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Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-29
Two Valley Men
Win War Medals

Two more Imperial county men
have earned honors and decorations
in Europe. They are Lieutenant r. L.
Frocsal' and Sergeant Donald H.
Stephens Jr.
Lieutenant Procsal, %, lombard
navigator in a BIS Marauder.
has been decorated with the Air
Medal and seven Oak Leaf Clusters.
it was announced from a ninth air
force bomber base in Belgium. He
is a son of Mr.. and Mrs. Mike
Procsal of the Ell Centre area. After
attending school in Ell Centre, he
attended California State Polytch-
nical College where lie played three
years of varsity football. won a
Golden Gloves boxing title and was
vice president of the student body.
Sergeant Stephens. who used to
live at Coyote Wells when his par
ents operated the service station
there. received the Silver Star for
gallantry in action on Luzon. Phil
ippine islands, last February is, his
uncle, o. D. Stephens of Seeley, was
informed.
The citation said In part: Dur
ing an engagement with the enemy
Sergeant Stephens moved forward
under heavy fire in order to cover
the mouth of cave occupied by
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Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-29

viction that the alternative is physi-
cal and moral chaos in many weary
places of the earth, he said.
Il shall do it because there must
be no default in our oft-pledged
purpose to outlaw aggression so far
as lies within our human power. /
shall do it because this plan, re-
gardleSs of infirmities, holds great
promise that the United Nations
may collaborate for peace as effec-
lively as they had made common
cause for war.
II shall do it because peace must
not be cheated of its only collective
chance
Vandenberg addressed most of his
5000-word speech to answering pos
sible criticisms of the charter
He recognized, first. that it may
not be perfect. But, he insisted, it is
a start which can be corrected in
the future.
But there will be no future for
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-29
B-29 FLEET BLASTS HUGE JAP OIL PLANTS
vondenberg Sees Charter
AS World En- oncipotion

it, unless. we make this start" he
persisted. Il doubt if there could
ever be another or a better start.
MUST MAKE TRY
I'VE dare not fail to try We dare
not fail to strive in this direction
no matter how far we fall short
of the goal"
Those who would protest that
some charter signatories practice
the opposite of what they preach,
Vandenberg said it only proved the
greatness of the need for such an
instrument which promises at least
to try to stem these evil tides"
Against the argument that the
treaty shouldn't be ratified before
the final peace terms are decided,
Vandenberg contended that a strong
organization would help in the just
ness of the peace terms.
Pointing out that the final draft
permits the general assembly to
recommend measures for peaceful
settlement of any situation, regard
less of origin, which it deems likely
to impair the general welfare" Van
denberg said:
Il submit that justice is infinitely
better off with such a forum than
it would be if such a forum were
refused. I suggest that the more one
fears the nature of the final peace.
speaking not of our enemies but of
our friends, the warmer should be
ones welcome to an institution
which can promise some element
of orderly correction"
Under such circumstances, he said.
"the quicker this institution begins
to function the quicker justice may
hope to find its voice and mobilize
its friends"
Vandenberg also undertook to
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Discharged Men
Receive Aid

The difficult road discharged vet
Grams frequently travel on their
way back to civilian life will be
smoothed somewhat by means Of
Directory of Services and Ben
efits' prepared for distribution by
the Local Veterans Service COM
mittee of Imperial county.
This booklet will be distributed
widely SO that veterans and all res
idents of the county may use it to
help direct returned veterans to the
services and help them in getting
adjusted to civilian life again.
Committee members met in El
Centre Thursday night to receive
copies of the booklet and to hear
r r. Ostrander. Imperial county
veterans service officer. tell Of the
different kinds Of discharges be-
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-29
LEST WE FORGET
Lieut.. DeIozier
Dies on 0kinawa

Lieutenant Jack Delozier of
FL Centre died on Okinawa
May 90 from wounds suffered in
action the day before. his par
ents were told in an official war
department message received
Thursday.
Delozier's death occurred on
his second tour of duty in the
Pacific war zone, where he was
serving with the seventh infantry
division.
He had been in the service
almost four years. His first stay
in the Pacific war zone continued
81 months. Then he was returned
to the United States last Sep
telnber and attended officers
training school. Last March he
again was returned to the Pacific
and took part in the struggle for
the island where so many other
Americans lost their lives.
Lieutenant Delozier was well
known III Ell Centre, where he
was graduated from Central
Union High School and Central
Junior College.
The family received a message
Wednesday that he had been
wounded The death message
came Thursday.
Survivors include his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. H. B. Delozier, and
his sister. Mrs. Lillian Fleming,
all of E1 Centre.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-29
Packing Plant
At Imperial
To Change Hands

The Lathrop Investment Corpo-
ration meat packing plant in I'm
perial is being sold to Henry Vein
berg and Sydney Genser of Los
Angeles. it was revealed Friday.
1t is expected the transaction will
be completed Saturday at the escrow
department of Los Angeles bank.
known for many years as the
Pacific Land and Cattle Company
packing plant. the establishment is
situated on the east side of N street,
between Twelfth and Fourteenth
streets, Imperial.
Company officials concerned in
the deal we're not Immediately avail
able for details of the transaction.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-29
Detroit Strikes
| End as New
| FIare-ups Loom
BY UNITED PRESS

Some 10000 Detroit workers went
back to their war tasks Friday after
CIO and .AFL leaders tentatively
agreed to end jurisdictional disputes
but strikes elsewhere over the nation
kept an estimated $4,000 others idle
The back to work movement be-
gan Thursday night in response to
orders from United Auto Workers
| (CIOD President r. j. Thomas, who
warned that members remaining off
work could not expect support from
the international union.
CONFER IN CAPITAL
Thomas announcement followed
conferences in Washington between
International officers of the UAW
and the National Building Trades
Council (AFL).
A wave of labor unrest continued
in other sections of the country,
however
Railway brotherhoods represent
| ing employees on two Chicago SUBJ
urban electric lines voted to leave
their jobs on Monday to press de-
mands Tor a wage boost. while Chi
cago headquarters of the Amalgam-
ated Meat Cutters (AFL) warned
that their 100000 members were de-
manding immediate action on War
Labor Board approved raise.
In Pennsylvania, operations were
resumed at the new Kinsington
| plant of the Aluminium Company
of America. after a one-day shut
down that idled 1900 workers. About
200 workers were still idle at the
Carnegie Illinois Steel Corporation S
Duquesne plant.
Meanwhile, war plants and other
consumers in 43 western PennSyl-
vania communities face possible
| shutdown of electric power unless
threatened strike of Pennsylvania
Electric Company employees is head
ed off before July 5.
An early end to a lengthy glass
blowers strike was promised when
President Joseph Froesch of the
Glass, Ceramic and Silica Sand
workers tCIO) told 1900 employees
of the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Com
pany eand the Lbbef- Owens Ford
Glass Company to call off their
work stoppage.
At Akron, Ohio, federal seizure
appeared the next step in strike
of 16.500 rubber workers against the
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Com
psny. An almost equal number of
Firestone workers earlier this week
granted their officers authority to
call strike, if necessary. to back
up contract demands
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-29
Yanks Discover
Ribbentrop Gold

LONDON. June 20. CUP)-A
London News-Chronicle dispatch
from Salzburg, Germany, saio Fri
day that the American third divi-
sion has found five tons of gold
worth S28.500,000 that had been
hidden on orders of former German
Foreign Minister Joachim Won Rib
bentrop.
The cache was discovered beneath
the home of former burgomeister
and an adjoining house at Bad
Bastein, the dispatch said 1t in
cluded gold bars and British. Amer
lean and Italian coins.
Ribbentrop was captured by Brit
ish troops in Hamburg several weeks
ago.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-29

ing issued servicemen.
The committee members. repre-
senting all kinds of services to vet
erans, thanked Mrs. Charlotte Morse
o. seiective service and Mrs. Audra
Barrigan of the labor union group
for the work they did in collecting
information and compiling the ma
terial for the booklet.
Included in the group of organ
izations banded together in the
county committee are: the American
Federation of Labor. American Red
Cross. California department of en-
ployment, Veterans Readjustment
allowance. FL Centre high school
and college, selective service, United
States department Of agriculture,
United Service Organizations. Unit
ed States employment service, and
the veterans service officer.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-29
Officials Look
To 194b Fair

An Imperial county fair sfor 1916
is the hope and plan of everyone
concerned in this outstanding agri-
cultural my dertaking, 1t was learned
Friday.
A. E. Snyder, chief of the division
of fairs and expositions in Califor-
mia, was in imperial Valley Thurs
day and said he would do every
thing in his power to see that fair
is held in Imperial county next
March. 1t will be governed. of course.
by war conditions and Office of
Defense Transportation rulings, Sny-
der said
IA FAIRS IN STATE
A total of IA fairs will be held in
California this year. Snyder said,
but none was scheduled in the five
southern California counties.
Big changes will have to be made
in the Imperial county fair grounds
because the state will put in a four
lane highway along highway SO
from Brawley southwark as soon as
possible. This widening process will
slice off the front of the fair build
ings along the highway and force
changes and improvements. No fair
has been held at the grounds since
the one in the spring after the jap
anese attacked Pearl Harbor.
Lack of agricultural fairs is hamp-
ering the All club and Future
Farmers of America programs as
their programs each year are ar
ranged to culminate in the displays
at the county fair, Snyder said.
GROUNDS KEPT UP
Dorman Stewart, secretary of the
Imperial county fair board. said the
$4,000 the state fair association pays
the local fair board each year is
utilized in maintenance and repairs
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Former lsolationis+ Senator Views
Moral and Political Chaos as
Only Alternative, Without New Writ

WASHINGTON, June 20.
(UP)-Sen. Arthur H. Van
denberg (R.), Michigan, told
the senate Friday that world
chaos is the alternative to
the United Nations Security
league.
Vandenberg, chairman of
senate Republicans and a
delegate to the San Fran
cisco conference which draft
ed the Security Charter,
made his formal report to
the senate in a stirring
speech for carly ratification.
This can be a new eman-
cipation proclamation for
the world" he declared.
He pleaded with charter critics
to be realistic in their appraisal of
the document in the light of world
facts and to give it at least chance
to see whether collective security can
prevent another world war
The one-time isolationist told the
senate he would support the treaty
with all the resources at his COM
mand.
SEES ONLY CHAOS
81 shall do this in the deep con-
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-29

The KudamatSu refinery, located
outside Tokyuama 445 miles south
west of Tokyo, was the 18th individ-
ual target hit by Maj. Gen. Curtis
E. LeMay's Superforts within 81
hours. II was the 96th raid OH
Japan. During June, 1900 B-29s have
dropped 10000 tons Of bombs on
homeland cities.
Tokyo announced a mass move
ment of industry from the invasion
threatened home islands to Man
churia
GASOLINE AND OILS
The Kudamatsu refinery. only l40
miles northeast of burning Sasebo.
produces aviation gasoline and oils.
1t was the eighth major fuel in
stallation hit by B29 assaults in
the systematic destruction of Japan's
war making industries.
Pillars of flame visible rs miles
swirled upward from Sasebo.
Fires licked through Moji and
Nobeoka, Kyushu island seaportS,
and Okayama, site of NipponCSe
larnig training center on Honsfu.
Returning B-29 crewmen Of the
45O to 500 plane fleet said red-l1ot
thermal updrafts from the fires were
so intense that it eemed they
burned hole in the overcast"
MOVE TO ALEUTIANS
Japan reported United States par
achute and mountain trOoDs have
been moved into the Aleutians in
preparation for possible invasion
from the north.
Tokyo said the industrial rede-
ployment plan for Manchuria was
aimed at laying new formations for
fighting long war. Maj. Gen. Cur
tis E. LeMay's 21st bomber command
has burned out more than lis square
miles in IL key cities in q planned
campaign to pulverize the enemy's
war making industry by autumn.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-29
Truman Readies
Message on
Peace Document
May Appear Before
Congress Monday;
Holiday About Over

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, June
20. (UP) - President Tru-
man worked Friday on a
60O-word message which he will send
to the senate Monday in support
of the United Nations charter, the
basis of his startling proposal of a
world republic as the only effective
antidote for future world wars.
Charles G. Ross. the presidential
press secretary, said that Mr. Tru-
man had not decided whether he
would carry the message to congress
personally.
His proposal for world republic
of natiops was contained in speech
made here Thursday night "a solemn
call for this nation to become the
guidepost of the world by being the
first to ratify the new charter. He
likened that document to a new
world constitution.
The President confers with Alf NJ
Landon, former Kansas governor
and 1886 Republican presidential
candidate, Friday, and plans to at
tend newspapermen's party for his
press secretary.
Mr.. Truman said last night: TT
will be just as easy for nations to
get along in republic of the world
as it is for us to get along in a
republic of the United States
He was talking to Jackson county
neighbors and old classmates as he
received an honorary degree from
his alma mater, the law school of
the University of Ksnsas City.
The formal part OF Mr.. Truman's
homecoming was over. He will re-.
turn to Westminster Sunday, ~-.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-29
CALIFORNIA STATE DAv
HONORS WAR 2 VETERANS

LOS ANGELES. June %. (UP)-
The California Disabled American
Veterans Friday chose two ex-GIs
fresh from the battlefields of World
War II as officers.
Elected at the organizations state
convention Thursday, they are Sen
ior Vice Commander Capt. Lloyd
F. Cleson Of Ventura, wounded in
North Africa, and Junior Vice Com
mander John w. Shannon of San
Francisco, wounded in New Britain
foxhole.
World War I Veteran Joseph w.
Speeding of San Jose was named
commander to succeed Jim Wilson
of Taft.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-29
Fhefiqhters Get
Parachute Help

PALM SPRINGS. Calf, June %.
fUP)-Fire fighters refreshed by
food and water dropped by para
chute we're able to extinguish a
forest fire on Mount San Jacinto,
the army revealed Friday.
The crew had been fighting the
blaze since Tuesday on short rations
and little water and were about to
give up when the airborne supplies
arrived, officials said.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-29

vote of 40 to 8,
House Republicans are repeatedly
waiting for it with the intention
of making an organized fight to
send it back to conference for more
amendments adorable to the
farmer.
Representative August H. Andre
sen tR1, Minnesota, author of a
proposal to grant food car powers
to the secretary of agriculture. said
he would battle to restore his
amendment to the price control ex-
tension bill.
AS approved by the senate. the
conference report:
l. Gives incoming Secretary Of
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-29
Army Releases
Rail Workers

WASHINGTON. June 20. CUP)-
The war department. Friday author
lied emergency 30-day furloughs for
10000 solGiers who are urgently
needed on the railroads.
Authorization was given ito pre-
vent breakdown of rail transpor-
tation under the mounting pressure
of troop and freight movements
from Europe to the Pacific
Men furloughed win be employed
as brakemen. firemen, boilermakers,
electricians, car repairmen, mechan-
les, machinists and helpers. They
must be at least 26 and preferably
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-29
Bill for OPA Extension
Faces Fight in House

WASHINGTON. June 90.
(UP)-The conference re-
port on the OPA extension
bill, passed by the senate in turbu-
lent session Thursday night, headed
for a house session Friday which
observers predicted would be even
more turbulent.
The senate's turbulence was partly
due to southern filibuster against
the Fair Employment Practice Com
mittee appropriations: the houses
turbulence is expected to center on
the OPA bill itseiI.
The measure passed the senate
at 9:20 pm. Thursday night by a
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-29

30. They will not be chosen from
among those in replacement train
ing centers or alerted for overseas.
Undersecretary of War Robert p
Patterson said the action was taken
reluctantly because there was no
alternative.
Patterson said railroads west of
Chicago were the hardest hit. He
said the war department would CO.
operate with the railroads and other
agencies to obtain workers for the
railroads. The furloughs will be
granted as rapidly as the qualified
men can be located.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-29

Agriculture Clinton p. Anderson
power to veto OPA food regulations.
This is the weakened version of
the Andersen amendment
2. Provides for adjustment of rents
in defense areas.
3. Directs OPA to allow professors
a price on cattle, sheep and hogs
reflecting costs of processing plus "a
reasonable profit"
4. Removes slaughtering quotas in
plants which the secretary of agri-
culture certifies to be clean and
sanitary.
5. Allows the government to pur-
chase meat from non-federally in
spected slaughterers.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-29
Pilots Assemble
Over orset
For Direct Hits
Midnight Raid Follows Upon Heels
Of Firing Three Big Cities:
0.500 Tons Of Bombs Fall in June

GUAM, Saturday, June 80. (UP)-A fleet Of Super
fortresses blasted the big Kudamasu Oil Refinery on
onshu island Friday 20 hours after huge ncendiary fires
touched off at the Sasebo naval base and three other
important Japanese cities.
Fifty B-29s flying in close formation n-pointed the
reneryJapans fourth larges-with an undiscosed ton
mage of hgh-eXplosive bombs. It a midnight raid.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-29
CHUNGKING, June

CHUNGKING, June 20.
(UP)-China confirmed that
her new premier, 7. v.
Soong, left by plane Wednesday for
Moscow for important conferences.
Accompanying Soong we're Chang
Chang -kuo, son of Generalissimo
Chang Kai-snek; Pu Tao-ming,
the Chinese Military Council Rus
sian expert. and Lie Tze-yung, COM
missioner of foreign affairs in Sin
kiang province.
The Chinese mission was sent to
Moscow apparently to sound out the
Soviers on their attitude toward
Sinkiang. Inner Mongolia, Man
churia and the Chinese Communists.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-29

There have been frequent clashes
between Chinese troops and the no.
madic Kasak triDsmen In the Chi
nese-Soviet border province of Sin
kiang in the last year and in at
least one occasion trouble spread
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-29
Russia, Czechs
Siqn Land Pact

LONDON. June %. CUP)-T'he
Moscow radio said Friday night that
Russia and Czechoslovakia had sign
ed treaty annexing the Carpatho-
Ukraine. the eastern tip of Czecho-
slovakia. to the Soviet Union.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-29
OPA LIFTS RATIONING
ON '42 JTSED AUTOS

WASHINGTON, June %. GUPD-
The office of price administration
announced Friday that used 1912
automobiles will be removed from
rationing Monday. New 1912 models
will remain under rationing.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-29
Bond Barometer

tWestmorland, Calipatria and Nj
land totals are included in the
Brawley COUNT
OF the above grand total. 81 .827,-
933 is for individual purchases.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-29
China's Premier Speeds
To Moscow PorIey

to Inner Mongolia.
China already has made known
her intention to recover Manchuria
from the japanese after the war.
Manchuria also is on the Soviet
border.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-29
France Approves
Polish Regime
BY UNITED PRESS

The British radio reported FRIDAY
that the French government has
recognized the new Polish govern
ment in Warsaw.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-29
NEST STALLS CAR

SCRANTON, Pa. CUP) Hug h
had not been used for some time.
Bird tried to start his car, which
When it wouldn't start, he exam
ined the motor and found chip
munk nest.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-29
D AMstlNG
EpoRTER
Protect Yourselves

When work started On McCabe
road improvements it was necessary
to leave piles of material along the
right of way. c. P Oswalt, road
foreman. had four -candlepower Ian
terms placed at the dangerous points
to protect the public and prevent
accidents.
Three of the lanterns already have
been stolenl
1t wouldn't be joke, would it.
If someone died or suffered injuries
in an accident caused by the re-
moval of the lanterns?
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-29
Where Credit Is Due

RR received note from the man
who saio he telephoned the war
bond headquarters about thou
sand-dollar war bond.
He said that when the girl on
the telephone asked if he could
deliver the check, he answered
ok And he said he did deliver
the check, the third bond he has
purchased since the seventh war
loan started.
That's fine. RR's interest in the
matter was desire to see that the
$1,000 was invested in a war bond.
Continued on Page 6, Column 81
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-29
WEATHER

Maximum Thursday los, minimum
Friday 6S; am. Friday 20, humid
ity ~; noon Friday 80, humidity 81;
5 pm. Thursday 102, hamidity 10.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-29

q shall do this in the deep con
The Nome nugget., 1945-05-04
Marshal VOn Kleist Surrenders To Two Privates

With the Twenty-Sixth Infan- try Division-Field Marshal von Kleist the man who engineered the 1940 breakthrough in France surrendered himself to the Twen- ty-Sixth Infantry Division of the United States Third Army.
 When asked his views on the fate of Hitler, he replied q know only what read in the newspa- pers." Won Kleist's wife was with him when the German Marshal was found by couple of infan- try privates. His twenty-five handbags already were packed. At first he refused to surrender but when a gun was pointed at his head he changed his mind.
The Nome nugget., 1945-05-04
LADIES AID LUNCHEON

The Ladies Aid Society of the Federated Church held another of their delectable lunches in the so- cial rooms of the church Friday noon which was we'll attended. After the luncheon regular meeting of the group was held at the home of Mrs. Robert Tank houser. Proceeds of the luncheon will go for repairs on the par sonage.
The Nome nugget., 1945-05-04
TO OPEN BEAUTY SHOP

Mrs. Banks Crooks has pur- chased the Anne Dwyer house in which she plans to open a beauty parlor, as soon as her equipment arrives on the first boat.
The Nome nugget., 1945-05-04
LAVINIA WALLACE YOUNG
 MISSION

Sunday II a.m.-Sunday School for all ages. Sunday 2 p.m.-Evening Worship
 Service. Thursday 7:30 pm. - Midweek
 Prayer Service. Thursday-Choir rehearsal after
 prayer service. Saturday 7:30 pm. Sun d ay
 School teachers meeting for les
 son study and discussion.
 Rev. and Mrs. Paul Carlson in charge during the absence of the Methodist Missionary.