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Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-12
WHOSE BUSINESS
IS IT. THEN?

When the attorney for Gen. Walter G..
Krivitsky, former chief Russian spy in
west Europe, pleaded with Federal Bu-
reau of Investigation officials to study
the circumstances of his death from a
gunshot wound, the FBI refused. Spokes-
men for the department said they had no
concern in the case, regardless whether
krivitsky was suicide or was murdered
by Russian secret police.
1t is hard for the average layman to
understand how the FB1 can believe it
has no concern in 3 case where the
agents of a foreign government are sus-
pected of numbering a man who has
sought refuge in the United States.
Possibly Krivitsky did commit suicide.
Police say every clue points to that an
swer
But as long as there is a suspicion
that alien spies, who must undoubtedly
represent their own country in at least
semi-official capacity, are connected
with the death, it seems our own govern
ment should not be uninterested. This
time a private individual was murdered
if it was murder. But next time the
blow may strike nearer our national life,
and it may be struck by the same hands.
If that isn't the business of the FB1,
then what is?
On the other side of the picture, we
find it difficult to believe that the FBI
is actually keeping hands off the Krivit
sky case The FBI does not like advance
publicity on its Investigations. 1t likes
to work in the dark That being the
case it is possible that the official de-
nial of interest in the supposed suicide
is nothing but smoke-screen to cover
up behind-the-scenes activity.
We hope so, for we should hate to
think that our own government is blind
to the danger inherent in the unhamper-
ed activities here Of dangerous alien
agents.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-12
[ Riverside Press

1t doesn't matter much any more what
Adolf Hitler says.
He has committed himself to almost
every side of almost every question, and
has belied his words by his deeds so
often that his public speeches have no
interest or value except for drama and
psychoanalysis The fuehrer is good
actor who can speak his piece as elo-
quently as anybody; but there always
remains the problem of what is really
in his mind.
His last forensic effort, for instance,
only made the guessing harder.
One sure thing, agreed on by nearly all
dsinterested observers, is that Hitler
is in much. worse position lately. The
British and Greek victories have almost
put his war partner out of business, have
gained virtual command of Africa and
control of the Mediterranean.
This of course, means new fences
against the spread of Hitlerism. 1t also
means great extension of the dictator's
defense lines With the new Mediter-
ranean setup, added to the responsible
ties that Hitler has assumed in taking
over the free nations Of western Europe,
his military power is getting thin around
the edges. From now on, While fighting
to extend his empire farther, he has the
Job of working incessantly to hold and
assimilate what he has grabbed.
He gives an impression Of being wor-
ried fuehrer, and America, we feel, has
made this a cause for more or less re-
jaicing.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-12
ENGLAND
TlGHTENs DOWN
{ Richmond independently


There has been widespread claim by
radicals that England offers freedom
of expression, even by those violently op-
posed to her form of government. Any
attempt to restrict circulation OF Com
munistic propaganda has been met with
references to freedom of expression IN
the British Isles.
That might have been true once, but
it is no longer. The British ministry
has summarily suppressed The Daily
Worker, British Communist organ, ana
the House of Commons supported the
action by vote of 297 to II.
The significant charge on whlch the
suppression was upheld was that the OBJ
iect of The Daily Worker was to slow
British war production. The question
of freedom of speech was raised but was
regarded by the Commons as not peihg
pertinent to the matter.
War production thus becomes the pre-
dominating objective of British govern
ment. The British have reached spot
where not even their boasted leniency
with all political beliefs can be continued.
1t is hard to conceive that any group
in England would try to slow produc-
ton of war materials. Yet. for those
obsessed with Communist aims, both IN
England and America, any means OF
reaching their end is acceptable. mat
end is not the protection, but the destruc-
tion of demOcracV
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-12

The equipment that the British are
now receiving from us is the equal of
and in some instances superior to the
best produced elsewhere in the world.
Col John H. Jouett, president, Aero
nautical Chamber of Commerce.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-12

EDITORS NOTE: The following
editorials are presented as Interesting
opinions Uoiced by editors etseDhere.
Then do not necessarily refiect the
OpiniOn of this paper.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-12

The World War changed everything
but our way of thnking.-Chester C..
Davis, farm member, NDAC.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-12
So They Say

I hope the day will come when
all the people of this country will
understand that cooperation will
bring us greater happiness.
Mrs. Roosevelt to a group of
workers involved in a labor dis
pute.
Men have yielded to a change
in tailoring only to accommodate
an unhappy change in girth.
Carmen Snow, faShioniSt.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-12

John Garner says he isn't going
to express himself publicly for a
wear. Force of habit?
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-12

Woman in a west coast towr
stole TO get her husband out Of
Jail. He isn't out-but, at leas
they're together.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-12

Britons this year will eat 1890
per cent more onions than last
just wait Till the Germans get
wind of it.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-12
Famous SAVINGS

Yet if he would, cannot live all to this world.
If not religious, he will be supersttous If he wor-
ship not the true God, he will have his idolsTheo-
oore Parker
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-12
Tne lqhts for the Day

And it shall be- if thou do at all forget the Lord
thy God and walk after other gods and serve them
and worship them I testify against you this day
that We shall surely perish.-Deuteronomy S:1s.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-12
Barbs

Some people who don't get every
thing that's coming to them are
plain lucky.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-12

Cold feet often keep hot heae
out of trouble.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-12

HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 12.-Behind
the screen:
When Leo McCarey prepared to
direct The Cowboy and the Blond
at 2Oth-F'ox, a picture having sew
eral sequences supposed to take
place at movie studio. he natural
ly planned to use some OF the
studio buildings as backgrounds.
But trouble started as they tried
to line up a scene outside the ad-
ministration building: Executives
began popping in and out at wrong
times: doors banged; loud telephone
conversations were heard: and Of
flee workers crowded to the VIM
doWs to stare like bunch OF
tourists at the film crew at Work.
McCarey finally had to give up and
have false-front built on the
back lot.
Loews Inc. makes a profit OF
about So .O00000 in 40 weeks; Warner
Brothers pays its first preferred
stock dividend since 1882; Univer-
sails profits jump more than 100
per cent RKO restores all salary
cuts m de in 1899; Paramount
cleans up S6.0O0,0O0 Movie-makers
feel little silly now as they recall
their panic as the foreign market
began to collapse.
MUSIC WAR
AIDS THEATERS
Incidentally, since the music war
took ASCAP songs off the air, the
ater receipts have increased. Some
HollyWoodsmen feared the opposite
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-12

The Dominion of Canada is one
of the leading countries in the
world of the manufacture of rub
Der goods
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-12
MEMBER

American Newspaper fub-
fishers Association. NatiOnai
Editorial Association Cali
fornia Newspaper Publish-
ers Association.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-12
Did You Know?

A group of pheasants is known
as a nide.
The United States has 33.188 Ii
cenSed civilian pilots.
A total of 100000 cubic yards of
concrete was used in the con-
struction of Boulder Dam.
Approximately half billion fensc
- 20 be replaced in the
United States every year.
San Bernardino county. Calf.
with a total area Of 2O,174 square
miles is the largest county in the
United States.
A scorpions sting is no more
harmful that a bees, according to
scientists
There arc about 25 species. includ-
ing $50 varieties, of woodpeckers
in the United States.
The giraffe reaches a height of
from l8 to 20 feet when full grown.
Nearly 30 per cent of the adult
population Of the world is par
TALLY deaf, according to estimates.
For qualification in the Eastern
tribe III North Carolina. a Cheto-
kee may have Indian blood down
to a sixteenth part
Australia, Canada, New Zealand
and South Africa have a combined
population of 27000,000.
In Colonial days. pumpkin beer
vas a popular beverage.
The Dominion of Canada is one
of the leading countries in the
world of the manufacture of rub
Der goods.
In 1897. 34-pound lobster was
caught at Atlantic Highlands.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-12

Approximately half billion fensc
20 be replaced in the
United States every year.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-12

In Colonial days. pumpkin beer
vas a popular beverage.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-12

San Bernardino county, Calf,
with a total area of 2O,174 square
miles is the largest county in the
United States.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-12
Cranium Crackers
Some Sports Figures

Here are the last names of 10
prominent sports figures, listed be-
side the name of 10 events. Can
YOU pair them correctly?
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-12

Australia, Canada, New Zealand
and South Africa have a combined
population of 27OO0.0OO.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-12

In 1897. a 34-pound lobster was
caught at Atlantic Highlands.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-12

l. SaraZen-(g) golf.
2. Hoppc-(at billiards.
3. Shore-fc) hockey.
4. Budge-(e) tennis.
5. Holman-O basketball.
6. Burk-(hD rowing.
7. Grange-D football.
8. Platak-(b) handball.
9. Bontrhron-f) track.
10. Hitchcock-(d) polo.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-12

A scorpions sting is no more
harmful that a bees, according to
scientists.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-12

For qualification in the Eastern
tribe III North Carolina, a Cheto-
kee may have Indian blood down
to sixteenth part.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-12
MUSIC WAR
AIDS THEATERS

Incidentally, since the music wal
took ASCAP songs off the air, the
ater receipts have increased. Some
Hollywoodsmen feared the opposite
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-12

The giraffe reaches height of
from l8 to 20 feet when full grown.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-12

Nearly 30 per cent of the adult
population Of the world is par
TALLY deaf, according to estimates.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-12

There are about 25 species. includ-
ing $50 varieties, of woodpeckers
in the United States.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-12
STRETCHES HIS LINES

ton of democracy.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-12

A total of 100000 cubic yards of
concrete was used in the con-
struction of Boulder Dam.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-08

A0dinst--the NeW Order!
NeW--but old as death and
torres
Grant, Lee, meet the Axn,
And you, beneath this haliopsd
stone.
Alone in life. in death alone,
Who'd not let perish on the
earth
This precious thing Of bitter
birth
Liberty-ulusi your rest
Must be disturbed; the worlds
oppressed!
The World is calling, man and
babe,
Maid aud mdtron, Waken, Abei-
Hdrpers Ferry's had a sequel
Keep the Union free and
equoii
We are strong and undfraid-
Our heroes ghosts cannot BE-
laid!
And, since the buole sounds
Alarm,
This echo rings from towr and
farm,
Plain and mountain, lake and
gorge:
Come on, Abraham
Let's 90, Geor0ei
Philip Wylis.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-08

wonderful
DING CROSBY the best popular song singers After him
- Kenny Sometimes like Kenny better than
Bing l liked Russ Colombo better than either of them
cornakes and and hOcake
for breakfast" asks Los Angeles breakfast fan.
a light breakfast sir, but I with the
hotcake for the cereal raspbrres cream of wheat
and
Report Fire says German bomber crashed there killing
these Germans found be wearing
rosaries and given Catholic burial
AS 10 that nine-day which TO be of
feminine subscribers is the June issue
of Harper's Bazaar
Somebody could make money by opening nneday diet
restaurant
Or restaurants could add to profits by having nne-day
diet table
ZEPPELIN and plane tangled air battle
"A of World Aug. q 1914. French aviator made
his plane right through the bag Of the
Zeppelin and blew it up.
similar incident portrayed the film, "Hels Angels
Jean Harlows first film hit
called the striptease is its popularity peak
Mantaftannne sr1tease dancers
First strip-teae dancer Charmane never saw her
performer of strp-tease type Mile De Leon,
girl n blue she wasn't dancer, but rapeze
former.
Want get your chords shape for ponouncing
Then following 10 times: The
line extended through Przmysany to Brozozdovitza"
The penalty for Frenchman giving German soldier the
in Paris is five years in prison.
razzberry from group effort is made TO find
group responsible All of said get five
in prison.
MALE evening attire combine the worst
AVA features that ovedressed
should permit alleged style dictaors to
regiment How about suit of light blue material white
polka tie for Summer dining and dancing
suit?
country volunteers for army service Great
fellows for fight IS per of
Texans native born Americans.
you pay defense:" asks eeer of the
public pulse
all right.
ALL why should generation do all the paying!
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-08

Returning 10 Antwerp after
Moscow and Berlin. romance
came 10 the author when he
met Fireiei. an artist. Her uncle
Bert bitterly opposed the match
until finally FiTeIei leaves home.
They moved into the authors
abode under the roof of a SIX
story tenement.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-08

Research indicates what most makes
wife lose her temper is when her husband
is late TO dinner or when he says pettiShly;
L don't understand why you spend so
much money" What most makes a huS-
bard angry Is when his wife starts of a
complaint with why didn't u?"-EVD)
low much a pound should be paid for
good steak? For dinner We had
some that cost 81 cents pound 1t was
really something. have paid So for
dinners which feature steak not half as
good.
A homemade hghball and good
home cooked steak dinner is still not
enough 10 make YOU feel at this time ais
right with the world but il certainly helps
YOU bear the situation better.
Now take cigars.
Aren't they something like women
mean you get favorte brand and
YOU think it's wonderful.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-08
ARTICLE ACCEPTED


Weeks flew by fast. And
then came one triumph after
another TO the girl l loved.
Blue Peter accepted my ar
ticle, Fog" From New York
came a fairly handsome check
for my Stowaway yarn, and
the German tourist journal
was equally fast in paying for
Silver Bridges" The Ameri-
can publishing house reported
that "Scum's Wake" was
under consideration.
The magazine editors asked
me TO send them more stories.
l stared at the checks, not
knowing what to do. l was
half bewildered by such I'M
looked-for success, and appre-
hensive Of a publicity / did
not want. For me TO write
for bourgeois publications was
like trading with the enemy.
But not so to Firelei.
Follow IL up" she pushed
me with bright eagerness.
write some more" Firelei
did all she could TO overcome
my foolish resistance.
go on writing" she urged.
'In this way we will win free
dom"
Freedom from WHAT"
From people who hold you
In their hands like a pawn"
Listen" / objected. II be-
long TO the Comintern."
you belong to yourself
and to me-"
II cannot do IL. / believe
that loyalty to a chosen cause
Is the greatest thing In a
mans life"
Firelei came close to me.
She murmured endearments.
Let us be ourselves" she
said. I'VE need not be de-
pendent. We are ut enough
to shape our own destiny. We
need not rummage In secrecy
and ugliness."
Firelei was afraid of the
future. She knew enough now
of the Comintern service TO
realize that, sooner or later,
IL would disrupt and smash
any harmonious relationship
between any man and woman
in its ranks.
What is on your mind ."
l asked her brusquely.
shall I tell you?"
do"
Il want . baby
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-08
DIMOTROV CONSENT

The reports had reached
Ernst Wollweber who. with
the assent of Dimitrov, had
just then decided to place me
in charge of the illicit traffic
in firearms from Belgium to
Germany. 1t was shortly after
Chancellor Bruening, the
Catholic leader. had dissolved
the Reichstag and fixed Sep
TENDER II -as-the- date
general election. The election
struggle was being carried on
in a spirit of civil war.
To the surprise of all, the
Nazi Party. under Hitler and
Goering, struck out for power
with unexpected ferocity.
Communists fought Socialists.
Socialists fought the Hitler
troops. Hitler guards fought
Communists.
Ernst Thaelmann. the Com
munist Party figurehead. had
announced:
after the destruction Of the
Socialists, the final struggle
for power In Germany will be
between bolshevism and fas-
cism."
The military section OF the
German Communist Party
needed arms which were hard
TO get in Germany. They had
TO be struggled in from the
border countries. Wollweber
had selected me 10 take charge
of this enterprise on the Bel
gian side. The fact that Firelei
was not a trained and tested
party member, endangered
in Communist eyes-not only
the project, but also all other
illegal enterprises with which
was concerned.
"YOu are long enough In the
movement to understand this"
said Avatin. "You must either
drop your girl or make
Communist Of her. Let danger
test her loyalty. Then we will
welcome her warmly"
81 suppose the alternative Is
that I'll be kicked out of the
party?"
There Is no such alterna-
tive"
II know It."
CANNOT RELEASE HIM
I'VE cannot release any one
who has worked In the APP
parat. What Is a girl? The
world Is full OF girls. To us,
the party Ii everything. the
beginning and end Of all
things"
perhaps FireIei does not
want to enter the party"
eff she loves yOu-and does
not want to lose you-she will
become a member of our
party" Avatin said.
"And otherwise both she and
I would have to 20 to the
Soviet Union?"
THAT is the only way" COM
rade."
Avatin had a way of sud-
denly changing his tune. Now
he used persuasion. and spoke
like an anxious friend.
"Comrade, the path you are
taking Is the wrong path"
Now he spoke with the double
edged pride of a jealous Off
Ger about TO lead his troops
TO glory and death. I'VE live
for the revolution-it Is i'm
possible for us 10 live any
other life"
Ito be continued)
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-08
Elsie
Robinson
Your Boy IL Gone?
You're Drafted!
BY ELSIE ROBINSON

THEIR boys gone-the laugh
L ing youngster around whom
every JOY and interest has
centered for FL years. And
for them the world has
stopped.
Reading the tear-stained
letter. my own throat aches.
I'm thinking of the night
when another boy went and
the awful feeling of desolation
that followed. The feeling
that you've lost your place in
life forever.
But you haven't Sorrow
doesn't end our lives: IL simply
promotes as INTO greater serv-
ice. You say pour heart is
broken! But no heart ever
grows up until 10 is broken.
Hitherto you've only known
the limited dimensions of your
own joy. You didn't realize
Il
You thought you were feeling
the whole range Of human
experience. But you weren't.
There were infinite phases
which you never glimpsed,
which you could not under
stand. closed. as you were, in
your small, happy cell.
A ND now the walls have
"A fallen. The small, set
pattern Of your individual life
has been shattered. You fear
1t can be of little further use
10 yourself or to your coun-
try. But you are mistaken,
for by that very blow you
have been called TO an in
finitely greater service.
YOU'VE BEEN DRAFTED!
You're no longer just a
private individual with purely
personal plans. You're part
OF the army now. that great
army Of initiated souls who
have faced the fire and so can
comfort and carry on.
You hare lost the precious
child you iored. whose laugh
ter ht your days. But perhaps
nor. whsn that laughter is
stliled. BoH can hear the sobs
Of the millions Of little ones
all around the Wortd. Perhaps,
nor. Wheit pour oiCn eyes have
been mashed By tears. you con-
see the despair in the eyes ~
the aged, the betrayed, the
Inundated and lonely.
YOU'VE BEEN DRAFTED!
i That's the meaning az
sorrow that's the motive
behind heartbreak. We may
not know it at the time. We
may believe that tragedy has
no rightful part in human
life : that science should
prevent IL or prayers
should shield against it. But
surely as the night comes
after The day, so surely grief
must come in any normal
life. or ii will never come OF
age.
YET ALWAYS. IF WE'LL
SUBMIT TO 1T. THE BLOW
THAT BREAKS OUR HEART
WILL WIDEN OUR UNDER.
STANDING. OUR SYMPA-
THY AND OUR POWER.
YOU'VE BEEN DRAFTED.
ANSWER THE CALL,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-08
Walter
Winiche|I
Wake Up, America,
It's Reueille

49, NHt
W Half of the World is VoUey
Forge!
Half Of the World has caught
on fret
Get mp. and for Gods sake,
hurry, Sirei
It's the same old page in the
same old story
We, the people, versus the
tory
The tory toith fists of fame
and steel,
The traitors cunning, the
tyrant's heel,
The W-cldd troops. the profit
And a cry from a ghostiv Paul
Revere,
THE Horsemen are loose on
Hemisphere!
The earth is shoking-the sky
is red
And Benedict A rroid isn't
dead"
Wake. Mr.. Washington! Rise
and stand!
Hate has encircied the natire
land!
Hey! MiIesi We need your
breed!
N cannot hare died in the
Yankee seed!
Tough Americans lire o-pienty
Way back there in Si1teen-
ttOenty--
Remember that Winter The
frosty trees?
The Indian drroWs3 The pain
and disease
OF those first New England
refugess'
You britt their log ,Cdiis. baked
their bread,
Did their laundry. made their
bed,
Shot their meat and buried
their dead.
Your blunderbuss may be out
ldndish-
Not your spirit, Captain
ndish-
They sdy--doWn east-thero is
no danger
(For and ostrich, dog IN the
munger)
Listen! 4 hundred millions
"Heiis"
Buckle pour s,Cord on. Captain
Miles,
John Paul Jones! Stir your
bones'
Subs hare been seen IN our
neutral zones!
Our coasts are broad for men
10 land on
But We'ue q deck for you 10
stand on!
The world is deep in blood
and folly
Get up and bring pour
pitcher, Moiiis'
And pou-Uho died so hard!
Our muster
Counts in your shadow, Cen
erat Custer.
We're soft-they SOY
We "plutodemocrdcies' Of to-
day;
Rotten icith rdckets--
Ruined By profit
Too many folks in the upper
brackets
Headed for Tophet-
Kill more people IN pleasure
Than Mars!
No longer stern and strong
and solemn
Just duck soup for a slick ffh
column
Slack and lazy dull and
drugged- f.
Morie-crdzy-jitter-buooed--
Out Of the picture-surk too
I0c---
A cinch for the Na=fs cold
Kay O!
Orr blood has turned 10 sorsd-
pdritld!
Dewev-Ue're going TO lose
Manila!
And (iisten, FdrroGut-stdnd
by, Perry)
We're scared Of the Jdps and
scared Of Jerry
Beaten niredd y--dore and
through
Get up, youi
That's their propaganda slant
Scout Of your grave, Ulysses
Grant!
This time. If Ue fight, your pat
ioiii be
An egg you kneW named Rob
ert Lee
And you tWo boys tOtH hold the
border
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-08

suddenly you Of It. You Try sonethng else TOT
time.
you back your first love in cigars and
wonderful than