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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-14
TO THE EDITOR:

TO THE EDITOR:
IT WOULD seem that the L. s.
Il pu ic would have been
aroused to some form of action
by this time. in protest to the
lack of consideration being ac-
corded them in such matters as
rationing Ruml tax plan, gestapo
bill and appointment OF compe-
tent men 10 handle problems
vital to the nation.
II is quite possible that this
administration succeeded long
ago in convincing them that re-
SiStanCe to the New Deal is USE
less. It is also quite possible
that if said public were told how
to present their views, they
would respond quickly. The
writer suggests that our news
papers print the names and adj
dresses of influential people in
Washington. TO whom the public
should convey their views, and
that copies of all such commune
cations 10 Washington officials
be sent 10 local newspapers.
I am convinced that this New
Deal administration will discount
claims Of any one receiving pro-
tests against New Deal policies.
unless they realize that the press
has proof of such claims. This adj
miniStration is more afraid of
our press. which still has some
rights TO freedom of speech. than
they are of 100000 indvid-
ualS.
When the press and The public
tried 10 stop the New Deal from
passing certain legislation two
years ago. which at that time
was recognized TO be conducive
10 our entry into this war, their
wishes were ignored. even
though Washington officials
were receiving tons OF mail daily
in support Of the protest. The
trouble was that no organized
effort was made 10 record the
number of protests. Therefore,
the New Deal was sure that they
could ignore the demands of
even the majority. and did, Let's
not make that mistake again.
We implore the public TO write
TO some one in Washington de-
handing that the Ruml tax plan
he adopted and that the gestapo
bill he rejected at once. Give
your newspapers some ammunl-
ton TO fight this domineering
administration.
The only thing that stands be-
tween us and a dictator form Of
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-14
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-14
CHARLES III. TEST
1923 Wisconsin.
What War Bonds Buy

THE HOLDS of hundreds of
transport ships, travelling the
seven seas in conveys, are loaded
with provisions for our fighting
men. 1t costs Uncle Sam APP
proximately S412.52 to keep the
average soldier in fighting trim
for a year lin continental United
States). 1t costs more overseas.
Your purchase of War Bonds,
at least 10 per cent of your in
come every payday, will help
provide the millions Of dollars
necessary to provide the essen
tials food and clothing and
barracks for our soldiers,
sailors and marines. At the
same time you save money for
yourself and your family.
4. 3. Treasury Department
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-14
BAERING DOWN ON THE NEWS:
SpuUuII OvleIelS
By ARTHUR BUGS" BAER

see the Scotch making omees out Of seagul eggs.
You don't have 10 add salt.
guess they pretty good after the third ambulance
ride This is cruel but reason to work
annette climbing cliff something that is going to
disagree with you.
Any egg that has been in nest couple of weeks is
liable to talk back to you seagull is not domescated
fowl And as the old farmer said How you tell the boys
from the gulls?"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-14
etters to he Editor

Gently passed by the House Of
Representatives. Mr.. Hearst is
a man after my own heart, and
i hope he never falters or fails
America while il has men like
him can look forward with hope.
Enclosed is copy of telegram
sent TO Chairman Van Mugs of
the Senate judiciary committee.
Copies of it have also been sent
10 Senators Ferguson and Van
denberg. with both of whom /
am personally acquainted. This
"Gestapo" piece of legislation
must be destroyed and it is up TO
Americans with CUTS 10 do II.
FRANK A. ROBERTS.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-14
Copy Of telegra m:

Copy Of telegram:
PERSONAL:
Honorable Frederick Van NuyS,
Judiciary Committee, L. S.
Senate, Washington, d. {.
UNDERSTAND "GESTAPO"
BILL PASSED BY TRICKERY
IN HOUSE AS WAR SECUR-
ITY BILL BEING REFERRED
YOUR COMMITTEE. THIS
BILL FOULEST AND MOST
CONTEMPLATE PIECE NEW
DEALISM YET ATTEMPTED.
URGE YOU AS LOYAL AMER
ICAN DESTROY THIS BILL
IN COMMITTEE. 1T MUST
NOT DISGRACE THE SENATE
OF THE UNITED STATES.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-14

had il not been for the Ameri-
cans attacking in his right rear
at Fl Guettar and MaknaSSy.
Do not let any one tell you
that the British Eighth Army
did all the fighting The British
will never say so. nor will any
one else who knows w h
happened.
TlIE constant ssure OF
Il American land forces. and
particularly American airplaneS,
required Rommel 10 protect a
line on his rear right flank more
heavily than his front line fac
ing the British Eighth Army.
He could always retreat from
the face Of the British in safety.
but if We broke through in his
rear. he would have be c n
undone.
The American fighting, there
fore. was really the factor that
made the British successes pos
Siblc, because it drew enough
cannon and men from the Nazi-
British front 10 en- b 70 Gen.
Montgomery 10 break up any
thing Rommel offered Our sue
Cesses at Pichon Kairouan and
Fondouk really forced Rommel
10 retreat from the Eighth
Army.
There are some who may say
that our failure 10 break
through TO the coast and cut
Rommel of completely is dis
appointing factor in our success.
No douh a break-through Of
such nature was part of our
strategy.
But il had TO be accomplished
with such oVerw g m ing
strength that il Coul d be de-
Tended successfully not on Y
from Rommel on the southern
side. but from Won Arnim on the
north.
DOMMEL would have turned
~ on us in his retreat and our
brcak-through unit would have
been oppoS both from the
north and south at the same
time. The way il happened was
much surer and fer though
less decisive.
So now Rommel, with his bat
tered Afrika Korps. filled with
requirements, has managed 10
eSerVe some considerable
fighting power for the final fray
at the side of Won Arnim.
So fast was he fleeing past
SfaX. he did not have time 10
lay land mines and establish
himself an advantageous natural
line which was waiting for him
- miles south Of SouSSe.
This line, running from Nah
dia from tho sea 10 dricd-up
marsh crumbled quickly before
the Eighth Army, with the usual
loss of Italians.
The mountain line. north OF
EnfidaVille, was obviously the
best place for final resistance.
The highest peak in all North
east TuniSia Diebel Zaghoun)
is in that range. Part of the
water supply for TuniS is drawn
from there by aqueduct.
Only through narrow valleys
i'm this range can we approach
TuniS and Bilerte. and the Ger
mans have placed their artillery
IN such position 10 make adj
vanceS through the valley eX-
tremely difficult
But they only have about six
airfeldS left. three large ones
around the two big cities and
three or four smaller fields hud-
died closely within their narrow
lines.
NE HAVE had superiority in
w The ain until now and should
bc able 10 make hash out Of
those fields in a few days. Our
fields are scattered far back and
thus better protected.
Whether the Germans can
escape successfully in another
Dunkirk depends on the coming
fight In the air. We have the
sea power, a superior land force
and air force tup 10 now.
II Hitler can hastily assemble
enough planes 10 get tempo
rary local air superiority over
the @O.mile stretch of water
from Tunis 10 Sicily. and thus
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-14
DAN l.. VERT.
1853 w. Maplehurst,
Ferndale.
TO THE EDITOR:

~ NE ELL lOk:
On BEHALF of the Detroit
" Chapter of the American
Red Cross and the 1913 Red
Cross war fund committee, l
wish TO thank The Detroit Times
for its fine cooperation in our
drive. | can assure you that
your support has been no small
reason for the campaigns sue
cess.
Particularly did we appreciate
your use of the Red Cross on
Page One. your Streamer heads
and the reproduction Of the Red
Cross symbol in most of the daily
stories.
Your assistant managing edi-
tor, city editor, picture editor,
woman'S page editor, reporters
and photographers have gone out
of their way TO help the Red
Cross.
It's inspiring 10 all of us TO
know there is such a civic spirit
here. and we are fully conscious
Of the part you have played in
fostering such spirit.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-14
Bradley Charges
Niles Is Potter
Through OCD

EDITORS NOTE-Ih address dClUercd before
the House April Rep Frederick Bradley of Michigan
charged that radical clique is directing campaign for
fourth term for President Roosevelt.
The campaign, he declared, is part Of plot to
impose upon free America socidStic controls The Times
is reprina9 the address in four Instruments of which
this is the first
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-14
FRANK A. ROBERTS
TO THE EDITOR:

TO THE EDITOR:
IT SEEMS 10 me that all the
L people of Detroit are looking
for an airport and it's really
under our noses-Belle Isle, at
the upper part.
Belle Isle would make the
best airport as it is close TO
town, and has n real future be-
cause well all fly after this war.
To compensate the public.
promise that the-river front will
be finished after the war and
made into beautiful beaches,
which are really needed by De-
trolters.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-14

government IS our freedom of
speech. Our press and conscien-
Iious government officials will
protect us against internal total
itarianism if we only stand be-
hind them and pass the ammu-
milton, but it must be impressive
ammunition.
So send copies of your corre-
Spondence TO your local newspa-
per. 1t may be as effective as
voting at the polls.
God knows that we can't
wait for an election to stop the
New Deals schemes. They in
tend 10 have us completely regi-
mentcd before the next election
and thereby dispense with this
effective function of a democ-
racy which constitutes govern
ment of the people, by the peo-
pie and for the people. We, the
people, must do our part.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-14
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-14
Yanks' Role
Was Vital in
Tunisia Rout
u. s. Pressure Permitted
Drive by British
by PAUL MALLON

N'ASHINGTON. April IL
W Rommcl lost 80 600 men in
prisoners alone from the Ma
rcth Line 10 SouSSc.
These losses should have been
enough TO destroy his army but
they did not.
The crafty Nazi saved the
backbone of his fighting power
ChiS Afrika KorpSl from heavy
rctreating engagements. II con-
tainS probably three motorized
divisions, or about $4,000 men.
4 LWAYS he left behind rear
- guard TO cover the escape of
his priced korpS composed OF
substantial groups of Italians
and less important German in
fantrymen. These held the pill
boxes al the Mareth Line until
tho korpS could escape north
W2rd
More Ol them were lett al ri
Afarit. IS miles south of GabeS,
whore he was expected 10 make
a strong stand. He had no pre-
pared Notifications there, but
was in an excellent position,
with one flank resting on the
sea and the other securely pro-
teCted by salt marshes.
He would have stood there
had il not been for the Ameri-
cans attacking in his right rear
at Fl Guettar and MaknasSy.
Do not let any one tell you
that the British Eighth Army
did all the fighting. The British
will never say so. nor will any
one else who knows VIII a I
happened.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-14
HENRY T. EWALD,
Chairman, Adcraft Committee
1913 Red Cross Fund.
TO THE EDITOR

TO THE EDITOR:
As A daily subscriber of The
"A Detroit Times, II Is indeed
a pleasure as well is a privilege,
to commend you for your Cour-
ageouS editorials, particularly
the one on the "Gestapo" bill re-
Arkansas State press., 1943-12-24
" OWS HUACHUCAIANS

The fighting Of Huoehuco proudly present one of the
most pleasant personalities hove visited the Fort for Of
moons She is the wife Of CPL Foyord Nicholas of the famous
donemg Nicholas Brothers. who Of the noting features
IN the o2nd nonty Special Service Division The former Gao
ins Pate spent severo weeks here with her popuor
husband and spending the holidays with her poen the
east She expected to return TO her Los Angeles home where
she will heed noono moeozne in thot oreo until her reel
thing" comes home
Arkansas State press., 1943-12-24
Doubleday Doran Announces
The George Washington Carver
Memorial Award . $2,5OO.OO

This award is offered by
Doubleday, Doyan and Company
and is open to any book that
deals with American Negroes. 1t
is an award of $4,000 f$1,500
outright, 81 900 as an advance
against royalties). The offer will
remain open indefinitely in our
discretion IT will not be based
on manuscripts received during a
particular period but the award
will be given whenever a full
length manuscript seems In the
estimation of the judges to be
worth Of this special recognition.
The judges will be the editors of
Doubleday, Doran and Company.
It is the hope OF Doubleday,
Doran that this award will serve
az one means of keeping alive
the memory OF great American,
and that Il will also help to give
wide distribution to books about
the American Negro II Is Ger
tain,y an exaEPeration to say that
Uncle Toms Cabin brought on
the Civil War, but It Is certainly
no exaggoration to say that the
moral indignation It aroused in
the North had a great deal 10 do
Arkansas State press., 1943-12-24
Announced Menu
For u. S. Troops
For Xmas Feast

There won't be any gaily deco
rated evergreens festooned with
briphet lights this year in the fox
holes and slit trenches on the glo-
bal front where American soldiers
are fighting for the preservation
Of the ideals of which Christmas
IN the symbol.
But while the fighting must
continue, the Army is bending
every effort to provide its troops
at home as well as overseas, with,
all OF the holiday cheer possible
under widely varying clrcum-
stances, the War Department an
nonnced today.
Provision has been made to
serve the TRADITIONAL Christmas
Day dinner, but not all OF the men
In combat zones will be able to
partake of II on December Is,
because the battlel ines must be
maintained. However. It will be
waiting for them when they are
relieved.
The menu follows:
Dreamed Celery Soup with Crou-
tons
Roast Turkey. Sage Dressing, Glib
let Gravy
Cranberry-Orange Relish
Snowflake potatoes, baked squash.
crenmed corn
Head lettuce with Russian dress
ing
Hot rolls, Butter
Mlnce Pie Chocolate Nut cake
Assorted fruits, candy, nuts
Coffee Cigarettes Tobacco
In some OF the overseas sectors
where refrigeration facilities are
not available the turkey will be
canned. In others, the potatoes,
soup and cranberry sauce may DO
made from dehydrated products.
Arkansas State press., 1943-12-24

with ending the inhuman institu-
ton OF slavery. Books are wea-
pons.
A book entered for the George
Washington Carver Memorial
Award may take any form as long
as II is an effective book and has
something to say. 1t may be flc-
ton, non-fiction or poetry. IT
may be written by anyone who
Eliminates the Negroes place In
American life. Doubleday, Do
ran reserves the right to publish
any book submitted even II 1t does
not win the award, on terms to be
arranged,
The George Washington Cary
or Memorial Award winners viii
be extensively promoted and their
authors will receive the following
scale OF royalties: 10 per cent on
the first $500 copies; IL IL per
cent on the next $500 copies
and rs per cent thereafter.
Manuscripts should be address
ed to the Editors, George Wash
ington Carver Memorial Award.
Doubleday Doran and Company
Inc, IA West 49th STREET, New
York 90, N. Y.
Arkansas State press., 1943-12-24
Sweet O. the Marines
Pres. Asked to Take Action
On RR's Defiance Of FEPC

True TO form. the Southern
Rourbons that run the railroads
in the South. alarmed at the fact
that Negroes are taking the pro-
fessions Of the United Nations
about democracy and freedom,
seriously, have hurled defiance to
the Presidents Committee on
Fair Employment Practice for It'll
| issuance of direetives to sixteer
Southern carriers, ordering thai
the age-old practices of racial dis
elimination against Negro work
ers be stopped Hiding behind
the smoke screens that the direc-
lives of FEPC are unrea,istic and
Impractical, and comparing up
horrifying hobgoblins of racial
disaster in the South II just en-
ployment opportunities arc award
ed Negroes in the railroad indus
try, the Southern railroad man
agements have denounced the
Presidents Executive Order $500
as scrap OF paper, expressing
Arkansas State press., 1943-12-24
ARMY PRIVATE GIVEN
five YEAR SENTENCE
ON FRAUD CHARGE

ed today by Brig. Gen. H. N.
Gilbert, USA, Director of the Of
flee of Dependency Benefits, an
activity of the Army Service
Forces.
"This is the most severe sen
tence yet imposed for fraud in
connection with family allow
ances,' General Gilbert stated.
"The soldier was charged with
violation of the oath Article Of
War in that he knowingly execut-
ed a fraudulent affidavit so as
to assist a woman whom he de-
scribed as his wife in obtaining
family allowance
Evidence developed in the case
revealed that the soldier, who had
been married for a number of
years and had deserted his wife
and young son in Philadelphia,
Pa, in 1887, entered the Army
under an assumed name in Janu-
airy 1912. In November, 1941,
however, he had gone through a
bigamous marriage ceremony with
a girl nj Newark, N. j. Soon
after entering the Army, he APP
piled for a family allowance for
this girl, naming chr as his wife.
The allowance was authorized and
paid. AS soon as fraud was es-
tablished, the ODB discontinued
her family allowance. Refund Of
payments to which she had not
been entitled will be required by
the ODB in accordance with the
law, General Gilbert revealed.
There was no evidence, how
ever, that this girl was a party
to the fraud, and she has not
been prosecuted" the General
added
A family allowance has been
authorized for the soldiers law
full wife and their child, it was
stated, and this allowance is be-
ing paid. They still reside in Phila-
delphia.
Arkansas State press., 1943-12-24
Miller Receiving The Navy
Cross From Adm. Nimitz

sentative Of his race to be so
honored in this war. He then read
Arkansas State press., 1943-12-24
Nays Highest
Ranking Negro

Lieut.. u. g. Clarence Som
ueIs Of the United States Coost
Guord, now the highest ranking
Negro in the Noyy. A motive OF
ponomo, 1t. Somuels has spent
q years in the Coat Guard,
during which time he hos sery-
ed in charge Of q cutter in So
vonnoh, Georgia horbor; in charge
OF the Coast Guard unit at Pea
Island, near Monteo Roanoke,
N. c. and at the y, 5. Coost
Guord Troining Station, Monhut-
ton Beach, N. Y, He is krown
throughout the service for his
excellence os O siqnoImon and
r-nrtemon. His ribbons irdicote
Pre-Peorl Horbor Service, Pcorl
Hurbor cotton, American Theot-
re Of War oction, Africor mid
eastern eompoign, expert pistol
shot and his good conduct rib
bon hos four bars.
Arkansas State press., 1943-12-24
their flat refusal to obey it.

their flat refusal to obey it.
This is a sharp challenge to the
Negro, liberal and minority
groups of the country. It is .
mortal thrust at the heart Of
American democracy. Certainly,
It will give cause for Hitler and
TOTO to shout Hypocrisy" to
American democracy, but Neg
roas, Catholics, Jews and other
minority groups will not let this
challenge 60 unanswered. From
every housetop, pulpit. and street
corner, the voice of the people
must ring down these charges,
demanding that President Roose-
welt meet this challenge with
fortnight action, ordering these
railroads to obey the directives
Of FEPC. The fight to save and
make an effective FEPC. IL a vital
part Of the fight to help win tho
war and the peace, stated A. Phil
ip Randolph, National Director Of
the March on Washington Move
moat
Arkansas State press., 1943-12-24
LIBERTY SHIP
5 5 JOHNSON
IS LAUNCHED

One Of the most talented of
American Negroes was honored
Sunday December IL, when the
Liberty ship, IS James Weldon
Johnson, was launched at the
wilmington (Calif) yards Of the
California Shipbuilding Corpora
ton. 1t was the 301st Calship
huilt for the U. s. Maritime Com
mission and the seventh OF a
series that the Commission has
named for outstanding Negro
Americans.
Mrs. Charlotte A. Bass, editor
Of The California Eagle, of Los
Angeles, christened the vessel,
and her secretary, Miss Bernlce
Cook, served as maid OF honor.
James Weldon Johnson was
noted as a teacher. song writer,
poet. ossayist, lawyer and diplo-
mat. but he was best known as
publicist and executive secre-
tary Of the National Association
for Advancement OF Colored Peo-
pie for more than decade.
Arkansas State press., 1943-12-24
| Enlisted From
Little Rock

/ tain on the bridge, Miller, despite
enemy strafing and bombing and
In the face of a serious fire, as
sisted in moving his Captain, who
! had been mortally wounded, to
a place of greater safety, and lat
err manned a machine gun direct
, ed enemy Japanese attacking air
craft until ordered to leave the
bridge"
Later, In January, 1943, while
/ visiting the y. S. Naval Training
Station at Great Lakes, Ill, Blue
jacket Miller explained that the
Pearl Harbor incident marked his
first experience with a machine
| gun. Addressing hundreds OF
Negro Bluejackets who are now
! bsing taught at Great Lakes e
handle such weapons, Miller said
1t wasn't hard. / just pulled
the trigger and she worked fine.
I had watched the others with
! these guns. guess | fired her
for about fifteen minutes at those
Jap planes. They We're diving
pretty close to u.s."
Miller who was born October
10, 1919, left his fathers small
Waco, Texas, farm on September
16, 1889, to enlist in the Navy as
a Mess Attendant, Third Glass at
Little Rock, Ark He was sent
to the Naval Training Station at
Norfolk, Va, and then was as
, signed to the U. s. Arizona on
which he served until the morning
| of the Japanese attack on Pearl
| Harbor.
i Miller's parents live at Route
I, Box 161, Waco. Texas. The
missing hero has three borthers
l one a private in the U. s. Army,
Arkansas State press., 1943-12-24
"No Jim Crow';
No Work Threaf''
Is Carried Out

Following the refusal Of the
Point Breeze Employees Associa-
ton. Inc, to terminate strike
in five Baltimore, Md, plants
of ahe Western Electric Company
the National War Labor Board
referred the labor dispute to the
White House Thursday, December
16.
The strike was called by the
Employees Association at the
Point Breeze plant Of the West
crn Electric Company, Tuesday,
December IA, and spread to four
other plants, after the NWLB
refused to order any change in
the company's policy Of providing
common facilities for white and
Negro employees Of the company.
A request for separate facilities
had been made by representa-
tives of the Association at a pub
lie hearing before the Board on
December 2, 1od3. The request
was opposed by representatives
Of the Western Electric Company
and the NWLB upheld the COM
pany's position in unanimous
decision made public Monday, De-
cember 10.
4 few hours after the strike
began, William II. Davis, chair
man of the National War Labor
Board, sent the following tele-