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Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-08
Warship Barrages
Prepare Way for
0kinaWa Landinu
BY ERNIE PYLE

OKINAWA. (Via Navy Radio)-
An hour and a half before H-Hour
at Okinawa. our vast naval fleet
began its final, mighty bombardment
of the shore with its big guns. They
had been at it for a week, but this
was concentration whose fury
hadn't been approached before.
The power of the thing was ghast-
ly. Great sheets of flame would
flaS hout from a battery OF guns,
gray brownish smoke would puff up
in a huge cloud, then the crash
of sound and conclusion would carry
across the water and hit you. Null
tiply that by hundreds and you have
bedlam.
Now and then the smoke from a
battlewagon would come out in a
smoke ring, an enormous one, 20
or 80 feet amroSs. and float upward
with perfect symmetry.
PLANES DO THEIR STUFF
Then came our carrier planes, div
ing on the beaches. And torpedo
planes, carrying heavy bombs and
incendiaries that spread deep red
flame.
Smoke and dust rose up from the
shore, thousands of feet high. until
finally the land was completely veil
ed.
Bombs and strafing machine guns
and roaring engines mingled with
the blended crash of naval lombard
ment seemed to drown out all eX-
iStence.
From our little control ship and
the scores like it, waves of assault
craft were directed. advised, hurried
up, or slowed down.
H-Hour was set for $3.50. BY a. m.
directions were being radioed and
voice doomed out to sea to form up
waves one and two, to hurry up, TO
get things moving.
Our first wave consisted solely OF
heavy guns on amphibious tanks
which were to wade ashore and blast
out the pillboXes on the beaches.
One minute behind them came the
second wave-the first of our foot
troops.
After that, waves came at about
l0-minute intervals. Wave six was
on its way before wave one ever hit
the bach. Wav is was moving up
before wave six got TO the beach.
That's the way it went.
We were On the control boat about
an hour. I felt miserable and that
awful weight was still on my heart.
There's nothing romantic whatever
in knowing that an hour from now
you may be dead And the fury OF
our bombardment was in itself hor-
rifying.
Some officers I knew came aboard
They weren't going ashore until af-
trnoon. They wanted to talk
simply couldn't carry on conversa-
ton. l just couldn't talk.
One sailor with black, close-crop-
ped hair and glasses offered me a
cigar. didn't even have the wit
to put down his name.
Word came by radio that waves
one and two were ashore without
much opposition and there was no
mines on the beaches. So far, SO
good. Il
1t was all very indefinite and yet
it was indicative. Thine weight be-
gan to lift. l wasn't really con-
scious of it. But l found myself
talking more easily with the sailors,
and somehow the feeling gradually
took hold of me that we were to be
spared. The seventh wave was to
pick us up as it came by. 1 didn't
even see it pproaching.. Suddenly
they called by name and said the
boats were alongside.
I grabbed my pack and ran to the
rail. I'm glad they came suddenly
like that. The sailors shouted, good
luck" over and over and waves us
off. We were on our way.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-08
POSTPONING LEGISLATION
ON HEALTH INSURANCE

There is every appearance that the
state legislature will table all pending
health insurance measures, both the one
, backed by and insisted upon by Governor
Warren and the one introduced at the be
hest of the ClO. This action is predicated
upon general belief that the best course
at the moment is to end the controversial
period and turn the whole matter back
for longer and more specific study.
1t would be a reasonable and wise thing
TO do First, it is apparent the state is
not ready for any form of compulsory in
surance, and second, there are pressing
legislative problems and measures that
should not be delayed and sidetracked
for something that is far from in posi-
ton to be passed upon intelligently.
Governor Warren as we'll accept the
procedure and the verdict He has con-
tributed to his own defeat in large eX-
tent, regardless of the measure itself. He
has been belligerent from the start to-
ward any and all who were not agreed
with him and he has continued to ALLEVIATE
his own following since the legislature
met in January. If, as il has been charged,
he is using the plan as political step
ping-stone, he either has been poorly ad-
vised or has ignored balanced advice. If
this is the case, it would run the same if
he had taken up some other issue.
As a matter of fact, postponement Of
the measure is a wholesome move. There
are many elements involved in the issue.
Leaving aside the distastefulness many
feel toward anything forced upon them,
there is the count of the cost and the
manner of collections as outlined in the
bills. Deductions from payrolls has be-
come sort of national pastime. Additional
deductions warrant not only fiscal clar-
ification, but full consideration by those
whose checks will be trimmed.
Further, tying in with the plan is the
question and problem of taxes. Before
-much more is forced upon the wage earn
ser and deductible from checks, it would
be wise to begin bit of totaling of the
''left-hand end of the pay check" There
is noint of saturation and it is not far
off right now and still greater and
heavier calls awaiting the wage Garner
and everyone who depends on straight
earnings for living.
Finally, defernent of the measures
will give opportunity to expand and bet
ter enforce our present health statutes
1t will give time for present educational
machinery on Health information to be
rejuvenated and perhaps be instrumental
in relieving some of the ills in our present
health set-up. And in this connection, the
medical men themselves will have oppor-
tunity to cleanse the profession of some
of the objections and criticism that more
or less are pertinent.
All agree that one hundred per cent is
the proper mark for the states health
program. But not ALL by far, agree that
the compulsory road is the one to follow.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-08
ON SECOND THOUGHT

RANDOLPH, Me, April 7. (UP)-
Randolph voters passed an ordi-
nance in town meeting banning
hcrses and cows from the public
sidewalks. But after thinking it
over, they amended the ordnance
to exempt hcrses drawing snow
ploWs.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-08
Editorials and Comment

EDITORS NOTE: The folIoUing edit
OridIs are presented as interesting opin-
ions Uoiced by editors elseIChere. They
do not necessarily reflect the opinion of
this paper.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-08
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE OF INTENTION

The IMPERIAL VALLEY WRES-
TLING CLUB intends applying to
the State Athletic Commission OF
California for wrestling permit to
hold wrestling at 143 No. Sixth ST.,
City of Ell Centro, California.
HERMAN ZUCKERMAN, DB.A.
Imperlai valley Wrestling Club.
mo. 52) (A2 to Al6)
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-08
BURGLARS FAIL

Burglars entered the U. S. Cafe
on Broadway in FL Centro some
time during Friday night and at
tempted to open a cash register,
but were unsuccessful. Police are
Investigating.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-08
TWO KILLED IN CRASH

MESA, Ariz., April 7. (UP)-Two
men were dead and a third near
death Saturday, the result of col
lision of their car with a moving
Southern Pacific freight train three
miles south of here Friday night.
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commissioner

What the Allied forces have accom-
plshed during 1914 will stand for gener
ations as a warning to dictators to be
ware the fury of a patient man."-AAF
Gen. Henry Fl. Arnold.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-08
LEGION PLANS BARBECUE

Members Of Boyce Aten Post NO.
25, American Legion will hold a
barbecue at the Ira Aten ranch
Sunday at l p. m, post officers an
nounce.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-08

All our plans have been wrecked. Ev-
erybody is asking, Shall we succeed in
bridging the gap until the net crop comes
in?"-JoSeph Sturz, German agricultural
commissioner.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-08
HOODLUMS AT WORK

Inkwells were broken and ink
spilled on the floor and walls of the
El Centro post office sometime Fri
day night. ,at.
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GORTNER

Pastor L. H. Teets, of Eglon, is to
preach here on Sunday morning You
are invited to be present
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Spoerlein and
daughter are spending the holidays
with relatives in Dinwiddie, Va.
Miss Barbara Maust came on Fri
day to nurse Mrs. D. J. Swartzen-
truber during the absence of the ST.
mon Swartzentruber family who are
attending the wedding of their son,
Claude Swartzentruber.
Mrs. Anna Bittinger entertained at
dinner on Sunday Among the in
vited guests were Mr.. and Mrs. Harvey
Gortner and two daughters, Grants
vile; Henry Beamer, Cumberland;
Mr.. and Mrs. Lawrence Bittinger and
Mr., and Mrs. Frank Beamer, of Mey-
ersdale.
Mrs. Paul WEIGH spent Sunday in
Accident
Mrs. John Stutzman, of Ohio, who
accompanied the Norman Beachys, of
Mayersdale, on a trip to New York
and Canadian points, returned to the
home of her sister, Mrs. Jacob Swart-
zentruber, on Tuesday.
George Grove, Elsie and Richard
Hesse were visiting Mrs. George
Grove and daughter in Cumberland
on Sunday
Betty Swartzentruber and Mr.. and
Mrs. Gerald Miller, of Paradise, Pa,
are home for the holidays.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Yoder had as
their guests on Christmas their chill
dren and grandchildren.
Miss Fannie Beachy and Mr.. and
Mrs. Albert Sisk visited Garland Jun
kins at Hopemont on Sunday and
called on Mrs. Floyd Fultz in Terra
Alta
Mrs. Guy Pace and Robert Pace, of
Thomas are, spending a week with
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Schlossnagle.
Clarence Fulk visited Mr.. and Mrs.
Noah Slabach one day last week.
Mrs. Lee Shaffer and daughter Lii
liam, of Red House, spent Tuesday ev-
ing at S. w. Slabach's.
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nomination by the Democrats in 194S
to succeed himself, would be his own
refusal to run-a most unlikely con-
tingency, indeed. The effort of any
one to defeat him in the convention
would seem silly. But for the CLIO to
try to beat Mr.. Truman in a Demo
cratic convention with Mr.. Wallace
would seem the limit of foolishness.
As to the other suggestion, the flu
tility of third parties has been so Of
ten and consistently demonstrated in
the country that it is difficult to take
this one seriously. The utmost the
Go and Mr.. Wallace could hope from
such adventure would be TO throw the
election to the Republicans - and the
chances are, unless the election were
strangely close, they could not poll
enough votes to do that Considering
these things, it is strange, indeed that
any Of Mr.. Truman's friends should
take stock in the notion that Mr.. Wal
lace contemplates running against
him as the CIO candidate or that the
CIO politicians really have such a
plan.
***
The more Ievel-headed of the Tru-
man elmer circle" laugh at the idea.
That Mr. Wallace is a willing CLIO
stooge and capable of almost any de-
gree of political childishness they do
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attended the meeting Refreshments
were served. The next meeting will
be at the home of Alma George.
Among those on the sick list last
week were William Rexrode, William
Warwick, Sr., Hale Wright, George
Sharpless and daughter Leona, OAR
lene Rhodes, Earl Johnston, Grant
Friend and Mrs. Arthur Rhodes
Mrs. Elwood George is home from
Memorial Hospital, Cumberland, in
| which institution she had undergone
a surgical opration.
Mrs. Grant Friend is nursing a
broken finger which resulted from a
fall on the ice.
Mrs. Ellis Harvey and Amy Friend,
of Piedmont, spent Sunday here with
their parents.
Sunday visitors at the Fred Friend
home were Mr.. and Mrs. Ernie Sim
on, of Nethkin, w. Va; also their son
Pfc. Robert Simon, who has just re-
turned from the European war. He
has been honorably discharged from
the Army. Another son, Loyal Simon,
stationed in England, is expecting to
be home soon. A foster son, Don Way
bright, was killed in action on August
8, 1914.
B. T. Bray visited his son, Everett
Bray, Mountain Lake Park, over the
weekend.
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SWANTON

The WSCS of the local Methodist
church held its monthly meeting at
the home of Mrs. Hattie Brobst on
Thursday, December 6. Officers for
1916 were elected as follows: Presi-
dent, Tressa Friend; vlce-president,
Hattie Brobst; secretary, Mary
Rhodes; social secretary, Mabel F.
Friend; treasurer, Freda Sweitzer. Six
members were present, also Paul H.
George and Rev. William Dishong also
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that ne wants to retire IN order 20 run
Tor the Senate next year from Ken
lucky. ms seems an almost lncredl-
pie ldea. FOR one thlhg' MI NlhSoh
already mas established such record
Tor lhStaDlllty IN the matter OF mold
ing important posts that TO fellhqulSh
"hothef so Sooh-ahd Oh MS own mi
tlaIiVe-WouId certainty 90 MN no
good Fof ahothef' TO go from the
treasury oecretafshlp TO the senate
"ouid seem a step Dack' not Forward
OF IhIfo' Wtlle MI NlhSoh might
De assured Oh Uhe democratic senator
lal holllIhaIIoh' ne could not De as
Sureu Oh elecVloil'
Thus, the report concerning Mr..
Nlnson Is not easy to credit, though it
has been put out by some quite knowI-
edgeable people. Those who know Mr..
Nnson best, however, dismiss 1t as
absurd. That, they say, IS not the
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not deny. But that a serious anti-Tru-
man candidate can be made of him
strains credulity, They regard the re-
port as based on irresponsible talk
from disgruntled left wingers, at the
moment, mad with Mr.. Truman but
with no place really to 60 Mr.. Wal
lace, they say, may - and probably
will get out. But he will not run any
where very far or very fast for any
thing.
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GAME OF
POLITICS
By FRANK r. KENT.

Copyright by The Baltimore Sun and
reprinted in The Republican by per-
mission.
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About Mr.. Vinson, it is asserted
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MIR. WALLACE TO RUN?

Washington, Dee. %.
There recently have been dissent
mated in the press and over the air
various forecasts concerning resig-
rations from Mr.. Truman's Cabinet
Some of these predictions are well
founded The designations of Secre-
tary of War Patterson and Secretary
of the Navy Forrestal, Of course. nave
been pending for some time. With the
war over both want to get back to
private life.
Nor is there any reason for surprise
that after Is years of service Mr..
Ickes, at his age, should want to re-
tire. However, concerning Secretary
of labor Schwellenbach, Secretary of
the Treasury Vinson and Secretary of
Commerce Wallace, reports of their
anxiety to retire seem somewhat pre-
mature. As to Mr.. Schwellenbach, it
is alleged that he is mot happy in
his job. But that seems an inadequate
reason for quitting it when the de-
partment problems are of greater i'm
portance than ever before. Mr..
Schwellenbach certainly Wantd the
job to start with and those who know
him best believe he intends to keep
it.
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LABOR:
Fuel Threat

Secretary Lewis SchWellenbach's
new streamlined labor department
received its first real test as federal
conciliators moved to bring about
settlement of the Go oil workers
demands for a 80 per cent wage in
crease before a growing strike threat
imperiled the nations fuel supply.
Early negotiations were snagged
by the unions demand that discus
sions be held on an industry-wide
basis and the companies equal in
sistence that agreements be effect
ed by Individual refineries. In ask
ing a 80 per cent wage increase,
the oil workers reflected the general
CLIO aim Of maintaining wartime
"take-home" pay by bringing 40
hour-per-week wages up to the total
of the former 52-hour week.
In other labor trouble. go, 900
northwest AFL lumber workers
struck to press demands for a s1.1O
hourly minimum compared with the
present scale ranging upward from
70 cents. while $4,000 AFL elevator
operators and building service en-
ployees paralyzed service in over
1000 New York skyscrapers by
walking out in protest Of a War La
Dor board grant of $685. O for a a.
hour week instead Of the $3O.15 asked
for 40 hours.
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ATOMIC BOMB:
Future Use

While congress worked up steam
over the future of the atomic bomb.
Pres. Harry S. Truman disclosed
that tn. lawmakers would be given
full responsibility for the control of
the devastating explosive.
Mr.. Humans decision to submit
the issue to congress came as Rep
resentative Arends (Rep., Ill.) told
the house that he had learned that
an even more destructive missile
than the one which razed Hiroshima
had been developed. Calling upon
the government to establish a sci
entific board to devise a defensive
weapon against the atomic bomb.
Arends said one such explosive
could kill millions Of city-dwellers.
Meanwhile, Senator Downey
(Dem., Calif.) asked that the U. s.
turn over the atomic bomb to the
United Nations organization SO that
general possession would lessen the
chances Of its military development
while at the same time encouraging
further scientific research for an
adaptation to peaceful usage.
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Active Department
Secretory's Goal

Wipe out of your mind, if you will,
that one-time problem child Of the
New Deal, the agricultural adjust
ment administration Now weigh
the testimony of observers, includ-
ing ti-Wallaceites, and I think you
will learn that as secretary of agri-
culture, the author of Sixty Mil
lion Jobs" did a good job in re-
vitalizing his department.
How much it will cost to do as
much for commerce, we couldn't get
him to estimate, but he finally told
Us that it would be less than one
sixth of the cost of one days war
at We Day. By a series of calcula-
tons we arrived at the figure of 40
million dollars. Since the commerce
department. spent about 121 million
dollars last year, Mr.. Wallace's
changes would make a total cost for
mis- revitalized department Of 161
million dollars.
Those who cry economy will
shudder at that figure but they will
near this answer If business, big
and little, wants help similar TO that
which agriculture demands and gets
it will cost something. The depart
ment of agriculture cost approx
mately 1859 million dollars to run last
year, and the farmers wouldn't
want it to do less.
There will also be another explain
alton of the figures which will at
tempt to show that part of the ex-
pansion of the reorganized depart
ment is really contraction, and that
brings US to the second integer of
the three-in-one composition of Mr.
W~allace's plan. The plan is more
than a blueprint for changes in a
single governmental institution. It
is definitely a part of President Tru-
mans reorganization plan which it
is fair to assume would bring back
under the commerce rooftree the
horde of agencies and commissions
which have to do with industry and
business.
And now we come to part three of
the tri-partible function Of the Wal
lace program. 1t Is by his own
implication, a part of his recipe for
full employment included in his
book, Sixty Million Jobs" and men
ton of that brings me to an ex-
animation of Mr.. Wallace himself.
l said that like the program of re-
organization for his department, MI.
Wallace seemed tripartitent to me.
When | called upon him, he came
down the great, %cavernous room
which Herbert Hoover planned for
his and we sat in chairs
about a little table that made a hos
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Sixty Million Jobs
DroUs Communications

Whatever the lawmakers think,
the reviewers certainly are full of
praise for Wallace's book. The New
York Times calls it "a thoughtful
and thought : provoking discussion
Of American political economy" and
the Saturday Review of Literature.
agreeing with the Times, adds that,
more than any recent work on
economics or politics, it can serve
as a moral testament and intel
lectual guide in the eventful, diff
cult days ahead"
The work appeared first in a bust
ness-letter-sheet size with paper
cover; it followed in orthodox book
form. Later the author hopes, he
told me, that it will be printed in a
cheap, pocket-size edition.
When MI. Wallace said that l
thought I caught his ectoplasmic
triplet nodding emphatic approval
while ghostly lips formed the words,
for every voters pocket"
Much water will pass beneath the
Potomac bridges between now and
1948 or 1852. We have with us at
present a conservative congress and
the political veterans say that no
matter which way the wind may
blow abroad. it is blowing to the
right on Capitol hill and, they add
hopefully, perhaps not too leftward
at the other end of PENNSYLVANIA
avenue.
Secretary author : candidate Wal
lace's full employment program re-
quireS much more legislation than
the full employment bill. That is
only the first step. The expansion
and r~e-orientation of his and other
departments will be required. Then
there will be special taxation. there
will be at least the blue-printins of
public works; there will have to be
a settled policy providing for foreign
loans-the Breton Woods program
and other stimulants of world trade
and tourist traffic.
If a too conservative congress did
not grant the minimum legislative
EXPERIMENTATION, the Sixty Million
Jobs plan could not be carried out.
That, however. Mr.. Wallace's SUD-
porters insist, will simply make go
million people who want jobs, plus
their families. vote for the man
who believes they can be produced.
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hito would be divulged, revealing
him as one of the worlds wealthiest
persons. Though the Mikado's as
sets are known to only a select few,
the imperial family maintains a
four-story concrete building COM
plete with staff on the palace
grounds to keep its accounts.
Indicative Of the vastness of Hiro-
hito's holdings, the emperor pos
sesses stock in every japanese
enterprise, since a bloc of shares
r allotted to the emperor by a
corporation upon organizing. Of the
300 900 shares of the Bank of Ja-
pan, Hirohito reputedly owns 40, 900.
Besides the Mikado, the great
business houses of Mitsubishi, Sunni
tomo, Yasuda and Mitsui possess the
greatest holdings in japanese enter
prise, with their share estimated
at over half the total.
Under the u. S. program, steps
will be favored for the dissolution
of these politically influential insti-
buttons with their grip over banking.
industry and commerce. Policies
will be pushed for a wider distribu-
ton of income and ownership Of
productive and sales facilities, and
encouragement given for the devel-
opment of democratic labor and
agricultural organizations.
In stripping Japan of its war
making potential, the U. S. will pro-
hibit the operation of industries
adaptable to war production. AS in
the case Of Germany, manufacture
OF aircraft is to be prohibited and
shipping is to be limited to immedi-
ate trade needs. u. S. authorities
also will supervise japanese indus
trial research.
AS MacArthur's staff undertook
an accounting of japanese assets as
the first step in the implementation
OF economic reform, the general or
dered Premier Higashi-Kuni's gov
eminent to institute immediate wage
and price controls and ration COM
modities to head off extreme priva-
ton among the country's 80, 0O0,-
900 people.
With japanese experts figuring it
would take Nippon from two to five
years to get back on its feet, they
proposed that the U. S. sell the coun-
try $50 million pounds of cotton with
in the next year in addition to go mil
lion pounds of wool; 3 million on of
rice; 2 million tons of salt; 500 thou
sand tons of sugar; 8 million barrels
of oil, and 8 million tons Of steel.