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The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1943-10-30
THE
FORWARD
NJ ARCH
Nv iC:s..kDWARDS

All the nation Is watching the De-
troit elections which are'regarded
C a barometer for politicians and
government experts who want to
know how important . domestic
issue Negro problem has be-
come. II Negro-baiting wins In De-
troit the national political figures
NAV slow down. on their proposals
regarding the Negro vote for 1914
Washington may also shift its pro-
gram for handling the problems OF
the race.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1943-10-30

II appears that both OF the authors
had witnessed much Of the actual
rioiing and were aware of the social
forces long in operation which pro-
duced the riot.
The book attempts also to weigh
the social costs OF the holocaust and
suggests that there are four con-
sequences OF the riot which arc Of
great Importance. These four end
results are labeled first. Individual
insecurity: second Social paralysis,
third, Degradation of democracy as
a symbol and finally. Dangers 10
democracy itself.
DANGERS
In commenting on the dangers 10
democracy. the authors state: Not
only is democracy endangered as a
symbol Of the hopes of Americans
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1943-10-30
IEIlS IN
CHICAGO MEET
ONEDUCATl0N
Local Leaders Discuss
Labor Problems

Union. Educational directors and
editors of labor publications
throughout We midwest. partici-
pated in a three-day conference
called by the American Labor Edu-
cation Service at the Shorthand
notel in Chicago last week.
Seventeen Negroes were in at
tendance Including the following
Detroiters: Walter Hardin. Horace
Sheffield. Miss Ruth Anderson. Snow
F. Grigsby, Mr.. Hardin led panel
discussion OF nainority problems and
made a general address on How
Unions Can Deal With the Discrim-
nation Problem in the Shop and in
the Larger Industrial Area"
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1943-10-30

Mr.. wocdson was born in Cincin-
natl, Ohio. where he received his
elementary education and where.
at an early age, he became interest
ed in YMCA work and the rehabili-
tation OF underprivileged boys. He
attended the University Of Cincin.
natl and later graduated from Ohio
State university. Following his
graduation he enrolled at George
Williams college for a special course
in YMCA work.
Coming to Detroit II years ago.
Mr.. Woodson Immediately launched
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1943-10-30

ssn& white then Alsd sait for IN
Injunction restraining the housing
commission from renting per cent
Of the homes and a cross bill asking
dismissal OF the injunction was de-
MED by Judge Guy A. Miller a year
ago.
The case that would prevent the
Hamtramck Housing commission
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1943-10-30
FOURTH MEETING

This was the fourth annual meet
ing Of the Midwest Workers Edu-
cstionsf- Group and the conference
theme this year was The Union in
the Community" One Of the fea-
lures of the conference this year
was the Worship on minority
tension. at the same time they have
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1943-10-30
is THIS FAIR PLAY?

The printed being the fhous
neshborhoods week by working in the
msYorsiY campaign This the lowest form Of bait
ing which has 10 public attention.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1943-10-30
BAHAMAS

All Of the dailies are showing =
great interest in the melodramatie
trial growing out Of the murder OF
Sir Harry Cakes in the Bahamas
The various editors. however. can
not make up their mind on how
they want to handle the prominent
Negro in that tropical woodpile'
Crown Prosecutor Adderly who Is
gu. 10 get the guilty party Some
OF the dailies are poking fun at
the dark-skinned prosecutor but
they cannot dismiss his powerful
arguments before the court which
brother Adderly As pulling out OF
his hat The Southerners are out
RACED to see the British permit =
Negro prosecutor to point his anger
at Cakes son-in-law.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1943-10-30
BEST SELLER

The book entitled Race Riot"
which was written by two Wayne
university professors and which
will be published soon by the Dry
den press may become best seller
II Is an effective answer ito al, the
tripc which has been given the
public by the various public Off
cials in Detroit and Wayne County
who have been trying to prove that
they did q marvellous job In that
hectic period.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1943-10-30

~See VOTE. Page :
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DWsee HOUSING. Page .
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n@ seeJEFFRIES. Page ,
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Upton Explains

~-see Upton. Page 2
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nILABOR. Page 2
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nW-see woODsON. Page .
Evening star., 1943-02-03
xanten Answers AAA
On Snow Removal
'Bung|ing' Charge
Soys AII-Out Effort Wos
Mode When Situution
Appeared Threatening

William Xanten. superintendent
Of the City Refuse Division and in
immediate command of snow
removal operations, said today that
all men and equipment were put to
work clearing District streets last
week as soon as 1t became known
that the situation would be serious,
Answering charges Of "bungling. +"
made by the American Automobile
Association, Mr.. Xanten said the
men had worked "ungodly hours" in
clearing the streets as best they
could. Last Saturday, Col. Joseph
D. Arthur, jr., assistant engineer
commissioner. pointed out that the
job of cleaning the streets had been
made difncult by ice and the lack
of response to their appeals for
workmen to supplement District
employees.
The AAA charged in a statement
that untold damage, running into
millions of dollars, had been done to
automobiles using Washington
streets as the result Of the failure
to clear the streets of snow and ice.
Prom the standpoint of trafIic
delays and of damage to automotive
equipment" the statement declared,
"the recent snowstorm was the most
disastrous that has visited WASH
ington In many = long year. We
are advised that the Capital Transit
Co. alone estimates that damage to
its bus equipment amounts to over
half million dollars. The damage
to automobiles is undoubtedly pro-
portionately greater"
Whatever the reason, snowplows
were conspicuous by their absence
Evening star., 1943-02-03
Couples Allowed Delay
In Naming CIergy1nen

The District Marriage License
Bureau today announced = new
ruling whereby couples will be re-
quired to list the name OF the clergy
man performing the ceremony when
they receive the marriage license,
instead Of the former procedure Of
listing the clergyman when filing
application for a marriage license.
The new ruling is designed to end
some Of the confusion which existed
formerly when many couples
changed the name Of the clergyman
between date Of f1ling the applica-
ton and the date of receiving the
license.
Under District law, couples must
apply for a marriage license on one
day, wait three full days and receive
their license on the nth day.
Evening star., 1943-02-03

ased Confederate veterans deprived
Of part Of the pensions given them
by the State"
Gov. Jones said the Attorney Cen
eral had held the Confederate PEN
sions were paid by the State in ap-
probation of services rendered In
the past, but not in payment Of such
services" The Treasury countered
by contending the pensions actually
were remuneration rather than
gratuity.
The taxable part Of each $50 PEN
sion IS only -. making the total
tax $40 monthly for all the remain
ing II ConfederAtes.
Evening star., 1943-02-03
Applications Start
For -Four Nursery
School Posts Here
$2,273 AlIocoted
From Presidents
Emergency Fund

Applications for four nursery
school positions. to be paid out Of
the Presidents emergency fund. al
located last Saturday to the District
Board Of Education, are coming into
the ONCE Of Acting Supt. Of Schools
Robert l.. Haycock, 1t was learned
today.
The board has received q grant Of
$2,273 for the employment Of two
directors in an extended school
program for children Of working
mothers and for two nursery school
consultants from the Once of De-
fense Health and Welfare Services,
which administers the Presidents
emergency fund Of $400, 900. Two Of
the four employees will be colored
The fund expires on March 81, 50
that these employees salaries will
have to be paid from Lanham Act
funds after that time. ~ 2
Mr.. Haycock said that circular
has gone out to all public schools In
the District, notifying them Of the
jobs open and Of the general qualifi-
cations necessary administrative
and supervisory experience in ele-
mentary and nursery schools. His
ONCE will receive applications
through February 10. The creden-
tials will be examined by the super
intendent's ONCE and appointments
will be made final by the Board Of
Education.
The directors and consultants re-
sponsible to the Board Of Education,
form one-half of the supervisory
personnel Of the child care program
being requested for the District.
The Board of Public Welfare has re-
quested funds Of ODHWS for the
payment of foster day care and
mothers counselling service EN-
ployes. Miss Dorothy T. Pearse, ap-
pointed last week by the Commits
sioners as city-wide director Of serv-
ices for children OF working mothers,
will also be paid out Of the Board
of Public Welfare grant when 1t IS
made available this week.
At present she and the OCD day
care administrative once are paid
out Of temporary Community War
Fund grant.
The application for Lanham Act
funds to operate nursery schools
and day care program will be sent
to the Commissioners and to the
Federal Works Agency for approval
shortly" Miss Pearse said.
Evening star., 1943-02-03

" Jo3N Do1ko oeeeemle edvsse - Assilssst ov ooe
d Jsssjss - c1lAnAx3 AWS ssrss1 s1psrs ~ oPA
Evening star., 1943-02-03
louisiana Votes 10 Pay Tax
On Confederate Pensions
=, ths AspeeiataA Yress

4y the AoDoeiato4 prtsS.
BATON ROUGE, La. Feb. s.
Apparently Louisiana has averted
another civil war" which Gov. Sam
H. Jones said he'd rather see than
have Confederate veterans deprived
Of part Of their pensions.
The State Board Of Liquidation
has appropriated 500 to pay the
Victory tax on the monthly pensions
which the Federal Treasury de-
manded.
At the time the Treasury demand
was made, Gov. Jones declared:
by the eternal. I would be in
favor Of fighting the Civil War all
over again before I woud see these
Evening star., 1943-02-03
Mrs. MolIie McKenney
Dies After lonu Illness

Mrs. Mollie White McKenney, n,
resident Of washington for more
than 40 years, died yesterday at
the home Of her daughter, Mrs.
Lillian =. Beaver. Ais thirteenth
place NE, after . long 1lness.
Mrs. McKenney was born IN Lou
doun County. Va, August IL, 1855,
and came to this city In 1900. She is
survived by two sons. William n:
McKenney, jr- and Andrew H. Nc
Kenney: daughter. Mrs.. Beavers,
and three grandchildren, al Of this
city. g
Funeral services viii b held Fri
day 1T the Riverdale (Md) branch
Of Chamber, followed BY burial In
Leesburs, VI. .zs-s.s
Evening star., 1943-02-03

IN many parts Of the city and, Al
though It appears good progress wa
made in keeping nearby Maryland
and Virginia roads and the park
roads reasonably clear, the sleet
and snow piled up in Washington
streets until It had frozen solid and
was too firmly packed for the plows
to handle it,"
Evening star., 1943-02-03
Dishwusher Pleased
By Wars Outcome
~ the Associated Press.

r. the Associated Press.
KANSAS CTTY.-"What about
this new deeduct?" complained the
colored dishwasher in a railroad res
taurant, holding up his shrunken
pay check to Manager w. D. Rouzer
That" said Mr.. Rouzer, rs the
Victory tax"
The dishwasher's eyes sparkled.
Boss, did we win?"
Evening star., 1943-02-03

Do ye1 le0g = eeaann1t ~ Dof1eet;
cfims? Murder the Axis By invest.
Ing n War bends.
Evening star., 1943-02-03
Bird Flses Oveu

GREAT FALLS, Mont. Qn-Aea
wallace OlDon opened her oven Aoor
to put tn Z roast. Out hOpped Z
sparrow. It ruined its wings and
new out Of the back door.
Evening star., 1943-02-03
ADVERTISEMENT.
Rss ss:'s: Sep $st $$&
With Me TONIGHT?

Iknow I've been IN awful crouch not TAX.
ing you any place lately. But after standing
al day at NY new job. ny fsat darn near
killed me with sallouses and burning. Now
I've reformed - or rather NY fest have -
thanks - the 1se-Mint you advised. Never
pain and Are right out % fast - and the
way it helps soften eallous0 n nobody .
businessi Been able to get some extra over.
time money % what Do you say, lst's -
dancing tonight. You can stsD - ny lee.
Mat fest al you want
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-10-15
REPORT OF WORK
lin SUPREME
COURT FOR week
DECISIONS:

|
! October 7th-commerciaI Credit Co
| " George O'Brien ct al Appealed
from Silver Bow county, Butte. Ma
jority opinion by Justice Hugh R
Adair, Chief Justice Johnson specially
concurring and Justice c. F.. Morris
dissenting.
Held: Intangible personal property
regularly and habitually used and EN-
ployed in the state of Montana for
taxation purposes acquires a business
situs in Montana and is there taxable
irrespective of the domicile of the
owner.
ORDERS:
October 6th-Court denied petition
for rehearing in case entitled State
ex rel. Davidson VS.. S. G. Ford and
tohers from Lewis and Clark county,
the decision being heretofore reported
in these releases.
October 9th-Court issued an alter
native writ of supervisory control
against the district court for Cascade
county, Great Falls, involving case
in that court entitled "The State of
Montana ex rel. R. " Bottomly VS..
Henry Johnson and Mamie Johnson,
and the Brotherhood of Taxicab Own
ers and Drivers" The hearing date
was set for October 18th at 1000 am.
Prepared and released by:
PETER MELOY, Marshal
Montana Supreme Court.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-10-15
war RATION BOOK
FOUR COMING UP

War Ration Book Four is to be
issued the latter part of October from
local board sites and from schools of
Montana according to word received
from A. T. ePterson, State OPA Di-
rector The mailing center at Denver
will mot be used because of the delay
and difficulty some individuals had in
getting their ration books. The local
boards will announce the time and
places from which the new Ration
Book will be issued in their commun-
ity.
to be used beginning in November.
1t contains both point and unit
stamps. Four different colors of
stamps, blue, red, green and black,
are used to facilitate the use of the
coupons by housewives and mer-
chants.
The red and blue stamps will be
used in conjunction with red and blue
tokens, to be introduced early in 1914
and which will be given as change for
purchases of meat, dairy products and
processed foods.
The green stamps will be used to
purchase processed foods when the
present blue stamps in War Ration
Book Two are exhausted.
Unit stamps in the book are black
and will be used for sugar or other
unit items which may be rationed.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-10-15

ner for reprints of his speech intro
ducing bill.
Since benefits would cover many
millions outside ranks of labor anC
would fill in troughs of depressions
by maintaining purchasing power
markets and employment and at all
times sustain greater health, produc
tivity and national income, labor
should have assistance of all prog
ressives.
SCHEDULE: WIND Bill may be thrown
into tax hearings starting October 4;
if not, when General Welfare Bill CHR
$3.50 which has 200 out of 21S sigma
lures needed, is discharged from com
mittee to house floor. In order to
head 1t off, ways and means may have
to hold hearings on Wagner-Murray-
Dingell bill.
FDR will give plug in tax message
shortly and will boost bill again in 8
or weeks in connection with veter-
ans legislation. He will plug is again
in January State of the Union Mes
sage. If it hasn't moved late in win
ter he will send special message to
congress which will be indistinguish-
able from 1914 campaign speech.
Most Needed Now Is a National
Committee To Coordinate Support
For Bill by all peoples organizations
and groups so that effective informa-
ton, education, organization and pres
sure can be put on congress.
This BILL together with postwar
plans and action for maintaining high
level employment mad national income
of at least $50 billion a year, carries
only practical hope and answer to
boys overseas who, Mrs. Roosevelt
said, wanted to know whether they
would have jobs" and took tremen-
dous interest in the kind of world we
are to have after the peace
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-10-15
Town and Farm
(Continued from Page one)

ishness and pettiness and difficulties
of many kinds-perhaps no struggle
ever is" Credit for the achievement,
he said, goes ito the workers who
have abided by the little steel form
ula; to the farmers who have not
needed the incentive of the prices wit
messed during the last war to break
all production records; to the thous-
ands of businessmen, small and large,
who have helped hold prices down.
and to the American housewife for
her cooperation with rationing and
price control.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-10-15
EXTENSIVE GOLD BOARDING
IN OCCUPIED FRANCE

According to the controlled French
newspaper LIE Petit Journal many
persons in occupied France are
"hoarding gold at all costs and con-
verting all their goods into gold" in
an effort to avoid being caught short
after the war with valueless paper
currency The article said that this
gold boarding was so extensive that
the gold Louis is now 1853 times its
1914 value"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-10-15
UNION MEMBER
Framed IN
MISSISSIPPI

Romeo Booker is being held in Jail
at Clarksdale, Mississippi, on the
charge of impersonating a federal Of
ficer. Booker's crime consists in hay
ing bought and worn a pair of Army
pants and a shirt of World War | vim
tage without an insignia, according to
the report of the investigation made
by the S. T. F. U. legal department
Booker was President of his local I'M
ion when arrested last fall by local
officers at Ruleville, Mississippi, for
soliciting labor to go out and help har-
vest vegetable crops in Florida under
government contract. He succeeded
in convincing the officers that they
should release him but they warned
him to leave the delta and never re-
turn. A few days later he came to
Memphis along with several other
workers and was sent to Florida by
the U. S. Employment Service and
Farm Security Administration, agen-
cies then handling labor recruitment
and transportation. He worked in
Florida until April z and was again
arrested, this time by the FBI. He
was still wearing the old Army cloth
ing. Tons of such clothing were dis
tributed to poor people by WPA years
ago. He was Jailed in Orlando, then
transferred to Mississippi, where he
is now being held for indictment and
trial in November The S. T. F. u.
has appealed to the American Civil
Liberties Union and the Workers De-
Tense League for aid in getting this
man free. The Civil Liberties Divi-
sion of the Department of Justice
has also been urged to investigate
this case.-The Farm Worker.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-10-15
REPORT ON MONT.
PRODUCTION IN
univ. STUDY

| With the notable exception of con-
struction and travel trade, business in
Montana is booming. Bank deposits
and many types of production have
reached an all-time high.
The figures and details, all neatly
graphed, appear in the latest edition
of "Montana's Production" a statisti-
cal summary of the states industries,
compiled with explanatory comments
by DIR. Roy Ely, of the department
of economics at Montana State Uni
versity. The bulletin is prepared in
the Bureau of Business Research and
distributed among bankers, editors
and businessmen through their state
organizations.
The agricultural income for 1912
reached a total of $186,157 900, an in
crease of ,s22,5S4,OOO over 1941 or al
most four times the total for the de-
preston year of 1882.
The increased agricultural income
is a reflection of substantial increase
in production as well as higher prices.
Notable production increases for 1912
over 1871 were recorded in wheat,
canning peas, calves, hogs, chickens
and eggs, to mention few.
The all wheat crop for 1912 totaled
73,7S3,000 bushels, an increase of
eight per cent despite a twelve per
cent reduction in acreage. The dollar
value of $73.7S3,0OO for the crop ire
bled the f3-year average of s24,514,-
900.
With total of 5,44O tons of can
ming peas, Montana's 1912 production
topped anything in the 10 years for
which there are records. The value
of S272,000 is nearly As per cent above
the former high mark of $4,000 re-
ceived in 1890
An estimate cash income of $43,-
PSI, 900 from the sale of cattle and
calves in 1912 is the highest on record
for the past II years. A big increase
in net production plus high prices ac-
counted for this large cash income.
More than 20 per cent of the total
agricultural income for 1912 was de-
rived from this source.
From a low of $4,000 head of hogs
on farms in 1898 to an estimated total
of 307 900 in the spring of 1943 is
most remarkable recover, according
to DR.. Ely, and reflects the elasticity
of supply in response to wartime de-
mands for hog products. Both the
and the value, S6,5S9,000, ex-
coed by wide margins the figures for
1880.
Cash income for the sale of chick
ems and eggs in 1912 reached 1896
900 or S1,964,000 more than in 1871.
1t is estimated that the total number
Of chickens on farms in the spring of
1913 was 2,661,000.
Dollar value of retail sales in 1912
Of the 35 stores on which figures were
from the Federal Reserve
bank at Minneapolis shows an in
crease of more than 100000 over
1871.
Net sales of liquor in 1912 broke all
previous sales. The 1912 dollar value
of $S,479, 1913 exceeded the 1887 high
by 1881, 419 or slightly more than 81
per cent. Permit sales as opposed to
bar sales continued to decline. High
er prices, rather than greater con-
is believed accountable for
most Of the increase in the monetary
value of sales.
Registered unemployment which
.otaled 51,1S7 in 1884 has almost
reached the vanishing point.
DEMAND THE UNION LABEL
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-10-15
LENGTH OF CIGARETTES
CUT IN GERMANY

A Zurich dispatch to the Swedish
newspaper Aftontidningen said that
the loss of the Kuban area in Russia
had deprived the Nazis of $4,000 tons
Of tobacco a year. Following the loss
Of the Kuban, the dispatch said, regu-
lations were issued in Germany short
ening the size of cigarettes by half
inch
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-10-15
MORE AGRICULTURAL
FERTILIZER AVAILABLE

Plans are being made to increase
the supply of ammonium nitrate for
use as an agricultural fertilizer, ac-
cording to the War Production Board.
The material has been so improved
to prevent caking that orders received
for September and October exceed the
supply Additional sodium nitrate be-
came available for agricultural fer
tilizer last April when government
capacity to produce it began to ex-
coed the amount needed for military
explosives.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-10-15
TOKYO RADIO CLAIMS JAPAN'S
MIGHT DEFIES MATHEMATICS

The Tokyo radio also told the Jap
anese people recently that Japan's
military might was so great that it
defied ordinary mathematical express
sion. This might, the broadcast said,
lis like plus 2 equals 8, and plus
5 equals 80"
The Japanese people were told
further that this plus value that made
their strength 'incomprehensible in
figures" was attributable to Japanese
unity under the august virtue of
His Majesty"
Nevertheless, the broadcast added
on a qualifying note, "a war with
America and Britain as opponents
cannot be called pushover. We can
not say it is not a great battle. 1t
is a great incident, a great war"