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The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1943-07-31

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I'm 4, me recent race riot in De-
w., and so artistically and ex-
".r,ly was Il presented that those
mo listened at their loud speak
.,s could almost sec and hear the
conflict.
The letter itself was a master
n,ee and the postscript was equal
y masierful The exact text OF the
message delivered in person by
wendell Willkie as a climax to the
d,ama.ic presentation has heen
,rn,shed hy The Columbia Broad
e,s,ing station for Detroit Tribune
readers. Al The request of this pa
per.
The texi Il WILKES address fol-
lows
This Is time for serious thought
and soher words. For the situation
vhleh nared 90 tragically in De-
rot has rs counterpart. actual or
pcenal in many American cities
such instances Of mob madness
eanno, Ne treated as single cases
because they are profound in their
e,iec, In this country and lasting
IN their impression throughout the
world.
TNo-ihirds Of the people who are
our Allies do not have white skins.
And they have long, hurtful mem
cries Of the white mans superior
attitude IN bis dealings with them.
Today the white man is processing
friendship and a desire to cooper
ate and * promising opportunity
IN the world 10 come when the
var is over. They wonder. when
he necessities OF war cease TO
make cooperation valuable to tho
white man. Will his promise mean
anytime Race riots in Detroit do
not re-assure them.
Search For Basic Cause Asked
The situation is grave both at
home and. In IT'S effects, abroad.
1--we must therefore seek the basic
causes and find the ways for their
elimination practical, direct. posi-
tive ways.
0ne-ienth OF the people In this
country belong to the Negro race
Ia the spirit In which our indie
pendence Nas gained and our re-
public established, there are cer-
aln things these citizens are en-
titled 10 not as matter OF pa
'roraee or tolerance, but as a
matter OF right.
They are entitled 10 protection
under the law. And when their
safety demands II. TO prompt and
vgorou enforcement of the law.
L is iheir right that there shall
be no discrimination against them
II lhe administration OF the law
in federal. state or local govern
menis.
They are entitled TO the same
Opportunity to acquire an educa.
llon-an education OF the same
Equality as that given TO othel
citizens
They have right-as has ever!
cltlzen @ the elimination OF al
arbitrary restrictions on voting
through taxation or Otherwise.
Their right TO work must equa
hat Of any citizen and their re
Vaid should be the same az IN,
reward Of any other citizen for tn
same job.
Their economic opportunit
should not be limited by thei
color.
And last they should have tn
right OF every citizen to fight 10
his country in any branc OF he
armed services.
k'r H. OF Human Needs
nese are merely rights that IN
.egro OF our communities share
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1943-07-31

If Your Merchant Uses
Tribune Advertising then he
Wants Your Support - See
That He Gets II.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1943-07-31
CEnayes Radio ProgramBy Branding
Fascisn As Attitude OF Mind That
Must Be Eliminated AT Home Also

THE dramatzed program sponsored by The Columbia
podcasnq system last Saturday night listened to
~ llions all the United States. II entitled An
or ecr to the American People With Postscript by
I!ArdnlI Mikie" The radio program was a dramatiza-
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1943-07-31

halt police say they fired. hitting
wilbur. Later. Robert CottonA IA,
OF 455 Holbrook. was apprehended
and turned over to his mother.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1943-07-31

earlier. A stream OF protests are
understood to have been registered
that may have had the effect Of
soaring them off ,the plan.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1943-07-31
SWIMMING PERIOD HIGHLIGHTS
BOYS ACTIVITIES AT YMCA

The large number Of boys IN
daily attendance at the st. An
toine branch OF the YMCA Is a
positive proof OF the effective
ness Of the planning Of the BOYS
Work Department. The member
ship exceeds all previous totals
for a corresponding period Of the
year. One OF he outstanding fea-
lures OF the daily program is the
swimming period. Special instruc-
lions are given to the beginning
swimmers. while further develop
ment IS provided for those boys
who know how 70 swim. In ad-
ditlon a free swim in the after
noon Is cooling climax 10 a day
OF fun. The gymnasium offers
physical fitness program In which
the BOYS are grouped on the basis
of nge and physical development.
A hIghlight Of this program Is
the Junior Commando training.
The soft ball league Is also a
lively source OF interest with In
ter-club rivalry running high.
The craft classes provide an
opportunity for the development
OF skill in the use Of hands. Mod
81 boats. airplanes, bow and ar
row and many useful articles are
among the products turned out IN
the shop. Free movies twice week
" and community assemblies with
song feasts are other regular ac-
tlvities.
Plcnlcs and Camps
Among the special features OF
the summer program have been
trip to Joe Louis springhill
farm, a picnic at Belle Isle ana =
trip TO Camp Arthur for a 2-weeE
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1943-07-31
FOR THE
RECORD
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which all OF this professional loot
came.
Several court room spectators
and colored attorneys are asking
the question whether II is the pol
icy Of the Wayne Prosecutors Of
fee to excuse Negro jury members
from all trials involving Negroes
and whites.
The story is being circulated
that il Negro leaders insist on a
Grand Jury 1t will be the Negro
masses who will suffer. The Negro
citizen who believes In good gov
eminent Is not interested in keep
ing from justice the iawless ele-
ment OF Negroes. The guilty should
be brought to justice. White as
well as colored hoodlums shosld
be made TO pay for the disgrace
they have brought 10 Detroit. There
are some murders still unsolved
and some police officers at lai &c
who should be made to answer for
their acts. We do not want white
wash.
Frank Warren. 20S3 Beaubien,
told police last Thursday that lac
lost $3.50 when he got out OF mis-
car. He asked a pal, Joe Moore, 70
help him find the money. Moore,
defense worker, residing at 4f6i
Brush, later was detained y-ro-
lice when It was learned that he
had pawned a $1,000 bin for 500
at Hastings street pawn shop.
This is where detectives, Sgt
George Rutherford and Dave Mar
shall entered the case. The TWO
officers were successful in recov-
ering s2.l00 OF the sS.25O. A one
thousand dollar bill was found in
Joe Moores shoe. He is now in
custody.
The officers are looking for an
other man N connection with the
missing money.
ssssss
John c. Dancy, director Of the
Detroit Urban league. last week
called together a committee OF ci'-
liens to work out plan to aid In
solving the problems which con-
stantly plague the progress of the
Negro in this community. John
told US that he hopes that a group
can be developed TO provide few
guide posts for our citizens.
sssss
II was reported from Washing
ton that II groups presented At
torney General Francis Biddle with
report describing the current ma
ton wide spread OF riots and dis
1 turbances as crises, and Tho
work Of the enemy. The report was
prepared under the direction Of
Judge william II. HASTE OF the
National Lawyers guild. The gronps
demanded the indictment and
prosecution Of Gerald l.. X. Smith
in connection with the Detroi'
riot.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1943-07-31

Frank Turf. of 1916 McGraw,
Apt. /. ended up in 81. Mary's
hospital July % after being struck
in the head with Ratchet.
Police records reveal that HUFF
got into an argument at 5. o, Grad
ing company with fellow work
man. Jessie Stokes, 2i, of 2lS2
Monrcs street stokes is being held
on a charge OF feionious assault.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1943-07-31

with other citizens We must see
10 II that he gets them.
But in addition to his rights are
certain human needs which he also
shares with his fellow citizens.
And they. too. must be cared for.
The most pressing today. for black
and white. is adequate and decent
housing. If this cannot be secured
through the operation OF our pri-
waite economy, It IS an obligation
that must be undertaken by gov
eminent preferably local, but II
necessary federal.
There Is one thing further which
seems TO me TO have real bear
ing on the welfare of our Negro
citizen. It concerns the Negroes
political status.
Political Approach Scored
Our two major political parties
have their separate ways OF APP
proaching the Negro vote One has
tendency to ask the Negro for
his vote as recompense for an
act OF simple justice done so years
ago. The other retains political
power by. in effect, depriving the
Negro OF his right to vote in one
part OF the country, while seeking
his vote in another on the plea OF
great friendship for his race.
Both attitudes must be changed
One party cannot go on fooling IL
self that It has no further obliga-
,on to the Negro citizen because
Lincoln freed the slave. And the
other is not entitled to power If It
sanction and practices one set of
principles in Atlanta and another
in Harlem.
Our whole purpose today, is, with
our Allies, to defeat Fascism. But
all the forces Of Fascism are not
with our enemies.
FascIsm an Attitude OF Mind
Fascism is an attitude OF mind,
an attitude which causes men 10
seek TO rule others by economic,
military or political force or
through prejudice. Such an atti-
tude within our own borders Is AS
serious a threat TO freedom as is
the attack without. The desire to
! deprive some of our citizens OF
their rights economic, civic or
political has the same basic mo-
tivation as actuates the Fascist
mind when it seeks TO dominate
whole peoples and nations.
1t is essential that We eliminate
It at home as wen as abroad.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1943-07-31

ThIrieen-year-old wilbur Hall is
suffering from a gunshot wound
fired by police. Hall and two other
companions. Robert zea Jackson
and Morris McFadden we're be-
tween two apartments when police
arrived after being called by
neiehbors. when the boys failed to
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soldier in this grave and decisive
period in the nations history. No
where in the nation can he. a sol
der. protect himself from his enc
mics who are at the same time the
enemies of justice and peace and
OF the principles OF our democra-
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1943-07-31
Sent For After Peace

The specific requests made 20
the President were we ask thai
Negro soldiers in the armed serv.
ices OF the nation be Immediately
armed TO the same extent and de
gree that white soldiers are arm
ed: that Negro MP's be armed as
are the white MP's: that during
shs time of riots. II the situation
becomes serious enough that the
army be summoned TO assist or 20
take over, that a proporilonafe
number Of Negro soldiers EARNED
to the same degree as the white
soldiers who are scnti be dispatch.
ed 10 the scene at once and no.
after the others have had all The
honor of restoring peace. In the
eyes of the enemy. an unarmed Ne
gro soldier or an unprotected Ne
gro civilian constitute an imitation
10 attack just an an unarmed ma
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1943-07-31

James Hughey, IS. 1903 +. Alex
andrIne Is in serious condition
this week as result OF first de-
gree burns on both legs. Hughey
was pouring gasoline into the car
buretor OF a truck and the gas
spilled on the wire and motor and
ignited.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1943-07-31
MISHAPS OF
THE WEEK

wayman Neal. ~. 544 Alger was
rushed TO the Receiving hospital
July rs after receiving head and
skull fractures. Police say Neal
had been hit by baseball bat.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1943-07-31
FascIsm an Attitude OF Mind

RegIster To Vote
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1943-07-31
Is OF Human Needs

nese are merely rights that the
'e9ro OF our communities shares
The Daily Alaska empire., 1943-01-15
'(JIE3y'.\
 - THEATRE "

cleus around which Coach Dean hopes to build another champion ship team. If he can do it, it will be a swell trick. Three out of five is tough loss
 Two boys who played long enough to win letters last season, Jack Dana and Fred Linari, will try to fill the shoes vacated by Burness and Pollard. Dana looked good while relieving in the N.C.A.A. play offs, and Linari turned in top job when he succeeded ailing Pol lard in the championship game with Dartmouth. Linari stands only 5 feet inches.
 Leo McCaffery, letterman, and two others with partial experience, probably will share the chores at the vacated guard position if they can beat out two outstanding pros poets from last seasons Freshman squad, Dave Brown and Hall were good enough athletes to win jobs as substitute ends on the varsity football squad last Fall.
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(Continued from Page One) Germans three months to conquer. This triangle area is between Moz- dok, Nalchik and Mineralnye Vody.
 The Red Army now has a job 1of moving up the main forces to sup port the men consolidating in the newly won positions.
 Germans in Confusion N.
 Further thrusts on Rostov have exacted heavy Nazi toll. The Russie ns are breaking up the Ger man lines on three main fronts and have sptcad confusion and runccr- tainty among the ranks of the .in- vaderS.
 Urging their advantage, the Red forces are said to have made as far as 30 miles day in an effort to catch up with the tanks, cavalry and motorized infantry which led the advances.
 The German counter attacks aps pear to be the strongest on the central front southeast of Velikte Luke along the lower Don where they are using tanks liberally to back up the infantrymen.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1943-01-15
Wide World Features

DENVER-In two days the army is making good drivers out of poor ones.
 Lieut.. w. O. Earl of Buckley Field, Denver, had to turn out drivers that fast to keep the Buckley Field war wheels moving.
 He designed a circular driving range, about quarter mile in length, that gives a student the thrills of long cross country run plus the headaches of city driving all within the space of few min- utes
 The student takes one of the army's big trucks, in soldier slang a "six by six" over, around, through and across deep gullies, plowed ground and other hazards that would upset any passenger car that attempted the trail.
 Compressed Driving
 This looks like spectacular driv- ing" says Lieutenant Earl. But that isn't it's purpose. It simply crowds the driving experiences that person would meet in a year or two of normal work into the space of a day or two of driving on the range.
 Tn addition, this spectacular por- tion of the course isn't it's most important part. The drivers spend only small percentage of their
The Daily Alaska empire., 1943-01-15
CApITOL HAS FINE FILMS ON
 DOUBLE BILL
John BeaI, Florence Rice Star-AIso Ken Murray,
 Harriet HiIIiard

Doctors Don't Tell" an absorb ing story dealing with the medical profession, has been transcribed to the screen by Republic and is now playing at the Capitol Theatre.
 John Beal ands Florence Rice have the romantic leads in the pie ture, which also features Edward Norris, Grady Sutton, Bill Shirley Douglas Fowley and Ward Bond.
 The story deals with a typical problem which faces young profess sional men starting out on their Hfe's work On the day before h. terne Ralph Sawyer played by John BeaD, is to become a full fledged doctor Diana Wayne, 8 lovely night club singer, is brought to the hospital after having been critically injured in an automo- bile accident Since none of the staff surgeons are available, Saw yer breaks the rules and himself performs the necessary operation, ! Three brand new songs of swing were written by Milton Rosen and Everett Garter especially for luke Box Jenny" another Capitol fea- ture
 They are featured by Harriet Hilliard and others who appear with Ken Murray, Charles Barnet and his orchestra, Wingy Manone and his band, and the Milt Herth Trio.
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time on this section. Their most important instruction is obtained on the parking, signaling, backing, starting and stopping range.
 "On that range we emphasize safety and care of equipment, which is the fundamental purpose of the driving school.
 Tn addition to field work, the drivers must study two or three hours a day, between trips, to fam iliarize themselves with state and city laws. They have to study maps of Buckley Field and of the city of Denver so they. can take people or cargoes safely and by the shortest route to their destinations"
 Hundreds of drivers are needed at Buckley. They weren't available so the Army started hiring civilians. Mostly they are young fellows be- tween high school and draft age. Soon women probably will be em- ployed. In tests, they have proved as able as men, even on heavy trucks, says Earl.
 Then Comes the Draft
 Usually men stay in the job only few weeks, until they are drafted or go into war industries.
 We decided the only way to meet this situation was to maintain a school where we could make com petent drivers out of the mediocre or inexperienced ones that were
The Daily Alaska empire., 1943-01-15
SCREEN PLAY
 HAS L0vELIES
 AND SONG HITS
2Oth Century 1eehnieo|or Feature Brings Color
 and Gaiety

Week End in Havana" tn e Technicolor musical now at the goth Century Theatre, revolves about what will happen to the "McCracken Steamship Company" if John Payne cannot get Alice Faye to sign certain paper. In the script George Barbier plays "McCracken" and Cobina Wright, Jr. plays Miss Terry McCracken.' Alice and John sing of romance under semi-tropical skies and La Miranda sings and dances to five new tunes by Mack Gordon and Harry Wafren.
 Excellent support is given by the balance of the cast which features Cobina Wright, Jr., George Barbier, Sheldon Leonard, Leonid Kinskey, Chris-Pin Martin and Billy Gil- bert. Director Walter Lang has kept the action moving at a steady pace, and the amusing original screen play by Karl Tunberg and Darrell Ware had many unusual situations.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1943-01-15

 IS HIT BY
 WAR PINCH
Three -fifihsof University 5 Hoop Champions
 in Service
By RUSS NEWLAND AP Features

PALO ALTO. Calif. - Collegiate basketball, like all other sports, is feeling the pinch of wartime con- ditions, and the best illustration in the Pacific Coast Conference is provided by Stanford which has lost three-fifths of it's national championship team.
 Absent from the 1943 Stanford varsity squad will be co-captains Don Burness and Bill Cowden, and last seasons sensational sophomore forward, Jim Pollard.
 Burness is in naval aviation; Pollard enlisted in the coast guard, and Cowden is working in a war in- dustry.
 Their departure caused Coach Everett Dean to revise his style of play. Much of the board play made possible by such tall shot makers as Burness and Pollard has been sacrificed in the interests of ball control and speed. Replace ments are not of the bean pole variety.
 Pollard was the second highest scorer in the southern section of the conference with 121 tallies, and he teamed with Burness at for yard and Cowden, guard, to total G94 points of the 520 which the Indians looped in while winning he sectional title. The team went on from there to take the league title. then the National Collegiate A. A. crown.
 The two starting regulars re- turning are Ed Voss, 6 foot 5 inch center, and Howard Dallmar, guard. These veterans will form the nu-
The Daily Alaska empire., 1943-01-15
W0MEN'5 NAVAL
 RESERVE GOING
 TO BE ENLARGED

i SEATTLE, Jan. 15.-The WAVES are rolling in and more and more men are going down to the sea in ships as result.
 And with the first major influx of WAVES into Pacific Northwest naval establishments came informa- ton to the Office of Naval Officer Procurement, TIT Marion Street, Se attle, that the Women's Naval Re- serve will be enlarged far beyond all original plans.
 In announcing the plans for ex- pansion of the enlistment program, Procurement officials also disclosed that some modifications have been made in the requirements. Young women who have completed two years of high school or business college and who have demonstrated an ability to rapidly adapt them selves to various situations now will be given consideration for the WAVES and also the STARS, the OOdSJ SfudiQ SOulltCl Pti Io oA eAAS Navy women.
 While there were but three or four classifications for enlisted person. mel in the WAVES at the start of the program last summer, today there are more than two dozen open for the women who enlist. These places range from office work to aviation mechanics The women are trained in various colleges through out the United States as storekeep- CTS, meteorologists, communications experts, hospital corpsmen, pharma- cists, etc.
 And both the WAVES and STARS when assigned to station replace man who immediately becomes eligible for sea duty.
 More than l50 WAVES will report for duty in Seattle within the next few weeks. The majority will be stationed at Sand Point Naval Air Station. Twenty WAVES will join the three already working in Com munications at Naval Headquarters. Assignments in Procurement, Pup lie Relations and Naval Library at Pier Al have been given to four re- gently enlisted WAVES.
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available" he says.
 Army officers say Earl's school is success and undoubtedly will be copied by other army posts While many drivers are graduated" after a day or two of instruction, some are in school as long as two weeks.
 Earl, youthful, pleasant but er- ficient, was Detroit manufacturer before the war. After he joined the army he was sent to motor main tenance school for two months where he learned about heavy army rolling stock" the hard way in overalls.
 At Buckley Field he simply was assigned as motor maintenance of ficer and told ito get in there and pitch" when the driving situation became critical
The Daily Alaska empire., 1943-01-15
CROWS TEETH AT E

BENTLEY, England Thomas Morris. 75, former mine-worker of this Yorkshire village, wrapped up his false teeth and put them away in a drawer, saying he won't need them any more = he is growing a third set of natural teeth.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1943-01-15
PRICES THURSDAY

Closing quotation of Alaska Ju- neau mine stock Thursday was AS American Gan 76, Anaconda 25% Bethlehem Steel 587s, Common wealth and Southern 7f16, Curtiss Wright 7i4, International Harves- ter SITS, Kennecott 30, New York Central 10M, Northern Pacific 77s United States Steel 49 7y8, Pound S404
 Dow, Jones averages Thursday were as follows. industrials 120.79 rails 2840, utilities l5.48
The Daily Alaska empire., 1943-01-15

Aluminium, valuable because of it's light weight in the production of war planes, is found chiefly in New York, Tennessee and North Carolina.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1943-01-15

 "L view of your letter of Des cember S." the WIPE came back. "wt are clearing priorities for you on SO feet of conveyor belt"
 Representative Harry L. Engln- bright tR-Cal) loves to tell the story on himself about the time he addressed one of the Washington Negro church congregations. It was the Congressman's first ap- pearance before a Negro audience- He was nervous and apparently showed it. H
 The pastor gave him reassurine smile and stepped forward to intro- duce him.
 Brothers and sisters he began, T want to introduce the represerir tative from California, the Honor- able MT. Harry L., Englebright. | know him well. and assure you that although his face may be white his heart is black"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1943-01-15

The maestro is warm summer wind, prevalent on the western coast of the Adriatic.