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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-12-20
Christmas Theme
of W.C.T.U. Group

a Christmas program arranged
by Mrss. Cotton Cottrell. and ex.
| change Of Christmas gifts featured
the December meeting OF the Cal.
kins Women's Christian Temper
ance Union. Tuesday afternoon at
the home OF Mrs. Fred Spencer
The Christmas story from st. Luke
was read by Miss Caroline Bowen
in leading the deyotions. She
closed with prayer.
The business meeting was con.
Quoted by Mrs. W. f. Dixon, pres
ident. 1t was voted TO give rs dozen
cookies to the U.S.O. this week end.
The If members and one guest
Joined in singing silent Night"
An effective ceremony was the
lighting Of five candles by each OF
five members, having gilt letters
spelling the word shine" after re-
peating a scripture verse beginning
with her letter. Those taking part
were Mrs. Lloyd Barnes, Mrs. W..
W. Young, Mrs. Amanda Dubois,
Miss Mary Crane and Mrs. w. F..
Dixon.
Mrs. Cottrell read a parody about
the liquor traffic. to the tune OF
Let the Lower Lights Be Burn
ing" The program closed with
prayers for Loyal Temperance
Legion boys in service, given by
Mrs W. w. Youngs, Mrs, Barnes
and Miss Bowen.
A report OF the national W.C.T.U.
convention in Columbus, o., early
in the fall, was given by Mrs. Paul
Hatch, delegate.
Christmas gifts were exchanged,
and light refreshments were served
by the hostess assisted by Mrs.
Dixon. The January meeting will be
with Mrs Hatch.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-12-20
Two Hundred at
Public Ceremony

The public installation OF officers
OF Phoenix Lodge number IS, F. and
A. NJ, and dinner preceding, in the
Masonic Temple, Tuesday evening
was attended by about two hundred
members. relatives, and interested
friends. The delicious chicken din
ner served at tables decorated with
Christmas greens, was prepared
by women OF the Eastern Star.
Before going into the lodge room
for the installation, the installing
officers. past masters, Charles X.
Bohn, Hugh Dinsdale. Frederick
Lambert, Otis Lee, and Fred Cain
and the new corps OF officers head
eed b y Howard Trotter, worshipful
master elect, were introduced by
James Bell, retiring worshipful
master.
The officers installed were How.
ard Trotter, worshipful master;
Willis Tooman, senior warden:
Cecil Cornwell. junior warden:
Morton c. Crane. treasurer; Rich
ard Eyerard. secretary; Harry
Hersch, chaplain: John Montonye,
senior deacon: Charles Fagin, jun
Tor deacon; Frank Besore, senior
steward; Jesse Mangus, junior
steward; Ralph Taylor, marshal;
and c. Fred Beck, tyler.
At the conclusion OF the installa.
ton ceremonies, Past Master Bell
was presented with his past mas
ter's apron and jewel by Morton c.
Crane, past master.
Worshipful Master Trotter an
nounced that the next meeting will
be January 9, which is the regular
communication.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-12-20
DISQUALIFICATION SEEN

East Lansing, Mich, Dec. 70
AP-More than $4,000 additional
farms will be added to the 145,6OO
now electrified when materials are
available after the war, d. +. Want,
OF the Michigan State College Agri-
cultural engineering department,
said today. Want said three ma
jor power companies serving the
state have informed him they will
construct an estimated 1000 miles
Of lines at cost OF nearly $4,000
900 within two or three years after
the war ends.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-12-20

Steere, Margaret Boutell, George
Dawson, and Richard Cazier.
Members OF the publicity commit
tee were Jack Jacobson, chairman
Lois Hopp, and Elaine Power. Re
freshment committee is Mickey
Kerr, chairman, Phoebe White,
Maurine Nelson, Vernegene Krug-
er. Bernice Bride, Jeanne Kenney,
Pat Ogle, and Audrey Jacobson.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-12-20
Senior Glass Sponsor Of
Christmas Party zomgh

The annual Senior Christmas
party will be given tonight from s
to II p. m. in the Ypsilanti High
School gymnasium, sponsored by
the Senior Glass.
Decorations will follow the
Christmas theme. The decoration
committee consists OF Betty Clark.
chairman, Ellen Camp, Rosemary
Seymour, Robert Westman, Jack
Schafer, Joseph Schmidt, Jack
Wiltse, George Baker. Nancy
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-12-20
Spencer School
Will Have Play

A Christmas play titled, Christ
mas at Home with choral music
will be presented at Spencer School
this evening by 9rd, 4th, 5th, 9Th
grades Immediately following the
regular monthly meeting OF the
Parent-Teachers Association at
1880.
The leading characters in the
play, which is under the direction
of Mrs. Sarah Milliman, Mrs. Syl-
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-12-20
THE WILLOW RUN News

via Regetz and Mrs. Helen Jed
ele, are: Richard Ramsey, Betty
Cummings, Diane Shepherd, Bar
bara Truan, Irene Meadows and
Ralph Rose.
The chorus is under the. direc'
ton of Miss Beatrice McManus.
Sidney Worral, vice president OF
the association, will preside at
the meeting.
The children in the LIST and End
grades presented tableaux OF the
Nativity and sang Christmas carols
Tuesday afternoon. About 40 VS.
itors were present.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-12-20
Salvation Army
to Have Party

The Salvation Army Christmas
party will be Thursday at the Sal
walton Army Citadel on S. Park
St, at 1880 p. m.
The pupils Of the Sunday School
will give many recitations during
the program and these will be fol-
lowed by a play under the super
vision OF Mrs. Phillis Oliver.
In the closing OF the program
Santa Claus will make his ap-
pearance to distribute gifts to all
present.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-12-20
No END OF END PLAYS

APPARENTLY there Is no linn
n to the variety Of lead-throwing
end-plays. When an opponent Is
tossed in. he may have all sorts
of different unpleasant options
among which he can choose. Re-
turning a low card OF a certain
suit may give the deelarer his con-
tract by one procedure, and a high
card of the same suit will do 1t in
another way Still another process
will be employed II the defender
returns a certain other suit. and
yet another II it Is neither Of those
suits. but something else.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-12-20
Fine Points in Bndqe

the 10 to force the A, ruffed the
returned club X with the spade 4.
led the spade S to the A. scored
the diamond K. discarding the
heart 8. then led the heart 2 to the
K and A.
There was poor West In the
lead, East was due to get one
more trick with the spade K, but
another could not be picked up. II
West returned a low diamond. the
J would furnish a discard Of the
heart 8. II he returned the Q.
South would ruff and lead the
spade 2 to the 3 to force the K.
leaving the 8 as an entry to use q
diamond for the heart discard. II
West returned a club. the heart 8
could be discarded on a run by the
dummy. II he returned the heart
J. the Q would win and the 10 be
good. So he returned the heart Q.
but the 10 won that. and only the
spade K remained out as a WIN
ner for the defense. Anything
West did would have wrecked him.
1t was a neat play Of a gaudy
hand.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-12-20
Host to Children

Ypsilanti Aerie No. 1850, Frater-
ral Order OF Eagles, was host to
175 children at their annual Christ
mas party Monday night. Santa
Claus gave away games, toys, can
dy, nuts and fruit. A fine floor show
featured by pupils Of Miss Marjorie
Backus entertained. Ypsilanti
Aerie will not be open Monday,
Nee OK
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-12-20
Enjoy Party

Fifteen girls OF Girl Scout Troop
No. %. Miss Olga Eyerard, lead
er, enjoyed a delightful Christmas
party at this meeting Tuesday af-
ternoon. Miss Everard directed an
hour OF games, and led the Troop
in singing Christmas carols. Mrs.
Fred Fisher and Mrs. Wilbur Best,
members OF the Troop committee
served refreshments, and later pre-,
scented the Troop treasury with a
new ten dollar bill, the gift of the
Presbyterian Women's Union
which sponsors Troop No. %.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-12-20
Dinner Program Tree For
Business Professional Club

A delicious dinner, a beautiful
Christmas program and tree were
enjoyed by the Ypsllanti Business
and Professional Women's Club,
Tuesday evening, at their meeting
in the Ladies' Literary Club House
The turkey dinner was served by
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-12-20
Recruits Received

Three new recruits we're voted
into membership at the meeting Of
Ypsilanti Post, Veterans OF Foreign
Wars. at their meeting Tuesday
evening in Veterans Hall-William
Hudson OF the L. S. Navy, John
Atkinson OF the U. S. Engineers
and Kenneth wallace OF the U. S.
Infantry. Plans for the Dec. Is
meeting of the new Fathers OF Men
in Service Club were made. This
Post received a citation from the
State Department VIEW, for fill
ing its quota more than 100 per
cent in the welfare drive for the
benefit OF the National Home at
Eaton Rapids.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-12-20
Bible Readings

Wednesday, December 20: Psalm 81
Written by a man who deeply
understood our own unworthi-
ness as compared with the
goodness OF God.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-12-20
To Be Hosts

Mr.. and Mrs. d. Rodney Mast will
be hosts for the annual Casselberry
family Christmas party at their
home on Oakwood Ave.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-12-20

Dealer: South. North-South
vulnerable.)
II both sides are foxy. what In
the slickest play to the drst four
tricks here. with South seeking
5 Diamonds i?
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-12-20
Have Christmas Party

On Tuesday evening, December
10. the young people of the Junior
High department Of the Methodist
Sunday School had a Christmas
party. Games were played in the
basement of the church, and two
prizes were awarded. one for the
best Christmas telegram and one
for the best picture illustrating a
Christmas carol. They were award
ed to Betty Lou Mead and John
Midkiff. After the games the group
went to the Church House for
singing OF carols. Marilyn Begole
gave as a reading The Blessed
Migrants" by Bosworth, after
which refreshments we're served.
Young people on the committee
were Barbara Bachelor, George
Everett, and jeanne Wilson.
The Misses Doris and Marjorie
Milliman are spending a few days
at st. Joseph, the guest OF Miss
Mary Louise Finn. They attended
the Christmas party Tuesday eve
ming OF the new Twin Cities Bust
ness and Professional Women's
Club there.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse Person, Bemis
Road, will have as dinner guests
Christmas day, Mr.. and Mrs. Lester
Klein and daughters, Janet and Pa
tricia, Mr.. and Mrs. c. II. Cassel.
berry and Judy Lee Beckman, Te-
cumseh.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-12-20

Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Hess, De
troit. spent the week end with Mr.
and Mrs. Phillip Santure.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-12-20

dealer: South. East-West vlll-
nerable.l
South West North East
IA Pass 70 Pass
"a Pass 80 Pass
-
J Rowley w. Philips edited his
partner, J. Harlin O'Connell. him
self a great end-plsy and squeeze
specialist. on this deal during a
rubber bridge tournament Of the
Union club in New York. Mr.. Phil
lips put one Of the fanciest finishes
on the hand that has been seen in
some time.
Winning the club ] lead with
the A. he found all sorts Of gaps
in the other suits. but figured out
how to- make even the gaps work
for him. He led the diamond 5 to
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-03-10

company's official seniority roster
of stewards, and posted February
81, are as follows: o. ]. McManus,
L. H. Hodkin, Eugene Parker, John
Stoneham and Eueben Hadnot.
Announcement of the promotions
was made Wednesday by Richard
w. Smith, secretary-treasurer of
the Joint Council Dining Car EN-
ployes, ALL, and climaxed a fight
for the upgrading of walters dating
back more than a year.
Smith said the fight on the
Northwestern began early in 1913
when several Negro dining car
walters made request Of the car
rier for promotion to positions as
dining car stewards. The railroad
paid little or no attention to these
requests at the time and the matter
was taken up by the Employees
Organization, the Joint Council and
it's affiliate Local 351, which repre-
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-03-10
st. Paul Hotel
Official Denies
Discrimination

S. Vincent Owens, executive Sec
rotary of the st. Paul Urban
League, said this week that he
believed a new policy in regard to
Negro citizens was prevalent at the
st. Paul hotel where reservations
for Roland Hayes, noted tenor, were
refused in January. Mr.. Hayes
was presented in recital by the
Leagues auxiliary.
Mr.. Owens recently received a
letter from Henry C. Wurzer, presi-
dent of the Black Hawk Hotel
Corporation, owner of the st. Paul
hotel, stating the refusal of reser-
vations for Mr.. Hayes was not a
reflection of their policy in regard
to Negro citizens.
Tuesday, March z, a reservation
was accepted for Charles F. Rogers,
new Industrial secretary Of the St.
Paul Urban League.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-03-10
EarlS. Weber
Attends Dentists
State Meeting

Earl S. Weber, st. Paul dentist,
attended the 61st annual session of
the Minnesota State Dental Asso-
citation held March 1, 2, 8, with
headquarters at the st. Paul Audi
forum and 5000 members attend
ing.
DR.. Weber found the new tech
niques, especially along the line of
new plastics most interesting dur
ing the three days of lectures, dem
onstrations and clinics.
He was program committee chair
man for the annual reunion dinner
of the 1921 University of Mime
sofa dental class, held at the Lowry
hotel, March 1. Ninety members
of the class attended the dinner
meeting.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-03-10

man is executive officer. The COM
mandant of the Ninth Naval Dis
trict is Rear Admiral Arthur S.
Carpenter with headquarters at the
station.
Lieut.. M. Stein, graduate of
Northeastern university in Massa-
chusetts, spent the entire three
days and two nights as chief
guide and informant.
Comfortable quarters were fur
nished the men Friday night in
barracks building 1911. Women
guests were taken to homes of
friends in Waukegan, Ill.
Members of the Publishers AS
ISOLATION who made the pilgrimage
here were: Thomas and P. B.
Young, Jr., Norfolk Journal and
Guide; Miss Lucille Bluford, Kansas
City Call; Eustace Gay, Philadel-
phia Tribune; Roscoe Dungee, Okla
homa Black Dispatch; ]. E. Nit
chell, W. E. Mitchell, J. E. Cook
and Bige Wyatt, st. Louis Argus;
Mr.. and Mrs. Cecil Newman, Min
neapolis Spokesman and st. Paul
Recorder; A. Clayton Powell, Peo-
pies Voice, New York City; Miss
Olive Diggs and Mrs. Marion Bax-
ter, Chicago Bee; William Walker
and Augustus B. Parker, Cleveland
Call-Post; Bishop A. j. Hamlet,
Plaindealer, Kansas City, Kas.; C.
W. Cuba, Houston Informer; How
ard H. Murphy and William Glib
son, Afro-American newspapers,
Baltimore; C. C. Galloway, Omaha
Guide; Mr.. and Mrs. N. A. Sweets,
Mr.. and Mrs. G. B. Stafford and ].
Arthur Turner, St. Louis American;
John H. Sengstacke, Charles P.
Browning, Clarence A. Taylor, Chi
cago, Defender; Frank L. Stanley,
Louisville Defender, and William G..
Num-, Pittsburgh Courier.
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anthropological or historical. It has
no basis in the fundamental Ameri-
can credo. 1t was established on no
logic but that of crude force. It is
a fiction, a myth maintained by
might instead of right, by the same
illegal and terroristic methods
whereby Hitler imposes the myth
G "Aryan supremacy" on a de-
fenseless minority. It has no sane
ton in science, religion or moral
ity. Its only legal appeal is to the
law of the jungle.
The real question on the floor,
Gentlemen, is not whether damned
agitators of the North" seek to i'm
pose the national will on the South
ern racists, but whether the over
whelming majority of the Nation
shall continue to let the small poll
tax minority in the South impose
on them its peculiar institution"
which first made slaves of the Ne
groes and now would freeze them
in a status of second-class citizen
ship. That has been happening on
an alarming scale.
The disturbing truth is that the
poll-tax bigots have succeeded in
imposing their undemocratic dog
mas on the Nation to an alarming
extent. They forced a Jim-Crow
setup on our 10000, OOO-man mill
tary service. Jim Crow dominates
the Army camps, North as well as
South, abroad as well as at home.
When the vital need of national
unity dictates a policy of equal OPP
portunity to jobs, the bigoted min
ority prevents it's enforcement in
the South and hampers its realiza-
ton in the North, thanks to its men
in Congress who have captured key
positions by no right but that of
tenure.
The South, in short, is not the in
vaded, but the invading aggressor.
The legislators of South Carolina,
instead of concentrating on help
ing win World War II, are still
stuck in the mud of the Civil War.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-03-10
Protest Army's
Backsiding on
Races of Mankind

Protests against the barring of
the Army distribution of the pam
phlet on the "Races of Mankind"
by the threat of the chairman of the
House Military Affairs committee,
Representative Andrew ]. May
d., Ky.) to expose the motive
behind this book" were made in the
monthly meeting of the Executive
Board of the St. Paul Branch of
the NAACP Tuesday night in the
Halle @. Brown House.
. One member declared that Mr..
Mays had distorted what the pam
phlet seeks to point out when he
says that the book described North
ern Negroes as the intellectual
equals Of Southern white men.
There is a comparison of tests made
during the first World War of Ne
gro soldiers from the North and
white soldiers from the South, &C.
cording to the Executive Board
member.
When it was suggested that a
letter of protest be sent to the Sec
rotary Of War, Mr.. Stimson, it was
unanimously agreed that it would
be useless to waste the time to
write letter. Recently Mr.. Slim
son in answer to the query why
aren't more Negroes used in COM
bat service, said that "Negro units
are unable to master techniques of
modern warfare" It was finally
decided to write the acting secre-
tary of the NAACP, Roy Wilkins,
and urge the national office to urge
the distribution Of the pamphlet
to the armed forces.
The Kentucky congressman said
that sponsors of the book claim it
was prepared to promote tolerance
by teaching the fundamental unity
of races and contending that eco.
nomic differences are largely re-
sponsible for racial differences.
It was published by the Public
Affairs, Inc, of New York City
and was written by Prof. Ruth F
Benedict and DR.. Gene Weltfish Of
the department of anthropology
Columbia University. Mays ire
was famed by a claim he said the
book made that a survey showed
the average Negro in New York
Massachusetts, and Connection
ranked on an intellectual level with
the average white man in Ken
lucky, Arkansas and Mississippi.
After the USO had banned the
book May asserted, the CLIO Wal
Relief Committee promoted it's dis.
tribution and the Army obtained
$4,000 copies. Army spokesman, he
said, told the Military Affairs Com.
mittee, that distribution had beer
held up because some of the ma
terial was subject to misinterpre,
tation.
One hundred copies of the pam.
phlets were ordered by the Execu.
tive Committee of the st. Pau,
Branch of the NAACP for distribu.
ton at the next regular meeting or
March Fl.
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Negro Radio
Technicians in
Labor BattaliOnS

NEW YORK, N. Y. (NAACP)-
In line with Secretary Stimson's
admission that the Army has a pol
icy of converting Negro combat
troops and technicians into service
troops, is the revelation that a
group of Negro radio operators and
technicians was recently changed
over into a labor battalion.
The information came to the
NAACP in a letter from a Negro
sergeant.
The irony of the situation was
heightened by the fact that German
war prisoners stationed near these
Negro troops are said by the SER
geant to be receiving better treat
ment than United States Negro
soldiers.
The letter declares:
when the division was shipped
to -, we were left in Fort
-; later we learned that we
were coming to this camp to form
a battalion. Since our troop was
composed mostly of radio operators
and radio technicians, we were
reasonably certain that it would be
an operations battalion because a
construction battalion hasn't any
place for communications men.
Upon our arrival we find that we
were going to be formed into a
construction battalion after being
merged with the Fla. All
the training that the men in this
battalion must learn is something
about climbing poles and digging
holes. In other words, we are in
a labor battalion with a glorified
title. We aren't kicking because
we have to climb poles and do some
hard work, but we figure if we are
qualified for a certain type of job
we should get it if possible and I
know the Army needs radiomen.
"a lot of US have asked for trans
fers, but all we run into is red tape
and that is when an enlisted man
loses his case.
"There is'a trend in the Army,
at the present, to transfer all the
Negro soldiers from the Army
Ground Forces and put them into
the Army Service Forces no mat
ter if they are qualified for other
types Of work.
Gin this camp we are also forced
to live in an area that should be
condemned. All our sanitary facili-
ties are outside and across the
street and in a poorly heated build
ing. The barracks we live in are
heated by two stoves, one at each
end of the barrack.
''The reason the boys are so hot
under the collar is due to the fact
that there are German prisoners
(here) who live better and are get
ting better treatment than we are
getting at the present.
eve would appreciate it if you
are able to look into the matter"
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Comp Ellis
Soldier Shot
Accidentally

Sergeant Oscar Newman of Min
neapolis is in Station Hospital,
Camp Ellis, ILL.,, apparently recover
ing from gunshot wounds in one
foot.
Sergeant Newman was wounded
in the accidental discharge of an
automatic revolver as he came off
M. P. duty. The fire from the gun
broke three bones. The first re-
port of Camp Ellis soldiers injury
came in letters he sent to parents
and friends.
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Ogld Anderson
Recifo1

Club 1868" of Halle @. Brown
will present Ogla Anderson in a
piano recital on Sunday Evening
at 8:15 p. M, in the music room
of the House.
Miss Anderson is a student of
Hamline University and takes an
active part in the affairs of Cam
phor M. E. Church, St. Paul The
public is invited.