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STILL A MYSTERY

Nevada State JournaD
81 find that | have assumed a public
responsibility while the authority, not
only over broad food policy, but day-to-
day actions, is being exercised elsewhere,
wrote Chester C. Davis to President
Roosevelt in submitting his resignation
as war food administrator.
Davis summarized in Is words: Il find
that / have assumed a public responsl-
bility while the authority is beingexer-
cised elsewhere" the great Washington
mystery.
"Give 'em a job and then tie their
hands," seems to be the rule.
In stating his case to the President the
war food administrator was voicing the
views of many men who have been called
to Washington to perform a specific task.
Before they have time to dictate a letter
they are being short-circuited by subordi-
mates planted here, there and everywhere
by the clique that surrounds the Presi-
dent and is supposed to be advising him
honestly.
In accepting Davis resignation the
President said that effective teamwork
is absolutely necessary in meeting the
problems of price stabiliZation to pre-
vent initiation The same is true in meet
ing all problems that face the country.
The army and the navy found that out
at Pearl Harbor. 1t was a costly lesson
but it was effective. The cooperation has
been achieved without limiting the au-
thority of the men who are directing the
armed forces.
Davis in announcing his resignation.
was not complaining about the authority
vested in the office of economic Stabliza-
ton which the President referred to in
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Editorials and Comment

store freedom TO other countries now SUB
iugated and unable to fight for them
selves.
So it is true and comprehensive that
our first objective is;
TO MAINTAIN OR REGAIN THE
FREEDOM OF THE NATIONS OF THE
WORLD.
As to freedom from want and free
dom from fear. most of us don't know
what these words mean. Anyone can IN
terpret to suit himself. In this country
1870 million people can affix 130 million
meanings, and so can the peoples of all
other countries.
These are not necessarily inspiring, nor
are they actual and clear purposes.
Beyond the proposed tirst objective,
we believe we are fighting to make this
the last war that this country must eX-
perience Our soldiers around the world
we believe, are just as eager to end wars
for all time as they are to VIGOROUSLY
end this particular war.
In attaining that permanent peace.
maybe we must operate on program
eliminating national fear and national
want as impelling forces to war If so,
all well and good But these would not be
objectives within themselves: they would
be but means toward an end.
So. we believe the second objective in
the minds of the men and women OF all
the Allied nations, and comprehensive OF
sane, high idealism and practical pur-
poses to which we can all dedicate our
selves as continuation of the effort OF
World War rightly is:
TO ATTAIN AND MAINTAIN A
WORLD FREE FROM WAR.
July 4th is the anniversary date of the
birth of this country.
It is fitting and proper that on this
occasion we consider carefully the pur-
poses for which we are fighting today,
Just as we should reconsider the high
purposes for which our forefatherS were
fighting 165 years ago.
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TWO DETECTIVES RATHER
THAN FOUR FREEDOMS

Are the American people satisfied with
our war objectives as stated IN the -Four
Freedoms of the Atlantic charter, free
dom of speech and religion and freedom
from want and fear?
We think not The Four Freedoms are
inadequate, indefinite, uninspiring, and
not necessarily true.
The war objectives of this country and
the Allied nations can be more properly
stated as:
To Maintain or Regain the Freedom of
the Nations of the World.
To Attain and Maintain a World Free
from War.
This may not be as euphoniouS as the
wording of the Four Freedoms, and the
phraseology may be improved upon, but
we believe the concepts are much more
specific, understandable, and factual.
Primarily, American soldiers and the
civilian population are waglng war to
maintain the freedom of this country,
and not to attain freedom of speech and
religion. We have those two freedoms
and a whole lot more set forth in the
precepts of our American democracy.
There are many of these, one of which is
the freedom of individual initiative and
enterprise. which have been proposed as
a Fifth Freedom.
To set forth all such freedoms" would
be impractical; firstly because they are
currently summarized in the American
way of life; secondly because if we lose
this war. we lose all ; and thirdly because
even though we win, these must be won
or lost internally, within the nation, rath-
er than on some foreign battle field.
Not only are we fighting to maintain
our freedom, but so are England and Rus
sia and China and the Western Hemi-
sphere republics. 1t is close corollary
that the Dutch and the Free French and
others are battling to REGAIN their free
dom Of national existence. And it is also
a great truth that if we win, we will re-
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5. Burton
Heath
Writes:

1t is disappointing to have Elmer
Davis. who used to be a news
paperman himself. and mighty
good one. criticize the press for
doing the very things that made
Mr.. Davis outstanding in print and
on the radio.
Congressman Short of Missouri
was entirely out of order IN ques-
tioning Mr.. Davis background as a
critic of news handling. The owl
director is fully qualified by ex-
perience. The trouble is that by
reason OF his present job and his
intense interest in doing it WELL
MIR. Davis seems to have laid aside
that objectivity which was one OF
his great virtues when he was on
the news gathering side OF the
| fence.
The Information Directors chief
complaint appears to be that cor
respondents overemphasize the
impression that Washington is
necessarily muddle of pickering
and confusion" and underplay the
genuine achievements of the capital.
Summaries of his speech before the
American Newspaper Guild III
Boston inCscate that he attributes
the alleged cuperfluity of criticism
to partisanship.
We think that If Tr. DAVIS were
| in position to emtla,e Harun-al-
Rsshid. who as we remember used
to circulate incognito amongst MS
constituency to learn what they
really were thinking, he would tind
that some of the bitterest criticism
of the Washington bureaucracy
comes from men who would burn
in boiling oil rather than have the
world suppose that their fourth
cousins ever voted anything except
the Democratic ticket-straight.
Moreover, we think that he would
find that these critics do not con-
ceivc of every employe on the led
eral payroll as bureaucrat, put
use the epithet to cover that small
but powerful minority that has to
brush red tape out of it's eyes TO
see whether it is time to transfer
the daily nap from office to home.
It is silly to charge Elmer Davis
with base motives. The criticisms
he voiced were his sincere opinions
of what would be best for the coun-
try But that does not make those
particular opinions any more valid
The story of Americas war
achievements is blazoned across the
pages of most newspapers every
day. Mr.. Davis, like the rest OF US
reads the headlines of achievement
stories and every last word OF the
criticism. He is very close TO the
administration picture. We believe
he has lost, a little, his perspective
Otherwise he would be among the
last to say what he is reported 10
have said in Boston.
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Kaiser Says that
CHARGE Is Libel

PORTLAND. Ore. July 3 UP)-
Henry j. Kaiser last night de-
nounced as libel against the 10000
workers at his three shipyards here
statement by Rep James E. Van
zandt, r., Pa, that three company
built freighter5 had broken UP at
sea.
Il can take it so far as personal
criticism is concerned Kaiser said
on arriving here for congressional
subcommittee hearing into maritime
Shipyard construction.
But I cannot take it," he said,
when supposedly informed men,
ber of congress walks into this city
of ships and in effect tells our 90
900 workers here they are building
ships which go down at sea-which
are not safe to travel on and are
not doing the war job. That is
libel"
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-04
China Raid-Free
For To-Day Period

CHUNGKING, July Q Delayed
Effectiveness of the United
States 18th Air Force, in China,
was indicated today when Maj. Gen.
Claire Chennault, commander of
the 18th revealed that in the 1-day
period ending June 30. no objective
in unoccupied China was raided by
enemy planes.
Il think that Is almost record,
Chennualt remarked. "Thc weather
has been good at different times
over many Allied bases. can
only surmise they are inactive be-
cause the weather over Burma is so
bad they are pulling out to re-
organize, or that there are no good
targets or possibly that they don't
want to lose any more planes III
China - planes they need in other
theaters."
Chennualt said the 1dth has had
"a fine record" in the year 1t has
been operating. though at one time
II was o,ltnumbered 35 to one.
Asked If he thought the Japa-
nese would attack on the 14th's
first anniversary, July 4, the gem
eral grinned and said:
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Soviet
Drive
II eurs

MOSCOW, July 3. (UP)-
Red army troops repeatedly
attacked German lines on the
Smolensk front today III
feeler thrusts that emphaslz-
ed mounting signs of an impending
offensive.
Berlin broadcaSts admitted a re-
treat in the Dorogobuzh sector 5O
miles east of Smolensk after con-
tinuous Soviet blows and radio
Paris quoted Berlin sources as say
ing Russian summer offensive plans
are complete.
ATTACKS INCREASE
The Axis reports stressed the in
crease in accommodating attacks III
the central sector west of Moscow
and said large numbers of Red army
troops had been brought up to the
areaD
Three sharp attacks by Russian
reconnaissance forces in the Smol-
ensk area the last "a hours were
reported by the Soviet high COM
mand.
The midnight communique said
600 Germans were killed trying to
drive Red army men from a domi-
mating height seized after one OF
the largest moves in recent weeks
to check the strength of Nazi de-
fenses. The Soviet troops occupied
German trenches after dislodging
the enemy, held against six coun-
al ttfttl Ia Il
FIERCE FIGHTING
In what the midday communicate
described as active operations" a
Soviet detachment on another sec
tor plunged through to German
defenses in a hand-to-hand battle,
killing 108 enemy soldiers, and de-
stroyed nine dugouts. On third
sector, a similar penetration forced
the Germans to retreat in dis
order" and the Soviet soldiers re-
turned to base with considerable
captured military equipment.
Operations on most fronts conti-
nued minor. In the Leningrad areas,
| $50 enemy troops died under Soviet
| artillery fire. Small penetrationS of
positions on the Finnish front were
reported A company of 200 Ger
mans, attacking Soviet positions
west of RoStov, was driven back
after 30 were slain.
A special communique described
attacks by Soviet bombers on the
Nazi supply ports for the Kuban
bridgehead in the northwest Cauc-
aSuS.
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his letter He was complaining about his
lack of authority to go ahead with food
production program without mterfer-
ence from the office of price admins
tration which has general subsidy pro-
gram up its sleeve The office of econo-
mic stabilization, which the President
said is coordinating agency, failed in
coordinating the program of Davis and
the OPA. The President said in his let
ter to Davis that he did not announce
a program of broad general subsidies on
June Is. as Davis said in his letter of
resignation, but only stated his views on
limited subsidies. Yet program of
broad general subsidies seems to be the
goal of the OPA or the Presidents advis-
ors in the inner circle.
Whether Davis views on subsidies are
correct or not is not pertinent. The state
ment of the President, in accepting Davis
resignation in no way helped clear the
great Washington mystery, summarized
in the 16 words quoted above
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US. Navy Demands
Full Surrender of
Robert Authority

WASHINGTON, July 3. (UP)-
Complete surrender OF Admiral
Georges Roberts authority and es-
tablishment in Martinique OF a
French administration friendly to
the United Nations aye the only
terms the American Navy will ac-
cept for negotiations there, 1t was
learned today.
Vice Admiral John H. Hoover,
commandant of the Tenth United
States Naval District, was revealed
in a navy communique late yester-
day as preparing for talks with Ro-
bert ION a purely consultative ba-
sis"
BEGIN NEGOTIATIONS
It was disclosed in other quar-
ters that if Robert showed will
ingness to relinquish his command
without fixing impossible condi-
tions. formal negotiations to that
end would be started.
Roberts message of two days ago
asking that an American plenipo-
tentiary be sent to discuss terms Tor
a change in French authority IN
Martinique did not make it clear
whether Robert wants to quit un-
conditionally or hopes by shrewd
bargaining to ease his inevitable
downfall.
Hoover, according to authorita-
tive information here, will not en-
gage in any bargaining but will in
form Robert flatly of the American
conditions.
The United States is interested
in the internal affairs of the French
possessions in this hemisphere only
from the standpoint of the defense
of the Anne rican continent. Robert
has refused to join other French
men in the fight against the Axis
and is open TO suspicion also be-
cause of his association with the
pro-German regime in Vichy.
Although the navy announce
ment did not say where or when
the Hoover Robert meeting would
occur, it was assumed it would take
place in Martinique, possibly today.
Hoover headquarters are at Puerto
Rico
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Greatest Liberutor Raid
On ItuIv Wrecks 3 Fields

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS North
Africa, July 3. CUP)-Nearly 100
American LiberatorS. pacing Allied
bombers on Furnishing new series
of raids designed to smash Axis
defenses, dropped more than 200
tons of explosives on three of the
main airdromes in southeastern It
ally yesterday. it was announced to-
day
The raid on the italian airdromes
was the biggest ever carried out by
u. S. Liberator bombers based on
the Middle East. The enemy again
tried to bomb the Liberators in
flight. Only three of the big bomb
ers were lost in the entire operation.
HIT HEEL OF BOOT
A communique from cth y. S.
air force at Cairo said that Liberia
tors sent more than 100000 pounds
of high explosive, augmentation
and incendiary bombs hurtling down
on the air bases at Lecce, on the
heel of the Italian boot, at Grot-
taglie, the principal airfield for
UIle pTOUeCUlOll VI Jlle ldTdilJO IldVdl
! base, and San Pancrazio.
The Lecce raiders ran into the
first sizeable opposition reported
over Italy in several days, shoot
ing down IL out of force of more
than 40 enemy fighters, include
MeSserschmitt 109s and 11Os.
Allied bombers from Mai. Gen.
James H. Doolittle's northwest Afri-
can strategic air force, pushing an
offensive to cripple supply ports
on Italy's island outposts, dropped
blOCk-busterS on Palermo, Sicily,
and Cagliari. Sardinia's largest port,
Thursday night.
HIT RAIL YARDS
simultaneously, RAF' bombers
from the Middle Eastern command
blasted the railWay yards at Catania,
Sicilian east coast port. Bursts we're
seen all over the Sidings and indus
trial area and four small fires we're
started.
Mitchell medium bombers, also
from the northwest African forces,
raided Castelvetrano airdrome in
southwestern Sicily in daylight yes
terday. Escorting Warhawks shot
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SfiIweIL Decorates
30 Yanks, Chinese

CHUNGKING, July 3 UP) -
Lieut.. Gen. Joseph Stillwell today
presented awards no 30 officers and
men of the 14th Air Force and one
Chinese airman at ceremony
celebrating the anniversary OF the
China Air Force.
Capt. Tzang Hsi Ian received the
silver star, Americans third highest
award for valor, for aiding Maj.
John Alison, Daytona Beach, Fla,
when Jap zeros attacked Alison's
plane during an air battle May 81.
Capt. Tzang lost his own plane
after he destroyed the Jap plane
and saved the American pilots life.
lie was the first Chinese aifman to
be decorated by the United States
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Navy Announces
Uniform Rulings

WASHINGTON, July 3. CUP)-
Several navy dress regulations here
tofore mandatory are optional to-
day.
Service dress blue may be worn
on occasions where white is appro-
pirate.
The wearing of gray or white
shirts with blue service uniforms is
optional.
Half-lace gold sleeve stripes ex-
tending only from seam to seam Is
optional on sleeves of blue service
uniforms.
Use of plain visored caps for Of
ficers with rank of commander or
above, and black braid chin straps
for all officers is optional with serv-
ice uniforms.
The navy ruled that gray work.
ing uniforms must be worn when
available. But officers will be al
lowed to wear khaki uniforms un-
Ill the supply is exhausted or those
owned are worn out
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selves to carry out every military
task allotted them by the supreme
Allied command.
Thus the Allies for the first time
have disciplined armed forces un-
der their command in occupied Eu-
rope.
Disclosure of the inclusion of
Greek guerillas under the Middle
Eastern command followed closely
reports of street fighting in the
Greek towns of Canea, Rethimno
and Gambia in the wake of Allied
air raids on Axis installations in
Greece and its island approaches.
Several divisions of German &C.
Inducements were reported to have
been dispatched to Greece.
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Allies i'm Command
OfGreek Forces

LONDON, July 8. CUP)-The Al
lied Middle Eastern command, as
part of the general Anglo American
preparations for an invasion of Eu-
rope, has taken over direct super
vision Of well-armed guerilla ar
rlies in Greece, a Cairo dispatch
reported t0daJ.
Axis broadcastS continued to in
SiSt that the zero hour" for inva-
sion was sometime today or tonight
and the Nazi Paris radio was heard
broadcasting that "it is no longer a
question of days or hours, nor even
perhaps question of minutes"
SENDS REPORTERS
To be first with the news of in
vasion,, the Paris station said. it
had sent reporters to. "all points
where the Anglo-SaxonS are likely
to try to land in France,
Allied sources were inclined to
dismiss the broadcasts as a propa-
ganda stunt to enable the Axis to
claim that there had been a hitch
IN the Allied plans II no landing ac-
tually is attempted.
Reports reaching Allied air OBJ
servers indicated that Germany is
completing the re-grouping of its
waning aerial strength for a show
down fight when Allied troops set
foot in Europe.
The plan calls for the concentra-
ton Of 2200 fighters and 100 bomb
ers of Germany's entire first line
strength of 5000 to 5000 combat
planes along the invasion coast
from the northern tip of Norway
through occupied Western Europe,
to Eastern Greece upwards of 15,-
900 other planes, varying in quail
ity, are being held in reserve. these
sources said.
RECEIVE SUPPLIES
A Cairo dispatch, telling of the
inclusion of Greek guerillas into the
organized forces of the United Ma
tions, said, the patriot armies have
received adequate supplies of mod
ern arms and have pledged them
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down an intercepting enemy fight
er.
Can Italian communique reported
damage and casualties from Allied
bombs in Sicily, Sardinia and south
ern ItalyD .
All planes returned safely from
the raids undertaken by the noruh-
west African air forces, but five
were lost in the operations of the
Middle Eastern command.
SCORE MANY HITS
In the raid on Lccce airdrome,
Liberators scored hits on runways
and hangers and started fires in
aircraft dispersal areas. Fuel dumps
were set afire in the southeastern
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LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE OF The CITY COUNCIL
SITTING AS A BOARD OF
EOJTAIJZATION

Notice is hereby given as requir-
ed, that the City Council of the
City of Ell Centro will convene on
July 7, 1943 at 7:30 p. NJ, at the
City Hall of the City of Ell Centre,
to sit as Board of Equalization
for the purpose OF equaiizing the tax
roll and will continue to sit as a
Board of equalization from day to
day until the equalization of the
tax roll is completed.
Dated this Goth day of June, 1943.
ROBERT w. HATTON.
Mayor of the City of Ell
Centre.
(SEAL)
ATTEST:
NEAL II. GAVIN,
City Clerk.
mo 10 (J3O-J7 inc,)
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portion of the airdrome and other
hits we're scored to the north.
Direct hits on hangers and dis
perSal areas at Grottaglie airdrome
also were reported.
RAF long-range fighters from
the Middle Eastern command STRAIT
ed schooner in Kyllene harbor
off the west coast of Greece yester
day and two dredges in the LevkaS
channel, also off the west coast of
greece, Thursday. Gunposts on the
canal bank opposite the Levkas
channel were silenced.
British Spitfire fighters shot down
a JunkerS sc dive-bomhers into the
sea north of Alexandria yesterday.
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Admiral Receives
Leqi0n of Merit

WASHINGTON, July 3 CUP) -
The navy announced today that
Secretary of Navy Frank Knox has
awarded the Legion OF Merit to
Rear Adm Manley II. Simons, 64
of st. Helena, Calf, for his service
in combating enemy submarine ac-
tiyity in the waters under the
jurisdiction Of the 5ih naval district
with headquarters at Norfolk, Va,
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CURRENT QUOTATIONS.

The world today is full of disillusion-
ed people who have fought hard to gain
success and who have emerged from the
struggle with an empty feeling. They
may have won the things which they
went after. but in doing so they have
found that they have lost touch with
people. They have their gold, but are
themselves desolate and friendless.-Rev.
Joseph f. Sizoo of New York
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$50 Tanks Will be
Christened on 4th

MARYSVILLE, Calf, July CUP)
- Some $50 tanks of the 18th
armored division, in training at
Camp Beale, will be christened
with names of California cities and
counties tomorrow in a formal re-
view of the force.
The division. commanded by Maj.
Gen. John B. Wogan, was formally
adopted as "California's own" last
month Wogan's personal tank will
be named the California" in the
ceremonies tomorrow.
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The people of this country want to
pay their taxes as they earn their i'll
come. In the end they will force the
Congress to pass such Legislation. Pride
of authorship, expediency social expert
mentatiop, and economic theory must
give way to realism-Rep. Joseph w.
Martin, Jr., Of Massachusetts.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-04

Where is the difference between Nazis
and Germans? There amt no such ami
NAL Netherlands Ambassador Alex
ander Loudon.
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