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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1944-11-04
To Review Cases
OfTweIve Seabees

joined with NAACP Special Coun-
sci Thurgood Marshall, in request
ing that all cases be consolidated
and single hearing date set.
The twelve seabees were among
the original fifteen who we're given
undesirable discharges for dis
cuSsing racial grievances at a sup
posedly "off the record" meeting
called by the Commanding Officer,
which they were on duty at. base
in the Pacific.
On September 10 the NAACP APP
pealed for review of dismissals for
two Of the men, under the G. /.
Bill OF rights which empowers the
secretary of the Navy to establish
man boards to review such cases.
However, all cases will now be con-
solidated and heard December 4th.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1944-11-04
Marriage, Health
Discussed At N. C..
College Conference

DURHAM, N. Ca N P)-Con-
servation of marriage and the
family and student health were
the themes of conferences meeting
here at North Carolina college last
Friday and Saturday Noted speak
ers addressed both conferences.
The third annual conference on
marriage conservation and the
family, directed an inquiry into the
status of the wartime family in an
all day session of round tables and
general meetings Friday.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1944-11-04
Gibson, Roberts
In Soldier Film

seas show how this teamwork ac-
tually operates on the field of
battle.
The films brought back by Moss
are reported to be masterpieces of
technical production. Only the
best experts were used for the
camera work. One of the air-forces
is in technicolor.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1944-11-04
Preachers Aid
In Putting Halt
To Absenteeisnl
Campaign To
Keep Arsenal
Workers On Job

PINE BLUFF, AKA N P)-
The story of how colored minis
tiers helped the war effort by help
ing Brig. Gen. A. M. Prentiss, COM
handing general Of the Pine Bluff
arsenal, stop abSenteeism was re-
vealed last week. The local arsenal
has not missed a production sche-
dule in Is months and ranks first
among the nations war production
plants.
BRIG. Gen. Prentiss, VINO is said
to be a "true southern gentleman,
had a real labor problem on his
hands when colored workers, COM
prising so per cent of the total
number of employees at the arse
nal, began laying off in large
numbers
One day members of the Negro
Ministerial alliance called on him
and asked if they could do any
thing to assist him, which indicat-
ed their loyal and patriotic spirit.
You can" he replied hurriedly.
Preach from your plllpits that
absenteeism Is wrong. That we
need every man-hour vac can get
We need higher production We are
working to win a just war"
Gen. Prentiss got higher pro-
duction. Absenteeism dropped off TO
an almost record low at the ar
senal. The ministers preached from
their pulpits and called on their
disciples to work for democracy and
God.
They responded and the Pine
Bluff arsenal has not missed a
production schedule in more than
Is months, record which has
placed the arsenal first 2
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1944-11-04

WASHINGTON, D. C.-CNNPA)
TO help work out plans for the
Forthcoming picture of the Negro
soldier in combat, Truman Gibson,
Civilian Aide to the Secretary of
War, and Maj. Homer Roberts,
chief of the Negro News desk in
the Bureau of Public Relations at
the War Department, have gone to
Hollywood. They left last week.
The new picture, for which Car
Teton Moss, script writer for the
film Negro Soldier" went over
seas to gather material, will have
as its theme that the American
Army is a team on which ali races,
creeds and colors participate and
have an important role. Effort was
made to have the scenes shot over
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1944-11-04
WACs To Be Moved
From Claiborne, La.

WASHINGTON, D. C.-(NNPA)
Removal of the Negro WACS
from Camp Claiborne, La, has been
ordered by the War Department
the NNPA has learned this week.
Camp Claiborne has been the scene
of bitter racial tensions and incl
dents, the proportions of which the
Secretary of War told his press
conference a few weeks ago had
been exaggerated in the press.
A more suitable location for the
WACS is now being sought.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1944-11-04

WHITE PLAINS, N. va N 2
The next time a woman at a
railroad station asks Andrew Glow
er. 20, to carry her child while she
transfers to another train, he will
comply only after reluctance.
Mrs. Rosa Lee Miller, %, asked
the young Bowman, S. c., farm
hand to carry her son Samuel,
three years old, to the New York
train, but when the train pulled
out the mother was nowhere
around, Glover explained to police
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1944-11-04
FRANCE COMES BACK

The resent wave of recognitions
of the French provisional govern
ment should meet wholehearted
approval and support of all lovers
of democracy and freedom. France
always was, until the Huns came,
the democratic country in Western
Europe, as Soviet Russia Is the
most democratic country in East
ern Europe. The establishment and
recognition of Frances provisional
government betokens the time when
all men regardless of color will
again, as of old, mingle and enjoy
together that democratic hospitali-
ty which was alWayss peculiarly
Frances.
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Report Natives
Sharpen Spears
ToGreet Hitler
German Leaders
Already Study
African Dialect
Bv CHATWOOD HALL
(OnIy Negro Correspondent
in RuSSia)

Nose Wa N P)-Rumors
have it here in Europe that Ger
man fascist big Shots" such as
Ribbentrop and Funck, have re-
Gently been feverishly negotiating
With Portuguese governmental au-
thorities relative to Portugal CIV
ing Nazi leaders a refuge in Portu-
guese African colonies.
Other reports have it that lead
ing Nazis and Storm Troopers
have been taking intensive short
courses in African dialects, feeling
that this knowledge will be useful
to them after they flee to the black
continent. With world wide COM
munications being what they are,
there Is no doubt that the natives
of Portugals African colonies have
heard of this fascist getaway plan.
Besides, the natives of PortugaPs
African colonies already knew OF
''Mein Kampf" and the Majdanek
death factory" in Poland where
Germans cooked. &. hundreds OF
thousands Of Prencnmen, Italians,
Belgian5, Chinese, Negroes, Rus
slams. Poles and Jews.
SHARPEN SPEARS
In Mozambique, Angola and Sac
Thome, there must be a great and
hurried sharpening of spears to
welcome these fascist Aryan blonde
cannibals. Cannibalisn disappear
ed from Africa long ago and con-
temporary Africans do not well
come its return in the form OF
German Nazi head hunters. OF
course, the Nazi refugees, if they
should succeed in reaching Mozam-
bique or Angola, which is highly
doubtful, can have one consolation
that the natives will not boil and
eat them.
Not even these contemporary
Africans, whose ancestors practic-
ed cannibalism, would find Nazi
fascist meat. appetizing. 1t would
turn their stomachs. AS for what
ever knowledge the Nazis may have
gained of native dialects, it would
do them no good, because the only
words that the well-informed ma
tives would have to speak to them
as they landed would be "uncon-
ditional capitalization"
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BET He WON'T. HOLD
ANY MORE CHILDREN

officers last week. Not knowing
what else to do with the child
Glover took thesboy from New York
to White Plains, to his sisters
home.
After ninerstate alarm for
the mother waso broadcast Mrs.
Miller showed up and explained
that she lost Gloyer in the crowd
and when she returned to the sta
ton in search of the boy he was
gone. Mrs. Millefs arrival greatly
relieved Glover.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1944-11-04

NEW YORK - Is N s. - The
NAACP's request to the United
States Nays Board of Review to
review the 'unfitness discharge" of
IL Negro Seabees dismissed from
the u. S. Naval Reserve, October
%, 1913, has been granted, and
hearing set for Dec. II, 1914.
Attorney Gerald K. Weatherley
who Is representing Isaac McNatt
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JACKSONVILLE
HONORS SIMMS

JACKSONVILLE, Fla.-(A N p
Jacksonville honored one of its
most prominent sons Sunday,
when a public testimonial was given
at Stanton High school to John
A. Sinms, former manager of the
two housing projects for Negroes
here, but who recently resigned to
accept a post as theatre execu-
tive
Evening star., 1944-05-24
For the Record

The report on this years District
appropriation bill, now before the
House for action, contains fine
compliment to the Commissioners
which is in pleasant contrast to
some of the criticism they have
suffered in the past year.
1t is worth recording, in the
language of the report:
The committee would feel remiss
II 1t did not pay . much-deserved
tribute to the Chairman of the
Board of Commissioners, Mr.. John
Russell Young, and to the two Com
missioners, Mr.. Guy Mason and Gen.
eral Charles w. Kutz, for their un-
firing efforts to give the District q
better government. Commendation
should also 60 to the District budget
ofncer, Mr.. Walter L. Fowler, and
his very able assistants, for their un-
usual grasp and understanding Of
the financial affairs Of the District
and for the cooperative attitude
exhibited by them during the hear
tngS. In brief, 1t Is the feeling of the
committee that the District may con-
slider itself fortunate in having in its
employ the caliber of individuals
represented by those who appeared
before the committee. They are
doing a fine job under what may be
termed not the most favorable con-
ditions.
Coming from the House Committee
on Appropriations, never noted for
wearing its heart on its sleeve, that
is praise indeed.
Evening star., 1944-05-24
Another StuIinqrud?

1t is less than two weeks since the
start of our Allied offensive in Italy.
but within that time the so-called
Gustav and Hitler Lines have been
shattered and many thousands of
Nazi troops have been taken pris-
oner. Reports from the front indi-
cate that our advancing forces may
soon effect a junction with those
now striking from the Anzio bridge
head, and one OF our top officers on
the scene is quoted as saying that
the enemy is not withdrawing
according to plan but is being driven
into "disorderly" retreat.
The Fifth and Eighth Armies
have thus made an auspicious begin
ming on the great task cut out for
them when General Sir Harold
Alexander, their commander in
chief, declared at the opening of the
offensive that their objective en-
compassed nothing less than the
complete destruction of all Hitler's
forces in Italy. These forces have
been reliably estimated at Is divi-
sions, II of them facing us south of
Rome. Accordingly, if our troops
can keep pressing forward as hard
and as fast as they have since the
start Of the present campaign and
If the heavy new Anzio drive is
followed by leapfrogging movements
farther up the Italian coast, the
Nazis may conceivably suffer, in the
not-too-distant future, a defeat
comparable to that of Stalingrad or
TuniSia-a defeat involving the loss
of 100000 or more troops.
1t remains to be seen, of course.
whether the Nazis will not recover
from the initial shock of our drive
in time to escape any great entrap-
ment below Rome or in the general
Rome area. They have shown In
the past, especially in Russia, that
they are experts at conducting bitter
Evening star., 1944-05-24

rearguard actions to cover large
scale Withdrawals, and as their
counterattack at Terracina suggests,
they may succeed in doing the same
thing again in the Italian theater,
perhaps falling back eventually as
far north as the Po. Nevertheless,
considering the nature of the ter
rain in Italy and the fact that our
air power there has struck smash
ing blows at railroads and other
communications facilities, it is at
least possible that they will be un-
able either to stop or elude us this
time.
In any event the aim of our bffen-
sive is to inflict another Stalingrad
on Hitler, and If that Is achieved,
all past talk about the secondary
Importance of the fighting in Italy
will seem, by hindsight, vastly ill-in-
formed. For such defeat at this
particular point in the war, in both
a military and political sense, would
be even more disastrous for the
Nazis than was the original Stalin-
grad
Evening star., 1944-05-24
The Monsoon Breaks

The monsoon has set in, heralded
by herce gales anf torrential rains
which will persist until the end of
the wet season in midautumn.
Practicable within a fortnight, it's
explosive suddenness is due to the
climatic overturn of the atmos-
pheric balance in Southern Asia.
The monsoon dominates every phase
OF life in that part of the world, in
cluding the waging of war. Literal
Iy overnight, the entire character
OF the countryside changes. Sum
baked valley floors turn first to mud
Dogs and then to shallow lakes,
Half-dry river beds swell to raging
torrents. The tinder-dry Jungle
clothing the hills and mountains
become sopping inferno of Shiny
mold, soggy vegetation and fever
breeding insects. Transportation is
confined to railways or the few high
roads built solidly enough to with
stand terrific rain erosion. Air
transport is likewise greatly reduced.
All this means that, during the
monsoon season, large-scale cam
paigning becomes virtually impos-
sible.
Foreseeing this situation and
knowing approximately the date of
its arrival, the Allies and the Japa-
nese have each been conducting
race against time which, to in
formed observers, has been one of
the most exciting episodes of the
entire war. The Allied race was
directed from the northern reaches
OF India's Assam Valley down the
adjacent tip Of Burma. Command
Evening star., 1944-05-24

ed by our own General Stilwell, a
mixed force of British, Chinese and
Indian troops with American engi-
neer and air units has been ad-
vancing steadily southwark, build
ing an all-weather highway as they
went. Their primary objective was
the Japanese bases of Myitkyina and
Mogaung, which are the railroads
of the Burmese railroad system on
which the Japanese chiefly rely. The
ultimate goal was the reopening of
the Burma road into China.
Appreciating stilwell's threat, the
japanese high command ventured
strategic stalemate by launching
an invasion of India. aimed at cut
ting Stillwell's Assam Valley supply
line. For time, 1T looked as though
the japanese might succeed; but
they were held, and their large
forces on the Indian border are now
virtually isolated in the Manipur
jungles and face destruction by
famine and disease without shelter
from the monsoon.
Meanwhile, Stilwell has appar-
emily won his race Large japanese
forces to the northward are isolated.
To cap the climax, the Chinese
offensive launched from Yunnan
Province has recovered a section of
the Burma Road and stands almost
at the Burmese border. Even with
monsoon handicaps, 1t is possible
that this concerted operation can be
completed and the japanese hold
on all Northern Burma be broken.
Evening star., 1944-05-24
On the Record
By Dorothy Thompson

The publication after almost q month
OF the sensational interview granted to
Joseph Morton of the Associated Press
by Marshal Tito, reveals disturbing
Things. leave out Of account the politi-
cal statement which probably caused
the suspension Of the interview by the
censors-the accusation that Mihailo-
vichs Chetniks are aiding the Germans
in the fight against the National Com
mittee of Liberation.
1t is the statistical revelation of the
suf1erings of the Yugoslav people that
demands attention. Tito claims that
lone twelfth of the entire Slav popula-
tion OF YugoslaviaV has been DESTROYED
by the Germans and their Quislings.
They have plundered wide areas,
carrying on horses, cattle and sheep:
burning down thousands of houses and
destroying some towns entirely. One
hundred and ten thousand soldiers OF
the National Liberation Army have been
killed"
One must compare these casualty
figures with Tito's estimate that his
entire army consists Of 250,000 soldiers.
This army has held up II German d.
visions, 4 Bulgarian, 10000 $50 200
Croats. and at least 5000 other forces.
Titos armies have liberated 10000
square kilometers Of territory, with
5000, ,000 Inhabitants.
This is record of unexampled eour-
age and Effectiveness, equal to the record
of the Soviet Union-and with incom-
parably less means.
And 1t Is record Of terrible in
suf1ciency Of aid from the Anglo
American Allies. Politics complicated
this. Tlto's armies have had to contend
with the opposition Of the government
Of King Peter, and his supporters in
the western world. The government in
exile, Tito accuses, holds unused. the
Yugoslav ships, first seized by the ItaI-
ians, and then turned over to the Anglo
Americans and through them to King
Peters government. This same govern
ment also holds the gold reserves of the
Yugoslav national bank
Tito's armies are fighting without the
most primitive necessities in the form
OF medical supplies. Operations by
partisan physicians on wounded SOL
diers are being made without anaes-
Evening star., 1944-05-24

thesia. The civilian population suffers
such famine that-from other sources
than Tito's interview-I am informed
that mothers have killed their children
to stay their cries for bread.
One must know this terrain, In the
Karst Mountains, where, even normally,
LIE Is impoverished and hard How any
government in exile, no matter what its
politics, can allow this agony OF its
people and expect to be welcomed home
after the war, is beyond comprehension.
AND regardless Of gold reserves, it
would be possible-and say 1t flatly-to
raise millions for relief from ordinary
American workers of Yugoslav origins.
II 1t were possible for them to shin
medical supplies and food to the area.
Tito has given one answer: There
are Yugoslav ships. And, furthermore.
Yugoslavia Is an important theater of
war entitled to the barest necessities for
waging war.
The material destruction of Europe.
wrought by this war, is restorable. But
the human destruction that is goinp
on-the fact that wide masses of people
are suffering every variety Of psyche.
neurotic manifestation-will have last
ing effects.
what i the UNRRA doing7 Tito
quotes the charter of the UNRRA:-
Help will be forthcoming immediately
on liberation" But the Committee Of
Liberation has no representative in the
UNRRA.
The psychological restoration of the
European peoples can only come from
two things; Speedy relief following VIC
tories, and the creation of new aims.
new faiths, new convictions, new hopes
The emotions that have been released
among the European peoples will con-
tinue even after the war in the most
nysterical outbreaks of destruction, un-
less they are canalized into construc.
ton. The strength of Tito, working
amongst overcharged people, is that he
gives them action, while holding before
them the vision Of the new Yueoslayia.
IN q new Balkans, in q new Europe.
And God help Us If we leave the
peoples Of Europe without quick relief
and without q vision Of their own
future.
(ReieA sed hy The p.u av,A;..+. x>
Evening star., 1944-05-24

the French near Pico and the 29th
Panzer Grenadier Division he sent rae
ing down the Appian Way to push the
american patrols out of Terracina. But
the results he obtained were only tenn
porary. The French lost their high
ground between Pico and Pontecoryo
but they promptly retook 1t, and the
Germans now admit that Pico has been
evacuated. The Americans could not
stay In Terracina, but American armored
forces are now fighting along the coastal
road and their infantry is penetrating
the mountains behind the town. The
British, meanwhile, have driven a deem
wedge into the northern flank of the
German position, probably along the
north edge of the Liri Valley.
What is Kesselrings situation now7
He has flve divisions, two groups passing
as divisions (though sWeaker) and the
remnants of six other divisions pinned
down along the front from Piedemonte
to Terracina. He has four divisions
facing the beachhead-also presumably
about to be pinned down or perhaps
showed back. His remaining reserve.
including all that he can still bring from
his eastern wing, amounts to three di-
visions-two of them, probably, armored
divisions. lThe 7th, 28th and 18th
Armored Divisions are believed to be in
Italy and have not yet been identified
IN the front line. One of them is prob
ably among the four divisions at the
oeachhead) His eastern front Is now
held by mere detachments.
1t is at this moment that Gen. Alex
ander orders the beachhead troops to
advance.
1t is also at this moment that British
Minister of Information Brendan
Bracken says in a London speech: st can
tell you that the Germans are receiving
one OF the greatest thrashings in their
history"
And it Is also at this moment that we
hear from Sweden that Adolf Hitler's
own paper, the Volkischer Beobachter,
is saying: THE German retreat, so far
as can be judged, will continue to North
Italy"
No doubt 1t will if Kesselring can get
away. He is shifting his defensive
strength toward the IIiri and Sacco VAL
leys to protect his main line of retreat.
But he has little other reserve strength.
the Allies have complete air superiority
and great part of the German Army
has been badly mauled already. It looks
as though Mr.. Bracken may have called
the turn.
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