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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-06-20
BIG BREAK DOWNS

In the government department
there has been gradual break
down Of the. prejudiees which have
kept Negroes in the background,
and there is promise of even great
or breakdowns on the part of GER
tain hitherto tough departments
Hundreds of Negroes have been
given employment in Washington
and more are being brought III as
TIE occasions demands.
In the industrial field, Negroes
have made considerable gains, only
after the President himself indi-
Gated his desire that Negroes be
given consideration, and In almost
every instance where Negroes have
been given the opportunity they
have done q good job.
Cracking the hitherto closed
aviation industry was one Of the
highlights of She past six months.
Many have sought credit for max
ing these things possible, but the
Negro Press more than any other
agency. consistently hammerilg
away at the injustices perpetrated
against Negroes, had an important
part in bringing these things about
Shipyards. machine shops, all
kinds of industries are throwing
down the bars in the face of the
war god and Negroes are profitine
to the extent of which they are
capable
Certain gains in the political
field have been won and for the
future. there will be a concentrate
cd effort to repeat the vicious poll
tax and to alleviate the suffering of
Negroes in general throughout the
country.
Various groups have sprung up
to present the cause of Negroes
throughout the country and many
new friends have been outspoken
in seeking redress for the Negro.
Through these and the Negroes
own effort, the first six months OF
the war have not been a total loss
tn the home front. although the
reverses suffered by the United
States reach down and touch the
most insignificant citizen. As the
war progresses and victories come
TO the armed forces as expected
victories will be won on the home
trout.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-06-20
Marine CORPS,
Navy Give New
Hope To Race
Admit More
Negroes To
Officer Schools
BY AL WHITE

WASHINGTON -CANP)- The
first six months of the war have
passed. Negroes are interested to
know just what has happened and
what, If any, have been the real
gains, not oily to them. but to
their country.
AS far as the United States is
concerned, there have been no real
smashing successes, but q few
scattered skirmishes which have
been called victories. On the one
hand. we have had the loss of
Guam, Wake and the Philippines
and crushing blow at Hawaii at
the very outset OF the war.
But Negroes, as part of the
United States, have made gains at
home and in the armed forces
which have been all the more re-
markable because of the conces-
Sionc made
MORE OFFICERS
In the army alone, there are now
rore officers either in active serv-
ice or in training than we had in
the last World war Negroes are
being trained for officers in all
branches of the service and are ac-
quitting themselves creditably. In
the air corps, there is lieutenant
colonel, and there will be other
Negroes with higher rating than
second or first iieutenants. Negroes
are In the air corps, they are in
the engineers, IN fact In every
branch Of the service.
IN the navy, the recent ANNOUNCE
ed policy has given new hope to
the Negro. and with the for1na-
ton of the Negro division of the
marine corps. history will be writ
ten. Already, several qualified Ne
gr3es have been received by the
navy and give chief petty officers
ratings, something 1t has been diff
fiCult for them to achieve before
unless it was in the division CT
mess attendants.
On far flung battle areas. Ne
groes have been assigned to i'm
portant tasks. They are serving as
missionaries in Australia. The queer
land which hitherto barred all Ne
groes from living there. Their con-
duct and compartment will do
much to show the Australians the
error of their ways
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-22

farmers tell us they have seen great
piles of scrap metal on various
farms but we have no authority to
help ourselves to metal on private
property"
Herring declared that if city
residents donated every piece of
scrap metal in the municipal areas
of the county, it would be mere
drop in the bucket to what is avail
able on the farms. In spite of that,
he predicted the city donations
will top the rural donations because
the farmers won't help.
Piles of scrap from 100 pounds
to several thousand pounds have
been seen on several farms but
as yet the farmers have not report
ed its whereabouts.
This is the farmers war too"
Herring said. 1--WE realize the
farmers duty is to raise food but
that doesn't prevent them from
helping in the scrap collection also.
The United States desperately needs
scrap metal and it is UP to all Of
us, no matter how busy we are with
other things, to get busy immed-
lately and boost the scrap metal
donations.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-22
Poole Sentenced
For Ellis KiIIinq
DONALD NJ. NELSON.

For killing Charles Ellis, Sr, OF
Brawley, H. A. Poole, 28-year-old
Ell Centre shoemaker, Tuesday was
sentenced to San quentin peni-
tentiary for a term not to exceed
10 years.
Casual and relaxed, Poole calmly
answered questions in Judge r. d.
McPherrin's division of superior
court and Internationally heard SEN
tence pronounced upon him. The
state board of prison terms and
paroles will determine the exact
length of the sentence.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-22
ing flight from Barksdale field.

ing flight from Barksdale field.
A man crew was reported by
police to have perished Tuesday
when an army plane burst into
flames and exploded at low alti-
tude near Caribou, Me. Police said
the victims we're pilot co-pilot
radio operator and two soldiers.
The pilot of an army pursuit ship
was burned to death Tuesday when
his disabled ship crashed and burn
ed near the Middletown. Pa, corps
depot. One body was removed from
the wreckage, but it was not immed-
lately learned whether others were
in the plane.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-22

vantage of the United States. Ship
sinkings off Americas Atlantic
coast have almost ceased.
When tile new land front is
launched in the west of Europe, it
is sea power that will launch 1t.
Sea power will transport the men
and material needed to the point
of attack.
To keep them flowing in an un-
broken stream until the whole Axis
edifice has crashed, America and
the other United Nations must
have sea power in overwhelming
strength. far beyond challenge by
any force that Berlin, Rome and
Tokyo can bring against it.
We are now pushing our greatly
augmented program of naval con-
struction with the utmost speed
at our command.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-22
Farmers Advised
Labor from Mexico
Unlikely inL.V.
Too Much Red Tape In
Obtaining Workers
Cited By Officials

Officials of the California
Farm Bureau Federation
Tuesday informed Scott B.
Foulds that it is unlikely
farmers will be able to avail
themselves of labor imported from
Mexico this winter because of the
strict rules governing its importa-
ton.
specifications and rules set up
to govern the importation of labor
from Mexico" said Secretary Scott
B. Foulds of the Imperial County
Farm Bureau, "are so strict they
are practically unworkable. There
is so much red tape connected with
the importation that the labor prob
ably will not reach the farms in
time to be of much value"
Foulds said officials of the state
organization informed him that
many farmers in California are
changing crops and putting in those
WillCIl VIII iSNuhS
amount of labor to care for and
harvest it.
Speaking along these same lines,
Foulds reminded farmers of Impe-
rial county to list their labor needs
with the United States Employment
service in Ell Centro If they want
consideration when the government
gets busy on the task of solving
the labor shortage problem.
He also said farm bureau officials
informed him farm laborers had
been promised sufficient gasoline
to get from one place to another
for harvests and farm work. They
also were promised gasoline to re-
turn to their homes in the east and
Continued on Page 6. Col. D
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-22
Senate Suspends
Ceiling in Favor
Of Parity Prices
Agricultural Group to
Back New Method of
Computing Base Price

WASHINGTON, Sept. %.
(UP)-The senate today ap-
proved suspension of existing
minimum price ceilings for
farm products, substituting
straight parity price or the peak
market price of the year prior to
Sept Is, whichever is higher, as
the new standard.
BY unanimous vote, the senate
adopted this provision in the pend
ing intimidation bill, after accept
ing an amendment by Democratic
Leader Alben w. Barkley, D., KY,
to permit the secretary of agri-
culture to adjust tobacco prices.
Meanwhile, the senate agricul-
ture committee voted IA to l to
back proposed farm bloc amend
ment to the administrations anti
initiation legislation to require that
all labor costs be included in COM
putting farm parity prices.
The only opposition vote was
cast by Sen. Scott w. Lucas, D., ILL.,,
who said that corn and wheat farm
ers could not benefit under the
amendment during the war. He
described the committees action as
another sop to 'the corn belt
farmer passed out by the so-called
farm bloc"
The committees action directly
opposed President Roosevelt's de-
mand that in fixing price ceilings
on agricultural products at parity
instead of ITO per cent of parity or
better, as provided in present law
Continued on Page 6, Col. p
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-22
More Nv. Folks to Attend
Ginger Rogers Bond Show

Ell Centro's war bond committee
announced change in plans Tues
day that will enable several hum
dred more Imperial Valley citizens
to attend the rally September 20
at the county fairgrounds where
Ginger Rogers will appear.
Ben Herring, committee secre-
tary. disclosed that anyone who
bought war bond during Septem-
ber will be given ticket to the
valley-wide variety show at which
the film actress will feature.
If bond was purchased during
the month the buyer may get a
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-22
REDS PUSH NAz|S BACK AT STAL|NCRAD
ALLIED POWER GROWS

When it is completed and joins
forces with the British and other
Allied navies, it will give the Un-
tied Nations a more nearly global
strength at sea than the world has
ever seen-and sea power, welded
by ships and aircraft, is the anvil
on which the decision in this global
war is being hammered out.
The navy which we in America
are now building will give the added
escort and patrol craft needed to
put an end to the U-boat menace.
1t will enable us to take the Of
fensive with superior force in any
theater we choose.
UNDER CONSTRUCTION
On June, 1941, when we were still
at peace, we had a total OF 697
Continued on Page 6, Col. ID
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-22
Farmers Must Help. Too.
In |. Y. Scrap Donations

Drive officials Tuesday appealed
to farmers of Imperial county to
get busy on the scrap metal cam
paign or city residents will out
strip them in their donations to
the war effort.
"The bulk of the scrap metal in
this county is on the FARMS" said
Ben Herring of Ell Centre, secretary
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-22

in a board of supervisors meeting
Monday when the FSA representa-
tiveS asked the board to endorse a
medical insurance program they
said was arranged by the California
Physicians Service, an organization
of $500 California doctors.
William G. Reidy, regional health
specialist for the FSA, and Albert
G.. Van der Boom, new head of the
FSA in Imperial county, agreed that
the FSA has made mistakes in the
past but declared the program OF
insurance for farmers with a net
income of $4,000 or less was a good,
sound one. They said the Commu-
mist accusation had been refuted.
Supervisors, however, declined to
endorse the program unless advised
to do so by physicians of Imperial
county.
AGENCY SET UP
In spite of this rather stormy
start, Reidy and Van der Boom held
meeting Tuesday night and form
ed a temporary organization for
their rural health program.
Reidy told the 40 persons who
attended the meeting in Central
Junior college auditorium in Ell
Centro that the California Physi-
clans Service program was designed
to give medical, surgical, and hos
pital service to the farmers at a
cost within the reach of low in
come farm families, $40 for single
persons for years service and $50
for a family of four or more.
Earl Northrup, temporary chair
man, appointed the following per-
sons to represent the various dis
tricts of the county as temporary
organization committee: Mesdames
S. E. Robinson, c. E. Cooke, Fred
Pollard, c. E. Hackleman, E. H,
Ferguson, L. G.. Littrell. Henry Up
holt, Paul Alvey, Charley Smith,
Arthur johnson, James Carson, w,
r. Farmer, Jim Williams, and the
Messrs. Alex Meyer, and Fred Kamm.
This group will meet for the first
time Monday at place to be select
ed later.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-22
Berkeley Teacher
Jailed as Alien

BERKELEY, Sept. 22-CUP) -
Police today arrested Fritz c. H.
Lilge, 3l-year-old University of
California instructor and German
alien, for violation of curfew regu-
lations.
Lilge, who said he was net pro-
Nazi and that he had written sew
eral anti-Nazi articles while at
tending Harvard as an exchange
student, was accused of making
several trips to San Francisco and
Palo Alto after hours.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-22

Five were killed at Miami. Fla,
when a transport plane and an
army bomber collided on the ground
at the 36th Street airport early
TUESDAY, causing an explosion which
could be heard 20 miles away. Four
were injured. Three of the dead
we're believed to be In the bomber,
two in the transport. Three men,
bers of the six-man bomber crew
escaped with slight injuries. The
transport was recently turned over
to the army under contract by an
eastern airline.
Seven fliers were killed near Lake
Charles, La, late Monday in the
crash of a B-26 bomber on train
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-22
TELEGRAM
u.s.
POST-PRESS,
Ell Centre, Calf.

accepting
Of
expected chalr3 to the American maintain
ships needed
this from the farms from industry
with
decline production add stores
chairman of Production
United
te metals that possibly be
towering stockples community the nation
a. the
DONALD M.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-22

Ulne III Gays Carried OOIlc Ol'
guarded optimism with regard to
the momentary trend of battle.
Red guard units. Soviet elite fight
ing forces, scored the biggest gain
against the Germans, Moscow re-
ported. They drove the Germans a
mile and quarter through the
lStalin.rad streets, exposing the
flank of Nazi infantry unit.
German reports attested the fury
of the battle and made no claims of
more than slight gains in the fight
ing that was going on from house
to house and, in some instances,
from room to room of large build
ings.
Russian armored trains were back
ing up the front line fighters, lay
ing down a crashing barrage against
Nazi strong points and replying to
the heavy siege artillery with which
the Germans were pounding the
city.
Dispatches from the front said
that the Germans had suffered
such heavy losses that some shock
troop regiments virtually had dis
appeared while losses in battalions
were so heavy that the Nazi high
command was said to be telescoping
two units to rreate one of fighting
strength.
Nazi propaganda reports admit
tied the terrific difficulties at Stalin-
grad, the German Transocean news
agency telling how one advance OF
$50 feet required 96 hours of bat
tling.
HITLER LOSING HOPE
Rome reported strong Soviet
counterattacks north of Stalingrad
and the azi-controlled Paris radio
spoke of violent fighting in the
Rzhev sector. The Nazi high COM
mand limited it's claims to a report
that ,o,veral fortified blocks OF
houses in Stalingrad had been cap
tured.
Stockholm heard that Adolf Hitler
was losing hope that his armies
would be able to crush Russia ano
that he was busying himself with
building a chain of forts along the
eastern front in anticipation OF
swinging the bulk of his forces to
Continued on Page 6, Col. 4
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-22

ticket If he calls at the issuing
agency of the bond. Every bond
is dated at the time of issuance.
Original plans called for distribu-
ton of tickets only to purchasers
of bonds on or after September Is
and before Sept. %.
Herring also said that employees
of valley firms whose bonds are
issued from out-of-the-valley points
will also be admitted to the show,
Employers of the workers who have
bought bonds during September
which we're issued from an outside
point should list the names of the
purchasers and bring them to the
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-22
BY REP. CARL VINSON
Chairman OF The House Naval
Affairs Committee

WASHINGTON, Sept. 22-CUP)-
Directly or indirectly, the first
fruits of American naval expansion
are already influencing the course
of the war.
At sea we have begun to turn
the corner.
Initiative exemplified in the
seizure of the Solomon islands is
being exercised elsewhere in this
glcbal war. 1t was displaled in the
big United Nations raid on Dieppe
and in the increased pace of the
war of attrituion U. S. submarines
are waging against japanese ship
ping.
The battle of the Atlantic has
definitely taken a turn to the ad-
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-22

chamber of commerce office In FL
Centro where tickets will be dis
tributed.
A singing contest between girls
from valley towns is now being
conducted. The two winners will
appear on the program with Miss
Rogers. Entrants Tuesday includ-
ed: Loleta Nungaray, Calexico;;
Mary Pearson. Brawley: Barbara
Mead and Margaret German, Cali
patria; Najla Sleem, Calexico. Mar
jorie Harris, Imperial; Margaret
Ann Henderson, Janet Thompson.
Roberta jerks and Gloria Payne
Ell Centro.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-22

of the county scrap drive commit
tee, land yet we have not received
a single call from a farmer to re-
port that there is scrap metal on
his farm. The least the farmer can
do is to telephone Ell Centre 146
and tell us he has metal available
on his place. Persons other than
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-22

charged, empIoyeu TWO pOWerIul
radio transmitters to inform Rome
and Berlin of United Nations ship
ping movements, including visit
of the liner Queen Mary at Rio de
Janeiro.
Among number of others who
were jailed with Di Robilant were
Amleto Albieri, described as one
of the most expert radio technicians
in Brazil, other Italians and two
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-22

BrazilianS.
Police also seized sums of Brazil
ian and United States money from
the ring One of the radio transmit
ters was in the suburb of Jacare-
pagua, and the other was found IN
downtown Rio de Janeiro.
Di Robilant arrived in Rio de Ja-
neiro in 1881 as member of the
l2-plane Transatlantic flight head
ed by Gen. Italo Balbo.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-22
y AMBlINe
\EpORTER
The Sun Dancer

George Varney never is in doubt
about the end of summer. He knows
the exact moment summer ends
and fall begins.
Studying his infallible system is
what started the rumor that Var
ney had taken up sun worshipping
The rumor is false.
For many years he noted that
summer ended when the setting
sun passed a certain mark on a
cement sidewalk at the Varney
home in Imperial AS long as the
sun sets on a line south of the
crack in the sidewalk, Varney said,
he knows summer is still here.
When it sets right on the line,
summer is about over. When it sets
north of this line, summer is over
and fall is here
He has been studying the mark
carefully lately and has prepared
his calculations. If he had lived
in the days of Caesar and helped
with the Julian calendar, there
probably wouldn't have been an er-
ror of IL minutes and 1895 seconds
from the true solar year which
caused George Washington to
change his birthday from Feb. ID
to Feb. % to be in line with Pope
Gregorys calendar.
All this stuff about Caesar was
unearthed by Leslie Burr, who
made quite study of Varney and
> his stance while awaiting the advent
of autumn.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-22
Germans Confess
9b Hours S pent
Moving ESQ Feet
Moscow Dis plays Cautious O optimism in
Announcing Mile and Quarter Advance
Against Heaviest Enemy Pressure
= BY UNITED PRESS -

Moscow reported Tuesday that the defenders of Stain
grad have driven the Nazs back mile and quarter at
point elsewhere have made small gains against the
crushing Naz The Russian reports for the first
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-22
FSA Agents Hear
Red Accusation
Stormy Meeting Of Supervisors Cen+ers
About Plan OF Federal Bureau to Set
Up Group Medical Insurance for Farms

Isnt written in the congressional record OF the Unit
States of America that the Farm Security Admlnstra-
ton was Communist controlled from top to bottom?
This blunt question put to two representatives OF
the FSA bv Daputy District ATTORNEY Charles G. Halliday
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-22
Is Lose Lives
In Army Crashes
BY UNITED PRESS .

At least 18 lives lost in army airplane crashes
during the last "a hours
Names of all victims were withheld pending definite
Identification and notification of next of kin.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-22

Centre. Yet look at the figures. Brawley
70 TONS Ell Centre, As tons. And Imperial
and Holtville, where scrap metal collec-
tions should not be more than tiny frac-
ton of those in Ell Centro, have far high
er per capita record.
What's the matter, Ell Centre? Aren't
you interested in seeing that America S
fighting men get weapons to save their
lives, and your own lives?
If you are, prove it. Get out your scrap
metal, NOW!
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-22
Argentina Nabs
Fifth CoIumnists

RIO DE JANEIRO, Sept. %. (UP)-Poce today
tinued Investigation of an Italian esponage-ffth column
Di Roban former director of the "LATI', (Itaian Air
Transport LneS D Robant and his confederates police
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-22

Deny scrap metal to our fighting men,
and you deny them weapons. Deny them
weapons, and you deny them life.
Ell Centro's record is a thing to be asham-
ed of. The figures:
Brawley, 70 tons.
Ell Centre, as tons.
Imperial, Is tons.
Holtville, 35 tons.
The county seat, the most prosperous
city in Imperial Valley, the hub of activity
in this agricultural empire-that is Ell
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-22

Give Me Liberty
While Mrs. Guy Wood of Cali
patria was at work the other day,
she received a telephone call from
her Negro maid, left at home to
look after Ann, the three -year-old
queen of the Wood domicile.
Honey" babbled the Negro maid,
"you'se just got to come home"
Mrs. Wood inquired anxiously what
had happened and wondered in
alarm what was making the noise
she could hear over the telephone.
Its Missy Ann" said the maid,
Continued on Page 6, Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-22

Speaking of Time
For days and days and weeks and
weeks, one of RR's secret investi-
gators has been keeping a clock
in the Jerry Robertson garage un-
der surveillance.
In all that time the clock has
stood with its hands pointing stub
bornly at o'clock.
That must be the witching hour
or something.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-22

| WEATHER
Maximum Monday 108. Mini
mum Tuesday 66. 5 pm. Mon
day 1902, humidity 13. am.
Tuesday 81, humidity 40. Noon
Tuesday 107, humidity 09.
BANK DEBTS
Ell Centre Business Barometer
Monday ........................ S520,721.52
Last year ..-....-.........-......... 4l7,2O3.S2
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-22
Baseball
NATIONAL

Sewell and Lopez; Pollct, Gum
bert and w. Cooper.