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The Phoenix index., 1941-05-31

sembIance Of truth than hereCo-
fore. Man has invented more
chemicals and learned to make
and use synthetics and concen-
trates Of this and that in the
process Of evolving more deadly
and devastating implements. In
peacetime these make for the
added pleasures of man.
But, it is not the material
things that will add to mans
ni,,iliund stnto fn1lo,,inn the ca
The Phoenix index., 1941-05-31
Flush Poisons From
Kidneys and Stop
Getting Up Nights
Be Healthier, Happier-Sleep Better

Be Healthier, Happier-Sleep Better
When you can get for 35 cents an
efficient and harmless stimulant and
diuretic that should flush from your
Kidneys the waste matter, poisons and
acid that are now doing you harm,
why continue to break your restful
sleep by getting up thru the night?
Don't be an EASY MARK and ac-
cept a substitute-Get Gold Medal
HARLEM Oil Capsules - the original
and genuine. Look for the Gold Medal
on the box - 35 cents.
Other symptoms Of weak kidneys
and irritated bladder may be back
ache, puffy eyes, shifting pains. burn
ing or scanty passage.
The Phoenix index., 1941-05-31

4OG ". NJ
Chamber o I
Commerce has
been for years a
major factor to
be reckoned with
in national life,
but, today, in
this period OF
crisis this Or
ganization has
assumed a COM
manding posi-
ton in the nat
ional picture.
The Phoenix index., 1941-05-31

But, not so, the National Negro
Business League.
I attended the annual meeting
Of the League in Detroit, last sum-
mer and left with the conviction
that it would never become an
Important factor in either national
or Negro life until it changed its
ways.
The Phoenix index., 1941-05-31

The PHOENIX INDEX political
faction rulings
the completely mparialy hatred
All matter coming should be office
be plainly only
Of the rights
to conden alter all matter for safety convenience unless the
Make payable to the INDEX 1914 East Monroe
Street they
will he Nd
The Phoenix index., 1941-05-31
MISS ANNIE LAURA RUMPH

MARSHALLVILLE, Ca Miss
Annie Laura Rumph died Tuesday.
May 13 after a brief illness. Inter-
ment was at Spring Hill cemetery.
An infant daughter and her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Gus Rufnpb
survive.
The Phoenix index., 1941-05-31
BY DEAN GORDON b. HANCOCK
(For AMP
SPONSORS WANTED

THIS AND KINDRED articles
on vocationalism, by student
stepped in the traditions of liberal
arts education, is easily one Of
the saddest commentaries on cur
rent Negro leadership. The fight
for vocational education should in
the very nature of things be led by
those stepped in the traditions of
industrial and vocational educa-
ton.
The matter of educating Negroes
on the emergency that has arisen
in education in general, is too i'm
perative to wait longer to drive
home the ugly truth that some
thing must be done shortly for the
program of Negro education if we
are to avert an economic cataStro-
phe. Vocational education among
the whites is in full swing. where
as among Negroes it has not got
ten under way.
EMPHASIS ON BUSINESS
Negro leadership is addressing it.
self to a more effective program
of liberal arts education with some
emphasis on business. 1t has been
my good fortune in recent months
The Phoenix index., 1941-05-31
PLATFORM


Of and In which they their views all political social
religious economic questions which face the
conscience especially business
that must become job makers as well job seekers
B. To instruct girls n Of thrift
A. To the Fatherhood brotherhood
a racial posterity.
the colored
with those technique other
In dealing rth Above dependable
succeed In business enterprise Therefore realizing these vital
points the INDEX shall times give
gestons rendering better
weekly he published In which
national
opinions shall reflect
opinion of PHOENIX INDEX.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-22
by Paul Harrison
Hollywood S Fads, fancies and Foib|es

distinction in virginia.. and SOC
you'll be seeing him, again oppositr
Madeleine Carroll. in Reap the
Wild Wind" But probably that's
all you'll be seeing of him. Mr
Hayden has quit movies.
He tossed his California license
plates into the Pacific ocean, and he
turned back TO Paramount the $1705
boat that was given him in the
hope of reefing his urge to 90 to
sea again. He has returned CaS las
I heard of hImD TO Ben Pines wharf
at Gloucester, Mass where he got
his first berth and began his rise
to become mate, navigator and mas
ter of real sailing ships.
1t tickles me TO recall that al
most exactly year ago I wrote q
piece deploring Stirling Hayden
entry into pictures. That yarn dis
pleased quite few people includ-
ing, l believe, Hayden himself SO
I feel better now that he has gone
back to his obvious destiny There
wasn't any trouble: he Just decided
he couldn't stand the confinement
and the mOnotony and the silly
orders of the sound stages where
the wind comes from Gathering MD
chimes and the sky is hunk Of
painted canvas.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-22
BARGAINS
IN DEFENSE

Ii WAS a glorious spree chat America
wont on in the late Juveniles. Times
were flush Money flowed III and went
cut the same way til a hard day Of
reckoning brought the glddy merry-go-
round to stop.
Today America is thUstiIy testing the
treeiX-tlowing stream OF another boom
tide ol dollars This Year the national
income Will reach 4 reeord-breaking $50
100000 000. Times once more seem lush
and purse strings are looSening material
ly. At the risk al being called kill-ioy
Uncle Sam Is looking ahead to a possible
less rosy day. tightening inStallment cled-
il. regulating prices and production To
restrict certain purchases. He wants his
family to set aside something for the
rainy day which he feels is coming.
No one can claim that he didn't have
a chance to save for this rainy day Al
ready all over California. in response to
the |. s. Treasury department SuggeS-
ton, retail stores are offering defense
stamps for SaIe-itS a new kind of mer
chandiSe. to be sure. but one that will
give every housewife AN opportunity to
invest her change in United States de-
Tense stamps or bonds.
Selling these stamps and bonds brings
no profit whatever to the local merchant.
He makes the transaction as a patriotic
gesture to Uncle Sam. These merchants
are gladly making their widespread dis
tribution channels available. But to the
stamp purchaser its different story
Every stamp sold helps to train clothe
and feed the men of the nations armed
forces Every stamp YOU buy, being a
loan to Uncle Sam is a loan set aside for
your rainy day.
The present week has been called "Re
talerS for Defense week" and merchants
are hoping it Will be a big success. And
it viii be il local purchasers really sense
the Importance Of buying these bonds and
stamps. \ defense stamp furthers the
nations security today and aids your
security on the morrow. Who could ask
for better borgain.
To Keep EN- Flying-keep on Buying
L. S Defense Stamps This week retail
erS are making it easier for you.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-22

first time i'll many years, people
have money to spend. Denied that
pleasant sensation for a long time.
they insist on spending it. So long
as they spend it on matters not
competing with national defense
land Sunburn. movies, books, and
football contests generally don'U.
who is going to say them nay?
Nobody.
Does this indicate light-minded-
ness in the face of growing realiz-
alton of crisis in the nations af-
fairs? We think not. No people
was ever more sorely beset, nor
more brayeiy and grimly embattled
than the British. Yet such diver
sion as is available there is patron
lied eagerly, not to say frantically.
For many people, diversion is all
that keeps them going in world
whose terrorS increase daily. II a
man spend 40 hours a week driving
riyctS into the wings of airplanes.
shall he not relax the rest of the
time, and spend his money to do
so? Certainly. and he'll drive all
the more riVets for that.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-22
THE FARMER LIVES HERE
ALL THE YEAR ROUND

Once a wear ShotgunS roar a crcsrCndo
in Imperial county, Small shot peppers
down on farm houses and fields, 'No
Hunting" signs blossom like NerhenaS II
the desert Spring, and wise doves and
farmers alike depart for carefully select
ed secluson until the orgy shall have
passed.
That time Of year has arrived again.
The dove season is here. Doves are OIL
the wing-and 50 are chickens. Hunters
are high and loW-and so are Farmers,
tcmpers and morale Leaden pellets TN
the sky-and the hides of dairy ANIMALS
The Sportsmen are at i again.
There are two kinds Of dove hunters
these days but only one kind Of farmer
the angry kind The dove hunters
divide up into two general cIaSSl1lealohS:
the kind who exercise care fer their own
safety and the safety Of lives and prop
ertyxof other persons, and the hlho Id
whom possession of Il gun and pursuit
of dove aWakenS characteristics rough
" parallel to those Of an elephant III
must.
It is with the latter kind We deal here.
after pausng first to admit that not all
dove hunters are the exact opposite OF
gentlemen.
The fellow who sacrifices everything
mostly everything that somebody else
owns-in his mad frenzy to bring down
a dove or two is the one We should like
to see turned loose in the mountains
along about deer season with pair OF
antlers tied to his head. He is the one
who sees a NO Hunting sign and as
sures himself that it means somebody
else. He is the one who bangs away at
dove (probably at one perchlng on a
telephone wire) without noticing that a
farm house is directly in his line Of fire.
He is the one who believes that crops are
made to be trampled, that bitches are dug
to be preached, that COWS should be able
to dodge birdshot. that chickens are fair
game wherever found, and that farm
er's bedroom window is the ideal place
under which to begin the morning shoot
ing.
He is the one who should be incarcer-
ated in a padded cell during the whole
duration of dove season every year.
Since he cannot be locked up. the very
least that can be done is to remind him
that, after all, the farmer differs IN one
vital characteristic from both doves and
hunters-he lives in the same place IN the
country all year round, which fact should
entitle him to common courtesy from
those who invade his domain only once
a year.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-22

HOLLYWOOD, Sept. % - This
Robert Taylor, once as nice a young
man as ever came from Filley,
Neb. has turned out to be terrible
felloW-under the alias of Johnny
Eager" He's a killer a crook. a
parole violator. He's the brains of a
swindling gambling syndicate. an
eXtortioniSt and a vicious hater of
the law. He DEGREES executions as
casually as he later orders flowers
for the funerals He also shoots his
best friend.
And waitll you see how he
treats his danes, He even Slugs
Lana Turner, and knocks her cold.
Of course he gets it in the neck
cventually-the neck. the belly, and
maybe a few other places.
Checking back over Tayolr's rec
ord, you find that his first job here
was prophetic: it was one of Me-
tros Crime Doesn't Pay" shorts.
Taylor played criminal who mu-
tilated his own face with acid so
he wouldn't be recognized by the
law
Cinematic CRIME really didn't pay
him very we'll at that time-about
eight years ago. He was getting S35
a week. But the little picture won
him chances at respectable roles,
and he didn't get into trouble again
until a few months ago in Billy
the Kid" Now, as Johnny Eager
he's a complete scoundrel without a
single redeeming feature except his
valuable physical ones.
Whether crime will pay Bob TaY-
lor this time is not question that's
worrying Metro much. He and his
bosses figure it'll be a good change
of pace for him.
If the studio had any misgiV-
ings about it," the actor said. grim
ming, 1T was only because l per-
sonally liked the script SO much
MI Mayer ribs me about that be-
cause I've pleaded to do pictures
that turned out sort Of badly anC
I've battled to keep out Of pictures
that went ahead to become hits.
Speaking of type changes. therc''
a transition going on over at War
ners in the character of Humphrey
Bogart. Frequently a star but sci.
dom a true hero. he's rcdeemint
some Of his celluloid sins in al
Through the Night He is identi
fled as a former but reformed gang
ster. And he wins the gal ever
though, like Bob Taylor, he knock
her cold with a clip on the chin
1t looks like a rough autumn TO
leading ladies'
HAYDEN HEAVES To
I also have a report on a mile
stone in another career-Stirllnl
Haydens. You may recall him a
the blond giant who appeared witt
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-22
FINLAND NO NAzI TOOL
(Orolille Mercury-RegiSter)

(OrONille McrcurX-RegiSter)
Finland has good hopes Of peace in the
nearest future, says 4 government spOkeS-
man in Helsinki.
Niano Tanner. minister of trade and
communications in Finland and head of
the leading party, in speech said: The
Firms are no party to d great war. 1t is
for us merely defense war, defensive
War with the aid of which we desire to
secure our frontiers and a lasting peace.
Whatever i> needed TO secure this must
be done. but there our task also ends.
Those two statements, taken together,
seem to diScredit the statement also made
by Tanner that Finland would not make
4 separate peace with Russia.
Finland may not make a formal peace
with Russia, but obviously the war on
that front IS going to enter the trench
status, with rhe likelihood that Russia
will be able to remove some troops to
other fronts
The fresh statements from Finland
bear out the hopes Of Americans at the
start Of the invasion Of Russia that Fin
land would not become Z tool Of Nazi
Germany. Finland accepted the only op-
portunity that offered to gain back what
Russia 50 recently had taken, and then
announces that the War is over, 50 far as
Finland is concerned
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-22
Bar'bs

We're not SO much alarmed
should have $l.95 m more than you
cider is working.
Treasury statistics indicate you
should have $l.95 more han yOu
had last year at this time. Maybe
we'll find it in pocket Of laal
winters suit.
senator says increasing taxes
eventually may take some of tho
butter off our bread. Hope theY
leave us enough dough to make u
roll
Sometimes where you're going is
more important than how you
stand.
The New York man who managed
to walk 80 miles in one day must
have crossed the street only at IN
terSections.
Merchandise statistics show a
feminine buying boom. We hope the
ladies are not shopping their heads
off
Above triangle is the result of
two people not being on the square.
1t may or may not be signifi
cant that New York police were
equipped with steel helmets shortly
after Il dame socked Il bluecoat.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-22
GERMANS KNEW FIRST

Now it appears that German radio
audiences knew before President Roose-
velt and Winston Churchill met at sea
that they were going to meet, where
they would meet, and under what clr-
cumstances they would meet. We have
known for several weeks that the British
public was given hint Of the meeting
long before it reached the American pub
lc-but not until now has it been known
that Germany was in on the secret before
the peoples Of either Of the nations most
directly involved.
Mrs. Samuel J. Wagstaff was amazed
when she returned from a trip to Labra-
dor to discover that the American people
had been kept in ignorance of the meet
ing until after it was held. Everybody
in Labrador knew all about II, She said.
More than that, she listened to German
radio report. intercepted IN Labrador,
when it announced that a battleShip bear
ing the President was then entering Az
gentina Bay, Md.
1t has been apparent for some time that
the American administration keeps more
secrets, although supposedly at peace.
than does the warring nation Of Great
Britain.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-22
by Willis Thornton -.
Let's Be Gay About 1t, Say the People

The American people arc spend
ing more money to have fun than
ever before
Beginning i'll midsummer an ay-
alanche of cash has been pouring
from American pockets into the
tillS of those who have amusemcnt
for sale.
Variety organ OF the fun-vcnd-
ing world, describes the situation III
its characteristic style as "territl"
1t seems to be. For look what 5
happening:
Summer thcaters, dedicated to
deficits, disclosed surprising black
figures. The first football games
played to 10000 people in Chicago,
$4,000 in New York, and CORES
ponding crowds elsewhere. Chica-
COS civic opera smashed all sum
mer records with $1,000 people.
Race tracks have been trying to
keep people from being tramplcd
to death in front of the betting
windows. Distilleries report sales
up 25 per cent over last summer,
and the movies. looking for their
annual summer slow season. have
watched with joy attendance figures
piling up to from 10 to 18 per cent
above last year. The legitimate
theater, in those places where it
still exists, is booming.
Even more thoughtful forms Of
diversion. like the sale of books,
is up something like 20 per cent
over last year. The fresh air and
sunburn resorts have had theii
share from railroads carrying more
passengers than ever before.
The first reason for all these
things is, of course, that for the
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-22
DELINQUENT
COUNTY TAXES

A new short-term redemption law, ex-
piring Sept. 2S, 1941 is now in effect,
and is designed especially to help those
whose properties have been delinquent
over period of years.
Greatest savings to those whose taxes
are being paid under lO-year-payment
plans, particularly where several pay
ments have been made.
Will also help many whose taxes are
now being paid under the 5-year-pay-
ment law.
Where taxes are delinquent for year of
1910 only, this law does not apply.
Write, phone to, or call upon the coun-
ty auditor, El Centre, California.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-22
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
CERTIFICATE OF BUSINESS
Fictitious Firm Name

'
THE UNDERSIGNED hereby ccr-
tify that I am conducting a Pro-
ducc Route business at Ell Centre.
California, under the fictitious firm
name of Imperial Valley Produce
Co.. and that said firm is composed
of the following persons, whose
names and addresses are as follows,
to-Wit:
NJ. A. SCIARRA, 562 Sandalwood
Drive.
WITNESS my hand this 18th day
Of September l94l.
MARY A. SCLARRA.
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
} SIS.
COUNTY OF IMPERIAL)
On this 18th day of September,
AID, l941, before me, A. l.. LoWdcr-
milk, a Notary Public in and for
said County and State, personally
appeared Mary A. Sciarra, knowT1(
to me, to be the person whose name
is subscribed to the within Instru-
ment, and acknowledged to me that
she executed the same.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have
hereunto set my hand and affixed
my official seal the day and year
in this certificate first above writ
ten.
A. l.. LOWDERMILK,
CSeaD Notary Public in and for
said County and State.
My Commission Expires Aug. 1,
1912
tSl5-22- 2-29-O6l -
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-22
by Peter Edison =.
The Inside Track in Washinqfon

ments. a first attempt was made
to limit the actions Of submarines
to #hat might be calied code of
euquct. fixed rules to govern at
tacks upon merchant vessels IN
time III War France never okayed
this one. Sc It never went into ef-
feet.
IN 1880. another attempt was
made to get this under control III
draWing up the London Naval
Treaty but again France, plus Italy,
refused to go along.
Then came the Spanish Civil
War and with it number of in
stances in which submarines of un-
known nationality attacked mer-
chant vessels. Sinkings were rath-
or frequent, particularly in the
Mediterranean The British Suf-
fer=d from this so heavily that
in 1897 they called an International
Conference in an effort to get new
rules drawn up to govern this near
piracy. The government of Soviet
Russia accused Italy Of response
blll1y for most of the slnkingS OF
Russian vessels. so Germany and
Italy refused to sit in.
But in 1885. two years before,
in drawing up a new treaty to re-
place the London Naval Treaty OF
1890. the United States, Great Brit
ain. Japan. France, Italy, Germany
and a number of other countries
ratified protocols calling for the
observance of strict rules of inter
national law by submarines attack
Ing merchant vessels. And this
International law provides that,
while armed vessels of countries
at war haze the right of visit and
search of merchantmen, they can
sink merchant vessels o. non-bei-
igcrcnt oy neutral countries only
in the case of active resistance to
visit and search, or persistent :e-
fusal to step on being duly sum-
mOucd
None OF tho principles of inter-
sinking Of tn last two American
vessels. No warning, no visit and
search. no provision Of safety for
crews before sinkings.
That being the case, there re-
Mails for the United States gov
crnmcnj the possibility Of course
of action declaring the sinkingo a
yiolation of international law and
the actions of the governments au-
thoriziug such Sinkings as the acts
Of outlaws.
What this all amounts to is the
building up of an argument tnat
the activities of the German sub
marines and bombing planes are
the acts OF piracy, and that the
Nazi government is a pirate nation
That principle once established ii
would follow naturally that any OF
the armed vessels of that pirate
nation were pirate ships, and as
such the United States Navy
could be ordered to take action
against these vessels, just as II
would against any pirate not fly-
ing the flag Of a sovereign state
This, in effect, is the background
Of one phase of the President
speech. announcing a course OF pol
icy which has legal precedent fol
putting the United States IN a
position of threatened combat with
Germany or any other nation in
tcrfering with freedom OF the seas
and U. S. commerce upon those
seas. without a formal declaration
of war.
This course of action the shap-
ing Of this policy, has not been
any new OF sudden action. 1t has
been taken deliberately, step by
step. ever since the neutrality act
was passed by Congress IN NoVem-
Der 1899,
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-22

The Nazis and their Fascist al
lies have become the moral outlaws
of the world.
Matthew VOL, vice president,
American Federation of Labor
Life catches up with both indi-
yiduals and nations, as it has with
the world today.
-Rcv. Robert V. Searle. secretary,
New York Federation Of Churches
We can never accept the over
lordShip OF Supcrmen or the su-
premacy Of amy group or race or
class of men.
james Marshall, president N. Y.
Board Of Education.
The problem of aging appears to
be cur most urgent medical prob
lem.
Prof Henry C. Simms, Columbia
u. School of Medicine.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-22
So They Say

It is imperative that, in defend
ing democracy, we keep intact
those principles that have tradi-
tionally made America an asylum
for the oppressed a beason for
those who fought foh freedom.
Prof. Walter Rautenstrauch, CO.
lumbia U. School of Engineer
ing.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-22
Uranium Crackers
Married Stars

Married Stars
Much to the detection of their
fans, a good many of our screen
stars are already married Herc'3
chance to play cupid and match
up each of actresses listed below
with her correct married name.
|. Barbara StanWyck a. McCrea
I'd Alice Faye is Mrs. Phil Har-
3. Deanna Durbin c. Gable
4 Flower Parry d. Harris
s. Francis Dec G. Coogan
6. Dixie Lee f. Paul
7. Carole Lombard &. Taylor
g. Mary Livingstone h. Crosby
Answers
1-g. Barbara StanWyck is Mis-.
Robert Taylor.
2-2, Alice Faye is Mrs Phil Har-
riS.
3-f Dcanna Durbin is Mrs
Vaughn Paul.
4-c. Flower Parry is Mrs. Jackie
Coogan.
5-a. Francis Dec is Mrs. joel
McCrea.
6-h. Dixie Lee is Mrs. Bin4
Crosby
&c Carole Lombard is Mrs
Clark Gable.
8-b Mary Livingstone is Mr.
Jack Benny.
Cairo, ILL.,, was named for its
supposed resemblance to the site
of Cairo, Egypt.
During 1889, OOO,OOO,OOO kilo-
Watt-hours of electrical energy were
sold to consumers in the United
States.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-22

Our arms must never be direct
cd against brothers. The war prep
aration of the Americas is defen-
siye, not primarily for any one ma
ton. but for all.
President Vargas of Brazil.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-22

The newspaper is the most thor
ouehly read of any periodical on
the market
Robert j. Izant, Cleveland adj
yertiSing expert.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-22

EDITORS NOTE: The folIoWing edit.
OridiS are presented as interesting Opin-
ions rOiccd bu editors ciSeThere. They
do not Hect SSdriiy reflect the opinion of
this paper.