The Michigan chronicle. [volume], November 28, 1942, SECOND NEWS SECTION, Page PAGE TWENTY, Image 20

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THEY’LL BE PREPARED IN CASE OF AN AIR RAID IN DETROIT
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T an air raid should hit Detroit there is one section of the city
t : would be prepared with air raid shelter, wardens and emergency
1 -id \V : r .ll and th t is Area 5. Zone 5. Sector E. with head
l-i photo No. 1, Thomas W.
. C.irrp cl!. M.i;:,.r port warden is shown explaining the set-up
CITIZENS COMMITTEE, FORD LOCAL 400 PICKET HIGHLAND PARK PLANT
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C r>tinvm : the Lqht for jobs for Negroes in all defense industries. :
• CV - t •; T.. ue for War Jobs, aided by Ford Loval 400 and
threw a picket line around the Ford
Highland P..- mt last week. Complaint against this plant is i
SCENES AT CHRONICLE'S ’WAR WIDOWS' CLUB'S FIRST MEETING
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To Appoint
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Initial meeting of “War Widows club” was held last Wednesday
at Brewster Center at 8 p.m.. with approximately 20 women present.
Mrs. Ruth Simril supervised the meeting, during which those present
introduced themselves and made plans for a further club program.
(Photo 1) Among those shown here include, left to right: Larry
Allied Victory In Lybia
Frees African Captives
By GEORGE PADMORE
LONDON —(Censored) —:
General Bernard Montgom
ery’s victory over German 1
Marshal Erwin Rommel has
not only guaranteed these*!
j cur ly of Egypt but has also)
brought liberation to thousands of 1
Africans held prisoner by the Ger- 1
mans and Italians at Tobruk. i
There men were recruited from 1
Zulu.aird. Bastutoland and other
places and organized into labor,
battalions. They were taken prts-1
oner by Rommel's forces last June
when Axis Panzer divisions drove \
the Eighth Army out of Libya and i
i » ormed the citadel of Tobruk, j
!THE MICHIGAN CHRONICLE
to James A. Bellew, Area 5 warden and Alice Garrison who is
enrolling as an air raid warden in the office of the shelter. Photo
No. 2 gives you an idea of how the shelter headquarters would
receive reports of air raid damage and how instructions would be
given for dispatch of wardens to the scene of damage. Left to
that Negro women are denied employment while hundreds of whites
are hired daily. Photo No. 1 shows members of Citizens committee
pickets as they marched around the plant. In photo No. 2 Gloster
Current, executive secretary. N.A.A.C.P.. is shown passing out hand
Chism, of Chronicle editorial staff and organizer of the dub; Mrs.
Ruth Simril. club supervisor and Patricia Young, club secretary.
Others are Mrs. Viola Johnson. Miss Juanita Cunningham. Mrs.
Wilhelmina Thompson. Mrs. Lillian Mathews. Alberta Blake, Miss
Dora Williams. Lucille Harvey. Eva Parker. June Cash, Ann Wilkins.
Africans loathe Italians even more
than the Germans. They said the
Italians, in order to avenge them-j
selves for their defeat in Abyssinia
by colored froops. worked them
like slaves The Italians would fire
I bullets into the tents of such gangs
i as jecme.l too stow an getting up
| when suddenly summoned at two
, and three o'clock n the morning to
1 unload convoys from Sicily.
I On the other Irtmd. the Africans
say th..t the Germans, despite the.r
race doctrine about black men
being sem;-apcs. are carefully try.
! ing to spread a good opmion of
themselves while the outcome of
the war :9 undecided-and treated
them better than the Italians.
The Germans even refrained
! from searching the Africans as the I
i Italians always did after unload-1
j ing the ships, in- case handsful of
coffee or sugar might have beeh |
taken to replenish their meager j
| rations. Several of these Africans
have already won awards for!
bravery and are anxious to be
! armed and trained so they can
i participate as combatants in helping
White South Africans, who alone
: are allowed to bear arms, were'
! evacuated, but Africans and In- |
| dians captured at Tobruk were kept
there and forced to work for the
j Axis. One can well imagine their j
| relief and joy when their captors
1 fled before Montgomery's advanc
ing army evacuated Tobruk.
! These men have been able to
j convey interesting information to
i British Intelligence officers about
j the attitude of Germans and Ital-
I ians during the five month* they (
count of the havoc wrought by the j
! were in captivity. These colored'
' bombing of Mersamstruh supply j
base. They had been employed un-;
j loading Axis transports and ships.!
| Incredible as it may seem, the i
A' RELTAHI.E INDEPENDENT WEEKLY
right in this picture are James A. Bellew. Jerome F. Wasik, both I
of Zone 5; Walter L. Montague, assistant sector warden of Sector E;
Bertha Cassells, post warden of Post 2; J. A. Saydols. warden in
Sector B; Barney Saute, assistant warden in that sector; Don E.
Ludwig, assistant zone warden; Cliflord Harrison, sector warden I
bills which tell why the plant is being picketed. This is the first
time handbills have ever been distributed at the plant. In photo
No. 3 members of Ford Local 400. coming oft the first day shift ,
join the picket line. Notice how white and colored both join the
Sue Marie Rollocks, Bertha Jackson. Eva Louise Edmonds. Eliza
beth David. Mrs. Florence Webb and others. (Photo 2) Mrs.
Florence Webb. Mrs. Ruth Simril and Patricia Young plan the next
meeting to be held Wednesday, Nov. 25 at ’8 p.m.. at Brewster
Center.—Edwards photos.
‘.he direction of Brigadier General!
1 Ru>scil Maxwell U. S. Army. |
Hundreds of American technt- j
extended the modernization of
Massawa begun by the Italians and
refloated the 500-foot floating dry
forces. American engineers are
now in all part* of the African
| u rt.r.ent building roads, fortifica- 1
t ons and everything necessary for
Forrester Washington
Speaks In Canada
TORONTO. Canada —Forrester B
WashiWfon. director cf the Atlantal
University School of Soc.ai Work, j
spent several days this vveck here. |
making, speeches to the faculty and
students »f the University of To- j
J ronto School of Social Work, mem- 1
I bers of the Canadian* Association of
Social Work, and th‘e board of di-,
1 rectors of the Welfare Council of
l community.
expel the Axis from the African
Tne only colored troops now tak
soldicrs in the b.uile for Libya, are
Ghurkas, Pathans, etc, of Urti, In
| dian Division and Maoris the
other colored units in North Africa
arc labor battal.ons. service supply.
1 ambulance ar.d other •ux.liary
African fighting troops from Ni
geria and other places compr.*o 'he
Wen African frontier force, anrf tne
troops compr.stng the K.r.gs Royal l
East African R.flcs have rot >ct i
i taken part in the North Afr.cur.
campaign.
i It can now be revealed that
i Eritrea is one of the arsenals from
‘ which the Eighth Army received
enormous supplies for the Egyp
tian offensive. The plan to make
tne arsenal was worked out by
! British and American experts and
Eritrea was selected because it was
’ well out of reach of enemy bom
, bcis. Tne are»nal wa» built under
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1942
of Sector B. In photo No. 3 these alert citizens demonstrate how
it should be done if it becomes necessary to put out • f*r® or
place equipment in the damage zone. Left to right are. Otis J on **-
senior post warden No. 17: Mrs. A. post warden No 24
and Lansing Stirrup, all of Sector B—Photos by Sonny Edwards.
march for democracy.—All photos by Sonny Edwards.
Ask Probe
Of Killing
Of Soldier
NEW YORK—Protesting the cold
blooded murder of one Negro mili
tary policeman and the beating of
another on Nov. 1 by state police
iin Alexandria, La., the National
i Association for th? Advancement
|of Colored People this week de-
I n-.anded that Secretary of War
Stimson take drastic action,
j "We are informed.” said the NA.
A C.P.. "that the slayer was sus
j ponded for only one day and has
been rgstored to full authority. We
. are further informed that state po
j lice have told army authorities in
effect that they do not intend to
recognize authority of the army.
"If this be true a state bordering
on treason anarchy exists which
! you as Secretary of War cannot ig
] not e. It is imperative that the War
Department take definite unequi
j vocal position with respect to this
1 and other attacks by white police
and civilians on Negro soldiers in
the South.
"Unless this is done there will be
inevitable repetition and multipli
cation of attack. We deemed that
there be no further temporizing
: w ith the increasingly vicious situa-
NAACP Xmas Seal
Sale Sets Record
NEW YORK—The rational office
of the NA.AC.P. reported this
week the sale of 8 000 Christmas
The money for the stamps
wh.ch r.*e green ar.4 silver ar.d
d.splay *r.e NAACP. seal of
scales goes into the N A A C P. gen
eral fund. Branches throughout
Me country nave pushed the sale
of the stamps which sell for one
: dollar per sheet.
j i he argument. .Holl.e obtained his
• n front of hs house's: I*2B Last
E.gntccnth street
Dur.ng the few momer.’s that fol
lowed a shot was fired hitting
Jones ir. the abdomen. He d.ed
1 shortly after being admitted to the
General hospital -Hollie is being
represented by Atty. Walter L.
Gordon, prominent Negro criminal
Hold Inductee On i
Murder Charge
LOS ANGELES—LocaI police
are holding Simon Hollie. 22, for
merly of Dallas. Texas, on a mur
der charge grow.ng out of the fatal
shooting her on Nov. 12. of Mat
thew Barrow. 20 years old. tne
i between the two men over H -Lie’s
wife. Doris At tr.e t.me of the
inducted into the U. S Army.
1 The slain Barrow, was a former
' professional prize fighter, kr.owr as
John.< A-few years ago he
met Henry Armstrong, former tri-
I d.vision title ho.dcr in a Ne w Or
i Jones suffered a kayo in that
meeting.
Holl.e. according to police, ob
jected to the slain man escorting ■
his wife home at a late hour. Jones
; didn't like the way Hollie "said it."
and is said to have threatened to
' beat up Holl.e. At the height oil