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Kodiak mirror., 1942-05-16
WalIoce Predicts

New York (P) - Vice -presid- ent Wallace predicts that the Axis will strike "a last desperate blow this summer, and said this might include a Japanese attack on Alaska and the Northern United States with a simultane- ous German uprising in Latin America.
 We may be sure that Hitler and Japan will cooperate to do the unexpected-perhaps an attack by Japanese againest AL aska at a time when German transport planes can be shuttled across from Dakar to furnish leadership and stiffening to a German uprising in Latin Amer ica.'
 Wallace predicted the worst kind of fifth column activities in Latin America.
Kodiak mirror., 1942-05-16
Map Making
 Season Begun

(SpeciaD- Further progress toward the accurate mapping of Alaska's area will be made by surveyors from the US Coast and Geodetic survey who are now outftting at Fairbanks in preparation for the seasons work.
 The work will employ about forty men in the field Personnel and equipment will be transport ed by trucks along the Richard on highway but a great deal of back-packing nd "shanks mare" travel will be necessary to get to the stations which will be located. '
 Triangulation is the process of estabHshinga a network of stations or control points whose geo. graphical position and locations, with respect to each other are precisely determined. This net work, together with a network of points whose exact heights a. bove sea level Is measured, will form the basis for accurate topo- graphic maps which will be made later. This work is vital, not only for military purposes, but for general and geopogical sur veying and prospecting.
 In addition to the triangulation and traverse work, another in teresting scientific job, involving, among other things, the use of "bent" telescope and a radio time signal from far away An napolis, Maryland, will be done by the Coast and Geodetic sur vey engineers. This will be the precise determination of longi- tude; latitude; and azimutb, or true direction, at various points in the area where the parties are working.
Kodiak mirror., 1942-05-16
Reserve Officers

Juneau-On acceptance of hls resignation and separation from military service, a former reserve officer. must register with Selec-
Kodiak mirror., 1942-05-16
Weeks News t1ighIighfsY

tive Service, John L. McCoEm- ick. Territorial Director of Selec- tive Service, pointed out to day.
Evening star., 1942-07-14

lege, and the Red Cross water safety
course. He went to Carlisle Bar
racks after completing basic train
ing at Camp Lee, Va.
Several Go to Miami Beach.
From the Officer Training School
at the Army Air Forces Technical
Training Command, Miami Beach,
Fla, come the following announce
ments of men from this area who
are receiving training at the school,
who were commissioned directly
from civilian life:
Maj. Milton K Lockwood, Mount
Vernon, Va, former consulting
valuation engineer; Capt. Marshall
o. Exnicios, 1909 Sixteenth street
NV, formerly associated with the
Ferris Exnicios Co; Capt. William
J. O'Connor, 1900 S. Barton street,
Arlington, Va. former architect;
First Its. Branch D. Elam. Kens-
ington, Md, former architect; Ed
win B. Haakinson, 4930 Sherrier
place NV, former newspaperman;
Alfred D. Curradi, 2306 Thirty
eighth street NV. former construc-
ton engineer for the National Park
Service; Charles F. Stack, former
administrator and geographic ex-
pert in the Office of Price Admins
tration; Alfred H. c. Allen, 1924
Eighth street, Arlington, Va, former
district manager for Lee Tire and
Rubber Co, and Albert A. Ady,
Md, former editor.
Enrolling last week at KeesIer
Field, Miss, in the Army Air Forces
Technical School course for sirplane
mechanics were six young men from
Evening star., 1942-07-14

Air Corps during the World Wal
and served with the AEF IA months
His son, who becomes 10 years old
tomorrow, will enlist in the Army
as an aviation cadet the same day
having passed his examinations
last month.
HerscheI Commissioned.
X. Winslow Herschel, son of Mr..
and Mrs. Winslow Hobart Herschel,
6305 Florida street, Chevy Chase,
Md, has completed the fight course
at the Naval Air Station at Jack
sonville, Fla, and has been COM
missioned second lieutenant in the
Marine Corps, the Navy announced
yesterday.
He is graduate of Dartmouth
and attended the Harvard School
of Business Administration. He
took primary fight training at
Floyd Bennett Field in New York.
Two Washington men have re-
ported for training at Fort Knox,
KY. They are Pvt. Ronald E. Long
necker, son of Mrs. Myrtle M. Long
necker Of the National Homeopathic
Hospital of this city. who has en-
tered the armored force school tank
department, and Pvt. Leo J. Nc
Donald, 1927 Columbia road NV,
who has reported to the wheeled
vehicle department OF the school.
At the Carlisle (Pa) Medical Field
Service School, the promotion Of
John George Klein, jr., 171s Irving
street NV, to the grade Of sergeant
was announced by headquarters
Sergt Klein is graduate of Central
High School. Temple Business Col
Evening star., 1942-07-14
More Washingtonians
Get Commissions in
u. ). Armed Forces
Son Of Judge Madden
Storts FinoI Training
As Army Air Cadet

More Washington men have re-
ceived commissions in the Armed
Forces and others are beginning
officer training courses at camps
throughout the nation.
Robert L. Madden. son of Judge
J. Warren Madden. of the United
States Court of Claims. and Mrs.
Madden of Mclean, Va, has re-
ported at the Lubbock Army Flying
School, Lubbock. Tex, for final
training as an Army Air Force Fly
ing Officer. Cadet Madden began
his training in February at Tulsa,
Okla Before he entered the Army.
Mr.. Madden was an advertising
man. He was graduated from the
University of Pittsburgh.
Kenneth S. Wales. president of
K. S. Wales Co., Inc, has been
commissioned lieutenant COM
mander in the Naval Reserve and
will go on active duty tomorrow. He
was a second lieutenant In the Army
Evening star., 1942-07-14
.WPB Bans Manufacture
OF Pari-MutueI Machines
b. the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The War Production Board yester-
day added more than $50 civilian ar
ticles ranging from crochet hooks to
pari-mutuel machines to the list of
those whose manufacture Is prohib-
tied by the iron and steel conserva-
ton order.
Production of some of the articles
for civilian use already had been
halted by another order which lin
tied deliveries of iron and steel to
manufacturers holding military
priority ratings.
The new group of banned articles
Is set forth in a list which supple
ments the previous long tabulation
OF articles in which iron and steel
Is prohibited. A manufacturer of
items on the supplementary list is
allowed 80 days to fabricate iron and
steel for these purposes, but may not
use more than IS per cent by weight
OF the average monthly amount of
Evening star., 1942-07-14

all metals he used last year. As
sembly of the processed metal is
permitted for an additional 30
days.
The new list includes automobile
heaters. ball park equipment, barber
and beauty shop supplies, shoe
buckles, merry -go-rounds, animal
cases, containers for cosmetics,
crochet hooks, desk sets. reducing
machines. garden tools, magic Ian
terms, many items of hospital equip
ment, ironing boards, key cases, dog
Evening star., 1942-07-14

Washington who came from Fort
Meade. Md. and Camp Lee. Va,
They are: Pvts. Robert A. Genau,
825 North Capitol street. Ray S.
Dunn, jr., 3725 Macomb street NV;
Albert r. Ardinger. 2700 Wisconsin
avenue; Ferdinand P. Grabner, s
Hillyer Court NV: Nick J. Charu-
has. 419 o street S.W.: and Stanley
S. CARRIER, 2806 Cathedral avenue.
Evening star., 1942-07-14
Girl Wife, IS, Is Held
In Tennessee Sluyinq
By tire Associated Press,


JASPER, Tenn. July 14.-Mrs
Lillian McNabb Parsons, 15-year-
old wife of mountain youth her
own age, remained in Jail here today
on a charge of murder-the after
math Of what officers described as
a regular gun battle"
Mrs. Parsons was arrested Satur-
day night by Hamilton County Pa
trolmen Claud Capley and H. H.
Parker and charged with the slay-
ing Of Hollis Redmond, 20, killed
by a charge from a 20-gauge shot
gun. The shooting occurred in the
mountainous Suck Creek region on
the Hamilton Marion County line.
Officers quoted Mrs. Parsons as
saying Redmond slapped her after
she had accused him of hi -jacking"
a quantity OF whisky.
A preliminary hearing was set for
tomorrow.
Evening star., 1942-07-14

chains and collars, race track ap-
paratus including mutuel machines,
siphon charges, swimming pool
equipment. lawn tools, trunks. UNI
brella shafts. vanity cases and
weather VaneS.
Evening star., 1942-07-14
Egypt Buys Cereals

To prevent a shortage Of cereals,
the Egyptian government will pur-
chase 100000 tons Of wheat from
the wears crop
Evening star., 1942-07-14

Let Uncle Sam borrow. today not
tomorrow. buy War bonds.
Arkansas State press., 1942-05-08

many tintes before, only on those
other times he had been no handy
victim on circumstance to make
visible or dramatic his will to kill.
His crime seemed natural, he felt
that all his life had been leading
to something like this. 1t was
no longer a matter of dumb wond
Ell as to what would happen to him
and his black skin; he knew now.
The hidden meaning of his life Z.
a meaning which others did not
see and which he had always tried
to hide-he spilled out. No; it
was no accident, and he would
never say that it was. There was
in him a kind Of terrified pride
day he would be able to say pub
liely that he had done it. 1t was
as though he had an obscure but
in feeling and thinking that some
deep debt to fulfill to himself in
accepting the deed.
Continued next week.
Arkansas State press., 1942-05-08

"Words are like fine clay in a
poets hands
To be sculptured and nodded into
rhyme
And even though he creates an
intangible thing
It's beauty lives on through time"
Rey l.. Gillespie
Arkansas State press., 1942-05-08

someday he would be eating in jail.
Here he was sitting with them
and they did not know that he had
murdered a white s1ll and cut
her head off and burnt her body,
The thought of what he had done,
the awful horror Of it, the daring
associated with such actions, form
ed for him for the first time in
lis fear ridden life barrier Of
protection between him and world
he feared He had murdered and
had created a new life for him
self. 1t was something that was
all his own, and it was the first
time in his life he had anything
that others could not take from
him. Yes, he could sit here
calmly and eat and not be con-
eerned about what his family
thought or did. He had a natural
wall from behind which he could
anchor weighing him safely in
look at them. His crime was an
time; it added to him a certain
confidence which his gun and
knife did not. He WAS outside of
his family now, over and beyond
them; they We're incapable of
even thinking that he had done
such deed. And he had done
something which even he had not
thought possible.
Though he had killed by acct
dent, not onse did he feel the need
to tell himself that it had been
an accident. He was black and
he had been alone in a room
where "a white girl had been
killed; therefore he had killed her.
That was what everybody would
say anyhow, not matter what he
said. And in a certain sense he
knew that the girls death had not
been accidental. He had killed
Arkansas State press., 1942-05-08
Remember
Pearl HarbOr


by Rey l.. Gillespie
dedicated to Private Robert II
Brooks the Negro soldier, who
was the first American casualty
REMEMBER the place called
Pearl Harbor
Far out in the Pacific Sea
Remember the place called Pearl
Harbor
Belongs to the Land of the Free.
Remember the men who died there
Have not given their lives in vain
Remember that their comrades
here
Have paid homage 10 their name.
REMEMBER the quiet Pearl Har-
Dor
That bounded the West and the
East.
Remember the attack on Pearl
Harbor nx
Came while eur nation was al
peace. a.
Remember the dawn Of that morn
ing
And those vultures from out Of
the night.
Remember they struck without
Arkansas State press., 1942-05-08

ese into a race of aristocrats; not
superior race OF intolerant snobs,
but a civilized race Of courteous
gentlemen. He himself treated the
prince and the pauper with equal
courtesy the prince for tie
majesty of his rank, and the pau
per for the nobility of his suf-
fering. He came many hundred
years before our Christ. The gold
en- rule of Confucius; what you
would not have done to yourself,
40 not to Others" five hundred
years later, became the golden
rule of Christ with the words
slightly changed but conveying the
same meaning. Today the books
Of Confueius are as popular in
China as the Bible is in the West.
Confucius, like Christ, has become
Col the very thing he tried so
hard TO avoid.
Most of US know the Chinese
people only from the standpoint
of laundryman on chop suey mer-
chant. What a sad commentary on
our race as historians The story
Of China began with creation. but
as far "a the average Negroes &c
quaintance with its history be-
gins is when he carts some dirty
linen in a Chinese laundry and re-
ceives ticket in exchange, or
when he purchases an order Of egg
foo yong. OF the japanese, we
know less. which amounts to
naught. yet we believe they are eur
sincere friends and that they are
directly OF indirectly fighting white
supremacy in our behalf. How do
we get that way about Japan?
When the late Ambassador Sal
to was asked by a prominent
Washington Negro regarding the
opinion of the japanese people on
the colored American, the ambas-
sador pondered a while, thumped
his pencil on his desk and replied;
"No national unity, no flag, no
consequence"
Arkansas State press., 1942-05-08
CHAPTER lith

Jaw, leave me alone, | got to
pack"
He knew that his mother was
waiting for him to give an account
Of himself and he hated her for
that. Why couldn't she wait un-
til he told her of his own accord :?
And yet he knew that il she wait
ed, he would never tell her.
"You get the job2" "Yeahn
"What are thdy naying yoef'
Twenty.
you started already ?" yeah
"When ?" Last night"
4 wondered what made you SC
late"
81 bad to work." he drawled
with impatienee.
you didn't get in until after
four" He turned and looked al
her.
81 got in at two."
sit was after four, Bigger, u
she said, turning and stfainine
her eyes to look at an alarm clock
above her head. 81 tried to wait
up for you, but ! couldn't. When
] heard you come in, | looked up
at the clock and it was after four.
81 knew when ! got in Ma. u
"But, Bigger, it was after four"
at was just a little after two. "
"Oh. Lord; If you wan it two,
then let it he two, for all care.
You act like you scared of some
thing"
"Now, what you want to start
a fuss for?' "a fuss, Boy -
Before | get out of bed, you
pick on me-"
Bigger, Pm not picking on
you, honey, Pm glad you got the
Arkansas State press., 1942-05-08
Foreign
Scene
Continued from Page s.

outpost of the young Russian state
and Tartar peoples settled down
to pursuits of peace in its fertile
valley.
As an indispensable artery, this
year the Volga assumes added
Importance. When her bosom
divcsts itself on treacherous ice
foes and jams, millions Of tons
of oil, food, grain, fruit, coal, etc.
will sweep up and around her
bends between her majestic cliffs
to feed them and give added pow
err to the Soviet front.
What tremendous possibilities
the present year of 1912 holds for
mankind! This year can be made
the year of world deliveranee from
the Hitler and Mussolini fascist
plague and rescue of millions of
humanity from the privations and
suffering of war.
; This year must see the COM
plete smashing of the enemy"
declared the Soviet international
LABOR day May | slogan. And why
not? Why not smash German
Italian fascism this year and thus
prevent these international bandits
prolonging their murder, plumber
and bestial crimes into next year?
This year holds forth long await
ed opportunities and hopes; these
should not be allowed to slip by
without being taken advantage Of
to the fullest and used to the ut
most for destruction Of that Ease
ism which has already run amuck
and unpunished too long in the
world.
Arkansas State press., 1942-05-08
Loves Aftermath

On the ashes of dying love
There grew friendship true
And it blossomed forth into a
beautiful thing
Because the both of us well knew
That even flower that just lives
To spread a fragrance rare
Will in its time droop and die
And leaves its stem stark bare.
.ssis4ss
We thought of love as people
meet
After their passions have cooled
And laughed at the emotion that
We knew
First caused US to he fooled.
For any love no matter how great
Can change like tickle mood.
And when it's through if turned
about
Friendship can be renewed.
Arkansas State press., 1942-05-08
4.
sa2ekIh;a|

lsa2 Is = KEY YEAR
" Years. u may e,n
q the Biblical Year u
hmaeeddsh uhea. &C. |
''fdlns to pfspheey. all |
me nations u The world
would be II was.
NhAr DOES TINE ~.
Arkansas State press., 1942-05-08

warning
Those Japs in cowardly fight,
Remember before Pearl Harbor
Closed shops and the picket line.
Remember before Pearl Harbor
A defense effort tagging behind
Remember that after Pearl Har
Dor
Our nation began to get strong.
Remember Remember Pearl Har.
Dor"
Became Americas Fighting song
Arkansas State press., 1942-05-08
"Native Son"
BY Richard Wright

"oh Bigger said Vera, tend
efly and plaintively,
THAT boy jus. amt got no
sense, that's all the mother said
"lle won't even speak a decent
word to you"
Turn your head so can dress"
Vera said.
Bigger looked out Of the win
dow, He heard someone say, Jaw"
and he knew that Buddy was
awake,
"Turn your head, Buddy Vera
said. so, r."
Bigger heard his sister rushing
into her clothes. "You can look
now" Vera said.
He saw Buddy sitting up in bed,
rubbing his eyes, Vera was sit
ting on the edge of chair, with
her right foot hoisted upon an
other chair buekling her shoes.
Bigger stared yaeantly in her di-
-rection, He wished that he could
rise up through the ceiling and
float away from this room, for
ever
" ! Wish you wouldn't look at
me-" Vera said.
"Hunh ?" said Bigger, looking in
surprise at her pouting lips. Then
he noticed what she meant and he
poked out his lips at her. Quickly,
she jumped up and threw one of
her shoes at him. 1t sailed past
his head and landed against the
window, rafting the panes.
Il told you not to look at mel"
Vara screamed. Bigger stood up,
his eyes red with anger. 81 just
wish you had hit me-" he said.
"You, Vera!" the mother called
Ma, make i'm stop looking at me-"
Vera walled.
Wasn't nobody looking at her."
Bigger said.
"You looked under my dress,
when ] was buttoning my shoes"
Il just wish you had hit me-
Bigger said again. 81 amt no
dog Vera said.
Come on in the kitchen and
dress, Vera" the mother said.
"He makes me feel like a dog"
Vera sobhed with her face buried
in her hands, going behind the
curtain.
"Boy," said Buddy, 81 tried to
keep awake until you got in last
night, but | couldn't. | had to go
to bed at three. | was so sleepy |
could hardly keep my eyes open.
" | was here before them" Big
ger said. Jaw, nav! | got up ;"
81 know when | got in" They
looked at each other in silence.
20. X" Buddy said.
Bigger was uneasy. He felt that
he was not handling himself right.
"You get the job?" Buddy asked
"Yeah.' Driving ?" "Yeah.'
"What kind of car is it," "a
Buick"
Can ! ride with you some
time?" "Sure, soon as ! get set
led"
Buddy's questions made him feel
a little more at ease; he always
liked the alteration Buddy showed |
him.
Gee, that's the kind of job |
want" Buddy said. ITS easy
Arkansas State press., 1942-05-08

Eben msisri Ten years. but you can cash the Bonds
any time after 60 days from issue date Naturally the
longer you hold Bonds. 10 years. the more money
you'll get back But you'll get less than you put in
Hbsf bs issrsa rsts' When held to maturity the Bonds
yield 2,9 percent per year your investment. com.
pounded semiannusllyyou get back 81 for every s..
This Is guaranteed By the United States Government
Arkansas State press., 1942-05-08
A Negro Thinks
Aloud

don't resent the fact that I'm a
Negro
Handicapped because I'm black
Or because some think my race
should carry
The burden Of mental labor on Its
'''N' s.; u
l don't resent the implications
That are heard from time to time
Simply because the chains Of my
fathers
Were slave chains and not like
mine.
resent most forms Of racial
segregation
Not because it hurts my pride
But because in many instances
1t il hatred trying to hide
4 resent the kind Of prejudice
That forgets that we're all men
And because Of my color disregards
me
Yet insults me when it can.
love the pages Of Negro history
And the great lessons they have
taught
That even though nation I'M
chained people
Their real freedom was indivi-
dually bought
BY sacrifice and education
While together they had to gain,
A greater knowledge of their
problems
So their emancipation would not
be in vain.
Arkansas State press., 1942-05-08

JNhs
"You don't ak like it,"
Gle felt that his acting in this
manner was mistake, If lie kept
ON talking about the time he had
pptten in IL nitht, he Would
so impress it upon her that she
would remember it and perhaps
say something later on Il at
would hurt him. He turned away
and continued packing. lie had
to do better than this, he had to
control himself.
"You want to eat?" "Yeahn.
an fix you something" so X
"You going to stay on the
place? "Yeah."
He heard her getting out OF
bed; hut he did not dare look a.
round now. lie had to keep his
head turned while she dressed.
"IIow you like the people, Rig
ger?' "They all right"
"You don't act like you glad
ooh, Ma For Chissakes! You
want me to efy!"
Bigger, sometimes | wonder
what makes you act like ou do"
He had spoken in wrong
tone of voice; he had ,o ~ care
full. He fought down. the anger
rising in him. He waS in trouble
enough without getting ints a
fuss with his mother. \
You got /eood job, now' his
mother said, "You ought to work
hard and keep it and try to make
a man out OF yourself. Some say
you'll want to get married and
have a home of your own. You
got your chance now. You al
ways said you never had chance.
Now, you got one"
He heard her move about and
he knew that she was dressed en-
cugh for him TO turn around. He
strapped the suitcase and set it
by the door; then he stood at the
window, looking wistfury out at
the feathery flakes of falling
snow
Bigger, what's wrong with
your" He whifled.
'No.ling," he said, wondering
what change she saw in HIM.
that's all" he continued, feeling
that even if he did say something
wrong he had to fight her Of i'm
now. He wondered just how his
words really did sound. Was the
tome of his voice this morning diff
ferent from other mornings?
Was there something unusual in
his voice since he had killed
Mary? Could people tell he had
done something wrong BY the way
he acted? He saw his mother
shake her head and go behind the
curtain to prepare breakfast. He
heard a yawn; he looked and saw
that Vera was leaning On her ell
bow, smiling at him.
"You get the job" yeah"
Glow much you making ?"
"Aw Vera. Ask Ma, ! done told
her everything"
"Goodyl Bigger got a job sang |
Vera. cav, shut up" he said.
Leave him alone, Vera" the
mother said. "What the matter?'
whats the matter with i'm |
all the time?" asked the mother |
Arkansas State press., 1942-05-08

| EDITORS NOTE; Here are
three poems from the pen OF
Rey L. Gillespie, who Is a poet
and writer. Young, brilliant
and well educated. Mr.. Giles
pie is fast becoming one of the
most outstanding men in the
field of journalism. His novel
"Three Generations of Free
dom" is scheduled for publ
cation in the fall.