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Detroit evening times., 1945-04-18
A Fine American Speech

DRESIDENT TRUNANS first speech to Congress-
and to the American people, was full of his own
courage and faith and it inspired and strengthened the
people in their courage and faith.
1t was in every way fine American Speech fine
measure of the President himself and fine expression
of the reverent and resoute thoughts that in the
minds of our people and of the deep devotion to duty
which has fixed place in the hearts and souls of the
people.
President Truman has made more than good
start, more than good impression.
He has proved himself worthy of his place, and
capable of worthy perform ance in that place.
~ America is going forward under his leadership
without "even momentary pause in the hard fight for
victory" as he said with confidence.
Detroit evening times., 1945-04-18
We Heartily Concur :.

Says Milton d. Cohn, national COM
mander of Disabled American Veterans:
"The Disabled American Veterans
some time ago sponsored the introduce
ton of a bill in Congress for a national
war memorial and has recommended
that memorials be built by states and
communities.
Certainly the construction of use
full war memorials in honor of the
revered memory of the veterans of all
Americas wars is fitting. 1t should be
one of the first construction projects
to be put under way after the de-
mobilization.
I'VE heartily concur with the
Herald-Ameri that these memorials
be more than mere statues. Rather,
they should be projects to be utilized
for recreational and educational pur-
poses"
Detroit evening times., 1945-04-18

They frequently lose their significance in
a busy world.
So do cast-iron replicas of charging
doughboys, concrete shafts, rusting can
non and similar mementos of the type
scattered across the country in the wake
of precious wars.
II life, liberty and the pursuit of
happiness are the ideals at stake in this
war, the memorials we create to COM
memorate its winning must he useful
living things to enrich the better days to
come.
They Died for These
Let them be memorial Fairgrounds,
swimming pools, libraries, community CEN
ters, parks, recreation buildings and
sports stadiums.
Let us erect hospitals, nurseries,
clinics, dental foundations and health CEN
ters in memory of those who died to save
our way of life.
Let memorial gardens, groves and
forests be planted as living reminders of
our heroic dead-for the benefit of all the
people.
Let us create memorial scholarships
In universities and technical colleges for
the education of future Americans-the
sons and daughters of today's heroes.
Let plans for living, useful memorials
Detroit evening times., 1945-04-18

ming meet. Do you know:
(a) what university team
won the championship in
1914? (b) did the 1914 cham
pion compete in 1945?
About how old was Jesus
when he was baptized?
A new biography has just
been published on Lewis
Carroll. Do you know:
(a) the name of the most
famous Of his books? (b) his
real name? Lewis Carroll
was pen name.
Would you say that the skel-
eton or the muscles account
for more of the weight of
the human body?
(Answers on opposite page)
Detroit evening times., 1945-04-18

plot and provide noble memorial by
dedicating each tree to a local war hero,
identifying the community at the same
time.
A boulevard of shade trees leading to
a public school, fieldhOuSe or library
would be equally appropriate-a living
memorial
Such trees might be placed under per-
petual care of local school children. This
would introduce each new generation to
the highest lesson of citizenship.
Better Types Of Memorials
Why spend $4,000 for a massive
statue of questionable artistry when that
sum would build a memorial swimming
pool which would constantly remind rising
generations of liberty's high cost?
Better to create play centers for small
children, tennis courts, archery and rifle
ranges, golf courses and boating facilities.
and make possible the better life for
which our heroes are fighting and dying.
A recent poll of nearly 5000 home
makers by Woman's Home Companion
showed them overwhelmingly in favor of
useful war memorials instead of lifeless,
useless, decorative monuments.
War Mothers Oppose Monuments
One group of war mothers wrote that
returning veterans would derive greater
pleasure from a memorial recreation
building, with gymnasium, bowling, indoor
games courts and meeting rooms, than
from even the most imposing decorative
monument.
Memorials are local affairs matters
of community endeavor, for neighborhOod
heroes, planned and executed by the home
folks.
Living memorials keep alive proud
memories Of heroic deeds of the past and
inspire the heroes of our peaceful future.
Every community will honor its brave
men and women who suffered the hells
Of GuadaIcanal, Normandie, Anzio, Ice
land, Alaska, Manila, Two Jima and the
jungles Of Burma-many never to return.
Reminder Of Our Debt
We will acknowledge to generations
yet to come our great debt to the count
less heroes of World War ii.
Heroic statues, lofty shafts and
triumphal arches certainly have proper
place i'm the nations capital. They SYM
boliZe our history.
Smaller statues, war relics and fOhn-
dations help to beautify parks and boule-
wards from New York's Riverside drive
and Chicago's lakefront to San Francisco's
Golden Gate.
But for living reminders of our heroic
war dead-community tributes from the
home folks to the most noble of their
youth-let- us have
Useful memorials-nOt monuments!
Detroit evening times., 1945-04-18
Our Great Shrines

Let us express ourselves nobly
when we do build stone and marble
memorials, such as we have done in the
beautiful shaft rising in Washington in
everlasting memory of the Founder of
Our Country, and in the Lincoln Me-
mortal whose simple lines and whose
magnificent statue of the Emancipator,
have brought breathless realization of
Americas greatness to millions of visit
Ors to the nations capital.
Here in Chicago, in Lincoln Park,
we have an inspiring statue of Lincoln
"A case of worthy monument-build-
ing-and we have, too, Soldier Field,
one of the country's finest examples Of
a useful memorial. Soldier Field has
brought happy moments to millions.
Detroit evening times., 1945-04-18

\ MERICA is truly comforted and reassured strength
ened and inspired by the promise of leadership in
herent in the words of who assumes the presi-
dency of the United States in its hour of greatest trial
with this prayer in his heart
Iask only to be a good and faithful servant
of my Lord and my people,"
This is the manner of Harry S. Truman's accep-
tance of the highest place in American affairs and
human history which fell to him in consequence of
tragic event, but for which he has already demon.
strated the greatest worth and capacity
&C
Detroit evening times., 1945-04-18

be made by villages, towns and local COM
munities in our big cities.
Living Memorials TO Heroes
Where funds are limited, committees
might plant a grove of trees on barren
Detroit evening times., 1945-04-18
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By DIR. sABINA CONNOLLY

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hvs auestions and FIvE for the last ases-
tion, Score $40. brilliant; T-s, bright;
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Detroit evening times., 1945-04-18
Memorials That Make
Our Heroes Live On

Chicago Ha Nswspaps)
By ROBEY PARKS
Detroit evening times., 1945-04-18


victory" as he said with confidence.
4 MERICA is fortunate and proud to have the lead
"A ership of president who makes it the first act of
his administration to say:
owe shall neUer cease our struggle to preserUe
and maintain our American Uay of life.
America joins him in the pledge, to it's allies and its
enemies alike that it will continue the fight for free
dom until no vestge of resistance remains"
America likes the high spirit the figurative jut-
ting out of his chin that in the words with which
he exulted over the able military direction of the
by our competent commanders and strategsts.
81 uUant the entire uDorld to knoW that this
direction must and UiN remain, unchanged and
unhanpered," he said.
America acknowledges with him "our debt to the
heroic men and valiant women in the service of our
country who can never be paid, and honors with him
"the memory of those who have made the supreme
rfice"
A MERICA accepts with him the moral and spiritual
obligation of nation which "has become of the
most powerful forces for good on EARTH"
America reioices with him that "our forefathers
came to our rugged shores in search of religious tol
erance, political freedom and economic opportunity"
and "for those fundamental rights they rsked their
lives"
America honors him for the earnestness and SIM
certy, the reverence and humbeness with which he
has taken up the vital burdens of his great task relying
upon Divine guidance and the loyalty and confidence OF
his countrymen for the attainment of "new passage to
far better world kindly and friendly world, with
just and lasting peace"
4 MERICA is truly comforted and reassured strength
ened and inspired by the promise of leadership in
Detroit evening times., 1945-04-18

TEIE conspicuous defect OF our
Il national administration
within this country lies in its
multifarious authorities and in
their conflicts of jurisdiction.
This has involved our effort
in rivalries, extraordinary ex-
penditures, great wastes, and
unabated confusion. We have
tolerated il in this country, and
may pull out of it after the war
ends but we cannot, with any
PROSPECT of success, transfer q
repetition OF II TO a foreign sit-
uation like Germany. where
semi warlike conditions may
exist for a considerable time.
Detroit evening times., 1945-04-18

Under American law and
~ practice occupying armies
p may not implant national
civil regime in a foreign coun-
try. nor take responsibility
Detroit evening times., 1945-04-18

Civ. yourseH 10 for each correct answer
throurh question six. 40 each for the re-
nsininr t-o questions. Any score 90 or
hirhsr hs excellent.
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Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-03
Hamburg Falls
As Germans
Flee Westward

PARIS, May 8. CUP)-The British
Second army captured Hamburg
and half-million thoroughly beat
en- Nazi troops Thursday. The rem
nants of Germany's northern arm
les fled for Denmark and Norway
by land and sea under a terrible
rain of bombs and aerial gunfire.
Organized German resistance in
the north and, in fact, all across the
European continent, was melting
away at an incredible speed in the
wake of the unconditional surren-
der of northern Italy and western
Austria with their garrisons of al
most 100000 men.
American Seventh army troops in
the south swept up another $4,000
prisoners along the western flank
of the Bavarian redoubt and plung-
ed across the Inn river in force to
join with Gen. George S. Patton's
U. S. Third army in the final as
sault on the Nazi stronghold at
Berchtesgaden.
Unconfirmed Moscow reports said
Patton's men were only 10 miles
north of Berchtesgaden-about 80
miles closer than the Seventh army
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-03

agreement has yet been reached
and that the negotiations again
could run into a snag.
The Big Three foreign ministers
Secretary of State Edward R. Stet-
tinius, Jr., British Foreign Secre-
tary Anthony Eden and Soviet For
eign Commissar v. M. Molotov-
discussed the latest formula We'd
nesday. With them were W. Aver
i'll Hartman, U. S. ambassador to
Moscow, and Sir Archibald Clark
Kerr, British envoy to Moscow.
Molotov, Hartman and Clark Kerr
make up the special commission
set up at the Yalta conference to
solve the Polish question.
The Big Three agreed at Yalta
that the Scviet-sponsored Polish
regime, now centered at Warsaw,
should be reorganized to include
representatives of all sections of
the Polish people. The Anglo
American position is that the
agreement has not been carried
ont The western Allies have re-
jected Russian demands to seat
the present Warsaw regime at this
conference.
From one diplomatic source here
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Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-03
WASHINGTON, May 3

WASHINGTON, May B.
(UP) = President Truman
Thursday vetoed legislation
to defer large numbers of agricul-
tural workers. He said it would
be an injustice to those already
indicted or to be inducted.
The joint resolution, introduced
by Rep. John A. Flanagan CD
Va, chairman of the House Agri-
culture committee, was designed to
halt induction of farm workers who
are deemed necessary to agricul-
ture.
President Truman said this would
be marked departure from the
sound principals thus far adhered
to under the original selective SER
vice provision barring deferments
for occupational groups.
'The sole test under the law is
whether the individual can better
serve his country in the armed
forces or in an essential activity
in support of the war effort" the
President said in his veto message.
The bill, he said, would single
cut one special class of our citizens.
the agricultural group, and put it
on a plane above both industrial
occupation and military service"
Enactment of such law would
be an injustice to the millions al
ready inducted into our armed fore
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-03
Reds Seek Proof
Of Hitler,
HimmIer Deaths

eral Kreb, newly-appointed chief
of the German army general
staff, had killed themselves in
the final hours of the battle of
Berlin.
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
and a British foreign office
spokesman said all evidence at
hand indicated that Hitler had
died of a brain hemorrhage.
The German radio version of
Hitler's death was that he
"fell" a hero while directing the
defense of Berlin.
Moscow remained unconvinced
that Hitler actually was dead
and suggested that he may have
gone underground with other
key Nazi party leaders to plot
an eventual return to power.
Fritsche's report that Goeb-
bels also had committed suicide
was the first word from a Ger
man source on the whereabouts
of the propaganda minister in
more than a week.
Goebbels had announced at
that time that as gauleiter of
Berlin he and his family would
remain in the city.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-03
u. 5. Casualties
In Italy Set
At 100000 Total

WASHINGTON, May g. CUP) -
The conquest of Italy cost the
United States more than 100000
combat casualties, Secretary of
War Henry l.. Stimscn disclosed
Thursday
Stimson told his press confer
ence that the U. S. Fifth Army had
suffered 109,163 casualties from the
start Of the italian campaign to
April 28
BY April %, the Germans in Italy
had been sent into the headlong
rout which eliminated in their un-
conditional surrender Wednesday.
OF the Fifth's losses 21,577 were
listed as killed, 77.248 wounded and
10338 missing.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-03
City to Provide
Free Water for
Courthouse Park

Unanimous action of El Centre
city council Wednesday night as
sured free water for the courthouse
park for period of a year. Coun-
Gilman Herb Fawcett water COM
missioner, made the proposal in a
formal motion.
Members of council expressed
themselves as in full accord with
the expanded plans for the park
and memorial and all agreed it will
be in the motion that the water
will be metered and routine records
kept of the amount used.
In fixing the period as a year.
council did not indicate what ac-
ton would follow at the end CT the
period
The park is in process of land
Scaping through funds allocated
by the county board Of cupervis-
orS.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-03
CHURCHILL S ABSENCE HINTS We day NEAR
Access Highways
Bill Okehed by
Assembly Group
Measure Calls For
3300-Mile System;
Levy Program Waits

SACRAMENTO, M ay 3.
CUP)-A bill authorizing a
3300-mile system of limited
access highways or "freeways" was
started through the legislature
Thursday with a favorable recon-
mendation by the assembly con-
servation and planning committee.
A companion bill to finance the
system with a Y cent a gallon
added tax on gasoline has yet to
be considered by the revenue and
taxation committee.
BILL OUTLINED
The freeways bill, introduced by
ASsemblymen Stream, Me h ouse
and Kraft of San Diego county,
would authorize building 2700 miles
of the system on present main
routes. In addition, the highway
commission could build up to 600
miles of freeways in metropolitan
areas.
The high speed roads would pass
through all but Is counties of the
state However, minimum of $780,
600 a year would be spent in every
county, with the rest of the fund
being budgeted on the basis of
motor vehicle registration.
George T. Mccoy, state highway
engineer, said that if both the free
WAYS and increased gas tax bills
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Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-03
Laval Languishes
In Spanish Jail

MADRID, May 3. (UP)-A tired
and detected Pierre Laval waited
in Spanish Jail Thurs day to be
turned over to the United Nations
for trial as a war criminal.
His cnly alternative was the grim
one of returning to France, where
he has been sentenced to death in
Absentia for treason.
The former Vichy chief of gov
ernment gave up the fight WedneS-
day after his futile flight for free
dom ended on a Barcelona airfield.
The Spanish government told him
to get out of the country, or to re-
main and be handed over to the
United Nations.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-03
LEST WE FORGET
HoIfviIIe Man
Killed in
Germany Battle

Private First Glass S "A. (Jack)
johnson, 35, who spent most of
his life in Holtville, was killed
in action in Germany April 16.
Before he entered the army in
January of 1913, Pfc. Johnson
was employed at the Holtville
Ice Company, and before that op-
Grated the Johnson Cleaning es-
tablishment in Holtville. He at
tended elementary and high
school in Holtville.
He went overseas March with
medical detachment.
Survivors include his wife, Mrs.
Jessie Johnson; his mother, Mrs.
Georgia Johnson; both of Holt
vile; brother, Private First
Glass Archie Johnson, stationed
at Douglas. Arizona; and a half
brother, Garland Nichols of As
toria. Oregon.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-03
Candidate Slate
Named for {. {.
{ of { Directors

Seventeen candidates for eight
places on the board of directors of
the Ell Centro Chamber of Commerce
have been named by the nominat-
ing committee, Earle G. Davis,
chairman announced Thursday.
Other members of the committee
are C. L. Davis, E. A. Fitzhugh, P. L.
Moore and Wade Ramsey.
The list or candidates follows:
The candidates are: o. l.. Bane,
Warren Brock, r. B. Dessert, ST.,
Jerry High, Fred Hix, Father Ed
ward Hutchinson, Hugh Jantzen,
Paul A. Jenkins, Mark Magee, James
H. Marshall, Louis B. McManus, E.
c. MiSSildine, F. H. Mitchell, Ray
mond C. Reeder r. A. Smith, Lom
Thompson and Kenneth Thornton.
Ballots will be sent to members
early next week, w. G. Outlook,
chamber manager announced. The
voted ballots may be returned by
mail or deposited in person at the
Chamber. All ballots must be in the
box by pI m. May IL when they
will be counted,
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-03
FL Centran Gets
Bronze Medal
For Navy Service

Honored for meritorious.s services
in connection with operations
against the enemy as a member OF
the staff of Fleet Admiral Chester
w. NimitZ, commander in chief o.
the Pacific fleet, Lieutenant Com
mander Logan H. Jenkins has been
awarded the Bronze Star Medal.
This former El Centro newspaper
man received the medal for his
outstanding ability. initiative, and
judgment in the accomplishment Of
the duties assigned him" from last
June 81 to January 9. The medal
was presented at eleventh naval dis
trict headquarters in San Diego by
Rear Admiral w. L. Friedell, dis
trict commandant.
Before he entered the navy in
September of 1541 Commander Jen-
kins was city editor of the Imperial
Valley Press and Post and made his
home in Ell Centro He is brother
of Paul Jenkins, Imperial Valley
publisher He is stationed at elev-
enth naval district headquarters in
San Diego at present and lives with
his wife and daughter in Coronado
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-03

DergS amendments:
l. A provision calling for estab-
lishment of justice and promotion of
respect for human rights and funda-
mental freedoms. The assembly or
lower house of the world organiz-
alton would be given responsibility
for promoting those principles.
2. A provision making it the as
sembly's responsibility to adjust sit
uationS likely to impair general well
fare and to recommend revision of
treaties, removal of conditions likely
to lead to breaches of the peace and
change in prior international en-
gagementS.
8. Specific mention that the or
ganization adheres to the principles
Of the Atlantic Charter.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-03

Holland, Denmark, Norway and
Czechoslovakia was reported under
negotiation, and possibly in some
cases already concluded.
ABSENT FROM COMMONS
Churchill was absent from the
House of Commons Thursday. Sir
John Anderson, speaking for him,
told the House that should the war
end on Saturday or Sunday there
would be general holiday Monday.
Churchill'S absence together with
continental reports of surrender
negotiations created feeling in
diplomatic and political quarters
here that the hour Of victory prob
ably was near
ChurchiliS latest public appear
ance here was Wednesday evening.
Then he announced in Commons the
fall of North Italy. He sent word
that he could not attend Thursdays
session, highly unusual procedure.
The last four major pockets of
NaZi resistance outside the Reich
were reported near collapse. Some
sources believed the capitulation
of some or all of them might be an
nourlced by nightfall
The house of cards that Adolf
Hitler built around Germany by
seizing his neighboring countries
was tumbling down. Already the
southern ranparts had crumbled
with the surrender of North Italy
and Western Austria.
SEEKS NEW REFUGE
Following the Nazi announcement
Of Adolf Hitler's death and the fall
of Hamburg. the new fuehrer, Ad-
miral Karl Boenitz, apparently wa3
wandering the northland in search
of new refuge. The press assoc
iation said it was fairly certain"
that he was in Denmark, or per-
haps had even gone on to Norway.
Reliable informants said the cap
itulation of German forces in Dem
mark was arranged tentatively some
time ago The country was cut off
by the British push to the Baltic.
Collapsed Nazi censorship indicated
that the Danes controlled their own
country again.
The Paris radio said that the
foreign minister OF Major Vidkun
Quisling's puppet government of
Norway had arrived in Copenhagen
to discuss the surrender Of per-
haps 250,000 German troops in Nor
way.
A German diplomat in Zurich
told the Exchange Telegraph Agency
that Doenitz had dismissed the en-
tire Nazi cabinet which served Adolf
Hitler and was appointing as new
ministers only those men whom he
believed would have the confidence
of the Allies.
Only the appointment of Count
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