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Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-05
Tax Bill Author
Predicts Defeat
For Works Funds

SACRAMENTO, April S. CUP)-
Assemblyman Walter j. Fourt, CR)
Ventura, predicted Thursday that
the administration tax reduction
bill may pass the assembly without a
provision earmarking $57,O00000 for
a local government public works
subsidy.
Fourt, the author of the bill, said
there would be more than enough"
votes to eliminate the subsidy "a
mendment if all members of the
assembly were present at sessions
He said an amendment to eliminate
the provision was ready for presen-
tation and probably would be offer
ed early next week.
The senate, meanwhile, adopted
amendments to a bill by Sen. Ben
Hulse, CR.,) Ell Centro, which
would split up a $l0O0O0,0OO local
public works subsidy equally between
cities and counties. Hulse said the
bill probably will be debated next
week.
Gov. Earl Warren has announced
his opposition to any public works
subsidy program. He said such a
program would in effect pave the
way to large scale raids on the state
treasury.
Unfavorable votes by the assembly
public health committee on medical
care bills advocated by Warren and
the state CIO council had contin-
ued repercussions.
Replying to charges by Warren
that the committee had given the
bills the 'brush-off," committee
chairman Frederick H. Kraft, (R,)
San Diego, said that both bills have
virtually been rewritten" several
times
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-05
RUSS END NEUTRALITY PACT With japan
Downey Attacks
Reservations
To Water Treaty
Declares Changes
More Confusing
Than First Draft

WASHINGTON, April 5.
Senator Sheridan Downey.
(R.), California, Thursday
attacked proposed reservations to
Mclean water treaty as "even more
ambiguous than the language they
are supposed to clarity"
The state department, Dcwney
said, spent two weeks and came out
with something even more confus-
ing than the treaty already is"
The reservations were introduced
by Chairman Tom Connally, CD !,
Texas, of the senate foreign rela-
tions committee. They would pro-
hibit the twc-man international
boundary commission to be set up
under the treaty from undertaking
any construction projects not au-
thorized by congress, and would re-
quire the commission to fellow
constitutional procedures" in ad-
ministration of the treaty.
Downey told the senate the reser-
vatiors do not cover a section CT
Wiz ~ Stty "i4iSll i1Cl UllC OWO
governments" to build power works
on the Colorado river. 1.-The two
governments" he said, is language
intel preted to mean the secretaries
of state of the United States and
Mexico. Thus, he said, the reserva-
tions would not cover them, land
the state department gets a blank
check to go into the power busi-
! ness"
Connally pointed out that the
commission, to be composed of one
American and one Mexican, cannot
act without a unanimous vote. Con-
sequently, he said, although the
retervation applies only to the
American section, it in effect is
binding upon the whole commission
The senate hoped Thursday to
reach an agreement limiting debate
but both proponents and opponents
agreed that chances were slight.
Chairman Connally has set April
IL as a tentative goal for a final
vote and April IT as the outside
limit.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-05
Eckes Calls for Seizure
Of All Soft Coal Mines

Wage contract negotiations here
continued with the same futile ap-
pearance which has marked them
for more than a week. Rowing pick
cts in Pennsylvania discouraged
back-to- work movements at many
mines.
UNIV President John l.. Lewis
agreement to extend for a month
the old contract which expired at
midnight last Saturday had been
expected to prevent any widespread
shut-downs of mines. But the re-
sponse to his call for continued
mining has not been as satisfactory
as had been hoped for
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-05
Officials Scan
S. +. Meet Ton9Ie

WASHINGTON, April 5. (UP)-
High American officials were work.
ing at top speed Thursday tc settle
current Big Three difficulties be-
fore the San Francisco conference
opens on April 25.
without hiding their concern
about those differences, they are
confident of getting satisfactory
solutions and certain that a cericus
breach in the wartime partnership
is not in prospect.
American officials base their con-
fidence on three points outlined by
Secretary of State Edward R. Stet-
tinius Jr., in a Chicago address
Wednesday night
/. The ability in the past three
years of the United Nations to
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-05
Army Plans Limiting Draft
To 18-teeners After We Day

The other would permit resump
ton OF enlistments in the regular
United States army instead of the
wartime army of the United States.
1t is designed to build up regular
army force that will continue in
service through the period of post
war rehabilitation of draftees.
Discussions in connection with
those two bills, in addition to gen.
eral rehabilitation plans. have
given congressional leaders the i'm
preston that the army wants only
18-year-olds after Germany is de-
feated. Approximately 100000 boys
turn l8 each month, of whom about
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-05
DRILLING is RESUMED
AT BRAWLEY OIL WELL

BRAWLEY, April 5.-After four
weeks or more of Fishing" for lost
drills in the Amerada-Vessey wild
cat Oil well north of Brawley, the
Rocky Mountain Drilling company
Thursday announced resumption of
drilling.
The tools were lost at 5118 feet.
Drilling "a hours a day again, the
company reported depth of $685.
feet at noon Thursday. Company Of
ficia]s said they were running a
Schlumberger test on the well. This
is the third such test made. Find
ings of the tests are not revealed.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-05
Nazi Prisoners
Die in Box Car

PARIS, April 5. (UP)-Supreme
headquarters announced Thursday
that a number of German war pris-
oners were suffocated in the course
of rail movement to camps in
France on March 1915 while in the
custody of American troops.
Gen. Dwight d. Eisenhower cr-
dered an investigation and notified
the German government through
intermediate diplomatic channels.
An interim report, SHAEF said,
indicated that the prisoners died
because of insufficient ventilation
in new type of American box cars.
Details were lacking.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-05
Action Presages
Open Share in
Battle Of Pacific
Aid to Germany
Cited in
Word to Tokyo

LONDON, April 5. (UP)
Russia Thursday denounced
her n : u tr a Ii t y pact with
Japan in an action believed
to foreshadow her ultimate
entry into the Pacific war.
Announcement of the ac-
tion came a few hours after.
the fall of the Japanese gov
ernment of Premier Gen. Ku-
nj a XII Koiso, presumably
upon the receipt of word
from Moscow of the Russian
action.
Foreign Minister V. M.
Molotov announced the Sow
let action to japanese AM
bassador Naotaki S a o in
Moscow.
AS result of the Soviet
action, the Russo-Japanese five
year neutrality pact automatically
epxires at midnight April "a, 1946.
The Soviet action Immediately
opened grounds for speculation
upon Soviet entering the Pacific
war and moving into action her
powerful Far Eastern Red Banner
Army which has stood guard at the
frontiers of Siberia and Manchurta
since long before the outbreak of
the European war.
Mclotoy's action was announced
by Radio Moscow.
The foreign minister advised Sato,
the account said, that since the pact
was signed on April 13, 1941, the
world situation had changed con-
siderably.
ATTACKED SOVIET
Germany, he noted, had attacked
the Soviet Union and Japan has
aided Germany in the war against
the Soviet Union.
In addition, he said, Japan is at
war against Great Britain and the
United States who are the Allies Of
the Soviet Union.
Therefore, he told Sato, the pact
of neutrality "has lost its sense
and it is impossible for it to be con-
tinued.
ACTION PREDICTED
The Russian action had been pre-
ceded by number CT indications
that the pact would not be con-
tinued. Speculation at the point was
Continued on Page 8, Col. ID
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-05
ydnks Move Up
On OkinuWu

tleskips and other surface craft cff-
shore were pouring ton after ton of
bombs, shells and rockets into the
Japanese-held area. An estimated
10000 to 10000 enemy troops were
ho!ed up.
Behind the American lines, noun
tains of supplies were being built
up tc support racing forward ele-
ments and artillery was moving into
position to add its weight to the
drive.
The Jap air force, like enemy
ground troops, has been active thus
far, but it was believed here that a
strong air fleet will be thrown into
action before the battle is wen,
probably when heavy ground fight
ing develops.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-05

WASHINGTON, Aril 5.
(UP)-The war department
expects to draft nothing but
18-year-old boys after the
collapse of Germany, it was re-
ported in congressi circles
Thursday.
Plans for army strength after We
day have been under discussion re-
Gently between military and con-
gressional representatives in ccn-
nection with two bills now pending
in the senate.
One measure would extend the
selective service act for one year
beyond the present May is expira-
ton date.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-05

overcome other far more serious
difficulties and dangers.
2. The determination of the Unit
ed States and each of her Allies
to cement in peace the partnership
born in war.
3. The fact that the extent of Big
Three agreement is far wider and
more fundamental than the extent
of their differences.
I'VE face difficulties and dangers
whose magnitude it is hardly possi-
BILE to overestimate, Stettinius told
the Chicago Council on Foreign Re-
lationg. "Idealism and good inten-
tions will not be sufficient. Our only
chance of success is to face squarely
the realities and to pursue course
of action firmly based upon these
realities"
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-05
Trailers Arrive
For Valley Use

House trailers, IA of them, are
arriving in Imperial Valley at in
tervals and will be installed in Ell
Centro and Brawley to house pack
ing shed help.
A total of 70 will be installed in
each of the two cities, some of the
Brawley allotment already having
arrived and installed.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-05

Japan's second wartime cabinet
fell only four days after American
invasion forces ctormed ashore on
Ckinawa island, 300 miles southwest
Of the enemy's home islands, against
almost non-existent opposition.
At a conference of elder states
men, it was announced that Admiral
Baron Kantaro Suzuki, 77-year-old
president CT the privy council, has
been ordered by the emperor to
form new cabinet.
SITUATION GRAVE
The Japanese board of informa-
ton announced that the resigna-
tions were decided upon "in view of
the gravity of the war situation and
in order tc bring more powerful
cabinet" into office.
The decision was taken at an
emergency cabinet session at $50
a. m, Tokyo time, the Tokyo radio
said. Koiso proceeded to the impe-
rial palace and presented the resig-
nation Zen blCc" to Emperor Hiro-
hito at 1890 a. m.
The Koiso cabinet went into Of
flee eight and a half months ago
after the overthrow of the extremist
government of Gen. Hideki TOTO in
political crisis touched off by the
loss of Saipan in the Marianas.
SUCCESSOR is RIDDLE
Who will succeed Koiso was prob
lematical. Koiso, like TOTO, was a
product of the ruthless Kwangtung
army in Manchuria, though per-
haps slightly more moderate than
his predecessor.
Should another army or navy
man be chosen to succeed Koiso, Far
Eastein observers looked for final
frantic effort to prepare Japan tc
repel the ultimate Allied invasion
of the homeland itself.
An all-civilian cabinet, however
might be the first step toward peace.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-05

GUAM, April 5. (UP)-Front dis
patches said Thursday that the
10th Army was coming up against
the main japanese forces on Okin-
ava in a mounting battle only lit
tie more than four miles north of
Naha, the islands capital.
Several enemy lines of resistance
were overrun in advances of 500 to
1900 yards down the 3la -mile-wide
isthmus separating south-central
and southern Okinawa Wednesday,
but the growing opposition indi-
Gated that major defense positions
lay just ahead.
In preparation for the grim fight
expected before the remainder of
the southern portion of the island
can be won, carrier planes and bat
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-05

70 per cent are acceptable under
present draft regulations.
"They should be enough for tho
replacement problem confronting US
in the war against Japan" COM
mented one member OF the senate
military affairs committee. The
real job will be enc OF demobiliza-
ton of the men already In services
rather than drafting anything more
than requirements
1t was pointed out that the army
has nearly 100000 men In uniform,
That's more than we can use In
the Pacific war" II was said
I'VE haven't even got the ship
ping to put that many men In thu
Pacific"
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-05

with the demand what it is to-
day and the prospects in Europe,
we seem to be running into trouble.
"I dent think any miners have
the right to lay down their tools at
a time like this VIXEN all we need
is to continue what we are doing to
win through to victory in Europe.
1t is unsupportable and inexcus-
able"
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-05

WASHINGTON, April 5.
Fuel Administrator Harold
l.. Ickes said Thursday he
believed the government should
take over TIE soft coal mines at
once.
"I dent think we ought to wait"
Ickes told prets conference, "in
view of continued wildcat strikes
that have cut soft coal production
to 65 per cent this week.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-05
kosio, Cabinet
Quit in Body
BU PHIL AULT

LONDON, April 5. (UP)-Premier General Kuniaki
Koiso and the entire japanese cabinet poweress to halt
the American advance their homeland resigned Thurs
day with frank admission that Japan's plight had be-
come grave.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-05
Potion SmuSheS
Threaten to
Di vide Germany
Third Army Tanks Only 80 Miles :
From Czech Border as British
Clear Northwestern Part Of Reich

PARIS, April 5. (UP)-Hundreds of American Third
Army tanks spilled through 50mile breach in the German
central lines 130odd miles from Berlin Thursday riding
roughshod weak opposition within 60 miles of the
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-05
WEATHER

Maximum Wednesday ", minimum
Thurs. 80; am. Thurs. As, humid
ity ga; noon Thurs. "a, humidity 10;
5 pm. Wednesday 68, humidity 9.
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-18

A TLANTIS-the lost island continent of
~ antquity-may have existed only in the
mind of one man and not in the middle OF
the Atlantic, Africa, at the North Pole or any of
the other places science has searched for it..
For some scholars now hold that Plato press
agent for this first home of supermen, thought ii
up purely as a patriotic service.
Propaganda ancient art even then, they
say and the bearded philosopher was one of the
first TO practice ii in furtherance of the cause
of Greek nationasm.
The Greeks had a word for it-propeg
numi, meaning Il spread before"
And the Greeks Of Pato'S time (427-347
b. c. were moderns in quest of family
tree an antiquity they could call their own.
Their greatest exploits outside of mythology
-MitiadcS at Marathon (490) and Leonidas
at Thermopylae (4SO)-were still too fresh
in the minds of the multitude.
What they needed was something more
ancient and heroic TO bolster up their ego, their
place of emnence alongside or ahead Of Egypt,
BabYlonia or Persia
Plato saw the need according TO the theory
first advanced by the late Or. w. A. Hedcl, of
Wesleyan, and developed by DR.. George Clapp
valiant, director of the University of Pennsyl-
vania Museum and concluded something really
ought to be done about ii.
So he sent his great mind foraging back across
the Stone Age and came up with the myth Of
Atlantis and a glorious past for his homeland.
Out of his vast imagination came the island
empire of Atlantis which his TimaCus and Critias
described as somewhere beyond the Pillars or
Hercules, now Gibraltar
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-18
Scholars Now Believe the First Home
of a Super Roee Was suPer-coiossaI
PromoEion-ondJ JUST SO Much
Hellenic Hokum

Then the pint-sized, poorly protected Greeks
stopped the first pulvcTiZinR onslaught and hurled
the invaders back into the sea
Thus were the revelations of Plato-entirely
cut of whole cloth, say Dr. Valiant and others
subscribing to his theory, and set down exclusively
for home consumption and morale.
Plato even limited the Atanteans came with
new and secret weapons and TO further the glory
Of ancient Attica he said the invaders were blood
relatives of the gods.
Their islands, ne related, had been appOrtioned
by the gods TO Poseidon Neptune lord and
master of the seas. Poscidon had married one Of
the natives and their oldest son, Atlas, became the
King OF ATLANTIS.
The Auantcans, or SO Plato said, were master
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-18

The Atanteans, he revealed were
a blond godlke race of giants who overran
most of the known world until they collided
with the Greeks.
Plato'S tale assumed epic stature. The
mighty hosts that swarmed out of the Atlanucs
gray mistS swept across the north shore of Africa
and Southern Europe. Magnificently armed and
blessed with superhuman courage they smashed
the ranks of all who dared to array themselves
before them.
Nogales international., 1945-11-23
Arizona Lions
Grow Scarcer

PHOENIX, Nov. 22-Mountain
lions are scarcer in Arizona than
they have been since the us. Fish
and Wildlife Service, or its prede-
cessor agencies, sent the first gov
ernment hunters into this State
But Everett Mercer, Arizona direc-
tor for the service, says that "ol'
man catamount" still is long way
from exterminated.
Although there were 21 predatory
animal hunting expeditions in the
field through the third quarter Of
l945, and several were concentrating
on lions, only four Of the big cats
were killed. Bears are far more de-
structive to livestock and killed 66
sheep in that quarter. But bruin
may also be on his way out because
he is no longer protected as a game
animal.
Mercer thinks that coyotes are
slightly less numerous than they
were a year ago, but they still are
far too plentiful. His hunters ac-
counted for 629 of them in July,
August and September. They also
destroyed Is foxes for a grand total
of 727 predators.
Nogales international., 1945-11-23
Judge Thomas In
Hospital With
Injured Shoulder

Judge Frank E. Thomas, well
known in Nogales, is in the Copper
Queen hospital at Bisbee undergoing
treatment for a serious fracture OF
the right shoulder which he suffer-
ed when he was thrown from his
horse on a hunting trip in the
mountains near TT. Grant Friday
morning.
For three days and nights Thomas
endured great pain from the injury
believing that he had received only
a bad bruise. His fellow hunters
administered hot applications as
the only treatment available until
he was brought to the hospital.
Thomas said that he was unable
to eat or sleep during their stay in
the camp and that every time he
took step it panied him very much.
He walked two miles to the truck
that had carried them up the
mountain when they were ready to
return. The ride of from IL to Is
miles down the rocky road was a
terrible experience, he said.
Accompanying him on the trip
were Sam T. Hill of Nogales, Jack
Wilson and Henry Howe, both of
Ft. Grant, and Hinson Thomas,
Thomas brother who is visiting him
from Los Angeles.
Nogales international., 1945-11-23
Early Mailing
OF Christmas
Parcels Urged

The early mailing Of Christmas
greetings and gift parcels is impera-
tive due to the shortage of trained
employees throughout the service,
the postoffice department has in
formed Mrs. Eva Wheeler, postmas-
ter Of Nogales.
Mailings for distant states should
be deposited well in advance Of Dec.
10, and greeting cards for local de-
livery should be mailed not later
than Dec. Is to assure delivery be-
fore Christmas Day.
All gift parcels may bear the no
tice do Not Open Until Christmas" :"
Each package, as well as all letters
and Christmas cards, should bear
the postoffice zone number in the
address. The postal delivery zone
system has been established in all
principal cities.
Large advertisers are requested to
withhold heavy mailings of cata-
logueS, calendars and such material
during December. Calendars should
be mailed sufficiently in advance of
Dec. 1 to permit delivery before that
date. This does not apply to current
advertising pertaining to advertising
sales.
Public utilities and large business
concerns are asked by the depart
ment to cooperate.
Christmas cards and gift parcels
for men overseas or at sea should
be mailed at once in order that they
may arrive at their destination by
Christmas.
Nogales international., 1945-11-23

Lorraine Karaln, mis-. freshman,
was elected as the 1945 Football
Sweetheart" by the members OF the
football team. Chosen for looks,
personality, and qualities in backing
the team, the choice was well made,
for in addition to her other quail
ties, Lorraine is the leading drum
majorette and has performed at all
the home games and at Amphithe-
atre.
The official announcement and
coronation of the football teams
Sweetheart was at the G.A.A. dance
Nogales international., 1945-11-23
LORRAINE KARAM ELECTED
AS FOOTBALL SWEETHEART

on November is. Lorraine was
crowned on white throne placed
in the center of the gym stage. A
grand march was then led by Lor-
raine and Co-captain, Lee White,
and Emma Ochoa, G.A.A. president,
and Co-captain, Herman Rivas.
The football sweetheart will be
guest Of honor at the G.A.A. ban
ouet and the annual football ban
Quet.
(N.H.S. Apache Warcry)
Nogales international., 1945-11-23
ST. ANDREWS EPISCOPAL
CHURCH
Sunday Services

800 a.mzHoly Communion.
GAS am.-Church School and
Bible Glass.
HOO a.m.-Morning Prayer and
Sermon. Subject: "Let Us Rise Up
and Build
Thursday, Nov 20 at Parish Hall:
WA Guild hoStesses to United Eel
lowship and Baptist groups.
Friday, Nov. 30: st. Andrews
Day, Holy Communion at 7:30 PM.
Presentation of United Thank Of
fering!!
A hearty welcome to all services.
REV. j. ATKINSON, Vicar.
Nogales international., 1945-11-23
Tourist Traffic
Up Sixty-One
Percent At Dam

LAS VEGAS, New, Nov. 22-
Tourist traffic flowing across Boul-
der Dam increased CLAP per cent
over 1914 for the fiscal year of 1945
with total of 1898 cars checked
into the areas stations, the Nation
al Park Service reported.
Nogales international., 1945-11-23
THE UNITED CHURCHES
FELLOWSHIP
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

lOnal-MetnOdlStJ
Church school, 9:45 Mrs. George
B. Parks, superintendent. Primary
Department meets the same hour
with Mrs. Lon Bellman, superinten-
dent.
Morning worship at II o'clock.
Theme, Getting Beside Ourselves. !"
There will be special music by the
choir under the direction of Mr..
Russell A. Smith.
You are cordially invited to hear
this factual and interesting address.
It will give you something to think
about and possibly put into action.
All not attending elsewhere are cor
daily invited. Strangers made. well
come.
o. A. SMITH, DID,, Minister.
Nogales international., 1945-11-23
H. Griffin At
Meeting In East

Horace Griffin of Mesa, former
Rotary district governor in Arizona,
was here Monda yand left yesterday
for Washington to attend a meeting
of the aims and objects committee
of Rotary international.