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The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-06-24
CELEBRATION TO|
Be sun DAY BY
DETROIT BRANCH

The Detroit Council Of the Ma
tional Negro Congress will celebrate
the signing Of Executive Order 1902
establishing the Fair Employment
Practice Committee on Sunday,
June Is, at Friendship Baptist
church. Mack and st. Antoine
street. The rally will commemo-
rate the third year of the existence
OF what is considered by liberal and
progressive thought in America as
the second Emancipation Procla-
nation" of the Negro in this coun-
try.
The Fair Employment Practice
Committee has been fighting for its
life in the past six weeks. both in
the House and the Senate where
the bill for appropriations has been
under consideration.
Warns of Future
The National Negro Congress
NdIHtu III a ~ TIC ~
that even though the S500,000 ap-
preparation is granted, there will
still be the problem of what is to
become OF Negro war workers in
the re-conversion and postwar
period when the $500, 900 ap-
preparation for the ensuing year
shall have been exhausted. Hence
the celebration has as its purpose
the rallying Of public support 10
the Marcantonio and Dawson-Scan-
Ion Bills in congress 10 make the
FEPC permanent. so that after the
war the Negro will not return TO
the status of the last hired and the
first fired
Other minority groups have been
Invited 70 commemorate June Is
with the Negro community. A
campaign for state legislation for
fair employment practices is also
on the order Of the day according
10 National Negro Congress officials
in Michigan.
The Baptist Young Peoples Union
Of Friendship Baptist church is act
ing as host 10 the MIC and its
friends and will provide music for
the occasion Edward Swan. direc-
tor Of the Detroit Office OF the Presi-
dents Committee on FAIR Employ
ment Practice will speak on the ex-
perienccs of the committee III the
Detroit area during the past three
years The rally is supported by
the Metropolitan Council on FAIR
Employment Practice. the All-Slav
Congress. Packard Educational Pro-
GrcsSive club. the Civil Rights Fed
Grafton. and the Friendship Baptist
church.
The arrangements committee for
the celebration anticipates the ap-
rearance OF prominent Detroiter
who testified before the House APP
preparations Committee in Wash
ington in the recent hearings.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-06-24
BY CHARLES HARTMAN

Charging that bad leadership is
responsible for the Negro housing
shortage in Detroit, George A. lsa-
bell, Republican candidate for con-
greSs in the first district told the
Chronicle this week that ne would
make every effort 10 secure i'm
mediate housing for Negroes IN this
area.
Republicans. democrats, labor
and capital al agree that Negroes
need 20 900 homes in Detroit, lSa-
bell said. They also agreed that
Negroes are the best of the low in
come groups 80 far as business risks
are concerned but because Of the
absence OF sober-minded business
like Negro leadership in public
housing, nothing Is being done
Political Flavor
Isabel said further that banks
and lending institutions viii never
make Negro loans as long as Negro
leadership IN housing is pink.
The trouble is" he said. that
De;roi, is political housing instead
~ public housing. many are more
interested in changing our political
economy than giving housing. Ne
groes want decent places in which
10 live and not necessarily with a
hand book on foreign PHILOSOPHERS
with every home" he continued.
Isabel said TO the Chronicle that
as manager of the Brewster Homes
in 1888 he had succeeded in getting
Negro engineers and firemen on the
Civil Service eligibility list despite
the fact that up 10 that time no Ne
grOeS had been on that list. Il did
not aeits;e or put on SIDE show.
he said. but made business like
determined stand and won A great
victory for Negroes in Detroit.
No; only did &C; the Civil Serv-
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-06-24
Husband Held
FoHowingDeath
OF His Spouse

Police are investigating the death
Of Mrs Laura Johnson. IS, of 96l
DIVISION street. found dead in her
bed last week by her husband,
Curly.
Il was disclosed that Mrs. John
son had suffered from severe burns
o. the entire left arm and infec-
ton had set in swelling the entire
side OF her body.
An autopsy report disclosed that
MIS-. Johnson had died from the ef-
foctS o! septcemla following a head
injury. Police are holding her
husband for invest cation of her
sudden dea,h.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-06-24
Isabel Charges Bad
Housing ToLeaders

ice Commission 10 drop its time
worn policy Of hatred and anti-Ne-
groism, ! also insisted that Negroes
be accepted in the regular mainte-
nance unions"
Il will go 10 Washington as A
dignified, honest and intelligent
business man Isabel said. and
VIII get action ! VIII use my bust
ness training 20 get through legis-
lation that VIII provide for a, least
5000 homes in the first district"
Negroes should realize" he said.
that there is no relief in sight for
the problem unit, they make a posi-
tive move 10 help themselves" "A
definite step in this direction is 20
send one 81 your own race 10 the
congress Of The United States"
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-06-24
South Carolina
Exceeds Its Goal

NEW YORK 49, On the basis Of
membership goals assigned individ-
ual branches in the nationwide cam
paign for 100000 new members.
South Carolina is the first state 10
exceed It's quota, At the State Con-
ference recently held al Sumter,
more than 10000 new members were
reported. According 10 representa-
iives Of IL out Of 10 branches. the
total will exceed the original quota
by 100 per cent In this activity. the
greatest in years. South Carolina
takes the lead among states Of the
Deep South.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-06-24
Negro Congress To Celebrate Third Birthday OF FEPC
Court Changes Words
In Dem. Primary Case

The Supreme Court last week
changed the wording OF its ruling
in the celebrated Stool decision OF
April 3 preventing Texas from
barring Negro voters in the Demo-
cratic primaries In a formal or
der without explanation the court
substituted a new phrase for the
one originally written by Justice
Stanley F. Reed.
The April 3 opinion read: Under
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-06-24

our constitution the great privilege
of choosing his-feieFs- Faay-het- be
denied man by the state because
OF his color"
The amended opinion reads: I'm
der our constitution. the great
privilege OF the ballot may not be
denied man by the state because
OF his color"
The change is believed to have
been made because OF the word
rulers in the original sentence.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-06-24
BEAUTY CONTEST

The Inter-Fratcrnal Association
this week announced its first an
nusl beauty contest which officially
opened on June %. Trophies will
be presented 10 the winners Of tho
beauty contest AT the GraySione
Ballroom on Sunday, July %
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-19
WORLD WAR II A YEAR AGO
 MAY l0, l043
By United Press


 In address te Congress, Prime Minister Winston Churchill says that bis country will fight with us lO the end against Japan and lay her cities IB ashesi FeafflTms, however. the strategy Of making defeat Of Germany the first obs jeettiVe.
 Joseph F. Davies arrives in Moscow with special message fFem President Roosevelt for Premier Joseph stalin.
 U, 2. bembeFs Fald NaEi ship. building and U-boat bases Rt kiel and FlenshuFg,
 Berlin reports Soviet forces have launched maJoF attacks in four areas Of the long front,
 Co the Mediterranean, U. s, flyers smash grounded aircraft and shipping in PaRtelleFia HaFs b0F and at T'rapani. Sicily.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-07
When General Eisenhower SAYS,

Il consider the Red Cross as an
auxiliary Of my army and we
simply could not get along with
out it. . You know the Red Cross
is doing a perfectly magnificent
job over there. Keep it There!
Record of Accomplishments
Of March,, i94-Fuoy 70, 1914 except noted
US. servcemen given personal aid
500" 600 BY camp and hospital workers
5000, 900 pints of blood collected
$50 overseas clubs for servicemen and women
y $4,000 nurses recruited for the Army and Navy
"a. of February %, ls44)
$4,000 volunteer nurses aides trained for service
1000 persons aided in disasters
Fiscal yer-July I, 1s42-June 80, 1s43)
$4,000 survivors of marine disasters aided
925,0O0,OOO surgical dressings produced
600 garments made
900 first aid certificates awarded
100000 home nursing certificates issued
$500, 900 prisoner of war packages packed
(January l, 1s43-Novembere 6, 1s43)
$77,OOO,OOO foreign war relief distributed
august 1s39-September 1sA3)
= CIV e N
Increase Your Gift By
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-07

In Mount Clemens the Large Gift Committee started
solicitations last week. the Commerce, Industry and
the Labor Division solicitors started yesterday and
the WOmen's house to- house committee will start
Thursday.
In other parts of the County solicitors are already
hard at work.
When solicitor calls upon you, greet him or her
with generous donation. If you are missed in the
calls telephone 1892 and solicitor will call on you
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-09-28
REDS MOVE WITHIN
y MILES OF RIGA

LONDON, Thursday, Sept. 3d.
P-Breaking through the lake and
river barriers to Riga, the Rus
slams drove within % miles north
of the Latvian capital yesterday
and frightened their ring to IS and
81 miles east and southeast, cap
turing more than 200 communities
from the German defenders who
were throwing in their last de-
sperate reserves.
The Russians were silent on Ger
nlans accounts that credited them
withsa ten-rnile penetration of Hun
gary from the Arad area Of Ro-
mania, but early today in supple
ment to their regular communique
supported German assertions that
a new offensive was in the max
ing against east Prussia.
Southwest of Mariampole, in the
Sulwalki triangle area that Hitler
annexed to east Prussia in 1889,
Russian deta chments dislodged the
Germans from front line of tren.
ches and seized two fortified
heights, then beat off three coun-
terattacks with heavy losses to the
enemy, the Soviet statement said.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-09-28
AMERICANS FIGHT
TO GET BOLOGNA

ROME, Sept. 27.-P)-American
troops, knocked from hard-won pc.
sitions on the western spur OF
Monte La Fine south of Bologna
by German counterattack, fought
tonight to regain the ground as
other Allied forces made slight
gains on the Italian battle front.
The Americans were driven from
their positions on Monte La Fine
Monday night, the Allied command
said. Field Marshal Gen. Albeit
Kesselring used elements of three
or more divisions, supported by
powerful artillery barrage, in the
counterthrust.
Headquarters said the German
commander had expended his per-
sonnet "ibeally" to achieve his
objective.
On the Americans eastern flank
Fifth Army troops advanced to a
point within Is miles of Imola,
whose capture would cut the lat
eral Rimini-Bologna highway and
imperil the Nazis in the Adriatic
sector.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-09-28
RISING HANDED
TW0-YEAR TERM

Bill Rising, 80, of 108 South
Eighth street, was found guilty in
Recorders court yesterday on a
charge of attempting to break into
the Carolina Furniture company
at GIT North Fourth street, and
sentenced to two years in Jail, to
be assigned to the county farm.
His attorneys gave notice of ap-
peal to Superior court and he was
placed under $1,000 bond.
The former sheetmetal worker,
who was free under $1,000 bond for
his appearance at the October 2
term of Superior court on charges
of storebreaking, larceny and re-
ceiving, was rearrested Saturday
night on a warrant charging an
attempt to break into the furniture
store, and placed in Jail in default
of $500 bond.
Rising, who emerged successful
ly from a series of robbery trials
in Superior court last January, is
slated to appear at the special
criminal term of superior court
next week on charges of store
breaking, larceny and receiving in
connection with the theft of ap-
proximately $500 in jewelry from
Kingoff's jewelry store on the
weekend of July Is. Implicated
with him is Charles Lester Bair,
39-year-old Durham man, who ad-
1cittedly escaped in 1911 from the
Huntsville, Tex, penitentiary,
where he was serving a 25-year
sentence for bank robbery.
The case against Rising was
postponed from the August % term
of court, as well as morals
charge against him, in which he
was at large under a 500 bond.
Along with Sam Lineberry, he is
charged with occupying a room for
immoral purposes.
Rising's brother, Robert, was
sent to State prison at the Janu-
airy term of Superior court for an
aggregate of Is years, following
his admission that he was involved
in a string of local hold-ups and
robberies. Robert argued eloquent
ly in Bills behalf, and the jury
found insufficient evidence on
which to convict Bill.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-09-28
YANKS KILL 1851
JAPS ON PELELIU

u. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD
QUARTERS, Pearl Harbor, Sept.
27.-R-American invaders of the
Palaus, after killing 1857 Japan
csc. have overwhelmed all but two
pockets of resistance on priced Pc
lelium and have bloodily crushed
a last ditch infiltration effort on
conquered Angaur, headquarters
announced todayx
The new figures on japanese
dead followed a report yesterday
that American dead totalled 686-
meaning the Yanks have killed
better than II of the enemy for
every invader lost.
The Angaur infiltration effort by
enemy survivors was timed with
a weak air attack of the Nippon,
ese on that southernmost island OF
the Palaus Monday night
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-09-28
BY DON WHITEHEAD

WITH THE U. S. FIRST
ARMY IN GERMANY, Sept.
27.-R-With the Germans bat
ting desperately along the
Reich's borders and with the
weather steadily worsening, Al
lied armies faced the prospect
today of having to fight win
ter campaign before Hitler's
forces finally are crushed.
Hitler has called on his
troops to fight to the last man
and last cartridge. They are
making a fanatical stand on
their own soil as fall rains turn
fields into quagmires and leave
the troops cold and wet.
J, In the Aachen area German
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-09-28
ALLIED TROOPS
STRIKE ALBANIA
IN new BLOWS
Sea, Air Forces Seeking
To Trap German Units
Now In Balkans

ROME, Sept. 27.-{P)-In
a move to trap large German
forces in the Balkans and
eastern Mediterranean, AL
lied seaborne and airborne
troops have landed in Albania
and on the islands of Yugo-
slavia, the Allied high COM
mand announced today.
The landings squeezed some
100000 Germans in Hitler's crum-
bling Balkan flank between the
Russians on the northeast and the
Allies on the coast. In the inter.
ior partisan forces hacked away at
enemy units attempting to flee to
the Reich over tortuous mountain
passes.
At the same time Allied war;
planes and naval vessels contin-
ued their attacks against enemy
transport attempting to evacuate
German garrisons from the Ae.
gean islands.
A Balkan air force communique
said "seaborne and airborne
troops of the land forces of the
Adriatic are at present operating
on a wide front in Adriatic coun-
try, which includes Albania and
the islands off Yugoslavia."
Berlin acknowledged landings
were made from Albania along
the whole Dalmatian coast" which
lies to the north in Yugoslavia,
and declared the action ''is still
going on
British and United States for.
ces are meeting with fierce Ger
man resistance" German broad.
cast said.
The Allied commuliaue gave no
indication of the size of units in
volved. Generally, in the past,
Adriatic land force activities have
been of a commando type, involv-
ing relatively small groups OF
troops.
The Allied command said the
German garrison at Himara, in
Albania, had been destroyed fore
ing the Germans to abandon use
of the Albanian coastal road and
take to the sea to supply other
garrisons.
A naval announcement said Roy
al navy landing craft, supported
by destroyers and light coastal
vessels, had been operating since
Sept. Is among the southern Dali
matian islands carrying Allied
troops and partisans who are
striking swift and sudden blows al
the Germans.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-09-28

commanders are passing out
cards for the men to sign
pledging that they will resist
to the last.
This same technique was
adopted lat Cherbourg, where
the NaZi defense was bitter but
the defenders did not fight to
the last man. nor last car
fridge.
But the Nazis are planning
for a winter campaign and,
with bad weather hampering
movement of supplies and ma
neuver of tanks and troops, the
Allies must do likewise.
From now on there will be
16 to II days Of rain each
month. In another m N t h
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-09-28
WOMEN ORGANIZE
IN CHEST DRIVE

While solicitation goes on
through the commercial, industri.
al, governmental, educational and
public utility establishments of the
city on behalf of the Community
War Chest, organization is being
consummated of all general sales
units whose work begins next Mon.
day in house-to-house canvassing,
Ranald Stewart, general campaign
chairman. said last night.
Mrs. Herbert Bluethenthal, Lieu
tenant-colonel of the women's di'
vision, which will have its kick
off meeting Monday morning at
10 O'Clock at st. PauPs Parish
House, has announced team cap
tains who will serve under her
corps of five majors. as follows:
Division miss Peggy Hall, ma
jor - Mrs. W. H. Henderson, Jr.
Mrs. Junius C. Smith, Mrs. W. T.
Benton. Mrs Richard Andrews
Mrs. David R. -Murchison.
Division 2,-Mrs. Walter Sprunt
major - Mrs. S. H. Glover, Mrs
.. M. Holmes. Mrs. D. S. Carr
Mrs. C. H. Joyner.
Division 3,-Mrs Bereniece Stel
lings, major - Mrs. John Mount
castle, Mrs. w. l.. Bissinger, Mrs
Leslie Boney, n d Mrs. Ranale
Stewart.
Division Mrs. Harriss New
man, major = Mrs. R. E. Bruce
Mrs. Robert Dannebaum. Mrs. W
F. Sudbury, and Mrs. H. H. NC
Pherson
Division 5,-Mrs. Julian Morton
Mrs. l. w. Cooper, Jr., Mrs. l
]. Sutton, Mrs. A. R Hardwicke
MS. C. M. Harrington, Mrs. Will
liam S.. Dosher, and Mrs. Harry
Stovall.
Members Of the mems sales or
ganization will gather at | O'CLOCK
Monday afternoon for a kickoff
luncheon at the. Friendly restau
rant, according to Leo Sykes
chairman of this division.
The mems organization is as fol
lows:
| Division FIRED ;Willetts, msjS
Hooper johnson, A. B. Walton
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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-09-28

The proposal Of the successful
bidder was presented to the com.
missioners of the authority at a
special meeting at the Authority
office at Lake Forest. The Peoples
Savings Bank ana Trust company
Put in the bid as the representative
Of the purchaser.
Three bids were received when
the time for closing arrived at IL
o'clock noon. The other proposals
were from a syndicate headed by
Goldman, Sachs and Co., of New
York, and presented through Allen
c. Ewing and Company, of Will
ilington, at an average of 2.09 per
cent; and group headed by Blyth
and Co., Inc, of New York, bid.
ding through the Wilmington Saw.
ngs and Trust Company, at PIT
per cent average.
The new bonds were offered in
connection with refunding of the
outstanding issue on Charles r.
Nesbltt Courts and Robert R. Tay-
lOf Homes, low-rent projects of the
authority. Aggregate outstanding
bonds amount to $1,834,OO0. Til e
Authority offered maximum of
A'ooS,OOO to private investors out
OF the refunding issue, and the
successful 81 bidder took $1,313, 600.
me balance will go to the Federal
fuolc Housing Authority, which
Continued nm Paua Txuo. coI A,
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parked school bus from either
direction, the law makes it ne
cessary to come to a complete
stop.
Previously there was some
controversy as to this ques-
ton, but Sheriff Jones pointed
out that the last session OF the
legislature settled it. When
public buses stop they should
stop at a bus stop, and drivers
are permitted to move around
them. But it is against the law
to pass. school bus which has
stopped to take on or dis
charge passengers.
The wreck last Thursday IN
which three persons were kill
ed on the Castle Haynes road
was evidently caused by a bac
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-09-28
TROOPS GET BRIDGE
BEFORE MOATED FORT
By EDWARD d. BALL.

by EDW AID u. BALL
WITH THE THIRD ARMY BE-
IoRE METZ. Sept. 27.-lR-U. S.
i lnlId army troops today seized a
ptlage Leading into moated Fort
rAant, a key bastion in the chain
u fortresses on the west bank Of
'Ae Moselle guarding Metz.
Inc charge captured only the en-
rance to the formidable fort,
winch is a mile long and half-mile
woe with five batteries of heavy
artillery and scores of pillboxes.
Inc assault followed a morning
ar attack, and day-long artillery
barrage.
Inc fort, one of three main bias.
uohS guarding Metz, was hammer.
Cd by the 10Th Ia ctical Air Force
ana creWmen estimated Is per cent
VI the fort and its subsidiary for.
ulcatlons were destroyed.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-09-28
Allies Face Winter Campaign

heavy, persistent fogs will cling
to the ground and make OBJ
servation difficult. Whether the
fighting will bog down along
a static front no one can say,
for too many factors are in
volved, such as weather, the
ability of air power to operate
against the enemy, supplies
and the morale of German
troops and civilians.
While the German army is
badly battered it still il a
strong force to contend with,
since it is fighting on its own
soil with short supply lines
and communications. In con-
trast, allied supply lines are
extended, and bad weather viii
be an aid to the defenders. D
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-09-28
Eyewitness
Describes
Heroic End
BY ALAN WOOD
British Correspondent
Representing Combined Allied
Press


WITH THE ARNHEM AIR
BORNE FORCE, Sept. 26-Oe-
1ayed)-lRHThis is the end.
The most tragic and glorious
battle of the war is over and
the survivors of this British
airborne force can sleep sound
ly for the first time in eight
days and nights.
Orders came to us yesterday
to break out from the forest
citadel west of Arnhem, cross
the Rhine and join up with the
Second army on the south
bank.
our commander decided
against a concerted assault on
the Germans around us. In
stead the plan was to split up
into little groups ten to twenty
strong, setting out along diff
ferent routes at two-minute
intervals, which would simply
walk through the German lines
in the dark. Cheeky patrols
went out earlier, tying bits
Of white parachute tape to
trees to mark the way.
Gan NBC broadcast from the
western front said at least g.
900 of the troops escaped.
Some 1900 wounded were left
behind, with number of
British doctors staying to tend
them. The wounded now are
under care of the German
commander, the broadcast
added.)
To hinder the Germans walk
ing up to what was happening,
Second army guns laid down
battering box barrage all
afternoon.
The first party was to set
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