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Imperial Valley press., 1941-11-10
A Good Proyider-

Day after day WorKmen at the
municipal V :cr pipe cleaning plant
in Ell Centre had to go lunchlesS
Their lunches were gone Disappeared,
They weren't there.
Every morning they came to work
with sacks we'll packed with theil
MONDAY snacks. Every noon one or
all of them would be gone.
Pat Patton, who always Wantcl'
to be a detective anyway, began
sleuthing He hid out Monday morn
ing to sec what happened to the
lunches.
He noticed Pooch He'll, that be-
loved little black and white dog SO
greatly valued by the Wesley He'll
family, trotting nonchalantly around
the work yard. The dogs manner
was careless, yet friendly.
In a moment Patton saw Poocll
He'll trotting across a field carry
ing a sack heavy with a lunch in
tended for w r. Morris.
Now there. in RR's opinion, went
a good proVider
Imperial Valley press., 1941-11-10
Showdown Pends
I'm Labor Strife

day or lose their JOBS The Navy
said contractors would be permitted
to hire other labor or the govern
ment would employ civil service
Continued on Page 8, Column 4
Imperial Valley press., 1941-11-10
T rain !
Leaps
Rolls
I2Die as Fast
Liner Telescopes
In Freak Wreck

DUNKIRK, Ohio, Nov. 10.
(UP)-Twclve persons were
known dead today after a
freak accident caused derail-
ment of a crack Pennsyl-
vania passenger train as the flyer
roared through this central ono
town last night at speed OF &c
miles an hour.
The speeding limited jumped the
tracks, according to F. R. Gerard
general superintendent for the
northwest division of the railroad,
when huge 1,O00-pound cylinder
head blown from a west : bound
freight locomotive landed on the
tracks in front of tnt Speeolng cX-
press and the passenger crew had
no time to stop &c ;.d;n.
The failure OF a vaive mechanism
was blamed for blowing the cylinder
head. The two trains did not collide
and the freight train coasted to a
stop.
Ten of the victims had been iden-
, tl1leQ. WO DOtiIto Iellidileu uAil
Identified in funeral homes at Find
lay, Ohio, and Ada, Ohio Three OF
the victims died from their injuries
in hospitals at Kenton, Ohio, severa.
hours after the accident. At least
AZ persons were injured.
The fast Chicago-iicW York train,
The Pennsylvania" jumped the
tracks almost olrecty in front OF
the small village depot as it spec
through the night. The derailment
occurred at 1922 pm.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-11-10
Britain to Fight
If U.S.. Attacked
Churchill Pledges Empire to Declare
War Within the Hour IF Conflict Comes
Between Japan, America in Pacific

LONDON Nov. TO- (UP)-Prime Minister Winston
Churchill said today that result of American aid,
Great Britain will be able to strike at the Axis with
all might and main and would declare Japan
within the hour if the United States is forced to fight in
Imperial Valley press., 1941-11-10
DISPLAY YOUR FLAGS
ON ARMISTICE DAY

Flags on display should re-
main as usual unless lowered 10
half mast at exactly II am.
Tuesday, left there half minute,
and returned to usual position.
Parade spectators should stand
at attention when the flag comes
within 80 PAGES of them. Women
and hatlcss men place right
hands over their hearts. Men
wearing hats should remove
them and hold them over ,tcir
hearts until the flag passes.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-11-10
Paving Machine
Purchase Studied

With showdown with the state highway department
on use of cy-colleced gasoline tax money for improve
ment Of FL Centre streets due any time Mayor Bob Hat
ton and Councilman Wesley Hell Sunday went to Los
Angeles to negotiate for equpment with which to pave an
Imperial Valley press., 1941-11-10
COACH SLICED

The locomotive flopped on its
side and Skidded ior ABOUT 100 tcCt
The first coach was cut cleany
in two and plled up ahead of the
locomotive. Part of the train smash
ed into and demolished a nearbJ
signal tower. Several cars were
teleScCped into one another ana
the others We're left in crazy zig-zag
positions along the right OF war.
The train had eight coaches i'll
all A lounge car, a diner, and a
combination baggage and smoking
car also were smashed. The pull
mans, although derailed. were COM
paratively little damaged
At Chicago, H. E. NeWcomet, vice
president of the road, announced
that a preliminary investigation in
dicated a cylinder head, blown from
freight train on an adjoining
track, derailed the limited before
there was time to flag it.
A signal tower alongside the tracks
was smashed and its splintered TIM
Der covered the locomotive and
caught fire from the firebox. Within
Continued on Page 8, Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1941-11-10
oil Spurs State
Patrol in Drive
For Auto Safety
HoItviI|e Mans Car Misses Bird dse on
Alamo, Hur+Ies Stream Following Trip
To MexicaIi; Other Crashes Reported

One dead four injured, and 100 motorists arrested in
Imperial Valley during the weekend!
The 194l traffic toll reached 35 Monday with the death
Wilbur James Powell, 30 Hotville owner at the
Alamo river bridge west of Holtville
Imperial Valley press., 1941-11-10

Imperial Valley durlng The Weekend
In the first place Morse had no
drivers license.
Greatly worried about what has
happened to interrupt his proposed
trip to Texas, Morse told Daley that
he had given a bad check for SITS
as a down payment on the car ne
was driving eastward. check on
a bank where Morse said he had no
Imperial Valley press., 1941-11-10

Shhhhh, Snhhhhhhhh.-
DO your Christmas shopping early.
That's once RR beat the adver-
tising department. Or did we? We
must have. Armistice day isn't quite
here.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-11-10

account He also said he had passed
another bad check, this one for S25;
had bought a watch on time and
pawned it; and had appropriated his
uSherS uniform.
He was arrested in the Holtvilie
area and was held Monday in the
county Jail at I'll Centre pending
arrival of Riverside officers.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-11-10
Officers Hunch
Youths UndoinQ

Jimmy Morse, 19-yearod Riverside theater usher, was
held in the Imperial county jail Monday because Highway
Patrolman Tilman Daley had hunch something not
as it should be and the hunch right.
Tie officer stopped Morse in the safety campaign in
Imperial Valley press., 1941-11-10

cemetery for one minutes silent
tribute. The bugle will blow taps
and Imperial Valleys l94l Armi5-
tice day parade will begin to march.
This parade, one of the greatest
Imperial Valley press., 1941-11-10
TEMPERATURE

Maximum Sun. 90. Minimum
Mon. so. pm. Sun. 76 humidity
30. 5 am. Mon. SIS, humidity Ga.
Noon Mon. 81, humidity rs.
LOS ANGELES HAY
U. S. No. l S22-23; U. S. No. 2,
leafy l. v. S21-22. U. S. No. 2
$15.50-16.5O. Mpls. Dec. flax S1.79.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-11-10

EI Centro Business Barometer
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-04-11
NO TRANSFER
 |, v.is ss.AKD WILL
 2I afl JDaIzED
Roosevelt Signs Resolution Regarding Disposals
 on Hemisphere
ssu tssiS.s.Lt5sa

WASHINGTON, April H. Only cne day after including Greenland within the American Defense system, President Roosevelt today signed a resolution affirming the policy of ncn-reccgnition of any transfer of any part fo the Western Hemis- phere from one non7 American. pow CT to another.
 He acted as word circulated that the Army and Navy would begin work immediately on construction of airbases on Denmark's big north ern island without waiting for for mai leases of sites.
 When asked at the conference oi newsmen whether any consultation with other American nations had been made on the prospective basing Of Greenland, the President salu they knew all about it.
 To an inquiry whether the United States had taken any military steps 10 protect Greenland already, the President remarked that. the War Department said yesterday there wlll be nc news from now on about the details of any bases.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-04-11

Command of the U..S.S. North Cd7o- lind, first new American battleship since 1921, goes to Capt. o. M. Hustvedt, pictured as the ship was commissioned at the New York Nary Yard. The keel was laid on
 Navy Day, Oct. 27, 1937.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-04-11
JAPAN MAKES
 CLAIM, MOVE
 E PEACEFUL
Prince Konoye Says He Will Not Use Fore fo
 Realize Ambition

TOKYO. April 11--Japafl's Pre- mier Prince Konoye, in a highly sig nificant statement today, reiterated that Japan's southward policy is purely osoncmic and peaceful.
 He insisted that Japan would not re fcTce tc realize her ambitions. xcnc2e made the statement at a pres conference where Japanese re- 2crtere appeared optimistic regard ng United States Japanese rela- t!-ns.
 They acknowledged. however, that Jspan's membership with the Axis 0cwers and the continuation of the Ch'na conflict were obstacles in the path ef 6 completely amicable rela- t,onship between Tokyo and Wash 'netCn.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-04-11

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The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-04-11
North Sea
 In and Out
 SouIhbound

Returning to Juneau from Sitka with 3l passengers for Juneau from the Coast City the steamer North Sea. Capt. Leonard Williams, Pur- SC. c. D. Littlehales. docked in Ju neau at g c'clcck last night to load freight and take on % passengers for Seattle and Southeast Alaska ports.
 Arriving from Sitka were S. W. Taggert Pearl Alderman, MT. and Mrs. John Mccormick. MT. and Ms. H E. Allabach, c. Whitcomb, I, E. Willet, J. B Wassard, Carl Wiedman, Archie Lawrence, Mike Margoff, Mark Rigling, A. Van May cTn, J. Coogan, Harry Williams, Ben Bellamy, MT. and Mrs. R. J. Bowers, Mir and Mrs. F Plementcs, MT. and Mrs Neill Anderson, A c. Knudsen. Leslie Frink, Charles Blissig, H M. Tullis, Edward Retzow, A. Lundy, c. Mersingstead and E. c. Aspen.
 Passengers for Seattle from Jul Htdu dIt J. V. NiCIldclSOil, V. -IN, Dobbin, Mrs. Larry Trambitas, Val erie Trambitas. Mrs. R. J. Sternig, Gale Sternig, Art McKinnon, w A. Lemke, L. H. Rogers, Eiler Hansen, Marie Williams, Robert H. Shaw, E. L. Kalem, Clarence Phelps. L. E. VanBuskirk, w Ebert Day and Or rim Anderson.
 For Ketchikan-Wallace Calvert, William Parks, Tom Gardner, Law renee Atkinson, and Ragnar Hansen
 For Petersburg Mrs. Charles Grecnaa, Mir. and Mrs l.. J. Palmer. and Ken Edwards.
 For Wrangell-M. o. Johnson and L. t Sumrall.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-04-11
pAA L0DESTAR FLIES SOUTH
 FOR SEATTLE

With only three passengers on board. the PAA Lodestar winged out Of Juneau this morning bound for Seattle with Brigadier General John c. H. Lee, Major R. H. Wylie and Col. Otto F. Ohlson.
 Carrying passengers who arrived from Seattle yesterday on Lode star and the DC-3. the PAA OC-3 winged north to Fairbanks with Is passengers this morning. They are Woodbury Abbey, MT. and Mrs. Mike Kaputa, Mir and Mrs. Frank Dur kee, R. G. Swanson, R. Malroy, H. Clewett, G. c. Byron, MT. and Mrs. Paul Xavier and infant, J. H. Shaw, Roy Ferguson and Ben T. Mozee.
 The Douglas will return to Ju neau today, weather permitting. and fly to Seattle tomorrow. Both the Douglas and a Lodestar will return to Juneau from the south Monday.
 Three Electras were waiting in Juneau today for the arrival of the northbound steamer Yukon. They will leave for Fairbanks tomorrow.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-04-11

The Daily Alaska Empire has the largest paid circulation of any AL aska newspaper.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-04-11
SIX NOME MINERS
 GO NORTH WITH pAA

Woodbury Abbey, former engineer in the United States Land Office, and party of five men, flew north to Nome today after arriving from Seattle on a PAA Lodestar last night.
 Abbey is going to Nome in con- nection with his mining operations in the district.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-04-11
TIDES

(Sun Time-April l2)
 High tide-0:5l am, 19.7 feet. Low tide-7:1l am, -3.8 feet. High tide-1:24 pm, 18.5 feet. Low tide-7:24 pm, 1T feet.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-04-11
MARINE NEWS
STEAMER MOVEMENTS
NORTIIBOUNU

Yukon scheduled to arrive at
 10 clcck tonight.
 Barancf due Sunday.
 North Coast due Tuesday.
 Tongass due Wednesday,
 SCHEDULED SAILiNGS
 c Princess Norah scheduled to sail from Vancouver tonight at 9 o'clock.
 Q Alaska scheduled to sail from Seattle am. tomorrow. . Denali scheduled to sail from Seattle April Is at 9 am
 . Northland scheduled to S ls c from Seattle April 16. Taku scheduled to sail from ( Seattle April IT. . North Sea scheduled to sail q from Seattle April Is at 10 ( . am. SOUTHBOUND SAHINGS . Mount Mckinley scheduled . . southbound Saturday night . at 10 o'clock. . Columbia scheduled southbCund . c Monday. . LOCAL SAILfNGS . . Estebeth scheduled to sail every . . Wednesday at p. m. for Sit . . ka and wayports. . Naha leaves every Wednesday . . at pm. for Petersburg, Port . . Alexander, Rake and way . . ports. .
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-04-11

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The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-04-11

The Daily alaska Empire has the largest paid circulation of any Al ska newspaper.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-04-11
SALE. TO WRANGELL

Mg. and Mrs, M o. Johnson, par eots of Mrs. William w. Whitehead, sailed cn the North Sea, returning to, their Wrangell home after visit Il Juneau.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-28
Barbara Next

II FRANK Barbara would
swear of using ms picture in
all tho ads for his night club,
even eHa-Ai+Htt+ 4 week, II would
be SENSATIONAL.
JUSTICE FRANK MI RPiIY
ought 10 resolve 10 protect ms
eyebrows. / We been wondering
how long before somebody re-
members what happened 10
Sampson. and tries u Oh The
justice 5 eyebrows, as an expert
mcnt.
JUDGE HOMER FERGUSON
doesn't need any resolution, eN-
Ccpt 70 keep night on the way
hc going and think the same
could be- sand for ALLEN GROW
and the Economic Club.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-28
On Lighter Side

As for GYPSY ROSE LEE,
It's all right with me II She
keeps on getting away with
murder--it keeps us from grow
Ing too serious.
EDGAR HAYES might swear
off making bets with doctors.
I'D did fine atitumn's work
predicting football winners, and
then bet Doctor Foster at Ford
Hospital that Green Bay would
win the western pro title. This
cost him s..
ERNEST &. HARRIS, Of the
Union Guardian Trust, surely
should resolve 10 pick the low
curhstOneS IT he has 10 fall of
them. and II Al CLANCY
doesn't give up skis and stick
10 snow shoes, Robin ought to
take his electric trains away
from him.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-28

Borneo and Sarawak coasts
whore the Japancse have landed,
and he films Penang, mighty
Singapore, and Malaga He flies
over the Dutch East Indies 10
Rah, then shows IlonCkong
kowloon, the evacuation Of
Shanghai by Uncle Sans famous
Fourth Marines, end closes with
a Clipper flight back to the
Golden Gate
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-28

PATSY O'TOOLE, on the
other hand, might try speaking
English.
COL. FRANK KNOX could
resolve 10 keep on being a re-
porter. having proved, contrary
10 all newspaper legend that
publisher CAN 90 back 10 being
a reporter and do it well
And In the same breath,
maybe GEN. BEN LEAR might
resolve TO keep right on being
stIckler for routine. because
Pearl Harbor makes General
Lear appear In a dlf[ercnt lIghl.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-28

give public lectures on The
Pacific in Flames at $50 and
again az $50 p. m next Satur-
day. in the Art institute.
Fishers motion picture timer
AIRY viii take the audience by
Clipper from San Francisco 70
Hawail. all over Honolulu and
rs ,enviTonS. TO the heroically
defended Wake and Midway
islands, and 10 Guam and Manila.
Fisher shows the British North
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-28
Fisher TO Show
Film Of Pacific

SINGAPORE JOE FISHER.
resident Of the Far East for the
last 20 years, will show new Ra-
tural color motion pictures Of
the islands and strongholdS
America and her allies are de-
Tending all over the Pacific and
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-28
Wittiest Toastmaster

HARVEY AMPBELL. ditto.
Despite all the ~our-graI~rs, he
~remainS the WittieSt toaStmaster
on Detroit'S banquet circuit.
A. for banquetS and the pic
lures taken at them, h. i.
HELLER could, very neatly, re-
solve 10 be- photographed often
with RIG HARD I. FRt\kk\-
STEEN. because IL makes Keller
look 40 sylphlike.
I think BILL K\UDSFN
ought 10 quit speaking softly
and start 10 below and ] think
X. !. THOMAS could, with all
modestN. undertake 10 make
Detroit into model for all
other industrial centcrS to fol-
low. AZ least, Detroit'S record
Of recent days looks very good
indeed.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-28
Perhaps a New Hat

RODT IlANRAIIAN might
resolve 10 buy himself new
hat this year. unless he's going
on tho principle that a benny
saved is Y benny earned
GOVERNOR VAN WAGNER
could resolve to- keep on with
the rhumba lessons that ne
started 50 hraVcly. II r r y
HUMID needn't Id rather have
him keep his cheerful DISPOSE
ton.
MAYOR JEFFRIES seems TO
have been too busy 10 keep up
his campaign TO shout about
Detroits virtues. lie might re-
vlNe II. But IT'S high time that
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-28
Inside Detroit
This Is the Time to Make
New Year Resolutions
you Know You'll Break
Inside Detroit
BY JACK PICKERING

VIII the New Year Sncalng up it's about time to
W start making tho resolutions that well spend the rest OF the
year breaking
With the human OF looking after everybody elSes affairs
instead of my what about these for others follow?
GEORGE FINK of Great Lakes Steel who always gets sick
after somebody has finally wangcd him make
getting making the darned speeches
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-28
Gets Comedy Role

GtfR}zfffRe tifJE ~ HOFFMAN.
author Of tho popular article.
Crashing Hollywood Al Sixty -
was signed for a comedy role
IN I Married an Angel
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-28
Keeping Temper

DEL BAKER can do his part
by showing uS how 10 keep our
tempers, no matter what happens
10 the Tigers, and I guess We
can depend on the Cleveland
Indians 10 resolve 10 win the
pennant-and then break that
resolution, as usual, about July 30.
FRED MANDEL JR.. ~ long
n he's i'm Detroit, could resolve
10 unfrccLe and be "A little more
HUMANKIND that goes triple for
SONIA HENIE, who ought 10
know that "A little kindness on
her part would unda some of the
chill that she gave some OF us
last year.
But who am / 10 talk: I've
just thought of some resolutions
that might make myself. lup.
Thought of several.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-28

the press agents in Detroit
stopped feuding with each other,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-28
TIMES S0ITARE-M,ehiran At Cas-.

fIHLO UVUHNL Open : 30 a. 81. Park
Free After p. M. steffi Duns ~ cos
OF Pr THE SEA" Plus JUNGLE MAN"
Buster Crabbe. -Four Selected Cartoons.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-28
Cd. Blvd. TR. e-sas4

hLoLNi Make Your Plans Now 10 At
tend the Regents GALA NEW YEARS
Eve PARTIES Not One, but TWO New
Years Celebrations. one with Good Old
ENGLAND ~ p VI and Then OLD
GLORY AND THE L s a. a. Midnight
Free FAvOrs
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-28

TACTIC-3ii2 Hastings
OhOlLL John Wayne. "LADY FROM
LOUISIANA" Also Don barry CALLING
ALL MARINES" Special Cartoon SHOW.
rACnn Il. Dawson at 6-Mi. TO. s-a2s0
NhOllNU Cont from u 30 Jack
Benny KAY Francis. 'CHARLEN'S AUNT
WORLD PREMIERE" John Barrymore.
CENTER-woOdwsrd at Grand Blvd. y
NLNibh Open 9AS A. NJ. Also
Midnight show Free Parking. Mat Only.
Sertal! In Technicolor. DIVE HOMBLR,"
Enrol Flyrn Fred NatMurray wild
GEESE CALLING" Henry Fonda Joan
Bennett pisneys "Put-Put Trouble. y
CENTIRV-iith and W. Grand Blvd. =
ILNl Uni Doors Open I =. VI PARK
Free Dorothy Lanour, Jon Han "AIONA
OF THE SOt TH SEAs'' "MANPoNE R,
Edw o. Robinson Marlene Dietrich.
CJNDEREIIA-Es'' Jefferson at CoP,ln \
Charles B0yer and pauiette Goddard IN
hold RACE THF DAVIS 4" Plus
WaUacs Reery IN "RARNACIE BILL"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-28

iipubh Open 12;l5. Last Show 80
HOLD RACK THE DAVIS" with Chas
BaysTy Oiivia DeHaviland Plus wallace
Beefy, virginia Neidler IN "BARNACtF
RIII.''
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-28

'EY-Fort street w. Near Junction

MN Now open New Seats, Carpet. Dec
Orat .ons. Matinee Daly--The Most Lux
urious Seats m Detroit
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-28

FLAMNC0-ors,Io, " 1;MII.; rI s s.,o,.
NEW YEAR s EVE 4FEATUREs AFTER
= p NJ COMPLETE NEW SHOW At
MIDNIGHT so SEATS RESERVED
No ADVANCE ~ PRICES
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-28

DETERMINATIONS East jefferson Avenue
JET LhOUN Don Barry
IN death VALLEY OUTLAW" Tom
Neal in MIRACLE KID Meet the Fleet.
Texas Rangers" Chapters and I.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-28

p00CEVEI T-orstiot-Hsrpe Pr. 55Sa 4
lhVVOL'LLi Doors Open 1 =. VI Parn
Free. "AFPOi>TMEN1 FOR low, 20
charles Boyer Margaret SULLIVAN, wallace
Beery. V. Weid.er. "BARNACLE BILL. 7"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-28

EINr LpTc-woodward at Watson 4
TiNL hhlO Continuous r VI. 20 a VI
Park Free Franchot Tone and caro-
Bruce In "THIS WOMAN ~ MINE
Plus GERONIMO" with Preston Foster
Evening star., 1941-11-09

Registrations are still being re-
ceived for the class in psychology for
parents held at the Kingsman
School each Monday at 1:3O pm.
The class is conducted by DR.. Jesse
6prowls of Maryland University.
Evening star., 1941-11-09

been open as long as any Of my
friends remembered-and some had
been there more than 10 years.
l asked several times to be taken
to an anti-religious museum, but
was told that they were closed
on account of the war.
Whether this was because the OBJ
jects had been moved underground
for safekeeping, or to free the at
tendants for more important work,
I could not find out. I could find no
one who was much interested in
anti-religious propaganda. l was
told that the anti-religiouS mu-
seums had ceased to be public at
fractions many years ago.
In the early days of the revolution
they were more popular. One could
find blasphemous cartoons in them,
but there were more likely to be
charts and graphs, statistical pres
entations showing how rich the
church in Russia had become-and
printed lectures telling the part it
had played in CzariSt politics.
No one seemed embarrassed in
discussing religion with me. I was
told that the laws were equitable
that any so people who wanted to
maintain a church might do so by
applying to the State. The congre-
CATION had to pay for its spiritual
leaders support. If they were con-
tent just to go to church nobody
bothered them. But should a congre-
CATION elect to hold Sunday school
Evening star., 1941-11-09

classes for the children, or begin
the publication of a sectarian pa
per, or organize for missionary work
it would soon be in trouble with
the authorities.
Baptist Activity Described.
was told that 10 or IL years ago
in Russia there was a siZable Prot
estant movement. 1t was led by
young Russian Baptists and its in
sistence on carrying on missionary
work kept it in continual hot water.
I asked, but no one I knew had
heard anything about it for years.
I asked several Soviet officials
whether they would be prejudiced
against an associate who attended
religious services. They said they
did not see why they should. They
said it was a mans own business
whether he went to church. pro-
viding he did not try to impose his
religion on ether people.
But of the supposed religious re-
vival that was publicized IN this
country at the beginning of the war,
saw no signs.
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