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The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-10-06

The Negro servicenen have fought in
France, Holland, the Philippines. the Hebrdes.
England, China, Pearl Harbor, Australia -
and in fact, all theatres Of action Of World
War II.
Negro soldiers served in the Infantry.
side by side with their white brothers.
They served in the Navy. sometimes as
gunners - Notwithstanding their service in
other NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Oorie Miller Of
Pearl Harbor renown.
They served in Italy under Colonel Ben
amin Davis Jr.--remenber the famous 99th
Pursuit Squadron.
They served in the Philippines where
Private Robert H. Brooks became the first
member Of the Armored Forces and probably
the American Army. to lose his life at Fort
Stotsenburg-al to the cause Of freedom
in the Pacific
They served in the Engineer Corps when.
since April, 1912, swarthy Negro Engineers
streamed ashore from landing craft to whip
out steel carpets on New Guinea for the re-
ception Of planes Of the 99th Bombardment
Group. They have. indeed. assisted materially
in aVenging the infamy Of Pearl Hsrbor-
Perpetrated by the Npponese less than four
months earlier.
They OF the oath Infantry were the
first all Negro combat units TO face the Daps
when II landed in the New Hebrides Islands
Just two days prior to the battle Of the Coral
have been singled out by the Inspector Gen.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-10-06
Ask independence
For Libia-Eritrea

LONDON -'NNPAD - In a sug-
geS,ed directive governing the
drafting OF treaty of peace with
Italy. the United States delegations
requested the Council of Foreign
Ministers to promise independence
To both Libya and Eritrea after ten
years.
In the intervening decade these
colonies would be governed by an
administrator responsible TO and
appointed by the Trusteeship Coun-
Gil OF the United Nations Organi-
cation. The administrator of each
colony would be assisted by an ad =
viSory committee of seven mem
berS.
According to the plan. Eritrea
would make a territorial cessiOn
10 Ethiopia, giving that nation
access To the sea through the port
of Assab.
UNDER THE American proposal.
Italian Somaliland also you'd be
placed under truSteeship arrange
ment similar 10 that for Libya and
Eritrea, without. however. any
fixed date for eventual independ-
encc.
The test Of the proposal regard
ing Italian colonies follows:
"Llbya will be granted independ-
ence at the end OF ten years. In
this interval it will be under a
United Nations Organization trus-
teeshlp agreement. This will pro-
vide for an administrator with full
executive power appointed by and
responsible 10 the TrusteeshIp
Council of the United Nations Or
ganlZation.
To him will he attached an
advisory committee of seven,
composed Of Representatives Of
the United Kingdom, the Union
Of Soviet Socialist Republics,
France, Italy and the United
States and a European and an
Arab resident Of Libya selected
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-10-06
HOLD HUSBAND
FOR DEATH OF
Wife IN FIG H 7

Thirty six year old Robert
OBanion. OF 2l66 Monroe street,
was held for investigation of muir
der in The death OF his wife. Eliz-
abeth Smith, "a. who died this
week from injuries repeatedly re-
ceived during an alteration with
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-10-06
by the five governments named.

"ERTTREA Will be accorded the
same treatment as IN the case ca
LiOya. the advisory committee IN
this case, however. To include two
residents of Eritrea appointed by
the five governments. There will,
however. be a territorial cession
in favor of Ethiopia which vii!
give Ethiopia access to the sea
through the port of ASsab
an the case of Italian SOmali-
land, there will be a similar
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-10-06
FIVE w. SOCIAL AND
CHARITY CTJIR

met at the home Of Mrs. Ellen
Atkinson al 6428 Beechwood. All
members were present except
three The next meeting will be
at the home Of Mrs. Daisy Griffin.
5607 28th street. Mrs. Macarthur.
president; Mrs. Elccta Johnson.
scribe.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1945-09-15
5WARTHM0RE STUDENT
pLUNGE5 TO DEATH

PHILADELPHIA Pa, Sept. Is
(ANP)-Miss Alice Carter, daugh-
ter of the Rev. and Mrs. Charles H.
Carter, of Yeadon, Pa, a suburb of
this city, was killed when she fail
ed to negotiate sharp turn at Ian
downe court and Darby creek and
plunged down a 12-foot embank-
ment into the creek on a bicycle.
She was rushed to Fitzgerald
Morey hospital in Darby, where
she was pronounced dead from a
broken neck.
Miss Carter, 10, was sopho-
more student at Swarthmore col
lege, where she was attending the
summer session.
An honor graduate of Yeadon
high school, where she maintained
an "a" average, she was a member
of the national honor society and
received a $4,000 scholarship to the
college in June of last year.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1945-09-15
city TO OPERATE
WAR HOUSING AGENCY

The city welfare department will
operate the war housing center with
Director E. V. Stockton in charge, it
was reported yesterday. However,
the financing remains to be solved.
Stockton has asked the COM
manding officers Of Wright and
Patterson Fields if the army will
continue it's so per cent financial
support of the center. The Fields
have also been supplying a portion
of the clerical staff.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1945-09-15
YOUTH IS HELD FOR
ATTACK ON WOMAN

A 19-year-old youth, Francis
Thomas Stone, sgt Hawthorne
street, was being held by police,
pending charges to be filed against
him in connection with an attack
and attempted robbery of Myrtle
Scott, GIG Dakota street, about 8
pm. Thursday, at Summit and Ed
isOn streets.
Stone, police stated, admitted he
attacked the woman and beat her
with a stone, but failed in the at
tempt to rob her. The woman was
treated at St. Elizabeth hospital for
lacerations of her left arm and
forehead.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1945-09-15
GEORGIA NEGRO WORLD
WAR Il VETERANS ORGANIZE

ATLANTA, Sept. Is (ANP)-
Negro veterans of World War II
have formed themselves into an or
ganization with headquarters in
Atlanta, and known as the Georgia
Veterans league, Inc.
Commander of the new organi-
zation is Charles Milton, wounded
veteran with three years overseas
service in the Pacific and now own
er of one. Atlanta's large Negro bar
ber shops.
The organization, which started
as small local recreation project
of the USO Service Mems Center,
attracted such attention from re-
turning Negro servicemen that it
is fast growing into veterans or
ganization of statewide proper
tions.
C. w. Greenlea, director of the
USO center, in an interview, at
tributed the Phenomenal growth of
The league to an intense desire of
Negro veterans to belong to a vet
erans organization but stated that
none of the present outstanding or
ganizations catered to Negro mem
bership in Georgia. The American
Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars
and Disabled American Veterans
all are conservative organizations,
he stated, and none accepted Ne
groes into their established Georgia
posts.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1945-09-15
HOMESTEAD GRAYS DEFEAT
CLEVELAND BUCKEYE TEAM

The still powerful Homestead
Grays defeated the Cleveland Buck
eyes, 3D., last night under the
lights at Hudson field before ap-
proximately $500 spectators. Last
nights game served as an interlude
in the series to determine the Negro
professional championship. Cleve-
land won the opener, FL. The Sec
ond contest is scheduled for tomor-
row in Cleveland.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1945-09-15
MEAT RATI0NING
END DELAYED

WASHINGTON, Sept. 15-Com-
plications with an international
twist appeared today to have put
off until late next week a decision
on when meat rationing will end.
Government officials said the
situation was snarled by the lack of
information on foreign, require
ments; difficulty of removing meat
from the red point program with
out wrecking the rationing of fats
and oils, and apprehension that un-
restricted meat buying might result
in poor distribution and additional
black markets. AS for foreign re-
quirements, one of the principal
factors is the uncertainty of what
Britain may want.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1945-09-15
THREE INJURED when
AUTO HITS Street CAR

Three persons, including WAC
and an army private, were injured
last night, when their automobile,
attempting a left turn at Home
avenue and Adelite street, was
struck by street car.
The WAC, Pvt. Wilma Weaver,
20, of Sixty-ninth hospital, Ell
Paso, Texas, suffered severe body
bruises; Nancy Weaver, 800 Wood
ward street, Dayton, received
bruises of the back and left shoul-
der, and Pvt. Raymond Dieck, of
Stout Field, Indianapolis, Ind, the
driver, received cuts on the left
arm. They were all taken to the st.
Elizabeth hospital for treatment.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1945-09-15
EDUCATION COMMISSIONER
COMPARES INTELLIGENCE

NEW YORK, Sept. Is (ANP)-
"All'' the evidence indicates that
mental differences are not related
to racial or national considera-
tions," says DR.. George Stoddard,
commissioner of education of New
York in the Negro Review, October
issue. More likely they result from
different cultural and educational
opportunity, he said.
DR.. Stoddard declares: II can
find nothing for example, in scien-
tific literature against the PROPOSE
ton that the American Negro, if
given an equal opportunity with the
whites in all the states, would be
equal along intellectual, scientific
and artistic lines. We do not know
what the final rating would be, but
we are certain that comparisons
based on samplings Of Negro and
white persons at the present time
are heavily distorted by social fac
tors. Children of any race tend to
improve in intelligence, as they do
in health and vocational fitness, if
offered decent opportunities in the
home, the school and the commun-
ity as whole"
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1945-09-15
INCOME TAX DAY NEAR

Thomas A. Gallaher, collector of
internal revenue at Cincinnati,
Ohio, stated yesterday that the COL
lector's office is on a 40-hour week
and five-day week, and that it is
not open at all on Saturday.
In making the announcement,
Gallagher also stated that since
September Is, the due date for the
quarterly income tax payment falls
on Saturday, the deadline for pay
ment will be Monday, September
18th.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1945-09-15
pHILLIppI CHURCH news

On Sunday, September 16, the
southern Ohio vocal singers union
will render an old fashioned musical
program at the St. Luke Baptist
church at 3 pm, at Elwood street
and Western avenue. Everyone is
invited to attend.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1945-09-15
NORWOOD CHRISTIAN
CHURCH news

The Spiritual Four from the Mt.
Enon Baptist Church will render a
program at the Norwood Christian
Church Sunday night, Sept. 10th.
There will be no admittance fee.
The public is invited to hear these
Spiritual Singers. The time is 800
P. M.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1945-09-15
(0RINTHIAN CHURCH news

The twenty-third annual Usher
Board sermon of the Corinthian
Baptist church will be held Sun
day, September 16, at 2::30 pm.
Mrs. E. Kinnemore is president of
the group.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1945-09-15
BRAY pR0BATI0NED
IN NARCOTIC CASE

Emerson Bray, AL South Euclid
avenue, has been placed on a two
year probationary period by Judge
Robert R. Nevin in federal court on
a charge of presenting forged
narcotic prescriptions.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1945-09-15
FIRST PHASE In BENN'SEPLAT ENDED

The first phase of the Miami
Conservancy District hearings in
which it is seeking 108 acres of
land in Benn's plat for spoils
bank, neared conclusion Friday.
There were So objectors to the
Conservancy's proposal. Direct evil
dence and testimony in 38 of the
cases is now before the court. Yes
terday the court was hearing the
Conservancy's side Of the 38 cases.
Next week the remaining objectors
will be heard and then the Conserv-
ancy will present its testimony in
these cases.
Issue before the court, composed
of nine common pleas judges from
this county and surrounding coun-
ties, is the price to be paid for hold
ers of the property in the acreage
desired by the Conservancy. The
home owners say that the apprais-
ais of the Conservancy are too low
and the District counters with the
claim that appraisal for each in
dividual home is too high. Each
piece of property is being examined
separately in the hearings.
Yesterday, Ed Wright, Dayton
realtor, testifying as a witness for
the Conservancy, said appraisers
for the district did not consider
what the owners had paid for their
properties and that the appraisers
had set no value on the fact that
that the owners would have to move
if the Conservancy acquired the
ground.
The land is wanted by the Dis
trict SO that it could dump approx
mately 100000 cubic yards of sedi-
ment on it. The sediment is to be
dredged from the Miami river be
tween Millers Ford and Stewart
street, in order that the channel
may be kept open.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-19
Officer Aboard Gripsholm
Seeks Uniform Uniformity

NEW YORK, Feb. 10. - up -
Merchant Marine third mate Yer
non L. Frank of Philadelphia, a
passengeron the exchange ship
Gripsholm due here on or about
February 20, may look like tat
tered composite of the United
Nations now, but he'll be fash
lon plate when he steps down the
gangplank.
Frank, released from Nazi
prisoner of war camp, surveyed his
Polish private's cap, Belgian Off
GERS coat, Russian blouse, English,
army pants and Netherlander' S
shoes and dispatched this appeal
to the United Seameen's Service:
Il am the ugly duckling among
the repatriated officers and I
should like to be properly attired
when I arrive in New York to meet
my wife"
The USS will have a new uniform
should like to be properly attired
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-19
STOCK VALUATION
RISES A BILLION

NEW YORK, FEB. 18.-UP)-
Stock values increased by more
than a billion dollars this week
to a new high for more than seven
years while listed corporate bonds
sold at the highest level in 80 years.
Strength in the Stock Market re-
Elected the highly favorable war
news, the successful conclusion OF
the Big Three Crirnean conference,
and Secretary of the Treasury
Henry Morgenthau's declaration IN
favor of reduced postwar taxes to
aid industrial expansion.
Talk in Wall Street of the posi-
bility there may be change in
the Federal Government war fin
ancing program resulting in lower
interest rates on United States obi
cations was a factor in the price
rise for corporate loans.
Although in the past particularly
good war news has usually brought
selling into stocks, market analysts
point out that investors generally
now look upon peace as what it
really is, "the most desirable thing
in the world
A further factor in the Stock
Market advance that carried rails,
utilities and the average for IS
stocks to new highs since August,
1887, was the continued abundance
of ready funds in public hands that
seek investment.
One Wall Street commentator
emphasized last week that the
market so far has got only a
"trickle' of the money available
for investment.
Railroad shares We're widest
gamers in the stock market last
week and rail equipments also me,
substantial demand. Steels, too,
strengthened. This group was aid.
ed by a sharp rise in operations
in the mills on the heels of irnprov.
ing weather conditions.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-19
Snub Of Congressional
Creates Teapot Tempest

broadcast which was out cary
last n1Ja week stated plainly that the ne
speakers would be Mrs. hooST ~,
and Queen Wilhelmina. MIS- LUZ
glas wasn't even scheduled.
The gentlewoman from LIMOS
did not register a complaint apout
being snubbed as reported ~.
only because there WASH t any
sinh but because she "felt quite
bonored to have been a speaker
at the National Association OF
Progressing luncheon which pre-
coded the Queens program. Inc
nro gram was the first in a new
Series ON women of the United
Nations ,.o.,o,a,,
and ga tempest in teapot, Mrs.
Douglas told the United Press. She
laughed it off.
But there was no hurnor in the
s;+,,a+ion for DR.. Loudon. He said
81 indignantly and emphatically
denv the whole story he sound
ed indignant and emphatic too
"At no time did hear the name
Of Mrs. Douglas in connection with
the broadcast" he added.
Mrs. Roosevelt was not available
for comment, but her schedule for
the week, she gave reporters last
Monday, didn't include the name
of Mrs. Douglas in her mention of
the broadcast.
It looks as if the whole thing
didn't happen.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-19

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 18.-lR
Hundreds of survivors from four
naval vessels destroyed by enemy
action in Philippine waters nave
been logged in at the Treasure
Island receiving ship in San Fran
cisco Bay for re-outfitting pend
ing the start of 30-day survivor
leaves, the Twelfth Naval Dis
trict announced today.
Clad in travel-stained dungarees
and obviously tired, the men
however, were in good spirits, the
Navy said.
They we're from these ships:
The USS Cmmaney Bay, 10000
ton escort carrier, destroyed by
enemy aerial action January 4 in
the Sulu Sea while en- route with
carrier squadron to Luzon.
The USS Hovey, destroyer mine
sweeper credited with sweeping
more mines than any other ship
in Pacific waters, sunk by an
aerial torpedo in Lingayen Gulf,
Luzon, January 7.
LIST $50 destroyed without cas-.
ualty by an enemy aerial torpedo
in the Sulu Sea recently.
The fourth vessel, a landing
craft type, was not further iden
titled.
Survivors said the Ommaney
Bay, sinking of which was an.
nounced last week, was travelling
under a slight overcast when Jap.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-19

WASHINGTON, Feb. 10. -U.H-
The Dutch minister, DR.. Alexander
Loudon, is angry. Sore as boiled
owl might be a good smile.
Rep. Emily Taft Douglas, (R-
ILL., isn't mad at anybody-except
a couple of irresponsible re-
porters.
And Columbia Broadcasting Sys-
tenn officials think some people
are pretty stupid.
Mrs. Douglas wasn't-as report
ed in some public prints-banned
from speaking on the same radio
program with Queen Wilhelmina
of the Netherlands and Mrs. Roos-
evelt because she is a common
err" And she doesn't feel the least
bit sighted because she wasn't
supposed to appear with. them IL
the first place.
DR.. 'Loudon is irritated because
he was accused of being the fel-
low who drew the line at his Queen
appearing on the air along with
mere, member of Congress. 1t
was even said of him that he was
not sure that it would be proper
for Mrs. Roosevelt to appear with
the Queen but that he finally con-
scented.
He said he didn't even know
anything about it until the story
appeared in some newspapers. CHS
officials conceded that there was
a furore but not of their making
Their advance publicity on the
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-19
APP, Two Other Writers
Invited To join Roosevelt

WASHINGTON, Feb. 10. - up -
The White House today authoriz-
ed publication Of what Washington
had known for a Week-that an
Associated Press reporter and two
others had joined President Roos-
evelt at his invitation.
There was no indication when
their stories would be released.
Douglas B. Cornell, representing
the Associated Press, and two re-
porters representing the United
Press and the International News
Service, were flown from Wash
ington week ago to join Mr.
Roosevelt.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-19
Carolina Farm Comment
BY F. H. JETER

next winter. Not only did she look
after these hens but she did all OF
her own houseWork, the cooking,
laundry and other essential jobs
about the farm home.
The BrasWells keep four COWS
and last April they began to send
milk to the receiving plant at
Albemarle. From that time until
the first Of January of this year,
they sold 10000 pounds of milk.
Some of their younger COWS are
coming in fresh now and then
expect to provide more milk for
the market this year. They also
sold $408 worth of beef cattle and
$93 worth of pork.
Mr.. and Mrs. BrasWel1 did all
of this work themselves with what
help they could get from the
children. Not only did Mr.. Bras
well and his children pick the
eleven bales of cotton produced on
his farm but they also helped a
neighbor by picking 2,40O pounds
for him. With the aid of his 10-year-
old son he harvested the $4,000
They have this same farm situa-
ton facing them for 1915 and Mr..
BrasWeu says that he and the
children will again take care OF
every acre of crop land and have
it producing something of value
to the nation.
Mr.. Brasweu is one OF many
North Carolina farmers who ap-
parently do not know the limits
of their endurance. He has learned
to make his labor count for more,
to budget his time, and to secure
better returns from a given amount
of work. Other farm agents say that
many of the men who work with
them now are using fertilizers
more efficiently, are handling
their equipment and machinery
with greater skill, and have begun
pounds of lespedeza seed alone.
to give serious study to modern
farm management plans.
Mecklenburg County furnishes a
typical example of this in Watson
Morris who has come to learn
about limestone and phosphate,
When he started in 1886 to demon.
strating the use of these two ferti-
lizing elements, his acre yield Of
alfalfa hay was less than 3 Is
tons per acre. Now he gets more
than 5 tons an acre. He has
brought into profitable production
40 acres of land which was insult.
able for cultivation and he has
been able to greatly increase his
livestock for cultivation and he
has been able to greatly increase
his livestock numbers. Where he
had 80 cows, he now milks 81 anc
every cow produces more milk thar
any one of the 80 he formerly own
ed. He has increased his total hay
production by rs per cent and ]
A. Warren, the assistant farm agen
in Mecklenburg, says the whole
Morris family has been able tt
live better. The farm is 40 pei
cent more productive; the owner
has spent from 500 to 5000 eacF
year on making the home more at
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-19
Hundreds OfSuruiuors
Land At San Francisco

anese planes attacked i. about 5:15
p. m. Two bombs, one an incen-
diary which exploded in the for
ward hangar deck, and the other,
a high explosive, which detonated
nj the forward engine room, fatal
ly wounded the carrier.
The Ommanney Bay carried a
normal complement of 500 men.
In announcing its loss, the Navy
said there had been fewer than
100 casualties.
The Hovey was struck by an
aerial torpedo just before dawn
and went down in three minutes,
survivors reported, but loss of
life was comparatively low. The
Hovey was one of the Nays old
er ships. She was commissioned
in 1919, was at Pearl Harbor on
December 7, 1871, and had par
ticipated in the Guadalcanal, New
Georgia, Bougainville, Palau,
Leyte and Luzon invasions.
The LIST $50 was escorting a
convoy when an aerial torpedo in
| tended for a destroyer missed
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-19
The Tar Heel Gardener
By JOHN H. HARRISS
N. C. State College

Do you have your vegetable seed
on hand? Planting time for some
of the handy ones is already here.
If you are growing them in a cold
frame or a frame garden, any OF
the hardy vegetables can be planted
Immediately. If they are to be
planted on the outside, such vege-
tables as cabbage, kale, lettuce,
onions, smooth seeded
garden peas, parsley and spinach
should be planted duringg February
in most sections of the state. AS a
general rule, they should be
planted 6 to 8 weeks before the
average date of the last killing
frost in the spring.
Other hardy vegetables such as