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Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-14
200 TraiIers
Headed for
Valley Points

Two hundred trailer units are er
route to Ell Centre by rail shipment
and shortly will be installed, 80 in
Ell Centro, 80 in BraWley and 20 in
Holtville. The new housing units
Will accommodate packing shed
workers and families.
With the announcement that the
trailers are on the way came the
word that the problem of sewage
for the Ell Centre installation had
been solved.
The 80 Ell Centro trailers will be
placed on the tract of land leased
by the Farm Production council or
the eastern limits of the city ano
adjoining the recently erected small
houses en- Fairchild avenue. When
completed the trailer project and
the Fairchild project will be oper-
ated under one management.
SEWER LOADED DOWN
Facing the draining and sewage
problem, it was learned that To-
inch sanitary sewer line serving
the eastside area was at capacity
due to sanitary service and carry
ing off the carrot washing water in
packing sheds.
To solve this situation, plans prac-
tically have been completed and
work started on carrying the shed
water through open channels on
First and Commercial streets (west
of the city dog pound) and thence
north mile beyond the city limits
to drainage canal. Previous sur
veys by the irrigation district were
followed in the new set-up, it was
understood.
Rights of way for the open
bitches for the half mile inside the
city as we'll as for the mile beyond
the boundaries either have been
acquired or are in process CT COM
pletion.
PROCESS DIVIDED
Under this plan the present sani-
tary sewer will carry the additional
load of the trailer units while only
clear water from the sheds will
flow into the open channels, al
though it is pointed out that the
ditch installation will care fer sur
face waters in the eastern section
of the city and act in the way OF
a solution to top drainage in that
area.
The trailers are expected to arrive
by the first of March and immedi-
ately will be set up at an estimated
cost of $132 each. Each trailer car
ries sanitary unit ready for sewer
connections as well as utilities wir-
ing.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-14
Sen. Hu|se Maps
Discussion Of
Dairyinq Needs

Future of the dairy business Will
be reviewed in t>te court house IN
Ell Centro at pm. Thursday when
State Senator Ben Hulse will dis
cuss pending state legislation with
dairymen of Imperial Valley
Senator Hulse is eager to get
dairymens opinions on bill No. 1896
which regulates the industry, ar
ranges for stimulating the uses
of milk, outlines an educational and
advertising program for the dairy
business, sets forth the duties OF
the dairy board, and explains the
powers of the department of agri-
culture in carrying out the proposed
program of dairy improvement and
advancement of the dairy business
In calling the meeting, Farm
Advisor George l.. Winright saio
anyone interested will be welcomed
at the meeting and be asked to
take part in the discussions.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-14

With Manila'S two main military
prizes reconquerec, Macarthur
tanks and infantrymen swarmed in
from all sides to finish off the re-
manning Japanese trapped along
the flaming waterfront and around
Fort Mckinley, on the city's south
eastern outskirts.
ORGY OF FIRE, BLOOD
The doomed japanese were writ
ing off their three-year stay in
Manila in a last orgy of fire and
blooo. Thousands of terror stricken
Filipinos escaped into the Ameri-
can lines with word that the Nip
ponese were massacring men, wom-
en- and children indiscriminately
in the teeming residential districts
still under their control.
Units of the 11th airborne divi-
sion advancing on Manila from the
south captured the Nichols airfield
Tuesday after more than a week
OF savage fighting, and then push
ed on along the shores of Manila
lay w UllC OdNlUC laval UdSt.
At Cavite, which was burned once
by the Americans before they aban-
doned it in December, 1941, and
now again by the Japanese, Mac
Arthur's troops captured 10 enemy
seaplanes and battery of three
inch guns intact.
Armored spearheads of the U. S.
first cavalry division. meanwhile,
broke through to Manila bay north
of the 1lth airborne, clearing the
Pasay district, and wheeled north
toward the walled city. They also
moppec up a small Japanese pocket
around Nelson airfield, near Fort
Mckinley.
The 37th infantry division also
Continued on Pg. 6, Col. u
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-14

i've of the Russian armies was dl-
rectly supported by coordinated air
blows from both the American and
British strategic bombardment
fleets.
Marshal Ivan 5. Konev'S forces
were pressing against the Queis
river, third of the six water barriers
before Dresden, on nine-mile front
less than 10 miles from their goal.
BYPASS BARRIERS
A few miles to the north, accorc-
ing to German advices, other Red
army forces had bypassed both the
Queis and the Tschirne river bar
riers by reaching Sorau, eight miles
west of Sagan at the conflux of the
Queis, Teschirne and Bober.
From Sorau the Russians were in
position to strike 70 miles south
west to Dresden with only two river
barriers, the Neisse and the Sprre, to
hurdle.
On the Berlin front, First White
Russian army forces have estab-
lished a major" bridgehead across
the Oder at Reitwein, 35 miles east
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-14

raking German artillery bonn hard
ment that was more than matched
by the massed fire of hundreds of
Allied field guns moving up in the
wake of General H. D. G. Crerar's
Canadian, English, Scottish and
Welsh riflemen.
USE HEAVY ARMORED STUFF.
Both sides were throwing increas-
ingly heavy armored and infantry
forces into the sodden Rhineland
plain, and field dispatches sale ele-
ments of the seven Nazi divisions
already had been identified in the
battle.
Far to the south, Lieutenant Gen.
eral George S. Patton's American
Third army wicened and deepened
its corridor through the Siegfried
line beyond Pruem and added few
hundred bitterly contested yards to
its bridgeheads on German soil
across the Sure and Our rivers
On front of almost 100 miles
between the attacking Canadian
anc American forces, three other
Allied armies still were poised along
the west bank of the Roer river
waiting to join the assault on Ger
nany's west wall.
Berlin spokesmen, after predict
ing for a week that the Roer offens-
i've was about to explode at any
hour, began boasting that their par
tial destruction of the Roer dams
had completely disrupted he Allied
timetable.
FLOODS STILL HAMPER MOVES
Enemy broadcasts asserted that
the Roer floods had not yet sub
sided ano that the swampy terrain
would hold up the expected offens-
i've for days or even weeks after
the waters receded.
Mud ano Floods already we're
hampering the Canadian First army
drive in the north, turning the at
| tack into semi mi-amphibious opera
ton. At many points, the Canadian
and British troops were moving for
ward in amphibious tanks and as
sault boats while artillerymen drag
ged their guns through Walst-ceep
water to keep pace with the adj
vance.
Clearing skies brought Allied
Warplanes out in great strength
to support the attack with series
Of smashing blows against German
troop concentrations and commune
Continued on Page 6, Col. %
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-14
First GI Loan
Starts Man
In Meat Trade

WASHINGTON, Feb. Ii. CUP)-
The first veteran to get business
loan under the G. I. Bill of Rights
is an Cptomist.
He's going into the meat business.
The veterans administration an
nounced Wednesday that what it
believes to be the first loan for the
purpose of starting a business has
been made to Jack Charles Breeden,
Falls Church, Virginia.
The loan. for $4,000. was made by
the Hamilton National bank of
Washington. Fifty per cent of it
was guaranteed by the veterans adj
ministration as provided in the G..
I. bill.
The veterans administration said
Breeden was going to use his loan
to buy refrigerator truck. He
plans to sell and deliver meat to
some 20 to rs retail butchers in
northern Virginia and the Wash
ington, D. c., area.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-14

cf the capital and five miles south
west of Kuestrin, Nazi broadcasts
said
The Germans also said street
fighting was raging in LebuS, on
the west bank of the Oder 33 miles
east of Berlin and five miles north
of Frankfurt. These forces presum-
ably had cut the Kuestrin-Frank-
furt railway at Lebus and were
within half mile of the west bank
railway between the two cities.
APPROACH STETTIN
Northeast of Berlin, Russian
forces advanced to within five miles
of the Danzig- g-Stettin-Berlin rail-
way.
The Second and Third Ukrainian
armies, meantime, re-grouped in
Hungary under 73 generals for re-
sumption of offensives aimed at
Vienna, Bratislava and Bohemia
after completing the liberation of
encircled Budapest.
Budapest. ruined capital of Hun
gary, finally fell Tuesday to the
two armies following a 5c-day siege
in which $4,000 enemy troops were
killed and 10000 captured. The
Nazi commander, Colonel General
Pfeffer-W -Wildenburch, and his staff
were captured in their headquarters
in an underground sewer.
Budapest was the eighth Europ-
can capital to be liberated by the
Red army How many of It's pre-war
population of 1,116,0C0 remained in
the city was not disclosed immec-
lately.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-14

WASHINGTON, Feb. Ia.
(UP)-The USS Ommaney
Bay, a 10,000-ton aircraft
carrier of the worlds fight
INCEST navy, has gone to a
watery grave on the bottom
of the Pacific after a short
but violent career. She was
the 10th U. S. carrier sunk
in World War ii.
The navy told her story Tuesday
night in announcing the loss of both
the Ommaney Bay and the fast
mine sweeper Long. 1t cid not say
exactly how they met their end,
only that it was through enemy
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-14
Novv Announces Two Ships
Lost in Pacific Fighting

Sixteen japanese planes shot out
of the air, many more destroyed
en- the ground.
Scores of enemy guns, ammuni-
ton dumps and troops oestroyed
on the ground.
The Ommaney Bays six months
of action saw her through the In
vasion OF the Philippines. She play
ed a gallant role In the fierce
second battle of the Philippines
when she and sister escort carriers
stood off big Japanese battleship
force off Leyte.
The navy did not say how many
men had been lost on the two ships.
Next of kin. however. have been
notified.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-14
Germany Hints Use Of Cos
As Answer to Big Three

ton of the Crimean declaration
caused 'by far the worst explosion"
foreign correspondents ever have
witnessed at Wilhelmstrasse press
conference.
Reliable reports reaching Stock
holm from Berlin said Nazi author
tiles were concerned over extensive
thefts of arms from Volksstrum
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-14
ak Cuts Urged
By Mor9enthau

the realization of full employment
in a peacetime economy of free en-
terprise and competition he said.
He added that little if any, tax
reduction could be expected until
major hcstilities cease. Premature
tax relaxation, he said might tend
to defeat the aims of the stabiliza-
ton program. The treasury is work.
ing with a joint committee from
congress on matters of postwar tax
policies.
Mcrgenthau poured cold water on
reports in financial centers that the
government was about to offer
higher interest rates on its cecuri-
ties offerings.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-14

action"
Loss of the two ships brought to
261 the total U. S. naval losses in
the war.
The Ommaney Bay carried a nor
NAL crew of about 500 men.
Her career began last September
when she supported the invasion of
the Palau islands. Before it was
over the Ommaney Bay and its
swarm of death-dealing planes had
hung up the following score:
Two Japanese ships sunk-a heavy
cruiser and a troop transport.
Eight ships damaged-four cruis-
ers and four destroyers.
Three enemy battleShips prob
ably damaged.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-14

war can be shortened as much az
year If the Russians throw their
military might against Japan's pow
erful land army in China.
Top American military authori-
ties have said repeatedly that ii
will be necessary to defeat Japans
well-equipped, battle toughened
army on the Asiatic mainland in
order to bring about final conquest
of that country. Some have said
this would hold true even If the
home. islands of Japan were. con-
quered first.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-14

WASHINGTON, Feb. "A. CUP)-
Secretary of the Treasury Henry
Morgenthau Jr. Wednesday told
congress that a strong postwar tax
system must be maintained "at a
rate far higher than prewar ex-
penditures. The public debt, he
added, must be reduced as rapidly
as possible"
Morgenthau proposed these poll
cies on his report to congress on
the fiscal year 1914, which ended
last June 30. And for the first time,
he went on record as favoring post
war tax reductions tc encourage eX-
pansion of private enterprise.
"Such measures are essential to
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-14

Chome guard barracks outside Ber-
lin.
The Nazis were said to fear that
foreign workers, war prisoners and
native anti-Nazis may try to stab
the German army in the back as
soon as military events force the
Gestapo to loosen its grip on the
German home front.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-14
ASSEMBLYMAN DROPS
HEALTH INSURANCE BILL

LOS ANGELES, Feb. Ia. (UP)-
Assemblyman Vernon fitzpatrick,
Wednesday announced his support
OF a CIO-sponsored health insur-
ance bill after withdrawing his own
bill for compulsory health insur-
ance. In a telegram to Fred H.
Kraft, chairman of a legislative
committee investigating public
health, Fitzpatrick said he is sup
porting the bill introduced by As
semblyman Vincent Thomas OF San
Pedro, because "it would give more
'otection to more people"
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-14
Will Russ War
Against Jops?

WASHINGTON, Feb. IA. CUP)--
The so-called educated guessers
here are betting Wednesday that
Russia is going to join the fight
against Japan-sooner or later.
There are some obServers-and
they are pretty much In the minor
ity-who think that the. Russians
aren't gcing to lift finger after
the Germans are beaten.
But all agree that Russia is the
key to an early victory over Japan
Military experts believe the Pacific
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-14
WEATHER FORECAST

Considerable high cloudiness
Wednesday night and Thursday,
clearing by Thursday evening.
Probably windy Thursday after
noon. Cooler Thursday with max
imum temperature around 10 de-
grees. No frost Wednesday or
Thursday nights but frost indi-
Gated Friday night with the mini
mum around 30 degrees in the
coolest spots.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-14
Allied BomberS
Aid Russ in
Dresden Drive
Stain Forces Hammer to Within
70 Miles Of Saxony's Capital
As More Barriers to Berlin Fall

LONDON Feb. ID. (UP)-The Red army hammered to
within 70 miles Dresden Wednesday the Saxony capi
tai and other points in the path of the Soviet advance rock
ed under air bombardmen by nearly 1000 American and
British planes. -
For the first time in the war the powerful land offens
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-14
= AMBllNe
~ EpoRTER
For the Children

For the Children
Will some one please lend or give
the Imperial County Juvenile De-
tention Home piano?
The committee in charge CT the
home is anxious to provide recrea-
tion for the children living there.
Remember, Public, most of the
youngsters there are the victims
Of tragedy or neglectful parents
Some of them have nc place else
to go and must be taken care of.
How about that piano no one
plays these days? Telephone Mrs.
Mildred Standlee, county probation
officer at Ell Centre, 701.
o Sole Mio-
The night was almost dark when
Herb Fawcett and Pat Patton went
fishing over on the Colorado river.
They parked their car, made camp
on an island, and went out on the
river in their boat.
All at once they noticed it was
dark, dark as the in,ide of hat.
Lets go back to camp" suggested
Herb Pat agreed. They began row.
ing toward camp. They rowed and
they rowed and they rowed, travel
ing by the light of a lantern. Hours
passed.
They couldn't see a thing. About
morning they found the little island.
And, ladies and gentlemen, they
had been within a short distance
OF their camp all night, and had
Continued on Pg. 6, Col. -
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-14
Canadians Defv
Roer Floods
I'm Wide Sweeps
Heavy German Artillery Directed
At Advancing Allies as Troops
Use Amphibious Tanks in Drives

PARIS Feb IA (UP)-Shock troops of the Canadian
First batted through fierce German opposition less
than three miles from the Rhneland stronghod of Goch
and Cacar Wednesday, The multipronged offensive
ried within % miles of the Ruhr valley
The advance going ahead slowly in the face of a
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-14
Macarthur Sees
End Of Manila
Battle in Sight
Nichols AirfieId and Cavite Naval
Base Falls to yank Assaults;
Jap Casualties Now Set at $4,000

MANILA, Feb ID. (UP)--Nchos Field and the United
States navys wrecked anchorage at Cavite back
Arthur proclaimed trumphant that the end of the battle
for ic in clio
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-14
laps Slaughter
Civilians in
Blood, Fire Orgy
By ROBERT CRABB

MANILA, Feb. IA. (UP)-The
japanese have run amok in south
ern Manila in a wholesale massacre
OF Filipino civilians trapped inside
their lines.
Hundreds of men, women and
children already have been slaugh-
tered by the japanese in their sense
less killing spree and the death tell
is mounting rapidly.
TELL OF SLAUGHTER
Civilians who escaped across the
PaSig river into the American lines
report that the Japanese-held area
south of the river is an inferno of
flames and gunfire. The japanese
barricaoed every street in the area
and ordered all civilians indoors
Then they set fire to the buildings
and machine-gunned the occupants
when they tried tC flee.
EyeWitnesseS said the Nipponese
fired the Catholic refugee center
at the College of La Concordia with
incendiary grenades, after trying to
chain the doors to prevent the refu-
gees from escaping.
The center houses about 1000 per-
sons, including many blind, insare,
wounded and sick. Only about 700
are known to have survived by run
ming a mile-long gauntlet of Japa-
Eese gunfire.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-14
ATROCITIES DISCOVERED

First hand evidence of japanese
atrocities also was uncovered few
days ago by cleanup squads of the
u. S. 9th division. The doughboys
found the bodies CT 200 Filipino
men, women and children who had
been killed by the japanese in one
section of Manila that has since
been liberated.
Many of the victims were bound
before they were shot. They were
believed to have been killed in re-
prisal for the Staying of japanese
toloier, CT because they had shell
tered guerrillGs.
In another instance, the bodies
of eight members of the Filipino
constabulary we're found in the Pa
sig river. They had been tied up,
shot and then thrown into the
river.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-14
WEATHER

Maximum Tuesday 10, minimum
Wed. az; am. Wed. as, humidity
Sc; noon Wed. IS, humidity Sc; 5
pm. Tuesday IS, humidity 43.
Evening star., 1945-10-17

Again, fashion accaims the Black Chesterfield
Coat of the times its multiple uses make it natural
for campusing and careering its hardy character
bulwark against general wear and tear. From
every angle, the Chesterfield sketched is tophight
-. 1909 wool fabric, faWlessy tailored with deep
cut sleeves and smooth straight lines. Warmly in
terlined and rayon satin lined. Sizes 10 to 18.
Ksnns-Coat shop-seoond Floor.
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-16
KanaIey Heads
MBAfor Year
Election Conducted
by Mail Ballot

Byron V. KaHaley, president
Of Cooper, Kanaley & Co.
Chicago mortgage banking
house, has been elected presi-
dent Of the Mortgage Bankers
Association Of America for the
1945-46 term TO succeed L. +.
Mahan of st. Louis, it was
announced Saturday.
Guy T.. O. Hollyday, preSi-
dent, Title Guarantee d Trust
Co, Baltimore, was elected
vice president.
Election was by mail ballot
for the first time IN the organ
iZation's history.
This was made necessary by
ODT restrictions which pre-
vented an annual convention
and business meeting being
held.
About IS per cent Of the
more than 1000 members OF
the association voted.
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-16
Appraisers
Meet Sept. 70

The Greater Detroit Chap
ter No. 13 Of the Society of
Residential appraisers WIN
hold its monthly meeting
Thursday at 6:l5 p. m. IN
Harmonic Society.
Leo a. Lcsinski, president
Saturday announced the fol-
lowing program for the eve.
ming.
w. II. Feldman of the a. VI
Ryers Co. and Tom Lesson oi
the Lesson Air Conditioning
Corp. will be the main speak.
ers of the evening and viii
talk on radiant and air condi'
toned heat.
W. b. Grabendike, vice
president OF the First Mort.
gage Corp. VIII discuss square
and cube rates OF a residential
property.
Richard Jeffrey, chairman
Of the educational committee
will present up-to-the-minutt
sales analyses as reflected by
conditions IN the various sec.
tlOnS of the city.
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-16
Loan Institute
Picks Director

~. A. Kirk Of Chicago has
taken office as manager and
director of education for the
American Savings and Loan
Institute, 23-year-old educa-
tiOnal organization of the saw
lngs and loan institutions and
cooperative banks throughout
the country.
headquarters in Chicago,
Kirk will direct the postwar
expansion of the training
school for savings and loan
personnel. emphasizing the
training TO equip veterans 10
take their place in this type OF
financial institution.
The organization is the edu-
-eatienal affiliate of the United
States Savings and Loan
League.
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-16
Foley Tells
Home Need
Calls on Industry
TO Unite in Drive

Private enterprise is count
ed upon 10 provide the great
bulk of the nations postwar
housing need, yariouSly eSti-
mated at a million to mil
lion and a half new houses for
10 years, Commissioner Ray
mond NJ. Foley OF the Federal
Housing Administration de-
clared IN a speech in New
York.
In his first public address
since his appointment as head
of FILA, Foley called upon the
home building industry 70
unite in an attack on "the
whole housing field and
pledged that FILA would ex-
tend 10 the industry "all oil
the aid il can find room tC
give within its authority anc
in keeping with its response
bility.'
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-16
Experts Talk
At Farley

Many nationally prominent
realtors will be e tn r e d
speakers during the conven-
ton of the Michigan Real
Estate Association in Grand
Rapids on Oct. 3, 4 and 3,
A. r. Saunders, executive
vice president, announced Sat-
urday.
Among them will be Roy
Wenzlick, analyst; Boyd Bar
nard. past chairman of the
Realtors Washington Com
mittee; Bethel Hunt, past
president of the Society of In
dustrial Realtors; n. c. Hines,
head of the National Real
Estate Foundation, and Her
bert u. Nelson of NAREB.
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-16
Care of Roofs
thorough Inspections
Before Winter Urged

Now is the proper time TO
make thorough inspection
Of roofs on homes and farm
service buildings so that re-
pairs can be made before win
ter.
Poor roofs cause great dam
age 10 household property and
stored crops and machinery.
In addition, they make liv-
ing uncomfortable for botf
humans and animals.
To insure a minimum oi
maintenance cost and A maxi
mum Of weather and fire pro,
! lection, asbestos cement shin
giles are being used on many
modernizing projects where
roof replacement is necessary
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-16
285Pern1its
S924,257
J 81 Houses Included
at $45o,0oo Cost

The summary Of permits
issued for new buildings, and
additions and alterations to
existing buildings for the
week ending Sept. 8. l945, to-
tailed 2S5 permits at an esti-
mated construction cost Of
S924,257, Building Commits
sioner Wolff stated Saturday.
Single and two-famlly
dwellings included in the
above total numbered 62 at
$3.50, 900, he added.
For the like period in 1914
there were LAT permits at
Sl3S,590. including one dwell
ing at IS 5,400,
Four major projects in
cluded in tho l945 report to-
tailed Sl2S.000.
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-16
RELEASE MATERIALS

"Why not release the ma
terials intended for the pub
lie housing projects to pri-
yate builders so that they
can create additional hOus-
ing on vacant lots?
THE housing shortage Is
more acute now than IL will
be later on, so why not wait
until private home building
has proceeded far enough 10
ease the shortage, before
displacing the tenants now
on the public housing prof.
ect sites ."