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The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-08-28
NAzI POLICE HUNT FRENCH
 COMMUNISTS
Shooting of Laval Starts Drive Against Red
 Sympdfhizers

BULLETIN Versailles, Aug.
 28-One of the bullets fired yes tcrday by Cciettc, struck Laval and lodged only one tenth of an inch below his heart. LavaPs condition is pronounced gener- ally satisfactory after delicate operation to remove the bullet.
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Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-29
RELEASE THE BRAKES
ON PRODUCTION
Nevada State JournaD

"CIO pickets patrolled entrances to
the Bethlehem Steel company'S plant to-
day-Bethlehem has government defense
contracts totalling more than a billion
dollars" News ltem).
1t lust does not make sense.
Congress appropriates billions for de
tense. The government sets up boards
to speed defense. The people OF the ma
tion are willing to shoulder the tax bur-
den to pay for defense
Industry and labor put on the brakes
and squabble over hours, or wages or
jurisdiction.
Those problems can be settled without
resorting to strikes.
Work can continue while negotiations
are in progress.
The welfare of the workers and the
welfare of the companies are tied up
directly in defense preparations. Their
interests are identical with those OF the
remainder of the country. If our de-
fense preparations fall down those same
workers and those same companies may
wake up some day with nothing to fight
about and no place where pickets can
march.
The interests of the workers and the
interests OF tile companies euSdStu III
defense industries should be protected
but not at the expense of the nation.
The president has the power, or at
least the influence, to put an end to
strikes and picketing. One word from
him land the agitators will fold up
and the company chieftains will run for
cover. The President only needs to give
William S. Knudsen the right-ofway
Knudsen and Sidney Hillman can set up
arbitration machinery in which each side
has confidence There are plenty of men
available for such positions, men who will
place the welfare of the country first
and at the same time deal fairly with
labor and industry. Their rulings can be
enforced by public opinion, if by no other
means.
Pckets produce nothing. They should
be inside producing needed materials.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-29
WiI|kie to Urge
BTiiish-U.S. Deal

LONDON, Jan. %. (UP) Wendell
l.. Willkie intimated strongly today
that he would advocate Anglo-Am
erican financial cooperation in the
war when he returned to the United
States.
Speaking to newspaper men after
he had lunched with Ernest Bevin
labor minister, and officials of the
general council of the Trades Union
Congress, Willkie was asked whether
he regarded Britain as good risk.
Il have very strong opinion on
the subject" ne replied, but l do
not want to express it because I
do not think / ought to express
opinions about America on Britain.
But you would not be the least dis
appointed
Willkie conferred for an hour with
the 32-man Trades Union Council,
which represents about 5000 900
British workers.
He was presented copy of book,
Martyrs of Tolpuddle,' autograph
ed by council members.
After the luncheon conference he
said:
1T was one of the finest meet
ingS | have attended i'll Britain.
am in complete agreement with
their aims and aspirations
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-29
Anfonescu Thanks
Hitler for help
During Revolution

BUCHAREST, Rumania, Jan. %.
CUP)-Gen. Ion Antonescu, pre-
mier, has thanked Adolf Hitler for
showing the loyal understanding OF
a great ally during the recent Iron
Guard uprising and Hitler has re-
piled, thanking him for his re
neWed loyalty to the Berlin Rome
axis" it was announced today.
Antonescu Sunday telegraphed
Hitler the appreciation of the
entire nation that during these days
of trial we have felt the presence
and loyalty of the fuehrer of the
German Reich, which guaranteed
our frontiers without touching Ru-
manian pride and without compro-
missing our sovereignty but with
loyal understanding Of a great al
ly."
Hitler thanked Antonescu for
expressing your renewed loyalty to
the Berlin-Rome axis" and offered
Antonescu my most sincere wishes
for speedy return of internal or
der and calm and for happy devel-
opmcnts in the future"
In its first statement on casual
ties in he uprising, the government
said that 416 dead and 522 wound
ed had been accounted for. These
included no Jews, it was under
stood. It was expected that a spe-
cial communique would be issued
on the hundreds of Jews killed by
Iron Guardists.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-29

ATHENS, Greece, Jan, 20. CUP)
Premier Gen. John MetaXas,
Greece's strong man and military
hero died today. He had directed
the nation through three trium-
phant months of war against Italy.
It was announced officially that
he had died at $50 a. m. Q0:30 p.
m. Tuesday CST after throat
operation and that Alexander Cor
izis, former head of the national
bank, was the new premier.
Metaxas had had a turbulent ca
reer dating back to the Greek-Tur-
kish war of 1897. in which he did
his first fighting. He was not always
in public favor, having twice been
exiled for plotting revolution. But
he lived to put in practice the
lessons Of his long military study
and experience against the Italian
invaders of last october, and he
died one of the most popular fig
ures in modern Greek history
His government was severe and
dictatorial brooking no interfer-
ence. Foremost a disciplinarian
Metaxas expected the people to do
as they were told. He dealt harsh
ly with opposition, arreSting and
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-29
Britain Preparing For
History's Biggest Test

years liable for service, SO that now
men of 90 military classes had been
called on to do their share in stand
ing up against whatever Hitler
might have to offer in his spring
campaigns.
THE new proclamation was nee
essary to provide steady flow OF
men into the three fighting serv-
ices" the labor ministry announced.
1T must also be remembered that
men in older age classes are now
encouraged to apply for vacancies
in certain civil defense services
Youths of 18 years probably Will
be called last of all of those named
in the new proclamation, the min
istry said, and may not be required
to register for many months at
least.
In connection with the registra-
ton of youths 10, arrangements al
ready have been made to safeguard
the supply of men studying to OBJ
tain certain scientific and technl1
cal qualifications that will fit them
for important national work, the
ministry said.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-29

WASHINGTON. Jan. % The
Washington atmosphere today car
ries the ominouS, fateful tang OF pa
years ago, as if great passions and
great dangers we're once more COM
ing to q head. The shadow of the
war congress" of 1917 falls across
the capitol.
In the present congress there
are 81 people-30 men and one
woman-who sat in the congress
Of 1917 when declaration OF war
with Germany was voted. Six mem
bers of the 1917 senate still have
their seats there. Seven other mem
bers of the present senate served
in the house in 1917, Seventeen
members of the house were mem
bers of the house in that porten-
tous April session nearly a quarter
century ago. and one member was
then a senator.
OF the 81, Just three voted against
the declaration of war. They are
Senator George w. Norris of Ne
braska. Congressman Harold knut-
son of Minnesota, and Congress
woman Jeannette Rankin of Mon
tana. Congressman George Holden
Tinkham Of Massachusetts, now
one of the most confirmed isola-
tionists, voted for war.
Texas has the largest number
Cf men here with service in both
congresses. Senator Morris Shep-
pard now chairman of the pow
erful military affairs committee,
was 2 junior member of that COM
mittee in 1917. Senator Tom Con-
nally was in the house then. Speak
er Sam Rayburn was then a rela-
lively obscure congressman, so were
Hatton Summers and Joseph j,
Mansfield.
Alben Barkley of Kentucky, now
Democratic floor leader in the SEN
ate. was in the house. along with
Carter Glass, Jimmy Byrnes, Carl
Hayden of Arizona, and Wallace
White of Maine.
Congressman James Wadsworth
of New York, one of the authors of
the selective service act, was in
the senate in 1917.
Senator Hiram Johnson of Cali
fornla, stalWart iSolationist today
IS another who voted for war. Vot-
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-29
ONE REEF TO AVOID
(Redwood City Tribune)

The Chula Vista Junior High School is
experimenting with an educational
hour" period each school day during
which each student does something he
has always wanted to do" and has fac
ulty direction in doing it.
Encouragement of activity along ones
inclination is a sure way of developing
talents which should enable him to be of
greatest usefulness in life. This plan
seems to be the core of the modern educa-
tonal effort. But the one danger is that
educational enthusiasts can easily become
extremists, and direct the pupils along
the lines of their respective inclinations
TO the abandonment of all things which
they find stupid, irksome or otherwise
dstasteful In that "after-life," by which
is meant the occupational years, the
school graduates will find that even in
pursuit of the vocational lines that they
enjoy, they will encounter some irksome
details. There is also the probability that
some of the students will miss connec-
ton, for short periods or permanently,
with the sorts of Jobs they would most
prefer and will have to adapt themselves
to less amusing occupations The school
whose program fails to include some
discipline for those eventuaities will
fall short of doing its proper job.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-29

Legislatures of 43 states are meet
ing this winter, and almost all of
them will be confronted with pro-
posals for home defense measures.
Outstanding among such pro-
poSalS will be a set of five model
bills drawn by various state Off
cialS as a result of a federal-state
conference on law enforcement
problems of national defense held
last August. This program is being
furthered by the Joint Conference
Committee, with offices in Wash
ington, and representing the Gov
ernors' Conference, the Council Of
State Governments, National AsSo-
citation of Attorney General, Inter
state Commission on Crime, and
the Department of Justice.
Five model bills" are on the
agenda, and passage in all states
will be sought, so as to create as
nearly uniform conditions as posi-
BILE throughout the country. The
more important of them are
|. A Sabotage Prevention Act.
This provides severe penalties for
intentional destruction or impair
ment of defense industries or fa-
cilities. trespaSSing on property de-
voted to defense work, and opens
the way to closing of highways
adjacent to the same by highway
commissioners after public hearing.
All the right of labor asserted in
the Wagner Ace are reaffirmed. but
c. I. O. President Philip Murray
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-29
Greek Hero Dies
al Careers PEG k

exiling more than 100 Greek lib
erals in the first two years Of his
premiership.
These qualities were bred into
him through army life and he
put them to advantage when he was
called upon three months ago to
deal with the Italians.
MetaXaS was not caught mapping
when the Italians came. When he
had learned year before that
Italy was building military high
ways through Albania toward the
Greek border he began preparations
to receive them. He studied condi-
tions along the Greek-Albanian
border; studied tactics used by
the Italians in the Spanish civil
war, summed up his findings and
decided that if he ever had to
fight the Italians, he would pre-
fer to do it in the mountains.
When the day came he let the
Italians advance through the Pindus
almost TO the mountain capital OF
Janina, and get foothold on the
Macedonian road leading to Salon
ika. Then he fell onto them with
the elite of the Greek army, the
skilled EvZoneS mountaineerS
Clinging to the peaks; avoiding
the level valleys where the italians
could concentrate mechanical forces
and flowing" around on both sides
of ramparts that did not quickly fall
in the manner of the Germans in
the blitzkrieg in France and the
low countries, and hurting them
selves ceaselessly into the attack
giving the invaders no rest, the Ev-
zones soon had cleared Greece oil
every italian but the dead ones
and prisoners" and had carried
the war into Albania.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-29
by Willis Thornton
New Laws for Home Defense

fears that the provisions could be
used by local authorities in such
a way as to nullify the right to
strike.
2 An Explosives Control Act
closely controlling manufacture and
sale of explosives under a licensing
system.
8. An Interstate Public Property
Protection Act. This enables a
state to furnish police protection
to its property lying in another
state.
4. A State Guard Act. Congress
has already aut h horiZed State
Guards to take over the civil pro-
lection functions of National Guard
units called away on federal serv-
ice. The bill provides that gov
ernors shall prescribe regulations
for such guards, similar to those
of the National Guard, and wisely
prohibits enrolment under it ol
any organizations as such, or pay
ments to it by private individuals
or organizations. Here again Muir
ray believes such guard force
should be subject to greater civi
control rather than responsible only
to military law. This bill also pro-
vides that on request, state guaro
may operate in other states.
New laws of this kind, which
supplement the existing laws ano
the expanding G-man federal pro-
lection, need careful study in order
that all proper rights of citizens be
preserved
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-29
kazi Minister of
Justice Succumbs

BERLIN Jan. %. UP)-Franz
Guertner 60, minister of justice,
died last night after a brief illness,
the ministry of justice announced
today.
Guertncr was minister of justice
Of Bavaria from 1922 to 1882, when
he became German minister of JUS
tlcc. He was retained by the Hitler
regime. He was never active in poli-
tics and was not member of the
Na2i party until. in 1887 Adolf Hit
Ter decorated him with the party's
gold badge, which made him auto
maticaly a member.
Son of railroad engineer, GuerCL
ner attended school at Regensburg
and then studied law at Munich
university. He served from 1914 to
1917 on the western front and then
was transferred to Palestine, where
he was attached to the Turkish
army.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-29
Nile ArmyStrikes
Fast at Benghazi

LONDON, Jan. 30. CUP)-Mili-
tary sources said today that Gen.
Sir Archibald Wavells Imperial
army of the Nile is striking for
Benghazi as rapidly as possible de-
spite the appearance of German
dive-bombers in the Mediterranean
war sphere.
The military experts said that
Wavell had speeded up his drive for
the Libyan capital because of the
realization that at any time he may
encounter Intervention of the Ger
man air force on land.
Nazi dive-bombers already have
attacked British sea power in the
narrow channel between Sicily and
the African coast.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-29
Prisoners Taken
In African Drive

CAIRO, Jan. %. CUP)-Success-
ful development of British opera
tionS in Eritrea with capture of
additional prisoners, and increasing
pressure on Italians besieged in the
Libyan port of Derna was reported
by the British Middle East high
command today.
The high command said opera
tions in the Agordat and Barentu
sectors are developing British
forces were described as lin close
pursuit" of Italian troops which
withdrew from the Umm Hagar re-
gion ON the Sudan frontier and
that 70 additional prisoners have
been captured.
In Libya," said the communique
"the pressure on enemy forces in
the Dena area is increasing. In
Abyssinia the situation east of Met
emma is unchanged, In Italian So
maitland, vigorous patrol activity
is continuing in numerous areas
across the enemy frontier"
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-29
CalexiCo Plans
Holiday Fete

CALEXIO, Jan. 29-WaShington's S
birthday will be a gala occasion
in this border city with the CAL
exico chamber Of commerce, the
Desert Cavalcade of Imperial VAL
ley, and the Calexico Junior Wo-
mems clubs joining forces to stage
the Cavalcade Grand ball in honor
Of vegetable buyers. shippers. grow
ers, the International -Four States
Highway association, and Imperial
Valley Masons at their thirtieth
annual get-together.
Committees planned to make the
event one of the most elaborate
of the many social functions plan
ned for the weekend of the Caval-
cade In CaleXico and the mardi
gras IN Mexicali
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-29
WITHOUT THE INDIVIDUAL
PROFIT MOTIVE. WHAT?

The bedeviled old profit motive is in
for 1T again-or still.
For a long time every unbathed radical
in the world has made the profit motive
his chief source of soap box oratory. For
the last few years the white collar COM
munists have sighted their big guns
against the profit motive. And, more
recently, their arguments have been boil
stored, strengthened and upheld by sell
ect group of pinkish tinged left wingers,
fellow travellers and scattering of hon
est folk whose economic reasoning has
jumped the track of logic
DR.. r. II. M Montgomery, University of
Texas economist who is probably an hon
est theorist with impractical ideas born
in the sheltered halls of collegiate seclu-
sion from hard facts, is the latest to
mourn the imminent passing of the profit
motive.
Here in America" says DR.. Montgom-
cry, 1--WE long have thought what was for
the good of the individual was for the
good of the nation; if he profited, so did
his country" This idea, he added, is
breaking down in the light of recent de-
velopments.
DR.. Montgomery and others like him,
have not carried this particular line of
reasoning far enough. If they did, they
would arrive at the only possible con-
CIuSlol DdSeu oil acceptance VI lile
statement that the profit motive must 60
The conclusion is that, in such an event,
democracy, too, must go.
For democracy and the profit motive
are one and the same thing.
The profit motive, remember, is not
something you can apply to gigantic in
dustries and not to little businesses. You
cannot apply it to barons of finance
without applying it also to the common
laborer. You cannot apply it to money
without applying it to personal ambition
of all sorts. The man who works to
obtain a promotion in his company, or
better job on his construction project
is motivated by the profit motive just as
surely as the financier who pours his
money into industry in the expectation
of deriving a profit from it.
1t is fashionable in some quarters to
say that the profit motive must go. But
those who preach such doctrine very
seldom tell you what lis to come after
wards Possibly many of them have not
thought that far.
Without the profit motive to spur a
man on, what is to make him work. The
joy of his work? In theory, yes In prac-
tice, no. Most of us are born loafers.
What, then? There can be only one an
swer Without the profit motive, there
must be a dictatorship under which every
man must do an assigned job In other
words, if he has no thought of profit to
spur him on, he must have fear. Fear
of some powerful person or group which
will punish the laggards.
Profit motive or fear motive-which
do you prefer?
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-29
1ruck-School Bus
Crash Kills Girl

PHOENIX, Ariz., Jan. 30. CUP)-
An inquest was ordered today of an
accident between a farmers a,xo-
mobile and a school bus in which
one young student was killed and
six others were injured.
Alice Strinker, IL, was killed when
she was thrown through the ton
of the bus after it was struck from
the rear by car driven by Lee A.
Smith, 44-year-old farmer. The ac-
cident occurred just as Smith turned
onto the rural highway after ad-
mittedly failed to stop at the
intesection.
There were as children on the bus
when it left the school yesterday
afternoon but % had been dis
charged at their homes before the
mishap took place. None of the
six injured students was in serious
condition.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-29

his privy council at Buckingham
Palace signed the proclamation au-
thorizing the call of the six new
classes, which mean the registra-
ton of perhaps 100000 additional
men.
The government made it known
at once that youths of 10 would be
registered for service Feb, %.
Previous proclamations had made
youths and men of from 20 to SO
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-29
PrettyStowaway
En,barasses Navy

SAN DIEGO, Jan. 20. fUP)-Em-
barrassed ma val officers today
threatened disciplinary action
against any sailor who might have
helped pretty Shirley Dale, %
aboard a u. S. destroyer two hours
before it sailed for Honolulu.
Miss Dale, wearing the regulation
navy dungarees and a blue sweater
her long black hair tucked under a
white seaman's cap, was found
hiding behind the Diesel motors
of the U. S. S. Long yesterday
afternoon.
The stowaway was questioned by
officers and turned over to Ger
trude Wood, San Diego municipal
court probation officers, but The
court later dismissed her,
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-29
WILKES JOB

Gradually, the place of Wendell L.
Willkie in American public life is taking
shape. He has provided an historic inno-
vation in the policies of this country.
He might best be described, perhaps, as
minority president.
Some of Wilkes activities are not
entirely palatable to the old line members
of the Republican party; some of them
are entirely in line with the policies of
the Democratic administration. He
agrees with Roosevelt far more than he
disagrees.
Yet, for that very reason, his disagree
ment with the administration would be
so potent, so far reaching, so generally
accepted, that it is virtual certainty
the administration will not risk bring
ing it about. The administration, in
fact, is likely TO swing to WILKES view
point in many things in order to win
WILKES agreement
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-29
Italians Attempt
Desperate Rally
II, Desert Battle

LONDON, Jan. 20. OUP)-Ita1ian
forces were reported attempting to
rally today for desperate and appar-
emily hopeless stands at Derna, on
the Libyan coast, and in the Bar
entu-Agordat sector of Eritrea.
British troops were maSsings
around Derna to take the city and
it was believed that the main army
of the Nile was striking westward
through the interior desert direct
from Benghazi.
The Italians were reported try
ing to stand at both Agordat and
Barentu in Eritrea, where Indta1
and British troops and Sudanese
irregulars-the famous Fuzzy Wuz-
zies whom Kipling immortalized as
the only men who ever broke a
British infantry square-were strik-
ing at both towns.
The Free French camel corps and
mechanized column which wiped out
an italian force at the Merzuck
oasis, ATS miles south of Tripoli, in
an amazing foray from the remote
| Lake Chad area OF FTench interior
| Africa. was believed making its
~ =. e.. TO base.
"a glance at map of Africa Sug-
gestS that the Free French might
also strike from the Lake Chad
aera at the italian Chebabo or
Cufra oasis in far southern Cyren-
aica opposite Egypt. The distance
to this oasis, from the important
French military base of Fort Lamy
on the lake, is roughly the same
distance as that to Merzuck)
The formidable range of the Soda
or Black mountains in interior
Libya seemed to be likely to dis
suade the Free French from making
any attempt to march northward
from Merzuck to effect junction
with the British marching on Der
ma and Benghazi.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-29

LONDON, Jan. 30. CUP)-Great
Britain. preparing for the supreme
test of its modern history against
Germany, today authorized the call
ing of youths of IS and 10 years
and men of from 81 to 40 inclusive,
for military service.
With armed forces totaling more
than 100000 men including the
home guard already under the col
ors, King George at a meeting of
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-29
RUMANlA RECORDS
ANOTHER EARTHQUAKE

BUCHAREST, Jan 30. UP)-An
earthquake recorded here today, was
reported to have had its epicenter
100 miles from Bucharest in the
foothills of the Carpathian noun
talns. The severe earthquake of
NOV. 10 which seriously damaged
Bucharest also centered in the Car
pathians