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Evening star., 1945-03-30
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in diplomatic quarters to convey a
governments private view, spokes-
man for one of them said the pro-
posal would be sure to stir major
controversy at the San Francisco
Conference opening April Is, and
that the discussion would over
shadow even the issue of veto privi-
lege for a major power in prospec-
tive league military action against
itself.
Spokesmen contended that neither
France nor China would support a
proposal which would give them a
veice smaller than those of the Big
Three. One official said the best
solution to remove the snarl over
voting would be for Russia, the
United States and the British En-
pire each to be given a single vote.
Some said privately that the three
vote plan might be withdrawn as "a
trade" if the smaller nations soft
ened their clamor for greater rep
|resentation in the league council.
This, however, appeared unlikely
The British dominions separately
are pressing claims for votes.
Evening star., 1945-03-30

$50 900 In cash and cashiers checks
totaling $75, 900. Five men, including
two accomplices, were convicted OF
the crime and now are serving SEN
tences in Federal prisons.
That robbery was the largest in
the Washington area. The largest
previously reported was that of the
old Neutrality-suspicious. on Rhode
Island avenue NE. in 1892, when
between $4,000 and $4,000 was
taken, The robbers later were
caught and convicted.
A messenger carrying a SITS pay
roll from the Bank of Bethesda, Md,
to store across the street was kid
naped in a car and robbed by two
men in March, 1910, but they also
were convicted. Two armed men
robbed bank at Clear Spring, Md.
in December, 1889, of $4,000 after
forcing three employees and a Gus
toner into the vault. They were
convicted in that case and for three
other Maryland bank robberieS.
Evening star., 1945-03-30
HoIdup
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plates by police showed they evi-
IDENTIFY were taken from a wrecked
car owned by Calvin Merkle, an
overseas veteran now stationed at
Annapolis. According to police, Mr..
Merkle was driving from Annapolis
about month ago when he had an
accident. The car was towed away
by the Foote Motor Co., of Maryland
Park, Md, police said, and was
picked up later by the Bankers
Mutual Insurance Co. and taken to
the National City Auto Service
garage at 81 H street NE. to be
repaired.
An official of this motor company
said the car did not have license
tags on 1t when it was brought in
on March 8. The car is still in the
garage.
Mr.. Dooley said this was the first
holdup in the banks 136-year his
tory. Neither of the tellers was
armed. the bank official said, and
the satchel was not chained to Mr.
Phillips hand or wrist. The bag
contained change money for the de-
partment stores busy pre- Easter
business. The largest bills in the
bag were for $40. None of the serial
numbers was on record at the bank.
Mr.. Dooley said. The loss is fully
covered by insurance.
Mr.. Goode has been with the bank
for 20 years, according to the vice
president. Mr. Phillips was employed
there four years ago.
Description Broadcast.
Within few minutes, police
broadcast a lookout for a black
Chevrolet sedan containing three
white men. Two of the men were
described as being about IS to 40
years old. One was about 6 feet tall
and weighed about 200 pounds. He
was wearing a brown suit coat
with dark blue trousers and a hat.
The other was about feet or g
inches tall, weighed about $50
pounds and wore dark clothing. No
description was obtained of the
driver.
When the bandits took the satchel
from the bank employees they placed
it in an airplane-type suitcase about
80 inches long and 20 inches wide,
witnesses said.
First Since 1941.
The robbery was the first bank
holdup in the Washington area since
September Is, 1941, when three
armed bandits robbed two messen-
gers of the Prince Georges Bank g.
Trust Co. in Hyattsville, Md, of
Evening star., 1945-03-30
Ii. Col. Katherine TowIe
OF Marines Gets INSIGNIA

1t. Col. Katherine A. Towle, Berk-
eley, Calf, the only woman in the
Marine Corps holding that rank
received her silver oak leaf insignia
yesterday at a brief ceremony at
Marine Corps headquarters. She is
assistant to the director of the
Womens Reserve, Col. Ruth Cheney
Streeter, who formerly was the only
woman holding that rank but who
was promoted recently.
Col. Towle was assistant manager
of the University of California Press
when she was commissioned a cap
tain in the reserve in 1943.
Evening star., 1945-03-30
Bids Asked on Elevators
For District BUILDING

The District Government has
asked for bids by April II to replace
its 37-year- elevators in the Dis
trict Building.
The District has a $4,000 appro-
priation from last year for four
new elevators and remodling work
to replace the six old ones. Two
elevators are to be placed at the
west and two at the east ends of
the building.
Last year in pleading for funds,
District officials told Congress the
maximum speed of the old elevators
was only $50 feet per minute COM
pared with 400 feet per minute
reached by modern elevators.
Evening star., 1945-03-30
First Since 194l

The robbery was the first bank
holdup in the Washington area since
September Is, 1941, when three
armed bandits robbed two messen-
gers of the Prince Georges Bank g.
Trust Co. in Hyattsville, Md, of
Evening star., 1945-03-30
$500 Block Street
To Watch Sinotro
Eat Dinner at Cafe
By the Associated Press.


NEW YORK, Mar. 30.-Frank
Sinatra ate an Italian dinner
last night with an audience
which police estimated at 1900.
The crooner and a party of
friends arrived at a Mulberry
street restaurant at $3.50 pm.
BY 9 o'clock cries of Frankie!
Come out!" reached the police
telegraph bureau three blocks
away. Five radio cars and an
emergency truck responded.
frankie finally slipped out via
a kitchen exit, an alley and the
rear window of a pastry shop.
But two hours later the crowd
still was milling around in front
of the restaurant - and still
chanting for frankie. Police
blocked off the street until the
throng dispersed.
Evening star., 1945-03-30

Children's Hospital, and Coreen
Hickman, 80, colored, of the 700
block of Second street NV, bitten
in the same area by stray dog and
treated at Casualty Hospital.
Another dog, which had scratched
several children but was not known
to have bitten any one, died of
rabies today at the District pound.
Evening star., 1945-03-30
Security
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posals for a world security system
were made at the Big Three meet
ing at Yalta.
Authoritative sources assured
correspondents, however, that no
other such agreements affecting
the Dumbarton Oaks proposals had
been made
The Secretary avoided direct
answer when asked whether this
Government is disappointed that
Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov
will not attend the San Francisco
Conference, replying only that he
will welcome any delegation coming
from Russia and work with them in
complete harmony.
Moscow has announced that An
drei A. Gromyko, young Ambassa-
dor here, will head the Soviet dele
CATION to the conference, which most
United Nations consider important
enough to require the presence OF
their foreign ministers.
Secretary Stettinius, who returned
to his desk today after brief vaca-
ton, met with reporters after con-
ferring for more than an hour with
members of the American delega-
ton.
Secret From Delegates.
tt was understood that the Yalta
agreement regarding IN increase ir
Russian and American voting power
in the assembly was kept secret
even from the American delegation
until last week, when President
Roosevelt told them about it.
The White House announced the
agreement yesterday under which
three votes each for Russia and the
United States will be sought in the
proposed world security organiza-
ton.
Some officials speculated privately
that the agreement had not been
announced previously in the hope
that Russia would drop its request
for additional representation in the
assembly.
This Governments position is un-
derstood actually to be in opposi-
tion to any nation having more
than one vote. When the question
came up at Yalta, however, American
representatives were reluctant to
endanger other agreements by op-
posing the request fatty, and merely
said, in effect, eff you insist on
three votes, we will have to have
three votes, too," in the hope that
this would lead to withdrawal OF
the Soviet request.
Committed to Back Reds.
AS it stands now, this Govern
ment is committed to support the
Russian proposal at San Francisco
and the British and Russian gov
ernments are committed not to op-
pose a grant of three matching
votes to the United States.
The White House announcement
prompted a demand by Chairman
Bloom of the House Foreign Affairs
Committee, member of the Ameri-
can delegation to San Francisco
that this Government go further
and seek the same number of votes
as the British Commonwealth
United Kingdom, Canada, Australia
India, New Zealand and South
Africa.
Another member of the American
delegation, Senator Vandenberg,
Republican, of Michigan, expressed
sharp opposition to the Big Three
plan for giving Russia and the
United States greater voice in the
proposed assembly than the small
nations which will make up the bulk
of its membership.
st deeply disagree with any voting
proposal which would destroy the
sovereign equality of nations in the
peace leagues assembly," he de-
clared. This applies just as much
to extra votes for us, as well as any
other nation"
The Soviet decision to leave its
representation at San Francisco tc
Evening star., 1945-03-30
Correspondents to Speak

Douglas Cornell, Associated Press,
one of three press association cor
respondents who joined President
Roosevelt overseas after the Yalta
Conference, was to address the Uni
versity of Missouri Alumni Associa-
ton of Washington at 1890 pm.
today In the Hotel Sheraton.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-05
Five Injured
In Road Crash

w. j. Thornburg, Jr., l9, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. w. j. Thornburg, Sr.,
of El Centro, Jimmy Black, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Dan Black of Holt
vile, Murl Norton, Edward Marion,
and Dick Ludwick, all of Holtville,
were injured at Live Oak Springs
Sunday night when their car and
a car filled with sailors collided
head-on on the snow encrusted
highway.
Young Thornburg suffered chest
injury when thrown against che
steering wheel and his face was
cut when his srectacles were smash
ed. Blacks front teeth were said
to have been loosened. The other
boys were shaken and bruised.
One Of the sailors suffered a
broken leg and an ambulance was
summoned from Mitchell Conval-
escent hospital. Thornburg and
Black were put TO bed at Live Oak
Springs but physicians who arrived
with the army ambulance insisted
that the boys be taken TO Camp
Mitchell hospital for treatment.
They were to be brought to Ell Gen.
tro Monday, however.
The accident was said to have
occurred when both the cars skidded
in the snow While attempting to
pass another car which was parked.
The Galley boys were EN- route
home from Pine Valley.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-05
Sheriff's Posse
Plans Shows

Free public entertainments COM
posed of horseback games for men,
women, and children will be pre-
sented once a month hereafter py
the Imperial County Sheriff's POST
/. was decided at an official business
meeting at the posse corrals a. II
Centre Sunday.
Posse members decided to spon-
sor the entertainments at the new
corrals on Imperial avenue between
the San Diego and Arizona railroad
tracks and the new immigration
Border patrol building The enter
tainments we're planned because of
the lack of activities an6 restricted
travelling during the war and will
oe arranged to provide healthful
ENJOYABLE recreation for everyone
who likes horses and horseback
games. i was announced.
A committee was appointed to
take charge Of arrangements and
draw up a program of possibly L
events, L. H. Dove of Calexico, posse
PRESIDENT, announced.
More than 40 members attended
the affair Sunday which included
the business meeting, a chuck wag-
on lunch at the Ira Aten ranch
and horseback games at the cor
-alS.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-05
Sen. vandenberq
Accepts Place
At Peace ParIey

WASHINGTON, March 5. UP
Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg,
tRo, Michigan, Monday accepted
President RooSevelt'S invitation to
serve as a member of the United
States delegation to the interna-
tional security conference at San
Francisco.
He said he had been assured by
the White House that there would
be no restrictions on his freedom
of individual action.
Vandenberg announced his ac-
ceptance after IAN exchange of cor
dial and satisfactory personal let
ters with the President, clarifying
my right of free action"
Previously he had declined to
comment on the White House an
nouncement that he would be in
vited to be one CT eight U. S. dele
gates to the San Francisco meeting
beginning April 25.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-05
Death Summons
Valley Rancher

Frank w. Fisher, 65, rancher in
the Mt. Signal district since 1911
died Sunday morning at his home.
He was born at Itasca, Hill county
Texas, November l9, 1878.
When he first came to lmperlaI
Valley in 1911 Fisher and family
lived in an arrow weed camp on
the banks Of the Westside Main can
al, near the site of their home today.
Among his survivors are MS wife
Mrs. Birdie L. Fisher, a daughter
Mrs. Walter Wakefield OF El Centro;
three sons. Tom II. Fisher OF Holt
vile. Corporal James B. Fisher al
Kearns, Utah, and Wyatt Fisher OF
San Francisco; a sister, Mrs. Mary
E. Tipps of San Gabriel; and q
grandson. Walter Harold Wakefield
of e. Centre.
Funeral services will be held il
Fl Centre. Definite date awaits ar
rival of Corporal Fisher.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-05
N. J. Wesferfie!d
Succumbs at b8

M. j. mike Westerfield. 68. dice
Sunday morning at a p.ivate sani-
tarium in Riverside after an illness
Of many months.
His wife, Mrs. Evalyn Bomar
Westerfield. Imperial county re-
corder, was with him when he died
The funeral will be held at the
w. H. Simonds funeral chapel ir
Riverside at 2:30 p. N. Wednesday
The Rev. Edwin L. Carter. former
pastor of the State Street Chris
tian church in El Centro. will
preach the funeral sermon.
Other survivors are n daughter
Mrs. Wanda w. Smith of Vancou-
yer. British Columbia. and tvs
grandchildren, Barbara Smith anG
Carter Michael Smith.
Westerfield was we'll known in
Imperial Valley and always was in
terested in valley political, agricul-
tural and business affairs. He en-
gagged in printing and publishing
for many years and after retiring
from that business, was interested
in citrus culture. He was closely as
sociated with the late Frank Miller
of Mission Inn fame. His health
broke several years ago and he was
forced to retire from active manage
ment CT his affairs.
His interest in newspapers began
when he was young and he never
lost it. At one time he published the
Riverside Enterprise.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-05
Farmers Group
Calls for
Train Service

Imperial County Farm Bureau
directors are patriotic, they insist
ed at their meeting in El Centre
Saturday. but they protest the train
service now afforded this area.
Director Lon Cruickshank, a
poultryman, said the new train
schedules made delivery of baby
chickens difficult and inconvenient.
Il think Imperial Valley is en-
titled to one passenger train each
way every day." one director said.
7 know all about the necessities
of war and the office of defense
transportation but I think We should
register our protest at once. Other
directors agreed and instructed
Cruickshank to confer with the
bureau utilities committee and
Southern Pacific railroad officials
TO see what can be arranged for
better service now and after the
war.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-05
Yanks Smash Way
Into Cologne
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Berlin said German demolition
squads blew up both great spans in
the faces CT the attacking dough-
coys to prevent a crossing. There
vas no immediate confirmation of
the enemy reports which. if correct,
meant the Nazis had abandoned
thousands of their troops on the
west hank CT the Rhine to be cut to
pieces by the Americans.
ONLY ONE BRIDGE LEFT
Only the Wesel bridge remained
ttanding north of Duisburg, fer the
evacuation OF the German rear
guards facing the Canadian First
army. The Cologne bridges were be-
iieVed to have been wrecked, either
by German sappers or Allied bombs.
The advance INTO Cologne was ef-
fected by tanks and armored cars
Of the Third division after they had
captured the suburban towns OF
Longerich and Mengenich, less than
two miles north of the city. A third
column was advancing along the
west bank of the Rhine from Wor-
ringen, 6T miles to the north.
Cunningham reported that the
Cologne garrison was believed to
have escaped across the Rhine in
barges, suggesting that the great
Hohenzollern bridge and the other
Cologne spans had been wrecked
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-05
FARM BUREAU DIRECTORS
PLAN SCHOOLS SURVEY

Legislation affecting The public
schools of California will occupy
directors of the Imperial County
Farm Bureau at their meeting
April 7, they decided at their March
meeting Saturday.
They discussed ALB 1859 Saturday
but decided they needed more in
formation and Details of its effect
upon Imperial county schools before
passing any kind of a resolution
re garding it. They asked the Bureau
legislative committee to make a de-
tailed study and report April 7. In
the meantime, they decided to tele-
phone Assemblyman George Buffers
of Brawley to delay introducing the
bill until they have chance tC
give him the results of their study
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-05
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE OF PUBLIC WORK

Notice is hereby given that res.
olution of intention No. 89i wae
adopted AMI passed on the 2lst day
of February, l945, in which resolu-
ton it was proposed that certain
alleys therein referred TO and here
matter described be vacated and
entirely closed up. Said alleys arc
described as follows:
All of the east and west alley
through Block 3, Third Addition.
from the west line of Wilson
Street to the east line of Lot B
in said Third Addition.
Also all of the alley running
north and south in Block 3,
Third Addition. located between
the westerly production of the
north line of Lot % in said Block
3 and the westerly proc uction OF
a line parallel with and distant
20 feet northerly from the south
line of said Lot %.
Said resolution of intention Is
hereby referred TO for further parti-
cularS.
FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY
GIVEN that any person interested
objecting to the said closing of the
said alleys may make written ob-
iections to the same within ten
(l0) Gays after the expiration OF
the time of the publication Of this
notice, and such objection or objec-
tions will be given a hearing by the
City Council as provided By law.
E. PAUL FORD,
Street Superintendent OF
the City of FL Centro.
mo. 37) CM2-13 incl
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-05
Health Measures
Stir Session
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lawmakers, however, have indicated
their opposition to the plan.
The legislative counsel has ruled
that only a majority vote will be
necessary to pass the Warren Dill
since it makes no spectre appro-
oriation of state money. Appropria-
ton bills require a two-thlrdS vote
IN both houses, and compulsory
insurance bill sponsored by the C1C
presently is in this class.
Opposition to The compulsory
health bills evidently will center on
L claim of California Medical asso-
ciation officials that the proposed
AK will not be sufficient to pay
medical anc hospital bills OF all
wage earners and their families.
Speaker Charles Lyon believes
tha, the health insurance and
other issues will not greatly
crolong the session, but dis
sgreement was expressed by Alfred
". Robertson, Santa Barbara, DEM
DCl dll| 44OO1 4SONASA'
LONG SESSION
Lyon forecast adjournment be-
.ween May Is and June l, while
Robertson expects the session to
last until approximately June 81.
Robertson also inc icated that DEM
)crats will demand full explana-
ion of items in Warren's S683,000,-
300 budget, and said he believes his
party should insist that controllable
expenses be kept below l943-45 to-
tails.
An exception, he said, will be de-
partment of institutions budget re-
quests. The ways anc means COM
mittee's tour of state hospitals has
convinced him that more money is
needed for mental treatment, he
said.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-05
RoSE-MESQUITE CENTER
REACHES ROLL GOAL

RoSe-Mesquite farm center was
the fifth in the county to make its
membership quota this year, it was
announced from the Imperial Coun-
ty Farm Bureau office Monday.
The total signed up was rs. The
other centers aleady having signed
up in order of completion of the
l945 drive are Jasper, Acacia,
Spruce e-Westmorland and Alamo
Verde.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-05
CHARLES w. BRYAN DIES
AT LINCOLN HOME, 78

LINCOLN, Neb., March 5. (UP)
Former Governor Charles w.
BRYAN. brother of the late William
Jennings Bryan and Democratic
candidate for vice president in 1924,
died Sunday at his home. He was
70 years old and had been i'll sav-
eral months.
BRYAN was known as Brother
Charlie" because of his illustrious
brother during the early days af
his career, but he subsequently
became a political power in his own
right and was elected governor Of
Nebraska three times. 4
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-05
Marines BayOnet
laps in Last
Fighting on Two
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gency landing for refueling on the
airstrip Sunday after bombing
Tokyo and took off four hours later
Eventually, Iwo's airfields will be
used regularly for refuelling the
B-2gs and as a base for escorting
fighters.
Admiral Chester w. Nimitz, COM
mander of the Pacific fleet, an
nounced in a communique that H.
846 Japanese dead had been count
ed by p. m. Saturday, an increase
of more than 5,700 over the toll an
nounced only "a hours earlier.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-05
FREEDOM OF AIR

The SECTION proposing maximum
attainable freet ON of the air con-
.ained recommendations similar to
those of the American delegation
h. the Chicago civil aviation confer
ence.
The report also proposed that the
type of international civil aviation
organization agreed on at Chicago
be established by treaty.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-05
SHE REALLY MEANS 1T

MAIDEN. Mass. March 5. CUP)--
A new fad going the rounds is il
luStrated by Bunny Fleming of Nal
den. who wears a red school cap
with a cigaret affixed to the visor,
which bears the message, Hard to
Get"
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-05
Help Us AGAIN

Help Us AGAIN
One Of our friends has a trailer
house in his yard which he is rent
ing to a young lieutenant and hi
wife. His landlord and his neighborS
insi.t that he make the young sery-
ice couple move. Apparently they
can force him to 40 SO.
Il can't bear TO tuIn them out,
the trailer owner said. They are
fine people. They cont smoke or
drink and they don't cause any
trouble"
Will someone please get in {
helpful mcod?
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-05
Biddle Bares
Airbase Pacfs

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visions of the war mobilization and
reconyersion act, asked expanded
authority for the civil aeronautics
board to regulate international car
rierS.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-05

The young rabbit doubles his
weight in seven days whereas the
average human baby requires 1870
days to double its weight.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-05

Officials expect that the supply
of fertilizers available in l945 will
be 172 per cent of the average sup
plies used in the years 1885 to 1899.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-05
RAMBLING REPORTER

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was about as popular as an old-linC
Republican at a New Deal politica
conference.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-05
Something Rare

Grandma, said Kay Gillet:, 9
to Mrs. Kate Tipps. 90 you want
some ice cream? I know a place
where you can buy pre-War ice
cream"