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Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-08
TODAY'S YOUNGSTERS
NEED CONDITIONING

Skyrocketing wages on defense prof.
ects and in war factories are apt to have
one unfortunate effect on postwar living
which has been generally overlooked IN
today's unending demand for manpower.
Even in Imperial Valley, and far more
so in metropolitan areas, a great many
high school and junior college pupils
too young for the draft-are today earn
ing wages which less than a year ago
would have been considered executive
salaries in most businesses.
For older, more experienced workers,
the high wages are IN the nature OF d
bonanza which, they realize on the basis
of past events, will peter out sooner or
later. For the youngsters, however, this
is their first experience on job; their
first earning Where the older workers
accept the high wages as one OF the lew
good fortunes of war, the youngsters are
altogether too prone to think OF them as
regular thing.
Nobody begrudges them the wages
they earn now, but a good many thinking
persons foresee a dangerous period OF
readiustment when the war is over Not
only will it not be SO easy then to step
into a lob but the wages will be tar
less. In most cases the weekly paycheck
will not be half as large as it is now.
That is going to be shock to the young
people who have never earned less. In
the shock there is considerable personal
danger-danger of an unfounded resent
ment against society as whole, against
the government, against employers,
against the unions.
In today's high wages for beginning
workers there are all the makings of
first class defeatist complex for post
war years
When today's youngsters have become
full-fledged members of the working COM
munity, when the war is over, it will be
too late to meet their bitterness. The
time to condition them against an newt
able economic trend is now, not later.
1t should be made as clear to them as
we can make it that they are now reap
ing the benefits of a wartime boom III
the labor market, but that-along with
the rest of us-they will have to settle
for a great deal less when the war IS
over.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-08
REPRESENTATION
California LegiOnnaire)

lCall1Ofnla LeglOnnalfe)
The editor reads with interest the fol-
lowing paragraph which appeared re-
Gently in The San Francisco Examiner: :
"On the ground that Harry Bridges is
busy with war production conferences
back in Washington, Bridges attorneys
yesterday asked, and were granted, an
extension of his return to Federal Court
jurisdiction here
Several weeks ago Bridges attended
the National Executive committee meet
ing of the CIO, and the Federal Court
allowed this alien, whose deportation case
is pending, an extension of time.
These two extensions of time to an
alien Communist who is opposed to our
American system of government; who has
hindered our war effort by demanding
for his organization on the Pacific Coast
its pound of flesh-the 40-hour week,
time and a half for overtime and double
time for Sundays-calls for some action
by The American Legion, Department OF
California.
At long last Harry Bridges has been
arrested; has had a fair trial. has been
convicted of the charge that he was a
member of the Communist party, and his
case now is pending before the Federal
Court.
If you want to stop this mans un-
American activities sit down tonight and
write a letter to your Congressman and
to your Senator, asking that the Depart
ment of Justice use every effort to have
the case heard at the earliest possible
time.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-08
ONE WAY TO SHOW EN-

Mohandas K Gandhi, the famous little
man of the loin cloth and spectacles, said
the other day that India's non-vlolence
mo longer will take the shape of non
cooperation but Indian ambassadors will
go to the Axis not to beg peace but to
show the futility of war and achieve an
honorable end"
The Mahatma, we fear, is so stepped
himself in non-violence that he is entirely
incapable of judging such persons as
lead the Axis nations. Certainly there is
no precedent and no slightest indication
in past or present history that Adolf Hit
Ter can be shown the 'futility of war
except by one means. That is to blast
the shirt off his back and the moustache
off his face with point-blank artillery
fire.
War is futile, and the Axis is going to
find it out But it is not Gandhi's am
bassadors who will show them. 1t is AL
lied fighting men, with bombs and bayo-
net, carrying into Germany what Ger
many has carried into the rest of the
world Once shown, and shown on the
streets of Berlin as we'll as on the French
frontier they will learn lesson which
should last them for many years.
But words are not going to do the job.
It's past time for ambassadors. It's time
for cold steel.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-08
Canada Approves
Overseas Draft j..

OTTAWA, July 8. CUP)-Final
approval of a measure that will
enable Canada to draft men for
overseas fighting was assured today.
The house of commons voted 1853
to 50 last night in favor of the sec
ond reading of an amendment to
the national resources mobilization
act, which will delete the prohibi-
ton against sending drafted SOL
diers abroad.
Because the second reading is the
chief stumbling block, the passage
made approval of the third and
final reading. which soon will be
held certain.
Forty-five Quebec liberals bolted
the administration and were Joined
by the cooperative commonwealth
federation members last night Con-
servatives and social credit members
voted with the main block of liber-
ais.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-08
Peace Propaganda
PROGRAM Forecast

WASHINGTON, July 8-tUP) -
A British source predicted today
that the Axis soon would initiate
peace feelers' among the United
Nations under the pretense that the
offers emanate from a dissident
group within Germany.
The feelers will be put out re-
gardless of the turn which the for
tunes of war may take, that source
said, and will be for the primary
purpose of softening American and
British war enthusiasm.
Some attempt is likely to be
made to prove that there is dissen-
sion in high Nazi circles" he said
The claim will gain some color by
the fact that peace feelers will come
from a group of supposed dissidents,
headed by Reichmarshal Hermann
Goering and including industriallstS.
prominent bureaucrats and generals.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-08
OUR UN-AMERICAN
EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM

(OroVllle Mercury
The New York Times has discovered
as result of a poll of 1926 institutions
that 72%o OF the colleges and universities
of the United States do not require the
study of United States history for ad
mission. Less than 109o of the under
graduate body was taking United States
history in the spring semester of this
year and only 80 of the Freshman class
eS.
There is great weakness in this time
of stress.
What are we fighting for? If the sol
dler does not know what it is we are try
ing TO preserve, then he cannot be the
best soldier. The best way the youth of
America can learn about his own country
is through the study of United States
history. We have glorious history, and
1t centers about the very essentials OF
democracy that the Axis detestS and is
trying to destroy.
On the contrary, the success OF the
AXIS IN building up a machine to destroy
US centers about the schooling it has been
giving German youth of this generation.
1t has inspired them with a synthetic
patriotism based on a brittle theology
that history will detest-unless that
ideology wins this war, in which case we
shall be slaves of the Axis system.
Now do not get the idea that because
many colleges and universities do not
require the study of United States his
tory it is not being taught The high
schools and the elementary schools are
teaching it.
The sensational thing disclosed by this
poll is the indifference of our colleges
and universities to the teaching of our
history Not one of us but has run across
bnty a,11 .sl f1n
Der days who not only seemed to be cal
loused to American history, but who
were opposed to the foreign policy of
our government in this critical time when,
as has been made clear, the fate of Amer
ican institutions is at stake.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-08
Cotton Acreage
Shows Increase

WASHINGTON, July 8-CUP) -
The agriculture department report
ed today that there were '24,0O5, 900
acres of cotton in cultivation on
July l, compared with 23,132, 900
acres year ago.
The department report indicated
an increase of 3.8 per cent over
last year, but was 228 per cent
less than the 1931-1940 average. If
abandonment is average, the de-
partment said, farmers will harvest
23,525 900 acres.
The department did not estimate
1912 production, but normal yield
on the acreage would produce a
crop of approximately 100000
bales.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-08
Free French Plan
For BastiIIe Day

WASHINGTON, July 8. (UP)-
Free French officials said today that
underground resistance groups have
broadcast an appeal to the people
of unoccupied France to make Bas-
tile day-July IA day of demon :
stration against the German in
vader.
Copies of the appeal have been
forwarded to the French national
committee de Gaullist headquar-
ters) in London.
Those in the unoccupied zone are
called on to display the French
tri-color, to walk about their cities
wearing their colors in the after
noon and to assemble and sing the
Marseillaise, the French national
anthem, at 80 pm.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-08
Lightning Units
Attack RommeI

targets in the area of the enemy
base at Tobruk on the Libyan coast.
MALTA RAIDED
1t was noted that Axis planes con-
tinued an intensified attack on NAL
ia yesterday and the communique
said that nine enemy fighters were
shot down and others damaged.
Royal air force losses in all oper-
ations, including Malta, were eight
fighter planes, and the pilots OF
six of these were saved.
Dispatches reported that the I'M
perial patrols, striking ceaselesSly
at the enemy line, had reached a
point about 80 miles WeSt-SouthWest
of Ell Alamein.
The battle for the Nile had enter
ed its secnd phase, in which Impe-
rial guns and planes were attacking
the Germans and Italians all along
the front. The enemy was avoiding
battle whenever possible.
At Ell Alamein, 60 miles west OF
Alexandria, the Imperial line held
firmly. The southern flank of the
strong German armored forces had
been turned, and German Field
Marshal Erwin Rommel, Axis COM
mander in chief had been compell-
ed to extend his inland flank west
ward behind prtective screen OF
artillery.
The British forces were attacking
the Germans at points considerably
west of their Ell Alamein line and
it was reported that their advanced
striking columns had reached a
point roughly 90 miles south of Ell
Daba. Ell Daba is 80 miles west of
Ell Alamein.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-08

the clash with all of their tanks
and without serious casualties.
FIRST SHOT FIRED
Joe Ahee of Tucson, Ariz., was
the first American to fire a shot
from an American tank against a
German tank in this war, according
to the best accounts OF the fight.
The battle, which observers said
showed the superiority Of the Amer
ican-built General Grant tanks,
was witnessed from high ridge
1t happened this way:
A sand storm was whirlmg over
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-08

llOuIo
A Fascist leader Jean de Marie,
burgomaSter of an unidentified
Belgian village, was reported shot
and killed in his office by an as
sailant wearing a gendarme uni
form.
Increasing Nazi apprehension over
Allied invasion threats was revealed
in reports from Ypres, Belgium.
There the Germans were said to
have installed a new alarm device
for use in event of an Allied chan
mel crossing.
The NaziS were reported to have
ordered every Ypres citizen to re-
turn home and bolt all windows and
doors when the alarm sounds. Vio-
latorS will face the death penalty.
the occupation authorities announce
ed.
Armed Polish guerillas, striking
under cover of night at Nazi gar
risons, were reported to have created
a new problem for depleted occu-
patton troops. Advices reaching
London said the Germans had been
forced to organize their own militia
to quell the Polish uprisings, re-
questing in newspaper advertise
ments the service of all former war
veterans now too old for active
duty.
The German radio charged that
anti-axis agents in Hungary were
melting discomfort by spreading
false reports of heavy Hungarian
losses on the Russian front.
Stockholm dispatches, quoting re-
ports from Oslo, said K. j. Krist-
enssen, police doctor at the Gestapo
prison in Oslo, had been arrested
for protesting against ill-treatment
of prisoners.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-08
Anti-AxiS Units
Worry Germans

LONDON, July 9 = CUPl A
! large secret anti-German organiza-
ton, composed of soldiers from the
lower ranks of the Hungarian army,
has been smuggling arms for more
than a year to Gen. Draja Mikhai-
lovitch's patriot army in the Serbian
mountains and Polish-RusSian
guerillas operating behind the east
ern front, advices from Ankara,
/ Turkey, revealed today.
This disclosure, mace ny Allied
military quarters in Istanbul, fol-
lowed the court martial of nine
hungarian officers, including a
Captain Klien and a Lieutenant
Hereach, formerly connected with
the Hungarian war ministry, an An
kara dispatch said.
The anti Axis organization, known
as the Dozsa Legion, was said to
have been named after a 10th cen
tury Hungarian patriot.
AUTHORITIES PUZZLED
Hungarian authorities were re-
ported to have attempted unsuc-
cessfully for more than a year to
identify the organizations leaders.
They were said to have known for
many months that armaments of
all types were disappearing from
Hungarian army stores and later
reappearing in the hands of Mikhai-
lovitch's Chetnik guerillas.
While underground reports de-
scribed spreading guerilla warfare
against Hitler's occupation forces,
Axis oppression led to 2 new wave
of unrest through occupied Europe.
NEW EXECUTIONS
Sixty-tWo alleged Communists
were sentenced to death In what
the Nazi- controlled Bulgarian radio
described as "the biggest political
trial in Bulgaria for many years
In Belgium, anti-Axis violence
spread despite Germany's deporta-
tion of pro-allied patriots, under
ground reports reaching London
disclosed.
A factory producing war materials
for the Nazis was set afire in Brus-
sells.
A time bomb was discovered on
a railway between Antwerp and
Germany, disrupting service Tor 40
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-08
u. s. Tanks Join Battle

75-millimeter gun. The Americans
picked a vulnerable enemy tank
and let him have 1t until he burst
into flames. Another one then came
into the range of their sights.
FOUR PICKER OFF
One after another they blasted
the German tanks to halt and
saw some of them burst into flames,
until they had picked off four.
The arrival of American tank
crews in the desert was not known
until the battle began. They drove
to the front lines from a tank
assembly point in British trucks
with British drivers and then met
the British tank brigade with which
they moved into the front line.
The purpose of the action was
to give the Americans training in
actual battle practice, and thus
they were in the role of "combatant
observers" when they swung into
action against the enemy.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-08
Big Guns Duel
Across Channel

LONDON, July g. CUP)-British
and German long range guns duel
led across the Dover Strait in the
early hours today for the first time
in several weeks.
The German guns opened first,
apparently against shipping. They
fired about 10 salvoes of two shells
each in a one hour bombardment.
The gun flashes could be seen from
the English cast. A shell fire warn
ing was sounded in a southeast coast
town but no damage or casualties
were reported
The British guns, in retaliation,
shelled the French coast for more
than an hour.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-08
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Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-08
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EGYPT. July 8. 6UP)-American
tanks manned by American crews
roared into action with a terrific
punch. against German tanks on
a wind-swept sand ridge in Libya
and a boy from Arizona fired the
first shot.
When the battle was over, four
German tanks were blazing wreck
age on the sand. Most of their crews
were dead.
The Americans came back from
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-08

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Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-08
BY HENRY SHAPIRO

MOSCOW, July 8. CUP) = The
Germans relentless offensive to-
ward the river Don gained momen-
tum today as they threw in addi-
tional masses of men and machines
and widened their salients west of
strategic Voronezh and southwest
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-08
Germans Increase
Russian Pressure

The latest Soviet advices said the
enemy still was Storming the ap-
proaches to the river, but they did
not confirm the establishment of
bridgeheads, let alone the capture
of Voronezh, which the Germans
claimed yesterday.
The front-line correspondent Of
IZveStia, organ of the Soviet Su-
preme council, said all evidence
pointed to the German belief that
this was one of the most decisive
battles of the war; and that the
Nazis were Sparing nothing that
might endanger its success.
FLANKS PROTECTED
While uninterruptedly pushing
forward their wedge west of VOrOn-
ezh, through which runs the last
important rail link between Mos
COW and the oil of the Caucasus,
the Germans took series of pre-
cautionary moves to forestall attacks
on their flanks.
They moved up heavy artillery
Immediately behind their tanks and
kept up a terrific bombardment from
the edges of the salient. They stimuli
taneously attacked from their flanks.
But German losses were heavy.
In the last two days, in fighting on
a river bank, dispatches said, the
Germans lost 200 tanks. Soviet air
reconnaissance yesterday reported
that 10 trainloadS of damaged Ger
man tanks and armored vehicles
were moving westward for repair.
The strongest blows of the German
offensive were directed - for the
fourth straight day-at the central
sector before Voronezh, although the
entire battlefield was more than
100 miles long.
VAST CEMETER.
Dispatches described a mammoth
cemetery of German men and ma
chimes"
On the northern sector of the
front, German planes in waves of
30 bombed Soviet positions and were
aided by artillery and mortars in
drive that lasted a day to smash
resistance. Infantry, tanks nd caval-
ry followed he pounding, but the
Russians counterattacked at night
and forced them back.
A dispatch to the Soviet army
newspaper Red Star from Voronezh
said battle on an unprecedented
scale" was raging for the 10th day
on the Steppes between Voronezh
and Kursk, 130 miles to the west.
The Russians were facing an
enemy vastly superior in numbers
and were inflicting severe blows
themselves, the British said, adding
that the situation remained grave.
DELAYING TACTICS
Pravda reported that the Ger
mans, disregarding losses, had driv-
en- wedges into Soviet defenses on
several sectors of the Kalinin front,
northwest of Moscow.
Marshal Semyon Timoshenko was
pursuing last years delaying tao
tics: holding the Germans as long
as possible and inflicting losses, then
repeating, when odds were over
Whelming, to preserve his strength.
Evidence of the success of this
strategy came in dispatches from
the battlefront. One report said 200
German tanks were destroyed on a
river. Counterattacking Soviet tanks,
in another action, reduced 60 more
German tanks to scrap. A division
of Baskirian cavalry in a three-day
battle disposed of So German tanks,
while the Soviet air force ac-
counted for As more.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-08

the desert at point on the Trig
Capuzzo (the road to Capuzzo) not
far from the famous Knightbridge
desert crossing where the Nazi 2lst
and 18th panzer divisions were bat
tling to make a junction, south of
Tobruk. on June 18th. Some Italian
tanks also were nearby.
WITH BRITISH
The German tanks were moving
toward high ground on the Trig
Capuzzo, overlooking El Adem.
Three General Grant tanks. man
ned by l8 Americans, were operat-
ing with British tanks not far
away.
There was clash, with Italians,
Germans and British all joining
in a clanking desert melee which
was partly obscured by sand clouds.
They roared forward, sliding and
zig tagging down the incline. Ahee
opened up with blast from his
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-08
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Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-08
WANTS LAST SHOT

CHUNGKING, July 8 - CUP) -
Maj. Gen. Chi SinkWen. Chinese
soldier who fired the first shot
against the Japanese at the out
break of the Sino-Japanese war
five years ago, wants to fire the last
shot when victory is won, he said
today.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-08
Editorials and Comment

EDITORS NOTE: The follolOtng edit
oriois are presented as interesting Opin-
ions DOiced bu editors eiselphere. They
do not necessarily reflect the opinion Of
this paper.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-08
By LEON KAY

CAIRO, July 8. CUP) - British
lightning columns have Joined a
new force of long range fighter
bomber planes in savage attacks
against the Axis army in the Ala
mein line 60 miles west of Alexan-
dria, a Middle Eastern command
communique said today.
The mobile columns, made up of
tanks, artillery and motorized in
fantry, struck at the enemy line
throughout yesterday, the communi-
que said.
They destroyed some enemy tanks
and took a few prisoners at the
coastal end of the line, west of El
Alamein.
Strong forces of fighter-bomber
planes bombed and machine gunned
the enemy lines and attacked tanks,
trucks and gun batteries through
out the battle area, the communique
said.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-08
OIL SET AFIRE

OIL SET AFIRE
Direct hits were scored on many
Axis targets, it was said, and fires
were started at Oil dumps.
Light bombers, joined in an in
tenSified aerial offensive, caused
violent explosions and fires in areas
farther to the enemy rear.
Detailing aerial activities, the
communique, issued jointly by the
Middle Eastern command and the
Royal air force, said that three
enemy fighter planes were shot
down yesterday.
Last night, it added, Royal air
force planes successfully attacked