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Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-08
Hitler Admits
Loss Of War,
Stockholm SdVs

According to the reports, Hitler
disclosed that German war casu-
alties amounted to 12.500O0O dead,
wounded and missing.
Because of the hopeless situa-
ticn, the underground sources said
Hitler appointed Gestapo Chief
Heinrich Himmler special COM
missioner of destruction" with or
ders to devastate all German
cities and industries even with
the aid of the luftWaffe if neces-
sary.
The plans were reported to in
clude the killing of all political
prisoners and hostages, although
it was said Hitler was still de-
liberating" ways and means Of
dealing with war prisoners.
The reports asserted that Hit
ler, in commenting on the Yalta
meeting, described the big three
as three world pirates" who
thought they could share the
bears skim
But when they march through
Germany Hitler was quoted as
saying, they will not find the
bears skin but ruins, stone heaps,
rats. epidemics, hunger and death.
1T is cur holy duty to leave no
other inhei itance for the bolshe-
viks, Jews and plutocrats and
thereby western civilization
shall decline"
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-08
Marines Near
Two Objective

GUAM, March s. CUP)-U. S. ma
rines are firmly established on high
ground only 450 yards from the
Citheastern beaches of Two Jima
after savage fighting, front dis
patches reported Thursday.
United Press CORES pondent Mac
R. Johnson said in a dispatch from
the amphibious force flagship off
Two that the new leatherneck drive
threatens to spill. enemy forces into
two pockets of resistance"
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-08
Yankee Private
Hanged for
london Staying

PENTONVILLE PRISON, LON
LON, March g. CUP)-Private Karl
Gustav Hulten, %, a Boston, Mas
sachuSetts, paratrooper, was hanged
Thursday for the $50 murder of a
taXicab driver. He was the first
American to die on a British gall
lows.
The youthful slayer, who gambled
the proceeds of the murder on the
dog races with his Stlip-tease part
ner in crime, showed neither fear
nor emotion as he was led to the
platform and placed on the trap
door that plunged him to eternity.
Only a Scant dozen prison Off
cials witnessed the hanging in
small, enclosed courtyard of ancient
Pentonville prison.
A ciowd of $50 men and women
milled about the gates despite re-
peated shooing by police Mrs. Vio-
let Van der Elst, crusader against
capital punishment, was arrested
when she attempted to enter the
prison gates in truck shortly after
8 a. m.
He came here to be a paratrcop-
er not to hang" she shouted as po-
lice hustled her and the truck driver
away through the sympathetic
crowd.
Mrs. Elizabeth Jones, the 18-year-
old Strip-tease dancer who was
condemned to death with Hulten
for the murder of George Heath,
the man with the cleft chin" was
beginning a life sentence at Ayles-
bury prison.
She was reprieved by Home Sec
retary Herbert Morrison less than
48 hours before she. too, was sched-
uled to hang. Morrison refused
clemency for Hulten despite an ap-
peal for clemency from Boston,
Massachusetts, presumably frcm his
wife or mother.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-08
Water Shortage
Ends With
Flow in Canal
500 Second Feet Flow
AS Repairs Reopen
Channel, More Coming

Reclamation bureau officials turn
ed 500 second feet of water into the
All-American canal at Imperial dam
at l:54 a. m. Thursday, relieving
the six-day "drouth" caused by
failure of No 4 channel of the de-
sitting works on the Colorado river
at Yuma, irrigation district officials
announced
The flow will be increased grad
ually and at 9 p. m. Thursday the
accumulation of water will be re-
leased at drop No. l and started
down the system. More water will
be released Friday and Saturday.
District officials have resumed ac-
cepting orders for irrigation water
and are prepared for business as
usual, it was announced.
The reclamation bureau stopped
serving water to the All-American
canal March 2.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-08

SAN FRANCISCO, March
8. (UP)-A transport carry
ing a majority of the 272 of
ficers and enlisted men liber-
ated from the Japanese pris-
on camp az Cabantuan on Lu-
zon steamed through the
Golden Gate Thursday and
tied up at an embarcadero
pier.
The huge ferry building siren sig
nailed the arrival of the rescued
men who scent almost three years
at Cabantuan until their liberation
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-08
By LLOYD LAPHAM

SACRAMENTO, March 8.
(UP)-Two parts of Cover
nor Earl Warrcn's legislative
program obtained committee
approval Thursday as DEM
ocrats were urged to sup
port a program of state-fin-
anced jobs for any employ
able person not working for
private industry.
: Assembly committees recommend
ed passage of measures appropriat-
ing $15,000,CJ0 in acquiring beaches
for public use and 100000 to es-
tablish industrial relations training
schools.
A state full employment act"
.abolishing the present state recon
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-08
legislative Units Okeh
State Financed Jobs

budget" estimating the number of
public jobs that would have to be
provided to take up any slack in
Industrial and agricultural employ
ment.
The reconstruction and reemploy-
ment commission, terminated under
the proposed legislation, is a post
war research agency to which War
ren has appointed numerous aGvis-
ory groups Of business, labor and
governmental bigWigs.
The assembly education commit
tee, meanwhile. took favorable ac-
ton on a bill fixing minimum pay
for state teachers at $l8OO a year
The present normal minimum is
1890, increased temporarily to $500
by the 1943 legislature.
The committee set for considera-
Continued on Pg. 8, Col. p
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-08
India Troopers
Reach MundoIov

HANDY, Ceylon, March 8. (UP)-
Tank patrols of the 18th Indian
division have reached the northern
outskil is of Mandalay, Burma's his
toric and second largest city, it was
announced Thursday.
A front dispatch reported that
japanese resistance was decreasing
before the onslaught of the Indian
armored spearheads, poised for a
thrust into the big inland port.
A southeast Asia communique also
disclosed that Chinese troops NOV
ing down the Burma road toward
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-08
BY UNITED PRESS

The muddy crest of the
Ohio river rolled downstream
Thursday, carrying the
threat of new flood damage
to farmlands and cities in
Kentucky, Indiana, and Hi
nois.
Weather bureau officials said the
flood waters were leveling off above
Cincinnati Portsmouth, Ohio. ap-
peared to be winning a battle to
keep the river from pouring over
flood walls into the main business
and residential sections. The rivers
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-08
Ohio River Floods StreW
Death and De estruction

All but about half block of Cat
lettSburg was under water. The
town has a population of $500.
Everywhere along the thousand
mile course of the river there was
some destruction. War plants were
forced to close in some sections.
Thousands of persons abandoned
their homes to the surging waters.
Train and bus service was cut off
to some communities.
1t was the worst Ohio river flood
in eight years.
Nine persons were dead, and only
quick work by army engineers pre-
vented further loss OF life in the
flood waters of another area.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-08

crest subside6 IL feet in "a hours
at Cincinnati.
Kentucky was next in the path
OF the rising water
Hundreds of volunteers, state mill
tia, auxiliary police, Boy Scouts,
prison inmates and even German
prisoners of war were working
against time and the river. They
evacuated families, moved house
holdgoods anc livestock, and built
sandbag barricades all along the
Kentucky stretch of the Ohio river.
The evacuation was under way IN
TIE low sections of all towns from
Catlettsburg TO OwenSboro.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-08
$500 Planes Hit
Reich Cenfers
In Steady Raids

LONDON, March 8 UP)-More
than 1850 American heavy bombers
pounded German Gil and railway
targets in the kuhr Valley area
Thursday after l250-plane RAF'
night attack Oh Berlin and other
objectives in the central and north
western Reich.
The big daylight raiding fleet,
covered by 300 U. S. Eighth Air
Force fighters, hit six benzol and
synthetic oil plants in the Gelsen-
kircher-Do' mund sector of the
Ruhr and five railway yards handl-
ing traffic between the Ruhr and
central Germany freight yards at
Batzdorf, DillenDurg, Siegen, Essen
and GiesSen all were hit.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-08

struction and unemployment COM
mission. was introduced by Assem-
blyman Lester Mcmillan CD Los
Angeles, with the backing of other
Democrats.
PLAN OUTLINED
1t would give the state authority
to make "a volume of investment
and expenditure" to provide jobs for
members of the labor force not en-
ployed by private industry.
Introduction of the measure fol-
lowed closely a Democratic caucus
at which Attorney General Robert
Kenny suggested legislation that
would enable California to do its
share in providing 60,O0o,000 post
war jobs in our country"
Under its provisions the governor
would be required to submit an
annual production and employment
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-08

Mandalay frcm the northeast COM
pletely cleared the town of New
Lashio Wednesday after capturing
Old Lashio and its airfield.
The new town is two miles south
of Old LaShio, and capture of both
places gave Chinese complete con-
troll of the rail and read heads
leading to the east and south.
In clearing the two towns, the
Chinese moved within 33 miles of
Hsipaw, a junction point on the
only all-weather road still remain
ing opcA to the japanese forces in
the Mandalay sector.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-08

El Centric goes on the big
time Rodeo circuit.
This announcement is made
in the acceptance of the
Craftsmanship of the Ell Cen
trO Chamber of Commerce
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-08
Hodges Army Hammers
Into Heart Of Reich:
Armies Near Junction
Germans Offer Light Resistance as
Sursins Americans Head East;
Patton Closes Rapidly on CobIenz

PARIS, March 8. (UP)-Unts of United States First
army have stormed the Rhine and advancing
into the heart of Germany against light resistance.
Vanguards of Lieutenant General Courtney Hodges
First army made the historic crossing at 80 o'clock We'd
nesday afternoon south Of Cologne front dispatch reveal
ed
partial security backout coaked the progress of the
first American columns east of the Rhine, but the
nouncement from Hodges headquarters that only slight
had been encountered in the early stages made
it clear the advance going well.
First army troops who broke the back Of the German
Rhneand army the plains before Cologne in II days
of sustained offensive and captured Cologne itself almost
without struggle the first Rhine bridgehead.
Pour Men and Arn1Or Into Assaults
Strong supporting infantry units rushed into the
brgehead after the first shock troops had broken
and it indicated that Hodges pouring steady tide
of and armor into the attack.
1t the first time invading army had crossed
Germanys historic western rampant since Napoleon's
grand army pushed the Rhine than 100
ago
The assault put Hodges fastrolling infantry columns
into the southern flank of the teening Ruhr basin less
than 290 miles southwest of Berlin.
The blow fell squarely upon the center of three Ger
armies struggling to pull back behind the Rhine under
terrible storm of fire from American British and Can
adan divisions massed along 10mie stretch of the Rhine
from Coblenz northward to the Dutch border:
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-08
War Casualties
Reach 823,b32

WASHINGTON. March 8. (UP)-
u. S. combat casualties announced
here reached 823632 Thursday, an
increasc Of 10000 over a week ago
The total included 1892 army
casualties through February %. as
announced by Secretary of War
Henry l.. Stimson, and 90,7l0 navy,
marine corps and coast guard cas-
ilaltiaS, as announced by the navy
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-08
SovietS
Blast
Gains
Miles TO Berlin
Cut TO ~ on
Oder River Line

LONDON, March 8. (UP)
Russian shock troops have
driven two wedges into kues-
trim at the focal point of a
40-milc Oder river front be-
fore Berlin, the Nazis report
ed Thursday.
German b.oadcasts said Marshal
Gregory K. ZauKov's forces were
attacking strongly on both sides of
Frankfurt. l8 miles south of Kues-
trim.
OFFENSIVE RACES
What the Nazis called full dress
offensive aimed at crushing the
Oder line and opening the way to
Berlin ragged all the way from
Frankfurt to the elbow of the Oder
20 miles northeast OF Berlin.
Ernst Won Hammer. Nazi radio
commentator who usually reflects
The view of the high command. said
the Russians were storming kues-
Continued on Page 8. Col. B.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-08
J Dutch DOfdef.
ADNIIT ATTACKS

ADMl "A L A1hS
Frantic German broadcastS hint
ed that a general assault on the
Rhine was uncer way or about to
begin at several points north and
south of the First army bridgehead.
Berlin spokesmen said the Can
adian First army was massing pow
erful tank and infantry formations
along the lower Rhine near the
Dutch border for a strike into the
rolling plains of northwestern Ger
many. They warned their people,
too, that the U. S. Ninth and Third
armies thanking Hodges men were
deploying on the west bank of the
river for a similar crossing.
Hodges swift drive across the
Rhine, coming barely 48 hours after
the fall of Cologne, made it clear
Continued on Pg. 8, Col -
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-08

STOCKHOLM, March 6. CUP)
Unconfirmed German under
ground reports claimed Thursday
that Adolf Hitler confessed to
high NaZi officials that Germany
had lost the war.
The admission was said to have
been made February "a at a meet
ing CT 80 responsible Nazi leaders,
mostly Gauleiters and Reichleit-
erS.
Hitler told them, the reports
said, that he lost the war because
he fell victim to the biggest trea-
son in history" and as a result
proclaimed a wanton destruction
of Germany.
The fuehrer's statement to the
group, it was added, put all the
blame for losing the war en- re
actionaries' and treacherous al
lies, including Japan, which he
said had pledged to attack Russia
simultaneously with Germany.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-08
BrawIey Girl, Is,
Killed When
Auto Hits Bridge

Traffic deaths in Imperial county
reached - since January l when
Miss Doreen Hall. l5-year-old Braw-
ley resident, tied from injuries Suf-
tered in a one-ear smash-up late
Wednesday on highway 80 south of
Brawley.
Meanwhile James Foster Smith,
Jr., 81, also of BraWley, driver of
the car, was held in the county Jail
in FL Centre pending investigation
OF the accident highway patrolmen
said ThurSc ay.
The girls body was crushed be-
meath the right front wheel of the
car. Witness of the accident lifted
The car off the girl and she was
taken TO a hospital where she died
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-08
AmE R|CANS CROSS RHI
Transport Lands
513 Prisoners
From CubQntudn

by u. s. rangers dispatched by Gen.
eral Douglas Macarthur.
MET BY MAJOR GENERAL
The men, including survivors OF
the losing Bataan anc Corregidor
campaigns and the infamous march
OF death" were met by Major Cen
eral C. H. Kells, commander OF the
San Francisco port of embarka-
ton, and other service and city Of
ficials.
Twenty Wacs went aboard the
ship before it berthed to distribute
messages and mail to the LIBERATED
heroes. AS the transport approached
the Golden gate, it was met by a
harbor craft carrying a 75-foot sign
saying, welcome home!'
Relatives of the prisoners crowded
the pier where they were to disem-
bark.
When the transport dropped an
chor out in the harbor the Welcom-
ing committee and the press went
aboard. They were greeted by Col
cnel C. T. Harris, the ships master,
who opened the brief shipooard
ceremonies.
BREAK DOWN
AS the war-hued vessel slowly
followed a tug into .he pier, its pas
Sengers, many of whom broke down
ct their first sight of United States
soil since the war began, crowded
to the rails. Their relatives ashore
sWarmed against police lines.
Army, navy anG Red Cross cars,
trucks and ambulances were on
hand to transport the men to Let
terman hospital. A parade quickly
was formed and began to wind
through the business district.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-08
THROWN FROM CAR

Officers said the girl anG Mrs,
Luree Mcmillan, 81, another Braw-
ley resident, were thrown from the
car. Mrs. Mcmillan was injured
and still was in a hospital Thurs
day.
Smith failed to make a left turn
on the Brawley Main canal bridge
two and half miles southwest of
Brawley, officers said, while en-
route from BraWley to FL Centre.
The car left the paved highway 80
feet from the northeast end of the
bridge and struck the first post Of
the guard rail on the west side of
the bridge. The car then careened
around, hitting the guard rail on
the east sice of the bridge 1t then
skidded back to the west guard rail
at the southwest edge of the bridge,
throwing both Miss Hall and Mrs.
Continued, on Pg. 8. Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-08
BRAMKAMP LAUDS PLAN

The Imperial Valley Roundup
that the Ell Centro Chamber of
Commerce is sponsoring April 2O-2l
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-08
MEETS ACCLAIM

1T is the most spontaneous and
universal approval of any activity
proposed for the city I ever have
seen," sai6 Chairman Bane, and,
he went on, I'VE are going to place
FL Centre on the Rodeo map along
side the nations other big show
places. 1t no longer will be necessary
to go to Cheyenne or Pendleton
tn see the top performers
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-08
BY UNITED PRESS

Gordon Fraser, Blue Network
correspondent with the American
First Army, reported Thursday
night that the first German pris-
oEers taken east of the Rhine
said Germany could last only 10
more days.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-08
b AMBlINe
EpoRTER
The Eagle Eve

Inc tasIc Eye
See that snow on the mountains
out yonder in the west?
We soon will have an opportunity
10 find out if there are any siSsieS
among the Roy Scout leaders in
the Imperial Yuma council.
If any of the Scout leaders fail
to attend the ltadersip training ses-
sion at Camp Hual-Cu-CuiSh this
weekend, there will be disgrace
ahead Those who don't show up
will be branded as sissies
We understand that Guy Weakley
said he would 90 if Warren Currie."
and Jim Brock go. Why should that
shiyering trio worry? There are
still chemical hot pads.
Those who can't take rugged camp
life in snowy mountains are siSSies
and disgraces to Daniel Boone.
p. S.-Well tell it, too.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-08
Let's See Now.

Let's See Now.
A couple entered a store in FL
In FL Centre and approached a
clerk.
We want to buy an AMATEUR
bride and groom" the couple said,
Continued on Page 8, Col 81
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-08
TIE figures:

Totals ............ .7c2,922 90,710 823,632
Stimson said more than half CT
the army wounded, 221 ,155, have re-
turned to duty.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-08

rodeo committee by o. L..
Zane, manager of Security First
National bank. With Bane on the
committee are w. A. Scheniman
Lum Thompson and Ned Moretti
The official title of the rodeo will
be The Imperial Valley Roundup"
Thus El Centro makes Q direct
tie-up with the Rodeo Association
OF America which puts Oh the shows
at Pendleton, Oregon, Cheyenne,
wyoming, Madison Square Garden,
Salinas, Califorr-a end ether cities.
MOVES SPEEDILY
Moving with speec, The commit
tee is able to announce that the
first, and to be annual, rodeo is
dated for April 20, q. and %. These
dates were allotted by the aSsocia-
ton, Bane announced Thursday aft
eI being in telephone communica-
ton with the RAA headquarters.
At a recent special meeting of the
board of directors of the El Centre
chamber Bane was asked to head
such a committee. At that time
Bane agreed to act but only on the
assurance that the chamber and
the city as a whole would get be-
hind the committee 100 per cent
in bringing the big time shows to
the city. This assurance was given
by the board anG by its individual
members and the membership as a
whole.
Since then a survey of scores of
business men and citizens in gen.
eral added to the sweeping approval
by the chamber and taking this
support as the green light" Bane'S
committee went into action.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-08
WEATHER

Maximum Wed. H. min. Thurs. 80;
. am. Thurs. AZ, no humid read ;
noon Thurs. SO, Cno humid. readD +;
pm. Wed 10, Cno humid. readD. ..
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-08

by U. s. rangers dispatched by Gen
eral Douglas Macarthur.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-12-30

If they have both forgotten to
hang any misletoe-the honeymoon
lie nvar
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-12-30
Emma MCNEIL 0fLumberton, WEEDS
PC. Seyfried AT Methodist Church

The mother of the bride wore
plum-colored crepe with gardenia
corsage. The bridegroom mother
was dressed in blue crepe with
gardenia corsage.
Mrs. Seyfrieo was graduated
from Womans college of the Uni
versity of North Carol ma, taught
in Robson county schools and for
the past six months had been en-
ployed as dietician at Thompson
Memorial h o p t !. The bride
groom returned to the states this
year from the Mediterranean-Eu
ropean theatres, where he served
for some time and received an
honorable discharge after four
years n tn army. A graduate Of
Churchman Business college, he is
now a member of the firm Of R.
F. Zieeler, Inc, in Nazareth,
where the couple, will be at home
after January IS.
The Seyfried-M cNeill party was
entertained at wedding break
fast Immediately after the cere-
mony, by the brides parents and
her brothers-in-law and sisters,
Mr.. and Mrs. James Thomas, Jr.,
of Kingsport, Tenn, and Mr.. and
Mrs. Wyatt H. McNairy of Char.
louisville, Va. DR.. and Mrs, D.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-12-30

LUMBERTON, Dec. 20. = The
marriage of Miss Emma King Nc
Neill, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs
Daniel B. Mcneil of Lumberton,
to Paul Charles Seyfried, son Of
Mr.. and Mrs. F. E. Seyfried Of
Nazareth, Pennsylvania, took
place on December 26 at Chestnut
Street Methodist church with the
Rev. Edgar g. Fisher of Whining
ton, former pastor of the bride
officiating. The double ring cere.
nony was used.
Wedding music was rendered by
Mrs. Hal S. Floyd, organist, ano
Mrs. Erwin T. Williams. soloist
The brides only attendant was
he1 small niece, Miss Nancy Nc
Neill Sims of Kingsport, Tenn.
who wore a red suit with white
accessories and carried a nosegay
of white roses and baby's breath
Ushers were W. E. Wilkins 0.
Greensboro, brother-in-law of the
bride, and Lester Davidson O.
Nazareth, Pa.
The couple entered the church
together. The bride wore greer
dressmaker suit with brown acces
series and off-the-face hat w tt
short veil. Her corsage was O.
white orchids.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-12-30
Postmaster Dosher
Guest OF Honor AT
! Fraternity Dinner

Wilbur R. Dosher, p: -tmaster for
the city of Wilmington, was the
honor guest and speaker at ban
quet given at the Famous Grill by
the Sans Faute Fraternity, Friday
night.
The banquet marked the re-or-
ganization of the local brotherhood
after their long period Of inactivity
during the war;.
The guest of honor was intro
duced by John w. M ntz, president
of the fraternity. and other mem
bers of the group took part in the
short program which followed.
Mr.. Dosher made a splendid talk
on the subject, 1.-The Position OF thu
Returned Serviceman. AL mem
bers of the fraternity have taken
an active part in the war and now
look forward to building their or,
ganization to its preWar strength.
Members attending were: Mr..
and Mrs. Robert Buck, Mr.. and
Mrs. Robert White, Mr.. and Mrs.
Albert Cox, Mr.. and Mrs. Roy
Lamb, Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest c. Or
rell. Hugh Lee and guest, Kenneth
Bland and guest, Fred Block and
guest, C., T. Jordan, Jr., and guest,
Charles Sasser and guest, Emile
M. saleeby and guest, Jack HERS
and guest, Edger Carter and guest,
Jack McReady and guest. ]. J..
Burney, Jr., and guest.