davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1943-02-13
BY ST. MERLE MILLER

SOMEWHERE IN HAWAII
"Harlcm's Hellcats." they were
called then. They. were in the
Mesuse-Argonne offensive, in the
siege Of Sechault, in the slaughter
that was Alsace-Lorraine They
were among the first Yanks 10 enter
German territory.
From late 1917 urtil the Novem-
bcr dawn tina; brought the ARMS
t,cc. they fought with The Fourth
French Amy. and when the way
ended, their reg .ment vas given the
Cro.N dc Gacrre.
Ffty-fte officers and men who
we're through Il al with the original
T.hellcsis" are on another war front
row-or The Islard OF Oahu. waiting
with fighters as tough as their pre-
deceSsovs 20 show the Japs how
Harlem. men fight.
"Hooper's Troopers"
"Hooper's Troopers they are
called on he island.
Hooper is Col. Chaunccy NJ
Hooper. who was with them in
France Sixty percent OF his troop
arc from Manhattan. and in addition
TO the veterans Of II and l8. there
are men who remember nights al
Snalls Paradise and Dick Wheat
on's in Harlem when they would
nj their instruments 10 play while
the hcp-cats smiled
Those studs put down some fine
action" the cats would say. -
AZ least 4 quarter OF the Troopers
were professional musicians; another
IS pcrccrt played 10 anyone who
would Esten-for free
Among the professionals src-cpt
Otis Johnson, who trumpeted with
Louis Armstrong Cpl Rudy Will
Iams who clarine;ed for FeS VIII
lianls; SGT Reuben Reeves, solo
t;rumpe: for Cab Galloway: Pfc Dick
Thompson, clarine; for Claude Hop
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1943-02-13
EARN AGENT DEAD

INDUSTRIAL COLLEGE. Ga
Ebert Stailwor;h. Negro county
agcu: for Sumter codn:y and pio-
nccr n Negro Extension work in
Georgia since 1917. died here this
week.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1943-02-13

.kins. and Pfc. David Afford, who
was with Cabs sister. Blanche.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1943-02-13
BUYS $4,000 BOND

MARSHALL. Tcxas-Charlcs Rsy
OF Jefferson. Texas. purchased
$4,000 worth OF war bonds recent
|. through the Marshall National
bank. Marshall, Texas Ray owns
several tracks Of land. dealssin real
estate and loans. and IN addition
his oil interests.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1943-02-13

Philip Griffiths. capable lawyer,
counsellor. a sincere friend OF the
laboTing man and the masses. is
seeking the nomination for Judge
Of the Common Pleas court in
the primaries on Feb. Is. A large
number OF Griffiths' friends are
soliciting the support for him on
the basis OF his fine record. Crit
fiths has definite convictions on
many matters for the interest OF
the group and his election to the
Common Pleas court would be
valuable addition to that bench.
The masses and the working man
can depend on Griffiths. A vote
for Philip Griffiths is vote for
a man who in addition TO being
able and capable. has sympa-
thetic understanding OF the prob
lens affecting the masses, who
would have to come before the
Common Pleas court. Your vote
and support Is earnestly solicited.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1943-02-13

why man" explained Pfc
Augudus Caesar, OF New York,
";henS music boxes amt nowhere.
Thdse days there is less ;ime for
swinging hula: not that the sugar
care $fie!ds arc quiet a, night Ar
the Barracks are BACKED out, no one
m!n&s much. A Harlem man doesn't
nee& light 10 start a half hun
drca OF his budd.es humm.ng SWING
L6sl" or Nobody Knows the
TFouble I've Seen"
& Electricity ism, necessary for so
Troopers 10 get out their trumpe,s.
cisrnets, BASES. harmoricas ard
drums, and give out with Baby
Knock Me a KISS and DsrktoWn
Shutters Bal
Ard a biackout tiashlight is
enough for a round 81 "Georga
Skin" game in which even STAFF
sercean;'s monthly salary can vanish
with single shuttle Of the deck
Duri.g the day, II there's free
minute. Col Hooper's men swim
n a reservoir that once was part
a. a tremendous Oahu plantation.
The regiment mas -eaSeba1fii-tesm
that holds second place in the Ha-
waian Department. and the regi-
mental bard provides music for
nearly every concert and swinG
enreiov, :, .ha 1siNf~tfv
The marching band 81 IS men
breaks Up. incidentally into swins
outfit OF is pieces which. with three
saxes a bass. Clarinet. and drums
make a jump sexte,;e Of quality
seldom heard below l2Sth street
There are SO many 1--WE trios Chief
W O. Russell Wooding hasn't
counted them
rs NJ. WoodinE who plans the
music ard he. as the Troopers say
s hep. He MAS arrsHEer Tor Irving
Ber.Gs AS Thousands Cheer,
Lew Les,ies "Blacko.rds, and the
Schuber:s' AT Home Abroad =" He
s also something Of an expert on
Chopin. DcbuSSy and Bach, and j,
ism; TOO unusual for "Swirg Il Sis
;er" 20 compete with Prelude in
c Sharp Minor"
College Grads
( Almost al Of the officers in thc
. regiment are college graduates; SO
sre more than score OF enlisted
men. and the Libraries with the
various Units have as many volumes
Of Shakespeare and tn bmas Mann
as tho latest comic books
Many Of the Troopers have gone
back 70 the mainland for OCS
mainly for coast artillery. infantry
ordnance, and signal corps training
\ Few arc taxing courses in me
Army Institute, and ore man il
qualifying for Adjutant General
school, one Of the toughest IN The
army 20 enter He IS ono OF ne
res nen;'s several attorneys
! But IS i've tina; Hoopers Troop
ers--or tho Pineapple Army. as they
cal! ,hcmse,vcS-,.ke best: For
months. now, they have been work
nc NJ an arrangement Of tune
hey wish 20 dedicate - an en-.
peror Known as H.yoh.,o They vii
play /: sweet or no: or both: Ghcl
WI. Go their bcs; 70 please his h. gh.
ness TIE Sclcction-is TIED I'll BE
Clad When You're Dead, You Rasca
Y0U
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-08

that many of those were frost-bit- ten. A German regiment normally Includes 5000 to 4,000 men.
 The commander said his regiment had lost all its artillery and nor tars.
 Although the Axis troops encir- cled in the Don offensive appeared doomed, the enemy showed no in- clination to surrender. Instead he was battling fiercely and frequently counter attacking in vain effort to halt the Russian advance.
 Great German armies were fight ing desperately against threatened destruction below the Don Bend and in the Caucasus they were burn ing villages, blowing up bridges and mining roads, dugouts and block houses in a futile attempt to stop the Russians, leaving picked men behind them as sacrifice units.
 The midnight communique an- nounced the capture yesterday of IS railroad stations, district centers and other populated places in the Lower Don and 40 inhabited placeS of various s&ze in the northern Cau- casus.
 Tn the Lower Don region, the Russians took two towns during the night, the noon comrnunique said, and several towns and villages in the north Caucasus.
 The Germans threw tanks and motorized infantry into repeated counter-attacks in the Lower Don fighting during the night, only to have them utterly smashed, their men killed and their equipment de- stroyed, while the Russians, the noon communique said, swept on.
 The Russians threw Stomovik dive bomber planes into action in one Don sector where the Germans made an especially determined stand. The planes shrieked down, hurling bombs on the enemy field guns and trench mortars. Battery after bat tery was Silenced. Massed Russian tanks followed up the plane attack, destroyed eight remaining guns and captured the village which the enemy sought to hold.
 Prisoners Taken
 Tn another lower Don sector the Russians stormed an inhabited place, took German survivors pris- oner and captured four field guns, seven trench mortars and a wire less transmitting station, the noon conmunique said.
 Red Army tanks, tommy gunners and infantry attacked throughout the night in the north Caucasus, developing their new tactics of sending assault parties through to the enemy rear to cut off escape.
 In one sector shock troops crept close to the enemy trenches, un- noticed. under cover of night, while others went around to the rear.
 At the same instant the Russians attacked from front and rear, killed more than 100 Germans and took the remainder prisoner along with war spells.
 Storming parties in Stalingrad
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-08
Russians Only Short
 Distance From Rostov
tcOntinued from Page D

city captured II dugouts and seven blockhouses in the northern factory district during the night, killed about 120 Germans and destroyed neighboring Notifications, the noon communique reported.
 Northwest of Stalingrad patrols snaked into the German trenches. killed 60 Germans around the sector and took prisoners back to the Red Army lines with them.
 Southwest of Velikie Luki, on the central front, the Russians smashed a big German counter attack, des- troyed IA enemy tanks, killed about 30 Germans and sent the rest reel ing back in defeat, the noon con- munique reported.
 In other sectors, the Russians broke local counter attacks and con- solidated positions gained in their offensive operations yesterday.
 The midnight communique had told how the Russians yesterday de- veloped their drive on Rostov and SalSk.
 From Bolshaya Orlovka, taken the day before, the Russians thrust 16 miles northweStward to Strakhov and Taplin, about 60 miles from Rostov. They had sent another force 19 miles to the southeast, along the Sal river, to reach Mar tinovka, 30 miles from the Stalin- grad-Salsk railroad and about 85 miles from Salsk.
 They had cleaned up whole series of towns and villages in the Central Don Bend, between the Stalingrad, and the Don Bend to the south.
 In this fighting the Russians had wiped out small German pockets at 12 places.
 Stiffened German resistance was being met in the whole area south and southwest of Stalingrad, but the Russians kept on.
 In one sector yesterday troops of the guards regiments repelled 12 counter-attacks by Germans at tempting to break out of encircle- ment, and wiped out the defenders. Drive Continues
 In the eastern area of the north Caucasus, the Russians continued their drive up the railroad from Prokhladnenski.
 They pushed another column northward parallel with the spur line to Budennovsk, where the Ku- ma river runs through toward the Caspian Sea. In this area the towns and villages of Sovetskaya, Suk- hayapadina, Solomenskoye, and Stepnoye were taken. At Stepnoye the Russians were about 30 miles east of Georgievsk railroad junction where the main Cacasus line meets the Budennovsk Spur.
 The midnight communique des- cribed 8 fierce attack on a large inhabited place southwest of Stal- ingrad, where the Germans had concentrated fresh forces including picked SS Nazi shock troops for g stand. The Russians pushed into the German positions, in a frontal at- tack, dislodged the enemy from fort after fort, and routed the enemy forces.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-08
1t in an atempt to save what
 co,1Id fnY. kha T11niSfQn fi0htinp

could for the Tunisian fighting.
 Experts said the British force was far too strong for the Axis to op- pose with hope of success and the threat of fighting French column moving northward through the Lib van desert from Lake Chad was be- coming more serious.
 The pass has changed hands twice since Tuesday, when British forces captured positions north of Mateur. On Wednesday, the Axis counter attacked and forced the British to relinquish their gains, and fall back into the valley west of the height north of the Mateur road.
 Because of alternate roads are few, 1t was considered almost im- possible for the Allies to advance in northern Tunisia without con- trolling the pass. Hence, 1t was not believed the Allies would let the Germans and Italians hold 1t long.
 Far to the southeast, the fighting French Forces of Brigadier General Jacques LeClerc won their most irn- portant victory since they started their drive from the Lake Chad re- zion.
 They captured Oum-El-Araneb, the main Axis outpost in Fezzan. some 475 miles below Tropon. The possibility was seen that the Axis would soon have to divert consid- erable forces to fight this column, or have it cut communications be. tween Tripolitania and Tunisia be- fore the remnants of the Afrika Korps can retreat into Tunisia.
 After a three-day attack, fight. ing French forces swept into Oun- El-Araneb, took several hundred prisoners, and captured 10 guns, many machine guns and mortars and much other booty.
 So far as losses of materiel and men were concerned, the Allies came out far ahead of the Axis in the fighting north of Matetr. Four Axis fighter planes and a bomber were shot down the day the Allies advanced. Allied North African headquarters announced yesterday that three more enemy aircraft had been shot down.
 Dispatches from Tunisia said British Hurricane bombers, faster and better fighters than German Stukas, had spread "havoc" among the Germans. Not only did they shatter gun emplacements, they caught Axis columns moving up to the front and shattered them.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-08

center of the city, the communique reported.
 Incendiaries were dropped on Licata, in southern Sicily, the com- munique said. Limited damage was reported to some buildings and one person was wounded.
 The high command reported mod crate activity on the Sirte and Tunisia fronts, with enemy thrusts repulsed and some prisoners taken.
 Italian planes renewed lombard ment of Bone, Algeria, it was re- ported, and together with German formations attacked Allied motor vehicles, irnmobilizing more than SO.
 The high command said five enemy fighters were shot down of the Algerian coast and German planes sank two 8,000-ton mer- chantmen in a successful attack on a convoy.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-08
-l HOME 7;Se 7sI;A3s sESll - C Commercial Buildings Had Better Convert--Or Else
BY ANN FRANCE WILSON

NEA Service Staff Correspondent
 Washington, Jan. 8.-If sou live in an apartment house that IS heated by fuel oil and if its furnace can be converted into coal burner. and if your landlord hasn't done anything about it-a good tip would be for, you to exert little polite pressure on the landlord to see that something is done about 1t. That is, if you want to keep warm for the rest of the winter.
 Reason is that Office of Price AdmlnistratiOn has just slapped down an order saying that, in the 90 states where fuel oil is ratiOned, all commercial buildings heated by fuel oil furnaces which can be eOn- verted to coal burning must be c0n- yerted by the end of January or else they wiIf lose their fuel of ration.
 This goes for apartments, thea- terS, ofiice buildings, or any other type except q private dwelling house.
 Yes, Heard Coal
 Apparently the only one thing which it is okay for you to hoard is coal for your furnace. Ccnsum. CTS of coal are being urged Co take every opportunity they can to lay in every pound of coal they can acquire and build up cellar stock piles. With that safeguard, you have assurance that ycusl he wnyn in
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-08

(Continued from Page D non Mountain Tramway at Fran conia, N. H., were abandoned for the duration.
 Highways throughout Massachu- setts virtually were deserted today, and the report of one Boston park ing lot owner was typical-that he had only two cars on his lot com- pared with the normal 200.
 The Connecticut State Motor Vehicles Department at Hartford reported a 21.9 per cent drop in au- tomobils travel for the Il months ending last November, as indicated by the departments mileage report. This result of gasoline. tire and au- tomobile rationing is expected to become more pronounced with the elimination of pleasure driving.
 Horse racing was expected to continue in Rhode Island despite the ban. James E. Dooley, presi- dent of the Narragansett Racing association, said racing dates would be set in 1943. although he antici- pated cut in the tracks profits for the summer months.
 Other New England tracks had not yet decided what was to be done about 1943 operations. Rock ingham Park at Salem, N. H., ex- pected difficulties, but Suffolk Downs in Boston, near the center of the city, expected it's problem would not be so serious.
 Most customers were more con- cerned with lack of fuel oil than with the ban on pleasure driving. The oil shortage threatened to close the Albany, N. Y, College of Phar- macy. which was reported to have only two weeks supply on hand and no prospect of getting additional supplies.
 In New York city, plan was considered to close public schools for @ week, beginning Feb. 1. Most of the city's churches reported they had coal-burning furnaces and 'ex- pected to be able to continue serv- ices.
 In Rhode Island, Gov. J. Howard McGrath suggested that all norl- war industries operate on a i've day week to conserve fuel oil.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-08
TWO JAP CONVOY
 TRANSPORTS SUNK
(Contlnued from Page D

American and Australian troops and its garrison was doomed.
 Summing up the Bune campaign, he said an army of 15,000 Japanese troops had been wiped out and 539 Japanese planes had been destroyed or damaged since the start of the fighting July g.
 In addition. untold thousands of Japanese were killed in ships att tackled off the coasts. These in- cluded six cruisers, 13 destroyers, one destroyer tender, two seaplane tenders, two gunboats, 83 merchant men and up to 200 barges sunk, de- stroyed or seriounsly damaged.
 Allied planes had destroyed nine Japanese transports, supply and warships for certain, and probably 10, in an attack Tuesday on Rabaul harbor, New Britain Island, 375 miles northeast of the Huon Gulf, which in turn is 1856 miles up the New Guinea coast from Buna.
 Wednesday morning a lone Amer ican reconnaissance plane sighted the new convoy off Gasmata, on the south coast of New Britain Island, heading toward Lac, the big Japa- nese base on the Huon Gulf in Aus tralian-mandated northeast New Guinea territory.
 A flash to base sent Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses and crack new Lockheed Lightning P-38 fighters roaring to the scene.
 Consolidated B-24 four motored bombers, big Consolidated PBY fly ing boat patrol bombers, North American Mitchell BPS medium bombers and Martin Marauder B-26 bombers followed the Fortresses and Lightnings.
 From Wednesday afternoon, when the first planes reached the spot, until yesterday afternon when Mac Arthur drafted his communique, the attack proceeded withc,'t interup- tion and the communique said: "Our attacks are continuing"
 The 14,OOO-ton transport, which probably contained 5000 or even more Japanese troops, was sunk Wednesday night in black darkness. Every man aboard 1t was killed.
 A second great transport burst into flames and sank.
 The third was believed crippled by a direct 5Oo-pound bomb hit and by now probably has sunk.
 The Japanese sought desperately to protect the convoy with an um- brella of Zero fighter planes but the Allies ripped the umbrella to pieces.
 Enemy planes attacked six times in waves of 12, IA, eight, five, five and 10.
 Out of these 54 planes 18 were definitely destroyed five were dam aged so badly they probably crashed and four were damaged.
 Our losses were relative light" MacArthur reported.
 Tn addition to attacking the con- voy, Douglas Havoc A-2O attack bombers bombed, cannonaded and machine gunned from low level the enemy supply dumps and installa- tions at Lac, for which the convoy was headed, and heavy bombers. either Consolidateds or Fortresses. bombed the airdrome runway at Gasmata, of which the convoy was first sighted, starting oil fires:
 It was the eighth attack in 10 days on Lac and the 10th attack in ii days on Gasmata-evidence. with the several raids on Rabaul taken into account, that the Allies concentration and missing no op- have betn watching the Japanese portunity to attack.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-08

(Continued from Page D
 be lifted if the general petroleum situation improves in the spring, but the general belief was that it prob- ably would stay for the duration.
 Rationing authorities were skep- tical of reports that nationwide ban on pleasure driving on Sum- days, holidays and evenings after 8 p. m. was being considered as 8 means of saving tires. It was un- derstood that OPA does not favor the idea, particularly in view of the widespread opposition in some parts of the middle east and far west to gasoline rationing to con- serve rubber. ...
 OPA officials said there also were no plans at the moment for ban- ming the use of taxi-cabS for visit ing restaurants, theaters and other amusement places. The existing ban on their use more than 10 miles outside city limits prevents their use for long trips to race tracks and golf courses.
 May Drive to Work
 The OPA definition of pleasure driving made it clear that car- owners still could drive to work, even if some alternative form of transportation existed. On the other hand, housewives cannot drive down to the grocery store if they can reach it easily by bus or street car.
 Social visiting was specifically ruled out. OPA officials said, how ever, that visiting a near relative gravely i'll in a hospital would come under the emergency" heading and therefore would be permissible, pro- vided no other means of tranSpor- tation was available.
 Driving by military or naval per- sonnel on leave or furlough. officials said, included visits to relatives or social calls. On the other hand 1t would not be legal for a soldier to go out driving in the country mere ly for the sake of the drive.
 While the petroleum situation still remained grave throughout most of the eastern area. offi ;ials did not expect any important changes in the fuel oil rations in the next few days. A 50 per cent cut in the number of fuel oil cou- pons issued was scheduled for the fourth and fifth heating periods, beginning early in February. Of- ficials said no decision yet had been made whether the value of the coti- pons also would be docked from 10 to 9 gallons as happened in per- iod three. But 1t was believed likely that the cut would be made unless, contrary to present indica- tions, the supply situation improves substantially in the next 2 1t2 weeks. Y
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-08

case some wartime Interruption should come along and temporarily stop coal deliveries from the mines. HOmefront Tips
 Preserved jams, jeliies, marmal- adeS and condensed milk are not to be included in the coming point ra- tioning of canned goods The supply of cloves and ginger has picked up, but the supply of cinna- mon has been decreasing, 90 keep that in mind when following Q recipe that calls for spices Ice cream production has been cut a1l- other 10 per cent to relieve Che but- ter shortage s, No ahortage Oe sewing machine needles or repsir parts Of sewing machines under tIle new WIFE nlIO1memfa