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Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-09
Danes Boo N uzi
Leaders at Jail

Sunday when few policemen
attempted to halt the march of
several hundred Nazis into Hader-
slew from nearby towns, it was
reported.
Police reinforcements arrived from
the towns of Holding and Odense
in the evening and they aided Ha-
derslev police in besieging a hall
where the NaZis were meeting
Fighting continued until midnight
when the last of the Nazis surrend-
cred.
Some $50 Nazis were arrested after
the police had used tear gas to
subdue them.
When a group of Nazis tried to
break through police lines, using
spades as weapons, the police chief
called on the fire department and
firemen played cold water on the
Nazis until they surrendered.
tt was explained that the police
forbade the demonstration on the
ground that NaZis We're marching
in uniform without permit.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-09
MEMBER
Warfare Moves Westward
Into Neutrality Zone

fered in a sea battle with a German
raider which occurred within the
neutrality zone. Before the bat
tie. she had halted two Brazilian
ships off the coast of Brazil and
removed German passengers. Bra
lillian authorities were protesting
these alleged violations of the zone.
The British battleship Warsplte
and cruiser Enterprise were report
ed to be closing in on the raider
with which she had fought, some
where off the coast of South Ameri-
ca, and, repeatedly, within the zone.
The adventures of the 5,033 ton
German freighter Idarwald came to
an end off the south coast of Cuba
Sunday afternoon when she was
boarded by sailors from the 1850
ton British cruiser Diomede. The
German crew had tried to scuttle
her, and, presumably, was taken
prisoner. This information C a m
from the United States navy in
Washington and was made public
as authentic. The navy refused to
say where its information came from
or to give further details.
The navy announcement came
hours after Cuban radio stations
heard ON the Idarwald radio that
I'VE are being fired ON by British
cruiser" and later, that the Idar-
valid was sinking and the crew was
taking to life boats.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-09
by Paul Harrison
HOLLYWOOD S Fads, Fancies and FoibIes

The best horse in pictures is a
sorrel named Nevada; third best is
a white gelding, Sultan. All three
belong to Jack Boyle, who trained
them, and who has a stable OF
about 100 ordinary mounts which he
rents to studios.
Boyle has refused a $4,000 offer
for Nevada from a wealthy man
who wanted him as saddle horse
The trainer doubts he'll ever see
another animal which SO completely
seems to sense the demand of pic
ture making.
When actors are speaking lines
Nevada won't even witch an ear
During the filming of a tough scene
in North West Mounted Police,
he stood for five hours in one
spot.
According to the industry's scale
500 is the top daily rental Boyle
can ask fer Nevada and Joachim
but he's petitioning the Producers
Association for a new deal.
It isn't enough money, he says
when you consider that a finely
trained horse is ruined for movie
work if some fool actor shoots of
gun next to the animals ear
1t has happened before.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-09
Tokyo Says Japan
Would Fight Only
|fU. Aggressor

TOKYO, Dec. 9. (UP)-Foreign
Minister Yosuke Matsuoka said to-
day that if the United States en-
tered the war Japan would have to
join on the side of German and
Italy-but only if Japan, German
and Italy agreed that the United
States was the ag2ressor.
Japans alliance with The Axis
powers, he said in his first inter-
view with foreign correspondents,
represented the keystone of its for
eign policy.
However, he added war against
the United States arising from the
alliance could come only in event
that the United States was ad-
judged the agressor in conflict a
gainst Germany.
eff German attacks America the
y Il will not be invoked" he
explained. eff the United States
attacks Germany we will have to
join the war.
"The three powers involved must
decide. They will first judge inde-
pendently. Then the three will get
together, exchange views and deter
mine whether this supposed Ameri-
can entry into the war comes under
the treaty's article III. If all agree,
naturally Japan will be obliged to
participate. I hope that such
case will not arise. That wish is
the very object of the pact"
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-09
DON'T RUN OVER
MY LITTLE GIRL
{ Kiwanis MagaZine)

Today my daughter, who is years
old, started to school as usual. She wore
a dark blue dress with a white collar. She
had on black shoes and wore blue gloves
Her cocker spaniel, whose name Is Coot,
sat on the front porch and whined his
canine belief in the folly of education
as she waved goodbye and started Off to
the hall of learning.
Tonight we talked about school. She
told me about the girl who sits IN front
of her, the girl with the yellow curls, and
the boy across the aisle who makes funny
faces. She told me about her teacher,
who has eyes in the back of her head, and
about the trees in the school yard, and
about the big girl who doesn't believe in
Santa Claus We talked about a lot of
ings-tremendously vital, unimportant
things and then we studied spelling,
reading, arithmetic-and then to bed.
She's back there ncW-back in the nur-
sery sound asleep. with "Princess Eliza
BETH Chats a doll) cuddled in her right
arm.
You guys wouldn't hurt her. would
you?. You see, I'm her daddy. When her
doll is broken or her finger is cut or her
head gets bumped, can fix that-but
when she starts to school, when she walks
across the street, then she's in your
hands
She's nice kid She can run like Il
deer and darts about like chipmunk.
She likes to ride horses and swim and
hike with me on Sunday afternoons. But
| can't be with her all the time have
to work to pay for her clothes and her
education. So please help me look out
for her. Please drive slowly past the
schools and intersections-and please re-
member that children run from behind
parked cars.
Please don't run over my little girl.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-09

Former Kaiser William Second of
Germany is reported to be i'll and
the doctors in attendance are said
TO be worried. No wonder Any man
of 81 has a rather tenuous hold on
life. and furthermore, maybe the
one-time monarch has lost the will
to live For his career shows how
fleetin2 is human power and glory.
To have lost a throne, to have
traded rule of powerful nation for
exile, to have exchanged Potsdam
and half dozen other magnificent
palaces for the more or less simple
house in the little Dutch village
of Doom is sometimes compared to
the final act in the drama that was
Napoleon's life.
But the cases are not on all fours.
William ruled Germany and mere
ly sought a wider sphere through
force of arms. Napoleon had ac-
tually through war extended French
rule over great stretches of Europe.
William preserved an astonishing
strength and health through long
Years of exile. Napoleon died af-
ter long suffering from an agoniz-
ing disease
William was treated with great
Difference by the Dutch government.
Napoleon's retainers have placed
on record the foolish and senseiess
treatment accorded him by The
Englishmen charged with TIE duty
of being his jailers. so to speak.
Even 50. Williams life cannot
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-09
Greeks Push ON TO New Victories
After Taking Great italian Base.
Dominating All Southern Albania

ATHENS, Greece, Dec. 8. (UP)-
Greek troops drove close to Elbansan
and Tepelini, provisional Italian
bases on the north and south AL
banian fronts today, while the ma
ton wildly celebrated the capture
of Argyrokastron, the south Alban-
ian stronghold which the italian
radio had boasted last week will
remain in our hands until the end
of the war"
The Greeks now dominate south
Albania. They have wrested an
estimated 1000 of Albanian's H.
600 square miles from the Italians.
At one point, above Lake Ochrida
in the Mokra mountains of the
north front, they have penetrated
80 miles into Albania, cose to Ell
bansan, in almost the exact center
of the country.
Italian prisoners were quoted that
Valona, Albanian port, was crowd
ed with wounded, many of whom lay
on the docks waiting for trans
portation back to Italy; that the
docks were choked with munitions
and that transport service had been
completely disorganized by unceas-
ing Greek-British bombing raids.
Today's war communique al d:
AL day Sunday our troops car
ried out offensive operations on
various front sectors. They we're
crowned with complete success and
resulted in the capture of important
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-09

COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Dec. 8.
(UP) = Thousands of Danes massed
outside the Jail at the town OF
Haderslev in south Jutland, until
4 am. today cheering policemen and
ieering Danish Nazis who were be-
ing questioned about their battle
with policemen yesterday evening.
Nazis were questioned by police
Chief Nej hartmann. Six police
men and an undetermined number
of Nazis had been severely wounded
in the fighting.
The crowd sang Danish national
songs. 1t booed Fritz ClauSen, Dan
ish Nazi leader, who entered the
Jail during the investigation, Clau-
sen had arrived at the scene during
the battle and had attempted to
intervene but policemen Woul d
not talk to him.
Tt was the most serious diStur-
banee since the Germans invaded
Denmark eight months ago, reports
here indicated.
The first clash occurred at pm.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-09
LIGHT
ON LEAHY

The u. S. government, OF course
is playing the cards very close to
its vest on all of this. Neverthe-
less. it isn't exactly ignorant OF
what De Sieyes is up to-and there
are signs that it isn't exactly hos
tile, either.
Unoffieially, De Sieyes has talked
to high government officials III
Washington already. The fact that
Britain is working closely with the
De Gaulle group is also calculated
to be an item in his favor.
Beyond this there is the recent
appointment of Admiral William
D. Leahy as U. S. ambassador to
France.
This appointment almost flab-
bergasted persons who had a good
closeup look at Leahys recent eX-
perience as governor of Puerto Rico
They report that while he is an
excellent executive and admins
traitor, his Puerto Rican career was
unhappy simply because he is no
diplomat.
Purely as a suppositlon, how
ever-the appointment becomes un-
derstandable if it be imagined that
the u S. doesn't propose to be con-
ciliatory with the Vichy regime but
instead means to be hard-boiled
and firm.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-09
OUR INFERIOR
FIGHTING PLANES

DO you think the United States is turn
ing out the most efficient fighting air
planes in the world?
So did we-until last week.
But it isn't so.
Airplanes manufactured in the United
States and sent to Great Britain have
been greatly outclassed by Germanman-
ufactured and piloted planes, despite
the superiority of British pilots. Ralph
Ingersoll editor of a New York news
paper. is authority for the statement He
has Just returned from a personal tour
of the battle area He is telling what he
saw, and what British authorities told
him.
One mans word, of course, is not suffl-
cient to make a thing worth believing. But
the British government took official cog
nizance of Ingersoll's statement. The
Ministry of Information released a docu
ment praising the performance of Amer
ican-made planes-in the Mediterranean
area and in France during the Nazi drive
there But it made no mention of the
performance of American planes in the
air over England, or Germany.
Why? Most likely because the British,
doing all in their power to win more and
more help from the United States, do
not want to say anything but good about
the planes we send across the sea. SO,
if they can't say anything good about the
planes which take part IN the major aer-
ial warfare-that over England and the
continent-they say nothing.
If we aren't turning out the best fight
ing planes, why not?
Major Alexander P. de Seversky, noted
designer of warplanes and recent winner
of the Harmon trophy as outstanding
airman of 1899. tells why not.
MANY of u.s., he says, have for years
pleaded for larger gun power and better
armor for our fighters and improved de-
fensive equipment for our bombers .
Unfortunately practical designers and
builders were up against a stone wall of
official indifference as we'll as popular
complacency =. The fault is decidedly
not with American creative or manufac-
turing genius, which was then as now the
equal, and In most respects the superior,
of any other in the world"
That is what the experts think.
Isn't it about time we, the American
people, began demanding that our wing
less, grounded officials recognized the
word and advice of the men best fitted
to speak in relation to airplane design
and manufacture?
We've had enough of the same kind
Of official denseness which led to
Frances surprising downfall We don't
want pretty wells of optimism over every
thing we hear and read-we want the
truth, and we want efficiency builded
upon foundation of facts.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-09
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Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-09
AMERICA OF AGE

Ladies, take warning The L S. CEN
sus bureau scratched its august head
this week and announced worriedly that
the excess of males over females in the
United States population, which has con-
tinued throughout the life of the repub-
lie, is being whitfield away at the rate of
100000 per year"
What the census bureau really meant
was that the age of physical pioneering
IN which men Were needed and women
were scarce. has passed-and that this
country is following the worldwide trend
in population.
Competition, for the ladies, is going to
be fierce if this keeps up
It's Golden Age we live in, men. But
it has its drawbacks. The ladies, being
in the majority, will naturally have the
biggest vote on new taxes-and what ex-
perts they are at taxing
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-09
Italy Names New
Nav j, Commander

ROME. Dee. g. Italy's new
navy chiei. Admiral Arturo Riccar-
eli, was believed today to have been
chosen because of his theories on
coordinating warship and airplane
power.
His appointment was announced
in a communique which disclosed
the resignation "at his own request,
of Admiral Dominica Cavagniari
chief of the naval staff and under
secretary of the navy-both jobs go
ing to Riceardi-and the appoint
ment Of Admiral Angelo Jechino as
commander of the fleet on the seas,
and of Admiral Inigo Campione as
assistant chief of the navy staff
both new offices.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-09
British, Italians
In Desert Battle

CAIRO. Dec. 9. fUP)-A COM
munique of the British Middle East
general headquarters reported today
that advanced British forces in the
western desert had made contact
with Italian troops over "a broad
front
The communique indicated that
large-scale fighting might be inn
minent but there was no indication
whether the long-expected Italian
attempt to move east from their
outposts at Sidi Barrani was about
to get underway.
The Middle East command re-
ported that in an engagement south
of sid Barrani they had captured
500 prisoners. This would indicate
combat on a large scale.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-09
by Willis Thornton
On the Vanity Of Human Glory

have been a bed of roses to a man
of his temperament and upbring-
ing "Haus Doom" is a comfort
able place in itself, but to look
from its windows is to get the shiv-
ers, especially in the bleak Dutch
winter. Deep snow on the ground.
Wind moaning its melancholy song
in the dark pine trees. Lonely
roads deserted by human beings.
None Of the human hustle that
he used to see from his palace win
doWs, looking out on the Berlin
streets. None of the veteran regi-
ments bravely goosestepping for him
to the crashing march music of
splendid military bands. None of
the huzzahs of the faithful when
he rode in the Tiergarten. None
of the Difference accorded him
when. clothed in white and gold,
he took his seat at the opera.
Nothing left but his books and
his thoughts. Long. long ashen
thoughts. Regrets, perhaps, that he
ever plunged Europe into war. Puz-
Element, perhaps. as to how he
could have managed things better
and won. Envy, perhaps, that an
upstart corporal from an obscure
Austrian village has, so far, ac-
complished what he failed to do.
And, last thought of all before
closing his weary eyes in sleep, last
thought culled from his frequent
Bible reading:
Vanity of vanities i. all is
Vanitv''
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-09
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Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-09
London in Flames
After Nazi Raids.
Berlin Announces

BERLIN, Dec. 9. CUP) = Giant
blazes in London blended into one
sea of fire" the high command re-
ported today, as a result of Ger
man air attacks in which between
10000 and 100000 incendiary bombs
and 1,540,000 pounds of explosives
were shoWered on the British capi-
tai.
The attack on London. according
to the high command communique
was in reprisal for a royal all
force attack on western German
cities.
Single British planes bombed
Dusseldorf, Munich Gladbach Q6
miles from DuesseldorD and other
towns last night, the communique
admitted. 1t said number of resi-
dences were set afire and nine
civilians were killed. Thirty nine
others were wounded. the communi-
que said, but no military or impor-
tant objectives were hit.
Two British planes were shot
down and one German plane was
missing, the communique said.
Nazis put great emphasis on the
extent of the German attack on
London.
Nazi informants said that using
new technique, the planes set fire
to entire blocks of buildings which
new waves of planes demolished
with explosive bombs.
The official news agency called it
the hardest blow against London
since Sept. 9.
Fires were so big that the Ger
man pilots could see them from their
bases in northern France, it was
asserted. Numerous gas tanks were
exploded, the agency said, and oil
tanks were set on fire.
Antiaircraft fire waned after the
early hours of the attack. accord
ing to the agency, but apparently
due to the exhaustion of munitions. y
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-09

can representatives stationed there.
The United States is concerned lest
Martinique come u n d er German
control and become center of
German naval activity in western
hemisphere waters.
But the neutrality zone set up
by the American nations from which
they sought to bar all belligerent
activity had been violated four
times in the past week, and a fifth
violation seemed to be impending.
The British merchant cruiser
Carnarvon Castle was in Monte
video harbor repairing damage suf-
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-09
Did You Know?

Frankfurt. Germany, has auto
matte machines which supply print
ed weather forecasts for the subse-
quent "a hours.
Englands national water supply
is catered for by 358 different au-
thorities.
Connecticut is the only state in
the union in which no state bird
has been designated, officially or
otherwise
The average American family
dropped from Sc members in 1850
to Al members in 1890
Harmonies are produced by notes
IN combination; melodies by notes
in succession.
The moon rises ON an average
Of SO minutes later each evening.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-09

positions in Albania. We have TAX
en- Agyrokastron."
(Reports at Struga said nine
Greek and British planes, in three
waves of three each, had bombed
Durazzo, chief Albanian port, Sat
urday evening, destroying on a. =.
the port buildings and E.tt5lg gaso-
line depots. Several bombs were
said to have fallen in the town
itself, killing eight and wounding
10 persons. The same squadron was
said to have bombed Valone later,
seavily damaged the harbor works
and dropping two bombs on an Ital-
ian barracks, killing II Italians and
Wounding 30.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-09
Nazi Industrial
District Bombed

LONDON, Dec. 9. CUP)-Royal
air force bombers hammered at
German bases from which submar-
inc and airplane attacks are direct
ed against Great Britain and bomb
ed the great industrial district of
Dusseldorf, the air ministry said
today.
The British attacks included new
raids intended to lessen effective
ness of bases in Belgium, Holland
and France from which the Nazis
recently have made intense raids on
British Industrial cities, including
last nights heavy attack on Lon
don.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-09
BY UNITED PRESS

The sea war ragged close to the
shore of the western hemisphere
Monday. A British cruiser cap
tured German freighter off the
coast of Cuba and British warships
were reported to be closing in on
a German raider off the coast of
South America.
In the vast theater of operations.
steamed the cruiser Tuscaloosa with
President aboard. The Tuscaloosa
had dropped anchor off the French
island of Martinique Sunday while
the President parleyed with Ameri-
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-09
JAPANESE RELEASE
AMERICAN NURSE

HONOLULU. T. H, Dec. 8. (UP)
Missionaries reaching here from
Korea said today Miss Lawrence of
Riverside, Cal, an American nurse,
has been released by japanese au-
thorities at Yokohama after having
been held for nearly month on a
charge she was a Communist
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-09
by Bruce Cation
The Inside Track in Washinqton

tfully half of which is in gold) he
would be enormously strengthened.
The other half of the stakes are
in Africa, where Gen. Maxine
Weygand cannily bides his time in
virtual control of the immense re-
sources of the French African en-
pre-. Weygand could transform the
free France" move from an unof-
ficial group to a power which could
claim to speak for France. So far
he has kept aloof from Nazi bland
iShnnnnfS
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-09
MOTORCYCLIsT KILLED

SAN DIEGO, Dec. 9. tUPJ-BuT-
nell johnson. 81, Pittsburg, Cal,
steel mill wire inspector, died from
fractured skull received when the
motorcycle he was driving failed
to make turn and crashed into
a bank. The accident occurred late
Yesterday on a steep grade near Mt.
Palomar observatory north of here.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-09
MUSSOLINI PLANS
INSPECTION TRIP

ROME, Dec. 9. (UP) = Premier
Benito Mussolini today was se-
ported planning an inspection tour
of the Albanian front within the
next few days. The trip would be
similar to the premier's recent in
spection tours of the northern front.