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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-21
Riff
by Recent
Actions Of President
Stand on FEPC and USES
Particularly Arouses
Southern Members
BY the Associated Press.

President Humans relations
with Congress took on a new all
of tension today, particularly
among Southern Democrats.
One of the latter, Representative
Gibson Of Georgia, declared "ar
open break" now exists with the
Chief Executive. Others, who pre-.
ferred not to be quoted directly
echoed his remarks. Some of these
sources also. said they saw little
hope for improvement in the stu
alton when legislative work Is re-
sumed next year.
The note OF discord was prompted
by these three White House develop
ments yesterday as members began
heading home for the holidays:
l. Mr.. Humans news conference
assertion that he would express
himself forcibly soon on legislation
calling for returning of the United
States Employment Service to the
States within 100 days. Several
members of Congress interpreted
this as meaning either a veto O,
another verbal blast at Congress is
in the offing.
Raps Employment Bill.
2. Release of letters to key law
makers in which the President
termed Unacceptable" House SUBJ
stitute for the so-called full en-
ployment' bill the Senate has
passed.
3. Issuance of an order authoriz.
ing the Fair Employment practices
Committee to investigate and re.
port on employment practices ir
private industry until next June 80
Mr.. Truman's actions were term.
ed "a political blunder" by Repre-.
sentative Gibson, Democrat, o.
Georgia.
Talking to a reporter, Mr.. Gibson
added:
1T was just like waving a rec
flag in our faces. He should hav,
left well enough alone. Now W.
have an open break, just like with
the late President Roosevelt" &
Mr.. Gibson and many othe,
Southerners were aroused particu.
larly by the FEPC directive. They
have been constant critics of thu
agency and forced cut in its fund.
last spring. They said the Presi.
ICa. OONT~DOCC - = -
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-21
Chinese Communists
To Make Formal Bid
For Immediate Peace
Gen. Wedemeyer Denies
New Charge Thot U. S.
Planes Strufed Towns
BY the Associated Press.

CHUNGKING, Dec. 21.-A Chi
nese Communist spokesman at
Chungking today asserted his
party would put officially into
writing its proposal for an i'm
mediate, unconditional armistice
in China's internal war, with
both sides frozen in their pres
ent positions.
His assertion followed govern
ment comments that the proposal
was merely propaganda" because it
had been made verbally at social
function.
The Red spokesman, voicing sur
prise at this, declared that Gen.
Chou En-lai of the Chinese Red
delegation had formally requested
that the truce proposal be forwarded
to Generalissimo Chang Kai-shek.
Chou made the proposal to Shao Lii
tzu, member of the government
delegation to the forthcoming unity
conference.
1--WE want an armistice," the Com
munist spokesman said. 1--WE consid-
cred our proposal as official and
formal, but as the government
wants it in writing, we are going
to oblige"
Concessions Indicated.
The verbal proposal was an
nounced by Communists at the very
moment Gen. Marshall, the peace
maker. stepped from his plane at
Shanghai yesterday, and there were
indications that both sides are pre-
pared to make genuine concessions
in efforts to end the strife.
A government spokesman acknowl-
edged today that If the Reds truce
offer were put into writing "it would
be considered in different light. "
and recalled that as long ago as last
October 81 the government had
proposed cessation of hostilities.
Communists replied November 8,
he said, asking that the government
order it's forces to cease attacks"
but not mentioning Communist OPP
erations.
Fighting currently is raging on,
particularly fierce and heavy" in
the North China border region of
Hopeh, Chahar and Jehol provinces,
Red spokesman asserted.
Charge Flatly Denied.
From Shanghai. Lit. Gen. Albert
c. Wedemeyer, American command
er in China, meanwhile issued fiat
denial of Chinese Communist
charges that American planes had
strafed trains and villages in their
sectors of North China in Novem-
Der and December.
Chang, in Marking to meet Gen.
Marshall, announced he had sent
birthday greetings to Premier
Stain:
"On this occasion Of your birthday
anniversary extend your excel
lency on behalf of the Chinese gov
eminent and people my warmest
congratulations and best wishes for
your good health and happiness. .
Chinese-R Russian negotiations for
occupation of Manchuria are con-
tinuing in Changchun, Manchurian
capital
The first fash of enthusiasm with
which the local Chinese press greet
ed news that Gen. Marshall would
come to China turned to melancholy
(See CHINA. Page A-6.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-21
Release on Bail Urged
For Osmenu's Son
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MANILA, Dec. 2l.-The release on
$4,000 pesos ($25 ,000) bail of Nicasio
Osmena, son of President Sergio Os-
mena, was recommended today by
Special Prosecutor Juan D. Ladaw.
Nicasio is charged with reasonable
collaboration with the Japanese dur
ing their occupation of the Philip
pines.
Ladaw said constant guarding ag-
gravates young Osmena's illness and
that the release on bail would save
the Commonwealth the expense of
special guards at San Lazaro Hos
pital.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-21
70 Persons Are Buried
by Spanish Landslide

ALBACETE, Spain, Dec. 2l.--A
landslide buried 10 persons sleeping
in 20 houses Of Alcala DelucAr, a
town Of 1000 persons, two days ago.
Six dead and 10 seriously injured
were taken from the houses. Little
hope remained for the others. The
landslide occurred ut dawn after
intense winds and rain. Alcala Del
ucar is 80 miles northeast Of here.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-21
Late Bulletin
House BEGINS Recess

The House adjourned at
2:11 pm. today for q Christ
mas recess. The Senate still
had to act on adjournment.
Both chambers will reconvene
on January IL.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-21
BULLETIN.

Admiral Richmond Kelly
Turner told the Pearl Harbor
Committee this afternoon he
knew of no action by any one
in this Government in the fall
of 1871 designed to trick"
Japan into war with the
United States. He said he was
familiar with the develop
ments of that year and felt
there was absolute and COM
plete loyalty to the constitu-
tional processes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-21

President Truman arranged to
greet members of the White House
staff in his Office at 3 o'clock this
afternoon. This is an annual White
House custom.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-21
BY j. A. O'LEARY and
CARTER BROOKE JONES.

The Pacific Fleet was based in
Hawaii late in l941 'for the pur-
pose of engaging in a fight with
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Truman to Greet Stuff

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is through the courts.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-21
Fight on Fruit
Moth Hits Snaq

SACRAMENTO, June 81. UP)-
New and improved methods for COM
batting infestations of the Oriental
fruit moth have made the outlook
for control of the pest extremely
hopeful, but at the same time, it is
indicated the moth is in California
to stay, the State Department Of
Agriculture reported Thursday.
The departments bureau of en-
tomology said experihlenters at the
University of California have hit
on Is different chemical compounds,
including the wonder insecticide
DDT, that are effective against
the fruit moth. However, DOT is
just as deadly in its action on the
potato tuber moth larva, used to
combat the fruit moth, the depart
Elent pointed out. Accordingly, it
appears that growers ordinarily will
not be able to use both methods of
control, the department said
But prospects are less bright for
ultimate eradication of the pest, it
was reported Surveys of the fruit
moth population" indicate the
moth eventually must be accepted
as a well-established pest in the
future" the department said
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-21
Senate Committee
Opens Probe on
Wartime Highways

WASHINGTON, June 81 UP)-
The senate war investigating COM
mittee has opened an inquiry into
wartime highways built by Uncle
Sam on foreign soil.
Tremendous sums of money and
huge amounts of material have
been spent on their construction,
according to Chairman James M
Mead, CD, N. Y, but compare
lively little is known about them"
The committee has decided that
the people OF the United States are
entitled to full information" as to
where and how they were built and
at what cost.
Mead said the information should
be "of great Importance in assess
ing the cost of the war and the
propriety of war expenditures
The inquiry was touched off by
charges in the senate that "fantas-
tic graft and corruption" were in
voled in construction of the Ameri-
can section of the Latin American
highway in northern Nicaragua
Mead said evidence supporting
these charges warrants full and
complete investigation"
He indicated that the Alaska
hihgway in Canada and Alaska
would be another subject of investi-
cation.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-21
Audit Suggests
New Systems

voted to cemetery districts. Oper-
ating revenues of the Riverview
cemetery district at Brawley for
the fiscal year amounted to Sits.
1T is recommended that duplicate
receipts be issued for all funds col
lected by the sexton CT this dis
trict." The Central Valley ceme-
terry district in the El Centro area
had all revenue recorded in dupli-
cate receipts. The district pur-
chased $500 in war bonds in the
fiscal year.
SCHOOL GROUPS
In his study of the schools,
Rambo said his company had aud
tied the student body and student
activities funds of all high schools
and verified their cash balances
and reconciled them with their
cash balances and reconciled them
with their bank accounts.
mo audit was made of the dis
trict attorneys special fund.-" the
audit report said, "as it was not
used during the fiscal year"
An item of detention home meals
was contained in the audit. The
average daily number of inmates
was 1912, the number of meals
served 10,795, total cost $l56410, or
an average cost per meal CT 1902
Bonds Of county officials came
in for considerable notice 1T is
our opinion that new bonds should
be writer covering each separate
term Of office" the auditor said
He said he found several official
bonds on file that were written a
number of wears ago for a specific
term and the term of office had
expired and reappointments made
These cid bonds, he explained,
continued in force which is bad
policy.
While the accounts were rec
onciled with the funds in each es-
tate handled, the audit report con-
tinued, the register of the public
administrator did not show suffi-
ficient details as required by law.
He recommended that the register
be kept in adequate detail. The
auditor pointed out that in estates
impossible to distribute, the resi-
due should escheat to the state in
stead of being held.
(Resume of audit to be continued.)
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-21
Permit Issued
For Beer Sale
At E. {. Stadium

Permission to sell beer at Ell Gen.
tro Stadium on nights when fights
and wrestling matches are held, was
granted by Ell Centre city council
Wednesday night to Roach and
Nichols, boxing and wrestling pro-
moterS.
Councilmen w. A. Tondro, Herb
Fawcett and Robert A. Hatton vot-
ed to grant the permit Councilman
Wesley He'll voted against it. Mayor
l.. L. Moore, who was absent, pre-
viously had expressed opposition.
Before the permit is finally Off
cial, it will be necessary for the
concessionaires to get authority
from the State Board of Equaliza-
ton.
Opposition to the permit had been
voiced by the Imperial County soft
ball league officials.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-21
Myer Recounts
g Attacks on
jap Returnees

LOS ANGELES, June 81. (UP)-
War Relocation Director Dillon S.
Myer has revealed that 33 attacks
against resettlement japanese have
occurred in California since Jan. 2,
1945-nine in the last two weeks.
Twenty of the attacks were Shoot
ings, he told an Occidental College
lecture audience, one dynamiting
and three arson cases. In nine in
stances, he said, japanese were
threatened and warned to stay away
from given area.
Two incidents resulted in court
cases. One defendant was cleared
and the other given a light sentence,
he said
Probably more dangerous even
than the incidents of violence
is the naturalization = public and
private which permits the perpe-
traitors to go unpunished," Myer
added.
Myer said the resettlement prob
lem was complicated by prevalent
myths" about the Japanese. He
named as myths: That all Ameri-
can-born Japanese children owe al
legiance to their emperor; that Jap
anese-language school indoctrinated
their pupils with Nipponese national
ideals
Other myths he listed were that
Japanese on the west coast congre-
gated in military areas, that Japa-
ese-Americans knew all about the
impending Pearl Harbor attack but
warned no one, and that a person
"once a Jap, is always Jap"
All such stories, he said, are either
entirely false or easily explained.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-21
Chinese Speed
luichow Drive

CHUNGKING, June 81. up
Chinese troops closed in from three
sides Thursday on the air base and
rail center of Luichow, lost to the
Chinese seven months ago.
The force which had reached a
point six miles southwest of the
city was reinforced by junction with
g second column which drove north
along the Manning highway, Thurs
days communique reported
Other Chinese forces pushed to-
ward Luichow from the south and
east. A column pushing east along
the Kweichow-Kwangsi railway was
within IL miles of the city.
To the south, the Chinese claimed
to have repulsed the new Japanese
thrusts north of Limkong and north
east of Shikok on the Luichow pen
lnSula. The enemy move apparently
was designed to cover operations on
Hainan island, where Chungking
has reported Japanese withdrawal.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-21
Imperial Valley Press

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Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-21
BLINDED WORKER SHOWS
SKILL ON PRECISION PARTS

SCHNECTADY, N. Y, June 81.
tUP)-Preston G. Harrington, who
has been blind since birth, is prov
ing himself valuable war worker
to General Electric Co.
With micrometer-like precision,
Harrington's fingers can detect the
slightest measurement variations
IN the small motor parts he pre-
duces. Although he has never seen
the parts on which he works, he
can feel the first sign of dullness
on his lathe's cutting edges, appar-
ent to other operators only by a
gauge check.
Harrington one of two blind
workers employed by G-E at the
Fort Edward, N. Y, plant.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-21

Careful analysis OF each office
and department in county govern
ment was made in the annual audit
filed by C. j. Rambo, employed by
the grand jury and board of super
visors this year, and being reviewed
in series of articles in this pub
lication.
mo irregularities or defects in
procedure have been revealed by
our audit except such matters as
commented upon," Rambo said in
the summary of his investigation
and audit. In many instances he
pointed out changes and improve
ments and in other instances crit
icized the manner in which certain
departments handled parts of their
affairs, pointing out that the pres
ent methods were not safe or eff
cient.
TRUST FUNDS
The audit devoted considerable
time to the discussion of trust
funds. He said the sheriff, proba-
ton officer, justices of the peace,
and constables handled trust funds
either in cash or through bank
accounts. Rambo quoted the law
governing trust funds and ex-
planned that they must be deposit
ed in the county treasury and
withdrawn only on a warrant is
sued by the county auditor and
drawn on an order of the court
into which the trust money was
paid. In cases where there were
no court proceedings. the audit
said, the funds should be depos-
tied with the treasurer upon re-
quest of the auditor. He recon-
mended uniform proceedings in
handling trust funds in all county
departments where they exist. 1.-The
law requires an official report for
all money deposited with justices
of the peace" the report said.
One section of the audit was de-
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-21
U. S. TROOPSHIP NAMED
IN HONOR OF ERNIE PYLE

PORTLAND, Ore, June q. (UP)
The S. S. Ernie Pyle, a CA type
troopship, will be launched at the
Vancouver shipyards here Saturday
with Miss Babette Johnson, a niece
of the late columnist, now a stu
dent at Southern Methodist univer-
sity, Dallas, Texas, acting as Spon-
Sor.
1t Cmdr. Max Miller, a friend of
the Pyle family, will represent Mrs.
Pyle.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-21
APPROPRIATE MOTTO

GRAND ISLAND ARMY AIR
FIELD, Neb., June 81. (UP)-Every
college needs colors and motto.
The Grand Island Army Air Field
college" run by the information
education office, adopted the air
corps colors of blue and gold. but
came up with a typically CT motto.
1t is Smarter Up"
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-21
CONFIRM APPOINTEES

WASHINGTON, June 81. (UP)-
The senate unanimously has con-
firmed the nominations of Artemus
L. Gates of New York to be under
secretary of the navy and John L..
Sullivan of New Hampshire. to be;
assistant secretary of the navy for
air.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-21
Don't Neglect Slipping
FALSE teeth

Do false teeth drop, slip or wabbie
when you talk, eat, laugh or sneeze?
Don't be annoyed and embarrassed by
such handicaps. FASTEETH. an aka
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your plates, keeps false teeth more
firmiy set. Gives confident feeling Of se-
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TEETH today at any drug store.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-21
Clio Aids Uphold
Labor Agencies
OF Governments

WASHINGTON, June 81. CUP)-
CIO representatives advised the
house committee investigating exec
utive agencies to reject charges that
government labor agencies have ex-
ceeded their authority. Otherwise,
the CIO men declared, the commit
tee would appear to have an anti
labor purpose"
Donald Henderson, international
president of the CIO Food, Tobacco
and Agricultural Workers union,
said the charges brought by food
processing plant employers, were
smoke screen for ulterior purposes" I"
HEARD EMPLOYERS
Three weeks ago the committee.
headed by Rep. Howard K. Smith,
CD, Va, co-author of the Smith
Connally anti-strike bill, heard tes-
timony from the employer groups
whose chief spokesman was Ivan
Mcdaniel, Los Angeles, Calf, attor-
ney. He claimed that the national
labor relations board had rushed
through elections among packing
employees in California and that the
war labor board had ordered en-
ployers to hire union workers.
Last week the house approved an
amendment to the war agencies ap-
preparation bill eliminating several
hundred thousand food processing
workers from WLB jurisdiction.
Henderson charged the committee
hearings were sought to create SEN
timent for that legislation.
Aubrey Grossman, San Francisco
attorney representing the CIO un-
ion, conceded the first charge but
said it was a legitimate practice He
denied the second.
URGE SPEED
"McDaniels own group, the agri-
cultural producers labor committee,
has asked executive agencies to
rush proceedings for their workers, y
he said. Their applications for
wage increases to WLB are rushed
through because of the transient ma
ture of the labor, but when we gain
similar occasion for the same rea-
sons it's wrong"
GrosSman said the charge that
WLB had ordered employers to hire
union workers was ga false state
ment'' and offered 13-page denial
in evidence
Both witnesses attempted to speak
from prepared statements but were
interrupted frequently by committee
members who declared their testi-
mony was irrelevant"
Rep. Clare Hoffman (R), Mich,
told Henderson he was not interest,"
ed in the motives of the employer
groups. At several points Hoffman
and Grossman told each other to
stop shouting at me-"
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-21
o. S. WARsHIpS ON LINE

The U. S. battleShip Washington,
cruisers Wichita and Tuscaloosa
and two destroyers were there. So
was the British Duke of York and
the aircraft carrier Victorious.
On July 4 the convoy beat off an
attack by 25 torpedo bombers. Then
the close escort picked up a large
German task force. 1t included the
battleship Tirpitz and cruiser Hip
per, steaming out northeastward
from Norway toward Bear Island.
The British commander of the
close escort realized that the Ger
mans with their big guns could get
within range of the convoy before
the covering force could ward them
off, and thus pick off the convoy
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-21
By EVERETT VILANDER

LONDON, June 81. (UP)-The
biggest air-sea battle in the Muir
mansk convoy route was fought in
July. 1912. The Germans sank %
of "a Allied merchantmen laden
with badly needed supplies for
Russia.
Now the full story of that epic
battle can be told 1t marked the
high tide of the Nazi menace along
the Arctic sea lanes to Russia.
PQ-18 was the code designation
of the convoy plowing through the
northern sea wastes in RuSSia's
second year of war. 1t consisted of
"a merchantmen with a close escort
of 81 warships and two covering
forces.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-21
Story Revealed Of Nozis
Biggest Convoy Attack

sank several U-boats and shot down
40 German planes. Twenty-seven of
40 merchantmen got through.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-21
HOLTyILLE UNION HIGH
R0ARD HIRES PRINCIPAL

HOLTVILLE, June 21.-Holtville
Union trustees Wednesday en-
ployed Emmett S. Finley as prin-
cipal for next year.
Staff at the school has only two
vacancies now, agricultural in
structor and coach,
Finley has been a school admin
istrator is years and came highly
recommended by schools in Mis-
souri, and Illinois, it was pointed
out
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-21
PLANNED WELL

The Germans had planned we'll
If the destroyers stayed close to
the convoy, the Nazi surface YES
sells could get in their blows. If
they intercepted the German sur
face force, a waiting U-boat pack
could ambush the convoy.
The German warships turned
tail when the destroyers approach
ed. But the lurking U-boats got
all but IL of the ships before they
could reach MurmanSk.
That was the incident that gave
rise to the entirely unfounded re-
port that British escort had aban-
doned a convoy.
Allied tactics were revised imme-
diately. The next convoy was sub
jected to four days of ceaseless air
and submarine attacks. The Allies
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-21

ships one by one. He ordered ms
destroyers to try to intercept the
Germans and keep them out OF
range.
At the same time he ordered the
convoy to scatter and swing north
Of Bear Island into the ice floes for
as much protection as possible.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-21

There are LOG oil fields in wyOm-
ing.