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The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1945-10-01
Lem FOSTER wins
MERIT0RI0US SERVICE AWARD

WASHINGTON, Oct. l (ANP)
The emblem for Meritorious Civ
ilian service was awarded to Lem
uel Foster, racial relations analyst
for the army service forces last Fri
day afternoon by Maj. Gen. Joseph
N. Dalton, director of personnel,
ASF.
'For meritorious civilian service
with army service forces as con-
sultant on minority groups" read
the citation which was designed by
Gen. Brahon G.. Somervell, COM
manding general of ASF, "and for
active assistance in bring about the
maximum use of such groups dur
ing Americas greatest war efforts,
thereby not only materially aiding
war production but also providing
the members of such groups with
an opportunity to participate fully
in Americas war effort"
Foster came to Washington for
the war department on Nov. 20,
1912. Prior to that he had been ra-
cial relations advisor for the Works
Progress administration in New
York when Gen. Somervell first
met him.
The labor branch of the ASF,
acting as the biggest employer of
civilians in the country, established
an enviable record for hiring Ne
groes, and reached its peak in 1914
when more than 13 percent of the
total civilian force under its iuris-
diction were Negroes. In Wash
ington alone Negroes represented
% percent of the total.
Last June the army service fore
es published a manual for civilian
personnel officers in which it made
this flat statement with regard to
racial segregation:
'The ultimate of teamwork cam
not be achieved where lines are
drawn"
In other departmental orders to
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1945-10-01

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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-07-19

War Manpower Director Edward
l.. Cushman:
This summer Of 1945 Is going
to provide a real test Of the ef'
fectiveness of Detroit's system OIL
industrial relations"
The story of the recent wave
Of strikes in the motor capital is
no longer news. But the story
behind that story is worth tell
ing because, if you read and
heed, you can know right now
some Of the things that your
own war industries town must
face in the not distant future.
Detroit woke up to its morn
ing-after hangover first among
the major industrial centers be-
cause Detroit was drawn more
utterly and completely into war
production than any other first
rank producer Cutbacks after
We Day struck here most dew
astatingly and probably will
continue to do so. The b. bible Of
everlasting prosp ity was
prickcd here first Of all.
So Detroit is the test tube in
which untried economic, social
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-07-19

to reduce their payrolls, at least
temporarily.
The strike Of $50 key workers
in another plant induced or
forced 400 men and women in
the Hudson plant, which makes
parts for the very essential SUI
perforts and Helldivers, to lay
off. The reason? A squabble as
to whether show model passen-
ger cars, being hand-fabricated
in anticipation Of civilian pro-
duction, should be completed on
the assembly line or in the fin
ishing plant.
These figures can not be add
ed to those for minor strikes to
get the 1883 figure mentioned.
That is because more than 10000
who went out briefly at Chrys-
ler's, in one of the jurisdictional
fracases. had returned to work
before ! reached town.
Add those 10000 TO the score.
Ignore the $500 who left their
arplane parts manufacture at
the Briggs body plant for three
days and picketed the. OPA be-
cause they were getting beans
and jam in their luncheon sand
wiches instead OF meat. Forget
nine strikes in none Of which
more than 800 workers were
out: it is possible that no war
goods have been held up for
need of the parts lost IN these
walkoutS.
You have left $4,000 persons
who walked off war jobs over
two of the five highly codten-
tous issues that are going to
make reconversion a very nasty
two Of the five highly conten-
headache for industrial Amer
lea.
| have checked the strikes that
found in Detroit, most Of which
now have been either settled or
suspended temporarily at this
writing. | have talked with a
great many vitality interested
Detroiters on and off the record.
have studied a dizzy aggrega-
ton Of official and unofficial
statistics. And ! come up with
virtually unanimous agreement
that. in the words OF Detroit
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-07-19
Utica Rotary Club
Backs Paper Drive
Close to Is Tons
Gornered in Drive

UTICA Rotary members
under a leadership of E. A
Schwarzkoff, salvage chairman,
put on an intensive paper drive
in Utica and outlying districts
on Tuesday afternoon. A fleet OF
trucks, donated by business men
and farmers, collected all the
afternoon and the Rotary mem
bers took time off at $50 for
their regular weekly dinner anG
meeting. 1t was estimated that
between 20 and rs tons Of paper
were brought in to the church
and church lumber yard, where
it was reloaded on trucks sent
from Monroe.
Schwarzkoff had charge of
the program which was high
lighted by a talk by NJ. w. Os-
born, of Detroit, district salvage
manager of the War Production
Board, who demonstrated the
use of salvage paper and tin,
much to the delight and in
struction Of the Clubs guests,
10 paper troopers who received
distinguished service awards for
paper collected the past few
months. Mkt SchWarzkon head
ed the list with 4,l50 lbs; Wal
lace Mamrow, 1850 lbs; jim
Henderson, 1000 lbs; Norbert
krings, 1000; Bobby Gierman.
3,443; Dan and Gan jacobson,
1900; Harold Sumner, 1000:
Charles Combs, 5000; Dennis
Toye, 1000.
Other guests OF the Club were
Lloyd Bennett, Otto Miller,
Marvin Priehs, La wren e
Schroeder, Jack Louks, Charles
| Morowske, Jr., Harold Engel
had as his guest, Erwin Meyer,
home on leave and with the 1st
Army.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-07-19
Police Check Ransatkinq
OF Two Gas Stations

Mount Clemens police today
arc investigating the ransacking
Of two oil company offices and
the theft Of S25 from one OF
them.
Hernice Moore reported TO po-
lice that someone had broken
into the Texas Oil Company,
$50 Elizabeth street, on Wcdnes-
day night and had taken q metal
box containing $25 in silver.
The burglars. who gained en-
trance through rear window,
also took three quarters and two
pints OF liquor. The desk draw
ers and safe were thoroughly
ransacked. Sgt. Eugene Smith,
who is in charge of the investi-
cation. reported.
J. w. Reynolds. OF the Stand
ard Oil Company office, 264
North Gratiot, also reported the
breaking into his office last
night. He stated that the rear
door had been forced open and
that although the office was
thoroughly ransacked nothing
was stolen.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-07-19
Around the Town nj Utica

accepted by the Board at its
meeting last week.
is Harry Magahay, of the
Medical Corps, who has been in
the Pacific for the past two
years or more, was in Utica on
Tuesday, having received his
honorable discharge, He VIII
return To his former position at
the Schwarzkoff Funeral Home
after a few weeks vacation IN
the Copper Country.
Marvin PriehS, who reported
for induction in-Detroit on Mon
dav was found not physically
fiji for service and returned
home.
Donna Jean DuRuSsell, fan
Gee of Cpl. Willard Farris, VINO
was killed in an automobile
truck accident Saturday night
while en- route 10 his home IN
Utica. arrived IN Utica Wednes-
dav from California Cpl. FarriS
and Miss DuRussell were 10
have ben marrid this week. Miss
DuRusscll- was in the recent
train wreck in California but
escaped uninjured.
Sgt. Eugene Chapoton, who
has beer in service In the Eur
opean theater for the past 80
months arrived IN Virginia on
night He viii 90 to
Camp Mccoy, WIS, before re-
turning home on a 30-day fur
fought. Gene has been IN Ant
wcrp. Belgium for'some time
prior TO his return 10 the Unit
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-07-19
Auto Industry's Labor Problems
Make Detroit Nations Test Tube
Strikes That Threaten Motor Capital Typify Americas
Industrial Relations Problems Analyst Urges Planning
BY s. BURTON HEATH
NEA Staff Correspondent

DETROIT - What has been
happening in Detroit industry
can be taken as fair warning
of what is likely to happen in
most American industrial CEN
tiers - unless there is better
planning than has appeared to
date. On the day ! arrived here.
1883 men and women were off
the job in an outbreak of mostly
unauthorized strikes.
The nineteen strikes listed by
local newspaper in its "box
score Tor the week ended June
80 included four in which. at
one time or another, $4,000 men
and women were on strike be-
cause of a jurisdictional dispute
between the American Fedora
ton OF Labor and the Congress
of Industrial Organizations. II
saner counsels in the high COM
mand of organized labor had not
prevailed, that series of strikes
would have shut down every
automobile plant in this city
and would have taken more than
425,000 workers off the manu-
facture of airplanes, and parts,
tanks, trucks, guns and smaller
but critically essential imple-
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-07-19

ed States.
Born on Friday, July 10. a.
Ford Hospital, Detroit, to Mr.
and Mrs. James Merritt, Jr., a
son
Born on Saturday, July IA, al
st. Joseph Hospital, Mt. Glenn
ems, TO Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Ash,
son, Thomas Edward. Mr.. and
Mrs. Hugh Johnson, OF Van
West, Ohio, parents OF Mrs. Ash
have been at the Ash home and
on Sunday, while at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. James Fletcher,
Mr.. johnson suffered slight
stroke. He is also in the Mount
Clemens hospital.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Allor
and family attended the funeral
of Mr.. Allor's father, Roy Allor.
in Cygnet, Ohio, Sunday. Mr..
Allor died very suddenly on
Thursday night.
Miss Irene Scheper, who has
been visiting relatives in Long
Island and New York City for
the past three weeks, returned
home Thursday morning.
Mayor and Mrs. Alger Weier.
accompanied by Mayor Weier's
father. William Weier, left Mon
day for a vacation at the Weier
cottage al Hubbard Lake. Mr..
Weier will visit his brother,
John Weier, at Hubbard Lake.
City Clerk Helen Kraft, and
the Misses Hazel and Eleanor
PrlehS left Thursday - for a
weeks visit with friends in Bal
Md. William Hahn IS
acting as clerk at the municipal
building during Miss Krafts alb
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-07-19
CUTBACK PROBLEMS

Another 4400 men and women
in three plants were on strike.
the week I arrived, because of
disputes over who should be
laid off first as contract cutbacks
made it necessary for employers
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-07-19
Plan Re.Deeoration
Of Utica Library

UTICA-The Utica library Is
being redecorated during the
week beginning July % and Ii
brarian Naomi Clubbing requests
patrons of the library not to re-
turn any books during the week
All books due during this pc
riod are being renewed for two
weeks.
The postponed annual meet
ing of the Utica Library Associ-
alton will be held Tuesday, July
81, at 8 p. m.
A fine addition TO the library
was received the past week
from Fred j. Dusenbury, for
mer Utica resident, no win Be-
mer Utica resident, now in Be-
rino, New Mexico. in the form
of several fine books.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-07-19

UTICA Paul Seeman, for
more than 10 years principal of
the Lutheran Christian Day
School has resigned that posi-
ton and will work in Detroit
the coming year. MIR, Seeman
has also resigned as organiSt of
the church. His resignation was
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-07-19

Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Bubar. Of
Mount Clemens, enjoyed wien
er roast with Mr.. and Mrs. Lee
Roy Tyack at their home on
Cass street, Utica, Monday eve
ming.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thorne Beatty,
who have been vacationlng at
their cottage at Honor, Mich,
for the past few weeks, are at
their home here for short time.
l.. l.. Mottashed, o, 1881 I'M
ion street, will move his family
TO Lansing soon. ~
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Bannow
accompanied by Mr.. and Mrs.
Wilbert Rudolph Of East De-
troit, have returned from a va.
cation spent at Oscoda. Mr.. and
Mrs. Pete Stevens @pent the
last weekend with lnem.
Honoring Lieut.. and Mrs.
Marie Atkin,) Mr.. and Mrs. Ed
ward A. Schwarzkof and Mrs.
Elmer Remer entertained at a
family farewell party at the
home Of Mr.. and Mrs. Schwarz.
koff Sunday. Lieut.. Mckinney,
who has been an instructor at
Majors Field, Victoria, Texas,
also Foster Field, Texas, left on
Wednesday for Pacific duty.
More than 40 guests were pre-.
sent and included Mr.. and Mrs.
Chas. Il. Mckinney, Sr., Kath-
crime, Leslie and Dale McKin.
ney, of Plymouth; Mr.. and Mrs.
Robert Atkin, Harold Atkin, Mr..
and Mrs. Mark Akin, Frank Al
kin, Misses Hannah, Kate, Ina
and Anne Akin, Mr.. and Mrs.
Fred Atkin and niece, Marjorie
Akin, Mr.. and Mrs. Edward V.
Lewis, Ann Elizabeth Lewis,
Mrs. Murray l.. Thomas, Mr..
and Mrs. Emmanuel Stricken.
Joyce Stricken, Mrs. Ralph At
kin and daughter Gail, all of
Detroit; Mr.. and Mrs. Theodore
Rcmer, of Utica.
Fourteen members OF the Ut
lea Eastern Star chapter met Al
the home OF Miss Sarah AndruS
Wednesday for pot-luck sup
per Wednesday evening. Articles
for the bazaar which will be
held in September, were made.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Allor
have moved to the new home
in Algonac last week.
Attorney Henry F. Gages ref
cree on claims in the estate oil
Florence Sawicki, deceased,
held hearing at the municipal
building Wednesday. Mary Ann
Sawicki was the complainant.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas b. Dim.
mick, of Arlington, Va, who
have been visiting Mrs. Dim
mick's father, c. o. Crissman
and other Utica relatives, lief
for home Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. n. l.. Pardee, o.
Jackson. were guests from FIR,
day until Tuesday of DR.. anc
Mrs. l.. r. Hirth. MIR. and Mrs
II. Ford, of Munith were Sunday
callers at the Hirth home.
Mrs. Ernest RehSe was a Sun
day guest of relatives at Por
Elgin. Ont.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-07-19

and political chemicals have
been dumped, by guess and by
CORY, and have been turned
into a dangerous witches brew.
Detroit is the city where in
dustrial relations, medicines,
some long-considered and others
compounded in hurried despera-
ton, are being tried out.
Detroit is worth watching. 1t
Is too early, now, to guess what
remedies will be tried or how
they will work. 1t is even too
early to attempt to describe all
the symptoms Of the disease. But
in the 10 strikes l studied,
seething undercurrents are ap-
parent Just off the shore. Men
of good will in this city are
seriously Analysing their labor
problems.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-07-19

State biologists estimate that
there are $40. 900, 0OO,0 900 tons OF
coal in the state of Wyoming
They estimated that such an
amount would be enough TO run
the world for 1000 years.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1945-03-17
Southern, Southeastern Newspapermen,
Educators To Hold Joint Conference

JACKSON, Miss. - Acting upon
a resolution adonted at their Joint
meeting in New Orleans. Louisiana,
February 1924, the editors and
publishers of Negro Newspapers in
the Southern and Southwestern
REGIONS of the Negro Newspaner
Publishers Association have invited
leading educators in those regions
TO meet in joint conference to be
held at Jackson College here, Sat-
urday, March "a.
The main purpose of the con-
ference is to enable the editors and
publishers to obtain a more COM
prehenSive and unified view of the
needs of Negro education to the
end that the Negro Newspaper may
be able to play its part in imple-
menting the new emphasis on Ne
gro Education in the South. as
projected in the recent Mississinpi
Conference of Governors of South
ern States.
Invitations to educators. editors
and publishers are being mailes
from the office of C. A. Scott. At
lanta, Georgia, Editor and Publish
er of the Atlanta Daily World and
Carter Weslev. Houston. Texas,
Editor and Publisher of the Hous-
ton Informer, Presidents Of the
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1945-03-17

CHICAGO - CA MP - Credit
for the recent stand against the fu-
gitive felon act by the U. S. attorn-
ey general was given last week to
Atty. William Henry Huff, veteran
peonage lawyer.
The Atty Gen. instructed all u
S. attorneys to obtain prior approx
al by the department of justice be-
fore taking action to return fugi-
tives under the U. S. fugitive code.
Atty Huff, who has waged a num-
Der of fights against the fugitive
felon act, brands it as IAN old fash
ion fugitive slave act in new fash
ion FORM
POINTED ACT OUT
Huff wrote an article against the
act in the June issue of the Nation
al Bar Journal last year under the
caption "A New Charter of Slav-
cry" He called the attention of the
bar generally to the misuse of
the fugitive felon act by t h e
peonage overlords of the scout h
and the courthouse rings of
peonage-ridden counties"
Huff presented resolution at
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1945-03-17
Attorney William
Henry Huff, Native
Georgian, Honored

the National Bar association meet
ing here last November in which
he called upon the attorney gener-
al of the United States to instruct
the U. S. attorneys throughout the
country to cease and desist from
abusing this law His resolution was
approved after debate by the COM
mittee on resolutions and passed
by the general body of the Nation
al Bar association.
The resolution directed that cop
les should be sent to the attorney
general of the United States, to the
national office of the NAACP and
to the American Civil Liberties un-
ion. Prior to MIA action, Huff was
credited as "the only voice crying
against the horrors of the misuse
of fugitive felon act" in waging his
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1945-03-17
FEP HEARING DEVELOPS into FARCE
Eve Witnesses Tell OF UnWarranted
Brutal Beating OF Overseas Negro
Veterans; No Action Taken By Army

stand this" and rushed into his
office and called some one over the
phone. Later he was seen in vio-
lent argument with two policemen.
Earl w. Banks. chairman of the
Negro Division of the Kinds County
War Finance Committee, reflected
the feeling of Negroes generally in
a letter to Mr.. r. G.. Remington,
chairman, Kinds County War Fin
ance Committee The letter of Mr..
Banks, in part, is as follows:
"Mr. bennington, I would like to
respectfully call your attention as
chairman of the Kinds County Wal
Finance Committee. to some CT the
severe iclts to Negro civilian morale
in Jackson, which our board has
to breach. This week some nlem-
bers of our board have called me
pened at the Illinois Central sta
ton, involving Negro soldiers. While
I do not pretend 20 be in position
to give the BACKGROUND CT causes
upon which any justification of the
act NAV be predicated yet the des-
criptions of bystanders of what
happened. presents a horrifying
picture, and picture which does
nothing to make it easier for US to
sell our people the idea that thev
owe their government the last full
measure of sacrifice and financial
SUPPORT.
'Mr. Remington, think a state
ment from YOU as our county chair
man, expressing your views on the
incident would help us greatly in
our meeting planned for next week
to breach the stab to the Negro
:ucr*le
AS reports reached the city that
several of the soldiers had been
sent to the hospital upon arrival
at Camp Shelby, Mississippi, al
though without confirmation, no
action, as far as could be ascertain
ed has been taken by the Army
Fourth Service Command Or the
Internal Security District of the
J Jackson Area.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1945-03-17
Funeral Rites For George W. Greene,
Widely Known PythianS Leader Held

night, March 9 as result of illness
attributed to his advanced age. He
was eighty-five years old.
The surviving children are: Mrs
Daisy Willis, Mr.. Percy Greene,
Mrs. Burnice Jones, Mrs. H. l..
Denton of Jackson, Miss; Mrs.
Elsie Mae Johnson, of Chicago, ILL.,;
Mrs. Dolores STEPHENS. of Ann Ar
Dor, Mich: sister, Mrs. Florence
Pillars of st. Louis, Mo-; two neph-
ews. DR.. L. A. Smith, Mr.. Phillip
B. Smith, of Jackson, Miss, seven
teen grandchildren and five great
grandchildren.
Funeral was under the direction
of The Peoples Funeral Home with
Latham's and Enterprise Funeral
Home assisting.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1945-03-17
Powell Calls
For Delegation
To- Frisco Meet
Says Race Must
Be Integrated
Into One World

DETROIT-(A N P)-New York's
first Negro congressman. Adam
Clayton Powell, Jr., speaking here
Sunday afternoon said, Negro peo-
pie must be represented in the San
Francisco conference on April 25."
DR.. Powell spoke under the aus
pieces of the Research Bureau for
Negroes Postwar Economic securi-
ty. Snow F. Grigsby, chairman. The
meeting was held in the Bethel
AAdE church.
KEEPS PROMISES
The congressman's subject was
Whats Cooking in Congress" He
reviewed his work while there, in
dicating that in two months he had
kept all of his prediction cam
paign promises.
The high point of the meeting
was reached when DR.. Powell call
ed for the Negro to be represented
at the San Francisco conference
He said:
1.-THE Negro can no longer be
considered as minority. He is liv-
ing in the 'one world that Wendell
Willkie envisioned and as a mem
Der of the century of the common
man proclaimed by Henry Wallace
he belongs not only to the one bill
lion people of the darker races of
the earth but also to the hundreds
Continued on back page)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1945-03-17

JACKSON, Miss. Launching
their investigation as silent but
unmistakable one. pail of indig-
nation and resentment settled over
the entire Negro community of the
city, when members of the inter-
racial committee of the Jackson Me-
gro Chamber of Commerce, gather
ing facts to be presented in joint
meeting with the interracial COM
nlittee of the White Chamber of
Commerce, heard eyewitness ac-
counts of the unwarranted brutal
beating, by both Military and Civil
liam Police, of Negro Overseas
Veterans at the Illinois Central De-
pot here, early Tuesday morning of
last week
One witness who first said that
he had been unable to sleep for
two nights following the incident
told how the crowd of Military and
Civilian Police went into the rail-
road car and ordered the soldiers
out.
Newly awakened soldiers part
ly clad in trousers and undershirts
and unlaces shoes came out. they
were forced to lineup along side
the passenger car an6 hold-up
their hands, and after questioning
and beating them while in that
position for several minutes, forced
them to turn their backs and hold
their hands UP against the car
while they continued to search and
beat them.
Another longtime employee al
the depot told of how one of the
soldiers said that they had just re-
turned from overseas. The violence
and brutality of the beatings was
increased as the remark was heard
You're not over seas now, you're
in Mississippi, and kill the black
bastards and send them to h.
where they belong
Another witness told of the
night station Master, A white
man, who after looking for a few
minutes suddenly remarked, IT can't