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Editor's note: This Is the first
two articles on inteeratlon In the
armed forces, prepared by Thomas
B. Dorsey of the New York Herald
Tribune News Service-
By THOMAS B. DORSEY
Herald Tribune News Service
Washington-(HTNS) Imag
ine, if you can, an infantry
rifle company with a majori
ty of Southern white men
and a Negro top sergeant. And
imagine everyone in the com
pany, after a bit of initial
grumbling, taking it as a mat
ter of course, even of pride.
Imagine further, children
of American officers and en
listed men of both races from
all sections of the United
States happily attending class
es taught by equally assorted
teachers, and all sharing the
same residential areas, join
ing in community and. social
activities oblivious to all dif-.
ferences in coloration or home
background.
: In light of the strife that
has gripped the Nation since
the Supreme Court laid down
the law on public school in
tegration, this situation might
seem unreal.
But this, is precisely what
has happened in the U.S. Arm
ed Forces.
Quietly and smoothly, inte
gration of Negro GIs into
formerly "white" units has
been completed with most
non-military people not even
noticing. I
Everyone Victorious
The integration battle can
be chalked up as one of the
Armed Forces' great victories;
everyone appears to have
won. The Negro gained dig
nity. The Armed Force got a
better working team. The free
world has made a reply to
Communist propaganda.
The word of the Pentagon
officials that integration has
succeeded becomes even more
significant when it is echoed
in the words of those who
have lived with the problem.
They are the ones we talked
to. Without exception, they
agree that integration in the
Armed Forces is a whopping
success.
The most important victor
ies in the eyes of the Negroes
interviewed are the gains of
"dignity and respect" for in
dividuals and the opportunity
to move ahead on the basis
of ability.
Lt. Col. Edward C. John
son, Professor of Military Sci
ence and Tactics at Morgan
State College, Baltimore, Md.,
has had new worlds opened
to him by integration. In 1956,
Col. Johnson became the first
Negro in the Army ever to
hold a Chiefs job on a com
bat division general st?",
when he was named Intelli
gence Chief for the Second
Armored Division in Ger
many. Col. Johnson has been in
the Army for more than 25
years. He has served with
both segregated and intergat
ed units. These are his obser
vations: Smooth Transition Surprises
"Even the most rabid were
surprised at the smooth trans
ition. In my own case, my
family and I have been taken
into the community and un
less I looked in the mirror, I
wouldn't know I was a Negro.
"Today in the Army, a man
can go according to his ability.
If you have the stuff, it doesn't
matter how long you were
baked in the oven."
When he was with the com
bat troops in Germany two
years ago, the easy-going Phil
adelphia officer was president
of the School Board and
American youth activities. He
was elected by his neighbors,
most of them white soldiers
from South of the Mason-Dixon
line. His wife, sister of ex
Dodger star Roy Campanella,
was area chairman of Volun
teers for the Red Cross and
was involved in a half-dozen
other community activities.
The Colonel said he thinks
the key to the success of in
tegration in the Army was
that it "was not jammed down
people's throats. It was simply
shown to everyone that this
was the best thing that we
can't go throughout the world
and win people if we don't
practice what we preach.
The Negro was not the only
one who had to do the inte
grating in the Armed Forces
It was just as important to
integrate the white soldier in
to the Negro unit. We talked
to a cross-section of them too
from North to South.
No Trouble
Sgt. First Class Willie H.
Terry Jr., a white soldier from
Cola, S.C., is an infantry
squad leader. He said: "I've
never had any more trouble
with them than with a white
boy. One of the best men we
have in the platoon is a Neg
ro." MSgt. Jesse Mason is
another white soldier from the
South. A platoon sergeant, he
said he thought integration
has helped the Army. "There
was a lot of friction before,
but not now."
There are still a few Neg
roes who think they are being
discriminated against in the
Service. Perhaps a few are,
but most are not, and they
are, no longer receiving the
sympathy, even from their
own people, that the com
plaint used to bring.
The only Negro Army Chap
lain who is a full Colonel now
is counseling .one of the
largest concentration of Amer
ican troops in the world. He's
Chaplain (Col.) John A. De
Veaux, Senior Chaplain, U.S.
Army Garrison, Ft. Carson,
Colo.
Before integration, the chap
lain told us, "If a guy failed
in the Army it was blamed
on segregation. A dishonor
able discharge didn't even
mean anything to a Negro
soldier, because, he would al
ways say, 'They kicked me
out because I wouldn't be
an Uncle Tom. When they get
a hishonorable discharge now
or flunk out, they get no
sympathy from Negroes."
Chaplain DeVeaux had an
interesting comment on how
the integration program has
probably been of more value
to the Army than it has to
the Negro.
Once Service Units
"More of my people were
killed in Korea than in World
War I and II combined, and
there was no such thing as a
Negro prisoner of war before
intergation. Negro units were
service units, and stayed far
behind the line and never took
an active part in the hot war."
The Negro Chaplain said he
considered the most important
thing integration has given
his people to be "dignity
that's a big thing in my dic
tionary." The real success of integra
tion is not here even yet,
Chaplain DeVeaux said.
"Integration is for the
young men," he explained.
"They will -grasp it. They
will make it work because the
young lads coming into the
Armed Forces today are learn
ing there is nothing to this
race business.
"The Army has done more
for my people than anybody
else, and the best part is that
Army men white and Negro
are carrying this integra
tion out of the Service with
them. That's why it is be
ginning to work on the out
side, too." ,
UNEXPECTED VISIT Actress Linda Christian, second wife of actor Tyrone Power,
ie TrtPtnror! in TTnllvwnnrl rfnrin an nneTnerted visit to the erave of her ex-husband
-with her two children, Romina Franchesca, 8, and Taryn Stephanie, 6. Power died
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BEING SLOWLY LED AWAY, Aurora, 111., Mayor Paul Egan (between two police
men) was jailed when he became too persistent in trying to get the ear of Governor
William Stratton to ask why he (Egan) was not invited to dedication ceremonies of
a portion of the new East -West Tollway. Egan tried to break through police lines at
Leland Hotel where Governor Stratton was making dedicatory address but (failed.
Silica Compound
Found Effective
Way to Kill Insects
Delos Smith
By DELOS SMITH
UPI Science Editor
New York-flJPD-There is a
new possibility of science win
ning a total victory over cer-
t a 1 n insects,
including that
p ri m e and
seemingly un
c o n querable
pest, the cock
roach. The new
weapon seems
$ iu a. ill uiseuis
by physical
rather than
chemical means. If that is so,
insects won't be able to learn
to live with it as many have
learned to live with DDT and
other poisonous insecticides.
It also means people won't
accidentally poison themselves
while exterminating insects.
The new weapon is a kind
of sand. Add two oxygen
atoms to the molecule of sili
con, which is one of the most
abundant of the elements, and
you have silica. Nature fre
quently makes the addition;
silica is everywhere, in sands
and rocks. Now, toy with
silica in technically easy
ways, and you have an ex
tremely fine powder which is
aggressively greedy for mois
ture. An insect walks over a
sprinkle of that powder and
very soon thereafter it is dead.
Science doesn't yet know posi
tively why, but the best
theory is that the powder
draws moisture out of its
body. That's as physical a
way of killing as swatting, but
it's infinitely easier.
DDT and the other orgarlic
insecticides kill by adding in
gredients to an insect's body
chemistry which the chemis
try can't handle. Unhappily
insect chemistry adapts to the
added ingredients and even
tually lines of insects emerge
which are immune to what
used to kill them, but mean
while people, birds, fish, and
other creatures are endanger
ered. Silica in any form is notably
non-poisonous. The silica pow
der has been in use for a long
time as a filler of diluting
substance for resins and other
materials. Dr. Walter Ebeling
of the University of Californ
ia discovered by accident that
it was an insect killer.
Faster Than DDT
He was diluting DDT with
it and discovered that when
he decreased the DDT content
of his insect poison while in
creasing the powder content,
it killed more insects.
Since then there have been
many experiments. In the lab
oratory, the powder alone will
knock down cockroaches in
15 minutes and kill them in
45 minutes, which is faster
than DDT, parathion, dieldrin
and a number of other poison
ing insecticides can do it. It
works as effectively on all
insects experimented with so
far.
The answer to the critical
question of whether the pow
der is the total victory weap
on, now is in the making.
The Davison Chemical Co.,
whose scientists developed the
powder formulation which
tested best in the laboratory,
has released quantities of it to
professional insecticide users
for strictly controlled scien
tific experiments under natu
ral conditions. Their results
will give the answer.
Princess Grace
Purchases Trinkets
New York -(UPD- Princess
Grace and Prince Rainier of
Monaco spent the first day of
their month-long vacation in
this country buying trinkets
for their palace in Fifth ave
shops.
Grace's mother, Mrs. John
B. Kelly of Philadelphia, and
her sister, Mrs. Donald Le
Vine, Monday helped the prin
cess pick out linens and ac
cessories in several expensive
shops. Le Vine went along
with Rainier to give advice
on ties.
The two shopping groups
got together for lunch, then
visited friends. All will go to
Philadelphia for Thanksgiv
ing dinner at the Kelly family
mansion.
Typhoon Nancy
Endangers Okinawa
Tokyo -(UPD- Typhoon Nan
cy, packing dangerous 150
miles per hour center winds,
moved closer today to the
U. S. island bastion of Okin
awa. The storm which left at
least 15 dead in the Philip
pines was located today by
U. S. Air Force weathermen
about 480 miles south sout
west of Okinawa.
The weathermen said the
typoon was moving northeast
at 14 miles per hour and that
the storm's center was ex
pected to be 460 miles east
southeast of Okinawa early
Wednesday.
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Back stairs: Helicopter Language
By MERRIMAN SMITH
UPI Correspondent
Augusta, Ga. - (UPD - Back
stairs at the White House:
When President Eisenhower
hops around in his helicop
ter, he encounters a language
difficulty that would stop the
government's most talented
translator.
The rotors make so much
noise that vocal communica
tion is virtually impossible,
even between two persons
wedged together side by side.
This leads to all sorts of
sign language:
Pointing to another person
while patting one's own tum
my fasten your seat belt
if you don't want to lose your
upper fillings when we land.
Pointing upward (this only
for the benefit of first trip
pers) "See, we're taking
off."
Pointing upward (for a vet
eran of helicopter hopping)
"I wish the heck this guy
wouldn't come so close to the
TV aerials."
Pointing out window, ex
ictedly, "If your seat was
as good as mine, you could
see a whale of a football game
going on below."
Pointing out window, casu
ally "still raining."
Fairly Simple Signs
These signs, as one can see,
are fairly .simple. The passen
ger in a White House heli
copter has to be up on current
events, however, to under
stand some of the more com
plicated communications:
War I Munitions
Terminal Sale Told
Jersey City, N.J.-WPD-Black
Tom, a 27-acre peninsula
where German saboteurs set
off a gigantic munitions ex
plosion during World War I,
was sold for $27,000 at public
auction Monday.
A New York syndicate
bought the property through
Francis X. Hayes, a local at
torney who refused to identi
fy his clients or indicate to
what use the largely unused
marine terminal would be
put.
Pointing downward with I have been appreciably larger.
shrugged shoulders "Lousy
crowd."
Ponting downward with
hands rubbing together
"Brother, easily 10,000 in that
crowd."
Nodding downward, keep
ing hands in pockets "Looks
cold down there."
Nodding downward, arms
folded "I'm nearly asleep."
Waving hands excitedly in
all directions "Don't talk
to me about Harold Stassen
I've heard enough."
Clapping hand over fellow
passenger's mouth "No
smoking."
Slapping self on top of head
"I left my hat on the other
plane."
Crowd Small
When President Eisenhow
er's big plane, the Columbine
III, touched down here from
Washington last week, the air
port crowd of spectators con
sisted of about 50 to 100 on
lookers. On many arrivals
here in the past, the crowds
The local morning paper,
the Augusta Chronicle called
it ,"by far the smallest and
most undemonstrative gather
ing attracted by the chief ex
ecutive since he started va
cationing here in 1951."
This, of course, is a matter
of judgement. For one thing,
the President arrived here 40
minutes earlier than the
schedule printed in the news
papers. He came in at 1:50
pjn. when the schools still
were in session and a lot of
people still at lunch."
Washington reporters who
travel with the President in
and out of many towns saw
little out of the ordinary in
his arrival, but perhaps they
are jaded. It is true, how
ever, that Eisenhower goes in
and out of Washington air
port week after week with
out attracting so much as a
dozen spectators even in
the spring when the nation's
capital is overflowing with
tourists. v
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giving day ;
UKE MY DAUGHTER' Queen Frederika of Greece
(right) smiles and points to daughter, Princess Sophie
(left), during press conference at U. S. Navy base, Long
Beach, Calif. Asked her impression of American youth,
the Queen pointed to the Princess and said, "They are
like my daughter," In background is Madame Carolou,
a member of the royal party. The Queen and Princess are
on an extended tour of the U. S.
By
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Medford Woman
Mrs. J. B. Creager, 920 West
11th St., Medford, has been
notified that she won a Pfaff
sewing machine in the recent
"200,000 Family Contest"
sponsored by the Colgate
Palmolve company.
To win a prize the contest
ants had to complete a num
bered dot outline and give an
appropriate title to the fin
ished picture.
RESUME TALKS
Warsaw-(UPD-U.S. Ambassa
dor Jacob Beam and Chinese
Communist Ambassador Wang
Ping-nan resume their incon
clusive talks here today. It
was their first meeting since
Nov. 7.
Cuba Army P&lrol
Kills 15 Rebels
Havana -UPD- Fifteen reb
els were killed by a Cuban
army patrol Monday during a
surprise attack on Yareyal,
six miles from Holguin, an
army communique claimed.
The communique said the
dead included the leader of
the group, and two Mexicans,
none of whom was identified.
Reports from Camaguey re
ported another army-rebel
gun battle in central Cuba,
but no casualties were report
ed and the material damage
appeared to be relatively
light.
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3. The Topeka, Kansas, telephone
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of features. Sports pages for the sports lovers, recipes
and household hints for the housewives, different news
for different people. The newspaper's ability to reach all
members of the family is an important reason why so
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