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Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-25
DARWiNlAN VS..
HlTLERiAN MAN

(ChriStian Science Monitor)
For over half century far more peo-
pie have talked and written about the
Darwinlan theory than have ever read
Darwin, and much of this exposition has
credited him with sponsoring the Jungle
law" of inherent pugnacity and deduc-
ing a survival of the fitteSt' Us its ineVi-
table consequence. Neither notion makes
sense as an explanation Of civilized man
kind; both have been adopted by totali-
tartan governments determined to sub
jugate as much Of the world as possible.
If Darwin loOSed these ideas in the world
he assumed a responsibility that he little
suspected Prof. r +. Coker OF the Uni
versity Of North Carolina. writing in the
Scientific Monthly, eXOnerates Darwin
on both counts. That much-quOted law
says Professor COker. was not suggest
ed by the zoOlogist Darwin but came as
glib phrase from a non-Zoologist, fasci
mated others, and so got into the Ian
guage. Darwin would have known that
the inherent pugnacity of the Jungle
law" is not characteristic of animals and
that the only resemblance to Htierism
and Nipponism is to he seen in the ethics
of certain species Of ants who conduct
raids ON weaker species and carry off
slaves.
Nor did Darwin hold that superior
predatory force could have forwarded
the evolution Of mankind; 1t would
quotes Professor Coker, most effective
ly have checked the requirement Of the
higher mental qualities, such as sympa-
thy and the love Of his felloWs.' Profess
Sor Coker finds that Darwin never used
the phrase ''surVival Of the iittest.' Her
bert Spencer hit upon that
SO far indeed was Darwin from think
ing like Hitler that Darwin also wrote:
The social instincts-the prime principle
of mans moral constitution-With the
aid of active intellectual powers and the
effects of habit, naturally lead to the
Golden Rule Totalitarianism has as
sumed for itself Darwinian support. 1t
is satisfactory to know what Darwin
would think about that.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-25
ENCOURAGEMENT FOR
POSTWAR ERA HERE

Imperial Valley can derive considerable
satisfaction from the announcement that
a Civil AerOnauticS Board examiner has
recommended a new Western Air Lines
route from San Diego to FL Centre and
Phoenix.
While the CAA board has not given
final approval, and while the develop
ment would probably have to wait until
the end of the war, the recommendation
nevertheless sets up a cheerful prospect
for this valley in the matter of postwar
communications.
We would like to have straight,
transcontinental air line stop here, but
the feeder route will be almost as good.
Airmail. and air passengers, will be able
to connect at San Diego, or at Phoenix,
with the cross-country lines, losing viz
tually no time in the transfer. The bene-
fit to business interests and private in
dividuals in the valley will be immense.
We have been shut off from any form
of efficient communication, excepting
only telephones and telegraph wires, for
so long that it will seem like a release
from drudgery to have a quick, efficient
means of reaching the rest of the nation
personally or by mail.
The trial examiners recommendation
must be a matter Of celebration to the
handful of Imperial Valley men who
have worked for many months. spending
their time without pay and without
thought of other reward, 10 prove that
airline service would be justified here
The announcement is justification Of
their effort. and a sign that there work
will bear fruit.
We will have to wait while longer.
but the waiting will not be so difficult,
now that results are becoming apparent.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-25
Reds Fix Trap for Foe

building.
On the South -Vorone2h front
northernmost of the major south
ern war theaters, the. Russions dur
ing the night liquidated a big group
of troops, capturing LOO. They had
taken 1,600 prisoners in this area
yesterday after capturing 10000
Saturday to bring their total to
nearly 10000 there in a little more
than two weeks.
JUNCTION NEARED
The southern and Caucasian arm
les rapidly neared a junction of
forces along the northern stretch
of the RoStov- -Baku railroad
The southern army was only so
miles northeast of TikhoretSk
where the Baku line meets that ex-
tending westward to Krasnodar and
the Black Sea naval base of Nov
oriSSiSk.
The Caucasus army was only Ia
miles from Kropotkin, where the
Baku line is joined by another
leading to Krasnodar and Novor-
oSSiSk. TatOretSk Is Dut 80 miles
northwest of Kropotkin.
1t was indicated tnat the south
ern army would strike northwest
ward soon toward Kuschechevka,
as miles northwest of Tikhoretsk
and 80 miles south of Rostov, to cut
off all escape of the Germans in
the Caucasus except by the Kerch
Peninsula to the Crimea, where
they would be ,nder combined at
tack by tie army the air iClce and
the Black Sea fleet
ARMS CAPTURED
Today's noon communiQue re-
ported that during the night Rus
san troops, in close pursuit of
retreating Germans, smashed into
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-25

a heavily fortified place and capD
tured it along with two armored
cars, two self-propelled guns, IL
machine guns and 20 tommy guns
and other arms. Three thanks were
destroyed. Troops IN another sec
tor captured Two large inhabited
places.
The nights fighting brought thu
Russians several dozens" of in
habited places on the North Cau-
casus front, the communique said.
Cossack cavalrymen of the
Guards Regiments advanced be-
tween 80 and 40 kilometerS G8l2 to
25 niles, the noon communique
said, and in hard fighting killed
about 800 Germans, took more
than 100 prisoners and capturedk
seven guns. so trucks, so war equipS
ment wagons, two ammunition
dumps and more than 1000 head of
cattle.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-25
MONTGOMERY BACKS UP
CHURCHiLl'S BOAST

1t was not just war of nerves when
Winston Churchill warned the Italian
people that their empire would be shat
tered, that they would be left weak and
helpless before the growing power of
the United Nations.
The prediction has come true, thanks
to a cocky little Irishman, Gen. Mont
gomery, and his fighting Empire troops.
When Tripoli fell to Allied arms, Benz
to Mussolini lost his last, and his biggest,
claim to the adulatiOn of the Italian peo-
pie. If II Duce has any conscience at all,
he must be covering in his palace these
days, ashamed to face the people he has
misled so badly.
Tripoli has been more than a place to
the Italian people. 1t has been symbol
of all that Italy has and holds beyond
her continental borders. Now it has gone
the way of Libya, of Eritrea, of the other
Italian possessions in Africa.
There is no Italian empire todaN-only
little nation whipped by her enemies
and afraid of her allies
What will happen in Italy now?
The chances are that there will not be
any uprising against Mussolini, for he
still controls the Italian army and must
be kept in power by his German allies,
even though his power is matter of
front only. Unarmed, the Italian peo-
pie could do little against modern weap-
ons in the hands Rof trained soldiers.
Their only hope lies in their technical
enemies, the United Nations. From that
source must come their freedom.
When American, British or Australian
troops march into Italy, the chances are
they will be welcomed Fundamentally
by the Italian man-in-t -the-street He must
have had about all he can stand Of Mus
solini by now.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-25
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
oAnn

ESTATE OF CRESCENCIO AVI-
LA, DECEASED.
Notice is hereby given by the un-
dcrSigned, NJ d. ZINN, Public Ad-
ministrator, as administrator of the
estate OF CRESCENCIO AVILA, dc
ceased. TO the creditors Of and all
persons haImo claims against the
said deceased, that within six
months after the first publication
of this notice they either file them
with the necessar- vouchers in the
office Of the CLERK Of the Superior
Court Of the State of California, in
and for the County Of Imperial, or
ayhibit them with the necessary
vouchers to the said NJ. ID. Zinn,
as administrator Of said estate. at
the office Of d. b. Roberts, 207
Bank Of America Building, FL Cen
tro, California, the same being the
place for the transaction of the
business of the said estate in the
County of Imperial. State of Cali
fOrnia.
Dated at FL Centre. California,
this 25th day of January 1943.
M. d. linn,
Administrator Of the
Estate CT
CRESCENClO AVILA,
Deceased.
CNo 43) fJ25-F1 -8-15D
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-25
Nee cArthur Hits
.yans Thru Air

end defensive power and the adap-
liability range ard capacity of aer-
ial transport. in effective combina-
ton with ground forces, represent
tactical and strategical elements of
a broadened concept of war.
Air forces and ground forces
were welded together in Papau and
when into sufficient strength, with
the proper naval support, their in
diSsoluble union points the way to
victory through new and broaden
ed strategic and tactical concep-
tionS,' he said
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-25

guns and 60 trucks at Il fourth
ZIG CITY CAPTURED
on the southwestern front the
Russiane pressed s'rward after
capturing the City Of Starobelsk,
I28 miles southeast of Kharkov,
and clearing a l50-mile stretch OF
the RostoV- -YeletS-MoScow railroad
which they need to develop an at
tack ON Kharkov, industrial cap
ltal of the Ukraine and fourth city
ol Russia.
Guards units took Starobelsk at
the bayonet point, encircling the
city. storming the thickly strewn
nill boxes of city which the Ger
mans had turned into a fortress,
and fighting their way through it
street by street and building by
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-25
! uniisiiu
Areas
lusted

LONDON, Jan. 25.-CUP)-Allied
planes raked German and italian
read transport. ships and airdromes
along the African coast and in
Sicily today as the British Eighth
Army drove ON toward TUnisia in
hot pursuit of the German italian
forces strung out all the way from
the Libyan frontier area to Gabes.
on the East TuniSia coast 100 miles
10 the northwest.
German Field Marshal Edwin
Rommel'S shattered Afrika Korps
was under continuous attack from
the new bases of the Eighth Army
around Tripoli on the east, and the
Allied bases in the Tunisia Algeria
zone on the west.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-25
BY HENRY SHAPIRO

MOSCOW. Jan. 25-tUPl-Rus-
sia's southern and Caucasus armies
closed in today ON the Tikhoretsk
and kropotkin railroad functions
whose possession given the Ger
mans almost their only hope ol
escaping the entire North Caucas-
us-Kuban region.
Planes of the powerful Black Sea
feet were thrown into the often
s,ye TO bomb, cannonade and
machine gun retreating Germans
and enemy held ports. They de-
harbor installations at one
BORT. special dispatches said, bled
I.p ammunition dumps at a second,
killed 2.OGO Germans and destroyed
many trucks in q third area and
killed l.400 men and destroyed IA
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-25
DOES A BALL CURVE?
{ Riverside PresS)

Riverside PreSS)
Scientists after elaborate tests, obser-
vations and computations are said to
have come out again maintaining that
there is no such thing as a curved ball
that it's an unscientific belief and an
optical illusion. And so that controversy
is back where it was 80 or 60 years ago,
and all the scientific tests and every
thing are worthless, and everybody has
been fooled.
Well, maybe! But millions Of people,
especially bright-eyed kids, will stand
behind pitcher who throws those alleg-
ed curves, or the fellow who catches them,
and tell you exactly how he gave it
certain twist, and how it started straight
and then magically changed its course
Just in time to fool the batter when he
swung confidently on a ball that wasn't
there. And they will even fall into scen-
tific terms, picked up in their high school
work, and tell you how this form of magic
works and why And if anybody is fool
ing this generation Of kids, on top of all
the professors who have studied and veri-
fled the curved ball he's certainly slick
guy
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-25
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE TO HONDHoLDERs

We hereby call al bonds and fo various I'M
County
bon With L. Tor future
bear numbers shown after each issue
described herewith
Improvement District numbers to TBS
Improvement District numbers l to 8l84
I o
Tie above described bonds Or ooon are called by our conou
Will be cancelled
which that
within days
cancelled from list and the held for them applied
o listed n payment
DATED: FL Centre, Calf, Jan %,
GEO VARNEY
Treasurer of Imperial County, Calf.
(hJo0 mn
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-25

GEN MacARTHUR'S HE A d =
QUARTERS. Australia, Jan. Is
/ up American Flying Fortresses
and Iiberators stepped up grow
inc air offensive in the New Guinea
are today as Gen. Douglas MacAr-
thur evolved new aerial tactics,
which he believed would lead to
Ultimate defeat" of the Japanese IN
the Pacific.
FLYING Fortresses attacked the
Rabaul airdromeS on New Britain
island before dawn Sunday. leaving
fires visible for IS miles, while a
single American B-24 Liberator
bomber fought nine Jepanase Zero
fighters to a standstill near We
wax. on the north coast Of New
Guinea, destroying two, head
quarters communique said.
we tested a new form of cam
paign in New Guinea which Will
permit application of offensive
power in swift, massive strokes
rather than by dilatory costly is
land to-island advices that some
have assumed to be necessary
Macarthur said in a statement.
CAMPAIGN ENDED
The obstruction of the rem
nantS of the enemy forces in the
Sanananda area concludes the Pa
puan campaign. The army Of Lieut..
Gen. TomatOri HCrii has been an
initiated.
The outstanding military les
son of this campaign was the con-
tinuOuS calculated application OF
air power, inherent in the potentlall-
ties of every component of the air
forces. employed in the most intl-
mate tactical and logistrical union
with ground troops The effect OF
this modern inStrumentality was
sharply accentuated by the geo.
graphic limitations of this thea
ter
MacArthur's emphasis on airpoW-
er's Importance spotlighted the
proud record of his Liberators-
fast claiming the title Of Zero
killer" held by the Flying Fort
resSeS.
In three rece..t fights in the We
wax area six Liberators have fought
81 ZeroS, destroying II, damaging
six. plus two probables.
In addition to Sundays victory
near WeWak. on Wednesday four
Liberators fought % zeros. shot
down six, damaged L. Another
Liberator, flying alone on Friday,
met 10 Zeros, shot down three and
got two probables.
For months on end air trans
port with constant fighter protec-
ton moved complete infantry regi-
ments and artillery battalions
across the almost impenetrable
mountains and jungle Of Papau,
Macarthur said, and to the reach
es of the sea; transported field
hospitals and other base installa-
tions to the front; supplied the
troocs and evacuated casualties.
For hundreds of miles around,
bombers provided an-around re-
connaissance. protected the coast
from hostile naval intervention, and
blasted the way for the infantry
as it drove forward.
"A new form of campaign was
tested which points the way to the
ultimate defeat of the enemy in
the Pacific
Macarthur said aerial offensive
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-25

We salvage everything but the bullet
holes. We change a motor here in two
to three hours. Back home three days
was considered fast time-Lieut. George
Cole of Marine Corps ground forces at
Guadalcanal.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-25
Editorials and Comment

EDITOR'S NOTE: The fOII0lDtng edit
oriais are presented as interesting opin.
ions Uoiced by editors elsewhere. They
DO not necessarily reflect the opinion 81
this paper.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-25

Any idea that there is to be no further
toll and sweat and blood would simply
lead this country to tremendous disap-
ointment.-Secretary of War Henry L.
StimSon.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-25
ADVANCE CONTINUES

A cCmGWrique of the Middle
Eastern Command said Gen. Sir
Bernard Montgomery'S Eighth
Army continued their advance west
ward from Tripoli yesterday while
Allied fighter bomber planes at
tackled small shipping which at
tempted to escape from zuara, "a
miles west of Tripoli and 81 miles
east of the Tunisian frontier
Authoritative quarters here had
no confirmation of reports in Lon
don that patrols of the Eighth Army
had crossed the TUnisian frontier
last night
Radio Rome complained in
broadcast that there were IS Brit
ish planes in action west of Tripoli
for each Italian plane.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-25
GERMANS REFUSED

But toward the southern end of
the stretch. which extends along
the Ousseltia valley, American
tanks aided French troops to in
flict severe losses on attacking Ger
man tanks, a French command an
nOunced
In other sectors, German count
er-attacks were repulsed, the COM
munique said, and it was added that
all German parachutists dropped
behind the Allied lines during the
past week had been rounded up
after doing only insignificant dam
age
British navy specialist parties
were dynamiting Wreckage to clear
Tripoli harbor and Allied ships
were already steaming toward the
port, only 270 miles from Italian
Sicily, while Allied planes took over
the Castel Benito airdrome and
other air bases in the Tripoli area,
American North Africa headquar-
ters announced that United States
Army planes had shot down q enc
my planes Saturday, for a loss of
only seven, to maintain their steady
three -to-One ratio over the AXIS air
forces.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-25
NAZI IOSE PLANTS

NAIT IUSE PIHNES
The Germans lost l9 MesSer-
schmitt planes, and 16 more were
damaged, in trying to intercept a
force of Flying FOrtresses and
Lightning fighters which heavily
bombed Bizerte. Not a single
American plane was doWned.
British Mediterranean fleet
headquarters announced that sub
marines had now destroyed their
1,000000th ton Of Axis shipping
in the Mediterranean This was
IN addition to the frightful toll
taken of Axis shipping by surface
ships and airplanes.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-25
RESISTANCE STIFFER

However. dispatches from the
front said the Germans were offer
ing stiff fighter resistance in an
attempt to cover Rommel's flight
Todays Middle Eastern Command
communique reported big scale
aerial attacks on the Axis landing
grounds at Ben Gardane. A Tu-
nisia, and Medenine, 40 miles west
northwest of Ban Gardane. A
Junker-88 dive bomber was shot
down by fighter-bombers at Gar
dane and damage was inflicted on
grounded planes. Fires were start
ed at Medenine by light bombers.
Both fighter -bOmberS and light
bOmbers attacked dispersed vehicles
in the frontier area.
Bomber planes, attacking Paler-
mo harbor, chief port of Sicily,
Saturday night started fires.
Other planes, sighting a south
bound enemy convoy north of Sic
lily, on the way to the Axis helu
Tunisian coast with reinforcements
and supplies. wrecked two enemy
merchantmen and scored a direct
bomb hit on an eScorting destroyer
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-25
WIDESPREAD RAIDS

One of the merchanemen eX-
ploded and broke in two, the other
was last seen burning furiously
Intruder planes attacked ship
ping off the Tunisian coast, tar
gets in Sicily, and vehicles on the
Tunisian coastal road.
Fighter -bombers, attacking the
Sicilian south coast yesterday, scor-
ed hits on railroad tracks and
buildings.
Only two planes failed to return
from all Middle East Command op-
erationS
On the Tunisian front proper,
the Germans sought desperately to
hold and widen the corridor along
the east coast on which Rommel
soon will depend for his life as he
attempts to join forces with the
Axis army of Tunisia.
Germans in heavy attacks forced
the French to withdraw from the
Bou Dabous hill, on the 50-mile
stretch Of the front extending
southeastward from Bou Arada. 40
miles south of Tunis, to Kairou-
an
The Omaha guide., 1943-10-09
FIRST LADY
TO ADDRESS
STUDENT
CONFERENCE

Chester County. Pa-.-Mrs. Ell
eanor Roosevelt viii address dele
gates to the NAACP fifth annual
Student Conference here at Lin
coin University. October 2s-s1- Re
Gently returned from 4 tour durin~
which she visited Hawaii. Austral-
IA, New Zealand and GuaduacanaI
Mrs Roosevelt Informed the SIN
dent Conference this week thar she
would Be present at the conference.
Mrs Roosevelt will deliver the
keynote address on October aerh.
For its theme the Conference win
have "a Blueprint for ActIor
Delegates representing a total W
more than 1000 students Negro
and white have already registered.
Mrs Ruby u. Hurley, NAArP
director Of youth work. stated thjS
week that the conference Will "
an Institutional meeting 70 most
students on te%chniques for the pro
curement Of a full franchise for fba
Negro in America. equality in ed1-
cation, and on the problems OF or
gained labor. a program Of act
ivity for college students to carry
back 10 the schools will be form
ulated-
The Omaha guide., 1943-10-09

ents is still adamant. They are as
determined as ever that their
children shall not return again to
the school which. unlike that old
time religion. is no longer good
enough for them. They have in
Dictated that on Sunday afternoon
they are attending in force the
New York City mass meeting. at 3
O'Clock in the Golden Gate Ball
room. to tell in their own words
just what their feelings are in the
matter Appearing with them on
the mass meeting program viii D.
.Thurgood Marshall. NAACP At
torney handling the case; Judge
Hubert Delany. Labor Leader. Mic
haeI Quill; Ninister-Editor. Coun-
Gilman Adam Clayton Powell; and
Attorney Raymond Pace Alexander
OF Philadelphia.
The Omaha guide., 1943-10-09
PROVDENT
GETS sS3,50O
FEDERAL GRANT
FOR HOSPITAL
ADDITION

Chicago. Oct. z amp Construc-
ton OF q new hons for internes
and resident physicians, as well as
Improvement OF existing facilities.
has Just been started at Proivdeut
hospital through a federal grant
Of $50. 500.
DR.. Homer v WIlburn. medical
director. in making the announce
ment. stressed that the funds for
upkeep Of the new accommodations
would have TO come from the hos
pitaI Itself.
The home. work on which is now
under way, will be located on the
northwestern corner of the Provld-
ent property. It will be a one and
three quarters story structure,
with the basement to be used for
storage Of hospital records as wen
as for recreation and general stor-
age Occupying a space approx
mately 40 BY 12O feet. it viii Be-
completed in from four 10 six
months.
The internes now living in quar-
tiers in Provident viii then move
into the new home after which the
present residential section will be
remOdeIed and altered TO provide
y additional beds for hospital pa
tents. The emergency service Is
also to be remodeled and expanded
in addition TO other alterations in
the hospital.
Expansion Of facilities and space
is Urgently needed. DR.. wiIburn
pointed out. because Of the trem-
endous patient load Provident s
now carrying because OF the war
The hospital i currently operating
at fun capacity because OF demands
created through the city's activity
as a key industrial area
The new home will accommodate
16 internes an addition Of seven
over the number now housed in
the present quarters. This means
that Provident viii be able to give
this kind OF training TO more young
medical school graduates than had
been possible in the past.
The Omaha guide., 1943-10-09
APPOINT MICHIGANIAN
TO LIASON OPA POSITION

Appointed TO q Iiason position 10
encourage the support and eooo
Grafton Of Negroes with the pro
gram OF the Office Of Price Adm
~inistration, Joseph c. Coles. De
troit. Michigan, began his duties
this week. the OPA has announced
Mr. Coles. who 10 Al has been in
the employ Of the City Election
Commission in Detroit for the past
six years He is a newspaperman
OF wide experience. having been a
columnist for a Detroit weekly pa
per. He also played a prominent
part III the civic and public affairs
OF Detroit and the state Of Michi-
gan for many years.