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The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-08-18
st. Louis Taxi
Strike Reveals
Political Croft

ST LOUIS. Mo.-(wDL)--A
fantastic labyrinth of political cor
ruption involving graft and police
brutality in addition 10 the rabid
anti union activities has been I'M
covered during the strike of Ne
gro cab drivers Of the De Luxe
cab company.
Although only so men arc in
VOWED, there have been oves so
arrests with one victim being shot
=: police headquarters Tire cab
company is one Of several enter
prises # Jesse Johnson, wealthy
promoter
OrsaDlzed a. first as ~ inde-
pcNden; srouD. the Deluxe UNIT Of
Inc Taxi Drivers and Owner Driv-
ers' association. the men became
affiliated with Clio when told by
johnson that they must have a
recognized union Since then the
unfair practices which they hoped
20 correct by their first assocla-
non still went unchecked.
Aid 20 the strikers is bein- d.
rec,cd by ST Louis Go leader
Harold J Gibbons. Gibbons asked
Mayor Alloys P kaufman 70 lnveS-
;,ca,c TIE whole situation under
which Negro cabs are operated
y IN gross exploitation ~ the
drivers and graf; by urscrupulous
politicians
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-08-18
Boyd Denounces
Gloster Current
For Red Attack

In answer to statement made
last week by Gloster Current
executive secretary of the Detroit
NAACP. Gerald R. Boyd. this week
denounced Current for what he
termed as misrepresenting the
facts.
Boyd, vice president OF the
Communists party of Michigan,
accused Current OF taking the
position Of the reactlonary daily
press IN his attack on Councilman
Ben Davis and the party for an
alleged proposal To establish sep
arate Negro state. Boyd's state
ment follows;
II an amazed that "A man OF Mr..
Currents position should make
such a statement as he made in
last weeks Chronicle. without first
looking up and acquainting him
self with the facts. Instead OF
taking the position Of the reaction
airy daily press which represents
those clemens which have always
tried TO nalign the Communist
Party and those individuals who
distinguish themselves by fighting
for the best interest OF all the
people. Mr. Current should give to
the readers The facts.
The truth is that neither the
Communist Party nor Ben DAVIS
has ever advocated any policy of
segregation for the Negro people.
The true position OF the Commu-
INST Party. advanced oy Council
man Ben DAVIS. is based upon the
fact that the Negro people are
national group. In large section
Of the south they comprise ma
jority Of the population. and there
fore should have the right of self
determination.
Neither the Communist Party
nor Mr.. Davis has ever advocated
separation for the Negro people or
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-08-18
URGE TRUMAN
TO PARDON so
NEGRO SEAMEN

A resolution calling upon Presi-
dent Truman ito grant a full and
unconditional pardon 10 the so Ne
gro sailors found guilty of mutiny
by a court martial after the Port
Chicago explosion was adopted
unanimously last week by Local
IS Of the UAW.C IO.
THE RESOLUTION also urged
the CIO TO cooperate with the
NA.ACP in mobilizing all labor.
LIBERAL. Negro and working class
fraternal organizations in a cam
paign for the Fardon OF these
sailors who were given SEN
fences ranging from 3 10 Is years
The charge Of muntiy arose
out of petition asking for trans
fers TO other types of work
which allegedly had been circu-
lated by the defendants. all Of
whom were involved in the dis
astrOus explosion Of a munitions
shin which resulted in the death
Of 327 Negro sailors.
CHARGING that the incident is
a vicious extension of jim Crow
practice in the armed forces" the
resolution maintains that no con-
Siderstion for the effects of the
horrors Of war was made in this
case. Yet. il states. "the Army and
Navy have made a Who'll, system of
allowances for battle fatigue. she'll
shock and psvcholosical reaction
to war experiences.
The union states that the so
sailors we're found guilty Of con-
spiracy 70 mutiny when actually
the men were exercising the
Democratic right Of petition-a
right included in the Bill of Rights
~ the Constitution Of the United
States
Copies Of the resolution were
also sent 70 Secretary OF Navy
Forrestal. UAW-CIO President r
J Thomas and 10 other union Of
fcia,s and locals.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-08-18

4 notion has been filed for 2
rc.hearius IN the restrictive CNNc;
nant case against Nj and Mrs
Joe, Marshall by NAACP Aitor-
news Francs NJ Dent and Wills
Graves before Judge John '
Brennan
Judge Brennan issued an in
junction against the MarshallS
on July :, restraining them from
occupying the property they
purchased at 1872, LaBelle he
cause Of alleged violation of the
restrictive covenant The mo-
ton will be heard after Labor
day.
IN HIS OPINION Brennan DC
Clsrcd that the restriction such
as that IN issue in tho instant case,
relative ~ use and occupancy, and
not Ia ownership. 5 valid The
restriction stated that no lot shat
be used or occ pied by any person
other than VI tho Caucasian race '
In their petition for a rchcarlnc.
Graves and Dent aver that the
court erred because evidence did
not show that "a great majority
OF he lots sold contain the racial
restriction. % nor did testimony
show that a majority of lots con-
tanned the restriction.
They maintain also that the
court erred in finding that the
Matshalls had actual notice of
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-08-18
union OPPOSES
S 7 R ( { T c A R
RECONvERS|0N

Certain aspects OF the reconver-
sion program for Detroit hit
stormy weather this week when
the ALL division, IS. announced
that il would oppose the CONVEX
sion OF the DSR 10 one-man troll
leys
The union, which contains
many hundreds of Detroit Ne
groes, said through q spokesman
that. Our men are not going to
operate these cars on Detroit
streets"
JACK STOREY. president Of
the union, said further that the
DSR had not conferred with the
union on the changeover and that
none OF the new cars Will oe per-
mitted 10 leave the barns.
DSR officials claim that the con-
verted street cars can be used as
efficiently and safely as the two
man cars
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-08-18

Fifth Amendment; Of the Michigan
State Constitution
The Marsnalls purchased their
home in 1912 The SUIT was brought
ov Mr. and Mrs. Wagner Sarri
They were assisted by the Robert
VI Oakman 18th Street Improve
ment association.
Although there has been no
trouble since the NarShallS moved
IN. they must JON the thousands Of
NeCro citizens. WhoS N Detroit are.
either unable 20 NE IN govern
mcnt projects because Of discrm-
natory policies. or cannot pur-
chase and live in their own home,
because Of restrictive covenants.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-08-18
Sharing Rid e,
Man Assaulted,
Robbed Of S72

Sharing the rides 90, a man IN
the Receiving hospital with a pos
slble skull fracture last week and
the loss OF S72
The victim was James Cochran
Il OF 1903 Fcnlon street. who was
driving home down Brush stree
with man whom he knew only
rs James IN the back scat, When nc
reached Watson. James asked
Cochran 10 stop.
The man in the back seat then
hit the driver over the head with
some unknown weapon and took
the money which Cochran had.
CochranS daughter, Genevievc.
brought him to the hospital, where
physicians said he had a possible
skull fracture and possible frac-
ture Of the left mandIble,
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-08-18
NAACP Calls For Restrictive Covenant Campaign

a separate state. The Communist
Party has always fought for the
full and equal rights Of the Negro
people. We are sure that given
such rights it would not lead TO
separation but to a siren gthening
OF democT acy in the south and a
considerable Strengthening of the
fight for equal rights Of the Negro
people in the north.
"P.S.-Mr. Current should know
that Ben Davis is not a Congress
man but a councilman of New
York City now running for MS
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-08-18
Georgia Baptists Meet

THOMSON. Ga.-The 72nd ses-
sion Of the Shiloh BAPTIST associa-
tion convened Aug. 1916 az Spring
field Baptist church here of which
the Rev J. H West is pastor The
moderator. the Rev w NJ Jack
son presided al the meeting.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-08-18
Ask For Rehearing
In Restriction Case

the restriction at the time Of the
purchase. although the evidence
shows that such restriction
never appeared in their chain OF
title
Although Negroes I've on Id
Belle IN Highland Park and very
close 20 nc howe II the MarshallS
judge Brennan WSUe -,adUtuns
this fat declared .'h-ts~thlS sub
division, Itself. he's remained vlsl.
iar'iy intact IS 20 any restriction
violation save Cor ne s..eCcd vio-
lat1n r nc .r>'s-' sasf
Brennan expressed the opinion
that the restrictions arc still Of
value to the plaintiffs
THE JUDGE ,i'ca a Number II
eases lN,ia3.1- tlC t.0Nu> Men.
san case ~, TJ~U nc - Nocgl>>
10 prove his contention 'hd' . re-
>trirtlvc covenant tu thus csc -
valid ard not - violation o., he
Fouricen'a Amendment to The
United States Cons, tuition or the
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-08-18

Interest In the amount Of employ
rneni that Will be open 10 former war
production workers in plants recon
verting 10 the manufacture of domos-
tic mechanical washing mashInes
was expressed by the labor advisory
committee for this industry al a
meeting Wednesday
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-08-18

second term on a record second 10
none,"-Gerald r. Boyd. vice pres
ident OF C.P. OF Michigan.
Evening star., 1945-10-25
Britain Needs igLoan
To Meet Budget Deficit

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Oct. 25.-Britain must
borrow sum almost equaling 10 per
cent of her already gigantic nation
al debt if she is to meet the deficit
the Labor government predicts for
the fiscal year beginning April l,
1916.
With national debt of q, 3,708,-
O000 900 pounds ($94 1892 900 ,000), the
United Kingdom must borrow an
other 100000, 900 pounds ($9,200,- :
600 ,000 to meet the deficit forecast
by Chancellor of the Exchequer
Hugh Dalton.
Mr.. Dalton estimated expenditures
for the next fiscal year at 5,565, 900, :
600 pounds ($22 2,260 900 ,000 and
revenues at 3,265, 10000 pounds
(s13, ,o60 900 ,000).
A large part Of the national debt
Is made up of obligations to be met
on specific dates. A possibility that
their cost to the government may be
reduced by refunding is seen, how
ever, in Mr.. Dalton's budget message
to Parliament.
Britain financed a large part OF
her war costs by creating short
term bonds and floating debt.
Mr.. Dalton presumably is consid-
ering refunding bonded indebted
ness since he repeatedly has spoken
Of cheaper money in recent weeks.
One Of the interesting points Of his
budget speech mentioned "the ex-
ploration In the field Of future pos
sibilities of cheaper money and low
er interest rates."
Evening star., 1945-10-25
Mrs. Roosevelt Says y. S. FoiIs
To State Foreign Policy Clearly

Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt says the
present State Observation-Disclosures
Intentionally or not-has failed to
state its policy clearly.
The late Presidents wife expressed
confusion over the policy OF the de-
partment in answer to questions last
night after a speech at the Howard
University forum on the university
campus. Asked whether the present
department has policy, she said:
Il am not sure at the present time
what the policy Is. I am sure they
have one. 1t may be Intentionally
not clearly stated"
Queried on the possible influence
Of German theories on the American
Army Of Occupation, Mrs. Roosevelt
said she thought 1t was perfectly
possible" that German girls may be
able to sell" to Americans the idea
that Germans are mice people"
Evening star., 1945-10-25
Only in 1ooAy,s WOMAN for November

The Friendly Atom, by viii r. jenkins, may help re-
eve your mind if you re worrying about the atomic
bombs terrifying possibilities. It's SCIENTISTS ex-
PLANTATION to his wife Z. 2. And by all means read
Sucker List by Allen E. Backman. He tells about the
biggest racketeers in the world who have your name
on their lists.
Evening star., 1945-10-25

II that happens, the seryicemen
must be reminded who started the
war, she said.
Asked what ought to be "done
with a man like Senator Bilbo
Democrat, of Mississippi who is not
upholding the Constitution, Mrs
Roosevelt replied that his failure to
uphold the Constitution must first
be proved. Then Congress might
IDEAL with It," she said.
Passage of the Fair Employment
Practice Committee bill, while de-
sirable, will not wipe out race dis
elimination unless the people are
thoroughly behind the measure, she
said.
During her formal address, Mrs
Roosevelt said America cannot win
the peace unless 1t has true democ-
racy and economic security at home
before trying to sell these principles
to other nations.
Evening star., 1945-10-25

the 5Oth anniversary Of the discoy-
cry of chiropractic.
Guest speakers at q session this
afternoon In the Eastern Star Build
ing, 1900 Sixteenth street NV,
were to be DR.. Craig M. Kightlinger
and DR.. T. G. Peterson, faculty
members of the New York College
OF Chiropractic.
Evening star., 1945-10-25
'EurIy Bird Hike Plonned

The Social Service Club Of Miner
Teachers College will sponsor its
annual ''early bird hike" Saturday
morning, Miss Fannie T. NJ. Reed,
president. announced today. Par
ticipants have been asked to report
at 5:45 am. at $40 T street NV.
Evening star., 1945-10-25
Senator Copper to Speak
AT Chiropructors' Dinner

Senator Capper, Republican, Of
Kansas win address chiropractors
from Washington. Maryland and
Virginia at 8 o'clock tonight at a
banquet meeting commemorating
Evening star., 1945-10-25

There's No "Boy Problem In My House. and you'll
forget that you thought you had one after you
read the common suggestions in Mary Van
Fossen Schwab's article +. =. And do you believe
family ought to be happy? Then don't miss Home Is
Place for Talking, by Margaret Culkin Banning-the
world-famous authors account of home as your home
can'be.
Evening star., 1945-10-25
GUINNESS is Good for you

Smooth, plump oysters chilled just right-and
robust, tangy Guinness! The who has tried
this historic combination has adventure good eating
ahead The brisk, raey dryness of Guinness brings
the finest favour of an oyster.
This imported stout-6rt bewed in Dublin in 1889
snvgorating nourishing retains the natural bene-
fits of its special active yeasts and continues its long
maturing in bottle. Nothing else like it.
In addition TO meatime, enjoy Guinness a bedtime,
whenever you're tired thirsty, of Drink
it straight famous "Half & Haf' beer or ale
with Guinness added Pour gently, ice cold. Life
brighter after Cuinne
EDWARD JOHN BURKE
City ]. New York, Sole u s. Distributors
Evening star., 1945-10-25

You've read Thyra Samisr Wnslews stories for years.
Did you ever meet this avorite storyteller as cookf
In Kitchen Witciery, Miss Winslow tells you some of
the secrets that have made her cooking notable.
Only in TopAY,s WOMAN for November
Evening star., 1945-09-02

LONDON.-The collapse of Japan
brought an end to war which, in scale
and intensity alike, is the most hideous
as it is the most tragic event in modern
history. 1t leaves us with world ma
terially ravaged and spiritually dis
ordered. All the values to which we
had become accustomed have gone into
a melting pot. The direction of human
destiny has become at once more i'm
personal and centralized than ever be-
fore.
The power in the hands of statesmen
that is conferred by their authority to
order the use of the atomic bomb is on
a different plane than we have thus
far known. We have reached the point
where we must either marry reason to
command or we will deprive ordinary
people of any claim to security and
happiness that is likely to achieve full
fillment
am not one Of those who quarrel
with the terms imposed on Japan. With
all that is said of the need for severity
and watchfulness in this enforcement,
I wholly agree. That it is important
beyond words to make the Japanese
people fully understand how shattered
and broken is the supposedly uncon-
querable dynasty for which they died
is not less obvious than the need ruth
lessly to control any element in Japan
out of which potential danger may, as
with the secret societies, emerge. That
war criminals must be punished is as
clear as the necessity, however hard, of
a long, exacting period wherein Japan
must remain less an independent state
than a territory of the United Nations
We owe it to the future to take no risk
with these suave, merciless gangsters.
Time to Experiment With Peace.
But that is not to say that perhaps
another half million lives can be justi-
f1ably sacrificed for the difference which
divides the formula which is the basis
of the surrender from that of its critics.
The war lasted long enough. The vic
tory is clear; the power to drive home
its meaning is decisive: only their own
unwisdom, their division and irresolu-
ton can destroy the supremacy of the
United Nations.
1t is time We began to experiment
with peace. We are not given ge-
illogical epoch to prepare against the
dread possibilities Of the coming winter;
we are given four months. The world
over. famine and scarcity haunt the
lives of millions like dread specters
threatening to make mockery of the
liberation we ask them to acclaim. The
world over, too, there is growing moral
and intellectual confusion. Education
Evening star., 1945-09-02

men have to bear become heavier than
before. or that where revolution sue
ceeds its margin of safety is so narrow
that its leaders regard the freedom for
which they fought less as an ideal than
as threat to the framework in which
they propose to set it.
The central danger of our time is a
danger of this nature. 1t is a danger
sharpened by war because war teaches
so many to become Injured to compul-
sion. They turn with grim ease from
the use of violence without to the use
of violence within. They get so ac-
customed to the use of an enemy that
If he does not exist they feel compelled
to invent him. Their nerves are so
frayed that they lose any sense of bal
ance and proportion. They lose the
power to reason; when men lose the
power to reason there are few things
OF which they are more afraid than
truth and justice. That is why they
resort to terror. It enables them to
call satisfaction of their fears by names
which though they do not deceive their
enemies have a black magic about them
by which they themselves are deceived
1t is world that obviously stands
on a narrow equipoise between sanity
and madness wherein the creative pos
sibilities of splitting the atom drives in
our minds when the atomic bomb ex-
plodes. On any careful thought this
becomes still more obvious when we
remember that the millions spent on
production of the atomic bomb by
Great Britain and the United States
would never have been spent by either
government on a conscious service for
a fuller life. The creative possibilities
indeed. are byproduct of the wartime
value OF the atomic bomb. If they are
TO have their chance, the change from
war to peace is an urgent matter. That
is why do not believe those who insist
that unconditional surrender means re-
fusal on~ the part Of the governments
involved to scrutinize the japanese
claim to some concession here and to
some adjustment there.
say again the war lasted too long.
IT we are not very careful we will lose
the very freedom we seek by prolonga-
tion of our fight to attain it. For the
organization war demands is method
of frustrating so much upon which hui
man wen-being depends that it may
end, unless we watch ourselves, by de-
nying that human well-being is good
at all. From that point, reason be-
comes the slave Of madness. When we
reach that stage we are indeed in meas
urable distance Of new and hideous
dark age.
Evening star., 1945-09-02

There is no better time to appraise
the part that American labor played
in our greatest military victory than
this Labor Day of 1945.
So much has occurred since we first
grimly fought off defeat and finally
crushed our remaining enemy that there
has been scant opportunity to review
the whole story of the war and to
understand how its winning was made
possible
For every one of our gallant fighting
men in Africa. in Europe, in the Pacific
and at our far-flung bases throughout
the world there had to be company
of production soldiers. staying on the
job. working long hours under difficult
and frequently hazardous conditions,
often enduring poor living standards in
crowded war production centers, going
without many necessities and paying
more for what they got.
1t is to the credit of American work
ers that they did all these things and,
in so doing, achieved miracle of pro-
duction that kept the supply lines to
all our military fronts and those of our
Allies crowded with the materials that
made victory a certainty. :..
Strike Time Loss Small
AS major contribution to that VIC
tory I would put at the top of the list
the determination of OUR workers to
perform their tasks, to bear their share
of the responsibility
At the outset of our entrance into the
war organized labor voluntarily pledged
that no strikes would be authorized for
the duration, despite differences or dis
putes between employers and their
workers.
That there have been strikes is un-
Evening star., 1945-09-02
War Review
Peace Finally Ends | ,365.
Day Conflict
BY. HOiOard p. Bailey

The worlds most destructive war
reached it's final curtain today in cere-
monies aboard the battleship Missouri,
Japanese and Allied signatures to the
surrender terms taking from the Jap
anese not only their ill-gotten gains of
the war just concluded but those won
in her earlier wars of conquest.
1t was particularly fitting that in
the week in which the conflict was
brought to its close, the reports Of the
Army and Naval Boards of Inquiry into
the Pearl Harbor attack which plunged
America into the war 1865 days ago
yesterday should be made public.
1t appears, however, that the raising
of the flag over defeated Japan does
not signify the end of all war activity
nor does the publishing of the reports
mean that the Pearl Harbor subject
is closed. In Japan our armies of oc-
cupation still have much work to do to
bring about enforcement of the peace
terms and the reorganization of Japan
so that in time she can take her place
among the respectable nations of the
world. In Congress there is vigorous
demand for further light on Pearl Har-
bor and the probabilities of congress
sional Investigations are evident.
The high lights of the final week of
the war which started in Europe six
years ago were:
Sunday: Japanese ENJOYS board Ad-
miral Halsey's flagship, the battleship
Missouri, which two hours later enters
Sagami Bay, 80 miles below Tokyo.
heading large feet and under cover OF
1000 carrier borne planes British units
headed by battleship Duke of York are
included in Halsey's powerful armada.
Plans perfected for first landings by
American forces. Chinese reoccupy
Canton and other cities without Incl
dent. Japan lifts wartime bars on
peace industries and prepares to go to
work. Russia, in 30-year friendship
treaty with China, agrees toback Chang,
quit Manchuria in 80 days. Russia will
not intervene in Chinas internal af-
fairs, will recognize Outer Mongolia as
independent. will not interfere with
Chinese Turkestan. Dairen to be free
port, Port Arthur joint Chinese Russian
naval base. British press halts criticism
OF cessation OF lease-lend. Army wants
(Seo REVIEW. page H.61