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Replace ProGerman Seamen with Idle Loyal Negro Unionists NAACP Tells Union Heads and Marine Commission New York, Sept. 19 Press re ports carried here this week stat ing that the pro-Germany sympa thy of many season on American liners was mak ng it- difficult for the Government to bring stranded Americans back from Europe prompted the Nations Assoriational for the Advance ment of Colored People :oday tc urge the Maritime Commission oi the United States and the CIO anc AF of L seamen’s unions tc break down discriminatory bars and employ idle Negro union sea men whose loyalties to America are beyond question. Pointing out that Negro union seamen have suffered unemploy ment at the hands of the ship -owners, the Federal Government and. the seamen’s unions, the As soeia ior’s telegram to Rear Ad mira] Emory S. Land, Chairman of the U. S. Maritime Commis sion, said in part: * We urge Maritime Commission to replace pro-German seamen immediately with loyai Negro seamen and to utilize this crisis in which lives of American citi zens are at stake, to break up notorious discrimination against loyal, efficient and experienced Negro seamen.” In similar telegram i addressed to Joseph Curran, president of the CIO's National Maritime Union; and Harry Lund berg, president of the AF of L’s Seafarers Inter national Union of North Ameri ca, tho Association, after urging tho breaking up of discrimination suffered by Negro unionists at the hands of a large part of the rank and file membership, added: “National Association for Ad vancement of Colored People agrees with union contentions for greater monetary and other re wards for sailors who undergo addiitonal risks during times like these. But union should come into «Ourt with clean hands and prac tice the justice which it demands for itself." The telegrams were signed by Walter White, executive secretary of the NAACP. -<*0°— '— 111,000 SIGN ANTI-LYNCHING PETITIONS; DRIVE FOR 1,000.000 SIG NATUR ES WILL CONTINUE New York, September 20 With the number of signatures to petintion s urging Congress to pass a federal anti-lynching bill part the 111,000 mark, the Na tional Association for the Ad vancement of Colored Peopie is sued a nation-wide call today to organizations and individuals to push the drive. Urging organizations who have received these petitions to have them filled as quickly as possi ble, officials of the Association said the drive to obtain 1,000,00't signatures would continue una bated. Association officials pomtea out that , President Roosevelt's calling a special session of Con gress sometime this month seems a decided probability. If he does, they stated, the early stage of the session will undoifbtedly be de voted to neutrality and other war legislation, but immediately fol lowing this the anti-lynching bill will come up, because of its i*-* ferred position on the Congres sional oalendar. —-0O0— MILLIONAIRE GIVKS DANCE FOR THREE NEGRO . . EMPLOY BBS V V* < By Philip Waling Elizabethtown, N. Y.*— (ANP* —Ael Goldbergh, Chicago multi millionaire hairpin manufacturer, recently presented a swanky and elaborate dance in his private ea aiiio, “Gomndah.” i» henor of his three veteran eel®red employe-. Mr. and Mr*.. (ieddbergh a ad their white employe* pwvonaily enacted the role of host at the ■party, while 16# members of the .Adironack’s colored suinndr colony danced to swing musici Mr. Goldbeigh engaged Misf Maria J. Hair, entertained and Hawaiian singer and hula dancer from the exclusive Windsor hotel for the entire night. The party honorees weie Miss Lilly Robinson of Miami, Miss Willa Mae Moaby and Mrs. Irene Wilson of Chicago. The latter ha,* been Mr. Goldbergh’s dietician for V WILL NOT GIVE UP FIGHT SAYS YOUTH LEADER IN FRAME UP CASE New York, Sept lit “To the members of the NAACP youth i councils who are working and rallying to my upport, 1 want to I ’XPress my apprec ati-n for their efforts both spiritunlly and fi nancially and I hope that what we achieve t go her in this case will he successful in tearing down he flimsy spirit which prohibits elt'zenu here in the Southland and elsewhere the right to bo full fledged citizens. You may rest assured that, lespite the diffi culty, I will never surrender." This was (ho s irring message <ent out today to youth councils of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peo ple by William Anderson, I!)-ye;tr old presi 'em of the youth council a, (Ireenv lie. South Carolina, sev en weeks after his arrest and nvirtion on a frame up disor derly conduct, charge, lx- ause he led the fight to get Negro citi zens of Greenville to register and vote in 'the September municipal primaries, despite the threats of the Ku Klux Klon, Under the leadership, of James Robinson, acting director of the Association’s youth work, a drive was launched several weeks ago to raise $1,000 for the defense of Anderson’* case. Addkii |ial contributions ti> the Anderson Fund were received today in New York from the fol lowing youth councils: San An tonio, Texas; Decatur, Illinois; Springfield, Mass, The Columbus, Ohio, youth council has made a city-wide appeal through the col umns of the Ohio States News; Detroit, Michigan is launching a city-wide Tag Day; Mobile, Ala bama, is holding a series of so cial affairs to raise funds. Anderson was convicted July 24 of “trying to date a white girl" over the phone He is out on $1,000 bail pending un appeal of his ease. The NAACP’s national office is seeking aid fram the Department of Justice. -- oOo NAAOI* PLANS STATEWIDE ACTION IN (SHOWING NEW JERSEY VIOLENCE Far Hills, N. J. Sept. 18 A roused by the increasing number of cases involving mob violence of whites again-t Negroes, the state conference of NAACP branches | will hold a conference here Sat urday September 16 to outline a program of action, according to i an announcement made today by Dr, David Anthony, of Princeton, chairman of the state-wide body. The conference, which will he held at the family home of Mrs. Grace Fenderson, national board member of the NAA( P will in clude in its agenda, plans for a mass meeting 'to be held in Ne wark early in October as a pro test against encroachment-! on civil liberties of colored people throughout the state. Prominent in the discussion will be the forthcoming trial of ten white persons including a lb year old boy ,in the vicious at tack on seven Negro migratory workers outside 1 ranbury, N. J-. August 11. Other eases up for discussion include: the Long Branch segregation case and po lice brutality in Highstown. Na tional stuff members of the -As sociation will be present at the conference. -oOo THAT SYSTEM OK Ol'R8 When last year ended, some 34,000.OHO American® owned or dinary life insurance policies. And ordinary lifa insurance in effect totaled J7b.btW.000,000. This as tronomical figure doean l include other forma of lifa insurance, such as industrial, which would add billions more to the total. i * . . This means that the American people, on any basis you want to figure it, are fa,- better prepared, economically to face the future than any other people. And H is a testimonial to the American sys tem that it has given the average | family an income that permits it j to buy future protection that is completely beyond the reach of the average family in any other LOS ANGELES FACES BATTLE ON JIM CROW T/Or Angeles, Sept, 14 (Jerry Michaels for CM A)—Charges that th > Los Angeles Bureau of Power and Light is using Jim Crow tac tics to ha,- Negroes from employ ment were hurled this week by Leon Washington, Jr„ publisher cf the Los Angeles Sentinel a weekly paper. Seven youths have been refus ed employment because of their race in the last few weeks by the Bureau which is using u policy •t' -separating Negro and white workers in its camps, Washington asserted. One of the boys, Lambert Green, 1576 E. Santa Rarabnra, a typist, was informed by Bowen, white personnel manager of the Burpau, that he would be severely eritized or even fired by the ■‘higher-ups” if he (Bowen) allow ed p Negro to work in the same office with the white employes. r'ow would You Feel! “I didn’t, know you wore col ored,” Bowen aid to Green who is on the reguln,. e vil service list when he rhowed the personnel manager his notification to come to work. “How would you feel working in an offir® where every one else is white?” “I wouldn’t mind,” Green re plied. but Bowen insisted that he couldn’t take him on. Another youth, Garrett Spears, 3416 Naomi, was notified that a 5-month job as common laborer was open to him at thfc> Bureau’s Orlando camp, but when he arriv ed ho was informed there was “no room". Thirty Negro workers at the Orlando camp are forced to use separate washrooms and toilets plainly marked by large signs reading “For Colored Only” in three inch letters. Separate bunkhouses at the rear of the camp, also marked with jim crow signs are located about 150 feet from the camp gas tank which is marked “Kxplosive-cau- 1 tion. Do not Smoke within fifty | fee,' " The men use separate lockers and oat in one Coi ner of the mess room which also sports “For Col ored Only” signs. -jOo-—. World’s Fair. N. Y.—Delta Sig ma Theta Day was celebrated at tho New York World’s Fair by members of the 700 chapters of , thi sNational Sorority of Negro Women. The group was gretted in tho little Theatre by Mrs. Tho mas F. Casey, assistant to the di rector for Women’s participation in the World’s Fair, who intro duced Miss Ruth Austin, Wash ington attorney, the principal speaker. A scholarship of $1000 was a warded to Miss Elsie Maynor, 1851 Seventh Avenue, New Y'ork City, for her research on Negro mus e. The award was accepted by Miss Jean Coston, 27-18 Schri ver Avenue, Indianapolis, Ind., for Miss Maynor who was unable to attend. Musical entertainment was pro vided by Miss Ruth Borg, soloist. A reading by Mrs. Addie Hunton was another feature of the day’s program. Miss Catherine Alexan der of the National Advisory’s Committees, president of the sor ority, acted as Chairman. -oOo NAVY WANTS MORE NEGROES—AJ8 SERVANTS Washington, Sept. 21 (ANP)— In reply to a wire sent the secre tary of the navy, Capt. Ollendorf of the personnel department, told the Associated Negro Press last week that "The President’s pro clamation increasing the enlist ment of navy personnel will af fect Negroes. "Previously, the monthly quota of Negro enlistments was held down to 50, but in September, (this month) the quota jumped to 160,” he said. "And the same pro portion will hold during the en tire limited emergency with Ne groes being enlisted in the same ratio for the navy. They will not not be admitted to any other branch of the service excepting | the steward’s department, where they will be enlisted as mess at tendants only.” This statement settles com pletely any question as to bow Negroes will serve in the plans already made for their admission to the various branches of th) service. No reply from the war department has as yet been re ceived. ;YAWN-CHASERS By Noonan —w-r •——*£ "Pc, we'll cc’eli fci*i on th' second helpin. SCHOOL TEACHERS TO GET j TRACT ON RACE TOLERANCE New York, Sept. 16 (CNA)—A teachers’ manual entitled “An American Answer to Intolerance’’ has teen compiled for u-e in American schools by the Council Against Intolerance in America, jwith offices in the Lincoln Build ing, th:s city, the council announc ed this week. Commenting on the alarming spread of un-American propagan da in this country, the Manual declares: “Our Bill of Rights, with its democratic insistence on freedom of speech and of the press, makes Jts .possible to spead propaganda and prejudice of all sorts. We cannot avoid this danger wholly without surrendering basic Amer ican liberties and submitting to censorship. Among a people, un trained to detect lj's and <he mo.ives of propagandists, new hatreds, may spiead with the speed of a forest fire. Teachers ran meet this danger, however, by giving powerful, well-directed aid to a clear ind?pendent think ing and to intelligent, co-operative facing of actual problems.” The Council anounccd that the Manual which has been endorsed hy leading educators, is to be dis tributed to 1,000 school superin tendents throughout the country, with the hope that its message will be carried by them to every classroom, and the ideals of tol erance and equality instilled in every child. -0O0-— MERCANTONIAO ASKS FDR AID PUERTO RICANS New York, Sept. 19 (CNA)— V ito Mareantonio, Ameiican Lab or Party Congressman from Har lem, appealed this week to Presi- . dent for the use of emergency funds for the relief of the unem ployed in Puerto Rico. More than a million citizens of the idand, or about 65 pier cent of the population, “lack work and food,” Mareantonio said in his letter to the president. The let ter said, in part: “I most strongly urge the use of emergency funds, appropriated hy Congress, for emmediate relief. 1 am certain that this appieal will i o go unheeded, and have full confidence that you will give your customary immediate attention to a most deserving people.” National Baptist Convention “Rest Home” Plans Develope Mizpah Rapid Growing Metrooo lis Offers Great Possibilities To Multitude of New Residents The site which the National Baptist Convention owns at Miz pah. New' Jersey, upon which the proposed Baptist Rest Home wdli, be constructed, is located in one of the most advancing and thriv ing communities of this age. Mizpah is located within 20 miles of Atlantic City, the play ground of the World, and is only 40 miles from Philadelphia, the third largest city in the United States. It is bouhded by the Hard ing Highway on one side and the Black Horse Pike on the other, and the two are connected by a State Highway running througn tho town of Mizpah. While Mizpan is universally known for its rich loamy soil, which is considered of excellent quality for truck farming, it also has the many features of a rapid ly ex:*ending city. The many edi bles which are raised in Mizpan find a ready market in the large cities, such as Atlantic City, Phil adelphia and New York. Mizpah also has its schools, j Churches of many denominations, factories, electricity, social and civic organizations, a railroad passing directly through the town. It is the •aim of the National Baptist. Convention to raise suffi cient funds, by taking advantage of the gift of the unnamed Phil adelphian by disposing of 2,500 lots at the coming September ses sion of the Convention to con struct the Rest Home. Dr. L. K. Williams, President of the Na tional Baptist Convention, should he highly commended for his vi- j sion and prompt action in render ing his approval of the gift by ( tho philanthropi-t. It is, without doubt, a form of guarantee that the Rest Home will be construct ed. These homesites nave oeen se- j lected by the Rest Home Project Committee from sections \Clfcre prices lange from $150 to $200 per lot, and for the special drive during the convention session, they will be offered for as low as $20 per lot payable in monthly in stallments. They are 25 by 100 foot street. The agreement be tween the hono,. and the Rest Home Project Committee of the National Baptist Convention pro. vides for the delivery of a war. rarity Deed to the Purchaser with out any additional charge. Purchase applications and book lets giving all details and infor mation about Mizpah may be had without charge by writing Rev. L. G. Carr, 311 Hardt Building, Broad Street and Columbia Ave., Philadelphia, Pa. --—0O0——— NY A EXPERIMENTAL UNIT FOR NEGRO G1RIJ? New York, Sept. UJ. (CNA) — An experimental unit of the N« A tional Youth Admihhtration for the New York City hai? been ea ialished at the Brooklyn Urban League, 106 Fleet Place, to enable .Negro girls to discover their abi lities for junior executive positions in business and to survey their pctent'alities for employment in [ private industry, Helen M. Harris, National Youth Administration for this city, announced this week. At the present time, there are 15 girls assigned to the unit. They are selected on the basis of their interest in a business career ami of a careful analysis of their pciformance on previous NYA job?. At the unit’s office the girls are in charge of clerical, secrj tar a! and reception duties. Their woik also includes preliminary in terviewing for the employment Department of the Brooklyn Ur bp 1 League and switchboard i eration. 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