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Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1945-09-07
ODT REVOKES ORDER
FOR NEGRO CADDIES

westinghouse drastic ODT
order limiting the mileage of 80
Negro taxicab operators on Chi
cago's South Side was revoked
by the Office of Defense Trans
portation last week as that
agency removed controls in sew
eral fields Of transportation.
The Negro operators were Civ
en- relief from Special Order ODT
Tel, under which they were re-
CURED to reduce their mileage
by 80 per cent, and cooperate to
guarantee efficient utilization of
equipment. The order was orig
inally issued on April "a, l943.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1945-09-07
BISHOP OMAN DENOUNCES
INTOLERANCE AND BIC0TRY
of Federal Churches of Christ Says Anyone
Who Discriminaies Against a Negro Jew Is Nazi

A plea for Americans to be-
ware of the seedlings of intol-
erance, bigotry and greed preva-
lent in the United States is made
by Bishop G. Bromley Oman,
president of the Federal Council
Of the Churches of Christ in
America, in a signed article in
the October issue of The Ameri-
can Magazine.
bishop Oman says he wishes
it were so, as 1--WE contentedly
imagine now that Germany is
destroyed and the vicious leaders
of the Nazi party dead or i'm
prisoned, that Nazism has perish
ed from the face of the earth
But, he writes:
1.-THE Nazis aren't all licked yet
They masquerade in Sunday-go-
connecting coats as well as brown
shirts.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1945-09-07
Mrs. Erma Pryor
Kelly Elected
Principal OF
South End School

Included in the official an
nouneement and assignment Of
teachers and personnel Of the
Little Rock Public Schools for
the coming scholastic year, was
the news of the election of Mrs.
Erma Pryor Kelly, as principal
in the elementary schools and
her appointment to serve at
South End School, 33rd and State
Street. This promotion to the
principalship is well earned and
richly deserved, for Mrs. Kelly
has come up through the ranks"
and is further proof of the ability
of the home town girl to make
good, as she was born and reared
in Little Rock. Ehe is the true
exponent of groth through edu-
cation, and has demonstrated that
she does measure up to the pro-
verbal yardstick as to manner of
life, purpose, faith, charity, ability
and patience,
Mrs, Kelly is the daughter of
Mr.. James and Mrs. Matte Pryor,
a well known family of the city,
the maternal and paternal family
names stretching back to the days
of Whaley Bolden. She is mar
ried, being the wife of Jack Kelly,
who for a long time served as
patrolman in the Ninth Street
business district,
Her education began with the
Little Rock Public Schools, hav-
ing graduated from the high
school with honors, which honors
continued through Dunbar Junior
College and Philander Smith Col.
lege, where her degree was grant
ed cum laude." She has done
additional work as student ir
the Kansas State Teachers Col
lege, Kansas University, the Uni
versity of Minnesota, and has just
returned from Atlanta Universit,
where she majored in School Adj
ministration. For nineteen year.
she has been identified in the
Institutional personnel of the
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1945-09-07

Sept. IL, for a two day meet.
This meeting is called by the
National Council to plan strategy
for the purpose of getting bill
passed in the fall congress for
a permanent FEPC. Phillip RAN
dolph will be the principal speak
er, with representatives from
various council heard.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1945-09-07
PC Tuberculosis
Ass n Opens Its
Fall Program

The Pulaski County Tubercu-
losis Association announces the
opening of the fall activities Of
the Association with a program
which includes a heavy schedule
of work for the Negro school
children of Greater Little Rock
and Pulaski County, according to
Miss Martha c. Allis, executive
secretary of the Association. The
skin testing program in the ele-
mentary grades by DR.. Hugh
positive reactors with the new
Blass Nozzle X-ray Unit. The
students of the senior high, Junior
College, Philander Smith, Jones
High School, Baptist College and
Shorter will also have the oppor-
tunity of having X-ray thru the
Mobile Unit,
Miss Allis announces that Mrs.
Gertrude Jones Davis, nurse for
the Pulaski County tuberculosis
Association for twenty-five years,
has just returned from Ann Ar
Dor, Michigan, where she COM
pleted her fourth summers work
in the summer school, complet-
ing her academic work toward a
degree in Public Health Nursing.
She has a few months of field
work to secure her degree. Two
of these summers, Mrs. Davis has
been on a scholarship given by
the National tuberculosis Asso-
citation and the State Tuberculo-
sis Association assisting. Mrs.
d. j. Dubisson, Mrs. J. V. Jordan
and Miss Annie Gillian met at
the Association rooms THURSDAY
to make plans for the coming
years program, Miss Allis stat
ed. They will work closely with
Mrs. Davis in her program of
work in an effort to prevent q
rise in tuberculosis deaths among
the Negroes following the war
war breeds tuberculosis, and in
order to keep down its ravages, il
will take the concerted work Of
the tuberculosis Association anc
its splendid corps of workers as.
sisted by the volunteers ir
church, civic, school and othe,
interested groups.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1945-09-07

"Nazism is not merely po-
litical philosophy or system OF
government. 1t is a condition OF
the human heart, state of mind.
1t is mans inhumanity to man
masquerading in brown or a
black shirt, or even in the white
collar of responsibility. This
state of mind breeds sin, bigotry,
intolerance, selfishness, greed,
cruelty, Godlessness. In Germany
we saw Nazism in full flower
poisonous flower. We saw it
in its organized form. In Ameri-
ca we see only its little seedlY
here and there, unrecognized h
what they are. Beware of Them
THE man who excludes Negro
from any of the privileges of this
democracy, who connIves with
real estate agent to exclude
: (See BISHOP Page 81
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1945-09-07
Southern Editors Poll Reveals
Strong Opposition To Race
Prejudice And Defense OF Negro CTS

Southern editors are over
whelmingly opposed to the recent
expressions of racial prejudice
in Congress and feel such state
ments do not represent the true
feeling of the South, the South
ern Conference for Human Vel
fare disclosed today, in revealing
the results of a poll of 25l white
newspaper editors in the thirteen
Southern states.
Eighty-seven and one-half per
cent of Southern editors agree
that Mississippi's Senator East
land was not speaking for South
ern editors when he stated that
Negro soldiers had been an utter
and abysman failure" Eighty
three per cent Of the editors think
that this statement by Senator
Eastland was hazard to the war
effort.
Senator Eastland's statement,
made on the floor of the United
States Senate June 20 during the
course Of a filibuster against the
Fair Employment Practices Com
mittee was: THE Negro soldier
was utter and abysmal failure
IN combat in Europe, He has
disgraced the flag of his country.
He will not fight. He will not
work"
OF the 255 missionaries and
letters received, % 6 per cent?
showed some agreement with
Senator Eastland, 2l9 CSC per
cent? disagreed; and 10 &C per
cent? were neutral.
In announcing the poll Dir.
Clark Foreman, president of the
Southern Conference for Human
Welfare, stated that, In nv
opinion, this is one of the most
encouraging signs that the peo-
pie of the South are becoming
increasingly aware of the dan
gerous and unfounded senti-
ments of such men as Senators
Eastland and Bilbo and Congress-
man John Rankin For the first
time, we have documentary evil
dence that these demagogues be-
long to a dead order, and repre-
sent no one but themselves and
a handful of reactionaries who
feed on their patronage
The questions asked in the poll
and the editors replies follow:
| believe Senator Eastland's
statement on Negro servicemen
is hazard to the nations war
effor. Yes, 83 per cent, No. -
per cent; Uncertain S per cent
/ believe Senator Eastland's
statement on Negro servicemen
is beneficial to the war effort.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1945-09-07

Yes, D per cent; No, SO per cent;
uncertain, per cent.
| believe Senator Eastland's
views on this matter reflects the
prevailing opinion of the South
ern people. Yes, 10 per cent: No,
1874 per cent; uncertain, l4l2
per cent.
| believe Senator Eastlands
view on this matter reflects the
prevailing opinion of Southern
editors. Yes, 7l2 per cent; no,
87l2 per cent; uncertain per
cent. XIV
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1945-09-07
Little Rock Council For Permanent
FEPC Sends Delegates To Nail Meet

Little Rock Council for Per-
manent Fair Employment Prac-
tice Committee sends two dele
gates to the National Council
meeting opening in Washington,
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1945-09-07

The. Little Rock Council has
strong membership and has done
some effective work under the
supervision of ]. c. Gray, its
general chairman. Under the
leadership of Mr.. Gray the coun-
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1945-09-07

Gil has proven that Little Rock
ians have decided to do little
more than just organize, as has
been the custom, but are determ-
ined 10 utilize every effort to &C
complish the desired results of
their organization.
Mr., Gray and DR.. f, c. Dyer
have been selected by the coun-
Gil as its representatives at the
national meeting.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-04
Famed Athlete
Dies in Crash

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla, Feb. 3.
(UP)-The navy released details
Saturday of the death of Naval
Lieutenant Joseph R. Hunt, the
1943 national mems singles tennis
champion, who was killed when his
single-seater fighting plane crashed
into the sea 10 miles east OF here
during routine gunnery practice
flight.
The accident which occurred
Friday, came when Hunts F6F
Grammar Hellcat went into spin
from 10000 feet while he was max
ing a run on target being towed
by another plane. His plane failed
to pull out of the spin.
Rescue and crash boats were un-
able to reach the scene before the
plane sank, although parts of it
were recovered.
Hunt is survived by his widow,
Mrs. Jacque Carolyn Hunt of Port
Orange, Florida. He also leaves his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Reuben Hunt
of Los Angeles.
Hunt. a 26-year-old graduate of
the U. S. Naval Academy at Annap-
oils, had entered the naval air arm
recently after serving year en- de-
stroyer duty in the Pacific theater
and a year in the Atlantic.
Hunt defeated Jack Kramer in
the finals at Forest Hills, New York,
in l943 to take the national sina;e es
title. He was unable to defend it in
1914 when it was won by frankie
Parker of Milwaukee.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-04
MuniIo
Coal
Is Near
Two-Poin+ yank
Drive Pushes
Close TO Citadel
EN-. MACARTHUR'S

GEN. MACARTHUR'S
HEADQUARTERS, Luzon,
Feb. 3. (UP)-Front dis
patches late Saturday said
that forward American ele-
ments are closing in on Man.
liza, where Jap demolition
fires are already raging, and
reported "our entry into the
city cannot be long delayed"
The dispatch die not locate the
closest point of American penetra-
ton but it was close enough SO that
observers could locate the points
from which smoke columns in the
city were rising. One appeared to
be coming up from the railroad
yards and the other from the dock
area.
The report was from the 37th
(Ohio) division which was racing
the first cavalry for the honor of
being the first outfit to enter the
city.
Japanese resistance was reported
to be light but the advance was
held up by necessity of construct
ing bridges.
Japan's three-year reign of terror
and starvation in Manila was enter
ing its last hours just 26 days after
the landing of General Douglas
CONTINUED on Pg. 6, Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-04

where Red army moose was tight
ening on the pocketed defenders.
Stiffening German resistance
slowed down the Soviet push as it
came up against the enemy's last
ditch oefenses, but Moscow confirm
ed that Soviet vanguards already
had reached the Oder at points
within 80 miles east of Berlin.
The Nazis conceded that the Rec
army was even closer-33 miles from
the city limits of Berlin at point
midway be tween Kustrin and
Frankfurt.
To the north, Moscow said, heavy
Soviet motorized spearheads had
driven to within less than 3Ci miles
of Stettin, big Baltic port whose
capture woulc' seal off 11,000-square
miles of northeast Germany.
Radio Moscow asserted the Ger
mans already were evacuating Stet-
tin by sea.
London newspapers quoted radio
Moscow as saying that Russian
vanguards had advanced to within
II miles of Stettin.
Moscow reports that powerful as
saults had begun against Frankfurt
and Kustrin indicated that the Red
army had reached the outskirts of
the two cities and perhaps had en-
tered them.
Though most of Frankfurt lies on
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-04
Bio Three Believed BUSY
Mapping Armistice Terms

commission some weeks ago.
Nature of the terms was not known.
AS in the case OF Italy, they prob
ably will not be published immed-
lately, if at all.
While there was no indication of
impending German collapse, it was
believed the big three" wished to
be prepared in the event that the
Germans decioe to capitulate when
the Red army reaches Berlin.
The ightning-like Soviet drive
into eastern Germany gave the
armistice question precedence over
pressing political problems affect
ing Poland, Greece, and Yugoslavia.
The German press saw the meet
ing as prelude to an Allied prop
aganda campaign to break Ger
many's morale and hasten her sur
render. Scare headlines in Berlin
newspapers warned the German
people against listening to surren-
der demands.
Adolf Hitler's newspaper Volkis-
cher Beobachter carried a banner
headline asserting that gigantic
ceceit is planned" while the Mach
tauSgabe saw new big humbug
maneuver" in the making.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-04
BY UNITED PRESS

Jorge B. Vargus, ambassador to
Japan from the Filipino puppet
government, warned Saturday in a
panic-ridden speech before a Tokyo
victory rally" that the American
drive on Manila threatens to engulf
Japan itself.
"Our common destiny is now at
stake" Vargus was quoted by Tokyo
radio recorded by United Press in
San Francisco. TT is at this very
moment being decided in the Phil
ippines."
1.-THE very front gates of the en-
pire of Japan are now in the sea of
flames that could engulf all of us.
We are your next-door neighbors
and should we be consumed by the
flames of war, the conflagration
will be at Japan's very door next"
Vargus said that if General Doug
las Macarthur completes his recon-
quest of the Philippines, "the great
est peril CT Japan's history will be-
come reality"
II must say-we must-we have
to stand together now or fall to-
gether never to stand again." VAR
gus said. His speech was delivered
at Tokyo's Hebeia public hall, which
the enemy broadcast said was
packed to the rafters."
wv know" the ambassador de-
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-04

rushed out of the Ardennes bulge
two weeks ago to help stem the Red
army drive on Berlin still were
floundering about on the broken
railway lines west of the capital,
practically immobilized by the An
lo-American bombing offensive.
Infantrymen of the U. S. second
division were out in front of the
First army assault on the Siegfried
forts with a three-mile advance
from Wahlerscheid to the eastern
edge of the Monschau forest.
Moving along the main highway
from Monschau to Schleiden, Eus-
kirchen and the Rhine, the Ameri-
cans late Friday reached a point
about four miles west of Schleiden
where a secondary road forks up
six miles northeastward to Gemund,
IL miles due east of Monschau.
The drive carried all the way
Continued on Page 6, Col. y
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-04
f. +. Lieutenant
Battles for Life

Lieutenant kooerJ Il. Main Of Ell
Centro is in a critical condition in
the fortieth general hospital in the
European area.
News of his condition was sent to
his wife in Ell Centre by chap
lain in a letter being dated Janu-
airy %.
Lieutenant Main suffered a gun
shot wound in the abdomen last
December 80 which resulted in per-
foration of the small intestines, the
chaplain wrote Mrs. Main. He has
had an operation and his wounds
have healed.
His condition is considered serious
at the present time, however, be-
cause of his weakness frcm loss of
blood. He has been given blood
transfusions to make up for the loss
Of blood. His recovery is in the bal
ance, the chaplain wrote.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-04

There were a number OF
signs that the long-awaited
meeting finally had begun,
with the approval of terms
for a defeated Reich the most
urgent item of the agenda.
Though official secrecy cloaked
the site of the meeting, unconfirm-
ed reports placed it somewhere in
southern Russia. A Tokyo broad
cast, however, said the three Allied
leaders were "reportedly' in ses-
sion in Cairo.
The Japanese-controlled Singa-
pore racio guessed the meeting was
being held at a "Romanian Black
Sea port"
The European advisory commits
sion was understood to have drafted
armistice terms for Germany for
final approval of Mr.. Roosevelt,
Churchill, and Stain. Washington
sources said the terms were put in
teXtual form and initiated by the
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-04
Former Imperial
County Youth
With Freed Yanks

BRAWLEY, Feb. 3.-Pfc. Dennis
Rainwater who made his home in
Westmorland several years was
among those rescued from the Jap
prison camp at Carabantaun in the
Philippines, it was learned here
Saturday.
Rainwater, who had given his ad-
dress as Paris, Arkansas, where his
parents now resice had made his
home with an aunt Mrs. w. H.
Griffin who lives west of Brawley.
He entered the service in May
194G and in August of that year was
sent to the islands where he was
among the first prisoners to be
taken by the Japanese in the fall
of Bataan. He made the death
march. Since his capture he had
written only two prisoner cards to
relatives in the states.
Griffin, with whom the boy made
his home until he joined the army,
sale today "the news is simply won-
derful."
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-04
County Chambers
Defer Stand
On Road Routinqs

The Associated Chambers of Com
merce of Imperial County Friday
night at Westmorland refused to
consider a resolution opposing the
disputed location of two cross
county limited-access speedways
and tabled the matter until the
March meeting.
A resolution introduced by Charles
Nice, CT the Brawley Chamber of
Commerce, urged the valley cham
bers to go on record similar to the
action of the county supervisors
taken two weeks ago, and oppose
the site of the highways as recon-
mended by the San Diego Chamber
of Commerce.
The proposed site Of the east-west
route would cut south of Holtville
and miss that city as well as Calex-
leo and Ell Centre and would rejoin
Highway 80 near the underpass west
Of Seeley. The north-south highway
Continued on Pg. 6, Col. o
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-04
Jops Set Fires
In Isle City

and our en:r3 into the city cannot
be long delayed.
Filipino refugees are streaming
from the city as our troops .ad-
vance. Our advance forces are en-
countering only slight resistance
but the engineers are struggling
desperately to replace the destroyed
bridges over the numerous streams
and keep our columns moving.
Along the railroad track running
out from Manila there are struggling
lines of refugees, many of them
carrying their possessions on their
shoulders. Many of them are near
starvation and our advance troops
are giving them rations from their
packs.
The F'ilipinos tell us that the
people of Manila are starving. They
are walking the streets like Skele-
tons. Most of the refugees have
come out to seek food. They report
eG that only a few Japs are still in
the city and that they are now
ordering civilians to leave.
am sending this exclusive dis
Continued on Pg. 6, Col. So
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-04
RUSSIAN ASSAULT FORCES CROSS ODER
Frankfurt kustrin
Sway Under Blows
Berlin Report Admits Russ Arc Tsh+ens Stain Ba+ers
Smash Throuss Defenses Fall Of S+e+tin North Near

LONDON, Feb. 3. (UP)-The German high
command tacitly admitted Saturday that the
Red army had won most of 75-me stretch of
the east bank of the Oder river curving around
Berlin at distance ranging between 80 and 68
miles.
Moscow dispatches reported that strong
Russian forces were storming Frankfurt and
Kustrin, twin anchors of the Oder river defense
line before Berlin
A Nazi military commentator left-handedly
acknowledged Russian crossing of the river in
the Kustrin area, claiming that Soviet shock
troops were cleared from the west bank of the
Oder" there.
Thus the high command put the official label
of "bridgeheads" on the remaining German posi-
tons east of the Oder in the long stretch between
the elbow 80 miles northeast of Berlin and Cros-
sen, it's east bank 68 miles southeast of Berlin
and 33 miles southeast of Frankfurt.
The number and depth of the "brdgeheads"
amidst the Soviet forces massing on the east
bank of the Oder for plunge at Berlin was not
specified.
The Nazi communique said the Germans
were counterattacking in the area of Steinau,
northwest of Breslau, and in the area of Reopen,
IL miles east of Frankfurt but their operations
appeared to be mainly defensive in desperate
efforts to check the Soviet drive against the last
natural barrier short of Berlin.
Moscow said the weather turned bad along
the entire front. A sudden thaw in Silesia and
Pomerania mpeded the Soviet armored and mo-
bile forces, while snowstorms swept East Prussia
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-04
u. s. bombers
Rake Berlin

LONDON, Feb. 3. CUP)-Ameri-
can heavy bombers more than 1000
strong Saturday struck at military
objectives in the heart of Berlin.
The Eighth Air Force attack was
in direct support Of the Red army
columns hammering at the Oder
river line only e3 miles to the east
"a distance readily visible from
the height at which the American
strategic bombers drop their deadly
cargo.
The Berlin assault was the major
effort Of the U. S. strategic air
force, but more than 400 other Lib
eratcrs struck at the Brabag syn
thetic oil plant in Rothensee, a
suburb of Madgeburg, and at the
Madgeburg freight yards.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-04
Senators Speed
Work-Fiqht Bill

WASHINGTON, Feb. 3. (UP)-
Determined to get fast senate action
on so-called work or else" legisla-
ton, the senate military affairs
committee Saturday put the finish
ing touches on its version of the
houSe-approved May bill.
The May bill provides for fines
or Jail sentences for men 18 to As
not subject to induction who leave
essential jobs without permission
or refuse to take essential jobs if
they don't already have them. Phys
ically fit men of service age who
refuse to do essential work would
be drafted, as they are now.
Defying labor and industry de-
Continued on Pg. 6, Col. q
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-04
Dry Crusader
Dies at 81

BIRMINGHAM, N. Y, Feb. 3.
(UP-William E. (Pussyfoot) john
son, dead at 80, left the crusade for
national prohibition to new gen.
Grafton Saturday.
After giving one eye and 40 years
of his life for a short-term victory
in his fight against rum, johnson
died at Binghampton City hospital
Friday, three weeks before his 83rd
birthday.
Friends who recalled Johnson's
gun-totting. bartender-fighting cam
Continued on Pg. 6, Col. -
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-04

be wearing uniforms of street car
conductors, railway men, firemen
and bank messengers.
The information was attributed
by Zurich to the sole passenger to
arrive at the Swiss border from
Germany Saturday. Most trains
that have crossed the border at
Schaffhausen in recent days car
ried no passengers at all, the dis
patch said. Railway traffic from
Germany by way OF Basel has ceased.
German radio and newspaper pro-