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Twin-City herald., 1939-09-23
COURT CONDEMNS JIM-CRoW
PRACTICE

Trenton, N J., September, (CNA)-
Vicious jim-crow practices were sharp
ly condemned this week when the New
Jersey State Supreme Court ruled that
Negroes have the right to bathe at any
of the four beaches at Long Branch,
N. J.
The hated anti-Negro practive, long
in effect in Long Beach, was finally
challenged by Mrs. Bullock, property
owner of that city, by an action before
the States highest tribunal.
In her petition, filed last October,
Mrs. Bullock, member of the Ma
tional Association for the Advancement
of Colored People, contended that per-
sons seeking to bathe at any of the
city's four beaches, were required to
register at the City Hail, where they
were given badges. The badges were
in four colors, one for each beach, and
Negroes received only red badges
which restricted them exclusively to
beach No. 3. The city administration,
it was stated, passed two ordinances to
legalize the discrimination. Mrs. Bull
lock sued to have the ordinances de-
clared invalid.
Although the court dismissed the pc
tition because Mrs. Bullock had not
been convicted of violating the ordin-
snces, Justice Joseph B. Perskie ruled
it was clear that the purpose of the
laws was to prevent members of the
black race from intermingling with
members of the white race on the
beaches" He told Mrs. Bullock she
could compel the city to grant her q
permit to use any of the beaches with.
cut regard to the color question; per.
init we have stated, she was entitled tc
have"
Members of the Negro communit,
hailed the decision and announced the,
would insist on use of all the beaches
Twin-City herald., 1939-09-23

Raleigh, N. c., Sept, (CNA)-As a
result of the war in Europe, tobacco
farmers of South Carolina face the
most serious crises since 1914 Prices
declined on all markets and farmers
many of them having borrowed money
on this years crop-face loss of mil
lions of dollars.
Twin-City herald., 1939-09-23

The case is fast assuming the pro-
portions of second Scottsboro case
with scores of organizations and prom
inent individuals charging that Viii
liams' conviction was "an outrageous
frame-up." A prominent white jurist
who witnessed the trial assured that
"a white man would have been acquit-
ted in five minutes"
Williams was accused of "raping'
white girl.
Twin-City herald., 1939-09-23

Albany, Sept, (CNA-An estimated
100000 homeless families are roaming
the United States, the annual conven-
ton of American Humane Association
was told this week. The report was
made by Ernest S. Kavanagh of the
Massachusetts Society for Prevention
of Cruelty to Children.
Twin-City herald., 1939-09-23
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT GETS
AFFIDAVIT ON KHAN THREAT
IN S. c. VOTING CASE

Determined to open up an avenue
through which the Federal Govern
ment can proceed to intervene in the
frame-up and conviction of William
Anderson, youthful president of the
N. A. A. c: P, youth council in Green
vile, S. c., July "a, the National AS
sociation for the Advancement of Col
Iored People sent an affidavit to the
Justice Department setting forth all ac-
count of Ku Klux threats against J. c
Williams, a co-defendant OF Anderson
III the now famous voting case.
Anderson, who has been leading the
drive to get Negroes to register for the
municipal elections to be held Septem-
Der II in Greenville, S. c., was framed
and arrested last July, charged with
asking white girl for date over the
telephone. The charges was officially
listed as disorderly conduct He was
ordered placed under a $4,000 peace
bond and sentenced to serve thirty
days in Jail or pay $100 fine.
Williams, in a signed affidavit said
that following his arrest August 7, he
was visited in Jail by one Fred V. John
son, who pretends to be head of the
local Ku Klux Klan." Johnson, &C
cording to the affidavit, told Williams
that he (Williams) and Williams law
yer were heading the drive to register
Negroes to vote in Greenville. Later
according to Williams, when he was
! tried and acquitted on August II, but
remained in pail on second charge,
| Johnson threatened to take me out OF
Jail and kill me, if l did not tell him
why the Negroes were registering i'll
Greenvil1e.
In letter to Assistant Attorney
General O. John Rogers, Thurgood
Marshall, special counsel for the N. A
A. c. p, pointed out that the affidavit
represented Specific evidence of any
overt act in the violation of the laws
iof the United States, the type of evi-
dence which the Justice Department
has said would permit federal action.
I Youth Groups Aid Defense Fund
Coincident with the action taken by
the N. A. A. c. P's legal counsel, an.
nouncement was made by James H
Robinson, acting director of the associ
atoms youth councils that responses il
the form of funds to aid defense o
Anderson and the other members o
the youth council, were now coming
f into the national office.
1--WE started campaign in our you'll
councils two weeks ago. he said, 1T
raise funds for the prosecution of thi
case l am happy to say that despit
the fact that many of our councils al
over the country are not very activ
during the summer, definite response t
n our plea for funds are coming in. w
e have received funds from youth coun-
cils in Richmond, Va; Baldwin, Mich.
i Jackson, Miss; and pledges from coun
= cils in Detroit, Boston, Mobile, Ala
e and Jersey Citq, N. ]. This represent
l. the beginning of our fight to back up til
Greenville, S. c., branch in this case.
Twin-City herald., 1939-09-23

SAOiI w OCh Al
F e bruary. II
ur patriotic
6 e s ture takes
the form Of a
Cherry Cobbler
1t will receive
unanimous en-
dorsement from
the family.
Cherry cobbIer
Twin-City herald., 1939-09-23
TO APPEAL BROOKLYN
'SCOTTSBORO' CASE

New York, Sept, (CNA)-The John
Williams Defense Committee of the
Labor Defense announced
this week that Chief Counsel Samuel
A. Neuberger will be heard in an ap-
peal of the John Williams case before
the Appellate Division in Kings Coun-
ty on October IL.
Twin-City herald., 1939-09-23
Calvin's Newspaper Service
TESTED RECIPE
Bv Eyd,aees Lea Bdyso

TN tribute to the national legend
i Of George Washington and the
cherry tree, we hold a National
Nh orrx, WooE n,
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-17
lUST TAXPAYERS BUY
AM-EGG PROPAGANDA?

# Gov. Culbert L. Olson decides after
conference with $50 -Every-Thursday
nsion movement officials this week to
II special election on the so-called
am-and-Egg proposal, he will demon
ate thorough disregard of the public
ice he claims to regard so highly.
The utopian pension scheme was de-
ated at the last state election by the
hes of Californians who have managed
retain their sound economic common
hse. To force the states taxpayers
bear the cost of another election on
same proposal would be adding fl
ncial injury to a mental insult already
hvered in the very terms of the absurd
nsion proposal,
The fact that the pension scheme
mld in all probability be defeated by
teven larger margin than before makes
difference. The important thing is
at the people have decided already
1at they think of the Ham-Egger plan.
ley should not be called upon, as tax
lyers, to shell up hard earned cash to
nance an election which in effect would
nothing but a gigantic propaganda
hicle for promoters who make their
ings by preaching the $50 Every
lursday doctrine.
Petitions have been filed with enough
natures to force the pension proposal
Z the next regular state ballot. Since
law provides for such procedure, that
where it should go. There is no reason
call a special election, with extra
pense to the state.
II is debatable whether laws should
t be amended to guard against the
rennial Temperance on the ballot
such items as the Ham-and-Egg plan
4 4 our old friend, the Single Tax. They
/ foredoomed to failure = barring a
antic mental earthquake among the
pple-but they nevertheless continue
cost the state a considerable sum every
ne an election comes around. That is
side the point in the matter of politi-
\ election, however. We need amend
laws to prevent the special election.
need only depend upon the good
1se of the states chief executive.
1t is in his power to refuse to call
seial election on the pension proposal
economy is his desire, he will refuse.
twill let the proposal take its place
its chances on the regular ballot.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-17

man was Oh! very affable. ! said
TO myself, mo smiles, please. I
know the kind of man you really
are" 1 got out as soon as l could.
How utterly needless it all was.
What possible good did the man ac-
compliSh by reducing the girl TO
tears. Why can't we be kind and
considerate of each other in Of
fices? And why can't men be con-
siderate of their secretaries? When
a man has to "bawl out" his stem
ographer, it's an almost sure sign
he is petty.
Big men don't complain and find
fault. They guide. direct and en-
courage. They point out mistakes
only to show how they can be cor
rected. The small man finds fault
TO show his superiority. Look
around in your office and see if
this isn't true.
William H. Meadowcroft was pri-
vate secretary TO Thomas A. Edi-
son for 81 years. Their desks were
side by side in Edisons library in
Menlo Park. New Jersey. Some
times he spent l8 hours day in
Edison's company. Edison worked
at high tension, and often his
nerves were on edge. On top OF
this, people were constantly hound
ing Edison for interviews. Report
ers flocked to Menlo Park. Cranks
and crackpots came. 1t sometimes
an rfyhn ttynfsld
one pretext or another, tried to see
Edison. MeadoWcroft's task was To
sort out the ones Edison wanted
to see, and to get rid Of the others
Sometimes he made mistakes. Bad
mistakes.
In addition, Meadowcroft had To
shout at the top of his voice into
Edison's ear to make himself un-
derstood. Sometimes Edison thought
Meadowcroft had said one thing
when, as a matter of fact, Meadow
croft had said something else. IN
all those 81 years, Edison never
once spoke sharply to his secretary
Recently I went in to interview
Joseph p. Day the real estate auc-
tloneer-the only man in the world
who has sold billion dollars worth
of real estate. He has had the
same secretary for 80 years! Her
name is Miss Mcconnell. While !
was waiting TO see Mr.. Day, she
told me that her boss" had never
been really cross to her. Some
times they had had misunderstand-
ings but the moment she explained
her side, and he saw she was right,
the trouble was over What a fine
recordl
OF course we can't all equal that,
but We can all try. Try it today.
Just for one day. If you can be
kind and considerate for one day,
then 20 ucan be for another. 1t
won't cost you a penny in the
world. Begin today.
Begin now
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-17

Dorothy Marie Roth, James How
ard Rapson. William Earl Sage,
Mitsuru Sakai, Alice Salazar, Anita
Salazar, Wayne Sarver, Paul Sm-
uel Scott.
John w. Sears, Joyce f.. Sher-
wood, Eva Shumard, Margaret
Small, J. V. Stewart, Robert w.
Tackett. George Iwao Taxi, Will
liam E. Thacker, Donna Theriault.
Frederick Arthur Townsend, Paul
Tuchfarber, Gene Tyler, Marcus
Valenzuela, George Whitacre, Dawn
Barbara Ann Whitaker, Walter w.
Willett, Echodell Barbara Wilson,
Robert Womack, Wynona Lee Wo-
mack, Clifton Eugene Woodland,
Yoshiye Yamada, Suzuko Yama-
shita, Rex zinn, Robert Philip
Graves.
Central Junior College
John Wallace Anderson, Joe Rob
ert Badger, Mildred Leona Beeson,
rankie Nell Birkhauser, Esthella
Mae Blaschko, Helen Blanche
Blohm, Donald Wayne Brock, Mary
Louise Burk, James Lawrence Dyer.
William Avery Eaton, Harry Briggs
Fowler, Preston Everett Goar, Cleo
K. Green. Lois Isabel Huffman,
Kenneth Herbert Johns, Carl Kita,
Sylvia Elizabeth Long.
Margaret Evelyn Madden, Shir-
ley Frances MadduX, Harry Hiroshi
Minami, John B. Mouser, Toxic
Fred Okamura, Daisy Emily Rap
son, Grover Denton Rogers, Marie
Shigematsu, Edgar Akikazu Shima-
moto, Marian E. Stanfield, Alfred
Tagg. Robert Eli Thacker, Mary
Lillian ThamS, Mary Kathryn
Weiss, Merlin William Wooliscroft.
Haruye Yamada, Chiyoko Yoshida.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-17
Bruce Cation in WASHINGTON
Dissects the News

WASHIN GTON. - Although
washington doesn't ordinarily take
much interest in municipal elec-
tionS. it is unofficially bending a
speculative glance on one which
is to be held in San Francisco on
May 10.
On that date the voters in San
Francisco will make one more ef-
fort to decide what is to be done
with the electric power generated
by water stored in the famous
Hetch- Hetchy reservoir, in the
Yosemite. And the federal gov
ernment has several reasons for
being interested.
For one thing, a queer quirk in
federal regulations and the en-
forcement thereof has placed the
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-17
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE OF TRUSTEES SALE
No LAS d1I7

On WEDNESDAY the 7th day
of June, 1899, at ll:00 A. M. Los
Angeles Trust e. Safe Deposit Com
pany, as Trustee under and pur-
suant to Deed or Transfer in Trust
executed by Fauja Singh, Guardian
of the Estates of Sonti Singh, Cur
bachan Singh, Thaker Singh,
Mahanti Singh and Sohan Singh,
all minors, dated April /, 1897,
recorded June 3, 1887. in Book 457,
Page 220, of Official Records in
the office of the Recorder of I'M
perial County, California, and Sc
curing, among other obligations,
note for $4,000 dated April /, 1887
in favor of Security First National
Bank of Los Angeles, will sell at
public auction to highest bidder
for cash PAYABLE IN LAWFUL
MONEY OF THE UNIT E D
STATES AT TIME OF SALE) at
the Main entrance to the Imperial
County Court House, in the City of
Ell Centre, County of Imperial
State of California, all right, title
and interest conveyed to and now
held by it under said Deed or
Transfer in the property situate in
the said County and State, des-
cribed as
The North Half (NA) of Tract
Forty-one (4D, in Township
Fifteen Q5) South, Range Fiji
teen Q5) East, S. B. M, as per
Map of the resurvey approved
and filed in the United States
Land Office at Los Angeles,
California, EXCEPTING the
West 10 feet;
Also a i010 acre parcel in the
South Half (S1s) of said Tract
Forty-one (4D, lying North OF
the I. w. Gleason Grapefruit
Subdivision, described as a tri-
angular piece of land cut off
from said subdivision by a
diagonal canal.
ALSO INCLUDING all build
ings and improvements there
on or that may be erected
thereon; all appurtenances to
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-17

| Central Junior cOlleBe Will nave
! its commencement exercises on
May 81, the program featuring a
panel discussion on the part OF
the students.
For the high school, the gradua-
ton exercises are scheduled for
June 2 with DR.. Paul Perigord,
professor of French civilization,
University of California at Los
Angeles, as the speaker.
The following are the lists of
graduates for the high school and
junior college:
Central Union High School
Jack Aaron, La Verne Abel, Ben
jamin Adamek, Bobbie Ann Alder
son. William Frank Allard, Marjorie
Louise Anderson, Opal Ruth Ger
trude Anderson, Robert Atkinson,
Dan Bailey, Raymond Barnes, Alva
Blunt, Dorothy Erma Boyer, Law
renee AMI BridgerS, Clarence Will
liam Brock, Jeanne Burger, Finis
E. Burton jr., Audrey Chambers,
Mary Louise Chormicle, Roberta
Immogene Clark, Dorothy Nell
Clark, Virginia Alice Combs, Betty
Cook.
Grace Mary Cook, James w.
Cope, William A. Crowell, Thomas
j. Daniel, Neva Elizabeth Dowd,
Carl w. Downing, Claudio E. Drys-
dale, Norma Faye Ebert, Lloyd
Edgar, Thomas Byron Epperson, jr,
Warren H. Euchler, Samuel New
ton Fisher, Laura Jean Fleming,
Carl Cross, Barbara Ruth Henson,
LYLE v. Hess, Carl Hime, Roger E.
Hollingsworth, James Horton, HI
deko HoShizaki.
Henry House, Ethel Lenora Hurst,
Ernest Gale Israel, Hugh Russell
Johnston, jr., Herschel Jones, Viz
ginia Lee Jones, Gertrude Kath-
riner, John Francis Kinne, Lucille
Norma Klump, Philip w. Knights,
jr.. Mary Kobayashi, Fred Kohno,
Raymond Frank LaBrucherie.
Constante LaZo, Hazel Elizabeth
Lee, Donald Ernest Lewis, George
Lewis, Betty Anne Long, Pauline
Lowe, Rose Ellen Madding, Gordon
Frederick Mailman, Charlene Ma
lone, Ruby Mae Manson, ElroSe
Marie Maquar, Albert Nicholas
Martinez, Takenobu Masukane, Ha-
zue Matsumoto, Buddy Measures,
Florence Jeanne Merritt Peacock,
Genevieve Eola Moody, Mary M.
Moore, Virginia Mable Morales,
Neil Morris, Frank l.. MouSseau,
Ermadine Muncill.
Jean Agnes MunSon, Buron Muir
ray, Noboru Myose, Virginia D. Nc
Bride, Phyllis Nadyne Mcfarland,
Fumiko Nellie Nakagawa, Grace
Shizuye Nakahara, Ayako Naka-
mura, Robert Neale, James Frank
lin Newell, Alpheus w. Newkirk,
HatSuko Nishida, TadaShi Nomura,
Joseph Frederic Northrop, Don Of
fill Johnny Ohta, Frank T. Oki-
moto, Thomas M. Okimoto, Mildred
Solida OSuna.
Pauline OSWalt, William Payne,
Wallace Peterson, Robert Lee Roy
Procsal, Charles William Radcliffe,
Frank Ram, Bob Reid, Gene Camp
bell Rex, Willard E. Rosenbaum,
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-17
:ALOUSY HAMPERS
NV ENFORCEMENT

Philadelphia city police and county
thorities have all but severed relations
ause the county authorities called in
ieral department Of justice agents to
lp investigate mass-murder syndi
he when it appeared some of the syndi-
tes victims lived in another state The
lice, feeling their professional honor
stake, split with the county branch
the law enforcement machine, divided
records in the sensational case, and
bounced they would have nothing more
do with the other law enforcement
encies.
Like jealous children, they intimated
~ would work from their own records
d wouldn't ask to look at anybody
e's; and they wouldn't show their rec
rs to anyone else.
t is inconceivable that adults charged
Eh protecting society against criminals
ould adopt such an attitude. The
It that they did take such stand
ives conclusively that they place per
ial glory above public welfare-for it
10 the good of the public to have crimi-
Is apprehended, regardless of who
Ikes the arrest.
Inter-department jealousy can be the
satest drawback to law enforcement,
Philadelphia may learn.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-17

city of San Francisco in the posi-
ton of Violator of the law. Fol
another, the Securities and Ex-
change Commission has been ask
ed to do something about the way
San Francisco securities brokers
have kept their right hands from
knowing what their left hands are
doing. For a third, Hetch- -Hetchy
and its electric power are a monu-
ment to one of the first public pow
er ventures of Senator George w
Norris.
It's rather complicated story.
Around a quarter Of a century
ago, San Francisco got permission
tby special legislation to construct
a city water reservoir in the Hetch-
Hetchy valley, which is within the
confines of Yosemite National Park
The enabling legislation also per-
mitted it to generate electric power
with the water so stored, but pro-
hibited it from selling the power
to any individual or corporation
for resale. The idea was for San
Francisco to get its own distribu-
ton system and sell power to its
own citizens. direct.
The reservoir being constructed
San Francisco set out to build a
transmission line from the power
house at MoccaSin Creek, at the
foot of the Sierras, to San Fran
cisco. 1t got the line as far as
Newark, As miles from San Fran
ciSco-SomcWhere around l925-and
then ran out Of money. Pending
completion of the line and acquisi-
ton of a municipal distribution
system. it negotiated an agency
contract with the Pacific Gas and
Electric Co., which paid the city
some s2,000000 a year and rcSold
the power to the citizens.
Now because Yosemite. where
Hetch- -Hetchy is. is a national park,
these details come under the iur-
isdiction of the Department of the
Interior. Permission to make this
contract with the Pacific Gas and
Electric Co. was, accordingly sought
of the Secretary of the Interior
No definite decision was handed
down; so, since the contract had
not formally been disapproved it
was put into operation.
There the matter has stayed ever
since. Several times San Francisco
has had a municipal election to
decide whether bonds should be is
sued TO finance completion of The
transmission line and acquisition
of a distribution system. Each
time the voters have said mo.
A good many years passed thus
Then, at last, the matter came be-
fore the attention Of Secretary OF
the Interior Ickes. who challenged
the legality of the contraction the
ground that the law specifically
prohibited the sale of power for re.
sale-and asked the Justice Depart.
ment to take the matter into court
The department did SO, and laSt
year a U. S. district court ruled the
contract illegal and enjoined Sar
Francisco from continuing with it
A queer situation will develop il
San Francisco voters again turn
down the bond issue and the high.
er courts sustain the injunction
against the power-sale contract
San Francisco will then be in the
position of owning a huge amount
Of electric power which 1t car
neither use nor sell 1t will lose thu
$4,000, ,000-a-year fee from the Paci.
fic Gas and Electric Co. which viii
mean a 30-cent hike in municipa
tax rates.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-17
Photographs

It's crime in Michigan for a
railroad to hire fireman who
drinks.
The old sub-treasury building at
Wall and Broad streets, New York
City, has just been set aside as an
historic site under federal admin
iStratiOn.
The draWbridge at the castle
of LourdeS, southern France. works
as well today as when knights in
armor visited the castle 600 years
ago.
On Midsummer Night, June 23
in Dalarna. Sweden, the natives
dance around the Maypole all night
a night club in Hungary has a
revolving dance floor and bars
sunk" almost to floor level.
The Bamilcke tribe in Africa pro
leCtS themselves from wild animals
by building homes like enlarged
beehives 100 feet above the ground
in the trees.
With conditions unsettled In Eu-
rope, American travellers are max
ing more and more cruises TO Am
erican islands in the Caribbean sea
Virgin islands and Puerto Rico.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-17

TO explain her
side, but h e
would not listen
He had the up
per hand and
was taking every
advantage.
w h e n S h C
came out, she
was greatly up
set, and | think
she h a d been
crying. But when
I went in the
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Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-17
:niox Quick Relief This CIinic-1ested New Way!
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT

said property and all ease
mentS and rights Of way used
in connection herewith, or as
means of access thereto; and,
whether or not appurtenant to
said land if used upon or in
connection Herewith, all water
and water rights whether
riparian appropriative, or
otherwise, all shares of stock
evidencing the same, wells,
pumping stations, en- n e s.
machinery appliances, pipes,
fumes and bitches.
Said sale will be made, but with
out covenant or warranty, express
or implied regarding title, posses
sion, or encumberanceS, to pay the
remaining principal sum of said
note, to-wit, 100000, with in
terest from April /, 1898 at the
rate of seven per cent per annum,
compounded semi-annually; ad-
vances, if any, under the terms of
said Deed or Transfer; fees, charges
and expenses of the Trustee and of
trusts created by said Deed or
Transfer.
The beneficiary under said Deed
or Transfer, by reason Of breach
or default in the obligations secured
thereby heretofore executed and
delivered to undersigned written
Declaration of Default and De-
mand for Sale and written notice
of breach and of election to cause
the undersigned to sell said prop
erty to satisfy said obligations, and
thereafter. on January 25, 1899, the
undersigned caused said notice of
breach and of election TO be record
ed in Book 508, Page 327, of Off
cial Records in said recorders Of
flee.
Los ANGELES TRUST e. SAFE
DEPOSIT COMPANY,
as said trustee,
BY W. N. BUCKLIN, Jr.,
Vice President
BY A. F. HUNTLY
Assistant Secretary
Dated May 13, 1899.
CORPORATE SEAL)
M. II "a 81.