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Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-10
GERMANY HINTS Peace Offer
u AMBLING
" X EPORTER
Pick and Choose


"A discerning dog, this Rick.
Sterling Oswait's Dobermann made
his rounds the other = evening and
discovered on the back porch OF
the Oswalt home mighty platter
of sandwiches intended fer the
later consumption of guests.
Probably figuring he should taste
them before allowing the guests to
run the risk, Rick gulped one,
sound it tasty, and proceeded to
lap up most of the dishful. He
left six. however, for the guests.
They were cheese.
False Alarm
Feeling as an eXpectant father
is supposed to feel, RR called p
r. Eoienbaker the vet the other
day and asked him to have look
Mt RRs mare who is about to eve
hope) produce a colt. We also
mentioned that she had a hac
:, place on her leg and BolenbakeI
apparently was impressed by our
concerned attitude.
- The next day RR heard the story
of how the doctor had waded to
the ranch through mud, sandwich
ing the call in between visits tc
serious cases, and then had to
spend Is minutes trying to catch
the mare. She was lamel
II don't think she needs nurse
yeti" he said in a tone that was
dryer than his clothes.
WOlfOrd Formula
D. H. Wolford may have some
thing here.
isn't it a strain driving new
car? Worrying about getting 1t
dirty Or damaged?' he was asked
Not a Bit" said Wolford. Just
bake it out, scratch a fender on a
curbing and then you'll never worry
anymore"
Smart Business
While Earl Griffith was standing
IN the rain on Main street, selling
extras the other day, a heavy set
man who had got off one of the
stranded stages. offered Earl nick
le to carry him across the flooded
street. Earl, who is ID, accepted.
"I'll be- right back" he said
He came back with his bicycle
and offered to let the man ride it
across for a nickle. He won the
nickle and sold an extra, as we'll
More Needed
A young lady came into a Calex-
ico dinner place, but she hardly
stayed a minute.
"A cricket ran across the tablet!
she explained in high dudgeon.
my goodness" said the waitress
after she had gone, Il don't see how
i, Just ONE cricket could bother any
body!'
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-10

BERLIN, Sept. 9. (UP)---Field Marshal
Hermann Goering, No. 2 Nazi, rallied the
German people to war today with speech
in which he said, 1--WE want nothing from the
French. We will not attack them"
"If the French want to bleed for England,
all right, he said. 1--WE will not attack them."
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-10
SWEPT FROM SEAS

LONDON. Sept. g. up - The
ministry of information claimed to-
day that practically all German
merchant ships have been swept
from the high seas.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-10

The statement constituted a re-a
ply to the address earlier today OF
Marshal Goering, in which Goering
indicated Germany is ready for an
honorable peace. The spokesman
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-10
''Wish to Avoid
Horror ofWor,'
Says Goerins

LONDON, Sept. 9. (UP)---Britain made
known tonight in advance through an official
spokesman, that it refuses to negotiate peace
with Germany until the Reich forces are en-
tirely withdrawn from Poland.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-10

described the withdrawal of Ger
man troops from Poland as Britain's
minimum condition for the cessa-
tion of hostilities.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-10
Fl Centrans Warned to GO Easy on
Water Usage as Crews Push Repair
OF Canals Broken in Floods

Threat of water shortage developed in FL Centro
Saturday repair doubled their efforts to restore
order after the big rain storm.
Ell Centre residents asked to go easy on the
water because broken canals prevented delivery of water
Evening star., 1939-01-27
One No Vote Cast
In Patriotic Farley
| On National Defense
Secretary Says President
Shouldn't Be 'Homstrunq'
BY Strict Neutrality

With only one mo" vote cast
against one of many resolutions, the
Women's Patriotic Conference on
National Defense was on record to-
day in favor of strict neutrality and
all phases of the administrations
national defense program.
When the conference of 80 aff1liat-
ed national women's patriotic groups,
| In session at the MayfloWer, voted
before its adjournment yesterday on
a neutrality resolution, Mrs. NAL
vina Freeman, conference secretary,
called out mo" from her place on
the platform.
Mrs. Freeman, national president
OF the Jewish War Veterans Auxil-
larry from Mount Vernon, N. Y, ex-
planned II don't think we should
hamstring the President to prevent
his lntercession by words or notes
when other governments threaten
world peace"
Other resolutions adopted by the
conference, all by unanimous vote,
urged expansion of the Army, Navy
and Air Corps, an enlarged mer-
chant marine, 80 per cent reduce
ton in immigration quotas, enforce
ment of laws for mandatory depor-
tation of aliens and enactment of
universal service bill to abolish
prof1teering and equalize the burden
of war.
In a resolution on Americanism,
the conference went on record in
favor of legislation to make it
crime to advocate or promote the
overthrow of the United States Gov-
ernment by force or violence"
Mrs. Parlan Semple, jr., Mont
clair, N. j., president general of the
National Society of New England
Women, became chairman of the
conference, succeeding Mrs. James
Morris, Bismarck, N. OAK, national
president of the American Legion
Auxiliary.
Mrs. Carroll Mcclure, Washing
ton. representing the American
Women's Legion of the World War,
was reelected treasurer.
Evening star., 1939-01-27
100 to Graduate

Midterm graduation exercises at
the Gordon Junior High School will
be held at 2 pm. Thursday, when
100 students will receive diplomas
Gratz Dunkum. member Of the
Board Of Education, will preside
The principal part of the program
will be devoted to Schools of To-
morrow"
Evening star., 1939-01-27
Fraternity to Convene

Phi Epsilon Pi Fraternity will
hold its annual convention here De-
cember 20 through 81, it was an
nounced today. Pascal Greenberp
OF Philadelphia is secretary Of the
organization and Colman Stein OF
Washington is chairman Of the con-
vention.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1939-05-27
St. Cyprian's Church
Annual Breakfast

Sunday morning, May 81, the Mems
Unity Club of st. Cyprian's Church,
Rev. D. L. Ferguson, pastor, held its
annual Communion Breakfast. The
auditorium was nearly filed with
friends, guests and members of the
church who came out at an early hour
to celebrate pre-communion. Alfred
Steward, president of the Unity Club.
was very pleased that so many people
turned out. Seated at the head table
were the Rev. Ferguson, Mr.. Donaldson,
Master of Ceremonies, and guest speak
ers; Morris R. Taylor, headworker of
the Robert Gould Shaw House, Inc; J.
Casswell Smith, executive secretary of
the Urban League; Louis B. Ransom,
of the Boston Press Club, and C. Hilton
Greene, president Of the Mass. Cricket
League. Rev. Ferguson offered the
benediction and congratulated the
Unity Club, officers and members, for
the timely event and thanked all in at
tendance. The guest speakers were
well received and an excellent breakfast
was enjoyed by all-PCR.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1939-05-27
City News

The Junior Leagues of the League
of Women for Community Service,
Inc. attended the Preconvention Of the
Junior Clubs of the Mass. State FEEDER
alton of Women's Clubs on May ~,
in the New Ocean House, Swampscott.
Those attending were the Mrs. Diggs'
Misses Norman, Thomas, Trott, DAVIS
Parrish, Barker, Williams and Round
tree. The club presented the presl-
dent, Miss Roundtree, with bouquet
of two dozen red roses. Miss Round
tree paraded with the IS Junior CluD
Presidents. A banquet was served at
6:15 in the main dining room after
which the members went to the Con,
vention Hall to hear the speakers ana
the prizes awarded. Women from
Foreign Lands spoke on the habits
and customs of their native lands
This is the 9Th year the Junior League
of the LIVES. have attended ana
they are active in all of the Fedora
tions activities.
The Sept Soeurs Charity Club nave
elected the following officers--MiT.s.
Lillian Cooper, pres; Mrs. Cornelia
Wilson, vice pres; Mrs. Florence
Buckley, sec'y.: Mrs. Flora Colston,
treas; Mrs. Mary Dray, pubncltyy
chm. Other members are Mrs. Sadie
Senall and Mrs. Martha Taylor.
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MFntnrtal lalt
SFtnttpH
SUNDAY EVENING PROGRAM AT
COL. AVE. A.M.E. ZION CHURCH
. TUESDAY, SHAW MONUMENT
AND as JOY ST.

Rev. Eli George Biddle. DID. of
Robert A. Bell Post No. 1874. Grand
Army of the Republic, 20 Greenwich
Fark' Boston (hall at As Joy Street,
announces the following program for
the annual memorial service at Column
bus Avenue A.M.E. Zion Church
promptly at 1880 o'clock, Sunday even
ing, May %, 1889: ~ PROCES-
SIGNAL, Church Choir and patriotic
organizations supporting the post.
~ RITUAL OF THE CHURCH.
Rev William D. Battle. DID, Pastor
and assistants. (3) WELCOME, DIR
W, U. Taylor. (4) RITUAL OF THE
GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC
Rev, Eli George Biddle, DID, of Rob
ert A. Bell Post No. 1874. (5) RITUAL
OF ALLIED ORGANIZATIONS Sons
OF Union Veterans of the Civil War:
K. A. BELL W0MEN'S RELIEF
CORPS No. 81; Sergt. VIM. H. Car
ney Circle No. 81, LADIES OF THE
GAR; Spanish War Veterans:
American Legion; World War Veter,
ans; American Union Veterans;
other soldiers, Sailors and Marines,
etc, etc. (6) SERMON, Rev. William
y, Battle, DID. pastor. (7) closing
ceremonies, and Recessional. Taps
by 372nd Infantry.
At half past twelve o'clock Tuesday.
May 80, exercises at the SHAW
MEMORIAL on Boston Common oppo-
site the State House will include the
annual Grafton by Rev. VIM. d. Battle:
tributes by Rev. E. George Biddle
Kew. ID. Leroy Ferguson. Rev. z. r.
Thompson, Rev. Charles R. Winthrop.
Rev. Jacob W. Powell. Albert w.
DeLeon and Others. Taps by the
312nd infantry, Major Davis COM
handing.
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Sthnnl attn Gnllrnf

ATLANTA-Dr. William Henry
Boldly, pastor of the Westminster
Presbyterian Church Minneapolis, will
be the speaker at the joint baccalau-
reate service for Atlanta University,
Morehouse College, and Spelman Col
lege, on June 4.
WILBERFORCE-The 10th annual
commencement exercises at Wilber-
force University are scheduled for five
days beginning on June with the
oaccalaureate sermon by Rev. Joseph
Gomez of Cleveland, Ohio.
ATLANTA-President w. A. Foun-
tain, Jr., of Morris Brown College
announced the ffty-fourth commence
ment exercises, to be presented Nav
q, through June 7. DR.. R. A. Scott
OF jackson, Mississippi, President of
Campbell College, will deliver the an
nual sermon to the Divinity School
Sunday, May %. Bishop D. H. Sims
OF the A.M.E. Church will preach the
Baccalaureate Sermon Sunday, June 4.
Dean Walter Dewey Cooking of the
University of Georgia, Athens, will de-
liver the Commencement to more Than
seventy seniors Wednesday, June 7.
SALISBURY, N. C.-The 57th An
nual Commencement of Livingstone
College, will begin with the Bacca-
laureate Sermon by Rev. Stephen Gill
Spottswood pastor of John Wesley
A ME-. Zion Church, Washington
Sunday, June 4. The Commencement
Address will be delivered by DR.. H.
Shelton Smith of Duke University
June 9Th. Pres. w. J. Trent states
that the graduating class this wear
will be one of the largest in the col
lege's history.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1939-05-27
KENNEDY YCHE
WARD 9 CONTEST
BY Monroe Mason

Offseason political pot-boiling has
never become a lost art in Ward g..
Advance announcements of two coun-
cilmanic candidates for the Boston
City Council has caused the lifting
of eyebrows among scores of Colored
voters who contemplate World Fair
trips to New York before making anv
commitments whom they will support.
Dave" Kenny and Johnny" Wyche
are the two men who have made an
nouncements to enter the Ward 9
council 'free-for-alP to succeed Mil
dred Gleason Harris, the present in
cumbent
Kenney, a democrat, and Wyche. a
republican are leaders in politics and
business respectively. Ward 9 is the
BLACK Belt of Greater Boston and
by wide margin has the largest col
ored registered vote in Massachusetts.
There are no restrictions to become a
candidate for the Boston City Council.
1t is non-partisan contest. A candi-
dates name is printed on the official
ballot when sufficient names of quail
he'd voters of each ward and certified
by the election commission.
1t will be an easy task for Kenney
and Wyche to qualify as candidates.
Either could be elected if a large num-
Der of white candidates entered tbe
held. The indications are that Mildred
Harris will not be candidate to sue
coed herself. She was elected to serve
her first term by the narrow margin
OF 1853 votes. She would have been
defeated had not a prominent club
leader of Ward 8 openly-supported
the Harris candidacy.
Between now and next November
henney and Wyche must Law the
ground work for their respective can
dldacies to- corral the voters of Ward
. into action and strategy. If one or
the other does not voluntarily elimin.
ate himself before the official ballot
IS printed, hectic campaign looms,
With two colored candidates of the
caliber of these two men on the ballot
neither can win. Observers of mast
political contests in Ward 9 can fore
cast what the result will be with Ken
ney and Wyche waging a close fight
in an uncertain, registered political
group.
AiASAS VIII OS al interval IN Which
the supporters of both men can hold
series of conferences. Differences
and MISUNDERSTANDING as to the re-
spective candidates. of the two men
NAV be ironed out. From reports
Doth men have been pledged campaign
funds, the largest amount ever to be
used in any political contest in the
history of the ward. Kennev claims
months handicap. Wyche accents
the challenge hoping to overcome the
lead.
What to watch for in this contest
will be the choice or respective cam
paign managers and support of ward
leaders for either candidate. These
two factors are vital in any campaign.
henney's caustic rejoinder to Wvche's
entry into the Ward 9 Boston Citv
Council contest may open wounds
which will be hard to heal should an
attempt be made by both factions to
arrange conference.
In order for a colored candidate TO
win, an iron-clad agreement that one
must retire and support the other, is
the only solution. Before the ballots
are printed is the time to make such a
bargain. The fight is on. may the best
man win.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1939-05-27

GROUP DRAWS

The Cooperative Study Group spon-
sored by the Armstrong Hemenway
Foundation, is becoming a most popu-
lar body. Last week officers were elect
ed for the year: James Curwood, presi-
dent; Mrs. Julian D. Steele, first vice
president; Joseph Pereira, second vice
president; Marie Rudd, secretary: Rita
Campbell, assistant Secretary: Ethel
Stewart, treasurer; Emerson Mosely,
assistant treasurer; Board of Direc-
tors: Mrs. Thomasina Walker johnson.
Mrs. Julian Branker, Lloyd Horton,
Ernest Slaughter and James Slaughter.
The group had a delightful supper
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1939-05-27

DURING THE LAST three issues
we have been devoting valuable space
to United States Senator Bilbo of
Mississippi As compensation for
such waste of space and words, we shall
turn this issue over to the deserving
cause of the Southern Tenant Farmers
IN their efforts to organize and lift
their brutalized lives onto a higher
level. Here is their story as told in
the Socialist Call Of May 18th:
An appeal for contributions to carry
the famous night-riders case to the
[. S. Supreme Court was made here
last week by the Workers Defense
League. The WDL, which is the off
clal defense agency of the Southern
Tenant Farmers Union, declared funds
were needed to appeal the case of
Henry and Dan Johnson, 70 and IS
years old, respectively The third per
son involved in the case, which may
become another cause celebre of the
American labor movement, is Dollie
johnson, Henry's daughter-in-law.
In making the appeal, David L.
Clendenin, secretary-treasurer of the
WDL, declared that "their crime is
that they dared organize! Must their
lives be forfeit because sharecroppers
organize into a labor union?
Nigbt-Riding Charge
The three, all COlored members of
the Southern Tenant Farmers Union,
were arrested during the cotton pick
ers strike last fall in notorious Missis-
sippi County, Arkansas, charged with
the crime of ''night-riding."
The specific details of the "crime"
were that they posted strike notices
on the plantation gates and thus sin
Inundated" the strike breakers i'm
ported from Tennessee. The strike
notice read:
COTTON PICKER! DEMAND
$100 PER HUNDRED FOR PICK
ING THIS CROP OF COTTON!
Wages for picking this crop are 4Oc,
soc, 6Oc, Soc per hundred. Cotton
IS selling about Sc per pound plus
the government subsidy which makes
it worth over Toe per cound. Cotton
picking wages therefore must be in
line with the selling price of cotton.
We urge all cotton pickers, union or
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1939-05-27
What Is Segregation?

segregation is the special Amer
lean means of branding Colored
Americans as the interiors of in
feriors in public status.
when the white South found it.
self confronted with the federal sta
tus of equality for Colored people,
the former slaves-equality of citi-
zenship, of freedom, of franchise
rights, backed by the national gov
ernment-it selected the denial of
presence and of service in places
opened for public patronage as the
one great way to brand Co1ored
people as having been a slave race
and make them forever the scorn of
civil society.
ut is a very effective measure.
Colored people are traitors to them
selves TO aid and abet the idea BY
self-segregation."
w. NJ. TROTTER.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1939-05-27
WAGE COMMITTEE

L ".
Southern Tenant Farmers Union
The Johnsons, who were acting as
volunteer strike organizers, had posted
these notices on the gate of struck
plantations and had written on them
STAY OUT OF FIELD IF YOU
DON'T WANT TO GET IN
TROUBLE.
1t was for this that the three were
arrested, charged with violating law
originally passed against the Ku Klux
Khan and other reactionary groups
Despite charges by WDL defense
attorneys that the law was unconstitu-
tional and violated the fundamental
rights of labor, the three were found
guilty by a planter-dominated jury and
were sentenced to a year at hard labor
IN the penltentiary. For the two old
men, this amounted to a death sentence.
An appeal was taken to the Arkansas
supreme court and on March Is. that
court upheld the conviction.
An appeal to the United States SUI
preme court is the next STEP" Glen
denim declared. "Our ATTORNEYS feel
confident that the law will be found
unconstitutional and that the lives of
these two men will not be forfeited be-
cause Of their devotion to labor.
THE costs of the appeal amount to
$500. This sum must be provided by
friends of the Southern Tenant Farm
ers Union who recognize that this con
vlction must be fought through to the
highest court of the nation if the
South is not to be lost for the cause of
progressive democracy"
Contributions should be sent to David
L. Clendenin, secretary-treasurer, Wor-
kers Defense League, 112 East 10Th
Street, New York, N. Y.
THIS APPEAL MERITS the sup
port of all who possess even modi-
cum of understanding regarding the
lot of the Southern Tenant Farmers
We urge the readers of this column to
respond generously to the above APP
peal.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1939-05-27

ELLEN SMITH PRICE
May %, 1927 TT May %, 1888
Sometime in the starlit silence,
On an inner sense there falls
Your voice like remembered music
That a vanished time recalls;
But the present is richer, my darling,
Tho between us now there lies
That wonderful mystical region
Beyond which is Paradise.
Lovingly remembered by her mother,
Mrs. GERTRUDE NJ. SMITH.
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Hint Mn&trnRT rnttpr|
Editor and Publisher
1901 1894
SHAW MONUMENT

In front of the State House on
Beacon Hill stands the Shaw monu-
ment showing the gallant Colonel
Robert Gould Shaw at the head of his
reads: '-O''
The White Officers-taking life and
honor in their hands cast in their LOT
with men of a despised race improved
IN war and risked death as meters of
servile instruction if taken prisoners.
besides encountering all the common
perlls of camp, march, and battle.
The Black Rank and File-volun-
teered when disaster clouded the
Union cause, served without nav for
eighteen months till given that of
white troops, faced threatened en-
slavement if captured, were brave in
action, patient under heavy and dan
gerous labors, and cheerful amid hard
ships and privations.
Together-they gave to the nation
and the world undying proof that
Americans of African descent possess
the pride, courage, and devotion of
the patriot soldier One hundred
eighty thousand such Americans en-
listed under the Union flag in 1863
1865.
Rereading the legend causes one ia
ponder the statement that 'the black
rank and file volunteered when dis
aster clouded the Union cause"
The tide of war had set in against
the Union: the Rebels were continu-
ally gaming advances; it was a time
when hopes of the North were droop-
ing that Colored men sprang into the
gap and helped to snatch victory from
the grasp of the would-be destrovers
of the Union. 1t is an historical fact
that 1t makes a strong argument fo1
American rights as citizens. The
monument itself is fine revelation
OF the finer qualities inherent in
America at its best.
II our comment on Ohio politics
last week seemed to some harsh and
beside the facts, let an Ohioan do the
talking. The Cleveland Gazette. edit
ed by Hon. Harry c. Smith, a stalwart
veteran Republican, if our memory
serves. In an editorial captioned
Give Davey Credit" after referrine
to the Republican party's successes in
Ohio during the past rs wears. the
Gazette said that the party had re-
ceived practically the undivided sun
port of its so-called Negro" contin-
gent, and continued:
"In all of the rs years referred
to, the party steadfastly refused to
give member of the race a first
class appointment of any kind. II
remained for Gov. Martin L. Dayev
a, Democrat, to place member of
the race on the State Parole Board
at salary of $4,000. We didn't
believe that our Republican COVER
nor, John w. Bricker, had the nerve
to follow Davey's lead and frankly
said so. 1t develops, however. that
we were wrong, for the first of the
week, on the recommendation of the
local Republican organization, he
gave a place on the newly created
State Pardon and Parole Commits
sion to a member of the race, fol
lowing the lead of Democratic Gov
Martin L. Davey"