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Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-22
by Willis Thornton =.
The Corsican and the Austrian

under the able Kutusoff gave bat
tie at Borodino on the Moscowa
river. Both sides had enormous loss
es (the French $4,000, the Russians
47.OO0), but Kutusoff withdrew in
admirable order, retreating through
Moscow and taking its people with
him. On Sept. ID Napoleon occupied
the city.
Between the 18th and 10th the
Russians burned the city, and af-
ter remaining five weeks Napoleon
got out of there. BY the time he
had reached Jaroslavej Vjasma,
and Krasnoy, fighting continually
the harassing Russians and CoS-
sacks. cold weather descended. BY
the time he forced a passage over
the Berezina river, the suffering
from hunger and cold was terribles
On Dec. 3 Napoleon left the army
to its fate and went back to Paris.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-22
FIRE DEFENSE
FOR AMERICANS

(WaIl Street JaurnaD
October 9 is the anniversary of that
eventful day when Mrs. O'Leary'S COW
kicked over a lantern and started the ca
taStrophic Chicago fire and this year,
as usual, that date will fall within Fire
Prevention Week-October 5-11. This year
more than ever, because of the urgency OF
national defense, attention should be paid
to fire defense, not confining attention
to that special week either.
Fire threatens internal security perhaps
more than any other destructive force.
Losses and Interruptions of production
caused by fire are staggering each year.
CareleSSneSS alone is responsible for fire
losses of some 10000 lives and $500 mil
lion dollars annually, and now the adj
ditional possibilities of sabotage and in
cendiarism make another hazard.
The fire loss in the United States in
the past % years has amounted to nearly
SO billion, an annual average of around
S400 million, although last year the loss
was 500 million under that average. In
the last quarter of a century more Amer
leans were burned to death than We're
killed in the World War and the Civil
War combined.
Industry and business owe it to them
selves to keep closer watch than ever on
the chief causes of fire. In case anyone
has forgotten them, here they are: care
leSSnesS with cigarettes and matches de-
fective or overheated chimneys and flues
misuse of electrical equipment; careless
ness IN handling gasoline and kerosene;
sparks on wood shingle roofs and unnec-
eSSary accumulation of rubbish in attics
closets and easements.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-22

HOLLYWOOD. Aug. % - Almost
every actor has an urge to play
some pet historical character, and
he generally is quite certain he's
the ONLY person in Hollywood who
can play it.
Such chances seldom occur, how
ever. In the fantasy sequences of
The Remarkable Andrew" for in
stances. there are five famed early
Americans, but only the character
of George Washington is played by
an actor who had been hoping some
day to do it.
Montague Love has the role. Ten
years ago he played Thomas JET
ferson in George Arliss "AleXan-
der Hamilton, and all during pro-
duction the makeup and camera
men had a hard time keeping Love
from looking too much like Wash
ington. To lessen the resemblance,
they replaced his original white
wig with a brown one and refined
several sequences.
In The Remarkable Andrew, "
Loves former Jeffersonian role IS
played by Gilbert Emery And
George Watts is Benjamin Frank
lin. although that Characterization
is one that Guy Kibbee always
wanted. Closest piece of type cast
ing, probably, is Brandon Hurst as
John Marshall Even out of make
up, Hurst looks almost exactly like
pictures of the great Chief Juscica
Brian Donlevy long mas wanted
to impersonate Washington on the
screen. About a year ago, just to
remind the studio of the resem-
blance in case a Father of-His-
Country picture ever came along
Donleyy had himself made up ant
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-22

1t proves nothing. 1t is no guide
to the future. But the temptation
to draw parallels between Hitler's
invasion of Russia and Napoleon's
is too strong, like the desire for
an extra slice of elderberry pie.
Napoleon was foreigner, a Cor
sican, ruling France. Hitler is a
foreigner, an Austrian, ruling Ger
many.
Napoleon rose to power in France
on the tide of a revolution. Hitler
rose thus in Germany.
Napoleon terrorized Europe for
years. So has Hitter.
Napoleon picked a fight with Rus
sia without a scrap of provocation,
simply because he had decided that
Russia must be eliminated. Hitler
did the same.
Napoleon had assembled a mot
ley army of French, Italians, Swiss,
Dutch, Poles, and Germans. Hitler
is using, in addition to his Germans,
Rumanians, Bulgarians, Slovaks
and Italians.
Napoleon advanced as far as
Smolensk without a serious battle
and took that city by storm in a
two-day operation, Aug. II, l8.
Here the pattern begins to di-
verge. Hitler advanced into Russia
in three great movements, in the
north against Leningrad, in the
south against Kiev, and in the Gen.
ter against Moscow. That centra
drive reached Smolensk and captur-
ed it in a tWo-day battle about
Aug. 10. II. Here Hitler is a weel
a head of the Napoleonic schedule
Hitler has made great progress
also on both the southern and nor
thern fronts at the same time, bu
roughly speaking he stands toda,
where Napoleon stood at the same
time.
Now let us follow the fortunes O
Napoleon the rest OF the way. Oh
Sept. 7 the Russians stood, ant
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-22
WASHINGTON DODGERS

The fine art of lodging questions
and doing it with gag lire that
leaves everybody satisfied is highly
developed in Washington, and cab
met officers in particular use this
trick in press conferences. When
Secretary of State Hull was asked
whether the Roosevelt Churchill
eight-point peace objectives could
be obtained without IT, S. entry in
to the war, he smiled quietly and
came back with, You know I'd
rather not go into that now, be-
cause I'd rather have something
left some day to make a speech
about" When he was asked who
had been on board the boat with
Roosevelt his dry comment was that
he'd wait until they got back II
washington to see who had beer
away.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-22
NEW YEARS IS COMING

New Years Day Is just around the
corner for Imperial Valley. Not January
lst Our own particular New Years Day
Just what date it viii fall on, nobody can
tell. Maybe it will be Sept. Is, when
school opens. Or maybe It will be earlier.
It's herald will be a crisp tinge in the air
some evening. Its signal will be q quicken
ing of the step, feeling Of being more
alive, a Willingness to buckle down to the
tasks and enjoyments Of the fall and
winter
Imperial Valley observes January 1st
as New Years Day because the calendar
says it is the beginning Of new year,
and because the rest Of the world cele-
brates that day But our year really be
gins with the beginning Of fall here; our
real New Years Day is the day when We
can say, the summer IS over, it's time
to get down to work again"
Almost any day now, the New Year
will be coming to Imperial Valley. Like
January lst, it is time for resolutions.
Imperial Valleys resolution this fall
might very we'll be:
1.-The biggest year yet, everywhere, in
every way
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-22
by Paul Harrison
Hollywood S Fads, Fancies and Foibles

photographed in sample poses. But
in the current movie, Donlevy is
the crusty Andrew Jackson. It's a
much larger role than Loves Wash
ington, and Donlevy isn't disap-
pointed.
Raymond Massey is the best
Abraham Lincoln in or out of Hol-
lyWood. Henry Fonda. who also did
a movie portrayal, never had con-
sidered himself especially fitted for
the role, More closely patterned in
Young -Lincolnian lines is Glenn
Ford, and it's a part he especially
wants to do-in spite of the previous
box-office failures of all Lincoln
pictures.
Don Ameche and Tyrone Power
have impersonated some real but
hazily sketched figures of history
One that Ameche really wants to
do. though, is the dudish, dashing
star reporter Of the Spanish Amer
lean War-Richard Harding Davis,
Bette Davis always wanted to do
Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, but
the closest she has come so far was
Queen Elizabeth, Mary's execution
er. The title role of Mary Of Scot
land" went to Katharine Hepburn,
who along about that time was
telling RKO that she'd make a swell
Delilah.
Jimmy Cagney expects to play
John Paul Jones sometime, and has
wanted to do it ever since a lean
season in New York when he earned
a little money by posing in one of
Jones actual uniforms.
The screen play has been COM
pleted for more than year, but
Warmers won't make the picture
until the war is ended
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-22
by Peter Edison -.
The Inside Track in Washington

WASHINGTON, Aug. % - Be-
hind the rather surprising action
of the Aluminium Company OF
America and the Tennessee Valley
Authority in throwing their arms
about each others necks and max
ing a deal to let IVA control the
companys power resources in the
upper Tennessee Valley is one OF
those strange romances of big busi-
ness and big government that il
lustrates the old principle, If you
can't like EN-. jine 'em.
In this case, it applies both ways.
The corporation and the government
here lie down In the same river
bed. But it's a legal wedding and
the only shotgun aspects of the case
are a rearmament program, and
in such times you can't question the
motives of anyone, tycoon or bu-
reaucrat, for wanting to do every
thing possible to produce more
aluminium.
Aluminium Company Of America,
hereinafter referred to as Alcoa
for short, has been having its trou-
bles with the government and vice
versa for several years. Alcoa has
been damned rs a monopoly, though
the company maintains it has ne
yer done anything to prevent any
one else from going into the busi-
ness if it could raise the capital
And if the truth De knoWn, Alcoa
htaved a big sigh of relies when
Reynolds Metal did enter the field
t. take the teat off this monopoly
charge. In spite of the fact that
without a competitor Alcoa has
brought the price of aluminium from
about 50 pound in 1900 and 20
cents a pound in 1919, II cents a
pound in l941, its profits have if
ANYTHING been consistently good,
and that has brought upon ii the
finger of New Deal suspicion.
SWORD STILL HANGS
In April, 1897 the antitrust di-
vision of the Justice Department
flied suit against Alcoa, charging
the comany was a monopoly and a
Earty to agreements with foreign
companle3. under which the produc-
ton of aluminium in the United
States vas restricted. That trial
lasted frcm June, 1888, TO August
II, 1910, and it produced SO many
million words of testimonT tina:
Judge Francis C. CaffeY of New
York hasn't been able to hand down
his decision get.
Whatever difficulties Alcoa may
have had with Assistant Attorney
General Thurman Arnold, division,
and with lGr. Power Car Harold
IckeS, ami regardless Of the dirty
cracks that have been taken at the
company by the defense moguls
shd various Congressmen-which is
another story altogether, with many
Misunderstanding and unfair ac-
ousations- there has never been a
cay in recent years that Alcoa has
rot had occasion TO rise up and
call the Tennessee Valley Authority
blessed. Those two have got along,
as business and government should.
The production of aluminlm is
largely a matter of electric power.
One of Alcoas big and rapidly
growing bigger ingot and sheet mills
is at Alcoa, Tenn, near Knoxville,
at the head of the IVA country.
Long before IVA, even before Mus
Gle Shoals, Alcoa was in the upper
Tennessee valley country, building
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-22

EDITORS NOTE: The following
editorials are presented as interesting
opinions UOiced by editors elsewhere.
They 40 not necessarily reflect the
opinion of this paper.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-22
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Notice is hereby given by Charles
O. Barrett, Sr., administrator of
the estate of Lou E. Barrett, de-
ceased to the creditors or all per-
sons having claims against the said
deceased, to exhibit them with the
necessary vouchers, within six
months after the first publication
of this notice, to the said admik-
istrator at the office OF r.. I.
French, Court House, Ell Centro,
California, the place selected for
the transaction of all business OF
said estate, or to file them within
six months after the first publica-
ton of this notice, in the office
of the Clerk of the Superior Court
of the State of California, County
of Imperial. r.
Dated this 9th day of AugusSt
1871.
CHARLES o. BARRETT, SIR.
Administrator
R. I. French =
Attorney for the
Administrator
Aug. 8, Is, %, 29)
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA,
IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF
IMPERIAL.
No. 1896
SUMMONS
ELEANOR NUNEz AGUERRES,
Plaintiff.
VS..
PETE AGUERRES, Defendant.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE
OF CALIFORNIA SEND GREET
INGS TO PETE AGUERRES, De-
fendant.
YOU ARE HEREBY DIRECTED
TO APPEAR and answer the Com
plant in an action entitled as
above, brought against you in the
Superior Court or the County a.
Imperial, State OF California, witir
in ten days after the service on
you of this Summons = if served
within this county; or within thir-
ty days if served elsewhere. 4
And you are hereby notified that
unless you appear and answer as
above required, the said plaintiff
will take judgment for any money
or damages demanded in the COM
plant, as arising upon contract,
or she will apply to the Court for
any other relief demanded in the
Complaint.
Given under my hand and the
seal of the Superior Court of the
County of Imperial, State of Cali
fornia, this 21st day of July, l94l.
w. j. McCLELLAND,
County Clerk.
BY MAXINE CONSOLE,
(SEAL) Deputy Clerk.
(A1-8-l5- 5-22-29;
S5-12-19-26)
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-22

dams of its own to generate power
of its own to make aluminium.
In October, 1910, Alcoa filed with
the Federal Power Commission a
notice that it intended to build an
other dam in this area, $50 mil
lion project it had been planning
for years, and on which it had spent
$50 million acquiring site and max
ing surveys.
A month later, FPC replied that
for this project. it would be nee"
essary for Alcoa to take out lie
ense. a federal government proce-
dure not required on its other dams.
Taking out a license meant that
Alcoa would have to agree to turn
the project over to the government
at the end of so years. In other
words, it meant that the company
would have to write off this invest
ment at the rate of 81 million a
year, which would be next to i'm
possible for any one to do.
LIGHT OUT OF STRIFE
Alcoa countered with offers to
OPM and IVA that it would take
out the license if the government
would assist in financing the pro-
ject, or that it would sell the pro-
ject to IVA. Or it would cooper
ate with the governments in any
other way that it could, just so it
could get the benefits Of the 100000
kilowatts Of energy necessary to op-
crate its expanded Alcoa plant.
Out of this impasse came the
present deal between IVA and Al
Goa. 1t is a 20 years renewable con-
tract, too long and too complicated
to go into in detail, but briefly Al
Goa gets the power and IVA gets
the Fontana damsite and the privi-
lege of building the dam. Alcoa
will be paid principally in increased
power but it will continue to operate
the dams and the hydroelectric
plants until 1914 when Fontana is
completed and the contract goes
into effect. In the meantime, IVA
will control stream flow and power
generation at all Alcoa dams
though Alcoa retails title to five.
The immediate benefits to the
defense effort are that by pooling
the IVA and Alcoa power, energy
will be made available to manufac-
ture a maximum additional % mil
lion pounds of aluminium annually
and bring the total potential capacity
at Alcoa to more than 200 million
pounds a year.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-22
END TO BARBARISM
Sacramento UniOn)

Sacramento Union)
Flogging has been banned by Governor
Jones as the means of punishment in
Louisiana state prisons. The order fol-
lows a newspaper expose during which
10000 beatings were listed as having
been administered since 1928 when the re-
gime of the late Huey P. Long came into
control.
According to the New Orleans Times
Picayune. the records show that from
1928 through the first half of l941 more
than 40 convicts were shot dead in report
ed attempts at escape, 30 died of sun
stroke Zone occurring in March), and hun
dreds were given as many as so to 60
laSheS for various offenses.
Americans are astounded to think that
conditions such as these are still permit
ted in American prisons. Such treatment
might be expected in European concen-
tratlOn camp, but in democratic America
1t was presumed to have been abolished
years ago.
Louisiana has been far behind other
states, thanks to the Huey Long dictator
ship. Fortunately most of the grafters
and the sadists have at last been cleaned
out and that portion of the United States
IS at last getting civilized again. A news
paper, as usual, is responsible for bring
ing about the reform.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-22

An atom ceases to be the smallest thing
in the world when profiteers start doing
their stuff.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-22

The boss has returned from vacation
ad everybody is working again.
Some young men will be glad to get
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-22

back to school. Others know they can't
make the team.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-22

The only teacher who isn't underpaid
is experience
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-22

The least expensive calling cards are
a royal flush
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-22
THOUGHT for the Day

Woe be unto The pastors that destroy and scatter
the sheep Of my pasture saith the Lord.-Jeremiah
23l.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-22
MEMBER

MEMBER
American Newspaper Pub
fishers Association. Nation
al Editorial Association.
California Newspaper Pub
fishers Association.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-22
Famous Sayings

When constabulary duty's to be done policemans
lot is not a happy one.-W. S. Gilbert.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-22

INDEPENDENT
IMPARTIAL
and
INDIVIDUAL
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-22
DOES ANYBODY SMELL SMOKE

The INSTINCT FOR Li6eRTY
STILL 6uRNS 5TRONG WITHIN USN
- PGTAiN
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-22

HERGtoe>k
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-11-07

Mr.. Earl Tarr, who is still in thu
! Marine Hospital, Baltimore, suffered
somewhat of setback last week due
to deep cold, but latest reports are
that he has completely recovered
from it's effects. Mrs. Tarr has beer
appointed temporary mail carrier or
Route No. 2 during his incapacity.
First Sergeant George w. Hill is
spending few days at the home of
his parents on Laurel Street. Ser
geant Hill has just returned from
two and half years service in the
Philippine Islands. He has reen-
listed and will return to California
in a few days.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elijah Birmingham,
of Harrisburg, Pa, have been spend
ing sometime on the Shore. While
here they visited their daughter, Mrs.
Harold Walker in Crisfield, and Mr..
Brittingham's brother, Mr.. Louis
Birmingham and family of near town.
They returned home on Wednesday.
The semi-annual meeting of the
Eastern Shore District of the Mary
land Federation of Women's Clubs
will be held at Denton, November 10,
beginning at 1870 am. Mrs.
Sophia Kerr Underwood, of New
York, novelist and short story writer
will return to her native town to
make the principal address at the
afternoon session. Mrs. Harry L..
Harcum, of Salisbury, president of
the Eastern Shore District, will pre-
side.
Those from out of town who at
tended the funeraleof Mr.. vs. F.. Nc
Allister held here on Tuesday were:
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward McAllister of
Salisbury; Mr.. and Mrs. John Shaffer
of Westminster, Md; Mr.. and Mrs.
Harry Stein of Knoxville, Md; Mr..
and Mrs. Walter Dryden of Whining
ton, Del; Mr.. and Mrs. George Dry
den Of Greenbackville; Mr.. and Mrs.
Avery Perdue of Snow Hill; and Mr..
and Mrs. Alfred McAllister of Snow
Hill.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-11-07

this Sunday, and Glad Tidings Tab
ernacle is a regular contributor to
World Missions, including foreign and
home missions. A special message
will be preached Sunday morning by
Pastor R. S. Berg. At the close of
the service, a free-will offering will
be taken. This entire offering is
used for the World Mission program.
Rev. Berg will be starting series
of special Bible studies each Thurs
day night. The study for the next
month will be on one of the most ne
elected and yet needful, topics that
faces the Christian Church today.
Rev. Berg will Biblically discuss The
Baptism in the Holy Ghost.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-11-07

Raymond Beckett, Snow Hill, passen-
gers in the other car, received lacera-
tions.
State Trooper Earl Pinder said that
the collision occurred when Charles
Douglass, %, colored, Snow Hill
made left turn into the path of the
car driven by DR.. Mock.
State police said charges will be
brought when the injured are released
from the hospital.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-11-07

WE DO JOB WORK OF ALL
KINDS-If you are in need of any
fine printing, letterheads, labels,
statements, wedding announcements.
invitations, tickets, advertising book
lets, window cards, ETC., see us. Our
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Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-11-07
SERVICE AT TABERNACLE
FRIDAY NIGHT, 7.45

A very interesting "Christ Ambas.
sador's" meeting will be held at Glad
Tidings Tabernacle tonight at 7:45
This service is a regular meeting,
conducted each Friday night by the
young people. This is a live, wide
awake group and they invite all the
young people of the city to attend
Missionary Sunday will be observed
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-11-07
DR.. RANDOLPH M. MOCK
In AUTO ACCIDENT sun.
CONTINUED From Page u

NOON1IA4G0 G1UDt WBC II
Mock, contusions of the chest and la
cerations of the forehead and leg; his
two children, Mary Earle, 10, concus-
ion of the brain and Edward, six,
slight decorations and bruises, and his
sister, Mrs. Beulah Allen, severe la
cerations of the scalp and bruises.
Mr.. Dayton said DR.. Mock may be
able to be on duty later today.
Two negroes, George Purnell and