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Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1942-01-30

Wright "C0nfesses''
1t is SAID that Wright admitted
he had attacked and stabbed a
Mrs, billiard Sturgeon, wife Of an
Army Sergeant, after he had enter
ed the Sturgeon home, occupied
by Mrs, Sturgeon and her sister,
in-Iaw, Mrs, John Sturgeon After
stabbing MIS-, billiard Sturge n,
he made an escape ter the cries
Of Mr.. John Sturgeon attracted
attention, and was captured in
another section of the city by Pa
trdlmaa Hess Pelrigan. Emoua to
Jail he attacked IerriRan and Per-
rigan shot him three times before
taking him to Jail.
Dragged Thru Streets
The mob which was estimated
over three hundred people, fore
ed' entrance to the city jail for
the Negro, stuffed his body in the
trunk o. an automobile and car
riod him to the Negro section and
tied him behind an automobile and
dragged his body thru the streets,
then saturated him with gasoline
and left the body in the street for
seve7al hours until removed by a
city truck,
Negroes Ordered In
State Troopers were dispatched
to the scene around the Negro sec
ton and all Negroes We're ordered
to remain indoors for their safety.
Hours after the body was removed
and the mob dispersed, Negroes
started leaving their homes by the
hundreds with nothing but what
they could conveniently carry in
hands 70 unknown parts for safety.
Usual Procedure Follows
Gov Forrest C.. Donnell from
Jefferson City mas followed the
usual procedure Of Governors, ask
ing an immediate investigation
end indictments for every person
who participated in the mob"
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1942-01-30

Miss Thompson of Freedom House;
Herbert Agar Of the Louisville
COURIER-JOURNAL; DR.. Fran
cisco Castillo Najera, Mexican AM
bassador to the United States; Val
idimir Hufbh, Czechoslovakian
Minister to Washington, and
others.
Honorary president of the Free
dom House is Ms. Eleanor Roose
welt. Among members of the Board
of Directors are DR.. Harry B.
Gideonse, president Of Brooklyn
College; Dean Virginia G. Glider
sleeve; Herbert Bayard Swope, c.
y, jackson, president of n
LIFE and FORUM. aasss. &.
Granger Mr.. Wilkie ~ Mr..
- %'ts
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1942-01-30
Segregation Blocked In
Philadelphia Army Office

Of the department and asked them
"if they would not be better salts
fled working together as col
ored group"
According to Mr.. Spaulding, Ma
jor Schall heard of the incident
and chastised Weinberg in the
presence of number Of the girls.
He stated "this is no time for the
raising Of racial issues when our
country is at war, and we do not
want any disturbing factors in
which will separate the
citizens Of cur country in their
interest to help it."
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1942-01-30

"Lynchings. discrimination in
the defense progra II, and other
manifestations Of racial bigotry
are being used by anti-Ameriean
propagandists to label the United
States as hypocrite. Twenty-four
hours after white military police
attacked Negro soldiers at Alex
adria, La, on Jan 8. japanese
short-Wave hfoadcasts were heard
in the United States citing the
Alexandria riot as proof of what
would be done to colored peoples
if the demoeracies wen the war.
White America and white British
must, in enlightened selfishness,
wipe out every vestige of racial
discrimination within their own
berdois or they may safer de-
feat and humiliation
Mr.. White was one Of number
Of persons who spoke at the dedi
cation Of Freedom House which is
designed to be center Of activi-
ties against totalitarianism thru
out the world. Wendell Wilkie de-
clared that, Free men know how
to be tough, flee men know how
TO win" Others troadcasting were
Dorothy Thompson, columnist;
Richard G. Casey, Australian
Minister to the United States; Dr.
Frank Kingdom, co-chairman with
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1942-01-30
Concludes
Ethiopia In Treaty

LONDON, Eng. CA British
Ethiopian agreement has been
completed this week in London.
which provides for the restoration
of Hall Sellassie to full sovereig-
nifty and for full assistance to place
his reclaimed country on a sound
economic basis. The agreement was
signed in Adds Ababa.
Details of the agreement will be
anniuneed later, but it is reported
that it includes clauses covering
close military cooperation during
the war. 1t has been said that the
clause probably provided that Brit
ish officers be retained as advis-
ers for the Ethiopian Army and
that bases and communications be
allowed to be used by the Allies.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1942-01-30

ga 900 900 chickens and 100000
farm gardens.
In announcing the revised goals,
the Secretary said, "The eoming
production season is the most cru
cial in the history of American ag-
riculturc. To American farmers,
the nation loJks for enough pro-
duction this year to feed and clothe
cur own people for their wartime
task. To American farmers, the
United Nations look for indispen-
sable supplies of food and fiber
for their people and fighting
forces. No one can forsee the exact
size of the needs of our allies a
year from now, but already we
know that they will be large, and
! fear they will be larger than we
realize at this time"
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1942-01-30
|!I8g7|
WORKER
NEWS of

INTERESTING NEWS of
= the week comes from Mis-
sissippi The state where
cotton is King and ignorance
is bliss The home of the
United States Senator Bllb0,
the man who favored loading
all Negroes in the country on
a raft and sending them to
Africa. Fortunately. his idea
didn't gain any momentum
from his fellow men, for with
out the Negro, prejudice would
be of little use. Mississippi
is also the home of your writ
er, don't censure us, it is no
fault Of ours 1t was just
one of those things.
The Mississippi Senator
passed an "Anti-Labor Bill
with Il vote Of II to 3. Tile
proposed bill would make 1t
a penitentiary oHense to make
membership in a union as a
prerequisite to obtaining EN-
ployment in the state The
bill would curb strikes and
protect any worker in the
state who wanted to work,
whether union or n0n-llnlon.
Such a piece of legislature is
not orlv tonoao;~l to those
who want to work, but to the
state as we'll in increasing its
industrial field, for it gives
labor and capital an assurance
of protection from racketeer-
ing that has been in evidence
in TIE lahoring circle every
since the birth Of the NEW
DEAL.
Mississippi, unlike most of
her sister atatoe v.'+'' d"f"nsc
industries, has had very lit
tie labor trouble, but as a
prerantiou for the future, she
is using her little remaining
power to prove to her people,
She still has their interest in
view for she will have her
people to contend and reckon
with after the totalitarlan
system ,of government now
evidenced is destroyed. What
action Mississippians were
motivated by such proposal
for the protection Of her work
folks is Of little consequence,
but the fact that they were
aroused to act is of all impor-
lance to the work folks, and
from this writer go our prals-
es. The lawmakers of MissiS-
sippi have proven they are
.7ore interested in their peo-
than they are the taint'
ors coming out Of Wash
Page
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1942-01-30

PHILADELPHIA, Penn.-A
bright note for the week is the
report that an attempt to segre-
gate 20 colored girls in the typist
section of the Army Signal Corps
department here was scotched by
Major Schall, in charge Of the
unit.
The incident was reported last
week to Theodore Spaulding, presi-
dent of the Philadelphia branch,
who said that Mr. Weinberg, SUI
pervisor of personnel in the Of
flee, approached most Of the girls
who are scattered in various parts
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1942-01-30

the military police, upon the light
est preteyt, solicit the gctive as
sistance Of civilian police, who have
no regard fer Negroes as men, or
citizens, or soldiers of their coun-
try, and who shoot them down
without hesitation"
The Association called upon the
War Department to take swift ac-
tion in the Alexsndria case, and
advanced the opinion that the ba-
sic cause Of friction and clashes
between the races at Army camps
was the segregation policy of the
War department.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1942-01-30
MISSOURIANS LYNCH WOUNDED NEGRO
Taken" From City Jail
By Mob of Three Hundred
Dragged Through Streets; Body Saturated
With Gasoline And Left In Street; Citizens
Leaving Homes For Safety TO Parts
Unknown

SlkESTON, Mo.-An angry mob Of local people lynch
ed an already wounded Negro here Sunday after forcing
open Two doors Of the city jail to gain entrance where the
Negro, Cleo Wright an oil mill worker being held after
beng arrested as suspect in attempt rape
white woman 1t IS stated that the Negro was shot three
times by the local officer who made the arrest aer Wright
had attacked the officer enroute to the city jal
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1942-01-30

Officers Receive Call
1t was not until some several
hours later following the finding
of the body that officers received
their iirst favorable clue in the
case, and it was an anonymous
call directing them to go to 1903
Rock Street and search the home
of Joe Kline A search of the home
revealed quantity Of CONCEALED
blood and bloody axe which prov
ed readily to be the murder wea-
pom and search of kline's auto
mobile which was parked in the
yard offered further proof that
the scene of the murder had been
found and the car had been used
to transfer the dead woman from
the house to the creek.
Arrest Husband
Kline was absent at the time of
the officers search, and the Of
ficers laid in wait for his return
and arrested him, charging him
with the brutal murder of the wo-
man. After telling several con-
flicting stories, he finally admitted
the crime, but not in the fashion
of the officers construction.
Pcemediated Murder
J The murder weapon, which was
: III lished as the ak, had been
/, wed few days previous
from Kline's landlord with all evil
dence pointing for that particular
purpose. Kline was hrought into,
to,rt Hast week en- cont plants Of
his wife arising from brutal treat
ment, and after being released on
bond with a hearing set Tor Mon
day past, and his wife being the
witness, it is believed
the murder was committed to keep
bis wife from prosecuting him.
Appears In Court
After killing his wife early Mon
day and pushing her body under the
bed, Kline appeared in city court
Monday morning to answer com
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1942-01-30
White Race A Minority
In World, Says White

INV 4Oiklhcre whatever enduring
til the full
Ma
Association III a broadcas
by the of
as hopeful sign.
Mr. White
which color elegated dark
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1942-01-30

BOSTON, Mass.-In an edi-
torial published Jan. II, en-
titled, "Our Joe," the Boston
Chronicle, Negro weekly pa
per, urges the nine-member
Spingarm award committee
of the National Association
for the Advancement of Col
ored People to present the or
ganizatIon's 9th annual gold
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1942-01-30

cry phase Of the nations victory
program for winning the war. DR.
Ycrgan announced that a large rep
resentation Of council members is
expected to attend the national
board meeting to be held here Sum-
day, February s, at the 18th st
Y. NJ. G. A.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1942-01-30
Army Must Protect
Men In Uniforms"
Sect'y Stimson Told

NEW YORK, n. Until The Army gives exact and
equal treatment all soldiers in uniform, and until it pro-
ects Negro soldiers from beatings and shoongs in
udiced southern communities, the nation expect only
bitter resentment and low morale from Negro citizens.
This was the assertion of the n. A. A. {. p in letter
to Henry L. Stmson, secretary of about the riot at
Alexandria, La January g. in which twelve Negro soldiers
were shot by civilian police.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1942-01-30

Miss Versie Lee Webb has been
appointed by the membership Of
Morning Star Baptist Church
as news reporter fer their GROUP
Miss Webb resides at G22 W. 3rd
ard will gladly accept news of
your club activities and prom
Uses the pastor and members her
full cooperation along all lines.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1942-01-30

plants Of his wife, and having re-
:1,i,...s,urlsu s-Trvssewv .gsvsrv-ss
l~sHf 1y Kl7iTg wire, ne was
released, and went about his daily
chores during the day and that
night carried his Aye 70 the scene
where the body was found, in at
tempting tc conceal it.
Deputies Gul'ey, Lushy. Fulmlr
and Higgins nade the investiga-
ton and Detectives Cousin and
Barrett were assigned to help them
y 10 oitv. Since Kline's confess
sion, the case is now in the hands
Of Prosecutor Sam Robinson.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1942-01-30
Wickard Says Negro
Can Play Big Part In
Wartime Farm
Production

In view Of Pearl Harbor and war
Il, the Far East, Secretary Of Agri-
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-07-01
New Corps is Set to Replace Swivel Chair SoIdie
Doc Tax DeadIine Passes:
Here's Food for Thought
Dog Quarantine. Licenses
Foee Owners of Conine Pets

First, any dog found running
at large without a collar to which
a dog license tag is attached may
be picked up and impounded by
the dog warden, who will hold
the animal at the pound for ~
hours, at a charge to the owner
of Is cents per day for each day
impounded, after which the dog
if worthy may be sold by the dog
warden or killed by him if not
worthy. The dog sales are to be
conducted At the rcund on the
next noon succee ling the r.
hour period of impoundment
and to the highest bidder.
In the second place, dog
quarantine took effect May l and
will continue until Sept. l during
which peric any dog running
at large may be impounded for
violation of quarantine.
In the third place, any dog
found outside of the premises Of
his owner or custodian between
the hours of sunset one day and
sunrise of the day following may
be impounded unless + is under
the reasonable control of his ow-
ner or custodian.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-07-01
Johnston Twins
Act TO Avert
Gas Shortage 70

Ivan and Allan, seven-year-
old twin sons of Prosecutor and
Mrs. Ivan A. Johnston, are do
ing their part in averting the
threat of gas rationing-or so
they thought.
En- route to East Detroit last
night where he was to address
civilian defense employees in the
high school there, Johnston no.
ticed his car acted peculiarly.
Finally it stopped just south
of the Gratiot avenue bridge.
When filling station attendants
were unc BILE, to Immediately de-
termine the trouble, he left the
car and thumbed ride to East
Detroit.
Returning to the station after
it had closed, Johnston found
this note attached to his car.
TRY gas, not water in your gas
tank and your car will work."
At about this time, the prose-
cutor remembered that the twins
had been watering the lawn near
his car just before he left. john
ston's two and two made four,
a point the twins readily veri-
fled.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-07-01
l3 Women
DOff Aprons:
Shoulder Hoes

Thirteen Mount Clemens
women, most of them identified
with Civilian Defense activities,
forgot about committee work,
peeled off their coats (if they
had been wearing them) and
went to work with shovel and
hoe on their very own Victory
Garden this morning.
The garden is at the rear end
of the Lenfesty property on
Union street and is to be plant
ed with tomatoes and peppers,
donated for the purpose. When
the crop is harvested, it will be
donated in turn to St. Joseph
hospital.
The thirteen gardenerettes
were Mrs. Fred Linneburg, Mrs.
George w. John, Mrs. Archie
LaPointe, Miss Flora Main, Mrs.
Arthur Donaldson, Mrs. Austin
Heine, Mrs. Walter Tiffins, Mrs.
Thomas Place, Mrs. John Ma
dou, Mrs. Macy E. Watkins, Mrs.
Harold Charbeneau, Mrs. Fred
Diehl and Mrs. Dan Lesperance.
They began spading and hoe
ing at $50 am. and were still
hard at it at noon.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-07-01

The Rev. Wilfred j. Junke,
since 1889 assistant pastor of
Trinity Lutheran church today
has the opportunity of having
his own pulpit in Macomb coun-
ty the same as his father, the
Rev. William F. Junke. pastor
of st. Peters Lutheran church
in Lenox.
That was revealed today
when the younger Junke re-
sponded to inquiry that he has
received a call to the passionate
of the local church. 1t was ex-
tended to him following the
third of series of congrega-
tional meetings that was held
last Sunday. The post become
vacant as of April IL, when the
former pastor. the Rev. L. A.
Wissmueller, rendered his res
ignation to the congregation.
The Rev. Mr.. Junke was first
called to the Trinity Lutheran
parish in 1887 as a school teach
er, post that he had held in his
fathers parish.
A year later the congregation
here extended him a call to the
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-07-01

able to fill his appointed tasks
and has no defects which may
make him a future liability to
the Government, he is eligible.
"We aren't after muscles" one
officer says. "We are buying
brains. We'd just as soon have a
one-armed lawyer as a two-arm-
ed lawyer"
Replacement service to Army
works like this: Army requisi-
tons, let's say, 800 administra-
tive officers for the supply ser
vice. Specialist Corps checks its
files, selects that many likely
candidates, and subjects them to
physical examination.
Their papers 60 to the War
Department, where, if they are
found ineligible for regular SER
vice, they are tentatively okay-
ed. Then they are recommended
to the Secretary of War by Di-
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-07-01

Men may come and may may
go, but the licensing of dogs in
Mount Clemens, unlike the
brook, goes on not forever but
until somebody suddenly a-vak-
ems to the fact that they should
all have been paid weeks ago or
else.
That's the intimation of Mrs.
Dorothy Quinn, who actually
handles the collection of dog Ii
cense fees for City Clerk Joseph
Matthews.
Deadline for paying the licens-
es was June I, but dog license
accounts are still receivable a
month later, Mrs. Quinn reveal
ed.
However, she declared this
m orn ing there are a few
thoughts that Mount Clemens
dog owners should keep in mind.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-07-01

rector General Davis. and Sec
rotary Stimson is enabled to
make appointments below the
grade of major. From major up,
they're subject to regular Presi-
SENT OUT 100000
Dental and Congressional ap-
pointment.
A tentative limit of 10000
was placed on the Corps in the
beginning, but officials say now
that it may expand far beyond
that number. Possible working
agreements with Navy and Ma
rines eventually is contem-
plated.
CORPS PASSES ON
INELIGIBLES TO ARMY
The Specialist Corps is trying
hard not to tread on Army's
corns. A liaison officer has been
appointed to smooth the path be-
tween both camps, and any incl
igible candidates for the corps
are supposedly passed on to
Army If their qualifications mer-
it the recommendation.
So far there hasn't been much
brush about physical qualifica-
tions; 10 of the first IL candi-
dates referred to the Surgeon
Generals office flunked their
Army physical.
Incidentally, there is nothing
in Specialists bylaws which
would prevent a woman from
becoming an officer if she own
ed the correct qualifications. Lis
tening, girls?
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-07-01
Specialists Already Taking oper
Desk Jobs to Free Younger Men
BY ROBERT RUARK
NEA Service Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, July - AZ
ter three months of admitted
fumbling, the Army Specialist
Corps is supposed to be well un-
der way with its replacement
project, which is intended to
free desk-bound Army men for
active duty.
Its men qualified citizens
either too old or physically un-
fit for regular Army duty -
have already begun to seep into
Army desk jobs, according to
Specialist Corps officials.
Samuel Boyd, Specialists in
formation chief, says he already
has had requests for as many as
800 workers for one area, and
that in two weeks a steady flow
of men will begin to shove regu-
lar Army officers off their swiv-
ell chairs. The program, he says,
should be running full blast
within a month.
MUCH LOST MOTION
AT THE START
There have been stories in
Washington that the Specialist
group was merely a paper" or
ganization which Army eyed
fishily, and that its prospects of
operating as per schedule were
exceedingly skinny. 1t is true
that Army hasn't been too aware
of the agency's doings, for an
Army press officer accompanied
this reporter so that he too
could find out what was going
on"
According to the Specialists
spokesman, there has been a con-
siderable amount of lost motion
and general confusion. When the
House appropriations committee
held up funds, the Corps went
ahead and operated with bor-
rowed personnel, procedure
not particularly conducive to eff
ficiency.
There has been a lot of nom
essential controversy within the
ranks, in some ways similar to
the WAAC argument over uni
forms. For a while there was a
dispute as to whether military
procedure would be observed,
whether the directors would
rank as generals, and whether
the uniform should be fancy or
plain.
The director general, Dwight
Davis, ranks and is addressed as
major general. His assistants,
Henry Seidemann, Charles S.
Cheston and William O. Hotch-
kiss, rank as brigadiers. The
military salute will be observed,
although it is not obligatory
now.
The uniform will correspond
to regular Army style, but the
earlier announced scarlet shoul-
der straps are out. The cap en-
blem is to be silver on a red
background, and the uniform
ed the correct qualifications. Lis
QUESTIONNAIRES
Pay for Specialist officers is
determined by taking the base
pay of corresponding Army
ranks, adding allowances, and
then pegging the salary at the
nearest Civil Service rate. Spe-
cialist officers may get little
more than an Army man in
some cases, slightly less in 9TH
ers.
In answer to voluntary writ
ten requests, Specialist has sent
out 200, 900 questionnaires, which
are returning at the. rate of
1000 day. More than $4,000
personal interviews have been
conducted in the last three
months. Office personnel has
leaped from so to more than
$50 in that time.
Credo of the Corps is that no.
body of draft age and potential
value to the Regular Army is
acceptable. Men below 80 are
ruled out unless they happen to
be one-legged or possess some
other definitely disqualifying
condition.
IL the candidate is physically
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-07-01
S. s. Dresner Leaves
for Officers School

S. S. Dresner, chiropodist in
the Monitor-Leader building for
more than a year. today receiv-
ed notice to report for duty as
an officer-candidate for Army
training, July z.
He has been an applicant for
entrance to the volunteer officers
training course for several
months, he declared today.
The toadfish, which can dou-
bic its size by initiating itself
like a balloon, is common along
the coast of North Carolina.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-07-01
Rev. WiIfred Junke Given
Coll to rinity Pulpit
Assistont Postor Considers
Offer of Own Postorote

post of assistant pastor.
In regard to this latest call
extended to him. the assistant
pastor said that he has it under
consideration.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-07-01

Unfortunately too many Pc
destrians who have the law on
their side have the auto on their
neck.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-07-01
HAT IN RING

HAT IN RING
TRAVERSE CITY - up -
State Senator James T. Milli-
ken, Republican, announced
Tuesday that he would run for
reelection. He is from the 26th
district.