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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-08
STATE TO DONATE
TO PARTY'S FUND
Contributions From Jackson
Day Dinner May Amount
To $10,500

RALEIGH, Jan. .-D- North
Cardinals contribution to the demo-
cratic war chest as a result OF to-
morrow nights Jackson Day dinner
here may be s1O,500 cor a little bet
ter" state officials of the celebra-
ton said tonight.
Paul V. McNutt, Federal Security
administrator and potential presi-
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-08
Moscow,'s Greek Orthodox
Churches Note Christmas

MOSCOW, Jan. 7.-E-The Greek
Orthodox churches, Of which there
are about 20 remaining in Moscow
celebrated Christmas today in &C
cordance with the old Russian cal
endar, and thousands braved tenn
peratures Of 80 degrees below zero
to attend services.
The Russian government does not
recognize religious holidays and the
observance was ignored by the So
Wet press.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-08
The government would spend $64.8o-
For
Each
Person
in the
s.. A.

More fr defense than for relief! For the first time in many years,
in the proposed budget for 1904 Al, military expenses rise above the
cost of relief. How work relief costs IRE shaved and military expenses
overtop them for the coming year is shown graphically in the large
pictOgraph at top. Below, the share of each man, woman, and child
in federal expenses IS planned for 194O-41.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-08

The Seventh Day Adventists OBJ
serve as the Sabbath the period
from sunset Friday to sunset Sat-
urdav
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-08

duce McNutt. Both men are former
national commanders of the Amerl'
can Legion.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-08

The Christian Endeavor has 3d.
oOO societies throughout the world.
The Phoenix index., 1940-10-12
Regional Democrats
Meet In Louisville

LOUISVILLE ANP)-With the
reading of a set of resolutions
adopted by the Midwestern Negro
Democratic Association before a
mass meeting of nearly 1900 per-
sons. in The Armory, 9Th and Wal
nut Sts., the fourth convention of
the Association within a year came
to a successful conclusion here last
Saturday night
The meeting, which closed the
activities of the convention, mark
ed the opening rally of the local
Democratic Campaign and was
presided over by John H. Petrie,
chairman of the Negro Division Of
the kentucky State Campaign.
The mass meeting was addressed
by the Hon. M Clifford Town
send Governor OF Indiana; Hon.
Arthur w. Mitchell, only Negro
member of Congress; Thos. j. r
Wilson, Executive secretary of the
association and Manson L. James,
Association State president OF
Iowa.
The executive secretary said that
although the associations political
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Say The Demos

WASHINGTON, D. C.-Approvs]
OF over seven million dollars ir
United Statese Housing Authority
by President Roosevelt last week
bringing the number of agencies
With approved USHA loans to 1913.
spurred the nationwide rehousine
activity and evoked widespread
favorable comment. The programs
OF these 1873 local authorities now
embrace 467 projects totalling
more than 10000 homes in 81
states, the District of Columbia
Hawaii and Puerto Rico.
Political observers all over the
country were loud in their en-
oorsement of the New Deal admin
lStratlon's progressive efforts in
behalf of the underpriviIeged
masses, pointed to the above an
nouncement as just one of many
such steps taken to improve the
general conditions of the masses.
THE Negro, especially. has prof
ited enormously and will continue
to do so as long as the present ad-
mlniStration controls the govern
ment OF this country, one observ-
er declared earnestly. There are
today thousands of Negroes who
through the beneficient efforts of
New Deal agencies, enjoy a
standard of living which is mark
edly above that previously en-
dured.
In the field of housing, it was
pointed out, Negroes have shared
greatly in the benefits which have
accrued from governmental ex-
penditures. In both municipal and
rural areas, projects have been
constructed 10 replace long
standing Sub-standard dwelling
communities and are now occupied
by Negro families paying rentals
which arc scaled at the most rea-
sonable levels.
Outstanding among the munich
pal projects are those in New York
City, the Harlem River Houses,
being the first such all-colored
project there. Similar projects in
New Jersey, Pennsylvania and
Ohio bear eloquent testimony to
the works OF thet New Deal for
the Negro it was declared, and
throughout the South and Mid
west are countless other projects,
either completed or under con-
Structior.
1.-The courage and straightfor-
wardness Of President Roosevelt
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Pilot Training Course Is
Setup Al Virginia State

for a private pilots certificate
said Mr. Phillips adding that the
same training if purchased from
private school or agency woulo
cost the student three or fou,
hundred dollars.
An advanced course will be CT
fered at the College, it is expected
after January IS, which is the
date on which the preliminary
course will be completed Ad-
Vanced training will be patterned
after the regular Army course Of
instruction. @ @
To be eligible for the primary
course, student now enrolled in
college must have completed one
year Of college work. He must
also pledge himself to complete
the ground and flight course un-
less disqualified by the flight OF
ground contractor and must pledge
himself to apply for flight training
in the nations military service.
Ground school classes will be
taught on the college campus by
D. P. Murrill, instructor at the
University of Richmond on Mon
Gay, Wednesday and Friday even
ings from 7:30 to $50 Flying in
struction will be given by T. B
Martin, recently brought to the
Hopewell Flying Service. All fly
ing instructions for the college
will be given at the Hopewell Mu-
nicipal Airport.
The complete course comprises
70 hours of ground school and IS
hours of flight instruction. Ground
school classes include work in
navigation and meteorology.
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Germ" should be a matter of the ut
most moment to these Colored
citizens themselves.
For them, for veal or for woe,
the die will be cast on November 5,
1910.
BY Constitutional right they are
citizens of the Republic. Every
right and privilege granted every
other citizen Of the country is pre-
sumed to be theirs They look with
no favor upon being referred to as
a minority" or special" group.
VICTIMS OF INJUSTICE
And yet, after all this has been
said, they are forced to accept in
justices, expressions, explorations.
In the South where the major
ity Of Negroes live, they are denied
that equal protection of the law
freely granted other citizens and
efforts are deliberately made to
break their spirit, their morale; to
discourage them, and to thwart
those hopes and aspirations others
are earnestly counselled to realize.
We refer to the South because
there live the great majority of the
Negro population of the United
States Also, we refer to the South
because it represents the bone and
sinew, the backbone Of the New
Deal-Democracy Party.
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Says The COP:

WASHINGTON, D. CAS- the
Presidential Campaign draws to-
ward its close, it becomes increas-
ingly evident that the 2,25O,7OO Col
ored men and women of voting age
In Northern, Western and Border
States are to be the determining
factor in deciding whether the
Third-Term- Candidate, or Wendell
Wlllkle, is to be the next President
of the United States.
HOW DISTRIBUTED
This vote, formidable in num-
bers, is distributed: New York and
pennsylvania approximately 100000
each; Illinois, 25O,O0O; Ohio, 22O.-
COO; New Jersey, $4,000; Michigan,
10000; Indiana, 10000.
New England supplements with
65.OO0 to 10000; Delaware. 25,OO0;
Kansas, $4,000; Maryland, 10000;
Missouri, 165.C0O; Kentucky, 14O,1
GOO; West virginia, $4,000; Okla
homs, 105,OCO.
With political pools indicating
small percentage differences be-
tween the two parties this social
ed Negro Vote" has become the
special concern of both parties.
More directly, this special con-
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oath Infantry, Fort Benning
Georgia
9th Cavalry, Fort F:ile.', Kansas
10th Cavalry, Fort Myer, Vir-
ginia
School Detachment, Fort Sill.
Oklahoma
School Detachment, Isn't Belvoir,
Virginia
48th Ouartermaster Regiment,
Fort Benning, Ga.
4Sth Quartermaster Regiment,
Fort Sheridan, Ill
47th Quartermaster Regiment,
Fort Sam Houston, Texas.
25th Infantry, Fort Huachuca,
Arizona
10th Cavalry, Fort Leavenworth,
Kansas
10th Cavalry, West Point. New
York.
School Detachment, Army War
College, DC.
4ath Quartermaster Regiment,
Fort Bragg, NC.
48th Quartermaster Regiment,
Fort Knox, KY.
47th Quartermaster Regiment,
Fort Lewis, Wash.
Recently the following new coll
ored combat units were organized
in the Regular Army:
349th Field Artillery, Fort Sill.
Oklahoma, to be expanded into
regiment
41st Engineers, Fort Bragg. NC.
Chemical Company. Fort Eustis.
Virginia
18th Anti-aircraft Battalian. Fort
Bragg, NC.
II Truck Companies, at various
stations.
As soon as the first selected men
are brought into the service, it is
planned to expand all these units
to full war strength. The creation
of additional colored combat or
ganizations is now under consid-
Grafton.
The Civil Aeronautics Authority
in cooperation with the Army. is
making start in the DEVELOPMENT
Of colored personnel for the avia-
ton service. Pilots, mechanics, and
other specialists must first be train
ed as nucleus for the formation
Of colored aviation units.
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when he uttered that now-famous
comment about one third of a
nation" said another we'll known
citizen, 'is matched only by the
admirable efficiency with which
he has instituted and carried on
the far-reachlng reforms which,
contributing to the general bet
terment of the citizens of this
country, have made his terms in
ofEce one of the brightest spots in
American history and a period
which no amount of time can
dim.
Commenting on the attitude of
Negroes toward the New Deal and
its continuance, majority of OBJ
servers we're emphatic in their be-
lief that 100 percent endorsement
of the entire administration pro-
gram would be registered in No
vembey.
There are tar too many gains
which have been made under the
New Deal, ana which until Presi-
dent Roosevelt took Office, had
never seemed remotely possible, p"
was the consensus of opinion,
for those who place the interest
of the entire country first even to
consider any change now
The Phoenix index., 1940-10-12

The 369th regiment under com
nand of Co. Benjamin O. Davis
will go into training at Oswego, N
Y. while the Illinois outfit headed
by Col. William j. Warfield will
be encamped at Camp Custer, near
Battle Creek, Mich. In sagning the
two Negro regiments, the war de-
partment is carrying out the Pres
ident's orders to provide adequate
opportunity for Negroes in the new
regular army setup.
UNITS REORGANIZED
The 372 Infantry, National
Guard Unit, of the District of Co.
lrmbia, Maryland, New Jersey,
Ohio and Massachusetts, have
been reorganized and will be
brought up to full war strength un-
der the command of Co. West A.
Hamilton. Lieut. Col. H. Donovan
Queen will be second in command
With the enactment of the Sc
lective Service Draft, the President
announced that several new Col
ored Regiments would be organ
lied and that existing organizations
OF the regular army and the Ma
tional Guard would be expanded.
The expansion was to affect both
combat and service organizations
such as Infantry, Cavalry, Artillery,
Engineers and Quartermasters.
President Roosevelt's attitude in
approving plans to integrate the
Negro into all branches of our ma
tional defense under construction,
departs definitely from the system
that was practiced in 1917, when
Negro dlafteeS were herded into
labor battalions and assigned to
other menial tasks.
LIST ORGANIZATIONS
The first step in the move to see
that the Negro is treated squarely
was shown when it was revealed
that nine-percent of the men Sc
lected for military service under
the draft would be drawn from the
Negro population. which oonsti-
tutes nine-percent of the total
population of the country. The
quota to be supplied by the Negroes
was set at $4,000. --
The following are regular organ
izatlons in the Regular Army:
The Phoenix index., 1940-10-12
Insurance Strike Leaders
Arrested In New Orleans
Rev. Sears Is
Charged With
Embezzlement
By LEON LEWIS

NEW ORLEANS, La. Oct.-(ANP)
Ernest Wright, organizer OF the
Insurance Agents union and cir
culation manager of the Sentinel,
and the Rev. Jake L. Spears.
president of the agents, union, were
apprehended by police last week
On serious charges.
Spears was charge with forgery
of insurance claims amounting tC
$4,000 and emheZzlement Wright
was charge with tampering with
state witness with intent TO im-
pede justice. Both were released or
bond.
Spears, an insurance agent for
the Louisiana Industrial Life In
surance Company, was accused by
Mrs. Elvina Payton, policyholder
of the Louisiana company since
1921, of having forged her name
to sick claims of June "a, july i5,
July %, August q, and August %
Of this year embezzling the total
sum of $50 from the company or
forged signatures, and of taking
$3.50 of IS claim in April.
Five days after SLaars LETT the
employ of the Louisiana in
walkouJ strike he paid the full
amount of $3.50 to Mrs. Payton.
This was on September IL.
Reporting to the company office
the delay in paying her claims,
it was revealed that the company
had paid claims On schedule to
agent Spears.
Faced with charges of forgery
9nd embezzlement to be aided to
three former charges against him
some years ago (two of disturbing
the peace and one of gambling with
dice for money!, Spears brought
his CIO cohCrt. Ernest Wright, cir
culation manager of the New
Orleans Sentinel, into the case.
Wright is charged with having at
temped to intimidate Mrs. Payton
to drop the charges against
Spears.
Upon reporting this the authori-
ties, Wright was picked up at his
home Oh Belmont Street. Both
men were released.
The fired striking agents of the
Louisiana, Douglass and Unity are
still picketing under the CIO BAN
ner as the companies continue to
hold out against union control of
Negro business Policy-holders
continue to keep up their inSur-
ance premiums to protect their in
vestments. Striking agents are re-
ported weakening; many are at
tempting to get back with the
companies
Gloves that can be converted in
to mittens have been invented in
England for the use of aviators
flying at high attitudes.
The Phoenix index., 1940-10-12

PETERSBURG, Va. (SNS)-En-
rollment in Virginia State Col
lege's preliminary course in avia-
ton recently granted by the Civil
Aeronautics Administration, was
completed Saturday in preparation
for the opening Of actual instruc-
ton on Monday, october 7. This
was learned from a statement
made by A. C. Phillips, who was
just recently appointed to the ,po~
sition IF Co-ordinator of Civil
Pilot Training at the College by
President John M Candy.
The Phoenix index., 1940-10-12

recognition. It helps impart tone
tolazy bowel muscles.
Take BLACK-DRAUGHT at
bedtime by the directions. See
how it generally allows time for
sleep; acts gently. but thor
oughly the next morning. Remem-
ber it next time a laxative is
needed! And it's economical,
too! 25-40 doses: 25c.
The Phoenix index., 1940-10-12
Raleigh Pastor
wings Speaker
Sunday, Oct. l3

CLEVELAND. O., (SNS)-The
Rev. o. S. Bullock, pastor First
Baptist Church, Raleigh, N. c., is
guest speaker on the wings Over
Jordan program (WABC-CBS,
Sunday, October l3, $50 to 1000
A M EST
The choral ensemble directed by
Worth Kramer is heard in the
spirituals for which it is renowned,
with the program originator and
director, Rev Glenn T. Settle,
as narrator.
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Way To Happy Relief
From Lazy lnsides

Punctual, satisfying relief from
constipation and its headaches,
biliousness. lad breath, is the
rule when spicy, aromatic, time
tested BLACK DRAUGHT is
used.
That is principally due to the
chief ingredient of this purely
vegetable medicine, an intestinal
tonic-laxative" with high medical
The Phoenix index., 1940-10-12

purpose was to help elect nation
al, state and local Democratic
tickets, beginning with the Presi-
dent and his running mate, Sen
ator Chandler and Congressman
O'Neal Of Kentucky, it was also to
work for the civic, educational and
social betterment of Negroes all
over the entire Midwest.
The Phoenix index., 1940-10-12

L. j. VA cou.le of week3
ago 1 had my nephew and his wife
c visit me from out of town. All
his wife talked about was what
people could do to you in conger
form. After they left 1 noticed
The Phoenix index., 1940-10-12
THREATENS TO GUST
STUDENTS

COLUMBUS, O-(ANP)-- Be
cause he revealed in his column in
the Ohio State News that Franklin
University, division of the Metro
politan YMCA, bars Negroes from
day classes ano admits them only
at night, Frank C. Shearer, law
may be ousted from the
institution
The Phoenix index., 1940-10-12
+ PRESIDENTIAL +
BATTLE COLUMN

Material contained this column h
specte publicity offices of the
herewith matter public Publication of these
does not necessarily that to the views
presented and they should be
political policy
The Phoenix index., 1940-10-12
Enrolment Is
Completed AS
Course Opened

The cost of the entire IS weeks
course is only $25. This small fee
covers the cost OF insurance, ply
sical examination. and tuition,
Upon completion Of the prenmin-
ary course, the student is eligible
The Phoenix index., 1940-10-12
Two Negro Regiments Leave For Years Training
Race Officers TO
Be In Command

NEW. Notwithstanding in conformity with Prcsi-
dent Rooscvet organization plan for National Deens
ilarlems G Anti-aircrat and Illinois 18h Field
Artillery ordered this week for period of
training, The regiments recently ranSer from
the infantry division their present part of the
aircraft and artillery brgades
The Phoenix index., 1940-10-12

that the bed spread contained lots
of things that looked like leaves
and dirt and it frightened me
SO badly can't sleep. Now I don't
believe in this stuff but she talk
ed about it so much it worries me.
Help me.
Ans: Take the mess that you
found on your bed and put it il
trash can. 1t cannot harm you in
anyway. Yes, his wife was re-
sponsibIe for putting it there bun
she doesn't know any better. II
wasn't her idea to harm you she
thought that she was tricking her
husband by putting it on the bed
he S Iept in. Ever since they have
been married she has worried for
fear she will lose him.
The Phoenix index., 1940-10-12

Intended for public places, a coin
in a slot electric razor has been
invented that includes an ultra,
violet ray sterilizel.
The Phoenix index., 1940-10-12

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The Phoenix index., 1940-10-12

Of total of about 100000 acres
of land in Barbardos 65,835 acres
are under cultivation. there being
only one large wooded area.
The Phoenix index., 1940-10-12

An electrical device has been in
ened to warn steam shovel op-
erators when they are approaching
buried pipes.
The Phoenix index., 1940-10-12

G R. X.-I have a business dea'
in mind and 1 wish to know Il
| should undertake it now OF
wait?
Ans: Wait while and give more
it though. Your idea is an eX-
cellent one but you musii WORK
your plans out a little differently
in order to succeed. Put your plans
into action after Xmas.
The Phoenix index., 1940-10-12

HOTEL MACK
80 Tourist g. Transit Rooms ST Up
5iS Bedford Pl N. E. We. 9S2l
Atlanta, Georgia.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-11

General James g. Harbord, who
commanded the United States Ma
rines on the Marine, was once a
school teacher.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-11

were Japan, France, Germany, and
Mexico, taking a total Of 20 per
cent. Our best opportunity for serv-
ing the South American countries
lies in supplying machinery and
other manufactured products in re-
turn for raw materials.
OF our $685. 6s, 900 imports in
1887, over IA per cent came from
South America. This resulted in an
unfavorable balance Of trade with
that nation as a whole, and it might
be possible for us to insist on a clos
er balance. A more constructive at
titude, however, would be the en-
couragement of both exports and
imports, regardless Of the infinite
sinai drain that may result on our
huge stores Of gold.
BRAZIL NEEDS CAPITAL
Argentina and Brazil now rank
fourth and fifth as sources Of i'm
ports for the United States, being
preceded by Canada, Japan, and the
United Kingdom in the order nam
ed. If we should limit u pur-
chases to the Western Hemisphere,
our total imports would be reduced
by half, based on 1897 figures. Our
exports, on the other hand, would
be reduced by two-thirds, which
even the most militant isolationist
would not seriously suggest.
Brazil is 10y rapidly developing
an industrial economy. Growth so
far has been limited by the time
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-11

When var was declared, Depart
ment Of Agriculture officials we're
pessimistic, and indeed, chaos reign.
ed in the great English mills as
recruits were taken from their jobs,
and those left were sent scurrying
to ARP shelters a dozen times a
day. With the expiration of three
months, however, war boom psy.
chology prevailed and the federal
export subsidy of 1 IL cents per
pound was successfully reduced to
2 cent per pound. a nominal figure,
indicating only that the policy is
not washed up.
The outlook for wool in 1910 is
one Of acute scarcity if consumption
is maintained at 1899 levels. Aus
tralia has placed her production at
the disposal Of Great Britain. and
to date has released only 22,50C,000
pounds at top prices, hardly suffi-
cient to keep our mills running for
three weeks. An effort is being
made to corral South Americas en-
tire crop to prevent the develop
ment of a shortage.
Silk closed the year in a squeeze,
resulting in prices equal to the
highs of 1880 and within striking
distance of the IS = pound level of
1929. In dress goods there has been
practically a complete change-over
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-11
u. S. IS SEEKING
TO UP S. A. TRADE
Export Increase Visible;
Reciprocity To
Tell Tale
By Cambridge Associates

BY Cambridge Associates
Uncle Sam is now at work Guilt
waiting his own bacy yard.
In october, the first full month
in which war dominated the COM
mercial picture, substantial IN
creases in exports were recorded In
practically all South a n d North
American nations. Our good fortune
Is largely due to the fact that Ger
many has been working ass1duously
for several years to build up her ba'
lance of trade through the South
American markets.
Products Of South America which
are necessary to u industrial LIE
and which do not compete with u
markets are few. Prominent among
these are rubber, tin. coffee, and
natural nitrates. Argentina, which
can claim title IS the dominating
nation Of South America, Is prt-
marty agrarian, ard its large ex-
ports of wheat and livestock must
find some non-conlpetitive mar
ket.
An additional factor which makes
It difficult for that nation to pur-
chase from us is the reciprocal ma
ture of present world trade adopted
by practically every nation. At the
year end, a barrage Of criticism
from various dome tic interests
threatened to hold up the conclusion
Of a reciprocal trade agreement with
Argentina.
10 PER CENT OF EXPORTS
In 1887, the most prosperous year
in international trade since the
great depression, only 10 per cent of
our So, 349, 167 exports went to South
America. Our best customers were
the United Kingdom and Canada, to-
gether accounting for about rs per
cent Of our exports. Next in line