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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-08-19
By the Associated Press.

MANILA, Aug. 18.-In prisoner Of
war and internment camps scattered
from Manchuria to Singapore ano
the Netherlands Indies as many as
100000 Allied nationals may be
awaiting liberation after completion
of Japanese surrender negotiations
A summary of the prisoner of wal
and internee situation released by
the American Red Cross here today
said that of 100000 Allied nationals
confined, probably $4,000 died in
camps or on torpedoes ships. Most
of these fatalities involved prisoners
of war, approximately 10000, mostly
civilians, have been repatriated OF
liberated.
More than $4,000 prisoners and
tnternees are Americans, nearly
100000 are British, Australians ano
Canadians and the remainder Dutch
CA British Foreign ONCE COM
mentator quoted the Swiss
charge d'affaires as saying $500
Allied misunderstanding $50
Americans-were liberated by the
Japanese in the Shanghai dis
trict August Is. He said the
Swiss intermediary at Shanghai
had advised the liberated per-
sons to remain temporarily in
camps because of transportation
and internal" difficulties).
Heading the list of imprisoned
Allied nationals is 1t. Gen. iona
than Wainwright, last reported held
in Manchuria with 200 high-rank-
ing American officers and 1920 en-
listed men. They are believed held
in one or two camps. Some of them
undoubtedly are survivors of the
March of Death" from Bataan.
Another famous American name
among the prisoners is 1t. Col. j. P
Devereux, Marine commander OF
Wake Island, who gained military
immortality by his dramatic Send
us more Japs" response to a query
as to the needs of the beleaguered
Wake garrison.
Devereux Noted Prisoner.
Col Devereux Is believed to be
IN a camp near Shanghai with ap-
proximately 1000 Marines and civil
ian contract workers from Wake
and a few Marines captured al
Shanghai and Tientsin.
The Red Cross reported it was
prepared for extensive relief for the
captives in collaboration with Brit
ish, Dutch and Australian repre-
sentatives.
The Red Cross said approximately
so camps deteriorated, especially
during increased bombing attacks.
Most OF the camps have been
visited at one time or another by
representatives of the International
Red Cross or the protecting
power" it added.
Conditions in Japan appeared to
be considerably better than in the
Philippines, Indo-China, Thailand
or Malaga, but all prisoners of war
and civilian internees are under
fed and lack suitable clothing.
Many of the camps in Japan
were located in strategic areas near
Tokyo, Yokohama, Osaka, Kobe ano
Hakodate in spite of official pro-
tests by the American Government
Raids Killed Prisoners.
The japanese have reported some
prisoners were killed in bombing
raids, but the total number of cas-
ualties cannot be estimated"
The captive summary, issued with
headquarters approval, reported the
largest number of Americans are ir
Japan proper, where an estimated
10000 to 10000 prisoners of war are
scattered in more than a hundred
camps.
The greatest number of Allied
nationals, however, was reported
In Netherlands Indies camps.
One of the most tragic prisoner
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1945-12-27
For Defense of Shippers

1T seems time for Congress to
reach a decision on the American
transportation problem.
For many years the railroads
and more recently truck and bus
lines-have been regulated by the
Interstate Commerce Commission,
oldest of the federal regulatory
bodies. They have been told what
they could or could not do after
careful study and investigation,
with all sides having a chance to be
heard
But now comes the Department
of Justice with a series of antitrust
suits against them for doing what
the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion says they legally can do.
This just doesn't make sense 1t
is unwise and unfair to expect the
transportation system of the nation
to be fish, flesh and fowl all at the
same time 1t cannot logically be ex-
pected to run with the hare at the
same time it hunts with the hounds.
1T cannot serve two masters.
in finding that middle ground
the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion is in better position to give
satisfaction than are the courts.
Wise as judges are, they are not ex-
perts on everything. bismarck,
N D., Tribune.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1945-12-27
1935-1945

AS the dwindling days of l945
drop off the calendar like autumn
leaves the most turbulent decade in
history draws to close.
Even before 1885, serious world
troubles which led up to World War
II had developed, but the events Of
that year were undoubtedly of
prime importance in setting the
stage for the great conflict of 1889
IS.
Late in 1885 Benito Mussolini,
then rated Europe's number one
dictator, beat his hairy fists on his
hairy chest and boosted from his
balcony that Italy wasn't afraid of
anybody, that she would prove her
greatness and fulfill her destiny To
prove the point he picked fight
with Ethiopia
Of course, brave Benito was not
unmindful of the fact that Halle
Selassie's warriors had virtually no
guns, no planes and could hardly be
referred to as an army. Yet, no one
IIdue elltNllNe tIlOllS W sup nm
for the nations failed to realize then
that his triumph would be, and ac-
tually. became, a world catastrophe.
Seeing how easily his fellow die
tator got away with aggression,
Adolf Hitler took the cue. In 1886
his troops seized the Rhineland.
SPANS civil war broke out that
same year-hardly by coincidence.
Austria was smothered in '38, then
Czechoslovakia, Poland-and World
War II was on.
The world has paid frightful
price in lives and property for its
indifference to the aggression of
1895 and the years following. But
the cost will not be in vain if the
world has learned the necessity of
stamping out small conflicts before
they can grow into world confla-
gration.-Western States Review.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1945-12-27

>Sometimes the working of legal
justice (?) is a wonderful thing TO
behold. Recent press reports told
of the sentencing to life imprison-
ment of mere lad not yet in his
teens, for the crime of murder. A
few days later the newspapers, also
told of mature woman who, in a
fit of jealous rage, shot to death
another woman whom she suspect
ed of stealing her husbands love.
That woman was sentenced to from
one to three years in the peniten-
tiary. A lad gets life; a mature
woman gets from one to three
years.
With extremely rare exceptions,
no mere boy should be condemned
to life Imprisonment. That is an
awful punishment to inflict on any
irresponsible youth We all have
made mistakes, some of them tragic.
Such boys as this one should by all
means be given another chance.
Complying with the wishes of his
W1QOWt 1GllCl dl 1GOl 81 ~ nlloiA
will rest in an American military
cemetery in Luxembourg beside
many of the men who fought under
him. That may be fitting. We
would not question the judgment of
the sorrowing widow. And yet
many will wish she had decided
otherwise General Patton was one
of Americas great generals. 1t
would seem as though he should
sleep in his native land where his
tomb could be an inspiration to his
felloWmen, in Arlington national
cemetery or some other appropriate
spot. Most of our soldiers longed
for the time when they could get
back home. Those who can be
brought back should sleep the last
long sleep in the land they loved.
Mr.. and Mrs. Emmons Hampton
visited over Christmas with rpla-
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1945-12-27

Mrs. Henrietta Seibl, who has
spent the past two months at the
home of her daughter, Mrs William
Baeth and family, returned to her
home on the Coast Tuesday.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1945-12-27
Thursday, December 81, 1945

Mrs. L. D.. Hampton of Spokane,
came Saturday to spend Christmas
at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Fred
L. Cloutier Mrs. hampton is Mr.
Cloutier's sister.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1945-12-27

Mr.. and Mrs. Emmons Hampton
visited over Christmas with rela-
tives in Spokane.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1945-12-27

More and more the world is be-
ginning to realize that there must
be some form Of world organization
to enforce peace, some sort Of Or
ganization before which the con-
tentious problems Of the world can
be brought for peaceful settlement.
In bordering this need men are be-
ginning to talk of surrender OF
some Of the accepted national sover-
eighties that have long been con-
sidered Of great Importance. They
are coming to willingness to give
UP some of those rights in order to
make workable world organiza
ton. That is ground for a great
hope. Some scott at and insist that
world union is vain hope and
impossible. Most of the objections
they name were advanced against
the forming of the United States
out Of the l3 independent colonies.
Many are convinced a world organ
ization will eventually be fully as
feasible as was creation of the
United States of America.
And we should not lose sight Of
the fact that peace IS only one Of
the detectives Of the United Ma
tons. That worldwide ofganiza-
ton also embraces plans for the
cultural development Of backward
peoples and raising Of the standard
Of living for the millions in the dark
corners Of the world.
Yes the New Year should be
greeted with great upsurge Of
hope and with glad hearts. The
fighting is over The boys are com
ing home. Mankind Is cropping to-
ward better world The brother
nouu Of man Il. perhaps drawing
litfae nearer
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1945-12-27
The New Year
Should Bring Hope
Not Black Despoir
BY Charles b. Rowe

New Year with a great confident
hope in our, hearts. We have just
finished singing praises to the
Prince of Peace in his honor, at the
conclusion of the worlds most aw-
.~ful war. 1t looks as though man
kind may have finally learned a.
dearly bought lesson from the hor-
rors and tragedies of this last in
sane conflict The black despair
that has gripped SO many should
and is beginning to lift
For some time many have been
unable to see any hope for the hui
man race. Their pessimism was
merely increased by the smashing
of the atom and invention of the
atomic bomb They could see COM
ing from that only eventual de-
struction of the earth and with 1T
the human race. A recent writer in
the S. E. Post-after a widespread
tour of the nation-says that many
of the people Of the eastern segment
of the nation are terrified with one
of the worst cases of fright filters
ever experienced anywhere. They
have no hope for the future. They
have no faith. They are expecting
nothing better than ultimate world
destruction.
AS this column has said before,
we have little patience with that
defeatist attitude of mind. The ato-
mic bomb isn't going to destroy the
earth. There is still hope for the
human race. We are confident hui
mainly stands at the threshold Of
glorious and happy development.
There are many things to
strengthen that conviction. The first
fearful prophecies concerning the
release of atomic energy are giving
way to a more sober appraisal OF
what that means for mankind. More
optimistic scientists are now saying
that the atomic bomb does not spell
ultimate destruction of humanity.
One has said that the secrets OF
atomic energy have in fact been
known to scientists for some time.
What was not known was how to
put that knowledge to practical use.
We solved one phase Of that mys-
terry in invention Of the atomic
bomb. This scientist believes the
problems are SO many that it may
take years for others to solve that
problem. And the cost was so stu
pendous as ITO be far beyond the
reach Of most nations. His testi-
mony should lessen the chills run
ming up and down the backs OF the
fainthearted
Another encouraging indication is
the fact that hundreds of men and
also women are now being tried,
convicted and executed as war
criminals. In the trials at Nurem-
berg, American prosecutors are at.
tempting to establish the principle
in international law that war OF
aggression is crime against hui
mainly and punishable by death.
If that principle can be firmly esta-
blished in human relationships, it
will exert powerful influence for
world peace.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-30

Germany is the present address
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-30

Expressing pleasure over the ex-
cellent facilities provided for Cali
fornia State Guard at the Ell Centre
stadium, particularly the ample
space, lighted drill grounds, barbecue
pit, bathing facilities, and safety
accorded by the fenced field, Lieut..
G. f. Turner, of the heavy weapons
platoon, 1st battalion San Diego
State Guard, after a visit to the
stadium, declared the site to be
ideal for the use of the State Guard.
Company A of Ell CenJro will
drill at the stadium Wednesday
night. Eight new members, recent
ly recruited, will appear
According to Captain John KEEP
ley, the first shipment of field tele-
phones for use in the communica-
tions section of the Guard has been
received. They are of the portable
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-30

lands serving on q navy seaplane
tender. He served overseas 26 months
and afteR leave in the States, was
sent out again. His wife is the
former Anna Mae Beretta Brown
was employed in the Ell Centre post
office before the war.
Snow and cold and then rain and
mud worse than any mud in I'M
perial Valley" was the high point in
Corporal Jay Burritt's description
of parts of Europe where he has
been stationed since he left the
United States in December, 1943. He
is stationed ii Luxembourg with
General Patton's group, with an
army anti-aircraft unit. He has
been in England and Normandy.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. H. Burritt of San
Diego, former El Centrans, are his
parents. He wort through the Ell
Centre schools.
At Camp Roberts, Charles H.
Smith was promoted to corporal and
assigned to the eighty-fifth bat
talon where he is serving as radio
code instructor. His wife and son
live at 1884 Olive, El Centre.
Private George h. Leja won a So
cash prize, his platoon champion
ship. and the coveted experts medal
for has markmanships on the rifle
range at Camp Roberts. He is TAX
ing his basic training. Mr.. and Mrs.
j. D. Leja, his parents. live in the
Holtville area.
Lieutenant Lee Newton is back in
action in Germany after a short stay
in a hospital for treatment OF
wound in his neck which he suffered
March 8. He sent his wife, Jane, a
Nazi flag and later letter lament
ing because his mail hasn't caught
I'D with him since he left the States
in January. Before he went to
Europe he was in Alaska and the
Aleutians for two years.
Privates First Glass Jesus Orozco
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-30

Merlin Miles, son of Mrs. Myrtle
Miles of FL Centre. entered the navy
this week.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-30

patria, now is attending the cooks
and bakers school at the u. S. Naval
Training Center in Gulfport, Miss
issippi. Bluejacket Crouch is the
son of Mr.. and Mrs. John S. Crouch
of 225 International Street, Cali.
patria. He formerly attended Cali
patria Union High school, where he
participated in baseball and basket
ball. He enlisted in the navy last
June in Los Angeles.
The crack NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
school at Childress Field, Texas, rec
emily gave wings to Flight Officer
Daniel j. Mitosinka son of Mr.. and
Mrs. A. Mitosinka of FL Centro area
He belonged to the twenty eighth
class of hell-from- Heaven" men. He
qualified as an expert bombing
marksman.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-30
Our Men in the Service

is a field instructor in a training
regiment at Camp Fannin, Texas.
He helps transform rockies into in
fantry soldiers. Mrs. Lupe Lara of
El Centre is his mother.
Private Robert Edwards of Braw-
ley is a switchboard operator with
the fifth army in Italy He is a
member of the ninety-first Powder
River division signal company which
has been maintaining wire COM
munications along the main gateway
into Bologna, Italy, in the face Of
German shellfire. Mrs. Mary j..
Rochester is his mother.
Captain Don S. Rex, Jr, whose
wife lives at 4IS Rosemont, Calexico,
is a member of a field artillery bat
TALON which recently helped in the
capture of the heavily fortified Liv-
ergnano on the fifth army front, a
keystone of Gernany's defense OF
the Pc Valley in Italy.
Another 17-year old FL Centro
youth and one from Seeley have en-
listed as apprentice seamen in the
naval reserve in San Diego. They
are John Alone Havens and Fred
Hayhurst, the latter from Seeley
Young Havens is the son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Roy H. Havens. He attended
Central Union High school and par
ticipated in football, baseball and
basketball Fred Hayhurst is the
son of Mr. and Mrs. j. l.. Hayhurst,
whose address is Seeley. He has a
brother, David Joseph Hayhurst,
serving as a Coxswain in the Navy.
Norman Edmonson Crouch. sea-
man second class, USNR, of Cali
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-30

X. X. Sharpe Co.
Scheniman Paper Co.
Robert SchwOb
valley Drug
Valley Auto Supply
WOmack- Mitchell
Clarence Walker
linn g. linn
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-30
State Guard Sef-Up Gets Praise

type, in leather cases and are to
be added to other equipment pro-
vided for the Imperial county bat
talon.
The current drive for new men,
bers will continue through April is.
The quota for Ell Centro, Holtville
and Imperial is $50 men. Enlistment
blanks are available at the FL CeniSu
Chamber of Commerce or enliste'
ments may be made during the day
with Captain Kepley or Captain H.
K. McClimans at the Imperial coun-
ty courthouse.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-30

Privates First Glass Jesus Orozco
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-30
RANGE FINDERS ACCURATE

ROCHESTER,, ". Y, April 2. (UP)-
The Navy's largest range finder, long
enough to span the gun turrets of
our biggest warships, contains 1900
mechanical parts and as many as
1876 optical parts, its manufacturer,
Bausch & Lomb optical Co, re-
vealed. The optical prisms must be
accurate to one-half second of an
arc, allowing an angular deviation
of only one inch in six and one
half miles.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-30

of Lieutenant Lawrence Cook. son of
John Cook. former dean of Central
Junior college. Lieutenant Cook
taught at Harding school before the
war He wrote the following letter
to friends in FL Centre: Here l am
in another country. Germany this
time. The countryside is very pretty
but we have lots of mud and rain
now. Thank goodness the snow has
all melted. Nearly every town We
go through has been hit hard. Most
of them have room for us on the
ground floorS-whenever we are of
line. which is seldom. and can get to
the rear area. My job as a mortar
section leader is quite interesting.
I am on line four days, then off two
DAYS. On line I am attached to
rifle company to give them mortar
support when they need 1t. am
usually so to 500 yards in front OF
the rifle company to be able to get
mortar observation on the targets.
On observation post like that is not
fun, for the ferries are too close
there for comfort. So far I've killed
two and taken nine prisoners. They
surrendered easily and their morale
is low. Still. those Krauts are tough
babies if they want to fight. Our
chow is very good and we usually
get plenty. We do have trouble with
ammunition though. We've had to
ration it at times simply because OF
those dam strikes. 1t isn't being
made fast enough and you can't kill
ferries without ammunition"
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-30

Norman Edmonson Crouch. sea-
man second class, USNR, of Cali
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-30
Imperial Valley Press

Established April %. 1901.
Published evenings except Saturday
and Sunday, In combination with the
Sunday POsT-PRESS. by the Imperial
Valley Publishing Company. 625 state
ST., Fl Centre. Calf.
Paul Jenkins. Publisher
and President
Member United Press. California News
paper Publishers Assn, West Holiday
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Rates 0ncluding Sunday Post-Press)
Single copy &c, carrier, paid-in-ad-
vance: / month, S1.OO; , months,
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BY Mail; ! month, S1.00; 3 months,
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fiat
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office as md class mail.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-30

Michigan gas wells produced
2,872, 100000 cubic feet Of gas in
January, the highest production on
record .
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-30

this week.
At the Closc of many months OF
training, Lewis BUD Brown, re-
ceived the silver wings of an army
air force pilot at graduation exercls-
es at Stockton Field. Son OF Mr..
and Mrs. Lew Brown of Calexico
and Bonds Corner, Brown was grad
uated from CaleXico Union High
School in 1899 He worked at Con-
solidated for three years, entering
as a riveter and advancing to Grade
A inspector. Brown enlisted in the
army air force "a September l943.
His next phase of training will in
clude serving as a co-pilot on
Bit.
Lieutenant Gg) Gene Kyle and
Mrs. Kyle arrived in Calexico this
week for a visit with Mrs. Kyle's
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. w. A. Nc
Campbell.
Ernest w. Strauch, radarman first
class. left Imperial Valley recently
after a visit with his mother, Mrs.
Earl j. Davis. al McCabe. He was
assigned to Norfolk, Virginia for l6
weeks of advanced radar training.
He spent considerable time in Pam
anna before entering the service.
Lieutenant Lee Echols, son of Mr..
and Mrs. Guy Echols of CaleXico,
visited his wife, his daughter, and
his parents in Calexico this week
while enroute from the east to San
Diego. He is associated with First
Lieutenant Pete Aguirre and Tech
nical Sergeant Ross Wantland both
of the army and both former Cal
exicans, in doing special work Tor
the armed forces.
Germany is the present address
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-30

Lieutenant Allen P. Williams, who
was born, reared, and educated in
El Centro, recently was made
squadron commander at the AAF
redistribution center in Santa Mon
ica. He is a teturnee with "a
months of overseas service. He en-
listed as a private in 1910, and re-
ceived his basic training at Ft.
Douglas, Utah. In November of l94l
he was sent to Australia as squadron
clerk in a bombardment group. In
Brisbane he attended officers can
didate school and was commissioned
a second lieutenant. After he was
commissioned he was sent to New
Guinea where he served II months
in a variety of assignments, includ-
ing squadron adjutant mess officer,
and transportation officer. Last
July he was returned to the United
states. Mrs. Grace Williams, now
living in Blythe is his mother.
The daily monitor leader., 1945-11-02
Betty Reichrath
to Become Bride

OTTO w. REICHRATH. 119is
Smith street, announc the ap-
preaching marriage Of h i S
daughter. Betty c. Reichrath,
1919 North avenue. to Pfc. F. A.
Quinn of Selfridge Field.
Pfc. Quinn is the son Of Mrs.
Robert Quinn of ST. Paul, Mimi.
They plan to be married in
Mount Clemens late next week.
Several parties are occupying
The bride-elect. Mrs. Felix Wee
ser-Krell entertained at mis-
cellaneous shower for her re-
Gently, and last night the girls
of the commercial office Of the
Bell Telephone company, where
Miss Reichrath is employed,
gave her a dinner party at Cor
dons Grill, and presented her
with a gift. Scheduled for next
Wednesday evening is personal
shower to be given by Joyce
Lozen at her home in East De-
troit.
MIR. AND MRS. GILBERT
HIRT, who are spending cou-
pie of weeks as the guest of
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Hirt here,
and with relatives in Richmond,
will be honored this evening,
when a small group of friends
gather at the home of DR.. and
Mrs. Rufus ReitZel.