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Evening star., 1944-05-31
Company Urges,
Union Opposes
Pay Agreement
By the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press
The War Labor Board concluded
1t had seen everything today after
1t was presented with a labor dis
pute in which the company de-
manded a wage agreement and the
union refused.
The principals are the Seldin
Coat Co., Baltimore, and the AFL
International Ladies' Garment
Workers Union. Their agreement
expired on May /. 1t contained
provisions for the determination of
rates for specific operations, as
well as arbitration machinery. This
resulted in findings against the
union for losses suffered by the
company during two strikes last
year, though the company did not
take advantage of the findings.
The union wants to be free to
bargain over rates rather than have
them determined by automatic ma
chinery in contract. 1t contends
the company is not in the war
effort, but the WLB took the case
and referred it to- the Philadelphia
regional board
Evening star., 1944-05-31
Chiefs Of Two Union,
To Answer WLB's
Summons Today
ey the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
DETROIT, May 81. Leaders O,
TWO local unions whose strikine
members are hampering produce
tiorl OF medical supplies at Parke
Davis & Co., and tying up most
baked goods delivefies~stn Detroit
were to present their sc&seSs today at
separate show-cause hexsfigs before
the National and Rssgnal War
Labor Boards. TX
Participants In a third strike, in
volving l,5o0 employees at the Fed
eral Mosul Co. main plant here,
held a mass meeting to- consider a
back-to-work movement. The strik-
ers, members of the CIO United
Automobile Workers, walked out
Saturday protesting the discharge
Of two union stewards.
A possible showdown on the Ma
tional WLBs authority to exact
penalties on . union for calling
strike voted under provisions OF
the War Labor Disputes Act was
seen in q Washington hearing for
officials OF Local l1s of the CIo
United Gas, Coke ana chemical
Workers, whose 1900 mefnbers haye
been on strike for more than a week
Mt Parke, Davis.
Local President Chester j. ADAM
czyk has contended that since a
majority OF the drug workers favored
striking In an election conducted by
the National Labor Relations Board
the strike was legal, according to-
the Smith Connally Act.
WLB Chairman william II. Davis.
who previously directed the workers
to call off the strike, replied that
nothing In. the act relieved the
union of its moral obligation to
comply with its no-strike pledge"
and summoned Mr.. AdaInczyk and
other union leaders to appear at
today's hearing.
Mr.. Adamczyk has challenged the
WIaB'S authority to interfere with
or prevent" union company nego-
tiations while the strike is In prog
ress, as directed by Mr.. Davis. The
negotiations concerned II union de-
nands. including general wage in
crease.
The regional WLB stepped into
the bakery truck drivers dispute,
which has cut of about 90 per cent
Of the city's bread supply, by order
ing Sam Hurst, president OF Bakery
Drivers Local 81, and James Hoffa,
business agent Of the parent AFL
Teamsters' Union, to show cause
why deliveries should not be re-
suned.
Ignoring WLB directive to re-
turn, the 1000 drivers voted Sunday
to continue their strike, but sched-
uled q meeting today to consider
results of the show-causes hearing.
The drivers are demanding in
creases In their base pay and COM
mission on sales.
Evening star., 1944-05-31

terday that It was q slip Of the
tongue last Friday to mention late
spring as one Of the possible seasons
for . meeting, that he meant to limit
himself to between now and January
20. the end Of his present term.
At the Friday conference, he had
mentioned three seasons: This sum-
|mer, the fall or late spring. Yester-
day he said he did not mean to be
80 technical last week but had
always regarded June, July and
August as the summertime, Then he
Evening star., 1944-05-31
| Roosevelt Puts January 70
Limit on Plans for Trip
BY the Associated Press.

By the AssocIated Prefs.
President Roosevelt has amended
his references to . possible visit with
Prime Minister Churchill to make
clear that his plans in this connec-
ton do not 60 beyond his present
term.
He told his r,eus rnnferanna Vas.
Evening star., 1944-05-31
Wife Of General, Now
In England, Found Dead

By the AssociAted Press.
! sRASApENA, Calf :. May 31.-sMrs
Maxjole Mcmahon, A, wife of Brig
Gen; John E. Mcmahon. jr., now
stationed with the United States
field artillery in England, was found
dead in bed yesterday at her home
by her mother. Mrs. Eva Robbins.
Death was believed due to heart
disease.
Mrs. McMahon's home was in
Sherman, Tex.
Buy War Bonds to have and
IA holdi
Evening star., 1944-05-31

chuckled and added he would Ike TO
see Mr.. Churchill next spring, re-
gardless.
Evening star., 1944-06-02

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tub and perfume yourself with the cologne
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Evening star., 1944-06-02
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The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-06-03
Detroit Considers Its First Negro Scout Executive

Townsville. Australia. They were
charged with rsping a white Amer
lean Red Cross worker on the night
Of January 10. 1914.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-06-03
PUBLIC. Dinner
IS PLANNED BY
COLLEGE FUND

The Detroit Committee OF the
United Negro College Fund Cam
paign which has been getting It's
rsanizational structure set up dur
ing the last three weeks, will have
its first public opening dinner on
June II at the Metropolitan Branch
Of the YWCA.
Ramon S. Scruggs, director Of the
committee, has called several meet
ings OF the executive council and
advisory committee. He reports that
contributions have already begun
to come in. Hundred-dollar checks
have been received from profession
al men and twenty Ave dollar
checks from wage earners in the
city. He urged the full cooperation
Of all persons In this effort TO save
the 81 Negro colleges which are
members OF the campaign
John ]. O'Brien, chairman OF the
Detroit Committee. said in a meet
ing last week that he had just re-
turned from New York where he
had seen Walter Hoving, national
chairman of the drive According
TO developments in New York"
C'Brien said Il feel that we in De-
troit are doing quite well in our
efforts John Dancy, vice chairman
Of the Detroit Committee. expressed
the hope that the final meeting of
the drive would be held in the new
quarters Of the Detroit Urban
League.
The goal for the Detroit drive is
$4,000 and all members of the exec
utive staff as well as the advisory
committee have expressed the belief
that the sum will be raised.
Different groups and professions
are being approached through teams
and team leaders. The social agen-
cies are being led by Mrs. Beulah
Whitby and the business men are
being captained BY George Reed
More organization meetings are TO
be held this week to complete the
teams in the drive. Raymond
Scruggs. director, is anxious that
every interested person make his
interest known.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-06-03
2 Murder Suspects
Tell Their Story

water in an excavsted church base
ment, a short distance from the
Sprays home, by a schoolboy. Will
lie Norton Of 3275 Kewadin street,
Inkster.
After explaining how he had met
Jack Boot Bid Edwards, 81, of
1901 z. Euclid last April 30, near
Russell street, Anderson denied that
he had helped murder Sprays or
had robbed him, as claimed by the
police.
He Edwards made me do what
he wanted. He had a gun on me. l
knew that he always carried a gun
and I was afraid he'd shoot me-"
Anderson said. explaining his al
legged part in the shaving.
Tells OF Threat
Anderson said that following the
beating and stabbing OF Sprays,
HE Edwards drew a gun on me
and made me help him drag the
dead man to the church basement
and then he pushed il in"
Interviewed at the county Jail,
Jack Edwards couldn't remember
what had happened during the rob-
bery-murder Of Sprays
Questioned conce corning the
Sprays murder. Edwards kept rub
bing his forehead and said that he
had dizzy spells all the time and he
couldn't remember what had hap
pened TO Sprays. a man whom he
admitted had never mistreated him
and with whose daughter he had
gone around with" several years
ago.
Cant Remember"
Edwards said. Il don't believe !
could do what they said l did .
I don't even remember going out TO
Inkster Seems like dream"
However Edwards told this re-
porter TO come back later and may
be he could think then and he'd
tell what had really happened 10
Sprays.
Anderson stated that he had met
Edwards on Russell street and had
gone with him 10 lnkster so that
he Edwards could borrow some
money from Sprays
Sprays was lured from his home
by Edwards OF a pretext OF going
TO take Edwards wife TO a hospital
They were coming down the roac
and stopped for me-" Anderson said
Saw Man Slain
| |Then Edwards hit him two OF
three times on the head and Spragg:
| jumped out OF the car and started
10 run. But Jack caught him anc
kept hitting him until he fell
Then ne called me and when 90
there he pulled knife and stabbed
him in the neck.
II started TO leave" Anderson
said, but Jack had gun in hi
hand He made me get hold o
Sprays feet and help drag hin
over 10 the basement"
Questioned concerning Caro-
Jones part in the murder, Ander
son said He doesn't know any
thing about il He was downtown
with his girl friend" Jones is helt
as a police witness.
| Anderson then told Of going bacl
to Sprays house and getting
cash box. watch and ring from tn
house. Jack gave me S45 and tn
watch and told me II | told IN
police il would be the last thing L,
do"
Anderson also told OF disposin
OF the rs CALDER automatic. whic
police say had been used 10 sslu
Sprays by throwing IT into IN
river
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-06-03

We the whishsm family wish 10 extend cur
sincere thanks TO all the people that sent
cards and to those who sent flowers and
condolences and kilograms during the loss
of my daughter Msdge Lee whiEhsm. We
especially thank the girl pallbsarers and
flower girls. all the soloists. tho pastor and
undertaken for their courteous ssrvices.-
The WhiGham Family.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-06-03
Pictures Better
Race Relations
In The Y MICA

With emphasis on the coming
celebration Of the YMC.A.s one
hundred years q service 10 youth
all over the world. Prsther Haus-
g., executive secretary Of the ST.
Antoine branch Of the YM.C.A,
spoke over radio station WJLB Sun
DAY morning He told how the
YMC 4. IS working 10 bring closer
The day when neither race, color or
creed ~5!!-s.iay eSi-a- manic pcrse-
cuiion. He closed with the state
nent, Let Us all therefore. pray
that the YMCA will be as viIor-
Gus and successful in this field of
its work during the next 100 years
as il has been in other fields. dur
ine the past 100 years"
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-06-03
CROSS
interviewed
FOR new POST

For the first time in the history
o. scouting in Detroit. nc Detroit
Office Of the Bow Scouts Of Amercs
has been considering a Negro !>r
the position o! Scout executive in
this area, il vas disclosed this
week
Among the persons interviewed
FOR the position was Joseph J.
Gross Of Dallas. Texas Gross. a
native Of Iowa and graduate o! the
University Of Iowa has made a
fine record as Scout executive in
Texas and IS a graduate Of an ad-
vsneed Scout Training school in
New Jersey
Wynne Garvir. who Is active IN
Scout circles. said mat While all
arrangements had rot been COM
pleted, there is = great possibility
that Gross VII DC employed
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-06-03

supplied, we've usually put in party
lines instead Of individual lines. And
we've repaired and returned to service
all disable old apparatus.
Orders for telephones essential to the
war are filled promptly. Other requests
for new service are handled under .
definite procedure, as present users give
up service. But there is a long and
growing waiting list.
We believe you would want us to
meet war service needs ahead of com
fort and convenience for civilians. And
we appreciate your understanding and
cooperation.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-06-03
CLASSIC led
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The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-06-03
BY LARRY CHISM

Fear OF being shot by Jack Boot
Bid Edwards IL he did not do as
Edwards instructed him was given
by 20-yesr-old James Anderson OF
1898 E. Lafayette street as the reas-
on for his participation in the rob-
bery-murder Of l-year-old Hunter
Sprays last April 20.
Interviewed Monday by the Mich
igsn Chronicle, Anderson denied
that he had taken any part in the
brutal beating and stabbing which
resulted in the death Of Sprays OF
32l7 Harriet street, Inkster.
Schoolboy Finds Dead Body
The semi-nude body Of Sprays
was found beneath three feet OF
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-06-03
Candidates
Continued from Page ~


Third Senatorial District My reas-
sors for filing were these: having
pol!ed the highest number Of votes
Of any Negro candidate in the his
tory Of Detroit: namely 99,S38 votes
las; IAN for the City Council, many
81 my supporters, upon learning Of
Senator Digs changing his party.
insisted that ! become a candidate
OF the Democratic Party. and sup
port our conmandcr.in chief IN this
tats. hour az DESTINY for the human
race. The reaction 10 Senator Digs
change of party VAS so d.S'aSteful.
TIA public opinion forced a change
az Tcart upon the incumbent
Now Nj Editor. there are four
Negro didatcS and ono white, for
nc scat now held by the present
Senator Unless the Negro Candi-
dates can reach an agreement on
one man. our Race Wl.l DC the loser
This. Sir. is my suggestion 10 YOU:
II your paper VII pick gu, Jury
O.! fifteen tl5D outStand ng public
spirited citizens. with someone such
IS tho Honorable John & Dancey
as moderator. allowing each OF these
candidates 10 present his own case
as 10 why he should De given the
United Support o. the press. the
church. Inc business men and the
people a our community IN his be-
hall ! Edward a Simmons. VIII
ABIDE by such decision as this jury
II public SPIRITED citizens render.
N behalf Of race unity; for the
reason that This Senate Seat must
be saved,
Please De kind enough 10 print
this declaration IN its entirety in
yolr newspaper. and believe me to
DC very appreciat.ve of the many
couItcSics you have extended to me.
Very respectfully yours.
A4Ynrnay EduarH A Gironnpnc
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-06-03

FoR a long time, almost all new iele-
phone apparatus that could be made has
had to 60 to the Armed Services. 49, Fac
tory.space and manpowcr cannot be di-
verted to make equipment for civilians.
Despite all that, since National De.
Tense got under way in 1910, Michigan
Bell has added close to 4 quarter of
million telephones. That was made pos
sible only by using up all our reserve
equipment and by stretching to the limit
the facilities we had.
We've crowded our switchboards and
cables beyond their normal capacity.
Where any residential service could be
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-06-03
Macarthur Gets
NAACP Appeal

NEW YORK-A stay OF execu-
ton in the death sentences Of four
Negro soldiers and one
Negro merchant seaman
in Australia on a charge
of rape has been requested OF Gen.
eral Douglas Macarthur by the
NAACP.
The five men were convicted and
sentenced to be hanged by general
court-martial March 1919, in
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-06-03
Soldiers
Continued from Page II

Continued from Page II
affray, is reported 10 have gone TO
the Negro barracks, unarmed. and
called on the soldiers TO surrender
their arms. They did.
Mrs. Viola Abrams, wife OF the
injured sergeant, left for Mobile
after being notified by the War De-
partment of the shooting.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-06-03
CARD OF THANKS

REFRIGERATOR WANTED. CALL Ten
pie l.4878.
Evening star., 1944-09-28
Secrecy Maintained
I0n Albania Invasion
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Assoc. .ated Press.
ROME. Sept. 28.-The Allied COM
mand remained silent today or
progress of the invasion of Albania
and the islands off the Dalmatian
coast of YugoSiavia by air and sea
a move designed to squeeze about
100000 remaining Nazis on Hitler's
crumbling Balkan flank.
At last reports, the air-borne
troops were operating on a wide
front in Albania, and these opera
tions probably represented the first
phase of the final pinch of the Ger
mans between the coast and the ad-
vancing Russians in the east.
The line of German retreat from
Southeastern Europe runs through
mountainous country, studded with
pockets of bitter Yugoslav and AL.
banian partisan resistance
prime Minister Churchill in
London said Hitler already had
squandered large army in his
Balkan adventures.)
The landings were made by sea-
borne and air-borne forces of "the
land forces of the Adriatic," and
Berlin has acknowledged that they
were made from Albania all along
the whole Dalmatian coast" lying
to the north. The German radio
claimed the forces were meeting
with fierce Nazi resistance.
Evening star., 1944-09-28
Churchill Louds
Superb Feat of
| Arms at Arnhem
B, the Associated Press.

SS lIle hsSolIdlCu fltSS'
LONDON Sept. 28.-Prime Min
lister Churchill paid tribute before
the House of Commons today to the
superb feat of arms of the Brit
ish 1st Air-borne Division. whose
1000 survivors retreated back across
the upper Rhine.
Here I must pay tribute" the
Prime Minister said, ito the superb
feat of arms performed by our 1st
Air-Borne Division. This
glorious and fruitful operation will
take lasting place in our military
annals and will in succeeding gen.
erations inspire our youth with
the highest ideals of duty and
daring.
The cost has been heavy =
but for those who mourn there is
at least the consolation that the
sacrifice was not needlesSlv de-
manded. nor was it given without
result.
The delay caused to the enemv's
advance upon Nijmegen enabled the
British I'd Army and their American
comrades in two other air-borne
divisions to secure intact the vitally
important bridges and to form a
strong bridgehead over the main
stream Of the Rhine at Nijmegen.
Not in vain may be the pride
Of those who survived and the epi-
saph OF those who fell"
Evening star., 1944-09-28
Russians Deny Plan
To Cut Up Germany

LONDON, Sept. % LP,.-The off
cial Russian news agency Tass
denied today that the tripower Eu-
ropean Advisory Commission ir
London is considering cutting ul
Germany into small states after
her unconditional surrender.
In a Moscow broadcast the agency
said, THE problem is often raised
in the British and American press
concerning the possibility of Ger
many's dismemberment into several
independent small states. Projects
of this kind, however. have no,
been and are not considered by the
European Advisory Committee"
Soviet Russia. the United States
and Britain are represented on the
commission.
The Tass broadcast was prepared
before Prime Minister Churchill in
dicated in his address to the House
of Commons that no final decisions
had been made at the Quebec Con-
ference concerning Germany and
that new conference with Premier
Stain present was essential"
The Russian news agency said the
following conclusions on the results
achieved by the European Advisory
(see PEACE. Page Aid
Evening star., 1944-09-28
Potton's Forces Pushed Back
From Entrance to Metz Fort
U. S. lst Army Drives Through Forest
ID Miles Southeast of Auchen

Marshal Bernard L. Montgomery's
21st Army group headquarters were
that LOO to $500 had escaped.
Fighting everywhere with skill
determination and fierceness, The
Germans threw American Sd Army
troops out of their hard-Won toe
hold at the entrance to the moat-
ringed fort of Driant which guards
the west bank approaches to Metz
on the Moselle. The Nazis de-
clared they also had smashed q
bridgehead across the Antwerp
Turnhout canal west of the Mime
gen corridor.
Against these reverses. 1st Army
Americans burst through the pill
studded, 6-mile-wide Hurtgen
Forest, IA miles southeast of be-
sieged Aachen, in a powerful effort
to tear open the blocked way to
Cologne.
Canadian soldiers, wearing Mae
West" life jackets, attacked through
the canal lines around Calais on
the Channel coast. They worked
across the western flats into the
factory area. converted into a
stronghold, toward the port dis
trict.
Almost everywhere. the Germans
said, the Allied attack was increas-
ing in force, from Western Hoi-
land to the Belfort Gap.
They admitted the loss of posi-
tons in heavy fluctuating battle
against far superior forces east of
(See WESTERN FRONT. Page A-3
Evening star., 1944-09-28
Russians Cross
Into yugos|aviia, ,
Report
Moscow Declares
Position of Nuzis
In Rigo Hopeless
BY the Associated Press.

LONDON, Sept. 28.-Russian
troops have invaded Yugoslavia
after crossing the Danube just
west of the Iron Gate at the Ro-
manian frontier town of Orsova,
the German communique said
today.
In the Danube bend. there was
lively accommodating activity on
both sides of the Iron Gate" said
the official war bulletin broadcast
from Berlin. Soviet forces who
have advanced south from Orsova in
a southern direction were repulsed
and enemy formations who had
crossed the Danube were smashed -
OrSova is on the river frontier
and only Yugoslav territory lies
to the south. Moscow has not
yet confirmed an incursion into the
territory where Marshal Titos
Partisan army operates, but weeks
ago told officially of reaching the
Iron Gate-the wild mountain can
yons through which the Danube
courses through the Transylvanian
Alps.
Nazis Claim Many Prisoners.
The Germans asserted that sew
eral thousand prisoners were taken
in Warsaw and that another seq
ment of 1t. Gen Tadeusz (Bor)
KomoroWski'S underground army
surrendered.
More than 5000 Polish civilians
were declared evacuated from the
capital, across whose Vistula River
the Soviet armies are deployed in
the industrial suburb of Praga
Another success has been
achieved which gives rise to the
hope that the entire revolutionary
movement at Warsaw will be over
come in the near future" the Ger
man communique said
Gen. Komorowski's communiaue
announced Withdrawals from posi-
tions in the Mokotow section of
Warsaw. He said the patriots held
their positions in other parts OF
the capital.