NATIONAL RECOVERY ADMINISTRATION News Letter To Salesmen New Year’s business started with a bang. The New York Times Index of Business Activity for the week ended January 5 reach ed 87.1. his was about 4 points higher than the record made by the last week of the 'old year ad nearly 9 higher than the record of the first week of 1934. Encouraging reports continue to come in from the business com parisons of 1934 over 1933. The banks in the Federal Reserve Sya em earned $6,510,(XX) in 1934, while they lost $917,000 in 1933. Company wrote $60,000,000 more iated Bell System had a net gain new business in 1934. The Assoc of 298,000 telephone installations. General Motors sold 927,493 cars and trucks compared with 755,778 in 19:13. The department and dry goods stores made 14.7 per cent more in dollar sales in 1934; the variety store sales ran 9 1-2 higher; electrical equipment sales, 21 per cent higher. Real wages—based on purchas ing power instead of dollars—in creased 7 per cent in the first 11 months of 1934 over the com parable period in 19:13, accord ing to the National Industrial Conference Board. Employment and pay rolls were at all times higher last year than in 1933. Fanners shared the better times with the urbanites. Standard Statistics Company estimates that farm income reached $8,056,000, You Can’t Wear A Glass Bowl Over Your Face Every good-looking woman knows that her complexion must be effectively PROTECTED from the coarsening, aging, roughening effects of cold win ter winds and raw weather! There’s no better or surer safeguard to complexion charm than Black and White Peroxide Cream. Just spread some over your face before you go out and you know you’re SAFE! This fine cream, not only protects your skin but also holds on face pow der for hours. Also gradually lightens and refines your skin. Large jar 25c. Trial size, 10c. To keep your skin free from bumps and blem ishes, cleanse it regularly withBlack and WhiteCleansing Cream. Large can, 25 c. Trial size, 10c Prevent wrinkles, sagging muscles and "age lines*' by nourishing your skin with Black and White Cold Cream. Large jar 2 5 c. Trial size, 10c. Tune in s,Lombardo-I-%nd** Pea curing Guy Lombardo’s Orchestra^ Night, NBC A Note to Women If you suffer from painful men struation every month, do this: Get a bottle of CARDUI from the drug store. Take it regularly for a while. If it helps you as thousands of women have reported it helped them, then you will feel _ stronger, healthier, and happier. CARDUI Try Cardui for severe pains, cramps, nervous ness at monthly periods. Take it just as the di rections on each bottle I say. Sold at diwg stores. Of course, if Cardui does not beoe tii YOU, ogp*& a gbg^clso,>_ ■*««• \_? ____-.-K-* OOO in 1934. The Department of Agriculture expected it to be little more than $6,000,000,000. The farm income was $5,061,000,000 iu 1933. Bank clearings for the finst week of the New Year in the 22 leading cities of ihe United States amounted to $5,372,940,000, or 22 per cent higher than in the cor responding week of 1934. Taken by itself, New York City showed an increase of 20.3 per cent, while he other 21 eities jumped 26 per cent. The biggest gains for the week were made by Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland and Cincinati. Only five national banks were a ill unlicensed on December 31, according to J. F. T. O’Connor, Comptroller of the Currency. When the bank holiday ended, there were 1,417 banks with dep osits of $1,971,690,000 without licenses. The deposits in the five unlicensed banks total only $6,622, 000. Automobile and farm machin ery production, factory and mill erection, and railroad require* ments are continuing to advance stell, output. It has now reached an average of 47.5 per cent of capacity, 72 per cent higher than at this time in 1934, according to the American Iron and Steel In stitute. The annual indexes of adver tisig prepared by Printers’ Ink give a gain of about 16 per cent over 1933. Farm papers and radio had increases of 33 per cent each; magaziesn, 29 per cent; out door advertising, 12 per cent; newspapers, 10 per cent. More than 10,000 additional the Ford Motor Car Company pay roll since December 29. This is the best employment increase in that company since 1929, and is due in part to the large step up in sales volume in the agricultural sections. An increase of 72,953 freight car loadings for the week ended week has been reported by the Association of American Rail roads. The total of 498,073 Car Loads was a slight decrease under the corresponding week of last year. ® Your own druggist is authorized to cheerfully refund your money on the spot if you are not relieved by Creomulsion. 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Other cod liver oil* have only Vi taming A and D, but Coco Cod is also rich in Vitamin B—the appetite and growth promoting vitamin. Start your children with Coco Cod today. At all drug stores. COCO GOD we coa Uver OU That Tastes Like Chocolate FEDERAL EMERGENCY RELIEF ADMINISTRATION 17.000 Unattached Negro Male Trans ients Cared for By FERA. The report of December 15 on the transient relief program to Harry L. Hopkins, Federal Emergency Relief Administrator, shows 17,000 unat tached male Negroes of all ages being cared for by the transient bureau of the FERA. This is 11.22 per cent of the total number of unattached male transients. There were 750 Negro unattached women on the transient rolls. This is 15 per cent of the total number of un attached female transients under care. The ratio of colored transients ap pear to be more nearly equal to that of the Negro population than the gen eral family relief load, which runs nearly 18 per cent of the total num ber of persons on relief; while the Negro population is only 12 per cent of the whole population according to the 1930 census. Nine thousand more Negroes in family groups aad other individuals in familes were cared for by the FERA transient bureau, re ported in two separate divisions of 2.000 and 7 000 respectfully. The two largest age groups of these transients irrespective of race, range between 25 and 34 years which make up 25 per cent of the total number and those from 34 to 44 which com pose another twenty per cent. The next two largest groups are between the ages of 21 and 24, totaling 13 per cent; and 45 to 54 m,ake up another 17 per cent. Those under 16 years of age was almost negligible accounting for only fifty-four hundreds per cent of the total number. FLORIDA FERA SLAVERY COMPACT IS EXPOSED New York, Jan. 25.—Connivance of FERA officials with white employ ers of Groveland, Florida, to exploit Negro relief workers on private work has been exposed by tne National Ae soc'atioa for the Advancement of Col ored People. Investigation by the Federal Emer gency Relief Administration at Wash ington. D. C. following protest from the N. A. A. C. B. revealed that twenty-five Negro workers on the re lief rolls were forced to cut cord wood on land which had reverted to the State for non-payment of taxes. Ten of the colored mea refused, knowing it was not legitimate relief work, and were promptly stricken from the relief rolls by Mrs. 0. F. Mayes, FERA aide who had agreed to let A. C. Yonnollv of Tavaros, Fla. have the men to ful fill a contract he had made to sell wood to nearby grove owners. The land on which the timber stood had been leased by another white man, J. Ray Arnold, owner of the Arnold Lumber Company of Groveland. But owing to failure of Arnold to pay his taxes, the land had reverted to the State. In order to stay on the relief rolls, fifteen of the Negroes continued to work until they were arrested by the local sheriff and his deputies for cut ting wood on State land. Six workers eluded the deputies and escaped. The other nine were jailed. The two white men, however, were promptly released upon their own recognizance, immed iately following their arrest. . .— V Damp Wash 3aC Per Pound Minimum bundle 48c | Edholm and Sherman LAUNDERER AND DRY CLEANERS 2401 North 24th St. We 6055 - - - / ‘ t Florida FERA officials contend that the Negroes were to be paid by i Yonnolly for their work and for that I reason they were dropped from the re ' lief rolls. But the Negroes claim they were forced to do this private work or be removed from the relief rolls. The nine Negroes have been releas ed. The N. A. A. C. P. is trying to see whether they have been restored to the relief rolls and whether the two wh.te men have been prosecuted. A demand has been made that Mrs. Mayes be ousted for her connivance with the white employers. I H. L. MENCKEN TO TESTIFY AT SEN ATE HEARINGS ON COS TIGAN-WAGNER BILL New York, Jan. 25.—The sub-com mittee of the Senate Judiciary Com mittee will shortly bold hearings in Washington on the Costigan-Wagner anti-1 ^l^CAPTOOP^C^S^Y^^ __ - - ——— °tsfwv Raisina the Family- ___ __ ■■ --1 l- -1-„- ■ . . - v / IF rook" \ j JT u£*J_. WULL. ^ / UJM6H HOME. I'A , '"'\Z''\ J ^OMEH EVER PUT ^V. C 0***6 DOUSED oor I ( pOfir SK.LL Op ^ CURTPvU^ \ (TV*E\G. HA)C. CO»-«W* \ ) U-. 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