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The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1944-10-12
SCHOOL HILDREn PLEDGE
RAC|AL-RELIGI0US UNITY

NEWARK, N. j., Oct. IL (ANP)
School children, 10000 strong,
pledged to refrain from knowingly
spreading racial and religious
hatred as they prepare to work
with churches and synagogues,
labor groups, civic and luncheon
clubs, movie theatres and depart
ment stores during the wekk of
Oct. Is. A city-wide program will
be launched to help achieve greater
unity between the residents of all
races and religions, according to
an announcement at city hall by
the mayor.
Unity week will be proclaimed
on Oct. Is and citizens of Newark
"of all faiths and races are to
unite in the defense of our coun-
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1944-10-12
West Side Republicans
10 Open Campaign

The West Side Republican club
viii open their campaign tomorrow
at the Mt. Enon church, when At
torney Jesse Locker, city council
man from Cincinnati, and Rev. j.
Welby Broaddus, pastor of the
Tabernacle Baptist church, will be
the principal speakers. Candidates
will be introduced.
The committee arranging the
mass meeting comprises Edgar
Nickerson, Hazey Loritts, Mrs.
Lucy Dixon, Mrs. Maggie Cannon,
j. G. Walters, Charles Taylor,
E. R. Merchant, Robert Prear, Mrs.
Alma Brown and Mrs. Mabel
Deaton.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1944-10-12
LEADING DAYTON. BUSINESS
WOMAN ENTERS new field

this humble beginning was the first
step in her successful business ca
reer.
Miss Johnigan's first ambition
was to establish school to train
Negro girls in the art of beauty cul-
ture in an endeavor to prepare them
to make their own way in independ-
ence. This she has accomplished, and
her institution is one of the finest
of it's kind, attracting students from
many sections of the country, and
sending into the world many young
women who have become successful
in their own enterprises.
Dayton may well be proud that
Bernice Johnigan is one of it's lead
ing citizens.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1944-10-12

Miss Bernice Johnigan, head of
the nationally-known Bernice
School of Cosmetology, who has be-
come Dayton's leading business
woman because of her outstanding
ability, has launched another enter
prise which seems destined for the
same success as her others.
The new business, the Old Rose
Tea Room, the West Sides newest
restaurant, is her third enterprise.
She also ably operates the Bernice
Hosiery and Novelty Bar which does
a flourishing business in the things
the ladies like for personal adorn-
ment.
Miss Johnigan's success typifies
the determination to succeed re-
garless of obstacles. She came to
Dayton with her parents from Geor-
gia in 1925, and attended the Day.
ton elementary schools, and grad
uated from Roosevelt High school
in 1881.
Determined on business career,
Miss Johnigan entered Poro College
at Chicago, and worked her way
through school. After receiving her
diploma there, she decided she want
ed further education, and entered
Wilberforce University. To pay her
way, backed by her knowledge of
beauty culture, she opened beauty
shop on the side porch of her home.
In addition to paying her expenses,
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1944-10-12
RATION VIOLATIONS
BRING SUSPENSIONS

Charged with violating gasoline
rationing regulations, one Dayton
and two Springfield operators re-
ceived penalties after a special
hearing before Dennis Dunlavy,
hearing commissioner of the Cleve-
land district office of the Office
of Price Administration, in the fed
eral building yesterday.
Robert A. Gregar, Jr., doing
business as Gregar's Service Sta
ton, 1909 Germantown street, and
Charles Underwood, 1903 Yellow
springs avenue, Springfield, re-
ceived five-day suspensions from
selling rationed goods beginning
November l, and were placed on a
25-day probation period.
A 30-day probation period, effec-
tive Nov. /, was given to ]. W..
Tanning of Yellowsprings and
Pleasant streets, Springfield. All
three pleaded guilty to accepting
counterfeit coupons and loose gaso-
line ration stamps.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1944-10-12

URGE VETS TO Use USES

WASHINGTON, Oct. 12.-
(ANP)-War veterans are be-
ing urged by VINO Chairman
Paul V. McNutt to avail them
selves of the facilities of the
United States Employment serv-
ice in seeking jobs.
McNutt pointed out that al
though honorably discharged
veterans of the present war no
longer are subject to priority
referral requirements and other
NC regulations, all facilities of
USES are at their disposal.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1944-10-12
N0N-PARTI5AN LEAGUE
PRESIDENT THANKS
GROUPS FOR SUPPORT
Dear Editor:

Dear Editor:
AS President of the Non-Partisan
Voters League, l take this means
OF thanking those who cooperated
with US in our registration drive
just completed. Especially do wish
to thank the N.A.A.C.P., Frontiers,
South Side Civic Assoc, Desost Bass
Council, for their contribution on a
purely non-partisan registration
program.
l would like it clearly understood
that at no time has the non-par-
tisan voters league, attempted to
individual member, in partisan
sense. am sure that you joined us
in this drive of getting a greater
registration, regardless of party
among Negroes. If this has been
done, the power of the Dayton Ne
gro has been increased.
Now, that you are interested,
weigh the evidence in the light of
the past, present, and future, as it
effects the Negro, and vote accord
ingly.
Sincerely yours,
Charles J. Francis,
President of Non-Partisan
Voters League.
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Price Sc

try and in the preservation of the
American way of life"
America" the mayor said, sis
what we, the people, make it. In
America, land Of liberty and cham
pion of freedom, the threads of
Professionalism, Catholicism, and
Judaism, of black and white, can
be woven together to make a storm
proof fabric; and our wartime ex-
perience of working and suffering
and fighting and dying together
has helped us in the weaving"
While no active chairman has
been appointed, it was learned
among the organizations sponsor
ing Unity week are the National
Conference of Christians and Jews,
Goodwill commission, Interracial
council, Citizens committee for
lnterracial Unity, Intercultural
Education committee, the Jewish
Community Relations committee,
Essex County Council of Churches,
Urban league of New Jersey, CIO
and AFL.
Americans ALL" a recently re-
leased March of Time film, will be
shown during Unity week. The
mayor will unveil a colorful pos
ter on Oct. Is that will dramati-
cally depict the singleness of pur-
pose of our soldiers fighting side
by side on the far flung battle
fields of the world as Americans
regardless of their skin-color or
religious preference.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1944-10-12
JOE LOUIS TO
RECEIVE FURL0UGH

WASHINGTON, Oct. 12.-The
War Department announced that
Staff Sergeant Joe Louis, the
worlds heavyweight boxing cham
pion, would be given a furlough
shortly after he reports to Camp
Seibert, Alabama.
Louis, who expressed a desire
for the furlough, arrived at New
York yesterday after a seven
months overseas tour in which he
engaged in 81 exhibition boxing
matches before servicemen. The
furlough will be the regulation 21
days.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1944-10-12
Attend Baptist Convention

The Ohio Baptist General Asso-
citation is in session this week at
Cincinnati, Ohio. Among those in
attendance from the Tabernacle
Baptist Church are: The pastor,
Rev. j. Welby Broaddus; Mrs.
Broaddus; Mrs. Ada Jones; Mrs.
Nettie Bullard; Mrs. Ethel Owings;
Mrs. Minnie Heron; and Mr.. and
Mrs. Edward Hawthorne.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1944-10-12
Flying Cloud" Quartet
Al Tabernacle Fridav

The Flying Cloud Quartet" of
Detroit, Mich, will be presented in
a musical program at the Taber-
nacle Baptist Church Friday eve
ming, Oct. 13, at $3.50. The program
is under the sponsorship of Mrs.
T. Mcfarland. Tickets are now on
sale at popular prices. The public is
invited to attend this program.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1944-10-12
Republican Mass Meefinq

A mass meeting sponsored by the
West Side Branch of the Montgom-
cry County Republican club will be
held at Mt. Enon Baptist church to-
morrow evening at s o'clock. Jesse
Locker, member Of the Cincinnati
City Council. will be the principal
speaker.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1944-10-12
Visits Sick Sister

Mrs. Mary Cook Of st. Williams
St. left last Friday for Glen Rogers,
w. Va, to spend several weeks with
a sick sister. Mrs. Cook will visit
relatives and friends at Omar, W.
Va, before returning home.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-16

and guns. But later I'd just take my bobby pins along to the shelter and fix my hair while the raid was going on.''
 Miss Harris stole 8 march on her comrades and got to Rome the day after the Allies took 1t. So far as she knows, she was the first American woman civilian to reach the city. There she had memor- ably embarrassing experience when, sightseeing in the Vatican with an American correspondent, the two wandered into a chapel full of people waiting for an audience with the Pope, and casually sauntered down the aisle just ahead of the pontificial procession. Later Miss Harris thumbed a ride from Rome to Siena in Archbishop Francis J. Spellman's plane.
 In three months, the girls and their soldier cast played "Out of the Frying Pan' before 5O,00O people, and never missed a perfor- I nance. Later they did "The Male Animal" which opened atI the Mussolini Stadium in Rome.
 officers kept telling us that the G. I. wouldn't take whole play, that it couldn't hold his attention. That isn't the case. Sometimes we had to play without props or scen- cry or costume. Other times we could only put half our set on a little stage. But whatever the diffi- culties, they were always wonder full audience"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-16

Smiling, it's a new high point of entertainment.
 The co-hit on this thrilling musi- cal program is "In the Meantime Darling" with Jeannie Grain.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-16
POLES

Sure and from the sight of the fun-filled shenanigans on the screen of the Loew Poli theater today, it's a broth of time local movie-goers will be having with Damon Run yon's Irish Eyes Are Smiling" The new technicolor musical starring Monty Woolley, June Haver and Dick Haynes is true four-leaf en- tertainment from start to finish.
 The picture revolveS about the life of Ernest R. Ball, Americas greatest composer of sentimental ballads.
 Monty Woolley is cast as the fab- uious man-about-tovn, Edgar Braw- ley. former gold mine operator, race horye ownerfi snake oil salesman ana get-rich-quick specialist who walks backwards into the lives and romance of Mary Irish" O'Brien and Ernest Ball The part is tailor made to fit Monty Woolley and he plays it to the hilt in one of the most enjoyable performances of the year.
 Lovely June Haver, who scored a signal success in Home in Indiana" comes into her own in Irish Eyes Are Smiling" June is seen as Mary Irish" OBrien who can deliver a sweet note or telling sock in the eye with equal facility. That Haver gal has everything it takes for top of-the-screen stardom, and if this film is any indication, she has al- ready arrived.
 Junes romantic interest in the film is Dick Haynes in the role of Ernest Ball, the singing composer who rose from obscurity to the toast of Broadway. Together they make as swell a team" as you've seen in a long time. In addition to a great voice, Haynes has refresh ing charm and solid acting ability that makes him a rarity among singing movie stars.
 Anthony Quinn as beta mill lion gambler; Beverly Whitney as temperamental prima donna, and the inimitable Maxie Rosenbloom as Stanley Ketchel, all provide wonder full performance.
 By all means see Irish Eyes Are
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-16
ACTRESS WHO TOURED BATTLE AREAS STAGED PLAYS WITH FRONTLNE CHS
By JAMES THRAsHER NEA Stan Writer

New York Cld-time actors have Q condescending way of telling the younger generation how tough their profession was back in the days when "trouping really was troup- ing" But they had better not try to impress young Miss Sara Lee Harris with the tales of their early hardships For Miss Harris has a tale of her own which makes one- night stands, allnight day-coach hops, draughty dressing rooms and the rest of it sound like an air. conditioned season on Broadway.
 Miss Harris is just back from Q seven-month tour overseas which included acting in competitor with Nazi bombs and Allied blackouts. With three other actresses, Brook Fleming, Virginia Robinson and Eleanor wilson, she trouped the North African circuit, then travelled with the Fifth Army from Naples to Siena, making side excursions and coming back down to Naples in Q "triumphal return engagement
 The four young women made up USO unit whose job was different from that of most entertainers. They were sent out to do real, full- length plays rather than speciality acts. And they were to fill out their casts with G. I.'s, stage and costume the productions themselves, and stay as close to the front as possible.
 We had lot of difficulties and disappointments, and plenty of hard work and hard living, but it was wonderful" says the blonde and blue-eyed Miss Harris, who is too young to have to conceal her age but too much of an actress to tell it. T guess the worst thing worse than being under fire, even was when the Special Services officer who first met us in Algiers said to us, We didn't want four actresses. We wanted fonr acro- bats!'"
 But they took the actresses and eventually liked them. The girls whipped together G. I. cast and played Boy Meets Girl' to capacity audiences for three nights in the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-16

200O-seat Algiers opera house.
 'In Italy" says Miss Harris, i've seldom got through perfor- nance without some kind of inter- ruption. Either there would be a raid or the power would go of. Up in Piambino we were so close to the Germans that they were able to cut our electric circuit. The au- dience, who were boys just back from the front, simply turned their flashlights on the stage and we went on with the show.
 The USO foursome got it's first taste of air raids in Algiers. They became well acquainted with them in Italy. But they weren't prepared for the kind they got at Anzio.
 We got to Anzio less thanI a month after the push started, and had a real Class-A raid the third night" Miss Harris recalled. 'I could actually hear my knees knock above the sound of planes, bombs
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-16

THOSE ENDEARING YOUNG CHARMS" the Edward Chodorov Broadway hit, has been purchased by RKO Radio as a vehicle for La- raine Day. The studio bought the property from Samuel Goldwyn Pro- auctions.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-16

1 magazines. books, photographs of friends.
 The place may look like cy- clone just passed through, but Jeck is certain that if anybody cleaned it up he couldn't find a blessed thing. Next to his bed is a radio, telephone. He can practically do a days work in bed.
 The writers gather around three days a week. Everyone paces the floor.
 PLOTTED AS SALESMAN Jack likes to remember how he landed in show business because he was such poor salesman in his fathers store.
 Pappy owned a clothing store in Waukegan, Ill., Benny went to work there after school but his heart wasn't in it. One day his father was up front when man came in, walked to the rear of the store and handed Benny some money which he promptly rang up in the cash register. Later, his father asked, What did you sell?"
 "I didn't sell anything" said Benny. ''The man just gave me some money on his account?"
 What was his name?" asked his father.
 Gee" Benny said, T forgot to ask him.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-16

 marry him to really complete the job"
 You'll be seeing Jack in a new movie soon, 'The Horn Blows at Midnight" As usual, he takes a ribbing in the script for his penny pinching. Offstage, this Benny characteristic, dreamed up by--his writers, has cost him a small for tune. Just to be sure no one takes it seriously he goes out of his way to grab the check and tip double.
 Jack works with his writers in his bedroom at home. It's spacious with lots of desk and table room, all filtered with papers. scripts.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-16
- To Hollywood
BY ERsKINE JOHNSON NEA Staff CorrespOndent)

ANA4AA AN~-~AA Af~NAA gNN4NNAANA&AAV
 After World war I, Jack Benny was playing the violin and doing a comic monolog on vaudeville cir- cults. One day he was playing the Orpheum theater in Vancouver. The Marx Brothers were on the same bill and Zeppo invited Benny to a friends house for dinner.
 After dinner the family's pig tailed daughter insisted on playing the violin, She's a progeny" her proud parents announced. Benny had to listen. The girls playing was terrible and he all but told her so.
 Next day the girl brought a group of neighborhood kids to Jacks matinee and warned them When this feller Jack Benny comes on the stage I don't want to hear one laugh. Don't even smile. The first one that laughs I'm gonna punch straight in the nose.
 The kids, sitting in the first two rows, didn't laugh. Neither did they smile. They just stared al Benny. No matter what he did he couldn't even get giggle out of them. It blew him higher than kite and he muffed every gag. SHE GOT EVEN
 Years later in Los Angeles Jack met the pigtailed little girl working in department store and married her!
 But not until sch mentioned it did he recognize her as the brat who had sabotaged his act in Vancouver.
 Says Mary Livingstone, who is still heckling him: That night when I played the violin and Jack held his nose I said I'd get even with him. I didn't do badly next day when I loused up his gags But I didn't dream then that I'd
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-16
M The Local TheaterS
STRAND

Although the picture was made in Hollywood, you'll hear real East River noises in it when Samuel Goldwyn's production of Dead End" begins a weeks engagement at the Strand theater today, with Joel McCrea, Sylvia Sidney and Humphrey Bogart.
 Goldwyn sent a sound crew all the way to New York to get sound track of the boat whistles on the East river, where the film, based on the Broadway stage hit by Sidney Kingsley, takes place, because every harbor sings different tune. The boats in the East River are mostly tugs and barges, and their whistles sound all together different from those heard on the North River nearby, where there are huge liners and freighters as well.
 Wendie Barrie, Claire Trevor and Allen Jenkins and the Dead End Kids from the original New York stage cast are also prominently featured in this dramatic story, de- picting "A hours in the lives of a handful of people on a city street at tho rivers edge, where fashion able apartments rub shoulder with the squalid tenements of the slums.
 'The Kid From Spain, one of the greatest and funniest of the Samuel Goldwyn musical films is the co-feature on this current Strand bill and is brought back as a re-release by popular demand. It stars Eddie Cantor.
 Romping with Cantor in this lavish extravaganza. the unforget- able highlight of which is the bull fight with matador Cantor throwing the bull, are Betty Grable, Paulette Goddard, Robert Young, Sidney Franklin, the Brooklyn boy, who be- came one of the worlds greatest matadors, Noah Berry and 75 gor- geous Goldwyn Girls.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-16

ELAINE RILEY, whose film de- but was in the Frank Sinatra show Higher and Higher" moves into her first leading role in RKO Ra- dio'S Come Share My Love-"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-16

ANNE JEFFREYS, who recently scored heavily in the film musical, Manhattan" Serenade," has been selected to play the feminine lead in RKO Radios ''Zombie On Broad way" in which Wally Brown and Alan Carney are starred, with Bella Lugosi.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-29

Alvina Alverson, homemaking ed
itor of Successful Farming maya
zine. says you'll save yourself some
untangling if you turn clothes with
ties or sasheS inside out before put
ting them into the washing ma
chino
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-29
Fig Growers See
Import PeriIs

FRESNO. Cal. Nov. 90 up
Warning that the War Food Admin
iStration "bombshell" proposal to
import 5000 tons of Turkish dried
figs would result in an "unprece-
dented market glut," Harold Hyde,
director of the California Fig In
stitute, announced that an emer-
gency meeting of CFI members had
ordered him 10 Washington, d. c.
to take "all manner and means tc
kill this disastrous program"
Hyde said that conferences had
been arranged with Senators Sheri-
dan Downey. Hiram johnson and
Congressman B. w. Gearhart and
John Phillips, designed to recall the
measure which he termed "a VIA
conceived effort to subject Ameri-
can production to competition with
foreign products
A CFI committee Tuesday re-
ported that growers had increased
fig production to a point greater
than at any time since 1926, and
that with importation of 5000 more
tcns-which was estimated at more
than seven times the normal amount
"a market flood would ensue."
@ Hyde said that the institute had
received no notification of the WA
program until Friday. when bull
letin from the Office of Distribu-
ton. WA. San Francisco, was
placed in the hands of importers
here. asking that they make appli-
.caticn for allotment of figs if they
imported prior 10 June 30. 1887
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-29
DEMOCRAT WINS

SACRAMENTO, Nov. 90. UP)-
The secretary of states office was
informed that a final official count
of November z ballots gave Fred
j. Emlay, Salinas, a Democrat, a
78-vote victory over Lloyd E. Tier
nan, San Luis Obispo, a Republi-
can, in the contest for assemblyman
from the 33rd district.
Emlay held narrow lead in the
unofficial count of civilian ballots
which was confirmed by absentee
and soldier votes. His election re-
suits i'll a 1945-47 assembly of 38
Democrats and AZ Republicans.
The 33rd district includes San
Luis Obispo and Monterey counties.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-29

day that Allied and neutral coun-
tries lost 575S merchant ships-an
average of between three and four
day--from the start of the war in
September. 1899, TO the end of l943.
The losses, which included 753
American vessels, represented o.
l6l 900 gross tons, or some 80 per
cent of all merchant shipping afloat
in the world just before the out
break of hostilities.
Based on Official figures from the
British government and the U. S.
War Shipping administration, the
report was issued through the Office
of War Information to give the first
overall picture of the price in
merchant ships paid by the Allies
in the battle TO keep steady stream
of supplies to the far-flung world
battlefrontS.
REPORT ENDS WITH 43
The report listed no losses be-
yond the end of 1913, but an un-
official United Press tabulation
showed at least II losses for this
year, Is OF them American ships.
This would raise total losses to
SITS.
Included in the official report
were losses from marine risks as
well as from action by all enemy
instrumentalitieS. No separate break
down was given for any enemy
weapon. including the moSt-telling
the Naz U-boat campaign that
accounted for hundreds of thous-
ands of tons of shipping before the
Allies gained mastery of the sea.
Though the total number of ships
sunk since the start of the war
5758-is staggering, an encouraging
fact IS that American shipyards
alone since 1899 have built 1903 ves-
sels. with a 6eadweight tonnage of
"A ,0s2 900.
WAS BLACK YEAR
The black year for the Allied mer-
chant fleet was 1912. when 1859
ships totaling S.338,000 gross tons