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The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-08-18

and other already established Spar
training centers.
NEGRO NURSES were accepted
in the Army and were seeing serv-
ice on foreign Shores before they
were accepted by the Navy in
February. 1915.
The enrolment OF Negro nurses
in the Cadet Corps was curtailed
by the widespread knowledge OF
the discrimination practiced. A
new plan OF increased liberalism
in the Army Nurse program was
announced when the Navy lifted
its ban and talk arose of the pos
sibiiity of nurse drafting.
Negro nurses were trained at
several all-Nesro schools OF nurse
training as we'll as in mixed
schools such as Yale university,
the University OF Minnesota, ana
the Cleveland General hospital
IN OCTOBER, 1914 Negro nurses
were reported to be attending Ger
man war prisoners and in Feb
ruary, l945. Brig. Gen. b. o. Davis
reported that 90 Negro nurses were
attending u S. troops in one of the
oldest American hospitals in the
United Kingdom.
July /, this year, a reclassifica-
ton bill passed in Congress ex-
tending the salary range Of nurses
from $4,000 TO $4,000 for nurses in
the Veterans Administration serv-
ice. > y
Lists OF Red Cross workers on
foreign service and in this country
included the names Of a good many
| American Negro women. They
served as Red Cross field directors,
staff members OF clubmobiles,
! stenographers and typiStS, and
program directors.
Among them are many from De-
troit and environs. Mrs Mildred
! Fortson was one Of those who left
most recently. Mrs. Herbert Dud-
ley served two years in England.
She has recently returned to this
country.
THE SHORTAGE Of manpower
called forth patriotic women who
! had remainee OH the homefront to
go into factories and work in de-
Tense plants as inspectors, riveters,
welders. etc. Women who had
never worked outside their homes
answered the call early in the war.
Many are still doing their share
in this manner.
Women have invaded profession
al fields TO an even greater extent.
Chemists, pharmacists, engineers,
architects. street car conductors,
bus drivers, theatre MANAGERS, are
some of the uniforms which wom-
en- are now wearing for the first
time.
HOMEMAKERS have faced the
new job Of using substitutes for
proven household appliances.
working out point budgets, learn
ing the intricacies of rationing md
how il operates and maintaining
the national morale.
Thus have the women OF the
world played their part in the
greatest war the world has ever
! known.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-08-18
Providers Shoot
Building Porter
In Boiler Room

a porter al 70 Sibley was shot
early Sunday morning by prowl-
ers in the basement OF the build
ms. according TO the police.
Treated at Receiving hospital for
a gunshot wound Of the left index
finger was Warren Mitchell, %,
who told police that while he was
in the boiler room OF the building,
two white men entered the rear
door.
When Mitchell asked the men
what they wanted there, one OF
them drew pistol and fred at
him. Both of the men escaped.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-08-18
ALLEN COMMUNITY AM

church and Second Bap,i>. church
are the leading religious institu-
tons Of the town. Both have done
splendid work i'm the community.
Allen Community ANE church.
which Tor wears was paSjoYcd by
the Rev II. ". Walls, OF 1870 Mitch
ell street. has been for the past
year under the direction 81 the
Rev Lewis l.. Lawrence. This i'm
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-08-18
Pot NottiII, One
Who Helped Win

OAKLAND, Calf. - Hard at
work at the Naval Supply Depot,
largest naval supply base in the
world - dedicated entirely to the
tremendous, ever-increasing task
OF supplying the hghting Navy
fleets in the wide-ranging Pacific
war against the Japs-is:
Pat Nattill. whose hometown
address Is co.'s Van Court, Do
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-08-18

and other already established Spar
training centers.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-08-18
BY CHARLES wARTMAN

Jackson, Mich, the home OF the
Republican Party, and a great rail-
way hub. is also the home Of APP
proximately 1000 Negroes who
have contributed 10, and shared in
It's war time economy.
According to long time resi-
dents Of the town. there were
about 1900 Negro residents at the
time Of Pearl HarbOr. Many of
these worked I'm service and I'm
some of the Industries of the
area. A small number operated
small businesses In the Negro
residential areas.
SINCE THE WAR Negroes have
been employed in the Kelsey
Hayes plant, the Frost Gear COM
pany, and the Good Year Tire COM
pany. According to Negro residents
Of the town, the Kelsey Hayes shop
is the only one in town where they
have really been given a chance
TO show their worth.
Mrs. Juanita Selby, housewife
and war worker, told the Chroni-
Gle representative that Negro men
and women may bid on any job at
Kelsey Hayes, and IL qualified they
may get them. There are no col.
ored sweepers. janitors or matrons
in the entire plant" Mrs. Selby
said.
GROVER LEAKE, business man
and commander of the Horace
Work Post Of the American Legion
typifes the public spirited Negro
citizen OF Jackson. who has WORKED
for the Improvement Of his group
in the city.
Under the direction OF Mr.. Leake
and the American Legion Post, q
Child Welfare Center has beer
built for the purpose OF providing
Wholesome recreation for the teen.
| ayers of the community.
While there has been no great
participation In politics on the
part Of Negroes in Jackson" Mr..
Leake said, Negroes have made
wonderful progress i'm the direc-
tion Of buying and owning their
own homes" Mr.. Leake said that
great number Of the home own
ers had property on Milwauki
and Biddle streets.
!
ALTHOUGH there are approx.
mately l25 war veterans in Jack
son. the Horace Work Post is by
far the leading recreational spot
IN town, Mr.. Leake, the command
er. is veteran Of the first world
war and saw service in France
and on the Mexican Border. He
was one Of the organizers of the
post in 1889 and has been COM
/ mander ever since.
An example Of young enter
prise and initiative I'm this small
town is Beverley Selby. a grad
uate OF Hillsdale college, and for
the past six years the manager
OF the Consumer Power Com
pany club. This club. which is
operated for the use Of the en-
ployeeS of one Of the largest bust
ness concerns I'm Jackson, has
been efficiently operated by this
young Negro citizen Of Jackson.
ALLEN COMMUNITY AMF
church and Second Bapu,. church
are the leading religious institu.
tons Of the town. Both have done
splendid work i'm the community
Allen Community AME church
which for wears was paStoYcd by
the Rev H. ". Walls, OF l3g Mitch.
ell street. has been for the pas
year under the direction 81 the
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-08-18
African Editor In Paris

PARIS. - Theodore f. Sealy,
West Indian Negro and editor OF
Kingston. Jamaica's Daily Cleaner,
has arrived in Paris for a three
week tour Of the European theatre.
He is one Of the first Negroes to
be accredited by the British gov
ernment as war correspondent.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-08-18

To encourage increased home pres
ervation of fruits and vegetables. the
War Food Administration announced
that IL has provided funds for COM
tinuing through the current canning
season the community canning CEN
tiers that were started in 1912 under
the direction of the U. S. Office of
Education. F.SA.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-08-18

Many Detroit householders. who
heat their homes with fuel oil. do not
realize how serious the supply and
transportation situation viii be next
winter. II was recently announced.
A survey of dealers in Detroit re-
vesled that only about 10 per cent OF
their customers have filed their home
storage tanks
Evening star., 1945-03-25
Suqorin' Off

- There comes day in the month
OF Marcia sunny, windy day
when there is feel of spring in the
air and rivulets of melted snow
water trickle underfoot. It is the
time OF frosty, bright, starlit nights
and mellow, warming days. In
the maple sugar grove the sweet
water drips from the spiles; in the
old, dilapidated, weather-beaten
saphouse clouds of grayish steam
intensified with wisps of blue and
rusty black curl upward from the
evaporator pan and lose themselves
among the hand-hewn rafters
above.
On a good sapping day there is.
something exhilarating about the
grove. It is real work, to be sure.
1t is not easy to bore holes into hard
sugar naples; it is plain labor to
lug buckets of sap to the barrel on
the sled. And staying up all night
to keep the fire going under the
evaporator during the rush periods
is not a picnic. But many farm
family looks ahead to sapping time.
1t marks the end of winter. There
is a tingle in the blood on sunny
March day when great heaps of
cottony clouds are pushed across the
blue sky by the gusty wind. It is
good to hear the blueiays scolding,
the chickadees calling, partridge
drumming from the pasture swamp
and q few early arrivals of crows
cawing from the bare patches on the
upland moving.
One reason for anticipating the
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Capital .Sidelights
Ru Will P. Kennedu.

The record of 1,020 Purple Hearts,
"A Silver Stars, 81 Bronze Stars and 8
Distinguished Service Crosses worn by
members of the Tooth Infantry Battalion,
composed entirely of Japanese-Ameri-
cans, who have fought on two hemi-
spheric fronts and won a Presidential
Unit Citation, has been placed in the
Congressional Record by Representative
Thomas j. Lane of Massachusetts,.
1t is pleasing news to veteran students
of political history as well as to book
lovers generally that the House of
Harper is prepared to bring out big
new printing Of atlantis" just as soon
as paper restrictions permit. It was
written by Ignatius Donnelly, who has
been called the most erudite man ever
to sit in Congress d863-1869). Previ-
ously he had been Lieutenant Governor
and Governor of Minnesota. He was
president of the National Anti Monopoly
Convention that nominated Peter Cooper
for President in 1872 Having helped to
organize the Populist party, he was
nominated as its candidate for Vice
President in 1898. Donnelly also Is re-
membered for his claim that he had
discovered a cipher story running
through Shakespeare's plays which
proved conclusively that Francis Bacon
was the author. The late Champ Clark,
who lived through the period of that
heated controversy, asserted that the
most learned and argumentative book
ever written on the Baconian side was
by Judge Nathaniel Holmes-"The Au-
thorship of Shakespeare"-when he was
member of the Supreme Court of Mis-
souri,.
Emphasizing that genius still lives, "
Representative Carl T. Curtis of
Nebraska proudly has introduced to
his colleagues one of his constituents,
Sergt. Alfred G. Dannull of Atlanta,
Nebr., who has served two-and-a-haf
years overseas, and is now assigned to
the National Advisory Committee for
Aeronautics at Langley Field. The
sergeant was assistant foreman and tool
designer at the I'd Strategic Air Depot
overseas. He has contributed more
than dozen inventions of major value
In the war effort, some of which are of
such confidential nature that they can
y y i
Among those in Congress who are
proud of their ancestry is the new
'glamor girl"-Representative Helen
Gahagan Douglas of California, who
lists her profession as stage star and
opera singer" whose husband is Mai.
Melvyn Douglas and her children
Peter, aged IL: Mary Helen, 6, and foster
son, Gregory, 49, In her biographical
sketch, she records that her great great
grandfather, William Gahagan, with is
others, founded Dayton, Ohio. in 17s6.
not be described.
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interested in aerial navigation and the
exploration of the unknown polar re-
gions. Chimerical as such an under
taking may seem, there is hardly a
doubt entertained by many scientific
men Of Europe that the journey will be
q success and have most important re-
suits. =. The journey as now planned
will be in direct line from Spitzbergen
over the North Pole to Bering Sound,
a distance Of 800 kilometers, and would
not at the highest calculations take
more than six days, being fifth part
Of the time that the balloon can float
without renlfng." But the many
scientific men" were mistaken. Mr..
Andree, "a distinguished Swedish civil
engineer and aeronaut." took of from
Danes Island July II, 1897, and was lost
until his remains and those Of two
companions accidentally were discovered
on White Island, August 6, 1880. His
theory, certainly, was correct. The trou-
BILE was that he was too confident and
= generation too early.
Evening star., 1945-03-25

tial and business portions Of cities
and towns on "the invasion coast"
on which the Allies landed on D day
have suffered seriously. Caen, for
example, is rubble. Years will be
needed for the reconstruction of
such place. But, on the other
hand, it is fact that France has
lost little in comparison with Ger
many which, as Christer Jaederlund,
writing for the Associated Press from
Stockholm, explains, had two hun
dred and fifty large towns, the ma
jority of which now are mere ruins.
Justice, it seems, is just as well as
poetic.
Evening star., 1945-03-25

On Palm Sunday there is but one
subject. On this day we enter holy
week and we do so calling to mind
Christ's entry into Jerusalem.
This entry was an enacted parable.
Christ, we know, gave much of His
teaching in parallels, and He was a
master in the art of teaching. His
stories live today and we cannot
imagine that they ever will die.
But Christ came to see that 1t was
not enough to give His teaching, to
tell His Incompatible stories by the
seaside or from the mountain-top or
along the dusty road. It came to
Him that He must do more-He must
give up His life, He must die--and
He must do it in Jerusalem.
"Howbeit must 60 on my way to-
day and tomorrow and the day fol-
lowing: for 1t cannot be that a
prophet perish out of Jerusalem"
He did go to Jerusalem, but He en-
tered the city in a most unusual way.
He made His entry fulfilment Of
the prophecy of Zechariah TX: Be
hold, thy king cometh unto thee; He
is just. and having salvation; lowly,
and riding upon an ass"
BY this act Christ accomplished
two things. He asserted His king
ship. In the name of God-in ac-
cordance with the prophecies held
sacred by His people-He claimed
sovereignty over Jerusalem, over
Israel the chosen people, over all
men. And at the same time He
maintained and dramatized for all
the ages to come His royal humility.
His Godlike meekness, His rejection
of every form of force and coercion,
the differentiation of His reign from
the kingdoms of this world
Behold, thy king cometh
lowly riding on an ass"
In these words we have compressed
the meaning of Palm Sunday. We
have also vivid transcript of his
tory ever since. He, the lowly Christ,
the Crucified One, became king. 1t
must have seemed absurd to many
who saw Him pass that first Palm
Sunday. 1t has seemed strange to
many since-especially in the past
few generations. But the miracle
there is none in history to compare
with it-happened. His followers
over-ran the world and won out in a
death grapple with the greatest and
most stable empire of all time.
They out-lived, out-thought, out
laughed and out-died the rest of the
world" And Christ was placed Off
cially, actually, above Caesar. His
influence became greater than that
of any king, emperor. conqueror,
military leader, political messiah.
What of today, when all mankind
Is engaged in q vast planetary war9
Nothing in the past compares in
magnitude with the efforts put for
ward on both sides. not only by arm
Evening star., 1945-03-25
Easter Seals

The Easter seals for 1945 are
attractive in themselves. Barbara
Bageman, student at the South
Pasadena-San Marino High School
in California, made the design. Her
sketch received the annual Michael
Downing memorial award. 1t shows
a little girl on crutches with a sill
houette of tulips in the background
and a white bird-perhaps the dove
of peace-f1ying overhead. The in
scription reads: For Crippled Chill
dren." Nothing more is needed.
Such cause does not require to be
argued. People instinctively know
its merits. Every community, every
neighborhood in the United States,
has its quota Of boys and girls who
want the help the Easter seals are
sold to provide. The problem is
Nationwide in its proportions, and
the solution of it likewise must be
national in. character. Among the
services rendered by the National
Society for Crippled Children and its
aff1liates are the operation of a
cerebral palsy clinic, speech therapy
for the correction of involvements
in utterance, psychological treat
ment and advice, training of ortho-
pedic nurses, conyalescent care as
well as disqualification OF stricken
children, camping, health education
and research. The work has been
financed through the sale of Easter
seals since 1884.
Money given to the campaign by
residents of Washington, nearby
Maryland and Virginia, Of course,
goes almost exclusively into the
maintenance Of the work in the
Metropolitan Area of the Nations
Capital. This means that the Grip
pied boys and girls in whom the
readers Of these words naturally are
most particularly interested will
benefit directly from the purchase
Of the Easter seals now being dis
tributed. No worthier philanthropy
exists. II deserves generous CO.
operation.
Evening star., 1945-03-25

les, navies and fleets Of airplanes
darkening the skies, but by whole
populations? What does this mean?
Has Christ ceased to be the Lord of
history? Has His reign passed its
peak? Is the Christian calendar
the symbol Of Jesus Christ as the
hinge OF history-out Of date? Has
progress turned into retrogression
that never is to be halted?
From the standpoint of faith we
know the answer to these questions.
We confess 1t in the Nicene Creed:
Whose kingdom shall have no end"
But we must face this fateful, terri
flying issue also as men, men who are
not omniscent but very limited and
ignorant and frail.
What We can say is: That the issue
which underlies the present convul-
sion and which made war necessary,
is Christ versus anti-Christ; the spirit
of the cross at least as ruling ideal
versus the spirit of unchecked sell
fishness, cruelty, arrogance, love OF
power, and worship of will. We can
say further that this issue-the most
momentous and perilous since the
first Christian centuries-will not be
fought out simply or mainly on the
battlefields of the world. 1t will be
fought out ultimately in the souls of
men.
Man Is so made that he must serve
something beyond himself and great
er than himself. In this sense he is
incurably religious. He must have
god. This god never can be q mere
abstraction. It must be personiied,
clothed in flesh and blood. 1t must
be incarnate in leader, messiah,
saviour.
This is the key to modern history.
the explanation of what otherwise is
inexplicable; the eruption of the
f1ercest religious wars in history after
the most impressively rational and
enlightened period so far recorded
in human annals. This is the abid-
ing significance of Jesus Christ.
+&
Christ came. He taught men. He
was taught of His Heavenly Father
that as the true Messiah, the Son
of man and the Son of God, the
leader of all humanity, He must die
on cross. But first He entered Jeru-
salem-the city Of the great king
riding on an ass, and palms were
strewn before Him.
Thus in an acted parable He
claimed to rule the hearts of men. He
said that He was Christ the King He
made his claim good. He became in
fact the King of Kings. But life is
dynamic, not .static. History is the
dramatic intermingling Of freedom
and fate Today the claim of Christ
is world issue. 1t is the issue that,
like colossus, dwarfs all other is
sues. 1t is the issue that underlies the
war, the peace, the new world strug-
Cling to be born, the future of man
kind
Evening star., 1945-03-25
season is the sugarin' OF party.
Some starry night. preferably when

season Is the sugarin' OF party.
Some starry night, preferably when
the moon Is near full, the neighbors
gather for sugar on snow. OF course,
it is good to eat the sweet, sticky
confection that congeals on the
whiteness. It is good to stir down
a dish of the very thick sirup to
delicious, warm, cream -.colored
sugar. But sugarin' of party Is
more than feast on natures sweet
ness. 1t is chance for friends to
get together in and around the old
familiar saphouse in the grove.
Sugarin' off means fun and frolic.
1t also means another winter is
done, and the thrilling miracle of a
new season is at hand.
Evening star., 1945-03-25
Monuments UnspoiIed

Many Americans who have trav-
eled in France and are familiar with
the great cultural monuments OF
that country will rejoice in the an
nouncement that twenty-five out OF
twenty-five famous French cathe-
drals, chateaux and other historic
buildings have come through the war
undamaged. The celebrated metro
politan church of Notre Dame in
Rouen, it is true, was badly hurt in
the bombardment of last year, but
experts say that it has suffered "far
less" than Rheims did in the conflict
of 1914-1918. Strasbourg Cathedral
also is admitted to have been hit by
two bombs in August, 1914. Chartres
received slight damage to the two
towers from Germans shooting at
French who took refuge there" and
Laon had slight soaring of the
facade and parts of roof defaced by
flying debris" The injuries to Notre
Dame and Sainte- -Chapelle in Paris
during the street fighting were
inconsequential.
Amiens, Beauvais and Rheims
cathedrals and Mont Saint Michel
are listed as intact" The same
observation applies to the Louvre,
Versailles and Fontainebleau, Cham
bord and Saint Benoit-sur-L Loire,
Carcassonne and Avignon. Chenon-
ceau Chateau. blasted by the Ger
mans in 1910 and further damaged
by the Allies in 1914, can be repaired;
Azay-le-Rideau likewise. The chapel
at Blois was injured by artillery fire,
but no other hurts are recorded.
Meanwhile, OF course, the residen-
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CiviIiun Decorations
the New York Herald Tribune,

From the New York Herald Tribune.
Gen. Macarthur has ordered South
west Pacific campaign ribbons distrib-
uted to the civilian internees released
by his troops in the Philippines
graceful and merited tribute to Amer
ican fortitude and endurance that the
wrath of the foe could not break. Yet
1t seems incomplete. The general can
give the ribbons, but where are the
recipients to wear them? A service ribs
bon Is properly mounted on uniform
of the United States and nowhere else.
Regulations forbid wearing 1t on civil
ian clothes. Perhaps MacArthurs act
viii stimulate Congress or the War De-
partment, or whoever has authority, -
make some provision for appropriate
symbols of distinguished civilian serv.
Ice during this war--a ribbon for the
buttonhole, perhaps. similar to Euro
pean decorations.