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i iriHps and ooiomais (jgmect nothing to come (fjfthe San Francisco con ra PxceDt new lxcixu iTiethods of doing the i nld things. Previous vm and gff kraWDKR. Communl IIU us in the Sunday tht It has been the 3 polirv of American Com? i to "rpfrain from public 2an" of the jim crow luue Liml sri ice. That studied policy of Bilbo, McKfilcr. fTConwd'y.

et 0. TT' If nnAirAV P'Am. liar vwj m. fears that its. job program ia.

tauiuu Vrsrir defied by organ iJtbor, as has happened Bedlora, a lesi Labor is becoming to the iive. It is learn slavery by any other is still slavery. HIN'G XEW under the I the larRe sums of money ana women are corners oi Itrncemrn from diitai to the yt ef tU prog itrp in advai wmcemen from distant Yalta set the Tor utn wvv NAACF for tne proRrara. It is a ance rnen our pler learn inai we mini HT WBt we want ana ui a philanthropy ana pro the critical davs on the Front when Rund4 armies broke through fillied lines and almost the channel, the U.S. 5 Command suddenly Seed that white and soldiers could fight Mde in the same out all.

Now that thaw what about all separate Negro und practicing the de pry we preach? been mearinr the Dirialoo, too! fo (dot hi service reeortl Is laW and that MacArthur pawd it Ramon reaching aui are spread with en as by Ngrophobiats. This i arntahli' fruit of segreffa I laataininr separate racial a ampir an invltatioB to Bsaen and dlspararemen utill doubt that? Colonial Secretary Oliver Stanley must his little joke. Last 1 told an American 8 in London that Ensr ft colonial empire "makes aitnbution to theBnt ochequer, but instead ive the eauivalent of fJ.wjo every year for xt ten years from the pa taxpayer." Why then cn keepingr such a lia Oris li aVTTnr DDITlfill a as pniltoii of Mitionary Societies ff thf cne by apnealinff of the color ar In JifoloniM. saying, "there no dicriminatioa tro and between one "nr." But if there were onld the whites Ure so 177 roiored live so poor banker, slockhoiders colonial officers. They rws i ascist goyern bpain has condemn I Japanese atrocities in This Ls like a buzzard a hyena a scavenger.

Oil. BARONS, jjf of annual profits of in saudi Arabian oil now drilJinr for oil In wonder F.D.B. hob "mij.hu with the ldngs 7 fountri. incidental' 1' line Is being 1 American Treaa oil the the White Escapes Walter 'tr York Post SBrt niay when his vnosed over after 0 si em i ir ashsnsr Into hos litter ca.es. He minor bruises.

f3L v7 ANNA. MOHRISON Riehmoad. Ky.) bullets greaswoman reviewed jtj iecial guard of honor wiuv atajor uw. (Contimtod on Pmgo M. CoZ.

PVT. ALfCE YOUNG (Wtaiaton, 0. ACS PRO IE URGED Thras Now York City Congrattmon and tks NAACP kavs stkad invartiastisnt inio iks cosvietiont of four Wsei st Lovall Gasaral Hospital, Fort Davons, Man. Tka young woman woro sostoncod to a yoar ot kard. IN THE FIELD WITH THIS U.

artillery sickening odor blood. MOST MEN FROM n. theae tankmen are very ordinary chiefly from DIXIE of Juration, coming towns deep in aaia sissippi. Alabama, me and eika. They f3SZ bersome and eompUcated vehicles wth the ease and Jf middle aged matron trundling a Sbv crriag intenaely.

congous of the special role wtfA tta Negro soldier must play war. thev have'ln trail of goodwui beSnd them on their passage TSv. ii b.r facI Euro peans of all ranks nd ages remove their bats and VjVrmSd uUy at attention as the armorea (Continued on Pago CoL 1 ffles Democratic Approach Li. lAT pgresswoman ror lviixea Visits 92nd Troops Br COLLINS GEORGE. Cornier War Correspondent rrir ru 1.1 mmitu look tr 10 eniiv lntssTated into the C.to1.

ur VLVl. veai wnita. That one of the a two hour inspection of the 92nd ti vision last Friday. Inspection of the Division was part of Congreaawoman I uce ac a irtdt 1 ttt Italian front. Upon arriving at Division Head nnw nadir tents in a wooded grove surrounded by flpw erinc fruit trees, the blond Cqn PVT.

MARY GREEN. (Conres, Tax.) "iff tf HI HllKlFiil I f'1' 1 "'l' "i "i aaaM World r. wrrsw TOBAY I liiia IssrltlA. isiSwvi WSSSSfeAMv Jer IBFggj I kf .1 II i. krlM I 1 I 1 1 I I I 1 I III! II II II II I I I I I I III 11 III Mil Mil MM II I IK 17 1 I AZt 1 will be in 1 fiatukp latist miws uadu ih advutisin.

ciiculation and niws cliam and ptofttissiYi I 1 T'rwlrv vl mmmcg wac cash a S. NINTH ARMY (By Cable) The mm Mfi 4 5 ihi l.f PVT. JOHNNIE MURPHY (Ranlcia, Pa.) labor and diakonorably ditckarsod for rofuiing Fightingest Tank Outfit In ETC 784th Wins In Capturing to porform tkotr dutio on tko grounds tkat thoy wara boing discrnntnatod against bacausa of raco, and wars forcod to do labor not aisignod to wkito Wact. It is uadarstood tkat thair attornay. Julian Rainay of Boston, kas unoartkad naw ovidoneo.

Battle Honors German Towns )DORE STANFORD, Courier War Correspondent 784th Tank Rattilion CTackNegro unit, which recenUy received its first real baptism of fire during 0 nrfSiiinst Nazi bastions in Holland and Germany, has won for it outfit in the European Theatre th kind of fight these men put up at such bitterly contested towns a Savalen, Straa eelin, Kamperbruck and Bhsin burg hsvs become favorite topics of conversation amon? hard bitten soldTers whose day to day lhww filled with tne wnipi Tr and ine mbiwi fire ana tne ot new'iy ipuisu Po we 1 1 Asks Gibson To Resign War Post WASWTWVTON Renresentative Adam Clayton Powell Jr, Twen ty second Congressional District, New York, Issued the following state ment Marcn zjra, aa regaras me wihykw Nerro Assistant to the Secretary of War, concerning the Ninety second I POWELL STATEMENT tor Whites Unly 92nd Oflcers, Club Moved By COLLINS GEORGE (Courier War Correspondent). WITH FIFTH ARMT IN ITALY ir rflLhlai Demoeracv won a minor victory In the Ninety second Tnfantrv Division this week end wti.fi tha Tang XJesirover aax.tar lion Officers Club, patronised chiefly by white officers of the Division, moved from the heart of the com mand area, ox tne utviaton to a new location under the pressure of publicity. otwivinsr an unnrecedented order. three Negro officers Capt. Wesley B.

Johnson, wnicago. atiacnea tha Dlviaion'g Supply Unit; Capt. Dan 8. Taylor. Memphis, attached tn Etrvialon inteiucenee.

ana xar jnr Bart Cumbv. Memnbla. at i tn the Adlutant General's Headquarter, moved into the hotel, which formerly housed tha segregated Tank club, after higher officers declared "those eorreapon denta are saying we are running a segregated hotel." MP SENDS WRONG MAN TO CLUB A white MP still remains on duty at the door of the former club to direct those he think white to the new location of the (CoaMftited on Pago CoU 1) "Mr. Truman Gibson should have the decency to resign. It is evident that he has let himself be usen Whether his selling of the Negro down the river was conscious or unconscious I do not know but the damage has been done.

If Mr Gibson basn the decency to re sign then the War Department should know that his effectiveness aa it affects Negroes has come to an end. Mr. Gibson's usefulness is finished. "From now oh he Is a liability.1 Not only the hundreds of thousands of Negroes serving in the Army and Navy have repudiated him but millions of mothers, fathers, wives, sweethearts and other relatives of America's tan Tanks want no more of Gibson. His presence In the War Department will mean a permanent block between rood relationship on the part of America's fifteen million Negro citisena and the FELL IN TRAP" "It is evident that Mr.

Gibson walked into a trap. About a month and a half before he left he told me personally almost the exact interview that he gave in Europe a few davs ago, only he told me personal It at that time that be 'had been In other words, Mr. Gibson seemingly was sent to Italy to say, as a Negro what someone had told him to say (Confix wed on Pago $, Col. 9) Reopening Sought By Julian Rainey BULLETIN! WASHINGTON Refeesearatives Adas Cioytoe Powell, Emoasel Cellar and VI re Marcasteaio. sll of New York, have ielaed la a request to SeoetTf of War Stiatsda fee ssi Isvesrigarlaa of rke cose oad a troascriat oi tae ceart ssaitlal racard of rke fear Negro Wees receatty coa vie red and ssatsaced at Pert Dawes.

Mass. By LEOTIIA HACKSHAW, Special Correspondent BOSTON All Boston is rife with speculation this week as to the pros and cons of the "Fort Devens Negro Wacs sit down strike." Because the strike of the Negro Wacs is the first of its kind, the case has aroused unusual interest 0 Negro residents. Boston leaders are divided in their opinions. Atty. Julian Rainey, counselor for the four girls found guilty of insubor Nurses Segregated At Fort Devens Hospital WASHINGTON.

D. (By NNPA) Investigation of reported segregaoon of Negro cadet nurses at the Military Hospital at Fort Devens. Mass. scene of the Wae sit down strike and sobaeqnent court martial and conviction of four of them has been requested by Mrs. Mabel K.

Stampers, executive secretary of the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses. i dination. announced that he had discovered new material and sensa tional evidence which he hoped to introduce into court if he is successful in his attempt to have the court reconvened. Julius D. Steele, president of the Boston NAACP and executive rector of the Armstrong Hemenway Foundation, has issued a statement to the press in which he "deplores the action of the colored Wacs." and refers to them as "misguided in their action.

Behind the charges and counter charges are a long series of complaints on the part of the girls that the Army personnel and civilian workers discriminated against them because they were Negroes. Tne lour coun mamueo Wacs are still being held In com Continued on Page Col. 3) Companion Killed Harold Martin Dies In Crash wiSHiNfiTON. D. Major HaMirf Martin and Client ui flcer Charles W.

Stephens, of the Tuskegee Army Air eia, were kiUed in an airpiane icciatm Reidsville. N. last jsaturoay while on a routine cross country xtminr Martin, director of ground mvi at Tnekeeee Army Air Field. was a graduate or norwicn uni versity. Northfield.

Vt ana new York university, ai nontim nartlciDated in football, baseball, track and hockey. Prior to entering upon active duty in the Army in aaajor Martin was an instructor avnu wku at Jkfiner Teachers College, and official and a member of tha hoard of directors of the ll ered intercollegiate ainieuc aivlaHnn Ma waa married to the former uiu Beatrice C. Boyd and the father of two children. He waa the son of J. E.

Martin of Boston. liilll Do you have the ability to accept criticism. "EASTER EGGS" FOR HITLER Tko 969th Fi'ald ArfHI.ry Battalion, a 155 mm. howitzor outfit, was ono of tho tkirty four units racaiving Prasi dantial citations this month for heroic action in tha Battogna area wkon attachad to tha I 0 I st Airborno Division. Laft photo at top: Pvt.

Ed mond Southern of Floranca, holds powdai charge; Pvt. Adalbert C. Cobbs, Chicago, stands ready with rammer staff and Pfc. Lewis McFarland, Albany, loads shall in breech of 4.5 inch gun. Center photo (top): Corp.

Henry Brown, Bivins, and T4 Davis Booker, Kansas City, "boresigkt" thair 4.5 inch gun which Is supporting tka U. S. Ninth Army in Germany. At right (top), man are shown cleaning their gun between firing operations. In bottom photo, T5 William E.

Thomas, Atlantic City, and Pfc. Joseph Jackson, Clarksdale, prepare an Easter present for Hitler. U. S. Signal Corps Photos.

INFANTRY ADVANCES Wmm HEAVY EIRE Tat fallraiaa stary, cicltnm tt Tat Cauritr ia Its StM, kas bate raayriffatetf by Oicneas News Aatacr. R0raeuctiaa ia ar ia part uprrsslr fartnaSca. By MIKE LEVIN, Overseas News Agency AT THE RHINE BRIDGEHEAD These Negro infantry volunteers, with whom I talked, forming the first of such units on the Western front, are modest 5 7J about their action in volun teerin Thev are not teiiecruai types, nor ao most of them have more than average education. Many of them are Southerners, real down to earth guys who know the score. A great many have seen plenty of hot action since Day as front line truck dnvers.

SHOOTING BACK Pfc Nolan Crocklett of Baton Rouge, who drove a trtick since the invasion, said, '111601 Jerries been shootin' at us nnrl wo wanted chance to shoot back." Added Pfc. Edwin Broome of Douglas, "Maybe we can get home quicker this way." They told me or tneir nrst acuon, wmcn uwk piace ou nio ht march when thev encountered Jerries dug in in a quarry. "We were taken up in a fire fight before we knew it. and then this big old Mark tank popped up only yards away from us." BATTLE TANKS Kafir at rpnmpntal headauarters Col. J.

E. Seitr of ijike Forest. 111., told me about this incident. A tank suddenly confronting you at night is the scariest HT Jh. object in the world.

$ui tnese new ixegru uwps tuvu get panicky. They held their ground until tank destroyers (Continued on Pago 4. Col. i) Berth 13 In Reverse Soldiers Attack Woman In Pullman HAMLET. N.

C. (ANP) Two white soldiers are being held at Camp Mac kali, N. nea here, on charges ot criminally attacking Mrs June Knight of Raleigh, while she was a passenger in a Pullman compartment on a Seaboard Airline train Wednesday. Mrs. Knight, it waa learned, was attacked by the two sol lOtn.

HcblU ON UstllAS lUeWlttrUn dierV identified as T5 Derme ATLANTA, Mint Bond, Stata College Atlanta Ca (ANP) Dr. Horace prvaidrnt of Fort Valley and Ralph McGill. editor. Conatitutlon. have been aeieciafl by Got.

Ellis Arnail of Georpa to serve os tha IJberiaa Caatenslal Coamlsaioa. tt ar ataeloosa We4aaaer Tka two wtU nataeaat oaarfia ea taa Tentry or uamp tsutner, ana SSgt. Edward Mlnie of Fort Ben nlng. as she was en route home from Fort McClellan, Ala where she had been vieiUng her husband. Mrs.

Knight and tha soldiers, it (CeiUtavuew em Pgw 04V ij. CAPTURE AIRFIELD ON RHINE Performing Brilliantly In Push East of Rhine By MUTE JJSXtS (Copyright. 1945, Overseas News Agency.) AT THE RHINE BRIDGEHEAD For a visit to the front line units of our Negro infantry on the western front, it is necessary to creep along ditches and to go on the double across open spaces under enemy observation. There is plenty of seres ming Meemie fire reaching the shallow bole on the edge of the first captured airfield on the other side of the Rhine, seized with the participation of a Negro platoon. This hole may be entered only bv means of a flat dive, and it is the most rudimentary command post I have seen, consisting of room for two outstretched men, and a phone, but I squeezed inside, like a sardine Injected into a tight can.

DOING OKAY After waitine for the earth to stop wobbling from shell saJvos, Lieut. William Ratchford. of Shar on, 3. white commander of explained he had not due his hole deeper because he had been in somewhat of a hurry. Most of his Negro platoon was farther ahead, "and doing okay, getting broken into the infantry the hard way." the Lieutenant commented.

'The Negro troops saw their first two men killed as they approached the air field," he continued, "but they took the field, unshaken." His mate in his microscopic hole, Sgrt. Oharles Wilkinson of Ingle side, Texas, said to me, feelingly: "It beats me why all those colored boys volunteered for the infantry. (Continued on Page CoL I) Case Continued Marva, Joe In Court CHICAGO (By ANP) The first round in the divorce suit arainst Sgt. Joe Louis, world heavw. weight boxing champion, waa beard here last week before Superior Court Judge John A.

Sharbaro, who continued the case amid wide spread rumors of reconciliation. Tbe persent marital rift marked the scond time Mrs. Louis has filed divorce charges against her famous husband. She charred cruelty In 1W1, but dropped tha case. This time she ls charging desertion.

Reconciliation rumors may ba based upon reports that Marva and Joe traveled from New Tork her on the same train and were said to be aa loving a 'love birds." According to another report, Marva is said to have looked at Joe In court and remarked: "I love that man." The White South Speaks ARKANSAS By JOHN H. YOUNG III VT NKST FAOit 2MD fttCTtOM bv;.