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The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1943-12-04
Scoop Jones
Enters Officers
Training School

SOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA
CANP)-"Scoop" Jones, the DASH
ing Associated Negro Press CORES
pondent in the Southwest Pacific,
but better known TO the officers OF
his company as Master Sgt. J. M.
Jones Jr., formerly Of New Orleans,
Is going to sprout q pair Of shoulder
bars. That 10 providing he comes
through. but SCOOP" has always
come through and Is expected 10 do
so this time. All this Ii his way Of
saying that Sgt. Jones L. now in
officer candidate school over here.
The school will be over next Feb
ruary.
M-Sgt. SCOOP" Jones, one Of the
popular men in tie area, was
newsman in New Orleans working
on the Louisiana Weekly before he
went TO war. His mother and sis
ter reside in the Crescent City now.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1943-12-04
During the Period Of Nov. 16 to

During the Period Of Nov. Is to
Nov. %
Freddie Hutchins, q: Eunice
Mitchell. 81.
Carter Thomas Cummings. 80;
Macelean Ewing. %.
Samuel Tunetull. 20: Iva Lee
James, IS.
Bishop George. 20; jamie Juanita
Minor, %.
Ben Chilous. A; Emmie Clark, So.
Earl Roberts. %; Rose Marie
Bagy. l6.
Hezekiah Scales. "a; Jewell Will
son, %.
Theodore Reginald Anderson Jr.,
81; Mamie Gloria Hicks. 10.
L. Griffith, 40; Maize B. Adams, "a.
Ulysses Andrew Grant, 10: Annie
Mae Bolin. II.
VERIFY C. Green. II: Rosie Lee
Singleton. 26.
sammic Spearman. q: Mellones
Aska. %.
Ira T. Finney. n: Maude Joyce.
q.
Joe Toney. SO; Hattie Templeton,
SO.
Isham Sullivan. 90: Lille Mae
Davis, 40
Arthur Jefferson. 10: Betty Jane
Warren, II.
Percy George Rice. 81; Stella
Hanks, 10.
Willie Waters. 10; Earline Carter.
1T,
william J. Wesley. 80; Carrie Mae
Sain, 81.
Edward Hanshaw 81: Mildred
Venessa Gordon. 10.
Coleman Ssddler. 36; Ora Brown,
80.
Frank Jackson. SO; Jessie Mae
Marie, 35.
Willard B. Living. 30: Yvonnie
Rosso. "a.
Harvey Black. %: Mosezetta
Masch. %.
James Anderson. 81; Gertrude E
Swilley, %.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1943-12-04

had good argument and held
the young peoples interest. Doris
Miller chose: Our purpose OF the
study OF Totalitarianism;' and The
Portrait OF Nazi Germany" How
did the Nazi Movement Start?"
How could II be that such phil
osophy was accepted in the minds
Of men who were much like other
people elsewhere1" Doris was well
prepared and her period was very
interesting. Marion Coleman pre-
sented the Eight Aspects Of Ger
man Totalitarianism," W h c h
brought out the keen interest OF
the Juniors, like Lorraine Gordon,
Josephine Bryant and Loretta Jack.
son.
C. Edward Ward In
Organ Recital
The Choral choir Of Berea pre-
sented c. Edward Ward. organist
in a recital OF restful music at a
Vesper service last Sunday evening.
Young Ward, master Of the organ,
played 1.-THE Lost Chord" Going
Home" from New World SYM
phony::" Temper My Spirit" Lar
60" from "Xerxes;" Ave Maria"
by Schubert, and Ave Maria" by
Bach Gounod. Appearing on the
program was william Ferguson. an
accomplished musician and gradu-
ate OF Morehouse college. Atlanta,
Ga. Miss Grace Mimms, violinist,
offered two selections.
Harold Overstreet, son OF Mrs.
Lillian Overstreet OF LaBelle w,
was indicted into the army. Nov.
"a, called his mother from Fort
Sheridan. H.. to say that army life
is fine so far, and he will enter
officers training school very soon.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1943-12-04

make OF the empire OF human souls
only a dominion to be re-enslaved?
When Simpson discovered chloro-
form he did not conquer the world
he conquered the entrance to
another world And when Lis
ter made plague spot Of germs
into healing space he crossed only
the Alps of the human mind 4.
and only TO conquer death .
And when George w. Carver
wrested hundreds of products from
the lowly potato and peanut he did
not take city he only crossed the
desert Of human needs These
did not write their names in the
blood of suffering women and
children They Gid not seek to
capture from the sun tomorrow's
glory or steal from the next
nights moon one silvery CLEAN I.
They only for others conquered and,
at their own cost, to.led And
% not in terms Of death, are they
spoken Of The virtue that men
do live after them.
And this same little silly, wonder
ing. laundering world will 60 on
working upward and dreaming In
spite Of super-men Even after
a steamroller has crushed II a new
blade Of grass comes up And
in a world whose God is might and
power, we still believe, we must be-
lieve that faith, il It cannot remove
mountains, can cross them the
mountains Of misery, pain, and ra-
A poor, dying Christ, with his
eyes looking down on his persecu-
tors, did not complain His only
words were, Father forgive them;
they know not what they do" :.
Only sacrifice can make OF the
world a heaven =. Only conquest
can make OF the world hell.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1943-12-04
We~o The~
Negro
~

THIS OLD WORLD today Is LEX
OF masters OF men;"-sick OF the
Napoleons;-sick Of Ceasars:-sick
OF Atilas;-sick OF Hani.ibals; and
sick Of Hitlers
For hundreds Of years the Ma
poleons. etc. have captured
the imagination Of the world d.
The greatest pens have praised them
to high heaven or exposed them to
infamy Everything about them
has been recorded for the study OF
posterity The greatest poets
have sung their praises or stripped
the glory from their bonee :.
The greatest actors have copied
their uniforms and stalked their
trumpery glory across the stage
THE INFLUENCE OF THESE
BUTCHERS Of men has been ire
mendous Because Of the glory
historians have draped about their
shoulderA hundreds Of square
jawed men look at themselves every
morning In the glass, after shaving
their puny boards with safety
razors set their jaws. pull
down a lock Of hair over their
brows and say to themselves. II
too will be q Napoleon And
90 we have Napoleons Of business
Napoleons Of the rackets :.
Napoleons Of politics Napo-
Icons OF the church Napoleons
Of everything Yet In spite Of
their conquests they will for all
time remain only giant figures
whose heels have left their mark
upon the necks OF men.
X X X
As H. G. Wells says of Napoleon
one might say o. all who have
sought world conquest He
could do no more than strut upon
the rest Of this great mountain Of
opportunity Like cockerel on a
dunghil The figure he makes
in history Is Of almost incredible
self-conceit. Of vanity. greed, and
cunning, Of callous contempt and
disregard of all who trusted him,
and a grandiose aping of Caesars,
Alexander and Charlemagne which
would be purely comic II it were
not caked over with blood"
X X *
THESE CONQUERERS DO NOT
KNOW anything Do they ever
envisage q world full Of women
and little children and old men
struggling towards the light? . (.
Or do they dream only OF domina-
ton that would crush all aspira-
tons other than their own. and
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1943-12-04
DETROIT'S PARALYSIS

Every little while some national figure comes
n town and asks very embarrassing question.
These students of American affairs want to know
what has been done in the city to prevent recur-
renee of the riot of June 20 They told that the
police have been given training in commando tactics
that the state troopers have acquired several riot
cars and everybody is learning to shoot straight.
hey may also learn the startling fact that one lone
Negro patrolman has been added to Commissioner
Witherspoon's force Of $500 stick-twirers.
These visitors ask about our Mayor the Inter-
racial Peace Board the varied brotherhood and good
will groups, the unions and the press. What, they
ASK are all these groups doing? 1t goes without say
ing that such questions are legitimate and no De-
troiter should take offense at these searching in
ouires. 1t is perfectly obvious to outsiders that
we have in Detroit all of the poentialties, all of the
elements necessary for launching broad progressive
program to eliminate the basic soc o-economic fac
tors whc undery our racial friction to rout out the
Klan-fascist fifth column and to bring true unity
to populace.
We Detroters, however, are suffering fro m
what the socologsts are telling is state of social
paralysis AS a matter of fact there are plenty OF
wonderful plans, and last week DR.. Selling Of the
Recorders Court added another to the mounting
total AS one recent visitor put it, everyone seems
to know what to do but nobody does it. Now the
sociologists have told us that we are paralyzed,
fact great many have suspected all along, but they
have not told us how to overcome this illness.
This week, however, we learned that Mayor
Edward j. Jeffries is back in town. According to
the minor prophets on the daily newspaper stats
downtown it may be assumed that the Mayor has
come back home prepared to give the city Of Detroit
new and progressive leadership It may be. that
this is what Detroters have been waiting for Given
the proper leadership the ctizenry might shake Oft
this paralysis of which our learned observers speak
We recall having been told once by musical
authority that almost any group Of people can be
taught to sing well if they led by an enthusiastic
and capable song-leader. There can be little doubt
that Detroiters need to be led in new harmones
Since the Mayor be regarded our duly elected
song-leader we hope that he will enter upon this
task with plenty of enthusiasm. Speaking for this
side Of town. we hone that he doesn't start off sing
ing Garry Me Back To Old Virginny' or "Old
Black joe"
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1943-12-04
Interracial Meeting
Held On West Coast

SANTA MONICA, Calif.-In an
effort TO unit white. Negro and
other racial groups Of the bay SUBJ
urban areas, an interracial cultural
program was presented last Sunday
here at Calvary Baptist church, the
Rev. w. P. Carter, pastor. The pro-
gram directed by Edna Heard, was
co-sponsored by church officials and
the American Anu-Prejudice So
ciety, Inc. DR.. Edwin o. Palmer
represented Mayor Leonard J. Muir
ray and the principal speaker yas
Mrs. Ethel Gillett Nhitehorn.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1943-12-04
Georgia Draft Board
Exhausts Negro Quota

LOUISVILLE. Ga.-tANP)-Sixty
Negro men and boys were indicted
by the local board here Wednesday.
IS short OF the November quota.
The local board frankly stated
the available. supply OF Negro men.
single. married and fathers has been
exhausted. Compared 70 the call
for rs Negro men from this. Jeffer-
son county. the November quota for
whites Is only Is.
Evening star., 1943-06-14
Representation
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senting similar petition to the
House. had this to say editorially
in its issue OF June II, 1943
I'VE are fighting this war to
preserve. with other things, the
principle that governments derive
their just powers from the consent
of the governed Washington men
are fighting with the armed forces
on fronts all over the world. But
they are the only Americans in uni
form denied the full rights of
American citizenship. and this de-
NAL springs from the accidental
TACT OF their birth or residence in
the Capital of the United States.
g" AS Mr.. Summers points out
the restoration to Washingtonians
OF the birthright of every American
would involve no loss, to Congress
OF its exclusive control over the seat
of Government. That control, it
would seem. would be made more
secure, rather than weakened, if
the Government which exercises it
practiced here at home what it
breaches abroad. Continued failure
to admit to full citizenship the
Americans who live in the Nations
Capital is cloud on our title to the
claim of being a free democracy. 1t
should be removed"
Senator Capper also asked for
unanimous consent to have the pc
tition placed in the Congressional
Record.
Evening star., 1943-06-14
American Bombers Smash at Sicily Airdromes
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white flag of unconditional sur
render yesterday. Lampedusa ca
pitulated Saturday, after more than
"a hours of concentrated bombing
and naval shelling that followed
Pantellerias S surrender Friday.
Sicily is about 50 miles from Pan
telleria. 1t is $50 miles long and
has an area of about 5000 square
miles.
Sicily Long Under Attack.
Sicilian targets have been heavily
battered for weeks by the Northwest
African Air Forces, and by planes
from British bases on Malta and
from Allied bases operating under
the Middle East Air Command at
Cairo
Even before Lampedusa out.
Northwest African Flying Fortresses,
Marauders, Lightnings and War
hawks returned to smash at Sicily's
airdromes Saturday.
Nearly $50 planes were caught on
the ground at Milo, Castelvetrano
and Bocca di Falco airporla and
Allied headquarters said large
numbers" we're riddled by fragmen-
tation bombs.
Fighter -bombers from Malta also
attacked Marzamimi in Southeast
ern Sicily, turning their cannon on
a small vessel, and struck at road
transport at Comiso.
Axis naval vessels provided
short lived show of activity Friday
night. firing torpedoes at light coast
al craft covering Pantelleria opera
tions, but on being engaged fled at
high speed" a headquarters COM
mun1Que said.
Linosa Eager to Surrender.
Allied aircraft bombed LampeduSa
Island after Pantellerla fell. and
four cruisers and six destroyers. in
Guiding a Greek destroyer, lombard
ed the island twice Friday night and
frequently Saturday. A naval party
went ashore about 7 pm. Il pm
EWT) to negotiate the surrender.
Paul Kern Lee. Associated Press
war correspondent. was with the
party. headed by 1t. Hugh A. Cor
bett of the British Navy. He said in
a dispatch that it took only two
minutes to effect the surrender.
Evening star., 1943-06-14

files stated that sometime III No
vember l94l. he went to the Japa-
nese vice consul in Honolulu and
offered 10 help in obtaining infcl =
nation about Hawaiian defenses.
The Jap official requested .lirl TO
obtain information regarding the
movement of the United Sta tes Fleet
at Pearl Harbor, and to work out
system Of signals by which this
information could be passed along
to their fleet.
Looks Over Pearl Harbor.
Accompanied by his lO-year-olc
son. Hans Joachim. Kuehn went to
Pearl Harbor and made his observa-
tions, Later. he returned to the
consulate and submitted signal
system for transmission of the num-
Der and types of American ships in
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days before the Pearl Harbor attack.
Part of the system involved place
ment of lights in windows of two
homes owned by the Kuehns on
Oahu Island. Investigation brought
out that kuehn also had received
large sums Of money from the Japa-
nese.
1t was the inclusion Of the two
houses in the signal system that ap-
parently led to the apprcnsion of the
kuehns. They were picked up De-
Cembcr in general roundup of
aliens on the islands. The MESA ge
describing the signals meanwhile
had been discovered by our AGENTS.
One signal was light in a dormer
window of house in Kalama. Since
kalama is comparatively small
community, the FBI had no difficulty
locating the house with the dormer,
It was owned by the Kuehns. It was
known the family also had a beach
house at Lanikai. Another of the
signals was a light in a beach house
at Lanikai.
Previously Suspected.
The Kuehns were German ma
tionals. The report stated they had
been suspected previously of engag-
ing in espionage activities for Ger
many and Japan. They had beer
under investigation by the Office OF
Naval Intelligence and the Military
Intelligence Service of the War De.
partment. There was no explana
tion as to how the Kuehns happened
to be so free as to get in their pre-
Pearl Harbor work
Kuenn moved to Honolulu from
Germany in 1885. for the expressed
purpose of studying the japanese
language. In addition to carrying
out espionage work for Germany
he apparently had been in the pay
of the Japs for some time prior to
the Pearl Harbor attack.
The Kuehn story detailed in FBI
Evening star., 1943-06-14
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and washes the children's clothes
early before he went to work"
He said he was not thinking
of the question of the mental
anguish of the mother who suffers
when her son goes out but of
something involving members of
the family who could not live on
the anotments, and far more than
that, the service that the fellow
himself is rendering is such that
you could not hire anybody to do
1t anyway at the present time"
Gen. Hershey told the committee
he believed the armed services soon
would come to the place where
they will believe that the main
tenance of certain number is the
most We can maintain, and obviously
that number will have to be set
almost on the bassis of the men
who become 18 years of age, be-
cause that is the only source that
remains"
End Of Pool Seen.
The pool of men suitable for mill
tary service is rapidly shrinking, ,"
Mr.. McNutt declared. and those re-
manning in industry and agriculture
Evening star., 1943-06-14
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liaious siSterhoods and of Catholic
action. who in agreement with the
management will devote themselves
with all their physical and moral
energy to their interests. Let there
never fail however. between the
workers themselves. mutual afec-
ton and respect. good example. the
ment, and even whatever little ma
terial help they can afford.
Asks Divine Assistance
For Working Classes.
And now let us return to the scene
we presented at the beginning of our
discourse and point out to YOU once
more the divine model of the Chris
tian worker, Christ the carpenter
Mark So in the workshop of Naza
reth. Son Of God and restorer OF
the lost grace of Adam, He pours
out on YOU that power, that patience
that virtue which makes you great
before Him, the most exalted imagS
of the worker whom you can admire
and adore.
In your workshops and factories.
under the sun. in the fields. iny1he
darkness of the mines, amiX the
heat of the furnace and the, cold
OF the ice factories. wherever the
word of him who command} your
trade, the need of your fellcM men
OF your country, of peace 4lay call
YOU, may there descend BON YOU
the abundance of His fav9rs which
may afford you help, safety and
solace, and make meritorious of an
other world happiness the hard work
IN which here below YOU spend and
sacrifice your life
Have no doubt Christ is always
with you. Imagine you see Him in
the places of your work. passing
among you. noting your toll, listen
ing to your conversations. consoling
your hearts, composing your dis
agreements, and YOU shall see the
workshop changed into the sanctu-
ary OF Nazareth, and there will reign
among you, too. that trust, that Or
der, that concord which are a reflec-
ton of the blessing Of heaven which
increases here below and conserves
justice and good will among men
who are steadfast in faith, in hope
in the love Of God.
While, then. We invoke the Divine
protection upon our beloved work.
ingmen and women, upon your fam
lilies, upon those who direct and
guide you in your work. upon your
very workshops, that the Lord NAV
preserve them from every danger
and harm, with all our hearts we
bestow on you. as token of the
choicest graces, our paternal apos-
tolic benediction.
Evening star., 1943-06-14
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will go to the places where workers
of that type gather He will go to
the site of a construction job as
that work is being completed to
catch the skilled hands before they
60 elsewhere.
He will visit civic groups when
the need is for White-collar workers.
hold registrations in the schools
Just before graduations, call st pool
halls. arrange for movie trailers and
radio spot announcements. assist
employers in planning advertising
campaigns for workers.
Counter for Shifting Workers.
A counter on the first floor of
the USES building at sos K street
NV. has been set aside for work
ers seeking statements Of avail
ability to change jobs
If worker comes in to look for
work, a recruiting officer will get a
brief. verbal statement Of his quail
fcations and send him to the proper
placement officer for consideration
on specific job. No detailed ques-
tlonnalre, as in the past, will be
filed out at that point AS MI
Banta explained the object is to
put man to work, not to put him
in the files If the placement
division has no Job for him. he
will 60 back to the recruiting divi-
sion to fill out the regular form and
wait till he's called for a job
One Of the Jobs in the place
ment division will be TO see If the
demands Of employers can be ad-
justed to meet the Ia Dor shortage
II hotel wants q chef, for in
stance, the placement officer may
locate plain cook with some of
the qualifications and suggest the
employer train him.
Previously Worked in Dark.
Principal reason for the reorgani-
cation, Mr. Banta said was that in
the past the USES had no idea of
the needs Of employers or how they
were being met. The Office was set
up along occupational lines so that
If hotel wanted clerk. walters
and chambermalds, it might have
to so to three different divisions
Of USES to fill its order.
Asked to outline specifically how
the USES would meet the problems
of locally needed activities as out
lined recently in The Star. Mr.
Banta said members of his staff
were going to tackle the laundry
problem this week to find out why
the workers are leaving, where
they're golng and how conditions
can be improved to hold them.
Replacing the men lost to the fuel
distributors through the summer
lay-of will be job for the recruit
ing division In the hotels and res
taurants, USES placement officers.
recruiters and E E. Knott. area
manpoWer utilization director. will
work together to solve the triple
problems Of absentcelSm. turnover
and labor shortage