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The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1942-02-21
Sessions To
Open Friday
In Detroit
Republican
Leaders Are
Invited Guests

The Negro Democratic reunion
Is sponsored In the interest OF Ne
gro citizens regardless OF party az
filIations. All OF the Negro Re-
publican leaders have received in
vitations 10 participate. 1t Is pre-
dicted that this will be one OF the
biggest political reunions OF Ne
groes in the history OF Negro poll
tics. according 10 the statements
made this week by the political
leaders OF both parties.
This reunion is promoted under
the leadership OF Luther c. Keith.
chairman OF the 18th Congressional
Federated Democratic clubs.
The reunion will open Friday
evening, Feb. 20 at s pm. in the
auditorium OF the Columbian school
West Warren and Mckinley. The
Honorable Edward j. Jeffries. may
or OF the City OF Detroit. and Gov
ernor Murray ID Van Wagner will
be the guest speakers.
The principal address will he
given by Commissioned Harry 4
Bledsoe from the theme OF the re.
union. Where The Negro Stand,
with America in the Present Crisis.
Music will he furnished by the Mae
Frierson famous Cabin choir
The second session will be Satur
day. Feb. 81. at 1880 pm. in IN,
same auditorium. with a labor sym
postum.
Representatives from all the un,
ion locals and from the lsbors non
partisan league will attend 10 dis
cuss the Negro problems with la
Dor.
The banquet Saturday evening a
7 o'clock in the Page hall Of 81
Cyprian church. 2sth and Milford
will close the reunion. Mckinley A
Carey will be the POSTMASTER.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1942-02-21
Triedstone Baptist
1854 Russell

The Rev. J. b. Ford spoke Sun
day morning on Weeping May
Endure for Night. But Joy Com
eth in the Morning" Christ, Our
Example was the subject OF the
pastors evening message.
The Michigan Services Five sing
sr rendered program In the
afternoon.
Miss Edna Kirkland is church re-
porter.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1942-02-21

Bishop John ". Marin. Of rhies.
20. H.. nrssidin- h'sh6r ~ ~
rifth rriscopsi district ~ the tMr
zicn church will make Ms annual
visit ~ Lnmsx Tsrpie. SUNDAY,
reb. -. ana Will sneak At the morn
Inc md EVENING services.
All xionites IN this area and neo-
pie OF other faiths ere expectrd 70
units with Pastor Thomas rnd hts
cnr rreaaflon w ~resenfin~ this
is.ser N mefrc~oiifen DETROIT
Mrs. Jessie Cottreii Il church re-
porter.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1942-02-21
St. James CINE
vInewood and W. Kirby

The Pleasant Sunday program
Feb. % ~ 4 nm. will rresens the
pupils OF Yolande Meddox. Thev
ere: Fleming Cook. Wvlie Mae
Williams. Luther Hsrvin. Annette
Ticks. Lula Rartlev. Elizsbefh
Hurley. Viola Manner ard others.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1942-02-21

Sunday. Feb. - special services
will be held featuring n series OF
sermons NV various ministers OF
the city. The theme will Be seven
Things God Hates" text. Proverbs
6:fe-fa.
Clrss snd Bible study was held
here w~ssdsv eve~tnr.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1942-02-21
Church Of God
entlot and Jos. Campnu

The Rev. T. ID. McGhee preached
Sunday morning from st. Luke 6:46.
On Feb. q Or. McGhee will preach
it the United Christian church on
goth and McGraw.
Mrs. jamie Hair Is church repor-
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1942-02-21
District Chorus Rehearsal

The District chorus Of the State
Baptist association will rehesrse
Feb. rs at Russell Street Baptist
church. Russell and Alger streets.
Prof. r. Harper Is director: Mrs
r. Harper. pianist.
Evening star., 1942-09-06

such an overwhelming problem without fric-
ton, confusion or congestion you could find
no better spot than the Signal Corps School,
at Fort Monmouth N. ].
Here classes in highly technical subjects are
held six days week from $50 Am. to 9 PM
The morning shift is out at 1890; the after
noon groups are in session from to 4:3O and
from 6 to 9. In addition to the usual fatigue
duties of soldier, the boys have from two
to three hours of homework" per day.
To your average oollegian, this is back
breaking grind. Yet, touring the class rooms
at Fort Monmouth with colonel for guide,
it was impressive to note, first, the apparent
lack of supervision of students - and, above
all. the extremely scant attention they paid
u.s.
When we stopped in back of one row of
chairs while the colonel offered quiet ex-
PLANTATION of how the system worked one
pupil gathered up his papers and bluntly
moved to the other side of the room where he
Evening star., 1942-09-06

ing teaching miracle today which puts our
conventional pedagogy in the shade. Without
benefit of caps and gowns and ivy walls, the
Army is imparting knowledge on mass
production scale along the lines of its age-old
doctrine: Hear 1t, See 1t, Do 1t. They tell
you how it's done; they shoV you how it's
done - then you practice doing it.
Not Simple
1HIs was simple enough three years ago
when our Army consisted of la, 900 regulars
on 3-year enlistments. But when it had to
expand 800 per cent in two years - then aim
to pull itself up by its own bootstraps to
minimum of 5000, 600 men in like period or
less - that is when the teaching task sky
rocketed to gargantuan dimensions!
No university, no city or state educational
system in the nation could dream of coping
with such mushroom expansion. But the
Army has simply taken the job in its stride.
And for a quick glimpse of how they handle
Evening star., 1942-09-06

wouldn't be annoyed by idle Interruptions!
When buck private does this to colonel.
that's news. Yet it is an eloquent tip-of on
the real character of the Signal Corps School.
Here men study because they want to.
They are working for Technical Sergeants
stripes, and they know that the quick way
to advancement is work. Courses run three TO
four months. If it takes you four months 70
finish, that's all right with the faculty: you've
still done six to nine months work IN snort
order. But if you care to try the final cx-
animation on the day you enter, that's
all right, too. It's what knowledge you
have, not how many study periods you've
put in.
Actually, one student has passed the nnais
in two weeks time; others have finished u
five or six weeks. For the outstanding cnarac-
teristic of this school is that every student n
strictly on his own.
''The self-instruction method" is what they
call it. And it has worked 50 well here tnaI
TW-s%-0
Evening star., 1942-09-06

men, yet it must get more involved and
comprehensive training in less time than it
took to whip the AEF together. Every day
lost in that training means that the war will
be longer, harder to win, more costly in men
and material.
The training task of 1918 was difficult
enough yet almost every man in our new
Army is considerably more than soldier -
he is also specialist with expert training for
a technical job. Not only must we train air
plane pilots and bombardiers and tank drivers
and parachutists - we must also train hum
dreds of thousands of technicians: navigators
who can take our bombers to the target and
back; mechanics who can service planes or
tanks; radio operators and repair men to
keep fast-moving blitz forces in constant
communication and to maintain the perfec-
ton of our delicate aircraft listening devices.
inexperienced civilians must be transformed
from raw recruits to soldiers to expert techni-
clans in a matter of months, many in fields
where apprenticeships are normally counted
in years 1t is such a mammoth educational
Job that it seems downright impossible. Yet
it is being done!
You and / rarely think of the Army as an
educational institution, but it is accomplish
Evening star., 1942-09-06

AMERICA is training a huge
new army to fight a mech
anized war. 1t will be sub
stantially larger than our
World War l force of 1000, 900
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-23
BOMBERS OVER TOKYO?

Americans naturally ore eiOted at
reports from Japanese sources that
Tokyo and Yokohama have been
bombed Though the story awaits
confirmation from Washington, it is
hardly possible to conceive Japanese
reasons for spreading O fnJse report in
such specific detail.
It seems likely therefore, that
there has been on attack Of some
sort on O scale sufficient to warn the
Japanese Islands that the United
States can ultimately play q strong
hand in the grim game that was stort-
ed at Pearl Horbor.
Whatever satisfaction there may
be in such exploits as this and the
long-ronee sortie Of thirteen planes in
to the Philippines, the picture should
be kept in perspective. These ore use
full horossing actions while the main
body Of the japanese Army and Navy
are engaged in Burma and the Indian
Ocean, but there still ore enormous
task sof organization, Of equipping,
training, and transporting forces, be-
fore the attack can assume the tempo
and proportions Of an offensive. Heavy
American losses in planes in Hawaii
and the Philippines have to be made
up. The tide Of japanese invasion
which threatens to cut off China from
her Allies hos yet to be turned, and
vost areas Of seq and land have yet to
be reconquered
Little as one may relish the condi-
tons which make bombing Of cities q
miitory necessity, the reported raid is
an encouraging sign Of enterprise on
the port of the American armed forces.
Loyalty and hard work at home must
see thot it is only beginning.
From the Christian Science Monitor
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-23
Q HARRISON IN HOLLYWOOD

many HollyWOOdsmen may hav'
bought her book, they so far
seem to have read cnl. the two
middle chapters in which she
talks about the movie colony.
Thus, Past Imperfect IS To-
calIy regarded as an attack on
Hollywood, although it actually
is the story of Ilka Chase and
her outSpoken reactions to ev-
erything from love and divorce
to society, religion, f, 1hion and
the theater. The book Wouldn t
have been an honest effort, she
says, if it didn't tell about the
things she saw and heard IN
the course Of making about a
dozen pictures in the past Is
years.
After all, she cited only faults
which have been pointed out
many times, and NOR bitterly,
by others - such as SelfishneSS,
cruelty, stupidity, isolation,
greed, profligate gambling, rid
iculous dress, lazinCsS, ignor-
ance, nepotism and a few other
little matters. Her observations
have the rare advantage of per-
spective because Miss Chase 5
trips out here were interspers-
ed with work in the New York
theater, ventures in radio, for
eign excursions and American
lecture tours.
I'm not trying to defend llka
Chase against the wrath of Hol-
lywood. Fact is the movie world
is too timid and too conscious
of its own shortcomings to be
wrathful even under vicious
criticism. AS for Miss Chase 5
book, it almost certainly will be
bid for by most of tn, studios
and bought at iIattcrlng
price. The title will be useful,
anyway, and there are some ele-
ments in the text which should
make good material in a pic
ture.
Miss Chase's current part in
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-23
THOSE kORMAkDIE FIRES

The prolonged series Of damaging
fires on the French liner Normondie is
becoming scondoIous. The third blaze,
like the first and second, is described
as accidental. The probability Of sobo-
toge is discounted.
Certainly we hove no more evil
dence Of sabotage than hos the gov
eminent if as much. But if coreIess-
ness once q month did as serious dam
oee to our personal property, lot Of
supervisory heads would roll into
baskets in short order.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-23

President RooseveIt's war nonpow-
err commission is an important step in
the right direction. 1t recognizes Of
ficioIIy what long has been apparent,
that the recruitment Of labor for pro-
duction ranks in this war on full Por-
ity with the CONSUMPTION Of monPower
for the fighting services.
Step by step, slowly but surely, we
are approaching the goal of universal
war service The, men we need to carry
guns we take, and send them where
they will do the most good. The focto[-
les we need TO manufacture ornament
and munitions we comrondeer, and
tell them what to do. The workers we
need to serve those factories we must
likewise take, and assign where they
can serve most efficiently 1t isn't
pleasant. There is nothing nice about
total war.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-23

he OGlrymens League News OF
New York, recently had this to soy OF
the farmer in war time: "Insteod Of
striking for shorter hours and higher
poy, he and his family have been for
some time working longer hours, cut
ting out the movies, going without new
clothes and many other things in an
earnest, patriotic effort to keep their
heods above water and to do the best
Job they can possibly do for Uncle Sam.
In the interest Of national defense and
victory for democracy - are they get
ting q fair break"
The rises that have occurred in
farm prices have obscured the fact
that the cost Of everything the farmer
must hove-Iobor, feed, machinery,
supplies, toxes-hos risen fost.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-23

Nov, Voyager' isn't very
big one, although it may be
bolstered bit to take adVant-
age of her new literary fame.
At this writing, she hasn't even
had time to go through the
script, though she did express
a flash of typically feminine
a.arm at the discover that she
appears as the mother of Be-
nita Granville.
"Bonita's only Is, l think, -
murmured Director Irving Rap
per.
"Wel-l-ll, it's possib e, of
course" admitted Miss Chase.
But it would be better if you
could put in a line somewhere
explaining that l married very
young. Maybe one Of those
child brides"
| don't know what she'd have
said if Id broken the news that
Bonita Granville h q a 10Th
birthday early last February.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-23
. BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON

into q Labor Production" d.
vision. Nobody knew what thot
meant, on,d even WPB boss
Donald Nelson had to go to
the White House to find out.
And so, out Of the contu-
sion Of Washington, another
government agency war baby
has been born. Fortunately
for McNutt's political ombI-
tons, os MonPower Commits
sion chairman he won't have
to mess with any Of the really
controversial labor problems
like strikes and the union Sc
curity issue, Which, will re-
main with the War L O b or
Board.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-23
from
the Latest Books

The only word for this novel
is extraordinary because it is
anything but ordinary. And Is
Iandia," by Austin Tappan
Wright (Farrar & Rinehart: So,
is a work of such invention
that the imaginary country with
which it deals becomes more real
than many living lands.
Wright, who died some years
ago, invented the country of Is
landia, placed it somewhere in
the South Pacific, gave it a his
tory and a government, a vital
population. He must have lived
almost as much i'm his dream
world as in actually, for as he
writes Of it, his story seems to
spring from an intimate know
ledge of Islandia.
John Lang, the hero, becomes
the first United States consul to
Islandia following his gradua-
ton from college. During his
undergraduate days he met the
Islandian, Dorm, and on his ar
rival in the strange new coun-
try, finds himself made the init
mate of Dorn's family, friends
and enemies.
Slowly and carefully, the
author develops the conflict in
Lang'S mind between the long
ing TO leave Islandia isolated
from the world, and the convic-
ton that it should be made part
Of the hemiSphereS in trade and
culture. That same conflict
tears at the core of ISlandian
political life, disturbS the old re-
lationships of its inhabitants.
AS the history of a dream
world, "Islandia' is fascinating.
The leisurely Chronicling Of
manners and customs, geography
and craftsmanship holds the
reader absolutely. But Lang is
something of prig, and the
hcroines all seem a bit alike,
Nevertheless, this book de-
serves and will receive attention.
Half Utopia, half childhood fan
tasy, il is a sort of CULVER
among the natural me. of an ag-
rarian civilization. It moves
slowly but it moves well. No
one who begins it will leave it
unfinished.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-23
. McKENNY ON BRIDGE

my let 60 a diamond. SChenken
led the six of hearts, and when
West played the four Schenkcn
called for the three from
dummy.
Schenken thereby developed
two heart tricks, and so made
game by winning four dia-
monds, a spade, and two clubs.
When asked how he had come
TO make this deep fincsse in
hearts Schenken replied.
IF | give up a club trick and
split the suit, get only eight
tricks. | will still need a heart
trick. If West has the ace, he will
make his spades and / am sunk.
If East has the ace, / will lose
two hearts before l can win a
trick, so then | will lose five
tricks at least. The only hope
is TO develop two hearts at once,
giving up no club trick. Since
/ have to hope that East has the
ace of hearts, l have no choice
about fineSsing against the eight
spot. | couldn't possibly win
the fourth round Of hearts with
the three"
OF course West could have
blocked the plan with covering
both the six and seven Of hearts
when they were led But would
YOU think Of doing that, in
Vests position?
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-23
RESCUER RAGS

CHICAGO - Northwest n
Railroad sWitchmen told how
Rags, a little, one-eyed fox ter
rier who rides with the crew,
watching out the window of the
locomotive cab, suddenly sprang
seven feet from the moving
train TO the ground one night as
they approached an underpasS.
In the shadows they heard
Rags barking and saw him out
stretched on the tracks and they
halted. Beyond him between
the rails lay man, unconscious.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-23
BACKFIRE

ATLANTA-An airplane buzz
zed overhead as a Negro yard
man raked ? Pie &c trash mtg 2
Gre hgag gzyGyiion3Ey Of MIS-. .@,fs
ME Mi am in southwest Atlanta.
SuddeSIy wham! Trash and
grapeshot scattered over wide
area. The yard caretaker fled
with the explosion.
No bombs, though. Only an
old Civil War cannon shell, UNI
earthed near the site Of the bat
tie of Ezra Church, and brought
back to life with a bang
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-23
BY PAUL HARRISON

HOLLYWOOD, April % -
Right after the publication of
Ilka Chase's autobiography,
Past Imperfect, she got a Hol-
lywood offer of a role in the
new Bette Davis picture, Nov,
Voyager." Thinking over some
of the things she had said about
the movie business and its peo-
pie, Miss Chase asked wariiy;
Does this mean that hey have
read my book"
1t turned out that the book
hadn't anything to do with the
movie job - at least, directly.
The role is that of smart cos
mopolite, and the actress, au-
thor and lecturer seemed just
right for it.
Once she arrived, Miss Chase
found that although a great
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-23
OR WHAT HAVE YOU

GRAND COULEE, WASH -
Wanna buy a Main street? No?
Then, how about a nice beauty
parlor, or maybe a fine bank or
a pool hal.
The Bureau of Reclamation is
taking over the operation of Ma
son City and Grand COulec Dam,
and Will advertise for bids on
the towns seventeen business
houses.
The little town was occupied
by contractor officials during
construction of the big dam.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-23
BEAUTY AIDS DO HELF

KANSAS CITY-A bandit, his
routine shortened by these beau
ty gadgetS got So in a holdup of
a beauty shop.
The intruder found Marjorie
Bennett, an employee, and her
sister, Dorinc, in the shop.
The intruder found Marjorie
Bennett, an employee, and her
sister, Dorine, in the shop.
Dorine already was tied up
in a permanent wave machine.
The bandit tied Marjorie to an
other chair, and walked out with
the cash.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-23
GOOD TURN TURNS BAD

CHICAGO-An elderly white
haired woman acCoSted Robert
Pendarus, Northwestern Univer-
sity student, It a busy interSec-
ton and asked him to he p her
cross the street.
Pendarus, a former boy Scout,
willingly did his daily good
turn. When they reached the
opposite side she thanked him
and Strolled away. After search
ing through his pockets Pendar-
us discovered his wallet was
missing.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-23
A CLOSED SESSION

SEATTLE - The Executive
board of the Main Bowl, Inc, a
bowling a ley and soda fountain
establishment, met in the County
Jail.
They are scckine reorganiza-
ton under the bankruptcy law.
The president and secretary
treasurer of the firm, both Am
erican-born Japanese, are being
held in jail for alleged relations
with Japan prior to the war.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-23
By WILLIAM r. MCKINNEY
Americas Card Authority

A player who excels in ac-
curate analysis is Howard
Schenken. Although his team
lost in the finals of the Resin
ger Knockout team contest at
the Eastern States tournament
Schenken came through with
the brilliancy shown today.
Sitting South, Schenken held
UP the ace of spades until II was
forced on the third round. Dunn
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-23
LET'S TALK THIS OVER

TOPEKA, KAS.--Would the
thief just as soon have a durable
work horse or a highly product
i've COW?
Farmer Arthur Engler would
ike to effect a trade with the
person who stole his 15 bundles
of baling wire.
Priorities preclude Engler's
purchase of more wire, and he
shudders at the thought Of tying
his hay with string.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-23
FROM
THE MONITOR
FILES .
so YEARS AGO TODAY
1000

r. C. Ullrich put up a fine sys-
tenn of water privileges into the
King House.
f. r. Egnew has doubled the
size of his private office at the
Avery.
SIS YEARS AGO TODAY
1887
DR.. Hutchins has laid out a
good deal of money on his dental
rooms within the past few
weeks. They have been painted,
papered, and handsomely fur
nished.
Many people are dying this
spring.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-23
FLASHES
OF
LIFE
TIP TOP
BY the Associated Press

TIP TOP
ST. LOUIS-The first mar
riage in the Tip ToppcrS Club
whose men members must be at
least 6 feet 4 inches in height
and the women members no less
than 6 feet tal,-will be Satur-
day.
Francis j. Weiss, a q foot 4
punch press operator, will wed
Miss Lois Bryan, = feet l inch
tall, who was a shoe worker. The
club was organized in February,
l941.