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Detroit evening times., 1945-02-18

plus increased a effect Consumed al once. soda
does apprec,dby reduce
aod oIs bud your resistance Join the millions who now
drink lemon daily JUICE Of lemon. glass of plain
water first thing ayisD1g
Detroit evening times., 1945-02-18

At first sign Of a cold drink 4 glass
81 lemon and soda. Take another
every 8 or hours
To induce peTspiration, take hot
lemonade when YOU go 10 bed.
Icr0H and soda forms natural 50.
dunn ct',uic Supplies vltamu- and
an other benefits ot fresh lemon
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1945-01-12
WNU Service, Union Trust Building
Washington, d. C.

VIM SCIVlCC, 4IuSt DuAAAAA5
Washington, d. C.
AS the New Year approaches,
Washington is preparing to expert
ence the results of two titanic strug-
giles which will chart the course fol-
lowed by this nation and the world
in the decades ahead.
One contest will be witnessed on
the floors of congress. The other in
some unnamed spot where Presi-
dent Roosevelt, Prime Minister
Churchill, Marshal Stain and per-
haps General De Gaulle will sit down
and try to agree on details of the
framework of an international or
ganization for the maintenance of
peace.
The election was supposed to
have settled the old issue of "isola-
tionism versus internationalism" but
those terms were far too indefinite
to delimit any lasting decisions and
since November our allies have
been strewing land-mines of doubt
along the way, causing many cases
of non-interventionist filters in con-
gress.
There will be debate in the senate
favored with remarks, the tenor of
those which criticized the British
course in Greece.
AS to the battle behind closed
doors, you can imagine that the
American viewpoint will need all
the support the President can rally
behind it, to overcome the tendency
of Messrs. Churchill, Stain and De
Gaulle to fall into all the old bad
habits of their happy power politics
days.
In order to understand the differ
ences which have already arisen be-
tween those who support British
armed Intervention in Greece and
those who support the state depart
ment's action in protesting against
it, it is necessary to take a look be-
hind the scenes and see what these
forces are which are bound to
shape the new governments of Eu-
rope as they are reborn after the
period of democratic Information
during Nazi-Fascist occupation or
control.
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American Women Pilots Helped Deliver Planes
Which Enabled Red Armies 10 Launch Offensive
That May Have Been Turning Point Of the War

livery from Niagara to Great Falls
is considered a two or three-day job,
and you'll realize that Miss Grey
-. to say the least . was working
"overtime." Three of the seven de-
liveries credited to WASP Mary c.
johnson were made over a 12-day
period-a record of which any pi-
lot, man or woman, may well be
proud when one considers the sheer
physical exertion involved.
But while WASP Grey's feat of
making a one-day delivery and
WASP Johnson's feat of three de-
liveries in IL days are outstanding
examples of WASP performance,
they are not really unusual. The
records of the Third Ferrying group
WASP detachment show that all of
these women pilots are hard-Work-
ing and conscientious. There's Bet
ty Archibald and Pat Dickerson with
records of two deliveries in eight
days. There are Grace Burge and
Virginia Claire with two deliveries
each in 10 days. And the chances
are that it was weather which kept
some of these girls from equaling
the record of WASP johnson.
When the movement started, these
women ferry pilots were not trusted
as fy-alones on the 'tlong, long
trail" They were assigned as wing
men to experienced male pilots ia
miliar with the route. But as they
gained experience through hard
work they were graduated to the
fly alone class, and now they take
their turns flying alone, still rushing
planes to the Russians
But the "long, long trail' is not
the only place in which the civilian
women pilots of the Air Transport
Commands ferrying division have
proved their worth in the two years
since Mrs. Nancy Hardness Love
formed the first women's ferrying
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The Old Sergeant Didn't Want to Be Pettcoa Herder

"1'm sorry, num-" the sergeant
greeted his pilot, ''for what said
back there. I'd a dunn sight ruther
ride with you than a lot of them
young fellows"
That, remarked WASP Pilot Le-
more McElroy, a veteran woman civ
ilian pilot with 5000 air hours to
her credit, twas about the finest
compliment I ever received" You
see, the sergeant is crowding 50 and
any male who HES q plane il .
young fellow" in his vernacular,
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Petticoats," the sergeant mumbled
to other male members of the crew.
Grumbling, he supervised the
starting Of the engines. Grumbling,
he settled back in the depths Of his
humiliation as the huge plane took
of, bound for delivery under lend
lease to the British at Montreal.
women flyin' in the Army" he
muttered in disgust, adding for en-
phasis, "and me with 'em. He'll"
But on arrival at Montreal, it was
q different story.
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Mrs. Lenore Louise McElroy, op-
erati0ns officer Of the WASP squad
ron Of the Third Ferrying Group at
ROmulus field, Mich. WASP Noel
roy recently made aviation history
when she delivered a big CONSOLIDATE
ed catalina" flying boat (desig-
mated by the Navy as Phys and by
the Army as OA-10s) at one of the
aviation fields in this country. It
was the first time one of these big
ships has ever been flown by a wom-
an pilot. Since then she has flown
more than 80 hours in this type of
ship, adding the time to her already
impressive total of more than 5000
pilot hours.
squadron at the End Ferrying Group
base, Wilmington, Del, on Septem-
Der 10, 1912.
Since that date women pilots as
signed to the Ferrying Division have
flown more than $500, 900 miles fer
rying planes from factories to des-
tinations within the United States.
Originally assigned only to light liai-
son and training type planes, they
now are qualified to fly 68 different
types of ships, ranging from heavy
four-engine bombers down.
OF their number, 16 per cent are
qualified to fly class four planes such
as the Billy Mitchell and Marauder
medium bombers, and SO per cent
have made deliveries in class three
planes such as twin-engine trans
ports. But, in the ferrying division,
emphasis is placed on the ferrying
of lighter type planes and fighter
planes, and it is significant to note
that 68 per cent of the women pilots
in this division are now qualified
fighter pilots, making regular deliv-
cries of Airacobras, Mustangs,
Thunderbolts and Warhawks.
OF even greater significance is the
fact that 100 per cent of these pilots
hold army instrument ratings and
are qualified to make cross country
flights under weather conditions
which require the use of instru-
ments.
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Great Britain has found that true
love (even in Greece) doesn't
always run smooth.
.
The appointment Of Archibald Nc
Leish as assistant secretary Of
state was opposed by certain sena-
tors and others on the ground that
he was poet. It is well they
didn't have to pass on the conhrma-
ton of John Hayl
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B r E F S.. by Baukhage

There Is new dodge In tax-dodg-
ing. A black money market which
cashes big checks, thus preventing
the record Of deposits. But look out,
some Of those cash deposits may
bounce as high as rubber check.
-
That great sporting race, the
Japs, recently organized a weight
carrying race around the island Of
Java. The natives did the carrying.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1945-01-12
BY ELMO SCOTT WATSON

Released by Western Newspaper Union.
THIS is a story of the great
i 1914 summer offensive of the
Red army which historians of
the future may write down as
the turning point of the war. 1t
is the ittle-known story of the
contribution of a small group of
American women to the success
Of that drive, of the part they
played in making it possible for
the determined Russians, who
had stopped the .Nazi hordes
at the gates of Moscow and Stall
ingrad, to push them back across
the plains of White Russia and
the mud of Poland to the very
German border itself.
It is the story of the civilian
women ferrying pilots of the Air
Transport Commands ferrying
division, a skilled, determined
and courageous little group from
among the members of the
Women's Air Force Service
pilots, popularity known as
WASPs.
This story begins just about year
ago. The "clouds of planes" which
President Roosevelt had promised at
the beginning of the war (and at
which our enemies had scoffed)
were rolling from American produc-
ton lines. Lend-Lease was making
these planes, especially the fighter
planes, available to our allies, the
Russians. But it's a ''long, long
trail'' from the factories of America
to the Eastern front-it winds from
the Bell Aircraft factory in Niagara
Falls, N. Y, across the fertile Mis-
sissippi Valley, the Great Plains
of the West, the Rocky mountains,
the wilds of Canada and Alaska, the
steppes of Siberia and the Ural
mountains to Moscow, and then the
Eastern fighting front.
How to get these fighter planes to
the Russian front-and especially to
deliver them in time for the great
Russian offensive-that was the
question. To fly them there seemed
to be the logical way, but fighters,
with their limited range, must avoid
long overwater flights. An overland
route was needed. That need had
been foreseen long before and the
trail" previously mentioned, had
already been established by the Air
Transport commands ferrying divi-
sion and its Alaskan division.
The War department accorded No.
priority to the movement of Amer
lean planes to the Russian armies
and the problem of getting them
there was assigned to the ATC fer
rying division, commanded by Brig.
Gen. Bob E. Rowland, to its pilots
and its groups. As matter of fact,
planes o. many types were moved to
the fighting fronts, taken there by
men pilots, both American and Rus
sian. But this story deals only with
the fighter planes and the Women's
Air Force Service pilots.
The ferrying divisions third fer
rying group, based at Romulus,
Mich, was assigned the mission of
ferrying the deadly, fast Airacobra
from the Bell factory in Niagara
Falls to Great Falls, Mont, where
the Seventh Ferrying group took
over for the delivery to the Rus
SLAMS at Fairbanks and at Nome.
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u. S. Fauors
Self Rule

In the first place, there is a pow
erful, liberal-oriented ground swell to
be discerned everywhere if we look
for it. It is the belief that, even
tually, this force will dominate,
which has prompted the American
"hands-off" policy. Uncle Sam
merely says: LET the people Of the
various countries choose the form of
government they want. Those who
want democracy enough will get it
if there is no outside interference"
That is one thing to bear in mind.
Another is that this ground swell, as
I call it, is the result of many diff
ferent factors not merely hun
ger and discomfort or faith and en-
ightenment; not only inspiration or
desperation, but aspiration as well,
aspiration toward the natural his
torical and evolutionary goals of
progress which are a part of mans
eternal struggle for liberty.
The reaction against Nazi tyranny
and the successful resistance to
German control in the form of the
underground, generated certain
forces toward freedom and indie
pendence. The underground made
its own laws, gave opportunity for
the coalescence and Strengthening
of all democratic movements. 1t was
natural when the Germans were
driven out that these forces re-
fused to bow to representatives of
any regime, no matter how benef-
cent, if it had about it even the
slightest odor of sanctified feudal-
ism.
1t is necessary to get this premise
firmly fixed in our minds or else
fall into the error Of writing off ev-
cry revolutionary movement as
"communist," including some GER
tainly no whit less virtuous than our
own in 1776.
It is well to study the France of
today in this connection, and inter-
esting to note the comment. which
appeared in the French press at the
time of the first revolts in Belgium
and later in Greece where Allied
support was given the government
in power. The "Franc-Tireur," whose
name indicates the underground
flavor Of its opinion, explains why, so
far, France has had no such inter-
nal trouble.
"1t has been our great good for
tune" it says, ito have a man to
protect our honor and prepare the
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Barbara Donahue, commanding
officer Of the WASP squadron of the
Third Ferrying Group, based at
Romulus field, Mich, poses beside
one of the nine Bell Airac0bras
which she delivered over the "long,
long trail'' from Niagara Falls, N.
T., to Great Falls, Mont.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-20
Thousands See CoIorfuI Parade
AS EI Centre Halls Roundup

A dazzlin G, glittering,
dancing ribbon of motion
5himmered its t Wo- m / | e
length along FL Ccntro's
Main street Friday, treating
1000 cheering, spectators to
the most magnificent rodeo
parade ever witnessed in I'M
perial Valley.
Horses, dozens of horses. stepped
proudly along as they carried their
brightly costumed riders in the
opening event of the first annual
Imperial Valley Roundup
RIDERS FEATURE PAGEANT
Lite riders, big riders, fat riders,
lean rides High steping girls
with their bright skirts swinging in
rhythm Batons shining in the
bright sunlight as they sWirled
through the air en- the fingers Of
the pretty high school girls who
twirled them aloft -.
The magnificent Mexican CharrOs
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HoItvilIe Meets
VigiIantes and
Scores in TiIts
IN BRIGHTEST ARRAY

Hundreds of service men and Wo-
men will get to see the Imperial
Valley Roundup free for nothing"
and the Red Cross is richer by
$2250 as a result of Holtville citi-
zens jumping the gun on the Wig
ilantes judge Thursday in a sur
prise raid and court held in that
busy city.
Judge" Frank Richmond still was
batting his eyes and trying to get it
all straight Friday, but he had the
court book and the figures were there
$50l for rodeo tickets listed as VOL
untary fines by approximately 100
hailed into court by the Holtville
contingent of the Vigilantes, ably
assisted by a number of Ell Centre
veterans of the group, and the $3.50,
GUESTS OF HOLTVILLE
The service men and women from
the FL Centre Marine Air Base sta
ton and the Holtville Navy Aux
iliary Air station will be the guests
of Holtville at any of the rodeo
performances they select to attend.
Continued on Page 8, Column @
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Senate Committee
Studies Charged
Liquor Statutes
Measure Would Hold
Down Permits on
Population Set-up

SACRAMENTO, Cal. Apr.
20. (UP)-Tk'? senate gov
ernmental efficiency COM
mittee Friday considered important
cnanges in the alcoholic beverage
control act, including limitation
of liquor establishments to one pei
1000 population.
Following a three hour hearing q
majority of the committee indicated
that the bill providing the changes
will be recommended to the senate
for passage It was held up tenn
porarily for amendment printing
The measure was drafted by board
OF equalization attorneys and was
introduced by Sen. Ralph E. Swing,
(RO San Bernadrdino.
The committee threw out a sec
ton of the bill which would have
given the board authority for the re-
mainder o. the war emergency to
change the 2 a. m. tavern closing
hour fixed in the constitution. Sen.
George J. Hatfield, tRD, Merced
County, pointed out that bars now
close at midnight because of mill
tary curfeWS.
However, sweeping powers would
he granted to the board in closing
liquor Establishments pending
hearing on a complaint for suspen-
sion or revocation of their licenses.
Another bill would require the
Continued on Page 8. Column i
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The President explained at a
special news conference that Cox
had telegraphed him, making q
special appeal that Reinsch be al
lowed to return to his post with
the Cox stations because of the
urgent need of his technical know
ledge.
The President said that after re-
ceiving the appeal from Cox he CALI
ed in Ross, friend since they were
in high cshool together and asked
him to take the post. Ross agreed to
this. saying he woulc De available
on May is after he reports the
United Nations conference in San
Francisco.
Jonathan Daniels, press secretary
to the late Mr. Roosevelt, who had
planned to leave his White House
post Saturday agreed TO stay on UNI
til Ross could take over,
Reinsch. according to the Prcsi-
dent, will be ON call for specific
radio duties for Mr.. Truman, Just
as James F.. Byrnes. former director
of war mobilization. will be on call
as an adviser.
Mr.. Truman. meantime, transfers.
ed his personal secretarial staff TO
the White House from his vice.
presidential offices.
The staff members include Mrs.
Loretta w. Young, OF Jerico Springs,
Missouri, Shirley M. Green OF Kan
sas City; Rose A. Conway OF KaJ-
sas City, and Mrs. Reathei M. Odum
OF Benton, Illinois, who has bes1
with Mr.. Truman since 1886 and
will serve now as secretary 70 the
Presidents wife
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Yankees Menace
0kinawa Capital
In New Attacks

GUAM, April 20. CUP)-Ameri-
can troops lunged to within three
and a half miles north of Naha,
capital of Okinawa, in the most
powerful offensive of the Pacific
war Friday.
Radio Tokyo said othe, troops at
tempted to land on the south coast
of Okinawa about eight miles south
east of Naha Thursday from a 30
ship invasion fleet, including 20
transports and several battleships.
Such landing would deeply out
flank Naha, city of $1,000, and
clamp a pincers on its garrison of
10000.
THREE DIVISIONS
Three army divisions-possibly
$4,000 men-smashed deep bulges in
to both flapks of the Japanese line
across southern Okinawa Thursday
under cover of the greatest coor-
dinated ship and artillery lombard
ment ever given American troops for
the size of the target anywhere in
the world.
Front reports said Americans now
were less than 5000 yards north of
Naha and approaching Machainato
airfield on the west coast and near
ing the northern end of Yonabaru
airstrip on the east coast.
A hill overlooking Shuri, two miles
inland frCm Naha, was all but clear
ed in the center of the line. The
town of Machinato, mile north of
the airfield of the same name, was
captured in the initial phases of
the offensive yesterday.
Maj. Gen. John r. Hodge COM
mander of the oath Army Corps, said
his forces had made good gains" in
the heart of the enemys main line
Continued on Page 8, Column a.
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Peace Delegates
Reach s. Fin
Growing Numbers

SAN FRANCISCO, April 20. CUP
Representatives of the anti-axis
world converged by train and plane
en- San Francisco Friday to plan a
blueprint for postwar peace at the
United Nations conference on inter-
national organization.
The few empty hotel rooms in
this War-crowded city began filling
with statesmen, neWsmen. official
secretaries and non-official observ-
ers arriving in ever-increasing num-
bers for opening OF the UNCIO We'd
nesday, April 25.
The men and women selected by
the governments of 46 United Ma
tions to draft world security
Continued on Page 8, Column g.
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More Than Score
Army Men Die
In Plane Crash

SWEETWATER, Texas, April 20.
tUP)-Between 20 and 25 passeng-
erS aboard a twin-ergine army
transport plane were killed Friday
when it crashed and burned three
miles south of here.
Army officials refused at first TO
release the number of men aboard
the plane until an accurate check
of the bodies could be made, but
local undertakers said that more
than 20 bodies" were in SWeetwater
funeral parlors.
The plane, based at Midland Army
Air Field, was enroute to a New
Jersey destination when it crashed
shortly after 6 80 a. m.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-20

Both columns we're 20 to 25 miles
beyond Nuremberg, with the 18th
Armored Division on the southeast
ern flank only about 10 miles from
Munich and 30 miles from the Dam
ubian city of Regensburg.
WIPE OUT POCKET
Far to the northeast, the u. S.
First Army wiped out a stubborn
pocket in the center of captured
Leipzig. band of $50 Nazi elite
guards who had been firing sporad-
ically from the shelter of the Ma
poleonic monument for more than
IL hours after the rest of the gar
rison quit surrendered early today.
With them were 19 Americans,
who had been captured earlier in the
battle.
Almost 5000 Germans were cap
tured in Leipzig during the last "a
hours, swelling to 27,627 the number
of enemy prisoners taken in the
week-long battle for the city.
Two Nazi generals also we're cap
tured. along with 1000 antiaircraft
guns that only month ago had
made Leipzig the toughest bombing
target in the Reich.
Another strong German force was
shattered farther mort hon the U. S.
Ninth Army front where the Ameri-
cans rallied to break up strong
enemy counterattack against their
narthern flank.
PATTON FORCES AHEAD
With the Seventh Army battering at
the western gate to the Nazis Ba-
vJrian mountain stronghold. 1t.
Gen. George S. Patton's U. S. Third
Arm ybroke loose on new armor-
ed sweep to cut off the enemy's last
escape roads through Czechoslovak-
ia. Patton's 18th Armored Divis-
ion jumpe doff fro mthe Bayreuth
sector 40-odd miles northeast of
Nuremberg and raced 16 miles
southeast to enter Grafenwoehr, 20
miles from the Cxechoslovak border
and "a miles due west of the great
Skoda Arms center of Pilsen.
Three other Third Army infantry
divisions also were moving on the
Continued on Page 8, Col. y
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D AMBlINe
1AEPoRTER

Old HOss Again
Some of the Roundup whiskers
are decidedly tWo-toned effects.
Many could double for Santa Claus.
We hear some of the boys have re-
sorted to secret dips in the hair dye
and whisk or two of eyebrow pen
Gil Swiped from the little woman.
Anything for beauty we always say.
Ell Centros official representa-
tives at the parade in Brawley
Wednesday were scheduled to clean
up the fair grounds during the af-
ternoon but used the parade as an
excuse to get out Of it, They de-
cided to watch the parade from a
carefully selected vantage point, at
least it was a vantage point for
them If they saw the parade as it
passed two blocks away, they must
be better than eseing eye dogs.
Mckinley school went all-out
rodeo from the tiniest kindergartner
to the principal. Mrs Leo DeCelles'
concession to the rodeo dresS-up or
der was a holster with a toy pistol.
The Vigilante patrol wagon drew
up in front of the employment Of
flee, catching Tom Finney without
a single rodeo decoration on his per-
son. He hid where the Masculine
VigilanteS did not dare go. You
know where he-angels fear to
tread.
Eddie Moore really fixed Penny
Richmond, judge Of the kangaroo
court. The Vigilantes called on Ed
die to provide some of the trappings
for the official bench. The bottle
was supposed to contain a soft
drink but Eddie a great one for
realism, sent over the real Mccoy.
Bert Fawcett, he of the slender
waist, soon was officiating as judge.