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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1943-07-08
To Relieve Meat Crisis
First Catch Your Whale

WASHINGTON.-Mrs. Housewife.
gingerly weighing the merits of
horsemeat and Louisiana marsh
hare (muskrat to YOU'D. received an.
other strange entrant for her war
time menu today-whale meat.
Dark red and tasting something
like beef" according to the Office
Of the Co-Ordinator Of Fisheries.
whale meat will be offered to the
nations table some time this year
from shore station established in
California. Three vessels will bring
the meat to the station.
During the last war, whale meat
was eaten in the United States in
fairly large quantities. the Office
said.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1943-07-08
History Is in. Attics

The pile of old papers or letters
in the attic or. old family trunk
may. be just the source material
needed to produce better, more ac-
curate history books. Historians Of
the past have often failed to tell the
story of the life Of the common man
not only because they were chiefly
interested in national politics and
economics, but also because they
could not find the materials they
needed, so they could write accu-
rately about the people. Our gen
GRAFTON is interested in the history of
all the people, and the only source
of this material is in the records of
the common people that are collect
ed and saved. This new history
can be better: and more accurate
than any we have ever had before.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1943-07-08
Women Take Big Load
OFF Shoulders of Men

Observation-Disclosures Of mans
jobs has been taken over by women.
One Of Baltimore's railroad stations
now employs II women freight truck
ers who daily push around 180-pound
trucks with loads which average 500
pounds or more. $50 :.
Yet the women, most of whom are
married and have children, don't
complain. "We only boiler when the
load is too heavy" said one Of them.
And when we say heavy, brother.
we really mean heavy. Five hun.
dred pounds Is nothing" ~ ~
Note to men: Try it sometime.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1943-07-08
Rearming of Germany Is
Said to Have Begun in '21

STOCKHOLM.-The Germans are
revealing for the first time some de-
tails Of the rearming of the nation
In the inter-war period.
DR.. Waninger, draftroom chief Of
the Rheinmetal-Borsig, In a lecture,
boosted cynically that the Germans
began experimenting with secret
arms construction as early as 1921.
At that time, when the republic had
barely been born, heavy industry
managed to devote much time in
producing new gun types. he de-
c1ared.
This work was carried on in the
Borsig drafting Office. right under
the noses Of Allied control commits
sions, without their suspecting q
thing, the speaker boosted. To
achieve this degree of secrecy the
Office had to be kept moving back
and forth between various factories.
It was in Berlin first, but later
removed to an isolated spot on the
Leunerberger Heide, outside the
capital. -
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1943-07-08
Genius Makes His False
Teeth From Cigarette Foil

LONDON.-False teeth from the
metal foil Of cigarette, packages is
reported as the GROWING ingenuity
but by no means the only one
of Allied prisoners of war at a Ger
man camp IS @7- -
Writing to the London Daily Mail
from one Of these camps. A. J. Pc
terson said:
"Our food parcels from home, via
the Red Cross. are grand but we
welcome them not only for their
contents. The Irvine, the paper. the
cardboard boxes, the packing-ev-
erything is precious.
with the Irvine the boys make
rope soles for their slippers. Some
Of the cleverer ones can fashion a
complete pair of slippers out. Of the
twine they save up. Empty tins
from packages we turn into teapots
and pannikins, and the packing
stuffs our pillows"
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1943-07-08
Fighters Fly Sea
!. rs. To Combat Areas
Shipping Space Is Released
For Other Crgoes.

WASHINGTON. Transocean
flights to combat areas. long COM
nonplace for bombers and other
large planes. are being made by
Lightning fighters. the army has re.
vealed.
The first public disclosure that the
swift. twin-engined Lockheed craft
are crossing both the North and the
South Atlantic under their own pow
er came months after the first mass
flight Of Lightnings.
Since then large numbers Of Light
nings have been delivered under
their own power from the factory in
California to the combat zones In
Europe and Africa, releasing ship
ping space for other cargo.
Although the Lightning, one of the
worlds fastest fighters. also is a
long-range fighter. it can make the
transatlantic hop only by using an
extra gasoline supply carried in re-
1easable, streamlined tanks.
Each tank weighs about 80 pounds
empty. and carries les gallons Of
gasoline, bringing its filed weight
to about 1000 pounds. Two such
tanks give the Lightning about dou-
BILE its normal range, and aerody-
namics problems have been so well
overcome, the army said, that the
two tanks, when full, reduce the
speed Of the Lightning by only 4 per
cent.
The planes carry other special
equipment, long range oxygen equip
ment, Arctic packs and rubber boats
for the northern crossing, jungle kits
for the overland sections of the
southern route, and concentrated
rations. .,...:
Since the Lightnings carry limited
navigation equipment, each flight of
fighters is accompanied by Boeing
BIZ Flying Fortress as 'shep-
herd" -, J. - f-....,
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1943-07-08
Munich Rail Center

Birthplace Of Naziism,, cultural
center Of South Germany, beer capt.
tai Of the Third .Reich-these titles
belong to Munich. Remembered by
tourists as a city Of parks, museums
and fairs, Munich is the hub of i'm
portant ran lines. Capital Of Ba-
varia and fourth largest German
city, Munich is the size Of Baltimore.
Seven main rail lines converge on
the city to make it an important
transfer center for military supplies.
A large airport, normally used by
International as well as German air
lines, lies north Of the city. Local
war industries have grown from
long-established furniture factories,
machine shops, automobile body and
engine works. E
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1943-07-08
Golf Good Exercise

Golf plays a dual role for those
who find it their form of relaxation,
says the United States Golf associa-
ton. It is a participating sport
where one has the benefits Of phys
ical exertion outdoors coupled with
the pleasant companionship of ones
friends, the association said, and
added that it would like to make it
very clear that it is our firm con-
viction that golf is a patriotic and
proper form of exercise for the men
and the women of this country, and
that one should not have the feeling
that it is in poor taste to play a
game Of golf in serious times like
Unsupported, of course, that it
doesn't interfere with the war effort.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1943-07-08
Glycerin In Medicine

Glycerin is a requirement for
many medicines and pharmaceuti-
Gals. Millions Of pounds are used
every year in doctors prescriptions,
and in necessary everyday remedies.
For this reason the supply of gly-
Germ must be maintained both for
the health Of civilian population and
for medical and surgical treatment
for men in uniform. Women may
have to do without the luxury Of
glycerin and rose water--which they
will do cheerfully-but not one wom-
an wants sirgle boy in uniform to
be deprived of the medicines and
drugs that will bring him back to
health. ..s III. =.
--s4. relal Ia .
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1943-07-08
Stacks for War Workers
Meet With Some Disfavor

ST. LOUIS. MO.-Slack suits for
women defense workers may be the
next war casualty.
They take too much material and
too long to launder. said Hugh p.
Flynn Of Providence. r. L. presi-
dent Of the Linen Supply Associa.
ton Of America, In an interview.
He pointed out Eastern linen sup
ply men will refuse to furnish them
when the present supply wears out.
Flynn favors dresses.
The association recently held its
annual convention in st. Louis.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1943-07-08
Bangs Disease

Formerly known as Bangs dis
ease" bruceHosis causes abortion
and lowered milk production in
dairy herds. Raw milk from infect
ed cows may cause human brucel-
losis. known IS undulant fever. II
used for food by man. The disease
may be introduced into . herd by
the purchase Of infected heifers,
cows or bulls and may be spread
by contaminated feed and water, by
breeding or in milk from an infected
COW agnosed by blood tests.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1943-07-08

"But you wouldn't marry a man
Just because he's a good dancer?"
Oh, no; Jacks clever at cards,
tool"
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1943-07-08

Mother, Bob has asked me to
be his wife. What shall ! do"
Consult Bradstreet and Dun,
my dear; also competent lawyer
and your heart"
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1943-07-08

did your wife's father y
you when you elopedYD 0a
II should say so, he's i
with us yet" w
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1943-07-08
That's Telling Her

Grandma, were you with the
|circus?"
"Of course not, dear, why?"
az heard pa say that when you
came to visit us, we'd have an
elephant on our hands,"
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1943-07-08

It may be that this equipment
never will be used during the en-
tire course of the war, but it must
be paid for out of the War Bonds
and Stamps that we are setting aside
each pasSay. U. S. TreosXry Department
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WhetHa1RssyWsM
WAR BONDS
Smoke Eofers"
Smoke Eofers"

A battlewagon loaded with various
explosives, bombs, torpedoes. oil
and gasoline is not the safest place
to. be with a fire raging. so all but
the smaller ships Of our Navy are
equipped with elaborate FIRE fght
ing apparatus.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1943-07-08
On Sidelines

He-Oh, yes, I've fought in
several battles.
She-And did they all divorce
you in the end?
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1943-07-08
'Can-O Opener Planes Are
Poison to German TAI,

LONDON. The secret of the Roy
al Air forces tank-busting airplanes
which have earned the name can
openers" because of their work in
North Africa, was officially revealed
The '.can-openers" are Hurricanes
designed especially for use against
armored vehicles. They carry two
40-mm. guns. one in each wing. The
guns are capable of automatic or
single shot fire with a shell weigh.
ing 21k pounds.
The gun itself. specially designed
for aircraft use. weighs only 800
pounds. The plane also carries two
303 Browning machine guns.
Tells Major on
In Camp Barkeley's MRTC per-
sonnet, a major vouches for this
story and admits the trainee-soldier
was in dead earnest. The recruit,
on guard duty for the first time,
stopped the major, whom he could
distinguish only as a man in the
dark. who goes there?" the trainee
inquired, with proper, authoritative
voice and dramatic finesse. When
. the major announced himself, the
trainee CROPPED for the proper follow
up command and CROPPED and
CROPPED. The major waited-and
waited. Finally, the major became
restless. "An right" he said to
the soldier, whats the rest of it?"
IT don't know, SIR" replied the fius-
tered guard. But you sure as hell
better stand right where you are
until I find out!"
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-07-02
Two Lawyers
Attend State
Bar Meeting

Raymond W. Cannon, Mime
apolis attorney, and William E.
Taylor, dean of the law school of
Lincoln University, attended the
annual meeting of the Minnesota
State Bar Association held in the
Nicollet Hotel, June "a and rs. Mr..
Taylor was invited to Minneapolis
to attend the Judicial Council of
the Eighth Federal Circuit Court.
Circuit Court judges, some from as
far south as Arkansas, attended
the meeting.
\ The two attorneys and Mrs. Tay-
lor attended the annual banquet,
also held at the hotel. Wiley B.
Rutledge, associate justice of the
United States Supreme Court, de-
livered the principal address to the
SAT present. Mrs. Taylor was the
guest of Mrs. w. W. Bardwell at
the luncheon and entertainment for
wives of the members of the Min
nesota State Bar Association. Judge
Bardwell is senior judge of the
District Court Of Hennepin County.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-07-02
"RIGHT BETWEEN THE EIES!!"
Bonds and Stamps
Prizes at Golf
Tourney July 4

The annual tournament of the
Twin City Golf Association will be
held July 4 on the Theodore Wirth
(Glenwood) course. One hundred
dollars in war bonds and stamps
will be awarded for various prizes.
The three flight tournament will
give all a good chance to win a
prize.
The first foursome will tee off at
6:45 a. m. with Ernest Anthony,
Jimmie Slemmons, Wilbert Dugas
and Johnnie Williams leading the
way.
The following players will tee
off at intervals of five minutes:
Freddie Slemmons, Ed Salters,
DR.. Cornelius Mobeley, DR.. Nor
man Howell, DIR. Ollie Grantham,
Johnnie Pettiford, Dave Mays,
Frank Alsup, Jimmy Hughes, DR..
J. W. Crump, Jimmy Logan, Duke
Coram, Jimmy Lee, Leo Lewis,
Tom English, M. Willis, Mickey
Mcclure, Frank Clark, Doug Crane,
Emile Hill, Ralph Ward, all of St.
Paul; Frank Perkins of Omaha;
Clyde Johnson, Ray Wright, Leroy
Reese, Gus Ewing, Paul Curry,
Otis Woodland, Tom Adair, Cecil
Taylor, Leo Bohanon, Major Gull
bertson, Ed Brown, Harvey Moss,
Don Brady, Percy Hughes, Jim
Crowder, Jim Murray, Bert Davi-
son, Bert Smith, Fred Jones, Ray
Dysart, Hezzie Allen, Chas. Noble,
A. J. Thornton, Walter Rhodes,
H. S. Lewis, all of Minneapolis;
Wilson Lay of Jackson, Miss; Will
Griffin, Atlanta, Ca, and others
whose names have not been re-
ported.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-07-02
Name Board
to Investigate
Detroit Riots

DETROIT 12-man board
of inquiry has been appointed by
Mayor Edward Jeffries to make
an investigation of the Detroit
riot.
The board is composed of six
Negroes and six white persons.
The Negroes are the Rev.
Charles A. Hill; Louis E. Mar
tin, editor of the Michigan
Chronicle; Walter Harden; Mrs.
Beulah Whitby; Charles H.
Mahoney and the Rev. George
w. Baber.
The white members are: Will
liam J. Norton, Eugene Schaef-
fer, Fred M. Butzel, the Rev.
Benjamin J. Bush, Mrs. Adelia
Starrett and John F. Bellinger.
Death Toll to "a
The board was to confer with
the police commissioner We'd
nesday morning on one phase
of the riot.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-07-02
Minnesota FL
Condemns Race
Riots in i. S.

The following statement was
adopted unanimously by the State
Committee of the Farmer-Labor
Association at its meeting in St.
Paul, on Sunday, June 81.
The State Committee of the
Farmer-Labor Association wishes
to express its condemnation of
those conditions which have pro-
voked the recent race riots in Cali
fornia, Texas, Alabama, Pennsyl-
vania, and Detroit, Mich, where
the rioting reached it's most fla
grant form.
A few weeks prior to the Detroit
riot, New York columnist wrote:
eve talked to some big men in De-
troit labor circles today, and they
were worried by the panacea ped
dlers who were crowding the city
exploiting the new war workers.
Some of the recently arrived fac
tory hands are from the South and
men such as Gerald L. K. Smith
are wasting little time capitalizing
pre-civil war prejudices."
It is high time there should be
an expose of these native fascists
and their organizations, which are
sponsoring tours to stir and fan
racial hatreds.
We wish to point out in all seri-
BUSINESS that the discrimination of
Negroes in our armed forces, in
industry, and by some labor unions
further aggravates the racial situa-
ton. In all earnestness, we urge
that these conditions be corrected.
In our opinion we are seeking
to win the four freedoms for all
races, and all peoples. Without the
acceptance of this principle, we
cannot attain the full unity needed
to win this war and a worthy, last
ing peace.
That Federal authorities be re-
quested to reopen investigation re-
garding racial riots.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-07-02
Membership Drive
Organized Into
Three Teams

The Membership Committee of
the st. Paul Branch of the Ma
tional Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People in a meet
ing last Friday night set up the
following organization for the
membership campaign now in prog
ress. Using a patriotic theme,
three teams, red, white and blue,
have been formed.
Mrs. Gertrude Willis, Midway
4943, is the captain of the red
team. Her workers include Mrs.
Roberta Tyler, Mrs. Inez O'Neil,
Miss Pearl Martin, Mrs. Dorothy
Dobbins and Mrs. Mable Harris.
Mrs. Beatrice Boyd, Elkhurst
ALTO, is the captain of the blue
team, with Mrs. R. F. Wilson, Mrs.
Ora Reed, Miss Edie Crump, Fred
Schuck and George Mundell as CO.
workers.
Mrs. Jetta McPheeters, Elkhurst
1910, captain of the white team,
is working with Mrs. Henrietta
Capesius, Mrs. Eva Neal, Mrs.
Josie Williams, Mrs. Minnie Gas
ton, Charles S. Anderson and Will
liam Ridley.
Among the new volunteer work
ers are Mrs. Lola Sisemore, Mrs.
Fannie Lynn, Mrs. Mabel Brown,
Mrs. Naomi Thomas and Miss
Geraldine McAdams.
According to John M. Culver,
chairman of the membership COM
mittee, the membership campaign
is progressing very well. The CO.
operation of all is asked in the
effort to secure at least 1000 by
July rs. The membership commit
tee is planning to bring an out
standing speaker to the city for a
mass meeting in the very near
fI1tI1re
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-07-02
Meals Again in
News as Divorce
Suit Is Instituted

Preliminary hearings of divorce
suit filed against Mrs. Carrie Neal
by W. Squire Neal, undertaken, and
Mrs. Meals cross suit were held
this week in Hennepin County Dis
trict Court.
Mrs. Neal, war plant employee,
and Meals wife of many years, was
denied temporary alimony.
Mrs. Neal named two women as
the persons who caused the we'll
known couples separation.
The case is expected to be the
most sensational in Twin City his
tory and is scheduled to be heard
in the Fall Term of court.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-07-02
Eighty-One Year
Woman Dies

Mrs. Clara Joyce, 1913 4th
Ave. S., age 81, died at General
Hospital, June "a. Funeral services
were held at Woodland Funeral
Home, 10 a. M, with Rev. H. W.
Bolts, ST., officiating. Interment
was at Crystal Lake. Survivors are:
Gertrude Freeman of st. Paul and
Hattie Jackson of New York,
daughters; three grandchildren:
Clara Parker, Bernice Williams of
Los Angeles, and Gladys La
Blanche of Chicago, and six grand
children.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-07-02
Detroit Riot, Conditions
Which Caused It, Are
Described by Ray Hatcher

and in other white areas as they did
in protecting white lives and prop
erty in Negro areas, some whites
would have met death at the hands
of policemen and arrests of whites
would have at least equalled those
of Negroes.
In some areas it was hard to de-
termine whether or not police were
protectors of law and order, rioters
in uniform, or just umpires in the
riot.
Real Americans arose to the oc-
casion, however, and in many in
stances white and Negro citizens
risked their lives to protect friends
who found themselves in enemy
camps.
1t was hell-my own "apprehen-
sion" at finding myself in the
enemy camp. Il knew better), the
two bodies I saw in the streets
Il knew the second one was mans
because I recognized the body,
hands, and feet as those of a human
being), the expressions on the faces
Vt two white boys trapped in the
alley under my office window (po-
lice rescued them before could get
them into the office), these did not
bother me. I went home, however,
after witnessing a mob set out to
kill after some one had shouted,
there's white man." and a wom-
an shouted, bring me white man
and bring him deadi"
We live within the riot area and
block and a half from Woodward
avenue (that was the western Dor
der of the riot area) and the Khan
headquarters is four blocks down
the street from US so we didn't
know what to expect Monday night
although we were prepared" for
the worst. We moved most of our
furniture from the front room but
didn't go to bed until we saw
armored cars, jeeps, and troop car
riers cruising the streets. We felt
unusually tired the next day al
though we had slept pretty soundly.
Some people are trying to blame
the Fifth Column and the Khan for
the riot but prejudice and the denial
of basic rights of citizenship to
Negroes as reflected in discrimina-
ton in employment, housing, etc.,
were the real causes. We have in
Detroit hope that other American
cities will profit by the mistakes
made here. We still have war
to win and America must realize
that democracy must have mean
ing for all Americans here and now
if she expects it to have meaning
for the oppressed peoples of the old
world to whom she has promised
liberation.
Although the riot is a week old,
we still feel pretty tired so I guess
I'll sign off. We trust that all
goes we'll with you and the family;
please tell all the friends hello and
that Mae and 1 are still Kicking"
Sincerely,
RAY HATCHER,
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-07-02
Youths Fined
For Disturbance

Grover Ingram, 3941 Fourth ave-
nue. south, Minneapolis, was fined
500 and Maceo Littlejohn, 698
Rondo avenue, st. Paul, $25 for dis
orderly conduct in the Hennepin
County Justice of Peace Court
Tuesday.
Ingram was charged with pick
ing fight with a party of five peo-
pie at Mother Carver's place in
rural Hennepin county. Ettlejohn
whom testimony revealed was only
technically guilty of a similar Of
tense, was given a fine but it was
suspended for a year.