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The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-05-05
BOOK
NOTES
SERGEANTS GET PRIZES
BY GERTRUDE SCOTT
MARTIN

Democracy Needs the Negro"
is the name o, the manuscript
which won a s.. 500 prize for Army
So; Spencer Logan OF North Pam
field. y. ). in,the Macmillan PUB
fishing company centenary awards
for the armed forces. Sgt Logan
won the nor-fction award, and
the fiction award OF $500 was
made TO Sgt. Josiah F.. Greene OF
Washington. Conn. for his novel
Not In Our Stars" Sgt. Greene,
who is from Duluth. MINI. IS now
serving at Lowry Field. Colorado,
after a period Of overseas service.
SIT. Logan was a mess sergeant at
Camp Lee. Virginia until he was
shipped overseas Both are "a
years old and married. Their books
Will be published this fail.
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Atty. Hobart Taylor,
Supreme Court
Lansing, Mich.

Full reconversion back 10 the
1889 level will solve the unemploy-
ment created by present layoffS
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ENDURING Reporter

Question:: Do you think that
full reconversion will solve the
present layoff problems?
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Pvt. Edward Booker
2211 Medium
On furlough from Ellington Field,
Texas
When I return 10 civilian life,
intend 10 take advantage OF SOL
diers' benefits and go TO school.
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workers Will set up small bust.
nesSes with their war earnings.
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Mary Louise Kennedy
4545 fireman
Bookkeeper
No, don't think that reconver-
sion will solve the problem be-
cause there are excess jobs now
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NAME CONTEST JUDGES

Judges for the Julian Mcssner
award for the best book combating
intolerance IN America have been
announced by the julian McSsner
company. They arc Lewis Gannett,
Literary Editor Of the New FORK
Herald Tribune: Clifton Fadinsn.
critic and Master of Ceremonies
for Information. Please; and Carl
Van Doren, biographer and critic.
As We noted here several weeks
ago, the prize IN the contest is
So 600 and any form of writing will
be considered, novel. essay, poem,
play. etc. Primary consideration
Of the judges VIII be tho wide
spread appeal Of the book in the
fight against racial or religious.
social or economic discrimination.
Closing date for the contest is De-
cemher 81. l945. The publishers
announce that they have received
200 inquiries since their first an
nouncement several weeks ago.
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NINTH. His lntcr-racial commit
mittee dares not call in the respon-
siblc heads OF the city's public
school system and investigate
openly the discrimination in teach
er assignments and promotions and
the various incidents OF racial and
religious intolerance which daily
crop up in Detroit clsssrooms.
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Robert Leatherwood
635 z. Elizabeth
Asst Advertising Manager
doubt that reconversion will
completely solve the problem.
There is the matter of returning
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SERVICEMEN'S
CONTEST EXTENDED

Random House, Inc. has an.
Der 80 OF the deadllne for the cone
sioerat.on OF manuscripts In their
Servicemcn's Prize contest, Manu-
scripts postmsrked or bearing Ex-
press receipts dated on or before
this date viii be accepted for con-
sideration il they are received n
the Office OF the publisher by tho
close Of business December II.
Contestants who have already
mailed IN their manuscripts arc
asked 10 correspond With the P.lze
Contest Editor stating II they pre-
fer 10 have their books held for
consideration or considered lmme.
GIdtcly for current publication.
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EIGHTH. His Inter-racial COM
mlttee dares not publicly condemn
the discriminatory refusal OF the
Checker Cab Company TO accept
Negro fares, Notwithstanding that
issue has been clearly presented 10
the committee by its labor member,
Walter Hardin.
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THIRD. His jim-crow policy on
housing is contributing directly 10
the growth OF racial tension, the
spread Of contagious disease in con-
gested areas. the refusal OF fair en-
ployment opportunities 10 Negro
workers and the increasing incl
denee Of crime and juvenile delIn-
quency among the workers OF De-
trniL
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wilkins Becker
2943 Waterloo
DefenSa rorLar

Defense worker, Chevrolet Motors
l don't know. I've been working
in defense since l came from Mont
gomery. Ala. about II months ago.
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SEVENTS. ~RlS-L.tcr-r racial COM
mitiee dared not indorSe Michigan
FEPC legislation. notwithstanding
every thinking citizen III this city
knew that employment discrmi-
nation, next 10 bad housing. was
and is at the root Of most Of our
racial troubles and doub;lessly viii
provide the spark for the next
racial combustion.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-05-20
| North Carolina Women
Selling Bonds To Buy
C-54 Ambulance Plane

SPRAY. May 19-Women In
many counties of North Carolina
are adopting seventh war loan
drive goals of $375, 900 in E, F and
q bonds in order to purchase a
C-54 hospital or ambulance plane,
It was announced today by Mrs.
Karl Bishopric, state chairman Of
the women's division of the war
finance committee.
The Douglas Skymaster trans
mort plane is acknowledged to be
the backbone of the vast air net
work operated by the Air Trans
port Command from the United
States to Europe and the ever.
expanding Pacific routes.
Already i! has broken seven
world RECORDS for transport planes
including a journey from Scotland
to New York in 18 hours flying
time. AS carrier of the wound
ed, bringing them from base hos
pitfalls in every theatre of war, the
C-54 is admittedly one Of the great
est morale builders for injured
servicemen The speed with which
they are returned to home shores
is said to accomplish wonders in
helping their recovery.
With a crew of six men, the
Skymaster can carry "a litter cases
and 26 ambulatory or ssit-up pas
sengers. It cruises at 222 miles
per hour, with a top speed of 285
miles an hour. It has carried a
cargo of 10000 pounds.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-05-20
Wilmington Assembly,
Rainbow Girls, Will
Hold Service Tonight

Wilmington Assembly No. II, Or
der of Rainbow for Girls, will hold
its annual Divine service, this eve
ming in the Trinity Methodist
church at o'clock.
This service is to commemorate
the founding Of the order and is
observed by all the Assemblies of
the International Organization. The
sermon on Goods promise as ex-
e7nplified by the Rainbow" will
be preached by Doctor Fred w.
PASCAL, pastor of Trinity Metho-
dist church. Miss Ruth Greasy will
render solo and Miss Mary Lewis
Orrell will offer prayer.
All members of the organization
are requested to assemble at 1880
o'clock in the Sunday school audi
torium to march into the church
in a body.
The families and friends Of the
members are cordially invited to
attend the service.
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VEGETABLE TIP

VEGETABLE TIP
Have water boiling rapidly and
sailed before placing vegetables
in it and bring the water back to
boil quickly.
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state home demonstration agent
spoke to a group of Home Demon
stration women from the eight
southeastern counties of Bladen
Cumberland, Columbus, Harnett
Hoke, Robson, Sampson and Scot.
land at the 10th District Council
meeting held in Lumberton. Mrs.
Watson Butler of Rowland, district
chairman, presided.
Miss Verna Stanton, district
agent, praised the women for their
war activities and Mrs. Annie God
win Of the executive board of the
N. c. Federation also spoke. New
officers elected are Mrs. H. H.
Bullock, Columbus, chairman; Mrs
Hobson Sanderlin, Bladen, vice .
chairman; Mrs. j. c. Nye, Colum.
bUs, secretary.
Mrs. A. A. Mccormick of St.
Pauls, president of the Robson
council, served as hostess at a
luncheon at the Lorraine hotel. Or
the program there were Mrs. M.
F. Townsend, soloist, and Mrs. AL
len Westbrook, reader.
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Workshop Play
Will Be Staged
End Of Month

The ITALIAN Workshop Monday
night will go into the final com
plete week Of rehearsals tor the
farce, wedding Spells which viii
be presented at the annual meeting
Of the ITALIAN Association Wed
nesday night, May 80.
wedding Spells" will be given
in ITALIAN Hall at 8:45 o'clock,
with members of the Association,
their guests, and military person
mel invited.
With over two weeks practice
completed, wedding Spells" gives
every promise of being one OF
the most HILARIOUS shows ever pres
ented on the local stage.
It is the story of Steve Arlen.
the hero, who is married in At
lantic City and promptly suffers
a lapse of memory. Unable to re-
member the name or identity of his
wife, Steve invites his four closest
girl friends, Angelica, Frances,
Mkt, and Ruth, to a party at his
apartment, feeling sure that he is
the husband of one Of these four.
However the girls prove COM
pletely uncooperative, and the eff
forts Of Steve and his companion.
well-meaning Charlie Cooney, to
find the right girl go to make Up
a laugh-packed three-act comedy.
Adding to the mirth is. Julia Pet
tingill, rich but scatterbrain widow,
who has her eyes on the heart OF
Charlie Cooney.
OF course, all ends well, but be-
fore the final curtain goes down
the audience should be almost roll
ing in the aisles.
wedding Spells" is being direct
ed by Andrew Johnson, while Bet
sy Williams is assistant to the di-
rector.
Making up the cast are Norma
Green, Jesse Reynolds, G. r. Dix
on, Ben Jones, Elizabeth Williams,
Elizabeth Hardwicke, Sue B. Cal
der, Verge Beal, Helen Jones, Jack
Reed, Kendall Jones, and Amy
M. Walker.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-05-20

As long ago as 1885 Switzerland
punished all non-voters.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-05-20
Good Shepherd Church
Group To Give Repeat
Performance Of Play

tWh&e's Grandma" three
act comedy, was played before a
capacity audience Friday evening
at the Church of the Good Shep-
nerd. It was most enthusiastically
received with laughter and ap-
plause. The story is woven about
the Worley family which has in
vited Grandma to come and live
with them and to help the family
straighten out its difficulties.
Grandma comes, and what a
Grandma. She does manage the
household and finally makes al
most everyone happy. The story
has swift and interesting action
which holds the audience from the
first curtain rise to the last fall.
So popular was the first per-
Torrance that many requests were
made for repeat performance.
The second performance will be
given in the Good Shepherd parish
house, Tuesday evening at $3.50
o'clock, the proceeds to be ap-
pned 10 the purchase OF church
fund.
The play was directed by Mar
garet Darst Smith and Harvey w.
Glazier. The able cast was COM
posed of the following: Grandma,
Dona N. Glazier; Gretchen, Betty
Hewlett; Bob, Jimmy Shepherd;
Carol, Helen Zellers; Jack, Jack
Corbett; Airline, TheEna Branch;
Midnight, Harvey Glazier; Dahlia,
Thelma Gunnersen; Lucy, Man
nette Dixon; Prompters, Margaret
Mcclellan and Leslie Homan;
Property managers were Virginia
King and Eloise Scoggins; Lights,
Bobby Congleton; and Music, Carl
Willis.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-05-20

Miss Ruth Current of Raleigh
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-05-20
$4,000 Allied Troops
Flown Out Of German
Prisoner Of War Camp.

LONDON, May 19.-P)-Appro-
ximately $4,000 American and
British empire troops have been
flown out of German prisoner of
war camps since the European war
ended, an official tabulation show
ed today as 100 Flying Fortresses
evacuated 5000 more men from
a southern captured airport.
The Raj has brought nearly 85,-
600 liberated prisoners back to
England while American bombers
have returned about 10000 men,
many Of them United States SOL
diers. The Americans are deliver
ed to French ports from which they
leave for home.
-V
As long ago as 1885 Switzerland
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-05-20

TIL ternational grand prize in
the 1914 National Fire Prevention
Week program for the best fire
prevention work done by any U. S.
or Canadian city has been pre-
sented to the Chicago Assn. of
Commerce.
Evening star., 1945-01-14

dazed pilot got it running again. He righted
the ship. and murmured spur -the-moment
prayer: Thanks, Lord! I'll take over now"
These men have no instruments for blind
flying. Their limited fuel supply allows them
only the tiniest margin of error. Technical
Sergeant Morrow ran out of fuel while CROP
ing his way through the soup from Walaw-
bum. He poked hole IN the windshield
leaned out, and emptied a two-gallon can of
gas into the tank: probably the first time a
pilot ever attempted to refuel his plane alone
Tw-l-lA-<y
Evening star., 1945-01-14

On THE INDIA-BURMA BORDER
REAsTER SERGEANT COLEMAN of Fort
Nl Worth, Texas. set his ship down all
right at LaGang Ga. He had to hurdle a
couple of mahogany logs and wrecked
Zero, but you can land one of these little
grasshoppers on bath mat. You land on
sand bank, or jungle trail. or rice field.
You don't have much choice when you are
landing deep IN Burma behind the Jap lines.
Sometimes the Japs are shelling the field.
and you have to duck and dodge and hop
Evening star., 1945-01-14

catch right beside him. So Sergeant Coleman
held the tapping door shut with one hand,
and with the other flew the ship over the Jap
lines to the field where a hospital plane was
waiting Somehow - luck, he says - he man.
aged to make one wheel landing He didn't
help unload the patient, though; he was busy
repairing the tire. He had made seven trips to
LaGang Ga 50 far today, but there was still
time to bring out one more wounded man
before it got dark. =.
War is fought in the headlines, but won on
the back pages in the little stories you never
read This story is all the way round the
other side of the globe from the headlines
about handful of flying sergeants whose
tiny stretcher ships ceaselessiy fly the road to
Mandalay. They never knocked down a
Zero, or bombed Toxic, and nobody bothers
to write much about them because they're
sort of an orphan squadron and anyway
they're just enlisted men. The only way you
ever hear of them at all is from some soldier
who is alive today because one of these
sergeant-pilots landed in the face of enemy
fire on an abandoned rice paddy no bigger
tndn your OdCk ydIQ.
Call Thezm HelldiveEs
l HEY fly single -engmed L5's, the kind of
plane that looks as if you wind it up with an
elastic band and key. The Maytag He'll
divers, they call themselves. They have no
fighter protection, no guns of any kind. If
Zeros jump them they must depend on tree
top evasion, fluttering in and out through the
branches They fly 50 low that the Japs wing
them with rifles. One pilot came back with
2l holes in his plane. They work right out
among the Japs; if they are shot down be-
hind the lines. they have to play hide-and-
seek to get away. Staff Sergeant Pulliam of
Wichita, Kansas, was 50 close once that he
saw the tracks of a Jap's one-toed shoes and
the grass was stin rising from where he'd
Evening star., 1945-01-14

stepped Another pilot, Staf-Sgt. W. r.
Martin of Peekskill, NJ Y. attempted an
emergency landing and discovered as his
wheels touched that he was in Jap camp
area. He kept on going, scattering tin mess
kits. and took off downwind at the far end
with Jap G-string dangling from his tail
wheel.
Along air-e~acuation re1tes from
Burma violent down-drafas and tlhun4er-
storms and ice-Iaden clouds are ever
present enemies, as relentless rs the
Japs. On his way back from Mogaung, Staff
Sgt. Elton Cameron of San Antonio ran into
violent turbulence A bolt Of lightning struck
the nose of the little cub tossed it on its back,
left blistered patch on the planes belly just
three inches below the fuel tank, paralyzed
his right leg, and knocked out the engine. The
plane dropped to the very treetops before the
Evening star., 1945-01-14

over the crumbling shellholes as you land.
The shells were falling around Sergeant
Coleman now, and he kept his motor running
as they loaded the wounded young Marauder
onto stretcher, and fitted the stretcher into
the planes narrow fuselage. The patients
head almost rested on Sergeant Coleman's
shoulders. Slowly the little ship gathered
speed as it bounced and fmched down the
near by lifted it bodily into the air. the frag-
ments ripping tire and shattering the door
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-10-18
NAVY USES N. G.. LAKE
FOR ORDNANCE TESTING

HiWassee Dam - One of the
most important of anti-submarine
test jobs of the war was conducted
at the Naval Ordnance laboratory
experimental facilities at Hiwas-
see Dam, Capt. w. C. SCHNEIDER,
officer-in-charge of the 1abora-
tory, said Saturday in the navy's
first public release of information
regarding the secret work that has
been in progress at the IVA base.
Every depth charge that was
developed at the laboratory, which
has its headquarters at the navy
yard in Washington, D. c., was
tested at Hiwassee, Capt. Schind
Ter said. He would not discuss the
number or types of explosive
charges which went through the
activity, nor would he indicate
how many men were connected
with the project.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-10-18
PLANE is OPERATED
BY REMOTE CONTROL

Observation-Disclosures of a
pilotless radio-controlled fighting
plane - the Ghost Hellcat was
disclosed by the navy.
So far as is known, the navy
said in a release. it is the worlds
only standard military plane in
which radio control performs all
operations performed by pilot
in taking off, flying and landing.
The navy announcement gave
no details of the Ghost Hellcat's
performance Or. armament, al
though it said the plane flights
without pilot" 1t is an ad-
vancement over the small, radio
controlled target planes used by
both the army and navy for anti
aircraft training. The small
planes are called "drones" and the
Ghost Hellcat has been hickman
ed the "big drone"
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-10-18
Movement To Merge Army,
Navy Growing In Popularity

Washington - A surge of senti-
ment appeared developing among
Senators this week for early mer-
ger of the army and navy into a
single defense force.
A cross section of the views
of several Influential legislators,
gathered in interviews, seemed to
add up to this way:
l. Senators generally think the
atomic bomb is going to force a
fundamental revision in all mill
tary tactics and that the shift
could be handled best by a unified
defense system.
2. They want top efforts ex-
pended on scientific research and
experimentation.
3. They are afraid airpower will
not get the future emphasis it
should have under the present di-
vided services.
4. They saw the necessity of CO.
ordinated air. land and sea action
in the war, argue that a unified
command ought to be maintained
at all times.
The Senate Military Affairs
Committee takes up the question
in hearings beginning Wednesday.
1t made the arrny-navy merger
offered by Senator Hill
DALAI. No. l on its priority list
Of necessary legislation at meet
ing last week.
Hill said Secretary of War Pat
terson. who favors the merger,
will be the first witness, followed
by Gen. George c. Marshall, Chief
OF Staff. Secretary Forrestal and
navy officials, most of whom are
against it, will have their inning
later.
Acting Chairman Johnson Cd
Colo.) of the military committee
said he is strong for the merger
in Hills bill. Hill would
set up a Department of Armed
Forces. with a civilian secretary
and under secretaries for army,
navy and air.
rendered more than $4,000 Jap
lnPSa
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-10-18
TROOPS ARE
NOW OUT OF CHINA

Peiping-The final surrender
of the last major Japanese force
remaining in China was made
here this week to Chinese Gen.
Sun Lieng-chung who led his
men in the first skirmish in de-
Tense of his country eight years
ago at Marco Polo bridge a few
miles outside this former Chinese
capital.
The colorful ceremony took
place in the ancient red and gold
painted Forbidden City within
Peiping before 100000 Chinese
who crowded into the century-ol
Manchu palace to celebrate their
double tenth" holiday marking
the founding of the republic.
Short, paunchy 1t. Gen. Mimo-
to, commander of the Japanese
forces in North China, signed the
document which officially sur
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-10-18
WAR ON HUNGER is
DECLARED BY ANDERSON

MISUNDERSTANDING of Agri-
culture Anderson said this week
that an international food agen-
cy faces zone great, towering fact
two out of every three people
in the world don't get enough to
eat.
But he and two other experts
agreed that the United Nations
Food and Agriculture organization
(UNFA) can do something about it
by starting another War-against
hunger and want.
The new war begins when the
organization gets going next week
in Quebec.
Anderson told about it in a
broadcast along with Lester B.
Pearson, Canadian ambassador to
the United States, and Cove Ham,
bidge. Pearson has been chairman
and Hambidge executive secretary
of the commission which has been
getting ready for the birth of FAC
for more than two years.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-10-18

and tear on their molars by grinding
their grain. And tests at the colleges
show this grinding helps in soIEse
other important ways.
Wisconsin reports grinding
not only saves chewing Labor
but keeps whole grain from pass
ing through the cows body ur-
digested. Grinding also con-
serves on barn storage space.
When whole shelled corn or corn
on the cob was fed, more than 1875
did not digest. Such grain does not
produce milk or help keep the cows
body in good condition.
Experiments seem to Indicate
that there is an actual increase Ir2
milk volume when feed is ground,
over the amount produced whetA
the COW is fed unground grain.
You'll get some valuable help OF
this subject from Circular 286,
Extension Service, University OF
Wisconsin, Madison, Wis
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-10-18
PEARL HARBOR FILES
OPENED FOR SENATE

Washington-The governments
secret files on Pearl Harbor were
thrown open this week to SEN
ate-house committee investigating
the Pearl Harbor disaster.
Chairman Barley 3D., KY an
nounced receipt of letters from the
war and navy department - and
oral assurance from Secretary OF
States Byrnes - that all intorma-
ton the three agencies have Will
be made available.
Barley said the time needed
by William D. Mitchell, committee
counsel, to look over the mass OF
evidence and draft a plan OF pro-
cedure will delay public hearings
by the 1O-member group until
early in November.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-10-18
GOV. CHERRY PROCLAIMS
OCT. q AS NAVY DAY

Raleigh-Gov. Cherry has pro-
claimed October u as Navy day
and asked the people Ito accord
due observance to this occasion"
His proclamation:
. "Grimly, yet with confidence in
the ability of this nation to meet
any emergency, America in her
great naval program finally drove
the axis powers from the seven
seas. This is a far cry from that
black day in naval history when
by treacherous attack substantial
part Of our striking force lay on
the bottom of Pearl Harbor.
1T was John Paul Jones who
fled to this state from England in
l773. He was commissioned by
Joseph Hewes, then secretary of
the navy, and is known as the
North Carolina Captain" Vividly
remembered is the epic drama of