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The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-05-05
Officials Say Detroit
Still May Get Housing

although he had not been noti-
fled officially. the information
which he had, pointed TO more
housing for Detroit
THE OK FOR the housing was
given when Rysadent Truman
s,:..a =:
time when AZ rehensicn over cut
backs had practically killed any
hope OF further housing for war
workers in the Detroit area. Last
week. both official and unofficial
sources declared that the cutback
in the national appropriation had
all but doomed public housing in
Detroit
ALONG WITH the announce
ment that further housing would
be programmed. the plan for dis
posing Of government owner sur
plus war housing. was disclosed
Permanent war housing which is
no; demountable will be sold for
private residential purposes I'M
less il is transferred for use by
other federal agencies or Congress
authorizes other use for il.
Preference will be given TO pres
ent occupants. then war veterans
Temporary demountable housing
which becomes surplus during the
war will be sold 10 individuals or
corporations TO meet private war
housing priority quotas. After the
war the demountables will be
treated as permanent housing and
sold as such.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-05-05
Navy Liberalizes
Sea Duty Policy

The Navy Department announced
this week that twas relaxing fur
Their It's restrictions on sea assign
ments for Negro personnel.
Vice Admiral Randall Jacobs.
chief Of the Bureau Of Personnel
said that Negro personnel Of all
general service ratings now are
eligible for duty on, board all
adShirafy vessels OF the fleet. up to
10 per cent of the vessels total
personnel.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-05-05
Security Farley Opens
With Desire For Unity

phasizing the need for a United
Nations organization.
The conference opened in San
Francisco last Wednesday after
noon, with delegates from Haiti
Ethiopia, Liberia and India par
ticipating. Also significant was
the large representation from
Latin-American countries. who. in
working for world peace, hope TO
lessen the influence of race in the
settlement Of world problems.
IN ADDITION the State depart
ment has ~ official consultants
with their four score associates 10
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-05-05
S-Sgt. Arlington
Wounded Overseas

II was announced this week BY
the War Department that S-Sgt
Anthony c. Arlington had been
wounded in Italy on April S. i945.
S-Sgt. Arlington. former DSR
employee. entered the service in
November. 1912. and went overseas
in October. 1914
He is the brother OF Mrs. Celeste
l.. Cash. OF 93ll John r. street.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-05-05

<eath of Jeffry williams, a IA
student at Bronson school
The coroner's office disclosed thar
the small boy had died from q eere-
oral hemorrhage following q frac-
tured skull.
Held were Leon williams, IS. az
1O4e Joseph Campau. md Harold
Thomas. alias -R.T." - Of 1ssS
Sherman street
The body OF Jeffry was found
after two witnesses. Mrs. Hattie
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-05-05

Hope for the thousands OF Ill
housed and homeless in Detroit
doomed on the horizon this week
when il was announced that there
was a possibility that at least 1000
.sd6kGioasl homes would b pro-
rSsenSs3fve In ~ 49, e.
: ell . the CievslanA sfrlce u
the FPHA had revealed that the
report was Substantially true and
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-05-05

Haynes Holmes.
c h a man of
the award COM
mittee.
Mr.. Robson
received tn e
award for his
o 81 a n d ing
achieve m e n ( s
in the theatre.
on the concert
sta &c, and in
I n e gen era
field OF racial
welfare. T h e
latest triumph
in his long
public career.
is his appear
Ance In Nara.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-05-05
Oppressor Of Ethiopia
Shot, Defiled in Death

and then his body. along with
that Of his mistress and several
party leaders. was brought 10
Milan and thrown into the streets
there.
The FALL and subsequent
death Of Benito MusSolini presagcS
similar fate for Adolph Hifler.
who became dictator Of Germany
ten years after the fsteful march
on Rome. and followed the lead set
down by his former partner In
crime in his early years.
The sorrow. tragedy and destruc-
ton to which the world has boen
subjected since Mussoffm beEzu bio
drive for power. recalls vividly ~
mind the statement By Halle -
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-05-05

ct having DStn
wounded re-
c e n { ! y IN
Fran ce. Pvt
johnson. who
G n tere d the
armed services
in November.
1912. has been
overseas since
s e p I e m =
Der, 1914, as a
member OF the
6l4;h 7 an K
Destroyer bat
talon. He was
e m p ye d al
Chrysler corr
DOration before
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-05-05

ret Webster's production Of "Othel-
To-"
Mr.. ROBSON has appeared in
numerous legitimate plays includ-
Ing Emperor Jones'" AL Gods
Chillun.' "Porgy." Black Boy,"
The Hairy Ape and "Stevedore. /"
In the films he has appeared in
Emperor Jones'" "Showboat."
Saunders Of the River" King
Solomon's Mines" Jericho" and
others.
He gave his first concert per-.
formance rs . singer In 1925,
and made his first concert tour
Of America in 1923. His concert
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-05-05

SAN FRANCISCO - 1T Is
unity which proves that no differ
ences OF race, color or creed can
exist" stated Sec'y of State Stet-
tinius in his opening address 70 the
World Security conference. en-
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-05-05
Negro Soldiers Prove
Courage in Mixed Units

sole desire seemed to be 10 close
with the enemy. regardless OF the
scheme OF maneuver. II was diff
cult TO hold them on the company
objective when there was an enemy
in front of them" he added
Shortage OF ammunition was The
only thing that stopped them from
going too far ahead when two
squads Of the platoon spearheaded
an attack at Weise." said 1t. Rob-
ert r. Dobson, platoon leader from
Charlotte ". c.
Individual acts OF heroiSm by Ne
gro troops are cited by white OIL
GERS to prove that the Negro troops
who came from quartermaster. en-
gineer and transportation corps are
the hghtingcst sons-a-gunS -ypu
mTSee SOLDIERS. Pare
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-05-05
BROTHERS SENTENCED

Otis Childs Wilson. II. and
Charles Napoleon Wilson. 10. were
SENTENCED Tuesday by Recorders
Judge Arthur E. Gordon 10 20 10
80 years in prison following their
conviction in the hold-up Staying
OF William Atsoff. SO, OF 1929 Ar
lington avenue.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-05-05

recep I q c e at
the rear Of 2669
E. Lar a y cite
street, last Sat-
urday after
noon.
o . o
THIS WEEK
police are hold
ing two en for
Investigation Of
! e a v ing the
scene OF an ac-
cident in the
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-05-05

Wounded Soldier
Is On The Mend,
Report States

Mrs. Pearl l. Johnson. 279 AIDE
laide street, has received word
from the War Department that
her son. Pvt Frank l. Johnson. is
making normal Improvement aft
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-05-05
PAUL robson
WINS SPINCARN
MEDAL FOR IA

NEW YORK.-Psul Robson. In
ternstionally famous actor, concert
artist, and athlete. has been award
ed the 30th Spingarn Medal. il was
announced April 26 by DR.. John
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-05-05

Simmons Does Not Choose To Run
Mrs. Roosevelt
Makes Home In
Modest Cottage

ASHIN TON, D. c.
tNNPA-Mrs. Eleanor Roose-
welt will make her home on the
Hyde Park estate of her late
husband. Franklin D. Roose-
welt. but not in the 40-room
home which was the Presi-
dents birthplace and country
residence. She will live in a
modest frame cottage at the
eastern end Of the 900-acre
tract.
Eventually, the big house
and the rose garden in which
the President in buried. win
become = national shrine. open
- fe ~. terms il
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-05-05
Negro Sailor
Pumps Bullets
Into Jap Plane
ABOARD A DESTROYER

ABOARD A OYER
MINESWEEPER ~ THE PA.
ClFlC IUndated) Matthe
Brooks. a Negro sailor, had never
fired anything larger than a BIB
gun until the japanese plane came
sklmmIng across the waves off
Okinawa-but he had courage and
good memory and they paid off.
Brooks. whose wife. Mrs. Theresa
Brooks lives IN Baltimore. Md.
was serving dinner in the officers
wardroom when The Deeper called
the crew TO general quarters.
The second class stewards mate
ran TO his position as an ammuni-
ton paSSer on a 40 millimeter anti
aircraft battery. The plane was
getting dangerously close, but the
gun failed.
WITHOUT HESITATION. Brooks
ran 10 an unnamed so calibre
machine gun and started pumping
bullets into the plane. Filled with
lead from Brooks gun. as we'll as
from those Of another ship. the
plane winged over and crashed into
the water.
Asked how he could fire $50
rounds from gun he had never
touched before. Brooks. who is %.
explained he had observed the as
Sembly Of the. gun when II was
added 20 the ships armor two
months previously.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-05-05

entering the army. having come 20
Detroit II years ago from Green
vile, S. c.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-05-05

80.
DsclaEing Inst Nh ,aetisn =
prompted by . sincere desire %
advance the cause q racial
unity" Simmons said that he hsd
notified his many friends who
had sought TO draft him rs . cam
dfdate, that he would support the
cause OF the Rev. Charles A. Hill.
and urged all who had voted for
him when he ran previously to
throw their support TO the chosen
representative OF the people.
EARLY IN APRIL. a group of
citizens, led by Emmett Cunning
ham and Joseph Cole. had drafted
simmons TO run for the Common
Council This same group passed
resolutions calling for the removal
OF the Rev. Horace White from the
Detroit Housing Commission and
set up a ten point program Of civic
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-05-05
DECLARES ACT
M01lvATED BY
RACIAL UNITY
Declines . To Run For
Group Who Sought
To Draft Him

The campaign on the part Of Ne
groes in the city Of Detroit to
secure a position for one Of their
members on the Common Council
- - 1anesmouf~. $500 80
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nW-see BOY. Page &
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UISee HITLER. Page 4
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pWsee ROBSON. Page 4
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"See FARLEY. Page Z
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BTses MUssoLrxr Psss |
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-04
 GET(L05ER
 TO BERLIN
Other American, British, Canadian Forces Make
 Big Advances

PARIS, April 4.-British troops reached the Ems River. AS miles from the North Sea in their drive to trap up to 90,000 Nazis in Holland. while U. S. Ninth Army tanks pulled up to the Weser River. next to the last important stream on the road to Berlin.
 Troops of the Third Army fought down to the last 58 miles toward Czechoslovakia, and for the city of Gotha, Al miles southwest of Berlin. Germans reports said Gen. eral Patton's troops had reached Arnstadt. 70 miles from Leipzig, and ll0 from the Czeck city of Pilsen.. where the great Skoda munitions works. Hitler's last major arsenal, are located Arnstadt is 13 miles southeast of Gotha.
 Simpson Nears Berlin
 General Simpsons Fifth Armor- ed Division reached the Weser at Bad Oeynhausen, 183 miles from
 
 Berlin, 57 miles south of Bremen and l03 southwest of Hamburg. as Bat talion Engineers rode along bridge over she river to the north The German towns of Salzufien, Dien- hide and Hollinde were captured on the way to Weser.
 Canadians Cross Rhine
 The Germans reported Canadian troops had crossed the wall of the Rhine, presumably at Arnheim. in a drive toward the Zuider Zee, less than 20 miles from General Crerar's vanguards.
 Luxembourg radio asserted Ger man divisions are being shifted from the Russian front to the disinte- grating Western front The U. s. Ninth Army is said to have encoun- tered the elite Viking Panzer Divis- ion. which arrived without tanks.
 The French First Army has en- tered Karlsruhe. capital of Baden, an important communications and  industrial v,nter. with population of l89,000. near the upper Rhine.
 The Ninth Army's Second Ar- mored Division fought past tightly hemmed in Bielefeld. into Detnold, AT miles southwest of Hanover.
 Many Cities Fall
 The important cities of Osna- brueck. Muenster. Aschaffenburg, Fulda, Siegen and Bruchsal have fallen. Stormed and falling were the cities of KaSsel, Gotha, Hamm. Heilbronn, Wuerzbach, Hengelo, and Zutphen
 The American Seventh Army has battled to the heart of the Bayarian city of Wuerzbach, within 34 miles of Nuremberg, on the front beyond the Main River where German resis- tance is said to be hardening.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-04
TAWITAWI IS INVADED
 VETERANS
New Stand Taken Within Thirty Miles of 0iI-
 Rich Borneo
By FRED HAMPSON ZAP War CorYeSpOndent)

MANILA, April 4.-Veterans of the Forty-First Division invaded Tawitawi at the southern end of the Sulu Archipelago-within thirty miles of oil rich Borneo-Monday, in a 200 mile leap southwestward from captured zamboanga on Mihdanao.
 Eighth Army Tanks seized the vast Tawitawi Harbor, former Jap anese naval base, and two small islands at the southwestern end of Tawitawi, Sangasanga and Bongao, along with two airfields within easy striking range of Borneo.
 General MacArthur's communique said it places us within thirty miles of Borneo, and the great oil and rubber resources of that area, , adding the enemy port and airbase at Jolo in the middle of the Archi- pelago was seriously jeopardized by the leapfrog landing.
 Preceded by heavy aerial satura- tion bombing for the past two weeks, the landing was made under cover of naval guns and planes. Guerrilla forces aided the landing also, which was made at small cost to the Americans.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-04
CANADIAN NAVY WILL
 FIGHT NIpS
Cruisers and Airudft Car. riers 10 Be Hurled
 Against Japan

OTTAWA, April 4.-The role to be played by Canada in the Pacific War grew clearer with the disclosure that the Dominion intends to send two cruisers, two aircraft carriers and a number of destroyers and fri gates against Japan after the war with Germany has been ended.
 The Canadian units will comprise "a good deal more than mere to- ken force" Navy Minister MacDon- aid told the House of Commons last night. Canadians generally feel they have a stake in the postwar development of the North Pacific and the Dominion has grudge to settle against Japan for wiping out some 1000 Canadians of the Hong kong garrison at the outbreak of the war in the Far East
 "A few French Canadians are op- posed to Canadian participation in the war against Japan, however, even larger numbers, including some English speaking Canadians, are op- posed to any fighting they might regard as recovering colonies for Britain than defeating Japan
 Macdonald disclosed that the Do- minion's only cruiser, the Uganda, obtained from Britain. already is in the Pacific. The Uganda. he said, will be joined By the cruiser, On tario, being built at Belfast and to be commissioned in a short time"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-04

LONDON, April 4-Powerful So- viet tank and infantry forces are surging through the administrative district of Greater Vienna. They smashed to within six miles of the city proper which is now within easy reach of Soviet artillery.
 Two massive Russian armies have already deprived the defenders of Vienna of the great bastion of Wiener Neustadt, 22 miles south and are closely pressing Bratis- lava, 24 miles east of Vienna's city limits.
 - Far to the north the Second White Russian Army took Neun- dorf, two miles southeast of cap tured Danzig. On the plains of the Vistula Delta units of this army also broke onto the Westerplatte sand spit guarding Danzig Harbor and won Krakau and Heubude.
 Wiener Neustadt fell to Marshal Tolbukhin's army which drove on 16 miles to the southwest captur- ing Neunkirchen and Glognitz.
 The Russians cut the main Vienna Venice railroad and the Trans-Alpine Highway connecting the war arsenals of Austria and Czechoslovakia with German troops in Italy.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-04
The W ashington Merry Go Round
By DREW PEARSON fLt. Col. Robert s. Allen now on active
 service with the Army.N

WASHINGTON = Exciting war news largely obscured it's signifi- canoe, but last week the highest court of the land handed down one of it's most important decisions in recent years perhaps ranking alongside the Schechter Sick Chicken Case involving the MIRA.
 The case, that of Georgia V. the railroads. was largely a tribute to one man, Governor Ellis Arnall of Georgia, who is fast becoming the South's greatest leader since the Civil War. Arnall conceived the case and came to Washington to argue it personally before the Su- preme Court.
 His victory means several things. From now on, when one of the 48 states suffers because of monopoly, it can come to the U. s. Supreme Court direct, without waitig to climb up through the District and Appeals Courts. Perhaps even more important, it means that neither the Army nor the Navy nor the President can stop enforcement of the Sherman Antitrust Act if one of the 48 states wants to appeal over their heads to the Supreme Court.
 For years the South has been beefing about freight rates fixed by Wall Street bankers and the rail- roads they control, which discrimi- mated against the South. For years
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-04
Chaplain Weeds Pair
 Who Weren't There

JACKSONVILLE, Fla Navy Chaplain Paul R. Hoover officiated at what he considers to be the first wedding of it's kind In a double proxy ceremony here, he united a happy couple. one elsewhere in the United States and the other some where in the Pacific.
 Chaplain Hoover reported the nec- essary papers had travelled around the world three times before all the legal tape was strengthened out and the unattended rite could be performed
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-04
BRITISH EIGHTH
 ARMY IN GAINS,
 ITALIAN FRONT
Several Hundred Prisoners Taken in Two-day
 Battle

ROME, April 4.-Eighth Army troops joined up after making land- ings on both sides of a narrow strip of land separating the Valli Di Comacchio Lagoon from the Ad- riatic Sea on the extreme eastern end of the Italian front.
 Allied Headquarters said a num- Der of prisoners were taken in addi- ton to the 2JO or more captured in the first day of the operation, Mon day.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-04
PARSONS IS
 NEW MAYOR
 OF JUNEAU
Proponent of Public 0wn-
 ership Wins by 35- Vote Margin

Ernest Parsons, former city coun- cilman and Juneau electrical dealer, was elected Mayor of Juneau i'll municipal election by the close margin of 35 votes, de- feating James Larsen, contractor.
 Parsons, who served on the city council during the 1942-43 term, has been resident of Juneau for IA years He ran on a platform which advocated an investigation to de- termine the feasibility of the citys purchasing Juneaus electric light and power facilities as a means of increasing the city revenue.
 Three councilmen candidates on Parsons Business Administration Ticket also were elected to office, but the ticket failed to go in whole, candidate Jack Fletcher, hotel man. ager, being defeated by Edward Nielsen, incumbent councilman who ran for reelection on the Tax payers Ticket. The three members of the Business Administration Ticket who were successful were Stanley V. Grummett, insurance man; John G. Young, accountant, and pr. Richard Williams. dentist, Incumbent Edward Shaffer, meat dealer, was defeated.
 Grummett Strong
 Young, who ran unopposed for the one-year term. collected the most votes of any candidate. and Grummett showed most strength in the contested race for councilman.
 While voting Parsons into office, however, voters refused to accept his suggestion to withhold granting of the 20-year bus service fran chise to Lloyd Reid, voting more than two-to-one to grant the fran chise.
 R. E. Robertson, Juneau attor- ney, defeated Ralph Mize for the school board directors position by a wide margin.
 Results of the separate ballot which questioned the voters on their opinions concerning city ownership of utilities, showed a division of ideas.
 The answer to the proposition of a city manager form of govern ment for Juneau was a humping mo"
 Other mo" votes were cast in connection with the proposition of public ownership of the telephone system and the bus line. However, voters in the second and third precincts favored the city's owning the bus line while at the same time favoring the granting of 20- year franchise to the company, one aspect of the election.
 The voters showed themselves to be in favor of public ownership of the water system, the electric light and power system, garbage collec- ton and docks.
 Obstacle To Program
 But before Parsons could carry out his program of city purchase and operation of utilities favored he still had one obstacle to over come. Only the city's taxpayers or property owners would be able to vote in any election concerning the issuance of bonds, and yesterdays balloting didn't show just how many taxpayers were included in the "yes" votes for public owner ship.
 The new officers will be sworn in this Friday evening during the regular council meeting in the City Hall, and the setup for council for the next 12 months will be Don Skuse and Harry Lea, hold overs; Nielsen, reelected, and new members Grummett, Young and Dr. Williams.
 Yesterdays total vote was only STA, extremely light compared with
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-04
} TARGETS ON H0N5HU
 30 N B E D
Over Three Hundred Sup erfortresses Roar Over
 Japan 5 Home Land
By ELMONT WAITE
lAP War Correspondent ]

fHP WuF CORRESPONDENT
 GUAM, April 4.-Japan's home is- land of Honshu was again raided as 300 or more Superfortresses today roared through thick clouds at low level in three-way demolition raid.
 This was the first time three sep arate targets were lashed on the same large scale, as planes hit Shiz- uika. Tachikawa and Koigumi.
 Because of bad weather, bombing was done almost entirely by instru- ments, and with objectives obscured by heavy undercast, exact targets were not specified.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-04

 I5 MAYOR
 kET(HIkAN
Other Election Returns from Various Sections
 of Alaska

KETCHIKAN, Alaska, April A. R. c. Pedersen was reelected Mayor yesterday over pr. c. Martin Carl son, the vote being 646 to 485.
 Councilman Arthur Bryant was reelected and new councilmen are Ed Steffen and J. P. Valentine.
 B. M. Maulding was chosen on the Utilities Board of Control and the Rev Roy Olson, unopposed, was reelected to the School Board.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-04
WRANGELL ELECTION

WRANGELL, Alaska, April A. Fred G. Hanford, one of the Rep resentatives of the First Division in the Seventeenth Legislature, was yesterday reelected Mayor for the third consecutive year.
 Elected to the council were George Sumption, Olaf Hansen, J M. Steear.
 Hanford defeated his opponent Helen Roaming, by vote of 113 to 56. The total vote cast was 206.