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Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-06
THE GREATEST RETURN
FOR THE LEAST MONEY
a Newspaper Week EditoriaD

Did you ever stop to think what your
nickel buys when it is spent for a news
paper?
The richest man in the world hasn't
enough money to buy the information for
which you spend five cents. if he had to
get it without financial help. It all the
newspapers were to close down suddenly
and all their employees We're to quit
working, there is no national treasury IN
the world which could for long support
the enormous cost of the organizations
needed to gather news as swiftly and ac-
curately as it is done by the newspapers.
When your newspaper is delivered to
your home, you accept it as matter OF
course IT, perchance, you give it any
extra thought, you consider it in the light
OF a medium printed in your town by
people who are your neighborS, and de-
livered to YOU by youngsters who go to
school with your children. Most laymen
never go farther than that. and there is
little reason why they should.
Yet the romance of the newspaper or
ganizationS which serve you is among
the outstanding miracles of private inltl-
ative.
There is not a city in the world where,
during normal times. there Is not group
of trained news reporters whose efforts
are UlICClCU SOlClN dl lul nlSlllllS Aou Will
quick, accurate information. There are
very few towns and villages where the
same is not true. Even today. during
wartime, every even remotely important
community in every one of the United
Nations is watched by trained, unbiased
observers whose reports are available to
you, through your newspaper, within
very few hours after events take place
Supplementing the efforts of these
news gatherers is an especially trained
corps of communications experts whose
Job it is to see that the dispatches get
into your newspaper in the shortest pos
sible time.
No one newspaper, of course, can sup
port this vast organization. But all of
them together do so. And, since the
newspapers themselves represent every
shade and character of opinion, they
make just one demand on the men who
gather their news-they demand that the
news be factual, uncolored and quickly
delivered.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-06
Yankee Gets Two
laps With Five
Ammunition Bursts

HEADQUARTERS, Alaska De-
fense Command, Oct. 6. tUP)-lo
Lieut.. A. T. Rice of Alhambra, CAL
goes the credit for being the first
fighter pilot in the battle of the
Aieutians to down two Jap planes
on one raid.
Fellow pilots declare he set a
record for economical use OF am
munition which will probably stand
long time.
Rice and Lieut.. Gerald R. Johnson
of Eugene, Ore, were assigned to
recent strafing mission against
enemy-held positions at Kiska. Both
pilots SKINNED low, strafing bar
racks and other installations, in
cluding ammunition dumps.
The pilots were returning when
Rice looked back and saw two Jap
Zeros in the air over Kiska harbor
Although all of his guns were out
of ammunition except one, and he
had only five rounds for 1t, he
circled back and attacked the Zeros
It took four of those five rounds
to get the first plane, and the re-
naming Jap dove to train his guns
on the tail of Rice'S craft.
The attempt misfired, however
when Rice made a sudden maneuVer
Of his own and came in behind the
Zero. With his last cannon shell he
blasted the ship o'It of the air.
johnson. too, was economical with
ammunition. He chased a japanese
down a hillside, finally getting the
sights on him as he bounded ovei
the rough ground and with one
burst of fire sent him head oyel
neelS
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-06

WASHINGTON, Oct. 6-tUP) -
Army bombers are pounding the
Japanese steadily in the Aleutians
while at the other corner of the
Pacific American forces apparently
are bracing themselves today to
meet reinforced japanese attempt
to capture the American air base
in the SolomonS.
u S. airpower seemed to be hit
ting its stride in the first concerted
drive to bomb the enemy out of
the Aleutians. A navy communi-
que said the army bombers, now
operating from bases only an hours
flying time from Kiska, have sub
iected the enemy there to con-
tinual fire
In the SolomonS, American planes
of all types were getting in good
whackS at the Japanese, too. Dive
bomberS and torpedo planes, heavy
bombers and pursuit ships, of both
army and navy continued to hit
japanese bases and supply lines.
And they thwarted two Japanese
attempts to bomb the air field on
Guadalcanal which marines cap
tured in August. They have now
run up a score of 219 Japanese
planes destroyed in the Solomons
and at least 90 ships sunk or DAM
aged.
But the outlook in the Solomons
was not entirely good. because the
navy said the determined air at
tacks have not been able to pre-
vent the enemy from landing small
troop reinforcements on Guadal-
canal under cover of darkness. The
navy said clashes with enemy pa
trolls have been frequent but U. S.
marines are maintaining their po-
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Aussies Near
Mountain Divide

II towns of bombs all on the rum
ways and plane dispersal areas.
They met unusually strong gun
fire and about 20 Japanese Zero
fighters intercepted.
In 50-minute running fight the
fortresseS shot down four enemy
planes and damaged others.
One fortress listed as missing,
was last seen being pursued by enc
my planes.
Off Buna, the North American
medium bombers attacked a small
enemy convoy of destroyers and one
transport but the crews could not
observe results.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-06
Italians Claim
U.S.. Warship Sunk

BERLIN, Sept. 6. German broad
cast recorded by UP in New York.
An Italian military communique is
sued in Rome said today that Ital-
ian naval forces had sunk the Unit
ed States battleship Mississippi off
FreetoWn. South Africa.
The battleship was sunk by an
Italian submarine, the communique
said.
CThe Mississippi, commissioned in
1917, was of $4,000 tons with a nor
nal complement of 1923 officers
and men. There was no confirma-
ton of the Italian claim from any
American or Allied source
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-06
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA,
IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF
IMPERIAL.
No. 1872 In Probate
Notice of Time and Place OF Hear
inc Petition to Establish Birth.

IMPERIAL.
No 1872 In Probate
Notice of Time and Place of Hear
ing Petition TO Establish Birth.
In the Matter of Establishing the
Birth of MILDRED HELEN GER
KEN.
Notice is hereby given that James
p. Connor has filed in the above
entitled Court a petition praying
for an order establishing the birth
of Mildred Helen Gerken, reference
to said petition is hereby made Tor
further particulars.
And notice is hereby further given
that the hearing of said petition
has been fixed by the Clerk of said
Court for Friday the 10Th day of
October, 1912, at 200 o'clock pm.
of said day at the Court Room of
Department No. of said Court, at
the Court House in the City of Ell
Centre, County Of Imperial, State OF
California, and all persons inter-
ested are notified then and there to
appear and show cause, if any they
have, why an order should not be
made establishing the birth Of Mil
dred Helen Gerken.
Dated this 23rd day of September,
1912.
tSEAI) w. j. McCLELLAND,
County Clerk.
by Citha LamSon,
Deputy,
tNo l9) CS25-O6)
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-06
vichy Labor Draft
Causes Trouble In
Government Ranks

VICHY, Oct. 6.-U.P)-At least
10 high officials of the Labor MIN
istry resigned today in protest
against the governments forced
work policies and news came from
Lyons that the German labor re-
cruiting bureau there had been de-
stroyed by a bomb.
Amcng the Labor Ministry oftl-
cials who resigned were several
members of the staff Of Secretary
of Labor Hubert Lagardelle.
The Lyons explosion occurred at
10 o'clock last night in the Boule-
ward Garibaldi.
The designations in the Labor
Ministry came as the Vichy gov
eminent started to enforce its
scheme to force all Frenchmen to
work and at the same time had
started a campaign of coercion OF
skilled workers to obtain $4,000 OF
them for German war industry
(Pierra Laval had tried to get
10000 volunteer workers but only
1900 men responded.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-06

on comparatively narrow sector.
NAZIS DESPERATE
Moreover, Red army tommy gum
ners hurled the invaders from one
whole district which was not named
but presumed to be near the scene
of the main action.
German prisoners told of the
increasing frenzy of their comman-
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-06

ders who. with winter approaching,
must make good on Adolf Hitlers
promise that Stalingrad will be tax
en- yet cannot stem the fierce Rus
sian resistance.
Letters taken from German prlS-
oners and bodies were filled with
complaints of the increasingly cold
nightS
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-06
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Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-06
.NuziiS
Fear
Attack
BY JOHN A. PARIS

LONDON, Oct g. CUP)-Advice.
reaching. London today said Ger.
man authorities had ordered al
invasion alert along the entire Nor
| wegian coast, proclaimed martha
/ law and rushed reinforcements tC
the Trondheim area in order to pre-
vent revolt
Information reaching the Nerve
/ gian government here said the Ger
mans had taken emergency meas
ureS after the discovery of large
scale sabotage plans which threat
ened to wreck the Nazi supply sys-
TEN.
The Germans warned the native
NorWegianS: "Disobedience will be
crushed with all force" a Norwe-
gian spokesman said.
SABOTAGE REPORTED
Mass arrests were said to have
been started in an effort to ferret
out the leaders of the Norwegian
sabotage. During the last 10 days,
widespread sabotage of troop and
supply trains and of railway and
coastal transport has been reported.
The Nazis were having Difficult
ties in Denmark. too. There the
Parliament met to discuss a dem
gerouS crisis in DaniSh-German re-
lations and adviceS from neutral
Stackholm said the Danes fearfully
awaited the developments of the
next few days. There were indi-
cations that the Germans were pre-
pairing to impose a harsh regime.
The situation appeared most Sc
rious in Norway. Steel-hemleted. SIS
troops we're patroling Trondheim'
streets with fixed bayonetS, Nor
wegian government spokesman said.
Heavy guards were placed on all
German transport trains.
RULES POSTED
Trondheim and 10 other large dis
tricts were under martial law, be-
gining at 5 am. today
The SIS administration took over
the governmental powers of Jo-
seph Terboven, Nazi overseer, and
ordered:
% A curfew between 10 pm. and
) am. (2) Cessation of all traffic
bv 7 pm, and restriction OF rail-
WAYS to members of the German
armed forces; C3) complete closing
of all theaters; a. prohibition OF
all meetings and of the gathering
of more than three persons, and
90 unconditional obedience TO
German authority.
GERMANS JITTERY
In ordering the invasion alert
along the entire coast, the Ger
mans also prohibited civilians from
certain coastal areas, advices SAID.
There were increasing indications
that the Germans were fearing an
invasion more and more and were
determined to break Norwegian re-
sistance before the crisis arose.
Terboven had said earlier tnat
the sabotage had become so VIDE
spread that it imperiled the secur-
itv of the German occupation forces
as we'll as economic production.
There were reports also OF Sc
rious divergencies among Qulsllngs
cf Norway because of a demand that
they enlist to fight Russia.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-06

GEN MACARTHUR'S HEAD
QUARTERS, Australia, Oct. g..
GU.Pl troops have TAX
en- the last two villages on the Port
Moresby side of the Owen Stan
ley mountains in New Guinea and
arr fast approaching the gap at
the hump of the range, it was an
nounced today.
The Australians marched through
Kagi three miles north OF Efogl,
and Mycla, six miles north OF Etogl,
without contracting the enemy and
it was believed that the Japanese
were likely now to retreat to the
Kokoda area OH the northern slope
of the mountains.
In one of their biggest days of
Bombing, Gen. Douglas Macarthur S
heavy and medium bombers made
attacks in force on the big enc
nv bases of Rabaul,, in New Brit
ain Island, and Buna, on the north-
ern coast of New Guinea and In
savage fights shot down seven Jap
anese fighter planes for a loss of
one Boeing flying fortress and cne
North American BPS.
JAPs REINFORCED
The challenge offered by the Jap
anese planes was their first Sc
rious one in weeks during which
MacArthur'S planes from heavy
bombers to fighters had ranged over
the entire northeastern zone at will.
smashing at Eases. Thus it was in
dicated that the enemy had re-
ceived aerial reinforcements.
A big formation of fcrtresseS
made a shottering attack on Ra-
gaul, the great enemy base for the
northeast Australian zone and the
Solomon islands and fortreSses,
North American medium bomoerS
and Douglas attack bombers attack
ed Buna the base for the japanese
who after advancing to within 81
air line miles to Port MoreSoy
were now headed toward their own
side of the mountains.
ENEMY SHOT DOWN
Attacking at dawn the tortreSSes
plastered the Rabaul airdrome with
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by charging them with acting not
as impartial arbiters but as man
agement agents.
The scorching blast drew indig-
nant protests from Teagle and
George Mead, president of the
Mead Paper Co. They commended
that their function was to repre-
sent management. Morses reply
to this argument was to quote q
statement made by another man.
agement member, Roger Lapham
president of the American Hawaiian
Steamship Co.. that the WLB was
the Supreme Court of war labor
problems"
1T was my understanding that
we all agreed with that" said
Morse. Now you tell me that
you aren't judicially- minded ar
biters, but special pleaders. If
that's the way this Board is to OPP
crate then you can count me out. y
Morse had his way. The Board
issued a union membership main
tenance'' decision by a split vote
of to 4-the four public and four
labor members making the major
ity and Teagle and the three other
employer members the dissenting
minority.
But this didn't end the matter.
His dander up, Morse demanded an
immediate showdown on the con-
tention that Teagles group should
operate an employer spokesman.
Lets have it out once and for
all Morse declared, Just what our
policy is going to be-whether we
sit as judicial body or as groups
representing special interests. That
goes for labor as well as for man
agement I'm not interested in
representing any special group here.
believe We should all act as rep
resentatives of the government If
the United States and decide cases
solely on the facts as presented
to u.s."
Coming on the heels of the ex-
element over the year-old Har-
vester case, this bare-knuckle chal-
lenge was too much for the other
Board members to tackle. Plead
Ing for time to think the matter
over, Mead prevailed on Morse 10
postpone action en- his demand ua-
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ALASKA'S PRIMARY ELECTION

The countless newspaper editorials which have
been penned on the importance of the primary cleo
tion. and the usual resulting apathy that invariably
follows probably filters the editorial floor with
torn hair than anything else.
The primary election is important. We are con-
vnced of that. But to convince Alaskans of the i'm
portance of such seems to be a tough proposition.
Alaskans of course aren't alone in this respect.
Throughout the rest of the United States people
seem to be firmly convinced that the primary cleo
tons aren't of any importance.
After all at first glance it would seem that since
the general election is the thing that really decides
which candidates will receive governmental offices.
the primary election which does not decide this ques
ton is of little consequence But this is illogical Be
cause on second glance we find that the primary
election determines who to have the privilege of
being candidates for the governmental positions in
the final analysis
Thus a voter who fails to visit the polls in the
primary election does cast his in the gen.
era election finds himself in very peculiar stu
alton. He finds that he is in reality casting his
for persons who already have been chosen-and by
somebody else-to be the candidates on whom he must
pass judgment
In other words the primary election decides which
aspiring governmental officials may become candi-
dates for positions in the general election And this
is half of the job of being finally elected.
You already have candidate picked out
for whom you have decided to vote in the general
election But. if YOU don't vote for this person in
the primary, chances that he won't be on the
ballot come general election time.
Furthermore. next Tuesdays election will decide
and for all, regardless of the general election
who viii be the Commissioner of Labor for the Ter
rtory. Walter Sharpe and Michael Haas, both are
Democratic candidates There is Republican
didate for this position. Hence the nominated
in the primary will be the new Commissioner of
Labor. The vote Tuesday will be the final contest
In the First Division, similar is that of
Territorial Senator No Republican has filed for
that office. The contest in the Democratic primary
between Allen Shattuek and A. P Walker will decide
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20 YEARS AGO ffrfMmE EMPIRE
APRIL "a, 1922

APRIL "A, 1922
Twenty oil leasing and prospecting
of the at
applicants according
Boyle Register The permits issued involved
covering claims localities granted
Boland, Miller, Billet, j Pa1r,
Harry Achison Yakataga
nliamna field
Richard Charles Tecknberg Ralph Others receiving
mts Mabel E Mas w E. Mas r Wells
IIjestrand visiting her
sister, oliver Olson.
Douglas
friends.
proprietor Bakery
Princess Mary from businss trip south
agent Railway a passenger
on the Princess Mary on his to Mayo
Housed accompanied by daughter
Spokane
recently trip
left the Spokane Seattle
given
the evening Eks Hall the
Committee members charge of the affair Homer Nodng Chester
Trip Paul H Abbott, Lloyd Winter Walter King
headquarters George
exhibiting indication
neghborly,
times and said big fellow Cattle grazing the hillside
had frightened away by the animal
Auxiliary Bradford would
be given at the B.
furnished the orchestra Coliseum Theatre under the
leadership of Miss Dorothy Chaffee.
rainy
of Al and a minimum of AZ.
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Another NaZi bud
philadelphia Record


The Nazis have luck with propaganda
trials First it was the Reichstag fire trial fasco;
now it's Rom
In the first. Goering set out to prove that Com
munists had burned the Reichstag and thus justify
the Naz seizure dctatoria power The defendants,
especially Georgi Dmitroff managed to make mon
keys out of the accusers especially Goering The
Nazis wound up wishing they'd never started.
They had eight years in which to think over
their mistake but made it all again at Riom.
From the fall of France the trial of French lead
responsible for the collapse forecast by the
NaM spokesman in the Petain Government. They
had a difficult time setting the stage. year and
half elapsed before the curtain went up and then
only small part of the cast present.
From the beginning, the trial went wrong. The
defendants attacked the legal existence of the Petan
Government They turned the trial upon the ques
ton OF guilt for the defeat rather than upon guilt
for making Germany The German press
has complained bitterly about this point
Now the trial is postponed, probably indefinitely.
The Nazis their Vichy stooges can't stand their
show.
Peculiar that these stage trials the one
branch of propaganda in which the Nazis fall down
Maybe there's something about courtroom that
just doesn't let a street thug slam defiant witness
with piece of rubber hose.
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A PRODUCTION DRIVE

We're hearing a lot about production drive"
these days. We know too little about it What is it?
After this when you hear the term think of an
effort being put by the officials of Donald Mel
sons War Production Board to give the nation this
year
45 900 tanks
10000 planes
10000 antaircraft guns
5000 900 tons of shipping.
The WPB has called upon labor and manage
men in 1000 plants making planes, tanks, guns ships
and machine tools to get together to increase their
output method of doing this through voluntary
establishment of labor management committees has
been indicated. The sole purpose of these commit
tees is to carry the production drive in the in
dividual plant
The drive is by means confined to 1000 plants.
These are merely the prime contractors Efforts are
being made to spread more and more of the work by
letting of contracts throughout the United States
BY finding more efficient machines, by using
listing machines efficiently, and by lettering
morale and effort through pattern permitting
ignition of individual plant attainments, the WPB
is attempting to increase output.
Here's how this is being done:
The Production Drive Committee in each plant
adopting the general plan which calls for a study
of plant efficiency erection of production score
board, encouragement and study of suggestions set
ting up bulletin boards and posters conducting slogan
contests and using ether methods increase output
and recognizing achievements
It's a combination of high pressure advertising
and down-to -earth cooperation between labor and
employer with the Government and public applaud
ing. But it seems to be working according to in
creased production figures.
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UPSET CHAMP

Former heavyweight champ Gene
Tunney is the Nays athletic direc-
tor, bat on the basis of an Incl
dent that occurred the other day
it looks as if he could do with a
little more personal practice of
what he breaches.
Tunney isn't telling it, but he
was almost floored by Vice Presi-
dent Henry Wallace, older and
much slighter built than the dap
per expire fighter.
1t was all in fun, and happened
while the two men were posing
for picture in Wallace's office.
The customary Misunderstanding pose
didn't satisfy the photographer
Lets get some action into this"
he urged. In an effort to cooper
ate, Wallace asked Tunney,
Have you ever tried hand
wrestling?"
What's that?" inquired the for
mer champ
"Oh, we used to do it all the time
when I was youngster in Iowa"
said Wallace. You stand toe to
toe. clasp hands, and try to pull
the other fellow over. Here, let
me show you"
The next thing Tunney knew, he
was spinning headlong across the
floor in the direction of a grand
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Daily Lessons in English S e. L. GORDON

WORDS say, through Say,
OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED Address Accent both
on syllable, the
OFTEN MISSPEILED: things
grave n disposition
SYNONYMS: Anonymous namee unknown, unacknow
lodged.
WORD STUDY three times and is
Today word
incapable
man is he
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fathers clock. He just missed the
clock and fetched up against a
table, which he grabbed to regain
his balance.
Grinning sheepishly, he said:' Il
thought we were just going to pose
that way. didn't know you meant
business"
I'm extremely sorry" apologized
Wallace, who keeps in top physical
trim by playing tennis every morn
ing and walking to work.
You're sorry, Mr. Vice Presi-
dent!' exclaimed the cameraman.
Say, I just missed one of the best
pictures of my life That would
have been sensation
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Feature Syndicate. Inc)