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Washington Journal., 1945-03-02
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Evening star., 1945-07-08
Matches His Yarn

HE sailor yawned, but the marine
spoke scornfudly.
"You should 60 to the Sopac,
where real things happen" he said.
Then he told us about the ichthy-
ologist who, before the war. visited
Guadalcanal on a collecting trip.
This ichthyologist was fishing
jungle beach and he caught fish
so big-brained that it was neurotic.
The ichthyologist took his prize
back. put it in an aquarium for OBJ
servation and then died of worry
trying to find out what made the
fish worry"
The sailor now ,piped up.
1--WE got two stories, both of them
better than yours" he said. dispar-
agingly. "You probably know that
the harbor of Sydney, Australia, is
Evening star., 1945-07-08

one of the worst places in the world
for man-eating sharks.
"Weli, there was guy fishing in
that harbor. He'd been warned not to
sing after he had anchored his boat
because any kind of music so enraged
the sharks that they would smash
the boat and eat the fisherman.
But the guy was skeptical, and
had CUTS. So he took Victrola and
several records with him, and played
some band music. AS he was chang
ing a record he accidentally let it
drop into the water. Right away
gigantic shark appeared. went boil
ing after the record to pulverize it.
Here's a Record!
BUT the record caught on one of
the sharks lower teeth and, as it
revolved on his tooth, one of the
upper teeth acted as a needle. The
resulting music so charmed him that
he turned over and swan on his
back so that he could play the other
side of the record"
We snickered in spite of ourselves.
whats your other story?" we
asked the sailor.
"You know how it is in southern
waters when you hook a sailfish or
any other big fish that requires time
to boat" the sailor said. Sometimes
sharks appear and try to get your
fish before you do. Well, digger in
Sydney always had on his boat a
number of dead fish about the size
of large mackerel. Down the throat
of each dead fish he'd jam a hand
grenade, the time kind which doesn't
go off for a number of seconds after
you pull out the pin.
"When sharks threatened a
hooked fish this guy would grab
the dead fish, pull the grenade
pins and throw the whole works
overheard. The sharks would swal-
low the dead fish and then the digger
would hear dull booms and know
that at least the sharks would have
bellyaches and quit bothering the
fish on his line"
The soldier looked up. said, Il
know one that actually happened.
It's about ---"
Put 7 inferr1,pted
Evening star., 1945-07-08

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Evening star., 1945-07-08
Three former fishermen,
now in uniform, started
trading tall tales &.


WTHEREvER the American sports
w fisherman goes, he collects
those tall tales which make fisher
man" and liar" almost synony-
nous. He collects them even when
he is fighting.
Three former fishing pals of mine
a soldier. a sailor and marine -
were back in the States to recover
from wounds. The four of us were
having pre-dinner cocktails and,
naturally. the talk soon got around
to the sport which is to us what golf
is to most men.
"A ATommy in Holland who was
n fishing fool told me the yarn
of the century," the soldier said.
We hitched our chairs a little
closer. Shoot" we said.
We'll, while whipping a stream
a trout fisherman let his watch fall
into a deep pool" the soldier said.
Five years later, while fishing the
same pool, he caught a trout and
found his watch jammed into its
gills. The movement of the gills,
as the trout breathed. had kept the
watch wound and it had lost only
one minute in the five years"
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-12
Coal Wage Meet
Marks Time

ed Monday or Tuesday. Staff men,
bers continued preparations for TAX
ing the poll of the 100000 soft coal
miners.
Burke's petition presented the
most serious threat yet to a break
down in the wage negotiations.
Burke, chairman of the Southern
Coal Producers association, chal-
lenged the poll during the closing
session last week. He asked the Ma
ticnal Labor Relations Board to
cancel it on grounds Lewis request
ed it before negotiations started and
before a dispute existed
Lewis left the meeting in an angry
mood. Asked if the challenge threat
ened success of the negotiations, he
replied:
Draw your own conclusions"
An NLRB spokesman said the
board probably would turn down
Burke's petition. Burke declared he
would appeal Immediately to the
federal courts, but an operators
spokesman said "other considera-
tions" probably would forestall court
action Immediately,
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-12
ydps' 4omeIond
War PIdnt Fired

GUAM, March II. (UP)-
Fires visible nearly 100 miles
at sea raced uncontrolled
Monday t h + oug h Nagoya,
Japan's greatest a + CT a f t
manufacturing center, after
300 Superfortresses sowed
1000 tons Of incendiary
bombs through the center of
the city.
"a communique issued by the
war department at Washington said
returning crew members reported
fires spreading widely over the city's
main industrial areas" Fighter op-
position was light to heavy and
antiaircraft fire ranged from meag-
el to intense, it said 1t sale reports
indicated the attack was equally
as successful as the assault on To-
kyo" two days earlierD
Only one of the giant planes was
lost in the raid, 21st bomber COM
mand headquarters reported.
Swinging los miles west from still
burning Tokyo, the giant armada
unlCac death and destruction on
five square miles of war plants,
business blocks, government build
ings and flimsy dwellings in the
tinder-box center of Nagoya for two
hours under cover of darkness early
today.
Returning pilots said the rain of
bombs. more concentrated even than
the 2300 tons which burned out Is
square miles of Tokyo Saturday,
kindled "hellish fires" that threat
ened to spread far beyond the orig
inal target area.
A japanese communlque indicat-
ed that number of fires still were
out of control at 4:30 pm. CTokyo
time), more than 16 hours after the
start of the raid.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-12
Byrnes Orders
Check on j. s.
Food Shipments
BY LYLE c. WILSON

WASHINGTON, March 12. CUP1
The administration begins Monday
to apply tight controls to some big
hearted officials who had forgotten
that Americans must eat, too.
That is the simplest explanation
of the order announced Sunday
night by War Mobilization Director
James F. Byrnes. His order will CO.
ordinate shipment of all food and
goods-other than for military pur
poses-tc foreign countries. 1t COW
ers everything but was issued to
meet serious overdraft on our food
supply.
The order, also, is to conserve the
American economy for such recon-
version of industry as may be pos
sible after Germany quits. Byrnes
set up a committee headed by Leo
T. Crowley, foreign economic ad-
ministratcr, with powers to impose
limits on gifts or sale of food or
other material to liberated and
other hungry millions throughout
the world.
The committee will not have au-
thCrity to interfere with military
acquisitions. But the committee will
be advised fully and at all times OF
what the army and navy require
and where they want it sent.
Byrnes ordered establishment OF
priority of need" among all of our
overseas DrOpramS for shipment of
all kinds of material.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-12
Lawmakers Wait
New Health
Bill, Scan Taxes

SACRAMENTO, March II. CUP)
A new compulsory health insurance
bill, designed to prevent ''malinger-
ers" from raiding the insurance
fund, was p! epared for introduction
in the legislature Monday by Sem
ator Randolph Collier, (RD. Yreka
Collier said his bill would deny
benefits to a member CT any family
which had not paid at least S25 for
medical service during the year pre-
vious TO the effective date of the
measure.
TAX MEASURE
Meantime, action was scheduled
this week on bills favored by Gov
emo. Earl Warren to continue for
another two years the lowered tax
rates voted in 1913. Both Republican
and Democratic legislators were to
caucus Monday night on the tax
question, and the Democrats in ad-
dition were to decide whether they
would support as a group any CT the
pending health insurance bills.
Collie S health bill, he said, gen.
orally will have tighter restrictions
against persons seeking unneces-
sary medical services than in either
the Warren measure or the one ia
vored by the CIO.
1t would not, how-ver, attempt to
fix doctors fees
1t will set a payrtll tax rate of
per cent each from employers and
Continued on Page 6, Col. a
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-12
Marines Chase
Last Two laps
Into Open Sea

GUAM, March 12 CUP)-Com-
plete conquest of Iva appeared at
hand Monday. Weary marines
driving the last Japanese defenders
into the sea in a final battle along
the north coast.
"a japanese broadcast reported
by the FEC said japanese troops
on Two had lost most of their heavy
arms and were fighting with small
arms, hand grenades, swords, and
bayonets. 1t said the Two battle
was growing in ferocity daily"
Pacific fleet headquarters was
expected to announce the collapse
Of organized resistance momentarily
as the bloodiest campaign of the
Pacific war entered its fourth week
on Japan'S front doorstep.
A communique this morning said
the Fifth Division had whitfield
downs the enemy's last sizeable
pocket to half a square mile along
the north coast by p. m. Sunday
IN heavy fighting. The marines
were making slow but Steacy
progress with support of heavy ar
tilery and the big guns of warships
offshore.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-12
Germany Faces
Allied Threat
From the North

STOCKHOLM, March y. up
The newspaper Dagers Nyheter in a
dispatch datelined Malmo referred
Monday to an imminent threat of
Allied air-bo:ne and sea- borne land
ings in northern Germany"
The dispatch quoted travellers
from Copenhagen to Malmo as say
ing three transports and three de-
stroyers arrived at Copenhagen
with several thousand refugees
from north Germany, mostly wom-
en-, children and aged persons.
Political observers" the dispatch
continued, believed this was the
first actual sign of general evacu-
alton of northern Germany with an
imminent threat CT Allied air-borne
and sea-borne landings in north
Germany combined with the Rus
sian advance north of Berlin"
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-12
Clio Will Appeal
To President
For WAGE Raise

NEW YORK, March -. (UP)-A
special committee appointed by the
Congress of Industrial Organiza-
tions executive board planned Mon
day a direct appeal to President
Roosevelt to establish a minimum
hourly wage of 65 cents in an up
ward revision CT the little steel for
mula.
The committee, appointed Sunday
at the opening of a two-day ex-
traordinary session Of the executive
board, was headed by CIO President
Philip Murray and included Sidney
Hillman, chairman CT the Political
Action Committee. and presidents
OF four CIO unions.
In the same resolution, which
criticized the National War Labor
Board. the CIO continued its no
wartime strike pledge.
Labor has cooperated tc secure
stabilization and avoid initiation,
the resolution said, but it is now
abundantly clear that this has been
achieved at the primary expense OF
labor
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-12

LONDON, March II. (UP)
A strong force Of Ameri-
can bonlbers attacked the
Baltic coast Monday in di-
rect support of the Red army,
and unofficial Moscow re-
ports said a decisive break
through before Berlin was
expected soon.
About $50 U. S. heavy bombers
dumped a great weight of explosives
on military and naval targets on the
Baltic coast. Nazi broaCcastS said
the raiders were over the Stettin-
SWinemuende area at the mouth of
the Oder where Soviet forces were
trying to crumole the north wiz
OF Bcrlin's defenses.
II the Americans hit the Stettin-
SwinomuenGc sector, their bombs
tell in plain view of Russian troops
storming the Oder Notifications.
The first official announcement dii
not name the Baltic objectives.
Soviet dispatches sale Marshal
Gregory K Zhukov's army was
Continued on Page 6, Col 81
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-12
Japanese Warned
To Look for
Early Invasion
BY UNITED PRESS

Tokyo newspapers today echoed
official japanese views that war
situation was very serious" and
that an inyasion of Japan's home
islands could be expected in the
very near future"
A Tokyo broadcast, recorded by
the FEC, quoted Yomiuri Hochi as
saying that the japanese must
realize the fact that our nation has
cCme face to face with meeting the
war on the fighting line"
Tie newspaper said this fact was
emphasized in Premier General
Kuniaki Koisos report to the Japa-
neSe diet Sunday when he taid that
judging fem past experiences the
Americans may in the near future
start a blind direct advance to our
mainland in his desperate effort to
end the war as soon as possible"
Koiso warned the japanese that
the recent intensificatiCn' of air
raids by Superior treGses and carrier
borne planes against Japans home
cities had reached serious proper
tiOnS"
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-12

HOLLYWOOD, March II.
(UP) - One of the worst
strikes to hit movieland kept
many cameras from turning
Monday as picket lines were
thrown around picture stu
dios in an AFL jurisdictional
dispute.
Spokesmen for the Motion Pic
ture Producers association estimat-
ed 5000 craftsmen declined to go
through the picket lines. Herbert
Sorren, president of the conference
of studio workers which called its
nine unions and 5000 members out
On strike. estimated 1900 or about
half the employees, failed to report
for work.
As early as am, picket lines
we're set up by the AFL set design
ers local l421. whose claim to repre-,
sent the 78 set decorators in the in
dustry is being challenged by the
AFL International Alliance of The
GtllCdl oJdSt ElllplOJCoi iOIdl II
Local 1921 is seeking to force the
employers to obey a War Labor
board arbitrator's decision that it
be recognized pending NLRB action
to allow the set decorators to choose
between it and IATSE. Local 1927
claims most of the decorators as
members.
A meeting of the Motion Pictures
Producers aSsociation-the Hays Of
fice-iwas scheduled for Moncay
afternoon to canvass the situation.
Union meetings also are sched-
uled Monday TO take more stringent
action against the studios. The set
decorators were expected to be join
ed on the picket lines by other un-
ions, Sorrell said,
Prooucti would be virtually
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-12
Imperial Orator
Places Third

Dorothy Johnson, senior at I'M
perial Union High School, placed
third in the American Legion fifth
area oratorical contest at Ontario
Sunday.
The subject of her Grafton was
The Constitution, Our Temple of
Liberty" She was trained by Mrs.
c. c. Hancock, Imperial High school
English and public speaking in
structor. Miss johnson received
$40 for placing third.
First place went to Donald Knox
of Chaffey High school in Ontraio
and second to Mary Lou Neja of
the Catholic high school in Ana
helm place second.
Miss Johnson is daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Johnson OF
Imperial.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-12

WASHINGTON, March 10. CUP
Soft coal mine operators and the
United Mine Workers cancelled
Mondays joint wage negotiating
conference to permit the producers
to prepare an answer to all Is union
contract demands.
Ezra Van Horn, conferen
chairman, announced that UNIV
President John l.. Lewis had agreed
to cancel the session. The next
meeting will be Tuesday.
Van Horn said the operators
would hold an all-day meeting to
give consideration to the various
proposals of the UNIV" An oper-
ators' spokesman said an effort will
be made to draft a formal reply to
all of the demands instead of deal
ing with them piece-meal
The National Labor Relations
Board, meanwhile, took under ad-
visement the petition Of Edward r..
Burke, president of the Southern
Coal Producers association, to dis
miss the UNIV request for a strike
ballot en- March 28.
Formal NLRB action was expect
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-12
AirpIane Speeds
Valley Crop
To Ohio Market
Initial Shipment of
Tomatoes and Peas
Rushed to Cleveland

Three tons of Imperial
Valleys luscious, vine ripen-
ed tomatoes and 200 pounds
Of crisp, shelled choice peas
are winging their way to
eagerly waiting Cleveland,
Ohio epicures in an Ameri-
can Airways airlirar.
Promptly at 3:45, scheduled time,
the Valleys initial cargo plane load
OF vegetables left the runway at
El Centro Marine base Monday
morning.
Picked and packed for the speedy
journey, the tomatoes anc peas were
rushed to the Ralph E. Myers COM
ps ny sheds. El Centro by Ralph
Pittman, grower and packer of CAL
ipatria. The Myers company con-
signed the cargo to Cleveland
produce distributor where both peas
and tomatoes cue to reach CUSTOM
erS by am. Tuescay
The plane, converted into a cargo
carrier arrived from Burbank at
2:35. Waiting was the truck with
its 200 cases. In charge of loading
was w NJ Diercks, of the Myers
company. Pittman was in personal
charge of the transfer from Cali
patria.
AT the plane controls was a veter-
an flier, Captain j. r. Jewell. Clarl:
Judd of the airlines operations de-
partment travelled as observer and
in charge of the cargo
There goes our first air cargo.
Good trip. good landings-good mar
ket." YEARLY spoke Diercks as the
tail light of the carrier blinked out
of sight.
Under CAB rules the plane was
scheduled for stops at Ell Paso
Memphis and Cincinnati.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-12
Court Refuses
Early Action
In Ward Case

WASHINGTON, March IL. CUP)
The supreme court Monday refused
to make an immediate review of a
lower court decision holding that
President Roosevelt was without au-
tholity to order army seizure of
Montgomery Ward & Co.'S plants
and facilities.
The action meant that the case
will have to be heard in regular
procedure by the court Of appeals,
before being taken to the supreme
court
The justice department asked fer
immediate review by the supreme
court, Stressing the cases interest to
the war effort Montgomery Ward
joined in the request for a quick
review over the legality of the seiz-
ure.
The government argued that the
lower courts ruling threatened to
impair it's ability to handle future
emergencies growing out of work
stoppages.
Montgomery Ward said that it
felt that the decision handed down
by Federal District Judge Philip l..
Sullivan in Chicago in January was
clearly and ineScapably correct" "
But, the firm added, the army has
retained possession OF its property
and there were indications that it
might do SO until the supreme
court finally has acted
The supreme court denied the re-
quest without opinion, saying:
THE petition for writ of certiorari
in this case is dsnied for the reason
that the application has been made
prior to judgment of the circuit
court of appeals
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-12
Thrust
Area
Wiidens
First and Third
u. S. Armies
Wipe Out Pocket

PARIS, March II. (UP)-
Tank led and air supported
American troops drove stead
lily deeper into Germany's
inner fortress from the Rem
a gen bridgehead Monday,
and Berlin said the First ar
my had made two more cross
ings Of the Rhine nearby.
Joint blows of the U. S.
First and Third armies wip-
ed out a German pocket
northwest of Coblenz. Meag-
er reports did not make clear
whether the destroyed pock-
ct was the big one formed by
the American junction on the
Rhine, in which some $4,000
Germans were trapped.
1t. Gen. James H. Doolittle's
Eighth air force laic a carpet of
bombs on six key rail hubs east of
eAAC IOA4AlAC ClILO LOu54l WLl4S4l lllc
mans could move against the First
army bridgehead opposite Remagen.
Fighter bombers of the U. S.
Ninth air force raked the German
lines before the swelling bridgehead,
and maintained a constant patrol
over the Ludene orff bridge.
ADMIT ADVANCES
Nazi broadcasts acknowledged that
the Americans were pouring REIN
forcementS into the Rhine foothold.
They said shock troops pushed
across the Rhine north of the Rem
agen bridge in assault boats for two
new crossings. The NaziS estimated
that upwarcs of 50,C0c men were
maSSed in the bridgehead ready for
a big push against the southern
flank of the Ruhr.
Supreme headquarters said Lit.
Gen. Courtney H. Hedges troop5
firmly held the initiative in the
Continued on Page 6, Col. o
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-12

About $50 of the United States
Eighth Air Force heavy bombers
went to the Baltic area. The others
hit the rail yards at Siegen, Betz-
dorf, Dillenburg, Wetz,ar, Friedbulg
and Marburg, between the Ruhr and
Frankfurt the-Main.
The Baltic bombing supported the
Russian forces hammering at the
lower Oder line no. tn of Berlin.
Early reports indicated some of the
bomberS were over Stettin, Baltic
port against which the Red army
was closing.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-12
Four Face Court
On Charges of
Anfi.Jap Raids

AUBURN, Cal, March ~. up
Four men were to be arraigned
here Monday afternoon before Su-
perior Judge Lowell L. Sparks on
charges of conducting terror raids
against Sumio Dol, a returned Japa-
neSe farmer.
The men, Claude and James
Watson and Elmer and Alvin John
son, two sets of brothers, allegedly
tried to burn down a packing shed
ON the Doi property January l8. The
next night they were said to have
attempted to dynamite the shed.
Shots were fired at Dol when he
went out to investigate, he tcld au-
tkOritieS.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-12
BLACK MARKET RING HIT

SAN DIEGO, March Y lUP)-
Six men were in the county jail
today on charges ranging from re-
ceiving stolen property to burglary,
following a series of raids aimed at
breaking up whas Sheriff Bert
Strand described as a statewide
black market in gasoline, liquor
and tires Strand said the arrests
cleared up many burglaries through
out southern California where SER
vice stations have been looted of
gas coupons.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-12
Union Dispute HoIts Work
I'm Hollywood Studios

Sorell said he expected the Screen
Actors Guild representing the
stars and featured players, to meet
today or tomorrow and vote to
respect the strike.
Producers issued a formal state
ment blaming the strike on the
jurisrictional dispute which they
said they were powerless to pre-
vent