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Evening star., 1942-05-03
McNUTTS WARNING ON JAPAN RECALLED
Presidential Contest Drowned Out His Voice

-Four years ago tall, tanned, hand
some American few across the Paciflc
and arrived in Washington in a blaze of
terrific publicity. He had q message to
the American people, but that message,
vital as it later turned out to be to the
country's security, was all but totally
lost in the welter of the pre-war presi-
Dental speculation.
Correspondents and columniSts, re-
porters and editorial writer's were more
interested in the mans chances to win
the Democratic nomination than in his
warning about the gravity of the Far
Eastern situation and the emergence OF
Japan as q power of destruction.
They gave him so much publicity,
mostly the kidding variety, that veteran
political observers wagged their heads
and mourned not too sadly that his po-
litical career could not possibly survive
the feminine reporters gushes over his
good looks nor the Washington corre-
spondents' detailed dispatches ridicul-
ing the mammoth, Lucullan cocktail
party which his Indiana friends and
political supporters gave him at the
Mayf1ower Hotel.
But he survived all these Two sum-
mers later he found himself in the rare
position OF rejecting sure vice presi-
Dental nomination because the mighty
head of the ticket himself had begged
him to yield to another man. And only
few days ago he was appointed by the
President OF the United States to one
Of the most potent posts in the Nations
history.
AS chief of the new War Man Power
Commission, Paul Worries McNutt has
politically come a long way since 1888
when Lochinvar-like he dashed into
Washington to talk necessarily on the
unexciting allied subjects of the Philip
pines. Japan and the Far East He
wanted to warn America of the danger
she faced in that part of the world
where he had served for year as high
commissioner to the large and important
Omitted States Territory 10000 miles
sway, but his interviewers were more in
terested In what he thought about a
whether or not he would kiss babies If
he were nominated.
Warned Of Pacific Dangers
Mr.. McNutt got one good break, how
ever. The National Radio Forum in1
vited him to give his views on the Philip
pines and the Far East over Nation
wide radio network He promptly ac-
cepted it. and on the night Of March
IA, 1898, he gave the United States some
half-forgotten facts Of national life and
warned the American people Of the dan
gers confronting them across the Pacific
History is q strange thing" he be-
gan. Its events pass with seeming
linaliA OF a gun shot, but the conse-
cueneAs Of each event continue 50 long
as the world turns and man lives" Then
Evening star., 1942-05-03
European Front

The Allied bombings Of German-held
Europe have been so intense recently
that they bring aerial attack into the
realm of something approaching posi-
tive offensive warfare. There Is still
loud cry for a United Nations second
front in Europe, but In the meantime
the bombing planes are doing much
damage and distracting considerable
German attention from the one front
in Russia.
American Eagle Squadron flyers shot
down five German Focke-Wuf COS, the
Nazis' newest type
Air Drive fighters, over North
Widespread ern France on Mon
day, after British
bombers few up to Rostock, German
port on the Baltic, and gave 1t its fourth
pounding They centered their efforts
on the Heinkel aircraft factory there.
Other swarms of r. A. r planes bat
tered the docks at Dunkerque, laid mines
in German controlled waters and at
tackled enemy airdromes in France and
the Low Countries One bomber en-
countered an enemy supply ship of the
Danish coast and left it blazing. The
Germans in turn made aerial bombing
visits to Bath, 100 miles west of London,
and ranged over other points In West
and Southwest England.
Monday night the r. A. F. far flying
bombers raided the Norwegian port of
Trondheim, where the Germans are
building an Atlantic battle fleet base.
The 35,000-ton battleship Trpitz and thef'
l0,000-ton cruiser Prinz Eugen are at
Trondheim. Other r. A. F. squadrons
dropped their destroying messengers on
Cologne and Dunkerque.
So it went through the week. On
Thursday the r. A. F. bombs hit and
fired the Goodrich rubber works and
the Gnome -Rhone aircraft engine plant
in Gennevilliers, in the suburbs of Paris.
The nightly visits were making their
impress on the German people. The
Berlin correspondent of the Basel Ma
tional Zeitung in Switzerland reported
that the man on the street" in Berlin
sis fully awake to the serious conse-
quences of these bombings." He said
oCl WClC SiCdtAy CAS3eCo bSSobco
of the repeated bombings of Rostock
and Lubbock.
He reported the ruins of the destroyed
factories in Rostock caught fire again
and again" British airmen prevented
German police and fire brigades from
attacking the flames promptly by div
| ing over the city. lighting with machine
| guns and cannon against every gathering
of men"
On the Russian front, the Moscow
| radio said. 1000 Firms were killed in
the previous week in Russian offensive
in frozen Lapland. The Moscow radio
on Tuesday reported that the Russians
| apparently had won control of the en-
tire region around Lake linen except
for German pockets at Novgorod and
Staraya Russia. The Reds accomplished
this through the capture Of Borok. key
rail town on the northwestern front.
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now, the troops moving upward along
the Sittang and 1rrawaddy Rivers. Those
two columns on Friday entered Manda-
lay, which is south of Lashio. The forces
at Lashio now can give their energies
to participating in a pincers squeeze
against Mandalay, operating from north
and south. In order to give added
strength to the push on Mandalay, the
japanese directed another column to-
ward Hsipaw, about 40 miles southwest
of Lashio between that city and Manda-
lay. Other Japs continued beyond
Lashio toward the Chinese border and
the road to India.
Withdrawing from Mandalay were
British troops under Gen. Harold Alex
ander. The capture of Lashio cut him
OF from 1t. Gen. Joseph Stillwen, U.
S. A., and the Chinese forces which he
leads. Stillwell has been forced into
the position apparently Of having to
make a tremendously hopeless stand
which will demonstrate that he has
genius If he can save his army from
destruction.
The strength of the Japanese push for
ward has been irresistible throughout.
After the fall OF Lashio, British troops
on the south abandoned their positions
on the bend in the Irrawaddy west Of
Mandalay, leaving to the Japanese the
area around Myingyan, where the Ira
waddy makes big bend to the west
and where earlier attempts to guard the
Allied right flank failed. Allied defense
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I will defend 1t hundred times more
so against the Germans"
But he also says:
It am a good soldier; will obey the
orders which I receive from my COM
mander and chief Marshal Petain."
Whether the Axis will have trouble
holding Dakar and its hinterland.
French West Africa, is debated.
In the dictators' favor are: The anti
British, anti-French sentiment of the
Arabs, who make up almost half Of the
West African population; the fact that,
although the territory has no heavy in
dustry, 1t has metal working centers.
arms makers, and repair shops for ships
and automobiles; the West African
crops, which have been plentiful enough
for a constant supply to passing ships
and might supply an army of occupa-
ton; the 2y400 miles of railroads and
$4,000 miles of roads which connect
Dakar with the rest of the territory;
West Africa's encirclement of the Brit
ish transatlantic air terminals in Gam
bia and Sierra Leone, and its domination
Of the (Spanish) Canary and Portu-
guese) Cape Verde Islands as stepping
stones westward across the sea.
Factors Against Axis.
Against the dictators are: The pro-
democratic sentiment of the other-than-
Arab people; the lack of oil as fuel in a
territory which is two-thirds the size Of
the United States; the decreased crop
production which recent visitors say has
resulted from severance of world trade;
the primitive agriculture Of the natives
and their history of refusing to recognize
ownership of the land by invaders; the
scarcity of rice, the basic food of the
natives, and of drugs necessary to fight
fevers.
Free French Africa is as big as West
Africa, but less exposed. Buttressed on
the West by the inundated Cameroons
and British Nigeria and on the East by
the Belgian Congo and other lands oc-
cupied by or allied to Britain, 1t Is
greater war prize than Vichy's Africa.
1t affects the world flow of rubber. iron.
lead, zinc. manganese. graphite, oil. cop
per, tin, cobalt, industrial diamonds,
quinine, nbers, radium.
Airlines Are Many.
Airlines radiate in many directions
from the Equatorial African capital.
Brazzaville. Most important ones run
from the Atlantic Coast to the warfronts
thousands Of miles North and East. Two
new highways, 1,700 and 900 miles long,
connect the port of Douala with Khar-
toum and thence with Egypt. From one
Of these roads the Free French struck
recently 1900 miles across the desert at
Italian outposts near the Axis desert
army headquarters.
A danger point not yet neutralized Is
the island Of Madagascar. OF the SOUTH
eastern coast Of Africa, controlling the
sea routes around the cape to the Md
die East, India. Australia.
Evening star., 1942-05-03
Aes by APoundng Of Germans

Bay sank a medium sized Japanese war
vessel and silenced enemy batteries in
Cavite and Bataan. However, 1t was re-
ported that the japanese were increas-
ing their naval strength in the waters in
the central part of the Philippines archi-
peligo. This could mean a move to oc-
cupy those islands in force.
Evening star., 1942-05-03

One factor in the enemy advance has
been the active antipathy Of many
Burmans for the Allied
Burmese representations. The day
In Revolt before the fall OF Lashio.
when the Burman gov
ernment evacuated the city Of Maymyo,
on the railway from Mandalay to Lashio.
the natives in May1yo rose against the
British and burned temples and rice
warehouses. 1t was estimated that 5000
Evening star., 1942-05-03

rebellious Burmese are fighting openly
in the Japanese ranks in Burma.
Some of these collaborators with the
Axis are secret fighters for Japan, many
wearing the yellow robes of Buddhist
priests, whom the British and Chinese
have caught in acts of treachery from
the green highlands Of the China Burma
border to the cactus jungles of the IRA
waddy and the rice lands of the Sittang.
Evening star., 1942-05-03

Kyaukse, less than 80 miles from Man.
dalay, where. according to the commu-
nique issued in New Delhi, a Khurka
brigade engaged in brilliant and sue
cessful fight with tanks that inflicted
500 casualties on the japanese at the
cost of only 10 of their own.
The whole story of the war in Burma
is studded brightly with these incidents
Of Allied heroism, but nevertheless the
Japs keep on winning.
Evening star., 1942-05-03


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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-03
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The Omaha guide., 1942-08-08
BIRMINGHAM CITIZENS ASK
COURT AID IN FIGHT FOR
AMERICAN LEGION POST

Birmingham, July n amp Press
ing their fight to establish a Negro
American legion post here, q groun
Of Ii prominent citizens last week
sought court aid in obtaining a post
charter
Representing the group, Atty
Horace Afford wiled q mandam1s
petition IN circuit court demanding
that the American legion grant a
charter for the post Atty Afford
said that residents here have bee J
trying to organize ! post for -
years but they have been unable g
get a charter from the state legion
Afford said the body told the col
ored group it would b necessary X
wait a while to work things OUT
but this, The attorney said was pure
"staIling" for discriminatory pu-
poses"
The circuit court petition was [is
Cd against John l.. Batren. com
! mander or the Alabama department
The Omaha guide., 1942-08-08
WHERRY FOR
SENATOR

All Republicans and all independ-
ests and wise democrats should be
for Kenneth Wherry for United
States Senator He is Just about
the finest aIl-round man we have
ever met anywhere in the world He
is well educated He is a success
full lawyer, j. the owner Of fine
farms and other businesses He is
a fine husband and an equally fine
father. He loves his fellow man
and all his life has served him, hor-
orably and heIpfulIy. He has had
long experience in public life, as
mayor Of his home city, in the Ne
Braska State Senate. as chairman Of
various committees, including the
Republican state Central Commit
tee, and now as Director Of Republi-
can Party matters in 22 midwestern
states.
He has always been the friend and
champion Of farmers and workers.
and he has held his course through
good and evil report in defeat and
victory.
In 1910 he led the campaign for
the Republicans in Nebraska, and
the State went Republican from top
to bottom. Wendell Willkie led
Franklin d. Roosevelt: Senator
Hugh Butler was elected, as were
all candidates on the State ticket
a few Of the candidates after
wherry had put them in, felt they
had done it themselves, but the pub
lie knows Wherry put them across
He will be valuable IL the United
States Senate.
He il a worker for all fellow men
we deem it a high privilege to say
what we have said about him, AM
we urge all men and women WHIP
love their country and their coun-
trymen to vote for Kenneth Wherry
August 18th.
In this you cannot Be wrong
II. j. PINKETT,
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The Omaha guide., 1942-08-08
HIGGINS PAY TO NEGROES
TOO HIGH?

Washington, July 81 amp Rev
erberations Of the employment it
uations whereby Negroes would
have benefited under the proposed
erection Of the enlarged Higgins
plant at New Orleans are believed
to have played a large part In tna
cancellation Of the contracts which
made this shipyard OF necessity plan
expansion
Fear that Negroes would have 20
sitions which would give them high
er rates Of pay than they had form
erIy received and to which they
were not accustomed. is given IS
one OF the causes for protests a.
gainst Higgins. now going into a
formal Congressional investigation
Negroes have been paid the same
salary rate as whites in this area
and have been denied the same type
Of work. And under the former ar
rangements. they would have recetv-
ed the same pay and work as whit
IS were getting. Fully 50 percent
OF the Higgins employees were Negro
e.
The Omaha guide., 1942-08-08
THE INDIAN QUESTION

The Indian Question Will not
down. and the Spokesman for
Great Britain still talk about Free
dom for India After the War; The
Indian leaders reply: Freedom
Now, with the pledge that upon
such a declaration BY the British
Government. India will join in an
aIl-ou1 effort to help the allied IA
tions win the war
The reasonableness OF this atd
tude on the part Of the Indian lead
ers, at this distance, seems alike
wise and fair.
The Omaha guide., 1942-08-08

that the Natives be armed and add
ed to the fighting services on the
side Of the United Nations. And
why not2
African natives have made q COZ
siderable contribution to civilizat-
ion in ali its walks and ways. In
fact. all the early contributions to
mankind in his weary climb upwar1
from a Iowly beginning. were made
By the African Natives. And. or
course, they were Negroes and Ne
groids.
When the sceptre Of power pass
ed from them to the lighter races
Of the earth. they had borne the
torch for many thousands Of years.
They. too, had wars. And they
taussr rne lighter races the Kill
ing Art. One thing we can say for
the lighter races l.. they have inn
proved that n
Things will be better bye and bye,
even for dark men in the United
s-ltes, 70 say nothing Of South Al
RIGA
The Omaha guide., 1942-08-08
CIVILIAN DEFENSE EDITION
OMAHA W-ORLDLHERALD

Thursday last the Omaha World-
Herald published a Civilian Defense
Edition It contained much varr-
able information relating to Civil
ian Defense. The advertisements
in the Edition were excellent and
the householder should keep it for
future reference.
Out here in the middle west we
are not War Minded. 1t will
doubtless take a bombing to Wake
Us Up. 1t has taken it all over
the world. Many countries did not
awaken until it was too late. we
hope we will become fully aware Of
the things that face Us before it is
Too late here
Thanks for the Edition; We viii
put it in our handy reference file.
The Omaha guide., 1942-08-08
EsIBATTLED RUSSIA

R4ssia is taking it on the "beez-
err They cry for a western front
when there is no Western Front"
We wish we could render an i'm
mediate service 10 Russia
Recent information shows thai
Russia advised the Government OF
the United States and the Govern
ment OF Great Britain that Russia
was prepared to fight Germany for
q long time This she has done
And contrary Il many reports, Rus
STA Laid Her Cards on the Table
When Russia was first attacked,
we thought and said she could not
stand up against German Mechanic
cd Might. we had seen France
Fan.t and Poland. We saw this
the british Bulldog hold on and
fight back and save the little L.
tand- And to our dismay. we saw
Stain sign a Non-Aggression Pact
with Germany
And We saw Germany turn upon
her ally. Russia. and drive straight
toward her heart. Russia held she
yielded territory is still yielding it,
but her armies remain intact She
fights those rear guard actions tie
most difficult OF all military enter
prises. and maintains her lines
Temoshenko. the great Military
Leader Of World War Two, comm
ands this front. His generalship IS
magnificent and just a. fine is the
staff work Of the Russian High
Command. without which no Field
Marshall, however brilliant, could
&C on
We hope relief viii soon come to
Russia Rer contribution in the
fight to save civilization has been il
estimate.
The Omaha guide., 1942-08-08
THE HEALTH CAMPAIGN

A campaign is now under way to
Danish Syphilis from our land
According to recent statistics FUR
nished to rs, the disease i Is times
as prevalent among Negroes as a.
mong whites. And this, notxith-
standing the fact thar when the an
cestors Of the present day Negroes
were first brought to America from
Africa. Syphilis and Tuberculosis
were unknown to them These
dread diseases were the first sordid
physical gifts OF the white man 70
the blacks
Now this gift j. rising Up ID
plague him
We should ana must get rid OF
Syphilis, not merely BY a temporary
expedient- We must 90 far beyond
that and remove the causes. which
are economic and social.
Indeed. a study Of the disease Of
syphilis and its prevalence among
Negroes. reveals that the ratio a
cases in the Negro to the whites is
about the same as the disadvan--
ages Of the Negro economically and
socially are to the whites In other
words, where we find that Syphilis
in the Negro is thirteen times that
in the whites, we also lind that the
economic and social advantage OF
the whites are about thirteen things
as great a those OF the Negro
1t viii be seen. therefore, that in
order to remove this social danger
permanently. other dangers must b.
also removed.
a specialist in this field has re-
Gently been sent to Omaha BY The
Social Security Agency to aid in an
educational program in this field
His name j. John M. Ragland. For
many years n vas engaged in Ur-
ban League work in various corr
munities- He mas had wide expeI
ience in the Social Field
What Mr. Ragland has to say de-
- -Ev
study. He has a wealth Of facts Is
TO how the problem Of cure kas
been handled IN other sections ~
the country and We are sure MS
stay here viii Be- helpful
While we are not Sociologists ~
round this sanctum, We know thai
the Social Diseases have increas
The Omaha guide., 1942-08-08
FEPC ACHIEVEMENTS ARE
CALLED EXTRAORDINARY

Los Angeles, Calf, The achieva-
ments Of the Presidents Committee
on Fair Employment Practice were
declared to Be EXTRAORDINARY" by
Chairman Malcolm :. MacLean in
an address July Is before the 8srd
annual conference OF the NAACP,
here. MacLean said his estimate
was made without romancin=,
without rosy optimism. and without
expectation Of dispute"
The gains OF the committee lie
far beyond what might have been
properly expected by a people VINO
know the realities Of discriminat-
ion" the speaker said
DR.. MacLean paid tribute TO the
members OF the committee and to
the staff. He said the committee
! had called before its public hear
fngs four labor unions, 81 employers
in war industries, and number OF
defense training agencies In addi-
ton, three executive hearings have
been held on govrnmn departments
NO company has refused to At
tend a hearing and none has refus-
ed to bring its employment policy
into line with the Committees dir
ection and the Executive Order, the
! speaker asserted
He cited the fact that the machin-
lists union now admits Negroes to
membership as one example OF TIE
committees work. DETERMINATIONS
against Jews, Catholics and Others
have been attacked by the Commit
tee. Dr.. MacLean told OF one en-
pIoyer who had refused to hire Jew
ISL women On machines because n
thought their arms were shorter
than arms Of other people"
The quota system was illustrated,
he said by one factory where a
white Catholic had a 40 percent
chance Of employment a Jew a 15
! percent chance, and a Negro 10
chance at all"
California plants have shown 2
noticeable increase In Negro en-
pIoyment since FEPC held its first
hearing in this city last fall sail
Dr. MacLean, and Negro women are
! being employed also
The FEPC chairman revealed that
the War Department l. the greatest
employer Of Negroes OF any federal
! department in Washington. with
more than $500 On the payroll.
FEPC, he said has agreed that one
Of its most important functions. j..
BY every good means, 10 persuade
and induce other federal agencies,
as rapidly a. it can b. done. to en-
force the Order"
The Omaha guide., 1942-08-08
YOUTHS WIN DEFENSE BONDS
In NAACP ESSAY CONTEST

New Tork.S Six young winners
from six different states were pres
ented with their prizes for writing
the best essays on What DemOc-
racy Means t0 Ne in the second
annual NAACP essay contest Thurs
day night at the associations 33r7
annual conference in Los Angeles
Winners received 800. $50. and
SIS defense bonds. LII the college
division prizes went To D. Don Jack
son, Wiley College, Marshall. Texas
second prize EIlouise TmeIia Mitch
ell. Florida Normal and Industrial
Institute; third prize, Hugh Norman
Hill. TalIadega college, Ala
High school winners are, first
prize, Horace Greedy Dawson. HATH
Is Institute, Augusta, Ca second
prize, Alice FL Davis. Booker -
Washington high school. Norfolk,
Va third prize. GwendoIyn Mum
ford. Southern university dnign
school Department. ScotIandvine- Il
The Omaha guide., 1942-08-08
PURCHASE WATER SYSTEM

At the request OF the City OF
Plattsmouth the Supreme Court has
appointed a Condemnation Court to
hear testimony and fix the value Of
property Of the PIattzmouth Water
Corporation. which the City seeks
to acquire BY condemnation
On June 18th the Condemnation
Court met at Plattsmouth and or
gained with District Judge Arthur
c. Thomson OF Omaha as Presiding
Judge, and District Judges John L.
Polk Of Lincoln and CIoyde B. Ell
lis Of Beatrice as the other member
thereof Z Glenn woodbury. OF Ne
braska City, Official Reporter OF
the Second Judicial District, a. Re-
porter for the Court Dates for ap-
pearances Of the parties were fixed
and an early trial is expected