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Evening star., 1942-10-12

Is repeated. The only foe that ap-
pears to menace the cicada is the
English sparrow which is often
present at the coming-out party.
Evening star., 1942-10-12

Stamp, stamp, stamp, the boys are
marching-and - are the giris-ta
the War savings stamp windsws Of
post ofaces everywhere. Are you In
the parade?
Evening star., 1942-10-12

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structive. For your free COPY, send \
sts mped (3-cent), self dressed en-
velope 10 Frank Colby. In care Of The
Evening Star. Ask for JUNIOR Pro-
NOUNCING TEST.
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LETTER-OUT

called tor the last column Print the opposite
which
correctly will spell the word for small barrels
Answer to Saturdays LETTER-OUT
Leter-Out
(A) M1NERAL-MERL4IN O
(R SEMINARS-MESSINA strait between Sicily,
go PELASG1C- SPECIAL something ordinary.
(O) MESOCARP-SCAMPER rapidly.
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Accident Victims Rites on Saturday

house on the island about ISL.
The block house now houses one
OF the most interesting exhibits
Of pioneer relics
Alexander. a salesman. who had
been prominently identified with
various motor Industries in the
state. had come here only month
ago from Spokane. and was en-
pioyed BY the ordnance depart
ment in the motor base at Fort
Lewis. He is survived by his son.
Albert l. Alexander. employed at
Boeing sirplane plant in Seattle;
two erandsons. Donald and Robert
Bruce. and a sister. Mrs. Ida May
sill Of Coupeville.
The body is being sent to Coupe
vile BY Paul Meilinger & Sen.
Lakewood mortuary. and will be
Inferred in the family plot in SUM-
INSIDE cemetery.
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NA'Ns aAN HOAAAak Ou1 ttdAtApAtd
bricks and refuse in big holes in
the earth-all that remains TO
mark peasants houses. Eventual
ly. we come TO a single old cabin
with a cracked roof. 1t has great
embankments eight feet deep
heaped against its sides and held
with logs.
This used to be my house, +"
says Capt. Emma.
Here abandoned dugouts show
their rude mounds in all direc-
tons. A Russian lieutenant on
horseback gallops up TO guide us
to the new headquarters. Ivan
has to drive across soggy, torn
marshland and brush and the lieu
tenant scouts the route for US.
galloping forward, sideways, then
back again. It has become such
gamble whether we can get
through that don't even hear the
planes any more.
The lieutenant's horse is in high
spirits and so is Capt. Emma. I'VE
are going to my unit" she had
said with great deal of pride in
her enunciation Of my" That
also means she will see her IT,
year-old son who is also fighting
here. So the car churns on
through the wet. SCARED earth
and around alder bushes and shell
holes and on through the badlands
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and the bottom q the trench Is
lined with boards as protection
against the mud. Il is a very
clean. strongly bolstered trench
and gradually it burrows deeper
into the earth Then II heads
straight into a pine-planted
mound.
Capt. Emma. the commissar
and I descend a few steps. turn to
the left and enter the door. The
colonel Is waiting for US. We are
in the headquarters Of a 'front.'
line unit and Capt. Emma has
found her new home at the front.
II is difficult to tell whether she
is most pleased to be back again
or whether the colonel Is even
more pleased to have her here.
All In all a rough ride to a place
where living is tough and prob
lematieal. But you would never
guess it. The atmosphere here is,
do come in-and make yourself
at home" II is the Red Army
colonel who insists on hanging up
my coat for me. And what a dug
out But well come 10 that
directly.
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the center Of this front line which nightly written in
This is the front.
But 70 get up to the front Is no simple matter The
ether afternoon Capt Emma. another young <egmenta
c.mmssar and went to the headquarters Of advane
q unit
There jeeps available so we had to depend on
Ivan the Terrible and his equally unpredctable And
We had literally to ride the battlefield of last winter
spring and summerwhat the front before the Rus
Sims kzhev offensive crashed forward in August mod
battlefield strewn with debris pockmarked with she'll
holes and trenches and located in low Doggy marshes is
pretty tough proposition for ordinary veseaer touring
especially when the has been battling this kind OF
terrain for more than a year.
Az We start, trail winds through wilderness
q bushes and sumps The stumps all about three feet
high because the Germans in the deep snow level
Ing wide wooded last winter in their desperate need
fer fuel All Is dreay wasteand, ugly and jagged with
the imprint Of the war.
But off TO the left the Russians have built what called
road In this immediate sector it is the main forward
communication line. Hundreds Of tanks and trucks have
mashed and chuned the earth here There ditches
holes and great ridges of caked mud everywhere The main
tracks rutted deeply the cars axle frequently
clear the hummocks left in the CENTER Ivan has to dig
and explore constantly Fortunately there has been
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Booming Guns. Bombers and Desolafion
Mark Laborious Trip to Russian Front

fhe~e badlands Of war are
treaches from which the GER
mans were expelled = few
weeks ago. We So hundreds
81 small horseshoe shaped
mzrhine-gun nests made of
eIeds of turf. They offer no
protection, merely conceal
ment Repeatedly We pass
tangled rows Of rusted barbed
wire: now and then n tilted.
hlackeBed tank and once the
burned-out ureckage Of
Mari Messersehmitt.
But up IN the serene autumn
sky also sounds a steady hum
ming like that Of a gigantic
bum blebee. Planes are coming
over again; they come from Ger
man directions. The sound is
high and slightly off to the left
and south but still we cannot
see them Then series OF
crunches roar louder and closer
than the now mounting artillery
fire. Across the prairie. perhaps
a mile and a half away. great
columns OF smoke squirt heaven
ward in the sunshine. They were
German planes all right. The
commissar says they are trying
for Russian communication lines
or some Soviet artillery batteries
CAR oUTRUNs BOMBS
Ivan the Terrible. with his
prizefighter's mug in n constant
scowl and his powerful hands
tight on the wheel, keeps our car
rocking and careening forward.
bombs or no bombs. The Nazi
bumblebees are still buzzing over
head and on this impossible road
a line Of a half-dozen trucks Is
bucking slowly toward US. It is
a big gamble whether we can
pass them without getting stuck
and those trucks are a perfect
target.
Ivan growis and his forehead
narrows down virtually to the
vanishing point. He tugs and
twists at the wheel. The car
leaps and bounds. / am having
a very animated argument with
my imagination all this time.
I don't win The argument but
Ivan plunges the car through
a lake Of mud two feet deep,
hurdles 1t over caked clay
promontory and across several
pine logs. Then he swerves the
car up an incline and back into
the main ruts again. We are in
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The big guns talk ahead Of
us. then off TO the north or again
to the south. We are now within
about five miles of the front
lines. but our destination Ii three
milcs closer than that. The sun
bathes this whole desolate prairie.
Nowhere in any direction can a
Russian village be seen. although
there used TO be more than
dozen scattered over these APP
proaches to Rzhev. Here and
there q rare clump Of trees con-
firms the fact that peasants log
cabins once huddled near their
shade.
On either aide dug Into
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.OnSaturday
Stowe Tells

n the second Of his ea-the-
spot stories from the Russian
trent tomorrow stowe will tell
Of a Night IN = Captured Ger
man Dugout" wifhin ear
shot Of tommy guns and ma
chine guns. He win tel Of
RzheT In the biackened back
ground blazing like sedou and
Gomorrah' of German
propaganda leaflets and the
charges they make against
America and Britain Of
Red Army officers talking
about q second front" and
how u feels To spend a night
on .'the only front that never
ceases % burn and 20 bleed"
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Funeral services for Abram Les
ter Alexander. who died Tuesday
night from injuries sustained
when h was struck recently b a
truck. wifi Be he'd n the Method
ist church az coupeville. WILDLY
island. Saturday Al l O'Clock. Rev.
IF. Long viii officiate-
The deceased vas member OF
a pioneer family long prominent
on the island. He vas the son OF
Abram Lansdzle Alexander. ne
first white boy born on the island,
and the grandson Of John Alexsn-
der. who built the historic block
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fer days- otherw1se, II would b.
impansible for anything but trucks,
TRACTORS. o. jeeps 70 traverse even
Tie firut half mile.
1Guch of this road 10 corduroy
paelsed solidly with pine logs
but corduroy soon fades into
mornsses Of bitches and caked
mud again We progress half
the tine IN jerks az 50 or 100
yards.
~ ~ edgs forward TIE
~, warped sarth expands
Hn11y - eifher sl1s and
strnlght $500 Mn scarce-
II . shsuD1er II rls,.g ground
- Rnnsv and The front line
Whkch cutu thFough u.
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nOTaFs
Everything here II swampy
wilderness and at first we see
nothing that might conceal
human habitations. Yet men
live here and In one direction
the front lines lie only two
miles away. There are scrub
pines and curiously most Of
them. II now appears, grow on
and around small elevations or
little rolls In the marshland's
surface. IL IL beneath these
tiny pimples on the badlands'
face that the Red Army men
liye-those who are not now
fighting In the front lines just
ahead.
A short walk around the bushe.
and past haphazard collections Of
very young pines and then We
come to line OF pine boughs
They cover both sides Of a trench
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Torpedoing Reports
Without Foundation

LoNDoN-Lt. Gen. Dwight D.
Eisenhower. American commander
in-chief. announced here that axis
claims made last month that sew
eral American troop transports
were torpedoed in the Atlantic
were completely unfounded."
Eisenhower said that "the infor-
nation has been withheld until
every American soldier who "as
on the Atlantic at the time Of the
German announcement had been
landed safely in the United King
dom. and we could assure our
selves of the complete falsity Of
the German claims
You help yourself when you buy
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the clear. with the last trucl
behind us.
Dust then q series of roars
bursts loose again-this time
ahead of us and slightly to
the right Columns of rolling
smoke look no more than n
mile away. As we see them
spout up, one alongside the
other. Russian ack-ack
erackles madly. We see them
Mt IL not far from us. Capt.
Emma In chatting all the
while. She does not seem To
pay any attention, and, TAX
ing note of that, my opinions
Of Stowe takes n sharp drop.
Transport soldiers are doing
odd jobs near the road and
they too take no notice.
Capt. Emma and they have
been living In this atmosphere
apH soak 1nts autAhrf
crump Of bombs-these are
off to the south again.
Both Russian big guns and Ger
man planes indicate that there
is pretty sharp actions in this
sector today. Yet this prairie
with its rare clusters OF trees and
even features stretches
in all directions like some corner
OF Kansas or Nebraska. 1t seems
incredible that armies can be dug
in In this featureless terrain which
levels off TO the horizon. Yet
the detonations of guns rock the
air with increased anger and
pillars of black smoke hover over
the battle lines and Rzhev itself
Here. too, on all sides are bomb
and shell holes in the ravaged,
earth.
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EMMA COMES HOME

The commissar waves Ivan off
into a side path and the car bucks
and churns along toward another
little row Of trees. Between the
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You help yourself when you buy
U. S. War Bonds.
The guardian., 1942-04-25
N. Y. PENALTIES
RACE PREJUDICE

NEW YORK-Gov. Lehman
has signed bill making it a
criminal offense in New York
to deny employment in defense
industries because of race,
creed or color. Said the gov
ernor Il am happy to sign
this bill which makes it a
crime to deny employment III
industries engaged in war
contracts to any person be-
cause of race, color or creed.
BY striking at bigotry and in-
tolerance we strengthen the
civil liberties of all the people
of the state and make possible
the realization of our maxi
mum war effort"
According to this latest law
public utility companies refus-
ing to employ job applicant
because of race, color or re-
ligion,ar liable to penalty
of not less than 500 or more
than $500 which must be paid
to the aggrieved applicant.
In the New York City Coun-
Gil local law was introduced
which is aimed at the suppress
son of racial hatred.
The New York City ukase
would prohibit "the sale, dis
tribution and purchase of any
newspaper, magazine, book,
circular or booklet which holes
up any nationality, race, or re-
ligion, to public hatred, shame,
contempt, ridicule, degrada-
ton or disgrace or tending to
create disunity of the people,
with the intention or tending
to interfere with the opera
ton or success of the military |
or naval forces Of the United /
The guardian., 1942-04-25

MRS. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Wife of the President of the I'm
tied States, who told an aud
ience at Hampton Institute, that
colOred people would do well to
fight for and gain their rights
during the war if they woul6
enjoy full equality after the
conflict is over.
divdual to the human race,
but now we have been shown
that we are not" she said in
an address before the student
body of the Hampton Institute.
The First Lady, attending
the annual meeting Of the
trustees of the julius Rosen-
wald fund, discussed the posi-
ton of the colored race in
America after the war"
What happens to you after
the war" she said, will be
determined a great deal by
what happens to you during
the war"
The guardian., 1942-04-25
Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Bigger And Better
Business Program All Set To Be Opened
With Grand Banquet at EsteILes
Restaurant

In celebrating their annual
Bigger & Better Business pro-
gram the members of the Phi
Beta Sigma Fraternity will
make known to the general
public their plans for the 1942
drive, Arrangements have been
made to present their proposals
at novel; banquet on Monday
evening, April 81 when the bust
ness people and their friends
have been invited to join with
the Sigmas to further the sug-
geSted business developments.
1t is desired that a cross section
of local business be represented
at this gathering SO that true
picture of local conditions can
be really appreciated. The Phi
Beta Sigma Fraternity since it's
inception has boaSted of con-
crete contributions toward the
The guardian., 1942-04-25
Woke Up Americons!

back the United States Army
and Navy to victory-back them
with work and money.
Do your part: Buy United
States Defense Bonds and
Stamps at your post ofAce, bank,
or savings and loan association,
Get Defense Stamps at your re-
tail store or from the carrier boy
of this newspaper.
The guardian., 1942-04-25
GRAND JURY INDICTS
, IN DETROIT HOUSING RIOT

DETROIT, MICH.-Three per-
sons we're indicted here last
week by the U. S. grand jury on
charges Of conspiracy to prevent
colored tenants from occupying
the sojourner Truth Housing
project.
The indictments were return-
ed by the Federal grand jury
April 16, and four other per.
sons, not indicted, were named
as co-conspirators. Those indic-
ted are: Garland l.. Alderman
secretary, National Workers
League; Parker Sage, treasurer
of the League; and Virgil
Chandler, organizer and execu-
tive vice-president of the Seven
Mile and Fenelon Improvement
Association.
Named co-conspirators were
Joseph P. Buffa, real estate
dealer and president of the
Fenelon Improvement AsSocia-
tion; John Dalzell, secretary;
Fred E. Monasterski, vice-presi-
dent; and Leonard j. Stewart
treasurer of the Association.
The three defendants were in,
dicted on two counts. The first
charged Sage, Alderman and
Chandler with preventing citi.
zens from occupying federally.
owned premises for which leases
had been executed; the second
charged a "seditious conspiracy
to prevent hinder, and delay ex-
ecution of any law of the United
States"
Maximum penalty ON the FIRST
count is $4,000 fine and ten
years Imprisonment, and on the
Continued on Page Four)
The guardian., 1942-04-25
MONROE MASON
HIT BY AUTO

Monroe Mason, postal en-
ployee and newspaper writer,
member of the American
Legion, narrowly escaped seri-
GUS injury last week when he
was knocked down by an auto
mobile as he stood in front of
the Globe building bulletin
board. Picked up by bystanders
he was taken to the Boston Post
Office where his injury, a
Sprained ankle, was dressed by
the postal nurse. Very much
shaken up, he said the expert
ence was a very frightening
one. He is about but has to
have the use of cane in walk
ing and has decided limp.
The guardian., 1942-04-25

Caterina Jarboro, dramatic
soprano, sang Sunday night in
New York'S Town Hall under
auspices of the local branch,
NAACP.-Final New York ap-
pearance of Marian Anderson
comes Sunday, May 10, at Car
negie Hall, Paul Robson
Says: Il feel that some way l
have become tied up with the
whole problem of freedom. l
have no end to my artistic no
rizion." Virginia Strother
whose recital was Wednesday
night in Providence was pleas
ed at then umber of Boston
friends who came down to
hear her.
The guardian., 1942-04-25

Chorus
Triun1phs

An audience which filled all
available space at the Harriet
Tubman House Tuesday even
ing greeted the Community
Chorus in their spring concert.
The special music commit
tee, Mrs. Ella B. Hayes, chair
man, Floyd Nelson and Mrs.
Daisy Britton presented an
excellent program. Those par
ticipating we're Miss Eta Cof-
fey,Mr S. Mary J. Alleyne, Mrs.
Nellie James, the Dream Land
-Four Quartet" Albert Cosby,
Cleophas Clarke, Miss Marcia
Mills, Mrs. zelma Johnson,
Mrs. Eliza Lewis, John Haw-
kins, Mrs. Claudia Bostick. 1t
was one of the best concerts Of
the year. The Dream Land
Four Quartet" is improving. A
The guardian., 1942-04-25

delicious collation. was served
by the committee. Claudius J.
Broadfield, conductor of the
chorus introduced several new
songs, a welcome variety in
community singing. Mrs Eve
lyn Nutter was the accompan-
ist.
The conductor thanks all
who helped to make Tuesday
night a big night in recreation.
Mrs. Lillian Williams is the
chairman for Tuesday, May
10. The Chorus will present a
popular concert at the Shaw
House Thursday the 14th, at
$3.50. There is no charge for
this concert.
The guardian., 1942-04-25

ing from s PM. until Q Am. at
the Jefferson Club, Austin ST.,
Central Square Cambridge. Pre-
senting Preston Sandy -Sandi-
ford and his Kings of Rhythm,
featuring The Sandy Trio; Phyl-
lis Ashby, sister of the famous
Irving Ashby of the Lionel
Hampton Band, with Florine
Berriman and Thelma Green.
Hear them sing Blues in the
Night" and other hot numbers.
Dance to Sandy,s new orchestra.
It Jumps and so will you when
YOU hear it. A valuable door
prize given away. See you therel
Support our government, buy
War Bonds and Stamps.
The guardian., 1942-04-25

ROBERT L. MERRITT, Jr.
Postal employee who was re.
Gently elected to the office ol
Trustee of Local 100 of the Nat.
i0naI Federation Of Post Office
Clerks. He is the first cOIored
clerk to be elected to this office.
The term of office is for thres
years.
The guardian., 1942-04-25

economic conditions encounter
ed by the consumer and merch-
ant alike and the interesting
findings of the Sigmas in this
field are always welcomed. The
affair is scheduled to begin at
BIS PM. and every indication
points to a full attendance.
Tickets may yet be secured
from any of. the members of
the Fraternity A panel discus
sion will high-light the eve
nings' activities.
The guardian., 1942-04-25
Bates Professor Lashes
Bigotry in Nation and Schools
BY JOHN A KENNEY, .JR.
and WILLIAM WORTHY. JR.

and WILLIAM WORTHY, JR.
LEWISTON, ME.-"While we
are helping to regain the free
dom of Filipinos and Chinese
ten thousand miles away, we
might work for freedom also
here and now"
Declared Robert G. Berkel-
man, Associate Professor of
English at Bates College, Lewis
ton, Maine, in an address be-
fore the full student body
Thursday, April 16.
His ire reused by the recent
refusal of the Oldest Methodist
school in the land to accept for
admission the fully qualified son
Of a colored alumnus, Professor
Berkelman lashed out in defense
Of minority groups in the ma
tion and in the colleges.
1--WE need colored people,
Jews and all of the minority
races and creeds, enough of
them to remind us whites and
Gentiles that democracy is no
selfish monopoly, no closed cor
poration. The minoritieS need
Bates for their education; Bates
needs them for her education.
Bates Has Had prominent col
ored students Professor Berkel-
man, top-notch instructor and
teacher at Bates of the famous
novelist, Gladys Hasty Carroll
"As The Earth Turns" spoke
highly of the record of colored
Of Bates. He refer
red to Benjamin e. Mays, Ph.D.,
now president Of Moorehouse
College, Atlanta University, and
a graduate of Bates in 1920.
Bates called Mays back in 1910
and made him an honorary
of Phi Beta Kappa and
Delta Sigma Rho, honorary de-
society.
"Of more than thousand |
Bates students I've had in class
IS, the one who knew most |
about drama and was most en-
about it was colored. |
He is now doing an excellent job |
teaching, writing, and produc-
ing drama at a Southern coll |
ege." The graduate Professor
thus referred to was
Owen V. Dodson, Bates '36, later
an outstanding student at
Yale's School of the Theatre
and now an instructor at Spell
nan College, Atlanta University,
Ga.
The Professor also spoke of
Charles B. Ray, of Class of 1927,
Continued on Page Four
The guardian., 1942-04-25
The Group Ten Club

By GUYLAND HUGHES
Now it can be told; the cur
tain goes up May Sth., on The
Group Ten Clubs Dance Caval-
cade Of 1942. It's better than
last year. Mr.. Henry Turner
Chairman together with the
members have worked out a very
unique program for your dane
ing pleasure May 8, 1912. Dane
The guardian., 1942-04-25
Mrs. Roosevelt Urges Race
Equality As Aid to Win War

HAMPTON, Va, April 10
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt de-
clared tonight that if America
is to win the war, and the
peace that comes afterwards,
il must recognize now that
"all races are equal and all
creedS deserving"
I'VE have been dedicated to
he proposition heretofore that
The white race was something
lpart, something peculiarly in
The guardian., 1942-04-25
Announcement t

MIR. and Mrs. Frederick M.
Merriman of 20 Lopez ST., Cam
bridge, announce the engage
ment Of their daughter Virginia
to Mr. Hilton c. Braithwaite
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Timothy
Braithwaite Of Cambridge. Both
are well known among the
younger set. The wedding will
take place early in August.