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Evening star., 1941-01-07
The Issue Takes Shape


German reactions to President
Roosevelt's Sunday night address
clearly foreshadow the basic issue
between this country and the axis
powers which may be expected to
take definite shape during the COM
ing year.
All present indications point to the
conclusion that the war is going to
become desperate race against time,
with the Nazis and their Fascist allies
striving for decisive victory before
their present superiority in arma-
ment can be neutralized by increased
shipments to Britain Of fighting
equipment produced in this country.
This is implicit in Hitler'S New
Year message to the German soldiers,
in his assertion that "armed as never
before" we stand at the door of a
new year-a year that will bring
completion of the greatest victory of
our history" And it is still more evil
dent in a statement attributed by the
Associated Press to an unidentified
Nazi spokesman who was quoted as
saying that the Presidents speech
was uninteresting because American
support of England, no matter in
what form it comes, cannot delay
much less prevent-Britain's defeat"
1t is here that our real clash with
the aXis-if there is to be a clash
will come. At present, the war sup
plies that Britain is securing from
this country are not, in Germany's
judgment, sufficient to affect deci-
sively the trend Of the war. The
Nazis, presumably, are counting on
delivering knockout blow this
spring, and if that can be done, their
belief that there is little this country
can do to prevent it is well founded.
But an entirely different face will
be put on the matter if the spring
drive fails. In the months that fol-
low there will come a time when
American assistance to England be-
gins to assume decisive proportions
and when that point is reached we
may expect the Nazis to avail them
selves of every means at hand to in
terfere with our production and to
prevent American made materiel
from reaching Britain. Just what
the Germans can do in this direc-
ton, in addition to the efforts al
ready being made, is not clear, for it
is obvious that they cannot make
direct attack against this country
while the British are still fighting.
Despite the obstacles to effective ac-
ton, however, it may be taken for
granted that the present German
attitude of indifference would be
abandoned in favor of program en-
bracing all counter measures that
seem to offer any hope of success.
And that, paradoxical though it
may seem, is an attitude that should
be welcomed by us, for it would signal
the approach of the time when we
could be sure that our efforts to
check the forces of aggression were
beginning to bear fruit. In working
toward this goal we must not be
turned aside by Hitler's present dis
chalmers of any purpose to dominate
the world, an assurance made worth
less by his past record of broken
pledges, nor by the undisguised at
tempts at intimidation which the
year 1941 may be expected to produce.
Evening star., 1941-01-07
More Bases Needed

Even Wle0 COQSlTuCtlUll VI lIIS
eight new Atlantic naval and air
bases is completed, there will be cer-
tain weak spots in our chain of outer
defenses. Some of these chinks in
our armor were outlined to the
American Association for the Ad-
vancement of Science at its conven-
ton in Philadelphia yesterday by a
university professor and by a naval
officer. Other deficiencies were indi-
Gated in a North American News
paper Alliance article on Martinique,
strategic French island in the West
Indies. In the light of President
Roosevelt's warning of last Sunday
night that long-range bombers have
narrowed the oceans and that an
axis victory would mean that Amer
lea must live with a gun pointed at
her, the renewed discussions regard
ing the need for strengthening still
further our ring of fortified outpoSts
Is timely indeed.
LdSI oCtODtl SO1OIlC1 SlldAl bhAO-
bergh, in a Nationwide broadcast,
scoffed at the possibility of an aerial
invasion of this hemisphere by way
of "the ice bound mountains of
Greenland" But Doctor William H.
Hobbs, veteran Arctic. explorer, on
the faculty of the University of Mich
igan, is convinced that Greenland
possesses tremendous military poten-
tialities. He told his fellow scientists
that a German meteorological station
has occupied since 1880 the site of a
possible landing field on Jameson
Land, halfway up the east coast,
and he described an uninhablted ice
cap, far inland, the smooth eXpanse
of which would make an ideal base
for an enemy air fleet. He mentioned
other likely sites for air or naval
bases. Greenland, well within the
American defense zone, is one of the
northern stepping stones from Eu-
rope to America, the others being
Iceland, now defended by Canadian
troops, and Newfoundland, on which
constructed as an outgroWth of the
destroyers-for-b bases deal with Eng
land.
Captain c. S. Bryan of the Navy
called attention of the scientists to
dangers which exist to the south of
us-in the vital Panama Canal area.
From Antigua, where one of the new
Caribbean bases is being laid out, to
Saint Lucia, site of another proposed
base, there is gap of two hundred
miles of ocean. Between these bases
lies the Vichy-controlled island of
Martinique. The United States man
ifestly could never permit this island
to fall into enemy hands. In the
series of articles on Martinique, writ
ten for the North American News
paper Alliance by Stephen Trumbull,
and now appearing in The Star, the
Importance of this French possession
in the scheme of Caribbean defense
is clearly shown. But it is on the
Pacific side of the Canal that Captain
Bryan sees special threat to our Sc
curity. He pictured the possibility
Of a successful naval-air assault on
the Canal by way of the Gala
pagos Islands or the western coast
of South America. The best de-
fense against such an attack, he
said, would be an American base on
Evening star., 1941-01-07

the Galapagos and naval facilities in
the Cults of Dulce, Nicoga and Fon-
SEGA, on the Pacific coast of Central
America.
The whole problem of obtaining
additional bases in both oceans for
better protection of this continent
demands the continued attention of
our naval and military experts, of ad-
miniStration leaders and of the forth
coming Congress.
Evening star., 1941-01-07
Wants Dictator
To Defeat Dictator.

To the Editor Of The Star:
I am so thoroughly disgusted with a
small percentage of my fellow Americans
1 am writing this hoping that the ma
jority of our citizens will ignore them
and go ahead and do something. When
a building is on fire, the fire chief be-
comes a dictator and in every great
emergency we still require dictators. The
United States needs one today. Why are
we waiting? Does not every one realize
that Great Britain cannot win unless we
help? If Great Britain is defeated we
will have war whether we want it or not,
and then we will be fighting alone.
will say one thing for the totalitarian
form of government, and that is that it
is better in time of great emergency.
So let us beat them at their own game
and adopt the same kind of government
until after Hitler is given life imprison-
ment and the word Germany no longer
appears on any of the maps of the world.
This country has twice the resources
of all of the totalitarian countries COM
bined Are we going to let them defeat
all of our friends and fight them alone,
or will we 90 in now and help those who
are fighting for the same principles that
we have always held SO dear and have
also fought for? If we cannot do it under
a democracy, let's do 1t under a dictator.
But do not wait until next year, next
month or even until tomorrow. Do It
today. D. A. VOWEL.
Evening star., 1941-01-07
Discusses Plight of w. P. A. Workers
Who Want Private Employment.


To the Editor OF The Star:
The recent official warning to w. P A.
workers to accept jobs in private en-
ployment and the usual widespread
publicity that tends to foster the gen.
eral belief that w. P. A. workers do
not want regular employment. should
be answered. No other group Of Ameri-
cans is so consistently belittled and
mlSrepresented. They have no true rep
reSentative5 to present their case to Con-
gresS or to their fellow citizens who are
favored with regular employment. The
loud-mouthed Communist organizations
do not represent them because w. P. A.
workers reject communists as completely
as other Americans reject it. But, being
unemployed, and therefore, somewhat
afraid to strike back, w. P. A. workers
have been booted about like a football
in what has become another kind of
American sport.
This social attitude toward w. P. A.
has had the direct result of hampering
the unemployment of these people in
private business and industry. If w. P.
A. workers are lazy and do not want
private jobs, then, of course, employers
do not want to hire them. And because
of this widespread belief, notwithstand-
ing the monumental evidence on every
hand to the contrary, employers have
been, and still are, refusing to hire
w. P. A. workers, 1t is a vicious circle.
w. P. A. workers want regular work
They want private employment They
are anxious for work and they are con-
stantly striving to get it. This fact
is evident to all who really want to
know the truth. They crowd around
employment offices, rush to the camps
trying to get defense jobs, crowd into
every civil service examination for which
they can qualify, and even advertise for
work in the newspapers.
The comparatively few people on w.
P. A. who are not trying to readjust
themselves to normal living are really
too insignificant to stigmatize the en-
tire group, thus threatening the already
slender chances of private employment.
These are the ne'er-do-wells who were
ne'er- -do-weils even during times of
the greatest prosperity. They consti-
tute small cross section of the Nation,
always did, and they will still be ON
some kind of relief, public or private,
long after w. P. A. is gone. But w. P A.
workers generally, people from the regu-
lar working forces of America, must not
be typed by these few ne'er-do-wells.
Why aren't the w. P. A. rolls de-
creasing as national defense work ex-
pands? The answer has already been
given. Employers, influenced by the
public attitude, are turning w. P A.
workers down. Some w. P. A. workers
are finding regular jobs Not all en-
ployerS are hostile, nor do all take ad-
vantage of human suffering. But, on the
whole, business and industry have failed
to cope with unemployment. The prob
lem has grown so large that l doubt
whether private enterprise can solve it.
CHANCELLOR WILLIAMS.
Differs With Senator Wheeler
On Lending Gun.
To the Editor of The Star:
Coming from less influential person
than United States Senator Burton K.
Wheeler of Montana, his statement at
San Francisco nkening the proposed
lending Of arms to Britain in the present
world eriai' to lsndi1f to one Of two
Evening star., 1941-01-07
Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor must
bear the name and address of
the l0rlter, although the use OF
a pSeudonynl for publication is
permissible. The Star reserves
the right to edit all letters lUith
UtelO to condensation.
Evening star., 1941-01-07

Remember the tender flower of
yesteryear who could not bear the
feel of cotton, Isle, or even coarse
silk on her lower limbs? Well, she
is wearing heavy ribbed woolly ones
now, and just loving it.
Evening star., 1941-01-07

Marshal General Won Brauchitsch
announces, "The ocean can protect
Britain only so long as it suits us.
The Germans seem to have been
rather ehoosy about this.
Evening star., 1941-01-07
Believes Californians Differ
From Senator johnson.

Believes CallfOrnlanS Differ
From Senator johnson.
To the Editor of The Star:
We learn today that Senator Hiram
johnson has said: Il am off to the
wars!" Amt that a relief? We all had
believed he wanted China to do the fight
ing for him and for his State.
Let China be assured that Californians
are not all Hiram Johnsons and that
President Roosevelt's speech of yesterday
is nailed over California hearthstones as
a gonfalon.
JOHN STUART THOMSON.
Glen Rock, N. J.
Objects to Stamps Showing Cannon
On Christmas Greeting Cards.
To the Editor of The Star:
Has any one else noticed that the new
2-cent defense postage stamps with their
bristling guns were put on sale just
before Christmas? While every one is
defense conscious, the use of warlike
postage stamps on Christmas card
envelopes did seem little incongruous.
A message of peace and good will inside
the envelope :. a threat Of conflict on
the outside. JOHN L. CATION.
Praises "Young People"
In Shops at Christmas Season.
To the Editor Of The Star:
Now that the Christmas season is
nearly closed, want to pay tribute to
the thousands of young women working
in our shops and places of business, who
have served us SO well.
Never in any walk of life have I met
with greater kindliness or willingness to
help. | think we as Americans can well
be proud of our young people who are
making their way In the world
NARY 3. CLARK.
Evening star., 1941-01-07
How to Manage
Your Finances

Learn to budget your income and
outgo, to shop carefully before you buy,
to make a single budget and stick to it.
There is no easier way to increase your
savings than by carefully buying every
thing you use, from bread to automobiles.
Remember "a dollar saved is a dollar
earned" The Household Budget Booklet
for 1941 shows how to handle your in
come, be it large or small. Simple, help
full facts any one can understand, with
tables, charts, budgets and ruled ac-
counting pages. Try budgeting your in
come and OutgO. 1t will help you get
ahead. To secure your copy inclose 10
cents in coin. wrapped in this clipping.
and mail to The Star Information
Bureau.
Evening star., 1941-01-07

O. What kind of wood is used in max
ing skiS?-R. T. E.
A. The favorite materials used in ski
making are hickory, ash maple and
birch, all of which have the qualities Of
toughness, flexibility and hardness IN
varying degrees and combinations.
Evening star., 1941-01-07

@. Please give the date of the cele-
bration in honor of Paderewski.-J. S. 3.
A. National Paderewski Testimonial
Week will be observed from February
1922, l941. The testimonial will be in
celebration of the fiftieth anniversary OF
the great musicians first visit to this
country in 1891.
Evening star., 1941-01-07
Huskin's Answers
To Questions
By Frederic J. HdSkin.

A reader can get the anSlUer to any
question OF fact by 1Crtting The Eue-
ming Star Information Bureau, Fred
eric J. HaSkin, director, Washington,
D. C. Please incloSe stamp for reply.
Evening star., 1941-01-07

@. How early is a girl addressed a.
Miss?-D. j. c.
A. From the time that girl IS ap-
proximately 13, it is correct to address
her as Miss.
Evening star., 1941-01-07

@. What is kookaburra?-T. H. B.
A. The kookaburra, or laughing jack
ass, is member of the kingf1sher FAM
ily. 1t is a native of Australia. Because
of its curious cry and strange habits.
it is constant source of wonder.
Evening star., 1941-01-07
Differs With Senator Wheeler
On Lending Gun.

To the Editor of The Star:
Coming from less influential person
than United States Senator Burton K
Wheeler Of Montana, his statement at
San Francisco lkening the proposed
lending Of arms to Britain in the present
world erisis to lending to one Of two
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-26
Empire Army Takes
SonaIiIand City
In Speedy Drive

NAIROBI, Kenya, Feb. 26. eUP)
East and West African troops OF
the British Empire armies have
occupied Mogadiscio, capital and
chief port of Italian Somaliland,
after one of the speediest drives OF
the entire war, it was announced
today
Driving the remnants of the Ital-
ian army before them, the British
African troops advanced 210 miles
in three days to take the most i'm
portant italian city on the East
African coast south OF MassaWa, the
port of Eritrea toward which Brit
ish empire forces are now driving
in the north.
Advanced elements of our East
and West African troops occupied
Mogadiscio on the evening of Feb.
25," communique announced
The Empire troops had taken Gel
ib Saturday, advanced 10 miles to
TAXA Bravo Monday and fought on
to Mogadiscio yesterday.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-26
Raj Sweeps French
Coast, Rul1r Valley
In Great Raids

LONDON, Feb. rs. CUP)-Tightly
packed formations OF Royal air
force bombing planes, escorted by
fighters, swept over the southeast
coast this afternoon apparently out
ward bound on a major follow up
to heavy British raids on Germany
and occupied territory during the
night.
Wachers along the coast re-
ported they seemed on the way to
make a sweep of the invasion coast
Taking the offensive over wide
area and in force during the night,
British planes had bombed the three
great ports of the invasion coast
and the vital industrial Ruhr area of
Germany.
Boulogne, Calais and punkirk,
aiddromes in occupied France and
industrial targets in the Ruhr were
the chief objectives.
It was reported that in the Ruhr
the British planes bombed NUM-
tions factories, river and canal docks,
gas works and airdromes.
In a communique announcing the
raids, the air ministry disclosed that
following up raids Monday night on
the great German submarine and
naval base at Brest, planes of the
bomber command made big day
light raid yesterday on the German
submarine assembly and repair de-
pot at Flushing, Holland
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-26

WASHINGTON. Feb. 26. (UP)-
Lowell Mellett, chief of the office
of government reports, said today
that the administration has "ab-
solutely no plans for censorship
of the press or radio.
Mellett testified in support of a
bill to make his agency permanent
and authorize 81 100000 annual ap-
propriations for its operation A
letter was read from President
Roosevelt urging enactment of the
bill introduced by chairman James
A. OLeary, D., N. Y, of tn e
house committee on executive de-
partments' expenditures.
OIeary said certain newspapers
had criticized the bill, and had
fears it might bring about a CEN
sorship."
IF any censorship is contem-
plated by this administration I be-
lieve our organization would not
be particularly organized to direct
it Mellett said. IF any is con-
templated I ought to be in a
position to know it. l do know that
no censorship is contemplated
Rep. George H. Bender, r., o..
asked if that applied also to wal
time"
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-26
u. S. Must Pay for
Lands Traded in
Destroyer Deal

WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 fUP) -
Chairman Carl Vinson D., Ga, of
the house naval affairs committee
today revealed details of the lease
Of Atlantic bases showing that
Great Britain is not obligated to
deliver possession until the United
States compensates private owners.
During house debate ON a bill
t1 authorize $84. .302,833 in new ma
val bases for which the appropria
tons were voted today, Vinson read
a brief which he said had been pre-
Jared by the navy summarizing the
provisions Of the proposed Bcr-
muda base. He said 1t was typical
CT all the leases for Atlantic bases.
After Vinson'S explanation of the
base transaction the house passed
tn" bill by voice vote and sent it
II the senate which has under
consideration a previous naval cx-
pansicn authorization bill. Money
for both programs were appropriat-
e1 in a $500 100000 bill.
In explaining the navy brief,
Vinson said that the United States
:ould get 99-ycar leases at the
base sites. This nation will pay
nothing for lands owned by the
crown. but will compensate private
owners of leased land through the
British government.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-26

ROME, Feb. 26. UP)-German
troops made. contact with the Brit
ish army of the Nile on Monday
near Agebadia, 100 miles southeast
of Benghazi, destroyed numerous
enemy motor trucks and tanks and
captured prisoners, The Italian war
communique said today.
The communique said the clash
was the first engagement between
the British and German land forces
aiding the battered Italian army
in Libya.
For the first time in North
Africa formations of the German
corps in Africa made contact with
the enemy on the morning of Feb
"a southeast of Agedabia,' the COM
munique said. During the clash
with British armored formations,
numerous enemy motor trucks and
tanks were destroyed. Some prison.
ers also were captured. The Ger
mans suffered no losses"
The high command said the Ger
man air force effectively attacked
ships anchored in port and military
works at an enemy naval base II
Cyrenaica, eastern Llbya, in Brit
| iSh handS.)
Two ships of 5000 tons each were
hit and gravely damaged. Violen'
explosions and fires also were no.
ticed in the port
(The German high command il
Berlin said that on the morning o
Feb. "a German motorized scou
troops clashed with English motor.
lied scout troops southeast of Age.
dabia. "A number of English We.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-26

IVES, sir. this giant value poll'
I told us exactly where Dodge
stands with the nations new-car
buyers! When we asked 5000
Dodge buyers to wire what they
like most about their 1o4l Dodge,
a flood of kilograms streamed in!
In wires like those shown above,
owners themselves made the
greater Dodge value an open book
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-26
ReIiefer Denies
Murder Guilt
In SRA Shoofinq

BAKERSFIELD. Feb. 26 tUP)-
Walter p Fairbanks, So Bakers
field relief client, was arraigned on
a murder indictment today in SUI
perior court and pleaded not guilty
by reason of insanity
The date of trial was set for
March 13. Three mental experts
were appointed to examine Fair
banks.
Fairbanks was indicted by the
Kern county grand jury on a charge
that he shot and killed Mrs. Eliza
beth Tarbox, 28, state relief adj
ministration case worker. District
Attorney Thomas Scott said Fair
banks apparently became enraged
when Mrs. TarboX Informed him
she had ordered a $3.50 reduction in
his relief chd,'k and was holding
the check until the reduction could
be made
Mre Tarbox was shot in the
Bakersfield SRA office on Feb. 15
Fairbanks was represented by a
court-appointed attorney.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-26
MXHED3 D3Hzo
lNf MNY
R0NINDZRIpH5ee

speeding to Chicago over
the lower altitude Golden
State Route. The Californian
leaves Los Angeles daily
at 8 P. M.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-26
No Trace Found of Second Missing
San DIEGO Bomber: Two Dead in First

SAN DIEGO, Calf, Feb. 26. CUP)
The navy today investigated the
crash of one light bombing plane
and sought a second, missing more
than "a hours.
The wreckage of the first bomber
was discovered late yesterday, Is
miles from San Diego naval base,
near a dive bombing practice field.
The pilot, Ensign c. F. Maxwell, %,
of Roanoke, Va, and the radioman.
E. w. Clary, ID, second class seaman
of Baltimore, Md, we're killed. Their
plane burned, badly charring the
bodies.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-26
MeIIett Denies
Censorship PEaEn

II do not believe any censorship
is contemplated in wartime Mel
lett said.
1T does not mean that there
will not be a military censorship n
certain respects. as there always
will b.. The army and navy always
have control over the information
emanating from their department.. .
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-26
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Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-26

A destroyer and coast guard
power boat searched the sea off
Carlsbad, a coastal resort town, for
the second bomber. Two youths re-
ported Monday night that they had
seen a plane power dive into the
surf with its motors wide open"
Police saw flares burning in the sea
Aboard the missing plane we're
Ensign w. A. Daniel, "a, of Gothen-
burg, New, and Radioman E. S. Le-
Mort, 81, of Greenville, S. c.
Both bombers were from the air
craft carrier Enterprise. 1t was be-
lieved they had been practicing
night bombing