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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-23

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. u
(1NS) Severe weather conditions
along the Northern California coast
brought death TO-DAY To at least
six persons, injuries TO more than
20. and caused the explosion OF
a barrage balloon on the ground
near Vallejo. Cal.
The balloon explosion killed a
soldier. Technician Richard S. Gail
Of Eaton, o., injured five other
army crew members and five
civilians.
Several small houses were de-
stroyed and others damaged by
the explosion of the hydrogen
filled balloon. which had been
bedded because of weather condi-
tlons. Technician Jessie r. Merry
man of Grand Rapids. Mich. was
among those seriously injured.
More than 100 homes were dam
aged in the Vallejo arquineZ
Straits area. Approximately 150
families were left homeless.
Communications and traffic were
seriously disrupted in a dozen sec
tors, several schools were closed
and several coastal villages and
towns were al! but isolated.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-23

Prince Bernhard of the
royal family of Holland with
the little daughter born TO
Princess Juliana the third
who might have become
heir TO the Dutch throne had
she only been a boy. The
first royalty born in North
America Cat Ottawa, she's
named Margriet Franciska.
Evening star., 1943-08-30

come to find food. On moonlight
lights they resemble swift shadows
passing through the trees. When
you think you have one located, he
is some distance away.
During the courtship period, there
Is general din in their woods.
During April, their startling screech
followed by a series of down-the-
scale gurgles, fairly deafen one. The
travel between the trees is yery
speedy and the males race through
the branches to capture rivals.
Flying phalangers are pouched
animals. Their babies are very i'm
mature at birth, remaining in the
pouch until they have reached a
stage in their development they are
permitted to be on their own. The
membrane stretches from the fifth
foref1nger to ankle. A kick OF en-
ables them to "fiy" fast. The fine
bushy tail acts as q rudder.
AS pets these animals are most
satisfactory. They are very fastidi-
Gus, keeping their fur clean and
glossy. Their bright eyes watch you
with evident interest. There is alb
solute confidence concerning your
actions. The small beasts make
themselves right at home. They
launch q fast trip through the air
by way OF your shoulder or back OF
a chair, mantle or high furniture
Guests may be somewhat startled to
be used as landing or take-on field
But they soon delight in watching
the trusting little animals going
about their business with never q
thought of hurting any one.
Evening star., 1943-08-30
Natures Children
LESSER FLYING PHALANGER
(PetdurfS hrepicensl
BY LILLIAN cox ATMY.

fPefdurns breDfceps).
Another native animal Of Australia
our boys found interesting and
amusing is the handsome flying
phalanger. 1t has incorrectly been
called flying squirrel or opossum. It
is not a member OF the rodent
family.
All phalangers are graceful flyers
or gliders. They possess the para
chute-like side membrane which en-
ables them to glide swiftly from one
tree to another. Our own flying
squirrel uses the same method Of
travel.
The lesser phalanger is Of East
ern Australia. Though there are
many of these flyers, they are so
very quiet, few are aware OF their
presence. with the exception Of
courtship days. Then they make up
for all the silence Of the other
months.
But those who are on to the ways
OF these gliders know how to locate
them. On the bark OF gum trees
there will be their wide apart claw
scratches. These calling cards, once
seen. are easily recognized there
after.
During the daytime the swift
travellers are curled up in their COM
Portable bark nest, fast asleep. As
soon as darkness arrives, out they
Evening star., 1943-08-30
LETTER-OUT

Remove letter rearange the word
CAMEO Tor In the last column Print
Sue he word from which
correctly its found a
Answer to Saturdays LETTER-OUT.
Leter-Out -.
tF) FOLDERS-RESOLD dts Fl
(O) PAROIES-PEARLS (have necklace,
go TW1GS-WITS (they good company.
go ENIGMA-MAINE & Sate) %.
(Y) LARCENY-LANCER (hes smart cavalryman)
Evening star., 1943-08-30

case. There Is wood which will sink
in water. and there Is stone which
will foatl
Many kinds Of ironwood trees
grow on this continent and else-
where, and al OF them produce hard.
heavy wood. The wood Of some
kinds IS 80 heavy that 1t viii sink
when dropped In water.
On the other hand we can and
kind of stone which win float. IL
Is known as 'pumice" or 'pumic0
stone" and 1t comes from volcanoes.
Lava which flows out Of . volcano
Is likely to have q great deal of gas
in 1t. This gas may have enough
pressure to expand Inside the lava
before 1t cools. In that way much
purnice stone Is made. It also may
be thrown out in the form Of loose
cinders during an eruption Of .
volcano.
Time and again people have
watched pumice noa ting about this
! surface of the ocean. Volcanoes
have thrown up pumice ashes, and
the ashes have dropped on the sea.
The most famous case dates back
to 1883. In that year the Krakatoa
volcano sent thousands Of tons Of
ashes into the air, and the ashes
were made up largely Of punice.;
The pumice made thick bed on
the surface OF the Strait Of Sunda,
between Java and Sumatra. The
bed was reported to be from one to
is feet thick. One section Of 1t.
19 miles long and two-thirds OF .
mile wide, made up kind Of
blockade against small seaport
| town.
Certain sailing vessels were held
offshore by the piinice. We are told
that some of the sailors stepped on
the pumice bed and walked z miles
before safely reaching the island
coast!
The common color Of punice is
gray, but it also may be yellow,
brown black or snow white. It is
light enough to float because Of the
hundreds Of small gas pockets inside
1t.
A great deal Of this CLASSY stone Il
used for polishing wood, ivory,
marble and 50 on. When ground
to powder and mixed with soap, IL
makes good metal polish
After floating for month or two,
pumice stone becomes water
logged" and when that happens it
will sink. Very old punlice stone,
which has suffered pressure while
on the ground, also viii sink in
| water. s%
Cor Science section OF your
scraphOok( n ts-s.-.--- ~
Evening star., 1943-08-30
Uncle Roy's Corner

One OF the many plain facts" in
this world Is that wood will fioat
on water. Another such fact Il that
stone win sink when 1t is dropped
on water.
Both those things are quite true
for most kinds Of wood and stone.
yet the rule does not hold in sYerY
Evening star., 1943-08-30
1~eA laa4

Place = stamp In that vacant
space In your War savings stamp
book; It will help put the Axis On
the spot.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-08-14

WASHINGTON, D. C.-(SNS)-
Racial discrimination, an evil the
CLIO has been fighting for a long
time, was the subject of the CLOS
Labor for Victory" national radio
program last Sunday. -Four CLIO
leaders, two of them Negro and
two white, took part in the dis
cussion, which stressed the impor-
lance of taking all possible steps
omeet serious problem affecting
our war effort.
James Carey, national CIO sec
rotary treasurer and chairman of
the CIO Committee to Abolish
Racial Discrimination, in starting
the discussion, declared that the
war requires the full use of all
our strength in material, manpower
and morale" In a period of war
tension, he said, there is constant
danger of emotional disturbances
causing explosions that may harm
war production.
willard Townsend, president of
the United Transport Service En-
ployees, CIO, listed some of the
main points in the treatment of
Negroes in armed service and in
civilian communities which created
tension.
These arise from local transpor-
tation facilities to and from camps.
violence against Negro soldiers in
civilian communities ard the reflec-
ton in those communities of the
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-08-14
Demo Greed OF
Cleveland Firm
Is Given Praise
Proves That Men
Of Many Races Can
Work Side by Side

WASHINGTON, - (ANP) - The
official creed of the National Smelt-
ing company of Cleveland was pick
ed up this week for praise by Will
lard S. Townsend, lone Negro MEM
Der of the executive board of the
Congress for Industrial Organiza-
ton and president of the United
Transport Service employees.
The creed was carried on the back
page of the June issue Of National
News Views, company publication
for employees, and was accompanied
by a photo of Negro and a white
worker, shaking hands beneath an
American flag on which was print
ed the words: "Give It Your Best!"
The creed itself says:
"That men, regardless of the col
or of their skins, their ancestry, or
their names
"That men Of different races, orr
gins, religions can work side by side
in harmony and good will =.
THAT men so working together
are capable of orderly conduct, of
taking unto themselves their due
share of responsibility, and of pro-
ducing more and more as the need
becomes greater and greater"
Townsend, who is also chairman
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-08-14
Liberals Warn Against More
ceTension; Action

that only federal grand jury
investigation of the Detroit riots
will be effective"
Atty. Gen. Biddle was told that
unless the Detroit race situation is
relieved and rurther friction pre-
vented by, the federal government,
serious race riots will break out
in more than dozen cities in
the nation where roits are threat
ened at present"
The civil liberties union commit
tee and the other signers of the
telegram asked the attorney gen.
eral for assurance that the depart
ment of justice will institute
federal grand jury investigation at
once, particularly in the light
of the evidence of lawlessness on
the part of the Detroit police"
The telegram was sent to Biddle
following newspaper reports that
Special Prosecutor Bowling of De-
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-08-14
The Globe Trotter
Let's Adopt A Slogan

good enough to vote for it." Of
course there would be a desperate
effort to bring forth an answer out
of the vague hodge-podge philoso-
ply of white supremacy what
ever that is. But such an answer
would not only be illogical, it
would be totally out of line with
everything the United Nations are
protesting to be fighting for.
Something needs to be done
and soon to make the noble
provisions of the United States
Constitution real to millions in
America, who do not now bene-
fit by them. 1t must be done be-
fore the thousands of black sons
three-fourths of them from the
South, return home.
These boys who have willingly
gone forth to the worlds farf1ung
battlefields, to fight, bleed and die
for a democracy they have never
enjoyed, on their return certainly
will not be satisfied to exist under
the same old discriminatory laws,
to still be victims of unequal JUS
tice, to continue to be denied a
voice in the government they have
risked their lives to defend. They
will be expecting full and equal
share in the democracy they have
fought for. And their expectations
must become reality.
Our leaders should go even fur
Their than the re-phrasing of Gov
ernor Arnall's effective slogan. "A
man good enough to fight Is good
enough to vote" fits only a small
part of the disenfranchised mil
lions, although during the present
crisis it would indeed be effective
propaganda to soften up those
who fiercely resent our fight to lift
ourselves from the stigma of sec
ond class citizenship.
Peculiarly enough the South
err Governors Conference it
self has gone on record against
discrimination. Our leaders
should join in the fight Of the
state chief executive against
this evil of evils, although the
governors at the moment do not
appear to be concerned with the
racial discrimination that pla-
CUES the lives of SO many Of
their citizens, but instead are
addressing themselves to what
they believe the greater evil.
freight rats Discrimination
A wise move, this writer believes,
would be for our leaders to con-
done the determined fight being
made by the governors, while at the
same time warning that freight
rates Is not the only tiscrimias-
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-08-14
Jews, Negroes
Are Smeared In
Detroit Leaflets
Sinister Sheets
Distributed In
Various Sections

DETROIT = (ANP) - Decent,
law-abiding citizens were greatly
agitated last week at the sudden
flood of sinister anti-Negro, anti
Jewish literature mysteriously ap-
pearing in various sections. of the
city, and expressed fears that if
CITY authorities do not suppress this
literature at its source a recurrence
of the sanguinary race riots OF June
q will again grip the community.
The literature in the form OF
leaflets, reprint assertions of the
rabid race batter John l.. Rancid)
Rankin, Democratic representative
from Mississippi, made in the house.
One of the paragraphs typical of
the particular brand of venom of
this questionable American de-
clareS:
when those communistic Jews
of whom the decent Jews are
ashamed = go around here and
hug and kiss these Negroes, dance
with them, intermarry with them,
and try to force their way into
white restaurants, white hotels, and
white picture shows, they are not
deceiving any red-blooded Ameri-
can and above all, they are not de-
ceiving the men in our armed forces
as to who is at the bottom of all
this race trouble"
Observers here were amazed that
such vicious literature was allowed
to be disseminated so recently af-
ter the debacle here when tension is
still high and animosity strong.
These statements placed in the
hands of hoodlum elements, it was
felt, would increase i'll will, rather
than help speed the city back to
normally. Another excerpt from the
leaflet stated:
They (communistic jews have
caused the deaths Of many good
Negroes who never would have got
into trouble if they had been left
alone, as we'll as the deaths of many
good white people, including many
innocent, unprotected white girls,
who have been raped and murdered
by vicious Negroes, who have been
encouraged by these alien-minded
Communists to commit such
crimes"
Further seeking to inflame the
public conscience, the leaflet quotes
from a letter purportedly received
by the congressman from a white
soldier in Detroit reporting Com
munist meetings in the segregated
Negro area. The letter charged that
one of these speakers shouted "the
party of the Negro people is the
Communist party" and that if they
wanted 'to be free and happy
they should join the Communist
party.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-08-14

The News and Courier, one of
the most reactionary newspapers
in the country, took occasion to
sew the seed of discomfort and
race hate with the announcement
of a suit filed in Georgia for
equal pay for Negro and white
teachers. There are suits on file
here demanding the same equal
ization.
Suggesting that whites pro-
vide schools for their children to
escape the burden of paying for
the education of Negroes, and
limiting that it would be "bless-
ing to the south" to have Negroes
migrate to other sections in
wholesale numbers, the paper
stated:
"The white taxpayers can es-
tablish and maintain private
grammar and high schools for
then children and thereby escape
the staggering load of educating
the Negroes in the higher grades
abolition of free tuition in
the schools of higher grade would
probably accelerate migration of
Negroes. The greater the number
of Negroes leaving the South the
greater will be the number of
white settlers coming into it. !"
The editorial declared that
provided these lawsuits are sue
cessful the "white taxpayers may
begin to think about the load
they will be expected to carry
to support can elaborate system"
Of education for ''nine million
five hundred thousand Negroes. "
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-08-14
BY cliff Mackay

ton that is harmful to the South.
These leaders might point out that
all discrimination is wrong, whe-
ther sectional or racial; that eco
nomic and political inequalities are
breeding grounds for discomfort,
whether practiced on a local, ma
tiona1 or international scale.
FITS OUR PLIGHT
They too, could supplement their
slogan campaign with one de-
signed along the lines of the
Colonial era rallying cry, Taxation
without representation is tyranny
Here is tailor made catch phrase
which fits the plight of millions of
Negro citizens like a glove. This
Eighteenth Century slogan, though
revolutionary to most of our 10th
Century reactionaries, certainly
bears no mark of a foreign ism,
with which conservatives delight
in smearing all progressive moves.
1t is purely American in origin and
should be American in practice.
The only ism with which
taxation without representation
agrees is hated fascism, against
which the great demOcracieS
are solidly aligned. 1t is most
embarrassing and another one of
the hard answer arguments
when examples of our own
special brand of made in
America fascism comes to light.
Exposing them now in view of
our prOfessed war aims, would
be a real service, not him
drance to America.
Who is that could do a more
effective job of focusing atten-
ton on our native fascism than
those who are daily victims of its
evil ways? Until this pernicious
system has been completely elimi-
mated at home and abroad, there
can be no victory worthy of the
name, there can be no durable
peace.
WELL WORTH A TRY
The slogan campaign is we'll
worth try. Who is that can
refute with sound argument the
slogan, IF a mans color is no
barrier to his fighting for his
country, it should be none to his
voting?"
It is merely a simpler way of
letting the nation and the world
know that we are wholly dissatis-
FED with our half slave status IN
der e government plsdg.ng freedom
to all It states IN every day, down
to-earth language that while We
are more than willing to fight and
die for America, We also want the
opportunity to work and i've, to
serve America.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-08-14

NEW YORK-(A N P)-Charg-
ing the Detroit police with lawless-
ness and condemning Special Pro-
secutor William Dowling's refusal
to convene grand jury to inves-
tigate the recent race riots, the
committee against race discrimina-
ton of the American Civil Liberties
union, headed by Pearl S. Buck,
and 10 other national organiza-
tions Thursday wired Atty. Gen.
Francis Biddle urging an immediate
federal grand jury investigation of
the Detroit situation.
The telegram, signed by groups
devoted to race understanding, re-
ferred to newspaper reports that
Prosecutor Bowling, supported by
Police Commissioner Witherspoon
of Detroit, placed the blame for
the recent riots on the Negroes.
This, the wire said, "has SO great
ly undermined the confidence of
the people of Detroit and the nation
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-08-14

UNOUESTIONABLY THAT was
a good slogan coined by Georgla's
youthful chief executive, Governor
Ellis 3. Arna1l to win the support
of voters for his state constitu-
tiona1 amendment proposal lower
ing the voting age 10 eighteen.
His "A man old enough to fight
is old enough to vote" was
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-08-14
Blast Race Bias
On Radio Program

racial attitudes of those in authori-
ty in the armed services" he said.
Others who participated in the
roundtable were John P. Brophy,
CLIO member of the President S
Fair Employment Practices Com
mittee and George l.. Weaver,
UTSEA-CIO Washington Represen-
tative and Director of the CLIO
Committee to Abolish Racial Discri-
mination.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-08-14
WEST POINT SEGREGATION
SIGNS REMOVED

WEST POINT, N. Y.-At West
Point Military Camp, New York
segregation sign appeared on hos
pital and lavatory doors. The sign
read "Colored Enlisted Men" and
White Enlisted Men The NAACP
made representations to the War
Department concerning this
matter, and it has been advised
by Truman K. Gibson, Jr.. Acting
Civilian Aide to the Secretary
of War, that all segregation signs
at West Point have been re-
moved.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-08-14

in the par
lance of swing
music fans a
solid sender. F"
It posed an
argument. that
even the most
rapidly con-
sentative OPP
ponentS found
difficult to re-
butt. Tt would
be hard in
deed to ex-
plain to young
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-08-14
Investigation Of
Detroit Situation
Is Being Urged

troit refused to grant the request
of Mayor Edward j. Jeffries' Com
mittee on Interracial Peace to con-
vene local grand jury to inves-
tigate the race riots.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-08-14

paid in reactions to the arbitrary
setting aside of precedents, is
more than they are worth. More
harm than good could result in
many instances. 1t is a problem
that must be approached thought
fully. And a method that would
be applicable in one area would
not work in another. Each phase
of this racial problem must be
considered individually.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-08-14
United States Only NationInAmericas Given
To Racial Prejudice Asserts White Professor
RedfieId Warns
Of Bias Dangers

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - (ANP) - In an address last
week the Latin American workshop program conducted
the past month at the University of Louisville DR.. Red
field author and professor of anthropoogy at the Uni
versy of Chicago declared that the United States the
only country of the Americas given to racial prejudice
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-08-14
Paper licensed
Over Equal Pay

CHARLESTON, S. c. = amp = Typical of its fas-
cst preachments the Charleston News and Courier daily
paper published here, Tuesday printed editorial pos
willing to permit law suits that compel the payment of
salaries to Negro teachers public schools equal to those
ito
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-08-14
llghten Skin
sTAkE6 4 AlAllrEa

HDpe Hew NIX L9zi4 Bleach. La3AAen-
ing film adds IS lightness g IL Il
minutes while active bleach im0redienf
works from beneath. Ne ~s;f;sr. LaRht.
ens at once. Use anytime No greesy-
ness Helps dry up surface plmplea,
ssvaar hasA Druggists Ruaraatee.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-08-14
URGES ELIMINATION

ct believe that segregation and
discrimination against a c S
should be eliminated in this
country" he said, "but even
though justice and equity are on
the side of those wishing to abol-
ish segregation and discrxnina-
ton, sometimes the price to be
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-08-14
DIFFICULT TO ANSWER

Certainly 1t would be extremely
difficult for even such weIl-knowr
baiters as Blease, Bilbo or \ Ran
kin to find logical answers to an
argument that IF man is good
enough to fight for his country he's