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deavor to better the lot of the Ne
gro troops in the area he was
backed by every officer of his bat
talon, and was given the green
light by the commander of the
base, 1t. Col. Carroll S. Miller, and
his successor, 1t. Col. William
Macdonald.
A Catholic himself, Albright set
about the business of building in
terracial goodwill in this FREEDOM
inantly Catholic city, and moved
headlong into the fight. How well
he has succeeded is now a matter
of pleasing history. Here are some
of the things that Sgt. Albright
was able to accomplish:
Was one of the founders of the
famous Camp Pinedale Non-com-
missioned Officers Club, an abso-
lutely inter-racial organization COM
posed of Negro and white officers
from all the units on. the base. He
is now the vice-president of the
club, and a member Of its finance
committee.
He is chairman of the Inter- Bat
talon Goodwill Committee of the
base, being given his position by
an executive order from the base
command. This committee immedi-
ately goes to work whenever any
problem of discrimination raises
its head in the camp. It has the
unqualified backing of the base
commander in the issuance of an
order that there shall be absolute
ly no discrimination anywhere in
the camp.
He was the Negro speaker at
the gigantic war bond rally in the
Fresno auditorium, and was given a
five-minute ovation at the conclu-
sion of his address by the huge
crowd present. It is said in Fresno
that this event was the turning
point in Albright's goodwill cam
paign in the city.
Albright arranged two impress
sive mass meetings in the Second
Baptist and Carter Memorial A,
NJ. E. Churches, largest Negro
churches in Fresno, which were in
strumental in opening the doors Of
the homes of Negro citizens to the
soldiers. The mayor Of Fresno,
guest speaker upon one Of these &C.
casions, publicly expressed his pro-
found respect for these efforts.
He assisted the USO, the Amer
lean Legion, and other organiza-
tions in the promotion Of affairs
for Negro troops, for which he en-
deared himself to every Negro sol
der in the area.
He is the personal advisor to the
base command on all matters relat-
ing to the welfare of Negro troops
in its jurisdiction.
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Soldier Overseas Pens
Poem to Wife
Co. c 828 Eng. A. V. N. Bn
APO. 932 CO Postmaster,
San Francisco, Calf.

Dear Editor: This is the first
time I have had chance to express
my gratitude and appreciation fol
the prompt delivery of my paper
every week. 1t is indeed a pleasure
to read about the people you have
known. 1t gives you courage tc
know that they are getting along
so we'll. I also wish to send greet.
ings to members of Ames Lodge
No. LOG, of which T am a member
and to a very dear and personal
friend, Mr.. Gene Moore. I was
reading in the last edition of the
Spokesman letters from Sgt. Stone
and Staff Sgt. James H. Coleman
Sgt. Stone sends the years greet
ings in my letter.
have poem to my wife, Agnes
1 wish you would publish it with
this letter:
Dearest one, do you remember,
When we last did meet?
When you told me how you loved
me,
Kneeling at my feet?
Oh, how proud you stood before me
In your suit of grey,
When you vowed from me and coun,
try
Meier to go astray.
Weeping, sad and lonely,
Signs and tears, how vain!
When this cruel war is over
Pray that we meet again!
I will close this letter saying
hello to all my friends in the United
States of America which we low
so well. How I wish was there
too. I will say I hope I see every
one very soon.
Sincerely yours,
Staff Sgt. Charles F. Wyatt
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Albright Plays
Important Role
In Army Zone
FIRST SERGEANT JOSEF
ALBRIGHT CALLED GOOD
WILL" AMBASSADOR IN
CALIFORNIA

<1ADAh4Uu4 StALLkO UOOOS
WILL" AMBASSADOR IN
CALIFORNIA
st. Paul Negro Soldier Held
in High Regard
Camp Pinedale, Fresno, Calf
The military personnel and the cit
liens of this community are sing
ing the praises of First Sergeant
Joseph Albright, member of crack
Negro aviation unit of this base.
By his uncompromising and untir-
ing efforts he has, supported en-
masse by the Negro troops in this
area, broken through a wall of
racial misunderstanding and has
succeeded in delivering a telling
blow in behalf of the welfare of all
Negro soldiers stationed out here.
Jumping from buck private to
first sergeant in the record time of
two weeks, Albright Immediately
set about remedying a condition of
extreme unpleasantness that had
existed in the community for many
days before he arrived. In his en-
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on the University campus after a
tour Of the campus.
Don't Miss
A Single 90.

Issue of this paper. Each week
it prints the important local hap
penings, news about people you
know.
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MRS. Lillian Hickman, niece of the
groom, and C. H. Ross, brother of
the groom. Mr.. and Mrs. Ross are
residing at 715 st. Anthony avenue.
Mrs. Dow is a former resident of
Kansas City, Miss, and Mr.. Ross
is well known here in fraternal and
labor organization circles.
Mr.. and Mrs. Stanley Tabor had
as their dinner guests on Satur-
day evening, February IS, Mr.. and
Mrs. Jackie Carr of "Porgy and
Bess" cast. Mrs. Carr, who is bet
ter known as Ruby Ely, and Mrs.
Tabor were friends before Miss
Ely started her stage and screen
career. Other guests included the
immediate family of Mr.. and Mrs.
Tabor.
The Two O'clock Club met on
Saturday, February 10, at the home
of Mrs. Lounneer Pemberton, 679
st. Anthony avenue. Mrs. Pember-
ton was pleasantly surprised when
the members of the club came bear
ing beautiful and useful gifts for
the expected heir in the Pemberton
family next month. A delicious
luncheon preceded cards. First club
prize was won by Mrs. C. H. Mo-
biley, second by Mrs. Richey
Adams, and the third by Mrs. Leo
Bohannon. The next meeting will
be Saturday, February 81, at the
home of Mrs. Richey Adams, 100
E. 25th street :. Incidentally, Mr..
and Mrs. Adams have named their
twin boys, Richard and Richey.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bertram Shannon
are receiving congratulations on
the birth of a baby girl Monday,
February Is, at Bethesda Hospital.
The new arrival weighed seven and
one-half pounds. The maternal
grandparents are Mr.. and Mrs. N.
Walter Coins, 696 Carroll avenue,
and the paternal grandparents Mr..
and Mrs. George C. Shannon, 693
Carroll avenue . . Incidentally, lit
tie Miss Shannon's uncle, Walter N.
Coins, Jr., has recently been pro-
NOTED to a sergeant at SCOTS
Field, Illinois, near st. Louis.
Mr.. Brewer Lee Clark, 13-year-
old son of Mr.. and Mrs. Urlin L.
Clark, ITO St. Anthony avenue, had
the honor of playing before group
of professional musicians Saturday,
February 10, in the Professional
Musical Club on 7th and Wabasha
streets. Brewer Lee received an en-
thusiastic double encore for his
renditions.
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white hearts. The youth enter
tanned themselves with music,
games and dancing. Those present
were Misses Loretta Davis, Verlene
Price, Edith Price, Martha Hilyard,
Gloria Parker, Sally Creighton,
Evelyn Howard, Nelson F. Mccoy,
Gladys Hobbs, John Preston,
Charles Mccoy, LaRohn Latimer,
Sherman Harper, Alexander Hobbs,
Leonard Brewers, Martha MCLEAN,
Harry Esters and others.
Mrs. Rachel Johnson and Mr..
Elmer Johnson, 225 18th St., have
both improved favorably from
siege of illness at their home. Mr..
Johnson is out again. Mrs. john
son has been confined for five
weeks.
Mrs. BERTHE Copeland of Duluth
was in the city to attend the gradu-
alton exercises of her niece, Miss
Jewel Sears, Harding High school
mid-year graduate.
Miss Barbara Blackburne, daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Black
burne, $40 w. Central, and Mr..
Robert Lamb, $50 Rondo Ave., will
be married Sunday, Feb. 81, at 5
p. m. at the home of his aunt and
uncle, Mr.. and Mrs. Dan Ridges,
where he resides. Mr.. Lamb is the
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Reed Lamb of
Des Moines, Iowa.
The Ladies' Auxiliary to the
Sterling Club held a call meeting
Thursday, Feb. 9, and elected a
chairman of the entertainment COM
mittee and hostesses for the civic
group. The next regular meeting
will be held Tuesday, Feb. %, at the
Club.
Members of the Moderne Social
club are Misses Elonzella Everson,
Wanda Owens, Sarah Hill, Evelyn
j. Lewis, Margaret Brown, Myra
McAdams and Georgia Russell.
Chaperons were Misses Gwendoln
Raye and Sedalia Clark.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bertram Shannon
are the proud parents of a baby
girl born at Bethesda hospital on
Tuesday night, Feb. 16.
WELCOME HALL NEWS: AS
our part in "Inter-Racial" Services,
two spirituals were rendered by
Miss Mary Louise Bradley at the
Young Peoples meeting of House
of Hope Presbyterian Church Feb.
18th. On the morning of the 18th,
devotions were led by Mrs. H. ].
Hagan, assisted by Mrs. Leila A.
Smith and three kiddies from the
Play Center, including John W.
Oliver, at the regular meeting of
the st. Paul Presbyterial meeting
at Manchester Church.
Tune in WMIN Saturday, Feb.
goth, at 5:15 p. M, the Children's
hour of the Union Gospel Mission
Broadcast, and hear little John W.
Oliver, representing the Play Cen
ter of Welcome Hall. John William
is the son of Mr.. and Mrs. Leonard
Oliver, 400 st. Anthony Ave.
Bring your Home-furnishing
problems to the Wednesday eve
ming class in Cooking and Home
Furnishings. Slip covers, curtains,
drapes and any other problem
which you might have, leading up
to your Spring re-furnishing, all
are included in this course.
AS a result of our Negro History
Service, many interesting books by
Negroes; fiction, history, biogra-
ply and poetry, have been placed
on the shelves Of our branch
library. We are hoping that you
will come in and use them.
The Pageantry group has in store
for you a very delightful afternoon
between the hours of and Z p. m.
Sunday, Feb. 21st; come to their
"Silver Tea" at the Ober Boys
Club.
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Social and Personal
Friday, February 10, 1913
. ST. PAUL
BY SUSIE @

Mrs. Anna Belle Dow 85 St. Anthony stunning
of blue jersey when
Ross 776 St Anthony quiet the home Mr.
and Mrs Fred Williams, Anthony and
sister of the bride Rev. Clarence Nelson oaed Guests
cluded Mr. and Mrs Mcmillan brother and sseraw of the BRIDE
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-11-21

upset by Claire's night life revelations.
No doubt she is upset, too, because, Of
course, she was once just such an anonymous
maiden herself
Economically enough. she met her husband
at wedding He was acting as best man for
one of his Princeton classmates, and Claire
was the bridesmaid
Two months later that prophetic catch
resulted in their marriage. They moved into
dream apartment in Gotham's smart Sutton
Place. 1t should have been perfect; the tabled
VEorld Of the pnsejr nn,-7-'ie'~ - - ~
Deen CIalre 5. 0yspel.
But alas! A hitch developed even before
cooking raised it's ugly head
Rusty started TO drink heavily she
asserts and then goes on 10 describe an occur.
renee which in her opinion. wrote fins TO
their month-old honeymoon.
4 FTER visit to the swank Princeton
- Club, she says her husband passed out
and had TO be carted home.
After l retired Rusty awoke completely
crazed. He began running around the apart
ment, screaming for different people He
ran to the telephone for no apparent reason
and started calling up people.
After he concluded making these futile
telephone calls, he then turned me. He
ripped the telephone off the wall, broke it and
threw it at me. I managed TO dodge and
avoided being struck by il. He then proceeded
TO strike me, screaming that he was going to
kill me and then himself and that l would
never leave the apartment alive.
II was however. able to get dressed and
ran out of the apartment and went to the
apartment of my friend, Miss Mary Mcclure,
and spent the rest OF the night with her"
Miss Mcclure and her other friends, 20
Judge from Claires complaint had to put her
up so often during the next two months that
they probably began TO look ON her as a refu-
gee from Vanderbilt
Soon afterwards he sprained his knee in
tripping over a curbstone while dead sober
But that he still managed TO get around. with
and without clutches, rs attested 20 by Claire's
description of another of their evenings out
This account-though Rusty has denied Il
and her other allegations of crueltX=has
already achieved the standing of minor cafe
society classic.
1T began" it begins, with Mr. Knight
Aulsbrook asking US to come to the Princeton
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Club for cocktails, 10 meet some friends of his
Rusty said he would just go for one drink
with them, then have our dinner and come
home.
But when we got to the Princeton Club.
ne changed his mind and decided since il was
Saturday night he was going to take the
whole party Of seven persons to dinner at
La Rue Ga nightclub)."
OAR from being acclaimed, this generous
r. -IInusias-
tIcally invitation to funeral.
No one wanted TO 60" says Claire "as the
others had their plans already. He became
ugly and threatened Mr.. and Mrs Aulsbrook
saying If they didn't go with him he would
demand the $500 that Mr. Aulsbrook owed him
and would make things embarrassing for
them. So we were all forced TO 60
When we got there we all had dinner
except Rusty who was quite drunk and who
refused to order but kept on drinking.
L danced once or twice with the other men,
but soon sat down because the floor was so
crowded and hot
Rusty then asked me 20 dance but told
him l would rather not because of the reasons
Just mentioned The real reason was however
because he was so drunk and still on crutches
and according TO the doctor he was not sup
posed 10 be on his leg.
liC NAtll bt6 al raging dI me- jumped up
out of his chair and picked up bottle threat-'
ening TO hit me with it. became so nervous
and shaky and he was causing such a scene
that Mrs. knight Aulsbrook told me to come
TO the ladies' Powder Room with her
when we got up he grabbed my hat coat
and purse, and tried to stop me- but we got
away. He followed us TO the Ladies Room and
stood outside screaming for me to come out
1 did, and told him would dance with him in
the hope of calming him but it didn't seem
TO do any good ANN
1T was agreed that I would stay at the
Aulsbrooks that night, if we could slip away.
He kept threatening me- sayiRg,3Just wait
until l get you home Finally, when Rusty
was at the bar looking for his critch. Mr..
Aulsbrook told Mrs Aulsbrook and me 10
slip aIt-aad 60 efte- and tifat ne would take
Mr.. Hatch home and stay with him This
we did"
Nor was this. Claire says unique expert
ence. II was.Just one of many such evenings.
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If his suit had been based on those allega-
tons alone he would probably still be con-
sidered the same promising youth as Of yore
But cooking And not wanting to be
Vanderbilt Well really
AS for Claire her copnter-suit for aeparaa
ton has spread establishment, too though
not in the same circles as her husbands
The people who are likely to be shocked
are not the people already in the society
y columns but the people who read ongingly
about the people in the society columns
All those millions of anonymous maIdens
who get rapturous paptatous az the mere
mention of an evening at a New York night
club with a Vanderbilt, ought to be pretty
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-11-21


tered the Gossip Coumnists' Dream
World by Marrying Nanderbilt-And
Didn't Like IL.
derbilt! You can put that down and use it.
People hear you are a Vanderbilt and imagine
all kinds Of things It's like curse!"
Back Of this second squawk was apparently
the idea that if il hadn't been for the potent
magnetism OF the Vanderbilt name, Claire
might not have been attracted TO him, and he
in turn might have been free TO look around
for practical. or culinary spouse instead of
the purely ornamental type he'd got
But, regardless Of what may have prompted
them, the words were Of course, the ultimate
social heresy.
IMAGINE a Vanderbilt who doesn't want to
Il be a Vanderbilt! Imagine what the old
Commodore, who founded the clan with such
ruthlessness, would have said TO that!
Actually, some of Rustys other charges
against Claire are quite in thefamily tradition
For instance, he says she squandered his
money forged him to play the awkward part
of Nssless husband. and then, after criticizing
him for not being in uniform his draft board
turned nm down he dccIaresl called him a
Yankee and insisted on fighting the War BE.
tween The States all over again. And finally
he claims she deserted him.
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groom was a lieutenant Of Oom. the Omni-
potent, the Yogi sage Of Nyack, n, ~. And it
ended in very expensive and rather shocking
divorce; but the whole thing was so fantastic
that it, too. could be said to have had style.
The one thing no Vanderbilt ever ever does
is stoop 10 the vulgar, the typically bourgeois
The ladies Of the clan can charge their
husbands with everything from wearing ca
nary yellow ties with full dress suits 10 the
most blood-curdling cruelty
The husbands can reply that their wives
like TO swing on the chandelier after drinking
rum laced with gunpowder.
All perfectly O. X Such accusations have
chi-chi There's a difference between them
and complaining drearily that ones husband
is a poor provider. or ones wife bum cook.
All this was in the wiscacres minds when
they approved of Rustys first divorce and
second marriage, and all this has now been
knocked galley-west by the two incredible
sq,fawks with which he's orchestrated his pres
ent suit for separation
He says his wife is a bum cook.
Or. 20 use his own words: she could not
at any time Of our marriage prepare meal
Of the most simple variety, so as a result we
had to hire cook"
After he'd said that, it didn't make much
difference what he said next because the
audience which had applauded his divorce
from Shirley was already stampedng for the
nearest exits
That one sduawk chad lifted Rustys little
domestic comedy right out Of the drawing
room and dumped ii in the kitchen.
Nobody wanted TO stay around and watch
Mrs Willie X Vanderbilt's grandson play
Tobacco Road
Nevertheless he kept on squawking.
THAT name he detained, has been the
source Of all my troubles that name of Van
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-11-21

W. HAT they meant was that vanderbiits
w get married and they get divorced, but
always with verve and style. They per-
mitted screwball variations-such as Rustys
mothers second marriage.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-11-21

SIS, he kept on squawking.
.c" he detained, has been the
my troubles that name of Van
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-23
FIRE PREVENTION
PROGRAM PLANS
Fire Marshal Lahey to
Open Annual Campaign
With Radio Address

Fire prevention week opens in
Waterbury and throughout the
country on Sunday, oct. 3. It's OBJ
servance will be throughout the
week.
On Sunday night, Oct. 3, at 6:lo
o'clock, Fire Marshal Lahey will de-
liver his first radio address Of the
occasion over station WBRY. The
marshal will outline the activities
Of the Fire Department for the past
year, announce the annual fire loss
and explain the different causes Of
fire in this city during this period
I'VE know there Is a terrible scar
city Of newsprint, and space in oul
newspapers today" declared the
Marshal land we will be unable tc
talk to the public through the press
as we have done. through the gen.
crosby Of our Waterbury publish
ers, for O number Of years past. But
they have assured us there will bd
q little space laid aside for our ben
eft, and our effort to bring home
to the people Of Waterbury the
penalty Of fire. Without this help
from our papers, and the kindness
Of the radio management. we would
not be able to carry out our pro-
gram In the manner suggested by
the learned fire experts Of the
country"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-23
''Greater Love Hath No Man.. "
Two Protestant Clergymen, Catholic Priest and
a Jewish Rabbi Pay the Supreme Sacrifice.

Washington, Sept. 23-The two
Protestant clergymen, the Cath
ole priest and the rabbl-alI Army
chaplalns who laid down their
Hives tOgether-are being immor-
talixed here that Americans may
know what sacrifice really means.
It's In connection with the War
loan drive and the Army show
that Is being given here close by
the Washington Monument.
Among the fortresses and the
big guns Of the Army show, has
been built IN Army chapel like
the chapeIs that are houses Of
prayer for Catholics, PrOtestants
and Jews In all the camps. In q
niche beside the door the minis
tiers, the priest and the rabbi who
died together are likewise en-
shrined.
Over their portraits Is the Bib
Heal assertion Of ultimate sacri-
flee: "Greater Love Hath No
Man Beside them, In large,
painted letters, Is the story Of the
way they laid down their lives for
their brethren, in accordance with
the Scriptural ideal. It Is the re-
port Of an eyewitness who saw
them die.
A transport on which they were
travelling TO the battlefronts over
seas was tOrpedOed one night last
winter. They had put on their
life-belts, but their own lives
didn't matter to them when they
saw young soldiers making ready
to leap into the sea without life
belts.
Each took off his belt and gave
his last hope Of survival to q SOL
der. The last seen Of the two
ministers, priest and rabbi, their
arms were linked in brotherhood.
They were praying together. They
went down with the ship.
They were Rabbi Alexander
GOOde, Of York, Pa. and Wash
ington, and Father John p. WASH
ington Of Arlington, N. j., the Rev.
Clark v. Polling, Of Schenectady,
N. Y, son Of DIR. Daniel Polling
president Of the World Christian
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-23
STATE TO AWARD
SPECIAL MEDAL
Outstanding Acts in Inter.
est of War Program to
Be Recognized

The Connecticut War Council will
recognize outstanding contributions
to the war effort by civilians by
awarding these persons with an
appropriate state War Administra-
tor Harold F. Woodcock said today.
When q medal Is awarded 1t will be
accompanied by certificate signed
by Governor Raymond E. Baldwin.
The following members Of the
council have been appointed to an
award committee; Lehigh Danen-
berg of Bridgeport. chairman; Miss
Mary P. OFlaherty Of Hartford;
Herman w. Steinkraus of Bridge
port; Leland Keeney Of Somersville
Governor Baldwin, eX-ofiicio and
Deputy Administrator Thomas w.
Russell. The commltte has the
selection Of medal under consider
alton and will pass upon recon-
mendations for the awards as they
are received from local war coun-
ellis.
This new award Is entirely sep
arate from the Civilian Defense
service.
No specific yardstick has been set
for persons eligible to receive the
award. Mr.. Woodcock pointed out
that instances of outstanding or
meritorious services toward the war
effort would have to be recognized
first by local war council which in
turn would recommend the individ-
ual to the State War Council for
the award. Examples of outstanding
activity might take the form of par
ticipation in war gardening, sales of
bonds, performance of heroic acts
in wartime disaster, contributinga
extraordinary service in war plants
such as continuous employment or
production records, etc.
In letter to local war councils
Mr.. Woodcock said: Generally
speakig there will be no specifica-
tons laid down by the State but
rather 1t will be left to local war
council authorities to determine
what cases are deserving and to set
a standard sufficiently high TO in
sure that receipt will constitute q
genuine honor"