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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-06-20

The undersigned having qualified as
Administrator, c. T. A., under the Will
of Mrs. Lottie o. Belts, notice is here
by given to all persons having claims
against the Estate of Mrs. Lottie o. Belts
to present such claims to the undersigned
for payment on or before June 10, 1945
or this notice will be pleaded in bar
of recovery.
All persons indebted to said Estate
will please make immediate settlement.
This 18th day of June, 1914.
THE WILMINGTON SAVINGS & TRUST
COMPANY ADMINISTRATOR, C. T. A.,
UNDER WILL OF MRS. LOTTIE o,
BELTS, DECEASED,
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-06-20

October, 1912, and received his
boot training at Great Lakes, Ill.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-06-20

WANTED: SHOWCASES FOR COUNT.
er and floor and one electric or ice
drink box let me know what you have
Dial 4391
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-06-20

WANTED TO RENT: FURNISHED TWO
or more bedroom house for two months.
Guarantee good care. Dial 6462.
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WANTED PINE LOGS
EVERYDAY
BRYANT'S LUMBER co.

WANTED: LARGE CLEAN COT.
TON RAGS. BRING TO PRESS
ROOM STAR-NEWS,
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-06-20

WE WILL BUY YOUR OLD RADIO,
refrigerator. electric ironer. electric
fans. highest prices paid. Tauhtnan's.
16 South Front St.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-06-20

WANTED 2 ROOM FURNISHED APART
ment with bath. Tech. Sgt. and wife
| Mrs. Nesbitt. 1851.
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WANTED TO BUY SOME USED BIZ
cycles. Pickard's. Dial 1924. 2os Mar
ket Street.
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YOU WANT TO SELL YOUR PROPER.
ty to the best advantage, so see A. B
Walton Co., 1923 Princess St.
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WANTED: COTTAGE AT WRIGHTS-
Vile Beach for July and August. Refer
ences. Phone 1888.
Evening star., 1944-12-20
BIZ Tail Gunner Falls Out
But Manages to Get Back In
Nv ~. As.ociat.d pr.s,

By the Associated Press.
i A UNITED STATES AIR FORCE
BASE SOMEWHERE IN ENGLAND,
December 20.-The tail gunner,s
compartment in a Flying Fortress is
fitted with q trap door in case the
guy back there wants to get out In a
hurry. Just trip the door and presto,
down you go.
/ Tail Gunner Jimmy Taylor,s
trouble WAS that he didn't want to
60 anywhere, at the moment. That
was Germany down there 1 miles
under the clouds and there was a
lot Of fiack in between the plane
and the ground.
The 22-year-old San Francisco
sergeant accidentally bumped the
handle while slipping on his flax
suit. He has about as much room
back there as ., fat man in an upper
berth
"Out went" he explained, "head
first"
Sergt Taylors chute snagged and
left him dangling and gasping-ha
in and half out. He lost his oxygen
hose.
Some way, he doesn't know how,
he got back in.
II pushed" he said. II reached
out to close the hatch and that's
all I remember"
For the next few minutes the
tail gunner lay there on the catwalk
Of the lurching bomber on the edge
Of the still-open trap door.
Sergt. Cloyd Hicks, Mount Union
Pa, went back to see why Taylor
didn't answer on the intercom. He
bumped his head-hard-on the
way, but fastened the hatch and re-
Evening star., 1944-12-20

stored the tail gunner's oxygen anc
started working on him.
Another San Francisco gunner
Sergt. Jack White, was down in the
ball turret giving first-aid instruc-
tions. He used to be medic.
In the excitement he lost his own
oxygen connection and passed out
Sergt. Hicks discovered that his
bump" was a chunk of steel from
an ack-ack shell.
There is no telling what would
have happened if the bombs hadn't
been dropped right then so the pilot
could get down into deep-breathing
spheres. He did, though, and every
body lived to tell the tale.
Evening star., 1944-12-20
Brituin Offers Chinese
New Pledge Of Support
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Dec. 2o.-Foreign Sec
retary Anthony Eden told the
House OF Commons today that re-
cent Japanese successes In China
constituted q grave menace" to
that country and that everything
in the power Of the Allies will be
done" to aid their Pacific war
partner.
Offering the Chinese a new ex-
preston of confidence "in this fresh
trial in their eighth year of war"
Mr.. Eden affirmed Britain's solidar-
ity with Generalissimo Chang Kai-
shek "in measures which he and his
able American colleagues are tax
ing"
Evening star., 1944-12-20
New 0PA Ceilings 10 Cut
Prices ON Eastern Wines

BY the Associated Press.
Substantial Savings to wine
consumers are expected to result
from new winery price ceilings ef-
fective December Al.
The new professors levels will re-
duce retail prices Of many brands
OF Eastern grape wine and fruit and
Evening star., 1944-12-20

berry wine now being marketed,
OPA said last night in announcing
the ceilings.
"t "rices were fixed for those
wines similar to the doLa4~ LID.
cents ceilings placed on California
grape wines in October, 1913.
Evening star., 1944-12-20
Cumocho Opens Fair

President Avila Camacho of Mex
leo opened the 1914 book fair in
Mexico City in which publications
Of several United Nations countries
were displayed.
Evening star., 1944-12-20

Buy more War Bonds on Ill
fronts-the sky y not the limit.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-12-09

problem your local faces, whether
1t be ending discrimination or in
creaSing your take-home pay. will
affect you no more and no less
than you make it affect you.
You and your local union are
one and the same person. You have
it within your power to make Of
it what you'd have il become.
Do you want your local to end
discrimination at your plant?
That's simple! Get just fifty per
cent of the so-called minorities
who carry union cards in your To-
cal 10 attend meetings regularly;
leave their minority status at the
doors Of the union hall; and throw
themselves as union members into
A. sincere consideration of every
issue which comes before their
union. And I'll wager you that
race. religious and nationality
distinctions will vanish from your
local union and your plant over
night.
But staying at home complaining
or running to the International
Union with charges that top lead
ership in my local is against the
Negro, or the Jew" won't accom-
plish much. That kind of top lead
ership got control or remains In
control Of your local because when
the showdown came you were in
the movies or some other place,
when you should have been in
your union hall insisting on put
ting in your dollars worth too.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-12-09
JOnes-JO Jones Co.
Add New Products

Isaac Jones, general manager Of
Jones-Jones company, SIS East
Columbia street, Detroit /, an
nounces this week that after many
months of experiments, the COM
pany has added two new products
to its line of cosmetics, which will
be ready for the market about
December Is. The new products
are Jones' Double-V-Hair Temple
Gro, and Jones Hair-Lay Pomade
(for mem.
In discussing the new cosmetics
Mr.. Jones declared that JONES
DOUBLE-V-HAIR TEMPLE GRO
will be the answer to thousands OF
prayers Of women who suffer with
itchy scalp This preparation Is
the color Of q green apple. Ind
stops itching Of the scalp rs soon
as applied.
The men will be delighted with
JONES HAIR-LAY POMADE, be-
cause one application will keep the
hair nice for three days. Watch
this newspaper for further details
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-12-09

Of exclusion. We would much pre-
fer having them say Negroes with
q capital IN" Of course) or The
colored people" Even this is not
entirely satisfactory; and therein
lies this paradox: We want every
one else to think and speak and
act towards us simply as Ameri-
cans-period But we continue to
think. speak and act on every oc-
casion as Negro-Americsns!
Invariably, to cite one instance
Of this, we think and speak of
Paul Lawrence Dunbar, George
Washington Carver and Charles r.
Drew as great Negro poet, sci
enlist or doctor, when we should
think and speak Of them simply as
great, emitting the racial distinc-
ton. The fact that each OF them
was colored is after all only Incl
dental The important thing is that
that have achieved greatness.
I vince land | suspect you do
also) every time one Of my we'll
meaning friends comes forward
with that proverbial token OF COM
mendation: The members Of your
race have made more progress in
the IS years of their freedom than
any other single group OF people
in any like period OF years" I
yearn to return the compliment
using their identical Language. Be-
cause the truth is that whether
Negro or white, Jew or Gentle,
Protestant or Catholic. native-born
or foreign-born. all OF us--in most
sections OF the country anyway -
have made phenomenal progress in
! the past IS years. II was not the
progress Of any one group: il was
the progress OF all America. We.
all of us. are Americans. One group
can neither fall nor rise without
the other.
But let's get back TO labor.
Our minority complex and this
habit of separatist thinking on the
part OF our members-is today the
biggest drag on the progress OF or
ganized labor. It is especially a
terrific drawback 10 the progress
Of Negro and other so-called mi
nority group Notwithstanding
women. particularize these groups
because they are the most recent
recruits to the trade union phase
OF our national life. They still are
in the process of becoming initi-
ated. Our unions have been so busy
growing and so busy encouraging
more and more war production. we
have not had the time to teach
these newcomers basic trade
unionism-"all for one and one fol
all"
Looking ahead 10 the postwar
era, however, we can see now jus
how easily their attitude OF what!
in il for our group can become
the entering wedge Of concerted
drive to wreck our unions by ere
ating internal strife among tn,
membership
The cure is TO teach them I,
think as one.
Old timers In this struggle viii
tell you that every trade unioI
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-12-09
Surrey SholDs Need
To Back Resolution

NEW YORK, N. Y. - Greeting
the statement of the CIO conven-
ton in regard to Negroes in indus
try. that "the gains. achieved
must not be lost In the postwar, ("
Miss Dorothy X. Funn, labor sec
rotary Of the National Negro con-
gress. this week declared that def
mite Steps are needed to carry this
resolution into practice.
I'm each industry" Miss Funn
declared. special measures should
be undertaken by labor and man.
agement, as needed. after survey
ing the precise status of Negro
employees affected by possible en-
ployment cutbacks."
Careful Planning Needed
Miss Funn indicated such careful
and accurate planning must be
done in order to prevent pre-war
determinations from reappearing
in the postwar period
The Congress released today the
results of a study made in COOP
Grafton with the United Trans
former corporation and Local 430
of the United Electrical, Radio and
Machine Workers of America.
Should so per cent layoff take
place. Negroes in this plant would
lose far more heavily than whites
in all but two departments, the
study revealed
Study Lay-offs
The corporation is one OF sew
eral studied by the Congress in
an effort to determine whether
present seniority rules would, in
the event Of lay-offs. reduce the
proportion of Negro workers. A
study already released, made at
the Nassau plant of the Sperry
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-12-09
R
LOOKS AHEAD
By GEORGE w. CROCKETT
Executive Director
JAW Fair Practices
Committee
Com mittee

In last weeks column ! said,
Negro leadership in the labor
movement continues to suffer from
a minority complex" And I went
on 10 add that THE overwhelming
bulk Of the colored membership
is afflicted with this malady too.
The complex in the one is in large
measure responsible for the COM
pick of the other" l promised 10
have something 10 say about the
cause and the cure of the member
ships complex in another article.
Well, this is the other article.
One Of my colleagues was telling
me the other day about a union
meeting he addressed. There were
two or three Negro members pres
ent. My colleague talked about the
break the Little Steel Formulas
rigid ceiling on wage increases.
When he finished he invited ques-
tons. Immediately one OF the Ne
gro members inquired: What does
all Of that mean to the Negro?"
There you see this minority COM
plex is conscious operation.
Sometimes, however, il influ-
ences our thinking in more sub
tie fashion. Like those shallow
minded souls who regard as a
liberal" or a progressive" every
speaker who somewhere in the
course of his address uses the
magic words. regardless OF race.
creed or color"-and then proceeds
10 act on the basis Of race, creed
and color!
Psychologist probably would tell
us that our NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
group attitude is sort OF defense
we have developed. growing out
Of a deep-seated suspicion that
every new move and every new
proposal is something designed TO
injure us And think that is a
proper explanation.
Practically all OF us have been
conditioned by segregation and
have become accustomed TO seeing
certain events happen and certain
other dependent solely upon such
superficialities as race. creed. color
etc We have acquired separatis
mode OF thinking; we think con
stsntly in terms OF race, creed anC
color. And yet we who have thes'
superficial differences resent mem
bers of the opposite group address
ing us as you people" or referring
to our group as. your people" w
resent il because deep down il
US something rebels at these word
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-12-09
.WorkAdjustment
Named Aid To
Race Relations

= The character Of satisfactory ad-
iustments currently being achieved
BY the Presidents Committee On
Fair Employment Practice indi-
. Gates increasing attainment Of posi-
tive steps toward elimination OF
discrimination in employment,
Malcolm Ross. chairman Of the
committee, said this week
During September. 1914. Mr.
Ro-S reported. in adjustments OF
cas- involving allegations Of dis
cri ratory refusal to hire, almost
th -fourths OF the complaints
We offered jobs as part OF the
5 ment. During the same month
I o. %. the FEPC chairman added,
me Of the satisfactory adjust
mentS OF such cases consisted
merely OF the securing by the COM
miiiee from the party charged OF
written commitment not 10 dis
CT nate
s. =, larry. In all adjusted cases
: cha cling discriminatory discharge,
e the compliments were reinstated,
NJ Ross said
Cases in which discriminatory
denial Of promotion was alleged
were settled with promotions beini
made. and in one case worker
who complained OF discrimina
tory demotion was restored 10 hi,
former classification through FEPC
action.
A number of complaints orig
nate in official reports OF non
discrimination policy violation
where the person actually discrim
mated is not identified, Mr.. Ros
said. In adjustment OF such cases
O written commitment not to dis
eliminate in the future is obtsine<
after thorough investigation OF TIT
case groves the complaint valid.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-12-09
SAY SENIORITY
RULES NEEDED
FOR WORKERS

NEW YORK CwDL)--The belief
That relaxation OF union senior.
fly rules would cause workers 30
displsce dto become snii-Negro and
anti union. expressed by George
LIP Weaver. director Of the CIO
Committee 10 Abolish Racial Dis
elimination. in a letter 10 the n. Y
Amsterdam News has been en-
dorsed by the Wors,rs Defense
Leagues committee on discrimina-
ton.
In letter to the newspaper.
Nathaniel NJ Minkon. secretary
treasure Of the ~ Y. Dress Joint
Board Of the international Ladies
Carmen: Workers union. who is
chairman Of the committee. de-
elared. The WDL Committee On
Dissemination is Of the opinion
that Mr.. Viewers position oppos-
ing the proposal for proportional
representation plan which would
amend union seniority rules al
legedly in behalf OF Negro work.
ers. should be supported" In addi-
ton 10 causing workers displaced
union. Minkoff pointed out that
relaxation OF seniority rules would
falsely suggest that the major
blame for discrimination lies with
labor, rather than management.
Pass The Bill
80 AAcfkuar ,tNAVvA.
ployment" he declared. lis not 10
turn white workers against Negro
workers by amending seniority
rules, but 10 concentrate all aiten-
ton on securing full employment
for all workers and on passing the
Scanlon- Da wson-L aFollett Perma-
nent FEPC bill. without amend
ment as 10 coverage or enforce
ment powers"
Likewise, the committee Is in
agreement with Willard s. Town
send. president Of the United Trans
port Service Employees OF Ameri-
ca. who declared at the Clio con-
vention in Chicago. You cannot
solve the problem by putting some
people back 10 work ahead OF 9TH
ers. I think the answer TO the Ne
gro problem as far as employment
is concerned. is the $4,000. 900 jobs
that President Roosevelt promised
US. Certainly we do not want TO
create q problem allowing ten per
cent OF the Negroes to remain In
industry and dismiss some ten per
cent of white workers who are en-
fitled IN their seniority rights
There should be, according to my
opinion, no relinquishing OF our
seniority provisions We believe
that il is a credit to organized la
Dor. We are asking for no special
privileges We simply want senior
lily provisions OF our Go agree
ments 10 remain intact"
A similar stand was taken by
Harold Gibbons, delegate to the
CO convention who heads the Re-
tail. Wholesale and Department
Store Emloyees union in ST. Louis.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-12-09

Gyroscope company. indicates that
Negroes there would suffer to .
greater degree than whites.
The United Transformer corpo-
ration, at $50 vsrick street, has
had an unusually advanced policy
in, regard to the hiring Of Negroes.
There are Negroes in all depart
ments, and in large numbers. The
advanced policy is due partly to
management and partly to the
unions nationwide fight against
discrimination. The plant Is or
ganized by Local $50 Of the United
Electrical. Radio and Machine
Workers OF America.
Seniority operates on depart
ment basis, but Is plant-w;de. so
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-12-09
SEEK TO FILL
SMITHS POST
IN nm UNION
BY THYRA EDWARDS
For Continental Features

NEW YORK.-Will the office of
national secretary Of the National
Maritime union, vacated last
month by Ferdinand c. Smith. be
filled by another Negro? This is
the question that is being raised in
the minds OF workers and commu-
nifty leaders across the country.
Smiths resignation from the sec
ond ranking position in one OF the
most outstanding Of the CLIO unions
following the disclosure that his
application for citizenship had ex-
pired, caused anxious speculation
among Negroes nationally. AS an
executive of the NMU, long recog-
nized as foremost in the fight
against discrimination, Smith at
tanned prestige as a national force
in integrating racial unity in the
prosecution of the war.
With by-elections opening Dec. /,
to fill Smiths former position, held
temporarily by Neal Hanley, peo-
pie are asking:
will Smith re-file his intention
to become a citizen and run to
succeed himself a fifth timer"
Should Smith drop out Of the
picture completely. will the office
be lost to Negroes?"
On all these conjectures Smith
is pleasantly non-commital
Officials of the union. when
questioned, point to the constitu-
ton: All members of the union
who are eligible may run for Of
flee"
In the main a member is eligible
il he is "in good standing, is a
citizen Of the U.S.A. or has legally
filed his intentions to become a
citizen; has had two years sea
service and has not been convicted
of Incorporating union funds or
dealing with narcotics"
There seems. however, general
agreement among the men that
should Smith qualify and run he
will have little opposition. II he
declares himself out Of the pic
ture, a strong, able, qualified Ne
gro candidate would stand fair
chance.
Nominations, according TO a
statement from Neal Hanley's Of
! flee, will be accepted until Dec. 81
Voting will begin January Is
terminating March IS. BY Easter
the answer should be out.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-12-09

that an employee who for any
reason shifts from one department
to another carries his accumulated
seniority with him. That Is. senior
ity Is cumulative, dating from en-
ployment in the plant.
The study Was made with the
cooperation of the union, from the
company's personnel records az
they stood on November z iSss.
There were 625 white and Az Ne
gro employees.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-12-09
Christmas Seal
Drive In Gains

The - Christmas Seal Drive ID
surprising all others In magnitude.
Mrs. Ruby Mailing. chairman. re-
ports. NA.A.C.P. seals which de-
pict a Negro soldier are very popu.
lar this year on postcards and
packages. Seals may be purchased
from the N.A.A.C.P. office for u
a book of one hundred.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-12-09

WASHINGTON-Ths hit Of the Sixth War
Loan drive il destined TO be the brown eyed
brown skinned. smiling baby whose likeness
grsess 4 poster being used throughout the
country by Negro groups. He Is robust. az
pound Charles Owens of Baltimore. Nd. born
June 20. ls<3. Already hanging in more than
100000 locations from Maryland TO California.
young Charles sxudss all his personality TO-
ward the promotion Of the idea Of economic
security through the purchase of War Bonds
n . nest egg for tomorrow. II started this
way. The childs youthful parents. Jerome and
Thslma Owens. Of 1919 w. Franklin street
Baltimore. brought the tot to the Provident
hospital last December ,. suffering with pnsu-
monia. He was discharged. hale and hearty
on December a.. but not before Negro vel
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-06-01
PAPER GOES TO WAR
In ways and DID, this product Of the forest is helping to
forge Victory the production lines and the boleeld

ever presumed to have any more
than a passing knowledge of them.
TN considering papers whose ordin-
4 airy applications have been extend
ed, one is impressed especially by
the field of food packaging.
The extended use of food packag-
ing papers is due to at least two
factors; the first is the need for
finding substitutes for metal pack
ages or containers, and the second
is the development of new types of
foods.
A walk through grocery or drug
= store will show quickly the pro-
found changes that have occurred
in packaging during the past year.
New revisions are appearing al
most weekly. Frozen food, dehydrat-
ed soups, edible oils, dessert powders
and cocoa are few illustrations.
Paper cups and threaded paper
covers are used on many glass jars.
One of the outstanding jobs along
this line is the cap used on vacu-
umized jar for roasted ground coffee.
Paper ends are substituting for metal
ends on cans, and sift-proof boxes
for powdered products are now used
| Tooth powder, medical supplies