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Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-28

tions" in the Ryukyu chain, of
which the Okinawa group is part.
An early Tokyo radio broadcast
reported that American reinforce
ments had landed in the Kerama
Islands, southwest of Kyushu, and
and savage battles" were under
way.
The invasion of the Keramas, part
Of the Okinawa group, is only
prelude to imminent landings on
Okinawa Island itself, site of an
important naval base and several
airfields in Japans inner defense
belt, radio Tokyo said.
Supporting American warships. in
cluding at least II battleships and
Is aircraft carriers, shelled and
bombed Okinawa and other islands
to the west and south for the sixth
straight day Wednesday. Tokyo said.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-28
Former Soldier
Held by Fb|

DETROIT, March %. UP)-Ar-
rest of a former soldier who alleg-
edly put his foot under moving
freight car wheel to escape overseas
duty and then sought disability
compensation was announced here
Wednesday by the federal bureau of
investigation.
Also arrested, the FBI said, was
the eX-soldier's sweetheart. She
was said to have held the soldier
hand when he deliberately mangled
his foot in order to give him cour-
age.
The prioners, apprehended at
Phoenix, Arizona, were identified as
former Pfc. John H. Buell., of Clover
dale, California and Mrs. Gladys
Riley, a former resident of Hox Bar,
Ardmore, Oklahoma.
Buells left foot was amputated
at Percy Jones Army Hospital, Bat
tie Creek, Michigan, where he was
sent for treatment of the injury.
At the time of the injury, he was
stationed at Camp Crowder, Mo.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-28

mittee at Sacramento that a small
scale riot at the mess hall Sunday
started "because some feeble-mind-
ed prisoner hit another over the
head with a cup"
"AS long as we must keep the
emotionally unstable prisoners in
the same prison with the others,
we are going to have that sort of
trouble" he said.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-28
President Urges
Senate 0keh
Of Manpower Bill

WASHINGTON, March %. (UP>-
President Roosevelt Wednesday ask
ed the senate to pass the house.
approved compromise manpower bill.
Its failure to do SO, he said, would
hamper successful conduct of the
war"
The President said in a letter to
Chairman Ebert D. Thomas, d.
Utah, of the senate military affairs
committee that the manpower situ-
alton lis still serious"
In an apparent allusion to what
might be expected to happen after
defeat of Germany, Mr. Roosevelt
added:
I'm the days ahead of us there will
be great temptation for workers to
leave war plants"
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-28

But the privilege to do SC is no
longer denied YOU"
About $50 prisoners left the mess
lines at supper hour Tuesday night
after $50 had refused to eat at
breakfast and lunch. All were locked
in their cells.
Foity extra guards repeatedly
were ordered to duty late Tuesday.
MCGEE told a state senate COM
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-28
Two Men Injured
In Auto Crash

A drivers interest in the bright
lights of Mexicali was blamed We'd
neSday for traffic accident three
miles east of Calexico which result
ed in hospital treatment for two
men.
Voyle Smith, 45, the driver, and
M. M. Rhorer As, Phoenix, passeng-
er in the car, were treated in an El
Centre hospital for cuts and bruises
suffered when their car ran off the
pavement and overturned, highway
patrolmen said.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-28
yanks Fire Capital City
o. Cebu in Fierce Battle

MANILA, March %. (UP)
American invasion forces
swept over Cehu Wednesday
to within two and a half
miles of burning Cebu City,
capital of the central Philip
pines island.
Elements of the American division
which landed on the mine-strewn
beach at Talisay on the east coast
Monday, were battling the Japanese
garrison at Pardo just south of the
capital. Cebu City is the second
largest port in the Philippines.
Huge fires were reported out of
control in Cebu City and the jap
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-28
THREE MEXICANS HELD
ON MARIHUANA COUNT

Three Mexicans were held in the
county Jail in Ell Centre Wednesday
pending federal court action on
charges that they smuggled mari
huana cigarets into the United
States.
George Dorame, %, Antonio Ay-
ala-Ramirez, %, were charged with
smuggling % of the cigarets and
Espinon Mandajano with smuggling
three. United States Commissioner
Dorsey Whitelaw ordered them held
on $500 bail each.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-28

furt and As miles beyond in free
swinging drive for the vital factory
city of Schweinfurt, 90 road miles
east of the Rhine. Pattons men un-
officially were reported striking
north near Fulda, 1913 miles from
Berlin, and southeast within 30-odd
miles of Nuremberg.
The American Seventh Army
broke out CT its Rhine bridgehead
Continued on Page 6, Col. 4
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-28

blasted path for the ground forces
as they cut across the narrow guage
rail line and moved onto the hard
surface road parallelling the coast.
Five small villages we're swept up
and stubborn japanese pocket was
knocked out nearly two miles north
of Talisay in the drive which carried
to the town of Pardo, two and a half
miles south OF Cebu City.
The capital, with its three large
piers and airfields, was prime tar
get for Gen. Douglas MacArthur's
forces. The city. which had a pre-
war population OF 10000 has a
harbor second only to Manila In the
entire Philippines.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-28

enese apparently were following
their theme of destruction, which
devastated Manila and other island
capitals in the Archipelago.
A naval bombardment from cruis-
ers and destroyers covered the land
ing by Maj. Gen. w. H. Arnolds
veterans of Guadalcanal and Boug-
ainville.
Although the Japanese were
caught off guard by the invasion,
the shallow beaches were mined and
the assault troops ran into mortar
fire from the Talisay area, five
miles south of Cebu City.
Bombers and fighters of the 18th
Air Force joined the drive and
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-28
Fighters Hold
Hit Ier'S Fate

COW declaration would be punished
by joint action of the Allies if cap
tured.
Eden was asked by Ivor Thomas,
labor member, whether it would be
the duty of the British soldier who
seeks Hitler out to shoot him or
try to bring him back alive"
Eden said II am very content to
leave that to the judgment of any
British soldier"
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-28

Into rev blazing hours that
threatened Germany with her great
est military disaster of the war were
packed these developments:
The American First Army swept
60 miles or more beyond the middle
Rhine to the outskirts of Giessen,
230 miles southwest of Berlin, split
ting through the center of the
Wehrmacht front and outflanking
Frankfurt On Main.
1t. Gen. George S. Pattons U. S.
Third Army stormed into Frank
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-28

LONDON, March %. (UP)--For-
eign Secretary Anthony Eden told
Commons Wednesday that Adolf
Hitler is the major war criminal
and that British soldiers could de-
eide for themselves whether to shoot
him on sight or bring him back
alive.
Eden said that Hitler as the ma
jor war criminal under the Mos
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-28
BY ERNIE PYLE


BY ERNIE PYLE
IN THE WESTERN PACIFIC
fore daylight, for our planes had to
be in the air at the first hint of
dawn.
The first patrol was always
launched by catapult, because In the
wind-sWept mi-darkness, it was
too dangerous for them to make the
run down the rolling deck.
After seeing the flights launched
the first few days, it became old
stuff, and I would have stayed in
bed and ignored it, but that was
impossible. The catapult's huge
machinery was directly above my
cabin, and every time it shot a
plane off it Was just as though the
Washington monument had fallen
on the ship. Rip Van Wrinkle HIM
self couldn't have slept through it.
So I lust got up.
PILOTS GET DIRECTIONS
The fighter pilots were given their
last briefing. In the ready room"
the squadron commander and in
telligence officer showed them on
maps and by drawings on the black
board, just where they would strike.
The squadron commander asked
how many of the pilots had no wrist
watches. Six held up their hands.
The funny part was that the ship
had no extra wrist watches, SO
don't know why he asked the ques-
ton in the first place.
Then he told what our approx
mate total of planes over Japan
would be, and how many it was
probable the Japs would put up
against us. And then he said:
$50 you see, each one of us will
only have to take care of three Jap
planeS!"
The pilots all laughed and look
ed at each other sheepishly. days
later, when the final scores were
in. we found our force had destroy
ed Japs at nine-to-one.
And at the end of his briefing, the
squadron commander gave strict or
ders for the pilots not to shoot at
Japs coming down in parachutes.
They're supposed to do it to us, :"
he said, but it isn't the thing for
us to do"
The bomber pilots and their en-
listed gunners and radiomen were
briefed the same way. After the in
telligence officer had finished, the
squadron commander said:
Were going to dive low on the
target before releasing our bombs
Since we're risking our necks any
how, there's no point in going at all
unless we can do some damage, so
go down low"
All through the various strikes on
Continued on Page 6, Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-28
Seven Allied Armies Swinq
Eastward On 2OO-mile Line
AS Planes Rake FIeeinq Foe
Germans Abandon One Stronghold
After Another in Wild Flight;
Leave Great War Supplies Behind


headlong through 20Omile belt of Germanys western
battle Wednesday in of spectacular
hrough that oufanked the entire Ruhr basin and
carried to within 230 miles of Berlin.
American fers who swarmed out by the thousands to
bomb and srafe the fleeing reported that the Allied
tide sweeping eastward with tremendous speed and
power.
GERAAN OPPOSITION MELTS BEFORE ONSLAUGHT
Except for few stubborn pockets of resistance in the
Dy-passed Ruhr valley, German opposition melting ev
eyWhere from the Karlsruhe the border
berln said British tanks had advanced 33 miles he
yond the Rhine crossing at Vessel the
canal almost 20 miles past their kickoff point Wednesday
mere the Iommes We're past the main arsenal
ceners OF the Ruhr and only 245 miles west of Berlin
, returning pilots said the battle lines were moving
ahead SO rapidly that bombing had to be estab
llshed every 20 minutes = = 1T
At points the pursuing British were completely
out OF contact with the fleeing enemy
NlNTH ARMY CUTS GREAT MILITARY HIGHWAY.
. Troops of the American Ninth Army on their right
flank charged into the Ruhr itself and the Dusbur
lamm military highway Radio Luxembourg said they cap
tred the factory city of Serkrade miles northwest of
Duis5urg.
, Inc Germans were in the midst of general retreat
ha had broken into dsordery at many points with
hundreds OF Allied tanks riding hard on their heels
Ihe Allied tank armies shaken loose for the first time
on major scale were hurdlng their infantry lines
ana racing almost unopposed the burning Reich
anywhere from 80 to 80 miles beyond the Rhine
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-28
d AMBlINe
EpoRTER
On The Nose

On The Nose
In our midst we have a character
staggering around in cowboy cloth
es, talking rodeo, and behaving like
a stockman.
Tuesday this character, one O. l..
Bane, stood in AL Kalin's feed lot
in BraWley gazing at Kalin's cow
pony Jackie"
Thinking that Bane didn't know
his stuff, man who can't even
qualify as drug store variety cow
boy, asked Bane how much Jackie"
weighed Bane hemmed and hawed
about being out of practice. The DIS.
cowboy insisted. Bane walked around
Jackie thumped him in the ribs,
and laid down on the ground to
take surveyors sight of the beast.
Ten twenty" said Bane, 1920
pounds"
Hail." said the DIS. cowboy, Ike,
what do you say he weighs?" turn
ing to Ike Rude, siX-times national
bdeo champion.
Ten forty with the gear" said
Ike.
Jackie, dragged to the scales,
weighed exactly 1920 pounds.
That's why Bane is known as Old
Ten Forty in these parts.
Honest, At Least
Two well dressed women stood
besice a parking meter, tinkering
with the thing and discussing meth
ods of putting money in it.
How do you tell when the hour
Continued on Page 6, Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-28
Ernie Pyle Sees
Carrier Planes
Spear for Japan
Story of Take-Off
Tells How Pilots
Map Flight Tactics

EDITORS NOTE: Here is the
starting Pacific War article by
Ernie Pyle who again writes for
these columns. Pyle is writing
aboard plane carrier in the task
force engaged in bombing Japan,
on arrival at the appointed "hunt-
ing grounds" From now on his
daily stories will appear in Sc
quence).
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-28
WEATHER

Maximum Tuesday ~, minimum
Wed. az; 5 am. Wed. 46, humidity
S6; noon Wed. IL, humidity 25;
pm. Tuesday 20, humidity Fl.
Evening star., 1945-12-13

The longer = Victory Bond Is held
the greater Is its earning power.
Evening star., 1945-12-13

from Chicago last June and told
him that Mrs. Carpenter, to whom
he had been married, had died in
October, 1914, at Dallas.
Mr.. Carpenter said he discovered
SO 900 in stock Mrs. Carpenter had
left had been transferred to Cline.
Another Complication.
Added to the complicated investi-
CATION was the death of a woman in
Jacksonville, Fla, in l943. District
Attorney Brown asked Jacksonville
authorities to look into the death
of woman under the name of
Elizabeth Hannah Klein" Mr..
Brown said he had been informed
that man registered at a hotel
. there was IF. l.. Klein and wife"
October % of that year, and that
the woman died November 8 in a
hotel room and was cremated.
Mr.. Brown said he also is looking
for Mrs. Elizabeth Hunt Lewis, Oak
land, Calf, widow he says left San
Evening star., 1945-12-13
Navy Reveals Use of 'Bot,'
Rodor Missile, Against Jops
~. the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
The Navy disclosed yesterday thai
1t had used deadly self-guided mis-
sile called "the bat" against JAP
anese ships and land targets during
the late stages of the Pacific war.
"Ihe bat" launched from 9
mother aircraft. steered itself to the
target by means of radar. If the
target dodged, the bat" changed
course right along with it.
Rear Admiral George F. Hussey
T.. chief of the Navy Bureau ol
Ordnance, said it was the first fully
automatic guided missile ever usec
successfully in combat.
Already, he added, developments
have made it obsolete.
1t is IL feet long, has 10-foot
wing span and carries a heavy ex-
plosive charge. 1t travels at air.
plane speed and its range is so great
that the mother craft can launch il
while comfortably out of antiaircraft
gun range.
Navy Privateer patrol bombers
were equipped to carry one bat
under each wing.
Admiral Hussey said the plane
crew would identify the target visu.
ally, head the missile in the righ,
direction and push a release button
The bat" would fly to its quarry
even If 1t were specific ship in a
convoy.
The missile destroyed many tons
Of Japanese shipping during the last
year Of the war, Admiral Hussey
said,
Evening star., 1945-12-13
Cline Probe Finds
Pattern in Death Of
; Elderly Women
Ry the Associated Press.

RS the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 13-Dis-
trict Attorney Edmund Geralo
Brown said today a transcontinental
hunt through at least a half dozen
cities, prompted by the arrest here
Of former convict, already has
established a definite pattern" In
the deaths of three elderly women
whose bodies were cremated.
Mr.. Brown said investigation of
the case was made difficult by the
fact that all of the bodies had been
cremated, but we are co-ordinating
the investigations of those deaths. y
The ex-convict, Alfred Leonard
Cline, is held here on a charge of
suspected forgery of estate papers
of one of the women.
If more serious charge does not
develop, Mr.. Brown said. we will
prosecute here for forgery. Cline
has two previous convictions We
would prosecute him as a habitual
criminal, which means a life SEN
tence in case of conviction"
Deaths in Three Cities.
The Cline case. which began here
with his arrest in connection with
the estate of a wealthy Chicago
widow. has spread across the coun-
try, with developments in Portland
Chicago. Dallas, Tampa, Jackson
vile, Fla; Columbus. Ohio. and
Bloomington, Ind. The deaths oc-
CURED at Dallas, Portland and jack
Sonville.
Cline was arrested December 8
on the demand of a Chicago attor-
ney representing the estate of Mrs.
Eva Delora Krebs of Chicago. The
attorney, Gerald Ryan, said it ap-
peared names had been forged in the
sale of her securities.
In Columbus yesterday a safe
deposit box yielded more than $780,
600 in cash and securities from the
estate of Mrs. Krebs. A $165 900
block of stock, originally made out
to Mrs Krebs, had been changed
jointly to Alfred l.. Cline and Mrs.
Krebs.
Cline said Mrs. Krebs died as
his wife in Portland from natural
causes and was cremated. However,
Capt. John Engler of San Francisco
police inspectors said he was con-
vinced the woman who died in Port
land was not Mrs Krebs. but was
Mrs. Isabel Van Malta of San Fran
cisco. elderly pensioner, whom Cline
is believed to have accompanied to
Oregon.
Cline's Picture Identified.
At Dallas, DR.. w. E. Haley ex-
pressed conviction that a woman
who died there October IT, 1914, and
was created under the name of Mrs.
Alice w. Carpenter, actually was
Mrs. Krebs Will Fritz, Dallas chief
of inspectors, said DR.. Haley identi-
fed a picture of Cline as the man
who accompanied the woman and
ordered her cremation.
However, a possible link between
the woman who died in Dallas and a
Mrs. Sally w. Carpenter of Bloom
ington, Ind. developed. George I.
Carpenter of Bloomington said that
Mrs. Sally Carpenter, widow of his
brother, went to Tampa, Fla, two
years after his brothers death.
Mr.. Carpenter said a man who gave
the name Of Cline telephoned him
Evening star., 1945-12-13
Bennett Escape Hearing
Ends in Melbourne
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
MELBOURNE, Dec. 13.-A 14-day
public inquiry into the escape of 1t.
Gen. Gordon Bennett from Singa-
port when the japanese overran the
British base in February, 1912,
ended today after % witnesses had
given more than quarter million
words of evidence.
Justice George Ligertwood, head
of the three man commission
charged with the inquiry, an
nounced he would send a report of
the hearings to Prime Minister JOS
eph B. Chif1ey as soon as findings
are reached.
Evening star., 1945-12-13
Vipers Detect Prey

Pit vipers, including rattlesnakes,
can detect their warm -blooded prey
in the dark by means OF an extra
sense that perceiyes heat.
Evening star., 1945-12-13
23-GirI Piano Concert
10 Be Presented Toniqht

Several hundred disabled veterans
will occupy choice seats at a novel
concert at Constitution Hall tonight
when % girls will play IL pianos
under auspices Of the Disabled
American Veterans.
The concert, presented by the
Philadelphia Piano Orchestra. with
Carle Knisley conducting, will be
varied including selections from the
old masters, such as Mozart, and
those of modern composers, such as
Gershwin.
Mrs. Harry S. Truman has been
invited to occupy the presidential
box, while Gen. Omar N. Bradley
administrator of veterans affairs
and Mrs. Bradley also will be guests
of honor.
Among the % girl pianists, is Miss
Doris Nathanson. 29O1 Eighteenth
| street NV
Evening star., 1945-12-13
Electrical Workers
In Is States Vote
Today on Strike
BY the Associated Press,


NEW YORK, Dec. 13.-A
strike vote among a union-es esti-
mated 100000 electrical workers
in plants of General Electric
General Motors and Westing
house will be taken today
throughout the Nation.
The workers, members of the CIO
United Electrical, Radio and Ma
chine Workers of America. will de-
eide whether they will 60 out on
strike after January l.
The union, third largest CIO af-
flliate, is seeking a wage increase of
50 day-approximately 80 per cent
1t rejected a General Motors offer
of 13l2-cent-an-hour pay in
crease.
The voting is being conducted by
the National Labor Relations Board
in Is industrial centers in Is States
from California to Massachusetts,.
The large number of workers and
polling places makes the strike vote
one of the most complicated in the
Nations history.
Starting early today, the balloting
is not expected to be completed be-
fore II o'clock tonight in some
plants.
The general executive board of the
United Electrical Workers has said
there will be no walkout before the
first of the year. Both union and
management have said negotiations
would continue after the strike vote
The union said 100000 General
Electric workers, $4,000 Westing-
house and $4,000 in the Electric Di-
vision of General Motors would take
part in the balloting.
Largest plants involved are in
Schenectady, N. Y; Lynn and
Springfield, Mass; Bridgeport
Conn; Philadelphia and East Pitts
burgh, Pa; Dayton and Cleveland,
Ohio and Fort WaVne Ind
Evening star., 1945-12-13
GT Writer
To Lecture on Palestine

Palestine will be described tc
members OF the National Geographic
Society by Edwin H. Cooper, former
war correspondent, In Constitution
Hall tomorrow night.
Lecturing on Palestine Reborn, y
Mr.. Cooper will show pictures he
filmed during his tour Of Jerusalem,
the Garden OF Gethsemane, Bethle-
hem, the Sea OF Galilee. Jericho, the
Dead Sea. Jaffa and other parts Of
the Holy Land.
Evening star., 1945-12-13

il3d the highest grade il. til, -.
try in the West Point entrance ex-
aminations." Mrs. Douglas said. Il
believe in equality for every one. He
was an honor student in his high
school In Los Angeles, studied for
two years at California Institute OF
Technology and has been taking a
special course in English literature. /"
Carlisle said he had been notified
by Mrs. Douglas yesterday that she
was appointing him on the basis of
his high grades, that he expected to
take his physical examination at
March Field and enter the academy
in July.
Carlisle has been working as a
reporter on the Los Angeles Tribune,
Negro newspaper.
Evening star., 1945-12-13
| Negro Youth Appointed
West Point Candidate

By the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 13.-Repre-
sentative Helen Gahagan Douglas.
Democrat, of California announced
last night she had appointed an 18-
year-old Negro, David K. Carlisle,
to West Point.
Il have selected him because he
Evening star., 1945-12-13

Francisco with Cline in SEPTEMBER,
1913.
The district attorney has found
that friends heard from Mrs. Lewis
twice while she was en- route to
Florida, and each time she said she
was very ILL., Her whereabouts has
been a mystery.
Detroit evening times., 1945-12-10
THESE DAYS -

I CAN Just imagine what will
Il happen after January first.
The breathlesS radio audience,
the largest in the world for
commentator. will he flashing
for air, when the hand-wash
will sign off and Butch will
come on.
II has not Yet been announced
whether the LaGuardla pro-
gram will be sponsored or self
sustaining. but in time it must
become a vehicle for COM
mercial advertising perhaps Of
such a noteworthy item as
cheese.
In the position allotted Butch
on Sunday night. he will have
an gudlcncc which had inst ljs-
toned 10 Tho AtczL gossip fran
tie Crane Club or Drake club
or something and had discovered
the marNclS OF The StaCCato.
Intriguing Butch. lovab ] 2
Butch, sanity Butch will appear
to tell every one that he does
Detroit evening times., 1945-12-10

THE American BroadCaStlng
i Co. is 10 be congratulated
on being able to hire for its net
work an extraordinarily colossal
comedlan-a worthy successor
10 an illustrious tradition OF
mimics, including such charac-
ters as Weber and Fields-the
inimitable "Butch" LaGuardla,
soon 10 be a broadcaSter to be
placed on Sunday nights near
Walter Winchell and Louella
Parsons.
One need but have listened 10
the Little Flower" read the
comic strips over the radio on =
Sunday afternoon 10 realize
that n al these years the
mayor nl NcA York had missed
hs y.so fo.te lor ncNol bad
amy ore prrdurcd ~uch ra'hos.
such stnlSter tilldiny such
seductive appeal
never heard him do either
Iiess or Maggie or even the
rolling pln-what a p4tyt