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Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-06

plane was lost in either OF the at
tacks.
Army bonn bers and fighters
ranged over Formosa again Tues
day, hammering factories, airdromes
and transportation targets. A COM
munique said many" parked planes
were destroyed at the Kagi air.
drome, while three Japanese inter-
ceptors we're shot down south OF the
island.
Navy search planes also joined In
the foray and wrecked two freight-
ers east of Formosa, Japan's former
island bastion which MacArthur
described as new being "seriousiy
crippled"
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-06
Sweden Hints
AT War Move

STOCKHOLM, April 6. CUP)-
The newspaper Expressen said Fri
day that Sweden has approved the
formation of a Swedish volunteer
corps to aid the Norwegian Mill
tary effort.
An official announcement was
expected shortly.
The Swedes previously allowed
the Norwegians to organize and
train force of Norwegian police
which was sent to Northern Norway
to take over the areas recovered
by the Red Army.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-06
KILLED BY PLANE PROPELLER

HAMILTON FIELD, Cal, April 6.
OP)-Mrs. George Watson, 35, III
Walton St. Meadow Park, Cal, was
killed instantly late Thursday when
she walked into the whirling pro-
peller of a cargo plane here, army
officials announced. Cause of the
accident was not known, officials
said. Mrs Watson was at the air.
field on pass issued to wives of
civilian employees.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-06
HOUSE WILL CONSIDER
HUGE NAVAL FUNDS

WASHINGTON, April 6. (UP)-
A 25.O00,O000O0 appropriation to
help the navy blast the japanese
will be on the, list for immediate
consideration when the house ends
its unofficial Easter recess next
week.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-06
SURGE TOWARD BERLIN, NORTH Sc
u. 6. Ninth Armv
Crosses Weser
In Sweeping Tide

PARIS, April 6. (UP) Three Allied armies struck for
Berlin and the North ports front of than 100
miles Friday sparked by American Ninth Army break
through that carried five miles beyond the Weser river to
within II miles of Hanover. 4.sa b
British Second Army forces also the Weser
great strength the Ninth Armys right flank. driving
several columns Hanover 1876 miles west of Berlin
and the northern ports of Bremen and Hamburg.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-06
Health Insurance
BaCkers Yield
To Study Period
Author Of Warren
Bill Indicates
Agreement On Move

SACRAMENTO, April 6.
A movement was under way
in the state senate Friday to
delay action in health insur-
ance bills while further studies are
made. Apparently it had the quail
fled approval of the senate author
Of Gov. Earl Warren'S health plan.
FARM PRODUCTION COUNCIL
The assembly, meantime, passed
and sent tc the governor bill con-
tinuing the existence OF the state
farm production council for two
more years.
The lower house received, with
approval of its public morals COM
mittee, bill reducing the penalty
for horse race bookmaking from a
felony to a misdemeanor.
Senators H. r. Judah, Santa
Cruz; Arthur H. Breed, Piedmont,
and Fred Weybret, Salinas, all Re-
publicans, announced they were
preparing a resolution to set up
health study committee. They said
it would provide for joint legisla
tive committee with ample funds to
hire experts.
Senator Byrl Salsman, (R0, Palo
Alto, author of the governors health
bill, said that "in view of the OBJ
stacles to compulsory health insur-
ance at this session, think the best
alternative is to make study
YIELDS TO MOVE
Saltman said he believed that re-
suits of the study should be an
nounced by January l, 194S, in view
of the prospect that health in
surance plan may be on the 1916
election ballot.
The farm production council con-
tinuaticn act carries no appropria
ton since the council has some
100000 on hand. A S m b | y m n
Thomas Erwin, (RD, Puente, said
the council plans to assist in houS-
ing German war prisoners assigned
to harvest work.
The senate approved an assembly
bill raising the minimum annual
salary for elementary school teach
ers from $500 to $1,000.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-06

worked hurriedly to reinforce weak
spots. Coast guard and army units
aided in the evacuation of 10000
persons in Louisiana alone.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-06
Russian Forces
Smash Into
Austria Capital

LONDON, April 6. (UP)-A Moscow dispatch said
Friday that Soviet forces had threequarer encrced vi
and were battling in the eastern outskirts.
Two Soviet armies stormng TIE Austrian capital
from the east west and SOUTH after cutting main Ger
man supply lines southwest Of the city
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-06

Louisiana public works depart
ment officials said that more than
1900 miles of levees were under "a
hour patrol, and volunteer workers
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-06

simultaneously, the A m er C n
First Army lashed out in a new
Berlin-bound offensive from its lines
east of the Ruhr and raced ahead
as much as Is miles to reach the
Weser river at several points 160-
odd miles west of the German cap
ital.
RESISTANCE CRUMBLES
German resistance crumbled in
the path of the Americans, and
field dispatches said Ninth Army
troops were five miles and more be-
yond their Weser bridgeheads west
and southwest of Hanover.
The Ninth's Second Armored di-
vision crossed the Weser in the
Hamelin area % miles southwest of
Hanover and pushed up to within
about II miles from the big rail
and road center Another tank and
infantry force was. advancing rap
idly from a bridgehead at Minden,
80 miles west of Hanover.
HEAD FOR LEIPZIG
Late field dispatches said the
Americans were 81 miles or less
from the northwestern corner of
Czechoslovakia, go miles from Leip-
zig and 166 miles away from the
weetbound Red Army.
1t. Gen. George S. Patton's Third
Army tanks officially were 1876
miles southwest of Berlin, but STILL
unconfirmed reports placed them
inside the Harz mountain range 100
miles from Hitler's dying citadel.
The doughboys crossed the 240-
foot Weser in assault boats early
Thursday at point two miles south
Of Hameln, % miles southwest of
Hanover, and advanced more than
half-mile to capture the vi1lsye of
Tuendern, 1853 miles west of Berlin.
Aimored units followed the in
fantrymen across on hastily erected
pcntoon bridges, and struck up for
Hanover against feeble resistance.
simultaneously, other Ninth Army
forces burst across the river oppo-
site Minden, % airline miles north
NEST of Hameln and 80 miles west
of Hanover
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-06
HAMBURG THREATENED

Hamburg itself, Germanys great
est port, was less than 80 miles be-
yond the British tanks on the Wese-.
and another British column west
of the river was closing on the sea-
coast in Giant strides.
The latter column captured dep
holz, 81 miles southwest of Bremen,
81 miles southwest of Hamburg and
Continued on Page 2, Col. o
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-06
D AMBllNe
1AEpo.RTER
One Or The Other

One Or The Other
Pop Keller wore black shoes with
his business suit Friday. 1t would
have been natty ensemble if one
shoe had not been as bright as a
new penny and the other a bit dull
and tired looking.
Pop is on the ration board so
must have been demonstrating
something. Was he demonstrating
what the well dressed man can do
in case one shoe wears out and the
other doesn't?
We cannot believe Pop took this
means of proving that he really
does have two pairs OF shoes in
these ration stamp days.
Intruders UnweIcOme-
A mama cat selected a playhouse
in The yard at the Sam Naliboff
home as a maternity hospital. The
playhouse wasn't large as play
houses go but it was palatial to the
mama cat and her family after it
arrived.
Arrival of the kittens was great
neighborhood event. Mrs. Kitty
Garrow just had to see the kittens.
She stopped down and thrust her
head through one of the tiny win
dows of the playhouse for a peek
al the babies.
A dog, who apparently thought
the playhouse should be reserved
for children, began to bark at her
in a loud and abusive manner. Ma
ma cat woke up and sprang to the
defense Of her family. The only
Unusual thing she could see was
Mrs. Garrow's head sticking through
the window
Splitting in fury, mama cat jump
ed from the floor and began claw
Continued on Page 2, Column 3.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-06
WEATHER

Maximum Thursday 81, minimum
Friday Al; 5 am. Friday 45. humid
ity Ga; noon Friday 80, humidity 12;
8 pm. Thursday 80, humidity IL.
Detroit evening times., 1945-12-26


CTCENES az the Eastern Market where thousands of
- DetroiterS hocked purchase their first peace
time Christmas dinner in five years Right up the
last the stalls and of the huge market
Detroit evening times., 1945-12-26


crowded, with reporting their largest
sales years Above: young lady is buying celery
while other DetroiterS cart away their dinners
in the form of I2pound turkey and three geese.
Evening star., 1945-06-06
Okinowo

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Evening star., 1945-06-06

the main enemy positions on Oki.
nawa is most gratifying"
The collapse of organized enemy
resistance became certain on Mon
day when Maj. Gen. Lemuel G.
Shepherd, jr.'s, 9Th Marine Division
landed on the Oroku Peninsula in
an amphibious hop with light loss
across Naha Harbor. The Leather
necks quickly seized half the air
field.
Doughboys of the Army 7th Divi-
sion. gaining S miles in two days,
swept down the east flank to the
southeastern shoreline and into
Chpen Peninsula. which juts of
the southeast coast. Resistance was
comparatively light.
Evening star., 1945-06-06

heavy fire by Germans on both sides
For two weeks after arriving, he
said. the attacks were heavy. Fol-
lowing that. the Allied offensive was
resumed and continued until the
salient was cleaned up he said.
Field Marsal Albert Kesselring
commander of all German forces in
the south. surrendered to the l0lSt
at sSaalfelden, Gen. Taylor said.
I'VE didn't actually capture him
in that sense of the word" he said
1T was merely 4 case OF US being
the nearest to him. : II
We captured Julius Streicher and
Robert Ley" he said.
Describing how they caught them
in the Bavarian Alps, he said they
were hiding OUT in small inns and
the 10lst picked them up in civilian
clothes on information from inform
ers, after combing the area.
Captured Goering's Art Collection.
Another capture the division
made, he said. was the "Goering art
collection" valued at approximately
$40 900 900: 1t is now in the custody
Of the 10lst at Berchtesgaden. It
was brought there in two trainloads
from Berlin, he said. The objects
he added, are from all over Europe
with identifications as to where
they came from marked on the
back.
Gen. Taylor said he expects to 90
back to the European theater, but
hasn't received definite orders and
doesn't know exactly how long he
will be at home.
Meanwhile. he smiled, he expects
to find q little time to frolic with
his two sons, Jack, IS, and Tom, 10.
Gen. Ridgway, a professional
Army ofIicer whose wife has lived at
the Wardman Park Hotel during his
service In Europe, arrived in the
Evening star., 1945-06-06

many other results that remained
unconflrmed due to extremely poor
visibility" Domei said
Only mention of Okinawa in the
Nimltz communique was that ad-
verse weather prevented enemy air
activity Monday. the day Domei
said the torpedo bomber attack was
carried oVt. The attack was pressed
home, Domei said, by pilots Drawing
'inclement weather"
The Japanese report mentioned
activity among enemy transports in
Okinawa waters, apparently in an
attempt to land badly needed sup
plies for the enemy ground forces. +"
Jap Shipping Sunk.
Admiral Nimitz told of American
bomber strikes. part of the tighten
ing blockade on Japanese shipping
Priyateers of Fleet Air Wing l ex-
ploded large oiler, sank three car
go ships and damaged small
freighter in vital waters between
Asia and Japan.
Aerial harassment Of shipping in
these lanes had forced the japanese
to use longer route through Man.
churia to supply forces on the main
land. Only in darkness and poor
weather do the japanese now send
trafiic between Korea and Japan.
Admiral Nimitz reported that
planes OF Fleet Air Wing l had sunk
s4,4o5 tons of shipping and dam
aged 81 .205 tons since beginning op-
erations in the Okinawa area two
nlonths ago. A
1Hpther stflkss Fleet Air Wing
l8saAnk three bmaH cargosships and
damaged three others south Of Hon
shu, the main Japanese island, yes,
terday. ~
on rain swept Qkinawa. The last
repoFts Of American prosresxs-ptt:
treYanks on hair Of NaIia Air-''
drome, biggest In the Ryukyu chain
To the east they were pushing re-
lentlessly toward the southern tip
Of the island. Only one-thirteenth
of Okinawa remained in enemy
hands.
Nimitz Lauds Yanks.
An offlcial well done to the 10th
Army from Admiral Nimitz yester-
day indicated full conquest might
be completed shortly.
In his message to 1t. Gen. Simon
Bolivar Buckner. jr., 10th Army
commander. Admiral Nimitz said
the manner in which the 10th
Army is exploiting the destruction
of the principal enemy forces and
Evening star., 1945-06-06

Knox, KY. His daughter Patricia
met him in Philadelphia.
Only the casual glances of trav-
elers and the salutes of GIs waiting
for trains on the platforms greeted
Gems. McAuliffe and Huebner as
they arrived yesterday at Union
Station. Both generals said they
were pleased by the lack of fanfare
Gen. Huebner walked into the sta
ton about 1:20 pm, a little more
than an hour before he was sched-
uled to arrive. Gen. McAuliffe
stepped of his train at 2:20 pm.
Gen. Heubner told how he had
lunch at the Ritz Hotel in Paris
Saturday and dinner with his wife,
Mrs. Florence and their pretty
daughter, Miss Juliette Heubner, a
sophomore at Trinity College here,
at the Waldorf in New York Sunday.
Miss Heubner brought out four
dolls, all dressed in native costumes,
that the Czechoslovakian people had
given her father as a token of their
gratitude for their liberation. She
has added them to her collection of
dolls Gen. Heubner said Czechoslov-
akians also displayed their gratitude
by producing the opera The Bar
tered Bride" in Pilsen for the staff
The Germans had banned operas,
singing and dancing.
High Praise for Yanksf
In recounting the high lights OF
the European campaign since D day
Gen. Huebner declared the Aachen
battle was classic example of an
attack on fortified city. He said
the American soldier is efficient,
brave, we'll trained and thoroughly
disciplined" and can hold his own
in any company.
The general compared the Amer
leans and the Russians as having
In common big ideas that a big
country gives" He said each Amer
lean division has 80 to 40 men who
could speak Russian. so when the
two Allied armies met many Amer
lean soldiers could hold converse
tions with Soviet fighters The two
groups got along very we'll. he said
! Our soldiers left a good impress
sion wherever they went, Gen.
Huebner continued. Part of that
was based on the fact that The
American Army brought its own
food. He also praised the war corre-
spondents.
Gen. Taylor arrived home yester-
day after more than two years over
seas. He participated in the North
African and Italian campaigns and
was one of the two American off,
GERS who went into Rome to ar
range the Italian armistice while
the Germans still were in posses
sion OF the country.
He left America hurriedly by plane
last Christmas Eve to rejoin his divi-
sion which had been cut off in
pocket at Bastogne during the bat
tie Of the Belgian bulge
Roads Under Heavy Fire.
On that trip, he said, he went by
plane to Paris. by car to Luxembourg
and by jeep to Bastogne. The road
there, he continued. was under
Evening star., 1945-06-06

same plane with Gen. Taylor and
went Immediately to his apart
ment. He could not be reached fol
an interview.
The general personally knocked
out German tank during the Ar
dennes offensive and played an i'm
portant part in saving Gen. Court
ney H. Hodges from capture. Ac.
cording to an Associated Press dis
patch, Gen. Ridgway's forces ar.
rived in time to be thrown into the
breach when German columns raced
to within 8 miles of Gen. Hodges
headquarters.
Gen RidgWay was born at Fort
Monroe, Va, and was appointed to
the Military Academy from Staten
Island, N. Y,
Evening star., 1945-06-06
Dutch Report Death
IOf Sultan of Juvo

BY the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, June 6.-The
death last Saturday of Sultan Solo,
81, of Java was reported yesterday
by Aneta, the official Dutch news
agency, in Melbourne dispatch. 1t
Evening star., 1945-06-06
Navy Discharge Held
In Attack on Girl, 4h

Ey the AkSOCIdleu Frebs.
CAMDEN, N. j.. June 6.-Detec-
tive Capt. Gustav Koerner an
nounced today that Francis Fur
long, az, discharged from the Navy
In 1943, had confessed the abduc.
aon attack on Carol Ann Colville
~. of Philadelphia. Monday night
Capt. Koerner said Furlong signed
the confession after an 11-year-olc
gtr1 identified him as the man who
tried to pull her into his car shortly
hefoea he enticed Carol Ann.
Evening star., 1945-06-06

said the death was announced Mon
day by the Japanese-controlled Ba-
tavia radio;
| Aneta said Japan's Domei news
Evening star., 1945-06-06

agency at Singapore identified the
rulers successor as his eldest son,
who will assume Office under the
title of Paku Buwono XII.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-04-12

The Seventh War Loan Drive
will be officially started in the
West Jefferson high school Fri
day, April Is, with a Memorial
Day in which all the former stu
dents, who are in service, especial
ly the casualties, will be honored.
The quota for the West Jeffer-
son school district is $4,000 (cash
value). This includes the dis
triet schools as we'll as the central
school.
Any bond purchased on Friday,
April Is, will be bought in honor
of the boys who have left the
school to enter the service. From
this group has come word of sew
eral boys, who have been killed,
wounded or taken prisoners, in
Guiding Thomas Wyatt, class OF
AS, killed in action in Germany;
Jack Johnson, class Of 40, killed
on Two Jinna; Fred Hardin, class
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-04-12
w. ]. School Will Honor Men
In Service In 9TH War Loan

of 40, prisoner of war in Ger
many; Wade Williams, P. O. w.,
Germany; Joe Williams, missing;
Edward Phillips, P. o. W., Ger
many; Wallace Houck, class of
'38, killed in France; Raymond
Goodman, class of Al, killed in
Italy, and others.
The men in service from the
1915 graduating class will be
honored on Tuesday, April II, at
which time the seniors will be ac-
tive in the sale of bonds in their
honor. This group includes: Lee
Roy Tribble, Navy; Billy Hardin,
Navy; J. M. Goodman, Navy;
Thomas Severt, Army; J. c.
Houck, Navy; Cecil Miller, Navy
The day will be especially in
commemoration of Thomas
Wyatt, a member of the class, who
was killed in action in Germany
on December 10, 1914.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-04-12
Merchants Are
Asked To File
Apparel Charts
Advisory Committee On New
Regulation On Apparel Is
Named

L. P. Coward, chairman of local
War Price and Rationing Board
reminded merchants dealing in
apparel and home furnishings
that April 20 is the deadline for
filing pricing charts under OPA
Regulation No. $50.
He further cautioned them that
failure of the merchant to get a
receipt from the OPA, by May 4
acknowledging the filing of the
chart under the regulation makes
it illegal for the merchant to sell
or offer for sale any merchandise
covered by the regulation.
The following advisory COM
mittee has been named to assist
the merchants regarding this new
CONTINUED On Page Four)
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-04-12
Sale OF Wine In
W. J. Is Banned
By Town Board
Resolution Adopted BY Board
OF Aldermen AT Meeting
Held Last Week

At the meeting of the town
board of West Jefferson last Fri
day, the body adopted a resolu-
ton banning the sale of wine
here. The bill passed by the 1915
General Assembly giving the Of
ficials the authority to ban the
sale of wine, is cited in the open
ing of the resolution.
The resolution concludes with
the following: That the
sale of wine in West jefferson
be and the same is hereinafter
prohibited and that hereafter, said
board will refuse to issue any IL
cense for the sale of wine within
the borders of West Jefferson
"A complete text of the resolution
is published elsewhere in this
paper today.
Members of the town board
pointed out that there had been
much criticism of intoxication
said to be caused by, drinking
commercial wines and that it was
felt that by banning the sale OF
this, conditions might be improv-
ed.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-04-12
County Spelling
Contest Will Be
Held On April Is
Sponsored By American LIE.
gion; Medals Are To Be
Awarded Winners

The Ashe Post of the American
Legion will again sponsor. an an
nual countrywide spelling bee in
which the winners will be award
ed medals. The finals of the con-
test will be held at the court
house on Wednesday evening,
April Is at 800 o'clock to which
the public is cordially invited. :
All high schools as well as the
small schools are invited to send
a winner from all grades begin
ming with the fourth, to take part
in this countrywide event. They
are expected to hold preliminaries
prior to this time, to select the
winners.
The contest is sponsored by the
Ashe Post of the American Legion
in connection with the state and
nationwide event and is expected
to attract much interest. "More
emphasis should be placed on
spelling and I hope that all the
schools will take part in this con-
test" Mr.. Hurt said.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-04-12
Few Violations
OF Ceiling Prices
All Are Urged To Post Prices;
A Total OF 141 In County
Are Checked

Only 9 per cent of the retail food
stores checked in March were
found to be in violation of price
regulations, as compared to 1870
the preceding month, L. P. Col
ward, chairman of the Ashe
County War Price and Rationing
Board, said today.
A total of al stores were
checked by 6 volunteer Price
Panel Assistants and two of the
clerks from office, as part of a
countrywide campaign to hold
the price line, and to assist stores
in their efforts to comply with
price regulations, he said.
Of the al stores checked, only
Is were found to be in violation
of OPA price requirements, Mr..
Coward stated, and II in violation
of posting requirements.
Merchants are particularly
urged to post all prices so that
the public may have an oppor-
tunity to see that they are in line
with regulations.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-04-12
Yanks Move Toward
Berlin; Resistance Is
Strong On Okinawa
Russians Extend Hold On
Vienna And Drive On
Toward BrnO

The U. S. ninth army, in a neck
and neck race with the American
first army toward Berlin, quick
ly toppled Germany's 18th city
of Hanover yesterday and swept
on % miles into Brunswick's out
skirts at a point only ITO miles
from the reich capital.
While tank units of the ninth
also overran Salzgitter, site of the
Goering steel works 10 miles
southwest of imperilled Bruins
wick, U. S. first army troops in
a 40-mile advance on the south
smashed into Nordhausen and
likewise struck within 10 miles
of Berlin with the seizure of To-
calities near Auleben, As miles
west of Halle and 81 miles from
Leipzig.
American fighter pilots and
bomber gunners destroyed 1877
German aircraft yesterday and
shattered eight aerial warfare
records in the most devastating
blow ever delivered against the
once-feared NaZi 1uftwaffe.
Countless other German craft
were damaged as both American
and British planes again assault
ed the German reich.
The American steamroller cam
paign in the Philippines has en-
quilted the strategic Sulu archi-
pelago, liberated all Of Southern
Luzon and freed the famous Cul-
ion leper colony, Gen. Douglas
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