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The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-07-24
NIpp0NSIN
PHILIPPINES
TCHED
Operations Around Islands
ReveaIed-CodstdI
Vessel Sunk
BY MURLIN SPENCER

ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD
QUARTERS IN NEW G UIN E A,
July 24-Allied communicates re-
garding the Pacific war swung back
to the Philippines today for the
first time in two years, when Gen.
Douglas Macarthur announced our
air patrols sank a coastal vessel TO
miles off Mindanao"
This is the first mention of the
Philippines in any Macarthur COM
munique since the fall of Corregidor
on May 6, 1912.
There has been an official silence
screening all activities around the
Philippines, but now it has been
lifted and discloses American planes
have been keeping close watch for
some time on japanese operations
around the islands.
There are no details given re-
garding "Reminiscences by a Navy
Liberator that sank a Jap vessel in
extension of land-based bombers in
the Mindanao sector, but 1t means
MacArthur's planes are now patrol
ing at least 800 miles northwest of
the most advanced Allied bases at
Biak. Owl and Noemfoor islands.
Liberators in the New Guinea
area again gave support to the
American landings at Guam by
bombing zap, Palau and Woleai,
bypassing the Carolines.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-07-24
PURGE OF
BLOOD ON
In REICH
Strong Arm Of Gestapo
Squads Reach 0ut-Kes-
seIring Reported Seized

LONDON, July "a. = Himmler's
ling strong-arm Gestapo
squads are reported to be carrying
out one of their biggest purges Of
Germany's blood-stained history.
German Army morale appeared
badly shaken but there is no con-
crete evidence of any dissatisfac-
ton at the front lines.
French reports pictured the purge
of rebillious Army officers as
spreading to the fighting fronts of
Germany France and possibly
Italy.
They said that eight Eastern
front commanders have been ar
rested or ousted
Agents have seized and possibly
executed German divisional lead
ers in France and seized Field
Marshal Kesselring, commander in
Italy.
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Funny Incident
Happens Right
On War Front

ORNE RIVER FRONT, July
PA British manned Sherman
tank tore around the corner of
a she'll wrecked village and
crashed head-on with a Ger
man tiger tank.
Both crews got out of the
turrets, according TO Maj. ii. p.
Bell, British armored squadron
leader, who said lin the confu-
sion both our men and the
Germans had forgotten their
small arms and stood there a
few feet apart just staring at
each other"
The British tank commander
spoke first and said: Beat it
before l change my mind"
With a gutteral "danke
schoen" thank YOU the Ger
mans took to their heels.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-07-24
ADVANCE IS
REPORTED ON
GUAM ISLAND
Marines, Infantry Secure
Bealhheads and Make
Substantial Gains

UNITED ST TIES PACIFIC
FLEET UARTERS AT
PEARL HARBOR. July 24.-Ameri-
can amphibious forces have secured
lbeachheads and made substantial
gains" ON Guam with only 1885
casualties in the first three days of
land fighting, Admiral Chester w.
Nimitz announces.
The Marines and infantry are
continuing to advance, is the re-
port.
Admiral Nimitz estimates that
casualties through July % are 348
Americans killed, 1900 wounded and
ITO missing.
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The W ASKING ton
Merry Go Round
BY DREW PEARSON
,Lt. Col. Robert 8. Allen now on active
service with the Army

HICAGO - The smoke-filled
room at the Democratic Convention
turned out to be Ed Flynn's suite
in the Blackstone Hotel. Cleo Crow
leys might have been also, except
that he doesn't permit smoking9
1t was from Ed Flynn's room
that the big-city bosses put in the
telephone call to "the boss in the
White House" which got the dele
gates up in arms against city-boss
dictation.
The boss in the White House
wasn't in the White House at the
time, but at another point, not
easily accessible by telephone. How
ever, FDR was finally reached by
phone, and several of the big-city
bosses took turns talking to him.
Those present with Flynn were
Boss Hague of Jersey City, Boss Ed
Kelly of Chicago and Boss Bob
Hannegan of ethe Democratic Ma
tional Committee.
Kelly and Hannegan did most of
the talking. They wanted the
Presidents o. K. on Senator Tru-
man of Missouri for Vice President
and they got it. In fact, the
President, according to what they
said after they hung up, wanted
Truman to the exclusion of Wal
lace, Senator Barley or any other
Vice Presidential candidate.
1t was after word of this die
tum percolated out that Senator
Barley of Kentucky threatened to
withdraw his speech nominating
Roosevelt for a fourth term. Bark
ley indicated that, if the President
didn't want him as Vice President,
then he didn't want F. d. Roose-
welt as President.
Barkley's nominating speech had
already been mimeographed and
sent to the press, SO the idea OF
his recalling the speech sent shiv-
erS up and down the spinal columns
of the bosses.
Barley didn't resent the letter
Roosevelt wrote for Wallace. But
he did resent the fact that the
President, after telling the conven-
ton to debate "the pros and cons,
then turned around and instructed
the bosses that he definitely wanted
Senator Truman. Barley was
spurred on by his son-in-law, Max
Truitt, and by Max's law associate
Bill Stanley, former assistant to
Attorney General Homer Cummings.
Nevertheless, he was pretty sore
on his own.
However, Dear Alben" was not
the only one who was sore. When
word leaked out that the big-city
bosses had talked to the White
House boss and were swinging the
convention to Truman, plenty of
other delegates were sore, too.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-07-24
JApS LOSE
GROUND IN
GUAM FIGHT
Americans in Lightning
Conquest Of Mari
dnas Group

PEARL HARBOR, July 24.-The
day-old invasion of Tinian Island,
just south of Saipan, is moving
smoothly. and firm beachheads
have been established as American
forces rush the conquest of the
strategic Marianas Islands.
Other fighting Yank forces have
isolated the key detectives on Guam
Island and have advanced south
ward for 1870 miles.
Yanks Rush Ashore
Admiral Chester w. Nimitz an
nounced the latest landings on I'll
MAN in a special communique,
which said the U. S. forces rushed
ashore at dawn yesterday and as
sault units of the Second and
Fourth Marines continued against
light opposition"
Tinian Island is only three miles
south of conquered Saipan, and the
Yanks making the latest landing
are fighting under the protection Of
land based planes and artillery, as
well as carried planes and warship
fire.
Defenses Neutralized
| The majority of the Japanese de-
lenses ON the beaches have been
neutralized already, and the airfield
put out of commission, Nimitz re-
ports.
Meanwhile, Marine landings in
west and central Guam Island fol-
lowed up last weeks initial assault
north and south of the port of
Apra, best anchorage in the Mar
ianas. The Marines have isolated
the harbor and also the airfield on
Orote Peninsula.
Coastline Falls
The Third Marine Division has
quickly taken five miles of coast
line north OF the harbor of Apra
and occupied Cabras Island. sand
spit at the harbor's northern arm.
Third Division units have taken
and RACED the villages OF Pitt and
Asan and have pushed to within
two miles of Againa, shell leveled
peacetime capital of Guam
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-07-24
GROWTH OF
NAVY NOW
GIVEN OUT
Nearly 1,15O Vessels in
Service with More
Under Construction

WASHINGTON, July "a - The
Navy discloses officially that when
the destroyer Grady is launched on
August Is, the number of United
States fighting ships in service will
be 1149, or more than three times
the total available when the fleet
began to grow in the middle of
1910. Many other fighting ships
are under construction, but they
are of less glamorous type OF
ships, such as landing craft, etc.
The Nays tremendous growth is
shown, but the figures are not
available for the lesser type of
vessels.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-07-24
RED ARMY
ADVANCING.
HIGH SPEED
Now Within so Miles Of
Warsdw-Nazis Retreat
on 150-MiIe Front

LONDON, July 24.-The German
radio today acknowledges the Rus
sian troops have plunged to within
SO miles of Warsaw.
The Nazis have a ban d o n d
Siedlce Jaraslaw, the German COM
munique officially announces, also
that fighting is taking place in
side the great Polish rail centers OF
Lwow and Lublin.
Siedlce Jaraslaw is SO miles due
east of the old Polish capital, and
only 1865 miles from Berlin, and
the advance is by far the closest
Allied approach to the Capital City
of Nazidom.
The advance to Siedlce Jaraslaw
marked a 20-mile movement since
midnight Sunday. The city is about
midway between Warsaw and Brest-
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-07-24
HUNDREDS OF
NAzI OFFICERS
ARE EXECUTED

BERN, July 24-The Journal de
Geneva prints German dispatch
stating there has been mass exc
cutions of officers of all grades" to
quell the rebellion. Firing squads
are working overtime in the inter-
ior of Germany, also on the front,
and hundreds have been put to
death in the three days ending
July 81.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-07-24
HOMELAND
OF N|pp0NS
THREATENED
Tokyo Dispatch Broadcast
Intimdtes Fleet Co.
ing on Offensive

LONDON, July pa Tokyo dis
patch broadcast from Berlin said
the loss of Saipan had more SER
ious repercussions on the home
front than the loss of any other
island, and danger of an immediate
threat to the homeland has become
acute" g
The DNB agency added: ut is
presumed Japan is now determined
to go over to the offensive in which
the Japanese fleet will play an i'm
portant part"
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TURKEY Stops
SHIPPING NOW
ON BLACK SEA

LONDON, July 24.-The Ankara
radio says Turkey has suspended
all Black Seat shipping because of
recent torpedoing of Turkish ship
ping by submarines whose nation
ality is now being investigated.
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CAsHENs ARRIVE

William Cashen and his bride, the
former Ellen Barr, are in Juneau,
and guests at the Baranof Hotel en-
route to Fairbanks.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-07-24
CANADIAN HERE

John Bruce is a guest at the
Baranof, having registered from
Richmond Hill, Ontario
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-07-24
HERE FROM CANYON ISLAND

Mrs. <. A. Stems, OF Canyon
Island, is in town and a guest at
the Gastineau Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-07-24
HAMMONDS IN TOWN

Mrs. Don Hammond and two
children, of Fairbanks, are guests
at the Baranof Hotel.
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Continued on Page Six
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1944-10-28

:ss picking at them can
cause you endless en-
barrassment. When you
follow such annoying,
irritating actions, you
feel as though being
With people is the last
thing you want to do in
IL. o.II pIncIr nonI
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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1944-10-28
Guard Kills Two
Nazis On Patrol

when he killed two members of
a I0-man German patrol, while
walking guard at an ammunition
dump.
at about o'clock one morning,
Corporal William Randolph, %, Of
1922 Russell Street, Baltimore,
Maryland, heard the chattering OF
number of men who were APP
preaching his post in the darkness
AS the drew nearer, he recognized
the German tongue and command
ed them to halt.
when they kept on coming,
Randolph said, 81 fired my rife
several times from the hip position
When the Germans returned my
fire, dropped to the kneeling po-
sition, with bullets whizzing past
my head. and let them have it."
The patrol retreated, leaving two
who had fallen wounded One Of
the victims died Immediately and
the other, shot in the abdomen,
died sometime later.
Prior to the inciGent, Randolph
was private first class, but was
given a promotion shortly after
wards with commentator from
his commanding officer. He was
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1944-10-28
No Jim Crow In Wave
T Training Is Demanded

National Association for the ADJ
vancement of Colored People said:
'@rhe NlAACP is pleased to
learn that the ban against color
ed American women in the WAVES
at long last has been abolish
ed, a policy the Association has
urged upon the Navy Department
since the establishment OF the
WAVES in 1912.
eve trust that the announce
ed plan of training Negro women
existing schools means no segre-
cation and we hope that this
policy will be extended to establish
principle in the American armed
new and more democratic
srevices by integration of colored
WAVES into regular units instead
CT being assigned to jim crow ones.
1--WE further ho1>>ond urge that
the Unted States Coast Guard
and the Marine Corps will also
OPEN their doors en- an unsegregat-
ed basis to qualified Negro women"
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1944-10-28
Dewey's Poll Tax
Charge Is Refuted

Springs, Ca" declared Perry, he
(the PRESIDENT declared the un-
fairness of the restriction of the
vote by taxation, and on numerous
occasions in Georgia Ga poll tax
state) and elsewhere, he maintained
their views in the strongest terms.
At the same time, Mrs. Roosevelt
has been an unfailing advocate OF
poll tax repeal"
In his statement Brant asserted
that he has talked with President
Roosevelt "at least four times in
the past two years about the best
means of getting the anti-pon tax
bill through the senate. He was one
of the first to put his finger ON the
real difficulty which was that Re-
publican senators pretended to be
for the bill, but would not vote
to limit the debate"
Both men admitted that the
Democratic party's course has not
ALWAYS been "as beautiful as 1t
might be-" but found consolation
in the fact that Democrats have
been the chief sponsors OF leglsia-
tion to eliminate the poll tax.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1944-10-28
Gloom Shrouds
Conference At
Howard Univ.
Postwar FEPC
Is Forecast AS
Races Sole Hope
Nv HARRY McALPN

WASHINGTON, D. C.-NNPA)
"A thread of gloom ran through
the discussions of the Postwar In
dustrial Outlook for Negroes at the
conference held at Howard UNI
versity last week under auspices OF
the Division of the Social Sciences
of the Graduate School and CO.
sponsored by the A. Philip Ran
dolph Fund.
Almost without exception, speak
err after speaker pointed out the
problems Negroes would race
would be almost insurmountable
unless we have full employment.
There was fairly general agree
ment that a permanent FEPC Will
be needed to help overcome these
obstacles.
The conference was devoted to
consideration Of the problems III
the building, aircraft, auto
mobile, railroad and steel indus
tries. Further discussions we're held
of the federal policies prohibiting
racial discrimination in industry
and the labor and fiscal policies OF
the federal government.
A keynote was struck by Lieut..
Col. John K. Collins, of the Bu-
reau of Placement of the War
Manpower Commission, on tn e
opening night Of the conference
when he said: about seventy per-
cent of the working Negroes in
war industries are in temporary,
emergency, mushroom industries,
such as shipbuilding, aircraft man
ufacture, munitions, etc. TWO
thirds of these Negro workers have
ACQUIRED skilled and sen1i-skilled
ratings and pay. Yet 1t is precise
ly this group which will, as con-
tracts are concluded and as cut
/ haezs are made, be dumped on a
labor market in which 1t has been
difficult for one-third of the work.
ing Negro population to secure
other than unskilled and mental
jobs"
Copies of the proceedings OF the
conference will be available In
about two months. They may be
obtained from the Division Of So
cial Sciences, Graduate School, Ho-
yard University, by addressing DR.
Abram L. Harris, professor OF
economics.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1944-10-28
Last Words OF
Wi||kie Urged
Equal Justice
Plea Is Made
For Rights Of
Negro Americans

CHICAGO - (SNS) - Wendell
WILKES last written article was
a hard hitting plea for the rights
of Negro Americans.
The fair trea tment of American
racial nirorities is basic to our
chance for just and lasting
peace, he declared in the Novem-
her issue Of N E G r O DIGEST
published here.
Willkie, whose untimely death
last month was mourned by
millions of American of all politi-
cal parties, hit the denial of civil
AMI legal rights to Negroes and
ripped into segregation, economic
and educational restrictions impos-
ed upon colored Americans.
MOST BITTER
but of all the indignities and
1njusticeS Negro men and women
suffer today, the most bitter and
ircric is the discrimination pract-
ised by the Armed Forces of their
coGntry-the country for which
they are being asked to give their
lives" he stated.
"'rhey feel" said Willkie speak
ing for Americans 100000 Ne
graes, that Iif they have right
to die with their white follow
citizens in the protection of libcr-
t., they also have the right
to hive with them in the enjoyment
OF liberty
in Short" continued Willkie,
the Negro lives in our midst I'M
der DETERMINATIONS which differ
from the racial discrimination
practlced by our enemies, the
Nazf, only in that ours are illegal
and that we are free-if we wish
to fight against them"
WANT THEIR SHARE
Calling 1t the great quest of
cur time, "Willkie remarked upon
. the determination of colonial, sub
. tect and minority peoples TO win
share Of the freedom for which
the Allied Nations are fighting.
I'VE, as Americans" he said,
cannot expect small nations and
men of other races and coIors to
credit the good faith of our
professed purposes and to join
us in international collaboration
for future peace if we continue
to practice an ugly discrimination
at home against our own minor
tiles the largest Of which is our
thirteen million Negro citizens"
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1944-10-28

WASHINGTON - The National
Committee to Abolish the Poll Tax
in an effort to set the record
straight" following Governor Dew
ey's blast against the President for
the alleged failure to denounce the
poll tax, has come forward with
the statements Of Jennings Perry,
editor of the Nashville TennesSean
and chairman of the committee,
md Irving Brant, biographer OF
James Madison, both of which re-
flute the charge.
In 1886 on a visit TO warm
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1944-10-28

George S. Patton Third Army command
Pins the Silver Star A Jenkins of $40 West
Street. York City, heroic member of Quartermaer
serving France Entering Chaeaudun France August
before Private Jenkins and the Off
Major Charles w Ketterman of Pasadena Cali
and knocked position by killing
three woundng other members of the enemy crew. After
sncng the gum Jenkins assisted Major Ketterman
German soldiers found in Private Jen-
with assisting notably in the capture of the
city.-(U. S. Army Signal Corps Photo)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1944-10-28
Capital Girl Is
Homecoming Queen

HAMPTON INSTITUTE, Va. -
(SNS) - Miss Francis Marguerite
Byrd, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Robert Byrd of SOL T Street, N
W., Washington D. c., has been
chosen Homecoming Queen ct
Hampton Institute and will preside
at the traditional campus festivities
of the college OH Saturday.
Miss Byrd, who is a senior
najoring in pre-school education,
is graduate OF Dunbar High In
Washington. At Hampton She is
active. in the Student Christian
Association, the Home Economics
CllisN and the Phyllis Wheatley
Society of which she is vice.
president. i.Lat.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1944-10-28

employed at one time by the city
of Baltimore. In his youth he sold
newspapers in South Baltimore
and Mt. Winans, Maryland.
Married and the father of son
born last August IS in San Diego,
California, Randolph has two
brothers, William and James, SER
Wing in the Army. A third brother,
Richard, who was injured in the
North African campaign, has been
discharged.
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ALUMNI ORGANIZE

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla.-CANP)
Tentative plans for new func-
tioning program by the alumni as
ISOLATION, to be established in de-
finite district conters, were widely
discussed last week as large
group of folk gathered in old Wnnte
Hall on the occasion of the 4Otn
anniversary celebration Of the
founding of the college.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1944-10-28

NEW YORK (SNS) In
a statement regarding the Nays
plan sfor immediate commission
ing Of qualified Negro women IN
the Women's Naval Reserve, the
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1944-10-28
CONTINUES STUDY

TUSKEGEE-(A N P)-Dr. Har-
ry V. Richardson, institute chap
lain, on leave during the past
year for graduate study at Drew
university, spent few days here
during the week of school opening.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1944-10-28

WITH THE U. S FORCES IN
francois N S-A former car
rier for a Baltimore weekly Negro
newspaper personally settled
score with Herr Hitler recently
Evening star., 1944-01-30

others to forget. that he was editor
Of the Gazette, without ties, obliga-
tions or incumbrance Of allegiances
save those he chose for what he
thought was right. He was free as
the Kansas winds, blithe spirit,
sometimes moving by impulse that
puckishly defied his better judgment
and landing him in spots that would
make him shake his head in rueful
astonishment as to how he got there.
But he was clean all through. He
was as honest in his convictions as
in some of his inconsistencies, and
he did not know fear. He has left a
splendid legacy of ideals to Amer
lean journalism, this editor of a
small-town daily with circulation
of barely 1000, who made himself,
his newspaper and his town known
throughout the world. A fine news
paperman, who was jealousy proud
of his calling, a lovable gentleman
and a great American, it Is hard to
think that he is gone.