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4I35 REASON 7d37lli;Z WISDOM UNDERSTANDING

junior III nIgn sc.4Ou4. A.. VIZ Cal-
ented in singing. I've been told
that with proper training, I could
become very famous. Should I fin
ish school before taking up sing
ing?
Ans: Do not sacrifice your school
work for vocal lessons, but if you
can work the two in together with
out conflicting with each other, it
would be well worth your while.
Your music instructor there at
school could probably help you To-
cate a good vocal teacher. Bear in
mind that your school work is more
important than the singing lessons
at this particular time in life.
R. L. G.: I am a girl of 10 and
1 go with a man of AZ. He swears
that he loves me. I love him so
much until l have wished a thou
sand times that he was mine. He
will give me anything that I want.
Is there a chance for me?
Ans: There is not a chance of
you cOaxing him to leave his wife
for you, but there is a strong pos
sibility that he will be instrumental
in running your life, if you continue
to hang around him. Your good
reputation is worth far more than
the few paltry gifts that you re-
ceive from this man. If he cheats
on his wife, he would probably
cheat on you, if you had him.
E. W.: I simply cannot center
my thoughts on one thing in school.
1 am thinking of changing my
course, altogether, next year.
Would this be a mistake?
Ans: It is vitality important that
you decide, once for all, which
course Of study you wish to follow
and then stick to it. The change
that yeu have been making for the
past two years may retard your
progress, and cause you to lose a
whole years work. Discuss your
problem with one of the teachers
there and let her help you decide
what course Of study you should
follow.
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cations are cooperating in the fight
for a congressional investigation
with the slogan "Strike a Blow at
Old Jim Crow, Equal Rights for
Negroes in the Armed Forces:
Dining Car Employees, Local SIG,
A. F. of L.; Packing House Work
ers Organizing Committee, CLIO;
Workers Defense League, Twin
City Branch; St. Paul Trades and
Labor Assembly, A. F. of L.; Pro-
duction Workers Union, Local
1920, A. F. of L.; United Electrical
Radio and Machine Workers, CLIO;
Minnesota State Farmer-Labor AS
ISOLATION; st. Paul Jewish Council;
American Civil Liberties Union, ST..
Paul Chapter; Women's Interna-
tional League for Peace and Free
dom; Minneapolis Jewish Council;
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Por-
tiers, Twin Cities Division; Ames
Lodge 1O6, IBPOE of W; Gopher
Lodge 1O5, IBPOE of W; Postal
Clerks, Local 65, A. F. of L.; United
Transport Workers Cred Caps) I;
Miscellaneous Workers Union, Lo-
cal 665, A. F. of L.; Furniture
Workers Union, Local 1859, A. F.
of L.; Lathers International Union,
Local No. 100; Twin City Minis
terial Alliance; National Workers
Defense League, N. Y; Minorities
Workshop, Inc, Washington, D. C.
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Three Latex-Bearing Plants

Hundreds of scientists and technol
ogists are collaborating in the ma
tons quest to discover rubber-bear-
ing plants which can be grown on a
large scale in North America, &C.
cording to a report to the American
Chemical society by DR.. H. L. Trum-
bull, one of the leaders in the prof.
ect, Fundamental research, 1t is
pointed out may provide new tech
niques for the recovery Of rubber
from both domestic and foreign
plants. Three latex-bearing plants
with annual crop possibilities are
being specially grown and studied
-goldenrod with rubber mainly in
its leaves, kok-sagyz or Russian
dandelion with rubber mainly in its
roots; and cryptostegia with rubber
in both stems and leaves. The lat
ter. a perennial, may be capable
of providing many harvests each
year. The seeds Of the Russian
dandelion we're flown to this country
from Moscow by transport plane for
widespread planting in the northern
states.
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E. L.: We have been going to-
gether for five years. We have
planned to get married, just as soon
as he gets the job he applied for.
Must l continue to wait, or take
a trip that has just been offered
me?
Ans: If you were to accept the
trip that has been offered you, you
would automatically break the
friendship that has meant so much
to you for the past five years. You
had waited all these years for him
to propose, now that he has, you
should be viking to wait a few
more weeks. On the other hand, if
you are doubling your love for this
boy, to make the trip would be an
outlet to break your relations.
S. B.: 1 have just finished a
course in Beauty Culture and had
planned to operate a shop of my
own. But due to war conditions l
think it best to wait. My mother
insists that I open now. Help me
to make the right decision.
Ans: There are certain mate
rails and fixtures that cannot be
purchased at this time. To open a
shop with no materials to work with
would be a waste of time as well
as money. You had better accept
the job that has been offered you
in one of the big shops there in
town, until you are able to purchase
the proper equipment. Your mother
is anxious to help you become es-
tablished in a shop of your own,
and doesn't realize the shortage of
materials.
M. A. T.: This fellow that I think
l like, how does he feel toward me I?
Don't you think that his friends
are persuading him to go with this
other girl, instead of me? l can't
understand him.
Ans: All the persuasion in the
world could not make him go with
this girl unless he was personally
attracted to her. She is the object
of his affections not you. AS
long as he is wrapped up in her,
you'll never be able to understand
him.
E. S.: I am 16 years old. A
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-02-19

on public conveyances; discrimi-
nation in the use of the facilities
of the camp (post exchanges, the
aires, service clubs, sports centers
and certain areas); the discrimina-
tory policy of the war department
in limiting Negroes by quota in
some branches of the service (the
army air corps) and the opening
Of branches now closed to Negroes
(the army glider program). Sgt.
Reed was chairman of the commit
tee that signed the list Of recon-
mendations.
On Nov. /, Sgt. Reed was repri-
manded by his superior officer be-
cause of the alleged disappearance
of a routine paper concerning Of
ficer candidates which was sup
posed to have been placed on his
desk. Since the paper referred to
was of such nature that it could
have been easily replaced it was
felt that the matter had been end
ed, but on Nov. 6, Reed was placed
under arrest and ultimately Reed
and Clemmons, familiar with the
system of prejudice and discrimi-
nation against Negro soldiers, ac-
copied a demotion in rank rather
than face a threatened court mar
tial.
The Twin City branches sent C.
T. R. Nelson, St. Paul, and Irving
D. Blumberg, Minneapolis, to New
York and Washington, D. c., where
they conferred with National MA
ACP officers and secured their CO.
operation, and also the support of
Melvin Mas, representative of st.
Paul, who agreed to place the mat
ter before the House military af-
fairs committee and ask for a con-
gressional investigation.
The following Twin City organi-
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Sport Light
BY JIMMY LEE

The fourteenth annual Golden
Glove tournament proved quite a
success to some 10000 fans Mon
day in the Minneapolis Auditorium.
Yes, quite success to little Matt
Hammond who retained his fly
weight championship and the right
to a second trip to Chicago to COM
pete in the champion of champions
tournament.
Hammond, who last year wore
the colors of the Phyllis Wheatley.
this year wears the colors of Elliot
Park. Bill McMoore also fought fol
Elliot Park. Bill fought his way tc
the finals in the middleweight divi-
sion only to be defeated on points
by Carl Russell. McMoore may also
earn himself a trip to Chicago.
Cortland Bell, fast stepping vel,
terweight and champion of that
class in st. Paul, after two bril-.
liant fights in the Examinations, had
to be disqualified in the semis be-
cause of swollen tonsils. Had Bel
been able to continue we believe
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-02-19

Halle @. Brown Boys and Ath-
letic Dept: The House basketball
league got underway the past week
made up of six teams and these
teams will vie for the champion
ship of Halle and the winner will
be awarded some kind of prize. This
teaches the boys the Importance of
being good sports and the will to
win in clean sports.
The Gopherettes' Wednesday
morning class is creating interest
among the women and in spite of
the snow and wind they were pres
emit for their exercise. This class is
open to all women who feel like
they would like to take exercises.
The Air-Cadets, under Milton
Combs and Larry Rife, have COM
pleted four very nice planes and
they will be shown at the Air Show
here the last Wednesday of this
month. Another army movie will
be shown at Halle on the 25th or
26th of this month and there will
be no charges for this movie.
Everyone is invited to attend and
read your local newspaper for the
date.
The Friday night Mixer, when
the grown-ups play badminton and
basketball, is very interesting.
Come out and have an evening of
clean, wholesome fun. Every Fri
day night at $3.50 p. m.
The Halle Bowling Clubs are
bowling on Wednesday and Satur-
day nights, the men on Wednes-
day and the women on Saturday
night. Call Dale 9278 for informa-
tion.-G. L. Porter.
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Branches Plan
To Press Congress
Army Probe
PACE FOUR

Plans for redoubling their eff
forts to secure a congressional in
vestigation into the ill and dis
criminatory treatment of Negroes
in the armed forces, particularly in
the army, are being formulated by
the Minneapolis and st. Paul
branches of the National Associa-
ton for the Advancement of Col
ored People, through the Co-ordi-
mating Committee of the Twin
Cities branches, according to an
announcement made today by Rev.
Clarence T. R. Nelson, president of
the St. Paul branch and chairman
of the Co-ordinating Committee.
The Twin Cities branches have
been encouraged to continue the
fight for a congressional investi-
cation by reports from reliable
sources that both Samuel Reed, a
st. Paulite, and Clifford Clemmons,
who were denoted at Camp Lee
last November, have been promoted
to sergeants in the regiments to
which they were transferred after
the Camp Lee incident" which
has caused wide protest. Sergeant
Clifford Clemmons, a native of
Kansas City, Mo-, was stationed at
Fort Dix, when the report of his
promotion was received here. Ser
geant Samuel Reed is reported
according to a cabled story by
Ollie Stewart, in the Baltimore
Afro-American, Feb. 6, 1943) to be
in North Africa. Members of the
Co-ordinating Committee consider
the restoration of Sergeant Reed
and Sergeant Clemmons victory
in the fight launched by the two
branches last November for an in
vestigation into the demotion of
Reed and Clemmons and into the
conditions complained of in the set
of recommendations presented by
II top sergeants to their superior
officers at Camp Lee.
When the local branches and the
national office of the NAACP made
an inquiry into the reasons for the
demotions they were told that the
two sergeants "were not soldierly
in the discharge Of their military
duties "Their demotions were
coincidental with the drafting and
presentation of the set Of recon-
mendations, but had no relation
thereto" Members of the Co-ordi-
mating Committee point out that
the condolences" of the case have
been too coincidental to be true
and that the army is attempting to
"cover-up and appease" while still
refusing to admit the real reasons
for the demotions in the Camp Lee
incident.
On Oct. "a, last year, Reed and
Clemmons with nine other Negro
sergeants, presented a list of rec
concentrations to their command
ing officer at Camp Lee, asking
that Negro soldiers be granted
their "full and equal" rights on the
military reservation and in the sur
rounding community. The list of
recommendations centered around
charges of discrimination in the
assignment and equipment of Ne
gro military police; discrimination
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ers will come to the cities with a
string of IS straight victories
against no defeats. Their coach,
Corner Cox, has written that he is
confident they will depart Sunday
with Twin City scalp around their
belts. S..
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Funeral Held for
Harry Monroe

Harry Monroe, 76, SO Hoag Ave.
No., died Feb. 6, at Minneapolis
General hospital. He was buried
Thursday, Feb. II, at Crystal Lake
cemetery with Woodland Funeral
Home in charge. Mr.. Monroe is
survived by Mrs. Julia Miles, sister,
of Galesburg, ILL.,, and Clarence
Monroe, nephew, Minneapolis.
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The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-28

NEWSPRINT AHEAD
WPB To Study possibility
OF Thinner Paper
For Press

WASHINGTON, Oct. 27-RN
An advisory committee of news
print paper manufacturers will
be appointed to study the pos
sibility of making ighter-weight
paper for newspapers, the Way
production Board announced to-
day.
Rex w. Rovey, director of the
WPA paper division, said the
committee will consider ''numel
GUS manufacturing and cost pro-
blems' involved in producing
lighter newsprint.
Hovey said any substantial re-
duction in weight might necessi'
tate the slowing of paper-making
machines and presses, and thai
careful investigation should be
made to see that the lighter paper
is sufficiently opaque for print
ing purposes.
The problem is primarily d
Canadian one, Hovey said, since
more than 10 per cent of the
American newsprint supply comes
from Canada and lower weights
will involve changes in present
tariff definitions of newsprin1
paper. There is nothing to prevent
newspaper publishers, however,
from ordering lighter paper from
United States producers, he said
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-28
RED ARMY WISE
CLOSES ON FOE
Continued From Page One)

the communication left bank
of the Dnieper before the Russian
drive from Melitopol to Nikopol
spears through to the river. There
is no escape northward for them.
The marshes of the lower Dnieper
about Zaporozhe and west of it
cut them off. Another Russian
made sack is developing there,
half the size of the Dnieper bend
trap.
Press accounts from Moscow say
Nazi generals are throwing what
remains of the once formidable
German strategic reserve into the
fight recklessly, trying to k p
open the twin escape routes. Mos
cow likewise reveals that N All
planes rushed to that front have
been taken on the ground for lack
of fuell
That bodies no good for German
ground troops. It means that much
of their motorized equipment is
already or soon will be stalled.
Human endurance cannot long
stand such a strain. High as has
been the morale of front-line Ger
man troops, it has its breaking
point. 1t broke at Stalingrad and
mass surrenders followed. It broke
in Tunisia on Cape Bon. 1t may
break in southern Russia to con-
front the German public finally
and conclusively with the truth
that the war is already lost for
them, and only its duration in
doubt,
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Continued From Page One)


corded by the Soviet monitor from
a broadcast.
Three secondary roads were cut
west of Melitopol in the drive to
Novo Alexandrovka, cutting off
many Germans from further re-
treat. Twenty German tanks and
100 field guns were captured.
Trucks, carts and herds of cattle
were taken from the Germans and
more than 10000 Russian civilians,
who were being herded westward
to labor camps by the Nazis were
released by the Russian advance.
"Retreatlng under the blows Of
our troops the enemy is leaving
behind him artillery, mortars, am
nunition and military equipment, .
the communique said.
In the Dnieper river bend heav-
lily reinforced German armies fail
ed to halt the Russian cleanup
Earlier the German radio had an
nounced "a large. withdrawal
movement in this area.
From Dnepropetrovsk the Rus
slams famed north and south in
the eastern end of the river loop
to capture 80 towns and hamlets
including the railway town of Sur
koye, 10 miles southwest Of Dnep-
|ropetrovsk and the district center
of Krinichki 81 miles to the west
A regiment of German infantry
fell in the battle.
Another Russian drive to flank
the German bend defenders was
nearing Krivoi Rog as several pop
ulated places were taken. Previous
reports had placed Russian troops
On the outskirts of this iron mine
center-the buckle holding together
the whole German line in south
Russia.
Stiff German opposition was
overcome in the Red army adj
vance. The Nazis hurled heavy
tank forces into a counter-attack
but massed Russian artillery and
mortars pounded them back.
Soviet bombing planes attacked
the railway junction of Apostolovo,
"a miles southeast of Krivoi Rog
and So miles northwest of Nikopoll,
day and night, wrecking freight
cars loaded with Nazi equipment.
Far north of the Ukraine fight
ing a Russian attack awoke the
White Russian front. The r e d
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-28
Williston Honors Men
Now Serving In Navy

Williston Industrial High school
celebrated Navy Day with a chap
ell program arranged to pay tribute
to former pupils now serving in
the U. S. Naval forces.
Opening the program with CO.
lu1nbia the Gem of the Ocean"
prayers and other songs were
presented. A feature of the day
was a talk on facts about the Ma
Wy and the program was highlight-
ed by the reading of list of VIII
liston men now IN the Navy.
The complete list follows:
Charles Addison Dasher,, Harry
Ash, Sidney Baker, Jr., Lindsey
Balckledge, George Bland, Joseph
Blue. Robert Bradshaw, Edward
Brown. George Bryant, James
Bryant, Henry Clinton, William
Conyers, James Wesley Cooper,
Frank Cowan, Willie Davis, Willie
Dove, Calvin Ellison, James Ev-
anse, Ounce Everett, William Ev-
erett, Solomon Ferguson, Norman
Ford, James Grant Garland, Rob-
ert Henry Garrett, James Newton
Hall, George Kinds, WIS Headen,
Fred Hill, William Hill, Fred
Hines, Julius Holmes, Qooseoq
Howe, Albert Hamilton, James M.
Harris, Milton U. Harris, Henry
Jacobs, Mile Jacobs, John R.
James,
Charlie Jones. Ernest Jones,
Samuel Jones, Willis Jones, Wal
ter Jordan, Clarence Kee, William
Kee, Raymond King. William Knox
Justin Lloyd, Carl Lyons, John
Lyons, Willie Lewis,
Leroy McCanty, Johnnie McMil-
Ian, Nathaniel Mack, Barney Le-
roy Mack, Robert Martin, James
Matthews, Richard Mears, James
Miller, Andrew Mills, Charles H.
Monroe, James Moore, Willie
Moore, Jr., Benjamin Mitchell,
Clayton Newkirk, Ernest Nixon,
James H. Nixon, Leroy Nixon,
Ferne Phillyaw, Clarence Pringle,
James Reid.
Robert Richburg, Charlie Rig.
gins, Warren Robinson (died in &C.
tom, Hamilton Robbins, Jr::, Viii.
liam Robbins, Warren Simpson,
Connie Simpson, William Robin.
son, Clyde Sidberry, Richard shir.
ley. Rudolph Stanley,
eleven Steven, Carl Sutton.
James Sutton, Charles Tate, Fred
erick Taylor, Michael Thonpkins.
James Waddell, Ernest Walker
Ernest Washington, James Wat,
son, Henry Watson, Theodore
Webb, Norwood Williams, Frank
Wilson, Robert Wilson, James
Woodson, J. D. Wright, Paul
Wright, Treadwen York, Theodore
Wadde,l and Rudolph Knight.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-28
MRS. SALLIE D. DICKINSON

Mrs. Sallie Duncan Dickinson, of
405 Dock street, died early We'd
resday morning in James Walker
Memorial hospital following a
short illness.
Mrs Dickinson is survived by
her husband, J. B. Dickinson of
Wilmington; two sons, Calvin B.
Dickinson of Denver, Colo; and
J, B. Dickinson of Wilmington;
her mother, Mrs. Lulu Duncan of
Beaufort, and two sisters, Miss
Matte Duncan of Beaufort, and
Mrs. c. E. Borver of Tampa, Fla,
and two grandchildren.
Funeral services will be conduct
ed from Andrews mortuary by the
Rev. J. F. Herbert Thursday aft
ernoon at o'clock with burial in
Oakdale cemetery.
The active pallbearers will be
R. N. Thompson, J. E. Bunting,
George Pritchard, Ben Adams,
Sturgeon Bailey, and Robert Ca
hoon. Honorary pallbearers will be
Aaron Goldberg, H. F. Wilder, w.
B. Cooper, R. W. Pigford, Judge
H. Winfield Smith, DR.. j. Watts
Farthing, w. H. Stokley Jr., W. H.
Staples, w. Latham and j. T. Sell
lars.
She was an active member of
Grace Methodist church.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-28
MISS ZOU MERCER

Miss Zou Mercer, Sc, died Mon
day afternoon at the James Walk
er Memorial hospital following a
brief illness. Funeral services were
held at the Yopp Funeral Home
Home Wednesday afternoon at 1870
e M. DR.. Fred w. Paschall Of
ficiated.
She is survived by one sister.
Mrs. Mary Kelly of Bladenboro.
and four brothers, C.. c. Mercer
of Bladenboro. j. B. Mercer Of
Hamlet, H. A. Mercer of Whining
ton. and Dewey Mercer of Will
mington.
Active pallbearers were Henry
Everett, W. P. Brock, J. D. Lough-
lin, R. F. Coleman, R. F. Bradsher,
W. A. Whitney and D. B. Upchurch.
Honorary pallbearers were Drs. A.
H. Elliott, ]. e. Evans. G. B. Bare
foot, D. B. Sloan, R. H. Bellamy,
j. w. Farthing and John c. Hume.
Interment was in the Horeb
church cemetery in Bladen coun-
ty.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-28

homeless at the approach Of ~;
ter, the statement continued "'i II
charged that Bulgarian troons y. II
torious in Yugoslavia for crno nv,
We're being used to slaughter ny
habitants in many regions. Lii
In Ankara, meanwhile, a reIiab,.
report said the islands of Kos ans
kalymnos in the Dodecanese wo nu
packed with Germans wounded S
a full-fledged air and sea ba+n ~
with the British. Five days agO
spectators On the Turkish coeo,
said the Germans had attem,,t ass
a landing on an Aegean island
but had been beaten back.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-28
TOBACCO MARTS
BEGIN HOLIDAY
Sales May Be Resumed
Monday With Prices
Bolstered

RALEIGH, Oct. 27.- R -Flue'
cued tobacco markets in this state
and Virginia began three-day OF
longer sales holiday today, and in
dications were that sales would
be resumed Monday with prices
bolstered by Commodity Credit
Corporation purchases.
The holiday was ordered by Gov
errors Broughton of North Caro-
lima and Darden of Virginia after
tobacco prices on the Old, Middle
and New Bright Belts sagged ap-
preciably last week. The decrease
particularly hit lower grades.
Although prices increased some
what Monday, Governor Broughton
said that the holiday would go
ahead as ordered, giving buyers
a chance to get already-purchased
tobacco off warehouse floors and
into redrying plants.
Governor Broughton yesterday
received assurances from CCC that
it will continue its ALLEGATIONS and
purchases until the end OF the to-
bacco season. The drop in prices
was caused, he said, when men,
orandum sent out by CCC to the
effect that the yield would not be
as large as first expected was mis-
interpreted by buyers, who quit
buying lower grades.
The two governors will confer
tomorrow, after which a joint
statement will be issued as to
whether or not the markets will
be opened Monday.