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become community institutions with
national significance serve a dual
purpose. They bring Negro and
white artists before many persons
who otherwise could not afford to
hear them, and they prvoide slim
illus for interracial goodwill and
unity.
This years presentation OF the fes-
t!val will be held in Chicago on
the evening Of July 8 at the White
Sox Ball park, 35th and Shields
avenue; st. Louis on the evening of
July 10 at the Sportsmans Ball
park, Grand Blvd. and Doder street;
ard Detroit on the evening of July
IL at Briggs Stadium, Trumbull and
NJ chigan avenues
Tickets may be secured at: Festi-
val Headquarters, 3l9 E. Kirby:
Grinnell Brothers. 1915 Woodward
avenue: Paradise Bowl, $50 Adams;
The Michigan Chronicle, 268 Eliot
street; Lucas Fine Clothes, Gotham
Hotel lobby, and Fleming Beauty
School. 1920 w. Warren.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-06-24

Ohio State News in Columbus, IS
now business manager Of the Gin
cinnati Call-Post.
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PROF. w. c.. COOKE. President
The Third anniversary of the
Goodwill Musical Tourist will
be held at the Art Institute.
Sunday. June Is. at $3.50 pm.
The program will consist of
Musical presentation by rs
choirs. also representatives of
United States Treasury Depart
menf. Our guest speaker will
be DR.. S. r. Wheat. Asst. Pres
ident General of U.N.I.A. The
program will close with a con-
test conducted by Mrs. w. c.
Cooke. in which a war bond will
be given to the winner.-Com-
mittee: Madam King. Music Di-
redress; Mrs. Louvonia Cooke.
Secretary; DR.. Orr DR.. J. A.
Graham.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-06-24
Labor Bias Hit By
Urban League Sec.

Reginald A. Johnson, field secre-
tary OF the National Urban League,
stated that the labor organizations
which practice racial discrimination
should be penalized and denied gov
ernmtnt protection in his testimony
before the House Labor Committee
Thursday
Johnson pointed out that some
unions denied full membership TO
Negroes because OF race. He also
stated that the United States EN-
ployment Service had practiced
discriminatory hiring" before the
establishment OF the War Manpower
Commission.
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Law School. The resolution would
also ask appropriation Of $500.
AS the trial of the defendants
opened Monday. Digs attorneys,
Harold f. Bledsoe and Joseph
Brown. challenged the array Of the
jury and moved that the present
panels OF petit jurors called by the
court be discharged and a new-panel
called.
In the petition for the dismissal
Of the jury. the attorneys pointed
out that there are upward Of 1000
Negro residents OF Ingam county,
but that none had been called for
jley service.
The motion was based on the rec
ords Of the court and an affidavit
filed by ]. Mckinley Lee Sr.. of
Lansing who charges that in the 2J
years he has lived in Lansing he
has never been called for jury
service.
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had intimate relations with her on
several previous occasions and on
each occasion had paid her a pound
CS4 00). On the night in question he
knocked on her cottage door and
she came out and walked down the
road with him. She made her first
accusation against him when her
husband awakened and found her
near where she said she had been
forced over a wall.
The case had created sensation
in England and the decision had
been criticized by Liberal and Left
ist weeklies which pointed out that
there was reasonable doubt" as
to the actual crime of rape.
Gen. Eisenhower stated that he
was sure review Of the evidence
would result in amelioration of the
sentence.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-06-24
Lena Divorced By
Mate In Columbus

COLUMBUS. OhIo.-Lena Horne.
popular screen star, was divorced at
Columbus, Ohio. last week By Louis
J. Jones. who charged wIlful abb
sence. Custody Of the two children
was divided; the boy, Edwin, 4, will
live with his father, and the girl,
Gale. 5. with her mother Jones. who
formerly was on the staff OF the
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-06-24
PRISONER ESCAPES

Israel White, %, 1888 st. Antoine
street, escaped from the Detroit
House OF Correction. Tuesday, ac-
cording TO police. White was serv-
ing 60 DAYS for illegal operation.
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locked. The agents placed at the door
informed the foreign minister and the
ambassador that the luncheon had been
banned on orders from the new police
commissioner.
Aranha Immediately called on Presi-
dent Vargas and said he would resign
unless the police commissioner was
ousted. Whereupon Vargas replied that
If Arnha offered his resignation it would
be accepted.
The incident which was duly reported
throughout South America and in this
country, caused temporary stir and
was believed to have been forgotten
until Mr.. Caffery last week was ordered
to Washington to report and almost
Immediately was appointed to the post
in Paris.
This unexpected move revived many
speculations and discussions in diplo-
matte circles regarding our position in
Latin America.
The most current Interpretation Is
that President Vargas, as gesture of
dissatisfaction toward the attitude of
this country on South American affairs,
has taken the unusual step of accept
ing the resignation of his strongly pro-
than dismiss his police commissioner.
n X
Vargas has been and still is a staunch
friend Of the United States and has been
most useful in helping us to form an
anti-Axis bloc in the Southern Henri
sphere. But like so many other Latin
American Presidents he is concerned
over the communist activities directed
from Mexico City by the Mexican labor
leader, Lombardo Toledano, which are
sometimes wrapped in the United States
flag. He also is disturbed by the move
ments of the hundreds of agents en-
ployed by Constantin Oumansky, Rus
sian ambassador to Mexico, who have
been extremely active throughout Cen
trail and South America in the last
eight months.
Moreover although the relations be-
tween Argentina and Brazil have not
been very friendly in the past, Vargas
is believed to have disagreed with the
strong policy adopted by Secretary of
State Hull toward the Buenos Aires gov
eminent after it broke of diplomatic
relations with the Axis governments and
expelled all the German, japanese and
Italian diplomats.
President Vargas has the reputation
OF being one of the shrewdest and ablest
political men south of the Rio Grande.
He knows the temper of his people and
their reaction to various phases of in
ternational and domestic affairs. The
"undiplomatic" attitude of his new chief
OF police toward the American ambas-
sador and Brazil's veteran diplomat may
have been warning shot across the
bow at Mr.. Hulls policies. The transfer
OF Mr.. Gallery from Rio to Paris is con-
sidered by many diplomats as an answer
to Vargas shot
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Patch of HeII'

Today or tomorrow should deter
mine the fate-if it has not already
been decided-of the valiant British
and Polish air-borne troops who
have been fighting for five sleepleSs
days and nights to hold open the
Anthem gateway to the Ruhr.
These men, approximately a divi-
sion of them, must be very close to
the limit of human endurance. If
they are still fighting, this is the
beginning of the sixth day of battle
that has ragged ceaselessly in day.
light and darkness, battle that has
seen this little band of sky troopers
cling grimly to the flaming houses
and the shattered ruins from which
they have beaten back the desperate,
hammering attacks of superior Ger
man forces bent upon liquidating
the Anthem bridgehead at all costs.
The German radio has claimed that
the air-borne troops have been an
initiated, but this is not confirmed
from Allied sources. Instead, the
latter indicate that the fight is still
raging, but, if this is so, it must be
nearing an end. The finest of troops
cannot fight on indefinitely without
sleep or rest.
There is but one hope for these
embattled Britons and Poles. The
British Second Army, fighting it's way
northward from Nijmegen, is coming
to their relief, and at last report had
reached the south bank of the LEX
River, the last great water barrier to
the German northern plain But
the progress of the Second Army has
been painfully slow in the face of
fanatical German opposition. It
should be able by this time to furnish
the surrounded sky troopers with
effective artillery support, but the
Second Army must cross the river
and establish an actual junction if
the air-borne division is to be saved.
Everything depends on whether
this can be done quickly enough. 1t
is time when a few hours, even one
hour, may be of critical Importance.
For If the Germans can liquidate
the Anthem bridgehead before the
Second Army crosses the LEX, the
most feasible gateway into the Reich
will have been closed and war
which might have ended quickly
could drag on through weeks and
months of costly fighting. This is
why the Britons and Poles in what
one Anthem correspondent has aptly
called patch of hell" have been
so willing to fight to the end.
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The Political Mill
By Gould Lincoln

Gov. Dewey of New York has raised
the issue of personal government" as
conducted by President Roosevelt
government of men rather than a gov
eminent of law. He has shown in his
Seattle address, how the President has
dealt with labor in a personal way, dis
tributing favors here and there. He has
shown in his Portland address, when he
sought to lay the myth of the .'indis-
penSable man. that in the field of for
eign affairs Mr. Roosevelt and his sup
porters are looking even more toward
personal government.
The administration cannot laugh of
certain statements made by Mr.. Dewey
In his speech dealing with the admins
tration's personal policies in regard to
labor. Particularly the long delays In the
settlement OF labor disputes, leading in
the end to strikes which interfered with
the war production program, and the
plethora of agencies set up in the ad-
ministration which has kept the workers,
as well as employers, running around in
circles.
Mr.. Dewey's criticism of the admins
trations labor policies hit the New Deal
ers in vulnerable spot. Further, Mr..
Dewey's forceful statement of his own
labor Notwithstanding approval of
collective bargaining and the National
Labor Relations Act-will have its ap-
peal to the workers.
Mr.. Dewey criticized the Smith Con-
nally antistrike act. Some of the Dem
ocrats were quick to call attention to
the fact that Mr.. Roosevelt vetoed this
act, and it was passed over the veto.
But as Mr.. Dewey pointed out the fail
ure of the administration to deal ade-
quately with labor disputes and strikes
in war plants was the motivating cause
for the passage Of the antistrike law by
Congress. Honest men," he said, were
willing to believe that nothing could
make the situation worse. So the statute
was passed.
Mr.. Deweys campaign speeches differ
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Letters to The Star
Urges Discipline for Strikers a.
Well as for Soldiers

Urges Discipline for Strikers as
Well as for Soldiers
To the Editor OF The Star:
There's coal shortage. Month by
month 1t has been growing. Now IS
supervisory mine employees have struck
beg pardon-resigned, simultaneously,
individually and collectively-and If
that's not strike, what Is it? This
strike threw the miners of two mines
out of work-hundreds, perhaps thou
sands of miners. Many strikes of COM
paratively few throw great and dispro-
portionate numbers out of work.
. We all know what work and working
conditions the soldiers are doing and
enduring and their wages At the same
time there are strikes like the one above
and another of bus employees compelled
to wear neckties on duty
There is no more reason why essential
war workers should be allowed to quit
working than soldiers. Strikers are ac-
complishing the same result to achieve
which the German saboteurs were
landed on Long Island and Florida
They, especially the leaders, could be
shot, but human being is too valuable
machine. They could be drafted, but
they lack the patriotism, intelligence
and moral standards of good soldiers.
The best thing to do with them is to
put them in bull PEN without a mess
without ration cards or food packages
from outside until they return to work
And keep the leaders in till the last
striker is working.
WILLIAM BROSS LLOYD.
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Socialist Labor Panacea

To the Editor of The Star:
Today the radio airways of the land
are filled by political candidates with
promises of postwar security which
cannot and will not be kept 1t, there
fore, was relief to hear one candi-
date who promised nothing. This was
the candidate for the vice presidency
OF the United States on the Socialist
Labor party ticket, who told us that
postwar security could not be given to us
by any one; that postwar security was
possible only If the workers of Amer
lea took matters into their own hands.
Mr.. Albaugh pointed out that when
the war ends our employers (the own
erS of the industries will not be able
to find markets to absorb even half of
our present production unless we be-
gin immediate preparations for a gil
gantic World War III.
But in a society where the indus
tries OF the land are privately owned
and goods are produced for sale, mar
kets must be found or the industrialists
will have to close their factories and
millions of workers will be unemployed.
No peacetime market effectively can
supplant the tremendous destructive
market of war. On the other hand If
the industries were owned socially
goods would be produced for use and
not for sale. All the workers OF the
land could be engaged usefully pro-
ducing all that we need. There would
be no problem of markets as the work.
ers themselves would enjoy the product
of their labor. This is the real solution
to our postwar problem
JOHN WHITE.
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widely from those which Mr.. Roose-
velt's other past Republican opponents
have delivered. AS the New York Gov
ernor has proceeded, the tempo CT the
attack has intensified. He has still six
weeks IN which to make his appeal for
electlon-and the belief prevails that as
he proceeds the blows will be delivered
with increasing force. Probably his cam
palgn has been planned that way. In
any event, 1t is already evident that Mr..
Roosevelts own campaign plans are
likely to be considerably altered-that
his first plan to campaign not in the
usual partisan political fashion will be-
abandoned
Mr.. Dewey's methods of campaigning
and his speeches have appealed strongly
to Republican members of Congress
The consensus is that the COP made
no mistake In selecting New York's Gov
ernor to carry the party standard this
year. His reception on the Pacific Coast,
regarded as a happy hunting ground
for the New Deal President, according
to all reports has been good Particu-
larry pleasing to the Republicans and
antl-fourth termers of whatever political
faith was his speech in Portland attack
ing the indispensability of Mr.. Roose-
velt-or any other man-either for war
or peace.
The frequently made argument that
Mr.. Roosevelt, because of his personal
acquaintance with Churchill. Stain and
other foreign leaders, must be retained
IN office to make the peace takes on
new aspect in the light of Mr. Dewey's
assertion that the peace is not to be
considered merely an arrangement be-
tween acquaintance; that it is to be
peoples peace. Mr.. Dewey's comment
that the President was reelected in 1910
on the theory that because of his knowl-
edge of foreign affairs he stood the bet
ter chance of keeping this country out
OF war also has its bearing on the argu-
ment that now he is needed to make and
preserve peace in the future.
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Louis N. Parker

Dead in London in the midst of
war, Louis N. Parker may not be
remembered very long but his plays
will endure. People who never
paused to glance at his name in
theater program or on a billboard
are in his debt. Even the briefest
outline story of his life shows why.
He was born in Calvados, France,
October 81. 1852, and was so frail
at birth that his father, a native of
Massachusetts, travelling in Europe
with his wife, the child's mother,
had him christened in a hurry lest
he expire before the ceremony could
be finished. His bovhood was spent
journeying from one continental
capital to another, and he learned
French, German and Italian ION the
fly" Settling at last in England, he
studied at the Royal Academy of
Music and eventually was appointed
director of music at Sherborne
School, That was in 1873. He held
the post nearly twenty years, writing
long list of compositions, staging
cantataS, preparing for the larger
land differently work he later was
to do.
Mr.. Parker's first dramatic enter
prise was entitled "A Buried Talent;
1t was produced in 1890 and served
to introduce Mrs. Pat Campbell to
the metropolitan stage. The rest of
the tale may be told in the roster
OF his achievements. For Maude
Adams and John Drew he wrote
Rosemary" in 1896. Then came
"Pomander Walk" THE vagabond
King" Drake" Joseph and His
Brethren'-all great successes in
their day. Equally we'll received were
skillful rtanslations of Rostand's
"Cyrano." .'L'Aiglon" and "Chante-
cler," frequently revived for packed
houses.
1t was to Mr.. Parker that George
Arliss owed "Disraeli," perhaps the
most notably popular of modern
historic plays on both sides of the
Atlantic. The demand for his scripts
continued for half century. Mean
while, he composed the music as we'll
as the books" for pageants which
brought multitudes to the provincial
towns of Britain-Dover, York, Col
chester, Kenilworth, Warwick and
Bury Saint Edmunds among the
number. Only increasing deafness
interferred with his endeavors. He
wanted to labor to the end, and he
had his wish despite robot bombs
which wrecked his playhouses but
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Decisive Battle in Italv
By Mai. George Fielding Eliot


least that only a few of the best
motorized and armored units can with
draw The rest of the German 10th
and 14th Armies may lack motor trans
port and therefore have lost their mo-
blllty. That, too, has been the case
with German troops before this.
However the German choice may 60.
1t does look as though the long and
bloody campaign in Italy is drawing to
close. The German military position
in the Apennines is now virtually un-
tenable save in the matter of last-ditch
pocket" resistance. They can lose
their army there if they so choose or
they can withdraw such elements of it
as they can move to the defiles of the
Alps-if they start now. In either case,
the great plains of Northern Italy seem
certain to pass quickly into Allied hands.
This may mean the opening of a new
front in the mountains along the old
1talo-Austrian frontier, but the winter
Is coming and fighting in that area
(barring complete German collapse)
does not seem likely to be very extern
sive before spring-if the Germans are
still In the war when spring comes The
~eeNAAe@AA PA0Alo WILL give Us dlT bases
closer to some parts of South Germany
than we have had before, and that will
be help. But the major portions of
the veteran, hard-bitten 5th and 9th
Armies will be available for assignment
neutrality-suspicious. in France. perhaps
in Yugoslavia.
A gateway has been opened into Yugo-
slavia by Marshal Tito's capture of sew
eral of the Adriatic islands, but beyond
them lie, again, formidable mountains
and passes soon to be choked with snow.
The Istrian Peninsula, and the ports of
Trieste and Fiume. seem to offer an
approach to the Danube Valley which
might still be practicable this year, but
we must remember that it takes a long
time to mount an amphibious offensive;
and the time factor may rule this one
out.
(CopyriRht 1914, New York Tribune CoN
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While the attention of most of us has
been rlveted on the crucial fight for the
Dutch river crossings, the Allied armies
in Italy have been steadily pressing
forward, and the situation of the Ger
man forces in that theater has again
become critical.
AS the readers of these articles have
been led to expect, the decisive battle
OF the Gothic Line has been fought out
on the right flank of the Allied forces
the Adriatic sector. Here Gen. Alex
ander chose to make his main effort, and
for the past 81 days the men of the
9th Army have been fighting their way
forward through extremely difficult ter
rain toward the town of Rimini, which
is now in Allied hands.
One bridgehead at least has been OBJ
tanned across the Marecchia River, and
it only remains to widen this bridge
head in order to have an open gateway
into the great Emilian Plain across
which run all the communication lines
of Kesselring's forces. Presenting that
Gen. Alexander has adequate armor at
his disposal-a point on which informa-
ton is at present lacking-there now
seems nothing to prevent a swift de-
bouchement northwestward, with dis
astrous results for Kesselring unless he
can withdraw in time.
But this is not the only danger which
threatens the Germans in Italy. They
made long hard fight for Rimini, and
in so doing they gradually concentrated
their best troops on a very short front
in that area-something like half of
their total force. This could not, of
course, be done without weakening pro-
portionately the remainder of the line:
and for that weakening they have paid
a price, for in the center Allied forces
have advanced north Of Florence, have
taken the important road junction of
Firenzuola, and are now in the ap-
proaches to the great Futa Pass, where
the main highway from Florence to
Bologna crosses the divide Cthe Apen-
nine Mountains.
This appears to be situation in
which only a very rapid withdrawal
can afford the Germans any reasonable
chance of escape, but it remains to be
seen whether they will take that chance
or whether they will stay where they
are and fight it out as they have done
50 often before. It Is indeed quite pos
sible that they cannot withdraw or ut