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Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1942-03-01
Army School For
Recreation Men
To Start March |

The War Department today an
nounced establishment Of school
at Fort George G. Meade, Mary
land, to train recreation and other
Special Service officers, parti-
cularly those with combat units.
The school, starting March l.,
will conduct successive one-month
courses with approximately 200
student officers drawn from all
arms and services.
Organization and promotion of
athletic, recreational and educa-
tional activities among troops and
their coordination with training
will be studied. Development of
activities which can be carried on
in theatres of operations with i'm
provised facilities and equipment
will be one of the prime functions
of the school, as well as produc-
ton CT texts, training data and in
struction material.
The school will be under the
direction Of the Special Services
Branch of the War Department
and will be headed by Colonel t.
E. Darby, Medical Corps, as COM
mandant.
Colonel Darby will have an as
sistant commandant and a faculty
of IL officers. Three of these in
structors were selected from per-
sonel in the Special Services
Branch, and the remainder from
various other organizations.
Normally officers who are per-
forming recreational functions in
the field or whose assignment as
such is contemplated, will be Sc
lected to attend the school.
The one-month courses Of in
struction will cover 208 hours Of
classroom work and demonstra-
tions.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1942-03-01

State Nursing Council for Ma
tional defense, emphasizing the
need for graduate and student
nurses, postgraduate courses, aid
in civilian defense and the Ne
gro nurse and the American Red
Cross.
Saturdays session was given
over mainly to the discussion Of
disqualification for Negroes in the
defense public works program by
William J. Trent, Jr., racial re-
lations officer of FWA, and tbs
operation of hospital laboratory
by DIR. Julian H. Lewis, associate
professor Of pathology at the I'm
iVersity Of Chicago.
The afternoon meet brought DR..
John B. West, medical director
Of Provident hospital, to discuss,
the centralized and decentralized
health centers, and also the pro-
gress Of cooperation between
Provident hospital and the Chi
cage Health department.
Other leading lights in the con-
ference included, Mrs. Louis Bell.
record librarian; Mrs. Zephyr H
Stewart, head departmnt Of So
cial service; Mrs. Mary B. Adder
son, household supervisor, and
Frederic Byrd, assistant comptrol-
Ter all Of Provident hospital.
At the close Of the business
meeting, which brought reports
and elections of officers for the
ensuing year, tour Of Provident
hospital was conducted by Drs.
John B. West and H. V. Wilburn,
ard staff.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1942-03-01
IL Students Competing For
Honors AS Towards
Most Talented Students

Queer of the Fred Allen show, to
be honored on his weekly pro-
gram. The university is the only
Negro institution selected.
Program Began i'll October
In an effort to develop the
screen, radio and stage stars Of
tomorrow fred Allen, interna-
tionally-knoWn comedian, began
to recruit talent from the cole
giate ranks several months ago.
The program opened on October
l, with a representative from
Notre Dame, followed by stud
ents from Wisconsin, Ohio State.
Columbia, Pennsylvania and
others.
$500 Plus Expenses
Besides an award Of $500 HO-
wards most talented student will
receive first-class transportation
to New York and return, plus all
food and lodging expenses. He
will be given ten minutes Of the
one-hour program to display his
talents.
The competitors include:
Arthur Davis, baritone; Miss
Ursula Plinton, violinist; Miss
June McMechen, singer; Donald
Roberts, clarinetist; Bryant Walk
er, pianist; Miss Margaret Mont
gomery, singer; James Wilson,
dramatist; Irwin Hunter, pianist;
Don Wallace, singer; Miss Cece-
liza Roberts, pianist; Miss Gloria
Oden, singer; Lindley Mordecai,
Frederick Wilkinson, Jr., dramat-
list and Elmer w. Harris, singer.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1942-03-01

WASHINGTON, D. c., Feb. 26
Seventeen Howard university
undergraduates are now going in
to the final rounds of additions
being held to select the uniVer-
sity's most talented student, who
will receive an award Of 5000 and
appear on Fred Aliens radio
program on Sunday night, March
20.
To Select 8 Finalists
The student group which in
cludes singers, instrumentalists,
impersonators, and dramatic per-
formers, will be auditioned at
the university each Wednesday
night until three finalists are Sc
lected.
The three finalists, who will be
selected before March IL, will
appear on a half-hour broadcast
over. Station WJCV in Washing
ton on March IS. Following the
local broadcast, the winner will
be selected by the student body
through a general election.
Winner to See Broadway
When the winner arrives in
New York City, he will be taken
on a sightseeing trip, a tour Of
radio City, and to any hit play
or musical on Broadway he may
choose. If the winner is a male
student, he will live at the Taft
Hotel; if a woman, at the Barbi-
zen Hotel for women.
Only Negro School Selected
Howard university is one Of 30
American colleges and universe
ties chosen by Wick knight, pro
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1942-03-01

Pointing out that the Negro
citizen has been a part Of this
country for 300 years and has
played an important role in the
growth Of democracy here, Lor-
ing B. Moore, Regional Racial
Relations Advisor Of the 9Th CT
william Defense Region, told CT
william Defense representatives
from Illinois, Michigan and Wis
consin that "all-out war demands
the participation Of every citi-
zen-be he black or white"
Urging that the door of ad-
vancement be left ajar for the
Negro who does his job efficient
ly, Moore declared that this is
not a war for the extension Of
the domination of the English
speaking peoples or for the sal
walton Of the United States alone.
''We cannot forget that it is a
war for human freedom, and that
a huge number of the people
battling for this freedom are Of
the colored races"
Emphasizing the need for
stressing the stake the average
citizen has in the war effort as
a means Of raising the national
morale, Moore said "the compile
ment of morale is participation
in the defense program"
Negro morale, he said, will be
seriously damaged by careless
remarks pointing the exclusion
Of the Negro III the stakes Of the
war
Free labor i'll America,
Moore declared, has won its
rights largely because Of the
struggles of the Negro people
And we dare not exclude the Ne
gro from this world struggle fol
the four freedoms expounded by
our President"
Morale" Moore explained, SIS
the assumption by the individ-
ual whether he be black
or white, or Of immigrant or Pill
grim stock-that he is RESPONSE
BILE for the conduct of the war
The individual citizen won't work
With the greatest efficiency if h
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1942-03-01

Mute but d ramat ic testimony
that American war material has
what it takes when it gets to the
fighting front, is supplied by vet
eran Allison liquid-cooled aircraft
engine which saw heroic service in
an Raj. fighter plane in Libya,
and which has just been received
in this country.
One of Thousands
1t is one of several thousand ALI
son engines in United States Army
and Raj. overseas service and
the first to come back home" and
will be exhibited to Allison work
ers.
Officials Of the Allison Division Of
General Motors were permitted to
disclose that, after long service,
the Raj. plane powered by this
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1942-03-01

favorite recipe would do for a
while.
You can probably think Of 9TH
er ways to stretch" the spices
you have. And the better the
job you do, the longer you will
be able to enjoy the flavors your
family SO much enjoys-your sal
ads and sauces, your meats and
your pickles, your buildings and
pies.
And when you've emptied one
of those nice spice cans with
sprinkler tops-a can that fits
into your spice cabinet, maybe
you'd better save it. Next years
supply may not come to you in
such convenient form.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1942-03-01
REV. JOHN n. WASHINGTON
DIES IN NASHVILLE

Rev. John N. Washington, Y,
died Sunday, Feb. IS in Nashville,
Tenn. Rev Washington was the
brother Of Hesekiah Washington
and uncle Of STROLLER Washing
ten, Of this city, who left Mon
day to attend the funeral to be
held on Wednesday.
Other survivors are another
brother, DR.. Charles P. Washing
ton Of Kansas City, Kansas, and
a sister, Mrs. Esther Ousley of
Boulder, Colorado.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1942-03-01

without otherwise damaging the
engine.
When unpacked for fumigation
against typhus germs, the crate
containing the engine was found to
contain a sign, laboriously printed
by somebody in the Raj. on card
board evidently from food carton,
advising Allison factory workers in
this country that Allison engines
are "giving magnificent service"
and that the Royal Air Force in
Libya is now fighting behind these
engines continuously.
Arrival Delayed
The veteran gine had been
scheduled to arrive at the Allison
factory by December II, when Ali
son, well within the fixed time
limit, reached the maximum pro-
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1942-03-01
Drop Lynching Probe Or Face Race
Riot, Is Sikeston, Mo-, Threat

ST. LOUIS Mo-, Feb. 19-White
citizens in Sikeston will not testi-
fly against each other in any
prosecution for guilt in the lynch
ing of Cleo Wright there January
Is, and they use the threat Of
race riot to prevent further in
vestigation and publicity.
These facts came out in an in
vestigation for and report to the
NAACP made last week by Mr..
and Mrs. l.. Benoist Thompkins
Of this city who spent "a hours
in Sikeston four days after the
lynching, questioning leading
whites in the community and
leading Negroes in Sunset Addi-
ton, the Negro ghetto. m
Mob Was "Just Folks"
The makeup Of the mob was de-
scribed as being Just folks
not like our last lynching
done by the upper classes" South
cast Missouri's last lynching was
in Mississippi county, December
18, 1924, when a mob stormed the
jail and took a Negro accused Of
raping a white girl.
Fear for Negroes, the need to
keep the Negro in his place"
and the feudal nature Of south
east Missouri, where a very few
people own all the land and the
rest are vassals, are behind the
story Of the brutal lynching, the
Thompkinses reported.
Along with this feeling runs
genuine fear Of the Negroes
physical violence. Negroes are
naturally vicious they said, with
less control over their emotions
It follows that violence is nee
essary to keep them subservient:
It also follows that killing a Ne
gro is not a crime like killing a
white man, because the Negro is
closer to brute than an independ-
ent human individual with human
rights. There is a carry-over of
feeling in Sikeston today that
goes back to the old-time south
ern idea that every white man
had to have several colored girls,
and kill one niger, before he be-
came a man indeed"
The Investigators seid: we
were given the definite impress
sion that the lynchers would not
be ostracized by the community;
on the other hand those who
might testify against the lynch
ers would be ostracized. Even
the most liberal man to whom
we spoke said that had he wit
messed the crime (Which he had
not) he would mot be inclined
to testify"
Negroes themselves are afraid
to identify any of the mob even
though they saw the entire pro-
ceedings and know those respon-
sible.
One man in the Sunset Addition
on being questioned by the
Thompkinses was terrified and
said he would not talk ''to white
folks" "We did not ask him to
talk, the investigators stated,
because it is clear he does not
have police protection III Skies
ton"
Negroes '"Too Cocky'
Zone person suggested that the
tensions between poor white and
Negro labor might have some
bearing on the lynching. The
poor whites object to equality
with the Negro even more than
the wealthy ones. Racial feel
ings are more bitter among the
poor, because If they can't feel
superior to the Negro, what would
they feel superior about?' Many
of this class or workers were IN
the lynching crowd.
, The report also revealed that
the lynchiag Of Cleo Wright was
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1942-03-01
Civilian Defense Head Says
It's An All Out War Demand

doesn't feel this is his war. There
fore one Of our primary tasks
should be to raise morale through
inducing the individual citizen
to participate in the Civilian De-
Tense program"
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1942-03-01

"GlVlNG MAGNIFICENT SERVIC E"-Ths sign
printed by R.A.F. soldier in Lbya the back Of
food carton, praises the Amercanbut Allison engines
and advises that the Royal Air Force is fighting
behind these engines continuously. 1t found
closed with the buIetrddIed engine when uncrated in
this country.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1942-03-01

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Mo ARE non fz6Y7uys sEAno Envnas conzznNOslY
BE5T WISHES ERoM THIS SIDE
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1942-03-01

engine was final
ly bullet riddled,
five shots going
into the nose Of
the engine, b u t
the pilot was able
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1942-03-01

The care Of human life and
happiness, and not their destTuc-
ton, is the first and only legiti-
mate object Of good government.
Thomas TaffnrSOT,
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1942-03-01
HONOR

The surest way to live with
honor in the world is to be in
reality what we appear to be-
Socrates.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1942-03-01

Honor to faithful merit is de-
layed, and always has been; but
it is sure to folloW.-Mary Baker
Eddy.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1942-03-01

Obedience is what makes gov
eminent, and not the names by
which it is ca1led.-Burke.
Evening star., 1942-02-19
Heavy Collections
Expected to Set Up
Another Record

Heavy collections Of paper are ex-
pected today in The Evening Star
PIT. A. salvage for victory program
based on returns so far received.
Most of the schools reporting are
running ahead Of last week and q
new high for one week is possible.
The collections this week have
been Handicapped by the fact that
the schools were not open on Mon
day and 1t was necessary to double
up. However, a third truck has
been added to the collections and
this is speeding up coverage Of the
schools in the higher producing
areas.
The Buchanan School in the first
district still is leading for the largest
collection this week. Buchanan,
which Is runnerup to Jefferson
Junior in that district turned in
1924 pounds of paper and 27S Of
magazines. 1t marks the fourth
successive week that this school
has been In four figures. The third
January collection totaled 1.442
pounds; the fourth, 2,0l7; the first
February, 4,640, and this weeks,
1852.
Collections through last night
have brought the total in the pro-
gram to date to 662 1888 pounds.
Evening star., 1942-02-19
McGuffin
Continued From First Page.)

ct football game while they
watched the fight.
Those working below out Of sight
were kept informed by a running
description from the bridge broad
cast over the ships loudspeaker
system.
This was the second torpedo
bomber attack Of the day. Just 20
minutes before, three planes man
aged to attack the convoy and drop
fish" (torpedoes) in the center of
the steaming vessels before they
were driven off-but no damage was
done.
The conversation aboard ship be-
fore the tea hour later ran wholly
along the lines of what poor
show" the enemy flyers had put on.
witnessed the attack which led
to the destruction of the freighter
on which another Associated Press
correspondent, Preston Grover, was
travelling. I did not know he was
aboard. however, until our arrival
today in Alexandria when we COM
pared notes.
Clouds Provide Cover.
The first we knew of the attack
was when we arrived early In the
afternoon to see a great column of
gray smoke billowing up on the
horizon from a blasted freighter.
Here and there, great splashes
showed as bombs plopped into the
water amid the fanned-out convoy.
It was a lovely day-but with
scattered clouds providing excellent
cover for the attacking planes.
The destroyer's crew went to ac-
ton stations at once and soon her
guns were joining the batteries Of
other warships in Transforming the
blue above into q mackerel sky full
Of white shell bursts.
The planes were flying so high
they were hard to see, but there was
no mistaking they were there.
We twisted and turned in . crazy
snake dance as the bombs began to
fall nearer.
Then I saw q plane flying right
over us and a few seconds later
there was mighty swish which told
of a descending load of death head
ing for us.
F1attens Out on Deck.
I shut my eyes and f1attened my
self on the deck with the ships
officers.
The stick Of bombs missed us by
yards. 1t left great splotch of
oil in the water alongside the ship.
Evening star., 1942-02-19

Nazi raider unloaded four bombs
which struck so close to Our ship
that she shivered from end to end
as spouts of water shot up to port
and starboard.
That more British vessels we're
not sunk by the German planes was
due largely to the fact that es-
corting warships put up a barrage
so intense that the white puffs of
exploding anti-aircraft shells made
the sky look like a cotton field in
fun bloom.
Freighters Take Punishment.
The destroyers and cruisers, be-
ing fast and nimble, were able to
dodge the bombs, but the freight
ers for the most part just had to
take it.
1t is an unpleasant sensation to
be aboard a plodding freighter at
which a screaming dive-bomber has
Just loosed stick of bombs. Hear
ing them whistling down makes one
feel as though he were tied on a
railroad track in front of an on
coming express train.
was standing on the bridge when
the bomber that finally got us
dropped out of a cloud bank at an
altitude of 1000 feet. lodged
through a curtain of anti-aircraft
fire and came down directly astern
of us.
Almost frozen into immobility, !
saw the raider let go two plump
bombs, and as watched them speed
downward with spine-chilling
whistle I knew they were ticketed
for us.
Tin Hat Blown OF.
They struck home on the after
deck with roar and a flash OF red
flame that rose to the top of the
masts. The blast blew my tin hat
of, and the ship shuddered as
though shaken by gigantic terrier.
Black clouds Of smoke immedi-
ately began to billow from the stern
of the ship. mingled with Kissing
steam escaping from cracked boilers.
Shells stored in the stern of the
ship went off like a string of giant
firecrackers.
1t was obvious there was no hope
of getting the fire under control,
and the order was given to aban-
don ship.
AS a destroyer sped to our as
sistance the voice of a man trapped
below could be heard crying: Get
me out, get me out!"
A husky sergeant ripped of q
hatch cover and pulled the man out
from the midst Of popping shells,
virtually unscathed but badly
shaken.
Some Of our boats were. pulling
away. but decided to try to rescue
my faithful typewriter from the
cabin. When I came out the de-
stroyer was standing close along
side, heaving on the waves so that
her deck now was almost level with
ours and again almost 20 feet below.
A sailor on the destroyer spied my
typewriter and yelled: Throw it."
I did-and sailor and typewriter
crashed to the deck together. The
Evening star., 1942-02-19
Mrs. Martha B. s. Jones,
78, Dies in Home Here

Mrs. Martha Bayard Spencer
Jones, rs, of 2230 California street
NV, native of Philadelphia, died
Yesterday at her home She was the
wife of A. Gordon Jones, former
vice president and purchasing agent
of the Southern Railway and now in
the railway supply business here.
Mrs. Jones, who had lived here
for many years. was educated at
Miss Sanford's School in Philadel-
phia. She was a member of the
Washington Club and st. Thomas
Episcopal Church.
Surviving, in addition to her hus-
band, are a daughter. Mrs. Will
liam G. Barnewall, Warrenton, Va,
and a sister, Mrs. E. L. Mcguire Of
Wayne, Pa, and Niagara Falls, N. Y.
Funeral services will be held to-
morrow at II am. at Gawler's
chapel, 1855 Pennsylvania avenue
NV, with burial in Ivy Hill Gene
terry, Alexandria. The Rev. Howard
S. wilkinson, rector Of st. Thomas,
will officiate.
Evening star., 1942-02-19

ACHSTETfER, JOSEPHINE. In memory
Of our dear. mother, JOSEPHINE ACH-
STETTER, who died seven years ego, Feb
ruary 19. 1895.
To forget is vain endeavor.
Loves remembrance lNTo,NETYE l,Ess fDEsysE.
CAMPBELL, SARAH AND HOWARD. In
z9e53t RoMARPt emers end N mo.Ser, her @ sAsAI CAMP
today. to- .0fuat' i'' i''0T THE cH1iDREN.
DUvALL, JOHN S. In remembrance Of
my husband and our father, JOHN 3.
DUVALL, sr,, who departed this lie TWO
years ago today, February 19, l940.
Thy memory will linger around US.
When thy thy body SSiS was taken from US
HIS Haa bEvo4sb laEf 5n WIFE VI sod Ans gag
FAUNeE. DELPMNlA; In msme5y %ag !pg,Na q I
FAUNCE, who departed this life one year
ago, February 10, 1941.
face that is ever before me.
A voice that I cannot forget,
smile that will last forever:
r., In memory y ! see her Hn{y yet. ,rn
louise JENNiNGs. '''- N
JONES. ELLA. In sad but loving re.
membrance Of our dear mother: ELLA
JONES who departed this life twelve years
ago today, February 19, 1880.
Mother. We miss your kind and CHEEKY ways,
With you we spent our happiest days;
We miss you when we need q friend,
For on you. dear mother, we could depsnd
JOHNSON. EDWARD JONES.
LEEMAN, EFFIE MAY. In loving re-
membrance Of our dear wife and mother.
EFF1E MAY LEEMAN. who departed this
HER HUSBAND AND CHILDREN.
LEGGETT; EUGENE: Passed to the
great g beZond @ % three years age today: EUss
congenial friend.
Will be ever remembered.
JAMES COLE.
Evening star., 1942-02-19
-Four British Railways
To Take Over Cooks
Travel Agency
Bill in PorIiument
Authorizes Four Rouds ~
To Acquire Stock
Bs the Associated Press.

Bs the Associated Press.
LONDON, Feb. 19.-Another war
victim, the world-famous Thomas
Cook & Son Travel Agency, found
ed in 1841 on q 20-cent fare to q
Midlands temperance meeting, yes
terday passed into the hands Of
four mainline British railways,
The banking business Of the
agency Is being taken over by
Grindlay's, and an unopposed bill
called for q final parliamentary
reading will authorize the Great
Western, London Northeastern,
Midland and Southern Railways to
acquire Cooks capital stock Of
1,575,8 ,846 shares at par value. The
railways are under government con-
troll for the duration.
The name of the agency, which
last year showed assets of f3,152,-
431 Approximately $12.6o9, ,72D. /.
will be retained.
Thomas Cook founded his agency
July 5, 1841, and his son, John
M. Cook was a partner in the busi-
ness, which handled millions Of
passengers through a century Of
wars, political upheavals. earth
quakes and other disasters.
The elder Cook died in 1892. and
his son in 1899. Since 1928 financial
control Of Cooks has been in the
hands Of the Belgian Wagon-Lits
Co. and since the German occupa-
ton Of Belgium the company's
shares have been vested In the Gus
todian Of enemy property.
Queen Victoria had not yet set
foot on q railway when Cook found
ed his business. Even by 1846, when
the agency transported $50 persons
from London to Scotland, the peo-
pie Of that day marveled that Cook
could bring them all back again
safely from what was then con-
sidered a remote land.
Americas Civil War prevented
Cook from extending his business
to the United States. But as soon
as it was over he negotiated a uni
form fare Of cents per mile over
United States railways and sent
hundreds of Englishmen to visit
the backgrounds Of both that con-
f1ict and the Revolutionary War.
The agency even transported
troops and supplies to two of Bri-
tain's warsEgypt In 1882 and the
Sudan in 1884 when Gen. Gordon s
1000 men were moved up the Nile.