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Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-02
SMALL BUSINESS MUST
NOT BE SACRIFICED

There are warning signals flying in
Washington that little business, which
has for several years been tossed in
heavy seas, is approaching real hurricane
weather.
The depression years have been tough
on little business" in general, though
some of it has shown itself more adapt
able to new conditions than larger busi-
nesses and industries. The defense crisis
has brought further difficulties to little
business" and may, perhaps, confront it
with fight for existence
When the defense effort began little
more than year ago. it was natural
that most of the contracts went to big
industrial establishments. They were the
ones who could turn out the stuff, and
turn it out quickly Only few months
ago did we come around to a concerted
effort to spread the defense work so that
smaller concerns might have a share and
add their power to the productive facili-
ties so urgently needed for defense. That
is being pushed strongly today, accord
ing to r. L. Mehornay, chief of contracts
division, OPM.
Now we find ourselves short of mater
ials. Aluminium, rubber, copper, zinc, and
many similar materials must be rationed.
This might easily reach a point, fears
Peter r. Nehemkis of the OPM's defense
contract service, where third of Amerl-
can industry will De faced with the grim
reality of guns versus butter Not less
than ten entire industries whose supplies
are being either curtailed or shut off en-
tirely may be faced with the stark pros
pect of either finding something else to
do or shutting down entirely. For time,
in other words, there may even be more,
not fewer unemployed, with windows in
small plants making unessentials going
dark that lights may blaze brighter in
the windows of vital arms and defense
plants.
In word, there is tendency, under
pressure of the defense effort, to elimin-
ate the small enterprise entirely. Nehem-
kis is properly concerned about this pros
pect; he is right in suggesting that ''if
we permit total blackout of small bus
iness =. we shall have richly cultivated
the soil for fascist dictatorship" He
might have added 'or a Communist die
tatorship," for the two are alike in that
neither offers a place for the small enter
priser.
The defense boards in Washington are
aware of this danger, Nehemkis AYERS,
and are trying to be ready with plans
either to incorporate such endangered
small businesses into prime contractor
sub-contractor relationships, find ways
for them to make defense goods, or means
of tiding them over so they can resume
production after the emergency.
This is a serious situation, full of the
gravest possibilities for the future. 1t is
reassuring to know that there are those
who are already trying to find a solution.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-02

Impressive as this table is, it
should be understood that not all
the federal agencies within the
states nave their offices in these
cities. Detroit, in the Chicago dis
trict, has 83 federal offices. Texas
mas 1873 federal offices in 78 cities.
STATE BOUNDARIES
The Federal Reserve districts pay
no attention to state lines. Mis-
sourl, for instance, is the only
state with two Federal Reserve
banks. Each district is as near an
economic urit as It could possibly
be, which gives the 12 districts a
logical, if ungeographic reason lor
being This again makes this dozen
c!lles natural choice in any scheme
for decentralizing the country
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-02
Is Your Laxative
a Popular one?

In laxatives, as in people, it takes
something extra" to achieve pop
ularity.
BLACK K-DRAUGHT has been a
popular laxative with four genera
tions in the South and West. That's
one reason you ought to try this
all-vegetable medicine next.
You'll discover an all-around good
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-02

laxative. Spicy, aromatic, easy to
take. Punctual and thorough, yet
gentle in its action, usually, when
simple directions are followed.
The main reason for all this is
a tonic laxative" ingredient in
BLACK-DRAUGHT that helps to
tone lazy intestinal muscles.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-02
THREW IN THE TOWELS

Almost all the rest of that day
was devoted to painting lines and
holloWS on the actors face. Sew
eral times, returning TO The set
after another retoucbing job, he
vas told that he didn't look sick
enough At $40, his makeup was
approved and he climbed on the
operating table. Part of his head
then was hidden by towels and all
the rest OF it was obscurea by an
ether mask. Any man in the world
of his approximate build could
have played that scene without
trace OF grease paint.
The identity of the actor and
the studio are withheld, by special
request. in Difference to the blood
pressure OF the company's stock
holders. You'd be amazed by the
extent of silent influence welded
by people all over the country
who own a eew shares in motion
picture concerns. The fear here
Is that lot Of investors might
get the idea that a studio is Being
lun inconpetently, and that they
might get together upset the ex-
listing management and send out
some Wonder-boy. of their own
choosing
This actually has happened 4
lew times through the meddline
of eastern finsnciers and the re-
suit always has been chaos. When
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-02
by Paul Harrison =.
HoRywoods Fads, Fancies and Foibles

a money-man tries to run a stu"
dio, everybody goes crazy. Holly
wood is fond OF recalling that one
of these non-showman genluscs,
after only two months cf wild con-
fusion.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-02

WASHINGTON. July 2 - All
the hullabaloo about ine over
cioWding of government offices in
Washington, plus the expansion of
defense agencies, plus the fact that
some of the defense agencies them
selves have been forced to set up
fie!d offices in other cities-all
these things call attention to the
fact that IN spite of the corcen-
tration of authority in the capital,
federal activities now reacn down
to so many levels of local admins
tration that there are now literally
hundreds of Subcapitals, little
Washingtons. in every area.
Skip entirely the activities of
the $4,000 post-offices with their
233 900 workers, comprising the
worlds biggest business, handling
81 billion a year Skip the WPA
with its relief projects in nearly
every community and its Million
ai-up wage-earners. Skip Just the
draft boards and the censustakers.
Consider just the regular federal
administrative agencies which
have branch offices outside OF
Washington and you get unbeliev-
able totals.
Consciously or not. your federal
government is taking over so many
functions which deal directly with
the people. and not through thc
states Or smaller units of local
government, that if the trend
goes on, the entire pattern OF ad-
ministratlon will be changed.
GRASS ROOTS GOVERNMENT
Advent Of the defense program
has fastened this movement As
the Office Of Production Manage
ment expanded, several of its di-
visions have found that they must
have more sub-headquarters to
keep in touch with local conditions.
The training within industry
program of OPM was the first to
branch out, establishing % field
offices Then the aeiense contract
service, organized to assist in sub
contracting, put ~ regional head
quarters in each of the Federal Re-
serve districts. The purchasing di-
vision, to buy local produce for
Army training camps, put in 12
main advisory buyers with an ad-
d'tonal "a spb-offices to help Il
quartcrmaster corps with the food
problem The information service
then branched out with y regional
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-02
barbs

You can't blame wife for bark
ing at her husband if he goes to
the dogs
Maybe bachelors and old maids
just haven't the heart to fall in
love.
When taking q flyer in finance,
better save a little as a parachute.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-02

EDITORS NOTE: The foIioIoino
edit orials are presented as Interesting
opinions UOiced by editors elseDhere.
They do not necessarily reflect the
opinion of this paper.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-02

HOLLYWOOD, July 2 This
place is not merely super-asylum
in which comedians wander around
playing Hamlet and producers be-
lieve they're Napoleon. All sorts of
people are victims of demertia-
celluloidia, and if they weren't
goofy when they came here, some
body will drive them that way.
Out at Metro, a booby-trap has
been set for whatever director will
be assigned to The Chocolate Sol
dier". Here's an excerpt from stage
directions in the script: Stevens
toy poodle Is lying outside the doc,
Of the drawing room; Eddys great
dane is outside the music room.
Both dogs are wearing dutiful and
appreciative expressions as they
listen to their owners voices. The
dane, thinking no doubt that the
practice has gone on long enough.
gives q tremendous yawn. The
poodle replies to this with fierce
adnonishirg erowl. Really, your
manners get worse every day! he
obviously is saying. The dane hangs
his head in shame. -
The othe, day priced
character actor checked into a film
factory at clock, went through
makeup and was On the set at 9.
Two hours later somebody told him
he'd nave to be maze up again,
because in his first scene he was
supposed to appear very Ill and
drawn. In fact, he was to under
GO an operation.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-02
Famous Sayings

When fear has seized upon the mind man fears
that only which he first began to fear-Quintus Cur
titus Rufus.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-02
Thouqht for the Day

And the Lord commanded us to do ali these stat
utes to fear the Lord our GOO for good always,
that he might preserve us alive as it is at this day
Deuteronomy 6:24.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-02
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Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-02

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IMPARTIAL
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INDIVIDUAL
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1941-06-29

CTR TCG 1897 so. STATE
~ n A<0 STREET
Fri. and Sat, June 2728-

Fri. and Sat, June 2728-
THE MAN WHO LOST HIM
SELF with Brian Aherne and
Kay Francis; DANGEROUS
GAME" with Richard Arlen and
Andy Devine; king OF THE
ZOMBIES' with Dick Purcell.
Sun. and Mon, June 29-vO-
THE BLACK CAT" with Basil
Rathbone, Hugh Herbert, Brod
Crawford and Bella Lugosi,
" SCOTLAND YARD" with Nancy
Kelly, Edmund Gwenn, and John
Loder.
Tues, Wed. and Thurs, July 1-2-
5
$50 ENDS OUR NIGHT" with
Frederic March, Margaret Sulli-
van, Frances Dee; TOPPER RE-
TURNS with Joan Blondell, Ro-
Land Young, Billie Burke and Ed
die Rochester" Anderson.
Coming Sun. and Mon, July 6-7-
FOOTSTEPS IN THE DARK
with Enrol Flynn, Brenda Mar
shall, Ralph Bellamy and Alan
Hale; BACK IN THE SADDLE
with Smiley Brunette, Mary Lee
and Edward Morris.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1941-06-29

piano player when the latter took
on heavy load Of fire water and
couldn't make the job. Duke
played by ear, rather than by in
struction, and SO when the ar
rangements Of the piano players
Duke used to listen to became too
involved for his uninstructed ears,
he began to improvise.
Oliver Perry heard Duke one
Gay, and was 50 impressed he en-
couraged him to study, also Civ
ing him personal instruction.
Russell Wooding gave him job
on the condition that Duke would
stick to legitimate piano and not
go in for Ellington musical shi-
nanegans. Duke stuck to legiti-
mate piano all through one con-
cert,-almost. But as the music
PAUSED he put in a strictly Filing
ton break, and Wooding fired him.
Duke studied some mere, went to
Perry and got a job directing on
his bands, In 1928, he joined
Wilbur Sweatman's band, but left
in two years to come to New
York with five Of his own men.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1941-06-29
BY ALVIN MOSES
a GOOD WILL AMBASSADOR
WITHOUT PORTFOLIO


NEW YORK, June CAMP
r. Since the first world war Bill
(Bojangles) Robinson has led all
entertainers, irrespective Of color,
III the matter Of donating his ser
vice freely for benefits the
Negro press has honored Bill as
ne SO richly deserves year in and
out since the years when Kaiser
Wilhelm acted the role Of DOGGY
man now taken over by that pa
ian, Adolf Hitler. This pen
sketch, however, does not concern
itself with "Bo", but with a much
less known favOrite son of Har-
lem LUTHER CHERRY
We who have spent the better por-
ton Of our lives in theatre and
nightclub Coverage, have since
1880, looked upon Luther as
sort of good will ambassador, serv-
ing the community without any
particular official designation
Most of us can do a grand job
when the band is playing
when the stadium is crowded to
the gates with gay and avid spec
tators eager to applaud the u.
eXhibitiOnist, tOWn-crier, or plain
buncombe artist but Luther
needs no such window dressing
He lends his best which
means working "a hours a day.
u fostering education as he did
last month at Lido ballroom, for
a nationally known Negro school,
in bringing to the public atten-
ton characters like Daniel Bur-
rows, youthful Democratic leader
of the 10Th Assembly district, and
u lending his full support to
church benefits, like the one all
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1941-06-29
GOSSIP OF THE MOVIE LOTS

planned, ''but we movie and stage
folk are more interested in the
inside IoWdOWn Of our own world,
than. in Hitler, Stain, Mussolinf,
the Fourth Dimension, or the gla-
ciers on Mars"
Hold on to Your Hats, We're Off
When you gotta go, you gotta 60,
so to make up for lost time We'll
have wheels. Short, snappy, con-
densed tiny It'd bits; mere prom
ises Of news is what you're going
to get SO rapidly it'll make your
head swim, Have too much. to
say and too little time to do it
III.
Biggest event of the week; the
Gay CabalIeros summer dance at
the Elks last Saturday night
Cabin in the Sky" proved sensa-
Continued or page 81
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1941-06-29
OWP 1858 SOUTH STATE
STREET
Sun, Mon, and Tues, June 90
80 and July Il

Sun, Mon, and Tues, June 20
80 and July Il
Giant double feature: Roches-
Ter in TOPPER RETURNS" with
Joan Blondell, Roland Young; al
50 "THE BLACK CAT" Basil
Eathbone, Bella Lugosi. Added
episode Nc. 3 of the new thrilling
serial, ADVENTURES OF CAPT.
MARVEL" and Donald Duck car
toon.
Wed. and Thurs, July 2-3-
Two giant hits: $50 ENDS
OUR NIGHT" Frederick March
Margaret Sullivan; also scot
LAND YARD, Nancy Kelly, Ed
mund Gwenn.
Fri. and Sat, July As
Three great features: "CON-
VOY", Give Brook; KING OF
the ZOMBIES" and SHERIFF
OF TOMBSTONE. Added come
Gy, Tragedy ANN"
Coming SUM-, Mon, and Tues,
July 6, Z, s.
ROAD TO ZANZIBAR, Bing
Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy La
mour; also "SLEEPERS WEST 2
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1941-06-29

screen and radio will converge on,
LIDO BALLROOM, to prove that
Negroes can, and WILL under
write and support their own in,
situations under the sweet banner
of charity" .,. Miss Eleanor
Kinds writes us that she has def.
mite assurances that such celebri-
ties as CANAGATA (Canada@
Lee, the actor Of 1941 whose per-
Torrance in Native Son. has
earned him ranking with the
leading American thespians- Of the
past 40 years, will be on hand; as
will MAXINE SULLIVAN, WILL
LIAM c. C'Father Of the Blues')
Handy ORLANDO (matchless
voice. robson, EDDIE GREEN,
funniest comedian the stage and
radio has known in many, many
years, JOE BOSTIC, great
young radio commentator DAN
hurley, crack writer of the Am
sterdam Star-News,- CLAUDE
HOPKINS, FRANK "A. BEASLEY,
MARNETT MOORE, ALLEN
DREW, HELEN STEWART.
MOSS AND HARRISON.
GEORGE STEWART, AL Babe
WALLACE, and many others
Let's make it our business
to h Id a box office for this Might
Of Stars" Theatre show, and don't
force us to employ any pressure
politics in beseeching one and all
to come out that night and % .
Jump with Dan Burley and-Al
Moses" -l,-
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1941-06-29
BY HARRY LEVETTE

HOLLYWOOD, June 26-(AN
P)-Back again with the OF Kol-
yum! And a promise to the faith
full Joan, talented movie contest
place winner, that it will not be
absent again without advance
notice. She very Indignantly
phoned complaining Of the nickels
she had spent on the issues Of the
local "A. N. p. paper from which
it was missing. ooh, the rest .of
the paper was all right" she eX-
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1941-06-29
1ab Galloway To Pla, Savoy Ballroom Sunday June 20
COMES TO SOUTH SIDE after
BREAKING record IN LOOP

givings. Galloway opened on De
coration Day in the midst Of a
typical midwest heat wave, and
the natural expectation was for
business to be off.
Opening night found the dining
room and the adjacent bar packed
to capacity and at II D. m. the
ropes had to be put up with scores
Of people waiting patiently in the
lobby for hours before they could
be admitted. With the heat wave
continuing business was still ex-
pected to taper off. Instead it
rose to mountainous proportions
with the dinner sessions always
full and the evening sessions
jammed with the younger element.
Particularly gratifying to Cal
lOWay were the comments of the
patrons in the dining room, re-
garding the musicianship Of his
orhestra. They all agreed that
they were most pleasantly sur
prised that the Galloway orches-
ira was equally adept at playing
sweet tunes as well as the 1--WE
pieces.
Following the Sherman engage
ment Galloway will play a one
night dance date at the Savoy
Ballroom Sunday, June 20. Fea-
tured with the band are Cozy
Cole, Chu Berry and The Four
Cab Jivers, all Of them creating
riotous sensations wherever the
Cab Galloway orchestra makes an
appearance.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1941-06-29
FOOTLIGHT FLICKERS

Harlem is rallying to in the in
terest Of THE AFRICAN ORTHO-
DOX CHURCH Of which Arch
bishop William Ernest, Phi. D. is
chairman. Bessed with q
sunny disposition, Cherry is on
speaking terms with not less than
$4,000 people of the ''do some
thing" class, which serves to make
him an invaluable adjunct to
any organization. We sin
cerely believe that Mr. Cherry de-
serves a spot in the weeks news.
Next Saturday night, the best
known Negro members Of stage,
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1941-06-29

The orchestra world was buzz
ing last week with the report
that Cab Galloway, His Royal
Highness Of Hi De Ho, had shat
tered the attendance records in
MS initial hotel engagement in the
world famous Panther Room Of
the Hotel Sherman. While some
skeptics expressed doubt Of the
Sherman date, the mark rung up
by Galloway erased any such mis-
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1941-06-29
PINEY woods
ALL GIRL BAND
ACCLAIM

The Swinging Rays Of Rhythm
of Piney Woods college, the
worlds largest sepia all girl dance
band, started hitting its stride in
Louisiana and Texas last winter,
is now being called everywhere
the Bounce and Jump of Boogie
Woogie Land.
Record breaking crowds greet,
sd their return by public de-
mand" in their recent tour of.
Florida within ninety days.
But if the occasion demands,
these Swinging Rays" bring out
music Of rhythmic sweetness that
brings to mind the slogan "The
sweetest music this side Of heav-.
en-" --+,
Their schedule picks up a few
dates in Georgia and Alabama be-
fore their eastern dates that takes
them as far North as Boston. +
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1941-06-29

"Three Chocolateers" Bobbie
GWynn, Fulton Alexander, Nellie
Lutcher, the Four Chocolate Drops
and Dootsie Williams band.
Clotilde Woodson into the Rhum
Boogie last week as producer Of
The chorus numbers. Lovey
Lane, star of the as yet unreleased
feature ''Take My Life" closed at
the It club after a seven weeks
engagement,
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1941-06-29
Would You Believe 1t?
EOSEY NEWS NUISANCE
BY EMANUEL MAULDIN, Jr.
WEDDING sUPERSTITTONS

savage
yhence wedding couples
drank honey a rronth-tce honeymoon Rice has
been thrown thousands the
almost universal symbol Of fertility
thought it bad luck stumble threshold still
his bride into their home The flower today
reminder Of who symbol Of fertility
bridal path Something DID, something something borrowed
something blue brides
handkerchief and blue
rhyme The blue has been aeltes
meant purity love- fidelity TIE old borrowed clothes
been interpreted sympathetic binding bride past
her neighb0rs.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1941-06-29
ILLNESS DELAYS
NEW FILM

Departure Of company Of coll
ored players drilled for soldiers
in Walter Wanger's "Sundown"
delayed last week account Of ill
ness Of the very necessary head
wardrobe man. Stage show
at Lincoln affording large work.
ing field for vaudeville perform
er5. Last Sunday it was the
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1941-06-29

Died $500 Mrs. Isabelle Crum, Of
Chicago, mother Of Mrs. Katheryr
South, wife Of Eddie South, fam
us Violinist.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1941-06-29

The "Tisket- Tasket' girl Of ra-
diO, stage and records, VINO has
been signed by Universal Pic
lures for a part in the Abbott
and Costello film, Ride EN-
Cowboy" which goes into pro
duction on June so. The singers
band will rot be used but will
probably be located for the four
weeks in a Los Angeles night
club, which will enable Ella Co
work with the band each eve
ming.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1941-06-29

that for the ordinary to know much
Of Of boy The who has learned
tn valves that get out Of order in
weak Better let him think OF
generosity and will beat happily II it
think his stomach where he puts his dinner
tearing
Let him think Of his blood part Of
battle-ground myriad Of good evil
pusce dead against him. and his bowels
gentle the testament Any
realized that he him about Is feet of colon semi
think the Of himself
COLOR THE COLORS
u s. Military nanelvers last trained air
officer field
where has its artillery concealed
spotted only few Of the camouaged
Iery found them all without difficulty Pcqued
shown its job the investigated and dcov
the artillery blind Other color blind
CamOufage dnt bother them either.
tie cooconscos person peering green painted
hiding looks exactly like surrounding it, tau
blind the paint reflects light different the
the light
thumbing through files
Unteers it cod-shoudered
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1941-06-29
COLOR-BLEND FOR THE COLOEs
HERE'S HOW IT STARTED

The giving him the cold shoulder
eVa custom HOnOred guests
when they ovayed their welcome became
their host literally
Eight agODr Albert Fosythe
The first Negroes the American
plane.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-28
DRYING CORN

ITk AY HUSBANDS family
IN have been driving corn
W. by this method for
over so years and as far as ]
know none of it ever spoiled. '
writes Mrs r r. Hedglln Mead
Vile Pa Clean off huslIs and
silks. place il in a colander
steam for ahnl-t- nnc-halt- hpul-
Then shave the kernels of put
il on platters or any convenient
dish. but not on tin or iron as
that viii turn the corn black.
place it where IL win dry out
without burning stirring II occa-
sionalIy and il VIII dry ln "a Few
DAYS We never salt corn during
77TVfT7y7 r77-r-rrr7--.- -tAal- has IL ten
dency 90 make the corn tough.
Then store it IN 10 pound sugar
sacks and hang near the stove,
for IL viii sometimes gather
dampncss after we have finished
When II is thoroughly dry put III
clean dry iars-ana- seal tightly
when I want 90 serve it put
what ! need into stewine pan
with sugar and cold water TO
cover and let cook for oue-half
hour. I never soak it, Then
when ready 20 serve ! put on salt
and pepper and lump of butter
with cream or milk"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-28
STOCKING up FOR THE WINTER

very much. writes Mrs, Harlan
Blunt. Argos Indiana
clean and break the green
beans into pieces. BlarJ~ in hot
water for ten minutes over hot
fire. Remove and drain and pour
cold water over beans. Drain
this water off and pack beans
tightly in jars Add teaspoon
salt for every quart of beans.
Add hot water, fitting to -top-ef
jar Seal tight, bat not too tight
and put jars in cold packer. Boil
for three hours count from time
water starts 90 hoiD Remove
from packer and seal tight When
opened season the beans with
bacon and enjoy them They are
as good as fresh green beans just
picked