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MARINES PRAISED
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leans, La., graduate of New Or
leans’ Gilbert Academy, helped or
ganize this extraordinary “depot”
company, system atically weeding
out the less apt recruits and re
placing them with the best men he
could find.
Gunnery Sgt. Victor Kee, 21, of
18 School Street, Newark, N. J.,
studied for three years at Morgan
State College, Baltimore, Md., be
fore joining the Marine Corps.
Cpl. Clifford W. Stewart, 20, of
2096 W. 30th St., Los Angeles, Cal.
played football at UCLA.
Several of the men are college
graduates. All are young, with an
average age of 21.
The Negroes have had 20 men
wounded. Some of the Negroes
stayed on the front lines as long
as 48 hours a t a stretch.
VETS PENSIONED
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number have either been deferred
or denied.
During the fiscal year 1944, a
total of 21,699 Negro veterans were
adm itted to Veterans Administra
tion institutions for hospitalization
or domiciliary care.
Many of the 21,699 veterans who
received hospital care during the
fiscal year were in hospitals for
only a few weeks. A large per
centage of them returned to active
duty or to civilian life.
IT CAN HAPPEN HERE
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there, a fire ? ” Being assured be
yond a reasonable doubt that such
was the case, the gruff voice then
identified itself as the Fire De
partm ent. The next question as to
what part of the house was burn
ing was more than the lady could
stand. Her house was ablaze, the
fire burning merrily along was
eating up her worldly possessions
earned by hard labor, the only way
a Negro ever gets anything. Preci
ous minutes had been lost by exas
perating and foolish questions. The
fire was gaining headway all the
time and here was this, this---------
asking more silly questions. Well,
the lady finally did what we would
have done long since, she exploded.
The gruff voice finally decided,
“All right, we’ll be right up there,”
which they did — ten minutes after
the lady had put in the alarm.
If that is the speed of the fire
departm ent, then it is no wonder
that Casablanca was gutted. So
would have this place had they not |
been close to one of the fire house (
stations.
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