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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-02
Hunt Sea and Peace

These children from the val
leys of death went TO Cape Cod
in search once more of the sea
and of peace. The story of their
glowing summer makes for en-
crossing reading. Recon-
mended among the non-fiCtions:
Ambassadors in White" by
Charles Morrow Wilson, the
compelling account of American
physicians and scientists who
have fought and are fighting the
disease scourges among our
Latin-American neighbors.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-02
Out on Any Limb

In the Book World: If you
have any feeling for vigorous
adventure. don't miss "Out On
ANY Limb, the new novel by
John Myers Myers. Here IS a
refreshing story Of England in
Queen Elizabeth's day, of wan
derers and INSCRIPTIONS mobiles,
and. of course, OF love. Ingram
Applegarth, the central figure, is
the personifcation of youth, and
if your arteries are still in con-
dition, he'll stir your circulation.
Youth interests master writer
Robert Nathan, too, in his latest
fiction. The Sea Cults Cry.
His youths. however. are of our
rigorous times: Polish refugees,
a 19-year-old girl and her 7-year-
old brother.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-02
Too Much Skipping

Must rcarrange my schedule
49,. Checking up, find that lately
] have not read a single book
ihrough-only chapter or two
or a hastv skip through. In
other days used 10 read two
sometimes three books a week.
Spend too much time now dig
ging through the newspapers and
the magazines - fast reading -
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-02
Louis SObOI iH NPT York
legend Of Blind Fiddler
And His F dithfuI Love

WASHINGTON Square at s
W ayem-drab lyric in blank
verse The blind fiddler on
Broadway and his patient
woman companion The leg
end is that years ago before
darkness crept upon him. he
neglected his wife 10 spend his
earnings on another woman.
When illness took his sight,
il was his wife who deserted
him and his light of love who
took him in and nursed him and
has been with him ever since.
Pussy-faced lions in front OF
the Fifth avenue library
Books in cigar stores-erudition
at marked down prices.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-02
Irving Berlin Helps

This Is the Army" the Irving
Berlin show, not only doesn't
net the composer a farthing out
of its huge royalties-but for
the first time i'm many years, the
frail Broadwayite. because he
appears in the revue, has no OPP
portunity TO spend even a few
hours at his favorite country
place in the CatSkillS.
II is estimated that with the
earnings of this show - the
movie rights, the radio rights,
the songs. etc. plus the profits
from God Bless America, -
which he has donated also, Ber-
Inns financial contribution to the
war effort will reach close TO
100000.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-02
Portrait Of PIayboy

Definition of a friend-he
sees you through when others
see you are through ne
backs you up when others back
down on you The shabby,
sad-eyed old woman at Fifth
and Fiftieth peddling her car
nations TO the gay and opulent
shoppers.
Subject for a portrait of pow
erty, the Eternal Spectator
Deadest PANIED doorman in
town--Jimmy at Twenty-One
can look positively sinister upon
request. with no advance notice.
Picture of a playboy-he has
a fun purse but an empty head.
e.. Lives high but is a low-lifc
His family worries about
keeping its name in the Blue
Book-and his out of gossip col
umnS go. He has a broad accent
but a narrow outlook.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-02
Film Chiefs
Fret Over
Public 7 dste
BY CHARLES GENTRY

TO ESCAPE or not to escape,
l. that is the question that
seems 10 be bothering our movie
makers these days.
Reports from London come
drifting in that the English like
our American movies which
have nothing TO do with war.
On the other hand, England is
making such war pictures as
Mister V" and others herself.
not only for home consumption,
but also 10 send over here.
Consensus of opinion is that
the public doesn't want 10 take
anything too seriously in the
way of entertainment. yet films
like This Above ALL" which is
strictly wartime romance,
holds over at the Fox a second
big week.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-02
UnforeetabIe Incident

Statue of Liberty torch the
other rainy night-opaque PIN
spot in the mist. | never
pass Fifty-third street between
Seventh and Sixth that | don't
recall that midnight years ago
when a slim, pallid youth with a
peculiar triangular scar thrust
himself in front of me and
asked:
do YOU believe in Cod
! snapped;
Listen, buddy. I'm in a hurry,
what do you want ."
Sullenly, he answered,
Il want dollar. Iwant 10 60
TO God"
! gave him the dollar-and he
kept staring, soaring the living
daNlghtS out of me.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-02
I2nnnN Johnson Appeals Nth JA5 Story Of Tie Pied Piper
Stars Can't Keep Anniversary Date

for coming that close He took
a cast off his broken hand TO
complete scenes in You Can't
Escape Forever" and let Brenda
get away.
Holden still is on Long Island
so, apparently, his transfer to
Texas didn't 90 through.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-02

and not too important in most
cases Overheard at the Is
Club the other night :. Pretty
girl on the telephone;
"Hello-ma? This il me.
Sue. I'm tight as a drum. HOw's
pOp?"
Another definition OF a friend
some one who is true blue
when you're through and blue.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-02
Thin Venfriloquist

Manhattan's summer nights
are soft now and purple pink
are its. twilights But the
nights are not deserted as IN
other summers - most of New
York is sticking close TO home
and nightly the citizens parade
the main and darkened thor
oughfareS.
Wonder what's happened TO
that finnish, pleasant faced old
ventriloquist who used to put
on a grand show every night,
usually at Seventh avenue near
Fifty-third Almost a year
since last / saw him -.
Definition of a foe-he gives
you a hand-with a thumb to
his nose When you're sink
ing, you can count upon him 10
hand you a rope to pull you up
by the neck
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-02
HOLLYWOOD. Aug. /

HOLLYWOOD, Aug. /.
Brenda Marshall and Bill Ilol-
den didn't get TO spend their
first anniversary together after
all, but they only missed il by
one day, HIl
They can thank George Brent
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-02
Making Money
HOLLYWOOD AUG !

HOLLYWOOD. Aug. I
Vic McLaglen insists TO the
gang in China Cir" that he is
one Hollywood ranch owner who
IS making money lie has 1000
hogs on his L500-acre ranch near
Fresno.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1942-04-18
SERGT. WILSON
HIGH IN EXAMS

In the examination held for
Sergeants of the department
for promotion to lieutenant,
Sergt. Francis G. Wilson of
RoXbury stood second on the
list recently released by the
Civil Service Commission.
Sergt. Patrick j. O'Reilly of
Dorchester headed the group of
eligibles.
Since the Junior Police Corps
was organized in 1888, Sergt.
Wilson has acted as assistant
to Corps Commander Deputy
Supt. Carey at Police Head
quarters on Berkeley st. He en-
tered the department in 1926
and became an officer of rank
in 1887.
Sergt. Wilson is the son of
the late Butler R. Wilson, Bos-
ton attorney and noted Race
leader. He is married, his wife
is the former Elizabeth Pa5co,
daughter of Louis E. Pasco who
is secretary of the Boston
Branch, NAACP.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1942-04-18
STOP DISCRIMINATION
10 PLANTS WARNED

committee to be valid. Mr..
Gates took this action even
before he appeared on the
witness stand at the Chicago
hearings.
The companies for the most
part denied that they were
discriminating, but in each
case the committee found that
the evidence supported the
charges of discrimination.
THE findings and directions
will give the committee a con-
tinuing jurisdiction over the
employment practices of these
industries, which hold con-
tracts for war implements and
material, as each concern mas
beenas ked to file reports with
the committee, showing The
extent to which steps have
been taken to bring the COM
panys employment policies
and practices into line with the
national policy" DR.. MacLean
explained.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1942-04-18
SIGkAS BANQUET
WILL PRESENT
UNIQUE PROGRAM

Local members Of the Phi
Beta Sigma Fraternity will cell
citrate their annual Bigger s.
Better Business" program with
a banquet Monday evening,
April 81, at Estelle's restaur-
ant The two chapters, Beta
Alpha and Pi Beta Sigma, will
act as hosts.
A feature of the evenings
activities will be a forum dis
cussion built around the ac-
tual experiences and daily
problems of merchants in car
rying on their business. Leon
G. Lomax, President of the
Trade Association and propri-
etor of the Southland Electric
Company will speak on the
subject: Selling small mer-
Continued on Page Four
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1942-04-18

Ten concerns having mil
lions of dollars in war contracts
were told to cease discriminat-
ing against available workers
because of their race Or relig7
ion, by the Presidents Corr
mittee on Fair Employment
Practice.
The concerns are in the
Chicago and Milwaukee areas.
Since January the Committee,
of which DR.. Malcolm S. Mac
Lean, president of Hampton
Institute, is Chairman, had
studied the records before TAX
ing action.
Companies involved in the
Chicago area are: the Stewart
Warner Corporation, the Buick
Aviation plant at Melrose, ILL.,,
a unit of General Motors Cor
poration; the Bearse Manufac-
turing Company, Sampson
Manufacturing Company and
the Studebaker branch factory.
Those in the Milwaukee area
are: the Nordberg Manufac-
turing Company, A. o. Smith
Corporation, He'll Company,
AlliS-Chalmers Corporation
and the Harnischfeger Corpor-
alton.
One company, Majestic Radio
Corporation of Chicago, was
commended for its prompt ac-
ton in correcting discrimina-
tory practice in it's hiring. Ac-
cording to testimony by H. A.
Gates, Majestic president, he
discharged two of his super
visory employees after he had
checked and found the charges
of discrimination male by the
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1942-04-18
EQUAL RIGHTS FOR ALL OR
LOSE THIS WAR MURPHY
CONGRESS SPEAKER IN ZION CHURCH

Discrimination must be re-
moved from every phase of Fed
eral Government to win the
present war; George B. Muir
ply, Secretary of the National
Race Congress told a large and
enthusiastic audience in Co.
lumbus Ave, AME Zion Thurs
day night at a mass meeting
sponsored by the Boston branch
of the organization,
Whats cooking?" is the
question asked inside and out
side Washington. Plenty, ans
wered Murphy in wide range
of eloquence rarely unfolded in
Boston. "All America must take
a hand in stirring the broth.
America is not now fighting for
democracy; it has joined a war
for survival, Now it is formu-
lating plans how to take. the Of
fensive against Hitler"
The speaker referred to Pier
re Laval again assuming the
role of Hitler's puppet in
France; how the British Empire
is being spurned by millions of
midas castles and groups; the
incredible "Sell-out" to Japan
by the Burmese; the possibility
that Russia's counterattack will
blaze the trail of Axis weakness;
and pointed out that Japan may
create a complex of a world
rising-tide of color in combat
ting the United Nations.
A church victory program to
mobilize 100000 Colored COM
municants of all denominations
must be organized in America
Immediately, was the final plea
of the speaker.
], S. R. Bourne presided Rev.
A. A. Perry, pastor of the
church delivered the invocation,
Rev. ]. E. Jeltz, sang Deep Riv-
er," an died the audience in
singing America" and Lift
Every Voice" william Harrison
read three resolutions, which
were passed unanimously. DR..
M. Cravath Simpson made
brief address after the question
period.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1942-04-18
US. GOVERNMENT PROBING
MISSOURI LYNCHING

WASHINGTON Attorney
General Francis Biddle this
week announced the appoint
ment of Jacob M. LASTLY, of st.
Louis, Mo-, as a Special Assist
ant to the Attorney General.
Mr.. LASTLY and Harry c..
Blanton, United States Attorney
for the Eastern District of Miss
ouri, will present to the Federal
Grand Jury in st. Louis, which
begins its sittings on May 10,
the Sikeston (Mo.) lynching
SaSe. The Grand Jury will be
asked to conduct a thorough in
vestigation of all phases of the
lynching to determine whether
any Federal law has been VIC
lated.
Mr.. LASTLY, a prominent St:
Louis attorney, is the senior
member of the law firm of Lash
ly, LASTLY, Miller and Clifford.
He is a former President of the
American Bias Association.
The Sikeston case involves
the lynching of Cleo Wright by
a mob on January IS, 1912,
Wright, who had been wounded
when resisting arrest on a
charge of assault and attempted
rape, was removed from the
SikeSton jail by a mob of some
300 persons, tied to the back of
an automobile, and dragged at
high speed to the colored sec
ton of town. Gasoline was
then poured on the body and it
was burned.
Commenting on Lashly's APP
pointment, the Attorney Gen
Continued on Page Four
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1942-04-18
METHODIST PREP SCHOOL
BARS COLORED STUDENT

Massachusetts, liberal senti-
ment received a rude shock last
week when it was learned that
Wilbrahaln Academy, Oldest
Methodist school in America,
had refused to admit a colored
student and had served notice
that the Academy is white
boys school,"
The student barred from the
Academy is the son of DR.. Rob-
ert Shaw wilkinson, New York
surgeon himself an aIumnuS of
Wilbraham where he prepared
for college. Or. Wilkinson and
his brother, DR.. Frost wilkinson.
New York dentist, graduated
from Wilbraham with high
honors.
Said Dr.. wilkinson: IF you
could have seen the tragic ex-
preston which came over the
face of my splendid young son
last evening when he was APP
prised of Wilbraham's decision,
you would fully realize the seri-
Gus implications and results of
the pseudodemocracy existing in
America today"
lions Herald, leading Metho-
dist weekly, took up the cudgels
in behalf of young Wilkinson
and wrote a blistering editorial
condemnipg racial discrimina-
ton in the Methodist Church.
"Our sin against colored people
lies as a log across the path Of
Methodist progress" lions Her
aid said. I'm these days of war,
with discrimination against
colored peoples becoming a ma
tion-wide scandal we are tom
gue-tied What is the Church
going to do about real brother
hood?p
Wilbraham's headmaster re-
piled to the Herald blast by a
denial in the Springfield Repub-
lican in which he said that the
matter Of admitting young Will
kinson was still under advise
ment.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1942-04-18
Otis Galloway To
Become Benedict

Otis E. Galloway, well-knoyn
postal employee and former
athlete, next Tuesday takes as
his bride, Mrs. Evelyn j. Mayo,
widow of the late Humboldt
ave. dentist, at a private cere-
mony to which only a few in
innate friends have been i'll
vited.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1942-04-18
MRS. ARCHER DIES

Mrs. Adella Aberline Archer,
beloved wife of Alexander
Archer of IS Bower Street,
Roybury died April IA after
several weeks illness. Funeral
services were held Friday, April
II at st. Cyprian's Episcopal
church,a t 2 p m. Interment
in Mt. Hope Cemetery.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1942-04-18
ATTY. WOLFF GETS
FEDERAL JOB

James G. Wolff last Monday
was sworn in as special assis-
tant in the Lands Division of
the Department of Justice. He
will have an office in the Fed
eral Building, Boston, with
United States Attorney Ed
Continued on Page Four
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1942-04-18

ANN tOHbES WALhE,
Soprano, who will sing with a
special Vocal Ensemble in Will
liam Rhodes Opera Society,
Thursday evening, May I, at
Sis o'clock in Brown Hall, New
England Conservatory of Music
building. Mascagni's 'I'AmicO
Fritz" in 3 acts will be given by
Rhodes Opera Society. Other
members of the Cast will be-:
Ella Martin, Vera Carney, Fran
ceS Pierce, Esther Buley, Sarah
Nelson, Louis Pearman, David
Owens. Principal dramatics per-
sOnaI will be: Marian McCree,
Sarah Mckenzie, Pattie Yates,
John Powell, William Sexton,
Herman Garter and Jesse Owens.
James Henderson is the dram
attic coach, and stage director
John Powell, business super
visor, and William Rhodes will
conduct the performance. Rush
seats 81 cents, reserved seats
S1.10, and $1.5O, including tax, 4
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-11-12
SOUTH PACIFIC:
Costly Exchange

When Navy Secretary Frank Knox
told his press conference that Jap
fleet units had retired from the scene
of action around Guadalcanal and
that the :'frst round Of the battle"
was over naval experts began try
ing to figure out who got the decision
in the encounter. U. S. citizens
heard the bad news first: the navy
had lost the destroyer Porter and an
aircraft carrier. (This was in addi-
ton to the loss Of the carrier Wasp,
announced earlier.) This brought to
a total Of four plane carriers that
have been destroyed by the Japs in
this war.
Then came news of a bit brighter
note: Before the Japs left the area
to flick their wounds" and return
for more action, u. S. forces had
damaged two aircraft carriers, two
baftleships and three cruisers. More
than 100 enemy airplanes were de-
stroyed and about so others prob
ably destroyed in what the navy de-
scribed as the greatest battle yet
fought in the area of the Solomon
isles.
But the most important result of
this heavy sea and air fighting was
that it brought at least temporary
relief to the hard-pressed marine
and army units holding their posi-
tons on Guadalcanal itself. The Jap
objective in launching the big battle
had been to dislodge these outnum-
bered units who in mid-August had
pushed the Japs out.
Meanwhile, dispatches from u. S.
headquarters in Australia revealed
that land-based army planes had
been slashing constantly at Jap po-
sitions in the areas Of the Buin-F aisi
harbor in the northern Solomons and
at Rabaul, New Britain island. Forty
Jap ships were reported hit in ten
day period. All of this meant much
needed diversion of Jap strength
which was directed at capture of
the Solomons, and then pushing
forward to cut supply lines from the
U. S. to Australia.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-11-12
IDLE DOLLARS:
Are SIuckers

Attributing the rise of money in
circulation to the demands of war
financing and huge wartime pay
rolls, Federal Reserve officials in
Washington at the same time de-
clared in effect that idle dollars
are Stacker dollars" Yet there
are comparatively few dollars be-
ing boarded among the more than
$14, 900, 000,000 now in circulation.
Treasury department and Federal
Reserve experts have been carefully
watching for signs of boarding but
there is no Indication that it is wide
spread among U. S. citizens through
out the country.
A chart showing both money in
circulation and wages paid shows
that the upturn in the total money
in circulation exactly parallels the
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-11-12
DESERT WARFARE:
Allied Air Umbrella

Slam-bang warfare continued on
the A1amein line between the Medi-
terranean sea and the Qattara de-
preston in Egypt as Britain's eighth
army struck sledgehammer blows
at positions held by the Germans
and Italians.
Although Field Marshal Erwin
RommePs forces struck back saw
agely, the British infantry held on to
early gains. Protected by hundreds
Of guns and supreme Allied air
umbrella, the infantry jolted enemy
troops loose from another section of
the Alamein line.
The great tank battles of previous
campaigns in the desert were miss
ing in the initial onslaught of the
new British drive. Heavy artillery
and planes played the dominant role.
American fiers strengthened the
drive, sweeping over enemy areas,
shooting up troop concentrations,
tanks and airfelds.
Cairo reports to British newspa-
pers said that Allied forces had
trapped several thousand Axis
troops" in a narrow pocket west of
Ell Alamein near the Mediterranean
coast.
While it was the avoWed intention
of the British command to destroy
Rommel and his army, some sources
saw another effect: Germany might
be forced to withdraw German
planes and men from Russia to meet
the even more critical threat on the
desert.
Britain appeared to be better pre-
pared for a showdown than at any
time since Italy's Marshal GRAHAM
sailed into Egypt in 1910.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-11-12
FARM INCOME:
Increase to Continue

Estimating the net farm income
for 1912 at $4,000, 100000 including
government payments, the depart
ment of agriculture forecast that
next years net income will total ap-
proximately $40, 500, 100000.
The 1912 figure is about 81 ,0OO,-
600, 900 above the previous record of
1919, the department said. Total ag-
ricultural production this year is
nearly IL per cent greater than the
record set in 1941, and 40 per cent
greater than in 1918.
The department stated October
estimates indicated, for the first
time, that the corn crop this year
may exceed the record set in 1920;
and it is being grown on IL per cent
less acreage. Abundant feed sup
plies and good prices are expected
to stimulate increased livestock pro-
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-11-12

duction again next year. However,
unless the weather is again excep-
tionally favorable it is unlikely that
crop production will equal the vol
urne of 1912, when per acre yields
appear to be averaging Is per cent
above previous records"
The department reported that mil
itary and lend-lease food purchases
next year are expected to be SO per
cent greater than in 1912 and will
take one-fifth of current farm pro-
duction. Civilian demands will con-
tinue to advance slowly and prices
for farm products in 1913 under cell
ing limitations will be about 6 per
cent above the average estimated
for all of 1912.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-11-12
LABOR SUPPLY:
Untapped Source

Even as he disclosed tentative
plans for the nationwide registra-
ton of women for work in war in
dustries, President Roosevelt stat
ed that the administration has
reached no decision on means of
solving the critical man-power prob
lem. He warned against premature
conclusions that plans for nation
service or labor draft legislation
have been abandoned.
The President pointed out that leg
islation will be necessary before the
registration of women could be or
dered. He emphasized that plans
call only for the registration of wom-
en- (between IS and 65), and that
there are no plans for a labor draft
Of women.
He stated that his recent meeting
with the AFL-CIO labor war cabi-
net followed this general line:
With approximately 100000 men
now in uniform, there are not very
many remaining to fill future needs
of war industries, which are expect
ed to require from four to five mil
lion additional workers. Although
the labor supply problem looks sat-
isfactory for the immediate present,
wisdom dictates that it be studied
from the long-range viewpoint. The
registration of women is concerned
with these future war needs, it was
pointed out.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-11-12
News Analyst
Heavy Artillery Planes Dominate Action British Strike Ronme

rise in wages. While the IA billion
dollars is the largest amount ever in
circulation in U. S. history govern
ment officials explained that any up
turn in business as widespread as
the present war spending always in
creases the demand for currency be-
cause it places cash in the pockets
Of those people without bank con-
nections.
But these officials are anxious to
have people make their dollars work
either by investing them in war saw
ings bonds or by depositing them in
banks. This is necessary to the
war time economy they assert and
repeat that "idle dollars are Stacker
dollars"