Flint Spokesman [Volume: 1, Issue: 39]

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| important happening of the fall

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SATURDAY DECEMBER 14, 1946.

Sooo ada siannniiondinapieitite

bifein Now Yo rk!

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NEW ae (ANP) ~The ~much Macaca Hite bar

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keeper and restaurant owner adds the evening of ~Now.- 25;

~his horrid ~Mid-Winter Night~ s Dream,~

ices.

itt g out 4 OF ety ~piss
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out uk a~ the.
cent ~a ri 35 ago,
on ma hi diwh.ch we W

of the small window-bars

the brownout remains -for ~ina nly * ~weeks.

places like WELLS, ~JIMMY~
ROBERTS~ RENDEZVOUS, 2
NER etc,~wilt. have. to lay_
they are to outride the etorm

dollars~ they ~could if: afford.
number titled. ~The Dimo

I've gota fairly clever idea, e

~DAWN PATROL~:;

-in ~midtown ~Manhattan *,

ZANZIBAR. by~ rhusical~ "ének

the nvah is~a genius.

of the: best WieMicfane i in this section of t
ready for a banquet the like of ~whith Longchamps

might well be proud of?!

ist's space tight here anid now *

ERNIE FIELDS~ BAND

~weeks ago, is a much smogther gnganizgation:and they:feature |:

because of the ~

out of pocketbook lineiag

briefly.ta enumerate.; oMatry |.
signs if
The larger spots, |:

EN PUN en eee.

put out. ~tor sale~~

SHG

otf qey gals
~created by

~to, ~loge.

out Blurs,
h what?
Ai }

antinent,~ his~ bi

~Yes Mie,
which omesaiid in Hac bein iwa

sweet numbers, after the new trend that we spoke of here two

weeks ago~reinembr??. HAZEL. (My: Man): SCOTT, ~must
never sing ~Someone's Rockit~ My Dreamboat~

the

after,

piece OUR WORLD MAGAZINE. did on her and the congress
man in December -issue~sez me

VALAIDA SNOW, that

hotcha bomb-shell who survived ail! the unprintable ~things the
NAZIS did to her, looks like 'the. lily of the vailey in her rou
tine at CLUB'845, up in the Bronx~,. KITTY MURRAY, that.

zany temale heavyweight-strong gicl ~who is my nomince for

JOE LOUIS~ next opponent (
Club.

popular nitelife figure.

smile) is also featured at 845

FRED (Speedy) PUGH, Baby Grard qian is a}

Gossip of The Movie Lots

~By Harry Levette

HOLLYWOOD ~ ANP ~Biggest event of the week was the
annual social event by Alpha Phi Beta
sorority, at which no one minded the $5.65 entitling him to the
rapturous music
and a stage show by ~the most
beautiful girls in the world.~
Of course every one who. could
possibly,be out, was there; with
attention. paid~ to the
press as to advantageous. seating. es.
credit cannot. be
given the hard-working pain- }
staking committee, but~ also a
quite a bit goes to the Pittsburgh Courier~s J: Cullen. Fert-1
tress, who handled the. pyblicify
and a~ied the JAdies in ~every
way, taking some of the burden:
from. hes: genial wife, Lillian
Big Siags At-the. Alabam for
For Benefit show: tf

Too much

rm

Just about tne biggest eyent:
of the forthcoming week is thd:
mammoth, benefit..at the. Gtub].
Alabam, befause wof."the fagnous!
stars and big rames included.
The affair is a benefit that has
been arranged by~ Julius ~stuft~
Crouch, nationally ~ known Pro,
moter and businéss man.~ in line
with the ~spitit of ~Yuletide helpfulmess, funds raised by ~the affair will~ be ~used to buy; Christmas baskets for needy children. |
Among~ the host of celebrities
who promised to be present and
participate are Jack Benny's
complete air show
Rochester Phil Harris and all
the rest of the cast.

Pearl Bailey Heads Big All- F
Colored Sequence at Paramount |.
Studio

In -motior pictures the ont

season was the bringing of that
new discovery, the singing wonder girl, Pearl Bailey, here
from New York by Paramount
studio. Colored fans | will ~be
proud of the very moderr high |
the production department~ weve"
into the feature ~~Varietq Girl~
as a bac:iground for Miss Bai!ey~s vacting ~and singing. talents.

Without spilling too much of
the plot so you will have to wait
for the picture~; release suffice

to say that Pearl is a member

of a s2wing ~ciuh. but he: infatuatiorr for her handsome
young lover caus*s. her to miSsso many meetings that she gets
in: bad with the rest of the indignant ladics, her fellow members:

i:|a@ chef:. Willa

haa

ihélading |

frst: filni chanee, plays~ Her lover,.and the roster of the girls
and women: im the club is as
follows: Hazel Chapman, Ann
Mabry, -Palmere Jackson, Francis Driver, Alberta Tovaris, May
Johnson, Fannie Bufford,, Ella
Mae. Brown, Alberta, Clark; Lo
la. Harris; Benry, Washiouion
Marie Reed.
James A, "Graves who is

known as Hollywo.~ t's most dignified butler, puy3 the role of
Parl, Curtis ~has

an. excellent bit, ~Artie Over
| street is playing as stand-in or:

double ~for Pearl: Bailey - when
the men include~ Bobby ~John-:
sor, Jack ~ Wilson, Napvieqn~
Whiting ~dnd Chafles~ Hawkins:

AW the. Whitt ~stars ~om ~the
Paramount repter are,, ~included

_Lin this picture, the, first time so

many big names: shave, been collected in one pay., rail heavy,
enough to strain the i ~ treag:,
Ury;., since, ~Hollywood Canteen
was.made.by~ Warner,, | ~Bras
There: are 36 all told; under, the
cureption of Herbert Marshall,
They include Gary Gooper,
Dorethy Lamour, Paurette~ God~dard, Veronica Lake ~anc Alfan'
Lada, with~ Spike ~Jones ~band:
iP4vamvourt predicts that ~~~Va?
riety GirF~ will be~ ore of their
~héest pictures of thé | 1943- 47 sta

~HOLLYWOOD ~* bane 4 A
eolumnist witha idt~ of~< correspondents is ~indeea lucky, especially out here in Hollywood
where it y has) bee raining frogs)
and. byinotes for the past two
weeks; with~ the fog so heavy
at night that you, cart't see your

might be influenced by. the bum
weather, $1 a pourid steaks, ard
other ~~acts of Providence~ beyond: asmere scribbler~s: control,
Pll ~just let you look over my. |
shoulder and read the mail.

pushers at the studies and~ other
avenues of inside into it~s as
Olive as if I~ had gone out in
the dowrpour ~and collected: it.
A New Screen Character ~
A Hollywood Press-Agent

Ten leading Hollywoéd colurnnité will soon see themselves portrayed on the screen in
the same motion picture.

This information ws disclosed last wéek by Producers Jes~se Lasky and Walter MacEwer,
~who head a new production
~company, Jesse L. Lasky -Pro
Don Bar Ks je, getling

his

ductions, at RKO Radio Pic
ape Se a

~in|

will rien

RRL, ir if |:
ohn - Lewis~ stand |.~

on ~thé soft coal miner's position as~ he saw it.
TEARS FLOW~ LIKE WINE" ~~~

Instead of amber colored: fluid: running out of ~fel oiled |
~and polished ~bottles ftom the ~bar~stand,~the ~only thing~ this
reporter saw rurining were fears from the eyes~ of tavern and | |
bistro ~owners ~who saw iin the, dimout the loss of thousands of}.
Yes, the most, ~popular
ditty én the song | ~beat just now, would be the creation | of al.
Hey. readersy, maybe |

2YASFI 4 LADAT-AAG |

MAXINE SULLIVAN and the CHITTISON TRIO are re~ceiving nice~ ~ndétices duting their stay at Vallage Vanguard, and
~SY OLIVER has taken the CAFE:
band has. arranged: (why wouldn't théy) ~as has few Bands in the ~land~. The~ ART AND MUSIC CLUB, rétreat
country Was making.
estaurant.
~this ~meahs that, the trio knéwn. as
Kleeber~ Willis, Herbéit'. (Géorgia Rose) ~Taylor ~and, Junius
(My Man) Byrd.~are entitled to. a deserved in this column
~own nose.

So this~ seasion; instead of gettitig ~Ofe 4 lot Of ~~ personal.
thoughts and opinions that

Since it cbdmes froin fellow pen-,..

- THE #LINT SPOKESMAN

7

The group.

_ ducted

League, who ably assisted
' secured data wed. in

is William H. Bonds, general

te okey ad

shown uiove recently cocked a survey*of the Detroit Negro bab se confor the Inter-State United Newspaper, Inc., of New York City, under the direction

Edgar A. Stecle, director of research for tie Research Company of America.
troit Journal and. its syndicate newspapers co >p~e erated in this survey.
manager, Atla; Powet: Publishing Co., Inc.; Edgar A. Steele.
director; Ulysses -W. Boykin, Dao~ ~Triban: editor, who alsé cooperated; Fredrick Simpson, director, Atlas Power, ~and Frances Korn ~gay, Industrial director of the Detroit Urban.
in obtejaing survey workers. Others. on the group

survey:

The DeStanding on the left

Ns

By rank Marshall Davis for
' ANP

NEW IDEA FOR SWING FANS
' Aspiring hot musicians will
go for the new idea introduced
by International in its album; called ~Swing Notes.~ In additior to presenting work by 3
outstanding tenor saxists each

~|! album includes sheet music con
taining part or all of the choruses written down as played
by thesb stars. It's a. simple
technique which may prove
tremendously popular.

Don Byas, exponent of free
swing, 1s heard on Dark Eyes
and Annie Laurie. Al Sears, the
Eilington ~ace, uses is cheral
awing on Long, Long Ago and
Searsy, and Jerry Jerome who

tures, Inc, =

Lasky and... MacEwen have
just pufchased the. best-selling
Russell Janney ~novel. ~The Miracle ofthe Bells~. and have just
signttd. Quentin Reynolds and
Ben.Hecht to write the ~screen
play. The story, js. @ great~ romance against a background of
~miraculous events, with the
central character a lively hard
boiled press agent.

Interwoven through~ the adventures of the hero are leading ~Hollywood columnists. The
producers have rot yet decided
who. ~the ten will be, but there
~is ~a ~great. deal~ of ~speculation
rife * right now in had cinema
city.

Louis Jordan at. the Lincoln.
In. January

Big news to the Lincoln: deo
tre-farts and some that: they can
-allibegin preparing for now, is
the: fact that the great Louis
_ Jordan will Open there the -first
week in. January. The vast, popularity of this great band ~lead.
er causes the local music lovers
to 160k forward to each~ of his
trips to the coast: as~.a. special
event. A brand new batch, of
latest hits and arrangements is
ihkeing~ prepared especially for
the Jocal Jordan fans, so it is a
foregone conclusion that they.
will be out_in droves,

Conspiracy charges against 14
strike leaders were filed by the
district attorney~s office on Nov.
17. The-mer~ were held on $5,000
bail. Violations of Section 182,
166, 409, 245 and 518 of the
penal code were charged. The
Psections cover conspiracy to
}commit acts to pervert and obStruct~ due administration of
laws, to wilfully disobey the
process and lawful orders of the
court, to refuse to disperse an
unlawful assembly after having
beer instructed to.do so, to commit assault with a deadly weapon~and to commit extortion. The
extortion accusation - relates. to
depriving persons of their property rights by preventing them
from working when they want

b?

colored. actors and ~~
employes.

to do so, This included marty.

RATING HOT
RECORDS

dishes melodic swing, goes thru
My. Bunnie Lies Over the Occan
and Carry. Me Back to Old Virginis, They rhytnm sections include such musicians, as Gene
Schreéer, the. ever-present
Guarnieri,
C Heard..
Hot Calypso

If you haven~t heard the
Brunswick album, Songs of
Trinidad, eight calypsos by Wil
moth ~ Hondini and Gerald
Clark~s Night Owls, sit down
before. you. You'll be in for,

the,,surprise. cf, your life when

~you lister to the ainazing cor
~provides several

net of Walter _Benaet 9 who
orjngs the jazz approach of
King Oliver and Louis Arm.

sircng to these fascinating songs

ever West [ndian rhythm.

Originals composed amd sung
by Houdini, these reissued 1931
recordings include The Cooks in
Trinidad, No Mo~ Bench and
Board, Arm:2 Tonight Sangre
Grande Tomorrow Night,

~Néed a Man, Sweet Papa ne.

Hofrey I'm- Bounce.to Go;Black
But Sweet and Stop Coming
ami Come, There~s an_. eerie

<larinet by: Walter *Edwards; ~but |"
_ it~s the, cornet

that. rates real
raves.
Do You Like Eldridge?

If you. like that meaty trumpet of. Roy Eldridge, you can
take him this. week with Artie

Shaw or with his own. band.

Two more Shaw discs have been
released~ by Victor in which
Iyittle Jazz solos, They are I
Could Write A Book which
hard ~hitting
solos, amd, A Foggy Day, with

good tempo and integration; 2

evergreens, Easy to Love and 1
Can~t Get Started With You,
both very well rendered. Of;

his own for Decca~ Roy blows;

a. Yiew version of- Rockin~ Chair
exceptional ever for Roy and
like Armstrong in: spots, paired -
with Yard Dog which ~bounces,
bountifully and has muted Eldridge.

Cab Calloway has his knocked out,
overtime on the Columbia of
I Got A Gal Named Nettie and
Hey Now, Hey Now. Both sides
jump and.-the bard joins the
vocals, Charlie Ventura, the
terrific tenor saxist who quit
Krupa to form his own band,
debuts on National. with a beau
| tiful and pulsating version of

~Misirlou which you've got no
business doimg without. This is
so good that it makes up for
the plattermate, Either It~s Love
or It Isn't, featuring a lush
vocal by Lilyarn Caro} who
must have other reasOns for being listed as a singer. Here~s
Eddy Howard again, slushing
through the Majestic: of The
Girl That I Marry and You Are
Everything to Me. It's lucky the
fly seasorr is over.

Jula Lee deserves the break
she~s been getting of late; for
this Kansas City singer has few
equals. Her When A Woman

| Plattermate

Slam Stewart and J..

informal jive working;

Loves A Man ~on Capitol is 4about as marvelous a thing as
you could want-and her own
piano is a perfect companion.
is the jumping,
bouncing Julia~s Blues, with
Bridges~ tenor sax hitting~ hard.
Charlie Spivak has good halance of the very commercial
Victor double of It~s All Over
Now and for Sentimental Reasons, George Olsen~s Majestic
of Through A Thousand Dreams
and~ Zip-A-Dee Doo-Dah, is: ho
hum as usual. The same goes
for the Sammy Kaye Victor - of
And Then It~s Heaven plus Why.
Does It Get Late So Early?

If you like folk tunes, you'll
welcome: the "Keynote album of.
~Olden Ballads~. by Tom Glazier who accompanies aaa

on" guitar, Singing. easily, he
renders eight sides, some with

two. tures, containing The
Sheeling Song, 12 Days of;
Christmas, Green Sleeves, Waly

Waly; Hush Little Baby; 16
Come Sunday,* Black Eyed Susan, Go Away From My Window, Uncle. Reuben and Blow
| The Candles Out. An album for
| the religious minded features;movie star Lew Ayres on Ma
1. Hampton, the dynamic
swing maestro whcse newly. revamp-d band of 22. ~versatile

been captivating
of music lovers
from coast to coast, announced
this. week thai he will.match
his: crack aggregation against
any. top band in the nation in
a hectic battle of swing. The

musicians hes
a nw ~batch.| preceeds from the con~est would

be used to fight for FEPC, antipoll tax leg'slation and the
ousting of Bilbo.

The ~Hampton band has been

~\ paving the way for gréater in
terracial urderstanding by

Lionel Hampton Challenges Any
Band to Swing Contest

~NEW YORK ~ mg Al O-.

breaking down barriers in night
spots formerly restrieted ~to Ne-!
gro patrons; The most recent |
engagement which paid big di- |
vidends in this phase -was the
famed Aquarium in New York
City. where he returned in Novemher uy * popular. demand.

Rated as the top band of the
times by Ed Sullivan, New
York Dazily News columnist,
and drawing the rayes:of Downbeat and Metronome. the unique
outbreak with shouting brasses,
screaming rhythm and enchanting singing is cutting a wide
path through musical circles to
a new record in the business.

OAKLAND ~ ANP ~ Negro
and white workers today stood
shoulder to shoulder Tuesday
in a 10,000 strong picket line
that struck downtown Oakland's
non-essential business life into
immobility.

They were part of 150,000
AFL workers who with CIO
support pulled one of the greatest gerferal strikes in Anieric?7n
history, closing down induStry
snd transportation in seven Atameda county cities.an. area that
includes a population of about
1,000.000 includimg the bay
area~s heaviest concentration of
Negro residents.

The strike was called in pr)test against police strikebreaking. at two downtown department stores which reached a
climax Sunday when Oaklard
and Bérkley convoyed a load
~of ~workers imported from Los
Angeles into the stores: Khan~s~}
Department store and Hastings.
The strike was called by the
AFL Centeral Labor counci! and

Negro and White Workers Stand
Shoulder to Shoulder in -
Oakland, California, Strike

Sin

the Building Trades counci] 1m.
retaliation. The CIO yoted full
backing to the strike.

The strike a: the ena of its
first day was an almost airtight
success. Practicully everything
was down, especially all f>rms
of transportation~street CATS. |
buses, trucks, Key System ~rains
(they haul commuters across
the San Francisco - Oakiand
Bay bride) and even delivered

Nation hich

_ | (Continued from Page Biter

AS
| ed out, while asking
Baers: for a bi-racial
sion to investigate condition in
| Meader~s report. ae

Justification for Re
the veracity of Meader~s. report.
which the NAACP says ~ele
ly, appears to be a poli Thi
smear of Negro ~troops in:~
many,~
sition that Negro troops are not.
morally superior nor
to other, American troups.~

for common-sense suspicion

al offenes vastiy out of propor
numbers.

Meader~;:~sdidiers~ crime record makeszense

gro GIs are exposed to one- sided ~~
army justice.

~In 1945. the average Negro |,
Strength was -10 per cent cf the
ed. ~Negroes committed 50 per.first eight..
groes constituted 12 1-2 per cent -
of the theater strength amd committed 35 per ceht of the

wagons.

ies, making it the mosi widespread general strike in American history. Ciosed down were
Oakland, Berkley, Alameda,
Piedmont, Emeryville, San
Leondro and Haywood. Most
of these cities are $0. cidse together they make ~ore Pires
ous whole.

| It is estimate oR aE" "nea

100,000 Negro worlzers weve in.
volved in the stzike as members of AFL or CIO unions, or
a3 workers in tied up industr.es.

WASHINGTON ~ ANP

y | Jestic. telling Tales of Ancient
Heroes, They are Daniel, Shadrach,. Meshach and Abednego;
David and Goliath, David.and
the King, and Noah, the latter
~in two parts.

Hero Gets $1,000
For Rescuing
White Employer

ST. -JOSEPH, La. ~ANP~A
$1,000 reward. was_ presented
to a 75-year-old Negro here Sat-,
| urday in a public ceremony on!
the courthouse square.

~ Tom Gardner,the _ hero,
~braved the heat of a_ blazing
butane gas pit into which his
employer, William David Clarke.of this city, had jumped. Clarke
idied in a Ferriday, La., hospi- |
tal after Gardner had rescued

im.

Still suffering from the scars
of ~his heroic act, Gardner
| greatfully received his reward.
~saying.

~White folks, thank. you all
from the bottom of my heart.
I~m glad to live in such a town,; Such a parish, and such a counitry among fine white and col.
ored friends.~

Another First
For Race

In Chicag 0

CHICAGO The
first Negro trustee on the Cook
County Sanitary District board
was - Officially inducted into of.
fice here Tuesday during a Republican ceremorfty in the sanitary district board~s headquarters in the Pure Oil building.

Dr. J. B. Martin, owner of
the American Giants baseball.
team and president of the Negro. American league, was in
Furthering its purpose of. extending recognition.to accomplishmertts of the Negro press,
the Wendell L. Willkie Awards
for Jourfialism corporation will
provide three annual - cash
prizes for excellence in Negro
journalism, it..was announced
hére lat ~Tuesday.

NEGRO JOURNALISM TO
GET WENDELL WILLKIE AWARD

In addition to givirrg meritorious recognition -to deserving
Negro journalists, the. corpora-.tion.which bears the ~name. of
the 1940 Republican presidential candidate, also seeks to
encourage cooperation betweer
white and Negro authors, journalists and publishers. Willkie
died: in 1944.;

SATIRE

~ BY RAEPHAEL:

Evidently Josephine Bakén
was not successful in her quest
| for a Negro husband, as it is
rumored her. next, and fourth
marriage shall be another white
mate, evidently the cocoa boys
dor~t have what it takes..for;
Josephine..

Another ~form of exploitation
is being introduced by a political party whose sole purpose
is to appease the Negro, and
also to make a further test as
to how gullible the Negro really is, and we refer to the unnecessary trial of Bilbo.

It is Yeported in occupied
Germany many Negro troops
are not disciplined enough and
are setting a bad precedent.
The venereal diseaSe rate among them being 897 out of

two white Republicans. Again
the GOP had taken the lead
uver the Democratic party by
being the first to elect a Négro

every 1000. This high venereal
disease rate could and probably

of. Negro girls here

in tke
United States. ~

Still in view of~ the poor récord of Negro. troops the greater volumes of crime are committed by. the ~zwhite troops,
seemingly all,. or! mést Négro
troops aspire to ~be lochives,

| while the white troops are busy

trying to inctréase ~in
their~
comes. ae

Tk. government of the United States had no ~alternative, in
the stand taken in the coal crisis with Lewis. After all ro individual can become larger than
any. government. Of cours2, the
one group to really profit from
John L. Lewi's defeat are the
capitalist. If capital can aid the
nation of unionism then the
poor man~s post2rity is a dark
one. ~

Any crisis may or can force

~to the sanitary district board
trusteeship, boasted Republican
big-wigs.

Speakers for the occasion included Gov. Dwight Ii. Green,
Sen. C. Wayland Brooks, John
Leonard Eastland and Atty. WilHam E. King, GOP 2nd Ward
committeeman. Former Congressman Oscar DePriest- was
among the veteran Republican
lesders present.

Mertin's

_pestion ~carries a

$10,000 yearly salary for a six

ducted into office along with

yeer term.

men to revise their ideas, in or~der to forestall any future labor dilemmia, perhaps there
could be a compulsory. arbitration board appointed with men
from both sides of the fence
on this board, enacting iaws
with teeth that should protect
capital ard labor.

AS yet we have no authentic
report of baseball playing, Robinson graduating from the minors to the majors. Nothing but
rumors so far.

The sirike tied up sev2n cit: |

will boomerang upon thousands j

crimes among the military.~~
| Any clash with MP~s can re-.
sult in criminal action or death ~

consorted with German
leirys.
Sorting with them,as revealed
in Meader's report, causc.l. Ne
pi-2u
ter in Wertinger, because they ~
believed he had instigated 2. raid~

~by MPs~ on homes whers they Me

had billeted their German Bl
friends.

White GIs also have G2 Sabie
gir] friends, but his repcrt-dis- -
closed no raids on them. nat is
how Negro GI~s are made to con--
tribute to the army~s crime far
out of propdértior to their numbérs. They resent being pushed
around because they are Negroes.

Why should the venercal disease rate among Negro troops
average 897 cases per 1,00) men,
as Meader contends? Las: Mech
the.rate reached 1,049 per 1,000
while. in the same month the rate
to? white troops was 133 per
1,000, he reveals. His crime and
venereal disease statistics carry
far-reaching. racial! impli ations
designed to further incit> ~anitiNegro feeling here and in- Ser
many.

Such ~ statistical evidalek: i.
though questionable, may he tive
basis for a sweeping mowa~ io
kick all Negro GI~s out of Germany. Gen. Joseph -T. ae ke
ney, military governor of ws
forces in Germany, atready
~thinks the, war: depar tme ant
should bring the Negro troops
home and says he is attempting
to get them into barracks. 2s
quickly as_ possible,~ reyeals
Meader~s report. nee

**elease of what is admittedly a fragmentary report, prepared by a lone _ investigator,
can only be construed as a deliberate attempt make minoriiy.
servicemen the scapegoats for
whatever flaws exist in the administration of the occupation,~

jirector of the American Council
on Race relations Thursday.
~The report was presented ir
such a way as to condemn rank

occupation policy.~
Jews were condemned en
masse, ~~A trainload of Jews

(at Babenhausen) because the
camp was not good enough,~
Meader wrote. Under ~~Displaced

ees, he said:

~These persons are, tee, teat
most part penniless and do not

cared for. It is very dputitful,
any country would desire th
people as immigrants.~~

infevior.

said A. A. Liveright, executive =

nd file troops rather than to ~
raise the more vital questions cf {

had refused to get off the train <

Persons, Pers~gutees artd ~

desire to~ work, but.expect to be.

>

we

ee

fh. +

is or the logical ~prope- e

iv

No white nor Negro organiza- a
tions hold that Negro soldifrs ~
can do mo wrong, but grounds.
et
agorded when Negro troops are ~
charged with cmmitting crimin- - -

be

tion to the percentage of their ~
statistics on Nagro

only by corfirming the ~conten- eu
tion of the Negro press tha~ Ne- /, =

si

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