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Detroit evening times., 1942-09-22
Times Writer
Missing in Action
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and the courage of the men
around him. the officers and men
of the navy who are winning the
war. He wrote as though he was
sitting at the ringside where he
was known SO well in earlier days,
alongside of Bill Corum, Joe Will
liAms and the rest.
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Nab Official
In Policy Sales
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stated "the matter is still unde
investigation"
Freeman was arrested by Pa
trolman Clayton Nowlin of TIT
police policy squad on a search
warrant. Nowlin said that will
Fry's permission he had lain OF
the roof of the factory and will
| the aid Of binoculars watched
through the skylight as Freeman
sold policy slips.
OTHER ARRESTS MADE
The arrest was one of five made
by Nowlin and other officers or
an alleged policy group with head.
quarters In an apartment at 12s
Sibley street.
Versatile Patrolman Nowlin said
he waited in the hall of the apart
rnent building wearing a white
butchers coat and passing out
scrap drive Literature until George
Warne, 54, of 1851 Lawndale ave.
nue., approached the entrance OF
apartment 104.
Nowlin handed Warne q scrap
pamphlet. allowed Warne to oper
the door, then seized Warne, 1000
bet tickets and other parapher'
MALTA he said he found within the
apartment. Nowlin also arrested
Miss Irene Harbourt, SO. Of 1861
Strathmoor avenue, and William
Stiets, 49. of 7039 Pilgrim avenue
both of whom walked in during
the raid
Detroit evening times., 1942-09-22

off again.
Monday, when the company
reinstated her again, on the eve of
a new NLRB hearing on her
status. the other employees COM
planned.
Mrs. Stitt has been employed,
except for the layoffs, as an as
sembly line worker in the plant
since 1881. Although her husband,
Neil, Is an AFL employe of the
Consumers Power Company, Mrs.
Stitt has refused TO join the AFL.
Her father, Martin Nelson, is a
chief CIO stewart at Fisher plant
No. l and her three brothers and
a sister are CIO members.
Detroit evening times., 1942-09-22

SOM WHERE IN NEW
GUINEA. Sept. 22.-The tales 'oi
heroic action by American troops
in this theater Of war are not con.
fined to combat troops and fliers
l can reveal today that l wit
messed a performance some time
ago when three officers, five SER
geants and two privates risked
their lives in saving millions OF
rounds of small ammunition and
thousands of huge bombs during a
fast spreading grass fire.
For two hours their lives were
in constant danger, but all miracu-
lously escaped injury.
Detroit evening times., 1942-09-22
AMMUNITION ExPLoDEs

Many cases of small arms, shell
tered among trees, exploded and
set off several huge bombs. saw
one crater go feet in diameter and
20 feet deep created by one big
bomb.
Dense billowing black clouds of
smoke rose slowly from the explo-
sions. An ammunition dump in this
particular area seemed doomed.
Detroit evening times., 1942-09-22
Std|ingrdd Hur|s
Germans Back

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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-04-11
HILL-SgTITH

HILL-SWITH
CARLTON, Ga.-Miss Geneva
Hill became the bride of Willie
James Smith at quiet ceremony
held here Easter Sunday morning.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-04-11
Pays $500 For
Traffic Accident

GREENVILLE, Miss, - CAMP
The settlement of a $4,000 judg-
ment won in the lower court here,
against Mrs. Ethel Cox Howard Of
Indianola, Miss, by Miss Lucille
Ware, white. for 1900 was reported
this week. The Judgment was hand
ed down in 1910 as the result of
the accidental killing of Mr.. Ware
in March 1910.
Mrs. Howard, herself widow, is
one of the prominent women Of
Mississippi. She Is q member Of the
famous Cox family of Indian0la,
being the daughter of Wayne Cox,
wealthy planter and founder Of the
Delta Penny Savings bank and the
Mississippi Beneficial Life Insurance
company. She was the er-in-law
of Perry w. Howard, Mississippiss
Republican national committee
man.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-04-11
Report Shows War Industries
Lowering Job Color Barriers

WASHINGTON, D. G. lamp
Although Georgia officials have
thus> far rtfised to provide train
ing COURSES for prospective Me-
IgAo war Aw\rkers, firms all over
|thf countfyA many of them in the
! south, wlidh never before have
|htred Netrfs, are now coming
an the fold at the rate of IS per
week. acc fding to the office OF
br. Robert C. Weaver, head of the
labor training and placement di-
vision of the War Productions
Board.
Those which have hired Ne
groes in the past are increasing
the number of workers without
further urging by the office. bas-
ing the increases upon the general
efficiency of those already en-
ployed.
Throughout the country, this in
crease has been noted. Particular
" small firms with limited num-
bers Of employees have been high
" cooperative in hiring Negroes.
March showed a decided increase
IN the number Of Negroes employ
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-04-11
Three Soldiers
Killed In Gun
Battle AT Dix
Five Wounded
In 15-Minute
Bloody Melee

FORT DIX, N. J.-(SNS) - A
dispute Of next on a telephone
in a nearby amusement center
Friday had left two colored soldiers
and a white military policeman
dead and five soldiers wounded.
The soldiers fought bloody 15-
minute battle on the darkened
plains of Fort Dix Thursday night
The sudden, bitter 6uIburst end
ed when Negro and white officers
appeared on the scene and ordered
the embattled white military and
Negro enlisted men to cease firing
A score of military police had
been FASTENED to lay siege to bar
racks housing Negro troops from
which it is alleged a fusillade had
answered a bullet "fired over the
head" of a flee Negro soldier.
According to Major Aage VOL
dixie, post public relations officer,
the battle was the first manifesto
ton of any ill-feeling among diff
ferent races at the post"
Negro and white soldiers report
edly had gathered as before in the
Waldron Sports Palace, in the COM
munity of Pointvine on the edge Of
the post, Major Woldike Tecounted,
when a scuffle occurred among SOL
diers waiting in line to use the
phone. The place contains a bar, a
lunch counter, amusement and
bowling alleys.
According to Major Woldike, an
M. p stationed at the place at
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-04-11
Says America
Worry Not India,
But The Negroes
Agar Pleads For
Action to Aid
Own Minorities
By WALTER c. MURDOCH

BIRMINGHAM, Ala.-(ANP) -
"The hopes of man have despaired
and festered into cynicism," declared
Herbert Agar, editor of Louisville
Courier Journal, speaking at the
annual convention of Alabama Ed
ucation Association held here.
AT the close of the first World
War the United States had a chance
to lead civilization, but muffed It..
The returning soldiers found that
this nation was not willing to back
up its pledged words and that be-
trayal broke the hopes of mankind
in other nations.
Japan" he continued speaking
to this white association, lis using
the occasion to SOW in the minds
of Asiatics the ideas that Ameri-
cans are bigots, untrust- worthy and
oppressive of lower races. If we
lose Asia, we lose the war.
I'm Gods name, why don't we do
something about the Negro, instead
of yapping about why England does
not do something about India? Mis-
treatment of unprivileged people is
at the base Of the cause Of this war
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-04-11
Former Cashier
OF Ala. Bank
Gets Ten Years
Assistant
Given Sentence
Of Five Years

TUSKEGEE, Ala. -(SNS) - w.
r. Maynard, former cashier of the
Tuskegee Institute Savings Bank.
was convicted for embezzlement
here Monday and sentenced to
serve a prison term of ten years.
Frank Seabrooks, assistant to
Maynard, was given a five-year
term for his part in embezzling sew
eral thousands of dollars from the
bank.
Maynard and Seabrooks were
placed in technical custody Febru-
airy IL and the bank temporarily
closed by state banking officials af-
ter shortages were discovered in the
accounts of the institution. No de-
positors lost as the result of the
shortages.
SHOCKED STUDENTS
News of the shortage shocked
Tuskegee students, faculty members
and residents, who had held Nav
nard, graduate of Morehouse Col
lege and Blackstone College of Law.
In high regard.
The bank served the faculty and
officials of the school as well as
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Games, one Of the best-liked stu
dents in the high school, was stab
bed in the heart by Thompson.
Both had been rivals for the hand
of a charming freshman girl.
Thompson met the girl while both
were passengers On the same train
from Florida en- route to the school
to enroll for the fall school term.
He had assumed the role of pro-
tector and escort to the young
woman. James, an outstanding
athlete, a member of both the
football and basketball teams, also
was attracted to the charming girl.
The rivals were said to have met
at a dining hall during the noon
hour the day of the Staying and
after brief exchange of words
shook hands. Fellow students, see
ing the act. came to the conclu-
sion that the two had reached an
understanding in their rivalry
CALLED VICTIM
1t was brief three hours later
at the supper hour when Thomp-
sen was again seen with the girl.
James walked in the dining hall
and began talking to her. AS she
arose to leave, James was seen to
grasp her by the arm, asking MAY
assist you?" Thompson left the
scene, apparently angered
Later as James walked toward
the library with the girl, Thomp-
son, who was an agricultural stu
dent, assigned to the Horticultural
department, called the high school
student to him, witnesses said
Just as James approached,
Thompson whipped out a knife,
used to rrune flowers, and plunged
it into the youths left breast, the
blade penetrating the heart. James
staggered to the street and at
tempted to get ride to the school
hospital. He was picked up and
rushed to the hospital where he
died few minutes after admis-
sion. Thompson walked to the Of
flee of Dean e. H. Adams, where
he surrendered, handing him the
death weapon.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-04-11
Georgia Still
Refuses to Open
Training Courses

ed and the indications are even
larger numbers will be hired when
training courses have been COM
pleted.
$500 TO WORK
Among the new firms hiring Ne
groes are Kingsbury Ordnance
plant at Indiana, which has sev-
.eral hundred now working and is
recruiting 3 800 to man the deto-
nator department Already they
have three Negro chemists, four or
five receptionists, girls, several in
spectors and a large number Of
production workers included in the
group.
The Pine Bluff Ordnance at
Pine bluff, Ark. has INSTALL
ed training courses at the A.
and N. College which will take
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-04-11
Conyers Man Is
Griief-Striicken
Over Son 5 Death
Says He Hopes
Youths Death Will
Not Be in Vain

CONYERS, -(SNSS- A sue
| cessful farmer and prominent cit
izen Of these parts Saturday mail
ed a letter to President RoOSe-
welt protesting the bloody killing
of his son Thursday night at Fort
Dix, NJ.
Alonzo E. Hall, a highly re-
spected land owner, a deacon of
!he First Baptist church at liz
tnnnia and the father of several
grown children, asked the Presi-
dent to order thorough irvesti-
cation, not only in the Staying of
his son, but in similar cases where
Negro soldiers have been shot down
and killed here in the United
States since this country entered
World War No. 2.
TOO MUCH KILLING"
There is entirely too much kill
ing going on under circumstances
like this without anything being
done about. it." Farmer Hall told
q representative Of the Atlanta
Daily WORLD.
In the Interview, he cited the
Staying Of colored soldiers by white
military and civilian policemen in
Little Rock, at Fort Bragg and
Alexandria. He urged all colored
agencies to join him in his fight to
halt this type of killing that his
sons death will not be in vain"
Up to the time Of the interview,
Mr.. Hall said the War Depart
ment had not notified him of his
sons death He said he read an
account of the killing in the Daily
World.
WITH COAST ARTILLERY
Corporal George w. Hail. %
years old, was a member of the
18th Coast Artillery. He had been
serving on guard duty in Phila-
delphia and was ii the process OF
being transferred when death ov-
ertook him at Fort Dix.
Hall and his comrades had been
at the camp less than three hours
when the shooting occurred.
According to reports coming out
of Fort Dix, a dispute over the
of telephone itarted the row
which resulted in the death Of two
colored soldiers ind one white
military policeman and the wound
ing of five other soldiers.
/. Major Aage Woldike was quoted
as saying the white military po-
liceman attempted to halt an ar
gument near the telephone booths
and had words with colored SOL
der who allegedly lllnged for the
M.P.'s pistol, ripping the holster,
but failing to grasp the weapon.
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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-04-11
Family Poisoned
By Arsenic Flour

tectives D. &. Taylor and w. B.
Holland reported. His wife pre-
pared biscuits from the contents
of the sack supposed to have con-
tanned the flour. After eating the
meal, all of the family became i'll
and rushed to Grady Hospital for
treatment.
A sample of the contents Of the
sack was examined by the city
health department and said to be
pure arsenic.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-04-11
Rules Florida
Must EqudIize
Teachers Pay
Action Must Be
Taken Not Later
Than Sept. '43

PENSACOLA, Fla. - (SNS) a
first victory in the Deep South and
major one has been won in the
series of suits for the payment OF
equal salaries to teachers in public
schools On March q, judge
Augustine v. Long OF the u. S.
district court here. signed a de
elaratory judgment AID q !. .z44Ass.s =
al injunction compelling the Boai 3
of Public instruction Of Escamhia
county to eQualize teachers sala-
ries by not later than September,
1913.
1t was also provided that the
county board must pay SIS more
per month to every colored teach
er in its employ for the school
wears 1941-42, and that 1943-43
and 1943-44, the difference be-
tween salaries paid white and Ne
gro teachers win be equalized by
applying one-half of the difference
each scholastic year.
This means that 1884 salaries
will be equal. 1t was stipulated
that after the school year of 1943-
"A, the Board of Instruction of
Escambia county "will avoid all
differences in salaries paid Negro
and white teachers"
In addition to the Escambis
case, five others are pending in
the state in which Thurgood Mar
shall, NAACP special counsel, is
working with local attorneys. They
are S. D. McGill of Jacksonville,
in Escambia, Duval, Hillsborough
and Palm Beach counties: l.. E.
Thomas of Miami, in Marion
county, and Charles Hyde in Dade
county.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-04-11
Wee Hour
Social Club

Wee Hour Social Club" met
At the home of Mrs. M. L.
Glover on Denton, Wednesday
night. All members were pres
ent. We also had visitor from
Louisville, KY, Mrs. william
Clayton, who is visiting the
clubs secretary. Mrs. Solomon
Bell Of Goodson. All had nice
time and enjoyed tasty repast.
Matte Glover, chairman; Minnie
Bell, secretary.
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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-04-11

ATLANTA, Ga.-(SNS)-
The Rev. William Jones, 38, of
10 Davis Street, NV, died Sum
day and his wife and four children
were in "only fair" condition at
Grady Hospital because of eating
biscuits made of pure arsenic in
stead of flour, according to police
reports.
Jones purchased groceries, in
Guiding flour, buttermiIk and
meat, early last week, City De-
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-04-11
fEP With New
Power To Probe
Bell Situation
Hearings to Be
Held in B'ham
On May 25-27 &

WASHINGTON. d. C.--(SNSl
The first hearing Ia the south
with particular emphasis m wide
spread Observation-Disclosures Ne
groes in training proe4ans financ-
ed with federal funds, Nwill be held
by the Presidents Committee on
Fair Employment Practices in
Birmingham May 1927, it was
announced here Saturday by Law
renee Cramer, secretary.
The decision to hold the hearing
in the deep South was reached fol-
lowing continued reports of the
fragrant determinations against
the training Of Negro workers be-
ing practiced throughout the
Southeast.
TO PROBE BELL PROGRAM
A thorough study will be made
OF the Georgia situation, it was
announced. Attention of the
committee to Georgia was called
by the Council on Defense Train
ing for Negroes, whose chairman,
w. Y. Bell, has been leading the
fight against the proposed Bel
Bomber Plant training program,
calling for nine training centers
for white and none for Negroes.
The Birmingham hearing will
follow the April Is hearing sched-
uled to be held in Washington
when preliminary investigation in
to determinations in the nation
wide training program will be
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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-04-11
Student Gets Five
Years In Staying
Rivalry Over Pretty Coed At
Tuskegee Led to Campus Murder

TUSkEGEE, Ala.--(SNS)-A Macon County jury
Monday found John II. Thompson 18year-old Tuskegee
college student guilty of Staying Robert James, 17year
high school senior the result of rivalry for pretty CO.
years III prison imposed by the trial judge.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-04-11

care of 1000 men with an ad.
ditional promise of 1000 wo-
men which will bring totals to
5000 Negroes of both sexes.
The plant is not yet ready for
production work, but it has
given assurances that this
number will be employed.
IN Chicago, General american
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1942-08-17

Dealer South. Easc-Wcs, vu,.
ncrTblrl
IL south gets int" an ny.,lit
contract OF G-II"arts. aow rb-,.;I
ne pay th'& hand after the ..rs,,;.
'o"" lead Of the spade {,
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ing firm of Fothcrgill and Lane.
Biographies, mysteries, curreH,
novels, historical and adventure
books were there on her shelves.
the friends with whom she had
spent the lonely hours of her mar.
riage. They were saleable, she
knew, but she couldn't sell them.
That was different from lending
them. Thinking of that. she remem.
bcrcL that she meant to take q
fresh lot Of them to Ellen Cassidy
and rose TO select them.
Cassidy!
His name floated into the fore.
ground of her mind and stood there
III clear letters as if urging her to
summon some evasive thought that
lay in her unconscious mind. 1t was
n clear. urgent message and she
closed her eyes to complete 1t. Hell
rows and rows of books blended
into the insistant demand knock.
ing there at the door of her mind
Then swiftly, unbidden, anothe,
picture came before her: the empty
plumbing shop that stood on Mair
street between the flower shop anc
the bank, the shop that Cassidy
couldn't rent.
ELLEN says she's read everything
at the public library ana they've
nothing to compare with you,
books"
The door opened then. and t.
that undcrlayer of her mind Bar.
bara saw it all!
Her mind went around crafty ir
a circle of spreading light and she
went to her desk and drew n sheet
of paper toward her. a plar
emerged under her pencil and Their
she put 1t aside and began TO write
figures. She worked until dusk anc
then put It aside TO await the morn.
ing and a call upon the plumber.
1T . o'clock. she had been talking
half an hour without stopping
wncn Cassidy interrupted her.
AS sec H." ne said. regarding
her doubtfully over The top Of hi,
spcctaclcs, we've got an !det
can m";:c double money
II clean ~ the old shop. put
partition through Il. making II tW
sto;cs. ana paint 1t"
(TO BE COntinued)
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the yard TO play"
Really, Miss Calder, I fee
drcadiul!y :"
You'll feel all right after you've
had n good rest. My brother lives
over Mcdbury way and he's got q
houscful of youngsters about the
age of your little fellow. I'm going
over there today and I'd like tc
take the boy if you'll let ME. Wee
be- back by supper time"
That would be wonderful for
me and for him."
Take yourself good rest, Mrs
Wistcr."
Rest? I've had nothing but rest
I'll my useless life. What l want is
work. I've been in and out of every
shop and every office in this whole
town and there doesn't seem to be
a single thing I can do. 1t does
seem as If there ought to be some
way that I could be n useful citi-
zen in a town Of 1000, doesn't it ?"
what about office work? Any
body can do that"
Barbara sighed. Anybody that
can answer to experience in ste
biography, tipping or filing, I can't
even do that. I'm disguised with
myself"
"Shucks, filing isn't anything
more than putting things where
they belong and keeping a record
of where you've put EN-"
She was reading at dusk when
she thought of what the nurse said.
She'd put things where they be-
longcd and kept = record. She'd
once catalogcd the Wistcr looks.
Her eyes swept the :ciling-high
that contained more than
n thousand volumes. many Of them
still in their bright paper DIST
covcss. She fJC,f every one d'id
where il had come from and what
/. contained: the books that had
beer sent 10 Mark to review: the
books stan Kitchener, the noted re-
viewer. had sent 10 them when he
went 10 spain. writing prOphctlcal-
~. Il may not come back. IN any
event. want you 20 have them"
And there we're the books that gr-
f;"cd regularly from Drew FOjher-
gil. who Ei; isru their bC2. nan
md vas president vi The pubiiglI.
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BARCLAY ON BRIDGE

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w '''l' III" diamond ? was sent Ia
me ! ami X. East ca#hrl IN, CHM
n ana RETURNED the heart y III, 10
"'H'',E |" the .. Later the Jrr,nI-
~ '""k i"" NOR" tricks i'm Ii,-
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h'N' either. hv' L.: tn. sarc hn,r,
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row. .H' al" q p.ci;,d up rroiui.
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r''' putting on the :. The ] there
,m'" "'H that trick .ift
h'r"ai'"; the defenders co,,,,i
YAK" nothing Int three diamond
''t'k"' 50 III" contract was made
uu" L" doHhl" violation Of the
pr'nc'pl" of splitting honors.