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Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-18
Germany Hints
AT Use Of
Wonder Weapon

STOCKHOLM, Feb. II. CUP) -
There were reports from Berlin
Saturday that the NaZis were about
to unveil wonder weapon" which
might cause the Allies to retaliate
with poison gas.
The reports were taken to mean
that high Nazi quarters were giving
serious consideration to the posi-
bility of gas warfare.
The Nazis were represented as
sidestepping any intimation that
they themselves might start using
gas. Their wonder weapon, they
said, could not be classified as
chemical warfare" At the same
time they frankly admitted the pos
sibility that tine Allies would take
a different view of the matter and
use gas in reprisal.
German army, SIS elite guard, and
air raid precaution chiefs were said
to have received secret instructions
to speed up their anti-gas measures
They were ordered to examine old
and distribute new masks, provide
gas proof Shelters. and tighten up
regulations for public shelters.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-18
Imperial Woman
Faces Suit on
Pension Payments

Imperial county has filed suit
against Agnes White of Imperial
for 1892 and seven per cent inter-
est since March l, 1943, alleging
that the money was old age security
payments made to her late husband,
Richard w. White, at the time the
couple had a joint bank account
which totaled $9807 in 1943.
In the suit, filed in Imperial coun-
ty superior court, it was alleged that
the defendant had a postal savings
account Of 1924 and the couple a
Joint bank account of $5255 at the
time White applied for old age Sc
curity in 1898. BY l943, the COM
plant said, the bank account had
increased to $9807.
White died February "a, 1913.
From June /, 1943 until March l,
1943, the complaint alleged, White
was paid $50 month under the
ole -age security act.
1t also was alleged that before
the payments were allotted White,
he and his wife declared that there
was no one to support the man. They
admitted at the time he applied for
ole age relief, it was alleged. that
they had real estate that did not
exceed $40o in value. Welfare de-
partment employees, it was alleged,
asked the banks if the Whites had
money on oeposit and were inform
ed that they had not.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-18
18 Steel Firms
Draw Fines

TRENTON, N. j.. Feb. II. CUP)
Eighteen steel companies and six
CT their officers were fined total
Of $240,000 Saturday after pleading
nolo contendere to a federal charge
of conspiracy to fix prices on STAIN
less steel products.
The fines, $4,000 each on each of
two counts against the "a defend
ants, were fixed by federal judge
Philip Forman en- recommendation
of A. w. Storms, special assistant
to attorney general Francis Biddle.
Josiah Stryker, spokesman for the
defendants counsel, all of whom
were present in court, said the nolo
contendere plea had been made be-
caus it was felt lcng trial would
hinder the war work in which the
companies are now engaged.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-18
Wallace Faces
Final Fight

Senator Robert A. Taft, (R),
Ohio, chairman of the Republican
steering committee in the senate,
freely predicted that when that
time comes well have quite bat
tle."
Senator Kenneth S. Wherry, (R)
Nebraska, Republican whip in the
senate, said he was going to vote
against Wallace regardless of the
legislation.
L think that if the bill becomes
law Wallace definitely will have a
better chance for confirmation, F."
Wherry said. But 1 feel that re-
gardless of the George bill the
senate has definite responsibility
to confirm only those whom we feel
conform to our fundamental prin-
ciples of government. Wallace
doesn't fit that picture"
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-18

on the Berlln-BreSlau railway ana
on the Boter river, to the First
Ukrainian army driving west to-
ward Dresden and northwest toward
Berlin.
GREATEST CAMPAIGN
Moscow dispatches said the Red
air force was carrying out one of
its greatest campaigns Of the war
over the Ocer, Neisse, and Spree
valleys.
Fighting off German planes shift
ed from the western front, Soviet
reports said, the Russian airmen
blasted German air fields, spread
havoc through their communica-
tions, and scattered troop concen-
trations along and behind the front.
| Rec Star, the Soviet military
journal said that for three success
sive days the Russians flew 10000
sorties a day.
A front dispatch to the Commun-
ist party organ Pravda said Rus
sian mobile forces had broken
through to the Neisse river on a
broad front reaching within IL
miles of Cottbus, major base in the
Continued on Pg. 6, Col. u
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-18
Cummings Joins
Treaty Fight

ator Alexander Wiley (R0 Wiscon-
sin, on behalf of Senator Hiram w.
johnson (R0 California, Cummings
said:
1T is my opinion that, so long
as the uses of water possible in
Mexico from the unregulated nat
ural flow Of the Colorado river are
not impaired by Boulder Dam, any
arrangement by the United States
which would require Boulder Dam
storage to be used for Mexico Chat
is, for purposes outside the terri
torial limits of the United States
would constitute an impairment of
the rights of the state of California
under its separate compact with
the United States"
GIVEN ON REQUEST
Cummings brief was prepared at
the request of the Colorado river
board of California.
He emphasized that he did not
venture an opinion as to the power
Of the United States government
to override California's contractual
obligations if it wished to.
Cummings said that the Boulder
Canyon project act and the Colora-
CO river compact created separate
compact between the United States
and California since California ex-
pressly agreed to limit her use Of
Colorado water to 4,500,000 acre feet
ir return for the use of Boulder
Dam storage.
Compacts of that nature, Cum
mings said, are considered binding
uncer law, cannot lawfully be in
fringed, and frequently govern prop
erty rights. In the west, he noted
water rights are considered IAN
important form of property"
Upon the faith of these under
takings by the United States, Cali
fornia through its agencies entered
into contracts, made commit
ments with the United States, and
expended funds and incurred obli-
cations for the construction of
works for local distribution OF
Boulder water"
CITES BOULDER PACT
The Boulder Canyon project act,
which he deemed binding upon the
government, specifically declares
Continued on Page 6, Col. -
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-18
Berlin ProcIaims
Sinking Of Il
Ships in Convoy

LONDON, Feb. II (UP)-A broad
cast German communique claimed
Saturday that Nazi torpedo planes
and U-boats sank at least II Allied
merchant vessels and seven war;
ships from a convoy en- route to
Murmansk recently.
The British Admiralty only Friday
said a convoy had made a round
trip voyage from Britain to north
ern Russia without the loss of a
ship. The admiralty acknowledged
that one British plane was lost in
the operation,' but said that four
German U-boats and three planes
probably were destroyed.
The German communique claimed
that torpedo-planes sank four ships
and five destroyers, while U-boatS
destroyed seven merchant ships,
totalling 47,5OO tons, one destroyer
and ore escort vessel.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-18

WASHINGTON, Feb. II. UP)-
House passage of the George bill
cleared the way Saturday for SEN
ate confirmation of Henry A. Wal
lace as secretary of commerce.
There appeared little doubt that
Wallace would be confirmed after
President Roosevelt signed the bill
stripping the commerce job of con-
troll over the multi-billion dollar
reconstruction finance corporation
and its subsidiaries. The President
has said he will sign it,
Senate Republican leaders con-
ceded that house acceptance of the
measure without amendments i'm
proud Wallace's chances for con-
firmation. They served notice how
ever, that he wouldn't get the post
without a fight. The senate vote
on the Wallace nomination has
been set for March /.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-18

followed by only 48 hours an am
phibious landing on the southern
tip of Bataan, five miles north of
Corregidor.
PLANES SPREAD ATTACKS
In the Izu islands-at least 200
American carrier planes have been
attacking the stepping stone island
of Hachijo, 200 miles south of Tokyo.
since early Friday.
In Japan-HunC reds of American
carrier planes, attacking in waves
an hour and half apart, raided
Tokyo for at least eight and a half
hours Saturday following Fridays
raid of nine to 10 hours. A Tokyo
newspaper said American forces may
be planning to invade the Japanese
| homeland.
A Tokyo broadcast at 0:06 pm.
(8:06 am. EWT) said the air raid
warning was still continuing in the
Tokyo yokohama area because of
an unknown object in the southern
waters" Fourteen minutes later To-
kyo said one American plane was
flying northward over the Izu ISL
ands toward the capital
The purported landing on the
strategic air base island of Two put
American troops for the first time
on Japaaese soil administered as
part of the Tokyo prefecture.
CLAIM COUNTER ATTACKS
A Japanese communique claimed
communicating japanese batter
les and planes at Two sank battle
ship, two cruisers and two other
ships in the invasion fleet. Three
assault landing craft were damaged
and 10 American planes shot down,
the communique said.
The report of the invasion came
on the second day of an earth
shaking bombardment of Two by
more than &c American warships-
ranging from battleships to destroy
ers-and scores of carrier and land
based bombers. Most shore batteries
Continued on Pg. 6, Col. y
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-18
YANkS land ON JAP Sol
Canadian Forces
Cut Highway on
Siegfried Line
Plunge Forward More
Than Two Miles to
Peril Two Key Points

PARIS, Feb. II. CUP)-
Canadian First army troops
plunged forward more than
two miles in the northern Sec
ton of the Siegfried line Sat
urday, cut the Goch-Calcar
highway, and closed within
a little more than a mile of
both Goch and Calcar.
General H. D. G.. Crerar's forces,
overcoming stiff German resistance
and flooded battlegrouncS threw
their lower Rhineland offensive into
high gear.
KEYSTONE BASE
First army troops were fighting
on three sides of Goch, keystone
base of the German defense front.
Infantry and tanks pushing along
the road from Kleve we're closing
against Calcar.
The advance across the roao link
ing the strongholdS weakened the
German grip on both.
A third town, Uedem, was threat
ened by the drive across the Goch-
Calcar highway. Uedem is four miles
southeast of Goch and five south
Of Calcar.
Field dispatches said Nazi resis-
tance was softening under the
shattering ground and air assault
and the battle of the Rhineland
appeared to be merging swiftly into
the battle of the Ruhr.
More than $500 American and
British warplanes set the offensive
rolling Friday afternoon. laying a
terrible pattern of bombs and gun
fire across the Maas-Rhine bottle
neck. Elements of eight Nazi civil
sions were caught in the path OF
the aerial scythe and buried in the
wreckage of their fortified villages
and field Notifications.
PUSH AHEAD
On their left flank, Crerar's troops
captured Huisber6en, four miles
Continued on Pg. 6, Col. g.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-18
Order to Induct
Idle Workers
Stirs New Dispute

WASHINGTON, Feb. II. (UP)-
Mutterings were heard on Capitol
Hill Saturday over the army's de-
cision to put job-quitting 4-Fs into
war plants az soldiers in uniform at
Gil pay.
Senator A. B. Happy" Chandler,
CD, Kentucky, a member of the
senate military affairs committee,
said he would ask the committee
to study the war depal tment order
for training and assignment of
drafted 4-FS.
II think caution should be eXer-
cised when it comes to ordering
people around" he said. II think
We'll want to study that order and
see if there is a basis in law for
it,"
The army announced Friday that
4-Fs inducted under selective ser
vices new limited work or fight
order would receive four weeks of
basic training at Camp Ellis, near
Peoria, Illinois.
After the four weeks those with
special skills who offered to do war
work would he allowed to take jobs
as civilians at prevailing wages, but
would be carried on the rClls of the
enlisted reserve corps and subject
to immediate recall if they quit
their war jobs.
Those with special skills who did
not volunteer, the army said, would
be put in government war plants
where they would work las uni
fo.med soldiers" presumably at
army pay: $50 month.
Those without needed skills or a
desire to do war work would be
assigned to various operating in
stallations" in the army-the Ia
trine detail, some observers sug-
geSted
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-18
Tokyo Says Troops
Move Onto Wo
Enemy Reports Say Americans Meet
Defeat in First Homeland Thrust;
Soldiers Swarm Ashore on Correqidor

ADMIRAL NIMITZ'S HEADQUARTERS, Guam, Feb
L. (UP)Radio Tokyo reported that American invasion
forces stormed ashore historic Corregdor and Two
island only $50 miles south of Tokyo Saturday while
rier planes still blasting the smoking japanese cap
tai itself for the second straight day.
Only the carrierbased raids Tokyo and continuing
arnava bOmbardment of Two confirmed by official
American but the japanese radio told of these
developments along 24O0mile from Tokyo to Manila
In the Volcano islands-American troops swarmed
the southwest and southeast beaches of Two after two land
ngs only 10 minutes apart Tokyo added the customary
claim that the troops had been repused after fierce fight
ing.
In the Phlippnes-American paratroopers, dropping
from the transport planes and seabone troops invaded
Corregdor island at the entrance to Manila Bay and fierce
fighting under the southern shores The thrusts
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-18
Valley Pioneer
8b, Dies at
Ranch Residence

Alfred Malcolm Mealey, 86, who
walked from place to place in Impe-
rial Valley in 1906 in search of work,
died early Saturday morning at his
ranch home 10 miles west of Impe-
rial.
Funeral services will be held at
the Lemons-Wiley mortuary at 10
am. Tuesday with the Rev. Elmer
Wilcer of Imperial officiating. Bur-
ial will be in Evergreen cemetery
After walking from desert COM
munity to desert community seek
ing employment, Mealey was hired
to grub brush in land clearing
.project on one of the valley ranch
es. He then was hired as plumber
and timer and still later established
Continued on Pg. 6, Col. u
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-18

GLENDALE, Cal, Feb. II. (UP)
"A score of teen age boys we're
questioned Saturday by police in
hunt for the killer of Donald Paul
Meikle, 26, who was shot and killed
Friday night by two boy burglars
he surprised ransacking his home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Meikle, their two
children, and Arthur ORGY, 8-year-
ole brother of Mrs. Meikle, returned
home Friday night from Mrs. Mel
kle's sisters wedding party in Bur-
bank when they heard their radio
tuned to police calls.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-18
Kansas Farmers
Lose Grain for
Transport Lack

MANHATTAN, Kan, Feb. IT.
(UP)-A grain storage survey in Is
southwestern Kansas counties re-
vealed Saturday that more than
2.480,O00 bushels of grain sorghum
piled on the ground is spelling from
exposure.
A shortage of grain cars was
blamed for the presence in eleva-
tors and on farms of an additional
6,980,000 bushels of grain sorghums
and 16,780,0CO bushels of wheat
awaiting shipment to their locali-
ties.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-18
U. 5. Liquor Tax
TOPS z Billions

WASHINGTON, Feb. II. CUP) -
The federal government collected
more than two billion dollars in
alcohol taxes in 1914, the treasury
revealed Saturday.
Specifically, it collected $2,O83,-
452,875. That was an increase of
more than one-third over the ST.
454,20l,725 collected in 1943.
The 1914 collections broke down
thus: distilled spirits, $1,4O1 ,O62, ,728;
wines, cordials, ETC., SAT, ,478;
beer and ale, 1924, 4,458, ,735; and spec
ial or occupational taxes, $40, ,734 ,929.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-18
Teen-Agers Face
SIaying Quiz

Meikle called out and two shots
were fired from the bedroom. Two
youths then dashed by, and Meikle
followed them to the front steps,
where he collapsed. He warned his
wife not to follow them Meikle died
at the Physicians ano Surgeons
hospital
A gang of boys has been looting
Meikle's pie truck which he parks
at night in his backyard. After the
Staying, police questioned a score
OF boys in an effort to gain a clue,
but released the youths.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-18

increased acreages in seasonal crops
ahead tend to indicate larger num-
Der in fields and sheds than last
year.
Lettuce workers again set the
pace in numbers, although the car
rot crop this year has called for
more men in both shecs and fields.
The peak on this crop now stands
around $500.
Pea picking is employing 1900 ana
q like number is thinning and weed
ing cantaloupes. The melon crops
this year show material acreage
changes over last year, Garrigues
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-18

said. For cantaloupes the paintings
almost are doubled while waermelon
growers have .cut their acreage 80
per cent or more, due to an unsatis-
factory ceiling price Sc. by the gov
ernment.
The outlook is for heavy hay
crop anc more workers will be re-
quired than last year, the farm
labor board executive believes, In
itial plans for recruiting balerS are
under way.
Low ebb in the current years
worker force was reached last Aug
ust when 5000 filled needs.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-18
Crops Workers in Valley
Redch Peak Of 14.3O0

Seasonal and permanent
crop and shed workers in
the Valley at the moment
muster a young army, 300
strong, according to George
Garrigues, director of the
Farm Labor board. The force
will hold at that strength till the
end of February and then will taper
off as the lettuce season wanes and
passes into history, said Garrigues.
There is only slight variance over
the peak labor load at this time
last year, it was announced, but
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-18

WASHINGTON, Feb. II. CUP)-
Former Attorney General Homer S.
Cummings Saturday declared that
the proposed Mexican water treaty
would impair the rights of California
under its water contract with the
feceral government.
In a brief filed with the senate
foreign relations committee by SEN
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-18
Dakota Outlaws
Closed Shop:
Contest Slated

PIERRE, S. D., Feb. II. CUP) =
A bill outlawing the closed shop
in South Dakota was signed Sat
urday by Gov M. @. Sharpe.
A court test of the measures con-
Stitutionality was expected. Since
A. j. Mag of Huron, president of
the state federation of labor, had
promised that his organization
would fight the bill on the ground
that it violates contractual rights.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-18
WEATHER FORECAST

Partly cloudy Saturday night.
Sunday. Clearing again by Monday
Little change IN daytime tempcra-
lures with the maximum around
IA degrees. Warmer at night with
Temperatures above 81 degrees.
This Is expected 10 be tbs last
forecast made this season by Roy
Simpson of the United states
weather bureau.)
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-18
Ten Meet Death in Tacoma
Apartment Building Fire

TACOMA, Wash, Feb. II.
(UP)-Fire-trapped scream
ing tenants at jammed Win
dows and fire escapes of an
apartment house here early
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-18

Saturday took an estimated
10 lives, with the fire chief
saying the toll would run
considerably higher.
Flames blocked all other exits at
the five-story, 40-apartment May
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-18
Russians Doom
BreSIdu i'm
Smashing Drive
SiIesian Capital EncircIed Under
Terrific Air. Land Onslaught;
Spearhead Now 81 Miles of Berlin

LONDON, Feb. II. (UP)-The German high command
said Saturday that Russian siege army had broken into
Breslau, encrcled capital Of Silesa.
A Berlin communique acknowledged Soviet penetra-
ton in attacks the fortress of Bresau Other reports
indicated that the industrial city of than 100000
the Oder doomed
The Naz command admitted the loss of Sagan key city
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-18
This Is Strategy

This Is Strategy s. ....,s... .s-s.g.
Even though they die have a big
golf match against each other Sat-
urday, Vic Blalack and Les Rogers
couldn't stay away from the big
Imperial Valley Shrine club blow
out at the Barbara Worth hotel
Friday night.
Each tried to get the other to
break food training.
Have one on me- Vic would
urge Les, and visa versa.
They visa versae6 around all
evening with generous offers to set
'em up for each other.
All strategy failed Neither could
break the other down.
They sat around and toasted the
Continued on Pg. 6, Col. g
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-18
= AMBlINe
EpoRTER
The Perfect Record

The Perfect Record
Every one of the. 412 children at
tending Mckinley school in Ell Cen
tro has contributed to the March of
Dimes this year.
That makes it leo per cent per-
feet.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-18

l.. A. HAY-NO barley hay SS6 % S29; No. oat
hay SS6 % S37; u. $. No. alfalfa ungraded, S29
"a S31; u. S. No. 2 alfalfa, green g. leafy, $27
a S29; No. $24 a SIS.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-18
WEATHER

aYimum Friday "a, minimum Saturday 40; 5 am.
aturday As, humidity sc; noon Saturday 75 hui
idity %; pm. Friday 20, humidity 28.
Evening star., 1945-06-07
DR.. Byrd Is Willing
10 Talk With Critics

President H. c. Byrd of the Uni
versity of Maryland yesterday Of
fered to hear "at any time" a stu
dent committee that charged neglect
of fundamental" democracy on the
campus.
DR.. Byrd denied a number OF the
charges the students made in q
1,700-word report. He commented
that the students statement tina,
the university charter gave almost
COMP tie control to him "is obviously
not sound, nor is the statement
that the administration reserves the
right to change the curricula at any
time.
"As to the statement that 100 pro-
fessors have left the university,
don't undertake to say exactly how
many have left, but it is true that
there has been an unusual turnover
in the last three years in the faculty
and much the same thing has hap
pened in other American colleges.
Il do not think there is as much
criticism Of the Americanization
program as has been indicated
1t may be that some professor
who. has specialized in some remote
field of literature or history objects
because the new course interiors
with what he would like to teach y
The university, president also said
ne felt sure professors would invite
outside scholars If the students ex-
pressed interest, and added that he
was not so powerful in university
affairs as the students had rep
resented.
Evening star., 1945-06-07
Under Age Veterans
Eligible for Loans
Under Randolph Bill

Under-age veterans who reside ir
the District would be permitted tt
obtain home improvement loans
from building and loan associations
in the same manner as men of lega
majority, under terms of a bill
placed before the House today by
Chairman Randolph of the District
Committee.
The bill, known as the District
Servicemen's Readjustment Enabl-
ing Act, is oferedEas an amendment
to the "GI Bill of Rights"
Mr.. Randolph has been advised
that the proposal is approved by the
legislative representatives of the
Veterans of Foreign Wars and the
American Legion.
Mr.. Randolph said 10 States so
far have passed similar measures to
remove the minority disability
from veterans and their wives and
that a number of other States are
considering similar steps.
A provision of the Randolph bill
would allow all savings and loan and
building\and loan institutions in the
District to make property improve
ment loans under title l or the Ma
tional Housing Act. Mr.. Randolph
said all Jurisdictions except the Dis
trict now allow their State-char-
tered building and loan associa-
tions to make such loans.
Another section allows building
and loan associations of the District
to make loans to veterans of this
war when such loans are guaranteed
in whole or in part by a loan guar
antee certificate issued under the
Servicemen's Readjustment Act. AT
present, Mr.. Randolph explained
building and loan associations here
unlike other financial institutions
are unable to make unsecured loans
or loans which are junior to an
other mortgage, under the GI bill
The measure contains provisions
limiting the amounts of unsecured
loans such association may make
which are not insured or guar
anteed by Federal agency. One
provision limits a loan to veteran
to $4,000 and another is that un-
secured loans not guaranteed by a
Federal agency may not total more
than Is per cent of an association S
assets.