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~The hopes of man have Sereres
and festered into cynicism, éclared
Herbert Agar, editor of- Louisville
Courier-Journal, speaking at the
annual convention of Alabama Edueation Association held here.

~at the close of the first~ World
War the United States had a chance
to lead civilization, but muffed it.
The returning soldiers found that
this nation was not willing to back
up its pledged words and that betrayal~ broke the hopes of mankind
in other nations..

~Japan,~ he continued speaking
to this white association, ~is using
the.occasion te. sow in the minds
of ~Asiatics thé ideas that Americans are bigots, untrust-worthy and
oppressive of lower races. If we
lose Asia, we lose the war.

~In God~s name, why don~t we do
something about the Negro, instead
of yapping about why England does
not. do something about India? Mistreatment of- unprivileged people is
at the base of the cause of this war.~

Army Day Boost
To Interracial

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paraded: down Noble street yesterday morning in observancé of Army
Day.

Demonstrations of several phases
of -military were held on
the athletic ~south of Post
Headquarters at Ft. McClellan from
two to five p.m.

t was. repreby Company A, 5th Battalion
demonstrated close order

| Negroes | March In
_ Birmingham Parade
BIRMINGHAM,:

Ala.

jbecause of t >
Tic. Up,..

Secretary Knox |
~Gives Two Honor
Within Month ~

WASHINGTON, D. C.~(ANP).|~Officiat rccgnitidn of the ~brav
ery of another. Negro messman
who distinguished himself. during
the Pearl Harbor defense against
the Japanese invaders. last Dec. 1
was made by Secretary of the
Navy Frank Knox here last week.

This honor. went to Dorie Miller,
%-year-old. Texan who helped remove his dying captain from the

~| bridge of a blazing battleship and

then:manned a,machinegun, which
navy~s.jim_ crow
cv. he dibet RATSR REED ~ (Anes
Miller, who hails from | Waco,
Texas, is the second messman to
be honored by the navy. The first
William.M. Brooks, Jr. of St.
Louis, was cited last month) by Sec.
Knox and President Roosevelt: for
~distinguished devotion to - duty
and extraordinary courage and
disregard of his own safety...

Sec. Knox, in commending Mil-}
~For distin
guished - devotion to duty, extra~,
ordinary courage and disregard of

ler for his service,

his vwn personal safety) - during
the attack on the fleet in Pear]
Harbor, T. H.. by Japanese forces
on Dec. 7, 1941. While at) the side
of his captain on the. bridge, Mil
ler, despite enemy strafing and
bombing and in the face of a serious fire, assisted in moving his
captain, who had been~ mortally
wounded, to a place of greater
safety, anc later mianned! and operated a machine gun until ordered to leave the bridge.~

The commendation will become
a part of Miller's service record.
However, in spite of the display of
bravery of Negro seamen during
the Pear! Harbor raid, neither
President Roosevelt nor Secretary
Knox has seen fit to relax. the jim
crow policy of the navy which
prevents Negroes from serving in
any other than a MmessmMan Capacity.

Man Dies Of
Poisoning; Wife,
Children Ill

Family Eats Biscuits
Made With Arsenic
Instead Of Flour

ATLANTA, Ga.~(SNS)~
William Jones, 38, of

Gredy Hospital because of eating
biscuits made of pure arsenic instead of flour, according to police
reports.

Jones purchased groceries, includin~ flour, buttermikk and

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{all sources was forty-two dollars
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Corporal George W. Hall, 22, who
was slain Thursday night~ at Camp
Fort Dix, N. 3. Another. colored
seldier and a white milit iy policemen were slain during a.15-mirute
gun batttle in. which colored ~and
white soldiers -/ participated.-.-. Hall
wis the son of Mr. and Mrs.-Lawrence E. Hall, of Conyers, Ga.

CITIZENS ~
COMMITTEE
REPORTS

At their regular meetine Saturday night April 4, the United Citizens committee went on record: for
giving to the public a compléte
itemized report of collections and
expenditures made for the sponsoring of the United Citizens Mass
meeting March 2. 1942, realtive te
the Sojourner Truth~ situation in
Detroit and other important matters affecting Race people in Ftint.
The group moved to make permanent this committee ~and set the
meeting to meet~ once a month.
They pledged \their support to the
Detroit Citizens committee to press
for a fair settlement in Sojourner
Truth. '

Communicaticns were reid from
varicus representatives, State and
National. Two of which we publish
herewith: The committee ~ also
Stresses and need for vressing the
fight for equal jcb oppottiinities
and for t-aining of colotéd men
and women in civilien- and.National
Defense. A committee of three was
selected to attend the conference
in Detroit Menday, April 6. i
committee ~v

fo

amount of money contributed from

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Conyers Man Is
~Grief-Stricken
Over Son's Death

Says He Hopes
Youth~s Death Will
Not Be in Vain

CONYERS, Ga~(SNS)~ A successful farmer and prominent. citizen of these parts Saturday mailed a letter to President Roosevelt. protesting the bloody killing
of his son Thursday night at Fort
Dix, N.J.:

Lawrence E. Hall, a highly respected ~land owner, a deacon of
the First Baptist church at Lithonia and ~the father of several
grown children,~ asked the President to order a thorough investigation, not only in the slaying of
his son, but in similar cases where
Negro soldiers have been shot dow
and killed here in the United
States since this country entered
World War No. 2.

~TOO MUCH KILLING~
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Report Shows War Industries
Lowering Job Color Barriers |

Georgia Still
Refuses to Open. Training Courses

WASHINGTON, D. C. ~(ANP)
Although Georgia officials~ have
thus far refused to provide train
ing courses. for prospective. Ne
gro war. workers, firms all -over

the country;:many of them in the |
south, which never before have:
now. coming.

hired Negroes, are
~in the fold~ at the rate of 15-per
week, according to the office of
Dr. Robert C. Weaver, head of the
labor training and placement division of the War Productions
Those which ~have hired Negroes in the past are increasing
the number of workers without
further urging by the office. basing the increases upon the general
efficiency of those already employed..
Throughout the country, this ir
~erease has been noted. Pafticular
ly small. firms with limited numbers of employees ~have been highly cooperative in hiring Negroes.

March showed a decided increase
in the number of Negroes employ(Continued on Page 6, Col. 5)
ed and the indications are even
larger numbers will be hired when
training courses have been com
pleted.
3300 TO WORK

Among the new firms hiring Ne
groes ere Kingsbury. Ordnance
plant at Indiana, which has several hundred now working and ~is
recruiting 3/300 to man the detonator department. Already they
have three Negro chemists, four or
five receptionists, girls, several inspectors and a large number of
production workers included in the
group.

The Pine Bluff Ordnance at
Pine Bluff, Ark,.. has installed training courses at the A.
and M. College which will take
care of 2,000 men with an additional promisé of 1,000 woren which will bring totals to
3,000 Negrees of both sexes.
The plant: js not yet ready for
production work, but it has
given assufances that this
number will be employed,.

In Chicago, General American
Transportation company has 600
working; Western Foundry, 200;
Pressed Car foundry, 150; Howard
foundry, 250; ~all working as semiskilled: or unskilled foundry workers. All plan to increase the num
ber by from 100 to 150 per plant

within the next few weeks.
Bethlehem Fairfield Steel -com
pany of Baltimore on Gct. 1, had

50 employed as: messengers and
service boys. Today they have more
than 500 in their employ as. skilled
workers. On March 1, the company hired the first Negro welder
and two days later requested five
more. They are hiring unskilled
workers at the plant at a rate

12 per day.:

Poison Pen Cards Sent |=
Civil Rights Advocate ||

WASHINGTON, D. C~(ANP)~Unsignea postal cards, sent

PULLMAN OPENS UP
The Trojan~ Powder company of |

~Sandusky, ~., started~ work with 4 3
106 out of their ~total enrollment

of 2,000. In this group are two
clerical workers;

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~Massachusetts.

Governor InTolerance Plea

BOSTON(A N P)~In a special

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