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Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-10
Highway Crash
Ends Life
Of Serviceman

One serviceman was killed and
four injured when a car in which
they were riding overturned in the
sandhills approximately half a mile
west of the highway maintenance
station east of Holtville shortly aft
er 10 p. m. Monday, Deputy Ger
orner Orval Walker of Imperial
county was informed by military
police he found at the scene OF the
accident.
Walker was told that TIE injured
men were taken to the army hospi-
tai at the air ba1e in Yuma, Arizona
Army authorities also took the body
of the soldier before Wa ke +
reached the scene, he said. The
names of the dead and injured were
not disclosed, Walker said.
1t was understood that the SOL
diers' car ran off the highway and
overturned several times, spilling
out the driver and passengers.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-10
Jap Naval Unit
Scents Victory

against American invasion forces OH
OkinaWa.
TakahashiS views were published
in the Tokyo Asahi Shimbun and
reported by Tokyo RADIO in broad
cast recorded by United Press, San
Francisco.
When the enemy began their Ry-
ukyu operations" wrote Takahashi,
Il predicted the turning of the war
situation in our favor. True to my
expectations and faith, our forces
have scored impressive results. Their
achievements are mounting by the
hour.
"In rapid succession the main
strength of our surface and air un-
its, taking advantage of this histor-
ic opportunity, have launched their
combined assaults. The trend of the
war situation is now turning in our
favor.
The present impetus will be car
ried out to the end and soon the
Philippines, Rabaul and our other
southern fortresses will again be-
come our advanced bridgeheads."
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-10

The assembly vote was to be on
whether health insurance bills held
in the public health committee
would be withdrawn for conSidera-
ton by the whole house. If the mo-
tons are defeated decisively, there
probably will be no future action on
the bills.
Albert c. Wollenberg (R0 San
Francisco, author of the health in
surance bill favored by Governor
Earl Warren. claimed the Al votes
necessary to carry his withdrawal
motion. Vincent Thomas CD San
Pedro, who introduced the CIO bill,
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-10

scher's fast task force. Besides the
Yamato. both cruisers and thlee OF
the destroyers were sunk. while two
destroyers were left burning.
One of those planes, an Ayenger
torpedo bomber, was piloted by De-
laney, who took off from his Inde-
pendence-class carrier at 1913
a. m.
L sighted the Jap force at 1888
p. m.," he said. Il was In the third
assault wave. After pl elimlnary ma-
neuvering, we started down and |
broke out OF the overcast at 1000
feet. The Yamato was below me.
II had lest my formation m tho
Continued on Page 0, Col. 4
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-10
Nuzi Jet-P|une
Works Bombed

more than geo RAF planes which
concentrated on shipyards at the
big Nazi naval base at Kiel. Berlin
also was hit.
Submarine building yards were
the main target at Kiel. The bomb
ing was well concentrated and huge
fires and many violent explosions
were observed, the air ministry an
nounced.
Oojectives at Plauen, Hamburg,
and S'rade also were bombed and
mines were laid in enemy waters.
Six bombers were lost, but three
enemy aircraft were shot down dur
ing the raids.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-10

LONDON, April 10. (UP)-A fleet
of 1900 heavy bombers of the U. S.
Eighth air force, escorted by $50
fighter planes, attacked seven Nazi
airfields for jet-propelled aircraft in
northern Germany Tuesday.
The Flying Fortresses and Liber-
ators also hit an experimental field
at Rechlin and an ordnance supply
center at Oranienburg.
. Jet-prorelled plane bases at Oran-
ienourg, Larz, Burg, Briest, Enurup-
pin, zerbst and Parchim, felt the
heavy blows of the big bombers.
The American aerial attack fol-
lowed up Monday nights raids by
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-10
BY UNITED PRESS

Admiral Sankiichi Takahashi,
president of the japanese retired
naval officers association, said
Tuesday that the trend of the war
situation is now turing in our fav-
or" as a result of combined assaults
by japanese surface and air units
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-10
Bv MAC r. JOHNSON

ABOARD A d M | r A l.
TURNER'S FL A G S H p
OFF OKINAWA, April 10.
CUP)-Lt. tjg) William Ernest De-
laney of Detroit told Tuesday how
he dropped four 500-pound bombs
on the japanese super-battleship
Yamato and watched futile enemy
efforts to salvage the 40,000-ton
vessel after he had parachuted into
the ocean from his burning torpedo
bomber.
Delaney spent four hours in the
water in the middle of the Japanese
task force April before he was
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-10
Assembly Group 0kehs
2b-Week Idle Pay Time

drawing unemployment insurance
was refused a committee recommen-
dation. Under present law, such a
person is disqualified until he ac-
cepts a job.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-10
9Th Army Speeds
For Capital as
Defense Cracks
Onrushins Americans Find City in
Flames With Foe in Full Flight;
Patton Shor+ens Way to Red Line

PARIS April 10. (UP)-American troops captured
Hanover Tuesday armored sweep that caved in Ger
manys northern and central deenses and rolled forward
mile-anhour clip lis and 120 miles from the Nazi
capital.
Two doughboy regiments of U. S Ninth Armys 84th
Division stormed into Hanover from the northwest and
southwest early Tuesday morning By midday they had
reached the of the flaming stronghold that
the 18th city of Germany.
few isolated pockets of German resistance still held
out late in the afternoon but American riflemen
combng them out one by one
CIVILIANS WATCH YANKS ROUT SOLDIERS
Crowds of curious German civilians thronged into the
streets ignoring tie bullets to watch the death struggle of
the Nazi garrison.
Other Ninth Army forces stabbed 2 miles beyond the
city toward Brunswick 04 miles west of Berlin and at last
reports only 16 miles from that town.
Far to the south, American First Army tanks broke
into the Harz mountains covering the southwestern
proaches Berlin after 26-mile advance that met only
scattered and disorganZed resistance
Both attacks rolling swiftly forward behind
blazing Allied aerial bombardment that reached back al
most to the gates of Berlin.
In explosive burst of power that threatened
tarily to the Germans entire northern flank the
Americans broke loose the main Hanover Brunswick
Berlin superhighway less than 6 miles from Brunswick
and 55 miles from the Ebe river line that forms the enemy
last big defensive barrier in the west.
BRITISH ARMORED FORCE HAMMERS AT BREMEN
British armolcd forces to the north laid siege to Bre
wheeled norheasward within 60 miles less of
Hamburg Germanys second city and greatest port third
British column cut the Hamburg Hanover autObahn and
Continued Page g. Col. .
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-10

amendment.
A bill to put two-week limit on
the period during which an unem-
ployed person who declined an CT
fered job may be disqualified from
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-10
BU LLOYD LAPHAM

SACRAMENTO April 10. -(UP)-The health insur-
question to up for what be its only
semby Tuesday the lower house received senate
approved bill earmark $1OOOOOOOO in state funds for
locolD mil lic yOrkS
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-10
Health Measure
Waits Fate as
Work Fund Wins
Senate Approves $Ioo.0oo,oo0 for
Ci+y-Coun+y Postwar Spending;
Action Nears on Insurance Se+-up

SACRAMENTO April TO- UPThe assembly Tuesday tentatively
health bill
council the assembly public health
committee.
N 40 to 33 against the motion.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-10
WEATHER

Maximum Monday 65, minimum
Tuesday As; 5 am. Tuesday 81, hu-
midity So; noon Tuesday 81, humid
ity 30; 5 pm. Mon. So, humidity 35.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-21
Eisenhower and Nimitz

The virtual inevtablity of the appointment of Dwight D. Eisenhower Chief of Staff and Chester w. Nimitz INCUS will in degree lessen the wide acclaim attendant 10 announcement of their elevation by President Truman From the hundreds of heroes and the of genuses which the produced these two have emerged possessed of the combination of military diplomatic and hu qualities essential the heads two armed Ices.
 Eisenhower enjoys the complete confidence of the nation and the affection of the who fought under him. CTS liberal in their criticism of Patton and Simpson, MacArthur has been at constant odds with and conreres alike Eisenhower the other hand blessed with the genius which enables leader to get things done his yet avoid friction within his organization the process the highest general to the lowest private Ike holds the respect and affection of his army.
 Nmitz, less welknown nonetheess well thought of. Commander of fleet which eventually by its very sze m posed administrative tests he served equally well when in it's less potent days fleet had to rely strategy and courage.
 Appointment of these two men, tested by battle yet peaceoving Americans from Main at heart in the American tradition Their predecessors General Mar shall and Admiral King, earned nations gratitude for the magnitude of their achievement the glory of those achieve rightly shared by the leaders Certainly there is credit enough due to render each share for deeds accomplished Certainly there confidence to be hed in the further efforts of Eisenhower and Nmt to be worthy successors to their worthy forbears.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-21
Inpolite Society

It may be recalled that Dr. Newdigate M. OWensby Atlanta psycharst got his in the the other day by stating that bad becoming positively stylish these days Whats he predicted future in which will become progressively and psychatrists will become progressively richer.
 We can't quite figure what Dr. Owensby meant by that last statement It's hard to imagine how psychatrlst could get rich teaching people bad manners when most folks catch quickly with instruction And if the psycha rists smart they let can't how manners the psycharists rich trying to make them better.
 But we will go along with Dr. Owensby in his statement that bad being by all the best people this Shoppers being imannered to clerks who imannered to them during the Rudeness long held in check aring up all And nowhere is it apparent than in public life.
 For instance, MesNrs. Truman, Attee and King have been mpote to whisper in the of practically the whole world which feels that it should be included in their interesting conversations.
 Mr. Truman up now has refused to let his companion heads of government play with the atomic bomb.
 MT. Stalin has been downright rude ignoring per fecty nice invitations attend assortment of United Ma tons conferences without botherng to send regrets
 Generassmo Chiang Kai-sheks forces and the Chinese Communists pushing and showing in most ungentee way.
 Congress had Mr. Atee as it's guest the other day. after he made nice speech for the lawmakers of them talked about his remarks quite discourteousy.
 John L. Lewis and Philip Murray have been calling each other again
 Secretary of Labor Schwelenbach invited Benjamin of the boys from the United Seeworkers of America and MT. Hairless just plain snubbed him.
 It's bad situation this business of mpolte society in high places And don't think the solution lies with the chatriss. We'd suggest putting copies of Emily Post good executive desks and depostng siona offices and diplomatic pouches For it's safe bet that if had better political we'd also have better po ltcal morals
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-21

key witnesses The bill is considered of the most important pieces of legislation on the Truman cal endar, and aims to keep buying power at a high level to prevent depression.
 Snyder after backing and filling, finally wrote his boss in the White House a confidential memo saying that he did not believe in the 65-cent-mini- mum-wage law, that employers couldn't afford to pay it. and that he could not testify.
 How long Truman will go along with his old Missouri National Guard friend remains to be seen He has been very patient so far.
 Note-Many Capital observers believe Truman'S most serious mistake was firing Henry Morgenthau Secretary of the Treasury When Morgenthau departed Fred Vnson was yanked out of the converters job to replace him Vinson is one of the few men in government who have the know-how to cut red tape and get things done. Skilled men of his type are few and far between And Snyder, relatively green banker from St. Lous was put in Vinsons large and difficult shoes.
 Here is what's been happening behind the closed doors of the Labor-M Management Conference during the last few days Delegates have witnessed astue campaign by John L. Lewis to become the leader of the AFL well the United Mine Workers; also frantic fight by Lewis and Bill Green not to be backed into corner by CIO Chief Phil Murray re- garding wage increases.
 Here is some of the backstage byplay When Bill Green virtually let Lewis become the AFT, spokesman. it immediately leaked to labor ranks. Also. it backfired. Green got a barrage of com plants from the AFL that he letting Lewis steal the show. Also AFI members didn't like the Lewis idea of price increases as well as wage in- creases-which, in the end, meant gain for labor
 Meanwhile, Phil Murray kept hammering home his resolution for immediate substantial wage. in- ereases Finally at secret session of the executive committee last week, Green nervousy announced that he had something to say.
 T want to make the A. F. of LIS position clear, declared Green. "The A. F. of L. should not be mis- understood We are not opposing wage increases for cur people If only the A. F of l. had not misunder stood MT Murrays resolution the problem would have arisen"
 Lewis twisted and Squrmed Green spoke, alzing he was losing of his grip the A. F. of L., whose members also want immediate wage in- creases
 Tn that case,' replied Phil Murray, q pro-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-21
By Peter EdSon

D.. James B. Conant and Dr. Karl T. Compton.
 Official position of these three scientists is that they were reluctant to say they represent U S. scien tfic opinion. But since they did the Pres idents interim committee which approved the May Johnson bill draft the position taken by the organization of young atomic scientists represents revolt and repudiaton of the Bush- -Conan- Compton action.
 Actually, the statement signed recently by 500 leading scientists of Harvard and Massachusetts h. stitute Of Technology calling for international trol of the atomic bomb constitutes far slap at Bush, Conant and Compton. All three New Englanders. Conant is president of Harvard Comp ton is head of MT. and Bush, president of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, is an MT. director. They practically the only three import ant scientists in the Boston Cambridge area whose names do not appear on the statement of the Cambridge Association of Scientists. This Cambridge group worked more radar and electronic develop ment than they did on the atomic bomb project, 50 for the present they have not been asked jon the new organization of atomic scientists
 First of the atomic bomb groups to organize and voice its plea for sharing the atomic secret was Atomic scientists of Chicago represented by pr. H. H Goldsmith 32 graduate of New York City College.
 The Association of Oak Ridge Scientists has pesn represented in Washington by Dr. L. B. Borst, Its chairman and Dr. P. s. Henshaw who was denied opportunity to make statement before the House Military Affairs Committee, but did submit written statement against the May-Johnson bill which printed in the committees hearings
 The Los Aamos group is represented by Dr. w. M. Woodward, 29 graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
 The Association of Manhattan District Scientists, representing the Columbia University and other university groups is the most recent to into the field
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-21
By BiH Cunningham

proposal for the solution of the atomic bomb dispute to deposit the secrets fin the custody an inter national control group-provided Russia will go on record officially to her expectations and intentions
 That can only mean a proposition to buy from Russia what already should be matter of frank and open record The vice versa would mean holding guarantee that either plan will work?
 Russia is the toughest but Russia isn't all or even. perhaps, the most explosive Britain has now declared us in all her Middle Eastern troubles, and those already flirting with the Third World War. Henceforth Anglo-American committee with a rotating chairmanshp will try to solve the problem of Palestine Whatever is decided there, and even If nothing is there's certain to be trouble, and we'll reap half the hate.
 As a matter of fact the third world war may already have started in Java Malaga and Indo- China Officially, the British Dutch and French are shooting their way back into their former posses sons Ito accept the Japanese surrender" But the people they're killing not Japanese; they're native citizens who claim they fighting for independence It chances that these natives at least in Java, Moslems and that there 40 million of them. Their leaders are openly urging them to arise in holy war"
 If they do and If it spreads to where it's smoul dering in other countries, there iS total of some 200978800 Mohammedans belting that half of the world all the way around to North Africa. Because of the property they're on and the riches beneath it. all the major powers would be almost surely involved.
 oils the real issue. Britain favors the Arab be- cause the Arabs have the oil, could raise hob with the oil Britain also fears. of course, general Moslem unrest We've done considerable mane strok- Ing of Ibn Saud, too. It seems we've built him an air field. and have planes there with American airmen teaching his natives how to fly Who authorized that? It seems, in fact, is's now proved that President Roosevelt assured Ibn Saud in writing that we'd do nothing about the Pales- tine question without letting him know, and then President Truman tried to put heat under the Brit fish without consulting the shiek. Now with excel lent and characteristic diplomatic finesse, Britain has pasVed half the very hot potato We ought to pass 1t back.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-21
NO LAW REQUIRES BIAS
Bridgeport Post)

NoIlQSOpOII fOSlJ
 Norwalk's Chapter of the OAR. recently passed resolution re- ferring to the Hazel Scott case which is more interesting for the errors which it implies than for an- tac,s it may contain. The reso- lution says:
 Being fully cognizant of the rul- i12S which eX-st in Washington and the necessity for cooperation on the part Of the Daughters of he American Revolution in operat- ing Constitution Hail, Norwalk Chapter expresses it's loyalty to and faith in the National Board of Management"
 The clear implication here is that there are some rulings or laws in the national capital which require the D~A.R. board of managers to bar Negroes from the use of Con- stitution Hall Tn other words, the National OAR. is taking refuge behind this assumption.
 It just happens that the assump- @'On iq false. It was unfortunate that the members of the NorWalk Chapter did not investigate before somebody hurried them into acting on this false premise.
 It is not surprising however be- cause the same story has been vide ly circulated Indeed some of the managers in Washington who are under fire for their bias, tried to hide behind it in the first place and we assume that a number of Chapters have innocently taken it to be true.
 The fact is that there is no law or rule which requires the OAR to bar the use of its hall to Ne eroes. For proof of this, see Rep Luce's letter elsewhere on this page The action in so limiting the use of the hall is one of deliberate racial bias and has no other excuse in law or in fact. Whether Miss Scott used the hall or not was un- important. She might have been barred on other grounds with per- feet propriety. But the managers Of Constitution Hall unfortunately placed the OAR. before the nation as a race-prejudiced organization engaged in practicing bias in the management of it's affairs.
 Since a majority of the members certainly do not feel that way about it, it is unfair that they should be subjected to such stigma.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-21
MIR. PETRILLO VS. SANTA
 CLAUS
tNew Haven Register

tNeW Haven Register
 MT. James Caesar Petrillo, boss of the American Federation of Musicians, has engaged in bout with the makers of photograph records, demanding tribute. He won that one He jousted with school children over summer broadcasts from the Interna- tional Music Camp at Interlochen, Mich. He won that one, too. He holds a clear-cut decision over the late President Roosevelt. He bids fair to turn in victory over the broadcasting companies in the standard broadcast-frequency row. Now MT. Petrillo is offering to do battle with Santa Claus. Will he win this one also? It is about time that a long suffering public rose up and demanded that the answer be a most emphatic No.
 MT. Petrillo's demand for trib- ute from Santa Claus has to do with the Christmas D a T | y planned by the Hartford Electric Light Company for it's employees and families in Hartford's Bush nell Memorial Auditorium. This is the concerns 18th annual party and was to have been something, which might be termed extra special before MT. Petrillo entered the picture. This years entertainment was to have included three professional vaude- vile acts An organist had agreed to play for carols and Yuletide sing ing. Everything was lovely. Then enter MT. Petrillo!
 Boss Petrillo's union calmly states that when professional acts appear, presto-12 of MT. Petrillo's horn tooterS must appear likewise. h. formed that the orchestra pit would be filled to overhoWing with some 2,500 gifts. leaving no room for MT. Petrillo's hired hands, the musical czar was dismayed not one iota. He ruled that his boys could sit out the party, and be well paid for so doing He thus makes it clear that Santa Claus can perform only by consent of MT. Petrillo.
 The time has long passed for MT. Petrillo to be properly put in his place and that We have done with all this nonsense. The admirable Vandenberg-Dondero Bill which would curb such as MT. Petrillo by ruling unlawful the acts of any person prohibiting radio broadcasts of a cultural nature from educa- tional institutions, lies moldering in a House committee. It is time that those who through fear. or even deeper ulterior motive, blocked such bills as this, and companions legislation which would curb these
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-21

identiaI directive, as national detense measure.
 Articles stating the purposes of this new Fedora ton of Atomic Scientists have just been announced There four local organizations of atomic scien- lists at Oak Ridge. Los Alamos. Columbia university in New York and the University of Chicago. Nearly 4,000 scientists members of these four local or ganizations all of which have issued statements inde pendently demanding international cooperation in atomic bomb control the best way to maintain world peace. The four organizations claim to repre- sent 95 per cent of the scientists who worked the project
 Primarily, the organization represents protest against the May-Johnson bill calling for gov ernment control of all atomic energy resources secrets processes and materials This bill has been Affairs Committee. As the bill was drafted by War Department lawyers, it has been ticketed the Army Navy bill, though military service spokesmen say it drafted at the direction of civilian
 tee of cabinet secretaries and assistant secretaries plus the three scientists most prominent in govern ment wartime research. They are pr. Vannevar Bush