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Evening star., 1943-04-25
i. 5. Industry Solving
Absentee Problem,
Miss Perkins Says
'Pre-PIonnine' by Plants
Brings improvement,
Secretary Points Out

American industry is finding
means of successfully controlling
absenteeism, Secretary Perkins re-
ported yesterday in making public
the results of a survey of war pro-
duction plants by the Labor De-
partment.
"Willful absenteeism is almost
negligible" Secretary Perkins said
in reporting absenteeism is caused
by illness, accidents. transportation
difficulties and other problems
which the individual worker can
not solve"
plants have less of an absentee
problem when they pre-plan work
as far as possible and require prompt
reporting of unforeseen absence"
she stated, adding that poor produc-
ton planning and material short
ages also are serious causes of
absenteeism among workers in war
plants.
Health Programs An Aid.
Among methods used by war fac
tories to reduce absenteeism are the
re-examination of daily and weekly
hours to assure schedules that will
maintain output over a long period,
development of safety and health
programs and impressing upon the
war worker the Importance of his
job.
Some plants also have set up
transportation co-ordinators to ar
range car pools and rides, take care
of workers tire and gas rationing
needs and work with public trans
portation facilities to improve serv-
ice.
Many plants have built homes for
workers and others have supported
Evening star., 1943-04-25
Army to Release Some
In Glider Pilot Program
Ry the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Some CT the men in the Army's
glider pilot training program will
be released and referred to their
draft boards as the result of the
temporary suspension of basic and
elementary training phases, the War
Department announced last night.
Those released will be only a
small percentage" of those in basic
and elementary courses, spokes-
man said, explaining that many
qualified enrollees had been trans
ferred to officer candidate train
ing schools, liaison pilot training
and other fields.
The date for their release has not
been determined.
Evening star., 1943-04-25
IS More Nazi Planes
Destroyed by Reds
In Caucasus Area
.18 Others Reported Hit
In Raid at StoIino;
Lund Action Subsidies
by the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Sunday, April 25.-
Russian airmen destroyed 18
more German planes in the
Northwestern Caucasus and hit
18 others in a raid on an air
drome at Stalino in the Donets
Basin, Moscow announced early
today as land fighting subsidized
on the long front.
German efforts to expand their
narrow bridgehead in the Kuban
Valley of the Caucasus ceased tenn
porarily because of heavy losses
suffered during the last week, said
the midnight communique recorded
by the Soviet monitor.
One company of enemy infantry
was reported annihilated or dis
persed in the Balakleya sector
southeast of Kharkov in the Uk-
raine by sporadic artillery duels
raging along the front, and the
communigue disclosed the Red
Army still was entrenched in the
Sevsk salient 80 miles below Bry-
ansk.
Soviet artillerymen we're said to
have destroyed five enemy block
houses and dispersed a battalion of
Germans in the Sevsk sector, and
anti-aircraft fire downed four
planes.
Six blockhouses one artillery piece
and two enemy batteries were
knocked out on the Volkhov front
southeast of Leningrad, the COM
munique said, and 200 Germans
were killed when caught by a bar
rage as they we're moving up to the
front.
Soviet airmen appeared to have
taken over the brunt of the fight
ing. The Is planes credited to the
Caucasian air force were downed
in air combat or destroyed on Ger
man airdromes. At Stalino the
communique said 18 successful hits
on emmy planes we're observed"
and in addition a hangar was de-
molished, a fuel dump blown up,
several fires started, and two loco
motives and a troop train were de-
stroyed.
Front dispatches had indicated
that the Germans were trying to
enlarge their Caucasian bridgehead
as the preliminary to large-scale
offensive.
Evening star., 1943-04-25
Miss Dosenburg Overseas
On Red Cross DUTY

Miss Bertha E. Dasenburg has ar
rived in North Africa to do secre-
tarial work for the Red Cross, it
was announced yesterday. She is
one of Is additional workers sent
overseas, 10 to North Africa and
five to Australia.
Miss Dasenburg, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Henry Dasenberg of Arch
bald, Pa, came to Washington in
1887 as secretary in the Chill
dren's Bureau and later worked for
the Division of State and Local Co.
operation. Just before going over
seas she was employed in the Of
flee of Civilian Defense She lived
at 1881 Euclid street NV.
Evening star., 1943-04-25
SAC, 600, 900 in Bonds
Sold in City in Single Duy

By the Associated Press.
OKLAHOMA CITY.-A feverish
buying spree paid tribute to Okla
homa pioneers-and slapped the
Japs for killing American airmen.
The city's 244,0O0 residents bought
100000 worth of war bonds in
single day-the 54th anniversary of
the historic run of April %, 1889,
when the territory was opened to
white settlement.
Vice Chairman H. o. Jones of the
State War FiDance Committee said
he knew or no city which has
equaled the one-day record.
Evening star., 1943-04-25
BY NELSON M. SHEPARD.

The Army and Navy yesterday
partly lifted the curtain on the
foremost secret weapon of the
Allied nations-a mysterious ra-
dio beam that revolutionized the
method of detecting and finding
the range of approaching enemy
ships and airplanes.
Credited to a large degree with
saving England during the aerial
blitz of 1904, the new science
radar-has played vital part, a
carefully worded Army Navy release
said, 'in helping first to stop, then
to turn the tide of Axis conquest" I"
Since proving its worth against
the Luftwaffe, radar has stood guard
at danger points along the United
States Coast and at sea. 1t is an
offensive, as well as a defensive
weapon, equally effective in use on
AdllQ, 0Cd VI III GllC oil
The Army-Navy statement SEEM
ingly disputes British claims tha.
they developed radar. News stories
sent from London earlier this month
said that Sir Robert Watson Watts,
British scientist, discovered radio
location accidentally while study
ing the ionized area above the
stratosphere in connection with re-
search looking to improvement of
radio communications. The Ameri-
can statement made no direct men,
ton of this claim, but had this to
say of radar:
1T was first discovered in the
United States in 1922"
The Army-Navy announcement
was made, 1t was said, in line with
the services policy Of giving the
American people as much informa-
tion as possible without endanger-
ing our own forces or helping the
enemy.
I'm order to prevent information
which might facilitate development
OF radar from reaching the enemy
through publicity originating in the
United States" the statement added,
"it has been decided that no fur
ther items on this subject will be
released until the Army and Navy
are convinced that the enemy al
ready has the information from
some other source"
That decision tends to put the
onus of disbelief on some current
reports that the Axis nations by
this time know all the inside secrets
OF radar and are actually using the
science in their own behalf.
For many months the War De-
partment has tried to avoid even
the public mention of its name,
Secretary of War Stimson recently
inadvertently, mentioned the word
"radar" at a press conference and
to his own embarrassment was re-
minded quickly by aides that it was
forbidden. Not even the Norden
bomb sight, now known to be in
German hands, was guarded more
zealously from the public.
After months of CO.., sideration,
the War Department Public Rela-
tions Bureau broke its own official
silence on the subject and released
this joint Army-Navy statement
which reads in part as follows:
Statement Is Issued.
The term 'radar' means radio
detecting ng-and-ranging. Radars
then, are devices which the Allies
use to detect the approach of enemy
aircraft and ships, and to determine
the distance (range) to the enemies
forces. Radar is used by static
ground defenses to provide data for
anti-aircraft guns for use in smash
ing Axis planes through cloud cover
and by airplanes and warships.
1T is one of the marvels made
possible by the electron tube. Ultra
high-frequency waves, travelling with
Evening star., 1943-04-25
Seven Of Hapsburg Family
Reunited in indianapolis
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
INDIANAPOLIS, April 24.-Seven,
members of the Hapsburg family OF
Austria were reunited here briefly
yesterday, it was learned today.
Archduke Otto Won Hapsburg,
heir to the non-existent throne of
Austria, stopped in Indianapolis
en- route to Washington from
Wichita, Kans., to visit his three
brothers, stationed at Camp After
bury, Ind, and three sisters, two Of
whom came from Canada and the
third from New York for the re-
union.
The brothers are Corp. Charles
Louis Hapsburg, Pfc Felix Hapsburg
and Pvt. Rudolph Hapsburg; the sis.
ters are Archduchesses Charlotte,
Elizabeth and Adelhaid Hapsburg.
Evening star., 1943-04-25

OuCGlOu ulN Cllc
Army, is a pris-
oner Of war, in
termed in Italy,
the War De-
partment an
nounced | a S t
night.
Pvt. Griffin is
one of SO men
held captive by
the Axis, 81 of
whom are i'm
prisoned in It
ally. Eleven are
pr / S o n e r S of
German force,
"a were can-
Evening star., 1943-04-25

MOSCOW-NEW RED ARMY CHIEF-Marshal A. M. Vassievsky
ght identified yesterday by the official agency
Tas chief of the general staff of the Russian Army the
indication that formal change had been
high command Here Michael Kalinin President of the
U. r. presents the Order of Suvorov grade
marshal The command had been held by Marshal Shapo
shnkov This picture reached New York by London
"A. P. Wirephoto.
Evening star., 1943-04-25
PVT. Thomas Griffin
Prisoner in Italy
serst. Combs Of Virginia
Held by japanese

Pvt. Thomas Griffin, 80, of 1886
Owen place Me- who was born in
Ireland and had lived in this coun-
try only few years before his in
Evening star., 1943-04-25

The Axis Is watching you; keep
'em signing while you keep buying
War savings stamps.
Evening star., 1943-04-25
Italy Feeding Thrones

Three and half million people
will be fed in community kitchens
in Italy.
Evening star., 1943-04-25

The Axis is watching you; keep,
'em signing while you keep buying
War savings stamps. g.,
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-06-19

Frank Graham, president of
the University of North Caro-
lima, is classic sermon to
those who profess so loudly
they believe in democracy, yet
stoop to practice the very
things for which they condemn
our enemies.
In this small, but significant
case" ruled DR.. Graham, the Ma
tional War Labor Board abolisheS
the classifications 'colored labor
err and white laborer' and reclassi-
fies both simply as laborers' with
the same rate Of pay for all in that
classification without discrimina-
ton On account of color"
EQUAL PAY FOR EQUAL WORK
This equalization of economic
opportunity is not a violation of
the sound American provision of
differentials in pay for differences
in SkillS," the opinion continued
ut is rather bit of realiza-
ton of the no less sound
American principle of equal
pay for equal work as one of
those equal rights in the prom
Use of American democracy re-
CARELESS of color, race, sex, re-
ligiOn or national origin"
Note that reference to the fight
being pushed by the National AS
ISOLATION for the Advancement of
Colored People as sound Ameri-
can principle" Curiously enough,
this determined effort to put black
Americans on economic parity with
all others, has been called every
thing but American. One so-called
white liberal writer, who poses as
friend to the Negroes cause, in
advocating the 'Wait-until- after
the-war policy" actually termed it
cOmmunistic.
ENDORSED BY NAILS
Economic and political discrimi-
nation on account of race or creed
is in line with the Nazi program. !"
continued Dr. Graham. A conten-
ton that has been repeatedly made
by members of the Negro press who
fight not against America, but for
wider and more liberal interpre-
tation of those things basically
American.
"The Negro is necessary for
winning the war;" continues
DR.. Graham, land at the same
time, is a test of our sincerity
in the ause for which we are
fighting. More hundreds of
millions of cOlOred people are
involved in the outcome of this
war than the combined popu-
lations of the Axis powers.
Under Hitler and his master
race, their movement Is backward
to slavery and despair. In America,
the colored people have the free
dom to struggle for freedom. With
the victories Of the democracies,
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-06-19
One Slain, 4 Shot
In Ga. Camp Melee
No Participating
Soldiers Wounded
MP's Are Victims

CAMP STEWART, Ga.-tSNS'-
One white military policeman was
killed and four others wouhoeo
during a riot of troops here wed
nesdav night, Captain Walter n
Dustmann, Jr., public relations OIL
Ger. reported Thursday.
Dustmann said that no whlee
soldiers were involved in the ols-
trrbance other than military police
and officers and that none OF the
Negro soldiers participating was
injured.
Cause of the riot was not I'M
mediately determined. Captain
Dustmann said, first reports IN
dicated that Negro soldiers had
been stirred up by rumor that
Negro girls were being molested,
The rumor was declared to be
false and malicious"
Private ROME E. Lindsey, %, OF
Valdosta, Ga, was shot and died
Immediately. The wounded includ-
ed: Staff Sergeant John l.. Nc
Eachern, 81, of Homestead, Mont;
Sergeant Charles W. Almond, "a,
of Atlanta; Sergeant William B.
Brown, "a, of New York City;
Private Merlin B. Hotchkiss, 20,
of Perry, N Y McEachern was re-
ported in serious condition.
According to Major E. P. Scott,
provost marshal, only one shot
was fired by military police. He
claimed that the military officers
were fired on internationally by
the soldiers.
Quiet was restored Shortly before
midnight and Major Scott said
there had been no further distur-
bance on the post.
A board of officers was appointtc
Immediately to investigate the dis.
turbance.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-06-19
.Sedition Charges
Against Five Are
Dropped In Chicago

CHICAGO, - amp - Sedition
charges against five leaders of the
Allah Temple of Islam, South side
Negro organization, were dropped
Monday when Assistant Federal
Prosecutor John D. Owen told
Judge John P Barnes that four of
them already are serving federal
sentences and the fifth, Mrs. Paul
inc Bahar, had only passive
part" in the organization.
The four men are Elijah Mo-
manned, Chicago national leader;
Lin Kariem, Chicago minister;
Davie Jones. Washington, d. c.,
and Sultan Mohammed, Milwau-
kee, Wisconsin.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-06-19

approved last week by the Presi-
dent. according to an announce
ment By Major General Philip B
Fleming. Federal Works Ad.nini-
strator These nurseries and child
care centers are made available
under the Lanham Act to cora-
munities where mothers must work
in order to meet the manpowAr
needs in direct and indirect war
industries.
Fees paid the local sponsors by
the parents of the children and
local contributions cover apprcxi-
mately so percent of the operating
costs. federal assistance is pro-
vlded from Lanham Act funds.
To date. The Federal Works
Agency has assisted local sponsors
IN establishing and maintaining
800 war nurseries and child care
centers for 1862 Negro children.
between the ages of two and four
teen. Among the nurseries apprcy-
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-06-19
BY JIM HEWLETT

BOSTON - amp - Ensign
Joseph c. Jenkins of Detroit has
the distinction of being the first
colored naval officer to be assigned
to active duty. He is attached to
the coast guard shore patrol of the
First Naval district with headquar-
tiers at the former exclusive Hotel
Brunswick and has under his COM
mand mixed personnel of white
and colored seamen.
He was indicted as a chief petty
officer on presenting his qualifica-
tons about a year ago and after
attending the coast guard academy
at New London, Conn, was COM
naissioned an ensign on April 10.
He is a graduate of the Univer-
sity of Michigan with bachelor of
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-06-19
Lend-Leas
Is Signed By
U. S.

WASHINGTON, CAMP The
state department announced the
signing in New York Tuesday of a
lend-lease agreement between the
United States and the Republic of
Liberia.
The agreement on tine princi-
piles applying to mutual aid in their
common defense" was signed by
Henry S. Willard, special represen-
tative of the United States and
Walter F. Walker, Liberian consul
general in New York in the pres
ence of President Barclay and
President-elect VIM. S. Tubman of
Liberia.
An exchange of notes which ac-
companied the agreement confirm
ed the understanding of the two
governments that the agreement
carries out general principles con-
corning defense areas in Liberia
on which the government agreed at
Monrovia on March 81, 1912.
Lend-leaSe means that Liberia
now participates in the group re-
ceiving aid, military and other
wise, food and machinery and
equipment, as outlined in the
agreements between this nation
and others of the United Nations.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-06-19
Firms Urged By
Army To Stop
Robin Letters
Chain Mailing Is
Source OF Vital
information

TUSKEGEE ARMY AIR FIELD
Alabama - (SNS) - A concerted
effort to stamp out the circulation
of round robin" or group news
letters" among Army personnel is
currently being made by the War
Department to prevent compro-
mise of vital military information
by enemy agents.
The round robin might be
termed a third cousin of the once
popular chain letter.
1t is usually originated by the Of
flee gang" back home, sent to a
former employee, now in service,
who reads its several communica-
tons, adds one of his own, then
forwards the letter to the service
man whose name appears next on
an accompanying list.
While in its original conception
the idea is innocent enough
merely means of former fellow
workers keeping their men in serv-
ice advised of what has become OF
each other before completion
of the mailing cycle complete file
of vital military information in
variably is compiled.
War Department studies of such
letters reveal that the technicali-
ties of training of multiple units
specific duties of individuals, flu
ture movements, exact locations OF
individuals and units, and the
technical aspects of our own and
enemy weapons are freely discuss
ed.
Groups of all kinds, as well as
individuals both in and out of the
armed services, are being urged by
the War Department to immedi-
ately discontinue the mailing Of
these round robin" letters.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-06-19
Three Moves Toward Freedom

IN RAPID SUCCESSION three
determined moves on the part of
the federal government have boil
stored confidence, sadly tagging in
many black breasts, that America
does not intend to wait until after
the war, but is set upon doing
something now toward guarantee
ing that most important of the four
freedoms = freedom from want.
The National Labor Relations
Board in ruling that workers who
strike against the employment or
up-grading of workers because of
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-06-19

Throwing a gun on the soldiers,
he ordered them out of the vehicle.
One soldier, resenting the officers
attitude, rushed Simmons and
knocked the gun out of his hand.
The patrolman went back to his
car after another weapon just as
a Tri-State bus passed the scene
and stopped, the driver and white
soldier getting out to help the
officer
In the ensuing melee, shots we're
fired by Simmons and the soldier
who took his gun, with the white
soldier grabbing a fire axe from
the bus and joining III rle affray,
clubbing one colored soldier I'M
conscious. The others broke and
ran for the nearby woods, with
the armed Negro soldier Joining
them when the gun he had taken
became empty. Believed to have
been badly wounded, he is still
missing.
Simmons radioed for help and
other highway patrolmen, civilians
and MP's responded. A posse was
formed and after firing into the
woods, the soldiers were rounded UP
and placed in the Covington county
jail here temporarily. later being
moved to Camp Shelby by MP's.
Feeling continued through Sun
day night when an unidentified Ne
gro soldier refused to heed the
command of an armed white civil
Ian to stop and was shot through
the leg.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-06-19
Ranked Ensign In
The Coast Guard

civil engineering degree, class OF
1887, and from that time up to the
time of his enlistment was con-
nected with the Michigan state
highway
Ensign Jenkins, who is a light
brownskinned chap, stated that he
has been treated fairly and square,
ly and believes there is an ever
widening opportunity for colored
boys in the coast guard. Incident
ally, his friends in Detroit scoffed
at his move in leaving the Michi-
gan state highway, saying, 1T
couldn't be done"
Ensign Whit" Robinson, the
only other colored naval ensign, is
still on inactive status awaiting the
completion of his medical studies
at Harvard University in 1914.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-06-19
l he GlObe lrOtter By Cliff Mackay

the human destiny is toward free
dom, hope, equality of opportunity
and the gradual fulfillment for all
peoples of the noblest aspirations
of the brothers of men and the
sons of God, without regard to
color or creed, religion or race, in
the world neighborhood of human
Brotherhood"
FALLACIOUS ARGUMENT
That this decision will hardly
find favor among Southern reac-
tionaries cannot be doubted. The
fallacious contention raised by
most persons who would defend the
unjust system of wage differentials
based on race is that it is simply
cheaper for Negroes to live. Even
the staid Atlanta Constitution re-
Gently came out with an editorial,
"A Necessary Differential," in
which an attempt was made to JUS
tify this wholly unjust practice.
Certainly Negroes must pay
the same for bread, for meat,
for shoes and sugar that their
better-paid white fellow work
ers must pay. This writer has
not heard of a single store
keeper looking up to see the
color of his customers face and
marking off his prices accord
ingly.
If anything, it costs Negroes
more to live than it does whites,
because to most white merchants
and landlords, all black people are
fair game for exploitation. An
apartment in Atlanta which rent
ed to white residents for $3.50
monthly, when taken over by Ne
groes last year, automatically be-
came worth $35 a month to the
white landlord
PENALTY FOR COLOR
1t is not cheaper for Negroes to
live. They are simply forced into
existing on a sub-standard scale by
this undemocratic practice of max
ing loyal Americans forever pay a
penalty because they happened to
be born black.
These three moves by the
federal government and partic-
ularly the bold encouragement
written for the War Labor
Board by DIR. Graham, have
done more than anything in
recent weeks to cause a resurg-
ence of hope to rise in black
breasts. They formed one of
the few hopeful signs that the
Four Freedoms may not be just
a catch expression, but are
backed by a government de-
termined to make them real to
all of its citizens.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-06-19
Canada Has It's
Blood Troubles

MONTREAL - CAMP - Anger
ed by an article promising blood
donors that their blood will not
be used to save lives of Chinese
and Negroes" Montreal Negroes
held one of the largest mass meet
ings in the history of the domin-
ion Sunday at the Union United
church with a view toward ending
that and similar race discrimina-
ton.
The offending article appeared in
the Employees Cherrier House Or
gan of the Canadian Car Munition
plant, Cherrier, Quebec, in the May
Il edition Under the title Blood
Donors Wanted" the article said:
Your blood will not be used to save