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Evening star., 1943-04-18
Warden Training Courses
To Open in Chi|Ium Heights

A new series Of training courses
for the afraid warden service Of
Chillum Heights will start tomorrow
and Tuesday afternoon and evening
at the Masonic and Eastern Star
Home, 5000 New Hampshire avenue.
The basic training course in gas
and fire defense will be given on
Mondays and Fridays at 2 pm. and
7:30 pm. The first-aid course is
offered on Tuesdays and Thursdays
at 1:30 pm. and 7:30 pm.
Haywood Saunders, assistant chief
AFRAID warden in charge of fire.
fighters, will speak on Wednesday
night at 8 o'clock at the Masonic
home.
Evening star., 1943-04-18

carried outsmany important bombing
missions in China, Burma and Indo.
China, winning additional decora.
tions.
ASSOCIATED Press Correspond
ent William McGaffln reported
from New Delhi Wednesday that,
in all. 18 United States airmen
who took part in the raid on
Japan will complete years
service in the Orient on Sunday.
Some are at India bases, some in
China.
CMr. McGaffin said that 80
other flyers who helped bomb
Toxic and other japanese tar
gets returned to the United
States during the last year. He
added that several other partici-
pants are known to have been
killed, missing in action, in
termed in Siberia or captured by
the Japanese.)
Evening star., 1943-04-18

again" one flyer said-a little group
of Maj. Gen. James H. Doolittle's s
volunteers of last year is preparing
to celebrate Sundays first anniver-
sary of their bombing of Toxic and
other points in Japan.
I'VE are eager to get going and
hope to be the first again over Toxic;
when our orders come, better hide,
Hirohito, hide" one of these vet
erans said today.
Bigger Surprise in Store.
They feel sure that their bombers,
such as Toxic Joe," are destined to
carry them over Toxic again, but
they leave the Japanese militarists
to guess as to just when these and
many others are taking off for a
much bigger surprise than that of
last April 18.
II think I'll Ghristen my bomber
Commodore Perry because we're
Evening star., 1943-04-18
Curqo Ship Launched

WILMINGTON, Del, April II (P).
The Cape Bon, cargo passenger
ship built for the Maritime Com
mission, was launched today at the
Pusey & Jones Corp. shipyards on
the Christiana River. The ship was
sponsored by Mrs. William M
Chester of Milwaukee, wife of one
of the corporations directors.
Evening star., 1943-04-18
'Waring 10 Describe
Tour Of North Africa
AT Legion Meeting
Rally Will Be Held in
Constitution Hall
Thursday Niqht

Col. Louis johnson, former as
sistant Secretary Of War, will direct
plans for the American Legion pub
lie mass meeting at pm. Thurs
day in Constitution Hall when Ma
tional Commander Roane Waring
will make his first report to the
Evening star., 1943-04-18
Toxic Raid Veterans
Observe Anniversary
Today With Dinner
Flyers Eager for Orders
Which Will Take Them
Over Jopon Again
BY ]. REILLY O'SULLIvAN,

Associated Press War Correspondent
WITH UNITED STATES AIR
FORCES IN CHINA, April Is de-
layeO.-With their bombers pointed
for the japanese capitalize blow
Japan open to the outside world
Evening star., 1943-04-18
Fitzgibbons to handle arrangements

Fitzgibbons to handle arrangements
for the meeting.
Under special instructions issued
by Mr.. Waring, bloc of seats in
Constitution Hall is being set aside
for the parents of men serving in
North Africa. Fathers and mothers
of American soldiers in Africa are
asked to obtain reserved seats, be-
ginning at 10 am. tomorrow, at TIC
Seventeenth street NV. Tickets
will be limited to two to a family.
Evening star., 1943-04-18

G1amorous new spring
styles in long wearing
feathers and beautiful
fabrics. Capeskin, saddle
leather and Kay cord in
black, brown, tan or navy
Hdndbugs-Mnin Floor
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-05-08

CYNICISM BLAMED
Here is a new approach to one of
the most perplexing problems fac
ing democracy at war. It is one
that is so often overlooked by those
attempting to place blame for the
wholesale waste of manpower at a
time when the lack of manpower
like the proverbial horseshoe nail,
might well lose the war.
The league report charges
this obvious waste to cynical
Indifference on the part of both
black and white. The observa-
ton is well founded.
"Too many Negro Americans, p
the report says, "are lethargic re-
garding their responsibilities, or
skeptical regarding their opportu-
mites" Too many Negroes remain
Indifferent to the opportunities for
job training and advancement that
the war emergency has brought"
One has only to look about ones
own community to find the truth
of this statement. Atlanta offers
a good example. For year the
Council for Defense Training of
Negroes, an Organization sponsored
by the Atlanta Urban League.
waged relentless warfare against
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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-05-08
Of
Race Girls To
WavesSouqht

WASHINGTON, D. C.-(SNS-
In an unrelenting fight to have
Negro women admitted to the
Navy-WAVES, SPARS and Women
Reserve Marines, Mrs. Thomasina
Walker Johnson, legislative repre-
sentative of the National Non
PARTISAN Council on Public Affairs,
was told from the office of Adm.
Randall Jacobs, Chief of the Per-
sonnet Department of the Navy
that ''plan' had been given 20
Secretary of the Navy Knox for
the admission of Coloerd women
in the Navy for his approval
Mrs. Johnson pointed out that
she wishes a conference with Adm.
Jacobs to discuss the plan and pro-
posed policies on the admission of
Coloreed Women in the Navy be-
fore they became the policy to
avoid the criticim that followed
the change in policy affecting Ne
gro men in the Navy.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-05-08
The Globe Trotter
In The Peoples Cause

REACHING THE DESK last
week was the comprehensive an
nual report of the National Urban
League. Unlike most documents of
this nature, the report is not load
ed with Sleep producing statistics
that only a certified public &C
countant would understand.
Instead, League Secretary Gran
ger attempts to analyze what has
been accomplished in the leagues
particular realm of improving in
terracial relations and economic
conditions of the Negro industrial
workers, and to forecast what lies
ahead In this, he has done re-
markedly fine JOB.
Detailing with modest reservation
the really stupendouS economic
gains the league has accomplished,
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-05-08

city and state vocational training
officials, setting up training CEN
tiers with federal money for white
workers, who were Indifferent to
the needs of similar facilities for
the training of Negro workers.
5000 SIGNED CARDS
So heated was this battle and so
widespread was the general dis
cusSion it created, there was hardly
anyone within Atlanta who was
not familiar with it. During the
campaign, more than 5000 Allan
tans signed cards put out by the
council to the effect that they were
interested in taking this training
to fit them for war production.
The battle was won. A center
for the training of aircraft
sheet metal workers was final
ly set up. What is the result?
Just as the league report con-
tends, cynicism has been al
lowed to set in. The 5000 who
wanted the training have mys-
teriOusly vanished.
The defeatist conversation runs
something like this: whats the
use of taking that course, you know
they amt gonna give you no job
Maybe we can get on at the plant,
but you know them white workers
would have a fit. We couldn't stay
Whats the use of taking training
to be a riVeter when then the only
job they are going to give us is as
janitors?"
CLASSES ARE SMALL
The result is that the classes at
| the school are pitifully small. Those
who would, take the training be-
come victims of the cynics. Those
creators of doubt, the voices who
never say cam always can't That
is how cynicism among our group
defeats us before we have even
started.
Then there is cynicism and
Indifference among W h t
Americans, which achieves the
same defeatist result. The
league report, regarding this,
says, s'TO0 many white Ameri-
cans are still Indifferent or
blind toward the Negroes at
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-05-08

the management of Mr.. Henry j.
Kaiser, and the North Carolina
Shipbuilding Corporation, subsi-
diary of me Newport News Ship
building and Drydock Corporation,
under the management of Mr..
Homer Ferguson, are the two best
and most efficient producers OF
Liberty Ships. The oregon shipyard
is first in point of man-hours and
second in dollar cost. The North
Carolina shipyard is first in dollar
cost and second in man-hours.
''The Oregon shipyard delivered IL
Liberty ships in January, 1943, at
an average of 393,858 man-hours
each. The average cost per ship for
January is not available, but for
the ships produced in November
and December. 1t was $7l2,7 68 per
ship, and for March the average
was $667,00 per ship. The North
Carolina Shipyard delivered 9
Liberty ships in January, 1943, at
an average of 450,807 man-hours
and an average cost of $607 1928
per Ship
In the construction of naval
vessels, the Committee Report COM
pared the man-hours and dollar
cost in the construction of battle
ships of the same class by The
New York Shipbuilding Corpora
ton, the Bethlehem Steel Company
and the Newport News Shipbuild-
ing and Dry Dock Company. Dis
cuSSing variations in the three
yards, the report said:
GAS appears from these figures,
the Newport News Shipbuilding and
Drydock Company was able to
construct a battIeship for $685.
SGT and with 3,194,222 man-hours
of direct labor less than the New
York Shipbuilding Corporation re-
quired to build ship of the same
class.
The report praised the perfor-
nance record of the Bethlehem
Fairfield Shipyards in Baltimore
and stated that the records Of
the California Shipbuilding Cor
poration and the Kaiser Richmond
Yards No l and 2 were both very
satisfactory, but not as good as
the excellent records of the Oregon,
North Carolina and Bethlehem
Fairfield Shipyards."
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-05-08
World Reporter Is
Off For Maneuvers

Truman K. Gibson, Jr., acting
civilian aide to the Secretary of
War, is in charge of all arrange
ments.
The newspapermen will see the
93rd (Negro) Division in action
This marks the first time in the
history of the U. S. Army that a
Negro division has participated in
general maneuvers.
Large. numbers of colored Off
GERS and men are engaged in the
maneuvers which got under way
last month and continue through
the month of May.
The 93rd is now on competitive
display for the last time in this
country.
The trip to be made by the news
papermen to Louisiana is the re-
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-05-08
BY cliff Maekay

temptS to enter the war effort
without restriction. Too many
employers still bar Negro work
ers or restrict their use; and
too often labor unions make
only grudging concessions TO
Negro applicants or exclude
them entirely from member
ship and employment"
This cynicism on the part of
white Americans reacts in ether
ways too, the report discloses.
LEADERS ARE SILENT
"Reactionary spokesman have
Numbered denunciation of Negro
opportunists who seek to make cap
ital Of their country's wartime
emergency Administration leaders
have either remained silent, or
have taken Intellectual steps in
tended to p1acate the dissatisfac-
ton of Negroes, rather than to re-
move its cause" the report reads.
Even many liberal Ameri-
cans, ordinarily supporters of
the Negroes efforts to advance
his racial status, express their
opinion that those efforts
should be held i'm allegiance,
pending settlement of the
greater struggle against NaZi
dictatorship. They warn that
aggressiveness on the Negroes
part at this time may lead to
greater racial conflicts even
race riots. An open attempt has
recently been made to silence
the Negro press by clubbing it
radical or 'destructively in
temperate.'
The tremendous task that con-
fronts not only the National Ur-
ban League, but all agencies and
persons interested in making the
ideal of democracy real in Americs
is to completely obliterate this Gym
icism, the evil that stands Stub
bornly in the path TO sound racial
relations progress.
INTERESTS ALLIED
The task demands that al
Americans be sold on the truth
that the interests of white and col
ored citizens are so closely bouno
together that they cannot be sep
arated without endangering the Sc
curity of democracy and the future
of the nation.
1t is a challenge which the
National Urban League will
| without hesitation accept and
carry through with the same
determination that has always
distinguished the efforts Of its
public-spiirted personnel.
Mr.. Granger can and does witt
truth, summarize the record of th'
leagues achievement by saying
I'VE looked to the war years aheat
with solemn determination tina
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-05-08

Guided, 81 wish to emphasize the
fact that these contributions are
based on the understanding of Ne
groes of their stake in the war eff
fort. They are fighting hard and
working hard to prevent Hitler
domination of America, because
they know what a catastrophe that
would be for them and their fellow
Americans. In the process of max
ing their great contribution they
are winning new opportunities for
participating in American economic
life which can and should be ex-
panded in the about mobilization
of manpower of all creeds and col
ors in our war effort"
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-05-08
Navy To Step
Up Negro News

WASHINGTON, D. c. - CAMP
Special instructions were given
to navy department public rela-
tons men to see that adequate
leverage" is given to the activities
and performance of Negroes in the
service, it was learned Thursday.
following the close of the three
day conference of district men of
the departments bureau of public
relations.
The officers were told also of the
plans to expand Negro participa-
ton in the navy department in the
current year
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-05-08
Trusty Admits
Part In Break

MACON Ga. - (SNS) - David
benson, a trusty in Bibb County
Jail. Wednesday was said to have
confessed late Tuesday night that
he bought a gun at a pawn shop
and handed it to Leland Harvey
and D. C. Black, notorious white es-
cape artists from TattnaH prison,
aiding in the successful break here
benson was said to have confess
ed that he accepted $25 from Har-
vey and Black, spending $22 for
the gun and fifty cents for cart
ridges, used in forcing the Jailer
to open the cell housing them In
Bibb County Jail. benson was serv-
ing short term for larceny, hav-
ing been found guilty of the theft
of supply of sheets from a hos
pital ambulance.
Meanwhile, Governor Ellis Arnall
called the Federal Bureau OF In
Vestigation INTO the search for the
escapeC when a man purportlng to
be Harvey called up Mrs. Arnan
and threatened to kidnap Alvan,
the Governors five-year-old son. A
state highway patrolman was sent
to guard the executive mansion
and to guard the child on a pro-
posed trip to Newman where it will
spend the remainder of the week
with parents of the Governor. The
entire State Highway Patrol was
ordered to take part in the search
for the escapes and $3.50 reward Of
fered for each of them.
Harvey and Black were with
over score of prisoners who es-
capped from Tattnall prison on
April IT,
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-05-08

ATLANTA, Ga CSNS-
Robert M Radcliffe, member of
the editorial staff of the Atlanta
Daily WORLD, left the city Sat-
urday evening for Chicago, where
het WIN join a group of other news
pabermen invited by the War De-
partment to witness maneuvers in
Louisiana
The group will leave Chicago by
plane Wednesday morning for
Louisiana and return to Chicago by
plane next Sunday evening.
Representatives of 10 Negro
newspapers have oeen invited to
make the trip.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-05-08

Special red, white and blue post
tiers showing the insignia in colors
If the Cpd, a black buffalo on the
olive drab background, and bearing
the greeting, Welcome to Fort
Huachuca," have been placed on
every public building and barracks
within the Cantonment.
The special program includes a
welcome address delivered by First
1t Baxter Scruggs, former Los
Angeles Y. M. G. A. secretary, in
the name of the post commander,
with the serving of refreshments
ard the rendering of music at the
detraining point.
An advance complement of 80
men arrived week before last. AL
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-05-08

though the main body of troops
was stationed at Fort Mcclellan,
many units were distributed from
Alabama through Indiana. This
will be the first opportunity for the
entire division to train together.
1t is understood that all Negro
divisions will be trained at Fort
Huachuca before seeing action. AL
though no official announcement
has been made, it is believed that
third Negro division will be acti-
waited in the near future, possibly
at Mcclellan, which will then be
here after the 92nd is read
led for actual duty.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-05-08

Given special commentator on
performance records by the Special
Committee Investigating the Ma
tional Defense Program, of which
Senator Harry S. Truman is Chair
man, were the Newport News Ship
building and Drydock Company of
Virginia, and its subsidiary, the
North Carolina Shipbuilding Cor
poration of Wilmington, N. C.
$500 EMPLOYED
War Manpower Commission en-
ployment reports indicate that in
November 1912, more than 5000
Negroes were employed as machine
operators, blacksmiths, painters, dis
mantlers, stage builders, riggers, boil
tiers, slab benders, erectors, riveters
and in number Of other skilled
and semi-skilled capacities at the
Newport News yards, and that more
than $500 Negroes were employed
in similar capacities by the North
Carolina Shipbuilding Corporation
Negroes constituted 27.4 per cent OF
all employees in the Virginia yards
and 29.8 in the North Carolina yard
Other yards discussed in the Ship
building and Shipping Report OF
the Truman Committee included the
Richmond, Cal, yards Of the Kaiser
Company where more than 6,100 Ne
groes are employed as boilermakerS
shipfitters, shipwrights, stage rig
gers, joiners, sheet metal workers
and in other capacities; the Bethle-
hem Fairfield yards in Baltimore
Md, where more than 5000 Negroes
are working in skilled, semi-Skilled
and unskilled capacities, and the
California Shipbuilding Corporation
where hundreds of Negro workers
assisted in the construction of the
SIS Booker T. Washington, first
Liberty Ship named for a Negro
The SIS George Washington Carver
was recently launched at the Kaiser
Richmond Yard No. l, and the SIS
Frederick Douglass is now being
built in the Bethlehem-F Fairfield
Yard.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-05-08

The liberal New Yorker, who mas
supported more than one item OF
legislation designed to improve the
Negroes status in this democracy,
took the occasion to remind all and
sundry of the contribution they
made since the war for independ-
ence right down to the present
conflict.
100000 IN PLANTS
The senator revealed that at the
close of 1912 fully 100000 Negroes
were working in war plants. He
pointed to a recent survey by the
War Manpower commission in "a
important plants in 10 states which
revealed that Negro women are
working as electricians, welders,
sheetmetal workers, machine-tCol
operators, drill press operators and
in a variety of other skilled and
semi-skilled capacities.
After recounting the Negroes va
lor in the American revolution,
War of 1912, Civil war, Spanish
American war, World War 1, Sen.
Mead declared that tremendous
strides have been made during the
present war in giving Negroes full
opportunity in every branch of our
armed forces" He pointed to the
training of men for the navy at
Camp Robert Small, the large
numbers" being trained as army Of
ficers, along with whites for SINH
lar ranking which he called "a new
landmark of democratic progress. .
He considered it unfortunate"
that the navy has barred Negro
women from the WAVES, but
hoped for an early adjustment in
this position.
TELLS OF BOND BUYING
Mead was not unmindful that
| Negroes are doing their share on
the home front in production and
in civilian defense. He spread upon
the record the huge sum of money
that is being spent for war bonds,
including Chicago's $3,500,000 pur-
| chase.
| In presenting q Few of the con-
tributions of Negro Americans in
our war effort" the senator con-
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I n e report
quite candidly
blameS cynf-
cisIn on the
part of both
Negro a n d
white for the
failure to fur
ther integrate
black workers
more fully in
to the w a r
product i o n
prOpran1
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-05-08

suit of a suggestion of the Third
Army. 1t was suggested that these
men of the press obtain p first
hand picture Of modern warfare
and the role Negro officers and SOL
diers are playing in the American
Army.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-05-08
REPORT is QUOTED

Discussing the construction of
Liberty Ships, the Committees re-
port. ordered printed on April %,
l943, declared:
1T appears that the Oregon Ship
building Corporation operated under
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-05-08
Senate Hears OF
Negro S Big Aid
To The WarEHort

WASHINGTON, d. C, -(ANP)- Sen. James NJ
Mead 3D. of New York addressing the last Thurs
day declared that 100000 American Negroes doing
their part in the world struggle against fascism that
they realize that the defeat of Hitler and company is i'm
perative if reinstatement is to be avoided.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-05-08
Shipyards Employing Negroes Set
Building Records Senate Reveals
Commentator Is
Given By Truman

WASHINGTON d. C.-Several shpyards where thou
sands OF Negro workers employed in skilled semskled
and unSNled capacities cited this week by Senate
investigating committee among the best most efficient
producers of Liberty Ships and naval vessels.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-05-08
Fort Huachuca Is
Ready For 92nd

FORT HuACHUCA, Ariz.-(ANP)-A gigantic re-
cepon prepared by the post command here for the
g2d division acvated at Fort Mcclellan, Ala, which is
BEING moved here for combat training. The Cpd sw
place the 3d. now away on maneuvers
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we who fight in the peoples cause
will never stop suntil that cause is
won. -