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Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-11
NEW DEAL FOUNDERS
IN OWN iNEFFIClENQ

Again the New Deal is floundering
about seeking escape from another maze
of its own making 1t is not the flrst
time the administration has been con-
fused and helpless midst its own blum
dering and inefficiency and lnablllty TO
function after il has tied itself III Knot
If there has been more confusion ana
costly errors in one bureau more thah
another of the hundred and one set up
in Washington, is the one, or comDlna,
ton of several, having to do with 1000
conversation and distribution. 1t shoulo
be the easiest of all to operate at hlgh
efficiency. But that has not been the New
Deals record in this particular instance.
The food administration agencies SIM
nlv have no definite and workable plan
for removing food rationing. About all
they do know is that the administration,
through lack of understanding and plain
common sense. has built up giant sur
pluses. They don't know what to do about
them and unless some of the big minds
get busy soon, about the only thing lett
is to destroy millions of tons OF food;
That. however, should not come hard
to the New Dealers. All they need to do
is hearken back to the days OF the slaugh-
ter of pigs by the millions While people
went hungry.
When the chairman of the house food
study committee declared recently that
relaxation of food rationing should fol-
low promptly after the defeat of Ger
MANY. the food agency officials threw
up their hands in utter surrender as to
how that suggestion could be carried out.
One of these persons, after twelve years
of experience when asked what about
the disposal of the vast egg surplus had
ONLY this answer: I've wish we knew.
And as far as showing any ability to
solve the matter is concerned that ag-
gregation will keep on wishing. And
eggs are only one item of the hundreds.
Cleaned from files of the food admins
trative bureaus at Washington, here are
some of the food surpluses: 4O,O00,OO0
pounds of frozen meats 2O0,0O0,O00
pounds of canned meats; 100,000,O00
pounds of cured meats; 1O0,O00,O00
pounds of canned fish; 10O,O00,OO0
pounds of canned vegetables; 0O,O00,-
600 pounds of dried fruits; 400,0O0,OOO
pounds each of dried peas and beans;
15O.OOO,OOO pounds of rice; 200,0O0,000
pounds of evaporated milk 150,O0O,OOO
pounds of dried milk; 50,000,000 pounds
of cheese; 100000, 900 pounds of sugar;
180 1000 900 pounds of dry or frozen eggs
and at least 10000, 900 dozen fresh eggs.
E. There must he a well-defined program
. for distributing these surpluses to see
that there is no favoritism. There must
be most definite plan to prevent price
collapses and at the same time there
should be no continuation of sharp re-
strictions on sales of the items wherein
there exist large surpluses. Nor can the
policy of arbitrary supporting of prices
go on forever. 1t calls for too heavy
drain on public funds contributed by the
taxpayers.
Clearly the solution is to dump the
surplus of inefficiency at Washington
and give the country fresh start with
. administrators who are not all worn out
in trying to extricate themselves from
. inexcusable errors, and who long ago
have admitted they just don't know.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-11
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
CERTIFICATE OF DOING
BUSINESS UNDER FICTITIOUS
FIRM NAME

The UNDERSIGNED who have here
tofore carrien on a business oil op-
Grating motion picture theatres and
other properties under the fictitious
firm name of SILVER CREST
THEATRES have changed said firm
| name to SILVER CREST ENTER
PRISES and do hereby certify that
they are conducting all of said bust
ness heretofore carried on under
the name Silver Crest Theatres, to-
wit the business of operating mo-
ton picture theatres and other
properties, and other business, un-
der the fictitious firm name OF
Silver Crest Enterprises.
The principal office of said busi-
ness in California Is Del Mar The
atre, Sorensen Street, Calipatria.
California.
The said firm is composed of the
following persons whose names and
places of residence are as follows:
B. v Sturdivant 2266 North IIol-
liston Avenue, Altadena, Los An
geleS County. California.
E. B. SturdiVant, Yuma. Arizona
F. N. Sturdivant, Somerton Hotel
Somerton, Yuma County. Arizona.
Carolyn Kuschell, 1917 South
Longwood Avenue, Los Angeles
California.
Harry I. CAN'T, 748 Magnolia
Street, Brawley, California.
Witness our hands this 9th day
of August. 1914.
b. V. Sturdivant
T.. B. Sturdiyant
L. NJ Sturdivant
Carolyn KuSchell
Harry T. Can't
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
COUNTY OF Los ANGELES) SIS
On this 10th day of August, 1914.
before me, the undersigned, a No
tary Public in and for said County
and State, personally appeared b. V.
Sturdivant. known TO me to be the
person who signed the foregoing
and acknowledged to me that he
executed the same.
Witness my hand and official seal
M. w. Dyer
Notary Public i'll and for
said County and State
My commission expires March 20.
1916.
SEAL
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES IS
On this 10th day of August, 1914.
before me, the undersigned, No
tary Public in and for said County
and State, personally appeared Car
olyn Kuschell, known to me to be
the person who signed the fore
going and acknowledged to me that
she executed the same.
Witness my hand and official seal
M. w. DWyer
Notary Public in and for
said County and State
My commission expires March 20,
1916.
SEAL
STATE OF CALIFORNIA J
COUNTY OF IMPERIAL, Ks
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-11
CURRENT QUOTATIONS

Pause and imagine what could have
happened if in the wake of their sweep
ing conquest of Malay and Burma the
japanese had been able to withdraw 20
divisions from China to employ against
Inda-Dr H. H. Kung, Chinese minister
Of finance.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-11
CAR REPORTED STOLEN

A 1880 Ford cabriolet, California
license number 28C485, registered
under the name of Harry Baurhlll,
was reported stolen Sunday. The
car was described as having a Whlte
top and black body. The report
came from Yuma, Arizona.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-11
NELOL0ND AREA RASCHEK
SUMMONED BY DEATH

Mushi r a m, Sd, Hindustani
rancher who lived mile south of
Meloland six years, oiec Sunday.
He is survived by daughter. Mrs.
Fclia Duron, and four sons, Harry.
Henry, John, and Frank. Henry and
John are in the military service.
Funeral arrangements are pend
ing.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-11

EDITORS NOTE: The .following edit
oridis are presented as interesting 0pin-
ions roiced by editors elsewhere. Iheg
do not necessarily reflect the opinion OF
this paper.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-11
MASONIC UNIT TO MEET

FL Centro chapter No. 109, RAM,
will hold the first meeting of the
fall Thursday, at 1880 pm. in Mas
onic Temple. Secretary George F.
Bucklin has asked all members to
be present for the opening meet
ing.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-11
Editorials and Comment

to find place to hide. yet there is
strong belief the attempt will be made
and we'll in advance of the fall of the
Nazis. In 1918 the Kaiser waited almost
too long
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-11
STATE OF CALIFORNIA J

On this 1lth day of August, 1911,
before me, the undersigned, a No
tary Public in and for said County
and State, personally appeared
Harry T. Can't, known to me to be
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-11

Your dealer has 1t or can quickly
get it from Nash & Kinsella Lab
oratorieS, Inc, ST. Louis, Mo.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1944-11-04
Veterans Services
Be Furnished
List of Veterans

Local Boards of Selective service
in Mississippi have been author
lied by the state director, Colonel
L. W. Long, to aid the local vet
Grams service committee as a part
of the community organization to
furnish information and service to
returning veterans and war work
ers, by furnishing them lists of vet
Grams, men in service, and other
required information needed to
carry on the community program.
Colonel Long stated that the plans
for aiding veterans on the COM
munity level were developing well
in each community and that these
local organizations need such infor-
nation to properly plan their pro-
gram. The chairman of each local
board is a part of the local vet
Grams service committee and vital
ling in the chain. These people
have aided in building an army and
navy and now are interested in
building their local community, US
ing the returning veteran and war
worker as a necessary part of this
program.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1944-11-04

Engineers Build
Vital Span for
Supply Route

With the Fifth Army, Italy-Staff
Sgt James H. Cade of 316 High
street, Anderson, S. c., recently re-
ceived the congratulations of Bri-
gadier General Benjamin o. Davis,
the army's ranking Negro officer,
for the part he played in the con-
struction of an important bridge on
the Fifth army front in Italy.
Cade directed his all-Negro pla-
toon of an engineer general service
regiment in building the vital span
on Highway No. l, the fifth arrny's
main supply route, across the Om-
bronze river, two miles south of
Grosseto.
Work on the bride was begun on
July Is and on September it was
opened to traffic with dedictory
ceremonies led by General Davis.
Also participating on the program
was Captain Charles Lahaye of
Port Arthur, Tex, commanding Of
ficer of the company which ac-
compished the major portion of
the task.
The bridge is $50 feet long, 48
feet high at the center bents and
% feet wide. Total construction, in
Guiding preparation of the site and
clearing of the waterway, required
40 days.
Steel Orders from a mill at
Piombino, 40 miles away, were
transported to the site in 66 foot
sections, each section weighing 10
tons. One arch on the north side
of the bridge and three on the south
side were filled with dirt and rivet-
ed with rock and concrete.
The original arch bridge of stone
masonary was demolished by ALI
ed planes and enemy explosives.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1944-11-04
Colored Farmer
Makes Hotbed
Pay Big Dividends

REA power means more than
electric lights, radia. fan and cleo
trio refrigerator to Mr.. and Mrs.
Bert Bird, cooperators of the U. S.
Department of Agriculture's Rural
Identification Administration. To
this colored farm family it also
means an extra hand these days
when labor is unusually scarce and
a better hotbed for their vegetable
plant business.
The Eird krow vegetables and
flower plants as an important
source of extra farm income. A
few years back Farmer Eird used to
have considerable difficulty some
times finding enough manure in the
right condition for his eight section
bed; and shoveling the manure
wasn't an easy job, nor was the
trotting back and forth through the
day to watch the thermometer and
adjust the ventilation after the bed
had been sewed down in seeds.
He and Mrs. Eird were getting
old, too, and their two sons were in
the army, so they though there must
be some easier way to handle the
hot bed. OF course, he didn't think
that flue-heated or pipe-heated beds
were practicable for his operations.
It was then that he talked with the
manager of his REA cooperative.
The manager advised him to cleo
trify his hotbed.
The initial outlay of $55 for in
stalling an electric heating system
looked a little large in lump sum,
but, of course, he could spread the
payments over several months, SO
he took the REA coop managers
advice and electrified his hotbed
The first year he succeeded in
breaking even, and last spring, his
improved plants, grown under uni
form control temperature conditions
brought him over $780, He had
produced 1900 dozen plants-po-
tatoes, three kinds of tomatoes ano
flowers. Two of Mrs. Eird's flow
ers won honorable mention in the
Boyle County flower show.
With the extra electricity costing
the Eirds only $23.77 for the grow.
ing season this year, and with the
seeds costing only $24, they nettec
more than $3.50 off their plants las
/ spring.
Farmer Eird thinks it's a little
soft, too, only having. to adjust the
thermostat, and water his hotbee
plants. When his sons come home
after the war, the Eirds plan t.
expand their hotbeds and go into
the vegetable plant business on {
much larger scale.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1944-11-04
SO Million Pounds
Food to Virgin
Isles, Puerto Rico

Over SO million pounds of food
stuffs and other agricultural pro-
ducts were delivered to shipside
for Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands
during the month of September,
according to the War Food Admin
istration monthly report.
Rice accounted for 1872 900
pounds, or over a third of the total
tonnage; white flour accounted for
6,306,000 pounds, cured fish, 1928, :
900 pounds; and evaporated milk, q
$1,000 pounds. Other items includ-
ed onions, canned fish, soap, frozen
meat, lard, oats, corn meal and
vegetable seeds.
Shipments are made to the islands
on cash sale basis under agree
ments betwee VIA, the Depart
ment of Interior, and the insular
government.
In addition to listing foodstuffs
dlivered to shipside under cash ar
engagements, the report also lists
lend-lease deliveries for our allies,
and food supplies made available to
school lunch sponsors. Total agri-
cultural products delivered for lend
lease shipment sin September
amounted to 41.872,551 pounds.
Sponsors of school lunch pro-
grams, relief agencies and civilian
groups received $4,000 pounds of
food, including unconcentrated
grapefruit juice; shell eggs, family
mess pork, and pork ribs during
September.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1944-11-04
Carnival Queen
Contest Excites
Much Interest

A spirit of interclass rivalry and
competition runs high at Jackson
College where the annual contest
for carnival queen, which is to Gull
inmate on November 10, is now
underway
Eight contestants, backed by their
class or section supporters. are
busy selling tickets for the car
nival and giving entertainments of
various kinds in their effort to
raise the largest sum of money.
Each potential queen has her mind
on the attainment of the prize, a
Thanksgiving trip to Atlanta Uni
versity in Atlanta.
Cooperating in this school wide
contest are the laboratory and
nursey schools who are sponsoring
their own queens to share in the
coronation ceremony which will
highlight the opening of the carni-
val on the night of November 10.
This year the proceeds of the
carnival will be used for a mural
which will grace the walls of the
entrace to the new Paul johnson
hall of social science.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1944-11-04
Parents Urged to
Visit Schools
Educational Week

The Jackson Teachers Association
is inviting parents and friends to
visit the Public Schools American
Education Week, November Sill.
When we give our children good
education we give them priceless
and enduring gift. AS never before
we need to develop the talents Of
all children, to create good will in
their hearts, to build cooperative
attributes, to teach them to think
for themselves.
Visit your school and meet the
teacher of your children. We can
build better world only thru our
children.
A movie" sponsored by The
Jackson Teachers Association at the
Ritz Theatre November Gil. Par
ents are. urged to attend and take
your children.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1944-11-04
TributePaid
Troops for
Rescue Work

Washington, D. C-Biak, for the
determined Doughboys of the 41st
Infantry Division, was battle for
a bloody coral beach and hundreds
of almost impregnable caves in
which fanatical japanese were bar
ricaded for months.
A clear picture of the Biak op-
Grafton was given by Technician
Third Grade Llewellyn Garbutt
30, of 621 West Birch street, Walla
Walla, Wash, on his return to the
United States after 80 months ov-
erseas.
Sgt. Garbutt, who, as a member
of staff section of division head
quarters was in a position to OBJ
serve at closest range the critical
stages of the battle for Biak, saic
among other things:
"All those Doughboys could dc
was to flatten themselves on the
coral and keep filing. Some of the
troops, because the beach was sc
narrow, were driven back into the
sea. Tribute ought to be paid tt
Negro amphibious troops, who, un
der incessant, murderous fire pour
ed by the Japs on the nights above
the beach, picked up the Dough.
boys who had been forced into the
ocean.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1944-11-04
Au-Southern
Negro Youth
Confab, Nov. 80

Birmingham, Ala-Louis E. Burn
ham, acting secretary of the Asso-
citation of Young Writers and Ar
lists, affiliated with the Southern
Negro Youth Congress has an
nounced that Thursday, November
80, the opening day of the 9Th All
Southern Negro Youth Conference
will be devoted to the cultural &C.
Invites sponsored by the Associa-
ton. Several of the honorary mem
bers of the Association are expected
to be in Atlanta for the conference
sessions. Among those expected to
be present are DR.. Alain L. Locke
chairman of the Department of Phil
osophy at Howard University; Ster-
ling Brown, Negro poet and teach
er at Howard University; Harold
Pearce author and columist; and
Marporie Mckenzie, attorney and
columist.
Members of the Association will
spend the morning session in full
discussion of further program fo1
developing the cultural life of Ne
gro youth of the South. Winners
of the first quarterly contest spon-
sored by the Association will be
announced by DR.. Locke, one uf the
contest judges. The contest had as
its topic, The Significance of the
Novel Freedom Road" by Howard
Fast"
Other sessions Of the Youth Con-
ference will be devoted to panel
discussions on the problems of vet
Grams and service personnel, eco
nomic security, education, COM
munity welfare, constitutional lib
critics the franchise and personal
ity problems of Negro youth.
Among the panel consultants ex-
pected are: Thomas N. Roberts,
Personnel Division, U. S. Depart
ment of Agriculture; Col. Campbell
c. Johnson ,selective Service Sys-
tenn; Francis Williams, Office Of
~ ten. Fnrrester B.
Washington, D4rectss I, - 1Atfafs.
School OF Social Work; DR.. Ira
DeA Reid, Professor of Sociology,
Atlanta University, and Osceola Nc
KANE, candidate fer the state legis-
lature, South Carolina.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1944-11-04
Agricultural Agents Meet In
Annual Session At jackson
College, Oct. 80 Thru Nov. |
Outstanding Speakers On Program
States Al Club Work Discussed

| Over 100 Negro county, home
demonstration and emergency war
food agents Of Mississippi, met in
their annual meeting at Jackson
College on October 30-31, and No
vember l.
On Monday the speakers and
specialists were: DR.. P. H. Easom,
state department of education, jack
son; Rev. j. W. Sells, Mississippi
rural life council, Crystal Springs;
Mr.. J. v. Pace, R. f. Waters, and
]. E. Tanner, extension workers,
State College; T. M. Patterson, A.
L. Holsey, and w. E. Ammons,
representative of the AAA.
Tuesdays program began with
discussion on All Club work by
Mr.. H. S. Johnson, state All club
leader, and L. o. Palmer, assistant
state Al club leader, State Col
lege, and G. c. Cypress, Negro
boys club agent. Other speakers
throughout the day were: Mr.. l.. 1.
Jones, director of extension; Miss
May Cresswell, state home demon
stration agent; and Chesley Hines,
horticulturist, State College.
Wednesdays program included
Miss Kate Lee, who spoke on pro-
gram planning, Dr. Clay Lyles on
insect control, and Miss Elaine
Massey, state Al club leader for
women, on girls club work.
Other outstanding visitors at
tending the meeting were: Mr..
Frank Pinder, Washington, D. c.;
DR. W. Milan Davis, Okolona In
uostrial school, and Mr.. Giles a.
Hubert. social science department,
and editor of the Modren Farmer,
Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn.
The meeting closed with a ban
quet at the Summers Hotel on
Wednesday night
This meeting was in charge of M.
M Hubert, district agent for mems
work, and Mrs. Alice Carter Oliver,
district agent for women's work.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1944-11-04
Officer Ernerges
AS / Zero of
Jap Encounter

"a .TEil- ---14l5z11tthe
SOUTHWEST Pacific-Elements of the
.93rd Division were engaged in sur
rounding and destroying an enemy
force which had pinned down
friendly troops of another unit on
an uhdisclosed island in the South
Pacific. The Japs were dug in on
the forward slope of a hill, around
the base of which ran a stream.
The CO ordered First Lieutenant
Harry c. Robinson of Harrisburg,
Pa. to organize a patrol consisting
of one other officer. five enlisted
men and three news photographers
and assigned him the mission of Sc
curing information. 1t was a par
ticularly dangerous mission, for in
crossing the stream the patrol was
vulnerable to Jap fire.
Robinson's patrol, crouching low,
zigzagged its way across the stream.
Reaching the bank, it deployed and
went to work" on the remaining
piuuboxes which now were begin
ming to come to life. Just as Robin
son and his assistant patrol leader
were infiltrating into the position,
Jap officer rose from his pillbox
and took careful aim at the latter
Ever on the alert, Robinson quick
ly grasped the situation, yelled to
his assistant to take cover, while
he opened fire with his carbine.
There waSone less Son of HEAVIER"
Having killed about q Japs with
out losing a man, the patrol COM
pleted its nilsson and returned to
headquarters.
Lieutenant Robinson is former
student of Lincoln University of
, Pennsylvania and South Carolina
State where he was an outstanding
athlete. His wife, Mrs Jennell Rob
inson, resides at 6l2 Broad Street
in Harrisburg.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1944-11-04

Floyd Ray, known as the colored
Fred Waring Of the musical world
who brings his popular and enter
tanning dance orchestra to jackson,
on Thursday, November 16, at the
Colored Skating Rink, is considered
to be one of the businest and most
talented, as well as youngest or
chestra leaders of his race in the
nation.
The Ray organization is now en-
tering its sixth year as it begins its
third transcontinental tour from
Hollywood where they have been
the toast of the coast for the
past sixt months with their rapid
fire swing rhythms and novel vocal
and dance features.
Don't miss this dance. Advance
tickets SIPS; at door $l.50.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1944-11-04
Boy Scout Mobilization Day
To Be Observed November | |
Activities To Take Place At
Jim Hill School at 1000 a. m.

Assembly: All scouts and scouters
will assemble at the front entrance
of Jim Hill school Scouts will as
semble by troops. For instance
Troop so will form a straight line
in front of and parallel to the di-
rector. Right dress. Troop 81 will
form a similar line as troop So
three steps behind it; then 81, So
81, SIS, Sc, 81, and SO.
Ceremony: Song, God Bless Am
erica" invocation, pledge of ALE
gience, scout oath.
Announcements: Pertaining to the
program of activities.
Knot tieing contest: Four boys
from each troop, all troops tieing
knots at the same time. Each con-
test under adult leaders who will
name knots to be tied The two
winning teams will close the con-
test, the winner to get award.
Rope climbing contest: Four boys
from each troop, awards to the
winners.
Message relay: A equal number
of boys from each troop. The mes
sage will be verbal and written
The team that finishes first and
having the correct message, will get
award.
Human tower building: Each
troop team in contest. Start and
stop at sound of whistle. Award to
first team.
Races: Three legged, tie left or
right legs. Distance, so yards. All
teams competing at same time
Winner awarded.
Potato race and uniform race.
Cooking: Second and first class
cooking may be done here. Id adj
ult leader sign your statement for
cooking, your scoutmaster win &C.
cept it.
Bandage race: Contest by teams
from each troop. Line up single
file, facing one scout so feet away
First scout run to this scout, put
on bandage, return to foot of his
line before second scout starts. In
like manner each scout will put or
a bandage. Leaders will decide the
number of bandages put on cor.
rectly. Highest number gets award
Football game: FINS.
Boards of Review: Only boy:
who are working for first and Sec
ond class need come to the board
of review.