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Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-28
From where | sit
Joe Marsh

Keeping store" Sam Aber.
nethy says, "can teach a person
plenty about human nature.
"NOw coffee rationing's lifted,
folks amt a-breakin' their necks
tryin' to buy all they can. Know
in they can have it ii they want
it, they amt so ALFRED anxious
to get it,"
Sans right, as usual. I don't
crave that second cup half as
much as when l couldn't get it.
But that's human nature. :.
Like allowing moderate beer in
the Army's post exchanges. In
stead of leading to more drink
ing, the OWL report says it
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-28

Anyone taking the trouble to
check up on the state of diplomatic
relations between the United States
and the Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics. commonly known as Rus
sia, would find an official record
which would sweep into the ash
can all the loose talk currently
noised about on this moot question.
Practically no one has taken the
trouble to look this up.
IL reveals, among other things,
a clear-cut record on the part of
Secretary Of State Cordell Hull to
better relations between the Unit
ed States and Soviet Russia, right
from the time he took office in
1888, when he recommended A
merican diplomatic recognition of
the USSR.
1t is highlighted by little-knoWn
disclosure that in January, 194l,
Secretary Hull, receiving informa-
ton that Hitler intended to attack
Russia in May of that year, asked
Undersecretary Sumner Welles to
pass that information on to the
Soviet government. For reasons
known only to the Soviet govern
ment, this warning was not accred
tied at the time. Actually, Germany
attacked Russia ON June %, 1941,
making the American warning a
month off, but even so, it is diff
cult to see how this kind of CO.
operation can be interpreted as an
act of unfriendliness or manifes-
tation of desire to see Russia
bled white, particularly when the
United States was not in the war
itself at that time.
On the Sunday morning when
the Nazi army invaded Soviet terri
tory, Hull telephoned the state de-
partment to urge his associates to
brush aside all narroW-minded in
dividuals and agitators who might
want to interfere with Russian self
defense, and to make clear that
the official position of the Ameri-
can government was to back Rus
sia Fundamentally from start to
finish.
AID TO RUSSIA
This attitude was apparently car
ried out all through Hulls later
efforts to increase aid to Russia.
In August, 1941, when Soviet Am
basSador Constantine A. Oumansky
called at the state department to
present Soviet General Golikov, who
came to make statement on the
application of his government for
increased military supplies, Hull
offered to redouble his efforts to
aid in speeding the delivery of i'm
plements of war which Russia had
specially requested.
A month later, at a press con-
ference, Hull reiterated that the
American government was PLAN
ming not only an increase of aid
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-28
'FCRETkSTE OF WAR
Jacksonville Register-Paj aronian)

Jacksonville Register-Paj aronian)
Few, if any, Paiaro valley people have
to be reminded that the "step-up' war
in the Pacific is going to mean even more
civilian descriptions and Inconvenience
on the Pacific coast, especially near ports
of embarkation.
Among the cinching evidences was of
cutting our gasoline rations tand ru-
mored threats of further slashes, al
though OPA officials vehemently deny
it,
Whereas California thus far has been
the second state in war production and
the second state in agricultural output,
and whereas there has been relaxation
of some civilian defense regulations, in
Guiding dim-out restrictions and weather
censorship, the Pacific coast still faces
a long, hard pull before the Nips are
finally nipped, once and for all.
And backing up this fact is the recent
report of the house naval affairs sub
committee-which includes our own
Jack Anderson of San Juan Bautista-
which said in brief that 1.-The west coast
so far has only had a fore-taste of the
war;"
Declaring that the anticipated shift of
the war effort to the Pacific coast offers
an excellent opportunity to make full use
of our past experience, the committee
following its visit to the state, added.
an the immediate future an added
burden is to be placed on the west coast.
Recognition of its existing war burden,
and the importance of the west coast,
was made months ago by this subcom-
mittee, in its report on the San Diego and
San Francisco bay areas. We particu
larly stressed the manpower problems
of thnca CarjnnS lV 9nflcIn1tpE
the approaching manpower crisis now a
grave reality.
Again we stress the approaching par
amount importance of the west coast in
the war effort, and urge that appropri-
ate anticipation with accompanying ac-
ton be made in those vital fields of hous-
ing, health, recreation, transportation,
manpower, police, and fire protection,
food and education
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-28
BY CONGRESSMAN JOHN
PHILLIPS

Some months ago I rose to re-
mark in this column that / was
impressed, when dealing with these
young intellectuals in government
service, that they confuse detectives.
They seem to feel they have accom-
plished something when they have
thought up ney names for the
things they are doing.
We were all familiar with this
attitude during the relief investiga-
tions in California. Now l see it
on a broader basis. The boys and
girls down here talk about in
migration and "out-migration" and
the new word in the present plan
of increasing production is con
trolled referrals". This means that
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-28
PERIOD OF TRANSITION

Others will face a period Of
transition when they no longer
have fat war wages to spend, or
when the wife has to give up her
job to a returning soldier, cutting
the family income in half.
No, we won't all be sitting
around in conditioned homes
when the war is over. For many
of us the going will be sloW-at
least for awhile.
So let's not take these world
of tomorrow" word pictures we see
on every hand too seriously. We
may be washing dishes and busting
for a long time.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-28

works out just the opposite -
often as not the men choose
soda-pop or milk, with beer right
there and no restrictions on it.
But if it wasn't there. like i'm
the last War, the story might
be altogether different.
From where I sit, that's how
it is with Americans. Tell 'em
they can't have a thing and by
golly, they'll find ways to get it.
But admit their right to have it,
and their own good sense will
lead to moderation.
&e M~s1e
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-28
Rise to Remark

the worker can go to any place he
wants to work, SO long as it is ap-
proved by the manpoWer commits
sion Henry Ford had the same idea
fifteen years ego. He said it more
simply Give the people any color
they want, SO ,ong as it is black
The newest word came to me last
evening. All farmers will please lis
ten. The word is decentralization.
HE'S FOR 1T
Isn't that a honey? We have
casual labor on the farms. So if
you can get farm worker to stay
with you, more or less permanently
that is decentralization" 1t is a
government objective. I'm all for it
1 hope the farmers will be increas-
lngly successful in their efforts to-
wards disqualification
Speaking of farmers: think what
the farmer needs is to hire a few
Uf these same young intellectuals
from the farming districts of down.
town New York, Chicago and Mos
COW. and get them to write propa-
ganda material for us. The farmer
Is too busy in the fields, trying to
iced the army, the citizens of the
United States Including the propa-
ganda artists and the world, to
write his own material
So I read about the farm bloc"
and the demands" of the farmer
We are evidently responsible for a
lot of troubles, including the cost
OF living going up.
Well now, let's see. The orange
grower gets $500 for his box of
oranges. Shipping costs should
bring that to about $625, in the
eastern market. The consumer pays
at the rate of SIS a box.
MORE THAN BEFORE
Is the grower responsible, or is
the OPA responsible? The OPA
allows the primary handler 9R%,
and secondary handlers, of whom
there may be more than one, 21q6
each. This is more than they ever
got; more than they expected in
time of emergency Vegetables rot
ted in the fields. Cattle were not
in the fattening pens. Grain is used
for alcohol when molasses could be
brought in, and she grain fed to
stock. You've heard me talk about
milk until you wish I'd take an
other subject.
What has happened under this
fine and fancy hold the line pro-
gram? / think the consumers should
De interested:
The cost of living has advanced
five points; retail food prices have
advanced 10 points; labor cost in
industry has advanced 16 points;
labor cost in agriculture has adj
vanced so points (about 8 percenD
labor's net pay checks, the take
home" have advanced 20 points
corporate earnings have advanced
to an all-time high; and the ;nfla-
tionary gap has increased at least
20 billion dollars.
NEW FIGURES DUE
Those figures came to me from
The National Grange office. New
figures are due momentarily which
may change those given above.
There are AZ billion dollars in this
country, between the cost of neces-
sites, and the earnings of the peo-
pie That's dynamite; that's infla-
tionary.
Why doesn't the farmer speak up
in his own defense? The Grange
figures also tell that. In September
the American farmers averaged an
81 hour work week.
The farmer just hasn't time.
That's why l suggest hiring some
of the young intellectuals from the
city farm belts to speak FOR the
farmer, instead of always against
him. | don't think it would make
any great difference which side
they wrote on; just SO there was a
S65OO or a $4,000 salary attached;
do you?
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-28
NAzI VANDALISM

(Santa Monica Outlook
1t is now reported that in addition to
their other atrocities in Naples, the nazis
burned the library and archives of the
University of Naples, the third oldest
in Europe. Some 100000 precious vol
umes and manuscripts dating back to the
middle ages-one of the greatest treas
ures Of its kind in Europe-are said to
have been destroyed.
According to Neapolitans who tried
vainly to intervene, it was done deliber
ately and Systematically by squads spe-
cially detailed for the purpose. Appar-
entity the same kind of inhuman hatred
was at work here as when the naZis,
driven back from their advance on Mos
cow, stopped to burn the manuscripts
and defile the home of the great Tolstoi,
and as when in their own country they
held the famous burning of the books"
1t will be miracle if they do not de-
stroy the finest monuments of Rome.
with the exception of Saint Peters and
the Vatican which even Hitler might
shrink from harming for fear of out
raging the Catholics of Bavaria and Aus
tria. Already it is reported that art
treasures are being moved by these latter
day vandals to Germany.
The naZis are a destroying force COM
parable to the forces which finally de-
stroyed the ancient Roman empire.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-28
Editorials and Comment

EDITORS NOTE: The fOlioUing edit
orials are presented as interesting Opn-
ions poiced by editors eiseIohere. They
do not necessarily reflect the opinion OF
this DoDer.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-28
s. Burton
Heath
Wriites:

News reports suggested that
President Roosevelt said much
more, in excoriation of published
stories about supposed plot
against Chief of Staff George G.
Marshall, than he permitted to be
repeated by newsmen.
The President cannot be blamed
for being perturbed about the
situation. Some of the stories told
in Washington, aired ovex the radio
and written for newspapers, are
highly disruptive. If they are true,
they reflect an almost disastrous
situation in the War Department,
from Commander-in-Chief down.
If they are false, they might easily
provoke troubles as unfortunate as
those they purport to reflect.
The president infers that these
reports are the work of irreSpon-
sible journalists. But he comedies
that their scope and menace are
aggravated by wartime secrecy
which goes beyond the proper re-
uuirements of national security.
Some of the rumors to which the
President takes exception appear,
on their faces, too absurd to bear
repetition. Such, as an excellent
example, is that which would
make Lieut.. Gen. Brehon Somer-
veil a candidate for General Mar
shalls job. Those who know Cen
eral Somervell best do not doubt
that, if General Marshall were
moved and the position of chief OF
staff were offered to him, he would
accept it with pride. But nobody
who knows him in the least could
conceive of him as conspiring for
the job of his superior. He is not
that kind of officer.
1t is obviously impossible, with
wartime secrecy what it is, to prove
or disprove all such rumors. The
fact that the President scoffs at
them and eXcoriates their sponsors
has no bearing at all on their truth
or falsity.
One thing can be said with mod
crate certainty. There has been
discussion of moving General Mar
shall into an active command. The
Presidents refusal to discuss the
matter indicates that the proposal
is not dead. So long as it remains
alive, Washington will be filled
with rumors, many of them highly
detrimental to Army morale and
with repercussions against Navy
and civilian morale.
The quicker it proves feasible to
settle this matter in the open, on
the record, without that false
secrecy which Mr.. Roosevelt con-
cedes now exists, the better it will
be for the Allied cause
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-28

Victory is ahead but it is the consider
ed judgment of our military leaders that
we still have a long, hard fight.-Under-
secretary of War Robert p. Patterson.
Evening star., 1943-01-02

Not many months later the organ
ization to which he was attached
(an armored division) moved over
seas. A promotion to first lieuten-
ant was soon forthcoming.
Col. Wales described his son as
a big, rowbust fellow, 6 feet tall
and weighing 100 pounds" who liked
and engaged in various forms of
athletics, but whose hobbies were
fishing and hunting.
His death left Col. and Mrs. Wales
with only one child-Marilee, who
Is 18.
Casualties from Maryland.
Today's casualty list included SOL
diers from ~ States, the District,
Germany and Puerto Rico.
From adjoining States, the dead
include:
Capt. Warren L. Bennett, whose
wife, Mrs. Ann E. Bennett resides
at Severna Park, Md, and Pvt Ar
vim r. Watson, son of Mrs Mabel
Watson, 100 East Cross street, Balti-
more, and Sergt. Raymond Bare
son of Mrs. Linda Bare, Pocahontas
Va; Pvt. Kendrick C. Blair, son
of Mrs Tennessee Blair, Nora, Va;
Pvt. (First Class Wilbert L. Howdy-
shell, son of Mrs. Icie S Hodyshell
Dayton, Va, and Pvt. Howard w
Littreal, whose wife, Mrs. Kaythern
Littreal, resides in Wytheville, Va
All were killed in Africa.
Killed in action in Europe were
, Pvt. First Class Albert F. Smith,
son of Elisha Smith, Buena Vista
Va, and Pvt First Class Maynard
j. Stallard, son of Mrs. Lula M
Stallard, Pound, Va.
Evening star., 1943-01-02
Madeleine Carroll Quits Films
To Help Merchant Marine
Abundons Career
After Close Touch
With War

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Jan. 2-What movie
star never owned a mink coat? Never
bought herself a single diamond?
Never had private swimming pool?
Never mind, you'd never guess. It's
Madeleine Carroll, the blond, beau
teous, bountiful Madeleine Carroll.
Now she has broken the mold
again. She has forsworn her movie
career entirely in favor of war work
People could hardly believe it, at
first, when she said. I'm tired of
being a movie star. I'd rather do war
work" People said, This phase will
pass"
Miss Carroll is proving her intent
by daily hard work at the Office of
the United Seamen's Service.
She's a daily commuter from her
Connecticut home, an early to- bed
and early-to-riser, a worker who will
skip lunch gladly to keep an ap-
pointment to further the cause Of
the merchant marine.
Il could not bear to prance around
IN front of camera now, with the
world the way it is"
Had Close View of War.
1t has been so with Miss Carroll
since the war began in Europe Pos
sibly, she says, because she got a
painfully closeup view of war.
De-
mans came. She had just bought
hotel-siZe chateau outside the city.
1T was the first splurging I'd ever
done with my movie money" she
said. Il bought it mostly to please
my mother, who is French. She Wis
tied me there just before the war
began"
When French authorities ordered
the evacuation of children, Miss
Carroll offered her chateau as a
children's home. More than 200
children moved in and most of them
live there yet, under the care of
nuns. Miss Carroll still pays the
bills and gets occasional reports from
underground sources.
Il know most of those Children"
says Miss Carroll. L used to play
with them and I know them we'll.
The poor babies"
The war moved closer to Miss
Carroll's heart when her younger
sister, Marguerite, was killed in the
London air blitz.
Miss Carroll had hoped to visit
her family in London-her mother
and father and sister Cshe still is
Evening star., 1943-01-02
1t. Wales, Graduate of G. u.
School, Is Killed in Africa
Foreign Service
School Student
Dies in Action

First 1t. Victor w. B. Wales. IT.,
a graduate of the Georgetown Uni
versitv Foreign Service School. was
one of the first American officers
killed in action in the African cam
paign, a War Department casualty
list disclosed today. 1t. Wales was
the son of 1t Col. and Mrs Victor
w B. Wales of 2715 Cortland place
NV. Col Wales. veteran Army Of
ficer, is on duty at the Army War
College
1t. Wales death was announced in
list of 407 American soldiers killed
in action in the Southwest Pacific,
South Pacific, African and European
war areas and at sea.
Included was the name of Col.
Lawrence Quinn of 1913 North Scott
street, Arlington, Va, whose death
had been announced some time ago.
His widow is Mrs Edith A. Quinn.
Attended d. c. Schools.
1t, Wales had been a part of the
Army ever since his birth "a years
ago In Newburgh, N. Y, not far
AioIil biIC Slllltb kOldbCS
Academy at West Point, where his
father was stationed. He had trav-
eled over the globe with his parents
before he followed in his fathers
footsteps and went into service.
AS boy 1t. Wales had lived on
many Army posts, including Fort
Bliss, Tex; Fort Riley, Kans.: Fort
Leavenworth, Kans, and Fort
Huschucha. Ariz. He also had lived
In the Philippine Islands.
Travelling as he did, 1t. Wales
had to get his schooling where he
found it, But once in his life. while
his father was attached to Walter
Reed Hospital. he attended the Dis
trict elementary schools in the
neighborhood for about year before
moving on to FL Paso, Tex, where
he was graduated from high school
Active in ROTC.
When Col. Wales went on two
year mission to Guatemala for the
Army in 1898, 1t. Wales came to
Washington to complete his educa-
ton. He entered Georgetown For
eign Service School, and in the in
terludes between his studies he took
an active part in athletics as well
as the Reserve Officers Training
Corps. He also joined the uni
versity's rife team, and being a
sharpshooter, soon became captain
1t. Wales finished his foreign
service course in 1941 and shortly
afterward joined the Army with
the rank OF second lieutenant
Evening star., 1943-01-02
GIoba| Cooperation
On New World Basis
Suggested by Wallace
Vice President Praises
NewIy-Formed Form Bod,
As Promoter Of Unity
b the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES. Jan. 2.-Vice
President Wallace, noting the grow
Ing friendship of Western Hemi-
sphere nations, suggested that SINH
lar ideas of cooperation and har-
mony could prevail in all parts of
the world.
Mr.. Wallace's views are contained
IN an article written for the annual
midwinter number of the Lost An
geles Times, published today.
One Common Bond.
From their earliest experience as
free and independent peoples" the
Vice President writes, the countries
of the New World had one thing in
common: They wanted to stay clear
OF the ancient blood feuds which for
centuries had afflicted the Old
World. 1t was this desire which pre-
served the right of these free Amer
tcan peoples to live their own lives
unhampered by Old World domina-
ton.
I'm an atmosphere of friendship
and respect the New World coun-
, tries have gradually drawn closer
together. Cooperation between
them is becoming more and more
concrete and is taking the form of
mutually beneficial projects.
"One of the most promising of
these cooperative projects is the
newly-formed inter-American Insti-
tute of Agricultural Sciences, in
which 81 American republics are
playing an equal role The institute,
it is hoped, will be very helpful in
attacking the agricultural and rural
life problems of the various Latin
American countries.
Demonstrate Harmony.
Thus the New World countries
are demonstrating that it is possible
not only to live side by side in peace
and harmony, but to work together
for the common good Of all.
This is the kind of regional
friendship and cooperation which
we may hope will prevail in all parts
of the world-both New and Old
when the terrible threat of the
mailed fist has been completely re-
moved. But we do not need to wait
until that glad day has actually ar
rived Even while the war is on we
can begin, and we are beginning, to
put our ideals into practice We can
begin making the world neighbor-
hood-right now"
Evening star., 1943-01-02
Mile of Scrop Token
In by Boys Brioode

Backache halted the metal drive
OF the Boys Brigade of Jedburgh,
Scotland, but not for long.
They wearied of their self imposed
task of collecting and laying a mile
OF keys for scrap because continual
STOPPING gave them backache. They
altered the plan to take in scrap Of
all kinds.
The mile was completed in two
days, yielding nine tons of metal,
Evening star., 1943-01-02
NBC Counsel Dies at IS

SCARSDALE, N. Y, Jan. 2 R.-
Ira l.. Grimshaw, 55, assistant gen.
eral counsel OF the National Broad
casting Co, died yesterday. He was
. native Of Denver, Colo.
The Valley settler., 1943-07-23

The 76itcr wishes to co1l vour attention tc the feet thot this is the combined Issues If this week ane elsc lost week. We regret that were unable to be here Inst week so nc peper WAS gotten cut.
 By way of explanation we will say thot whct YVES intended to be Q four
 y vccction boccme en oikht day location Whe the authorities in charge of the highway ever whi oh we started cur trip decieee to closc 1t for three days n occnunt of the condition of tho road.
 This trip has convinced us that tn rcod builders arc 6oine gend job an6 that while 1t ray take some more time for the grooe to settle, 1t has been herG job ano when it is ell over the mon who have built the new highways cen be prcue If their eccomp Ii shment. Probably no. other roads that have boon but It were more cliff cult to buil6 than the new Tie hways that have been constructed in Alaska.