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Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-21
SECOND FRONT

There are too many possibilities IN the
realm of second front to hazard pre-
diction when it will be opened, much less
where. If we knew the objective OF our
own governments propaganda, we could
predict with more probability of success,
but to date we cannot tell whether the
propaganda is aimed at the enemy or at
our own civilian population.
The fact that discussion of second
front has been announced, coupled with
later cautious assertions that its open
ing may be long delayed because of ship
ping and other troubles, would mean one
thing if aimed at the enemy, another II
aimed at US. There is even the possibility
of a two-way division, in which talk OF
the second front is part of nerve war
intended to make the enemy Jlttery, and
talk of delays is intended to prepare US
for those delays.
On the other hand, talk of the second
front may have been to bolster morale at
home. and talk of the delays might be
part of an effort to throw the enemy off
in his planning.
Whatever the case, in this instance our
propaganda has been maSterfully nan
died. We cannot ask to know what It's
aims are because we as people could
not know without having the secret given
away to the enemy-and none of us want
that
We do know that the second front is
coming-and that is the important thing.
Revond that, 1t is more interesting than
a iip-saw puzzle to speculate on the pos
sibiiities. Interesting for us, and mad
dening for the enemy. And that IS as 1t
should be.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-21
UNLCVELY WEALTH
Riverside PreSS)

(k1VefSlQe HfeSS)
Another victory for peace, in the midst
Of war, comes in the realm of chemistry.
A process has been discovered that is
expected to make an essential chemical
chlorine, immensely cheaper than it has
been. A well-known commentator COM
pares the discovery to finding an unllmlt-
ed supply of copper.
Most people haven't given any thought
to the merits of chlorine. 1t is not very
pleasant thing to play with or to think
about, to be sure, but it is enormously
useful, if we are to believe those who do
handle it.
The principal use of chlorine pulp,
process essential for newspapers, maga-
zines and book production. That is why
in large measure, news men are interest
ed in the thousand other purposes 1t is
used for.
For instance, it sterilizes water sup
plies, denatures sewers and bleaches tex
tiles. 1t makes poison gas, which from
time to time the Japs and the nazls are
accused of using
Chlorine is essential to the production
of gold silver, copper lead and zinc;
1t recovers the tin from timed metals
and the zinc from galvanized iron. 1t
is necessary to rubber production.
1t is not necessary to state that chlorine
is certainly a very versatile addition to
the realm of chemistry, and may be more
important than the finding of great,
new supply Of gold.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-21
Jap Ships Sunk In
MalaCca Straits

LONDON, June 20 (UP) = The
admiralty said today that British
submarines in the Malacca Straits
had torpedoed and sunk three large
japanese supply ships. No date was
given.
The Malacca Straits are between
Malaga and Sumatra and presum-
ably the Japanese ships were OPP
Grating in the Singapore sector,
where the enemy claimed some time
ago to have repaired the big British
naval base.
The japanese hold virtually all
of the Dutch East Indies now, al
though some guerilla fighting has
recently been reported in the
mountainous area of Sumatra and
other islands.
The Malacca Straits lead to the
Indian Ocean and would provide a
major avenue for Japanese supplies
to Burma in preparation for a
possible invasion thrust at India.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-21
REDEDlCATlON FOR
COUNTY OFFICIALS

Many Imperial county 0fflce holders
are fortunate, in the political sense, in
not having opponents during the present
elective campaign. The fact should cause
them to rededicate themselves to the pro-
position of giving the best they can in
service to the public which pays their
salaries.
That there is little contest in the coun-
ty election is at once a compliment and
a warning to the office holders. If great
public dissatisfaction existed with any
man in a major public office there would
be opponents to contest his position, war
or no war The fact that there are few
contested elections displays public trust
in office holders here, and at the same
time should serve as warning that this
trust must be fulfilled-or else!
One outstanding example of bad man.
agement or untrustworthy action by
holder of public office can make a whole
election campaign lively, for in the pub
lie mind every office holder automatl-
cally partakes in part of the actions of
every other one. Thus, while an unde-
sirable public official creates opponents
for himself, he also creates opponents for
others In their own interests, it is up
to the incumbent officials, as group,
to see that every one of their number
lives up to his obligations. Otherwise,
the penalty IallS upon al Oh tneH'
There is actually little difference be-
tween those officials who meet opposi-
tion in their bid for reelection and those
who have no opponents, when their bid
who have no opponents, when the election
is over Those who may have been re-
elected over opposition will have been re-
elected by direct action those without
opposition will have been reelected by
permissive action The obligations falling
upon both classes are the same, regard
less.
No office holder should allow himself
for one instant to relax his vigilance in
the public behalf merely because he is
returned to office without contest. He
should consider that fact in the same
light as he would majority of votes in
August or November-public approval
of himself as the holder of public trust.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-21
Axis Desert Army
Repu|sed in Push
On Egypt Frontier

CAIRO, June 20 CUP) - Axis
armored forces under Colleen. Err
win Rommel have started a thrust
toward the new British defense
line in an attempt to break through
into Egypt but have been thrown
back, Middle Eastern command
communique said today,
Pressing close behind the main
British 9th Army forces of Gen.
Neil M Ritchie, the Axis Afrika
korps drove in two main columns
along the coast, leaving a siege
force to organize the new attack
on the British fortress of Tobruk.
Advancing in two main columns,
they struck toward the north end of
the British line along the Libya-
Egypt border
RitchieS mobile forces met them
in an area within 25 miles of Bar
dia, which is about 7la miles north
of the Egyptian border and is the
northern anchor of the British
front line
The British tanks ripped into the
Axis columns and, it was indicated,
forced them to turn back without
strong resistance after they had
reached at the nearest point
within 25 miles of Bardia.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-21
Tokyo Announces
Raids on Darwin

TOKYO, June 20. Japanese broad
cast recorded by United Press in
New York)-An Imperial headquar
ters communique said today that
Japanese naval planes had shot
down as Allied planes and severely
damaged facilities in four daily
raids on Darwin, Australia, starting
last Sunday.
1t admitted loss of two of its own
planes.
Mentioning that the planes which
raided Darwin were navy planes
presumably was meant to give the
idea that Japan, still has airplane
carriers.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-21
300 British Bombers i'm
Raid on &c rnan Bases

LONDON. June 20. tUP)-A big
force of British long range bombing
planes. estimated to number up to
SEQ. fought through hundreds of
miles of stormy weather during
the night to bomb the German
naval and submarine base of Emden
and the great railroad center OF
Osnabruck.
So bad was the weather. which
after a brief break had turned
suddenly stormy again, that it was
feared at first the raid was a COM
paratiVe failure.
But the planes which fought
through the storm for more than
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-21

reached their objective, according
to reliable informants, that they
found the weather SO bad they had
difficulty in finding their targets.
Conditions were SO bad, it was
said, that the air ministry consider
ed the ACCESSIBILITY of Withholding
formal announcement that the
raid had been made.
Usually British bombers which
can not find the targets charted for
them, return with their full bomb
loads rather than waste them in
indiscriminate bombing along the
German pattern, which causes civil
ian damage but does nothing to
harm the enemy's war effort.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-21

gigantic mine fielG 10 close off the
entire Skagerrak, entrance to the
Baltic Sea.
The Berlin Radio reported that
persons living within a certain
district in the heart of East Anglia"
were to be evacuated with all their
belongings by July 20 by order of
the British war office.
The area in question is to be
taken over b. the British Army"
Berlin said. Discussion of the mea-
sure is forbidden in Britain.
CONCENTRATION POINT
East Anglia is that part of Eng
land north and east OF London di-
rectly opposite Holland and Bel
GUM, an area in which hundreds of
thousands Of troops might be mass
ed il big scale continental inva-
sion were undertaken.
The only word here regarding the
area was q war office announce
ment that it had bought several
farms in East Anglia to be used
for training areas" and SpokeS-
man explained that naturally the
area would be evacuated when
training" began.
BIG NINE FIELD
No information was available
concerning the size of the farms"
involved or of the total area.
The Germans announcement of
new mining claimed that the entire
outer sea from southwestern Nor
way to northeastern Denmark
would be mined to a width of from
120 to rs miles SO as to close the
Skaggerak.
The mine field is to extend 12O
miles from the Lister Light, on the
southwest Norway Coast, to the
Tyboroen Channel on the north
east Denmark coast, and extend in
to the entrance to the Baltic.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-21

the raid Tuesday night on the Ruhr
and Rhineland.
However, Berlin reported that the
planes had attacked northwestern
Germany and said that "slight"
damage had been done to "residen-
tial' quarters. 1t reported one plane
shot down.
An apparent break in the weather,
which had forced lull in deVaSta-
ton raids, caused Air Marshal Sir
A. T. Harris, commanding the
bomber command, to send out a
fleet of anywhere up to 300 planes
for an attack on Germany.
TROUVLE ENCOUNTERED
1t was only when the planes had
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-21

$50 miles to reach Emden, Just
north of Holland at the mouth of
the Ems river and Osnabruck, one
of the two great railroad centers
OF northwestern Germany, returned
to report success.
AIRDROMES BOMBED
Aside from the concentrated raids
on the two chief detectives, the
planes bombed secondary targets
in the area and attacked enemy
held airdromes in Holland.
Nine planes were missing after
the nights operations, the first
because of the bad weather-since
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-21
Germany Reveals
invasion Worrv

LONDON, June 20 CUP) - Ger
many had Seizure of invasion
jitters today as it watched with
evident interest the talks in the
United States between President
Roosevelt and Prime Minister Win
Ston Churchill.
1t reported that Britain was
clearing big area of eastern Eng
land which would be a logical con-
centration point for Invasion troops
and warned that it was sowing a
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-21
WASHINGTON WHELP

War production officials assure
there will be an adequate supply
of rubber sealing rings for home
canning. Restrictions have been
lifted on fluorescent lighting fix
lures consuming less than 80 watts
Rubies, sapphires, emeralds, ma
tural pearls and diamonds of more
than one carat are exempt from
price regulation. Tire treads wear
out twice as fast at 80 degrees as
at 60 degrees. Baby carriage man
ufacture is TO be permitted at the
usual rate, but with only a fifth
as much metal as heretofore and
the only metals TO be used are
iron, steel, gold and silver. Price
ceilings on synethtic rubber and
10O-octane gasoline have been re-
moved to encourage their produc-
ton. The brain and spinal column
of animals slaughtered for food
provide a new source of yitamins
for poultry feed, substituting for
fish livers. u. s. school population
is 20 millions, two million OF them
being over ,e.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-21
CAPITAL TALKS
by
Peter
Edison

All the shoutin' of the angry mob
from Texas against compulsory ma
ton wide gasoline rationing-
All the congressional shootin' at
Price Fixer Leon Henderson and
his request for 100000 inyestiga-
tors
All the rural moanin' low OF the
farm bloc to maintain ITO per cent
parity and to get more synthetic
rubber made from grain
All the delay, linger and wait
in getting the new tax bill whip
ped together
All the enthusiasm for increas-
ing the pay of soldiers and sailors
and giving their dependents at
home bigger and better allow
anceS-
All the interest of the dryS in
trying TO protect the boys III the
services from the temptations and
evils of strong drink.
Add them all together and they
spell out Just one thing-this is
congressional election year.
Congressman are as jittery as
steers stampeding in a storm.
Let the wind change and they
will take off on a tangent in
any or every direction. And this
mid summer madness won't be
over till the votes are harvest
ed i'm November and the boys
know whether they'll be coming
back to Washington or whether
they'll have to register with the
United States Employ IN ent
Service.
There are those who still believe
this public forum or against 'em on
gas and rubber and price fixing and
taxes and soldiers pay is all to the
good. The theory is that this dis
cussion is the open-faced, cards
on-the- table, nothing up the =
sleeve method of arriving at con-
clusions and the ultimate truth.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-21
New Guns, Planes
Thrown Into Nazi
SevastapoI Attack

MOSCOW, June 20. UP)-Ger-
many hurled fresh guns and planes
into the entire Sevastopol area to-
day, ignoring losses as high as 60
per cent, in an attempt to overwhelm
the fortress by the first anniversary
Monday of Adolf Hitler's '60-day
campaign" in Russia.
Special front dispatches reported
that the entire area was shaking
under the terrific impact of big
gun shells and airplane bombs in
an attack which never ceased day
or night.
The garrison was battling desper-
ately in an attempt to stem the
several German divisions and heavy
tanks hammering at the northern
Notifications.
"Our warriors are defending with
their own bodies every yard of So
Wet land" Pravda's dispatch from
the front said.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-21
ALL SECTORS ACTIVE

Axis forces concentrated the main
weight of their attack on the north
ern sector, trying to break through
TO the city, but in every sector
fighting was on an unprecedented
scale.
A dispatch to Pravda, the Com
munist party newspaper, said that
the Russians threw back eight sue
cessiye attacks in the southern sec
tor in fighting which cost the Ger
mans thousands of men.
Ships of the Russian Black sea
fleet. standing off the coast, shelled
Axis concentrations and raced
through heavy enemy fire to de-
liver ammunition and food TO the
garrison. -
The cruiser Red Crimea, beating
off repeated attacks, spent five
houns clearing mines from the
shelled coast SO that it could un-
load reinforcements for the mar
ines, the toughest troops OF the
Seyastopol forces.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-21
PorotrooPs Moy,
Land in Tobruk

British offensive.
But the position of Tobruk was
now difficult because the British
Navy did not possess the same mea-
sure of command of the Mediter-
ranean as it did year ago.
The Germans also had received
considerable reinforcements in ar
tillery, including Us millimeter and
210 millimeter (4l2 and 8l2 inch)
HoWitzers.
FRONTAL ATTACK
1t was assumed here that the
Germans still had many heavy
tanks despite their recent big losses.
If an attack on Tobruk succeeded,
it was said, the Germans could
then attack the main British line
frontally.
The area just north and west of
the British line, in the Bardia area,
was described here as a No Mans
Land, with British forces having
the advantage.
Light British columns were lane
ing at the Axis forces in the in
terror desert far west of the main
line.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-21
BLOODY BATTLE GROUNDS

Under this theory, nothing that
Congress ever opposed was worth
saving, everything tat Congress
ever approved was ohay. That ap-
plies to the x card and the pen
sions- for congressman iSSues,too, on
the basis that Congress had to be
for these things to bring out the
fact that the country was against
them. and so cause their defeat.
If this theory of government
is true, then every issue must
be a battle ground, fought over
till both sides rell punchdrunk
and bloody from the field, but
with right definitely trump.
ant. no matter which side wins.
The solution of state questions
is disconcerting enough to some
| folks in peace times, but definitely
disruptive in time of war, when
the nation should all be united in
a great big happy family, setting
their problems in a calm, cool and
collected manner beSpeaking great
er efficiency than even totalltar-
| ian ideologist could dream up Tor
the post -Utopian Heaven of a su-
per-race. The congressional con-
fusion as of today is therefore be-
moaned by hard-boiled generals
and administrators who point skim
ny fingers of scorn at the bicker-
ings of the solons who are thus
marked as primarily responsible
for slowing up the war effort
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-21

Submarines the continue take heavy toll United Nations aPP Their
sfprop
effectively full miles distance the will
the
Anpa and torpedo boats
pes wthd
and methods
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-21
CONFUSED CONGRESS

The criticism has made the con-
gressmen all the more schoolgirl
ishly sensitive and nervous, and
this upsetting influence plus the
PSYCHOLOGICAL handicap of the cleo
tion-year jitters, have made this
wartime, 77th Congress seem more
inefficient than most. The repre-
sentatives in particular stand con-
fused, afraid to go home for lear
they'll be looked upon as Sinking
their war duties in Washington,
afraid not to go home for wear
they'll not understand how their
constituents feel.
The question arises as to
whether all this concern is JUS
titled. Four months from now,
on election day, will it make
any difference how congress
men voted on X cards or con-
gressiOnal pensions or any OF
the other issues now so much
i'm the public eye,
If the war news in late Octo-
Der is good, the congressman can
all wave a flag, say, Look what
we did" and be swept triumphant
" back into Washington for an
other two years.
On the other hand, if New York
has been token-bombed, the Aleu-
tians occupied, Midway lost and the
second front sent reeling back on
its heels-then politicians in office
might as we'll look for a cyclone
cellar or a nice soft job in a
powder mill How they voted in
June and July won't make any
difference.
Evening star., 1942-06-19

with the twelve ounces in the
standard bottle, industry
leaders point out that the
consumer who buys the quart
helps make one top do the
work of three.
Comforting note
Carl w. Badenhausen, head
of P. Ballantine & Sons,
Newark, N. J. adds a COM
forting note: there's not
as much bad news in this
rationing order as you might
think. War or no war, the
Evening star., 1942-06-19

for their caps" and by send
ing more of their product to
market in quart bottles.
Reminding us that there
are thirty-two ounces in the
quart bottle, as compared
Evening star., 1942-06-19

But the beer bottle is in,
little danger of becoming a,
wartime casualty, authorities
say. The brewers are making
a little metal 60 a long way,
by using an even lighter plate
Evening star., 1942-06-19

The new order comes from the same Government
division that sent the countrys ale and beer
"off to war" some weeks ago.
With the gone, and more tin for bottle tops,
the brewers have been Gaping their bottles with
black plate light sheet STEEL It's this metal that's
now been ratoned by WPB.
Evening star., 1942-06-19
quart Is a more economical

quart Is a more economical
bottle for the consumer.
Millions prefer quart
"For some time past, mil
lions have been buying it by
preference, because it saves
them money. It's more con-
venient to carry than three
small bottles, and it makes
entertaining easy and eco
nomical. The quart bottle is a
five-glass bottle, and in many
cities our quart bottle outsells
the standard smaller size."
Evening star., 1942-06-19

WAsHINGTON-Du to the demands of war in
dustry even the humble bottle top is on the ratoned
list From June 1st on as provided in the latest order
Evening star., 1942-06-19
Government RatiOns Beverage
Bottle Tops to Conserve Metal
Brewers among those limited to less cap metal
than was used last year

of the Division of Industry Operations Of the War
Production Board, brewers will have to get along
with fewer caps than they used last year.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1942-09-11
o~'&Memo4one
A ROsh HashOnah Editorial

We begin the year of SOB with fewer Illusions
hut greater hopes of victory than year ago. The United
states has cast it's lot with the United Nations and the
eviathan of democracy has only begun to strike at the
enemy with the full force of it's OverpOwerng strength
her good to believe that before another year
has ended we will closer to the end of the nhmarsh
road of destruction and horror of war.
Jews everywhere prayerfuly await that day OF lber
alton We hope that shall again be called upon to
place into the record black and bitter year such the
which has just turned the of history To the en-
slayemen of millions of people in Nazihed Europe
added the cruetes of deporaons and forced
labor-tragc evidence of Hers plan to deracnae Jews
and hasten their total humiliation by converting western
Russia into mass grave for them
Allied in the desert brought the Nazl armies
within striking distance of Alexandria and the Jewish
homeland The grave threat to Palestine, situated in the
center of the pncers formed by Axis armies in Egypt on
one end and the Naz forces in the Caucasus the other
projected the homeland into the forefront OF the
major not decisive theater of the Will anyone say
that was mere coincidence if the Hannah q day should
defeated crushed the soil of the people and reg
ion he has to destroy?
And here home the final months OF the past year saw
profound awakening the part of the American govern
ent At last the inseparable tie between antlSemtlsm
and Fasm was recognized and the antJewlsh agltaors
unmasked and prosecuted enemies OF democracy
With the simple definition that JeWbang is one OF the
most vrulent forms of ffth-coumnisn, the Govenment
cracked down on the cracpos and showed the free world
how to deal with anti-Semtes- or future 1hat
was 5702
Standing on the threshold of $685. are not exactly
blinded by the respondent cOlOrs of the rainbow There
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1942-09-11

statesmen to see to it that we
don't get the 'cold" shoulder.
Victory will not solve our
problems. 1t will merely con-
front us with a new set of
problems. All those who are
now engaged in drawing up
blueprints for Jews in the
postwar world should give
primary consideration to the
needs of the Jews who have
suffered most at the hands of
Hitler rather than to the SEN
sibilities of a handful of
American Jews whose chief
philosophy of Jewish life con-
sists of avoiding embarrass-
ment or personal discomfort.