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The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-05-27

production. Eivin. further evidence
OF her satisfactory work in a
wide range OF industrial operations.
These firms are located ps.nci-
pal!y in the Philadelphia. Buffalo
and North Jersey areas and arc en-
ployin5 large numbers O. Negroes
IN production jobs for the first
time.
From the statements included in
the reports Feeetl ed blythe League
and IN conferences with officials of
ihesc industries. field representa-
iivoS Of the organization declared
that complaints about a5senlce.sm
race faction, and lncficicncy
among Negroes were seldom heard
Personnel and plant managers in
most industries have learned that
most Of the So-ca,led special PROB
Ions encountered IN the use OF Ne
gro workers IN other han tgsdi-
tonal jobs disappear when handled
.ntelLSc gently.
When questioned by League stan
members about POSTWAR employ
mcut for Negroes. MANAGEMENT in
tho majority o! the 700 plants OK
pressed ~ opt.m site point of v!cN.
Declaring that ,hey we're pcepar-
inS % expand production after TIC
war, they SAID there Was no reason
WY competent Negro workers
would not remain on the company
payroll.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-05-27

Eggplant IS another vegetable that
gives variety 10 your meak. Crisp and
golden brown are rules for cooking
them French fried. Another way 10
serve them is Creole style.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-05-27
TWO Leader To
Be Honor Guest

Mrs. Louise Thompson-Patterson.
national wise president Of the In
:cgnauonsl Workers Order. Will
De welcomed 20 Detroit al a re.
cepiion and dance in the grand
ballroom ot the - Horsemen's
CIVIC Center on Sunday. June 4,
stirling al pm.
LojscS 55l. $50 ana 500 O, The
International Workers Order.
nSors Of the program on June
1 viii play host 10 ne entire men,
bcrship o. the TWO on this occa-
sion Wa!ci is expected 20 90 one
- nc outstanding in;c.-gacial
events IN De;ro.. tnls year.
\ ca.a proSram O! entertainment
featuring singing and dancing by
entertain s Of many na,onaAucs.
VIII prcc, dc The ball. which Begins
Al 9 pm Music Will be by Ted
Reeves and his orchestra
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-05-27
Reuther To Speak
At Fourth Annual
States Coop Meet

WSl'cr Reu:he- Use prcSidcn. Of
the United Auto Workcr>-ClO. viii
speak before TIC toag,A annual
Congress o. Central States Cooper
s;.ves Saturday evening Mav q
Mr.. RCutHcr Is teii II the JAW
Consumer Division and member
OF Fc,rGalc Cooperative.
Other featured speakers arc Hlr-
land II Allen. we'll known invest
mcnt ccNroTiS: and author ~ Har-
land Aliens Economic Letter" and
Arnod Rom. assistant mrnascr Of
Central Cooperative Wholesale
The Congress VIII DC held al Nc
Michael school Grand River and
West Grand Boulevard The Con-
greSS Will celebrate the l00th ami
versary year OF the consumer CO.
operative movement and an 81 per
cent growth OF Central States CO.
operatives during the past year.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-05-27
PROTEST RACE.
BIAS, 500 NOW
OUT ON STRIKE.

BRIDGEPORT, Pa. Discrimina-
ton against Negroes last week re-
suited in 500 workers defying the
union, army and navy demands and
walking out OF the Continental Dia-
mond Fibre Manufacturing COM
pany, II was disclosed this week.
The strike OF members of the Lo-
cal 50, United Textile Workers
Union, ALL, was repeatedly pro-
Noked by repeated rebuffs from the
company union negotiations and the
company'S refusal 10 advance Nc
gro workers who have worked in
the plant for ten years or longer.
Four Negroes are now employed
by the plant and restricted TO the
rotary boiler room. two OF them.
Joseph Silas and Robert Williams.
have worked in the boiler room for
20 years with no opportunity for
advancement
The workers have agreed 10 re-
turn TO work il the discriminatory
practices Of the plant are corrected.
However Frank Anderson, vice
president OF the company refuses
TO guarantee anything until the
workers return 10 work.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-05-27
Dixie Railroads
And Unions Seek
NegroL

WASHINGTON - Management.
ana labor groups = a railroads
)pcratin. .o the sou y have asrecd
to meet and seek individual a-rcc-
ncn;s COVERING employment Jf Nc
go WORKERS. ACCORDING. to Chief
Justice Wake i. Stacy Of the
Nortl Carolina Ssprcme Court.
chairman Of special committee
no railroad employment appointed
oy President Roosevelt
Tho committee ca"c into being
when some OF nc railroads refused
- comply Win rulings ot tho
Pres dents Far Emp, aymcn Pgac-
uses committee covering cases Of
employment; discrimination against
Negroes. OtGcr committee mem
bcrS arc: judge William II Holly
OF the Fcicral Di,,..c, court. Chi
csgo, and Mayo Frank J. Lausche
Of Cleveland ONO
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-05-27

Eiecfricy is NOT rstoned But IFS production REQUIRES
coal and railroad transportation. Don't waste IN
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-05-27
NEWS AND VIEWS OF LABOR
Celebrate Three
Years FEPC Work
With Huge Rally

On June IS, l94l, President Frank
| lin d Roosevelt issued Executive
| Order 1902 which has since been
/ acclaim as the second enamel pa
ton proclamation The Presidents
Fair Employment Practice commit
/ tee, set up as the direct result Of
/ the Executive Order. has in the
| three years since Wcathered the
/ storms OF anti-Ngro, anti-minority,
undemocratic forces, and stands to-
/ day awaiting the sentence Of life or
/ death. The agency finds itself in
the very procarious position OF be-
ing attacked in Congress, and in
need OF $50 500 TO carry on It's work
for another year.
Unprecedented public sentiment
must be aroused TO save .FEPC. the
only agency which hos been effec-
tive IN breaking those discrimina-
tory pract ccs that tended 70 re-
tard the full utilization OF all man
power during our war crisis" said
VI IS Dorothy K. Funn. legislative
director for the National Negro
Congress The Detroit Council Of
the National Negro Congress is ask
ing that Congressman be flooded
with kilograms and letters urging
that the appropriation be granted
Cngressmen Rabaut and Enaells OF
Michigan are on the Appropriations
committee.
Rally June IS
In Leu of It's regular membership
meeting for the month Of June. the
National Negro Congress, Detroit
council is inviting all minority
groups 20 participate in a rally in
celebration OF the third anniversary
Of the sl2nlng of Executive Order
1902 on June IS, 1914. Speakers will
include Clarence Anderson. and
Atty c Francis Stratford, Chicago,
IL.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-05-27
Race Bias Clause
Ignored By Wards
At Union Meeting

In their first parley with Local 20
(ClO) Mail Order Warehouse and
Retail Employees Union. Montgom-
cry Ward & company spurned the
unions demands. which included a
fair employment practice which
would bar discrimination because Of
race. creed, color or national origin
or union membership
Henry B. Anderson. president Of
the local announced. the disagree
ment between the Ward company
end the union demands. II was dis
closed tina, the L S. Cancellation
Service and the War Labor Board
may be called upon again by the
union.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-05-27
Labor Union Group
For Hodges Mason

meeting held by the Political Ac-
ton Committee OF the UAW-CIO.
q, the Lucy Thurman YWCA.
Thursday. May 10. over the question
as 10 whether the committee should
30 on record in support Of Senator
Charles c. Digf for reelection 10
the third senatorial district or
whether they should endorse
Hoigcs Mason. vice presiden; OF the
Wayne County Political Action as
socistion, and preSiden; OF Local
209. UAW.ClO
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-05-27
Local Labor Union
To Aid EX-SOldiers

Seeking new ways 10 bcncfi,
service men and help the war effort.
the United Office ana Professional
Workers. Local 20. Go have been
invited. al their own request. 10
furnish a rumpus room for conva-
IeSIcni soldiers. ~ the Percy Jones
General Hospital AZ Battle Greek.
The local IS entertaining service
men free Al their annual Stcno ball.
10 Abe held June 10 in the Grand
ballroom o! INC Book Cadillac hoe
and part proceeds ~ the ball vii
DC used 20 furnish the room
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-05-27

Every indication pointed 20 the
for Digs and the other half was
Tor Mason. However. after il had
been made clear. tha; in the event
Digs would be supported by labor,
and won the election. then subSe.
quenly convicted OF tho charges
against him. labor as well as the
Negro would suffer for ls,k Of rep
reSentauon. the committee as a
whole began 10 fall m Inc with
Mason
Evening star., 1944-03-03
Uniformed Bandit Slain
In Attempted Ho|dup
BY The Associated Press.

DETROIT, Mar. ga man wear
ing the uniform of an Army Air
Forces sergeant was killed at the
door of a grocery here today and
police said Charles Eissa, the pro-
prietor, told him he shot the man
during robbery attempt.
Police detained a woman identi-
fed as a companion of the slain
man. .s.-. -.
Police said the woman, arrested
later at a hotel, confessed partici-
pating in the holdup attempt and
in the holdup Wednesday night of
August Stobbe, Bureau of Internal
Revenue emloye. Mr.. Stobbe, police
said, was robbed of 50, his hat and
overcoat.
Police said they found in the slain
mans clothing furlough papers is
sued to Sergt. Raymond A. Glenzo
of an Atlantic City IN. j. base and
an identification tag containing the
name of miller and an Army serial
number. In an automobile with
Louisiana license plates, which po-
llice said was parked outside the
grocery, were found Canadian Army
furlough papers issued to = George
|C. Negns. The slain man wore over.
lseas service ribbons on his chest. :.
Evening star., 1944-03-03
lease-Lend, British
shipments 10 Turkey
Reported Suspended
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
American lease-lend and British
mutual aid shipments to Turkey
were understood last night to have
been suspended in a move appar.
emily linked with vigorous military
and diplomatic preparations for the
Anglo-American invasion of Europe
The action, taken by the British
with full Allied approval, cuts Tur-
Key on. at least temporarily, from
her sources Of military supplies and
conlronts her with the necessity of
deciding whether to 60 more deeply
into the war on the United Nations
side or continue policy of neu-
traltty. favorable to the Allies, but
III some respects helpful to Ger
many.
Turkey has a position of great
strategic and political importance
IN relation to future European war
developments. Her northern border
Tanks Bulgaria and any strong move
on her part favorable to the Allies
would undoubtedly hasten the end
OF Bulgaria as German satellite
ana weaken the Nazi hold through
out the Balkans. That, in turn,
would facilitate the advance of
RUSSIAN armies into the Balkans,
The Allies apparently believe the
time has come for Turkey to choose
whether she should continue her
limited dealings with Germany or
close her European frontiers and
possibly take other steps-for ex-
ample granting air bases-which
might lead her to full-fledged in
volvement in the war.
Evening star., 1944-03-03
Funeral Of varnum Smith
Will Be Held Tomorrow

Varnum Smith, 64, Of 633 North
Kenmore street, Arlington, Va, a
retired employe of the Potomac
Electric Power Co., who died sud-
denly at his home on Wednesday
from a heart attack, will be buried
tomorrow after funeral services at
$3.50 pm. at the Ives funeral home,
2S47 Wilson boulevard, Arlington,
Va. Burial will be private.
Mr.. Smith, resident of Arlington
for Is years, Is survived by his
widow, Mrs. Blanche Smith: a son,
Charles v. Smith, Alexandria, Va. !;
a daughter, Mrs. Blanche s. Holland,
Arlington, Va; two grandchildren,
Joanna Holland, Is months old, and
Frances c. Smith, months old, and
two sisters, Mrs. Henry H. Lewis,
Glendale, Calf, and Mrs. William
c. Frazee, New Rochelle, N. Y.
Mrs. Smith was employed by the
power company for % years before
retiring year ago. He was in the
construction division at the time he
retired.
Evening star., 1944-03-03
Five Major Generals,
Two Naval Captains
Advanced in Rank

Maj. Gen. Holland NJ. Smith, U. S
M. c., who commanded marines In
the bloody conquest of Tarawa last
fall, as well as in the Marshalls in
vasion, was nominated by President
Roosevelt today to be a lieutenant
general
Also named to the rank of lieu
tenant general in the Army were
Maj. Gems. Courtney H. Hodges,
Raymond A. Wheeler and John c
H. Lee and Richard K. Sutherland.
The latter is chief of staff to Gen.
Douglas Macarthur.
Nominated to the rank of rear
admiral were Rear Admiral Louis E.
Denfleld, who holds that rank at
present by virtue of his command,
and Capt. Forrest B. Royal.
Also submitted to the Senate to-
day we're the nominations or "a brig
adler generals to be major generals,
and 43 colonies to be brigadier gen.
erals,
Evening star., 1944-03-03
Mahorner Resigns
District Legal Post

Assistant Corporation Counse,
Matthias Mahorner, jr., trial lawyer
with the District for the past eight
years. submitted his resignation to-
day to the Commissioners in order
to resume private practice.
He was appointed assistant cor
poration counsel September 8, 1896
and assigned to the trial of major
negligence and contract cases
against the city. His other duties
have included prosecution for crimi-
hal acts that come under the juris-
diction of the corporation counsels
onice, drafting legislation and testi-
flying before the District committees
OF Congress.
A native of Mobile, Ala, Mr.. Ma
horner was educated at the Univer-
sity Military School in Mobile,
Spring Hill College, and received his
law degree from Georgetown Uni
versity in 1924. After practicing in
his fathers law office in Mobile, Mr..
Mahorner was appointed in 1924
assistant general counsel of the
Florida West Coast Development Co.
In 1928 he returned to Washington
and became associated with the
firm OF Cuthell, White, Hotchkiss
and Mills, where he specialized in
practicing before Government de-
partments and agencies.
Mr.. Mahorner, who lives at 6401
Western avenue NV, was married
in 1925 to Margaret Callahan,
youngest daughter of the late Daniel
j. Callahan, former supreme treas
urer Of the Knights of Columbus
They have one daughter.
Evening star., 1944-03-03
D. {. Officials Deny
Employees Deprived
OF Three Days Pay

Denial that District employees are
being deprived" of three days pay
because of the staggering of pay
rolls came today from municipal
ofncials in reply to complaints filed
with the Senate District Committee
by DR.. I. J. Silverman of the Gal
linger Hospital staff.
Deputy Auditor Robert Mudd and
officials of the District budget Office
declared that when the time of the
payment of semimonthly payrolls
was set back day or two this did
not mean the employe lost credit
for the three days. but that pay
ment for them merely was de-
layed.
The payrolls were staggered, in
response to public requests, to les
sen long lines at cashier windows at
the banks on pay days.
DR.. Silverman, saying there is
no call for this chiseling," wrote
oAAS oOAAooC OAotA 1SO SOnllluGCcC ClldI
it seemed all District employees
have been deprived of three days
pay" and that possibly the Dis
trict officials have no intention of
ever making up the deficiency
He wrote this protest while ask
ing aid of the District Committee
in his efforts to collect from the
District $465 in back overtime pay
which he claims the city, govern
ment owes him. He based the
claim on the grounds he had
worked beyond the prescribed
work week, but had not been paid
for overtime hours, which he said
amounted to $31 a month for the
past Is months. - VI, +,
At the District building it was
recalled that last year the Com
missioners took the position, on the
basis of study by District Auditor
As, R. Pilkerton, Corporation Coun-
sci Richmond B. Keech and Budget
Officer Walter L. Fowler that the
Government overtime pay law was
not "self-executing" and that such
extra pay was earned only when the
worker was specifically instructed
to work beyond the customary. a
hours a week.
Evening star., 1944-03-03
Murder Defendants Flee
AS Jury Ponders Case
Iy the Associated Press,

Ey the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, Mar. 3.-While
q Superior Court jury started It's
third day Of deliberations in their
case, Anil Weller and Edwin Eas-
ley, charged with the murder Of .
dance hall proprietor during m at
tempted robbery, escaped yesterday
from the county jail on the ninth
floor of the Hall Of Justice and ned
In an ambulance. ..---
With the steel leg Of . jail bench
they knocked out q deputy sheriff
and an elevator operator, overpow-
cred another elevator operator and
dropped the elevator cage to the
bottom floor Of the building.
There they leaped into . city
ambulance that had been left by
its driver and sped out the rear en-
trance Of the structure.
They abandoned the ambulance q
few blocks away and continued their
flight In q stolen automobile.
Robert La Plante, on trial with
them, was seized by ..ailers when
he attempted to join their escape.
With Mrs. Katherine Stager, moth
er of Weller, the three youths are
charged with the murder Of Will
liam Lederer, killed as he was tax
ing the receipts Of his dance hall
to q safety deposit vault.
Evening star., 1944-03-03
Nazi War Prisoners
Twill Cut Wood PuIp
BY the Associated Press.

FORT DEVENS, Mass, Mar. g.
Establishment of q German pris-
oner-of-war camp at this post, to
serve as a base camp for New Eng
land, was announced yesterday by
Col Howell M. Estes, post COM
mander. The camp is under con-
struction and scheduled for early
occupancy.
Prisoners, enlisted men with the
possible exceptions of German
chaplains or medical officers, will be
sent under guard to various sections
of New England to be used prin-
cipally as labor on wood pulp prof.
ects which now are hampered by
the manpower shortage.
The prisoners will be paid 10 cents
daily for camp maintenance work,
80 cents daily additional for out
side work which will be paid in
stockade canteen credits.
Col. Estes said civilian employers
will pay the Government prevailing
local wages, the excess over 80 cents
daily to go toward defraying camp
expenses.
The prison camp commander will
be Col. Harold G. Storke of Hull,
former director of internal security
for the 1st Service Command.
Capt. John B. Hoard, IT,, Of Bos-
ton will be provost marshal. He
formerly was in charge Of camp Of
5000 Italian war prisoners at st.
Denis, North Africa.
Evening star., 1944-03-03
War Loan Drive Over
Goal by II Billions;
Il. Bonds Pass Quota

The Treasury announced today
that the $14 y000, 900 900 Fourth War
Loan goal has been exceeded by $2.-
730 900 900, but even more i'm
pressive in Treasury eyes was the
s., ,187 900 900 obtained from buyers
OF "E" bonds-the so-called "peo-
pies bond"
Meanwhile, President Roosevelt
described the drive as q tremendous
success and said the people seemed
to be responding In increasing num-
bers. He said more war loan cam
paigns will be held and that the
small bonds that are being pur-
chased show that the people realize
that the Government needs the
money.
The series z quota was exceeded
for the first time during war financ-
ing. The sum represented 10000 900
separate purchases, 7,5O0,00 more
than In the Third War Loan drive
last September.
The Treasury said individuals
bought an aggregate of 81, 500 900, :
600 worth Of securities; insurance
companies and mutual savings
banks 50, ,403, , 900 900; other corpora
tions, associations and investors, ST.
585 ,000, 600, and dealers and brokers,
$432 900 900, for grand total OF
$16. .730, 900 900.
The Treasury's final report was
delayed more than two weeks after
the official closing of the drive to
permit reports from all of $4,000
bond-issuing agencies throughout
the country.
John A. Reilly, chairman of the
District War Finance Committee
yesterday said the final District fig
ures would be made public Sum
day. Reports through Wednesday
showed the District had raised
$10S, soc. 900 or 114.3 per cent of a
| sos. 900 600 Quota
Evening star., 1944-03-03
Six-A|arm Fire Sweeps
Hotel in Philadelphia
Ey the Associated Press.

Ey the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, Mar. "a six.
alarm fire swept through the Ma.
jestic Hotel in downtown Philadel.
phia late yesterday, driving out more
than 300 persons.
Within Is minutes after the fire
was discovered,s the 10-story, 1872.
room structure had been emptiec
and G. E. Myers, resident manager
said check showed no one, was
injured.
Rescuers fought their way through
thick smoke to carry out a score o1
bedridden invalids. More than 8
dozen were carried down ladders.
Forty-one pieces Of fire apparatus
practically all equipment in the
central city area-fought the flames
which apparently broke out in the
upper floors and spread upward and
downward. Sparks set fire to a
three-story, wing facing on Broad
street, the city's main thoroughfare
Evening star., 1944-03-03
"A. P. Corrects Account
OF Seaman's Trial
D.
By the Associated Press


COLUMBUS, Ohio, Mar. 3.-The
Associated Press made two errors of
fact in reporting a decision of Fed
eral Judge Nell G. Underwood
February 9, ruling military courts
hold jurisdiction over civilian per-
sonpel working on vessels operated
in Army supply lines.
Judge Underwood denied a peti-
| ton for writ of habeas corpus
sought by Jacob N. Berue, merchant
seaman, serving term in the Chill
licothe (Ohio) Federal reformatory
Berue was sentenced to seven
years at hard labor by an Army
courtmartial at Casablanca, Algeria
on a charge of provoking an Incl
dent on the high seas; the sentence
later was reduced to two years. It
was alleged that while member
of the crew of the steamship An
thony Wayne, he struck the master
of the ship.
The Associated Press dispatch er-
roneously stated Berue's petition ad-
mitted he struck the ships master.
The petition contained no such ad-
mission.
The dispatch also enormously
quoted Judge Underwood as saying
that the vessel was carrying SOL
diers and military supplies in con-
voy through seas infested by sub
marines to actual fighting lines of
the Army The ship did not carry
soldiers. Judge Underwood's opinion
pointed out that the incident
charged against Berue was said to
have occurred abroad a vessel which
was one of group carrying military
supplies. A cargo security officer
aboard was the only soldier on the
Wayne.