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Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-31
Ma+rons. Patrons
Attend Dinner
At Bucklin Home

Matrons and Patrons of valley
Eastern Star chapters in 1941, to-
gether with their wives and hus-
bands, were guests at potluc.
supper given Tuesday night by
Mr.. and Mrs. George Bucklin at
their home on North Sixth street.
The occasion honored Mr.. and
Mrs. Herbert Harris who are leaving
next week to make their home in
Whittier. The group presented them
with a gift for their new home.
Dinenr was served buffet style
from a table decorated with spring
flowers.
Those present were Messrs. and
Mesdames Malcolm Huey, Alpine;
Roy Gonder, Brawley; William
Nelson and E. T. Collins. Imperial;
j. T. Little and George Yearly,
Holtville; Herbert Mccoy, Calexico,
Mrs. M. D. Witter, Mr.. and Mrs.
Herbert Harris and the hosts, Mr..
and Mrs. Bucklin
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-31
Violin Students
OF w. Waterman
To Give Recital

The violin students Of Wendell
Waterman will be presented in re-
cital at $3.50 pm. Sunday afternoon
in the Methodist social hall at
Eighth and Olive streets.
Appearing on The program viii be
Alan Waterman, 10 Ann Holmes,
Gertrude Lueck, Genevieve Water
man, Francie Lee Kirk, and JOY Lou
Armstrong. Mrs. Dorothy Armstrong
will be the accompanist.
The recital will be open to the
public
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-31
Ruth TeepIe Reid
Authors Article

Friends of Mrs. Ruth Teeple
Reid, former El Centre piano teach
er, will be interected to learn she
is the author of an article appear
ing in the current issue of The
Etude" magazine, a publication of
the musical world.
Mrs. Reid now makes her home
in San Diego where she is we'll
known teacher Of piano.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-31
COUNTY TAX ROLLS SHOW
LOW DELINQUENT AMOUNT

Official rolls of Imperial county
show tie smallest amount of de-
linquent taxes in many years. As
7esscr-Collector Gwen Johnson said
Thursday.
Total amount collected on the
1944-1945 taxes reached sl,297 .903.
The charge for the period was ST.
387, 7,408, leaving delinquency Of
$50 .5O6.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-31
CHARLES NUNEMACHERS
HAVE BABY SON

Sgt. and Mrs. Charles Nunemach-
er are the parents of a son bern
Tuesday in the El Centre hospital
The baby weighed eight pounds
three ounces.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-31
WALTER MATHEWSES
ARE PARENTS OF SON

A son, weighing six pounds, three
and one-half ounces, was born
Thursday morning in the El Centro
hofpital 10 Technical Sergeant and
Mrs. Walter Mathews.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-31
OId-Time Dance
Set by Council

An cid time dance will be given
Friday night in the El Centro Vet
Grams hall by the rural recreation
council, with speciality d3Lces as a
feature of TIE evening.
Doors will open at $50 and dane
ing starts at nl..e
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-31
SON is BORN 20

SON is BORN 20
S. C. ALEXANDERS. JR.
Technical Sergeant and Mrs. S.
c. Alexander. Jr.. are the parents
of a son, weighing seven pounds,
five and cne-half ounces, born
Thursday morning in the El Centro
HOSPITAL.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-31
First Lady's Tea
DiscIoses New
White House Era
Bv GWI-I MORGAN


WASHINGTON, May 81 (UP)-
The darkest shadows of war are
beginning to lift from the White
House.
Mrs. Harry S. Truman's first "at
home" for newspaper women gave
promise of new era of hospitality
and festivity at the executive man.
sion once the war with Japan is
won
Outside the mansions grey-white
walls are still cracked and peeling.
Guns still point from turrets on the
roof.
But within the Marine orchestra,
clothed all in scarlet, played waltz
after waltz. The tea table was
loaded with small cakes and candy.
The paneled state dining room was
crowded with guests.
HOUSE WARMING PARTY
The tea was a sort of house
warming party. Mrs. Truman, who
received with Margaret in the bril-
liant red room, showed her guests
around the mansion. She said they
had tried to make it as homelike
as possible.
The Trumans succeeded. In the
spacious living quarters on the sec
ond floor the coiorS were soft pas
tels-grays, pinks and blues. There
were three pianos and about six
photographs of Margaret.
A colored photograph of the
late President Roosevelt stood on a
table upstairs in the broad central
hallway. The Trumans all dwell at
one end of the house. At the other
end is the rose room, where Prince
Abdul of Iraq slept Monday night.
where Queen Elizabeth of England
once stayed and the Lincoln room
with its diversified Lincoln bed.
SELECTS OWN ROOM
Mr.. Truman has the small bed
room Mr. Roosevelt used, opening
into the beautiful oval study. The
new presidents double bed is
blue-canopied and high. He picked
it himself. There is a tan leather
davenport with matching chairs.
From his study Mr.. Truman can
look out at the Washington monu-
ment. Near his desk is a grand
piano. He is a non-SmOker but on
the desk was pack of cigarettes.
1t was a fake The brand was call
ed mo"
Across the hall was Margaret'S
domain-A sitting room of blue con-
tanning her own grand piano. Her
bedroom was pink Most of the pic
lures were of girl friends. One. she
said. was her neXt-d0Or neighbor
in Independence, Mo.
TO STAY IN MISSOURI
Mrs. Truman said Margaret just
couldn't study here and plans to
remain at the summer White
House" in independence all sum-
mer. They'll both leave shortly.
Mrs. Truman will return after a
two week stay.
Margaret, who aims to be an
opera singer, plans to take voice
lessons this summer three times a
week. She already knows three roles
in Rigoletto, Traviata and Lucia.
An oil painting of Mr.. Truman
hangs in Mrs. Truman'S sitting
room-the same sitting room Mrs.
Roosevelt used. The new first lady
also has the same small corner
hodroOY11
Evening star., 1945-12-30
Chinese PorIeys
Halted by Party
For Marshall
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHUNGKING, Sunday, Dec. 30
The formal negotiation meeting of
government and Communist dele
gates, scheduled for today, has been
postponed - because it conf1icted
with a cocktail party.
Foreign Minister Wang Shin
chieh gave the party to honor Gen.
George c. Marshall special Ameri-
can envoy to China.
Date for the next meeting, at
which the Government may present
its reply to a Communist proposal
for truce in the civil war, has
not been fixed. 1t may be held
within the next few days.
The Communist proposal has been
discussed by Generalissimo Chang
Kai-shek and leading government
delegates to the forthcoming unity
conference, the opening date OF
which has yet to be decided.
1t is believed here the govern
ment's acceptance viii be condi-
tional on measures insuring restora
ton of communications and dis.
armament and repatriation of JAP
anese troops.
Evening star., 1945-12-30
Earle Weds Belgian Girl
In 7 IsfanbuI Ceremonies
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ISTANBUL, Dec. 29.-George H.
Earle, SIS, former Governor of Penn
sylvania, was married in double
ceremony today to Jacqueline
Marthe Jermine Sacre, %, a tall
Belgian brunette.
Dignitaries of Turkey and the
diplomatic colony stood witness as
Mr.. Earle, who became a diplomat
and naval officer, exchanged VOWS
with his young bride at the Istanbul
Municipal building and then went
to the American consulate for a
religious ceremony. He wore his
Navy commanders uniform.
The bride herself acted as inter-
prefer as the registrar went through
the ceremony. Then the party went
to the American consulate, where
they were married again by DR.
Ezra Young, congregationalist pastor
from Pittsburgh, Pa.
Mr.. Earle said he and his bride
would sail to America as soon as
they were able to obtain a visa fo1
her. Mr.. Earle formerly was naval
attache here,
Evening star., 1945-12-30
Veteran on Clutches TrumpIed
By Stution Crowd; Leg Broken

He told officers at the hospital
that the pushing throng had knock
ed him to the concrete floor of the
terminal and trampled over him,
those in front being unable to stop
because of the pushing behind. His
leg was fractured and he suffered
body bruises.
People passed me by for nearly 3
minutes" but a sailor and a couple
OF civilians finally picked me up and
they took me to the hospital" he
said last night.
Sergt. Timko was on his way from
Mcclure General Hospital in Rich
mond to his home near Pittsburgh
when the accident happened. He
was wounded In the arm by. shell
fragments. hospital authoritie, said
Evening star., 1945-12-30

since December 81 when he stated:
Il am here to serve and not to
hinder or obstruct American Gov
ernment. It is my full purpose to
see the thing through. The question
of Russian participation in the occu-
patton is a matter for other decision
than my own"
Staff With Patterson.
The War Department announce
ment made no reference to any spe-
ciflc purpose linked with Secretary
Patterson's trip, other than to say it
was to discuss occupational prob
lens" which Gen. Macarthur, 1t.
Gen. Albert c. Wedemeyer in China
and Gen. Joseph T.. McNarney in
Germany.
The staff accompanying Mr.. Pat
terson consists of DR.. Herbert Feis,
expert consultant to the Secretary;
Brig. Gen. George A. Lincoln, chief
of the Strategy and Policy Group,
Operations Division of the General
Staff; Brig. Gen. Charles j. Barrett
Evening star., 1945-12-30
BY the Associated Press.


NUREMBERG, Dec. 29.-Adolt
Hitler married his mistress, Eva
Braun, on April 20 as Russian
shells rained on their Reichs-
charicellery Bunker, and dictated
a private will declaring that
myself and my wife choose
death to escape the disgrace OF
being forced to resign or sur
render" American Sd Army
headquarters disclosed tonight.
The original copies of the mar
riage contract, the private will and
a political testament" designating
a new cabinet to carry on the war,
all dated April 20, 1945, were dis
covered in a suitcase by Sd Army
intelligence agents.
simultaneously, British counter
intelligence officers announced the
arrest of the man to whom the docu-
ments had been Fried
erich Wilhelm Paustin, identified
as adjutant to Hitler's missing
deputy, Martin Bormann.
To the very last, the political
Evening star., 1945-12-30
1000 Junkers Estates Divided
Among 100000 in Red Zone

defeat Its proponents, with the tacit
approval of the Russian military
government, brought their program
into being.
Provincial governments enacted
laws providing for the breaking up
of every estate of more than 100
hectares CAT acres) and even
smaller ones If they belonged to
active Nazis. BY this process they
liquidated holdings of feudal fami-
lies which supplied the German
army with so per cent Of its gener-
ais and IS per cent of its officers.
The first American correspond
ents to visit the Russian zone saw
an example of Bodenreform on q
677-acre estate at Burgwerbe In
Saxony province. It was owned
formerly by Karl Reinhardt, one
(see JUNKERs, Page A-60
Evening star., 1945-12-30
Western Electric Strike Sef
For II Am. Thursday
By th2 Associated Press.

NEW YORK, Dec. 90. - The
Western Electric Employees Associa-
tion, an independent union. todav
set II am. Thursday as the hour
when about $4,000 workers in New
Jersey and New York City will walk
OF their jobs.
Joseph E. Beirne, president of the
independent National Federation of
Telephone Workers, with which the
Western Electric union is afiiliated.
Immediately called on President
Truman to intervene, declaring a
sympathy strike by 450,O00 telephone
workers throughout the Nation was
possibility.
I The Western Electric group
earlier had set January 8 as the
strike date, but had agreed to with
hold action pending a union-man-
agement meeting.
Henry Mayer, counsel for the
Western Electric union, said the
meeting, held at Kearny, N. j., re-
suited in rejection of a company
offer only slightly better" than q
previous is per cent pay raise pro-
posal. The union has asked 30
per cent increase.
Evening star., 1945-12-30
PattersonLeay
Today on Trip 10
See Macarthur
Will Discuss Pressing
Problems on Tour to
All Occupied Areas
BY NELSON M. SHEPARD.

secretary OF war Patterson Is
to leave Washington today for
the Pacific on the first leg of a
round-the-world fight to dis
cuss pressing occupation prob
lens with Gen. Macarthur in
Tokyo and American COM
manders in China and Germany,
the War Department announced
last night.
Accompanied by a staff of six, the
Secretary will take off from National
Airport at m for Hamilton Field.
Calf. From there he will 90 to
Hawaii, Guam, Japan, Korea, China
the Philippines, India, Egypt and
Germany. The schedule calls for his
return home by January "a.
The Navy disclosed meanwhile,
that Secretary Forrestal is at the
Panama Canal on flying inspection
trip accompanied by four officers.
No other information was given.
Macarthur Talk Highlight.
Mr.. Patterson's conferences with
Gen. Macarthur provide the high
light of the trip in view of the de-
cision of the Big Three conference
in Moscow to establish a four-power
council to advise him in administer
ing Japan.
Associated Press dispatches from
Tokyo last night said Gen. Mac
Arthur and his headquarters are
maintaining silence on the creation
OF the four-power council. His
spokesman said there is no comment
of any kind.
The spokesman, who generally OBJ
tains comment from headquarters
or speaks for the general himself
said he was not at liberty to COM
ment on the developments of the
Moscow conference.
The Tokyo dispatches said there
was no reason to believe that Gen.
Macarthur had changed his mind
Evening star., 1945-12-30
Navy Releases 5000
Huts and $4,000,
In Housing Materials
Four Depots Involved
In Move Taken to
Alleviate Shortage
BY the Associated Press.

The Navy yesterday moved to
provide some relief for the hous-
ing shortage by declaring surplus
$50, 600, 900 worth Of building ma
terials and 5000 quonset huts To-
Gated at four depots in the
United States.
II used as barracks, the huts could
house 10000 persons. If converted
to two-family dwellings, they could
accommodate 10000 families. Many
have never been set up.
The building material includes
nails, pipe, plumbing and electrical
supplies. In addition, nearly 55,000,-
600 board feet of lumber will have
been declared as surplus at Naval
establishments in the United States
in the two months ending tomorrow.
First Sales in West.
At Port Hueneme, Calf, SIS, ,000,-
900 in building materials and 1,248
Quonset huts; at Tacoma, Wash,
s12. 900 900 in building materials and
1,540 Quonset huts; at Davisville, r.
l., $4,000, 900 in building materials
and 2,012 Quonset huts, and at Gulf
port, Miss, $4,000, 900 in building
materials and 200 Quonset huts.
The Navy said the Port Hueneme
depot had been selected by the Re-
construction Finance Corp, the dis
posal agency for building materials,
as the first station in the United
States at which spot cleanup sales
of all types of surplus building ma
terials would be made. Disposal
teams from the RFC, working with
Naval personnel, will make the
actual sales. Procedure developed
will be used as a pattern for the
National program to be used in
other Army and Navy depots which
stock building materials in large
quantities.
Huts of Tropical Type.
Disposal of Quonset huts also will
be made through the RFC. Gov
ernment agencies, including the
Veterans Administration, will have
top priority on the used barrack-
type dwellings. The huts each
measure 20 by 48 feet. The majority
are of the tropical type, with roof
ventilation and one end screened.
They may, however, be converted
| for use in cold climates.
Meanwhile, the Producers Coun-
Gil, Inc, an organization of build
ing material manufacturers, report
ed that materials shortages will not
permit the construction of more
than 425, 900 privately built dwell
ings in 1916 unless the Government
encourages production. Its state
ment listed the scarce materials as
''millwork, enameled plumbing fix
lures, heating equipment, and pos
sibly cast iron soil pipe"
Production of these items" ii
said, is being held down by pricing
or manpower problems or raw ma
terial shortages"
Evening star., 1945-12-30
Hyde Park Is Reported
Leading for UN0 Site
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated FreSS.
LONDON, Dec. 29.-The Roosevelt
ancestral home at Hyde Park, N. Y,
or a site near Boston appeared to-
night to have the best chance of be-
coming the permanent home of the
United Nations Organization.
Several delegates here awaiting
the opening of the UNO General
Assembly next month said they be-
lieved Hyde Park was far in the
lead. Some members of the British
delegation were said to favor it and
Western European delegates were
expected to follow suit.
While the race seemed to have
narrowed down to the Hudson Valley
locality and the Boston area, a
spokesman of the site-selecting
committee, which is scheduled to
leave for the United States on Janu-
airy or 4, said several sites not
previously mentioned were being
considered. He declined to name
them, but said the committee would
look them over on its American
investigation tour.
Still being mentioned by some
delegates as possibilities were Con-
cord, Mass; Tarrytown, N. Y, pos.
sibly on the Rockefeller estate, ane
Princeton, N. J.
Evening star., 1945-12-30
BY RICHARD KASISCHKE,


BERLIN, Dec. 20. German
peasants in the Russian zone are
living in the historic manor
houses of the naughty militaris-
tic Junkers they once served,
and farm children are attending
kindergarten in the spacious
bathrooms where the Junkers and
their ladies danced.
That is Bodenreform-the great
social and economic revolutionary
process by which 1000 estates of
Prussian Junkers in the Russian
zone of occupation, totaling more
than 100000 acres, were redistrib-
uted among nearly 100000 small
land holders.
Land reform Is an old issue in
Eastern Germany, and after Hitler's
Evening star., 1945-12-30
SfabiIization Director
Asked 10 Rule on u. 5.
Cafeteria Price Rise
Manager Of Service
Says Salary Increases
Necessitote Revision
By MALCOLM LAMBORNE, Jr.

The Office of Price Adminis-
tration has referred to the Office
of Sterilization Director John C.
Collet the question of whether
Government Services, Inc, has
authority to increase food prices
in Government cafeteries, sched-
uled to go into effect some time
this week, it was learned last
night.
Earlier in the day it was disclosed
that the organization planned price
increases averaging 10 per cent to
keep the corporation from operating
at a loss as result of 20 per cent
wage increase to cafeteria workers,
effective Tuesday.
An official of the OPA,s restaurant
pricing branch reported that no
authorization had been given Gov
ernnlent Services to increase food
prices, which have been set at April,
ls43, levels throughout the war.
Summary Action Questioned.
He observed that "the question
is whether Government Services,
Inc. can take summary action"
F. w. Hoover, general manager of
the nonprofit organization, said he
had gone to OPA on the question of
raising prices and was told he had
to establish a loss in order to prove
his case. He said that because his
group has no reserve, continuance
OF, business for the six-month pc
riod required to demonstrate loss
would be impossible.
The cafeteria official said the
question then was referred to the
Public Buildings Administration. A
spokesman for the Federal Works
Agency, under which PBA operates,
referred the matter back to OPA.
At OPA it was said conference
had been held yesterday with
officials in the stabilization office.
Judge Collet declined comment on
ICaa "a TESrTTDTAC 0oCo IN
Evening star., 1945-12-30
Lute News
Bulletin
4 Bodies Found in Mine

PINEVILLE, Ky. P).-Res-
cue workers late tonight found
four more bodies of miners
entombed by an explosion in
the coal mine near here. The
bodies were burned and
mashed. The discovery dimmed
hopes Of finding amy more Of
the remaining II or more
trapped men alive. Earlier
story on Page AL
Evening star., 1945-12-30
Macarthur Reported
To Have OK'd Plan
For Control of Japan
BY the Associated Press


Gen. Macarthur saw and did
not object to the new plan for
control of Japan before it was
approved at the Moscow con-
ference, a Far Eastern Com
mission official said last night.
In fact, Gen. Macarthur was
"kept fully informed" all the
way through the conference of
Big Three Foreign Ministers on
action having to do with Japan
and Far Eastern Affairs,
Thomas Blake, press officer of
the commission, told a reporter.
Speculation has arisen as to
whether the new four-power
control curtails Gen. MacAr-
thurs power. Mr.. Blake said
Gen. MacArthur's clear-cut
right to issue orders and en-
force them would not be i'm
paired.
Evening star., 1945-12-30
Wedemeyer Indicate!
Increase Of 1900 in
u. ). Forces in China
Americans to Supervise
Supply and Landing in
Munchurio Occupation
Ry the Associated Press.

SHANGHAI, Dec. 29.-Lt. Gen.
Albert c. Wedemeyer said today
the United States would help
pour Chinese Nationalist troops
into Manchuria and would have
to increase American forces in
China by possibly 1000 men.
The commander of American
forces in China did not specify
whether ships or planes would be
used, telling a press conference that
details still were under considera-
tion."
Gen. Wedemyer declared, however,
that American troops would 60
along with Central Government
forces to supervise debarkation.
handle supply problems and give
other aid in line with Americas
broadened China policy.
This meant, Gen. Wedemeyer con-
tinued, that the Army personnel
would have to be built up to $4,000
to $1,000 men even though it would
require bringing in 5000 to 1000
more troops from the States or else
where.
These would be in addition to the
estimated $4,000 Marines now
guarding a number of ports, cities
and railways in North China along
the route to Manchuria.
Nationalist troops already hold
one Southern Manchuria port for
seaborne landings CHulutao), and
last were reported at the outskirts
of another, Yingkow, to the south
east.
Mukden Being Taken Over.
Associated Press Correspondent
Spencer Davis said in a dispatch
from Peiping that the Chinese
appointed Mayor of Mukden, Man.
churia's greatest city, had begun
taking over the administration
there in the name of Generalissimo
Chang Kai-shek.
While no Nationalist troops had
entered Mukden, Mr.. Davis said
reports were current that the Rus
sian authorities had sent them a
note of welcome and were arrang-
ing for their formal entry into the
city.
A Central News Agency dispatch
said Is district governments of
Liaoning, westernmost province in
Manchuria, had reported to the new
provincial headquarters at Chin
hsien, ready to take up their duties.
Other Central Government ad-
ministrators were in Chinhsien wait
ing to follow Chinese troops into
Jehol, the next province to the west,
from which the Russians announced
| yesterday they had withdrawn.
In this connection, Communist
dispatches alleged the government
had launched an offensive in West
ern Liaoning and Eastern Jehol, the
latter aimed at the provincial capi-
tai, Chengteh (JehoD.
Meanwhile, both official Chung
king and Communist quarters ap-
proved the Moscow accords as they
applied to questions involving
China.
An official government statement
in Chungking declared that I'VE are
in complete agreement with the
three-power Moscow communique.
Proposals submitted by the Chi
nese Foreign Office were embodied
in the text of the communique con-
cerning the control of JAPAN" the
statement added.
Associated Press Correspondent
John Roderick reported from Yenan
that Chinese Communist headquar-
ters there hailed the declaration
that united China must include all
Evening star., 1945-12-30
'HitIer's Marriage Contract
And Will Found in Suitcase
Fuehrer Continued to Blame Jews Till
Lost for War, Political Testament Shows

testament disclosed, Hitler blamed
international Jewry" for the world
confagration, and called down on
international Jewry and it's assist
ants" the hatred of the German peo-
pie for centuries.
The testament, dated three days
before Russian troops overran the
Reichschancellery, declared Hitler
himself never wanted war. He
claimed he tried to induce the
British to accept a solution to the
German-Polish dispute, which he
said was rejected by the British
partly driven by propaganda ar
ranged by international Jewry."
Hitler, in what he described as
my private WILL" directed that he
and his 35-year-old bride, with
whom he said he had enjoyed
many years of true friendship" be
cremated together Immediately, at
the place I have done the greatest
part of my works during the -
years of service to my people"
He referred apparently to the
(Coo LJTT7T I'D No.