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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-06-28
Vegetables


ASPARAGUS No /. yl.75 200
doz. bchs.
BEETS-No. I, bu. sl.00-l25.
CABBAGE-No. /. s2.00-2.50 bu.
CARROTS-No. l. Sl.25-l.75 Du.
CAuLIFLOWER-No. /, bu. sl.75.
200.
CELERY-No l. $3.50 doz. bchs.
DILL. No. /. sl00 doz. punches,
DRY ONlONS-Nc. I. Sl.25-1.75.
GREEN ONIONS-No. /. G0.75c
doz. bchs.
LETTUCE-leaf, size ID.
RADISHES-No. I. 65-75c doz. bchs
POTATOBS-No. /. 100 lbs. sack
$341.
PARSLEY. curly No. /, 1881 doz.
bchs.
RHUBARB-75c-sl doz. bchs.
RUTABAGAS--No. /. bu.. 75c-1.00.
SPINACH-No. l. 1890 bu.
SQUASH-Hubbard. No. /. s0c.
s1.25.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES .275 S.lb.
basket.
TURNIPs-No. 1. .l.50-1.75 dor.
bchs.
Fruits
APPLES-Jonathans. No. !. s225.
2.9o IS ID. bu.: Northern Spies.
No. I. As ID. On. S2.50-2.95:
Greetings No. I. s2.25-2.sO; Bald
wins. No. !. s2.50-2e5 45.lb. bu.;
Steele's Reds, No. I, s2.95. 45-lb.
bu.; Delicious. No. /. s2.5O-2.s5 IS.
ID. bu.
sTRAWBERRIEs-No. l. Ilac
at.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-06-28
New York Stocks

New York, June 2S-AP-Spe-
cialties continued 10 attract strong
bids in todays stock market while
many leaders stll had 10 contend
with certain amount Of selling.
Recapitallzations. dividends. earn.
ings and pressure OF idle funds
again served as the principal bull.
ish inspiration. Numerous holders.
however, inclined TO trim accounts
because Of the belief the market
recently had been acting some.
what top-heavy.
Dealings tapered after an active
opening and trends were a trifle
cloudy near midday.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-06-28
MRS. MAUpE s. RUFUS

Ann Arbor. June 2S-Memoriai
services for Mrs. Maude S. Rufus.
who died from injuries received in
an airplane crash near Washington
Pa. will be at the First Methodist
Church, July s, at p. m.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-06-28
SEEKS MEAT

Washington Rep. Engel (R-
Mich was named Wednesday 10
congressional committee that
will seek means OF allevfating the
meat shortage in northern states
resort areas.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-06-28
Floyd %. CRANE

Funeral services will be Saturday
morning at 10 o'clock for Floyd d.
Crane who passed away Tuesday
evening at his home. Burial will
take place in Linden. Friends may
call at the Geer Funeral Home.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-06-28
GIRLS DROWN

Kalamazoo. Mich.-Two 19-year-
old Kalamazoo girls, Dorothy Ivory
and Carsell Ewing. drowned We'd
nesday in Kalamazoo River when
they waded into a deep hole.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-06-28

TALkS-ABC - $50 America S
Town Meeting. Should the
Senate Ratify the San Francis
co Charter from Mitchell
Field, n. Y.
NBC-S:O0 Roy Shields Music:
800 Bling Crosby due back again,
1000 Abbott and Costello.
1890 Rudy Nallee.
CBS-7:30 Mr.. Keen's Drama;
900 Morton Gould Music;
$50 Corliss Archer:
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-06-28

Columbia eroadedStIna Company
NJR $50. WEBM $50. WCKY 1880.
WEBM 1890. VICAR 1850. WBNS
1860. WOOD 1910.
Mutual Brosdesstinp Company
National 6roadeastlng Company
RED NETWORK-WLW 100. WV
$50. WMAQ go.
AMERICAN BROADCASTING CO.
NXYZ 1870. WHAM llS0.
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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-06-28
In the. Sick Room

Mrs. John Simon, who fell from
her porch and fractured her ankle.
Monday, Is conyalescing and Is now
able TO move about on clutches.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-06-28
EGGS

Detroit. June 2S-Prices per doz
en- paid fob. Detroit by first receiv-
ers for case lots OF government
graded eggs from grading
stations. Wednesday:
WhNes-U. s. Grade A: Jumbo.
45.5: Extra Large. AS; Large.
42T-43.5; Medium, 39.54O.5; Small
35.5; L. S. Grade b: Large, 39.7.
40.5.
BrownS-U. s. Grade A: Large,
42.7.43.5. Market unchanged.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-06-28
YpsiIdnti Briefs


CIV nremea e2slHsuished fire
around a gasoline engine az the
home ~ WILDER Brown SO Rail.
road S.. Wednesday night. az :
O'Clock.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-06-28
Three Questioned

Three boys, from T. 10 10 years
OF age were arrested by the city
police Wednesday night and held
FOR Investigation. They were report.
ed 10 have borrowed a siphon and
Two gas cans from a gas station
attendant Wednesday night, saying
they we're going TO get gas out OF
friends car. They were gone four
hours. Police are questioning them
about recent larcenies from cars
in the CITY.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-11
World
Court
Cited
u. S. Location
Considered
In First Study

WASHINGTON, April IL.
UP)-Informal agreement to
set up the new world court
at it's old site-The Hague in
the "Wednesday renew
ed speculation about the eventual
home of the new world security or
ganization.
The committee of United Nations
jurists, meeting here to revise the
old world court statute for pre-
sentation to the San Francisco con-
ference, has agreed that the new
court should return to the Hague.
The final decision will rest with the
full conference.
The Hague has been associated for
half a century-ever since the first
Hague peace conference in 1899
with mans attempt to set up a
workable international tribunal fol
peaceful settlement of disputes.
But the decision on the capital
of the world organization will not
be SO easy. The most prominently
mentioned cities to date include
Geneva, site Of the League of Ma
tions, Washington, Vienna, Prague,
Trieste and Quebec.
The latest suggestion came from
Continued on Page 6, Col. g.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-11
Roundup Tickets
Proffered by
Whiskers Club

Here is one way to thWart Round
up "vigilantes" and at the same
time to have opportunity to gain
three-day rodeo programs to be held
at the Imperial county fairgrounds
April 20, 81 and %.
Grow WhiSkerS!
Harry Free, chairman of the pro-
motions committee OF the roundup
Wednesday appointed Carson Nc
Nance as head of a committee to
organize a "Whiskerino Club" for
the entire valley.
REWARD LISTED
Object: To encourage residents of
the male persuasion to grow hirSute
adornment to signify their interest
in and support of the rodeo. The
whiskers- growing gentry will be i'm
mune from arrest detention or
scorn for not wearing an article of
western attire during the pre-rodeo
and rodeo days.
And as a reward. there will be two
perfectly good tickets to be given
for any performance of the rodeo,
for the best crop of whiskers. Ac-
cordingly, valley men have two
choices:
Grow whiskers or wear western
attire, or be subject to arrest.
confinement, jeers, scorn and ridi-
cule.
"Vigilantes" some 200 in number,
Continued on Page 6, Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-11
wRA Arranges
For Office
In Fl Centre

The War Relocation Authority
rented a tWo-room suite of offices
in the Bank of America building in
Ell Centro to serve as headquarters
in aiding resettlement CT Japanese
Americans expected to return from
relocation centers before January /,
it was revealed Wednesday.
In addition to the office in Ell
Centro, the WRA will locate new
offices in Santa Barbara, Santa
Ana, and San Diego, it was announc-
ed in Los Angeles Wednesday by
Dillon S. Myer, national WRA chief.
The Ell Centre office is not open for
business as yet.
Myer was quoted as saying that
the four new bureau offices were be-
ing located in southern California
to aid in the resettlement of some
12,000 Japanese-Americans. He said
that all the southern California
branches of the WRA hereafter will
function on an autonomous basis,
responsible only to Washington.
There still are around $4,000 Jap
e-Americans in relocation CEN
ters eligible for residence in any part
of the United States, about 25,OOo
of the number being school children,
Myer said
Approximately $50 japanese have
returne dto the nine southern Cali
fornia counties, Myer said, the
states total being 1876.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-11
Russians Clear
Vienna Under
Swift Assaults

LONDON, April IL. CUP)-An
Austrian broadcast said Wednesday
that the last three Nazi-held dis
trictS of Vienna have heen cleared
presumably cemr. the liberia
tion Of the Austrian cafitsl.
Radio sender Austria said the
Leopoldstadt second and Bright
tenau t20thD districts, both be-
tween the Danube river canal and
the river itself, and the Floridsdorf
(21st district east of tie river fl
nally had been liberated.
Occupation of the remainder of
Vienna's 81 diStricts-all those west
of the river and canal-was ccm-
pleted Tuesday by Marshal Feodoi
I. Tolbukhin's Russian Third Uk-
rainian Army.
TAKE CANAL CROSSING
A Soviet front dispatch said Toll
bukhin had captured a crossing over
the Danube canal into the Leo
poldstadt and Brigittenau districts.
Radio sender Austria, presumably
operated by Austrian patriots CT the
Red Army, did not specify whether
tie last three districts were cleared
by the Third Army or Marshal Ro-
dion Y. Malinovsky's adjacent Sec
ond Ukrainian Army. There also
was a possibility that Austrian pa
triots had thrown the last of the
Germans out of their capital city.
MalinCvsky's forces at last reports
were driving along the east bank
of the Danube less than eight miles
northeast of Floridsdorf, They had
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Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-11

LONDON, April II. (UP)
Evidence has reached official
quarters in London that the
Nazis are showing Adolf Hitler aside,
possibly in favor OF Gestapo CHEZ
Heinrich Himmler, the Press As
sociation said Wednesday.
"A serious split among Nazi lead
crs appears to be going on the
lobby correspondent of the press as
sociation said. Foreign observers
say Hitler now looks to be dying
man.
The correspondent said the Nazis
appeared to be throwing over" Hit
Ter as the German disaster in the
west grew almost hourly. The dis
patch did not elaborate 'on the re-
ports.
Himmler, mentioned in the dis
patch as possible successor to Hitler
as supreme ruler in Germany, is In
terror Minister and Commander of
the German home army in addition
to head of the dreaded Gestapo.
Himmler once before was rumor-
ed to have become Acting Fuehrer
of Germany. That was Immediately
following the abortive attempt on
Hitlers life last summer, but all
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-11
County Aviation
ENJOYS Study
States Set.up

Satisfactory progress of the state
aviation plans was reported in I'M
perial county Wednesday by Super
visor A. Y. Preble and Ell Centro
Councilman Herb Fawcett when
they returned from postwar avia-
ton meetings in Sacramento.
Preble is chairman of the State
Supervisors association postwar
committee on airports and Fawcett
is Ell Centro's representative in
aviation plans for the postwar Pc
riod. Preble also is member of
the aviation project committee of
the California State Reconstruction
and Unemployment commission.
They were particularly interested
in the status of Assembly bill No,
801 which provides for formation
of a state aviation department del
egated to look after the aviation
problems after the war and to pre-
pare for the age of air transporta-
Jion before it arrives.
PLANS OUTLINED
AS set up in the bill the commits
sion would consist of five members
to be appointed by the governor. 1t
will be necessary for all members
Continued on Page Column -
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-11
Assembly Move
Dims Hopes
OfHeoIth Bills
Opponents Say Measures Dead as
Warren Still Keeps Up Fight;
Interim Study Plan Waits Action

= SACRAMENTO, April II.
(UP)-Compulsory h e a ! t h
insurance bills before t h e
legislature we're in virtual defeat
Wednesday and the author of a
California Medical association bill
to encourage voluntary insurance
systems said action on that bill
would not be pressed.
Following the assemblys refusal
to withdraw from committee either
a bill backed by Gov Earl Warren
or one sponsored by the CIO, As
semblyman Sam l.. Collins, (RJ
Fullerton, said he would rot push
the GINA bill
WOULD REOPEN DEBAT1.
Collins, majority floor leader ano
a bitter opponent of the compulsory
bills, said tc seek action on the
GINA bill would reopen the whole
health insurance question.
He pointed out it would be pos
sible for advocates of the governors
or CIO bills to attempt to amend
their ideas into the voluntary meas
ure. He is satisfied, he said, with
the present situation with the COM
pulsory bills held in an unfriendly
committee.
Collins also said that no action
was contemplated until late in the
fession en- a resolution calling for
an interim study of health insur-
ance by an assembly committee.
AGE PENSIONS
In the assembly, a bill passed and
sent to the senate which would pre-
vent cutting off of an old age pen
SIGN until a notice of hearing is CIV
en- by the supervisors involved.
Governor Warren, meantime, re-
fused to give up hope for eventual
passage of his health insurance bill.
The assembly defeated motion to
withdraw it from the, public health
committee by 39-to-38 vote after
defeating, AZ to 80, a motion to
withdraw the CIC bill
The governor and the senate and
assembly authors Of lis measure
were to confer Wednesday after
noon
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-11
Southern Luzon
Blasted From
Control of Japs

MANILA, April IL. UP)-Ameri-
can troops Tuesday crushed all or
ganized Japanese resistance in
southern Luzon and seized complete
control o. Tie Sulu Archipelago in
the southern Philippines.
Elements of the 18th Airborne Di-
vision shattered the final Japanese
defenses in southern Luzon with a
22-mile drive that carried from Lu-
cena to the east coast at Atimonan,
72 miles southeast Of Manila.
"All organized enemy resistance
in southern Luzon has collapsed and
it's liberation is at hand" Gen.
Douglas Macarthur announced
Virtual completion of the conquest
of southern Luzon came as veteran
troops of Maj. Gen. Jens A. Does
4lst Division seized control of the
entire Sulu Archipelago with the
occupation of the principal portion
of Jolo Island.
Jolos capital city of the same
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Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-11
Louisiana Flood
PeriIs Mount

NEW ORLEANS, La, April IL,
CUP)- Helicopters carried food
clothing and medicine to thousands
of homeless flood victims in central
Louisiana Wednesday as the death
toll from swollen streams mounted
to four.
Clarence F. Rowland. head of the
National Red Cross disaster COM
mittee headquarters at Alexandria
said nearly 10000 families presently
were affected by the floods. Over
10000, he said, had been evacuat-
ed already. Thousands of refugees
were living in tent cities through
out the stricken area and were be-
ing fed from field Kitchens
Approximately 100000 acres OF
land were under water and thous-
ands of head of cattle had drowned
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-11
Congress Scans
DemobHizdtion

WASHINGTON, April II. CUP)-
Congress took its first steps toward
demooilization legislation Wednes-
day as the army revealed plans to
send virtually all physically-fit
troops in this country overseas as
soon as they can be replaced.
Chairman Andrew j. May CD
Kentucky, of the house military af-
fairs committee said he believed the
fall of Germany was "close enough"
for the war department to let con-
gress in on its plans for demobiliza-
ton and reorganization of the army
after We day.
He asked Secretary of War Henry
L. Stimson to send the proper army
officers to a closed meeting of the
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-11
Be RI IN BARRIE rs HURDL ! j
Marines Slowed
In Conquest
Of 0kinawa Isle
Enemy Resistance
Grows, But Sub
Base Is Captured.

GUAM, April II. (UP)-
B t t er japanese resistance
stalled the oath Armv Corps'
push toward Naha in Southern Ok
inawa Wednesday but Marines in
the north seized submarine base
in mile-and-a-half advance.
Other army troops unlocked the
entrance tc Nakagusuku Bay, one of
the finest naval anchorages south
of Japan, with an amphibious land
ing Tuesday on tiny Tsugen tTsu-
kata) Island, about 10 miles off the
southeast coast of Okinawa.
The invasion troops Stormed
quickly inland from the south coast
and captured the town Of Tsugen
against only slight opposition. Mod
crate resistance in the form of small
arms and mortar fire developed
later, but officers expected the en-
tire mile-long island soon would be
IN American hands.
Japanese broadcasts said Ameri-
can Warships already were operat-
ing in Nakagusuku Bay. Nearly
two-thirds OF the Okinawa shore of
the bay has been captured.
Marines captured japanese SUBJ
marine pens and other naval in
stallations at Unten Bay on the
north coast of Motobu Peninsula,
which juts out of the west coast of
northern OkinaWa, Tuesday, after
beating off two small enemy counter
attacks the previous night.
Torpedoes and mines were seized
at Unten Bay, but the enemy had
evacuated all submarines and Other
craft. The base was known to have
been lair for midget submarines,
though larger types also may have
used it.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-11

committee next Tuesday to discuss
legislation ito coordinate the gen.
eral problems with which we will
all be concerned"
News that the army is planning
to get all able-5odied troops in this
country overseas, presumably to take
the place of battle-weary combat
troops for occupation duty in Eur
ope and fighting in the Pacific,
came Tuesday in letter from Stim-
son to Rep. George M. Mahon CD
Texas.
Mahon suggested that the army
"scrape the bottom of the barrel
in this country before switching
combat troops from Europe to the
Pacific after We day.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-11
yonks Liberote
French Officers

Arnswald. northeast of Berlin, TO
Soest, southeast of Hamm, when the
Russians overran Pomerania. The
distance is more than 800 niles.
A physicsl education program, In
Guiding classes in German and some
physical training, was discontinued
three years ago after brief trial
run.
The prisoners told Creamer they
had had no medical attention lately.
not even during the march from
Arnswald which was made IN sub
freezing weather. They were on the
road from January 20 TO March 20.
They slept in the open on the way,
and the feet Of many were frozen.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-11
SENATE COMMITTEE OKEHS
RENEWED ARMY ENLISTMENT

WASHINGTON, April IL. CUP)--
The senate military affairs com
mittee has approved legislation per-
mitting cnlistmcnts in the regular
army again.
The measure, passed by the house,
was sponsored by the war depart-
ment as a means of building up a
regular military force against the
time when the drafted wartime
army is demobilized.
The senate committee placed a
limit of 100000 on the number Of
enlistments in the regular army.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-11

PARIS, April IL. (UP)-More than
1000 French officers, perhaps a
fifth or sixth of Frances pre-war
officer personnel, were liberated on
the night of April when American
Ninth army forces overran a prison
camp on the southwest edge of
Soest
Major Forrest W. Creamer of
Jeffersonville (state not listed told
about it Wednesday, He was the
first American officer to enter the
compound after the troops captured
it.
Many of the officers had been
prisoners five years. AT least 800 of
them made forced march from
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-11
Crash Victims
identified

Two soldiers, both Negroes. were
killed in an accident which occur
red in the sandhills in eastern I'M
perial county Monday night, mill
tary officers of Yuma told Sheriff
Robert w. Ware late Tuesday.
Corporal Darden Lyman. driver
of the car which left the highway
near the maintenance station and
overturned several times, was said
TO have been killed instantly. Pri-
vate Sherman Brookins was said
to have died in an ambulance while
being taken to a hospital. Private
Nathaniel Childers suffered a spine
injury and Private Earl E. Rogers
suffered less critical injuries. Pri-
vate First Glass Theo M. Lancaster
escaped injury.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-11

the period of the Ardennes break
through last December was past.
Officials emphasized that in many
cases the ammunition cutbacks rep
resent materials not yet in produc-
ton None of the II tank plants
had reached the capacity produc-
ticn stage. The Importance of hav-
ing existing plants meet their pro-
duction schedules was stressed
Announcement of the 10 per cent
ammunition cutback was made fol-
lowing meeting in Chicago Tues
day of about 100 representatives of
plants affected with officials of the
war production beard, war man
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-11

WASHINGTON, April II.
(UP)-The government con-
tinued to level off arms pro-
ducticn wednesday in anticipation
of We Day.
In the newest moves, the war de-
partment ordered a nationwide cut
of 10 per cent in ammunition pro-
duction schedules for 1945 and re-
vealed that IL tank plants now un-
der construction would not be COM
pleted.
These moves, coupled with the
recent leveling off of small arms
production, made It clear that the
armament crisis which arose during
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-11
D AMBllNe
~ EpoR1ER
Rags And Tags

Not to be outdone by those up
startish KiWanians, the allegedly
more sedate RotarianS came back
with dilly of an acceptance Of the
challenge the KiWanians made in
the. old clothes collection campaign
for war-torn countries. Here it is:
Gentlemen of Kiwanis: eve do
not mean to take the term too lit
crally.
The Rotary club acknowledges re-
ccipt of the libel from Kiwanis,
containing mountains of calumny
recrimination, insult, slander, mis-
representation, muddy misunder-
standing, and one fact: namely, the
need of the devastated countries for
clothes.
Despite the handicaps suffered by
the members of Rotary, such as
falling hair, carries, halitosis, broken.
arches, fatty degeneration of the
Continued on Page 6, Col 4)
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-11
Government Orders Slash
In Arms Production

power commission and Brig. Gen.
r. E. Hardy, chief of the ammuni-
items branch of the office of chief
of ordnance.
The cuts, effective Immediately,
involve nearly $200O0O,000 worth of
scheduled production in 60 plants
throughout the country. Names of
affected plants, none of which will
be shut down completely, are being
announced by district ordnance Of
ficeS.
-Four of the IL tank plants to be
halted are in Detroit-Chrysler
Corp, Chrysler sub-contractors,
Ford Motor Co. and General Mo-
tors.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-11
GAS COUPONS WORTH 1910
GALLONS STOLEN IN T.. G..

Ell Centre police are on the hunt
for thieves who made away with
gasoline coupons at The Signal Oil
companys South Third street sta
tion to the tune of 1000 gallons value.
At the same time the coupons dis
appeared five dollars in cash was
missing, w. H. Dewitt, company
manager said in reporting the theft
to the police.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-11
HimmIer Replaces Hitler.
Press Reports Insist

yevidence indicated that Hitler again
had taken over the reins following
his recovery from wounds.
Diplomatic sources gave serious
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-11

attention to the Press Association
dispatch. since that agency fire.
quently is used to circulate informa-
ton from official circles.