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Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-20
County Airport
Reopens for
Limited Flying

The Imperial county airport at
Imperial, closed by military author
tiles since shortly after the war be-
gan, Monday was opened by the
Civil AeronauticS administration for
limited flying activity" it was re-
vealed Tuesday.
Immediately after the ban was
lifted business began to boom and
by noon Tuesday nine civilian
planes were on the field and ar
langements made for them to be
kept there.
Herb Crumrine and Frank Con-
zales, Imperial Valley residents,
were granted permission to operate
a civilian flying school at the county
air port and started with five STU
dents. They have five planes for use
in instructing their pupils.
The civil air patrol has two planes
based there at present and will use
the field for its activities.
Bob Douthitt of Ell Centre, IL
censed aircraft and engine mechan-
ic, has charge of the aircraft main
tenance, service and repair depart
ment at the field. He keeps two
planes there.
OSS-COUNTRY FLIGHTS
The field also may be used by
flyers making cross-country flights
if they have made arrangements
to stop there and so designated on
the flight Dlan which must be filed
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Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-20
Stettinius States Opening
Of Inter-Americun Meet

of State Nelson A. Rockefeller who
arrived Sunday has sieestepped all
questions regarding Argentina, say
ing that Stettinius will be the
spokesman for the United States
delegation.
Stettinius has been absent from
Washington for month and comes
here directly from the Big Three
conference at Yalta. He was expect
ed to confer Immediately with the
other American foreign ministers
and give them a first hand report
on the decisions made in the Cri-
mea.
Opinion was divided among the
delegates in regard to their south
American sister nation. Ecuador and
various other delegations have an
nounced that they want restora-
ton of continental solidarity. 9th
ers, however, are strongly opposed
to the regime of President Edelmirc
j. Farrell, which Stettinius once
described in a letter to a California
congressman as Fascist military
clique.
With Stettinius In his army trans
port plane will be Brazilian Foreign
Minister Leao Veloso. The two men
spent the week end together In Rio
de Janeiro consulting Brazilian
President Getulio Vargas.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-20

WASHINGTON, Feb. 20. (UP)-
Destruction of U. S. military records
in the Philippines has put the army
in the worst bookkeeping tangle in
history in trying to settle back pay
for soldiers liberated by General
MacArthurs drive on Manila.
An army finance official said
Tuesday that an exact accounting
which can be proved by the books"
is impossible simply because there
aren't any books. The war depart
ment owes back wages to thousands
of American troops, Philippine
scouts, members of the Philippine
army and civilian army workers.
And despite the lack of records, it
intends to settle accounts as quickly
as possible.
Paying liberated American troops
is one of the less complicated prob
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-20
Churchill Pledges Fighting
Forces to Defect japan

The White House disclosed that
Mr.. Roosevelt toured North Africa
after the Crimea conference. In
addition to meeting Churchill, it
said, the President:
/. Invited General Charles De
Gaulle, provisional president of
France, to confer with him at Al
giers. This was "the last stopping
place on the road to Washington" +"
The announcement indirectly con-
firmed reports that DeGaulle had
turned down the Presidents invita-
ton.
2. Conferred with the kings of
Egypt, Ethiopia, and Saudi Arabia
aboard a U. S. warship in the Suez
Canal.
3. Met the u. S. ambassadors to
Britain, italy, and France for fur
ther talks at Algiers.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-20
Freed Soldiers
Poy Is Puzzle

lens and is already we'll under way.
Some records were removed by
submarine from Corregidor and are
now in possession of the war de-
partment. If the name of a liberated
soldier is included in these, it is a
simple matter to straighten his ac-
count. If it is not, army paymasters
on Luzon accept his affidavit stating
when he was last paid and give him
the amount due him. To aid him
over the period of the investigation,
the soldier is given part of his pay.
Payment to the next of kin of
American army troops who are now
known to have died in the prison
camps is more complicated. Army
officials say the problem probably
will have to be solved by legislation
giving the war department more
accounting liberty"
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-20

The park is being prepared as a
site for erection of war memorial
which will be used as a place for
outdoor meetings of all kinds, the
memorial serving as a stage or plat
form for speakers and entertainers.
1t will serve as a memorial to the
dead of World war No. and the
names of all Imperial county service
men and women will be kept there
in permanent record form.
While the supervisors are about
it, they decided Monday, they or
dered the Identification of the
grounds around Veterans Memorial
hall which will be done at the same
time the grounds around the court
hourse are brought up to standard
and made to conform with the
landscaping and planting in the
memorial park across the street
from the court house.
Harrigan told the board Monday
that he is rushing preliminaries so
that the planting may be COM
pleted as soon as possible.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-20

WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.
(UP)-Prime Minister Win
ston Churchill told President
Roosevelt in a recent meet
ing that Great Britain "was
determined to throw every
thing it had at the Japs as
soon as Germany has been
defeated"
The White House Tuesday dis
closed that the President and Prime
minister conferred on the Pacific
war at Alexandria, Egypt, after the
Big Three meeting at Yalta in the
Crimea.
The announcement said Churchill
also promised to strengthen British
forces already fighting the Japanese.
Although the White House did not
amplify this point, 1t is known that
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-20

powerful British naval units are
now operating against the Japs. In
addition, troops under Lord Louis
Mountbatten are fighting strongly
in Burma.
The Alexandria conference lasted
less than four hours. the announce
ment said. 1t permitted new and
important discussions" of subject
which could not be taken up at Yal-
Ia because Soviet Russia is neutral
in the Pacific war.
MIR. Churchill" the White House
said, told the President in blunt
words that his government was de-
termined to throw everything it ha6
at the Japs as soon as Germany has
been defeated and, meanwhile,
would do all it could to strengthen
its forces already engaged in that
conflict"
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-20

southeast outskirts of the city.
OUSTED FROM CAVES
The final phase of the Manila
campaign came ass paratroops and
infantry slowly dug out fanatical
japanese holcouts from the caves
and tunnels of newly-invaded Cor
regidor Other American forces also
were cleaning up enemy remnants
on Bataan peninsula.
Despite the impact of the heavy
artillery fire, the japanese were
fighting back bitterly from their last
positions inside Manila. The pocket.
now shrunk to 1/14th of the charter
city area, comprised northern En-
mita, the walled city of Intramuros
and the por, district.
Heaviest fighting was reported
from the bayfront, where the 37th
infantrymen pushed three blocks
west from the Philippines general
hospital and began attacking enemy
positions on the university grounds
Japanese pillboXes at the univer-
Slty were belng destroyed system
matically by artillery and mortars
But the Americans were meeting
considerable fire from japanese guns
around the high commissioner
home, which already was IN ruins.
CAPTURE COLLEGE
In pushing to the university
grouncs, the 9th routed strong
enemy defenses and captured Santo
Theresa college and the German
club.
The assault on the 10th century
wall was concentrated on the east
side of Intramuros. Front reports
said the big guns were tearing a
hole in the masonry and no signs
of life appeared within the walled
city.
Most of the buildings, including
Fort Santiago and the Spanish gar
rison, were believed to have been
destroyed or badly damaged by the
barrage. Observers described the
Japanese inside IntramuroS as in
desperate plight.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-20
J. s. MARINES SEIZE Main Two AIRFlELD
Sailor Believed
Killed When
Struck by Auto
Searchers Drag Alamo
River at HOltville;
Bag and Hat Located

Dozens of sailors and civil
ians dragged the Alamo river
near the highway 80 bridge
west of Holtville Tuesday in
search of the body of a sailor
believed pitched into the wat
er when struck by a car driv-
en- by Perry Burke, 81, short
ly after 6 pm. Monday.
Deputy County Coroner Orval
Walker said Burke was accompan-
led by w. S. Harris, 55, when the
car in which they were riding struck
q sailor Harris saw walking toward
them as they drove east. Burke said
he did not see the sailor. Harris
said he saw the sailors bag fly past
the window of the car.
NAME REVEALED
The missing sailors name was
SAID to be Clifford &. Sullivan, sea-
man second class, stationed at the
Holtville naval air station and living
with his family at the Buena Vista
Auto court west of the Alamo river
bridge.
After the accident, Burke and
Harris told Sheriff Robert w. Ware,
they stopped the car anc went back
along the highway in search of the
sailor. They found his bag on the
bridge but no signs of the man.
They called for help.
A search was instituted and David
Continued on Pg. 6, Col. d
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-20
Prussia
Citadel
PeriIed
Russians Smash
At Gateway
Of .Koenissbers

LONDON, Feb. 20. (UP)I
Soviet front dispatches re-
ported Tuesday that Russian
troops had captured the main
supply base for Koenigsberg,
with the final German de-
fenses in East Prussia on the
verge Of being crushed.
The Soviet army newspaper Red
Star said the base, located inside a
big forest south of Koenigsberg, was
taken by units of Marshal Constan-
tin X. Rokossoysky's End White
Russian army.
NEARING DANZIG
Other forces of Rokossovsky's
army at the same time pushed
around the western end of East
Prussia to reach a point within As
miles Of Danzig at the head of the
Polish corridor.
With the Soviets increasing pres
sure against the Koenigsberg pocket
the Germans were reported throw
ing panzer units of Is to 20 tanks
into strong counterattacks in an
attempt to bolster the shrinking
flanks and retain the last highways
| to the sea.
Rokossovsky's thrust up the Polish
corridor further tightened the ring
around Grudziadz and brought THE
fall of Espenwerder, As miles south
of Danzig, and the rail and road
hub of Move, 10 miles north of
Grudziadz.
Moscow SAID that some Soviet
units broke into the outskirts of
Grudziadz, where 1900 Germans
were killed, while two other bat
talions were practically wiped out
in attempting to escape across the
ViStula.
In the central sector of the east
ern front, Marshal Ivan S. Konevs
1st Ukrainian army was reported by
the Germans 10 have broken into
Guden, on the Neisse river, 81 miles
southeast of Berlin, but later driv-
en- out.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-20
u. 5. Minesweeper
Reported Lost

WASHINGTON, Feb. 90. UP)-
The navy Tuesday announced the
less of a small minesweeper in the
Philippine area as the result of
enemy action.
The minesweeper, the YMS48, was
the 262nd naval vessel lost in this
war. The vessel carried a normal
complement of 80 men.
Lit. Howard A. Kaiser, 80, New
York, was skipper of the vessel and
is a survivor.
She was one of three minesWeep-
ers that bombarded the Japanese
Sawar airstrip on New Guinea last
July T.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-20
Senators Favor
New Measure
On Work.or.Fight

WASHINGTON, Feb. 20. (UP) =
The senate military affairs COM
mittee Tuesday tentatively rejected
work or else" legislation, despite
new presidential appeal for its
passage.
BY vote of IL to the committee
turned its attention instead to less
drastic plans for mobilizing man.
power for war production.
The vote was taken in a closed
meeting after receipt of special
plea from President Roosevelt for
legislation embracing the principles
of work or else" legislation.
The test came on a motion to
Continued on Page 6, Col. y
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-20

hundred yards were made in each
direction, but the principal gains
have come in the central sector of
the island across the southern air.
field.
Despite the japanese counterat-
tack at 2:30 Wednesday morning, as
we'll as several small attempted air
raids and the mortar and shell fire
falling on the beaches, American
supporting units continued to pour
supplies ashore.
Night fighter planes drove off
enemy aircraft which apparently
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-20

came from nearby Chichi Jima or
Haha Jima.
From their CIRCLE across the
southern trip of Two, units of the
two invasion divisions stormed into
heavy japanese gunfire from the
northern rim of the key air field
Wednesday morning.
Nimitz' communique some hours
later reported that the marine gains
against violent resistance, overran
the air base within fighter range of
Continued on Page 6, Col. -
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-20

Wednesday on problems of
war and peace.
His arrival was awaited eagerly
by delegates from other American
republics who are anxious to know
the United States latest decision
on Argentina. Assistant Secretary
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-20

MEXICO CITY, Feb. 20.
(UP)-U. S. Secretary of
State Edward R. Stettinius,
Jr., arrives Tuesday from
Brazil for the opening of the
inter American conference
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-20
WEATHER FORECAST

Generally clear Tuesday night,
and Wednesday. Slowly rising
daytime temperatures with the
Maximum Wednesday around ~
degrees. Continued cold NJ night
with lowest temperatures Tues
day night around 30 degrees IN
the coldest spots. Temperature
about one degree higher Wednss-
day night.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-20
Lloyd George
Seriously III

LONDON, Feb. 20. (UP)-David
Lloyd George, 82-year-old British
statesman and World War One
prime minister, was reported in SER
ious condition at his home in Wales
Tuesday night after week-long
illness complicated by his age.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-20
yank Big Guns
Better Old
Wall in MdniId
Battle for Island Capital Nears
Finish as Japs Are Dug Out
Of Hideouts by Paratroop Units

MANILA Feb. 20. (UP)-American big guns were pull
verizing Mana's 4OO-year old wall Tuesday for final
assault onesquare mile pocket of stubborn japanese
defenders south of the Pasg river.
With the heavy artillery blasting path through the
thick wall around the original Spanish city, the end of the
17-day old battle of Manila in sight
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-20
The Little Ezavers-

The Little Ezavers-
Ell Centros Junior Red Cross
members are as busy as they can be
and always accomplishing something
worth while.
Not long ago they presented a
dozen potted plants and two dozen
flower vases to the patients at
Mitchell Convalescent hospital at
Campo and 100 educational eift
boxes to children in countries just
liberated from German tyranny
The boxes contained pencils, eras-
ers, scratch paper and other articles
to be used in the schools which as
Continued on Page 6, Col. .
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-20

Lies Worst Moment .s
1t was solemn occasion. The
Rev. Hayden Sears was called upon
to announce the numbers in his
church's part in World Day of
Prayer observance.
As he pulled his notes from his
pocket there was light thud and
down eff tie platform and along
the aisle rolled little white marble
Never mind Rev. Sears, that
shows your children trust you with
their marbles.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-20

Units of the 37th infantry diyi-
sion were firmly entrenched around
the dwindling Japanese pocket and
11th airborne troops were rapidly
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-20
D AMBllNe
(AEpoRTER

No Stomping-
A man was before Judge Lee
Nuffer en- a charge of beating his
wife. The woman said her husband
had beaten her, knocked her down
and stomped on her.
Your honor" protested the hus-
band, II didn't stomp on her.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-20
WEATHER

Maximum Moneay 65, minimum
Tues. So; am. 80, mo humid. read
ing); noon Tues. 81, (no humidity
reading); 5 pm. Mon. 60, (n0 hu-
midity reading).
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-07-22

southeast srper-highway here sug.
gested North Carolina could not be
said to be demanding too much,
for both Virginia and South Car
DINA are to have such routes and
in addition the same northeast
southwest routes as have been
proposed for North Carolina. Our
siser safes to the north and south
of us are not being content with
only two northeast southwest
routes are to have northwest
southeast routes as well. Why
shouldn't North Carolina?
The State Highway and Public
Works Commission h u ! d be
urged to give soerious considera-
ton to approving and designating
federal inter-regional super-high-
way from Wilminton and South
port through Greensboro and on
enthusiastically to Cincinnati or
some other Midwest point and it
also should consider designating a
route from Morehead City Beat
fort through Raleigh to Green's
boro. If the latter route is desig-
mated then Raleigh which has
raised objections to the routes al
ready proposed will be only a
short distance from the two north
east-southwest routes and on a
rthwest-southeast route connect
ing it with the other two.
1t appears then that under pres
ent plans and proposals of the
State Highway and Public Works
Commission and the airline5 the
gap left by the missing rail link
we have so long needed across the
state rom Wilmington through
Greensboro and on northwestward-
ly to the coalfields and the Mid.
west is to be perpetuated in both
the fddjjwpi ,pfg-regonjwvrvag supe
highway system and the airlines
systems, but Greensboro and the
considerable portion Of the state
more directly affected, if not the
state as whole, should not be
satisfied to let these most inror.
tant omissions in our future trans.
portation facilities stand.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-07-22
U. S. RAPED FOR
'C0DDLING' JAPS

WASHINGTON, July 21.- R -
Rep. Springer Or. -Ind.) asserted
today that "our nation has elected
to coddle and pamper. high Of
ficials of Japan without any justi-
fication or excuse.'
japanese military, naval and dip
lomatic officers captured in the
fall of Germany, Springer said in
a speech prepared for house deli
very, were taken to fine and
commodious hotel at Bedford
Springs, Pa, for detention.
There they are now establish
ed in those luxurious suites in
that super-fine hotel, having rich
food to eat and every accom-
mediation available to the rich and
the exclusive among the people, :"
Springer said.
"The people are wondering what
character of treatment Japan is
extending to General Jonathan
Wainwright and our high army Of
ficials who are prisoners of war
in the hands of Japan.
They are wondering what kind
and character of treatment is ex-
tended to all of our boys, some
IS, 900 of them, who are prisosers
of war in the ghostly prison camps
of Japan.
"They are not coddled or pam
pered in any degree by our enc
my, the Japs, but they are tor
tured and beaten as part of their
daily menu"
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-07-22
One Killed, Two Hurt
In Auto-Cart Crash

NEW BERN, July 21.-W.H-One
man is dead and another is in
local hospital today as the result
of a collision last night between
an automobile and a mule cart in
the Spring Garden section of Cra-
ven county.
The dead man is Luther Slaugh-
ter, 10, and the injured person was
listed as E. Ward Rogers, 30, al
so of the Spring Garden section.
Meanwhile, officers are holding
William Nelson, 20 Negro, of the
Maple Cypress section under S.
600 bond for the inquest Monday
night. Officers said Nelson was
the driver of the car which struck
the mule cart in which Slaughter
and Rogers were riding.
An Ohio farmer was arrested,
charged with selling chickens for
three times the ceiling price. Inc
last word in fowl play
Evening star., 1945-07-27
\X&;;:if !; s.
"
FXHIBITS.

Clifford K. Bergman original car
toons and National Pennell Fund
prints, Library of Congress, 8 am.
to 10 pm. Mondays through Fri
days; am. to pm. Saturdays,
and 1870 am. to 10 pm. Sundays,
through July.
Harry Bartoia monoprints through
July and Bonnard paintings and
Picasso usical instruments
through September, Phillips Me-
mortal Gallery, II am. to 10 pm.
Mondays; II am. to pm. Tuesdays
through Saturdays, and 8 to 7 pm.
Sundays.
Jacob Kainen drawings and ltho-
graphs, Public Library, Eighth and
K streets NV, 9 am. to 9 pm
weekdays except Saturday, 9 am. to
l pm, through August S.
German surrender documents and
papers and museum papers of late
President Roosevelt, National Ar
chiveS, 845 am. to Sis pm. week.
days and 1:30 to pm. Sundays,
through August.
John Barrymore as Hamlet,
painting by John Slavin, National
Collection of Fine Arts, Smithson-
ian Institution, 9 am. to 430 pm.
through September 3.
FILM.
Nazi atrocity film, Howard Uni
Evening star., 1945-07-27
dssa "a
DIPLOMATS Are ON Vacations
And ON official Tozlrwevs

The Mexican Ambassador Dr. Francisco Castillo NaJera joined
Sonora Castillo Naea their
weeks a
conference in San Francisco and following the close of those
went home for meetings with the Castillo
younger
Embassy
The Paraguayan Ambassador to Brazil Bata Ayala
S being
middle
Senora
in Lima
Evening star., 1945-07-27
Clubs to Hold
Picnic Sunday

A joint picnic OF the Club De
Las Americas and the Portuguese
speaking luncheon group which
meets in the Department of Agri-
culture will be held Sunday from
3 to 7 o'clock in Grove IL, Rock
Creek Park.
Ball games and Latin American
music will be features of the event,
and among the artists participating
in the program will be Frances
Leporace, accordionist; Elizabeth
Hastings, guitarist and singer;
Noemy Freire, guitarist; Tommy
Almodavar, baritone, and Eleanor
Kerns, who will dance the Samba.
The committee in charge of ar
rangements includes Charles Gun
ther, chairman; Sonora Sonia Ross
of Brazil, Senoritas Adele Rodas
and Aida Lopez of Puerto Rico, and
Allen Lester.
Some members of the diplomatic
corps are expected to attend.
Evening star., 1945-07-27
ENGAGEMENTS
IRE 4nn0unced

Mr.. and Mrs. F. Macon Mitchell
of Chevy Chase announce the en-
gagement of the latters daughter
Miss Mary Jane Showalter, to Mr.
John Milton Wyman III. son of Mr.
and Mrs. Wyman II of Bethesda.
Miss Showalter attended Chew
Chase Junior College. Mr.. Wyman
attended Georgetown College and is
a junior medical student at George
town University.
No date has been set for the we'd
ding.
Mr.. and Mrs. Earl Melvin Ealy
of Silver Spring announce the en-
gagement of their daughter, Miss
Jean Lorraine Ealy, to Leonard A
Spaur, c. E. M, U. S. N, son of Mrs
Mabel Spaur of Lyons, Colo.
The wedding will take place Sat-
urday evening, August II, at G
o'clock, In the Memorial Chapel al
the Army Medical Center.
The bride is a graduate of the
Holy Names Academy in Silver
Spring. Mr.. Spaur is attending the
Electrical Interior Communication
School at the Naval Receiving Sta
ton in Washington.
Evening star., 1945-07-27
Observation-Disclosures
Ceremony Held

Mr.. and Mrs. H. ]. Lilliquist OF
Ironwood, Mich, announce the
marriage of their daughter, Eleanor
Kathern Lilliquist, Y2c, U. S. N. r..
to Corpl. Henry P. Mulcahy, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas P. Mulcahy OF
New York. The ceremony took
place Tuesday afternoon in WAVE
Quarters I in Washington, Rev
Father Frank M. Graf, chaplain
U. S. N. r., officiating.
The bride, who wore her white
service uniform, was attended by
Helen Mulcahy, Y2c, sister of the
bridegroom. Mr.. Frank J. Murphy
of Cheverly was best man for Corpl
Mulcahy and Veronica Whalen
Y2c, and Elisabeth Bannon, Y2c
served as ushers. Lolita Cadey, Vic
and Alice Woodland, Sp. W2c, pro-
vided the nuptial music.
Following a wedding trip to At
lantic City and New York, the
bride will return to her duties in
Washington, and the bridegroom to
his at Fort Meade.