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r SUPERLATIVE Ì3IG “3” UNIT SET FOR TOUR
LUIS RU SS EL L and his orchestra
“ Hit Band of the Year.”
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S A V AN N AH C H U R C H I L L
“America’s Song Favorite.”
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“ D E E K ” W A T S O N ’S Q U A R T E T
“Singing Sensation of the Nation.”
exclusive to T ed Yules Publiealirjiu
I_■ EKE they a re th e g re a te s t hit show of thé' 1945 M anor R eco rd s), “31 M iles F o r A N ickle,” “ L e t’s
-• - S p rin g season, th e su p e rla tiv e Dig "3” U nit
w hich is s e t for a to u r a c ro ss th e co u n try —n orth,
south, e a s t a n d w est. S av an n ah C hurchill, A m erica’s
fav o rite song sty list, popular M anor R ecords b e st­
se lle r w hose w axing of “D addy, D addy” and Irv in g
B e rlin ’s “All A lone,” is tops, will be fea tu re d with
“D eek” W atson and His B row n Dots, th e q u a rte t
th a t N. Y. c ritic s hailed as, “th e sin g in g fav o rites of
th e n a tio n .” T he Brown D ots rec e n tly recorded (for
Give Love A nother C hance," "F o r S e n tim e n ta l R ea­
sons,” and “ You’re H eaven S ent."
Luis R ussell and H is O rc h e stra hailed as the "H it
Band of th e Y ear,” will round o ut this star-stu d d ed
show. R u sse ll’s (M anor) recordings of “Boogie in
th e B asem en t,” “ You T a u g h t Me How To Sm ile
A gain,’’ along w ith “St. Louis H oliday,” and “ I Need
Your Kind Of Loving,” is first ra te . M ilton Buggs is
th e vo calist w ith the band.
stroyed by G erm an or Italian
The N orth A tlantic has n atu r-
subm arines,
a ir
attack s
and ally proved the m ost desirable
m ines, w ith 68 lost in Jap an ese hunting ground for A xis subm ar-
areas. The most extensive de- ines. Up to the end of last year,
O nly tw o out of the 18 L iberty struction w as in the n o rth At« 219 A m erican m erch an t ships
ships nam ed for outstanding N e­ lantic, w here w olfpacks of U- w ere sunk, 141 in th e n orthw est
gro A m ericans and N egro sea­ boats prow led against convoys area and 8 in the n o rth east A t­
men w ho have lost th e ir lives in to the B ritish Isles and n o rth lantic, in addition to th e 27 sunk
this w ar w ere am ong th e 570 R ussia u n til curbed by fast-ex ­ off N orm andy. Next, th e C arib ­
U nited S tates flag m erchant ships panding A llied naval and air bean Sea was the m ost th o ro u g h ­
lost from d irect w ar causes b e­ pow er, including th e use of escort ly exploited area for enem y su b ­
tw een S eptem ber 1, 1939, and carriers, such as th e 50 designed m arine operations, w ith 122 of
May 8, 194555, th e W ar Shipping and built by the U nited States o ur vessels lost.
A dm inistration announced this M aritim e Commission for the
In the Pacific, A xis su b m ar­
week.
Navy.
ines and air attack account for
The tw o ships sunk by direct
The d ark days of 1942, before 44 A m erican ships; in the south
enem y action w ere the SS FR ED ­ new m ethods of com batting en- A tlantic, 42; in the M editerran-
ERICK DOUGLASS, nam ed for em y attacks on shipping had ean and Black Seas, 39; in the
th e fam ed abolitionist leader a n d , been perfected, w itnessed the G ulf of Mexico, 25; in th e Red
editor, an d lost in the n o rth w est heig th of the G erm an and Italian Sea and Iidian Ocean, 27; in the
A tlanitc S eptem ber 20, 1943, and atte m p t to h alt the tra n sp o rt of approaches to ^ ie M editerranean,
th e SS ROBERT L. VANN, des­ troops and m unitions to the E u r­ 18; and in th e undeterm ined ar-
ignated in honor of the founder opean w ar th eater. In the fiv e.eas, 7.
and publisher of The P ittsb u rg h m onths from M arch through
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C ourier, and su n k in the n o rth ­ Ju ly , 204 A m erican m e rc h a n t1 p * /
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east A tlantic on M arch 1, 1944. ships w ere sunk, an average of 111 Jj L » 0 1 l t r i l ) l l i 6
The W SA re p o rt did not in ­ m ore th an one a day. In Ju n e '
clude A m erican - ow ned vessels of 1942, th e highest point of loss-j
under foreign flags. Two of the es of the w ar w as reached, the
N egro-nam ed vessels are in this enem y sending 49 U. S. vessels
N ew Y ork—As an indication of
category.
T hey w ere th e SS to th e bottom in 30 days.
th e ir in terest in A m erica’s fu ­
PA U L LAURENCE DUNBAR,
S ta rtin g w ith th e sinking of the ture, Negro enlisted m en and
bearing th e nam e of the fam ous SS CITY O F RAYVILLE, No­ th eir officers in the A rm ed F o r­
Negro poet, and th e SS ROBERT v em b er 8, 1940, after 1943 losses ces of the U nitel S tates have a l­
S. ABBOTT, th e L iberty ship, w ere cut to 129, of 885,076 dead­ ready contribcted $10,220 to the
w hich honored th e founder and w eight tons. L ast y e a r the e n ­ 1945 U nited Negro College Fund
p ublisher of T he Chicago D efen­ em y sank only 59. To the 1944 cam paign for the w ar tim e needs
der.
to tal should be added as w ar of 32 p riv ate accredited colleges
The 570 vessels w ere p a rt of losses, how ever, the 27 U. S. flag and universities, it was an n o u n ­
1,554 U nited S tates flag m erch an t vessels th a t w ere over-age or had ced this w eek by Thom as A.
ships of 6,277,077 deadw eight been knocked out bu t not sunk M organ, n atio n al chairm an.
tons lost from w ar causes a n d ! jn com bat. These vessels w ere
“The significant th in g about
m arin e casualties largely due to scuttled by th e ir ow n crew s to this gesture is th a t $8,500 of the
w a r conditions betw een 1939 and form the artifical harb o rs th a t am ount has been sent from o v er­
helped m ake successful the A l­ seas,” Mr. M organ pointed out.
1945.
The d estruction of ships by the lied invasion of N orm andy. From “L etters received at national
enem y
was accom panied
by J a n u a ry 1, 1945, to M ay 8, an h ead q u arters indicate th a t Negro
heav y loss of life. The latest additional 22 vessels w ere lost. soldiers on b attle fronts through-
M erch an t M arine casualty list
re p o rts 5,579 m e rc h an t seam en
dead and m issing, and 487 p ris­
oners of w ar, a to tal of 6,066 as
of M ay 1, 1945.
A n overw elm ing percentage of
th e m e rc h a n t vessels w ere de-
Good Luck Smiles On
Negro Liberty Ships
out th e w orld are giving serious
thought to th eir future."
In m any instances, according to
the letters, contributions for the
College Fund have been collected
at special chapel services w here
Negro education has been the
subject of discussion.
“M auy of the men of this b a t­
talion,” w rote th e Special Service
O fficer of the 784th Tank B attait
ion,” have already show n an
eagerness to tak e ad vantage of
the post-w ar educational oppor­
tu n ities u n d er th e GI Bill and
will atten d some of the colleges
that p articip ate in the F und.”
One of th e larg est contributions
received was from the 24th In ­
fantry, a Negro unit fighting in
the South Pacific T h eater which
sent a check totaling $4,523.13,
Four com panies of the 1887th
Engineers A viation B attalion in
the sam e T h eater contributed $1,-
137.99.
In the E uropean T heater, offi­
cers and men at H eadquarters of
the 41st C onstruction B attalion
gave $1,062.28 and from the 607th
O rdnance A m m unition Com pany
$232.55 was received.
D uring the 1945 U nited Negro
College Fund cam paign th e im ­
portance of providing adequate
education opportunities for th e re ­
tu rn in g Negro v eteran in schools
associated w ith the Fund has
constantly been stressed.
A p­
p roxim ately 30,000 Negro cold-
iers intend to enroll in colleges
and oth er educational in stitu ­
tions above the high school level
following discharge according to
a recent A rm y survey.
O ther Fund contributions from
1534th Truck C om pany in the
th e
A rm ed
Service
include:
Pacific, $134; m em bers of the
892nd Engineers A viation Com ­
pany, 214.84; Q u arterm asters S e r­
vice C om panies at Indiantow n
G ap R eservation, Pa., $250.83;
Com pany B, 4th M edical B atta­
lion, 4th Infantry, $100; H ead­
quarters, 267th u a rterm asters B at­
talion, $512.
Also,
m em bers
of the
Q u arterm asters T ruck C om pany,
$226.20; officers and men of the
H ead q u arters of the 87th C hem i­
cal Unit, overseas, $125. Enlisted
men and officers in th e various
branches of the A rm ed Services
have m ade individual gifts ra n g ­
ing up to $100.
Negroes in the A rm ed f o r c e s
conti ibuted $35,000 to the Fund
in last y e a r’s cam paign. On the
basis of the $10,220 received thus
far, it is expected th at 1945 A rm ­
ed Service contributions w ill s u r­
pass the 1944 total.
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