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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-08
Truman, Attlee May Eu0IUe g Meeting
StoIin's s Where obouts PuzzIinq Political Circles

wash Ing ton, Nov. 8-(UP)- British Prime Minister Clement AttIee will be invited to address 8 joint session of Congress next week, House Speaker Sam Ray burn, D., Tex, announced today.
 Rayburn made the announce ment following a legislative con- ference with President Truman.
 Rayburn said Attlee will speak sometime after Monday.
 The Prime Minister arrives here Saturday for atomic bomb control discussions with the President and Canadiai Prime Minister w. l.. Mackenzie.
 Rayburn said he expected the AttIee speech will be broadcast throughout this country and inter nationally.
 London, Nov. 8. (UP)-Prime Minister Attlee will fly to Washing ton tomorrow night for discussion with President Truman that the Daily Mail said today may lead tc an invitation to Premier Stalin for new Big Three meeting.
 The Daily Mails diplomatic cor respondent Wilson Broadcast re ported a prevalent belief in White hall that Attlee and Mir. Truman will agree on plans for ending the Western Allies diplomatic deadlock with Russia.
 Attlee presided over a full cabinet session today at which extensive discussion was undertaken of topics which the Prime Minister will dis cuss with MT. Truman, including a
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-08
FORD WORKERS TO STRIKE ACROSS NATION

Detroit Nov. 8.-(UP)-FOrd Motor company em poyes the country favor wakOu to enforce de mands for pay increase returns from strike ballot throughout the system showed today.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-08

Cairo Nov 8-(UP)-Offical advces today raised the Jewish death toll in the Trpoanian riots to than 100 persons.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-08
NYLON PRICES TO DROP ON

INFLOW PRICES TO DROP ONE-THIRD Washington Nov. 8.-(UP)-The ceiling price of nyon stockings will be reduced about Onethrd it was learned today.
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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-08-22

Washington. Aug. 22-AP-Pres-
ent federal standards for airports
were criticized Monday by Sheldon
B. Steers, director for he Michigan
Department OF Aeronautics. Speak.
ing at the Third Joint Airport Us
ers' Conference, Steers declared:
The standards by which our air
ports are designed and laid out are
not necessarily outmoded but rath.
er they are the product OF standard
makers who have no conception OF
the sources from which the money
comes TO build these airports."
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-08-22

WASHINGTON -AP- The Unit
ed Nations Relief and Rehabilita-
ton Administration may receive an
other $1,000, 900 900 from this coun-
try to head off famine and suffer
ing in foreign lands.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-08-22
CONSIDER VETERANS

Fort Custer, Mich Aug. 22-AP
Returning wounded veterans to
healthy civilian life instead OF to
active duty occupied the attention
OF 100 key army medical officers
here Tuesday at the Army Service
Forces Convalescent Hospital Con
ference; Subjects for discussion In.
cluded a report on a recent survey
OF convolescent hospitals and CEN
ters and treatment OF neuropsychia-
trio patients.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-08-22
HAS PRIORITY

Marquette. Mich Michigan's
postwar problems, especially those
affecting veterans, held number
one priority as the state planning
commission convened here Tuesday
for its first session since the fall
of Japan. Governor Harry F. Kel-
ly. who conferred informally Mon
day night with the upper peninsula
advisory committee OF the SPC,
warned that local governments
would play major role in solving
the problems.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-08-22

Many colors, shapes,
and styles. See them
today.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-10
Drilling Nears
On Two More
Test Oil Wells

Two additional test oil wells will
be sending down drills in Imperial
county soon. The Amerada company
is setting up a derrick a short dis
tance west of Heber and at the
same time comes the announcement
that apparatus soon will go up on
the F. w. Greer ranch near inland
In the meantime the Texas COM
pany's well 16 miles southeast OF
e. Centre and a few miles south
of Holtville is nearing the 10000
foot stage.
I'VE are down 9187 feet c. A
Cosby, Texas company superintend-
ent of operations said Thursday. 1t
seems the oil well jinx has kept tab
on the drilling at the Holtville well,
according to Cosby.
I'VE lost 440o feet" said Cosby,
when a drill point broke at 9O14
feet. That situation has been cured
and we are at it again."
Casing at this well has been set
a distance of 1880 feet, the super
intendent announced
The Amerada well north of Braw-
ley. being drilled by the Rocky
Mountain Drilling company, is re-
ported below 7450 feet.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-10
BY JOSEPH w. GRIGG, JR.
(FOr Combined Press and Radi0)

BERLIN, May 10. (UP)-
At least four bodies, any of
which may be that of Hitler
have been found by the Russians
in Berlin. But none has been iden-
titled as being definitely that of
the Nazi Fuehrer.
The bodies of Propaganda Minis
ter Paul Joseph Goebbels and his
family; of Martin Bormann, sue
cessor to Rudolf Hess as Hitler's
deputy; and a number of other top
Nazis have been found and identi-
fled with fair certainty.
For week the Russians have
searched through the ruins of the
underground for SIS where Hitler
and his gang of last ditch Nazi
fanatics held out until the destruc-
ton of Berlin was complete. Four
bodies, blackened and charred, that
seem to answer to Hitler'S general
appearance have been dragged out
of the ruins They have been meas
ured and photographed for exam
ination oy experts. Eut the Rus
slams are beginning 70 believe that
no body that cau be identified
without any shadow of doubt rs that
Adolf Hitler ever will be found now.
The underground fortress which
Hitler made his quarters in the
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-10
Valleys Summer
Crops Premise
Heavy Harvests

Imperial Valley farmers ap-
preached the summer agricultural
season Thursday with all indications
pointing to continued good harvests
and high quality products.
The sugar beet harvest began in
April with 252 cars loaded. Plant
i:igs for this seasons crop total 1914
acres or an increase of approximate
~ 5000 acres over the acreage a
year ago. County Agricultural Com
missioner B. A. Harrigan said in the
monthly agricultural summary from
his office.
Barley harvest started in April
on the early paintings. Generally
good yields were indicated. Ship
ments of new hay moved to market
in April. Demands were good for
quality hay, Harrigan said =
Cantaloupe acreage this season
Slightly exceeds that of last year
with considerable increase in the
early covered paintings. Unfavor-
able weather in March and early
April retarded growth, resulting in
light sets of early melons. A late
start is expected in this deal, Har-
rigan's summary said, with first
carloads expected to move about
June 1. The melon acreage checked
shows a total of 15,520 acres of
cantaloupes, 27S8 acres of honey
dews, and 1923 acres Of honeyballs.
Watermelon acreage this year is
greatly reduced from that of last
year and the deal will be later than
usual in starting. it was predicted
Paintings checked total 3683 acres
Shipments Of tomatoes from the
El Centro-H Holtville area are lighter
than expected because of the frost
early in April and unfavorable
weather in March. Quality was good
and markets at steady levels.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-10
Barbara Worth
Hotel Sale
Said Under Way

An offer of $4,000 for the Bar
bara Worth hotel has been made by
the Kaplan- Could Turner Hotel
syndicate, Chicago, according to Al
Griffin. manager of the Barbara
Worth. He also announced that the
syndicate has offered $4,000, COO for
the whole hotel, apartment and cafe
properties of the Pacific States Saw
ings and Loan association, including
the Barbara Worth.
The deal is pending, Griffin said,
and may be closed within the next
80 days.
The Pacific States Savings and
Loan association owns about 80
pieces of property on the West Coast,
principally in San Francisco and
Los Angeles.
The May issue of the Pacific
Coast Record, a hotel publication,
stated that the Barbara Worth ho-
5el has been sold to Charles Kaplan
and A. S. Epstein, of Chicago, but
this was denied by Griffin.
The Barbara Worth hotel was
erected in 1915, and the annex COM
pleted in 1929. The hotel has 225
rooms with baths. Griffin has been
manager since last December.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-10

dreds Of thousands in ensuing
months.
And any given man-even though
he has more than the necessary
number of credits for discharge
can be kept in service if his work
is deemed vital to the war against
Japan.
The combat and decoration cred
its, worth five points each, will be
awarded for the following honors
and decorations by army personnel
for services performed since Sept.
l6, 1910:
Army-SC. Legion of Merit, Sill
yer Star, DFC, Soldiers Medal,
Bronze Star Medal, Air Medal, Pur-
pie Heart and Bronze Service Star;
Navy-Navy Cross, DSM, Legion
OF Merit, Silver Star Medal, DFC,
Navy and Marine Corps Medal,
Bronze Star Medal, Air Medal and
Purple Heart Medal:
Foreign-Awards and decorations
Va AOA S46AA dIICDGCO d1l0
worn under war department regu-.
lations.
The army announced earlier that
any holder of the Medal of Honor
was eligible for immediate release.
NOT FOR NAVY MEN
The mention of navy decorations
does not mean that navy personnel
are included in the plan. They are
not. 1t refers only to navy and mar
ine corps decorations that may have
been awarded to army men.
Five points are given for the first
and each additional award of the
honors mentioned above as repre-
sented by Oak Leaf Clusters.
Commissioned officers will have
adjusted service rating scores with
the same point values as enlisted
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Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-10
jap Statesmen
Eve War Plans

ever assembled struck a heavy blow
at Japanese industry.
The government also called lead
ers of various patriotic organiza-
tions to the premier's residence
Thursday afternoon "and explained
to them the system and guiding
principles Of the national volunteer
corps"
Gen. Unami Matsumai, president
OF the Pan Asia society, said Japan
was determined to fight "for the
emancipation of Asiatics."
Japan must win this war for the
welfare Of all the Asiatics. The white
powers must be stricken from East
Asia forever for the preservation of
our civilization and culture"
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-10


Details Of the point system that
will govern discharge of more than
100000 soldiers during the next
IL months were announced at noon
Thursday to troops and to the pub
lie. The point values follow:
One credit for each month serv-
ed oerseas since the same date.
Five credits for each Bronze Serv-
ice Star and for each decoration
The service stars are awarded for
participation in each battle or cam
paign. This also means five cred
its for each wound suffered, since
Purple Heart decoration is award
ed for each wound.
Twelve credits for each child un-
der l8 years, up to three children.
RELEASE ON TOTAL CREDITS
Enlisted men of the army ground
air and service forces will be i'm
mediately eligible for discharge if
their total credit score is IS or
more. WACS with total credit scores
of Al points will be Immediately
eligible for discharge
These total credit scores are de-
signed as interim scores" ImIne-
diately after the scores of all SOL
diers are complied, the number of
soldiers with each point total in
every theater will be reported to
the War Department. Based on
these reports in about six weeks, re-
vised figures will be announced as
to the total credits needed for dis
charge.
These revised totals are expected
~ be somewhat lower than the in
terim scores. At this time separate
scores will be established for the air
forces, the ground and service forces
and the WACS.
Scores will be compiled on the
basis of points earned as of Sat-
urday, May r. Decorations and
battle credits awarded after that
date, but earned prior thereto, may
be counted. Children born on or
before May IL, whose births were
not known to their fathers at the
time the scores first were compiled
may be counted in revised scores.
Service in the army will be COM
puted from the date the soldier re-
ported to his reception center and
took his OATH Odd portions of the
month of Is days or more will count
as a whole month.
Overseas credit is counted for the
period from the date of departure
from a U. S. port to the return to
U. S. port, with odd IS days OF
more counting as month.
The point system for discharges
covers men in all parts of the world
mot merely those who served in
Europe.
Immediate eligibility for discharge
does not mean immediate discharge
1t will take nearly year to bring
the 100000 eligible men home, al
though they will be coming by hun
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-10
FL Centre Opens
War Bond Drive

Ell Centre opens the Seventh War
Bond drive Sunday in conjunction
with Mothers Day ceremonies.
City Park will be the scene Of the
program starting at 3 pm. High
lighting the days program win be
music by the intermediate band of
FL Centre Union High school under
direction of George w. Burt.
Viggo Hansen, Ell Centre chair
man announces that there will be
sales people present ready to make
sales during the afternoon.
QUOTA is S1,230,250
The drive will be for a goal of
S1,238,250 of which s524,OOO are of
tthe "E' series.
In the meantime the Ell Centre
committee has effected a wide
spread, comprehensive plan which
already is in operation This set-up
calls for making each and every
gathering of any kind in the city
a bond selling" affair. Already a
number of such meetings have OPEN
ed programs to special speakers
who have volunteered for the drive
together with a corps of bond sales
men,
From now on we hope to invade
every gathering Of a few to many
citizens, said Hansen. I'VE earnest
ly ask that those in charge of such
meetings Immediately cooperate
with the committee and arrange
| for the bond workers to have a few
minutes on all programs.
COMMITTEES NAMED
The general committee as chair
named by Hansen is made up as
follows: Special events Ken Thorn
ten, chairman and Bob Smith. Pub
licity: w. G. Outlook. Womens
groups, Miss Frances Sunstran
Sales, Oley L. Bane, chairman
Speakers, Alva Shaller. Retail stores
Merwin K. Mccoy, chairman. Labor
B. w. Barrigan. Elks, Sherman Ell
bridge. Eagles, Ray Measures. Films,
Fred Nebel-Thau. Poster distribu-
ton, Elwood Greist and finance,
Jack Tackett.
Plans well are under way for
public showing of many war films
and other public entertainment,
Hansen announced
PRIZE OFFERED
The war finance committee of the
treasury department announces that
the first 600 stores employees in
southern California who sell $500
worth of E, F or G bonds will be
entitled to an all-day cruise on the
training ship American Seafarer,
former Atlantic coast luxury lin
er, the cruises to be made on May
% and June 4, II, Is, 25 and July
9 from Long Beach The vessel
win cruise around Catalina Island
and along the coast.
In connection with the program
OF making sales at various meet
irgs, Hansen announced that at El
Centro Eagles lodge Wednesday
night the sales totalad $4,000 A war
film was shown as part of the pro-
gram
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-10
BY UNITED PRESS

The elder statesmen of Japan
conferred with Premier Admiral
Baron Kantaro Suzuki and Foreign
Minister Shigenori Togo Thursday
afternoon, Tokyo radio reported in
broadcast recorded by United
Press, San Francisco.
Premier Suzuki presented a for
NAL report ION the European situ-
alton" Afterward, a lengthy and
frank exchange of views took place, ("
the japanese radio said.
The conference at the premier's
residence occurred only few hours
after the mightiest armada Of B-29s
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-10
laps Battered
In Human Area

CHUNGKING, May 10 (U.PD-
The entire Japanese line in west
ern Human Province, where an en-
emy drive threatened the American
air base at Chihkiang, crumbled
Wednesday under Chinese general
counter-offensive, communique
announced Thursday.
More than $500 Japanese dead
were counted in the area south
east OF Kiangkow by the Chinese
forces which launched their attack
Tuesday. The communique said the
japanese forces began retreating at
4 am. Wednesday,
In dozen more places evidence
that the enemy had burnt his dead
was discovered. About 100 prisoners
were taken.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-10

Hour after hour new surrender
calls" were being received at the
admiralty from the beaten u-boat
packs, which finished off their mar
auding careers Tuesday by torpedo
ing a British and a Norwegian ship
off the northeast coast of England,
killing at least two persons.
"a BIC broadcast said the Brit
ish naval ensign now was flying
over German naval general head
quarters at Kiel, Germany's biggest
naval baSe)
STILL FIGHTING
In Europe, the last shots of the
land war were being exchanged in
Czechslovakia, Austria and Yugo-
-slayia- Fearful Nazi units we're in
full flight toward Austrian lines in
an attempt to escape pursuing Red
armies and Yugoslav patriots.
The German garrisonS of the
Channel Islands flashed word of
their surrender to the Allies at TIA
a. m. DIST u:14 a. m. EWT) We'd
nesday and the task force was dis
patched to the islands Thursday.
The London newspaper the Star
said British technicians were flown
into the islands from London to re-
establish telephone and telegraph
communications
German forces seized the Channel
Islands, which lie between Frances
Norman and Breton peninsulaS, in
the summer Of 1910 after overrun-
ming France. The small British gar
rison was withdrawn just before the
Germans moved in and no fighting
occurred in the islands.
The Germans fortified the islands
and they withstood heavy air and
sea bombardment during the Allied
invasion of France in June last year
At that time, they refused demand
for their surrender
German torpedo boats based in the
islands harassed Allied shipping dur
ing the invasion, but a subSe-
quent air and sea blockade ended
this menace and cut the islands off
from the outside world
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-10
Britain Clears
Last Spot as
NoziS Flee Russ
Germans Surface and Undersea Craft
Flock TO Named Surrender Points;
U-Boats Sink Two Ships at Last Minute

LONDON May TO- (UP)--A British task force landed
in the Channel Islands, only British territory occupied by
the Germas in World War H. and accepted the surrender
of the Nazi garrison Thursday
Germanys sea forces also capituating. The last
remnants of her surface fleet headed by the cruisers Prnz
Eugen and Nuremberg surrendered to the Royal Navy
Copenhagen and Uboats putting into British ports
to give themselves up
RAF warplanes snepherded the first surrenderng sub
marine into Weymouth Harbor and another which had
been patrong off the northern Scottish
British naval station at Loeb Eriboi
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-10
MiQhtieSt Big Armada
Strikes Jap Homeland

at Superfort formations as they ap-
preached the Otake Refinery, To-
Gated on peninsula CT Honshu Is
land. jutting into the inland sea.
1T looked like the whole Jap navy
was throwing flax at us" said Flight
Officer Wayne G. Story of Rifle,
Colorado. "And we had to let them
get away with it because the oil
centers were our targets"
Second 1t. Dcnald L. Endicott Of
Portland, Oregon. 1922 NE Bryce
Ave) flatly declared that the Otake
refinery has been eliminated as a
target When we left the whole PEN
insula was a mass OF flames and
smoke rose to $4,000 feet"
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-10
Peace
Set-up
Neors
UNCIO Envoys
Sc e End of
Meet This Month

SAN FRANCISCO, May
10, (UP)-Leaders of this
United Nations conference
met in special session Thurs
day to seek means cf speeding the
drafting Of a charter fer a world
peace organization.
The new drive to wind up the
conference before the end of the
month started after tentative adop-
ton of an amendment to the basic
Dumbarton Oaks plan which would
make "a town meeting CT the world"
of the general assembly in the pro-
posed world organization.
Expediting of tedious. drawn-out
committee work also was to be dis
cussed in a meeting of the ccn-
ference's steering committee, COM
prising the chairmen of all the
Continued on Page 8, Column A.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-10

black smoke billowed skyward to
$1,000 feet from oil fires at key
factories.
They described as ineffective"
the curtain of antiaircraft fire from
the guns Of warships huddled in Ja-
pans inland sea.
Specific targets included the Otake
Oil Refinery, the Tokuyama Naval
Fuel Station and the Tokuyama Syn
thetic Fuel Factory on Hcnshu. Part
of the huge aerial task force also
struck The Oshima Oil Storage area,
Japan's largest known fuel storage
area west Of Kyushu.
japanese naval units blazed away
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-10


GUAM, May 10. (UP)-
The mightiest force of Sup
erfortresses ever sent aloft
Thursday battled through
heavy flax from the last rem
nants of the japanese fleet
to ignite devastating fires in
the enemy's largest fuel stor-
age and synthetic oil produc-
ton centerS.
Returning crewmen of the more
than 400 B-29's which attacked the
home islands Of Honshu, Kyushu
and Shikoku said that clouds of
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-10
d Miners Die
In Utah Blast

S. C. Harvey, chief coal mine in
spector for the State Industrial
Commission, said 81 men were work.
ing in the mine at the time of the
explosion. Fifty-seven escaped in
jury. They weref'working different
levels in the mine.
Harvey attributed the explosion to
gas.
The blast occurred about 3:15
pm. Wednesday-45 minutes before
the men were scheduled to go off
shift.
Persons at the surface said the
blast sent flames shooting up the
shaft, damaging the mine tipple.
The mines ventilating shafts also
were burned.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-10
FLASHES OF WAR STILL Fl ARES OVER EUROPE
Assembly Votes
To Void Tax
On Hire Trucks
Act Would Cut State
Revenue 10 Million;
Budget Debate Halts

SACRAMENTO, May 10.
II h e assembly Thursday
voted to repeal the state tax
on For Hire trucking concerns
which would bring in an estimated
S10,O00,0OO in the next two years.
Debate then started on a bill for
construction and remodeling of a
3311-mile network of limited ac-
cess" highways or freeways. An at
tempt was defeated to prohibit
spending any present gasoline tax
money on the freeway system.
BUDGET DEBATE DELAYED
The freeway discussion held up
action on the $685., ,000, GOO state bud
get which also had been set for
Thursday.
The state truck tax is three
per cent levy on the gross receipts
os private trucking firms. A bill to
repeal the tax was approved by
both houses of the legislature in
1943 but was vetoed by Gov. Earl
Warren.
Opponents of the tax argued that
it is unfair to owners of small bus
iuesses and farmers who are forced
to use 'for hire" trucking facilities.
arge firms operating their own
fleets of trucks are not subject to
the tax.
On the other side, it was argued
that the state should not reduce
its revenue at the present time.
The amendments to the freeway
hill banning use of present income
for the projects were offered by
Assemblyman Lloyd Lowrey CD
Rumsey. He contended that state
funds might be used on the free
way system while secondary rural
roads were neglected.
TAX ON GASOLINE
Part of the freeway program has
been proposal to increase the gas
oline tax by ~ cents gallon, but
the tax increase bill still is being
held by the assembly revenue and
taxation committee.
The budget bill was set as a spe-
cial order of assembly business,
ard Albert G. Wollenberg (R0 San
Francisco, chairman of the ways
and means committee said he would
press for it's passage exactly as rec
commended by the committee.