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Evening star., 1944-12-10
Children 10 Auction
Favoriie Toys 10 D. c.
Bond Buyers Today
SoIe Expected to Spur
Logging e Sales, Now
At 49.3% of Quote

Dozens of Washington children
will gather at the United States
Chamber of Commerce Building
1915 H street NV, at 3 pm. to-
day to auction their favorite toys
to War Bond bidders as part of
the Sixth War Loan drive.
Curly-haired dolls, cowboy pistols,
red wagons, teddy bears, plane and
ship models-the most cherished
possessions of the city's too-young-
to-f1ght-generation-will be carried
to the stage by their owners and
sold to the persons who buy the most
bonds in exchange.
Besides the toys, several dogs and
other pets will be sold. The auction
was suggested by Arnold Meyers,
scoutmaster, and taken up en-
Enthusiastically by the school children
all over town, who brought their
toys to school-or who will take
them to the auction-to sell them
for money which will buy the guns
their fathers and brothers need.
Prewar Toys for Sale.
The persons who buy bonds at
the auction, besides helpire the - -.
trict meet rs sas.s iapo' .ig e Bond
quota. a'ld helping the children dc
,heir art in the drive, will be able
TO buy prewar toys made of metal
and rubber which are now impos-
sible to buy, the War Finance Com
mittee pointed out.
Ugo Carusi, assistant to the At
torney General. will auction the
toys and pets, and the Navy Band
orchestra will play. Several vaude-
vile acts, and a demonstration oi
South American walking fish by
Fred G. Orsinger, aquarium direc-
tor of the Fish and Wildlife Service
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he disclose why the committee de-
sired to question the attorney.
The committee currently is inquir-
ing into the sale of Radio Station
WMCA in New York. Donald
Flamm, its former owner, has testi-
fed he sold the station under pres
sure" to Edward j. Noble, former
Undersecretary of Commerce ano
now chairman of the Blue Network
Mr.. Corcoran's name has been men.
toned several times at public hear.
ings during the WMCA investiga.
ton.
Chairman Lea also disclosed thai
the committee is studying Mr.. Cor.
coran's income tax returns. He die
not explain the purposes of the
inquiry.
Attorney General Biddle appeared
before the Senate committee osten.
sibly to recommend approval of hi
executive assistant, Uge Carusi, a
(See CORCORAN, Page A-4]
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Stutue Of Liberty
Will Signal Victory

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Dec. ,9.-The Statue
of Liberty. dark since Pearl Harbor,
will be relighted as victory signal
when Germany or Japan surrenders,
George A. Palmer, superintendent,
said today.
A modernized lighting system, now
being installed, will make Miss
Liberty brighter than ever.
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ELIAS Are Mussinq
Additional Units
Outside Capital
By the Associated Press.

ATHENS, Dec. "a general oil
| the ELIAS forces. whose conflict
with the regular government anc
British troops turned Athens into
a civil war battle-ground, was re-
ported to have surrendered to-
night, while liberals who have
been acting as mediators in
dicated peace might be restored
to the capital by tomorrow or
Monday.
The name Of the surrendering
general was not announced. The
report of his capitulation came even
as additional ELIAS units were mass
ing outside the city. The ELIAS
forces are the armed detachments
of the left-wing Fam party.
Dimitri Lambrakis, an independ-
ent liberal and publisher of the
newspaper, Eleutheron Vina, said he
had been consulting all day as inter-
mediary between the moderates,
dissenting extremists and govern
a
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New Italian Cabinet,
Minus Sforza, 10 Be
Announced Today
Bonomi Administration
Expected to Include
Communist Leader
BY the Associated Press.

ROME, Dec. 9.-Three vice
premiers, including Palmiro To-
gliatti, Communist leader, will be
included in the new Italian
government headed by Ivanoe
Bonomi, expected to be an
nounced officially tomorrow, ii
was learned tonight. A list OF
ministers has been submitted to
Allied authorities for approval.
Count Carlo Sforza, opposed by
the British and described yesterday
by Prime Minister Churchill as not
regarded as true and trustworthy
man." apparently was out of the pic
ture in the new government.
Authoritative sources said Togli.
atti, who broke the deadlock in the
two-weeks-old crisis by throwing hi,
support to Bonomi, will share thu
vice partnerships with Giulio d
Rodino of the Christian Democrats
and Liberal party member.
New Post Created.
From the fourth party in the new
government, the Labor Democrats
will be selected a minister who will
head the newly-created Intermin-
isterial Committee, which will
supervise a program of economic
construction, an Italian communi-
que said.
Slated to become foreign minister
the post for which Count Sforza had
been proposed, is Christian Demo-
crat Degasperi, minister without
portfolio in the former Bonomi gov
ernment.
Sforza declared in an interview
today that he had failed to adhere
to a written promise to the United
States State Department to support
Marshal Pietro Badoglio because
under Badoglio's regime defeated
Italian generals were attempting tc
create new type of Fascism.
Sforza, a leader of nti-Fascisn
in Italy through score of years Of
exile, asserted that before his re.
turn in October, 1943, he wrote 9
letter containing the Badoglio pledg.
at the suggestion of the State De-
partment ''in order to overcome
certain oppositions raised from
abroad to my return to Italy"
Other Selections Listed.
Degasperi. a native of Trento, was
elected to the Italian Parliament ir
1921, after which he succeeded Dor
Luigi Sturza, now in the United
States, as secretary of the Popular
Party. He served as secretary unit
the Fascists ended the party, which
has now reappeared as the Christian
Democrats.
Regarded also as certain of ap-
pointments in the new government
are Alexandra Casati as war minis
ter; Raffaele de Courten as navy
minister: Marcello Soleri as minis
ter of the treasury; Fausto Guile
as minister of agriculture. They
held the same posts In the r eu-,.
ing Bonomi government.
Commenting on Mr.. Clurchill's
statement. Sforza decr red that
what matters now is the wal
against the Germans. British
soldiers are lying on our soil ane
(See PJNOMI, Page A-4)
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700 American Plane!
Pound Stuttgart. in
'54-BeIow' Weather
Four Bombers Missing,
All Fighters Return;
Resistance Light
By the Associated Press.

LONDON, Dec. Flying
through binding snowstorms, in
weather Sd degrees below zero,
more than 700 American planes
today reached the German in
dustrial center of Stuttgart in
perfect bombing formation and
carpeted strategic airdrome
and congested freight yards with
1,500 tons of explosives.
Conveyed by about 300 Mustangs
and Thunderbolts of the United
States 9th Air Force, 400 Flying
Fortresses dropped their loads both
by visual aiming and instruments.
-Four of the bombers were reported
missing, but all the escorting fighters
returned safely.
Resistance Is Light.
Resistance was reported light and
with the exception of one Nazi jet
propelled plan which was shot down
the Luftwaffe was absent.
This first attack on Stuttgart by
American heavies since September
l6 proved to be one of the coolest
missions the Britain-based bombers
have flown
The intense cold $4,000 to 10000
feet above the target area possibly
could explain lack of initiative by
Nazi fighters. Lubricants in their
planes now may be of such poor
quality that they could not stand
such severe cold.
Stuttgart, 10 miles east of Stras-
bourg and ITO miles east of the
Saarbrucken area, is the home OF
large truck and ball-bearing fac
tories as we'll as a transportation
junction for the southern hinge OF
the western front.
While the American planes were
leaving their British fields for the
first time in two days, a double
edged aerial blow against the Reich
developed as Italy-based bombers
were reported by the Berlin radio
to have attacked Munich, 100 miles
southeast of Stuttgart.
RAF Has Field Day.
The RAF I'd Tactical Air Force in
Belgium, operating under a new
commander, Air Vice Marshal E. c..
Huddleston "a So year - old Aus
tralian and a veteran of air CAM
paigns connected with landings in
Sicily, Salerno, Anzio and Southern
France-had a field day.
North of Hanover, II locomo-
tives and % railway cars were de-
stroyed. Seven of the cars were
troop-carrying coaches and five
others were loaded with ammuni-
ton. In Holland, near Amersfoort.
rocket-f1ring Typhoons streaked
through an intense "box barrage''
and smashed a German headquar-
ters while Spitflres hurled bombs on
(See AERIAL, Page A-5.)
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TDo additional men from the
District area has been reported
killed in this tDnr. See "On the
Honor Roll" page Az.
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Rudio Programs, Pg. Clio
Complete Index, Pg. AZ
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(See PHILIPPINES. PAGE AID
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(see CHURCHILL, Page A-6J
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(See AERIAL, Page A-5.)
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(see RUSSIAN. Page A-loJ
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(See GREECE, Page A-6D
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(see WAR BONDS. Page A-10J
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(see MANPowER, Page A-4J
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Fat savings stretches fat Use LEI,
over fat over again IN piecrust. cakes.
wsffles biscuits muffins. or Stuffing
It's a food and point saving.
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simply do not know what the human race is capable
of doing under certain conditions. The mitarists of
Japan and the Nazis in Germany have deliberately
whipped their people into frenzy of hatred against
The peoples whom they are fghting.-Like the lynch
mob leaders of the South who inflame white Ameri-
cans to the point where they are willing to burn
Negro alive and cut off his limbs for keepsakes, the
Axis leaders have propagandized their people into
a binding fury that knows no bounds whatever.
What the commentators do not point out is that
hatred in itself is the and motive which debases
men and renders them insane. The hate-mongers of
Japan and Germany have deliberately seized the
minds of their people and filled them with poison. If
the German and Japanese soldiers did not have this
burning hatred in their hearts, the atrocities of the
Japs and Nazis would never have happened. Indeed
it has been hatred which provided the emotional ex-
cuse for the Axis to launch this worlds war.
Hate-mongers wherever they are found and
among whatever people dangerous to world peace.
We are at war against these hatemongers and there
will be no peace until they are replaced with men of
goodwill This is not race war but war against
evil men who are determined to rule this world or
ruin it. If they cannot rule it by armed proves
they intend to ruin it by promoting hatreds. We
Americans have an opportunity to defeat both of
their efforts for we can defeat them on the field
of battle and dssipate the hatreds they have sown
with our own doctrines of human decency.
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MUTUAL FEELINGS

How far should mutual leellngs
extend?
This is a question for all humans
TO decide
Not reference to any special sect
or men
Whether modest or submissive, self
respect or pride. d,
The solution is not presented
through wrangles nor wars
Which exist because OF superior
pressure
Where ranges much prejudice or
biased laws
Controlled by the authorities Of
wealth or treasure.
While there seemingly, must be a
force
Constructed by sources OF mental
diccrnment
Through which comes cares as
matter OF course
And produce something for repara-
ton and appeasement.
AS in other characteristics there
may be operations
To test the pressure OF mind or
brains
These come by frequent trials or
applications
Improved like models OF rail way
trains.
The home should be cleared OF inn
purities and dust
Before an attempt is made to clear
the globe
Then. one would dare believe and
trust
A promise Of pearls and silken
robe.
The problem is simple IL one
should think
Since man is superior 70 other Nv
ing creatures.
Why then be so different in eat and
drink,
When the difference is only in form
or features.
When children are equally supplied
al home
On whatever Is available. such as
foods and ',eds
When the times for reckoning really
come
There will be less blsmes and
cracking OF heads
z. II. WALKER
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We~o Th'e
'Wegc'

who think differently fool nobody
b I themselves All we ask is
chance. We want no special
privilege: no special favors: -
no special laws -. We say to our
white brother. make your qualifi-
cations as hard and difficult as you
like Just give us fair and
impartial chance 10 meet them. IL
then we fail, you will not hear n
Whimper.
THE NEGRO SOLDIER Is making
much history in this war Reports
everywhere pay tribute 10 his brav-
cry and loyalty Just today I
read in the Detroit News. that four
Of the twenty lone Nazi planes shot
down over Italy yesterday were
shot down by Negro P-40 pilots
Negro correspondents in the war
zones all around the world tell the
same story Of the fine work our
troops are doing on land. sea. and
in air.
This history is important
These fine records will count
for much when the summing UP
day comes We must endeavor
To build up. not only in the armed
forces. but in civilian life. as
well. record OF fine work done in
our community. state and nation.
While America refuses 10 read
il now. the day Will come when all
Will read with reverence and
amaZcmCnt
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WAR ATROCITIES

Last week the nation was astonished and an
gered by the disclosure made from Washington of
the indescribable treatment meted out to American
prisoners who captured by the Japanese. The
national temper was famed into white heat of
hatred for the Japanese people Similar accounts
of the wanton butchery of millions of Jews inEurope
by the Nazis should have prepared US for the news
that Americans Jews and Gentles, would be treated
similarly in the hands Of the enemy. The annihia-
ton of the Jews of Europe, however, seemed some
what remote to many Americans. Yes, if the naked
truth must be told, many Americans were undis-
turbed by the wholesale slaughter of Jewry.
In the newspapers and over the radio last week.
the commentators were busy proving that the Japa-
nese people did not belong to the human race, that
such bestiality could only be committed by some
other form of animal life. Those commentators
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.embershipDnDe
Makes Progress
After Meeting

Setting a goal for 1000 youth
members in Detroit Youth Coun-
ellis for the NAACP fifty enthusiast
tic members Of the Council met FRI
day. Jan %, outlining plans for the
coming drive which opens March 3.
James Fielder, acting president.
urged the Youth Councils To make
increased effort TO reach our quota
of youth memberships and invited
all youth 10 attend future meetings
OF the council held in the ST. An
tome Branch YMCA. each Friday
evening at 8 pm.
Gwendolyn Broyles and Wesley
King. division leaders in the drive
announced the names OF captains
of their divisions. The losing divis-
ion will have TO fcte the winning
division at the close of the drive
and interest was running high in
the competition for S25 war bond
which will go to the individual who
brings in the largest number OF
members.
Among the captains serving with
Wesley King are: Jack Vaughn,
Jimmy Fielder. Druid Hawkins. AL
len Ashby. Roy McDougall, Simon
Fuller. Robert Kemp. Geraldine
BledSoe. Serving with Miss BroyleS.
Loretta Roberts. Mary Stevenson,
Betty and Geraldine Jones. Louise
Simpson. Cledie Collins, jamie Ma
son, Mary Scott. Vivian Crimual.
and Jacqueline Thompson.
Each captain has vowed 10 Sc
cure ten teammates by the next
meeting OF the council, scheduled
for February 4 at the YMCA.
Andrew Brown. secretary OF the
Division OF Services to Labor. and
chairman OF Youth Work for the
Detroit NAACP. was appointed adj
visor to the youth council. Mr.
Brown will assist and advise the
youth and interpret the youth pro-
gram to the senior branch.
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Wherefore Univ.
III a S Enrolment
Record For 1914

WHEREFORE, Ohio - WILDER
force university opened second
quarter with a total resident enroll
ment Of 1856 men and 545 women
making a total OF TAI academic stu
dents, exclusive Of 48 military trail
nees in the Army Specialized Train
ing Program. This enrolment ex-
ceeds the average enrolment Of the
peak years OF 1898 when ii was
only 728. The az trainees OF the
A. s. T. p. are taking military re-
fresher courses. the only ones which
are being conducted in any OF the
colleges offering programs for Ne
gro trainees. The contracting parties
visited the institution on Jan. 81.
Wilberforce launched the ccntcn-
NAL campaign in a march Of the
century public meeting in Cleve-
land. Toledo, Columbus. and Pitts
burgh AS a result Of these meet
ings 81 900 was paid of during the
last week on the mortgage.
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FLETCHER HENDERSON,, one
OF Americas foremost bandlcaders.
is having his difficulties in the
South because three OF the members
OF his band are white. :. Not so
long ago he was not permitted TO
play in Miami. Fla.-and he had a
similar experience in Birmingham,
Ala. or course the South Is
very peculiar section of our coun-
try; il is full OF paradoxes-what
you cannot do in one section you
will be able TO in another with lit
tie trouble The fact that Mr.
Henderson has played in other sec
tons OF the South with his mixed
band attCStS 10 this fact. AT one
place, so | am told. the three white
members of his organization were
compelled TO blacken their faces in
order TO fill the engagement. II we
are expected to fight side by side
with white soldiers in the South
Pacific why can't. we play side by
side with white musicians at home?
Why?
* * X
A PRECEDENT OF TWENTY
NINE YEARS was broken in the
state OF Alabama recently, when
Charles II. Houston. who has been
lighting on the Negro Rights Front,
for many years presented himself
20 the Supreme Court Of Alabama
Mr. Houston was opposing what
he termed a secret. fraudulent
agreement" between the L. and N
Railroad and the Brotherhood OF
Locomotive Engineers. whereby
Negro frcmen were Disseminated
against in their employment be-
cause Of race and color This may
be the first time in twcnty-nine
years that the state OF Alabama has
listened TO the argument Of a Ne
gro lawyer but il will not be the
last time in the next twenty-ninc
years that Alabama will hear the
voice Of a Negro lawyer. The Negro
today. is determined 10 fight this
battle OF equal rights out on all
fronts.-The legal front both North
and South will be kept busy.
X X X
THE SUN SHIPPING CO. at
Chester. Pa. is manned by Negroes;
Just the other day il launched
its sixth ship Who said Ne
groes could not build ships? There
is nothing Negroes cannot do if
given the same opportunity;-those
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~ BOOK NOTESkk
GERTRUDE SCOTT MARTIN

announced TO their subscribers that
the magazine will now appear BIZ
annually instead OF quarterly. In
the same letter they also state that
the circulation has trebled which
is good news TO all who have fol-
lowed South Today. STRANGE
FRUIT, the book by Lillian Smith,
one OF the editors of South Today,
which was announced for fall pub
LEGATION by Reynal and Hitchcock
will be off the press this spring.
Miss Smith is an able writer and |
am sure her book will be literary
event well worth waiting for.
X * *
Shelton Hale Bishop, rector OF St.
Philips Episcopal church in New
York City, has offered a challenge
to the church in his article, Ne
groes Are Determined" in The Wit
ness. church magazine. He states:
The Church has been the custodian
OF conventional segregation
The church has practiced expedi-
ency. To examine clearly the
Christian ethic Of brotherhood and
inclusive love has always in the
area Of race relations promised too
much. 1t would disturb the balance
many Christian had found in his
apparently unacknowledged exclu-
| sion"
Rev. Bishop goes on TO ssS that
where Negroes have been given a
chance there has been real integra-
ton, external and internal" rurth-
err. he maintains that Negroes will
never go back where they came
from. In one sense this is the first
real emancipation that has lool. ed
over the social horizon since tNe
Civil War. And even now it
leaves much to be desired. So did
| the first one
The article lists specific things
the church can do: welcome Ne
groes into every church in which
they wish membership. mixed staffs
for mixed memberships, abolish
separate conversations. conventions.
diocesan and national church meet
ings, stop circumscribing the choice
OF candidates for the ministry to a
segregated seminary. These are
some OF the suggestions but there
are others, all practical ways OF
making Christianity live.
The article is significant not alone
for the out-spoken manner in which
the church's treatment Of the Ne
gro is handled but also because il is
written by the rector OF the largest
Negro Episcopal church in the
country
X X X
Rio Ottlcy. author OF NEW
WORLD A'COMlNG addressed re-
cent Book and Author Luncheon
sponsored by the New York Herald
Tribune. He said in part that
after the war "the 10000 900 Ne
groes in America will not be con-
tent with a second-rate citizenship"
He deplored the army's policy OF
aggregation which results in Jim
Crowisnr being carried out of the
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country. I'm regard to Italy" he
said. "are we not justified in say
ing that the Italians are getting a
taste OF an American brand Of
Fascism when they have TO watch
the segregation of Negro from
white? The colored people Of the
world are watching us. think they
must say TO themselves: II Ameri-
can Negroes are not getting de-
mocracy. how can American lead
ers give democracy to u.s.
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George Goodman
To Give Lecture

WASHINGTON. D. c. - Among
overseas Red Cross personnel re-
turning to the United States for
speaking assignments in major cit
les prior. to spd during the Red
Cross War Fund\campaign-is George
Goodman. director Of one of the
Negro-staffed Rcd Cross clubs in
Great Britain. Mr.. Goodman. former
executive secretary OF the Washing
ton Cd. c. Urban League. will
spend the months OF February and
March in this country, according
TO announcement by Mr.. Jesse o.
Thomas. assistant 10 the Administered,
tor OF general services. American
Red Cross.
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Edwin Embree, director OF the
Rosenwald Foundation. whose book,
BROWN AMERICANS. was pub
lished last year has written another,
THIRTEEN AGAINST THE GODS.
10 be published on Lincoln's birth
day. The book is made up OF
biographies OF Is leading contem-
porary Negroes selected by jury
OF 200 persons. Negro and white.
The book is to be published by the
Viking Press.
X * X
The editors OF South Today have
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Poets Corner

JUST AN ORDINARY GUY
BY LANGSTON HUGHES
For AMP.
He's just an ordinary guy.
He doesn't occupy
A seat OF government
Or anything like that.
He works hard every day.
Saturday brings home his pay
He may take a glass OF beer
Sometimes at that.
He never had his name in lights.
He's never front page news.
He stands UP for his rights,
Yet doesn't beef or sing the blues.
But when his country gets in trouble
And it's time 10 fight and die,
He doesn't ask for a deferment--
He's Just an ordinary guy.
Listen Hitler!
About this ordinary guy,
You may wonder why
He's taken such an awful
Hate TO you.
But you'll understand
His kind Of man.
You won't need to
You'll be dead when he gets
through.
He doesn't bully or act rough.
You never hear him bluff.
But there's one thing certain, Nazi
He won't stand for your type OF
stuff
He Just doesn't like the idea
or men being in a cage,
And the way you try to boss folks
Puts him in rage.
You've got the whole round world
in trouble IA
With your boastings and your lies
But you'll never beat us, Hitler
Not US ordinary guys!