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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-05

real work began. Step by step, the opera
tor followed the elusive trail. In "A sub
urb of New York, the missing man was
at last tracked down.
Next day, grateful Come cticut BUSH
nessman sent a letter to the Telephone
Company: The completion of that call
kept this plant busy on Thanksgiving
Day !. meant we could ship materials
in time to reach boat sailing in convoy.
for Cuadalcanal." Thus did the efforts
Of one telephone operator help put
weapons in the hands Of American
soldiers.
II takes good telephone service, and
lots oft, TO Sight war. The Job Of pro-
viding Il has not been easy. The number
Of calls has mounted steadily. Large
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-05

meeting this tieficit. The total debt,
direct and guaranteed, will increase
from $76,990 million In 1912 to
S2i2,S26 million in 1944. y + e
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-05
News
Oddities

Boston, Feb. s - (U.P.) - New
England would have It's first Negro
Judge in history II Governor Lever
EFT SaltOnstall carried out q plan he
was reported to be cOnsidering to.
day.
IL was said that the governor was
considering observing LincOln's
birthday this year by nominating
Irwin T. Dorch Of Randolph, q BOs-
ton lawyer, as special justice OF
Boston municipal court.
DOrch was q pullman porter and
later washed dishes to pay his ex-
penses at law school. He was ad-
mltted to the bar In 1922 and later
became president Of the Boston
branch Of the National Association
for the Advancement Of ColOred
people.
Waltham, Mass. Feb. 5 - (UP)
Miss May White Of Waltham, a
chorus girl. said today she would
marry Movie Actor George Mont
gomery on her 2lst birthday, Feb
ruary II.
The couple met and became en-
gagged last December when they
both were appearing In. Philadelphia
theaterS, she said.
Last April Hedy Lamar an
nounced she was going to marry
Montgomery, but that marriage
never materialized.
Lynn, Mass, Feb. 5 - (U.PJ -
Seventeen years ago, q warrant was
issued here for the arrest Of one
Samuel Feldman, q Boston taxicah
driver on O charge Of deserving his
family.
Ever since then Lynn police had
been trailing Feldman.
Today, acting on a tip, Inspector
Joseph M. Cannon went to Boston
and arrested the man.
But when Feldman was arraigned
in district court, Judge Ralph w,
Reeve dismissed the charge. It de-
veloped that during the II years
Feldman's children had grown VI
and moved to parts unknown.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-05
Wallace Sees World Air Force
AS Postwar Peace Guarantee
Under United Nations Control II Would Garry World
Commerce and Bomb AggressOrs

washington O, B-vcePresiden Henry Wallace today
proposed establishment Of postwar United Nations investment cor
business the formation Of
network Of gbng aways designed for protection against ag-
nrsesDn "a well FOL
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-05

Machinery from the United States
Is being installed Ia 'PerIb new tire
factory at Lima. ,pt ,.l
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-05

quantities Of needed new equipment
cannot be secured because of the war.
Using what we have. we are doing our
best to serve both you and the war. The
know-how cool heads {. swift
hands. the spirit Of service" these
are standing the country in good stead
now.
Won't you help hold the lines Of com.
nunication. loof BY making fewer local
calls by avoiding calls 70 distant out
Of-siate points between z and Q IN the
evening BY making only the most
urgent calls 10 war production censers.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-05
GEORGE MOssEY DIES

Hartford, Conn, February s. =
CUP - George H. Mossey, SO, died
late yesterday Of carbon monoxide
gas poisoning from fumes seeping
from q kitchen range.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-05

To conserve gasoline, Panama is
reducing bus services.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1943-05-05
EDITORIAL
WHAT We ARE FIGHTING FOR"

Not many days ago a Radio Commentator of
the big networks in discussing the present = home
and abroad told of series of interviews with Negro
Americans to obtain their attitudes, sentiments and
views of whatever nature in regard to this world catas
trophe This commentator evidently very fair-minded
straight thinker seemed agreeaby surprised that = of
all those interviewed we'll above 80 percent were for the
effort in every and both willing and ready
to fghti
The Commentator added that quite few casually
wanted to know what fighting for - and partcu-
larry what the Negro had to fight for And he further
added that he himself FREQUENTLY wondered what the
Negro American had to fight for under existing con-
ditions, including all the unfair and undemocratc
practices against the Negro, which need not enumer
ate in detail at this point.
This line of thought however, is nothing strange;
but the other hand is well founded and fully worth
bordering and considering by all Americans. We
might add that enems have been thinking along this
line for time weighing the possibilities and prob
able advantages in his favor Of course the has
made the usual mistake = the some Americans
at They overlooked the fact the Negro just
as much American as anybody by every inherent
right mad tradition well his active participation in
and support of everything American He is not traitor
by nature The enemy naturally could not know all this
or couldn't believe it. He only knows what he would do
under the circumstances.
But it is another mistake by either the Negro Ameri-
by his welwshers to wonder what he is fighting
for imagine that he has little nothing to fight for
Viewed properly, believe that the Negro Amerl-
can more than any other minority group les
ser nations of the Western Hemisphere, has every
reason to not only offer himself but push himself for
ward into this situation all fronts home and
abroad and to the thing through to the last skrmsh
And the reasons all for his sake and for the
sake of his future generations.
This is admittedly everybodys war, including all
races and With all involved all must rise
fall with the fortunes of the Negro less than
any other There can be no escaping this.
i The Negro American, unlike the American Indian,
belong growing from all points of view includ
Continued
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1943-05-05
WIFE ATTACKED
a MEN ARRESTED

Four men, three of them sold
iers and one a civilian, were be-
ing held without charge by police
in connection with a criminal as
sault recently on Mrs. Rafaela
Goodloe, 21-years-old, 40S u Main
st.
The men were arrested by a de-
tail of military police. The civil
Gated hip and was taken to Har-
borview County Hospital.
liam was suffering from a dislo-
Mrs. Goodloe and her husband,
Pvt. James Goodloe, Negroes.
were walking west on Jackson
Street between 10th and 18th Az
enues about 8 o'clock this morn
ming when they were accosted by
several Negro soldiers and Ne
gro civilian. Mrs. Goodloe told po
lice.
One of the soldiers strucf
Goodloe over the head with a bot
tie and she was seized and drag
ged into a vacant lot where tw'
of the men attacked her. He
husband sought the assistance o
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1943-05-05
JUDGE GIVES
LIFE SENTENCE
TO ATTACKER

Sternly denying any leniency.
Presiding Judge Calvin S. Hall to-
day passed two sentences of ma
tural life in the state penitentiary
on Ralph L. Johnson, 2S-year-old
soldier who pleaded guilty to two
counts of rape and robbery com
mitted against Seattle women.
"This is too serious a, crime to
show lenieney," Judge Hall de-
clared. He refused to consider a
request by Maurice Kadish, at
torney for Johnson, that the SEN
fences run concurrently instead of
being two separate sentences.
Prison Pals
Johnson remained quiet during
the proceedings. and his face be-
came white when the full import
of the sentence was understood.
The soldier was arrested OF
Feb. II after Seattle girl OBJ
tanned his automobile licens'
when she escaped from his car
- Concluded on Last Page -
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1943-05-05
Gilbert |. Baker
Enters Armed Forces

Seattle's loss is the Army's
gain, for Gilbert L. Baker, Uni
yersity of Wash. Senior, left for
the Army with portion of the
Enlisted Reserve Corps. While 1T
the University Mr. Baker, major
in Economics, was very active in
extra curiccular affairs. In h | S
Freshman year, Gilbert played
football and participated in intra-
mural track, breaking the high
hurdles record. Also Baker was
the first Negro student member of
the r. o. T. C. in recent years
(1939-1941). He spent his sophie
more year at Central Washington
College of Education studying a.
Walton. He received his opt
wings.
This year Mr.. Baker whose
hobby is photography had the
distinctive honor of being APP
pointed official photographer for
the University of Washington
Daily, Columns and Tyll upon the
recommendation of P fessor
Marlowe Ryan of the Depart
ment of Journa lism, who
greatly admires Bakers photo
graphic genius Having worked at
Bruno and with Kennel-Ellic Ar
list photographers.
Mr.. Baker found time to par
ticipate in several social actiyi-
ties including the Negro students
of the University of Wash. Club
The Equestrienne Club and the
Sphinx Club of Alpha Phi Alpha
Fraternity.
Baker is the son or Mr.. anC
Mrs. A. r. Baker. Gilbert has lef
his photography in the capable
hands of his sister. Mrs. Alberti
Baker johnson who will delive
all unfinished photos.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1943-05-05
MEANEST TRICK

A lot of pettiness along the
color line has come to light in
this war, but 1t seems to us
that an incident reported by
an eyewitness in Rocky
Mount, N. c., takes the prize.
MANY troop trains pass
through the town. The good
white ladies maintain a free
refreshment service for sold
iers at the railroad station. But
the refreshments are for white
soldiers only.
The day our informant was
in the station on his way to
Washington, between fifty and
one hundred Negro soldiers
were overlooking the 'colored"
waiting room out onto the
platform. They had been wait
ing for hours for train. The
first section of the train ar
rived, but without any jim
crow car ''for colored." The
dark soldiers were hungry and
fretful. Before their eyes gal
Ions of coffee and soft drinks
and candy and cigarettes were
being handed out to white men
in uniform. They oculd not get
any refreshments - in fact
were told bluntly that these
were for white soldiers - and
they could not get out of town,
for four section Of the train
passed through without any
Accommodations for Negroes No
body gave them any informa-
ton. Finally, on the fifth sec
ton to arrive there was one
| Jim crow car. already packed
to overlooking. Many of the
Negro soldiers could not. be
jammed into the restricted
space and simply had to he
| AWOL.
There they were, soldiers OF
democracy, not in Hitlerland,
but in the greatest democracy
in the world, in their own ma
tive land. branded, callously
mistreated, Inundated. look
ing about them in North Caro-
lima, would it be any wonder
if they had little enthusiasm
for destroying the Master Race
- in Berlin and Tokyo?
- THE CRISIS
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1943-05-05
MAYOR WIN. T. DEVIN SCORES
AIR RAID WARDEN RACIAL BIAS

! which causes me to comment
about the subject of racial dis
elimination.
Il want It definitely under
stood that the Air Raid Warden
organization and the entire civil
ian defense are organized solely
for the purpose of furthering the
war effort and of protecting the
lives and property OF Seattle cit
liens" the mayor said.
To-day in some parts of the
world the racial prejudices of
mankind have been famed into
flames of conflagration which
are engulfing entire nations.
These flames no doubt started
from small prejudiees but were
enlarged e a lily and quickly
through intolerance and misun-
Outstanding.
There can be no place in A
merican government for this kind
of discrimination. America has
prospered and grown strong for
many reasons. one of which is her
love of justice and equality of OPP
portunity. These qualities have
become a part of the very fiber
of American democracy. We can
not and must not forsake then
now"
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1943-05-05
| Here We Come
I MIR. President
100000 Strong

WASHINGTON, May 2. = The
National Negro Council today
declared its "unequivocal" sup
port of President Roosevelt in the
coal crisis and urged Negro min
ers to report for work tomorrow
when the government begins OPP
Grating the mines.
The council estimated there
are 100000 Negro miners and
declared in a statement that me
gro workers must stand or fall
on the incontestable and the alb
solute power of the government
and the Constitution.
The government needs their
(miners) services just as surely
as it needs the services of our
soldiers, sailors and marines -
and the services of the millions
who are turning out the munitions
of war.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1943-05-05
Brotherhood OF Sleeping Car POrters Have
Twenty Million Dollars Worth OF Contracts

tiotting of an al" or the shifting
of comma can be made in any
of these contracts except in con-
ference between the railway car
riers and the Brotherhood" sta
ted Mr.. Randolph.
"The Brotherhood of Sleeping
Car Porters produces more new
money for the maintenance of Ne
gro institutions such as the
church. fraternal logedes, schools,
homes, papers, etc, than any
other single Negro agency today.
This achievement, he concluded,
is the result of II years of the
hardest struggle, sacrifice and
suffering of the leaders and mem
bers of this great movement and
its pioneering has been the in
spiration and incentive for the
organization of Negro workers in
to practically all other trade I'M
ions that now exist
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1943-05-05

Commenting ON the scope IL
the organization and wage agree
ments interest of the Brotherhood
of Sleeping Car Porters. A. Phil
lip Randolph, international presi-
dent pointed last week that the
international affiliated with the
American Federation of Labor
controls. owns and policies wage
contracts that are worth more
than twenty million dollars an
nually.
These contracts are held with
the Pullman Company, Burlington
Lines, Chicago. Milwaukee, st.
Paul and Pacific Railroad. the 500
Line, the Chicago and Northwes-
tern Railroad, the Alton Railroad,
the Illinois Central, the Interna-
tional Great Northern, the Mis-
souri, Pacific, the Southern Paci-
fic, and number of others.
mot the rcossing of a 't', the
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1943-05-05
TOWN FOR NEGROES
RUMORED FOR
WASHINGTON

PAsCO - Reports widely cir
culated in eastern Washington
recently claimed that two towns
- one for Negroes and another
for white residents - will be con-
structed on the army's 10000
acre Hanford engineering project
in Benton County
The two towns will house an
estimated $1,000 workers needed
for the huge project. The reports
stated the town for Negroes will
be built few miles north of
Richland, Wash, one of the
towns now being evacuated under
army orders.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1943-05-05

tinue to beat until their absent
sons are safe in their arms. If
he never returns, upon the altar
of their country, upon the altar
of their God, their prayers
drenched with tears will surely
find their maker. The spartan
mother still lives. She not only
willingly sacrifices her boy upon
the altar of her country, but fol-
lows him to the field of battle, or
works overtime in some defense
production to keep him well
equipped.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1943-05-05
Editorial
An Editorial
A SECOND PEARL HARBOR
By c. A. FRANKLIN


America faces another Pearl Harbor, another sneak
attack The of December z, 1941 aroused it to a
fury that built in months machine which Germany
took years to produce This offensive is dastardy
deadly is aimed at the nations soul because the
men behind it countrymen who know that
delay means danger and division invites defeat.
A cabal of southern politicians including gov
and congressman find their hold their section
slipping levels the barriers which have kept the
Negro back. They that they must keep him down
somehow the system by which they have profted will
disintegrate.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1943-05-05
Miss Shirley Graham
New Staff Member
N. A. A. C.P.

Miss Graham is the daughter
of the Rev. d. A. Graham, for
merly pastor of the A. M. E.
church in Seattle and Spokane
Editor.
NEW YORK CITY, N. Y. -
Miss Shirley Graham has been ap-
pointed to the NAACP field staff.
For eighteen months prior to be-
ginning her work as assistant
NAACP field secretary Miss Ora
ham served as USO director in
the southwest with Headquarters
in Arizona. 4
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1943-05-05

Trials may halt her young life,
but maturity adds richness to her
love "Honor thy father and thy
mother" is the only command
ment that comes with it prom
Use.
When all the world honors
mothers, why should a son or
daughter be rewarded?
Wear ping carnation Off her
IL living, white IL dead, on Moth
ers Day. Wear in your heart a
wealth of love for her every day
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1943-05-05

All over the United States are
thousands of mothers with silver
ed brow and hearts bowed down
who will miss a bundle of flowers,
the gift of a son, or sons, given
to their country.
Their hearts still beat with holy
affection, which neither time nor
eternity will efface. Month after
month. week after week, day at
ter day, those hearts will con-
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1943-05-05

police. who arrested the men.
Mrs. Goodloe was treated at
Harborview County Hospital. The
civilian denied participating in the
attack, declaring that his hip was
injured in a previous alteration
with the soldiers.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1943-05-05
Red Cross Benefit Dance at
Savoy Community Center
Nets $4,000

The receipt shown below is the
exact reproduction of the original
presented to the managers of the
Savoy Community Center. NJ. c.
Honeysuckle and S. t. McCants,
who sponsored a benefit Red
Cross War fund musical dance
at the Center Wednesday Evening
April 2Sth. The special effort on
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The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1943-05-05

Best known for her writings
on Negro cultural development,
Miss Graham comes to the NAA-
CP with a broad work back
ground.
A graduate of Oberlin college
where she majored in music, she
has served on the faculty at Nor
gan College and at Tennessee
State College. She was supervisor
of the Negro unit of the Chicago
Federal Theatre. She just COM
pleted collaboration on biogra-
ply of the late DR.. George Wash
ington Carver.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1943-05-05

The Northwest Enterprise APP
preciates the efforts OF the Sa
voy Community Center headed by
Messrs. Honeysuckle and McCants
in the gift of 500 to the Red
Cross, the result of benefit
dance. We also appreciate the adj
ded contributions of business and
professional men. We know there
were many others who would
gladly have done as much had
they been visited.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1943-05-05
ANNOUNCEMENT
EFFECTIVE MAY |. 1913

The Northwest Enterprise will move to its new
Office, Eks Home, 662A Jackson This office is under
direction of E. /. Robinson, Editor and Publisher
Tel. Ell 97s7 - Evenings CA 46o9
branch office has been established IN East
Madison District at Savoy Community Center, 21st
and East Madison Street
The branch office is under the direction of MIR.
S. T. McCants Advertising Manager.
Tel. CA $500 - Evenings PR 9453
Social items and all business transactions arising
in this district will receive prompt attention from
this office.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1943-05-05

At the same time these opportunsts see that the
administration in playing It's part in world affairs, needs
the support of Congress- where their control Of commit
tees make them powerful The governments necessity is
their opportunity They demand that it let them dictate
its policy toward the Negro the price of their support
Hamstring Presidents Committee
Already these consprators have hamstrung the Fair
Employment Practices Committee agency created by
President Roosevelt ntegrate Negroes into the nations
effort The good work it did aested by tens of
thousands of Negroes working in The industries at
trades they followed before But the FEPC is now
empty name because both the President and the
power administrator have taken heir hands from its back
America still has more manpower its No. problem.
It unthnkable that these two would desert the COM
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1943-05-05
THEY GAVE A HELPING HAND

In urging any contributions to
the Red Cross, we certainly make
no brief for their discriminatory
blood bank service. No dying
man gives a damn where the
blood comes from if it but saves
his life.
We give because a higher duty
impels us to acknowledge no or
ganization in the world does SC
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Evening star., 1943-11-21
CI0 Office Workers Back
Fiqht on Little Steel Plan
By the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
CLEVELAND, Nov. 20.-The Ma
tional Prudential Policy Committee
of the CIO United Office and Pro-
fessional Workers of America today
declared its "unequivocal concur
renee" with the CLOS wage policy
calling for "the abandonment of
the Little Steel formula which rep
resents in practice a freeze upon
wages"
In statement of resolutions
adopted at a two-day conference
of 200 delegates, the committee de-
clared its support of the United
SteelWorkers of Americas negotia-
tions which will serve as the spear
head in this fight for the substi-
tuition of a sane wage policy in
place of the chaotic wage practices
presently controlling the decisions
of the National War Labor Board"
Lewis Miller, UOPWA president,
told delegates THE Little Steel for
mula must go if white-collar work.
ers are to secure the salary in
creases they urgently need. Gen
eral salary increases up to IS per
cent must be permitted if white
collar workers are to obtain salaries
adequate to meet rising costs and
overcome the prewar depression OF
their salaries"
Evening star., 1943-11-21
New Auto Trade Group
To Handle Ration Matters

An Automotive Trade Board has
been established to expedite and
centralize the rationing transactions
of automobile dealers, all licensed
distributors of gasoline, intermediate
distributors of gasoline and gasoline
dealers in Washington, the District
Office of Price Administration an
nounced yesterday.
The new board, which has been set
up in the Force School, 1740 Massa-
chusetts avenue NV, to receive and
process dealer applications for gaso-
line and tires, will have exclusive
jurisdiction over the applications
and all matters pertaining to the
rationing of gasoline and tires.
Members of the board include
Arthur J. Sundlun, Ashby Leeth,
Robert Lewis and Martin F. Nc
Carthy.
The setting up of this board, it
was explained, does not affect any
operation requiring Office of Defense
Transportation certification. Deal
ers have been asked to refrain from
applying at either local boards or
the new board until Thursday to
allow for the proper transferring and
placing of files