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The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1944-06-01

NOTED to his present rank, according
to press release from the Fourth
Ferrying Group, in which he is an
aerial engineer. Corporal Elgin,
who joined the Armed Forces on
Sept 10, 1912, is a former employee
of Fairchild's.
Aviation Cadet Russell P. Pat"
Geer, Jr., son of Mr.. and Mrs. Rus
sell p. Geer, 113 East Magnolia ave-
nue., who is stationed at the Air
Training Base at San Antonio,
Texas, where he is taking the Army
Air Forces course that leads to a
commission and the coveted silver
wings of a bombardier. has joined
the ranks of the benedicts
Pat and Miss Jean Makepeace,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. o. P.
Makepeace, Sanford, N. c., had
been engaged about a year. Last
month Pat found that he could get
two days off, so he Immediately
contacted his fiancee, her parents
and his mother, and completed ar
engagements for the wedding to take
place in San Antonio on May 49,
Mrs. Geer, joined by Miss Pace
maker and her parents at Sanford,
made the trip down together, and
the happy couple were married at
the San Antonio First Methodist
Church. the Rev. ]. C. Shirley,
d. D., performing the ceremony.
Cadet Geer and his bride will
make their temporary home in San
Antonio.
Mrs, Geer, Sr., in telling Of the
wedding, commented on the cour-
tesies shown her by the military
authorities and also mentioned that,
during conversation with the Rev
erend Shirley, she discovered that,
before joining the ministry, he had
been resident of Hagerstown.
Stanley L. Grubbs, Jr., son of Mr..
and Mrs. S. L. Grubbs, 831 Wood
land Way, graduated last month
from the Naval Air Technical Train
ing Center, Navy Pier, Chicago,
with the rank of seaman first class,
and the grade of aviation machin-
lists mate. Following his gradua-
ton, he reported to the Naval sta
ton at San Diego, Calf. Seaman
Grubbs' wife, (the former Miss Dor
othy Dye) and their daughter, Nam
cy Lee, who were with Seaman
Grubbs when he graduated, are now
spending some time at Mrs. Grubbs'
home in Charleston, w. Va.
Sgt. Walter Richard Holdings
worth, son of Mr.. and Mrs. S. w.
Hollingsworth, Leitersburg, and
husband of the former Miss Janet
Rogers, also of Leitersburg, is a
gunner on B-24 heavy lombard
ment crew now in its final stage OF
training at the Army Air Field
Casper, Wyoming. Following COM
pletion of his training he will be
sent overseas to combat area
where he will help take up the fight
against the enemy.
1t. i.g.) Harry S. Leasure, Jr.
U. S. Navy, son of Mr.. and Mrs
Harry S. Leasure, 5O7 West Wilson
Blvd, was recently promoted from
Ensign to his present rank.
Lieutenant Leisure has been ir
the Navy little over year, hav.
ing been commissioned an Ensign
in March. 1913. on graduating from
the University of Maryland. Or
completing his basic training. he
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-01-29
Marine Officer Throws Colored Crew Off OF Train
Supply Sergeant Winner
OF Army Legion Of Merit
BY FLETCHER r. MARTIN
combiAed Negro Prsss)

GUADALCANAL-tVia AirmaiD
"A former night club cashier In
Montgomery. Ala, Master Sergeant
Al c. Irby. infantry. is now an
Army Legion OF Merit winner on
Gusdalcanal His story follows:
Il was the supply sergeant in
charge of some ammunition, among
other things said Sergeant Irby.
Sometimes We had to work day
and nigh. 10 keep Cast artillery
batteries supplied. That's about
all
Brief. concise. 10 the point, he re-
lated that story. but the citation
added much more. II read that the
sergeant and his men travelled go
miles through dense jungles, over
bad roads between posts. Further,
he had displayed initiative and
originality" in construction Of ma
tive-like shelters to protect essen
tial supplies from adverse weather.
During that time the base, south
of the Solomons, was threatened by
japanese forces which resulted in
the whole OF the island being
alerted. And on these long trips,
starting at dawn and ending at
dusk, men had to be sent ahead
with rifles and knives, scouting and
cutting through the path. Each
breaking OF twig might mean the
worse. Despite impending danger
and hardship, the supply route was
kept open.
Sergeant Irby, once cashier in
a Montgomery night club. now
winner OF merit on Guadalcanal.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-01-29
ASK R. J. THOMAS
TO STRENGTHEN
WAR VETS BILL

WASHINGTON.-tANP) Repre-
sentatives OF three leading Negro
organizations last week agreed 10
ask the legislative committee of
the Congress OF Industrial Organi-
cations to point out TO Sen. Elmer
Thomas of Utah that his bill ts-l500
which would give veterans Of World
War-II-an opportunity to secure
further educational trairing, now
contains certain weaknesses both
from the point Of view Of labor and
the Negro.
The group, meeting in the Office
OF George l.. 2 Weaver. director,
National CIO Committee To Abolish
Discrimination. on Monday had a
spokesman from the N.A.A.CP., the
Washington Urban League, the Ma
tional Council OF Negro Women, and
the history department of Howard
university.
The six proposals:
Inclusion Of a general statement
preventing discrimination on &C.
count of race, creed. color or ma
tional origin, applicable only to the
federal government
The colleges and junior colleges
should select students who would
go on after the first year, even if
it should be necessary to leave Sc
lection for public schools after frst
year TO states. Federal government
might set minimum requirements.
Regional or state accredited .agen-
cies should establish list of schools
which students might attend. The
fear here is that some private
schools might be omitted il selec-
ktion is left TO states.
In order to permit widest choice
of colleges and junior colleges by
students, allowances should include
travel
The school year should be defined
in such way as to assure nine
months in all public schools.
Appropriate. principles dealing
with auditing. penalties and distri-
button of funds among minorities.
as contained in the Thomas federal
aid TO education bill, should be in
Guided here.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-01-29
No Income Tax On
Allotment Checks

Here are some tips for the hum
dreds of thousands OF Negroes
especially women-who must join
millions of fellow Americans in re-
porting their 1913 income on or be-
fore March Is.
Wives of service men who re-
ceive allotment checks from the
government should not include
these payments on their income tax
returns. Moreover, il the husband
is entitled 10 .postponement OF his
tax return. the. wife is also entitled
10 the same postponement IL her
l943 income was less than 100.
Members Of the armed forces serv-
ing on sea duty or outside the con-
tinental United States on March Is,
1914. need not file returns or pay
the tax until after they return, OF
the war ends.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-01-29
Hospital EnrOlls
172 Nurse Cadets

With l72 students enrolled in the
US. Cadet Nurse Corps. the Grady
Memorial hospital School Of NurS-
ing. Atlanta. Ga. tops the nations
Negro nursing schools in corps
membership. according 20 a taoula-
ton made January Is. 1914. by the
Division OF Nurse Education Of The
US. Public Health Service. Federal
Security Agency.
There are 80 Negro schools OF
nursing in the country or these. Il
have applied for participation IN the
US. Cadet Nurse Corps program.
Eighteen have been approved: the
applications az the other three are
pending, Additional applications are
expected. Approximately 800 cadet
nurses haye enrolled in Ct5e APP
proved Negro schools 81 nursing
since the inauguration Of the pro-
gram last July. II is estimated that
the total will be increased by so
rcr cent when enrolment figures
for February, 1914, classes arc
tabulated
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-01-29
Fort Clark Wac Unit
Gets Nelu Commander

succeeds First Lieutenant Geneva F.
Bland, who has served as command
iEg officer since the activatlon OF
the unit in May. 1913
A graduate of Howard university.
Washington. D C. Captain Kearney
began her military career in July.
1912. and was member of the first
Officer Candidate School graduating
class at Fort Des Moines, Iowa.
After receiving her commission she
was assigned 10 duty, as an instruc-
tor in the Motor Transport School
at the First WAC Training Center
at Fort Des Moines. Later she Nas
transferred to Fort Huachuca, Ariz-
where she served in the same ca
pacity.
In April. 1913, she was transferred
10 Fort Devens. Mass, where she
served as commanding officer until
the WAC training center there was
dissolved in August.
Captain Kearney was engaged in
WV c A work in Bridgeport before
Joining the WAC.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-01-29
Oppose Rule For
Soldier Vote Bill

WASHINGTON, D. c. - Opposi-
ton to special gag rule in the
House on the Rankin states rights"
Soldier Vote bill was expressed this
week by the NAACP in a letter TO
Chairman Adolph J Sabbath of the
House Rules committee.
This Association" the letter
said. wishes TO register its protest
against the type of bill that has
been reported. We also ask that
the rules committee refuse TO grant
rule under which House mem
bers will be limited in debate and
prevented from offering amend
ments."
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-01-29
Negro Auxiliary
Police Praised
By Florida OCD

A crack Negro auxiliary police
unit is included among the nine
companies Of Hillsborough County's
Auxiliary police force in Tampa.
Fla. John II. Spencer. director OF
Auxiliary Police training. said in
his annual report 10 the Office of
Civilian Defense this week, OCD
has announced.
The report. also submitted TO
Police Chief McClelland in Tampa.
said that the full organization OF
more than 400 men included four
companies in a mobile battalion,
two in traffic patrol service. and
one on motorcycle duty patrolling
routes Another. a medical
unit equipped with trailer.
stretchers and first aid equipment.
is manned by a doctor and male
nurse.
During 1913. The report said,
Auxiliary police reported for duty
| O9l times and accumulated
l0.0S8 man hours Of service. the
eauivalen; Of l.26i eight-hour days
which based on police pay would
have cost the city $1.3lS.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-01-29
Add Three To List Of
Critical Occupations

The job OF electric arc welder and
high pressure vessel and piping
Welder has been added 10 the list
~ critical occupations. the War
Manpower Commission announced
today
Added 70 the essential activities
list under Group No. "a finishing Of
metal products is the activity,
heat treating"
Added TO the essential occura-
tions Group No Ia. finishing of
metal products are the occupational
titles heat treater. all around;
mctallurgist. and Inspector.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-01-29
yellow Monkey
Talk Protested

WASHINGTON. D.C.-The char
acterization of the Japanese as
yellow monkeys" by Admiral Will
liam F. Halsey in an interview at
his home in Centerville. Del, jan
uary Is. was protested this week
by the NAACP which wrote Navy
Secretary Frank Knox that Halsey's
remarks disturbed our colored al
ly, China, and upset the morale of
American Negro citizens
Halsey was quoted as saying the
Germans should be defeated first
and then I'VE can polish off the
yellow monkeys"
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-01-29
Pvt. Rosetta Gaines
Assigned To Brooklyn

FORT DIES MONIES. Ia.-Pvt
Rosetta Games OF 800 Farnsworth
street. Detroit. Mich, is included in
the group of Negro members Of the
Womens Army Corps assigned 70
duty al Brooklyn. NY. e
She received her WAC training
al First WAC Training Center. Fort
Des MoineS Iowa
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-01-29
RETIRES AFTER 80 YEARS

FORT SILL. Okla-Sergeant ].
r. Carter. native OF Petersburg,
Ind. vas recently retired from the
army after 30 years war. Sergeant
Carter enlisted in the infantry at
jefferson Barracks. Mo. in 1913.
and remained an infantryman for
- years. At the time of his retire
ment he was first serveant OF the
354th Quartermaster Truck COM
ranV
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-01-29
Plane Crash At
Tuskegee Fatal
ToBoston Youth

TON.-(ANP)-Cadet Judson
West. nephew OF Atty. w. S. West
of Boston, was killed in a plane
crash at Tuskegee Army Flying
school on Wednesday. according to
communications which gave no de-
tails Of the fatal crash.
The 2l-year-old cadet, son Of Mr.,
and Mrs. Tracy West OF Roxbury.
Mass, had enrolled at Tuskegee
Flying school 10 months ago and
was in advanced training. He was
mechanic at the Charleston Navy
Yard before reporting 10 Tuske-
gee
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-01-29
CHAPLAIN IS ASSIGNED

FORT RILEY. kans-Chaplain
First LieutenanO John Julian
jenkins OF Milton. Pa. was recently
assigned TO serve the personnel.
Chaplain jenkins came here direct
~ from the Army Chaplains school
at Harvard university He is
graduate OF Columbia university.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-01-29

FORT CLARK. Texas Captain
Mary F. Kcarney, Of Bridgeport,
Conn. has assumed command of
the WAC Section. l855th Service
Command Unit. the War Depart
ment announced. Captain Kearney
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-01-29
HEADS RACE SQUADRON

AVON PARK BOMBING RANGE,
Fla.-First Sergeant Thomas Stub
blefeld OF Nashville. Tenn. is one
OF two top-ranking enlisted men
selected 10 head newly consoldat-
ed group OF base squadron troops.
AZ was announced
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-01-29

American Legion and vice president
az the local walters and cooks UNI
ion. has been appointed as one OF
six members Of the railroad inves-
;iga;ing committee. Franklin re-
Vealed.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-01-29
LOSER IN Dice.
GAME HAS RACE.
CREW REMOVED

OGDEN. Observation-Disclosures
cation of the removal Of an entire
colored kitchen and dining crew
from the Union Pacific's main train,
1924. by white marine lieutenant
and MP's at Lynndyl. Utah. on Jan.
8. is being made. according to Fran
els c. Franklin. secretary of an or
ganization known as the Western
Fair Employment Practice commit
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-20
W. AV E |. E T S
By ED LEAMY.

Those of you who have been en- toying Americas Town Meeting of the Air, heard Thursday evenings over WATR and the Blue at 0:3O, may be interested in the editorial from a recent issue of the New York Herald Tribune, which I pass on to you in full:
 Town Hall has come a long way since six ladies sat in a Fifth Ave- nue drawing room fifty years ago to form League for Political Edu- cation. The ladies had been taunt- ed by their legislators in Albany with knowing nothing of politics and being unprepared for the bale lot. Whereat they promptly dis solved the Committee on Suffrage, which had. been innportuning the undiScerning Legislators, and organ ized the league in it's place. The league later became. Town Hall and added manifold cultural pro- grams to its political education fo- rum. Still later, under the direc- tton of its present head, George ". Denny Jr., it expanded its audience enormously by broadcasting the weekly Town Meeting. But it's un- deriving purpose is unchanged; 1t still aims to prepare citizens for in- telligent use of the ballot through authoritative presentation of both sides of controversial issues and through inviting citizen participa- ton in discussion.
 Much of the New York organiza- tions national fame has come through the country. Many cities and towns have followed New York'S lead and established Town Halls or. similar organizations to do the same job of bettering public understanding. Town Halls is 6 splendid fifty year record of ever widening influence, such as the six founders of its parent league could scarcely have imagined, but one which its present members and workers may celebrate with deep pride and satisfaction today.
 Chicago will be the radio center
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-20

group in the EFT. It wants neither Communism nor 1889. Its pro- gram is the avowed program of the National Resistance Council program which includes nation alization of the great trusts, banks, mines, railroads, etc; the program to which De Gaulle has pledged himself. This center group wants what they consider the new France ruled by the mass of people instead of by handful of rich, powerful industrialists. By and large, this center group is led by young men. Of the dozen colonels and lieutenant colonels I met their average age was prob- ably something just under 30. Some were intellectualS Gone full colonel of % holds a doctorate of philosophy. some are school teach CTS (the Resistance was Sparked by teachers), some are young business men.
 These men are impatient with DeGaulle's government because they see scores of signs of his moving away from the Resistance program. They see signs that the goevrnment or powerful influ- ences in it are afraid of the FIT.
 Why, they ask, are we not get ting arms? Why is the govern ment calling for volunteers for the Army when at the same time the government says it hasn't suf- ficient to clothe and arm us? Why, they ask, are our units being split up when they are attached to
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-20

regular army units? Can the gov- ernment be afraid of our unity?
 Why, they ask, is the epuration (purge) taking so long? Why are men who were against us before June 6 still free and better off than we? Why, they ask, are ''camphorites" Preserve officers not in the Resistance who took their uniforms out of camphor after June 6) being given posts in preference to EFT officers?
 RID FRANCE OF NAZIS
 What the EFT will do about its gripes if the situation remains unchanged none of them can say. First, there's the job to be done of ridding France of Germans. All factions of the EFT are solidly united on this goal. That's why they are begging for rams now.
 One thing is certain. Whether the EFT gets arms or doesn't, its units are going to stick together. Great hands of loyalty were built up in the Maquis between officers and men. One can see concrete proofs of this in the fact that over 90 per cent of the men in the Maqiis units have signed up to stay with their officers at the front = even though they're cold and underarmed at the front and there was no compulsion for them to volunteer.
 Armed or unarmed, sticking to- gether, the FFT is going to be a force which will be felt in the new France. S
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-20
CONSERVATION IS KEYNOTE OF
 ARMY CENTER

Lake Placid Club, N. r.. Nov. 18- CUP)-Falling in step with a Second Service Command directive desig- mating November as Conservation Month" the Army Ground and Service Forces Redistribution Sta tion here went on record as "de- termined to effect the greatest pos Sible saving in every phase of oper- ation."
 Outlining 8 seven-point program, designed to tighten it's already stringent conservation measures, this Adirondack mountain Army in- stallation ordered recanvassing of every department to seek ''new and further savings in manpower, money, materials, resources, equip ment and time"
 Col. Frederick B. Dodge, Jr., com- manding officer, asserted there will be no hesitation in putting into ef- feet immediately any new devices, systems or methods which will in- sure a continued and expanding conservation program at this sta- tion."
 Food, clothing, gasoline, working hours and scores of other likely "spots" where conservation can be practiced, will come under scrutiny of Col. Dodge, who promised that any definite results obtanied would be incorporation into the stations conservation program.
 The program includes:
 1. Strict observation of food needs, food preparation and reduc- tion of table wastage.
 2. Further conservation, where practical, of fuel, oil and power.
 3. Proper care, maintenance and operation of the stations motor ve- hicles to conserve gasoline, tires and parts.
 4. Salvage of all waste paper and other salvagable materials.
 5. Conservation of waste fats.
 6. Steps to educate all personel, civilian and military, in the need for conservation.
 7. Adoption of any methods to ef- feet greater savings "all along the line"
 We will not limit ourselves tc these seven points" the colonel said "but will include any number ot other methods which create a Sav- ingS."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-20

and Spirit Flower" Murray con- ducts "There's A Hill Beyond A Hill" and "Blow the Man Down.
 Richard Crooks returns as solo ist on the "Voice of Firestone," to- night (NBC, 8:30 p. m., EWI). Howard Barlow conducts the Fire stone symphony orchestra.
 Crooks and Barlow have chosen selections in keeping with the Thanksgiving season. Crooks sings Hymn of Thanksgiving" by Krem- ser, Schubert's 'The Omnipotence," T Love Thee" by Grieg and Lalo's "Aubade." Barlow conducts the or chestra in Thanks Be To God by Mendelssohn, "Bolero" by Moskov- sky and War March Of The Priests" by Mendelssohn.
 The Victory Parade Of Spotlight Bands tonight will originate in New York,s huge Madison Square Gar den as part of the opening boost in the Sixth War Loan Drive spon- sored by the War Activities Com- mittee of the Motion Picture Indus try. Les Brown and his famous or chestra will be the attraction, the proceedings to be broadcast over WATR and the Blue at the usual Spotlight Band time of 9:S0 p. m.
 More than a million dollars worth of radio talent including commen- tators, personalities, and radio pro- grams will feature this night of nights at the Garden.
 Mondays Gag Day.: On completion of his broadcast of Everything for the Boys" at the NEG studios the other afternoon, vocalist Dick Haynes returned home to find two neighborhood youngsters in the kitchen. The youngest was crying.
 Haynes turned to the taller boy and asked: Jackie, what's the mat ter with your brother?"
 Well" said Jackie, its like this. Mrs. Haynes gave us each piece of cake and he's crying because I'm eating my piece and won't give him any"
 Haynes thought a moment and then asked, "Is his own piece f1n- ished?"
 ''Yes, sir." the youngster volun- teered:. But he cried while ate that, too"