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left few stones unturned in Placing Negroes in command posi ton, from top to bottom of the Me of organization in the fighter Eup then under his command. Rtoup went overseas it all Negro officers from the noup command down. Col. B. O.

5rJr waa the group com Xolonel Selway was always avall "le to the men under him and sintamed a comraderie with his jwen that bred respect and rap But the colonel, who is a West nnter and very ambitious, is not counter to the wishes joe Air Forces just to prove wa liberal and a "good aiua io De a brigadier gener He knows others of his class "SJ" ho have reached this KoaL jnere was little doubt concern uft'Air Forces' wishes when Gen. F. O'D. Hunter, officer of the First Air 122" 'ent to Selfridge after the hd uPheld the Negro offi in the "officers' club incident," "ad the riot act to them. lLWa no douot of the Air wishes when the unit was Sim.

tl0J? Selfridge to isolated Field, even though the was said officially to be the at Godman feel that ckw. oel way leaning over aUUCI LU LI1B U.a7 i w'he that these men be their places." iB P1 csr qualified 22 officers and non coms in the uua tneir mTMiu mr d. th. vfawM a BKMU 1 1 1 1 I JAMEN REQUEST KS RIGHTS' Polnr v. A seven i on conmendation for legisla i.Rlhy 'or Merchant Sea tiv.

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Col. Selway Blamed For Low Morale Of Bomber Pilots By HARRY McALPIN (Second of a Series) WASHINGTON, D. C. (NNPA) Three things are uppermost in the minds of the enlisted men and officers of the 477th Bombardment Group rthe first unit of its land in Army history stationed at God man Field, where morale is low, nerves tre on the verge of crackiner, and tensions are at the breaking point. Four days of "on the spot" in 8 a Twijfition convinced this corres pondent that the men want first to ft? and maintain their nlanes without flaw or mishap.

Second they want to be ''rescued'' from the Southern atmosphere into which they feel they have been thrust "in order to teach them to stay to their places." And third of equal, if not transcendant import ancethey want to jyet rid of CoL Robert Selway as their group com nanaer. i This latter, thpv f1 la Imncra Ifre. In the colonel they see the bodiment of all their problems Bd griefs. fAS RESPECTED But these men, especially those ho have been with the unit from 4 bejrinninjr. have Snot felt always ais animosity and resentment to Colonel Selway.

They are quick to wnt out, howeverj that the col el has been a different man since the "officers' cluh inMim" at wifndKe, which was revealed in week's article and the rubse Mnt move to Godman Field. tl day at Selfridfire litli Colonel Rclwnv waa 1i1r1 putable policyit Godman Field is to place white officers in all command and staff positions, regard less of their lack of experience just so they are white. And this is Deing.aone win tne consent of and also despite an order from the First Air Force. The First Air Force gave Its consent in an order sent to the commanding officer of the 477th Bombardment Group on July 19. That order contained an "authorization for WHITE officer personnel" for the Group Headquarters and for each squadron.

Colonel Selway, Packed Dy mis authorization, is continuing the "white officer" practice, despite the further contents of the same order of July 19, which says the white officer authorizations "are to be filled by colored personnel oezore the unit is committed, and authori zation for white personnel is to be used only until such time that I colored personnel have Deen tained for these positions." MUST BE WHITE. The order says further "as va cancies authorized for white personnel are filled by TRAINED Negro personnel, this headquarters will be notified in order that WHITE AUTHORIZATIONS MAX be reduced accordingly." (Capitals ours.) By the very wording or tne it becomes apparent that even the First Air requires groes be "trained," but the qualifications fori white officers is only that theymust be WHITE, i This single fact has caused more resentment than anything else at Godman Field. And the blame is .1 Clara, nliathar Vi feserves to bear it or not. There are a number of specific examples to illustrate this point. There is a young lieutenant at Godman Field who has nine months of training as I an engineering officer.

He has 700 hours of special "A i 'y is ized training on 25's. Recently he left the field to attend school further. When he left he was engineering officer of one of the squadrons. Upon his return he found he had been relieved of his duty and placed as assistant engineering of ficer to a white lieutenant. Both are graduates in engineering at Yale, but the Negro officer has additional training plus engineering experience.

The white lieutenant bas neither. The squadron commander has told the Negro lieutenant that it would be a gamble on the lives of the men to change now, though he did not consider it a gamble when he took the white lieutenant without experience. We just can't make the change now for obvious reasons, he said. Another lieutenant, with 7.000 flying hours to his credit (includ 1.1. A I.

1 1. 1 i neia a responsiDie posiuon in me fighter group at Selfridge, is now under a squadron commander who has less hours in 25's than he has, no overseas experience, and incapable of handling men particularly Negroes. Indicative of the squadron commander's lack of knowledge of handling men was his procedure at a meeting he held following a near riot caused by segregation of the Negro soldiers from Godman at the post theatre on nearby Fort Knox. Captain Parker, the squadron called a meeting of the colored officers in his squadron. He told them he wanted them to co operate with him in( helping to quell racial disturbances by enlisted men.

He said the group is not here to create racial problems. "All we have to do here is to get ready to fight overseas," he Then Captain Hodire. a Nesrro. told his fellow officers that the'en Ays 4 S1r ssHf GENERAL DAVIS SEES LAIOR LEADERS During his tour of Army eontlnest. Brig.

Gen. Ben'temin O. Davis held en fMhe recrd chat with labor leaders touring the European fronts. Lett to right: David J. McDonald, secretary treasurer United Stael Workers; Sherman H.

Dafrymple, prasi t'ircJ Rubber Worltarsj R. J. Thomas, pri 't Hitler's Ideology Blasted, Too S. Takes Drastic Steps In Italy To Smash Nazi. Race Hate Campaign By OLXJE HARRINGTON, Courier War Correspondent ROME, Italy With Adolf Hitler's "invincible" Wehrmacht meeting defeat on all fronts, not the least significant defeat is on that, often neglected front where words and ideas are used instead of tanks and guns.

One of the basic principles of Nazism and Fascism is the fallacious theory of hereditary racial differences and the resultant race supremacy doctrine. I have rather anxiously watched this war of ideoloeies for many months. The great stress laia upon it dv tne Nazis is an indication that they realiza they could suffer a military defeat and yet establish a Nazi victory by convincing the world of the tightness of basic Nazi NAZIS USE RACE LEAFLETS A typical example of the Nazi propaganda plot is a leaflet, Jlrst brought to my attention in February, 1944, by many discouraged Ne GIs. Upon closer investigation, discovered that the material was literally flooding all Italian towns occupied by the Allies. The leaf let read: "The Italian and American Committee for the Preservation of the Italian Race.

We Italian Americans with deep pain must see that a certain nucleus of Naples dares to walk in the streets with the Negro and dares also to Invite them Only the lowest type ofpeopie could thus lower itself. The Italian people, conquered and humiliated as they are already, ought not permit mud or dirtiness to be cast upon them. "When will your honor, your pride in being Italian and white Incite you to scorn justly the Negro? Do you not know that the Negro Is an inferior being, that he must live in America only among his own people? All Americans say to us: 'Look, the Italian people too are "But the day will come in Italy for vindicating this depravity. Then the machine gun will cut down the prostitute who sells the honor of her race and the people will seek revenge upon her and the black son whom this crime has brought forth to light." NAZI RADIOS INCITE PREJUDICE When this' leaflet made its ap pearance, the Italian people from Sicily to Naples had received col ored troops as Americans, witn the. appearance of this vicious propaganda, certain ruffian elements took up the cry at the same time as the Berlin and Rome radios concentrated their fury on the "bestial and rapacious" Ne groes.

But for the immediate action tak en by our counter intelligence, the situation might have assumed se rious proportions, especially as the Nazis had struck at I our Achilles heel. Unfortunately some Ameri faw lMt1ira4 I A riMak an 1 al in February, three Italian can iis were court maruaiiea. During the proceedings excerpts were read from the leaflets dis tributed by the accused men Fortunately. however, tne propaganda did very little to change the existing relationships between the American white and black troops as they continued as they had been. I am still contin uing to find these leaflets posted in Italian towns.

Many Italian civilians consider them of an offici al nature, but the great majority have been quick to notice the similarity between this type of propa ganda and that emanating zrom the Berlin radio. It is in this respect that the Goebbel's machine has suffered a reverse, for the Italian people, aft er tneir terrible ordeal, win nave no more of anything which faintly reeks of Nazism. listed men who went to the thea tre were wrong. "They didn't have any business over there," said Cap tain Hodee. With Captain Parker's approval Captain Hodge said it has been the nolicv of the Armv to sesrre eate for hundred years, Such segregation, he continued, was going, on before these men were born, and there is' nothing that can be done about it.

"You have no business to think you can come here and break it up," he declared. Then he and Captain Parker threw out a challenge. "If this thing doesn't stop we are going to break up this squadron. With a flick of the pen we can break up this squadron and you dfficers will be sent to engineering battal ions and service units," they both said more than once ior emphasis. Three 1 times, in an interview with Colonel Selway, this corres pondent asked specifically for the background of training and ex perience or the four squadron commanders, all white.

Three times the colonel avoided answering the question and generalized about the probability that some changes would be made one of these days. The operations officer of the 617th Squadron, for example, Capt. Cecil Kllzey, has never Deen an operations officer before. He was a flying instructor. But he is white.

(Next week Reactions cers and enlisted men.) of offi crti 11 i is a 4 dant. United Auto Workers, CIO; General Davit, Frank P. Finton, director, AFL; Eric Petersen, executive vice president the Intarnational Association of Machinists, AFL; and Albert L. Waganer, Interna tional Brotherhood Electrical Workers, AFL Signal Corps Photo from OWI. pwmwwaw ''ViSw 4L.iT 't SMOKE GENERATORS WIN CERTIFICATES Soldi.

fh England, members of a Chemical Smoka Ganara tor battalion, stand at attention aftar receiving the Certificate of Merit for their meritorious and outstanding performance in providing smoke screen protection for Allied forces at an invasion port. Left to right: First Lt. Jesaph S. Colson, Elisabeth City, Denied Right Of Trial Man Freed In Honolulu HONOLULU (ANP) An argu ment on the constitutional rights of an American Negro. Fred I Spurlock, 32.

who, in 1942 was sentenced to a five year term in Oahu prison by a Honolulu pro vost court judge, freed the man last week and a cancellation of a $500 bond was effected. Spurlock on March 24, 1942, was convicted by the court of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, a knife, and was sentenced to five years in the penitentiary. Last week Spurlock testified in 9 habeas corpus proceedings that he was sentenced to serve the five years without being tried. His attorney, Brahan Houston, appointed by the court, told the court that it convicted his client, without authority and without constitutional justification. The man's freedom came after U.

S. Judge J. Frank McLaughlin handed down a 19 page decision in federal court, in which he declared that "the provost court bad neither jurisdiction over Spurlock's person nor over the offense with which he was 1 V5 Aw N.C.; Second Lt. Paul Wesley, Chicago; First Sgt. Jamas T.

Diggs, Winston Salam, N.C.; SSgt. Allan L. Conay, McComb, SSgt. Edward M. Sandem.

Graat Falls, Sgt. Earl W. Brown, St. Louis, Sgt. Jamas J.

Moore, Youngstown, Ohio, and T5 Curtis Rata, St. Louis, Mo. U.S. Army Signal Corps Photo. ARC Workers Reach India WASHINGTON (ANP) Arrival in India of four additional Negro Red Cross workers was announced by American Red Cross National headquarters here this week.

The four, who will serve as staff assistants, are Mabel Vir finia Bailey, "105 West Springfield, loston; Mildred A. DiPietro, 45 Loomis street, Nanticoke, Alice Marjorle Johnson, 45 Richmond drive, Old Greenwich, Faye Sandifer, 935 St. Nicholas avenue, New York City. R5 AW 5: sx HAWAIIAN BEAUTY Attractive Luciana Ivory has big postwar plans. She expects to dasart her native island and make the return trip to Chicago with har husband, Charles Ivory, now working in a dafansa plant in Hawaii.

Where Is She? Wounded Vet Can't Find Wife; "I Might As WeU Be Dead," He Says in Pitiful Letter CAMP GORDON JOHNSTON, Fla. "I lost my health doing what I could to help defend America. Nowf the only thing I want to live for is my wife. If i can't have her, there is nothing else to live for." These words were written from the bed of Sgt. E.

L. Lucas, recently returned from overseas duty where he was wounded in combat, In a letter to The Pittsburgh Courier this week asking this paper's assistance in helping to locate his wife, Sergeant Lucas revealed that he earned both the Purple Heart and Distinguished Service Cross. WANTS WIFE, OR DEATH His wife is in possession of both medals, he added. Declaring that he has lost 30 pounds and is almost completely insane, Sergeant Lucas declares "I'll be better off dead unless someone finds my wife." In describing her, he says: "She is 6 feet, 7 inches tall, is 18, but can pass for ,21, and is a good dancer and a fine singer. On the stage she does an island dance under the name of Machusie.

She resembles a Creole, has black hair.x wears bangs and parts her hair in the middle, and answers to the name of Geneva McBeth or Geneva Lucas." Mrs. Lucas has relatives in Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania, her husband says. Sergeant Lucas may be reached by mail at Hgd. Sec. 2, at Camp Gordon Johnston.

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