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Peck.
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Cleveland, and had done a very
fine job at Bethel church.
Throughout his term OF service
al Bethel church. the Rev. Mr.. Peck
had the able assistance and COM
partnership Of his wife. Mrs. Fannie
B. Peck, who gave unsparingly OF
her time 10 church and civic activi-
ties. The Fannie Peck Credit Union
al Bethel church and many
womens organizations now in ex-
istance in Detroit. bespeak the able
assistance that this illustrious mans
wife gave him in his service to
| mankind.
Bethel was for a long time the
leading A.M.E. church in Detroit
and boasts the largest seating ca
pacity today.
Crime Commission
DR.. Peck was appointed 10 the
Michigan State Crime Commission
by the late Governor Luren Dick
erson. He was a member Of Omega
Psi Phi fraternity.
Between the time that DR.. Peck
began his services and his demise,
he steered Bethel clear of a $50, 900
debt.
Trade Association
The Rev. Mr.. Peck's interest in
the welfare of members of his race
showed itself in other endeavors,
foremost among which was the
founding OF the Booker T. Wash
inston Trade Association by the
prelste in 1880. DR.. Peck served as
president OF this organization until
1899.
In a statement to the Chronicle
Mrs. Peck said that everything that
she had done had been done with
the aid and encouragement Of her
husband.
Detroit Housewives League
In 1880 Mrs. Peck organized the
Detroit Housewives League in
Bethel church for the purpose OF
increasing trade with Negro bust
ness. This move tied in with the
noble efforts of her husband in the
Booker T. Washington Trade Asso-
| citation.
For many years Mrs. Peck was
national president OF the House
wives League.
Many church organizations for
the benefit of the members of the
church and the community at large
were started under the pastorship
OF DR.. Peck. The William H. Peck
Cooperative Society, the Bethel
Benefit Association. the Depart
ment Of Religious education and
the Department OF Membership are
| just a few of the organizations
through which Bethel and the Rev.
Mr.. Peck made their contributions
TO Detroit citizens.
Housing and Planning
DR.. Peck was a member Of the
Citizens Housing and Planning
Council and the Detroit Council Of
Churches.
| At the time OF his death DR.. Peck
had just completed a hymnal for
the use OF AM.E. and A.M.E. Zion
churches This work is ready 10 be
published.
DR.. Peck is survived by his wife.
Mrs. Fannie B. Peck; a brother,
the Rev. F. Jesse Peck, OF Quin-
dero Kan; Mrs Margaret p. Hill
and Mrs. Lydia Porter and a large
number OF nieces and nephews.
Detroit mourns the loss Of SO
great . citizen.
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Housing

posed 10 house people for ~ hours.
for over two years. Harvey is EN-.
ployed by the Motor Rebuilders
corporation and said that he had
been down TO the War Housing
Center TO get accommodations so
often that he had Just gotten tired
OF the whole thing" There are
four children staying with them.
One child has been sent south TO
live with its grandparents
About TO Give Up
Thomas Spelman. war worker.
said. Il am just about to give up
and 60 back down South" Spelman
has been in Detroit eight years.
has six children and for two
months has been forced to live In
one room in Welfare Center.
He told the Chronicle that there
Is just one toilet on each floor and
that the people who did not battle
in tubs in their own rooms had to
use one OF these common bath
rooms. These rooms are in very un-
sanitary condition. (See pictures on
back page)
Inez Manuel. separated from her
husband. is living in one room
with six children. She has been
sick for more than week and has
lived in this manner for more than
six months. She says that the well
fare stopped her from working.
offered her a ticket back home and
then cut off her subsistence check
when she refused TO leave. She did
not have money to buy medicine
when she was visited by the
Chronicle.
The NAACP. in communications
10 Harold Thompson, director.
Inter-racial committees Dr. Bruce
n. Douglas. commissioner Depart
ment OF Health Mrs Harriet Kelly.
president. Detroit Housing Com
mission. and Daniel J. Ryan, super
intendent OF public welfare, de-
handed that the Welfare Center
al 2238 Rivard street be closed and
that the residents be housed in de-
cent accommodations
The NAACP letter to the city
officials follows:
1T is our understanding that the
shelter was originally intended to
house families evicted from dwell
ings in Detroit for a period not
longer than IL hours. Anyone IA
miliar with the building will read
lily understand that even the word
emergency does not adequately
describe the type OF accommodation
offered. The place is filled with
reaches. bed bugs. and other YER
min. There are no baths and the
IS families CHARTERED there have to
share the toilet facilities which are
the worst l have ever seen in my
life. In one toilet not only were
the bowls unclean and unfit for
human use, but the washbowl was
stopped up and a dangerous look
ing fungus was growing in the
bowl. Since each Of the families
there have from one to as many as
seven children. il would seem that
the city of Detroit would provide
better accommodations for these
families. Most Of them are not on
welfare, but are the victims OF cir
cumstances due to the critical hous-
ing shortage in Detroit today. Pigs
are better quartered and better
treated. We demand that the fami-
lies Quartered therein be given
housing accommodation in some
one Of the projects in Detroit and
the emergency shelter closed"
We importune your agency TO
take whatever jurisdiction it has
and closing the establishment. and
housing the inhabitants in decent
quarters.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-11-11
Conflicting Tales
Confuse Police

Police are probing the cause Of
wounds which a young wife said
were self-inflicted but which a
witness said were the result OF an
alleged act on the part OF the in
1ured womsns husband.
Mrs. Ethel Terry. %, OF l4l7 z.
Euclid street. treated al Receiving
hospital for . lscerated left thigh.
told police that she had fallen
downstairs and injured herself on
an axe.
However. witness told police
that Mrs Terry's husband, Rome.
~as responsible for his wife's in
Jury.
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Amendment. are "a great mantle OF
protection (Which covers them
too. Because" she says, "once they
really believed they were really
included, the past indignities the
South has heaped upon them
henceforth become insupportable. .
Mrs. Lawson will discuss not
only the problem, what is being
done over all today, but the ques-
ton of goals that will not be de-
MED.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-11-11
Two Young Men
Held For Murder

First degree murder warrants
were issued last week charging
Frank Abrams, 20, of 1929 Hol-
brook avenue. police prisoner at
Receiving hospital, and william
Lowe. 30 of 1906 Cardoni.
They were arrested following
the fatal shooting Of night watch
man, Stephen Guzek, in cafe at
9243 Russell street on Oct. Is dur
ing a reported robbery attempt.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-11-11

AT last you can get q fine quality.
beautifully styled. fur-trimmsd or
untrimmed coat at Sheldon prices that
are far less than you expected. Choose
q classic coat from this splendid sslsc-
ton. Forstmann. Julliard. Botany.
American Wooden and many other
lovely 1907 virgin woods. II you want
vogue plus valus-You want a Sheldon
Coatl
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-11-11
Election

CONTINUED from rage ~
r. Kelly as winner Of reelection
10 a second term.
Wendell Willkie carried the
state by 5000 votes in l940.
The total vote cast appeared TO
have been over ~, 900. 000-more
than the 1910 vote. On the basis Of
this figure. the Presidents popular
vote would amount TO q final figure
well over 10000, 900 and close 10
his total vote Of 1924 in 1910.
Dewey's popular vote would be
over $4,000. 000-more than the
z2.56i,s4 Wendell Willkie got
IN 1910.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-11-11
BRIDGE PARTY

The Alpha Auxiliary members
are busy selling tickets for a man.
moth bridge party TO be given on
Nov. II at the Alpha house. The
committee is busy selecting useful
prizes, so il should be a nice affair.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1944-12-01

to positions of authority in no.,
church. organization will be 70
moved and the churches p,,r0oa
of Nazi influence "The nro'
,clamation also states: "The Mill
tary Government will strike down
and abolish any Nazi-made laws
that discriminate against and
penalize any person or group on
the ground of religion, race, ma
tionality, language 'or political
opinion =. General Eisenhow
err assured that the military gov
eminent will recognize the lust
claims of religious organizations
for the restoration of property
stolen by Nazi organizations or
persons either under the color of
law or otherwise.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1944-12-01

ocratic in purpose and spirit" "
was sent to President Roosevelt
this week by a group of promi-
nent Christian leaders.
The telegram was signed by
DR.. Henry A. Atkinson, general
secretary of the Church Peace
Union; DR.. Carl j. Friedrich,
professor of government at Har-
ward University; Professor S..
Ralph Harlow, of Smith College;
DR.. Howard M. LeSourd, dean of
the graduate school, Boston Uni
versity; DR.. Reinhold Niebuhr, of
the Union Theological Seminary;
DR.. Daniel A. Polling, president
of the Worlds Christian Union;
Rev. Wendell w. Phillips, Christ
Church, Rye, N. Y. and DR.. Car
oil Hermann Voss, extension Sec
rotary of the Church Peace I'm
ion.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1944-12-01
House Approves
$50, 900 For War
Refugee Board

WASHINGTON, (JTA) = The
House this week approved an ap-
preparations bill clause granting
$15O,0O0 to the War Refugee
Board for administrative expenses
from January to June. The bill
orders that the money be taken
from the Presidents emergency
fund.
Under the provisions of the
Russell Amendment any govern
ment agency in existence over a
year must come to Congress for
appropriations. The War Refugee
Board was set up last January
%. A few weeks ago John w.
Pehle, executive director, appear
ed before a House appropriations
subcommittee to request that ap-
preparations "for personnel and
communications" in the event it
is necessary to maintain the War
Refugee Board beyond January.
Pehle told the committee that,
'there are about a million people
left in occupied Europe whose liv-
es hang by a thread and anything
we can do to help those people
we are doing.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1944-12-01
Eisenhower Warns
Against Nazis in
Church Posts

New York (JPS) = Reflective
of Allied opinion Of the German
clergy which has been almost un-
animously silent with regard to
Nazism's atrocities since 1888, is
a proclamation issued to the Ger
man people by General Dwight
D. Eisenhower.
According to the Office of War
Information, General Eisenhower's
proclamation reads in part:
"Nazis who have penetrated in
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1944-12-01
Christian Leaders
Refute Arguments
of American Arabs

NEW YORK, (JTA) = A tele-
gram refuting anti-Zionist argu-
ments expressed recently by the
Conference of Americans of
Arabic speaking origin and de-
claring that the Commonwealth
plan, as set forth by Zionist or
CARNATIONS today, is entirely dem
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1944-12-01
Hn1uknh : The
Jewish Feast of
Liberty

The observance this year OF
Hanukah, also called the Festival
of Lights, during the eight days
of December lib, has intensi-
fled meaning as we approach a
certain victory for the United Ma
lions.
This annual winter holiday COM
meron~o+es the victory of enslav-
ed peoples over cruel masters.
It's story is to be found in the
Apocrypha in the First and Sec
and Books of Maccabees. Therein
is told how Antiochus Epiphanes
tried to destroy the culture of the
conquered Judeans by imposing
upon them his own pagan prac-
/ tees and enforcing them with
ruthlessness.
But he was aStounded, in the
year 1865 B. C. E., to find that his
conquered people wanted more
than bread and circuseS. They
wanted freedom of religion, and
liberty instead of tyranny.
Led by Judas Maccabeus, the
handful of alarmed JudeanS re-
VOTED against the overwhelming
number of the Syrians. They sup
plemented their under-equipped
arsenal with courage and faith.
: And they succeeded in freeing
their country and their religion.
The parallel to events of to-
day is evident. 1t is not incon-
ceivable that oppressed peoples
today have taken courage from
the story of the Maccabees, and
have become heartened by the
knowledge that at othertimes, I'M
der similar circumstances, God
and right triumphed over tyranny
and evil.
The Festival of Lights derives
its name from the miracle, re-
lated in the Book of Maccabees,
of the tiny cruise of oil, sufficient
for one day, which was found
in the Temple of Jerusalem after
the Syrians, who had defiled it,
were driven out. By a miracle,
the oil lasted for eight days UNI
til new, pure oil could be sancti-
fled for use in the candelabra
of the Temple. For this reason
Chanuko, which means "Dedica-
tion," is celebrated with the light
ing Of candles for eight days.
Israels prayer today is that all
peoples shall soon again be able
to celebrate their freedom in the
light of day, happily and UNI
afraid.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1944-12-01
Killed In Action

1t. Alvin B. Sunshine, q, OF
Miami Beach, Fla. In Italy. He
was pilot of Liberator.
1t. Marvin J. Raskin, q, of
Miami Beach, Fla. On Saipan,
after participating in the invasion
of the Marshalls.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-14
IrOnic Paradoxes

Sir Ronald Storrs, former British governor
advocating opening Palestine to refugee Jews
in testy piece in London paper.
ut is an ironic paradox he writes, that
Allied citizens should seek to prove their
sympathy with prosecuted European Jewry
not by opening their own doors, but by forcing
yet more myriads into a densely populated
and protesting country the size of Wales, of
which they themselves are neither the owners
nor the mandatory controllers >. -
Sir Ronald forgets, or perhaps has not heard
that we have opened our doors - belatedly
and inadequately perhaps, but at least to the
extent OF one free port of haven. He forgets
or perhaps does not believe that the Jews have
claim to Palestine centuries older than
Ownership or manufactures.
We should like to recommend to Sir Ronald
recent book on Palestine by DR.. Walter c.
Lowdermilk, who is not politician but an
American agricultural expert. Dr. Lowdermilk
tells how the Jews in Palestine, by conserva-
ton and irrigation, have made large desert
areas of this "densely populated country fer
tile and productive
He also tells pathetic story of shipload
OF Jews who had fled the Nazis in Czechoslo-
vakia, and who were allowed to dock in Pal
estlne only because their ship was vermin-in-
tested. The passengers were doctors, lawyers,
scientists, educators, soldiers. All were sick
with scurvy. Some had died, packed in shelf
like wooden hunks in the hull of their old
tramp steamer, stifled by weeks at sea under
the broiling Mediterranean summer sun. MANY
more, perhaps ALL would die.
For they couldn't stay. The Nazis had given
them no visas. They couldn't land in British.
inundated Palestine-or anywhere else-with-
out them. So they went back to sea.
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Canada's Own Army

Canadian soldiers at last are fighting as
members of their own army. They and their
countrymen can well be proud that the Cana
dian lst army, organized in England in 1912, is
finally operating IN France as separate enti
ty. And we in this country, as admirers Of our
good neighbcr and ally to the NORTH can I'M
derstand and share in that pride.
In this war as in the last one. Canadians
have won the reputation Of being among the
worlds best soldiers LAS such they have been
called on to do a lot of tough and bloody tasks
Two years ago at Dieppe they displayed
bravery that can stand in their country's his
tory with that of their fathers at Ypres. the
Somme, vimy Ridge Amiens and Cambria
Canadians have distinguished themselves
IN the Italian campaign, and in the recent
smash through German defenses at caen Tn
the dark days after Dunkirk, Canadian troons
were England's best hope to repel the exnec+
ed Nazi invasion
Canadian flyers have participated in all n.
great raids on Germany and occupied Eurone
often making up 30 to IS per cent of Raj per-
sonnet And Canadian sailors have manned
almost half the total convoy operations be-
tween America and Britain.
Canada, as we well know, has done mora
than her per capita share toward victory He,
army Of 478,000, navy of 10000, and air force
OF 203,0 0C men are tremendous force from
q country of 100000 people All the men or
overseas duty are volunteers.
This contribution has been made almost
force. Canada is young, proud, strong nation
Naturally she appreciates national recognition
Her industry has built up navy from what
was almost literally one tugboat before the
war to fleet that could put more than 100
ships into the D-Day invasion. Her industry
has helped to transform few Canadian infan-
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interpreting
The War
BY ELTON C. FAy

The battle of western F.,
revealing an inability of tba = Il
man strategists to cope with ae q,
fen 5 schemes which they thew W.
selves have used successfnllv ,''eiA'
One Of the fundamentals =.
Nazi blitzkreig in Poland in " ,o ono
and in France the following y ,sss
was to slice the opposition int year
ments, then chew up the seguo seq
using armor for the slicing and 1T
fantry and artillery for the , cS. M
ing. How successfully this NEW eN,
worked is attested to by the fO'
that resistance in France enJos s'e'
six weeks. eu IN
1t may be that the German bi,.
command, in those days of ouicl a.
victory, believed that no nation VA
cept Germany would survive IN VA VA.
the same method-and therefos.
there was no need to develon coua
ter-measures. "
~" WIG llldh seventh army
the army that first set out TO se,,
off the Allied beachhead and +ha a'
to bar the roads into the continent.
is crumbling under Allied anna
cation of that strategy.
Breaking out from the Normard,
beachhead and eastern Brittanv
the Allies threw series of arnor
ed prongs ahead of them, slc;nn
into the Seventh army. Thew havs
hacked that army into groups with
little or no contact between ths
groups.
With the battle approaching
crescendo, a general Allied ,ttscL
was launched yesterday in the Wire
Mortain sector and the enemy be.
gan withdrawing toward the Seine
This appeared to be precisely
what the Allied high command do.
sired-a German retreat toward th.
Seine. For the past week. Allied
strategy has been directed toward
that end.
The presence some days ago Of
American armored columns on ths
approaches to Paris led to an i'm.
preston that a drive to re-take the
French capital was on. The eastern
move of those columns, it now
develops, was in the nature of
wide swinging move to hem IN he
7th army and herd such portions Of
it as escaped the slice-and-cheW.
up operations northward toward
the Seine.
The Allies intend to use the Selma
as the northern wall of trap. For
l this reason, Allied aviation has
been working steadily at the bridge
/, over the river, cutting them and
keeping them cut.
;. Indicative of this was a refer.
J: ence in yesterdays Allied com.
munique that at Oissel the only
disable Seine bridge north of Paris
was successfully attacked by our,
medium bombers."
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Sound Action

The most practical, direct approach to So
luton of a problem OF juvenile delinquency
noted recently is the decision Of Mrs. J. c.
Layton, acting judge of juvenile court, to hold
parents Of boys interfering with the move
ment of trains responsible for their children S
misconduct.
For the past six months, these youngsters
have been hindering progress of troop-laden
trains by swarming over the switch tracks at
Loves Grove. Their interference is just as Sc
rious from the standpoint of results, as if the
trains were delayed by enemy saboteurs. The
engineers must slow down or stop; in add-
ton, the youths are running the risks of dam
gerous injury.
Eight of the approximately 100 boys accus-
ed appeared in Mrs Laytons court Friday.
She appraised the situation wisely and her
clear letter of warning to each of the parents
deserves commentator of the first order
ut has come to our attention that your son
has been one of a large group of boys tres
passing on railroad property she wrote. Re-
viewing the situation briefly, she declared:
This court warns you that any future in
stances OF trespasslng or hlnderlng OF railroad
movements in which your child is involved will
result in your being indicted for neglect and
contributing to juvenile delinquency
Mrs. Layton's action is blow at the very
base-the Indifferent parent-of the juvenile
delinquency problem.
1t is obvious she is not a member of the
school that believes that somewhere, some
how, there's magic remedy for crime among
youngsters She is practical woman with a
good Background of social work. Her decision
in this case indicates she is well qualified for
her new position and responsibilities
Mrs. Layton must have the support of the
community. To everyone as conscientious as
she is, this should be forthcoming from all ac-
quainted with the seriousness of the problems
of misbehavior and crime among youth here
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Department of Justice in s'sensa-
tional revelations" But the reve-
lations would be sensational only
because we have forgotten that
the employer does have rights re-
naming on the books. Unions
NEEDLE in the employers affairs.
They plant spies in the shops and
even in confidential office posi-
tons. They buy in as stockholders
and look over the books. They de-
mand voice in management.
But management does not inter-
fere in unions whose books are
their own business. And whoever
heard OF an employer demanding
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a voice in union management since
the company unions went out?
We have been running the bases
all one way. Our minds have work.
ed that way. We have forgotten
that if the capitalism and manage
ment are to survive which made
possible for this country to pro-
duce enough war material to save
Russia and to arm all our allies
and ourselves then capital and
management must have rights too.
Generalissimo Chang Kai-shek
was born June Is, 1887.
Balsa, weighing only seven,
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try divisions into what is probably the most
heavily armored force in any of the worlds
armies - sort of elite assault corps
In the Allied plan of teamwork which Cen
eral Eisenhower has preached so earnestly
and practiced SO superbly the Canadians now
have their own team. They are not subsidia-
ries anymore but equals. In view of their
spirit, their accomplishments and their sacri-
fees, this is as it should be.
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Hutson Will Address
Columbus County Men

WHITEVILLE, Aug. 13.-J. B.
Hutson, president of the Commo-
dity Credit Corporation, will adj
dress the Columbus County Farm
Bureau here Tuesday afternoon at
5 o'clock in the Whiteville high
school auditorium. Also featuring
the program will be the appear
ance of E. Y. Floyd, director OF the
Farm Food Institute Of Raleigh.
Several hundred Columbus county
farmers are expected to be pres
ent.
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Is the spiritual temperature of a place
higher because we live in it?-Hamliton
Wright Mabie.