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The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1943-03-20
NEW YORK GOV. RETURNS FUGITIVE TO MISS
N, Y. Returns Fugitive To South
Miss. Governor Pledges Burrows Safety During Trial

NEW YORK, N. Y.-Guaran-
ty of the safeguard of George
A. Burrows, a cook, who fled
Mississippi after shooting his
way out of a group Intent up
en- his lynching for an alleged
attempt to kiss a white woman
was secured this week by Thur
good Marshall and Donald
Chrichton, counsel for the
NAACP. The NAACP appealed
to Governor Dewey to act
against the extradition of Bur
rows. Governor Dewey an
nounced on March 10 that
Burrows would be returned tc
his home state with the pei
Sonal pledge Of Governor John
son of Mississippi that he
would have the full protection
of the law
Additional safety was IS
sured Burrows in his being
sippi by train rather than in
the automobile of the MissiS-
Sippi sheriff who had come to
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The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1943-03-20
Council Confirms
Mitchell For Secy.

Joseph S. Mitchell was on
Wednesday sworn in as exec
utive secretary to the Gov
ernor's Council after an at
firmative vote by the council
and the third vote taken on
the Governors appointment
OF the colored attorney for
this position. Councillor Saw.
telle, lone democrat, on We'd
heSday changed his vote to the
affirmative.
Sec'y Mitchell now fills the
place made famous by the late
secretary William L. Reed, who
was voted the place for life af-
ter he reached the retirement
age. This was done at the sug-
geStion Of James M, Curley,
then governor. The salary Of
the new encumbent is $4500.
Mr.. Reed latterly drew $500.
Mr.. Mitchell is we'll qualified
for the important position.
The Parole Board now has a
vacancy and it is expected
that a colored man will be
named to the post.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1943-03-20
Were 10 Years Late" For The War
Speaker Tells NAACP Meet

"Unless this country accords
full justice to it's colored citi-
zens there is no guarantee
that freedom and democracy
will be established anywhere in
the world" the Rev. Walton E.
Cole, pastor Second Unitarian
Church, Boston, declared in ar
address before the regional
conference of the National AS
ISOLATION for the Advancement
Of Colored People at Ebenezer
Baptist Church last Sunday af-
ternoon. The church was pack
ed.
Treatment of colored citizens
is a test of democracy whether
such a system of government
and of living together can be
made to work, he continued.
The country worke up ten
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1943-03-20

mankind; then in complete
reverence to the ''giver" Of this
rare gift, art, young Robert
Perkins bowed before an illum-
mating Cross, while Suzette
Perkins chanted the hymnal
lines of Savior Let Me Walk
With Thee, Clarissa Cooke,
accompanying. The works of
Art followed.
Sculpture
Augusta Savage, noted young
sculptresS'S master piece The
Continued on Page Four
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1943-03-20
kediCOs Cancel
Annual Meeting

ORANGE, N. with a des-
ire to cooperate in the war eff
forts by minimizing transporta-
ton the Board of Trustees of
the National Medical Associa-
ton has decided to cancel the
annual convention this year.
For the purpose of transact
ing the business of the ASSocia-
ton, a meeting will be held in
Chicago on August II and IS,
attended by the President, the
Board of Trustees, the Speaker
of the House of Delegates, the
General Secretary, the Treas
urer, the Editor of the Journal
and some of the general Off
GERS.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1943-03-20
Judge Miles Heads
Red Cross Drive

With a group of enthusiastic
workers led by Wallace
Stearns, Roxbury vice chair
man, Judge FARMLAND w. L.
Miles of Roxbury Court, direc-
tor of the local Red Cross
drive is confident that his dis
trict will meet it's quota in full.
At the workers opening
meeting at the Roxbury Red
Cross headquarters, the lion.
Theodore A. Glynn, Clerk Of
the RoXbury Court and former
Boston Fire Commissioner,
gave an inspiring address. He
appealed to all groups to rally
around the Worlds Greatest
Mother" and show the boys
over there that we at home are
doing our part to bring this
terrible conflict to a victorious
finish.
Mrs. Clifford Wharton, wee
chairman of her district wn,cli
is leading in donations at the
first check up, spoke briefly OF
her experiences. Other prom
inent civic leaders were Joseph
w. Fitzgerald, Ward 9 chair
man, Mr.. and Mrs. Myles
O'Dwyer, A t t y. Laurence
Banks, Ward 9, vice chairman,
Mrs. Goldberg, Mrs. Starratt,
and Mrs. Weiffenbach, Wa:ds
10, 8 and IL chairmen, resree-
lively, and Maurice Smith.
Mr.. Stearns has a corps OF
speakers on call for any OF
ganization interested in rails
ing funds for the Red Cross
Roxbury Headquarters are 1T
SO Warren st, Roxbury, High.
8450.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1943-03-20
Celebrate Their
5th Anniversary

Surrounded by over seventy
I'VE friends, Mr.. and Mrs. John
Royal of TO Trotter Court cell
ebrated their 5th wedding an
niversary on Friday, March IL,
at the home of Mrs. Lottie Mil
Ter, 81 Savin st, Roxbury, mother
Of Mrs. Royal A delightful COL
tation was served, and the
couple were the recipients of
many beautiful and useful
gifts.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1943-03-20
Oldest

National
Weekly
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1943-03-20

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The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1943-03-20
SETS new RECORD

Singing star of the stage, screen
and radio, sings Monday even
ing, March 22nd in Pittsburgh,
the spiritual role of the widow
Serena" for the 725th time in
"Porgy and BesS" now on a
transcOntinentaI tour.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-03-11

weather on the northern front had been . major Sactor, but United Press correspondent Edward w. Beattie, with the British First Army In the north, reported:
 Fine days now greatly outnumber rainy days on the northern sector. and the ground is rapidly hardening, but neither side will be in Q position to make full-dress attack until steady sunshine is assured"
 The situation was different at the other end of tho TlnisiAn front, where Gen. Sir Bernard Montgom- ery's powerful Eighth Army was drawn up. Fifghting weather had already arrived, but will end In six weeks or two months, when south eastern TuniSia will become unbear- ably hot and infested with malaria. Montgomery issued an order of the day when Rommel attacked that seemed to imply Q quick thrust through the Mareth Line, behind which Rommel was holed up,
 Montgomery Confident
 "Well smash tho enemy attack and cause him such bloody casual ties that 1t will cripple him." Mont- gonnery told his army. We will, in fact, give him very bloody nose. It will then he our turn to attack, and being crippled himself, he will be unable to stand up to our attack and we will smash right through him"
 Rommel had got a bloody nose at least 02 tanks lost, in addition to materlel and personnel losses-Hnd Beattie disclosed that Axis losses on the northern front had been on Q similar scale.
 Tn the Germans and Italians last offensive action, two attacks against Tamara, l2 to l6 miles south of the coast, and in a subsequent patrol clash, 200 Axis soldiers were taken prisoner, Total Axis casualties were five or six times those of the British, Beattie said. One German battalion, about 1000 men, was cut down to less than a company, 200 men, in the fighting.
 These attacks were among lesser ones in the frustrated German of- fensive in the north. "
 The French reported that their forces in the southern sector had struck at the approaches of Met- laoui Philippe-Thomas) i6 miles southwest of Gafsa, and takne pris- onerS.
 (Radio Algiers reported that French forces had occupied the whole region northeast of the Chott Djcrid (Salt Lake) on Rommels fiank.)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-03-11

The House, meantime, ratified judgeships for three courts: Shelton Harold A. Thompson and George L. Harvey.
 Middletown-Israel Poliner and James M. Kelly.
 Seymour-Joseph N. Perelmutter and John Dziadiak.
 It also voted to reimburse George M. Smith for services as acting sheriff Of Mlddlesex county.
 Other House bills approved pro- vided:
 Permission for the state park and forest commission to lease land to public authorities.
 Authorization for the state board of education to receive and expend federal funds for improvements at University of Connecticut.
 Payment of two weeks salary to dismissed motor vehicle inspectors. who were let go when the inspection lanes closed March IS. 1889.
 Additional payment of i5 cents a day for state prison inmates work ing on federal contracts.
 A bill concerning the distribution Of funds of the Mlddletcwn Trust Co. trustee. was moved to the bot- tom of the calendar.
 The House completed action on a bIll walving the examination and license fees for persons in the armed forces applying for motor ye- hlcle operators licenses.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-03-11

We went all the next day with. out food. About sundown we got underneath the canvas, We were pretty hungry. Then we felt plop on the canvas. It was Q black bird which looked like . crow. One of the fellows grabbed it and VIC had 1t for breakfast the next morning,
 "When I got on the raft we had no idea where VIC were heading, We had no navigating instruments. We just hoped the current would take us to land.
 We didn't really start worrying until after the food was gone. By that tlmo the water was beginning to run low. We decided to catch some Ash. We removed an iron rod from one end of the raft and made Q spear of it by tying on one-half of Q pair of scissors from tho medical kit. We were lucky. Right after we made that spear q flat fish rose to tho surface and laid still aS q board.
 "On tho 20th day VIC saw our first Ship. It was c merchantmen. We had flares aboard. We burned Q couple and waved . flag but it dis. appeared over the horizon.
 "The next day we saw another merchant ship. We had four flares left. We 1t three and waved that flag again, But it disappeared too,
 About the 23rd day our water ran out, When we really started worry ing. It hadn't rained those g days 70 we didn't have any reserve. Then, about three days later, it started to rain - awful hard, Ono of us Steod In tho center of tho canvas while the other four got underneath around the edges to form a trough, We saved quite bit of water.
 Incidentally we caught about 26 more black birds.
 "One day we had Q real banquet, A lot of small fish, about as biz ca SardineS, were steered over to our raft by some big green Ash. We caught about 90.
 "On the 42nd day we sighted a third ship. But our one remaining flare had gotten wet. When that ship disappeared VIC began wonder. ing where we'd end up.
 "BcaZley started getting pains in the stomach. There wasn't much we could do to help him. He started going blind in one eye and losing his hearing in one ear.
 "On the 66th day Beazley took a turn for the worse. He rambled on about people we didn't know and we knew he was losing his mind. That night VIC put him to sleep under the canvas. He groaned a bit and he couldn't take any water. The next moraing we found him dead.
 Each of us sa'G a prayer. Then we removed his clothes and took from his finger 6 ring his girl friend had given him six years ago. We showed him overheard
 1.-Two or three nights later. Lieu tenant Maddox started grooming. He
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-03-11

Air Force as precious and welcome Allies"
 "The moro Americans come n take part in the air offensive against Germany" he said, "the better we shall ho pleased and the sooner the malignant power of Germany will be broken"
 He described the American pilots as "llon. .hearted and skillful fght- ers."
 "Their methods are the comple- ment of ours," he said.
 He pledged that the fighting strength and exertions of the RAF would continue to increase in tho coming year.
 Despite bad weather, Sinclair said, the tonnage of bombs in January was surpassed in only thrc emonths of ie42, while the February figure including three I,000-t ton raids-waS half again aS large aS that of any previous month.
 The 4,000-ton mark for the first 10 days of March indicated that Q new record may Do in the making, Enemy Losses Double
 Sinclair reported that the rate oi German aircraft losses in the last three months was nearly thrice that oe the RAF In It's attacks on Ger many and occupied western Europe
 Ono Hawker Typhoon squadron alone was credited with destroying l3 German planes in January and February, he said.
 British hombers, he said, laid nine times as many mines in enemy waters in ie42 as in i04l. He esti- mated that the RAF has sunk or seriously damaged more than i,260,- 900 tons of enemy shipping.
 In the battle of Egypt and Libya, he said, the RAF destroyed or cap- tured l,477 enemy planes with loss of 345 of their own planes.
 Reconnaissance photographs of the British raid the night of March s on Essen, the home of the great Krupp Arms Works, disclosed that 1t probably was the heaviest blow struck at German war industry in the whole bomber offensive" Sin- clair said.
 At least i3 of the main buildings at the Krupp Works were destroyed or severely damaged and at least 70 other buildings, sheds and work shops were damaged in Q less de- gree. he said.
 "In all severe damage was done to WofkshOpg and administrative buildings covering l36,000 square yards" he added.
 The destruction at Essen was comparable only to that achieved in the l,000-bomber raid on Cologne last May 90. according to Sinclair.
 (Prime Minister John Curtin of Australia earlier this week estimated that l,6O0 tons Of bombs were dropped on Essen March 6)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-03-11

GhkG ~ 
 since last March, the administrator reported.
 Stettinius told Congress that food shipments to Russia in Janaury and February were 35 per. cent greater than in the previous two months and five times what they were during the same period fin 1922. Of the total of $0.632, ,000, 900 in lend-lease goods transferred. 90 per cent has actually been shipped.
 Total lend-lease aid to date fol- lows:
 United Kingdom, s4,430. 900 900: : U. 8. S. R., Sl,326, ,00O. 900: Africa and Middle East. Sl,573. .0OO. 900: China, India, Australia and New Zealand. $i.344. 4.000. 900: other areas,
 Discussing shipments to the SO- viet Union. stettinius said that the value of aid to Russia is in- creasing," Up to March l, lo4J, Russia was shipped lend-lease sup~ plies totaling more than S,25O.OO tons.
 "In addition to sending to the Soviet more lend-lease planes, tanks and trucks than to any other area, we have shipped more than I30.OO0 sub-machine guns, more than ee.0O0.0O0 pounds of T. V. q. and tuluol. more than lee,O00, GOO pounds of copper and brass, hiin- dreds of thousands Of miles Of tele- phone wire. 02.O00 tons of rails. car wheles and other equipment. and almost 3000.000 pairs of army boots" Stettinius reported.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-03-11
Izzi Looks Forward
 To Mom's Spaghetti
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began calling for his wife. We put him In tho drlest spot on the raft and tied hls canvas 50 he wouldn't fall overheard. We wet his head, The next morning he was dead.
 Tt was on . Sunday-about the 77th day adrlft. That left me and the two Dutchmen. Each of us said Q prayer and lifted him over tho side.
 we were very weak by this time. The afternoon before we got pick. cd up it ralned, Wo caught as much as we could but we were too weak to do much. That night, about o'clock we saw our first plane. We were too weak to stand but we waved our flag. Tho plane didn't see us. We said our prayers and got under the canvas for the night.
 Tho next morning another plane scared by but he didn't see us. That afternoon we saw smoke. Then we saw Q bunch Of ships.
 We prayed that one of them would see us. A little while later, we saw 0 warShip lsadIng In our di- rection. We were afraid ho would be passed up 50 one of the Dutchmen said he d stand up and wave the flag. We held his knees 50 he wouldn't fall down. Then we saw 0 signal from the ship showing they had found US.
 q weighed i4S pounds when my ship was torpedoed, I weighed 90 when they picked me up.
 "When I got aboard the rescue ship they asked mo what I wanted to cat. I thought about that spag- hetu my mother makes. But was aboard Q Navy ship, 50 I asked for beans."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-03-11

tCOntlnueu rom PURo v
 the official organs of the govern ment and Communist party, ISves. tla and PraVda, reopened tho second front issue,
 Using practically identical lan- guage, editorials in the papers said
 '"fhe Red army alone, owing to the lack of a second front in Europe, is bearing the whole weight of the struggle aganist tho hordes of Hit- Ter and his Vassals for whom tho en- tire war industry of the continent iS working. No other country and nc other army in the world could have withstod such trials.
 Though the Russians evineed no undue pesslmiSm over the roVerses in the Ukraine and DonetS Basin ttere were indications of growing anxiety that they may be compelled to bear the brunt of the land fight ing again this summer.
 The clamor for 6 second front however has not reached the pro- portions Of last summer, and prob- ably will not.
 A Soviet thrust to within striking distance of Vyazma from the easi was disclosed in tho Russian mid day eommunique's announcement o' tho capture of Isakova, only i2 mile' away on tho railroad from kaluga,
 Inc High Command also reported new gains toward Vyazrna from tho northeast, north and northwest, a' we'll as advances south of Lake IT. men on the northwestern front, west of Kursk on tho southern front ane in the northwest Caucasus.
 A front dispatch to tho army organ Red Star said the German armies on the Kharkov front--estimated al % divisions numbering some 30000t troops were attacking the new so' yict lines to the south and west with unabated violence, probing for weak spots in an attempt to drive through to Kharkov itself.
 Everywhere furious fighting l. raging" the dispatch said, Possess Ing many fold superiority in panZerS and infantry, the Germans arc hurl- ing them into battle in an effort to crush our resistance at all cost"
 Both the mid-day communiqut and front dispatches, however, said the Russians arrayed along the northern bank of the Donets after an SO-mile retreat in the past three weeks, were firmly repulsing every attack and infiicting enormous loss es on the enemy.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-03-11

advisory services, and maternal and child health clinics and health serv- Ices in schools.
 It stopped short of recommend- ing socialized medicine when 1t sug. gested that the government and the medical profession act immediately to formulate plans to enable Q pa- tient to budget expenses over a rea- sonable period. The patient would be charged according to ability to pay, but at the same time at a rate to assure medical personnel of a de- cent livelihood commensurate with the high costs of their professional gaining.
 It did recommend, however, that there be federal appropriations to aid the states and localities of de- veloping Q system of hospitals and health centers to serve the entire nation.
 It recommended that there be as- surance of adequate and well-dis- tributed supplies Of physicians. den. lists. nurses and other medical per- sonnel so that no locality will be denied such services.
 It recommended protection of workers in factory and on the farm from unnecessary accidents. con- trollable occupational disease and undue fatigue.
 Continued support from public and private funds for public health research and education in health hazards and nutrition was strongly supported by the board.
 It said assurance was necessary that adequate medical and health care for all regardless of locality or income status would be provl cd on . basis consistent with the self~re- spect of the recipient through fed- eral appropriations to aid state and localities develop tho system of hospital and health osnters.
 TWO days after that my ofilccr started getting sick. He, too. began going blind and couldn't hear. There wasn't much he could do. We had been out of water for four days.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-03-11
SINCLAIR PAYS
 TRIBUTE TO RAF
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(Continued from Page D most heavily bombed spot on earth"-kept up with the pace of destruction of Axis planes. Sinclair said the British had lost 363 planes at Malta in the last year, but RAF pilots and anti.aircraft gunners had shot down 9i7 enemy aircraft.
 In the three.month period end ing Febraury 28. total of 302 enemy planes crossed the British coast by daylight. Sinclair said, and 46 were destroyed while many others were prboably destroyed or damaged. The enemy sent 240 planes across by night, of which 20 were destroyed.
 He said the Royal Air Force had lost 500 fighter planes to German pilots and anti-aircraft fire. but added that the fighters had escorted 2,500 bomberS on raids.
 Sinclair said severe damage had been done to Germany's industrial machine.
 The air secretary Y,oke after bad weather interrupted the RAF's latest aerial offensive on its third night. The German radio reported that British planes made sporadic incursions into Germany during the night at the cost of four planes, but the activity was so slight that the British air ministry did not bother to issue a communique.
 During the first 10 days and nights of this month, however, the RAF has dropped more than 4.000 tons of bombs on Europe, Sinclair dis- closed. He also confirmed that the tonnage of bombs unloaded on Eu- rope during February totalied 10000 -Jhalf again as large as in any pre- vious month of the war.
 He reported that the RAF raid on Essen, home of the great Krupp Arms Works. the night of March was probably the heaviest struck at German industry in the whole bomber offensive" with at least 63 buildings destroyed or dam aged over an area of i36.O00 square yards.
 Damaged sections of other Ger man cities. he said. included il8 acres in Wllhelmshaven 600 acres in Cologne. lS0 acres in Rostock. l36 acres in Mainz. 200 acres in Lubeck. 260 acres in Karlsruhe and 3oO acres in Dusseldorf.
 Damage in the great raid in Ber- lin the night of March 1 has not yet been assessed, he said.
 Bomb damage to the German steel works in the Ruhr and Saar districts resulted in the loss of l,26OOOO tons of steel, while coal production fin the Ruhr Valley fell of 20 per cent In three months last summer.
 He said the air ministry would spare no exertions to insure that the development of our tactics and equipment will continue to outstrip the enemy"
 Sinclair welcomed the American