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Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-26

HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 25.-If busy
Burton K. Wheeler can spare a
little time from his efforts to crack
down on Hollywood for its war
propaganda" pictures, maybe the
senator from Montana had better
give some thought to the German
and Italian propaganda coming in
to this country and being shown
in an estimated 1900 theaters.
As chairman of the Interstate
Commerce committee, Sci t Or
Wheeler must favor fair trade
practices. How, then, can he go
around talking up an embargo on
domestic propaganda while doing
nothing at all about the flood of
flicker ballyhoo which is being
shipped in by the Axis powers?
Maybe the senator doesn't know
that more than a thousand small
theaters scattered around large U.
S. cities and other areas of con-
gested foreign blood are being plen-
tifully supplied with movies which,
whatever their point or origin, are
definitely pro-Axis. Also that there
are innumerable 16-mm. shorts and
features made by UFA under su-
pervision of Nazi Goebbels and dis
tributed in this country by UFA
and the German railroad agencies
for showing to private groups.
OPIUM WOULD COST MORE
Anybody VINO likes such pictures
can point out that they are mostly
non militant and that they merely
show life in the totalitarian world
as happy. healthy, conveniently or
dered and often downright pas
toral-complete with scenery. Peo-
ple who don't like them can say
they are wholly false in spirit and
are doubly vicious because they
are designed to deaden this ma
tions aWareness of danger.
Opium would produce the same
hallucinatioils of security = but
Goebbels couldn't persuade u. S.
citizens to smoke the stuff. Be
sides. Il would be much more ex-
pensive.
Even if you disregard the COM
plex substance of Hollywood and
Axis-inspired films, it still seems
unfair that the latter should be
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-26

The week of the birthday of
Washington (Feb. 22-28) has been
chosen this year for the annual
Brotherhood Week sponsored by
the National Conference of Chris
tians and Jews, ana President
Roosevelt has urged its observance
Ito purge our hearts Of all intol-
erance and to bind all our citizens
in a common loyalty"
AS lever before, this Brother
hood Week should be marked by
Americans to show the world how
utterly we reject racial doctrines
which are to us false and obnoxious
There is, thank God, in the United
States no dominant group which
merely "tolerates' others in a
grudging duty. Every group has its
contribution to make to America,
and our strength lies in the combi-
nation of them all under a common
urge to create here better society
Some time during this Brother
hood Week, it would be a fine
thing if every person in the United
States would read to himself in
quiet, or aloud to another, these
words from the call for the weeks
observance:
I'VE affirm the inherent dignity
of every human being of whatever
blood or creed. And beyond all the
divisions of our imperfect society,"
we assert the brotherhood of man."
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-26
Axis Claims. New
Victories at Sea
BY UNITED PRESS

Germany and Italy claimed Sat
urday that German bombing planes,
in their second big attack on q
British fleet in the Mediterranean
had struck two British battleships
and a heavy cruiser.
Italy asserted also that one of
its submarines, after bitter fight,
had sunk 1000 ton-troop- laden
British auxiliary cruiser, Eumaeus,
a former passenger liner, and that
another submarine had sunk the
Greek steamship Eleni, 5000 tons,
in the Atlantic.
Germany asserted that in an at
tack on the British fleet west of
the Greek island of Crete in the
central Mediterranean Germ n
planes hit one battleship on the
stern with a very heavy bomb, hit
another on the bow and siSn -
heavy bombs and strG,' heavy
cruiser. In addition, Germany as
serted, one British plane was shot
down.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-26
BETTER OFF IN JAPAN

H. Yamatoda, central figure in lmpe-
rial Valleys notorious kidnapping case,
now faces charges in Los Angeles of at
tempting to bribe a police officer. The
charge is just another in long list Of
Yamatodas dealings with the law, pro
and con, all springing out of gambling
establishments assertedly operated by
him.
Prior to the bribery charge and his mix
up in the valley, YamatOda was face to
face with murder charge in Los An
geles. Police had known him unfavorably
for long while before that
Yamatoda, a japanese to whom this
country offered sanctuary, is one of the
best examples of aliens who misuse Am
erican hospitality Since he has no con-
ception of the things this country stands
for, it seems likely that he would be
much better off deported.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-26
COLONEL LINDBERGH.
LOP-SIDED OBSERVER

Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh's testi-
mony before the house foreign affairs
committee against President Roosevelt's
arsenal-for-democ bill deserves no
more credence than that of any other
opinionated average American who reads
the newspapers casually.
The colonel is one of the worlds most
outstanding aviators. But he is not a
military or naval expert in any sense OF
the word. His title is purely honorary.
He is an expert in mechanical matters;
he could tell you to the last detail how a
gasoline engine works, and he could eX-
plain more or less clearly the operation
of the mechanical heart he developed
in conjunction with famous research
doctor. But a normal man who is too
expert i'm mechanical matters almost in
variably pays absolutely no attention to
the human equation-and in war the hu-
man equation is the deciding factor, in
the end.
As the spinion of one man, Colonel
LindberRh testimony was interesting.
AS an exp0ft opinion, or one which should
be allowed 10 influence legislation one
way or the other, it is worth not one
whit more than any other ineXpert Amer
leans Possibly not as much, for the
colonel's development and viewpoint is
bound to be lop-sided.
When LlndDergh VISITED Germany, lie
saw hundreds of thousands of airplanes
in hangers and on assembly lines. An
airplane is the most important thing in
the world to Lindbergh. 1t would not
take much more than what he saw to
sell the colonel on the idea that Ger
many was invncible 1t is good wager,
in fact, that Lindbergh is secretly sur
prised no end that Germany has not al
ready conquered Great Britain.
All this is no criticism OF Lindbergh's
opinion. He is entitled to believe what he
will. Nor is it any reflection on his 10y
atty. The fact that he may think Ger
many unconquerable does not necessar-
ily imply that he would not like to see
Germany beaten 1t merely means that
he is attempting to be honest with HIM
self.
1t is necessary, however, that in at
tempting to evaluate his testimony, we
consider the traits which went into the
forming of Lindbergh's opinion, as we'll
as his qualifications to advise the nation
on legislation of such Importance. In
so doing, we find that the colOnePs traits
of character largely explain his testi-
mony so that his opinion is practically
worthless. His own interests, in other
words, have caused him to consider only
part Of the evidence, whether conscious
ly or not.
No proper decision was ever based on
partial evidence, unless by accident
and we cannot depend upon accident for
guidance in the most important legisla-
ton before this nation since the World
War
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-26

WASHINGTON, Jan. 25. Amer
ica's manpower is in poorer physi-
cal shape today than in 1917-18,
if preliminary figures on army
applications rejected because of the
applicants physical defects can be
relied upon.
In the last war. between 20 and
25 per cent of the first 100000
men called up in the draft were
rejected for physical defects.
Comparison with today's draftees
is not yet possible. since not enough
men have yet been called to service.
Only about 10000 drafted men have
been "proeessed" by the various
induction boards. The only COM
parison available comes from a
study of the army's figures on
voluntary enlistments.
Latest tabulations cover enlist
ments for the first six months of
1910. These show that 80 per
cent of all the men who sought to
enlist in that period were rejected.
SOlllt were JliIllt UOWIl loI OliltI
than physical easons-married men
aren't accepted for instance, or
men with criminal records-but in
the main the reflections were of
men not physically fit for service.
Army authorities are extremely
loath to admit that a comparison
between 1918 draftees and 1910 en-
listments may properly be made.
They prefer to wait until the medi-
cal records of at least 100000
draftees are at hand before trying
to make any comparison, and do
not expect TO draw any conclusions
before some time next spring.
OTHER OFFICES
WORRIED TOO
Nevertheless, it is true that the
physical standards applied to draft
ed men in 1917-18 are practically
on level with those applied today,
both for voluntary enlistments and
for men called under the selective
service act.
IT is also true that other branch
es of the government which have
had look at current enlistment
rejection figures are badly worried
about the situation. Among these
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-26
Dead or Alive Order Out
For Rumuniu Revolt Chief

1t was believed that many rebeis
were making their way from Bu"
charest into the provinces.
A United Press dispatch from
Rustchuk. on the Bulgarian side
of the Rumanian frontier, report
ed that the Iron Guard published
newspapers secretly. -
Antonescu threw an unbroken
chain of picked troops around Bu-
charest today to prevent the es-
cape of rebel Iron Guardists while
in the city soldiers with bayonetted
rifles guarded buildings in which
insurgents still held out, awaiting
surrender on an order to storm
them.
1t was said in authorized quarters
that Antonescu was considering
forming a new cabinet of men in
whom he could place complete
confidence.
As the army began to mop up rebel
nests of resistance, life began to-
return to normal in the capital af-
ter four days of turmoil.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-26
by Bruce Cation
The Inside Track in Washington

is the Farm Security Administra.
ton, which independently is MAX
ing extensive studies of health con-
ditions in rural areas-from which
the percentage of enlistments in
proportion to the total population is
about twice as heavy as fr m
urban localities.
FSA officials suspect great
many of the physical defects which
are showing up both in the army
figures and in FSA's own studies
are due to poverty-to malnutri-
ton. and to the fact that many
Americans are growing up without
getting any medical care whatever.
Health surveys m d. in two
sample" southern counties in CO.
operation with state health boards,
FSA officials say, showed SIS low
income persons studied had net
total of 1878 serious physical all
ments, including things like infect
ed tonsils, seriously defective Wis
ion and bad teeth which could
have been corrected If medical care
had been available.
McNUTT TO
STUDY PROBLEM
This whole problem is coming
in for serious study by the office
of Federal Security Administrator
Paul v. McNutt, recently named
co-ordinator of health and recrea-
ton under the defense program.
One reason why non Jdefense
items in the current budget were
not slashed more heavily is the
fact that the administration has
become concerned over the health
picture among low-income groups.
Original plans called for much
heavier cuts than those finally
made in appropriations for such
activities as WPA. administration
of the stamp plan. and so on. The
seriousness of the situation was
made graphic by the 80 per cent
reflections in the army's enlistment
drive. This, together with other
studies such as those made by
FSA, convinced New Dealers that
continuance of these various so
cial services" is vital to national de-
fenSe.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-26
Picked FasCists
Mass for Counter
Attack on Koritza.

ATHENS, Greece, Jan. Is. (UP)--
Picked Italian Alpini troops have
been maSsed for a counter-Offen-
sive against Koritza, the former
italian north base in Albania
which the Greeks captured Nov. %,
in the first month of the war, it
was reported today.
A dispatch from Nicholas Yok9r,
United Press staff correspondents
at Koritza. said the Greek battle
command had learned Of the Ital-
ian preparations by reports OF
Greek patrols and by questioning
Italian prisoners.
Italian reinforcements had infil-a
trated the area from the west under
cover Of snow storm, it was rel
ported. Yoker's dispatch indicated
that the italian offensive may have
begun. 1t said, Greek officers say
they are highly impressed by the
captured Italian Notifications, which,
were constructed in few days no.
tice and are now proving of great
benefit to the Greeks in checking
Italian counter-attacks."
The Greeks took Koritza in one
of the first phases of their counter
invasion of Albania. They chased
= LEANS north from Koritza to
Pogradec, 25 miles away, later cap
tured that base and advanced an
other IL miles north along the
shore of Lake Ohrid to the outskirts
Of Lin. where the main road turns
west to Elbasan While they had
not claimed the capture of Lin, the
Greeks had pushed almost 20 miles
west of there along and below the
-Elbasan road, to within a few
miles of Elbasan.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-26
by Paul Harrison ;.
HOLLYWOOD S Fads, Fancies and FoibIes

admitted to the United States. Nc
American picture is permitted ir
Germany, occupied France, Belgi-
um, Holland, Denmark, Austria
Poland, Italy, Japan or any of the
other countries now taking orders
from the Axis powers. Yet oul
government is still admitting pic
lures from any source! The likli-
hood that you never have seen one
of these pictures is due largely to
the fact that your exhibitor would
MT dream of showing such stuff
also that as entertainment or ar
tistry most of 'em are trash. 1t
is an ominous fact, however, that
such pictures are shown, steadily,
in efforts to recapture old loyalties
among foreign-born citizens and
to sway the unstable sympathies
of wavering minds.
GO PLAY WITH
YOUR SWASTIKAS :"
This correspondent is not going
to be silly enough TO dispute the
legislators statement that propa-
ganda pictures are being made in
Hollywood. If the motion picture
industry had even 10 times the
courage Of its front man, Will Hays,
it would admit that militant doc
trines have been creeping into
movies all along. And it would de-
fend them. You might as we'll try
to Danish love from the screen, or
the triumph of virtue. as to pre-
tend TO maintain the spirit of neu-
trality in a medium which in order
to be successful must mirror the
wishful thinking of its patrons.
Today, typically cocky American
isms are popping up in almost all
pictures from aviation epics to
drawing-room comedies and the
Andy Hardys. Audiences thrill to
such things whether they're in the
form of soliloquy at Lincolns
tomb or sultry little blond say
ing, Go play with your swastikas,
little man; I don't like dictators."
Also, such out-and-out counter
Axis pictures as "Nazi Spy" "The
Man I Married." and Mortal
Storm" were by no means the box
office flops which have been indi-
Gated.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-26

BUDAPEST, Hungary, Jan. 25.
(UP)-Thousands of soldiers and
policemen hunted today for Horia
Sima dissident Iron Guard leader,
On q personal warrant issues by
Gen. Ion Antoneseu, premier and
dictator, ordering his capture
"alive or dead" diplomatic quar-
ters reported.
Dispatches from Bucharest indi-
Gated that, though the government
forces were in control of the big
trouble centers, the revolt of radi-
cal Iron Guardists was still in
the dangerous phase.
Sima, vice premier under Anton
escu. was expected here to try to
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-26
Revolt Spreads Through Ethiopia
As Tribesmen Hear Of British Drive

Authoritative informants asserted
that the retreating Italians now
had their backs to Bishia, 60 miles
inside Eritrea, and Barentu, 80
miles inside, to the west and south
of Agordat, and that each report
received in the Lake Tana country
of the British advance sent more
tribesmen to join rebel elements.
British advancing from Kenya
were reported to have penetrated
the Lake Rudolph area of south
ern Ethiopia while others moved
into Iatlian Somaliland.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-26

CAIRO. Jan. 25. tUP)-Revolt
was reported today to be spreading
rapidly among Ethiopian tribesmen
as news seeped through the country
that British forces were driving
through Italian Eritrea and had
crossed the Ethiopian and Italian
Somaliland frontiers from Kenya
to the south.
The Italians were threatened by
uprisings in the vicinity Of Lake
Tana, source of the Blue Nile, in
northwest Ethiopia as the British
to the north drove the Italians
back toward the big railhead OF
Agordat in central Eritrea.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-26

organize "Old Guard" members of
the Iron Guard and other elements
dissatisfied with the present re-
gime and to establish centers Of
resistance in the provinces.
Gen. AntoneScu suppressed all
Iron Guard newspapers and asked
the public in a manifesto to de-
nounce revolt leaders and disclose
their hiding places, threatening
heavy penalties for any who con-
cealed them.
The various appeals made to ar
my and people were taken by diplo-
mats here to mean that the gov
ernment did not have the situation
completely in hand.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-26
35Atfend |. Y.
Bankers Meetinu

More than 35 members of the
Imperial Valley bankers associa-
ton attended a meeting at the Bar
bara Worth hotel, according to l..
w. Slice, newly elected secretary.
Randall Henderson and Malcolm
Macurda were principal speakers
at the meeting, outlining the lay
mans viewpoint of banking bust
ness.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-26
Grand Master to
visitI.V.Lodqes

Lloyd E. Wilson, grand master
of the Masons in California, will
pay his official visit TO the Masonic
lodges of Imperial Valley Thurs
day, Jan. 30. A reception will be
given in his honor under the aus
pices of the /. " Masonic Officers
association, taking place at 8
O'Clock in the FL Centre Masonic
temple.
John Stewart Ross, former FL
Centran and past grand master,
will accompany Wilson to the val
ley.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-26

We accept no government but democ-
racy, and | cannot stress that fact too
strongly.-ROdolfo Michels, new ambas
sador from Chile.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-26

EDITORS NOTE: The following
editorials are presented as interesting
opinions UOiced by editors elsewhere.
They do not necessarily reflect the
opinion of this paper.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-26
Thoughts for the Day

Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your
sins may be bloted out when the times of refreshing
shall from the presence of the Lord-Acts 3:19.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-26
Fred Sunsfronls
Visit Relatives
In Arcadia
McCABE NOTES

MI. and Mrs. Fred Sunstrom re-
Gently spent the weekend in Ar
cadia visiting Mrs. Sunstroms par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. William Powell.
They returned through San Diego
to visit Miss Frances Sunstrom.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-26

Mrs. Maud Austin arrived Sat
urday to spend a week with Mr..
and Mrs. Wally Brandt. Mrs. Aus
tin, a former resident of this COM
munity, now makes her home in
Orange.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-26
Famous Sayings

Repentance, without amendment is like continually
pumping without mendng the leak.-Dilwyn.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-26

Sunday dinner guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Herbert Kitchener were Mr..
and Mrs. Raymond Clark and
daughter, Jean, and George Cham
berlain, all of Seal Heights.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-26
MEMBER

American Newspaper ruD.
fishers Association. Nati0naA
Editorial Association. CAL.
fornia Newspaper Publlsn-
ers Association.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-26

Friends of Mrs. Elmer Forester
will be glad to hear that she is
improving in health now, after a
lengthy illness.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Stall and
family were dinner guests OH Sun
day of Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Sleen of
Ell Centre.
The McCabe school All club held
a box social Friday night at the
McCabe school house. The enter
tainment was well attended by the
club members and leaders; the mon
ey from the boxes, auctioned off by
Wally Brandt, is to be added to
the club treasury.
Mrs. Harold Mason attended the
meeting Tuesday of the Twice Told
Tales of the Women's improvement
club. The club met at the home of
Mrs. E. E. Kelso.
Evening star., 1941-05-20
DR.. Ira Vile 10 Address
Social Hygiene Society

DR.. Ira S. Vile of New York City,
psychiatrist and author, will address
the 23d annual dinner meeting of
the District Social Hygiene Society
Friday at 7 pm. in Barker Hall of
the Y. w. c. A. He will speak on
Morale in the Gay Nineties and
Today"
Presiding will be DR.. Henry H.
Hazen, president. Ray H. Everett,
executive secretary, will present the
society'S annual report.
The following persons have been
nominated for the Board of Direc-
tors: Judge Fay L. Bentley, Will
liam c. Bowen. DR.. George R. Cres-
well, DR.. Dorothy Boulding- -Ferebee,
Dr. Russell J. Fields. Mrs. Maurice
H. Friedman, DR.. William P. Herbst.
Capt. Rhoda Milliken, DR. Winfred
Overholser, Mrs Eleanor Patterson.
Mrs. Stanley F. Reed. Mrs Maurice
D. Rosenberg. Carl D. Wells. Mrs.
w. w. Wheeler and G. G. Wilkinson.
Evening star., 1941-05-20
MercurioI Compounds
Banned on Fur Felt

The United States Public Health
Service announced today that the
hat industry of the country had
agreed to eliminate poisonous mer-
curial compounds from the manu-
facture of fur felt after December /.
The agreement, reached during
conferences with Surg. Gen. Thomas
Parran of the Public Health Service,
is expected "to remove one of the
oldest and most dangerous health
hazards to workers." according to
the announcement.
Participating in the agreement
were representatives of the industry
the Hatters' Fur Cutters Associa-
ton and the Hat Institute, Inc, of
New York. Workers were repre-
sented by officials of the United
Hatters, Cap and Millinery Workers
International Union american
Federation of Labor. Health and
labor commissioners of New York,
PENNSYLVANIA, New Jersey, Massa-
chusetts and Connecticut. in which
the felt hat industry is concentrated,
also took part in the conferences.
Evening star., 1941-05-20
Intefederation Asks
New Bridge 10 Link
D. {. and Arlington
Conference Seeks U. S.
Financing; Highway
Program to Be Studied

Construction of Federally-
financed bridge connecting Arling-
ton with the District to relieve traffic
strain on existing structures was fa-
vored last night by the Interfedera-
ton Conference, group represent
ing District and nearby citizens fed
erations
DR.. Vernon Meyers, Arlington
delegate, introduced the motion.
Henry N. Stull. president of the
District Federation. offered the
amendment providing for Federal
payment of the construction, which
was adopted.
Location of the bridge was not
specified, but it was indicated that
site between the Memorial and
Key bridges was favored DR.. Meyers
said the Arlington group had Sc
lected the termini of Wilson boule-
ward and New Hampshire avenue,
which would carry the bridge over
Theodore Roosevelt Island.
Housing Projects Discussed.
Problems resulting from loW-cost
housing projects being constructed
in the surrounding areas were dis
Cussed. A committee was appointed
to study the subject composed of
Mrs. R. L. OSburn, William G..
Copley, Walter j. Venske and R. A.
Colman, with a fifth member to be
named later.
The Whitehurst highway improve
ment program for the District was
referred to committee study after
Mr., Stull reported on the District
Federation's approval of the plans
general features.
Study Charities Bill.
A motion by DR.. Meyers to urge a
law TO regulate charities in the Dis
trict was also given to a committee
for study.
The conference voted to send to its
member bodies for consideration a
proposal to penalize motorists who
drive so slow as to impede or block
the movement of traffic"
A motion was passed requesting
correction of traffic congestion on
the John Philip Sousa Bridge.
The meeting was the last until
September.