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The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-05-26
Dry Land &c bs
Tell How They
Built The Post

Observation-Disclosures that
ell the mud. Slush and hardships
are not confined to the battlefronts,
two Negro sailors this week told
the Navy department how a small
group OF Negro seamen hewed a
naval barracks "out OF wilder
ness" on the York river in the
vicinity Of Williamsburg and other
famous historical sites in Virginia
The description Of the construc-
ton Of the Naval Barracks,
Naval Supply Depot at Chatham
Annex was written by Clinton J.
Parker, Jr, Sp. tAl &c, and
Charles z. Reed, SK2-c. Released
to the Negro press by the Navy
department, IL stated in part:
"A YEAR ago, a mere handful OF
Negro seamen was sent here for
duty Al that time the base was
not even commissioned.
Upon their arrival here. they
found one building completely fin
ished. and several partially con-
structed. Even the barracks these
men had TO live in were not fully
completed and equipped. There
were no finished driveways or
walks. and when il rained, they
trudged through mud. There was
no ships service from which they
could purchase ordinary necessi-
ties and for several weeks there
was no liberty. Under these con-
ditions, the men suffered from a
letdown in spirit and morale, as
all OF them had had previous train
ing and had been on duty at other
bases which were we'll established
with many conveniences and COM
forts.
THESE FIRST FEW men who
arrived here realized the tremen-
dous task which lay before them
and set about TO accomplish it.
Soon they were joined by other
ren who were transferred here.
Under Ii. Cjg) l.. Hutton. who
was then in temporary command,
they cut down the trees. cleaned
away the bushes. killed the snakes.
and added many other improve
ments.
LAS a result of their labor and
effort, Cheatham Annex. in less
than years time. has been trans
formed from place of woods,
brushes and mud into base with
fine handspring. graveled walks
and many other Improvements"
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-05-26
PARADE OPENS
NAACP DRIVE
FOR MEMBERS

Daisy z Lampkin. voted one OF
The ten outstanding Negro women
in America IN 1914. will be the
principal speaker AZ the opening
mass meeting for the MA A CP
membership campaign, Sunday
May 81. a, the Macedonia Rap,is,
church. 1901 81 Auhin. al $50 p m
The drive will begin with a
parade starting at 2 pm. led by
Miller high school band. the BOY
Scouts and the Majorettes. and
~ going from Brewster center to
Macedonia church.
The~line Of march Is south on
st. Antoine from Brewster 10
Adams, east on Adams 10 Hastings,
south on Hastings 10 Sherman. east
on Sherman 10 81 Aubln. south
on ST Aubin TO the church
Other units in the parade will
Include veterans Of World War II
LIST Woman'S Army corps 81 the
treasury department a unit from
the sheriffs Office. Jolly Sirol,ers
club of Frederick Douglass Post,
boys department Of the S, An.
toine Y.MCA. YES Of Miller
high school and the Y-Gec Youth
center. Dorican chaptcr. OFS
state. county and municipal work
ers. CIO.
s. {. GIBBONS. chairman ~ the
membership campaign. stated thai
IS captains in four DIVISIONS VIII
report Sunday Goal for the first
report is 10000 members For the
Nbl,ire drive the goal is 26 600
The NAAC.P. IN Detroit is the
largest branch in the country. An
about effort is being made TO
reach the goal by June 49, closing
date of the drive.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-05-26
Six Overseas, 1t
Must Be A Record

UNITED KINGDOM BASE. Eng
Mrs Carolyn Morse. Chester. Pa,
has six children serving with the
armed forces in the European The
ster OF Operations and the Pacific
area who are helping 10 expedite
the ending OF the war. Their
rank and ratings include a cap
tain, two master sergeants, one SER
gesnt. private and a seaman
first class She also has a SON.
ln-law serving in Italy.
- One. q daughter. is Private
Carolyn Berry. %. who Is as
signed as a clerk in Company ID
Of the 66S8th Central Postal Di-
rectory, all-Negro WAC Battalion
serving In England.
THE FIVE SONS are Captain
Frank H. Morse Quartermaster
Corps. France Master Sergeant
Miller M Morse. Signal Corps.
South Pacific: Master Sergeant
Thomas l. Morse, Quartermaster
Corps. France. Sergeant william
Morse. Signal Corps South Pacific
and Seaman First Class Connie b.
Morse, IT, s, Navy.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-05-26
Two Sentenced
By Federal Judge

A youth, charged with fraudu-
lent use Of governmen, reterral
cards. and second youth charged
With stealing a Ieteer COntainIn :
. government check. were sem
.enC,o this week by Federal
Judge Ernest A. O'Brien.
Sentenced were Roy } Simpson.
I9, of 4237 John r.. 10 70 months
for using USES rc:.rral cards aud
Manley McCray q l348 + War
rem TO two years for theft Of a
letter. =
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-05-26
Expect End OF
Gambling Case
In Court Soon

The trial Of IS defendants,
splracy 10 violate the gambling
laws. is expected 10 end this week
in the court Of Recorders Judge
Gerald w. Groat.
The alleged defendants. whom
police say were associated with the
Lincoln House syndicate. were ar
rested January |, 1912, when a po-
liceman dressed as a gas station
operator. seized gambling appa-
ratuS
Defendants in the trial which
started last were are; Willie Simms,
40, of 3l60 Second now out on
appeal bond after a previous gam
bling conviction: George Levine
AZ, OF 1865 Rochester, owner of the
Gas station; John Hornbuckle. 80,
OF 6054 Brush: Asa Thomas. A, Of
l049 Elmwood; Robert Gillard, Al.
OF 1899 Lumpkin.
Smith Robinson, AZ. Of 1927 Liv-
ingstone: Walter johnson. 81. OF
1889 Greenlawn: Gerald Mitchell.
~, VI Col w lillSs JOIlIl
a., OF 433 Mifbourne; Mason Buren,,
So. of 279 Medbury.
Mack Austin, 80. of 997 Leland
Theodore Taylor, AZ, of 500 East
Adams: James Rogers. 80, of 202l7
Ilene. and Wilfred Jackson, AZ, OF
627 East Philadelphia.
A sixteenth defendant. Ernes,
Westly. 43. OF 10 East Congress, has
disappeared since the arrests were
made three and one-half years ago
ALLEGED DATES of the con-
spiracy. according to Sgt. Clayton
Nowlin. are from Jan. /. 1910. TO
Jan. "a, 1912 The defendants re-
portedly operated their business
from 1856 John r., and in rooms
SOB and 504 al % Charlotte street
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-05-26
10000 Vets Get
Jobs During March

WASHINGTON. - During tn e
month OF March, the United States
Employment Service OF the War
Msnpower commission made a to-
tai of 90.736 mona agricultural job
placements for veterans Of ca wars.
VINO announced this week. OF
these. 1882 involved service men
With disabilities
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-05-26

Light-colored umbrellas that be-
come dingy or spotted with soil
often may be cleaned successfully
at home by soapsuds shampoo.
textile specialists of the u. S. De-
partment Of Agriculture suggest.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-05-26

first quarter Of is45. w. Thomas
Hoyt, director of the Conservation
and Salvage Division Of the War
Production board. reported this
week.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-05-26
TIN COLLECTIONS

wA9HINGTON.-A
10000. 900 pounds of used tin cans
were collected from civilian sourc-
es throughout the nation In the
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-01-01
TEBE d. SANFORD

Funeral services for Tebe D.
Sanford, 81, former member of the
Wilmington Police Department.
serving actively for more than Is
years, will be held at p. m. Tues
day at the Yopp Funeral Home by
the Rev. ]. L. Davis and the Rev
A. K. Dudley. Burial will be in
Bellevue cemetery.
Surviving is his widow Mrs,
Louise Sanford, of sos South Third
street; daughter, Miss Menola
Sanford, and one son, Tebe D.
Sanford, Jr., a prisoner-of-war of
the Japanese. Also surviving are
two sisters, Mrs. L. w. Anderson
Of Laurinburg, B. F. Sanford, OF
Asheboro, and Ralph N. Sanford,
of Raleigh.
Active pallbearers will be H. E.
Fales, Thomas B. Hughes, D. D.
Conner, ]. S. Garfield, N. S. West
brook and T. D. Hall.
Honorary pallbearers will be
Charles H. Casteen, Henry Ker.
man, W. K. Rhodes, Jr., H. T. Will
son, DR.. D. R. Murchison, R. B.
Redman, Coy Etheridge, and L.
E. Skies.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-01-01
SUPERFORTS SPOIL
NIPPON new YEAR
BY The Associated Press

The first new years sleep Of
tens of millions of japanese was
interrupted by the drone OF high
flying U. S. Superfortresses.
Tokyo radio raid warnings, in
tercepted by the Federal Com
munications commission Sunday
kept a wide belt across heavily
populated HonshU, main Japanese
home island, on the alert inter
mittently from $50 p. m. Sunday
Japanese time) to dawn, new
years day
ncendiary bombs started two
fires in Nagoya, said radio Tokyo.
The more dangerous, it said, was
put under control before it de-
veloped into a large conflagra-
bion"
The air raid warnings aroused
sleepers and fire-fighters in dense
ly populated Tokyo; nearby indus
trial Yokohama; the busy Tokyo
naval station at Yokosuka, and
both the east and west coasts Of
Honshu.
AS the old year drew to close
radio Tokyo alerted first the west
region of Honshu island, warning:
"a lone plane is coming from the
west to the Tokyo-Yokohama re-
gion." This was followed by the
alarm: Several planes are ar
irving from the southeast" head
ing for Tokyo.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-01-01
e. FRED BANCK

E. Fred Banck, 81, justice of
the peace here for the past IS
years, died at a local hospital last
night.
Mr.. Banck had been in declining
health for some time. IT,
He was cashier of the Ameri-
can National Bank and the Bank
Of Commerce prior to his term as
justice. A lifelong member of St.
Paurs Lutheran church, he also
was prominent in the Elks' club.
He is survived by four daugh-
tiers, Mrs. Louise Banck Polvoght,
Miss Margaret G. Banck, Miss
Norma Augusta Banck and Miss
Johanna R. Banck, all Of this city;
one son, Corp. e. Fred Banck, Jr.,
USA in foreign service; two
brothers, William H. Banck OF
Washington and A. Clifton Banck
of Wilmington; five sisters, Miss
Riston v. Banck, Mrs. Lucille Ed
wards, and Mrs. Albert Beach OF
Wilmington, and Miss Hazel Banck
Of New York City and Mrs. George
Van Allen of Valatie, N. Y.
Funeral services will be an
nounced later.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-01-01
Continued from Pare one)

Liege, would be forced to with
draw and try an attack elsewhere.
The enemy was thrown back on
the defense all along the bulge, re-
ports up to Saturday morning dis
closed, but the rising tempo OF
enemy feeler thrusts from Holland
to Alsace suggested the Germans
may strike elsewhere to take adj
vantage Of the diversion Of Allied
forces.
The German communique de-
clared that half of all the forces
on the Western Front now were
engaged in the winter battle be-
tween the Mas and the Moselle
and said the focal points OF fighting
were around Bastogne and Roche
fort.
Rochefort, graveyard Of German
hopes for a breakthrough to the
Mouse, fell at midday yesterday
after sanguinary fighting in which
both sides poured artillery and
mortar fire into each others bat
tie lines. The Germans suddenly
pulled out of the town under Amer
lean pressure.
Turned back three miles from
the Mouse, the Germans had fallen
back IL miles east to this once
famous Belgian health resort and
dug in.
The three-division German at
tack on the Bastogne corridor,
which has been driven into the
heart of their salient from the
south, cost the Germans 81 tanks,
Is of them knocked out by Dough-
boys who held firm as the Ger
mans hammered at them from
both the east and west.
Now the Bastogne corridor is be-
ing rapidly bolstered by the drive
of the Third Army against the cen
ter of the Belgian-Luxembourg
bulge.
British and American fighters
and fighterbombers were blazing
away with the same sort of close
support which yesterday knocked
out 81 enemy tanks. mainly around
Bastogne, and undoubtedly took
much Of the string out of the Ger
man counterattack.
Through the fifth day without 4
German gain, the Americans kept
up the blows yesterday which now
have brought them up against the
dug-in enemy defense line at points
where week ago Won Rundstedt's
divisions were rampaging through
Belgium and Luxembourg.
AS the battle shaped up into 4
smuggling match, the Germans stab
bed speculatively across the Roer
river north Of Aachen and into the
U. S. Seventh Army lines in the
northeast corner of France.
1t was no secret here that some
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-01-01
Reds Cine Axis Forces
No Quarter In Budapest

ern Hungary, which had a pre-
war area of 1871 square miles
Moscow's midnight war bulle-
tin announced that 2,700 Germans
were killed in yesterdays fighting
in Budapest. Dispatches from the
Soviet capital said that fighting
had flared to new fury as Rus
sian troops adopted mo quar-
ter" policy to avenge two Red
Army officers killed by the Ger
mans while carrying surrender
terms to the besieged garrison.
Moscow dispatches added that
German generals and their staffs,
if captured alive, probably would
be hanged.
The Soviet surrender terms.
broadcast by the Moscow radio,
revealed that nine German and
Hungarian divisions totalling per-
haps 100000 men were encircled
in Budapest and in another peck
ct to the northwest in the Pills
hills agong the Danube river.
The German divisions were the
18th Tank, a motorized division.
the 217th Infantry, 9th and 22nd
Calvary. Hungarian divisions in.
Guided the First Tank and 10th,
18th, and goth Infantry divisions.
The Berlin radio said that, the
fighting had assumed an "ex-
tremely bitter character" and
that the Germans we're using tho
battle as an experimental field
for new types of anti-tank weap-
ons.
The Nazis reported that Russian
flame-tnrowing tanks and assault
guns attacked several blocks in
the northeastern suburbs but were
checked after the Germans had
been forced to give up two I'M
identified strongholds
Moscow dispatches said that the
German refusal to surrender had
doomed large part of the cap
lital.' Hundreds of Nazis were
being buried under collapsing walls
as Russian guns ripped apart one
of the most beautiful cities in the
world.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-01-01
DINER ATTENDANT
RECOUNTS HORROR
OF TRAIN MISHAP
Continued from Page One)

sailor joined me as we felt our
way along to the rear of the car
and got out. Then we saw how
bad it was 1t was a nightmare of
groans, of screams.
Bleeding badly, l craWled along
until the sailor, realizing l was in
jured, rendered first aid. Those
two cars of Army medics and the
lieutenant who directed them did
a marvellous job. Without them,
the toll probably would be much
higher
Unattached Navy and Army boys
and several civilians who hadn' t
been hurt seriously, pitched In and
helped. They did a grand job for
the morale as we'll as for easing
the pains of the injured.
I was taken to the Army hospi-
tai ward cars which were inmedi-
ately behind the engine and the
Army boys wanted to 60 to work
on me right away, but l told them
to take the more seriously hurt
first and sat by while heart
breaking stream OF injured men,
women and children streamed
through the hospital cars.
I know there were three men on
the diner at the time of the crash;
I believe they died there.
l am very lucky to get out of it
alive.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-01-01
JAPAN LOST MUCH
OF EMPIRE IN "A
Continued from Pare One)


ships were sunk or damaged. That
figure is subject to the same lini-
tations as the merchantmen total.
And those $50 plus, while prepond-
erantly destroyers, also include
battleships and aircraft carriers.
Two big naval-air battles were
fought in 1914, the first in June
off Saipan, the second in October
off the Philippines. Japan lost
both.
Nippon began 1914 defending the
outpost Of her spraying, stolen
empire at the Marshall Islands.
She wound up the year in a losing
battle for the central Philippines,
deep in the inner arc OF ocean de.
lenses. Between the two points are
more than 5000 miles.
In those IL months, she yielded
to the United States a deep lagoon
in the Marshalls, big enough to
accommodate a huge fleet; and
an air base in the Marianas, now
sending Superfortresses to knock
out the war industries on Japan;
she saw the myth OF once mys-
ferrous Truk's impregnability pune
tured and that bypassed fortress
put at the mercy of land-based
bombers; she was rolled back up
the remaining 1000 miles Of rug
ged New Guinea coast from Huor
peninsula; and now she is con-
fronted on Leyte, Samar and Min.
doro in the Philippines by forces
already in position to strike for
Manila.
Her oil stores on Borneo are be-
ing burned up by bombs OF Yank
airmen. The China Sea, her last
water connection with the riches
Of the East Indies, is on the point
Of becoming a happy hunting
ground for bombers based on Min
doro.
Her once well-knit chain OF
thetted islands now is so cut up
by bypassing Yanks that the sup
ply of many isolated garrisons is
possible only by submarine.
The year 1914 brought the war
among the Pacific's islands with.
in 800 open water miles of the
China coast.
Quite year, it was.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-01-01

LONDON, Jan. 1.-(UP)-Red
Army troops pressing toward the
heart of Budapest in house-to-nouse
fighting, captured more than 3oo
square blocks in the western Sec
ton of the Hungarian capital yes
terday, and completed the de-
struction of an enemy pocket to
the northwest on the south flank
of the Danube river.
Other Russian forces pushed the
last Germans out of northeastern
Hungary south of the Czechoslo.
yak communications center OF
Losonc Nucenec). That left the
Germans and their Hungarian
satellites holding only approx
mately 1000 square miles of west
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-01-01
Washington s Ne1u Year
Pitched In Solemn Key

celebrants may be relieved to
know.
The holiday in the country's larg-
est whoopee parlor was the big
gest of three such wartime events
from a standpoint of money spent
and number OF participants, if not
from that OF actual hilarity, au-
thorities and the towns purveyors
Of pleasure estimated. The Ger
man offensive and the realization
that this could not be War's-al.
most-over celebration were moi
without certain restraining Ell
feet.
But the city's theaters and night
clubs did record business, with
most of the latter sold out several
days in advance OF New Years eve.
Prices in the sit-doWn saloons
ranged from S. upward to SIS for
the privilege OF admission, a chair
and table, dinner, a floor show Gin
most cases. and assorted favors
The liquor, of course, was extra
except in the case of the Blue
Angel, which charged the $25 fee
and threw in a half bottle of liquor
or bottle Of champagne. A few
spots charged SIS, without liquor
but the majority of the places with
entertainment were in the $1,000
$3.50 bracket.
Times Square, the focal point Of
the midnight hail and farewell for
the thousands not moored to home,
a night club or brass rail, was
crowded despite the weather. More
than 1000 policemen and special
officers dotted the district to keep
the people moving in orderly fash.
ion and to block off vehicular trait
fic from side streets during the
height of the foot parade. The fog
lent certain beauty to this arena
of i.'lts because it softened the
glare Of the bulbs.
There was a tapering off in the
noise department, chiefly because
the war had cut down the supply
Of tin horns and other noise.
makers. The Waldorf Astoria hotel
for example, cut out such gadgets
altogether in its various public
rooms. The sidewalk hawkers Of
these articles, who used to get in
each others hair and everybody :
ears, were scarce,
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-01-01
CONGRESS FACES
HEAVY SLATE ON
THE HOME FRONT
Continued from Pare One)

up some political chores left over
from the 1914 election. Senate and
House will count electoral votes
Jointly next Saturday to nobody's
surprise, announce President Roos-
evelt's election to a fourth term.
1872 to SO.
Then, two weeks later, they are
invited down to the White House
lawn with few hundred other folk
to watch the inaugural ton.
And while the Democrats picked
up some strength in the November
voting. that offers no guarantee Of
smooth sailing for all the Admins
tration''s legislative program in
the 10Th Congress.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-01-01
ALLIED ACCORD
POSES PROBLEM
Continued from Page One)

tween the ideals and interests of
the United States and those of
Britain and Russia, which will
be acceptable in this country. In
accomplishing this task, it is said,
lies his best hope of winning Sen
ate approval of full United States
participation in the projected
world organization.
The nearer Allied armies close
in on Germany and the more Eu-
ropean countries are liberated the
more numerous will become the
problems requiring settlement.
Even in those countries liberat.
ed during 1914, there remain ex.
plosive conditions. For instance,
France, according to information
in official quarters here, will soon
need huge quantities of raw ma.
terials to keep her factories going
and employment high.
Allied shipping is SO tight as to
furnish little prospect of meeting
the need there and in other freed
countries, although it it is not met
unrest is almost certain to fol-
low.
Announced United States policy
for liberated Europe is to let the
people work out their own politi-
cal destines, even though in some
instances it may mean at the out
set control by Leftist or Commun-
ist minorities. Announced British
policy is to intervene in the in
terest of maintaining Britsh-recog-
nized authorities where necessary.
The Russians have not disguis-
ed their intention of bordering
their frontiers with friendly gov
ernments and Of compelling what
ever territorial changes they con-
sidered justified historically or
for their own security.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-01-01
CHANG PLEDGES
PEOPLES REGIME
Continued from Page One)

ton of constitutional government,
the Generalissimo said, through
nearly eight years of armed re-
sistance the three peoples prin-
ciples have sunk into the hearts
Of the people generally, and their
sense of civil responsibility has
been much heightened. Therefore
l do not feel it is necessary to
wait until the end of the war to
call a peoples congress-"
Stating that the first emphasis
in Chinese efforts in 1945 must
be placed on military affairs 'for
redemption of past failures and
for the speeding up Of victory"
the Generalissimo said, 1--WE must
adapt all our political and economic
programs to military needs