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Shadows Of Postwar Unemployment Appear A.
800 More Negro Steel Workers Are Laid orr"
NOW IDLE

Chicago, June l CAMP The south
side vas given a picture OF postwar
unemployment chaos this week when
500 Negro war workers employed at
the East Chicago Cast Arm0r plant
OF the American Steel Foundries com
pany were discharged With 900 al
ready dismissed from the plant IN the
first wholesale dismissal Of Negro
workers. this weeks figure brings the
total to 100 Negro war workers dis
missed BY the plant in two wholesale
AyOffs within a six month period
In an effort to estimate whether
the two mass layoffs were directed
deliberately against Negro workers or
i the result OF a natural decrease in
business Of which c0lOred and white
must be discharged accordingly, It
was learned that only 700 whites have
been let out by the company as com
pared with the 100 Negroes dismis-
sed- While neither company officials
union leaders would predict when
the workers will be re-employed, some
union heads feel that the number Of
Negroes discharged is outrageous
when compored TO the number Of
whites.
c. E. Jennings, leader in the Go
United Steel Workers union. CON
demed company and government OF
ficials for refusing to notify the men
in time to permit them to find suitable
employment Over q month ago"
Jennings said, we asked the comp.
any 10 affirm or deny newspaper re
ports that the government ad order
ed the plant to be closed The comp
any and several governmental agenc-
les denied the report They did not
even take steps to transfer the men
TO other jobs so no time would be
lOSL HOIU pIDUuCLOu-
Since il is unknown when the plant
will reopen, the workers face a pos
sible loss OF seniority. As the war
draws to a close" explained Wesley
Thompson, PRESIDENT OF the Douglass
Washington institute" even a single
days seniority will prove to be most
valuable. A Negro just can't afford
to sacrifice seniority. It i to Be
hoped the discharged Negroes will
maintain their union standing as long
as they possibly can. If they do that
they will get their jobs back
The plant has been assigned the
wartime job Of making cast armor for
army tanks.
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AGAINST BOTH ROOSEFELTS
AUSTIN, Texas, June 3 (ANP)
Marking a special effort TO arouse
public sentiments against President
Roosevelt and the recent supreme
court ruling which declared that Ne
groes may vote IN Democratic prim-
aries N this state, thousands oil cop
les OF an melting anti-Negro handful
were dropped last week from an air
plane Oh the eve Of the white Demo
cratic state convention which pictured
how the master-minds OF the white
Democratic party here are hiding be-
hind the skirts OF white womanhood
Placing white women in front OF
the gun. the handbiIl said: viii
your daughter marry a Negros Who
will run the state OF Texas-whites
or blacks" While the handful ran
the gauntlet OF racial appeals which
play upon the prejudices OF the ignor
ant southern white. it was definitely
anti Yankee, NTH Roosevelt. anti-Kel-
ly-Nash, anti-Hague. anti-northern,
Negro, anti-supreme court
"A supreme court decision has just
said Negroes can vote in white pri-
maries, the handful pointed out
Then why should they have 10 pay
q poll tax 10 vote" The same court
is going to pass on that, and soon
Which way will II decide
The handful posed such questions
as: Why shouldn't they (NegrOes)
sit with you on the street car or bus
Why shouldn't they sit next to your
children in school? Which way will
the court supreme COURT decide on
that Why shouldn't a Negro marry
your daughter? But white women
who marry even the whitest OF white
Negroes will ertainly have coal
black babies. the handbill warned
A quadroOn, or lighter crossed
breed. may often easily pass for a
brunette white" it said He may
then marry your daughter. And the
Continued on Page go
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America Must Start New
Treatment Of Minorities c
Mrs. Roosevelt Says
CBY ERNEST E. Johnson


BALTIMORE, June CAMP -
Before n Of the biggest mass dem
onstrations this city has : seen,
Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt declared that
America IS the hope Of the worlds
future, but if this nation is TO fulfill
its role it has got to begin at home
with a nor advanced treatment Of
its minorities.
Speaking TO an audience OF 5000
persons who crowded Sharpe Street
Me church and overran the streets.
outside OF the huge edifice. the First
Lady, in fortnight but simple lang
uage. outlined her belief in democracy
and went on to explain that the ewes
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ipate IN government"
Concluding she said: we viii
strengthen U own nation if We
work together ! do not believe that
there al b 4 real democracy which
Is not based upon the Christian relig-
ION, upon the principles that Christ
preached and lived
Peacefully We are working out
OUT destiny II 49, can wurkit out
with constant pressure, but peaceful
" pressure and cooperation. then the
world can work out its problems be
cause we heer have all the nations OF
the world in or one nation
Following the meeting Mrs Roase-
velt was presented with a gift By Mrs
Beatrice Martin, c~o-chairman OF the
local membership committee OF the
NAACP- Earlier IN the program
greetings on the part OF the city Of
Baltimore were delivered By Linwood
Roger. assistant solicitor The Nor
gan State iollege chorus provided ma-
seal diversion
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OF the world will be fastened upon Us
in u exposition OF sound principles
for a postwar world, particularly in
war-torn Europe Her appearance
was q stimulant to the membership
membership drive being conducted by
the local branch OF the AAC
This Is the nation which has the
hope Of the future before it con
stantly," she stated i think We
must remember that what We do IS
very important because 1t points the
way for bigger things than what we
accomplish in this country"
Mrs Roosevelt noted that the job
Of world adjustment IS not going to
be achieved overnight, observing
that the children OF Europe IN partic-
ular have been indoctrinated with
Nazi teaching Before America can
change this thinking, she said, they
viii have to Be shown that the peO-
pie who tell them certain things real
" do those things IN their own lives
Mindful that this has not always
been the practice here. Mrs, ROose-
welt considered that if I'VE are 70 Be
a useful people. I'VE have got TO be-
gin at home. She enumerated justice,
equal opportunity Tor education and
equal economic opportunity according
"a ability a. the basic rights If All
citizens We have learned that i
i not the color OF your skin, yorr re-
ligion or your race which makes you
more able to do certain things than
other people she asserted
People are not born with discrim-
nation she continued IT has I'd
Be taught them As a rule Ms
Roosevelt then warned against the
use OF ~generalities' IN describing
likes and dislikes OF peoples, anc
added the hope that eventually al
peoples throughout the world VIM
have had the chance 10 b. here an-
conform TO the general requirement.
OF citizenship viii Be able 70 partic.
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MGcARTHJR REDUCES DEATH
SENTENCES FOR FIVE 10
LIFE
New York-The sentences OF death
by hanging imposed on four Americ-
an Negro soldiers and one American
Negro merchant seaman, after con
viction on Z rape charge In Austral-
Ia, have been committed to life i'm
prisonment by General Douglas Mac
Arthur, the NAACP learned last
week.
Following the receipt Of 4 letter
from the law firm Of OSulIiran and
Rudy IN Townsville, Australia, the
NAACP sent a cablegram to Gener-
al Macarthur asking permission TO
file a brief appealing from the sen
fences In replying to Walter
Whites ~cablegram MacArthur's head
quarters cabled:
Prior to receipt OF yotr message
General Macarthur has carefully re-
viewed and adjusted the case He
confirmed the findings and sentenced
but committed the latter to life i'm
prisonment- The case. in accordance
with law, is now being finally check
ed for legal suffiiency by Board OF
Review"
ThurgoOd Marshall, NAACP spec
ial counsel. said that a. soon as tie
record IN the case arrives from Aus
tralia an appeal brief will be pre-
pared BY the NAACP. which has
cabled once more for permission 10
file il even though I'll sentences have
been committed To life III prison
The five men, Hazard, johnson,
Seymour, Nelson and Davis. were
accused Of criminally attacking q
white American Red Cross worker
On the night of January 10. 1874. af-
ter she had hailed their truck for a
hitch-hike ride back to her quarters.
She admitted she had been on a
drinking party but had become angry
with n members OF il and had
started Out Tor home. She said that
after the men had taken her Oh I long
ride. they dragged her out Of the
truck and successfully assaulted her.
Four men testified that they had had
relations with her but that she was
willing and cooperative The fifth
defendant, Nelson. the merchant sea
man. refused 10 take the stand.
CHRISTEN TUBMAN JUNE )
Washington, June 4 CAMP The
date for christening III the :. s. Har.
riet Tubman. a liberty shin. Ia beer
changed from May 30 10 June ;. III.
War Shipping administration announI
ed last week
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Claude Buddy Young. hailed by
sportswriters as the greatest track
star since the Incompatible Jesse
Owens, has been selected By fellow
students al Illinois as the athlete Of
the year Young vino was a sensa-
ton al the Drake RELAYS Is expected
10 capture individual h0nOrs IN sever
q meets coming up for decision His
speed and versatility on the gridiron
IS also counted on TO push Illinois m
10 the football limelight this fall.
Photo Ne1US SerVice
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M~OMENTOUS MEETING

MONENTOUS MEETING
Others, too, mean for the lesson to
stick this time. They're meeting next
week, June 5, in London They rep
resent those with the giggest stake in
victory and the biggest stake in peace
They represent world labor. It's the
most important labor cOnfab in our
time
Wen have many friends there
Latin America will have delegates.
Vincente Lombardo Toledano viii
speak. He spoke this month at the
International Labor Office meeting
IN Philadelphia He denounced rae
ial prejudices. He said Latin Amer
ica could give Uncle Sam 4 lesson
And Lombardo's a big man with 4
big voice.
Soviet trade unions will be repre-
sented- They're the biggest unions in
the world And iii their country. il
= man discriminates on account W.
race or color. he's jailed 50 they'll
Continued on Page E2)
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HATTIE IN
MOTHER

Los Angeles, June / (ANP) Hat
tie Mcdaniel, famous motion picture
actress and the first Negro to receive
the Academy award, IS an expectant
mother. according 70 a studio ann
ouncement this week
The wife III Lloyd Crawford for
mer Detroit real estate man. Miss
Mcdaniel Is trying TO complete three
pictures with Fox. United Artists and
Universal before the blessed event.
TIL studios furnish 4 private car and
attendant to take the movie star u
and from work
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New York, June 2 lANP) Honor
ed along such outstanding personalit-
is as Theodore Dresser. Samual Nc
Clure. Upton Sinclair. Carl Van Dor
en- and Villa Gather, Paul Robson.
famed actor OF stage and screen, was
presented the Academy medal for
good diction On the stage BY the a
merican Academy Of Arts and Let
tiers, while DR.. W. E. B. Dubois. no.
ed educator, lecturer and write-
named one OF the newly elected mem
bers OF the National Institute Of Arts
and Letters al an annual joint cerem-
onial Friday afternoon in the audit
orium OF the academy.
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Poppy Sale Nets $4,000

Mrs. Butler Of the LIE
gion Auxiliary reports -
S106.00 for Poppy sale.
(see page 4, Aux. News
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MARIA REPORTED
SERIOUSLY Ill

New York, May % (PPNS) IN
confirmed reports have II that Mar
Va Louis who recently emerged as a
singing star and was soon to appear
at the famous ZANZIBAR. is seriously
Ill.
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GANDHI AND o

D-Day-it's almost come, brother
My Lord, what a morninEI Helrs
tire and birthstone Retching earth.
Rain OF splintered steel Man-made
meteOrs bursting. The belching a n
mons din Tanks grinding. Propel-
lors roaring. Men shouting. cursing,
screaming Men running, dOdgins.
falling, killing. Men DYING. Deaths
own private day. Masses Of frag-
mented flesh. The Channel dyed
crimson White mems blood. Black
mems blood, too
What's ii mean to YOU. brother7
Belated i~ntegrations Yes, but the
racial myth crushed to earth. The
debris OF a lie swept into the garbage
BIN Of history Death for old left
Davis spiritual offspring. the rat
faced man with the trick mustache
and the unruly forel0rk Death for
the b~astardized progeny OF this
Twentieth Century Simon Legree. A
Aryan supermen de-Aryzniz-
ed Mem Kamp barishH TO c.
privy- Ten milEion Bilbos silenced.
Exorbitant fraternity? Yes. but
Africa's rape avenged, Retribution
for centuries of lynchings. The slave
marts memories effaced-
Equality To die Yes. but an n
forgettable lesson for the world. At
tuck's lesson on a Boston Commons
one hundred and fifty years later in
Europe Peter Salem's lesson on a
Flanders Bunker Hill Fred Doug
lass lesson in a Belgium Washington.
Booker Ts lesson in 4 German At
lanta- They all said: Brother, t0gef-
her, IRE can make a better zr0rId. To-
gre uTH all Be free"
How long to learn a lesson, Lord
But 50 that mankind viii remember
this time. thanks for D-Day.
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Breakfast for Servicemen

Sunday, June 4th the
USO Club Hostesses will
hold a breakfast for the
servicemen. (see U. 5. o.
News, page A.
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left) and Seaman I'd Class A. Rich
ards. scan the horizon with officers
on the flying bridge. Third picture
Yeoman I'd Class p ]. Davis takes
takes the wheel IN the pilot-house As
Quartermaster Sd class A R Cork
makes an entry in the rough log. 4th
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MISS LLTRA MAE HILL. Of
Hanford, Washington, who Is visit
ing relatives, friends and was the
house guest Of c. Q. Galloway. has
returned To Washington She i en-
ployed a. a Postmistress for the Olyn
pia Commissary Co, Hanford, Wash
She also IS the niece OF Mrs. Genera
Godsby, who was formerly a resi-
dent at 242O Erskine ST., but IS now
Mrs Genera Wallingford of Atchin-
Son, Kansas Miss Hill will also
stop m Atkinson, Kans., to visit her
mother. Mrs Alice Hill, relatives
and friends.
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World
this
Week
(BY JOHN PITTMAN)

(BY JOHN PITTMAN)
D-DAY And THE LONDON
World LABOR PARLEF
VEST INDIES PROGRAM
.GANDHI AND EBOUE
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PAUL ROBSON GIVEN HIGH
ACADEMY AWARD IND DIR.
U- E. B. DuBOTS Also
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WHITE W0MANH00O
USED IN TEXAS FIGHT
AGAINST SUPREME
COURT EDicT s..

AGAINST BOTH R~OOSEVELTS
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CHRISTFN TrRMAN line :

Washington, June 4 CAMP The
date for christening W the = = Har-
ret Tubman. a liberty shin. "a been
changed from May 30 10 June 3. the
War Shipping administration announc
ed last week
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tual fighting seemed remote and un-
real.
They saw nothing of the enemy
and heard nothing of him. There
were so few evidences of his exist
ence that they were hardly worth
while. Even the two cots in their
tent hadn't been vacated by dead
men, but by men who had contract
ed tropic fever and been sent home.
The native girls ran when Mr.. Tink-
er made approaches; they didn't
trust any human being in a SOL
dier's uniform.
All in all, Mr.. Tinker was very
much disguised. He said he might
as well be home working at his
plumbing, and he told Mr.. Wrinkle he
might as well be home in his shop.
Mr.. Wrinkle, on the other hand.
could not conceal from himself the
fact that he was pleased. He
breathed easier, thinking that if this
was all there was to it, it wasn't so
bad. To the north, he knew, lay
the airfield and the main part of the
American forces of occupation. And
farther on there was jungle fighting
where men stalked each other
through the underground and sniped
from the trees. But this was not
his business, and he came into con-
tact with none of those whose affair
it was.
Mr.. Tinker hoped to be sent north
on some mission. ITS the only
way can see for me to get me my
JAP" he said.
Mr.. Wrinkle didn't understand how
he could expect this. You'd be on
other duty" he pointed out.
''Not all the time I WON'T" Mr..
Tinker said. "You wouldn't tell any,
body" he pleaded, IF I went of
for while, would you, Pop?"
"You won't do any such thing"
Mr.. Wrinkle scolded
Mr.. Tinker remained silent, look
ing glum but determined.
Mr.. Tinker had only contempt for
the south tip of the island, to which
he and Mr.. Wrinkle were sent sew
eral times to rescue vehicles in diff
ficulties. He could hope to find no
Japs there. The shore was lined
with American machine-gun fox
holes, and it was here that the Al
phabet, to his chagrin. was sta
toned.
Sergeant Czeideskrowski and his
crew, including Freddie and Jack,
agreed with Mr.. Tinker about their
part in the war. Nothing, they felt,
would happen in the portion given to
them. They had come thousands Of
miles to sit and watch and wait for
action that would never materialize.
They - with Mr.. Wrinkle - over
looked the fact that when you are in
war you are in war.
Awakened early one morning, Mr..
Wrinkle and Mr.. Tinker were told to
report to the orderly tent on the
double-quick. Their Commanding
Officer looked grim when he told
them
Hop in a jeep and get down to
Post Number Nine. Repair COM
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PHOTO FINISHING
Mediterranean Sea, Known
As Being Tideless. Is Not

The Mediterranean is often
known as the tideless sea, and it is
true that in its western half tides
are only matter of few inches.
But farther east tides are obvious
enough.
At Leghorn, on the Italian coast,
there is a foot of tide; at Venice
(Adriatic) there is as much as
three feet. The strange thing is
that in the Gulf of Syrtis, on the
Tunisian coast, quite large tides
occur. The rise and fall amounts
to six and half feet, while on the
shores of the island of Djerba,
off Tunisia, there is actually a diff
ference of nearly ten feet between
high and low water.
Actually, the Baltic is far more
tideless than the Mediterranean.
Though it is 900 miles long and
from As to 145 miles wide, there is
nowhere a tide of much more than
a foot.
The whirlpools of Scylla and
Charybdis, in the Straits of Mes
sina, which were so dreaded by
the ancients, still exist, and are
deep eddies dangerous to small
boats but not to modern ships.
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NO TINE FOR WEEPINC

She's middle-age rrOman-a
mite and mother wIro is comfort
ably fixed. financially and social
". Her elder son is a marine. norU
stationed in the Marshall islands.
The younger is still in grade
school and her l7-year-old daugh-
ter has her first job. So Jar, every
thing is going all right, but this
,conlan says she cries frequently
during the day, and at night she
sobs in the darkness.
1T isn't so much my o,cn prob
len," she ,crites, ifs just the
a,oful problem Of the uhole
World that has broken do,cn :.
the magnifcence of the boys d..
the ROUNDED the thought Of
all the ruin in Europe -
Every coman's part, replies
Miss Norris, is to do something
to bring the terrible ,car to
speedy end and to help the men
and ,Uomen ,cho ,ciH return from
service to re-enter civilian life.
The ,ceeping ,comen are those
,cho haze little or nothing to
do. The busy ones don't haze
time to cry.
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can give all their time to these
things, some only part. But do
something, or face lifelong shame
and regret.
Then keep cheerful-or at least
courageous. Millions Of fighters will
escape from this war unscathed,
millions of men and women will be
better trained, educated, stirred by
it than they would have been in
times of peace. All these partici-
pants in the strife will come home
anxious to find conditions ready for
the new start into a better type of
civilization. 1t isn't going to be all
groaning and despair by any means.
There will be great vigor and energy
and ambition in these returning
men; they won't want babying and
tears and regrets; they will want
good stout program and the means
to carry it out.
For the most part, the crying,
nervous, fearful women are idle, or
busy with monotonous homework
only a few hours every day. Their
cure IS W llIlu plan, anu "olh W.
ward it-work hard, put every ounce
of strength and vitality they possess
into the realization of the plan.
Plan for what? Well, plan for your
soldier, if you have one. Get few
hundreds or thousand dollars safe
ly into the bank for him, to give
him the needed start when he gets
home. Buy him a little farm.
Or, if you haven't an individual
boy on the fighting front, plan for
yourselves. Get out of debt, and
have some savings over. Consult the
local housing committee and have
your old place made into flats. Buy
the little farm that you've always
wanted and you will take on host
of new interests.
Times-if you choose to see them
that way, have never been so dark.
But-taking the other view, never
in the history of the world have we
all had so many opportunities to
learn, to improve our way of living,
to serve and help each other.
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oAhy Viz ooA Sos AhAoA W 6ALly
mand car you'll find there and bring
it back. Don't waste any time.
There's mist off the shore. Any
thing can come out of it,
Mr.. Wrinkles heart leaped as he
saluted with Mr.. Tinker and hur-
ried out.
Something, said Mr.. Tinker, "is
up"
Mr.. Wrinkle was very much afraid
that this might be so. Nine" he
said. That's the Alphabet"
At the motor park tent they found
the men on duty there had the same
tense attitude. You'd better take
some extra cartridge clips" they
were told. These were given to
them.
They drove out. Mr.. Wrinkle didn't
like the extra cartridge clips, but
he did feel better to have rifles slung
alongside the bouncing car.
When they reached the road rum
ming south along the shore, they
saw the mist. Between hillocks of
the beach ridge they could make it
out standing like wall several hum
dred yards offshore, mysterious,
dangerous, unreasonable.
1t made Mr.. Tinker enthusiastic.
1.-THE Japs know we're about ready
to push them in the face in the
north" he held. "Mebbe they'll take
this chance"
ITO BE coNTNUED)
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CHAPTER XII

At lunch time they were at last
told where they were going. Nothing
was said about the main convoy.
From the beginning it had been
planned to send them to the island
OF Talizo, one of the steppingstones
in the retrieving of certain precious
stones stolen by the Japanese when
no one was looking.
The south end of the fifty-mile-long
island had been captured by Ameri-
can forces, along with an airfield
conveniently just completed by the
Japs, who still held the northern half
of Talizo. They would land some
time the next morning.
Mr.. Wrinkle searched in his guide
book for the entry under Talizo. To
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Woman Marine Wants to Know

She is a private first class in the
U. S. marine corps women's re-
serve. When she finished her boot
training, Eunice Shepard was or
dered to duty at the Brooklyn navy
yard. She marched into the orderly
room, signed up at the sergeant's
desk, then let her gaze ramble
coldly over a half-dozen desk-bound
male marines, scribbling away at
their paper work.
Said Pfc. Shepard: II joined the
marines to free . man to fight
Who's leaving?"