The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-05-05
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Brothers job. Anytime you have
a choice take a Warner Bros. pic
ture-their stars: Bette Davis,
John Garfield, etc. and their pic
lures have been the most liberal
of all Hollywood!
Speaking of schools and dis
elimination. Wilmington. Del.
school board had a special COM
mittee study attitudes of the chill
oren and the city toward race and
civil rights. They found there ex-
isted gross misconceptions" in the
minds OF the children about Ne
groes particularly: that they were
not in the armed services TO the
proportion they are in the general
population: and that Jews rule the
economic life, etc. Wilmington's
school system is jim-crow.
International Latex has another
full page ad in the New York Post,
this time for the Breton Woods
m etary agreement. They're
probably the most public-service-
minded big advertiser in the coun-
try.
Mayor LaGuardia OF New York
is getting some Republican oppo-
sition TO reelection candidacy.
William O'Dwyer will probably
run on the Democratic ticket il
the Mayor is out of the race, be-
cause he doesn't want to run
against him.
John d. Rockefeller will make
the second broadcast Of his life
on the occasion Of the Negro Col
lege fund broadcast May 10. The
big capitalists and status-quoers
are glad to support the fund. The
more we want TO draw of and
strengthen segregation. the hap
pier they are. Ironic part Is,
some Of us get happier, too!
Leonard Lyons said one day last
week: Four paintings from the
Vanderbilt collection were &C
quired by Leo Indy last week.
and will adorn the walls OF Lindy's.
The restauranteur said, IT took
lot OF Salami to buy them"
Lyons also had = little item
about President Truman. Seems
the latter made his little talk to
the army three times for the
newsreels and then waited IS
minutes for the army and navy
pix-takers. As they got their
equipment in order. he said to
the boys in uniform: Il got =
very tough job"
A Life OF Samuel Gompers"
may be done by Producer Edward
Golden. Why not make one OF
John l.. Lewis and give him the
title role?
Representative Richard Hairless
(Dem. -Ariz), is trying hard 10
get Congress TO have special in
vcStigation of German prisoners
over here to see If they really are
pampered. Although its tied up in
the Rules committee, drop your
Congressman line that you want
the investigation and to use his in
fluence for It!
Shirley Temple and her mother
and father have received carloads
Of mail since 1t came out that she
was engaged. Teen-agers write as
If she we're a new Lincoln freeing
the kids from bondage. (You re-
call, she is only l6) Irate parents
are dressing down the senior Tenn
pies for letting her become en-
gagged and stirring up their own
kids. Fact is that she won't be
married for two more years.
Another thing to put the heat
on Congress about, and the War
Department Is that Freeman
Field affair. That Selway has q
colossal nerve bundling up 100
officers into planes and arbitra-
riIy sending them South again.
The boys are still fighting IL,
and so must you. We must fight
every minute, every day-our
rights and liberties must be es-
tablished in uniform or out over
every inch Of this land.
India may nationalize auto, steel
and machine tool production.
which may put a crimp in Chrysler
and Studebaker plans to expand
there. and Ford and GIN plants
already established.
Some folk have criticized PV's
young Joe Bostic for taking two
guys that were too old TO try out
for major league baseball. Just
as a little question:: why can't
some Of the eastern sports writ
ers get together and choose few
candidates who would be salts
factory to everyone? Are you
listening Joe. Wendell Smith,
Dan Burley and Sam Lacy?
Just TO remind you that we gotta
keep our eyes open and our mus
cles in tone--a Jewish synagogue
was deSecrated by some young
hoodlums. in Brooklyn last week.
Unfortunately it isn't an isolated
example in the East Tor else
whereD.
So long for now. We hope
some day the theatres will get
rid Of this system Of buying
movies where \ putrid second
feature comes with \ good pic
ture. It's slow torture. Have you
all registered? Get to II, son.
Keen fighfing-