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Dirty, Lousy, Remark!

Those two words, dirty and
lousy, describe the reported state
ment by General Brehon Somervell
chief of army service in speaking
of returning Negro soldiers said:
"I'd like to throw the coons into
the middle of the desert"
Any high placed general who
speaks of the million Negro soldiers
in that insulting manner ought to
be court-martialed.
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PAONANAAAI ~ NcbA No oC4SAJ OCtAO Y
in danger of losing every So
cial advantage he has won or
been granted unless he pulls him
self together right away and gets
rid of his own burden. That burden
is, lack of mass discipline, lack of
respect for the rights of others, and
true pride in honest race achieve
ment.
The war is going to end some day
and when it does, many of the
temporary advantages we have
won in the midst of a national
hysteria are going to be taken
away from US by the white man
flushed with victory and with en-
HANGED pride in the abilities of the
Nordic to rule the world; including
its darker peoples.
Dark Future Looms
The prejudices which we fight at
home so valiantly are going to be
more vicious, and necessary to the
white man as he settles down to
reconstruction of his domestic
social order. First and foremost
among the reasons that will be put
forward why the Negro must be
kept in the status of a second rate
citizen or inferior being is that he
cannot control his own people. It
will be claimed that he must con-
stantly be supervised by whites
whether by policeman, lynching
mobs, or Jim Crow rules and regu-
lations) to avoid serious con-
sequences to the overall pattern of
American domestic social and eco
nomic values.
The white man is going to point
to all the outward manifestations
of our lack of control as a basis for
his superior attitude; he is going
to illustrate his case with the in
creasing incidents of our juvenile
delinquency, pointing out cases
which he will contend stress char
acteristic racial tendencies. He is
going to show that Negro children,
masses of them are almost COM
pletely ignorant of the disciplinary
controls that go with American
family life and run wild through a
thousand streets of as many Ameri-
can cities until they either settle
down of their own accord or are
disciplined by the prison cell, gal
lows or electric chair.
He is going to point out, in his
argument for his reason for putting
increased pressure on the Negro,
that Negro leadership is demanding
and getting more economic and
social advantages than the Negro
public is ready to receive, that
the Negro of earlier generations
(reared in the fear of the white
man, taught by example to accept
the inferior status in which he was
placed) is typical of the kind of
Negro to be desired to live in the
midst of the "new white" civiliza-
ton the white man intends to build
in this country after the war.
We Suffer Too Much Haste
1t is strange, indeed, that in our
rapid acquisition of better places
in American life-the outstanding
jobs that have come to US in recog-
milton of our abilities; the social
prestige we are attaining on the
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Contribute Your Bit!

Every contribute good sized to the War Ches
this year.
community agencies the Twin Cities receive their financial
support from Chests
of all of to do part this year to keel
the work of the social and organizations going.
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We hope Gandhi doesn't feel too
bad about his failure to get together
with Jinnah and the Moslems in
India-why He'll, chum, we Zulus
and Bantus have the same trouble
trying to get together on anything
over here.-Charley Cherokee.
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achievements of our Marian An
dersons, Paul Robesons, Joe Louis
es, Ben Davises, George Washing
ton Carvers, and so on-those
leading US haven't seen the fact
that the great mass of Negroes
the 20 million and over of US who
make up Americas biggest min
ority group-are being criminally
neglected.
1t would be lovely indeed, if that
small minority of the American
Negroes who have had the ad-
vantages of schooling, exposure to
cultural influences are ready to
take their place in the Negro mid
die class, were all that mattered.
The problem then would be basil
cally changed. The possibilities of
complete Indignation into American
life of the Negro would be brighter.
The efforts of Frederick Doug
lass, W. E. B. Dubois, James Weld
on Johnson, Walter White and
others along this line would not
have been put forth needlessly.
Color Band Holds All Of Us
However, we are bound together
by the one link we cannot change
color. The Jew can join the Baptist
Church, change his name from
Finkelstein to Jones, eat pork and
be as white and indistinguishable
in the white world as the German
who renounces his fondness for
sauerkraut, hogshead and beer. In
such a metamorphosis the Negro
hasn't chance. He can get a de-
gree from Oxford but he will still
be Negro. He can invent the
perpetual motion machine, run the
100 yard dash in 9 seconds fiat, the
mile in 4 minutes, build a rocket
and ride to the moon and back, but
he will still be a Negro.
AS such, it would seem that he
would recognize his predicament
or status and seek to improve every
phase of it until it meets and beats
down all competition. We have the
individual abilities. We have the
intellect, the individual strength of
character, the numbers with which
to work, yet we are seemingly as
far from that goal as when the
first boatload of US was dropped at
jamestown in 1919.
The Jews have mass discipline.
an iron-clad system of family life
and parental control and an intense
sense of racial loyalty toward one
another. They are one of Ameri-
cas- smallest minorities, but also
one of its most potent. We have
no mass discipline, our system of
family life hasn't been nurtured
and brought to full bloom. Racial
loyalty among US is distorted. We
are Americas biggest minority, but
its weakest.
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Ohio Paper On Courier Stand
(Editorial in Ruckeue ReuiemN

Editorial in Buckeye Review
surprise to learn that the Pittsburgh
Dewey and Bcker 1t coming and And
endorsement the Courier has made.
The Courier Negroes want interrogation separation;
recognition not benefcence fslass citizenship
heard for themselves without friendly
What party will give them these things? Will
Republican party Governor Dewey the Democratic party
And the
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A Man Has Gone

Negro America of Wendell L Wike the man
who few brief the comparative obcuty
of corporation presidency position international statesman
Wie candidate for the presidency in 1910
most Negro ballots his opponent Franklin Roosevelt
whom they trusted However in his defeat We held
appeal Negroes he seemed to courage His
daring 1910 Chicago speech forgotten with the close of the
last campaign because We went further than any
previous Democratic presidential candidate in advocating
equal rights for Negroes While advocacy democracy
could be ascrbed by political epency his words had
a ring of sincerity which could not be discounted
After WILKES defeat he continued had made with
Negro leaders during These contacts
until he able to number his close and intimate friends
Negroes White secretary of the National Association for
National Board of the months passed Wilke
study American problem and his public utter
writings widely quoted and frequently reproduced by
persons acknowledged authorities the subject
oya opposition" he became more Ouspoken
than member of the Roosevelt official family
We both publicly and privately matched the interest OF Mrs
Roosevelt Lady, fair play and decent
treatment Americas Negro minority
Wilkes which forced the war administrator TO oroer
the training Negroes and for ratings other than
Navy 1t We who dared broadcast to
the nation the conditions which brought about the Detroit
riots He spoke President Roosevelt remained silent
people that We not only deep student Of
the domestic problems but also OF international ahalr HIS "oro
during trying early periods of the brought understanding
that time valuable in worth to his
country than its armies
With horizon expanded by peoples and
cultures vigorously decd in his book zone World the
theme superiority cautioned that
theories could end only in race
It was perhaps prophetic that his last article published by
Magazine only attacked the failure of both
political parties fairly squary with the American Negro
pointed out last week this space
and it stamped Wilke a great Amercan-unafrad
infinite wisdom knows best it is sad but in minds
fate which from the human
sphere Wendell Wie time when the world so badly
needed him.
great loss the of the American Negro
a great the whole of America and to the world
The does not want Bonds
needey unnecessarily hampg the effort For
ashed fellow citizen must be sold another
WILKES death political observers the of Com
Harold Sass Minnesota recognized position among
the nations nternana AS such he would perhaps be the leading
figure point the Republican Commander
Stsn will not support Negroes comparable that OF
W Stassen edgd the Negro question while he governor
of Minnesota.
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NEGRO MASSES MUST LEARN .
By DAN GARDNER

Probably greatest need today to give the
lasting lesson the fundamental values of life beyond
the routine of getting the job to the money with
which buy food pay the rent and purchase clothes
Without going into the long argumenatve passages OF
profound sociological whyfores and wherefores of the
problem be safely said that the American Negro stands
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First Problem

1.-THE Negroes first problem in the plant
his services valuable to the employer and acceptable
fellow workers. To do this the worker
watch his public conduct He should learn
and Clean physically and mentally He should Objectionable
due to lack of hygiene uny clothing
couraged to be clean in his of speech
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-26
Greensboro's BIC 10
Downs Davis 47-35

GREENSBORO, Jan. Is Up -
Basic Training Center Number To- S
crack basketball team ran into
fairly stiff competition in the tall
Camp Davis Blue Brigade, but
won handily 47-35 for its seventh
victory of the season without a
setback.
The Tech-Hawks of the AAF'
training command grabbed lead
they never relinquished in the
early minutes of the game, though
it wasn't until the third period
when they kept the Blue Brigade
scoreless over the first nine min
utes-that they assumed complete
command.
PFC. George Senesky, Philadel-
phia's choice as the 1943 athlete
of the year, played his best all
around game tonight and scored 20
. points in the act.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-26
By CHARLES CHAMBERLAIN

CHICAGO, Jan. 90 (R Al
though the American League cur
rently has ample manpower for a
successful start in the 1914 base
ball season, it's only far fetched
guess what the situation will be
on opening day, less than three
months away.
A player inventory today show
ed that of the 257 men (six more
than in 1919 on spring training
rosters, only about so are AZ S
while eight others hold honorable
discharges from the service. This
group, enlarged somewhat by play.
ers over 80, is the only one which
can be counted on. The majority oil
the players is eligible for the draft
but not yet called.
Thirty-one players have entered
the service since the close of the
1943 campaign. AS far as numbers
were concerned, the Washington
Senators were hardest hit, losing
seven men, including their regu.
lar first and second basemen, Mic.
key Vernon and Gerry Priddy
Least affected in this respect were
the Chicago White Sox and Boston
Red Sox who lost two men apiece.
The White Sox are especially sta.
bilized by having nine 4-F's, -
among whom are pitchers Orval
Grove and Joe Haynes and Catch.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-26
ACCIES GET NEW
TRAINING PERIOD

COLLEGE STATION, Tex, Jan.
25-(R,-It won't be exactly season
al, but spring football practice
a. Texas A. and M. college wal
be held in late summer or early
fall.
Reason: Coach Homer Norton
doesn't intend to help train boys
for other schools.
Only nine of the A who went
out for spring work last year were
present in September to do their
bit for the Aggies. Eight of the
nine earned their letters.
Such prospects as backfielders
Dave Redman at Southern Meth
adist and Sheffield at Rice. Not to
mention Henry Hook, who did
good tackle job for Rice, and BOZ
Zelsman, who played guard for
the Owls.
Of course these boys were In
the Naval training program ano
were transferred as were others
of the IS who left Aggieland fol
the armed service.
But, be that is it may. Morton
isn't going to start practice unit
he's reasonably sure the boys he
works will be on hand when the
first whistle blows next fall.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-26
Movie Stars Plan
Camp Davis Visit

CAMP DAVIS, Jan. Is. - Two
Hollywood celebrities, Miss Ann
Savage and Lon CLANCY Jr, ac-
companied by five war heroes re-
turned from combat areas, will
perform for Camp Davis soldiers
Wednesday night as an activity OF
the Fourth War Loan Drive at
this post.
Autographs of the visiting celeb
rites will be given to members of
the soldier-audience who purchase
War Bonds or make bond pledges.
Before the one-hour show at The
alter No. 1, Miss Savage and men,
bers of group will spend an hour
in Service Club No. I giving auto
graphs and performing in short
skits.
Camp Davisites will be treated
to a sight of Miss Savage soon
after she arrives here with the
Bond Battalion at $3.50, since the
appearance at the service club is
scheduled from TOO until 800.
At the conclusion of the hour per-
Torrance, which begins at 8:15,
the group will remain on the post
for the night, departing yb car in
the morning for their next per-
formance.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-26
ROCKET GUN AREA
HAMMERED AGAIN
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along the coast of northern France.
popularity known as the rocket
gun coast" today's blow was a
one-tWo punch delivered by strong
formations which returned to bat
ter targets throughout the after
noon in following to a heavy
forenoon assault.
The double-barrelled daylight
blow at the oft-bombed emplace-
ments was carried out by Raj,
dominion and Allied Mitchell and
Boston medium bombers and Ty-
phoon fighter-bombers, escorted by
fighters. Two of the latter failed
to return
The bomber fleets have concen-
trated these German forward posi-
tons with daylight attacks for Is
of the So days since the knockout
campaign began in earnest.
The sector being blasted - The
Calais area from Dunderque to
Boulogne-is only Is miles across
the Dover Straight from the British
coast and IS miles from the heart
of London.
A Stockholm dispatch indicated
that German bomber squadrons
transferred from the Russian front
to improved bases in northern
France had carried the weight OF
the attack against Britain on the
night of Jan. 21.-the. heaviest in
a year.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-26
QUALIFICATION IS
ASKED BY LEWIS
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UNIV case at the current session
OF the council and may indicate
Lewis willingness to negotiate
basis of reaffiliat1on Immediately.
The council had planned to adj
journ Thursday, if not tomorrow,
and the next regular meeting
would not be held until May.
Lewis request is understood to
have been made by telegram ad-
dressed to an AFL official. Presi-
dent William Green would neither
confirm nor deny this.
The councils statement yester-
day on the UNIV application pro-
posed "that the United Mine Work.
ers return with the Jurisdiction
they had when they left the AFT. -
q What Qualification Lewis Sought
was not clear, but it was suggest
ed that this may open the way to
and immediate discussion of iuris.
diction over chemical workers.
Lewis is understood to feel that
the UMW's old jurisdiction includ-
ed chemicals, at least to the ex-
tent that coal derivitives were in
volved, thus, a council definition
Of what it means by the UMW's
former jurisdiction may open the
field for negotiation and bargain
ing.
The ALL, in declining the Brit.
ish invitation, objected to the spon-
sorship, the participants, and the
time Of the conference.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-26
American League Player
Problem Not Yet So Acute

er Vince Casting-plus three men
with honorable discharges, one be-
ing fly-chaser Myril Hoag.
The Senators have 40 men
aboard, more than any other
American League club. The White
sox have 81, Louis Browns "a,
New York Yankees 80, the Phila-
delphia Athletics 81, the Cleveland
Indians, 80, the Boston Red Sox
%. and the Detroit Tigers Is, the
exact player-limit after May l5.
It is likely that each club will sign
me r two more men before spring
training.
The various playing positions on
every club appear well backed
with manpower-in quantity if not
quality. New York and Washing
ton have the most pitchers in line,
II. each, while Cleveland and st.
Louis have 10 apiece.
The World champion Yankees
can display fine balance in mum.
hers - II moundsmen, two catch.
ers. seven infielders and six out.
fielders - and undoubtedly will
again be pegged as the team te
beat. One of their rockies is Ed
Levy, who hit 1922 for Newark last
wear. Discharged from the Coast
Guard, he is being groomed fol-
the outfield to replace Charley Kel
Ter, VIII entered the Merchant Ma
4ipr
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-26
Powerful Pre-Flight
Quint Loses Member

CHAPEL HILL, Jan. 25-lR-
Cadet Stan Skaug, regular forward
and third high scorer on the U.
S. Navy Pre-Flight Schools bas-
ketball team. completed his pre-.
flight training, here today and. was
transferred to Glenview. Ill. for
primary flight training. the pub.
lie relations office announced.
Skaug's loss to the team comes
at a time when the team faces
hard tilts with Camp Davis here
Wednesday, and with the power
full Norfolk. Va, Air Station and
Naval Training Station there dur
ing the weekend.
Skaug, former Dartmouth ace,
was an excellent defense player
and had contributed 1O1 points to
his teams total this year.
1t. R. A. Dyke Raese, Cloud
buster coach, said he probably
would replace Skaug with either
Ben Celian, former Muhlenberg
star. OF Ken Laird of Lawrence
College. both of whom have play
ed the spot as Skaug's principal
reserves
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-26
Lumberton Child Killed
When Struck By Trailer

L1TMBERTON, Jan, 2j.-Franc,
Gerald Player, 9, was killed IN.
stantly Monday at 6 p. m. when
struck by a trailer truck owned
by Pate Supply company and al,
legedly driven by James Small
Negro. The accident occurredem
Second street at a railroad cross.
ing.
Coroner D. w. Briggs has caIet
an inquest for Thursday night
Funeral services will be he'll.
Wednesday at 3 p. m. at the Eas
Lumberton Baptist church, witt
the Rev. E. A. Paul officiating. In
terment will follow in New Holly
wood cemetery.
Survivors are his parents, Nj
and Mrs. L. j. Player; and fou
sisters, Catherine, Shirley, Viva
and Sandra Faye Player.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-26
League Standing For First Half
Duke Gets Final Workout
For Tilt With Norfolk

DURHAM, Jan. Is IN Coach
Gerry Gerard put his Duke Uni
versity Blue Devil cagers through
final drills this afternoon in pre-
paration for the game tomorrow
night with the Norfolk Navy Train
ing Station quintet, rated as the
No. 1 service team in the nation.
The game will be in the Duke in
door stadium and will be the sec
ond meeting between these two
teams
Featured on the Navy team are
such well-knowns as Matt Zunic.
George Washington; Earl Keith,
Warrensburg Teachers; Ralph Bis
hop, Wyoming University; and
John Floyd, Oklahoma A. and M.
This team has a record of 10 wins
and one defeat.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-26
RED TROOS ENTER
VITAL RAIL CENTER
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eight miles from the rail junction
OF Shimsk west of Lake linen.
Eight hundred Germans were
killed, two regiments smashed and
many of their men taken prisoner
in this fighting, the communicate
said.
Far to the south in the Ukraine
the Germans were counter-attack-
ing against Gen. Nikolai F. Vatu-
tins southern W ing which was
menacing the Ukrainian Bug River
and the Rumanian frontier. The
Germans threw large forces into
a narrow sector east of Vinnitsa
but failed to make gains, the Rus
slams said, after the Nazis lost
1,50O men, So tanks and guns and
81 planes.
In the north the Germans were
rushing reinforcements from Els.
tonia and Latvia to meet the on
rushing Soviets.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-26
FORMER NET STAR
HAS N0FAN-FARE
BY RUSS NEWLAND

SAN FRANCISCO. Jan 25.-tR-
Baldish anu on the plump side.
William M. Johnston goes about
his business here every day I'm
recognized except by his friends
as the man who was one-half OF
the famed Little Bill-Big Bill
tennis partnership some 20 years
ago. The other half was William
T. Tilden End.
Between them they brought the
Davis Cup back from Australia in
1920. They were mainstays in sue
cessfully defending it for the next
six-years. Johnston was on the
team that lost the cup to France
In 1927 He quit competitive ten
mis- that year.
Johnston, now 40 years old, took
up the sport in 1906. He was con-
temporary to, but younger than
Maurice Mclaughlin. the Califor-
MIA Comet who introduced the
smashing type of game now COM
mon on every court.
m order to cope with McLough-
Inns power, Johnston developed
volleying to a degree unknown I'M
til then. He had to. He weighed
l20 pounds and stood 5 feet 8
inches, looking like a pint bottle
st,'cl1 among gallon jugs.
He beat Mclaughlin for the Ma
t;onol Singles Title in 1915: lost ii
20 P. Norris Williams End the
next year and hung up his rae
ouet in 1918 while serving as
Navy Lieutenant in World War
Johnston came back from the
war to win the American champ
onship in 1919 and his victim If
he finals was William T. Tilder
Ind It was Little Bill" against
big Bill" then and the nick
names have stuck since.
There hasn't been a rivalry ir
ennis to equal that between Tilder
and Johnston.
Since 1927, Johnston has played
5nly a few friendly matches and
Tor the last decade or so has con.
fined his activity to that of specta-
:or.
He thinks Tilden was the great
est player in the history of tennis.
Johnston is engaged in a railroad
s~'1;pment enterprise.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-26
Mississippi Senator'S
Want Gridiron Sport

JACKSON, Miss, Jan. 25-R-
A committee Of Mississippi state
senators today asked trustees to
revive intercollegiate football at
the University Of Mississippi and
Mississippi State College
No immediate action was ex-
pected. however, since the present
board of ruStees-which voted sus.
pension of athletics after the foot
ball season of 1942-is to be sue
ceeded in May by a new board, ap.
pointed by Governor Thomas l..
Bailey.
Meanwhile Louisiana State Uni.
versity announced its 1914 grid.
iron schedule which included a
game with Mississippi State, sub.
ject to approval by states college
board.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-26
Loss Of Ray Mack Hard
Blow To Cleveland Club

HARVEY, ILL.,, Jan. 25- Up -
Lou Boudreau. manager Of the
Cleveland Indians, said today that
the decision of Ray Mack, sec
ond baseman. to remain in his
war industry job instead of play
ing baseball was a hard blow"
to the Tribe.
That sure makes it tough on
u.s." he commented. I'VE have
only one man left for second base.
Russ Peters.
We'll be hard hit all along the
line"
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-26
Willie Hoppe Captures
Another Billiard Block

NEW YORK. Jan. 25-iR-Willie
Hoppe won another block in his
cross-country three-cushion billiard
match with Welker Cochran to-
day by coming from behind in the
Both inning and going on from
there for a so to 40 triumph in
81 frames.
Cochran was ahead. "a to II, in
the 18th frame but Hoppe regain
ed his touch with a high run Of
seven in the 21st and finished
with IL in the last three innings
Cochran also had high of seven.
Hoppe has won two of the three
blocks here and leads in overall
point total. 1000 to 1883.