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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-22
White Primaries, Poll Tex
FIoyed by Editors, Authors

want a big vote; when there is a
light vote, it is easier for them
to win"
Stroller said that 1--WE haven't
gotten far enough away from
the Civil war yet for our poll
ticianS TO realize that the en-
reimbursement of the Negro
wouldn't mean the turning over
of a large bloc of votes to the
Republican party"
Roscoe Dunjee, Oklahoma
City Negro editor, predicted
that with removal of voting
bans "the Negro will join with
the White people in the South
in doing the things that ought to
be done in democracy"
Unrestricted, Negroes cast
about $4,000 votes in Oklahoma,
he said, and added:
81 believe the Oklahoma ex-
pertinent has blazed a trail for
all of the southern states in the
administration of its election
laws" Democrats in Oklahoma
now prize the Negro vote as one
of their most valuable assets"
Oklahoma recently repealed
its poll tax.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-22
Lodge Elects
Officers

Observation-Disclosures of the
l945 officers of the RoSeville
Maccabees was held Wednesday,
December 13, at the Social indie
pendent Hall.
The following officers were
elected to carry on during the
coming year: Post Commander,
Evelyn Damguard; Vice Com
mander, Christine Bannish; Sec
rotary, Ruth Clark; Record
Keeper, Eunice Lane; Chaplain,
Mildred Rollford; Sergeant,
Wilma Turner; Mistress of Arms,
Harriet Springstead: Judas Mac
cabee, Roy Lane; Deborah, Lois
Ferrall; First Lady of the
Guards, Edith Clark; Second
Lady Of the Guards, Lady Elaine
Butler; Sentinel, Freda Hug
CONS; Picket, E. Meishling; Su-
preme Chaplain, Beryl Law
renee; Supreme Sentinel, Jean
Grant.
Formal installation will take
place on February l at the Bur-
ton Gymnasium.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-22

ATLANTA, Dec. % - tP) -
Responsibility for retention of
the poll tax, while primaries
and other franchise restrictions
was laid at the door of the
South's politicians today by a
group of southern editors and
authors.
Charges that office holders
and seekers had a primary in
terest in maintaining such re-
trictions due TO fear of large
vote returns were made at a
one day inter-racial meeting yes
terday sponsored by the COM
mittee of editors and writer's of
the South, an unaffiliated or
ganization.
Departing from prevalent,
the conference adopted no reso-
lutions and did not vote on any
issue.
Chairman Mark Ethridge,
publisher of the Louisville
KyD Courier-Journal, said in
formation on the meeting would
be disseminated throughout the
South in advance of legislative
sessions in several states early
in 1945. He said he would
much prefer" State action ra-
Their than Federal action on the
restrictions.
Il am certain in my own mind
what the verdict Of the South
will be-" Ethridge said, 1T will
be a good verdict"
Politicians of the poll tax
states of Alabama, Arkansas,
Georgia, Mississippi, South Car
DINA, Tennessee, Texas and Vir-
ginia came under the fire of var
ious speakers. Typical were the
ear marks of two Georgians-
Editor Bryan Collier of the CO.
lumbus Ledger and Harry S.
Stroller, contributing editor Of
the Macon News.
Collier said lit all boils down
to the fact that politicians don't
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-22
Expand Draft

LONDON, Dec. % - P) -
The British will draft 100000
more men for the Army in the
Coming months than was pre-
viously planned, Prime Minister
Churchill's office announced to-
night.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-22
Pacific
Continued from Page One)

Continued from Page One)
Tokyo on the B-29 route from
Saipan, was bombed for the
thirteenth successive day as ia
pan showed increasing alarm
over air strikes. The diet pre-
pared to meet Sunday, ready TO
adjourn TO air raid shelters at
the first sound of air raid ST.
rens. apan es e trains began
changing the tones of their whis-
ties to avoid confusion with fire.
quently blown air raid sirens.
Japanese reinforcements were
rushed into Hochih, Central Chi
ma town threatened by attack
ing Chinese armies driving to-
ward Liuchow, former U. S. air
base.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-22
Presents
Continued From Page One

'"
age. This year there are IS
children who the county will
play Santa 10, the county agent
added, and effort is always made
TO dress them up as nice as the
average boy and girl, and 10 see
that their holiday is a merry one.
Its really a heart throb," All
renS says, ito see the expression
Of the boys and girls when they
are handed their gifts, knowing
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-22

Q-What is the Volunteer
Italian Service Unit?
A-Those Italian war prison
ers in the u. S. who help TO serv-
ice and process motor vehicles
for overseas shipment.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-22

Glass overcoats" made with
Nylon is superior to silk for
parachutes because it is
not affected by salt water, will
not mildew and shows no APP
preciable deterioration in the
dark where much of the life of
a parachute is spent.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-22
Blame Politicians for Souths Racial Restrictions
Papai Address

The Christmas message OF
Pope Plus XII viii be rebroad-
cast in English by the Vatican
radio az l2;l5 p. m, Eastern
War Time, Christmas Eve, four
hours after he delivers the ad-
dress in Italian. il was announc-
ed ia Rome today.
The major networks in the
United States have not schedul-
ed a relay Of the message as yet.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-22

that they have not been forgot
ten.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-22

GREETINGS TO MOUNT CLEMENS - Major Leroy II. Sample
former Monitor Leader advertising duty
the Western
VMail sketch back other
all of the people the Major
recently accomplishments
which resulted the Metz His wife children
live at 81 Kendrick Mount Clemens.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-22

Q-What is agio?
"A premium paid for ex-
changing foreign for native
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-04-09
Women In War

Frequent and serious appeals by recruiting
representatives for the various women's SER
vices should serve notice to women Of Will
lgton that the war is not yet won, and, most
important that the length-and even the out
come-depends largely upon the women of
America.
Last week it was the Coast Guards Spars
who made the local appeal to Wilmington
women. This week it will be the Waves, and
the Navy is sending North Carolina Wave
the recruiting station here for a four-day
visit, Wednesday through Saturday.
There has been no conjecture over recent
announcements that recruiting of women has
not met expectations The director OF one
inch used the strongest of descriptions in
her review: dismal failure.
Perhaps too much negation has been used
in publicizng the recruiting of women. Re-
cruiting is merely craftsmanship, and no good
salesman would ever be guilty of admitting
that his product is mot going so WE'LL" But
whatever the cause, recruiters for the Wac,
the Waves, the Spars and the Marines agree
on one ISSUE More women must volunteer.
According to figures recently released, how
ever the Waves have not done so badly. There
are now more than $4,000 Waves, the an
nouncement asserts, and "the number is
s'sadily increasing'' In the ten weeks prior
to the announcement, women Of America join
ed the Navy at the rate OF more than 1000 a
week. and on the week ending March 18 the
enlistment total of 1,135 surpassed any pre-
vious record.
Aside from the glamour and the "adven-
ture'' which the public relations men some
times overwork most women could hardly be
more practical than to enlist IN one branch of
the service while their husbands or sweet
hearts are away. The pay in the service is
very satisfactory, and to be considered is the
fact that all money drawn by the service
woman is over and above their expenses.
Besides room and board, the government also
furnishes the uniform, which is big item in
any woman's life, and many other considera-
tions-including freedom from income tax.
Wilmington has comparatively good stand
ing for volunteers for the women's service.
But, needless to say, the figure can and should
be increased. Perhaps the situation could be
aptly summed up thusly: It's the patriotic
thing to do.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-04-09
Tragic Accidents

Recent events have reaffirmed the fact that
war is a matter of tragic mistakes as well
as tragic intentions. American arborne troops
are shot down by their own comrades in Sicily;
British flyers attack American cargo planes
over the Atlantic; Liberators bomb Swiss
city The fruitlessness Of such waste of life
is double misfortune but it must be put down
as inevitable in a war marked by high speed
and splitsecond decisions.
There is, however, one consolation to be
gained from these sad occurrences. That is
the prompt disclosure of the last two, after
the public resentment over the long-delayeo
announcement of the Sicilian incident.
Perhaps the handling of these two cases
marks trend toward more prompt frank ano
democratic disclosure of bad news as well as
good, after too many instances of pussyfootlng
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-04-09
What Manner OF
Communications :"

In homes and on street corners. neghbors
are talking of the inspiration, through shining
countenance and brave words, one of our war
mothers of late is offering to those around her
Wilmingtonians remember that Captain
Churchill Bragaw, under whose def fingers
the flowers throughout this countryside grew
in greater beauty and profusion, was killed
j action in Italy January %, 1914. Just few
days after he was conspicuously promoted in
rank on the field of battle. Dispatches from
the front had more than once noted his gal
lantry and cited the devotion of his men tc
him.
1t is conceivable that Captain Bragaw, lover
that he was of all things living, was more
relentless in his press on the foe for the very
reason that he wanted to come back home to
cultivate more stretches Of loneliness for a
world half-starved for beauty.
Not the military prestige achieved by the
young man in the midst of conflict, however,
has brought comfort and solace to his mother.
She has confessed to her friends that each
bright bush and flower in her path this season,
many Of the blossoms tended by her son, has
emerged as testimony to the worthwhileness
of his life. With succeeding springs it will be
the same.
The beginning chapters of the Easter story
record the battle of Young Man against a
hostile world. The struggle appeared to be so
futile And even a generation more than 10
centuries removed can scarcely bear to study
the catalogue of suffering experienced by the
Young Man.
Yet it is not for his personal battle, his
tortuous death on the Cross, that the Christ is
remembered and worshipped It is the wake
of Life, Light and Beauty attending his resur-
rection, proof of the reality and permanence
of his Ideal that has astounded us and
quickened us to reverence
Christ walked through the springtime
radiance on Easter morning and entered the
little group of COMPOUNDED disciples, attempting
to reason the significance of the terrible
mystery in the happenings Of the past three
days. With one query, He discouraged all
their confusions and fruitless wonderings:
What manner of communications are these
It we have one to another as we walk and
are sad?"
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-04-09
Let's Start Now

The traffic death rate has peen cllHlolhg
since last October, after a 2O-rnonth dechne.
January deaths were % per cent ABOVE Inc
January, 1913 figure. In February they were
1e per cent higher than during the same
month last year.
Travel is increasing, too in spite of continued
gasoline and tire rationing. This years Janu-
ary travel figure shows a II per cent increase
over that of 1943. But the January death rate
was still per cent higher than the travel
rate. The obvious assumption is that speed
and carelessness are also on the increase.
So it is not too soon for drivers to make
some safety resolutions now, and keep them
after the war. The traffic toll, despite its re-
cent increase is still far below that of pre-
war l941. Altertness, sobriety and moderate
speed can help to stop the present rise.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-04-09
Better Cooperation

:: The most significant development in the war
during the past week is the sudden turn for the
better in military cooperation between the
Western Allies and Russia. We refer to the
new aerial offensive of our planes into the
Balkans. These raids may well have been
carried out with the knowledge and consent
Of Soviet arms.
This new teamwork comes at a most oppor-
tune time Our planes and the Soviet armies
are now driving against the same goal-de-
struction Of the Nazis oil supplies in pre-
marathon for the invasion.
Modern war is impossible without oil or
gasoline. AS we move nearer D-day Hitler S
xunply is not only diminishing but his slender
.,urce is coming under increasingly more In
tense attack by our air fleets. His synthetle
oil and gasoline plants have been feeling the
mower of allied bombs for many months and
now American bombers are slashing at Ru
manias ploesti oil fields, from which he has
ont the bulk of his natural petroleum. Mean
time the Red armies are racing toward these
fields less than 200 miles away
All this represents grim threat TO the
Fuehrer.
prn,ania has supplied about one third O
Germany's requirements for OIL virtually al
the Reich's remaining supplies nave beer
made svnthetically from coal. The stores Hit
1er stole from occupied countries have beer
exhausted, There is no secret of his crying nee'
for oil. This was one of the chief ob1ectlves O
Killers efforts to reach the Caucasian petro
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-04-09
u S. Softening Kuriles
On Short Road To Tokyo

way down the chain from h e
north, is the nearest to Tokyo that
United States bombers have reach
ed, except in the one Tokyo raid
OF 1912 from the "Shangri La"
base. Matsuwa lies LOO miles
northeast of Japan's capital. 1t is
a volcanic cone, still active, reach
ing 1850 feet above sea level.
Area is about % square miles. On
the south end of the island are
gentle slopes ending in n d y
beaches, but the rest Of the shore
line is rocky and sharp.
Onnekotan, 100 niles northeast
Of Matsuwa, is considerably larg-
err, extending 80 miles in length
by four to nine miles in width. 1t
has two poor anchorages. Memo
Wan, at the rthern end of the
island, is the better. Two peaks,
one at either end, and low CEN
trail portion give Onnekotan a sad
die profile Highest point is 1852
feet. Reefs make navigation haz-
ardous, as throughout the Kurils,
but they are generally well out
lined with a kelp covering. Vege-
tation is comparatively luxuriant.
A 19-mile strait separates Onne-
kotan and Paramushiro, next step
north. Paramishiro is by far the
largest Of the northern Kurils, has
the best ha-bors and repeatedly
the most extensive enemy install
lations. 1t measures SIS by II miles
and reaches elevations of nearly
5000 feet.
Shumushu, northernmost Japa-
nese island possession, nestles be-
tween Paramushiro, one mile
south, and the tip Of Russia's Kam-
chatka peninsula, about five miles
north. 1t is distinctive among the
Kurils because it has no noun
tains. Hills and swampy valleys
cover the island and support
stands of scrub pine, alders, and
grasses. The best landing place
is Bittobu Byochi on the west
coast. 1t has a sandy beach back
ed by sand hills and a lake.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-04-09
Important Meeting

One of the most important meetings to be
conducted here this year will be that of the
City Planning board and the Community
council Thursday night at which the proposal
to extend the city limits will be revived.
The majority who have Wilmingtons in
terests at heart realize that it's postwar future
depends greatly whether we widen its
boundaries. They also know that legislative
action will be necessary for such a move
Past expansion attempts have failed due, ir
large part, to general misunderstanding Of
the exact goal and confusion resulting from
last-minute efforts and counter efforts. The
plans given our legislators may not have beer
as clear as they should have been.
Now, by resuming discussion this early, al
wrinkles should be ironed out and all details
of the general program will be decided anc
clear-cut when it is handed up to Raleigh. AL
sides will be given the opportunity of present
ing their case. In fact, we agree with officials
of the Planning board in having the fulles
possible discussion of the extension. Thurs
days meeting is to start the ball rolling among
highly representative cross-section of the
community's leaders. Intentions are to take
the subject before other groups, especially the
suburban residents. All in all, it will be giver
a thorough educational campaign and, wher
all discussion is over, we should have plar
in which the majority are in accord.
Then we can hand it over to our representa-
tives with: Take this and see that it is pass
ed, without any pickering or eleventh-hou
maneuvering by anyone. 1t is what Wilmington
wants.
If they fail to carry out this mandate as
agents of the people, then there will never b'
any doubt as to where the fault OF holding
| 'lnington within its present tight boundarle
| lies
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-04-09

The northern and shortest road
from the United States to Tokyo is
by way of the Aleutians and the
kuril Islands. The latte.. chain,
stretching from the tip of Russian
Kamchatka to Japan proper, now
feels American air power in ever
increasing force. Shumushu, Par
amushiro, Onnekotan, and Matsu-
wa, in the northern half of the
kurils, have been hit. Paramushi-
no has been bombarded by United
States surface forces.
The Kurils are cousins to the
Aleutians-rocky. fog swept, vol
canic peaks rising abruptly from
the icy waters of the north Pa
cific, says the National Geographic
Society. Their name m a s
smoking" a reference which ap-
plies as well to the fogs as to the
several active volcanoes. Chishi-
ma Retto, the Japanese a m e,
means Thousand islands chain"
although there are only 81 links
in the Kuril rhain large enough
to be considered islands rather
than exposed rocks.
Like the Aleutians, the Kurils
seem to be weather makers. :"
They lie where warm and cold
ocean currents meet and foment
many storms that cross the Pa
cific and strike California.
Anus lived On all the Kurils
when driven out OF Japan by the
present Japanese race. In 1884 the
pitiful remnants of these aborigi-
mes, nearly Caucasian in charac-
teristics, we're taken off all the
northern islands and resettled on
little Shikotan, at the southern end.
This was done TO prevent the Ain
us from dealing with the Russians
in Kamchatka.
Since that time tn northern
half of the Kurils have been vir-
tually uninhabited except for mill
tary personnel and fishermen who
set up summer camps while catch
ing and processing the plentiful
selmon
MatsuWa, about one-third of the
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-04-09
QUOTATIONS

It you stick together in squadron formation
and obey all the air rules you will come home.
If you don't, you get the hell shot out of you
Maj Frank J. Collins, back from Europe.
Experience has taught us that our country
will flourish best when least hampered by
government control.-Senate Truman Commit
tee report.
Vicory is certain as long as we remain
united. The enemys chief hope is to divide
us from our British, Soviet and Chinese allies.
Acting Secretary of State Edward r. Stet-
tinius Jr.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-04-09

Ieum fields. II explains in part WHY he Is
trying to hold Rumania. While this great
battle is taking shape, our bombers are pound
ing high explosives into the oil fields. It NAV
be that these wells will be in ruins long before
the struggle of land forces is decided there
but what we are doing is of great aid to the
Russians 1t is also part of the general in
vasion plan and il miller loses his Rumanian
oil now ii will be catastrophe for him.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-04-09
BOX
THE EASTER MESSAGE

" Liz LQ1IOI.
The beautiful Message of the
Easter season was surely never
needed more greatly than at the
present period OF the worlds his
tory. Even in normal times there
is too much distress and sorrow,
but this is now multiplied many
times over by an almost suicidal
war between men and nations.
brought on by an unholy determi-
nation on tee part of some to take
complete possession of the earth,
which belongs 10 God, and which
by His mighty decree, is on it's
way back to the chaos from
whence it was called.
Finite minds cannot grasp the
full significance of the Cross and
the Resurrection. However, a
clearer vision of what they mean
TO humanity may be gained from
the inspired utterances of the
Prophets. Isaiah writes: THE peo-
Pie that walked in darkness have
seen great Light: They that
dwell in the land of the shadow
OF death, upon them hath the Light
shined."
In beautiful and tender words.
the healing Ministry of Jesus is
set forth in the 61st chapter:
The SPIRIT OF the Lord God is
upon Me; because the Lord hath
anointed Me to preach good It'd.
lngs unto tie meek; He hath sent
Me to bind up the broken-hearted
TO proclaim liberty to the captives
ard the opening of the prison to
them that are bound; To proclaim
The acceptable year of the Lord
and the day of vengeance of our
GOD; to comfort all that mourn.
TO appcint unto them that
mourn in ZION, to give them beau.
~ for ashes. the oil of joy for
mourning. The garment of praise
1or the spirit OF heaviness; that
tney might be called trees Of
Hlshteousn.ss, the planting of the
Lora' that He might be glorified."
The glorious assurance of I'm
mortality is not the only signifi-
canoe OF i've Easter Message. To
we Eail and sinful humans it can
mean Resurrection from a life Of
SIN to new life of Spiritual beau.
ty In Christ Jesus the One Who
sald: i am He that liveth, and
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-04-09
SAKHALIN AGREEMENT

Russia VS.. Japan: Prophets of a
Russian attack on Japan look upon
the Sakhalin agreement as evil
dence of the Brightness of theil pre-
diction.
In official Washington the opin.
ion is universal that sooner OF lat.
err Russia will get into the war in
the Pacific, possibly before the Eu.
ropean war ends, because of her
desire to make good her postwar
position in Asia, particularly in
the Manch!~'ian areas and such
outlets as Port Arthur.
BY the Sakhal'n agreement Rus
STA compelled Japan to relinquish
oil and coal rights in the northern
end of that island and to give I'm
certain fishing rights in Russian.
controlled Asiat1c waters. japan
never would have agreed without
understanding that Russia no long,
Ell fears a Japanese attack.
Feminine Delegates: U. S. dele
cations to all conferences on post.
war plans will include women so