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ff)E JL JLrJw /JUSTICE/EQUALITY HEW TO THtJJNE\ LARGEST ACCRFOTTRO VEGRO NEWSPAPER WEST OF CHICAGO AND NORTH OF KANSAS CITY «^————_ —— n ' ■— ■■ 1 11 11 - i ' ■ ^ Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice, Ornana, Saturday, October 21, 1939 Number 28— Nebraska, under Act of March 8, 1874. ___________-- — ur urniis intuit “ "5STS5S S““- To Speak at NAACP Mass Meeting — City Edition li ic u per Copy Weather outlook for the period October 16 to October 21. Upper Mississippi and Lower Missouri Valleys, generally fair, except rain period toward end of week; warmer beginning of week, cooler about Wednesday, warmer Thursday, colder toward end of week Northern and Central Great Plains, generally fair, except some light precipitation in tihe Dakota ' about Tuesday and tow ard end of week; temperature normal or above at beginning of week, cooler north and central portions about Tuesday and wore generally about Thursday or Fri day. \ _ aHa 1_ n VE1ERAN OE TEN YEARS REVEALS MISTREATMENT OF KEORO SOLDIERS WRITES OPEN LETTER TO SECRETARY WOODRING ONLY TWO NEGRO LINE OF FICERS, TWO CHAPLAINS AMONG 14,000 Black Soldiers ^re Servants of Whites; Negro Officers Would Change This Chicago Oct. 19 (ANP)—Sen sational charges of official army discrimination against Negro sol diers equaled only by the Nazi attitude toward yJews in Germany are contained in an open letter sent this week to Secretary of War Harry H. Woodring at Washington toy Levi Pierce, vet eran of 10 years service with the Ninth Cavalry at Fort Riley, Kan., who recently obtained an honorable discharge and returned to Chicago. At the same he says Negro commissioned officers would remedy most of these ills. Mr. Pierce 'pointed out that army officials always deny any charges of unfairness and obtain statements from Negro noncom missioned officers saying that ‘all is well.” These Colored officers it was declared, are forced to support officialdom if they in tend to get any consideration in the future from those higher uip. Seven Main Charges Specifically, Mr. Pierce char ges: 1. Soldiers of the Tenth cavalry are forced to work seven days weekly as orderlies for white stu dent officers and to take care of horses used in women’s and child ren’s riding classes under penalty Ff.FFS WAR-TON EUROPE I rmim—iii_<»**— I HORACE R. CAY TON. noted Chicago sociologist, Rosenwald Fellow and director of a recent Federallyssponsore^ Land Use Survey in Chicago, who has ju»t returned from a trip to Europe suddenly ended by ^world War 11. He was studying social, economic and housing conditions in the Fnitish Isles and on the continent ol Europe. (ANP Photo) of court martial. 2. Ninth cavalry Vrffliers get •o little training that veterans of 20 years service cannot drill in si’npie military formations. What drills they get are after hours when they have worked all day as servants, grooms and stable boys. 3. Negro reserve officers are not given the opportunity to qualify for commissions in the re gular army. 4. Colored soldiers are kept from attending many service schools even though passing all examinations for enrollment. 5. At Fort Riley, Kan., Ninth cavah-ymen are jim crowed in the post of exchange restar/rant at three tables although the post exchange is supported by all sold iers. Negroes are employed only as menials in the post exchange both there and at FV)rt Leaven worth. 6. Although scout cars have been assigned to colored cavalry posts, they are placed in charge of a private fir«t class. Cars for white units have technical ser geants in charge who pay is far greater for the same responsibi lity. 7. Most of the few Negro non commissioned officers in respon isble positions are unqualified. White officers who would fight for the rights of colored soldiers are intentionally kept from Negro regiments. Tho«e white officers willing to help “keep the Negro in his place” are the ones assign ed to Negro units. LOVEJOY CRAWFORD SUES FOR DIVORCE Mr. Love joy Crawford sued h!s wife Mrs. Billie James Craw ford for divorce last week. He charged ei'uelty. While these are the main chaiges which Secretary Wood ring is called upon to answer, there are others of vital impor tance to colored soldiers. Two Line Officers, Two Chaplains Mr. Pierce, a young man of keen intelligence,'.points out that there are only two colored line officers and two chaplains in the vregular army out of a total of 4,4,000. The officers are Col. B. 0. Davjs, cavalry who has not served with a cavalry regiment other than the Ninth many years ago, and Lieut. B. O. Davis, jr., infantry who ha« been assigned to Tuskegee institute in “another game of hide and seek.” The chaplains are Col. Carter and Fihst Lieut. Deveaux. In 1866 four Negro regiments were created by congressional action and no additions have been made since despite the introduc tion of new arms and the forma tion of many new regiments. On the Ibasis of population ratios, there should have been 10 per cent or approximately 20,000 Ne gro soldiers before President Roosevelt recent expansion moves instead of the less than 4,000 rhere actually are. Pierce says he know soldiers who were courtmartialed for not reporting on Sunday, a day of rest for white enlisted men, to take care of horses used in rid ing classes. These whites re ceived riding training while Ne groes soldiers “were denied tihe uso of horses for training other than to escort some general of ficer into or off the post or ride along as orderlies for white stu dent officers.’’ Proper Training Declaring that Secretary Wood ling has stated Negroes gi(t proper military training at Fort Riley and Leavenworth, Pierce asserts: “After serving under what you call proper training and also hav ing served with the Tenth prior to the time it was merged liter ally into a labor detachment throughout the various posts and schools, I have found that none of the new men enlisted since 1931 could tell me what a recon noissance patrol is or how it works. They have no knowledge of combat training and 1 person ally know that in the Ninth Lieut. Col. J. M. Tully came to Fort Riley with as much as 20 years' service were unable to drill (Continued to page 8) RITZ THEATRE GETS HEW F.UHtPY Picture of newly remodeled canopy of the Ritz Theatre. Beau tifully designed in neon light:ng effects, with modernistic change able letters. Mr. H. A. Taylor, manager and owner of *he thea tre has also redecorated the in side of the theatre which is fin ished, except for the hanging of the drape?. New sound equip ment v<ae installed last season giving patrons the best in sound. The new canopy is not only an asset to the theatre but also to the business district of tihe North end. FIRST AME. EPISCOPAL DIS TRICT PLUMPS FOR D. WARD NICHOLS, FAMOUS AND IM PORTANT AREA LINES UP FOR NEW YORK PASTOR ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. Oct. 18 (ANP) The 7th annual mdd year conference and religious education! al congress of tihe 1st Episcopal District of the AME. Church con cluded its sessions here Friday af ter a remarkably successful meet ing which made history in a signi ficant fashion. Looking toward the 1940 quadrennial conference of the church to be held in Detroit when several leaders will be ele-j vated to the bishopric, t,he 1st dis-, f tries always a potent force in ’ naming officers of the great AME denomination established a new precedent by throwing its entire strength behind one candidate, Dr. D. Ward Nicfhols, pastor of New York City’s premier St. Emman uel AME Church. Oldsters accustomed to the con-! siderable log-rolling and political maneauvering which usually takes place the year before election I were astounded when they saw ' that able Bishop David Henry Sims of Philadelphia had soor ganized the area that the power ful influence of the first would be thrown behind a single favorite son. Presiding elders, lay dele gates, general officers and asso ciab’le ministers joined in glorious and flattering commendations of Dr. Ward who has pastored in New York City for 16 years in the church which he built to the point where it is. Bishop Sims, one of the younger bishops but rapidly emerging as an important factor in AME af fairs, buttoned up the matter when he gave his appraisal of the New Yorker. The bishop said, "I have tested D. Ward Nichols in every way. He rings true in every test. I have tested his loyalty, his friendship, his fidelity and his re ligion and it stands out as clear as a crystal. Brethem we must go to the General Conference in 1940 solidly backing Dr. Nichols and we will bring him home, a rew and finer bishop in Zion.” President Walker of Wiliberforce and a score of others joined in supporting the bishop’s estimate. -0O0 MITCHELL OPPOSES ANTI-LYNCH BILL ACTION NOW Washington, Oct. 1 9(ANP)— When Congressman Arthur Mit chell declared Tuesday t,h«t he was not in favor of bringing the anti-lynching bill before the pre sent session of congress and would vote against such a proce dure, much speculation on the fate of the anti-lynching bill was begun. Mr. Mitchell, tfhe sole Negro in congress, declared he would ote against consideration the bill ravided no o her anti-neutrality nfinr wa* ?ir» Leaders of both parties have agreed that no extraneous matters will be permitted to rise in the bouse at least until the neutrality bill is disposed of but they would be unable to prevent a vote on consideration of the anti-lynching bill because of its privileged Albert Anderson, 44, of 1906 N. 10th St who shot to death Mira Wanda Hayes, 27 of 2416 Par ker St., Sunday afternoon Oct ober 16th, while "he was asleep Monday at the police station ir her loom gave himself up Monday at the police station where ho i« held without bail. The reason he said was because she rejected hig love. Miss Hiayes body is at Myers Funeral Home. -—oOo MARRIED Mrs. Edna Milohell Williams and Mr. William Long were uni ted in (marriage Tuesday, Octo ber 17 by Rev. R. W. 'Johnson Mrs. Long is well known in Oma ha as she has been here for a long time. Mr. I/ong has also been a resident in this city for some time. They will be at home to tiheir friends at 2517 I^ake St. status. As the bill now stands, it hap priority claims over all other leg islation and any action as presen! might tend to jcapordiae that -ition. Representative Schafer of Wis :;.nsin has been threatening to call ho bill this week. “On the understanding thal r'lure to '0resider the un.easun now would not impair its chances in January," Mitchell said, “1 vculd vote against bringing it Ut at this time.” There has been a great deal o; talk on the possibility of bringinj the anti-lynoh bill before this ses sion inasmuch as the bili will b< the first to be considered when congress convenes in its regmla: session in January. However, an; consideration of the bill at thi: session will not be in line witl the stategy of the administratioi which hopes to confine all debates to neutrality. Or the afternoon of Octoix t i': Dean William Pickens of New York will be the principle speak (!• «; a Mas* Misting of the Oma ha bianch of the NAAOP. A”, persona w.iose membership i* novs due, a urged to pay up at that time, as well as new mem ber*. Thu Meeting wi 1 be held in Pil grim Baptist Church, 25th ar.d Hamilton Streets, at 3 o’clock. NAACiP Ministerial Show at the Ritz Theatre, November 2, }<■.',8. Show begins promptly at 11:30 o’clock. Dr, Wesley Jones, president of the Onaha Bianch; Willis Grey, secretary. — -vvrv—— SECOND SUIT FILED AGAINST V. OF MISSOURI St. Is>u's, Mo. Oft. 19— The second action against the Univer sity of Missouri for the school's refusal too ndmit qualified Negro "tinlent* was filed in the circuit court of Boone county, Mo. today by Miss Lucille Bluford, a grad i unto of Kansas university and a resident of Kansas CPy, Mo. Miss Bluford’s petition for a : writ of mandamus to torce the school to admit her to the gradu j ate school of journalism was fil ed against S. W. Canada, regi-^ ! trar of the university. She ia b# ing Represented by the NAACP attorneys: Charlra H. Houston, Sidney Redmond, Henry D. Espy, and John A. Davis. In her petition Miss Bluford al leges that despite the fact that she i« qualified for admission to the graduate school of journalism at tihe school, the un'vensity re? girtrait refused her admission last February and again last September. Thi*, she sets forth in her petition, constitutes denial of equal protection of the law guar anteed her by th© first section of the fourteenth aim ilment . the United State* Cofwtitu'ion, „ The NAACP won a victory be fore the United State* supreme court December 12, 1938 in the Lloyd Gaines case. At that time the high court ruled that the uni versity must admit Gaines to its law school "in the absence of other pi0pe)>- provision for hi--, legal training within the state.w Action in obtaining rehearing of this ca*e i* planned by the N. A. A. C. P. in the near future. -oOo CHICAGO S MAYOR KEI>LY N \MES FXI OSITION i OMMin \ Chicago. < < l, 19 (ANP—A ‘he last session of the Illinoii leg ! • tune, the sum of $75,0Jo wa* an propriated fir a Chicago exposi tion, to he hi Id in August of 19 ") in the Coliseum and marking th • 75th anniversary of the Bman< > pation Proclamation. Last Thin - day Mayor Kelly appointed tie Chicago committee for the b> even:. Known officially as the Afro American Emancipation Exposi tion, officials have invited Negroes in every state in the union in the observance and show the cultural, scientific, and industrial progress _ of the race, in the past 75 years. The local committee named by the Mayor and the CSty Council on motion of Aid. Eiarl B. Dick erson colored alderman of the 2nd ’ ward is headed by the Mayor an ! includes the following: State Sen ators H. G. Ward and John R. Geary; Alderman Bowler, Rowan, Kells Dickerson, Grant, Cohen an 1 Smith; City department heads O. 1 E. Dewitt, Barnett Hodes and V/. A. Jackson; James B. McCahi •, ‘ president Board of Education and i three business men—D. A. Haase • of Walgreen drug stores, Harry ’ Englestein of South Center De s partment store and Charles Kimtc i koff of Reiner Coal Go. All meni i ibers of the committee except Al i derman Dickerson and Benjamin Giant, are white. HEveiw*f Entertainment EIWGuid. F00D SH0W STARTS Get Your Thanksgiving Turkey Free. Ask Your Merchant For FOOD SHOW Tickets m