davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
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at a marines girl (you know sail
ors). But history doesn't care, any
way.
The principal interest IN the af-
fair was that after the first beer
bottle cracked over someone's cere-
bral guard, (even the victim and
the -swinger lost their ident-
ity in the general melee beer bot
ties, and fully loaded, too, became
the principal ammunition OF the
battle. much to the annoyance land
expense) OF the chop suey dis
pensers.
There were no arrests, many hits,
but errors were not recorded.
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Battle Of the Rice Bowl
Wort Go Down i'm History

There is an old naval apothegm
that would have us believe that
God loves all United States sailors
because their hearts are pure and
clean. N.t.
But that doesn't necessarily mean
that all United States sailors reflect
that beaming ray of kindness and
light at all times, and especially
where United States marines are
involved. 4N''ff f"'
In fact it is often noted that
marines and sailors seem to take
delight in bashing each other over
the noggin with whatever is near
est at hand, and these bashings are
ever attendant with a great deal
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the second front had disappeared
into the military archives.
Anglo american policy was set
forth in the Atlantic Charter two
years ago. Russia later subscribed
to it. Many observers feel that it
should be expanded and made more
specific.
Experienced diplomats believe
Russia, like everyone else, wants
primarilT to gain security for re-
construction and peaceful develop
ment, and that this will be the
sole desire motivating the geog-
raphical and other settlements on
which she is likely to insist.
There is every reason to believe
the Russian attitude has been made
clear to Washington and London.
Misunderstanding regarding it
should not, in capable opinion here,
be permitted to foster doubts re-
garding Russia's good faith in the
minds of the American and British
public.
COMMON IDEAS
Beyond that, these sources con-
tend, the three countries should
arrive at common ideas on economic
and political settlements after the
war-particularly with reference to
how Germany can be made to work
in harness with the rest of Europe.
1t is clear that Russia wants to
see Europe governed by peoples
Governments" That does not con-
tradict the Atlantic Charters prin-
ciple of self determination, nor
does it indicate that Russia ex-
poets to communize the continent.
A common policy must include not
only an agreement to let the ma
tions of Europe choose their own
Continued on page 6, col g.
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Nazi Time Bomb.
Kills NeopoIitans

NAPLES, Oct. 20 (UP)-A Ger
man time bomb exploded today in
an office building in the teart OF
Naples, killing an unknown number
of civilians.
Ten bodies were recovered from
the ruins soon after the blast, and
several passers-by were killed.
The building in which the bomb
exploded 20 days after the fall of
Naples had been gutted by fire be-
fore the Germans evacuated 1t
was next to the United States con-
sulate, which had sufferd a similar
rate
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Downey Will Seek
Election Aqain

WASHINGTON, Oct. 20.-(UP)-
Sen. Sheridan owney, D., Calf, to-
day announced he will be a candi-
date for reelection next year.
Downey issued the following state
ment:
With this country in the midst
of a great worldwide struggle 1t is
no time to discuss politics. How
ever, 1 can say that my present in
tention is to be candidate for re-
election in 1914, and / expect to
issue a full statement concerning
this matter around the first of the
year"
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Pefain Opponent
Dies Near Paris

Madrid, Oct 20.-(UP) - The
Death of Eduoard Herriot, former
Premier of France who led opposi-
ton to the present regime of Henri
Petain, was reported by the Vichy
radio today.
Herriot, II. was said to have died
Sunday at a Sanatorium near Paris.
He had been held incommunicado
since he attacked the Vichy gov
ernment formed after the fall of
France.
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ALLIES PUSH FOE BACK ON TWO FRONTS
Wrong Wording
Liberafes Man

SAN DIEGO, Oct. 20.-tUP)-
Ernest Henry was a free man to-
day because the district attorney
used the wrong proposition in a
complaint charging him with
falling asleep while smoking and
setting fire to davenport in his
home.
Municipal Judge A. F. Molina
ruled that the complaint alleging
that Henry placed burning sub
stance where il might directly or
indirectly cause fire in the
premises" meant nothing and dis
missed the charge.
Molina said the complaint
should have read, cause a fire to
the premises"
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President TO Send
Congress Message
Favoring Subsidies.
Chief Executive Said
To Be Ready to Fight
For Critical Farm Issue

WASHINGTON, Oct. 20.
(UP)-President Roosevelt,
having rejected farm organ
ization proposals of a COM
promise, prepared today to
send congress a strongly-worded
message in support of his food
subsidy program.
Heads of three of the four major
farm organizations proposed that
present subsidies be continued only
until a fair scale of prices" on
farm products could be put into
effect.
The suggestion was made b. lead
erS of the National Grange, the
American Farm Bureau Federation
and the National Council of Farmer
Cooperatives at a White House
conference yesterday and again last
night to War Food Administrator
Marvin H. Jones.
WOULD GO ALONG
I'VE told MI Roosevelt that we
would go along on any program
that would get us out of trouble,
but not on one that gets us deeper
into trouble" said Albert S. Goss,
master of the Grange.
Farm leaders said Mr.. Roosevelt
was determined to go ahead with
the subsidy program even if it
meant another congressional fight
such as the one on the same SUBJ
ject which ended last spring in a
virtual stalemate by postponing a
decision until this session.
mfr. Roosevelt was not in a
compromising mood" said Ezra t.
Benson, executive secretary of the
council of cooperatives.
TO FIGHT 1T OUT
The issue likely will be fought
Continued on page 6, col. a.
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Ben Bernie Dies
OfHeurt AiIment

BEVERLY HILLS, Cal, Oct. 90 (UP)-Ben Bernie
od maestro of the band leaders, died at his Beverly Hills
home today. .
Bernias death Just before am. came after a sudden
of heart trouble which followed sege of pneu
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Govt by Bureaus
Charged byG0P
Spang|er Declares Administrations
Plan Is TO Direct Daily Lives Of All
U.S.. Citizens from Washinq+on, DC.

MISSOULA, Mont, Oct 90 (UP)-Harrison E. Span
ger, National Republican Committee chairman last night
charged the New Deal with promoting contrary and
dictionary philosophy of based upon the idea
an powerfu centralized state with complete control
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Witness ellis Of
Counts Actions

NASSAU, Bahamas, Oct. 20. (UP)-Mrs. Newell Fl.
Kelly wife of the superintendent of Sir Harry Cakes
Estates testified today that Count Alfred De Margny
nearly tainted and complained of being i'll when he arrived
the Oakes home few hours after his father-inaw was
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D AMBl'Ne
NEpoR1ER

Eye Witness Account
do you know" said Foster Nc
Clure, II saw Malcolm Macurda
holding up a corner of the tent so
he and all his children could see the
circus sideshoW for nothing"
why did he do that?" friend
asked.
Because he's Il Scotchman," Nc
Clure said.
Anyway, Macurda doesn't go
around with his knees bare even in
hot weather.
Sold Again.
Mayor Robert Hatton and Her.
man Zuckerman were betting on
Manuel Ortiz.
"Ill bet he wins before the fifth
round" Hatton said.
I'll bet he doesn't" Zuckerman
declared. I'll bet you two cases OF
coke that he doesn't"
Hattcn won when Ortiz won in
the fourth round. Zuckerman had
to pay off.
He sent over two cases OF coke.
Two cases of miniature bottles
filled with ginger ale and corked up
with bits of eraser rubber.
A Military Letter
tFor reasons you will understand
if you read the rest of this, the
names were left cut of this soldiers
letter to his girl. After reading it,
we understand why the girls get
tired of staying at home and joined
the WACS or WAVES or Lady
Marinesor somethingo
Dear Girl Friend, tHow do you
like that dear?): Well, I don't know
what to write but since decided to
honor YOU with a letter, here goes.
l really like this post when am on
leave. Atlantic City Is a resort
where all fasteners go to. The ma
iority of the visitors are girls. They
ale all locking for soldiers and
there about six girls to a soldier.
The system is in reverse. They pick
Continued on page 6, col y
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Postwar Cooperation Of
Allies Seen as Outcome
Of Tri-PoWerMeetinQs
Diplomatic Quarters in London Expec
|n+esra+ed Policy to Be Result Of Two
GATHERINGS; Need Ou+ranks War Plans
BY EDWARD w. BEATTIE

LONDON, Oct. 20. (UP)-Dplomatic quarters looked
today to the conference going in Moscow and the
Stain Roosevelt Churchill meeting which may follow it to
develop inegrated postwar policy of cooperation
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yunk and British
Advance i'm ItuIv
To Pace Russians
Great Gap Torn in Nazis Lines in
East; Gains Of 5 to Miles Made
Against Stiff Enemy Blows in Italy
= BY UNITED PRESS

American bomb loads battered western Germany Wed
nesday when Branbased planes went back the offens
i've, while NaZ armies retreat to line in Italy and
fought desperation against advancing Soviet forces ir
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among Russia. the United States
and Great Britain.
These circles believe the end of
the war is clearly enough in sight
to make essential the drafting OF
such policy by the three main
western members of the United
Nations.
Nobod% in London gminimizes the
need for settling once and for all
during the Moscow conference of
foreign ministers the timing of Of
fensive blows which some persons
believe could end the war within
a few months-a year at the out
side.
NEED OUTRANKED
But as long term proposition,
the need for a common policy is
believed to outrank it. That policy
still would be functioning long after
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SHROUDS MEET

SILENCE SHROUDS MEET
MOSCOW, Oct. 20. - (UP)-
Official silence surrounded the
progress of the tri-partite confer
ences today, as the American,
British and Russian foreign min
listers, joined by Allied military
and diplomatic experts, prepared
for their second formal meeting.
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WEATHER

Maximum Tuesday rs, minimum
Wed. 40; S a.n. Wed. So, humidity
So; noon Wed. 76, humidity 46; s
pm. Tuesday 20, humidity 33.
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Ia for Your Stoker

A stoker performs best on the FIR
ing line when it is kept in Ia con-
dition. Here are the few simple
rules for taking care of the coal
stoker this winter. ID Follow the
manufacturer instructions on the
use Of the stoker; 90 Keep coal in
the hopper; 80 The air and coal
flow into the heating plant must be
balanced; "a Avoid experiment
ing" or playing with" the controls
or thermostat; (6 Remove clinkers
periodically; (6) Use proper size of
stoker coal. Cd Insulate home to
prevent heat losses. go The stoker
should be cleaned, inspected and
serviced every summer, and the
heating plant kept brushed out every
month.
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In MemOriam


In loving memory of our par
ents, James Hopkins, who depart
ed this life February 9, 1911;
Stephen Hopkins, who departed
this life March 80, 1899.
God promised we shall meet
again
Upon that glorious day,
When time and sorrow are no
more
And the mist has rolled away.
Maggie Jenkins and Family.
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BULLETS DO NOT
DISCRIMINATE

my contention is that men who
are willing to serve, fight and die
for their country, regardless of COL
or, are entitled to all the rights of
citizenship. If we are going to dis
crlminate against the Negro in the
army, men in the services who
never gave a thought to color, race
or creed, are now being taught for
the first time by our government
that the only group that is being
ostracized, is the Negro group. Not
only will this bring hardship to the
Negro in this country, but when the
men go over seas to foreign coun-
tries that have never shown dis
elimination, these countries will
come to think of the Negro as
natural servant to the white group.
During battle, the Negro SOL
der walks side by side with the
white soldier, and when an enemy
bullet strikes Negro body, it is
just as painful and effective, just
as fatal as it would be if his body
were white.
eve today are fighting for de-
mocracy. We are fighting that
all people remain free, and unless
all people are free, none of us is
free. If the Negro is not fit to be
a citizen of our country and given
the rights of citizenship, he should
not be permitted to join the armed
forces."-Samuel R. lack, radio
commentator WMCA, New York
City.
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Emotional Security In South
impossible Courier Writer Saws

another man might have insisted
upon his rights in the situation and
such a man would have even great
er cause to be afraid.
It is not necessary to be a psy-
biologist to know that these Incl
dents and those much worse, as
well as the certainty of their oc-
currence, inevitably produce abnor-
NAL personalities. Security means
not only economic protection but
emotional security, which is equal
ly essential if the individual is to
be competent, productive member
of society. A man cannot be skirt
ing the outer rim of danger forever
and remain relaxed and normal,
particularly if that danger is GER
tain but underlined, imminent but
hidden.
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RANDOM JOTTINGS

The Twin Cities have had their
share of celebrities in the past few
months. Such names as Ann Brown,
Eta Moten, Judge William H. Has
tie, Crystal Bud Fauset, Marian
Anderson and Paul Robson have
flashed across the local scene.
Lester Granger, Urban national
executive secretary, is returning to
the twin towns to speak at the
state conference of social work
which meets in St. Paul in May.
Granger conceived an idea a year
or so ago to have a national con-
ference of Negro leaders. A num-
Der of the top-fight Negro leaders
met and the sum total results were
not very encouraging. However the
idea was good and in many quar-
tiers there is demand that another
conference be called by Mr.. Gran
ger.
We are in grateful receipt of a
handsome 38-page book which is a
pictorial historical record of the
pastorate of the White Rock Bap-
fist Church, Durham, N. c., by Rev.
Miles Mark Fisher. The foreword
note was the significant words of
Lao-tze, when merit has been
achieved, do not take it to yourself.
If you do not take it to yourself, it
shall never be taken from you"
Would that many of us could take
to heart such truth.
Every cackle the radio Aunt
Jemima makes on the air Sunday
afternoon loses a flock of buyers of
the pancake flour. Negroes resent
and rightly so, the type of yassah
Mr.. BOSNIAN characters offered to
radio by manufacturers and their
ad agencies.
The appointment of Jonathan
Daniels, editor on leave of the Ra-
leigh On. c. News and Observer,
as administrative assistant to
F. D. R. is significant. Daniels is
one of the southern liberals who
has championed the cause of the
Negro. Whether his appointment
has anything to do with the NEGRO
problem" remains to be seen. Dan
iels, cracker-jack newspaper
man, is the son of Josephus Dan
iels, Secretary of Navy during the
Wilson administration.
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Post Hdqt. bet.
Fl. Huachuca, Ariz.
Editor:

Editor:
am writing this letter in an
effort to show the appreciation to
those back home for all the let
tiers, packages and various other
things that have been sent to me
from time to time. I often think
of all my friends and wish I had
the time to write to each one in
dividually. To a soldier in the army,
it is an inspiration to know that
there are few people who appre-
ciate what we soldiers are trying
to do.
have run into quite a few of
our local boys here and have been
glad and happy to see each and
every one of them. I've been in
this post for fifteen months and
find it really nice. I have met so
many soldiers from various parts
of the country and also from
abroad.
We also have a contingent of
$50 WAAC's here and they, are
really lot of company for the SOL
diers, in fact, they take some of
the drudgery out of army life.
We are all hoping and praying
that this mad world will calm it.
self and get back to normal some
time soon although this has pro-
vided an education some of the
largest universities in the country
can't offer.
Hello to all my friends. Yours
sincerely,
Sgt. James C. Martin.
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INERTIA, APATHY
VERY DISTURBING

Consequently, what l fear more
than this fear itself is what l think
it has done to our finest minds in
the South, to the sensitive people
who may have known freedom else
where and who, by some queer ma
chination of the cruel cycle of racial
prejudice, find themselves doing
penance for their color in the un-
familiar grip of Southern tension.
1 am disturbed by the evidence
inertia and apathy I see among
them. There is, and more profound
ly, proper cause for alarm in their
defensive attitude, which seeks to
explain and justify the smugness of
their narrow world. Even now I
can estimate their indignation over
these few words.
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ROndO (Avenue) CapricciO

Young painter, rest your brush and pastel hues,
It takes charcoal stick to catch these weary bues
Your 1attering oils alien to the scene,
Too numb to catch the nuances that come between
Forget, young maestro, your symphonic dream
You cannot hope to weave lofty theme
From earthly things, and dip your brush in stars
Environment will put eight beats in all your bars.
Although you shut your eyes and keep them closed,
Some half-clad lass with much too much exposed,
Cooling ill postured, in the summer heat,
On her veranda, may wave to you with naked feet
Beware unfrendy words may make you blush,
And, fleeing, throw away your pen or brush.
AS she frowns down from her leaning tower of Pisa,
You will forget you sought brownskin Mona Lisa.
And if you find the urge to etch this ghetto,
Look not on Rondo grim stiletto
1t is Main Street-it's A your fiddle,
Move if you like it remains in the middle.
1t is Sugar HILL and again it's Down Home,
1t is cabins and castles, it is pewter and chrome,
1t has folks who sanity, some just plain good
Panderers and gamblers and Buckets of Blood
There is much o Rondo to wound soul and eye,
AS shameless the drunkards and harlots go by,
The unkempt, CRASHES plots of careless tenants,
In front yards tattered laundry pennants.
But Rondos vital that would not chance
Their humble cottage for some Summit manse;
&c. if you must sketch it or write plaintive air,
My friend, don't forget put heartsrng somewhere!
james T. Logan.
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By Marjorie Mckenzie in the
Pittsburgh Courier

l have just returned from my
second trip South in as many
months and although 1 am con-
cerned, as everyone always is,
about the obvious problems of that
area, was aware this time of a
more subtle kind of threat to the
security of the Negro in the South.
The American people, both black
and white, are in agreement, 1 be-
lieve, that the race question in the
South is full of emotional content.
The real difficulties are obscured in
a haze of heightened feeling, and
calm discussion, dispassionate ap-
proach become almost impossible
of achievement. People ordinarily
rational, who can confer or even
lunch with Negro acquaintance
in New York or Washington to-
day, might refuse to speak to that
same friend on the street in De-
catur, Alabama, tomorrow.
The chief emotion in this conflict
of mores is fear. Fear of reprisals
by the white society in which they
seek their own adjustment in eco
nomic and social terms, fear or loss
of caste, fear even concerning the
repercussions the association, if
known, might bring to the friend
involved.
In this tense atmosphere, the
Negro is also obsessed with fear.
1t is a nameless sort of thing that
clutches him by the heart and
leaves him breathless in anticipa-
ton, from the moment the train
covers that last span of bridge over
the Potomac and hurls itself uncon-
cernedly on the waiting Virginia
shore. From then until feeting pic
lures of the slim white shaft of the
Washington Monument and the
graceful, curving lines of the JEFF
ferson Memorial can be glimpsed
once more through the train win
dow, one feels lost and abandoned,
an unwanted stranger in an alien
land.
1t is possible to visit back and
forth in Virginia dozen times and
feel nothing of this, but once Vir-
ginia becomes the first of a series
of Southern states through which
one must pass, there is a fnality
about arriving there to which no
attitude but one of fortitude and
resignation seems appropriate.
The atmosphere of the South is
charged not only with the fear of
normally reasonable white men, but
it is super-charged with the fear
and hate of the unreasonable ones.
Combined, these fears produce
responsive emotion in the mind of
the Negro, no matter what his
equipment by way of courage, re-
sourcefulness and intelligence, or
the lack of any of these, may be.
He may be afraid simply of what
could happen to him even if he "be-
HAYES" himself. He may be even
more afraid of his own predisposi-
ton not to behave" additionally
and what that might involve by
way of retribution.
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LOndOn's Bulldog Cannon

On the Thameside promenade
near the Tower of London may be
seen Bulldog cannon. It is an
old bronze mortar of Chinese origin,
fashioned in the shape of a bull
dog, with the dogs mouth as the
muzzle of the gun. It was found by
soldiers of the British army in the
fort at Kurnaul, India, in 1888. Al
though it commands an expansive
view of the river, it is doubtful if
the authorities consider it as part
of London's defenses today!
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CARD OF THANKS

We wish to thank our friends,
neighbors and relatives for their
kindness, sympathy and the beau
tiful floral offerings during our
late bereavement. Special thanks
to Rev. Robert Kelly, Mrs. Mabel
Henderson, soloist, and the Border
M. E. church choir.
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We wish to express our sincere
thanks to our many friends, neigh
bors and relatives for the sympa-
thy and kindness shown us during
the recent death of our beloved
husband and father and also for
the many beautiful flowers con-
tributed.
We wish to especially thank Rev.
Clarence T. R. Nelson, the Choir
of Camphor M. E. Church, and the
pallbearers for services rendered.
Mrs. Georgia L. Smith, wife,
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CARD OF THANKS

wish to thank the many friends
for their kind words of expression
in sympathy in the recent illness
and death of my husband. Es-
pecially do I thank Rev. B. N.
Moore and Father Williams for
their spiritual advice and Mrs.
B. N. Moore for her beautiful solo.
In fact, everyone who rendered any
service or assistance.
Mrs. Ella Shepard.
IN MEMORIAM
In loving memory of Hugh l..
Turner, who died April IL, 1912.
We loved him but God loved him
best.
Mrs. Vallie Turner, wife,
Mrs. Sallie Henderson, mother.
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FUTURE DEPENDS ON AFRICA

African rulers and statesmen do realize
future of the world will depend largely what place
and plan to mould the shape of things selfish
interests of white nations but those of their
not expect that white nations WILL high prin-
c lead the to the development of free nations the African
continent The world large suffering
edge about African cultures languages civilizations,
not to mention the large contributions
has made beginnings growth development of world cvza
tion-A Wendell Maiet.