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Jackson advocate., 1943-12-11

GREENSBORO, N. c. (SNS) =
Private Frank Osborn Roberts.
stepson of c. B. D. King, former
President of Liberia, and former
teacher, interpretative dancer, and
lecturer on African culture, is now
in training at the Army Air Forces
Technical Training Command.
Another distinction that sets him
off from others is his large number
of 'brothers, and he claims many
more than any soldier on the post.
The reason for all the brothers"
is that in his native African coun-
try. all members of the same tribe
are regarded as being blood broth
ers. Consequently, every member of
the Val tribe, of which he is men,
ber, are brothers" Of Toniea Mas
saquoi-Roberts Liberian tribal
name
Private Roberts was inducted Oc-
tober at Fort Devens, Massachu-
chusetts, and has been at this post
about month, long enough to know
that he likes Army life and is proud
of his assignment to the 303 Wing,
Basic Training Center No. 10.
Now that he is in the Air Forces,
he would like to become d pnoJo-
grapher. because he has always had
movie photography as his hobby
and has spent several summers in
New Hampshire indulging in that
pastime.
Private Roberts is a versatile
fellow and should be able to adapt
himself to almost any assignment.
He has been teacher, an inter-
pretative dancer, lecturer on
] African culture, and a sculptor
Jackson advocate., 1943-12-11

death, Roberts was officially adopt
ed by c. B. d. King, his fathers
closest friend, who soon became
President Of Liberia, the only free
and independent country in Africa.
Thus Roberts went back to live at
the mansion his father built.
Private Roberts still hopes to help
his native country some day. But
meanwhile the war-and his adop-
ed country-come first.
AS he might say in one of the Val
dialects Ba Tanka Na"-or
Keep EN- Flying"
Jackson advocate., 1943-12-11
Sells Right To
Live For 5 Cents

NEW YORK CITY-CNS)-Try.
ing to avoid paying five cents for
a subway ride, Wilson Ingram paid
his life and didn't get the ride
either. Stomping in at the In
dependent Subway Station at 125th
Street and st. Nicholas - Avenue
Monday evening, Ingram, %, tried
to enter the pass gate. He was
stopped by Probationary Patrolman
Leroy j. Thomas who wanted to
know if he had a pass. Ingram
yelled That's none of your busi-
ness" Unfortunately, it was.
The patrolman attempted to ar
rest him but he resisted and ran
to the street where he pulled a
penknife on the cop. Thomas drew
his revolver and fired once, the
bullet causing instant death.
Jackson advocate., 1943-12-11

PASADENA, CAL. (SNS)-Ne-
groes formed about 13 percent of
the graduation class Monday at the
SCS Army Administration school
in the Pasadena Junior College.
They were the first to be enrolled
in the school since it's establishment.
Mai. Gen. Cortlandt Parker, COM
manding general of the Sos, ad-
dressed the graduates.
The class was represented by
It's Albert "Pancho" Sims, New
on the Universal Emancipation of
Jackson advocate., 1943-12-11
NATIVE son
By RICHARD WRIGHT

(Continued from Last Week)
Speaking for the stricken
families of Mary Dalton and Bes-
sic Mears, and for the people of
the State Of Illinois, thousands of
whom are maSSed out beyond that
window waiting for the law to take
its course, 1 say that no such
quibbling, no such trickery shall
pervert this Coure and cheat the
lawi
"A man commits two of the most
horrible murdejc in the history of
rs american civilization; he confeSSes;
and his Counsei would have us be
lieve that because he pleads guilty
= after lodging thC law, after attempt
ing to murder the officers of the
sa law, that his plea should be looked
upon as evidence mitigating his
Il, punishment!
Il say, Your Honor, this is an
"a insult to the Court and to the ih-
tflligent peop'.' Of this STATE! If
such crimes admit of such defense,
= if this fiend's life is spared be-
cause ot such o defense, I shall
resign my Office and tell sthose
people out there. in the streets that
! can no longer protect their lives
Il and property! I shall tell them
T that our courts, sWamped with
mawkish sentimentality are no
longer fit instruments to safeguard
the public peace! / shall tell them
that We have abandoned the fight
for cilivization
After entering such a plea, the
j. counsel for the defense indicates
& that he shall ask this Court to be-
lieve that the mental and emotional
+ life of the defendant are such
r that he does not bear full respon-
Il sibility for these cowardiy rapes and
murders. He asks this Court to
imagine a lengendary No-Man's
Land of human thought and feel
ing. He tells us that a man is
sane enough to commit a crime,
but is not sane enough to be Uried
for it! Never in my life have
heard such sheer cyniciSm, such a
scold-blooded and calculated at
tempt to be evil and evade the law
in my life I say that this shall
lot be!
The %State shall insist that this
nan be tried by jury, if the de-
fenSe continues to say that he is
insane. If his plea is simply guilty,
then the State demands the death
penalty for these black crimes.
AT such time as the Court may
~ indicate, I shall offer evidence and
put witnesses upon the stand to
testify that this defendant is sane
and is responsible for these bloody
crimes -
= Your Honor!" Max called.
ss You shall have time to plead for
your client!" Buckley shouted.
Let me finiSh."
2 do you have an objection?" the
judge asked, turning to Max.
Jackson advocate., 1943-12-11
First Soldiers End
Army Paper School,

Minority and Under-Privileged
Groups"
The Negro graduates were Sgt.
Winston U. Barton, New York City;
Cpl. John H. Brown, Houston; Cpl.
Wheatly R. Cobb, Aliquippa, Pa;
Cpl. James c. Wilson, Atmore, Ala;
T-5 Albert "Pancho' Sims, New
York City; Pvts. Walter A. Clark,
Atlanta; James G. Brown, Nash
vile; John L. Edwards, Philadel-
phia; Elmo Marshall, Los Angeles,
and Fred D. Byron, Atlanta.
Jackson advocate., 1943-12-11
Son Of Ex-Liberian
President In Army

model in the past few years. He
speaks four Liberian dialects, as
well as flawless English.
His father, Who died when the
boy was three, was a prominent
architect and designed and built
the Executive Mansion, Liberals
White House" in Monrovia, the
countrys capital. After his fathers
Jackson advocate., 1943-12-11
SO-GOOD HAIR DRESSING

SO-Goed Ha'r Dressings have been man.
ufactured and sold direct to the people
who used it for the past 20 years. There
Jackson advocate., 1943-12-11
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Jackson advocate., 1943-12-11
ISSUE STUDY OF RIOTS

NEW YORK = (ANP) = An OBJ
jective case study of the Detroit
race riots of last June 20 written by
two Wayne university professors of
sociology who began work on the
document while the racial debacle
was in process has just been pub
lished by the Dryden press in New
York.
Jackson advocate., 1943-12-11
Writer
Says AAF Proud
Of Black Eagles
Men Are Showing
Their Mettle, Says
Knickerbocker

-(ANP)-H. r. Knick-
erbocker, chief of the Chicago Sun
foreign service, in a dispatch Mon
day records Capt. Charles B. Hall,
90, Brazil, Ind, third in command
of the famous all-Negro fighter
squadron, as citing as his funniest
experience" in his Is combat rlis-
sions, that incident when he STRAIT
ed a line of German motorcycllSts
in Italy and saw them pop into the
air like watermelon seeds.
There is no thrill to equal COM
ing down from 10000 feet until you
arc actually buzzing the ground
with your whole flight spread out
so that when all your machine guns
begin to fire at once they rake an
area more than 100 yards wide"
the flying officer is reported to
have said.
DEFINITELY BELONG
These Negro orIlcers definitely
belong" said the correspondent
Combat pilot wings are great
equalizers, and the record of this
squadron is widely and favorably
known through the force. They
handled by congl essional act than
to risk the comparatively longer
process of amending the constitu-
tional amendment voided in prac-
tice by subterfuges."
Educators and religious leaders
last week took similar stand in
an open letter to Sen. O'Mahoney.
The letter stated the following:
1--WE believe that the passage of
the bill this year is vital. It is a
test of our good faith in the DEM
ocratic principles which we affirm.
Abolition of the poll tax is one way
in which we may show not only
people at home but also the people
of other nations that we do believe
in democracy
Evening star., 1943-11-11
After Dark
News and Comment of the Night Clubs.
BY the Spectator.
Marx Registered u S. Patent oncs

| it if you wouldn't mention any ol
my past associations"
"Such as what" scowled the con.
fidante THE War of 1922"
X X
Umbrage Department.:
A New York scribe feller, after
setting forth his recognition of sew
eral positive entertainment oualitie.
in Evelyn Knight, as Miss knight
currently seems to him in New
York's Blue Angel, negates it all in
one small phrase. Her voice, "neve,
intended to be more than average
says he.
Chauvinism seeping from every
pore, we hereby challenge this in
CRATE, empty beer bottles at 20 PAGES
and also to define his Interpretation
|of average with suitable list of
comparisons.
II, the entertainers we, as town
have been getting lately from his
town are above-average we are pre-
pared to arrange with Kristen Flag
Evening star., 1943-11-11

called to various persons attention
Anniversary No. 10.
Mr.. Strickland knew that the boys
had Just about exhausted the vital
and unvitai statistics on his life, but
all the same he simply wanted the
gang to foregather. This 1t did,
albeit in piecemeal fashion.
1t was pleasant enough evening.
The interior decorations had been
overhauled in the interim of the last
visit, and the job was indeed bene-
fit to the place. Bill, as he is known
among his intimates who love to coin
nicknames, spent the anniversary
beating his bands drums much as
usual, and mastering the ceremonies
Evening star., 1943-11-11

for the floor show, which likewise
was no departure from nightly rou-
tine.
He had nothing further to add to
the story Of his career, except his
recent uproarious experiences with
the Wild West show, for which he
provided the music. You gathered
he stands somewhat in awe of the
gustiness Of cowboys and the busi-
ness acumen Of their ringleaders.
See you next year." said Mr.
(See AFTER DARK, Page BID
Evening star., 1943-11-11
Observation-Disclosures note:

Se-COlOreQ-glaSSeS note.
There Is lounge located in the
teeming downtown area which pos
sesses particularly resolute head
waiter. This governor of room
which has a seating capacity of
roughly $50 takes it upon himself
along about 10 o'clock when 20 or so
customers are scattered about and
the scene is generally quiet, to put
up the ropes across the entrance
way.
And he stands there with an air
of .defying anyone to try to crash
his gate and wrest table from his
swarming clientele.
Reflections in restless waters:
A quotation that bids fair to
achieve its place among the classics
of the present age. at least insofar
as the music world is concerned.
comes from a musician. A mildly
disgruntled musician, you might
say.
The fellow, violinist, spoke up
during a boilermaker course as
follows:
Here I am fiddling my brains out
every night-l6 notes to every two
that the guy on the string bass
plays. And this guy gets the same
pay that I do. And look at the
front mamie don't do derned
thing, and he gets twice as much as
both of us!"
X X
Voices in the After Dark:
so I would appreciate it very
much" said the elderly night club
entertainer, who was making some
thing of a comeback I'D appreciate
Evening star., 1943-11-11

NORA WILLIAMS,
An added attraction, starting
tonight, in the Windsor Room.
stad for boogie- -woogie recitals in the
Spotlight Club.
T X
Spirit of persistence:
Having celebrated his anniversa-
ries Nos. 1-9 at the Lotus in suitable
fashion. Bill Strickland last night
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-15
Plan Open House
For Son On
Brief Visit

Friday night of this week, Mr..
and Mrs. S. L. Hartzell will hold
open house honoring their son, 1t.
lvle d. Hartzell. who will be with
them for brief visit, his first
since November, 1941.
All friends of Mr.. and Mrs. Hart
zell and 1t. Hartzell are invited to
call at the Hartzell home, 725 Park
avenue between seven and nine
o'clock and to consider this news
paper announcement an invitation
since 1t is impossible to reach in SO
short time all their friends.
1t. Hartzell has been stationed at
Shelby, Miss, since the first of the
year, being sent on August / to Of
fers' training school at Ft. Belvoir,
Va, where he devoted a month to
special training in mechanical
equipment.
Upon completion of his course,
1t. Hartzell flew to Tacoma, Wash,
to visit his wife and to make the
acquaintance of his young daugh-
ter. Leslie Harrit. He is now en-
route to Camp Shelby, stopping
over in Ell Centre to visit his
parents.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-15
Social Events on
Mexican Holiday
This Week

MEXICALI, Sept. 15.-Mexico's
Independence day celebration being
observed by both Calexico and
Mexicali on Sept. 15-16. will be a
gala one with many colorful social
events highlighting the festivities
in addition to the parades and 9TH
er events.
First of the social affairs is the
Elue and white formal ball sponsor
ed for Wednesday evening by the
Club Rocco of Mexicali and to be
held at the DistribIidora del Pac-
ifico S. A. All the women will be
dressed in blue or in white gowns
and the men will wear light suits.
The following evening, in Calex-
leo, at the tennis courts, a second
dance will be featured, following
the parade of the allied nations.
This promises to be a colorful af-
fair as the girls will wear costumes
representative of the varied allied
nations, and as the dance is open
to all servicemen, uniforms will add
additional color.
Picturesque parades will occur on
Thursday, one in Mexicali and one
in Calexico: the first, at 8 a. m
in Mexicali, will be a military par
ade with Mexican soldiers and units
of the various armed forces of the
United States participating. Mex
icali groups will enter floats.
Thursday evenings parade will bt
that of the allied nations and will
take place in Calexico, 7-8. Pretty
young girls have been chosen tC
represent the various allied nations
and will be gowned in the costumes
characteristic of the nations. Mexi
can charros will take part, floats
will be additional attractions, ano
the music for the parade will bt
provided by the famous Camp
Lockett band.
At noon Thursday the girls who
represent the allied nations will bt
guests of honor at luncheon al
the Casino, Mexicali, and since the
bull fight is scheduled for Thurs.
day afternoon, many parties arc
planned both preceding and follow
ing that event.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-15
Society
Clubs

June.
Other officerselect includes:
Neoma Morris, senior princess:
Helen Frances Maynard, junior
princess; Esther Weakley guide;
Audrey Macurda, Marshal.
Appointive officers include: Peg
gy Cox, Betty Ruth LeFevre, Ber-
nice Payson, Winifred Anderson,
Mary Lou Hunter, first, second,
third, fourth and fifth messengers
respectively: Carolyn Goree, treas
urer; Patsy James. chaplain; Mary
Beth Bromley, recorder; Frances
Farrar, librarian; Marilyn Henry,
junior custodian; Mary Hatch, sem
ior custodian; Diane Clemons, musi-
clan; Patricia Blair, outer guard {;
Wanda Jean LeFevre, inner guard
ian.
These officers will be installed on
Sept. % at joint meeting with
Brawley in the Ell Centre Masonic
temple, the grand guardian and
grand secretary making visit to
the two bethels at this time.
This will be a closed meeting.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-15
OF Interest to Women
Edited By Anne Hardy Davis
Jobs Daughters Elect New
Officers tuesday Might

Election of officers highlighted
the opening meeting of the El Cen
tro bethel of Jobs Daughters Tues
day night in the Masonic temple
the election was necessitated by the
fact that SO many of the officers
installed last June are now away at
school.
Mildred Webb, senior PRINCESS
was elevated to the office of honor
ed queen, taking the place of Mary
Lou Griffin who was installed last
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-15

SOUP plates filled with cornflakes
topped off with fruit, were served
with sugar and cream and supplied
nutfitional values. This combina-
ton contains three of the seven
basic foods everyone is being urged
to eat; whole grain cereal, or cereal
restored to whole grain values, milk
and fruit. 1t gives protein, CAL
cium, PHOSPHORUS, iron end vita
Minis A, B, C and G in substantial
quantity.
The government, not the cereal
firms, is suggesting cereals for
luncheon for dinner instead of the
meat which is not to be had so
plentifully.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-15

Corn flakes topping a fruited
gelatin mould is one of the new
cereal fruit combinations being in
troduced as luncheon specials at
the New York Waldorf Astoria
hotel to meet the rationing
problems.
Recently at this famous New
York hotel, food writer's, dieticians,
home economists and hotel and
restaurant executives were enter
tanned, with luncheon featuring a
variety of non-ration point dishes,
with the cereal-fruit combination
one of the highlights.
Cornflakes with fruit gelatine,
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-15
R,ATiol}l
CALENDAR! 3 !!
SUGAR

Stamp No. IA good through Oct.
81 for pounds. No. Is, 16 good
for pounds each for home cam
ming through Oct. 81.
SHOES
Stamp No. 18 good through Oct
81 for Cne pair of shoes.
GASOLINE
"a" Book coupon good through
Sept. 81.
CANNED GOODS
Blue stamps R, S and T good
through Sept 20; U, V and w good
through Oct. 20.
MEAT, BUTTER, CHEESE, OILS
Red stamps x, Y and z CRation
Book q good through Oct. 2; brown
stamp A (Ration Book - good
through Oct. 2.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-15
CALENDAR
WEDNESDAY

Butchers union, 1889, Labor tent
pie
City council, 1880, city hall
State guard, 1880, stadium
Servicemen's dance, $3.50, Veter-
ans hall
THURSDAY
District bond election, 6 AMI
p.m., polls
Rotary club, IL, Barbara Worth
Methodist dinner, 6:45, social hall
Gypsum workers, 1880, Labor
temple
Motor corps, 1880, 12O North Fifth
2'-30 club. 1880, California hotel
Building trades. 1880, labor tenn
pie
B.P.O.E. No. 1925, 8, Elks hall
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-15
KYSER COMEDOWN

Several years ago Kay Kyser was
the featured orchestra at Catalina
Island and broke all sorts OF box
office records. Other day he went
back again but this time the re-
muneration was slightly less =
meals and a bed. He did show
for the Maritime Service men sta
toned there.
Judy Garland received a letter
the other day from Pvt. Wilbert B.
Giving of Camp Mccoy, Wis. He
wondered if she remembered. She
did. At the age of seven, back in
Judy's home town of Grand Rapids,
Mimi, Wilbert produced neigh
borhood back yard pin show. Six
year-old Judy, his next door neigh
Dor, was the singing star Her
billing read, Frances Gumm l.
Singer de Luxe" 1t was her
theatrical debut.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-15
ERSKINE "a I>11~-..>>1
JOHNSON ZEE aOsHy "OO0

AL Jol5on will not play himself in
Columbia studios film biography
of the nanny singer, but his voice
will. And for the first time in
movie history, except for animated
cartoons, a voice will receive
screen credit. The studio has not
yet selected the actor who will play
Jolson in the picture, but Al al
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-15

Randolph Scott gets the lead in
the film version of Torpedo
Squadron Eight story of a group
of Navy flyers who lost their lives
in the South Pacific. There was
only one survivor, Ensign George
Gay. Ida Lupino and Alexis
Smith, who ought to know, are
denying those feud rumors. They
we're supposed to have had a fight
over, of all things, a make up
chair. The Coast Guard band
Of the 18th Naval District, under
Lieut.. Rudy Vallee's direction, is
due for a tour of the midwest next
month for the Treasury Depart
ment. The band already is credited
with the sale of 40 million dollars
worth of war bonds.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-15
GASOLINE DISAPPEARS

A so gallon drum half mile east
of the Dogwood road east of Impe-
rails Eighth street was full when
reported to the county sheriff's de-
partment but empty by the time
officers arrived to ascertain ii it
was a stolen article.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-15

ready is recording all of his famous
songs. His singing voice will be
dubbed in for the actor who imper-
sonates him. Marlene Dietrich
is burning, but good, over daughter
Maria Manton's marriage to Dean
Goodman, 23-year-old Los Angeles
shipping clerk. Wouldn't it be
awful if Marlene had to answer to
Grandma" come 1914 or AS?
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-15
ON THE FRONT
IN THE VALLEY
NURSES AIDES


A class for Red Cross volunteer
nurses aides will start the first
week in October, Ell Centre Red
Cross chapter officers announced
Wednesday.
The class, limited to an enroll
ment of some 20 women, will be
taught by Mrs. Laural Ferguson of
Holtville who is giving her services
for this Red Cross ODC program.
Already number of women have
registered for this class and to
them application blanks have been
sent. Those who have received
their blanks are asked to fill them
out and return them to headquar-
ters as soon as possible and also to
make an appointment at once with
DR.. E. B. Godfrey, county health
officer, for free physical examin-
alton. DR.. Godfrey's office is in
the county court house, Ell Centre,
telephone 701.
Those interested in enrolling in
the class are asked to call Red Cross
proper blanks will be sent them.
The Importance of this fern of
war work is obviOus-the nation S
fighting men must have the care of
graduate nurses. Civilian hos
pitalS, clinics and health agencies
are giving up their nurses in in
creasing number to the Army and
Navy, yet the rest of the popula-
ton must have nursing care. Since
there are not enough graduate
nurses to meet the demand, the vol
unteer nurses aides can play "a
vital role in relieving the graduate
nurses of certain duties.
These nurses aides work in hos
pitals in Army hospitals when re-
quested by the commanding Of
ficers, in hospitals of the Veterans
administration in accident rooms
industrial clinics, in oCtpatient de-
partments and other clinics and II
blood donor centers.
Those who wish to undertake thi!
work must take certain specified
courses, must be American citizen!
or friendly aliens between the age!
If 18 and SO, must have a higf
;chool education or it's equivalent
must meet certain physical require
ments and must agree to serv,
without pay, to be on duty at leas
$50 hours a year, and to work al.
ways under the supervision o.
| graduate nurses.
Mrs. John T. Rice is chairman Of
the Red Cross nurses aides com.
mittee with Mrs. Elmer w. Heale
as chairman. Mrs. Ferguson
instructor; DR.. Philip Hodgkin, DR.
e. B. Godfrey. representing the city
and county emergency medica
staff; Miss Betty Harris of tht
Holtville Red Cross branch; Mrs
Helen Murphy of the Imperia
branch; Mrs. Eva Payson, Mrs. Ada
Outlook, the nurses association; C
S. Reed, the OCD which with the
Red Cross responsors the work
Mrs. Lottie Meagher. Red Cross
field directors; Mrs. Ingram of the
city hospital and Mrs. Allen of the
county hospital, form the commit.
| foe in charge