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LARGESTj^CCREDITED NEGRO NEWSPAPER WEST OF OTTCAOO AND NORTH OF K ANSAS CITY —M SMRER OF THE ASSOCIATED NEGRO PRESS Xebrast> SATURDAY. AUGUST 1. 1942 OUR 15th YEAR—No.25City EdHion, 5c Copy SURROUNDED BY THEIR CHILDREN AND MEMBERS OF THEIR FAMILY—THE— LAWSONS CELEBRATE 50th WEDDING ANNIVERSARY MR. AND MBS. WILLIAM LAWSON, SR.. CELEBRATE FIFTIETH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY Mr and Mrs. William Lawson. Sr. Of 2511 Corby Street, celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversaiy Sunday. July at Kim wood Park, with a picnic and family reunion. Six of their ten children were pres ent; Mrs. G. Blair, Mrs. Dorris, Mrs Moore. Mrs. Joe Rice of Chicago and Messrs. Clifford and Lyle Lawson. Twenty-one grandchildren and ore great grand child also helped Mi. and Mrs. Lawson to celebrate their anniversary. Other children are; Mrs G. Stanley of Denver. Color ado, Mrs, E. Morrow of Los Angel es, Calif.. Mrs. LaVerne Delesprtie Of Kansas City and Mr. William Lawson of this city. Mr. and Mrs. Lawson united in Holy Matrimony in 1892 in Council Bluffs. Iowa. All of their children were bora in Nebraska, two in T in, coin, the others in Omaha. Mr. Lawson is 75 and Mrs. Lawson. 70. Mr. Lyle Lawson, the youngest son, leaves Saturday to join the armed forces. He will be the second mem ber of the immediate family serv ing his country. Robert Blair, a grandson is now- in Australia with Negro troops. ‘Color Prejudice’ Is Crux Of World Struggle Says White Los Angeles.... More than 9.000s persons attending the closing meet ing of the 33rd annual conferencQ i of the NAACP held in the Sh-ine I auditorium on Sunday July 19, ! heard Walter White describe co’o-' I prejudice as the basis of the world ; conflict today. In masterful fash- ^ ion Mr. White reviewed the vicious- ] ness of British imperialism in India, Asia, and Africa, pointing out thel pattern of racial superiority eyoiv-1 ed there contined to hold even in ! the face of the formidable defeats handed the United Nations by the Axis. He voiced hoped that Amer ica at this crucial moment would give up its general conceptions of the Negro and the other colored peoples of the world as being sec ond class citizens, since the positive support and loyalty 0f these peonies is vital to victory Mr. White said in part: “I sometimes wonder why it should be so, thank God. the Me -gro's faith and loyalty continue to rest in the American ideal of hu man decency. Despite all the temi- j tations to cynicism and revenge j the Negro has resisted every at tempt of Japanese or other anti- j American propaganda to capital ize on the Negro's discontent. The J few exceptions have been of an in finitesimally small number of Ne gro racketeers whom we of the NA ACP repudiate and condemn without reservation. We continue to buy war bonds and we are going to in vest every penny we can in them. We continue to fight for the right to fight for democracy. We loathe Hitler because we have known in oar own land for three centuries and more what racial bigotry like Hitler's means. We hate the im perialism of Japan just as we hatg that of white nations from which we have suffered. And we are go ing to continue to raise our voices and to use our organized strength a gainst Hitlerism in Nazi Germany, in Tokyo, in Mississippi, in Wash ington. D. C. and in Los Angeles, ■California. We are going to con tinue to work with the forces of c-n lightment in the desperate struggle to overcome the head start the forc es of greed and intolerance Jjave gained." WEBSTER PUSHES CASE OF COLORED RR. FIREMEN IN' FAIR EMPLOYMENT , PRACTICE COMMITTEE Los Angeles. July 3(j—Because of ihis rich experience and extensive knowledge as a result of long activ- I ity in the labor movement as a lea- | der and executive of the Brother- i hood of Sleeping Car Porters, as 1st International Vice President, if. P. Webster who is a member of the President's Committee on Fair Em ployment Practice, officially pres ented for the consideration of the Fair Employment Practice Comm ittee. the deplorable plight of the colored locomotive firemen on the railroads in the Southeast and Southwest of the country, such as the Sea Board Air Line?. Louisiana j and Nashville. Southern. Atlantic ! Coast Line. Louisiana and Arkan sas. Illinois Central. Central of Georgia. The Georgia and a num ber of others. Mr. Webster called for a thorough and complete inves tigation of the whole problem of dis placement of Negro locomotive fire men by white firemen of lesser sen iority rights and the policy of Ne gro firemen who have died, hive been fired or retired. According to Webster the program will be to hoi: hearings o: the Committee where various parties to this ques tion of the elimination of Negro firemen from the railroads will be brought before the Committee foi examination and testimony. By this method it hoped that the I secret contracts negotiated by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire men and Engine-men with various railway carriers containng non-pro moti*)n clauses that provide that no | worker should become a fireman who is not eligible also to become lan engineer on the railroad. Since, of course. Negroes are not eligible to become engineers, they cannot be come firemen in as mucsh as the neat step of promotion from a fir» mac is that of the engineer, stated A. Philip Randolph, who is the Chairman of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters Provision*! ; - : Committee for the Organization of Colored Locmotive Firemen. NAACT ADOPTS AGGRESSIVE RESOLUTIONS AT LOS ANGELES CONT ENTION' Los Angeles—The resolutions a dopted by the delegates attending the 33rd annual conference of the ffAACP held here July 14—19. voic ed interest in. and complete sup port of the war effort, but insisted upon complete integration of color ed Americans and other minorities in every phase of it. The preamble to the resolutions cited the respon sibility of the Association in secur ing and protecting the rights of all citizens, pointing out that unless de mocracy could be made to work for America's largest minority group, it could not and would not work for any others. Excerpts from the strong resolution on AVAR AND NATIONAL POLICY are quoted be low: “The war against Axis aggression into which our nation has been. Plunged along with Russia. China. Great Britain, and twenty four oth er nations is a war in which racial minorities in this and other Linus have a great stake. We in the NA ACP. know that the racial ideas of Nazism are directly and completely contrary to everything for which we have stood and stand today. We remember well Hitler's contemptu ous reference to Negroes as half apes. We know that the destruct ion of all civil rights, the rights of free speech, press, and assembly, the right to worship without state interference, and the right to held elections after free discussion, are all slated for destruction if Nazism is victorious: and that if Nazi doc trines prevail in an America de feated by the Axis, then the XAACP would itself become illegal. "We are therefore squarely be hind the war and especially support j the ideals proclaimed by the Vice President Wallace. “We Negroes of America.demand no special privileges. But we do demand from America al! the rights accorded to our white fellow citiz ens. the rights to which we would be entitled if the professed democrat ic ideals of equal rights for all re gardless of race, creed .or color were really carried out. We demand the right to live and work for otrr coun try in the defense industries and otherwise, and the right to die for our country without segregation or discrimination in the armed forces and on the same basis as all other citizens —... . “Therefore, we do raise and will, continue to raise with all the vigor of which we are capable, these is sues of discrimination and segrega tion in the armed forces, denial of i employment in war industries, bru tality against Negro soldiers by pre judiced military and local civilian police in some areas, and denial in some sections of the right to vote and to serve on juries: police brut ality against Negro civilians, dis crimination against Negroes in gov ernment and diplomatic service lynching railroad jim crow car and educational discrimination which condemns Negro children to totally inadequate schooling in the places where most Negroes live, and j all the other evils against which our organization contends. “We raise these issues because we j stand for justice; we raise them now with special vigor and energy be cause this is a war against aggres sion and for peace against dictator ship. and for freedom, and against ' the Nazi master race ideas, and for the ideal of equal rights for all.' Equally strong resolutions wer“ adopted oh the Poll Tax. Lynching. Housing Dies Committees. Rent Control, and Discrimination by Un ions and Employers- Other resolu tions included those denouncing the present Policy of the Red Cross on blood: discrimination in public con veyances and the evacuation of al iens solely on an arbitrary and col or basis. A resolution also endorsed the movement to have the Federal government establish a park or CLAIR CHAPEL HOST TO TOPEKA DISTRICT CONFERENCE The Topeka District Conference Conventions of the Youth Fellow ship. and Women's Society of Christ -ian Service, and Worker’s School will convene at Clair Chapel church Tuesday, August 4 to 9. 1942. The Conference Sessions will be presided over by District Superin tendent Dr. D. G. Hancock of Kan sas City. Kansas. Miss Charlene Jacobs of Independence. Kansas is District President of the Youth Fel lowship. and Mrs. C. C. Reynolds is District President of the Women's Society of Christian Service- Min isters and lay-delegates will be in at tendance from Colorado. Kansas and Nebraska. Mrs. Inez Ballard of Wellington, aKnsas is dean of the Worekr’s School offering the fol lowing courses: “The New Testa ment In the Life of Today”: "How To Finance the Small Church": At Work for A Christian World"; "Children And the Changing World” "Young Adults In Action in the Church”: "The Use of Leisure”. Sermons will he delivered each day at 6 a. m., 11:30 a. m. and S p. m. The Revs. L. A. Story. F. C. Williams. C. Q. Hickerson and J. E. Blackmore will deliver sermons dur ing the Conference. The pastors and members of all churches are cordially invited to at tend all the Sessions and services. For further information call Rev. C. C. Reynolds, WEbster 1937. memorial in honor of Dr. Georgei Washington Carver. ORDER FBI INVESTIGATION OF TEXARKANA LYNCHING Attorney General Francis BiddF announced today that he had order ed an FBI investigation into the lynching of 'William Vinson, Negro, by a mob at Texarkana, Texas, on July 20. According to information in th» hands of the Civil Rights Section of the Department of Justice, Vinson is alleged to have attempted to rape a white woman at the Red River Ordnance Depot trailer camp, near Texarkana. While being captured he was shot and criticelly wounded, e was then taken to the Texarkana Hospital for treatment, where, it is charged, he was left without a guard or police protection. It is reported that in the early ] morning hours of the following day ; a mob of approximately 50 men en tered the hospital took Vinson from his bed. tied one end of a rope ar ound his neck and the other end to the rear bumper of an automobile, j and dragged him through the streets . of the town. When the calvacade of several automobiles reached the , grounds of the Texarkana Cotton ( Oil Corporation. Vinson’s body was , hanged from a winch on the loading platform. The investigation ordered by the | Attorney General is for the purpose of determining whether the identity of the lynchers can be learned and whether the yean be prosecuted un der the Federal Civil Rights Statul es DR. CARVER IS HENRY FORD S GUEST AT DETROIT OPEN INC OF NEW FOOD LABORATORY Detroit, July 25 t ANP> —At the opening, last Tuesday, by Henry Ford. motor magnate, of his new food experimental laboratory' to be used for develping new food uses for agricultural products. Mr. Ford s guest of honor at his Dearborn la boratories was his old friend. Dr. George Washington Carver. Tuske gee Institute scientist whose devel opement of the lowly peanut has brought his worldy wide fame. Mr. Ford and his guest took oc casion to deny that Dr. Carver's re searches at Dearborn would be con nected with synthetic rubber, as had been rumored. On display was a platter of sand wiches made of soy bean mixture of weeds which Dr. Carver called wild vegetables. The weeds were wild bergamot, narrow leaved plantain, purslane, pigweed, milkweed, dan delion. lamb's quarter and wild rad ish. Austin W. Curtis. Dr Carver's What Is A Blood lest? This is the third of a series of Articles on Syphilis and Gonor rhea by doctors of the local med ical society. This article is by— DR. A. L. HAWKINS. • •• Fortunately for the 6,500,000 suf ferers from syphilis and for the half million new cases each year, science has found a way to detect infection i ntime to cure most cases, and to prevent the spread of new infections It will come as a surprise to many that you cannot tell by looking: at a person that they have been infect ed with syphilis.. In fact, it will be be a greater surprise to learn ‘hat j even a physical examination by a competent doctor will often not lis elose syphilis in its latent stage. The best way to discover syphilis in this stage is to have a blood test as a part of the physical examination. The actual technical operation of the laboratory work on the blood test is too difficult to describe here Science has discoverd that the jyp , hilis germ changes the composition of the blood stream so that when the blood is given certain chemical tests, the blood of an infected per son reacts differently than that of one whose blood is not contaminat ed. The taking of the blood sample is a simple and painless procedure. The arm is bared above the elbow and pressure is applied to make the veins stand out. A hollow needle is inserted in the vein and a small amount of blood is drawn. This blood is placed in a small vial pre pared for it. The laboratory work is done in duplicate to eradicate the possiblity of error, and if the re sults are in doubt, a second test i* conducted. All possibility of error is removed as nearly as is possible j | If the test is returned as positive, the doctor may ask for a second test , if there are ab*«iutely no sign-. ! symptoms or history which would indicate the correctness of the test. The identity of the person is con fidential, and there is no need for anyone to know the results except the physician arid the patient. Because so many people are in jected and so many of those infected are unaware of the Infection, even in the beginning, the blood test is the greatest step toward the wiping out of syphilis since the discovery of the treatment. The day will come —and if we work steadily it will be soon—when a blood test will be as regular and necessary as vaccination for small pox. When each person accepts this fact, then syphilis will he as rare as smallpox, because no one in his right mind, upon discovering it, would refuse treatment and cure Negroes In Major League Ball Sport REPORT NEGRO BASEBALL PLAYERS TRIAL SET FOR AUGUST 4TH Three Negro baseball players will at last after a long time of eontinu • ally pounding at the baseball sport ing world s door, will receive a try out August 4 with the Pittsburgh Pirates, according to an announce ment Sunday in New York by Sports Editor Nat Low of the Daily Work er. Low picked the date after a con ference with William Benswanger, Pirates’ president. He identified the trio as Roy Cam panella. 20 year old catcher with the Baltimore Elite Giants and last year’s most valuable player in the Negro National league: Second base man Sam Hughes o fthe same club and Pitcher Dave Barnhill, winner Of 18 games and loser of three for the New York Cubans last season. Benswanger said “there still are many problems to be ironed out.” Manager Frank Frisch told report ers. “I’m only the manager. I do what I’m told.” LANDIS STATEMENT LEAVES ISSUE SSQUARELY UP TO MANAGERS AND OWNERS RANDOLPH SAYS FIGHT MUST BE MADE NOW TO GET BALL PLAYERS IN MAJORS In the light o the statement syn dicated under Chicago date line of July 17. by U. P. News Service of Baseball Commissioner Kennesaw M Landis in which he says: “There I is no rule against major clubs hir ing Negro baseball players.’ H» went further and said: “ I have come to the conclusion it is time j for me to explain myself on this important issue: ‘Negroes are n '.t I barred from organized baseball by j the Commission and have never! been since the twenty-one years I J have served. There is no rule in the organized Baseball prohibiting their participation to my know- ' ledge.’’ If Durocher. any other manager. S5 Negro players it is all right with or all of them want to sign one or me- That is the business of the manager and the club owners The business of the Commissioner is to interpret the rules and enforce them. This statement from Judge Landis was provoked by an alleged state ment by Durocher. manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers in which he said: “he would hire Negro players if h‘-' were permitted.” This is one of the most import ant comments that has yet be-:a made on the question of Negro baseball piajrers entering the major *Continued on page O** 2) DENTISTS' DAYS AUG. 10-14 NASHVILLE PIONEER OMAHAN DROPS DEAD Mr. John A. Hickman, who has lived in Omaha for some SO years, and was Employed as caretaker at the First Methodist Church at 2<>th and Davenport Sts., and recently employed at the Westminister Pres byterian Church at 30th and Wool worth Ave.. dropped dead at Eudra. Kansas. July 28th. at 11 a- m. He leaves to mourn his loss, a wife. Mrs Zenobia Hickman and a son. Emory Hickman who resides at 3402 Wool worth Ave-. Omaha. Xebr. assistant, explained that Dr. Carv er has for many years been exper imenting on the use Of weeds as foods, and believes wartime ro.jd shortages wil make wild vegetabl es” popular. Discussing synthetic rubber. Ford said rubber can be made out or many plants, some of which can be grown right here. A Ford spokes man hastened to add. however that the Ford Motor company is not en gaged in synthetic rubber produ. tion in any way. Dr.Carver sai dthat while rubber can be made out of 10 or 15 plants, there is trouble in processing it on a large scale. The dandelion and the milkweed contain the essence of rubber, he said, and he made rubbe from petroleum and sweet potato^ i 20 years ago. WAR MANPOWER SEEKS SKILLED NEGRO WORKERS New York..__The NAACP. hn-» been asked by the War Manpower Commission to assist in finding qualified skilled Negro workers for certoin specific jobs in war indus try. There exists almost immediate openings for those with as little as one year s experience in the types pf work listed below-. Individuals who think they can qualify are asked to mail name and address to Edward Lawson, Field Assistant, War Manpower Commission, New York City. Applicants are asked positively not to visit the office as it is not equipped to take care of applicants except thru correspond ence,. Some of the jobs available call for: Bench Hand. Metal Pat terns; Boilermaker; oBring-Maehine Operator, Automatic: Boring- Mil! Operator; Centerless-Grinder Oper ator: Cylindrical-Grinder Operator; Die Maker; Die Setter; Engine Lathe Operator: Eternal-Grinder Op erator: Forming-Press Operator: Geor-Hobber Operator; Machinists; Lathe Operators: Sheet Metal Work ers: Millwright: Toolmaker. Per sons having the qualifications are asked to WRITE to Mr. Lawson at the Commission Office, 122 E 42nd St., New York City. TALMADGE TELLS NEGROES TO “STAY OIT OF GEORGIA' IF THEY OBJECT TO SEGRGEGATION Atlanta, July 30 (AXP)—Eugene Talmadge. governor of Georgia, is sued a public statement Thursday in which he advised any Negro who objected to the state’s segregation laws "To stay out of Georgia.' Talmadge made the statement in his political weekly, The Statesman as a comment on numerous tele grams of “indignation' he bad re ceived after the brutal beating by police at Rome of Roland Hayes, in ternationally famous tenor "We are going to keep the iim crow laws and protect them and will not allow the whites and the blacks to be taught in the same schools and colleges in the state of Georgia," said Talmadge. Whites and blacks in Georgia, he contended, approve of the star • s separation laws in hotels, restau rants. and other public places 1 NASHVILLE, July 28 (ANP) The above pictured comm itee chairman and officers of the Capitol City Den tal association, Aug. 10-14. The na tional president. Dr. Leon A. Reid. Richmond, Va_. advised the local to go ahead with the convention program because the office of th« director o' defense transportation, J .M. Eastman Assured that there would not be any curtailment cf passenger railway traffic in the near future. Also the inland loca tion of Nashville is away from the over crowded eastern coast Highlighting the meeting is the military first aid course offered ty Dr. Leo Holton. Washington .at which sessions the dentists will b<* instructed in first aid measures to carry on with the physicians ard nurses. Outstanding faculty mem bers of Meharry Dental College are to give clinics and exhibitors will show the latest and most improved types of dental equipment and m . . terials. The social program includes a picnic barbecue, stagg and grant ball with special plans for the den tists wives and the dental hygient ists. Shown in the group reading from le't to right are: Dr. William II. Watson chairman exhibits and fin ance committee and faculty mem ber; Dr. D. H. Turpin, chairman, scientific program committee, fac ulty member and vice president. Xa tionai Dental association; Dr. C. W. Eneas, faculty member; Dr. R. F. Sandford chairman, local program committee, vice .president. Capitol City Dental society and secretary faculty; Dr. J. F. Perkins .ahair man. housing committee and secre tary, Capitol City Dental society; Dr. J. B. Singleton, chairman, enter" tainment committee and faculty member; Dr. S. C. Freeman .presid ent, Capitol City Dental society and faculty member