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Evening star., 1945-10-15
Vandenberg Leads
In Gains Among COP
Leaders, Poll Shows

A survey conducted by the Re-
publican, official publication of the
Republican Party, among grass
roots" party leaders today disclosed
that Senator Vandenberg of Mich
igan has received the greatest gain
in party prestige in the last two
years while Gov. Thomas E. Dewey
of New York, the 1914 presidential
candidate, showed the greatest loss
in popularity.
Former Gov. John w. Bricker of
Ohio, Mr.. Dewey's running mate
last year, actually stood ahead of
Senator Vandenberg on the basis
OF combined poll on both domestic
and foreign issues.
Senator Vandenberg's foreign
policy was approved by 62.8 per
cent OF those polled, while Mr..
Br1cker's views were approved by
58.8 per cent. On domestic issues,
the Michigan Senator polled 64.6
against Mr.. Bricker's 73.4 per cent.
MOI a Preference Poll.
The Republican men and women
receiving the questionnaires were
specifically cautioned, the maga-
zine said, that this was not a presi-
dental preference poll. 1t was a
poll of opinion on the policies and
views OF leading Republicans. Ques-
tionnaires went to 4,249 men and
women.
The survey of opinion included a
question as to whether President
Truman, If renominated, would be
difficult opponent for the Repub-
iicans to defeat. Nearly 10 per cent
said they felt Mr.. Truman would
be comparatively difficult to de-
feat" Seven per cent said they
thought he would be difficult to de-
feat right now, but believed his
popularity would wane by 1948. Nine
per cent had no opinion on this
question, and IA per cent said they
thought Mr.. Truman would be easy
to defeat"
The overall poll, on both domestic
and foreign issues, showed the 10
highest ranking Republicans as fol-
lows.
Evening star., 1945-10-15
31,7OO Troops Due
In i. 5. Today From
Europe and Pacific
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Approximately 3l,700 troops from
Europe and the Pacific are due in
the United States today aboard q
ships.
Ships and units arriving:
At New York CApoard the Boren-
quin, from Marseilles) 1915 troops
including SD General Hospital
656th Air Warning Detachment
70lst Air Materiel Squadron, S77th
Air Engineering Squadron and 155
nurses. tAboard Aiken Victory
from Antwerp; General McCrea
from Karachi; Archer's Hope and
William T. Barry. from LIE Havre)
1894 miscellaneous troops.
At Boston-(Aboard Hood Vic.
tory 1872 troops including 26tr
Tank Battalion with medical at.
tendants and the 18th Armorec
Infantry Battalion with medical at.
tendants. (Aboard Thomas HYDE
566 troops including the 270th En-.
gineer Combat Battalion OF Com.
pany c with medical attendants
283lst Engineer Combat Battalion
of Company A with medical attend.
ants. (Aboard Joseph T. Robinson
Walter Forward and Fitzhugh Lee)
1881 miscellaneous personnel.
| AT Newport News (Aboard w. S
Young 567 troops including 270tt
Engineering Battalion and miscel.
laneous personnel. (Aboard j. Frank
Cooper, % miscellaneous person.
mel. (Aboard George Davis 71s
troops including the 175th Engineer.
| ing General Service Regiment Of
the I'd Battalion and miscellaneous
troops.
At San Francisco-About 1880
troops are due aboard the follow.
ing Sd Fleet ships: Battleships South
Dakota, Colorado, Alabama anc
Wisconsin; cruiser Vicksburg anc
destroyers Dehaven and Samuel M
Moore. Also Storm King, Genera.
r. L. Howe, John Lykes, Neville
At San Diego. Calif.-The battle.
ship West Virginia and the carriers
Sargent Bay and Kadashan Bay
will return 5000 servicemen.
Evening star., 1945-10-15
The poll on domestic issues showed
the following:
Soviet Translation Delays
Indictments ) More DAYS
BY the Associated Press.

L
BERLIN, Oct. 15.-The first formal
session of the International War
Grimes Tribual, which was to have
received indictments against "a top
rank Nazis today, has been post
poned for three days at the request
of Russian representatives. --.ass.
r. A. Rudenko, chief prosecutor
for the Soviet Union, notified the
court yesterday that it had been i'm
possible to complete translation of
the 35,000-word document in time
and asked for delay.
After the indictments are handed
up, the court is expected to adjourn
to Nuremberg for the trials.
The defendants will be given 80
days in which to prepare their cases,
and it is anticipated that the trials
probably will start before the end
of November.
Evening star., 1945-10-15

Patton's Sd Army in its march across
France. He was a military aide to
Archbishop Francis j. Spellman
when he toured Sd Army fronts in
1914. He had volunteered for duty
in China at the expiration of his
leave.
Born in Memphis, Father Foley
was a graduate of Dubuque uowa)
College and st. Mary's Seminary in
Baltimore. He was appointed a
chaplain in 1929 and served with
the Civilian Conservation Corps for
several years.
He is survived by a sister. Mrs.
Catherine r. Foley, Memphis. His
mother and brother died while he
was in France.
Evening star., 1945-10-15
|Jops Made 6L2-Hour Exhibition
[Of Boyonetinq 8 Live Prisoners

his capture that during basic train
ing in China his company was pro-
vided with live Chinese prisoners
on which to practice.
The japanese officers diary said
that at Guadalcanal, the three pris-
oners used were thoroughly beater
and then led out with their hand,
tied behind their backs. They wer.
fastened to barbed wire fence
and the bayonet practice started
while the sickened Allied officer,
were forced to look on.
After hours of torture the three
targets finally died. They were cut
down and hauled away by native.
in an ordinary dirt cart.
OF the Chinese operations, Maxine
said:
1T was so horrible it did not Iasi
long. The men could not stomach
1t. They could not sleep night.
because Of the nightmares"
Chinese Reprisal Swift.
Superior Pvt. Saburo Sano tole
questioners he saw live prisoners
used for bayonet practice in China
while he was there from March
1941 to October, 1943.
THE men were guerrillas,' hi
said. They would be blindfoldec
and their hands tied behind them
I was forced to practice on then
early in 1941. 1t was very inhumar
and I resented the cruelty of it
but was forced to comply with the
command.
Chinese reprisal for the acts wa.
swift Sano reported, and added that
when other japanese commander.
learned of the practice his com.
mander was forced to stop it.
MY ferocious commander wa
captured by the Chinese guerrillas,
Sano said. They cut off his ears
his tongue and his nose. Ther
they put out his eyes, killing hin
only by degrees. 1t put grave feal
' in other japanese officers"
Evening star., 1945-10-15
End of Butter Rutioning
By December Predicted
az the Associatec Press.


CHICAGO, Oct. 15.-Increaseo
butter production and the Army's
released of 10000 900 pounds of but
ter for civilian use will be sufficient
to make possible the end of butter
rationing by December /, according
to Owen M. Richards, manager oi
the American Dairy Association.
The butter outlook is getting bet
ter every day and soon there will be
enough for every need" Mr.. Rich
ards said. I'VE are reaching that
happy day when once again the
American public can have butter
not excuses-in the home and In
restaurants.
Mr.. Richards said the first car
loads of butter recently released by
the Army will reach the market in a
few days.
Evening star., 1945-10-15
British Dock Strikers
May Return Thursday
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
. LONDON, Oct. 15.-A high-rank.
ing union official said today that
Britain's thousands of striking dock
workers probably would return te
their jobs Thursday and end 9
three-week walkout which has para
lyzed shipping and threatened cut
in meager British rations.
All but a few strikers in London
voted to resume work, pending ne
gotiation of their wage demands.
Jack Donovan, national secretary
of the docks section of the Trans.
port and General Workers Union
said their decision probably woulo
be adopted by strikers elsewhere.
The strikers have been demanding
S5-a-day wage, compared with the
present daily wage of $500.
Evening star., 1945-10-15
First Ships Soil Today
With 81 Christmas Gift.
By the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Oct. 15.-The Ma
tional Federation of American Ship
ping said scores of American mer-
chant ships would leave New York
and San Francisco beginning to-
day with more than 1000 900 Christ
mas packages for servicemen over
seas. Seven hundred railroad cars
and 100000 mail sacks were re-
quired to transport the packages to
ports.
Midnight tonight is the .deadline
Car mailing the packages, which are
limited to five pounds.
Evening star., 1945-10-15
News of District Area Men
In the Armed Forces

Capt. Ingersoll received the decora-
ton for extraordinary heroism as
commander Of the u. S. S. Monterey
during action In the Pacific from
August 20 to October 80, 1914, which
included operations of his vessel of
Formosa and during the battle for
Leyte Gulf.
Capt. John r. Greenslade, Al
whose wife, Mrs. Rosemary Griffin
Greenslade, lives at 4914 Glenbrook
road NV, has been awarded the
Air Medal for meritorius achieve
ment In aerial fight as operations
officer on the staff of the Com
mander Aircraft, South Pacific area
from June 18 to December, 1943.
1t. Comdr. John d. Harper, jr., 20
whose wife, Mrs. Emmie L. Harper
lives at 1885 Nicholson street NV.
has been awarded a Gold Star in
lieu of second Silver Star Medal
for conspicuous gallantry as assist.
ant approach officer of the subma-
rine Shark in action during a wal
patrol in the Pacific. Comdr. Harper
Is listed as missing.
Returnees
More overseas veterans from this
area have arrived in the United
States, according to Associated Press
dispatches.
Aboard the Frederick Lykes, which
docked yesterday In New York, were
e fSergt. Grant Wiprud, son Of Theodore
Wiprud, secretary of the District Medical
Society, who lives at $3.50 Gunston road.
Marshall. also of Alexandria.
Aboard the Exchange, which ar
rived yesterday in New York, were
First 1t. Oliver Tuthill. TIA Christian
Kopf, TI5 Walter R. Everett and Pfc
Mark E. Mcguire, all of Washington, and
M iSergt. Aubrey L. Leatherland, Alexan-
vi
Evening star., 1945-10-15
More Furnaces Used

About 100000 occupied dwelling
units in the United States, 46 per
cent of the total, had central heat
ing equipment in 1914.
Evening star., 1945-10-15
Households Smaller

The size of the United States
household grew smaller between 1910
and 1914, the median size shrinking
from 3.3 persons in! April, 1910. to
3 persons in October, 1914.
Evening star., 1945-10-15
Decorations

Capt. Stuart Howe Ingersoll, At,
whose wife, Mrs. Josephine S. Inger-
soil, lives at Belle Haven, Alexandria,
Va, has been awarded the Navy
Cross, the Navy announced today.
Evening star., 1945-10-15
Discharges

Four men and three WACS from
the Washington area. discharged
at Fort Dix, N. j., were among
10 District area service personnel
discharged from the Army and
Navy at various separation centery
over the week end.
Discharged at Fort Dix were:
TiSergt. William W. Angus, jr, 1850
West virginia avenue NE; Tj5 Harold j.
Guise, 2l5 Seventh street S.W.; TL5 War
Edvafd x aib4 sres5 S nW resa ps
psce s. e. II ks E. M'Ga gesn Wiians IAN wssss
Zoos stFess Fearh S stree. nv NV Nancy
At the separation center at the
Naval Barracks here Saturday
WAVE 1t. q. g. Shirley c. Cogdal
5525 Thirtieth place NV received
her honorable discharge.
Discharged at Drew Field, Fla.
were:
avenue, NV NV; MAJ John F. Ora Graham. AsHsIi 7s1e
stratford road, Bethesda; 1st 1t. Jacl
AZ Il n5ssFs Ss1s Suna RSsa. road s6e W.s1,s
2021 Kalorama road NV.
Released at Mcclellan Field, Calf.
were:
siserst. Glenn W. Fasnacht, sl7
Eighth street NE, and Corpl. John l.
Lewis, 1s43 U place Sc.
The following men were released
at separation centers indicated:
Sergt Pasauale J. Checchia, 2124 Four
tsenth street NV, at Kelly FielG, Tex;
at Frederick Army Air Field, Okla; Corpl
Marvin J. AsqLith, 391S East Capitol
street, at Camp Swift, Tex, and Pvt
George H. Miller, 202 Bates street NV, at
New Castle Del) Army Air Base.
Evening star., 1945-10-15
lnductions

Nineteen District men have been
ordered to report for induction into
the armed forces today. Names of
the men follow:
Thomas Watkins, George Smith, Susano
Viramontos, Bishara Andonie, Orville
Arnold, Collie Barnett, Joseph Boone,
John Hawkins. John Isaac. Oscar johnson,
Walter Montgomery. Raymond Ross,
Nathaniel Smith, James Wilson, jr.,
Charles Bradley, Winfred Brown, jr,
Herbert Hall. Stacey johnson, Arthur
Tippens, jr.
Evening star., 1945-10-15

Poll on Issues.
The poll on foreign policies showed
the f011oUinp RATINGS.
Evening star., 1945-10-15
Indies

CONTINUED From First Page. }
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-12
u Passengers
Hospita|ized
In Train Wreck

REDLANDS, Calf, Feb. IL. (UP)
Twenty-six persons were hospital
lied Monday after the packed Chi
cago-to-Los Angeles Southern Pa
cific Califoi nian and a 97-car west
bound Southern Pacific freight
train rammed head-on Sunday on a
single-track curve che mile west of
here.
The injured, except for members
of the freight trains crew, were
aboard the all-coach train, carrying
a capacity load of GIG passengers.
Seriously injured passengers were
taken to the Redlands Community
hospital, while SO others were given
first aid and sent to Los Angeles on
a relief train.
Principal damage was to the two
locomotives, which teleScoped. The
baggage car on the passenger train
was thrown clear; two refrigerator
cars on the freight buckled and II
others were derailed.
Southern Pacific officials ex-
planned that visibility on the curve
was limited and said that the fact
that the passenger train had not
picked up full speed after step at
Redlands probably prevented more
serious crash.
They said that there may have
been a failure of block signals or a
misunderstanding of signals.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-12
Canadians Patton
Smash Forward
KIeve and Pruem
Near Collapse;
Ruhr Threatened
BY JACK FLEISCHER

PARIS, Feb. II. (UP) =
Canadian First army troops
battled through waist-deep
mud and waist-deep flood
waters within 30 miles of
Germany's Ruhr valley Mon
day, capturing the Nazi bolt
position at Gennep and all
but a small corner of the
fortress city of Kleve.
Fighting under low rain
clouds that grounded their
air support, veteran Cana
dian, English and Scottish
infantrymen were slugging
through a 12-mile breach in
the toughest German de-
fenses covering the industrial
Ruhr valley.
Field dispatches said Brit
ish shock troops had broken
through the dense Reich for
est between Gennep and
Kleve and were driving down
on the Siegfried line strong
hold of Goch against stead
ily-stiffening German resist
ance.
Weather grounded most of the
tactical air force planes but obser-
verS reported they gave the German
rail network in the Rhine -Dort-
mund- -Bielefeld Paoerborn quadri-
lateral one of the wars worst
poundings yesterday.
The planes flew almost 1000 sor-
ties and reported knocking out So
locomotives and SO freight cars.
Another lot locomotives and 454
freight cars were damaged.
PATTON PUSHES ON
More than 100 miles to the south,
1t. Gen. George S. Patton's Ameri-
can Third army forces fought their
way into another west wall bastion
at Pruem and cleared more than
half the town after a sharp street
fight AT last reports, only scat
tered Nazi rear guards remained in
the town, one of the main supply
and communications points for the
central sector of the Siegfried line
Between the Canacian and U. S.
Third army fronts, the battle for
the Roer dams lulled momentarily
following the Germans partial sue
cess in blowing up the Schwam-
maneul dam floodgates. For more
than 20 miles rorthward the Roer
Continued on Pg. 6, Col ID
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-12
Coast Utilities
Fuce Strike

STOCKTON, CAL, Feb. IL. (UP)
Electrical employees of the Pacific
Gas and Electric company voted 100
to 7 here Sunday to strike in pro-
test against War Labor Board de-
nial of an 18h per cent wage in
crease.
The latest vote followed by one
week a similar vote carried in Sac
ramento by 1868 where workers
said they intended to put their
strike decision into effect within
80 days. Balloting Was to be carried
out by employees of all plants and
subsidiaries from Bakersfield to
Fresno, it was reported.
Officials of the International
Brotherhood of Electrical workers,
sAFL, representing employees in all
northern California except the San
Francisco bay area, said that the
meetings wee unauthorized" They
pointed out that the international
union has no-strike pledge for the
duration Of the war.
A. M. Hansen, business agent, said
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-12
Japanese General
HeraIds End
Of Yank Invasion
BY UNITED PRESS

Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita, re-
suming his rhetorical offensive
against Gen. Douglas Macarthur,
said Monday: THE enemy is now at
lcng last in our hands"
1t was Yamashita who, earlier in
the Pacific war, said the enemy
retreating northward has advanced
south"
Yamashita was quoted Monday in
a Philippines front line Domei dis
patch, broadcast by Tokyo radio and
recorded by United Press, San Fran
cisco. He said:
"The enemy is now at long last
in cur hands. The American invad-
ers desiring speedy occupation Of
Manila released wild bandit troops
into the city, allowing them to carry
out plunder and arson.
Due to the enemy's wanton
bombing, the city has turned into
a veritable sea of fire and Cne mil
lion citizens are now on the verge
of starvation.
"At last Douglas Macarthur is in
my iron trap. I have been chasing
the enemy's commander all over the
toutheln seas area and each time
he has slipped away from me.
This time it will be different and
my pleasure of a face to face meet
ing will be realized
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-12
Bon1berS Hammer
At Corre9idor
BY FRANCIS MCCARTHY

MANILA, Feb. II. (UP)-
The fortress of Corregidor in
Manila Harbor, where Gen.
Douglas MacArthur's Ameri-
cans made their last stand
against the japanese, rocked
Monday under the heaviest
saturation bombing attack
yet launched in the Pacific.
For nearly a week the japanese
antiaircraft guns on the rocky fort
resses have been silent, presumably
knocked out by American bombs.
The terrific air attack, softening
up Corregidor for an American
landing, came as American tank
and infantry columns splintered the
Japanese forces in southern Manila.
The japanese were cut into scores
of isolated pockets and infantry pa
trolls were sweeping down burning
Continued on Pg. 6, Col. ~
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-12
Collier Resigns
Indian Post

WASHINGTON, Feb. IL. CUP) =
The White House Monday announc-
ed the resignation of John Collier as
commissioner of the interior depart
ment's office of Indian affairs.
Collier has held the post since
soon after President Roosevelt's in
auguration in 1888. He has under
taken many reforms in the federal
handling of Indian problems. Some
of his program aroused bitter op-
position among certain tribes and
groups.
An hour after the resignation was
announced, the White House sent
to the senate the nomination of
William A Brophy, Al, of Albuquer-
que, New Mexico, to succeed Collier.
Brophy has practiced law in Albu-
querque since 1884, including much
Indian work in his practice.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-12
ARC T|GHTENS ON berlin
Downey Charges
Deception on
Colorado Treaty
Californian Clashes
With COnnally as
Testimony Is Closed

WASHINGTON, Feb. II.
(UP) = Senator Sheridan
wney, CD, California,
charged Monday that propo-
nenets of the Mexican water
treaty have based their case
on misleading, inaccurate,
and false statements" before
the senate foreign relations
committee. r-.t
Downey mace the charge as he
concluded CALIFORNIA; testimony
against the treaty. 1t was promptly
challenged by chairman Tom Con-
nally,' Cd, Texas, who has argued
with him constantly during the past
three weeks.
That's an unfair statement"
Connally. you have cross-examined
witnesses, argued with them, and
consumed more than anyone else
before this committee. That's an
unfair charge to make"
OOWIlcy SdlO Ilc WOulu prove Ills
statement if he might be permitted
to continue. .... 80.
> go ahead Connally said. Go
ahead" ~.@ -
Principal misleading statements,
Downey said, have been made by
state department witnesses who
have maintained that much of the
100000 acre feet of Colorado river
water guaranteed Mexico by the
treaty would come from return
flow"
Return flow" is water taken flom
the Colorado which returns to it
downstream by pumping and seep-
age
There is no accurate estimate of
the amount of return flow" Downey
said Eminent engineers vary in
their calculations from a figure as
low as 25U,0c0 acre feet to one a;
high as 100000"
The state department, Downey
Continued on Pg. 6, Col. -
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-12
Big Three Pens
German Terms

WASHINGTON, big
unconditional the calling
problems
quarterly meetings of the foreign secretaries
a communque
meeting held
Crmea. he
Josef Stain also agreed form for Poland to be
Polish Provisional Government of National
declared that the
OF Axis satellite
the United
occupation control
upon.
provide powers
occupation
OF a commission.
headquarters
representatives of all the big
The three leaders SAID they considered that the frontier
the
kioles
territory
as
a O.
territory
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-12

WASHINGTON, Feb. IL.
(UP) - American B-29 Su-
perfortresses heavily raided
the stepping stone island of
Two, 75O miles south of To-
kyo Monday and the Japan
ese reported that other U. S.
planes, presumably B-29s
penetrated the Tokyo-Yoko-
hama area Monday night
(Tokyo time.)
A Tokyo broadcast, recorded by
FEC, said a ''small number of
planes flew over the Tokyo-Yoko-
hama area and the district embrac-
ing the Yokosuka naval station be-
tween 7 and 7:30 pm. 1t did not
indicate whether any bombs were
cropped and made no claims of
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-12
B-2qs Rake Two Air Bose
In Big Daylight Attack

B-29 attacks. surface warships and
Liberators joined in the bombard-
ment of Two. There was no immed-
late word whether these units also
participated in Mondays raid.
The 21st bomber command OPEN
ed the weekend BIO offensive Sat-
urday with an assault ON the inn
portant Nikajima aircraft plant 40
miles northwest Of Tokyo that prob
ably disrupted production Tor
months to come.
The largest force OF Superfort-
resses ever to hit Japan demolished
one main assembly building, dam
aged another, badly damaged a SUBJ
assembly building. damaged one
third of the roof area Of q fourth
building and set fire 10 q fifth, .
Continued on Pg. Q, Col. ~
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-12

in Sacramento, that the meetings
were attended by both union and
ncn-union employees without direc-
ton from the brotherhood.
Negotiations have been under
way for some time to study existing
plant rate structure inequalities, he
said. but the company refused to
consider the wage appeals at re-
cent meeting in San Francisco"
A company spokesman said he did
not know why employees were con-
sidering strike.
I'VE have offered to file a Form
10 with the labor board to inaugu-
rate proceedings to obtain the in
crease" he said, land the union has
cur writtenostatement to that ef-
feet.
1--WE do not think there is danger
of a strike
The War Labor Board denied a
petition last August brought by the
AFL union for an 18la per cent in
crease and another by the CIO Elec-
trical Workers Union fer a 17-cent
an hour increase.