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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-10-22
NEGROES BARRED

The case stems from tenn
porary Injunction obtained by the
association 10 months after the
Hamtramck city council ruled
that only white families could oc-
cupy the 300-unit Col Hamtramck
housing project.
In an Injunction order Circuit
Judge Miller restrained Ham,
tramck from renting p units in
the project 70 anyone but Negroes.
AS a result. the units ready for
occupancy, have been vacant dur
ing the entire dispute al cost 10
the government estimated IN
excess OF $4,000.
Simmons finished his case in
one day. He called six Negroes
who testified they were longtime
residents of Hamtramck and had
applied for housing before the
project was completed.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-10-22

Funeral services for Roy II.
Stephens, 66. treasurer Of Acme
White Lead and Color Works,
will be held M the William r..
Hamilton Funeral Home, 1878
Cass. at IL a. m. tomorrow. with
burial in Woodlawn Cemetery.
Mr.. Stephens. who lived at l0l
Connecticut. Highland Park, died
IN Grace Hospital, Wednesday
He came 10 Detroit in 1898 and
joined the Acme company as a
bookkeeper. He was treasurer OF
the company for many years.
He was we'll known as a collec-
tor OF fine English pottery, and
possessed one of the largest col
lections of rare stamps in the
country. He also owned a library
of rare books, especially books on
Napoleon.
Surviving are two sons, Willis.
Of Fort Wayne, Ind. and Prof.
Robert Stephens Of Indiana Uni
versity. Bloomington. Ind.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-10-22

Funeral services for Mrs. Kath-
crime Vanderyort of 371 Green
wood. Birmingham. who died
yesterday in Harper Hospital,
Will be held IN Holy Name
Church. Birmingham, az 9 a. m.
tomorrow. A rosary service Will
be held in the Manley Bailey
Funeral Home. 1880 Oakland,
Birmingham, az 7:45 p. m today.
Mrs. VanderVort was born in
Dundas, Ont. July II. 1892. and
was a graduate of the Mercy
Hospital Nursing School at Lon
don, Ont.
Surviving are her husband
Ernest II Vandervort: a brother
Andrew Walsh Of Detroit. and
three sisters. Mrs. II r Dutmers
Of Grand Rapids. Mrs Agnes
Smith of Elgin. H.. and Mrs. II.
L. Muse of Elmira, y. Y.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-10-22
.NFrs. Emily T.. Potts

FuneraI serNlccs Tor MIS- Emily
&. Potts ST. who died yesterday
in the Hotel Dieu, Windsor, will
be held in 81 Clares Church,
Windsor. AZ 10 a. m. tomorrow.
Burial viii be in St Alphonsus
Cemetery.
Mrs. Potts. who was born in
Stoney Point Ont. had been a
resident Of Windsor 81 years.
She is survived by two sons.
Lorenzo r. and Rufus Potts Of
Detroit. five grandchildren and II
great grandchildren.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-10-22
SIum Clearance
Waits War End,
DR.. Douglas Says

Detroits Stun areas, increas-
ingly victims Of high delinquency,
disease and death rates, will have
to wait until after the war for
a thorough cleaning up"
Or. Bruce Douglas, Detroit
health commissioner, made that
statement at last nights session
on Better Housing and Health.
fourth in a series of eight weekly
discussions held at the main
library, Woodward and Kirby, on
the motor citys plans for its
future.
"The board of health has
made a hOuse-tO-house survey
OF 81 900 family units i'm De-
trOit's worst problem area
bounded by Grand Blvd" DR..
Douglas said. "OnIy 40 per cent
OF demolition work necessary
can be done now because Of
wartime priorities."
tuberculosis, pneumonia and
death rates are many times
higher in the .city's congeSted
dwelling areas than in better
housed areas. the health commits
sioner pointed out.
Substituting decent housing for
diseaSe-ridden slum dwellings is
a must for Detroit and every
other American city, asserted DR..
Robert w. Kelso, director Of the
University Of Michigans Institute
of Public and Social Administra-
ton.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-10-22
Last Rites tomorrow
For 3 Killed in Crash

Funeral services will be held in
st. Raphael Catholic Church at
$50 a. m. tomorrow for Edger
Defer. AZ; his wife, Phyllis, 35,
and their son. Lawrence, 2, of
1921 Brown, Garden City killed
Tuesday in an automobile crash at
Ford and Telegraph. Burial will
be in ST. Hedwig's Cemetery.
Surviving are five daughters.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-10-22
Real Estate Dealer
Shoots Self in Office

George r. Beard, 90. of 2235
Glynn court, a real estate dealer,
was in serious condition in Re-
ceiving Hospital today from a
self-inflicted bullet wound in his
head
He was found shot in his office,
1710 Ford Building, and told police
he had shot himself, they said.
HIS wife, Gertrude. told police
her husband had been in i'll health.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-10-22
T.. Frank B00de

Funeral services for c. Frank
Baade. Il. viii be held in the
J. ". Nancy Chapel 4763 Lincoln,
az / p. m. tomorrow. Mr. Baade,
who died Wednesday, operated A
storage and moving business al
2432 Grand River for half a
century He was born in Capac.
Surviving are a son. Charles L.
Baade, and one grandson.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-10-22

So many fur coats 10 choose from that you're TO find
better coat at Colonial al the price you intended TO
pay Featured are the most popular pelts OF fine us-
frous quality skfuy fashioned with collars and new
sleeves Fur coats that drspe beautifully end present
youthful details in designing See his superb collection
they're grand investments in beauty warmth and
comfort Sizes IL TO 2o-3S S. Not all sizes in oil furs.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-10-22
Doc Saves Injured Man

CHESTER. Pa, Oct p ms
Davis w. Morris, a Sun OIL Co.
pumper. is grateful 10 an Alsatian
po.ce' dog named Lady which
found Morris unconscious near a
30-foot high tank from which he
had fallen. and summoned help.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-10-22
bead DLTROI IIREs Frid.y oetobsr a. Iq4a-p.a. II
Naval Training Station
To Hold Open House

AS a part Of the Navy Day cele-
hration next Wednesday. the u.
S. naval training school in Dear
born Will be open 10 the public
from 2 10 $50 p. m. Comdr. a.
NJ. Cohan, commanding Officer,
today.
A tour of the station will he
climaXed al 4 p. m. by a special
review.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-10-22
3 Cases Of Whisky
Picked Up in Raid

Police and the prosecutors Of
flee launched an investigation to-
day as a result Of a raid which
netted three cases Of Illinois
whisky at the Chicago-Detroit
Express Co, 2l1 S. Ferdinand.
Two employees and the manager,
Maurice Berenson, 1899 Calvert,
were taken 10 the prosecutor S
office.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-10-22
Deputy Sheriff Fined
For Reckless Driving

Deputy Sheriff Stephan Kosu-
itch was fined S35 on a charge Of
reckless driving by Traffic Referee
Robert Teagon Jr., who found the
deputy at fault in crash at
Woodward and Charlotte. last
Sept 3.
Kosutich was driving a Wayne
County road patrol car that
crashed into a taxi.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-10-22
MADE APPLICATIONS

All said they made application
10 the commission and were IN
vestigated al their homes but
were unable 70 obtain accommoda-
tons because Of the city fathers
ruling.
AS his first witness. Stanley
Draganski. Hamtramck city at
torney, called 10 the stand STAN
ley J. Wocjik. Secretary-director
of the Hamtramck Housing Com
mission. who described the Ham
tramck city councils indeclsion
on the Negro question.
Wocuk testified the council au-
thorized the Col Hamtramck
project, stipulating white &C.
cupancy only. and was prepared 10
OBTAIN A second project when
IIamtramck Negroes objected TO
this clause.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-10-22
Supreme Court
To Decide Fate
OF Housing Unit

The question of bi-racial &C.
cupancy of federal housing prof.
ects appeared headed for the
u. S. Supreme Court as the first
case OF its kind in government
housing history was being heard
today before Circuit Judge Mer-
riam.
Attorneys for a group of Ham,
tramck Negroes and the Ham,
tramck Housing Commission
indicated the verdict would be
carried 10 the high court for a
final determination, regardless OF
any circuit or state supreme court
decision.
This II a test case TO deter
mine whether any public agency,
using public funds, can discrimi-
nately set up racial barriers"
said c. LeBron Simmons, attor-
ney for the Hamtramck Negro
Taxpayers Association.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-10-08
Millions of Poles Exiled

More than 100000 Poles, it shows
have been removed from their homes
either to make room for Germans, to
work in the armament industries of
the Reich, or by evacuation to Asia
The total expelled or transferred from
Alsace-Lorraine is estimated at more
than 100000. The number of Balkan
inhabitants uprooted by population
exchanges and deportations is put at
more than million and half
More than 100000 persons, it
estimates, have been evacuated beyond
the Urals by the Soviet authorities.
The acknowledged aim of the Ger
man Government, the study points
out, is to redistribute the population
of Europe so as to establish German
influence and leadership over the
largest possible area.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-10-08
Ladies' Garment Workers
In New Headquarters

New York City (ILNS).-The In
ternational Ladies Garment Workers
Union formally opened it's new head
quarters at ITO Broadway on Sept
%, with a houswarming attended by
officials and representative of the
union and guests representing many
labor and civic organizations.
The new Offices, modern and attrac-
tive, occupy six-story building form
erly the property of the Ford Motor
Co. and will house all the unions de-
partments, including it's cultural and
recreational activities.
David Dubinsky, president of the
ILGU, welcomed the guests, saying
that the removal of the national head
quarters of the union from it's old
offices at west 10Th street was neces-
STATED by the growth of the organi-
zation in the last decade.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-10-08
F. ID. r. PRAISES
PRODUCTION RECORD

Washington, D. C. - Production
achievements by American labor and
industry won high praise from Presi-
dent Roosevelt in his message to Con-
gress summing up latest developments
in the war.
The President disclosed long list
of armament production totals to
show superior production by the
United Nations has helped turn the
tide of war He added:
"Our great production program
started during the darkest days of
1910 With the magnificent contribu-
tion made by American industry and
American labor, it is approaching full
production Britain has already at
tanned full production. Today, the
British Empire and the United States
together, are turning out SO much of
every essential of war that we have
definite superiority over Germany
and Japan which is growing with
every succeeding minute. But we have
no minutes to lose"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-10-08
COMMENT ON WORLD EVENTS

be called upon to take big part in
the resettlement program, with con-
sequent further increases in it's tax
burden and in the demands placed
upon its food and other productive
facilities.
How far are the people of the
United States willing to go in this :?
1t will be the part of wisdom for our
government to know, before it COM
mits the nation to any vast scale of
aid in resettlement of displaced Euro
peans.
Professor Eugene M. Kulischer,
who prepared the LILO study discusses
another matter of direct interest to
the United States. That is the ques-
tion of emigration in the solution of
European resettlement. The resettle-
ment problem cannot be wholly solved
by European measures, Kulischer
says. uoly Gul oPSdlio, hS piSuiSto,
will be induced by various reasons to
emigrate overseas after the war to
build new lives for themselves.
''The political, economic and moral
reconstruction of Europe" he says,
"depends on whether these centrifugal
forces can find an outlet"
This is to say there will be great
pressure for emigration of Europeans
to various nations of the New World,
including, of course, the United
States. This country has adopted a
policy of strict limitation of immigra-
ton. Organized labor, one of the chief
supporters of limited immigration,
will have something to say on the
matter, it is certain.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-10-08
LABOR SHORTS

WLB has authorized Kress dime
stores to raise wages to SOC an hour.
More than 10000 persons must
contribute pint of blood week, the
War Department announces.
Big Business spOkesmen now
want Connally Smith law re-
repealed.
BY renegotiating war contracts the
government has saved $4,404, ,108, 900
which will not increase the number OF
war millionaires.
Bureau of Labor Statistics re-
ports $4,000 workers injured in
June.
New York State has printed labor
textbook which will be used in public
schools, said to be the first.
Our armed forces will need 900 OF
this years output of construction
machinery.
Russia has launched a ship
built entirely by former house.
wives.
British Trade Union Congress now
has 6,500,000 members, as against
5,250,000 at the end of 1941.
National Housing Authority has
Ok'd construction of 100000 new
buildings to house war workers.
AFL says postwar housing car
create jobs for 6,5O0,OO0 workers.
War is costing you $289, 10000 g
day-$124, 900, 100000 up to date.
Railway Labor Executives AS
sOciation wants poll tax outlawed.
"War Workers Living in CHECKER
Coops," says headline. Women al
work, huh?
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-10-08
ARE We AFRAID
TO DO JUSTICE?
By RUTH TAYLOR

Are we afraid to do justice?
When | saw that caption in one of
the religious publications that come to
my desk, its implication-its applica-
tion to our present problems struck
me like blow.
Are we afraid to do justice?
This is the answer we must give to
those pseudo realists who have forgot
ten to remember the idealism which
carved for them, out of an untouched
continent, those realities to which they
cling. This is the challenge we must
fing at those isofationists who ignore
the spirit that created from the re-
sources of the earth a nation self
sufficient enough to dream it could
stand alone.
Are we afraid to do justice?
Must we fear fair treatment for all
men? Must we draw barrier of class
or creed or color and say-at this
point-we must modify our ideal OF
equality of opportunity and of justice
before the law? Must we deny free
dom of speech or worship to those
who do not think as we do? Must we
keep some people in the shackles OF
ignorance for fear that learning would
lift them to our level? Are we afraid
to give to all men the rights we claim
for ourselves?
Are we afraid to do justice?
The world is too small for anything
but brotherhood. But to establish
brotherhood, there must be justice
toward all men. Whoever fears justice
for others will practice injustice upon
others.
Are we afraid to do justice?
The one way to make sure that
there will not be another war is to
mete out justice toward all men every
whcre-a justice based upon equality
before the law and before God. Not a
maudlin L dy Bountiful charity
toward the misfortunate, but a fair
administration of the law of brother
hood without senseless distinctions of
race, color, or theory. To quote again
from religious paper! "God has
made this earth rich enough for every
body's need, but not rich enough for
anybody's greed"
Are we afraid to do justice?
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-10-08
NATL COMMITTEE TO
ABOLISH POLL TAX

A favorable report to the Senate
Judiciary Committee by the McFar-
land Subcommittee considering H. R
7, the bill to abolish the poll tax, was
hailed as a major victory today by
the National Committee to Abolish
the Poll Tax
Senator Mcfarland is to be con-
graduated" said Mrs. Katherine
Shryver, Executive Secretary of the
Committee, "on this step in giving the
vote back to 100000 American citi-
zens now deprived of the franchise by
the poll tax in eight Southern states
This is the first step in final Senate
approval of the bill which was passed
by the House of Representatives by a
vote of 265 to 110 on May 25th"
A decision of the full Judiciary
Committee however, to delay action
until constitutionality arguments
could be heard on October 25th was
viewed by Mrs. Shryver as a last
ditch attempt on the part of the posso-
sition to stall action on the bill. "Hear-
ings were held for over 18 months in
the last Congress and ample evidence
of the constitutionality of the bill is,
and has been, available to the Senate
Judiciary Committee for long time
There is no valid need for further
hearings on the bill. Since the Senate
Judiciary Committee has so decided,
however, the National Committee to
Abolish the Poll Tax will secure the
most eminent legal talent in the coun-
try to demonstrate the constitutional
ity of H. R. T."
The National Committee urges all
supporters of the bill to write to their
Senators protesting against any fur
ther delay in reporting the bill from
the Judiciary Committee. "This is a
war measure" Mrs. Shryver empha-
sized. "When success for our boys in
battle in the suburbs of Naples and
the wilds of New Guinea is matter
of minutes and hours, it is praticu-
larly unfortunate to have Congress
delay for whole month in taking up
bill that will give ten million Amer
leans the right to vote, the right to
full democracy for which our SOL
diers all over the world are fighting
and dying"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-10-08
BLOODY DATA

The bloody, burned, frozen and
manned hands of workers are salut-
ing Fred M. Vinson, the man the
President appointed to be car OF the
wage "freeze."
Thousands of these hands are going
to be gloveless because Vinson and his
lily-fngered sub-czars cannot under
stand why the women who make
workers gloves should be paid more
than SIG week.
The story is fantastic, but true!
A critical shortage of cotton gloves
exists. Workers need them. Fisher
men, for instance, use up from 8 to IL
pairs of gloves on each trip to the
Atlantic fishing banks. They are
necessary protection to hands in clean
ing fish, handling tackle and gear,
hauling frozen seines, rowing boats.
A few weeks ago the War Production
Board scraped the bottom of the bar.
rel to supply gloves to fishermen.
In checking on the reasons for the
shortage, WPB found that manufac-
turers of cotton gloves, sweat-shop
industry, was passing out because
manufacturers were moving into more
profitable war production and because
the workers were having no trouble
finding jobs at higher wages.
So WPB appealed to the National
War Labor Board, asking for a raise
wages from 40 cents to so cents an
hour Labor, industry and public mem
bers of the board decided in favor of
the raise.
Vinson must have trembled with in
dignation at this preaching of the
"Little Steel" formula. A 25 percent
wage increase! Unthinkable! Besides,
it would add a cent to the price of
cotton gloves. Imitation! No! Never!
After having dealt thusly with the
situation, with ungloved hands, he
donned pair of Japanese silk gloves
(very smoothly, and applied his favor
ite stalling technique of being "glad
to consider the case again if additional
data could be presented"
So, workers, when you can buy no
more work gloves, hold up your bleed
ing hands to Czar Vinson. He wants
some bloody data"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-10-08
UNIONS WATCH PRICES

Watertown, N. Y. ILNS) Ten
AFL unions here have organized con-
sumner committees, with each union
member drafted as a committee as
sistant to keep watchful eye on
OPA price violations. One central
committee is made up from the 10
constituent union committees and
serves as supervising price panel,
seeing, among other things, that each
union committee has ceiling price
lists and other materials needed to do
a careful e-watching job.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-10-08

MAGNITUDE of the task of re-
lVl settling peoples uprooted by
the war is emphasized by the Inter-
national Labor Office in it's recent
study of forced displacement of Euro
pean populations.
In view of the fact that the LILO
estimates that a grand total of more
than 40 million men, women and
children have been forced to leave
their homes, some 80 million of which
have been torn from their native soil,
it is plain that the job of returning
them to their homes viii require the
greatest possible amount of interna-
tional collaboration and organization.
"In some cases." the LILO study
says, repatriation will be the obvious
solution. The vast majority of the
people concerned will ask nothing bet
ter" But, it adds, international organ
ization will be necessary to overcome
the tremendous difficulties which re-
patrlatlon on so large a scale Will
meet in shattered Europe.
Moreover, the study points out, Ia
Dor requirements in postwar Europe
will not necessarily correspond to the
prewar distribution of the European
population and some redistribution OF
labor between countries may there
fore be necessary if full employment
is to exist.
"This kind of geographical distri-
button of labor, like repatriation" ii
says, would call for action on an in
ternational scale 1t would call for
nothing less than organization of an
international employment service
The United States will undoubtedly
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-10-08
SISTER KENNY'S METHOD

A good friend writes to take us
courteously to task for indicating that
the National Foundation for Infantile
Paralysis hasn't done what it should
have done to back Sister Kenny and
her hot pack method of treating in
fantile paralysis.
Our correspondent has done a lot
of checking and he seems to show that
the Foundation has done all that it
could have done
So, let's set the matter straight.
Our comment was that Basil O'Con-
nor had better do some explaining
Perhaps he doesn't need to explain.
However, even though the Foundation
has done it's full duty in relation to
the Sister Kenny method, it still seems
as if it would have been good policy
if Mr.. O'Connor had made a fuller
explanation to the public.
Let's give the Foundation full
credit, but let US still add that the
public, which gives all the money, is
entitled at all times to full and frank
statements about what's going on,
even if such statements may involve
disputatious situations. We're sorry
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-10-08
Freedom To Listen Vital,
u. S. Official Declares

Boston (ILNS). - Presentation of
many points of view on the radio to
create complete freedom to listen"
on the air was urged here by James
L. Fly, chairman of the Federal Com
munications Commission.
Speaking to the Advertising Club
of Boston, Chairman Fly said that the
radio has approached the crossroads.
Restriction, construction and ex-
clusion must give way to broader and
more democratic approach as to the
persons the listening public may
hear" he declared.
He said that there were Significant
restrictions on the freedom to listen
on the home front" by careful selec-
ton of what was broadcast.
"The listeners freedom is thus in
extricably bound up with freedom of
speech over the air." he added. "There
is no need for restriction"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-10-08
STICK TO YOUR POSTS!

Every worker in an essential wal
job should stick to his post as con-
scientiously as soldier to his station
In all-out war, it can be as disastrous
for an industrial worker to be AWOL
as for a soldier or sailor. Civilian
workers should regard their jobs as
enlistments for the duration.-Josepl
D. keenan,, War Production Boarc
vice-chairman.