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Imperial Valley press., 1945-08-30
AitIer's Right Hand Man Still Free;
Was With Fuehrer Till Last Moment

LONDON, Aug. 80. fUPl-A Rus
sian spokesman said Thursday that
Martin Bormann, Adolf Hitler's
deputy and second most powerful
man IN NaZi Germany, was believed
still at large
Maj Gen. I. T. Nikitchenko. Sow
let representative on the United
Nations prosecuting committee, dis
closed that the Allies have dis
missed reports Of Bormann's death
as unfOunded.
Speculation over B0rmann'5
Whereabouts was touched off by his
inclusion among the a German
war criminals ordered to trial at
Nuremberg by the United States.
Britain. France and Russia.
At first it was thought that his
appearance Oh the mass indictment
might mean that he already haG
Imperial Valley press., 1945-08-30

suspect was not i'll British custody.
American investigators in Europe
were reported to have uncovered
evidence recently indicating that
BOrmann was still alive.
Bormann was believed the last
man with Hitler ana his 18th hour
bride. Eva Braunn, in the head
quarters bunker at Berlin. where
-he couple repeatedly killed them
selves ana had their bodies burned.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-08-30

at the naval drydocks at Long
Beach, said he'd a tough time
saving enough to take his wife
and two little girls back to Provi-
Gence, r. I.
III. say" piped daughter Mary
Ann aged 4 We never could spend
any money! Mama wouldn't even
let us ride the streetcar down.
town"
Mostly the few poor workers are
going home without any prospect
OF job. But they don't think they
have here. either And they can
draw the unemployment insurance
they earned no matter where they
are
Imperial Valley press., 1945-08-30
DISTRICT CALLS FOR BIDS
ON DROP 4 TRANSFORMER

Bids were called Tor this week
by the board Of directors Of the I'M
perial Irrigation District for a 81
500 kva transformer for Drop 4.
Bids will close September IS.
The new transformer will be part
Of the expanded power system plan
ned by the district, with the Drop
4 substation to become an import
ant part in the electric plan.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-08-30
By VIRGINIA MCPHERSON

KINGMAN, AriZ., Aug, 30. (UP)-
Not all the migrant workers who
earned big money in west coast
war plants are going home rich.
Some are limping back in the same
rattletrap trucks and fliYvers they
came in
They're almost as broke as when
then came to California a few
years ago Now. with their war Jobs
gone, they're heading back to the
Onetime dust bowl, to the east
coast, and south to look for any
kind Of a job that'll feed their
families.
They're in the very small minor
ity. Out Of the $50 cars that cross
the border daily an average of 20
are full Of those who are down
on their luck.
When they came west q few years
ago over this same highway, scarce
ly any had even the price Of their
gasoline. This time they've got
enough to fill their tanks-but not
much more.
Every now and then a big truck.
loaded down with several families
and all their household belongings.
will drive up behind a shiny new
car Of a worker who made good
in California.
JUST WONDER
The poor workers aren't bitter
about the fact that some Of the
others lit pay dirt and saved
enough to buy new farms in the
midwest They Just wonder how
,hey did it, that's all
With the ones who are broke its
a struggle just TO get home But
they've discovered that the people
Of Kingman can be persuaded to
help out with cash and temporary
Jobs
Mrs E. L. Henderson. head Of
the local Red -Cr0.s. gets most Of
tie hungry ones. All they want
from her IS enough money to get
meal and BUY some gas and oil
When they get to the next town
they'll do the same thing" she
SAID And they'll keep it up until
they get home We know they're
working a racket, But every family
We help is an emergency case.
Once III a while, she added. she
gets 4 money order in the mail from
people She mas helped. But usually
they accept the handout without
any intention Of ever paying it
back
PLENTY OF JOBS
If the men in the family are
willing to work Mrs. Henderson
sends them down the street to
Henry Caron, manager Of the
Unied States employment service.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-08-30
zoo HAS BLUE FROG

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 80. UP,-
Most frogs, as everyone knows, are
green-but at the Philadelphia Zoo
visitors can see a blue one The
frog, caught in New Jersey, is
blue because nature forgot to in
clude yellow pigment cells which
combine with the blue color to pro-
duce green. This occurs only once
in about 100000 times.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-08-30
Missing Submarine
Skipper Found

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 81 rUP ?
-Cmdr. Richard H. OKane sub
marine commander listed i'll dis-
patches from Tokyo bay as oeing
rescued and aboard the hospital
ship Reeves, was identified Thurs
day BY navy friends as the flmrG
skipper Of the missing submarine
Tang.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-08-30
FILES BATTERY CHARGES

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 80. IUP
julius @. Levenson. 81, Democrat.
county committeeman, THURSDAY
filed a battery complaint asainst
Lester Mcmillan, aSsemblyman from
the 6Ist district, whom ne accused
Of striking him following poAti-
cal raucous Wednesday night
Hearing on the complaint Wa,
set for Sept 6.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-08-30
REPORTS ROBBERY

A combination battery and cleo
tr.c radio set was taken from his
home iIst south Of Highway 80 on
Highway III Wednesday afternoon,
GUAM MANNED reported to Sheriff
Robert w Ware.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-04-16

WASHINGTON, April 15.-P)-
Congress has no We Day program
as such, its leaders admitted TO- 10,
day, but victory in Europe VIII
bring a squirt of legislative activity
No laws expire automatically
with the wars end in Europe, mos,
of the emergency legislation BENG
self-repealing after hostllltles enc
on all fronts. :,
Just what Congress should &c
when Germany collapses was dis
cussed at a recent meeting OF Its
leaders Their conclusions. as one
of them expressed it, were thai
'there is nothing of a must ma
ture that should be done, but we
must carry on mindful of the fact
that there still is war on in the
Pacific" ~
Price control legislation will ex
pi1e June 80; the Selective Train
ing and Service law ceases to nave
effect after May, Is. Machinery fol
extending both already has beer
set in MOTION. the Houses having
unanimously approved extension Of
the draft law. wi
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-04-16
French And Tanks Break
Foes Bordeaux Defeese

on both sides of the Gironde es-
tuary.
German defense lines broke I'M
der the furious assault and the
enemy started falling back into
steadily contracting pockets on the
coast, APP Correspondent Relman
NORM reported in a field dispatch.
Resistance was spotty in the mi
tial stages, with the Germans fight
ing hard to hold some pillboxes and
entertainments, while they quit
cold at other places. The French
quickly pinched off an enemy
held sector around Medis on the
north side of the estuary, about
5 miles north Of Bordeaux, while
on the south they gained similar
success in a drive straight toward
the tip Of Pointe de Grace.
Gen. Eisenhower's headquarters
suggested that the attack was only
the beginning Of a widespread
battle Of the pockets" to wipe
out an estimated 10000 Germans
strung out along the coast at such
places as St. Nazaire, Lorient and
Dunkerque.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-04-16
Germany Admits New
Breaches In Outer De-
lenses OF Capital
Bv ROMNEY WHEELER

y
LONDON, Monday April 16.-(R)
German broadcasts said last night
that Red Army forces had ripped
new breaches in Berlin's outer de-
lenses in steadily-mounting bat
tie of tanks, artillery and infantry
and were storming the approaches
to Wriezen, only "a miles north
east of the German capital.
Berlin said that the full fury OF
a four-army Russian storm, brew
ing against Berlin along 170-mile
front, had not yet burst but was
gathering force and was likely to
strike at any hour.
Moscow continued entirely 81
lent on the attack which was ex-
pected to sweep west and link
with American armies. But Pre-
mier Stain announced that Soviet
tanks rolling across Austria
through. the Danube valley toward
Hitler's hideout at Berchtesgaden
had captured st. Poelten, strategic
10-way road and rail center 81
miles east of the big Austrian in
dustrial city of Linz.
In East Prussia Soviet troops
virtually cleared the last enemy
held territory on the Samland
peninsula west of Koenigsberg, re-
ducing the enemy pocket to about
SO square miles and pushing with
in 10 miles of the escape port of
Pillau.
] German War Correspondent Ar
min Shoenberg, in a late front re-
port from east of Berlin, said that
massed Red Army tank and infan-
try forces were attacking the ap-
proaches to Wriezen in ''furi-
ous'' attempt to break out of
bridgeheads on the curving west
bank of the Oder river.
By enemy account the battle was
blazing along at least 57-mile
front with Marshal Gregory K.
Zhukov's first white Russian army
and Marshal Ivan S. Konev's first
Ukranians spearheading the as
sault. Berlin said. that Zhukov
himself had relinquished command
to Gen. VASTLY Sokolovsky, chief
of staff under Konev, having been
recalled to Moscow.
Heavy Red Army blows, launch
ed by Marshal Gregory X. Zhu-
kovs first White Russian Army,
were concentrated on 16-mile
sector between the Oder river for
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enemy in their drive winch mas
carried them to within 10 miles OF
the northern tip of the strategic
Ryukyu island, only 1925 miles
south of Japan proper.
One isolated Japanese force or
the western side of Motobu PENN
sula offered stiff resistance, Flee
Adm. Chester w. Nimitz reported
in his communique today.
Keufu island in the Kerams
sgroup just off Okinawa's south
west coast was invaded yesterday
Eight of the Kerama islands were
seized by the 77th Army Division
shortly before the invasion Of Oki
nawa began Easter morning.
Ground forces on Okinawa con
tinued to receive close, effective
support from naval guns, carrier
and land-based aircraft and fiele
artillery.
No mention was made of Japa
nese planes raiding American ship
ping or ground targets. A heavy
toll of 265 planes was exacted from
enemy air fleets over the area
for three days late last week. Dis
patches from Okinawa indicated
this must have taken a serious
bite out Of Japan's available aer
ial striking power.
Fleet patrol bombers hit Tanega
island in the northern RyuKyus
yesterday. Amy and Marine
planes bombed and strafed Haha
lima, Chichi Jima and Muko JIM
in the Bonins, just north of Ameri.
can-conquered Two lima.
The United States now controls
Continued on Pare Five. Col Il
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-04-16
Mazi Propaganda officer
AndKonMdckensen Taken

LOlIDON, April 15.-tR)-U. S.
Third Army troops have captured
DR.. Manfred Zapp, Nazi propa-
ganda chieftain expelled from the
United States in 1871, and Euro
pean broadcasts tonight declared
Prince August Wilhelm and aged
Field Marshal August Won Mack
ensen also had fallen into Allied
hands.
Meanwhile, so far as could be
learned from the best available
sources in Paris, the German dip
lomat Franz Won Papen still was
awaiting processing and interroga
ton in Europe as a prisoner Of
war.
The Luxembourg radio sale
Prince Wilhelm, also known as
'Auwi," had been captured by the
Allies. The fourth son of the 'Kai.
ser, he once participated in Nazi
activities as a Rcichstag member
and was the most active C. al
Hohenzollern princes in the MAJ
cause.
ABSIE, American broadcastins
station in Europe, reported the
capture Of Won Mackensen,. 81
years old, who commanded the
Germans eastern front in Galicia
in the first World War.
DR.. Zapp, chief Nazi propagan
da agent in the United States from
1886 to 1941 when he was ousted
tor failing to comply with the
Alien Registration Act, was seized
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-04-16
Congress- Faces Big Job
After European Victory

The Senate, which may write
restrictions into the draft act ex-
tension if Germany no longer is in
the fight when the legislation
reaches the floor, has started hear
ings on price control extension.
It is probable that fight will
develop over that, since many
congressman believe home-front
controls may be relaxed somewhat
after Germany is defeated.
There may be move to pare
down taxes, but the Congressional.
tax-framers already have indicated
no tax relief can be expected until
after both wars end.
Whether manpower legislation
will be necessary will depend or
home-front developments. Should
there be a tendency on the part Of
ar workers to move into 'non-wa1
Jobs, Congress may move tc
t.freeze" them. The House already
has approved such move but, the
Senate has rejected it and the leg
islation is bottlenecked between the
two branchs. .s - .;.>~ .
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-04-16

PARIS, April 15.-(P- French
troops and American artillery,
spearheaded by Maj. Gen. JAG
ques lie Clerc's armored division,
have opened navy-backed as
saultto clear the Germans from
the Bordeaux pocket on the At
lantic coast and by tonight they
had broken the enemy's outer de-
tense lines.
A Cassino-like attack on this
forgotten 'front.'" 800 miles south
west of Berlin, was carried into
its second day today when more
than 1900 heavy bombers of the
U. S. Eighth Air Force rained
bombs on the holdout German gar
rison. A fleet Of. 1,150 Fortresses
and Liberators led off with a sur
prise attack early yesterday.
Trying to break the German lock
on the port Of Bordeaux so that
France can be better fed, French
troops with American artillery and
French naval support jumped OF
at dawn yesterday to attack about
10000 Germans entrenched in the
Royan and Pointe de Grave areas
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-04-16
| Truman Urged Berlin Says
To Build New Reds Are "a
Cabinet Soon Miles AWAY
Byrnes Sighted As Likely
Successor To Secretary
Stettinius

WASHINGTON, April 15-R-
President Truman is being urged
by some of his closest advisers to
make early and sweeping changes
in the Roosevelt Cabinet.
Although Mr.. Truman emotion.
ally told the Cabinet members when
he was sworn in last week he want.
ed them to stay on, most of his
friends look for changes within the
next two months.
This shakeup probably will ex-
tend down through the so-called
Little Cabinet Government Of
ficials who head agencies not OF
Cabinet rank. They have been
among the 16 or II persons who
used to gather regularly on the
Fridays President Roosevelt was
in town and wanted to see them.
Most Capitol Hill Associates OF
Mr.. Truman believe that soon after
the San Francisco United Nations
conference has concluded its work
ON an International organization,
Secretary of State Stettinius may
move on to other fields.
There are persistent reports that
the new President would like to
have James F. Byrnes, his former
Senate colleague, as his Secretary
OF State. That is perhaps the only
Government office that would in
terest Byrnes, who resigned as war
mobilizer shortly before Mr.. Roose-
velt's death.
Certainly, Mr.. Truman intends
to lean heavily on Byrnes, who &C.
companied President Roosevelt to
Yalta. The new President demon
strated that when he asked Byrnes
to accompany him to Hyde Park on
the Roosevelt funeral train and the
return to Washington.
Byrnes took along lengthy notes
which he had taken at the Yalta
conference of President Roosevelt,
Premier Stain and Prime Minister
Churchill. The shorthand notes had
been transcribed in detail since he
stepped out of official life in Wash
ington.
Of the present Cabinet, Secretary
of War Stimson and Secretary of
the Navy Forrestal are sure to be
asked to stay. There have been re-
ports that Stimson wants to quit
after VE-Day but Mr.. Truman
may prevail upon him to remain.
Forrestal and Secretary of In
terror Ickes were particular favo-
rites of President Truman when he
was senator and there is no
reason to believe his ideas about
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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-04-16
U.S.. BATTLING
FOR BALETE PASS
Engagement May Prove
Hardest And Costliest
OF Philippines

MANILA, Monday, April 16.-(P,
-Doughboys of Maj. Gen. Ennis P.
Swift's First Army Corps, fighting
in mud and rain, were locked in
desperate battle today with strong
Japanese across a front of 80 miles
or more in Luzon's rugged north.
ern terrain.
Although coming long after the
more spectacular battles for Ma
Mia and Corregidor, the northern
Luzon fighting-concentrated near
the Philippine summer capital OF
Baguio and the Balete Pass gate
way to the rich Cagayan valley
probably will prove the Hardest,
longest and perhaps costliest of
any in the Philippines.
The japanese are making a last
stand there, and doing it well.
Doughboys of Maj. Gen. Percy
Clarkson's 33rd Division are clos
ing in swiftly on Baguio, one
(Continued on Page 2; Col 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-04-16
British PoundBerlin
hSoHeningProcess
American Bombers Use New Liquid Fire Elk.
plosives; Hit Gironde Estuary In
Support OF French Drive

LONDON, Monday, April 16-lR
RAJ Mosquitoes bombed Berlin
last night in the second consecutive
night of aerial assault softening up
the German capital for the kill.
Saturday night the Raj sent more
than 700 heavy bombers against
Berlin and suburban Potsdam,
where the German army has had
its headquarters since the days OF
Frederick the Great.
During the day more than 1900
American heavy bombers, using
a new type of liquid fire along with
tons of regular high explosive
bombs, assaulted the German-held
Gironde estuary in France in
support of the French-American
drive to free the entry to Bordeaux.
Eigth Air Force fighters, not
needed in the unopposed Bordeaux
raid, helped Ninth Air Force bomb
ers blast fortific ations and commun.
ications just ahead Of American
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-04-16

Y Ork, come TO SIT IN the Assistant
Secretary's chair at the Navy De-
partment in the gray old State.
War-Navy building in Washington.
1t was a seat filled before that,
on the eve Of another war, by an
other great Roosevelt, Theodore.
1t happened I had known former
President Theodore Roosevelt
quite well.
was the only news man trav.
cling with him on California
tour and I was absorbed into his
small personal party-usuaIly just
his secretary and myself.
It was an odd experience for a
virtual newspaper cub. lived in
the private car with the great
man, ate all my meals with him,
helped him buy black SLOUGH hats
to replace those he was forever
pulling out of shape. I talked
with him by the hour at times
when he was supposed to be crest
Continued on Page Eight; Col. II
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-04-16
20 PERSONS DIE
IN PLANE CRASH
Airplane Transport Found
On Mountain In West
Virginia

MORGANTOWN, w. Va, April
15.-(P-The wreckage OF a Penn
svlvania Central Airlines transport
with II passengers and three crew.
men dead was found today on a
mountainside deep in the West
virginia hills where the liner
Continued or Page Eight; Col. ~
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ground forces converging on Pots.
dam and Berlin.
Filters said the new incendiaries
which they call 'Hitler's hot
oot"-produced spectacular re-
suits.
1T was just like hurting gi-
gantic flame thrower.' related
Sgt. George B. Hacks, Los Angeles,
Calf, Fortress gunner, in de-
scribing the effect of the tanks fill
ed with inflammable liquid which
explode on impact and splash
flames over an area Of so square
yards.
More than 100000 gallons of this
liquid fire and more than 5000 Of
the usual type incendiary bombs
as well as 1000 high explosive
bombs were spread over the. tar.
get area on both sides Of the
Gironde.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-04-16
APMan Recalls Memories
OfFrQnklm D. Roosevelt

Ozirke L. Simpson first Mr. Roosevelt when he
reporter covering the Navy Department
Secretary of the Navy That
1914. From then until Mr. Rooseves death, sinp
intimate touch with him. In this and
ceedng stories he will relate the ncidents-some Of them
little Roosevelt his friend. The
will replace his daily analysis column for the time
being)
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-04-16
Tanks On Okinalva Break
Three Jap Counterbloms

GUAM Monday April counerattacks
broken artillery Saturday night along the bterycon
Segfed Southern Oknawa and the lines
manned unchanged yesterday for the twelfth straight day
the north continued small of the
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-04-16
Bv KIRKE L. SIMPSON

A. a
in the worlds
than
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-04-16

at Bad Berka by troops Of the
89th Division, AP Correspondent
Thoburn Want reported.
Zapp, formerly head Of the
Transocean news service, said he
no longer was in contact with
Nazi leaders and that he could
give no clue as to Hitler's where.
Continued On Page Eight; Col. -
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FORECAST

v.,r md continued warm today.
x.a.rday's temperatures:
gtsh, Slow, s..
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Continued on Page Five; Col 81
Evening star., 1945-08-02
|ConnaI|y Explains
Position on Delegate
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Senator Connally, Democrat, OF
Texas yesterday denied he said that
legislation isn't needed to establish
the American delegate to the Sc
curity Council of the United Ma
tions.
Reporters understood him to say
earlier this week that in his opinion
the delegate could be appointed by
the President without action by
Congress. Some other Senators i'm
mediately took sharp issue with
this view, protesting that the Sen
ate had been given to understand
that legislation would be submitted
to it.
II was misrepresented in the press, u
Senator Connally told the Senate
yesterday.
II did not say it was unnecessary
to have a statute. I told them that
I was calling on the Secretary OF
State to work out a memorandum
on the whole question. I expressed
no opinion whether statute was
necessary. I said it might and il
might not.
Il was in no way trying to bypass
the Senate. I am anxious that this
will be handled in such a way that
it won't bypass the Senate.
Evening star., 1945-08-02
Tokyo Papers Declare
Nation Is Ready for
Homeland Showdown
BY the Associated Press.

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. big
headlines in Tokyo newspapers to-
day assured their readers that ia
pan now stands ready to win the
showdown fight ION our homeland"
even while 829 Super Fortresses
were visiting fiery destruction upon
an island oil refinery in Tokyo Bay
and four nearby cities.
The emphasis of the newspaper
stories, as detailed in broadcasts
was that the Japanese air force has
"cleverly" remained intact by re-
fusing to fight American raiders
over the homeland, leaving the job
entirely to ground gun crews.
The main strength of our air
force has patiently refrained from
participating in these counterat-
tacks, cleverly refusing to fall for
enemy tactics seeking attrition 81
our air power" the newspapers re-
ported.
The newspapers played up the
unconfirmed claim that during July
antiaircraft batteries downed 478
carrier planes and crippled 400
more-"equivalent to having nulli-
fed the striking power of six to
seven aircraft carriers of the Essex
class"
Let the enemy come" said a
Yomiuri Hochi headline. Iron de-
fense set up on our land. Army and
navy forces in full readiness to
strike at enemy invaders"
Evening star., 1945-08-02
Navy Air Group Z Back
After Downing rs Japs

With a record Of 125 enemy air
craft downed, the Nays Air Group
II has returned to the United States
for leave and reassignment.
In four months in the Pacific, 1t
participated in the first carrier
strike on Tokyo, and in the cam
paign which included assaults on
Kyushu, Two Jiraa and the Ryukyus,
in which 1000 Jap planes were
destroyed.
Two of its commanding officers,
Comdr. Charles L. Crommelin,
Wetumpka, Ala, and Comdr. Ralph
Embree, Kemerer, Wis, and 81
pilots and air crewmen were killed
or are missing in action.
After the loss of the two COM
manding officers, the unit was taken
over by 1t. Comdr. Edward J.
Bawka, 1418 Martha Gusts drive,
Alexandria, Va, who brought the
group home.