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Nogales international., 1943-02-19
R. Phillips Parks Began
Unusual Career On
Border In 1920

What in the world could ever
induce mere woman to enter
the rapid-fire, highly competi-
tive field of vegetable produce,
long considered business for
which only lordly males were
qualified?
Mrs. Rose Phillips Parks, head
of Shippers Sales Service listen
ed to this question and smiled.
Fate" was the simple reply of
the petite brunette who was the
first tomatera to operate a busi-
ness dealing in West Coast of
Mexico with headquarters in
Nogales.
"In 1920 I was young girl just
out of school," she added. THE
first job offered me was that Of
secretary to e. A. H. Tays, then
head Of the Los Mochis Agricultural
Union"
TayS managed sales for an organi-
cation of growers and Mrs. Parks
says the West Coast of Mexico pro-
duce business owes much to his
pioneering of agricultural methods
and plant varieties suited to this
particular area. He also did much
to develop American markets until
they became the major outlet for
Mexican winter vegetables.
'Mr. Tays was a most salient per-
son in the business during his life
time" says Mrs. Parks.
She learned the business of the
organization and by 1928 had risen
to assistant sales manager. Tays
passed away in the middle of that
years season. Since Mrs. Parks
ranked next to Tays in the office,
she was made head of the business
by the four groups of growers it
represented.
The young woman served as sales
manager for the grower organiza-
ton until 1888 when marketing
setup was instituted which elimin-
ated all independent firms and op-
orators from the distribution Of
vegetables.
The plan was abandoned after a
two year trial and in 1885 private
individuals were again permitted to
re-establish their old marketing
channels. Mrs. Parks, then Miss
Rose Phillips, again took charge Of
the selling organization and served
as general manager for two more
years.
In 1887 she established her own
distributing business under the firm
Nogales international., 1943-02-19

One case she recalls ended pleas
antly after bad beginning. Sever
al years ago a transaction was made
between Mrs. Parks firm and an
Eastern company.
All details were discussed over
telephone, and as is to be OCCASION
ally expected, someone forgot or
misunderstood part of the conver-
sation. A disagreement arose which
led to the exchange Of heated cor-
reSpondence by both parties.
On trip East Mrs. Parks decided
to drop into the other firms office
and personally settle the squabble
The dealer she interviewed fell back
in his chair at the sight of his
caller.
Instead of expecting a tiny, quiet
voiced business woman he told hen
with sigh of relief he had been
trying to figure cut how to deal
with a 2O0-pound Amazon ready for
vigorous session of hairpulling
and fisticulffs.
Mrs. Parks says she treasures the
hundreds of friendships she has
made throughout the produce bust
ness. She is proud because the men
treat her as full-fledged associate
and their courtesies and considera-
ton are not given simply because
she is a woman.
Dozens of women are employed
by local vegetable firms, but even
today Nogales has only one other
tomatera as head of an organiza-
ton. Mrs. E. L. Oliver also oper-
ates an office under her own name.
Nogales international., 1943-02-19

ter to the four directions, each 60
Ing to some place that suits his
fancy Mr.. Scatena says he seldom
comes in contact with any of the
distributors and brokers he meets
annually at Nogales when he is
working sonne other territory. Oc-
casionally Harry Wolf or Eddie
Coleman turn up for the season at
Lodi.
Most Of the comateros go from
mere to California when the local
season ends in May. Only a few
travel to the Texas and Florida pro-
duce centers. Sometimes one or two
local men will work the summer
melon deal in Arizonas Salt River
Valley.
California, having areas with diff
ferent kinds of climate at all times
OF the year, provides an almost
continuous stream of business for
vegetable men. With lettuce, peas,
cauliflower, broccoli, onions, aspara-
gus, celery, potatoes and other
crops coming on at various times
the produce dealers are almost sure
CT nearly always having something
to market in any vicinity they
choose for the spring, summer and
fall. Most of the agricultural cen
ters also produce fruits ranging
through pears, plums, cherries,
apricots, grapes and peaches with
their interlocking seasons.
Scatena said a few Of the major
California distributing points fire.
quented by vegetable men are
Bakersfield, Santa Maria, Salinas,
Watsonville, San jose, Stockton,
Terminus, Modesto and Brentwood
Nogales international., 1943-02-19
"Where Do We -
Go From Here?"
w. A. Scatena Tells How
Local Vegetable Men
Work All Over West

NOgalianS have a tendency to
regard the West Coast of Mexico
vegetable crop as a separate,
complete business. To the TOma-
terOS who come here each year
it is only link in vast diStri-
button and growing chain that
provides seasonal produce for
the North American continent.
Several vegetable men active here
work a total of six or eight separate
crops in as many places each year,
according to w. A. Scatena of Sea-
tena Brokerage Company. Only a
few people live here the entire year
and depend on this vegetable deal
alone for their total income.
Mr.. Scatena's business year is or
dinarily divided between Nogales
and Lodi, California, where he
maintains a permanent home. He
is on the border from December
to May IS. Then he goes to Lodi
and spends the rest of the time on
the varied fruit and vegetable crops
produced in the San Joaquin Val
ley.
After the close of the season at
each point, the group of produce
men engaged in that location scat
Nogales international., 1943-02-19
Manager OF Shippers Sales
Service First Tomatera Here

name of R. Phillips Co. Much of
her mail in this era came addressed
to: Dear Mr.. Phillips" She says
she thought it best not to enlighten
misinformed correspondents as to
their error.
In its first year of existence R..
Phillips Co. handled one-sixth of
the volume of winter produce which
passed through this port of entry.
Following its owners marriage in
1910 the company name was chang
ed to Shippers Sales Service.
The tomatera's husband, Ferald
w. Parks, formerly connected with
the First National Bank, is now
associated with her in the business,
managing the shipping end.
While making money is the main
object in vegetable produce, the
same as any other business, Mrs.
Parks feels that she and other oper-
ators are performing a worth while
service in securing many thousands
Of dollars to finance growers, there
by aiding in the development Of
agricultural projects which provide
necessary wartime food for Mexi-
cans, Americans and Canadians.
Not only was Mrs. Parks the first
woman produce operator in the bon
der vegetable deal, but she has also
been active here longer than anyone
else now established in the local
field.
None of the men in business here
at the time she began are still active
in this area and her start precedes
that of AL Burnand who she believes
began making this produce season
in 1922
Brought into the business by cir
cumstances rather than choice, still
Mrs. Parks does not regret being
forced into an enterprise that does
not fit the ordinary conception of
woman work"
She says her endeavors are fascin-
ating even in tragic yean such as
1888 when every operator wound up
by losing their shirt or shirtwaist.
1t does have its disagreeable fea-
lures, she admits, one of the worst
being nervous fatigue brought on
by always working at high tempo
in a mental strain.
Men in the produce business do
not resent the entrance of the weak
er sex into an occupation sometimes
calling for strong-arm methods.
However, Mrs. Parks says that men
with whom tomateraS transact busi-
ness at long distance sometimes
form ideas about their feminine as
sociates which collapse upon per-
sonal acquaintance.
Evening star., 1943-10-24
DR.. Diffendorfer TO Speak
AT Methodist Union Ra||y

DR.. Ralph E. Diffendorfer, exec
utive secretary of the Division Of
Foreign Missions of the Methodist
Church, will speak on I'VE Pre-
pare to Return" at the fall rally
of the Methodist Union at pm.
Wednesday in the Francis Asbury
Methodist Church, Sixteenth and
Lamont streets NV.
o. o. Thomen, Silver Spring, presi-
dent Of the union, will preside. Mrs.
Joy Elmer Morgan, president of the
Baltimore Conference Woman's So
clety Of Christian Service. will offer
the evening prayer. while the Scrip
ture lesson will be read by c. Will
lard Harvey of the Brookeville
(Md) Methodist Church.
The program also will include a
talk by Paul B. Cromelin, former
president of the District Bar As
sociation, on the work of the union.
DR.. Robin Gould, pastor of Asbury
Methodist Church, will pronounce
the benediction.
The union comprises about 1000
members and covers the territory
from Frederick to Solomons Island
and from Laurel to Leonardtown.
Evening star., 1943-10-24
Capt. Abernethy Wins
Navy Cross, Purple Heart

Capt. Elmer P Abernethy, whose
wife lives here, has been awarded
the Navy Cross and the Purple
Heart at naval headquarters in the
South Pacific. He was decorated
for fighting his ship, the Pecos, a
tanker, for four hours against Jap
dive bombers before it was sunk
March l, 1942, in the Indian Ocean.
according to an Associated Press
dispatch.
Capt. Abernethy now commands
a transport in the South Pacific, his
wife said yesterday at the home of
her mother, Mrs. R. B. Harbaugh.
42l7 Third street NV.
The Abernethys lived here for two
years when her husband was sta
toned at the Washington Navy
Yard, she said. They went to China
In the Navy service and were living
in Shanghai until the Navy wives
were ordered home He was there
when the war broke out, she said.
Evening star., 1943-10-24
Modern Girls Garb
Leaves Escort Cold,
Esquire Witness Says
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
A representative of the New Eng
land Watch and Ward Society de-
clared at Postofflce Department
hearing yesterday that he believed
the abundant" clothes worn BY
women in the 1905 tended to excite
the curiosity of their escorts to a
greater extent than does the skim
pier attire of modern young women.
Louis j. Croteau, Burlington,
Mass, secretary of the privately
supported society, made that state
ment when asked whether he con-
sidered indecent" cartoon in
Esquire magazine Of transparently
clad slave girl.
The Postoffice is holding hearings
to determine whether Esquire S
second-class mailing privilege should
be revoked because of pictures and
articles appearing in 1t which Post
Office counsel described as in
decent"
Not Always in Good Taste.
Would you say, then, that the
fewer clothes a woman has on the
less attractive she becomes to a
man?" asked Calvin Hassell, Post
Office counsel.
That's right" Mr.. Croteau re-
piled.
Mr. Hassell took Mr. Croteau on
a cartoon-to-cartoon tour of Es-
quire, asking whether he considered
the material indecent
Improper, perhaps, and not al
ways in good taste, but not indie
cent" Mr.. Croteau replied.
whether a reader considers mag
azine material indecent or not de-
pends upon the kind of mind the
reader has"
Following Mr.. Croteau, who said
that seeing as many burlesque shows
as he was requested to attend was a
"doggone unpleasant job" was an
other defense witness, Dr. Clements
c. Fry, in charge Of the psychiatric
department of Yale University.
The physician told the hearing
tlldG III IllOle lIldll 4,UUU case SUuQleS
of college and preparatory school
youths, Esquire material had not
been mentioned by any of the
patients as "stimulant" to i'm
proper acts.
Shakespeare's Writings Cited.
On the contrary, he said. required
reading in college French course
had been mentioned often by pa
tients, and that some exceptional
cases had admitted searching the
writings Of Shakespeare for passages
which they could construe as risque.
DR.. Fry's response to a question
concerning the possible fee he might
receive from Esquire for appearing
as a witness met with prolonged
laughter by spectators. He said he
had never testified as witness be-
fore, and that he had told Esquire
he would send a bill when it was
over
DO you know that a previous
witness, DR.. Kenneth Tilhtson (of
Harvard University. testified that
his customary fee for appearing as a
witness was $500 day?' asked coun-
sel for the post office.
We'll" exclaimed Dr.. Fry. BEAM
ing, i am certainly glad to know
that"
Evening star., 1943-10-24
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Evening star., 1943-10-24
Benefit Dance Planned

For the benefit of the Widows and
Orphans Fund of the Bethesda Paid
Firemen's Association. a dance will
be held at pm. Friday at the
Bethesda Women's Club. Persons
buying tickets may turn them back
to the Firemen for the use of service
men and women.
Evening star., 1943-01-03

be changed materially during the
year.
This, then, in brief, is the beauty
outlook for l943. Whether the New
Year will be as rosy as it looks de-
pends upon your willingness to buy
wisely, to conserve, to fight waste
as though it were an enemy within
the gates. Will you? Yes?
Evening star., 1943-01-03

1913. Instead of sliding lipstick
from a metal case. the little red
bullet will bob up from container
ofplastic. wood, cardboard or some
other stuff not yet dreamed up.
cosxxcroR.s rruG, That's the
metal ipstick case l hope you've
saved: There will be lipstick refills
Evening star., 1943-01-03

your fingernails. Containers
will be just as efficiently
sealed with their new war
styled toppers.
Makeup? Prospects are
as rosy as can be for keeping
vos,r heat face forward in
Evening star., 1943-01-03

COMMUTERS WIFE: Hello there, Asss
MSy. This is tbs FIRST time ~ Sses
Ppe SEEN yos Svoss1 50 eariy
AUNT NAY: Yes, l feed more like
doing things since I've been TAX
ing NUJOL for my old trouble.
ordinary constipation. NUJOl is
50 pleasant and 80 gentle-and it
only takes . tablespoonful each
morning and night to keep me
regular Is clockwofk.
COMMUTERS WIFE: NUJOL -eb? n
mineral oil?
AUNT MAY: Yes, and such . hne
one! You sec, NUJOL'S viscosity
is scientifically controlled to give
best results. That's why it is 80
dependable. NUJOL has had .
wonderful reputation for years
Il only wish I'd tried it sooner!
Evening star., 1943-01-03
Some cosmetic aids
are scarce. Go easy
on them 80.
%%~'a Blythe

- RIen7 OUTLOOK That's
the New Years forecast for
- cosmetics - if every woman
will buy her supplies wisely and
will use them sensibly. So says
S. L. Mayham, executive secre-
tary. Toilet Goods Association.
To the questions trembling on
your lips, here are his answers:
Are important ingredients off to
the wars? Of course, many are.
But so efficiently are stand-ins tax
ing their place that you won't even
know the difference.
PAcKA0ES7 Cosmetics will be
dressed in more sober attire, but
do you mind? There are neither
the materials nor the manpower
available for turning out fancy
trappings. Where creams, lotions,
powders and other grooming aids
can be had in stair-step sizes,
Uncle Sam wants you to buy the
larger fellows. This helps to con-
serve pockasips MATERIAL, L.
bov and machinery, - soeu a.
space and sceiSht in tr0sssp0v-
totiOn.
Metal caps for jars and bottles
viii be replaced by other mate
rials perhaps pressed cardboard,
made spill-proof with chemicals.
But that needn't make you chew
Evening star., 1943-01-03
LADY BE THRIFTY!
MAJOR HnTTe

and dealers who will obligingly fit
them into your metal case. But if
you have any tired-looking.
broken-down metal cases of any
kind, be a little patriot and toss
them into the metal scrap pile.
Nail polishes? No need to be
jittery - ingredients seem to be
available in sufficient quantities to
give you many color changes. even
though color ranges may not be
as wide as they have been. Mani
curing implements. if made of
steel, will be hard to get when the
manufacturer present supplies
are gone. But there will be orange
wood sticks, emery boards and
liquid cuticle softeners.
Hairpis,s? They're something
you sospt TO keep . tally ON,
like family siIuer.
Permanent waves? Chemicals
for lotions. foils for pads, alumni
mum. steel and wire for machinery
are being used to make more i'm
portant things than crrls. Just the
same, most manufactures are
equipped with inventories for the
first six months of 1913, which
means you will be able to get your
favorite method of permanent
waving for at least the first half
of the New Year. After that, trust
to the ingenuity of the bright-idea
boys. Necessity may be the father
that sires a better permanent than
you've ever dreamed of.
AfoouxERS7 There won't be any
to replace those now in the mar
kets. War-industry manufacturers
are working like mad to make
paint-spray atomizers for warships.
Evening star., 1943-01-03

Your cue is to take care of
your precious squeeze-b bulb
to keep it clean; guard
against oil. As for the fra
grant stuff that you spray
from your atomizer: per-
k. -L1 -ox 1:L>l,x %<>
Detroit evening times., 1943-09-06
Strike
NJ EsEsaIal
Spreads

A wildcat strike which started
at Tho Budd Wheel Co l2lil
CharicVolN. Thursday Afternoon
Wien 800 men walked of the lot
after dismissal of a union SteWarc
continued 20 spread today
Between 500 and 900 men
are OF the job today" sand
Robert n ErWood director Of
personnel. "in direct violation of
an agreement reached yesterday
AT a conference of union Off
cialS. company officials and
army representatives
".All the mcp were employed
on vita war work, and army
Representatives asked that pro-
duction bc continued without
interruption. We were supposed
90 have a full crew tor work
today and Labor Day.
international union repTesen-
tativcs agreed that work should
proceed hut despite the agree
Weni reached az the conference.
men began walking off the job.
we discharged the steward
for interrupting production -
ErwOod continued. land the next
move il up 60 the War Labor
Board or any officials charged
With the responsibility OF pro-
duCtiun
Detroit evening times., 1943-09-06
Is Miles of Coast Captured
Berlin
Bombed
3sINiShf

LON DON. Sept 49, Four
motored Raj Lancaster bombers
made the most concentrated at
tack OF the war on Berlin last
night, pounding the battered Ger
man capital with 81 =teHs-ef ex--
plosives a minute for 20 minutes.
The LancasterS had hardly re-
turned TO their hangers when
swarmS of Mitchell and Ventura
medium bombers roared across
the English Channel by daylight
today 10 blast the invasion coast
Of France in the Calais area.
The third heavy bombardment
OF Berlin in L nights and supple
mentary thrusts AZ Rhineland air
fields and occupied France cost
the British p bombers. An extern
sive mine-laying program also was
completed.
The German defenSeS fell of
sharply from the intense con-
centration OF fighter planes over
the city and anti-aircraft fire
along the approaches which the
previous Raj raiders had en-
countered. Airmen at one Raj
bomber station said they did not
see a single German fighter, while
the anti-airCraft was more spec
tacular than effective
Although the 1000 tons Of
bombs looSed on Berlin had been
exceeded in weight by the earlier
raiders. never before had the Raj
poured explosives on the city at
such a pace as that achieved in
the Commute bombardment out
of a clear sky.
The raiders struck on the night
Of the fourth anniversary of Brit
aims declaration of war on Ger
many.
Authoritative air circles in Lon
don disclosed that the largest for
nations of American bomberS
ever sent out from bases in Brit
ain had dropped hundreds of tons
Of bombs on France yesterday.
one Official estimate SAID posi-
bly, 1000 planes had taken part
in the bombardments.
r. Powerful formations of Flying
/ FortreSSes, escorted by swarms of
American. British Canadian and
Allied fighters. poured bombs on
two important aircraft factories
and repair plants in the Paris
Detroit evening times., 1943-09-06
VirginidnChosen
To Rule Italy

WASHINGTON, Sept. 4 QNSy
Indicating the American govs
ernments confidence that. the ALI
lied armies will be victorious in
the campaign to occupy the Italian
mainland, Secretary Of State Hull
today announced the appointments
OF a director of economic operas
tions for Italy.
The man who has been selected
20 be virtual economic governor
of Italy after il has been occu-
pied is Calvin b. Baldwin. a Vir-
ginia businessman who has been
administrator of the Farm Secur-
ity Administration since October
1910.
Hull made the appointment In
accordance with President Roose-
volts direcliYe oLJune- -3-1943,
which gave the secretary control
of The coordination OF all United
States economic activities abroad
Detroit evening times., 1943-09-06
Big Warships Pound Coast

Throughout the day, good progress made conn
munique said.
naval communique disclosed that force of battleshps
supported INVASION soenng the Axis defenses in the
Calabrian coastal with their 15-nch guns.
31OOO-ton British baeships Warspte and Valiant
pounded positions Cape del Arm at the
southwestern tip Thursday morning.
Escorng ships which protected the landing and attacked
positions included the cruisers Maurus and Oon
Roberts and Abcrombe and the Destroy
Detroit evening times., 1943-09-06
Lord Hdw-HaW FaintS
Durinq Berlin Raid

LONDON Sept ( ms \
Stockholm dispatch TO the Lon
den Daily Telegraph today said
that the Nazi broddcaster Lord
Haw-IlaW.- had narrnHlllp - escaped
death IN Tuesday nights raid on
Berlin The dispatch added that
Haw-Haw tainted during the
height of the raid
Detroit evening times., 1943-09-06
Sabotage in Denmark
Brings Retaliation

STOCKHOLM, Sept. 4 tUP)-
Continued sabotage has resulted
IN sitter German restrictions in
Denmark. including a demand for
surrender of all arms on penalty
of death. the Swedish Telegraph
news agency reported today from
Copenhagen
Radio AlgierS said the Ger
mans We're using tanks and
dive bomberS IN an attempt To
crush 500 we'll armed patriots
holding out in a Danish town.
Detroit evening times., 1943-09-06
Airfie|d Is Seized
Opposition Weak

ALLIED HQ., N. Africa, Sept. british and
Canadian invasion troops seized the three key ports
of Reggie di Ca1abria, San Giovanni and Calico IN
the first day of the battle for Italy, securing a
bridgehead 10 to 10 miles long, and today were
reported pushing inland against light opposition.
THE Italian high command reported the loss OF
Meto, 10 miles southeast of Reggie di Caabra, and
Berlin broadcast reported landing between Meto
and Cape Spartivento. 15 miles to the east)
Gen Montgomery's Eighth Army landed all along the
Calabrian beach from Sicily, Gen. Eisenhower
headquarters revealed but aimed the heaviest hrusts ae
San Giovanni and Reggie d Calabria-
Detroit evening times., 1943-09-06

lied invasion touched off new
peace demonstrations in Italy
MadrId reported today Women
parddcd the streets of Rome,
Genoa. Milan and Turin carrying
banners reading "Peace now
Germans get OUT afteC word of
the Allied invasion of southern
Italy spread. Madrid said
The Italian underground radio
station calling itself Free Milan,
appealed for Italian armed forces
TO surrender as a sacred duty TO
open the road 10 Allied armies
and urged strikes and sabotage to
overthrow the government and
ouSt the Germans.