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Evening star., 1941-07-21
Two British Freighters
Sunk, Germans Claim

BERLIN, July 81 lP.-Germans
reported today their aircraft sank
two freighters totaling 1000 tons
and a Speedboat in English waters
overnight, and acknowledged "a few
civilian casualties" in renewal of
R. A. F. bombing of Western German
cities. A dozen British raiders were
declared downed.
A number of tenements were re-
ported damaged by the incendiaries
and high-explosive bombs dropped
by British planes.
During attempts by British air.
planes to attack the Channel coast
yesterday and this morning." the
high command communique said
pursuit planes and anti aircraft
shot down eight enemy planes and
patrol boats and blockade breakers
four enemy planes"
There was no reference to Ger
man losses in the whole of the oper-
ations, although DN.B., official news
agency, declared earlier six British
craft had been downed without
casualties in the defense aerial
forces.
Evening star., 1941-07-21

ments. A casual stroller took a
complete set of pictures of the head
quarters area-this in spite of regu-
lations strictly forbidding cameras
near airdromes. A dog was used
by another American operative. He
tossed stick into bushes shielding
machine-gun position. The dog
chased the stick He followed the
dog. He learned which way the
gun pointed.
With details of the airdrome de-
fense complete. Gen. Hayes led
"parachutists" in the attack and
although the British gun defending
that particular zone opened fire,
most of them were officially declared
to have survived to reach cover.
Sentry Overpowered.
Armed with Tommy-guns, revol-
vers, tear gas and hand grenades
and with rain increasing to lower
visibility, the Americans rose from
their position and rushed a sentry
guarding a gap in the wire. He
was overpowered and ruled dead.
The Americans poured through the
gap, tossed tear gas bombs through
a window and knocked down a
door. While half the guardsmen
watched over the staff, others
dashed upstairs to seize maps which
they said would be invaluable in
actual battle, orders and other army
documents.
We had to give them back their
maps and orders" an American
chuckled. so they could continue
the exercises"
The Americans. organized months
ago and regularly drilled. made up
the only home guard unit particl-
pating in widespread maneuvers, Of
Evening star., 1941-07-21
Lew Fields, IA, Dies;
Co-Star With Weber
In ManySho
Funeral Services for
Famous Comedian to
Be Held Today

BY the Assoc: ted Press.
BEVERLY HILLS, Calf, July
21.-Lew Fields, half of the famous
vaudeville comedy team of Weber
and Fields, is dead.
His lifetime partner, Joe Weber,
at his bedside commented sadly:
It's like losing my right arm.
We've grown up together. He was
everything to me"
Funeral services will be held
today.
Mr.. Fields, IA, became i'll Thurs
day and died yesterday. The girl
shows which he and Mr.. Weber
staged and starred in often fea-
tured noted players of the day.
Lillian Russell, David Warfield,
Dewolf Hopper, Fay Templeton and
Willie Collier were among the stage
figures who appeared in Weber,
Fields comedies.
Began Career in 1876.
Mr.. Fields was born Lewis Maui
rice Fields. He and Mr.. Weber be-
gan their famous comedy routine
in New York in 1876 when they
were little boys. Fields was only 9.
Their first appearances together
were in juvenile Dutch sketches at
small variety theaters. In 1885
they formed their own company.
In 1896 they became proprietors
of the famous Weber and Fields
Music Hall in New York, which, for
years, was one of the gay spots of
Broadway.
The speciality was satires on va
rious Broadway hits. Their bur-
lesQue included The Geezer, "
Under the Red Globe" "Cyranose, ="
"Zazu," "Fiddle-Dee-Dee," Whoa
Vass Is?" "Hoity Toity" and others.
Produced Many Shows.
In 1904 Weber and Fields broke
up their partnership. Eight years
later, however, they were together
again on Broadway.
Throughout the years, between
SoncG W IOocli liiOy PlOuuNNO anu
starred in almost show year.
Some Of the biggest hits during
the late '20S included Hit the
Deck" "A Connecticut Yankee,
Present Arms" and Hello Daddy"
Their last appearance together in
makeup was in the motion picture
Life of Lillian RUSSELL a year ago.
One of their favorite stunts was
to stand on their heads while re-
parteeing.
Mr.. Fields was born January l,
1867. His son, Lew Fields. jr., is a
scenarist and has written several
plays. A daughter. Dorothy, wrote
the lyrics for number of songs. and
in 1886 she won the academy award
for the best lyrics, for The Way
You Look Tonight"
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ment permissible under regulations
governing the maneuvers and said
"the Germans will not wait either"
The argument was halted by word
that one of the Americans imitation
explosive grenades had set the
headquarters on fire This blaze was
under control when a high staf
officer rolled up to find out what was
wrong.
Evening star., 1941-07-21
Pursuit of Reds Reported.

Pursuit OF heuS hepOTleu.
On the southern wing, the high
command said earlier, German and
Rumanian forces have stormed
across the Dniester River and are
in full pursuit of retreating Red
Army units.
The DnieSter is the northern
boundary OF the province of Bessa-
rabia, which Russia obtained from
Rumania by ultimatum only a year
ago. Crossing of the river opens
the way for German drive into
the Ukraine from the south and
imperils the big Russian Black Sea
port of Odessa, which is only so
miles from the mouth of the Dnies-
ter, Germans said.
At the Baltic end of the battle
line. the Germans and their Finnish
allies apparently were tightening
bit by bit their pressure on the big
industrial city of Leningrad-once
the capital of Russia's cZars.
Karelian Drive Stressed.
K. q. Won Stackelberg, military
writer close to the high command,
said German forces driving toward
Leningrad from the south "ap-
parently already have crossed
EStonia.'
The northern tip of Estonia. a
narrow strip of land between the
Baltic Sea and Lake Peipus, is only
Is miles from Leningrad.
Stackelberg not only placed great
emphasis on the push he said was
developing along the northern shore
of Lake Peipus, but also spoke con-
fldently of the progress being made
by German and Finnish forces mov-
ing southwark toward Leningrad
over the Karelian isthmus. He spoke
OF Soviet divisions on the isthmus
front as facing destruction"
Evening star., 1941-07-21

Jill IL 81 Fdk6.J
the Russians, such as previously
have been reported in what the
Germans describe as a battle in
Volvlng 100000 men, authoritative
sources said one division was wiped
out in the Mogilev area and others
are hemmed inside pockets in the
region of Vitebsk.
The Russians left more than 1000
dead and several thousand others
were taken prisoner in the annihi-
latlon OF the division near Mogilev,
authorized Germans said, describ-
ing the Soviet force as organized
from remnants of five divisions.
German reports indicate that
operations of the LuftWaffe and
fast, hard-striking panzer forces
lar out in front have cut Russians
off from retreat and leave them
only the hard choice between
breaking the German pincers or
dying.
Pressure Increasing.
The high command communiuue.
however, again was in reticent vein.
1t gave no details of what it pic
tured in general terms as unceasing
German pressure along the whole
eastern front, particularly in the
south, with Red Army units being
isolated one by one and DESTROYED
In much the same language as
yesterday, the war bulletin from
Adolf Hitler's headquarters covered
the vast battle in these two SEN
tences:
In the southern sector of the
eastern front, German, Rumanian
and Hungarian troops are pursuing
the defeated enemy. Operations
on the entire front continue taking
their successful course with the de-
struction of numerous encircled
groups"
Mogilev is on the vital central
front, where the Nazis have driven
an iron wedge toward Moscow and
where infantry previously had been
reported mopping up Russian troops
cut of by fast-moving panzers.
Red Divisions Encircled.
D.N.B, official German news
agency, declared numerous Soviet
divisions were encircled in the re-
glon north of Vitebsk, railroad town
on the Dvina River.
These forces were reported to have
been bombed severely yesterday and
repulsed with heavy losses in their
attempts to break out of the Nazi
ring.
Luftwaffe units were said to have
DESTROYED 81 Soviet planes yesterday
80 of them on the ground.
In operations over the Arctic
Ocean from Finnish bases, the
agency said, German flyers sank a
Soviet warship of from 5000 to 1000
tons. Russian destroyer and a
Soviet freighter of 1000 tons,
A radio station near the Russian
The Phoenix index., 1941-06-28
Proclamation OF
Mayor Supports
Fight For Jobs

BALTIMORE, Md. - CSNS) -
Urging all industrial firms III
Maryland to cooperate in the
fight to open up jobs for Negroes
in defense industry, Mayor How
ard W. Jackson gave full en-
oorsement to the fight to win 1000
Jobs for Negroes in the Glenn l..
Martin Aircraft Firm, in Il procla
nation which he issued here Mon
day.
Because they constitute Seven
teen per cent of the population OF
Baltimore and as such contribute
their share in taxes to the support
of the national defense program
Negroes have a right to their full
share of the jobs under this pro-
gram, the Mayor saio.
contemporary concepts of De-
mocracy,' the proclamation de-
clared, demand that the corner
stone of a democracy is the right
of its citizenry to jobs quite in
dependent of race or color "
The proclamation was issued fol-
lowing a conference with the
Mayor last week, when repreSen-
tatives Of state youth organizations
urged the city's chief executive 20
support the job drive.
The Phoenix index., 1941-06-28
Students Drowned
In OF Mississippi

SCOTLANDVILLE, La.--(SNS)-
Tragedy struck the Southern uni
versity family Saturday afternoon
when Fred Hurley, 21-year old
junior in the mechaniS arts division
was drowned in the Mississippi
river while swimming with two
companions. Hurley became the
fourth victim whose life was snuff
ed out by the bodies of waters which
surround Southern university dur
ing the 27 years that the institution
has been maintained on this site.
Hurley, along with Albert Hoover,
Southern's great blocking back and
high hurdler from Wichita, Kansas
and Freddie Perryman, senior in the
mechanic arts division from Slidell,
La, were floating on a drifting log
when they decided to leave the log
and swim ashore.
Hurley was the last to leave the
log and his mates did not notice
him having difficulty remaining
afloat until they had reached shore.
Perryman Immediately swan out to
aid his companion, but his mind
was in such state that he could
not do much as Hurley fought off
his every effort.
The Baton Rouge fire depart
ment with the use of graphing
tongs searched vainly for the body
and it was late in the afternoon
when the body was discovered on
the surface after a steamboat own
ed by the Mengel plant had moved
a tow barge apparently freeing the
body which had lodged under it.
The body was caught in a stiff cur
rent which carried it almost a mile
farther down the river before the
boat overlook it.
At the inquest which was held on
the banks of the river, a verdict of
accidental drowning was rendered.
The Phoenix index., 1941-06-28
NewsreeIs TO Film
Negro Day Parade

NEW YORK. LAMP With
RKO neWsreel cameras set to film
the Parade of Progress that will
be hignlight of National Negro
day, June 81, the Citizens Coordi-
mating committee of New York,
sponsors of the day, were complet-
ing plans this week for one of the
most impressive and colorful cele-
.brations Harlem has ever seen.
Floats are Under construction for
the parade which will depict Ne
gro progress in evey field from
1865 to the present day. The par
ade will be divided into sections
each unit devoted to Negro accom-
plishment in some particular field.
Art, science, business, music, the
theatre, education, will each re-
ceive a unit in the parade. March
ing units of various Harlem fra
! ternal organizations, war veterans,
the Boy Scouts, uniformed school
children, and drum corps Of
churches will also participate.
Businesses unable to- afford large
floats are entering open cars.
The idea behind Negro day is eS-
sentially the promotion OF new
race pride during the present cri-
sis, and the Citizens Coordinating
The Phoenix index., 1941-06-28
Joe Farm In
Michigan Is
Swell Spot

NEW YORK-(S N S)-+By the
, time Joe Louis finally hangs up his
gloves and retireS to the more
peaceful and prosaic pursuits of
operating his riding stables and
health farm at Utica, Michigan,
he will have left behind him a
record that may never be equal
led, nor even approached in heavy
weight fistic competition
No champion has ever compiled
SO imposing a list of ''firsts" as
this spectacular load Of two -fisted
fighting machinery.
No heavyweight has boasred the
remarkable punching percentage
that has established Louis as one
Of the greatest clouters, if not
the greatest, the prize ring has
uncovered.
His entire career. amateur and
professional. embraces the stag
gering total of 88 Knockout vic
tories in LOT starts-a kayo aver
age of 1892.
Shuffling Joe has proved himself
the "figntingest'' champion the
heavyweight division has known.
He has never avoided a legitimate
Challenger, has not hand-picked
his opponents, and has faced any
body and everybody with even the
slightest pretensions to titular con-
sideration.
He has been the most active
champion i'll heavyweight history.
When he squares off against Billy
Conn in New York's Polo Grounds
the evening of June ID, he Will be
risking his title for the 18th time
in less than four years.
His only defeat in SO profess
sional bouts. that stunning upset
by Max Scfrmeiing in the Yankee
Stadium in 1886. was completely
wiped out in return match in
the same ring two years later.
when an aroused Louis registered
one of the quickest and most de-
cisive triumphs ever scored in
titular competition.
The Phoenix index., 1941-06-28
Death Notes

Mrs. Lou Franklin, 606 S. 9th
avenue passed last week The body
was funeralized Tuesday a. m
from 801 S. 7th avenue. j. T. Whit
ney funeral home in charge. She
was the wife of Tom Franklin. 9th
er survivors are two sons, one grand
daughter and a host of friends. She
had lived in Phoenix approximately
II years.
Mrs. Jennie Thomas Richardson,
of 910 E. jefferson passed Tuesday,
June 10. She was the wife of John
Richardson and the daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. G. M. Thomas. The
body was panegyrize Thursday,
June l9, from the East Lake Fu-
neral Home and carried Thursday
night to Wichita Falls, Texas by
her mother. Others surviving are
two sons, several brothers, a sister
and a number of friends.
Mrs. Ammonia Love passed. She
was a resident of Phoenix for II
years, 912 S. Jefferson street the
wife of Rev. Tommie T. Love, passed
WCuilCou1y IISllC, ouIlt 10, dJ ICI
home. The body was funeralized
Thursday, June 25 from Friendship
Baptist church, East Lake Funeral
Home in charge.
Col. L. A. Carter of Ft. Hauchuca.
Ariz., passed June IA, 1941. His body
was funeralized Thursday, June 10.
Surviving Mr.. Carter are his wife.
Mrs. Mary Carter and two sons,
Lewis A. Jr. and Booker Carter.
Mrs. Carter received a government
prior to Mr.. Carter's
death.
The Phoenix index., 1941-06-28
Home Dictionary
By MACK c. NANCE

Christian, (Anglo-SaxonD An Asp,
hiding behind breeches. coat and in
many cases a cowl. Distributors of
white supremacy. WorShippers OF
the almighty dollar. An opiate, gen.
orally used to place the bite upon
an unwary traveller. A curtain to
hide Villainy. A Queen of France,
on being led to the Guilotine to
have her head chopped off, remark
ed: ooh, what sins are committed
under the false veil of Liberty" 1t
can be said today, with high de-
gree of truthfulness; that great
sins have and are being committed
against God and Humanity under
the false veil of Christianity. The
victim of Anglo-Saxon Christianity
often sing You may have all the
World, Just give me Jesus" He (the
victimD generally wind up, in debt,
home mortgaged and no Jesus in
sight or hearing.
The Phoenix index., 1941-06-28
BEATING THE GUN
By Al Moses [ANP]

NEW YORK -(ANP)- Frank
Dixon. II year old Negro cross
country running star, for whom
This writer predicted a sensation
al career on the track sometime
back in March. was licked 20
yards by a local white runner
fortnight age in Randalls inland
stadium, in a 4.21 mile race-to
lis this defeat means absolutely
nothing. other than. valuable
racing experience for tho finest kid
diStance-racer America has turned
out since Leslie McMitchell was a
gangling Irish boy worder- Dixon
will one day race the mile faster
than any human ever has. is
our solemn belief. and whether he
WINS. or is LICKED, a half dozen
times in 421 mile contests between
now and the late summer Of 1943,
is wholly irrelevant and immater;al
10 this optimistic member of We
fourth estate--Any youngster who
can go cut and shoot full of h0les
one of the pet theories of the per-
RENAL Negrophobe (that a Negro
can't run above 44O YARDS. is
classy enough tC survive lickings
from MATURE WHITE MEN Cor
men of anv race or color for what
marteD, until the day that Ole
Professor Experience loans him
the book to read that will enable
him to. conquer all opposition.
Yeah, we're still sticking b.
our guns or what we predict for.
FRANK DIXON. Americas
5choolbov middle distance rhenom
ROSCOE TOLES, the brown boy
who figured to fill perfectly over
siZed l0rOgans that Joe Louis ambles
around the "a foot rOpcd en-
closure in, will be called to ARMY
DUTY sometime during August =
This news becomes increasingly
unimpCrtant to sport lovers except
for one factor. Jack Johnson
had hoped to have finger in steer
ing TOleS into Il wheeling spog
where fans and the press, would
demand a shot for Roscoe against
WhOmever would be the heavy
weight title holder.
Johnson has had nothing but
keen disappoint $50 has Jim JEFF
frieS), in his nominees for the
crown he once wore for seven
years. Big Bill" Hartwel (John-
son kayo conquerCr). Louis (ROX-
borough, Black and Blackburn
spoiled it for HIM, an ex-amateur
Golden Glover out of Detroit, and
lastly Roscoe ToleS. Toles possess
The Phoenix index., 1941-06-28
Baptists Hear
Walter White
By TASCHEREAU ARNOLD

HOUSTON, Texas - (SNS) -
Democracy has not failed any more
than Christianity" said Walter
White, executive secretary of the
NAACP, in a Stinging address on
the Booker T. Washington night
feature to delegates aeld visitors at
tending the annual session of the
Sunday School and BTU Congress
Friday night at the Coliseum.
DR.. Thomas S. Harten, vice presi-
dent-at-large of the National Bap-
tiSt Convention, Inc, and campaign
manager for the election of DR.. d.
V. Jemison, Selma, Ala, for the
presidency of the parent body
stated that DR.. JemiSon would be
elected at Cleveland, in September
DR.. Harten, Brooklyn, N. Y, and
pastor of Holy Trinity Baptist
Church, further stated that there
are several candidates in the field
but not one of them has had the
courage to come out and declare
themselves.
Mr.. White said further in his ad-
dress that Negroes are loyal Ameri-
cans. He told of our people being
turned away from jobs in Detroit
factories and being told they lacked
training while their alien, Nazi and
Communist neighbors reaped Eat
Jobs" in the Defense setup.
White urges the race to prepare
for jobs as skilled laborers for de-
fpp1co Tn onnnootin,, xt,itk, +l,ic ta
predicted startling but heartening
news for colored people throughout
the United States within the next
48 to 70 hours, which would come
from Washington, D. G.
In his climax, he warned that the
outlook was dark, not only for Ne
groeS, but for all Americans; but
that Negroes must not lose faith in
the abilities of 100000 members of
the race in America to conquer all
obstacles.
Negroes don't want to be on re-
lief anymore than any other race
he shouted. He said some white men
in Texas have no respect for the
laws they help to make as he re-
ferred to a Negro being shot to
death in a court house of Texas by
white man.
Mordecai johnson, president, How
ard University, Washington, D. c.,
was booked to deliver an address,
but he wired from Atlanta that his
physician advised against completing
the trip to Houston because of
serious throat ailment. His tele-
gram was read by President Jerna-
gin; thereupon prayer was offered
for DR.. Johnson upon the sugges-
ton of DR.. j. M. Nabrit, secretary
OF the National Baptist Convention,
Inc, by DR.. Williams, Birmingham,
Ala.
Rev. J. E. Jordan, pastor of Little
Friendship Baptist Church, Atlanta,
rated the Congress session as being
the greatest in history.
National Negro Freedom Day Sun
day, July 6, to finance a 100000
National Negro Lobby in Washing
ton, d. G. by March of a Million
Dimes on the Capital" received the
enthusiastic endorsement of 5000
church workers attending the Con-
greSS.
The Phoenix index., 1941-06-28

Billy Miller ct al; sometime there
after. we'd run into Toles with 9
gay blade of Harlem's night clubs
named. "Cadillac Kelly. rated a
rather tough sort of citizen by a
number of folk who seem TO know
just where niceness ends and So
called toughness begins C???;
Kelly saw that Toles kept well
supplied with peach colored
damsels fer which Harlem is we'll
known; 1t was at this point that
Toles gave New York's over-filled
Black Belt the well known 60 bye
and lit out for the city Hank Ford
put on the map in more WAYS than
one:-His fight with Adamick sky
ricketed him to the new headlines
just as the Trammel joust power
dived him to the fistic cavernS of
failurc-Now the army has sober
lad who might inside a year come
back to the ring and win some
thing many folk believe him destin-
ed TO own.
The Phoenix index., 1941-06-28
Ministers Return

Rev. E. j. Jacobs, pastor of CAL
vary Baptist Church and vice
moderator of Salt River Valley Dist
rict Association and Rev. j. H. Pay
ton, pastor of Antioch Baptist
Church and moderator of Salt River
Valley District Association return
ed home last week after attending
the National BYPU and Sunday
School Congress which convened in
Chicago, III. Each report a wonder
full session. Rev. Payton, also at
tended the extol of one of his
brothers-in-law who passed while
he was there.
The Phoenix index., 1941-06-28
NAACP Names
Ten For Award

NEW YORK - (SNS - Three
women and seven men are this
years winners of the merit award
given annually by the NAACP to
the persons who have contributed
most unselfishly and actively to the
work of the Association during the
year
The ten winners will be presented
with their awards at the Saturday
morning and final meeting of the
NAACP 32nd annual conference
which opened Tuesday, June "a in
Houston, Texas.
They are Mrs. Lille M. jackson of
Baltimore. Md; j. L. LeFlore,
Mobile, Ala; Mrs. Gertrude B.
Stone, Washington, D. c.; DR.. James
). McClendon, Detroit, Mich; DR..
John A. Singleton, Jamaica, N. Y:
G. F. Porter, Dallas, Texas; Miss
Eta Stanton, Talladega College.
Talladega, Ala; George B. Muir
ply, Sr., Baltimore, Md; Levi S.
BYRD, Cheraw, S. c.; DR.. Allen F.
jackson, Hartford, Conn.
The Phoenix index., 1941-06-28
Birthday Party

Bobbie Braggs, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. E, A. Braggs of Matthew Hen
sons apartment, 808 S. 7th avenue,
formerly of Detroit, Mich, cele-
brated his fifth birthday from 3
p. m. to 6 p. m. Sunday, June IS.
The invited guests were: Thomas
HudSpeth, Lawrence and Ethel Mae
Price, Theodore, Hazel and Mil
dred Green, Junior, Kenney and
Shirley Grimes, Keith and Claudio
Gloria Tavern Jones and Gerald
Crawford, Jr. Cake and ice cream,
punch, candy and peanuts were
served. Each guest received candy
with movie stars picture as SOU
venirS and news COMICS After re-
freshments were served Mrs. Braggs
took the kiddies to st. Monica s
Mission to the playground.