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The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1943-09-18
WASHINGTON IS
Scene OF MEET
BY FEPC BODY.
Nation A ats Results
OF Charges To BE
Heard
By ERNEST r. JOHNSON

.ASHINGT - CAMP Tn,
stage is all set for whit promises Il
be the biggest show ever scheduled
by the Fair Employment Practice
conn itiec. and that is The hearing
into charges that IS railroad com
panies-it was 20 before the Vir'
Eina RR settled "ou, OF court" las
wcck-snd "a ! Dor unions have
shown unjust discrimination in
thA.r dealings with Negro employe:
OF the railways.
Twice before scheduled and twice
bcf,re postponed. this four day
hearing which gets under way on
Sept Is. for the first time in us
stormy history brings the Presi-
dents committee flush up against a
formidable opponent. an opponent
which il, years gone by bought and
sold high public officials as the cir
cuns,ancrs OF self-interest and de-
velopment required.
In short, this half million dollar
Instrument OF the President for
fighting discrimination in war in
dustries has picked out for itself an
industry valued al IS billions OF
dollars with the idea In mind Of
publicly hauling it across barrel
for chsstisement.
A Crisis Exists
II was a year and half ago when
the matter hrA got notice. At a
two-day conference OF Negro loco
motive nremen, held IN Washington
March 1923, ls4I. under the spon.
sorship Of the brotherhood oil
Sleeping Car Porters, so delegates
f:om eight southern states heard A.
Philip Randolph firmly declare that
"a crisis exists" in the treatment OF
Negro fremen and switchmcn. AS
a result. the Provisional Committee
20 Organize Colored Locomotive
Fremen was initiated.
How many men the provisional
committee was speaking for is hard
20 say The Railroad Retirement
board in 1887 said that OF the total
of 1857 $50 railway employees, $780,
53J were Negroes No breakdown
Is given. A study among Negro
firemen made over the period 1925.
SO by Dr.. Roberto. Weaver, DR.. Ira
De Reid. Dr. Charles Johnson and
d.. Preston Vslian estimated there
10 DC l,243 firemen distributed q:
follows:
East North Central REGION. liz
West North Central g.on.. 81
South Atlantic region. ... 81;
East South Central region 49,. 81
West South Central region. ... 49,
Total i2i;
One year lstcr. almost 10 the day
the FEPC heard representatives !oi
inc provisional committee brio
their case and point out that. since
tae railroads had contracts Of car
rage for defense materials. they fei
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1943-09-18

Byrd, who was called from his va
cation by Coroner Goddard to SUI
pervise registrations. stated he
checked in 38 bodies during that
time. Deputy Coroner Oscar c.
Patillo was on duty at the scene
OF the wreck, aiding in the eXtrica-
ton OF dead bodies and assisting
those injured. The undcrtakcrS
volunteered their services and do
mated their private hearses for re-
moval OF the bodies TO the morSuc.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1943-09-18

One year latcT. almost 70 The day,
the FEPC heard representatives for
inc provisional committee brief
their case and point out that. since
tae railroads had contracts Of car
rage for defense materials. they fell
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1943-09-18
EIkS' Home, 300 Mack Ave.
Mortgage Burning Ceremonies, Sunday Sept 1', 1913
BPM. - AT SHILOH BAPTIST CHURCH
Ik1lLEY


temporarily relieved from office During that the
program continued under the administration OF Mrs.
Nina McCracken.
leaders had the whole hearted support Of the
Organization and several splendid Committees under the
Chairmanshp of Mr. Chester Hill Mr.. Simon Thompson
mr. Thos. Ledord Mrs Gertrude Kennedy Mrs Laura
Rice originated tho plan 10 clear the indebted
from the Home
Attorney Herbert l. Dudley The Legal adviser Of Lodge
Temple been in charge Of all negotiations. Mr.
Brazil Bryant Grand Trustee, member OF The Heart
Detroit Lodge. Mrs Grace Bryant is charter member
Temple and has served Treasurer for
funds raised for this purpose. The Home has been
Board of Directors composed Of members of
Lodge and Temple which deserve commendaion for the
of this The members of the Board
follows Grace Bryant. Chrmn; E. M Briggs Vice Chrmn
Lester Brown BRAZIL j. Bryant Dan Rose. Chester Hill
Harry Watkins VIM. Bell J. w. Hinton < L. Dudley Hosea
Hubert Elizabeth Geans Leila Hunter. Anna Dye Laura
Rice. Celia Collins Annabelle Kmbrough Helen CAN'T
Carrie Curtis. Executive Secretary. 20
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1943-09-18

Corp William A. Thomas son Of
the late w. II. Thomas. supcrinten-
dent and founder Of the Lott Cary
Mission in Liberia. West Africa. is
10 be the featured dinner speaker
at the Golden Jubilee Open House
celebration at Lucy Thurman
Branch YWCA on Thursday, Sep
TENDER % at 6 o'clock.
Corp. Thomas comes 10 Detroit
at the invitation OF Mrs. Charles
Evening star., 1943-01-22

try Committee, an exception, has
been persistently active in advising
OPA on price trends, assisting in
changing trade practices and even
in policing the industry. Mr.. Brown
repeatedly has this conception in
mind for all business panels.
Uniform System Sought.
1t was expected he would try to
develop uniform system of stand
ing industry committees having reg
ular meetings with the appropriate
OPA branch officials, something
along the lines of the advisory COM
mittee setup of the War Production
Board
Congress, too, has found the
latchString out at the OPA, and
legislators have seized on the op-
portunity to lay before Mr.. Brown
an accumulation of complaints and
suggestions for the operation of
price controls and rationing.
Inaugurating the open door,
policy, Mr.. Brown told reporters
that he had received a great many
communications from his former
associates in the Senate and House.
While some of these were COM
plants about local situations. he
said many offered support for his
new program Of Sympathetic" price
and rationing administration.
Hopes for Congress Accord.
The new administrator made no
secret of the fact that one of his
first objectives will be to improve
OPA relations with Congress-
strained in the past when Mr.. Hen
derson made appointments without
consulting legislators and when he
adopted tough" attitude in en-
forcing regulations.
How effective Mr. Browns efforts
along this line have been probably
will be determined when the OPA
chieftain goes to Congress for a
deficiency appropriation of $40
100000 to finish out the fiscal year
up to June 80. W
Evening star., 1943-01-22
Brown Plans TO Give.
Businessmen Bigger
Voice in 0PA Rules
System of Industry
Advisory Committees
Will Be Revived
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The new price administrator
Prentiss M. Brown, intends to give
businessmen a bigger voice in draft
ing the regulations under which
they operate.
Mr.. Brown is resolved to revive
OPAs system of industry advisory
committees, on the theory that
many complaints of unfairneSS; dis
elimination and impracticality of
price orders could be eliminated in
advance if the industry concerned
sat in on the preparation of each
regulation.
Mr.. Brown hopes also, it was re-
liably reported, to skeletonize OPA'S
enforcement division as much as
possible and place enforcement of
price and ration orders in the hands
of United States attorneys through
out the country whenever possible.
Enforcement Policy Hit.
Mr.. Brown was represented as
being convinced that some of OPAs
unpopularity-to which some Demo-
cratic candidates aScribed their de-
feats in the November elections
has stemmed from the agency's en-
forcement policies as laid down in
Washington. This situation might
be corrected, in some measure at
least, if enforcement were placed
more generally on local basis and
administered by United States at
torneys conversant with regional
conditions and needs. -.
Consulting with Che industry be-
fore putting a price ceiling into
effect is not original with Mr..
Brown; the. Price Control Act re-
quires that this be done 80 far as
practicable. and under Leon Hen
derson, who stepped out as price
administrator Monday, OPA called
an industry conference, in Washing
ton before the issuance Of nearly
all major price orders.
However, little emphasis was
placed on keeping the industry
groups continuously and actively
functioning.
The Iron and Steel Scrap Indus
Evening star., 1943-01-22
Costo Ricon Official
To Visit G. u. Today

Senor Louis Tinoco, minister Of
education of Costa Rica, here on q
visit, will pay a call this afternoon
at Georgetown University, which he
attended as a youth.
The Costa Rican was student in
the School of Foreign Service during
1927 and 1923 on one of the scholar
ships the school extended to Latin
American countries, He will look up
former professors, especially DR..
Thomas H Healey. now dean of the
school. who taught him in interna-
tional law
Evening star., 1943-01-22
SHOP TONIGHT It'll 93o-a|so Saturday $50 AM to $50 PM-A

Offer you quality merchandise at
money-saving prices. When you buy
at Sears you do so with the knowledge
that quality and serviceability are COM
tinually being checked :. the markets
secured for latest fashions! Free Roof
Parking at Wisconsin Store, also on
large Parking Lot, rear of Bladensburg
Store.
Evening star., 1943-01-22
Rockville Welding Glass

A class in acetylene Welding will
start at the Richard Montgomery
High School in Rockville, Nd, at 7
pm. Monday. Glasses will be held
on Monday, Wednesday and Friday
nights for about 13 weeks.
Evening star., 1943-01-22

Popular midriff style, with
gathered bust sections.
Others with ce-trim-
med shoulder straps
and front. Sizes. "a to 40.
Al Bladensburq and Wisconsta.
Stores
Evening star., 1943-10-05
Where and When
Current Theoter Attroc tions
ond Time Of Showing

Stage
NatiOnal-"The Army Play-by-
PLAY" John Goldens all-soldier
show: Tonight at $50.
Screen.
Capitol-"Holv Matrimonv.' mis-
taken Identity Of a beard: IL am.
lao. 4:25, 7:l0 and 9:55 pm. Stage
shows: /. 3:45, $50 and 9:l0 pm.
Columbia Proudly We Hail"
Army nurses on Bataan: HAS am,
2l0, 4:35. and 9:35 pm.
Earle-"Thank Your Lucky Stars"
film stars lampoon themselves
l0:45 am, l 80. Ais. 7 and $50 pm
Stage shows: 1855, $40, $50 and
9.l5 pm
keith's-"Behind the Rising Sun"
and inside Japan: 1l45 am, Las,
3:45, 5:45, 7:45 and 9:45 pm.
Little-"Black Sea Fighters" a
Soviet record: II am. lis, $50,
$50 $40 and 1890 pm.
Destroyer, Eddie
Robinson in naval combat: ll:05
a m, lilo, $50, 5:25, 7:30 and 9 35
pm.
Palace - For Whom the Bell
Tolls Miss Bergmans showpiece ::
1890 am, lilo, 3:55, 6;35 and 9:20
pm.
Pix Charlie Chaplin Laugh
Week: 2;l5. 4:55. 7:25 and 10 10 pm.
TranS-LuX News and shorts
Continuous from 10 am.
Evening star., 1943-10-05
The Bond Total Is Up

To the tune Of 1t. Rudy Vallee's
Lucky 'Leventh Coast Guard Band.
the Earle and Capitol Theater stage
shows and approximately $500. 900 il
War bond sales, the Stars at Mid
night revue last night captivated
large audiences at the Earle and
Capitol Theaters.
The pageant of entertainers, local
and imported, whose sole purpose
was to accumulate funds for the
diSmay of the Axis. offered more
than two hours of music. dancing
and comedy working in shifts be-
tween the F. street and the Thir-
teenth street houses. Opening at
midnight at the Capitol with Sam
Jack Kaufman's Orchestra and Art
Brown, organist. in a rousirg rres-
entation of the Star Spaneled Ban
ner,' the show moved with gather
ing momentum through the varied
diversion of Coast GuardSman
Vallee, former Bandleader Johnny
Evening star., 1943-10-05
A Harpsichord
Comes to Rescue
Of Clavichord
HOLLYWOOD.


BY the Associated Press.
Movie studios usually pride them
selves on obtaining technically exact
and correct props However, this
time. after exhaustive effort, they We
decided to call it a day and use
what they have, figuring that the
average motion picture fan won.
know or care
The problem child in this case
is a clavichord musical forerunner
OF the harpsichord and the piano.
Joan Fontaine has to play on it in
"FTenchman Creek set in the
17th century.
FROM pictures, the studio work
shop reconstructed one that looks
perfect, but as for making it sound
like one, that can't be done. In a
war, hunt for a real one is impos-
slble, as they are few and mostly
in European museums.
So they're clubbing in music from
a harpsichord not so rare. and let
ting 1t go at that. They figure the
fans won't know the difference ANY,
N6y
Evening star., 1943-10-05
Zanuck Preserves an Idealist

girl we'd most like to be cast away
on desert isle with"
But Miss Day was selected to be
just the plain. old perfect wife"
Tallulah Bankhead wants John
Kodiak to go back to Broadway
and do a play with her Deeply
impressed by the rugged, young
Ukrainian-Polish actors work op-
posite her in 'Lifeboat," she be-
lieves he'd be sensation on Broad
way.
"A good play would shorten your
climb to the movie top by five
years" she said.
Born in Detroit. Kodiak finally
made Hollywood via radio about
year ago. Under contract to
MGM, he played minor parts in
a few pictures before being bor-
rowed by Alfred Hitchcock at goth
Century-Fox.
stand-ins, but Charles Laughton
walks off with a record for having
the most frightful stand-in ever
known. He has one for his own
head!
AS the spook in The Canter-
vile Ghost Laughton has scene
in which, as horrific haunt. he
takes off his own head and holds
it aloft like lantern. To accom-
plish this miracle for the camera,
a model of the Laughton dome and
visage has been contrived by the
MGM makeup department-nat-
urally colored and lifelike in every
respect.
released by the North American
Newspaper Alliance, Inc)
Evening star., 1943-10-05
Like You, Dearie,
And Your Shoes
HOLLYWOOD

4AoLl NooD.
There's new kind of CLIQUE
forming in HOLLYWOOD, which has
nothing to do with ancestry, the
right people or any of those con-
sidera tions Extra girls and dancers
who have the same sized feet are
becoming close friends. It's the
shoe shortage.
The girls pool their shoe ward
robes, keep careful count h those
on hand, and those needed. and
when one of them needs dress shoes
Tor scene, there is a pair for
her
So it goes thrugh the various
needs in the footwear department
from tricky sportswear through
scarlet half-heeled Spanish dane
ing slippers, to slim pumps for the
demure debutante in a society scene
which employees dress extras.
Evening star., 1943-10-05
Mood or Movie
Governs Tunes
For Mr.. Crosby
BY the Associated Press.


HOLLYWOOD.
whenever Bing Crosby says his
songs sometimes are pulled out of
thin air he isn't fooling.
One of his tenesmiths, Jimmy Van
Heusen, is an airplane test pilot
and admits getting ideas for some
of his melodies while aloft, literally
on wings of song. The other,
Johnny Burke who writes the lyrics,
spends his spare time composing
nursery rhymes.
They dog CroSby's footsteps for
ideas and many phrases in the
crooner'S songs are adaptations OF
his casual conversations. Remem-
ber the hit song, Moonlight Be-
comes YOU" from Road to Moroc-
CO.? That phrase was lifted out of
remark Bing made to Dorothy
Lamour on the set of an earlier
picture.
Once concert pianist, Van
HeuSen deserted that career to work
as an elevator operator in Tin Pan
Alley so he could learn the music
publishing business. Then he be-
came rehearsal pianist for Irving
Berlin and since has been writing
songs for II years.
Burke made poetry writing a spe-
cialty, played the piano for a pub
fishing company in order TO buy cof-
fee and cakes while slaving over
200 compositions which never got
published before he finally wrote one
that did.
Secret of their success. they say.
is that they always tailor their songs
to fit Bings personality, moods and
movie roles. Crosby insists on but
one thlng-his songs can't slop over
board on sentimentality or be hot
lick jlve
In his current role as priest in
Going My Way Crosby's music
ranges from popular to operati to
sacred. It's the most diversified of
any he has ever sung on the
screen
Evening star., 1943-10-05
BY HAROLD HEFFERNAN.
HOLLYWOOD.

Sights and sounds:
Convinced that the public is ready
to accept logic and unadorned truth
in its biographical fare, Daryl F..
zanuck, producing Wilson" de-
clared today that the President Of
World War l days would emerge on
the screen las was the salient de-
tails of his personality and career
unchanged
THE general conception of Presi-
dent Wilson is that he was a cold
austere idealist." said Zanuck. He
was supposed to have kept people at
arms length. Outsiders believe he
was devoid of the average mans
emotions.
"On the contrary. even brief
study OF the man shows him to have
been gay. warm-hearted, whimsical
in his relations with friends and
intimates. He loved football and
baseball. He liked charades. read
mystery stories until all hours and
couldn't get enough of movies and
the theater. He was a doting and
indulgent father. Yet he was stub
born man and once he made up his
mind nothing could move him. That
is the way he will be pictured There
will be no glossisg over historical
facts
If Zanuck sticks to his guns, his
wilson will introduce a jarring
note to the biographical field It's
not often that the movies have run
counter to legend and popular belief
In setting forth the stories of MIS-
torical figures.
George Washington. for instance,
is invariably portrayed as standing
malestically in the roWboat taking
him across the choppy waters of the
Delaware to attack the ,Hessians. Yet
historians know better. Washington
was far too good woodsman to
indulge in such foolishneSs. The
simple virtues of Abe Lincoln are
always stressed to the exclusion of
his gifts as politician who knew
all the tricks and used them for the
benefit of his country.
So 1t has gone down the list of
biographical studies attempted by
the screen. If Zanuck sticks to the
literal and historical truth in film
ing wilson, he may have a lot of
folks wanting to boil him in oil. but
he will, at least. have pioneered a
radical and welcome departure.
X y
Laralne Day doesn't know whether
to feel complimented or hurt She's
Just been informed that she's been
chosen by more than 100000 fight
ing men of the 10th United States
Naval District, embracing the en-
tire Caribbean area. as one of their
three favorite movie stars.
1t seems that Betty Cradle was
named Sweetheart of the Fleet"
Nancy Coleman won out as the
Evening star., 1943-10-05

ooeS not care where l.e fights so
long as the population is not OK
cluSlVely male, the troubled husband
the romantic Los Angelina who
envlSages his fur1ough as an ethereal
adventure. the barracks misan-
tiirope and all the others. Their
conversation makes one of tic most
perfectly sustained stretches of
comedy dialogue that coulo be
J8mmed into single act No one
but a soldier with a perfect ear
Tor the dramatically undrama tic
coulu have written il
Pack Up Your Troubles" the
third of the comedy pieces in the
group, finds its hero in a forlorn
naive soldier husband who is des-
perately frustrated by fate and Army
regulations in making a long dis
tance call to the hospital where his
wife Is having a baby. The hilarious
horror Of his predicament is c!ev-
erly complicated by the INTRODUCE
ton of flfth-columnist corporals.
who are used by Author Pfc. Allied
D. Geto for highly effective dramatic
contrast.
IN more solemn vein Corpl Kurt
kaSznar. who learned his theater
IN Vienna under Max Reinhardt.
has written eXcitinglv of a group
OF American soldiers captured by
Nazl submarine. First Cousins"
the logical title of the OlaV. /,
faulty written item which deals
fOrcefullT with the loyalty of Ger
man-Amerlcans in the service of
tner adopted country II is a high
ly polished piece of writing which
1t would have to be to deal with
such theme within the dimen-
SlonS of a one-act play
All Cadet nov Lt.D Ralph Nell
son. formerly associated with the
LuntS, is author of Mail Call" the
single play which deals with SOL
dierS i'll a combat area. His theme
is the essential tolerance of the
American soldier. the human kind
ness which pervadeS the lmconquer-
able "polyglot" which the enemy
presumes-or is it presumed?-de-
mocracv to be.
In addition to this varied display
of writing and nistionic skill, The
Army Play bv Play" fills all but
one of its Scene-Snitting interiudes
with specially acts of quality
that is no less than superb.
The man who stammered "colos-
SAL did not eXaggerate.
Evening star., 1943-10-05
Abbott and Costello
Active by Proxy
In War Zones
BY the Associated Press.

by lDe hSoOCldttQ fIeSS.
HOLLYWOOD.
Names of movie stars are turning
up in strange places in the news
these days. One pair, Abbott and
Costello who did much camp tour
ing last year up to the time of Alb
bolts serious illness, from which
he just now is recovering, are get
ing the echoes of their popularity
with the boys from both Toxic and
Germany this week.
A Flying Fortress named Abco,
which bears painted hkenesses Of
the comics, has been bombing Ham
burg, and is reported as having shot
down two Nazi planes over Will
helmshaven.
From Toxic. Japanese broadcasts
had referred to the capture of "Ab-
bott and Costello" antiaircraft
searchlights on Bataan; Army in
telligence just has revealed that this
refers to a set of such searchlightS
at an Arizona training station on
which doughboys had scratched the
names of the funnymen after they
had visited the camp.
Evening star., 1943-10-05


conservative critics stammered in
ms ecStatlc loss for words. AS
surety q. 1. as suit of size 40
la'lgueS flung in the face of a mid
get drattee, The Army Play by
Play is also strictly wonderful. 1t
Is the soldiers own eloquent answer
-robustly humorous for the most
part-to the question of what life
IN the Army is like.
Three of the five plays. all of
which ignore the fact that the one
acter Is supposed to be a highly
limited form, are by soldier play
WflghtS who chose the farcical as
their subject. The others are more
serious, and for all the facility of
their authors, come off with less
effectiveness.
1t is not in the mere writing that
The Army Play by Play" becomes
one OF the superb pieces of wartime
entertainment, however. 1t is
played with spirit, vitality and
versatility that the master race
would find incredible and impos-
sible. The 100 actors and musi-
clans, straight Government issue.
mlnd you, are as engaging a lot as
ever gave civilian morale an unin-
territorial flip. An audience full of
sergeantS would get callous clap
ping its approval of their work, be
the work Slapstick, wiStful comedy.
poignant drama. or one of the
many other elements with which
The Army Play by Play" is satu-
rated.
1t Is matter of personal taste
which OF the five one-act plays is the
pest contribution to The Army PLAY
by Play" The odds are that the
choice Of the majority Will be But
ton Your Lip a hilarious satire
laid in latrine, the richest source
Of rumors in the Army. Corpl. Irv-
Ing q. Nelman. formerly of the staff
of Time magazine, let his imagina-
ton run rlot-m a we'll controlled
Way-ln Button Your Lip" Before
his denouement. everything from
SaooteurS to spies. baffled rockies
1nept officers and Clare Boothe Luce
find their way into his dizzy reve-
latlon OF what crazy things mere
words can be.
An element of pathoS heightenS
the farcical qualities of the other
two comedy lnterludes in The Army
Play by Play
Where Fer We Go by Pic. John
B. ODea, carries dramatically
vistful note through its contem-
plation of the strange and wonder
ful types who make up draft
Army. They are ali there, the poker
PLAYERS. the amorous Italian who
Evening star., 1943-10-05

Greer and Harpist Bob Maxwell.
But before this climax, Pianist
Carmen Cavallaro had taken time
out from his duties at the Emba ssy
Room, the Earle Roxvettes had
worked overtime to dance a few of
their bright routines, and the Cap
itol's Arthur Tracy street-sang a
handful of ditties. In addition, Tim
Herbert quipped as master of cere-
monies, Eunice Healy executed a
few decorative dances, the five
dancing Debonettes did turn and
Art Brown filled in one or two waits
with his so-calied organlogues.
While the Treasury Department
officials happily tabulated the
proceeds.