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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-03

CHERNOFF-In this city, Aug. 3rd, 1945, Mrs. Vera B. Chernoff, of 37 Vine St.
 Funeral Sunday at 1:15 p. m.. from the Mulville Funeral Home, 270 West Main St., to St. Mary's Rus ial in St. Mary's Russian Greek Orthodox cemetery. BROCCOLI-In this city. Aug. 2nd, 1945, Felice Broccoli, of S94 High land Ave.
 Funeral Monday at 500 a. m., from LaPorta Funeral Home, 67 Holmes Ave-, to Our Lady of Mount Car mel Church at 800 a. m. Burial in Calvary cemetery. BUTLER-In New Haven, Aug. 1st, 1945, Isaiah Butler, of 52 Bishop St.
 Funeral Sunday at 200 p. m.. at St. PauIs Baptist Church, Saluda, S. c. Burial in Saluda, S. c. FLAHERTY-In this city, Aug. 3rd, 1945, Mrs. Norah Flaherty, of 10 Larson St.
 Funeral Monday morning, from Mulville Funeral Home, 270 West Main St., to St. Thomas's Church. Burial in Calvary cemetery. TURNBULL-In this city, Aug. 3rd. Bidwell St.
 Funeral Monday afternoon at 2:00. at the Clark Funeral Home, 20 State St., time to be announced later. Burial in Riverside ceme- tery.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-03

terbury hospital after brief illness. He was the husband of Mrs. Veldina (Candelora) Broccoli.
 Born in Italy, he came to this country in 1912, making his home in Providence. R. l., for nine years be- fore coming to Waterbury 24 years ago. During World War I, he par ticipated in battles in France with Co.,. A. 306th Infantry. He was dis charged from the Army at Camp Upton, N. Y, May 9. 1919. He was employed by the Street Department of the City of Waterbury.
 Besides his wife he leaves a son, Silvio Broccoli, Waterbury; two daughters, Lydia and Esther Broc- coli. Waterbury; three brothers, John Broccoli and Guriana Broc- coli. New Haven, and Antonio Broc- coli, Bridgeport; a sister in Italy, and IT nieces and nephews.
 Funeral services will be held Monday morning at 8 o'clock from LaPorta Funeral Home, 67 Holmes avenue, to Our Lady of Mount Car mel church where solemn high Mass of requiem will be celebrated at g. Burial will be in Calvary ceme- tery.
 Friends may call at the funeral home between and 10 p. m. to- morrow and Sunday.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-03

SHAW-Mrs. Ethelena Shaw. 86, widow of Alvin A. Shaw. died at her home in Windsor. Mass, Wednesday night after long illness. She was 8 cousin of G. Middletown Parsons, Waterbury. and spent many winters in this city. She was sister of the late Mrs. Chauncey Dayton, WatC-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-03
DeIiverymen Ask $5 Raise

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-03

BROCCOLI-Felice Broccoli, 51, of 894 Highland avenue, a veteran of World War I, died yesterday at Wa
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POLL TAX AND FEPC

The Congressman
bill and the Fair Employment Practice Committee bill by other
two-thd majority distinctly line with the
DDS pursued the south defeat that promises full c
enshp Negroes when there fear part hand full of
popular approval The Poll
bill which has passed safe majority and
Congress by
clique Southern nfero complex
full of the prospective voting strength of the Negro the South and the
a ability r. prve and mako nooress in snte Of econoic band
caps and southern inustces
legislation possibly die
the committee though the President and hundreds of thousands of
kilograms and letters demand that be allowed the floor
of both houses.
by party
mand overwhelming citizens of whom the
south rejected by such political bgots Rankin Bo
Bailey Hoey is this clique that holy horror about
freight discrimination against the south and other that
have embance of SUCH
Negroes country coming about
inevitable death of the poll without much further injury
their already miserable lot the SOUTH because addition the large
percentage live retaining the
evil there enough them free voting of the North and
West nf untold political epsas southern aspan for pub
lie office offset of the losses they sustain because of the poll
When it the right work whenever and wherever
citizen works. and the right receive equal that work. the
without serious injury his economic stat
IN this country Such denial ped the free flowing OF his very
es blood emacates his children makes cold his home winter and
designaes him a candidate for County his old
This determination the Southern Congressman defeat
legislation that such vital Importance freeing the
from bondage and thereby raise the level of
SOUTH time when still with
fierce enemy While this Negro soldiers shedding their
blood dying with soldiers of this nation right
Bbo Rankin Bailey Hoey defy puny
of United sample of
what the Negro may expect when the completely
San Francisco California they having meeting Of
nations draft for the entire world with and
liberty all peoples Of the The moery all is
that neither the United States nor Great Britain the two great
cratic soaed Christian nations of the world able draft
sembance of home that anywhere that Of
Russia so-caled totalaran and un- Christian nation.
Well shall hold grandstand seat shall watch little igno
like Rankin Bbo Bailey and Hoey undermine this countrys
efforts take its place the nations of the earth leaders
freedom, by defeating the Poll Tax bill that would free the
whites Negroes of the deep south We shall watch them
stomp and like manacs against the FPC bill that would all
minority this country the right work free Then
shall laugh them with the full knowledge that there destiny
that shapes ends rough hew them how Dur
ham, N. c. Times.
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1t. Hall Thinks
Negroes Should Be
In National Guard

Editor: read your paper weekly
and though l have not lived in St.
Paul for the past three years lex
cept for short furloughs and leaves)
l feel abreast of the activities at
"home" due to your paper.
For the last two years 1 have
been stationed about 40 miles from
New York City. Mrs. Hall and
go there weekly. The other week
we had a Minnesota get-together
which included Louise Bradshaw,
Detroit housing authority secretary,
Gordon Parks and his wife, Sally
Parks, Sue Kelly (wife of Bud Kelly
located here in the Merchant Ma
rine), Audrey Beatrice dental tech
nologist with the welfare depart
ment. Parks is with the public
relations department of Standard
Oil and has his offices in the Rookie
Teller Plaza skyscraper. ran into
Roy Wilkins of the NAACP the
other week and he asked about
many in the Twin Cities that l had
forgotten about myself. Also see
Mr.. and Mrs. Homer Thownsed
from time to time. Saw Sam Carter
few weeks ago also James Nc
Combs, former U of NJ student who
is graduating from Columbia U.
Law School this month.
The purpose of writing this letter
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of propaganda is continued confus-
ing the issue. Basically, the problem
is this: The Southern white man
has refused to recognize the Negro
as a complete human being and the
Negro has avoided making a bold
fight for what is rightfully his.
To get around open fireworks
tables should be spread, chairs
drawn up and the whole matter laid
out for complete examination. But
in this hypothetical examination
of the core of the trouble, a change
in complexion should take place
around the conference board. In
stead of the "best Negroes" and the
educated, liberal whites" who
have been handling the situation all
thees years, the sharecropper, the
common laborer, the maid, the cook,
the porter and the so-called little
Negroes" should get a chance to
talk.
"POor Whites" Needed
In talking they would talk to the
so-called "poor white trash," and
the uneducated elements among the
Southern whites, left to their own
devices, join the Ku Klux Klan,
form lynch mobs and follow blindly
after Rankin, Bilbo, Reynolds, Ell
lender and Cotton Ed" Smith in
their "white supremacy" programs.
When such situation comes about,
then the way will begin to become
apparent. But not until then.
These are some of the steps that
must be taken to prepare the Negro
for his full participation in national
and international affairs, and to
make him equal and capable of as
Stunning a position of real manhood,
dignity and ready for unity with all
forces that strive for common OBJ
jectives. These things would make
the Negro fully a man and entitled
to full share in the struggle and in
the gains in the final victory.
because it violated democratic prin-
ciples, but because, as he stated:
"Under the War Departments
CONSUMPTION bill they would have
the right to assign a (white) boy
from South Carolina to serve in
Company a. Regiment B. by
the side of a Negro from Indiana.
If they did this they would not
have to go to Europe for war. 1t
is true that the Secretary of War
states that in the past they have
endeavored to segregate the races,
and he states he presumes that in
the future it will be done, but yet
there is in the bill nothing that
would prevent it."
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Letters
White Worried About
Byrnes Possibility of
Getting Cabinet Post

Editor: Permit US to share with
you some very disturbing rumors
now circulating in Washington
that James F. Byrnes, notorious
South Carolina Negro-hater, may
shortly replace Edward R. Stettin-
Jus Jr., as Secretary of State.
Strenuous efforts have been made
to check on the accuracy of this ru-
NOR, but as yet without success.
Persons close to President Truman
with whom l have talked declare
that he has not indicated in any
fashion what his intentions are
with respect to Mr.. Byrnes. But
the current issue of Newsweek de-
clares that Byrnes has the inside
track to succeed Stettinius while
influential columnists like Walter
Lippmann are urging publicly that
Stettinius be replaced even before
the San Francisco conference ends.
On the other side of the picture
is the rumor current a few weeks
ago that Truman resented Byrnes
rushing to Washington and trying
to dictate Humans actions and
appointments even before the late
President Roosevelt had been bur-
led.
Whichever of these reports is
true, it is imperative that we be
on the alert. Negroes would be
in probably the worst position they
have been since the days of slav-
cry if Byrnes should become Secre-
tary of State and, in that vantage
point, should become President
provided anything should happen
to President Truman between now
and 1913. Even if that did not
happen, it would be almost as bad
for not only American Negroes but
for colored people throughout the
world insofar as material changes
in the colonial system and Bill of
Human Rights which we hope to
get out of the San Francisco con-
ference are concerned, if the chief
spokesman for the United States
on those issues should be an Ameri-
can Secretary of State like James
F. Byrnes.
The NAACP would be very
grateful for any suggestions you
might give US as to the most effec-
tive means of stopping an appoint
ment like this which would be
calamitous to the Negro.
WALTER WHITE,
Secretary, National Assn. for the
Advancement of Colored People.
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GOOD BREEDING NEEDED, WnI. HELP

There time when the Negro for his
They the saying "bred in first
necessity because very
Shareholders wrath and saved the plantation diplomat
blow secondly with
like quality" if behaved like quality"
The Negro has long since those days of his
when he believed implicitly that diligence would be
become saddend suen and knowing simply
deserve it that justice will obtain
discouraged the point of giving being soven
he brooding anticipation
eruption which will things rights.
This is unfortunately human nature,
of 1t is the method least likely
catacym wreaked overnight rarely settle down produce
immediate benefits.
Anger riot boodshed matter how justifabe their
render the benefit
agreeable personality pleasing
deserts PINCH will Immediately yield nacuable profits
vidua Individually realize
that winning them masse-Los Angeles Tribune
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is not to tell you of all the Mime
sofa people that / see but to re-
feet that there will be a time in
the future that many Twin City
men land women) will be return
ing from places away, to Mime
sofa. Many are not in the armed
forces and it is the proposed policy
of the War Department and citi-
zenry that We maintain a larger
force of reserve armed personnel.
1t is my opinion that we should
consider now for the future in re-
spect to a colored National Guard
unit in the Twin Cities. If we do
not have a separate colored unit
then some active provision should
be made to permit the returning
veterans to integrate with the al
ready standing federally supported
National Guard units.
Ten years ago went to the Ma
tional Guard headquarters in st.
Paul to join the unit. They told me
that they would not take me in
alone but that if 1 could get eight
others they would start a colored
squad. A number of US got to-
gether namely Lee Harris, Emanuel
Roseby, Marion Roseby, John
Houser and myself but not the pro-
scribed number so nothing came
of it.
Your paper has always stood for
full participation of the Negro in
publicly supported activities, that
is why l am writing you now about
the role of colored Minnesotans in
the federally supported National
Guard that will be formed when we,
in the armed forces, return home.
Maybe We can get the ball rolling
now before the dye is cast and does
not include US colored Minnesotans.
1t. o. C. Hall.
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give the world the impression that
no Negroes were doing any wrong
any more.
Demands On the Democrats

Significant was the meeting of
Negro Democrats from sixteen
States who gathered in Washing
ton, D. c., last week and were ad-
dressed by National Chairman Rob-
ert E. Hannegan.
There was an ominous note in
the assertion of their spokesman,
Emmett S. Cunningham of Detroit
that when Negroes came into the
Democratic party they did not
make any marriage vows to stick
until death do US part the
Democratic party, as such, has
never been sold to the Negroes"
These Negro Democrats said
frankly that they want more pa
tronage, higher appointments, a
permanent FEPC, an anti-poll tax
law, social security expansion, pub
lie housing and an end to discrim-
nation in the Armed Forces, or
else.
Chairman flanagan was quick to
agree that the Democratic party
"owes an obligation to those who
worked for the election of the ticket
last fall and is going to meet it."
This is the attitude we like to see
Negro politicians adopt.
1t shows manGness and political
acumen.
A political party's friendliness
and gratitude is only to be meas
ured by the amount of patronage
it gives to its supporters and by the
extent to which it enacts the legis-
lation its followers want.
With the crucial 1916 elections
coming up, the Democratic margin
in both houses of Congress is too
narrow to permit any indifferences
toward the Negro voters on the
part of the Administration.-Pitts-
burgh Courier.
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Negro Must Get Understanding
with Southern White Man
As First Step for Progress

we fight that and win it, then we
will be in a position to take up the
cudgels in defense of others.
How can Negroes talk about
unity with Jewish, Irish, Czech,
Italian, Chinese, Catholic and Mexi-
can minorities when we don't have
unity among ourselves? How can
we become members of a united
front" when we haven't learned the
great lesson Of racial respect and
cooperation? There are Negroes
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SHALL WE MUzzLE OUR NEWSPAPERS?
BY G. W. JACKSON IN THE
LOUISVILLE DEFENDER

The interesting columnist, Dan
Gardner, takes to task the folks
who criticize Negro newspapers for
publishing articles about crimes
committed by Negroes. Gardner
says that most of these critics are
social workers, ministers, lawyers,
doctors, society people, and others
identified with our professional
groups. We are strongly of the
opinion that the following things
are true of Negro newspapers and
their publishers, managers and
editors:
l. The publication of a paper is
vocation with the owner, manager
or editor. This means that it is his
means of subsistence; the source of
bread and meat for himself and
family; fundamental factor in de-
termining his policy as a news
paperman.
2. A significant per cent of the
people relish crime news. Human
nature is responsible for that. Ad-
venture, mystery, super-achieve-
ment, "the low down." the scoop,
marital obliquity, crime, appeal to
folks.
3. The Negro newspaperman,
like the radio station operator, has
learned that coverage is both de-
sired and profitable. He knows that
among human beings there are
many classes and tastes. So he
gives sports news for those who
like sports; court news for those
who relish court news; crime
articles for those who have a ready
appetite for such news; and re-
lgious, political, cultural, business,
race achievement, society, and
trivial news in the same way.
4. 1t is a part of his philosophy
that people who do not want I'M
savory publicity should walk in the
straight and narrow path.
5. He has respect for the repu-
tation and feelings of his friends
and the big Negroes, but he cannot
quite see how the elimination of
crime news from his paper would
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Annie Henderson Sends
Congratulations and Best
Wishes From California

Editor: Congratulations on the
fine paper you are editing and pub
fishing. News from home is al
ways interesting. Best wishes for
your success and a bigger and
brighter future for the paper.
Annie Foster Henderson,
92O-33rd St., Oakland 8, Calf.
June 6, 1915.
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Birthduv GREETINGS

Birthday greetings in Minneapolis: June
24-Mrs. Lena Cobb, 534 Girard Ave. No.
June 25-Mrs. James Gresham. 984 Bryant
Ave. No. Riley N. Gilchrist, 3712 Fifth Ave.
So. June 26-Geo. A. Totten. Court House
Mrs. Jessie Hammond, 856 Bryant Ave. No.
June 27-Mrs. Lillian Cobb. 1852 Fifth Ave.
So. Aggie Thomas. 514 18th Ave. So. June
2S-H. d. Williams, 900 E. 22nd St. Sadie
Hatchett, 4044 Fourth Ave. So; Eugene
Tucker. 22O1 Fifth Ave. So. Vernon B.
Young, 242s Fifth Ave. So. June S0-Fred
c. Edwards, 2206 Elliot Ave. Jean Dorsey.
l10S Aldrich Ave. No. Delois Gilchrist. 3712
Fifth Ave. So.
Out of town greetings: June 24-Bob Bel
ton, youngstown, Ohio. June 25-Theresa
Franklin, Washington, d. @. June 26-
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GENERAL IKE

Negro soldiers about
read which accused General Eisenhower
O any unfairness to Negro soldiers
opinion very who de-
Arm policy racial segregation. Being essentially good
soldier he followed orders but there evidence that he did
policies handed by the southern military
which still has great deal about racial policies in the
Army.
attitude Negro soldiers welcome
World Is General John j. BLACK jack
Peng who gudgngy only little praise Negro who
served gloriously under the American flag.
Esenhowes fortnight before leaving Paris for Amer
philosophy He said 81 do dfferena
soldiers white soldiers Negro soldiers To
had task this that makes look soldiers
soldiers"
American civilian population could adopt with much profit
type fellow citizens Not
black genteust human beings and fellow workers
respect all who have
gard for the dignity of the human personality.
Some people grow with their jobs Others swell with them!
The worthwhile things life be amOrOus but they
lasting.
young Minneapolis by Hubert Humphrey
difficult please all the people the time
U. AttOrney-Genera Tom Clark
suspect list of Negro opinion
dead-there little Hitlers running
around loose and not all of them are in Germany
The NAACP should keep officers
subject representative people" New
Negro lobby groups Washington apy
Senator should receive least Negro
but who's going
bill?
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h + " Ssti, Sr = Yo amy June
Walter Lowe, Des Moines, Iowa. June 80
Private Matt Hammond. U. s. Army.
Birthday greetings in ST. Paul; June "a
Mrs. Bernice Duke. 6ss Carroll. June
25-MrA C. M. Vassar, 491 St. Anthony.
Rufus Carson, Jr., 9ls Aurora. June 81
Gwynne A. Lee, 300 N. Chatsworth Ermon
Jean Owens, 1885 st. Anthony: Louise @.
Brown, 4s5 Rondo Louise C. Hopkins. 7O2
Iglehart. June 2s-Mary A. Brister, 344
N. Dale Street; Mrs. Ida Combs, 65s st.
Anthony. June 3o-George Stone, s75 st.
Anthony.
Out Of town greetings to Corporal Earl
Weber. Jr.. u. s. Army, June 81.
Belated greetings to Charlotte Perfect,
SIT W. Central, June II.
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By DAN GARDNER

One of these days we are going
to stop being pro everything except
pro-Negro. When we do, doors will
open to US that we have always ex-
pected to be shut-that is, within
our times. In some manner, our
leadership has confused the issue
and today we are fighting the bat
ties of practically every group on
the face Of the globe when our real
battle is within ourselves-within
our own racial boundaries. When
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AJGN MI AgNN5sl
June Is, 1916.
Gets BIS Degree
from University

Margaret Peggy" Lazenbury,
daughter of Mrs. Bessie Turpen,
received her B. S. degree in Educa-
ton from the University of Nine
sofa June 16.
The graduate, wife of Leroy
Lazenbury, is a registered nurse
graduate of Provident Hospital,
Baltimore, Md. She is basileus of
Eta Kappa Alpha sorority.
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Southern Democrats
ReprObate Republicans
Anderson Version

Editor: l again take my pen in
hand to write you an insulting letter
to see if l cannot get another fan
letter.
1t is very amusing how your
Washington correspondent Harry
S. McAlpin, as well as yourself,
excoriate the Southern Congress-
men for joining with the reprobate
Republicans, or maybe it should be
vice versa, in defeating anything
that appears to be for the benefit
of the Negro, and yet when these
same undesirable Congressman go
along with the racketeers, of which
there are many in the New Deal,
and when the voters of the South
always vote for the racketeering
New Deal, it is all right.
Perhaps 1 should leave out the
racketeering as to New Dealers,
and put it the other way. When
these undesirable citizens of the
South, including their Congress
men, give overwhelming majorities
to the New Deal, they are as well
come as the flowers in May. have
never heard any criticism by you
or your correspondent in this re-
gard, but when once these same
citizens or Congressman join with
the Republicans then they are ter
rible, and the answer is not that
if the people of the South were al
lowed to vote they would be all
right, because the people who vote
for these undesirable Congressman
are the same people who vote al
ways in season and out of season
for the policies of the New Deal.
Consistency thou art a jewel"
William Howard Anderson,
Baker Bldg,
June Is, 1916.
Editors Note: While we cannot speak
for Mr.. Harry McAlpin, our Washington
correspondent, we can say for ourselves
that we don't give boot for the reac'
tionary southern Democrats. They are nc
different from the "reprobate northern Re
publicans," who by their stupidity and lack
of vision have driven the Negro voters
from the Republican party. By collabora-
ton in Congress with the Southern Demo
Gratis, Mr.. Anderson's northern Republicans
are still doing all they can to make it i'm
possible for Negro voters to look with favor
on the Republican party. Mr.. Anderson
has never read any editorial praise of re-
dictionary southern Democrats in these
editorial columns, no matter what major
tiles they rolled up for the New Deal.
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In loving memory Of our dear mother
and grandmother, Elizabeth Hunter, who
1943.
Her entire life was one Of utmost good
ness, love and unselfsh devotion. May God
give her infinite happiness.-T-Mrs. Phil Hall,
daughter; Mr.. H. F. Hunter, son Mrs.
George Manning and Mr.. Leonard Green.
grandchildren.