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The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-07-21

making final selection. so don't
dren. The Dope Sheet.
any OF you be discouraged by this
setback. We shall overcome our
difficulties in the end The future
greatness Of India isn't in doubt"
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-07-21
HElpMEET

In Chicago, when George
Leenheer lay down on his couch,
his wife considerably removed
his shoes so make him cemfert-
able" before she shot him
Time.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-07-21
MISTAKEN IDENTITY

The kindergarten teacher
bowed 10 . man on the car and
then realized he was . total
stranger.
"Oh. I beg your pardon" she
stammered. Il mistook you for
the father Of one Of my chill
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-07-21
RACIAL ATTITUDES OF liberal NORTH

youth. Honors in athletics, in class offices and
in scholastic attainment also come their way.
Responding 10 these incentives, the boy girl
feels no isolation and expects his good fortune
10 continue. He has already experienced some
of the blessings of the American dream.
All this is in the best tradition of American
racial liberalism.
Sad. therefore is the awakening which comes
10 many OF these youth when, upon graduation
from high school, they find that the communi-
ties did not really mean 10 be liberal. that, al
though service club would help Negro boy TO
complete his high school course. its members
would not give him job after his schooling is
over
Our Northern liberal" society does a double
injury 10 the Negro: il goes back on its
promises: then il blames the Negro for being
the kind Of bad Negro il has itself made him.
This tale OF the psychic hurt do to Negro
youth is not pretty one. II IS one. however,
that needs telling and retelling until all "lbertl"
people who are aware OF it. Whites need to
learn more Just way Of looking al Negroes In
all honesty their obligation Is TO look through
them and back Of them 10 the whlte-created
conditions that have helped in large measure
10 make them what they are.
In this connection psychologists and writer's
Of fiction be Of notable help. They have
the power las in the above case) 10 draw the
picture Of the psychicslly wounded Negro and
10 indicate what happens when his psychic
wounds are not only permitted 10 60 unheaied but
are kept open and raw through indifference and
cruelty.
They also have the power 70 point out
dangerous contradiction that exists between
our American promises and practices. They
can show that il is not a healthy thing for q
society 10 harbor q moral contradiction with
In itself; TO pronounce glorious ideals and 70.
sort 10 inglorous prsctisss: 10 give generously
with one hand. and take mesnlY back with
the ether.
In our childhood We used to cry out with
anger; Indian glver," The phrase was no doubt
unjust TO the Indians: but il said clearly enough
what children meant: that II YOU give a
thing, honestly and gladly, you might not later
take II back.
We ask-thc Negro boy TO giye hack our
gift 70 him Of human dignity II is not strange
that we begin TO feel doubtful about our moral
integrity.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-07-21

CThis Is the second Of two parts
~ the article nv Lillian Smith. the
first Of which appeared here last
weekly )-THE EDITOR.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-23
Nogoyo Wor Plants Hit
Continued on Page
Bv FRANK TREMAINE

Pearl Harbor, Jan. 23-(UP)-The Tokyo radio said about 70 Super fortresses from the Marianas raided the Japanese homelaNd aircraft center of Nagoya for two hours to- day.
 The War Department, announcing the raid, said the B-29's again struck at the center of industrial Japan" A communique gave no de- tails of the attack by the Superfort- resses operating under a new com mander, Maj. Gen. Curtis Lemay.
 The Japanese claimed fierce 1n- terception" interfered with the for nations of big bombers and that they were able to do only slight damage. They said nothing, how ever, of any American planes shot down or damaged.
 Destruction of 140 Japanese air craft and damaging of 100 more by planes of the Third Fleet in de- structive attacks Sunday CTokyo time) on Formosa and the adjacent Sakishima and Pescadore islands were disclosed in Pacific Fleet communique.
 Tokyo said the carrier -based as- sault on the Formosa area had gone into a second day Monday, with a total force of 1000 planes attacking Japanese installations in the two-day period. Eighty-1ive of the raiders were shot down and 68 damaged, Tokyo said.
 The .Jananese radio also said American Lightning fighter plahes
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-23
HuIten, Girl Found Guilty

London, Jan. 23. (UP)-A jury in Old Bailey today found Pvt, Karl Gustav Hulten of Boston and Eliza beth Farina Jones, 18-year- old strip tease dancer, guilty of the murder of George Heath, London taxi driver.
 The court sentenced both to death by hanging although the jury had recommended mercy in the case of the girl.
 The jury returned it's verdict after an hour and IS minutes deliberation. The trial had occupied six days. PICO UP 3rd PGH Early he Jury"
 The jury received the case after two-hour charge by Justice Sir Charles Bruce in old Bailey He told the jurors that Hulten and Miss Jones could be found guilty of rnur- der or of manSlaughter or acquitted.
 Defense Counsel John Maude asked the jury to bring in a verdict of manslaughter against Hulten, who testified that the shooting of the cabman, George Edward Heath, was accidental.
 Maude argued that Hulten's teStl- many showed the shooting was ac- cidentai, and that the paratrooper did not know the gur with which he was robbing .he cabmar was loaded.
 Miss Jones counsel finished h.. arguments yesterday Each detcLG- ant accused the other of melting the crime
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-23
13,OOO Towns Fall To Reds
(By United Press)

The Red Army's winter offensive in Il days up to today has advanced a maximum of ITO miles on front extending 450 miles from the Baltic seacoast into the Carpathians, talk ing more than 25,000 square miles of territory and about l3,000 enemy held towns and villages in east PruS. sia. Poland, German Silesia and Slovakia.
 Five Russian armies, numbering an estimated 3,500000 men, are pited against perhaps l,500.O0O Ger mans, and official Soviet reports indicate that well over ten per cent of the Nazi defensive forces have been killed, wounded or captured
 Of the captured territory. about 2,20O square miles were carved out of East Prussia and slightly less than that out of German SileSia, the biggest industrial area in Ger many outside the Ruhr valley.
 Marshal Ivan s. Konev's First Ukrainian army, which launched the offensive from the Sandomierz bridgehead on the west bank of the Vistula river on Jan. 12, alone has reported killing 64,000 Germans and capturing 1000.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-23
Y Bowling Alleys
 Fire Loss $1,OOO
(NEA Telephoto)

Residents of the Central Y. M. c. A. dormitory on West Main street slept peacefully on early this morn ing while seven pieces of fire ap- paratus pulled up outside to extir- guish blaze in the basement bowl ing alleys.
 The fire was discovered by Patrol man Arthur Chicione and Sergeant Patrick Hughes who observed the glow in the Y basement from their post in Exchange Place.
 Quick action by firemen under di- rection of Chief Thomas Cavanaugh and Deputy Stephen Bloomfield confined the fire to the rear of a single alley. Several duck pins and bowling balls were destroyed by the blaze which caused damage eSti- mated at 5000 by Fire Marshal Lahey and Captain Eugene Legge.
 The fire marshal and his aide said the fire started from a cigaret butt dropped in the cushioned rear of the backstop before closing time, and smouldered until discovered at 2:30 a. m.
 Yesterday firemen extinguished a blaze in an automobile in front of 12 Meriden road, and fire caused by an overloaded electric iron in the home of Mrs. John Mertz, 54 Rail- road Hill street.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-23
Rough Going For Wallace Certoin Bet
BY LYLE c. WILSON

Washington, Jan. B - CUP) - Chairman Josiah w. Bailey, D.. N. C., today will present to the Sem ate Commerce Committee Henry A. Wallace's nomination to be Secre- tary of Commerce along with a bill which would strip him of that jobs most potent powers on grounds that he is unfit to exercise them.
 Wallace's nomination reached the Senate yesterday just lap ahead of the nomination of Aubrey Will Hams, director of the condemned and abandoned national youth ad- ministration, to succeed Harry Slat- tery as director of the rural cleo trification administration.
 There is likely to eb real fight against Williams too. He was a left wing member of the admins tration during his governmental career and recently has been con- nected with the farmers union. The division on Williams will be similar to that on Wallace-conservative Democrat against New Dealer. Re- publicans hope to cast balance on power votes.
 Capitol Hill also heard today that President Roosevelt is thinking of nominating Judge Samuel Rosen- man of New York for some job away from the White House, where he now is a special assistant. Sen ators have been asked how they would like him as solicitor general or Secretary of Labor. Rosenman left the country yesterday to visit European areas as special rep resentative of the president.
 The odds always favor contirma- tion of nominee to presidents s cabinet. But some of the most cautious conservative southern sen ators were predicting privately to- day that Wallace would be rejected unless the administration agreed to separate vast federal lending
 (Continued on Page 4
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-23
Six Officers
 Arrested For Black Market

Paris, Jan. 23-UP)-A special, unprecedented order from Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower has caused the rarest of six officers and ef- forts to bring charges against many more officers of the MIL lionaire" 716th railway battalion from which 182 enlisted men were ordered to trial on black market charges. headquarters revealed to- day.
 It was disclosed also that Col. Walter J. Marlin of Los Angeles, commander of the battalion, had been relieved of command although he will not be brought to trial. He now is serving in Belgium.
 Announcement of the new arrests followed enunciations by defendant enlisted men who charged officers treated them as 'stepchildren' failing to issue them ordinary food rations, condoning and encouraging thefts and or accession even par ticipating."
 Asserting that Eisenhower wants Us to make sure they pay for any negligence of duty" Prosecutor It. Col. Carmon c. Harris of Oklahoma City, Okla, announced that six of- ficers would be tried beginning Sat urday.
 One, first lieutenant, will be tried on charges of stealing rations and illicit money transactions and the others whose names and ranks
 (Continued on Page 4
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-23

Hartford, Con. Jan. 23 - 'U.PJ Legislative leaders were expected to give serious attention this week to selection of successor to the late Democratic U s. Senator Francis T. Maloney and avoiding. 1T possible n costly special election which would require at least four months of preparation,
 Leaders of the Democratic-con- trolled senate and Republican dom- mated house will confer with Gov ernor Baldwin to consider the pos siblllty Of General AScsembly action empowering the chief executive to appoint successor, It has been made clear that should such a course be followed. the appointee would have to be on acceptable to both political factions with the understanding that he not be a candidate for that ofiice in the l040 general elections. Both sides have mentioned about a dozen prospec' tive candidates.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-23
RUSSIANS 138 MILES WEST OF BERLIN
ENEMY FLEES BULGE AFTER
 AERIAL bL|Tz
BY BOYD D. LEWIS

Paris, January 23. - (UP) = American armored forced today cracked into St. With, last German stronghold in Belgium, on the heels Of Nazl columns fleeing the Arden nes bulge under a rain of ex- plosives that knocked out 4,1OO vehicles in the greatest one-day aerial blitz Of the war yesterday.
 The Seventh Armored Dl- visions two-and-a-half-mile advance into the northeast ern perimeter of St. With threatened momentarily to collapse the northern hall o1 the shrunken bulge.
 A front dispatch said the Germans had pulled out of St. With except TOT a skeleton rear guard force whlch temporarily had held up the Amer ican advance at road block 1n the outskirts. Hunnage, one mile north of St. With. was captured last night.
 The Seventh Armored Division the same division which was ordered to withdraw after heartbreaklng stand at St. With early in the Ger man offensive last month-took over the attack to reclaim the stronghold last Saturday, belated announce ment revealed.
 The fall of St. With would knock out the last practical escape high way from Ardennes north of the Luxembourg border and also cut the main north south road running the length of the narrow NaZ salient.
 Pounded Mercilessly
 Marshal Karl von Rundstedts decimated Legions fleeing east across the German border for the comparative safety of the Siegfried line faeed another day of merciless pounding from thousands of Ameri- can planes and massed artillery.
 Snow was falling on positions Of the battlefield at dawn, but the weather generally was no worse than 1t was yesterday, when tactical air forces flew more than 5000 Sor- ties for a day of unparalleled des~ truction.
 Revised figures from yesterdays attacks showed that ABA enemy vehicles were destroyed or damaged. most of them in two columns of 1,5OO vehicles each damned bumper to bumper on highways leading to the Siegfried line.
 While the German disaster mounted the American First and Third armies further narrowed the (Continued on Page Al
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-23
LegisIators Aim To AUoid
 Costly Special Election

Meanwhile the important judi ciary committe scheduled It's first hearing for this afternoon. on bill to renew for another two years the governors emergency war powers bill, authorizing him to suspend any state law he believes hampering the war effort. On Wednesday or Thurs day the committee will hold a public hearing on executive re-nominations to the higher courts. The governor has asked for the disappointment Of i5 judges.
 The appropriations committee an- nounced q full schedule Of meetings this week, principally concerning the states biennial budget,
 A pickup in the filing of bills was anticipated this week as the Feb ruary 2 headline drew near. So far, only 200 bills have been introduced. or about Onc-flfth of the total Of other years at this date. This has been attributed to prohibition on filing of skeleton measures.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-23
Germans Roid
 River Valley

Rome, Jan. g = (UPD The Germans launched a strong raid on the Serchio River Valley today, but they were finally repulsed a half mile southwest of Gallicano after a lively fight.
 Elements of the American Fifth Army made a small advance three and one half miles east of Vergato. where they occupied a ridge q half mile north of Colle Terminc.
 According to delayed dispatch the Germans on Sunday made six separate air attacks each by a single plane only over various parts of the Fifth Army front. Some casualties were caused at CaStig- Hone.
 On the American Eighth Army front strong German patrols crossed the Senio river and forced the Eighth to withdraw from its outpost positions but were finally driven off by mortar and artillery fire.
 A communique said that yesterday strong forces of the Allied tactical air force attacked enemy communi- cations and storage dumps over northern Italy.
 Elsewhere on the Eighth Army front there was considerable patrol activity.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-23
Bank Pays $33, ,3O2
 Diuidends To City

Seventeen dividend checks total ing $33,3O2.94 have been received by City Treasurer Serge A. Belanger from the Merchants Trust Co.,, to bring to date total of $65.083 still owed the city by the defunct com pany.
 To date the receivers of the bank paid to the city total of $242,777 on the original balance due the city in amount of $307.760.
 Thus far the company has paid the city 80 per cent on commercial accounts and 95 per cent on savings accounts. Ten per cent of the city's investment payable as received to date amounts to $33,245. The payments received are the first made during the past year.
 Dividend checks received by means of the latest payment and now in the hands of City Control Ter Neil F. Maloney apply to the fol- lowing accounts and in the fol- lowing amounts: Reserve account, $2O,OOO; general account, $8,700; payroll, $2,OOO; payroll, $500; park bond sinking fund, $508; general, $433 surplus resource sinking fund 1st and 2nd district respectively $l61 and $233; assigne account oi M. J. Ryan, $127; assigne account of State Paint ana Wall Paper Co.,, $6,952; and lesser accounts such as city bonds, park bond interest 1928; corporation counsel; M. J. Ryan (trustee) savings account; street improvement pond interest, 1881, etc.
 The Merchants Trust Co.,, sus- pended business December B. 1851 at which time its president, Henry Weyand declared the deposltors would not lose cent" while a statement was issued by the officers of the concern at that time stating the bank was in good shape and would pay dollar for dollar. Commercial depositors have been paid 70 per cent and savings deposl- tors 85 per cent since that time, At present filing of bids by pros pective purchasers for the remain ing assets of the company will DC accepted up to April 28, tins year In turn assets of the company must be field with the clerk of superior court by March lst.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-23
More Nauy Yard Inquiries
 On OnMdnpowerWaste Ahead

responsible for the abuses found at the Norfolk Yard,
 Committee Chairman James M Mead. D., N. Y, and Sen. Homer Ferguson, R., Mich, member, re- porting on thc Norfolk visit. said that critical materials were de- Stcoyed and that employees made .niaid chess boarcs ana oyster bars on yard tune.
 The Navy promptly replied With d statemert that the Norfolk Yarc s production record speaks for it. self" Tile Yard. the Navy sad, constructed large aircraft carrier and repaired 2458 shpis in l0i4 alone. Of the repaired ships, !. added, 930 had 10 be drydocked
 Obviously someone has been do- Ing a job" the Navy said. "and on an overall basis the Navy is proud of the accomplishments oi the officers, supervisors and wors- men employed in its production fa- cilities."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-23
Work Or Else Bill Delayed
BY DEAN W. DITTMER

Washington, Jan. 23-(UP)-Con- fllcts over restraints on organized labor contained in the May bill threatened today stiffen opposi- tioIi to House passage of pending "work or be drafted" legislation.
 The House Military Affairs Com mittee has completed action on the bill, although 1t deferred formal vote until tomorrow so 1t could draft a new bill and eliminate the need fo. offering a lengthy series of com mittee amendments on the House floor. The delay probably will pre- vent the bill from reaching the floor until next week,
 The measure now provides that men In the l8-45 year age brackets, including 4-F's, lick to their present wsr Jobs or get Into essential work as needed witl the penalty of stiff fines and prison terms or, in the case of physically qualified regis trants, army induction. If they re- fuse. It would authorize payment of gravel and subsistence expenses Of workers forced to transfer from home areas.
 The principal change made by the committee yesterday would exempt workers assigned to or volunteering for certified war jobs from union membership regardless of closed shop
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-23

Pfc. Armand VOghel, 26, son of MT. and Mrs. HOrmidas A. VOg- hel, 136 Auburn avenue. has been killed in action according to . War Department telegram re- ceived this morning by his par entS.
 One of six sons who have served with the armed forces, Pfc. VOg- hel, a member of a tank-des- strOyer outfit, was first reported missing in action August II some where in France. He was a for emplOye of the ScOvilI Mfg. Co.
 Other brothers serving with the armed forces include: Raymond, Hilaire, Leo and Albert and a son Roger who received an honor able discharge from the service last year.
 Their father is a we'll known and prominent reaIt0r. Besides the brothers mentioned here three others are at home together with one daughter.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-23
BY ROBERT MUsEL

London, January 23. - (UP) - Marshal Gregory K. Zhukov's speedy mobile forces today stormed the briStling hedgehog defenses on the approaches to Poznan. last big Polish town between them and Berlin, 138 miles due west by way of one Of Adolf Hitler's inviting super highways.
 The Berlin radio said it is possible that single Soviet tanks temporarily reached Oder" and a Swiss broadcast reported that the Russians had reached that river be- tween Breslau and Oppeln in Silesia.
 Moscow dispatches reported the Soviet charge into the Poznan ce- lenses and the German nigh com mand acknowledged that the Rus sian tidal wave had washed un- checked to the area of the great transport hub at the center Of Po- lands westernmoSt bulge.
 The Moscow radio said Ghukov's right wing had broken into the out skirts of Bydgosczo, the main com- munications center of northw sst Poland and gateway to the old Polish corridor to the Baltic.
 "The German defense line in the east no longer existS,' the Moscow Radio said. "The Red Army soon will have crossed the German east ern frontier along its entire length,
 Marshal Stalin's five-army sweep continued unchecked. all reports ii-' dicated, with signs that its main weight now was being focused on the German border area before Ber- lin.
 Soviet dispatches quoted uncon- firmed reports that the Russians had smashed to the upper Oder river in German Silesia, the lower | course OI WHICH WlIl(lS WlIlAlIl OO miles of Berlin. The lightning pace of the Red Army advance indicated that the mauled and routed Ger mans could not undertake stand short of the Oder.
 Two Red armies were battering through East Prussia. defended by an estimated 200,0O German troops threatened with entrapment by a drive cutting the next to last exit railroad and carrying within A miles of the Baltic.
 Gels Threatened
 On the opposite wing of the un- precedented Russian offensive, the German high command acknowl- edged that powerful Soviet units were attacking in the area between Namslau and OelS, respectively 29 mills east and IT northeast of Bres- (Continued on Page 4)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-23
10 Feed Mills
 Face Shutdown

Buffalo. N. Y. Jan. 23-CUPD-- Ten feed mills here which furnish supplies for livestock to dealers throughout the northeastern states faced shutdown today unless an em bargo on inbound railroad grain shipments is lifted, according to Raymond F. Endress, chairman of the Lower Lakes Grain committee,
 Endress, who described the Situa- ton as extremely serious" said the shutdown of the feed mills would be forced within 48 hours unless the embargo on grain shipments from the west is lifted and the supplies rushed through
 The embargo was placed on grain, coal and other shipments to aid railroads in clearing lines from con- gcstion caused by recent snow storms.
 He said dairy feeders and small retail merchants throughout the northeast are down almost to the last bushel of feed for livestock and poultry"