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ing the day and night he had been
in the Dalton home-but there
were no words for him.
You went to Mr.. Dalton's home
at five-thirty that Saturday, didn't
you?"
"Yessuh," he mumbled.
LiStlessly, he talked. He traced
his every action. He paused at
each question Buckley asked and
wondered how he could link up
his bare actions with what he had
left; but his words came out fiat
and dull. White men were looking
at him, waiting for his words, and
all the feelings of his body vanish
ed, just as they had when he was
in the car between Jan and Mary.
When he was through, he felt
more lost and undone than when
he was captured. Buckley stood
up; the other white man rose
and held out the papers for him
to sign. He took the pen in hand.
Well, why shouldn't he sign? He
was guilty. He was lost. They
were going to kill him. Nobody
could help him. They were stand
ing in front of him, bending over
him, looking at him, waiting. His
hand shook. He signed
Buckley slowly folded the papers
and put them into his pocket. Big
ger looked up at the two men,
helplessly, wonderingly. Buckley
looked at the other white man
and smiled.
That was not as hard as I
thought it would be-" Buckley said
He came through like a clock"
the other man said.
Buckley looked down at Bigger
and said,
Just a scared colored boy from
Mississippi"
There was short silence. Big
ger felt that they had forgotten
him already. Then he heard them
speaking.
Anything else, chief?"
Nav. I'll be at my club. Let
me know how the inquest turns
out"
(TO Be COntinued)
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5000 Return To
After Strike

ST LOUIS--(A N P)-The 1900
Negro day employees at the ST.
Louis Ordnance plant, who refused
to work last week because a white
foreman was given job they felt
should have been filled by promo
ton of a Negro worker, returned
to work after a one day strike
According to q spokesman, the
2,400 workers on the other two
shifts, who refused to work on the
same day, were expected to report
also, since an agreement to arbi-
trate the dispute had been reached
by representative Of the workers
and executives Of the U. S. Cart
ridge Company.
The personnel of the third shift
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walked off the job When they found
on reporting al .. m, that the
white foreman had been brought
in, according to Otto Maschoff,
president of the 'sman arms local
of the CIO United Electrical, Radio
and Machine workers, coll sct;ve
bargaining agent for the workers.
Police reported no disturbance;
there was no picketing. The com
pany spokesman said the Negro
unit was "the only one Of its kind
in the entire war program, and
that skilled and semi-skilled Negro
workers are employed in all capa-
cities except those of a supervisory
nature
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marriage question arises and they
think that's what they want. but
ii isn't. Don't think because your
soldier friend asked you to marry
that you must accept without
giving the matter of love any
thought Only deep, intense love
can withstand the hardships that
a war puts on marriage and yen
two young people do not feel this
way. Be friendly but lie. it stop
there.
L. S. C.-Reading your column
seems to grow on me. My problem
is a simple one perhaps, but is
very important to me. I started
working and my husband refuses
to give me any money. He said if
I would stop work, he would take
care of me as he has in the past
but he wont do it if I work. I
thought he would be drafted soon
and that why I started working
Should I quit or will he change
his mind?.
Ans: Give in your resignation
at once. Your husband makes a
good salary and provides you With
Injuries as well as the necessities
of life and he does not like the
idea of your working. He prefers
to have you at home when he gets
in from work and it is your place
fn
makes you happy. If he is called in
service. you can get Job and
work if you like.
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WelIes Criticizes Nations
Failure To Mind Own Business

sinister and the most ruthless
forces which our modern world
has known" he said, and con-
tinued:
There is no brutality of which
they are not capable-no machina-
ton, however despicable, to which
they will not stoop. The axis
powers have sought to obliterate
from this earth everything which
to us makes life worth living, and
to reduce all of the slaves of a
master race"
In speaking of some OF the
weaknesses of the last war he
said, TT has always seemed to
me that if the American people
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Union Head Says
Trio Should Be
Moved By Army
Was Opposed To
degrading Of
Negro Workers

DETROIT-(A N P)-FolloWlng
the disturbance last week caused
by the refusal Of white employees
to work with three Negroes who
had been upgraded in accordance
with their skill and seniority, r.
j. Thomas, president, UAW-CIO,
Tuesday asked the u. S. Army
Air corps to discharge G. h.
Weiss, vice. president of the Pac-
kard Motor Company and per-
sonnet head.
Thomas requested also that the
army remove George Schwartz,
Packard general foreman, and
Herbert Watts Of the personnel
division.
Thomas accused the three lead
ers of deliberately promoting ra-
cial discrimination in the plant
and of urging white workers to re-
fuse to work with the three Me-
groes who had qualified for up
grading to machine jobs.
Lie oIlW iCCoCl odieA cioo biidN
he has requested the department
labor to certify the Packard in
cident to the War Labor board as
labor dispute, and that he would
ask the Fair Employment Practice
Committee to make an investiga-
ton of the situation.
Il have requested Col. G.. E.
Strong, representing the U. S.
Army Air corps, to take immediate
steps for the removal of these
men from the Packard plant. !
have also asked the WLB and
FEPC to intervene" stated
Thomas, and added,
I'm a number of cases where
we have had racial difficulties in
the plants the arrangements have
attempted to wash thei,. hands of
the situation by saying that the
white workers are refusing to work
with Negroes In this Packard in
cident we have an open and shut
case of the management fostering
such an attitude after the union
had taken position in accordance
with wartime regulations and
American policies of fair play"
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DURHAM, N. Ca N P)-'The
people realize today that what we
have utterly failed to do in the
past was, to mind our own bust
ness" stated Under Secretary of
State Sumner Welles, at common
cement exercises of the North
Carolina college for Negroes Mon
day morning.
Sec. Welles warned that there
could be mounting more perilous
than to UNDER estimate the
strength remaining to our adj
versaries; nor to believe that we
have not still before us many
desperately sad and anxious days
1--WE are confronted by the most
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Tuskegee is part of the regular air
corps plan. There is no room at
Tuskegee for squadrons after they
complete their training because at
present new flyers are reporting at
the rate of 50 every five weeks
Glasses are graduating frequently
with from IS to 80 men instead OF
five or six as was formerly the
number.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-06-12
NATIVE SON
By RICHARD WRIGHT

OF Mary and Bessie was not
what concerned him most; it was
knowing and feeling that he could
never make anybody know what
had driven him to it. His crimes
were known, but what he had felt
before he committed them would
never be known. He would have
gladly admitted his guilt if he
had thought that in doing SO he
could have also given in the same
breath a sense of the deep, chok-
ing hate that had been his life,
hate that he had not wanted to
have, but could not help having
How could he do that? The impul-
sion to try to tell was as deep
as had been the urge to kill
He felt a hand touch his
shoulder; he did not turn around;
his eyes looked downward and saw
the mans cleaning black shoes.
Il know how you feel, boy. You're
colored and you feel that you
haven't had a square deal, don't
you?" the mans voice came low
and soft; and Bigger listening,
hated him for telling him what he
! knew was true. He rested his tired
head against the, steel bars and
wondered how it was possible for
this man to know SO much about
him and yet be So bitterly against
him. Maybe you've been brooding
about this color question a long
| time, huh, boy?" the mans voice
continued low and soft. Maybe
| you think I don't understand? But
do. l know how it feels to walk
along the streets like other peo-
pie, dressed like them, talking like
! them, and yet excluded for no rea-
son except that you're black. I
know your people. Why, they give
me votes out there on the South
Side every election. l once talked
to colored boy who raped and
killed woman, just like you
rape and killed Mrs. Clinton's
| sister.
Il didn't do it" Bigge scream
ed.
g Why keep saying that? If you
talk, maybe the judgell help you.
Confess it all and get it over with.
You'll feel better. Say, listen, if
you tell me everything, I'll see that
you're sent to the hospital for
an examination see? If the say
you're not responsible, then maybe
you won't have to die
Bigger's anger rose. He was not
crazy and he did not want to be
called crazy
Il don't want to go to no hos
pital."
Its a way out for you, boy"
Il don't want no way OUT
Listen, start at the beginning
Who was the first woman you ever
killed." He said nothing. He
wanted to talk, but he did not like
the note of intense eagerness in
the mans voice. He heard the door
behind him open; he turned his
head just in time to see another
white man looking questioningly.
Il thought you wanted me-" the
man said
Eyes; come on in" Buckley said.
The man came IN and took seat,
holding pencil and paper on his
knee.
Here, Bigger" Buckley said,
taking Bigger by the arm. "Sit
down here and tell me all about it,
Get it over with"
Bigger wanted to tell how he had
felt when Jan had held has hand;
how Mary had made him feel
when she asked him about how
Negroes lived; the tremendous ex-
element that had hold of him dur
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-06-12

had had more time for study and
discussion of the basic policy at
stake in 1919, and if the issue it
self had not become enmeshed in
the web of bitter partisan politics
a more realistic and a more en-
lightened course would have been
followed by this country during the
past generation"
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-06-12
Continued from Last Week


"You didn't think | knew that
did you? | know a lot more, boy
/ know about the dirty trick you
and your friend Jack pulled off in
the Regal Theatre, too. You won
der how I know it. The manager
told us when we were checking up.
I know what boys like you do,
Bigger. Now, come on. You wrote
that kidnap note, didn't you?"
Yeah" he sighed. Il wrote it.
WHO helped you?'
Nobody"
WHO was going to help you col
lect the ransom money!"
Bessie"
Come on. Was it Jan?"
Nav"
fBessie?"
Yeah
Then why did you kill her?"
Nervously, Bigger's fingers fun
bled with a pack of cigarettes and
got one out The man struck matcn
and held a light for him, but ne
struck his own match and ignored
the offered flame.
when l saw l couldn't get th'
money, 1 killed her to keep iron
talking he said.
land you killed Mary. too?"
81 didn't mean to kill her, bu'
it don't matter new" he said.
Did you lay her?"
Nav"
You laid Bessie before you Kill
ed her. The doctors said So Ane
now YOU expect me to believe you
didn't lay Mary
Z didn't!'
did JAM"
NAV"
Didn't Jan lay her first and then
you?.
Nav; nav ...,--
But Jan wrote the kidnap note
didn't hep"
4 never saw Jan before that
night" -,
But didn't he write the noCeF
NAV. | tell you he didn't.
You wrote the note'"
yeah" re'.'-t
Didn't Jan tell you to write it,
Nav
WHY did you Kill Mary?"
He did not answer
See here, boy. What you say
doesn't make sense. You were
never in the Dalton home until
Saturday night. Yet, in one night.
a girl is raped, killed, burnt, and
the next night kidnap note Is
sent. Come on. Tell me everything
that happened and about every
body who helped you.
There wasn't nobody but me.
I don't care what happens to me,
but you can't make me say things
about other people"
But you told Mr. Dalton that
Jan was in this thing, too"
Il was trying to blame it on
him."
well, Come on. Tell me every
thing that happened. "
Bigger rose and went to the
window. His hands caught the cold
steel bars in hard grip. He knew
as he stood there that he could
never tell why he had killed. 1t
was not that he did not really want
to tell, but the telling of it would
have involved an explanation of
his entire life. The actual killing
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-06-12

M. MIN writing you because
I have confidence in your advice.
I love my husband very much,
and he says he loves me. We have
two little girls and one little boy.
Now I hear talk about my husband
running around and when I hear
it, it makes me want to leave and
go far away. Sometimes I want to
go out myself, but when I
look back at my little children. l
stay at home. Can you help ne
get straight in my home again? ?
Ans: Ignore the petty gossip
that's circulating around about
your husband. Talk to him and let
him know that the children are
getting older now and You intend
to have some capable person come
in once or twice a week to watch
them so that you can get out and
have little fun. This decision
on your part will tickle him to
death. He's lonely for companion
ship and would love to take vcu
much your duty to keep your
out and show YOU off. It's just as
husband cOnterted and happy as it
is to rear your children. Sc TO il
that he isn't neglected any more.
S. M. il met a soldier a few
months ago, and l like him very
much. Tie first two or three times
we We're out he acted swell. He
likes to drink and when he does, he
says hard things to me. ShoCld
l 60 On and try TO help him over
come his habit Or break Off? He
talks about getting married too
Must I?
Ans: You haven't the power to
change his habits and don't foo
yourself into thinking it can be
done if you agree to marry the hoy
A goodly number of soldiers is
in highly emotional state. They are
hungry for feminine society. the
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Army Officially
Reveals Negro
Flyers In Africa
Negro Readers
Had Already Been
Told OF Arrival

WASHINGTON, d. CAMP
Allied headquarters in North Afri-
ca announced officially Wednesday
what readers Of Negro newspapers
already knew: that a Negro Pun
suit squadron. commanded by 1t.
Col. Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., was
in North Africa to fight against
the axis.
Several weeks ago Congressman
Frances Bolton OF Ohio announce
ed in congress that "the goth has
departed for combat duty" I'M
mediately the war department took
steps to prevent Negro newspapers
from printing her statement, al
though the Office of Censorship
authorized publication of Mrs.
Bottoms exact words spoken from
the house floor.
STEWART WIRES FACT
That the squadron had arrived
at its destination was revealed in
dispatch from North Africa by
Ollie Stewart, war correspondent
for the Afro-American and affili-
ated newspapers. Later Stewart
stated that 1t Col. Davis was liv-
ing in a town where he was sta
toned. Both articles passed the
censor
Tt was at first stated that the
squadron had seen actual combat
duty in the closing days of the
North African campaign, but this
was denied by the war department.
The announcement of Wednesday
said the flyers, who use P-4O War
hawks, were being given advanced
instruction in new fighter tactics
by veteran pilots of the Tunisian
battles, and that upon completion
OF this advanced training, the
squadron will be sent into action.
No news of the actual departure
OF the squadron was allowed to
be printed because of censorship
regulations. Mention of embarka-
ton OF any unit is explicitly pro-
hibited since such publication
would give valuable information
to the enemy.
LEFT APRIL 2
1t can be revealed now, how
ever, that the squadron left Tus-
kegee at midnight April 2. The
squadron had no idea where it
was going. The train was complete
ly BACKED out, with windows and
vestibules painted black and af-
fording no opportunity to see out.
The group, composed of full
complement of ground and main
tenance crew and medical contin-
gent, had the run of the special
train which zigzagged across the
country to it's destination. When
the train stopped it was on the
docks at southeastern port and
alongside the transport to which
the squadron was Immediately
transferred.
FareWells were said as the men
swung aboard at Tuskegee. Many
of their families were at the school
and in the community nearby
| All were forbidden to speak OF
their departure. Families of those
living in other parts of the nation
knew of their boys departure be-
cause personal belongings were
sent home to them.
FIGHTERS ALSO MOVED
The night the squadron left
Tuskegee the Goth Service squad
ron was transferred to Selfridge
field, Mich. The 332nd Fighter
group, composed of several pursuit
squadronS and first all-NegrC
fighter group in army history, was
also moved to Selfridge.
Transfer of army pilots from
| had had more time for study anC
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National Family
:. Week Observance

CHICAGO, April 16 = President
Roosevelt today Endorsed the ma
ton wide observance of National
Family Week in all churches and
communities May 2 to 8.
In letter to the Rev. Harry C.
Munro, secretary of the committee
on National Family Week, the
President stated:
NO more important task faces
the American community today
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The health and happiness of child
rem, the guidance of youth, the Sc
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from impairment in wartime so
that the well-being of this nation
is assured. The historic concern for
these values, and the central place
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Jewish traditions, constitute the
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,
that the undersigned was, on the
10Th day of March, 1943, duly ap-
pointed administrator of the estate
of RENE D. STRAGIER, deceased
and that letters testamentary there
for on said day were duly issued
to the undersigned.
All persons having claims against
said estate are hereby required to
present said claims with proper
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six CO. months from the date OF
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Monagle, at zoo Seward Building,
Juneau, Alaska, or to the under
signed at Douglas, Alaska.
Dated at Juneau, Alaska, this
10Th day of March, 1913.
HENRY STRAGIER,
Administrator.
First publication, March 26, 1943.
Last publication, April Is, 1913.
adv.