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St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-01-12
Librarian :
MINI MINI Historical Society
UncOvering
Washington
By Harry S. McAlpin

Hopes for a more liberal Con-
gress took terrific beating on the
first day of the 10th Congress. Both
the House and the
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Visitors

Visitors at the office this week were:
Mrs. Betty Lou Wilson and T. d. Wilson,
Kansas City, Mo-; Albert NJ. Johson s 1/c,
Mariana, Ark. Rev. VIM. E. Guy and
Harve J. T. Mcclure. st. Paul.
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Sam Miller, 1914 Fourth Ave. So,
returned last week from a trip
through the South and East.
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Adam Powell Calls
Rankin Leader American
Fascists in.Sharp RetOrt
Dores Runldn to Nome Him to New Dies
Committee

(By Wire NNPA Washington Bureau)
Washington, D. C-COngressman Adam Clayton Powell
quick to Mississippi Congressman John Ranns
attack him reported the radio and in the daily press
this week.
Representative Powell Jr first Negro elected to Con-
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After ten years of service this
paper is a community institutiOni
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spiruals will climax the recital presented
Marian Anderson worlds foremost cono Sunday
Minneapolis Auditorium Concert Bowl The concert will start
$3.50 m.
SCOTS Sunday afternoon music series.
Mrs Scott indicated house expected
who making tenth annual visit the Twin Cities.
still available however, the Office
western National Bank building, Minneapolis Schcks
in St. Paul.
The auditorium ticket office will Sunday
modate late ticket purchasers.
Miss Anderson due Minneapolis Saturday morning
and will rest here her recital.
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Not the biggest paper but one of
the BEST.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-12
Utility Workers
Schedule Strike

SAN FRANCISCO. April u. (UP)
"A strike of $3.50 AFL electricians
employed by the Pacific Gas &
Electric Co., in nine northern Cali
fornia divisions outside the San
Francisco Bay area will be calleo
at o a m Anvil 49, the union an
aounced Thursday.
The executive BOARD of the AFL
rntarratio,al Brotherhood of Elec-
trical Workers set the strike date as
climax TO a monthS-lono waoe
dispute with the company. Workers
voted 1923 to 1900 in favor of a
strike in a rational labor relations
board election held Monday under
provisions of the Smith-Connally
act.
Affected are employees in nine
divisions: Coast, Valley. Colgate.
Drum. Stockton, Humboldt, Sacra-
mento, San Joaquin ard Shasta.
San Francisco Bay area employees
belong to a CIO union pledged to a
strike agreement.
C. w. Mason, international union
representative said the next move
is up to the company" The War
Labor Board had warned that the
dispute would 90 to the bottom of
the docket" if there is walkout.
Employees voting to strike includ-
ed linemen. substation and power
house operators, gas workers, and
also clerical workers in five of the
divisions.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-12
Ickes Approves
Moss LANDING
Harbor Project

WASHINGTON, April IL. UP)-
Secretary of Interior Harold L. Ickes
has recommended to the war depart
ment immediate construction of har-
Dor facilities at Moss Landing. Cali
fornia Rep. George Outland, (D0,
California announced.
The work is necessary ito sustain
and increase wartime food produc-
tion," Ickes wrote Secretary of War
Henry L. Stimson. He also urged
prompt construction of similar ia
cilities at Crescent City. California.
The Moss Landing harbor would
provide safe anchorage for the
Monterey fishing fleet which now
accounts for one-fifth of the ma
tion's total sardine catch, Ickes said.
Improved harbor facilities" he
wrote. would also permit the con-
struction of freezing plants for cold
storage of fish in central California,
n service which is greatly reeded."
Outland who met last Thursday
with the Moss Landing Harbor Com
mission in California, said he be-
lieved Stimson would authorize the
project.
Ickes said the new construction
would permit expansion of fish pro-
cessing facilities on the congested
Monterey water front.
The Moss Landing project was au-
thorized by congress in the rivers
and harbors bill. 1t provided that
none of the projects should be
stared until after the war unless
certified as necessary u the war
effort by q war agency.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-12
yunks Crumble
Elbe Defenses
Continued from Page u


Mai. Gen. Isaac d. Whites Second
armored division smashed through
ID the Elbe at Magdeburg at a bet
ter than four -and-a-h half mile-an-
hour clip, one of the fastest ad-
vances ever made in this war
A dispatch from the Ninth Army
front said 1t was not known whether
Magdeburg had been captured, but
the Elbe runs through the eastern
outskirts Of the city and it was
likely that armor had knitted straight
through the center to the river.
Two railway ana two highway
bridges span the Elbe at Magdeburg
and fifth crosses the river at the
Ruhr-Berlin super-highway Just to
the north.
There is still another bridge
across the Elbe at Schoenebeck, sew
en- miles southwest of Magdeburg
The German DNB agency said the
Americans had reached the Elbe at
Schoenebeck.
Except for miner lake barriers,
the road to Berlin was wide open
beyond Magdeburg as far as the
terrain was concerned. The Ger
mans had been expected to make a
stand along the river, but the speed
of the Ninth ATmy's advance indi-
Gated that the line would be
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-12
BrawIey Awaits
Parade, Queens S
Court Contest
Continued from Page II

Continued from Page II
Queen Lois Reimer in full regalia,
members of her court. Miss West
morland," Miss Calipatria. Miss
Imperial" Mis- CaleXico" and Miss
El Centro.' the drum and bugle
corps of the Brawley Union High
school cadet corps; contestants as
piring to the title Miss Brawley."
three platoons of the High school
cadets, members of the sheriff pos
Sc, the Barbara Worth Brigadettes
colorful group of horsewomen,
horsedrawn carriages of all descrip-
tions, cowboys and horsewomen.
many of whom will be from all parts
of the county as well as the north
end, the six Boy Scout troops of
Brawley, an OK cart and oxen lent
by the Calexico Calvacade group, a
trick mule and clown. and finally a
hoosegow on wheels for delinquent
culprits who fail to don cowboy at
tire.
WESTERN ATTIRE
In connection with the parade and
contest which will boost the first
Annual Imperial Valley Roundup,
Brawley business citizens were given
notice that the members of the
Brawley Elks Club will comprise a
"vigilantes" committee to hold kang-
aroo court for any one caught with
out proper cow-poke apparel or
whiskers.
Starting Saturday every business
person is expected TO wear at least
one article of rodeo attire whether
a shirt. tie. trousers, boots. or SOM
brero. These articles must be worn
throughout the following week and
during the rodeo, the vigilantes have
decreed.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-12
Report Shows
Valley Crops
Will Be Late

A late, cold spring had its effect
on Imperial Valley agriculture, it
was indicated in the March report
County Agricultural Commissioner
B. A. Harrigan filed Thursday with
the board of supervisors.
Watermelon paintings are con-
siderably below the acreage of last
year and unfavorable weather held
the crop back. Early covered melon
acreage. however, indicates heavy
increase over paintings a year ago.
Cold and winds retarded this crop
also, resulting in prospects for n
late start in the season.
ALFALFA MOVES
Some of the new alfalfa crop
moved out in March. the report
continued, but growth has been slow.
Considerable damage from aphis
was reported. Lighter production is
expected.
Early fields of flax bloomed IN
March with the acreage generally
in good condition. Squash ship
ments, also retarded because of
cold and windy weather, are ex-
pected to increase during April.
Grapefruit and Valencia oranges
continued to move to steady mar
ketS. Shipments are expected to
continue through April.
Tomatoes continued to move out
from the Niland-Calipatria area.
The March movement, however, was
higher than in February. 1t is ex-
pected to increase in April. Markets
have remained steady.
Light asparagus shipments rolled
TO good markets in March.
CABBAGE YIELDS
Cabbage yields generally were
lighter than normal from most
fields, Harrigan's report said. Mar
kets were fair with some tonnage
moving to plants Tor dehydrating.
The deal was much weaker than
last season.
Carrot shipments continued in
March with prices steady. Acreage
was considerably less than a year
ago with normal yields reported
from harvested acreage.
The lettuce season closed with
shipments slightly exceeding those
of last year. Markets were strong
at the close with prices at ceiling,
The quality was exceptionally good
throughout the deal.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-12
FIVE MEXICANS FACE
FORGERY TRIALS

Five MeXicans were ordered to
trial in Imperial county superior
court on forgery charges after COM
pletion of a preliminary hearing in
BraWley Wednesday.
Investigating officers said the
five men are accused of implication
in forgery cases involving between
25 and 80 allegedly bad checks. All
five were ordered held in the coun-
ty Jail on $500 bail pending ap-
pearance in superior court.
The prisoners are Pablo Ruiz. 10.
one count of forgery; Rafael Velas-
quez, 10, one count: Lauro Samu-
dioz, 81, two counts; Frank Campos,
%, two counts; and Jesus Varela,
30, two counts.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-12
Soviets Strike
On Oder Front

Continued from Page II
ported ON the move, evidently into
positions to spearhead a lightning
sweep westward.
In the Danube valley west of vir-
tually-conquered Vienna, another
Red army push was aimed at Berch-
tesgaden and the Bavarian Alps,
touted as a sanctuary for the Nazi
hierarchy.
Soviet armor was reported far up
the DANUBE from Vienna and a
Nazi commentator, 1t. Col. Alfred
yon Oloorg, bluntly admitted that
the Germans were retreating in
Austria.
Two Russian armies were closing
in on the last two districts of burn
ing Vienna still in German hands.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-12
German General
Sentenced TO
Coward" Death

LONDON, April II. CUP)-The
German high command reported
Thursday that General Lasch, who
surrendered at Koenigsberg, had
been sentenced to death by hanging.
The Nazis branded Lasch a cow
ard for giving up to the Russians
at the end of the week-long siege
of Koenigsberg, capital OF East Prus-
sia.
Moscow had announced the cap
ture of Lasch. The death sentence
apparently was imposed in absentia
as token inplementation of new
decree by Gestapo Chief Heinrich
Himmler providing the extreme pen
atty under such circumstances.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-12

WASHINGTON. April II. tUPl-
Sen. Albert w. Hawkes. (R) New
Jersey, Thursday blocked a propos-
ed senate agreement to vote Mon
day on the Mexican water treaty.
Chairman Tom Connally Cd
Texas. of the foreign relations COM
mittee was SpeaEing on his request
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-12
MAJOR WINS ACQUITTAL
ON "BUZZING" CHARGES

LUKE FIELD, AriZ., April IL.
CUP)-Maj. Leland P Molland
Thursday stood acquitted by court
martial in the Luke Field "buzzing"
case.
Molland was found not guilty of
the charge that while riding in the
plane involved he permitted Capt.
Ted E. Lines to violate regulations
by flying dangerously low over Mesa.
Lines earlier was fined S2700.
Both officers distinguished them
selves in overseas combat service
before being assigned to Luke Field
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-12
Democrats Wait
Annual Dinner

S. o. McGaughy of Imperial,
chairman of the twenty-second dis
trict Democratic committee, will
preside at the Jeffersonian banquet
at the Barbara Worth hotel in Ell
Centre Friday night.
Reservations for the dinner were
exhausted before noon Thursday af-
ter committees made arrangements
to accommodate a large group of Wis
itors from Riverside and Orange
counties.
James E. Walker Of Santa Ana,
discharged veteran of this war, will
be the speaker, discussing the ap-
plication of Jeffersonian Democracy
to the present day and especially to
the veterans of World War II. Walk
er will be guest of a group of busi-
ness men of Brawley at a luncheon
in the Planters hotel at noon Friday.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-12
OLD GAG BACKFIRES

SAN DIEGO. Cal, April II. (UD
That cid gag line of Who do you
think you area policeman back
ired and landed Thomas Hendricks,
&C., in the city Jail. Hendricks made
he que of a fellow streetcar rider
who told him he shouldn't smoke
IN city trolleys. The fellow pas
senger. Police Patrolman B. w.
Weathers on his day off, took Hend-
ricks to Jail or charges of violating
city smoking law.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-12
ZOO JAPANESE SLAIN
IN BURMA BATTLE

CHUNGKING, April y. UP)-
The Indian command reported
Thursday that 1000 japanese We're
slain in the Meiktila area of Burma
by troops of the l4th army in the
three-day period ending April 9.
The slaughter took place south
and southeast of Meiktila.
The 14th continued its pressure
on Hlaingdet. eight miles east of
Thai, while in the Kyuaukpadaung
area, "a miles south of Pakokku,
they made further advances.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-12

DALLAS, Tex, April II. (UP)-
When IL members of the Army Air
Forces arrived in Dallas to give an
account of their experiences as pris-
oners of war. they expected to be
welcome to the families of men in
POW camps. But they didn't ex-
pect one reception they got. A
woman approached them with the
remark: wasn't it nice of the Ger
mans to give you furlough? When
DO you expect to go back?
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-12
RAMBLING REPORTER
Continued from Page II
Spicuous in the calaboose.
(SignedD P. L. MOORE,
Mayor, City CT El Centre.

1t Is Spring
Isn't it getting about time for the
Old Fossils to play their annual
call game with the Young Sprouts?
One of our secret operatives re-
ported strong smell of liniment
in the vicinity of Amos Chicks
house and druggists reported rush
in remedies supposed to Timber up
rheumatic joints.
Ha! the Old Fossils are getting in
a little secret training!
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-12
AssembIy's Tax
Measure Would
Cut Sales Levy
Continued from Page y

NCOnUlflueu ITOIn rage -
fits now are paid for a maximum OF
23la weeks at top of $50 a week
CUTS WAITING TIME
However the social welfare COM
mittee approved a bill to reduce
from two weeks to one week the
waiting period before which bene-
fits may not be paid to an unem-
ployed person.
The assembly education committee
approved a measure to spend $l2,-
100000 of state funds in assisting
school districts in repairing or re-
placing buildings.
The assembly municipal and
county government committee re-
fused to approve bill which would
have authorized county hospitals to
accept pay patients.
The tax reduction bill would con-
TRUE state levies voted in l943,
when the sales tax was lowered from
3 to 212 per cent. Bank and COR
poration taxes we're cut Is per cent
and higher personal income tax ex-
emptions were given.
HOW VOTE STOOD
The vote on the new 2 per cent
proposal was 38 Democratic and IA
Republican assemblymen favoring,
with 25 Republicans voting against
the amendment.
reconsideration of the vote was
moved by assemblyman Gardiner
Johnson. (R). Berkeley but was
refused by vote of 46 to 20.
johnson said he will offer amend
ments to the tax bill which in effect
would tie it to senate 100000, 900
subsidy bill similar to his own, so
that tax reduction could not be
voted unless the subsidy were ap-
proved.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-12
EI Centre Starts
Dressing Up"
For Rodeo Days
Continued from Page Il

required to pay fee of one dollar,
the entire fees collected to go into
a jackpot and the winner of the
contest will receive so per cent of
the jackpot, second and third WIN
ners to receive 25 per cent each.
The growing of whiskers in Che
Valley, in connection with the an
nual Roundup, will be made per-
manent, according to Carson Nc
Nance, head of the new Whiskerino'
Club, thus according contestants a
full year in which to grow hir-.
stute adornment.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-12
EAGLES INITIATE EIGHT
BUY MORE WAR BONDS

El Centro lodge Of Eagles Wednes-
day right initiated a class Of eight
at regular meeting. The lodge ap-
proved purchase Of another sSn01
in war bonds, bringing the total tc
S27 900.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-12

ENCINO, Cal, April Il. CUP)-.
Thomas Otis, TO- explained to police:
Thursday before he died of self
administered poison that the Bible
allotted man three score years and
ten and he thought that was plenty.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-12

preached beyond repair before the
enemy could muster effective re-
sistance.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-12
DOWNEY READY TO AGREE

DOWNEY READY TO AGREE
Sen. Sheridan Downey Cd Cal
ifornia, leading opponent of the
treaty, had been on the point of
agreeing to the motion when Hawkes.
objected
The senate earlier adopted a res
ervation to the treaty offered by
Sens. Abe Murdock Cd Utah, JOS
eph :. OMahoney CD Wyoming,
and Ernest w. Mcfarland CD
Arizona, which expressly limits
Mexico's rights under the treaty
to 100000 acre feet of Colorado
river water annually.
Opposition to the treaty appar-
emily was collapSing following in
PRODUCTION of reservations designed
to clarity the document and pro-
tect American interests.
Optimistic senate leaders were
predicting the possibility of ratifi-
cation by the necessary two-thirds
vote early next week.
Senator Downey said Wednesday
that addition of a set of reServa-
tions by Chairman Connally puts
the treaty il pretty good shape"
Downey said the senate was dead
set" against changing the guarantee
of 100000 acre feet annually of
Colorado river water TO Mexico.
the provision most opposed by Cal
ifornia.
California had hoped to reduce
the amount to 10000 acre feet, the
total Mexico received prior to The
construction of Bou.t.er Dam.
TO OFFER RESERVATIONS
Downey said he will introduce
several reservations, one of them to
obligate Mexico to take the l,50o,-
coo acre feet regardless of quality"
AS the treaty now stands, Downey
said, II carries that implied obliga-
ton. He said he wants it spelled
out"
He expressed some doubt, how
ever, that the senate would accept
his reservation.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-12
1A!'SzEHIs No.
Faefs on Navel Crop
Movement

Called on L. H. Wohlwend--who be-
came Sunkist general sales manager
on T. H. Powell's retirement the
first Of this year-and asked how the
navel crop was moving.
OF the entire tree crop of Southern
California navels, (31 500 cars) 500
had been picked by April LIST. About
$500 cars remained to be shipped
under the prorate. This compares
with 1929 cars left to ship on the
same date last year.
The crop is moving out very
steadily now, at the rate of 71sTo of
the total crop each week. If it con-
tinues to move under the present
plan, navels will be finished about
May 18th.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-12

Asked Wohlwend how come inter-
state shipments are behind last
years: $500 cars still to ship now as
against 1929 a year ago.
"There are three reasons, he said.
"First-this years crop matured
later than last years. Second The
East had some terrific weather this
winter, which slowed the movement
into Eastern markets.
"Third-the government, in order
to get snow-bound traffic unsnarled
and allow war materials to go
through as fast as possible, placed
actual embargoes on produce ship
ments at various times. On Two
occasions no car was allowed %
leave packinghouse for three days.
There were also embargo periods
when fruit was allowed to roll only
as far East as Chicago"
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-12
Wuter Treaty
Vote Blocked

for the agreement, which requires
unanimous consent, when Hawkes.
asked him to yield for a statement.
Connally refused. After Hawkes.
tried unsuccessfully several times TO
get the floor. he warned Connally
that he would have to object. When
Connally ignored the warning,
Hawkes. shouted angrily, Il object" "
That meant the request was reject
ed.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-12

At mention of the embargoes your
reporter pricked up his ears, hoping
to get dramatic story of fruit cars
stalled in snowdrifts and Sunkist
officials frantically trying to locate
them. "Must have created a terrible
mess, those embargoes," he said.
Wohlwend smiled and shook his
head. "No! In the first place, when
traffic congestion began to develop,
the Orange Prorate Committee be-
gan to reduce shipments, so that by
the time conditions got really bad,
movement of fruit was very lis.it.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-12

Furthermore, the Exchange has
Sc sales offices, manned by its own
people, covering the entire United
States and Canada. When an
Exchange Association couldn't ship
into the Eastern states it had every
market in all the rest of the US.
and Canada to choose from. And it
had, as always, complete informa-
tion on market, weather and traffic
conditions in every area, which come
in constantly by teletype to the
central sales Office here, and from
here are relayed by teletype to all
Sunkist District Exchanges through
out the citrus belt.
$50 every Exchange packinghouse
manager knew just where he could
ship his fruit and where it would
bring the best prices. And he had the
help of the Sunkist Traffic Depart
ment, long experienced in meeting
such emergencies, TO see that his
cars arrived okay, These everyday
Exchange services greatly reduced
our troubles"
Kerf report: in This paper fco rechs
from today.
California Fruit Growers Exchange
sanAiss Building. Los Angeles a5, California
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-12

NOVIIVIIIuNNl AIOIII 'bN =
fits now are paid for a maximum OF
231a weeks at top of $40 week.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-09-28

Membership in the bowling club
must necessarily be limited because
alleys and pinsetters are not too
available, so it is advisable to be at
the first meeting and get your name
on the bowling club roster for the
season.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-09-28
News With Crews
RY Emma Crews

Three little WACs Sunday, tenhour
Elaine Bloedoo and Virginia and Mary Nightingale of Wash
who left the night return their post at Fort
They Elaines parents and
WACs they and from their would say
they must be.
Murphy the bride of Cpl Bud Murphy blew
Sunday with Buds parents Bud stationed
Camp Ross, Wilmington California.
Jake Lynchs relative Milton Williams Field,
visiting the Twin Cities and left Monday Handsome
Women Day Camphor Memorial church. Sunday well
attended and the church beautifully decorated Flowers of every
color The speaker Mrs Van Krevn quite interesting
CPL Stanley Tabor fulOugh from Germany
the congregation.
Noel Harris M-Sgt, receiving discharge the Army
home Los Angeles Another time that S Paus
CALIFORNIA; gain"
newy-weds, Mr.. Talmadge Carey COM
James Brown and Marjorie Thompson enjoyed St. Paul
pay Saturday night Nice couple that Mr. Carey
their friends
you COOP Adams
You'll find good service variety of fresh vegetables, and
thing else you'd want in the line of foods
Florence Day the cities finest bower according
Bowlers pad172 The girls have gone League Bowling
at Midway, and are doing remarkably good job
How about Lambie's? All right, huh?
Cpl Eddie Hatton, in Naples Italy, Sergeant
outfit.
Would like to learn how rhumba samb
do little The W. c. A has it schedule Wedns
day nights after the Spanish conversation classes Look into it.
The Harry Nays the proud of baby girl
day. She has been named Hate after her
happy he treating everybody the other night.