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Until 3 a. in American & Chinese Dishes Th*r*«t*tt Mil* mil star af tha wary weafc aeraaal Putting its “Best Foot Forward” Metro Cold wyn-Mayer brings you a delightful musical—one with a zing and tingle that make you young! ★ ★ ★ ★ Lovely Lucille Ball whose strawberry blonde beauty takes to technicolor like a duck takes to water, is starred. 4- X ^ X I William Gaxton, Virginia Weidler play delightful roles, high powered with ro mance, comedy and , melody. ★ ★ ★ ★ Harry James and his Music Makers set a musical pace for the entire company. » ★ ★ ★ ★ “Best Foot Forward” is the spirited story of the movie star who crashes a school prom, and finds herself in for more than was prom-ised! ★ ★ ★ * The whole proceedings are showy—with the exuberant charm of the younger set flashing on all sides! ★ ★ ★ ★ Songs you’ll like include: You’re Lucky, Alive And Kicking, Buckle Down Winsocki, The Three B's, Wish / May, I Know You By Heart, Three Men On A Date, What Do You Think l Am, Every time. ★ ★ ★ ★ At the Astor—Broadway’s famous show-case—“Best Foot Forward’’ has been keeping all of New York stepping up for tickets—sitting down to a won derful time—stepping out with a tune in their hearts. ★ ★ ★ ★ The stage show got a big hand! The movie is doing even better. ★ ★ ★ ★ Turn an evening into a big night. See M-G-M’s great musical hit. Must Be Mailed Between | Sept. 15 and Oct. 15 ro Assure Delivery By Christmas Time The Army Service Forces, which is responsible for the safe delivery of mail to soldiers overseas, has an nounced that all Christmas pack ages for army personnel overseas must be mailed between Sept. 15th and Oct. 15, inclusive, if they are to reach the men in time for the Christmas season, headquarters Seventh Service Command said to day. The time period was arrang ed by the ASF in cooperation with the Post Office department. Every possible effort will be made to speed the gift packages on their way, however, the cooperation cf tho sender in observing postal reg ulations is necessary. The regula tions for the mailing of Christmas gift parcels are: TIME: Sept. 15 to Oct. 15, inclus ive. Only during this period the .sender need not obtain the soldier’s request for the package. Every package must also be lettered, "Christmas Parcel”, so that post office officials can give the pack age immediate attention. SIZE AND WEIGHT: Because of the urgent need f6r shipping space to transport vital war materials, the weight of Christmas packages shall not exceed five pounds, nor shall its size exceed 15 • inches in length or 36 inches in length and girth combined. Not more than one Christmas par -cel will be accepted for mailing in any one week by the same per i son to the same addressee. PREPARATION: As parcels must travel a long way, all articles should be packed in metal, wood, i solid or doublefaced coorugated fib er board or telescoping cardboard boxes. Fiberboard and cardboard boxes must also be wrapped in strong paper and securely tied with twine. Sharp pointed instruments, such as knives, must have edges protect ed so that they do not cut through their wrappings and injure other packages or post office employees. Sealed merchantile packages of candy, cigars, tobacco and toilet ar ticles may be included in package contents without affecting the par cel post classification. INSPECTION OF CONTENTS: UDHTENi TANNED Off Mi DARK JA//I Dr. FRED Palmer's Skin , Whltenerllghtemand brtghtena rough, blotchy, tanned-dark skin (externally caused). Use 7 days. If not satisfied MONEY BACK. 25c at drug stores. GALENOI* Box 264, Atlanta, Georgia. DR. FRED PALMER’S SKIN WHITENER ERNST LUBITSCH lends that famous touch to HEAVEN CAN ru y WAIT, with GENE TIERNEY, \ y DON AMECHE and CHARLES , ^ COBURN! It's a Technicolor treat, X^jj^dv and it's gay romantic fun! The funniest idea that ever struck Hollywood! MONTY ! WOOLLEY and GRACIE FIELDS together! As a team they're a scream in HOLY MATRIMONY! ★ ★ ★ CLAUDIA is coming! What a girl! What a surprise! Store Hours 9 AM. to 5 PM. Telephone AT. 7334 Thomas Kilpatrick & Co. 1505.15 Douglas Streets Women’s Fall , COATS In Boucles, Tweeds, Mixtures In Plaids and Plain Colors. Most in 100% Wool 1995 Coats you'll live in the year around. They are practical, well made and smartly fash ioned, Wear them over your dresses and over your suits. Good size range 12 to 46. Kilpatrick’s Downstairs Store As each parcel sent overseas is subject to examination before send ing, delay in handing will be min imized by secuirng the covering of the package to permit ready in spection. PROHIBITED ARTICLES No per ishable articles may be sent. In toxicants, inflammable materials, poisons and compositions which may kill or injure any person or damage the mails are likewise un mailable. ADDRESSING: Addresses must be legible and must include tne soldier’s nmae ,am,k army serial number, branch of service, organ- ' ization, Army Post Office number, (APO), and the post office through which the parcel is to be routed. The sender must also indicate his full name and address. PERMISSIBLE ADDITIONS: In addition to the name and address of the sender .inscriptions such as “Merry Christmas’’ or “With Best Wishes’’ may be placed on the out side of the package, where they will not interfere with the address. A card bearing the same notations may be inclosed inside the box. Books may bear a simple dedicat ory inscription not of a nature of personal correspondence, stickers or labels, which resemble postage stamps, may not be placed on the* outside of parcels. INSURANCE: Packages to pers ons receiving mail through an APO number cannot be insured. BROTHERHOOD TO CELEBRATE RECONSTITUTION OF FEPC. The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters Provisional Committee for the Organization of Colored Loco motive Firemen is celebrating a reconstitution of the President’s Committee on Fair Employment Practices and rescheduling of the railroad hearings, Sunday, Septem ber 12th at 2:30 pm. at the Ver mont Avenue Baptist Chlrcli, 1630 Vermont Ave., N. \V. Washington, DC. Guest speaker for the occasion will be Senator William Langer of North Dakota and one of the con sistent supporters for the reorgan ization of- the Committee. Other speakers on the program will in clude A. Philip Randolph, presid ent of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and Provisional Com mittee, Dr. Lawrence Erwin, Nat’l Executive Board Member ‘‘March on Washington” Movement, At torney Thurman T. Dodhon, Chair man Local "March on Washington ’ Movement, B. F. McLaurin, Int’l Field Organizer, Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. A number of firemen from many sections of the South will dramatize their own amazing story of the worst discrim inatory practices involving Negro Firemen. On Monday, Sept. 13th a conference is being called by the Save The Fair Employment Prac tice Committee at Tivelfth St. YM CA. to set up machinery to make the President’s Commttee a Perm anent Agency to deal with prob lems of discrimination during the Post War Period. Organizations are requested to send delegates to this conference and individuals who are interested are also invited. Plans are com pleted for a most interesting week of activity for those who attend the hearings on railroad discrimin ations Sept. 15, 16 and 17th states B. F. McLaurin, Director of the Program. COLOR QUESTION POSED TO ROOSEVELT, CHURCHILL New York—Consideration of the problem of the color line in mat ter of victory and peace was urged upon President Franklin D. Roose velt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill in their deliberations in Quebec this week by Walter White NAACP secretary!. The complete message: ‘‘May I respectfully urge in clusion in your deliberations consideration of practical means of inclusion of welfare of col ored people of world. The problem of the color line is be yond doubt one of three major issues of the 20th Century. Un less it is met and solved the colored peoples of India, China Burma, Africa, the West Indies the United States and other parts of the world will continue to view sceptically assertions that McGILL’S — BAR & BLUE ROOM E. McGill, Prop. 2423-25 NORTH 24th St. WINE, LIQUORS, and CIGARS Blue Room Open 8 p. m. to 1 a. m* Open for Private Parties from 2 to 7 p. m. —No Charges— WE SPECIALIZE IN MIXED I DRINKS. Free Delivery from 8 a. m It* 1 a. m. JA. 9411 WE CARRY A FULL LINE ! OF BONDED LIQUORS _■ THE SHOW WENT ON! Independent fees* mmmtt rttoU Pictured above are the famed Ink Spot* who are now featured at the nightly celebrity-jammed-packed Cl« Copaeabana in New York. A broken leg that has kept Charlie Fugua, one of the boys of America’# Number On# Qua tet. on the sidelines dirt •*»* keep the unit from open’-' rt appearing as scheduled. i! Plain Talk..] ELMER A. CARTER The published report of Vttor ney General Biddle to the Presid ent in which he suggests the est ablishment of controls to inhibit the free movement of colored cit izens in order to prevent racial conflict such as occured in Detroit came as a shock to thost who be lieve in the democratic process. But it is not inconsistent with the general policy of race adjustment which the federal government has iOllowed. Tins pattern is clearly evident, in the Army, Navy, aMrine Corps, Air Corps, and all other depart ments of the national government, where as a rult the problem of -ac iai antipathy is met by segregation on the one hand or exclusion where segregation is not feasable on the oilier. It is the mechanism of es cape which serves to avoid the pos sibilitj of racial disturbance by ap peasement of those who would deny the colored citizen his right te freedom from fear, freedom from want and freedom of speech. And in this respect it has failed as conspicuously as the attempted appeasement of the Fascist and Nazi dictators failed in Europe. The same result will follow the a doption of Attorney General Bid dle'3 alleged suggestion, ignemin ous failure, and the creation of greater resentment and the stimu this is a war for freedom and democracy. Failure to solve this problem will inevitably mean other wars caused only incidentally by the struggle for freedom of colored people. More certain as a cause would be continuation of white im perialists in exploitation of col ored people. We know you both are aware of the need of solving this question. We feel reasonably certain it is in cluded in the agenda of the present meeting. However, we urge you to take such action as will galvanize into even more active support of the United nations by colored peoples be cause they are assured that they too will share in the free dom for which we fight.” IF YOU LIKE GOOD HEADIN' , Subscribe Today! CAMP VAN DORN’S “PINUP QUEEN” Camp Van Dorn, Miss.—Volptu ous Marie Bryant, shown above, is the ‘‘Pinup Girl” of the monr'i at this camp, according to 1st Pgt. Marshall Bynum, the head of the committee who selected her in a recent Photo Queen Contest. Miss Bryant stars in Los Angeles' Club Alabam, and formeryl held a 'ea ture spot with Duke Ellington’s “Jump for Joy” stage revue. Mr. Bynum is a former mortician and is President of the Jackson f’u ur al System in Chicago. (Press Photo 1 lation of greattr antipathies. ft would appear important to ex amine thoroughly a policy which has served to create in the norm ally placid Negro population a depth of bitterness which has no parallel in the history of the Ne gro in America. This deep-seated resentment contrary to widely ac cepted opinion is not due to Negro agitators, nor is it due primarily to incitement by the Negro press, it is the natural reaction of the NV gi o confronted by severe limita tions based on color and race, the while the nation, of which he is a citizen proclaims the virtues of de mocracy and calls upon him m common with other citizens to de fend it wTith his life. The contrast between the professions of his gov ernme-nt and its actual practice, in sofar as he is concerned, has turn ed oeeply into his soul more sen sitive to the meaning of Democ racy now than ever before. It could not be otherwise w'hen ev er/ waking hour ot his life he is ca1/ 1 upon to make some sacrifice fDr the nation in which he is a sec ond class citizen. Tsere must come a time when our government must face the is sue ar to whether the Negro shall be treated as a cittse-n in all wh’ch that implies or whether he shall be tieated as a pariah In fair ness to the Negro, yes in fain-era ti the nation ltse.f the policy of evasion, of temporizd-.g, of appease rrent must be abandase 1, and con istrtictive steps must L>c taken tc carry out the con jvVi • c ;al guar antee which were designed to se cure ail citizens in their right to life, liberty and th2 purstr- of hap r-ir • '-a. x Cary McWilliams’ challenging to.!; “Brothers t’npj The akin ’ tbt. is a propoiu for a sound ap ji neb to the problem of race in ■vi. erica. Among other ihlngs .Mr McWilliams has recommended a program which calls for a new constitutional convention to re state and strengthen the safeguards of civil and economic liberty in this charter of the American T'c mocracy. That there is need lor such a reaffirmation of the princ iples of our government few who have any knowledge of the racial situation in America will deny. The oft repeated argument that without general public approval laws involving civil and social rights are useless in that they are generally unenforceable is fallac ious. The fact that there is a Auto Parts Wanted BURNED, WRECKED or DILAPIDATED. CARS AND TRUCKS. BRING ’EM IN PARTS FOR CARS CONSOLIDATED AUTO PARTS CO. 2501 Cuming St. Phone AT. 5656 , REAL SHOE MAN < ii FONTENELLE I; SHOE REPAIR !; CASH & CARRY CLEANER ;! i: 1410 North 24th St. ; —CARL C RIVERA— ! r __!1 r i . XT AVE you tried Alka-Selfc 11 zer for Gas on Stomach, I Soar Stomach. “Horninc I After” and Cold Distress 7 If not, why not? 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Not even in the Souta is the racial problem as hopeless as it seems. What America lacks is courageous and far-sighted leader ship. But time and the inexoraole laws of progress are making it more and more difficult to live in a world where status is condition ed by race and race alone. After all the arch proponent of this sav age concept now foresees his in evitable doom as the shadows of the Kremlin lengthen and the le gions of Red Russia remorselessly press toward the West. A free world is in the making. The prob lem of race in America therefore concerns more than the Negro. Tt concerns America’s right to share in the creation of a new and bettui world. I - 24th AND LAK1? STREETS PRESCRIPTIONS - - -Free Deliver* — W K. (WO® DUFFY PIIAkMA,v ■ ft • m m m m ■ ■ ■ If You Had MYJOB1 Keeping house, helping take care of the family—you ' would realize that business girls are not the only ones who some times get Headache and Tired ! Aching Muscles. 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