Arizona Sun

FRIDAY, AUGUST 4, 1950

FOR YOUR INFORMATION
By JULIUS A. LEE

The battle still rages in Korea and the one thing that we are sure of is that our boys are in the thick of it. I have listened to and read most reports and from hour to hour there is a change in all positions. "First we iz" and then "we aint." However, latest official reports are most encouraging and although we have lost much ground since June 25th (230 miles of the western side of South Korea) when the Communists surged across the 38th Parallel border, the overall picture has shifted in our favor and the future is brighter.

Speaking of our boys; Negro heroes have figured prominently in American wars since the Revolution when Crispus Attucks was the first American to die for our independence. Outstanding heroes include Peter Salem (revolutionary war); Colonel Charles L. Young and Lieut. Col. C. S. L. A. Taylor (with "Teddy" Roosevelt): Needham Roberts and Henry Johnson (World War I), and Dorie Miller (World War II). The first American to die in World War II was a Negro Pvt. Robert Brooks, killed at Pearl Harbor. Who will be our heroes in the Korean campaign? (Editor's Note: Negroes in this fair and sunshine land of Arizona cannot enlist in the National Guard—How can a state with so much light, be so far in the dark? Maybe we can answer that this coming election!)

The twenty-fourth regiment was activated in 1896 at Baton Rouge, La., by the merger of two Negro units formed three years earlier at Jefferson Barracks, Mo. It began its winning war against the Comanche Indians 70 years ago. From then on the Twenty-fourth has had a hand in every major U. S. War.

In 1898, the Twenty-fourth fought with Teddy Roosevelt at San Juan Hill in his famous charge. The outfit saw service at the Mexican border when it helped chase Pancho Villa. It was overseas in World War I, and then in World War II it continued to sustain its record of valor and victory. (Editor's Note: I was personally informed by Major Tuthill of our own National Guard: that "back in 1903 when he was a Captain in the National Guard, he had two Negro cooks with him, fine fellows, too." And after 47 years of progress, he doesn't even have two Negro cooks, but if we will be patient and the right young Negro "not half-cracked" will come along and apply for admittance in our National Guard—pardon me, I mean their National Guard, we might have two more Negro "cooks." fine fellows, too. Come, "Major"—IT'S LATER THAN YOU THINK).

A well organized underground movement some 80,000 strong and composed of former party officials, high ranking Wehrmacht (army) officers and top men of the elite SS formations is at work in Germany today. Known as the Versorgungswerk (Aid Action), it claims to be a non-political, mutual aid society whose purpose is to raise funds from former wealthy Nazis who have passed thru the German de-Nazification courts and redistribute them to those who have gone into hiding.

In a move to speed the building of a big air armada, the Government this week ordered work to start on some $4,300,000,000 worth of planes without waiting on Congress. Certain the money will be voted, the Air Force sought to save weeks of production time by signalling 200 manufacturers of planes and parts to get going.

With the addition of 144 men to the list of killed, wounded and missing, the first of the week U. S. military casualties in the Korean war reached 1240.

Although beaten decisively, 8 votes to 3, in his first attempt to oust Nationalist China, Soviet Delegate UN president for the month of August, Jakob A. Malik has not indicated he will leave as he did when defeated last January, strengthened a belief that Russia is back in the UN, at least for the duration of Malik's term of presiding.

Public bathing facilities at Colonial Beach, Virginia, are open to both white and colored persons, according to the mayor and other town officials.

The Universal Life Insurance Company of Memphis and the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company of Durham have agreed to purchase all of the mortgages insured in connection with the construction of Elliston Heights, a subdivision in Memphis, Tenn., it was announced by the Federal Housing Administrator this week. The Project will cost $1,200,000.

Dr. William A. Goodlot, 53-year-old physician, was released from prison last week under $7,500 bond pending his appeal of an abortion case conviction to the U.S. Court of Appeals.

Washington is talking about additional major appointments for colored politicoes . . . Ralph Bunche, director of the UN Trusteeship Division; is again being mentioned for Ambassador to Soviet Russia.

The new Haitian Ambassador to the United States is Gustav Laraque. He succeeds Joseph D. Charles, who was recalled by the military junta now ruling Haiti.

Interior Secretary Oscar Chapman is still holding up the appointment of Joe Brown, a Detroit lawyer, as government secretary of the Virgin Islands to succeed Morris F. de Castro, who was appointed governor. Alvin Rucker, a Chicagan and a Labor Department employee, also is being considered for the job.

The nomination of Emory Smith, a local lawyer, to fill a recently created judgeship on the District of Columbia Municipal Court may go to the Senate any day now that the South Carolina Democratic primary is over and Senator Olin D. Johnson defeated Governor J. Strom Thurmond, Dixiecrat.

Credit Representative Bill Dasown of Chicago, with appointment of Dr. Joe Trigg, an obstetrician, to the District of Columbia Boxing Commission. Woolsey Hall, president of the Federation of Civic Organizations, and several other individuals are due assists on the appointment.