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The daily monitor leader., 1945-11-29
New Baltimore

NEW BALTIMORE Barbara
Mason, daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs.
John r''son celebrated her birth
day anniversary Friday. In honor
of the occasion her mother enter
tanned number of her friends at
birthday dinner.
Mrs. Emma Sonnenberg was q
Sunday guest at the Hill home.
Mr.. and Mrs. rank Bromley
and family spent the Thanksgiv-
ing holidays in Lansing at the
home of Mrs. Bromley's parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. Earl Miller of ST..
Clair visitC friends here the
past week.
Pfc. Max Aurand has received
his discharge.
Mrs. Pearl Heath visited the
past week in Royal Oak.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mel''1 Fuerst
were dinner guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Ben Kushner in Crosse
Pointe on Saturday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Van Arnold and
family were Thanksgiving dinner
guests Of Mr.. and Mrs. B. Arnold
in Mount Clemens.
Mrs. Warren Stromberg and
daughter Nan pent q few days
in Detroit this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Worthy
entertained relatives at dinner
on Thanksgiving Day.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. A. lie Fevre
entertained at a family dinner
party 1t their home Thanksgiv-
ing Day.
A miscellaneous shower In
honor of Miss Shirley Balfour
was given Tuesday evening at
the home of Mrs. Alice Vassen
in st. Clair. Hostesses Of the
party were, Mrs. Vern Muhlitner
Mrs. Leo Peters. Mrs. Kelsey
Mcmillan and Mrs. Vassen. For
ty guests were present from New
Baltimore, Port Huron, Detroit,
St. Clair and Algonac.
Mr.. and Mrs. Melvin Fuerst
and Mr.. and Mrs. William Heinz
emann attended a theatre and
dinner party in Detroit on
Thanksgiving.
Dickie Ki.tler celebrated his
birthday anniversary on Nov. 26.
Mrs. Harry Spiekhout spent
Friday in Detroit with relatives.
Mrs. Martha Sutherland spent
few days the past week with
her brother in Inlay city.
Robert Papaik, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank Papaik who left re-
Gently for Army training is now
stationed at Fort Sheridan, Ill.
MIR. and Mrs. Elmer Sears en-
tanned Mr.. and Mrs. William
Heinemann Sr. and Mr.. and Mrs.
Melvin Fuerst and daughter
Mary Gay at dinner on Sunday.
Miss Rosella Rivard spent
Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs. Law
renee Rivard in Detroit.
Dale Mertz son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Westley Mertz celebrated
his birthday anniversary, Nov.
"a.
Mrs. John Goslyn returned to
Detroit after being the guest the
past two weeks of her daughter
Mrs. Edward Pfusch.
MIR. and Mrs. Fred Holland
of Pontiac were guests Of Mr..
and Mrs. Frank Pay..e on Sun
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clare Litners of
Port Huron were callers. in town
Saturday.
Miss Jean Rock re urned home
Sunday after spending Thanks
giving in Detroit.
The daily monitor leader., 1945-11-29

BLOCK layer TO lay 1000 blocks. ~
ply a. m. 1t rear door. l2o1 south
Gratiot. Az
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-14
Chang Executes
Trio Of High
Chinese Leaders

RUNNING, China, June IA CUP)
Three high Chinese officials have
been executed for theft and extor-
ton in the handling of military sup
plies for use in the continental coun-
er-offensive against Japan, it was
announced Thursday.
Generalissimo Chang Kai-shek
personally ordered death sentences
for Liang Lin, former mayor of
Changsha, one of China's major
cities now held by the Japanese;
Maj. Gen. Huang Yao and Col Pao
Yum Fei.
Liang was accused of stealing
military materials and of squeeze
and extortion.
Gen. Huang was found guilty of
receiving 4,100,000 Chinese dollars
in commissions during the pur-
chase of military camp supplies.
Col. Pao was convicted Of extract
ing a commission of 100000 Chi
nese dollars from building con-
tractor
All three were officials of the
Chinese service of supply-an or
ganization responsible for supplying
new Chinese striking forces south
of the Yangtze river.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-14
Animal Disease
Outbreak Halls

Second survey of Imperial county
in connection with the vascular
stomatitis epidemic among live
stock was completed this week with
no new outbreaks discovered, DR..
John c. Pace, county veterinarian,
said Thursday.
Effective Thursday, DR.. Pace said,
horses, cattle, sheep, and goats may
be shipped from Imperial county if
shipped "a hours after inspection
by an inspector from Dr. PAGES Of
flee and certificate issued.
Animals suffering from vascular
stomatitis were found in four wide
ly separated areas in the county,
near Bonds Corner, Holtville, West
morland, and south of Seeley. The
herds where infected animals were
found, Dr. Pace said, still are kept
under individual quarantine and
inspected frequently.
Several state and federal veterin-
arians still remain in the county
to assist Pace but most of the out
side group had been withdrawn up
on completion of the second survey
of all livestock in the county which
began after the disease first was dis
covered.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-14
Infantry Display
Nets 100000
In War Bond Sales

Approximately 5000 people witt
messed Here's Your Infantry" War
bond show at the Fair Grounds
Wednesday night and purchased
sl00, 900 in bonds t0,gaip admiSsi9ns
This was total sale Of bonds due
to the show, according to Herb
Fawcett, county war bond chair
man. Most of those who attended
the performance purchased their
bonds in advance, Faucet said.
Amid enthusiastic applause the
infantry, under command of 1t.
Donald E. West, put on one of the
most interesting shows ever wit
messed in Imperial Valley
COMPLETE SHOW
Two phases of the show, unique
and educational. gave a vivid pic
ture of the work the infantry is do
ing in slugging it out with the
Japs.
The first phase was demonstra-
ton of ali weapons used in combat
by the infantry by squads OF rifle,
machine gun, mortar, bazooka and
flame throwers. The second phase
showed formation of combat troops
using the weapons and taking
Jap pill box. A spotlight played on
each group movement to give the
audience a clear view of the action.
Preceding the show. Elks from
E. Centre and Brawley held their
annual Flag Day program. Ward
Casey, of Brawley, spoke and Nor
man Deaton of Ell Centro talked on
the history of the flag. Bill Outlook
was master of ceremonies. Deaton's
talk was illustrated by showing
various flags used in America down
through the years.
The Yuma Army air field band,
directed by Warrant Officer Quandt,
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Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-14

cabinet, were expected to leave by
plane for Moscow sometime Thurs
day or early Friday Five other Po-
iiSh leaders from within Poland also
were due in the Soviet capital mo-
mentarily.
The conference was scheduled to
begin Friday with Soviet Foreign
Commissar v. M. Molotov, Ameri-
can Ambassador w. Averell Harri-
man and British Ambassador Sir Ar
chibald Clark Kerr present.
Henry Shapiro, United Press COR
respondent in Moscow. radioed that
hopes we're high in foreign diplomat
ic circles there for early solution of
the Polish problem.
Observers looked for broadening
of the present Warsaw government
into Polish provisional government
of national unity in accordance with
the Crimean declaration.
Offering of the premiership in the
broadened government to Mikolaj- j.
czyk would please American and
British circles. who have been urg-
ing him for the post. Though he
twice previously had turned it down,
his acceptance appeared likely this
time.
Beirut probably win remain pres
ident of the national council (par-
liament), Shapiro said,
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-14
Retreating Enemy
Faces Knockout
Rocks lowering Above Ocean Offer
Nips Splendid Suicide Spot"
AS Marines Hem 10000 Fiqh+ers In

GUAM, June IA (UP)-Tenth army troops supported
by tremendous rocket and artillery barrage, broke
through the last japanese defense line three fronts
Thursday and pushed the slowyretreatng enemy garr
son toward the in Knockout offensive.
Front dispatches said captured Notifications yield
ing scores of japanese military prisoners and thousands
OF civilians to the advancing vctorybound Americans
United Press War Correspondent E. g. Vaens reported
that the 9th division, the north rim of YaejuDake
plateau crushed moderate resistance and smashed forward
toward the only high peaks barring the way the SOUTH
shore of Okinawa
column of 1s division marines the west flank push
ed sheswept rice paddles to the stronghold of
Mezado south of Kunsh ridge Mezado lies within 34
miles of southern shorene cliffs which Maj John r.
Hodge described ideal for Japanese suicide umpng
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-14
New Blow Hit
At Black Mart

WASHINGTON, June 14.-(UP)-
The heat is ON the black market,
especially the meat black market.
Suits against suspects are being
filed BY the OPA at the rate Of
400 a day. Between May and 10
alone court actions were begun in
745 wholesale meat cases.
These figures are some indication
of the determination with which
Price Chief Chester Bowles is at
tacking violations of price and ra-
ton rules which have caused heat
ed criticism of his agency in con-
gresS.
Congress allowed him 500 extra
investigators. These men are get
ting pointers from secret service
and FBI agents. They are aided
by treasury income tax agents.
And they're out to stamp out
all forms of illegal trafficking in
scarce essentials of life-black mar
keting, theft and couterfeiting of
ration stamps and coupons, rent
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-14
Senate viii Get
UNCN Report
When Meet Closes

WASHINGTON, June Il. (UP)-
The White House said Thursday that
President Truman will submit the
United Nations security charter to
the senate for ratification immed-
lately after conclusion of the San
Francisco conference.
White House Press Secretary
Charles G. Ross dismissed reports,
however. that the President has
demanded" that the senate pass
on the charter before starting it's
summer recess.
On the contrary, he said, senate
leaders themselves have indicated
to Mr.. Truman that they wish to
take Up the charter with a view to
ratifying it as soon as possible.
Ross said he did not know wheth-
er the President would submit the
charter in person or by message.
Mr.. Truman is understood to de-
sire quick ratification to strengthen
his hand at the coming Big Three
meeting.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-14
LONDON, June Ia (UP)-

LONDON, June Ia (UP)-
Britain, in a sweeping bid to
end political strife in India,
announced Thursday that congress
party leaders were being released
from internment and proposed to
turn over the Viceroy's executive
council to the Indians except for a
single post.
The conciliatory British moves
were disclosed by introduction in
commons of a white paper on the
Indian situation. Leopold S. Amery.
secretary of state for India. SUBJ
mitted the paper to the parliament
about to be dissolved preliminary to
a general election.
Observers viewed the proposals as
Britain's nearest approach to IN
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-14

The 7th division on the east flank
cracked stout Japanese defenses.
reinforced its spearhead, and seized
considerable plateau territory in
dominating high ground. Valens
said.
POCKET GROWS SMALLER
The Japanese garrison of about
10000 troops was compressed into
diminishing pocket Of possibly
less than Is square miles. 1t gave
ground slowly. leaving the battle
field strewn with dead.
Radio Tokyo told the Japanese
people that American forces in the
Pacific appeared TO be preparing for
new offensive, but admitted that
It did not know whether it would be
directed toward China or Japan
proper
Another broadcast urged the Jap
anese to make their home islands o
fortress and prepare To fight to the
last man because there could be no
unconditional surrender for Japan.
SITUATION DESPERATE
Tokyo said the plight Of the Oki-
nawa garrison was truly desperate"
Premier Kantaro Suzuki, recognizing
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Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-14

evasions and other violations.
So far OPA lawyers have won
an imposing string of criminal con-
victions. These totaled 1885 from
January. 1943, to April 80, 1945.
More. than 1000 Molators went to
jail and some 600 paid fines.
In the first four months of this
year Jail sentences were imposed
on 481 black market operators. A
large number of these violators were
operating in the meat industry.
AS a result of it's law inforcement
rent activities OPA has sent to the
treasury s35.2l8,200 collected from
fines, treble damage payments,
judgments and settlements out of
court.
The treasury all pitching in, on
June / ordered all banks and finan-
cial institutions to report to their
federal reserve banks all unusual
transactions of $1,000 or more in
which currency denominations of
$50 or more are used. Unusual trans
actions involving $4,000 or more
also be reported, regardless of de-
nomination.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-14
Jups Foce B-29s
From Europe

Though it was known that bomb
ers from 1t. Gen. James H Doo-
Titles Eighth Air Force we're on
their way from Britain to the Far
East, this was the first report any
had arrived. 1t was not confirmed
by Allied sources.
Tokyo also reported that two
Liberators had appeared over the
Tokyo Yokohama area at 1890
am. Thursday for the first time,
sending a nonstop air offensive
against Japan into its ninth
straight day.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-14
Marshall Stays
On as Chief

WASHINGTON June 14.-(UP)-
Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson
said Thursday that Gen. George C..
Marshall will remain as army chief
of staff
Stimson confirmed reports from
overseas that the Third and Seven
tn U. S. Armies have been design
ated as the European force of
occupation in place of the 18th
Army, previously designated for
that assignment.
He said Gen. George S. Patton
will return shortly to his command
of the Third Army in Europe and
Gen. Mark w. Clark to his COM
mand of American forces in the
Mediterranean.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-14
Auto Theft Count
Faces Marines

Grand theft charges were filed
in Ell Centre justice court Thursday
against James z. Maness and Edi-
son Owens Mcdaniel. marines
known to have been questioned in
connection with the car theft inves-
tigation federal, state. and county
officials are making in this area.
Reference to the far-reaching in
vestigation was made in Ell Centre
justice court Wednesday when Jer-
ly Calderon, Calexico garage owner,
appeared for preliminary hearing on
a grand theft charge.
Judge John E. Simpson set bail for
Maness at $4,000, the same amount
as the Calderon bail. Maness We'd
nesday testified that he and CAL
deron stole a car in Ell Centre and
took it to Calexico Calderon left
with the car, Maness testified, later
paying Maness $3.50 for the deal
The complaint against the two
marines was signed by Alfred Lyons,
Imperial county deputy sheriffs.
Officers investigating the case
declined to comment.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-14
County Jurists
Get Salary Hike

Salaries of Judges Vaughn N.
Thompson and Elmer Heald of I'M
perial county superior court were
increased from $1,000 to $1,000 a
year through the omnibus bill sign
ed Wednesday night by Governor
Earl Warren in Sacramento.
Salaries of Judges in Al other
counties also were increased.
Assembly and senate committee
earlier approved separate bills ap-
propriating $346, 900 to increase the
states share in superior court
judges salaries by 5000 year. The
remainder of the salaries is paid by
the various counties.
The Imperial county grand jury
and the county board of supervis-
ors have recommended the increas-
es for the county's two judges.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-14
Little Nations
Gird for Last
Battle on Veto
SAN FRANCISCO. june i

SAN FRANCISCO, June 14.-CUP)
The United Nations security con-
ference pushed toward early ad-
journment Thursday as the "little
As" nations prepared final battle
against the Big-Five's proposed
power to veto amendments to the
contemplated world charter.
Commission lone of the four
major commissions into which the
conference is divided-met in open
session to receive a report from
its committee on the proposed pre-
amble of the charter and its first
two chapters, covering the pur-
poses and principles of the world
security organization.
STEP BY STEP
The meeting was one of a SER
les being held this week and next
in which various sections of the
charter are being considered and
approved one by one. Final appro-
val by a plenary session of the
full conference is expected to be
sheer formality.
The preamble recommended by
the committee sets forth that I'VE
the peoples of the United Nations
are determined to save succeeding
generations from the seorge of war,
which twice in our lifetime has
brought untold sorrows to mankind .
1t then lists other determinations
including s.faith in fundamental
human rights" respect for inter-
national treaties and obligations and
promotion of social progress and
better standards of life in larger
freedom"
To accomplish these detectives,
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Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-14
Death Summons
BrawIey Lawyer

BRAWLEY, June 14-W. I. Will
son. prominent Valley attorney for
"a years died Thursday morning
at the Brawley Hopsital. He had
been in i'll health several years.
Wilson came to Imperial Valley
and opened law offices in the Bum
galow Hotel block in April, 1911.
He served the City of Brawley as
city attorney from and including
1918 to 1880 as well as the City
of Calipatria several years starting
in $780,
He was a past master of the Ma
sonic lodge.
Funeral services had not been
completed Thursday.
He is survived by his wife, Adele
who resides at their home on 221
G street.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-14
0kINAWA JAPS SWEPT TO GREAT SEA CLIFF;
Assembly Accepts
Federal Program
On Flood Control
Measure Commits State
To Pay 81 Millions
On Seventeen Projects
Ry LLOYD LAPHAM
BY LLOYD LAPHA

SACRAMENTO, June Ia
(UP)-The state assembly
voted Thursday to indorse
a $500,000,000 federal flood
control program for Califor-
MIA proposed by the army
corps of engineers. The house pass
ed a bill previously approved by
the senate committing the state to
pay S31 100000 in local costs" of
the II projects in the program.
Sponsors of the bill in a session
lasting almost until midnight de-
feated more than a dozen amend
ments to the bill and had it sent
back to the senate for concurrence
in minor committee change.
Gov. Earl Warren's postwar re-
lief bill, previously passed by the
assembly was approved for upper
house passage by the senate social
welfare committee. 1t provides for
county distribution CT cash or goods
under supervision of the state social
welfare department.
An assembly rules committe de-
cision on a resolution to create a
Legislative committee to investigate
lobbying was delayed until new
meeting Thursday
The final vote on the flood con-
troll bill was SO to 10. Amendments
defeated included proposals to reg
lister state opposition to dams at
Pennington on Littlejohn creek
and at either Table mountain or
Iron canyon on the Sacramento
river
Z The senate earlier approved
amendments to the bill qualifying
the indorsement of those two pro-
jects by saying that any dams with
similar purposes also would be in
dorsed
CITES L. A. PERILS
In presenting the bill. Assem-
Continued on Page 8, Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-14

dian aspirations and demands for a
national government since Sir STAFF
ford Cripps failed in his mission to
India three years ago.
Amery told the house that Field
Marshal Lcrd Wavell, Viceroy of
India, on a nine week visit to Lon
don recently received the govern
ment's authority to try to effect a
complete Inflammation of his exc
cutive council
The only exception to Indian
membership of the council. according
to the proposal, would be retention
Of the war minister's portfolio by
Gen. Sir Claude Auchinleck.
The new executive council would
function the same as cabinet oi
which the Viceroy was chairman.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-14
Gasoline Tax
income Rises

SACRAMENTO, June IA. CUP)-
An increase of $452 1856 in the amount
of gasoline tax collected in April
as compared with April, 1914, was
reported Thursday by the state board
of equalization.
Collections also were is per cent
over March, 1915, when revenue
from the tax was $4,412,215, the
board said.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-14
Brituin Makes New Offer
To End Strife in India

Waven now hclds the external af-
fairs portfolio, to be turned oyer to
an Indian.
The council now consists Of ii
Indian and three British members.
The latter holds the portfolios CT
finance, home affairs and war The
proposals offer all but the last to
Indian members. with the Viceroy
retaining the power Of veto.
Mohandas K. Gandhi, the guid-
ing spirit of the party. has been at
liberty since the middle CT last
year. AS the accepted leader of the
party, ne will be invited by Wavell
to a conference to be attended by
other party chieftains.
Gandhi was believed favorably
inclined toward Wavell's invitation.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-14
Big Three Meet
Set for July

fixed for some time between July 5
and 16.
Churchill revealed he would be
accompanied by Laborite leader
Clement Attlee, former deputy
prime minister in the coalition
cabinet and now Churchills chief
opponent in the current general
election campaign.
Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden,
Churchill's companion a. the pre-
vious Big Three meeting was still
incapacitated by illness and will not
attend.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-14
Union Of Polish Regimes
Looms utMoScoW PurIev

Representatives of the Soviet
Polish provisional gov
ernment in Warsaw, headed by
President Boleslaw Beirut of the
Polish National Council, arrived in
Moscow Wednesday and began a
series of preliminary conferences.
Mikolajczyk and Jan Stanczyk,
also former member of the London
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-14
Tokyo
Admits
Losses
OiI-Rich Isle
Of Tarakan
Falls TO Allies

SAN FRANCISCO, June
Ia (UP) Tokyo Thursday
admitted the fall of the oil
rich islands of Tarakan to
in va ding Australian and
Netherlands troops.
An enemy broadcast recorded by
United Press, San Francisco, said ::
The Japanese garrison on Tara
kan conducted its final charge into
enemy positions on Monday"
Tokyo said the charge followed
a two-day bombing of Allied forces
by japanese planes.
MANILA, June IA. CUP)-AuStral-
ian troops Thursday drove into the
outskirts of Brunei, capital of the
Borneo sultanate of the same name
Field reports said the city appar-
emily had been abandoned by the
Japanese.
SEIZE HIGH GROUND
Aussies of the famed fighting
Ninth division thrust across the
city line from the east after seizing
high ground only 200 yards away
in an amphibious landing up Bru-
nei river
Another Australian column cap
tured Brunei airstrip and rolled on
unopposed within two miles north
of the city in an eight-nnile advance
along the Brooketon- Brunei read.
Brunei probably will fall within
Continued on Page 8. Col. y
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-14

LONDON, June IA (UP)-Prime
Minister Churchill announced in
commons Thursday that the Big
Three will meet before the British
election results are announced en-
July 26.
Informed quarters guessed the
Big Three leaders would confer in
Berlin.
Churchill declined to comment on
rumors that the occupied Nazi capi-
tai had been chosen for the meet
ing place or that the date had been
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-14
Five Persons Hurt
In Auto Accident

Five persons suffered injuries at
5 p. m, Wednesday when tire
blew out on a sedan driven by Car
los Manzares, 16, Brawley
The car went out of control and
overturned in the borrow pit beside
highway SO half mile south Of
Brawley, highway patrolmen said
Injured were Matilda Ramirez. 54
Benjamin Deiz, A, Emma Bales
ter, Is, Ramon d. Ballester, 80, and
the driver.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-14
By HAZEL HARTzOG

GUAM, June "a (UP)-Radio
Tokyo said Thursday that the first
flights of Flying Fortresses and
Iiterators from Europe have ar
rived in the Philippines to join the
mounting Amerian air offensive
against japan.
A Japanese Domei dispatch
broadcast by Tokyo and heard in
Lcndon reported scores" of the
four-engined bombers which de-
vastated Germany were at Philip
pines bases.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-14
IONDON JunIa UTP)

LONDON, June Ia (UP)-
Former Premier Stanislaw
Mikolaiczyk of the London
exile cabinet probably will be offer
ed the premiership of a new Polish
unity government at the Moscow
conference, a dispatch from the
Soviet capital said Thursday.