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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-30
ThiSSpOrting
 World
My Country Iris Of Thee
BY JOHN A. CLUNEY

 yarn but in ecoecons of referee printed recently S .ts d;fnt and worthy of repetition hamlet of these United States of America
 Take look judge yourself
 There only poseason Bowl played in America the referee who gets one it's the event N Years College of the South There that witnessed an incident which seems to me the m nns dS @ @ oftenhard question: football good TOT osf Lev me tell about 1t:
 that Flags pepnans bunting ty tailored drill teams great band in black ana go ana o bursting overhead releasing tiny paachu gay with American flags bands into the spine tngng grandeur Oh that day to member!
 squrming of bowling screaming football begin And standing beside there in the middle of the field two young American Ooy captains bit conscious oft crowd holding up proceedings while they strengthened out very oehca suauo
 Said the captain opponent What's first name Billy Whats yows9"
 Ernie 1ook from the South and how going Civil We'll don't want play football and do This Civil thing Have you the lineup of our teamP" < Why mo-" captain.
 well there's Toczylowk Gladchuck Dubzinsk Lakacfik zab Goodau and others this Me folks skip all that gudge stuff What do ay?"
 Captain Billy Payne Captain in the North and split his face from mpulvy he said in his delightful gnng Boy said mouhful! That's the want 1t, too Let's go"
 there fighting like madmen but fifth or sixth play was Captain America and it's football and it's good enough for
 fellows and girls there in the stands ahead and privilege bought with ticket, thank the Lord.
 Oh Saturday. taking chin
 And loving it.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-30
JERSEY MUTUELs wHIRL

.Peapack, N. J. - For the first time since the State legalized that form of wagering two years ago, pari- mutuel machines whirled ct the two-day Essex Fox Hounds meeting on Evander B. Schley's estate near peapack.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-30

(33) Stif Cameron (S4)
 Referee: Elwood A. Geigle, Tenn pie; Umpire: J. B. Reilly, Lafay- cite; Linesman: J. R. McPhee. Oberlin; Field Judge: George Var gara, Notre Dame. Time of periods, IS minutes.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1941-08-22
Pedestrian CarelcSAncSS
Brings Death To 101 i'm first Z
Months of This Year

CIIARLESTON.-To cut tn"
more than a death Il day tragedy
IN West Virginia highwys, 18th"
pedestrian must assume equal
responsibility with the motOrist
for highway traffic safety, say
Colonel John w. BoSworth. Su-
Errintcndcnt Of the Department
of Public Safety who as head Of
the West Virginia State Police.
continues the intensive drive to
save lives Of the travelling public
Colonel BOsworth points out
that when the July accident
death toll hit an alI-timc high
in this state, pedestrian fatal
itics accounted for more than "a
third Of this figure. OF the 253
persons who have lost their
lives for the first seven months
of the year, lOl Of them were
pedestrians.
That the pedestrians iPnor-
ancc Of road laws may be- re-
sronsiblc for 4 large portion #
fatal accidents is revealed i'm in
! formation at the Accident Pro
vcntatiCn Bureau OF Che 1ol
persons who walked TO death, -
/ Of them were not licensed opera
tors.
Other information in the
bureau report, released by Con
Bosworth, gives between 8 and !
pm. as the most danGcrou.
hour en- the highway. Six per
sons were killed at dusk in Jul,
alone in It's state, and ~ Of tn,
23G accidents for July occur
at that hour
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1941-08-22
Mystery Exists As 10 CDU.l"
Gasoline RatiOning Coming;

Last week gasoline rationinp
became Il reality for the Atlantic
coast states. A plan was put in
effect by which filling stations
get ten per cent less gas each
month.
Much mystery exists around
the whole business. The United
States produces far more pasO.
line than it car use and whole
'aIcrs report that stocks on the
Atlantic coast are actually much
larger than a year ago.
The transfer Of - tankcrs to
Great Britian's service doesn't
account fo" q ShOrtaRc-if ono
exists There are two schools Of
thought ON the matter, most
car drivers think il is merely a
manufactured shortage to i'm
pres, Americans Of the acute
war danger. The opposing men
look wise and say that Ickes is
laying away an emergency fuel
supply Of vast proportions for an
about war. and have even locat.
cd it i'm the fastncss of one OF
the rational parks under contro
q Che Department OF Interior.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1941-08-22
Drive
Will Soon Be
Intensified

CHARLESTON. a drive To
bring all citizens of West Viz
ginia into Il coordinatcd move
ment for safety in the homes,
factories and mines and ON the
highways was intensified this
week by the West Virginia Safe
ty and Health Council.
Designed to encourage ~ hour
Il day safety consciousness, the
drive will be carried to every
county of the state through
newspapers, radio, public meet
ings and group safety clinics.
for factory worker and CONNER
cial motor vehicle operators.
The Council, whose member
ship is composed of cross
section of the states citiZcnry,
includes business and profcs-
Sional men, and workers in
nearly every industry, is headed
by Leonard Rigglcman, prcsi-
dent Of Morris MIIarvcy college.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1941-08-22
Outside Pressure Brings
Results In NY. Aero
Plant Job Drive
DR.. J. F.. Brown
On Vacation

DR.. J. f. Brown left Sunday
morning for his hometown,
Railway n. j., where he will
Sed some time with his mother.
Mrs. Anna Kelly Brown. He
expects to join his family later
who are spending the summer
at their cottage in Oak Bluff
Mass, after seeing Miss kumari
Paul enter Mount Holyyoke col
,ege in September where she has
been granted a two-year scholar
ship, they will return to the
loctor'S home for a family re-
,nion before returning to West
Virginia.
While DR.. Brown is away
DR.. T. r. Lewis. of -Kluetield will
hold office hours Mondays. We'd
nesday and Friday mornings
from II to = o'clock at DR..
Browns otfie until he returns.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1941-08-22
NAACP WARNS or JIM
GROW III GOVERNMENT
CFFlCE MOVES TO NIRGINI 4

WASHINGTON. - Pointing
out that if the proposed erection
of new War Department build
ing in Arlington, Va, goes thru
Negro workers i'm the office will
be subjected to iim-crow rcguIa-
tons of the state, the NAACP
submitted Il statement last week
to Senator Alva Adams, chair
man of the senate appropria-
tons subcommittee ON deticien-
cics through Leon A. Ransom,
member of the NAACP legal
advisory board. The NAACP
does not oppose the general idea
of decentralization.
The statement said that there
were (unoiliciaIly) approxima.
tcly six to eight hundred Negro
as in the War Department at the
present time and that 30 per
cent of them would be Scgrcgat-
ed on buses and trains going to
Arlington, i'm eating houses,
places Of recreation, Departments
stores and other places. II was
requested that if the plan goes
through the surrounding area
be considered Federal territory
and state segregation laws not
apply therein.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1941-08-22
Along Elm
Street
++++4++++++++++++++++<+$*s

am writing from US. Veter-
ans hospital. Ward II, Room
3O4, Columbia S. {. You have
heard of everything lovely and
the goose's hanging high, have
Mt YOU? Well that is so here in
fact.
The American Negro soldiers
may be seen here in the golden
shadow of his faithful services
to the glory and perpctuity of
his native land.
can testify to the faithful
ness of the American Negro
soldier in many lands. Always
he has been the silent "teStigo >
for the Faithful beauty Of the
American Negro race.
Europe has seen the American
Negro soldier. China and Japan
know him. Five hundred Negro
soldiers sang before the ruler
and his court at Kocbc, Japan,
under Loving.
In fact the world has seen
and known the American Negro
soldier. Always he has been
polite to all. | saw him in the
great Buddha temple. quiet
roIitc and courteous, trying t.
see another peoples god.
No people have gone around
the world with better testimony
Of a nations high standing fol
dcccncy and calm than have tho
American Negro soldiers.
And he is patient here, calm
and courteous i'm q great hos
plata big chunk of a nation.
Thank you, soldiers - wei
done"
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1941-08-22
Roosevelt and English
Minister Meet at Sea

President Roosevelt and the
Prime Minister of Great Britain
about ten days ago met on the
high seas for Il conference ON
the world situation.
This action, without precedent
in history, was consumated
under the guns of numerous
warhips of both navies to guard
the persons of the two most
powerful men of our day. AL
though information had leaked
to spy channels no interference
occurred.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1941-08-22
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
NEWLY PAVED ROAD JOB
Is APPRECIATED


70 Mayor f.. w. Dye and ......
city Officials
keystone, w Va
wish TO take this means of
expressing to you, ON behalf Of
the coIOrcd citizens of the City
of keystone, our thanks for the
completion of Il wcll-pavcd road
mp The hill TO two Of our lead
ing civic organizations, namely,
the keystone graded school and
the Nj. Chapel Baptist church.
For years we have Strivcn to
have Il paved road to these two
important institutions and we
have only succeeded through
our present city administration.
under the leadership Of Mayor
T.. W. Dye. who shows no favorS
but ma, granted the same con
vcnicnccs as given to other civic
organizations i'm our community
This work was done under the
leadership Of Mr. Fletcher Hardy
ST., foreman
(SigncO Jessie Wray.
August 7. 1871.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1941-08-22
FEB Should Get Part of
Four Million, NAACP

NEW YORK. - On learning
that the Senate voted President
Roosevelt $4,O0O,OOO for conf
denial purposes last week,
which is said by Democratic
leaders probably will be spent
for Investigations of the defense
program, the NAACP stated
that a part of the money should
90 to the committee on fair en-
ployment practices whose job it
is to investigate discrimination
in defense industries and train
ing.
This would make the FEP
committee independent and free
to operate without having to use
the facilities of any other go
vernment agency the NAACP
said.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1941-08-22
Northtork Road Open

\orthtork y new street has
been completed and thrown open
to tWo-way traffic Only few
finishing touches remain before
the entire job will be finished.
Ii is expected that when Il
parking plan is worked out that
Payday shoppers will again ill
the towns business establish
mcntS as of yorc.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1941-08-22
NamIng Greensboro. ~. g
August T. 1871

UGO
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1941-08-22

materials and cities. This they
accomplished at terrific cost.
numerous crack divisions have
melted away under Russian fire
and are not replacablc, neutral
observers note a growing frenzy
among the Germans which they
attribute to the realization that
the Russians may be able to offer
furious resistance almost indie
finitely and that winter is COM
ing very soon, Russia is no place
for an invading army in winter.
The Germans are hundreds Of
bloody miles from the oil fields
of Russia and Stains scorchcd
earth policy has made cost of
advances made TO date pretty
high. Accordingly the Germans
are driving on with all they have
regardless of the awful carnage
on both sidcS-and Stain has in
the west about ~ fresh divisions
loafing about in case the Japan
csc start something. All troop,
Hitler can spare are i'm battl,
while Stain has not even e
date called any Of his reserves
and he has stalled the might,
Hitler military machine! n
wonder Adolph is fighting in
rapidly mounting frenzy.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1941-08-22
Brewster Hiring
Negroes AS Result

NEW YORK. = Heavy pres.
sure from sources outside tn;
Office of Production Manage.
ment. notably criticism by tn,
NAACP and other New Iorl;
City groups is having an effect
on the employment policy of the
Brewster airplane company, il
was announced here this week
by the NAACP.
On August ID, for the first
time in its history Brewster
took on a Negro employee in the
regular course of hiring, without
special request.
However, contrary to reports
from the office of DR.. Robert G..
Weaver of OPM, the NAACP
asserts that Edmond Van Osten
81. Negro, with nine years ex-
perience as a tiISsnith, not only
was turned down the first time
by Brewster, but was called back
and told bluntly that they
never would give him a job.
At the same time Van Ostc
was being refused, white men
with two years experience as
were being employed.
The company excuse that tim
smithing els an allied occupa-
ton and not the most desirable
type of experience for aluminium
sheet metal work in aircraft
falls flat because employment
records show that aircraft com
panics are begging for men with
experience. Brewster
is pobbling up all it can get with
two wears Of tinsmithing cX-
pcricncc.
"t stands TO ordinary reason, "
said Il NAACP statement. that
with aircraft companies doubl-
ing and TRIPPING their employees
in the tremendous expansion Of
the national defense program
there would not be enough
purely aluminium sheet metal
workers. Every company has
had to take on men in what DR.
Wcavcr's Office calls allied oc-
equations and train them &c
handle aluminium. Our point i,
the Brewster company turned
down Negro with nine years
q experience ana hlrcd WHITE
with two"
A responsible official Of The
New York state Employment
Service in answer to a qucstioi
from the NAACP on Van Os
tens qualifications stated:
There will always be room
fer some differences Of opinion
as 10 Just when a man is quail
fled or not, but in the Van o.
ten ease there can be no room
for doubt"
In the exchange Of charge
land counter charges betwec
J tho NAACP and DR.. Weaver
office the NAACP stated tina
Please turn to page three
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1941-08-22
Black Henchrnen
CALNIN'S DIGEST

I'VE know not really what
we are, still less what We might
be. But hear faint voices from
! the far dim land across the sea.
This quotation came to mind
when reading Black Henchmen.
Il Stature ny Evening Post article
by Arch bald Rutledge, a plan
tation owner of the South who
pays Il very high tribute to his
Negro craftsmen.
Rutlcdgc : article is revealing
I'm many points, but especially
indicates that the Negro possess
cS Il native genius which flows
strongly past the obstacles u-u-
ally without benefit of any for
NAL training or education. The
writer thought that no tribute
had ever been paid the Negro
worker Showing that he is
raj her poorly read ON the sub
lrct saying. IL believe that
my story will be- hcartrninp to
all hu really love the Negro and
wish him wei.
"Ol course. SaS Rutudpr. IL
hive in the wilderness. and ON my
remote Carolina platation things
ar" somewhat rs they have
always been. My Negroes |
call them mine for they are my
people; but more truly | am
theirs are NubianS that is
ihrn ancestors were brought
from North Africa.
Amazing FeatS
Then in simple style Rutlrdyr
remarks upon the cNtraordinarv
abilities of five of his Negro
hrchmcn, Sambo Green. over
50: Gabriel MaycS, for 80 Years
IL handyman pushing 80; Phincas
McConncr, who has q strain of
blood from the Seminole Indi-
ans; Alex the ferryman and
Lewis Colcten master carpenter.
Mild Sambo" surpasses the
modern workman in building
with elemental tools wood flood
galcs to harness the tides, and
walks four miles to- work each
day. Old Gabc, the handyman,
who is an expert wOOd-carevr,
in two days cut and hcwed six
cypress sill, four Of them Is
feet long two of them 20. all 10
by ~. Alex, an artist with a
spade, raises Il bank i'm the rice
fields be hcving heavy mud
blocks accurately into place
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1941-08-22
German Plane Flies Over
Iceland, Is Chased to Sea

A two-motored bomber bear
ing Nazi insignia flew low over
the capital Of Iceland late this
week and was chased far out 10
sea by fighter planes that rose
as soon as it was sighted.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1941-08-22

The city Of Greensboro, N. c.. Is
named for Gen. Nathaniel Greene.
the hero Of the battle OF Guilford
Court House, which is memorialized
by a national military park SIX
miles 70 the northwest.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1941-08-22
World Affairs


indications are shortly Japan
will set out on a war of empire.
Nipponese newspapers have al
ready begun to harp on the big
dangers of enlightenment which
America and England have had
a hand in bringing about and
are now preparing the public
for war by saying that occiden-
tai nations may force war on
Japan at any hour. All this is so
plainly false that no one gives
that phase second thought. not
even the Japanese officials.
Cold truth is that Japan her
self has been planning to grab
off rich territories of the Far
East for many years on the
ground that since they lie rather
close to Japan they should be
hers. Dominance of the Far
East would be but first step
in the Japanese plan to become
world power. This is evidenc-
ed by Japanese Immigrants"
and tourists over-running the
Americas. Practically all of them
are engaged in some kind of
work with "the days" arrival in
mind.
So far the Jaanese have not
made any demands but have
confined themselves to maneu
vering into a position where i n
will be possible to jump on tn
English and Americans in tina ]
quarter on a moments notice
This they will now do the first
minute they get a chance and
think that the foe is not looking !
They have organized themselves
to strike simultaneously in a
large number of places.
The opponent has not been
deaf and blind. Even as we read
this there is a chain of iron
around Japan. Invisible and not
suspected. 1t will melt away and
be no more if Japan subsidies in
her wild dreams of conquest,
but if he starts something there
will be war and nobody will be
caught mapping. For while it
will be war. The grim business
of fighting through to a source
of fuel for Japanese warShips
will mean life or death to the
empire of the rising sun and the
oil fields of the Far East even |
if captured will yield no more
oil that the streets of Tokyo
for several months during which
intense military and naval &C
ton must be maintained.
The unexpected defeat of the
German plans to destroy the
Red army has put Japan on the |
spot. And if Stain can hold out
until cold weather Japan'S wild /
dreams may be just that. The |
Japanese can understand the /
difficulties of conquering a foe
whose numbers are legion and
whose country is so vast that
communication and supply lines
must be stretched thousands of
miles of territory infested with
free-lance armed forces whose
nibbling away adds up. The
Germans may occupy all Russia
without conquering the Reds
and without obtaining anything.
Russia will be land of sudden
death indefinitely for any force
Hitler can maintain there. This
approaching winter will long
remain horror in Germany $
bloody history. Thus it is now
or never for the japanese, be
cause with Germany out of the
way unpleasant things are in
store for her because she has
Intentionally placed herself on
the unfinished business" list
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-06-19
Ask Raise
For All
Teachers

Going one step farther than It's
rival ALL union, the Detroit
Teachers Association, representa-
tive of 1900 teachers. today asked
the Board OF Education 10 discuss
with its committee the possibility
Of a general raise for all city
school teachers, effective next
September.
The request Of the conservative
teachers association followed by
only a few hours the demands by
the more militant Detroit Fedora
ton Of Teachers (AFL) for salary
changes estimated to cost total
Of 100000.
The Teachers Federation, how
ever asked for no immediate
blanket increase. but requested
that the board 60 on record in
favor Of a general upward revision
Of the salary structure in the
1928 budget.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-06-19

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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-06-19
AGREE ON TWO POINTS

Officials OF the teachers aSSo-
citation said that their request for
conferences with the school board
on salary problems had no con-
nection with the demands Of The
federation, but on two points both
organizations arm agreement
Both are seeking an extension
Of sick-lcavc from five 10 10 days
and A single salary schedule for
all teachers of like training and
like experience.
At the present time only per-
sons with master degrees arc hired
as instructors IN the secondary
schools and their salaries begin
at $500 a year and increase TO
$500 at tho end OF II years.
Elementary SC hool instructors.
many Of whom have master de-
grees. arc paid from $l,i00 to
S2.A00
Both teacher organizations arc
asking that elementary instructors
with master degrees receive the
same sala aries as secondary
teachers.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-06-19
City Pay Raises
Stir Furore in
Findn(eCir(|es

Demands on the Common Coun'
Gil for $500, 900 in unappropriateo
pay increase for city employees TO
day brought ominous rumbling'
from the financial world.
Trading in Detroit city bonds
slowed up sppreciably yesterda!
and word spread through financial
circles that the city may not be
able TO carry out scheduled SS3.-
100000 refunding operation this
Fall.
The city stands 10 lose up 10
$1,000 900 in interest payments If
It's last S33.ooooO0 Of callable
bonds are not refunded At new
low interest rates before early
Autumn.
ANXIOUS TO BEAT TAN
Controller Charles G. Oakman
is anxious 10 complete the refund
ing before Congress enacts a
PROPOSE law taxing municipal
bonds which will require the city
10 pay as much as l per cent
higher interest than at present
The new TAX on municipal bonds
is scheduled 10 pass Congress
about September l. according to
information received by city OIL
ficisls.
"The market for Detroit bonds
has eased considerably during
the past two days" explained
one broker who specialized IN
the Detroit issues.
"If they have TO grant these
paw raises and II jeopardiEes the
planned reduction In the dehcu
IL will seriously affect the ritys
credit and the future of the re-
funding program"
KEYSTONE OF POLICY
The keystone OF Mayor Jeffries
financial policy has been the elm
nation OF the operating deficit
which stood al about $4,000, 600
when he took office. Al the pres
ent time the deficit is $4,000, 600.
In pamphlet issued 10 financial
houses just before the recent SOL :
100000 refunding issue was sold,
Jeffries said:
~Our year-end operating state
ments will show an annual i'm
proyement Of over $4,000, 900.
We anticipate further progress
ut the same pace and feel sure
we will reach our goal Of being
on Q cash basis within the next
two years"
II the council grants the 49,
100000 pay raises. for which nc
funds have been provided, il will
lust exactly wipe out the reduc-
ton in The deficit which was
rlanned for next fiscal year.
PAY RAISE VOTED
With a strike threat hanging
over its head, the council voted
Water Board hourly employees 10
cents an hour increase on Monday
Four other city departments
have strike threats still pending
and the Council has indicated a
willingness 10 extend the same
raise 10 all hourly workers IN the
city at cost OF 100000.
a comparable settlement OF the
demands of Salaried workers, some
OF whom arc included in tho
groups threatening strikes. would
bring the total cost 10 over So
500. 900.
There are serious legal doubts
as 10 whether this money can pt
raised since the tax budget for the
fiscal year starting July / has
been closed and the tax rate ha:
been established.
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