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Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-22
Roundup Queen
Finals To Be
Held March 81

Entrants in the Imperial Valley
Roundup Queen contest will assem-
BILE for the finals in the vacant lot
at Seventh and State streets, Ell
Centro, March 81, at 3 pm. instead
of at Maguire's Corral on April /,
as was planned originally.
April l is Easter Sunday and the
change was made in Difference to
the Ministerial Association of El
Centro, after protest on the con-
test Being held on that date, ac-
cording to w. G.. Outlook, secretary
of the El Centro Chamber of Com
merce.
So far as Miss Ell Centre entrants
are concerned, the contest to deter
mine who will represent this city
in the finals will be decided, March
25 at Maguire's corral at 2:3O pm.
Other cities of the valley will fix
their own times and places for their
contestants in the preliminary con-
tests
The program committee Thurs
day had invited Mexicali to enter
the contest and it seemed probable
that the city would accept the invi-
tation.
Virtually all valley cities Thurs
day had reported active interest in
the queen contest. The number of
applicants at Holtville and Ell Gen.
tro headed the list Thursday, but
with several other cities yet to be
heard from.
The work of increasing the seat
ing capacity at the Fairgrounds is
to be started shortly and when COM
pleted fully 5000 seats will be made
available, Special parking arrange
ments for motor cars also is plan
ned.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-22
0PA Calls in
Gas Coupons

WASHINGTON, March %. CUP
The Office of Price Administration
said Thursday that BIS, C-5, Ell
and RI gasoline coupons and all
D coupons not serially numbered
will not be good after March 81.
Most CT these types of coupons
have been used up, OPA said, and
it is desirable to remove from circu-
lation the few remaining in hands
of consumers.
OPA announced that first quar-
ter 1945 T coupons also will expire
on March 81.
Service station operators will have
through April 10 to turn in their
coupons.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-22
Tokyo Evacuates
Civilian People
By UNITED PRESS

The Domei Japanese) news agen-
cy indicated Thursc ay that about
2.000,000 persons have been evacu-
ated from Tokyo, which before the
war was the worlds third largest
city with a population of approx
mately 100000.
The Domei dispatch. recorded by
the FEC. quoted Home Minister
Shigeo O6achi as saying that the
heavy evacuation of victims of re-
cent air raids have greatly expedit-
ed the depopulation of the Tokyo
metropolis. in consequence of which
Tokyo's population is now probably
less than 100000"
Odachi was quoted as asserting
he expected the depopulation ito be
further intensified" and that the
government has not yet "cetermin-
ed the number of people Tokyo
should retain"
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-22
Senators Eve
Movie Prices

WASHINGTON, March %. CUP)
Members of the senate banking
committee are trying to decide
Thursday whether the price of
movie tickets belongs in the baili-
wick of humanitarianism or infla-
ton.
When they make up their minds
en- that, they think they will be able
to decide what to do with the re-
quest of Price Chief Chester Bowles
for price controls on movie admis-
sions.
AS one senator said it:
Now, if we lock at this thing like
humanitarians, we ought to do it.
1t would be the just and right
thing
After all, the servicemen's wives,
the white collar workers and the
poor folks ought to be able to go to
the movies without breaking their
budgets"
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-22
Panay Capital
City Falls to
0nrushing Yanks

MANILA, March %, (UP)-Am-
erican troops and Filipino guerrillas
tracked down scattered japanese
remnants on Panay Thursday after
crushing the last organized resis-
tance with the capture of Iloilo, cap
ital of the island.
Virtual completion of the Panay
campaign came as American bomb
ers from the Philippines stepped up
their aerial offensive to severely
pound the japanese shipping re-
sources from the Eastern Philip
pines to the coast Of China.
Thirteen Japanese vessels, in
cluding five small warships, were
destroyed or damaged sin the wide
spread attacks carried out by al
most every type Of aircraft, from
fighters to heavy Liberator bomb
erS.
The rapid campaign on Panay,
sixth largest of the Philippines,
overwhelmed the main Japanese
forces in So hours and left only
small scattered pockets to be mop
ped up by the American troops and
the Filipino Guerillas.
The last organized resistance was
broken when Maj Gen. Rapp
Brush's veteran 40th Division fore
es stormeld into Iloilo under cover
of low-flying Mitchell M d i u m
bombers.
Approximately 10 per cent of the
capital city was burned or blasted
by the Japanese, although the docks
and fine anchorage facilities were
found undamaged. Iloilo's harbor,
fronting on the Iloilo river and the
strait, is one of the best in the
central Philippines.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-22
0PA Puts Cei|inq
On All Hay

WASHINGTON, March %, CUP)
The Office of Price Administra-
ton Thursday set nationwide dol
lar-and-cent ceiling prices on all
types of hay at all levels of dis
tribution
Previously, only alfalfa hay was
under price control i,
Prices, OPA said, will reflect par
ity to producers and become ef-
fective May /. On January Is,
parity on all types of hay was $40. 40
per ton.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-22
1900 ID. s. Planes Blast
RUhr Command q Station

These points are in the heart of
the area where the Nazis most fear
attack. There already they are pre-
vented from observing Allied prep
arations by what was described as
the worlds greatest smokescreen.
Airfields attacked included those
at Kitzengen, Gielbelstadt, Rhein-
Main, STEWARDSHIP Hall, and Ahl-
horn.
The heaviest sustained air often
sive of the war against the Reich
roared through the night with two
Mosquito attacks on Berlin and
Lancaster heavy bombers assaults
on an oil refinery at Hamburg and
benzol plant between Bochum and
Dortmund.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-22

LONDON, March %. (UP)
More than 1900 American
heavy bo m b ers dropped
knock k-out quantities of
bombs upon nine German
command stations in the
Ruhr valley and five Rhine
river airfields Thursday in
an attack designed to demeralize
the German command alreacy jit-
terry over an Allied Ruhr offensive.
The attack was aimed squarely
at the nerve centers of the German
army at the north end of the front
and came after days of repeated
bombing attacks which already had
the Nazi command groggy.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-22
OK Dodgers
Get Worninq

treasury department estimated that
income tax evac ers were costing the
government from $3,OO0,00u,0OO to
S5,OOO,OG0,60O annually in lost reve-
nue..
Morgenthau told his press con-
ference he hoped fewer loans would
he made for the purchase of gov
ernment securities during the sew
enth war loan drive. He called such
loans free riding" loans. He said
that each successive drive brought
fewer of these free riding" infla-
tionary loans because bankers, cor
porations and insurance companies
are being educated" not to make
them
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-22

The daylight attack, protected by
more than 700 Mustang fighters,
sent the day and night total of at
tacking Allied warplanes on the
west front over the 5000 mark.
1t appeared that the Allied air
forces were out to match or top
Wednesdays figure of 10000 sorties.
Targets Thursday incluoed some
of the crack German jet-plane fields
just back of the Ruhr-Rhine front.
Among the points struck were
German army encampment and mil
itary centers near Bottrop, Glad
beck, Barmingholte, Dorsten, Wes-
terholt, Mulheim, Hindsbeck, Hat
tingen, and Geresheim-all in the
Ruhr.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-22

WASHINGTON, March %. CUP
Secretary of the Treasury Henry
Morgenthau, Jr., said Thursday he
will soon announce a new plan of
government action against income
tax evaders.
He said he had been studying the
tax evasion matter for scme time.
Morgenthau would not speculate
on how much tax evasion is costing
the government, but he indicated
the new plan would be directed
chiefly at "the boys who live in the
plush" rather than the small tax
payer.
A federal fiscal official not in the
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-22

Assemblyman Walter J. Fourt r.
Ventura, author of the assembly tax
reduction bill said he would move
for committee of the whole" con-
sic Grafton of the bill The procedure
would allow testimony by persons
other than aSsemblymen.
AMENDMENTS PREPARED
Amendments were prepared to the
bill. meantime, by Assemblyman Ed
ward F.. O'Day Cd San Francisco,
to earmark one-fifth of sales tax
collections from 1943 to 1947 for
postwar employment projects Of
cities and counties.
O'Day said the grants would total
about $102 100000. OF the amount,
$57,000,000 would come out of the
states postwar reserve which has
been accommodating since July of
1943. The remaining $47,000,00
would come from future tax COL
lections.
Richard Graves, secretary of the
League of California Cities which
has been asking for 100000, ,00u
suovention from increased taxes,
said the new proposal was satisfac-
tory to his group.
The O'Day proposal was another
indication of a reported trend of
the city and county groups to ask
for grants under reduced taxes, in
steaCi of insisting on tax rate in
creases.
WILL NOT OPPOSE BILL
Assemblyman Gardiner Johnson
(RD Berkeley, author of the origi-
nal subvention bill backed by the
local groups, said he would not op-
rose the tax reduction bill.
A committee of Republican assem-
blymen met with Warren meantime
TO ask his approval for considera-
ton of a $25,OOO,OOO appropriation
for salary raises for state employees.
They withheld comment on the
meeting until they could report tC
the Republican caucus.
Warren has opposed any state
rises not in line with national wage
stabilization policies, and the state
personnel board has reported that
state employees have received all
wage increases possible under the
Little Steel Formula.
The assembly defeated a bill
which would have required stores
selling horse meat to describe their
business in prominent signs.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-22
u. s. Fleet "FIees" to Area
Of Jap Island Target

GUAM, March %. (UP)-
The Fifth fleet Thursday was
reported approaching the Ok
inawa islands, 300 mile S
southwest of Japan, possibly
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-22

for new blows at Japan's
waning sea and air power.
"a Tokyo broadcast said 100 Am
erican SuperfortresSes, Liberator
hombers and lightning fighters raid
ed Japanese-held Hainan island off
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-22

EDITORS NOTE: Boyd Lewis
European news manager, has just
returned to supreme Allied head
quarters after quick inspection
of the fighting fronts from Field
Marshal Sir Bernard MOntgom-
ery's 21st Army Group to 1t. Gen.
George S. Patton's rampaging
Third American Army. In the
following dispatch he reports that
the new Allied offensive now being
mounted will exceed in fury any
thing ever thrown at the Ger
mans and that it is designed to
end the war-quickly.
SHAEF, PARIS, March %, (UP)-
The fury OF the American assault
on the Saar merely is a foretaste
of impending operations and the
campaign now being mounted I be-
lieve, is one which will end the war
It is secret to the Germans that
this attack is coming.
(The London Daily Express Thurs
day bannered Rhine Any Hour
Now" 1t quoted German reports
that the Allied all-out offensive is
about to start)
SOUNDS WARNING
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower al
ready has warned the workers of
he Ruhr that their homeland is
bout to become a battlefield. The
only thing the Germans don't know
is when the attack will start.
For several days the Germans
have been fishing for information
on the jump-off date with rumors of
impending operations by Field Mar
shal Sir Bernard Montgomery's
Twenty-first Army group.
Usually the closer one gets to the
front the more conservative one
becomes about the wars end.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-22
Mighty Aerial Barrage
Blasts Rhine Front
Final Offensive
Hin+ed as
All Armies Move

PARIS, March %. (UP)
The u. S. First army drove
from its Rhine bridgehead
Thursday against the south
ern flank of the Ruhr under
an aerial barrage laid down
by more than 1000 American
warplanes.
One of the wars biggest
tactical air offensives was in
full swing along the Rhine
front from the Swiss border
to the North Sea. German
and Allied military COM
mentators indicated t h a t
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's
"win t h e : war" offensive
might already have begun.
1t. Gen. Courtney H. Hodges U.
S. First army already was on the
move northward from it's salient
east of the Rhine. 1t battered with
tanks and infantry against the mar
row Sieg river barely 10 miles from
the southern flank of the Ruhr.
simultaneously, the American
Third and Seventh armies to the
south clinched their most decisive
victory of the war with the de-
struction of all but handful of an
estimated 10000 to 100000 Germans
il, tha Saar-Palatinatp
MERGE INTO SOLID FRONT
The two armies merged into a
solid front west of the Rhine and
closed against the river with a rush
that threatened to eliminate the
few thousand surviving Germans be-
fore the weeks enc.
It. Gen. George S. Pattons Third
army troops were mopping up iso-
lat ed German pockets inside the
great Rhine chemical center of Lud-
wigshafen. Other Third army forces
stabbed to the Rhine north of Lud-
wigshafen and struck southward to-
ward the last enemy escape port
opposite Karlsruhe.
1t. Gen. Alexander M. Patchs
U. S. Seventh army troops, mean
while, burst out of the center of the
Siegfried line from the south and
wheeled eastward to join in the
drive for the Rhine between Lud-
wigshafen and Karlsruhe.
The battle of the Saar-Paiatinate
was all but ended after seven Gays
of swift and overwhelming advance,
except for two bitter-end struggles
raging in the streets of Mainz on
the Rhine and in narrow stretch
of the Siegfried line west of Karls-
ruhe.
CROSSING NEARS
With their southern flank cleared
by Pattons sensational break
through, 1t. Gen. Courtney H.
Hodges First army troops east of
the Rhine Immediately charged
northward in aApower drive that
threatened momentarily to spill
across the marrow Sieg river into
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Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-22

WASHINGTON, March 90. CUP)
- Small meat packers charged
Thursday that federal price policies
have kept beef off the nations dim
ner tanles.
Arthur l.. Winn of the National
Independent Meat Packers associa-
ton told the senate banking COM
mittee that the Office of Price Ad-
ministration helped bring about
maldistribution of the country'S meat
supply.
I'VE are convinced that the below
cost price policy of OPA on beef
is denying the country a large in
crease in beef supply Winn ADDED
BOWLES HEARS CHARGES
Nearby sat Price, Administrator
Chester Bowles. who in the same
room Wednesday accused meat
packers cf crying famine" with
Continued on Page 8, Col. -
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-22

3 AMBLIhe
EpoRTER
Yippeeeee Zip

Ylppeeeee ZIP
Imperial valley has come Out in
the open as a completely horSey
community.
It's horses here anC horses there
Boots and saddles all day long
Interest in the coming Roundup
has reached such state that we
expect to see the whole population
blossoming out in chaps, loud shir S,
big hats, and cowboy boots.
Until after the Roundup RR will
sign all articles odd Hoss."
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-22
Small Packers
Blame 0PA for
Meat Shortage

WASHINGTON, March %.
tUP)-The government Thursday
sought to alleviate the meat
shortage by increasing the sub
sidy to cattle slaughterers. The
increase will be up to so cents a
hundred pounds.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-22
The Lullabye--

The Lullabye--
Bill Wallace and Marcus Briggs
bedded themselves down for the
night in the Wilds along the Colo
RADIO river.
. They felt grand and went to sleep
early because they ate SO much fish
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Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-22
S&ote Assembly
Maps Postwar
Fund for Cities
Tax Reduction Measures Comes Up
For Debate as Amendments Set
Up Moneys for Peace Time Projects

SACRAMENTO, March %. (UP)-The assembly was
start debate tax reduction bill favored by Governor
Earl Warren late Thursday new proposal for state
grants to cities and counties prepared.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-22
WEATHER

Maximum wednesday "a, minimum
Thurs. 40; 5 am. Thurs. 55, humid
ity 80; noon Thurs. IS, humidity 49,
8 pm. Wednesday ~, humidity 35.
The Omaha guide., 1945-10-06
PACIFIC:
Macarthur Disputed

Taking sharp difference with Gen.
Douglas MacArthur's declaration in
Tokyo that only 200, 600 American
troops may be needed for the Japa-
nese occupation, Pres. Harry S. Tru-
man feared for its effect on army
rehabilitation plans and Acting
Secretary of State Dean Acheson
said that at this time it was difficult
to forecast the eventual size of the
force.
Basing his estimate upon the Japs'
wholehearted effort at cooperation
with his command, MacArthur's
latest figure Of 200, 900 was a sharp
reduction from the 400, 600 recently
projected and the 900, 900 at first
thought necessary. In making his
statement, Macarthur said that the
Japs' execution of his dictates
through their governmental frame
work relieved the U. S. of establish
ing an elaborate military authority
to perform the same tasks.
In seeking to Offset expectations
that MacArthur's announcement
might lead to speedier demobiliza-
ton, President Truman declared
the program was not dependent upon
occupation needs.
Speaking for the state depart
ment, Acting Secretary Acheson as
serted that the ultimate size Of the
occupation force viii depend upon
the scope of the job of eradicating
the whole Jap war-making econ
omy.
The Omaha guide., 1945-10-06
GENERALIZATION
Point Cut

Asserting that no man would be
kept just to maintain a big army,
Gen. George c. Marshall revealed a
stepped-up rehabilitation program
providing for a further decrease
of discharge points to go on Novem-
Der l following the October / slash
to 70. At the same time, the total
necessary for officers was to be
cut to rs.
Marshall reviewed rehabilitation
plans at a meeting with 300 con-
gressmen at which he also affirmed
receipt of General MacArthur's es-
innate of an occupation force of only
200, 900 for Japan by next summer.
Though Macarthur had reduced his
estimate, Marshall said, General
Eisenhower's figure of 400, 900 for
Germany remains the same.
9 Declaring that the present rate of
releases has been determined solely
by the availability of discharge ia
c~ilities, Marshall said that all G.I.s
without useful army work would be
freed within three to four weeks.
With the exhaustion of high point
men by late winter, the army may
further alter its rehabilitation pro-
gram by releasing all men with two
years of service.
The Omaha guide., 1945-10-06
LABOR:
Seek Peace

Armed with emergency powers
Secretary of Labor Lewis Schwelen-
bach moved into the troubled mus
trial front, where CLIO demands for
appreciate wage boosts threatened
to retard the reconversion program
and jeopardize Sterilization policy
Schwellenbach faced no easy
task, what with the strategic oil, au-
tomobile, farm equipment and steel
unions striving for wage readjust-
ments to bring 40-hour-a-week pay
UP to wartime overtime levels, and
major producers bucking the de-
mands in the face of rigid price con-
troll.
In all instances, CLIO demands for
substantial wage boosts were predi-
Gated on the claim that the big com
panies had made stable wartime
profits and could use the money to
defray part of the increases until
peacetime production could be re-
established on a volume basis.
While oil workers already had
walked out Of midwest refineries IN
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The Omaha guide., 1945-10-06
WAR CRIMES:
Try Nazis

Charged with systematic starva-
ton and neglect Of internees at the
notorious Belsen concentration
camp, As Nazi men and women tried
to fight back at their war crimes
trial conducted at a British military
court in Lueneburg, Germany.
In seeking to defend themselves,
the accused followed the line that
most of the 0 1000 prisoners in the
camp were all habitual criminals,
felons and homo-sexuals. Britons
taking over the camp upon the Nazi
collapse claimed that their expert
ence showed it was not necessary
to use force to govern the i~nternees.
In first Selling the camp, ae Brit
ish counted $4,000 dead, a n another
5000 died later because their con-
dition was beyond treatment med
ical officers charged. Though sup-
plies we're obtainable in the imme-
diate vicinity Of the camp, no ef-
fort was made to procure provisions.
The Omaha guide., 1945-10-06
LONG FLIGHT:
across Great Circle

Approximately rs hours and 43
minutes after taking off from north
ern Japan, the first Of three giant
BIG bombers glided onto the
sprawling Chicago airport, to be
shortly followed by the remaining
two after a 5,995 mile experimental
run.
With three top U. S. air force COM
manders in the planes, the original
plans called for a nonstop run to
Washington, D. c., to test the great
circle route and attendant weather
in the far north. Because Of strong
headwinds during the early stages Of
the flight necessitating increased use
Of gas, however, the Bios decided to
land in the Windy City for ~refueling.
Though travelling $685. miles in a
long journey which took them over
Kamchatka, Alaska and Canada be-
fore reaching the u. S., the Ameri-
can airmen led by Maj. Gen. Curtis
E. LIE May fell LOO miles short Of
the record nonstop flight set by
two Britons flying from Egypt to
Australia in 1888.
The Omaha guide., 1945-10-06
RETAIL PRICING:
absorb Increases

Declaring that up to now retailers
have not been squeezed by price
control, OPAdministrator Chester
Bowles reiterated government pol
icy that dealers would have to abb
sorb any increases in manufacturing
costs in the reconversion period.
Rejecting a plea of a retailer
group that such absorption would
be uneconomic and unfair, Bowles
said that dealers markups were not
reduced during the war, and records
show that profits scared under in
creased volume and lower operat-
ing costs. Whereas the profit mar
gin of department stores stood at Ia
during the 1868 period, it reached
IL per cent in 1914, he said.
Under OPA's pricing policy for
manufacturers for the reconversion
period, some increases will be per-
mitted to allow for higher labor and
material costs. Profit margins will
be held to half the industry-wide
average for larger businesses or
prewar levels for smaller firms,
however.