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a pattern of procedure which
should guide both it and other cities
in future outbreaks, stopping a riot
quickly and efficiently is only a
small part of the problem involved.
The weight of sustained and un-
ceasing public opinion must acti-
vate the federal government, and
particularly the army, the navy
and the Department of Justice, to
stop, at whatever cost, the un-
checked brutality against Negro
servicemen which has cursed the
country. Within the various cities
themselves, ghettos must be abol-
ished, along with the evils attend
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ant upon segregation and proscrip-
ton.
New York had another riot in
1885. Mayor LaGuardia appointed
a bi-racial commission which held
hearings and submitted a report
which included recommendations
that might have prevented, or at
least made less likely and less de-
structive, the riot of August 1,
1943. But unfortunately, the re-
port was never made public and
most of it's recommendations were
unheeded. It is to be hoped that
this mistake will not be made
again.-Walter White.
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In MemOriam

In loving memory of our wife
and daughter, Dovie Ward, who de-
parted this life two years ago on
August %, 1941.
Two willing hands, a tender smile
A loving heart that knew no guile,
Deep trust in God that was right,
Her joy to make some other bright.
Mrs. Bertha Turner, mother
James Ward, husband
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dated before he can get transportation. He
may even hold his tongue when he IS
forced to get out of the bus in which he
is seated in order to make room for white
passengers. But it is of such stuff that
bitterness and hatred are made. In such
climate resentments grow until they
burst forth in violent and unreasoning
reprisal.
This prophetic statement is care
fully documented with specific in
stances similar to the Raymond
Carr case. Among them was re-
cited the killing of Sgt. Thomas
Foster, a Negro soldier, in March,
1913, by a city policeman in the
streets of Little Rock, Arkansas.
Foster was shot and killed while
lying dazed on the ground. After
killing Foster, the policeman calm
ly returned his revolver to its hol-
ster, took out his pipe and lit it.
In July, 1912, city police officers
of Beaumont, Texas, fired several
shots into the body of a Negro
soldier, Pvt. Charles Reco, who had
been arrested on complaint of a
bus driver because Reco sat under
a sign dividing the seating between
whites and Negroes. His body was
behind the sign in the jim-crow
section; his knees in front of it. To
avoid trouble, Reco left the bus and
was overtaken by the policeman,
who hit him with a blackjack from
behind and then fired into his pros
trate body. Attorney General
Francis Biddle issued a strong
statement and promised vigorous
federal action. But later the De-
partment of Justice abandoned
prosecution because there was mo
prospect of conviction" The Guild
report adds wryly: "This is not
the first time that the Department
of Justice has lost it's ardor for &C
ton in Texas. In the circumstances,
we can only hope that the extraor-
binary power of the Texas delegate
to Congress has no relationship to
the mental vagaries of the Depart
ment of Justice"
Other killings of Negro soldiers
were cited in Ell Paso, Texas; Mo-
bile, Alabama; Columbia, South
Carolina; and other places.
1t is out of this sad record that
the shooting, not without justifca-
ton, of Robert J. Bandy, Negro
MP, in a Harlem hotel by a white
policeman on Sunday night, Au-
gust l, provided the spark which
set off the explosion created by
bitter, smoldering resentment
against the mistreatment of Negro
soldiers which was all the more
dangerous because it had been pent
up and frustrated. A five-minute
shift in Private Bandy's move
ments that sultry Sunday night
have averted one of the most de-
structive riots in American history.
which took toll of five lives, in
jured BOT and caused damage esti-
mated to be in excess of $5,0OO,-
600. Bandy came to New York
from a New Jersey camp to meet
his mother, who had come down
from Middletown, Connecticut, to
spend Sunday with him and his
fiancee. Bandy's mother checked
out of the hotel around four o'clock
In the afternoon and then set out
with her son and his friend for
dinner and moving picture show.
1t was an unfortunate, gratuitous
circumstance that they returned to
the hotel to pick up the mothers
luggage just as an alteration de-
veloped when a policeman sought
to eject an obstreperous Negro
woman.
Bandy interviewed, so the story
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New Arrival Friday.
the 18th

A baby boy was born on Friday,
August 10, at st. Joseph's Hos
pital to Mr.. and Mrs. Peter Rob-
inson, 100 st. Anthony avenue. The
new arrival weighed seven pounds
and nine ounces and has been
named Alfred Michael. The pa
ternal grandmother is Mrs. Jennie
Bradford, TO Oak Lake, Mime
apolis. This is the Robinson's first
offspring.
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PLAIN TALK
By ELMER CARTER

By ELMER CARTER -.
The published report Of Attorney General Bidde to the
President in which he suggests the of controls
to nhbt the free movement of coored citizens in order to
prevent racial conflict such occurred in Detroit came
shock to those who believe in the democratic process But
inconsistent with the general policy of adjust
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Causes of Harlem Riots
Can Be Traced to the
Mistreatment of Soldiers
Rv Walter White

few weeks before Harlem burst into flames on Sunday
night August l. young Negro who had just received his
gold bars from Officers Candidate School in Southern
State came His face beamed with modest PRIDE
and love of country told raising his hand to take the
oath as an officer of United States Army to protect his
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The staff of the national office of the N A. A. C. set worth
e nreeent by Offering blood the Chinese blood psa
hanks where they were would not be segregated la Amer
can Red Cross.
Those thousands patriotic citizens who have hesated 70 oHer
their blood the grauous insult OF the ed
hanks Crow methods may help do job for an Allied Naun
and not dongby contributing their Dood TO ne
Chinese blood plasma campaign when reaches this VICINITY
Stain seems to have worried Hers His troops
~ cn the Nazis apparent aoofne from the other three
Allied Nations is quite disturbng-to say the least
Stulins Interest
Give Hitler of all the divisions he is forced to keep on n
western 'front.' spare North Africa the blockade by the BRUSH
Nyv subtract the Russia and the Rus
sian picture wouldn't nearly bright Stain had one treaty WIN
Hitler forgotten how that turned out and II Is
not in to would be gube enough to again
his trust in him. 1t simply Stains interest matter how ne
around to out on the United
And therefore he themMnneapols Tribune
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Dale O596
st. James A. M. E.
Church

Residence, 566 W. Central Ave.
West Central a Dale Sc.
Energetic and Friendly
Visitors Always Welcome
Rev. Benjamin N. Moore, Pastor
$3.50 A. M. Sunday School.
J. r. Lynn, Supt.
10:45 A. d. Regular Services.
s:30 p. d. University Of Life.
$500 p. d. Evening Service.
Every Friday night Prayer and Class
Service.
BE LOYAL TO YOUR CHURCH
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Army Ordnance not only supplies
the bombs and blockbusters to the
Eight Air Force but to 20 other
United States Air Forces as well.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-06
Hero S Mother
Eyes War Job

Proud that her 23-year-old son,
Richard, lieutenant, participated
in successful Allied air raid on
Rotterdam, Mrs. Walter Kruse of
Ypsilanti, said today she would
like 10 build bombers herself.
But while she praised Richards
part in the aerial blasting OF the
Nazis, she pointed with pride also
to her husband. Walter, and her
other sons, Preston and Robert,
who are engaged in vital war
work at Willow Run bomber plant.
Explaining that all her energy is
consumed in maintaining a home
for her husband and Preston and
Robert, she said of Richard:
THE best thing, OF course,
will he when he and our other
American boys win this war and
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-06
2 Detroit Filters Lost

Two Detroit men serving as
aerial gunners in Flying FortresSes
were among four Michigan men
listed AS missing in action by the
war department today. The list:
Staff Sgt. Claude Mclaughlin;
wife, Mrs. Judith Mclaughlin.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-06

Chrysler Highland Park plant,
where he was a mechanic two
years.
Tail gunner in a bomber on the
North African front, Staff Sgt.
Mclaughlin was reported missing
February 4. His wife, a waitress.
feels he is a prisoner.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-06

they can all come home. but Tn
terribly proud of him where NJ
Is. III l didn't have 50 much 10
do here 4 think I'D 20 out and
start building bombers myself
A wire dispatch quoted Rich
ard as saying that the Nazis were
'eluctant 10 combat the Flying
-ortresSes which raked Rotterdam.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-06

3125 Third. De-
troit. Missing in
North Africa.
Missing in the
South Pacific:
S taft s Ct.
Michael Ewas;
m o [ h r. Mrs.
Annie + w a S,
s 9 o 9 Auburn,
Detroit.
S I If s ct.
Walter p. Sze-
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-06
Army Air Crash
KiIIsU. OLD. Man

Second 1t. J. N. Schlachter,
University OF Detroit graduate
was killed in an army plane
crash near Pueblo, Colo, officers
at Peterson Field, Colorado
Springs, revealed today.
An army board has been APP
pointed TO determine cause of
the crash. Schlachter was one
of the first pilots assigned to the
Colorado base when ii opened
last year.
Unmarried. he Is survived by
his mother, Mrs. w. II. Schlach-
ter OF 14203 Ohio.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-06

Ilga; m o I h r, s'I' MeLAUUHLIN
Mrs. Katherine Szeliga, SITS Har-
old. Detroit.
Tech. Sgt. Felix NJ. Padkowsky,
Kalamazoo.
"He In the incest man In the
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-06

world. We haven't given up hope
that he will return" said his
sister, Mrs. Stella Maloziec. Of
Staff Sgt. SZeliga. %, who had
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-06
Ex-Msine Governor Dies

v LOS ANGELES, March s (rNsy
William Plsisted. IL,
former governor Of Maine. died
here yesterday after a brief III
ness.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-06

been in the
army only 10
months when
the bomber in
which he was
a GU n n er
failed TO re-
turn from a
mission in the
Solomons De-
cember is.
Szeliga W a s
we'll known and
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-06

"Your Own Horoscope" by
Frances Drake, is one OF many
famous features In The Detroit
Times.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-06

ADvERrIsEMENT
Evening star., 1943-06-26
mystery Witness May Be Called to Stand
In House Investigation of Elk Hills Oil Contract

Committee members disclosed they
were reliably informed the person
in question had often entertained
Government officials. They declined
to identify him before making more
extensive inquiries.
Meanwhile, Mr.. Peterson made
public a statement by Undersecre-
tary of the Interior Abe Fortas that
the contract raised "a significant
question Of business judgment"
'grhe contract between the Navy
and the Standard Oil Co. of Cali
fornia relating to the Elk Hills naval
reserve is not in the interest of the
United States" said Mr.. Fortas.
THE principal points upon which
I base this conclusion are the ar
rangement relating to the initial Pc
riod of five years or the duration of
the war and the provisions giving
Standard exclusive rights to the en-
tire output of the field"
Evening star., 1943-06-26
By the Associated Press.

os tne hsSoSlhlcu fEcSS,
A mystery man" described as an
oil lobbyist who entertained lavishly
here appeared in the House investi-
cation of the now-canceled Elk Hills
oil contract today. Indications are
that he will be summoned for ques-
tioning before the Public Lands
Committee.
The man was referred to by both
Assistant Attorney General Norman
Littell and Representative Elliott,
Democrat, of California at yester-
days hearings which spread to the
Naval Affairs Committee.
Secretary of the Navy Knox testi-
fed he "muffed it" when he failed
to submit to the Justice Department
the Navy contract with Standard
Oil of California for the mutual de-
velopment of the Elk Hills (Calif)
reserves.
The department ruled the pact IL
Evening star., 1943-06-26
Plans Ready for Checking
OF 0PA Food Prices in D. {.

Final plans for 400 woman volun-
teers, who will begin checking OPA
food prices in 1900 stores in the
District Monday were discussed last
night at meeting of Is team cap
tains in the Chamber of Commerce
Building.
Sherwood Dodge and Mrs. John
Graham, jr., both of OPA, answered
questions and gave instructions
which will enable the captains to
train their teams. Each team mem
ber will call on about five stores,
where they will help the merchant
check certain foods according to
brands, styles or grades, size or
weight, with the posted price and
ceiling price.
The team captains are Mrs. Anna
Warner, Mrs. Anita Sufrin, Mrs. E.
B. Lisemby, Mrs. Joseph Coppock,
Mrs. Harry Shapiro, Mrs. Thomas
H. Whitcroft, Mrs. Charles Sklar,
Mrs. Irwin Geiger, Mrs. w. A. Sell
lers, Mrs. Walter White, Mrs. Ade-
laide Grant, Mrs. Charles Duke,
Miss M. E. Ropke, Mrs. Abbie Beall
and Mrs. Robert Marshall.
Evening star., 1943-06-26

Swift Senate Passage
OF 71-BiIIion-DoIIar
Army Bill Predicted
Record Appropriation
Viii Provide Weapons
To Beat Axis Forces
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Speedy Senate approval was
forecast today for the decisive
budget" war bill with which the
Army hopes to acquire the weap-
ons necessary to crush the Axis.
Senator Thomas, Democrat, of
Oklahoma, predicted the same
unanimous approval for the ST.
890, 900 900 War Department budget
as was given by the House after
Gen. George c. Marshall, chief of
staff, said 1t would hasten the
destruction of the enemy"
at Is an enormous amount of
money" said Chairman Thomas of
the Senate War Appropriations
Subcommittee, but the military
leaders justified their need for every
nickel of 1t.
Our high command is doing a
fine job and deserves the vote Of
confidence quick passage of the bill
will give"
The record -shattering bill in
cludes $12,472 ,839 200 in funds left
over from the current fiscal year
and $50, AIS ,586 500 in new appro-
priations.
1t provides $40, ,203 ,843, 1856 for the
procurement of 99,740 Army planes,
supplementing a previous approved
Navy quota of 27,642.
The Senate was asked to remove
restrictions against use of Army
funds to pay painters employed in
depicting battle scenes and three
other lessor restrictions, and to ap-
prove a House prohibition against
payment of subsidies on Army food
purchases.
Also awaiting possible action to-
day was a $l,l00,000.000 appropria-
tions bill for the Labor Department
and the Federal Security Agency,
containing the controversial clause
liquidating the National Youth Ad-
ministration by January /.
A 6 to 5 vote by an Appropria-
tions Subcommittee in favor of re-
moving this House ban and allowing
NYA $4,000, 900 for its youth train
ing program for war industry and
aid to college students was set aside
by a Is to IL vote Of the full COM
mittee.
Evening star., 1943-06-26
Finish Fight in Orient
Called Definite Part
OF British Policy
Strong War Phose Seen
In Far East Following
Defect of Germany
by BLAIR BOLLES,
stsr staff Correspondent.

LONDON. June 26.--A fight to
the finish in the Far East now is
definitely part OF British wartime
foreign policy.
To most English the Orient Is a
strange place far away. English
government members to whom this
correspondent has talked envision
strong phase of the Eastern war
will be part of general chapter two
OF the whole global conflict. Chap
ter two is expected to bring back
lights to London and close the
era of England's role as q fortress.
Chapter two, according to present
prospects, begins when the Axis
folds up in Europe and Allied oc-
cupation of the continent begins.
Despite the hopeful inference that
the appointment of Marshal Archi-
bald Wavell as viceroy of India
means an early offensive in the
East, the chances are nothing big
will take place there so long as
Germany is still active in the war
The official English adoption of
the view that Britain must play a
large part in crushing Japan brings
to close the diplomatic crisis which
only a few months ago was causing
anxiety between Great Britain and
Australia.
There never has been an adequate
understanding here of the Amer
ican-Australian feeling toward Ja-
pan, and the special security prob
lens raised for us by Japanese
aggression.
Britain's commitment to the Far
Eastern undertaking was sealed
during the recent Churchill -Roose-
welt talks. The current visit to
London Of Dr. Herbert Evatt, Aus
tralian Minister of External Affairs,
is serving as sounding board for
English discussion Of the Importance
of fiattening the japanese enemy
and as an opportunity for erasing
the last bit of Canberra-London ILL.,
will.
Evening star., 1943-06-26
Russians Wipe Out
Company Of Firms
In Bayonet Battle
Two German Attempts
To Cross Donets Beaten
Back With Losses
BY the Associated Press,


LONDON, June 26.-Attacking
Russian troops broke into Finn
ish trenches on the Northern
Karelian front last night and
wiped out about a company of
the enemy in savage bayonet
and grenade fighting, the Soviet
noon communique said today.
Ten dugouts and two blockhouses
were blown up and mortar batteries
and an ammunition dump were de-
stroyed, the Russians said in the
communique, which was broadcast
from Moscow and recorded by the
Soviet monitor here.
Two German stabs, a reconnoit-
ering attempt in the Sevsk area
southwest of Orel and south of Bal
akleya, where they attempted to
cross the Donets River, were beaten
off with enemy losses, the war bulle-
tin said.
Soviet Guns Start Fires.
Russian artillery action also was
reported near Sevsk, where big So
Wet guns were said to have started
fires at two enemy strong points.
(The German communique,
broadcast from Berlin and re-
corded by the Associated Press,
said several tank-supported Red
Army attacks in the Orel sector
were repelled. German and Ru-
manian shock troops were said
to have conducted successful OPP
erations at various points on, the
'front.'
Heavy losses were suffered by the
Germans in their attempted cross
ing of the Donets south of Balakleya
and they were forced to retreat
behind a smoke screen from con-
centrated Russian fire, said the
bulletin.
Guerrillas killed several hun
dred" Germans when they routed
six Nazi garrisons during recent
fighting in the Crimea, and derailed
II German trains carrying troops
and supplies, the Russians said.
Evening star., 1943-06-26
Axis Invasion Fears
Turn 10 Balkans After
Attacks on SaIonika
German Radio Reports
British 9th Army Is
Standing Ready in Syria
BY the Associated Press.

=
Axis invasion anxiety, while still
centered chiefly ON Italy and her
island outposts, turned again to the
Balkans today following Thursdays
raid by American bombers on an
air base near Saionika, Greece, and
German radio reports that the Brit
ish 9th Army is poised in Syria for
action.
There are signs that an Allied at
tack on the Balkans is imminent" F"
said the German controlled Vichy
radio last night in a broadcast re-
corded by Reuters.
From within the Balkans them
selves came reports of new defense
measures. A Swiss Telegraphic
Agency dispatch from Sofia said that
Bulgarian police had arrested a
number of persons and barricades
were erected after suspicious per-
sons" were seen near the waterworks.
Discovery of a Bulgarian espi-
onage agency and the arrest Of five
of its members was reported in dis
patches from Budapest.
Air Bases Believed Targets.
Gen. Count Waldemar Stillfried,
military commentator for Trans
ocean, German propaganda news
service, said he considered reports
of the annihilation of 10000 Serbian
partisans in Montenegro as of con-
siderable Importance because the
action removed a threat to Axis
communications in case of an Allied
Balkan invasion.
Even London observers entered
the Balkan guessing game by point
ing out the most likely reason for
air raids on Greece would be to
knock out bases from which Ger
man planes might operate against
an Allied invasion of the island
stepping stones to Greece.
A mopup of Crete and the Dodec-
anese Islands in the Eastern Medi-
terranean might be undertaken at
virtually the same time as an in
vasion Of Sicily and Sardinia to de-
ploy Axis strength and win full and
final control of the Mediterranean,
the observers held.
Invasion of Norway Seen.
Some London speculation, based
on study of the aerial onslaught
and the stabilized Russian front,
was that Mediterranean island out
posts are on the 1943 Allied invasion
program with an invasion leading
to Berlin from the west unlikely
until later.
German guesses on the invasion,
meanwhile, ranged all the way to
Norway, where German admiral
was reported to have told Nazi ma
rines in speech at Trondheim that
the Allies would invade Norway
within short time"
Evening star., 1943-06-26
laps Massing Planes
AT AirfieIds Ringing
Their RabauI Base
Allied Flyers Also Report
Considerable Shipping
In New Brituin Area
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
AUSTRALIA, June 26.-More and
more Japanese planes are ap-
pearing on the airfields ringing
Rabaul, New Britain, and there is
considerable shipping, including
a converted aircraft carrier, in
its huge, horseshoe-shaped har-
Dor, Allied reconnaissance flyers
report.
Rabaul lies roughly 700 miles
northwest of the Allied base on
Guadalcanal in the Solomons and
about 500 miles northeast of the
ground front below Salamaua, New
Guinea. In six raids recently, Gen.
Douglas MacArthur's bombers have
dropped 176 tons of bombs on Ra-
baul's airdromes of Lakunia, Rapopo
and Vunakanau. Some of the re-
sultant fires were reported to be
burning planes.
Today it was disclosed at head
quarters that Allied flyers on recon-
naissance over Rabaul had counted
ITO enemy bombers and fighters on
its fields, a slight increase over pre-
vious reported totals.
Today's noon communique said
Allied air activity was limited. Off
Cape st. George, New Ireland, a
single Beaufort bomber sighted three
small enemy cargo ships escorted by
a destroyer and scored a near miss,
which sometimes is damaging.
In the vicinity of Madang, New
Guinea, Mitchell medium bombers
strafed Japanese-occupied villages,
Evening star., 1943-06-26
35-DaY Supply Of Coal
Is Reported by B. & @.
BY the Associated Press.

q
BALTIMORE, June 26-In the
event of a general coal strike, the
Baltimore g. Ohio Railroad could
keep its steam locomotives rolling
just 35 days, a company official dis
closed.
After that time, he added, there
would be an almost complete halt
in rail transportation over the B.
81 o. line and serious threat to
food distribution would develop.
An indication of how complete the
shutdown would be, he said, could
be cleaned from the fact the COM
pany has 1887 coal-burning loco
motives, three Diesel freight loco
motives, 13 passenger and 80 Diesel
switch engines and 8 electrics.
With the exception of the three
freight engines, he said, none OF
the Diesels is heavy enough OF
carries sufficient oil to be used for
freight hauling.