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The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1946-04-22
Military yMergerCoes LnSenate Today

WASHINGTON, Apr. Pop
ponents will launsh senate attack
on pending af1dy-navy merger
legislation this week with intro
duction of a bill to set up coun-
Gil of common defense and create
a new, separate department of air.
Confirming that he will offer
such a measure tomorrow, Senator
Bridges (Rep. N. H. told a re-
porter he hopes to enlist support
from at least four other military
committeeman and a large block
of naval committee members.
He did not name these but there
have been indications that Sen
ators Smith (Rep., N. J.), Hart
(Rep., Conn.,, Wilson (Rep.,
Iowa), Revercomb (Rep., w. Va.)
and Maybank (Dem., S. c. are
not too pleased with a single-de-
partment consolidation bill now be-
fore the military committee. Chair
man Walsh Dem., Mass.) and
many naval committee members
are obviously-if silently-against
it.
Charging that the one-depart-
ment bill would weaken civilian
control and unbalance the armed
forces, Bridges said he hopes his
measure will provide compromise
way out of an unfortunate con-
troversy" over the merger ques-
ton.
II think this bill will meet Presi-
dent Truman's original ideas about
effective unity of the armed forces
and do it in a democratic way,
without the threat of militaristic
control that is implicit in the
single department measure" the
New Hampshire senator said.
The Bridges bill would create a
separate department of air, with
cabinet member at it's head, and
continue the two present depart
ments under secretary for the
army and secretary for the navy.
The single department bill, ap-
proved by a military affairs sub
committee, would substitute for the
present setup one agency headed
by a secretary of common defense
and general staff with one head.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1946-04-22
Joe Louis To Break Camp In
Indiana For Pompton Lake

WEST BADEN SPRINGS, Ind,
Apr. % (ANP) - World heavy
weight boxing champion Joe Louis
will break camp here on April 20
for his final physical conditioning
at Pompton Lakes preparatory to
meeting Billy Conn at Yankee sta
dunn in New York City on June 10.
Joe has not placed boxing glove
on since he arrived here on March
8, and has practically outlined his
own conditioning program. He had
to lose approximately 20 of his 221
pounds in order to bring him near
the peak of his fighting form. He
began by sleeping. He rested for
three days. then went on protein
diet of two meals day, plenty of
broiled meat, milk and ice cream.
He added mileage to his hikes little
by little up a nearby mountain un-
til now he is doing six to eight
miles of climbing.
His conditioning program also in
cludes nine holes of golf in the after
Moons, little soft ball and an occa-
|sional game of horseshoe pitching.
He plans to start horseback riding
soon. Joe has not placed a boxing
glove on since he arrived here on
March 8. His camp, in the shadow
of Tom Taggart's famous French
Lick Springs hotel, has a vacation
atmosphere.
He reads newspaper, magazines
and good books, but shows special
interest in Jackie Robinson and
John Wright, signed by the Brook
lyn Dodgers for their Montreal
team. He is enthused about the
change they got but wonders why
did baseball people have to wait so
long to give it to them"
Joe has no respect for Bilbo or
Rankin, and he believes the poll tax
is blot on American democracy, a
subject he might talk on after his
battle with Billy Conn at Yankee
stadium on June 10. He is slowly
but surely losing the 20 pounds to
bring him to his top fighting form
of around 200.
81 have handled champions from
Bennie Leonard to Ted Kid Lewis,
Johnny Estel and Ted Morgan"
said Mamie Seamon, his trainer.
"Joe is by far the easiest to train.
His understanding of himself is re-
markable-he never loses his temp
er, never becomes annoyed when
people drop in. He is the most con-
siderate boxer l have ever been as
sociated with, not only in the ring
but in private life"
Seamon was assistant to Jacl
Hartford chronicle., 1946-09-21
NAH, BOX

1 ciation performed would have had
 no meaning without the splendid
 spirit of cooperation shown by our
 newspaper and other members of
 the Negro press. As you have of
 ten pointed out in your editorials, from which we derive your read CTS, constant support, the cost in terms of dollars in combating and stopping the lynch terror runs in- to huge figures. The Association could not carry on it's work if it did not receive, and does not con- tlnue to receive, financial as we'll as spiritual support from the readers of your paper.
 The NAACP is pledged to con- tlnue this fight, and in again ex- pressing it's gratitude to you, pre- sents not only the gratitude of it's nearly 6O0,0O0 members, but also the gratitude of millions of Ne groes who are still exposed to con- stant threat of mob violence and undemocratic persecution. Oliver W. Harrington, Public Relations Director
Hartford chronicle., 1946-09-21
NAACP
To the editor:

To the editor:
 Please allow me to extend to you the heartfelt gratitude of the National Association for the Ad- vancement of Colored People for the splendid cooperation you have given us in our efforts to protect the Negro citizens of America from mob violence and persecu- t1on. As you no doubt know, the period beginning with the Colum- bla, Tennessee, atrocity is a per iod filled with terrible implications for all minorities in America and constitutes serious threat to the cause of international accord.
 The NAACP has attempted. to the fullest extent of it's ability, to investigate and expose mob terror ism wherever it has been found. Our Investigators have worked in areas where their lives were in constant danger. The realization is keenly felt, however, that the work they and the Asso-
Hartford chronicle., 1946-09-21
REGISTER TO VOTE
To the editor:

l X
 Sometime ago you wrote an edi
 torial on the blessed privilege o1 | franchise which we enjoy in the north, east, and west, but unfor, tunately many of our fellowmer do not appreciate.
 It is a proven fact and an un- deniable truth that the ballot is the greatest weapon which the American citizen possesses and there are many places in America where men would like to vote but are prohibited, because of diaboli- cal laws, but we must not be satis- fled nor rest until we have broken down the barriers because of the Constitution which guarantees us our right to full citizenship. In connection with this may I say personally that I have never missed voting in an election since the first time that I voted.
 I think that every person who is eligible to vote should look upon that obligation as a pleasure. With the ballot we can assure our friends our substantial support and through it we can eliminate our enemies.
 Rev. M. c. McKenney, Everett
Hartford chronicle., 1946-09-21
Robesan Strs Mammoth Rally

New York - 'Lynching and
 discrimination, because they vio-
 late everything that is relevant
 to democracy and precious to hu-
 manity. must be made a central issue in the 1946 campaigns" Paul Robeson, famous Negro ope- ratio star, told crowded election rally in New York's Madison So. Garden last week.
 The meeting was sponsored by the Independent Citizens Com mittee of the Arts, Sciences and Professions and the National Citi- zens' Political Action Committee. Speaking on a platform with Hon. Henry Wallace, Secretary of Commerce; Senator Claude Pep Der of Florida, Jack Kroll, direct of the CIO Political Action Com m1ttee, and Dr. Frank Kingdom, chairman of the NCPAC, the not ed artist declared, 'tOn this is sue, as on all other issues affect ing the welfare of American, the Negro people will be in the front lin of the coming battle to erase fascism from our land"
 In an eloquent address Robe son urged continued and strengthened alliance between Labor and the Negro people. "It is always true that an attack on Labor is an attack on the Negro people and that a blow at Ne groes falls equally upon Labor. 'hese two groups must never ,e divided" he asserted.
Hartford chronicle., 1946-09-21
Imperialism Foreign And Native William Harrison)
 (Guest Columnst
THE CHRONICLE
Guest COlumnist

markets as dumping grounds fo1
 manufactured goods. The achieve.
 ment of Socialism in the Soviet
 Union has meant the solution ot
 the national and minorities prob
 lens which the Tsarist state a cap-
 italist-imperialist state, could not solve; it has meant the disappear ance of anti-Semitism and race
 prejudice as instruments of state
 policy.
 Our world, irrevocab1y ONE
 WORLD through the shortening
 of distances by technological ad-
 vances, is a world which must take
 cognizance of that fact. But it is
 a world threatened by a contract
 ing and declining capitalist sys-
 tenn, which holds the African peo- pies in bondage, in forms of slav-
 cry and semi-slavery, as wage earners and peasants deprived of democratic rights such as freedom of speech, press, assembly, and movement.
 The Imperialist System
 By the end of the nineteenth century all Africa, with the excep- tion of Ethiopia and Liberia, had been carved up into colonies, pro- tectorates, and spheres of infu- ence by the leading capitalist pow CTS of Europe, such as Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, and Belgium. Liberia, which was colonized by freed American and West Indian Negroes in the twen- ties, has never been strictly speak ing, a full independent state, and | the Italian war of aggression against Ethiopia in 1896 already foreshadowed the Fascist conquest of 1935-36. The relative independ- ence of Ethiopia was preserved :hiefy through the mutual jeal- ,usy of the powers-Britain- France, and Italy-which owned erritories adjoining that country, hen so difficult of access.
 The Europeans powers did not arve up Africa for the greater .ood of the Africans. It is some ines alleged, as I have said be- ore, that the purposes of empire ave been and are religion, colon zing, and trade.' That is lie. Re- erse the trio and you have some hing more like the truth, if you the very minor role mich religion played. Religion ( 'as only allowed to function with ut opposition from the exploiting ettlers when it emphasized sweet r eulah Land or Jerusalem the olden, with milk and honey |. !essed. It was ruthlessly SUD-, ressed when it led the African e copies to take the Sermon on the H ,ount too literally, or to think [, Jesus chasing the monev- hangers from the Temple. n
Hartford chronicle., 1946-09-21

Northern white trustees hesitate
 to put Negro into the presiden- cy; they would prefer a compla-
 cent, even if second-class, white
 man. The white Southern trustees would consent to a Negro presi-
 dent provided he was a Negro amenable to their guidance and not 'radlcaP........-...not an advocate of FEPC, the abolition of the poll tax, or any New Deal policies........
 Perhaps the time has come when Negro higher education can no longer depend upon gifts from the North or cooperation with the white South but must be support ed by the students and alumni It would be a hard task, for education today is costly, and the alumni and students of Negro colleges are almost entirely in the lower-income brackets. But whatever the cost, Negro educa- tion cannot be dictated to by un- candid financiers in the North, and | by so-called liberal tSoutherners who are trying to stop the Negro rom thinking"
Hartford chronicle., 1946-09-21
Bul'che ToSpeak
 At Wellesley

Wellesley, Mass.-Dr. Ralph Bunche, associate chief of the di- vision of dependent area affairs and ranking Negro official in the State Department, will be among the speakers scheduled to address the second quadrennial institute of the Mayling Soong Foundation at Wellesley College October 10, II and 12. The topic of the in st1tute will be Problems of American Policy in the Pacific"
Hartford chronicle., 1946-09-21
Health For All

their child is vaccinated before
 beginning school.
 While immunization against diphtheria is not matter of law. wise parents see to it that their child be given injections against this disease, to which children are particularly susceptible, by the time he is six years old.
 A thorough physical examina- tlon before school begins will re- veal any defects in the child = whether he is getting proper nourishment from his food, whe- ther his tonsils are healthy, whe- ther his eyesight is good. De- fective eyesight may place such a strain on the child that he will become retarded in his studies and may also become upset emo- tfonally.
 And what about the child's teeth? He should by all means see a dentist before he enters school and should make regular visits to the dentist thereafter, as the dentist recommends.
 The child who enters school in 9 healthy condition is much less apt to come down with ailments throughout the year and lose time from school.
 In the next article, diet in TB be discussed.
 This column is sponsored, in he interest of better health, by: he Hartford Tuberculosis and Public Health Society, 65 We .hersfield Avenue, Hartford 6 Connecticut.
Hartford chronicle., 1946-09-21
A Good Start To School

I
 September begins a new rou.
 tine in households throughout the
 country. Millions of boys and
 girls are returning to school or are entering school for the first time. ,--z~ e-
 The first day of school is a big
 moment in the life of every youngster. 1t is the day when the last vestiges of babyhood are cast aside and the child enters upon a life in which he must rely upon himself to an extent beyond his previous experience.
 The physical condition of the flrst-grader, and likewise of his older brothers and sisters in high CT grades, may determine his success in school. In fact his whole future may be affected bv how good start he gets in school. '
 Before Junior begins school, he should have a complete physical examination. He will come in contact with large groups of peo- pie and may be exposed to con- | tagious diseases for the first time | in his life. His resistantce to these diseases will depend upon his general health and the pre- caution his parents have taken to have him immunized against cer- tain diseases. ...=
 Vaccination against smallpox IS usually required before en- trance to public schools. Parents should willingly cooperate with school authorities in seeing that
Hartford chronicle., 1946-09-21
EMANCIPATION

ronoorrow evening" Sunday, September 22, Bostomans will participate meeting in symphony d ha n th
 nor the ausnices of the Committee for Act!on OH t Georpia Ivnchings will be demonstration agalnse the lynch being melted by to +os o citizenship PresenJ Will De members of victims families frSm Rant
 bo ranresents the militant determination or tne oou e Negroes seeking democratic rights hee tnae Oh b i chairman of the Southern Conference for u r Welfare and Isaac Woodland the veteran whose the aye son4h aat'tso Garona EVERYBODY WHO CAN SHOULD Al TEND THIS MEETING .4 1hino
 which will cumnate with series of events m the na1on n canito Monday September 2s special M % f M S 4 avmnhonv Hall meeting Indeed the daLe o! tne
 rsade ne conedes with the anniversary of President Anranan 9santember 2S 1862). Lincoln then de- cared would sign the t tb gnon The
 emphasizes the fact that the Crusade will pro mote another emancipation of the Negro People-F'f DOM FROM THE FEAR OF LYNCH TERROR
Hartford chronicle., 1946-09-21
Common Interests Of Common
 People

Seldom in the course of histor,
 have the interests of the common
 people of Britain been so intimate
 ly linked with those of the Afri
 can peoples as at the present time
 when Tory reaction is menacing
 the lives and liberties of both 0:
 them. Indeed, one would have tt
 go back to the beginning of the
 nineteenth century, to the period o1
 agitation for the suppression o1 the African slave-trade and fo1 the emancipation of the Negroes
 in. the British colonies, if one were seeking for parallel occasion. One would have to summon up 're-
 membrance of things past like the
 sympathy of the working classes
 for the Northern side in the Amer
 ican Civil War of 1861-65. It was,
 as a matter of fact, their determ- ined sympathy which prevented the Government of the day from inter- vening openly on the side of the reaotionary, slave-holding Confed- eracy of the Southern States, which had begun the war of ag- gression for the perpetuation and extension of slavery In 1861 Brit ain was sharply divided into pro- gressives and reactionaries, as now, over the question of widening the frontiers of democracy. Mar rowly conceived economic inter- ests-Lancashire's need of the cot ton from the Southern States - did not confuse the working class and other progressive forces by in ducing them to be unsympathetic to the American Negro slaves. As the pressure of public opinion in France stayed the hand of Napo- leon III and made abortive his sinking attempts at intervention, 70 Lord Palmerston and the other ceactionaries were compelled to leny belligerent rights to the 'lave-owning oligarchy with whom hey sympathized. The African Peoples Today
 Today the reactionaries of all ands, all races, and all hues have made a covenant in Hell with Fas- ism, which they always secretly
 nd - when they dare - some ines openly aid and abet. They ecognize clearly that the preser- ation and extension of democracy 'ould mean the death-knell to their over; and so they stand stub ornly in the way of progress to
 new social order, already tra- ersed- by the people of the se- jet Union, who do not need to , old any colonial peoples in sub , ectlon, because they have des- ] 'oyed the profit system which re- ( uires cheap labor and colonial l C
Hartford chronicle., 1946-09-21
WALLACE SPEAKS HIS MIND

President Trumans repudiatlon oI ms appi9sa, w e w caora+orv If Commerce Henry A. Walaces now famous speech delivered Thursday September 2 in the @ Square Garden Rally % Se and the National Citizens Political Action Commtee IS con
 on In ~ sharply crczng foreign policy of secre tary of State James Byrnes the cafdaal pb ennst
 tntas the main danger to peace Mr. Wallace immediately became the target of attack by liberai diplomats ana caring that he was neither anti British no proB British neither he policy Administrations all the abundant evldeaee neased many of the liberals the audience much that they forgot their manners and hissed :4:u Mr. Wallace risked his political future to speak the truth as he Once before his candor was costly II ne wrathfu opposition of the cynical city bosses and reac tonary Southern polltax olgarchs in the Democratic The only compensation has fervent respect persuasion Thursday night strengthened his position by boldly discussing serious matter she7eu Ku Ka and other disciples of Hterite Fascs against Negro Americans. , .ou.ouo, Mr. Wallace. First have prejudice hatred fear and ignorance of certain races The recent mass nch1g in of mob violence United States in recent years; it makes sSD war Hatred breeds hatred The doctrine of racial superiority produces desire to get the rest of the world here in the United States must eliminate rassm from our unions our our business or ment practices. Merit alone must be the of men," -.
 Negro Americans have long suspected that the dor- inant motive for the ferocious hatred Russia precisely the fact that Soviet abolished and outlaved racial prejuce and discrimination motive behind the hostility of the Goxes of Georgia who also hate Mr. Wallace for condemnng the crime of states rights If they spent ota of the time they ynchers they would have minds clean enough to form late genuine policy of internatonal cooperation based Great Britain. 0'''e' o"non' ana
Hartford chronicle., 1946-09-21

dorsement of candidates will be en- tlfely a grass roots matter" MT. Cameron stated. ''The twenty af- hhates of the Massachusetts Citi- zens PAC will hold meetings be- for the school opens to determine the attitude of the membership to- wards the candidates. The afili- ates will then elect delegates and instruct them accordingly"
 Among Massachusetts, faculty members are Harold Putnam. vet erans' columnist; Rev. Kenneth deP. Hughes, president of the Bos- ton NAACP Branch; and George Markham, legislative agent of the State CIO.
Hartford chronicle., 1946-09-21
Officer Named For J. 5. Army

Tuskegee Institute, Ala.-First Lieutenant Cecil W. White is one of the 31 Negro Officers appointed to the Regular Army of the United States.
 Ut. White was a student at Tus- kegee Institute in 1943 and was enrolled in the Reserve Officers Training Corps when he was di- rected to report to Ft. Benning. Georgia, for further military train ing.
 He served overseas with the 92nd Division. April 5, 1945, he was wounded in action in a spear head which was a part of the of fensive that ended the Italian Campaign.
Hartford chronicle., 1946-09-21
MAGAZINE RACK
By Samuel P. Perry. IT.

By Samuel P. Perry, IT.
 A CRISIS AT FISK-W. E. Burg
 hardt Du Bois (September 2,
 Nation)
 A man who thinks can be dan
 gerous factor in the life of a re
 actionary community. Consequent
 ly, it has .behooved the Southerr
 reactionary to maintain a stric-
 surveillance over Negro education
 from the elementary grades
 through secondary schools up te
 higher education. Relative to edu-
 cational facilities, he has kept to
 a minimum the per capita expen-
 dltures for qualified teacher per- sonnel, school buildings, and text
 books. Such financial limitations prevent the introduction of mod
 ern teaching methods. Even at
 that, according to some of my Army friends, some of the South ern white youth rue the dav the Negro was first taught the rudi- ments of reading, sritinp and 'r1thmetic." Those of the Souther- ners m and Northerners, who concede the necessity of Negro education even m segregated schools of hiph- CT !earnlng, control the extent of q !ioeraF education by their purse strings. They view with apprehen- slon any radical idea such as fEPC. Such a Aggression from tba pattern of Southern tradition is they claim, and dan to the welfare of the southern Negro, unwittingly in 1uenced by Eastern elements.
 invariably, the result is the anne. Progressive thinking. which would compel a young student to e-evaluate the standards, the op- 'ratlVe ideals, of the society in which he lives, is drowned upon generally speaking, the non 1 progressive student will have a propensity to argue not on the nerlts of the case, but will defend IS section of the country, blindlv nd 1rrationally. He has not earned to think logically and CO., entiy. Even in many liberal arts oileges, whose presidents are con- erned with the tuition solely. the has been placed on fprac-
 cal subjects - how to make loney. Since the means for thel |. of a well-rounded i'm lVldual is NOT available, the ul- mate result is a one-sided indi- dual who cannot see a situation a broad perspective. l.
 The question of the future of { egro education is vital when so any veterans are attendinp hools of higher learning for the I 'st time. We ask: will they oo- ( g to college or will they be get ( ng a broad education for the I cen competition they will face Y UT or five years from now? A ( ore thorough education will nro- 9 lee more quality, rather than ( lallty, Tn our students. It will I able more the younger genera t 'n to discern the real implica- 'ns of economic freedom because V ey will comprehend the problems II
 the oppressed peoples through t t the world and profit both from W cir mistakes and from their e ins. +- One sure method of instituting t: 're liberal education is offered bv a : Du Bois, who carefully ana N zed the problem at Fisk, in the 1T reduction of more progressive, W ahf1ed Negro college presidents ii Hing to digress from obseo1i- e sness to the dollar. He stated in b, Tt: There can be no doubt as W
 the present situation: the if
Hartford chronicle., 1946-09-21
Canada Lee Slated For OthelIo

New York (NNPA) - Canada Lee and Mark Marvin, producers of "On Whitman Avenue" which closed last Saturday night, will join forces with Robert Joseph and Philip Huston to revive "Othello," with MT. Lee playing the title ole.
Hartford chronicle., 1946-09-21

A CRISIS AT FISK-W. E. Burg.
 hardt Du Bois (September 2, Nation)