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Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-20
A TERRIBLE ALTERNATIVE
(San Diego Union)

tOdH DieSO OHlOn)
No humane person can rejoice in the
terrific punishment being inflicted on Ja-
pan by our constant and increasing air
raids. 1t is particularly repellent to
think of the fate Of thousands of civil
ians who are the victims Of explosive and
incendiary bombing. The sneak attack
Of the japanese and their atrocious treat
ment of Americans and Filipinos justi-
fies retaliation against an enemy who
has shown no symptoms of conscience as
Occidentals understand it.
But General Arnold tells the blunt
truth when he asserts that Japan will
have to choose between surrender and an
initiation. This war is of Japan's own
making She early set barbaric pace
in her methods of warfare Her object
i've was conquest and exploitation
some cases extermination-of defenless
peoples. Having failed, with certain de-
feat staring her in the face, her leaders
seem intent on sacrificing the whole Jap
anese people if necessary to make our
victory as costly as possible.
President Truman has made it plain
that unconditional surrender" does not
mean the destruction or enslavement OF
the people of Japan. Butgthe military
clique which rules the empire evidently
has convinced the japanese people to the
contrary. If Japanese thousands are
killed and manned and japanese prop
erty reduced to dust and ashes, the
blame is not upon the United States, but
upon the arrogant and obstinate leaders
of Japan
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-20
New GIiderman
Writes Home
Of Experiences

Your son is now a qualified
gliderman, really airbnrne." Pri-
vate First Glass Neal MacuroS wrote
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. MalSalm
Macurda, in announcing that he
isn't a "doughfoot" any more.
Pfc. Macurda is in the Pacific
war zone with the paraglider in
fantry. His letter said in part:
I have completed my course
of training The riding while in tow
is apt to be a little rough but no
worse than a small ship at sea. The
strangest thing Of all is the noise.
1 thought it would be relatively
quiet. There are no motors on a
glider. The wind roaring past the
canvas sides makes such din
that you must yell into a persons
ear even if sitting right beside you.
The ground looks just like a map
under you. You get funny feeling
when you strike an air pocket, just
like going down in an elevator. A
couple of boys got airsick, not me.
I had my choice between the gliders
and paratroopers
Better open a. bank account for
me. 1t may pay for some schooling
after it's over. My requests are
whatever you want to mail I love
anything to eat ~.
Il already can see ..se difference
since VE-Day The planes are bomb
ing the hell out of Japan and our
supplies are piling up instead of be-
ing short. / had some grapefruit the
other day. 1t made me think of
home
THE bond drive is on here :.
80.2 per. cent of my pay is going
out now to buy bonds. Anyhow it
will help on down payment on my
own home maybe . . Japan may
keep on being fanatical and not sur
render until we have overrun her
homeland. If we do that Japan will
never rise again . The fanatical
worship Of the Emperor will be
crushed when some GIs take his
SoDiC iiOihc d. a oOusCill4- oOiiiC VI
the captains and majors sabre's
are beautiful The Ernperor's really
must be something.
i've signed up for a review course
in algebra with the United States
armed forces institute. 1t costs moth
ing, everything provided. 1t is a
self-teacher course. My starter
course is Algebra 2. AS fast as fin
ish comes college algebra, calculus,
etc 80"
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-20
AirpIane Worker
Group to Ask
For Strike Ballot

LOS ANGELES, June 20. (UPJ-
The International Association Of
Machinists (AFL) viii petition the
national labor relations board on
Thursday for strike vote among
10000 workers of the Douglas Air
craft Co.'S Fl Segundo plant.
Charles w. Hollirshead, union
leader, said Wednesday.
Three principal grievance es
against the company. Hollinshead,
president OF the unions district
lodge 720, are: downgrading Of the
workers, resulting in loss OF pay
and classification; hiring new
workers laid off by other aircraft
plants at less pay than they were
getting at the other plants; and
discrimination against women
workers by falling to pay rates that
their skill and experience merit
them.
The El Segundo plant Is working
on a new secret navy plane and pro
ducing sub-assemblies for C-54
transports
Workers at mass meeting June
10 authorized union officials to Pc
tition the NLRB for the strike vote.
Hollinshead said.
A company spokesman said
Douglas, like other aircraft COM
panies in the area. is operating un-
der a wage stabilization and job
classification directive of the war
labor board.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-20
LEGISLATIVE JAMS
BECLOUD ACTION

AS had been expected, the legislative
session at Sacramento finished off with
jam of bills, many of which had been
pending from the start of what has been
one of the longest sessions on record.
It might not matter so much if these
last-minute bottlenecks affected only
minor measures. But always in these
occasions it is the most vital legislation
that is approved or rejected in the frenzy
and throes Of adjournment.
1t is too early to know exactly what
this session did or failed to do. 1t is
doubtful if the legislators or the officials
themselves know just what happened on
the last three or four days before ad-
journment.
But certain it is that such matters as
lavies, appropriations, roads, schools and
the general welfare of the state suffer
in this method of procedure.
There seems little to do about it. 1t
is the same in practically every state
legislature Perhaps the wedding out
work gets started too late. Or perhaps
the routine bills are permitted to pile up,
and in the end interfere with the more
serious business before sessions.
This years session, however, appears
to have set record for longevity and
whp-saw methods, backing, and filling
and controversies.
Out of the maze Of bills rushed
through or defeated, it could be that no
great harm has been done, but we shall
have to wait until the Smoke clears
away" before any reasonable estimate of
work accomplished can be rendered.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-20
Accused Poles
To Escape
Death Sentences

LONDON, June 20. CUP)-Mos-
COW announced Tuesday that the
Soviet prosecution was net asking
the death penalty for Is Polish
underground leaders being tried on
charges Of subversive activity
against the Red army.
Maj. Gen. Asansiev, chief prose-
cutor, said in summing up the Red
armys, case against the Poles that
he would insist they be imprisoned
but would not demand the extreme
penalty.
An earlier Moscow dispatch said
it appeared that several of the
Poles would be acquitted or at most
get light prison sentences.
Word that the death sentence
apparently had been excluded came
at the outset Of the third day of
the trial. The testimony was COM
pleted and final pleadings were
under way.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-20
U. S. Planes Sink
Jap Ships in
kuriles Channels

ADVANCED ALEUTIAN BASE,
June 20. tUP)-Liberators and
Mitchells Of the 18th Airforce sank
three Japanese cargo vessels and
damaged four others in strikes dur
ing the past two days at enemy
shipping around the Kuriles, it was
disclose ed Wednesday.
Anti-aircraft fire doWned one OF
two Liberators off the west coast
of Paramushiru Sunday, when two
small cargo vessels were sunk and
another damaged The Liberator's S
nine-man crew was lost.
Billy Mitchell bombers yesterday
attacked four Jap cargo vessels off
Otcmae Cape, on the east central
coast of Paramushiru. They sank
one, left another burning and dam
aged the other two in bombing and
strafing runs. Ack-ack was inef-
fectual.
Harpocns of Fleet Arriving Four
also bombed enemy installations IN
the Suribachi area of ParamuShiru
and Kataoka naval base on Shim-
uShu.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-20
u. S. REAR ADMIRAL DIES
OF NATURAL CAUSES

WASHINGTON, June 20. (UP)-
Rear Admiral Forrest Betton Royal,
So, Of New York, commander of the
recent amphibious operation in
Brunei Bay off the northwest coast
Of Borneo, died June 18 of natural
causes, the navy announced We'd
nesday.
The Borneo landings which he
directed occurred on June 10 and
IL. Royal visited the battle area on
June II with Gen. Douglas Mac
Arthur, commander of army forces
in the Pacific.
Royal is the second high rank
ing leader to die this week. 1t. Gen.
Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr., 10th
army commander, was killed in ac-
ton the same day on OkinaWa.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-20
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Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-20
GROWS OWN SMOKES
IN BACKYARD PATCH

Los ANGELES, June 20, lUPJ-
s. G. Weiss never has to cajOle. CO..
cree or 'bribe druggists to sell him Y
st0gie. because he grows his own in
his backyard
Last December he planted some
Connecticut broadleaf tobacco seed.
and by mid-March he had his first
crop Of smokes and expects another
crop before the plants die.
"Oh. I've smoked better ones he
says. @but the cigars from my little
patch are at least two-bitters"
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-20
SUPREME COURT AND
BRIDGES CASE

The highest court Of the land has ruled
that Harry Bridges, west coast ClO. la
Dor leader, may remain IN the United
States In ruling that the deportation
orders issued by the attorney general
were illegal, 5 to opinion states that
Bridges has been much abused person;
his personal liberty jeopardized and that
the order violated the Bill of Rights.
Bridges, now may choose to remain an
alien or seek citizenship after long resi-
dence in the United States without de-
claring citizenship intentions.
There will be many dissenters to the
courts views that Bridges is entitled to
all the Bill of Rights confers on clti-
zens.
But there is one citation of the ruling
that even Bridges followers will be won7a
dering about The majority admitted
that Bridges belonged to union that
nurtured communist.c beliefs, as part OF
its tenets, but pointed out that the union
at the same time endeavored to seek the
uplift of its membership. The ruling
then went on to say that Bridges,
leader in that union, did apply himself
to the batterment of its members and
was not held as accepting the commun-
istic beliefs. Therefore he could not be
considered as a factor in teaching over
throw of the government.
Just how the court majority arrived
at the conclusion that anyone taking
the oath of allegiance to an organlza-
tion might embrace part Of its require
ments and reject others, was not ex-
planned. The majority has introduced
something new-a split-oath. \,
Under this decision might not all
oaths be subscribed to with "reserva-
TONS and thus set up defense in ad-
vance for any subsequent tits with the
law? It would seem so.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-20
Soldiers Vote
Licks Canada S
Prime Minister

OTTAWA, June 20. tUPJ-Prime
Minister Mackenzie King lost his
parliamentary seat after the final
tabulation Of the soldier vote in
the recent Canadian elections
Chief electoral officer. Jules Cas-
tcnguay. said King lost his Prince
Albert riding to z. L. Bowerman,
Cooperative Commonwealth fedora
ton candidate, by 129 votes.
Leaders Of Kings Liberal party
said he probably would run again
for the East Ottawa Eeat won by
Liberal Jean Richard, who would
step aside.
They said that the soldier vote
made no other changes in the over
all results Of the national elections
last June IL.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-20
HUNT TOO SOON

SAN FRANCISCO. June 20. CUP)
Earl de Cordova, Kelseyville. was
fined 500 for illegal possession CT
deer June 13, the State Division of
Fish and Game reported.
Others arrested included F. A.
Elms, Santa Rita Park, fined $100
for taking pheasant in closed sea-
son.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-20
MEAT SHOW IN COURT

BAY CITY, Mich, June. 20. CUP
Judge, jury, attorneys and spec
tatcrs fairly drooled when the Bay
City federal courtroom was turned
into an impromptu butcher shop
as a butcher staged meat-cutting
demonstratlI-l to prove he had not
violated OPA regulations. Bernard
Keirns donned his white coat and
operated upon four hindquarters
of beef, completely unabashed by
his yearning audience.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-20
DEATH
NOTICES

Jose Francisco, 6 months,
died in El Centre Tuesday. Funer-
al services were to be. held at the
Salinas home, 227 Olive, Wednes-
day at $3.50 pm. Burial was to be
in Evergreen cemetery. HENS Fu-
neral Home of FL Centro was in
charge. 6-21
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-20

We dare not say that there will be no
more wars. Failure to provide universal
training has always constituted an open
invitation for aggression on the part OF
militarists. - Dunlap G. Clark, U. s.
Chamber Of Commerce.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-20
Editorials and Comment

EDITORS NOTE: The following edit
0ridIs are presented as interesting Opin-
ions U0iced by editors elsewhere. They
do not necessarily reflect the opinion of
this paper.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-27
B0WL-WISE TEXANS.
WAIT FOR TIGERS

AUSTIN, TEX, Dec. 26. -tR-
If bowl experience means any
thing, Texas has it all over Mis-
souri, in their approaching battle at
Dallas in the Cotton Bowl.
The Longhorns boast five bowl
veterans, all of them with post-sea-
son experience in the Dallas sau-
Ger. One OF them goes as far back
as Jan. I, 1913, when the Texans
met Georgia Tech.
Ed Heap was one of two fresh
men selected to join the varsity
after first-year men were made
eligible in December, 1912. Me ap.
peared briefly in Texas 14-7 VIC
tory. Heap, a substitute guard, re-
Gently was discharged from the
Army Air Forces and is back with
Texas.
In 1914 Texas went to the Cotton
Bowl against Randolph Field and,
in cold rain and on a slippery grid
iron, soon found itself trailing the
Ramblers OF. The Longhorns tied
it up on pass and the game ended
TT. On the throwing end of that
important 35-yard play was Ralph
Ellsworth, starting Texas tailback
then and now. The San Antonio
speedster sandwiched a year at the
U. S. Naval academy between
championship seasons at Texas.
Jim Plyler and Harlan Wetz,
massive Texas tackles, have play
ed together for three seasons.
Plyler started against Randolph
Field; Wetz was used as a substi-
tute guard in the 1914 Bowl game.
The other Longhorn with pre-
vious Cotton Bowl experience is
Ransom jackson. But he was with
another team. Anaval trainee, who
started his schooling at Arkansas
university, he moved to Texas
Christian in time to help kick the
Horned Frogs to the southwest Con-
ference 4title-and meet Oklahoma
A. and M. $40 in the 1945 Cotton
Bowl. =
Missouri doesn't have anyone on
the squad who ever appeared in
a bowl game.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-27
Hoosier Star Has Long
Wanted Regular Spot
On League Club
BY BUS HAM

WASHINGTON, Dec. 90 R -
frankie Filchock's six-year wish
to be No. l quarterback on a big
league professional football team
is nearing realization.
The Washington Redskins plan
to trade Filchok, one of the game
better passers, to the New York
Giants. In return, they want two
players still in the Army, Tom
my Mont, a back, and Paul Stem,
tackle.
Redskin officials declined to com.
ment on the trade. But it was learn.
ed that as soon as Mont and
Steen indicate they are willing to
play with the Tribe, the deal will
be closed. Mont formerly played
at Maryland University. Stem
starred for March Field in the
Army Air Forces league.
Reports have been current tina,
Filchock might jump to the New
York Yankees of the All-America
conference, which makes its start
next season.
Filchock, 20, recently told a re.
porter that he certainly would like
to "get crack" at a regular as
signment before the best years Of
his career are used up.
Ever since Filchock came out Of
Indiana University to join the Red
skins, he has been in the shadow
of Sammy Baugh.
After receiving a medical dis
charge from service, Filchock got
break early in the 1914 season
when wartime regulations kept
Baugh on his Texas ranch much
of the time.
Filchock guided the Redskins tc
string of victories. But late ir
the campaign with Filchock back
in his understudy role, the fast
finishing Giants knocked the Red
skins out of the Eastern Division
title in the National League race
This year, Filchock saw only &C.
casional action until the champion
ship game with the Cleveland
Rams. With Baugh injured, Fill.
chock threw two touchdown passes
although the Rams won, 1914.
Broad-beamed Steve Owen, head
coach of the Giants, long has had
his eye on Filchock. And a chance
to become the Baugh Of the New
Workers. backfield would come as
Frankie's finest, though belated,
Christmas present.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-27
AGG1E. ODDS DROP

BILOXI, Miss, Dec. 26. -WH-
Coach Jim Lookabaugh of Okla
homa A and M said today he was
happy to learn that the odds on
his team were dropping.
Soon after the Sugar Bowl selec-
lions were made the bettors were
giving st. Mary's IA points at even
money.
81 believe our boys know they
can use those Ia points only when
they are posted on the scoreboard,
he said.
The Aggies concentrated today
on defensive drill, and Lookabaugh
indicated through use of extended
running, in formation and wind
sprints, that he would match St.
Mary's wide open offense with one
of his own.
McMILLIN ILL
MONTGOMERY, Ala, Dec. 26.
-lR-Northern and Southern ALL
Stars began ironing out the rough
spots today in practice for Satur-
days Blue-Gray football encounter
The Blue squad, meanwhile,
elected Morton Hochheiser, 100
pound center from Temple, as
captain for the eighth annual con-
test.
The Northerners will enter the
game minus one of the three men,
bers of their coaching staff. Blue
Gray HEADQUARTERS said today Bo
McMillin of Indiana was still suf-
fering from influenza and would
not arrive here.
The south, because Of stronger
line and more experienced ma
terial, remained the favorite, but
the Blues passing combination of
Bob Kennedy and Nick Scollard
promised trouble.
Kennedy, probably the best all
around back on either squad, is
former Washington State and Third
Air Force star. Scollard, who play,
ed with the Air Transport COM
mand after leaving st. Joseph's
was Kennedy's pass receiver in
last years all-star game against
the pros.
KOSLOWSKI HAS COLD
MIAMI, Fla, Dec. 26. - W.D II
The Holy Cross Crusaders held a
secret scrimmage today but the
teams star, Stan Koslowski, did
not participate due to a heavy cold.
Koslowski was running a slight
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-27
MIAMI TEAM, HEAT
HOLY CROSS WORRY
BY BILL KING
APP Manufactures

WORCESTER, Mass.-While the
rest Of the townsfolk pIod through
the slush and SILVER from the winter
temperatures, John COX DaGrosa
is worrying about tropical heat as
he prepares his Holy Cross Cru.
saders for their Orange Bowl
football game with the University
of Miami in sun.kissed Miami on
Jan. /.
1.-THE Miami heat is going to be
a serious problem, for we will
have less than a week to get &C.
climated for a native rival" says
DaGrosa.
Little Joe Byers, freshman
passing star, has been cast for two
of the quarters, for, as DaGrosa
explains, well need a chucker in
there every second" Byers will
open with such ball carrying
mates as Stan Koslowski, the CRU
ss.ders' outstanding star, Steve
Controy and Lou Lemay. "a
When the heat gets them down,
Byers will remain in action with
Ralph Celone, John Connolly and
Dick O. Keefe. And, finally, when
Byers starts willing, he will be
replaced by Gene DiFilippo. who
will pass to such third unit play
ers as Franny Bryson, George
Godere and Walt Brennan. y,
But DsGrosa, shift players IS
he will, cannot possibly build
three-play line for the Orange
Bowl. :,
The same stalwarts who were
practically Commute men during
the fall probably will be called
upon to give one more ironman
performance.
This should not distress such
capable ends as Jimmy Dieckel-
man and Bob Conway but it sis
extremely doubtful that Charlie
Stephenson, the center, Bill Gre
gar and Frank Kronoff, the rank
ing guards, or tackles Bernie Sicu-
rama and Rog DesRoches will be
able to go all the way in tropical
heat.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-27
NOT oa belong in fast company. Texa
~, Missouri O,

not no belong in fast company. Texas
70, Missouri 0.
SUN BOWL: New Mexico should
De beaten by Denver in this elias.
SIC. Denver boasts several out
standing linemen while the Lobos
haven't graduated from the Junior
college class as yet. No bet that
CataWba could take either one OF
these two teams.
HAlSIN BOWL: A newcomer t.
the Bowl ranks featuring two
teams called the Bulldogs, Fresno
state and Drake. Drake held a
tough Tulsa team to a 10 to o win
and showed plenty of speed wrap
ped up in Del Cockayne, the lead
ing scorer of college football in
1874. Drake IS, Fresno State IA.
GATOR BOWL: South Carolina
takes on a Wake Forest team again
after holding the Deacons to a 10
to 10 tie at Charlotte on Thanks
giving. The result of the Turkey
meeting still rankles the Baptists
and they should really pour it on
the Gamecocks. Wake Forest %,
South Carolina 6.
EAST-WEST: Last year Bob
Waterfield led the West to a VIC
tory over an East team boasting
Les Horvath and several other AL
Americans. When Tom Harmon
and Nile Kennick were playing
with the East the best the bows
east of the Mississippi River could
do was tie. With that record we
Will string along with West, Fl Il
IA.
NORTH-SOUTH: The first of the
added features of the football sea-
son to be played the Montgomery
classic will again be a free.scor.
ing affair with the scales tipping
for the South, "a to IA.