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Evening star., 1942-08-20
Transit Official
Backs Routes in
PrinceGeorges
Asks PSC Members
To Test Proposed
Runs From District
d, the Associated Press.

b. the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE. Aug. 20.-Dean j.
Locke. staff engineer OF the Capital
Transit Co, yesterday invited the
Public Service Commission to take
test run over the new bus and car
routes from Washington TO Prince
Georges County communities pro-
posed by the utility.
Mr.. Locke took the stand at q
hearing In rebuttal after opponents
of the proposed changes had pre-
sented testimony for two days.
Testimony was concluded at the
end Of the day. The record VIII not
be ready for a month or six weeks.
At that time, Arthur l.. Rysticken.
Greenbelt town counsel. said he
would file a brief with the commits
sion. opposing the change.
Wants to Demonstrate.
Discussing the question OF run
ming time under the new schedule,
Mr.. Locke told the commission.
there has been a great deal OF talk
here and talk won't settle this mat
ter. We propose to demonstrate it."
Such a test, he said. would be
made over the routes which would
be followed If the commission
granted the company's petition.
Stops would be made and other
tests checked to show the commits
sion actual running and trafYic con-
ditions on the routes, Mr.. Locke
added
TIE last of the opposed witnesses.
Walter Mulligan, president Of the
Prince Georges County Federation
of Citizens Association, said the
present proposal duplicated one re-
jected by the commission three
years ago and the transit COM
pany's plea Of national defense Is
Just a subterfuge TO ressurect the
scheme"
He called the proposal lust ass-
other step to separate Maryland
traf1ic from that of the District Of
Columbia" Saying he saw no ne
cessity at present for the Mount
Rainier terminal, he opposed the
increased use suggested by the COM
pany.
See Taffic Hazard.
Earlier in the day, two Mount
Rainier officials said the proposed
use of the terminal would create q
traffic hazard. IN
Bert E. Sager, town counsel, said
congestion at the terminal under
the suggested scheme would be so
great there would be one trafic
death week.
Eugene B. Plumer, police chief
, claimed that maximum use of the
terminal had been reached at pres
ent and II don't see how they can
get any more in He said the
change would make a dangerous
traffic situation.
Evening star., 1942-08-20
Alexandra vPF Unit
Beqins Recruiting Toniqht

A recruiting campaign for Com
pany 112, Virginia Protective Force,
of Alexandria, will begin tonight and
continue through Saturday, Capt.
John M. Burroughs, commanding
officer, announced today.
Recruiting stations will be estab-
lished in front of J. c. Penney Co.,
6l5 King street: Peoples Drug Store,
725 King street, and KiKng Street
Pontiac Co., 1701 King street.
Enlistment applications will be re-
ceived from men between the ages
of 18 and SIS years. Training for
new recruits will begin Monday.
Evening star., 1942-08-20
BY the Associated Press.

BALTIMORE, Aug. 20.-Ofise of
Price Administration officials said
today they were investigating reports
Of B. c, D and s gasoline ration
stickers OH large numbers Of auto
mobiles at the opening of the Marl-
boro race track
State OPA Director Leo H. Nc
Cormick said he had received re-
port of the Marlboro situation" ="
and that he was also checking
whether motorists who got extra al
lotments of gasoline are making
trips to Ocean City and other recre-
ational centers for pleasure and thus
violating the ratpning law.
If they are, they are subject to
a years imprisonment and $4,000
fine" ne added.
Evening star., 1942-08-20
Anti-SIot Machine Law
Closes Norfolk Inns
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
RICHMOND. Va. Aug. 2o.-TIe
Virginia ABC Board said today it
had revoked the beer permits of five
licensees in the Norfolk area on
charges that they had paid off hits"
on slot machines in their places Of
business. They were the first cases
brought before the board since the
new anti-slot machine law became
effective June 27.
1t was the first ABC charge lodged
against any OF the five. The boards
records showed all had an "a"
rating.
Evening star., 1942-08-20

The Army needs hundreds of these
efficient guns. You can help obtain
them by investing at least 10 per
cent of your income regularly, every
payday, in War bonds and stamps.
Buy War bonds and stamps from
your bank, your post office or at
some other conveniently located is
suing agent. For every So you in
vest you get 81 at maturity.
United States Treasury Department.
Evening star., 1942-08-20
Il X
&Aat4e~R..xWtM
WAR BONDS

The 81-mm. trench mortar is the
big brother of the Comm mortar,
and costs S700 each. 1t is a short
range gun, firing in an arc at the
rate of about 35 shells per minute
Because of its trajectory, the gun
crew can be out Of sight and COM
paratively safe from enemy snipers.
Evening star., 1942-08-20
Rockville Divorce Granted

ROCKVILLE, Md, Aug. 20 tSpe-
ciaD Mrs Ramona B. Hood of Sill
yer Spring has been granted an
absolute divorce from John Warren
Hood, also of Silver Spring, by Judge
Stedman Prescott In Circuit Court.
Evening star., 1942-08-20
Montgomery Draft Board
Sends II for PhysicaIs
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star
ROCKVILLE, Md, Aug. 90
Montgomery County Draft Board
No. / of Rockville sent u colored
registrants to the physical examina-
ton station at Baltimore this week,
and has ordered As white draftees to
report there Monday.
Ivaa cnlnred selectaes Mere.
Evening star., 1942-08-20
SD Ship Launched

BALTIMORE, Aug. 20 (Pl.-The
Bethlehem-Fairf1e Shipyard today
launched its SD Liberty ship, named
In honor Of Pierce Butler, Revolu-
tionary War figure.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-01-31

perhaps. the good old "1nanmisss
at whose breasts many aristocratic
SouthernerS had sucked.
CHANGE AT CONFERENCE
Two weeks ago at q conference
attended by the only Negro mem
Der of Red Cross board, DR.. F.. D.
Patterson, of Tuskegee, the Red
Cross agreed to the use of Negro
donors and a general statement
excluding mention of race alto
gether was agreed upon. The state,
ment which IL was agreed should
be consented to by the army and
navy read simply that hereafter
all blood donors would be accepted
Adm. Mcintyre issued q letter
denying that he had objected tn
the use of Negro blood which was
perhaps technically true. Gen
Magee would not accept the state
ment which had been worked out.
He wanted it made specific and
clear that the Negro blood would
be kept separate and given only
to those soldiers requesting it,
Observers poirt out that the inter-
resting thing about the whole mat
ter is that it has been scientifically
proved there is no way to tell the
blood Of one race from another.
In the future Negro donors NAV
give On the same basis as whites,
as much blood to the Red Cross as
they desire. providing their bloo.s
meets requirements.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-01-31
On The Removal Of The State Agriculture
Extension Service To Alcorn College

ON LAST MONDAY NIGHT a group of representative
and civcmnded Negro leaders met Central Church
consider the question of the removal Acon College the
Agriculture Extension Services the All Club Work and the
Home Economies Department having been located in Jack
since this work for coored people started IN the
state; the meeting resulting in petition being addressed
to the Governor the Board of Trustee Institute of Higher
Learning requesting that these offices be allowed remain
in jackson.
The Director of the Agriculture work, M. M Hubert,
and the head of the Al Club work. c. Cypress, are we'll
known and outstanding citizens of Jackson having with
their families contributed long and much to it's religious
cultural civic and social life and it be easily under
stood that for them leave Jackson under any circm
stances would be no nconsiderate loss to the city.
At the meeting Monday night we observe with deep
how number of those who attended the meeting
sought persuade the committee present their petit
ton their chief being that any such action might
danger those persons in their jobs to which the committee
disagreed and we think, rightly
In the first place. neither of these persons resent
the meeting and do not believe that single response
BILE state official would attempt to make them responsible
for the acts group such made up the meeting Monday
night and had they themselves been present and made the
request that action be taken feel that the committee
would have decided in the way decided that the
removal these offices from Jackson matter effect
ing the welfare of all the cooed people of the state well
the state ITSELF without regard to who headed directed
them.
Since the announcement of the proposed removal Of
these offices Alcon College few days have
talked to number of regarding the proposal and
frankly confess that among graduates and former
students of the college there has been almost unanimous
opinion that such step would be detrimental the work
In trying to reach conclusion with respects the mat
ter have had before the main arguments OF the chief
proponents from both sides those who would the Of
fees Acorn make only argument and that is that
the white division of the work located at the state college
at Sarksve therefore the Negro division should be
located the Negro State College, those who want the office
remain in Jackson point to Acorn isolated location the
present condition the roads leading to the college,
and additional money time and energy that would
result in order effectively carry the work from Acorn
Finally it is opinion and sincerely believe, it is
the opinion of the vast majority of intelligent Negroes
throughout the State that these offices will be able to
tend their greatest usefulness by being allowed to remain in
Jackson.
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Sec'y StiInson
Continued from Page u

trained as second lieutenants
The 93rd Division will be a high
~ mobile so-called triangular di-
vision. like 81 other such units to
De formed this year.
Only Negro presently qualified to
command such division would be
Brlgadier General B. 0. Davis. Jr.
The second Negro pursuit SQUAD
ron has been designated the Tooth.
It's post was not given. The 9sth
Pursuit Squadron has been in
training since September at Tus-
kegee, Ala, and cadets who COM
plete the instruction will be assign
ed TO train other groups.
Secretary Stimson also an
nounced that new 9th Armored
DIVISION will be organized at Fort
Nnox, Kentucky, early in February
and later moved to a permanent
station whose location was not an
nounced. Officers for the new unit
which will number more than
lO,OOO men, already have started
Tor Fort Knox. This will he .
white unit.
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BETWEEN THE LINES

| But when 1t comes to Offering
heroes We thank God for Joe Louis
who is not only fighter hut a
patriot who is willing to face the
foes of this nation On the battle
field. While Lindbergh sulks in
silence and while Jack Dempsey
tries to make a comeback after be-
ing generally regarded as a Stacker
during the World War number
one, Joe Louis is still hero-ing in
a big way. The Negro race should
be encouraged and so the nation.
Negroes must bear in mind that
there is more dynamite to destroy
prejudice in Joe Louis gesture
than in a thousand debates and
discussions. The Negro who does
the ''big thing is the only Negro
who is destroying prejudice. Even
our gains before the courts of the
land do not reach the seat of the
trouble. What Joe Louis has done
does reach the seat of the trouble
and this kind of thing is the only
cure for prejudice It is going to
take more than a Joe Louis to turn
the tide, but this "Joe Louis spirit
is the key that is going to unlock
the doors of the future for the
Negro. Hail Joe Louis, THE ALL
AMERICAN HERO!
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Destiny OF minority groups and
subject peoples the world around
All gratitude and encouragement
then to those who have at last
seen that Negroes must unit
within. before they can link 10
effectively with the nation in is
holy purpose to present q unifd
front against its foes.
May all the little solyers Of
problems; all the self appointed
spokesman for legions of blaes
men and women: all the Hogs for
salary. titles, place and doubtfal
influence; all the petty ssbig sfos'
IN church and market place take
notice for what we NAV hope is
this recent, commendable and
long, awaited determination to
make it possible for the Negro to
speak his piece to the world .'~th
one voice.
WILL BE NEGRO POLICE
When that happens here in At
lanta. there will be Negroes on
the police force; workers, skled.
Iunskilled and professional, WI
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Fergerson Furniture
CONTINUED from Pare ~

Continued from Page -
under the new installment buying
regulations, which their friends
to have the following information !.
IN tie very first place the regu-
lation governing installment buy.
ing have been made to help pay
for and conduct the war, and it
is unpatriotic for anyone whether
buying or selling to in any way
evade them. 1t is for this reason
first that Ferguson Furniture
Company is observing the rules.
In the next place, while there
IS as yet no enforcement agency
to see that this law is oheyed, one
is sure to be created and those
who violate the rules will have
trouble.
In asking the cooperation of all
their friends and customers. Fereu-
son Furniture Store gives this in
formation as to down payment.
On stoves, radios, heaters, both
new and second hand, the down
payment must be 20 per cent of
the cost, on new and 10 per cent
Of the cost.
On second had furniture there
is. no rule as to the amount of
down payment necessary, and
where the amount of the down
PAYMENT is less than $500 no re-
aurement is made by the regula-
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-01-31
BY GORDON B. HANCOCK

Without degrees and vaunted
pedlgrees these three Negroes have
written one of the most brilliant
pages of Goth century history. Not
alone to Joe, but to those wise
Negro handlers does the nation
owe debt of gratitude that it will
be hard to pay.
Although comparisons are said
to be odious, ! am human enough
to want to raise little odium here
and mention Lindbergh as a hero
in comparison with Joe Louis. Had
the Nordic race been called upon
five years ago to name their hero
number one, Lindbergh would have
been their unanimous choice. The
admiration for Lindbergh was not
circumscribed by race. Negroes
were proud of Lindbergh I was.
PATHETIC IN OBLIVION
But Iindbergh played an ignoble
role In the present crisis and to-
day he is pathetic In his oblivion.
Men of large mould must sympa-
thize with this fallen hero al
though Negroes know that Lind
bergh is known as Negro phobist
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The AII-American Hero

WE ALL, LIKE Virgil. are wont
70 sing OF arms and heroes! Down
deep In every human heart there
slumbers the embers of hero wor-
snip and ever and anon they flare
forth into a mighty flame. HUI
mans care little for the occasions
that call forth life's heroisrns, and
whether they be of military moral
or physical origins do nos matter
most.
The thing that matters most is
the heroic soul aflame with the
fires of mightiness. When the bells
OF heroism ring. the Jew in his
wandering, the Indian from his
Wigwam, the Hottentot with his
TOM toms, no less than the eau
casian in his pride, give ear, as if
to joyful sound.
BECAME A HERO
Joe Louis battered Baer. he be-
came the all-American hero. He
was idolized not alone by his own
people whose pride he has bolster
ed these years of his pugilistic
proves, but by the entire nation
and the world. Joe Louis was not
fighting for his race alone, he was
fighting for his country and for
navy that had slammed the door
in the face Of his fellow race men
Joe rose to resplendent heights on
this momentous occasion. Al
though he had stood out as a
champion, but the championship
is merely a matter of physical
prowess: but when Joe fights for
charity he moves into the moral
realms and he thus becomes ma
jestic.
Joe is greater morally now than
he ever could hope to be physical
~. Joe has given this nation and
this war-cursed world lesson in
higness that should i1nmortalize
his name. Anybody can fight for
his friends and for those who have
despitefully used one ana ones
race. When Joe comes over into
the field of moral stamina he is
walking on holy ground over
which the loWly Nazarane walked
nearly 1900 years ago. When ice
walked into that ring that memoir
able Friday night, he was turning
the other cheek and as sure as
truth shall last, there will come to
Joes race and to his nation ever
lasting profit.
MUST GIVE JOE CREDIT
OF course, we must give Joe the
credit due him, but we must not
overlook the nation that produc-
ed him. In the final analysis the
nation Is the creator and Joe is the
creature. A nation that can pro-
duce a Joe Louis is worth fighting
and dying for. / look through the
| greatness of Joe Louis at the great
ness of the nation that produced
him. lock through t h e
greatness of Joe Louis and see
the greatness of that Negro tril1m-
virate, Roxborough, Black ard
Blackburn, whose sagacious man
agement and whose common sense
have made the humble Negro boy
from the cotton fields of Alabama
the idol Of an age. Had Joe been
mismanaged he could nave been
Is great 2 tlop = he = Z hero.
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Charge Shooting

colored soldier In front of the col
ored theatre in Alexandria and
when the colored MP. refused to
turn over his prisoner the white
MP. struck the colored prisoner. A
fight followed with the two COL
ored soldiers giving the white MP
severe beating,
Inundated and embarrassed, the
white MP. put in call to the
Alexandria police department. and
asked for help. Scores OF white
civilian officers and white mill
tary policemen and white and COL
ored civilians rushed to the scene
and that is when the dirty work
really started.
From sflat point on Tor two
hours. shooting, fighting and
throwing OF bottles, bricks and
sticks held sway. Bedlan and ter
rorism reigned supreme up and
down the four-block area of Lee
street between Seventh and Thorn
ton streets. Unsuspecting colored
men and women were bounced up.
on, knocked about, beaten and
battered.
WOMAN SHOT IN HIP
One young woman, Miss Mary
Frances Scales, was shot in the
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Red Cross
Continued from Page u

earlier In New York City began
in 1939-4O experiments which were
carried on by DR.. John Sudder IF
Presbyterian hospital, New York
City. and DR.. Charles r. Drew
head of the department. of surgery
at Howard university. The research
carried on in New York by Drs
Schudder and Drew progressed to
such an extent that 1t was decided
to use blood thus processed and
dried in England and France for
the allied armies. Accordingly
blood piasma with a commercial
value Of some 100000, gathered
principally In New York City and
from people Of all races. color and
creeds, under the general super
vision Of the Red Cross but with a
Negro physician, DR.. Charles r.
Drew, in charge, was shipped to
England and used.
Plans were then considered by
the Red Cross for the processing
of blood similarly for the Ameri-
can army and navy. The processing
went a 0 ng satisfactorily
until it reached Baltimore where
objection was raised to acceptance
of the blood of a Negro donor by
local whites. The Red Cross thus
had forced upon it an issue which
it passed on to the army and navv
surgeon generals.
NsGEE STILL REACTION
AIRY
The navy. represented by Adm.
Ross r Mcintyre, responded that
it had little use for blood plasrna for
Negroes and that it would not be
necessary to process, Negro blood
. for its use. The army, represented
by its surgeon general, Mai. Gen.
James G. Magee, replied that it
s'Was afraid the indiscriminate use.
Of white and Negro donors would
initiate against the success OF our
blood plasma program - This ap-
peared to be in line with most
of Gen. Magee's pronouncements
regarding Negroes. Gen. Magee is
said by members of the National
Medical association, and the Ma
tional Association Of Colored
Graduate Nurses to have been total
~ reacrionary wherever Negroes
have been involved in army medi-
cal service
Negro reaction was swift Sensi-
tive already toward determinations
the statement was regarded as adj
| ditional insult, and protests poured
in. The American Red Cross found
itself caught in the middle. White
southerners, awakened to the mat
ter, joined an opposite protesting
group insisting that they did not
want Negro blood infiltrated into
their sons, forgetting altogether,
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Alcorn Participates
CONTINUED from Page u

((ontinueo from rage ~
Tense savings. In order that the
students may become more familiar
with the purpose of and the neces-
sity for buying defense bonds and
stamps, the local committee has
conducted forums in which many
informative discussions have devel-
oped Most of the classes and clubs
are now buying bonds.
Two faculty members, Walter
Flowers and Fred Woodland who
were loaned to the state last year,
are again serving the state in SUI
pervising defense projects. The for
mer has held conferences, in every
section of the state, with teachers
OF agriculture for the purpose OF
formulating plans to carry on an in
tensive program for increasing farm
products. The latter superviSes
about forty classes, located in eigh-
teen towns, in woodwork, auto
mechanics, electricity, hot and cold
metals, and concrete construction.
The most recent development Of
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From Ny Study Window
By REV. JOHN C. WRIGHT

their own inability to marshall all
of their numerical, spiritual and
material strength behind their
leaders and in support of their
programs. The dominant group
themselves, sometimes willing, not
only to listen to but to hear, the
demands Of the Negro, have been
baffled and confused by the babel
of voices and the rival claims OF
competing organizations and sell
fish. ambitious leaders
A DIFFICULT TASK
In seventy-five years OF his
freedom in America, it would be
difficult. if not impossible, to find
one vital issue upon which the
Negro spoke with one voice to
the world" And twelve or thirteen
million people SO speaking through
the mouths of leaders who COULD
be recognized as the free choice
of a united race, would be heard
and respected not only in America
but in the cabinets and parlia-
ments of the civilized world.
I therefore again say, that it Is
reaSsuring to note that at LONG
last a crisis so urgent has arisen
as to awaken Negro America tc
the need of presenting a united
front in the unprecedented role SHE
must play, as defender Of democra-
cy from foreign foes. and crusad-
er for the privileges and freedoms
Of democracy in her own home
land.
We have many things to say II
this current world upheaval--
things which If said with ons
| voice. will not only insure our owr
spiritual and political amancipa.
! ton, but VIII profoundly affect tn
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Alcorn's defense activities is the
organization of the Alcorn auxiliary
OF the American Red Cross, which is
at present engaged in making hos
pital shirts. Thread for the project
is being furnished by the college.
The members plan to begin the con-
structiOn OF other garments as soon
as the present project will have
been completed. The work is being
carried on under the direction of
Mrs. Native C. Flowers, Director,
Division Of Home Economics.