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Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-13
Did You Know?

A striped catfish, peculiar to
North Carolina, is known as a
"penitentiary cat"
The last English king personally
to lead his troops into battle was
George II. The battle was at Det-
tingen, in l743.
The ratio for quadruplet births
is l TO 1,339,975.
Depending on the temperature,
water exists as gas, liquid, and
solid.
In bull fights, the matador kills
the bull after a performance by
the mounted picador and the BAN
derilleros.
In single month July, 1860
366 inches of rain fell in Cherra-
punji, India.
Shields sometimes were covered
with the bony covering of the al
ligator gar fish by primitive war
riors.
Eight states bound Tennessee:
Kentucky, Virginia, Georgia, North
Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, Ar
kansas, and Missouri.
Feathers of bird, instead OF
covering the entire body occupy
restricted areas and only lap over
the bare patches.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-13
Lines Form for
Battle Of Greece

German bombers were shot down in
flames. Many persons spent the
night in air raid shelters.
The press ministry announced by
Radio this morning that the Greek
army is intact and is fighting her.
otally for liberty. He read a proc
lamation from the king asking for
the supreme effort from the entire
Greek populace.'
German claims that 10000 Greeks
were captured in eastern Macedonia
and western Thrace were denied Of
ficially. A spokesman said that is
a very large number and obviously
was given for propaganda reasons.
The Greek forces in eastern Mace
donia were much fewer than 80,-
600 and many of them succeeded in
getting out (before Salonika felD
The rest surrendered after a val
liant fight when they found them
selves in a hopeless position. Thus
it was revealed that the Greek sui
eide forces manning the forts OF
the MetaXas line below the Bulgar-
ian border, covering the evacuation
OF east Macedonia and west Thrace.
had given up their hopeless strug.
gle after six days.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-13
Nozis Not Ready
For Ma jor Drive

er not yet broken, is increased by
the mountainous nature of much
of the terrain.
Fighting is continuing even in
Croatia, which the Germans say
has proclaimed its independence
under HiGler's protection. 1t is in
credible, however, that the Croat
people can voluntarily have ac-
cepted a Nazi regime, exchanging
their former freedom of local gov
ernment with liberty of the press
and speech for all the restrictions
that accompany totalitarian rule.
A sullen, discontened populace
certainly will be inherited by the
fuehrer with the establishment of
a German protectorate over Cro-
alta. Ever since the establishment
bf Jugoslavia, the Croats have
ceaselessly sought extension of their
democratic principles.
In the southwestern area the
Jugoslavs apparently are continuing
to hamper the German efforts to
establish full mastery of the stra-
tegic approaches to the MonaStir
pass. Operations in the vicinity Of
Prilep by the Jugoslavs have this
purpose as their objective.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-13
EMBARRASSING
(Woodland Democratl

Complaint is being heard from many
sources because many young men who
have passed the physical examination
given by the draft board physicians are
later turned down after examination by
army doctors.
Needless to say it is extremely embar-
RAISING for young man who has receiv-
ed notice that he has passed his exam
ination and is to report in five days for
induction into the service to learn later
that he has been rejected
Reports from Washington now are to
the effect that selective service officials
are to take steps to change the conditions
in such a way that most of the embar-
rassment will be eliminated. To the ex-
tent that such changes are practical they
should be made without delay.
In the five days that transpire after the
notification that the selectee is to be
inducted into service he naturally has
made all his preparations to leave for
camp.
He has said his farewells, resigned his
job and closed up his local affairs. If
he then finds by reason Of the army test
that he is rejected, he has to hurry back
to hia job, regain it as rapidly as ar
rangements can be made and then do
lot of explaining to family and friends
This doesn't put any young man in a
particularly healthful and patriotic
frame of mind.
This situation is by no means peculiar
TO any town or district. Complaints have
come from a wide territory.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-13
BY ]. w. T. MASON
United Press War EXperD

The German army in JugoSlaVia
apparently is not yet prepared for
full offensive against the Anglo
Greek lines. Contact with the Brit
ish near the Manostir pass shows
evidence of having been an explora
tory expedition and not the start
of major operations.
The principal effort of the Ger
mans for the present is being di-
rected to splitting the JugoSlav
army into more numerous groups
and driving them into isolated po-
sitions. This objective, however, is
meeting with more resistance than
the Germans seem to have expected
Friday the Germans said they
had annihilated the Jugoslav army
although that pronouncement was
accompanied by the statement that
the total Of prisoners taken was
only 10000, less than 10 per cent
of active Jugoslav military strength,
Saturday. the Germans declare the
Jugoslav troops are disintegrating
The Jugoslav army has been di-
vided into four main sectors. One
is in the northwestern area, another
is in the northeastern district, still
another is in the east central prov
ince and the fourth is operating in
the southwest.
Some severance has occurred in
several of these corps but large
groups are sufficiently intact to
continue to give battle. Their pow
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-13
by Willis Thornton .
Holy Week, 1q41

AS if 10 underline a contrast Hit
Ter chose Holy Week to launch his
assault on two more countries. On
the very Palm Sunday which marks
the day when the Prince of Peace
entered Jerusalem riding humbly
on the humbleSt of beasts of bur-
den, Hitler'S armed men rode across
the borders Of Yugoslavia and
Greece mounted on the most mod
crn of misunderstanding machines.
During that climactic week when
Jesus faced His ordeal, and trod
the road to Golgotha, twenty ad-
ditional millions of people in 194l
are also placed on the road that
leads to the place of the skull, face
to face with the crucifixion by shell,
bomb and fire that is war.
The official NaZi explanation of
this sounds very like the words that
were spoken by Pharisees in that
other Holy Week; they ring hollow
ly, convince no one. YugoSlavia is
invaded because it refused to al
low its roads and facilities to be
used as an avenue of attack on a
friendly neighbor Greece is invad-
ed because, defending itself from
an italian attack which had not
even Pharisaical justification, it
welcomed friendly aid to help fend
off that attack.
So a Nazi protestation of peace
full intent goes with the invasions,
saying in words like those of the
Pharisees. Had they yielded to our
every request, they would not have
been invaded; we wished only
peace. so long as everything we
asked was turned over to us in
peaceful way. But, of course, our
polite request for peaceful sub
mergence of the national existence
of these people being refused, we
have no alternative but war"
Such a choice is no choice; the
gunman who sticks you up in the
street with a pistol offers you
peace under the same circum-
stances. You have peace if you
and and deliver. If you exercise
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-13
RACKETEERS TIGHTEN
HOLD ON LABOR UNIONS

Now free speech goes out the window
and into the ash can.
No longer can members of Harry
Bridges International LongShoremen's
and Warehousemen's Union say what they
think of their officials unless what they
think is complimentary.
An amendment to the unions constitu-
ton, submitted at its 4th annual conven-
tion at Los Angeles, provides that any
international officer may file charges
against any union member for making
false charges or unfounded accusations
against or malicious attacks upon any
international official outside of a regu-
lar meeting"
Harry Bridges suavely explained that
the amendment permits members to say
what they wish at union meeting
where the accused person has a chance
to defend himself" Then he tipped the
real reason for the amendment by ex-
planning that it is directed against ''whis-
pering around the bulkheads'' such as an
incident in Seattle when a union member
called me the No. l rat" of the ILWU.
From what we have seen of CIO union
meetings, it would be a brave and strong
lunged man indeed who would or could
get very far with criticiZing one of the
group dominating the meeting. Against
him would undoubtedly be used the tac-
tics that are used against union men,
bers who attempt, sometimes, to talk
against strike which the officials favor.
He would be shouted down, hooted, hiss
ed and otherwise taken care of" by
strong-arm hoodlums attached to the
ruling faction.
1t is basic part of all democratic in
stitutions to permit free discussion,
whether favorable or unfavorable, of the
men guiding the institution. The ILWU,
in removing that right from its members,
goes another step toward dictatorship
within the union such as is practiced in
Communist and NaZi countries upon the
whole people.
In Germany, it is dangerous to criti-
cize Hitler. In Russia it is dangerous to
criticize Stain. In the ILWU, it is dan
gerous to criticize Bridges.
From such an organization, dominated
by such men, what can the American
people expect in the way of help for de-
mocracy?
Or has that question already been an
swered by Mr.. Bridges actions.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-13
KING PETER TALKING
TO HIMSELF = ABOUT us
(Oroville Mercury-Register)

The United States is going to look
pretty foolish soon with its pledges of
aid to Jugoslavia and Greece though dis
tant 1900 sea miles. Material aid Is
promised them by our President in
message to King Peter II.
Let us study that moment as though
through European eyes 1--WE are going
to get help from the United States, says
King Peter. But the Americans, instead
of sending this help by the direct 5000
mile route, prefer absolute safety anc
take route more than four times as long.
Obviously this is just conversational help
to bolster our morale and make us fight
Americas future battles now"
Then, if he still has one, he picks up
the morning paper and notes that our
big strikes in defense industries are con-
tinuing, that Communist Harry Bridges,
head Of one of the biggest unions, has
again defied the United States govern
ment, and that the President is Dragging
about the expenditure of more millions
and billions-that is, the letting OF con-
tracts to firms likely as not to be inter-
cepted by more and more strikes.
So much for American help to the
Balkans, remarks the king to himself, as
he opens a military message to learn
that Salonika has fallen to the Germans.
Il guest I've been sucker. murmurs
the young king, that is, if sucker can
pull chestnuts out of the fire"
Getting back to America again, it must
be said that when it comes to playing at
helping England and her allies, We have
realistic at all We are going to be, soon,
in the fix of any man who tries to strad-
die the fence when things are getting
serious. Afraid to take either side, he
gets mauled from both sides. We are get
ting the full enmity of the Axis powers
while doing comparatively little to save
our friend for future use
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-13
ANOTHER TRAFFIC LESSON

The Balkans are demonstrating again
that fear is the greatest of all weakness
eS.
1t was fear of making the situation
worse" that caused Greece to prevent
British generals from disposing their
troops on the border facing Nazi units.
1t was fear, for the same reason, that
prevented Jugoslavia from allowing Brit
ish troops to enter that country before
warfare actually broke out It was fear
of further straining practically nom
existent diplomatic relations that pre-
vented Turkey, Jugoslavia and Greece
from pooling their armies under Joint
command in readiness for what they
know was almost inevitable
They all hoped that miracle would
occur, and peace would stay with them.
Even knowing that it would be a miracle
if peace did last they were afraid to do
anything which might stand in the way
of the miracle.
The result is plain to see Jugoslavia
is cut off from Greece Turkey is cut off
from Greece and Jugoslavia Each army
fights a desperate lone battle, with the
NaZis striking all the harder because of
the confusion. 1t is the story of Holland
and Belgium all over again.
Fear dominated-until it was too late
for courage to do any good.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-13
by Peter Edison -.
The Inside Track in Washinqfon

haggling about prices. Business
men coming TO make deals with
the government, finding they can't
get To see their man, kill time by
riding the rubberneck wagons.
There are eight different tours to
be made, each of which will take
q morning or an afternoon, or if
you are a glutton at this sightsee-
ing you can crowd them all in a
couple of days.
While the White House, Capitol,
tomb of the Unknown Soldier and
Bureau of Printing and Engraving,
where they print money and
stamps, are still the big attrac-
tons, a new tour that has become
known as the Schoolmarm's spe-
cial has recently been giving the
old attractions a run for popular
ity. It takes in the Supreme Court,
the Folger Shakespearean library
the Archives building, the new Mel
lon National Gallery of Art and,
for a kicker the Oman show in
the Federal Bureau of Investiga-
ton
AS for the cherry blossoms, fou
can get an eyeful from car or
a tourists bus, but the traffic jams
are thick and you see more by
hiking. It's two miles around the
tidal basin, but as construction of
the new Thomas jefferson Memo
rial has made a half mile of this
rather unattractive for this year,
the walk can be shortened unless
You want to take in the two miles
of newer double blossom trees be-
yond the tourist camp in East Po-
tomac park.
The big mystery of this years
festival is whether or not the new
Japanese ambassador, Admiral No.
mura, can be lured out for the
show. The late Ambassador Saitos
family used to come out in kimonos
for pictures, but that was cut out
There may be international signifi-
canoe, therefore, in what the ad-
miral does about this situation,
and you'd better watch it.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-13
BEF Armored Unit
Blasts kazi Force
In Own Territory
BY FREDERICK KIIu

LONDON, April ~ CUP)-A Brit
lSh armored car patrol along the
JugoSlav-Greek frontier was re-
ported reliably today to have blasted
a German infantry unit in the
MonaStir area.
Reports of the British patrol stab
at the German forces were received
in London as the Jugoslav govern
ment advised its legation that boy
King Peter was with his army at
the front and that Jugoslav forces
still were resisting the Germans
in scattered mountain areas.
The British armored car patrol
attacked the German infantry on
Friday, the reports said. and shot
up the enemy while the soldiers
were getting olS of buses that had
brought them up behind German
mechanized units to the Greek
frontier. The British suffered no
casualties.
1t was not stated whether the
British patrol had penetrated into
Jugoslavia. although the town of
Monastir is in Jugoslavia.
Boy King Peter, who took the
throne in his own right 10 days
before the Germans invaded the
country, is with his army at the
front, the Jugoslav government tel
egraphed its legation here.
Germany and Italy had alleged
that the II year old king had fled
to Athens.
An authoritative Jugoslav source,
answering claims that the Jugoslav
armies had been destroyed, said the
Jugoslavs were resisting with all
their power and were determined
to continue their fight.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-13
Letter Tells Of
Glasgow Bombing

this is the sort of thing one can
expect now with the coming of good
weather.
1T IS difficult to write about
things OF this sort as one must
naturally consider the censor and
the possibility of giving out un-
Willingly any information of a mill
tary character. Anyway, I expect
that you have read enough about
this raid in the paper.
ENOUGH TO EAT
We are still managing to get
enough to eat, although certain ar
ticleS, such as eggs, meat, sugar,
etc. are difficult to obtain in the
quantities desired for normal con-
sumption. There is also an almost
complete lack Of fruit, with the
exception of locally grown apples.
Now that Uncle Sam will be send
ng supplies shortly. perhaps we
will fare a bit better, that is, if
they manage to reach US
II have put in for U. S. leave
this year, but do not know whether
there will be facilities for getting
away AT the present time almost
the only way out is to fly from here
to Lisbon and there by beat tC
the United States.
Howard CBowman's SOM is get
ting along we'll at the university
here. . He is now on Easter vaca-
ton for three weeks and I hope
the poor boy does not have to spend
it dodging bombs. If I can ar
range it I will try and get him back
to the states for next year, but
he does not like to leave us and it
is almost as dangerous to travel
as to remain. ="
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-13

your God-given right to hold fast
to your own, you die.
Let us not forget that what died
during the original Holy Week SO
long ago was again resurected-
that the whole story is one of the
triumph of life over death. So it
may be that those countries which
are being led this Holy Week down
to the place of the skull may yet
live again.
We have faith that the way of
life will yet triumph over the way
of death.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-13
Raj Bombs Nazi
Motorized Columns

ATHENS, April IL CUP)--Royal
air force bombers and fighter planes
dared bad weather to bomb German
communication lines In the noun
tains a communique said today.
Heavy bombers attacked German
concentrations at Veles, Prilep and
other points in the Kilkis area, the
Raj statement said, while fleets
of planes bombed and machine
gunned German columns until "the
enmey ran like mad"
One squadron leader of the RAF
said during a raid against German
tank column the column stopped
and soldiers darted into the bitches
as the center of the column burst
into flames, and overturned tanks
and lorries blazed furiously."
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-13
BY BEN ANIES

ATHENS, Greece, April II. up
Lines of men. guns and machines
were forming across Lower Mace
donia today for the battle of Greece.
expected to break INTO full Jury
at any hour.
A communique early today said;
German motorized elements COM
ing from the Bitolj region lof Jugo-
slavia) contacted our forces in the
Phlorina region
A Greek spokesman said that at
the eastern end of the line, Ger
man troops, after capturing Saloni-
ka, continued to advance westward
but have not yet reached the main
Greek defense line"
Konzane, in the approximate CEN
ter of the battle line, stretching
from the Aegean coast near Mount
Olympus to the Greek ekAlbanian-
Jugoslav border at Lake Prespa, was
bombed by German planes four
times yesterday, the spokesman said.
There were casualties and damage,
he said
Athenians, awaiting the news
from Macedonia with all the an
xiety endured by their ancient an
cestors when Athens armies fought
abroad, were subjected last night
to four hours of blitzkrieg aerial
display. Dive bombers swooped
from great attitudes onto the heart
of the city in full moonlight while
swarms of planes flew over the out
skirts to the Port OF Piraeus, bomb
ing that city and mining the har-
Dor. Anti-aircraft guns put up a
deafening barrage and at least two
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-13
jugoslavs Start
Counter Offensive

ISTANBUL, April II. CUP)-A
Jugoslav source reported today a
Jugoslav counter offensive had been
started in an effort to recapture
the key city of Skoplje, in southern
Serbia.
The same source asserted the
military situation in Jugoslavia gen.
orally had improved and that Jugo-
slay troops were still fighting in the
mountains and in various strategi-
cally important valleys.
Heavy losses were said to have
been inflicted on the Germans.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-13
BRITISH PLANES GET
NAXIS AIRCRAFT

CAIRO, April 12 UP)- Brit
ish planes destroyed 81 Nazi air.
craft, including 16 Messerschmidt-
ll0 fighters grounded at Derna,
royal air force middle east head
quarters said today.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-13

-. I thought at first it was a
parachute soldier, but when 1t went
off I knew differently. You
could have placed your house in the
crater. .
So read a part of a letter from
Glasgow, Scotland addressed to DR..
Norman E. Dupont of FL Centre.
Text of the letter, signed by How
ard Bowman, u. S. consul at Glas-
gov, formerly consul at Mexicali,
was released this week by DR.. Du-
pont
The letter read:
we have just experienced, on
March 13 and IA. two of the worst
'blitz' raids that have happened in
this country. It was certainly most
terrifying. The first night was the
worst as far as intensity and length
is concerned. It lasted from 9 pm.
to am. the next day and thou
sands of bombs must have been
dropped. A very large number Of
land mines, which weigh nearly a
half ton, was dropped by para
chute. The idea of the parachute
being, as far as I can learn, so
that they will detonate on the
surface and cause as much damage
as possible, rather than bury them
selves in the ground and thus les
sen the destruction. When one Of
these babies goes off. everything
in a radius of several blocks is
wrecked, and I don't mean maybe.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-13

EDITORS NOTE: The fOIloIDin0
editorials are presented as interesting
opinions roiced by editors elsewhere.
They do not necessarily reflect the
opinion of this paper.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-13
MISTAKEN IDENTITY

II saw one coming down against
the glare of a fire about a block
from our window. I thought at first
it was a parachute soldier, but when
II went off I knew differently. For
tunately it fell in an open field, but
il smashed our windows. You could
have placed your house in the crat-
er. There were simply hundreds of
these mines dropped, together with
ordinary bombs and the active and
time variety as we'll as plenty Of
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-13
Thought for the Day

Verify, verify, say unto YOU, he that beeveth on
me hath everlasting life-John 647.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-13

MEMBER
American Newspaper Pub
fishers Association. National
Editorial Association. Cali
fornia Newspaper Publish
ers Association.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-13
Famous Sayings

Be thou faithful unto death.-Revelation
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-13

INDEPENDENT
IMPARTIAL
and
INDIVIDUAL
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-13
HOTELS
PACKED

Hotels have long been booked up,
solid. The washington Board of
Trades Greater National Capital
Committee has brought out and
brought up TO date its Inaugural
ton list Of 1000 rooms for rent
The Y.W.C.A. has a registry of 1000
rooms, and the American Automo-
bile Association has a list of 600
The tourist and guide business
las gone up, too, and there is no
Askov American., 1941-10-23
East of Bruno

The Happy Kerrickites packed q
nice lunch and with Mrs. Glenn Jones
and Mrs. Rheims as chauffeurs
journeyed to Mrs. R. Warmers home
in Askov Thursday and had a nice
time. On the way home they stopped
at the home of Clair Fletcher to see
the twins. A good time was had by all
Mrs. Chas. Southerton visited Mrs
VIM. Southerton of Willow River
Friday afternoon.
Grace Southerton spent the week
end at her home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Glenn Jones and Ray
Jones were Sunday dinner guests al
the Chas. Southerton home.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Smith and
baby of Minneapolis, and Mr.. and
Mrs. Winfield Hughes of Moose Lake
were visitors at the Edna Zern home
Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Peterson of Min
neapolis, attended the wedding dance
at Duquette Saturday evening in hon
or of the formers brother and sister,
in-law, Mr.. and Mrs. Louie Peterson
Mr.. and Mrs. Cliff Torell and Hell
en- and Mrs. Francis Melancon were