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any point of view. Therefore, as
friend, l beg of you all to get
all the work you can get; work
as faithfully as you can; and
save, save, save.
A True Story
Let me prove that colored boys
have just as good an opportunity
to succeed as white boys. A few
years ago Weber College at Bah
son Park, Florila, employed col
ored boys in the kitchen. Among
them was one named James Paul
Goss. The dean noticed that
whereas all the others went to
the movies or shot craps in the
evening James practiced for
hours to learn tipping. When the
summer vacation came, he begged
me to take him north and get
him a job in an office. This |
did. 1t was James first oppor-
tunity.
James did so we'll that l
brought him back to Florida in
the fall. That winter he typed
all my newspaper columns. In
March, 1912, he was drafted.
One day an officer asked if any
one of the men could type.
James held up his hand. Then
he was given his second oppor-
tunity. He has not held a gun
since that day. He gradually
worked into m i n i s tr a tive
duties. He became a corporal, a
sergeant, a second, and then
first lieutenant. He now is a
captain with savings of $4,000 in
bank and life insurance values.
When one of his colored friends
was asked why James got on so
well he replied: "Well, you know,
James does not drink or smoke;
he works and saves and reads
his Bible every day" Last week,
James was given his third OPP
portunity at Camp Springs. Army
Air Field, Washington, d. c.
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The convenience of its facilities eliminates the necessity
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beauty and chiN airy in the an
nails of Seattle. The old master
has so intrigued his host of fol-
lowers they are unable to pace
him. They know not what 10
expect. Who does?
A $25 War Bond will decorate
the best dressed couple.
One of the finest and most
versatile floor shows ever staged
will vie for dancing honors.
The night of April 10 will be
filled with dance and music.
Try to get in!
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Williams Ave. YWCA

One of the special guests
scheduled to be presented at the
interRacial tea held at the
YWCA hall last Sunday March
26) was Mrs. Robert N. Joyner,
Jr., Trianon Girl Reserves Ad-
visor.
A native of New York, Mrs
Joyner came to Portland eight
months ago with her husband
DR.. Joyner. and infant daughter,
Elaine. During the time Mrs
Joyner worked with the Trianon
Girl Reserves she has multiplied
the membership five times as
we'll as help the girls plan an out
standing program for the year
Due to shortage of nurses in the
Portland area, Mrs. Joyner is
temporarily giving up her work
as advisor to Renter the nursing
profession. A registered nurse
who has served in New York''
Harlem hospital as well as th'
Meharry Medical college, Mrs
Joyner will assist her husband IL
his new medical offices on vii
liams Avenue.
Active in the women's auxiliar!
of the Multnomah County Med
cal Society, Mrs. Joyner is als'
a charter member of the Cri
terion club, organized for the pur
pose of furnishing a yearly schol
arship for the boy or girl com
pleting his high school term witt
the highest grades.
The williams Avenue Commit
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Open House @ IA Shares
HOnOrs with @ M E

Heading the social calendar
Sunday, March 10, was the open
house at the Oregon Fraternal
Associations new service building
at 1409-15 N. Williams Ave. Dur
ing the hours 1-5 p. M, approx
mately 500 well wishers and
friends passed through the cor
ridors, inspecting a modern fully
equipped medical clinic, a deluxe
beauty salon, an up to date bar
Der shop, which comprise this
spacious nevertheless streamlined
building. In each place floral
gifts from friends of the o. F.
A. were complimentary gestures.
DR.. Robert N. Joyner, Jr., with
his wife, just as efficient as she
is beautiful, heads the medical
clinic. Facilities include baby
pediatries, injection thirorphy,
an X-ray and electric room, a
private office and consultation
room, general office and recep-
tion room.
The beauty salon-Charlene's
Beauty Box, 14O9 N. Williams
Ave, is managed by Mrs. Arthur
Cox, with a fine corps of oper-
ators.
Mr.. Waldo Boyle, in the tom
serial business in Portland over
25 years, is proprietor of the
up to date barber shop, sand
wiched In between at 1411 N.
Williams. Mrs. Will Johnson,
first race woman in Oregon to
complete the course and meet the
state requirements as a tonsorial-
list, is on the Boyle staff.
1t was most nigh a real prom
enade as the throng from the
open house strolled up a block or
so to Mrs. Matte Locks home
on Victoria Ave, where the o.
M. E. Club of Bethel A.M.E. held
its annual st. Patrick Tea. One
beheld members of the club ele-
gantly gowned in colorful formals
! serving alternately in receiving
guests and pouring at the delight
fully appointed table with green
as the dominating color
Pouring were Mrs. G. Purcell,
Mrs. j. A. Nichols, Mrs. P. Reed,
Mrs. 1. Money, Mrs. Kicks and
Mrs. Alice Proctor. On the door
were the Misses Melba Johnson,
Connie Nancy and Lille Evans.
Receiving were Mrs. Matte
Lock, presidetn; Mrs. Charles
Redd, Mrs. Lillian Hughes, Mrs.
Margaret Griffin, Secy.; Mrs. p.
M. Crawford.
Still another attraction during
the afternoon was a luncheon
(for whetted appetites) at the
Mt. Olivet Baptist Church, spon-
sored by the Fellowship Club.
A conclusion for this busy day
was the monthly meet of the
NAACP held in the Elks' Hall,
when enthusiasm on the part OF
some ran high, especially so with
Attorney Grandoff in his defens-
i've remarks in the case of Bill
Harris and Shelby Golden (two
very fine young mem picked III
by police on Friday (rather early
| Sat. A. NJ prior to this meeting
and thrown in Jail for beinl
found after hours in a distric
patrolled by police officers.
Grandoff (white attorney,
feels that the NAACP, Portland
citizens, white and black, shoul'
take these and other such ease
in hand, fight to the limit t.
stop police terror and racket
Many innocent Negro man an
boys have experienced such ter
witches of every variety are serv
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ror. paid their fines. let it go at
that.
The Lee Anderson case against
the boilermakers, is paramount
issue and of vital interest and
Importance to the NAACP and
especially to labor groups. The
branch has decided to finance the
case now pending IN court.
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To pay their last tribute of re-
spect to a departed friend, Seat
tleietes to Portland last week for
the funeral of Mrs. Edith Gray
Johnson were Rev. Frederick
Blythewood, Mrs. Zealand, even
gelist; Mrs. Marjorie Pitter, Mrs.
Hunter and Mrs. aDwson.
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Grand Easter Parade
Monday, April 10

Heralded by AL Mitchell and
his flashy sos Club band, the
Cosmopolitan Club announces its
annual Grand Easter Parade and
dance at Finnish Hall, 18th and
washington Street, Monday eve
ming, April 10.
Master of Ceremonies Roy
Sheffield will lower the flag sig
mailing the greatest parade Of
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R RSE4 E PENN On


1.-THE following article from the
Wenatehee Daily World is the
contribution of a friend. Thanks.
EditOr.)
BABSON PARK, Florida. -
am writing to the several million
of colored people in this country.
Moreover, l do so as a friend
one who has contributed money
and time to help them.
Americas Greatest MASTERS
The way you are foolishly
spending money today is a shame
and disgrace. Not only are most
of you now wasting money, but
you are almost convincing your
friends that you are unworthy to
have good wages. You are show
ing an utter disregard of any
knowledge of finances or eco
Monies.
Present high wages cannot
continue. Many of you will be
out of employment after the war.
Millions of war workers will be
discharged and-although it will
be unjust-you will be discharg-
ed first. Therefore, you should
save up money NOW to help you
in these hard days ahead. Most
white workers are now doing
this.
Why So Lazy?
Some of you foolishly refuse
TO work if you have a little cash
in your pockets. This applies to
great strong men and women as
well as to your young people.
Too many of you seem to have
no regard for the needs of the
country in this crucial hour. You
are citizens as we'll as the white
workers. You claim you are not
treated right. l do not agree to
this; but if it is true, it is
because so many of you are lazy
and wasteful.
1 am writing this in the south
where 1 have worked with colored
people for twenty winters. i
have fought for you and got you
out of Jail when the sheriff un-
justly arrested you.
1 know your good points and
weak points; but l never before
saw you in the lazy, wasteful
and saucy moods that some of
you put on today. From letters
which | get, fear you are be-
having worse in the north than
you are here in the south.
Don't Depend On Aunt
Eleanor
Many of you say, "Aunt Flea
nor will take care of me after the
wal ClndpS Aunt blCdllOl
will not be the presidents wife
after the war President Roose-
welt may not be reelected. Be-
| sides, even Mrs. Roosevelt is
getting out of patience with you.
She is beginning to wonder if
she may not have made mistake
in praising you as she did. 1t
is true that white wolkers strike
when they shouldn't, but they
are not lazy nor do they throw
away money.
Does it ever occur to you what
would happen to our country if
] all the people-white and color
ed-acted as so many of you col
ored people act? We would lose
the war and we all. including
you, would be slaves of the Ger
mans or Japanese. Your attitude
| simnlv does NOT mako sensa from
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Jackson Auto Rebuild
and Repair Station
Jackson St. at 9TH

Cars rebuilt, motors over
hauled, tenders repaired,
clutch and brake service, re-
Gaping tire service. Paint
ing, enameling our speciality.
Amy make of car. Work
guaranteed.
Our Prices Are Reasonable
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There will be a meeting of the
Portland members of Delta Sig
ma Theta sorority on March 30
at the home of Miss Lena Hills
man, 6045 S. II. 72nd st. Mem
bers please contact Miss Ellen
Terrence, La. 3743 or Mrs. Hat
tie Gaskin, TR. 1857.
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tee of Management of the YWCA
is welcoming Spring with a dane
ing party to be held in the social
hall Wednesday, March goth. Bill
McClendon's orchestra will fur
nish the music while the Girl Re-
serves will present the talent and
special features.
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Bethel A. Nj. II.
n. Mcmillan and Larabee

Rev. Browning e. Allen, Pastor
Sunday school, 500 a. m.
Morning worship and sermon, II
a. m. A. c. E. League, 6:45
p. m. Evening hour, s p. m.
Mid-week meeting, Wednesday of
each week
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witches of every variety are serv-
ed nightly, all kinds of soft
drinks and change of programs
every week.
/ Rial Club should be your
nightly mecca.
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Mt. Olivet Baptist

Rev. James J. Glow, Pastor
Sunday school, $50 a. m.
Morning worship, II a. III. B. Y.
P. F. evening worship, 500 a. m.
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st. Philip Episcopal Mission
Rodney and Knott
Rev. l.. o. Stone, Vicar
Prayer. 700 a. m. Serman and
prayer, 1850 a. m. Evening
worship, SOS p. m.
MOnta villa Community Church
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The next Cosmopolitan
Club Dance will be on
Monday, April 10th-The
Easter Parade.
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BUY MORE BONDS
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First A. Nj. Il. Zion
n. Williams Ave.
Rev. j. 7. Smith, Minister
Sunday school. $3.50 a. m.
Morning worship, 100 a. IN.
Evening worship, 500 p. m.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-23
Planes Deliver
Whole Blood
In Pacific Area

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS. Phil
ippines, Nov. %. CUP)-The first
consignment of whole blooc under
the new navy system of daily deliver
les to the Pacific fighting fronts
arrived at Leyte Wednesday.
The shipmen, which will be used
for all branches of the services, con-
sisted of 80 points given by volun-
tary donors in the San Francisco
Oakland area through the Red
Cross.
Another 30 pintS were left at
Guam, in the Mariannas, where an
acvance blood bank has been es-
tablished as a central point for
distribution to the various fronts.
This shipment and subsequent ones
are being flown to the fronts in
planes of the naval air transport
service under a program calling
for an eventual delivery of 400 pints
daily.
The whole blood, which will keep
81 days and remain Is per cent
effective, is carried in special tray
in which ice maintains a constant
temperature between 40 and so
degrees.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-23
Crop Insurance
Plan Studied
By House Group

WASHINGTON, Nov. %. CUP)-
The House Wednesday passed, 254
to 16, and sent to the Senate a bill
to revive the federal crop insurance
program, with coverage for wheat
cotton and flax.
The measure provides for a IS pei
cent coverage of the average yield
of farm III these crops, but limits
the sum that can be collected to the
amount invested in the crops. The
bill also authorizes test programs
on corn, tobacco and other crops
in not more than 20 counties as an
experimental program.
Before the vote, the House ap-
proved an amendment offered by
Representative August Andersen
Rl. Minnesota, limiting admins
trative costs to 25 per cent of tie
premiums collected during the pre-
vious year. The House rejected an
amendment proposed by Represen-
tative Frederick c. Smith. (RD
Ohio, which would have limited to-
tai payments for losses to the
amount collected in premiums.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-23
Prizes Arranged
For Bond Sales

A quota of $500 worth of war bones
for each e:nploye of Ell Centre busi-
ness houses was set at a meeting
of business men at the Ell Centro
Chamber of commerce Wednesday.
First and second prizes were an
nounced for the employees who sell
the largest number of bonds, and
for the employees who sell the largest
value Gn dollars and cents Of
bonds.
In each case the first prize prob
ably will be $50 bond, second prize
a $25 bond.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-23
BY NELSON SPRINGER

The least encouraging of the post
though it is the one to which l have
given the most attention, is that of
Los Angeles. Net that the Los An
geles effort is not serious or on the
grand scale. 1t is both. But there is
a curious unawareness both of the
problem and the solution, an un-
awareness that is dictated in part
by thinking alcng traditional, and
mistaken, lines.
The one thing that Los Angeles
has done so far, for example, and 1t
is a very important thing, has been
done without even moments allu-
sion to the fact that it is very
definite and very significant prepa-
ration for the post-war world. That
is the city councils recent action
ending a long, bitter, and hitherto
inconclusive struggle by dedicating
the Wilmington area as an all-out
l-producing district.
MUCH EMPLOYMENT
The force of this move cannot be
overestimated. Undoubtedly it will
do more to provide employment in
Los Angeles and income to Los An
geles in the first years of the post
war period than anything else con-
templated thus far. And bridging
over those first years, when the war
plants are going out of business, is
a very important matter for every
community. 1t is estimated that the
coast will be able to keep only about
10 per cent of its war production
although it also is estimated that 1t
will keep about rs per cent of its
war industry population.
The dubious thinking that is 60
ing on in Los Angeles in connection
with postwar planning is illustrate
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-23
Russians Speed
Crushing Blows

LONDON, Nov. 23. CUP)-Red
armies rolling up both ends of Ger
many's eastern front threw a siege
arc half way around Budapest
Thursday and carried into it's final
phase a bloody battle of annihila-
ton against the remnants of 80
Nazi divisions pinned against the
Latvian coast.
Marshal RCdion Y. Malinovsky's
Second Ukrainian army battled for
ward through chilling rains to
within 10 miles of the Danube Is
miles above the Hungarian capital,
where the village of Hevigyoerk
was captured.
Tie Berlin radio acknowledged
that Soviet tanks crashed into
Hatvan, five-Way rail junction, %
miles northeast of Budapest, and
that it was semi-encircled and in a
critical position.
Together with the units which
had forced the Danube below Bud
apeSt. the Russians were grinding
down the defenses above the capital
and clamping it in pincers calcu-
lated to make it untenable for the
German and Hungarian defenders
and ripen it for concerted on
slaught from three or more direc-
tiCns.
The Soviet offensive in Latvia,
reported for several days by alarmed
INazi commf ntators, still lacked
confirmation by the Red army COM
mand in keeping with its policy of
withholding announcements of ma
ior actions until they have devel-
oped satisfactorily.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-23

in two ways. The first is Mayor
Fletcher Bowron's widely publicized
5000, 100000 postwar civic project.
AS l have indicated previously, Rob-
ert l.. Burns, president of the city
council, has stated that the city has
Cnly $2000,000 on which it can rely
for this purpose. There are several
other points.
The city is creating no reserves,
Instead, it is spending more and
more money. 1t has an expert at
work on a budgeted. salary schedule,
but meanwhile it is increasing SAL
aries in many departments, notably
police and fire without reference to
what the experts final report may
be.
Except for the expansion OF the
airport, the projects included within
the mayors master plan do not pro-
vide for permanent payroll in
creases; and the expanded airport
actually will create but few perma-
nent jobs.
Except as the proposed new sewer
Continued on Page 6, Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-23
Farm Bureau Meeting Hits
At Return Of japanese

farm work on piece basis was
urged.
Ceiling prices on farm products
should be announced before the
crop is planted, according to an
other resolution.
Others urged consolidation under
the secretary of agriculture of all
agencies dealing with food produc-
ton and pricing; opposed ratifica-
ton of treaty with Mexico for dis
posal cf Colorado river water; acvo-
Gated establishing state flood con-
troll commission; urged repeal of
daylight saving, a study of tax ex-
emptions under California laws and
continuation of tax rate reductions
enacted by the state legislature in
l943.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-23
yonks
Pocket
Drive ImperiIs
Fortress
Of S+rasbourg
BY J. EDWARD MURRAY

PARIS, Nov. %. (UP)-
American and French forces
tightened a pincers on an es-
timated $4,000 Germans trap
ped between the upper Rhine
and the Vosges Thursday and
threatened the border fort
ress of Strasbourg at the
north end of the fast shrink
ing pocket.
Mobile units of the United
States Third and Seventh
armies joined in the Sarre-
bourg area, sealing another
four-mile pocket and envel-
oping an undetermined num-
Der of Nazi laggards in the
fiji g h t from northeastern
France.
German radio accounts of the
west front situation assumed an at
titude of extreme pessimism and
gloom today. The Transocean Cor,
respondent Gerhardt EmSkoetter re-
porting from the southern sector OF
the front said THE violence Of the
Allied general offensive increases
hourly" He said the extent of the
Franco American successes should
not be discounted.
Powerful ASSAULT
Anoher correspondent reported
that neutral correspondents in Ber-
lin noted alarm" in both public
and official circles over the front
situation with increasing statements
that loss Of the Rhine and the
Rhur would paralyze the Nazi war
effort)
The triphammer blows of Lieut.
enant General Jacob L. Deverfi'
Sixth army group and Lieutenant
General George S. Patton's Third
army had caved in the entire Ger
man front angling across France.
and supreme headquarters report
said about one tenth of all the
enemys fighting strength on the
western front was trapped between
the u. S. Seventh and French First
armies south of Strasbourg.
TRAP is SPRUNG
The trap was sprung on the maui
ed German Nineteenth army when
Lieutenant General Alexander M.
Patch's shock troops crashed througl,
the Saverne Pass in the VoSgeS and
raced Gown the eastern slopes to-
ward Strasbourg, directly threaten
ed by the Allied landslide toward
the upper Rhine.
Tattered remnants of the Nazi
10Th army we're strung out in dis
orc erly flight through the valley as
much as rs miles to the south,
where hol6out units fought lest
cause in Belfort despite the fact
that they already were left far be-
hind by General Jean de Lattre de
Tassigny's units spearing to the
gates of Colmar.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-23
Council
Scans
Fee Hike
E. G. Mayor Says
City Needs
Added $4,000

Plans for general and rad
ical increases in the business
license taxes were laid by the
Ell Centre city council in a
special session Wednesday
night.
The action was undertaken
after the mayor informed the
council that the city needs
$4,000 a year more revenue
to meet its annual expenses.
Along with the proposal to in
crease license taxes, council also
took under consideration proposals
to install park-o-meters, tax on
theater tickets, and impose a garb-
age and trash collection tax.
TO DRAFT ORDINANCE
AS an immediate step toward rails
ing revenue, council voted to in
struct City Attorney Dorsey White
Continued on Pg. 6, Col. a.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-23

SACRAMENTO, Nov. %.
(UP)-The annual state con-
vention of the California
Farm Bureau Federation
"emphatically condemned the
infiltration process by which
individual Japanese are being
permitted to return to Pacific
coast states"
A resolution was adopted declar-
ing that mo japanese, whether ma
tive born or alien, should be allowed
during the period of the war to re-
side in California except under mil
itary surveillance" and demanded
that responsible officials" prevent
their return.
The resolution was adopted unan-
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-23

imously, G. O. Hoober of Calipatria,
federation vice president and chair
man of its resolutions committee,
sai6.
Another resolution asked the Unit
ed States congress to amend the
federal reclamation law to exempt
farms receiving water from the
Central Valleys project from 160-
acre size limitation.
The convention also voted that
surpluses accumulated by the gov
ernment should be used in supply
ing devastated countries and should
not be allowed to compete with
1944-45 and succeeding crops.
Continuation of the importation
of Mexican nationals as farm labor
ers and use of prisoners of war in