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The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-06-24

forces and 100000 went 10 France.
Now hold on to your hats Dr.. the
first man of the whole AEF to win
the Croix de Guerre with star and
palm was none other than SGT.
Henry Johnson Of HE 18th Regiment
of the New YORK National Guard
Negro my. my.
With World W, /. Well under
way. exact fglyes are not obtain
able: but Negroes are IN every
branch of the service pilots.
Army officers and Navy. There IS
a Negro General, Benjamin O.
Davis. There are Negroes in the
Women's Army Corps With many
names yet to cone. the two fore
most stories Of the war concern the
bravery Of Negroes. One was Dorie
Miller. who manned a machine gun
al Pearl Harbor when Jap Zeros
were causing hell To break loose"
Frenchie was he Negro VINO swan
in shark-intested waters 10 Tow &
crew TO safety.
Negroes Share Of
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-06-24
WON HIGHEST GENERAL
AVERAGE IN LAW SCHOOL

l haven't seen o. heard from her
since. but the other day she sent
ne the announcement OF prize
awards FOR the commencement at
Howard university. noticed that
she Won the h! CHEST general average
70. the three-year course IN the
school II law. and the highest in
div.dual grades n me classes on
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-06-24
BY CAREY McWILLlAMS
CONDENSED from The New RepubIic)

With the removal from the West Coast persons
OF Japanese ancestry and their subsequent nenmen the
atihcially stimulated agitation which had stampeded the
federal government into the adoption of this wartime
measure momenarly subsidized During the spring summer
and fall OF 1912 all quiet the West front But in
January 1913 new campaign. OF unparalleled vrulence
was launched against this luckess minority. Throughout
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-06-24
Parachutists

NEGRO parachutists are being
trained along with white jumpers
At Fort Benning. Ga, . trsinee, OF
leave. told this column. But there
II still Jim Crow on sleeping and
eating quarters. "if we can fight
together" he asked. why can't we
eat and sleep together"
Thu UarLs
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-06-24
UNFINISHED BUSINESS
6y CLARENCE ANDERSON

LII OF US who read the daily white news.
"A papers in Detroit have gotten big lift out
OF their apparent change Of policy in crime re.
porting. Until few months ago it was the ordi-
nary thing for the metropolitan press to place the
label Negro" after the name of any colored man
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-06-24
THE WATCHTOWER B, ROY WILKINS

THIS WAR Is beginning to prove that war is war
l. and that the people who fight wars are pretty
much the same. Some months ago the United
States was all up in arms and indignation because
of the published reports that American hospital
ships had been attacked by the japanese. Added
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-06-24
Racists Opposed
Relocation of EYaCueeS

BY fall OF 1912. the War Re.oca-
;ion Authority had began 10 expert
ment with me issuance OF seasonal
work permits Several thousand
evacueeS. under this plan. had been
permitted 10 leave the relocation
centers 10 meet the manpower
shortage ii agriculture. This pro-
gram was only initiated by the
WRA after very great pressure
in Mr.. Dillon Myers phraSe-had
been brought 20 be3. by the sugar
beet industry Since the experiment
proved entirely workable and sat
.stactory. the WRA was encouraged
% expand The program New pro-
cedureS were evolved by which To-
cal evacuees nigh: be gwen per-
manen: releases permitting them 10
relocate III areas OF side the West
EN- Defense Command. BY the end
Of 1912. several hundred evacuees
had beer gwen such permanent or
indefinite leaves
The moment that I. became appar-
ent that most. II not all. OF the
eyacuees might be released in this
manner. the West Coast pressure
groups got busy. For they had al
Ways assumed that evacuation
necessarily implied in.ernmen; for
the duration. The main motive back
of the resumption Of anti-evacuee
agitation in January. l943. was
therefore. - proven; the release of
any further eVacueeS from the CEN
tiers. II these pressure groups were
genuinely DESTROYS Of preventing
the return Of the evacuees to the
West Coast. then the most obvious
considerations would dictate the
necessity Of their supporting the
NRA in its efforts to relocate rs
many evacuees as possible In the
Middle West and East before the
war Is over. But what these groups
really want Is mass deportation OF
all persons Of japanese ancestry;
hence their insistence that the
evacuees be confined in the centers
during the war.
II IS not necessary 20 infer the
existence OF such a motive III the re-
sumption Of agitation on the West
Coast. One OF the leaders 81 this
astatjon stated. at~a meeting called
in The Tall of 1912 70 plot the
strategy for the campai gr. that we
should strike now. while the sent =
Uent over the country IS right The
feeling OF the East viii grow more
Otter before the war Is over and II
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-06-24

ls43 il ragged without let or hind
rance. Before another program is
launched in this region. il is i'm
por;ant that the nation realize just
what prompted the extraordinary
outburst OF racial violence. For ex-
ample. why was il that anti-Jap-
anese. or rather anti-evacuee. agita-
ton assumed such menacing pro-
portions after every person Of jap
anese ancestry had been removed
from the area and placed in pro-
tective custody? One would have
assumed that such a harsh measure
as mass evacuation would have sat-
ashed even the most insistent pres
sure groups on the West Coast
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-06-24
SEVEN NEGRO LAWYERS
IN MISS. COULD LEAD

/ do not have the answers 10 the
questions | have raised. nor can
tell other students TO do what I
would not do myself. cannot toll
crate segre CATION and have pi,ted
myself against II with all my
strength | do not know now
whether | would have the physical
and moral stamina to meet the ehal-
lenge.
But together with my comrades in
law. with whom | have fought,
laughed. wept and studied for three
years. We might be able 10 do H. IL
seven lawyers went down into Mis-
siSsippi together. in ten years we
might be able TO come back 70 Con-
sress prepared 10 give statesman
ship and leadership 70 . postwar
world.
IL our comrades in the schools Of
religion. science. medicine. social
work. engineering. liberal arts and
the other branches OF our school,
this very class Of 't4-vent down
with US into Mississippi. We might
accomplish wonders 90.
What do you thinkY''
PAUL Murray
PAUL. didn't say what her choSco
would be. eut ! know.
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bills and notes, conflict Of laws, and
evidence. She also enclosed a copy
OF an open letter to the other menu
bers OF her class. It's much too
long 20 reproduce in full, but have
edited IL down:
Would You be interested In the
reaction of one OF the candidates
for a degree 20 the address which
DR.. Mordecai w. Johnson. our presi-
dent. made to US yesterday? This
graduation is particularly important
to me. because in 1874, 100 years ago,
my grandmother. with whom lived
as small child, was born a slave
IN a small Southern village. The
world can be turned upside down
IN a century
DR.. Johnson said al the
things | believe in. He put his
finger on the conflic. in my own
soul-whether. as an embryo law
yer. should 60 South where my
services are most needed or West
where | believe the air is freest.
Shall We leave the South 10 those
who have demonstrated they do not
know how 10 save il, or shall We
return TO-. our native land or the
land Of our grandparents and win
il over for democracy inch by inch.
with books and ballots. and toler-
ance and understanding. and love
and generosity In place of bullets
and the instruments Of violent con-
nlct' Can We attract trained young
white graduates from the great uni
versitieS 10 come down and Join
forces with Us ACROSS the great
void. so that together we can DEM
onstrate 10 a hungry and yearning
world a delayed postwar recon-
Struction and rehabilitation program
which would bind up the wounds
tAst have feStered for 80 years?
Have We the Sscrihcial strength
10 interrupt our personal plans, to
delay marriage. 10 discipline our
selves, and 10 meet the needs OF the
hour with the instruments OF the
New Testament instead Of as our
brothers and comrades in the armed
forces must now do by the most de-
struct.ve methods known 10 man?
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SHOULD NEGRO GRADUATES GO SOUTH?

PAUL. Murray graduated from
Towards law school with honors
this year. Last week John r.
Lewis. editor Of PM. wrote the
following Of her In his letter TO
his reAdersl
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-06-24
Security" Not Real
Concern Of These Groups

II these groups had really been
concerned with the security" of
the area. mass evacuation would
have satisfied their demands. While
insisting that al persons Of japanese
ancestry should be removed from
the West Coast, many OF these same
pressure groups were conducting a
quiet but effective campaign against
the removal Of persons of japanese
ancestry from the strateg lcally far
more important Hawaiian Islands.
For example. the powerful Cali
fornia Joint immigration Committee
Indicated that i was "uralteraoly
opposed" 10 the evacuation OF the
japanese from the islands. For If
japanese were removed from
Hawaii. they would necessarily have
been transferred TO the mainland.
II they had been removed 10 the
mainland. the number Of resident
Japanese would have been increased
and some OF them might not have
returned 10 the islands after the
war. What groups such as the Cali
torria Joint immigration Committee
sought, III advocating mass evac-
uai.on, was not the removal of
persons OF japanese ancestry from
the IVES; Coast. but their eventual
removal from the United States.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-06-24
Negroes Came
Before MayhOw er

II We judge from the number OF
people who claim their parents came
over or the Mayflower. the May
flower PROBABLY had convoy that
makes our present conveys look like
a flock Of roWboatS. Now this may
upset the rock and rye IN your hand
right noW. but when that boat ar
rived. there were already 20 Ne
sroes in Jamestown. Va. Yes sir. in
1919. Negroes having arrived only a
few months before. were there 10
greet invaders The daus hters
Of the American Revolution who
recently banned Marian Anderson
from Constitution Hall In Washing
ton, D. C.. take a fl every time they
are reminded that the very first per-
son 10 die IN the Revolutionary War.
the man who first gave up his life
for MS country, VAS CrSpus At
tucks. j Negro -. black as could
DC bu: whose heart VAS red,
white and blue ! wonder IL the
OAR VII accept MS descendants in
10 membership hmnnmm"
Speaking OF Wars in the
Civil War. 1877, ZOO Negroes enlisted
in the union armies OF whom 10000
lost ;heir lives defending the union.
In World War /. there were $500 900
Of them registered in the armed
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Listen 10 VIVA, noted an;hropo-
logist and Sociologist lecturlng at
Columbia university. says about
man in his early days: White
Americans are The result OF inter-
mixture Of many European stocks.
both from north and south OF
Europe, which were in turn the re-
suit of repeated intermix,ures Of
peoples coming al different times
from Asia. Asia Minor and North
Africa Don't be surprised. out
your great. great, great grandpappy
a few hundred times removed nay
have been 4 great deal darker than
you suspect.
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we begin now 20 try 10 shut out the
Japanese. after the war We have a
chance Of accomplishing something.
Maybe the return OF the aliens
would mean that some Of the Amer
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Negroes Share Of
Educational Funds

People say that Negroes are ignol
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The Worker
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Michigan Gridders
Taking 2.Day Rest
Semester Examinations
Keep Obstetrics Busy

ANN ARBOR, Mich, Oct. 20
(P) - Michigan's football
squad, engrossed in semester ex-
aminations, took a tWo-day hol-
iday from grid practise starting
today and will report back TO
Coach Fritz Crisler Monday to
start intensive work for the
Purdue game here Oct. %.
Crisler will leave today for
Iowa City to Scout Purdue's Big
Ten engagement with Iowa to-
morrow. Assistant Coach Art
Valpey was assigned to scout
Ohio State in its Saturday tussle
with Great Lakes.
While the footballers enjoyed
their first real rest from prac-
tise since Aug. %, Crisler an
nounced that Assistant Coach
Walter (Wally) Weber would
take charge Of the Wolverine
wrestling squad for the duration
Of the war, or until Navy Lieut..
Clifford keen returns from serv-
ice. Weber said the matmen will
start practise Nov. 2 for defense
of their Big Ten championship.
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Red Wins Tune Up
for Opener Oct. 70
Take on St. Louis
at Olympic Tonight

DETROIT, Oct. 20 - (P) -
With their national Hockey
league opener only 10 days
away, the Detroit Red Wings
play their next to last exhibition
tune-up game tonight at Olym-
pia, opposing the st. Louis fly
erS.
st. Louis. a newcomer in the
American League this season, is
coached by Leighton Happy
ENNIS, former Red Wing, and
boasts several players who once
wore Detroit uniforms. In the
nets for the Flyers will be
Jimmy Franks, recently sold by
the Wings.
After tonights game. the last
remaining exhibition tilt for the
Red Wings is Sunday, when the
Cleveland Barons invade Olym-
pia. Detroit's regular MIL cam
paign opens here Sunday, Oct.
20, against the Boston Bruins.
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Locals Seek
Revengefo for
DeSaIes Loss
St. jones Gridders
Hove Weight Edge;
Joe Keefe Benehed

ST. Mary's Mountaineers will
try this Sunday 10 revenge their
defeat at the hands of st. Francis
DeSales last week with a win
over St. James of Ferndale. The
game is scheduled to be played
at Ferndale under the arcs, and
will get under way at 8 p. m.
The Mountaineers will 60 in
to battle still without the serv-
ices of Joe Keefe who injured
his arm last week. Joe is ex-
pected to be out the remainder
of the season. Keefe's end posi-
ton will be filled by Dick Bates.
Although st. James has been
beaten this season also, they
will be a tough opponent for St.
Mary's. ST. James will outweigh
the NountaineerS, and it Will DE
the visitors first game in the
night time. What helped TO de-
feat the home town aggregation
last week, downed by DeSaleS
~ to 0, was not only the
strength of the other team, ac-
cording TO Van Hollenbeck, but
the overconfidence of ST. Mary'S.
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.Notre Dame
Illinois
Clash Looms
BY JERRY LISKA

CHICAGO, Oct. 20-(P)-Its
still week away, but the bat
tie between Notre Dame and
Illinois at Champaign, Ill, Oct.
% looms as the most thrilling
lllini homecoming game since
that memorable day in 1924
when Harold (Red) Grange fit
ted to undying football fame.
The Irish have only TO brush
aside an underdog Wisconsin
team tomorrow to invade Cham
paign unbeaten in four games.
The amazingly swift Illini, de-
feated only by Purdue in a race
horse contest, 60 to Pittsburgh
for their sixth encounter and an
expected "breather" against
Pitt.
There should be shades OF
Grange, the original "Galloping
Ghost" when Notre Danes Bob
Kelly and Illinois Claude bud
dy) Young open the throttle in
the stadium grange dedicated
20 years ago with football 6
classic individual performance.
Young and Kelly may not be
able to give the fans q once-in- q
lifetime treat as did Grange in
darling through stunned Mich
igan team for four touchdownS
in the first IL minutes of play,
but either is capable Of writing
some history of his own.
Young, a 5foot, 5-inch, 160-
pound buzz bomb, is unquestion-
ably the nations fastest back
In five games, he has bolted to
eight touchdowns, rolling up 4l4
yards from scrimmage for an
average of 11.8 yards each OF
the 35 times he has logged the
leather.
Kelly, described by Irish
coach Ed Mckeever as one OF
the best backs he has ever seen,
has scored six touchdoWns in
three games, carrying the ball
302 yards in "a tries for an av-
eerage of 8.8 yards per Try.
Both Notre Dame an Illinois
employ the Information with
devastating effect. The Irish,
despite pair of unerring passers
in Frank Danciewicz and Joe
Gasparella, have rolled up 1904
yards on the ground in three
games. The Illini have rambled
/ ,651 yards overland in five con-
tests.
Notre Danes forward wall
will hold an edge in experience
over the Illini, but SO did Pur-
due which defeated Coach Ray
Eliot's youngsters 1919 mainly
by recovering six of eight ILL
nois fumbles.
You can mark it down that
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Boys Town-CenfrdI
Tilt Sfofe's Best

DETROIT, Oct. 20-(P)-One
Of the states largest high school
football crowds may jam Briggs
stadium Sunday afternoon for
Detroit Catholic Centraps inter
sectional clash with the Boys
Town (Neb.) High school, which
heads up a busy weeks prep
program in the state.
Sponsors of the Boys Town
visit are expecting a crowd of
more than 10000 fans. Pro-
ceeds, above a $500 guarantee
TO the Boys Town team, will 60
into Catholic Centraps Building
fund. Both teams are unbeaten
but both have been tied, Boys
Town by Creighton U. Prep and
Central by Hamtramck.
Two Friday tits top the pro-
gram out-state, with Jackson's
undefeated powerhouse seeking
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its fifth straight win against
Port Huron at Jackson. Pontiac
entertains Saginaw in a battle
of Saginaw Valley League Gil
ants, each cunning for its fifth
victory and trying to escape its
first setback.
. Owosso, also with four straight
victories and a pretender to Sag
NAV Valley laurels, entertains
Flint Central, which haslst won
in three starts.
Muskegon Heights spotless
Southwestern conference record
may be in danger at Kalamazoo
Central against team that has
lost only to Culver Military in
four games. Muskegon High
risks its 40 record at home
against a Holland team that has
won but once in four games.
Lansing Sexton, which has
hopes of overhauling Jackson in
the five-a League race, enter
tains Saginaw Arthur Hill in
non-conference game; Battle
Creek journeys to Ann Arbor to
tackle battered pioneer eleven,
and Lansing Eastern invades
River Rouge to test the Rouge's
perfect record in other high
lights of the Friday card.
Grand Rapids South, unsecured
on in three games while piling
up 80 points, tangles with Cath
Ollie Central in city rivalry re-
newal tonight, followed by the
Grand Rapids City Leagues Un-
ion-Creston dual Saturday.
Wayne, only unbeaten team
in the Twin Valley League,
plays host to Ecorse while Red
ford Union, three-gam winner,
is at home to Worthwhile.
Top interstate clash on the
days program is Benton Har-
bor's meeting with Gary Und.)
Emerson at Benton Harbor.
In other games today Bay
City is at Flint Northern, East
Detroit at Mount Clemens, Lud-
ington at Cadillac, Adrian at
Hillsdale and Plymouth at Ypsi-
lanti.
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Baseball Congress
Attendance Gains

NEW YORK, Oct. 90 (P) -
President Ray Dumont of the
National Baseball Congress an
nounced today l3 per cent at
tendance increase for Americans
non professional ranks at dis
trict, state and national tourna-
ments.
Forty-two State meets at
tracted $4,000 fans and the fin
ais at Wichita, Kan, Drew an
other $4,000 customers.
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st. Marys Faces Fernda|e Under Lights
Clinton Irwin
Misses Medal
With 100 Came

II Clint Irwin, bowling for
Altes in the Mems Major League
at the Bowl-O-Drome Thursday
night had got in the grove on
his first frame, he would have
entered the select circle of 300
bowlers.
Irwin recorded a spare and a
strike in the opening rolls for
a 20, and followed through with
IL straight strikes for 200 as
the top game of his bowling
career. His series was l77-290-
1853.
The missing 10 pins cheated
Clint out of an American Bowl
ing Congress medal and the
handsome cash award usually
made by an alley for 800 score.
Even although Irwin turned
in the high game Of the league
that night, he didn't make hon
ors for the top series. Emmett
Quinn, Denmarsh kegler known
throughout this part of the state
as an ace bowler, turned in 235-
224-202 for sep to lead the major
group.
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New York Univ. and Temple
over Syracuse.
On Saturday it'll be: West
Virginia over Bethany, Third
Air Force. over Cherry Point
Marines, Colorado over Colorado
College, California over Fleet
City Naval Base, Lafayette over
Lehigh, Villanova over Mullen
berg, Louisiana State over Mis-
sissippi State, st. Marys over
Nevada, Okla. Aggies over Den
yer, Cornell over Sampson
Naval Base, William and Mary
over Richmond AAB, Second Air
Force over North Texas, Utah
over Idaho Southern, Kentucky
over V.MI., and on Sunday
Marquette will take Lincoln,
Neb., air base, cambridge will
beat Camp Peary and Iowa pre-
flight will down Fl. Warren.
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Hey! Turn On
Those Lights!

BIGLERVILLE, Pa. Oct. 20
- Up - The lights went out
with two minutes left in the
first half and the score So
who won?
Coach Hen Bream Of Big
Ierville high school, whose
team hadn't scored, wants to
play it over.
Coach Charlie Spangler be-
lieves his Red Lion GridderS
can claim a victory because,
he says, refusal of authorities
to refund spectators money
makes last nights game Off
cial.
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MISC Basketball
Gets Into Swing
Van AIstyne Loses
KroIl at Center

EAST LANSING, Oct. Pop
- The Michigan State College
basketball squad is swinging
into action to take its place in
the parade of resumed intercol-
legiate sports, and already Coach
Ben F. VanAlStyne has suffered
a major setback.
Bill Krall, six feet seven
inches tall, who had the job of
center cinched without ever
tossing a ball, has fractured a
bone in his foot and may not re-
join the squad until after the
opening game Dec. 2 with Drake
University.
1t nevertheless will be team
which runs to height, the coach
said, with forwards running
little over six feet tall and the
guards nearly that tall. He said
the fast break would be empha-
sized in play, with variations.
But it's squad green in the
ways of the intercollegiate
game, and some of the candi-
dates never before have handled
a basketball.
Sam Fortino, fast and accur-
ate Navy discharge from AL
bion who won freshman numer-
ais at MISC. a forward, and
Nick Hashu Of Hammond, Ind,
a guard, who won a varsity let
ter here in 1912, are veterans
of the squad, which ranges in
age from II TO 26.
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The Monitor-leader
FRIDAY OCTOBER 20, 1914 PAGE Il

runner and Boston Divinity stu
dent will be guest star" to-
morrow at a triangular cross
country meet by runners from
the University Of Chicago, Cul-
yer Academy and Wheaton Col
lege. Oils 17-year-old brother,
Mike, is a member of the Whea-
ton College team.