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Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-24
CURRENT QUOTATIONS

After the war the policy pursued by
the United States will have crucial in
fluence on world reconstruction and
peace. American policy both during and
after the war is nodded to the presidents
personality and outloOk.-The Yorkshire
Post, British newspaper.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-24

EDITORS NOTE: The fOliOring edit
oriais are pres.ntsi. Gs interesting spin
ions r0iced by editors elsewhere. They
do not necessarily reflect the opinion of
this paper.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-24

The disease death rate has been lower
in the Army than the annual death rate
during any one of the last 10 years of
peace.-Brig.-G Gen. James S. Simmons,
surgeon generals office.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-24
Fl. a G.
OVER THE
Pk, q ~

In short, these WI Food A.
miniStration boys aren't miss ing
any bets in their efforts to prevent
loss OF your cabbage crop.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-24

get this kind of medicated powder often
recommended by many specialists for
diaper rash, heat rash, burn and Itching OF
sunburn and mosquito bites. Get Mexsana,
formerly Mexican Heat Powder. Costs but
a few cents. Ask for genuine Mexsana.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-24

Japan does not mind if Americas in
vasion forces move farther, because in
that case it can severely trounce them
at one stroke at the right moment.
=Adml. TanetSuga SOso on Tokyo radio.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-24

There is only hairs breadth between
final victory and defeat.-Jap Premier
Hideki Toto.
Arkansas State press., 1944-04-14
NAACP Out 70
Double Its
Membership

New York. A nationwide
campaign for new members for
the NAACP will be launched May
| and extend through June 80,
it was announced here this week.
More than $4,000 workers, or
ganized into teams. will solicit
members in an effort to reach an
all-time high for the NAACP, The
lrive will celebrate the 35th
year Of activity Of the Associa-
ton.
Mrs. Daisy f.. Lampkin, ma
tional field secretary, will direct
two campaigns during May and
June, in Philadelphia, Pa, and
Detroit. Mich, with a combined
goal of 10000 members,
Thurgood Marshall, Edward
Dudley, Milton r, Konyitz, Roy
wilkins. and later on, Walter
White. will fill emergency speak
ing engagements for rallys and
mass meetings.
Arkansas State press., 1944-04-14

The Urban League of Create.
Little Rock has a very definite
program. This program is one
of activities in the fields Of race
citations. social welfare, employ
mcnt. Industrial relations, recre-
alton, housing, health, vocation
al guidance, and publicity, edu-
cation aud research, In addition,
the League, by promotion and CO.
operation. works in other fields,
such as juyeni delinquency.
youth conservation, and general
community advancement, in the
effort to bring about a more
wholesome civic and social enyir-
onment for Negroes. The F. H..
Arkansas State press., 1944-04-14
Nav lO-ll Set
Examination For
USCC Academy

Nationwide examinations for
candidates applying for admission
to the United States Coast Guard
Academy will be held on May 10
and II. the Commandant of the
Coast Guard, Rear Admiral Rus
sell K. Waesche, announced this
week.
THE need for officer material
of highest caliber in the regular
Coast Guard service has not been
diminished with the prospect of
Allied victory" Admiral Waesche
explained "Now more than ever
a cadcts,fp I'm the Coast Guard
Academy offers an opportunity
for q career of distinguished pub
lie service to young men with
sound bodies. stout hearts. alert
minds. and ~ liking for the sea
and it's lore
Appointments TO cadptshtp I'm
the Coast Guard Academy are
made through competitive exami
nations opru io candidates who
are not Jess than n years of age
nor more. them - ON Nav 4. 1qii.
Arkansas State press., 1944-04-14
Read The Press
Memphis Can Run
Own Affairs Saws
Political Boss

''IHmub.r should MEYER have
any race trouble and viii not 30
we run our own arrairs and uo
outsiders viii ever run them for
E. II. Crnmp Shelby CouutN
political chiertaiu said
Ir. Crump's st1teuout came
ON fho heels of tho visit here OF
A Philip Randolph. Negro, pres
ident of international Brother
hood of Sleeping Car Porters "a.
T.. of ~ who was q national
director Of the March on Wash
ington' movement to obtain more
Jobs for Negroes in war indus
tries"
Arkansas State press., 1944-04-14
YOUTH CONGRESS ASKS
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT TO
BAN ALA. "HATE SHEETS"

Birmingham, Alabama.-Stat-
ing that the Greensboro Watch
mar and the Alabama Sun repre-
sent deliberate attacks by the
white supremacists' to under
mine national unity and the au-
thority of the federal government
in the winning of the war, the
Southern Negro Youth Congress,
in a letter to Attorney General
Francis NJ. Bid lie, asked that
those "hate sheets be prohibited
from further printing and mail
tnE, and that federal action be
taken against the instigators Of
the White Supremacy League.
Arkansas State press., 1944-04-14
Dr.. ]. M. Robinson Speaks:

A conference with Dr.. J. M. Robinson, President
OF the Negro Democratic Association, elicted the fol
lowing information:
"A recent ruling from the Attorney Generals of
flee distinctly clarifies our position in the coming
political enigma. Our people Will be permitted under
the Supreme Court ruling to vote, not only for con-
gresslonal candidates, but in all the primaries in Ark
ansas.'
The doctor wishes to advise his people to avoid
sidewalk and barber shop politics; be calm and de-
eofous and at the proper time when minds are more
sober, we will call a meeting to be held in the CITY of
Little Rock and invite a representative from each COM
munlty and city to be present, at which meeting we
hope to edify prospective voters as to their procedure.
We are on trial and we must practice decorum.'
Arkansas State press., 1944-04-14

New York-A survey Of editorial opinion of some daily
papers on the supreme courts opinion i'll the Texas primary
ease shows that editors generally hailed the decision, with
the Richmond. Va, Times Dispatch being the most o%utspoken
Of the southern papers yet examined.
Hitting straight from the shoulder, and declaring
squarely for the participation Of Negroes in primaries, Edi-
tor Nirginius Dabney writes:
"SHce Negroes have been admitted to Democratic prl-
marics in Virginia for many years, 1t is 4 little difficult to
understand the tremendous amount Of idiguation and heat
generated in the Deep South by the United States Supreme
Court decision that they have a RIGHT to enter such primaries
everywhere. The skies haven't fallen ON the Old Dominion be-
Arkansas State press., 1944-04-14
.C.L.R Urban League Opens Mammoth
Campaign To Increase Membership

A. used league facilities in set
ting UP the Negro housing units
and Negro personnel at the Baux-
lite plant. Through its offices,
numbers of Negroes were employ
ed in construction at Camp Rob-
iuson, the housing projects in Lit
lie Rock and North Little Rock,
and war industrial PLANTS at Jack
sonyille, Maumelle and Pine Bluff.
The League also %cooperates close
IL with the Ministerial Alliances,
the Negro Chamber of Commerce,
and other agencies of the Commu-
nifty Chest, and clubs and organi-
ions in promoting projects for
See Urban League--Page s
Arkansas State press., 1944-04-14
Pres. NJ. |. Harris
H2nors Founders
Of p. S. College

In a stirring Founders Day
speech last week, held in con
nnction with the Sixth Annual
Achievement and Public Relations
Week, President M. Lafayette
Harris of Philander Smith Col
lege, spoke from the theme Of
"Our Eternal Heritage" in pay
ing homage to the founders of
the seyenty-six year old institu-
tion, whose outer complication
is a refuge for those seeking high
err learning.
War is one of the finest in
struments in the world for gem
Grating hatred" he said. The
present war, like others, leaves
one with a sense of seryitude, a
sense of uncertainty, The great
loss of human lives and brutality
of this war. tend to cut a pattern
for rejoicing at the pitfalls of
others. Why all OF this when
education is more accessible to-
day than ever before? 1t is a
true fact that there are more edu-
Gated men and women today than
Arkansas State press., 1944-04-14
Nations Press Praises y. S. Supreme
Courts Decision On Texas Primaries.

cause of participation by colored citizens IN our primaries,
There is no evidence whatever that North Carolina
has suffered any disabilities as a consequence of having
neither a poll tax nor Il white primary.
Tennessee and Kentucky likewise do not have the white
primary, and kentucky has never had a poll tax, There is
no reason to believe that the white supremacy which some
Southern politicians are fond of apostrophizing ON every
occasion has been endangered in either of these states, any
more than in Virginia OF North Carolina.
IF it is commended in theD eep South that the problem
is more serious there than in the Upper South, the differ
ence is merely one Of degre There are substantial areas
in both Virginia and North Carolina where the Negroes out
rumbr the whites, just as there are in the states farther
to the South. The absence of a white primary in Virginia
nd Of both a white primary and 4 poll tax in North Caro-
lima has led to no important complications.
SEE DAILY PRESS-Page 3
Arkansas State press., 1944-04-14
NAACP CALLS ON BIDDLE
TO ENFORCE HIGH COURT
RULING ON PRIMARIES

New York-Following up its
smashing victory before the
United States supreme court in
the Texas white primary case, the
NAACP has called upon Attor-
ney General Francis Biddle Ito
issue definite instructions to all
United States attorneys. to
take action in each instance of the
refusal to permit qualified Negro
electors to vote in primary cleo
tons" The letter was signed by
Thurgood Marshall, NAACP spe-
Cial counsel, who, with Judge Will
Arkansas State press., 1944-04-14

liam H. HASTE, chairman of the
NAACP legal committee, argued
the case before the highest court
in the land.
I'VE are sure said the letter,
that the Department will now
recognize that criminal iinrisdic-
tion over interference with the
right to vote because of color ex-
tends to primary elections.
Arkansas State press., 1944-04-14
'rnornin'
Jedge!!"
Things have been popping since

Things have been popping since
last week. An eight-to-one de
elsion Of the United States SUI
premeCourt has at last given tn
Negro a chance to become a first
class citizen, or, it has given the
southern rebel a chance to show
his contempt for American prin-
ctples. Which? Time, and time
alone, can give the only answer.
According to a contemporary
Of mine who quotes her boss,
Who is one of the south's most
militant attorneys, thinks the de
eision doesn't amount 10 the time
It took to read as far as the Ar
kansas Negro is concerned. IN
J." can't share that opinion, he
feels that Mr., Charlie in Arkan-
sas is too smart to have the
states deuunciation Of her eiti-
zens' rights aired to the entire
world.
Arkansas State press., 1944-04-14

New York City - tCNS) - American
servicemen take their booeie- wooeie on the side.
Their main dish is good music. This includes
s%pirituols and sentimental bollords, orios from
the more familiar operas and lots Of serious songs
that remind them of nome and whot America
stonds for"
This is the opinion of q vocal group known
os the Dixiono Trio, row on tour for USO CAMP
SHOWS, Dick compbeIl. Coordinotor of Negro
Talent. revealed this week.
Arkansas State press., 1944-04-14
Soldiers Want Classical Music" Says Dixiama Trio

The Dixiono Trio is we'll obIe to give the
KIND OF music which men in uniform osk for.
Their experience as entertainers is vide and
their voices have %noturol richness and ronge.
The girls ore Vivion EIey Of New York; Virgin
10 Robinson Of Syracuse, New York ond Nor
eoret Sims Of Washington. D.. c. They we're
c7co Ill sopranos. but Miss Sims hos developed
her lower ronca power until she is on outstond-
no 1r.o. and MISS Ele7 new tokes over the con-
trolto ports.
Arkansas State press., 1944-04-14
Enlarged AAA Staff To Push Food Prodution

Four new Agricultural Adjustment Agency
contract representatives have been appointed in
production through sound soil conservation proe-
four states to encourage increased wortIme form
tees. They ore pictured above with regional AAA
field officers, and other %contoct men who we're
amounted last year. In the front row. left TO
rioht. arc J. 0. WiIlions, newly appointed con-
Arkansas State press., 1944-04-14

to:t representative for Georgia; james P. Davis,
ALBION L. HoIsey AAA regional field officers;
second row, left to right, ore A. H. Fnhr, con
toct mon for Oklahoma; VIM. c. Ammons, con
toct man for Mississippi; Joshua A. M LLOYD,
Henry W Espy, and CoIquit D, Yoncy newly op-
pointed contact representatives for louIsiono,
Arkansas ond Texos respectively.
Arkansas State press., 1944-04-14

Speaking of the Auditorium,
Mr.. Tucker says, he is bringing
one of the greatest attractions
there Wednesday mite. May 18th,
that has ever shown south. He
admits that he doesn't exactly
know how it is done, but he al
ways manages to get the best
there is. He defies anybody to
say that Ella yellow Basket)
Fitzgerald, Cootie Il Don't Get
Around Much Any Morel Will
See "Mornin' ledge Page s
Arkansas State press., 1944-04-14

Richmond Times Dispatch Most O~utspoken in Deriding
White Supremacy" Excuse; Charleston News and
Courier Demands Primaries BE Abolished to keep
State ~Inhabitable for Decent Whites"
Arkansas State press., 1944-04-14

With immortality in the city
running rampant to such an eH-
tent that military authorities are
making threats, m. j. sees but
one solution to hte menacing prob
lem, since 1t cant be destroyed,
1t, at least can be controlled
Remember, the prohibition days
Arkansas State press., 1944-04-14
The Real Thing

A few weeks oeo this Paper named Miss Murel Smith, and ran
her photo as appearing on the National Negro Publishers Associo-
ton program over the National Broodcostne Componys Network
We regret very much of the error thot was mode at thot time.
It vos Miss Murel Rohn, who appeared over the network on the pro-
qrom jnsteod of Miss Smith. Both ladies' ore starring in "Cormen
Jones" the Broadway smash hit of the year.
SENATOR CARtWAN HAS NEW HtT FOR CAMPAIGN
Washington, d. C-tC)-Sen- Ony when the Senator is up for
aor Hattie Caraway is ready to election she buys a new hat to
begin her campaign for reeec- throw into the ring!
ton, now that she has a new hat.
Arkansas State press., 1944-04-14

Leroy Johnson, ti2f Spring
Street, felt the wrath of II. H.
thizzonner) last weekend re-
sulting from the Marya-Towles
swing at the Robinson Auditorium
when he forgot for a moment that
in America, we act the part of
civilization whether we are or
not--$25 and six-ninety.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-17
Savant Scouts
Rocket Guns

BERN. Switzerland. Jan. II. (UP)
Reports that the Germans have
developed a super-eXplosive rocket
shell were ridiculed by an out
standing Swiss scientist Monday as
a myth" invented by the Nazi
propaganda machine to frighten
uninformed civilians.
Dr. Alfred Stettbacher, a leading
authority on explosives, wrote in
the Neue Zuercher Zeitung that
the alleged secret weapon has no
existence except as an instrument
in the war of nerves.
Hitherto, all these so-called
Super-Secret weapons such as rocket
guns, uranicm bombs and new and
devastating explosives have pro-
duced only one real effect, namely
in the minds Of 'scarable' civilians, p"
Stettbacher wrote
mo human being has yet invented
uranium bomb or is capable
of inventing it for a long time to
come. The most tremendous ex-
plosive existing today is mixture
termed tetronitromethan benzol,
but there is 10 chemist or army
headquarters in the world that is
ignorant OF its existence"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-17
Soviet Rejects
Polish Offer

Continued from page II
the Polish spokesman said. 1T in
dicateS, rather, that the Russians
want to produce a Polish govern
ment OF their own. The statement
leaves the Polish government with
out a course of action"
Russia on Jan. 5 suggested the
Curzon line of 1919 as its western
frontier and the exile government
replied last Friday with an an
nouncement that it was asking the
United States and Britain to ar
range for Soviet-Polish discussions,
with British and American partici-
patton, of "all outstanding ques-
tons between the two countries.
The Russian statement, diStribut-
ed early Monday by the official Tass
agency, said the Polish declaration
completely avoided and ignored"
the question Of the CurZon line and
therefore 1t cannot be considered
otherwise than a rejection of the
Curzon line" Establishment of the
CurZon line as a postwar frontier
would result in Russia giving up
more than 1000 of the 77,7O0 square
miles occupied by the Red army in
September 1889.
"As to the proposal of the Polish
government on the opening of Of
ficial negotiations between it and
the Soviet government, the Soviet
government believes this proposal
was intended to mislead public
opinion the Russian statement
said.
1t is not difficult to understand
that the Soviet government cam
not enter into official negotiations
with a government with which di-
plomatic relations are interrupted
owing to the fault of the Polish
government because of its active
in the hostile anti
Soviet slanderous campaign of the
'Katyn murders launched by the
German invaders.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-17
Musfer-ouf Pay
Bill DELAYED

j WASHINGTON. Jan. II CUP) -
House consideration of mastering
out pay for veterans was delayed
Monday until Tuesday due to an
adjournment of business out of re-
spect to Representative William H.
Wheat, (R9, Ill, who died here
Sunday.
Rep. Dewey Short, CRD, Mis-
souGi, Monday urged the house
rules committee to adopt a rule on
the bill that would prevent men,
bers from offering crazy" amend
ments. Decision on the rule was
delayed.
1 A member of the house military
affairs committee which recon-
mended the bill, Short said this
is a sensible bill We don't want
to throw sop TO the veterans"
Before the war is over We'll have
Is or l6 million persons who will
have been in the armed forces, and
some members of congress want to
give them a thousand dollars-it's
crazy"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-17
Death Summons
Valley Pioneer

Illinois, on December 1888, and
came to Imperial Valley with her
husband, and family in 1900 They
made the valley their home for 30
years.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gillett brought
their family and their livestock
across the Colorado river by raft as
there was no bridge across the
river in those early settlement days.
She cooked for large crews of work.
men while her husband worked on
the first irrigation system in the
valley Her son, Gilbert Gilett of
Holtville, was the first white boy
born in Imperial Valley.
Survivors are: her husband: her
daughters, Harriet Underwood of
Holtville; Alice Beckett of Live
Oaks; Bertha Campbell of Holt
vile, and Elsie Jensen of Los An
geles; sons, John T. of Vina; Major
Charles E., of the United States
army: Gilbert of Holtville, and
jesse F. Gillett of Los Angeles; two
sisters, Mrs. M. E. Kuns of Sierra
Madre, and Mrs. Jennie Ash of Wis
consin; a brother, Thomas Gilbert
OF Mason, Illinois; 33 grandchildren
and q great grandchildren
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-17
Relief Urged
On Gasoline
Continued from page |

Continued from page i
mitted they were aware of the val
ley condition and that they would
attempt to clarity the PAW order
which gives priority TO the mill
tary and agricultural needs first.
Procedures have been established
TO designate stations for agricul-
tural trade only in case OF pinch.
This will not be necessary If the
general public cooperates and bars
pleasure driving, Miller said Mon
day.
Klebenow in a letter to C. B. Gar
retson, petroleum administration
director, regarding the shortage
in the valley, said The allotment
in the valley evidently took into
consideration the months OF Aug
ust. September and October which
were the low months and taking
those figures and again cutting
them by an allotment basis 10 an
other low, leaving the valley with
approximately $4,000 gallons per
month to move the entire crop out
of this area, as well as any othe.
gas requirements for that district,
such as B and c books
USE WRONG PERIOD A
He pointed out that January
February, May and June were the
peak months. March and April con-
sumption of gas drops off "a per
cent from the peak. August drops
4S per cent from the peak. Septem-
Der drops Al per cent and OCTOBER
30 per cent. In November and De-
cember an upward trend is noted.
The situation was brought for
ward late last month when gas
station dealers pointed out that
under normal peak season require
ments they would be out OF gasoline
in the county by the goth Of jan
uary. During the holiday week from
Christmas to New Years, Miller was
informed that II truckers hauling
hay, tomatoes, milo and other crops
were stalled in the county due to
their inability to fill their tanks.
PLAN OUTLINED
Unless the ODT and the PAW
offices can get together with the
major companies and gasoline can
be routed to Imperial county dur
ing this critical period, designation
of stations TO service agriculture
will be made necessary. The cooper
alton of the companies appears
certain however, Mr.. Miller said.
The plan will be TO rout gas here
from areas at low period now and
later this summer during our slack
season rout gasoline out Of this
county.
If station designation becomes
necessary the only way gas can be
obtained will be by a directive from
the ODT and county War Board and
an armed OPA guard will be sta
toned at each gas dealers station
who is named in the program. But
if local cooperation is given this
will not be necessary.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-17

TO confer with army, navy and
maritime commission officials over
the controversial m e II d m n S
pending another closed meeting to-
morrow. Meanwhile the senate,
which is considering the tax bill,
faced further delay before tackling
the renegotiation issue.
The senate probably will act to-
day on the tax bills provision re-
quiring labor unions and other non-
profit organizations to file nom
taxable international returns with
the internal revenue commissioner.
Chief among the committee
amendments to the renegotiation
law were:
Increase in the specific exemp-
tion Of contracts subject to renego-
tiation from 100000 to S5o0.000.
Exemption of contracts for pur-
chase of standard commercial ar
ticleS.
Exemption of contracts for ag-
ricultural products.
Exemption of contracts awarded
as a result of competitive bidding.
Exemption of contracts or Sub
contracts for articles furnished un-
der a war production board direc-
tive and on articles furnished at or
below maximum prices established
by the emergency price control act
of 1912.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-17
Children Flock
To E. Clinic

could tell yet for certain whether
she would be cured. There is al
ways hope, CT course.
No one in all the world has ever
heard such Joy as Welled into the
voice of the boy who walked for
the first time True, his feet and
legs were imprisoned in braces but
he could take few steps un-
assisted. Almost, but not quite, like
other boys. Perhaps some day.
Dozens of children were carried
and led to the court house base
ment Monday for the first days
session of the examining clinic
sponsored by the county health de-
partment and the state department
of health. Last sessions will be
Tuesday from a. m. until noon.
OF ALL AGES
Children of all ages from babes
in arms to almost grown were
examined. Red Cross aides were
assisted by helping mothers.
Examining physicians were assist
ed by health and school nurses all
working together to soothe the
children and make the clinic a
place of helpfulness and kindness
instead of a place of terror and
pain. The physicians examine the
children and recommend the treat
ment they need and in many cases
discuss the problem with the pa
tents private physician.
The best thing about these Grip
pled children's clinics is that the
children are not forgotten after
ward. Those whose parents can
afford the treatment and assistance
the children need, take care Of the
finances themselves The children
whose parents cannot DO so are
helped so that all these unfor-
'unates have a chance Of becoming
normal physical" and leading
happy, useful lives instead OF facing
life as pitiful burdens.