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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-09-15
Is TT HIS LoWEsTf

SOME OF the most unsound
teaching that ever went flying
around the country. to cost play
ers hundreds Of points. Is that
about high cards for encourage
ment and low cards for discour-
Agement. You hear It said like
this: "A six or higher played by
your partner Is an encouraging
card asking for a repeat Of the
suit. whereas a Ave or lower Is a
dlscouraging card asking you to
shift" That Is not the point at all.
The thing that counts Is this: IF
you can read his gard as probably
higher than the lowest he. holds.
It is encouraging; otherwise It Is
mot "
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-09-15

SAN FRANCISCO MS The
grand old carrier USS Saratoga.
and 3.710 Navy officers and men
who bunked on her flight deck.
we're home from the war Friday.
The Sara" left Pearl Harbor Sun
day with not single plane aboard.
Her giant hangar deck was turned
into a tremendous master bedroom
OF 1000 four TERED steel hunks. The
"Sara's" next trip will be to Eni-
wetok In the Marshalls to bring
home another group OF veterans.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-09-15

After watching the Tigers for a
couple of days, Bucky Harris, for.
mer Washington manager, is con-
WINGED that his old club will win the
American League pennant. The
reason he gives is that the Sena-
tors are hustling Curly Lam
beau. who ought to know. main.
tains IL Isn't Fair to the public to
have the same team play in .he
Chicago All-Star grid game and the
Philadelphia Inquirer affair. It's
Impossible to have a team up" for
two such games early in the season,
Curly claims. When the Fort
Leayenworth, Kansas, golf club &C.
CURED a flock OF sheep to NOV the
fairways, The pro shop promptly
was nicknamed the Lambs Club"
With baseball attendance rec
ords falling on all sides, the Reds
have played seven games to fewer
than 1000 fans each. The low was
PSI Thursday.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-09-15

Bench Gossip

Coach Art Fletcher OF the YAM
KEGS Is In a hospital recovering
from a heart attack he suffered at
the stadium the other day. Won.
der II someone told Art that Joe
Mccarthy was about to 90 off to
Buffalo again?
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-09-15
NATIONAL LEAGUE

FGames behind leader.
Fridays Results
Philadelphia 40. Chicago S.6.
Second game six innings)
New York 7, Cincinnati 5.
Brooklyn rs, st. Louis 2.1.
Today's Games
Brooklyn at Chicago.
Boston at Cincinnati
PHILADELPHIA at ST. Louis, night.
New York at Pittsburgh.
Only games scheduled.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-09-15

Jim Castiglia, who played with
both the Athletics and the Eagles
in Philadelphia, still is a double
header athlete at Greensboro. N.
C., managing the overseas replace
ment depot baseball team, third In
the national semi-pro tournament.
and quarterbacking the personnel
distribution command footall team.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1945-03-12
FIRST WOMAN TO BE
ELECTROCUTED IN GEORGIA

REIDSVILLE, Ca, Mar. ~
(ANP) "A mother of three chill
dren, Mrs. Lena Baker of Cuthbert,
was the first woman to die in the
Georgia electric chair here at the
state prison since it was installed in
1924.
She was electrocuted at the TAFT
nall state prison for the Staying of
E. B. Knight, a white grist mill op-
orator, whom neighbors contend
she had been "going with for a
long period Of years.
Warden A. C. Aderhold, who
made the statement that Mrs. Ba-
ker was the first woman to die in
the chair, added that she went to
the chair calmly, but protesting to
the end that she was not guilty of
murder, contending that she had
fired at Knight only in self defense
after he had advanced on her with
butcher knife.
Testimony at the trial bore out
her contention, but the all white
jury refused to be guided by the
evidence.
At a hearing before the state
board of pardons and paroles held
recently, defense counsel for the
mother argued that Mrs. Baker had
been Knights "slave woman for
several years prior to the Staying.
Knight, he said, had threatened to
kill her when she sought to termi-
nate the relationship. The board,
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1945-03-12
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
To The Citizens OF the
West Side

In the past few weeks | have
heard great deal of discussion on
the present school issue here in Day.
ton. Also, I have said repeatedly
that would voice no opinion in the
matter because | have no children
in Dunbar. However, when it is con-
tended that Mr.. MacFarlane's re-
moval is the key to the solution of
segregation here in Dayton, this
writer feels that now he had the
right to express himself and to urge
all Negroes who are interested in
solving the problem Of segregation
and improving race relations to do
likewise. l think that we should all
realize that there is more than one
way to solve a problem Who are
we to say that John Does method
of solving problem is wrong, SIM
ply because his method differs from
those of others? think that in this
problem we should not be so much
interested in method (although
method is sometimes importantly
but in the ultimate result of the
problem, in this case the race prob
lem. 1t has been this writer's OBJ
servation that fundamentally the
only difference between Mr.. Mac
farlane's program and that Of the
opposition is that the latter believes
that the method to arrive at the
final solution is through force and
legislation.
tContinued on Page z
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1945-03-12

WITH U. S. FORCES IN EU-
ROPE, March II (ANP) P).-Negro
combat units ranged along the al
lied front from Holland to Southern
France have given a brilliant ac-
count of themselves in 1914 and
thus far this year, proving for once
and all time that there was nothing
the enemy had to offer which they
couldn't take and give more of in
return.
Outstanding feats included the
combat actions of the 761st Tank
battalion, only Negro tank bat
talon in the ETO, the 614th Tank
Destroyer battalion; first and only
Negro tank destroyer battalion to
see action in this war as of the end
of the year; the glorious fire mis-
sions of the 969th Field Artillery
battalion with it's 155 nm. howit-
zers blasting at the Germans in a
360-degree perimeter while sur
rounded completely in the Bastogne
area in the December German Of
fensive, which they helped to stem
after having rendered a glorious
account of themselves from St. Lo
to Brest, back to Normandy and
Brittany -Crozon peninsulas.
AAA Unit Blasts Pill Bores
Terrific flat trajectory fire by
the 452nd Anti-Aircraft artillery,
doing front line pill-box attacking
along the third army front, helped
to pulverize German concrete gun
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1945-03-12
STRESSED need OF
JOBS FOR NEGROES

NEW ORLEANS, March IL
(ANP)-For full employment in
the postwar era, according to Vice
Chancellor j. G.. Dixon of Mercer
university, New Orleans must plan
an increase of 100000 new jobs,
nearly $4,000 Of which must be for
Negroes.
Speaking at the opening session
of a conference on employment and
employment opportunities for Ne
groes in New Orleans at billiard
university, DR.. Dixon recommended
an extension of job and counseling
agencies, a wide dissemination Of
information of work opportunities,
plans for referring workers to
training agencies, and the greater
participation of federal and COM
munity agencies providing for job
opportunities.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1945-03-12
SOUTH CAROLINA SENATE
VOTES POLL TAX REPEAL

COLUMBIA, S. c., March IL
(ANP)-The South Carolina SEN
ate Tuesday followed the lead of
Georgia by voting to repeal the 81
annual poll tax as prerequisite for
voting.
There was only one opposing
vote to a resolution to place an
amendment eliminating the poll tax
requirement from the state consti-
tuition before the voters of the state
in the 1916 general election.
Opposition is expected to be
stronger in the lower house where
the resolution was sent.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1945-03-12

emplacements barring the way to
the onward sweep of 1t. Gen. Geo.
S. Patton Jr.'s drive in the Saar
basin.
High-flying silver balloons of the
32Oth Anti-Aircraft Barrage bal
loon (very low altitude) battalion,
first Negro offensive unit to be
decorated as a unit by Gen. Eisen-
hover, aided 1t. Gen. Courtney S.
Hodges First U. S. army to thrust
forward into the Hurtgen forest
and the Roer river areas where 1t.
Gen. William H. Simpsons Ninth
U. S. army fought bitterly to gain
entry into German Siegfried de-
fenses.
Smoke Units Active
Negro smoke generator UNITS laid
their blankets of man-made fog
over the hills and valleys around
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1945-03-12
FAITHS, RACES FORGOTTEN
ON BATTLEFIELDS

NEW HAVEN, Conn.,, March IL
(ANP)-"When the chips were
down and we were facing the i'm
placable Jap, I found the lines Of
faiths and races forgotten. The Jew
fought side by side with the Protest
ant. The Catholic was on the other
end of a stretcher bearing a Ne
gro," Chaplain Karl B. Justus, re-
Gently returned from 20 months
duty overseas in the South Pacific,
said at a meeting of the New Haven
Round Table, National Conference
Of Christians and Jews.
"Out of these experiences" he
continued, ''is born bond of fel-
lowship which continues across the
years and which even the creeds of
different faiths cannot mar" Chap
lain Justus said he had been chap
lain aboard combat transport and
though he was a Protestant chap
lain, found men of the Catholic,
Protestant and Hebrew faiths
frequently coming to him with their
problems.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1945-03-12

tective cover which allowed third
army engineers to throw that first
bridge across. under intense Ger
man shelling of the position. But
the bridge was finished. AS one of
the grimy lads said afterwards:
"Gen. Patton wanted the bridge
over, and by God we meant for him
to have it."
Gen. Patton Vindicated
The valiant work Of the combat
units of this third army was trib-
ute to their attitude towards Gen.
Patten himself, who, though much
criticized by rear-line military crit
les, was popular favorite with all
his men who know him for what he
really was. Incidentally, Patton
made it point to take personal in
terest in his Negro units. When the
76st Tank battalion arrived at
the front on Oct. FL, he came down
to personally welcome them.
His expressed faith in their abil-
ity was justified and vindicated by
their work in the Saar basin and
later when they moved into the be-
leaguered Bastogne area to help re-
lieve the pressure on Hodges First
army in December. He also took
the same interest in the 614th Tank
Destroyer battalion when they ar
rived to join Maj. Gen. Harry L.
Twaddle's 95th Infantry division,
rugged veterans, and continued his
Continued from Page q
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1945-03-12

Metz, when Maj. Gen. William H.
Walton's Goth corps, using the 5th,
Goth and 95th Infantry divisions,
drove into that great bastian and
captured it for the first time in his
tory. The work of those same chem
ical units had already made pos
sible the first permanent bridging
of the Moselle river in September.
Many times the waters of this 100
yard wide stream had run red with
the blood of American soldiers as
infantry and armored units had
tried to cross to it's east bank where
the Germans were staging one of
the bitterest defenses of the entire
war on any front. The blood of
these Negro smoke generators had
also been mingled with the clear
waters of the stream, as they, too
gave their lives to maintain the pro.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1945-03-12
Many Negro Combat Troops
Prove Heroes in France; First
Full Report on Gl'S in Bottle
By SGT. IRRELEVANT w. ANDERSON


which
of
the Negro combat line
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1945-03-12

however, denied plea of commuta-
ton.
Aderhold said the electrocution
took place at II 30 am. Monday
and that Mrs. Baker was pro-
nounced dead at IL :26 am.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-05-03

In Japan husband NAV
y v;c his wife if she is chiidIa' ','
dlsobedient or ill-tempered ''OieSS'
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-05-03
EXTRA ASSEMBLY
SESSION IS SEEN
CONTINUED from Page One)

chiefly in petroleum products
fertilizers and u m b T. The
growth did not represent general
cargoes, but increases in custo
mary shipments. In 1887, Mr.
Hers said, he made a report tt
the port commission recommend
ing that needed terminals be built
So that advantage might be taken
of available general cargoes. APP
peal was made to the PWA for a
grant for this purpose but was re-
jected. Then the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation was asked to
finance them, but this effort also
failed, partly due to local opposi-
ton, which, he said, has since
been overcome.
Theil, When the matter of de-
veloping the port with state financ-
ing was laid before the governor,
the proposal led to a survey by
the state planning board, which
reported the project had such
great ramifications that it ought
to be state undertaking.
Mr. HERS added that when the
ports authority is set up, the Will
mington Port Commission will
gladly cooperate with it.
Francis Chadwick, who with
Lieut.. Preston Oliver was a guest
al the session, spoke of the Scout
Circus scheduled for May and
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-05-03
FLEEING GERMANS
ATTACKED BY Raj

LONDON, May 2 Up British
hiers made day-long attacks to-
day on the chaotic tumble of Ger
man military traffic fleeing to-
ward Denmark, destroying OF
dana ing at least 1,207 vehicles
and 81 planes in the area of Lue.
beck, which British ground forces
captured.
Raj pilots said that. British
tanks were advancing so fast that
one group of fighterbombers, upon
Teaching its target, found the tanks
already four miles beyond.
They said the Bay Of Lubbock
was filled with vessels gathered
there for loading before heading
to Denmark and that all roads
were damned with confused and
frantic German transport. Every
BODY seemed to be racing out, :"
said one pilot.
Fighters and fighterbonbers of
the British Second Tactical Air
Force raked the German columns
with bombs, rockets and bullets
in q massacre which pilots de-
scribed as bigger than Falaise"
It was the third successive day
of such attacks.
Murky weather held most other
tactical air units on the ground
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-05-03

The President added that Britain
and the United States would lin
form Himmler that unconditional
surrender to the governments OF
the United States, Great Britain
and the Soviet Union is the only
acceptable offer"
At noon the following day, the
charge d'affaires of the Russian
embassy here, Nikolai Novikof
called on Grew with Stalin's reply
thanking the President for the in.
formation and agreeing to the pro
posed message" to be relayed to
Himmler via Stockholm.
Grew took, Stains reply to Pres
ldent Truman and one hour later
at l pm. April 26-the President
cabled the American legation in
Stockholm. advising the American
minister that the only acceptable
terms would be unconditional SUR
render to the Big Three ION all
fronts"
1t pointed out that if the Ger
mans wanted to surrender on these
terms, the German forces should
surrender to local commanders in
the field. 1t added that where re-
sistance continues 1.-The Allied ar
mics will continue to press the
attack"
At noon April u, the American
minister reported to Washington
that the Presidents message had
been given to Bernadotte shortly
after it was received and that the
Swedish count had left the next
morning for Flensberg to conmu-
nicate with Hinanler.
Flensberg is in Germany just
below the Danish frontier.
The unsuccessful attempt OF
Himmler to avoid surrendering to
Russia was brought up to date last
night. Grew said, when the U. S.
Legation at Stockholm said that
Bernadotte had returned reporting
that He delivered the Presid emit S
message but had received no re-
ply"
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-05-03

otov, Eden and Chinese Foreign
Minister, T. V. Soong.
1t was signed by Sidney Hillman
of the CLIO, Sir Walter Citrine OF
the British Trade Union Congress.
Louis Saillant of the French Con-
federation of Labor and M. Trasev
of the Russian Trade Union Coun-
Gil.
At a news conference, Bidault
proposed international control OF
the Ruhr, once the heart of Ger
manys war production mechanism
and called for closing Rhine in
vasion routes for all time
While some snags still lie in the
path of the conference, Archibald
Macleish, assistant secretary oil
state predicted that the four spon.
soring poWers-Russia, China, Brit
ain and the United States-Will find
"a common ground of agreement
on amendments to the Dunbar
ton Oaks blueprint for world or
ganization.
Senator Connally D-Tex), vice
chairman of the delegation, added
that a series of amendments ten
tatively approved by the American
group had been submitted to rep
resentatives Of Great Britain, Rus
STA and China.
The conference.-the problem
ShaDeS IN this WaV.
Fortysix nations have ballots
now, and those of Argentina, White
Russia and Ukrainia soon will
bring the figure up to 40.
Several delegations besides the
Russians, it was learned, are con-
cerned over the fact that the Unit
ed States and the 20 Latin Ameri-
can nations, by voting solidly.
could swing the valance of power
OF any issue requiring a two-thirds
vote.
In fact with Liberia and the
Philippines added, they could come
close to controlling a majority vote.
Soviet Foreign Commissar Molotov
referred directly to the inter-Amer-
lean bloc when he was defeated on
delaying admission of Argentina to
the conference.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-05-03
Unsuccessful Surrender
OF Germans Is UnueiLed

WASHINGTON, May 2-UD-Act
ing Secretary of State Joseph. c.
Grew today unveiled the hour-to
hour story of Heinrich Himnler' s
unsuccessful attempt to surrender
Germany to the United States anc
Geat Britain.
He revealed that Himmler was
told Yesterday by Swedish Coun
Folke Bernadotte, after the coun
had returned to Stockholm tina
President Truman would accep
Germany's unconditional surrender
only if it were made "to the three
Allied governments on all fronts
rather than just to the two western
Allies.
. The American legation in Stock
holm said Bernadotte reported yes
terday that he had delivered the
Presidents message "but bad re-
ceived no reply" from the Ger.
mans.
Crews chronological account be.
gan with disclosure that Brit.
ish and American representatives
were called to the Swedish foreign
ministry April "a at II pm, Swed.
ish time Is pm. EWT) and advised
of Himmler's offer.
At three am. Swedish time the
next day, American Minister Her.
schell V. johnson reported the ne
gotiations to the State Department..
Grew said his message relayed
these facts:
Count Bernadotte met Himmler
at Lubbock at l o'clock the morn
ing of April "a at Hinmler's re-
quest. Hinmler said that Hitler
was so ill he might already be
dead and could not live more than
two days Gen. Schullenburg, Him
mlers confidential staff officer,
said Hitler was suffering from
brain hemorrhage), and that he,
Himmler, was therefore in a po-
sition OF full authority.
"Himmler asked the Swedish
government to arrange for him to
meet tGen. Dwight d. EisenhoW-
er in order to arrange. to capitulate
or the whole western front Gn-
Guiding Holland.)
Bernadotte asked if Norway and
Denmark were included in the
capitulation. Himmler agreed to
order his troops in Norway and
Denmark to- surrender to Ameri-
can, British or Swedish troops.
Himmler said he hoped to be
able to continue to fight on the
eastern front and stipulated that
his offer was for the Western AL
lies only"
On the same day, April Is Presi-
dent Truman hurried to the Pen
tagon for a meeting with. the joint
chiefs Of staff and Grew and i'm
contacted Prime Minis
ter Winston Churchill to "agree
upon messages which would ad-
wise Premier josef Stain of the
offer.
Grew said the President sent his
to Stalin,. summarizing
the Himmler offer and stating that
the British and American govern
ments proposed to reject it."
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-05-03
WPB DECLARATION
POLICY REVEALED

Walter ]. Cartier, secretary OF
the Wilmington Chamber OF COM
merce, yesterday revealed new
WPB declaration of policy on re-
tail distribution Of textiles and
textile products. The declaration
became effective April "a.
The Use Of fear OF searches as
an appeal IN promotion and selling
efforts shall be eliminated, the de-
claration reads. This means ellfn-
ination of such practices as
"scarce" advertising, buy now
advertising and selling statements
such as Eve may not be able to
get more. il was reported.
Reference to quantities or time
limits in promotion, except in the
case Of bona-fide clearance Sales
shall be eliminated, it was ADDED.
This means the stopping OF such
practices as mention of small or
larger quantities as an urge 10
buvina and the mention OF spe-
cific time limits as an urge to ouy-
Ing. or use of such statements as
these prices are good for snort
time only" Bona-fide clearance
sales NAV be limited as to stated
period Of time.
Promotion featuring sale and
"sale prices" shall be limited 10
bona fide clearance sales, that is,
sales in which substantial ana per-
manent nark-downs are taken TO
clear from stock accumulations OF
obsolete merchandise, slow-selllng
merchandise. broken lots OF sea
sonal merchandise, or lots OF SUD-
standard merchandise, according
to Mr. Cartier. Goods should not
be purchased for the purpose OF IN
clusion in such sales he SAID:
Clearance sales as descrloeo
should be held no more often than
such sales have been held by the
particular retailer in the past, and
they should be clearly designated
as clearance sales; provided, now
ever. that individual items OF mer-
chandise of the above character
may be marked down and offered
to the public at any time, it was
pointed out,
The purpose of the declaration is
to assure the civilian population an
even flow of the supply of textiles
and textile products, and to pro-
vide for their proper retail distrl-
button. Mr.. Cartier added
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Frank Walker Quits;
Hannegan Selected
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axe OuCJ
would renew his fight if Lilien-
thai was reappointed.
Friends of the President report
ed he was convinced that the IVA
chairran's record as head of the
big Government power project in
the Tennessee valley entitled him
to another term.
Walker resigned April Is, the
day President Truman addressed
Congress after taking over the
reins of government four days
earlier. Walker praised the late
President as a statesman and hu-
manitarian and said the nation had
found unity and strength in Mr.
Truman S pledge of faith.
1T remains for me only to add
that l have full confidence in your
leadership" Walker said. al
though ! relinquish public office, l
am yours to command if ever /
can be of service to you in heavy
tasks which lie ahead"
The President accepted the resig-
nation reluctantly and grudging-
ly''. He told Walker he would take
advantage of his offer to return
to the Government whenever he
could be helpful.
"The splendid service you have
rendered your country and your
Government" the President said,
will long be remembered by a
grateful people,
Walker was named postmaster
general in August, 1910, and re-
appointed for another four year
term last February 5. He plans
to return to Scranton, Pa, to re-
sumo management of his eastern
Pennsylvania theatre interests.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-05-03

ana ana the U. S. Eighth Air Fo-,.
also remained non-operatjors, O'''