Local Educator to Address WDL Group Page Two EVANSVILLE ARGUS Friday, April 2, 1943
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.ecal Grate s Sp®ns®r 'Annual SEE STORIES AND fllfii PHOTOS IN THIS ISSUE Per Copy The Argus QfteC Is t %hqm Newsy! <nmty\ AN K&mmmwjmmmmm&swnmmmifm &msm& VOLUME 4—-NUMBER 40: EVANSVILLE, INDIANA, FRIDAY, APRIL 2, 1943. Noted Hews es Plea For Freedom SEE For Over 370,0< PAGES I ndianl 'eople 6 & 7 IEALTH DIRECTOR TO JJ§1 DDRESS MASS MEETING AT SEE NCOLN APRIL EIGHTH PAGE 8 LOCAL HEN ENTER SERVICES! i TODAYS ON PAGE THREE are Lt. Maria W. B. August, of Atlanta, Ga.; Lt. Rosemary Vin cent, Detroit, Mich.; and Lt. Harris of Rochester, Perm.; Di rectly below, the photo shows the use of a tree limb as an improvised traction splint ton a fractured arm, taken at Col umbia Army Air _Base during a first ' aid insiifteto^^^gjso sponsored by the. Amertiifift Red Cross. Local Educator To Address WDL Group Page Two EVANSVILLE ARGUS Friday, April 2, 1943 eNFERENCE WISE COMBAT AND SERVICE WAR AND RACE PROBLEMS TO TROOPS III FAR PACIFIC BE OUTLINED With thousand's cf Colored draftsmen, surveyors, archi combat and service troops sta tects, photographers and elec The plans for the Eastern tioned in the Far Pacific, Am tricians. They are constantly Seaboard Conference on the building and maintaining roads, erican Colored soldiers are play Problems of the War and the runways and other Engineer ing an important part in the Negro People„to be held in New projects. York City, April 10-11, are tak Allied offensive now being made At present, Quartermaster and ing final shape and promise in by Gen. Douglas MacArthur in Ordnance outfits are guarding, addition to the Conference de that area. supplying end supervising am liberations, a gala affair and Arriving with the first units munition, dumps. Colored sol an epoch-making mass meet diers from the various outfits ing. cf American soldiers in New are also attending Officers' The prcgrm of the confer Guinea, these troops have not Candidate schools and recent ence will be based primarily on only assisted in maintaining graduates have been assigned the four vital issues confront vital supply lines to the various to administrative work at head ing the Colored people: fronts, but have also taken part quarters. *Full Use of Manpower. in the fighting. General MacArthur has laud-! *Democratic Rights. According to reports received ed these troops en various oc *War Time Living Standards. from Office ,cf War Informa casions and several letters from *A People's Victory—a Peo tion outposts, Colored quarter MacArthur'S Headquarters at ple's Peace. master and Engineer units test to their continuing contri Endorsements of the Confer helped repulse an attempted bution to the Allied offensive ence have been received from Japanese landing at Milne Bay in that area. over two hundred Eastern Sea in the early days ol' the -war. board leaders, and from forty Surprised by the landing par- organizations representing wide j ties while working en installa cross section of social, religious, tions in the bay, the soldiers SOLDIERS GET labor, civic and fraternal in-, quickly manned machine guns PRIORITY FOR terests from Massachusetts to and helped Army combat units Virginia. Included in the list repel the invaders. This en LA FENBRICH 'are a number of outstanding counter marked the first Am trade unions, both CIO and "Say, man, I sho' will be glad when school's out so I erican offensive retaliation in AFL; the Industrial Union can knock me a hame out at Chrysler's or at the Airport. the area. "Give me a fistful of La Fen- Councils of Greater New York, Them long ends on Fridays will come in mighty haji'dy." Organized mainly into Engi drichs, Joe." Hartford, Conn.; Washington, neer Quartermaster and Ord "Sorry, Mr. Smith, but we are D. C, and Tidewater, Va. nance units, these American out. You know the boys, in the soldiers have made their great - service come first and with COUNTY TUBERCULOSIS till est contribution in maintaining them Fendrichs are a standout LEAGUE TO HEAR the vitaj supply lines of united favorite." POST HEAD ASSOCIATION LISTS SIX «§§ services of supply. Crack Quar Of course, we aren't sure that r termaster port battalions, with those were the exact words that DISEASE HIGHLIGHTS proficient winch operators and passed between the customer An announcement from Roy L. Army-devised unloading plans, and cigar stand operator, but Farr, president of the Evansville bring Jhe supplies ashore. And we do know that in stores all Local of the Workers Defense 1. Tuberculosis is caused by found among' unskilled workers transportation outfits, with well over the Tri-State, yes, all ov League, tells of the second in a a "germ—the tubercle bacillus, than among professional peo- trained maintenance units "keep er the country, this same scene series of discussions, to be held No one ever develops tubercu- j pie, as a general rule, but we 'em rolling" to the interior as is being enacted. Tuesday, April 6 at the Commun losis unless the germs of the cannot forget the distinguished well as to the fighting fronts. ity Center, Seventh and Cherry disease enter his body. Tuber list of physicians, writers, artists Priorities not only apply to streets. j The Colored Engineer units, steel for tanks and guns, but culosis is usually a lung disease and statesmen who have been The head of the Lincoln High" which helped to build many cf to cigars as well. When your though it may occur in any or . victims of tuberculosis. School's social science depart the Allied airdromes now play dealer says, "Sorry, no La Fen gan of the body. It is a slow 5. Tuberculosis is curable. As ment, Dr. C. a_ Rochelle will be ing an important part in the drichs," you'll know that the disease and may take years to yet there is no specific cure for the featured speaker who will offensive, are composed mainly cigars you normally buy are go develop. j tuberculosis. Rest, modern sur- discuss the rise of democracy in of men with special skills. Mas ing to the men in uniform. 2. Tuberculosis is not inher ; gery, gocd food, administered ter Sergeants are serving as the world, including progress in ited. Tuberculosis "runs in fam- in healthful surroundings, pre construction supervisors and But even in the army camps political, economic and social " Hies" because of the close con ferably in a sanitarium, are structural designers in the En they often must say, "Scrry, fields. Members of' the W. D. L. tact within the family circle.' essentials in the treatment of gineer Operations Section, while soldier, no La Fendrichs," lor committees include Arthur Seuta Employees of the household the disease. The sanitarium both enlisted men are working as there is another group with and B. Yates Noma, grievance; may be infected and it is im-; cures the -patient within its still a higher priority. First William Rabe Sr., and Rev. H. H. portant to make sure that those gates and protects the well peo- chance for high quality La Fen Sink, membership; Ruth Asbell who are intimately associated pie outside from contact with 5 WEEKLIES IN drichs goes to the men who are and T. B. Neely, program. "The with the family, such as cooks, the disease. already in the fight overseas. W. D. L., a national non-partisan nurse maids and others, are free The earlier the case is dis $2,000,000.00 Every day in the big packing league dedicated to the defense from tuberculosis. Healthy and covered, the more rapid will be rooms at the Fendrich plant, of workers rights, believes that strong bodies are the best in the recovery. Those who are BOND DRIVE boxes- are wrapped in the mois the defense of the working man surance against being overcome moderately or far advanced of- Colored newspapers covering ture proof paper and sealed in iss essential to the defense of the by tuberculosis germs. That is ten take years to cure and some the Metropolitan Area of New the big wooden cases that make democracy and human freedom," why the maintenance of good, times never recover. i Yoii, New Jersey, Connecticut, them ready for the long jump writes John W. Powell, secietary health is important in prevent- j 6. Tuberculosis is preventable and Rhode Island (The Amster- to battlefronts all over the of the local. ing tuberculosis. In tuberculosis, as in, all else, dam Star News, The New York i world. 3. Tuberculosis often exists "an ounce of prevention is Age, The' Peoples Voice, The Don't be downhearted when without the presence of signs j worth a pound of cure." The Pittsburgh Courier, and the New- you can't get your favorite LA FOLLETTE or symptoms. Tuberculous in decrease in the number of the ark Herald News) are conducting smoke during these trying war fection can exist in apparently deaths, year by year, indicates a campaign to sell $2,000,000 times — remember that those IS URGED TO well and healthy individuals. It that tuberculosis is being pre-1 (million) in war bonds by May fresh tasting quality cigars are is a saboteur lurking out of the vented. Wider use of our weap-, 15, 1943. Eaih paper shared in going where you want them to OPPOSE LABOR sight, but doing deadly dam ons—the tuberculin test and underwriting the expenses of the go — to the nephews of Uncle DRAFT BILL age. Overwork, poor sleeping the x-ray—will cut the death campaign. Mrs. Nell Hunter, of Sam who are serving their coun and eating habits are its allies rate still further and may ul- the Interracial Section of the try.