Observer_1945-04-22

APRIL 22, 1945 YOUTH on.Parade By GERTRUDE WILLIAMS Hello everybody! Yes, I'm back again, with just a little of what's going on among the teensters ! • * • • * Art Winslow, S 2jc, was home on a 15-day leave the first part of Ap.ril. * * * * * Miss Dolores Wilkinson had one mad jump at her home Satur– day, the 7th, and it was only fine! But then, that is to be expected when you have the gracious Do– lores for a hostess and the spacious Wilkinson home for a background. * * * * • cia Brock. Ruby, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Asa Brock, 734 N. E. Shaver, was born in Portland, Oregon, on January 29th, 1928. Ruby attended Sabin elementary school for six and one-half years, then transferred to Highland. She was graduated from Hihgalnd in January, 1942. The following September, she entered Jefferson High §chool. Ruby is a member of the June '45 class and will have been graduated at the end of three and one-half years instead of the usual four. In High School, a gen– eral course was adopted, however, she has a commercial and English The OBSERVER ularly interested in tennis and MOVIE PRODUCERS bicycling. She also spends some of RECEIVE GUIDE her spare time drawing, but then, (Continued from Page 1) a young as popular lady as Miss the nature of a code for the guid– Brock has little time to spend in ance of producers in the presenta– the seclusive practice of art. Ruby tion of the Niegro and other racial is an active member of the "Tri minorities on the screen. The ob– Y'' club and is a member of the newly organized interracial choir. At present Ruby is employed as a page at Vernon Public Library. Her plans for the immediate fu– ture are to atf'end University of Washington this fall. What she will major in has not yet been de– cided. After the war she hopes to travel extensively. • • • • • jective of the organization is to bring about, by a process of supply– ing information and presenting viewpoints, a more realistic pres– entation, on the screen and in radio of the status of the Negro and of members of other racial minorities in contemporary life and culture. IFRG objectives were recently announced under an 8-point •pro– gram: "1. Complete abolition of racial Page 3 Germans had strongly fortified. Stanton doesn't remember the name of the town. In fact Fate Stanton can't begin to recall half the names of the towns he has fought in-all he remembers is the name of the army he was fighting with-all he cared about was that he was fighting. He first tasted action with Gen– eral Hodges' First Army when his unit, C Battery of the 999th Field Artillery, was ordeted into the line ahead of the reserve infantry. Stan– ton was so close to the J erries that his gun fired all day on '"charge one," the basic powder increment that provides the shortest possible range for an artillery piece. "As soon as we got our guns Salute to the Graduates of '45-No. 1. C. M.-How did you come out with A. W.? Remember C. M. major. will be home on furlough next stereotyping of all minority groups zeroed-in, the order came down to in Hollywood motion pictures. 'Fire at '\Vill.' That's the order I "2. A new conception of the like," said the soft talking can- At this time Miss Brock is five month. In a series of articles I shall in– troduce to you the June '45 grad– uates. In this, the first of these articles, we have Miss Ruby Mer- Wily PGE's vital warpower FLOWS STEADY AND STRONG it' When an electric furnace that melts tons of metal at a time is suddenly turned on or off, what happens to the flow of current on the power lines? ,With all kinds of electrical equipment being snapped on and off without warning, all over the PGE system, there has to be some way of keeping the flow of current firm and steady. The instrument Shown here is the little "Yehudi" that does the business. It watches every electric customer on the system, dealing out electric energy just where and when it is needed. feet, two inches of vivacious and charming young womanhood. The hobby of this seventeen year old graduate is sports. She is partie- for Y2 century, pioneering in electrical "know-how" Portland General Electric Company ]. M.-Is still interested in his one and only, J o Anne. E. F.-Off to California again, could it be Betty? B. G.-Still the same ]. P. E. W.-Is freedom sweeter than A. S. Several femmes hearts are skip– ping beats for one Art. Shephard -I might mention R. T. See Rich \Vinslow for taxi service, SOc a ride, I understand. GUAM ACTION BRINGS PURPLE HEART AW'ARD One Negro bluejacket and three marines were awarded the Purple Heart recently for injuries received in action against an enemy of the United States, the Navy Depart– ment announced tris week:. Andrew Leroy Flynt, steward third class, U. S. N_, of 1709 Thurmond Street, Winston-Salem, N. C., was presented the medal at the U. S. Naval Air Facility, Mer– cer Field, Trenton, N. J., by Comdr. Harry F. Guggenheim, U. S. N. R.,~ commanding officer, for injuries received June 6, 1944. The other threr awards went to members of the U. S. Marine Corps, who were injured July 24, 1944, in the'reoccupation of Guam. They were struck by shrapnel when the landing craft on which they were loading ammunition c,ame under enemy mortar fire. Their names are as follows : Pfc. Darnell Haynes, who en– listed in the Marine Corps in No– vember, 1943, and left for overseas duty April I, 1944. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Luberthe Johnson, live at 200 North lOth St., Mon– roe, La. Pfc. Wilbur ]. Webb, Jr., who enlisted in November, 1943, and left for overseas duty in March, 1944. His mother, Mrs. Pink Webb, lives on Route 1, Jackson, N.C. I Pvt. Jim W. Jones, enlisted in November, 1943, and left for over– seas duty in April, 194+. His par– I ents, Mr. and Mrs. '\Vill Jones, live at 101 North B Street, Mid– land, Texas. They have another son in the service, Corp. Will Jones, Jr., who is with the Army in New Guinea. All three marines are now serv– ing: with an ammunition company of a marine field ~epot in the Ma– rianas Islands. Negro's part in American life by noneer. "Our gun crew could fire Hollywood movie makers. three rounds in 45 seconds and "3. Adoption by the studios of we sure let that little old town the norm of coun·terbalance in J have it. After we ran the J erries Negroid casting. out, we passed through the town "4. More equitable employment I and there wasn't much of it left. of Negro script writers, publicit.v +•_,._,._,._, ,_ ,._ ,._"_,._ ,._,._-+ men, musicians, composers, a~d tl~e I Dependability in Your like in the Hollywood stud1os m I N S · S · . • ew prr.ng u1.t any capaaty not governed b}' the J AFL lily-white trade unions which I TJO N SP EAKS control the technical side of Pr.o- ! 4. C HAN duction, referred ~y I~R.G offtc- ! LOUDER T ials as a separate ftght m ttself. ! "5. Application of the rating I woRDS system to Negro performers the . ! Same QS tO Other playerS. I ! "6. Higher salaries to Negro ! ! players, commen·surate to their ! fJa!ue as boxoffice magnets. i "7. Introduction of the cour– ageous experimentation in f,roduc– tion of all-colored films using N eiroes in roles not necessarilr Negroid. "8. More stories dealing with ! Negro life." ! Members of the national span- 1 soring board include Rep. Adam f Clayton Powell, Dr. Alain Locke, i Howard University; William J. j Schieffelin, Tuskegee Institute; l Judge William Hastie, Washing- i ton, NAACP executive; William f Nunn and George Schuyler of the i Pittsburgh Courier. i Cannoneer Fought All Over ETO with Four Allied Armies STARK GENERAL HOS- PITAL, Charleston, S. C.-Priv– ate First Class Fate Stanton of Tunnel Springs, Alabama, former cannoneer of the 999th Field Ar– tillery aBttalion is a first class fighting man. A glance at the combat record of this 38-year-old convalescent at Stark General Hospital shows that he has fought with four Allied i I I I i i I i i I ! I I We could.talk ourselves armies on the Western Front: blue in the face about ~'s General Hodges' First, General famous architectural tea· ! I I i f i . i i i I i i i i I I i i j Patton's Third, General Patch's tures, but . _ . until you go I Seventh and the fighting French into everyday action in a I First Armies. His one ambition is ~ suit, you'll never really i k'1ow what we mean by j to rejoin his old gun crew in the clothes freedom that's "tai·' ' 999th and fire just one more Iored in." When you taL: f round at the J erries from his faith- that action, you'll be a "3-G 1 • fu I 8-inch howitzer. man" for life. Exactlr one )'<'ar after he was 1 inducted into the Army, Pricate I ! s6S.oo f First Class Stanton was sitting in ! your Store j a valley near the Seine River in . 1 ! i France, thrilling to his 8-inch gun ! Crabbe .. Pallay i as it lobbed she.lls into a s~alll f Broadway and Washington l French town wh1ch the retreatmg +----.. -·---"-·--·-·+