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man is executive officer. The COM
mandant of the Ninth Naval Dis
trict is Rear Admiral Arthur S.
Carpenter with headquarters at the
station.
Lieut.. M. Stein, graduate Of
Northeastern university in Massa-
chusetts, spent the entire three
days and two nights as chief
guide and informant.
Comfortable quarters were fur
nished the men Friday night in
barracks building 1911. Women
guests were taken to homes Of
friends in Waukegan, Ill.
Members of the Publishers As
ISOLATION who made the pilgrimage
here were: Thomas and P. B.
Young, Jr., Norfolk Journal and
Guide; Miss Lucille Bluford, Kansas
City Call; Eustace Gay, Philadel-
phia Tribune; Roscoe Dungee, Okla
homa Black Dispatch; J. E. Nit
chell, w. E. Mitchell, J. E. Cook
and Bige Wyatt, st. Louis Argus;
Mr.. and Mrs. Cecil Newman, Min
neapolis Spokesman and st. Paul
Recorder; A. Clayton Powell, Peo-
pies Voice, New York City; Miss
Olive Diggs and Mrs. Marion Bax-
ter, Chicago Bee; William Walker
and Augustus B. Parker, Cleveland
Call-Post; Bishop A. ]. Hamlet,
Plaindealer, Kansas City, Kas.; C.
w. Cuba, Houston Informer; How
ard H. Murphy and William Glib
son, Afro-American newspapers,
Baltimore; C. C. Galloway, Omaha
Guide; Mr.. and Mrs. N. A. Sweets,
Mr.. and Mrs. G. B. Stafford and j.
Arthur Turner, St. Louis American;
John H. Sengstacke, Charles P.
Browning, Clarence A. Taylor, Chi
cago, Defender; Frank L. Stanley,
Louisville Defender, and William G..
Num-, Pittsburgh Courier.
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Urban League
Youth Program
March II to 10

The 18th Vocational Opportunity
Campaign, sponsored by the Ma
tional Urban League, March IL to
10, will open in st. Paul, March IL
with a radio broadcast over WMIN
from 8:15 to $3.50 p. M, when C. w.
Wigington, chairman of the voca-
tional committee of the St. Paul
Urban League, will speak briefly.
The Choral Waves will sing under
the direction of Cora E. Moore.
A program has been arranged for
young people in connection with
this years theme, "The Future Is
Yours-Plan and Prepare" The
public is urged to watch radio pages
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Protest Army's
Backsiding on
Races of Mankind

Protests against the barring of
the Army distribution of the pam
phlet on the Races of Mankind"
by the threat of the chairman of the
House Military Affairs committee,
Representative Andrew J. May
d., Ky.) to expose the motive
behind this book" were made in the
monthly meeting of the Executive
Board of the st. Paul Branch of
the NAACP Tuesday night in the
Halle Q. Brown House.
One member declared that Mr..
Mays had distorted what the pam
phlet seeks to point out when he
says that the book described North
ern Negroes as the Intellectual
equals of Southern white men.
There is a comparison of tests made
during the first World War of Ne
gro soldiers from the North and
white soldiers from the South, ac-
cording to the Executive Board
member.
When it was suggested that a
letter of protest be sent to the Sec
rotary of War, Mr.. Stimson, it was
unanimously agreed that it would
be useless to waste the time to
write letter. Recently Mr.. Slim
son in answer to the query why
aren't more Negroes used in COM
bat service, said that NEGRO units
are unable to master techniques of
modern warfare" 1t was finally
decided to write the acting secre-
tary of the NAACP, Roy wilkins,
and urge the national office to urge
the distribution of the pamphlet
to the armed forces.
The Kentucky congressman said
that sponsors of the book claim il
was prepared to promote tolerance
by teaching the fundamental unity
of races and contending that eco.
nomic differences are largely re.
sponsible for racial differences.
1t was published by the Public
Affairs, Inc, of New York City
and was written by Prof. Ruth F
Benedict and DR.. Gene Weltfsh Of
the department of anthropology
Columbia University. Mays irt
was famed by claim he said the
book made that a survey SHOWED
the average Negro in New York
Massachusetts, and Connection
ranked on an intellectual level will
the average white man in Ken
lucky, Arkansas and Mississippi.
After the USO had banned tn,
book May asserted, the CLIO Wa
Relief Committee promoted its dis,
tribution and the Army obtained
$4,000 copies. Army spokesman, he
said, told the Military Affairs Com
mittee, that distribution had beer
held up because some of the ma
terial was subject to misinterpre
tation.
One hundred copies of the pam
phlets were ordered by the Execu
tive Committee of the St. Pau
Branch of the NAACP for distribu
ton at the next regular meeting OF
March 81.
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Negro Radio
. Technicians In
Labor BattaliOns

NEW YORK, N. Y. (NAACP)-
In line with Secretary Stimson's
admission that the Army has a pol
icy of converting Negro combat
troops and technicians into service
troops, is the revelation that a
group of Negro radio operators and
technicians was recently changed
over into a labor battalion.
The information came to the
NAACP in a letter from a Negro
sergeant.
The irony of the situation was
heightened by the fact that German
war prisoners stationed near these
Negro troops are said by the SER
geant to be receiving better treat
ment than United States Negro
soldiers.
The letter declares:
when the division was shipped
to -, we were left in Fort
-; later we learned that we
were coming to this camp to form
a battalion. Since our troop was
composed mostly of radio operators
and radio technicians, we were
reasonably certain that it would be
an operations battalion because
construction battalion hasn't any
place for communications men.
Upon our arrival we find that we
were going to be formed into a
construction battalion after being
merged with the -- F.A. All
the training that the men in this
battalion must learn is something
about climbing poles and digging
holes. In other words, we are in
a labor battalion with a glorified
title. We aren't kicking because
we have to climb poles and do some
hard work, but we figure if we are
qualified for a certain type of job
we should get it if possible and I
know the Army needs radiomen.
"a lot of US have asked for trans
fers, but all we run into is red tape
and that is when an enlisted man
loses his case.
"There is a trend in the Army,
at the present, to transfer all the
Negro soldiers from the Army
Ground Forces and put them into
the Army Service Forces no mat
ter if they are qualified for other
types of work.
an this camp we are also forced
to live in an area that should be
condemned. All our sanitary facili-
ties are outside and across the
street and in a poorly heated build
ing. The barracks we live in are
heated by two stoves, one at each
end of the barrack.
"The reason the boys are so hot
under the collar is due to the fact
that there are German prisoners
(here) who live better and are get
ting better treatment than we are
getting at the present.
eve would appreciate it if you
are able to look into the matter"
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Comp Ellis
Soldier Shot
Accidentally

Sergeant Oscar Newman of Min
neapolis is in Station Hospital,
Camp Ellis, ILL.,, apparently recover
ing from gunshot wounds in one
foot.
Sergeant Newman was wounded
in the accidental discharge of an
automatic revolver as he came off
M. P. duty. The fire from the gun
broke three bones. The first re-
port of Camp Ellis soldiers injury
came in letters he sent to parents
and friends.
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Oglu Anderson
Recitul

Club 1858" of Halle @. Brown
will present Ogla Anderson in a
piano recital on Sunday Evening
at 8:15 p. M, in the music room
of the House.
Miss Anderson is a student of
Hamline University and takes an
active part in the affairs of Cam
phor NJ. E. Church, st. Paul The
public is invited.
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Eve reaffirm our belief in and
our allegiance to established white
supremacy as now prevailing in the
South and we solemnly pledge our
lives and our sacred honor to main
tanning it. Insofar as racial rela-
tons are concerned, we firmly and
unequiyocally demand that hence
forth the damned agitators of the
North leave the South alone"
The Incorporate and irresponsi-
BILE language of the resolution may
have been occasioned by the I'M
easy consciences of those who
framed and adopted it. 1t may have
been caused by the more prosaic
fact that only two weeks ago the
National Assn. for the Advance
ment of Colored People won a case
in the Federal Court at Charleston,
S. c., equalizing the wages of
white and Negro school teachers in
that state.
The most ironic and indecent
fact about the resolution is its bald
plagiarization of the phrase, 1--WE
solemnly pledge our lives and our
sacred honor" from that basic
American document, the Declara-
ton of independence, which I'M
equivocably declared as a self-evi-
dent truth that "all men are created
equal"
What sacred honor" impels men
to persist in degrading members of
their own race-the human race {?
What sacred honor" impels them
to violate the two American char
tiers of liberty-the Declaration of
independence and the Constitu-
ton? What is sacred" about the
denial to a substantial part of our
citizenry of equal rights and eqaul
acknowledgements to all by
the American creed?
What is this white supremacy"
of which the South Carolina Legis-
lators pirate? How was it "estab-
lished" in the South? 1t is founded
on no scientific Psychological,
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Louruine Chivers
Recital Murch 20

The vocal recital of LORRAINE Ell
lis Chivers, given for the benefit
of Allen Chapel A. NJ. E. Church,
will take place at Benton Hall,
Minneapolis Y. W. C. A., Monday,
March 20 at 8 p. m.
Avis Ware Carter, dramatic stu
dent, will assist the vocalist.
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Report to Fort
Smelling

The following St. Paul boys will
report for physical examination Fri
day, March II, at Fl. Smelling.
Elmer Graham, GA W. Central;
Leonard Davis, Willis Clark, Will
liam Massey, Robert Ray, 261 N. st.
Adams; Archie Perfect, ST W.
Central; James Toliver and Wood
ford Mills, GA st. Albany.
Percy Greene, 962 Iglehart Ave-,
will be indicted, Wednesday, March
Is.
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Navy Entertains Leading
Negro Publishers; Great
Lakes Visit Interesting
By FRANK A. YOUNG

GREAT LAKES NAVAL TRAINING STATION, ILL.,
Officers and representatives of the Negro Newspaper Pub
fishers Association the threeay guests of Great Lakes
Naval Training Station and Commander D. w. Armstrong,
of the founder of Hampton Institute here Thursday
Friday and Saturday. March through March A.
The trip here feature of National Negro News
paper Week which started Sunday, Feb u, with broad
cast which included several former Negro correspondents
in New York and short broadcast by
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Musical Tea
Sunday at 4 p. M.

The Women's Choral group of
Phyllis Wheatley House cordially
invites the public to attend Musi-
cal Tea, Sunday, March II, in the
assembly.
The male quartette, Mrs. Emma
Simms and Miss Dorothy Pittman
will sing Negro folk songs, and
Miss Karin Alfstrand, Who'll
Broadcasting Station, will sing a
group of Swedish folk songs.
The musical program will begin
promptly at 4 p. m.
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Wheatley Girls
Worker Needed

The personnel committee of the
Board of Directors. of Phyllis
Wheatley Settlement House has an
nounced that applications for the
position of director Of girls work
at Phyllis Wheatley will be ac-
cepted until April Is.
All applications should include
letters of reference and be ad-
dressed to Mrs. Alex Helmick,
Phyllis Wheatley House, 300 AL
drich Ave. N, Minneapolis.
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stitutional requirement for separate
schools for Negroes in the state.
Both these victories were won by
vote margins. In Kentucky, Ander-
sons bill passed by 41-4O. In Mis-
souri,, the committee voted go for
the recommendation.
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Cotton Ed" Applauds
Bigotry of S. c. Legislature;
Fla. Demo. Attacks Mrs. FDR

Washington, D. c. (NNPA)-
The white supremacy" resolution
of the South Carolina House of Rep
resentatives received the tele-
graphed congratulations of Senator
Cotton Ed" Smith of that state
last week.
The Senator, in his wire, said 81
congratulate you on introducing,
and the house on passing, the reso-
luton pledging the peoples de-
termination to maintain white su-
premacy without interference from
those whose policies would destroy
it." The wire was signed: ''E. c.
Smith, United States Senator"
The resolution the Senator was
commencing was one which said,
among other things, eve reaffirm
our belief and our allegiance to
established white supremacy as
now prevailing in the South, and we
solemnly pledge our lives and our
sacred honor to maintain it. In
so far as racial relations in the
South are concerned, we firmly and
unequivocally demand that the
damned agitators in the North
leave the South alone" 1t stated
rather that the legislature was
vehemently against any type of
racial Indignation.
Senator Smith, in a statement to
the press, said: at sounds as if
l might have drafted it. They are
talking my talk. l thank God there
are others with courage to speak
out. We are damned tired of these
butterfly preachers who do not
know conditions in the South"
Commenting on the legislatures
action and Senator Smiths con-
gratulatory message, one common
tator remarked that this was the
second shot that would be heard
around the world, particularly by
Berlin and Tokyo. The first shot,
he recalled to be heard around the
world was fired at Fort Sumter,
also in South Carolina, at the be-
ginning of the Civil War.
This attitude of the Senator and
of the state of South Carolina was
also voiced during the week in
Florida, where a political campaign
against Senator Claude Pepper (D)
is being waged in the primaries.
There, one of the candidates, Mil
lard Conklin, has raised the white
supremacy" issue for the first time
in a political campaign in 16 years.
He said: "The present and future
welfare of the South demands that
the white race remain the domin-
ant race. AS a Democrat, l feel
very strongly that certain social
and socialistic activities sponsored
by the New Deal and more partic-
ularly by Mrs. Eleanor Roose-
welt are intolerable, detrimental
and an insult to the people of the
great South"
Kentucky and Missouri, however,
have just recently taken actions
which are in direct opposition to
these views. Kentucky's House of
Representatives has just passed a
bill introduced by its only Negro
representative, Charles W. Ander-
son, which would admit Negroes to
all state and municipal colleges in
the state. In Missouri, the educa-
ton committee of the Missouri Con-
stitution convention voted to recon-
mend the elimination of any con-
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scented dining car workers in the
employ of the Northwestern rail-
road.
The Joint Council combined the
complaints of these workers with
those of dining car workers who
had made application for stewards
jobs on many other railroads to the
FEPC, and after many months a
hearing was held on discrimination
in the railroad industry, in Wash
ington, D. c.
MP. Hos Negro Inspectors
The Northern Pacific r. r. sew
eral months ago upgraded Eugene
Shepherd of Minneapolis and Maceo
Finney to the status of dining car
inspectors, the first in America. To
date this newspaper has not been
able to secure a statement from
Local SIG, Dining Car Employees
Union, about the promotions.
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CELEBRATES SOth BIRTHDAY

A Minneapolis woman celebrated
her S0th birthday March 4. She is
Mrs. Belle Pate Willis, 906 18th
Ave. n.
Mrs. Willis is longtime church
worker, having organized the Bea-
con Light Seventh Day Adventist
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The Mems club and Women's
Guild of st. Thomas Episcopal
church, are making plans for their
10th annual Easter parade and
Style show, Monday, April 10.
Watch for further announcements.
-Advt.
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Six Minneapolis
Men Face Mann
Act CHARGES

Six well-known Minneapolis men
must face trial on March ID, on
Mann act charges.
The men, all under $4,000 bail,
are Thomas A. Lewis, Clyde D.
Williams, Clifford Hall, Charles
Howell and Edward B. Hayes.
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Northwestern Railroad
Promotes Five Walters to
Dining Car Stewards

Chicago-The Chicago and Northwestern Railroad set
precedent this week. when for the first time in history of the
rail industry promoted five Negro walters to the position
of dining steward post held heretofore exclusively by
whites
The promoted whose names were taken from the
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MP. Hos Negro Inspectors
Who's Agitating on Race
The South or the North?
Albert Deutsch in PM Daily Newspaper

Albert DeutSch IN PM Daily Newspaper
The white supremacy resolution adopted last week by
the South Carolina House of Representatives raises
Der of questions regarding the relationship of the South
the Nation The resolution declared
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church in Minneapolis.
Mrs. Willis is the mother of ]. W.
Pate
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-18
ATTENDANCE PINS
GIVEN Is LIONS

Recognition of 100 per cent at
tendance for the past year was
given 10 members of the Lions
club at the weekly luncheon yes
terday when pins were presented
to each of the 10 for their records.
Those honored were Dudley
Humphrey, Paul T. Marshburn,
Wick Twining, L. D. Latta, Ed
Maffitt, Joe Hood, L. T. Landen,
Tom Baird, Foster Edwards
Donald Sewell and George Riggs.
Six visitors were present at the
luncheon. including three from the
Clinton Lions club, Paul Boone, A.
E. Kennedy and ]. S. Royal. The
latter issued an invitation for mem
bers of the local club to visit the
Clinton club any Friday night
Other visitors were R. G. HENCE
weld of Winchester, Va, who has
perfect attendance record with
his club Of nine years, S. S. Wood
wall of Fayetteville and J. w.
Brown of Elizabeth City,.
A letter from Lion Bobo McKen-
zie, now with the armed forces
'on the nearest American Base to
Tokyo" was read by Marshburn.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-18
Bv KENNETH DIXON

WITH THE AEF IN ITALY,
Aug. 3.-Delayed)-R-It was
all mistake. Besides he was
getting gypped, and what's
more, no redblooded American
soldier would take that sort OF
treatment from a little slip of
signorina anyhow.
But Pfc. Arnold (Heavy) Lind
holm still had to tell it to the
CT judge.
Heavy, 45th division dough-
boy who halls from Fairport
Harbor, Ohio. was visiting an
Italian town when he saw
shooting gallery operated by
the signorina in question. Civ
ing the eye to his combat in
fantrymen's badge the wi ly
girl asked Heavy to try his
luck with the BIB gun.
Expert with carblne, Heavy
was somewhat hurt when he
failed to hit a single moving
target with a full clip Of BIB
shot. He asked for another
gun, while watching, other CTS
giggle for a grim and glover
ing half hour. He squeezed the
trigger methodically without
hitting anything at all worth a
prize. .
Convinced that the gun and
the jane were crooked, he
handed the girl. two Ira note
the equivalent of two cents
and told her to buy herself a
morning paper and be doggon-
ed glad she got that much.
Then he walked away mutter-
ing to himself.
Suddenly his muttering shift
ed to hpwls of pain.
The little lady's Latin tenn
per had gone sky high at the
very thought of getting only
two Ira for all those BIB shot.
She had grabbed up BIB gun,
rested it on the counter for ac-
curacy and let Heavy have it
right in the seat of the pants.
Now the Buckeye boy would
MT strike a lady but there's
nothing in the etiquette book
which prohibits an occasional
padding when and where it
will do the most good. Exhibit
ing cool courage in the face of
intense fire, Pfc. Lindholm
stormed the shooting gallery,
seized the signorina, turned her
across his knee nd started
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-18

members during the year ending
the first of October.
On that day exhibits of clothing,
farm products, canned produc.
tons and handicrafts, made or
grown by All members, will be
on display at the home agent S
office. Entry of the exhibits may
be presented now, Miss Masqp
added.
To complete the years work a
All girl must meet the require
ments of at least two projeols,
carry out plan of health inn
provement, keep records of work
accomplished and write a story
on my All Club Achievements
and Experiences"
The projects may be selected
from the following subjects: home
management, gardening, poultry
food preparation, food preserva-
ton, child care, clothing and
room improvement. Rural elec-
trification, safety, home beautifi-
cation, livestock or crop projects
may be substituted for one of
the other units.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-18
BOND OFFERED
4-H MEMBERS

The Wilmington Clearing Hous:
association, composed OF bank
In the city, has offered a wal
bond to the All boy or girl most
outstanding in New Hanover coun'
tvs "Feed a Fighter program FOL
1914, is was announced yesterday.
The program is being sponsor
ed throughout the state by the
North Carolina, Bankers assocla'
ton, through its agricultural COM
mittee and 100 bankers in key
counties.
The prize in this county is be-
ing donated by the Wilmington
banks, who each will give part OF
the bond.
The All member winning the
war bond will receive his prize
on judgment of county farm and
home demonstration agents in the
outstanding wartime project in
food production.
Home Agent Miss Ann Mason is
making a check of the 4-H girls
this week and will continue
throughout next week to inspect
projects over the county. R. w.
Galphin, farm agent, will check
projects and record books of boys
in All clubs during the latter part
of August and in September.
The award of the war bond will
be made at the All achievement
day program September 30, at
which time awards will be given
for all accomplishments Of All
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-18

spanking.
Wiles and violence having
failed, the signorina-now sore
in both mind and body-resort-
ed to women's Oldest weapon
and began weeping, and t h e
MPs stopped the spanking and
hauled Heavy off to the clink.
The best paraphrase of the
week comes from Corp. Char
ley Brinn of Plymouth, N. c.,
who did his stuff on. Nathan
Hale's historic statement dur
ing the heat of an attack which
was being somewhat more
than strongly resisted by the
Germans.
my only regret" quoth Car
ley as the bullets flew, ..'is that
I have but one life to give for
my country-which if I h d
two I'd feel safer
And the saddest story con-
tinues a critical note to those
who are collecting trends this
season. 1t. Selden Law of Sa-
co, Me-, was tagged for h e
task of attending to the voting
problem of Company E. So he
listened to countless lectures
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-18
FUNDS SOLICITED

NEW YORK, Aug. 17-tR1 Hy-
man S. Blumberg, vice president
of the Amalgamated Clothing Work
ers of America (CIO), said today
he wouldn't be surprised" if the
union held meetings throughout the
country similar to recent ones here
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-18
With The AEF
Signorina Gets A Spanking

on the subject. Memorized
scores of regulations and dis
tributed pamphlets everywhere.
Then, he sat down, wiped his
sweating brow and waited for
the crowds of voters.
Thus far, exactly two men
in Company E have shown any
signs that they intend to cast
a vote. 1t. Law is not happy.