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The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1944-08-16
June-LilIy Sextette
Rare Musical Treat

Portland was given a rare mu-
steal treat Sunday night, August
6, when the June-Lilly Sextette
appeared n recital at the Wo-
mems Club Auditorium.
A variety of classicals, spirit
uals and patriotic airs such as
Portland had not heard before
made up the program. Under the
the able direction of Mrs. Mig
non Lilly Cabel, the sextettle,
some of whom are singers of ra-
dio fame and others known for
their work with nationally ia
nous choirs, are, Mrs. June Roe
Runnels, Texas; Mrs. Jimmie
Lilly Franklin, Tulsa, Okla. !;
Mrs. Mary Geneva Roe Savage,
New Mexico; Mrs. Craline Smith
and the Misses Bessie Mae Har-
ris and Bernice Banks.
Each rendition was par excel
lent from the first group of four
numbers which included Sum
mer Time, and Smoke Gets In
Your Eyes, featuring Mrs. Saw
age, to thee losing group. This
Is Worth Fighting For, and Over
There.
The four spirituals in the 3rd
group featured Mrs. Savage who
won a loud ovation in o Yes,
My Lordy lord.
A semi-classical group, HON.
ing, Dawn, and A Spirit Flower,
were dedicated to Portland's own
songbird Vyolette "Vi' Hooker
and her sister Gwendolyn Given,
a dramatic reader.
Mrs. Craline Smith was de-
lightfully entertaining in The
Little Road to Kerry, and The
Swallows. Sometimes I Feel like
a Motherles Child, is a familiar
spiritual, but Mrs. June Roe Run
nels captivated thea udience as
she sang it in a new arrange
ment.
Climaxing the program was
Mrs. Savage doing the classical
kiss Me Again" by Victor Her.
bert, and Welcome Sweet Winds
by Cadman, bringing rounds of
applause from the audience.
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OATH OF AFRO-AMERICAN YOUTH

| will never bring disgrace upon my race by any
unworthy deed or dishonorable act. | will live
clean, decent manly life; and will ever respect and
defend the virtue and honor of womanhood; I will
uphold and obey the laws of my country and of the
community in which live, and will encourage others
to do likewise; l will not allow prejudice injustice
insult outrage to my spirit or sour my soul;
but will preserve the inner freedom of heart and
conscience I will not allow myself to be overcome
with evil but will strive to overcome evil with good
will endeavor to develop and exert the best powers
within me for my own personal improvement and will
strive increasingly to quicken the sense of racial duty
and responsibility; | will in all these ways aim to
uplft my that, to everyone bound to it by
ties of blood, it shall become bond of ennoblement
and not a by-word of reproach
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1944-08-16
De Grief Believes Farm
Should be Provided for
HabituaI Offenders Here

Judge De Grief believes we
should have a city or county
farm where frequent liquor Of
tenders and others who are ha-
bitually brought into police court
may be placed and required to
do such work as they are able
to do, for he feels that work is
the cure for most ills.
Judge De Grief also believes
that the best cure for the ever
increasing crime wave, especially
among young men and women, is
by education. He believes in the
proberb. IAN ounce of prevention
is worth a pound of cure" Money
spent in supervised playfields, re-
creation centers, Boy Scout and
Girl Scout work, will do SO times
as much good as an equal
amount spent in apprehending
and furnishing criminals.
Judge De Grief also feels that
parents should have and main
tain an answering interest in
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HARLEM HOSPITAL PIONEERS
NEGRO WHITE RACE EQUALITY

NEW YORK - Last December
Sydenham Hospital, in Harlem,
gave the Negro doctor, nurse and
patient equal footing with the
white. Within seven months this
interracial experiment has be-
come established policy.
The background for the action
was the need for a voluntary
hospital stated and managed to
meet the needs of the commun-
ity it serves. Harlem, the Negro
section of Manhattan Island, has
more people than the State OF
Delaware. 1t it were a separate
city it would be the 18th largest
in the nation.
Infant mortality is Harlem was
80 per cent greater than in any
other area of New York; tuber-
culosis mortality was So per cent
greater.
One Hospital Inadequate
The five voluntary hospitals
in the area barred Negroes from
regular staff utilization; they
would not permit a Negro patient
to occupy a private room. There
was a sanitarium owned and OPP
Grated by Negro physicians, but
its facilities were inadequate for
adaptation as voluntary hos
pital.
Intermittent efforts had been
made during the past 40 years
to fill the need for a voluntary
hospital in Harlem which would
afford staff utilization for quail
fled Negro physicians and service
for their patients.
The present effort dates back
to 1898. In 1941 the City-Wide
Citizens Committee os Harlem
was formed and it was as a re-
suit of negotiations with this
committee that Sydenham Off
Gals adopted this policy.
Today Sydenham boasts of a
well balanced cooperative, smooth
running organization, with no
trace of resentment or prejudice.
23 Negro Doctors
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There are two Negroes among
the II internes; 81 Negro nurses
and rs white. There are 1gS
doctors of whom 23 are Negroes.
Six of the 2S trustees are Ne
groes.
1T is democracy at work."
said Benjamin j. Roth, president
of the 52-year-old hospital.
Free wards and private wards
alike hold white and Negro pa
tients. In the maternity ward,
Negro and white mothers talk
warmly about their new children.
In the mems ward, men of the
two races play cards or chat
easily. On the children's floor,
the youngsters play together, or
yell Justify for the nurses.
Hospital officials say there has
been no loss of white patients, al
though as the hospital is in the
Harlem area, about 80 per cent
of the patients are Negro. White
and Negro members of the staff
work side by side; they eat to-
gether in common dining room
and the internes room together
while they are at the hospital.
AS one nurse remarked: ''At
first we had little difficulty,
but we quickly adjusted ourselves
Il have learned a great deal
about Negroes by working with
Them
Judgment on Ability
''Of course we didn't pick Ne
gro staff members indiscrimin-
ately,' says Roth. White or Ne
gro, we judged them on their
ability and efficiency and the
ablest got the jobs.
"Our greatest obstacle was to
realize that the Negro when he
first comes here doesn't have as
much professional training as the
white. AS you know there are
few institutions where Negroes
can train for a hospital profess
sion. But with a little helpful
ness and sympathy, that is over
come
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Portland Officials
Visit Bay City

We (yours truly and the mis-
teri made a hurried trip to San
Francisco for a short visit with
our daughter, Mary Ellen, and
our son Jerry and wife Vasti
(Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Duncan)
prior to his leaving for islands
in the Pacific. Amid regrets of
his departure the family had a
most enjoyable time at family
dinner, to the California Theatre
Club, the Ice Follies and then
churched it on Sunday.
1t was so nice seeing the w.
d. Wilson's of Berkeley. Mr.. and
Mrs. lib Pierfre, Mrs. Vivian os-
borne Marsh, grand worthy ma
iron, OES, Rev. C. D. Tolliver
and James Mclean, from Brazil (;
Mrs. Claude Royal, Mrs. Alice
Blake and the T. M. James's.
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Corporal Roy Fuller writes his
family of progress made while
training. Stationed ont from
Chicago, he is keeping up his
musical training and taking a
stenographic course. His wife.
Marjorie and their little daugh-
ter, Ester Marie, anxiously await
his return on furlough.
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Mrs. D. N. Unthank
HOnOrs Many Visitors

A major social highlight of the
season was the fashionable gar
den party hostessed by Mrs. d.
n. Unthank at her palatial home
in Sc goth last Sunday to honor
Mesdames Robert N. Joyner ST.,
of Boston, Mass, mother of DR..
r. N. Joyner Jr., Mrs. Ruby Ad-
amson, N. Y, mother of Mrs.
Joyner, Mrs. Cadence Hines and
her mother in law, Mrs. Sarah
Hines, Chicago, Mrs. Mary G. Sa-
wage. New Mexico, Mrs. June Roe
Runnels, Texas, Mrs. Eleanor
Boswell, Los Angeles, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Gregg and
Miss Hattie Lilly. Tulsa, Okla,
sistero Mrs. Mignon Cabell.
Despite the factthat the wealth,
er man went back on his prom
Use of a few days prior and Old
Sol hid his face. leaving all on
the hay side, there were sunny
dispositions. mirth and merri-
ment int he 200 or more elegant
ly attired ladies setting a terrific
style pace. strolled about the gar
dens, sat at tables in the spacious
parlors in a fashionable game OF
bridge. Aside from meeting and
extending greetings to the honor
ees, guests partook of delicious
viands, inyigorating punch in
wo choice 'flavors from an at
tractive refreshment table in one
nook of the garden.
The hostess was assisted IN
receiving and serving by a eoteric
of friends.
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POR ND NEW S
MORE - FRAZIER
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convention.
The state convention. presided
over by thes tate chairman, elects
a state central committee, which
committee looks out for and
handles the politics for the state
political machine being supported
by the county organization. They
make up the state platform by
which politics of the state are
guided for the party. They elect
their national committeeman and
committeewomen from the men,
bers nominated by the various
county conventions. The dele
gates to the national convention
are the persons who participate
in the nominating of the Presi-
dent and vice-president of le
United States.
Thus you will see that precinct
committeeman and committee
women are the beginning and the
backbone of any political ma
chine set up to elect county, state
and national officials. And 1t
behooves all voters to be active
in his or her precinct organiza-
tion to help select the right per-
sons to represent them at this
level, and to eject a strong po-
litical organization.
It is the purpose of the county
organization, through its chair
mana nd district leaders, to rep
resent their constituents in max
ing demands for political patron
age to be given the county ID
district. II, therefore pa, ticu-
larly behooves the members of
my group to set up strong po-
litical organization headed by
courageous, militant personnel,
that such organization might
command the respect of the
county, state and nation, and ne
come a part of the politics there
of. In setting up such organiza-
ton 1t will prevent many groups
from being "sold out" by indi-
viduals who seek to gain at the
expense of others.
Politics, along with the
church, the church being first.
are the strongest organizations n
the community by which people
livea nd act. With a good church
organization and policy strictly
adhered to, together with a
strong political organization any
community will WELD great
power to create the kind of com-
munity that will serve the best
interests of all. I am asking all
those of my group to become
alert, politically, study their vote
religiously, commercially and
otherwise, in order to protect
their interests and gain the
rights due them under the Con-
stitution. I hope you won't read
these articles just because they
are written by me, nor hold an
idea that l am writing for popu-
larity or entertainment. These
articles are written because 1 am
interested in my group and what
they may gain by the right ex-
ercise of their political power.
Next week l shall discuss the
principles of the Democratic
Party as l see them.
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clearinghouse Keeper - did
you knock on that soldiers door
and wake him as 1 told you to
do?"
Maid (fresh from the country
-"Yes'm. But he didn't wake
up, so I finally had to go in and
shake him."
B. H. Keeper: Good hea-
vens! Don't you know better
than to go into a soldiers room?'
Maid: ''Yes'm, | do now"
Pope Field Runway.
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Mrs. Pearl C. Stewart in S. E.
Main has as houseguest her mo-
Their, Mrs. Ella Stevenson of Kan
sas City, Mo. Like most visitors,
to the Rose City, she is enjoying
her stay in real Portland style.
For that grand rejuvenated
feeling, try the Massage Insti-
tute, 16 N. Broadway, MU 6311.
Treatments by appointment.
A correction intended several
issues ago: Miss Betty Ruther-
ford wf1l attend Fisk University,
Nashville, Tenn, instead of Will
berforce, as announced some
time ago.
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Portland SOcials

Mr.. and Mrs. Jack Martin left
Monday for st. Paul and thence
to Chicago, where they will at
Mrs. tend the Elks National con-
yention. The Martins Joined
Mrs. McCulloeh and son of Seat
tie, who will attend the conven-
ton to which Mrs. McCulloch is
a delegate. The foursome will
spend at least two weeks in the
east.
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their children. The preservation
of our American form of govern
ment depends upon the younger
people of this nation. Let's train
them to properly guide our des-
TIMES.
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A burned-over forest looks like
a battlefield. Let's give our
fighting men a change OF seem
cry when they come home-green
forests. Be careful of fire.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-21
GERMAN WEDGE FIRMS
Rate on Lettuce
Wages Boosted

Maximum wage rates governing
all operations in connection with
the dry pack lettuce deal in Impe-
rial valley and Blythe were increased
from 26 to 28 cents a crate for all
operations, it was announced Thurs
day by the California War Food Ad-
ministration wage board.
The increase to % cents a crate
was granted in compliance with an
application filed with the board by
those engaged in the deal and ap-
plies to the dry pack harvest and
refers to all field crew operations,
including the crew boss or foreman
in organizing and supervising the
crew; unloading empty crates, cut
ting, trimming and packing lettuce,
preparing the crates, lidding, load
ing full crates on trucks and other
vehicles, and to other operations in
connection with the deal.
In the official announcement sent
to Imperial valley and Blythe it was
pointed out that the maximum rate
tctal payment pc; crate means any
fee paid to the crew boss cannot ex-
ceed % cents. If payment is made
on any other basis than the flat
rats per crate. the wage rates must
conform to and not exceed the
maximum % cents per crate.
Penalty for violation is fine not
to exceed $1,000 or Imprisonment for
year, or 10th. The penalties apply
to employer and employees alike.
Any employer who pays wages in
excess of the maximum set may be
prohibited from claiming any part
of such wages as adeductiblc expenses
in his tax returlls.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-21
British Forces
R0ut ieftists
In Athens Area

ATHENS. Dec. II. (UP)-British
forces cleared one-third of Athens
Thursday permitting the distribu-
tion Of food and other relief supplies
on a large scale fer the first time
since hoStilities began two and a
half weeks ago.
The dispatch did not make clear
whether the British had launched
the all-out offensive against ELIAS
gun positions which Lieutenant
General Ronald Scobie, the British
commander. had said would be un-
dertaken at q. m. today with field
ana naval artillery, strafing, rockets
and bombs"
With the extension Of the British
island" in the center of Athens,
Anglo-hmegican relief agencies be-
gan distributing 60 tons of canned
meat 10 75C90 inhabitants in the
cleared area with an average of 36
ounces gong TO each recipient at a
cast Ct about 5 cents
Fee soup was distributed tc 10000
persons in Athens yesterday, but
another 1903 planned servings had
10 be cancelled III the late afternoon
because Of sniping.
Four Greek policemen armed with
tommy guns arrested John Rails,
pupret Prime minister during the
German occupation, in the fourth
floor apartment of an industrialist
friend Wednesday.
Rails, who had escaped from
Avorow political prison during an
ELIAS attack on the structure, ac-
companied the police quietly to what
was described only as another
place" 4.
Government quarters reported
that General Nicholas Plastiras
ore-time Greek leader who recently
returned to Athens from exile, soon
would be named commander of all
Greek armed forces in a reshuffle
of the government designed to
placate left-Wing elements.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-21
Chinese Close in :
On Kwangsi City

CHUNGKING, Dec. 81. tUP)-
Chinese trccps were reported clos
ing in on Hochih in northern
Kwangsi province Thursday while
another column thrust to the vic
unity of Chinchengkiang, 190 miles
northwest of Liuchow, site of a
former American air base. =.
A communique reported thai more
than 100 japanese were killed in
figh ing outside Hcchih Wednesday.
On .he nolt IN central Burma front
Chinese forces recaptured three
villages near the Bhamo-Namkhan
roac and reached terrain watch is
en- the doWngrade to Namkhan.
In taking the villages the Chinese
killed more than 200 enemy trcops
and captured ) machine guns, II
knee mortars, and more than 100
rifles.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-21

CIocups and long shots of the
best shew OF the week, The Battle
Of the Balcony" or THE State VS.
Tommy Dorsey, Pat Dane and Allan
Smiley:
Although boasting an all-star cast
and crammed with mystery, sex ap-
peal. suspense and confusion. Tho
Battle Of the Balcony" as played ir'
o Ios Angeles courtroom, weuld
make anv Hollywood scenario writer
blush with shame. You can drive
General Sherman tank through tho
holes in the plot. The casting IS bad
Tho dialogue is repetitious. Jc.
Vail, fer instance, was clocked 81
saying That is correct" 378 timef
He also intoned ito the best of m
recollection" 212 times, according &
The demon statistician on our staff
Things like this would never happe'
in the movies.
There are moments when the dia-
lcgue is scintillating, as when Hall,
with all due modesty, said, There
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-21
Germans Smash
On in Belgium

Press War Correspondent Jack
Frankish frcm First army head
quarters at 10 am. (5 am. EWTD
left no doubt that there had been
no lessening of the gravity of the
situation.
Frankish reported that heaviest
fighting" was in prograss in what
was called the fluid zone"-a region
about 25 miles broad from Saint
With Down to Viandon, Luxembourg,
where the major German armored
break through was achieved.
Field Marshal Karl Won Rundstedt
was reported pouring his finest in
fantry units into this hole follow
ing the blazing trail left by his
tank columns.
American and German formations
were scattered through the break
through region with dozens of in
dividual battles going on and the
climax of the German offensive
yet to be reached
KEEP ON COMING
American tank destroyers and
bazookamen, F'rankish reported,
ARE knocking ont German tigers
and panzers one after another but
still they keep coming-trying to
make their third great drive across
Belgium in 80 years.
Town after town was being over
run by panzers. ...s.. .
1T is said officially that the at
tack is not apt to be over this week.
The German advance might go
farther before it is halted. Our
countermeaSures take time
There were reports that Won
Runstedt has by no means thrown
in all his available forces as yet
and that they are masSed in the
rear ready to punch forward should
the momentum of the present ad-
vance be slowed
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-21
Russians Renew
Hungary Drive

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Al the same time, Stockholm re-
ports credited 70 an.i-Nazi German
sources said The German high COM
mand was PREF airing a gigantic
Christmas offensive" on the east
en- front to coincide with the new
drive in the west.
25G,00O NAZI RESERVES
These reports, which thus far
were not supported by Moscow dis
patches or The latest German prep
agan3a outpourings, sale perhaps
250,OO0 Nazi reserves would Be
thrown into the new offensive on an
undisclCsed sector of the eastern
front.
Stockholm said fresh troops were
being released for The action
through me Mobilization CT addi-
tional Volkstrum, or peoples army,
units in the Reich.
Both Russian and German ac-
counts Of the east front fighting,
however, csnteret On the fierce
struggle raging along the noun
famous Hungarian-Slovak border.
Berlin said the SoViets were
throwing increasingly-stro forces
into the battle in a full-Scale at
tempt to break through eastern
Slovakia to link UP their first and
second Ckrainian armies in south
ern Poland for a winter offensive
against Krakow and German Sill
esia.
HAMMER OUT GAINS
Thursdays Russian communique
said units of the second Ukrainian
army hammered out gains extend
ing to seven miles Wednesday in
concerted drives up the Sajo and
Rima valleys toward the big railway
center of Losonc Ducenec) in
southern Slovakia.
The Soviets won their biggest
advance on the east bank of the
Rima valley where they captured
Janosovce, II miles east of Losonc.
Five miles to the northeast, another
Soviet column captured Batka, eight
miles insite the Slovak frontier for
their deepest announced penetra-
tiCn Of the Nazi pUppet state
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-21
FISH AND WILDLIFE AID
ORDERED TO WASHINGTON

z. E. Horn Of The federal fish and
wildlife service who has been sta
toned in Imperial Valley to look
after plans TO eliminate duck dam
age to crops, has been ordered to
report at his headquarters in Wash
ington, d. c..
He expects to be back in the val
ley by January IS for the peak of
he duck migration.
During his absence c. E. Ward
well will be stationed in the valley
by the Wildiife service.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-21
Dairymen Unite
To Hire Tester

Dairymen of Imperial county
agreed Wednesday night to en-
ploy a full-time cow tester and TO
form an association with a total
ownership Of 1900 COWS.
They decided to offer, the position
to Ed c. Anderson of San Rafael
who had applied for it, at a salary
OF $4,000 a year. They will provide
his salary by paying so much per
TTcow tested each month.
At meeting in FL Centro We'd
nesday night the dairymen present
declared that the services of a
regular full-time tester is necessary
70 keep up the standards Of the
dairy business. They await word
from Anderson before going further
with their plans.