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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-01-27

will observe from the Secretary's
report, reserves have been built
Up to a point where they are now
equal to nearly ten percent of the
Associations outstanding liabilities.
Another feature that has been
installed during recent years is
that of the Direct Reduction Mort
gage Loan Plan. This enables the
borrower to know at all times at a
glance what his Indebtedness is to
the Association. This modern
method OF lending is comparable
to anything of its kind being Of
fered to the public today.
THE Insured Savings is another
feature which has been installed
and is now in operation. Notwith.
standing the fact that this Asso-
citation has operated for forty-seven
years without loss, in addition
to the Reserves above mentined,
each account in the Association is
insured up to and including S., 00C
by an fundamentally of the United
States Government. These are. just
few of the modern methods which
have been adopted by your Board
of Directors for the general bene.
fit of the Shareholders. -.
Our Institution, through its Sec.
rotary, has been nationally honor
ed on several occasions, more re-
Gently in 1914, when Mr.. Willetts
was elected a Director of the Fed
eral Home Loan Bank, of which
this Association is member.
Through such contacts as this we
feel that oud institution can and
will keep abreast of the times, and
we as Officers and Directors will
see to it that the Shareholders will
be fully protected at all times.
II want to take this occasion to
thank the Shareholders present, and
those comprising our Association
for their patronage and coopera.
ton. and the Secretary and h $
Staff for their untiring efforts UNI.
der difficult circumstances n d
times, and to the Directors who
have given much thought and time
to the affairs and progress of the
Association. =
THE Secretary's report which
will follow Immediately will be
given in more detail.
Respectfully submitted,
y. H. HINTON"
President
The President, W thanked by
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-01-27

CHARLOTTE SPOT
& CHARLOTTE, Jan. 26.- Up -
Spot Cotton 2105.
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The forty-seventh annual share.
holders meeting of the Cooperative
building and Loan Association was
held at its offices, 1874 Princess St.,
II noon, yesterday with ] G. Thorn.
ton, president of The Wilmington
Savings and Trust Co., acting as
Chairman.
The president, ]. H. Hinton, gave
a remarkable report pertaining to
the affairs of the association dur.
Ing the past year, and relating to
the modern methods adopted dur.
ing recent years for the benefit
OF Its shareholders, as follows:
Ladies and Gentlemen:
In past years I have been shar.
ing with the Secretary in giving
detailed information in my report.
but this year I would like to con.
fine my comments mainly to ex-
pressing to the Shareholders our
appreciation for the cooperation
which has created a most UNIQUE
Institution, and has shown a re-
markable progress in past years.
Il have been President of this
Institution for nearly half CEN
fury, and I know of nothing that
has given me more pleasure than
to meet with, and report to you
as Shareholders from year to year
as to the progress made by our
Association. Over the past e n
years it has grown more than five
times its size which has meant
that we have been able to be OF
just that much more service to our
Shareholders and the Community.
The Cooperative is fortunate in
having group of Officers and Di-
|rectors, whose first thoughts are
alWays-"What can be done to fur
Their safeguard it's Shareholders
and the safety of their funds" The
Secretary and his staff have kept
abreast of all the modern changes,
and during recent years have caus-
ed to be adopted methods which
make this institution solid and
sound in every respect.
For instance. ten years ago Re-
serves for Contingencies were prac-
tically unheard of. and yet, as you
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-Coal- Wocd-Fuel Oh
Drug,

'fI anS GROCERY, CHOICE CUTS,
ceri ie, veal aaa seef and pork. Fancy Gro
-e--ss, aO2 North 4th St. Dial $685..
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LAND SURVEYING BY A. A. ROBBINS.
N c, registered surveyor. lib Meares
S., Wilmington.
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Business Opportunities

MALL GROCERY BUSINESS FOR
ale. Owner wishes to sell stock at
wholesale price. Building with living
quarters in rear. including fixtures.
May be rented from property owners.
Nice turn over. Address P. o. Box 1911,
Wilmington.
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EHsRPE ROOFING CO. WILMINGTON,
Phone 2-3so7 Leland 9l20 Barrett Ever
lx Shingles are designed to go over
wooden shingles, our men are exper-
.nced roofers. Ten years guarantee.
One wear to pay.
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hiropracioi
builders Supplies

NOTICE: SASH DOORS, BLINDS. WIN
dOgs. Door frames. screens. Turned
columns. Cabinets. Oldest, best equip
ped shop in city. Roderick and Land,
Dial 1929.
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The President, w thanked by
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-04
Marshall Cites
Need to Keep
Up Draft Calls

WASHINGTON, May A. (UP)-
Prospects of reduction in draft
calls during the next few months
got a sharp setback Friday from
Chief of Staff Gen. George c. Mar
shall.
In a letter to Chairman Andrew
j. May CD KY, of the house mill
tary affairs committee Marshall
pointed out that the army has not
been able to meet replacement de-
nlands of Gems. dwight D. Eisen-
hover and Douglas Macarthur for
May and June, and that Eisenhow-
er's current losses are running at
1000 men daily.
1t also was learned from an auth
oritative selective service source that
there is no intention of reducing the
size of draft calls at least through
June 80. Current calls are approx
imately 10000 men a month.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-04
|. A. Bank Bandits
Make Rich Haul

LOS ANGELES. May 4. (UP)-
-Four men Friday held up a branch
of the California Bank here and
escaped with cash estimated at be-
tween $4,000 and $500c0, possibly
more
Manager Leo E. Smith said the
bandits broke bank window before
opening time, lowered themselves
into the lobby on a knotted rope,
then hid on the mezzanine until
some of the cash drawers had been
unlocked
When Smiths back was turned,
the men slugged him, rifled the
drawers and ran out to a waiting
car. Smith was treated at Georgia
Street Receiving hospital for pain
full scalp wound.
The same branch was robbed of
s400 last February by James Du
Priest. the Paper Bag Bandit" who
since has been arrested and con-
victed.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-04
Another Snarl--
9TH War Bond Campaign
Launched at BruWIey Meet

BRAWLEY, May 4.-Witl
the flag raising scene on Mt.
Suribachi, Two island, an
nounced as the symbol of the Sew
enth War Loan Drive, southern
California directors of the cam
paign outlined details of the forth
coming campaign to 38 representa-
tives of all but two communities
in Imperial County at the bond rally
held in the Brawley Elks Temple
Wednesday afternoon.
About promotion and an in
tensive personal solicitation cam
paign will be featured during The
drive according to l.. E. Morgan, rur-
al areas chairman, and George
Harshberger, Jr., publicity director,
Los Angeles.
Imperial county will get several
major attractions to stimulate sales
among which mill be Here's Your
Infantry" staged by members of the
army demonstrating simulated war;
fare at the Imperial County fair
grounds June Is. Other programs
will include two small travelling
shows
Imperial County in the past three
years has sold $8,815, 900 in E F and
G bonds, but at the same time the
savings accounts in banks have in
creased almost as much as the
amount of the quota set for the
Seventh War Loan" Morgan point
ed out.
Herb Fawcett, El Centre county
chairman, opened the meeting,
turning it over to S. D. Carey, Braw-
ley, co-chairman.
Your county stands at the top
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-04
BY HENRY SHAPIRO

MOSCOW, May 4. CUP)-A Rus
sian war correspondent reported
Friday that after the capture of
Berlin he found the chancellery-
where the Nazis said Adolf Hitler
'died-engu,ifed in flames which
drove him from Hitler's office after
a quick survey.
(If the correspondents reported
visit to the chancellary shed any
light on Hitler's fate, the Soviet
censorship apparently was not ready
to pass it since Moscow has issued
no official report on what was found
at the chancellery-if anything
that would bear on the German
version of Hitlers death.)
1t. Col Pavel Troyanovsky, in a
dispatch to the Soviet army organ
Red Star, described the re-hasten-
ed visit to the chancellery soon after
the last resistance in Berlin ended
Troyanovsky said the windows Of
the burning chancellery were clog
ged with thick books used by the
Nazis to throw up barricades in the
last hours of resistance. Dead Ger
man gunners we're everywhere, their
breasts decorated with iron crosses
damaged in battle, he said.
1--WE approached the main en-
trance of the chancellery," the dis
patch said Its doors were barred
by large boxes.
"Our soldiers could penetrate only
through narrow passageway be-
tween red boxes filled with crosses
and oak leaves.
"Hitler's office was very hot. The
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-04
Argentine Envoy
Eyes Solidarity

WASHINGTON, May 4. CUP)-
Argentinas new ambassador to the
United States, Dr. Oscar Ibarra Gar
cia, said Friday after his first visit
to the state department that "tne
most important consideration" fac
ing the American republics is hem
ispheric security.
Ibarra said the Argentine gov
ernment Is working FOR "the great
est possible cooperation with the
United States and the other Ameri-
can republics"
He said he expected OF leave here
for the San Francisco security con-
ference some time next week, adding
that he would check with Buenos
Aires later to determine WHO will
comprise the Argentine delegation to
the conference.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-04
u. s. Takes Over
Hard Coal Mines

The back-to-work movement was
expected to get under way Monday
with full production expected by
Tuesday or Wednesday.
A spokesman for the union said
the 72,000 miners will await official
word from the government snd
United Mine Workers President
John L. Lewis to return to work. He
said the men would abide by any
government order.
The hard coal mines have been
idle since Monday night when the
UNIV contract expired.
Operators and union officials have
been deadlocked in their contract
negotiations.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-04

Swedish reports tcld of spreading
mutiny in the German army bar
racks at Copenhagen, and the
Nazis own radio at WilhelmShaven
said the last hour of the war" had
arrived.
Mcmillan reported that the en-
tire German High Command had
assembled opposite the British
forces in the north.
Norway and Czechos loyakia ap-
peared to be the remaining areas of
Europe where German resistance
still was possible.
ALMOST SURROUNDED
Czechoslovakia was almost sur
rounded by American and Russian
troops which now were only a few
miles apart in the Linz area Of
northeastern Austria.
The Nazis Bavarian redoubt,
where German leaders may have
planned last stand, collapsed. The
U. S. Seventh Army capturel Salz-
burg, keystone CT the redoubt, and
rolled up unopposed toward Berch-
tesgaden, II miles farther south.
Vanguards of the Seventh Army
also rammed south through the
towering Brenner Pass, where Hit
Ter and Mussolini once met to seal
their Axis bargains. and linked up
with the U. S. Fifth Army on Ital-
ian sell few miles below the pass.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-04

HAZLETCN, Pa, May 4. CUP)-
The American flag was raised over
all Pennsylvania anthracite mines
Friday as the government took over
operations of the strike-bound in
dustry.
President Truman, confronted
with his first big labor problem
since he became president April II,
ordered the mine seizures Thursday
night.
Solid Fuels Administrator Harold
Ickes took over control of the prop
critics and ordered the miners to
return to work Monday. 1t has the
second time in two years that Ickes
seized all of the hard coal proper
ties because of labor dispute.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-04

But it was emphasized that no
final agreement has been reached
and that tie negotiations may
again be deadlocked, as they were
for so long.
TAKES NEW TACK
Russia apparently had abandoned
her position of arguing The inter-
Iretation of the Yalta agreement
on Poland and was now discussing
who the Polish commission should
consult in it's efforts to reorganize
the Soviet-backed Warsaw Polish
regime.
Soviet Premier Josef Stain re-
portedly agreed to bring Stainslaw
Mikoia iczyk, former premier of the
London exile regime, into the dis
cussions Mikolajczyk has Anglo
American approval and his pref
ence in the negotiations would be
counted a good sign here
Stain also was said to be amen
able to admission Of two other Lon
don Poles in the teiks-Tadeusz
Rover, former ambassador to Mos
COW, and Stainslaw Grabski, former
spokesman for the London govern
ment, who withdrew from that
group after a disagreement.
washington officials reflected
the security delegates hopes that
a solution now might be possible,
but one expert warned that tits
not all creased skids from here
on in"
OTHER MOSCOW TRIPS
ct was pointed out that Mikol-
ajczyk already had gone to Moscow
alone twice for unsuccessful talks
on the Polish problem. 1t was said
here that this time he probably
would be accompanied by other
Poles-perhaps Grover and Grodski
and possibly two others whose
names have been mentioned here
They are Vicinity Vitos. former
head of the Polish Peasant Party
Continued on Page 8, Column A.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-04
UNC0ND|TI0NALLY SURRENDER
in NORTHWEST reich, L0wL AND NATIONS
Tax Reduction
Bill Faces
Senate Action
Assembly -Okehed
Measure Would
Allot 80 Million
By LLOYD LAPHAM

SACRAMENTO May 4.
(UP) = An assembly ap-
proved tax bill went to the
floor Of the senate Friday
with do pass" recommended
ton from the upper houses revenue
and taxation committee after the
measure had been amended to con-
form with corresponding senate
LEGISLATION.
The compromise agreed tc by
the senate revenue and taxation
committee calls for continuing
present state tax rates and setting
aside 100000, 900 of the state sur
plus in a postwar employment and
construction fund for county use.
COUNTIES FUND
A bill to appropriate $4,000. 900,
with which counties could match
S15,00c,000 in federal funds for ru-
raj highways, was recommended
for passage by the senate govern
mental efficiency committee. 1t
was supported in committee by
Sen. T. NJ Delap (RD, Richmond,
author of the tax reduction bills
and leading opponent Of an earl
icr subsidy measure giving cities
and counties $100.000,000
Senate committee amendments
to the assembly tax bill restored
the sales tax rate to 21@ per cent,
to which it was reduced in 194c
from 3 per cent. The assembly
had voted to cut it another one
half Of l per cent.
Another committee amendment
permanently would reduce the per-
sonal income tax in lever brack-
cts in line with the senate tax
bills.
TO SPEED SETTLEMENTS
The assembly industrial relations
Continued on Page 8, Column Q
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-04
HoImquist Heads
Sheriff's Posse

Earl Holmquist of Calipatria is the
new president of the Imperial Coun-
ty Sheriff's posse. succeeding l.. H.
Dove of Calexico, who headed the
organization in 1914.
At the annual election this week
Flowell Nichols of Brawley was
elected vice-president and w. w.
Smith of Calipatria secretary treas
urer
A change in the bylaws adopted
at the annual meeting increased the
membership limit at any one time
from rs to 85 members, Sheriff
Robert w. Ware said.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-04

Serious resistance to the British
forces had begun melting away be-
fore the announcement of the sur
render. United Press War Core
spondent Richard D. Mcmillan re-
ported that German troops were
throwing away their weapons by
the hundreds of thousands, refusing
flatly to fight, and their staff Off
GERS, wandering freely through the
Allied ranks, admitted it was all
over.
The CZechoslovak pocket IN the
south was rapidly being envel-
-oped and neutralized by American
and Russian forces converging on
the Austrial city of Linz. The Amer
lean Third army late Friday drew
within three miles northeast of Linz
and juncture with the Russians
in that area appeared imminent.
At the extreme southern end OF
the front. American Seventh army
troops overran most of the empty
Bavarian redoubt, capturing the
keystone base of Salzburg without
fight and closing within artillery
range of Berchtesgader:.
Other Seventh army troops push
ed down through the Brenner Pass
to link up with the American Fifth
army in northern Italy, splitting the
redoubt and establishing a solid 1000
mile Allied front across Europe
from Denmark to Sicily.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-04
Lord Haw Haw
Believed
Allied Captive

LONDON, May 4. UP)-Britain
speculated Friday that William
Joyce, the Lord Haw Haw of the
German radio, may have been cap
tured by the Allies.
At last reports, Joyce was in Ham
burg. His news commentary pro-
gram was shifted to the Bremen and
Wilhelmshaven radios last night
following Hamburg's surrender and
Edward Robert Dietze appeared in
his place.
Dietze said Re was speaking for
perhaps the last time
The London Daily Mail said a cell
in the tower of London was ready
for Joyce. He will be tried as a
traitor.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-04

trips will be made, he said, and the
passenger list is limited. For that
reason the first clerk to reach that
quota will be registered.
c. o. Hoober. Calipatria, vice
president of the California Farm
Bureau, declared that in the past
too many rural areas have been
overlooked or not thoroughly cam
vassed but that in the future farm
organizations will join in rural
urban effort to do the job.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-04
Red Seurchers
Fail to Find
Hitler Remains

flames were seeping nearer to us.
The floors were shaking and about
to collapse. We donned gas masks
and ran to a window, the heat pene-
trating the thick soles of our boots.
Nothing was visible through the
smoke and heat"
TrOyanovsky said an old man
found sitting on suitcase in the
street conducted his party to Her
mann Goering's air ministry, which
also was burning SO briskly that en-
try was impossible.
Such is Berlin lmmeulaUely after
the occupation-all in smoke and
flames and ruins" he wrote.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-04
Move StdrtS to Hire War
Vets at Discharge Points

his fellow diEabled and at the same
time train himself fer a perman-
ent JOB" Walker sai5.
ITO be eligible. the applicant
must have an honorable discharge
and a service-connected disability
incurred in World War II, as well
as necessary educational back
ground"
Walker said it was the first pro-
gram of its kind ever sponsored by
a veterans organization.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-04
Eight Men Die
In Navy BIimp

ing back from patrol flight. Twt
hundred feet off the ground, one
engine caught fire and the blimp's
covering burst into flame.
The burning wreckage crashed to
the ground about a quarter mile
southwest of the field. The lone sur
vivor jumped just before the blimp
hit the ground
Names of the men involved were
withheld temporarily.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-04

Walker said qualifying veterans
would be paid Jointly for their serv-
ices by the DAV and the U. S. Vet
erans' Administration. He de-
scribed training program, spon-
sored by DAV and Veterans' Ad-
ministration, to prepare the con-
sultants for their task of advising
Disabled Veterans of their rights
and privileges.
Here is an excellent opportunity
for a Disabled Veteran to serve
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-04

TUCSON, Ariz., May A.
(UP)-A plan to hire dis
abled American Veterans of
World War II as consultants at
each of the 5G4 discharge centers
from which servic3men are being
released was outlined in a speech
at the Arizona State DAV conven-
ton here Friday by Dow v. Walker.
chairman of the Disabled Veterans
Nationa. finance committee.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-04

of the list of counties in the state
for participation and sales of bonds
and stamps through the schools"
Morgan declared giving credit to the
teachers and students for their ef-
forts.
According to Harshberger the re-
tail sales program has been set at
sales of $500 per clerk with a prize
of a day-long cruise on a navy
training ship to clerks selling bonds
valued at $4,000 or more. Only six
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-04

SANTA ANA, Cal, May f. CUP)
The navy disclosed Friday that
eight men were killed Thursday
night when a navy patrol blimp
caught fire while preparing to land
at the Santa Ana lighter -than-air
base.
One member of the nine-man
crew escaped death but was injured
and taken to the Long Beach naval
hospital.
Officers said the blimp was COM
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-04
Super. Attack
Marcus Isle
BY UNITED PRESS

Tokyo radio reported Friday that
about 20 B-29 Superfortresses and
B-24 Liberators raided Marcus ISL
and, 1900 miles southeast of Tokyo,
in daylight Wednesday The broad
cast, recorded by the FEC, said two
of the planes were damaged.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-04
Russians Ease
Demands on
Polish Rights
Moscow Indicates Move to Consult
London Regime on Personnel; =
Dumbarton Oaks Amendm Eyed
BIZ e. II. SHACKFORD

SAN FRANCISCO, May A. (UP)-Techncal experts
the proposed World Peace organization began detailed
study of the Dumbaron Oaks plan Friday but reports of
change in Russias attitude the Polish problem DOM
mated this United Nations conference
Anglo oAmerican hopes for real progress toward
tion of Polish government acceptable to them we'll
Russia reported have been raised by indications
that the Soviet Union prepared to yield somewhat in it's
demands.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-04
Montgomery Doenitz Sign
Terms Of CapituIation
More Than 25O.O00 Nazis Give Up in
Sweeping Battlefield Victory;
Only Norway and CzechosIovakia Left
BY PHILIP AULT

LONDON, May A. (UP)-The German armies of north
western Germany Denmark and Holland surrendered
Internationally to the Allies, leaving resistance iso
lated in the two doomed pockets of Norway and Czecho
slovakia.
The surrender is effective at a. m, British time Sat-
urday e a. M EWT).
The Nazi captulation announced at the close cf
dramatic conference between Field Marshal Sir Bernard
Montgomery and Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz the new
German fuehrer who succeeded Adolf Hitler only 72
ago.
Montgomery informed Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhowers
Headquarters in Paris that the surrender also would apply
to the pocketed German divisions Hegoand on the
Frisian Islands off the Dutch coast.
More than 250,00O German troops, representing the
last effective German fighting force the European
continent outside Norway and Czechoslovaia in
voved in the surrender addition we'll over 5OO
goo Nazs who laid down their the British front
in the last two days.
There were still many minor pockets of resistance
the continent including around few French ports
brief announcement of the northern captulation,
issued at Esenhowers headquarters emphasized this
Battlefield surrender" to Montgomery's 21st Army
group and not to the Allied governments