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The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1942-06-27
LABOR SHOWS THE WAY

| bAbOh ohOWb THE WAY
HATS OFF THIS WEEK-to r.
]. Thomas. president OF the United
Automobile Workers OF the CLIO
for the speed and positiveness with
which he dealt with the Nazi-
Khan element OF the JAW (CIO)
who walked off their jobs at the
Hudson Naval Ordnance Arsenal
Detroit because Negro union
members were promoted. in ac-
cordance with seniority rules, to
machine Jobs.
PRESIDENT THOMAS, who was
in Washington when the Wildcat
strike took place. did not hesitate
in deciding his course Of action.
He took a Navy bomber for De-
troit Immediately after wiring Al
Germaine, president OF Hudson Lo-
cal No. l54, the following telegram:
Il am informed that workers at the
Hudson arsenal walked off their
jobs today because they refused to
work with Negroes.
THE MEN RESPONSIBLE for
stirring up the race issue and stop
ping work will be dealt with I'M
der the union constitution. They
can expect to be penaIized to the
full extent Of our rules. This walk
out is a fragrant violation of the
constitution Of the JAW. tCIO).
More than that, ii amounts to
sabotage of the war effort and plays
into the hands Of the enemies Of
our nation. Inform the Hudson
workers who are staying away from
work that they face expulsion from
the union unless they return to
work at once"
BULLY FOR YOU R. ]. THoM-
AS. When more Of your type rise
to places OF power in the ranks OF
labor and the leadership of gov
ernment-the cause Of labor will
be secured-and the future of the
United States will be assured.
X X 4
FRANK KNOX
WE ALSO SALUTE Secretary Of
the Navy Frank Knox (who or
dered the men to return to work
or be permanently dismissed and
considered disloysD, for the cour-
age to do his simple duty. We so
seldom find in our country a public
official who has the courage to do
his simple duty where the Negro
is concerned. This should not be,
in country founded upon the
principle OF human rights.
Government should never dis
eliminate. A government that dis
eliminates between its citizens and
gives benefits to part Of the people
at the expense Of the other, is not
a democratic government and what
is wOrse-it is not just govern
ment. All citizens whether in time
Of war or time Of peace. are en-
titled, by every law Of humanity,
10 an equal opportunity under the
Law and before the law. Efficiency
ought TO be the standard and hon.
esty the guarantee by which the
worth Of man is measured.
| Z; * x
UNITED WE STAND, ETC"
LET THE MASSES OF white
America get in their heads now,
that as long as fifteen million Ne
groes in America are a part OF
America-America Is going 10 be
in a large measure just what these
fifteen millions are. II they are
ignorant-America is going to be
backward. II they arc kept poems,
America will remain that much en-
shaved. II they are held down,
America is that far from rising.
White America cannot hurt Negro
America 10 any degree at all with
out iniuring itself One is so inter-
woven with the other that you can
mot destroy black without destroy
ling white. Either there must be an
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1942-06-27
We-o The~
Negro
By WLLAn L. SHERIFF

America At for all citizens - OF
there will be an America unfit for
any citizens.
X 4
WATCH FEPC
KEEP YOUR EYES ON BrR-
MINGHAM. Ala, this week. The
Fair Employment Practice Commit
tee has begun hearings there. This
is the first sitting OF the committee
in the Land of Dixie" since the
President issued his famous Exc
cutive Order. 1902. which says Ne
groes shall not be Disseminated
against in war industries. 1t will
be interesting to watch the COM
mittee in action below the line.
x x X
THIS SELFISH WORLD
SELFISHNESS IS so VERY
GENERAL in the relations OF man.
kind that it may reasonably be re-
garded as a common inheritance
that makes for weakness, whether
in the individual or in the nation.
We find selfishness and its side
kick" greed. on every hand; and il
we are neither selfish nor greedy
we have a time OF it in dealing
with those who are, as they are in
variably an Inscriptions lot, and
will hesitate at nothing to satisfy
their desires. Man is so selfish
that he does not seem to hesitate
at anything TO satisfy their desires.
Man is so selfish that he does not
seem to realize that there is any
one else in the world other than
himself. AS it is with man so It is
with nations. They can see only
what their selfishness dictates and
their efforts to satisfy their erav-
ings.
Evening star., 1942-03-08
| Japan Reported
| Making Surveys
Ion Madagascar
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CAIRO, Egypt, March IA jap
enese military, naval and air mission
has been making surveys for naval
and air bases on Madagascar Island
for the last six weeks in what is be-
lieved to be an attempt to extend
Japanese power across the Indian
Ocean, it was learned on good au-
thority here today.
(Acting Secretary of State
Sumner Welles said in Washing
ton on February 20 that he had
been told by French Ambassador
CASTOR Henry-Haye that the
Vichy government had made no
commitment to Japan and that
the situation on the strategic
island on the East African coast
had not changed in the slightest
degree
Sources here said the attitude of
officials in Madagascar was similar
to that previously adopted in Indo-
China: Yielding to demands on in
structions which come from Vichy
and are the result of German pres
sure there.
Madagascar lies astride the route
Of shipments of British and Amer
lean supplies into the Middle East
to India and Russia and through the
Persian Gulf. 1t also dominates the
route American troops would most
likely take If they come into this
area.
Evening star., 1942-03-08
Arlington Approach Roads
To Be Started in Two Weeks

the circle about Lincoln Memorial.
At Fourteenth street SW. this
new artery will tie in with the costly
and complicated system Of roads
connecting with the major grade
separation structure which it is
hoped will solve traffic congestion
near Fourteenth street and Maine
avenue SW. by lifting through traf-
flee over surface congestion between
point north of Maine avenue and
a point south of the outlet road
from East Potomac Park.
Financed Jointly.
The project is being financed
jointly by the District and the
United States through operation Of
the Federal aid road program.
The Fourteenth street and Maine
avenue project was one of the ma jor
items outlined in the traffic relief
survey report presented to Congress
by a group of District and Federal
officials headed by Capt. H. c.
Whitehurst, District highway direc-
tor.
The Independence avenue extern
sion and widening project was one
Of several major jobs designed by
District and Federal authorities to
take care Of extraordinary traffic
conditions resulting primarily from
assignment of thousands of Govern
ment workers to Offices in nearby
Virginia.
Evening star., 1942-03-08
British Cabinet Seen
Postponing Action
On India S Demands
Parliament Members
Aroused by Delay on
Dominion Question
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON. March THE British
Cabinet is finding India's demands
for more freedom one of the
knottiest problems Of the war and
one reliable source said today that
the announcement concerning India
which was expected in the House
next week probably will be post
poned
Sir John Simon, one OF Britain's
foremost authorities on India, was
summoned by the Cabinet for
consultations today and Foreign
Secretary Anthony Eden cancelled
his out-of-town engagements. Some
members of Parliament are becom-
ing increasingly intolerant of delay
in the Indian question, the infor-
mant said.
They are fully aware that time
is pressing and that delay in deal
Ing with the problem has grave
dangers now that the question of
1ndia's defense is involved" he said
Twenty-nine members signed a
motion asking plain declaration
by the Government that it re-
cognizes the national independence
OF India and is prepared to negotiate
with leaders OF the Indian national
movement forthwith on means of
transference of sovereign AUTHORITY
to the Indian Provisional Govern
ment."
Evening star., 1942-03-08
Woman S Party Leaders
Back Equal Riqhts Move

Belief that the equal rights
amendment will be reported favor.
ably by the Senate Judiciary Com
mittee was expressed by Mrs. Cath
crime R. Dobbs of Barberton. Ohio
one of two leaders of the National
Womans Party honored at a tea
yesterday at Alva Belmont House,
party headquarters.
Mrs. Dobbs. national chairman Of
the Young Adult Committee, said
that until the equal rights amend
ment is adopted. women have no
equality under our Constitution.
Mrs. Ethel Ernest Murrell, Florida
chairman of the party, declared
that section expects favorable ac-
tion on the amendment.
The war is fast wiping out all
Determinations between what is
required of men and women by the
Government" she remarked. How
can a government which asks
equality in service refuse equality
under the law?"
Mrs. Harvey w. Wiley, national
chairman of the party, was an
honor guest. Yesterday was her
birthday anniversary and she re-
ceived a monogrammed brief case.
Evening star., 1942-03-08
Tony Sarg, 50, Dies;
Famous Creator Of
Marionette Shows
Grotesque Balloon
Curicotures Brought
Finonciol Success
Nv the AssOciated prsss

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, March Tony
Sarg, SO. world famous creator of
marionette shows, died at 1l:50
o'clock tonight in Manhattan Hos
pital.
Sarg underwent an emergency
appendectomy February IT.
Born in Guatema1a OF English
parentage, he learned the art Of
wood carving from his German
grandfather at an early age. The
latter's influence was felt along
other lines, too, for young Sarg was
packed of to German military
academy to learn how to be q Ger
man officer.
London In 1908.
Sarg's love for illustration took
him from the German Army to Lon
don in 1905, where he worked in an
attic and submitted illustrations to
London magazines and newspapers.
He carved marionetteS and when his
chance came he made good manipu-
lating them for the benefit of Amer
ican tourists drawn to his shows in
Dickens Old Curiosity Shop. The
Americans urged him to 60 to New
York and greater field.
He reached New York in 1915, and
made steady progress as a marion
cite man. Meantime he dabbled in
other artistic fields. illustrating
books OF his own and others, design
ing textiles. pottery, rugs and furni-
ture for children.
Best Achievement.
The achievement he considered
his best-and one that proved for
him the best type of publicity-was
the creation of the grotesque balloon
caricatures that blew up and down
Broadway Thanksgiving Day in
Macy's annual parade.
Financial troubles came in No
vember, 1899, when he filed a volun-
tary petition in bankruptcy, listing
assets at s6 .562 and liabilities at s36.-
259. The major liability was S25 900
on a lease affecting a building in
Greenwich Village.
He was married to the former
Mary Eleanor Norcliffe of Cincin-
natl, Ohio. Their daughter Mary is
an artist living in Philadelphia.
Sarg was proprietor of the Tony
Sarg Co. imarionnette shows, Tony
Sarg Studios, Tony Sarg Workshops
makers Of window Displays, and
author Of Tony Sargs Animal
Book" Tony Sarg's Alphabet" and
Tony Sarg's Wonder Zoo"
Evening star., 1942-03-08
Park Area
Continued From First Page.)

Anacostia River. The Navy's plan
also proposes its own policing over
the whole area. including the road
leading from the Eleventh Street
Bridge to Boiling Field and Bellevue
That road is to be extended as the
only means of access to the South
Capitol Street Bridge when the lat
ter Is built.
The acreage also Is bordered by
Nichols avenue on one side and the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad tracts
at the far end.
Park and Planning officials said
they were sympathetic with the
needs Of the Navy Department and
other Federal defense agencies for
more space in Washington. On the
other hand, they are faced with con-
stantly increased demands for exist
ing park and recreational areas to
the detriment of the residents of
Washington.
Included among budget estimates
/ is request for funds to replace at
least Is recteational areas already
taken over by Government agencies
during the past fiscal year. With
the tremendous increase expected in
Washington's population during the
next year or two and the coming OF
spring, they claimed the need is
greater than ever for recreational
facilities,
Evening star., 1942-03-08

HELD BY JAPS-The State
Department announced yes
terday that these two Ameri-
can newspaper correspond
ents have been held by the
japanese in Shanghai on es-
pionage charges. Mr.. Keen, of
the New York Herald Tribune,
is a native OF Pueblo, Colo.
Mr.. Powell is with the China
Weekly Review. Earlier re-
ports from China said the two
men had been beaten and pos
Sibly killed by the JapS.
"A. P. Wirephotos.
Evening star., 1942-03-08
SABOTAGE
Continued From First Page }

removing vital military information
from the Davis -Monthan Army Air
Base here. Grant w. Wiprud, %,
formerly of Washington. D. c., was
held tonight by United States Com
missioner c. Wayne Clampitt. under
$4,000 bond for action of Federal
grand jury.
Arrested today and arraigned by
agents of the Federal Bureau of In
vestigation before Commissioner
Clsmpitt, Wiprud, civilian teletype
operator at the base, was quoted as
admitting at the preliminary hear
ing that he took messages from the
teletype room to his home because
he had always saved the first speci-
men of his work on each new job
He did not enter a formal plea.
Claim Is Disputed.
"I admit I was. stupid" he said,
'but I had no intention of violating
any law or revealing information.
No one told me messages should not
be removed from the teletype
room"
This was disputed by Capt. Henry
r. Lyons of the air base, who said
instructions were given when Wi
prud went to work early in January.
Capt. Lyons said no investigation
bad been made Of Wipruds record
but this would be done soon. The
Army has Civil Service files on
Wiprud containing fingerprints
taken in December, he said.
F. B. I. agents said investigation
of the case still was under way.
Wiprud was in Pima County Jail to-
night awaiting a session Of the
grand jury March 18.
Formerly Worked Here.
Wiprud said he was employed at
Arlington Cantonment, Va, until
about January l. He attempted to
enlist in the Army, he said. but was
rejected because Of faulty hearing in
Evening star., 1942-03-08
Joins Armored Force

Pvt. John D. Albright, native of
Washington and formerly of the en-
craving art staff of The Star. is now
with the I'd Armored Division, serv-
Ing with the 18th Engineers, it was
announced at Fort Benning, Ga. He
is art editor of the Armored Castle.
regimental newspaper of the En-
gineers. Pvt. Albright is the son of
Franklin P. Albright, 5622 Thirty
third street NV.
Evening star., 1942-03-08
Audience Puzzles
Accident Victim
Ey the Associated Press.

6v The ASSOCIATED Press.
BISBEE. Ariz.-Mrs. C. F. Pylant
appreciated the speedy, on e-spot
first aid when she was hurt in an
automobile accident. She was Just
puzzled about the audience which
seemed so interested.
1t was DR.. H. J. French's civilian
defense training class which had
been meeting nearby. Members
listened attentively while the doctor
explained each move.
Evening star., 1942-03-08
Soldier Reverses Rule;
Sends Mother Cookies

BY the Associated Press.
HUNTINGTON, Ind.-Mrs. George
Saunders of Huntington doesn t
send cookies to her son in the serv-
ice.
Instead, the son. Pvt. Eugene
Saunders, sends cookies to her. He's
in the Army Cooks and Bakers
School at Fort Bragg. N. c., and his
mother says his cookies are very
good
And when he entered the Army
last July" she adds, he couldn't
boil water without scorching It."
Evening star., 1942-03-08
SIashes in Farm Bill
Resisted in House,;
Soil Fund Cut Fails
Administration Rejects
Compromise on Pority
In Crop Surplus Sole
BY the Associated Press.

by (ne hSSOClhteQ FTeSs.
An economy bloc's attempt to
slice millions from the $685.
100000 Agriculture Department
appropriation bill met stiff re-
sistance on the House floor yes
terday while the Administration
turned thumbs down on a COM
promise in it's fight with the
farm bloc over sale Of Govern
ment-held crop SurpluSeS.
The administrations opposition tc
a provision which would bar sales
of the surplus crops at prices below
parity was reported reliably as un-
changed after d conference of Con-
gressional leaders at the White
House.
In order to hold down prices, the
Government has been selling some
of its stocks ct below parity, which
is a price calculated to give a farm
commodity the same purchasing
power it had in a base period, US
ually l909-l4.
Compromise Proposed.
With the parity issue expected to
provoke a hot fight on the floor
tomorrow, a compromise had been
advanced in some farm quarters to
permit sale of some surplus crops
below parity prices for use in feed
ing livestock only.
Net result of the fourth day OF
debate and action on the appro-
priation measure was elimination OF
a 100000 allotment for compilation
of farm labor statistics. and an In
crease of S203 $40 in the amount for
tobacco inspection and statistics.
The 100000 slash brought the
total thus far pared from the bill to
s2,3OO,OOO. The increase in the funds
for the Governments service to the
tobacco growers constituted the only
boost which has been approved. All
the changes are subject to a roll call
tally later.
Blocked, after a two-hour argu-
ment, was the economy groups
move to lop s1O,S65, ,744, or approx
mately so per cent. from funds set
aside for the Soil Conservation Serv-
ices program of experimentation,
demonstration and research.
Tarver Praises Service.
The amendments went down to
defeat by a teller vote of 108 to 88
after Representative Tarver, Demo-
crat, of Georgia, in charge of the
bill, maintained that the service
was one of Governments greatest
contributions to the farmers, and
argued that IF soil depletion con-
tinues for another 200 years at the
rate of the past 200 years, the
United States will become as bar
rem as the Sahara Desert"
Representative Dirksen. Republi-
can, of Illinois, declared during the
debate that the Soil Conservation
Service maintained a personnel of
14,534-which he said was ''eQuiva-
lent to two army divisions and
that the savings he proposed would
buy 100 bombers or $50 medium
tanks.
He emphasized that the proposed
cut had nothing to do with soil
conservation payments, that it
would reduce only the services ex-
perimental work in soil and moisture
conservation.
Our first and foremost job is not
soil conservation, it is the job of
conserving the Nation declared
Mr.. Dirksen.
From Representative Woodrum,
Democrat, of Virginia came a plea
for even greater economies as he
shouted that Congress soon would
pass a tax bill that will erode the
pockets of all Americans"
Representative Leavy, Democrat,
of Washington, said Mr.. DirkSen's
Evening star., 1942-03-08

one ear. He formerly was a radio
operator in Alaska. he said. He
graduated from Harvard last June.
Coming to Tucson because he
thought would like Arizona" WI
prud said he got a job in Tucson
three days after his arrival. His
father. Theodore Wiprud. lives in
Virginia near Washington.
Evening star., 1942-03-08
British Tanks Renew
Attacks Near Pequ
In Burma Battle
Jap Speorheod Menoeins
Roneoon Reinforced
BY Sittong Crossings

BY the Associated Press.
MANDALAY, March british
armored forces repeatedly attacked
enemy positions in the Pegu area.
81 miles northeast OF Rangoon, to-
day in the face of severe mortar
fire. The japanese spearhead men,
acing Rangoon was being REIN
forced, it was reported, oy troops
swarming across the Sittang at
narrow points above Pegu.
They continued to come on, des-
pite heavy strafng by the r. A. F.
British bombers, it was reported,
penetrated. deep into Thailand, raid
ing railroads having big stores OF
enemy supplies.
If Pegu falls, the next step in the
Japanese advance probably would
be an attempt to capture the juno
ton of Burma's two trunk high
ways northward, one via Pegu, the
other by way Of Prone.
This junction lies IS miles SOUTH
west of Pegu and only 20 miles
north of Rangoon, from the junction
the highway runs $50 miles north
westward to Prone, almost along
side a railway from Rangoon TO
Prone.
If the Japanese should take this
highway junction they would be
only a few miles from cutting the
Prone -Rangoon railway.
British tanks, camouflaged TO
blend into the lush green of the
tropics, played a strong role in the
fighting north Of Pegu.
Military observers In London
warned that this tank advantage to
the British was only temporary. and
that the tank columns are not large
enough to play a decisive role in
the Burma battle.
The London observers pointed out,
too. that the Japanese could be ex-
pected to bring up fresh troops at
any moment to add to their already
superior numbers. They stressed
that so far the invaders had not
been reported using tanks. Arm
ored columns played a vital role.
it was recalled, in the Japanese
sweep down the Malay peninsula.
Evening star., 1942-03-08

When you've enjoyed reading the
paper pass It along to the junk deal
er. Then you can enjoy 1t again when
you read that more shells have
reached the front. Shells are shipped
in cardboard made from waste paper.
Evening star., 1942-03-08

Construction of the first majo.
link of the Independence avenue
roadways between Fourteenth street
and Arlington Memorial Bridge will
be started within two weeks, under
plans approved by Federal and Dis
trict officials.
The first step in this major plan
to provide new arteries connecting
with roads servicing the new War
Department Building in Arlington
County will be construction Of In
dependence avenue roadways be-
tween the bridge and the line of
Nineteenth street SW.
Other sections of the plan for eX-
tending and widening independence
avenue will be started later. includ-
ing the bridge to be erected over
the northern bay of the Tidal Basin.
The entire program has an estimated
cost OF about Sl,100,000.
To Open Bids Thursday.
The roadways west Of Nineteenth
street to the Memorial Bridge are
to cost about 100000. Bids for this
section of the work are to be opened
Thursday at the District Building
and work is to be started within a
week thereafter.
The plan as approved by District
officials, the Park and Planning
Commission and the Public Roads
Administration calls for an extended
and modified clover leaf system at
Evening star., 1942-03-08

Don't force the stores TO waste
paper. wrapping your packages.
Garry them home unwrapped-and
save paper.
Evening star., 1942-03-08

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bureaus dependent on the services
direction.
Evening star., 1942-03-08

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La gaceta., 1942-12-17
Los NAZIS TEMEN UN
FRENTE EN- Ell NORTE
DE NORUEGA

LOndres, Die. IT, Greco la
ansiedad en- las tropas alemanas
de guarnici6n en- Noruega y te-
men que los Aliados traten de in
vadir a csc pals entire Nansos
y Bodoe.
Los nazis estan convencidos
de que ell segundo frente Sc abri
IA antes de 10 que ellos ~calculan.
Desembarcos seran efectuados
con vistas a aislar a las divisio-
mes alemanas que estan er Fin
landia.
La resistencia a tai desembar
co no seria efectiva, apesar de
los refuerzos llevados a Norue-
ga.
Los soldados de Hitler no o.
cultan su p%esimismo y muchos
de ellos estiman que la victoria
sera de los Aliados.