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"Ploy Boil" Will Have New Meaning

When the umps play ba the baseball diamonds
organized baseball the Negro enthusiasts
white the Great American Pasme will feel that
baseball really what implies, the American SPORT
Tuesday, October
&c. by Rkes Brooklyn Dodgers Robinson
City shoop Robinson genemany time UCLA track
football will with the Brooklyn farm club the Inter
Montreal Royals By signing Robinson Branch Hickey
history opened the the practice of full democracy
professional baseball.
Reys decision down the dsgraceu colorba
against organized baseball bound have nationwide
operate
Negro players popular additions the The
actually reflects the sentiment the
which participation entire
segment ountrys czeny decidedly
white New York especially have given vocal to the
long practice which distinctly unfair and
that southern white lads
ball would object Negro players much than
a poor aibi.
Many southerners including like Dizzy have and do
play semipro midwest with
will string with Hickey told the
Associated Press Tuesday, at Jackie Robinsons sgnng)
the Brooklyn organization ball
particularly they from certain sections of the South will
club colored players
with but they'll be back baseball after they
work n a cotton mill.
There will be forces the country will be pulling
the experiment among group
the Negro clubs who wealthy both the
pay players
We the of the Negro club
also that Negro athletes who could
written baseball history and thousands dollars them
have achievement the
line in American baseball.
The air that blows baseball stadums
fesher for will be the free American
Baseball that decided
Ameranism and every
to make his contribution to baseball tradition
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Letters
London Hit Hard By War;

London Hit Hard By War;
John Thomas Writes of City
Editor:
I have just received a copy of
the Spokesman and Recorder with
my picture, a neat caption and a
nice item. Thanks very much. 1t
was a pickup as London has me
down.
The only things good are the
plays, the historic sites, and the
realization that person is nuts to
leave the good old U. S. A.
Of course, Londoners have suf-
fered tremendously. The buildings
tell one side of the story; the faces
of the people the other side. Both
caught hell. Everything is ra-
toned, and there is practically no
black market. Food is scarce,-no
one remembers what fried egg
looks like Except in powder form)
I saw Noel Coward's "Blythe
Spirit" It has been running over
four years, so you know it must be
good. They have quaint custom
of serving coffee to you on a tray
between the acts. Sugar and cream
right there,-then there is mad
scramble for the crockery on first
curtain ring. No whiskey is avail
able, but gin with lime or lemon
is plentiful. Fortunately, 1 can't
take the stuff, so I'm forced to be a
teetotaler.
I haven't seen anyone I know.
went to the Caribbean Club. 1t
reminded me of the Elks' Rest ex-
cept that white fellows were pres
ent.
Best regards to the staff.
John Thomas,
UNRRA,
APO Alb,
c/o Postmaster,
New York, N. Y
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said: "The Southern states will not
be turned from their deliberate
purpose by soft words and touch
ing lamentations"
Millions of soldiers drafted in
northern states and sent South for
training, have found, in many cases
to their sorrow, that the South is
still fighting the Civil War. Since
the surrender of Lee, the South has
deliberately and determinedly con-
trived to cheat the northern victors
out of every vestige of victory and
the newly freed Negroes out of the
benefits of their emancipation.
To achieve these ends, the South
denied the Negro access to the bal
lot box. It then set out through
literature, song, stage and screen,
to create favorable impressions for
the South and unfavorable ones for
the North and the Negro. Its poll
tics, its economic, social and educa-
tional life were all geared to pre-
sent the South's side. From
sounding board in Congress made
secure by disfranchisement, the
South has poured forth it's venom.
The South cared nothing about
Republican office holders. In fact,
they worked especially hard on
them in their effort to convince
them that the SOuth's views were
right. Each president after Grant,
was bOmbarded, cajOled and ap-
pealed to, to drop or ameliOrate the
Republican Party's attitude to-
ward the South and the Negro.
So we'll had the South succeeded
that under the administration of
William H. Mckinley, an Ohioan,
the last Negro Congressman from
the south, completed his term. I'm
der Taft, the South began to make
real progress, when, in the now
famous Crum case, President Taft
agreed not to appoint any Negro
to public office in the South that
was distasteful to the South.
Then when Woodrow Wilson a
southerner from Virginia, was
elected president in 1912, the South
knew it was we'll on the road to
winning it's fight.
The end of World War 1 found
the South reviving the Ku Klux
Klan to thwart any attempt by
northerners and Negroes to accord
to the returning Negro soldiers any
benefits of the war. The Khan
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reached it's greatest strength and
influence under the Republican
president, Warren G. Harding, an
other Ohioan, and the SCOOP Cal
vim Coolidge from Vermont. Her
bert Hoover, though Iowa-born,
provided no improvement in the
treatment of the Negro or hating
the mad rush of the South to wipe
out every vestige of defeat in the
Civil War.
During these years, the status
of the Negro as a citizen in the
South declined to a new low. Thou
sands of Negroes, despairing of
any improvement, migrated north
ward. The increase of Negro vOt-
ers in big urban centers, resulted
in the election of the first Negro
Congressman from the North,
Oscar DePriest of Chicago, Ill.
With the advent of Roosevelt in
the White House, the South got a
vice-president. Again it's hopes of
dominating the nation and COM
pletely wiping out the stigma of
defeat in the Civil War was set
upon with renewed vigor. The I'M
timely death of the late President
Franklin Roosevelt, has given the
South it's final chance. Harry S.
Truman, born of a Confederate
couple, has placed the South in the
saddle now more securely than it
has ever been in the history of this
nation.
The North has forgotten the
Civil War, but the South hasn't.
When northerner goes South, the
South loses no time in converting
him to their views, yet, when a
southerner comes North, he not
only refuses to change his views,
but insists upon imposing them
upon his northern neighbors. The
results of this attitude by south
erners, is evidenced by the grow
ing racial tensions in the North.
The latest outbreak of this, was
the recent school strikes in Gary,
Ind, Chicago, ILL.,, and New York
City. Here We find the South,
through the influence of it's people
who have migrated to the indus
trial North, trying to force sep
arate schools upon US.
1t is tragic when we reflect that
this curse of the South upon this
nation, has been to a degree,
brought upon US by our own people.
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hopelessness are tighter around US
today than ever before.
Our churches afford little prac-
teal solutions. Our organizations
expound mostly words. Our bread
still comes from the white men be-
cause we haven't yet learned to
bake it for ourselves. Out of the
labyrinth of doubt comes the
thought that much already done in
solving our problem will have to
be undone.
It would appear that we have
travelled far down the wrong roads.
Right now with the war only con-
cluded a few months ago, we are
living on a powder keg of racial
hostilities which need but spark
to blow the lid off. Some will
deny it, and SNUG in the personal
acceptance of themselves by the
white man, will paint a rosy picture
of Negroes and whites seated
around the dinner table, all mem
bers of one big happy family at
last. These are the kind of lead
ers who are always seeing rain
bows, whether they are there or not.
They want Happiness" in our
time and are prepared to sacrifice
the well-being, the blood, sweat,
and tears that have gone into our
struggle just to bolster their own
personal pride when they are
picked out by the white man as
some sort of equal"
If we will sit down and take
stock, it will be found that we have
gone for nearly a century without
learning one fundamental element
in the formula of racial advance
ment. We have no race discipline,
we have no racial respect and we
have no knowledge of precision in
thinking and in mass action that
are the necessities of any program
to move a race forward from a
condition of half-slavery.
We can't control five Negroes as
leaders except in circumstances
where what is commanded is in line
with what the five want. You see
examples of this lack of racial dis
cipline on all sides. We have no
single thing to bind all together;
our children are being brought up
in an atmosphere and environment
of confusion.
The team work, the working to-
gether of all of us for the good
of all, is not apparent. In isolated
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One-Third of America

Behind Barbed Wire Fence
Editor:
The standard which we raise
with stars and stripes, flies above
for any free men to see wave in
a breeze of freedom. Its platform
is not built on any concrete ideas
which Representative Rankin of
Mississippi has tried to sell-"free
Christian people" on his un-Ameri-
can ideals. Look up his record, and
you will find everything there but
American ideals.
While architects of peace gather
to blueprint a better world, our
pillars in Congress should realize
this has been a war of liberation
for oppressed peoples all over the
globe. Yet, within the borders of
our own nation one-third of the
people-the minorities who consti-
tute our second-class citizens-ar
still behind the barbed wire fences
of prejudices.
Inevitably, legal discrimination
has become part of the pattern of
keeping the sub-American Gin his
place." Police protection for min
critics is frequently a farce. claw
and order" too often is applied &C
cording to the ruling caste, class,
color or faith. When hoodlums at
tack a minority group, victims,
rather than aggressors, are Jailed
"for protection"
Voting procedures like the poll
tax in seven Southern states, and
that includes Mississippi, cause
direct intimidation at balloting or
registration places, and rob whites
as well as Negroes of their right
to vote.
The ultimate state of the disease
known as prejudice is violence. A
decent, well-meaning American is
likely to swallow the most whisker-
ed myths and congratulations.
Prejudice endangers everyone's well
fare!
Earl Bell,
st. Paul
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Page st. Paul Recorder
Friday, October 26, 1915
Fine Reading

In the October 10 edition OF
MINNESOTA LABOR, the CLIO
weekly, Sam K. Davis has a NOV
ing article on race hate in Wash
ington, D. c., the nations capital.
1t will pay you to get a copy OF
that paper and read what a return
ing Negro soldier told Mr.. Davis
about how he felt after risk1ng his
life for the Bilboes.
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The Constructive vqlue of Criticism

Some Of racial leaders, who greatly nued
treated whenever someone questions their manipulation public
fairs perhaps postuate delivered connection with
have only to note the currently
Roosevelt family and the dead Roosevelt himself cruel
the nquisitoal gesapo always lying leadership
Get suspicious and get instantly who
seeks to speak for but who violently what
has had to what he has purporey
sm The fellow who appoints himself refuses
the time accept advise
dangerous msleader
instantly.-Black (Okla) Dispatch
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3Sth Street Canteen
Praised by Reader

Editor: The new 38th Street Can
teen is beginning toward the full
fillment of the long-known need for
some recreational layout in our
well-known community conferred by
18th Street and Fourth Ave. So.
The canteen is the elimination of a
great deal of work by Mr.. A. B.
Cassius, owner of the Dreamland
Cafe, aided by the older boys in the
neighborhood.
The canteen is open every Fri
day for youths between the ages
of Is through 10 years. 1t is ably
supervised by competent citizens
of good standing in this city. Pop
and candy will be available, and
admission is free.
Let US pay tribute to the man,
who, with effort and good deal
of foresight, has made possible a
partial solution of the dire need of
this particular section of the city.
We who have lived in this neigh
borhood for number of years, have
seen many forms of recreational
centers started. They have all
ended abruptly and in dismal fail.
ure.
Let US, this time, hold on to this
small beginning, and strive to builc
until we will have a deep salts
faction in the knowledge of a diff
cult, yet worthwhile task completed
Leonard Houston Carter
1852 9Th Avenue &c.,
Minneapolis, MINI.
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Who Is Going to Free
United States from Bonds?

UnlLeu SCdLeS from bonus
Editor:
What has happened on the home
front? We have seen the end of
the war in Europe, and a large
number of US will see the final
wind-up in the East, but when will
there be a We day in the United
States?
It has been proven that the
colored soldier played his role, but
if we must return to a country as
bad as the ones we freed, please tell
me who will free US?
Richard Travis.
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Why Does Life Moqqzine?
The Unholv Alliance

Since the converting Congress the President learning
that to have been zone of the boys hill
lead horse drink
not Jimmy Byrnes the official family Congressional
of his long and undoubd versatility through rugged
interference of The Unhoy Aancethe
ton OF Southern Democrats and Big Northern Republicans
The Federal unemployment BILL the Full Employment BILL the
FEPC BILL which would Negroes
and other minority the hourly wage
these the President has bobbed-Hennepn County Review
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Confusion Befuddles
Negro Facing the Future
By Dan Gardner

day brings confusion those leading try
grappe with the problems face Some should this
others that Some here others there Nobody
exactly what do which Some think the helped
forward quickly others
that the bonds of prejudice discrimination and
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New NAACP Address

NEW YORK-The national head
quarters of the NAACP have been
moved from SO Fifth Avenue to
20 West 10th Street, New York 10,
New York.
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South Winning Final
Battle of Civil War?
By William o. Walker

The South is winning the final battle of the Civil War.
This statement may sound strange to many, but think
survey of facts since Lee surrendered at AppomaoX will
the above statement Horace Greeley in speaking
about the Civil War; sad Though the military power Of the
Rebellion is broken its spirit is untamed Thaddeus Stevens
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Need More Police in Minneapolis

forty policemen Minneapolis "put
sleep" by the abng method by city council committee Alderman
Onal law enforcement officers the position that money
available for added personnel Minneapolis
country find money for anything it really needs
The need for larger Minneapolis police
for The has
The city either needs police doesn't Many forces including
this believe have need for
It's unfair criticize the ct law enforcement
it has work with personnel which designed
a city with 100000 less people.
Every ncpent crime brings causc criticism police.
Those who criticize usually hand
its proper size.
Minneapolis should the buggy days
that the police department is properly manned.
Charley Johnson sports editor refers to the
wten law in organized baseball which barred
genleman agreement" WE'LL in books distinctly
geneman agreement We've choice any
of men who refuse because
AS matter of fact believe daily sports
editors could have led the securing
but only few of them
up an unsportsmanike lousy practice.
Curtis c. Chvers Governor Dewey be the next
President of the United States. What's your bet!
Why Does Life Magazine?
In the October edition of Life Magazine caption of
Daddy Grace seven and twelve pictures devoted
story about the sestd Bishop Charles Grace Negro
of the United House of Prayer for All People, headquarters
Washington D. c.
The pictures show the Bishop Daddy"
his followers call him. in antics such preaching praying
owboat being
getting into his expensive
The flock pictured joyous ecstasy
sermons getting blessed healed $40 head eating
melon.
All of the happenings described
But why does Life Magazine specialize seeking type
Negro activity for presentation ?Chicago Defender
Evening star., 1945-02-11

A regimental flag taken from the
body of a Jap major he shot is one
of two unusual trophies which Ma
rine Corpl. James Copp, 81, of 4401
River road NV, brought back from
Saipan, where he was seriously
wounded June %.
Upon the flag, in Japanese char
acters, is inscribed an outline of the
Jap's career after he joined the
Army. He had taken part In the
invasion of Manchuria.
"Some Of the. regimental flags we
found among the Japs were filled
with autographs, but this is the only
one saw inscribed with personal
history Corpl. Copp explained.
"The high lights indicated that he
helped sack Nanking. That fitted in
with our information that his regi-
ment participated in the capture
of Marking and was 'banished' to
Saipan by the japanese government
because of the Marking atrocities. y
Corpl. Copp's second souvenir is a
colorful book which appears to COM
bine comics, puzzles and Japanese
propaganda for children. OF this
memento, he said:
Il took it from the body of SER
geant. 1t was folded in back
pocket beneath the Jap's blouse, +"
probably his only personal possess
sion outside routine effects. have
never seen another Japanese book
like It."
On the cover Is q picture Of 4 boy
and girl with Japanese nag, the
hcy saluting.
A sketchy TRANSLATION obtained
from friend with . knowledge oi
japanese Indicated that the booA
Evening star., 1945-02-11

ITALY.-Just two years after the
first contingent of WACS to serve
overseas left for North Africa,
Tech. (Third Grade) Sylvia Lustic,
1921 Iowa avenue NV, who
was a member of that outfit, left
America second time to rejoin her
group in italy. Sergt. Lustic had
been home on temporary duty with
six buddies.
Jean H. Pestell, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Eugene F. Pestell, 1910
North Troy street, Arlington, recent
ly was promoted to corporal at the
Adjutant Generals Department in
Italy. She serves as clerk-typist
with the WAC. Corpl. Pestell has
been overseas since August, 1943,
and was stationed for nearly q year
in North Africa.
NEW GUINEA.-Celia Arnold,
1900 Colesville road, University Park,
Md, who was secretary to Senator
Wheeler Of Montana for 20 years,
has been promoted to corporal. She
is assigned to the finance oflce with
the WAC. Corpl. Arnold was ad-
mitted to the District bar in 1898
She enlisted in the WAC in May,
1874, and has been overseas since
October.
ENGLAND-Corpl. Elise Hastings
of Washington, publication clerk
with the Ordnance section at this
9th Air Force headquarters, recently
sang classical and popular selections
for wounded air and ground troops
recuperating ct = general hospital
In England. A graduate Of the In
stitute Of Musical Art, IN Washing
ton, Corpl. Hastings entered the
Army In December. le42. She haa
two brothers "a ths Army.
Evening star., 1945-02-11

included japanese versions of some
Of our nursery stories. For instance
there's an illustrated story about
four bears which is somewhat like
"Goldilocks and the Three Bears"
Corpl. Copp has another more per.
sonal souvenir of Saipan-a half.
inch copper fragment from the cas-.
ing of machine gun bullet which
entered his cheek and lodged be.
lind his left eye. AS result of tn,
injury he lost the sight of that eyt
and was partially blinded in hi.
right. Thanks to plastic surgery
however, scarcely a trace Of thu
wound remains visible.
How he was injured Is another
story which won him the Silvel
Star. His outfit was scouting out
machne-gun positions at Hells Cor.
ner when he and another marine
ran forward in the open to draw en-.
emy fire. Results were immediate
His buddy was killed the quick burst
Of machine-gun bullets and Corpl
Copp was blinded, but he was abls
to direct his comrades to the hidder
machine-gun nest.
Corpl. Copp also is veteran ol
Tarawa. Recently discharged from
Bethesda Naval Hospital, he now !.
back on limited duty at the Marine
Barracks, Eighth and / streets Sc.
in the foreign language department
of the Marine Institute.
He and his wife, the former Jac-
Iqueline johnson, whose mother ha.
entertained on radio programs ai
"Germaine, the Little French Girl,
plan to make their home here. Be.
fore he entered the service, Corpl
Copp, who came from Maine, wal
lir radio work n New York.
Evening star., 1945-02-11
achievement against

meritorious achievement against
the enemy at Bougainville.
Sergt. Moore demonstrated his
efficiency and ability in the out
standing performance of his COM
plex duties" the citation read. His
technical knowledge of Army ad-
ministration and personal resouce-
fulness have contributed greatly to
the success of the personnel officer
of his regiment"
In September, 1914, Col. Davis was
appointed chief of staff of q task
force entering combat. Although
given charge of personnel wholly
strange to him, within a period of
"a hours he organized an efficient,
smooth working outfit that took
over the duties of a combat division
being relieved.
Gen. Crane assumed command of
corps artillery headquarters when
it was in process of reorganization.
First 1t. Kenneth A. Prescher,
$500 Second street NV, has been
awarded an Oak Leaf Cluster to the
Distinguished Flying Cross upon
completion of 600 hours of opera
tional flight in transport aircraft
over the India China air routes ''at
night as we'll as by day, at high alti-
tudes, over impossible, mountainous
terrain and through areas charac-
terized by extremely treacherous
weather conditions" 1t. Prescher
flew long periods on instruments.
Men who recently have been
awarded the DFC include:
Maj. Wayne H. Stout, Ardmore,
Landover, Md, now in France.
Capt. Roy L. Reeve, 3f5 Twenty
second street, Arlington.
First 1t. Maynard L. Wayne, 3140
Seventeenth street NV.
First 1t. Thomas Wiser, 6 Princess
Garden road, Lanham, Md.
Maj. Stout won the DFC for
achievement on numerous success
full dive-bombing and strafing mis-
sions over vital enemy installations
in the European theater.
Capt. James P. Kane, 26, of Ar
Evening star., 1945-02-11
| Americans Avert .
Death by u. ). Bombs

Quick thinking by 1t. William T.
Greenville, son of Mrs. Katherine
Greenville, 4409 Sixteenth street
NV, helped avert bloodshed and
speeded the surrender of st. Malo
last August. "
Eighteen American pursuit planes
hovered over the city waiting to
bomb the stronghold of the Mad
Colonel" into submission. Five
minutes before their bombing H
hour, party of Americans entered
the town to accept surrender. Their
presence in ST. Malo was unknown
to the pilots.
At the appointed time the planes
wheeled in the sky, banked and
cleared their guns for the final
plunge.
1t. Greenville, his driver and his
radioman, all of the 86th Chemical
Mortar Battalion, sized up the situ-
alton at once, raced for their parked
jeep and tore out air identification
panels.
Already the planes were diving
Two bombs plunged toward the tar
get. Unmindful of danger, the three
men worked until they completed
the job of stretching out the panels
The planes were warned off be-
fore any drastic damage had been
done, and the lives of about a dozen
Americans were saved. The Ger
man garrison surrendered without
further fighting. 1t. Greenville and
his men wear the Silver Star fol
their action.