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Detroit evening times., 1943-01-17

Following Is a review Of some
Of the questions and answers
which were felt 10 have a wide
general appeal:
q / would like 10 know If IN
employment compensation is listed
as income and Should m be given
as SuCh on tax return blanks?
A-UnemploymeDt compensa-
tiOn Il not taxable.
q My husband is employed al
a Salaried position quite remote
from a business which he operates
on the side. lie works solely by
himself and hires no help.
HIS business yields more income
than his Salaried position and hC
devoteS much more time and
Detroit evening times., 1943-01-17
SAGINAW Markets

sAGfNAW. Jan. 1s CUPl -TodAy's psy.
Ing prices n growers FOR heans
Pea beans. 81 ueht rcd kIdrsys g.
dark red kidneys s. q r yellow
eyes 80 q e y e uEht crarherrise S5
g dart rranberrIet s.
- 6ac 'ixrr7Wtd harlrf 81 f1T en-.
huekvheu 81 9772, corr % 95c. sos
beans, no bids.
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Bank Earning
Power Shows
Steady Decline
Gains in Resources
Offset the Lower
Per Dollar Return

In a chart Of earnings over the
last 10 years, Walter S. McLucas,
chairman Of the board Of the Ma
tional Bank OF Detroit, in his an
nual report, illustrated the long
term trend toward reduced returns
per dollar Of resources IN the
banking industry.
The pattern has been duplicated
by virtually every leading bank
In the country.
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energy ~ II. Can he take % per
cent earned income OF tho bust
ness profits. and so per cent Of
the salary earnings 81?
Or must hc only take 10 per
cent OF the combined income ?--
5. Y.
A-Twenty per cent ~ the
net income from business Is
considered 10 he earned. There
fore this amount. added 10 your
husbands salary, would give YOU
the earned net income, and 10
per cent of this amount would
he earned income credit.
q I use a company car IN ml
work 20 drive from one factorl
TO another. Can expenses be dc.
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BUY WAR SAVINGS BONDS
THE MANUFACTURERS NATIONAL BANK
OF DETROIT

w B N e eiueraeAB
b 6 eeub baqqairpo hnuhhL hLar
AIIoNA BAN o DnRor
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SI03,OS6.so429
-s9--,OS-S3
SIl4,079, 746T5
S29sOSO,SIss 81
l6S,l6S,6O9 40
SI22,SSS, S,2O9.S2
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CHARTER NO. 1898 RESERVE DISTRICT
REPORT OF CONDITION OF
THE MANUFACTURERS NATIONAL BANK
OF DETROIT
in The sioie Of Michigan
AT TIE CLOSE or BUSINESS DECEMBER 3l,
PUBLISHED IN RESPONSE
CURRENCY, UNDER SECTION s2ll, u S REVISED STATUTES
A S S E 7 S
in the State Of Michigan

Looms and discounts Gncludinq So 566 .78
United stoes Government obgaton direct ond
Obligations OF Stoes and political subdivisions
Other bonds notes, and debentures
Corporate stocks ncludng S2o 900 90
BonD
Cash, balances including balance ond
cash items in OF collection
Bank owned s2 s5s ST. furniture fixtures SO0
Reol Estate owned other thon bonk premises
Other assets
TOTAL ASSETS
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Two dividends paid in 1912, tosng $24ooOO.O 90
$500 share These paid shareholders OF record
June p, 1912 iOO) and OF December "a, 1912 6
We proud report thar fifty of young
EMPLOYEES active service and in
With them and their families through the exchange letters
received from them from all parts OF the world. This done
through the medium OF periodical called The Duration edited
by OF Official staff N has been endeavor these
know that thinking OF them for them
and looking forward the day when they will be
able their duties a the bank.
the OF the Federal Reserve Board this bank
has for the duration Of the changed policy
assets, and has qualified L. S Depository for
Loan Account This has neceSed under the law pedgng
with the Federal Reserve Bank OF Chicago, acting Fiscal
for the L. ). Treasury OF bonds.
We record with the death March OF
OF directors Mr. Alex Dow Chairman of the Detroit Edison
Detroit evening times., 1943-01-17
o ! r CT o r s

CHARLES K BARLOW
Senior Wee PreslGsai. hah gtacfgTsrs
EanonaI 5azk
Detroit evening times., 1943-01-17

L. &, Governemnt direct and guaranteed),
Municipal and other Bonds. Notes, Deben.
lures and SecuriueS, December 81, l942..
Compared with total on December 81, I9T
or an increase of.................,... ..,...,.
Demand Deposits on December 81, 1912
amounted to-. .......,....,..
Compared with total on December 81, I94l
or an increase of........,....,....,,, of.
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GEORGE r FINK

Pr.'iassL Hahonei St..l Cooperation
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o FFIC z r S
COMMERCIAL BANKING
DEPARTMENT


JOHN II. HART
Wee Prssidsnt
SAMUEL r. KINGSTON
Wee Presidsnt
WILLIAM a. MAYBERRY
Wee President
GEORGE r. TAFT
Wee President
BENJAMIN G. VERNON
Wee President
L. GEORGE BoTT
Second Wee Presi5snt
HARROD C. NEWLAND
Second Vice Pr.,i9.nt
JOHN C. CALHOUN
Assistant Cashier
BRANCH OFFICES
HERBERT C. WOOD
Wee President
CREDIT DEPARTMENT
NORMAN II. MOYSEY
Wee Prssidsnt
WALTER c. LEONHARDT
issisfcnt Credit Manaoer
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is should have a special ap-
The Omaha guide., 1943-06-05
teen ayers
|knee-deeD
in hi-bUILS.
says Gentry

CHICAGO, Ops. nc) Behind the
fighting fronts another war is be-
ing fought. Although less spectac-
ular than the clash of panzer div
isiins, it is just as important as a
victory in arms. Tanks and guns,
ships and planes, are replaced by
~Servicemen's wives, sweethearts,
teen aged girls and draft age boys.
All are fighting an individual war;
a war with time. You'll find many
wives at the bar, brooding over
their fighting man. The girls vile
were left behind. many of
them have taken to drink. just to
while the time away It'll Johnny
Comes Marching Home. But the
teen-age girls and boys-ah what a
sight. They are knee deep in most
of the lounges. They may not
realize that an innocent highball
may skid them off the road Of life
and start them heading towards the
gutter. Any fool could tell them
this. These things are rarely talk
ed about, except among those
continued pa9> q
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LBPOE. of w. Head
Calls for InVeSti>
cation at Army
Camp i'm Georgia

that an investigating committee
of civilians which should include at
least one distinguished Negro sucn
as Judge William III. HASTE be
formed.
Mr.. Wilson'S letter in part stat
ed"-''we have had repeated and
highly disturbing reports of vicious
ly unjust treatment of Negro sold
iers by southern white soldiers and
officers at this camp. Two hund-
red officers and men from the
369th Infantry composed of Negro
soldiers and officers from New
York have been sent back from
Hawaii, after seeing active service,
to form a nucleus of a new Negro
Division. According to numerous
reports which have filtered oft
from the camp during the last
month, these men have been sub
jected to studied, intentional and
repeated insults and humiliations,
and even intentional neglect of men
continued on pageW@2)
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Usher S1ashes Rival, Girl Friend
Child During Church Services

Prophit, % and Will Anderson "a,
we're the principal actors.
1t seems that Mrs. Tolbert and
Prophit had been going together
for several months, when Anderson
suddenly began taking interest in
the attractive divorce. All three
of them were members of New Sal
EN-. Prophit and Mrs. Tolbe-t
serve on the usher board.
Sunday Prophit, who was aware
Of Anderson's interest in his friend
noticed as he entered church that
she was seated on the back seat
with his rival.
Witnesses described how Prophit
without saying anything, walked to
the back seat, drawing his razor.
Reaching the seat, he suddenly
jerked Anderson's head back. and
drew the sharp blade across his
throat, slashing it almost from ear
to ear Anderson, without an OUT
cry. jumped from the bench after
pulling loose from Prophit and be-
gan running toward the front Of
the church. He fell as he reached
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FIGHTS POLL-TM

Washington, D. c. Ops, Inc.) -
Congressman William l.. Dawson
of the LIST Congressional District of
Illinois triumphed again with a
speech of his Congressional career
when he spoke before the House
of Congress on Tuesday May rs.
Dignitaries, including Edwin Bar
clay, President of the Republic Of
Liberia, are said to have congrat-
ulated the Congressman on his An
ti-Poll Tax address. Below is the
address made by the Congressman.
Mr.. Chairman, on one other &C.
casion 1 have addressed this House
since becoming a member. The
reason for doing that at that time
was that I knew the person In
volved and 1 believed that 1 knew
more about the subject matter than
any other man in this assembly.
1 am standing before you once
again believing that 1 know more
about what is the real ground Of
this subject matter than any man
in this assembly.
1 am a Negro. I an an Ameri-
can. I was born in Georgia. Down
my way when 1 was a boy, public
schools we're opened only about 8
or 4 months out Of the year when
they did not need the kids in the
fields. I had to go to a missionary
school, a pay school, in order to
obtain the fundamentals of learn
ing. Ny mother and grandmother
worked and shaved to pay the nee
essary fee that 1 might get an ed
ucatlon such as that school afford
ed. went from there to college,
and 1 paid my way by working on
the railroads and in the hotels.
I say that 1, like thousands of
other American Negroes, took adj
vantage of all opportunities that
were offered, whether freely given
or whether they had to be paid Tor,
to try to get into the position to be
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Of bricks and rocks he fled toward
a white residence. One of the dea-
cons struc him with a hammer just
before he entered the door, fr%actur-
ing his jawbone. Police arrived
and placed him under arrest.
VI At a local hospital where all thu &c
participants were carried, Prophit
under Questioning of police, said,
II just did wrong, / am sorry" He
could not explain the reason for
his rampage.
Given transfusions, both Mrs.
Tolbert and Anderson are expected
to recover. Prophit, when he is re-
leased from the hospital, will face
double charges of assault with IN
tent to murder and disturbing pub
lie worship. The Rev. c. r. Frank
lin, popular young minister of New
Salem Baptist church, was 50
shocked by the affair, he refused
to discuss it with newspapermen.
Members of the congregation. how
ever, have publicly deplored the in
cident which has brought their
congregation into n~otoriety.
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the pulpit.
Prophit then reached for the ter
rified Mrs. Tolbert He cut her on
the arm and back before she man
aged to struggle free and run out
Of the front of the church.
Prophit continued on his ramp
age, dashing through the now ex-
cited and screaming congregation
toward Anderson who was struggl-
ing to his feet from in front of the
pulpit. He slashed at Anderson,
who began running away, the blade
nicking the small girl.
The razor was broken when it
struck a bench during Prophit's
continued chase of Anderson thru
the stampeding congregation. An
derson escaped through the rear of
the church to the residence of a
deacon, where he was found by am.
bulance attendants and carried 70
the hospital.
Deacons and other church offic.
\ ers and members took up the chase
of Prophit who ran through the
front of the church. Under a hail
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WILL ENCOURAGE NEGRO
US. SOLDIERS IN LIBERIA
TO REMAIN AFTER WAR;.
Cby JOY STAN

WASHINGTON, DC Despite
the fact that most of the southern
Senators snubbed the reception TO
President Edwin Barclay. of Lib
eria, who is here at the special in
vitation of this nations chief exc
cutive, the Senate as a whole gave
him a warm reception, befitting to
the office that he holds and the
mission I've represents. Mr.. Bar
cfay's statement that he would do
everything possible to see that
some of the American soldiers now
stationed in Liberia, would make
it their permanent residence, had
special significance to Negroes, be-
cause all the troops there, with the
exception of a handful, are Negro
es. They are with the engineer
ing and supply divisions. They are
Tie type lHdJ WOul0 SHC LAOCEl1
that skilled labor and talent so
badly needed.
Accompanied by WIS. Tubman,
President-elect of Liberia, and aid
es, President Barclay went first to
the Senate. where he was introd-
uced by Vice President Wallace.
In response, President Barclay
said:
Mr.. President and members Of
the Senate, 1 wish to express to you
my high appreciation of the court
esy shown me in permitting me TO
observe for a few minutes, the BRO
cesses of lawmaking in the United
, States"
About half the members Of the
Senate were on the floor and they
rose as they applauded. Lalel
many members shook hands will
him n exchanged greetings.
After remaining in the Senate
chamber twelve minutes, Presidenr
Barclay went to the House wher,
Speaker Rayburn introduced hin
as 'the President of one of the Few
~democracies existing outside of TIL
Western Hemisphere" IN reply.
he expressed his pleasure at beins
the guest Of the House. Thee,
was applause from both sides O.
the chamber.
HOLDS PRESS CONFERENCE
In midafternoon President Bar
Continued On pagf@74)
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SUPERIOR COURT OVERRULES
GOVERNORS DECISION TO EX.
TRADITE BOY TO GEORGIA

Philadelphia, June amp In
spite of the fact that the governor
Of Pennsylvania recently signed a
warrant allowing the extradition
of Thomas Mattox, II, charged with
assault, to the state of Georgia, the
state superior court refused to per-
nit the boys return.
The state superior court, prssid-
ed over by Judge William H. Kel-
Ter, upheld Common Pleas Judge
Clare G. Fenerty, who first acted
TO save the boy from extradition
last July.
According to the boys attorney,
Raymond Pace Alexander, Mattox
was charged with assault with in
tent to kill a white man during a
fight in which the man assertedly
attacked him and his two sisters
with a jack handle. Nations mo-
Their testified she was beaten when
she refused to state the boys
Whereabouts. His sisters and bro
Their testified they had been held by
Georgia authorities as hostages"
for his return.
Alexander said the decision rep
resents the first in the nations his
tory in which a local judge has
/ succeeded in preventing an extra
| dition already approved by the gov
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had been employed.
The fact that the colored welders
had been segregated from the
whites and were not working on
the same shift with those whites
who started the trouble clearly in
dicated the Righteousness of the at
titude Of the trouble makers.
There are unconfirmed reports
of from two to eight deaths and it
is definitely known that more than
a score of workers, the majority Of
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Mobile Shipbui1ders Determined to Use
Skilled Negro We1ders Despite Race Riot

tack because the company. in COM
piance with Executive order 1902
put colored weloers TO work Mon
day night.
According to shipyard Officials,
the trouble began about $50 o'clock
Tuesday morning when whites he
gan to wantonly attack coiored
women as well as men workers ev-
identity for the purpose of spreading
terrorism among the colored en-
ployees because colored welders
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CONGREGATION, NEW CON.
VERTS SCATTER

MEMPHIS, June 1 amp Murder
within the shadow of the cross was
very nearly enacted at New Salem
Baptist Church here Sunday just
before the start of the morning
service and just after AZ new con
verts had been baptized and were
seated in the church to receive the
hand of fellowship.
Two people, a man and woman,
had their heads nearly severed
from their bodies by a razor yield
ed by another man, who himself
suffered a broken jaw from a blow
delivered by an outraged deacon.
A 10-year old girl was slightly
cut in the stampede of the pack
ed congregation and the
but order was restored n the ser.
vices continued.
Behind it all was the same old
triangle and Jealousy. Twent-three
year old Mrs. Ocie Tolbert, J. w.
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METROPOLITAN LIFE TO BAR
NEGROES FROM $50, OOO, 900
HOUSING PROJECT

BROOKLYN, June 1 amp The
hydra-headed race prejudice, again
is active in the metropolitan area.
This time through the agents of
the powerful Metropolitan Life
Insurance company Negroes will
be barred, it is announced from its
proposed $50, 600, 900 housing pro-
ject to be erected on the lower east
side of Manhattan, aided by spec
ial tax exemption and grants Of
city-owned land.
Frederick H. Ecker, chairman of
the company explained its policy
thus: Negroes and whites don't mix
Perhaps they will in 100 years but
they don't now. If we brought
them into this development It
would be to the detriment of the
city, too, because it would depress
all the surrounding property" A
similar all-white development own
ed by this company, known as the
Parkchester project, is located in
the Bronx.
Councilmen Stanley M. Isaacs
and Clayton Powell. Jr., introduced
in the city council an amendment
to the administrative code to pre-
vent the Metropolitan Life Insur-
ance company from discriminating
against tenants on racial grounds
in this project.
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them Negroes. were injured.
D. Z. McEayden, chief of police,
said that the trouble started when
the tools checked in by white weld
ers on the day shift were immed-
lately checked out to the new crew
of Negro welders. Twenty-Five
men, the chief said, were involved
in the flareup, which made it nee
essary for 10 Negroes and one
white man to receive first aid treat
CONTINUED on pages974J
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Mr.. Guy I. Wiley,
Bomber Plant
Head, Evening
Guest Speaker

Bishop James A. Hamlet. Pres
iding bishop Of the Bird Episcopal
District Of the CME. church VIII
be the speaker Sunday morning,
June 9th at 100 "A. M. at Cleaves
Temple CME. Church, 25th and De-
catur Streets. Bishop Hamlet pre-
sides owe the states Of Louisiana,
Tennessee, Missouri. Kansas, Col
orado, Iowa and Nebraska. The
Bishop is paying his annual visit to
Cleaves Temple and will be the
speaker in observance Of Mems
Women's Day and the contest that
day is between the pastor and his
wife. Rev. Story is the leader Of
the women and Mrs. Story is the
leader Of the men. The contest Is
in both attendance and finance.
Don't fail to be present and hear
this divine, who is one Of the great
est preachers Of the Negro ace or
any other race.
At the evening service 500 Pm
Mr.. Guy T. Wiley, the
Of The Glenn l.. Martin Bomber
Plant will be the guest speaker.
The public is invited to hear Mr..
Wiley at 5 pm. His message
should be of interest to all on ac-
count Of the position he holds at
the bomber plant.
/ At both services a male-female
chorus will furnish the music.
ATTEND CLEAVES TEMPLE
SUNDAY MORNING AND EVEN
ING.
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Bishop Hamlet to Speak at
|Cleaves Men, -Women's
Day, June 9Th, Sunday
BAHAT INTERRACIAL MEETIN

.. the Baha'i Regional Teaching
Committee for Utah, Wyoming ana
Colorado, will give a talk on "Tha
Oneness of Mankind Mrs. Dor
e-ne Holiday of Omaha will pre-
side as Chairman. All who are in
terested in these principles are cor
daily invited to attend. There
will be no charge or collection.
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TO SPEAK ON THE PROBLEMS
Of Juvenile DELINQUENCY

The Family Relations Committee
invites the public to another in
their series of forums at the WV
CA, 1905 North 22nd Street on
Thursday, June 10th, 1943 at 7;45
pm. Mr.. Richard Collins. Proba-
ton officer, will speak on 1.-The
Problems of Juvenile Delinquency"
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RUMOR 2 DEAD, PROBE
CAUSE OF
(by CLIFF MACKAY

MOBILE. Ala, June l (ANP) -
With approximately 600 soldiers
from the Brokleyfield Army Air
base on guard, apparent calm has
been restored in the yards of the
Alabama Drydock and Shipbuiid-
ing company where on Tuesday
colored workers, men and women
alike. we're victims of a vicious at
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The Baha'i Faith is sponsoring a
program for the promotion of two
o, it's basic principles. The Abol-
ten of all Prejudice and The One
ness of the World o. Humanity,
Sunday. June 9Th at 4 pm. in the
Hotel Fontenelle. Music will he
featured and Arteraus Lamb, Dir
ector of the Los Angeles Urban
League and Executive Secretary
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leave that matter to the Supreme
Court to decide. 1 want to talk TO
you about the human side of this
thing.
A democracy is that government
that exists by the consent of the
governed, and that is the thing we
are trying to do here today-to
give certain citizens the right TO
say who will govern them. AS 1
look over this body I believe that
after this law will have been pass
ed the same men who are here now
will return here, because 1 believe
they will face that situation and
with the milk of human kindness in
their hearts and understanding in
their minds will gain the confid-
ence of their voters wherever they
may be. In the causes of the 49,
000, 900 patriotic and loyal Negro
citizens, I beseech the passage of
this bill.
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all that an American citizen should
be in spirit, in mind and in thought
I can stand here before you now
in this -fifty-seventh year of my life
and tell you that 1 do not believe
that in all America there are those
who have a deeper love and appre-
citation for the country of their
birth than does the American Ne
gro.
Why should we put a school tax
on a mans right to vote? Let US
be honest about this thing. This
Congress is not going to become a
bureaucracy because it undertakes
to make the Constitution a living
thing, You know that same Con-
stitution meant to give every cit
izen in this country a right to vote.
You know that. You know that
any method used to try to keep a
citizen from exercising that right
is against the true spirit of the
Constitution of the United States.
You know that.
I am a lawyer. but 1 shall not al
tempt to argue the constitutional
ity of this question because 1 know
that the shelves are full of law
books where those stepped in the
knowledge of the law have differ
ed over what is constitutional or
what is not constitutional. 1 will
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coming ceremony.
Also for the first time in history,
the same group of Negro newspa-
per men were admitted to the press
gallery to cover President Barclays
speech before the House of Repre-
s~entatives.
Blair House, incidentally, once
was owned by Montgomery Blair,
who was attorney for bred Scott.
The Omaha guide., 1943-06-05

WASHINGTON, C-dPress Photo Service, inc, Mary Nc
Leod Bethune,D Director of the NYA. Division of Negro Affairs is shown
above with Frederick p. Wall, n of the BethuneCookfan Colleges
products. MT Wall Is Secretary to Congressman William L. Dawson.
Mrs Bethune "a n of the highhghts present a the recent dedca-
tor of the million dollar Residence Halls for Negro women government
workers here VT. Walls is the o OF J Turner Walls, the information
any known lecturer and writer Of Chicago. Young Walls makes weekly
CUISINES trips to Chicago. outside of his duties a s Executive Secretary
to the Congressman here in Washington.
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Mr.. J. Finley Wilson, Grand Elk
allied Ruler Of the IBPO. Of w.
last week called on President
Roosevelt and Secretary of War
Stimson to have a full and impart-
ial investigation made at Camp
Stewart, Ca, Is to conditions af-
fecting Negro soldiers. He Urged
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but President Roosevelt made
it perfectly clear, on Barclays ar
rival, that he was to treated with
all the dignity and respect accord
ed any visiting head of another
state.
The President, members of the
Cabinet and representatives of all
the armed forces staged the usual
welcoming ceremony on the White
House Lawn. In the evening, the
President held a stag dinner party
in Barclays honor. And after
ward, Barclay and the Liberian
president-elect, WIS .Tubm2n,
who accompanied him, stayed at
the White House as overnight
guests, while the rest of their party
moved into historic Blair House.
Despite the CONSERVATION which
Barclays visit repeatedly caused in
certain quarters of the State De
partment-Secretary Hull is Civ
ing a dinner for Barclay.
Furthermore, for the first time
in history, five Negro reporters
and a photographer, Shepherd by
Ted Poston, OWL expert on Negro
affairs, were granted temporary
press passes admitting them to the
White House grounds for the wei