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Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-03

WASHINGTON, Sept. 3-NeW
policies aimed at bucking up morale
of national guardSmen and selectiye
service soldiers may be expected
soon as a result of the appointment
of Frederick Osborn of New York
as brigadier general in charge
of the morale branch of the Army
staff in Washington.
just what those new policies will
be. General Osborn isn't saying un-
Ill after he concludes a series OF
conferences with G-3. the training
and operations section of the gen.
eral staff. Two of the big prob
lens to be tackled are how to over
come the plain everyday boredom
Of the temporary soldier without
pampering him, and how to put
over without too much obvious
propaganda type doping, an edu-
cational program to sell the troops
on the necessity of the present
emergency.
General Osborne's appointment
to the job came as pretty much o.
a surprise in Washington. His only
military experience was as a REQ
Cross worker in France in the last
war though he has been member
of the Joint Army and Navy Com
mittee on Welfare and Recreation
for some time. He is So, Was grad
uated from Princeton in 1910, From
1914 to 1917 he was vice president
and treasurer of the Detroit, To-
ledo and Ironton railway, and al
ter the war he went back to the
road for two years as president
From 1921 to 1898 he was part
ner in G.. NJ P. Murphy and Com
pany. bankers, and among his
other connections today is a direc-
torship of the Fifth Avenue Bank
OF New York. His feet s lnehe5
make him the Army's tallest officer.
MORALE PROBLEM
GREW WITH DRAFT
The morale organization which
General Osborn inherits from Brig.
Gen. James A. Ulio, who resigned
because of i'll health, has been
entirely built since the beginning
of the present emergency. The
pre-l940 Army of $4,000 men didn't
have to worry much about morale
but the induction of a million and
a half guardsmen and selectees
has made it very much Of prob
lem indeed.
The things Gen. Ulio did to keep
these temporary soldiers happy with
their lot have been numerous, and
not much has been spared IN the
way of expense to get results.
With the big part of the Army
training in the south, it has been
difficult for most of the north
erners to get home, 50 one Of the
biz efforts was establishment OF
recreational areas at well known
resorts. where soldiers could spend
week ends and leaves seem the
sights and not having TO answer
reveille.
In the camps themselves, every
thing possible has been done to
make life enjoyable in off-duty
hours. An elaborate program OF
movies has been booked. Theatricals
and musical entertainment have
been encouraged Athletics have
been sponsored. Post exchanges
have been made almost as universal
in their appeal as corner drug
stores.
Libraries and camp publications
have been well stocked and SUP
ported. Service clubs for the boys
and guest houses for their folks
are at all camps of any size at all
And civilian cooperation has been
sought and received in every con-
ceivable form.
CIVILIANS PARTLY
TO BLAME
The needless Wrangline in Wash
ington over extension OF the one
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-03
by Paul Harrison
HoIIywoods Fads, Fancies and FoibIes

HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 3 = WhenI
Bill Pine and Bill Thomas Were|
press agents, they'd get togetherl
occasionally and echo the dream
of most members of their craft:
Some day we will quit ballyhooing
other peoples pictures and will
make some of our own"
1t sounded fine the way they fig
ured 1t. As former theater adyer
tlsing men the pair believed they
knew what the public wanted. And
as studio publicists they had been
in contact with profligacy, temp
erament, company politics and other
forms of inefficiency which might
be avoided. The Williams Thomas
and Pine believed they could show
Hollywood.
And the funny part is that they
are doing exactly that-three pic
lures SO far. each better than the
last. They began on a releasing
deal with Paramount with their
own scraped and borrowed money
But Power Dive, made on bud
get that wouldn't have paid for
the script of many production,
was such hit that the studio
quickly offered ample financing and
told the young men TO keep 'em
rolling.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-03

Men are about the only people on
earth who thinks they have more sense
than women.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-03
Thought for the Day

The eYes Of the wicked shall fail and tney shall not
escape and their hope shall be as the giving UP OF
tie ghost.-Job l1:20
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-03

MEMBER
American Newspaper Pub
fishers Association. Nation
al Editorial Association.
California Newspaper Pub
fishers Association.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-03

Tail girls finally are going to be given
break in the movies, in leading roles.
Full length pictures, no doubt = not
shorts.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-03
MOVE TO MYSTERIES

Two more Dick Arlen aviation
starrers, Forced Landing with
story by Press Agent Ed Churchill,
and Flying Blind, have followed.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-03
CIVILIANS PARTLY
TO BLAME

The needless wrangline in Wash
ington over extension OF the one
years selectiYe service has obvious
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-03
Famous Sayings

There is Cod to punish and ayenge.-schiler.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-03

New Guinea has more than 26
species of pigeons.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-03

INDEPENDENT
IMPARTIAL
and
INDIVIDUAL
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-03

Every clergyman who breaches il
St Paul's Cathedral, London, IS
presented with a bottle of sherry
vine.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-03

It IS regarded as improper for a
mother-in-law TO speak to her
daughters husband among some
Indian tribes.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-03

Amsterdam. the Netherlands, IS
built on approximately go islands.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-03

At the start of a physicians pres
cription. the symbol r. is used 10
mean take from the Latin.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-03

Beggars on the streets of New
York city make Sl5.oOO.Oo0 annaully.
according TO estimates.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-03

Capricornus, the Zodiac sign, i
the goat in common language.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-03

The Guatamalan Thysania moth
attains a Wingspread Of more than
II inches.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-03

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
TIE STATE OF CALIFORNIA,
IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF
RIVERSIDE.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-03

wellington bombers have a range
of 324O miles at 1870 miles an hour.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-03

They can't fool us-its the early
chestnut that really gets the worm.
Evening star., 1941-02-20
6 Congress Advisers
On Aid for Britain
Proposed by Lucas
Nye Predicts War
80 Days After
Aid Bill Is Signed
BY the Associated Press.

Senator Nye, Republican, of North
Dakota declared in an interview TO-
day that If the British-aid bill is
enacted, "the President will create
incidents which will lead us into
war within 80 days after the legisla-
ton is signed"
The North Dakotan said he be-
lieved the powers granted under the
measure would give the Chief EX-
ecutive ample opportunity" to bring
about a declaration of war.
A consistent foe of administration
foreign policy, Senator Nye re-
iterated earlier assertions that 80
Senators would vote for a declara-
tion of war If the President so asked.
II first estimated that 80 Senators
would vote for war if the President
asked it last November" he said
land I have found no reason TO
change my mind since"
Senator Nye joined Senator
Wheeler, Democrat, of Montana
another opponent of the British
aid bill, in saying that the opposi-
ton would continue to make radio
addresses and public appearances in
an effort to drum up country wide
sentiment against the legislation
Both will speak at an America
First" rally in New York tonight.
Evening star., 1941-02-20
Miner Admits Poisoning
After Second Wife Dies
B! the Associated Press.

DN lD6 AoSOA4dLcO LCoo.
SPRINGFIELD, Ill, Feb 20.-Two
years ago a coroner's jury investigat-
ing the death of Mrs. Marie Zubr
returned a verdict of death from un-
known causes. She was the wife
of Carl Zubr, 38, a coal miner.
The womans vital organs were
preserved for medical research at
a hospital, but the study was post
poned by the press of other work.
Last Sunday, on the second an
niversary of the death, Zubr'S es-
tranged second wife Bertha, "a, died
of a puzzling illness. Physicians
found that she had died of poison.
Laboratory tests on the forgotten
viscera then disclosed. Coroner w.
L. Dragoo said, that the first wife
had succumbed to the same type of
poison.
States Attorney Alfred M. Green
ing said last night that Zubr, con-
fronted with the evidence, confessed
he poisoned his second wife and
attributed the first wife's death to
the same poison pills which she took
"by mistake" from medicine cabi-
net.
The prosecutor said zubr, who
has been formally charged with
murder, admitted poisoning the Sec
ond wife because of attentions paid
her by other men. Mr.. Greening
said Zubr once was adjudged in
sane and committed to State in
stitution.
Evening star., 1941-02-20
| Collect Messages
Are Costing Berlin
About $1,000 Daily

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Feb. 20.-Those
collect radio messages from
Americans to Ameradio, Berlin,
are costing the German min
istry of propaganda around
$1,000 a day, it was estimated
today.
The food started when Berlin
broadcasters asked short-wave
listeners to cable-collect if
they wished-comments and
suggestions for broadcasts. In
the last few days an average of
about 5000 messages have been
dispatched by Radio Corpora
ton of America. The cost for
Is words-that was the limit
set by Berlin-ranges from
$2.1s to 1928.
A good proportion" of the
messages received have been
rejected because of the law
against transmission of obscene
or profane matter. j. B. Ros-
tron, r. c. A. traffic manager,
said today. And the Larger pro-
portion" of the messages sent
showed distinct animosity" to-
ward those who footed the bill.
Evening star., 1941-02-20
New Free, Democratic
Germany Envisioned
By Benes After War
Ex-Czech Head Also Sees
Creation of Federal
Units Over Europe
q, the Associated Press.

by the hSSOCldleo flesS.
LIVERPOOL, Feb. 20.-Eduard
Benes, pre-Munich President of
Czecho- -Slovakia, declared today
that postwar reconstruction will
involve creation of new federal
units in different parts of Europe
and a new free, democratic Ger
many which would be in a position
to take ner place beside the civilized
nations of Europe"
(Although this cannot be con-
sidered an official statement of
British war aims, it is one of the
irst such outlines from an au-
thoritative source)
Mr.. Benes spoke at Liverpool Uni
versity.
I'VE are concerned above all with
bringing about the defeat of Ger.
many. then with establishing the
freedom of Austria, Czecho- -Slovakia
Poland, Norway and other occupied
countries and with making good the
damage in those countries" Mr.
Benes said.
But we shall also be concerned
with helping after the war those
good elements that remain even ir
present-day Germany and, after 6
thorough cleansing of their owr
house, with creating in their whole
internal life new, free, democratic
Germany which would be in a posi-.
ton to take her place beside the
civilized nations of Europe"
Mr.. Benes said it would be nee.
essary to create a new system O.
security for Europe which woulc
successfully prevent the emergenct
of new Hitler or Mussolini.
THE new system would involve
liberation of the small occupied
European countries, creation of new
federal units in different parts Of
Europe, machinery more suited tt
postwar needs than was the League
of Nations before the war and ca
pable of achieving at least partia
limitation of armaments, new
method of economic collaboration
which would overcome the economic
conflict between the democracie!
and avoid creation of the autarchi.
cal (self suffcienD totalitariar
state"
Evening star., 1941-02-20
Quukers Wonder if Hitler Got
Peanuts Sent to Switzerland

French Africa $5O,OO0 worth of pea
nuts.
A strange performance if you
think of peanuts for direct con-
sumption; Europeans are not par
ticularly addicted to peanuts. A
little easier to explain perhaps,
If you remember that peanut oil is
substitute for olive oil, though
plenty of olive oil Is produced in
nearby France and Italy, but very
easy to understand If you remember
that peanut oil is high quality
lubricant, and that large country
to the north of Switzerland is con-
stantly short of high quality lubri-
cants, finds great difficulty in i'm
porting them, and is willing to pay
almost any price asked.
The American Quakers are
hoping, however, that the Swiss did
not sell to the Germans the peanut
oil they got in exchange for the pow
dered milk sent to the French
children and paid for in American
dollars
(conyright, 1871, b. CHICAGO Daily News)
Evening star., 1941-02-20
By EDGAR ANSEL MOWRER.

How uncertain are the best meant
plans for feeding Hitler's victims
without contributing to his strength
was revealed a short while ago by
the American Quakers.
Last year the Quakers, it seems,
wished to send $4,000 worth of pow
dered milk to the French children.
The British at that time refused
to allow American milk to pass the
blockade; the Quakers looked
around for a European source and
found it in Switzerland. Could the
Swiss supply $4,000 worth of pow
dered milk and send it to nearby
France?
The Swiss could. But, they ex-
planned, food was rare enough in
Switzerland. For the milk, they
wanted the same amount of some
other foodstuff from France. France
was itself without food and could
offer nothing. But the French COL
onies could, said the Swiss. And the
French colonies did.
In exchange for their powdered
milk, the Swiss received from
Evening star., 1941-02-20
Transports Said to Be Headed
For Hdindn or Indo-Chinu
Toxic Declared to Have Made Demands
On ThuIund and French for Concessions

land and French Indo- China. the
use of bases and transport facilities
in those two countries which could
oe used for naval and military
moves against Singapore.
These included the French navaI
base at Camranh Bay, on Indo-
China's east coast, airports and rail-
way and highway facilities in both
countries.
Reports of these demands, attrib-
uted to Chinese close to the jap
anese military in Shanghai, said
they were made by Foreign Min
lister Yosuke Matsuoka in the con-
ference in which he heads the JAP
anese mediators.
Sweeping economic concessions
also were demanded, the report said
delegates from Thailand and
Indo-China have been in Toxic
for some time attempting to
work out peace terms in the bor-
der dispute which led to unde-
clared warfare. An armistice was
reached under japanese media
ton and peace negotiations be-
gun in Toxic. Reports from
Vichy two days ago said the ne
gotiations had been suspended
because of Thai incursion
across the Mekong River.
(Previous reports that the
Japanese had exacted or would
exact concessions as a price for
her mediation in the conflict
were met by protestations by
Japanese officials that their only
motive was to restore peace)
The reports said Matsuoka, en-
phasizing that he was speaking "in
(See JAPANESE. Page A-21)
Evening star., 1941-02-20
D. {. Commissioners
Consider Bonding
More City Employees
Survey Is Related
To Shortages Found
In Two Offices

A special survey was ordered to-
day by the Commissioners to de-
termine whether any additional
municipal workers should be placed
under bond, in a move directly re-
lated to discovery last October of
a shortage in the accounts of a
cashier at the Department of We
hicles and Traffic and the current
probe of shortages in the dog tag
accounts.
A committee consisting Of Acting
Auditor Arthur R. Pilkerton, Tax
Collector Guy w. Pearson, Disburs-
ing Officer James r. LuSby and
Porter NJ. Lumpkins, chief clerk of
the Engineer Department, was
named today to ascertain whether
any additional workers should be
put under bond.
Appointment of the committee
today came after disclosure that
two municipal clerks, discharged
Monday for the good of the serv-
ice" were not bonded.
In the case of the dog tag short
ages, the Commissioners have no.
titled the bonding company, which
had given a 100000 bond to former
Tax Collector Chatham M. Towers.
retired, and Mr. Towers that the
city heads would look to them to
make good any losses.
Mr.. Pilkerton has reported the
known shortages in the dog tax ac-
counts amounted to $4,000, but due
to missing records he was unable to
determine whether there we're any
shortages during some past periods,
and some believe the actual short
ages may have totaled closer to
$4,000 than $4,000.
Mr.. Pilkerton and Corporation
Counsel Richmond B. Keech were
assigned to look into the bonding
question october 80, following dis
closure OF a $4,000 shortage in the
accounts of a cashier at the De-
partment of Vehicles and Traffic
Mr.. Keech found that while bonds
are required by statute in some in
stances, the Commissioners also
have general authority to require
them in other cases.
Department heads of the District
will be asked by the committee to
recommend persons in their divi-
sions they believe should be bonded.
Evening star., 1941-02-20
Society Minutes Read
ByMedicaI Prosecutor
To Back Boycott Claim
District Group Luid
Down Policy of
Combat He Asserts
BY HAROLD b. ROGERS

Submitting documentary evidence
to show the alleged antitrust boy
colt of Group Health Association by
organized medicine, Government
prosecutor today read to the medical
case jury in District Court a resolu-
ton by the District of Columbia
Medical Society's Executive Commit
tee laying down a policy of combat" 4"
The resolution, adopted in Sep
tember, about two months before the
opening Of G. H. AS clinic to pro-
vide prepayment medical care for
Government employees on a group
practice basis, declared:
The District Medical Society
should maintain close contact with
the American Medical Association
to formulate a suitable and effective
policy with respect to combating
Group Health Association.
The resolution was part of a long
series of documents presented to the
jury by John Henry levin and
Grant W. Kelleher, special assistants
to the Attorney General, as the Gov
ernment pushed forward rapidly
with presentation of its case against
organized medicine for restraint of
trade in violation of the Sherman
Antitrust Act.
The principal defendants are the
A. NJ. A., the District Medical So
ciety and others, including 20 prom
inent doctors of Chicago and Wash
ington
Discipline" Recommended.
At the same time the Executive
Committee recommended that
Group Health Association was "un-
ethical" and that participation in
1t by any member of the Medical
Society subjected him to "disciplin-
ary action"
From the minutes of the Execu-
tive Committee meeting, as read to
the jury, DR.. Francis x. McGovern
was quoted as saying that he
looked upon G. H. A. as an organ
ization coming in and interfering
with his business" The minutes,
which at this point were written in
indirect quotation, continued: "He
added that he expected to be in
practice some 20 year and he did
not propose, if it could be avoided
at all, to have an organization such
as was proposed to interfere with
his work and income"
Just what are you fellows going
(See MEDICAL, Page Aid
Evening star., 1941-02-20
YugosIov Accord to Let
Germans Pass Reported
Nv Cable tn The Star.

BY Gable to The Star.
LONDON, Feb. 20.-YugoSlavia
has agreed to allow the passage of
German troops through its territory
to turn the Greek flank in Albania
and has granted Germany wartime
control of its railways to complete
its back-stabbing deal, according to
information received by non-British
circles in London today.
According to today's information
Yugoslavia will receive compensa-
tion by being allowed place in
Germany's new order" if any, and
will be allowed to discuss with the
Italians another deal whereby cara
and certain districts in Northwest
ern Albania would be ceded to the
Belgrade government.
Bandit-ridden Macedonia will be
allowed to decide between Yugo-
Slavia and Bulgaria under the terms
of the agreement, according to the
same sources. The Germans are
already reported to be fixing pro-
posed plebiscite by putting the heat
on the Macedonians to vote for
Bulgaria.
tcopyrisht. 1s41. Chicago Daily News. Inc,
Evening star., 1941-02-20
100 Escape os Flames
Sweep Syracuse Block
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SYRACUSE, N. Y, Feb. 20-Fire-
men summoned by two general
alarms battled a stubborn blaze in
six-story block in the heart Of
downtown Syracuse early today after
about 100 persons escaped from
bowling alleys on the upper three
floors.
Fire chiefs directing more than
three-quarters of the city's fire COM
panies said they believed no one
was trapped inside the structures.
Many persons fled by fire escape and
others were carried down ladders by
f1remen, handicapped by dense
smoke, high wind and near-zero
temperatures.
Evening star., 1941-02-20
British Smash WAY
Over River in Drive
On SomaIi Capital
Italian Counterottock
RepuIsed, Cairo Suys;;
R. A. F. Bombers Help
BACKGROUND

c1pcHcu jfOH 6yypt, uHu do III
Uaston OF Libyd progressed, Brit
ain opened its driue on other
fronts Troops began to close in
on Eritred, Ethiopia and Somuli-
land Reuolt stirred among Ethi-
opidn natives. Eastern Liby1 en-
tirely conquered, and British no1O
are reported advancing toUdrd
Tripoh.
BS tht Associated Press.
CAIRO. Feb 20.-The British
Middle East command announced
today its troops had smashed across
the Juba River in Italian Somai-
land in a drive northeastward
toward Mogadiscio, capital and
major port of that East African
colony.
The crossing of the river appar-
emily was made just north of the
captured port of Chisimaio in the
region of Gelib, on the east bank OF
the stream.
Counterattacking Italians were
beaten back, today's communique
said, adding that operations in this
area are developing WELL
The forcing OF the river followed
five days of fighting against bitterly
resisting Italians. Repeated r. A. F.
dive-bomb assaults on the Fascist
positions helped clear the way for
the British infantry.
The R. A. F. supporting all the
land offensives, bombed military OBJ
jectives yesterday in Eritrea, italian
Somaliland and Ethiopia.
Italians in the Juba River area
were pummeled for the second sue
cessive day, today's r. A. F. com.
munique said.
In Ethiopia, the town of Bessie
north of Adds Ababa. drew an es-
pecially heavy assault, returning
pilots reporting that motor trans
port field and repair shops there
and mechanical columns on roads
moving north and east were both
bombed and machine -gunned.
Buildings and hangers at Asmara
Eritrea's capital, likewise were sale
to have been hard hit.
German planes raided British
occupied Bengasi, in Libya, twice
yesterday. One Junkers bomber
was reported downed and second
damaged.
Three British Hurricane fighters
covering advance operations weSt
of Bengasi, engaged in a dogfight
with a formation of German Mes
serschmitts and two of the British
craft were acknowledged lost.
10000 Square Miles Occupied.
Prior to this advance the British
had announced the occupation of
10000 square miles of Italian So
maitland up to the Juba River.
Mogadiscio, their main objective
is some 225 miles north of Gelib on
the Indian Ocean.
On the Ethiopian front, to the
north, an official announcement at
Nairobi, Kenya, said the Italian
garrison at Mega, in Southern
(See AFRICA, Page AID