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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-03-02
3 Soldiers Home Employees
Win Civilian Awards

Bernard ]. Gallagher, 4005 Ken
nedy street, Hyattsville, Nd, chief
plumber at the United States Sol
diers' Home, was among eight Of its
staff honored yesterday with the
War Department Emblem for Civil
ian Service.
Entering the employ of the Sol
diers' Home in 1905, Mr.. Gallagher
became chief plumber In 1929, sue
ceeding his father, James Bernard
Gallagher, who had served so years
in that capacity. To date, this
father and-son record of employ
nent totals 80 years.
Other employees who received the
official award for more than Is years
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-03-02
py the Associated Press.


CALCUTTA, March "A Texas
sergeant was determined to plant
his Lone Star State flag on Japa-
nese-held hill in Burma. The Japa-
nese couldn't stop him but his own
men did.
The details were in a press relea Sc
yesterday.
Dick Hatfield of Houston, whose
mother is a WAC staff sergeant.
charged up a hill in recent Mars
Task Force attack carrying his big
Texas flag. He started out as a
mortar fire observer but when the
telephone wire ran out he went on
as rif1eman. He tossed grenades
into two pillboxes before being
wounded in the leg.
Hatfield was carried down the
hill to an aid station. Twice he
sneaked out and started up the hill
with his flag. He was caught and
brought back and the second time
he was taken to a portable surgical
hospital, where he spent the night.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-03-02
Geographic Society
To See War Pictures

The Allied campaign in Western
Europe, from D day to the Siegfried
Line, will be described to members
of the National Geographic Society
in Constitution Hall tomorrow night
by Jack H. Lieb, correspondent, pho
tographer and world traveller. re-
Gently returned from Europe.
His color motion pictures show
London, Paris and Brussels, Cher
bourg, Aachen and Bastogne. Pic
tured also are American soldiers at
the front and on leave in Paris.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-03-02
Auto Buyer Admits Guilt
On Bod Check CHARGE

Accused of giving a $1,000 bad
check to the Cherner Motor Co. on
February % for Lincoln Zephyr
sedan valued at s2.035, Harry A.
Kite, jr.. 80, of 1908 Florida avenue
NV, pleaded guilty yesterday to a
false pretenses charge before United
States Commissioner Needham c.
Turnage. He was held for grand
jury action under $4,000 bond
Police said that as the check was
given on a bank holiday, motor
company officials did not verify it,
but accepted Kites credentials. Kite
was arrested Monday in Richmond,
Va, by Detective Sergt. David Hig-
gins and Detective E. c. Crandall of
the Metropolitan Police
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-03-02

Of faithful and satisfactory" serv-
ice are:
Charles M. Becker, 1929 Walnut
street Sc; George w. Chapman,
7l6 Chillum road, Hyattsville;
Bertha De Priest, 1887 Eleventh
street NV; Robert Martin, Ill
Rock Greek Church road NV:
George McCully. 1914 Irving street
NE; John Sartain, 6420 Blair road
NV; Elliott 1. Baker, Oscar Feldser
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-03-02
Texan With State Flag Stopped
Not by laps, but by Own Men

The next morning, back he came
with the flag but this time his COM
manding officer stepped IN ana bel
lowed: Its too large a Gag and too
bare a hill and besides the Yankees
in the outfit fought just as hard as
the Texans did. Plant it somewhere
oIco >,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-03-02

The American way Is the way
they pay, SO buy more War Bonds
and buy today.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-03-02

and Charles Stansbury. The last
three named live at the Soldiers
Home.
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49 Washington Men
Report for Induction

Forty-nine Washington men have
been ordered to report for induc-
ton into the armed forces today.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-23
Strike Spread
Danger Cited in
u. S..Ward Brief

CHICAGO, Jan. 23. CUP) - The
danger of strikes by Montgomery
Ward and company employees
spreading to the nations war in
dustries, rather than a desire to
enforce war labor board directors
forced seizure of war properties in
seven cities, the government con-
tended today in reply brief ON file
in federal court.
The 40-page brief, filed in an
swer to company paper before
Federal Judge Philip L. Sullivan
attempted to justify the December
% presidential seizure order, which
the mail order firms officials have
denounced as unconstitutional.
The strikes, and not Wards dis
pute with the CIO retail, wholesale
and department store employees
union or the WLB, is the basic issue
in the case, the government asserted.
Judge Sullivan's ruling on a gov
ernment petition to restrain Ward
officials from interfering with army
operation, is expected to be the first
step toward an eventual supreme
court ruling on the Presidents war
time seizure powers.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-23
War Committee
Maps 'Swoops'
On Other Plants

WASHINGTON, Jan. %. (UP)--
Members of the senate war investi-
eating committee planned tooay tc
swoop down unannounced on other
war production centers, including
additional navy yards, as a follow
up to their charges of wasted man.
power ano material at the Norfolk
Navy Yard.
A committee spokesman said the
investigators would purposely avoid
advance notices of their itinerary tc
prevent any dressing up for thei.
benefit.
The spokesman also promised that
witnesses es-mainly plant employees
willing to tell the committee OF
manpower and material abuses
would be protected" against retail
iation. The assurance came after
Chairman David I. Walsh Cd
Massachusetts, Of the senate naval
affairs committee demanded yester-
Cay that the committee disclose
names of persons responsible for
the abuses found at the Norfolk
yard.
Committee Chairman James M
Mead CD N. Y, and Senator HON.
er Ferguson (RD Michigan, mem
ber, reporting on the Norfolk visit
said that critical materials were
destroyed and that employees made
inlaid chess boards and oyster bar;
on yard time.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-23
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
PROPOSAL FOR BIDS FOR THE
PURCHASE OF TAX DECIDED
PROPERTY

Notice is hereby given that bids
for the purchase from the City OF
Ell Centro of the tax decided prop
erty hereinafter described will be
received at the office of the City
Clerk of the City of Ell Centre at
the City Hall in said City up to and
until 500 O'Clock PM. of the 1st
day of February, 1945, and said bids
will be opened and considered by
the City Council of the City of Ell
Centre at the next succeeding meet
ing, or at such subsequent meeting
to which such consideration may be
continued The City reserves the
right to reject any and all bids.
Said property is described as
follows:
Lot 10, Block BIB, Townsite,
City of Ell Centre.
Lot 6, Block 8, Third Addition,
City of Ell Centre.
Lot 5, Block 46, Townsite, City
of Ell Centro.
Lots As and 46, Block 80, Town
site, City of Ell Centro.
IRWIN MAUPIN,
City Clerk of the City OF
Ell Centre.
DATED: January %, 1945.
No. "a. J23
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-23
CONGRESS CABINET?
CLOS Angeles Times)

An article which James F. Byrnes,
war mobilization director, says he wrote
in the expectation he would be a private
citizen when it appeared urges the crea-
ton of a Congressional Cabinet consist
ing of the heads of the principal congress
Sional committees, to meet frequently
with the President
The suggestion has merit and there is
merit, too, in the further suggestions that
the number of congressional committees
be reduced and that congress provide it
self with experts independent of the eX-
ecutive branches. The latter move has
already been urged by others.
But the suggestions leave the executive
cabinet untouched and there, under the
present administration, seems the most
room for improvement The cabinet sell
dom meets and has in fact been over
shadowed by the agencies, war and other
wise, that have been set up independent
of it.
Byrnes himself looms bigger in the
public eye than any cabinet officer. The
Presidents reluctance to make changes
in his cabinet-which, aside from one or
two posts, is filled with mere stooges-is
partly responsible for the decline of the
cabinet in Importance. Particularly is.
more ability needed in the Treasury de-
partment, whose head carries no weight
either with the public or with congress,
nor even, apparently, with Byrnes, who
has just made taX-revision proposals
without consulting Morgenthau.
A strengthened cabinet could well be
given the privilege or duty of appearing
on the floor of congress to explain and
defend the policies each department ad
vocates, thus introducing the novelty of
real debate, in place of the mere oratory
which most congressional speeches now
consist of. There would be no point in
calling most Of the present cabinet before
congress. Such change would be, in
all probability, as beneficial to congress
and the country as any of the plans sug-
gested by Byrnes.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-23
MOORE STATEMENT
PRECEDED REVOLUTION

The responsibility which Welles
put on Moore's shoulders is not,
however, as great as might appear
from the Welles book, for in track
ing down the crucial policy state
ment to its correct source, 1t has
also been disclosed that Moore did
not make the statement in Decem-
Der, 1896, as Welles says he did, but
in January, 1896. This was six
months before the revolution broke
out in Spain. Furthermore, Moore
made this statement with reference
not to the Spanish arms embargo
act, but to another measure which
was never passed.
There is another point OF con-
fusion in the Welles statement that
the President was out OF the coun-
try while the Spanish arms embargo
policy was being adopted by con-
gress. The President, Hull ard
Welles had gone TO the Inter Ameri-
curf Peace conference in Buenot
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-23
AIR SUPERIORITY
(Riverside Daily Press)

Orville Wright, co-inventor of the air
plane, recently told an interviewer that
he believed the enemy had made the
greatest single contribution to aviation
this year.
1t. Gen. Barton Yount of the Army
Air Forces has said, in the course of a
speech, that 'it is probable that no fur
ther (American) fighters with conven-
tional gasoline engines will be designed"
Mr. Wright evidently was referring to
the German V-bombs. General Yount
obviously was paying back-handed COM
pliment to the efficiency of the German
jet-propelled fighter plane. Both state
ments are SOLDERING.
This is war which, in part is race
between opposing scientists and engin-
GERS to devise increasingly effective en-
gines of destruction. We now have both
jet-propelled bombs and planes in pro-
duction, but Germany already has them
in operation. .....
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-23
Seasoning Water
Flow Down the
CoacheI|a Branch

One hundred second feet of water
poured into the Coachella branch
of the All-American canal Tuesday
as a part of the seasoning process
on the 80 miles of the canal already
completed, reclamation bureau Off
cials announced in Yuma Tuesday.
The water started from the turn
out on the All-American canal 36
miles down stream from Imperial
dam. In addition to seasoning the
canal reclamation bureau officials
said. the water will supply need
expressed by contractors building 20
more miles of the Coachella branch.
In addition to the ITO miles com-
pleted and now under construction,
the officials said, there is rs miles
of the branch yet to be placed under
contract.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-23
Wanfed:
Ex-raiIroad
SignaInan

Your "knoW how as signalman
was never so vitally needed as now.
Because your work means the green
light for war trains loaded with
troops, guns, tanks, ammunition.
Southern Pacific has a good job for
you .. job at good pay with a
permanent company-the Fest's big
gest railroad. A job that'll be still
more vital when Germany's done for
and the Big Push begins against
Japan. We think you'll like working
for S.P., like the people, like the
many extra advantages this COM
pany can offer you. Liberal age linz
its.
Signalmen Helpers, Carpenters
Helpers, Plumbers Helpers,
Machinists' Helpers needed y
also. Semi skilled.
Apply to Local S. p. Agent, or S. r.
Employment Office, Room SIS, e
Pacific Electric Building,
6 g. Main, Los Angeles
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-23
'BresIau Capture
Will Deplete Oil
Source of Nazis

FIFTEENTH AIR FORCE CHG,
Italy, Jan. %. CUP)-When the Red
army captures Breslau it will rob
Germany of one of its few major
remaining sources of oil supply, 18th
air force strategists pointed out to-
day.
They described Breslau as the
center of a mining and manufacture
ing industry which probably is less
damaged by bombing than any other
important industrial area in Ger
many. When the Russians move
through Silesia they will see evio !
ence of the work done by the 18th
air force-similar to that done in
Rumania and Hungary where a long
string of oil plants and storage
plants have been knocked out or
damaged.
In the last yer the Allied air
forces have devoted great attention
to the battle of oil. For instance
the 18th in many months concen-
trated half or more of its effort on
pushing home the attack to cut
down Germany's oil and gasoline
supply.
Eighteen months ago it was esti-
mated that GermanyS current oil
supply came one-third from Ru-
mania, one-third from synthetic
plants and one-third from cruc c
Gil produced in the Reich, Austria
Hungary, and Poland.
The Rumanian supplies have been
lost. Most of the crude oil fields
in Hungary are gone and the re-
naming smaller supplies of Austria
Germany and Poland are now
threatened.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-23

When the Senate Foreign Rela-
tions committee was considering
ratification of President Roosevelt's
six nominations fer assistant secre-
taryships in the department of state,
Senator Claude Pepper of Florida
brought up the issue Of American
policy with regard to the Spanish
revolution and the Spanish dictator,
Francisco Franco. Specifically, Pep
per cited four pages in Sumner
Welles" recent book, The Time for
Decision" in which the former un-
dersecretary summed up the situa-
ton by saying that "Of all our blind
isolationist policies, the most disas-
trous was our attitude on the Span
ish civil war;
Referring to the stampede CT
at-any- price organizations to
Washington at the end of 1886, and
their pressure to amend existing
neutrality legislation to prevent
shipment of arms to the Spanish
Republican forces who were seeking
to put down the Franco revolution,
Pepper read the WelleS passage
which says that when the senate
foreign relations committee asked
for state department advice on this
situation, it received from the Off
cial spokesman for the department
this statement:
You are trying to protect the
neutrality CT this country. to prevent
this country from becoming involved
in war, and at the same time not
sacrificing unduly the interest OF
our own people by the enactment Of
this domestic legislation. 1t is tre-
mendoIs step forward ="
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-23
Officers Held in
Black Mart Case

PARIS, Jan. %. CUP)-A special
unprecedented order from Gen
Dwight D. Eisenhower has caused
the arrest Of six officers and efforts
to bring charges against many more
officers o. the millionaire" 716th
Railway Battalion, from which 1872
enlisted men were ordered to trial
on black market charges, headquar-
ters revealed today
Announcement of the new arrests
followed denunciations by defendant
enlisted men who charged officers
treated them as "stepchildren," fail
ing to issue them ordinary food ra-
tions, condoning and encouraging
thefts and, on occasion, even par
ticipating."
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-23
Editorials and Comment

vents stopping them. But there is moth
ing to hinder enlightening the public, thus
leaving the thunder birds out on a
limb. Said the Texan, I'VE have no poll
cy =. as territory grabbers. No policy
seeking preferential trade agree
ments." And then, But we do have a
foreign policy which is known to all who
want to know 1t is known to all except
a few critics
And then the Senator stopped.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-23
Capital Talk
-by-
Peter Edison

Aires toward the end of 1885, But
the Spanish policy had been deter
mined and announced previously by
the President and r. Walton Moore
on August %, and the President re-
turned to Washington on December
Is. So the President was in on the
whole play. 1t was Welles who was
out of the country. He stopped off in
Rio on the way back frcm B. A,
and in the intervening years his
memory played him dirty trick.
The Presidents message of regret
was over the earlier neutrality act
rot the Spanish embargo.
The footnote may set the facts
straight and may be of more than
historical interest if the situation in
Franco Spain again gets hct.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-23
Three Projects
Set for Marine
Air Station

Secretary of Navy James E. For
restal approved expenditure of $52,-
600 for three projects at the Ell Gen.
tro Marine Air Station, it was an
nounced Tuesday in d S p a C h S
from Washington, D. C.
Extension of the Photographic
laboratory, an incinerator and a
maintenance shop were included in
the approved projects.
No announcement was made as tc
when the projects will be completed.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-23
FIVE APPEAR BEFORE
CITY POLICE COURT

Lee Nuffer, Ell Centro police judge,
in police court Tuesday morning
hailed five persons to his bar
charged with intoxication and mace
the following dispositions: Patrick
McTogul, SO, $l4 or days in Jail;
A. E. Lerma, 81, $25 or 12h days in
jail; Frank Penny, So, $14 or 7 days
in jail; Patricia Rowe, $14 or 7 days
in jail; w. M. Randolph, who had
been arrested last Monday, pleaded
rot guilty and his case was contin-
ued until next Thursday.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-23
Form Census
Aid Sought

Wholehearted operation of
farmers, ranchers, horticulturists
and stock raisers was sought in I'M
perial county Tuesday as the 1945
agricultural census drew near.
The census will be made by the
United States department of COM
merce and is considered one of the
nations most valuable sources Of
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-23
Retreating Nazis
Remove Bodies
Of Hindenburqs

LONDON, Jan. %. CUP)-Retreat-
ing German troops removed the
bodies of Field Marshal Paul Won
Hindenburg and his wife from their
tomb at Tannenherg and blew up
the great memorial shrine before
abandoning the town to the Red
army Sunday, the Nazi DNB news
agency said today.
DNB said the battle flags of the
Prussian regiments that fought at
Tannenberg in World War one also
were carried away in the retreat.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-23
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA,
IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF
IMPERIAL.

IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF
IMPERIAL.
No. 1862
Notice of Time and Place Appointed
for Proving Will and Hearing APP
plication for Letters Testament
ary.
IN the Matter of the Estate of
LEROY HASKELL, Deceased
Notice is hereby given that a
petition for probate of the Will of
Leroy Haskell, deceased, and for the
issuance to Vivian Boone of letters
testamentary, has been filed in this
Court, and that Friday the 26th day
Of January, 1945, at o'clock PM.
Of said day, at the courthouse of
said Court, in the City of Ell Centre,
County of Imperial, State of Cali
fornia, has been set for the hearing
Of said petition, when and where any
person interested may appear and
contest the same, and show cause.
ii any they have, why said petition
should not be granted.
Dated January 5, 1945.
w. J. McCLELLAND,
County Clerk.
Deputy Clerk.
BY Betty Lewellen,
mo. I'D (J15-25 Incl)
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-23
ARMS BLOCKADE
AIDED FRANCO

Thus advised, wrote WelleS, Gen.
gress by an almost unanimous vote
revised the neutrality legislation on
January 8, 1877 and stopped further
arms shipment to Spain. 1t was
naturally a tremendous advantage
to Franco. The inference which
Welles draws ic that this worked to
the advantage of Nazi Germany and
Fascist Italy and helped bring on
the European war.
Welles says that President Roose-
velt recognized this danger and that
VIXEN the Spanish arms embargo act
came to him for signature, he ex-
pressed in writing the deep disquiet
it caused him and the regret with
which he signed 1t.
When all these old bones were dug
I'D after seven years and aired be-
fore the senate foreign relations
committee in December, 1914, there
arose some question as to who this
unnamed spokesman was. There was
a hunch that it might be James
Clement Dunn, who in 1886 and 81
was head of western European af-
fairs and was now the Presidents
choice for assistant secretary of
state.
Dunn declared that the statement
quoted by Welles was not his, but
even that did not disclose the iden-
tity of who might have given con-
gress its steer on the Spanish situ-
alton.
The mystery, however, has now
been cleared up. The statement
came from the late r. Walton
Moore, who was then assistant Sec
retary of state and from 1887 until
his death in 1941 was counselor to
Secretary Hull.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-23
March Becomes
Race TO Berlin
By UNITED PRESS

The distance to Berlin from adj
vanced Allied lines early Tuesday:
Eastern front-138 miles (from
Poznan, by German report.
Western front-296 miles from
point southeast Of Nijmegen)
Italy-530 miles Crom point north
of Ravenna.)
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-23
FOREIGN POLICY
AND CRITICS

Senator Tom Connally of Texas, chair
man of the Senate's most important COM
mittee stood up recently and blasted crit
les who are saying the U. S. has no foreign
policy. or if so, it should be stated. I'm
fortunately there are too many irrespon-
sible people airing their views on this
burning topic Right of free speech pre-