fellows. we've been ordered
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-22
THE ANATOMY OF PEACE
by Emery Reeves (Harne-. %,

by Emery Reeves Harpe.; s2).
Writing with all the ardoY of q
pamphleteer, the perspicacious stu.
dent OF international affairs carries
the idea of lone World forward
by one brilliant argument after an.
other, to its logical conclusion: One
Government.
Under different names. Yalta
Dumbarton Oaks and San Francis.
co have failed through hundreds of
years, he claims to produce a last
ing peace, and there's no reason
to expect them to succeed now.
Conflict and war have been abol.
lshed only when the opposing
parties have submitted to some SUI
perior authority and to tables of
laws, he says, and cites convincing
cases.
The establishment of single
global sovereignty would mean the
sacrifice of some powers now en-
]oyed by various nations. he ad-
mlts, but denies it would mean the
surrender of any important powers
by the peoples themselves And
anyway, he asks pertinently, does
sovereign state actually exercise
the sovereign powers on which it
prides itself? Even Congress does
not, he points out; for instance,
japan at Pearl Harbor made a