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The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-10-28
'GEORGE ADDE'S
HITS WEBSTER
HALL jim CROW

Discriminatory practices on the
part of the Webster Hall Coffee
Shop. 500 Cass avenue. were blasted
this week by George F. Adde's. in
ternational secretary-treasurer Of
the UAW-CIO.
Adde's charged that the Coffee
Shop had refused to serve several
employees of the JAW and that
recently George Crockett, chairman
of the Fair Practices Committee
and Mrs. Elizabeth Halves of the
Educational staff. had been SUBJ
jected to considerable embarrsss-
ment before finally being served.
The text Of his letter appears be-
low:
October 20. 1874
Mr. James Hamilton. Manager
Webster Hall Hotel
$3.50 CaSs Avenue
Detroit 2. Mich.
Dear Sir:
The UAw-CIO Fair Practices
Committee has been informed that
your hotel is following a studied
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-10-28
Mrs. Bethune Will
Speak AtLuncheOn

Mrs. Mary Mcleod Bethune, pres
ident OF the National Council OF
Negro Women. will be presented
at q luncheon Oct %, IL noon, at
the Detroit Leland hotel. The
luncheon will be sponsored by .
committee OF women citizens under
the Craftsmanship Of Mrs Rosa
Grseg and Mrs. Mamye Jeffries,
Also NJ the meeting will be Mrs
Jeanetts w. Brown. Paul Robson
and Orsor, Welles ~ honored
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-10-28
Plan Anti : Jim
Crow Campaign
In Big Cities

A plan for q two or three-month
full-time campaign against Jim
Crow was discussed at the exec
utive committee meeting OF the
Congress of Racial Equality. held
in Detroit, Oct. IL and Is.
The national officers, represent
ing affiliated CORE groups in Chi
cago. Columbus, New York. and
Detroit, approved the plan, orig
mated by George Houser Of Cleve-
land. The campaign would be
carried on by volunteers brought
together from various localities. to
a community where a difficult race
problem existed, where they would
live and work full time, along with
the local personnel on the elimina-
ton Of discrimination.
To Launch Program
The program OF the csmpai gn
would begin with intensive train
ing and education Of the partic-
ipants: In the sociological and po-
litical aspects Of the community.
in non-violent direct action tech
niques, and in study Of the partic-
ular race problems 10 be dealt with
The direct action would be pre-
pared for by test cases and other
investigating methods, by negotia-
tons with those responsible for
the discrimination, and by demon
STATIONS and arousing OF public
opinion. The direct action itself
would include the strategy of nom
cooperation. such a. the boycott
and strike.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-10-28

NAVY SMAsHES
I'm fCRONl IN
WAVES, sPARs
Leaders Hail FDR For
Breaking h ated
I y RSce Bias

The smashing OF the color bar In
the WAVES and the SPAB4 ~
President Roosevelt which war pp-
nounced last week by the Nsvy
Department and the United States
Coast Guard was Enthusiastically
scclpimed by Negro leaders from
all over America <his week.
The fact that "o(Yicer candidates
and enlisted women will be trained
at existing schools for the training
OF WAVES" represents q double
victory in that segregated training
wiil net b permitted.
Typical OF the sentiment OF the
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-10-28

vice-Presidssit Henry a. y9aIlaes
win BE- the priAripal speSkef ~ .
Rally for Roosevelts on Friday,
October n. nj TO pm. al Olympia
Stsdinrn.
Scheduled to speak on the pro-
gram are Orson Welles, genius Of
the stage. screen and radio; Paul.
Robson. concert and stage star,
Bette Davis star Of the screen:
Dorothy Parker, author and bril-
liant wit; r. ]. Thomas. president
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-10-28

sceorse W. Crockett Jrr. fxeeu-
live -director Of the uAW-cl0 Fair
Practices Comnaitks0. In : letter
TO- the Michienn Chronicle this
week charged that the Pittsburgh
COURIER" b guilty Of deiiberately
attempting TO, misiesd it, Negro
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~see EXPLOSION. Page .
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-06
Jugo Partisans
Recapture
Key Bosnia City

LONDON, Feb. CUP)-Jugoslav
partisans have recaptured the key
industrial towns of Vakuf and
Kupres in western Bosnia, a COM
Amunique announced Saturday, and
informed quarters said the twin
victory probably marked the turn
ing point in the struggle for the
entire province.
Capture Of the two enemy strong
holds half way between Banja
Luka and Sarajevo means the Nazi
occupation forces definitely have
failed in their objective of splitting
the partisan armies in eastern and
western Bosnia, Jugoslav sources
said.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-06
Soldiers Vote
Bill Held Up

WASHINGTON, Feb. 5. (UP) =
Too many senators played hockey
from the session scheduled for Sat-
urday. and the senate had to call
the whole thing off and postpone
further consideration of the soldier
vote controversy until Monday.
Convening hour of IL a. m. found
only seven senators on the floor.
The initial roll call was answered
by 81 senator's as they filed in dur
ing the slow calling of names. A
later roll call of the absentees
brought the total number of sena-
tors answering their names to 43.
This was still short of a Quorum
SO Democratic leader Alben w
Barkley, KY, moved for a recess
until Monday noon.
There is little chance of a senate
filibuster to delay further final ac-
ton as limitation on debate was
agreed to earlier this week to speed
action on amendments to the pend
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-06
WARSH|PS BLAST JAPS FROM MARSHALL s
Entire Valley
Waits Big
War Bond Rally
Planes Will
Salute
Vast ThrOng

All roads in Imperial coun.
ty lead to the fairgrounds in
Ell Centre Sunday.
Thousands are expected to be on
hand for the County Vodevile Var
iety Shows" under direction of the
county's war bond drive leaders.
Fighter planes will render salute
as the starting signal for the NAM
moth show. This will be at 2:3O
From that moment on through the
afternoon things will be cracking
and sparkling.
The demonStration is being stag
ed in the way of an award for the
excellent showing made SO far in
the countys bond drive. That lead
ers hope it will drive home in the
minds of the people the necessity
for finishing of the task at the
earliest possible time. Less than two
weeks remain to reach the $4,000 600
quota assigned the valley county.
In recognition of the enthusiastic
manner in which army, navy and
marine fighters are putting par
of their pay into bonds, Drive
Chairman Herb Fawcett declared,
THE army, navy and marines
are helping pay their own way in
this war. They are going Dutch
Treat, because our reports show
that in every branch of the service
represented in the valley, the men
are making allotments from thei.'
pay or buying bonds" Fawcett de-
clared
AMOUNTS BOUGHT
The Ell Centre Marine Air Station
reports that the squadron person.
nel made up of men who are leay-
ing for combat, lists about 65 per
cent of the men as buying bonds.
The headquarters group lists 85
per cent of the men as buying ap-
proximately $4,500 monthly.
The program stresses military ac-
tiVities as we'll as speciality acts from
Ell Centro, Holtville, Brawley and
CaleXico.
Booths will be available to make
immediate delivery to purchasers
who wish to buy Bonds Sunday
The program is free.
Chairman FaWcett reported the
Bard d-Winterhaven has now exceed
ed its quota through the efforts
of Harold Brown by more than
$1,000. The total reported from that
district now is $12,793.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-06
Bricker Views
Peril to Press

COLUMBUS, O., Feb. CUP) -
Americas newspapers must meet
the New Deals calculated purpose
to discredit the press" with a three
fold attack on government propa-
ganda, censorship, and centraliza-
ton of power in the executive
branch, Gov. John w. Bricker said
Friday night.
In an address hailed by his cam
paign headquarters as the strong
est since he announced his can
ditacy for the Republican presi-
dental nomination, Bricker warn
ed members of the Ohio Newspaper
Association of three dangers"
threatening freedom of the press:
First, the use of the press for
propaganda lin the nature of a
trial ballon for political purposes"
Second, censorship the road
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-06
Pope Will Stay,
Berlin SAYS

LONDON, Feb. 5. (UP)-A Ger
man DNB news agency dispatch
said Saturday that Pope Plus XII
has rejected all proposals to leave
Rome" and quoted Berlin political
circles that Germany has made
no suggestions to this effect"
The dispatch referred to zuer-
icher zeitung report that leading
American Catholic circles had sug-
gested that the Pope move to the
United States.
Other Swiss newspaper reports
have reported since the allied land
ing below Rome that the Germans
attempted unsuccssfully to persuade
the pontiff to move to Germany
warning they might have to occupy
Vatican City in the defense of
Rome.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-06
Shotgun Shells
Are Released

Shotgun shells to relieve the duck
depredations on Imperial county
farms will be on hand in Ell Centre
early next week, according to Ru-
dolph Miller, secretary of the
county Agricultural Conservation
Program.
Miller said that according to tele-
phone information 10000 rounds of
shotgun ammunition have been re-
leased for the county. The shells
will be available only to farmers
whose growing crops are being raw
aged by migratory wildlife, he said.
Distribution will be handled the
same as 10000 shells received last
November
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-06
Official Would
Seize Stored
jap Machinery

FRESNO, Calf, Feb. S CUP)-
District Attorney James M. Thue-
sen said Saturday he will appeal to
Attorney General Robert w Kenny
for legal means of seizing stored
farm equipment owned by in
termed japanese IN the state.
Thuesen'S announcement follow
ed the refusal of Japanese
evacuee at the Tule Lake war re-
location center to sell his potato
digger and planter to Ed F.. Loesch-
er, a Fresno county farmer who
wrote the Japanese suggesting the
stored implements be sold to white
farmers
Thuesen SD he would appeal to
Kenny because he understood no
plan for seizing such farm equip
ment had been worked out, al
though such legislation was passed
in California in 1943.
"The machinery is badly needed"
he pointed out. IF we are per-
mitted to seize it, we can dispose
of it where it will do the most
good"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-06
Bombs
Rake
once
u. S. .Airmen
Strike in
Ste eady Blow

LONDON, Feb. 5. CUP)-Strong
forces of American heavy bombers
attacked German air fields in CEN
trail France Saturday in the eighth
major United States air attack on
Nazi targets within nine days.
The four -motored bombers were
escorted by United States fighter
planes and supported by Canadian
Spitfires in the daylight assault on
not Immediately identified objec-
tives deep in France.
The weight of the attacks was
indicated by the reports of coastal
observers that hundreds of bombers
roared high over the channel toward
Europe.
The daylight raids followed the
fourth straight night of British
nuisance raids on Germany.
A 45-minute procession of bomb
ers with fighter escort flew over
one section of the English south
east coast at extreme altitude
Their targets were not identified
Immediately, but may have lain
along the French invasion coast.
Earlier, small groups of Spitfires
and other fighters we're active over
the French coast
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-06
Child, z, browns
In Water Ditch

Beatrice Rosalie Risner, 2, late
Friday carried her doll and its
cradle from her home west of Ell
Centre, telling her mother she was
going to play outside.
A few minutes later her mother,
Mrs. George Risner, missed her and
started a search. The child's father
came home and joined the hunt.
He shut off the water in a nearby
irrigation ditch.
He found the little girls body in
the canal.
Efforts to revive her were futile.
Funeral arrangements were not
complete Saturday
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-06

ing Green-LucaS federal ballot bill.
But the limitation agreement ex-
pires any time the Green-Lucas bill
is laid aside. The parliamentary
situation is such that the admins
tration may have to follow that
course in order to write its federal
ballot principle into the state bal
lot measure already approved by the
senate Dec. 3 and passed by the
house Thursday night with minor
amendments.
METHOD TO BE USED
The senate parliamentarian has
ruled that the federal ballot prin-
ciple of the Green-Lucas bill could
be written into the original bill as
an amendment" to one of the
houSe-o originated amendments.
Barkeley said he believed admin
istration foes had reached their
peak strength when they rolled UP
AZ votes Friday for a coalition
Continued on Page ;, Col. g.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-06
kazi Avengers
Kill 1900 Greeks

STOCKHOLM, Feb. 5. UP)-.
The newspaper Morgontidningen
reported Saturday that German
forces in Greece executed the en-
tire adult NAL population-between
1000 and 1,500-of the Greek village
of Kalavrita in reprisal for partisan
attacks on Nazi soldiers.
The report, which was credited to
the papers Istanbul correspondent.
said the Nazis also executed all
monks at the Megsapylian monas-
terry near Kalavrita, which is near
PatraS.
The Germans also carried out
the reprisal execution of 124 per-
sons in the historic city of Sparta,
the report said. Sparta's entire
intelligentsia" was slain, it said
The Sparta executions reportedly
followed wounding of German SOL
diers by partisans.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-06
Marines Occupv
Seven More
Strategic Isles
Enemy Forced
Our Under
United Drive

PEARL HARBOR, T. H.,
Feb. 5. (UP)-U. S. Marines
have seized seven more small
islands at the northern end
Of Kwaialein atoll against
light opposition, it was revealed Sat-
urday as warships joined in heavy
new bombardment designed to crush
desperate japanese resistance on
four islands to the south.
Attacking under cover of the
sea, air, and land bombardment.
army veterans of Attu and Kiska
extended their holds on Kwaialein
asd Ebeye islands at the southeast
ern corner of the atoll and were
expected momentarily-if they have
not already done SOTO swarm
ashore on nearby Loi and Gugegwe.
EXTEND CONTROL
Marines under Maj Gen. Harry
Schmidt extended their control of
the northeastern portion of the
65-mile-long atoll by occupying sev-
en- unidentified islets after captur-
ing the main strongholds of Roi
and Namur.
Battleshipss and cruisers, along
with bombers, were called in to
supplement land artillery in bat
tering down enemy defenses on
Kwajalein, Ebeye, Loi, and Gugegwe
when it appeared they were the
only strong pockets of resistance
remaining in the huge atoll in the
center Of Japan's Marshall islands.
Army troops under Maj. Gen.
Charles H. Corlett already have
burned and blasted the Japanese
from half of both Kwajalein and
Ebeye islands with the aid of
flame-throwers, grenades, rifles.
bayonets, machine guns, and dyna-
mite.
SMASH RESISTANCE
Two small islets between Kwaja-
lein and Ebeye also have been oc-
cupied following the smashing of
moderate resistance Adm. Ches-
ter w. Nimitz, commander of the
Pacific fleet, disclosed in COM
emunique late Friday.
CA japanese communique broad
cast in English by the Domei agen-
cy said garrisons on Roi and Kwa-
jalein islands had ''repulsed part
of the enemy force which landed"
and now were firmly holding the
Continued on page 6, col. a
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-06

Gown which the people Of Ger
many, Italy, and Japan were led to
slavery and ultimate defeat"
Third, concentration of power in
the executive branch of the gov
ernment, making the danger to "a
free press more and more i'm
minent."
Bricker warned that America
must guard not against the over
throw of the bill of rights "at one
fell swoop," but against "a restric-
ton here and a limitation there
which might seem inconsequential
at the moment"
"The very fact that human free
domS are guaranteed in constitu-
tion does not mean that they are
safe" he said. Every generation
must fight to keep those rights.
Otherwise they will be ground
beneath the heel of tyranny
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-06

II ~ II Nl / OOM :
MAND POST OU SID E
CASSINO, Feb. 5. (UP)-
German reinforcements were
believed to be moving into Casino
Saturday, apparently in preparation
for one of the most vicious house
to house battles of the italian CAM
paign.
American assault forces clung
tenaciously to their toeholds in the
northern edge of Casino, however.
as the German maneuverS around
the ruined bastion of the Gustav
line got under way.
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Al
giers, Feb. 5. CUP)-British inVa-
sion forces have smashed new Ger
man counterattacks in the mount
ing battle for Rome, it was an
nounced today, as Americans and
other Nazi forces fought to the
death in Casino on the southern
front.
The Germans threw their crack
26th Panzer division against the
British in the northern sector of
the beachhead some 20 miles below
Rome in their latest attempt to
find weak spot in the allied peri
meter, but were driven back with
losses.
Font dispatches SAID British and
American troops were fighting side
by side in some sectors with the
tempo of the fighting rising steadi-
ly as the Germans spared for an
opening in which to launch a full
scale counteroffensive designed to
throw the allies back into the sea.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-06

Suisum and Oliver Carter of Marys-
vile and Assemblymen Clyde Wat
son of Orange and Tom Irwin of
El Monte. There is a possibility
that some members of the state
fish and game commission also will
be present, Charles Nice, secretary
of the Brawley Chamber of Com
merce, said Saturday.
Farmers are urged to be on hand
with facts and figures to show
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-06
Tardy Motorists
Pay Penalty

It's all over but paying double.
The annual automobile license
renewal period ended in Imperial
county at p. m. Friday and bright
and early Saturday morning the
tardy ones began paying double.
Total collections for the period
were $131,792, approximately a 20
per cent increase over last year.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-06
Plan to End Camp Lockett
Brings Strong Protests

Persistent and well-defined rumors
from reliable sources that the Ninth
Service Command is preparing to
close Camp Lockett west of Ell
Centro are bringing strong protests
in Imperial Valley. Built as
permanent Installation before Pearl
Harbor at a cost of between five
and seven million dollars, leaders
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-06
More Nazi Bombs
Found in Ships

LONDON, Feb. 5. (UP)-A bomb
of German origin discovered in a
crate of onions has been traced
to the same British merchant ships
which brought from Spain a cargo
of oranges in which explosives also
were found, the home Office an
nounced Saturday.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-06
Reds axe Rovno:
I'm Old Poland

LONDON, Feb. 5. (UP)-
Premier Josef Stain an
nounced Saturday that the
Red army had captured Rovno and
Luck, key railroad towns in prewar
Poland, the evacuation of which
the Nazis reported two days ago.
Zdolounov, rail junction seven
miles south of Rovno, also fell to
the Russians driving across the
preWar Polish territory occupied
by the Soviets in 1889, Stain re-
ported in an order of the day.
MOSCOW, Feb. S. (UP)-Red
armies of the Ukraine have carved
leo square miles out of the pocket
in which upward of 100000 Germans
were trapped, front dispatches said
today, and Soviet planes downed
scores of big Junkers transports
trying to supply the doomed Nazis.
SQUEEZE DNIEPER AREA
Steady Soviet gains in a concen-
trio drive on the 10 encircled Ger
man divisions, backed up by pull
verizing artillery fire, reduced the
Dnieper pocket from 1000 to 900
square miles in a single day of
fierce fighting, field reports said.
Military sources spoke confidently
of an early liquidation of the big
gest German force trapped since
the Stalingrad debacle year ago.
AS the first and second Ukrain-
ian armies tightened the ring and
almost wiped out its tangents with
the Dnieper river below Kiev, the
desperate Gelman units were re-
ported breaking in confusion and
abandoning their futile attempts
to break out
CAPTURE RECORDS
The Russians captured divisional
headquarters records which includ-
ed an order from a commander to
his officers to put an end to this
confusion
The hard pressed Germans were
reported abandoning their heavy
equipment in perfect working Or
der, ready for the Red army to
turn it directly on them, as they
fell back from the rim Of the
pocket.
(The London Daily Mail reported
from Stockholm that $4,000 of the
original 100000 encircled German
troops already have been annihilat-
ed
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-06

Interim committee members of
the California legislature will con-
duct public hearing in Brawley
next Friday to determine the crop
damage caused by migratory wild
fowl and obtain data on legiSla-
ton to relieve the situation.
The hearing will be held in Vet
Grams Memorial hall at 8 p. m.
Members of the committee are:
State Senators Frank Gordon of
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-06
POLICEMAN RECEIVERS
STOLEN AUTOMOBILE

Police Officer l.. w. Henry recov-
cred a car which had been stolen
in Ell Centre Christmas day by
checking suspicious actions of four
Marines Friday night.
Henry noticed four marines pile
out of a car and scatter when he
was patrolling Broadway. The men
acted as though they had been
frightened upon seeing him. Check
ing, he learned that the car they
abandoned belonged to A. M Nor
gan, SIG Ell Centre, who had re-
ported the car stolen Christmas
day.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-06
TO ATTEND MEETING

Approximately 900 members from
Imperial and Yuma counties are
expected to attend the annual
meeting of the Production Credit
Association Thursday, February 10,
at the American Legion hall in
Holtville.
Secretary P. E. Hixon, El Centre,
said that a dinner-meeting was
planned and reservations were al
ready nearly completed.