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Arizona sun., 1947-10-03
General Devers
Awards Diplomas to
Arnv Graduates

CARLISLE BARRACKS, Pennsyl-
vania-Eight Negro officers and IL
enlisted men of three graduating
classes at Carlisle Barracks Army
Information School were recently
presented diplomas by General
Jacob L. Devers, Commanding
General of Army Ground Forces
upon successful completion of
training which qualified them to
serve as Public Information of
ficers, Troop Information and Edu-
cation officers and as assistants
to Troop Information and Educa-
ton officers. The three gradual
ing classes totalled III officers and
SO enlisted men.
Becoming the first Negro Chap
lain to complete the Army's Troop
Information and Education course
was Chaplin (Lieutenant ColoneD
Louis j. BeaSley of Chicago, u
linois. Prior to the outset of World
War II, Chaplin Beasley was as
signed to duty at Fort Leaven-
worth, Texas. One of eleven Negro
Chaplins now holding commissions
in the Regular Army, he is also
the senior Negro Chaplin on active
service with the Army.
Arizona sun., 1947-10-03
Law Seen Forcing
Political Action

Atlantic, City, N. Y.-The Taft
Hartley law compels the American
Federation of Labor to enter the
political field, according to Louis
P. Marciante, president of the New
Jersey State Federation of Labor.
Addressing the opening esssion of
the federation's 69th annual con-
vention at the Hotel Ambassador,
Mr.. Marciante bitterly denounced
the act before the 800 delegates.
Gas the law stands today, unions
that attempt to live under it will
be mutiliated, and those that do not
will be destroyed" he declared.
"The AFL, which has stunned
politics in the past, is now con-
fronted with a new situation that
will compel new policies. The bill
has forced the AFL into the Euro
pean pattern of trade unionism-
half economic, half political. That
means the class system, no matter
how thin you slice it.
Arizona sun., 1947-10-03
Land Granted For
School at Mobile

Mr.. Carter gave the first 20
acres of land for anE Industrial
School which is to be erected at
Mobile, Ariz. and sponsored under
the Charter of the BIDS. and H.
H.A. Association which met at 1884
w. Sherman ST., Phoenix last week
according to DR.. J. H. Grany, Pres.
The School shall be an Institu-
tion, DR.. Gray said, of the Biblical,
Domestic, Social and Helping Hand
Association for Industrial Train
ing. The aim is educating the head,
hands and heart without respect
to creed or persuasion.
A Board of 18 members shall be
elected annually. The officers shall
consist of President, Vice-President,
First, Second, and Third Vice Presi-
dents who shall be elected by the
board.
The organization shall cover the
State of Arizona, reaching into
the homes of all Colored peoples
The work shall be uniform,
governed by the we'll directed plans
on ways and means, reports must
be O. KID in the office of the
President who shall form his
cabinet.
A general supervisor may be a
member of the school board whose
office shall supply all supervisors
and receive all reports.
Arizona sun., 1947-10-03
Bishop Gregg
Given Medal Merit

Secretary of the Army Royal to-
day presented the Medal for Merit
to the Right Reverend John A.
Gregg, of Kansas City, Kansas, and
Chicago, Illinois, Bishop of the At
rican Methodist Church, for his
services during the war.
The ctitation accompanying the
award read:
Bishop John Andrew Gregg, for
exceptionally meritorious conduct
in the performance of outstanding
services to the United Nations dur
ing the period of the recent war.
Bishop Gregg visited the battle
fronts throughout the world as a
representative of forty thousand
Negro churches and six million
members, and served as a good will
ambassador to the fighting forces
on all fronts.
"His unselfish service and devo-
ton to the welfare of our troops is
exemplary of the outstanding work
accomplished by the religious lead
ers of this country during the re-
cent conflict. He rallied the support
of his race for the prosecution of
the war by crystallizing to them
many of the issues that came be-
fore his people in branches of the
service and industrial employment.
Bishop Gregg's interest in assist
ing the War Department in execut-
ing it's mission is manifested in the
high degree which he urged his
people to stand by their own Ma
ton and their own Government"
Arizona sun., 1947-10-03
IS Per Cent Arizona
Employers Violate
Federal Labor Law

Approximately 83 employers in
Arizona agreed to make restitution
of $26, ,723 in back wages to 682
employees because of violations OF
Federal wage and hours laws dis
covered during the fiscal year
ended June 80, it was announced by
Adrian Roberts from his office
in the U. S. Court House Building
in Phoenix. Mr.. Roberts represents
the Wage and Hour and Public
Contracts Divisions, u. S. Depart
ment of Labor, in the State of
Arizona.
The 83 employers making this
restitution represent 40 percent of
the approximately ITO employers
whose establishments were in
spected during the fiscal year for
compliance with the basic mini
mum wage and overtime pay pro-
visions of the Fair Labor STAN
dards Act and the Public Contracts
Act.
Actually IS percent of the Ari-
zona employers inspected were in
violation of the minimum wage or
overtime provisions of one of both
of the Act. The remaining 26 per-
cent failed to pay back wages due.
Arizona sun., 1947-10-03
New Theatre For
East Side Proposed

A new unsegregated theater is
being proposed for the citizens of
East Phoenix regardless of race or
creed, by Mr.. R. M. Dyer, Pres. of
the National Theatres, Inc.
Mr.. Dyer said this will be the
first of a chain of theatres to be
built throughout the country which
will be absolutely free of segrega-
ton on account of race or color.
Organizations as well as individ-
uals are being asked to cooperate
and endorse this move in order to
make such badly needed theatre
in Phoenix a reality, he said.
Sixteenth and East Washington
Streets will be the site of the first
theatre, another one is planned on
South Seventh Avenue. Construc-
ton is supposed to begin as soon as
the go ahead sign is issued by the
government.
Arizona sun., 1947-10-03
No. BA-3S7
Makes Plans 10 Open
Contract On Waues

At special meeting of I. B. E.
w. No. BA-387, held Friday, Sep
tember 26, a special committee was
appointed to open the wage sec
ton of the locals contract and
endeavor to negotiate new wage
scale. The new wage agreement
will become effective December 1.
At the meeting Friday, Darrell
Parker, local attorney, addressed
the members on the Taft-Hartley
law, and explained manyNfeatures
of the new law, all of which appear
to be bad, according to Business
Manager Raymond Weller.
International Representative
Alfred Shackleford also addressed
the members, informing them of
the conditions in the electrical
circles in his territory. A large
group of members turned out, it
ic ronOrtod
Arizona sun., 1947-10-03
HIRE the HANDICAPPED

become self-supporting is as valu-
able to the state as it is to the
boy or girl, or man or woman as
sisted. Hundreds of train e e s
throughout Arizona who are sue
cessfully working in various clerical
and mechanical trades, including
technical and professional positions,
testify to the effectiveness of the
vocational rehabilitation program.
The purpose of National Employ
the Physically Handicapped Week,
Oct. 5-11," is fourfold: Cd to
stimulate the widest possible in
terest in employing the physically
handicapped; CD to encourage
widespread understanding of the
employment problem of the physi-
cally impaired persons; CD to out
line steps that are being taken by
federal and private agencies in
Washington to coordinate plans;
and (4) to set patterns which may
be adaptable for the stimulation
of employment of the handicapped.
The 1916 National Employ the
Physically Handicapped Week cam
paign was successful. Placements
of handicapped persons by the local
employment office increased 81
percent during the month of
October over the previous month.
The week." spearheaded a per-
manent year-round campaign for
the employment of impaired men
and women, including impaired vet
Grams.
Millions of people discovered that
there not only is an employment
problem concerning the physically
impaired, but that something can
be done about it. To make "Na-
tional Employ the Physically Handi-
capped Week." an outstanding
success required hard work-work
which must be done to assure
hundreds of disabled Arizonans
chance to use their abilities to in
crease the states production.
"The last thing that a disabled
veteran wants is sympathy. What
he does want is job or practical
training for a job," stated Dee E.
Reese, veterans employment rep
resentative of the Phoenix local of
flee of the Arizona State Employ
ment Service.
Arizona sun., 1947-10-03
SIX WIVES OF 24TH INFANTRYMEN
join SOLDIER HUSBANDS IN JAPAN

Yokohama, Japan.-Aboard the
United States Army Transport Da-
vid c.. Schanks which docked in
Yokohama harbor last week were
the wives of five enlisted men and
one Warrant Officer who are pres
emily serving with the oath Infan7
try Regiment. Among the most re-
cent Negro civilian arrivals in the
Far Eastern occupational zone, the
wives were met at the docks by
their soldier husbands and were
taken to the 24th Infantry's depen-
dent housing area near its home
station at Camp Majestic, Gifu.
Among the reunited couples
were: Master Sergeant and Mrs.
John H. White of Jackson, Mississ-
ippi; First Sergeant and Mrs. Wes-
ley Dawkins, Columbus, Georgia.;
Techgnical Sergeant and Mrs. Rich
ard c. Grant, Albany, Georgia.;
Staff Sergeant and Mrs. Albert
Ray, Trenton, New Jersey, and
Warrant Officer and Mrs. Oliver
P. Lasley of Glasgow, Kentucky.
The 24th Infantry Regiment, a
part of Major General Charles L.
Mullins 25th "Tropic Lightning
Division recently completed an in
tensive maneuver tour in the Co
tombe maneuver area, within sight
of Japan's storied Mount Fuji. The
25th Division is a part of General
Robert Eichelberger's Eighth Army
which is providing major portion
o troops being employed in the oc-
cupation of Japan.
Arizona sun., 1947-10-03
Okir1awa Add to
List of "Firsts"

NEGRO COUPLE IN OKINAWA
OKINAWA-First Seargent and
Mrs. Wilson F. Patterson, Winston
Salem, North Carolina, have added
another first to their unique
record as members of the Okinawa
garrison. The couples most recent
first" is baby LaVerne Patterson,
the first Negro child to be born
on Okinawa. The event took place
in the islands 37th Station Hospital
and LaVerne weighed seven pounds
and eight ounces at birth.
Mrs. Patterson, the former
ONell Panky, of Winstom-Salem,
North Carolina, was the first Negro
dependent to arrive on Okinawa,
and LaVerne is her first child.
Patterson is the First Sergeant of
the 18th Air Ammunition Squadron
Very Heavy) Bomb Wing.
Arizona sun., 1947-10-03
NEPH GROUP MEETS
ATLABOR DEPARTMENT

ties in connection with the week.
Morse said that Edward L.
keenan,, Deputy Director of the
United States Employment Service
and Chairman of the Federal In
teragency Committee, would advise
the new committee of steps taken
by the Federal agencies to advance
this years National Employ the
Physically Handicapped Week Pro-
gram.
"The Presidents decision to ask
Secretary Schwellenbach to appoint
National Employ The Physically
Handicapped Week Committee was
based on a Department of Labor
report indicating the urgent need
for wider public support of pro-
grams for finding new job op-
portunities for the hundreds of
thousands of disabled men and
women now unemployed" Mr..
Morse said.
Arizona sun., 1947-10-03
Public Group Will
Hold Open Meeting

Maricopa County Employees,
Local No. 743, will conduct an
open meeting in the city police
court room on Wednesday, October
8 at 8 p. M, to which all people
interested in public employment
are cordially invited. County en-
ployeeS are especially invited.
Valuable information about the
organization of public employees
and its plans for aiding its men,
bers can be had.
Most of the public employees
in the twelve hundred AFSC&ME
locals throughout the country are
covered by civil service. They are
proud of the record they have
established in meeting their own
needs and for the high grade SER
vice they render to the people
whom they serve.
A complete system under civil
service, embracing all personnel
procedures, guarantees all that is
to be desired by public employees
and the publican efficient and
professional service throughout.
Review of civil service history
throughout the nation will reveal
the benefit to the employees and
to the taxpayers; that efficiency
is not impaired by the tides of
politics.
Incumbents in positions are
blanketed in without examination.
Their tenure is insured by con-
tinued meritorious service rather
than their ability to push door
bells.
Contrary to logic and reason as
the present system of operating is,
it will prevail as long as you
subscribe to it or do nothing about
it. You can protect your stake in
this matter by attending the meet
ing.
Old age insecurity is another
matter which is dependent upon
your willingness to organize to
overcome. Other public employees
did not win retirement plans
through wiShful thinking. They
organized to get them.
Public employees generally are
the least organized of any group
IN society today, and because of
this, they are the victoms of gross
determinations affecting their eco
nomic and civil rights.
Among other things, they are
denied full citizenship by virtue
of their exclusion from beneficial
state and national laws providing
social security and collective bar
gaming. These laws SHOULD be made
TO apply to ALL American work.
ers. It's up to you.
Arizona sun., 1947-10-03
VETERAN FIGHTER PILOT BURIED
IN ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY

Washington, D. C.-Major An
drew D. Turner of 100 Westford
Place, N. E., Washington, d. Co.
formerly fighter pilot in the Unit
ed States Air Force, was buried
last week in Arlington National
Cemetery with full military honors.
Major Turner was the victim OF
collision involving two single en-
gined aircraft while operating near
his home base at Lockbourne Air
field, Columbus, Ohio.
Six Air Force pilots, all Majors,
drawn from Andrews and Boiling
Fields, adjacent to Washington,
served as honorary pall-bearers. AT
the gate of Arlington Cemetery,
the casket was placed on caisson
drawn by six horses. The procession
was then trooped from the gate for
more than a mile along a road that
wound between the graves OF hal
lowed Army and Navy dead. An
Army Chaplain from Fort Myer,
Virginia, conducted the brief grave
side ceremony preceding burial. At
the conclusion of his prayer, a fir
ing squad volueyed its final salute
to a soldier. '"Taps" sounded over
the eastern slope of the famed Ma
tional Cemetery and the service
was complete.
A former member of the 332nd
Fighter Group, Major Turner serv-
ed in North Africa and Italy under
the 18th and 18th Air Forces. He
flew SO official combat missions
during his overseas tour and was
credited with more than 400 hours
of combat flying time.
Following his return to the States
in 1945, he served as Deputy Group
commander of the 477th Composite
Group at Goldman Field, Kentucky,
and at Lockbourne Air Base, Co.
-Imbus, Ohio. He was lately assign
ed to act as Wing Plans and Train
ing officer of the newly activated
332nd Fighter Wing at Lockbourne.
Arizona sun., 1947-10-03

WASHINGTON, D. C.-Plans for
mobilizing full national support for
this years National Employ The
Physically Handicapped Week OBJ
servance which begins on October
5 were discussed here at the De-
partment of Labor by leading rep
resentatives of industry, labor, vet
erans' and womens' organizations,
religions and professional groups
and clubs.
Meeting at the invitation of
President Truman and Secretary
of Labor L. B. Schwellenbach,
Representatives of these groups
formed a National Employ The
Physically Handicapped Week Com
mittee and darfted program for
cooperation with Federal. State and
local governments in the weeks
observance.
Under Secretary of Labor David
A. Morse opened the meeting with
a brief statement of the aims of
National Employ The Handicapped
Week and the need for wider ma
tional support of the program.
At the invitation of Secretary
Schwellenbach on behalf of Presi-
dent Truman, Vice Admiral Ross
T. McIntire will serve as chairman
of the committee. He will be as
sisted by DR.. Frampton, as Vice
Chairman, and Paul A. Strachan,
Director of the American Fedora
ton of Physically Handicapped.
In announcing the meeting,
Under Secretary Morse said the
committee would devote it's major
efforts to the mobilization of public
opinion back of the handicapped
program. The committees activi-
ties, he said, will supplement those
of the Federal Interagency Com
mittee formed last year to CO.
ordinate and direct Federal activi-
Arizona sun., 1947-10-03
General Bradley
Inspects Troops

LEGHOFN, Italy-General Omar
N. Bradley, Veterans Administra-
ton Chief, on tour of European
installations, recently inspected
American troops in this area,
among them Negro service troops
based in this supply center for
United States forces in the Medi-
terranean.
General Bradley was accompanied
by Lieutenant General John c. H.
Lee, commander of American troops
in the Mediterranean Theater of
Operations, on his inspection tour
of Negro personnel in Military
Police, Transportation, Engineer
and Quartermaster units.
Arizona sun., 1947-10-03
AFL's Asbestos Workers
To Obey Taft-Hartley Law

Chicago.-The A.F.L.'s Asbestos
Workers Union, in convention here,
pledged conformance with the Taft
Hartley law and revised it's own
union law for that purpose.
Delegates authorized the chang
ing of contracts with employers to
delete closed shop provisions in
order to comply with the new laws
ban on the closed shop.
Arizona sun., 1947-10-03
S. Men Recuited
During Drive
Throughout State

1t was announced b Colonel F.
+. Fraser, Executive Officer, Ma
tional Guard of Arizona, that in
the National Guard recruiting
drive after its first week of it's CO.
day campaign 55 men were re-
cruited throughout the state. Over
500 of the new members were
veterans with prior service in the
armed forces.
Arizona sun., 1947-10-03
Hundreds OF People
Working in Arizona
Handicapped Trained
tn holm q dis

To help a dis
abled er S o n
ov com e a
physical handi-
cap which pre-
vents him from
f I'll ow i n g his
previous voca-
ton by refrain
ing him in anoth-
er occupation
where he can
Arizona sun., 1947-10-03

The man with a grievance put
it aptly when he said he wanted
to engage in some corrective bar
gaining.
Arizona sun., 1947-10-03

Without comment, we pass on
the statement of a pun-making
colleague who said, "The new
NLRB is loaded with Denhamite."
Arizona sun., 1947-10-03

times the next few weeks
poster Employ the Physically Handicapped
Week. established by law and marked by
special emphasizing handicapped workers good work
they a a suitable jobs.
NCopes poster and small sizes be obtained from
local public employment Offices
Arizona sun., 1947-10-03

reported
Evening star., 1947-02-08
New Drug Reduces
Need for Surgery
By the A.soeioted Press

NEW YORK, Feb. 8.-The New
York Herald Tribune said today a
newfand powerful drug which treats
many infections ordinarily requiring
surgery has been discovered at Co.
lumbia University's College of Ply
sicians and Surgeons.
The newspaper says the drug was
named bacitracin in honor of a New
York girl, Margaret Tracy, In whose
injured leg the organism which pro-
duced the antibiotic was found.
Can antibiotic agent is biolog-
ical product of a living cell which
inhibits or kills other living cells,
including bacteria)
The Herald Tribune said thai
bacitracin, like penicillin, had 9
wide range of antibacterial action
and had demonstrated ability tc
control many surgical infections by
local injections.
So far the most consistent success
has been had in the treatment Of
boils, deep assesses and superficial
assesses, but also the paper re-
lates, variety Of bacteria, in gen.
eral the same ones combated with
penicillin, appear to be sensitive te
the drug.
In the 100 cases Of surgical infec-
tions treated locally with bacitracin
favorable response was demon
strated in 88, the Herald Tribune
says.
Evening star., 1947-02-08
Tickets for Opera Guilds
Concert Feb. 70 on Sale

Tickets for the Washington Op-
era Guilds concert for seven young
area singers with operate ambitions
ere on sale at the Willard Hotel
and Guild headquarters at 1923
Pennsylvania avenue N. w., Miss
Dorothy Remington, chairman OF
the executive committee, an
nounced today.
Scheduled for the night of Feb
ruary 20 in the Mayflower Hotel
ballroom, the concert is the end
product of an addition held during
December for young singers within
a 100-mile radius. Its purpose was
to stimulate the development of
American operate singers.
OF the seven Mayf1ower FINAL
ists," three or four will be selected
for appearances at Carnegie Hall,
New York, and a subsequent con-
cert tour. Chosen from a field OF
los by Anton Schubel, former Met
ropolitan Opera Company chorus
master, the seven appearing at the
Mayfower are:
Miss Mary Jane Abdill, 1904 Guns
ton road, Alexandria, dramatic So
prano; Miss Marie Handy, 1850 Con-
necticut avenue N. W., lyric So
prano; Miss Ramona Nevros, 73a
Otis place N. W., lyric soprano;
Miss Diana Wilder, 1903 Hamilton
street, Hyattsville, Md, dramatic So
prano; Robert Hoffman, 301 South
Cleveland street, Arlington, tenor;
Ernest Paul Suit, 302 N. Alfred
street, Alexandria, tenor, and Ken
meth A. Grafton, Alb Rittenhouse
street N. w. basso.
Evening star., 1947-02-08
Newspaperwomen Give
$500 for 6. W. U. Clinic

The White House was the setting
yesterday for a brief ceremony in
which the American Newspaper
Women's Club presented $500 to
equip a diabetic clinic in the new
George Washington University Hos
pital, under construction at Wash
ington Circle.
Mrs. Margaret Hart Candy, club
president, handed a check to DR.
Cloyd H. Marvin, university presi-
dent. Mrs. Truman witnessed the
presentation, Mrs. Candy, who is
society editor of The Star, said that
the gift was an initial payment on
a club pledge and that others will
be made later.
With Mrs. Candy were Mrs.
Charles Arthur, chairman of the
clubs Hospital Committee: Miss
Eta Mai Russell, Mrs. Robert E.
Freer, Mrs. Jessie FAINT Evans and
Mrs. Florence Cooksley, all club
members. Mrs. Truman is an hon.
orary member of the club.
Evening star., 1947-02-08
|Hough Surrenders
|0n Fraud Charges
lover GI Housing
fFrom Yesterdays Last Edition.)

fFronl Yesterdays Last Edition.)
Stanley P. Hough, 40, whose real
estate operations with Washington
area veterans have been under in
Ivestigation since his arrest here De-
cember 80, surrendered today in the
United States marshals Office in
Alexandria, Va, to answer fraud
charges.
The builders appearance to ac-
cept service of a bench warrant
| for his arrest on a Federal grand
jury indictment coincided with the
opening session of Alexandria Dis
trict Court today.
Hough appeared at the Office Of
United States Marshal G. Stuart
| Hamm at 1880 p.m.-half an hour
before he had promised to show up.
The builder was flngerprinted in
| the nlarshal's Office and left after
providing a $2,500 bond.
Marshal Hamm said he telephoned
Hough yesterday and that the in
dicted real estate operator then
promised to appear.
His arrest was ordered in bench
warrant issued by Judge Robert N.
Pollard following the Newport News
(Va.) Federal grand jury's indict-
ment of Hough, accusing him of de-
vising scheme to defraud veterans
and using the mails to defraud
The indictments charge Hough
accepted payment for homes and
failed to complete them.
Mr.. Hamm said, however, that
Hough asserted he had been in
Washington for the past week.