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The Phoenix index., 1940-08-03
Six Mob
Victims,
Says lid
NAACP Had
Reported Four,
Tuskegee None

NEW YORK (SNS)-- Three
Negroes and three whites were
brutally lynched in the first six
months of 1910, survey by the
International Labor Defense dis
closed this week. The figure does
not include several others who met
death through lynch terror during
the first half of the year.
The survey, compiled as of June
30, reported a steady rise of mob
violence against Negroes, accom-
panied by savage police brutality
resulting in death or serious in
jury to scores of victims.
Reported by the Labor Defense
organization as having been lynch
ed were:
l. February 3-Fort Gibson, Miss.
Texas Red" .(no other namo
KNOWN Negro Trailed by a lynch
posse for "a days this fugitive, want
ed for the alleged Staying of
deputy sheriff, was shot to death
oy posse leader. Troops sent by the
governor to save him from lynch
ing never quite caught up with the
mob until he was dead
g. 3. March ATLANTA, Ga,
Sarah Rawls and Benton Foro,
white, beaten to death by mob
dominated by or made up of mem
ers of the Ku Klux Klan. Taken
from parked car in which they
were sitting, Klansmen charged
them with immortality.
4. March ATLANTA, Ga.-Isaac
CASTOR, white, flogged to death
with four-foot stud whips. xxx
charged him with "wife beating"
and drinking too much" Body
found in the woods. RI
s.. June 23-BroWnSville Tenn.
Elbert Williams, Negro. One of the
leaders of the heroic Right-to-Vote
campaign conducted by Negro citi-
zens. Body fished out of river
following a general reign of mob
violence marked by threats of
I1eck-tiey' party from sheriff if
Negroes tried to register and vote
In the present elections. Arms and
feet tied with rope, head battered
in, two stab or bullet wounds in
body.
6. Reported June 29-New Roads,
La, Booster Williams, Negro, body
found on Highway 80. Attempts to
create impression of hit-and-run
driver death, contradicted by con-
dition CT body when found plus the
fact that this body had been
threatened with lynching.
Among the examples of vicious
police brutality listed by the inter.
national Labor Defense was the
those of Ernest McDay, fifteen
year-old Negro boy who was beaten
to death by policeman at the State
Training school in Dallas Texas,
one day after entry on a four year
sentence
The report bitterly aSSailed mob
violence and urged renewed efforts
to force passage of the anti-lynch-
ing bill. 1t urged organizations,
groups and individuals to flood
Congress with letters insisting that
the measure long buried in COM
mittee be favorably reported and
that it should become law before
the Congress adjourned.
The Phoenix index., 1940-08-03

All details Incidental to the
convention program have been
completed here in the office OF
S. B. Simmons, national executive
secretary.
The New Farmers of America Is
the national organization OF Ne
gro students studying vocational
agriculture in the public second
ary schools, under the provisions
Of the national vocational eduCa'
ton acts of the United States
Congress. First organized in SEC
tional meetings in 1927, with 400
boys, the organization has steadily
grown until it has reached total
Of $4,000 active members in 18
states. It is designed to builo up
agriculture, improve country life
for Negroes and emphasize citizen
ship, patriotism, agricultural lead
ership, and efficient farming.
TO GIVE AWARDS
d. The convention is centered
around the theme Establishing n.
F.. A. Members in Farming" Pro-
gram features include special aG-
dresses by many of the nations
leaders in diverse fields, band con-
certs, discussions, the national
qgartette singing, public speak
ing, and agricultural judging con-
tests, awarding of Superior Farm
er degrees and selection of the
ranking Superior Farmer for
1910 and the granting of the Fl.
0. Sargent award
Giving addresses are j. M. Har-
ris, president of Philander Smith
College, Little Rock. Arkansas; j
B. Watson, president of the host
college; w. H. Bell, president Of
Miss. A. and M. college, Alcorn
Miss; and Frank L. Williams,
principal of Vashon vocational
high school, ST. Louis, Mo.
AS an additional feature the
various state N. F. A. associa-
tions will have Illuminating ex-
hibits at the meeting. Another
entertaining feature will be 8
The Phoenix index., 1940-08-03

man, Ohio Federation of Labor,
Columbus; Jesse Heslip, Attorney,
Toledo; DR.. Alma Herbst, Economics
Department, Ohio State University;
Mrs. Ella P. Stewart, Toledo; Rev.
Grant Reynolds, National Assn
for Advancement of Colored People;
Dr.. H. w. Nisonger, Education Col
lege. Ohio State University; Leo B.
Marsh, Executive secretary, YMCA,
Columbus; John Getreu, president,
Columbus Federation of Labor; Will
liam Papier, Research Division, Un-
employment Compensation Bureau,
Columbus, Robert Black, Akron, O.;
L. Sharpe, Manager, Atlanta Life
Insurance Company, Cleveland; and
Thomas Starks, United Mine Work.
ers of America, Bellaire.
The Phoenix index., 1940-08-03

NEW YORK, (ANP)-- Mini
mum cash wages of 26 cents an
hour for mattresses, 35 cents for
Chambermaids and bath maids and
Sc cents for ether women allG
minor employees in all-year no
tells, who do not receive meals
or lodging were recommended
unanimously by the Hotel Mini
mum Wage Board under the
Minimum Wage Law, it was an
nounced last week.
The following changes are ap-
pllcable, according to number OF
meals received by workers, 3 cents
less per hour if employee received
The Phoenix index., 1940-08-03
Minimum Pay Set
For Hotel Workers

one meal a Gay and 6 cents less
an hour if the employee receives
two or more meals a day.
Residential employees in all =
year hotels III New York City are
to receive $40 a week if room and
board is given and $13 if room
only is included.
Public hearing to discuss the
findings of the Hotel Wage Board
will be held in Buffalo or Aug
20; syracuse, Aug. 2l; Albany,
Aug. 26, and New York, Aug. 27,
before the order establishing the
new minimum is officially pro-
mulgated under the law.
The Phoenix index., 1940-08-03

r. w. C.-This girl that I have
been going with says she will harm
me if 1 don't do to suit her? Is
there any danger?
Ans: None whatsoever. She's do
ing everything she can to fool you
into giving her a nice slice out OF
your pay envelope each week. Don't
speak to her and insist that she
let you alone. She's dangerous .
let her go her way and you do the
same.
The Phoenix index., 1940-08-03

off my mind at all. I'd rather be
dead than live this way.
Ans: Your present separation is
TEMPORARY. Your husband loves
you, but he has allowed his par.
ents to influence him against his
marriage. Brace up and do not be.
come so bitter towsrd the world.
you will get your husband back by
fall,
The Phoenix index., 1940-08-03
JERSEY MAYOR RAPED

ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.-(ANP)
The action taken by Mayor
Thomas D. Taggart Jr. last week
restraining an act involving a
white entertainer at Negro owned
night club drew fire from score
of Northside citizens.
The Phoenix index., 1940-08-03
Urqe Dies To Probe Merqer
Of Ku K|ux K|an> Nazi Bund

Klan in South Carolina, Florida,
and other Southern states. Despite
repeated efforts Congressman Dies
and his committee have refused to
investigate the activities OF the
Klan.
The Phoenix index., 1940-08-03

sidered their activities American
rather than american"
Congressman Dies has been re-
quested several times by the NAACP
to investigate the activities of the
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that it won't take but a couple Of
letters from him, and she will pay
the whole bill. She's frightfully
afraid of a lawyer. you must take
these steps if you expect to get
your money.
M. III want to know if my
husband and I will ever live to-
gether again? I love my husband
very very much and can't get him
The Phoenix index., 1940-08-03
ONE KILLED, FIVE INJURED

MEMPHIS-(A N Pan aged
man was killed and five other
elderly persons seriously injur-
ed near here last week when a
car crashed into the rear of 3
truck load Of cotton choppers
The Phoenix index., 1940-08-03

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in a message to him from the
Roosevelt estate in Hyde PARK,
New York. Mrs. RooSevelt's mes
sage read: THANK you for your
stand on the Youth Congress
meeting. You are right"
The Phoenix index., 1940-08-03

PRAISES PICKEN'S EDITORIAL
NEW YORK-(A N P)--The
First Lady of the Land praised
William Pickens' editorial on the
Youth Congress meeting recently
The Phoenix index., 1940-08-03
Hundreds Of Negro Farm Youth Expected
TO Attend New Farmers Meeting Aug At
7 'TI'oNominate Seven
Superior Farmers

Greensboro n. C-(SNS)-The largest organized group
Negro boys the world New Farmers of America, will
assemble at Arkansas College, Pine Bluff Arkansas for the
sixth convention August 47 Approximately 5G dele
cates from is states wll|be in attendance.
The Phoenix index., 1940-08-03

integrated into the armed forces
without discrimination because of
race or color"
The Phoenix index., 1940-08-03

&c. H. Will I get married soonF
What should 1 do?
Ans: Yes, you should get married
right away. The young man is will
ing to keep your secret =. don't
inform your people as you now
have in mind.
It. Y. Why did the girl down
the street who moved here from
out of the state stop speaking to
me? She was so friendly for awhile.
Ans: The girl made your ac-
uuaintance first. then she heard
from various sources the little 'un-
necessary remarks" you made about
her and naturally she stopped
speaking. AS long as you live young
fellow. she will never gain conf
dence in you again. Stop gossiping
so much.
L. P.-I would greatly appreciate
if YOU will tell me how I can get
the money that has been owing tG
me. I have talked to this person
for six months and she won't pay.
Ans: Get you a lawyer and lei
him write her a letter. / assure you
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-27
Tobin Says Lewis
DisgruntIed When
Demands Refused

CHICAGO, Oct. 26. (UP-John
l.. Lewis, before announcing his
support of Wendell l.. Willkie, mace
certain mands of President
Roosevelt that were impossible and
perhaps illegal to grant" Daniel j.
Tobin, prsident of the American
Federation or Labor's largest union.
the International Brotherhood OF
Teamsters. charged in a rae o
speech last night.
Tobin is chairman Of the labor
division of the Democratic national
committee; hence his charge was
regarded. at least semi-officially, as
that of the Democratic national
committee and its first reply TO
Lewis. Tobins address had been
billed ip advance as a reply TO
Lewis though his network was only
a fraction of Lewis.
Charging that Lewis endorse
ment had placed him in the same
class as the steel men who tried
( to cruelty labor" he said he was
at a loss TO explain how a labor
official could favor the election OF
{ Willkie.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-27
CLOS Political
Leaders Vote 10
Oppose 3rd Term

SPRINGFIELD ILL.,, Oct. 26. CUP)
Illinois c. I. o. leaders, together
with officers of Labor's Non-Porti-
san league and the Illinois United
Mine Workers of America, voted to-
day to follow recommendations OF
John L. Lewis. national c. I. O
head, in supporting Wendell Willkie
for president.
Ray Edmundson, head of the
three organizations, said he believed
the decision to oppose President
Roosevelt for a third term woulo
make the difference between vic
tory and defeat" for the President
The resolution adopted by the
CIO chieftains did not mention
either of the presidential nominees
by name, but endorsed the recon-
mendations made by Lewis in his
radio address last night.
Springfield is Lewis home town.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-27
Gentlemen Prefer
Redheads Now,
Saws Anita Loos
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to the redhead and the more dur
able brunette to take their place.
These are times of violence, said
Miss Loos, and "ladies with red
/ hair have always flowered in time
Of violence
II quote you the wife of Nero
Poppea-Hypat Nell Gwynn, Mad
anne de Maintenon. Ninon de fEn-
clos. In our own country, Mrs. Les
lie Carter was the best redhead OF
the lot. Others include Mrs. (Sar-
alb Bernhardt.
ITO come down to our own time,
Magda Lupescu, Anna Sheridan,
Lana Turner and jeanette McDon-
aid reign among the titan-haired
beauties"
She recalled the depression days,
when the prophets predicted that
1.-The time will come when we will
look back on this period as the good
old days" That time, said Miss
LooS, is here.
The average mans time is taken
up with death, destruction and
world revolution" she said. "The
blonde, who needs the sunshine Of
prosperity for her full flower is
willing away like a potato vine in
a damp cellar"
Brunettes, she said, are "hustling
for their country, her cause, her
politics and her charity" leaving
the ladies with red hair. who will
break your front door in with an
axe, and that's the only method l
know will stand up against world
conditions today"
In contrast to the axe-methods
of the redheads, blondes GOO" their
way into a mans affections, while
the brunette is a pal said Miss
Loos.
Mature always meets man-made
conditions, gentlemen she said
in recapitulation. "One can always
spot a redhead in blackout."
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-27
Lewis LumbdStS
3rd Term Effort

mate one fourth of the popula ton.
Il speak to labor and to all my
countrymen," he said.
But to his own CIO associates
he spoke first, reminding them that
upon some of them, "I have bestow-
ed the honors which you now wear"
Many of his lieutenants already
are against him-Van Bittner of
the CIO, Phillip Murray, CIO vice
president, Sidney Hillman of the
clothing makers and a vice presi-
dent, too, Thomas Kennedy, of the
miners, R. j. Thomas. of the auto
workers, are among those who are
for a third term.
To the mine workers, he called
for help to "oppose the creation of
a practical dictatorship in free
America"
To the farmers, he said their
interest lay in aggressive support
of the Republican presidential can
didate.
To youth, Il say that the road of
opportunity 1Or you lies III the elec-
tion of Wendell Willkie for presi-
dent"
To Negroes, your living condi-
tions are poorest; your unemploy-
ment highest; discrimination against
you is worst. Surely you have no
cause to believe that President
Roosevelt is an indispensable man
To the millions of young men who
have registered for Selective mill
tary service, you, who may be
about to die in a foreign war, Great
ed at the whim of an international
meddler, should you salute youl
CaeSar?"
To Christians, why should you
vote for a man who ignores home
considerations and practises the
modern sorcery of war mongering?'
To women, lead the revolt
against the candidate who plays at
a game that may make cannon
fodder of your sons"
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-27
BUILDING SECTION
Church TO Be
Dedicated SUNDAY

Members of the Ell Centre Grace
Luthern church will dedicate the
Sew church building at Eighth and
Holt streets Sunday at morning,
afternoon and evening services. ac-
cording to Paul Neipp, pastor.
The new building. featured bv
white stucco interior walls and
siding exterior walls, will scat l3O
persons. Heating is provided by
three floor furnaces and interior
lighting features the new indirect
lighting styles.
Floors are constructed of Oregon
pine, wall and ceiling are insulated
with rockwool.
A hand carved wooden cruicfiX
features the altar decorations and
is set off by rich curtain of
red and gold damask. The pulpit
altar and baptismal font are OF
Philippine mahogany.
Extending west of the nave is
a wing, 5S by 9 feet which houses
the sacristy, a meeting room anC
veStibule.
All local labor was used in con-
structing the building and all ma
terials were purchased from local
concerns. Hugh Johnston of El
Centre was the contractor; Whit.
ing-Mead CO., furnished the lumber
and other building materials.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-27
3Negroes Put on
Big Defense Jobs

WASHINGTON, Oct. 26. CUP)-
Three Negro leaders today took
over important defense posts. All
were appointed yesterday.
First, President Roosevelt pro-
noted Col. Benjamin o. Davis to
become brigadier general-the first
Negro TO hold that rank in the
army's history.
Then. national selective service
director. Charles A. Dykstra, an
nounced he had named Maj. Camp
bell johnson, Negro educator and
former professor of SOCIOLOGY t
Howard University here, as an
executive assistant.
A few minutes befor midnight.
th war department said that Mr..
Roosevelt had appointed Judge Will
liam II. HASTE, dean of the Howard
University law school, as civilian
aide to the secretary of war.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-27
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charge that Mr.. Roosevelt would
lead the country into war. Mr..
Roosevelt, he said, is IAN amateur
ill-equipped practitioner in the
realm of political science"
He refused to reveal whether he
would campaign further, but it was
reported that he would speak In
Michigan and one or more other
states where the labor vote is hea-
Wy.
Lewis said he spoke to, not fol
labor. He claimed control of nc
votes except as men and women
might follow his recommendations
But he estimated that the several
organizations he represents, num-
ber 100000 members and that
with their families, they approxi-
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-27
Board Sidesteps
CROSSING Decision
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had been waiting.
Il move we make the grade sep
aration project in El Centre No.
on our budget list" Commissioner
Vaughn said.
After a mumbled conference with
engineers, the motion was altered
to read when federal funds are
made available.
At present, there has been ST.
100000 allocated for grade separa-
tions in California for the next
biennium.
During the various conferences
at Sacramento at which the full
delegation worked strenuously ano
harmoniously to obtain the project
! the Ell Centro delegates were facee
with warnings that no community
ever obtained such a project unless
there was complete unity of feel
ing. The suggestions indicated that
at least in the minds of some al
Sacramento, there still existed fac
tional disputes in Ell Centro regard
ing the underpasS.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-27
Salesman Hangs
Self in Jail

SANTA ROSA, Cal, Oct. 70 'or1
" G. wells, San Francisco anu
New York securities salesman a.
rest rested in Healdsburg on All embezs
element complaint, hanged n iiia,'I.n tn
in the Sonoma county jail mere W.
day. -, u,s,onded
hv q ,iIken belt in his cell by the
day iail force at breakfast time
Wells who also was known as
F. g Holman in San Francisco,
was arrested in Healdsburg late
Yesterday on complaint OF Mrs;
Myra Hazen, Healdsburg. She salo
she had turned $4,000 in bonds over
to him in exchange for Whlskey
warehouse receipts.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-27
King George, FDR
Appeal to vichy
To Resist Nazis

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of Makitla, east of Sidi Barranl,
in what was called vain effort
to break up preparations for re-
newal of the Fascist offensive
through Egypt against the Suez
canal.
Important military operations in
the immediate future were pre-
dicted by the Fascist spokesman,
Virginia Gayda, at Rome and neu-
trail sources speculated on whether
the Axis military blows would be
against the British navy in the
eastern Mediterranean, a new drive
into Egypt or a smash through
Spain against the British fortress
of Gibraltar. In Switzerland, dip
lomatic sources believed that Hitler
and Italian Premier BenitO Mus
solini would meet again soon t6
decide the exact time an6 direc-
ton of the projected attack.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-27
Woman Perishes in
Burning Building

VALLEJO. Calf. Oct. &c. up
A fire swept through two rooming
houses on Virginia Street here early
today, burning one woman to death
and critically injuring second
woman.
The victim, apparently overcome
by smoke and trapped in her room,
was identified as Arlene Rose, 26.
Betty Hoaglard. 81. suffered first,
second and third degree burns be-
fore she was rescued by firemen and
taken to Vallejo general hospital
in critical condition. She formerly
lived in Oakland where her mo-
ther, Mrs. Alice Mott. makes her
home at $50 35th st.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-27

splggeSt week OF tne year. A. "A. hal-
ser started, four new homes in
residence park.
Permits issued during the week:
T. J. Douglas, $50 Main street.
$4,000, repairs; l.. A. Hampton, 1875
State. $780, reroof house and gar
age; Mrs. Percie Thacker. 480
Brighton. $500, addition; Southern
Pacific, Broadway and Railway, re-
model, $500; John Drummer, Cali
fornia hotel, $4,000, repairs.
Lucille Boone, ITO Olive, 5000, re-
model; El Centre hospital $4,000,
addition; Sadie Clark, sis He'll. Sl00.
repairs; A. A. Kaiser, 1928 He'll. 1911
Hamilton, 1040 He'll, l043 Hamilton.
$4,000, $4,000, S3400 s3400. new resi-
dences; Joe Ryba, So. 5th street,
$500, repairs.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-27
Citrus Prora!e
Decided Upon Here

A proposed plan to regulate the
shipment of grapefruit from the
Imperial and Coahella valleys was
step nearer completion Saturday
as word was given to the state
bureau of markets TO draw provis-
ions for marketing order to con-
troll interstate shipments from
the desert area.
Coachella and Imperial Valley
growers generally agreed that a
marketing order to regulate the
grade and quality of grapefruit
shipped from the area was the
only solution TO the marketing
problem.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-27
The War Fronts
KING GEORGE SENDS
MESSAGE TO PETAIN

LONDON, Oct. rs. (UP)-King
George sent encouragement and
sympathy to France in a message
to Premier Marshal Henri Phil
ippe Petain today. He told him
Britain was confident of victory
and France would share in the
benefits.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-27
Were Winninq =
Wi||kie Declares

NEW YORK, Oct. 26. (UP)-Wen-
dell l.. Willkie came to New York
for the second time within a week
today and told welcoming crowd
that Republicans are on the march
we're going to win"
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-27
ITALIAN PREDICTS
"STARTLING EVENTS"

ROME, Oct. 26. (UP)-Start-
ling events within the next few
days involving the Italian navy
and probably shifting the wars
battlefields to the Mediterran-
can were forecast today by Vir-
ginio Gayda in the authoritative
newspaper GiOranle DItalian.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-27
GOERING TO MAP
ECONOMIC PLAN

BERLIN, Oct. 26. tUP)-Adolf
Hitler has commissioned Field
Marshal Hermann GOering to
continue the four year plan OF
economic self sufficiency, which
expired Oct. 18, for another four
years, with special instructions
to adapt it to the demands OF
war, it was announced today.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-27
GERMANS ATTACK
WITH NEW FURY

LONDON, Oct. 26. tUP)-Fleets
of German airplanes attacked
the British Isles with new fury
today and by mid-afternoOn five
air raid alarms had shrieked in
London where German bombs
were feared to have spread great
destruction and many casualties.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-27
WOMAN GRANTED
DIVORCE

Esther l.. Davis was granted a
final divorce from Hugh c. Davis Of
Ell Centre on the grounds of ex-
treme cruelty instead OF the de-
cree having been granted to Davis
as was inadvertently printed in
this newspaper Monday.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-27
BRITISH BOMBERS
BLAST KEY POINTS

LONDON, Oct. rs. tUP)-Hea-
w bombs uhloaded by British
aerial squadrons started big fires
in smashing attacks on the kiel
and Hamburg power stations and
shipyards, the air ministry said
today in a report on widespread
air offensive against German
bases.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-27
TO HEAR CASES

A San Diego judge, in Imperial
count Monday to hear an irrigation
district quiet title suit, also will
hear the state bar association suit
against j. Edgar Ross. The asso-
citation asked the court to prevent
Ross, of Brawley, from practicing
law, declaring he never had been
admitted to the bar. Ross disquali-
fled Imperial county judges.