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Evening star., 1942-07-19
Two-Day Shutdown
Al Ford Auto Plant
Ends as 700 Return
Magnesium Workers at
Buffalo Also Agree to
Go Back to Work
Ey the Associated Press.

Ey the Associated Press.
The Ford Motor Co. plant at Iron
Mountain. Mich, was back In pro-
duction yesterday after two-day
shutdown caused by what union
leaders said was a work cessat ton
not strike"
The last of about 700 men who
left their machines asking cancella-
ton of a "stagger system" of en-
ployment and weekly instead of BIZ
weekly payments returned to their
Jobs. Officials of the CIO United
Automobile Workers said the work
cessation" had not been authorized
by the union.
Providence Strike Continues.
At Buffalo, N. Y, striking C1O
workers at the American Mag
nesium Corp. plant voted to return
after hearing appeals from union
leaders and Army officers. They
were told that the War Labor Board
would open a hearing Monday on
their demands for wage increases.
The strike involved about 1000 en-
ployes.
But at Providence, r. l., 800 work.
ers In the Browne 6 Sharpe Manu-
featuring Co. remained on strike
although leaders of the 1nterna-
tional Moulders and Foundry Work
ers Union had urged them to re-
turn. The strike followed discharge
by the company OF shop steward,
q member Of the union.
The War Labor Board at Wash
ington sent a request to Everett
Mass, for striking employees at the
Monsanto Chemical Co. to 60 back
to work pending arbitration of a
dispute between the company and
an AFL union which seeks union
shop and a wage increase OF 7 cents
an hour with an additional 8 cents
for rotating shift men.
The company, which said the av-
erage hourly wage was 80 cents, Of
fered 5 cents with an additional z
cents for rotating shifts.
Eight hundred employees in seven
Kansas City flour mills walked out
yesterday after both management
and labor had agreed a wage con-
troversy was a matter to be settled
by Federal labor conciliator.
Detroit Transit Strike Ends.
A strike on Detroit's municipality
owned transportation system was
ended, but the city ordered that be-
tween 300 and 400 workers who
walked out be suspended indefinite
ly. Mayor Edward J. Jeffries said
that mo one who was guilty of stop
ping the transportation system is
going to be taken back and forgiven
and forgotten.
The city said normal service would
be maintained on the system by
using seven-day shifts until the
suspensions ended or new workers
we're hired. The strikers voted Fri
day night to end the one-day walk
out. Members of an AFL union
the men struck because of what
Evening star., 1942-07-19
Rotioninq Officer Named

STAUNTON. Va, July 1s tSpe-
ciaD .-Fitzhugh Elder, jr., attorney.
has been appointed bicycle ration
ing officer for Staunton.
Evening star., 1942-07-19

wrote them. Ii. Comdr. Beecher.
When he left the Public Relations
Department in l94o he had written
lis. His output was reduced con-
siderably when he was in command
of a destroyer in the Pacific. He
did, however, pink out the music
for THE Ramparts I'VE Watch
while out there, and maybe five
or six Hawaiian songs you wouldn't
recognize by name"
He did this. and more, without
knowing how to read or write music.
His wife, Mrs Carvella Benson
Evening star., 1942-07-19
Pennsylvania Season
Turns Fish Talk 10 Bass

HARRISBURG, Pa, July l8,-Fish
stories are the main topic Of con-
versation since Pennsylvanias bass
season opened July l and will con-
tinue through November 30.
Along the Keystone States more
than 5000 miles of bass waters, lakes
and dams, hopeful anglers are try
ing their luck while spending their
vacationssin the mountains of Penn
sylvania, according to the State
Commerce Department.
Evening star., 1942-07-19
House Group Calls
Nationwide Gasoline
Rutioninq' 'Unsound'
b. the Associated Press.

b. the Associated Press,
A group Of House members,
who organized recently to study
the question OF Nation wide
gasoline rationing, concluded
yesterday that rationing "ex-
cept in areas where transporta-
ton facilities are temporarily
inadequate is unnecessary, un-
wise and economically unsound."
1t recommended, however,
that every possible step be taken
to conserve rubber and sug-
geSted a motor vehicle speed
limit of IS to 40 miles an hour.
The group was headed by
Representative Kleberg, Demo-
crat, OF Texas. with Represen-
tative Scrugham, Democrat, of
Nevada, as vice chairman.
Evening star., 1942-07-19
Sleeping Cars Daily.

Through sleeping car service is
available daily between Chicago and
the principal Yellowstone gateways,
and travellers who have made res
ervations in advance report no diff
ficulty in obtaining accommoda-
tions, railroads report.
Regular daily bus service is in
operation to and through the park
from all rail gateways. Sightseeing
sidetrips have been suspended. but
bus passengers still see the Park S
Evening star., 1942-07-19

Nays ONCE Of
Public Rela tions
here, but he has
given up COM
posing for the
duration.
IT h er e's no
time for music
since the war
began he said.
M a n y W h o
have sung and
II u III III e II ii ! .
songs have not
known that 1t.
Comdr. William
Gordon Beecher
Evening star., 1942-07-19
she had told there was "A man down

she had told there was a man down
South" she would see no more.
Meanwhile. Gireth was held in
the Alameda County jail. where he
told reporters There was no trou-
BILE. We never had an argument
In the year we knew each other,
She was A lovely person. She was
never more lovely than she was in
the last hours we were together y
The last hours were spent on the
first anniversary of the couples
friendship. The girls body was
found yesterday shortly after Gireth
telephoned police from Fresno that
Il murdered a girl in San Leandro." :"
Evening star., 1942-07-19
Revisits Crash Scene
Cracks UD Aouin

SPRINGFIELD. Mo. LP,-Koeppen
Hicks, railway fireman, had just re-
covered from effects of a crash In
his glider three months ago.
He patched up the homemade
craft and tried once more.
He scared to the scene of his
smashup-and crashed again. His
injuries were severe,
Evening star., 1942-07-19
Navy Bonjoist Returns Here,
Too Busy Now for Composing

slim" Beecher, the tall lieuten-
ant commander who has written so
many banjo pieces he has forgotten
the number. is back on duty in the
Evening star., 1942-07-19
Yellowstone Operates
Accommodationsfor
$500 Nightly
Train Service to Park
Reported Available on
Advance Reservation

YELLOWSTONE PARK, Wyo,
July l8.-Old Faithful Geyser, Yell
lowstone Falls, the bears and various
other facilities in Yellowstone Ma
tional Park are in operation this
summer and vacationists who come
by train are experiencing little or
no difficulty in visiting Uncle Sans
Oldest and largest recreational pre-
serve.
Figures released by the National
Park Service show that. up to July
/, travel to Yellowstone, both by
automobile and by rail, was running
approximately half the volume of
1e41 and 1910. A considerable part
of the decline in rail travel is at
tributed to the curtailment of es-
corted tours and conventions, which
heretofore brought many early Wis
itors to the Park,
Evening star., 1942-07-19
they called excessive delays in wage

negotiations.
The situation in the Nations great
steel industry was easier. The CLOS
United Steel Workers Union agreed
to accept the War Labor Boards
award of a 44-cent-a-day increase
instead of the 81 increase demand
ed for the group of Little Steel"
companies. Immediately there came
indications that the wage increase
would be extended to other steel
cOrporations.
Jackson advocate., 1942-05-30
Shipyard Owner To Pit White Team
Against Negro In Building Race
Sets New Pattern
In War Industry

NEW ORLEANS-( (Calvn's Newspaper Service)-The
Southern folks doctrine of superiority all that's
ored is soon to be given rude and crude test here And
this city in dher!
Jackson advocate., 1942-05-30
Draft Age To
Be Lowered

WASHINGTON-(S N SIT was
learned here Sunday from a very
good source that proposal to
lower the minimum age for conf
Jackson advocate., 1942-05-30
Sharecroppers In
Desperate Fight
For Living Wage
80 Cents An
Hour Is New
Demand of Men

ST. LOUIS - (ANP) - Once
again the troublesome "bootheel''
section of Missouri flares in the
headlines with share-croppers
white and colored uniting to
fight the efforts of certain inter-
ests to keep them in the lower
paid brackets Of workers when
the farmers themselves are clam
oring for an increase in income
IN keeping with other trends
throughout the country.
In this section, where the aver
age wage is from rs cents to
Sl.O0 a day for farm workers,
there are some instances where
S1.25 is top wages.
Demanding 80 cents an hour
for farm workers and 10 hour
day, the union is making drive
IN this section to secure this bene-
fit for colored and white farmers
who are united in an effort to
secure these advantages. Time
and a half ter over time is also
asked with As cents an hour as
Jackson advocate., 1942-05-30
NA!!XE son {
By RICHARD WRIGHT

Franks boy. Remember?"
! Nav. What you mean?"
"You remember hearing people
talk about Loeb and Leopold"
"Oh!p
| 'The ones who killed the boy
and then tried to get the money
from the boys family.
by sending notes to them Bigger
was not listening. The world of
sound fell abruptly away from him
asd vast picture appeared before
| his eyes, picture teenaing with so
much meaning that he could not
react to it all at once. He lay
his eyes unbliuking, his heart
pounding, his lips slightly open.
his breath coming and going SO
softly that it seemed he was not
breathing at all.
"You remember them?-aw, you
amt listening"
He said nothing.
How come you won't listen
when / talk to you "
Why could he, why could he not
not send a letter to the Daltons
asking for money?
Bigger sat up in bed, staring
| into the darkness.
Whats the matter, honey?"
He could ask for ten thousand
or maybe twenty
Bigger, what's the matter? I'm
talking to you."
He did not answer; his nerves
we're taut with the hard effort to
remember something.
Now! Yes, Loeb and Leopold had
planned to have the father of the
murdered boy get On a train and
throw the money out of the win
low while passing some spot He
leaped from bed and stood in the
middle of the floor. Bigger, He
cculd, yes, he could have them
pack the money in a shoe box and
have them throw it out or car
somewhere on the South Side. He
looked round in the darkness, feel
ing Bessie's fingers on his arm.
He came to himself and sighed.
Whats the matter, honey?" she
asked.
"Hunh?"
whats or your mind?'
Nothing"
Come and tell me. You wor-
ried?"
NAV, nav. )"
"Now. I tcld you what was on
my mind, but you won't tell me
what's on yours. That amt fair"
Il just forgot something, that's
ILL.,"
'Trhat amt what you was think
'ng about" she said
He sat hack on the bed. feeling
his scalp tingle with excitement
Could hr do it? This was what had
been missing asll this was what
could make the thing complete
But this thing was so big he would
have to take time and think it
over carefully.
Honey, tell me where you get
that money!"
what money!" he asked In a
tone CT feigned surprise.
Jaw, Bigger. know something's
Jackson advocate., 1942-05-30

The test will be made at the
shipyard Of Higgins Industries,
Inc. Crews Of white workers on
one mile-long assembly line, will
compete with crews Of colored
workers, on another, to see which
tulns out 10,500-ton freighters the
faster. May the best crews win"
is the invocation OF Andrew Jack
son Higgins, shipward boss and
1Wnel
lie is middle aged tough, cuss-
ing Irishman, son Of a small town
Nebraska laWyer-editor. His out-
fit, with three plants, is the big
gest war industry here. 1t is soon
expected to employ about $4,000
The projected white-anG-black
competition, with large. segregated
crews ritted against each other on
identical tasks in the same plant,
is believed to be first ever dream
ed Of in the touciy field of south
ern mixed labor
Higgins IS sure that the chief
gamer from the competition will
be Uncle Sam, who needs ships
fast. The assembly lines-plus the
need for using al labor available
here-gave Higgins the novel idea
for entirely white ard entirely col
ored crews, each working Il ships
at a time. He know tne South was
not yet ready for mixed crews
where individual merit might place
colored bosses over white helpers
SO he thought of segregating
them and in competition Higgins
said he might have lodged the is
sue if the size ard urgency Of the
task hadn't compelled immediate
lafge-scale recruiting of the South,s
entire labor reservoirs, which in
tludeS blacks and whites. Con-
struction started las month on the
$32 100000 plant.
He pays workers according to
merit, from basic scale Of SLOT
per hour. Successful applicants are
either put to work instantly at one.
of the two other Higgins plants,
where about 10 per cent of the
5000 employers are colored help
ers, or sent to training school in
preparation for the start of the big
ship building at the new plant.
Meanwhile, word of the projected
black and white battle has passed
around in all of New Orleans best
circles, where the old French aris-
tocracy has helped to hold high
the torch of superiority.
The terrible possibility that the
colored assembly might turn out
ships faster than the whites has
caused them to inquire neryolSly
Might it not give dangerous ideas
to the colored race, II it should
win? Wouldn't it intensity the
drive of racial equality?"
To which Higgins grins and re-
plies, Impossible! isn't the white
man far superior? That's what you
folks have been telling me ever
since l came down here from Ne
braska. But damn it, of course the
white assembly lines are going to
win. But they are going to work
like hell to do it. faster than they
would without the competition"
Jackson advocate., 1942-05-30
Dedicate Memorial Tablet
To Exploits ora rny Unit
Achievements of 349th Field
Artillery in Last War Praised

FORT. SILL. Okla.-(SNS)- A
memorial 5 tablet commemorating
World War No I achievements OF
the 349th Field Artillery regiment,
the first Negro unit of the U. S.
Army, was dedicated here Saturday
by Brig. Gen. George R. Allin with
the expressed hope that its record
in World War II would be equally
as svalorous.
General Allin, commandant OF
the Fort Still Field Artillery School,
ppjnted out that a place was left
s.lloW lie plaques record of the
regiments World War I service for
the continuation of its history in
the present war.
Stressing the significance of that
spaces he told the members of the
regmsnt; command by 1t. Col. c
E.LBoyie,s that whatever is in
scribed in this blank space is de-
pendent entirely upon YOU"
S4Be stone monument, located in
TIA Ess.}r regimental chapel yard. is an
enlarged. replica Of the regimental
sRield and contains the regimental
dfRiee, eff the Lorraine Cross and
tire motto "On the Way, Sir"
BEIiGlssSifl5gg BtIiGlssS.i!i 5g to date the history of
achievements of the unit, the. Me-
GRO Field ARTILLERY regiment in the
W S. Army the plaque was design
edato carry the achievements of the
regiment during the present war as
the ganization makes its history.
Following the dedicatory program
General sAHin stood a review of the
regiment which has furnished
csdNes TO form a corps artillery
Jackson advocate., 1942-05-30
Segregation Is
Banned By Bus
Co. In Capital
Ruling Follows
Federal Policy
On Race Issue

WASHINGTON, D. C.-(SNS)
Instructions have been issued
to all employees of the ABB & w
Transit company which operates
a bus line between Washington
and Arlington, Va, that there
must be no attempt to segregate
passenger using the line because
Of race.
The action followed a confer
ence among DR.. Leon A. Ransom,
NAACP legal committee member,
R. 7. Mitchell, vice-president of
the bus company; Frank D.
Reeves, NAACP Washington Bu-
reau administrative assistant, and
manager of the company.
The ruling affects traffic to
and from Washington and Airing
ton, and follows the executive or
der banning discrimination of
federal employee. rather than the
Virginia law which requires seq
regation.
The bus company was first APP
preached by DR.. Ransom, Tues,
day, May 19, after seven War
Department employees reported to
the NAACP offices that they had
been evicted from bus because
they refused to accept seats in
the rear.
Immediately after the COM
pany's announcement the NAACP
notified the War Department of
The situation and is insisting that
that Department take steps to
make sure the practice becomes
,ermanent.
Jackson advocate., 1942-05-30

wrong. You worried. You got some
thing on your mind. I can tell it.
You want me to make up some
thing to tell you?"
All right; If that's the wav you
feel about it."
"Aw, Bessie
You didn't have to come here
tonight
Maybe l shouldn'tve come"
You don't have TO come no
more
Don't you love me9"
About as much as you love me-
How much is that?"
you ought to know
''Aw, let's stop fussing," he said.
He felt the bed sag gently and
Ito be cOntinued).
Jackson advocate., 1942-05-30
BY RICHARD WRIGHT
(InStaIltnent Ply

He took his hand away and re-
laxed. He did not feel that he
wanted to step forth and resume
where. he had left off living; not
Just yet. He was lying at the bot
tom OF a deep dark pit upon 6
pallet of warm wet straw and al
the top of the pit he could see the
cold blue Of the distant sky. Sons
hand had reached inside Of him
and had laid a quiet finger Of peace
upon the restless tossing of his
spirit and had made him feel thai
he did not need to long for home
row. Then, like the long withdraw
ing sound of a reeeding wave, the
sense of night and sea and warmth
went from him and he lay in ths
darkness gazing with vacant eyes
at the shadowy ceiling, hearing
his and her breathing.
Bigger"
HUMP"
"You like your job?'
yeah. Why?"
II just asked"
'sYou SWELL"
"You mean that?"
Sure"
Where you working?'
"Over on Drexel."
"Where?"
I'm the 46OO block.''
"Oh!"
'What?"
Nothing"
But, what?"
"Oh, I Just happen to think of
something
Tell me, what is it?"
1T amt nothing, Bigger, honey"
What did she mean by asking
all these questions? He won
dered if she had detected any,
thing in him. Then he won-
dered if he were not letting
fear get the better of him by
thinking always in terms of
Mary and her having been
sm0thered and burnt. But he
wanted to know why she had
asked where he worked.
Come on, honey. Tell me what
you thinking"
1T amt nothing much, Bigger
used to work over in that section
rot far from where the Loeb folks
lived"
"Loeb?"
.'sYeah. One of the families OF
me of the boys that killed that
Jackson advocate., 1942-05-30
Blood Jim Crow Is
Hit Again By NAACP

NEW YORK -(SNS)-With the
weight of the American Medical
Association behind it. the NAACP
re-opened its representations to
the Red Cross to abolish its pres
ent policy of segregating the blood
Of Negro donors for plasma banks.
May %.
In a letter to Norman II. Davis,
president of the American Red
Cross. the NAACP cites the
Journal Of the American Medical
Association, in which a statement
demonstrates conclusively that
there is no difference in so-called
Negro" and white" blood.
The ANA Journal in answer TO
a question on the use of Negro
blood for blood banks, printed, ir
part: 'sIhere is no factual basis for
discrimination against the use Of
Negro blood or plasma for injec-
tion into white people. The trans
fusion of Negro blood into white
persons and that of white persons
into Negroes has been repeatedly
performed in civil practice with
out any evidence of harm or
aversion on the part Of the re-
cipients.
THE present agitation arises
from the inopportune publication
of orders prohibiting the inclusion
Of Negro blood plasrna in the pro-
posed niIits nv plssna bank. The
aversion perhaps represents the
perSistence of the ancient folklore
that ones personality is closely
associated with ones blood"
The AMA sG,Irnal cites numer-
Jackson advocate., 1942-05-30

brigade headquarters baCtery, three
artillery regiments, an artillery
battalion, three sanitary companies
and a quartermaster company, but
which is still considered the lead
ing Negro Field Artillery regiment
of the Army by military officials
Concluding the afternoon pro-
gram, the School commandant pre-
sented athletic awards to members
Of the football and basketball
teams. Military awards were pre-
sented to Battery E., commanded
by Capt D. E. Dixon, for having
the highest rating in Field Artil-
lery School firing, and to the fifth
section of Battery commanded by
1St 1t. Charles F. Lowe, for win
ming the Manual Arms competition
Sgt. Woodrow w. Crockett, Service
Battery was awarded the regimental
model soldier award.
Jackson advocate., 1942-05-30

the basic wage for tractor ope-
"ators.
Some accuse the farm owners
in this section of trying to drive
workres off the WPA and relief
rolls where they receive stand
ard prevailing wage when work
ng. They say these folk are max
ng an issue of something which
loes not exist, an exreme short
ege of farm workers.
Jackson advocate., 1942-05-30

Gus authorities who have refuted
the statement that there is a differ
ence between the blood of races.
The NAACP told the Red Gross that
the pronouncement Of so authori-
tative a medical journal is more
than sufficient basis for a revi-
sion OF its policy.
Jackson advocate., 1942-05-30
MT THAT RHEUMATIC PAIN
RIGHT WHERE II HURTS

And look at the SilUer Lining
IN those Clouds Of Pain
The big idea is that you want to feel
better. When pain eases, your mind
eases. You get rest that means deliver
ance. So use something that gets at the
pain. C-2223 brings you pain-relieving
help. Now you will feel as good as
Others who enjoyed its help. Don't pun
It off. Get C-1223 now. 6oc, ST every
where. Use only as directed. Purchase
price refunded i you are not satisfied.
Jackson advocate., 1942-05-30
ANNOUNCES SUMMER
PROGRAM

FORT VALLEY, Gaia N P)-
Fort Valley college center, "a home
away from home" recently an
nounced a five point plan for
enriching the life of the summer
student. Purpose of the plan is
to demonstrate the worth of reli-
gion in the educational program; to
increase the power and usefulness
Of the teacher; to promote interest
in the community. and to develop
methods of building a program for
the church, school, and community
Jackson advocate., 1942-05-30

pulsory service in the armed forces
to 19, and possibly 18 years, will
be put before congress soon.
1t was pointed out that the
War Department is convinced that
the draft age should be lowered.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-22

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-22

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