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Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-13
SCREEN EMPLOYEES UNION
OIISTS SIX DIRECTORS

HOLLYWOOD, April 13. OUP)-
Six members of the Screen Office
Employees Guild who protested
against compulsory political asses
mentss levied in last November
election have been expelled from
the union.
Four OF the six had brought the
unsuccessful suit against the union,
charging the assessments were used
to support political candidates. The
union said the funds were used to
fight an initiative measure seeking
to outlaw the closed shop.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-13
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE OF INTENTION

The IMPERIAL VALLEY WIRES
rLING CLUB intends applying to
the State Athletic Commission OF
California for wrestling permit to
hold wrestling at 143 No. Sixth ST.,
City of Ell Centre, California.
HERMAN ZUCKERMAN, D.B.A.
Imperial Valley Wrestling Club.
(No. 52) (A2 to Alb)
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-13
FACE CHARGES

HOLLYWOOD, April 10. CUP)-
DR.. Martin Hass, dentist, and Henry
Seelander Thursday were ordered
held for trial in superior court on
a charge of contributing to the
delinquency of a minor by photo
graphing her in the nude. The girl
l6-year old Aleen StorLyeather'
testified that she posed for PIC
lures for the men, who were given
hearing before Superior judge
A. A. Scott. The defendants Will
be arraigred in Superior Cours
April II.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-13
FLARES SHOT FROM SHIPS

As full darkness came, flares be-
gan lighting the country ahead of
us over the front lines. They were
shot in shells from our battleships,
timed to burst over our lines. and
float down on parachutes. This was
to keep the country lighted up so
we could see the Japs if they tried
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-13

EDITORS NOTE: The following edit
oriais are presented as interesting opin-
ions Uoiced by editors eiseurhere. They
do not necessarily reflect the opinion of
this paper.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-13


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Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-13
By ERNIE PYLE

OKINAWA-tVia Navy Radio
Our first night on Okinawa wa
uneanny and full of old familia
soundS-the exciting, sad, wear,
little sounds of war.
1t had been six months since I'6
slept on the ground, or heard E
rifle shot. With the marines it wa
about the same.
was tagging along with head
Quarters company of a regir' ent. We
were on a pretty, grassy ~-Jpe out
in the country. The front lines were
about a thoLsan-S yards ahead.
Other troops were bivouacked all
around Us.
There were still few sniperS hid
ing around An officer was brought
III lust before dark, shot through
the arm. So we were on our toes.
Just at dusk three planes flew
slowly overhead in the direction of
the beach. We paid no attention,
for we thought they were ours.
But they weren't.
HELL CUTS LOOSE
In a moment all hell cut loose
from the beach. Our entire fleet
and the guns ashore started throw
ing stuff into the sky. I've never
seen a thicker batch of ack-ack.
As one of the marines said, there
were more bullets than there was
sky Those Jap pilots must have
thought the world was coming to
an end to fly into lead storm like
that only 10 hours after we had
landed on Ckinawa All three were
shot down.
As deep darkness came on we got
into our toxholes and settled down
for the night. The countryside be-
came as siient as d graveyard-si-
lent, that is. between shots. The
only sounds We're war sounds. There
were no country sounds at all. The
sky was a riot of stars.
Capt. Tom Brown was in the fox
hole next to me. AS we lay there
on our backs. looking up into the
starry sky, he said:
There's the big dipper. That's
the first time I've seen that since
I've been in the Pacific" For, you
see, marines of this division have
done all their fighting under the
Southern Cross, where our Big Dip
per doesn't show.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-13
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NOTICE SALE OF TAX DECIDED PROPRTY BY IHE
TAX COLLECTOR OF THE COUNTY OF IMPERIAL
STATE OF CALIFORNIA

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elected become
the hereinafter
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hereinafter described ano
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den County, that the name Of the assessee
assessed for each year there
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each parcel that unless
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LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-06
U. s., Britain Halt
Talks on Poland
Ask Reds Explain
Arrest Of Poles
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Continued from Page One)
been asking the Soviet govern
ment about the report that n
number of prominent Polish
democratic leaders In Poland
had met for discussion with
Soviet authorities during the
latter part Of March.
"Mr. MOlotov has now Off
cially informed Mr.. Eden and
myself that these leaders were
arrested on the charge OF
'diversionist' activities against
the Red army.
Eve told Mr.. Molotov of our
great concern on learning after
such n long delay of this dis
turbing development which has
q direct bearing on the working
out OF the Polish problem. The
Crimes agreement on Poland
provided for consultations with
Representatives of the Warsaw
provisional government an d
with Polish democratic political
leaders from within Poland and
from abroad.
I'VE have asked Mr.. Molotov
for a complete list of the names
OF these Polish political leaders
who have been arrested and \
full explanation Of this action.
Further discussions must await
a reply."
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-06

threw sufficient tFeePs and ships
into both theaters.
"Slnce Japan and Russia were
not at war there was no drain
an the Russians In the east"
Asked why the Germans StooC
west OF the Rhine instead of eaSt
OF II. the marshal said:
I'm the last analysis. when
YOU are defending the home
land, every inch OF ground Is
valuable. Besides. I'm the west
YOU can fight better. In the
United States YOU wouldn't start
with the defense of the Rocky
Mountains, hut along the coast"
He then was questioned again
about his December drive.
"The main reason for IT," he
said "was the terrific pressure
eXerted by the break into the
Ruhr. The objective was To
throw back the American and
British troops west of the
MeuSe and take Llege.
1--WE had held off your Jue-
liCh-Roer attack once and were
agreed on the necessity of fore
stalling another by major
counter-sttack on the principle
that II IN foOlhardy for a weaker
force Ia carry on n static de-
Tense against An eventually
overpowering opponent.
"T would not have given
single-handed decision of that
sort. But the order for the
December offensive came from
Hitler.
"The fuehrer. the high COM
mand and myself were fully
aware that all was at stake.
"It caught you by surprise
hut after some days the weather
turned I'm your favor. In addi-
ton, air attacks, snow and mud
all hampered the transport.
"Our supplies failed to reach
the front, while Gen. Patton
very skillfuily seized an advan-
tage with swift armored move
ments which hit us Mt Bas-
togne.
you might say we were
almost without gas. after
while. The opposite was true
on your side.
Then the Russian attack
came, as we had expected. We
had to rush all our spare pan
Lers east.
"If IL hadn't been for your
hamstringing our mobility, we
not only could have broken
through in December and turned
the tide. but in 1914 we could
have smashed your invasion"
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-06

Captured were Loszlau, at the
north end of the Elbe bridge to
American-held DesSau, and Com
mern.. six miles southeast of Mag
deburg. The Germans still held a
narrow 40-mile long strip against
the river southwark from Havel-
burg. As miles northwest of the
Berlin outskirts.
An estimated 2,500000 German
troops has fallen into Allied
hands in the last six days. In
the north the British Second
Army marched into Denmark and
the Canadian First Army moved
TO enter northern and western
Holland in accordance with the
capitulation of 100000 Germans
in northwest Europe.
Far to the south, forces Of the
A m meric Seventh and Fifth
armies, which linked up Friday
below the Brenner Pass, were
assembling elements of another
100000 enemy troops which had
surrendered to the Allied Mediter-
ranean command last Sunday.
The unconditional surrender of
the German elite Eleventh Panzer
Division to Patton's Goth Division
already ripped a gaping hole in
the Sudeten Mountains Little
Maginot" line of Notifications
shielding Pllsen.
1t also opened the road for a
speedy eastward drive into eastern
Austria for a linkup with Russian
forces west of Soviet-held Vienna.
Patton's forces were aiming at
the quick destruction of the Ger
man Seventh Army. the last or
gained major enemy force still
engaging any OF Eisenhower S
troops.
The enemy Seventh Army for
merly belonged TO Gen. Friedrich
Schultze's army group &C." but
had been transferred some time
ago TO the Czecho-Slovak border
area TO resist Patton's advance
and guard the rear of the Nazi
forces engaging the RUSSIANS,
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-06
CONTINUED from Page One)

tC0ntinued from rage OneD
natically with their last tank divi-
sions.
The nightly Soviet communique
revealed that Gen. Andrei I. Yere-
menko's Fourth Ukrainian group
on the north flank had captured
MoravaSka Baroum in a 14-mile
push through southern spur of
the Sudeten mountains TO within
ID miles northeast of the strategic
road hub of Olomouc.
Olomouc was the central base
of perhaps the last German de-
tense line in Europe and already
was being outflanked on both sides.
Marshal Malinovsky's Second
Ukrainian army coming up on the
south captured the Kromeriz junc-
tion 20 miles below Olomouc and
narrowed the gap between the
two Soviet prongs TO "a miles. At
the eastern end of the developing
sack the Russians captured Mis-
tex, AZ miles east of Olomouc.
Everywhere else across the vast
desolated acres of Europe-save
In Norway-the only remaining
task was mopping up isolated
German groups which fought on
with the dumb obedience of cattle
or out of fanaticism for the lost
NaZi cause.
(The German Mediterranean
fleet surrendered unconditiOn-
ally to the Allies. the Berne
radio reported, according to
ms. The feet included several
light cruisers, the broadcast
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-06
HARBOR USE SPEEDED

In capturing Swinemuende. the
Russians cleaned up Use o m
Island, on which the port lies. and
adjoining Violin Island to assure
early entry of Soviet shipping into
Stettin Harbor, 30 miles up Stet-
tin Bay. More than 1000 Ger
mans were captured
Other Russian troops 10 the
east drove to the end of the
FriSche Nehrung, a narrow spit
of East Prussian soil. and reached
the border of Danzig Free State
where a few thousand other Ger
mans still were holding out.
Southwest of Berlin, the Rus
SLAMS surged % miles across the
last German pocket east Of the
Elbe and reached the river on a
35-mile front east of Magdeburg.
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-06
REDS ACCUSE POLES

LONDON, May 5 GNS)-The
Soviet news agency Tass charged
today that the 10 representatives
of the Polish government in Lon
don, arrested by the Soviets, were
responsible for the death of more
than 100 officers and men of the
Red army"
The TaSs statement. accusing
the Is of preparing diversionsry
acts" behind the Red army, said
they were arrested while nego-
tiating with Russian authorities in
Poland.
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-06
Repel Jap Thrust
On Okinawa
1853 Planes Downed:
Jap Homeland Raided

GUAM Sunday, May 6 (UPy
AT least 5000 Japanese troops
were killed in heavy fighting on
Okinawa Friday when American
army and marine divisions re-
pelled desperate large-scale
counterattack, it was announced
today.
One hundred and sixty-eigbt
enemy planes were shot down
during a co-ordinated aerial as
sault against the u. S. Pacifid
Fleet warships. Enemy casualties
now total 33.462 killed on the
island.
Fleet Adm. Nimitz disclosed
that the veteran army and marine
division along Okinawa's southern
line beat back the enemy ground
assault in savage engagements
through Friday and at mid-morn-
ing Saturday, resumed the Ameri-
can advance southwark.
YANKs RESUME ADVANCE
The enemy counterattack fol-
lowed Thursday nights abortive
attempt TO land forces behind the
u. S. lines. Heavy artillery fire
supported the Jap push and tanks
led the offensive which was direc-
ted mainly at the Seventh and
18th divisions.
With the support OF heavy
barrage by army and marine ar
tillery and low-level strafng by
carrier and marine aircraft, the
Tenth Army's ground troops
smashed the attack. They irnme-
diately resumed their advance 10
take advantage OF the disorganized
state of the enemy's lines after his
failure in these operations.
Nimitz disclosed that the total
Of 33,462 enemy dead compared
with 2,337 American soldiers and
marine killed in the bloody battle
for the 70-mile long island.
LOSSES DISCLOSED
The enemy also lost 700 PRISON.
-erS of war.
a TOTAL OF IL .4SZ Americans
were wounded and 5l4 were MISS
ing during the period through May
5, NimitZ said.
The l68 enemy planes destroyed
over Okinawa Friday included 45
downed by marine pilots and 81
by carrier force patrols. The ac-
ton covered the japanese suicide
plane assault against the Pacific
feet units. in which five light
L. s. surface units were previ-
ouSly reported sunk.
A small group of enemy planes
again struck at Okinawa Satur-
day and bombed the Yontan air
strip. No damage was caused.
Navy search bombers mean
while ranged over Korea for the
second time. They bombed Fusan
Harbor and destroyed two large
tanks. A cargo ship south OF
| Fusan was sunk in the attack,
carried out Friday.
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-06
100000 Nazis Quit in Austria

once so that there may be no
further loss OF life
The territory embraced in the
surrender of army group C ex-
tends clockwiSe from kircheberg,
three miles southwest of Linz,
through south Germany toward
the south and southwest, includ-
ing all Of western Austria to
Switzerland's eastern frontier.
Prior to the surrender, Ameri-
can Seventh Army forces bagged
at least 49,600 prisoners, including
ID German generals, on Friday.
Also captured was reichsminister
Hans Franck, former Nazi COVER
nor general of occupied Poland
and one of the foremost of Axis
war criminals.
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-06
Herriot Asks French
To Back De GauIIe

NEW YORK. May g QNS)-
Edouard Herriot, former French
premier liberated from the Nazis,
urged his countrymen in a Mos
COW broadcast today to give your
help" TO the provisional govern
ment of Gen. De Gaulle.
The French leader. whose poll
cies conflicted with those of Vichy,
said that the man who in the
darkest hours, represented the ma
tion's conscience and hopes is in
your midst"
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-06
Hunt Little Thug
In Hooper Case
CONTINUED from Page One)

(NOUtlnueu ITOIn rage oHtJ
They failed to raise the bond inn
mediately.
Their attorneys sought 10 have
the bond reduced 10 $4,000 each,
but Justice Bibblngs denied the
request.
Seliks wife was in the crowd Of
spectators who thronged the
courtroom
From authoritative sources, il
was learned today that the police
theory is this
The four defendants, like many
other underworld figures and
bookmakerS, were being robbed
at the point of gun by Sar-
kesian. a former boxer who was
stir crazy" after long sentence
in Jackson Prison.
Sarkesian was inviting SEN
tence Of death from his victims.
and his victims finally decided to
let him have il.
After SarkeSian was found at
Cadillac boulevard and Charlevoix
last Aug. l6 with SIX bullets in
his head, the trigger man-the
man with the little feet and the
big pistol-remained in Detroit.
He enjoyed the protection of
the underworld. His services were
much appreciated and. because no
one would talk. the Detroit police
were unable TO bring a murder
charge
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-06
Explosion Gives 80
To Nazi Publication

COPENHAGEN, May 5 GNS)
-Denmark's only Nazi newspaper
the northumberland pub
lication today.
A few hours later it's offices
flew skyward in a tremendous
explosion.
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-06
RAID JAP HOMELAND

WASHINGTON. May 3 CTNS)
American B-29 Superfortresses
in farflung. three-pronged raids
on the Japanese homeland were
said by the war department to-
night 10 have battered the large
Hiro naval aircraft plant in the
Kure area OF Honshu with good"
results
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-06
Nazi Cruelty Proved,
U.s.. Editors Declare
Continued from Page One)

Continued from Page One
John Randolph Hearst, Hearst Newspapers.
Ben Hibbs, Saturday Evening Post.
Stanley High, Readers Digest.
Ben Mckelway, Washington Star.
William i. Nichols, This Week Magazine.
L. X. Nicholson New Orleans Times Picayune
Gideon Seymour, Minneapolis Star-Journal
Joseph Pulitzer. St Louis Post. Dispatch.
Duke Shoop Kansas City Star.
Beverly W. Smith, American Magazine
Walker Stone, Scrpps- Howard Newspaper Alliance
n. L. Walter, Houston Chronicle.
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-06
BELGIUM Halls Holland

SAN FRANCISC May
QNS)-Paul Henri Spaak. prime
minister of Belgium. today hailed
liberation Of the Netherlands with
the words-they ARE now liber-
ated and saved"
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-06
CEASE FIRING ORDER

Surrender of the German First
and Ninteenth Armies. signed at
Devers' headquarters on the out
skirts of Munich, was scheduled
10 go into effect with cease
fire" order at noon (6 a. m. EWT)
Sunday. Both sides, however,
broadcast orders to their respec-
tive troops to stop hoStilities at
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-06
Arrest Of HimmIer' S
Family Reported

NEW YORK, May s tUP)-The
Paris radio said today that. &C.
cording TO information reaching
the Swiss border. the wife and
children OF Heinrich Himmler had
been arrested on orders Of Adm.
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-06
Rundstedt Extols
Allied Air PoUer
By PIERRE j. HUSS

WITH L. S. SEVENTH ARMY. May 5 QNSl-lp pol
ished jackboots and bemedaled uniform Naz Field Mar
shal Gerd Runstedt today blamed Germanys military
defeat upon overwhelming Allied air power which parayzed
the Wehrmachts mobility of transport and supplies The
captured oneme chief of all German military forces in
western Europe interviewed for hour bV Allied
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-06
owl Plans TO 60 on Air

WASHINGTON, May s GNS)
The Office OF War Information
said today that the American
broadcasting station in Europe
will be suspended 80 days after
We Day.
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-06
Danish KinQ
Thanks Allies
Government Member.
Start Assembling

STOCKHOLM. May ; GNSl-
Amid the ringing of bells by LOO
Danish churches, King Christian
X made a brief talk over the
Copenhagen radio today. thanking
the Allies for the liberation of
Denmark.
The aged monarch's voice shook
AS he tod OF the deep-felt graft
tude of the Danes for the fighting
victories Of the Allied Nations.
Denmark's new foreign min
lister, Christian Moeller, arrived
IN Malmoe from England and
boarded the first ferry for Copen-
hagen this morning.
MISSION IN COPENHAGEN
A British military mission,
headed by Mai. Gen. Richard II.
Dewing, arrived in Copenhagen
by air along with elements of the
British Sixth Paratroop Division,
as fighting ragged inside the cap
ital between Patriots and Nazis.
CThe British radio reported
that the British troops imme-
diately went into action against
the Gernans still holding out
in the city hall square. The
broadcast was reported by the
FFC.D
Tonight two CenterS of German
resistance Sull held out against
the Patriots. These were in the
Telegraph Building and at the
NeStre Prison. where | 900 Pa
troit Danes still were incarcer-
ated.
DANISH NAZIS FIGHT
One of the fresh series of
clashes was sparked when Danish
Nazis attacked a huge crowd of
loyal Danes converging on the
royal palace to pay homage To
King Christian.
With Denmark free, reports OF
rapid developments in Norway
also flooded Stockholm. The
German-occupied country was
pictured as waiting tensely for
big news
QUISLING LOSES POWER
Also dispatches said that Vidkun
Quisling now is without political
influence or administrative power
German planes were said 10 be
landing one after the other at
the Forneby airfield outside the
Morse capital.
Other rumors circulated 10 the
effect that these NaZi leaders are
ready to surrender. but Josef Ter
bowen. German overSeer for Nor
way. is fighting for his life and
those of his henchmen by oppoS-
ing plans TO yield.
(In London, Reuters quoted
the Moscow radio as reporting
that German officials and their
families are evacuating Oslo
and retiring to Lillehammer, S5
miles north Of Oslo.)
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-06
STEP TO INVASION

Fall of the Tarakan airStrip. an
important military prize which
must be taken 10 pave the way
for the eventual invasion of the
Borneo mainland, appeared inn
minent.
Casualties remain light, the
communique said, due largely 10
heavy neutralizing strikes against
Jap airdromeS.
Nineteen small freighters. two
river steamers and numerous
smaller craft were destroyed by
air and naval patrols.
On Mindanao Island in the
southern Philippines the capital
city OF Davao was disclosed 10
have been completely liberated
after a sharp fight by troops OF
the oath Yank Infantry Division
GAIN ON MINDANAo
In the Mindanao interior 3lst
Division infantrymen advanced
another six miles northward or
the main central highway, cutting
off the only remaining route be
tween the enemy's DavaO force'
and the Jap garrison in the Ku
kidnon uplands.
I'VE are now menacing his
great air base at Valencia"
Macarthur declared.
On Luzon Island medium, at
tack and fighter bombers dropped
Nanother $50 tons of explosives or
and heavily strafed Jap rear in
stallations in support OF Yank anC
guerilla forces fighting their way
into rugged, Jap-Infested northern
areas.
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-06
STOOL PIGEONS MUM

Even professional stool pigeons
shut up this time because all
agreed that the man with the gun
had earned the gratitude of the
whole city.
But being protected by the un-
derworld entails certain obliga-
tions. And when il was decided
that Senator Warren G.. Hooper
must be killed because he talked
too much 10 the Lansing grand
jury, the services OF the little
gunman were again enlisted.
Again he carried out his assign
ment with perfection.
Having centered al last on his
trail the investigators have
quietly sent word throughout the
country that this short. steel
nerved young man is wanted by
them.