The Informer and Texas Freeman (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 50, No. 31, Ed. 1 Saturday, March 18, 1944 Page: 3 of 16
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Disbanded Artillery Units
May Aid 92nd Division
WASHINGTON — ( ANP ) —
War Secretary Stimson’s announce-
ment last week that Negro officers
formerly assigned to the disbanded
930th and 931st Field Artillery
battalions would be transferred to
the artillery units of the 92nd di-
vision is being viewed as a move
of “considerable importance.”
Praised For Information
The secretary did not volunteer
the information but rather was
pressed for an answer by Negro
reporters close upon the heels of
his note to Rep. Hamilton Fish that
the two combat organisations had
been converted to labor battalions.
- According to an informed source,
a fight had been going on for some
time to have Negroes promoted
to the rank of captain in the 92nd
division, and there has been little
or no success to date. Further, few
Negro officers have been put into
positions where they may com-
mand Negro troops in combat the-
aters.
That the officers formerly with
the 930th and 931st are to serve
with the 92d, therefore, appears to
have solved both questions. The
transfer will bring to the division
Negroes carrying ranks up to that
o’ colonel. In addition, the pre-
sumption is that when the divis-
ion shall have completed its train-
ing, it too will be assigned to d
- combat area.
Report has it that there has been
a good deal of internal bickering
within the war dep
these two matters. 8
are still untilling to believe that
ment overthe department may not find some
a observers way of altering the new arrange-
Sixty-Five-Year-Oid Woman
Among City’s
New Brides
Huge Crowd Witness
Girl Scouts
9
19 4 4
WAR FUND
R RED CROSS
AT HIS SIDE
Women Barbers
Replacing Men
In 2,000 Shops
LADY BARBERS WANTED; MAK-
ING $15-se0 PER DAY IN ARMY
CAMP. $100 A ND UP PEE
WEEK IN DEFENSE CENTERS.
1500 applications tor trained lady
barbers now ea our files. With a
common school education make
yourself secure for life. Your station
to life after the war will depend
on being prepared to master a trade
or profession for which there is a
demand. The finest opportunity ever
opened to colored women of Amer-
ica. Write Tyler Barber College,
Tyler or Houston, Texas, H. M
Morgan, president.
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TAKES 3 MINUTES
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Sixty-one couples were among
those announcing their intention
to wed according to the licenses
issued this weak. The teen-agers
again were very much to the mi-
nority proving that the war has
greatly affected marriages among
youngsters.
This week's report shows that
several men married women under
age which has been unaccustomed
for some time.
Thia week’s list of marriages are
as follows:
Jake Lloyd 53, Rebecca Mans 65.
Nelson Shanklin 35, Mattie John-
son 29.
Joe Berber, 45, Zettie Hays, 34.
Emmit Simmons 19, Elvira John-
son 35.
James Smoot 31, Bessie Burnett
37.
Pealvin King 48, Florence Jones
Willie Hobb 30, Ocie Mae Page
27.
Johnie Johnson 17, Clara Mae
Mitchell, 17.
Johnnie Smith 45, Lovana Mil-
ton 33.
Aaron Williams 30, Willie B.
Jackson 25.
Charles Avery 36, Emma San-
ders 27.
James Felder 40, Willie Mae
Hightower 27.
William Hunt 24, Mary Terrel
19.
Robert Edwards 24, Naomi Waf-
sr 21.
Lister Brown 24, Binnie Ponder
20.
Alger Rector 31, Dorothy Bailey
23.
Nilor Green 47, Mollie Chaney
31. •
Joseph Davis 26, Leola Belle 27.
Enlia Breoka 27. Doretha Nash
34.
0. E. Edwards 32, Mandy Wil-
liams 31.
James C. Powell 21. Florence
Collins 18. .
Henry Jackson 25, Abbie Lee
Shields 18.
Joe Nathan Wilson 21, Willie
Mae Johnson 21.
L. Joseph Senegal 25, Alma
Golch 23.
Reynolds Jones 37, Ruby Moore
36.
Willie Williams 55, Stella Mae
Woods 38.
Henry Brown 50, Elizabeth Ben-
jamin 39.
Charles F. Biggs 37, Vera Col-
lins 26.
Will Dawson 36, Charleen Free-
man 25.
H. I. Paxton 36, Cornelia Brown.
Lafatte Driver 19, Beatrice
White 19.
Fred House 21, Clara Lee Blake
18.
Eli Mays. 23, Leona McBride, 26.
Robert Malone 19, Edna Lee
Wooten 17.
Limm Adams 18, Marlys Jones
Charles Scott 19, Edith McCloud
17.
Sammie Johnson 38. Corine
Thomas 31.
Jessie Kirkland 30, Lucile Hen-
derson 19. *
Joseph Oreabo, Jr., 19, Lillie
Malvean 20.
Edward Ginn 19, Annie Mae Dav-
is 20.
Lee Banton 23, Mary Ann
Barnes 21.
Ben Brantley 17, Celestine Mar-
tin 18.
Howard Edwards 41, Willie Mac
Drew 35.
Ed Robinson 60, Gertrude Wil-
liams 32.
Christopher Mark 36, Alice Ste-
phens 23.
Iline Osborne 49, Clara Thom-
as 38.
Chandle Yarbrough 25,
Mae Ceasor 18.
Annie
R L. Johnson 34, Fannie Burk-
ley 22.
Ruben Johnson 39, Elvira Willey
William Beaten 42, Lizzie
Brooks 27.
Paul C. Guidry 40, Clara Gordon
29.
A. B. Hall 87, Willie Jackson,
Leery Daniels 43, Louise Jack-
sen 30.
James H. Center 31, Ruby Lee
Riner XX.
L BL Edwards 21, Gladys Oliver
Marshall Johnson 26, Thelma
Lewis 22.
Clarence Berry 23, Lamanda
Williams 22.
M. J. Horn 28, Lillie Mae Jack-
son 18.
Isaac Johnson 26, Maggie Dar-
rett 24.
Joseph Addison 36, Ruby Foster
26.
S. C. Reed ST, Martha McDavis
37.
"Standing Room Ouly” at Girl
Scout ceremonies, Friday, March
10, and Sunday, March Ml attested
to the fact that Houston is becom-
tag overwhelmingly Girl Scout con-
On Friday evening in Blackshear
School Auditorium, the Court of
Awards was opened by a colorful
procession and Flag ceremony in
which 30 Scouts participated. Fol-
lowing this, an hours program of
lively and informational skits and
puppetry, all based on the ten pro-
gram fields were presented by
Brownie 58, Mrs. M. W. Oates and
Mrs. Gussie Ewing, leaders; Brownie
Troop 151, Mrs. Helen Jones and
Mrs. Birdell Ransom, leaders;
Brownie Troop 152, Mrs. A. F. Jack-
son, leader; Intermediate Troop 51,
Mrs. A. E. Bowie and Mrs. E. B.
McDemald, leaders Intermediate
Tresp 52, Mrs. Marguerite Jingles,
leader; Intermediate Troop 59, Mrs.
Louise Johnson and Mrs. Thelma
Brawley, leaders; Senior Troop 55,
Miss Marcia Pendleton and Mrs.
Callie Pride Hall, leaders.
Exhibits iustrating Hiking Equip-
ment. Homemaking, and Arts and
Crafts were placed at vantage
points to the auditorium. The Arts
and Crafts exhibit included leather-
craft, papercraft, woodcraft, and
crayon paintings. All troops con-
tributed to the Arts and Crafts ex-
hibit. of special interest were the
Hiking Equipment, made by Troop
35. Mrs. H. H. Conley, leader, the
attractive and practical furniture
constructed from scrap lumber,
orange crates ete. made by TVoep
51, Mrs. A. E. Bowie and Mrs. EL
Ceremonies
B. McDonald, leaders, the crayon
pointed wall hanging and luncheon
set made by Troop 59, Mrs. Louise
Johnson and Mrs. Thelma Brawley,
leaders, the scrapbooks and Easter
greetings for Servicemen made by
Troop 54, Mrs. Johnnie Taylor and
Miss Reece, leaders, the potholders
made by Troop 157, Mrs. F. John-
son, leader, and the vegetable and
fruit dryer made by Troop 156, Mrs.
Phil H. Watkins, leader.
Second class badges and Pro-
ficiency Awards were presented to
Scouts in Troops 91. 52, and 93 by
Miss Patricia McClure, executive
secretary of the Houston Girl Scout
counciL
Service pine awarded to Troops
51, 52, and 55 for satisfactorily
completing Community Service
Projects were presented to the
Scouts in those Troops by Mrs.
J. S. Scett.
The week's activities were climax-
ed by an impressive Investiture
service held at Trinity East Meth-
odist church, Sunday, March 12, at
11 a. m. where in a solemn candle-
light ceremony, forty-five new
Scouts made their Promise
To do my duty to God and my
country, <
To help other people at all
times.
To obey the Girl Scout Laws.
Oregon Slayer
Dies in Gas Cell
SALEM. Ore — (ANP) — Har-
vey Cunningham, convicted of the
slaying of Richard Kerr during a
row at Portland on August 29,
1942, was executed Monday in
Oregon’s lethal gas chamber. Cun-
ningham entered the death cham-
ber at 8:32 a. m. and three min-
utes later cyanide pellets were
dropped in an acid solution and the
prisoner was pronounced dead at
8:45.
Beautify Bust
without massage?
Full of Pep at 75!
How’s YOUR Pep at 40,50,607
You know Ml name as well as you do your own.
You’ve read bi the newspapers that at 15 he feels
like he did 25 years ago—at 50. Proves It’s a
natural for you to feel exhausted, old at only an.
50 or 60. But you can feel old indeed if your blond
lacks iron. Try Ostrer Tomie Tatilets. Contain
paid for $2.00 or
as postage. Write
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For sale at all drug stores everyth
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HOUSTON PuRuc umma
Good Opportunities
Offered Trainees of
War Training School
HOUSTON — The war training
school at 1 27 Dart announced thi
Released by U. S. War Department. Boreen at Public Relations
SKILLED HANDS—Second Lieutenant Annie E. Phillips of
Garner Road, North Carolina, a member of the Army Nurse Corps,
dresses a head wound for Private First Class Michael P. Brigida at
Station Hospital, Camp Livingston, Louisiana. (Photo by U. S. Army
Signal Corps.)
week that scores of their trainees
left this week for the state of
Washington, where they will be-
come employed as welders. Accord-
ing to S. B. Byers, supervisor of
the school, a representative of the
Kaiser shipbuilding company has
offered free transportation and
housing facilities for as many wel-
ders as the school can afford.
The school is unable to supply
the number of welders requested
by the shipbuilding company, al-
though they have stated that they
are willing to accept students that
have been half trained by the
school. The school has been able
to secure jobs for all of its train-
ees and the work done by them in
various parts of the country has
met the approval of their employ-
ers causing them to make heavy
demands upon the school.
According to a report of a for-
mer trainee of the school, the pay
of welders in a abort time amounts
to 31.&6 per hour and that the
working conditions were ideal
With the coming of summer, it is
expected that more welders will
soon be taking advantage of the
offers awaiting them to Washingt
ton. -
THE INDEPENDENT FOREST ==
LAWN ROAD CLUB
The Independent and Forest Lewa
Road club is still working and look”
ing forward to having Mr. Baller
to work on our roads. Those con-
tributing to the roads were Johns
Funeral home. Clay and Clay and
Earnest and Co.
Mrs. E. Simmons, secretary.
2. s, unw -----tone, a-.— ce name nain
BERLIN-BOUND “BLOCK BUSIEES”—In the midst ef a driv-
ing snow storm a crane crew of the Kghth Air Force “somewhere in
England headed by Sergeant Antonio Johnson, ef San Antonio,
Texas (left) maneuvers a 2,000-pound “block buster" into the last
truck of a large convoy being loaded. Others pictured at work are
Corporal Clarence Brixter, of Chicare, IMineis; Corporal Horace
Hines, of Birmingham, Alabama; Private Rome McGee, of Collins,
Georgia; Private Arthur Franklin, ef Detroit, Michigan; Corporal
Marvin Thomas, of St. Louis, Missouri, and Private Jesse Eagle, of
New Rochelle, New York. (Photo by U. S. Army Air Forces.) A
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War Breeds Hatred
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Dog Tests Show
Robies Positive
In Winter
AUSTIN, Texas — Contrary to
popular belief, rabies is more prev-
alent in winter than in the so-call-
ed days of summer. In a statement
relensed th s week by Dr. George
W. Cox, State Health Officer, it
was disclosed that in February the
State Laboratory examined 316 an-
imals brains for the presence of
rabies, over thirty-seven per cent
of which tested positive.
“If all stray dogs were destroy-
ed, and all pets vaccinated for rab-
ies, it would go far toward stamp-
ing out this justly feared fatal
disease,” Dr. Cox said.
The doctor stressed that an dogs
suspected o' rabies be confined ten
days for observation to see if the
disease develops. If a dog sickens
and dies durtag the observation
period, the head should be packed
in ice and sent to the State Health
Department for examination.
Freezing the krata, er killing the
dog prematurely, or in such a man-
mer as to injure the brain may
make correct laboratory findings
uncertain, if net impossible.
Dr. Cox declared that after a
dog is confined ten days and then
killed, there is still ample time
for a victim of his bite to be treat-
ed for rabies prevention, but he
cautioned that if the disease is
found to be present in the dog, the
victim should begin treatment
without further delay.
2 Negro Miamians
In Constable Race
MIAMI —(ANP) — As a result
of vigorous campaigning and as-
semblying of thousands of Miami’s
Negro citizens of voting age and
eligibility at mass meetings, etc.,
the Negro Republican club of Dade
county announces the candidacy of
two Negro Miamians in the com-
ing elections.
Atty. Lawton E. Thomas has en-
tered the race and Stanley Sweet-
ing, Miami Times columnist, has
qualified to run for constable. The
entry of these two men for public
office is expected to be the decid-
ing factor in arousing thousands
more Negroes to register and vote
this year.
HOCSTON CLUB WAITERS
ASS’N.
The Houston Club Waiters asso-
ciation met at their usual time and
place with the president presiding
Each member congratulated the
president on his re-appointment tn
office. The club has known no
other president since its organiza-
tion. After the close of business
The club met at the usual hour
E. P. Norwood, reporter.
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By FLETCHER P. MARTIN cause she was Strong Life was
rosy and Lumbo worked hard.
War Came
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But they came beanie, i
British find and the new masters
laughed. They were good to the na-
tives. One time a Japanese gave
Lumbo a sparkling chain. He liked
the chain and hurried with it to
Luli. It was a precious gift. He
watched her and he saw the chain
swinging around her strong neck
and touching breasts which were
strong and sturdy. He laughed and
she giggled.
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who had nothing to ds with what
goes on today to the world, it is
foundation for hatred. A hatred
burning with the intense desire to
kill and kill.
Lumbo is a native boy. He’s
neither tan aor start, old nor
young. He works everyday to the
graveyard. When he bends to rake
the leaves muscles play along his
broad back. He is very black, and
very ugly. His wistful eyes are red
and watery- On his chest are two
knife scars which he often touches
with dirty pudgy fingers. The sto-
gy concerns itself with these ugly
markings.
Lumbo’s Story
Three years ago Lumbo lived in
Tulagi, across the channel from
Guadalcanal. He worked on a co-
coanut plantation. His pay was iit-
t’e, as native pay goes, but be
didn't have the knowledge to mind.
There was Mulu, aa aged grand-
mother, his only kin. Toli and Tau,
mother and father died of malaria.
Juln and Lumbo lived and worked
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together.
On Sundays he went fishing.
Thru the blue channel waters Ms
skiff cut swiftly. Fish were to a-
bundance. He caught more than e-
mough for his use so he took Luli
and her father a share. Luli was
of marrying age, 15, and Lumbo
was to love. It was the sort of love
between these two that Western
culture perhaps looks on and
Hughs.
Life was rosy. Lumbo worked and
saved for the marriage. The price
set for the bride was agreed on.
It would take two years to earn
n was oily. She had gone to the
mission school and became a Chris-
tian. She had wide hips and could
berth children. She could work be-
Returning home after fishing one i
Sunday he found Mota waiting on
the shore. Taking me notice of the
healthy meal still flapping to the
boat, she grasped the boy’s arm
and hurried toward the jungles.
She shouted as they ram. Be under-
steed. Something was wrong with
Luli. He ran harder.
As he meared the hut he could
hear ter screaming. Two soldiers
were on the outside. As he attempt- |
ed to rush in, one soldier slapped
him hard across the face. The girl
screamed again. Again he was hit
as he tried to enter. A new soldier
came out of the bat grinning. One
of the two standing outside went
to.
Lumbo grabbed a stick nearby.
His friends, his grandmother, stood
some yards away watching. The
new Jap had a rifle. Lumbo rush-
ed and this time a bayonet pierced
his chest. While he was on the
ground the Jap slashed him again.
Mato come forward She later died
from a bayonet wound near the
heart. %
Lumbo explained with what Eng-
lish words be knew, and with his
home. The soldiers ordered two
way. Luki wasn’t crying anymore.
Muln was buried. Luk’s father
Pit met wi
The native now works to the A
merican graveyard. He rakes the 1
leaves and helps keep the graves |
military-like. And if you talk to
him, before long, you will hear
him say, “Me hate Jap. Me hate
Jap. Me kill. .. kill. . . kill." Luli
I bled to death.
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