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Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-19

midnight closing edict as long as
federal authorities felt it was
necessary.
Chicagos mayor Edward j. Kelly
summed it up:
What New York does is not my
affair. The midnight curfew will
rema(a unless othelwise ordered
from Washington"
The United Press learned that
LaGuardia acted without consul
tation or permission from war mo-
bilization Director James F. Byrnes.
SAN FRANCISCO, March 10,
(UP)- Mayor Roger Lapham of
San Francisco disclosed he does
not intend to seek extension of
the midnight curfew.
LAS far as l am concerned We
will carry out the wishes of the
federal government" Lapham said.
He declined comment on Mayor
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-19

FiOrello La Guardia'S action in
extending the curfew to one A. M.
in New YorW City.
LOS ANGELES, March 10, (UP)
Mayor Fletcher BoWron said he
didn't plan to follow Mayor Fiorel-
10 H. LaGuardia's action in giving
New York a 100 a. m. curfew
Il don't think it is up to a may
or to change a federal regulation
whose application should be uni
form throughout the country"
Bowron said.
Los Angeles is in the center of
a vital war production area" he
said. "The purpose of the curfew
is to conserve manpoWer. The
only objection raised to it here is
the cut in entertainment for swing
shift war workers. Extending the
curfew to 100 a. m. doesn't help
these workers"
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-19

probably will continue beyond that
time.
HOW PICTURE LOOKS
Here are the latest major develop
ments on the food front:
l. Civilians must expect IL per
cent cut in meat rations during
April. May and June. ALLEGATIONS for
that period will be at the rate of
lis pounds a year per person-30
pounds less than 1854 and 10 pounds
less than Americans averaged dur
ing the l935-39 peacetime years.
2. House Republicans warned that
President Roosevelt must clarity the
Administrators policy on foreign
Continued on Page 9, Col. p
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-19
D AMBlINe
~ EpoRTER
Once Again

Once Again
The county court house in Ell Cen
to was study in black and white
Monday morning when the gang ar
rived for work
There wac scot all over every
thing, including a lot Of valuable
Official records. Every office was a
mess but those in the basement
We're indescribably dirty.
HousI cleaning began immediate
ly and in the twinkling of an eye
every person in the building looked
exactly like a chimney sweep.
Some day that furnace is going to
make it and get rid Of the court
house.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-19
Food Situation
ecomes Acute

WASHINGTON, March 10. CUP)
Government officials declared Mon
day that the nations food situation
can be described by cne word
bad
The outlook for many months
ahead, they said, is worse, if any
thing.
They emphasized that no Ameri-
can is in danger of starving. But
civilians are entering their period
of scantiest rations in recent his
tory. Shortages of almost every ma
jcr food may be expected to con-
tinue until after the next harvest
season. Short supplies of meat, dairy
products, sugar and fats and oils
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-19
Bombers Smash
Reich Plants

ONDON, March 10, (UP)-
Strong forces of American and Brit
ish bombers dropped heavy loads of
bombs-some the new 1l-ton super
bombs-on widely scattered parts of
Germany Monday.
The bombardment hit Germany a
day after the heaviest raid of the
war on any single. German city
he'd wrecked and burned large
sections of the concentrated war in
dustries in and around Berlin.
More than 1900 u. S. heavy bomb
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-19
Civilians Vie
Soldiers
On Roads ast
Parton Rapidly EncircIes $4,000
German Troops in River Pocket;
Enemy CoI|apses in Saar Basin

PARIS, March 19. (UP)-Vanguards of the American
Third and Seventh armies charged through the northern
and southern fanks of the Saar basin Monday within 40
miles of uncture that might envelope estimated $4,000
Germans fleeing from great triangular pocket of
the Rhine
The Rhine crossing town of Bingen fell to 1t. Gen.
George S. Pattons hard-drivng Third army forces in
whrwnd sweep that cleared 29me stretch of the rivers
west bank between that city and Coblenz.
Patton Closes Only Route of ESCAPE
PattOns armored and infantry divisions also crashed
the Maize broad front stabbed eastward
close off the enemy routes the Rhine at
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-19

ers and upward of 600 fighters hit
several targets Monday. They in
cluded jet plane plant at Baumen-
helm, 20 miles north of Augsburg,
aif fields near Neuberg north of
Muenchen and Leipheim near Ulm,
industrial targets at Plauen west of
Chemnitz in SaXony, and war fac
tories at Jena, vets of Leipzig.
Lancasters of the RAF carted IL
ton and six-ton bombs to hit rail-
way viaducts at Arnsberg southeast
Of Hamm and in the area of Biels-
field in the Ruhr area.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-19
Suspect Denies
Dope Charges

Bablo Gomez Barajos of CaleXico,
who was arrested at the Calexico
port of entry from Mexico last
February 20, recently pleaded not
guilty to federal charges of possess
ing 18 cans of opium valued at
$4,000
He was allegedly connected with
the Illicit drug market in Southern
California
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-19
Pass the Hat

Don Robertson begged down when
he tried to collect $40 from Charlie
Bramkamp for telling Tom Finney
how to dreSc when attending iunc-
ton in MeXicali. Tom contended
Charlie made him wear tie in spite
of his $40 Eet that Don would be
the first to wear a tie tC work.
Il didn't tell Tom to wear tic, =
said Charlie I told him to wear n
hat"
Why tell Ten to wear a hat at
this late date? The top Of his head
has been sunburned for years.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-19

u dl lllS NCIlltl
third largest city, still was ablaze
from a pre-cawn attack early Sum-
day by 325 to $50 Superfortresses,
greatest B-29 armada of the war
NO PLANES LOST
A cOmmunique issued by the Goth
air force in Washington said none
of the giant bombers was lost due
10 enemy action. Returning crew.
men reported huge fires in the in
dustrial heart of the city with dense
smoke rising to COCO feet Fighter
opposition was meager and ineffec-
tive, it said, but antiaircraft fire
WAS more intense than it was a
week ago when Nagoya first was
raided by 300-plus force of B-29'S.
A japanese communique issued
shortly after 5 pm. Tokyo time)
said carrier planes had been attack
ing the Hanshin district-Japanese
name for the Osaka-Kobe area
and Shikoku island. to the south
west, since Monday morning.
Another Tokyo propaganda broa6 =
cast said the raids began at $50
am. and reported that Kyushu,
southernmost of the japanese home
islands. also was under attack. Kyu-
shu was the main target of a force
estimated by Tokyo at 400 carrier
planes Sunday.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-19
CLAIMS SINKINGS

The communique claimed that
counter-attacking japanese planes
had sunk an aircraft carrier, a Sec
ond aircraft carrier or battleship,
one battelship or cruiser. and two
destroyers in attacks on the Amer
lean task force southeast of Kyu-
shu Sunday.
Another aircraft carrier was dam
aged heavily, the communique said,
and 46 planes shot down. Damage
to grounc installations in Sundays
eight-hour carrier raids on Kyushu,
Shikoku and southeast HonShu was
said to be slight"
Both Osaka and Kobe. identified
by Tokyo as among Mondays tar
gets, were bias ed heavily last week
Ey 300-rlane armadas of Super
fortresses. Osaka is Japans second
largest city and biggest war pro-
duction center. while Kobe is her
main port.
Huge fires were kindled in Nagoya,
l65 miles west of Tokyo, by $500
tons or more of incendiaries drop
ped by the record fleet of Super
fortresses Sunday. One Tokyo broad
cast sale the fires finally were
brought under control after five and
q half hours. but another indicated
they still may not have been con-
trolled.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-19
Speaking of Meters

This note came in the mail from
a marine. We pass it on to yCu:
II notice FL Contro has acquired
a number of parking meters-300 of
them. 1t seCms obvious upon exam
inatiCn of these devices that con-
siderable LABOR and large quantities
Of essential war material have been
used in their construction and in
stallation Can YOU justify their eX-
istence in times ike these When our
country's manrowcr and resources
have gone all out for the war ef-
fort? l can imagine how essential a
Continued on Page 6, Col. g.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-19
PI dne Armdd q
Strikes Anew
Al Osokd-kobe
Carrier-Based Navy Bombers Hit
Long String Of War Targets;
Big Aircraft Center Set Ablaze

GUAM, March 10 (UP)-Tokyo said after wave
of T. s. navy planes attacked the factory packed Osaka
Kobe for at least nine hours Monday sending power
full carrorbased assault Japan through its second
straight day.
Only 85 miles to the east, Nagoya Japans biggest air.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-19
WEATHER

Maximum Sunday IS. minimum
Monday Al; am. Monday 48, hui
midity Sc; noon Monday 20. humid
lily II; p.rl. Sun. 73, humidity lG.
Evening star., 1945-12-13
McVuy
Continued From First Page.)

yet been made of how the 10 ex-
posions might have occurred with
the launching of only six torpedoes
The target on which he fired was
proceeding at about IL knots, he
testified. Survivors have testified
the cruiser was travelling at about
II knots.
Hashimoto stood at attention ir
the courtroom while the defense and
prosecution argued over minol
points relating to his testimony
The court overruied all defense OBJ.
jections to the testimony after a
plea by Capt. William P. Cady, de.
fense counsel. who declared:
Il wish to make a formal objection
to allowing one of the officers of a
defeated enemy, who as nation
have been proven guilty of every
despicable treachery. of the most in
famous cruelties and most barbarous
practices in violation of all the laws
of civilized warfare, to testify against
one Of our own officers on a matter
affecting his professional judgment
Protests at spectacle
II am sure I express the feeling
of every American citizen, especially
those who so recently fought against
the japanese, in protesting at this
spectacle. This objection is not and
cannot be based on legalistic
grounds since our lawmakers have
never imagined through the centur-
Evening star., 1945-12-13

homes. the committee would have
to look into that"
| Authority for priorities stems from
the Second War Powers Act. Gov.
ernment attorneys have decided
ceilings could not be fixed under the
act.
To search out and attempt te
crack all bottlenecks affecting home
construction, Mr.. Truman yesterday
appointed Wilson Wyatt, former
Mayor of Louisville, to be housing
expediter in the Office of War Mo.
bilization and Reconversion.
The President gave the price cell
ing legislation his blessing by in.
dorsing statement by Reconversior
Director John w. Snyder that "sucf
authority is essential if we are tt
avert further sky-rocketing of hom,
prices"
At Albany. NJ Y, Undersecretary
of Commerce Alfred SCHNEIDER sale
materials should be available to NEE
all building demands "by early fall
In speech at the 50th annual con.
ference of the Building Industry
Employees of New York State, he pre-.
dicted materials lin reasonably fail
supply" by summer.
He said the industry should take
page out of the history of Other
industries and build in the interest
OF the consumer at price the con.
Sumer can afford to pay"
Evening star., 1945-12-13
HOUSING
Continued From First Page }

the pending legislation on housing
ceilings, termed the Presidents in.
dorsement and priorities program
steps lin the right direction"
But Representative Wolcott OF
Michigan, ranking Republican men,
ber of the Banking Committee, ex-
pressed the opinion to a reporter
that the Patman bill has no chance
OF passing in its present form.
The bill provides that the CELL
ing on an existing home would be
the first price at which it sells after
enactment of the legislation. On
new homes, the ceiling would be
based on actual construction costs
the fair market value of the land
and the contractors 1941 profit mar
gin on a comparable dwelling.
Under the bill, ceilings would be
fixed only in areas where they were
deemed necessary by housing di-
rector.
Viewed as Effective Plan.
Chairman Spence of the Banking
Committee said the ALLEGATION of
building materials to dwellings cost
ing $4,000 or less seemed to be
an effective means of price control.
He added, however. that since the
Government has no absolute au-
thority" to fix actua1 ceilings on
Evening star., 1945-12-13
Accidental Stabbinq
Followed Attack, Wise
Says in Staying Case

Charles D. Wise. 81, retired iron.
worker, charged WITH second-degrec
murder in the fatal stabbing last
July OF James r. Mcclellan, 5e
testified in District Court today
that Mr.. Mcclellan and his brother
Thomas, had assaulted him before
the stabbing.
Wise, who lives in the 1900 block
OF Thirty fourth street NV, toId
the jury the two followed him
as he turned to go home, and that
the stabbing occurred accidentally
IN tuSsle with penknife he had
been using to cut a plug of tobacco
The fatal encounter took place
after Wise had offered to help James
McClellan's wife. Mrs. Bridget l..
Mcclellan, off streetcar at Wis
consin avenue and r street NV.
early in the morning of July 81. The
McClellan's then lived in the 5000
block OF Reservoir road NV. Mrs.
Mcclellan now lives in Brookville
Md.
AS testimony resumed this morn
ing, Mrs. Mcclellan was the first
witness. She explained that, ac-
companied by her husband and
brother-in-law, she had stepped off
a Wisconsin avenue streetcar at r
street Immediately after Wise. He
held out his arms, she said, and
offered to help her off the car.
Il said, No, thank you, my hus-
bands with me, she testified. and
that later Wise trailed the three
south on Wisconsin avenue. About
half way down the block she said
he put his hands around my back"
She added that this gesture had
leo TO an argument.
Under cross-examination by De-
fense Attorney Charles E. Ford Mrs
Wise admitted that her husband
brother-in-law and she earlier had
visited two tap rooms and had
three or four beers"
Evening star., 1945-12-13

7:30. still felt drowsy and bad. ]
took two more at 1920. I woke up
in the Sanitarium. At the time l
didn't know where I was"
Sergeants Carl G. Darnell and
Ray Aggleson, on night duty, were
the two officers who took Capt
Strange to the police precinct from
Sixth and A streets Sc Capt
Strange denied the statement of
Sergt. Darnell that he was stagger-
ing and leaning on the rail of a
flight of steps at the Sixth street
address.
After Inspector Callahan sus-
pended me l was taken to Gallinger
Hospital, Capt. Strange said. BY
this time l realized it was no use to
fight back, so decided to wait until
later to prove l was right"
In a croSs-eXamlnation Capt.
Strange said he went to the Sixth
street address to Straighten up his
clothes and have friends there take
him home
I was not intoxicated at any
time-and if any one smelled liquor
on me it was the two drinks l had
at the Sanltarium. he said.
Evening star., 1945-12-13
Strange
Continued From First Page !

band was nervous from taking
pills"
Miss Olive c. Noffsinger, practica
nurse attached to the sanitarium
told the board she saw Capt. Strange
for the first time about 1870 pm
on November %, shortly after he
reached the hospital. She said he
was administered a bromide anc
one ounce of whisky, a treatment
repeated at 7 pm.
Allowed to Depart.
Later he demanded that he be
released. she said. adding: eve
called cab and let him go. Ap-
parently he was all right. except
for being drowsy"
Other witnesses called were DR.
Richard M. Rosenberg, District
deputy coroner; John H. Hardy
Maryland taxi driver who brought
Capt. Strange to the District line
and Raymond L. Thompson, District
of Columbia taxi driver, who took
MIN to place in the 100 block Of
Sixth street Sc.
Capt. Strange, taking the stand
stated he had been working hare
and was worrying about his mother
being sick. He said he met DR.
Goodloe at Fourteenth and U streets
NV. on November % and told him
OF feeling restless and tired and OF
having a headache. DR.. Goodfoe
gave him a prescription for some
pills" he said.
Il went home then and took two
at II pm, then went to bed," he
testified. MY wife had to shake me
to get me up the next morning al
Evening star., 1945-12-13

- ~ lis ideas bore only slight re-
semblance to the Truman proposal.
He described the bill as "step in
the right direction" and added that
he was in favor of the fact-finding
idea. Mr.. Mosher said, however,
that he thought Congress should go
much further and make labor and
management equally responsible
under the law"
Regarding the bill, he said its
scope should be limited to disputes
in public utilities; the fact-finding
commissions should not have power
either of subpoena or to make rec
concentrations for settlement. Then,
the bill should have enforcement
provisions allowing court action for
violations
Evening star., 1945-12-13
T raining
Continued From First Page.

pate, Pvt. Mark threw the commit
tee and the audience of be-ribboned
Army and Navy officers into an
uproar when he said that, in pri-
vate life, he was hair tonic sales
man.
His opposition TO universal mill
tary training, requested by Presi-
dent Truman and backed by the
Army and the Navy, he said
stemmed from his belief that it is
not the democratic way" to raise
an Army unless all other methods
fail. He felt certain. he said. that
voluntary enlistments would be ade-
quate.
But, he said, the volunteer plan
might fail because the Penagon
Boy Scouts have been "undermin-
ing VOLUNTEER enlistments and fore
ing the Congress to pass a COM
pulsory military training program. y
"Aristocratic phoneys of the Pen
tagon Castle has practically atom
lied the members OF Congress from
individual thinking" Pvt. Mark as
serted. "Bemedaled fourf1ushers
who pass out decorations with one
hand and doctored reports on de-
mobilization with the other hand
still exist"
The entire universal training idea,
he declared. is the product of the
Army brass hats"
"They want a LARGE arroy to ratoip
the officers" he said. These brass
hats don't like work If they did
they wouldn't be in the Army
They're in the Army as officers be-
cause they cannot make a fight in
the competitive game"
His own observation, he testified
was that men in the ranks are op-
posed to compulsory peacetime
training.
Evening star., 1945-12-13
by telephone after the attack had

py telephone after the attack had
started.
The general said his recollection
Is that he put in that later call and
while talking to an officer in Hawaii
heard the bombs fall. He told Mr.
Keefe he does not recall how long
it took to get that call through.
Gen. Marshall said he did know
personally that the FBI had direct
radio hookup from Bainbridge, Md,
to San Diego and from there to Ha-
Waii, but he had no doubt the War
Department was aware of it. He
said he believes every one in his
office at the War Department that
Sunday morning thought the Army
radio could get the final warning
through and did get it through to
the Philippines and the Caribbean
area. He said the Army radio
could not raise Hawaii and then
sent the message by commercial
wire and radio. 1t did not arrive
until several hours after the attack.
Evening star., 1945-12-13
Labor
Continued From First Page ,

taken by Congress this session, 1t
appeared the bill would be of little
value in solving current industrial
troubles.
II was drafted to set aside a l942
Supreme Court decision involving
prosecution of New York local of
the AFL Teamsters' Union for al
legged violation OF the 1884 law.
The union and Is individuals were
accused of forcing nonmember pro-
duce truckers entering New York
markets to pay them fees. They
were charged with violation of the
laws ban against interfering with
interstate commerce by violence,
threats or coercion.
Teamsters Ruled Exempt.
The Supreme Court ruled the 1884
law did not apply to the teafnsters.
In addition to broadening the ex-
isting law by prohibiting robbery
and "eXtortion," the bill passed by
the House eliminates these clauses
from the law:
A stipulation that money. property
or valuable considerations shall not
be deemed to include wages paid
by bona f1de employer to bona
fide enploye"
A provision that mo court of the
United States shall construe or ap-
ply any of the privisions of this act
In such a manner as to impair
diminish, or In any manner affect
the rights of bona fide labor organi-
cations in lawfully carrying out"
their legitimate objectives.
The existence of those clauses in
the law, hackers of the bill argued,
led to the Supreme Court ruling.
Increases Prison Term.
The bill also increases from 10 to
20 years the maximum prison sem
tence for violations, but does not
change the maximum fine of $4,000.
After AFL President William
Green had blasted the Truman fact
finding proposal with it's 30-day
moratorium on work stoppages as
illegal and subjecting labor to 'in-
voluntary servitude," the House La
Dor Committee yesterday heard Ira
Mosher. president of the National
Association of Manufacturers, give
qualified Endorsement to the bill
Mr.. Mosher suggested so many
changes in the measure, however.
Evening star., 1945-12-13

ification of the Breton Woods plan.
I'VE should have to undergo great
er privations and hardship In the
terms of our economic life than even
during the war" Mr. Dalton said,
"and all those bright hopes of bet
ter times in the hour of victory
would be dissipated in despair and
grave disillusion."
Sir John Anderson, Independent,
said, though there is much to be
said in criticism of these arrange
ments, 1, for my part. do not doubt
that the government have secured
the best terms that were open to
them in existing circumstances.
Taking course reported to have
been recommended by Winston
Churchill at a Conservative party
meeting yesterday morning, Sir John
said he and his friends have con-
cluded that we should not oppose
the motion which is before the
House on the other hand,
we will not vote for it. and we ad-
wise our supporters similarly to abb
STAIN
Evening star., 1945-12-13

les of Anglo-Saxon law any such
grotesque proceedings"
Capt. Thomas j. Ryan, r., Navy
judge advocate. who is prosecuting
Capt. McVay on charges of negh-
gence and inefficiency in the loss o1
the cruiser, replied that only "the
emotional aspects are being stressed
in the objections.
He declared that Hashimoto was
not being asked to give opinions but
to testify to facts-What he saw and
what he did. AS matter of record
he said, many cases are being tried
overseas against American forces
in which enemy testimony is used.
Oath Causes Discussion.
A lengthy discussion was caused
by the nature of the oath admin
istered to the japanese, who said he
Is of the Shintoist faith.
Prior to his admission as a wit
ness, Comdr. Hashimoto was inter-
rogated to determine how binding
the oaths would be upon his con-
science.
Speaking through two interpret
.ers, Comdr. John R. Bromley, a
member of the Office of Naval Intel
llgence, and Francis r. Eastlake
1912 North Taylor street, Arlington
who was born in Japan and spent 18
years there, Hashimoto identified
himself as a commander of the
Imperial Majesty's navy reserves
and that he had been promoted to
commander on September 6, several
weeks after the wars end.
Have you received any threats
or promises of any kind which might
influence you in giving testimony?
he was asked by Capt. Ryan.
No Threats or Promises.
Il have received neither threats
nor promises" he replied.
Earlier, Capt. Cady asked if he
knew the meaning Of truth and
falsehood."
Il am fully aware of the differ
ences,' Hashimoto replied. He add
ed that he knew he would be pun
ished for perjury and that he would
be punished during his lifetime, but
that his soul would be forgiven of
all perjury in the hereafter
To the best of his knowledge
Hashimoto said his name was not
on a list of any war criminals.
On completion of this prelim-
mary testimony. the court directed
that he be admitted AS a witness
and that two oaths be given. one the
Navy oath with changes. The word
affirm was substituted for the
word swear" and the words this
you do under pain and penalty of
perjury were substituted for the
words so help you God"
The second was the japanese
naval court-martial oath which
said: Il swear to tell the truth.
neither adding thereto nor conceal
ing any matter whatsoever.