Germans use captured guns against Yanks
U.S. mines, food also aid Nazis
By Jack Fleischer, United Press staff writer
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Nuisance raids reported by Tokyo
By the United Press
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Ferguson: Negro and white
By Mrs. Walter Ferguson
My hometown lies below the Mason-Dixon Line. Yet during the last decade, great progress in racial understanding has been made here. Unless you know something about such progress, which is going on all over this section, it will be well to close your ears to the strident cries of the “liberals” of the Eastern Seaboard who always have found it easier to criticize than to understand the South.
Last Sunday, a Negro hospital was formally opened in my town. I saw profound pleasure upon the faces of those who had worked together to create it. They represent three racial groups – whites, Indians and Negroes – and three religious creeds – Protestant, Catholic and Jew.
The Negroes alone contributed $6,000, the largest sum their group has ever given any city project. Other costs were met by white people.
Not only better racial understanding but active friendship between individuals has been the result of this cooperative effort. There is a new respect among us for Negro leadership and energy, and many Negroes have learned that many white people are concerned about their welfare.
A Negro woman held the hospital project together when it seemed ready to fall apart. With the help of those who appreciated her patient tenacity, she has built a structure better than the one composed of brick and stone – a structure of human understanding.
Hearts and minds as well as hospital doors were opened last Sunday.
How much better such cooperate efforts for a community are than sermons or editorials about tolerance or laws designed to force the intolerant to accept legal measures against their wills.
To know people, you must work with them. When our aims are the same, it’s very easy to forget that our skins are a different color.
Poll: Public urges federal aid for industry
Other ideas listed in post-war survey
By George Gallup, Director, American Institute of Public Opinion
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House glamor battle draws big audience
But Mrs. Luce and Mrs. Douglas deny race for attention in Congress
By George Kennedy, North American Newspaper Alliance
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Aboard the USS Bennington –
Mighty airplane carrier is city in itself with everyone working as a team
Accidents come few and far between, but men are ready when Dame Fortune frowns
By Max B. Cook, Scripps-Howard staff writer
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Gracie Allen Reporting
By Gracie Allen
Hollywood, California –
Well, it looks like Congress is back at the old stand, with a few familiar faces and relatives missing from the payroll.
From the woman’s standpoint, the most interesting thing will be to see if the pen is mightier than the makeup box. In this corner, ladies and gentlemen, is Clare Boothe Luce, on the Republican elephant, representing literature; in that corner Helen Gahagan Douglas, on the Democratic donkey, representing the drama.
I think it is just wonderful that each of our great parties has such a beautiful member to represent it, and I’m sure when they cross swords in oratory you won’t be able to see the speaker’s rostrum for newsreel cameras. Requests for gallery seats are so heavy some people have suggested staging the whole thing in Madison Square Garden.
Goodness, it certainly wouldn’t surprise me a bit if the Luce-Douglas debates went thundering down into history alongside the Lincoln-Douglas ones.