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share in the rights and privileges
thereof, is to admit that Hitlerism.
or the theory Of racism has a place
in our democracy.
Certainly the property owners
of Taylor Township. or the Taylor
Civic League, are not anti-dem-
ocratic. Nor will any thoughtful.
patriotic citizen Of Taylor Township
become pawn of Hitlerism and
the anti-democratic forces of this
country who seek to create dis
unity by saying Negroes have no
rigLt to live in Taylor Township
or their children to attend the
schools.
God created all people In His
own image. The Constitution Of the
United States recognizes the equal
ity of man under the law; The
Michigan State Constitution guar
antees equal rights to all citizens.
regardless to race, color. creed, or
national origin.
only the Ku Klux Khan, or a
Nazi inspired subversive minded
people, would issue a statement
such as the ones published by the
Taylor Civic League. The Taylor
Township Board is to be commend
ed, rather than censured. for he
fne. democratic, and patriotic posi-
ton it has taken on the question OF
Negroes living and owning property
in the township.
ITO get the guns, tanks. and
planes to defeat Hitler and his Axis
hordes. our Commandments
President Franklin D. Roosevelt, has
called for the last ounce OF energy
Of every American citizen. Industry
in this area has been greatly ex.
banded to meet the mounting need.
Of war production More thar
100000 workers have come into thi,
txrSH trOmN2n yeztn q Tn enunxx1
to help produce the material viii
for vICTORYl Among these work
erse are Negro workers. who. toe
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1943-04-10
Girl Scouts
To Observe
Health Week

National Negro Health week VIII
be observed by the Negro Girl Scout
troops in Detroit in various ways.
Troop 300 will begin by going 10
ST. Johns Presbyterian church in
unit Sunday. April 4. and again on
the llth. Instead OF their regular
meeting on Tuesday afternoon,
April 6. they will take a neighbor-
hood hike. and search for a plot for
q troop Victory garden. In addition,
each girl will try 10 have a small
garden at her home. While they are
on the hike they will also check
on the general health and sanitation
standards OF the neighborhood.
Then on April 18th they will In.
wife their mothers. members OF their
troop committee and friends TO a
program. Patrol will present a skit
demonstrating good health; Patrol
No. 2 will present skit streSing
food. and Patrol 5. safety.
On Saturday. April 10. they will
toin in the national yard cleanup
campaign.
Mrs. H. C. Gaines is leader OF
Troop 3O9
Invitations are being sent TO a
half dozen Boy Scout and Girl Scout
troops by members OF Senior Troop
81 10 attend a musical silver tea,
Sunday afternoon. April IL, at the
Lucy Thurman YWCA. Vocal and
piano music will form the greater
part Of the program for the after
noon. although there will be a
health emphasis. Included will be a
history OF the progress OF Negro
health Mrs. James H. Lake Is lead
er OF Troop 81.
Three special events will mark
Health Week for tho Girl Scouts
OF Troop 81. under the leadership OF
Mrs. Daniel Fields During their
regular meeting on Monday. April
&. Mrs. Minnie Ode OF the Board OF
Health will speak on personal n.y.
gienc.
Then, on Saturday. April 10. the
troop will meet and 60 10 the Brew
ster clinic for chest X-ray.
Climaxing Health week. the three
troops at ST. Stephens church will
have a joint program on Tuesday
evening. April 10, at 1870 pm. Par
ents and friends are invited. Their
program will be:
Reading. II Am A Negro Calvin
Frazier, Troop %; Booker I. WASH
ington, the Educator" Mary Grace.
Troop 20: History OF Negro Health
Week, Frances Ann Tyler and
Thclma Louise Walker, Troop 81;
Health Parade. Brownie Troop 28l,
Speakers. Garvella Turner. Marvel
McCutcheon, Dora Orr, Kathleen
James. ard Ruby Foster. all OF
Brownie Troop 2Sl; Health pictures
and lecture. DR.. r. c. L. Marked.
Mrs. Ethel Jacobs is leader OF
Troop %. and Mrs Alberta l.. Da-
Wis is leader OF Troop 28l. Mrs. Da-
Wis is chairman Of the event
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RACE BA|TERS'
Raped BY THE
LOCAL NAACP
Detroit Branch Answers
Taylor Township
Cd Pamphlet

The election race batting OF the
Taylor Township Civic League was
answered by the Detroit Branch OF
the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People
this week in the form Of a state
ment issued to the Taylor Township
paper. The attention of the FBI
was also called to TIE League which
is stirring up racial hatred because
a Negro family with children has
moved into the neighborhood.
A pamphlet issued by the league
entitled The Negro Problem -
What II Means to Taylor Township"
stated that the responsibility for
allowing Negro families to move
into TIE township rested with the
Taylor Township Board which was
up for election April S. The poorly
worded pamphlet stated that Ne
groes coming into the township
would result" in the depreciation
OF all our property and forced at
tention Of our children in all the
schools with Negro children" It
called attention to what had hap
pened in Romulus and other COM
munities where Negroes have pur-
chased property.
More Race Batting
A more recent race-baiting leaf
let. better edited, stated that I'VE
wish to bring to your attention the
betrayal Of the people by the town.
ship board when they wilfully al
lowed the entrance to our commune
ty to Negroes. We remember one
white man was refused a permit to
occupy lis home on Cyprus street
until the board could investigate
his character. Did the board take
this action because he was a south
erner? Wonder II they investigated
Br st Road Negro family in same
way. Taylor Center school has Ne
gro children in class now and you
can bet our children resent this.
and unless something is done 10
correct tkis condition all the other
schools will be the same. Our prop
erty will depreciate in value and
every one Of US will be the loser.
Some officials of the township deny
this to be fact, but ask any child
attending Taylor Center school. they
will tell you this is so.
This is nothing but absolute
Betrayal Of the Peopler'
The National Association for the
Advancement Of Colored People L.
sued fne following sknAemsnk 3aR
release TO the Taylor Township
paper through Glasco Jackson, the
Negro resident Of the Township:
Answer 70 Problem
"Since 1919, Negroes have been
in the United States of America.
They struggled witt other Ameri-
can patriots for Independence. The
first man to fall in the Revolution
airy War was q Negro - Crispus
Attacks on Boston Common.
Negroes provided much OF the
labor which built this country.
They titled the soil. shared in the
expansion Of the West Negro SOL
diers have fought in every Ameri-
can war - French and Indian Wars,
Revolutionary War War Of 1S12.
Civil War, Spanish-American War.
World War I. There are more than
SOC, 900 Negroes in the United States
armed forces serving in the Army,
Navy. Marine Corps, Air Corps,
wAACS. etc. Negroes are on for
eign battlefields: Africa, Europe,
Australia, and wherever the, stars
and stripes are flown.
For any American citizen to
deny that Negroes are an integral
part Of America, entitled to full
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Soldier Cut By His
Brother = I'm Law

Interceding on behalf Of his sister
during q family alteration with
her husband. this week resulted IN
the stabbing of Corporal Robert
Norris. "A. of s64 Division street.
Detective Casper Peek Disclosed
that the soldier had attempted -
60 to the aid of his sister. who wso
repeatedly being abused By her
husband, Charles Harvey. so. Of 80
wilkins, during a party.
Harvey, 50 police say. drew . ~
zor and slashed the soldier. who
was reported in a temporarily -.
rious condition.
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Ne7cs Of Air
Raid WardenS
AIR RAID WARDENS'
WORKINGS
Sertor G.. Zone &: Area 8

While the Allied Nations are
catching up with Rommers army
in North Africa, the A.R.W. OF Sec
tor C, Zone S, Area 5. are prepar-
ing TO protect property and aid the
injured. il the enemy should. by
any remote chance raid this sector
OF the arsenal for democracy.
Under the able leadership OF NJ.
c. Ingram as Sector Warden, this
Sector has opened a sector head
quarters in the voting booth &C.
quired from the city. at Oakland
and Hague avenues. At the head
quarters all business for enrolling
wardens securing O.CD. literature,
the answers to all questions by COM
petcnt wardens. pertaining to the
OC.D. system and equipment Is
freely given.
Persons DESTROYS Of being A.R.W.
are asked 10 register Immediately
at the headquarters so that their
names may be inferred as trainees
in the next training class, 10 open
at the Sherrard school, Cameron
and Euclid on Monday. April ls,
l943.
To maintain the enthusiasm now
existing among his wardenS Sector
Warden Ingram has arranged to
have a morning meeting conducted
by his assistants. william Kennedy
or Anderson Bell. These AN.
meetings are held 10 keep the
AR.W. who work afternoons and
nights, up to date on new develop
ments coming from the O.C.D. The
next morning meeting will be April
8, l943. at III an. at sector head
quarters, Oakland and Hague.
The many senior post wardens
that now have their post headquar-
tiers established will receive one OF
the new stirrup Pumps TO add to
their equipment. Some OF the posts
have an elaborate setup and all
wardens or civilians are asked TO
locate their nearest post and regis
ter there.
A Stirrup Pump Is on display at
sector headquarters and all that
wish may inquire from the attend
ant how 10 operate il.
Demonstrations OF the methods
used TO spray or throw a jet OF
water. and the way to approach an
incendiary is very interesting and
should be seen 10 appreciate the
Importance Of a Stirrup Pump as
part Of any household equipment
in case OF an incendiary bomb at
tack.
The many duties and activities
that an A.RW. Is called upon 10
perform Is a terrific strain on the
human body. consequently we have
a few who have had 10 ease up on
their volunteer work for a period
OF time. Post Warden William
Irwin and Mrs. Clyde Lay OF Post
FL has been sick from trying TO
fulfill their obligations as an A.R.W.
The demand for air raid wardens.
fire watchers, nurses aides, and
messengers is acute in this sector.
Sector Warden Ingram ask all
citizens who are not one OF the
above. TO register at sector head
quarters or nearest senior post head
quarters, as he would like to in
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crease his present number of volun-
teers by 500 more during the month
OF April.
All AR.W. and others living in
the sector bounded by the follow
ing streets-Euclid 10 Westminster;
Beaubien to st. Aubin. are asked
10 attend a meeting to be held at
the Moore school Friday, April 9.
ls43. at pm. NC. Ingram, sector
warden, 1856 Russell, Detroit
Mich, TT. 1894.
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are sharing In the fight to maintain
production schedules.
Housing Is one Of the prerequi-
sites for Victory. Both private and
public efforts are being made to
provide adequate housing for vital
war workers. Anyone who opposes
housing facilities or school facilities
to war workers, regardless of their
race, creed. or color. is automatically
placed in the traitorous position of
being an obstructionist to the war
effort.
There L. no Negro problem! Our
problem Is to win the war over
| the Axis"
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THUG GRABBED WOMAN

Mrs. Margaret Thomas 80 Of 604
Holbrook avenue. told police she
was grabbed by an unidentified man
while in the hallway OF her home
ard was told not to make an out
cry.
However, the man. she said, made
no attempt TO otherwise harm or
rob her.
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ON WAR FINANCE BopY

MEMPHIS. (ANP) - 1t George
w. Lee. author and insurance exc
cutive, has been named on war
finance committee TO sell sl8'OOO,OVo
In war bonds IN West Tennessee.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-18
ONE OBSTACLE TO
ALl-OUT EFFORT

The federal administration will never
get the full measure of civilian coopera-
tion it wants in the war effort until 1t
demonstrates by its own acts that the
government really considers all-out et-
fort vitality necessary.
There is no use kidding ourselves. We
are not on an all-out basis yet. We have
not even approached that mark.
There are a number of reasons why
this is true. and among the chief OF them
is the fact that the federal admnstra-
tion has never shown any inclination TO
fight the war on the home front as II II
were a matter of life and death-the
most important thing every minute, every
hour, every day. in everybodys life
Chief disinclination of the admnlstra-
ton to adopt an all-out war policy has
been manifested in the labor situation.
AS long as the administration, IN con-
gress and in the executive branch, CONT
nues to tolerate strikes in war Industries,
it is going to be impossible to convince
the average American that the crisis Is
as grave as it really is. This is one vital
factor, perhaps the most vital, IN our
failure to gear our lives entirely to the
business of winning the war.
Strikes in coal fields, in airplane fac
tories. in arms plants, in tank produc-
for more than few days since the Unit
ed States went into the war. A vast ma
iority of them have not even been strikes
against management; they have, instead,
been strikes of one union seeking an ad-
vantage over another, or Of membership
against union leaders.
1t is not as if these strikes could not be
stopped. 1t is not as if the laboring man
would be reduced to peonage if they We're
stopped. 1t is simply that the admins
tration refuses to make any potentially
successful effort to prevent them.
Machinery has been set up to mediate
strikes after they are called, to settle
differences after they reach the stage of
a walkout But no common-sense effort
has been made to prevent these disastrous
work stoppages. No machinery has been
set up to outlaw strikes for the duration
of the war
Until that is done, the average man
cannot help feeling that Washington IS
not in deadly earnest about waging to-
tai war.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-18
CALIFORNIAN S
IRON AGE

christian Science Monitor)
I'm terms of real wealth which can be
translated into high standards of living
for the many, iron and steel hold far
greater hopes than gold
These words. spoken by Henry J. kais-
er at the dedication of the Vests first
steel mill near Fontana. California, mean
that an industrial era has opened for the
Pacific Coast in a new sense altogether.
New. because the manufacture of iron is
fundamental in the building up of a COM
plet ely integrated industrial program.
New. because California and the West
face a challenge in the Pacific war and
the Pacific peace such as the world mas
never seen the like of. New, because the
manner of this steel mills building IN
the midst of a rOomy. countryside presag-
es kind OF living for industrial workers
that captures the imagination at the same
time it furnishes assurance of its practl-
cality.
Looking at America 5 future, Mr.. Kais-
er saws: Il believe the West will set the
pace" AS for generations, the West is
still more than place; it symbollzes the
spaciousness of humanitys highest hopes.
Now that California has achieved new
status as 2 maker of steel beyond the
Rockies, it is opening new vlstaS OF the
Vests symbolic meaning.
Mr.. Kaiser sees signs of this. The COM
pletion of his plant at Fontana he attri-
butes in large part to the help of organ
izations that might have been competl-
tors, vigorous competitors, but were CO.
operators instead In the new plant he
says, "we have convincing demonstra-
tion that American industry has learned
how to temper the brutality of competi-
ton with the spirit Of fair play
The West, symbol of geographical spa
ciousness, really stands for a state of
thinking possible anywhere, a confidence
whereby the individual is strengthened
to stride past isOlationism and raciallsm
to support the winning of universal liber-
tv and Justice.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-18
THE FLYNN NOMINATION

Wendell Willkie now advises against
the confirmation by the senate of Ed
ward Flynn, ex-democratic chieftain, to
the Australian post He is entirely right.
There is no reason to pay off party debts
at the expense of the entire nation.
The best key to the gentleman IN ques
ton is found in his remark when James
Farley rendered his resignation as ma
tional chairman of the democratic party
'to recoup his personal fortune Said
Flynn in effect, there is no reason why
Farley should not have done we'll finan-
cially during his political years. Flynn
certainly has.
Flynn is known as a wealthy man yet
he has held political jobs most OF his
life He is also a lawyer which perhaps
answers the question Of where the money
came from As every observer knows,
legal fees can be very powerful political
arguments and convenient rewards.
Mr. Flynn will doubtless go to Aus
tralia in spite of the storm of objection.
President Roosevelt has a way of wear
ing down opposition to flagrant political
favors which he dispenses. We all recall
that Black went into the Supreme Court
in"spite of his proven previous affllia-
tons with the Ku Klux Klan.
Perhaps it is the presidents naval
training which allows him to out-ride the
wind of public disapproval. He seems to
put across his politician friends in spite
of the general public. 1t is gift, both
to him and discredited new dealers.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-18
British Gain 40 Miles

drome on Italy's Lampedusa lSiaiiu'
lying off the east coast.
Five planes failed to return from
all operations.
Six enemy planes bombed the To-
bruk base, 600 miles behind the
present battle line and four OF them
we're shot down, three by night
fighters, one by ground guns.
SHIPS SUNK
The admiralty announced that
light British naval forces Saturday
sank a medium sized enemy supply
ship 100 miles north-northWest OF
Tripoli and damaged one OF It's eS-
cort ships. without suffering cas-
ualties or damage.
A second communique reported
that the light forces sank a small
enemy supply ship at midnight
Saturday within a few miles OF
Djerba island, south of the Gulf OF
Gabes on the East Tunisian coast.
The rapidity of Montgovery's ad-
vance caused military quarters to
believe that Field Marshal Erwin
Roumel would have to withdraw
his Afrika Korps direct to Tripoli.
There had been signs that Rom
mel might essay. a delaying stand
at HONS, 80 miles west of Misurata.
But by reaching Benz QClid, the
Eighth Army had advanced so far
that for Rommel to halt would be
for him to endanger losing his en-
tire rear guard. including most of
the remainder of his once-crack
German desert army, experts said.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-18
BY SIDNEY ]. WILLIAMS

LONDON, Jan. 18-(UP)-Bri-
tain's biggest bombers made their
second consecutive night attack on
Berlin last night while the NaziS
made two weak retaliatory raids on
London, and paid with at least
nine of their planes shot down.
A nonstop Allied aerial often
sive was now in the sixth day
British fighter planes raided
France. Belgium and Holland dur
ing daylight yesterday. The Paris
radio went off the air early in the
evening and soon afterWard great
explosions, heard on the British
southeast coast, told of a heavy
night bombing raid on inland oc-
cupied France.
BERLIN OFF AIR
Berlins big long wave radio sta
ton went off the air at 1923 p. m.
for technical reasons" and soon
atterward the report came from
Stockholm that Berlin was being
blasted a second time, "a hours
alter the first.
Saturday nights raid, the first
on Berlin by the British since Nov.
7, 1941, had been the biggest of
the new year and the Air Ministry
announced that the fires started by
approximately 100 tons of bombs,
including 5000 pound block bust
ers, could be seen 100 miles.
It was one Of the Royal Air
Forces most successful raids of
the war. Only one plane was lost.
NAZIS PAID BACK
German planes started raiding
the eastern, southeastern and
southwestern coasts of England
shortly after dark last night and
soon after 8 p. m. the air raid
sirens sounded in the London area.
AntiaircrafJ guns went into action
and soon bombs started dropping
Fires were reported in various
Hetrolopitan areas, one caused by
an explosive bomb on the roof OF
d big department store Firemen
GIiekly put out all fires.
Bomb blasts broke man. window.
ma traffic was diverted from some
.trect5.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-18

from remote Lake Chad in French
interior Africa.
Todays communique said of the
ground situation:
Yesterday our advance con-
tinued
Our troops having occupied the
Sedada -Bir Tala area followed up
the enemy retreating to the north
west
PRISONERS TAKEN
by evening our forces were in
contact with the enemy in the Tau
orga- -Bir Dufan-Beni OClid area,
approximately 30 miles northwest
of the Buerat El Tsun position.
In course of these operations we
took some prisoners.
1t was at Buerat Ell Hsun that
the Axis Zem Zem defense line had
been anchored.
While the fighter and fighter
bomber planes kept up an unremit-
ting attack on the German and
Italian transport, fleeing toward
the rear, heavy bombers concen-
trated on enemy troop and retreat
ing columns on the coastal road
west of MiSCrata.
VEHICLES BOMBED
Bombers also attacked Tripoli it
self, starting fires. and intruder
planes attacked vehicles on the
read leading from Tripoli to Sfax
on the Tunisian east coast.
Day planes raided Tripoli yes
terday and hit two enemy vessels
off the east TuniSia coast.
Other planes bombed the air.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-18
TEAPOT TEMPEST

The Chicago furore about women
wearing mems clothes" (slacks, that isl,
seems a bit far fetched.
It all started when somebody dug up
an old, unrepealed Chicago ordinance
against persons of one sex wearing cloth
ing commonly associated with those of
the other SEX Somebody who didn't like
slacks on women Immediately leaped into
action with the contention that slacks
were pants, and therefore constituted ar
ticles of clothing commonly associated
with the male sex. Now the Chicago city
council is in an uproar pending determi
nation of the issue: whether to repeal
the ordinance, or let it stand.
To us, it seems that a sort of Gallup
poll of Chicago males would settle the
issue without all this fuss. Canvassers
would have to ask the menfolks simply,
"Would you be seen in the streets wearing
the kind # slacks usually manufactured
for wear by the female of the species?'
A lot of the answers would be imprint
able, but we'll bet the issue would be set
tied once and for all. The legal techni-
clans would find out from the average
male that slacks as worn by women and
pants as worn by men are clothing Of
two different breeds.
Or, for that matter, they could get the
same answer by asking the gals if they'd
be seen in hubby's pants.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-18
Jqps Driven from
Sugad daic onol HiI!

mediate threat to American posi-
tons on Guadalcanal. and grove
the encmy further westward and
Closer to eventual annihilation.
SKIES CLEARED
The skies have been cleared OF
japanese aviation which has not
attempted a Daylight RAID on
Guadalcanal in nearly two months.
Several enemy artillery pieces,
mortaIs, machine guns, and small
arms of all t.pes, as well as am
munition, were captured in the
Drive.
A headquarters spokesman eSti-
mated several hundred more Jap
ancse than have been counted were
killd by artillery fire or bcn1hs. he
said the official count to date in
cluded only the bodies found on
the battlefield and that many, fat
slly wounded, had been able TO drag
themselves to the rear.
Seven enemy counterattacks 10
iecaptured a hill which dominates
the ridge We're thrown back with
heavy losses.
The American attack was made
under the most oi..cuIt conditions
through dense jungles and against
prepared positions. In spots the
terrain was so rough that three days
were required to get out the wound
ed. All but the most serious cases
were forced to walk to the rear,
many getting off their litters over
the worst spots of the trails.