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The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1942-02-27

CHICAGO, Feb lANP -
Clearing the decks for an inten-
sified drive to organize all unor-
,ganized workers in the Negro
community, the regional Office OF
CIO's United Construction Work
ers Organizing committee an
rounced this the appointment Of
Hammond Sewer as full time or
ganizer for tht union.
According TO Sewer the Con-
struction Workers Organization
Committee, headed by John 4.
Lewis brother Danny, il making
careful survey Of local business
establishments TO decide which Of
them need the benefit Of orga-
nization the most.
I'VE shall pay absolutely nc
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1942-02-27
NINA OFFIC ClALS SAY STIMSON
IN ERROR. CLAIM NEVER TO
HAVE ASKED FOR SEGRECA.
TlON- STIMSON MISINFO ORMED

3 I vs4ofii the situation which faced
Negro medical in the last world
war when Negro officers were n
ridly restricted to duties aSsfirst
aid surgeons when they were de-
MED the opportunity to serve IN
base hospitals, and when, despite
wearing the uniform Of the y. 5.
army they were subjected to nu-
merous humiliations.
The NINA Liaison committee
with the president Of MIA, DIR.
AN. Vaughn of st. Louis. acting
with them, asked Gen. Magee for
d conference to discuss the inte-
grafton Of Negro medical officers
into the army. Magee did not
see them but referred the group
to the acting surgeon general.
Albert G. Love.
Love told the group that there
would be no base lfospitaas IN the
army this time but that there
would be corpS area HOSPITALS.
He said there would be no segre-
CATION in those hospitals but em-
phasized with wave Of his hand
that, "a blask soldier will lie
here and white soldier there
and later that "the government
does not segregate it's invalided
troops
Aiyer the committee pointed
to the availability of well trained
Negro physicians for corps ares
hospital service, Gen. Love sta
ted that it was contrary to the po-
licy Of the United States to mix
co 'ored ard white personnel. in
the hos itals; that It's policy
ksd worked t well up to dete
ani tn the army could see no
a~on to caange it,
Gen ! Love til sught that q
start might be made by using
Nv I'd surgeons in corps ar a hos
b tas W. ere there were Negro
kolfisrs. II WIS agreed that the
NINA wsuld be the clearing house
for Negro medical officers called
into the army.
NINA officials say that the next
they heard was a letter from Gen.
Ma ,ee setting foitn the following
plan which Magee assorted was
the plan the NINA had agreed to-
THAT Negro physicians be
(eont1nusd % pags %
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able terms of free manhood in
all the responsibilities and pri-
vilegcs Of citizenship.
The general Conference COM
mission Of the church met to CON
sider the location of the next
quadrennial session of the church
in May. 1914. Two invitations
were presented. Bishop NV.
Williams Of st. Louis, presented
the invitation Of the Fifth Epis-
copal district for Kansas City
with Bethel Church, Rev. MR..
Dixon, Jr., pastor, as host. Bish-
op S.H. Sims of Philadelphia, pre-
sented through DR.. E.E. Tyler,
the invitation of Philadelphia.
However, in the process Of orga-
nization, Kansas City withdrew
it's invitation. Philadelphia was
chosen.
The Connectional council held
it~ sessions as usual. DR.. I'D.
yra,sa1I nf Dafra;+ rreeidnnf ax
pressed himself as highly graft
fled with the work of this orga-
nization. The Joint commission
of the ANE and AMF Zion
churches on common hymnal
held session ia promotion OF
their task. An early application
Is expected. iii
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BISHOP COUNCIL CHOOSES
PHIILY Y FOR 1914 AME CONF.

BALTIMORE; Feb. - (ANP)
Pkiladelphia was chosen as the
site Of the 1914 quadrennel con-
vention by the AME Bishops
council in midwiiter session here
last weekend ait Bethel AME
church with Bishop Joseph S.
Flipper, senior preiate Of the con-
nection, presiding.
Especially noteworthy was the
annual sermon delivered by Bish-
op R.C. Ransom Of Wilberforce.
1t was considered q masterful
utterance on the historical and
practical complication Of the espis-
copacy.
Messages Of welcome were de-
livered by Gov Herbert r. o.
Connor; us. Senator George =.
Radcliff and Howard w jackson
long term mayor Of Baltimore as
well as BY local leaders Of the
educational, social and fraternal
interests of the community. Re-
sponses BY Financial secy. As.
jackson Of Washington and Bish-
on WA. Fountain stressed the
determination Of the NEGRO IN
this crisis Of the nation to re-
main loyal TO the country whie
1T the same time, he contended
Sor full participation on honor
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y
time for the hulls, previously dis
carded AZ worthless.
In his laboratories here. DR..
Carver has found more than 100
uses for the ground peas" which
grow over most of the south ut
little cost to the farmer His new
researches, he said. came from
the fact that year by year, as
the peanut industry grew, the
utilization Of the hulls became
more and more 4 problem.
At the same time, while hunt
ing use for the huils. he learned
that 1t was necessary to find a
substitute for peat moss, used as
an absorbant in gardens and
fields. The moss, which was ex-
rensive, was imported until the
outbreak Of the war.
His research showed. he said,
that dried and crushed peanut
shells held II times thei!' weight
in water, as compared to 10 times
for peat moss.
The hulls are almost complete
" humus, which is added to the
soil when they decay.
The hulls conditioned hard,
stiff soil, making it more porous
'and workable. and added organic
matter to the soil.
lsontinusd on page o.
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Robert L.vann of Pittsburgh.
Bishop Gregg Gives $1,000


Bishop Gregg Gives $1,000
Glimaxing his address Bishop
nfegg turned to Bishop Wright
and handed him check for
siooo. Tie saia, Disnop u rlgnl,
am turning over tnls cneck to
you To establish scholarship IN
memory Of my wife who walked
with me for forty years, laboring
all over the United States and
going to South Africa with me
on two occasions. | am sure il
she could know what am doing
II would meet her hearty appro-
VAL Bishop Wright accepted
the check and said. I'VE shall
take this as a scored trust. Bishop
Gregg, as d scholarship to be
given to some young woman.
$50 each year or SD Of the priii-
cipal sum, as long as Wilberforce
Continued ON page z
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DURHAM, NC, Feb (ANP)
Mr.. and Mrs. EDWARD Merrick of
Durham, North Carolina, am
nounced last week the engage
ment Of their daugi ter, Miss vi
vien McCotta .Merrick, to James
Joesph Samson, Jr, son Of Mr.. g.
Mats James yossph SAMSON Of
Atlanta, Ga.
Miss Merrick, who is now Di-
rectress cf Physical Education at
the North Carolina College for
Negroes, was graduated from
Talladega college and from Bos-
ton university. She is a member
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Louis With MarUa
See Billy Conn Win

NEW YORK (C)--- Private
Joe Louis was on hand Last Fri.
night at Madison Square Garden
with the missus to see the Pitts
burg Profile. Billy Conn take II
Tony zale after 10 rounds of
lnnching. Remember Conn bare
N missed crowning himself
asass''r rreavvweight Champion
sossasl nfhs ago bv Going down
IN 4ss i Am hest and not lasting
| CONTINUED on page 8,
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JnleaRO, FED. - lANT J--lJiS-
tErbed and thrown on the defen-
sive by statements maGes at q
press conference by Secretary OF
War Stimson last Fri. in Wash
ington, during which the secreta-
~ declared that Negro organized
medica groups had asked for Sc
rarate Negro wards, stated by
Negro physicians, and that these
were being set up, officers of the
National Medical association en-
tered vigorous denials here Sat.
DR.. Robert NJ. Hedrick, rank
ing official Of NINA as chairman
Of the tiss zee board, declared
hotly that the National Medi-
cal association would not c0mpri-
mise on any position less than
that granted by the constitution
OF the United States, 'and that
he adid not believe tho govern
nent had. any right to set up Jim
crow units for Negro doctors and
nurses
DR.. Hedric's assertions were
backed up by Drs. Roscoe g. Giles
and Clarence H. Payne Of the
NINA Liaison committee set up to
secure better opportunities in che
army for Negro physicians. The
three officials signed statement
refuting the Stimson utterance
and sent copies to President Roo
sevelt, Secy. Stinson and Sur
geon General James A. Magee
Of the u. s. army, the man whom
it is said recent events have dis
closed as the iinplacablc foe of
fair dealing with Negroes within
the medical aspect Of the coun-
try's armed forces. Secy. Slim
son is thought to have received
the misinformation which served
as the basis Of his statement from
Gen. Magee.
In a press conference, during
which Secy. Stimson answered
questions by reporters, the query
was put to him:
Has separate disqualification
been provided at army camps for
Negro soldiers?''
Mr.. Stimaon replied:
''The disqualification Of all en-
isted personnel is provided by the
army in the same wards without
regard to race or color.
"At the specific request Of the
National Medical association, Sc
parate wards arc being set-up for
tie care of Negro patients .ex-
clusivelv where the number Of
Negro patients and availability
Of Negro doctors and nurses JUS
tify this action. These wards are
operated exclusively by Negro
personnel including doctors, nur-
ses and enlisted personnel. Such
WARDS are now eSJaDfISned NJ
Camp Livingston, La, and Camp
Bragg, NC"
The National Medical Asso-
citation were quick to rcflute this
statement. IT'S officers in a pre-
pared statement, produced dncu-
mentary evidence to show that as
soon AZ the preparedness pro-
gram began, back In 1910. orga-
nized Negro medicine began 1
fts move 10 protect the interests
Of Negro doctors. They wanted
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Of tho Sigma Theta sorority.
On her internal sidr Miss
Miss Merrick is descended from
the late Dr.. Aaron McDuffie
Moore, co-founder Of North Ca
rolina Mutual Life Insurance Co.
and its second president.
Through her father, she is the
granddaughter Of the late John
Merrick, founder and first presi-
dent Of the NorthC Carolina Mutual
Life ms. Go.
Mr.. Samson. was graduated
from Morehouse College in At
(continued on page g
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Typists include, left TO right,
Aida Patterson, Louise Williams,
Rebekah Mckenney; standing:
Adele Richardson and Frances
Scott.
Everett Edmond, graduate Of
Terrell Law School, attached to
the Administrative Office of the
War Department, Bureau Of Pub
lie Relations. scans work of mi
meograph machine.
(Photo to the lefty
Continued on Page 4)
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PEANUT HULLS
PUT TO WORK
BY DR.. CARVER

TUsKEGEE, Ala. Feb. 25.
NOUS Negro scientist Of the Tus-
George Washington Carver, fa-
kegee Institute, haa discovered
another use for peanuts, this
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-05
Famous Rivers
Club Topic
Memphis Study
Group Meets

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Rivers
in Song and Story" was the
topic for the Memphis Study
club Monday night, with Mrs.
Herman Cook as hostess.
Members responded to roll call
by giving hints about garden
ing. Miss Mabel Curry, chair
man of the program, gave an
interesting paper telling of the
many famous rivers that have
been made SO by the songs and
stories that have been written
about them.
Mrs. Fred Denote told of the
important part the Delaware Riv-
err played in the Revolutionary
war. Miss Alice Curry told of
the Jordan river, how its waters
have been sacred since the early
Christian centuries, and of the
many sacred songs that have
been written using this river
as symbol. Mrs. Chester
Shirley told of the Swanee riv-
er, and of the song by Stephen
Collins Foster that has made
this river known the world
over. A solo, Deep River,
was sung by Robert Mulloy.
Honors on a contest were won
by Mrs. Frank Hause. The next
meeting will be March 16 in the
home of Mrs. A. j. Pearsall. The
subject will be Indian Litera-
ture and Art, with Mrs. A. j.
Falter in charge of the program.
Mrs. F. G.. Coburn left Sun
day for visit with relatives in
California.
Mrs. Roswell Keenan, spent
several days this week with re-
latives in Dearborn.
Miss Margaret Woodruff OF
Marlette spent the week end in
her home here.
Mrs. Laura Stephenson was
honored at family dinner, Sum-
day, the occasion being her birth
day. The dinner was served
in the home Of her daughter,
Mrs. Hazen Hartman in St.
Clair Shores. Guests attended
from Detroit, Emmett and Mem
phis.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-05
Doctors Dentists Vets Sought for Service in ArT
Country Will be Spared
Serious Service Depletion
American MedieoI Association to
Prepare Complete Roster Of Doctors

NEW ORLEANS, March s.
R-All the country's doctors,
dentists and veterinarians will be
Queried within two weeks on
willingness to serve in the army,
said the president of the Ameri-
can Medical Association, but
county committees will make
sure those needed badly will stay
ut home.
DR.. Frank H. Lahey of Boston,
Mass, head of the A. M. A. and
national chairman of the govern
ment's procurement and assign
ment service for medical person
mel, asserted that the country
would be spared such a serious
depletion of medical service for
civilians as occurred during the
first world war.
He told in an interview of the
plan which he will describe to-
night to the annual New Orleans
graduate medical assembly.
DR.. Leahy said the A. M. A.
had prepared at is own expense
q complete roster of all the coun-
try's medical men and that list
would be used in sending out a
quarter million questionnaires
asking How, When and Where
the recipients would be willing
to enter war service.
The information obtained in
the survey will be passed down
to the proper subdivisions of the
procurement and assignment
service, and finally to the county
committees of the organization,
already formed.
County committees would pre-
vent doctors from entering mill
tary service, If their departure
meant a local shortage and the
Army could obtain medical men
elsewhere.
DR.. Lahey pointed out that
there was already a great dis
proportion in medical service,
with one doctor for every 767 in
habitants in New England and
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AND COAT EN-
WITH CHOCOLATE

KANSAS CITY - Missouri's
sales tax token-a metal disc
larger than nickel but smaller
than quarters a dangerous
plaything for children.
DR.. John S. Knight, who has
remov d Is of them from infant
throats in the last two years,
recommends they be eliminated
Or the size reduced so they
can be more easily digested.
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one for every 400 in South
Carolina.
1T is hoped" he said, "that
the public will recognize, by the
lapel button which we shall is
sue, that the wearer has signi-
fled his willingness to serve in
the armed forces if allowed to-"
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-05
COSTLIEST SHOP

The tobacco shop run by Al
fred Dunhill, in the British EN-
pire building, New York City, is
the worlds costliest. Its annual
rent is $4,000, 900.
The Nome nugget., 1942-07-20
JOHN P. HARTMAN, Pioneer Good Roads Advocate and Northwest Railroad Attorney:

Alaska coast air bases now ex isting at Metlakatla, Sitka, An Ichorage, and Kodiak, if support ed by air bases a hundred or two hundred miles back of the coast range mountains on the Canad-
 ian Alaska highway syst e m, lcould relieve ainplane carriers from Alaska service to go where
 they are needed more urgently. Such main land bases would be lof more value for air defense than as many carriers which would cost many times the air bases. In fact, the cost of the whole highway system of Can ada and Alaska would be less than the cost of one large plane carrier.
 The Canadian-Alaska high way system when completed will release submarines, airplane car iriers, naval vessels and merchant ships from Alaska service for use
 in other battle areas where there will be more need for them"
 "The highway from Minnesota when completed to Alaska will
 be of value in bringing supplies from the East and Middlewest to | the defense of Alaska. It leaves 1 the western part of the country
 lacking in the proper connection
 with the balance of the arterial highways. This missing link lies
 between the West Coast and Al aska.
 The shortcut branch road par lalleling the coast a hundred
 miles behind, the coast range and
 coast is already built more than
 one thousand miles north of Seat tie and Spokane to 35 miles
 north of Hazleton, B. C., which
 leaves around 450 miles of new
 road construction to Whitehorse.
 ". T.
 When completed the mobility
 and freedom of transfer of sup
The Nome nugget., 1942-07-20
NEW INCOME TAXES MAY BE
 DOUBLE PRESENT SCHEDULE

WASHINGTON, July - An eleventh hour devsion which will boost the average individuals income taxes another percent to almost double the present rates put to and yielded by the House Ways and Means Committee in considering the new revenue bll which is above $6 000, ,000,0O0
 The committee adopted the motion to add one per cent to surtaX graduated scale from 12 per cent the first $20OO of personal income to 81 per cent above $5, 100000.
 The present rates are from six to seven per cent. Thus. with the six per cent normal tax compared to the present four the committees new combined rate will be increased from 10 per cent to 19 per cent in the lowest brackets.
The Nome nugget., 1942-07-20
Two-Man Front .Is On Trial In England

LONDON, July - Two Brit ish soldiers who started out to create a second front all by them selves went before a court mar tial at Aldershot.
 The two Tommics had been as signed to the Dentist corps and didn't Ike i. They decided that if they had 10 pull anybody's teeth they might just as well be Hitler's. The two men applied for d transfer to a fighting unit. The request was turned down.
 The accused said they acquir ed in true old-time military man ner full set of commando wea- pons Then they crossed the English channel by boat. The . two-man army was scaling a high eff near Cherbourg on the 1 French coast when suddenly the Germans sounded an alarm and turned on searchlights. The Tom mics decided the enemy was in too great a force for a success full attack and retreated to their boat.
 The boat ran out of gasoline before the invaders found an other suitable place for q land ing. The two-man invasion army was picked up in mid-channel in half-starved condition two weeks later. The court martial id not announce its decision con cernIng the fate of the fighting dentists.
The Nome nugget., 1942-07-20
A-YUKON PIONEERS
 LOBBY FOR ROAD CUTOFF
Organization Prepares Symposium for Submission to U. s. Canadian Officials Pondering Proposed West Link with Alaska Highway

In a symposium prepared by the Alaska Yukon Pioneers In Seattle, opinions of authoritative nature were compiled recently for submission to both United States and Canadian officials now |pondering the proposed West cut |off to the Alaska Highway. Ex- |cerpts from expressed opinions include
 J. W. MAXWELL, President of
 Automobile Club of Washing
 ton:
 "Wherever roads or highways may be built, the consensus of opinion in the West insists that the 450-mile shortcut branch road between Hazleton, B. C., and Whitehorse. Y. T., as well as the highway on to Fairbanks, AL aska, must be completed before an enemy attempts to invade Al |aska'
The Nome nugget., 1942-07-20
LEW G. KAY, Chinese Business
 Man of Seattle and Alaska:

The bombing of the Burma Road has taught us we need two roads to Fairbanks and Nome for proper defense the authorized Canadian prairie highway from Chicago to Fairbanks and the Vests shortcut branch from 35 miles north of Hazleton, B. C., to the main highway near White horse. This two-way system
 would provide for loaded trucks
 to go to Alaska by one route and Lreturn by the other
The Nome nugget., 1942-07-20
People To Be
 Given War News

WASHINGTON, July - War Information Chief Elmer Davis announced the complete reorgan ization of the Information Servic es, saying;
 "Thls is a peoples war and to win f the people should know Us much about | as they can"
 The simplifed war information set-up announced will be under Days and h.s ass szssant. Milton Eisenhower, t has thrc. main divisions
 \ domestic branch under Gard nef Cowles, Jra an overseas branch under playwright Robert Sherwood and a policy develop ment' division under Archibald MacLeIsh.
 Davis told q news conference he was mot satisfied with the way the military commission con ducting the trial of eight German spies was holding out on trial in formation. He said General Nc Coy, head of the commission re fused to proceed in accordance with q time honorcd and most generally satisfactory principle of newspaper reporting of trials
 Davis also said, however, that he had generally found that the armed services did not withhold news just because 1t was bad
The Nome nugget., 1942-07-20
Spy Suspect
 Alleged Was Once In Alaska

New York, July 15 - G. men nabbed another Ger man suspect in the Brook lyn area. He is Washington Glendale Spiezelberg, 35 years old. He was born in Berlin. He came to the United States in 1925 and has worked as a sailor, fish erman and sailor in Alaska and in a number of defense plants in Chicago, Detroit a n d elsewhere. Spiezel- berg is charged with violat ing tn spionage act.
 When caught he had in his possession a copy of sec ret plans for Bonnelly En- ret plans for the B-24 bomber, stolen from the Bonnelly Engineering Cor poration of Detroit where he workd until recently.
 He was in Alaska from 1929 to 1885 and once ap- piled unsuccessfully for a pilots license to take ships into waters adjoining the Aleutian Islands in Alaska.
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who devoted fifty years as GUS toms collector, school teacher, reindeer service, research and history writing to Alaska:
The Nome nugget., 1942-07-20
sOURDOUGH STATIONERY

Write to your friends and rela- lives on the Outside using Sour tough Stationery. They'll get a pig kick out of it.
The Nome nugget., 1942-07-20
TOM SMITH, King County Com
 missioner of North District:

"Completion of the Paficic Coast portion of the Alaska high way as a part of the proect now under way under the direction of the U. s. Army engineers, seems to me to be one of the imperative eS in the proper defense of Al aska and the Canadian and Am erican Pacific Coast.
 The military value of the con- struction now under way would be seriously impaired, if this vital Pacific Coast link is not com pleted. Here is one wartime ex- penditure and project that will pay dividends for all time to come.
 "In my opinion all of the Pac- fife Coast states and their peo- pie should insist that this pro iect be given consideration and priority at this time.'
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plies, munitions, men and equip ment will be absolutely fluid and make it easy to quickly defend exposed localities on the North American Continent"
 A. ]. GODDARD, Recorder of Al
 aska- Yukon Pioneers, Inc:
 "The building of the cutoff would provide, at comparatively small cost, what would amount to two highways - tap a much greater source of supply: beside providing for one-way thorough fares if found necessary for war supplies