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Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-01

ge en- hundred" Orderly Joe King
Iof Peterborough, Lincolnshire, said
los he and Robert Spencer of Bir-
finingham marched back from the
kiront behind their prisoners.
They were returning from an ad-
anced infantry position with IL
italian prisoners who were carry
ing two of their own wounded and
one French Moroccan native troop
er on stretchers. Near an open space
they saw an enemy column ap-
preaching from the side.
All took cover and, when King
finally stepped forward with gun
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-01
Hoover Urges Creation Of
International Air Police

NEW YORK, April 1.-(UP)- =
Creation of an international air po-
lice force after the war to keep
the world free of aggression" is
proposed by former President Her.
bert Hoover in an exclusive inter-
view with the United Press.
Mr.. Hoover also suggested that
the victorious United Nations strip
the Axis powers of their airplane
factories and, expanding his sub
iect to postwar aviation in gen.
eral, urged adoption of an inter-
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-01

Mr.. and Mrs. Judd in Ell Centro in
q letter from 1t. Judd's father-in-
law. His father-in-law came back
to the mainland not long ago from
action in the Pacific war zone.
This is the first definite news of
their sons ship and companions
since he was reported missing in
action many months ago. Since
then Mr.. and Mrs. Judd have re-
ceived no other news of their son.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-01

national freedom of the air" pol
icy which would encourage great
overseas air commerce.
COULD DO JOB
Planes alone, the former Presi-
dent said, could do the job of main
tanning world order, thus allowing
extensive land and sea disarma-
ment, while depriving war-minded
powers of airplane factories would
be the most effective means of
blocking ambitious dictators or mil
itaristS.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-01
CaIexico Placed
On Honor Roll

The city of Calexico was placed
on the honor roll of the national
traffic safety contest sponsored by
the National Safety Council, Thurs
day, as one of the 119 cities in the
country with populations between
5000 and 10000 having no fatal ac-
cidents in 1912.
There were only six cities of this
size in the entire state of Califor-
mia with a similar record.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-01

WASHINGTON, April 1.-UP)-
l9-year-old Betty Louise Taylor
didn't want to DE a millionaire and,
it developed today, she won't have
to be one
If she sticks around this planet
until she is 30, however, it looks as
though Miss Taylor will have to
accept a paltry l00,000-even if
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-01
HoItviI|e High
Gets WPB PLAQUE

HOLTVILLE, April l.-Most priz-
ed possession of Holtville Union
High school is the plaque presented
the school by the War Production
board because Holtville High school
collected more scrap metal per pu-
pill than any school in California.
Nolan Smith, county head of the
scrap metal drive. and officers OF
the armel forces, presented the
plaque for the WPB at appropriate
ceremonies.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-01
Valley Ships 1st
Carload of Celery
Imperial Valley has a new crop.

Imperial Valley has a new crop.
The Vessey company this week
shipped carload and a half of
Utah celery, the green type, which
was grown under company super
vision on the G.. Mohamed ranch in
the Holtville area.
A carload was sent to st. Louis
and half a car to Chicago.
This years planting was only one
acre in extent as it was in the
form of an experiment. The COM
pany already is getting land ready
to plant greater acreage next year.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-01
JUDD. ENGINEERS
BODY IS FOUND

Mr.. and Mrs. p. H. Judd, parents
OF 1t. Danny Judd who is missing
in action in the Pacific war zone,
received word Thursday that the
body of their sons engineer" had
been recovered.
The engineer presumed to be
the navigator, who was in the plane
with 1t. Judd when he disappeared,
was identified by his fingerprints.
News of Identification of the "en-
g;neer's" body, which had washed
up on an undisclosed shore, came to
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-01
1 LYING FORTS ruin AXIS SUPPLY PORT
Easter Rabbits
Aren't Patriotic

WASHINGTON, Apri L.
(UP)-The Eastern rabbit has
been drafted and anybody who
rolls an egg this year will be
regarded by the government as
contrary to the war effort.
From the White House to the
Agriculture Department, the
word has gone out: Discourage
rolling and the traditional
practice of giving Junior a lit
tie chick or duckling to cuddle
on Eastern Sunday.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-01

Neither a Hitler nor a To1o
would be so ambitious If there were
a prospect OF a continuous air at
tack until such persons came 10
reason" Mr. Hoover said.
IF combat planes were reserved
to the victorious powers after this
war, they could, by comparatively
small combined force, keep the
world free of aggression with planes
alone IL opens great vista OF
land and sea disarmament II the
world acts intelligently about IT,"
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-01
Gold Counterfeit
Plot iScovered

CHICAGO, April 1. = (UP) A
federal grand jury returned indict-
ments today charging three men,
one of whom allegedly represented
himself as a foreign agent, with
plot to counterfeit double -eagle $50
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-01
One More Makes
Even Hundred

WITH BRITISH FORCES, Northern Tunsia, March
II. Delayed) )-(UP)-Two British medical orderlies cap
iured entire Italian company of 80 men today, and
ound it unbeievaby easy because the Italians appeared
ager to surrender cts pity it couldn't have been
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-01
Million Dollar
Bond Quota Fixed

With April quota of $l,297,4 staring them in the
face directors of the bond drive in Imperial county
Thursday mapped plans for early campaign and allotted
each district slice of the staggering quota.
The drive will he part of nationwide effort to raise
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-01
FIGHTER Fathers
Go on Big Scale
Group TO Organize Nationally with
EI Cen+ro as Headqu quarters; Forts
TO Be Established Over United States

Imperial county will he national headquarters of the
Fathers of Fighters and Ell Centre will be Fort No. II
the organization formed by with in the armeo
forces of the United States, it decided at meeting
Wednesday night. Officials Of the organization at the
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-01
Imperial Co. Has
Hiqhest T.b. Rate
Chief Of State Tuberculosis Bureau
Urges Installation Of 20 Additional
Beds for Patients at County Hospital

Imperial Valley must increase its disqualification faci-
ties for suffering from tuberculosis if the disease
from which 43 in this county died last year. is to
be brought under control the blunt warning given by
Dr. Edward Kupka chief of the bureau of tuberculosis
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-01
Plane
Carries
Produce
Valley Vegetables
Travel Via Air to
Douglas Company

For the first time in his
tory, two tons of fresh fruits
and vegetables left Imperial
Valley by plane Wednesday
ni"ht.
The produce was loaded aboard a
government plane and taken to the
Douglas Aircraft company mess
hall at the company establishment
at Daggett, southeast of Barstow
in San Bernardino county.
MADE ARRANGEMENTS
Arrangements for the produce
were made by officials of the I'M
perial Ice company and aircraft
heads. A government truck carried
the produce to the plane where it
was loaded for its trip north.
The shipment included 20 crates
of asparagus, Is crates of cabbage,
IL crates Of grapefruit, and 20
crates of carrots.
1t was understood that the iso-
lated situation of the plant make it
difficult to supply the company
Continued on Page 8, Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-01
Ground Action on
Name i'm TuniSiu
AS Planes Strike
Romme| Leads Forces Through Gabes
Bo+t|eneck, Makes Delaying Stand;
Americans Advance in Field of Mines

LONDON, AprH /. (UP)-Radio AIgiers reported to-
night that the French camel corps had occupied Kei
at the eastern end of CO Djerid (Sat Lake. in south
Tunsia.
A French conmunique quoted by Radio AIgiers said
that KebHi the last point held by the Axis in the
Uest of the Mareth Line.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-01
By UNITED PRESS .

Flying Forresses have struck their heaviest blow of
the in spearheadng the battle of Tunisa in which
Secretary of War Henry L. Stmson Thursday predicted
"a great deal of heavy fighting" before the Allies win.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-01
REMEMBER THESE DArfsl

REMEMBER THESE pATEsl
Gasoline
"A" Book Coupons
No. .5-Vald March 22-hIay o.
Shoes
Stamp No. III pair I'll June 16.
Coffee
Stamp No. 26 H. TO April 25
Sugar
Stamp No. 12-Good for pounds until
May n
Canned Goods
Blue Stamps A. B" and &C" In
Book No good till April l.
Meet
Red Stamp "A good tin April 30
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-01
WEATHER

Maximum Wednesday 80, minimum
Thurs. 52; am. Thursday 55, hu-
midity 43; noon Thurs. 80, humid
ity 13; pm. Wed. S6, humidity 10.
HkNF DEBTS
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-09-17
OFFICE VISITORS

Visitors this week at the new
Minneapolis office of the Mime
apOHs Spokesman and st. Paul Re-
corder, 314 3rd Ave. So, were
Messrs. Carl Locke, Ellis Houston,
J. R. Hughes, Leon Stephens, Wen
dell Jones, Harry Hill, J. Nathaniel
Smith, J. W. Baldwin, Theodore
McEldery, Edward L. Boyd, Tru-
man Pierson, Theodore E. Wood
ard, Garrett Davis, Jalmer o. john
son, all of Minneapolis, Daniel Reed
Of Cincinnati, Ohio, Cecil Adair,
Joseph T. Harpole, Fred Chadwick,
Clarence Smith, Minneapolis, Cor
don Parks, New York, and Rev. A.
W. Wilson. Mines. R. Glanton, Leila
Smith, Sarah Vaughn, J. R. Shop
ard, C. B. Nelson, D. Strawder, L.
Mcclure, and Miss Violet Asbury.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-09-17

began functioning with Elmer A.
Carter (now commissioner Of I'M
employment insurance in the state
of New York;, executive secretary.
Other secretaries have been Robert
Smalls, C. W. Washington, Clar-
ence W. Mitchell, Jr., and the pres
ent S. Vincent Owens.
The principal speaker on this &C.
casion will be julius A. Thomas,
Director of Industrial Relations of
the National Urban League. Mr..
Thomas is a graduate of Howard
and Columbia University, and is
veteran in Urban League work. His
experience includes positions at
Cleveland, Atlanta, Jacksonville,
Florida, Louisville, Kentucky,
where he was executive secretary
fifteen years. He was a visitor to
st. Paul when the National Urban
League held its meeting here in
1880.
Mr.. Thomas will bring a message
that is expected to be of interest
to adults and young people. He is
regarded an eloquent speaker and
will discuss the plight of the Negro
worker in the post war period.
The st. Paul Urban League
wishes its members and friends to
know that the meeting will start
promptly at 1880 p. m, and will
end by $3.50 in order that war work
ers on the night shift will be able
to hear all of the meeting and reach
their jobs on time.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-09-17
More Than $50
Attend Dinner at
CamphOr M. E.
White and Negro Church Join
in Meeting

More than $50 attended the
World Friendship dinner in the
Camphor Memorial Methodist
Church, Sunday, September IL.
Catholics, Jews, Protestants of sew
eral denominations, including three
races, White, Negro and Japanese
Americans mingled together freely
and were served a delicious ham
dinner by the women of the Peo-
pies Highland Park Congregational
Church (white) and the Camphor
Methodist Church. The dinner and
program that followed was a pro-
ject in race and international rela-
lions sponsored by the Negro and
white church.
There is no essential difference
between us except that of individu-
al development" declared Joseph
Gilbert, veteran Minneapolis news
paperman and advocate of the CO.
operative movement, in the prin-
cipal address on the subject 1.-THE
World Is Ready for Cooperation. !"
Competition must be relegated to
the past Cooperation is life
abundant" Mr.. Gilbert pointed out.
Special guests for the occasion
were seventeen Japanese-American
citizens, now living in the Twin
Cities area. Among this group were
a Methodist preacher and his wife,
formerly of Portland, Oregon; an
army captain and sergeant station
ed at Fort Smelling. "The forcing
of American citizens of japanese
descent into concentration camps,
called relocation centers, will go
down as one of the BLACKLIST blots
ever made on our American de-
mocracy" declared Mrs. Ruth Gage
Colby, who presided at the program.
Mrs. Earl Tanabara spoke for the
Japanese-American citizens who
were present. She thanked the peo-
pie of the Twin Cities area for
their kindness and hospitality to-
ward her people. Mrs. Colby, who
is an outstanding member of the
Woman's International League for
Peace and Freedom, is a trustee
of both the Camphor and Peoples
Highland Park churches. Rev.
Clarence T. R. Nelson, pastor of
the Camphor Church, gave the in
vocation and Rev. Jeffrey Hoy,
pastor of the Peoples church, gave
the benediction. Mrs. ]. P. Will
liams, of the Camphor church, and
Mrs. Herbert Southworth, of the
Peoples church, were the co-chair-
men of the committee of arrange
ments and serving for the dinner.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-09-17
Ration Notes
For the Week September IL
through September 10, 1913
CTICAP

For the Week September IL
through September 10, 1913
SUGAR
Stamp No. Ia in War Ration Book
One remains valid for five pounds
of sugar through October.
Stamps No. Is and No. 16 are
each valid for 5 pounds of sugar for
use in home canning.
RED STAMPS
(For meats, fats, oils and cheeses)
Red Stamps x, Y, z remain valid
through October 2.
BROWN STAMPS
(For meats, fats, oils and cheese)
Brown Stamp A becomes valid
September IL and remains valid
through October 2.
Brown Stamp B becomes valid
September 10 and remains valid
through October 2.
BLUE STAMPS
(For canned, frozen and certain
dehydrated foods)
Blue Stamps R, s and 7 expire
on September 20.
Blue Stamps U, v and W remain
valid through October 20.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-09-17
Announcement

The undersigned, D. G. Dowdy,
who has for the past twelve years
operated a funeral service in the
city of Minneapolis, announces that
he has made arrangements to oper-
ate through the John A. Anderson
mortuary located at 1925 Riverside
Avenue, Minneap polls.
Here, he says, 81 am prepared
to offer a service of sober decorum
and religious dignity and a call to
Regent 0291 or Geneva 1926 will
be promptly answered"
Signed: D. c. Dowdy, licensed
embalmer, licensed funeral director,
sub-registrar of vital statistics.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-09-17
CORPORAL WILLIE HARRIS
HERE
Theodore Allen
On ms. Agents
Honor Rolls

The Theodore F. Allen Insurance
Agency, representing North Amer
lean Life and Casualty Co., was
third on the agents honor roll for
August production. He wrote $751;
600 in policies of various beverages.
He is first on the list, to date, for
September business among Is
agents. This is the third time Mr..
Allen has made the company's
honor roll and hopes to wind up
first on the list this month.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-09-17
Send Soldier Boy
Subscription for
Christmas Gift

One of Uncle Sans Christmas
gifts to men overseas serving In
all branches of our armed forces
will be the permission to receive
subscriptions to their favorite
newspapers without the usual pro-
cedure of getting permission from
commanding officers which has
held up delivery of papers in some
cases for several months.
These subscriptions to the serv-
ice men must begin between Sep
TENDER Is and October Is.
This newspaper is very happy to
publish this notice due to the large
number of inquiries received from
relatives and friends anxious to
send the home town news to their
boys overseas. The rate for sub
scriptions to all parts of the world
is $500 for 1 year or SITS for
six months, payable in advance.
Services ot ST. Thomos
Sunday
Mr.. Glen Reed, Bishops vicar,
will have charge of the morning
service at st. Thomas Episcopal
church, Sunday, Sept. 10, and
Father Hanford Russell will con-
duct the Sunday morning services,
Sept. 26 and Oct. 8.
Both men will serve at st. Thorn
as in the absence Of Father M. R.
Hogarth who left Tuesday for Mil
waukee, Wis, where he will super
wise religious activities among rail-
road builders of the Milwaukee and
Pacific Railroads through a plan
to improve labor conditions there,
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-09-17
Twin City
Lines Will
Hire Group

Twin City Lines, street railway
and bus company, agreed to hire
Negro men and women as motor
men and conductors, if they can
qualify. This understanding was
given to c. W. Washington of the
Minneapolis Urban League and S.
Vincent Owens Of the st. Paul
Urban League by C. C. Champlin,
personnel director Of the street car
company. Applicants interested in
this type of work may call the Min
neapolis Urban League Office or
the st. Paul Urban League Office.
Carter is employed as a motor
man in Minneapolis and man by
the name of Tate is a checker in
st. Paul.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-09-17
MISS ROSELILYIAN MCGUIRE
JOINS WACS

Miss Roselilyian Mcclure, Fed
eral Cartridge Co., employee and
daughter of H. T. Mickey" Nc
CURE, has joined the WACS.
She expects to report for duty
about Oct. 1. ....
Miss Mcclure has been a T. C.
o. P. employee since May, 1912, and
was extremely popular with her fell
low workers.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-09-17
John Brown,
Age 73. Dead

John Michael Brown, age 73, 3644
Smelling Ave-, died at his home
Saturday, Sept. IL. Funeral serv-
ices were held Tuesday, Sept. IA,
at st. Peters A. M. E. Church.
Rev. A. J. Erwin, assisted by Rev.
]. J. Clayburn, officiated at the
service. Interment was at Crystal
Lake cemetery. The Anchor Hill
yard Lodge had a part in the serv-
ices. Woodland Funeral home was
in charge.
Those surviving are Mrs. Emma
Gilbert of Chicago, H., a brother,
J. E. Brown of Richmond, Va,
Mrs. Lula Craddick, Mr.. H. R.
Bacon, Mr.. and Mrs. ]. E. Riley and
Miss Laura McCullen, class leader,
and other relatives.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-09-17
VIM. A. Jenkins Dies

VIM. A. Jenkins died Tuesday,
Sept. z, of heart attack. Born in
Charles County, Nd, Feb. %, 1870,
Mr.. Jenkins had been a resident of
this city for the past forty-fve
years.
Survivors include his daughter,
Mrs. Vergielee Washington and rel
atives of Washington, D. C.
Funeral services were held Sat
urday, Sept. IL, 2 p. m. at Neal
McGavock chapel, with Rev. D. E.
Beasley officiating. Interment at
Oakland cemetery.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-09-17

since retiring from Congress, was
applauded again and again as he
related the story of his law suit
against the Rock Island Railroad
and the Pullman Company for
ejecting him from a Pullman car
while en- route to Hot Springs, Ar
kansas in 1887, which resulted in
the United States Supreme Courts
decision outlawing discrimination
against interstate passengers.
joined with these Baptist broth
ers and sisters from all over the
country as they applauded not only
Arthur W. Mitchell, the man, but
more, the thing he epitomized-
the fight Of the Negro for his full
citizenship rights in America. Mr..
Mitchell, himself a Baptist, de-
clared that four million Baptists
can be mighty force in the battle
for equal rights in this nation.
Meeting Place for Friends
This visit to the Baptist Conven-
ton proved to be for me, as it
doubtless is for others, a time and
place for meeting many friends
from all over the country. Among
my Baptist friends that I met were
DR.. A. Wendell Ross, Los Angeles;
Rev. j. c. Richardson, formerly of
Toledo, Ohio, now pastor in Cam
den, N. j.; Rev. Fred Guy, Little
Rock, Arkansas; Sister Sylvia
Cambell, a member of the Third
Baptist Church, Toledo, and mem
Der of the Sunday Morning Prayer
Band of several denominations
there, and DR.. William Holmes
Border, pastor of the great Wheat
Street Baptist Church and profess
sor in Morehouse College, Atlanta,
Georgia. It is not without pride
that I remember DR.. Border as
my friend and classmate at Gar
rett Biblical Institute, Northwest
ern University, Evanston, Illinois.
Well Repaid
AS rode the train to. st. Louis
that night to attend the Columbus
Area Council of my own denomina-
ton, I felt well repaid for I real
lied that had seen a mighty army
of Gods children in action that
day! In spite of the great crowd
I saw several Twin Citians at the
convention. Among them Rev.
S. E. Ware, Rev. A. Frederick
Martin, Rev. and Mrs. H. W. Bolts,
Rev. James Phelps and three of the
delegates from the Mt. Olivet
church.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-09-17
John Rainey
Is Buried

Funeral services for John S.
Rainey, ST., 3S41 4th Ave. S., who
died in Seattle, Washington, Sept.
8, were held Saturday, Sept. IL,
with Father M. R. Hogarth official
ng. Interment was at Lakewood
Cemetery. His wife, Hazel Mae,
one son, Pvt. John Rainey, Jr., Mrs.
Betty Rainey, mother, of New
York, and two sisters-in-law, Mines.
Linnie johnson and Ida Bramlett,
of Memphis, Tennessee, are his
survivors. Woodland funeral home
was in charge of the services.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-09-17
Former st. Paulite
Dies i'm New York

New York. - Mrs. Frederick
Wheeldin, formerly of this city,
died Sunday, September 5, in New
York City, where she has been
making her home since December
1, 1912. Funeral services were held
Thursday, September 9, at the C. P.
Steretti Chapel.
Born in Brooklyn, New York, No
vember 10, 1865, Mrs. Wheeldin
came to st. Paul to make her home
in 1892. She was a member Of st.
James A. M. E. Church.
Survivors include her husband,
W. L. Wheeldin, one son, Fred, two
daughters, Mrs. Aurelia Caring
ton and Mrs. Lucille White, and
three grandchildren, all of New
York.
CORPORAL WILLIE HARRIS
HERE
Corporal Willie Harris of Camp
Barracks, Missouri, spent a 15-day
furlough in the city visiting his
family and friends.