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Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-27
.Head-on Auto Crash Kills
Truck Driver Hurts Friend
p AMBLING
IMPORTER

In Disguise
ever play ball, son?' asked a
rookie from the San Diego Padre
ball club as he staggered about
looking over the FL Centre stadium
before spring training. He was talk
ing to a groundskeeper who replied:
"Oh, a little bit. Semi-pro."
"Humph!" snorted the rookie.
"Well, it's a great life. Of course
it takes a lot of work to get up in
the big time"
Yeah" said the groundskeeper.
Sure must be swell, the life you
high powered athletes lead
Whats your name, SOM" asked
the rookie
BUS Adams" said the grounds
keeper and walked away while the
rockies mouth opened like a door
Adams was rated the best out
fielder in the coast leagues last
season and this year goes to the
st. Louis Cardinals. He's down here
resting up.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-27
Recognized

Recognized
In listing the "flat rockers" from
Rocky Ford, Colo, we somehow
overlooked about half the city of
Ell Centro, it seems. Frank Nesbit,
looking a bit hurt, called our atten-
ton TO the fact.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-27
Still Dancing

Still Dancing
Saturday night was a Both ami
versary of some kind for C. F..
Ferguson and Allen Nuffer. 1t was
the 30th firemen's ball and both
Nuffer and Ferguson attended the
first one, way back yonder.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-27

MilestoneS--
Mar. | will mean an extra some
thing to at least two Ell Centrans
1t is the tenth anniversary of T.
p. Farmer on the police force and
$ Paul Eyers Goth wedding anniver-
Sary.
"One more year and I can vote,
said Eyer.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-27

Butter: Los Angeles. 2sc; but
terfat, Imperial Valley fob. ranch,
grade A, Csc; manufacturing milk,
28l4ci route gathered cream, &c.
L. A. Hay: u. 5. No. 4, S13.50-1tI
S17-18; u. S. No. l, S13.50-14; No.
No. 2 leafy, S12-12.5O; No. 2, $i0.50-
IL; Minneapolis flax May Sl.76.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-27
Dc Luxe

Dc LuXc--
What's this we hear about Joe
Bush and his private quail preserve?
The story goes that Joe drives
up to a place near Corn Springs
northeast of inland of an evening,
rolls up in his blankets and goes
to sleep. In the morning the quail
are so thick that he doesn't even
get out of bed. He just shoots from
a prone position and goes back to
sleep again.
"Darn EN-" said Joe. "If they'd
just come little closer I wouldn't
have to waste ammunition. 1 could
beat them over the head with a
stick"
This, we hope, applies only dur
ing quail season.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-27
Oh, I say

UH, I Sdy-
Following the golf matches Sun
day we couldn't help noticing the
swanky outfit that Wade Ramsey
sported. The crowning touch was
q cane!
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-27

lIotal cash, checks and drafts sent
through the two I'll Centre banks.)
Saturday $423,96S.34
Last Year S4O4, 447.16
The Phoenix index. (Phoenix, Ariz.) 193?-19??, 1939-08-12
SO, 056Race neutrality-suspicious.
EmDIoyed In Southern Section

huilt by WPA during the past four
years constitute one of the most
important contributions the work
relief program has made to the ma
TONS welfare, Colonel Harrington
said. Much Of this work has con-
sisted of feeder roads from the
main highways reaching into farm
areas which previously had been
Isolated much OF the year Farm
to-market' roads built by WPA have
given year round access to markets
and shopping centers to hundreds
Of thousands OF American farmers
greatly improved the economic con-
dition and bringing them nearer to
schools and churches"
The race relations office report
ed employment of Negro workers of
highway projects in southern states
as follows:
Alabama, 5,649: Arkansas, 1852;
Florida, 4,515; Georgia, 7,017; Louis
lana, 8,O51; Mississippi, 1862; N.
Carolina, 1929; s. Carolina, 1851;
Tennessee 2,101;. Texas 2,607; Viz
ginia 902.
The Phoenix index. (Phoenix, Ariz.) 193?-19??, 1939-08-12
Philadelphia
".Hocks Gas
Company

PHILADELPHIA, P)-One of
the greatest pawnshop deal ever
was consummated in Philadelphia
last Monday, when the city "hock-
ed" its gas works for Al million
dollars.
When the check was handed
ovet at the federal reserve bank,
the bankers and officials present
were all jittery as they found that
there was no bank here big enough
to legally accept it. However way
was found and now the city's bud
get will be balanced-eightm months
late.
Negroes in the government serv-
ice and heads of social agencies
followed news of the hooking, o.
they wondered when they will get
needed supplies in their depart
ments, when they can be sure of
pay days, and when social agencies
will receive money owed them.
The agency hardest hit is the
Bureau for Colored Children which
gets paid by the city for the chill
dren sent to it by the courts.
The Phoenix index. (Phoenix, Ariz.) 193?-19??, 1939-08-12

NASHVILLE, Tenn.-(SNS)-The
Third Annual Industrial Education
Conference Of Negro teachers in
Tennessee concluded a four-day SEES
sion at A. and I. State College
Friday, July g. Mr.. w A. Seeley
supervisor of Trade and Industrial
Education, YVES in general charge
Of the conference.
Among the important topics con-
sidered were: the objection of vo-
cational teachers to improve local
conditions, the need for surveys tC
determine the need for different
types of vocational education, con-
tributiCnS of the Smith-HugheS ano
the George Deem funds to the sal
aries of vocational teachers, stu
Gent need of expert vocational gul-
Gance, Implications of vocational
stastics, job analysis, placement
and follow up work. Special atten-
ton was given to evening trade
extension classes.
tSE4KEseiENIAIIV GROUPS
Those attending the conference
were Robert Anderson, Knoxville;
Mrs. Beatrice Boyd, Chattanooga;
Alex Carney, Chattanooga; Leo
Chiffon, Knoxville; Mrs Villa Gas
ton, E. Chattanooga; Mr.. George
Hardin, E. Chattanooga; H. M.
Jarrett. Lebanon; Fred Jordan.
Memphis; Edward Kimes, Columbia
j. D. McCord, S. Pittsburgh; T. j..
Myers, Franklin Marvin Petty, E.
Chattanooga; G.. A. Thompson, Mt
Pleasant; Charles White, Chatta-
nooga L. j. Williams, Whitehaven;
F. w. Woodfin, Knoxville; William
Woods, Whitesville.
The Phoenix index. (Phoenix, Ariz.) 193?-19??, 1939-08-12
Hatch Bill
Hailed Bv
N.A.A.C.P.
Registration,
Voting in South
To Be Boosted

NEW YORK-Tne Hatch ''clean
politics bill which was signed this
week by President Roosevelt, will
probably aid the registration and
voting of southern Negroes, and
may benefit Negroes seeking EN-
ployment on federal projects, &C
cording to a statement issued
here by the National Association
for the Advancement Of Colored
People. The statement:
Section 4 Of the Hatch bill
making it a federal offense to deny
employment with compensation Oh
other benefits from congressional
appropriation on account of race
Or creed, color or any political
activity should profoundly affect,
if enforced, employment OF Ne
groes on federal financed projects
in the South where notorious dis
elimination now exists.
Whatever the motives back OF
each vote for the Hatch bill, 1t will
probably be profound shock 10
some of the southern supporters
of that legislation when they wake
I'D and discover the weapon against
discrimination and discrimination
and Acknowledgement which they
rnwittingly have put INTO the
hands of Negro citizens.
The Phoenix index. (Phoenix, Ariz.) 193?-19??, 1939-08-12
Announce
Drive For
Rest Home
Eight Months Of
Work Would Span
u. S. "a Times

The National Baptist Conven-
tlon, Inc, has announced from the
Chicago Headquarters OF its presi-
dent, Dr.. l.. K. Williams, plans
for a drive for funds to erect a
Rest Home ON its property at
Mizpah, N. j.
For some years the Convention
has owned ground at Mizpah, the
Coioreo summer resort of many
and the year round home site of
others. The use to be made of this
ground has long been d cherished
though secret, ambition of Presi-
dent Williams. In his heart he has
planned great Chautauqua grounds.
around which will be grouped the
summer cottages and bones Of
Baptists frcm all over America
Housed on the same grounds he
has dreamed Of a Rest Home. a
place of retirement and security
to be offered aged ministers and
layInen. The cyrStalization and this
dream has been long delayed by
the throeS of an extended world
depression. Last week. II Atlanta
Ca, ray of sunshine pierced that
existing darkness. and plans were
Immediately laid and releases
ordered for this gigantic proposal.
An unnamed Philadelphia
philanthropiSt has given $500 lots
at Mizpah. " j., located near
Atlantic City to the National Bap-
fist Convention, Inc, for sale at
the forthcoming session of the Ma
tional Baptist Convention to be
held at Convention Hall, Philadel-
phia, Pa, September 9th to 10th.
From the proceeds Of this sale
$25, 10000 will be used in erect
ing the "Rest Home
Ground breaking exercises will
follow the close of the Convention
For all information communicate
with Rev. L. G.. Carr, ell Hardt
Building, Broad Street and Column
bia Avenue, Philadelphia, Pa.
The Phoenix index. (Phoenix, Ariz.) 193?-19??, 1939-08-12
Rural Workers
Are Doing
Large Job
BY Eta BARNETT

JACKSONVILLE, Fla.-(ANP)-
The need of Church activity in
rural sections was graphically pre-
scented to the delegates Of the
Woman's Home and Foreign Mis-
sionary Society here Thursday,
when Mrs. C. v. Stinson of NAL
vern. Ark, president of the Con-
ference Branch of Western Arkan-
sas gave demonstration OF
"Home Missions with a diagnosis
and prescription for the ills which
affect missionary organizations
throughout the church.
I'm a rural woman, said Mrs.
Stinson, well groomed, alert
young woman. who is the wife of
Presiding Elder Stinson and a
niece of j. G.. Robinson, editor of
the AME Review. MY workers are
in the rural section of Arkansas
and we feel that our greatest eff
fort in the missionary field is and
should be in the rural section
The Urban workers nave the as
sistance of social agencies, the Ur-
ban Leagues and similar organiza-
tons while in the rural sections,
social work as well as religious
work is left to u.s., Mrs. Stinson
continued, as her demonstration
developed the idea that medical
social work should go hand in
hand with the religious effort.
At the conclusion of her address
so impressed were her hearers
that Bishop D. H. Grant made a
motion that the address and DEM
onstration be put into a pamphlet
fer distribution to the local soci-
cites throughout the church.
The Phoenix index. (Phoenix, Ariz.) 193?-19??, 1939-08-12
$4,000 MILES OF NEW ROADS

Rural roads accounted for near
ly 10000 miles of the total mileage
constructed or improved during the
eight months period. In addition,
WPA constructed or improved 500
miles of streets and alleys; built
3e18 bridges and repaired or i'm
..roved 4,581; laid 111,570 culverts
toJaling 2,911,000 feet in length,
Quilt or repaired 1887 miles of
sidewalks and paths; constructed
I'll new guardrails and guardwalls;
eliminated four grade crossings and
removed 1870 miles of street car and
railroad track.
Colonel Harrington noted that,
although half OF the period cover
ed by the report fell in the winter
months when highway construction
normally is at its lowest, the num-
ter of miles completed each month
averaged approximately three per
cent more than the monthly aver
age Of the preceding three years.
Average construction for each
month from July 1, 1888, to March
], 1889, was about $500 miles and
during the three years preceding
July !, 1888, about $500 miles.
IMPORTANT CONTRIBUTION
Thousands Of miles of roads
The Phoenix index. (Phoenix, Ariz.) 193?-19??, 1939-08-12

MIR. Thomas indicated that the
conference would delve deeply into
the current problems of the Negro
and seek to face Gquarely the i'm
plications for the future of today's
upset social and economic condi-
tons. Among the topics that will
be dwelt upon at length are:
Youth in Changing Economic
and Social Order" Social Impli-
cations of Unemployment, and
Some Significant By-Products of
Social Legislation for Minority
Groups"
Time will also be given to dis
cussiOn Of the future policies of the
Urban League, with particular ref
erence to it's attitude toward organ
lied labor and toward civic, mu-
nicipal, county, state and federal
agencies. Means of enlarging its
inter-racial and intra-racial pro-
grams of education will be oonsid-
cred, as we'll as improved methods
of informing the public about its
aims and detectives.
The conference will be informal,
and open only to executives and
clerical employees of the National
Urban League and its affiliated
branches, and members of their ex-
ecutive boards.
The Phoenix index. (Phoenix, Ariz.) 193?-19??, 1939-08-12
Young Doctor
Gets Break
After Arrest

ST. LOUIS, CAMP After being
arrested on a grand larceny charge
and released in $1,000 bail, DR..
Malvern H. Johnson, 90, who on
July l completed his interneship
at Homer Phillips hospital, was
granted leniency by city officials
last Saturday and "given a chance
to make good in his chosen pro-
fession.
Dr.. Johnson was given his free
dom when officials decided to drop
prosecution. According to police.
supplies, including instruments
and medicine valued at about $500
and the property of Homer Phil
lips hospital, we're taken from
Johnson's car, parked near the irl-
stitution
Speaking of the case. DR.. N.
Thompson, city hospital commits
sioner, said: Or johnson had
good record, and Mr.. Darst and
other city officials felt that he
should be given an opportunity to
60 out in the world and make
good No doubt he struggled hard
to earn a medical education, and
this will be a good lesson to him
that crime doesn't pay. We are all
sorry that it happened; everything
has been restored. I believe ne will
make good DR.. Ora S. McClel-
Ian is the hospital superinten-
dent.
The Phoenix index. (Phoenix, Ariz.) 193?-19??, 1939-08-12

DENVER, (ANP)-Archie Will
lard Mckinney, son of DIR. and
Mrs. T. t. Mckinney, graduated
from the department of law of the
University of Denver at the COM
rnencement exercises of the IA
nous institution in June and be-
came the first Negro in the his
tory Of the university to graduate
from the department of law. How
ever, there have been numerous
Negroes who studied law there.
He took the Colorado Bar exam
nation June %, but plans to take
a graduate course in the Univer-
sity OF Michigan before actually
The Phoenix index. (Phoenix, Ariz.) 193?-19??, 1939-08-12
Denuer u. Graduates First
Negro From Law Dept.

taking up the practice Of law as a
profession His father, who is a
distinguished Denver physician
and supreme physician of the
American Woodmen, is a gradu-
ate of the University of Michigan
The Mckinney family halls from
Texas and is one of the most
prominent Negro families of the
country. The uncle of young Nc
Kinney, John w. Mckinney, is a
bishop in the Colored Methodist
Episcopal church and resides at
Sherman, Texas. The DR.. T. T.
Mckinney family has resided in
Denve1 fog the past IA years.
The Phoenix index. (Phoenix, Ariz.) 193?-19??, 1939-08-12
President Hale
To Attend Congress
At Columbia u.

On Tuesday, July 25, special
session was held in the Little
Theatre with the students and fac
llty of A. and T. State College Sum-
mer school.
PRESIDENT HALE TO ATTEND
CONGRESS ON EDUCATION
FOR DEMOCRACY
President w. j. Hale of A. and
I. State College will attend the
The Phoenix index. (Phoenix, Ariz.) 193?-19??, 1939-08-12
Tennessee Industrial Education
Conference Meets In Nashville

Congress on Education for Demo-
cracy in session at Teachers Col
lege, Columbia University August
IS, Is, and. II. AS member of the
World Congress on Education, he is
serving as a sponsor to the August
meeting. He has been invited by
Dean William Russell to sit as a
delegate representing American
Education.
1t is expected that the Congress
VIII suggest means for further study
CT the unresolved issues in order
that continuous program in edu-
cation for democracy may be pos
slEle.
The Phoenix index. (Phoenix, Ariz.) 193?-19??, 1939-08-12

Christine Smith, president Mite
Missionary Society.
Standing left, Mrs. w. D.
Johnson, wife of late bishop;
Mrs. S. L. Flipper, Mrs. J. A.
Gregg, Mrs. D. H. Sims, Mrs. j.
A. Fountain, Mrs. r. c. Chapelle
and Bishop H. Y. Tookes, pre-
late of Florida and host to the
conference.
Group right. seated, left, Mrs.
Mary Plye, Mrs. B. l.. DeLyles.
The Phoenix index. (Phoenix, Ariz.) 193?-19??, 1939-08-12

M. Hughes.
Upper center, Mrs. G. B.
Thompson of Mississippi, oldest
member of the executive board,
voted life membership in the So
ciety and the board because of
her untiring work.
Group left, Bishop and Bis
hops wives: seated, left, Mrs. H.
Y. Tookes, wife of the host bis
hep, Bishops D. HI. Sims, w. A.
Fountain, J. A. Gregg and Mrs,
The Phoenix index. (Phoenix, Ariz.) 193?-19??, 1939-08-12

A New York state man has in
vented an automobile jack consist
ing of a rubber bag to be placed
under cars axle and inflated by
a pump screwed in place of spark
plug.
The Phoenix index. (Phoenix, Ariz.) 193?-19??, 1939-08-12

An inventor has patented a two
seated automobile with only two
wheels TO, use while in motion,
two smaller wheels being lowered
to hold it upright while it is
stationary.
The Phoenix index. (Phoenix, Ariz.) 193?-19??, 1939-08-12

Mrs. H. S. Trent, Mrs. Sarah
Terrell, Mrs. L. M. Hughes, pres
ident; Mrs. r. c. Chapelle, Mrs,
S. ii. Divers; Mrs Maggie Ash.
ford and Mrs. P. F. Jackson.
Standing. left, Mrs. r. J. Mat
thison, Mrs. F. o. Davis, Mrs. c,
E. Bennett, Mrs. D. H. Sims,
Mrs. J. A. Fountain, Mrs. S. D.
Rice, Mrs. c. B. Thompson, Mrs.
r. H. Burr and Mrs. D. Boland.
The Phoenix index. (Phoenix, Ariz.) 193?-19??, 1939-08-12
Mrs. Bethune Joins Picket
Line In Nations Capital

WASHINGTON--(ANP Mcleod Bethune
took part in the demonstration in front of the Peoples
Drug store here Thursday afternoon, when she took
of the pacards and marched in front of the store
ed in the heart of the Negro district. Mrs. Behune
had comment to make and escorted from her
"tour of duty" by Eugene P. Davidson the New
Negro alliance.
The Phoenix index. (Phoenix, Ariz.) 193?-19??, 1939-08-12
ANCIENT NEWSPAPER

NEW York; you by a paper
from the ragged urchin in George
Jessel's Old New York at the
Worries Fair you will learn that
Admiral Dewey has captured Ma
Mia. The paper is composite
souvenir edition combining the
features and stories of the New
York newspapers in 1898.
The Phoenix index. (Phoenix, Ariz.) 193?-19??, 1939-08-12
Michigan Meet To
Discuss Problems

NEW YORK, n Y.-"Facing New Frontiers will be the
theme of the annual conference Of the National Urban League
be held September and 4, Green Pastures Camp
Jackson Michigan announced this week by Jesse Thomas
Southern Field Director of the League who charge Of
rangements the meeting.
The Phoenix index. (Phoenix, Ariz.) 193?-19??, 1939-08-12

A baby carriage that can be
pushed along the ground in the
usual way or be suspended from
bicycle handle bars has been in
vented by resident of Copen
hagen, Denmark.
The Phoenix index. (Phoenix, Ariz.) 193?-19??, 1939-08-12

The State Of Illinois maintains
a motor truck that pays unan-
nounced visits to filling stations
with men who test the gasoline
and kerosene sold
The Phoenix index. (Phoenix, Ariz.) 193?-19??, 1939-08-12

Climaxing the most active Pc
Rod in its history, members of
the Home and Foreign Mission
airy Society of the AME church
attended it's quadrennial oonven-
ton held in jacksonville, Fla, last
week and rejoiced over reports
which showed $4,000 raised for
mission work. Bishops and dele
gates from every section of the
country were present as Mrs
The Phoenix index. (Phoenix, Ariz.) 193?-19??, 1939-08-12

Lucy M. Hughes of Cameron,
Texas, dynamic president of the
organization described her g.
600 mile tour of Africa during
which she inspected the far flung
mission outposts of the church
this summer. Mrs. Hughes will
be a candidate for Secretary of
Missions at the General AME
Conference to be held in Detroit
in 1910.
Lower center, President Lucy
The Phoenix index. (Phoenix, Ariz.) 193?-19??, 1939-08-12
IS, 900 EMPLOYED IN SOUTH

Records in the race relations Of
flee headed by Alfred Edgar Smith,
Staff Adviser in the Federal WPA
Headquarters, reveal that in eleven
southern states $1,000 Negro work
ers were employed on WPA high
way, road and street construction
projects during the periods of peak
employment.
Citing the report, Mr.. Smith said
the bulk of work was on unpaved
rural roads, including the "farmto-
market type leading from main
highways to remote agricultural re-
gions inhabited by poor Negro and
white farmers.
The Phoenix index. (Phoenix, Ariz.) 193?-19??, 1939-08-12

WASHINGTON, D. C.-Workers
on the rolls of the Work Projects
Administration built or improved
approximately $4,000 miles of streets
and roadways on projects compaet-
ed during the eight-r1onth period
ending March first of this year.
Colonel F. c. Harrington, Work
Projects Commissioner, released this
physical accomplishment figure in
q. report which pointed out that the
roads built or improved in this
period wiJuld span the United
States nearly twenty-four times.
Evening star., 1939-07-30

aeronautical progress may bring to
the world? The prophecies we now
hear range from the destruction of
the weak nations and the growth
of world relationships to the other
extreme-the escape from a threat
of utter destruction through the es-
tablishment of new methods and
habits of dealing among nations; a
world brotherhood Of men.
Anniversaries are chiefly a time
for looking back over a path which
has been travelled to gain therefrom
what clues there may be to the
course lying ahead. This the Army
Air Corps is doing in its observance
Of this anniversary, coming as it
does in the dawn of new day for
air defense.
Through adequate air prepara-
tions today, the Air Corps is seeking
to avoid the costly consequences of
the lack of preparedness which
characterized military aviation in
this country at the beginning of the
Mexican punitive expedition in 1916
and the World War a year later.
Experience in Lean Years.
The first years of military avia-
ton were lean, discouraging years.
Congress appropriated no funds for
operating its lone airplane. Young
1t. Foulois was forced to dip into
his meager pay as a junior officer
for the minor repairs which always
were necessary. He conducted a
correspondence course with the
Wright brothers on difficult points
of operation and maintenance.
Evening star., 1939-07-30
By Capt. F. L. Oliver,
q. s. N, Retired

Forty years ago when Congress,
on March 8, 1899, enacted a law
abolishing prize-money, the Navy
lost one of its most cherished pre-
negatives. This perquisite was an
unreliable and unpredictable source
of income to officers and men of the
Navy, but it's possibilities had stimu-
lated zeal and diligence in carrying
on war at sea. Every sail raised
above the horizon was a potential
prize, and until the stranger had
been investigated and identified,
visions of prize-money were in the
thoughts of all. When fortune fav-
ored, these dreams came true, and
sometimes considerable sums of
money accrued to lucky crew.
The history of prize-money goes
back to those early days from which
few written records survive. 1t is
recorded that in 1905, King John
of England issued certain instruc-
tions concerning the distribution Of
prize-money, and in 1340, Edward
III decreed as follows: IF ships in
the Kings pay, either the whole
feet or part of it, take prize, the
King to have one-fourth part, the
owners one-fourth, the other half
to be shared in equal portions
amongst the captors. OF this half,
the Admiral shall have out of each
ship two shares, i.e., the portion
of two mariners, if he be present,
but if absent, one share only"
This early law contains certain
basic principles which endured for
centuries. In 1340 and in fact, until
the time of Henry VIII, there were
few, if any, vessels maintained ex-
clusively as men-of-war. When the
King had need for the services Of
a navy. he hired the necessary num-
Der of ships, hence the reference to
ships in the Kings pay"
With the passage of years, the
laws governing prize-money were al
tered to meet existing conditions.
but always on the basis Of shares to
the participants and share to the