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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-07-03
MA I'VE
SON
BY RICHARD WRIGHT
CONTINUED from Last Week.

CONTINUED from Last Week.
What do you mean, OF age?"
AT eighteen"
And when did you give them to
your daughter"
About five years ago"
She wore them all the timer"
Yes"
Are you positive that this is one
Of the earrings?"
Yes, There can be no mistake
They were family heirloom
There are no two other like them
My grandmother had them design
ed and made to order"
Mrs. Dalton, when were YOU last
in the company of the deceased?"
Last Saturday night or / should
say last Sunday morning"
"AJ what time?"
1T was nearly two o'clock, l
think"
Where was she?"
In her room, in bed"
Were you in the habit of see
ing, / mean, in the habit of meet
ing your daughter at such ali
hour?"
mo, / knew that she'd planned
to go to Detroit Sunday morning
When / heard her come in l
wanted to find out why she'd stay
ed out so late. 49,.
did you speak to her?"
Yes, slightly"
But she did not speak to you?"
We'll, ! heard some mumbling 4"
DO you know who it wasp
mo"
Mrs. Dalton, could your daugh-
ter by any means, in your judg-
ments have been dead then, and
you not have known or suspected
it?"
Il don't know"
DO you know if your daughter
was alive when you spoke to her?"
i don't know. / assumed she
was" @%
WAS there anyone else in the
room at the time?"
don't know, but I felt strange. /"
Il don't know. I wasn't salts
fed, for some reason. 1t seemed
70 me that there was something !
should have done, or said. But ]
Kept saying to myself, Shes
asleep; that's ALL"
(To Be COntinued)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-07-03

S. C-For the past two years I
have been going with a boy and
he claims he loves me. He wants
me to marry him but he won't
agree to give up going with an
other girl that he has been going
with every since I knew him.
Should I consent to marry him?
Ans: Not under these circum-
stances. If he loved you very
devOtedly, he wouldn't hesitate
to give up his other girl
friends. Do not agree to marry
him as long as he spends more
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-07-03

G. CT am employed in PLY.
sician's Office in this city. Severa
of my girl friends are doing de-
Tense work and they make more
money than I do. Would it sbe adj
yisable for me to give up my jot
and work with them?
Ans: There are many things to
consider before making a
change of jobs. Are you salts
fled with your job. your hours
and do you enjoy your work?
If you are, then why make
change? You've held this job
for the past five years and you
are getting ahead and saving.
There's no work any more es-
sential than what you are al
ready doing. But, if you feel
you want to get in defense
plant, you won't find it hard
to get employed.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-07-03

A particular SlgnlHcance at
taches to this gift to the nation
because it comes at time when
the enemies of America wage
war on peoples as well as govern
ments, and because it is a re-
affirmation Of the faith of this
great leader in a unity OF ma
tional purpose and a common des-
tiny OF freedom.
The collection Is generally re-
garded by scholars as perhaps the
richest and most important source
of information on the history Of
the Negro. 1t includes an estimat-
ed 10000 pieces, and will form
one of the largest manuscript
collections in the Library In max
ing the gift, President Patterson
said: Il shall be pleased to have
you record our sense Of real ap-
probation to the Library Of Con-
gress for its services in perpetual
ing for posterity the valuable
Booker T. Washington materials"
FIRST PRINCIPAL
Booker T. Washington, the first
principal of Tuskegee Institute,
not only won international fame
as an educational leader, but he
also achieved the stature OF
genius. AS DR.. Frank P. Graham
president of the University of
North Carolina, has said of him
Where others hated, he sympa-
thized; where others argued, he
understood; where others forced
he taught" His position as 8
leader of his race placed him in
contact with many political, in
dustrial and financial leaders, and
he was in great demand through
out the country as speaker. His
papers include correspondence
with Theodore Roosevelt, Elihu
Root, William Howard Taft and
many other men of historical i'm
portance. When it has been CLASH
fed and indexed by the Library
OF Congress, the collection is ex-
pected to shed much new light on
the status of the Negro in politics
during the thirty-year period from
1885 to 1915.
The papers also contain i'm
portant information on the Wash
ington family and the work of its
various members in organizing and
developing Tuskegee Institute from
its humble beginnings in 1881 "ir
a dilapidated shanty near thu
colored Methodist Church, with thu
church itself sort of assembly
room" to the great educational in.
stitution it has become. At tn,
time OF Washington's death 8.
years later, it had more than .
hundred substantial buildings, own
ed 1000 acres of local land, hat
received from Congress 25.OO
acres in northern Alabama. hat
an endowment of nearly $4,000 OO
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-07-03
Civic Groups Unite To Hall
Increasing Racial Tensions

NEW YORK - SINS - Immedi-
ate civic meetings to prevent racial
outbreaks in other cities were urg-
ed this week in joint statement
issued by representatives of the Y
MICA, YWCA, National Urban Lea
que, the NAACP, the Phelps Stokes
Fund, the Catholic Interracial
Council, the Federation Council of
Churches of Christ in America, the
Labor Temple, and the Catholic
publication, America. The state
ment said the meetings would also
seek to determine the attitudes of
public officials toward the prob
lem.
mo industrial centers of any size
in the U. S. A." the statement read
"can look complacently or even OBJ
jectively on what has happened in
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-07-03

Detroit.
This outrage can be repeated in
any one of these other cities and
it can happen overnight for the
reason that too many of our citi-
zens have left to too few an active
interest i ncombating the preju-
diceS which condition a relation be-
tween the dominant and minority
groups.
THE interplay of interracial re-
lations is no spectator sport. We
are all participants and the only
craftsmanship which can reflect the
best American traditions is that
which will advance the mutual in
terests of whites and Negroes in
preserving and strengthening our
common democracy"
The statement which was releas-
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-07-03
Body Of Missing
Lieutenant Found
In Lake Huron

SELFRIDGE FIELD, Mich
IS N 81 The body of Second
Lieutenant Sidat- Singh, 25-year-
old member of the 332nd Fighter
Group, all-Negro unit has been
found IN Lake Huron, it was re .
ported Monday.
The Amy flier and former
Syracuse university athlete was
Killed when his plane plunged into
the lake May o.
Discovery and Identification of
the body OF the ex-star of football
and basketball was announced by
the Army Air Base here.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-07-03

Mexsana is the kind of indicated
powder often recommended by spe-
cialists. Yet it costs very little and
is even more economical in the
larger sizes. Keep in mind-if your
summer troubles are the burn of
sunburn, the sting of mosquito
bites, or the itching and heat of heat
rash, getspeedyrel with Mexsana.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-07-03

TUSKEGEE ARMY AIR FIELD,
Ala. = (SNS) - Ten-year old
Donald Robertson, youthful BROTH
er of Mrs. Louaf1a Knighton whose
husband, First 1t. Bernard Knigh-
ton is now On duty as Fighter pilot
somewhere in North Africa, came
all the way to the Tuskegee Army
Air Field from Kansas City, Kan.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-07-03
HOW'S THE SUMMER
TREATING YOU?

Thousands have found how to beat
the heat with Mexsana, formerly
Mexican Heat Powder using it to
take the hot feeling out of sunburn,
ease the smart of heat rash and irri-
tated skin. Families everywhere are
also turning to this soothing powder
to relieve the itch and cool the burn
of simple rashes-and diaper rash.
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Booker 7. Washingfon's
Collection Of Papers
Presented The
Congress Library

WASHINGTON - (S.NS) - The outstanding collect
ion of the papers of Booker Washington the Tuskegee
Institute has been presented in it's entirety to the Library
Congress by of the Trustees of the In
sttute according information recently received by Arch
bald MacLeish the librarian Congress- from DR. F. ID.
Patterson president of Tuskegee Institute
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-07-03

than half of his time visiting
the other girls. In the mean
time. get you a few beaus
on the side and give him some
thing to worry about.
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The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-30
Britons Are Appointed
On The Inuasion Team
Ramsey Named Commander Of Naval Forces
While Lehigh-Mallory Will Head The Air
FOrces-HOur For Attack Draws Nearer

sive traditions of the British mill
tary forces.
From the beginning of the wal
through the Allied Operations in
North Africa and Italy Admiral
Ramsay, nicknamed Dynamo
has fought his ships to the utnr
and laid his plans with calculated
daring.
It was he who brought the Brit
ish home from the tragedy of Elan
Iers and Dunkerque. somehow as
sembling fleet of nondescript
ships that took 1886, 900 exhausted
British troops off beaches shaking
under the fury of the German at.
tack.
He also helped plan and COM
mand the greatest naval operations
in history-those that landed the
Allied armies in Tunisia and then
carried forward through Sicily and
Italy.
Marshal Leigh Mallory is the
sort of commander known in his
profession as a brains officer. :"
He fought in the Raj during the
Battle of Britain in command of
some of those few to whom Church
i'll said so many owed SO much.
He had been the head of Britain S
school of army cooperation and
now heads the RAE fighter COM
mand.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-30

LONDON, Dec. % R - Two
Britons filled with spirit of au-
daclty and attack were appointed
today to stand at the side of Gen.
Dwight D. Eisenhower as top of.
flcers of the grand arms that will
support the Allied invasion of west.
ern Europe: Admiral Sir Bertram
Ramsey as commandment chief of
the Allied navies and Air Marshal
Trafford L. Lehigh Mallory as
commandments of Allied air
forces.
These selections, announced at
Prime Minister Churchill's official
residence at No. 10 Downing Street.
completed the team of the o D
command for the victory assault
directly against Hitler's inner bar
rlcades, and they brought meas
urably nearer the fateful hour of
attack for which preparations are
proceeding at a markedly quick
ened pace.
American and British plans are
being drawn closely together so
that Gen. Eisenhower will step into
an organization tn in many
senses is all ready to go now.
Both Admiral Ramsay, who is
60, and Marshall Leigh Mallory,
who is 81, are improvisers and
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-30
Notice Is Served On Germans
That Allied Assault Is COMING

his deputy, British Air Marshal Sir
Arthur Tedder. The fact that an
air officer was picked for that
post-and the most seasoned Brit
ish technician OF air warfare at
that-speaks volumes for the ma
ture of the campaign.
General Horace Sewell, official
British war commentator in Wash
ington, noted that Tedder's selec-
ton meant that "the same prin-
ciples of air and ground cooper
alton which proved successful in
North Africa and Sicily" are to
be applied against the Continent
from the west. 1t was Tedder who
directed the Anglo-American air
coverage of the British 9th Army
retreat into Egypt and later SUI
pervised joint air operations which
lagely contributed to the British
Continued on Page Five; Col. A.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-30
IB0WLES IS PROUD
| OF COURT RECORD
He Says Price Office Has
Won "a Per Cent OF
Its Cases

WASHINGTON. Dec. 20. - Up
The Office of Price Administration
cites it's record in courts as the
best answer to charges in Con
gress that. it has operated wlthou
proper regard for the rights o.
citizens.
This record, the agency an
nounced today, has been called tt
the attention of the Smith com
mittee of the house if 10000
word statement replying to the
committee charges of usurpatior
and abuse of powers by OPA.
The committee. reporting Nov
Is. accused by OPA of issuing ell
legal, absurd, useless and con
flicting" regulations, constituting
its power so as to authorize it tc
sentence citizens of the United
States to starvation and seeking
through complicated procedure, tt
block legal redress.
In a letter to Representative
Howard W. Smith, chairman o.
the House committee to investi
gate executive agencies, Price
Administrator Chester Bowles
wrote:
1.-THE report (of the committed
deals largely with the past, but
believe it is important that mis-
conceptions with respect to the
past be cleared up and common
ground of understanding be estab
lished for the future
The agency's reply states that Of
1891 OPA price, rent and ration
ing cases decided through las
September. the government has
won "a per cent. with defendants
prevailing in ''only 291 cases."
The statement asserts that OPA
derives authority from the second
war powers act to suspend the al
location of rationed commodities
to sellers who violate ration or.
ders. Lacking such authority the
report declares, ''the adrninistra.
tor would be compelled to contin-
lie authorizing delivery of rationed
scarce commodities to persons
and companies that he knew to
be black market operators.
Price control and rationing, the
statement continues, are "closely
related, inter-dependent means oil
coping with the same situation -
scarcities in supply. If either form
of control fails, the other cannot
succeed"
Replying to committee crit.
cisms of suspension order proceed.
ings before OPA commissioners,
the agency asserts such orders dc
not call for judicial proceedings
but instead are administrative &C.
ton.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-30
CANADIAN TROOPS
CAPTURE 0RT0NA
Roar OF Battle Lifts From
Ruined Streets OF
Italian Town
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Al
giers, Dec. 29.-tP-The roar of
battle lifted from the ruined streets
of Ortona today as Canadian troops
who took the town in a savage
eight-day battle, pushed on up the
Adriatic coast OF Italy toward the
port of Pescara in the face of
snow, sleet, piercing W i n d and
stubborn Nazi resistance.
Ortona, once neat town Of g.
600, resembled a tomb. very
street was piled high with debris
and the dead still lay in the streets
and doorways, dispatches said.
Those civilians who remained in
the town through the bitter, bloody
street fighting were too dazed to
realize the Germans had gone.
While the VICTORIOUS Canadians
drove on toward Pescara, Indian
troops of the Eighth Army wiped
out pockets of resistance in Villa
Grande, a hotly-contested village
about three miles inland from Or
tona. Farther inland other Eighth
Army units were reported within
eight miles Of the provincial CAPT.
tai of Chieti.
On the extreme opposite end of
the Italian fighting line, British
troops of 1t. Gen. Mark w. Clark S
Fifth Army fought fiercely to re-
pei full-scale German attack on
the town of Ponta Fiume at the
mouth of the Garigllano river. The
Nazis struck suddenly yesterday in
clear, cold weather, evidently at
tempting to forestal' an Allied as
sault in that area as the rain
flooded Garigliano began to SUBJ
side. No decisive result yet was
in sight.
Other vigorous fighting on the
Fifth Army trout occurred high in
the mountains of central l a y,
where French Moroccan infantry
seized several peaks of Catenella
Degh Mainardl. 3,000-foot ridge
controlling road to Atina.
The Germans still held the vii
lage of San Vitiore, SIX miles from
Casino, in full strength, and the
American patrols saw every indi-
cation that the enemy intended to
defend the village as desperately
Continued OH Page Five; Col. s.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-30

ments at Gibraltar since the Ital-
ian invasion.
The German account of the
Commando raies on Sark followed
an official Nazi announcement
Sunday Of combined British and
French raid Christmas Eve on an
undisclosed point on the German
held French Channel coast
Official British comment was
lacking on the raids, but it can be
assumed that lightning hit-and-run
raids to test German Atlantic
Wall' defenses will increase as
the invasion hour approaches.
The Sark assaults, DNB said.
failed like all similar attempts of
this kind"
The Vichy radio reported that a
British cruiser and nine torpedo
boats have left Gibraltar and that
Continued on Page Five; Col. A.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-30
ADMIRAL DOENITZ
QUITS HIS POST
Moscow Says Supreme
Head OF German Navy
Has Resigned

LONDON, Thursday, Dec. 81
R-Admiral Karl Doenitz has re-
signed as supreme commander OF
the German navy as an aftermath
of the loss of the 26,00O-ton Nazl
battleship Scharnhorst on a Ba-
rents Sea mission which he had
ordered to boost his reputation,
the Moscow radio said early to-
day.
The broadcast was recorded by
Reuters.
The Scharnhorst was sunk in an
engagement with British home
fleet units including the 35,000-ton
Duke of York in an all-day sea
battle Sunday off North Cape aft
er she attempted to attack Muir
mansk-bound convoy.
Admiral Doenitz, So, developed
German submarine tactics and be-
came commander in chief of the
Navy last January. Many of the
technical improvements on the
German submarines were credit
ed to Doenitz
Doenitz, only commodore at
the start of the war, rose rapidly
Eand finally was elevated by Hit
Ter over the heads of two admirals
to the top command not quite a
year ago. He supplanted Grand
Admiral Erich Raeder.
Doenitz was primarily a sub
marine man. His elevation was
said at the time to have been
prompted by Hitler's demand for
about U-boat warfare
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-30
RETAIL STORES
WILLSTAY OPEN
Merchants Association De-
cides To Remain Open
New Years Day

The postoffice and banks of Will
mington will observe holiday on
New Years. Day, but retail stores
will remain open Saturday, it was
announced Wednesday.
John A. Sheehan, secretary of
the Retail Merchants association,
said merchants have voted to re-
main open January 1, because
stores were closed last Saturday,
for the benefit of county shoppers
and military personnel at Camp
Davis.
The postoffice will generally OBJ
serve the holiday and no rural
deliveries of mail will be made.
City delivery service will be fur
nished, and from 10 a. m. to II
o'clock the general delivery, reg
istry, c. o. D. and parcel post
windows will be open.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-30
; LARGE GERMAN
SHIPS ARE SUNK
Destroyers Go Down In
Battle In The Bay
OF Biscay

LONDON, Dec. 20. - R-Allied
war planes, including U. S. Navy
Liberators, and British Royal Ma
Wy cruisers have sunk three Nazi
destroyers and a speedy 5,000ton
Nszi blockade runner in two-day
sea and air battle in the Bay of
Biscay this week.
An Admiralty communique to-
night gave details of the engage
ments, which started Monday
when Sunderland flying boat
sighted the blockade runner about
500 miles west and northwest of
Cape Finisterre, Spain.
Allied planes set her aflame and
left her listing fatally and aban-
doned by her crew, about 70 men
on RATS and rubber lifeboats dot
ted the sea.
At dawn yesterday U. S. Liber-
ator operating with the Raj coast
al command sighted a Nazi flotilla
Of II destroyers about 200 miles
from the spot where the blockade
runner had been sunk. The Liber-
ator flashed the position of the
flotilla to the British light cruisers
Glasgow and Enterprise, which
were steaming between the de-
stoyers and their Nazi bases in
southern France.
Flaming shellfire from the cruis-
ers sank three of the destroyers
and damaged several others in the
battle, in which United States ma
val Liberators and Raj coastal
command planes took part, it was
announced.
The destruction of the destroy
ers capped the spectacular day.
after-Christmas sinking of the 26,-
00O-ton German batleship Scharn-
horst off North Cape by other units
of the Royal Navy.
The Allied forces came out of
the Biscay battle, the Admiralty
reported, with only a few casual
ties on the Glasgow and minor
amage' to the two cruisers. One
coastal command Halifax and one
Beaufighter were reported miss
ing.
The Germans scattered in rum
ming from the Royal navy units but
the cruisers concentrated on a
group of four and sank the three
in the running fight which lasted
until dusk.
Planes spotted about $50 survi-
vors from the sunken destroyers
The six-inch guns of the two
cruisers outranged the guns of the
destroyers.
The 9,100-ton Glasgow has main
batteries of IL six-inch guns while
the smaller 7,580-ton Enterprise
has seven 6-inch guns.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-30

sharply ,stiffening Japanese resist
ance to advance half a mile in the
direction of the vital airdrome.
Gen. Douglas MacArtnur's COM
munique today reported that the
Marines drove ahead under artil-
lery and aerial support and used
flame throwers to eliminate pill
boxes and strong pockets of re-
sistance about a mile from the
airstrip.
The fighting reported in the
communique took place Tuesday.
The information came in brief re-
ports from the field headquarters
of Maj. Gen. William H. Rupertus.
Marine Corps commander Of the
action on the northwestern tip of
New Britain.
At least 200 Japanese were kill
ed in a hot action on the banks
of a river, rupertus reported, The
river was not named.
Attacks against the Marines
eastern line running inland from
the shores of Bergen Bay, on the
east flank of the invasion, were
delivered by at least one regiment
of Japanese, headquarters
spokesman said.
The enemy's growing opposition
and increasing numbr of troops
apparntly involved indicated that
the fight for possession of the
airdrome would be bitter one.
Forty fighters from Adm. Will
liam F. Halsey's South Pacific
command dipped their wings over
the enemy air and supply base
at Rabaul, on the northeastern
tip of New Britain, and invited
the Japanese to come up and
fight. The enemy sent up 60
planes, losing at least eight to
American Consairs and Hellcats.
One of our planes is missing.
GA spokesman at Halsey's hexd-
quarters said pilots making late
reports of the Rabaul fight which
occurred Monday claimed they
downed II of the enemy fighters
American cruisers and destroy
ers steamed boldly into waters
Continued On Page Eight; Col. g.