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The War Fronts

1TALY-RAF heavy bombers
plaster Genoa in a blow aimed
at the tottering Fascist mo-
rale. page l.
GUADALCANAL ISLAND
Americans repulse Jap at
tackS with heavy enemy
losses. page l.
EGYPT-Allied bag of prisoners
rises to 10000; $50 tanks and
400 gins taken; British adj
Vancing at rate Of 40 miles a
day: remnants of five Italian
divisions being corralled; Ber-
lin hints Rommel may have
been taken prisoner. page L.
New American-made General
Sherman tanks. said TO be the
worlds best, are in action.
page p
RUSSIA-Red Army using ar
mored trains in Nalchik zone
of Caucasus: hurts foe back
In Stalingrad; keeps initiative
near Black Sea naval base Of
TuapSe. page p Premier
Stain says Allies will open a
second front sooner or later"
page 2
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RAF E.saSIreS Genoa.
ROrnlnel Supply Port

LONDON. Nov. 7 CUP).-A
strong formation of Raj bombers,
smashing at Italy TO undermine
Fascist morale and hamper efforts
TO reinforce the hard pressed
North African Axis forces, raided
Genoa again last night, it was an
nounced today.
An air ministry communique
said Large fires were left burn
ing" at the important Italian port.
The raid was said TO have been
concentrated and successful.
Only two of the force of heavy
bombers that made the 1,500-mile
round-trip flight across the Alps
failed 10 return.
1t was the first time the big
Raj planes had been out on a
night mission since October "a,
when they wound up a series OF
four raids in three days on north
ern 1talys industrial triangle.
Genoa, the chief port Of embar-
kation for Axis reinforcements
bound for Tripoli and North AT
RIGA, was bombed October % and
%, when widespread destruction
was admitted by the Italian radio.
Huge four-engined planes. in
Guiding Strings and Lancasters,
which carry up TO seven tons of
bombs, battered Genoa in another
cascade raid" They flew through
difficult weather conditions going
to and from Italy, but over Genoa
conditions were described as good
The bombers lighted their tar
gets with huge fires started by in
|cendiary bombs. 1t was believed
that they had saturated the ground
defenses, putting most of the anti
aircraft batteries out Of action
because only two planes were lost
The Raj flight 10 Italy followed
a smashing daylight raid yester'
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ITALIANS ISOLATED

In the southern sector, five Ital-
ian divisions had been isolated and
their retreat cut off, leaving them
without gasoline, food or ammu-
milton supplies.
These units are the Folgore.
Brescia. Trento. Bologna and
Trieste divisions of the Italian
army, abandoned by their German
colleagues, who were leading the
race toward the Libyan border.
The five divisions had ceased re-
sistance and were waiting to be
taken prisoner by the British,
whose rapid advance had carried
them we'll beyond the Italian posi-
tions.
Front dispatches indicated that
Tt. Gen. Bernard l.. Montgomery
British Eighth Army had driven
the demoralized Axis desert forces
west Of Matruh, los miles from
Alamein, where the Allies broke
through the enemy's mine fields
only three days ago.
Allied air forces were harassing
the Axis legions as they fled pell-
nell toward Libya. They were
engaged in almost continuous low
level bombing and strafing attacks
lGoE.Al......l
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Industry
All Over i. 5.
Faces Tiieup
WLB Pledges Action
as MESA Threatens
TO Call Out 10000

The tool and die industry, key
stone and frequently cited bottle
neck of American armament pro-
duction, was threatened with
paralyzation today as the Me-
chanics Educational Society OF
America declared the first author.
lied wartime strike.
Eight thousand members were
out.
Fifteen plants. including the
munitions-important Eureka Va
CUM Cleaner Company, the Nash
Kelvinator Corporation and the
Michigan Tool Company, ,wsre
idle.
AUTHORIZED BY MESA.
All Is are engaged on war Cor
tracts.
The strike, termed a labor hol-
iday" by MESA officials. was au-.
thorized by the MESA executive
board. said Matthew Smith, the
union president, because of a quar-
rel with the UAW-CIO as tow6O
should organize 300 maintenanee
workers at the Briggs Manufac-
turing Company.
Smith said the MESA members
would not return to work until
law and order is restored to De-
troit," and threatened to call out
the entire national membershipu
which he estimated at 60,000,e 10
join the labor holiday"
He said 10000 memberS In 40
Cleveland and. Toledo plants would
walk out at once if the disputs
here was not settled at once.
wLB TO ACT
In Washington, a War Laboo
Board official promised "strona
and immediate action by the VILE
He declined to say what Sction
would be taken but saidsh would
be swift, impartial and sure"
Army and navy officials declined
comment.
That the strike was not popular
with at least some of the members
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War Plant Blast Kills 7

ROCHESTER, n. Y, Nov. Z
uNS) .-FBI agents investigating
the explosion which rocked the
Rochester Fireworks Company
plant near East Rochester late
yesterday causing the death of
seven women employees. today ten
tatively termed the blast ecci-
dental.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-07
Ferguson Coat eSS
Senator-EIect's Heavy Winter Garment Is Stolen
but He Plans No Grand Jury inquiry

Senator-elect Homer Ferguson,
who just weathered stormy
political campaign. was left with
out an overcoat TO weather the
winter storms as the wrap was
stolen today from the county
building corridor.
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Florida Storm Sweeps TO Sea

MIAMI, Fla, Nov. Z QNS).-A
tropical storm, apparently greatly.
diminished in intensity, was be-
lieved to have moved TO sea today
after changing its course and
passing across the central Cuba
mountains last NIGHT.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-07
GERMAN PORT HIT

The air ministry said the giant
Lancaster bomberS which attacked
OSnabruck used a low cloud bank
as a cover. 1t said Wellington
bomberS raidcd a port in North
west Germany.
Two hundred Spitfire fighters
were reported over France yester-
day noon. American pilots were in
cluded in that raiding party that
attacked targets from Boulogne 10
Cherbourg. American-built Doug
las Boston bombers raided the
German-held airfield at Caen,
France.
Other bomber command planes
attacked enemy shipping in Dutch
harborS.
Three British planes are missing
from the daylight activities.
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81 plan no grand jury inyesti-
CATION" grinned the onc-man
graft-buSter.
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Germans Hint
.Ronnnne| May
Be Prisoner
$4,000 Italians
Cut Of From Nazis
Ready to Surrender

CAIRO, Nov. 7 tUPls-Allied
desert. forces, smashing the bat
tered Axis armies toward the
Libyan frontier. have captured
more than 10000 prisoners, the
British announced today, While
upwards of $1,000 Italians, isa-
lated on the southern battlefront,
were ready TO surrender.
Todays communique of British
Middle East headquarters said the
Allied forces. pursuing the routed
enemy across the Egyptian desert
al a rate of 40 miles a day, had
captured $50 tanks, 400 guns and
thousands of vehicles in addition
10 the 10000 prisoners already
taken.
Berlin radio pointed out that
Field Marshal Erwin Rommel,
commander of the AXIS North
African armies. might have
been taken prisoner. There
were no Allied reports sub
Stimulating this German specu-
lation. which suggested that
Germany was uncertain of his
whereabouts
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-07
z Tots lay
With Fire Die;
Mother Held
Husband Accused
of Trying TO Kill Her
for Leaving Them

A young mother who was at
tending a neighborhood party
while her two young children
burned 10 death at home is a
police prisoner today in Eloise
Hospital.
Also in Eloise, suffering from
shock, is her husband who tried
to get into his burning home 10
find a shotgun and kill his wife
after learning Of the tragedy,
police said.
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The Weather

The sun win set st s.ls D. m. todavs
and rise tomorrow al STA a. m.
The uoOd viii set 1T $50 D. M. todav.
and rise TOMORROW at 1851.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-07

day on OSnabruck. the great indus
trial center in Northwest Ger
many. and widespread daylight
raids over other areas of Germany,
France and the Low Countries.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-07
AT DRINKING PARTY

The mother is Mrs. Elizabeth
Bender. II. of 1905 Wildwood
road. who was at drinking party
at nearby home, said County De-
tective Joseph limerick. when
Richard Bender, A, and Helen, 8,
died in fire that they apparently
caused playing with matches.
A 13-year-old stepbrother of
the dead children, whom Mrs.
Bender repeatedly left to take care
of the other four Bender children.
went to the neighbours home and
told his stepmother that the house
was burning.
Efforts Of neighbors, firemen
and the mother to rescue the chill
dren were fruitleSS. Two rooms
of the four-room house were de-
stroyed.
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TELLS OF PREVIOUS FIRE

Fire Chief Henry Gaudy said that
a week before, while the mother
was also away. the children had
set fire 10 q mattress in the bed
room, but that the flames had
been put out.
Joseph Bender. father Of the
children, was called from his work
in war plant.
"He tried to get a shotgun
from the ruins to shoot his wife,
whom he said he had warned
about leaving the children"
said limerick. I've took the gun
away"
Mrs. Bender is recovering from
burns sustained when she tried to
reach the children. She is held in
custody. pending investigation.
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Dance PARTNERS FURNIsHEu

ACKNOWLEDGMENT at Willis
Learn to Dance--20 Lessons IS
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In the Times TODAY

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General Sbermans Unveiled
10 Crush Na=is in Egypt
Read About Them on Page 2
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-11-13

an aid to those who will file pro-
tests. The joint committee also ad-
vised that all letter writers incor-
porate a demand that our boys en-
tering the armed services who are
being sent to southern camps, be
protected against the discrimina-
ton and intimidation perpetrated
upon them by prejudiced southern
whites.
A committee of women has been
formed in both Minneapolis and St.
Paul, the members of which will
stimulate the filing of protests by
local citizens by contracting the par
ents of service men and other civic
minded individuals.
Clarence W. Wigington, Chair
man of the Twin Cities Service
Mems Council, forwarded a vigor-
Gus protest to President Roosevelt,
copies of which were sent to the
Secretary of War and Minnesota
Congressman. Ex-service mems or
CARNATIONS in the two cities and
other groups are uniting with the
joint committee in the all out effort
to organize this mass protest move
ment. Reverend Benjamin Moore,
president of the st. Paul branch of
the NAACP is chairman.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-11-13

Union, an organization of Negro
and white sharecroppers in the
South. AS national president of
that organization from 1885 to
1912, he was leader in the strug-
gle for the rights of sharecroppers
against planters law and in the
fight against job and vote discrim-
nation against the Negroes.
Besides supporting the Pepper
Geyer anti-poll tax bill, Mr.. Butler
is in favor of more funds for the
Presidents Committee on Fair En-
ployment Practice to fight discrim-
nation against all minorities, and
a program of settling manpower
shortages by ending discrimination.
Mr.. Butler will address the Com
mittee on Civil Rights at the Uni
versity of Minnesota Friday after
noon. At s p. m. Friday night he
will address a home meeting at
1896 France Ave. &c., Minneapolis.
sergeants in the service with an
excellent rating as he has. He is
stationed with the 923rd Engineer
Regiment.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-11-13
Crispus Attacks
Assn Election of
Officers Nov. II
BACK u

The annual meeting and election
of officers of the Crispus Attacks
Home Association will be held at
the Halle Q. Brown Community
House on Tuesday, November II,
at 8 p. m. All members who are in
terested in the welfare of Crispus
Attacks Home are urged to be pres
ent to help elect and be elected to
the various offices.
The following organizations hav-
ing active membership, paid for
this year, are urged to see that
their representatives attend this
meeting: Crcdjafawn Social Club,
Criterion Art Club, Postal Alliance,
Women's Auxiliary to the Postal
Alliance, Saint Paul Chapter No.
l, o. E. S., Self Culture Club, We'd
nesday Study Club.
Memberships reported in the last
association meeting were for Mines.
Naomi Thomas, Aldonia Anderson,
Mable Brown, Grace Ferguson, Ad-
die Jackson, James G. Kirk, Mary
Burton, Myrtle Harris, Carrie Rob
inson, Stella Harper, Mable Milan;
Messrs. James Mckinney, Nath-
aniel Evans, Julius McNeal, Nath-
aniel Smith, Simmon Harris, Zeke
Harper, Ellis Manning; Miss Edith
Gillard and the Postal Alliance
Women's Auxiliary.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-11-13
Urban League
AUX. Sells SLIGO
Worth of Bonds

The Women's Auxiliary of the
Minneapolis League added another
to its growing number of success
full cultural and civic undertakings
Tuesday, November 10, when the
organization sold upwards of ST.
10000 worth of war bonds, over a
radio broadcast carried by Station
WCCO. Mrs. E. L. Sims, former
president of the organization, gave
the history of the organization and
commented upon the war activities
in which the Auxiliary has engaged.
Some of the persons purchasing
bonds during this sale were DR..
W. D. Brown, J. P. Hansen, Mrs.
James Paige, Mr.. and Mrs. Clar-
ence R. CLANCY, Miss Essie R. Ma
son, Mrs. DeVelma Newman, Miss
Katherine NJ. Kohler, Louis B. Bort
nick, Mrs. E. L. Sims, Mrs. Eliza
beth Ewing, Mrs. Chas. W. Wash
ington, Mrs. Ethel Lynch, the Min
nehaha Temple, Daughter Elks, and
the Urban League Auxiliary.
The Auxiliary is sponsoring
Bond Rally Day on November %
at Phyllis Wheatley House at 4
p. m. The film cocoa Cola" will
be shown at this time. Persons who
were unable to arrange for pur-
chases of bonds Tuesday will have
an opportunity to buy them for the
Sunday rally. War Savings Stamps
will also be on sale at this Rally.
The Auxiliary is especially anxious
that a large group of people be
present to view the film, Cocoa
Cola" which is a stirring war
drama, guaranteed to bring tears
to the eyes of the most hardened.
The Bond Rally Day as we'll as
the Radio Bond Sale is being ham
died by the Bond Committee of
which Mrs. E. L. Sims and Mrs.
N. ]. Hunter are co-chairmen. Mrs.
Wendell Jones of the War Savings
Committee is assisting.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-11-13
THAT WONT STOP US
NEGRO SAILOR HERO; TOWS RAFT
FILLED WITH WOUNDED MATES
THRU SHARK INFESTED WATERS

Los Angeles, California, Nov. IL.
The above cartoon is timely be-
cause it emphasizes the part the
Negro sailor is playing in the war
on the seas. Today here in this
city a young naval ensign related
Wednesday night how a powerful
Negro mess attendant swan six
hours through shark-invested wa
tiers, towing to safety a raft load
of wounded seamen from the U. S.
Destroyer Gregory, sunk by the
japanese off the Solomons.
The ensign was Robert N. Adrian,
Ontario, Ore. He was wounded in
the engagement, he said in an NBC
radio broadcast, but despite his in
juries he was able to cling to the
side of the overloaded raft while
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-11-13
W. II. Mcclellan,
WeHKnOWn Mpls.
Man, Dead at 68

William H. Mcclellan, age 60,
1914 Smelling avenue south, died
on Monday, November 9, after a
fe wmonths illness.
Funeral services were held on
Wednesday, November IL, at 2:30
p. m. at the st. Peters A. M. E.
Church with Rev. A. J. Irvine off
ciating. Anchor Hilyard Masonic
Lodge held their usual ritual for
deceased members.
Mr.. Mcclellan is an old pioneer
of Minneapolis and for the past
twenty years was employed at the
Florshiem Shoe Co.
He is survived by a wife, Laura,
a brother Calvin, and other rela-
tives and friends.
Woodland Funeral Home was in
charge of burial arrangements with
interment in Crystal Lake cemetery.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-11-13

the strengthening Negro seaman
inched his way shoreward.
The mess attendant was known
to Adrian only as French" Adrian
was Immediately hospitalized on
reaching safety, and never was able
to get the hero's full name.
With Adrian and his companion
clinging to its sides, the raft started
drifting seaward. 1t Vas then that
the messman stripped off his clothes
and tied line about his waist.
When Adrian warned him against
CHANGING the shark-infested wa
tiers, the Negro responded, "I'm
gonna tow this old crate in"
Six hours later a barge sighted
the raft near shore, and the seamen
were taken off.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-11-13

and civilians in the South particu-
larly, continuation of Jim Crowism
in the armed forces and war efforts
generally, transfer of the Fair En-
ployment Practice Committee from
its independent status under the
President to the War Manpower
Commission and other evils made
Negroes sore enough to shift their
political affiliations. Mr.. White
stated:
at is true that much of this is
due to the attitude of voters gen.
orally to throw the rascals out
when things do not go well. But it
would be a serious mistake for the
Republicans to believe that they
now have re-captured the Negroes
vote and will continue to hold it no
natter what they do. On too many
\ fundamental issues, economic, mill
-, and social, there has been an
unholy alliance in Congress be-
tween Negro-hating Southern
Democats and reactionary Republi-
cans who think of the Negro only
when they are forced to around
election time.
"As the Norfolk Journal and
Guide stated editorially on Novem-
Der Z regarding the Republican
Party's oversight in adopting a ten
point declaration of policies and
principles, Republican House lead
ership missed the bus when it in
sisted that capable and trained
leaders be used in the war effort
regardless of party, group, class,
or section but did Tot include re
CARELESS of race, creed, or color
Negroes are learning the lesson
of the shifting national and inter
national forces and utilize their
strategically located political
strength wisely, unselfshly, and
with complete independence. Only
by so doing can he cause the po-
litical leadership of all parties to
know that the Negro voter is alert,
intelligent, and is watching critical
ly every word and deed of the vari-
GUS political parties.
TEST of the administration will
be particularly severe in that con-
gressmen from the poll tax states
were able to return to the House
and inasmuch as the Democrats
are still the majority party their
power has increased"
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-11-13
o. E. S. Council
First to Buy
Christmas AID.

The Past Matrons' and Patrons
Council of the Order of Eastern
Star was the first organization to
order and pay for greeting space in
the annual Spokesman and Recor-
der newspapers Christmas edition
which will be printed this year on
December %.
The insertion order came even
before the solicitation for this spe-
cial issue was begun. Ninety-five
per cent of Twin City clubs, lodges
and organizations extend holiday
greetings to the general public
through the annual Christmas edi-
ton.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-11-13
Anderson
Concert Here on
24th of November

Marian Anderson, acclaimed as
the greatest living singer, now on
her seventh annual tour of the
United States, will include Mime
apolis in her schedule, on Tuesday,
November "a, when she will be
presented in a recital at the Mime
apolis auditorium concert bowl.
The phenomenal contralto took
her first vacation in six years,
spending July and August on her
110-acre Connecticut farm, raising
prize vegetables and flowers which
she entered in the famous Danbury
Fair in October.
The remainder of her time was
spent in her studio preparing new
songs for her current repertory
with her accompanist, Franz Rupp.
This work room, incidentally, is
furnished with grass mats and bam-
boo furniture which Miss Anderson
shipped from Honolulu last sum-
mer, prior to outbreak of the Pacific
war when she paid her first visit
to Hawaii to sing six concerts in
nine days.
Except for a brief visit to her
recording studios to make a new
album of discs for release this fall,
Miss Anderson continued to rest
until mid-October when she started
her present tour, during which she
will give 80 concerts.
Miss Anderson's recital here will
mark her sixth consecutive appear
ance. The famous singers program
will include English folk tunes,
German ieder and other songs, as
well as Negro spirituals. Among
her selections will be several new
compositions.
The Minneapolis auditorium con-
cert bowl in which Miss Anderson
will be presented is the horseshoe
end of the huge hall, and will rep
resent half the capacity of the audi
forum, thus bringing the audience
closer to the artist.
Tickets went on sale this week at
the Downtown Ticket Office, North
western National Bank building,
Minneapolis.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-11-13
Florida Sheriff Indicted
By u. S. Grand Jury for
Working Negro Prisoners
Washington, D. c., Nov.

Washington, D. c., Nov. IL
Attorney General Francis
Biddle announces that a Fed
eral Grand Jury, sitting in
the Southern District of Flori-
da, at Tampa, today returned
an Indictment on two counts
charging JEFF Virgins, Sher-
iff of Glades County, with
working county prisoners on
his own farm in violation of
the Federal Civil Rights and
Anti-Slavery statutes.
Count One of the indictment
charges that Virgins removed in
mates from the Glades County Jail
and forced them to work without
pay on his farm. The indictment
charges that this involuntary servi-
tude was in violation of Section 81,
Title 10, U. S. Code (civil rights
statute).
Count Two charges a violation
of the Anti-Slavery Statute (Sec-
ton 443, Title 18, U. S. Code).
Maximum penalties on the first
count are Imprisonment for one
year or a 1000 fine, or both; under
the second count, Imprisonment for
five years or a $4,000 fine, or both.
The Grand Jury investigation,
requested by Assistant Attorney
General Wendell Berge, in charge
of the Criminal Division, was han
died for the Department by United
States Attorney Herbert S. Phillips.
Sugar Firm Also Indicted
Attorney General Francis Biddle