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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-06
STE|NAU CAPTURED BY RUSSIANS
ON TO TOKYO TANK SLOGAN
 FOR PACIFIC
BY FRANCIS MCCARTHY


 Manila, February 6.-UP) = Three American divisions encircled fanatically resist ing Japanese remnants in Manila today, virtually com pleting the liberation of the Philippines and setting the stage for the next phase of the march on Tokyo.
 Gen. Douglas Macarthur officially proclaimed the fall of Manila, capitol of the Philippines and largest city yet liberated in the Pacific :: war, and said the motto ot his command now was:
 "On to Tokyo!"
 He said the complete destruc- tion" of the doomed enemy garri- son of Manila was imminent ana revealed that another 1900 Amerl- can and Allied war prisoners ana civilian internees had been 1reeo yesterday with the capture Of ar- cient Bilibid prison.
 Other Amercan forces aVenglng the bitter defeats of 1942 sealed OH Bataan peninsula and were believed preparing for an early assault OH Fort Corregidor in Manila Bay.
 Australia Safe
 "The fall of Manila marks the end of one great phase of the Pacific struggle and set the stage for an other" Macarthur said in 8 state ment accompanying his daily com murjque.
 with Australia safe, the Philip pines liberated, and the ultimate redemption of the East Indies and Mnlaya thereby made a certainty, our motto becomes, Ion to Tokyo! " (Writing off the eventual loss oi Manila, Japanese propagandlsts heard by the EGG said that the com ing of the Americans to Manila was exactly what our side waited for, and our bleeding tactics VIII now enter the positive stage.~
 GA Japanese communique acknow- ledged that American forces had penetrated into corner of Manila city" and said Japanese troops were locked in hea fighting with in- Vaders.)
 The l1th airborne division com plteed the strangehold on the bat
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The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1945-11-24
LEADERS PORTRAYED IN
HARMAh FOUNDATION
ART EXHIBIT

BROOKLYN, Nov. "a (ANP)-
Paintings of Negro leaders are on
display in a travelling Harmon
foundation exhibit at the Brooklyn
Museum along with an art show of
work by contemporary Negro art
lists.
The paintings, the work of Betsy
Graves Reyneau, whit artist, and
Laura Whealer Waring, present
the following public notables as art
subjects:
Henry Tacker Burleigh, singer
and composer Jessie Redman Fau-
set, teacher and author; Mary Nc
Leod Bethune, director of the
NYA; Claiming H. Tobias, Ma
tional YMCA secretary; Charles
Hamilton Houston, lawyer; DR..
Alain Leroy Locke, educator; Pvt.
Edward Lee; DR.. George Washing
ton Carver, scientist; Paul Robe
son (costumed as "Othello") Mrs.
Helen H. Whiting, Georgia's rural
education supervisor; Eugene Kin
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1945-11-24

amounted to $3.50, 900. The expecta.
tion is that the final allotment will
be made in March 1916.
Money raised through this con
certed effort on the part of Negro
and white supporters of Negro
education is used by the institu-
tions for scholarship grants to
worthy students, the repair and
maintenance of buildings, and for
improving salary scales for faculty
members.
urgently needed repairs to
buildings occasioned by wartime
depreciation and involuntary me-
glect are being undertaken as rap
idly as the progress of reconver-
sion permits by a number of the
colleges associated with the Fund.-
Mr.. Trent said. "The checks we are
sending out now will make it pos
sible to bring these various plants
up to an improved standard to meet
the growing demands which the in
flux of returning veterans has
placed upon all American educa-
ton institutions"
simultaneously with this an
nouncement, Mr.. Trent said that at
the October meeting of the di-
rectors, Frederick D. Patterson,
president of Tuskegee Institute,
was reelected president of the
Fund. Others renamed were
Thomas E. Jones of Fisk Univer-
sity, vice president; Miss Florence
NJ. Read of Spelman College, Sec
retary; and George H. Burcham,
New York banker, treasurer.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1945-11-24

ckle Jones, national secretary of the
Urban league; DR.. William Ed
ward B. Dubois, educator and writ
er; DR.. Charles Richard Drew, Pro-
fessor of Surgery, Howard univer-
sity.
Others portrayed are Marian
Anderson, singer; DR.. John An
drew Kenny, director, John A. An
drew Hospital at Tuskegee insti-
tute; Monroe Nathan Work, editor
of the Negro Year Book; DR.. Nor
decai w. Johnson, Howard univer-
sity president; James Welden
Johnson, arthur and poet; Walter
White, NAACP executive secre-
tary; Judge Jane Bolin, domestic
relations court of New York Judge
William Henry HASTE, dean of law,
Howard University; Anna Arnold
Hedgeman executive secretary, Ma
tional Council for a Permanent
FEPC; George Edmund Haynes,
sociologist; Asa Philip Randolph,
president of the International
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Por-
ters and Capt. William Campbell,
who completed missions over Sicily,
Salerno and Anzio as member of
the famous goth Pursuit squadron
In adjacent gallery, the work
of contemporary Negro artists is
on display under the title, ''The Ne
gro Artist Comes Of Age" The
first of these exhibitions was as
sembled by the Albany Institute
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1945-11-24
$500,000 Distributed BY
UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND

The second distribution of the
United Negro College Fund 1916
campaign, amounting to $5OO,OOO,
was made in letters to the 80 par
ticipating colleges, William j.
Trent, executive director, an
nounced today.
This distribution is being made
out of the $1,O3O,OOO raised last
spring. The first ALLEGATION
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-09-08
|NTER-RAC|AL DOS AND DONT'S

lensed in your presence. When someone sneers
at the Catholics or the Jews; at the Negroes or
the Japanese Americans, the Americans OF
rninorities, take polite but Arm issue with him
Immediately. An atmosphere OF intolerance
must not be permitted to grow.
DO NOT permit yourself and your friends 10
do things "unconsciousIy that are unfair or in
furious 10 members Of the less fortunate mlnori-
ties. Such minority group members are said to
he 'touchy" but place yourself in their shoes
and Try 10 understand the many ways in which
that loneliness is constantly being recrested re-
gsrdess Of their own desire 10 forget about IL.
Ap.rles and tn. ,pronlss Of ArnerleI,knd YOU
Yourself, must not be sold short by twisting your
personality and making II Ill with hostility to-
ward nnorities A~h4
DO NOT permit yourself 10 become unduly
alarmed by rtmors Of inter group violence. Trust
only responsible sources ~ information
DO NOT pass rumors along Even when rumors
are told TO another with the disclaimer, This is
only rumor and naturally should not be be-
leved,' something is quite likely to be believed.
A little more hysteria may thus be created.
DO NOT become an innocent bystander !"
Even though you might want to observe riot
for quite good purposes realize that the mere
presence 81 additional persons in a riot zone
helps Ia build up hysteris Unless you are help
ng the authorities at their request, so home and
stay hera
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-09-08

(Reprlnted from Race Riots Aren't Necessary"
hy Alfred McChng Lee Of WAYNE University,
Q Public Affairs ramphlc, published by the
Public Affairs Committee, 30 Rockefeller Plaza,
New York Cl,y)
DO praise acts ~ understanding and courage
in ntcrracia relations wherever you might see
or learn them
DO "sccentuate the positive
DO praise acts Of understanding and courage
IN ntcrracial relations wherever YOU might see
or learn them o..
DO try 10 treat every human being. regardless
Of race creed and social status with the under
standing and courtesy you would want 10 re.
cave om hin.
DO keep yourself well informed through the
radio and newspapers and. IN more general
way. through magazines pamphlets. and books.
For example read The Races Of Mankind writ
ten nv the outstanding anthropoloslS,s Drs. Ruth
Benedict and Gene Wel,hSh THIS Will help you
10 place yourself in an intelligent perspective in
relation to other racial and cultural groups.
DO. in case of a riot, leave the vicinity Of the
violence and take as many people with YOU as
possible Go home unless you arc a member OF
an organization with specific tasks to perform
in aid Of the authorities. stay at home until II
is safe Ia 20 out on the streets again. Encourage
your friends 10 stay at home unless they are
members Of aPproprist. organizations
THE DoN"Ts
DO NOT permit in;oeFant acts to 50 unehsl-
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-09-08

They also assurance that other weaknesses
democratic OF life will be corrected BY the time
they ready put the blue serge suit Or AZ least
within reasonable time thereafter.
For one thing. they want TO be that racial and
religious ,n,orsnce will continue be barrier They
have lived with Of other aud religions and have
learned 70 understand them.
For another many els feel that better planning needed
sounder educational methods their children
against the possibility ~ another With that In mind
they ask that international Affairs history and political
government he taught 10 make them living things
instead Of dull routine.
- Many OF the els also want compulsory high school
education for all slum clearance owcos housing projects
and universal group hospital and medical IL these
being they feel that the better world they have
heard much about will actually about in their and
their childrens time
Above all the GI does want he set apart from the
people ~ h< home community He wants 20 10 being
ordinary Mr. Jones with personality and mind Of his
Promise him that and he could ask for little more
"A Soldier Writing 10 Drew Pearson
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-09-08
BY ROY WILKINS

they are doing TO our race by taking such parts
! cannot tell you how ! was burned in shame
and humiliation as the white boys howled and
looked at US"
All efforts thus far to influence MGM 10
change the play have failed. Arthur Freed. a
producer with MGM, has told Negro commit
tee that he thinks Negroes will like the play
He SEES nothing wrong with producing it on
Broadway. He even is said to have ventured
the opinion that il the play was a box-office
success, MGM would make it into movie.
Miss Horne is said to be opposed, not only TO
doing the play herself, but to seeing it pro-
duced at all. Undoubtedly her stature as an ac-
tress would suffer if she did this play She
wants to enhance her place in the entertainment
people and does not want to see them disgraced
by such a production. But the powers that be"
in MGM are said to be putting heavy pressure
upon her 10 force her TO take the role.
Do Negroes like this sort OF thing, as Pro-
ducer Freed is said to have declared? In l945,
with the world the march. do they still want
10 be portrayed on the stage and screen as
gamblers, prostitutes clowns? Is this the New
World we have been hearing about? Is this the
cleanup" Hollywood has been promising? II
this thing is TO 60 on and on how will we ever
be able to win the good fight for better jobs,
better homes more education. greater oppor-
tunities. greater responsibilities. and equality as
american cltZens! VINO VIII enuust CLOWN
with responsibilities? Who will hire buffoon?
Who will grant equality TO gamblers and prosti
tutes7
II st Louis Woman" goes on, il will be
another nail in the crucifixion of Negro Ameri-
cans. to say nothing Of the crucifxon Of Lovely
Lena. II you can't fight for the race brothers
and sisters. you can certainly fight for La
Horne Write and tell Arthur Freed what YOU
think-at Metro Goldwyn Mayer, Culver City
California
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-09-08
p O p E
and
D A 7 A
By Isuis MARTIN

Eyebrows were raised downtown
last week when the Detroit Bu-
reau Of Governmental Research
took a crack al the Sls. 500 900 post
var construction program cooked
up by Mayor Jeffries The re-
search bureau is supposed TO be
full of the Mayors boys.
The story carried by the dailies
on the riot among the bahamas
Negroes At Camp Stuart Florida
last week had an interesting
angle. The dAilies said the Ne
groes were fighting mad because
they did not want to 20 back
home and preferred to STAY In
Florida. Bahamas must be . hell
Of . place.
A discharged veteran named
BykowSki carried p.scard In the
streets 81 Washington last week
denouncins Senator Blleo. 4 pur-
pie heart was painted on the sigr
With the words, Tell Il 10 ne Biloo.
fought for democracy He IL
probably act a letter IN me next
mail incidentally an abusive let
ter from Rilbo may be worth
plenty money on the collector s
market
Frank Horne and Booker Nc
Graw. housing experts and two OF
Washing,on's most eligible BACH
e!crs. had quiet time in town
over the weekend Al the NAACF
housing confso they brought up
the question OF the sale 81 gov
built housing. Private
dough can buy government hcus-
ing now and Negro capital Is as
welcome as any
O'Hara Lanier. former dean and
acting president Of Hampton. drop
ped in the once 10 tell Of he won
ders Of CNRA. He Is believed 10
be hrst in line for the post as Min
lister 10 Liberia He Is now hold ms
down q KEY spot IN The United Ma
tons Relief and Rehabilitation
adm nistration.
Katherine Lynch Of the De-
trcit Free Press called up for in
formation On Ralph Bunche Of
the State Department. He is .
Detrciter and made quite . name
for himself as professor ~ pclit-
zeal science at Howard university
and later ~ IN expert On African
,fdsjrs In ths STAT. ,Ds~s rtmenS
He hss . rew-Spot on the Angle
Caribbean commission.
eco Hayden and his talented
wife are getting new house cu'
az Ann Aroor. Bob taught fresh.
man English at the university las'
year and will teach literature
courses this semester
Local Republican biE-wiEs AZ,
going Ia announce the opening al
their new home shortly and scare
the wits out % some Democrats
They Will not put the word Repub-
lican or the single IN front Of IN,
place. Just in case the COP bose,
don I act right
Daring the A.ME. conference
IN Detroit In 1910. one Of the big
Wigs weakened and Was relied
fer 500. This story IL being told
some ~ the delegates to the Ma
ticnsi BAPTIST convention One
Methodist cracked that this time
n isn't the prssehsp vhe need 10
~ esrsfA
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-09-08
Steps Proposed by the
National Commission on Children in Wartime
A PLAN OF ACTION

The war has demonstrated the importance ~
the emphasis America has place. good
and fun opportunities for It's children II has
demonstrated both the strength sd weakness
in our provision Of both. Discrepancies revealed
by Sclcctivc Service points up clearly the neces-
sty for. providing FOR all children in al sections
o. tho country well We have provided for
some n INC more favored sections Often our
services for children have been too little and too
late
VIC have = solid foundation on which 20 build
The principle ~ Federal co-opcrs on with States
and communities IN developing thc.r health, vel
fare and educational services FOR children and
youth we'll established in law. We have be-
hind us years n experience n administering
such pahl'c services We have failed - authorize
and provide these services on sufficient scale
70 extend their benefits 10 all children
Let US resolve now. for the peace that Is
ahead. that we will build eouraeeously. imagins-
lively ungrudginglY. and without discrimination
70 race. cood. creed national origin. services
which will reach out 10 all our children and
youth wherever they live and whoever their
parents may be. Our greatest chance for a last
ing peace lies not with US. but with them.
Expansion OF Services For Maternal and Child
Health and Crippled Children
The health 81 Oh idren. no losS than their edu-
cation. IS public rcSpors nifty
TIE nation can no loncer afford 70 neglect us
children as Il has IN the past. Tho tune has come
now 10 plan adequate services that vii assure
everv opportunity for health tor all children,
Nothing short OF a nation wide effort support
ed by adequate federal and state funds will
make il possible 10 assure access 10 proper health
services and medical care for all mothers in
childbirth. for all newborn infants and for all
children during the pre.school and school years
and throughout adolescence. The combined eff
fort OF state and local agencies. professional
groups involved in rendering service. and
citizens groups will be needed 10 develop the
program
Federal legislative action IS required now
through extension o. eNlStIne tedets!Siate grant
in-ad programs 70 enable the state health sgen-
o'eS tN 10 meet immediate needs !or mothers and
children and prepare FOR nc postwar period.
and . 10 provide Tor progressive expansion after
the war Of The total broad program o. maternal
and child health and crippled children services
untll each state Is ah,c 70 assure the availability
81 these services to al mothers and children
within The state
Expansion OF Child Welfare Services
Today hundreds OF thousand Of children are
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-09-08

To the Negro sculptress herself
art IL as realistic as breathing. II
came 10 her as naturally a. growth.
and il is not surprising 10 her that
a Negro child born to a poor fam
lily in the South should grow up
10 sculpt plaque Of the President
~ the United States.
II have been lucky" she SAYS
simply. People have always
appeared to help me at the right
moments. but I believe that who
ever you are, II you really have
something TO display, II will be
recognized"
Selma Burke now 80. is thu, rare
phenomenon "A successful artist
Her hrst one-msn show of sculp.
ture is on exhibition al the Moo
ernsge Art Gallery. ls z. 34,h
street She has more commissions
than she can handle. and is making
money in additionally unlucrs-
tive field
Won Competition to Design
A Plaque OF Roosevelt
In 1874 4she won a com petition
10 design plaque Of Franklin
Delano Roosevelt, which will hang
in the Hall OF Records in Wash
ington She was working IN the
Brooklyn Navy Yard as truck
driver at the time. she reports
proudly because Il felt that durinr
the war artists should get out Of
their studios.
The President gave her two sit
ungs, and . third was scheduled
when he died. The plaque, how
ever. has been completed and il
now included In her exhibition.
II will be displayed here until Il
Is moved to Washington.
Miss Burke. whose hands make
graceful gestures as she talks
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-09-08

balancing elements 10 show that all Negroes are
not Of the low element in society
This play is continuation of the film indus
trys practice Of casting Negroes in stereotyped
roles, All the talk the movie msgnstes handed
out several years ago about changing the stereo-
types seems to he so much hogwash The Negro
American is going 70 be shown to 100 900 900
novle-goers as sport gambler people Of
loose morals-man at his worst Moreover not
satisfied with this depletion, the play reports to
dialect Of the dis and dat" variety
Not many weeks ago poignant letter was re-
celved by the NAA.CP. from Negro soldier
IN the Pacific. He told Of going to an outdoor
movie on one OF the islands, surrounded by white
soldiers al the installation. only 10 have flashed
on the screen some degrading comedy by coll
orcd Hollywood actors
Il felt like crawling into fox-holc and pulling
the earth IN on top Of mo he wrote. Our peo-
PIE IN Hollywood do not seem 10 realize what
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-09-08
CONDENSED from the N. Y.
Times)
By DREW MIDDLETON

FRANKFORT ON THE
MAIN, Aug. % - LANDER
Fritz" the CT Joe Of the Wer-
macht. has returned home
from prisoners-of-war camps
deeply conscious OF the extent of
Germany's defeat and bitterly
angry with his womenfolk for their
relations with American soldiers.
Moreover, he is strongly in favor
Of the Allied program OF denazifics-
ton.
These findings are the result Of
A special survey made by the In
formation Control Division o. the
United States group Of the Control
Council for Germany in Ave COM
murlties in the American zone cf
occupation The ssmpllngs in Mu-
men, Pressing. Heidelberg. Darn
s,adt and Mannheim shows that
the men in neld gray who Ave
wears ago shook Europe and who
today form the largest group In
Germany with common traditions
and synpa;hies, are, like most OF
their countrynen. economically
destitute. Besides. German soldiers
are probably more UNIT psyche
logically 10 resume civilian life
than soldiers Of any other army.
The supernen Of 1910 are the
Submen Of i94S. picking idly al the
debris in wrecked cities or stolidly
filling the land for which they
fought. For this army once SO con-
idan;. detes, has an oppressive
fnaIiv FO- i includes a multi
iude ~ profess oral soldiers who
tat-ened or War. Yet, according 10
me report. the Hrst ~ is kind 70
Re made a, hu; very small
number have accepted the bitter
reslitNot German defeat
Fraterniiing Seen as ferilcus
There Is no mention ~ What
hopes the soldiers have substituted
IN place ~ German victory. Per-
haps there sre>nonf.
The CT and the frsulein Is Ger
nsnys primary social problem IN
the minds Of hundreds o. thousands
~ young Germans returning 20
their homes The report saws blunt
". The potential FOR immediate
fric'ion ,oetween Americans and
Germans is probably greater in